Re: [gentoo-user] xfs, ext3, jfs, reiserfs

2003-12-12 Thread Hall Stevenson
Redeeman wrote: i am looking for a filesystem where its almost impossible to loose data, i experience power loss quite often A backup UPS might be a better solution dies, i never lost files when i used fat32 I'm not bashing DOS or Windows, but if that's true, you simply *got* *lucky*.

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting the ethernet speed on at 3c59x ethernet card.

2003-12-07 Thread Hall Stevenson
Lincoln A. Baxter wrote: Does any know how to force the speed (10Mbit vs 100Mbit) on the 3c59x ethernet card? http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] gkrellm 1 vs gkrellm 2

2003-11-28 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 01:11 PM 11/28/2003, you wrote: On Friday 28 Nov 2003 17:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 031128 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: gkrellm2 has support for sensors built in. thanx to Peter Ruskin. i bit more poking around shows it does indeed. however, there doesn't seem to be any way of changing the

Re: [gentoo-user] idea for a installer

2003-11-20 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 10:11 AM 11/20/2003, you wrote: i got this idea for a installer. snip be smart if the system got corrupted or for multiply install just an idea, what do you think? What do we think as in our opinions ?? I've personally got NOTHING against text-mode installers myself. Honestly, what benefit

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo internal structure

2003-11-20 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 03:06 PM 11/20/2003, you wrote: brett holcomb wrote: Apology accepted but non-free does not equal warez in any sense of the workd. There is nothing wrong with commerical stuff as many people earn an honest living from it. As well as commercial is not the same as non-free. Outside of Debian,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo internal structure

2003-11-19 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 03:07 PM 11/19/2003, you wrote: This forum's name is fairly illustrative of it's purpose: to discuss issues relating to using the distribution. Before I decide, if I want to use a distribution, I want to know something about it. Here are my questions and I need answers to draw a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo internal structure

2003-11-19 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 04:38 PM 11/19/2003, you wrote: Hall Stevenson wrote: At 03:07 PM 11/19/2003, you wrote: This forum's name is fairly illustrative of it's purpose: to discuss issues relating to using the distribution. Before I decide, if I want to use a distribution, I want to know something about

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo user -- Questions

2003-11-18 Thread Hall Stevenson
You could go with gs-sources as it's based on an even *newer* kernel, 2.4.23_pre8 or pre9. I switched to that and my attempts at getting USB mouse, keyboard, and digital camera went away (not without add'l work, mind you ... that add'l work *may* have worked with an older kernel too). Hall At

Re: [gentoo-user] Syntax to upgrade kernel

2003-11-18 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 12:07 PM 11/18/2003, you wrote: # make clean dep # make bzImage modules # make modules_install # cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-gentoo-r8 I suppose arch/i386/boot/bzImage will be created after make modules_install No, make bzImage actually creates that file. The instructions

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo user -- Questions

2003-11-18 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 03:23 PM 11/18/2003, you wrote: When using gs-sources, is there any way to get genkernel to automagically copy the bzImage to /boot and run make modules_install like it does with the other kernels? You know, I've been using this for years make install It doesn't do 'make modules_install'

Re: [gentoo-user] how hot is too hot

2003-11-17 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 10:02 PM 11/16/2003, you wrote: Thank you everyone for your suggestions and comments. I went out to the site where the box is located and restarted it to get to the BIOS. There, it says the temps were 54C and 52C for the processors. I guess that lm_sensors is just way off. lm-sensors doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] howto? emerge gentoo-test-sources

2003-11-17 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 10:10 AM 11/17/2003, you wrote: tagged as masked I read doc and get pointed to forum on masked packages I read forum on masked packages and do as they say and look in /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask BUT no kernel packages are masked in that file So, what's the trick? I'd like to know also in

Re: [gentoo-user] how hot is too hot

2003-11-16 Thread Hall Stevenson
On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 04:51, Andrew Gaffney wrote: Marshal Newrock wrote: On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, Andrew Gaffney wrote: I have a server that has dual Athlon MP 2200+'s. Each processor has the HSF that came in the package with the processor. I have 2 case fans: one at the front pulling in

Re: [gentoo-user] how hot is too hot

2003-11-16 Thread Hall Stevenson
As others have mentioned, 85C is simply way too hot. The max operating temperature that AMD lists for my Athlon CPU is 75C. I've never seen it go above 50C, by the way. Your BIOS probably has a high-temp warning or safety available, though it not be disabled. If the CPU temp goes above some

Re: [gentoo-user] Genius Optical Wireless USB mouse wheel won't work

2003-11-16 Thread Hall Stevenson
On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 04:46, Alexandru GHERMAN wrote: Hello, I just moved to Gentoo for 2 weeks and I'm very enthusiastic about it. I'll stay with it for a long time. I got everything working but my wheel doesn't want to work. I have a Genius Optical wireless mouse. The mouse is working ok

Re: [gentoo-user] removing color

2003-11-14 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 01:29 AM 11/14/2003, you wrote: Is there a command line program or script I can filter something through to remove color? For example, if I want to run 'emerge' and get output with no color, how can I do this? From memory 'emerge --no-color' Check 'emerge --help' to be sure. It might be

Re: [gentoo-user] removing color

2003-11-14 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 09:36 AM 11/14/2003, you wrote: Hall Stevenson wrote: At 01:29 AM 11/14/2003, you wrote: Is there a command line program or script I can filter something through to remove color? For example, if I want to run 'emerge' and get output with no color, how can I do this? From memory 'emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] removing color

2003-11-14 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 09:38 AM 11/14/2003, you wrote: Spider wrote: begin quote On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 11:18:02 +0100 Norbert Kamenicky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Gaffney wrote: Is there a command line program or script I can filter something through to remove color? For example, if I want to run 'emerge' and

[gentoo-user] Masked packages... again...

2003-11-14 Thread Hall Stevenson
I know to check /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask for files that have been masked, but the package I'm after isn't listed in there. Where else do I look for this stuff ?? I did try ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 and --pretend and the package I'm after shows up. Is that why, 'cause it's considered

Re: [gentoo-user] the problem with ping

2003-11-12 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 02:29 AM 11/12/2003, you wrote: is that it never stops anymore with control-c ... I have to use the kill command to stop it. I'm using net-misc/iputils-020927. Is something wrong with my setup? Nope, unless you think the method that 'ping' on Windows works is correct. On Windows, it pings (4)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Masked package when upgrading world

2003-11-12 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 10:40 AM 11/12/2003, you wrote: On Thursday 13 November 2003 00:17, Eamon Caddigan wrote: Jason Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nice to hear that you got your problem fixed the correct way. For future reference, the file /etc/portage/package.{mask,unmask} are only for adding/ removing

Re: [gentoo-user] X server - no screens found

2003-11-11 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 09:57 AM 11/11/2003, you wrote: Hallo, I've got problem with starting X server, i am getting this error Fatal server error no screens found Using vt7 (EE) No devices detected You need to configure XFree. Try running 'xf86config' as root or look in /etc/X11 for a file called

RE: [gentoo-user] X server - no screens found

2003-11-11 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 11:30 AM 11/11/2003, you wrote: Hall, is this how you solved this problem? simply running the config again? i don't understand how this would fix the problem since you'd want to change to the 'nvidia' driver after running it. Running xf86config should get a *working* X-Windows. Maybe not

Re: [gentoo-user] scaredy cat glibc/downgrade question

2003-11-11 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 01:33 PM 11/11/2003, you wrote: Mike Williams wrote: Hihi, I am wanting to take an ~x86 box back to x86 (without waiting weeks, or months). 99.99% of things I'm not worried about downgrading. But then there is glibc (and possible binutils and gcc). At the moment glibc is 2.3.2-r8 with stable

Re: [gentoo-user] newbie: cd-writing, spam assasin and date/time

2003-11-11 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 03:13 PM 11/11/2003, you wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 11 November 2003 19:49, Hall Stevenson wrote: 3)Right-clicking on the date-time panel in Gnome and clicking Adjust.. throws the error message: Failed to locate a program for configuring date and time

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage seems to be against my will

2003-11-11 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 03:19 PM 11/11/2003, you wrote: I used to have simgear and flightgear installed for some time but last week I unemerged them. However when I make emerge -up --deep world now I get [ebuild N] dev-games/simgear-0.3.4 [ebuild N] games-simulation/flightgear-0.9.3 as the last lines

Re: [gentoo-user] newbie: cd-writing, spam assasin and date/time

2003-11-11 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 09:27 PM 11/11/2003, you wrote: It's Mail-SpamAssassin. Doing an emerge --search spamassassin would find it. Something like emerge --search spam or emerge --search assassin likely would also. I tried vanilla Mail-SpamAssassin which didn't give anything. However, on doing a search on 'spam'

RE: [gentoo-user] Portage seems to be against my will

2003-11-11 Thread Hall Stevenson
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 16:34, Jeffrey Smelser wrote: # nano /var/cache/edb/world Remove the lines containing simgear and flightgear from that file. That's all. :) Is this a bug in emerge/portage or is it too random to track down ?? I had a similar issue last week with

Re: [gentoo-user] Masked package when upgrading world

2003-11-10 Thread Hall Stevenson
On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 23:14, Eamon Caddigan wrote: I have only two masked packages installed, but they're causing me trouble when updating world. I'm using Tcl and Tk 8.4.4, and the following happens: -- begin: emerge -pvUD world --upgradeonly implies --update... adding --update to

Re: [gentoo-user] Gaim smilies animated or not

2003-11-10 Thread Hall Stevenson
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 06:24, Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos wrote: Hi all, I have two gentoo systems. One has Gaim for a long time and it has very nice animated smilies and I just emerged gaim and gaim-smilies on the other one. Both have the same latest version of both ebuilds.

Re: [gentoo-user] big binaries ?

2003-11-10 Thread Hall Stevenson
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 03:28, Oliver Lange wrote: Hello everybody, Is it normal that executables compiled with GCC 3 for Athlon-XP are so much bigger than pre-compiled binaries from RPMs (i compiled my binaries using -fomit-frame-pointer) ? This is sometimes a trade-off of compiling packages

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Masked package when upgrading world

2003-11-10 Thread Hall Stevenson
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 09:47, Eamon Caddigan wrote: Hall Stevenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 23:14, Eamon Caddigan wrote: I have only two masked packages installed, but they're causing me trouble when updating world. I'm using Tcl and Tk 8.4.4, and the following

RE: [gentoo-user] assigning net.eth? to specific nethwork devices

2003-11-10 Thread Hall Stevenson
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 10:08, Jeffrey Smelser wrote: You can autoload the module on boot in the order you want them to be. /etc/modules.autoload is a good start. I have a wired and wireless nic on my laptop, I've noticed the wireless nic sometimes get eth0 and other times eth1. Is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: assigning net.eth? to specific nethwork devices

2003-11-10 Thread Hall Stevenson
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 10:48, Eamon Caddigan wrote: Jeffrey Smelser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can autoload the module on boot in the order you want them to be. /etc/modules.autoload is a good start. Out of curiosity, what's the difference between /etc/modules.autoload and

Re: [gentoo-user] File transfer with SSH

2003-11-10 Thread Hall Stevenson
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 11:19, Stephen Liu wrote: H Mike, MAL, Alberto and others scp remote:file localfile # user will be the user being used scp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:file [EMAIL PROTECTED]:file scp is part of openssh. # epm -q scp/sftp could not find them on Gentoo box # emerge search

Re: [gentoo-user] Gaim smilies animated or not

2003-11-10 Thread Hall Stevenson
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 11:11, Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos wrote: On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 13:49, Hall Stevenson wrote: On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 06:24, Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos wrote: Hi all, I have two gentoo systems. One has Gaim for a long time and it has

Re: [gentoo-user] Invalid db entry ??

2003-11-10 Thread Hall Stevenson
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 12:00, Lindsay Haisley wrote: From time to time I get the following message when emerging a package. What does it mean, and what sort of action should I take to correct it? Auto-cleaning packages ... !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/*sys-fs/devfsd!!! Invalid db

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Selection

2003-11-10 Thread Hall Stevenson
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 16:31, Mike Hogsett wrote: Ok. So I have read Gentoo Linux Kernel Guide. I want to know, if I elect to `emerge' a kernel other than gentoo-sources do I still use `genkernel' to build it? If so, how do I tell `genkernel' which kernel I want it to build If you haven't

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for gentoo for dummies

2003-11-09 Thread Hall Stevenson
On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 16:07, brian connolly wrote: I've tried seven or more distros in the last week. The conclusion: I am really looking for the gentoo philosophy and sophistication. I want a platform that is optimized for best practices and best tools. However, I am a newbie. As hard as

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for gentoo for dummies

2003-11-09 Thread Hall Stevenson
On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 16:31, Azhdeen wrote: if you tried seven distros in the last week, you're not a total beginner... Nothing against the original poster, but if one tries (7) distros in one week, how much time can possibly be spent with each one ?? Hall -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Querying the Portage database

2003-11-09 Thread Hall Stevenson
On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 18:23, Thomas Smith wrote: I'm new to Gentoo (switching from RH9) and have become used to RPMs and their query tools. I've been looking for a way to query the Portage database to determine what's installed and get general info regarding the packages--I'm looking for

Re: [gentoo-user] stupid newbie question on where network interfaces are defined

2003-11-08 Thread Hall Stevenson
On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 14:16, Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: -- quoting Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC -- On debian it is in /etc/network/interfaces on FreeBSD it is in /etc/rc.conf What about gentoo? /etc/conf.d/net That's one of the few things I don't like in

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 1.4 on a hp6100

2003-11-08 Thread Hall Stevenson
On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 16:57, Goran Kavrecic wrote: I've tried to install Gentoo 1.4 on my hp6100. But failed 3 times following 3+GRP procedures. I'm (pretty) sure I've done everything as described. Does anyone has a succesfull story on such machine? Advices also welcome. What's an HP6100

Re: [gentoo-user] Lilo warning message

2003-11-08 Thread Hall Stevenson
On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 17:13, Stefano Carraro wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, when i run lilo, i've got this message: Warning: Int 0x13 function 8 and function 0x48 return different head/sector geometries for BIOS drive 0x80 fn 08: 1023 cylinders, 255 heads,

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot logo

2003-11-08 Thread Hall Stevenson
On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 19:55, SMS WebMaster wrote: Hi 1. How can I make linux display a logo when it boot ? 2. How can I make linux display a big logo in all the script so it hide the init (like in windows when it start) One of Gentoo's FAQ: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=54027

Re: [gentoo-user] Word wrap non-html

2003-11-07 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 08:24 AM 11/7/2003, you wrote: On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 19:05, Hall Stevenson wrote: On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 18:59, daniel wrote: On November 6, 2003 10:32 am, Hall Stevenson wrote: I don't know if it's possible for the list-server to handle either of these cases. Stripping HTML messages

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is /var full?

2003-11-07 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 06:07 AM 11/7/2003, you wrote: /var/tmp/{distfiles,portage,portage-pkg} ? You can delete this. Really ?? I know you can safely delete /var/tmp/distfiles, but I've always left the others alone. They do just appear to be directories though with just one file, .ebuild ?? Not to go off-topic

Re: [gentoo-user] How to handle 50 files in ... need updating.?

2003-11-07 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 12:05 PM 11/7/2003, you wrote: --- Karl-Heinz Zimmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: after a world update now I got more than 50 config files needing updating and I am wondering if there might be a BETTER way of doing this - better than the usual manually diffing of each single file to see if I

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is /var full?

2003-11-07 Thread Hall Stevenson
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 22:24, Matt Chorman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 07 November 2003 05:42 am, Hall Stevenson wrote: Really ?? I know you can safely delete /var/tmp/distfiles, but I've always left the others alone. They do just appear to be directories

Re: [gentoo-user] fstab problem

2003-11-06 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 07:46 AM 11/6/2003, you wrote: Can anyone please give me some advice as to how to read FreeBSD partitions under Linux? I've tried various options for the ufstype as outlined in the manpages for mount fstab, but without success. /dev/hdb3 is a 20gig partition on which I've installed a

Re: [gentoo-user] Asus A7N8X-Deluxe - What kernel works?

2003-11-06 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 08:51 AM 11/6/2003, you wrote: I'm trying to do an install, but so far I cannot seem to build a kernel that boots. What makes you think this is a kernel/motherboard issue ?? That is a very popular motherboard so I don't think there's any major conflicts or incompatibilities with it. When you

Re: [gentoo-user] Asus A7N8X-Deluxe - What kernel works?

2003-11-06 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 09:05 AM 11/6/2003, you wrote: My reasoning on the kernel I'm building being the problem is that the kernel on the LiveCD does boot, but the kernels I build all hang at the step where it finds the Silison Image SATA chip. From a thread I was doing yesterday, the LiveCD kernel does this: You

Re: [gentoo-user] Word wrap non-html

2003-11-06 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 10:11 AM 11/6/2003, you wrote: It would be really nice if everyone on this list would use the word wrap feature of their e-mail program, and also not send their e-mails in html. This list has been fairly nice about it, but in most linux lists they will take your heads off if you send stuff

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) Doom

2003-11-06 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 12:37 PM 11/6/2003, you wrote: On Thu, 6 Nov 2003 10:14:27 -0600 Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought doom, doom2, and quake were released as freeware. In which case it would be ok just to offer the cds for free download... code was released as GPL != freeware.

Re: [gentoo-user] Asus A7N8X-Deluxe - What kernel works?

2003-11-06 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 12:11 PM 11/6/2003, you wrote: On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 08:57:44AM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: At 08:51 AM 11/6/2003, you wrote: I'm trying to do an install, but so far I cannot seem to build a kernel that boots. What makes you think this is a kernel/motherboard issue ?? That is a very

Re: [gentoo-user] Word wrap non-html

2003-11-06 Thread Hall Stevenson
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 18:59, daniel wrote: On November 6, 2003 10:32 am, Hall Stevenson wrote: I don't know if it's possible for the list-server to handle either of these cases. Stripping HTML messages into text seems possible, but at what overhead cost ?? it would be nice though

[gentoo-user] Fwd: Debian Weekly News - November 4th, 2003

2003-11-05 Thread Hall Stevenson
I know this was a popular topic in the past week or so. Now the Debian people know about and might be able to claim some bragging rights... :-) --- Debian Weekly News http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2003/44/ Debian Weekly

Re: [gentoo-user] Recompiled kernel - How do i get nvidia eth0 support back?

2003-11-05 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 06:14 AM 11/5/2003, you wrote: The driver is in the package nforce-net. emerge nforce-net should do the trick. Excellent. That worked great. Is there an easy / simple way to see the list of packages? I mean...does portage have a text or gui interface more sophisticated than a directory

Re: [gentoo-user] How to emerge so that it recompiles all installed packages ?

2003-11-05 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 01:47 PM 11/5/2003, you wrote: Does anyone know how to make (or force) 'emerge' in recompiling every installed package? try $ emerge -p world Wait, I thought the -p option was for pretend, as in don't do it, just tell me would get done. Hall -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] How to emerge so that it recompiles all installed packages ?

2003-11-05 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 02:01 PM 11/5/2003, you wrote: At 01:47 PM 11/5/2003, you wrote: Does anyone know how to make (or force) 'emerge' in recompiling every installed package? try $ emerge -p world Wait, I thought the -p option was for pretend, as in don't do it, just tell me would get done. yeah??

RE: [gentoo-user] First Install

2003-11-05 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 04:01 PM 11/5/2003, you wrote: The make modules step on my box, a NForce2 with an Athlon-XP 2500+ easily took 15-20 minutes, and possibly 30. I'm not sure. I think genkernel builds more stuff than I might if I did the kernel by hand, and I'm assuming your laptop is not faster than my desktop.

Re: [gentoo-user] First Install

2003-11-05 Thread Hall Stevenson
On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 21:10, Mike Hogsett wrote: The make modules step on my box, ...Athlon-XP 2500+ easily took 15-20 minutes I'm not using genkernel here and just did a 'make bzImage'. Not sure if Setup and or System sizes tell you if my kernel is heavy on stuff compiled in or built as

RE: [gentoo-user] Operating System not Found

2003-11-04 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 11:21 PM 11/3/2003, you wrote: OK so wait - you say to NOT have /boot mounted during normal use. Does normal use include compiling a new kernel? First let me clarify that I USED to have /boot mounted all the time. When I tried Gentoo, the install docs suggest that it's not necessary and I

Re: [gentoo-user] Operating System not Found

2003-11-04 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 09:49 AM 11/4/2003, you wrote: On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 22:09:56 +0800 William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not sure what it is about gentoo but I have lost /boot a couple of times now when shutdown with it mounted (mounts as ext3, runs as ext2 on boot). Never happened on Mandrake

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot mount DVD's

2003-11-04 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 02:11 PM 11/4/2003, you wrote: Hello I just discovered that I can't mount DVD's with Gentoo. I'm on Gentoo 1.4 kernel 2.4.20 (gentoo-sources-r8) The drive is an LG IDE and works with the discs I tried under Mandrake. Both Mandrake and Gentoo use ide-scsi for this device. I get the message no

Re: [gentoo-user] xlib error

2003-11-04 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 02:09 PM 11/4/2003, you wrote: On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 10:48:48 -0800, Collins Richey muttered: Before issuing 'su', as your normal user, you must issue 'xhost +localhost' in order to allow the root user to have access to the display. This is considered a security exposure, so as soon as you

RE: [gentoo-user] cannot mount DVD's

2003-11-04 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 02:12 PM 11/4/2003, you wrote: I just discovered that I can't mount DVD's with Gentoo. I'm on Gentoo 1.4 kernel 2.4.20 (gentoo-sources-r8) The drive is an LG IDE and works with the discs I tried under Mandrake. Both Mandrake and Gentoo use ide-scsi for this device. I get the message no

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xlib error

2003-11-04 Thread Hall Stevenson
On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 23:22, Jonathan Singer wrote: Andrew Farmer: Use xauth properly instead: run `xauth list' as user, run `xauth add' with the output as root. This works for me, but needs to be repeated each time X restarts. Hall Stevenson: I've got what's supposedly the proper

[gentoo-user] emerge grabbing wrong packages

2003-11-04 Thread Hall Stevenson
Okay, a few days ago I emerged the 2.6 kernel to take a look at. I did NOT install it and have since un-emerged it. Problem is, now when I compile my current kernel (linux-2.4.23_pre8-gss) and then run emerge -k nvidia-kernel nvidia-glx, emerge wants to grab the wrong packages. Look at what this

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge grabbing wrong packages

2003-11-04 Thread Hall Stevenson
On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 02:39, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: What does /usr/src/linux link to? That was the first thing I thought of myself... :) linux - /usr/src/linux-2.4.23_pre8-gss That's correct for my system. Thanks Hall -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge grabbing wrong packages

2003-11-04 Thread Hall Stevenson
On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 02:43, Doug Weimer wrote: On Tuesday 04 November 2003 04:27, you wrote: Okay, a few days ago I emerged the 2.6 kernel to take a look at. I did NOT install it and have since un-emerged it. emerge --pretend nvidia-kernel These are the packages that I would

RE: [gentoo-user] Operating System not Found

2003-11-03 Thread Hall Stevenson
On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 02:40, Brent L Johnson wrote: It's almost like it cant find grub in the MBR or something. I just recompiled the kernel again, re-ran grub with root(hd0,0) and setup(hd0) (which are the same settings I did before when initially setting the system up). Should I have to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: damned usb mouse again

2003-11-03 Thread Hall Stevenson
On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 00:07, Michael Mauch wrote: Hall Stevenson wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 13:57, Roberto Padovani wrote: mine is exactly the same, though i think that the problem is somewhat above X, since # cat /dev/input/mice doesn't show any understanig of my

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo up and running

2003-11-01 Thread Hall Stevenson
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 07:55, Joseph Eaton wrote: I think I will wipe the system and start over again. I started from stage 1. Next time will be stage 3. On old hardware such as yours, taking 14 days, give or take a couple because of first-time mistakes, that's just unreasonable. I agree

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: damned usb mouse again

2003-11-01 Thread Hall Stevenson
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 13:57, Roberto Padovani wrote: hi all! you don't have the usbmouse module installed. -Paul use *either* USBMOUSE or HID Hall right guys, i picked hid because knoppix recognizes and can use my mouse without any problem and lsmod gives: I tried *again* last

RE: [gentoo-user] secure live cd?

2003-10-31 Thread Hall Stevenson
On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 16:21, Jeffrey Smelser wrote: I am thinking. If you boot into live cd, you don't have anything running so you don't really need to do anything. I have never used the live cd, so I am not sure if sshd is on there.. If so, you can look at /etc/sshd_config and there is a

Re: [gentoo-user] damned usb mouse again

2003-10-31 Thread Hall Stevenson
On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 18:04, Paul Kimberley wrote: Hi, I had the same problem when i tried to install my logitech optial mouse. you don't have the usbmouse module installed. You will probably have to recompile your kernel and enable it. The Desktop Configuration Guide says to use

Re: [gentoo-user] damned usb mouse again

2003-10-31 Thread Hall Stevenson
On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 18:22, Matt Chorman wrote: On Thursday 30 October 2003 05:22 pm, Hall Stevenson wrote: The Desktop Configuration Guide says to use *either* USBMOUSE or HID, but not both. I'd guess HID is often enabled and if people don't disable it, they'll have problems. I've

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] 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: [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 can

Re: [gentoo-user] MozillaFirebird: error message

2003-10-29 Thread Hall Stevenson
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 03:46, Al Raq wrote: Any one can tell me what does this message mean and how I can execute MozillaFirebird again. The error message is: $ MozillaFirebird INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: Expected a version 5! Version = 4 System error?:: Interrupted system call Did

RE: [gentoo-user] mozilla 1.5 issues

2003-10-29 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 09:14 AM 10/29/2003, you wrote: Is there a way to launch mozilla with debugging option? The normal mozilla source package most likely has a debug configure option. Not sure if the Gentoo build does or not... Try 'etcat -u mozilla' and see if it lists it. If so, enable it and re-build mozilla.

Re: [gentoo-user] MozillaFirebird: error message

2003-10-29 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 02:02 PM 10/29/2003, you wrote: On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 07:03:41PM +, Hall Stevenson wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 03:46, Al Raq wrote: Any one can tell me what does this message mean and how I can execute MozillaFirebird again. The error message is: $ MozillaFirebird INTERNAL

RE: [gentoo-user] an idea

2003-10-28 Thread Hall Stevenson
what I read. gs stands for gentoo stable and this kernel is more suitable for a production environment than the rest. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-kernel.xml -Nathan -Original Message- From: Hall Stevenson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 12:35 AM To: [EMAIL

RE: [gentoo-user] an idea

2003-10-28 Thread Hall Stevenson
I've only been using Gentoo for a few weeks. I've tried different kernels in that time and have been happily using gs-sources. It's the newest available, I think. Anyway, in these three weeks, I started with pre6 and less than a week ago, a pre7 became available. While researching my last

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome/Mozilla install problem

2003-10-28 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 10:52 AM 10/28/2003, you wrote: On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 23:09:39 -0800, Spider muttered: As you see in the message, you need to run : export USE=gtk2 emerge mozilla Uh, no. That'll emerge all the following packages with gtk2 as well, which could cause havoc with packages that don't have gtk2

Re: [gentoo-user] Fixed - Re: [gentoo-user] Getting KDM to read ~/.xsession

2003-10-28 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 01:02 PM 10/28/2003, you wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - From the forums it looks like you have to edit /etc/X11/Sessions/ kde-3.1.4 and source the ~/.xsession. Rather irrating to have to do this yourself. % cat /etc/X11/Sessions/kde-3.1.4 #!/bin/sh if [ -r

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome/Mozilla install problem

2003-10-28 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 12:34 PM 10/28/2003, you wrote: On 2003.10.28 11:49, Hall Stevenson wrote: At 10:52 AM 10/28/2003, you wrote: On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 23:09:39 -0800, Spider muttered: As you see in the message, you need to run : export USE=gtk2 emerge mozilla Uh, no. That'll emerge all the following packages

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is my disc space

2003-10-27 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 03:24 PM 10/27/2003, you wrote: That was all I got. On other distro I will have /dev/hde3 .. /dev/hde1 .. /dev/hde5 ... etc. I can't understand why Some distros decide for you that you need a /boot partition, a /var partition, a /usr partition, a /home partition, and so on...

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is my disc space

2003-10-27 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 09:56 AM 10/27/2003, you wrote: Hi Hall, /dev/hde3 .. /dev/hde1 .. /dev/hde5 ... etc. I can't understand why Some distros decide for you that you need a /boot partition, a /var partition, a /usr partition, a /home partition, and so on... Other distros, like Gentoo, let you

Re: [gentoo-user] (URGENT) Installing CD Burner question

2003-10-27 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 10:55 AM 10/27/2003, you wrote: If the file system is reiser, try reiserfsck --rebuild-sb [root@(none) /]# reiserfsck --rebuild-sb /dev/hde3 super.c 309 rebuild_sb rebuils_sb: cannot open device /dev/hde3 Are you sure that hde3 is the right device ?? How many hard drives do you have in this

Re: [gentoo-user] RISC

2003-10-27 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 02:51 PM 10/27/2003, you wrote: Hej fellows! Do anybody use any RISC processors? Just curious :] I've got a Sparc20 with Debian on it. Just did to see if I could Hall -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple versions of packages installed ??

2003-10-27 Thread Hall Stevenson
On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 18:51, Renat Golubchyk wrote: On Saturday 25 October 2003 16:31, Hall Stevenson wrote: snip Any way to check for multiple versions of a package ?? I'll be off R'ing TFM in the meantime. From qpkg --help last lines: Examples: qpkg --dups print

Re: [gentoo-user] an idea

2003-10-27 Thread Hall Stevenson
On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 22:30, blade- wrote: i use the gs sources, had an update today and a few days ago The gs-sources track a pre kernel. It's similar to the 2.6 kernel in that it gets frequent updates. It's also a patched/custom kernel and any change to the patches would require a kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Video Mode error on boot

2003-10-25 Thread Hall Stevenson
On Saturday 25 October 2003 09:05, Alan Watson wrote: When I boot Linux I get the message You passed an undefined mode number I am then asked to hit space to continue or enter to select a video mode. When I hit enter I am presented with: Video Adapter: VESA VGA Mode: COLSxROWS 0 0F00

Re: [gentoo-user] lm sensors nforce 2 based mother boards

2003-10-25 Thread Hall Stevenson
On Saturday 25 October 2003 05:38, rh wrote: Since sensor monitoring is the last thing on my nforce2 board that I have to get to work under gentoo, I gave mbmon a try as nothing I could do would get gkrellm to detect the sensors. I just got gkrellm working a few days ago to show my CPU, MB,

[gentoo-user] Multiple versions of packages installed ??

2003-10-25 Thread Hall Stevenson
I was just looking at what packages I had installed while helping someone and noticed I've got two versions of gkrellm installed, v2.1.20 and v1.2.13. Both have * after their names and I assume that means installed. I just checked and the gkrellm that's running is the older one. Why does

Re: [gentoo-user] CONFIG_PIIX_TUNING is hiding

2003-10-25 Thread Hall Stevenson
On Saturday 25 October 2003 13:45, William Kenworthy wrote: Can someone tell me where CONFIG_PIIX_TUNING is hiding in the linux-2.4.23_pre7-gss kernel. CONFIG_DEV_PIIX is there, but tuning is not. I just grep'd my .config file and only CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PIIX shows up. Is that 'tuning' option a

Re: [gentoo-user] CONFIG_PIIX_TUNING is hiding

2003-10-25 Thread Hall Stevenson
On Saturday 25 October 2003 13:45, William Kenworthy wrote: Can someone tell me where CONFIG_PIIX_TUNING is hiding in the linux-2.4.23_pre7-gss kernel. CONFIG_DEV_PIIX is there, but tuning is not. A Google search on 'config_piix_tuning turns up the answer in the first link:

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