[gentoo-user] script to calculate download size

2003-10-30 Thread Selentek 24331-03
There is script to calculate size of files needs to emerge packet. emerge -p need root privileges and get_size need it too Example: $ sudo get_size cannonsmash media-libs/sdl-mixer-1.2.5-r1 914Kb SDL_mixer-1.2.5.tar.gz (ok) Pkg size: 914Kb Download: 0

Re: [gentoo-user] downloading Yahoo! mail

2003-10-30 Thread daniel
On October 30, 2003 12:09 am, Andrew Gaffney wrote: I want to be able to download my Yahoo! mail into Mozilla. I see that in portage there are 2 programs for this: yosucker and fetchyahoo. Which one of them is better, or does it really matter? Also, I want to setup a POP3 server so that I can

Re: [gentoo-user] downloading Yahoo! mail

2003-10-30 Thread Roel Schroeven
daniel wrote: On October 30, 2003 12:09 am, Andrew Gaffney wrote: I want to be able to download my Yahoo! mail into Mozilla. I see that in portage there are 2 programs for this: yosucker and fetchyahoo. Which one of them is better, or does it really matter? Also, I want to setup a POP3 server so

[gentoo-user] New Gentoo PC, suggestions

2003-10-30 Thread Arturo di Gioia
Hi everyone, I'm going to buy a new PC for number crunching. I'm happily using Gentoo on my current PC and I'd like to do it on the new one. Short description: Dell Dimension 8300 Intel 875E chipset P4 3.0 w/Hyperthreading (maybe 3.2) 120 GB SATA HD 2GB 400MHz DDR SDRAM Blah blah blah I'm using

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo PC, suggestions

2003-10-30 Thread Arturo di Gioia
On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 09:53, Arturo di Gioia wrote: I'm experiencing a rough 35MB/s of sequential read speed with my current ATA133 HD. Two numbers from hdparms, just for very rough comparison /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 888 MB in 2.00 seconds = 442.89 MB/sec Timing buffered disk

Re: [gentoo-user] downloading Yahoo! mail

2003-10-30 Thread daniel
On October 30, 2003 03:40 am, Roel Schroeven wrote: daniel wrote: On October 30, 2003 12:09 am, Andrew Gaffney wrote: I want to be able to download my Yahoo! mail into Mozilla. I see that in portage there are 2 programs for this: yosucker and fetchyahoo. Which one of them is better, or does

[gentoo-user] lm-sensors not working

2003-10-30 Thread Guy Van Sanden
I'm unable to start lm_sensors om my gentoo-box. It complains about unresolved symbols and not be able to find i2c-proc. I compiled my kernel with this in my kernel-config # I2C support CONFIG_I2C=m I'm on gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r7, trying to install lm-sensors-2.8.0.ebuild (2.7 fails to

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo PC, suggestions

2003-10-30 Thread Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 10:01:08 +0100 Arturo di Gioia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Two numbers from hdparms, just for very rough comparison /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 888 MB in 2.00 seconds = 442.89 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 124 MB in 3.04 seconds = 40.72 MB/sec With my

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo PC, suggestions

2003-10-30 Thread Patrick
I feel happy with my scsi disks : /dev/sda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 1980 MB in 2.00 seconds = 989.01 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 196 MB in 3.00 seconds = 65.25 MB/sec P - Original Message - From: Ivan Sergio Borgonovo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

[gentoo-user] /etc/kernels/default-config

2003-10-30 Thread Guy Van Sanden
Hello everyone What does this file do? is it copied to a new source-tree when downloaded? I'm asking because Im seeing differences in a 2.4.20-r7 kernel I compiled during install, and one I compiled later from the same sources without modifying anything. Thanks in advance Guy --

[gentoo-user] hdparm and ide-scsi

2003-10-30 Thread Guy Van Sanden
I can't run hdparm on the ide versions of my ide-scsi devices anymore hdparm /dev/hdc /dev/hdc: No such file or directory I want to check if dma is enabled on my DVD and CDRW devices. I'm on 2.4.20-gentoo-r7 -- __ Guy Van

Re: [gentoo-user] downloading Yahoo! mail

2003-10-30 Thread Roel Schroeven
daniel wrote: On October 30, 2003 03:40 am, Roel Schroeven wrote: daniel wrote: maybe i'm missing something, but why do you need extra software? i'm using yahoo mail right now with pop3 and all had to do was sign up and setup the account for pop3 download -- i did it on the yahoo site. That

Re: [gentoo-user] IE on Linux

2003-10-30 Thread Gareth Jones
Crossover Office uses Wine? If so, shouldn't they have to distribute the source for *free* since Wine is licensed under the GPL? It isn't. It's under the LGPL. (http://www.winehq.org/site/license) Gareth -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] OT: grub shenanigans

2003-10-30 Thread MAL
I have a remote machine with both Gentoo and Windows installed. It's currently in Linux, but I need to reboot it to Windows, do some things (via RemotelyAnywhere), then boot it back to Linux. I can cause the reboot via RemotelyAnywhere, but how can I tell grub to boot Windows one time, then

[gentoo-user] gentoo speed (mkisofs, redhat-9)

2003-10-30 Thread Selentek 24331-03
Hello, Where is 2 system on my computer: gentoo and redhat-9 gentoo kernel: gentoo-sources without any changes gentoo $ mkisofs --version mkisofs 2.01a17 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) gentoo $ hdparm -t /dev/hda /dev/hda: Timing buffered disk reads: 52 MB in 3.08 seconds = 16.88 MB/sec

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: grub shenanigans

2003-10-30 Thread Roel Schroeven
MAL wrote: I have a remote machine with both Gentoo and Windows installed. It's currently in Linux, but I need to reboot it to Windows, do some things (via RemotelyAnywhere), then boot it back to Linux. I can cause the reboot via RemotelyAnywhere, but how can I tell grub to boot Windows one

[gentoo-user] Weird portage error: invalid db entry?

2003-10-30 Thread Michel Wilson
Hello, Since a few days, emerge gives me a weird error when doing an emerge -pu world. First, it calculates the dependencies, and spits out the packages it is going to update, just like normally. Then, it comes up with this cryptic error: Traceback (most recent call last): File

Re[2]: [gentoo-user] squid

2003-10-30 Thread Lucas
I can't remember the name now, but I know there's at least one program to dynamically compress pages and reduce quality of the jpeg images. Most browsers support compressed content and you are suposed to get an extra boost because small files take less to load. - Saludos,

Re: [gentoo-user] downloading Yahoo! mail

2003-10-30 Thread Norberto Bensa
Andrew Gaffney wrote: I want to be able to download my Yahoo! mail into Mozilla. My setup is: fetchyahoo postfix amavisd / spamassassin / clamav cyrus-imapd Is there an easier way? Dunno. Maybe I could replace cyrus-imapd with some of the pop3 daemons in

Re: [gentoo-user] hdparm and ide-scsi

2003-10-30 Thread Spider
begin quote On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 11:34:16 +0100 Guy Van Sanden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't run hdparm on the ide versions of my ide-scsi devices anymore hdparm /dev/hdc /dev/hdc: No such file or directory I want to check if dma is enabled on my DVD and CDRW devices. Look in

Re: [gentoo-user] hdparm and ide-scsi

2003-10-30 Thread Guy Van Sanden
Thanks, that works, and DMA is on. I do want to make some extra settings (irq-unmasking etc), any idea why /dev/hdc does not exist? Guy On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 13:27, Spider wrote: begin quote On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 11:34:16 +0100 Guy Van Sanden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't run hdparm on

[gentoo-user] kernelconfig from livecd

2003-10-30 Thread Guy Van Sanden
Hello everyone, When I first ran genkernel during the install, it used the kernelconfig of the livecd, which was working very nice on my system. The configs in /usr/src/* and /etc/kernels are different from that config, is there any way to get that config back? Thanks Guy --

Re: Re[2]: [gentoo-user] squid

2003-10-30 Thread Sean Johnson
As far as page compression, I do that server side on my webserver. mod_deflate is the module for apache2 ... it's called something else (mod_gzip?) with apache1. I'm behind a modem, unfortunately, and noticed a significant difference in page load times. I would think that html/txt/css

Re: [gentoo-user] hdparm and ide-scsi

2003-10-30 Thread Spider
begin quote On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 13:35:43 +0100 Guy Van Sanden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, that works, and DMA is on. I do want to make some extra settings (irq-unmasking etc), any idea why /dev/hdc does not exist? hdc doesn't exist because ide-scsi takes predecense and therefore you

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/kernels/default-config

2003-10-30 Thread brett holcomb
I believe it serves as a default that will be used if you don't run make menuconfig. It's probably used to create the default .config. On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 11:16:50 +0100 Guy Van Sanden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone What does this file do? is it copied to a new source-tree when

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: grub shenanigans

2003-10-30 Thread MAL
Roel Schroeven wrote: MAL wrote: I have a remote machine with both Gentoo and Windows installed. It's currently in Linux, but I need to reboot it to Windows, do some things (via RemotelyAnywhere), then boot it back to Linux. I can cause the reboot via RemotelyAnywhere, but how can I tell grub

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo PC, suggestions

2003-10-30 Thread Michael Niethen
[Thu, 30 Oct 2003 09:53:25 +0100] Arturo di Gioia [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- : I'm using codes with loads of sequential I/O from/to disk. Is Serial ATA a good choice? Does anyone have any experience with it? I'm experiencing a rough 35MB/s of sequential read speed with my current ATA133 HD. Will I

[gentoo-user] gentoo speed (mkisofs, redhat-9)

2003-10-30 Thread Selentek 24331-03
Hello, Where is 2 system on my computer: gentoo and redhat-9 gentoo kernel: gentoo-sources without any changes gentoo $ mkisofs --version mkisofs 2.01a17 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) gentoo $ hdparm -t /dev/hda /dev/hda: Timing buffered disk reads: 52 MB in 3.08 seconds = 16.88 MB/sec

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: grub shenanigans

2003-10-30 Thread Roel Schroeven
MAL wrote: Roel Schroeven wrote: MAL wrote: I have a remote machine with both Gentoo and Windows installed. It's currently in Linux, but I need to reboot it to Windows, do some things (via RemotelyAnywhere), then boot it back to Linux. I can cause the reboot via RemotelyAnywhere, but how

[gentoo-user] Re: hdparm and ide-scsi

2003-10-30 Thread Michael Mauch
Spider wrote: Guy Van Sanden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, that works, and DMA is on. I do want to make some extra settings (irq-unmasking etc), any idea why /dev/hdc does not exist? hdc doesn't exist because ide-scsi takes predecense and therefore you cannot address the disk as

[gentoo-user] N00b question. HELP

2003-10-30 Thread Abilio Carvalho
OK, this is a totally stupid question, but I'm out of ideas. Why the hell does my Gentoo system still play music through the speakers, even though I have friggin headphones plugged in? Is the usual behaviour (i.e. when one plugs in headphones the speakers stop playing) software based? I thought

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo PC, suggestions

2003-10-30 Thread Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 14:09:20 +0100 Michael Niethen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /dev/md2: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.17 seconds =775.76 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 0.60 seconds =106.67 MB/sec Time for my newbiness show. I used hdparm to have the speed of a

Re: [gentoo-user] hdparm and ide-scsi

2003-10-30 Thread Guy Van Sanden
That's strange, on mandrake it still exists, but only for settings with hdparm, you cannot mount it anymore. On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 13:45, Spider wrote: begin quote On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 13:35:43 +0100 Guy Van Sanden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, that works, and DMA is on. I do want to

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: grub shenanigans

2003-10-30 Thread Michael Mauch
Roel Schroeven wrote: Another possibility would be to use lilo instead of grub and use the technique you described, but I don't know of any Windows dd-equivalent that can write to the MBR. lilo -R seems to be easier: -R command line This option sets the default command for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: hdparm and ide-scsi

2003-10-30 Thread Stewart C. Russell
Michael Mauch wrote: But hdparm can: hdparm -i /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/generic or you can change settings with, f'rinstance: echo using_dma:1 /proc/ide/hdc/settings echo io_32bit:1 /proc/ide/hdc/settings That's how I got my DVD drive usable with Gentoo and ogle. Stewart --

Re: [gentoo-user] lm-sensors not working

2003-10-30 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 04:49 AM 10/30/2003, you wrote: I'm unable to start lm_sensors om my gentoo-box. It complains about unresolved symbols and not be able to find i2c-proc. I compiled my kernel with this in my kernel-config # I2C support CONFIG_I2C=m I'm on gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r7, trying to install

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: hdparm and ide-scsi

2003-10-30 Thread Guy Van Sanden
That doesn't seem to exist either: /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/generic: No such file or directory On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 14:32, Michael Mauch wrote: Spider wrote: Guy Van Sanden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, that works, and DMA is on. I do want to make some extra settings

[gentoo-user] env-update

2003-10-30 Thread Ryan
howdie all i am busy doing a stage 1 install i have just chrooted and edited my make.conf file but now when i type env-update i get this error !!! Invalid token (not =) CHOST !!! Parse error in /etc/make.conf. !!! Incorrect multiline literals can cause this. Do not use them. my

[gentoo-user] optimum disk performance

2003-10-30 Thread Craig Main
Hi all, I have been looking at the speeds of the disks in some of the threads lately. I noticed that mine is a lot slower than most. I have attached some info. Is my disk running as optimally as it can or is there some more tweaking I can do to improve performance? laptop root # hdparm -tT

RE: [gentoo-user] optimum disk performance

2003-10-30 Thread Mark Knecht
laptop root # hdparm /dev/hda /dev/hda: multcount= 16 (on) IO_support = 1 (32-bit) unmaskirq= 0 (off) using_dma= 0 (off) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead= 8 (on) geometry = 2432/255/63, sectors = 39070080, start = 0 See if you

Re: [gentoo-user] optimum disk performance

2003-10-30 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 09:17 AM 10/30/2003, you wrote: using_dma= 0 (off) What other hdparm flags can I _safely_ use, I don't want to trash my disk. The fact that DMA is *off* immediately jumped out at me. This can/should be on with any or most modern HDs and/or controllers. Hall -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re[2]: [gentoo-user] squid

2003-10-30 Thread Joshua Banks
Since you guys/gals are on the Squid subject, I would like to get some squid-user opinions if possible without having to join the squid list and get flame-broiled. Currently I'm behind a dialup. Gentoo server acts as the (Shorewall) firewall and gateway for 3 win98 pc's. I just installed

Re: [gentoo-user] optimum disk performance

2003-10-30 Thread keanu
Model=HITACHI_DK23CA-20, FwRev=00H1A0J1, SerialNo=12N68B Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw15uSec Fixed DTR10Mbs } RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=36477, SectSize=579, ECCbytes=4 BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=2048kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16 CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes,

[gentoo-user] ncftpd

2003-10-30 Thread Redeeman
hi, does someone know if its possible to get a ncftpd ebuild? any help appreciated -- Regards, Redeeman () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\- against microsoft attachments -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] optimum disk performance

2003-10-30 Thread Craig Main
On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 16:38, Hall Stevenson wrote: At 09:17 AM 10/30/2003, you wrote: using_dma= 0 (off) What other hdparm flags can I _safely_ use, I don't want to trash my disk. The fact that DMA is *off* immediately jumped out at me. This can/should be on with any or most modern

Re: [gentoo-user] optimum disk performance

2003-10-30 Thread Joao Seabra
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Craig Main wrote: Hi all, I have been looking at the speeds of the disks in some of the threads lately. I noticed that mine is a lot slower than most. I have attached some info. Is my disk running as optimally as it can or is there some more tweaking I can do to

RE: [gentoo-user] Who do you call????

2003-10-30 Thread Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower)
Ghostbusters! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] env-update

2003-10-30 Thread Mark Knecht
my /etc/make.conf CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu CFLAGS=-O3 -march=athlon-xp -pipe Is this 'capital O'3 or 'zero'3? (try the other!) ;-) - Mark CXXFLAGS=${CFLAGS} when i hash CHOST out then i moans about CFLAGS any ideas thanks ryan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list --

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo PC, suggestions

2003-10-30 Thread Michael Niethen
[Thu, 30 Oct 2003 14:10:36 +0100] Ivan Sergio Borgonovo [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- : Time for my newbiness show. I used hdparm to have the speed of a single drive... but how to test for speed of software RAID? Single drives : # hdparm -Tt /dev/hd[e-h] /dev/hde: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB

RE: [gentoo-user] env-update

2003-10-30 Thread Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower)
Check that the (non-comment) line before CHOST has a ending double quote on it. -Original Message- From: Ryan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 8:10 AM To: gentoouser Subject: [gentoo-user] env-update howdie all i am busy doing a stage 1 install i have just

RE: [gentoo-user] Who do you call????

2003-10-30 Thread Joshua Banks
--- Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ghostbusters! LOL.. __ Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears http://launch.yahoo.com/promos/britneyspears/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] IE on Linux

2003-10-30 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
I have been having trouble with .doc and .xls files written by OO with documents to go for my palm.. Mike On Wednesday 29 October 2003 05:46 pm, Andrew Gaffney wrote: What can't Openoffice do that Office 2000/XP can? HvR wrote: yes with codeweavers wine underneath it also makes linux

Re: [gentoo-user] optimum disk performance

2003-10-30 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 09:50 AM 10/30/2003, you wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 16:38, Hall Stevenson wrote: At 09:17 AM 10/30/2003, you wrote: using_dma= 0 (off) What other hdparm flags can I _safely_ use, I don't want to trash my disk. The fact that DMA is *off* immediately jumped out at me. This

RE: [gentoo-user] IE on Linux

2003-10-30 Thread Mark Knecht
I have been having trouble with .doc and .xls files written by OO with documents to go for my palm.. Mike Yes. We tried OO, and even SO, here at work and eventually gave up. It was *compatible*, but not 'compatible'. Most things worked fine, but many existing doc files didn't format

Re: [gentoo-user] env-update

2003-10-30 Thread Vincent Schut
On 2003.10.30 15:56, Mark Knecht wrote: my /etc/make.conf CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu CFLAGS=-O3 -march=athlon-xp -pipe Is this 'capital O'3 or 'zero'3? It's capital O. Cheers, Vincent. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] optimum disk performance

2003-10-30 Thread Redeeman
i would like to know if i could improve too, here is data for my disks (3 disks): hda: [EMAIL PROTECTED] redeeman # hdparm -tT /dev/hda /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 808 MB in 2.01 seconds = 401.99 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 102 MB in 3.05 seconds = 33.44 MB/sec [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] env-update

2003-10-30 Thread mathieu
Le Jeudi 30 Octobre 2003 15:56, Mark Knecht a écrit : my /etc/make.conf CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu CFLAGS=-O3 -march=athlon-xp -pipe CXXFLAGS=${CFLAGS} when i hash CHOST out then i moans about CFLAGS any ideas thanks in parsing, when you've got an error on line N that doesn't go

Re: [gentoo-user] optimum disk performance

2003-10-30 Thread Javier Villavicencio
Just add -a255 (for 2.4 kernels) or -a256(for 2.6 kernels) to increase the readahead of the disk, this is one of the safe parameters of hdparm. Redeeman wrote: i would like to know if i could improve too, here is data for my disks (3 disks): hda: [EMAIL PROTECTED] redeeman # hdparm -tT /dev/hda

Re: [gentoo-user] env-update

2003-10-30 Thread Ryan
cool thanks there was a / at the begining of the file On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 09:01:42 -0600 Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check that the (non-comment) line before CHOST has a ending double quote on it. -Original Message- From: Ryan [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] N00b question. HELP

2003-10-30 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Abilio Carvalho wrote: OK, this is a totally stupid question, but I'm out of ideas. Why the hell does my Gentoo system still play music through the speakers, even though I have friggin headphones plugged in? Is the usual behaviour (i.e. when one plugs in headphones the speakers stop playing)

Re: [gentoo-user] fluxbox not updating time

2003-10-30 Thread Simon Mushi
Yeah, I noticed the same thing toobut I have been running xfce4 for the past week so kinda of forgot about it :) Simon On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Andrew Gaffney wrote: Something weird has been happening lately. Fluxbox used to always show the correct time. Now, it doesn't update the time

Re: [gentoo-user] downloading Yahoo! mail

2003-10-30 Thread Norberto Bensa
Roel Schroeven wrote: That only works if you have a payed Yahoo-account. i didn't have to pay. all i had to do was lie and answer some stupid demographic questions. it *is* a @yahoo.ca account (as opposed to .com) that might be the difference, but i doubt it. That's strange. That

Re: [gentoo-user] Send files to Palm from Gnome?

2003-10-30 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
pilot-xfer should do it Op wo 29-10-2003, om 19:12 schreef Tom Wesley: Hi all, I have added the Pilot applet to the panel, enabled the file transfer conduit, but can't seem to make it work... The FAQ mentions GMC (which I don't have) or the command line option gnome-pilot-install which

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/kernels/default-config

2003-10-30 Thread Doug Weimer
On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 02:16, Guy Van Sanden wrote: Hello everyone What does this file do? is it copied to a new source-tree when downloaded? I'm asking because Im seeing differences in a 2.4.20-r7 kernel I compiled during install, and one I compiled later from the same sources without

Re: [gentoo-user] downloading Yahoo! mail

2003-10-30 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
You have to pay for the POP3 service from Yahoo ... and all the spam that comes with it. Tom Veldhouse - Original Message - From: daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 1:54 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] downloading Yahoo! mail On October 30,

Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice export to pdb

2003-10-30 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
After some googling i found the answer, but i don't know how to silve it with gentoo. It is still possible to activate the export to palm pdb if you do a interactive install. But how is this possible with the ebuild? TIA Patrick Op wo 29-10-2003, om 10:00 schreef [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi,

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo PC, suggestions

2003-10-30 Thread Bryan Whitehead
Arturo di Gioia wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 09:53, Arturo di Gioia wrote: I'm experiencing a rough 35MB/s of sequential read speed with my current ATA133 HD. Two numbers from hdparms, just for very rough comparison /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 888 MB in 2.00 seconds = 442.89

[gentoo-user] Archiving Messages

2003-10-30 Thread Dennis Freise
Hi. This may be a bit offtopic. I'm currently using courier-imapd and exim to receive and sort a number of mailing lists, and I want to keep at least a few months of each list.. The problem is, that courier-imapd gets terribly slow, when a folder reaches about 10.000 messages, but I must admit,

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo PC, suggestions

2003-10-30 Thread Jason Nielsen
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote: On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 14:09:20 +0100 Michael Niethen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /dev/md2: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.17 seconds =775.76 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 0.60 seconds =106.67 MB/sec Time for my

[gentoo-user] Re: hdparm and ide-scsi

2003-10-30 Thread Michael Mauch
Guy Van Sanden wrote: That doesn't seem to exist either: /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/generic: No such file or directory Strange. Stewart's hint is probably much better, then. For the record, I'm booting with hdc=ide-scsi and these kernel settings (2.4.22): # grep _IDE

Re: [gentoo-user] IE on Linux

2003-10-30 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, On Wednesday 29 October 2003 22:27, Andrew Gaffney wrote: Crossover Office uses Wine? If so, shouldn't they have to distribute the source for *free* since Wine is licensed under the GPL? imho the licence changed last year from bsd-style to LGPL because of transgaming. Everything before

Re: [gentoo-user] optimum disk performance

2003-10-30 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, hdparm -d1 -c1 -u1 should be save. The udma level is set by the kernel and should not manipulated by the user. (I do not have to touch hdparm at all, do you have the correct kernel settings?) Glück Auf Volker -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] MSN Gaim , Anyone ?

2003-10-30 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
No error , but i have just installed 0.71-r2 and i can talk again with my windows friends. Patrick Op wo 29-10-2003, om 22:53 schreef Tom Wesley: On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 09:11, Kevin Miller, Jr. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You all should give Kopete a try. I

Re: [gentoo-user] software raid performance (was:optimum disk performance)

2003-10-30 Thread Alan
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 04:17:45PM +0200, Craig Main wrote: Hi all, [..] Figured I'd chime in here with my own question. I have software RAID0 set up on my / partition across hda and hdb, should the throughput of the raid on /dev/md0 be basically double the throughput of the individual disk?

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo speed (mkisofs, redhat-9)

2003-10-30 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
On Thursday 30 October 2003 11:48, Selentek 24331-03 wrote: Hello, Where is 2 system on my computer: gentoo and redhat-9 gentoo kernel: gentoo-sources without any changes gentoo $ mkisofs --version mkisofs 2.01a17 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) gentoo $ hdparm -t /dev/hda /dev/hda:

[gentoo-user] compile

2003-10-30 Thread Ryan
howdie all i am busy installing my amd i have done the chroot and now im trying to get the bootstrap to compile but i keeps giving me a segmentation fault /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: line 1325: 18355 Segmentation fault ./configure --prefix=/usr --host=${CHOST} --mandir=/usr/share/man

Re: [gentoo-user] compile

2003-10-30 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Ryan wrote: howdie all i am busy installing my amd i have done the chroot and now im trying to get the bootstrap to compile but i keeps giving me a segmentation fault /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: line 1325: 18355 Segmentation fault ./configure --prefix=/usr --host=${CHOST} --mandir=/usr/share/man

[gentoo-user] Another 2.4.20-gentoo-r7 and Adaptec 2940 question

2003-10-30 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
I have a adaptec 2940 U2 what SCSI option must i choose in the kerel ? It went terrible wrong with genkernel. Patrick -- Please, Spock, do me a favor ... 'n' don't say it's `fascinating'... No... but it is... interesting... -- Spock PGP Key: http://users.pandora.be/rivendell/marquetp.gpg

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird portage error: invalid db entry?

2003-10-30 Thread Pat Kerwan
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 12:09:06PM +0100, Michel Wilson wrote: Hello, Since a few days, emerge gives me a weird error when doing an emerge -pu world. First, it calculates the dependencies, and spits out the packages it is going to update, just like normally. Then, it comes up with this

[gentoo-user] Symlink of development-sources to /usr/src/linux

2003-10-30 Thread Kevin Miller, Jr.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It is safe for me to do a symlink of my development-sources kernel to /usr/src/linux? I noticed when emerging that my computer cannot find the version number of my kernel. I removed all of my 2.4 kernels since 2.6 performs much better but

Re: [gentoo-user] IE on Linux

2003-10-30 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Is it vanilla Wine or a modified version? HvR wrote: yes with codeweavers wine underneath it also makes linux run office 2000/xp well worth the $50 On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 12:16, Ian Truelsen wrote: /Has anyone managed to get Internet Exploder to install under Linux? I want to be able to test web

Re: [gentoo-user] Switch from RH9 to gentoo

2003-10-30 Thread HvR
i migrated my laptop: created a new parition installed gento onto it, changed my grub.conf and booted into gentoo, never went back, of course you do ned to emerge all the apps you had running on redhat and reconfigure them all. i build my gentoo system while running redhat so that works in the

Re: [gentoo-user] downloading Yahoo! mail

2003-10-30 Thread HvR
i use fetchyahoo works great On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 21:09, Andrew Gaffney wrote: I want to be able to download my Yahoo! mail into Mozilla. I see that in portage there are 2 programs for this: yosucker and fetchyahoo. Which one of them is better, or does it really matter? Also, I want to

RE: [gentoo-user] Another 2.4.20-gentoo-r7 and Adaptec 2940 quest ion

2003-10-30 Thread Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower)
Pretty sure it is aic78xx. I have a 2940 and use it. There is a aic7900, but I would think that is for way newer stuff. -Original Message- From: Patrick Marquetecken [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 1:32 PM To: Gentoo-user Subject: [gentoo-user] Another

Re: [gentoo-user] optimum disk performance

2003-10-30 Thread HvR
here is my set: /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 592 MB in 2.00 seconds = 296.00 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 80 MB in 3.02 seconds = 26.49 MB/sec /dev/hda: multcount = 16 (on) IO_support = 3 (32-bit w/sync) unmaskirq = 0 (off) using_dma = 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off)

[gentoo-user] Sound Juicer

2003-10-30 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
I'm using Sound Juicer to rip some CD's but it skips always one song !! Has anyone seen this also? Patrick -- Please, Spock, do me a favor ... 'n' don't say it's `fascinating'... No... but it is... interesting... -- Spock PGP Key: http://users.pandora.be/rivendell/marquetp.gpg Fingerprint =

Re: [gentoo-user] software raid performance (was:optimum disk performance)

2003-10-30 Thread HvR
see below... On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 10:49, Alan wrote: On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 04:17:45PM +0200, Craig Main wrote: Hi all, [..] Figured I'd chime in here with my own question. I have software RAID0 set up on my / partition across hda and hdb, should the throughput of the raid on /dev/md0

Re: [gentoo-user] optimum disk performance

2003-10-30 Thread gentoo-user
Does forcing UDMA5 using -X69 help any? I tested both ways but didn't notice any difference. Does anyone know of a shell script that will test all the optimal settings? I build a lot of systems and it's a drag always testing different settings. A script that could probe and test a few sets of

[gentoo-user] where to put source binaries to omit downloading them

2003-10-30 Thread Peter S. Mazinger
Hello! I'm gentoo newbie. I want to move to gentoo, starting with portage installed and emerge sync. Because I am a dialup user (analog modem ;-( ) downloading all the sources for building from scratch is not a solution, but I have some of the (big) sources around, that would be needed. Is

Re: [gentoo-user] software raid performance (was:optimum disk performance)

2003-10-30 Thread Alan
/dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 1652 MB in 2.00 seconds = 826.00 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 84 MB in 3.03 seconds = 27.72 MB/sec /dev/hdb: Timing buffer-cache reads: 1664 MB in 2.00 seconds = 832.00 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 94 MB in 3.03

Re: [gentoo-user] where to put source binaries to omit downloading them

2003-10-30 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Peter S. Mazinger wrote: Hello! I'm gentoo newbie. I want to move to gentoo, starting with portage installed and emerge sync. Because I am a dialup user (analog modem ;-( ) downloading all the sources for building from scratch is not a solution, but I have some of the (big) sources around,

Re: [gentoo-user] where to put source binaries to omit downloading them

2003-10-30 Thread Kevin Middleton
All of the source files are located in /usr/portage/distfiles If you put them there, they should not be downloaded. You can prefetch the files (or check to see if they are available) with emerge -f package name On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 15:03, Peter S. Mazinger wrote: Hello! I'm gentoo newbie.

Re: [gentoo-user] where to put source binaries to omit downloading them

2003-10-30 Thread Robert Kruus
It is rumored that on Thu, 30 Oct 2003 21:03:18 +0100 (CET) Peter S. Mazinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! I'm gentoo newbie. I want to move to gentoo, starting with portage installed and emerge sync. Because I am a dialup user (analog modem ;-( ) downloading all the sources for

Re: [gentoo-user] Symlink of development-sources to /usr/src/linux

2003-10-30 Thread Robert Kruus
It is rumored that on Wed, 29 Oct 2003 23:43:59 -0800 Kevin Miller, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It is safe for me to do a symlink of my development-sources kernel to /usr/src/linux? I noticed when emerging that my computer cannot find the

[gentoo-user] Not Sure If This Is The Right Place

2003-10-30 Thread Joseph A. Nagy, Jr.
Is there anyway to get a printer friendly version of the download instructions? I did an okay job of copy and pasting into notepad (Win2K box is only other available machine in the house) but it still looks like crap. -- The only fallacy is the inaction on our part to stave off the worst of

[gentoo-user] More disk performance data

2003-10-30 Thread Matt Garman
Inspired by the recent threads regarding disk performance, I thought I'd do a bit of (informal) benchmarking. I have two machines, an OpenBSD box and a gentoo box. Each has a SCSI drive and an IDE drive. The two IDE drives are the same make and model. All OpenBSD filesystems are FFS and all

Re: [gentoo-user] Symlink of development-sources to /usr/src/linux

2003-10-30 Thread Kevin Miller, Jr.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks Robert. I also got a response at the forums. When I symlink the 2.6 kernel to linux, I no longer had the emerge problems:) Kevin On Thursday 30 October 2003 12:41 pm, Robert Kruus wrote: It is rumored that on Wed, 29 Oct 2003 23:43:59

Re: [gentoo-user] Not Sure If This Is The Right Place

2003-10-30 Thread MadMax
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/index.xml#doc_chap2 Click where it says Printer Friendly :) Cheers, Max. On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 08:07, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote: Is there anyway to get a printer friendly version of the download instructions? I did an okay job of copy and pasting into notepad

Re: [gentoo-user] Not Sure If This Is The Right Place

2003-10-30 Thread Joseph A. Nagy, Jr.
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 07:34:41 +1030, MadMax [EMAIL PROTECTED] responded thusly: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/index.xml#doc_chap2 Click where it says Printer Friendly :) Cheers, Max. snip Doh! I just clicked on the installation instructions link in the left hand column on the main page. Didn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Not Sure If This Is The Right Place

2003-10-30 Thread Ron
On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 16:04, MadMax wrote: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/index.xml#doc_chap2 Click where it says Printer Friendly :) Cheers, Max Thank-you; Joseph for asking, Max for the reply -- Ron [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

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