Re: [gentoo-user] System time drift problem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Frédéric Grosshans wrote: > Le vendredi 15 avril 2005 à 13:51 +0200, Dirk Raeder a écrit : > > >>do you have a CPU that can modulate its frequency? IE clock down if there is >>low load and clock up if there is high load? > > > I don't think so (it'

Re: [gentoo-user] netselect

Walter Dnes wrote: On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 10:36:31AM +0200, Al Bayrouni wrote Hello, I tried to find a good mirror from me. I used netselect rsync.gentoo.org . The command run for 30s, but dasen't output anything!! I believe the command you want is mirrorselect If that doesn't work, here's th

Re: [gentoo-user] netselect

On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 10:36:31AM +0200, Al Bayrouni wrote > Hello, > > I tried to find a good mirror from me. > > I used netselect rsync.gentoo.org . > > The command run for 30s, but dasen't output anything!! I believe the command you want is mirrorselect If that doesn't work, here's th

[gentoo-user] Configuring Belkin 802.11b / F506020 Wirelesss Card

Hi .. I'm installing Gentoo on a IBM laptop with a PCMCIA Belkin 802.11b F506020 card. The LiveCD boots straight up and sees it after I run # net-setup wlan0 However I can't seem to figure out how to get the card to run now that I have a bootable system. I installed: # sys-apps/pcmcia-cs # rc-u

[gentoo-user] control keybindings in mozilla

[Repost alert!! - reposted from several days ago] I haven't gotten any nibbles on my original post on this topic. Is it inappropriate here? I want to have emacs like keybindings inside the mozilla locator box. Things like: ctrl-a (go to beginning of line) ctrl-e ("" end of line) ctrl-k (

Re: [gentoo-user] resuming emerge

Neil Bothwick wrote: emerge --resume restarts an emerge process at the start of the current merge. you lose everything you have compiled. To start where you left off, use ebuild /usr/portage/cate-gory/prog/prog-x.y.z.ebuild merge 1. add the keyword "keepwork ccache" to FEATURES section in your mak

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: System time drift problem

gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org wrote: > Frédéric Grosshans <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > writes: > > > The sytem time of my computer drifts by roughly 5 min per day, while the > > hwclock stays at the correct time. > Maybe you should look at this: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.li

Re: [gentoo-user] X random freeze but mouse still moves

> MalachiX wrote: > > >I have been battling an ongoing problem for a while. When I am on > >Linux, X will just randomly freezes/hangs. I can not control alt > >backspace. The mouse still moves though, it is only the screen that > >freezes. > > > > > > > > Could someone with this problem tr

Re: [gentoo-user] partition resizing problem

On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 09:17:43PM +0200, Richard Fish wrote: > I don't know how painless these are...it will depend on your level of > comfort with grub and disaster recovery from Knoppix, but my suggestions > are: > > 1. If you can set the partition table back _exactly_ as it was before > (don't

Re: [gentoo-user] unmerging kde-3.3

On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 13:39:48 -0700, Robert Persson wrote: > I am now running kde-3.4. How do I get rid of kde-3.3.2? I don't even > know how to get rid of it one package at a time because emerge and > equery don't allow wildcards. A brute force approach would be qpkg -I -v -nc -g kde-base |

Re: [gentoo-user] file permission setting problem

Qiangning Hong wrote: > I have a file with special permission requirement. I want user1 and > user2 can read/write this file, user3 can read only and others can not > access it. How to set the permission bits? No ACL support. > undoable with standard acces rights in linux :( you could create

Re: [gentoo-user] Stable kde 3.4.0

On April 15, 2005 07:57 am, quoth Mrugesh Karnik: > Guilheme Cirne wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Does anybody know if there is an estimate of when kde 3.4.0 will be > > marked stable on x86? > > > > TIA, > > I don't know about being marked stable, but I emerged KDE 3.4 the very > next day it was released

[gentoo-user] unmerging kde-3.3

I am now running kde-3.4. How do I get rid of kde-3.3.2? I don't even know how to get rid of it one package at a time because emerge and equery don't allow wildcards. Thanks Robert -- Robert Persson "Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults." (US Air Force Instruction 91-111, 1 Oct 1

[gentoo-user] Is gentoo-laptop list still working?

I haven't gotten any posts in a long time. Trying to post myself doesn't seem to work either. But I get no error messages. Rob. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] partition resizing problem

John J. Foster wrote: >Good afternoon, > >Well.. > >Last night I attempted to resize a few partitions from my Suse install >to make room for Gentoo. I booted off a Knoppix CD, ran qtparted to >resize /dev/hda2 (/boot, it wasn't mounted), and rebooted to do some > > Ouch. For future refere

[gentoo-user] partition resizing problem

Good afternoon, Well.. Last night I attempted to resize a few partitions from my Suse install to make room for Gentoo. I booted off a Knoppix CD, ran qtparted to resize /dev/hda2 (/boot, it wasn't mounted), and rebooted to do some other work. Didn't boot. Instead brought me to a grub prompt

Re: [gentoo-user] X random freeze but mouse still moves

>... all gento x.org/opengl users are afflicted, or is just us >KDE users who are so lucky... > > Believe it or not folks, English *is* my native language! Sorry for the disconnect between my brain and my keyboard. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up alsa

Michael Sullivan wrote: >The Gentoo Alsa Guide recommended installing alsa-driver even when using >a 2.6 kernel: "we still recommend that you use media-sound/alsa-driver >as they are more up to date than what is provided in the kernel tree." > > FWIW, I'm using the in-kernel alsa drivers witho

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia newbie

> On 15:39 Fri 15 Apr , Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 09:27:17 -0400, Dave Nebinger wrote: > > > > > > Upgraded the kernel to r6. No joy, X won't start, can't find valid > > > > module. > > > > > > After upgrading a kernel you need to boot into console mode and > > > reinstall

Re: [gentoo-user] System time drift problem

Frédéric Grosshans wrote: >Le vendredi 15 avril 2005 à 20:16 +0800, William Kenworthy a écrit : > > >>also worth trying: stop ntp or whatever time sync program you are using, >>then delete /etc/adjtime and /etc/ntp.drift (or whatever the drift is) >>Then run ntp, leaving it to run for a few hour

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia newbie

On 15:39 Fri 15 Apr , Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 09:27:17 -0400, Dave Nebinger wrote: > > > > Upgraded the kernel to r6. No joy, X won't start, can't find valid > > > module. > > > > After upgrading a kernel you need to boot into console mode and > > reinstall the drivers. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: sed: can't read /etc/make.profile/make.defaults: No such file or directory

Nelis Lamprecht wrote: >I send this message yesterday but don't seem to have received my own >message or a reply so sending again in case something went wrong. The >message in the Subject doesn't happen if I login as root but I can't >figure out where the permission problem lies. > >Nelis > >-

Re: [gentoo-user] X random freeze but mouse still moves

MalachiX wrote: >I have been battling an ongoing problem for a while. When I am on >Linux, X will just randomly freezes/hangs. I can not control alt >backspace. The mouse still moves though, it is only the screen that >freezes. > > > Could someone with this problem try changing their use fla

Re: [gentoo-user] dvdrip (udev?) question

Mark Knecht wrote: >Hi Richard, > Thanks for the response. Yes, xine works fine. I just start xine >and then choose DVD from the gui. Up pops the movie's menu and off I >go. No problems at all. > > On the other hand dvdrip is struggling a bit. I may be usign it >incorrectly for all I know. I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf issue [SOLVED]

It was actually /dev/input/mouse0, but I found it and now the mouse works right. Thanks for your help! :) On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 16:59 +0200, Cyrille Damez wrote: > I guess the problem is the last line of this section: > > Section "InputDevice" > > Identifier "Mouse0" > > Driver

RE: [gentoo-user] What's with the runlevels?

> Anyways, the question is, how do I make xdm start in runlevel 5 and not > in runlevel 3? I can't even init 3 to exit the X server. I did Your /etc/inittab file probably has runlevels 3 & 5 mapped to default. Create a new directory in /etc/runlevels named console. Do the rc-update to install con

[gentoo-user] Configuring Apollon / giFT

Hello all. I'm having problems running Apollon. I'm currently attributing these problems to errors in configuring giFT with the gift-setup script. I use: apollon-0.9.4-r1 gift-0.11.6-r1 gift-gnutella-0.0.9.2-r1 gift-fasttrack-0.8.7 gift-openft-0.2.1.4 When starting Apollon, it scans my shared

[gentoo-user] What's with the runlevels?

Hello, Just wondering... This runlevel thing in Gentoo isn't really to my liking. Anyways, the question is, how do I make xdm start in runlevel 5 and not in runlevel 3? I can't even init 3 to exit the X server. I did rc-update add xdm default to start X automatically at boot. I've read the runlev

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf issue

Hi, Just my 2 cents, I have never had any problems pointing to /dev/input/mice, I run Gentoo on a ThinkPad T41p which effectively has three different "mice": trackpoint, touchpad and a USB connected wheel mouse. Hope this helps. -AR On 4/15/05, Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I go

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf issue

I guess the problem is the last line of this section: > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Mouse0" > Driver "mouse" > Option "Protocol" "auto" > Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" > EndSection because of this error message: > (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot o

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo security guide question

'S'all right, we all do it sometimes. ;) rgh. James Hiscock wrote: 'Scuse me, this must be the English class -- I thought I was in the Computer Science / Political Science Building... Sorry. Enough already please, everybody? ...sorry... showing my BA here... I get a little picky about silly

[gentoo-user] Re: System time drift problem

Frédéric Grosshans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The sytem time of my computer drifts by roughly 5 min per day, while the > hwclock stays at the correct time. Sorry to butt in here but I have ntpd trouble too. It doesn't seem to keep correct time. I've just followed the advice to rm /etc/adjtim

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly Complex Hard Drive Question

inlining... Oh, If you have sata, I do not speak SATA yet; so in that case my advice might be "deprecated"... J.I.C.! Tom Moyer wrote: my dvd drive is only like 2 monthes old. It is a Memorex Dual Layer DVD+/- RW I think it is fairly fast. I guess now I'm just wondering would it be worth my ti

Re: [gentoo-user] Stable kde 3.4.0

Guilheme Cirne wrote: Hi, Does anybody know if there is an estimate of when kde 3.4.0 will be marked stable on x86? TIA, I don't know about being marked stable, but I emerged KDE 3.4 the very next day it was released and apart from the Kopete crash after exit, everything was awesome :) -- gento

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up alsa

Michael Sullivan wrote: I had to reinstall Windows the other day and it accidently wiped out my Linux partitions (lucky for backups!). I decided that I would make a Gentoo 2005.0 LiveCD and reinstall Gentoo from there. For a long time I've wanted to use a 2.6 kernel, but I could never get it to w

Re: [gentoo-user] netselect

On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Al Bayrouni wrote: > I tried to find a good mirror from me. > > I used netselect rsync.gentoo.org . > > The command run for 30s, but dasen't output anything!! Try running "mirrorselect" -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia newbie

On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 09:27:17 -0400, Dave Nebinger wrote: > > Upgraded the kernel to r6. No joy, X won't start, can't find valid > > module. > > After upgrading a kernel you need to boot into console mode and > reinstall the drivers. Only the kernel part of the nvidia packages. You need to emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] why my screen on book computer is too small?

Is you kernel using the standard 'vesa' driver or the 'vesa-tng' driver. If it's the later, the 'vga=xxx' entry in grub is ignored. You have to use something like: video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,[EMAIL PROTECTED] HTH, -Hani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] boot with serial console

... if I remember right it has. You'll have to remove your graphics card so that the kernel sends everything to the first serial port found. 0,02$ Frank On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 12:06 +0100, Ognjen Bezanov wrote: > Eric S. Johansson wrote: > > > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > > >> On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 1

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about kernel-equivalence

Frédéric, Working fast here to get to other things I need to finish... Thank you very much for the additional clarity hee -- I may have to try a vanilla to see how tht works, and thn apply the patches forward until it re-breaks. Thank you!, rgh. Frédéric Grosshans wrote: Le jeudi 14 avril 2005 à

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about kernel-equivalence

Working fast here to get to other things I need to finish... I read everything here, & I thank you very much for the extra info -- I may be using this in the next few minutes! Backquotes deprecated, huh...? Ok, we'll see how that "plays in Peoria" for what uses... thanks, rgh. Nick Rout wrote:

[gentoo-user] xorg.conf issue

I got the alsa sound set up right (I think) and now I turn my attention toward support for my Mitsumi Optical wheel mouse. I never had a problem with it before the past two days' install. I ran X -configure and got a configuration file: xorg.conf.new: baby root # cat xorg.conf.new Section "Serv

Re: [gentoo-user] Umerge All Versions of KDE

On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 09:56:21 -0400, fire-eyes wrote: > How do I unmerge all versions of KDE? I understand "kde" is a meta > package, so emerge -C kde isn't going to do this (though I sure wish it > would). emerge -C kde emerge depclean -p emerge depclean Should do it, just make sure you verify t

Re: [gentoo-user] IBM Thinkpad with Belkin Wireless

ndiswrapper. That's what I use with my Belkin F5D6001 PCI WLAN card. The drivers required tweaking (I had to download the Realtek RTL8180L Windows driver from their FTP site, and not the newest one, one that was slightly older, and then change the PCI_VEN codes to the F5D6001's codes), but they wor

[gentoo-user] Re: Umerge All Versions of KDE

Friday 15 April 2005 15.56-n, fire-eyes ezt írta: > How do I unmerge all versions of KDE? I understand "kde" is a meta > package, so emerge -C kde isn't going to do this (though I sure wish it > would). try: cd /var/db/pkg/kde-base emerge unmerge `ls` then: emerge --depclean --pretend HTH, Zsolt

[gentoo-user] FC2 to Gentoo conversion

Hi, I'm looking at converting my wife's machine over to Gentoo. It's a first step toward this media server we're working on as her machine is close to all the TV stuff and has lots of unpartitioned disk space. This machine is currently running FC2 and I figure I'll go to 2005.0. What sort of thi

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia newbie

El 15/04/05 13:17:21, Bill Roberts escribió: I just installed my first off-board video card, an Asus N6600GT. Followed the nvidia guide, it worked like a champ under kernel 2.6.11-gentoo-r5. Got a gazillion frames per second. Upgraded the kernel to r6. No joy, X won't start, can't find valid module

Re: [gentoo-user] System time drift problem

Le vendredi 15 avril 2005 à 20:16 +0800, William Kenworthy a écrit : > also worth trying: stop ntp or whatever time sync program you are using, > then delete /etc/adjtime and /etc/ntp.drift (or whatever the drift is) > Then run ntp, leaving it to run for a few hours so it will write correct > drift

[gentoo-user] Umerge All Versions of KDE

How do I unmerge all versions of KDE? I understand "kde" is a meta package, so emerge -C kde isn't going to do this (though I sure wish it would). -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Stable kde 3.4.0

Hi, Does anybody know if there is an estimate of when kde 3.4.0 will be marked stable on x86? TIA, -- Guilherme Cirne [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] System time drift problem

Le vendredi 15 avril 2005 à 13:51 +0200, Dirk Raeder a écrit : > do you have a CPU that can modulate its frequency? IE clock down if there is > low load and clock up if there is high load? I don't think so (it's not a laptop). How do I check that ? > In that case, activate HPET (high precision t

RE: [gentoo-user] nvidia newbie

> Upgraded the kernel to r6. No joy, X won't start, can't find valid > module. After upgrading a kernel you need to boot into console mode and reinstall the drivers. The installation process builds and installs kernel modules under /lib/modules/`uname -r`/... So under r5 it can find the modules,

[gentoo-user] Setting up alsa

I had to reinstall Windows the other day and it accidently wiped out my Linux partitions (lucky for backups!). I decided that I would make a Gentoo 2005.0 LiveCD and reinstall Gentoo from there. For a long time I've wanted to use a 2.6 kernel, but I could never get it to work. It seems to be wor

[gentoo-user] nvidia newbie

I just installed my first off-board video card, an Asus N6600GT. Followed the nvidia guide, it worked like a champ under kernel 2.6.11-gentoo-r5. Got a gazillion frames per second. Upgraded the kernel to r6. No joy, X won't start, can't find valid module. Says me, I'll just go through the steps i

Re: [gentoo-user] resuming emerge

On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 14:08:31 +0900, mudrii wrote: > > Is there any way to resume emerging ? I have a workstation which spent > > about 5 hours compiling OpenOffice and I had to turn it off, I'd like > > to continue building it (that's the idea behind make and incremental > > building, isn't it?)

Re: [gentoo-user] System time drift problem

also worth trying: stop ntp or whatever time sync program you are using, then delete /etc/adjtime and /etc/ntp.drift (or whatever the drift is) Then run ntp, leaving it to run for a few hours so it will write correct drift and adjustment values. BilkK On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 13:51 +0200, Dirk Ra

Re: [gentoo-user] System time drift problem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Frédéric Grosshans wrote: > The sytem time of my computer drifts by roughly 5 min per day, while the > hwclock stays at the correct time. > > Anyone knows how to avoid this ? > > (My kernel is a 2.6.11-r6 gentoo-sources kernel, if that can help) > >

[gentoo-user] System time drift problem

The sytem time of my computer drifts by roughly 5 min per day, while the hwclock stays at the correct time. Anyone knows how to avoid this ? (My kernel is a 2.6.11-r6 gentoo-sources kernel, if that can help) Fred -- Frédéric Grosshans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.o

Re: [gentoo-user] boot with serial console

Eric S. Johansson wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > >> On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 15:50:30 -0400 "Eric S. Johansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> | I have a system with an apparently dead keyboard interface. is >> there | any chance I could use the standard (or near standard) >> minimal boot CD >> |

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about kernel-equivalence

Le jeudi 14 avril 2005 à 15:17 -0400, Trey Gruel a écrit : > On 4/14/05, Robert G. Hays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ok, is: > > kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r4 > > the same as: > > kernel-2.6.11.4 > > plus/minus the Gentoo-specific patches? > > possibly not. the gentoo-sources package

[gentoo-user] netselect

Hello, I tried to find a good mirror from me. I used netselect rsync.gentoo.org . The command run for 30s, but dasen't output anything!! Thank you for your help Bayrouni -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] net-nds/openldap-2.2*

Hello. As I undertand openldap-2.2 is hard masked because of problem whith upgrade from 2.1. That's OK, but if I want to use 2.2 version originally or agreed to backup/restore database I can unmask it in package.unmask. And here is another problem: all 2.2 ebuilds have ~x86 keyword - is it becau

[gentoo-user] Software Suspend2 using Gentoo Ebuilds - New Magazine MyOSS Mag

Hi All, Sorry if this is SPAM to some. This article was written for the newest Free Online Magazine called MyOSS Magazine. Written by Me and reviewed by Nigel Cunningham. Feel free to download and distribute. :-) Suspending with Software Suspend 2 Learn about the successor to the linux

[gentoo-user] netselect

Hello, I tried to find a good mirror from me. I used netselect rsync.gentoo.org . The command run for 30s, but dasen't output anything!! Thank you for your help Bayrouni -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: sed: can't read /etc/make.profile/make.defaults: No such file or directory

Nelis Lamprecht wrote: > > Hi, > > Every time I open up a terminal(gnome-terminal or xterm) I get the > message above. I've read up on the profile changes and made the change > which I think is correct: > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 46 Apr 8 08:39 /etc/make.profile -> > /usr/portage/profiles/def

[gentoo-user] file permission setting problem

I have a file with special permission requirement.  I want user1 and user2 can read/write this file, user3 can read only and others can not access it.  How to set the permission bits?  No ACL support.-- Qiangning HongGet Firefox!

[gentoo-user] Fwd: sed: can't read /etc/make.profile/make.defaults: No such file or directory

I send this message yesterday but don't seem to have received my own message or a reply so sending again in case something went wrong. The message in the Subject doesn't happen if I login as root but I can't figure out where the permission problem lies. Nelis -- Forwarded message

RE: [gentoo-user] IBM Thinkpad with Belkin Wireless

-Original Message- From: Ciaran McCreesh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 15 April 2005 4:36 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] IBM Thinkpad with Belkin Wireless On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 16:10:11 +1000 "Richard Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I'm contemp