With all the local root bugs floating around recently, does anyone have a
list of safe gentoo-sources versions to use? (Ie 2.4.22+ and 2.6.1+?)
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On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 22:57:38 +, Daniel Drake wrote:
Linux version 2.6.1-rc3-gentoo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.2.3 20030422
(Gentoo Linux 1.4 3.2.3-r3, propolice)) #4 Mon Jan 12 21:56:56 GMT 2004
The date there indicates when the kernel was compiled, so that should be able
to
On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 03:14:15 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I had the same problem, you may want to enable support for your IDE
Chipset in your kernel, the specific one... not just general support.
Sadly it is still not working. Any more ideas? FWIW I compiled hdparm
under 2.4.20-r9, will it
On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 22:32:26 +, Daniel Drake wrote:
No, the line you pasted refers to your PCI controller. We are interested in
your IDE controller.
Apologies.
Please post the entire lspci output.
Below.
Also, you could post the dmesg output from under the 2.4.20 kernel where DMA
I have upgraded from 2.4.19 to 2.4.22-r4 on one machine and 2.6.1 on
another.
In both cases hdparm returns this:
elrsr-0 root # hdparm -d1 /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
setting using_dma to 1 (on)
HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
using_dma= 0 (off)
Kernel options are (2.4.22):
x x
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 16:23:21 -0800, Alan wrote:
Looks like your Hard Drive might not support DMA. Is it an older drive?
No, they are all new IBM disks. DMA worked fine with 2.4.20-r9.
The chipset for both machines is a VIA one I believe (ABIT KTA series)
- is this no longer supported by the
On Sat, 08 Nov 2003 21:52:27 +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote:
XScreensaver always accepts the root password regardless of who is logged in
so that root can always access the machine. Take the case where VTSwitching
and killing of the XServer are disabled, root can only gain access to the
machine
Mine has grown to 2gb - is it safe to delete it?
Not as bad as my distfiles though, which have gone to over 5gb :\
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I have been lusting after a G4 powerbook recently and since they are
currently $500 reduced for education buyers in the UK now might be a good
time.
I still have some generalised and gentoo specific concerns about it
though, namely
How well does the PPC install of Gentoo work? Is it pretty
Just a FWIW, hopefully someone will find this useful:
If you are looking for a new printer (inkjet) you would do well to look at
the photosmart 7650 from HP. Painless setup on Gentoo, just an emerge of
the hp printer driver (hpijs) and the office jet backend (hpoj) and it
worked very smoothly
I have just got back after 3 months away and got home to find that my
boxes have finished running an emerge -up world (ha, nope, I started it
remotely, it's not been running for 3 months - my machines aren't _that_
old).
Anyway, the only problem seems to be with Gnome 2.4 and epiphany - Gnome
On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 14:50:01 -0600, Larry Meadors wrote:
Not gcc 2, gtk2 - add gtk2 to USE in make.conf and build it.
D'oh.
Must learn to parse better.
Cheers.
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On Sun, 05 Oct 2003 09:42:54 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote:
1. follow the docs to set up your internet box as a gentoo mirror facing
the internal network: will require running services you may not want to
run on that box, even temporarily.
Sounds like the best idea, thanks :o)
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On Sun, 05 Oct 2003 12:41:31 +0200, Peter Eis wrote:
Generally for configuring the iptables rules I recommend using shorewall
http://www.shorewall.net (there is an ebuild for it).
I recommend vi - it's fun!
(My iptables rules now permit MASQ from the wired lan only, restrict the
wlan to
I have two machines sitting on a private network. One is connected to the
internet, the other is not. There is no masq or NAT going on - the offline
box picks up ntp time from the internet box (relayed) and is used as a
dumb x terminal and for local working.
It does have gentoo on it, but
I have a .bash_profile that calls .bashrc, and fortune is called from
.bashrc (fortune -s bofh-excuses homer futurama chalkboard) to give me a
quote when I log in.
This mostly works fine, but when I try and scp something _to_ this machine
from another it just displays the first line of the
On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 19:29:23 -0600, Collins Richey wrote:
I've just installed a Sony +-R IDE DVD burner. There are several
streams of DVD utilities - cdrtools-dvdr, dvd+rw-tools, dvdrtools, and
perhaps others that I am not yet aware of.
I use dvdrtools with this script
It seems that some lamer has been harvesting the list for mail addresses
to spam.
Just a heads up, not much you can do about it - unless you run an archive,
in which case munging e-mail addresses is a great idea chaps. (Or in case
you can work out his address, suitable for arranging the delivery
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 17:56:00 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote:
Searchig the forum again, I found some threads I had missed before. The
suggestion there is not to start /etc/init.d/net.eth0 at all: rc-update
del net.eth0
I think this _cannot_ work, but it does. Strange. But all seems to be
fine.
I
Hi there,
For some reason eth0 has stopped comming up when the machine is booted,
giving these errors:
* Bringing eth0 up... [ ok ]
* Setting default gateway...
SIOCADDRT: File exists
* Failed to bring eth0 up [ !! ]
* Bringing eth0 down... [ ok ]
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 21:50:03 -0700, Rex Walters wrote:
In a nutshell you may need to run hdparm before loading ide-scsi.
There is still no /dev/hdd there before loading ide-scsi though, unless
the arg is removed from the kernel which stops it working alltogether...
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On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 05:33:35 +0100, Richard Revis wrote:
This is of particular interest to me as I am about to replace my CDRW with
a DVDRW and while PIO seemed to be fine for a 4x writer it's not going to
be able to sustain 6mb/sec!
FWIW this is how I fixed it:
Create a new folder (~/devs
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 09:48:59 -0400, Ernie Schroder wrote:
See the /. article http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/26/048221
regarding a fork of Gentoo. Decide for yourself on some ethics questions
raised http://www.zynot.org/info/fork.html
This is why free software is good. Gentoo is
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 18:40:30 -0400, Ernie Schroder wrote:
# mount /mnt/flash returns:
Just curious, but what does the line in your fstab look like?
Mine won't let me mount it as a user, although the permissions and flags
(ie owner in fstab etc) are the same as the CD rom which works fine.
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Hi,
I have found references in several places which state that you should be
able to use hdparm to enable dma on ide-scsi devices, however when I
enable ide-scsi the /dev/hdX entry (in this case /dev/hdd) for it vanishes
and hdparm refuses to work when pointed at the SCSI entry. Any clues as to
When I plug in my USB pen drive, it shows up like so:
hub.c: USB new device connect on bus2/2, assigned device number 2
usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x5dc/0x80) is not claimed by any active driver.
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
scsi1 : SCSI
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 22:29:39 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
did you loaded sd_mod.o?
I can't find sd_mod in the kernel? (2.4.19-gentoo sources)
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Current number of open Freenet
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 22:40:00 +0530, Saurabh Nanda wrote:
* Has anyone tried this? What was your experience?
I was thinking that a customised squid proxy just for portage would be
pretty good.
Tell the users to set up to use the proxy for portage _only_ (and tell
them all to use your backbone's
On Sat, 14 Jun 2003 19:26:52 +1000, Rod Smart wrote:
ERROR (06:59 PM) -
Problem connecting to tracker - urlopen error (111, 'Connection
refused')
Would anyone know how to rectify this problem please?
This is probably not your problem (unless your DNS and/or net connection
has failed) -
On Sat, 14 Jun 2003 20:46:15 +1000, Rod Smart wrote:
I would have thought if finding another was possible, the program
should be able to cycle or hunt to find one that will work.
BitTorrent is not a P2P app, it is a swarm downloading app - each stream
is like a little P2P network sharing
On Tue, 03 Jun 2003 13:45:20 -0600, Carlos C. Gonzalez wrote:
When I first installed Gentoo about 3 months ago I was impressed with
it's speed running on my Pentium III 500 MHz computer. Now I find
myself sometimes tapping the desk with my fingers so to speak waiting
for certain things to
On Sat, 31 May 2003 09:33:49 -0400, Mike Arrison wrote:
The usual technique for this is to change the User-Agent string that the
browser sends the server.
I much prefer finding out who the incompetent sysadmin/web developer was
and educating then, fist nicely and then with the aid of one of
Is there a .torrent file for the Gentoo ISOs (it's not especially needed
with the likes of mirror.ac.uk handling files, but it might reduce load
somewhat).
Equally, is it possible to grab some of the largest source archives (like
open office) via a torrent, either manually or automatically via
On Thu, 29 May 2003 13:22:40 -0700, Alex Combas wrote:
This actually sounds like a pretty good idea to me.
Yay! Time for a crosspost to -developers?
For gentoo .iso files this would be an exceptionally good idea, since we
already have servers for those files it would require very little
On Thu, 29 May 2003 14:01:17 +0200, Norbert Kamenicky wrote:
Are there some low cost (RTL based )? eth? cards with more than one
UTP iface ?
I used to have a 5 port ethernet card in my SPARC V firewall box, which I
think was a Sun one. Cost a bomb though.
As a cheaper alternative you can buy
Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote:
Can someone guide me into a correct installation for vi on a Powerbook?
Does it have to be vi, or will vim do?
emerge vim ln -s /usr/bin/vim /usr/bin/vi
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Tyler Trafford wrote:
A Knoppix CD could help. That's what I use it for.
Seconded - it's one of the most useful things known to man. Just drop in the
Knoppix CD, do your Gentoo install, complete with OO and the rest to keep
you working, and let it get on with it. heresy It's even more useful
Xabier Ochotorena wrote:
Are your sure the numbers are in the same unit? On a 11 Mbit/s wlan a
transfer rate of 500 Kbyte/s is quite reasonable...
I get about 500 Kbyte/s on my wlan, which triggered my question.
On my 10 Mbit/s ethernet lan I get 1.1 Mbyte/s easily, obtaining less than
Arthur Britto wrote:
I thought maybe the problem was with plugger overriding things, so I
pulled out plugger. I already have rpnp.so symbolically linked to
/opt/RealPlayer8/rpnp.so.
In the readme it tells you to copy it in, not use a symlink (ISTR etc).
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Arthur Britto wrote:
In the readme it tells you to copy it in, not use a symlink (ISTR etc).
Well, Richard, you made me feel silly for not carefully reading the
README. ;)
Sorry, I was trying to be helpful, not imply RTFM :o)
I had assumed, if the program launched in some cases that the
Don Smith wrote:
Ideas?
None - I am starting to get a little irritated by it now. I have tried
blakdown 1.3.1,1.4.1 sun j2sdk 1.4.1, jdk 1.4.1 and others, all with no
sucess (although they work fine in phoenix-bin).
Just remove the symbolic link to stop it crashing and load phoenix when you
Patrick Marquetecken wrote:
1. USB i have enabled usb in the kernel, but when inserting a USB mass
device nothing happens. If i run dmesg is there nothing.
How do i get this to work.
Did you build in usb-storage (module or otherwise)?
Since you got no message (saying could not find driver),
Kevin J. Anderson wrote:
Crap, serves me right for asking then researching... turns out you can do
this w/ ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] command then it asks for the password. Anyway to
provide the password in a shell script? ;/
You can use key pairs to do it, look up trusted keys and
Pär Wedin wrote:
When I recieve 100MB to the server I get 245 Mbit/s and when I send 100 MB
I get 150 Mbit/s. A far cry from 1Gbit/s in other words...
Any Ideas?
Sounds like ethernet to me? After all, the jump from 10mbit to 100mbit isn't
exactly 10 times the performance now is it ;o)
I have a 7in1 (with 4 ports, and identified as a 5 disk reader by
usb-modules, hmm) card reader.
The CF part works fine, it just needs modprobe usb-storage and mount
/dev/sda2. Does anyone have one of these working with MMC cards however, as
I am at a bit of a loss how to do it?
Many thanks,
Matthew Daubenspeck wrote:
I have a SBLive! card that came with the Creative LiveDrive (extra ports
and volume switches mounted in a cd drive bay). I am trying to make it
work with lirc and xmms.
Has anyone had such success?
Opensource.creative.com has drivers for the board (marginally
Bob Lockie wrote:
Is a Celeron a Pentium II?
I think it depends on the revision. I have a coppermine, which is listed in
the kernel as a Pentium 3 type, but I set the Pentium 2 flags to be safe
when compiling.
At some point I may rebuild with P3 flags, assuming there is a rebuild world
Bob Lockie wrote:
Is there any software for identifying which chip it is?
cat /proc/cpuinfo should work.
Is there any software that does not require a Linux distribution to
already be installed?
No idea, but that would work from a Knoppix CD or Gentoo install CD, neither
of which make any
Jonathan Wright wrote:
Anyone got any idea how i can get around this. I've got both region 1
and region 2 dvds. btw, it's a pioneer 116 (i think again :).
If your player is not hardware locked (which it is not since you can play
multiregion DVDs in Windows) then just emerge xine-dvdnav and use
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