RE: [gentoo-user] No device coming up if I plug in an USB device

2006-10-02 Thread Stephen Reynolds
Thanks -Original Message- From: Hans-Werner Hilse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 02 October 2006 04:27 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] No device coming up if I plug in an USB device Hi, On Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:03:43 +0530 Mrugesh Karnik <[EMAIL PROT

[gentoo-user] java-config --set-user-classpath

2006-10-02 Thread Trenton Adams
Hi Guys, I'm just a little curious why --set-user-classpath and --set-system-classpath are being done away with? Is there a replacement facility for this functionality? Thanks. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] OT: Sansa e260 MicroSD

2006-10-02 Thread Devon Miller
I'm trying to get my Sansa  e260 to work under Gentoo.I can mount the flash via /dev/sda1, but I can't find the microSD card under linux.I expected it would show up as /dev/sdb or something like that, but no dice. lsusb gives me:Bus 001 Device 014: ID 0781:7421 SanDisk Corp.When it's plugged in, t

Re: [gentoo-user] OT- tv tuner cards

2006-10-02 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 11:54 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > I personally like the COMPRO DTV-300 sorry, that's really a Compro Videomate DVB-T300 :) -- Iain Buchanan I thought YOU silenced the guard! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT- tv tuner cards

2006-10-02 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 18:04 -0700, maxim wexler wrote: > Hi group, > > Do these things work very well? What's a good one? Is > it gentoo-friendly. if it's linux-friendly, it's gentoo-friendly :) > I'll be using it with a Viewsonic 17" LCD with a > digital connector and a ATI Radeon 256M vid card

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Widescreen resolution strangeness with nvidia

2006-10-02 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Tuesday 03 October 2006 03:32, Grant wrote: > > > The TV has a native resolution of 1366x768 as stated by the > > > manufacturer. If I specify that resolution in xorg.conf, it says it's > > > an invalid resolution and uses 1360x768 instead. > > > > This is common, at least for my 37" widescreen

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Widescreen resolution strangeness with nvidia

2006-10-02 Thread Grant
> The TV has a native resolution of 1366x768 as stated by the > manufacturer. If I specify that resolution in xorg.conf, it says it's > an invalid resolution and uses 1360x768 instead. This is common, at least for my 37" widescreen LCD/tv/monitor, too: I found this from Nvidia: http://nvidia

Re: [gentoo-user] OT- tv tuner cards

2006-10-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On 10/2/06, maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi group, Do these things work very well? What's a good one? Is it gentoo-friendly. Maxim, I have a MYthTV server with two cards in it. One is a Hauppage PVR-150 and the other is a PVR-250. They are both reasonably good quality and run pre

Re: [gentoo-user] OT- tv tuner cards

2006-10-02 Thread Nick Rout
On 10/3/2006, "maxim wexler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi group, > >Do these things work very well? What's a good one? Is >it gentoo-friendly. > >I'll be using it with a Viewsonic 17" LCD with a >digital connector and a ATI Radeon 256M vid card. > >I saw one work back in 2000 and thou

[gentoo-user] OT- tv tuner cards

2006-10-02 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, Do these things work very well? What's a good one? Is it gentoo-friendly. I'll be using it with a Viewsonic 17" LCD with a digital connector and a ATI Radeon 256M vid card. I saw one work back in 2000 and thought the picture quality quite poor. Have they improved much since then? -Ma

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Widescreen resolution strangeness with nvidia

2006-10-02 Thread Grant
> The TV has a native resolution of 1366x768 as stated by the > manufacturer. If I specify that resolution in xorg.conf, it says it's > an invalid resolution and uses 1360x768 instead. This is common, at least for my 37" widescreen LCD/tv/monitor, too: I tried the following modeline with no l

Re: [gentoo-user] Allow a user to restart net.wlan0?

2006-10-02 Thread Nick Rout
On 10/2/2006, "Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 10/2/06, Devon Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> emerge app-admin/sudo >> >> Edit /etc/sudoers and add: >> >> username ALL= NOPASSWD: /etc/init.d/ner.wlan0 >> >> Where username is his login. To run it: >> sudo /etc/init.d

Re: [gentoo-user] Remote desktop to WinXP from Gentoo

2006-10-02 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mick wrote: > On Monday 02 October 2006 00:23, gentuxx wrote: >> gentuxx wrote: > >> I forgot to state the obvious, in that, the ability to RDP needs to be >> enabled on the target WinXP box. So, in System Properties, go to the >> Remote tab, make su

[gentoo-user] Problems with AMD64 GRUB booting nvidia SATA JBOD

2006-10-02 Thread Neil Leathers
I attempting to transfer from PATA to SATA on my AMD64 box. The main problem I am having is that GRUB is not booting my new partition. The (one) SATA (Wsetern Digital WD740GD-00FLC0) drive is setup as JBOD (to get windows to install) on an nvidia controller (asus A8N-E bios rev 13). This is AMD6

Re: [gentoo-user] Allow a user to restart net.wlan0?

2006-10-02 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 21:31 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 2 Oct 2006 15:38:39 -0400, Devon Miller wrote: > > > emerge app-admin/sudo > > > > Edit /etc/sudoers and add: > > > > username ALL= NOPASSWD: /etc/init.d/ner.wlan0 > > > > Where username is his login. To run it: > > sudo /etc/ini

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -D pulling in more than it should these days?!

2006-10-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 2 Oct 2006 12:20:52 -0700, Daevid Vincent wrote: > I'm no expert by any stretch, I just noticed that it was acting > different and as illustrated, I could prove it. Perhaps I misunderstood > what --deep was for. I guess I thought it was the package and any > dependencies that NEEDED upgrad

Re: [gentoo-user] Allow a user to restart net.wlan0?

2006-10-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 2 Oct 2006 15:38:39 -0400, Devon Miller wrote: > emerge app-admin/sudo > > Edit /etc/sudoers and add: > > username ALL= NOPASSWD: /etc/init.d/ner.wlan0 > > Where username is his login. To run it: > sudo /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 restart A slightly more secure approach is to create a script

Re: [gentoo-user] Allow a user to restart net.wlan0?

2006-10-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On 10/2/06, Devon Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: emerge app-admin/sudo Edit /etc/sudoers and add: username ALL= NOPASSWD: /etc/init.d/ner.wlan0 Where username is his login. To run it: sudo /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 restart dcm Thanks guys. I should have thought of sudo myself. I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Allow a user to restart net.wlan0?

2006-10-02 Thread Mark Shields
On 10/2/06, Devon Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: emerge app-admin/sudo Edit /etc/sudoers and add: username ALL= NOPASSWD: /etc/init.d/ner.wlan0 Where username is his login. To run it: sudo /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 restart dcmAlso, for best practice, I would suggest using visudo to edit /etc/sud

Re: [gentoo-user] Allow a user to restart net.wlan0?

2006-10-02 Thread Devon Miller
emerge app-admin/sudo Edit /etc/sudoers and add: username ALL= NOPASSWD: /etc/init.d/ner.wlan0 Where username is his login. To run it: sudo /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 restart dcmOn 10/2/06, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi,   We have a machine here, my son's, which runs Gentoo and uses (Ith

RE: [gentoo-user] emerge -D pulling in more than it should these days?!

2006-10-02 Thread Daevid Vincent
> Anyway, the portage-2.1.2 tracker bug [1] shows you the > differences between > portage-2.1.1 and the latest 2.1.2 prerelease. Also a comment > from zmedico > (the portage dev who is providing us with all of these new > features and > fixes) [2] clearly shows that the change is intended. W

[gentoo-user] Allow a user to restart net.wlan0?

2006-10-02 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, We have a machine here, my son's, which runs Gentoo and uses (I think) a D-Link 802.11abg NIC: 03:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5005G 802.11abg NIC (rev 01) The setup uses ndiswrapper to load the Windows driver. For some reason this NIC seems to go off line qui

Re: [gentoo-user] What is that (compile errors in system headers...)

2006-10-02 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 02 October 2006 20:15, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: [SNIP] > My includes are now: > > #include > #include > #include > #include > #include > #include > #include > #include [SNIP] # cat /usr/include/linux/if.h [SNIP] #include /* fo

Re: [gentoo-user] What is that (compile errors in system headers...)

2006-10-02 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
From: Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What is that (compile errors in system headers...) Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 19:58:57 +0200 > On Monday 02 October 2006 19:48, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: > > I tried to compile a little program (nothing special) and got this >

Re: [gentoo-user] What is that (compile errors in system headers...)

2006-10-02 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 02 October 2006 19:48, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: > I tried to compile a little program (nothing special) and got this > errors: > > In file included from /usr/include/stdlib.h:438, > from ethlinkstat.c:10: > /usr/include/sys/types.h:62: error: conflic

[gentoo-user] What is that (compile errors in system headers...)

2006-10-02 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
Hi, interesting... I tried to compile a little program (nothing special) and got this errors: In file included from /usr/include/stdlib.h:438, from ethlinkstat.c:10: /usr/include/sys/types.h:62: error: conflicting types for 'dev_t' /usr/include/linux/type

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage parenthesis

2006-10-02 Thread Danie Iliev
On Mon, 2 Oct 2006 16:22:10 +0200 Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 02 October 2006 16:13, Grant wrote: > > I'm actually using -march=k8 in accordance with the Gentoo Handbook's > > recommendation.  Should I be using -march=amd64?  I have an AMD > > Sempron64 3000+ CPU. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage parenthesis

2006-10-02 Thread Danie Iliev
On Mon, 2 Oct 2006 08:45:24 +0200 Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 02 October 2006 08:21, Danie Iliev wrote: > > Several days ago the guys at gentoo-am64 mailing list explained to me > > all these flags enable different CFLAGS optimizations which came as the > [SNIP] > >

[gentoo-user] Re: Widescreen resolution strangeness with nvidia

2006-10-02 Thread James
Grant gmail.com> writes: > The TV has a native resolution of 1366x768 as stated by the > manufacturer. If I specify that resolution in xorg.conf, it says it's > an invalid resolution and uses 1360x768 instead. This is common, at least for my 37" widescreen LCD/tv/monitor, too: Here's some p

Re: [gentoo-user] Router 3rd and 4th net interface problem

2006-10-02 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Thomas T. Veldhouse: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Mon, 2 Oct 2006 08:18:38 -0700, Grant wrote: > >> I've never used a switch before. Is there any proprietary software to > >> configure (like with a router), or is it just a button or two? > > > > Just one button, the power switch :) > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Wacky ssh X11 question...

2006-10-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 16:56:25 +0100 "Steve [Gentoo]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm unclear if the reason for the failure is the additional > tunnelling... Is this technique incompatible with X11 tunnelling? Is > there a way to make it work with a reverse-tunnel or something like > that? A

Re: [gentoo-user] Router 3rd and 4th net interface problem

2006-10-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 2 Oct 2006 10:49:34 -0500 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > How should eth1 and eth2 be > > > > > configured in /etc/conf.d/net ? > > > > They should be configured as part of a bridge device (see the > > > > bridging section of /etc/conf.d/net.example) and

[gentoo-user] Wacky ssh X11 question...

2006-10-02 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
I've three independent hosts - imaginatively called A, B and C. Firewall rules dictate that A can be directly accessed from B, but not from C... A and B run the openssh sshd, and C is a terminal with a working X-Windows display. C has a ssh session opened with B which tunnels port 22 on C to 22 o

Re: [gentoo-user] Router 3rd and 4th net interface problem

2006-10-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 02 October 2006 10:18, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Router 3rd and 4th net interface problem': > > > > I'm pretty confused. I'm trying to get the system in question to > > > > behave like a solid-state router that you can plug an ethernet > > > > jack into an

Re: [gentoo-user] Router 3rd and 4th net interface problem

2006-10-02 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 2 Oct 2006 08:18:38 -0700, Grant wrote: I've never used a switch before. Is there any proprietary software to configure (like with a router), or is it just a button or two? Just one button, the power switch :) Sometimes two ... if you attempt to use th

Re: [gentoo-user] Router 3rd and 4th net interface problem

2006-10-02 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Grant wrote: > > I'm pretty confused. I'm trying to get the system in question to > > behave like a solid-state router that you can plug an ethernet jack > > into and be on the network. How should eth1 and eth2 be configured > > in /etc/conf.d/net ? > > They should be configured as part of a br

Re: [gentoo-user] Router 3rd and 4th net interface problem

2006-10-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 2 Oct 2006 08:18:38 -0700, Grant wrote: > I've never used a switch before. Is there any proprietary software to > configure (like with a router), or is it just a button or two? Just one button, the power switch :) -- Neil Bothwick If I save time, when do I get it back? signature.as

Re: [gentoo-user] Router 3rd and 4th net interface problem

2006-10-02 Thread Grant
> > I'm pretty confused. I'm trying to get the system in question to > > behave like a solid-state router that you can plug an ethernet jack > > into and be on the network. How should eth1 and eth2 be configured > > in /etc/conf.d/net ? > > They should be configured as part of a bridge device (s

Re: [gentoo-user] Widescreen resolution strangeness with nvidia

2006-10-02 Thread Grant
> The TV has a native resolution of 1366x768 as stated by the > manufacturer. If I specify that resolution in xorg.conf, it says it's > an invalid resolution and uses 1360x768 instead. Probably because that's the only mode built into the driver near your desired mode. Just put an appropriate mo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gnome - circular dependencies?

2006-10-02 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 02 October 2006 14:54, karsten wrote: > Hey, could anyone give me a hint on the nature of this problem? I have > tried with a completely new portage tree, yet no success. I really have > no clue how this can happen. > anyone? [SNIP] foo-a.ebuild depends on foo-b.ebuild and foo-b.ebuild d

Re: [gentoo-user] Widescreen resolution strangeness with nvidia

2006-10-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 2 Oct 2006 07:25:15 -0700 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The TV has a native resolution of 1366x768 as stated by the > manufacturer. If I specify that resolution in xorg.conf, it says it's > an invalid resolution and uses 1360x768 instead. Probably because that's the only mode b

Re: [gentoo-user] No device coming up if I plug in an USB device

2006-10-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:03:43 +0530 Mrugesh Karnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ah, I wanted to ask about this too. The same thing happens to me. I > need to reboot with the device plugged in, which is a pain. I'd > appreciate an answer as well. That's probably not for the same reason. Please

Re: [gentoo-user] No device coming up if I plug in an USB device

2006-10-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 2 Oct 2006 14:41:32 +0200 "Stephen Reynolds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ub(1.2): GetMaxLUN returned 0, using 1 LUNs > uba: uba1 > drivers/usb/core/inode.c: creating file '002' There's your device node. You did read the help of the kernel option for the "Low Performance USB Block d

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage parenthesis

2006-10-02 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 02 October 2006 16:13, Grant wrote: > I'm actually using -march=k8 in accordance with the Gentoo Handbook's > recommendation.  Should I be using -march=amd64?  I have an AMD > Sempron64 3000+ CPU. No! Of course not. As you can see in `man gcc` there is no -march=amd64... k8 is fine. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage parenthesis

2006-10-02 Thread Grant
> > > Why would flags like mmx, mmxext, sse, and sse2 be masked from mplayer > > > for me? > > > > > > /etc/make.profile -> > > > /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2006.1/desktop > > > > I'm not sure why the use flags are masked. > > Heh, and then I found it... > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/s

[gentoo-user] ACPI for non-portables (i686/AMD)

2006-10-02 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
Hi, For rendering purposes I often start my PC, start the rendering job and go to work. For power saving puproses I would like, that my PC "recognizes" its idle state and go down "as far as possible". I heard of ACPI and suspend-to-RAM. I dont lik eto experiment a lot and finally find out

[gentoo-user] Re: gnome - circular dependencies?

2006-10-02 Thread karsten
Hey, could anyone give me a hint on the nature of this problem? I have tried with a completely new portage tree, yet no success. I really have no clue how this can happen. anyone? thanks for any help! KArsten > hm, I get this trying to emerge gnome. I use the ~arch keyword and just > now did em

RE: [gentoo-user] No device coming up if I plug in an USB device

2006-10-02 Thread Stephen Reynolds
Dmesg usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2 ehci_hcd :00:03.3: port 5 high speed ehci_hcd :00:03.3: GetStatus port 5 status 001005 POWER sig=se0 PE CONNECT usb 1-5: default language 0x0409 usb 1-5: new device strings: Mfr=0, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 usb 1-5: Pro

[gentoo-user] "Cannot mount volume" on Gnome 2.16 when inserting CD?

2006-10-02 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hi! I recently reinstalled my Gentoo system and unmasked and installed Gnome 2.16; the system is otherwise a ~x86 system. When I now insert a DVD/CD or plugin a USB stick, I get a popup showing: Cannot mount volume But I can perfectly fine mount this volume manually. Eg.: [EMAI

RE: [gentoo-user] No device coming up if I plug in an USB device

2006-10-02 Thread Stephen Reynolds
I will check dmesg and forward it later, pc at home I'm at work. -Original Message- From: Hemmann, Volker Armin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 02 October 2006 01:10 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] No device coming up if I plug in an USB device On M

Re: [gentoo-user] No device coming up if I plug in an USB device

2006-10-02 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
On Monday 02 October 2006 16:01, Stephen Reynolds wrote: > Hi > > I am new to gentoo and I just finished a stage 1,2,3 installation, > and I have followed the gentoo USB howto. > When I plug-in a usb device no device coming up in /dev directory, > yet dmesg tell me I have plugged in a mass storage

Re: [gentoo-user] No device coming up if I plug in an USB device

2006-10-02 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Monday 02 October 2006 12:31, Stephen Reynolds wrote: > Hi > > I am new to gentoo and I just finished a stage 1,2,3 installation, and I > have followed the gentoo USB howto. > When I plug-in a usb device no device coming up in /dev directory, yet > dmesg tell me I have plugged in a mass storage

[gentoo-user] No device coming up if I plug in an USB device

2006-10-02 Thread Stephen Reynolds
Title: No device coming up if I plug in an USB device Hi I am new to gentoo and I just finished a stage 1,2,3 installation, and I have followed the gentoo USB howto. When I plug-in a usb device no device coming up in /dev directory, yet dmesg tell me I have plugged in a mass storage device

Re: [gentoo-user] Possible new gentoo user

2006-10-02 Thread Philip Webb
061001 Terry Eck wrote: > Thanks to everyone who responded to my post. > I will give gentoo a try to see how it goes. > my first experience with linux was around 1994 using Slackware 1.2.0. > Back then it was common to configure and compile the kernel for sound. You really should have no problem w

Re: [gentoo-user] DHClient Woes - No Modules Loaded?

2006-10-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 1 Oct 2006 22:02:12 -0700, Lord Sauron wrote: > Hazarding a guess as to what would get ifplugd to work: Stop guessing and read the docs. -- Neil Bothwick Loose bits sink chips. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] DHClient Woes - No Modules Loaded?

2006-10-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 1 Oct 2006 21:45:49 -0700, Lord Sauron wrote: > I'm going to take your word and try ifplug, however, I installed it and > it doesn't work. Still pings up /dev/null for all it's doing. I even > went to rc-update and had it start at boot, though that didn't work. You don't start it at a

Re: [gentoo-user] Remote desktop to WinXP from Gentoo

2006-10-02 Thread Markus Schönhaber
Mick wrote: > On Sunday 01 October 2006 22:41, Daniel Iliev wrote: > > The basinc syntax is: > > "rdesktop "my-father's-pc" > > I have tried to do that with no success. This is what I'm getting: > = > $ rdesktop 192.168.0.2 > ERROR: connect: Connection refus

Re: [gentoo-user] DHClient Woes - No Modules Loaded?

2006-10-02 Thread Mick
On Monday 02 October 2006 06:02, Lord Sauron wrote: > modules_eth0=( "dhcpcd" ) > iface_eth0=( "dhcpcd" ) > config_eth0=( "dhcp" ) > > Not exactly sure if it's totally right, however, it doesn't give me an > error message, though I suspect I'm really close to getting one ; ) > > Hazarding a guess

Re: [gentoo-user] Remote desktop to WinXP from Gentoo

2006-10-02 Thread Mick
On Monday 02 October 2006 00:23, gentuxx wrote: > gentuxx wrote: > I forgot to state the obvious, in that, the ability to RDP needs to be > enabled on the target WinXP box. So, in System Properties, go to the > Remote tab, make sure "Allow users to connect to this computer", select > the appropri

Re: [gentoo-user] pygame, framebuffer & SDL_SysWMinfo has no member named 'info'

2006-10-02 Thread Stefano Guglia
Alle 08:04, lunedì 2 ottobre 2006, Andresen ha scritto: > You really should search bugzilla instead... > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89486 Great! According to your link, I added #define DISABLE_X11 into /usr/include/SDL/SDL_syswm.h it then compiles withour x11 support. Thanks Bo