Re: [gentoo-user] Putting gentoo to work :)

2007-02-10 Thread Alexandru Mincu
On 2/10/07, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexandru Mincu ha scritto: First of all let's start with the clients... I am a Gnome fan and I think it is better and simpler to use, but them if you have windows users that you want to put to use linux, kde might be a better option... although

Re: [gentoo-user] Performance problem at writing big files and Multitasking

2007-02-10 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Hi i am back again! Unfortunately my problem is still bugging me! I will give short overview what i have tried so far. 1. Trying different I/O Scheduler ( cfq anticipatory and deadline) 2. Enabling Low latency kernel and Preemptible kernel 3. Setting 1000 HZ for timer frequency 4. Tried the

Re: [gentoo-user] Putting gentoo to work :)

2007-02-10 Thread Alexandru Mincu
On 2/9/07, Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Fri, 9 Feb 2007 19:43:16 +0200 Alexandru Mincu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My setup will look like this: big server with 2 or 3 gigabit ethernet cards and lots of sata drives in a big raid array. disk less workstations with 512mb

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [kernel 2.6.19-r4] DVD Drive extremely slow

2007-02-10 Thread Jakob Buchgraber
Nelson, David (ED, PARD) wrote: David Nelson, Early Development Chemist, PARD F13 Lab Block, Macclesfield, Cheshire 01625 518518 (ext 28518) -Original Message- From: Michael Schreckenbauer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 February 2007 12:42 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

RE: [gentoo-user] QLogic QLA2xxx driver kernel 2.6.18+

2007-02-10 Thread Ásgeir Halldórsson
Hi all, Should I ask another mailinglist about this problem? From: Ásgeir Halldórsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 7. febrúar 2007 10:30 To: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] QLogic QLA2xxx driver kernel 2.6.18+ Hi all, Has anyone found a solution to how to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [kernel 2.6.19-r4] DVD Drive extremely slow

2007-02-10 Thread Jakob Buchgraber
Hey! I just found out that this is a bug in kernel 2.6.19 (http://linuxforen.de/forums/showthread.php?t=230939) and no patches have been offered yet. So if anyone knows a patch for this issue, it would be nice if you could offer a link to the patch. Cheers, Jay -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

[gentoo-user] OpenOffice-2: Permission problem with file dialog

2007-02-10 Thread Arend von der Lieth
Hi all, I keep having problems with Openoffice when I try to use the open file or save file as.. dialog: - open file: nothing happens (apart from soffice.bin grabbing about 75% of my system's CPU ressources), but I can close the application window; soffice.bin (and soffice) continue to occupy the

Re: [gentoo-user] Putting gentoo to work :)

2007-02-10 Thread b.n.
Alexandru Mincu ha scritto: On 2/10/07, *b.n.* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well they are all noobs ... I am talking about like 90% of the people there don't have any idea linux exists :). That's why usability is a key here... i want it to be easy to use even if you

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice-2: Permission problem with file dialog

2007-02-10 Thread Michal 'vorner' Vaner
Hello, On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 01:19:04PM +0100, Arend von der Lieth wrote: The peculiar thing is that everything works fine when I am running the program as root (which of course is not what I would like to do). My system is mainly from the stable branch, but the described behaviour is the

Re: [gentoo-user] Default programs when opening a file

2007-02-10 Thread Grant
and I like PenguinTV much better. All kinds of TV programs are available in RSS feeds for free now. CNN, NBC News, ABC News, CBS News, BBC News, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report. That's not even scratching the surface. Let me know if you'd like more info. Is there some Italian program

[gentoo-user] preventing a module from being loaded

2007-02-10 Thread marco restelli
Hi list, I have just upgraded to udev-104-r9. Now, at boot, the module bcm43xx is loaded, while I have been using ndiswrapper. I have thus to do the following: modprobe -r ndiswrapper modprobe -r bcm43xx modprobe ndiswrapper My question is: how can I prevent bcm43xx from being loaded?

Re: [gentoo-user] QLogic QLA2xxx driver kernel 2.6.18+

2007-02-10 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 17:27:13 +0530 Ásgeir Halldórsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone found a solution to how to load the firmware dirvers on boot in 2.6.18+ kernels. I read something about you need to put the /lib/firmware files into initrd. But I dont know how or where to put

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice-2: Permission problem with file dialog

2007-02-10 Thread Arend von der Lieth
Hi Michal, Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote: Hello, [snip] This is just a shot, but it helped me few problems. Could you try setting up a new user account and try it there? If it works there, it is because of some problem with your personal settings (not that it would excuse it to behave this

[gentoo-user] embed subtitles on video to ipod

2007-02-10 Thread Mauro Faccenda
Hi people, I have some videos and its respectives subtitles (.srt) and would like to watch them on my new iPod Video. I already know how to recode them so can be played on iPod, but I don't know how to insert the legend from the .srt text file. I was thinking about something like telling

Re: [gentoo-user] Open Office 2.0.4 and fonts

2007-02-10 Thread Adrian
On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 20:46:04 -0800 Vladimir G. Ivanovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the words: Adrian wrote: Greetings; I just upgraded Open Office from 2.0.3 to 2.0.4 (yes, I'm behind). Now, I can't use any of the fonts other than the ones which come with Open Office. All my existing

[gentoo-user] Did I just get hacked???

2007-02-10 Thread Grant
The contents of my /home/grant/vmware folder have suddenly disappeared. I haven't noticed anything else strange yet. I did configure and start shorewall for the first time yesterday instead of using a few iptables commands from the Gentoo Home Router Guide. I'm also running PenguinTV (a video

Re: [gentoo-user] Did I just get hacked???

2007-02-10 Thread Jerry McBride
On Saturday 10 February 2007 09:27:10 pm Grant wrote: The contents of my /home/grant/vmware folder have suddenly disappeared. I haven't noticed anything else strange yet. I did configure and start shorewall for the first time yesterday instead of using a few iptables commands from the Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Did I just get hacked???

2007-02-10 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 18:27 -0800, Grant wrote: The contents of my /home/grant/vmware folder have suddenly disappeared. I haven't noticed anything else strange yet. I did configure and start shorewall for the first time yesterday instead of using a few iptables commands from the Gentoo Home

Re: [gentoo-user] Did I just get hacked???

2007-02-10 Thread Chris Nolan
A long time ago when a LAMP box of mine got hacked.. they installed a program in /tmp/random characters that would connect to IRC servers. Basicly they made my box a bot. The way I found it was I saw outgoing IRC connections when I was in netstat looking for something else. They got me

Re: [gentoo-user] Did I just get hacked???

2007-02-10 Thread Grant
The contents of my /home/grant/vmware folder have suddenly disappeared. I haven't noticed anything else strange yet. I did configure and start shorewall for the first time yesterday instead of using a few iptables commands from the Gentoo Home Router Guide. I'm also running PenguinTV (a

[gentoo-user] Re: preventing a module from being loaded

2007-02-10 Thread Remy Blank
(Sorry if this appears twice, but I sent the message three hours ago and it hasn't appeared on the list yet) marco restelli wrote: Now, at boot, the module bcm43xx is loaded, while I have been using ndiswrapper. I had the same problem here. You can block the automatic loading of the module by

[gentoo-user] First time kernel compile, experiencing some problems

2007-02-10 Thread Vlad Dogaru
Hello, after a couple of failed attempts some time ago, I actually ended up with a kernel that boots. However, I am experiencing some problems which I think are at least in part due to my perhaps incomplete kernel configuration. First of all, my console is still in 80x24 mode, although I pass

[gentoo-user] Re: preventing a module from being loaded

2007-02-10 Thread Remy Blank
marco restelli wrote: Now, at boot, the module bcm43xx is loaded, while I have been using ndiswrapper. I had the same problem here. You can block the automatic loading of the module by udev as follows: Find out the module alias used by udev: cat /sys/class/net/wlan0/device/modalias

[gentoo-user] Re: Did I just get hacked???

2007-02-10 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-02-11, Chris Nolan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A long time ago when a LAMP box of mine got hacked.. they installed a program in /tmp/random characters that would connect to IRC servers. Basicly they made my box a bot. The way I found it was I saw outgoing IRC connections when I was in

[gentoo-user] subversion client too old (?)

2007-02-10 Thread John covici
Hi. I am having a strange subversion problem. I think it stems from the fact that I boot into two different systems, one has subversion 1.4.0and the gentoo system has 1.3.2 and when the 1.3.2 client touches something checked out by the 1.4.0 version, it complains -- does seem to work. However

[gentoo-user] libdbus error on vlc

2007-02-10 Thread Jed R. Mallen
Before I did an 'emerge -uD world', I get a libdbus-1.so.2 error, so I assumed that was because I was using outdated packages. This came out when I started k3b, vlc and some other apps. After the world update, k3b works fine, but vlc still gives out this error: vlc: error while loading shared

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libdbus error on vlc

2007-02-10 Thread Jed R. Mallen
Guys, Thanks lots! revdep-rebuild worked just fine. Coolness :) -- Jed R. Mallen | GPG key ID: 81E575A3 fp: 4E1E CBA5 7E6A 2F8B 8756 660A E54C 39D6 81E5 75A3 | http://jed.sitesled.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Framebuffer problems

2007-02-10 Thread Jed R. Mallen
Hello, I enabled framebuffer on the kernel (vesa-fb with 1280x1024 resolution) and I use this grub menu entry for framebuffer: kernel /bzImage-fb1280 root=/dev/hda8 video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr vga=0x0317 splash=verbose,theme:Gentoo-Hornet But everytime I boot there's a message that says the video

Re: [gentoo-user] subversion client too old (?)

2007-02-10 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Saturday 10 February 2007 15:28:14 John covici wrote: Hi.  I am having a strange subversion problem.   I think it stems from the fact that I boot into two different systems, one has subversion 1.4.0and the gentoo system has 1.3.2 and when the 1.3.2 client touches something checked out by