Re: [gentoo-user] Random number generation

2006-12-09 Thread Drew
1. Use a hardware RNG (random number generator), some chipsets provide that but you need to enable support in the kernel. 2. emerge apr with USE=urandom. This makes apr use /dev/urandom instead of /dev/random. urandom isn't as strong cryptographically speaking as random but might be good enough fo

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Virtual Caller ID with asterisk?

2006-12-09 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sat, 2006-12-09 at 19:17 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: > Now that I've got linux recognizing my modem, I was wondering if I could > somehow set asterisk up to give me caller ID information. Is this > possible with asterisk? My modem is only Fax/Data (no voice), but this > shouldn't be a probl

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dual boot install advice

2006-12-09 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 13:26 +0100, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > On Friday 8 December 2006 01:13, James wrote: > > > That or many other methods never seem to work for me. XP is spread > > out all over the disk and the recovery partition is very difficult to > > deal with too. > > Ah ok, that was not cle

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.19-r1 won't boot - arcmsr?

2006-12-09 Thread Dave Oxley
Norberto Bensa wrote: Dave Oxley wrote: I have a Dell server that runs Gentoo. I have been running kernel 2.6.18-r3 with the third party arcmsr add on driver without any problems. I have tried to upgrade to 2.6.19-r1 with the kernels inbuild 2.6.19 sucks. Not only it moved CONFIG_SATA_* to CO

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with PHP4

2006-12-09 Thread kashani
Jayson Smith wrote: Hi, I've been using PHP version 4. Last night during a normal "emerge -av --nospinner -u world" Mysql got updated to version 5, which messed up Apache, Postfix and Pure-ftpd. Actually Apache itself wasn't messed up, but Mod_PHP was since it couldn't load the Mysql library an

Re: [gentoo-user] Random number generation

2006-12-09 Thread Grant
> apache2 is taking a long time "generating secret for digest > authentication". Bryan suggested the following fixes a little while > back: > > 1. Use a hardware RNG (random number generator), some chipsets provide > that but you need to enable support in the kernel. > 2. emerge apr with USE=uran

Re: [gentoo-user] Random number generation

2006-12-09 Thread Petr Uzel
On Saturday 09 December 2006 21:07, Randy Barlow wrote: > On Saturday 09 December 2006 19:58, Petr Uzel wrote: > > make menuconfig->Device drivers->Character devices->Hardware Random > > Number Generator Core support > > How would you know if you had such a device? Would it show up in lspci > outp

[gentoo-user] Problem with PHP4

2006-12-09 Thread Jayson Smith
Hi, I've been using PHP version 4. Last night during a normal "emerge -av --nospinner -u world" Mysql got updated to version 5, which messed up Apache, Postfix and Pure-ftpd. Actually Apache itself wasn't messed up, but Mod_PHP was since it couldn't load the Mysql library any more. It's clear to

[gentoo-user] OT - Virtual Caller ID with asterisk?

2006-12-09 Thread Michael Sullivan
Now that I've got linux recognizing my modem, I was wondering if I could somehow set asterisk up to give me caller ID information. Is this possible with asterisk? My modem is only Fax/Data (no voice), but this shouldn't be a problem if all I want is the caller ID, should it? -- gentoo-user@gent

Re: [gentoo-user] Random number generation

2006-12-09 Thread Randy Barlow
On Saturday 09 December 2006 19:58, Petr Uzel wrote: > make menuconfig->Device drivers->Character devices->Hardware Random Number > Generator Core support How would you know if you had such a device? Would it show up in lspci output? R -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Random number generation

2006-12-09 Thread Petr Uzel
On Sunday 10 December 2006 01:37, Grant wrote: > apache2 is taking a long time "generating secret for digest > authentication". Bryan suggested the following fixes a little while > back: > > 1. Use a hardware RNG (random number generator), some chipsets provide > that but you need to enable suppor

[gentoo-user] Random number generation

2006-12-09 Thread Grant
apache2 is taking a long time "generating secret for digest authentication". Bryan suggested the following fixes a little while back: 1. Use a hardware RNG (random number generator), some chipsets provide that but you need to enable support in the kernel. 2. emerge apr with USE=urandom. This mak

Re: [gentoo-user] LAN speeds

2006-12-09 Thread Richard Cox
Hey, If the machines are older, you may get a little more out of it by turning off compression also. -Rick On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 05:52:40PM +, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I am scp-ing data between LAN machines both of which have 10/100 ethernet > cards, going through a 10/100 router. Usi

Re: [gentoo-user] turning off irrelevant mplayer errorFIXED

2006-12-09 Thread maxim wexler
--- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What output device is gmplayer set to use? > > Try explicitly setting it to alsa. > > for the command line look at /etc/mplayer.conf works for gui too, thanks Nick Maxim __

Re: [gentoo-user] amsn hangs at startup [solved?]

2006-12-09 Thread b.n.
It seems amsn 0.96 today suddenly begun to hang when starting up. No error messages whatsoever. It also seems to be suddenly working again. Sorry for wasting your time. I'm still quite uneasy for not knowing what happened but... m. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] turning off irrelevant mplayer error

2006-12-09 Thread Nick Rout
What output device is gmplayer set to use? Try explicitly setting it to alsa. for the command line look at /etc/mplayer.conf (system wide) or per user ~/.mplayer/config I think those setting also affect gmplayer, alsthough gmplayer also has a place to set such things within its gui - which may

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Finding my modem

2006-12-09 Thread Nick Rout
On Fri, 08 Dec 2006 16:18:24 -0600 Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anybody give me any advice as to setting this up? I went to > http://tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/Modem-HOWTO/#s2 and have been trying > to follow it, but it's not going well. I downloaded the scanModem > script,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: amd64 install quirk

2006-12-09 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Saturday 09 December 2006 23:26, James wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin tu-clausthal.de> writes: > > > This is a very new mobo: MSI K9A platium, with dual pci-x slots > > > just for ATI video cards: > > Hello Hemmann, > yea, your right, I'm only using one for the ATI 1900 video card. Both slots >

[gentoo-user] Re: amd64 install quirk

2006-12-09 Thread James
Hemmann, Volker Armin tu-clausthal.de> writes: > > This is a very new mobo: MSI K9A platium, with dual pci-x slots > > just for ATI video cards: Hello Hemmann, yea, your right, I'm only using one for the ATI 1900 video card. Both slots are general purpose, but the mobo is specifically design fo

Re: [gentoo-user] amd64 install quirk

2006-12-09 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
> > This is a very new mobo: MSI K9A platium, with dual pci-x slots > just for ATI video cards: no you don't have that. You maybe have dual pci-e slots. Don't confuse the two. > > http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/mainboard/mbd/pro_mbd_detail.php?UID >=737 > > I'm stumped as to how to appr

[gentoo-user] amd64 install quirk

2006-12-09 Thread James
Hello, I have install (2) amd64 systems, an amd64 (turion) and and amd64 in a DX-5150, both HP systems. I having trouble with a system, pieced together. I managed to get gparted to reformat the drive and install XP on sda1. It boots and the machine is fine. Now trying to install gentoo(amd64) o

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog problem....

2006-12-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 9 Dec 2006 06:57:14 -0500, David Corbin wrote: > > AFAIK, the "provide" settings in the init scripts themselves. > > I understand that's where it's defined, but what I meant was how does > it find it. Surely it's not running every script each time somebody > depends on something. The

[gentoo-user] MacBook 64bits configs

2006-12-09 Thread KLessou
Can somebody share a configuration for the macbook in 64bits ? I have the macbook core 2 duo (not pro), If anybody can share also his xorg.conf, i will appreciate :-D Thx in advance ! -- ~ | klessou | ~

Re: [gentoo-user] One more time -- KDM 3.5.5 and kdesktop crash

2006-12-09 Thread Steve Brenneis
Richard Fish wrote: On 12/8/06, Steve Brenneis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've done that twice. I guess it's time to file a bug report. Seems it's already reported. Add your info here: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155377 -Richard Thanks again. Looks like they haven't touched it si

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Finding my modem

2006-12-09 Thread Pawel Kraszewski
Dnia piątek, 8 grudnia 2006 23:18, Michael Sullivan napisał: > > > 05:01.0 Communication controller: U.S. Robotics Unknown device 2f00 > > > (rev 01) > > > Subsystem: U.S. Robotics Unknown device 0113 > > > Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11 > > > Memory a

[gentoo-user] turning off irrelevant mplayer error

2006-12-09 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, When I try to use gmplayer to play audio I get this ugly error message on my desktop: [A0 0SS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy Doesn't stop gmplayer from working. It uses alsa OK. Got this on the command line too but it wasn't so in your face. A

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Finding my modem

2006-12-09 Thread Norberto Bensa
Michael Sullivan wrote: > 05:01.0 Communication controller: U.S. Robotics Unknown device 2f00 (rev > 01) > Subsystem: U.S. Robotics Unknown device 0113 > Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11 > Memory at ff90 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] >

Re: [gentoo-user] LAN speeds

2006-12-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/9/06, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi All, I am scp-ing data between LAN machines both of which have 10/100 ethernet cards, going through a 10/100 router. Using blowfish, I get about say 55682.80 kbits/sec (as shown in iptraf). How much should I be getting considering the speed of the

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.19-r1 won't boot - arcmsr?

2006-12-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/9/06, Dave Oxley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a Dell server that runs Gentoo. I have been running kernel 2.6.18-r3 with the third party arcmsr add on driver without any problems. I have tried to upgrade to 2.6.19-r1 with the kernels inbuild arcmsr driver but I cannot get it to boot. It

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Finding my modem

2006-12-09 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sat, 2006-12-09 at 17:32 +, Mick wrote: > On Saturday 09 December 2006 14:42, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > > OK. I checked my kernel config again and it did have the snd-intel8x0 > > driver built as a module, but not the snd-intel8x0m. I rebuilt the > > kernel with the snd-intel8x0m module

Re: [gentoo-user] eix double naming with colon?

2006-12-09 Thread Vaeth
>The testign version is better, but sort of strange. For > gentoo-sources it gave a nice readable list. However for rt-sources it > didn't. rt-sources is from some overlay, and probably you are using OVERLAY_CACHE_METHOD=none which cannot read SLOT-data calculated in eclasses. You migh

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.19-r1 won't boot - arcmsr?

2006-12-09 Thread Norberto Bensa
Dave Oxley wrote: > I have a Dell server that runs Gentoo. I have been running kernel > 2.6.18-r3 with the third party arcmsr add on driver without any > problems. I have tried to upgrade to 2.6.19-r1 with the kernels inbuild 2.6.19 sucks. Not only it moved CONFIG_SATA_* to CONFIG_ATA_* but also

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.19-r1 won't boot - arcmsr?

2006-12-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 00:46:02 +1100, Dave Oxley wrote: > I have a Dell server that runs Gentoo. I have been running kernel > 2.6.18-r3 with the third party arcmsr add on driver without any > problems. I have tried to upgrade to 2.6.19-r1 with the kernels inbuild > arcmsr driver but I cannot get i

[gentoo-user] LAN speeds

2006-12-09 Thread Mick
Hi All, I am scp-ing data between LAN machines both of which have 10/100 ethernet cards, going through a 10/100 router. Using blowfish, I get about say 55682.80 kbits/sec (as shown in iptraf). How much should I be getting considering the speed of the cards? -- Regards, Mick pgpp5dDmQToM1.pg

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Finding my modem

2006-12-09 Thread Mick
On Saturday 09 December 2006 14:42, Michael Sullivan wrote: > OK. I checked my kernel config again and it did have the snd-intel8x0 > driver built as a module, but not the snd-intel8x0m. I rebuilt the > kernel with the snd-intel8x0m module and rebooted. It modprobes > successfully. I emerged s

Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice

2006-12-09 Thread Thomas Rösner
Jorge Almeida wrote: [...] I use KDE, not because I find it perfect but because AFAIK it's the only DE that has two features that for me are a must: (1) Several virtual desktops, plus the possibility to switch desktops via configurable keyboard shortcuts, and (2) the possibility of setting differ

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo apache2 VirtualHost :443 config

2006-12-09 Thread Thomas Rösner
Grant wrote: Compare your ssl vhosts to your non ssl ones. I think you made some little mistake while adapting the gentoo config file copy. See below for our (working) config, note the similarity of IP and port... ;-) Did you turn SSL on in the second :443 vhost? I can't get it to work when bo

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo apache2 VirtualHost :443 config

2006-12-09 Thread Grant
>> >> > Ok, knowing that others like it I'm more comfortable trying to get >> >> > used to it. It's all the IfDefine stuff I don't like. >> >> >> >> Actually that makes it super flexible. >> > >> > At the expense of simplicity. >> >> The learning curve may be steeper, adding hosts is easier (IMHO

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.19-r1 won't boot - arcmsr?

2006-12-09 Thread Douglas Linford
Dave, So maybe that is a kenel issue...I had 2.6.17 and it would not find the root fs, and after upgrading to 2.6.18-r3, I could boot just fine with my external drives powered up. Douglas On 12/9/06, Dave Oxley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Douglas Linford wrote: > Dave, > > This may sound goof

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.19-r1 won't boot - arcmsr?

2006-12-09 Thread Dave Oxley
Douglas Linford wrote: Dave, This may sound goofy...but do you have any external drives connected to you box, ie, USB, ieee, or card readers? When I had my extenal USB hard disk turned on or my internal card readers connected when I booted Gentoo, boot would stop and it would say the same th

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.19-r1 won't boot - arcmsr?

2006-12-09 Thread Douglas Linford
Dave, This may sound goofy...but do you have any external drives connected to you box, ie, USB, ieee, or card readers? When I had my extenal USB hard disk turned on or my internal card readers connected when I booted Gentoo, boot would stop and it would say the same thing..."cannot find the root

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog problem....

2006-12-09 Thread David Corbin
On Saturday 09 December 2006 06:57, David Corbin wrote: > On Friday 08 December 2006 19:58, Richard Fish wrote: > > On 12/8/06, David Corbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > When an initscript says it depends on logger, how does runscript find > > > out what tool provides logger? > > > > AFAIK, the

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Finding my modem

2006-12-09 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sat, 2006-12-09 at 08:33 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 08 Dec 2006 17:08:21 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > > > > but it keeps griping because I > > > > don't have the snd-intel8x0m module... > > > > > > I guess the next step is to rebuild your kernel with this module. > > > > >

[gentoo-user] 2.6.19-r1 won't boot - arcmsr?

2006-12-09 Thread Dave Oxley
I have a Dell server that runs Gentoo. I have been running kernel 2.6.18-r3 with the third party arcmsr add on driver without any problems. I have tried to upgrade to 2.6.19-r1 with the kernels inbuild arcmsr driver but I cannot get it to boot. It says that it cannot find the root fs on sdc3. I

[gentoo-user] GDM: No local X server

2006-12-09 Thread Nico Schümann
Hi, I've set up a terminal server. Now, it actually works ([xdmcp] is enabled) and I can connect via X -broadcast, but GDM tries to start a local X server on the server machine. I don't want an X server to run on the terminal server. How do I configure GDM not to do this? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.or

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog problem....

2006-12-09 Thread David Corbin
On Friday 08 December 2006 19:58, Richard Fish wrote: > On 12/8/06, David Corbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When an initscript says it depends on logger, how does runscript find out > > what tool provides logger? > > AFAIK, the "provide" settings in the init scripts themselves. I understand t

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Finding my modem

2006-12-09 Thread Norberto Bensa
Michael Sullivan wrote: > Can anyone help me? Here's my lspci output: Do: lspci -n | grep 07..: This will give you at least one line corresponding to your modem. One like this (not exactly the same): 00:07.4 0780: 1106:3057 (rev 40) 1106:3057 is in this case my modem (actually it is not. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - Finding my modem

2006-12-09 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: > < snip > > > However, I fear that US Robotics are not really Linux friendly. > Unless they > have changed their ways they use winmodem chips which have M$Windows > drivers only. You may be better off selling your PCI modem and spending a > relatively small amount to buy a PCI modem

[gentoo-user] Re: OT - Finding my modem

2006-12-09 Thread Mick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Sullivan wrote: > On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 23:40 +, Mick wrote: >> On Friday 08 December 2006 23:08, Michael Sullivan wrote: >> > On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 22:44 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> > > On Fri, 08 Dec 2006 16:18:24 -0600, Michael Sulli

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo apache2 VirtualHost :443 config

2006-12-09 Thread Thomas Rösner
Grant wrote: >> > Ok, knowing that others like it I'm more comfortable trying to get >> > used to it. It's all the IfDefine stuff I don't like. >> >> Actually that makes it super flexible. > > At the expense of simplicity. The learning curve may be steeper, adding hosts is easier (IMHO etc of c

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Finding my modem

2006-12-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 08 Dec 2006 21:55:04 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: > I don't use the symlink USE flag - I set the symlink manually. Should I > use the symlink flag? It doesn't matter, as long as the symlink is set correctly. The USE flag is convenient, but can cause problems when you have emerged a new

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Finding my modem

2006-12-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 08 Dec 2006 17:08:21 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > > but it keeps griping because I > > > don't have the snd-intel8x0m module... > > > > I guess the next step is to rebuild your kernel with this module. > > > You don't understand; I don't have the module because I don't have any