Re: [gentoo-amd64]

2007-07-09 Thread Gavin Seddon
amd64 and soon to be mips. I subscribe to all lists tho' I rarely post.. When I first started a few years ago coming from Debian, the users where very helpful but I to was intimidated with some kirt remarks. I think one should remember gentoo can be an intimidating system Gavin beg

[gentoo-amd64] new graphical installer

2006-08-11 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, I found the x86 installer at bit torrent. For quickly installing on many pc's. The extensions are torrent not iso. How do I use these and are all ok? Thanks. -- Dr Gavin Seddon Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road M13 9PL UK -- gentoo-

[gentoo-amd64] skype login

2006-07-24 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, I've inst. Skype. My user pass keeps failing (it is correct), does it take a while to be registered? Gavin -- Dr Gavin Seddon Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road M13 9PL UK -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: 32bit session

2006-07-19 Thread Gavin Seddon
Of course, Thanks for highlighting my idiocy. Gavin. On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 08:40 -0400, Jose Herrera wrote: > In fact the whole gentoo setup involves chroot. > > just don't do the machine parts: partitions,mkfs,grub,fstab and of > course the reboot ;) > > Jose. &g

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: 32bit session

2006-07-19 Thread Gavin Seddon
This is for installing on a machine. How would I catenate this to a chroot? Gavin. On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 14:17 +0200, Simon Stelling wrote: > Gavin Seddon wrote: > > Dear Duncan, > > thanks. This appears a mission. I will have to reinst. Gentoo and > > create a 3

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: 32bit session

2006-07-19 Thread Gavin Seddon
Dear Duncan, thanks. This appears a mission. I will have to reinst. Gentoo and create a 32 partition. Can you recommend a url of howto proceed thence. Gavin. On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 11:57 +, Duncan wrote: > Gavin Seddon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted > [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpt

[gentoo-amd64] 32bit session

2006-07-19 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, Is it poss. to start a 32bit session so the whole desktop is 32bit? Gavin. -- Dr Gavin Seddon Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road M13 9PL UK -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] dma?

2006-07-11 Thread Gavin Seddon
Brett, Hi Yes I did this and Hemmann suggested the alternative in the inst. doc. Will reboot asap. Thanks Gaviin On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 06:54 -0500, Brett Johnson wrote: > On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 11:58:04AM +0100, Gavin Seddon wrote: > > Yes, > > I tried this and, > > &#x

Re: [gentoo-amd64] dma?

2006-07-11 Thread Gavin Seddon
2:00 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > On Tuesday 11 July 2006 11:02, Gavin Seddon wrote: > > Hi, > > I am using Reiser on a couple of my partitions. When booting it informs > > me the 'dma is turned off, this is slowing down fs checking. Also, > > occasionall I am i

Re: [gentoo-amd64] dma?

2006-07-11 Thread Gavin Seddon
Many thanks Andreas. On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 11:24 +0200, Andreas Karlsson wrote: > On Tuesday 11 July 2006 11:02, Gavin Seddon wrote: > > Hi, > > I am using Reiser on a couple of my partitions. When booting it informs > > me the 'dma is turned off, this is slowi

Re: [gentoo-amd64] dma?

2006-07-11 Thread Gavin Seddon
I have found the dma module with lspci. Will still advise me on the rest? On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 10:02 +0100, Gavin Seddon wrote: > Hi, > I am using Reiser on a couple of my partitions. When booting it informs > me the 'dma is turned off, this is slowing down fs c

[gentoo-amd64] dma?

2006-07-11 Thread Gavin Seddon
ext3 filesystems then afte about 1 yr the root partition developed significant errors and wouldn't boot. So I put reiser on it. What do you think's up? It appears to me to be a broken hdd? Gavin. -- Dr Gavin Seddon Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford

Re: [gentoo-amd64] vmware not booting install cd

2006-06-30 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, It is Windos xp, so I can use a dell pocket pc. I would also be able to upgrade my cellular phone to one that doesn't require Gnokii. Thanks. GavinO n Thu, 2006-06-29 at 09:48 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > On 6/29/06, Gavin Seddon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > yes I c

Re: [gentoo-amd64] vmware not booting install cd

2006-06-29 Thread Gavin Seddon
yes I checked this. I'll try the iso. On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 09:22 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > On 6/28/06, Gavin Seddon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > this is vmware-workstation. When I power in it starts. I get the > > vmware progress bar. It says &

Re: [gentoo-amd64] vmware not booting install cd

2006-06-28 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, this is vmware-workstation. When I power in it starts. I get the vmware progress bar. It says 'examining hardware'. Then there is an error that I cannot see and it all starts again. The cd will boot if I try and inst. on my machine as the 1ary os. Gavin -- Dr Gavin Seddon Ph

Re: [gentoo-amd64] vmware not booting install cd

2006-06-25 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, Thanks. It doesn't boot if I pick '/dev/cdrom' either. I get the black screen with the progress bar then nothing. TThanks. btw. The cd is ok. gavin. On Sat, 2006-06-24 at 15:51 +0200, Thierry de Coulon wrote: > On Saturday 24 June 2006 15.01, Gavin Seddon wrote: >

[gentoo-amd64] vmware not booting install cd

2006-06-24 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, I have vm 5.5 running.But, when I try and inst guest os and 'power on' the inst. cd doesn't boot. Can anyone suggest help? cheers. Gavin. -- Dr Gavin Seddon Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road M13 9PL UK -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-amd64] vmplayer

2006-06-02 Thread Gavin Seddon
such file or directory' Can anyone help? Gavin -- Dr Gavin Seddon Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road M13 9PL UK -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] torque

2006-05-31 Thread Gavin Seddon
Will do, thanks . On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 07:08 -0700, Bob Sanders wrote: > Gavin Seddon, mused, then expounded: > > Hi, > > I'm going to install Gentoo on a cluster at work consisting of 11 intels > > and 3 dec-alphas. TI am thinking of installing Torque as th

[gentoo-amd64] torque

2006-05-25 Thread Gavin Seddon
Gavin. -- Dr Gavin Seddon Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road M13 9PL UK -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] test2

2006-04-14 Thread Gavin Seddon
; > > Gentoo/AMD64 Developer > > > > However, this one has. > So did the others as far as my inbox can tell :) > > Cheers, > Ben. > > -- Dr Gavin Seddon Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road M13 9PL UK -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-amd64] test2

2006-04-11 Thread Gavin Seddon
-- Dr Gavin Seddon Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road M13 9PL UK -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-amd64] test

2006-04-08 Thread Gavin Seddon
-- Dr Gavin Seddon Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road M13 9PL UK -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] x11 not working on ssh

2006-02-27 Thread Gavin Seddon
Can anyone advise? -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] x11 not working on ssh

2006-02-27 Thread Gavin Seddon
with "-D -d" options at the commandline and > connect from remote server with a verbose "ssh -X -v ". In most > cases at the end of the debug output gives you an idea what goes wrong. > Best regards Joerg > > -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical

Re: [gentoo-amd64] x11 not working on ssh

2006-02-25 Thread Gavin Seddon
100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > On Friday 24 February 2006 16:47, Gavin Seddon wrote: > > Hi, > > On Debian my ssh x11 interface would start. Now, on the remote box I > > get > > 'X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.' > > I have enable

[gentoo-amd64] x11 not working on ssh

2006-02-24 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, On Debian my ssh x11 interface would start. Now, on the remote box I get 'X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.' I have enabled x11 forwarding on both machines and used ssh -X to log on. Can anyone help? -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutica

[gentoo-amd64] kasbar running

2006-02-23 Thread Gavin Seddon
Dear Duncan, I now have it running and yes it is what I wanted, thanks. I can now go back to 4 possible desktops. It didn't show previously since I had the menu bar at the top edge of the screen where minimised apps. go. When I removed this I got the kasbar option. Thanks. -- Dr Gavin S

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: iconify vs minimise

2006-02-22 Thread Gavin Seddon
retty close to what you asked for, an icon based interface.' on 3.4. I right clicked on the bottom panel. cheers Gavin. -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-amd64] iconify vs minimise

2006-02-19 Thread Gavin Seddon
ops running for different apps. This is an excellent feature of IRIX where I first came across this. Does anyone know how to enable this in kde? I have looked on google and I saw hints this may be a feature of KDE 3.5. Is this true? Gavin. -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Scien

[gentoo-amd64] wireless setup from install

2006-02-16 Thread Gavin Seddon
. BTW the p4 is temporarily connected to a monitor, kb/m. I have searched the www extensively but nothing seems to anwser my prob. So, if someone can point to a url this would be useful. )Thanks. Gavin. -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester

[gentoo-amd64] apple laptop

2006-02-15 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, I have my eye on a apple laptop. It is 400Mhz. Will this run Gentoo and setup on a wireless lan? What will be will it be 64 bit, that is are they quite fast. It's only for working while I watch tv in the evening. Would it be worth it. 15" tft 300ram. ~300 quid. -- Dr Ga

[gentoo-amd64] database software

2006-02-09 Thread Gavin Seddon
- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: Fragmentation (Was: Re: Re: Re: Wow! KDE 3.5.1 & Xorg 7.0 w/ Composite)

2006-02-09 Thread Gavin Seddon
> -- > Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. > "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- > and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in > http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html > > -- Dr Ga

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Fragmentation (Was: Re: Re: Re: Wow! KDE 3.5.1 & Xorg 7.0 w/ Composite)

2006-02-08 Thread Gavin Seddon
a good > candidate for /var/tmp or /usr/postage. Reiser3 has proven to fragment too, > and one of the last system I installed was formated with XFS, which I will > "defragment" in a few weeks. Hopefully I could then come with numbers. > > BTW, does someone know of a tool

Re: [gentoo-amd64] k3b error

2006-02-06 Thread Gavin Seddon
Which package contains cdrecord? > - > > check permission - k3bsetup ? > try to re-emerge cdrecord > > anyway - it should work, however - setting "burning group" makes it better > > Piotr -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical

[gentoo-amd64] k3b error

2006-02-06 Thread Gavin Seddon
=2 dev=/dev/hdc speed=32 -tao driveropts=burnfree -eject -data /home/mbpssgms/install-x86-minimal-2005.1-r1.iso ' Can anyone help? -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-amd64] Re: fwbuilder taking ages to compile[fixed]

2006-02-02 Thread Gavin Seddon
Sorry, got it sorted -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-amd64] fwbuilder taking ages to compile

2006-02-02 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hello, I've built a new fw from scratch. Included eth0 and lo. When I click compile, I get no error, i get the screen telling me fwb_ipt is executed. Then nothing happens. I s it compiling or waiting for something? Gavin. -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sci

[gentoo-amd64] ailed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket k3b

2006-01-27 Thread Gavin Seddon
//k3b.plainblack.com/message-board/error-k3bdevicedevice-unable-to-do-inquiry I followed this through. But, still have the same probs. I upgraded to the kernel-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.14-gentoo-r5 kernel and I have the same problem. Can anyone help? Gavin. -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmac

Re: [gentoo-amd64] 64 newbie

2006-01-24 Thread Gavin Seddon
x. GOOD CHOICE -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] error updating deep world>> gentoo general

2006-01-21 Thread Gavin Seddon
hough with some special Nvidia cards, it's possible > to get 4 Gfx pipe on 2 PCIe x16 slots. That's not to say it works well, as > it's > pretty much beta hardware and drivers at the moment. > > Bob > -- > - > QA Curmudgeon. > Wacky and bizarre testing(TM) performed while-U-wait. > - > See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > - -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] error updating deep world>> gentoo general

2006-01-21 Thread Gavin Seddon
tself. Performance wise, the Opterons are > also far enough ahead of the Intel offerings to make it worthwhile to > stick with AMD. > > YMMV and My opinions are my own. > -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] error updating deep world>> gentoo general

2006-01-20 Thread Gavin Seddon
hanging now however, I am always 'on-the-lookout for a superior workstation so I may change in the future to ia64 Gentoo. Are Iitanium machines the best (robust/speed). Or, are the Opterons or athlon64 better. For that matter how do amd machines differ? -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharma

Re: [gentoo-amd64] error updating deep world

2006-01-20 Thread Gavin Seddon
it was the comment about changing Linuxes I disagreed with. Gavin. -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] error updating deep world [working]

2006-01-20 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, I ran python-updater and merged dbus, all works now. Thanks Gavin. -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] ssh fwbuilder

2006-01-20 Thread Gavin Seddon
a firewall, all I need to do is install the fwall I have built. However, this needs a user and pass. I generated the password but I can't activate the inst procedure. The sshing was just a recommended test. Do I need to allow ssh root login to install my firewall? Thanks. -- Dr Gavin S

Re: [gentoo-amd64] error updating deep world

2006-01-20 Thread Gavin Seddon
change to another Linux unfair. I fully understand I am taking up other peoples time and for this I apologise. But, what are user lists for other than fix and air problems/issues. Gavin. -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road, Mancheste

Re: [gentoo-amd64] ssh fwbuilder

2006-01-20 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, This logging in business is the recommended test for my generated password. Really I need the username to install my compiled fwall. A user of root doesn't work so that is why I'm mithering you guys. -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of

Re: [gentoo-amd64] error updating deep world

2006-01-19 Thread Gavin Seddon
ry re-running this script again to see if it * can be fixed. * emerge -p \=sys-apps/dbus-0.23-r3' at the end, is this ok? On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 09:06 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > On 1/19/06, Gavin Seddon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I have just tri

Re: [gentoo-amd64] error updating deep world

2006-01-19 Thread Gavin Seddon
U ] media-video/transcode-0.6.14-r3 [0.6.14-r2] (-3dnow) +X -a52 (-altivec) -dv -dvdread +encode -fame +gtk -imagemagick +jpeg -lzo -mjpeg (-mmx) +mpeg -network -ogg +quicktime +sdl (-sse) (-sse2) -theora +truetype -v4l -vorbis +xml2 -xvid 2 kB Total size of downloads: 5,178 kB' Thanks. -- Dr

Re: [gentoo-amd64] ssh fwbuilder

2006-01-19 Thread Gavin Seddon
hine called > firewall. > I guess you actually need > > ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > On Thursday 19 January 2006 12:56, Gavin Seddon wrote: > >Hi, > >In the instructions for fwbuilder to test the password it tells me to > > > >ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED], I

Re: [gentoo-amd64] ssh fwbuilder

2006-01-19 Thread Gavin Seddon
ewall"? > > > > ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] uses ssh to login user root into a machine called > > firewall. > > I guess you actually need > > > > ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > On Thursday 19 January 2006 12:56, Gavin Seddon wrote: > >>Hi,

Re: [gentoo-amd64] error updating deep world

2006-01-19 Thread Gavin Seddon
" and then retry "emerge -D world". > > -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-amd64] ssh fwbuilder

2006-01-19 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, In the instructions for fwbuilder to test the password it tells me to ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED], I get 'ssh: firewall: Name or service not known'. I have created the key, when I try to install what's my username? -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Re: [gentoo-amd64] error updating deep world

2006-01-19 Thread Gavin Seddon
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 > > make[1]: Leaving directory > > `/var/tmp/portage/dbus-0.23.4-r1/work/dbus-0.23.4' > > make: *** [all] Error 2 > > > > !!! ERROR: sys-apps/dbus-0.23.4-r1 failed. > > !!! Function src_compile, Line 112, Exitcode 2

[gentoo-amd64] error updating deep world

2006-01-19 Thread Gavin Seddon
ke[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/dbus-0.23.4-r1/work/dbus-0.23.4' make: *** [all] Error 2 !!! ERROR: sys-apps/dbus-0.23.4-r1 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 112, Exitcode 2' Can anyone help? Gavin. -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Ph

[gentoo-amd64] opengl

2006-01-15 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, I'm logging onto work and trying to start an application. It fails telling me 'unable to start opengl window'. I have merged 'x11-base/opengl-update' and my resolution is 1600x1200 using an sgi monitor. My screen depth is 24. Can anyone help? -- Dr Gavin Sedd

Re: [gentoo-amd64] updating world [solved]Hi

2006-01-15 Thread Gavin Seddon
contain nothing. This is great to use together with --pretend. This makes it possible for developers to get a complete overview of the entire dependency tree of a certain package. Thanks. Gavin. -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmac

[gentoo-amd64] updating world

2006-01-10 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, I have been updating my system. Firstly I used 'emerge --sync' then 'emerge --update world'. However, the update stops with a segmentation fault. Is this a big problem that needs fixing and how? Thanks. -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sci

[gentoo-amd64] kmplot

2005-12-28 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, I think this may be an 'off-list' q? if so sorry. I have just discovered kmplot for gentoo. Can this be used for enzyme kinetics, km etc? Is there a page telling me how? If this is the case donations are in order since this kind of software isn't cheap. Gavin. -- Dr Gavin S

Re: [gentoo-amd64] firewall

2005-12-23 Thread Gavin Seddon
t; is not broken in any way that I can tell, just the interface has a couple of > small bugs AFAICT. > > On Thursday 22 December 2005 05:17 am, Gavin Seddon wrote: > > It's alright for some. I eat lunch with a couple of dogs (canine). > > Gavin > > > > On Wed, 2005

Re: [gentoo-amd64] firewall

2005-12-22 Thread Gavin Seddon
lus, I like to have lunch with the author. > > shorewall.net > > Steve Herber [EMAIL PROTECTED] work: 206-221-7262 > Security Engineer, UW Medicine, IT Services home: 425-454-2399 > > On Wed, 21 Dec 2005, Gavin Seddon wrote: > > > Hi, > >

Re: [gentoo-amd64] /var/log

2005-12-21 Thread Gavin Seddon
Sorry, I also use 'metalog. On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 12:45 +, Craig Webster wrote: > On 21 Dec 2005, at 12:32, Gavin Seddon wrote: > > I have been looking in '/var/log' for users logging on. The files and > > directories in there are fastidiously organised (to s

[gentoo-amd64] firewall

2005-12-21 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, I have merged iptables. Will they start at boot and is there a link for configuring on Gentoo? Thanks. -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-amd64] /var/log

2005-12-21 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi all, I have been looking in '/var/log' for users logging on. The files and directories in there are fastidiously organised (to say the least). Better than usual UNIX distros. What is the best place to look for logins/hacks. Gavin. -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Phar

Re: [gentoo-amd64] kdesu

2005-12-19 Thread Gavin Seddon
at there is a portage package and I see that it is > installed in my Fedora Core 4 partition. > > Locate is very handy. > > Cheers! > > Steve Herber [EMAIL PROTECTED] work: 206-221-7262 > Security Engineer, UW Medicine, IT Services home: 425-454-2399 >

[gentoo-amd64] kdesu

2005-12-19 Thread Gavin Seddon
hi all things are coming together today, k3b sees my cd/dvd and my paper is out. chuffed. however, when I run k3bsetup I get 'kdesu' isn't found. What do I need? -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road, Mancheste

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: initio seen, mt -f doesn't work

2005-12-19 Thread Gavin Seddon
0MB\80MB/sec. > - Original Message - > From: "Brett Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Monday, December 19, 2005 9:28 AM > Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: initio seen, mt -f doesn't work > > > > On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 10:23:56AM +000

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: initio seen, mt -f doesn't work

2005-12-19 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, I am not thinking of fedora as an option. I will go to the 2.4 kernel and get removable hdds in the future. Do I put the 2.4 name in '/etc/portage/package.keywords'" and emerge the source then genkernel --menuconfig kernel? -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: initio seen, mt -f doesn't work

2005-12-19 Thread Gavin Seddon
11:46 AM > Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: initio seen, mt -f doesn't work > > > > On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 04:26:23PM +, Gavin Seddon wrote: > >> This is my 1st Gentoo and the tape never worked on Debian. It does work > >> on Redhat/Fedora but a tape&#x

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: initio seen, mt -f doesn't work

2005-12-16 Thread Gavin Seddon
On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 09:17 -0600, Brett Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 02:56:38PM +0000, Gavin Seddon wrote: > > description: SCSI storage controller > > product: 360P > > vendor: Initio Corporation > >

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: initio seen, mt -f doesn't work

2005-12-16 Thread Gavin Seddon
ersion: 02 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: scsi bus_master resources: ioport:c400-c4ff iomemory:ff5fe000-ff5fefff irq:5' -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road, Mancheste

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: initio seen, mt -f doesn't work

2005-12-16 Thread Gavin Seddon
On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 18:36 -0800, Steve Herber wrote: > Besides lspci and lsusb, I like lshw. > > sys-apps/lshw > > >From the man page: > > lshw is a small tool to extract detailed information on the hardware > configuration of the machine. It can report exact memory configuration, > f

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: Re: k3b not creating bootable cd

2005-12-12 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi I just attempted to burn an is for Gentoo for the pc here but after it read in the iso the start button didn't appear. I looked in setup>devices and none were listed. Also, when preparing the image for 'iso cue toc' it is using mkisofs not cdrecord. Is this correct for a cd image? -- gentoo

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: Re: k3b not working [fixed]

2005-12-12 Thread Gavin Seddon
have come from some of > my worst mistakes! That to me seems fortunate. > > What is unfortunate is the person who can not recover or learn from their > mistakes (which was not the case here). -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Ox

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: Re: k3b not working [fixed]

2005-12-12 Thread Gavin Seddon
Coffee time. I ave endless questions tho' -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: k3b not working [fixed]

2005-12-12 Thread Gavin Seddon
I see, you mean truncating it like this. On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 05:24 -0700, Duncan wrote: > Gavin Seddon posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted > below, on Mon, 12 Dec 2005 11:29:29 +: > > > I had found this > > > > http://users.dslextreme.com/~craig.lawso

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: k3b not working [fixed]

2005-12-12 Thread Gavin Seddon
advanced and I WILL study it more. Sorry for the redundant questions. On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 05:24 -0700, Duncan wrote: > Gavin Seddon posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted > below, on Mon, 12 Dec 2005 11:29:29 +: > > > I had found this > > > > http://u

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: initio seen, mt -f doesn't work

2005-12-12 Thread Gavin Seddon
ich works. On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 04:57 -0700, Duncan wrote: > Gavin Seddon posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted > below, on Mon, 12 Dec 2005 09:50:56 +: > > > Is there a way of determining the board type, other than opening the box > > and removing the ca

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: k3b not working [fixed]

2005-12-12 Thread Gavin Seddon
On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 10:14 +, Gavin Seddon wrote: > > Hi, > > 1.2.0 is in my package list. How do I find 1.2.1? > > > you should read portage documentation available on www.gentoo.org > > but you can simply upgrade to 1.2.1 doing this > echo "ap

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: k3b not working [fixed]

2005-12-12 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, 1.2.0 is in my package list. How do I find 1.2.1? On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 16:34 +, Luis Medinas wrote: > 1.2.1 -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] initio seen, mt -f doesn't work

2005-12-12 Thread Gavin Seddon
Is there a way of determining the board type, other than opening the box and removing the card. I don't have it's original box. Thanks. On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 07:39 -0600, Brett Johnson wrote: > On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 10:32:20AM +, Gavin Seddon wrote: > > Hi, > >

Re: [gentoo-amd64] initio seen, mt -f doesn't work

2005-12-11 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, When I modprobe initio I get the single word 'killed' at which the whole system freezes and I have to switch off at the box. Do I need to modify the kernel? Thanks. On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 12:14 -0600, Brett Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 05:55:28PM +, Gavin

Re: [gentoo-amd64] initio seen, mt -f doesn't work

2005-12-09 Thread Gavin Seddon
y optional, since all we did was add a module, but I like to reboot > to be safe). > > Now, just run 'modprobe initio' and it should load without any errors. The > last > step is to check 'lsmod' and 'dmesg | tail'. You should see the scsi card > load

Re: [gentoo-amd64] initio seen, mt -f doesn't work

2005-12-09 Thread Gavin Seddon
etects the tape drive. > > he could also post a gzip'd copy of his dmesg, or better yet.. provide a > link to it. -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K. Bootdata ok (command line is ro

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: initio seen, mt -f doesn't work

2005-12-08 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, root is in tape group. I cannot use mt as a user anyway. I can't see initio in 'dmesg' anymore, also?? Thanks On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 08:13 -0700, Duncan wrote: > Gavin Seddon posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted > below, on Thu, 08 Dec 2005 14:57:31 +: >

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: initio seen, mt -f doesn't work

2005-12-08 Thread Gavin Seddon
Yes /dev/st0 is there. How should I start the device, as far as I remember I built all scsi modules into the kernel. Gavin. On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 07:40 -0700, Duncan wrote: > find /dev/ -name st0" -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Mancheste

[gentoo-amd64] initio seen, mt -f doesn't work

2005-12-08 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, I have a scsi tape with an initio controller. 'dmesg' sees initio 360p. But when I use mt I get ' mt -f /dev/st0 eject /dev/st0: No such device or address' Where will the tape be? Thanks. -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Ma

[gentoo-amd64] scsi tape

2005-12-07 Thread Gavin Seddon
Gavin. -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-amd64] memory

2005-12-07 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, I have decided to put 2 * 1Gig cards in my box. Will Gentoo accept this immediately? Gavin -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] vmware [fixed]

2005-12-07 Thread Gavin Seddon
; > not missing any /dev files. Does anyone know if there is a better way ? > > On my system vmmon and vmnetx get created when the modules are loaded - I am > using udev. > > -- > theboywho > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-amd64] athlon-xp

2005-12-06 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi I am so impressed with Gentoo I have volunteered to put it on a pals pc. He has an athlon-xp. Would this use a x86 inst. cd? -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-amd64] further vmware issues

2005-12-06 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, I tried to remerge but, 'Oemerge remodprobe Calculating dependencies emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "remodprobe".' Thanks Gavin ps I 'rm -rf /etc/vmware' n Tue, 2005-12-06 at 21:27 +0800, Taka John Brunkhorst wrote: > remodprobe, reconfig -- D

[gentoo-amd64] further vmware issues

2005-12-06 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, vmware begins to start, then I get a few errors before it stops 'could not open /dev/vmmon failed to initialize monitor device unable to find a valid peer to connect to unable to reply to the dialog pipe read failed' Can anyone help? -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Phar

Re: [gentoo-amd64] vmware

2005-12-06 Thread Gavin Seddon
> > # Get list of groups user belongs to. > GRPS=`${AWK} -F: '/(:|,)'${2}'(,|$)/{grps=$1 "," grps} END{print grps}' > /etc/group` > > # TODO: Check to see if user is already in group(s) specified. > > # Call usermod tool. > ${USERMOD} -G ${GRP

Re: [gentoo-amd64] vmware

2005-12-05 Thread Gavin Seddon
not missing any /dev files. Does anyone know if there is a better way ? > > On my system vmmon and vmnetx get created when the modules are loaded - I am > using udev. > > -- > theboywho > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-amd64] vmware

2005-12-04 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, I have tried to start vmware and I get 'failed to start unable to connect to peer process. I have purchased vm previously but this still happens with my serial. Do I need this and can anyone help? Gavin. -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Universi

Re: [gentoo-amd64] kile wizard only works when root[fixed]

2005-12-03 Thread Gavin Seddon
n::KActionCollection( QObject *parent, const char *name, KInstance *instance ) KCrash: Application 'kile' crashing... Unable to start Dr. Konqi' Drkonqi is merged and I am in 'wheel' Thanks. Everything else seems ok so I will leave this Q? Gavin. On Fri, 2005-12-02 at

[gentoo-amd64] kile wizard only works when root

2005-12-02 Thread Gavin Seddon
acted the maintainers. They haven't helped. Gavin. -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

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