Re: [gentoo-user] Writing an ebuild, #gentoo-dev-help best place?
http://cgiirc.blitzed.org/ and it always seems to be empty. Is that a real client? Whereas I can't help you with the ebuild, you might want to try http://ircatwork.com/ -- Samuel 'Shardz' Baldwin Shardz's Igloo: shardz.homelinux.net Registered Linux User #410639 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Setting up a local portage/rsync mirror on OpenBSD
Hey everyone, I've been considering setting up a local rsync mirror for my many local machines. However, my primary server with all the hard drive space (the only one that's any good) is running OpenBSD. There's a few guides out there about running Portage mirrors on Gentoo, but none that I can find about running one on OpenBSD. So I turned here for advice. Has anyone done this/have insight on doing this? Also, in the rsync configuration, the line path=/usr/portage, does rsync work in a way that I need to leave it like that, or can I arbitrarily redirect that to wherever. Right now I have that as a symlink. Thanks, -- Samuel 'Shardz' Baldwin Shardz's Igloo: shardz.homelinux.net Registered Linux User #410639 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a local portage/rsync mirror on OpenBSD
I don't use OpenBSD but I can assure you that there is nothing special about portage's usage of rsync. Every howto about rsync servers and BSD should work. Just look into the script for settings like recursion and compression. Well, I mean't every gentoo one says emerge --sync, I was wondering what commands I could run/throw into a script to grab exactly what I want. Also, how would I get rsync to download/sync to a different location (upstream syncing, not syncing with local clients), such as /mnt/srv/portage/ or whatnot. You can choose every directory you want. In fact, it's even better to use another one so you don't need to exclude /usr/portage/distfiles and /usr/portage/packages. Awesome. Thanks, -- Samuel 'Shardz' Baldwin Shardz's Igloo: shardz.homelinux.net Registered Linux User #410639 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] DVD burner recomendation
app-cdr/tkdvd Great frontend for dvd+rw-tools and cdrecord. Runs like a charm on my OpenBSD 4.1 i386 box. Haven't tried it on gentoo yet, but it's nice a lightweight. Also if you like bloatware/KDE, try app-cdr/k3b . Nicer GUI and runs like a charm on my AMD64 Gentoo 2007.0 . I've been using this a while and it never goes wrong. -- Samuel (shardz) Shardz's Igloo: shardz.homelinux.net Registered Linux User #410639 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan
Oh my gosh, why don't you all just STOP and let this post DIE. -- Samuel (shardz) Shardz's Igloo: shardz.homelinux.net Registered Linux User #410639 amarok.kde.org defectivebydesign.org usmc.mil
Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan
Maybe, just maybe, if we all stoped posting (mailing) to this thread, it would go away, and we wouldn't have this problem. Something to chew on.. -- Samuel (shardz) Shardz's Igloo: shardz.homelinux.net Registered Linux User #410639 amarok.kde.org defectivebydesign.org usmc.mil
Re: [gentoo-user] Simple Linux Router on a live CD?
Try Devil-Linux. I'm slaping it on a old Dell server with shot SCSI drives as a router/firewall. Very minimal but functional, no X. Cheers! -- Samuel (shardz) Shardz's Igloo: shardz.homelinux.net Registered Linux User #410639 amarok.kde.org defectivebydesign.org usmc.mil
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not starting with eth0, router not giving IP
What kind of router is it? It's a DX-E401 check if dhcpd is enabled? Yeah, it's running. However, it's setup to give me a static local IP to my mac address, but that shouldn't matter, since It's been like that long before the problem started. The only thing new that I can think of is the introduction of a switch to the network, between me and the router. I don't think that should cause any problems, as it's serving Windows and my OpenBSD server just fine, but I'm going to try taking it out of the loop and see if Linux will get an IP. -- Samuel (shardz) Shardz's Igloo: shardz.homelinux.net Registered Linux User #410639 amarok.kde.org defectivebydesign.org usmc.mil
[gentoo-user] Gentoo not starting with eth0, router not giving IP
Hello. Recently after rebooting from Windows to Gentoo, I noticed I had no internet access. My router, which is set to give my mac address the same IP (192.168.0.104), seems to have decided NOT to do this anymore. Nothing has changed in my settings on either my computer or the router. I get the same thing for every OS (Gentoo LiveCD, Gentoo installed, SuSE installed) besides windows. I'm totally stumped. Sometimes eth0 gets enabled at startup but gets no IP (SuSE), other times (Gentoo Gentoo LiveCD) it doesn't and I have to run ifconfig eth0 up. Running route add eth0 192.168.0.1 returns eth0: Host name lookup failure ifconfig returns: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:16:17:18:D5:4A UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:498 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:2 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:152940 (149.3 Kb) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) Interrupt:19 base address:0xe000 lo Link encap: Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:1188 (1.1 Kb) TX bytes:1188 (1.1 b) Any help would be apreciated, I'm stumped. -- Samuel (shardz) Shardz's Igloo: shardz.homelinux.net Registered Linux User #410639 amarok.kde.org defectivebydesign.org usmc.mil
Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my window manager
Try .xsession , add exec startfluxbox. There should also be a variable in your X config. Cheers! -- Samuel (shardz) Shardz's Igloo: shardz.homelinux.net Registered Linux User #410639 amarok.kde.org defectivebydesign.org usmc.mil
Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my window manager
Try .xsession , add exec startfluxbox. Excuse me. That should read .xinitrc , and that's in your ~. Light night, my bad. :) -- Samuel (shardz) Shardz's Igloo: shardz.homelinux.net Registered Linux User #410639 amarok.kde.org defectivebydesign.org usmc.mil
Re: [gentoo-user] XDM / GDM hangs when logging in.
Thanks to both, I got it to work. And with a different background.-- Samuel (shardz)Noha+Shardz Productions: nsproductions.co.nrRegistered Linux User #410639 amarok.kde.orgusmc.mil
Re: [gentoo-user] Network connection repeatedly failing!
Apparently it wasn't the route command. I was looking for an old DNS server. I just changed it, and boom! Problems gone.Thanks everybody!-- Samuel (shardz)Noha+Shardz Productions: nsproductions.co.nrRegistered Linux User #410639amarok.kde.orgusmc.mil
[gentoo-user] XDM / GDM hangs when logging in.
I've recently installed GDM, XDM, and Fluxbox on a new Gentoo machine. When I boot to XDM, and login as root, everything is fine and dandy, with a nice Fluxbox desktop. When I login as my user, it just hangs on a black screen (which xdm used to do when it was pointing to a wm that didn't exist). CAD, CAB, and CAF1 do nothing, and I'm forced to reboot via the power button. I do not know why it is doing this (perhaps bad permissions for fluxbox?), and I would prefer not to do everything as root. On the side, is it possible to customize the appearance of XDM (I know I can for GDM)?-- Samuel (shardz)Noha+Shardz Productions: nsproductions.co.nr Registered Linux User #410639amarok.kde.orgusmc.mil
Re: [gentoo-user] Network connection repeatedly failing!
On a more serious note: I get this when I try to run route add default 10.0.0.1, as on the live CD (I thought I had already configured the network anyway, in /etc/conf.d/net . SIOCADDRT: No such device I'm not sure what this means, but I can't ping www.google.com, or any other public address. I CAN ping other IP's in my network, including 10.0.0.1 Emerge obviously doesn't work either. Some insight would be appreciated-- Samuel (shardz)Noha+Shardz Productions: nsproductions.co.nrRegistered Linux User #410639 amarok.kde.orgusmc.mil
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Network connection repeatedly failing!
Yeah, I got it, I put my email out pre-maturely. Anyways, now I'm having problems with X, a new monitor, that I know all the specs to, is going to help me write xorg.conf Thanks for the help though.-- Samuel (shardz) A Gentoo-er's job is never done. You can always count on source installs to make that true. Noha+Shardz Productions: nsproductions.co.nrRegistered Linux User #410639amarok.kde.orgusmc.mil
Re: [gentoo-user] Network connection repeatedly failing!
With those problems resolved, another arises. I have since moved my computer back to my house (to stay). Upon initial boot, it complained about not finding certain things (gateway, nameserver), which is obviously the fact that I'm using dhcp. I then changed the settings in /etc/conf.d/net, then rebooted. It all seemed fine, but ping, emerge, and firefox dont work for anything public, and I'm wondering if I did something wrong. I changed all the settings in /etc/conf.d/net to resemble the dhcp settings in the handbook. Is there another command/file I need to edit? -- Samuel (shardz)Noha+Shardz Productions: nsproductions.co.nrRegistered Linux User #410639 amarok.kde.org usmc.mil
Re: [gentoo-user] Network connection repeatedly failing!
For the record, I have a router. Under XP, dhcp works fine, and I can get past that. Under linux, dhcp seems to be working as well, I can get a local IP and ping computers on my network, but anything outside, no luck. -- Samuel (shardz)Noha+Shardz Productions: nsproductions.co.nrRegistered Linux User #410639amarok.kde.org usmc.mil
[gentoo-user] Network connection repeatedly failing!
I'm trying to install Gentoo 2006.0 AMD64, on a brand-new AMD64 machine, system specs are below:CPU: AMD ATHLON-64 3200+ 939 pinRAM: 1024MB (two 512mb sticks), PC-3200/400NETWORK CARD: 10/100MBPS RJ-45 integrated
160GB UDMA SATA HD300GB HD (EIDE, ATA)Temperatures check out at system: 28C and cpu: 31C, so I don't think it's an overheating problem.I'm set up in an office, my IP needs to be
10.0.0.100, Gateway is 10.0.0.1, and DNC is 10.0.0.221. No proxies, just need those specific things. I tried running net-setup eth0, which worked, untill I tried to ping
www.google.com, and 10.0.0.1 (and other computers in my workplace). When I run ifconfig, I get this:lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX Packets:28 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX Packets:28 errors:0 dropped:2 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions: 0 txqueuelen: 0 RX bytes: 3080 (3.0 KB) TX bytes:3080 (3.0kb)Which doesn't look shabby, except for the dropped:2. But otherwise, to me, it looks like it would work (I'm no expert anyways, as you have no doubt determined)
When I run ping 10.0.0.1 (I stop with ^C), I get THIS: PING 10.0.0.1 (10.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
From 10.0.0.100 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable From 10.0.0.100 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable From
10.0.0.100 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable From 10.0.0.100 icmp_seq=5 Destination Host Unreachable From
10.0.0.100 icmp_seq=6 Destination Host Unreachable From 10.0.0.100 icmp_seq=7 Destination Host Unreachable^C---
10.0.0.1 ping statistics ---9 packets transmitted, 0 recieved, +6 errors, 100% packet loss, time 8010ms, pipe 3livecd root #Which, on the other hand, does not look so good. I've already tried ifconfig eth0 ${IPADDR}., and the like.
Please, if anyone has some insight, please share it with me. I've got an abundance of other ethernet cards, if it sounds like this is a hardware error. I'd very much like to install Gentoo (I have a universal disk, I know I can do a networkless installation). Eventually, when I return home, I can use dhcp, but not for a few days, and I much rather have my computer running by then.
Also, does anyone know of a tool that allows you to play audio from a terminal? Basically, sending audio to standard audio out? I'd like to be able to listen to music (all .ogg and .mp3, if it makes a difference), while in runlevel 3. This is a side comment, and do not waste time answering this/looking it up if you don't know off hand.
Thanks a metric ton,-- Samuel (shardz)Noha+Shardz Productions: nsproductions.co.nrRegistered Linux User #410639
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[gentoo-user] Palm Desktop to Kontact?
Hello. A friend of mine runs a small business, all on Windows and Macintosh. After having an extremely good experience on my Linux machine, I have talked him into switching some of his computers to Linux. On his Business machine, he checks email, manages documents, browses the web, and manages a database of people, with Palm desktop. Since these tasks are fairly easy to be done on Linux, this will be his first machine. Unfortunately, his Palm Desktop database is so huge, it would take days to enter the database by hand into Kontact, or another program that does the same thing. So, is there a way to get the information from Palm Desktop into Kontact, in a relatively easy manner? I don't mind doing some work and jumping though some hoops to get it done, but we definately want to avoid entering everything by hand. Thanks,-- Samuel (shardz)Noha+Shardz Productions: nsproductions.co.nrRegistered Linux User #410639amarok.kde.org usmc.mil
Re: [gentoo-user] Palm Desktop to Kontact?
Ok, thank you. This saves him alot of work.-- Samuel (shardz)Noha+Shardz Productions: nsproductions.co.nrRegistered Linux User #410639 amarok.kde.orgusmc.mil
Re: [gentoo-user] supported mp3 players (hardware)
I'm positive that AmaroK supports iPod's fully.I am, myself, (sounds a little redundant doesn't it?) getting an iRiver soon, and not sure if any media players will support that...Anyone know if iRiver's support ogg? I use that exclusively and transcoding everything to mp3 would not be pleasant. -- Samuel (shardz)Registered Linux User #410639amarok.kde.orgusmc.mil
Re: [gentoo-user] supported mp3 players (hardware)
My H340 supports ogg. It also works with Linux and OSX :)Thanks-- Samuel (shardz)Registered Linux User #410639 amarok.kde.orgusmc.mil
Re: [gentoo-user] 300GB HD
Well, I heard good things and bad things about Maxtor. Mainly bad.If anyone can show me a good WD or Seagate drive for a similar price and the same amount of space, please, do so :) .-- Samuel300GB Hardrive from Newegg.com: $11532 HD LCD TV/PC Monitor: $1, 199.992GB of RAM: $160GNU/Linux Operating System: Priceless
[gentoo-user] 300GB HD
I'm planning on buying a 300GB HD from maxtor for my next primary HD.It's a Maxtor DiamondMax 10 300GB 3.5 IDE Ultra ATA133 Hard Drive - OEM (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822140166)Anyways, I was wondering if I would run into any problems with a 300GB HD, and if this particular one would give me problems. It's a 250V (I think) Power supply and I've already got an Nvidia GeForce 6200 GT in there, so I'm also afraid of it being too much for my computer to handle. It would be my only HD in the machine though. I'm not sure if I should shoot for a smaller drive. I _need_ these 300GB's though. It takes me about 2 days to fill up a 40GB HD with everything, and that's just single-booting. I am content with switching to a smaller drive though if it is impossible to run this certain HD. (Also, if anyone else knows any better deals for a similar/better HD, please, tell me).That's all for now-- Thanks -- Samuel (shardz)300GB Hardrive from Newegg.com: $11532 HD LCD TV/PC Monitor: $1, 199.992GB of RAM: $160GNU/Linux Operating System: Priceless
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 300GB HD
One problem, only one place to put the drive. It's a shitty eMachines case.I'm building a new comp over the summer, but I'm gonna add the 300 to this comp, and just re-do everything once I get a new mobo and case. I'm planning on quad-booting. Or even more.40 GB's of Windows XP (I am a gamer. Some games I just cannot get to work under Linux)60 GB's of SuSE (I have an old pro version.)80 GB's of Gentoo 2006.0 (yay!) 20 GB's of Shared Files (Music, and whatever needs to be shared)then the rest will be unpartitioned, mainly for trying out some BSD's and other distro's. to be partitioned as appropriate.That's my game plan so far. It's subject to change easily. Again, I've had trouble locating a PSU that will fit in the case. This is worse then getting a Dell.For my next comp, I'm obviously building my own (I got this for free in 2001). In a very, very large tower case. I'll probably then stick this current 40GB HD in here and use the comp as a household server running BSD/Linux and hosting LAN game servers and GNUMP3d, and whatever I see fit. On 22/05/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 23 May 2006 00:38, Peter wrote: On Mon, 22 May 2006 17:18:04 -0400, Samuel Baldwin wrote: I'm planning on buying a 300GB HD from maxtor for my next primary HD. It's a Maxtor DiamondMax 10 300GB 3.5 IDE Ultra ATA133 Hard Drive - OEM Great! I have a 200G primary and 80G secondary drive. Both IDE. Here are my comments. Well, I would up your PS to at least 400 Watts. Not that the drive would use it, but most newer CPUs need at least 400. no, p4 need a lot of current, and big gpu's. But for most people a GOOD 360WPSU will work fine.The watt printed on the package does not say anything about the quality of thePSU or its maximum 'combined' output. So if you tell him to buy a 400W PSU is like telling someone to buy a '2000ccm (2 Liter) car'. There are lots of carswith 2liter engines. And a lot of them are crap ;)-- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Samuel300GB Hardrive from Newegg.com: $11532 HD LCD TV/PC Monitor: $1, 199.992GB of RAM: $160GNU/Linux Operating System: Priceless
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?
b.n. wrote: At work I use konsole. I like the session thing it has and the tabs, since I use a lot of interactive shell apps like python-ipython-octave at work they often comes quite handy.Completely agreed. I find the tabs to be extremely helpfull as I'm constantly running interactive shell programs on several tabs, and quite often editing my conf files on another. I've found it to be a little slow in X on older computers, but that could just be a poorly-configured system. -- Samuel300GB Hardrive from Newegg.com: $11532 HD LCD TV/PC Monitor: $1,199.992GB of RAM: $160GNU/Linux Operating System: Priceless (and free!)
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?
Alexander Skwar wrote: That's something I'll never understand - why make the text on a terminal harder to read, by using transparency? Granted, it'll look better, but that's it. IMO transparency is one of the most useless features. True, it's not that usefull, but it does look nice. It provides a nice change of pace, so that way, when you're running a terminal in X, it doesn't look exactly like the regular shell. As far as making it harder to read, I've found it quite easy. If it conflicts with your background design, just change the text color. It is also possible to turn the transparency off, if needed. -- Samuel300GB Hardrive from Newegg.com: $115 32 HD LCD TV/PC Monitor: $1,199.99 2GB of RAM: $160 GNU/Linux Operating System: Priceless (and free!)
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?
Alexander Skwar wrote: Well - a terminal is something to work with. And this has to be functional and not provide a change of pace.Yeah. True. I like that thing though. Cause, since I use different backgrounds for each of my desktops, depending on what desktop I'm using, I'll get a different background. All this said, usability and functionalibility is fact (for the most part), and looks and such is opinion (for the most part-- again).You like to use a black-on-white background. Fine, I've used that before and it was great. I like to use IMO Transparency for a chance of pace. Great. I'm guessing that this conversation was originally started to gather info on peoples preferences of X terminals, but I don't think it was started for a debate about transparency. Commenting on it, maybe.This is really all my fault anyways since I started commenting on it. At least I'm hopefully ending it. In a word: sorry. -- Samuel300GB Hardrive from Newegg.com: $11532 HD LCD TV/PC Monitor: $1, 199.992GB of RAM: $160GNU/Linux Operating System: Priceless (and free!)
