Re: [gentoo-user] mysterious lockups

2005-02-17 Thread Matt Garman
the same hardware, with which I use the same kernel, etc. X11 does seem to lock up from time to time on this machine, but I can still ssh in and kill/reset processes as needed. Thanks again! Matt -- Matt Garman email at: http://raw-sewage.net/index.php?file=email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] OT software to block IPs automatically?

2005-02-11 Thread Matt Garman
the sequence and open port 22. Like I said, I don't have any firsthand experience with such a tool, but I've always thought it sounds incredibly clever. Maybe someone around here has some experience with port knocking and can offer some more insight. Good luck! Matt -- Matt Garman email at: http

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem Choice

2005-02-10 Thread Matt Garman
interesting study if you have the time! Matt -- Matt Garman email at: http://raw-sewage.net/index.php?file=email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Which Graphics Card?

2005-02-08 Thread Matt Garman
anyone out there have a Matrox g550, who can comment on it's hardware 3D support? Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman email at: http://raw-sewage.net/index.php?file=email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] mysterious lockups

2005-02-06 Thread Matt Garman
something as nebulous as this? Thank you for any ideas or suggestions, Matt -- Matt Garman email at: http://raw-sewage.net/index.php?file=email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] can't get rw permissions on nfs mount

2005-01-11 Thread Matt Garman
! Thank you, Matt -- Matt Garman email at: http://raw-sewage.net/index.php?file=email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: just a comment

2004-02-24 Thread Matt Garman
astounding how robust the support is. I've seen OSS projects that have more structured support facilities and bug tracking than I have at work. Just my thoughts (this is my feel good message for the day :) Matt -- Matt Garman email at: http://raw-sewage.net/index.php?file=email -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Win NT 2k

2004-02-13 Thread Matt Garman
of accountability OSS needs to combat the naysayers (and anti-OSS FUD). Sorry, I'm starting to rant/ramble/daydream :) Matt -- Matt Garman email at: http://raw-sewage.net/index.php?file=email -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Win NT 2k

2004-02-13 Thread Matt Garman
On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 02:02:54PM -0800, Eric Paynter wrote: Matt Garman said: This would serve a huge purpose for OSS: accountability, and and easy means to verify source code (who made it, where it came from, etc, etc). The intent is to help OSS prove that it is legitimate, to avoid

Re: [gentoo-user] bulloney 2.6.X benchmarks

2004-02-11 Thread Matt Garman
to the ACPI situation now, but haven't bothered to get the full story. Does anyone happen to have a good link discussing the ACPI? When you suggest disabling ACPI, do you mean in the Linux kernel or in the BIOS? Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman email at: http://raw-sewage.net/index.php?file=email

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I open my port 80?

2004-02-11 Thread Matt Garman
, for example) to see if you can connect to that. I don't know about mini_httpd, but many applications can be compiled with tcpd (tcp wrappers), in which case they'll look at /etc/hosts.allow, /etc/hosts.deny (I think) to see who can and cannot connect to that service. Hope that helps! Matt -- Matt

[gentoo-user] sensors -s: can't access /proc file for writing

2004-02-06 Thread Matt Garman
causing the problem? Thanks! Matt -- Matt Garman email at: http://raw-sewage.net/index.php?file=email -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] i2c device creation?

2004-02-04 Thread Matt Garman
, but apparently not. So I extracted the archive /usr/portage/distfiles/i2c-2.8.1.tar.gz. The prog directory is empty, though (even after doing a make). Does anyone happen to know how I can get these i2c devices created? Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman email at: http://raw-sewage.net/index.php?file=email

[gentoo-user] openbsd partitions, grub

2004-02-04 Thread Matt Garman
the partition table from fdisk. Plus, I have no /dev/hda[1-4] devices. What are the chances I ruined the partition table of the IDE drive while I was playing with grub? Is there anything else I can do to further diagnose the problem and/or get at the data on that drive? Thanks! Matt -- Matt Garman email

Re: [gentoo-user] i2c device creation?

2004-02-04 Thread Matt Garman
On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 12:10:30PM -0500, Alex Nelson wrote: Matt Garman wrote: However, when I run sensors-detect, it says the following: No i2c device files found. Use prog/mkdev/mkdev.sh to create them. If you are running a 2.6.x kernel, make sure you have the i2c-dev module loaded

Re: [gentoo-user] office (or at least excel)

2004-01-30 Thread Matt Garman
on the university. Thanx. :o) Check out gnumeric, it's a standalone spreadsheet program. I'm not sure if it's under 20 MB or not, since it requires the GNOME library. Hope that helps, Matt -- Matt Garman email at: http://raw-sewage.net/index.php?file=email -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Command Line Mail Clients?

2004-01-29 Thread Matt Garman
client as well. mh (and nmh) are other command-line mail programs. I'm not sure if they support gnupg or not. Personally, I use mutt. Matt -- Matt Garman email at: http://raw-sewage.net/index.php?file=email -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 or Dual Athlon or Other? Motherboard suggestions?

2004-01-21 Thread Matt Garman
HSFs aren't known for their quietness. shrug Just curious :) Matt -- Matt Garman email at: http://raw-sewage.net/index.php?file=email -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] ipchains: firewall, nat, gateway...

2004-01-21 Thread Matt Garman
/en/gentoo-security.xml#doc_chap12_pre5 [4] http://shorewall.sourceforge.net/ -- Matt Garman email at: http://raw-sewage.net/index.php?file=email -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] arts-1.1.5 emerge failure

2004-01-19 Thread Matt Garman
forget to install libstdc++-devel ? !!! ERROR: kde-base/arts-1.1.5 failed. !!! Function kde_src_compile, Line 117, Exitcode 1 !!! died running ./configure, kde_src_compile:configure Any thoughts or ideas? Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman email at: http://raw-sewage.net/index.php?file=email -- [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] font availability in gvim

2004-01-09 Thread Matt Garman
that matches my xterm which I have been staring at every day for at least 10 years. My solution was to set USE=-gtk2 and rebuild gvim. Yup, that fixed it! Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman email at: http://raw-sewage.net/index.php?file=email -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] font availability in gvim

2004-01-08 Thread Matt Garman
, MozillaFirebird, konqueror, etc) do not have any apparent font problems. Any thoughts? Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman email at: http://raw-sewage.net/index.php?file=email -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] partition restructuring

2003-12-26 Thread Matt Garman
? I have another 120 GB drive in a second computer; I could just use rsync to make a backup of everything, then go to work with fdisk if that would be safer and/or faster. Thanks for any thoughts! Matt -- Matt Garman email at: http://raw-sewage.net/index.php?file=email -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

[gentoo-user] LAN performance issues

2003-12-06 Thread Matt Garman
the problem. Anyone have any ideas, thoughts, hints, suggestions, etc? Thanks, Matt [1] http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html -- Matt Garman email at: http://raw-sewage.net/index.php?file=email -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc 3

2003-12-06 Thread Matt Garman
. Look at it this way, C++ is a *superset* of C. You can call C functions from C++. But you can't call C++ code from C without writing some C++ that allows you to do that. Hope that helps, Matt -- Matt Garman email at: http://raw-sewage.net/index.php?file=email -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] what will happen..

2003-12-06 Thread Matt Garman
, etc, etc. Of course there will be a few gems that get lost, but overall, there's more for everyone. And even if a good project does die, being open source means that there's not all this political cruft attached to it. Anyone can pick up a dead project and bring it back to life. MG -- Matt

Re: [gentoo-user] LAN performance issues

2003-12-06 Thread Matt Garman
certainly aren't a bottleneck. Thanks for the idea though! Matt -- Matt Garman email at: http://raw-sewage.net/index.php?file=email -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] LAN performance issues

2003-12-06 Thread Matt Garman
speeds are all essentially the same using various protocols. Thus far I've used the following methods to transfer files: - http - sftp/scp (encryption overhead doesn't seem to impact performance) - rsync - samba Thanks again! Matt -- Matt Garman email

[gentoo-user] per-user package administration

2003-12-02 Thread Matt Garman
While daydreaming during a boring meeting, I was thinking how nice it would be to have a Linux box at work (currently I have only a Win2k machine). However, I'm so used to having root that if I got a Linux machine at work, I'd probably only have normal user access. In the past, on the various

Re: [gentoo-user] update: c++ performance: gentoo, debian, window s

2003-11-24 Thread Matt Garman
On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 08:44:44AM -0600, Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower) wrote: That is weird. A compiler should generate the same code whether it is optimized or unoptimized. It would be interesting to hear an explanation from the gcc folk as to what causes this. I think it had more to do

[gentoo-user] update: c++ performance: gentoo, debian, windows

2003-11-21 Thread Matt Garman
A while back I posted a message talking about the performance differences of a c++ program I wrote on gentoo and debian. In the end, I chalked up the performance degrade on gentoo to my having built gcc with too many optimizations. When I recompiled gcc with more conservative settings, my

Re: [gentoo-user] arrow keys in dosemu

2003-11-20 Thread Matt Garman
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 07:36:50AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: Interesting. I was running a standard xterm yesterday when I tested, so following on I just tried dosemu under Eterm. The arrow keys work, but the Alt key doesn't, so I cannot get back to the menu when I try to get out of FreeDOS

Re: [gentoo-user] arrow keys in dosemu

2003-11-20 Thread Matt Garman
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 08:59:47AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interesting to know about xdosemu. I'll try that out. One question - how do you cleanly exit for dosemu? I didn't find a command to shut it down, other than just killing it which probably isn;t the right thing to do. I used

Re: [gentoo-user] arrow keys in dosemu

2003-11-13 Thread Matt Garman
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 01:07:25PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: Possibly this has something to do with the keyboard driver you are calling, or the specific keyboard you are using, and not dosemu itself? In my initial post, I was running dosemu under aterm (within X obviously). I also tried it

[gentoo-user] any Opteron/Athlon 64 gentoo users?

2003-11-13 Thread Matt Garman
I was just curious if anyone on this list is running gentoo on an AMD64 platform, and what the results have been. I'm interested in the stability and performance you're seeing. Are compile times affected? How does the machine feel? Any other interesting comments? Just thought that might make

[gentoo-user] arrow keys in dosemu

2003-11-12 Thread Matt Garman
Does anyone out there happen to use dosemu? If so, did you have to do anything special to get your arrow keys to work? It appears that dosemu is interpreting the arrow keys (right, left, up, down) as an escape key. If I use the edit program, and I invoke the menus at the top of the screen, I

[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] no fullscreen with mplayer

2003-10-23 Thread Matt Garman
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 06:49:05PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 12:29:33 -0500 Matt Garman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Has anyone ever seen anything like this? Any ideas on what might be | wrong? mplayer fullscreen has issues with fluxbox. Upgrading to mplayer pre1

[gentoo-user] no fullscreen with mplayer

2003-10-22 Thread Matt Garman
I have the following mplayer merged on my system: mplayer --version MPlayer 0.92-3.2.3 (C) 2000-2003 MPlayer Team CPU: Advanced Micro Devices (Family: 6, Stepping: 0) Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0 Compiled for x86 CPU with

Re: [gentoo-user] MultiThreaded music rippers (was: iTunes on linux?)

2003-10-21 Thread Matt Garman
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 01:50:44PM +0200, Sigurd Stordal wrote: now theres a question. is there any app that i can use to rip 2 cds at once? i have 2 CD rom drives and 2 CPUs and enough memory (1gb) so i think Well you could use two instances of grip, and set the cdrom device in the

[gentoo-user] slightly OT: c++ performance: gentoo vs. debian

2003-10-21 Thread Matt Garman
I just got a new hard disk and installed gentoo on it. I've got a c++ development project that I was working on that runs noticeably slower on my gentoo box than it did on under my debian unstable installation. I basically wrote a CSV file reader in C++. The implementation uses a vector of

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: How many of you are 100% Linux?

2003-10-21 Thread Matt Garman
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 09:55:35AM -0400, Chris Bare wrote: BS. What you already know is easier to use. I think Linux has a different learning curve than windows. Initially it's tough, but once you get some basic concepts (editing a file, find, grep) the curve flattens out. I think with

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: How many of you are 100% Linux?

2003-10-21 Thread Matt Garman
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 07:47:58AM -0400, Eric Livingston wrote: I'm curious regarding the penetration of linux as a comprehensive solution for all computing tasks in a normal day. i.e. what percentage of Linux users are 100% linux, or even 100% Gentoo for that matter. Well, I'll chime in with

Re: [gentoo-user] slightly OT: c++ performance: gentoo vs. debian

2003-10-21 Thread Matt Garman
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 07:08:39AM +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: On all the machines (athlon t-bird, p4) I have tried so far, -O3 always decreases performance - O2 is best (dramatically so on something like a Indeed, in this case, O2 is faster than O3. I assumed Debian's gcc package was

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub setup fails

2003-10-20 Thread Matt Garman
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 09:10:13PM +0200, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: Is this the same for the grub.config ? Not the use of sda but only hda Yup. I discovered (by trial and error) that there are some subtleties to how grub sees disks. I have both IDE and SCSI hard drives in my computer. I

[gentoo-user] fluxbox doesn't see artwiz fonts

2003-10-19 Thread Matt Garman
I merged the development version of fluxbox (v0.9.6) via /usr/portage/x11-wm/fluxbox/fluxbox-0.9.6_pre9.ebuild. I also installed the package artwiz-fonts. At least xfontsel can see the artwiz fonts. However, fluxbox is not using them. So I'm curious if I need to indicate the location of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo's preference, Gnome or KDE ?

2003-10-17 Thread Matt Garman
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 05:32:55PM +0100, Rick [Kitty5] wrote: I have never really been a KDE fan, although I have been using it on my gentoo workstation as I had problems getting Gnome to work properly. I have to say its far to 'busy' for my tastes, would love to purge all the bundled

Re: [gentoo-user] nVidia or ATI

2003-10-16 Thread Matt Garman
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 10:30:24AM -0700, Ian Truelsen wrote: I am looking to get a new video card for my desktop (the old Voodoo 3 is starting to show its age). What I would like to know is which of the big two nVidia or ATI are better supported under Linux for framebuffer stuff and for DRI.

[gentoo-user] reiserfs corruption likelihood?

2003-10-16 Thread Matt Garman
Purusing the Gentoo FAQ, I ran across the following: ReiserFS and filesystem corruption issues -- how to fix'em, etc If your ReiserFS partition is corrupt, try booting the Gentoo Linux boot CD and run reiserfsck --rebuild-tree on the corrupted filesystem. This should make the filesystem

[gentoo-user] changing reiserfs partitions to ext3

2003-10-16 Thread Matt Garman
I'm a bit worried about data corruption with reiserfs, and more concerned with stability and reliability than performance. So I think I'd like to convert my reiserfs partitions to ext3. What would be the best way to accomplish this (without doing a re-install)? I was thinking of the following

[gentoo-user] strange install situation

2003-10-15 Thread Matt Garman
Hello: I used the Athlon XP v1.4 (dated 9/11) Live CD disk 1 to do a Stage 3 install of Gentoo. Everything *seemed* to go okay, until reboot, when Grub couldn't find the kernel. I used the Live CD as a rescue disk, looked at my install drive, and, sure enough, no kernel was installed! Also,

Re: [gentoo-user] strange install situation

2003-10-15 Thread Matt Garman
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 02:19:11PM +0100, Jon Dye wrote: Did you create a seperate /boot partition? If so did you look in there for your kernel rather than the / partition (which would of had an empty /boot in that case). You also need to tell grub to look in your /root partition rather than

Re: [gentoo-user] strange install situation

2003-10-15 Thread Matt Garman
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 11:17:28AM -0400, Chris I wrote: In file included from nv.c:14: nv-linux.h:24:31: linux/modversions.h: No such file or directory nv.c: In function `cleanup_module': nv.c:861: warning: unused variable `i' make: *** [nv.o] Error 1 And it's true, I don't

[gentoo-user] multiple instances of emerge and package naming

2003-10-15 Thread Matt Garman
Can I run two (or more) simultaneous instances of emerge? Would this create any consistency problems or is the Portage system smart enough to synchronize its accounting? Also, is there a difference in specifying a package name by its fully-qualified name as opposed to just the package name? In

Re: [gentoo-user] Package management for non-ebuild software

2003-04-03 Thread Matt Garman
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Re: [gentoo-user] Package management for non-ebuild software

2003-04-02 Thread Matt Garman
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 09:07:09PM +0100, Jan Drugowitsch wrote: Is there any way with standard-gentoo tools to also keep track of software installed with ./configure make make install? I used install-log with LFS, but if there's a chance to use a different system I would be glad to hear

Re: [gentoo-user] IDE RAID suggestions

2003-03-27 Thread Matt Garman
add-on IDE PCI controllers? By good I mean having mature, stable Linux drivers? Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ``I ain't never seen no whiskey, the blues made my sloppy drunk!'' -- Sleepy John Estes, ``Leaving Trunk'' -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] gentoo migration stragety?

2003-03-27 Thread Matt Garman
, using a stage 3 install should get me up and running the most quickly, but I can still custom-compile most (or all?) of the stage 3 programs, right? Thanks for your feedback! Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ``I ain't never seen no whiskey, the blues made my sloppy drunk!'' -- Sleepy