Re: [gentoo-user] Get those strange questions ready...

This will be the Gentoo -> Genux equivalent to the Fedora -> Redhat ? Sounds impressive. On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 14:44 -0400, Dave Nebinger wrote: > Because gen-ux is temporarily offering free Gentoo support (thanks slashdot > for the heads-up). > > > http://www.gen-ux.com/node/16 > > -- gento

[gentoo-user] Network collisions

Hi all, I have two Gentoo machines (specified as Server and Client for ease). The server networking is working fine, but the client cannot receive without lots of collisions. The speeds I get are: Server -> Client (i.e. receive) 170.3Kb/sec Client -> Server (i.e. transmit) 7.383Mb/sec The card

[gentoo-user] very slow transfer with USB-pen

Hi, Recently (last week or two) the transfer to my USB-stick is too slow (10-12K). Not so when not using dbus-hal-ivman. Also tried the ~x86 versions same result. kernel-2.6.13-r2 (same speed with 2.6.12-r10). PS:haven't changed my config so there shouldn't be problems. Must be some dbus-hal-ivman

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm troubles

On Tue, 4 Oct 2005 03:04:02 +0300 Moshe Kaminsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [04/10/05 02:57]: > > > > Moshe Kaminsky math.huji.ac.il> writes: > > > > > > > Then you are supposed to have ExtUtils::MakeMaker installed as > > > part of perl. Do you > > > have /usr/li

[gentoo-user] GRUB speed up

I've noticed that GRUB takes a rather long time to start up on my computer. Granted, this is PII 550 Mhz. But it takes several seconds just for GRUB, not for anything to do with the kernel starting. The attached file is, obviously, my configuration file. BTW, the commented out entries are just

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my video card or motherboard going?

On Mon, 03 Oct 2005 17:26, Joseph wrote: > > what type of monitor are you using? can you test that on another box to > > see if it gives a good picture? Also does increasing the colour > > saturation on the monitor make the problem significantly worse? Make sure > > there are no new speakers or ma

[gentoo-user] Re: Installing an ebuild

"Brett I. Holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS only works on the command line you use it on. You need to > add this to /etc/portage/package.keywords to make it stick. > > mail-filter/bogofilter ~x86 > > should do it. If you want to get more specific as to versions check man >

Re: [gentoo-user] equery not working

On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 16:03 -0700, Wes Gray wrote: > Why doesn't equery actually show me all the installed packages? I > know I have lots of versions of kde installed, but equery doesn't show them: > > # equery l -i kde > [ Searching for package 'kde' in all categories among: ] > * installed pac

Re: [gentoo-user] broadcom BCM4309 chipset and 2005.1 install

WKenworthy wrote: Ive found that the latest knoppix has ndiswrapper so I have grabbed the windoze binary and will give that a go tonight - 2005.1 doesnt appear to have ndiswrapper. If all else failed I'll carry the thing into the study and run a cable from the switch until I get everything copi

Re: [gentoo-user] Athlon 64 time...

On Tuesday 04 October 2005 03:43, Jamie Dobbs wrote: > Currently have an Althon XP 2000 and looking to upgrade to the following: > > Athlon 64 3000+ 800FSB > Albatron K8NF4U socket 939 mobo > Albatron TC6200 128MB DDR video card > 1GB PC-3200 RAM > 485W PSU > > ...and use my exisiting 3R Santafe Ca

[gentoo-user] Athlon 64 time...

Currently have an Althon XP 2000 and looking to upgrade to the following: Athlon 64 3000+ 800FSB Albatron K8NF4U socket 939 mobo Albatron TC6200 128MB DDR video card 1GB PC-3200 RAM 485W PSU ...and use my exisiting 3R Santafe Case, trasferring the old mobo/CPU/memory to another case for use as a

[gentoo-user] [smp related] 2.6.13 is 10x slower than 2.6.12!

Not long ago, I griped about 2.6.13 being _very_ slow to boot and run. My original email is at the bottom. I've since recompiled the kernel without SMP and Hyperthreading, and the system is _much_ faster. So, there is a problem with 2.6.13 and SMP or Hyperthreaded machines. Can anyone else confir

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing an ebuild

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS only works on the command line you use it on. You need to add this to /etc/portage/package.keywords to make it stick. mail-filter/bogofilter ~x86 should do it. If you want to get more specific as to versions check man portage. On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Harry Putnam wrote: Just

[gentoo-user] Installing an ebuild

Just stumbling around with half remembered things to get an ebuild to install. I wanted to install the most recent version of bogofilter, reported in portage as mail-filter/bogofilter/bogofilter-0.95.2.ebuild This package was masked on my system so I finally used: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge -v

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT shell scripting] how to wait a few seconds

"Brett I. Holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > man sleep? > Haa.. yup that was the critter... Thanks -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm troubles

* James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [04/10/05 02:57]: > > Moshe Kaminsky math.huji.ac.il> writes: > > > > Then you are supposed to have ExtUtils::MakeMaker installed as part of > > perl. Do you have /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm? > > No, it's not there. > > emerge ExtUtils-MakeMaker T

[gentoo-user] Re: ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm troubles

Moshe Kaminsky math.huji.ac.il> writes: > Then you are supposed to have ExtUtils::MakeMaker installed as part of > perl. Do you have /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm? No, it's not there. emerge ExtUtils-MakeMaker results fail: Calculating dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 1) per

[gentoo-user] equery not working

Why doesn't equery actually show me all the installed packages? I know I have lots of versions of kde installed, but equery doesn't show them: # equery l -i kde [ Searching for package 'kde' in all categories among: ] * installed packages [I--] [ ] kde-base/kde-env-3-r4 (0) [I--] [ ] kde-base/

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT shell scripting] how to wait a few seconds

On 10/3/05, Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is pretty dopey especially since I've used this dozens of timesin the past.I can not remember how to make a script wait for a few seconds during execution.  Its something really simple like.smcmd 3Where smcmd is something like set, sit, bla e

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT shell scripting] how to wait a few seconds

man sleep? On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Harry Putnam wrote: This is pretty dopey especially since I've used this dozens of times in the past. I can not remember how to make a script wait for a few seconds during execution. Its something really simple like. smcmd 3 Where smcmd is something like set,

[gentoo-user] [OT shell scripting] how to wait a few seconds

This is pretty dopey especially since I've used this dozens of times in the past. I can not remember how to make a script wait for a few seconds during execution. Its something really simple like. smcmd 3 Where smcmd is something like set, sit, bla etc. and the number is number of seconds to w

Re: [gentoo-user] simple mta for local delivery

kashani wrote: tiesman wrote: On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 10:03:39AM -0500, kashani wrote: Mark Shields wrote: qmail! I use it on my home server and I love it. Didn't he say something about a simple MTA? :-) Exactly kashani. I do thank you Mark, for a quick answer. But can you also gi

[gentoo-user] man ksh appears not to be about the korn shell

Has anyone else noticed that man ksh displays a page that at least appears not to be about ksh93 or the newer korn shell? The first three items: NAME sh, rsh, pfsh - shell, the standard/restricted command and programming language SYNOPSIS sh [ +-abcefhikmnoprstuv

[gentoo-user] Re: Reiserfs speed

Fernando Meira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Do you need speed? > What about space free? reiserfs is quite good! I experimented a ~1G > reduction from having the same data in a ext3 partition to a > reiserfs!! No, not anymore than the next guy I guess but have grown tired of the hefty waits when

[gentoo-user] Re: ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm troubles

* James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [03/10/05 23:48]: > > Moshe Kaminsky math.huji.ac.il> writes: > > > > Do you actually have perl installed? If so, which version? If you don't > > have perl, I don't think you can even install perl modules. > > I thought that was clear, that perl was installed: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel tuning

Thank you for the explanation. I missed that servers is what the OP is really interested in. I'll look at the scheduler options again. On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Out of curiosity and so I can learn. Why did you suggest CONFIG_HZ be set to 100

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel tuning

Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > Out of curiosity and so I can learn. Why did you suggest CONFIG_HZ be > set to 100 (IIRC default is 250) and also what exactly is it supposed to > do for you. We did not have it before. > In the past was fixed to 100Hz, then to 1000 appeared, now there is a third optio

[gentoo-user] Re: ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm troubles

Moshe Kaminsky math.huji.ac.il> writes: > Do you actually have perl installed? If so, which version? If you don't > have perl, I don't think you can even install perl modules. I thought that was clear, that perl was installed: dev-lang/perl Available versions: 5.8.6-r5 5.8.6-r6 ~5.8.7 ~

[gentoo-user] KDE libraries

I've been struggling for the last week with an upgrade to KDE 3.4 which didn't go well. Lots of things aren't working, mostly kicker applets. Just now I was poking around and got some error messages which were helpful. I'm including an example, but basically it looks like my 3.4 KDE programs are

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] fish:// speed limit

Francesco Talamona email.it> writes: > > Just a (WAG) but recompile using nptl? > Both boxes are Gentoo, one is an x86, the other is amd64, and both of > them have nptl nptlonly, the first since nov 2004, the latter since may > 2005. > I never tought it could be nptl flag, can you explain why

[gentoo-user] Re: ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm troubles

Hi, * James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [03/10/05 23:00]: > > James tampabay.rr.com> writes: > > > > Source unpacked. > > Using ExtUtils::MakeMaker > > Can't locate ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm in INC ( INC contains: > > /etc/perl > > usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/i686-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5

[gentoo-user] Re: ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm troubles

James tampabay.rr.com> writes: > Source unpacked. > Using ExtUtils::MakeMaker > Can't locate ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm in INC ( INC contains: /etc/perl > usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/i686-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6 > usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/i686-linu

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] fish:// speed limit

On Monday 03 October 2005 20:54, James wrote: > Francesco Talamona email.it> writes: > > Does somebody know where/how can I improve fish:// speed and > > throttle at full speed? Thanks. > > Just a (WAG) but recompile using nptl? Both boxes are Gentoo, one is an x86, the other is amd64, and both of

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel tuning

Out of curiosity and so I can learn. Why did you suggest CONFIG_HZ be set to 100 (IIRC default is 250) and also what exactly is it supposed to do for you. We did not have it before. Also what about CONFIG_PREMPT being none? The help mentions it is for low latency. Thanks. On Mon, 3 Oct 2

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel tuning

John Jolet wrote: > On Saturday 01 October 2005 14:59, gentuxx wrote: > > >>>- Mark Shields >> >>IIRC, RedHat kernels are relatively generic in that they have almost >>everything turned on, and/or build the modules so that they can >>maximize the hardware compatibility. So it is likely that ther

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] fish:// speed limit

Francesco Talamona email.it> writes: > Does somebody know where/how can I improve fish:// speed and throttle at > full speed? Thanks. Just a (WAG) but recompile using nptl? hth, James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] NFS questions

I'm mount /home off of a box via NFS. So far, it seems to be working but having a few issues. On www (192.168.10.38) /var/log/messages I see this sometimes: Oct 3 00:45:00 www kernel: lockd: cannot monitor 192.168.10.50 Oct 3 00:45:00 www kernel: lockd: failed to monitor 192.168.10.50 Oct 3

[gentoo-user] ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm troubles

Hello, I'm having difficulty with a perl module. I have recently installed a stage 1 gentoo system on a pentium pro to be an experimental minimal firewall. Upon 'emerge -uDp world' these packages will not build: ebuild N] dev-perl/Locale-gettext-1.03 ebuild N] sys-apps/help2man-1.33.

[gentoo-user] Get those strange questions ready...

Because gen-ux is temporarily offering free Gentoo support (thanks slashdot for the heads-up). http://www.gen-ux.com/node/16 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Digest verification failed!

> I can't figure out how to get past it. After changing the ebuild, type "ebuild mailman-xxx.ebuild digest". This fixes the digest values. You should then be able to emerge mailman w/o resync. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Working for now - Nvidia drivers and console black screen

For the record in case this helps someone. After more searching I found this post which has a script that creates the nvidia /dev entries. It appears for some reason that udev is not doing it. I'm using udev 068-r1 which is latest stable and changelog does not mention any nvidia fixes in newer

Re: [gentoo-user] 2005.0 packages for download

On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 08:22 -0500, Brian Henning wrote: > All, > > Where can I find the 2005.0 packages for download without downloading > the iso that contains them? > > Thanks, > > Brian Do you mean the compiled binary packages? I don't think you can download them individually. > -- gento

[gentoo-user] Digest verification failed!

A long time ago I was having problems with mailman. I posted a question to this list and someone told me that I would have to change the MAILGID in the ebuild to whatever the gid of daemon was. Back then I did that and re-emerged mailman and everything worked. Now I'm facing a similar situation,

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my video card or motherboard going?

On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 05:58 +, Glenn Enright wrote: > On Mon, 03 Oct 2005 04:53, Joseph wrote: > > All of a sudden I've noticed strange green color around all the letters > > and icons on desktop, some object have vertical green stripes. > > Would it be an indication that motherboard or video i

[gentoo-user] [OT] fish:// speed limit

I'm transferring several large files between two computer connected by a gigabit link. The link is working as espected, and scp can perform at 15MB/sec, but konqueror's fish:// is someway limited to 1,2MB per file. I can parallelize fish:// to transfer copying many files at once, each at 1-1,2

Re: [gentoo-user] OT worth upgrading hardware ?

On Monday 03 October 2005 12:12, Matan Peled wrote: > Jonathan Wright wrote: > > But a WM and/or GTK/QT can have an effect on system load overall as well > > as working with the graphics card, which in the end can slow the gears. > > Perhaps, but glxgears is a really, REALLY bad benchmark. > yes,

Re: [gentoo-user] simple mta for local delivery

Postfix is probably the easiest to setup out of the lot of sendmail, exim, qmail, postfix. --- Chris Covington IT Plus One Health Management 75 Maiden Lane Suite 801 NY, NY 10038 646-312-6269 http://www.plusoneactive.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] test

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Re: [gentoo-user] simple mta for local delivery

tiesman wrote: On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 10:03:39AM -0500, kashani wrote: Mark Shields wrote: qmail! I use it on my home server and I love it. Didn't he say something about a simple MTA? :-) Exactly kashani. I do thank you Mark, for a quick answer. But can you also give me an example conf

Re: [gentoo-user] simple mta for local delivery

On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 10:03:39AM -0500, kashani wrote: > Mark Shields wrote: > >qmail! I use it on my home server and I love it. > > Didn't he say something about a simple MTA? :-) Exactly kashani. I do thank you Mark, for a quick answer. But can you also give me an example config file (or any

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a network

On September 30, 2005 12:09 am, kashani wrote: > Ted Kaczmarek wrote: > > Your initial post was 4 ip addresses from 10-13, their is no legal > > subnet that contains only those four ip addresses. > > > > This time you posted 5 ip addresses from 186-190, again , no legal > > subnet. > > 186-190 is s

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnucash and new GTK

On 10/3/05, Jonathan Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Opps! :$ Didn't see that. If you want to know what package a filebelongs to, you can use equery from the gentoolkit (emerge gentoolkit):jwright on jonathan [ ~ ] --> equery belongs/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/engines/libpixmap.so [ Searching for file

Re: [gentoo-user] simple mta for local delivery

Mark Shields wrote: qmail! I use it on my home server and I love it. Didn't he say something about a simple MTA? :-) kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnucash and new GTK

Bruno Lustosa wrote: On 10/3/05, *Bruno Lustosa* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: In fact, the first thing I tried to do was a 'emerge search pixmap', and I only found the gtk-engines-qtpixmap you mentioned. As it wasn't installed, I guessed it was the wrong pac

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to execute i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc

You may be right. I hope it's gone - it caused considerable headache! On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Frank Schafer wrote: Maybe it's fixed. I had exactly the same problem during the installation of python-fchksum. This is on b.g.o. too and we discussed this on gentoo-dev a while ago. Python had the compi

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnucash and new GTK

On 10/3/05, Bruno Lustosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In fact, the first thing I tried to do was a 'emerge search pixmap', and I only found the gtk-engines-qtpixmap you mentioned. As it wasn't installed, I guessed it was the wrong package. Anyway, I'm trying to install it now to see if it works. I h

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnucash and new GTK

On 10/3/05, Jonathan Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You'll have to re-emerge x11-themes/gtk-engines-pixmap:* x11-themes/gtk-engines-qtpixmap  Available versions:  0.28-r1 ~0.28-r2  Description: A modified version of the original GTK pixmap   engine which f

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnucash and new GTK

Bruno Lustosa wrote: So, it seems it's an incompatibility between gnucash and the installed gtk+ version, right? I tried to re-emerge gnucash, but it didn't help much. You'll have to re-emerge x11-themes/gtk-engines-pixmap: * x11-themes/gtk-engines-qtpixmap Available versions: 0.28-r1 ~0

[gentoo-user] Gnucash and new GTK

Hello, list. I filed a bugreport on this, but thought I'd post it here also, to see if someone bumped into the same thing.I'm getting a problem with gnucash, and it seems to be something with GTK+. This is what I get after trying to run gnucash:$ /usr/bin/gnucashGtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate loa

Re: [gentoo-user] 2005.0 packages for download

packages can be at your favorite mirror at gentoo/distfiles On 10/3/05, Brian Henning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All, > > Where can I find the 2005.0 packages for download without downloading > the iso that contains them? > > Thanks, > > Brian > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > --

[gentoo-user] [completely OT] streaming video

Hi folks, anybody here with experience in QuickTime Streaming Server (either on OSX or on linux)? If so, what hardware would it need to keep up 500 individual video streams? I am not talking about the network. That I can easily calculate myself. It's more about how QTSS scales. What kind of clu

[gentoo-user] 2005.0 packages for download

All, Where can I find the 2005.0 packages for download without downloading the iso that contains them? Thanks, Brian -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Why would portage not update a package?

On Sun, 02 Oct 2005 21:05:36 -0400, Dave Nebinger wrote: > > > Ah, but if it is installed it must have been a dependency somewhere > > > or in place as a result of a direct emerge. > > > > At some point, yes. Doesn't mean it is so now. > > Well I should have qualified it by saying that I don't cl

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: no ebuild what to do?

On Sat, 1 Oct 2005 11:20:18 -0700 (PDT), maxim wexler wrote: > Since I can't know in advance what > the bug# is, why does a search for the ebuild by name > come up empty in gentoo bugzilla? Because, AFAIK, Bugzilla defaults to only searching open bugs. If you search for "ALL dekagen" it will sear

Re: [gentoo-user] OT worth upgrading hardware ?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jonathan Wright wrote: > But a WM and/or GTK/QT can have an effect on system load overall as well > as working with the graphics card, which in the end can slow the gears. Perhaps, but glxgears is a really, REALLY bad benchmark. - -- [Name ] :

Re: [gentoo-user] OT worth upgrading hardware ?

On Sun, 2 Oct 2005 19:11:08 +0200 "Hemmann, Volker Armin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > some people like the fat,. bloated, eye-candy heavy desktops - > especially full experience of all components working together. > > Not all people choose kde/gnome because of their looks, but because > they WANT

Re: [gentoo-user] Why would portage not update a package?

On Monday 03 October 2005 02:05, Dave Nebinger wrote: > Well I should have qualified it by saying that I don't clean out packages; > when I install something it is because I want to try it out and/or use it. >   When I stop using the package, it still stays installed. > > So the dependency should s

Re: [gentoo-user] OT worth upgrading hardware ?

Christoph Gysin wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: btw - some time ago I let glxgears run on several wm - and it was the fastest on kwin and integrity (both qt based) and slower on gtk-based wm... glxgears doesn't need/use/depend neither a WM nor GTK/QT, so I don't see how this test makes

Re: [gentoo-user] Right recipe for gentoo-user procmail

On 10/2/2005 2:06 PM Nick Rout wrote: On Sun, 02 Oct 2005 08:39:52 -0700 Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 10/1/2005 1:50 AM Nick Rout wrote: On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 19:54 -0400, Dave Nebinger wrote: Just set up the following recipe for postfix/courier-imapd/procmail: :0 * ^(From|Cc|

Re: [gentoo-user] OT worth upgrading hardware ?

Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: btw - some time ago I let glxgears run on several wm - and it was the fastest on kwin and integrity (both qt based) and slower on gtk-based wm... glxgears doesn't need/use/depend neither a WM nor GTK/QT, so I don't see how this test makes any sense. Christoph --