Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Google's public DNS service

2009-12-08 Thread Adam
I know that anyone can use any DNS server that's exposed to the internet, also for free, so what's the big deal about google? IMO a DNS server configured that way is poorly configured (unless you're actually trying to run a public service, as google is). Instead the use of BINDs allow-recursion

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Preparing a laptop for sale

2009-12-17 Thread Adam
dd is pretty thorough... afterall, it writes to every single block on the disk. And the resulting effect from doing that once is: Trivially easy to recover the data that was there just before you did the dd Why? Data on-disk is not a binary cell like ram. It is a magnetic pattern and

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Rebuilding an NTFS directory structure

2010-01-10 Thread Adam
The MP3 files probably have ID3 tags containing artist, album and title information, so it should be possible to use a script to rename them (Goggle will most likely turn up a few options). Looks like audiotag can do that, here's a snip of the help; --rename-filesrename

Re: [gentoo-user] How to allow wheel users to open ports?

2010-01-11 Thread Adam
I want to run webmail add-on on thunderbird with a wheel user. The system doesn't allow the webmail to open at port below 1024. Any open port above 1024 is not accessible. How can I solve this problem? Plenty of info via google, like

[gentoo-user] Gnome camera and pdf associations

2010-01-11 Thread Adam
Two issues: 1. Firefox and thunderbird both have GIMP as the default PDF viewer, which i can manually set to something else that's not in the drop down list, but i'd like to know if FF/TB get the list and defaults from Gnome, and if so, where is that configured? 2. When i use a connect a digital

Re: [gentoo-user] squid - allowing only one domain

2010-01-20 Thread Adam
On 01/20/10 16:53, Joseph wrote: I'm testing squid and want to allow only one domain but it is not working (using iptable + squid) iptable: ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywheretcp dpt:http owner UID match squid ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere

Re: [gentoo-user] squid - allowing only one domain

2010-01-20 Thread Adam
On 01/20/10 16:53, Joseph wrote: I'm testing squid and want to allow only one domain but it is not working (using iptable + squid) iptable: ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywheretcp dpt:http owner UID match squid ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere

Re: [gentoo-user] squid - allowing only one domain

2010-01-21 Thread Adam
On 01/21/10 00:49, Joseph wrote: On 01/20/10 21:24, Adam wrote: On 01/20/10 16:53, Joseph wrote: I'm testing squid and want to allow only one domain but it is not working (using iptable + squid) iptable: ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywheretcp dpt:http owner UID

Re: [gentoo-user] [X11] radeonhd not working

2010-02-20 Thread Adam
I get the following error lines in the console: FATAL: Module radeon not found. (EE) RADEONHD(0): RHDDRIVersionCheck: drmOpen(radeon, pci::05:05.0) failed. [ 1256.744546] uvesafb: mode switch failed (eax=0x34f, err=0). Trying again with default timings. Radeon DRI is compiled into

[gentoo-user] no libdri.so with ati-drivers-10.1

2010-02-20 Thread Adam
I tried 10.1 but just got a blank screen. The log file shows that xorg couldnt load libdri.so, and the file is missing under /usr/lib64/xorg. (its at /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libdri.so in 9.9-r2) So, any ideas or should i issue a bug report?

[gentoo-user] Disk or filesystem issue?

2010-04-03 Thread Adam
For the last few weeks i have been getting the single user prompt on shutdown, and reiserfs3 is performing a check(fix?) during boot. Seems to happen about 4 times out of 5. smartctl report looks ok. I have been using 2.6.31-gentoo-r6 for ages without issue. Any ideas?

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk or filesystem issue?

2010-04-03 Thread Adam
Probably neither. Can you Ctrl+F12 to see what the logs are saying? I've been getting kernel Oops! on shutdown on one machine of mine with the 2.6.31-gentoo-r10 kernel. Might be similar Ok, i found this, which is mentioning fglrx, and the problem may have started when i changed driver

[gentoo-user] Are runlevels 3 4 5 the same?

2010-04-17 Thread Adam
I want to choose console or X from grub, so i'm thinking i'll do something like 'rc-update delete xdm 4' and then pass softlevel=4 to my grub boot line, to make runlevel 4 a console runlevel. Is that the right way to do it?

Re: [gentoo-user] Are runlevels 3 4 5 the same?

2010-04-17 Thread Adam
On 04/18/10 15:21, Dale wrote: Adam wrote: I want to choose console or X from grub, so i'm thinking i'll do something like 'rc-update delete xdm 4' and then pass softlevel=4 to my grub boot line, to make runlevel 4 a console runlevel. Is that the right way to do it? Gentoo doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox

2010-04-21 Thread Adam
ummm .. ok ? so your using the default xorg.conf .. could be why youve got bad performance. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml - deface But the new version of xorg (from circa 1.7) dont really need xorg.conf, moreover its discouraged to use one. (or just i think so) You only

[gentoo-user] WLAN speed either 800KB or 3MB

2010-04-25 Thread Adam
Downloads over my 802.1g WLAN seem to always be at either of these two speeds. Billon ADSL+WLAN router one end, Intel 5100 on the laptop. Any ideas on how i stop it falling back to the slower speed?

Re: [gentoo-user] WLAN speed either 800KB or 3MB

2010-04-25 Thread Adam
Downloads over my 802.1g WLAN seem to always be at either of these two speeds. Billon ADSL+WLAN router one end, Intel 5100 on the laptop. Any ideas on how i stop it falling back to the slower speed? look for a not contested channel? I had assumed that congestion would reveal itself as

Re: [gentoo-user] WLAN speed either 800KB or 3MB

2010-04-25 Thread Adam
Check that you have disabled 802.11b on your router, or you may find that an adjacent client who's running 802.11b will drag your router down to 11Mb/s max (the actual throughput will be lower). Router is already fixed to g only. While you're experiencing the lower downloads you can run

Re: [gentoo-user] arping network profile issue

2010-05-07 Thread Adam
On 05/06/10 03:35, Zhou Rui wrote: Hi folks, I setup a network interface to switch in two different network with different gateways using config_eth0=( arping ), and I can get gateway mac when use arping2 command directly. But the /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start always fails, can you help me to

Re: [gentoo-user] arping network profile issue

2010-05-08 Thread Adam
On 05/08/10 15:25, Zhou Rui wrote: What I want is finding a gateway out with ARP, and then assign the correct gateway/route table, You cant discover a router with ARP. ARP finds the MAC address of a host that's associated with a given IP address. Ways of getting a ipv4 gateway are; - manual

Re: [gentoo-user] I've been hacked.

2010-05-12 Thread Adam
looks like, your ISP has a Transparent Proxy Setup running. Should I be worried about that? No. Ports being shown as open does not mean that your machine is listening, more like the firewall has some holes in it. If the Really? I thought a service had to be listening for the port to

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing a shared interrupt

2010-05-22 Thread Adam
Does anyone know how to prevent my nouveau video card and ath wifi card from sharing interrupt 19? I can't move the video card slot and I'd rather not move the wifi card slot if possible. BTW, does anyone see any other opportunity for interrupt optimization here? I'm trying to optimize

Re: [gentoo-user] Something happened on the way to X

2010-05-23 Thread Adam
I don't use ATI but I think I read here a while back that ATI drivers have to be compatible with certain versions of xorg. You may want to see if you can use a newer version of the ATI drivers. You can look at the ebuild to see what exact versions. From what i read, it looks like you may

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Basic device for a Gentoo router/firewall?

2010-05-24 Thread Adam
Does anyone know of a basic device that would function well as a Gentoo router/firewall? Using typical hardware seems like overkill. I should be able to offload package compilation duties to another local machine on the network. It would also be nice if it were small, cheap, and

[gentoo-user] openrc conf.d/modules

2010-06-12 Thread Adam
My modules file contains; modules=vmmon vmnet vmblock vmci vsock modules_2_6=${modules_2_6} acpi-cpufreq module_acpi_cpufreq_args_2_6= modules_2_6=${modules_2_6} fuse module_fuse_args_2_6= modules_2_6=${modules_2_6} usbhid module_usbhid_args_2_6=quirks=0x05ac:0x1294:0x04 But the vm modules

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: openrc conf.d/modules

2010-06-12 Thread Adam
My modules file contains; Which 'modules' file do you mean? /etc/conf.d/modules modules=vmmon vmnet vmblock vmci vsock modules_2_6=${modules_2_6} acpi-cpufreq module_acpi_cpufreq_args_2_6= modules_2_6=${modules_2_6} fuse module_fuse_args_2_6= modules_2_6=${modules_2_6} usbhid

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: openrc conf.d/modules

2010-06-13 Thread Adam
I missed your reference to openrc last time. Do you see any interesting messages when you run /etc/init.d/modules restart? sphinx adam # /etc/init.d/modules restart * WARNING: you are stopping a boot service * Loading module acpi-cpufreq ... [ ok ] * Loading module fuse ... [ ok

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: User password scanning on pop3

2010-06-17 Thread Adam
Does anyone know how to block, or auto programs in Gentoo to limit or stop people scanning for a user/password hacking on your firewall? fail2ban

Re: [gentoo-user] Routing with gentoo...

2010-06-19 Thread Adam
My situation is vaguely similar... I've one high-speed link at home with only dynamic IP - and I've got rack-mounted server with multiple static IPs, one of which I want to use from home in order to run a mail-server, revision control service and various web-services... keeping all the data

Re: [gentoo-web-user] Java Script Libraries

2006-02-23 Thread Adam Sroka
Stuart Herbert wrote: Thanks for making me aware of the issue. So let's hope for PHP5... No problem. I wish it was an idea we could implement. Alas, it's something that none of the scripting languages handle well. Even Ruby hasn't learned from the past mistakes in this area. Ruby

Re: [gentoo-web-user] Java Script Libraries

2006-02-23 Thread Adam Sroka
Stuart Herbert wrote: Hrm ... all the code I've seen uses: require_gem package-name with no sign of version requirements passed around. How does Gems handle the versioning in the background? Best regards, Stu That code is implicitly saying use the latest version of package-name.

RE: [gentoo-user] slightly OT, laptop for gentoo

2008-02-14 Thread Adam Carter
into it further (potentially driver dependent??). Minicom works fine for configuring routers/unix boxes however. absydos adam # file /dev/ttyUSB0 /dev/ttyUSB0: character special (188/0) absydos adam # setserial /dev/ttyUSB0 Cannot get serial info: Invalid argument -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

RE: [gentoo-user] Squid configuration include

2008-03-18 Thread Adam Carter
Hi! i need to include a file in squid.conf because i need to divide the squid.conf file in two parts and export one of this to other servers...how can i do this? This included file will contain all the cal and rules for squid. You can refer to external files in some of the directives, so that

RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo router: Conntrack table full

2008-03-25 Thread Adam Carter
The contents of the connection table is in /proc/net/ip_conntrack Example: tcp 6 65 TIME_WAIT src=192.168.1.4 dst=20.x.y.40 sport=4986 dport=80 src=207.46.109.40 dst=192.168.1.4 sport=80 dport=4986 [ASSURED] mark=0 use=1 So go nuts with grep/awk/sed/sort/uniq etc to find what is consuming

RE: [gentoo-user] compiling a module after the fact

2008-05-01 Thread Adam Carter
I thought I remembered someway to compile a single module after the fact that didn't involve recompiling everthing... but just now I entered the usr/src/linux directory and edited .config adding the sshfs FUSE module. when I ran `make' I see it grinding thru the whole thing again. Is that

RE: [gentoo-user] New eth.0/openrc setup - I'm confused

2008-05-01 Thread Adam Carter
# /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart * ERROR: net.eth0 has been stopped by something else # /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start * WARNING: net.eth0 has already been started meantime netstat indicates no changes at all.. eth0 is up throughout. Do this; /etc/init.d/net.eth0 stop - verify the interface

[gentoo-user] Apache status

2008-05-04 Thread Adam Carter
to define INFO? Cheers, Adam -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Disk upgrade sanity check pls

2008-05-08 Thread Adam Carter
I'm running out of disk space on my laptop and the new disk arrived today. Old setup; 60 gig drive; /dev/hda1 = /home (used to be windows, hence the partition number) /dev/hda2 = swap /dev/hda3 = / New setup; 250 gig drive /dev/hda1 = / (including /home) /dev/hda2 = swap Here's my plan; - make

[gentoo-user] Gnome wallpaper

2008-05-14 Thread Adam Carter
My wallpaper doesnt come up when Gnome starts, but if i open the System - Preferences - Appearance dialogue it appears (i dont even need to make a change). So it looks like something is not running until i open the dialogue. Any ideas on how to fix it? Or will i have to resort to 'mv .gnome

RE: [gentoo-user] Gnome wallpaper

2008-05-14 Thread Adam Carter
My wallpaper doesnt come up when Gnome starts, snip Does 'nautilus' start? Try using 'nautilus --no-desktop'... Not sure if it tries to or not, but when I try to run it as you suggest, it dies; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ nautilus --no-desktop [1] 7059 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ Initializing

[gentoo-user] Regex question

2008-06-03 Thread Adam Carter
I want to filter the strings; ? something http:// or ? something? https:// or ? something ftp:// from URLs in apache. I know i need to escape ? but i'm not sure about / and i've used '(something|otherthing|whatever)' to make the 'or's work. LocationMatch

RE: [gentoo-user] Regex question

2008-06-04 Thread Adam Carter
I just wanted to comment something about Iain's suggestion: '^\?.*(http|https|ftp)://' If you add that '^' you're assuming that's the beginning of the string (as you may already know); the thing is I cannot see the cases where your URL starts with '?', the characters, and finally

[gentoo-user] Firefox 3 stability

2008-07-01 Thread Adam Carter
I'm finding it unusable as it crashes often. How are you guys finding it?

[gentoo-user] RE: Firefox 3 stability

2008-07-03 Thread Adam Carter
Thanks everyone for your feedback. I'm trying firefox-bin now, and it seems stable. I guess this means that my .mozilla stuff isnt the problem.

[gentoo-user] proftpd anonymous ftp broken

2008-07-08 Thread Adam Carter
Logging in anonymously fails, so check syslog and find; Jul 8 17:40:22 absydos proftpd[17200]: absydos - ProFTPD 1.3.1rc2 (devel) (built Sun Aug 5 06:10:17 EST 2007) standalone mode STARTUP Jul 8 17:40:28 absydos proftpd[17213]: absydos (10.28.209.110[10.28.209.110]) - FTP session opened. Jul

RE: [gentoo-user] libusb upgraded failed with USE doc

2007-10-06 Thread Adam Carter
This sort of error is often fixed by re-emerging openjade. I've re emerged jadetex openjade, but still have the same problem. I can masked it temporaly in /etc/portage/package.use, Thanks! I also tried re-emerging openjade with no result. I re-emerged an sgml package and that fixed it. I

[gentoo-user] Alsa kernel driver problem

2007-10-24 Thread Adam Carter
] * ERROR: Failed to load necessary drivers [ ok ] * Restoring Mixer Levels ... * No mixer config in /var/lib/alsa/asound.state, you have to unmute you [ ok ] alsa-driver is not recommended so i'm avoiding it. Is that my only option to try to fix this? tnx Adam

RE: [gentoo-user] Alsa kernel driver problem - fixed

2007-10-25 Thread Adam Carter
Sounds like the wrong driver is being loaded. What is the output of lspci? From a console, what does modprobe snd_via82xx show and what's being sent to /var/log/messages?? I found that the Intel HD Audio module is also required, not just the via driver. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Networking Issue

2007-10-25 Thread Adam Carter
Any ideas? The /etc/conf.d/net file is very basic. All is has is config_eth1=(dhcp) then the wireless stuff. I could get eth1 to work if I manually assigned an address, but now that doesn't work either. Any help is appreciated. You're sure that the Ethernet card is eth1 and

RE: [gentoo-user] smartctl strangeness

2007-10-25 Thread Adam Carter
Anyway, this is where things get even stranger. I've quadruple-checked and I still don't believe it. The Maxtor drive now PASSES smartctl -H and the new one FAILS. The Maxtor still gets the dma_intr errors in dmesg and the Samsung is said to have it's DMA disabled which contradicts the BIOS,

RE: [gentoo-user] smartctl strangeness

2007-10-25 Thread Adam Carter
The BIOS has 131G for the Samsung in a sub-menu for that drive: Maximum Capacity [131071MB], fdisk sees the whole 160G. In that case I'd look for a BIOS update. (FWIW 128 x 1024 = 131072). -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] What should i use instead of /dev/usb?

2007-10-27 Thread Adam Carter
I am using some hardware that requries external drivers (no ebuild either) and it says i should; mknod /dev/usb/panel0 c 180 180 Since /dev/usb doesnt exist, what is the correct alternative? (2.6.22-gentoo-r8) thanks.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Is EVMS dead?

2007-11-11 Thread Adam Hamsik
it. Linu LVM, I think, is very similar to HP-UX LVM at the command level. AFAIK an who has written linux LVM worked for HP. Regards Adam. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] ERROR: net-misc/iputils-20070202 failed

2007-11-11 Thread Adam Carter
This is happening when emerging iputils with +doc USE. If I remove doc from the USE flags list, then it does emerge completely. Any thoughts? Thanks, -- Valmor de Almeida jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl-stylesheets-1.79/html/../co mmon/../co mmon/dbl1sr.dsl:2:66:W: cannot

[gentoo-user] Gnome fonts problem

2007-11-29 Thread Adam Johnson
Hello all, After updating to Gnome 2.20.1 my fonts became very small and unreadabale. When i try to rebuild any fonts i receive error like this below during emerge. Any suggestion how to fix this ? Emerging (1 of 1) media-fonts/dejavu-2.21 to / * dejavu-ttf-2.21.tar.bz2 RMD160 SHA1

RE: [gentoo-user] mount cdrom: No buffer space available

2008-01-01 Thread Adam Carter
data However, if it's a data cd, then iso9660 MUST either be build into the kernel or available as a module for the auto part of your cdrom fstab line to work correctly... hmmm... maybe need also autoload in the module loading section of the kernel configurator. ok.

[gentoo-user] Grep question

2009-03-01 Thread Adam Carter
I need to select all the lines between string1 and string2 in a file. String1 exists on an entire line by itself and string2 will be at the start of a line. What's the syntax? I cant use -A as there is a variable number of lines. Thanks.

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Grep question

2009-03-05 Thread Adam Carter
awk '/^foo/,/^bar/' a does the same :) Nice... Thanks for all these answers. Interesingly when I moved the sed script (sed s/;/\\n/g) from Linux to Solaris it failed as Solaris sed doesn't like putting the newline character as the translated to bit. Installing GNU sed on the Solaris

RE: [gentoo-user] Usernames in ssh attacks

2009-03-19 Thread Adam Carter
a wildcard record), and set the PTR record to be postmas...@dns.cablecentro.net.co instead of a hostname. I'm assuming the reason you usually see IP addresses is that there is no PTR record set for that IP Are you running Fail2ban or similar? Rgs, Adam

[gentoo-user] vmware overlay, server v2 no console

2009-04-03 Thread Adam Carter
I've upgraded to vmware server v2 and it seems to be working, ie i cant start my suspended guest OSes, but from the web GUI i cant get the console to popup after loading the firefox plugin. When i click the area that says click anywhere to open the console nothing happens. I've not used v2

RE: [gentoo-user] vmware overlay, server v2 no console

2009-04-03 Thread Adam Carter
I've upgraded to vmware server v2 and it seems to be working, ie i cant start my suspended guest OSes, but from the web GUI i cant get the console to popup after loading the firefox plugin. When i click the area that says click anywhere to open the console nothing happens. I've not used v2

[gentoo-user] Dell laptop install fail

2009-04-16 Thread Adam Carter
Much like http://bugs.gentoo.org/26150 the ia64 boot cd is not recognised and the bios falls through to boot the hard disk. Knoppix boots fine, but if i were to try to install from 32 bit knoppix it will fail as soon as I chroot as i would then be attempting to run 64 bit binaries from the

RE: [gentoo-user] Kernel fails to boot on Via Epia

2009-04-16 Thread Adam Carter
VFS: Cannot open root device 303 or unknown-block (3,3) Please append a correct boot option; here are the available: Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(3,3) The kernel is unable to find your root device. Try with the sda notation, if that fails

RE: [gentoo-user] Dell laptop install fail

2009-04-16 Thread Adam Carter
From: Francisco Rivas [mailto:taken...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 7:11 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Dell laptop install fail Hi, What Dell Laptop do you have?. because I tried to install Gentoo amd64 in a E4300 and

[gentoo-user] jre memory heap size issue

2009-04-21 Thread Adam Carter
I have set -Xmx256m using the Java control panel GUI, and; sphinx jre # pgrep -lf java 8949 /opt/sun-jdk-1.6.0.13/jre/bin/java -Xmx256m -Xbootclasspath/a:/opt/sun-jdk-1.6.0.13/jre/lib/javaws.jar:/opt/sun-jdk-1.6.0.13/jre/lib/deploy.jar:/opt/sun-jdk-1.6.0.13/jre/lib/plugin.jar -classpath

[gentoo-user] FW: jre memory heap size issue

2009-04-21 Thread Adam Carter
Sorry - here it is in plain text for the luddites, j/k :-) I have set -Xmx256m using the Java control panel GUI, and; sphinx jre # pgrep -lf java 8949 /opt/sun-jdk-1.6.0.13/jre/bin/java -Xmx256m

RE: [gentoo-user] Confusing persistent sync problem

2009-04-23 Thread Adam Carter
Welcome to crane.gentoo.org Server Address : 134.68.220.74 Contact Name : mirror-ad...@gentoo.org Hardware : 2 x Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 1700MHz, 2024MB RAM Please note: common gentoo-netiquette says you should not sync more than once a day.

[gentoo-user] GUI for touchscreen PC?

2009-04-25 Thread Adam Carter
I have 800x480 resolution, but with the touchscreen the pointer is clumsy to use. I need something that has large buttons, and will re-size dialogue windows so that the buttons at the bottom still fit on the window. Any suggestions?

RE: [gentoo-user] really old box for a firewall

2009-04-27 Thread Adam Carter
have here (pentium-mmx) into a firewall/router. I tried a live cd, with the intent of building up a 32bit chroot in my big box, and syncing it into the old one. (All 64bit native in the studio boxes) when i inserted the live cd to begin the process, i got an error message at boot which said

RE: [gentoo-user] Cursor keys stopped working in VMware workstation

2009-05-07 Thread Adam Carter
I have been using VMware workstation V. 5.5.9 and a Logitech wireless keyboard for some time. Today I somehow mistyped a Ctrl-something sequence while in the VM window, meaning to enter it elsewhere instead of the VM. Now, the cursor keys between the main keys and the keypad have stopped

RE: [gentoo-user] automated install || stage4? rapid deployment?

2009-05-11 Thread Adam Carter
I'm curious how other sysadmins rapidly deploy a slew of new Gentoo systems? In this case I'm setting up many dozens of Gentoo servers inside of VMware ESX and having to destroy and redeploy said systems regularly. The hardware (virtual, of course) varies ever so slightly, so cloning (via

RE: [gentoo-user] Capture dmesg output on boot?

2009-05-11 Thread Adam Carter
I've been trying to get to the bottom of my recent troubles with my IDE controller working with the 2.6.28 kernel. Now, linux never boots without a kernel panic, so dmesg never gets logged... Is there any way to have the kernel dump the boot log somewhere? I'd settle for scrolling up,

RE: [gentoo-user] upgrading from kernel 2.6.24-rc6 to latest kernel

2009-05-12 Thread Adam Carter
My Gentoo laptop is a Macbook Pro SantaRosa (late 2007, probably MA896LL/A , following wikipedia). Since I use it for work I've always been quite conservative with it... it is an x86 machine and I upgrade things only after having read things here and there on the ML and possibly elsewhere

was [gentoo-user] Re: New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 now old nvidia drivers

2009-05-17 Thread Adam Carter
For you guys with older hardware/drivers, have you tried turning on CONFIG_UNUSED_SYMBOLS and recompiling the kernel to see if its helps? (Kernel hacking - Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols). I use it to support vmware server 1.x and ati flgrx drivers (with 2.6.26 or later kernels). IIRC

RE: was [gentoo-user] Re: New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 now old nvidia drivers

2009-05-17 Thread Adam Carter
For you guys with older hardware/drivers, have you tried turning on CONFIG_UNUSED_SYMBOLS and recompiling the kernel to see if its helps? (Kernel hacking - Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols). snip That is a good find. I can't say that it is the problem but it was not enabled on my

RE: [gentoo-user] nagging USE flag question

2009-05-18 Thread Adam Carter
The time has come to edit make.conf on my new gentoo-netbook. But one thing has always bothered me: What's the point of specifying a *negative* flag with a hyphen? Why not just leave the flags you don't use out of the file entirely? Some flags are on by default, so this stops their use.

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict

2009-05-25 Thread Adam Carter
RESULTS: fglrx loads, but does not see the adapter. There's also a problem with the mouse driver -- some undefined symbol. Have you rebuilt your kernel after emergeing xf86-input-mouse? If so you probably need to re-emerge xf86-input-mouse.

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict

2009-05-25 Thread Adam Carter
This seems a step backwards. No screens found, and still 3 things that would not load. Results follow: === startx run begins xauth: creating new authority file /root/.serverauth.21944 X.Org X Server 1.5.3 Release Date: 5 November 2008 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict

2009-05-25 Thread Adam Carter
DRI requires kernel support - Device Drivers - Graphics - Direct Rendering Manager, and you'll want to select the correct ATI support under that. That's always been there, as modules. If I modprobe for r128, it gets loaded along with module drm. It makes no difference to the startx

RE: [gentoo-user] USE=mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow 3dnowext

2009-05-25 Thread Adam Carter
'grep flags /proc/cpuinfo' to see what features the CPU supports, and add those to USE. You'll recognise most but apparently pni = sse3 (but then my core2 also shows ssse3 as wellodd)

RE: [gentoo-user] USE=mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow 3dnowext

2009-05-27 Thread Adam Carter
actually care about moving binary packages around. Thoughts? thoughts: there are distros that hold your hand already. There's also Windows. For just in case Ubuntu doesn't hold enough of your hand. I'm with Wyatt on this one. Can we appreciate there may be a difference between

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict

2009-05-27 Thread Adam Carter
For me, libdri.so is a symlink to /usr/lib64/opengl/ati/extensions/libdri.so libglx.so is a symlink to /usr/lib64/opengl/ati/extensions/libglx.so (since you havent run the eselect to repoint it yet, it will be set to /usr/lib64/opengl/xorg-x11/extensions/libglx.so). Can you tell me

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict

2009-05-27 Thread Adam Carter
Sorry Kevin, I wasn't paying attention and thought you were using ati-drivers/flgrx package, which is where /usr/lib64/opengl/ati comes from. Since you're not using flgrx I would expect you would use /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libdri.so and That was supposed to be

[gentoo-user] Touchpad wont click with xorg-server-1.5.3-r6

2009-06-02 Thread Adam Carter
I can no longer tap the touchpad to cause a mouse click. It worked in 1.5.3-r5, but i think r5 was -hal, whereas i have built -r6 +hal. I cant see any touchpad related patches in r6. Should i try -hal, reverting to -r5 or something else? I have no input devices defined in my xorg.conf. Dell

RE: [gentoo-user] Touchpad wont click with xorg-server-1.5.3-r6

2009-06-04 Thread Adam Carter
I can no longer tap the touchpad to cause a mouse click. It worked in 1.5.3-r5, but i think r5 was -hal, whereas i have built -r6 +hal. I cant see any touchpad related patches in r6. Should i try -hal, reverting to -r5 or something else? I have no input devices defined in my xorg.conf.

RE: [gentoo-user] Best way to determine what video card I have?

2009-06-10 Thread Adam Carter
lspci | grep VGA Or if that doesn't work lshw -class display

RE: [gentoo-user] DNS poisoning fix

2008-07-10 Thread Adam Carter
Is it merely a matter of using the right version of bind (for those who run a bind daemon locally), or does it go further than that? This issue is addressed in ISC BIND 9.2.8-P1, BIND 9.3.4-P1, BIND 9.4.1-P1 or BIND 9.5.0a6 rix adam # emerge -pv bind These are the packages that would

RE: [gentoo-user] DNS poisoning fix

2008-07-10 Thread Adam Carter
So AFAICT it was fixed in stable/x86 around 11 months ago. Ignore my earlier idoicy - from ISC's site; YOU ARE ADVISED TO INSTALL EITHER THE PATCHES (9.5.0-P1, 9.4.2-P1, 9.3.5-P1) OR THE NEW BETA RELEASES (9.5.1b1, 9.4.3b2) IMMEDIATELY. The patches will have a noticeable impact on the

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: dev-lang/python-2.3.6-r2 (is blocking app-admin/python-updater-0.5

2008-07-27 Thread Adam Carter
The root of the problem is really quite simple, you have a system with a python version python-updater doesn't like. The solution is actually quite simple: step 1. update python to 2.5, rebuild cracklib (afaik cracklib is the only system package that requires python), portage, gentookit.

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: dev-lang/python-2.3.6-r2 (is blocking app-admin/python-updater-0.5

2008-07-27 Thread Adam Carter
A more conservative approach (which shouldn't break anything AFAIK, but will take longer) is; 1. Run python-updater to move everything from 2.3 to 2.4 2. Uninstall python 2.3 3. Do your full emerge -uvD to update to python-updater 0.5 and python 2.5 4. (optional, you could to it later)

RE: [gentoo-user] netstat command

2008-07-30 Thread Adam Carter
is there a way to find out the time when the port was connected in netstat command For example netstat -anp | grep 12001 Dont think so. If its a server opening the port, look for syslog messages from the daemon.

RE: [gentoo-user] move instalation from one system to another one.

2008-07-30 Thread Adam Carter
My old laptop is dying. I'm going to move my gentoo installation to a new one. The old one was an old Pentium-M and the new one is core due. I want to to tar the root and boot and .. files from the old one to untar it to the new one. I want to know, What packages needs to rebuild

[gentoo-user] python-updater keeps catching same packages

2008-08-10 Thread Adam Carter
voodoo adam # python-updater * Starting Python Updater from 2.4 to 2.5 : * Adding to list: =x11-libs/vte-0.16.13 * Adding to list: =app-office/dia-0.96.1-r1 * Adding to list: =dev-libs/boost-1.34.1-r2 And if i run python-updater again after letting it rebuild these packages it picks

[gentoo-user] RE: python-updater keeps catching same packages

2008-08-10 Thread Adam Carter
Sorry, should have googled first; http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=232467

[gentoo-user] X screen resolution

2008-08-19 Thread Adam Carter
X is starting in 1280x1024, however i want it to start in 1600x1200. At the moment im using xrandr to set it manually after i start X. Here's my config; the Modeline is required. voodoo adam # egrep '(1600|1280)' /etc/X11/xorg.conf Modeline 1600x1200 162.00 1600 1664 1856 2160 1200 1201

RE: [gentoo-user] X screen resolution

2008-08-21 Thread Adam Carter
inconsistancies as I'm also trying to get 1920x1200 working. Its still always starts at 1280x1024 however. voodoo adam # grep ^[^#] /etc/X11/xorg.conf Section Module Loaddbe # Double buffer extension SubSection extmod Optionomit xfree86-dga # don't initialise the DGA

RE: [gentoo-user] X screen resolution

2008-08-22 Thread Adam Carter
Hm, I don't see anything strange. Maybe in the rest of your Xorg.0.log? Its sorted - Gnome must have been resetting the resolution as it started.

RE: [gentoo-user] Debugging X

2008-08-23 Thread Adam Carter
It dies after the cursor shows up, spitting this backtrace and output. Sorry if the formatting sucks. The last line is probably refering to the fact I tried to run it from within screen, so if that could cause a problem say so, and tell me how the heck to get a log of this output

[gentoo-user] Linux vs Alteon

2008-08-28 Thread Adam Carter
My gentoo laptop is receiving an appropriate arp-reply from an alteon 2208 (according to tcpdump), but doesnt put it in its arp table. A windows box on the same port works fine. Has anyone come across this? Can i debug arp on linux?

[gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/apache2 fails, but apache will run

2008-09-28 Thread Adam Carter
rix adam # /etc/init.d/apache2 start * Starting apache2 ... (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80 no listening sockets available, shutting down Unable to open logs [ ok ] rix adam # The socket

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