Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I want my Ctrl+Alt+Backspace back

2010-04-21 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 21 April 2010 01:44:15 Harry Putnam wrote: Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com writes: I think you did not read the link properly. You are meant to copy the relevant .fdi file from /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-keymap.fdi to /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-keymap.fdi and then

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-box stopping services

2010-04-21 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 21.04.2010 00:07, schrieb Stroller: You emphasise how old the hardware is, but this really isn't a problem. As you say, one increasingly fears the death of a system which is getting so old, but I have two systems nearly as old running for years without hardware problems. Yes, it does what

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I control ttyS0 respawning speed?

2010-04-21 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
Jarry wrote: Hi, I have set-up serial console on my server in /etc/inittab: s0:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 ttyS0 vt100 It mostly works, with one exception: right after boot-up I get this message: INIT: ID s0 respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes Of course, I can see this only on

Re: [gentoo-user] In which order services are started?

2010-04-21 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 20.04.2010 21:28, schrieb Neil Bothwick: On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 19:47:55 +0200, Jarry wrote: Is there any way to find out in which order services are started during boot-up (except for looking at boot-up screen and making notes)? You could turn on boot logging in rc.conf and look at

Re: [gentoo-user] In which order services are started?

2010-04-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 09:50:07 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: You could turn on boot logging in rc.conf and look at /var/log/rc.log. How do I do this? My rc.conf doesn't contain anything that looks like a fitting parameter. There is no man-page for rc.conf, either. rc_logger=YES in

Re: [gentoo-user] In which order services are started?

2010-04-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 01:01:00 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: Is there any way to find out in which order services are started during boot-up (except for looking at boot-up screen and making notes)? You could turn on boot logging in rc.conf and look at /var/log/rc.log. I think

[gentoo-user] Re: sci-physics/root slotting?

2010-04-21 Thread daid kahl
Hello, For anyone who uses the data analysis framework ROOT developed mainly at CERN (sorry, I didn't name it 'root'), I can imagine that slotting would be an extremely useful feature. It occurred to me tonight that adding slotting should be easy and very useful. Not true! The slotting

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-box stopping services

2010-04-21 Thread Stroller
On 21 Apr 2010, at 08:28, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: ... Does the system have sufficient swap? swap should be OK: # free -m total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 501484 17 0 16 241 -/+

[gentoo-user] Login through KDM

2010-04-21 Thread Massimiliano Ziccardi
Hi all! Lately I can't login anymore to my GENTOO pc through KDM (ssh login works). I tried to look inside the kdm.log file, but could not see any useful message. Could someone point me to where to look to find some information? Thanks a lot, Massimiliano

Re: [gentoo-user] In which order services are started?

2010-04-21 Thread Alex Schuster
Jarry writes: Is there any way to find out in which order services are started during boot-up (except for looking at boot-up screen and making notes)? I think the output of 'rc-status' shows the services in the right order. Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server upgrade

2010-04-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 21 April 2010 02:05:54 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 21 April 2010 00:33:19 Mark Knecht wrote: Check out module-rebuild. You put a list of packages in it How and where does one do that? by running module-rebuild populate That syntax might not be correct. The man page

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sci-physics/root slotting?

2010-04-21 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Daid, daid kahl daid...@gmail.com writes: Hello, For anyone who uses the data analysis framework ROOT developed mainly at CERN (sorry, I didn't name it 'root'), I can imagine that slotting would be an extremely useful feature. It occurred to me tonight that adding slotting should be

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-kernel/ck-sources - why should I use them?

2010-04-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 20 April 2010 16:41:03 Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 20 Apr, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Dienstag 20 April 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, has anybody experience with these new sys-kernel/ck-sources? I could only see they have additional patches (in addition to those of

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server upgrade

2010-04-21 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 21 April 2010 02:05:54 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 21 April 2010 00:33:19 Mark Knecht wrote: Check out module-rebuild. You put a list of packages in it How and where does one do that? by running module-rebuild populate That

Re: [gentoo-user] In which order services are started?

2010-04-21 Thread Dale
Alex Schuster wrote: Jarry writes: Is there any way to find out in which order services are started during boot-up (except for looking at boot-up screen and making notes)? I think the output of 'rc-status' shows the services in the right order. Wonko It may be a

[gentoo-user] Re: sys-kernel/ck-sources - why should I use them?

2010-04-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 04/21/2010 12:59 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 20 April 2010 16:41:03 Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 20 Apr, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Dienstag 20 April 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, has anybody experience with these new sys-kernel/ck-sources? I could only see they have

[gentoo-user] CUPS-1.5 (SVN) anybody/anywhere

2010-04-21 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, has anybody experience with CUPS-1.5 (i.e. the svn version)? Does anybody know where to find an ebuild for net-print/cups- ? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] In which order services are started?

2010-04-21 Thread YoYo siska
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 05:05:46AM -0500, Dale wrote: Alex Schuster wrote: Jarry writes: Is there any way to find out in which order services are started during boot-up (except for looking at boot-up screen and making notes)? I think the output of 'rc-status' shows the services

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Setting up a fall back ISP SMTP in sendmail

2010-04-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 20 April 2010 15:53:01 Harry Putnam wrote: I think you all are missing something... sendmail is better documented than any of the other pretenders. One has to understand what the various MTAs out there were built to do, and what their feature list is: sendmail comes from ancient

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Setting up a fall back ISP SMTP in sendmail

2010-04-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 20 April 2010 17:51:12 Harry Putnam wrote: Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com writes: On 2010-04-20, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: About all the snipes concerning hacking sendmail.cf... I'm sure you are all aware that any hacking needs to happen in sendmail.mc...

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sys-kernel/ck-sources - why should I use them?

2010-04-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 21 April 2010 12:08:47 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 04/21/2010 12:59 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 20 April 2010 16:41:03 Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 20 Apr, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Dienstag 20 April 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, has anybody experience with

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server upgrade

2010-04-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 21 April 2010 12:03:18 Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 21 April 2010 02:05:54 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 21 April 2010 00:33:19 Mark Knecht wrote: Check out module-rebuild. You put a list of packages in it How and where does one do that? by

[gentoo-user] Re: sys-kernel/ck-sources - why should I use them?

2010-04-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 04/21/2010 01:26 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 21 April 2010 12:08:47 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 04/21/2010 12:59 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 20 April 2010 16:41:03 Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 20 Apr, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Dienstag 20 April 2010, Helmut Jarausch

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sys-kernel/ck-sources - why should I use them?

2010-04-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:26:13 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Yes. Though it applies everything, not just BFS, and I'm not sure if this a good idea or not. How is ck-sources different from zen-sources? zen-sources seems to be a gigantic mixing pot of every possible patch set ever

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sys-kernel/ck-sources - why should I use them?

2010-04-21 Thread KH
Am 21.04.2010 13:14, schrieb Neil Bothwick: Maybe some sort of super-sources package, with the various patches controlled by USE flags would be a good idea. Then we could have a kernel with just the patches we want, like: USE=gentoo reiser4 -bfs emerge super-sources Are we too late for

Re: [gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox

2010-04-21 Thread Adam
ummm .. ok ? so your using the default xorg.conf .. could be why youve got bad performance. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml - deface But the new version of xorg (from circa 1.7) dont really need xorg.conf, moreover its discouraged to use one. (or just i think so) You only

Re: [gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox

2010-04-21 Thread Mick
On 21 April 2010 12:26, Adam a...@jaftan.com.au wrote: ummm .. ok ? so your using the default xorg.conf .. could be why youve got bad performance. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml - deface But the new version of xorg (from circa 1.7) dont really need xorg.conf, moreover its

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server upgrade

2010-04-21 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 4/21/2010 1:41 AM, Graham Murray wrote: walt w41...@gmail.com writes: That was true in the past, but no longer. The recent release of xorg 1.8 specifically says that hal will not be supported in any future xorg versions, so we should all start looking beyond hal. Don't spend a lot of

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Setting up a fall back ISP SMTP in sendmail

2010-04-21 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-04-21, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 20 April 2010 15:53:01 Harry Putnam wrote: I think you all are missing something... sendmail is better documented than any of the other pretenders. One has to understand what the various MTAs out there were built to do,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Where's my wireless AP?

2010-04-21 Thread Steffen Loos
# iw reg get country 00: (2402 - 2472 @ 40), (6, 20) (2457 - 2482 @ 20), (6, 20), PASSIVE-SCAN, NO-IBSS (2474 - 2494 @ 20), (6, 20), NO-OFDM, PASSIVE-SCAN, NO-IBSS (5170 - 5250 @ 40), (6, 20), PASSIVE-SCAN, NO-IBSS (5735 - 5835 @ 40), (6, 20),

Re: [gentoo-user] 'wifi' USE flag in firefox

2010-04-21 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 20 Apr 2010, at 13:17, Mick wrote: ... Introduced in Gecko 1.9.1: Code with UniversalXPConnect privileges can monitor the list of available WiFi access points to obtain information about them including their

Re: [gentoo-user] 'wifi' USE flag in firefox

2010-04-21 Thread erdunand
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 10:01:20AM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: There are already big sites like Twitter and Google Maps that use the geolocation API. Give it a try: http://www.google.com/maps/m If it is able to get your location, it should have a little dot in the bottom-right corner that

[gentoo-user] cyrus-sasl 2.1.23 remote server rejected your credentials

2010-04-21 Thread laurent
Hi, Using Postfix and TLS for a MTA, my password is rejected. Here the log message: saslauthd[4358]: do_auth : auth failure: [user=u...@domain.com] [service=smtp] [realm=domain.com] [mech=rimap] [reason=remote server rejected your credentials] could it be a bug from cyrus-sasl 2.1.23 ?

[gentoo-user] K3b does not find burning device

2010-04-21 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, K3b suddenly cannot find any burning device of my system. Hald is running. vlc can acces the drive for playing dvds. kdebase-runtime-meta is installed. k3b was recompiled without problems. The Configuration dialog of k3b states for both kind of drives none. And me? I have really no idea,

Re: [gentoo-user] K3b does not find burning device

2010-04-21 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 12:26 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, K3b suddenly cannot find any burning device of my system. Hald is running. vlc can acces the drive for playing dvds. kdebase-runtime-meta is installed. k3b was recompiled without problems. The Configuration dialog of k3b

Re: [gentoo-user] K3b does not find burning device

2010-04-21 Thread meino . cramer
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com [10-04-21 20:12]: On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 12:26 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, K3b suddenly cannot find any burning device of my system. Hald is running. vlc can acces the drive for playing dvds. kdebase-runtime-meta is installed. k3b

Re: [gentoo-user] K3b does not find burning device

2010-04-21 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 1:21 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com [10-04-21 20:12]: On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 12:26 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, K3b suddenly cannot find any burning device of my system. Hald is running. vlc can acces the drive

Re: [gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox

2010-04-21 Thread Grant
ummm .. ok ? so your using the default xorg.conf .. could be why youve got bad performance. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml - deface But the new version of xorg (from circa 1.7) dont really need xorg.conf, moreover its discouraged to use one. (or just i think so) You only

Re: [gentoo-user] In which order services are started?

2010-04-21 Thread Dale
YoYo siska wrote: On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 05:05:46AM -0500, Dale wrote: Alex Schuster wrote: Jarry writes: Is there any way to find out in which order services are started during boot-up (except for looking at boot-up screen and making notes)? I think the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Where's my wireless AP?

2010-04-21 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 21 April 2010 15:41:26 Steffen Loos wrote: I guess country 00 means no country code? Just try to set up ieee80211_regdom=EU for module cfg80211. ---8--- # modprobe -v cfg80211 ieee80211_regdom=EU insmod /lib/modules/2.6.32-tuxonice-r5/kernel/net/wireless/cfg80211.ko

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-box stopping services

2010-04-21 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 20 April 2010 13:01:52 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: greetings, gentoo-users ... One of my customers runs an old P3 as a mail-gateway and samba-server (yeah, I know ...) behind his firewall ... They simply don't want to swap hardware, they are happy ... until the following

Re: [gentoo-user] In which order services are started?

2010-04-21 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: Alex Schuster wrote: Jarry writes: Is there any way to find out in which order services are started during boot-up (except for looking at boot-up screen and making notes)? I think the output of 'rc-status' shows the services in the right order. It may be a

[gentoo-user] Confusion with eix output

2010-04-21 Thread James Cunning
I am having some trouble, I think, with my nvidia video driver, and eix produces some output I cannot decipher from information in the man page: jlc64 X11 # eix nvidia-drivers [D] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers Available versions: [M]71.86.07!s [M]~71.86.09!s 96.43.09!s ~96.43.11!s

Re: [gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox

2010-04-21 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 4/21/2010 3:07 PM, Grant wrote: Could this be the problem? # grep ^\(EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log (EE) Failed to load module vesa (module does not exist, 0) (EE) Failed to load module fbdev (module does not exist, 0) (EE) intel(0): [drm] Failed to open DRM device for : No such file or

[gentoo-user] cyrus-sasl 2.1.23 remote server rejected your credentials

2010-04-21 Thread laurent
ok, it's 3 days I'm tryin to fix my smtp connection, I have been through the whole configuration many times and getting the certificates also. The last thing I did is add this line again in /etc/postfix/main.cf: smtpd_sasl_path = smtpd which changed the error into a warning for postfix: warning:

Re: [gentoo-user] In which order services are started?

2010-04-21 Thread Dale
Alex Schuster wrote: Dale writes: Alex Schuster wrote: Jarry writes: Is there any way to find out in which order services are started during boot-up (except for looking at boot-up screen and making notes)? I think the output of 'rc-status' shows the services in

Re: [gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox

2010-04-21 Thread Grant
Could this be the problem? # grep ^\(EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log (EE) Failed to load module vesa (module does not exist, 0) (EE) Failed to load module fbdev (module does not exist, 0) (EE) intel(0): [drm] Failed to open DRM device for : No such file or directory (EE) intel(0): Failed to become

Re: [gentoo-user] Confusion with eix output

2010-04-21 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 4/21/2010 3:48 PM, James Cunning wrote: I am having some trouble, I think, with my nvidia video driver, and eix produces some output I cannot decipher from information in the man page: jlc64 X11 # eix nvidia-drivers [D] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers Available versions: [M]71.86.07!s

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-box stopping services

2010-04-21 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 21.04.2010 09:18, schrieb Mick: Have you looked at dmesg in case there is something there that the kernel's spewed out? Also, you haven't run out of space? df -h checked both before even posting here: nothing stinky in dmesg, df -h shows enough free space on the partitions. Thanks, S

Re: [gentoo-user] 'wifi' USE flag in firefox

2010-04-21 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 21 April 2010 16:20:57 erdun...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 10:01:20AM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: There are already big sites like Twitter and Google Maps that use the geolocation API. Give it a try: http://www.google.com/maps/m If it is able to get your

Re: [gentoo-user] cyrus-sasl 2.1.23 remote server rejected your credentials

2010-04-21 Thread kashani
On 4/21/2010 12:56 PM, laur...@logiquefloue.org wrote: ok, it's 3 days I'm tryin to fix my smtp connection, I have been through the whole configuration many times and getting the certificates also. The last thing I did is add this line again in /etc/postfix/main.cf: smtpd_sasl_path = smtpd

Re: [gentoo-user] K3b does not find burning device

2010-04-21 Thread meino . cramer
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com [10-04-22 00:08]: On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 1:21 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com [10-04-21 20:12]: On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 12:26 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, K3b suddenly cannot find any

Re: [gentoo-user] K3b does not find burning device

2010-04-21 Thread David W Noon
On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 20:30:01 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] K3b does not find burning device: Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com [10-04-21 20:12]: [snip] What if you run k3b as root? Can it see it then? Maybe it's a permissions issue. No, that was my first

Re: [gentoo-user] 'wifi' USE flag in firefox

2010-04-21 Thread Stroller
On 21 Apr 2010, at 16:01, Paul Hartman wrote: ... I *believe* that a geolocation-aware browser would be able to tell the site where you are. So as soon as you open the webpage, the site will query your browser, your browser will tell it where you are and an AJAXy element on the page would

Re: [gentoo-user] K3b does not find burning device

2010-04-21 Thread meino . cramer
David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com [10-04-22 03:40]: On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 20:30:01 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] K3b does not find burning device: Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com [10-04-21 20:12]: [snip] What if you run k3b as root? Can it see it then?