Re: [gentoo-user] Recall info request on grub problem
On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 10:28 PM, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2008-09-06 at 20:28 -0500, Dale wrote: Michael Sullivan wrote: Awhile back there was a thread about grub working but the menu not showing up, and in that thread there was a setting suggested, something like vga= or something like that. Can anyone refresh my memory as to the name of that thread or the setting to make the menu show up? Was it this exchange? Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:47:52 + dhk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sebastian Günther wrote: * Andrew Tchernoivanov ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [15.07.08 01:41]: Are the characters on the screen readable? I had this problem too, along with the black grub screen. If they aren't - try adding vga=0x31B to your grub.conf Why should that help with grub? Did not found any hint, that ther is a grub option called like that. There is a *kernel* option, called like that, but that won't help with the grub issue. Please correct me if I'm wrong. Sebastian So what is the solution to making grub visible again? I remember when it changed, I didn't understand the message displayed and I still don't know the fix. Running emerge --config grub doesn't work. Is it as simple as changing the path of the splash image to /usr/share/grub/ and running grub-install? Thanks, Dave Just cp /usr/share/grub/splash.xpm.gz /boot/grub/ Or you could point to it in /usr, unless if you have /usr in lvm or something else that grub wont be able to see Dale :-) :-) Miika Yeah that's it. Does the vga line go in the general section (with variables like splashimage), or does it go on the /kernel line?
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Python vs C++ [was: Gentoo Rules]
On Dec 17, 2007 7:36 PM, Thufir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:38:30 -0200, Raphael wrote: I believe that a good solution would be evolving Portage to use different forms of storage, like databases or even LDAP. In a home desktop, you could use SQLite, which is light weight. In a Office enviroment, you could use a larger database, like MySQL or PostgreSQL. In this second case, it would even make sharing the package list faster, since the only current method is sharing it over NFS. I understand that doing so could bloat Portage dependencies, but it is, IMHO, a good way to improve its speed. This is an interesting idea. if portage were to use a database, there could be, for instance, a ruby on rails app for a interface! :) Using a database store for something like this sounds like windows registry vs /etc
Re: [gentoo-user] speakers have no sound but headphones have
On 10/18/07, Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 01:00:17PM -0400, Penguin Lover Mark Shields squawked: On 10/18/07, Chuanwen Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A message body would help ;) Mark, I think this problem is on your end possibly. I got the following message just okay. I didn't get it either. Rob
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo gets as bad SuSE: Circular dependencies [WAS: Thank you Gentoo devs]
On 5/16/07, Enrico Weigelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which problem from the upstream ? I'm a little bit involved in Xorg development (especially on the modularizing project), so if you tell me the problem, I could fix it. The problem w/ x11-base/xorg-server are the PDEPENDs on (external) driver packages. I dont see any valid reason for depending the Xserver on drivers, which themselfes depend on the Xserver. If you want some package which pulls in an complete Xserver installation *and* drivers (based on certain useflags), why not just an virtual package ? IMHO, there were days where it had been done so (when PDEPEND did not yet exist). I don't know why this had changed, probably just to get an new feature widely used. (BTW: I do not see any valid reason for PDEPEND anyways) Thanks, this was much more informative and useful than: I also want to say Thank you to the gentoo devs. Thank you for producing lots of circular dependencies (ie. in the Xserver), which make maintenance complicated. Cirular deps have been really sucking in SuSE and were one of the major for dropping it to me. Great, great thanks to the devs for forcing me to maintain my own overlay to clean up the crap. (anyone who's interested in it, please give a note).
Re: [gentoo-user] OPenOffice broken
The spell check is based on the language setting for the text in the document. Format-Character-Font Make sure the language is set correctly you probably want English (USA) . On 5/16/07, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've tried OO-bin and now I compiles OO on an amd64. both do not have spell check working. Now on the compiled version, I get this message when it fires up, repeated about 14 times to the console: (process:7216): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_screen_get_font_options: assertion `GDK_IS_SCREEN (screen)' failed It seems to work, but no spell checking? The flags are similar to as what I use elsewhere on x\86. any ideas? James -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OPenOffice broken
On 5/16/07, Rob Rutherford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/16/07, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've tried OO-bin and now I compiles OO on an amd64. both do not have spell check working. Now on the compiled version, I get this message when it fires up, repeated about 14 times to the console: (process:7216): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_screen_get_font_options: assertion `GDK_IS_SCREEN (screen)' failed It seems to work, but no spell checking? The flags are similar to as what I use elsewhere on x\86. any ideas? James The spell check is based on the language setting for the text in the document. Format-Character-Font Make sure the language is set correctly you probably want English (USA) .
Re: [gentoo-user] Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?
On 4/4/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And if ALL THESE CAPS distress you and you think I am shouting, well goodness gracious, NOW YOU KNOW HOW I FEEL ABOUT COLORIZATION RUN AMUCK. Caps don't distress me, but they do encourage me to add you to my junk mail filter.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can I share my /boot and swap partitions with other Linux installs?
I have dual booted different distros on a single box sharing boot and swap done it worked fine. There was some lag in startup when changing systems. My guess would be differences in swap. Used different Kernel version, and everything. Just be very careful, some install scripts use symlinks in /boot It also drove some people who didn't understand what I did at first nuts. :-) On 4/2/07, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: »Q« wrote: In news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: »Q« wrote: In news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should be able to share /boot and swap without any problems. Just make sure you name the kernels something different or that each distro is set up to use the same kernel version. Why the same kernel version? Well, if he uses nvidia drivers I think it will need to be the same. I'm not sure about mixing a 2.4 and say a 2.6 either. It sort of depends on what he is running. Any drivers he's using should be for the kernel they'll be used with. He's only talking about sharing /boot and swap, not sharing drivers. True. It's to late for me to be giving to many suggestions. LOL I will say this though, not sharing /boot could turn into a nightmare. I did that once. It was the most confusing thing I ever saw. It is really confusing right now. ;-) I'm going to bed. Zz. Dale :-) :-) :-) -- www.myspace.com/-remove-me-dalek1967 Copy n paste then remove the -remove-me- part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can I share my /boot and swap partitions with other Linux installs?
On 4/2/07, Rob Rutherford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have dual booted different distros on a single box sharing boot and swap done it worked fine. There was some lag in startup when changing systems. My guess would be differences in swap. Used different Kernel version, and everything. Just be very careful, some install scripts use symlinks in /boot It also drove some people who didn't understand what I did at first nuts. :-) On 4/2/07, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: »Q« wrote: In news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: »Q« wrote: In news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should be able to share /boot and swap without any problems. Just make sure you name the kernels something different or that each distro is set up to use the same kernel version. Why the same kernel version? Well, if he uses nvidia drivers I think it will need to be the same. I'm not sure about mixing a 2.4 and say a 2.6 either. It sort of depends on what he is running. Any drivers he's using should be for the kernel they'll be used with. He's only talking about sharing /boot and swap, not sharing drivers. True. It's to late for me to be giving to many suggestions. LOL I will say this though, not sharing /boot could turn into a nightmare. I did that once. It was the most confusing thing I ever saw. It is really confusing right now. ;-) I'm going to bed. Zz. Dale :-) :-) :-) I have dual booted different distros on a single box sharing boot and swap done it worked fine. There was some lag in startup when changing systems. My guess would be differences in swap. Used different Kernel version, and everything. Just be very careful, about the symlinks in /boot It also drove some people who didn't understand what I did at first nuts. :-) I should be getting to sleep as well...
Re: [gentoo-user] Maya [OT]
Indeed! Maya + A cluster of PCs + Linux = Star Wars ;-) I noticed you left the word script out of the list. :-D Rob
Re: [gentoo-user] dhcpcd won't run at certain network points
On Wednesday 14 March 2007 12:02, Uwe Thiem wrote: On 14 March 2007, Alan McKinnon wrote: Hi all, Why am I always the one to get the wierd hardware issues? Here's my latest. The powers that be at work made me move my desk, and dhcpcd on *this* laptop doesn't work at *this* network point, or any of the other four in this row of desks, althought hey work OK on Windows. It's most certainly a cabling issue, I can go to the server room and plug a flylead into the *same*port* on the switch and it all works right. A static ip isn't an easy option as I move between different networks and don't want to have to keep editing resolv.conf. I'm not allowed to do my first reaction, which is to swap my outlet with a working one... tcpdump shows me this when I insert the network cable: 16:11:06.855229 IP 0.0.0.0.bootpc 255.255.255.255.bootps: BOOTP/DHCP, Request [|bootp] repeated 6 more times then it times out With a static ip, I do get full bandwidth, error free, just like it should be. So whatever this cabling issue is, it affects only bootp... hardware: Dell Latitude D810: NIC: 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 01) Gigabit Ethernet is liminted to 25 meters for full speed. It sounds like you are to far from swich. Force the card to do 100mps this should do it. Also if your building is old enough the wire is probly CAT5 100 Mps(300 meters) raited CAT6 is needed for 1000mps. But the 25 meter limitation is still there with CAT6 cable. The CAT 5 will give you less than the rated distance for 1000 Mps. I beleve that the (gag) windows box is forcing the card to connect at a lower speed during DHCP request. On windows ( without software) You realy can't test network speed. But I don't know how to tell your card to switch to 100 Mps on Gentoo. Rob Intel Network Certified Engineer -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Transcoding movie DVD to MPEG4?
I Just use dvdrip emerge it works fine. On Monday 04 December 2006 11:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had problems with DVD DL media, too. It stopped with a write failure just before beginning to burn the second layer. I tried Verbatim DL media and it worked very well. Since then I _ONLY_ used Verbatim media, I didnt have anymore problems burning. I am placing an order as I'm writing this. Thanks for the hint! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] LIRC transmit problems
I can't seem to get lirc to usr my hauppauge PVR-150 IR transmitter When I rin irsend SET_TRANSMITTERS 0 i get irsend: command failed: SET_TRANSMITTERS 0 irsend: hardware does not support sending And I know the hardware does send it came with a IR blaster. can anyobdy help rob also the reciever works fine. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] FSTAB file
What do the 2 zerros at the end of the line mean and why is the / dira1 0 rob -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] LIRC transmitting on hauppauge card
I am trying to get my PVR-150 card to transmit codes for my cable box but irsend keeps telling me hardware not compatable. Do I need another spec for LIRC to see the transmitter off my card. I have ... LIRC_DEVICES=hauppauge line put in /etc/make.conf does anybody know rob -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Power butten
How do you get power pitten to shutdown and power off Gentoo box rob -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] AVI's FPS change
My AVI's are 24fps but the header shows 29.97fps is there a way to change this in a bulk format ( shell script ). A player I have won't play files unless I convert them . I have found a prosess that works but it is taking a long time and uses 2 different programs. Can anyone help rob -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] AVI fixer
Is there a program that will fix multiable AVI files at once. My problem is I have some AVI's that have timming problems some players stop the AVI's in the middle of the streem. Because the streem time shows lower that it is. Other programs play the streem all the way. Hope someone can help rob -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] video capture
I just bought a hauppauge winTV-PVR-150 kernel linux-2.6.16-gentoo-r12 I compiled all the stuff for the bttv driver CONFIG_VIDEO_BT848=y CONFIG_VIDEO_BT848_DVB=y CONFIG_VIDEO_SAA6588=y CONFIG_VIDEO_CX88_VP3054=y CONFIG_VIDEO_AUDIO_DECODER=y CONFIG_VIDEO_DECODER=y CONFIG_DVB=y CONFIG_DVB_CORE=y CONFIG_DVB_BT8XX=y CONFIG_DVB_SP887X=y CONFIG_DVB_CX22700=y CONFIG_DVB_TDA1004X=y CONFIG_DVB_NXT6000=y CONFIG_DVB_MT352=y kernel sees the card Jul 15 07:25:44 localhost bttv: driver version 0.9.16 loaded Jul 15 07:25:44 localhost bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture Jul 15 07:25:44 localhost bt878: AUDIO driver version 0.0.0 loaded even tryed ivtv Jul 15 07:25:44 localhost ivtv: START INIT IVTV Jul 15 07:25:44 localhost ivtv: version 0.6.3 (tagged release) loading Jul 15 07:25:44 localhost ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.16-gentoo-r12 SMP preempt PENTIUM4 gcc-3.4 Jul 15 07:25:44 localhost ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info between Jul 15 07:25:44 localhost ivtv: the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines, along with Jul 15 07:25:44 localhost ivtv: any module options, when mailing the ivtv-users mailinglist. Jul 15 07:25:44 localhost ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150 card (cx23416 based) Jul 15 07:25:44 localhost ivtv0: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32) Jul 15 07:25:44 localhost wm8775 0-001b: chip found @ 0x36 (ivtv i2c driver #0) Jul 15 07:25:44 localhost tuner 0-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #0) Jul 15 07:25:44 localhost cx25840 0-0044: cx25841-23 found @ 0x88 (ivtv i2c driver #0) Jul 15 07:25:44 localhost cx25840 0-0044: loaded v4l-cx25840.fw firmware (14264 bytes) Jul 15 07:25:44 localhost tveeprom 0-0050: Hauppauge model 26132, rev G1B2, serial# 9543549 Jul 15 07:25:44 localhost tveeprom 0-0050: tuner model is TCL M2523_5N_E (idx 112, type 4) Jul 15 07:25:44 localhost tveeprom 0-0050: TV standards NTSC(M) (eeprom 0x08) Jul 15 07:25:44 localhost tveeprom 0-0050: audio processor is CX25841 (idx 35) Jul 15 07:25:44 localhost tveeprom 0-0050: decoder processor is CX25841 (idx 28) Jul 15 07:25:44 localhost tveeprom 0-0050: has no radio, has IR remote Jul 15 07:25:44 localhost ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (262144 bytes) Jul 15 07:25:44 localhost ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02050032 Jul 15 07:25:44 localhost ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder MPEG stream: 128 x 32768 buffers (4096KB total) Jul 15 07:25:44 localhost ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder YUV stream: 194 x 10800 buffers (2048KB total) Jul 15 07:25:44 localhost ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder VBI stream: 120 x 17472 buffers (2048KB total) Jul 15 07:25:44 localhost ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder PCM audio stream: 455 x 4608 buffers (2048KB total) Jul 15 07:25:44 localhost tuner 0-0061: tuner type not set Jul 15 07:25:44 localhost tuner 0-0061: tuner type not set Jul 15 07:25:44 localhost ivtv0: Initialized Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150, card #0 Jul 15 07:25:44 localhost ivtv: END INIT IVTV emerged most of the stuff in media-tv but I can't get anyone of thease to show TV most say device not configured. Evan the ones that I know point to /dev/video0 I think I did everything right. pleas help or tell me of a better card to use. rob -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] video capture
On Saturday 15 July 2006 14:15, Uwe Thiem wrote: On 15 July 2006 18:25, Richard Fish wrote: On 7/15/06, rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: emerged most of the stuff in media-tv but I can't get anyone of thease to show TV most say device not configured. Evan the ones that I know point to /dev/video0 I think I did everything right. pleas help or tell me of a better card to use. Are you sure this is a card problem, and not a permissions issue? It looks like udev makes most of the device nodes in the video group. Is your user account a member of that group? Well I emerged gentoo-sources with ~86 gave me linux-2.6.17-gentoo-r3. Now the tuner comes up and using the ivtv test it now captures only snow but it is a start. I have tryed to change channel but it doesn't work. Even line in gives me the same thing. Any other seguestions rob -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Wireless works with Knoppix CD but not Gentoo
On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 16:35 -0800, Grant wrote: I was originally using wpa_supplicant with this Airport and it wasn't working. John Jolet said: well, you DON'T use wpa_supplicant. I'm not aware of any issues regarding the use of wpa_supplicant with regards to WEP. It is supported. and I've been working with wireless-tools ever since. I'm using: ifconfig ath0 up iwconfig ath0 essid Myessid iwconfig ath0 key s:Mykey pump -i ath0 I tried dhcpcd and it didn't work either. Knoppix was using pump sucessfully so I tried that with Gentoo as above. Honestly, how could this not be a package versions issue? The above commands work on the Knoppix 4 DVD but not on up-to-date Gentoo. - Grant For the sake of testing change your commands to what I use. This works on all the access points that I connect to: iwconfig ath0 essid [YOUR_ESSID] iwconfig ath0 mode managed iwconfig ath0 channel [no] iwconfig ath0 enc [YOUR_HEXKEY] Maybe just specifying the channel and mode..just a long shot. Could you post the output of iwconfig?. Come to think of it what does your /etc/conf/net and /etc/conf/wireless have set. There could be some conflicting configurations. Check those two files out!!! Rob signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Wireless works with Knoppix CD but not Gentoo
On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 12:38 -0800, Grant wrote: Ok, this must be a package version issue right? Which packages should I be examining? I'm thinking wireless-tools. Anything else? What file should I look at on the Knoppix disc to find out what version it's running so I can match it on the Gentoo system? - Grant Might be worth giving wpa_supplicant a shot instead of wireless-tools. It can replace wireless-tools as it supports WEP, no-encryption and WPA. I don't think that package versions would be the issue here but you never know. What iwconfig commands are you running ? Rob signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless works with Knoppix CD but not Gentoo
On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 23:32 -0500, Grant wrote: I've been struggling to get my wireless card to connect to the WEP Airport router at my housing complex. It turns out it connects just fine using a Knoppix disc and manual ifconfig/iwconfig commands, but the same commands don't work in Gentoo. My Gentoo packages are totally up to date. I'm using madwifi. Any suggestions? - Grant Hi Grant, Firstly have you got wireless extensions enabled in the kernel? -CONFIG_NET_WIRELESS=y I believe that is a requirement. Is the madwifi-driver installed and the module loaded? -modprobe ath_pci If it can't find the module emerge the madwifi-driver package -emerge madwifi-driver or alternatively try the madwifi-ng code at http://madwifi.org Both methods should give you a ath0 interface. Are you getting any error messages?, when you run iwconfig does it show wireless related settings on the relevant interface? Hope this helps. Let us know, Rob signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless works with Knoppix CD but not Gentoo
On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 06:29 -0500, Robert Crawford wrote: You also need to emerge madwifi-tools, and you need ath_hal loaded too. Emerging madwifi-driver will emerge madwifi-tools. I have never needed to explicitly load ath_hal as ath_pci loads it dynamically even with the older madwifi code. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
RE: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Dead key on keyboard diagnostic?[New thread? - System.map not found]
On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 11:25 +, Michael Kintzios wrote: I am also getting this on my boot script on two different boxes. It started a week ago after some update world. I am about compile the latest stable kernel to see if it goes away. Same goes for me. It appears to have started with the 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 kernel release and I suspect (correct me if I'm wrong) a udev update which happened around the same time IIRC. The System.map file is there. I have just updated to the new 2.6.15-gentoo-r2 kernel and the error message is still there. Rob signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 64 bit or not
On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 08:00:24 +0100 Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Harry Putnam wrote: The amd64 faq link posted by Ralph Sooten tells a kind of bleak story as of June 2005 about there being nothing remarkable about 64 performance and futher that 32 bit out performs in many areas. It is also said that for `desktop' use there isn't much point. Somewhere in that FAQ there was a link to the gentoo forum (thread) where I read users were/are having the exact opposite results. They were getting much better results with the 64-bit. I think at the end this becomes one big debate, just like comparing AMD MHz and Intel MHz. My reasoning on whether to compile in a 64-bit environment, or a 32 is quite simple: if you don't want to hasle (which so far has not been as emerge sorts out everything it seems for you) of sometimes letting gentoo do tricks for you to run 32 bit programs with a second set of 32-bit libs etc, then just stick with 32 all the way. If you want to be stubborn (like me) and use your computer like it's supposed to be, and with a scense of adventure, use 64-bit. At the end of the day I can say hey guys, I'm running a 64-bit OS ;-) My notebook (HP zd8000) has the P4 with 64 bit extensions or emulation or whatever it is called. I am curious about the 64 bit OS's, but really have no idea whether there is any advantage whatsever except for the experience of using such a system. I do however, use Complex-128 variables in Numeric Python. But since my cpu is under some sort of emulation, I don't know if anything would run faster. Maybe I just have to try it to find out. Rob. -- -- http://home.comcast.net/~europa100 A SETI-like Search for Intelligent Life in Central Pa. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Let's make a map of Gentoo users
On Wed, 7 Dec 2005 22:59:21 +0900 pclouds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you are still interested in frappr.com, please give one more point to http://www.frappr.com/linuxusers :) -- Bi Cờ Lao -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list There may be a bug in the message listing. Or perhaps I have no idea what I am doing- it wouldn't be the first time. My message shows up twice in the same box. Rob Lytle -- -- http://home.comcast.net/~europa100 A SETI-like Search for Intelligent Life in Central Pa. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] remnants of mozilla-bin
I originally had font problems with mozilla-bin, so I unmerged it and compiled the program, eliminating the problem. But now I see a bunch of /usr/lib/mozilla/mozilla-bin processes. Is that normal? Thanks, Rob. -- -- Rob Lytle Home Page A Seti search for intelligent life in Central Pa. http://home.comcast.net/~europa100 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] cdrtools and 2.6.13-r3 kernel
Does anyone know if cdrtools 2.01-r3 works at all with the gentoo 2.6.13-r3 kernel? I saw cdrecord giving a warning about later kernels. Xcdroast just doesn't seem to do anything when I've tried it. Thanks, Rob -- -- Rob Lytle Home Page A Seti search for intelligent life in Central Pa. http://home.comcast.net/~europa100 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out?
Michael Sullivan wrote: Our cable internet service goes out frequently (and probably even more frequently now that winter has come to OKlahoma.) When it goes out, pretty much everything on my Gentoo system slows down. It's gotten to where just to get an application (like gnumeric) to open I have to su - to root and shut down /etc/init.d/net.eth0 until the Internet comes back on. This morning the internet was out and I'd shut down net.eth0 and then tried to run monodevelop and it refused to start giving me some message about my PC's hostname not being set correctly in /etc/hosts. I checked it and /etc/hosts was correct. Must just be a glitch with monodevelop. My question is what is it about Gentoo that relies so heavily on connecting to the internet? My network was running just fine - just the connection between the cable modem and the internet was down, but everything inside my router should have been fine... I saw somewhere in portage a daemon that manages connection/disconnection from the network. I think it was for laptops. But now I don't know what it is called or where it is in portage. I wonder if it would work? Rob. -- -- Rob Lytle Home Page A Seti search for intelligent life in Central Pa. http://home.comcast.net/~europa100 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] autoexpect?
On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 19:44 +0100, Antoine wrote: Hi, I would like to write a script to log in to a network machine and run halt (for the missus, who doesn't really like logging in via ssh just to turn of the internet connection...), and saw that autoexpect looks like it would fit the bill. It doesn't seem to be in portage and it seems a lot more difficult with expect... Any ideas? Cheers Antoine Hi, I haven't used autoexpect but have Expect. Here is a link that you may have seen but will do what you would expect...pardon the pun. Perl with Expect module or Just Expect on its own. http://www.infocopter.com/perl_corner/expect.htm Hope this helps, Rob signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[gentoo-user] unknown network activity as shown by xosview
Hi, Does anyone know what network activity is being shown by xosview? Is it activity before iptables filtering, or after? I wonder as I am getting a constant flow varying between 100-1000 as read on xosview. I get this with no internet related running processes. I have a default block on my firewall. My god, is there that much virus and/or scanning activity around? or is xosview not reliable? Maybe it is DHCP activity. I don't know as I have iptables set up not to log that kind of stuff. Thanks, Rob. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] unknown network activity as shown by xosview
Hi, Does anyone know what network activity is being shown by xosview? Is it activity before iptables filtering, or after? I wonder as I am getting a constant flow varying between 100-1000 as read on xosview. I get this with no internet related running processes. I have a default block on my firewall. My god, is there that much virus and/or scanning activity around? or is xosview not reliable? Maybe it is DHCP activity. I don't know as I have iptables set up not to log that kind of stuff. Thanks, Rob. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] what is the best strategy for using sysklogd with iptables?
Hi, I am using sysklogd with iptables. I am wondering what the best strategy is for sending iptables log output to a single file, rather than having logged packets show up all over in /var/log/? I haven't been able yet to figure this out by myself. I must be missing some doc info somewhere. Thank you. Rob. - Here is what I have now for syslog.conf: # /etc/syslog.conf Configuration file for syslogd. # # For more information see syslog.conf(5) # manpage. # This is from Debian, we are using it for now # Daniel Robbins, 5/15/99 # # First some standard logfiles. Log by facility. # auth,authpriv.* /var/log/auth.log *.*;auth,authpriv.none -/var/log/syslog #cron.* /var/log/cron.log daemon.*-/var/log/daemon.log kern.* -/var/log/kern.log lpr.* -/var/log/lpr.log mail.* /var/log/mail.log user.* -/var/log/user.log uucp.* -/var/log/uucp.log *.debug /var/log/firewall.log # # Logging for the mail system. Split it up so that # it is easy to write scripts to parse these files. # #mail.info -/var/log/mail.info #mail.warn -/var/log/mail.warn #mail.err/var/log/mail.err # Logging for INN news system # #news.crit /var/log/news/news.crit #news.err/var/log/news/news.err #news.notice -/var/log/news/news.notice # # Some `catch-all' logfiles. # *.=info;*.=notice;*.=warn;\ auth,authpriv.none;\ cron,daemon.none;\ mail,news.none -/var/log/messages # # Emergencies are sent to everybody logged in. # *.emerg * # # I like to have messages displayed on the console, but only on a virtual # console I usually leave idle. # #daemon,mail.*;\ # news.=crit;news.=err;news.=notice;\ # *.=debug;*.=info;\ # *.=notice;*.=warn /dev/tty8 # The named pipe /dev/xconsole is for the `xconsole' utility. To use it, # you must invoke `xconsole' with the `-file' option: # #$ xconsole -file /dev/xconsole [...] # # NOTE: adjust the list below, or you'll go crazy if you have a reasonably # busy site.. # #daemon.*,mail.*;\ # news.crit;news.err;news.notice;\ # *.=debug;*.=info;\ # *.=notice;*.=warn |/dev/xconsole #local2.*-/var/log/ppp.log -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] wiping unused space and/or secure erasing of files/ Is this irrelevent?
Matthias Bethke wrote: Hi Hemmann,, on Sunday, 2005-10-30 at 19:05:20, you wrote: Oh, no doubt that they can recover from burned platters. But have you ever seen, that they can recover overwritten data? not seen, but read about it. They can recover overwritten data. Maybe those overwritten once with a simple pattern. Not after a dozen times with random bits, no way. I've only heard the opposite - that they CANNOT do that. maybe you should ask one of the forensic/data saving companies that do this all day. They don't. Recovering overwritten data is as easy as recovering from damaged drives. Basically, you need a very, very sensitive magnetic coil ;) If you've ever seen the noisy output of a regular coil reading regular data you start wondering how it comes out the same error-free sequence in the first place. Recovering data from damaged drives isn't exactly easy either, but they're still on the platters. Finding an overwritten signal under several others is magnitues harder. On the original question: for wiping free space, a repeated dd if=/dev/urandom of=/path/to/file bs=4096 should be suffcicient, if slow. To just wipe unused data to reduce the sice of a compressed image, I do the same with /dev/zero. It fills the whole partition with a file full of zeroes that you can remove afterwards. It's not quite as efficient as really zeroing all free blocks but it works on every FS and should even be unaffected by journaling. regards Matthias I am wondering if this discussion is irrelevent to anonymity and/or security, as if the /tmp and swap partitions are not dealt with, then what use is a secure erase? Rob -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] wiping unused space and/or secure erasing of files
I noticed the rm command doesn't have any options for secure erasing of files. Maybe I saw that before on one of the BSD's. I am also interested in wiping unused disk space. Is there a gentoo port that does this kind of stuff? Thanks, Rob. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] i386 vs amd64
Scott Tiret wrote: On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 20:07 -0400, Sean wrote: I have a dual opteron here and I am thinking of putting Gentoo on it. I am trying to decide to go with either the amd64 or i386 version. So I am asking some Gentoo amd64 users, are you happy with the version or would you have gained more with i386? Do most applications work on amd64 or are there some important ones missing? I have been running an x86_64 (amd64) system for a few months now. The only thing I have been missing is a 64bit version of Macromedia Shockwave plugin. Apparently, there is no 64bit version for this proprietary software. Everything else is fine. I have all I need on my desktop. x86_64 version of Openoffice-bin (rc3) takes a long time to open, but is promising. Good luck, I thought the email might be a good place to ask for some ideas: I don't want to start a 64bit vs 32 bit war, or a Windows versus *nix war, but it has been my experience so far that the fastest benchmarks for a highly computation intensive program written in Numeric Python came on my 3.5Ghz P4 laptop with hyperthreading- on Windows. Also, running the same program on an AMD Opteron gave me a slower speed no matter what OS I was using. I performed the experiments when the Opteron was first introduced. I paid a high price for the fastest chip I could find- I don't remember the exact speed. I haven't tried the test lately though. Maybe it has gotten much better. Do not ask me why it happened, I have no idea. But even now, Windows+P4 has consistently been 3x faster in execution time than any Python on 32 bit *nix systems. The specific program is a Numeric Python port of the NEC2 EM Simulator program which calculates the Norton-Summerfield ground coefficients under an antenna. It makes much use of Complex-64 variables. I ported it from FORTRAN so I could more easily see how the program worked. I am baffled by the behavior. The only thing I can figure might be occuring would be that the *nix 64 bit toolchains are much younger than the 32 bit ones. But as the 32 bit Numeric Python on Windows is still 3x faster than the *nix equivalents, I have asked Activestate, the Windows Python provider, if they do anything special when compiling the code and they say no. I think they said that they use some ordinary MS comiler. Any ideas would help me to put to rest the problem. I say it is a problem as I really don't want to boot into Windows XP to run scientific programs in Numeric Python. Thanks, Rob. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] dmcrypt for a /home directory that already has many files on it
I was planning to use dmcrypt on my /home partition and I read the proceedure on the Gentoo Wiki. I think though, that the proceedures given there are for new partitions without a filesystem. Maybe I am wrong. Anyway, I wondered if there would be any problem with temporarily moving my /home data to some new directory on /usr, then using the dmcrypt on the /home directory, and finally copying all of the old /home data back onto the new encrypted partition? Rob. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] dmcrypt for a /home directory that already has many files on it
Christoph Eckert wrote: I was planning to use dmcrypt on my /home partition and I read the proceedure on the Gentoo Wiki. I think though, that the proceedures given there are for new partitions without a filesystem. Maybe I am wrong. I didn't read it, but if this encryption crypts a complete partition, then I'd like to recommend to better use a crypted loopback mounted file. The reason is backup: In the latter case you can simply compress the crypted container and back it up - it is still crypted. I did it this way some time ago and found it very convenient. Anyway, I wondered if there would be any problem with temporarily moving my /home data to some new directory on /usr, then using the dmcrypt on the /home directory, and finally copying all of the old /home data back onto the new encrypted partition? Put it in a tarball preserving all file attributes (ownership and other flags) and untar it into the crypted container after mounting it. Best regards ce Thank you. A very good idea i.e. the tar file. Rob -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] syslog-ng can't be removed by rc-update
I recently decided to use sysklogd instead of syslog-ng. But the command rc-update del syslog-ng default will not remove the file from /etc/init.d. Is it safe to just delete the file manually? Or is this file needed by sysklogd or something else? Thanks, Rob. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng can't be removed by rc-update
Michael Kjorling wrote: On 2005-10-19 09:26 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently decided to use sysklogd instead of syslog-ng. But the command rc-update del syslog-ng default will not remove the file from /etc/init.d. It should be deleted when you unmerge syslog-ng. I thought I did that, but I didn't. However, unmerging syslog-ng still hasn't gotten rid of the file in /etc/init.d. Rob. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng can't be removed by rc-update
Alastair Murray wrote: Rob wrote: Michael Kjorling wrote: On 2005-10-19 09:26 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently decided to use sysklogd instead of syslog-ng. But the command rc-update del syslog-ng default will not remove the file from /etc/init.d. It should be deleted when you unmerge syslog-ng. I thought I did that, but I didn't. However, unmerging syslog-ng still hasn't gotten rid of the file in /etc/init.d. Rob. /etc is possibly protected by CONFIG_PROTECT. I.e. emerge won't delete anything in /etc. Alastair. I am going to later just delete the file in /etc/init.d, unless there is some good reason not to. I have confirmed the link is not present in /etc/runlevels/default. Rob. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] My Continuing ALSA Woes
Michael Sullivan wrote: On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 20:40 +0200, Sascha Lucas wrote: I've added it to my /etc/make.conf: camille linux # cat /etc/make.conf | grep 'ALSA_CARDS' ALSA_CARDS=intel8x0 You must chose to use in kernel driver or the external provided by sound/alsa-driver. See http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml. ALSA_CARDS=intel8x0 indicates you want sound/alsa-driver. But your grep in kernel .config indicates the kernel driver. Read the URL above and skip the part about Using the ALSA Driver package in section 2. Sascha. From the Gentoo ALSA Guide (link above): Note: If you activated ALSA in your kernel and did not compile ALSA as modules, please proceed to the ALSA Initscript section. The rest of you need to configure ALSA. This is made very easy by the existence of the alsaconf tool provided by alsa-utils. I compiled support for my card as a module. Does this still apply? I recently had to set up ALSA and had some problems. Some of it I thought was due to the documentation. You have to read each paragraph over a couple of times to actually realize what you have to do next. I have set up ALSA before, the instructions were clearer, and I got it the first time. Maybe my reading and following instructions skills are not too good. Too many things going on at once here. Anyway, if I have time, perhaps I will try to rearrange the document to be clearer, and see if anyone thinks it is better. IMHO, I think each type of install should be presented from start to finish, without mixing up all of the steps and then relying on the document to tell you where you go next in the document. Rob. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Windowmaker font problems solved
The steps I took: 1. emerge -C windowmaker- 2. emerge enlightenment 3. user uses enlightenment It has no problems finding all of the fonts. I just didn't have any more energy left trying to track down windowmaker problems. So now, the only important step left in my Gentoo system is tweeking my iptables example file to my use. I am happy. Rob. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Windowmaker can't find any fonts and aborts
As superuser Windowmaker runs, as a user, it aborts saying no fonts found or similar. I checked the www.fontconfig.org site and there is hardly any documentation there. It was no help. The www.windowmaker.org site had one tip for possibly solving this error- make sure locale is set right, or in worst case, unset the LANG variable. None of these ideas worked. Maybe they need to be set before compiling Windowmaker??? I don't know. Looking at the Windowmaker config files: /etc/X11/WindowMaker/WMGlobal and /etc/X11/WindowMaker/Windowmaker and the corresponding ~/GNUStep config files, Windowmaker is looking for the Trebuchet MS, Luxi Sans font, which does reside in my system in the /usr/share/fonts/TTF directory. The TTF directory is included in my xorg.conf file. So I tried to hack the ~/GNUStep config files to use different fonts, and that did not help either. A search of the gentoo-user archives didn't find anything. So I am at a loss as to why I can't run Windowmaker as a user. Sincerely, Rob. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Windowmaker can't find any fonts and aborts
Rob wrote: As superuser Windowmaker runs, as a user, it aborts saying no fonts found or similar. I checked the www.fontconfig.org site and there is hardly any documentation there. It was no help. The www.windowmaker.org site had one tip for possibly solving this error- make sure locale is set right, or in worst case, unset the LANG variable. None of these ideas worked. Maybe they need to be set before compiling Windowmaker??? I don't know. Looking at the Windowmaker config files: /etc/X11/WindowMaker/WMGlobal and /etc/X11/WindowMaker/Windowmaker and the corresponding ~/GNUStep config files, Windowmaker is looking for the Trebuchet MS, Luxi Sans font, which does reside in my system in the /usr/share/fonts/TTF directory. The TTF directory is included in my xorg.conf file. So I tried to hack the ~/GNUStep config files to use different fonts, and that did not help either. A search of the gentoo-user archives didn't find anything. So I am at a loss as to why I can't run Windowmaker as a user. Sincerely, Rob. I forgot to add- I ran Xorg without Windowmaker and ran xfontsel, and all of the fonts were there. Moreover, then running Mozilla, I saw that it could find all of the fonts as well, so perhaps this is a Windowmaker specific problem, and not system-wide when running as user. Rob. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla-bin port not rendering correctly/ solved
Walter Dnes wrote: On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 10:58:04AM -0700, Rob wrote I have never seen this behavior except with the Gentoo mozilla-bin port. It is not rendering text correctly. I have tried Arial Truetype font and ordinary fonts. What is does is print the letters of text with huge spaces between them. It does not occur on all web pages, but enough to be really annoying. I do not know if this is a port problem or a basic mozilla problem. Has any one else seen this? the mozilla version is 1.7.12 Problem === I had the exact same problem in Firefox. What's happening is that you are setting up *YOUR* fonts, but the browser is using *THE WEBPAGE'S* fonts, so what you do has no effect. Solution The Mozilla menu sequence might be slightly different. In Firefox, it was as follows... Edit Preferences General Fonts Colors Near the bottom of the Fonts Colors tab, check the option... Always use my: [X] Fonts Now *YOUR* font choices should take effect. Actually, the solution for me was to get rid of the mozilla-bin port and compile it from scratch. Evidently mozilla-bin has some integration problems with Xorg, etc. Then it doesn't matter what that Allow documents to use other fonts setting is. My test web page was www.msnbc.com. Mozilla-bin totally barfs on this page, whereas the compiled version renders everything correctly. I only have one problem left. Windowmaker starts up (when I am just a regular user) then aborts because it can't find one of the TrueType fonts. That font directory is set in xorg.conf, but I am afraid the problem is in the /etc/fonts directory. I just don't have enough experience working with those config files to get TrueType fonts set up right. But I have made good progress! I am happy about that. Rob. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Mozilla-bin port not rendering correctly
I have never seen this behavior except with the Gentoo mozilla-bin port. It is not rendering text correctly. I have tried Arial Truetype font and ordinary fonts. What is does is print the letters of text with huge spaces between them. It does not occur on all web pages, but enough to be really annoying. I do not know if this is a port problem or a basic mozilla problem. Has any one else seen this? the mozilla version is 1.7.12 Thanks, Rob. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Wiki Howto: Xorg and Fonts, did I fatally screw up the directions?
The first thing I am not certain of is my recompilation of Xorg using the suggested USE flags. I put the new USE flags in /etc/make.conf and then issued the command: emerge -N xorg-x11. Will that work, or do I have to do the emerge with emerge --newuse --enable bitmap-fonts truetype-fonts type1-fonts explicitely? Perhaps my understanding of USE flags is wrong for recompiling packages. I wonder about this, because I enable the xtt module in my /etc/X11/xorg.conf, but I get an error message that the xtt module cannot be found. Using slocate I confirmed that xtt is nowhere to be found. I would ask the same question for compiling freetype and the fonts suggested. In any case, Windowmaker runs as superuser, but fails as a simple user. It claims it can't find any fonts. I guess I haven't gotten to first base yet. Thanks, Rob. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Wiki Howto: Xorg and Fonts, did I fatally screw up the directions?
Michael Mauch wrote: Rob wrote: The first thing I am not certain of is my recompilation of Xorg using the suggested USE flags. I put the new USE flags in /etc/make.conf and then issued the command: emerge -N xorg-x11. Will that work, or do I have to do the emerge with emerge --newuse --enable bitmap-fonts truetype-fonts type1-fonts explicitely? Perhaps my understanding of USE flags is wrong for recompiling packages. emerge has no --enable option (you can see this in man emerge), and you don't need the -N option if you re-emerge a single package. If you want to set USE flags, edit /etc/make.conf (search for USE there). To see the USE flags for the xorg-x11 package, try emerge -av xorg-x11 (look in the man page to find out what the -a and -v options mean; after all it could be possible that I tell you something wrong). The output of that command is (here): | These are the packages that I would merge, in order: | | Calculating dependencies ...done! | [ebuild R ] x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r4 -3dfx +3dnow +bitmap-fonts -cjk | -debug -dlloader -dmx +doc -font-server -insecure-drivers +ipv6 -minimal | +mmx +nls -nocxx +opengl +pam -sdk -sse -static +truetype-fonts | +type1-fonts (-uclibc) +xprint* +xv 0 kB | | Total size of downloads: 0 kB | | Do you want me to merge these packages? [Yes/No] The USE flags prepended with a + are enabled, the ones starting with - are disabled, the * after +xprint means that it's a changed USE flag since the last emerge of xorg-x11. bitmap-fonts, truetype-fonts and type1-fonts are all enabled here, and I don't have them listed in my USE flags in /etc/make.conf. They are the default (so some people can disable them if they want to). I wonder about this, because I enable the xtt module in my /etc/X11/xorg.conf, but I get an error message that the xtt module cannot be found. Using slocate I confirmed that xtt is nowhere to be found. I don't know whether xorg has an xtt module. My xorg.conf has freetype and type1, but no xtt. Regards... Michael Thank you Michael, I will print this out and go back and try again if needed. Its strange that if Xorg has no xtt module, that xorgconfig or whatever the configuration program is called now automatically put it in the xorg.conf, although commented out. Sincerely, Rob -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla-bin port not rendering correctly/ HOWTO disaster
znx wrote: Hi, Have a look at the wiki, see if it can tame your font issues, did mine: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Xorg_and_Fonts Cheers On 14/10/05, Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have never seen this behavior except with the Gentoo mozilla-bin port. It is not rendering text correctly. I have tried Arial Truetype font and ordinary fonts. What is does is print the letters of text with huge spaces between them. It does not occur on all web pages, but enough to be really annoying. I do not know if this is a port problem or a basic mozilla problem. Has any one else seen this? the mozilla version is 1.7.12 Thanks, Rob. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Well, after attempting to use the HOWTO Xorg and Fonts, I am worse off than when I started. Web pages still do not render. I had to hack the Windowmaker config files so that it would use fonts that it could find. Otherwise it would abort. The previous fonts that it used are no longer accessible. I have no idea where they are. Now I can't use the Windowmaker config utility as a regular user as I suppose it can no longer find it. I have no idea why that would be happening. I do not understand why it now takes 12 pages of modifications just to have fonts render correctly. I have installed Gentoo in the past and everything just worked. No modifications of anything had to be performed. This is really a huge step backwards. I am pretty certain that the last installation of Gentoo I did used Xorg. I am tempted to just reinstall everything. Rob -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] alsa config problems
Mark Knecht wrote: On 10/12/05, Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have done the alsa configuration before, so I am kind of at a loss as to why nothing is working. I believe that I followed the Gentoo Linux Alsa Guide to the letter, but it was confusing. I had difficulty figuring out which parts of the text applied to different ways of configuring Alsa. For example, the use of modules vs. a compiled in kernel Alsa. Also, when is the alsa-driver needed for operation? It wouldn't compile when I tried it. I am using modules. Now, alsaconf failed when I tried it. It wrote error messages to modules.d/alsa. I seem to remember the error entries had a snd-*** in them. But a manually edited modules.d/alsa and then a modules-update allowed all the needed modules to be loaded during bootup. So lsmod shows all the needed modules loaded, alsamixer is fully unmuted and the volumes turned up, yet no sound. I am certain that I have the right modules for my soundcard as revealed by pciutils. Is there any other documentation for Alsa? Man alsa or alsasound revealed nothing as well as apropos alsa. Thanks, Rob. There's a lot of documentation at the Alsa site. That said, let's look around. Please post back the output of lspci lsmod cat /proc/asound/cards Remove any /etc/asound.state file, run alsamixer again, and then run alsactl store Locate a wave file and try playing that from the command line. What happens aplay file.wav - Mark I am sorry. There was no error in my configuration. Instead the error was in how I tested the setup. I gave the command cat /dev/random /dev/dsp, haha. It should have been /dev/urandom. I just missed the u'. Still, I don't know why alsaconf didn't work. Now that I have sound working, I am loath to tweek with anything. Thanks though for the support! Sincerely, Rob. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions on partitioning HD
Alexey Asprov wrote: Thanks for your reply. So, if that were your system, how much space you would give to /boot /swap / ( eliminating /opt) /home /var /tmp and /usr? I just need rough numbers, so that my fresh install wouldn't get in trouble. I have 256 RAM and this is 10GIGs. Thanks again. On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 12:14:30 -0400 Dave Nebinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Boot should be at most ext3, but ext2 is just fine (the only thing on this partition is kernel images and grub stages). Keeping to this will mean less problems at boot time (grub users can tell you nightmares about reiserfs /boot partitions, and I'd guess that jfs would be in the same category). 50 meg is a nice round number although you can do with half that (I personally use 100mb but I've got a number of kernels installed there). 2. /opt does not need to be a separate partition. Few gentoo things go there, so it is not worth maintaining a separate partition for (and wasting the possible space). 3. /home should be a separate partition, sized to your needs. 4. I'm from the old school where we believe /var/tmp and /tmp should be separate partitions. This is primarily before they were made partitions as a norm and were on the root partition; filling them meant filling / and also meant you would lose access to your box. 5. For gentoo I recommend using a separate partition for /usr/portage. It's hard to nail down a size for this as portage tree keeps growing and the number of distfiles you might have is in flux. Isolating it ensures that any growth issues are isolated to that branch. 6. /var is your choice whether to parrtition separately or not, but is probably a good idea. /var/logs will grow over time, /var/spool is in constant flux, but the rest will typically remain kinda static (note this depends upon the apps you use; mysql houses it's databases under /var by default, and apache/tomcat use /var/www so that can chane also. Sizing each of the areas is really personal preference; if you ask 10 different gentooers you'll probably get 11 different responses at least. Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list I know that there isn't much of a reason for a Reiser boot partition, but I ended up doing that anyway, but no problems at all with grub. Maybe problems were with older versions of the bootloader. Rob. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] alsa config problems
Hi all, I have done the alsa configuration before, so I am kind of at a loss as to why nothing is working. I believe that I followed the Gentoo Linux Alsa Guide to the letter, but it was confusing. I had difficulty figuring out which parts of the text applied to different ways of configuring Alsa. For example, the use of modules vs. a compiled in kernel Alsa. Also, when is the alsa-driver needed for operation? It wouldn't compile when I tried it. I am using modules. Now, alsaconf failed when I tried it. It wrote error messages to modules.d/alsa. I seem to remember the error entries had a snd-*** in them. But a manually edited modules.d/alsa and then a modules-update allowed all the needed modules to be loaded during bootup. So lsmod shows all the needed modules loaded, alsamixer is fully unmuted and the volumes turned up, yet no sound. I am certain that I have the right modules for my soundcard as revealed by pciutils. Is there any other documentation for Alsa? Man alsa or alsasound revealed nothing as well as apropos alsa. Thanks, Rob. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] set FAN speed
0300, Catalin Trifu wrote: Hi, I am having a very nasty problem. My Dell Inspiron 5160 laptop (P4 3.06 GHz) runs at very high temperature (77 degrees C) and in the room are only 20. I looked around at how to get the FAN speed up at max but lm_sensors simply doesn't want to get installed. ACPI does not work properly on this machines (it's a known problem). I am running on ck-sources (tried gentoo-sources and same result). I know the fan is not spinning at full speed (I ran the tests from Dell). Does anyone knoe how I could get the FAN up to speed ? Thanks, Catalin Hi, Has it melted yet? Keep some thermal compound at hand! Have you tried the i8kutils? emerge i8kutils Great for fan manipulation but don't tell Dell ;-) Designed for the Inspiron 8000 series but works on other models too. Works great with my Inspiron 5150 running 2.6.12-gentoo-r10 kernel. You need to compile the i8k module in the kernel: Processor Type and featuresDell laptop support. Only got it to work when I put : i8k force=1 in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 Hope this helps, Rob -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] segmentation violations with Live CD
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 00:56:57 -0700, Rob wrote: Recently I have been using the latest Live CD to rescue my crashed Gentoo partition. But it seems like whenever I get to the point of almost being done, I suddenly get the message segmentation violation.. This only occurs after chrooting to the /mnt/gentoo point. Then when I reboot my new gentoo setup the boot stops at some point with the same errror segmentation violation. The problem is on your Gentoo partition, not the CD. Once you chroot, you are effectively running your initial installation again (apart from kernel, /dev etc). You need to narrow down what actions result in a segfault, then you can get an idea of what needs fixing. Some more information, like what is some point and what are you doing when almost done would go a long way to helping others to help you. Thank you Neil, I'm kind of lost, since the segmentation viololation is quirky, showing up at different steps in the rescue process. I also during using the i683 stage 3 tarball, ,that I ended up missing many import files, like emerge, etc. I am kind of lost, because I haven't discerned a pattern to the appearance of the fault. Perhaps I will catalogue the points of failure and post them to the list, so someone with more expertise can see pattern in the faults that I do not have the experience of seeing. Sincerely, Rob -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] segmentation violations with Live CD
Richard Fish wrote: Rob wrote: I'm kind of lost, since the segmentation viololation is quirky, showing up at different steps in the rescue process. I also during using the i683 stage 3 tarball, ,that I ended up missing many import files, like emerge, etc. I am kind of lost, because I haven't discerned a pattern to the appearance of the fault. Perhaps I will catalogue the points of failure and post them to the list, so someone with more expertise can see pattern in the faults that I do not have the experience of seeing. Also be sure to post your CFLAGS. Most 'quirky' segmentation faults are due to bad hardware or silly optimization flags. -Richard CFLAGS are only -o -pipe -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] segmentation violations with Live CD
Hi All, Recently I have been using the latest Live CD to rescue my crashed Gentoo partition. But it seems like whenever I get to the point of almost being done, I suddenly get the message segmentation violation.. This only occurs after chrooting to the /mnt/gentoo point. Then when I reboot my new gentoo setup the boot stops at some point with the same errror segmentation violation. Now I know that burning Live CDs is not always a straightforware process. I always use the highest speed media, then back the write speed back by %50 to ensure reliable data reproduction. I also am paranoid and do a full erase rather that a quick erase before writing the iso. What the hell am I doing wrong? Are Gentoo's LIve CD's corrupted in some way?? I ran Memtest on my laptop and after ruinning for hours it still showed 0 errors, so I don't think its my ram. Could it be the ext3 filesystems? I just don't know any more and I'm abouit ready to run back to my FreeBSD. Thanks, Rob -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] So how does one write a CD in 2.6?
At 10:35 AM 6/9/2005, Rob wrote: At 04:50 AM 6/9/2005, you wrote: Govind Chandra schreef: Just installed Gentoo 2005.0. cdrecord -scanbus says there are issues with kernel 2.5 and newer. Is there any way of writing CDs in Gentoo 2005.0? Govind Of course there is... don't you think you'd have heard about it if none of us could write CD's and DVDs? I mean, that would be *news* ;-) . That message is... well, not untrue, but misleading. We've been beyond the 2.5 stage long enough that while the issues are not fixed (due to the developer of cdrecord being in philosophical conflict with the kernel devs), they have long ago had workarounds developed for them. So CD recording works fairly normally under Linux-- certainly under X, where there are several frontends available that record such media reliably. Under the console, a read-through of the man pages is in order due to 1) specific settings needed to run cdrecord using an ATAPI recorder rather than a SCSI one; 2) additional programs needed to record DVDs (rather than CDs) or special formats (like ISOs). But it's all pretty straightforward, and works well (I haven't burned a coaster in months). What precisely is the problem you're having? Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Dear list, Here is my experience: I followed the kernel warnings that ide-scsi was depricated, then found out that most of the burner programs would not work or worked lousy with an ide ATAPI interface. So I went back to the hdc=ide-scsi kernel option. I would like to, however, follow the correct procedure, that is, use an ide atapi interface, only it didn't work out for me the first time. Any help or advice would be appreciated. Sincerely, Rob. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] CDRW media source
At 09:32 AM 6/9/2005, you wrote: Does anyone have a good online source for cheap and reliable CDRW media? Yes, but whether it is any use to you depends on where you are http://www.bigpockets.co.uk/ -- Neil Bothwick Sorry about that, I'm in the US. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list My experience is that cheap is OK for general backup and mp3 archiving. However, for live CD's and boot CD's, always use the most expensive disks, back up on the speed, and always do a complete erase, never quick erase. That has been my key to success in the critical CDRW area. Rob. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] So how does one write a CD in 2.6?
At 10:55 AM 6/9/2005, you wrote: --- Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: procedure, that is, use an ide atapi interface, only it didn't work out for me the first time. Any help or advice would be appreciated. Hi Rob, What do you mean it didn't work out? More specific please. Instead of using the scsibus address like -dev=0,0,0 or whatever you simply substitute -dev=/dev/hdc. Zac Hi Zac, Sorry for not being specific enough. What I mean was that by specifying /dev/hdc as the cd burner, the only program I could get to work was x-cdroast. None of the other burner programs that I emerged and tested would work with the ATAPI interface. So that is why I went back to the deprecated ide-scsi interface. So again I am asking, did I do something wrong? Or am I just caugh in a temporary transition to /dev/hdc? Thanks alot!! Rob -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] So how does one write a CD in 2.6?
Hi Holly, I was using the 2.6.11 (I believe, but now I'm not sure of the specific rev level, but it was definitely 2.6.x). I may have just misconfigured something. But x-cdroast continuously gave me warnings that my performance would suffer unless I went back to ide-scsi. Of course there is... don't you think you'd have heard about it if none of us could write CD's and DVDs? I mean, that would be *news* ;-) . That message is... well, not untrue, but misleading. We've been beyond the 2.5 stage long enough that while the issues are not fixed (due to the developer of cdrecord being in philosophical conflict with the kernel devs), they have long ago had workarounds developed for them. So CD recording works fairly normally under Linux-- certainly under X, where there are several frontends available that record such media reliably. Under the console, a read-through of the man pages is in order due to 1) specific settings needed to run cdrecord using an ATAPI recorder rather than a SCSI one; 2) additional programs needed to record DVDs (rather than CDs) or special formats (like ISOs). But it's all pretty straightforward, and works well (I haven't burned a coaster in months). What precisely is the problem you're having? Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Dear list, Here is my experience: I followed the kernel warnings that ide-scsi was depricated, then found out that most of the burner programs would not work or worked lousy with an ide ATAPI interface. So I went back to the hdc=ide-scsi kernel option. I would like to, however, follow the correct procedure, that is, use an ide atapi interface, only it didn't work out for me the first time. Any help or advice would be appreciated. Sincerely, Rob. What kernel was this under, and what kernel are you using now? In the very early days of 2.6, one really had to explicitly run ide-cd (the replacement for ide-scsi) in order to get things working, but again, we are far beyond that now. Ide-cd is automatically compiled into the kernel (you don't even get to choose it, it's just there), and /dev/hdc (assuming that that's where your CD/DVD burner is) will use it when it is detected to be a writeable device during the boot process. So again, I ask what precisely your issue is what goes wrong when you try to burn a CD or DVD? What commands are you using to do so, and what type of disk are you trying to create (a bootable ISO? a data disk? a SVCD? an audio disk)? If we knew that, maybe we'd know where to start looking for a misconfiguration or missing backend subsystem. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] LiveCD distcc/Live CD's are Wonderfull
At 10:49 PM 6/7/2005, you wrote: --- Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am slowly but surely rescuing my Gentoo System with the latest Live CD. It is truly a miracle to have this tool, but you need to take some time experimenting with how to use it, For example, mounting boot and root partitions and the proc system. I will soon have my system up and running but I had to go in and remove the * from my passwd file using vipw so that I could get into the new system. I am still getting messages of segmentation fault after I perform certain operations. I am not sure what is causing that, but the cure is to re untar the stage-3 tarball onto my Gentoo partition. Anyway I lost my Grub disk, so I am taking a vacation until I find it. I am a disabled hacker who has no short term memory, so whenever I lose something, I have to take on an orthagonal persuit, haha. God Bless, Rob. Are you serious about not having short term memory? That must be difficult. Bless you too, Zac __ Discover Yahoo! Get on-the-go sports scores, stock quotes, news and more. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/mobile.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Hi Zac, I am pleased to meet you here on this wonderful list. Oh, this is OT, but perhaps not for the Absent Minded Professor Type hacker. Remember that there is a fine line between genious and insanity, LOL, per Nikola Tesla, my phantom mentor. Yes, it seems to be true, no short term memory. Yesterday I got my Disabled Motorist Permit, so I can park right next to the mall or store. If I venture out into the parking lot, I lose my car. It is a green Camry so it looks like 1000 other cars, so I have to contact security and they come help me find my car. It is not so bad as my doctors have competing theories. 1. Theory is that I burnt out my short term memory using drugs and alcohol, LOL. I have been clean and sober for years now, but I am 43 years old. 2. Theory is that since driving and parking is primarily an unconcious activity, I am unconsciously parking and not REGISTERING my car's location in memory. Thus it is always lost when I go to find it. Thus the solution is to sit in my car an meditate after parking so that suddenly I am living in the moment and the car location REGISTRATES in my brain. I am going to try this last procedure, as I don't want to be having Alzheimer's disease in my 40's. Thanks for all who listen. Now you know alot about me and who I am here in Hillsboro, Oregon, where all sun is liquid sunshine i.e rain, haha. I am Rob, disabled Berkeley BSEE, now turned Gentoo Linux hacker. I hope I can have coffee with Linus the next time he is up here. He works only 3 miles from where I live. Best regards, and sorry for this very OT OT subject. Sincerely, Rob N3FT -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] LiveCD distcc/Live CD's are Wonderfull
At 10:14 PM 6/7/2005, you wrote: --- Pingveno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running two computers in my house, one 550 MHz Pentium 3 and one 3 GHz Pentium 4. The slow one is running Gentoo Linux, while the fast one is running Windows. I'd like to put together a LiveCD that can run distcc on the faster computer just via a reboot. There's a Knoppix mod with distcc, but apparently there are problems because of the version of gcc that Debian uses. Gentoo has some extra patches for better security, which can conflict with the Debian version of gcc. Is there a way I can build a CD with a Gentoo-compatible version of distcc? Hi Pingveno, Yes. An alternative would be to to run your distcc node as a diskless node. I have my system set up so that my diskless node shares all the same root fs as the server except for var and etc. That way the diskless node always have the same versions of everything. If you want you can also leave windows running if you run your distcc node on a colinux kernel. So which will it be, livecd or diskless node? You can use catalyst to build a livecd (that's how the official installation cds are built). I prefer to build livecds by hand. For both my diskless node and livecds I use a genkernel initrd that is patched to use unionfs for copy on write functionality. Zac __ Discover Yahoo! Have fun online with music videos, cool games, IM and more. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/online.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Hi all, I am slowly but surely rescuing my Gentoo System with the latest Live CD. It is truly a miracle to have this tool, but you need to take some time experimenting with how to use it, For example, mounting boot and root partitions and the proc system. I will soon have my system up and running but I had to go in and remove the * from my passwd file using vipw so that I could get into the new system. I am still getting messages of segmentation fault after I perform certain operations. I am not sure what is causing that, but the cure is to re untar the stage-3 tarball onto my Gentoo partition. Anyway I lost my Grub disk, so I am taking a vacation until I find it. I am a disabled hacker who has no short term memory, so whenever I lose something, I have to take on an orthagonal persuit, haha. God Bless, Rob. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Grub nonsense
At 12:01 AM 6/6/2005, Heinz Sporn wrote: Hi! Aside your zynic 'advice': what the heck is your problem with grub? Emerged it over and over again - never had troubles with it. If your $million advice is supposed to help anybody on this list a little more info about your issues with grub would be nice. Regards spox Am Samstag, den 04.06.2005, 20:46 -0700 schrieb rob3: My $million advice. Go to www..gnu.org, and just download the Grub source and compile it. Just make a note somewhere on your copy of the Gentoo manual (you did print it out didn't you? haha) that grub is not in the emerge system. Problem solved. Once you know where all of grub resides (locate grub | less) in Gentoo (slocate -u as su beforehand), you can easily get rid of it when Gentoo finally gets its acto together and concocts a decent ebuild. Sincerely, Rob. -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Heinz Sporn SPORN it-freelancing Mobile: ++43 (0)699 / 127 827 07 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Snail: Steyrer Str. 20 A-4540 Bad Hall Austria / Europe -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Hi Heinz, I don't have any issues with Grub. I use it exclusively. I was just replying to some people that did have issues with ebuilds of Grub. I am sorry for the confusion. Sincerely, Rob. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] dumb Gentoo version Tcsh question\ need UNIX shell guru
I have in my .tcshrc file: (that is symbolically linked to by .tcsh.config and .cshrc) alias ls 'ls -a -l --color=auto' alias du 'du -h --max-depth=1' But when I log in, all I can see is one blue dot, but everything is there. If I type in bash all the files suddenly appear. Argg, I'm tearing out my hair. O'Reilly's Csh and Tcsh book has been no help, neither have been the man page. What am I doing wrong? Thanks, Rob. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Dynamic DNS
Rob wrote: Brett I. Holcomb wrote: A static dynamic DNS G. Thanks. I'll look at that. On Fri, 20 May 2005, Michael Semcheski wrote: Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I want to use dhcp on my home network to assign IP addresses which means I'll need a dynamic DNS. I know I can go to dyndns.org and set up something with them but can I setup my own name server (BIND or whatever) and some program that will work with that to keep the DNS updated? What may be the easiest thing to do is look at man 5 dhcpd.conf. You can have dhcpd assign each computer the same IP address everytime, based on its IP address. Not quite as slick as dynamic DNS, but very effective, and with the added benefit that your DNS won't get stale if the DHCP address decides to change. Mike My LinkSys Router has a DynDNS update service already in the software. Cool. Robl I've never had any problems with DynDns.org. Maybe your router is misconfigured or needs firmware update. Rob. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Clock going crazy
Nick Rout wrote: delete the contents of /etc/adjtime this file contains data that the kernel uses to keep track of time, it compensates for a slow/fast system clock tick. If this file gets stuffed up then the kernel over compensates for what it perceives to be a way out clock, and all hell breaks loose. So try clearing it out and see if that works better (it will be re-written with something sensible sooner or later) If On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 07:55 -0700, Rob wrote: rob3 wrote: David D. Rea wrote: On Thu, May 19, 2005 10:15 am, rob3 said: I am not certain if this is a Gentoo problem, a bios problem, a mobo problem, or what. I just want to know if anyone else has seen it or has it now. I can't keep the clock on the right time. This Dell 8600 Laptop has a brand new mobo in it. So it seems crazy that the battery would be dead already. Windoze shows the same behavior. Thanks, Rob Is the clock bouncing between two hour times while the minute stays more or less correct? If so, then Gentoo is probably setting the hardware clock to UTC (universal time, or Greenwich Mean Time) when it shuts down, and Windoze is expecting local time on bootup... They may be messing with each other?? Dave I don't know. Dell support gave me a patch to the bios, so I will see in the next day or so if it is bios, or OS issue.\ Thanks! Rob Hi !! No, the hour changes and the minutes change. Rob. Thanks for response. Acutually it was adding a line to rc.conf that solved the problem CLOCK=local. This does not appear in the Gentoo manual, but is only needed for BIOS's which use local time. I submitted a doc bug report, so that no one else gets bit with this. Rob. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Clock going crazy
rob3 wrote: David D. Rea wrote: On Thu, May 19, 2005 10:15 am, rob3 said: I am not certain if this is a Gentoo problem, a bios problem, a mobo problem, or what. I just want to know if anyone else has seen it or has it now. I can't keep the clock on the right time. This Dell 8600 Laptop has a brand new mobo in it. So it seems crazy that the battery would be dead already. Windoze shows the same behavior. Thanks, Rob Is the clock bouncing between two hour times while the minute stays more or less correct? If so, then Gentoo is probably setting the hardware clock to UTC (universal time, or Greenwich Mean Time) when it shuts down, and Windoze is expecting local time on bootup... They may be messing with each other?? Dave I don't know. Dell support gave me a patch to the bios, so I will see in the next day or so if it is bios, or OS issue.\ Thanks! Rob Hi !! No, the hour changes and the minutes change. Rob. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Clock going crazy
Is the clock bouncing between two hour times while the minute stays more or less correct? If so, then Gentoo is probably setting the hardware clock to UTC (universal time, or Greenwich Mean Time) when it shuts down, and Windoze is expecting local time on bootup... They may be messing with each other?? Dave I don't know. Dell support gave me a patch to the bios, so I will see in the next day or so if it is bios, or OS issue.\ Thanks! Rob Thanks for replying. I performed the official Dell Laptop clock set procedure, resetting bios, and then setting the clock to the right time I also performed the official Gentoo procedure found on Google by typing +gentoo +linux +clock and clicking on the clock tips article. None of this works at all ' Rob. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Clock going crazy
Steven Susbauer wrote: rob3 wrote: I can't keep the clock on the right time. This Dell 8600 Laptop has a brand new mobo in it. So it seems crazy that the battery would be dead already. Windoze shows the same behavior. Thanks, Rob Is the clock bouncing between two hour times while the minute stays more or less correct? If so, then Gentoo is probably setting the hardware clock to UTC (universal time, or Greenwich Mean Time) when it shuts down, and Windoze is expecting local time on bootup... They may be messing with each other?? Check /etc/rc.conf and see if clock says UTC or local. If it says UTC, than that is the problem (as Windows doesn't support having a different OS clock than bios clock). Gentoo does set the clock to UTC according to boot messages. Perhaps this is the whole problem. How do I fix it? Rob. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Dynamic DNS
Brett I. Holcomb wrote: A static dynamic DNS G. Thanks. I'll look at that. On Fri, 20 May 2005, Michael Semcheski wrote: Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I want to use dhcp on my home network to assign IP addresses which means I'll need a dynamic DNS. I know I can go to dyndns.org and set up something with them but can I setup my own name server (BIND or whatever) and some program that will work with that to keep the DNS updated? What may be the easiest thing to do is look at man 5 dhcpd.conf. You can have dhcpd assign each computer the same IP address everytime, based on its IP address. Not quite as slick as dynamic DNS, but very effective, and with the added benefit that your DNS won't get stale if the DHCP address decides to change. Mike My LinkSys Router has a DynDNS update service already in the software. Cool. Robl -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] HOWTO Encrypt Your Home Directory Using CFS
Rob wrote:
Dmitri Vassilenko wrote:
On Thursday May 5 2005 16:17, rob3 wrote:
OK, I think I have an accessable draft copy of the doc at
www.gentoo-wiki.com/User:Roblytle.
It seems to be available anonymously, and editable. I am no wiki expert
so its likely something is screwed up. I'd like it to end up in the
HOWTO Security and Anonymity category, but I have no idea how to do
this.
No, it's fine. It needs to be wikified, though. We're working on a
guide to explain this.
Meanwhile, just put {{Wikify}} somewhere and let others do the messy
work. ;)
I'll sort it into the appropriate category soon.
Thanks,
Dmitri (Tro)
Thank you Dmitri !
Rob
Someone already put it in. Thank you!!!
Rob.
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Re: [gentoo-user] How do you get OpenOffice to run?/ found no oofice executable
Ric de France wrote: Rob, On 5/8/05, rob3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I compiled OpenOffice. It ran all day and successfully completed the ebuild. Now I run setup and I get hundreds of error messages. How do I install it? What have I missed? Have you just opened up a prompt (as a regular user and not root) and typed in: $ ooffice ?? Mine will just start up a basic openoffice.org window what error messages do you get? ...Ric Hi Ric, I ran slocate -u and updated my database. Then I typed locate oofice. It could not be found. So something is screwed up. Thats why I think I need to run the .setup command in the /opt/OpenOffice directory. (or whatever that directory is called, I'm back in Windoze) But the first part of running .setup generates 160Mb of files in whatever new directory I choose, so that must be the final working directory which contains the oofice command. Rob. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How do you get OpenOffice to run?/ explaining the error messages
Brett I. Holcomb wrote: What are the messages? On Sat, 7 May 2005, rob3 wrote: Hi all, I compiled OpenOffice. It ran all day and successfully completed the ebuild. Now I run setup and I get hundreds of error messages. How do I install it? What have I missed? The clueless, Rob Hi Brett, I get messages that say (paraphrasing) Error, could not copy foo to bar directory. I get the choice in the pop up dialog to choose between retry, ignore, and cancel. Pressing the ignore button a few times ends up giving me about 160 meg of used space in whatever new directory I choose for this operation. So it must be the final install step. But after that I can press ignore a hundred times and it just keeps telling me that same error message over and over again, only its a different file each time that I press ignore. Thanks! Rob -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Using the Cryptographic File System as your home directory
marcin wrote: Sure aes as well as blowfish and other features On 5/5/05, Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 05 May 2005 09:29 am, marcin wrote: Hello, I think that interesting alternative to CFS can be EncFs which is faster then CFS. Comparison between other encrypted filesystems and EncFs you can find here: http://arg0.net/users/vgough/encfs.html Absolutely FANTASTIC... has aes too! Woo Hoo! -- ** Registered Linux User Number 185956 FSF Associate Member number 2340 since 05/20/2004 Join me in chat at #linux-users on irc.freenode.net Buy an Xbox for $149.00, run linux on it and Microsoft loses $150.00! 6:03pm up 27 days, 1:10, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list I am open to trying this out as an encrypted home directory as well. But since I already have CFS working on the laptop, perhaps I can get it going on my big AMD64 machine. So far it is using FreeBSD, but I want to convert it to Gentoo. Rob. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[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
