Re: [gentoo-user] screen resolution and aspect ratio change

2009-01-21 Thread Daniel Troeder
Am Mittwoch, den 21.01.2009, 17:16 + schrieb Thufir: I have very vanilla hardware and when I just booted the resolution appears lower (icons bigger, jpg's blurry) and the aspect ratio is off (icons are taller than usual). The screen resolution is currently 960x600, which I don't recall

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?

2009-01-21 Thread Daniel Troeder
Am Dienstag, den 20.01.2009, 19:37 + schrieb Grant Edwards: On 2009-01-20, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:32:02 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: I know it needs 5gb+ of tmpdir space, but compiling it with 256mb may be futile :) Not if he's got plenty of

Re: [gentoo-user] Any ideas on this compile failure?

2009-01-25 Thread Daniel Troeder
Am Samstag, den 24.01.2009, 08:47 -0800 schrieb Grant: Does anyone have any ideas on this compile failure? It's for icedtea6 from the java-overlay: cd linux_amd64_compiler2/product ./test_gamma ./test_gamma: line 10: 10518 Killed ./${gamma:-gamma} How come that program

Re: [gentoo-user] X-forwarding questions

2009-01-28 Thread Daniel Troeder
Am Dienstag, den 27.01.2009, 14:25 -0800 schrieb Grant: Using -C, gimp is about 10x more responsive than if I don't. I was surprised too. My laptop and the remote system are 15 feet away from each other on the same wireless network, with the router in between. Most X programs store their

Re: [gentoo-user] share control rights to a daemon by both root and another user

2009-02-08 Thread Daniel Troeder
Am Sonntag, den 08.02.2009, 23:59 +0800 schrieb zhangwe...@realss.com: Me as root user of a server wish to share the control privilege (to start and stop) a daemon with another non-root user and find it difficult. The requirement: 1) either me or him can start the daemon then stop it; 2) he

Re: [gentoo-user] OT -- superuser file manager access to remote via ssh with no root login?

2009-02-24 Thread Daniel Troeder
Am Dienstag, den 24.02.2009, 09:02 -0800 schrieb Michael Higgins: I can't figure this one out. Have disallowed root login, public key auth. Have a bunch of random renaming to do on that machine though, so would like to point and click for a change. Is this possible? No GUI libs on the

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync + tar + bz2 ?

2009-03-08 Thread Daniel Troeder
Am Samstag, den 07.03.2009, 08:04 -0800 schrieb Grant: I'm backing up numerous large files on another machine on my local network. I've only been using rsync, but it occured to me that I might be able to save some time and space if I incorporate tar and bzip2. How will rsync interact with

Re: [gentoo-user] google earth start problem ati-x600

2009-03-17 Thread Daniel Troeder
On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 11:56 +0100, Zoltán Füves wrote: Hi All! I tried to emerge google earth / both from x86 and ~x86 and I have 32 bit cpu /, and it completed successfully but when I ran the program it complain about could not access to the GPU or the card has not enough memory to run

Re: [gentoo-user] google earth start problem ati-x600

2009-03-17 Thread Daniel Troeder
On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 16:12 +0100, Zoltán Füves wrote: I have the same problem (on amd64): using the radeon or radeonhd driver you don't have 3D acceleration, and it seems googleearth detects this somehow :( yes unfortunately same problem on other platforms :( but I use the adi-drivers

Re: [gentoo-user] extending /usr partition...

2009-03-21 Thread Daniel Troeder
On Sat, 2009-03-21 at 19:39 +0100, Jarry wrote: I remember having lvm2 a few years ago, and despite of that I could not extend any partition, which was being used. What is then lvm2 good for, if I can not extend partitions on-the-fly? I can not unmount /usr before extending... This is

Re: [gentoo-user] svn broken ?

2009-03-27 Thread Daniel Troeder
On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 12:41 +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, has anyone the same problems? I'm updating a Gentoo system and now 'svn' is broken For all sites I've tried I get svn: OPTIONS of 'http://svn.python.org/projects/python/branches/py3k': could not connect to server

Re: [gentoo-user] What annoys you?

2009-04-05 Thread Daniel Troeder
On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 13:59 -0400, Wyatt Epp wrote: So while gearing up for the Summer of Code, I noted a lot of things that I had come to accept as normal that I feel should not be so. Things like the danger of depclean or the way portage will only show one mask at a time. So I was

Re: [gentoo-user] What annoys you?

2009-04-08 Thread Daniel Troeder
On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 11:16 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 05 April 2009 21:45:16 Daniel Troeder wrote: When updates hit the portage tree, that are known to cause problems to lots of people - why not tell that directly after the --sync? Unfortunate timing here - within 24 hours

Re: [gentoo-user] What annoys you?

2009-04-08 Thread Daniel Troeder
On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 14:24 +0200, Daniel Troeder wrote: * Where can I find old news? With eselect news read all I get nothing. Did I maybe purge it?... that brings me back to my first question :) Hmm... from another [gentoo-user] thread I found /usr/portage/metadata/news/ , but how can I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What annoys you?

2009-04-08 Thread Daniel Troeder
On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 10:35 -0400, ABCD wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Troeder wrote: On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 14:24 +0200, Daniel Troeder wrote: * Where can I find old news? With eselect news read all I get nothing. Did I maybe purge it?... that brings me back

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this firewall safe?

2009-04-24 Thread Daniel Troeder
On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 12:00 -0500, Chris Frederick wrote: I would also get rid of the REJECT targets. It's better to DROP instead. If someone is scanning the network, and you start sending icmp rejections back, they will know you are there and may try other techniques to break through your

Re: [gentoo-user] Support of Radeon graphics cards

2009-04-24 Thread Daniel Troeder
On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 11:02 +0200, Maximilian Bräutigam wrote: Hi all, i would like to buy a new computer, but i need (of course) to use gentoo. furthermore i would buy a Radeon HD 4850 or Radeon HD 4870. How are these cards supported by gentoo and does everything work fine according to

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this firewall safe?

2009-04-24 Thread Daniel Troeder
On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 18:40 +, Marco wrote: On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Daniel Troeder dan...@admin-box.com wrote: On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 12:00 -0500, Chris Frederick wrote: [...] While all that is correct, I would also consider it bad network behavior (no offense intended). So

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this firewall safe?

2009-04-27 Thread Daniel Troeder
On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 16:28 -0500, Chris Frederick wrote: Now I'm also keeping in mind that you are on a laptop with no remote services. If you start allowing services, then that will change things. If clients are going to be connection to you for certain services, you should be more

Re: [gentoo-user] MAC addresses

2009-04-30 Thread Daniel Troeder
On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 18:09 +0300, Sergey A. Kobzar wrote: Hello. I have Gentoo server Linux 2.6.27-gentoo-r8 x86_64 connected to LinkSys switch. It has 2 NICs onboard: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:15:17:1a:6e:6c eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:15:17:1a:6e:6d 2nd

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about making a tarball

2009-05-01 Thread Daniel Troeder
On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 14:44 -0500, Dale wrote: I try to keep a up to date stage 4 tarball here in my system just in case. I basically did the creation just like I would if I were booted from the CD. I created /mnt/gentoo/ on my system, extracted a stage 3 there, then chroot in and create a

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie Kernel question.

2009-06-01 Thread Daniel Troeder
On Sun, 2009-05-31 at 23:33 -0400, James Homuth wrote: I'm curious as to whether or not, when using genkernel, one still needs to add hardware modules to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6. That depends on the amount of modules genkernel puts in your initrd. Later, when udev starts, it loads

Re: [gentoo-user] Does portage keep a copy of the file which it installs in the system

2008-11-05 Thread Daniel Troeder
Am Mittwoch, den 05.11.2008, 12:50 +0530 schrieb Lorenzu Hewa, Gayan Neomal: Does portage keep a copy of the file which it installs in the system? Yes: /var/db/pkg (/var/db/pkg/*/*/CONTENTS) The information in /var/db/pkg is more nicely accessed through the utilities in

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-25 Thread Daniel Troeder
Am Montag, den 24.11.2008, 16:12 +0200 schrieb GMail: On Monday 24 November 2008 08:28:33 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: @William: If one or more of the PVs is a Network Block Device, you're not bound to the local machine. You could also use iSCSI. On your client you'll get SCSI-device-nodes

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] filesystems

2008-11-27 Thread Daniel Troeder
Am Mittwoch, den 26.11.2008, 15:26 +0100 schrieb Florian Philipp: Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto schrieb: On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 7:15 PM, Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] As for my photos, I can back all the collection to a single DVD (and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-12-16 Thread Daniel Troeder
Am Dienstag, den 16.12.2008, 01:59 -0600 schrieb Dale: Dale wrote: Dale wrote: This is interesting. I am starting a new install on my backup drive. I'm part way through the install, fetching all the KDE stuff right now. This is what I got from the little frag script:

Re: [gentoo-user] Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-12-16 Thread Daniel Troeder
Am Freitag, den 28.11.2008, 13:46 +0200 schrieb Alan McKinnon: Any Linux defrag tool you encounter will have been written by a third party separate from the developers. It will move blocks around and update superblocks, the drive will have to be unmounted for that to work and a slight

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-12-16 Thread Daniel Troeder
Am Dienstag, den 16.12.2008, 03:15 -0600 schrieb Dale: Daniel Troeder wrote: Am Dienstag, den 16.12.2008, 01:59 -0600 schrieb Dale: I'm not to worried about this since I will be moving this over to the other drive anyway. I would like to know what command I should use to tar up

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend to ram: correct behavior?

2008-12-21 Thread Daniel Troeder
Am Sonntag, den 21.12.2008, 15:04 +0100 schrieb damian: When I suspend to ram my laptop I've noticed the usb ports still yield energy (the light of my external hard drive stays on) and also the led of the wired network device is on. Is this supposed to happen? I think it should be a problem

Re: [gentoo-user] Corruption of scp'd files

2008-12-28 Thread Daniel Troeder
Am Sonntag, den 28.12.2008, 14:12 + schrieb Mick: I am struggling to understand why this problem occurs: I scp a number of binary files (e.g. videos) from box A to box B. I have bz2'd them beforehand. At box B I run bzip2 -tv file.bz2, which reports that all is OK. Then I run

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend to ram: correct behavior?

2008-12-30 Thread Daniel Troeder
Hi Damian, please note, that I'm no kernel (or USB) expert - just guessing around from experience... Am Samstag, den 27.12.2008, 14:48 +0100 schrieb damian: Try enabling or disabling USB_SUSPEND (Device Drivers-USB support-USB selective suspend/resume and wakeup) in your kernel. It was

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Genkernel: non-standard crypto setup

2009-01-02 Thread Daniel Troeder
Am Freitag, den 02.01.2009, 20:03 +0100 schrieb Dirk Heinrichs: Am Freitag, 2. Januar 2009 19:36:28 schrieb Jens Müller: Raid part 1 \ Raid part 2 - Raid5 - /dev/md127 = PV1 Raid part 3 / ...(possibly others)... PV1 --LVM-- VG1 ---LV1: \dev\mapper\vg1-crypt

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm problem(s)

2009-06-15 Thread Daniel Troeder
On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 19:04 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote: Hi group, My fresh install of 2.6.29-r5 goes kablooey just after 'Loading module dm-mod' Then the boot console reports: Couldn't find device with uuid 'ldwVeS-gw14-HE42-M3Gw-DILI-Dbjh-2lHroF' and Couldn't find all physical

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot figure out emerge blocks

2009-06-17 Thread Daniel Troeder
On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 13:44 -0700, Jim Cunning wrote: I followed the procedures to convert from monolithic KDE ebuilds to -meta versions of the KDE ebuilds. Now I have a huge number of blocks that I don't understand and cannot figure out how to fix. My apologies for the size of the text

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: list of emerged programs?

2009-06-28 Thread Daniel Troeder
On Sun, 2009-06-28 at 23:23 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 06/28/2009 11:06 PM, James wrote: All, Is there a simple, quick way to list all of the packages that have been emerged in cronological order? for f in `ls -rt \`find /var/db/pkg -name *.ebuild\``; do basename $f .ebuild;

Re: [gentoo-user] after moving /usr/portage - /var/portage, user can't --pretend

2009-06-29 Thread Daniel Troeder
On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 11:30 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote: HI group, I moved /usr/portage to /var/portage and readjusted PORTDIR in make.conf and re re'd the link to /etc/make.profile. Now emege -p pkg for user leads to Permission denied: '/var/portage/profiles/categories' It's OK for

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} AMD Barcelona vs. Intel Harpertown (also 10k vs 15k RPM)

2009-07-19 Thread Daniel Troeder
On Sun, 2009-07-19 at 07:46 -0700, Grant wrote: I'm trying to decide between an AMD Barcelona or an Intel Harpertown quad-core CPU for a web/database server. The Intel would have a 5% lower clock speed. I've read that Harpertown outperforms Barcelona (by 20%?), but that the quad-core

Re: [gentoo-user] aufs2-9999 not working for a 2.6.30 kernel?

2009-08-05 Thread Daniel Troeder
On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 10:29 +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, is it only me or is it well known, that even aufs2- does not build with a gentoo-sources-2.6.30(-r1-r4) ? Many thanks for a comment, Helmut. Hello :) I could build aufs2-0_p20090727 with tuxonice-sources-2.6.30-r4. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Hal mount .iso

2009-08-24 Thread Daniel Troeder
On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 10:03 +0400, Top Point wrote: Hi. Can hal mount .iso 9660 by loop device? I can mount .iso manually but I want to do it automatically by hal. Do you want to mount it by right-clicking it in a graphical environment like GNOME or KDE? If that is what you want, in GNOME

Re: [gentoo-user] port bandwidth discovery

2009-09-12 Thread Daniel Troeder
On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 18:03 +, James wrote: Hello, Currently, I manage gentoo system that have a variety of 10 and 100 MB/s ethernet cards. I use lshw to distinguish the max ethernet port speed: For example: network:0 DISABLED

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome default file associations broken

2009-09-13 Thread Daniel Troeder
On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 12:00 +0200, Sascha Hlusiak wrote: Hello List, somehow all default file associations are broken in my gnome installation and seem to point at the KDE applications instead. When right-clicking in nautilus on a pdf file, the default action is kghostview instead of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Setting up correct domainname

2009-09-20 Thread Daniel Troeder
On Sun, 2009-09-20 at 21:38 +0100, Mick wrote: On Sunday 20 September 2009, Harry Putnam wrote: Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com writes: -The following addresses had permanent fatal errors- email_acco...@isp.com (reason: 550 5.1.0 nag...@myserver.mydomain.com sender rejected :

Re: [gentoo-user] kvm and intel E5450 processor

2009-09-24 Thread Daniel Troeder
On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 22:17 -0500, James Erickson wrote: today i installed two quad core Intel Xeon E5450's (Harpertown). i notice in /proc/cpuinfo i no longer have a vmx flag as i had with my previous Intel E5405's. i have also noticed that my /dev/kvm device is no longer created. VT is

Re: [gentoo-user] HDMI-out working?

2009-09-25 Thread Daniel Troeder
On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 13:04 -0700, Grant wrote: Does HDMI-out on laptops work on Gentoo? - Grant Here on a Sony Laptop with ATI/AMD Radeon gfx it works perfectly with both OSS drivers as well as the commercial drivers. They do also distinguish between the HDMI and the VGA output. Can be set

Re: [gentoo-user] kvm and intel E5450 processor

2009-09-25 Thread Daniel Troeder
On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 21:48 -0500, James Erickson wrote: You have to en/dis/able: CONFIG_HAVE_KVM=y CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_IRQCHIP=y CONFIG_KVM=m # CONFIG_KVM_INTEL is not set # CONFIG_KVM_AMD is not set # CONFIG_KVM_TRACE is not set Daniel i am getting the following error: make[1]: Entering

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gnome 2.26 stable?

2009-09-30 Thread Daniel Troeder
On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 18:19 -0700, walt wrote: I run gnome on my ~amd64 machine and have had no problems at all (so far). IMHO it's safe to run gnome on an ~amd64 machine, but I've not used the unstable gnome desktop on a stable amd64 machine. Just from past experience I might expect problems

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gnome 2.26 stable?

2009-09-30 Thread Daniel Troeder
Any way to share a meaningful list of gnome-related pkgs to unmask/keyword? Just for starting off here That's my list of GNOME related packages. Probably some of them are not necessary to unmask anymore, and probably I missed some :) gnome-extra/nm-applet net-misc/networkmanager-vpnc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gnome 2.26 stable?

2009-09-30 Thread Daniel Troeder
On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 19:15 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb: [...] thanks for the list ... after checking my backups I now added your list, edited a bit and started emerging. We'll see ;-) looks good so far, around 60 pkgs emerged, gnome 2.26 up

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gnome 2.26 stable?

2009-10-01 Thread Daniel Troeder
On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 06:48 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Daniel Troeder schrieb: Same here. After booting no sound ... in PA all looks good, after some searching I find alsamixer mutes things ... sigh ... but as long as there aren't more problems I can live with it. You can set things

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gnome 2.26 stable?

2009-10-01 Thread Daniel Troeder
On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 15:08 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Daniel Troeder schrieb: On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 06:48 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Daniel Troeder schrieb: Same here. After booting no sound ... in PA all looks good, after some searching I find alsamixer mutes things

Re: [gentoo-user] ~amd64 : X11 (?) crashing

2009-11-15 Thread Daniel Troeder
On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 01:06 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: greets ... As mentioned lately in another thread I moved to amd64 unstable last week. So far OK ... but: I see X11 crashing repeatedly but I don't have a clue what component might be the reason. Sometimes my gnome-session

Re: [gentoo-user] Bittorent black box

2009-11-24 Thread Daniel Troeder
On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 00:02 +0100, laurent wrote: Hi, I would like to use my server as bittorent client and maybe tracker later. I would like to have a web interface but I could also develop it myself later. I saw, qbittorent and hrktorrent that looks good. I don't know any features of

Re: [gentoo-user] What magic does portage use?

2009-12-11 Thread Daniel Troeder
On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 07:16 -0600, Dale wrote: Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 11 Dec, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 11 December 2009 11:11:41 Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I'm curious how portage solves its most difficult part (in my eyes). When installing a dynamic library (by

Re: [gentoo-user] What magic does portage use?

2009-12-15 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 12/11/2009 08:00 PM, Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 11 December 2009 17:07:17 Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 11 December 2009 15:16:01 Dale wrote: Rebooting will also do all of this but it is not needed. From a technical stand point, the only time

Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Selecting shut down in the menu sometimes lands me back a gdm login screen.

2010-02-03 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 02/02/2010 06:10 PM, ubiquitous1980 wrote: Selecting shut down in the menu sometimes lands me back a gdm login screen. At other times, the computer shuts down normally. When I had similar problems it was sometimes because of permission-problems when talking to some service over the dbus.

Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Selecting shut down in the menu sometimes lands me back a gdm login screen.

2010-02-03 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 02/03/2010 05:50 PM, ubiquitous1980 wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 03 February 2010 09:15:05 ubiquitous1980 wrote: Daniel Troeder wrote: On 02/02/2010 06:10 PM, ubiquitous1980 wrote: Selecting shut down in the menu sometimes lands me back a gdm login screen

Re: [gentoo-user] help with inaccessible (trashed?) file

2010-02-07 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 02/07/2010 11:08 PM, Walt Rarus wrote: WALRUS ~ # whoami root WALRUS ~ # ls -l /usr/portage/x11-misc/icesndcfg/ ls: cannot access /usr/portage/x11-misc/icesndcfg/icesndcfg-1.3.ebuild: Permission denied total 12 -rw-r--r-- 1 rootroot2675 2008-05-09 09:37 ChangeLog -rw-r--r-- 1

Re: [gentoo-user] Find out what emerge is up to in a large number of installations.

2010-02-17 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 02/16/2010 06:56 PM, ubiquitous1980 wrote: If emerge has a large number of installs to do, for example, during a world update, and I am in a tty, how would I find which one emerge is up to? Not sure if I understand your question, but you possibly want to take a look at /var/log/emerge.log --

Re: [gentoo-user] When copying an os to new disk

2010-02-19 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 02/19/2010 09:34 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: I'm currently rsyncing an OS (new gentoo install) from one vmware disk to a newly created one. I know not to copy /proc but not sure about /dev. Looking at an unbooted OS disk with an install on it... I see /dev/ is populated (with no boot up),

Re: [gentoo-user] Playing Apple Trailers

2010-03-22 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 03/22/2010 07:58 AM, Mick wrote: What's the trick for playing Apple Trailers these days? It used to work fine years ago, but now all I get is a pop-up telling me to download Apple's Quicktime player. :-( I looked for mplayer USE flags to enable it, but can't find any. I did find

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ffmpeg threads parameter

2010-03-28 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 03/28/2010 04:02 AM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: On 03/27/10 21:17, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 03/28/2010 02:40 AM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: Some ffmpeg-using applications (e.g. mplayer) allow you to pass numbers of threads (e.g. I use 6 on my Core-I7) to ffmpeg; others (e.g. chromium) do not.

Re: [gentoo-user] X11 and HP2475w: First steps?

2010-04-10 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 04/10/2010 10:21 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, before damaging delicate electronic equipment I want to ask, what the best way is to switch from a 1600x1200 pixel analogous Iiyama monitor to an Flat panel HP2475w (LCD) with 1980x1200 pixel monitor? Graphics card is a (info

Re: [gentoo-user] Ldap authentication issues.

2010-05-03 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 05/03/2010 09:41 AM, Indexer wrote: I am currently trying to make a ldap server which i can use to authenticate users. Sadly a large number of how to's are incomplete and don't work, so after reading alot of how to's and manuals I have got 99.9% of the way. On attempting to authenticate

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel upgrade and now LUKS failure.

2010-05-04 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 05/04/2010 09:28 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 04.05.2010 19:38, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: I don't yet have the whole picture ... I did some emerge -avuDN world, quite some packages updated even though I am doing emerge -avu world nearly every day ... After a reboot and

Re: [gentoo-user] Ldap authentication issues.

2010-05-04 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 05/03/2010 02:37 PM, Indexer wrote: On 03/05/2010, at 9:41 PM, Ward Poelmans wrote: On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 09:41, Indexer inde...@internode.on.net wrote: I am currently trying to make a ldap server which i can use to authenticate users. Sadly a large number of how to's are incomplete

Re: [gentoo-user] Ldap authentication issues.

2010-05-05 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 05/05/2010 02:02 AM, Indexer wrote: I have solved this issue late last night. I took my inspiration from fedora, who has a really nice automatic tool for adding ldap servers, and i looked at their changes. The issue was that pam_unix was set as required, not sufficient / optional. I also

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel upgrade and now LUKS failure.

2010-05-05 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 05/05/2010 06:42 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 04.05.2010 23:24, schrieb Daniel Troeder: I'm using sys-fs/cryptsetup-1.1.1_rc1 since 02.05.2010 and didn't have any issues. Please decrypt your partition from the command line, so we can see if it is a cryptsetup/luks/kernel problem

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel upgrade and now LUKS failure.

2010-05-05 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 05/05/2010 10:42 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 05.05.2010 10:00, schrieb Daniel Troeder: That is a message from cryptsetup. As you are using openssl to get the key, I think the problem might be there. ok lvcreate -n crypttest -L 100M vg0 KEY=`tr -cd [:graph:] /dev

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel upgrade and now LUKS failure.

2010-05-06 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 05/05/2010 10:23 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 05.05.2010 22:17, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Remember that I said: I am not sure which HOWTO I followed ? What if I didn't use aes-256-ecb? You don't need to supplay that information to cryptsetup, it can (should) autodetect it. To

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel upgrade and now LUKS failure.

2010-05-10 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 05/07/2010 11:14 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 07.05.2010 16:24, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 07.05.2010 10:53, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: I think I am gonna file a bug for this now. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318865 Aside from the potential bug: As I store

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel upgrade and now LUKS failure

2010-05-17 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 05/17/2010 11:14 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 16.05.2010 14:36, schrieb Jan Engelhardt: [Replying to http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/229533/focus=229542 ] In my personal opinion, both the quality of shell commands and key generation is suboptimal. What makes it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel upgrade and now LUKS failure

2010-05-21 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 05/18/2010 07:57 PM, Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Tuesday 2010-05-18 18:56, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Do you know any howto where it is done the right way? The right and easy way is to just use the supplied pmt-ehd(8) tool, which works both interactively and non-interactively, depending

Re: [gentoo-user] Performing a backup during the boot sequence

2010-05-26 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 05/26/2010 12:30 AM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: For quite a while I have used the following steps to perform a single-user backup 1. Boot to single user mode via the grub command kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda6 single 2. Type in the root password. 3. Execute a single

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI RV710/730

2010-06-23 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 06/07/2010 01:33 AM, James wrote: Hello, I have this ati card. I'm having trouble finding a stable ati-driver + xorg-server combination that will compile. Any recommendations as to open source drivers or getting ati-drivers happy with 9.x or 10.x is most welcome. I read a lot of bugs

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI RV710/730

2010-06-24 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 06/23/2010 11:47 PM, Mick wrote: On Wednesday 23 June 2010 09:08:02 Daniel Troeder wrote: On 06/07/2010 01:33 AM, James wrote: Hello, I have this ati card. I'm having trouble finding a stable ati-driver + xorg-server combination that will compile. Any recommendations as to open source

Re: [gentoo-user] VFAQ mirroring a live root FS

2010-07-01 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 07/01/2010 05:12 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, would anybody please explain to me what difficulties might occur if I mirror a live root file system and use that for booting (in an emergency case). I know that for proper mirroring I may mirror a live root file system but I have to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why does high-res video drop frames at 60% CPU?

2010-07-07 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 07/07/2010 05:33 AM, Grant wrote: I've been using VDPAU acceleration to play back Blu-Ray rips for a while, but the extra layer is getting to be quite a hassle so I'm trying to get decent performance via software decoding. It has actually come a long way since the last time I tried and

Re: [gentoo-user] Why does high-res video drop frames at 60% CPU?

2010-07-07 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 07/07/2010 12:35 PM, App Deb wrote: You have dual core so 60% means: 50% (full one core) is for decoding, and the rest 10% is for audio, resizing etc. Oh - didn't think about this - yes... you could be seeing the wrong thing in top. If you have more than 1 CPU/Core you should push 1 in

Re: [gentoo-user] Why does high-res video drop frames at 60% CPU?

2010-07-07 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 07/07/2010 03:01 PM, Mick wrote: On 7 July 2010 12:27, Daniel Troeder dan...@admin-box.com wrote: Use htop to see threads. As far as I know top won't show those. So you can't check if your multi-threaded mplayer is really using more than 1 thread/process. What do you get when you press

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf and ATI 4350 card

2010-07-21 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 07/21/2010 04:46 AM, James wrote: hello, I can get X(kde 4.4) to start and run without a xorg.conf file but at the wrong screen resolution. (1600x1200) instead of 1920x1280, as it was before. Every attempt to edit the old xorg.conf or roll a new xorg.conf with the new

Re: [gentoo-user] State of Radeon drivers

2010-07-25 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 07/25/2010 06:00 PM, Florian Philipp wrote: Hi list! I have a quick question: I plan to buy a notebook with an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250. How well would that one work? Can I reasonably expect Suspend2Ram, 3d acceleration etc to work stable? Thanks in advance! Florian Philipp Open

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: State of Radeon drivers

2010-07-26 Thread Daniel Troeder
Oh yes - considering support time is a really good hint! Just one thing: On 07/26/2010 01:01 AM, James wrote: http://www.x.org/wiki/radeonhd The radeonhd driver has been abandoned recently by its last supporter (Novell), because the radeon-driver includes now practically all features of

Re: [gentoo-user] nss_updatedb pam_ccreds

2010-08-03 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 07/29/2010 06:50 PM, Giampiero Gabbiani wrote: Hi all, I configured nss pam in order to make LDAP authentication. In order to have a proper authentication and attributes retrieving I added also ccreds and nss_updatedb modifying /etc/pam.d/system-auth for the first and /etc/nsswithch

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: new mail client

2010-08-30 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 08/30/2010 04:10 PM, James wrote: OK, so I/m ready to move a few users from the mail client in Seamonkey to a new mail client package. Thunderbird looks reasonable, runs on Winblows and Linux and is not tied to a given desktop platform. I did read bugzilla about enigmail not working with

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoos community communication rant

2010-09-08 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 09/08/2010 05:27 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday 08 September 2010 17:14:13 Jonathan wrote: On Tue, 7 Sep 2010 22:49:37 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: We go in circles here. NNTP is be default organzed in threads. You don't open a topic that you are not

Re: [gentoo-user] Pipe Lines - A really basic question

2010-09-09 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 09/09/2010 07:24 PM, Matt Neimeyer wrote: My generic question is: When I'm using a pipe line series of commands do I use up more/less space than doing things in sequence? For example, I have a development Gentoo VM that has a hard drive that is too small... I wanted to move a database off

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoos community communication rant

2010-09-09 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 09/09/2010 08:21 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday 08 September 2010 23:27:52 Daniel Troeder wrote: On 09/08/2010 05:27 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday 08 September 2010 17:14:13 Jonathan wrote: On Tue, 7 Sep 2010 22:49:37 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Native 32 and 64-bit linux Flash 10 Preview Release available

2010-09-19 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 09/19/2010 08:05 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: This is of interest to those of us running old versions of Flash, especially on 64-bit installs without 32-bit support (looks in mirrorg). Download site is http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html To find out where to install, go to

Re: [gentoo-user] Normal disk speed?

2010-10-01 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 10/01/2010 03:12 AM, Adam Carter wrote: Your harddisk seeks, everything is slow. So does that then mean that my options are; 1. Defragment, so there is less seeking 2. Get an SSD Since 2 is too expensive for a decent size drive, is there anything i can do about 1 without a backup

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Normal disk speed?

2010-10-02 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 10/01/2010 04:40 PM, James wrote: Daniel Troeder daniel at admin-box.com writes: As I read about the nice performance of btrfs with compression I tried it out two weeks ago. I'll be posting my benchmarks to this list soon. Until now I didn't have any problems, but still would not use

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Normal disk speed?

2010-10-06 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 10/06/2010 10:04 AM, Adam Carter wrote: FYI some braindead benchmarking, reiserfs vs ext4, kernel 2.6.35-gentoo-r8 Copy same DVD image from internal reiserfs drive to freshly formatted external drive; reiserfs1m37.530s ext43m15.074s Then image copy on that external drive;

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Normal disk speed?

2010-10-07 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 10/07/2010 12:59 AM, Adam Carter wrote: WOW! Those differences are crazy! Please - I know benchmarking takes a lot of time - but could you check something: the behavior those fs have at what time they flush data from cache to disk is very different. Have you made sure that

Re: [gentoo-user] postfixadmin vacation user uid/home in /etc/passwd

2010-12-30 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 12/30/2010 12:59 AM, kashani wrote: On 12/29/2010 1:36 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2010-12-29 3:50 PM, kashani wrote: On 12/29/2010 9:14 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: I'm updating an old system I inherited that has postfixadmin 2.1 installed, and I have a question about the vacation user entry in

Re: [gentoo-user] xen-sources and igb (intel network) driver

2011-01-13 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 01/11/2011 03:09 PM, Konstantinos Agouros wrote: In 1294686017.7979@rumba elw...@agouros.de (Konstantinos Agouros) writes: Hi, I just upgraded my box to a phenom and an intel quad gbit card. The card is a 82575GB. It is recognized (I use xen-sources 2.6.34-r4) and also tried the latest

Re: [gentoo-user] Near freezes during large emerges

2011-01-16 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 01/16/2011 08:25 PM, Grant wrote: I've been running without swap for quite a while, but my system goes into a near freeze whenever I undertake a large emerge such as chromium or openoffice. Is there anything I can do to prevent this besides turning swap back on? I have 3GB RAM and

Re: [gentoo-user] Network Topology Diagrams

2011-08-05 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 08/05/2011 07:48 PM, Michael Mol wrote: On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 1:42 PM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Hello one and all, It's been a while since I've created diagrams. I'd be curious to learn what tools (software ebuilds) and techniques that folks employ to: Graphically map

Re: [gentoo-user] [off-topic] - can /var be placed in a separate partition?

2011-09-13 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 09/12/2011 01:53 AM, Alex Schuster wrote: Francisco Ares writes: Is it possible to have /var in a separate partition, mounted during boot? This is very common. The advantage is that a process filling up the /var directory (which is bad) will not fill the root partition (which would be

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: multi-threaded mplayer

2011-11-17 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 11/15/2011 10:55 AM, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: I'll answer myself: just pass the option. And when happy, put them in the config file: daniel@moja ~ $ grep threads .mplayer/config lavdopts=threads=4 http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-789673-postdays-0-postorder-asc-start-75.html On

[gentoo-user] ext4 inode limit reached

2011-12-12 Thread Daniel Troeder
Hello :) I have an ext4-filesystem that contains /usr/src, the /usr/portage and /var/cache/edb. It previously also contained /var/db/pkg, but I had to move that some weeks ago, because the fs was full. Now it's full again, though it has free blocks. But no inodes are left: $ fsck -vf /dev/sda5

Re: [gentoo-user] ext4 inode limit reached

2011-12-12 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 12.12.2011 15:54, Alex Schuster wrote: Joseph writes: That is scary. I just install new HD with 2TB capacity and ext4 that is 2% full and: $ find /home/joseph/ -xdev | wc -l shows: 169977 that is 26% full. No, that is 26% of the number of total inodes _Daniel_ has on his small

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