[gentoo-user] Re: who broken?

2003-12-31 Thread Michael Mauch
Jorge Almeida wrote: The who command is not working. who am i or who -m returns nothing. Same here in KDE's konsole, but it works in the Linux console. I'm using coreutils 5.0-r5 with gentoo-sources 2.4.22-r2. Any idea? (And what else can be broken?) whoami works (although it gives the

[gentoo-user] Re: who broken?

2003-12-31 Thread Michael Mauch
Mark Knecht wrote: Both work fine for me under fluxbox in an xterm: bash-2.05b$ who am i mark pts/0Dec 31 16:59 (:0.0) bash-2.05b$ who -m mark pts/0Dec 31 16:59 (:0.0) bash-2.05b$ Ah, good hint. In an xterm in KDE, it works here, too. With xterm -ut, who am

[gentoo-user] Re: ATI TV out

2003-12-10 Thread Michael Mauch
Helder Rossa wrote: ATI MOBILITY Radeon 9000 # atitvout pal auto VBE call failed. Maybe this command is not supported by your graphics adapter? Did your parameters (if you specified some) really make sense? Please try all other available commands before complaining! I think you should

[gentoo-user] Re: ATI TV out

2003-12-09 Thread Michael Mauch
Helder Rossa wrote: I have my acer tm800 working with 2.6 kernel. All runs very good. What's its video chipset? but I cant put TV out working. It gives me an black white garble image. Maybe some refresh settings are wrong. what are the right configurations in XF86Config-4 to work in a

[gentoo-user] Re: MozillaFirebird question

2003-11-09 Thread Michael Mauch
Ernie Schroder wrote: This may be a dumb question, but can someone explain why one instance of MozillaFirebird with only one tab open starts 5 processes each using about 25 megs of ram? These are probably not processes, but threads (light weight processes), and they are all taking the same

[gentoo-user] Re: damned usb mouse again

2003-11-03 Thread Michael Mauch
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 mouse movements. You're correct. If the kernel doesn't know

[gentoo-user] Re: Missing /etc/bluetoth/uart

2003-11-02 Thread Michael Mauch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just bought a bluetooth-dongle, so i emerged bluez-utils, and everything works fine: laptop root # hcitool scan Scanning ... 00:60:57:95:18:56 Tobias 6310i Ok. This is my Cell phone. But /etc/init.d/bluetooth won't start, because there is no

[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] 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

[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

[gentoo-user] Re: rdiff-backup needs ssh server?

2003-10-27 Thread Michael Mauch
I wrote: I just started to use rdiff-backup, but I think it's possible to backup to an NFS-mounted directory (of course this needs an NFS server on one of the machines, but maybe it's already there). Better forget this - ssh is more reliable and faster (see

[gentoo-user] Re: rdiff-backup needs ssh server?

2003-10-26 Thread Michael Mauch
Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: I have a server A and a laptop B and I wish A to backup files of B into some backup dir in A. Does B need to have an ssh server or something similar? I need to start rdiff-backup in B? How, if there's no init file in /etc/init.d? Can someone please explain

Re: [gentoo-user] Evolution threaded view

2003-10-16 Thread Michael Mauch
Am Do, 2003-10-16 um 20.02 schrieb Tom Wesley: On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 20:57, Spider wrote: in all Gnome programs this is actually only a matter of opening the menu, selecting the item, and pressing the desired key combination. //Spider I can't get this to work... Am I meant to just

[gentoo-user] Re: Tools to monitor SMART status of harddrives

2003-08-14 Thread Michael Mauch
Renat Golubchyk wrote: I was going to install some kind of a SMART monitoring daemon. I found two packages in portage: app-admin/ide-smart and sys-apps/smartmontools. Is anybody using them? What's the difference? sys-apps/smartmontools come with more documentation, and they seem to be

[gentoo-user] Re: xmodmap problem

2003-08-10 Thread Michael Mauch
Jorge Almeida wrote: What is puzzling is that xev agrees with the wanted behavior and not with the actual behavior! According to xev, the key with keycode 66 (the one just under tab and above shift) should work as ModeSwitcher: KeyRelease event, serial 27, synthetic NO, window 0x2a1,