Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need hdparm for serial ATA drive?

2010-05-27 Thread Mick
On Thursday 27 May 2010 17:29:26 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 27 May 2010 16:22:11 +0100, Mick wrote: > > Newer machines invariably have SATA drives: > > > > Do I need to emerge hdparm for such a drive? > > % whatis hdparm > hdparm (8) - get/set SATA/ATA device parameters > > SAT

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub & USB keyboard

2010-05-27 Thread alain . didierjean
Selon Paul Hartman : > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 9:42 AM, wrote: > > I have an USB keyboard that works fine thru evdev. At boot time, it allows > the > > BIOS to be called and set.Right after that grub displays its menu but just > > ignores key strokes... > > Any known solution ? In other terms, h

Re: [gentoo-user] Digikam issue

2010-05-27 Thread Dale
Bogo Mipps wrote: On Friday 28 May 2010 06:34:18 CJoeB wrote: Digikam loads just fine. It recognizes and displays the pictures in the folders on my hard drive. When my camera is plugged in and I select "Import --> Camera", my camera appears in the list (not the specific model, but it reco

Re: [gentoo-user] Digikam issue

2010-05-27 Thread Bogo Mipps
On Friday 28 May 2010 06:34:18 CJoeB wrote: > Digikam loads just fine. It recognizes and displays the pictures in the > folders on my hard drive. When my camera is plugged in and I select > "Import --> Camera", my camera appears in the list (not the specific > model, but it recognizes that it is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk trouble ... or not yet?

2010-05-27 Thread meino . cramer
Andrea Conti [10-05-27 17:20]: > > I was more thinking of a tool, which test the whole disc surface > > and reports every bad sector. > > badblocks -wvs (which takes forever, but in my experience is quite good > at make failing disks actually fail ;) > > During the test you can monitor the smart

Re: [gentoo-user] danger-deep

2010-05-27 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 14:18 +0300, Arttu V. wrote: > On 5/27/10, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > Doesn't run here. Something to do with getting the available > > resolutions: > > > > Anyone know about SDL? > > I really don't, but I'm just wondering if you are looking at the 0.3.0 > source tarball cod

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge --keep-going but it doesn't

2010-05-27 Thread Dale
walt wrote: On 05/27/2010 07:39 AM, Dale wrote: walt wrote: On 05/27/2010 02:42 AM, Dale wrote: Hi folks. I'm doing a fresh install onto another hard drive. Just felt like doing a fresh one instead of copying. Anyway, I got most everything installed. I was doing my last set of installs, thi

[gentoo-user] Re: Digikam issue

2010-05-27 Thread walt
On 05/27/2010 11:34 AM, CJoeB wrote: ... As a side issue, if I assume that I need to mount the camera manually, I have always used the kwikdisk utility that is part of KDE. Despite the fact that this appears as a menu item, it won't load... I've snipped a lot because I don't use kde and I don'

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge --keep-going but it doesn't

2010-05-27 Thread walt
On 05/27/2010 07:39 AM, Dale wrote: walt wrote: On 05/27/2010 02:42 AM, Dale wrote: Hi folks. I'm doing a fresh install onto another hard drive. Just felt like doing a fresh one instead of copying. Anyway, I got most everything installed. I was doing my last set of installs, things like seamon

[gentoo-user] Re: new user can't run X apps

2010-05-27 Thread walt
On 05/05/2010 01:41 PM, Grant wrote: I created a new user with useradd but I get X errors like "cannot open display" and "cannot connect to X server" when I try to run X apps as the new user... Are you also using X as yourself at the same time newuser is trying to use X?

[gentoo-user] Re: RAID problems - Is udev at fault here?

2010-05-27 Thread walt
On 05/25/2010 05:37 PM, walt wrote: On 05/24/2010 11:44 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > ... 05:00.0 SATA controller: JMicron Technology Corp. 20360/20363 Serial ATA Controller (rev 03) The only experience I have with a JMicron controller is an outboard eSATA docking station (a great product) and it

Re: [gentoo-user] Digikam issue

2010-05-27 Thread CJoeB
On 05/27/10 15:33, Dale wrote: > CJoeB wrote: >> Hi, >> >> First, I have searched the archives and didn't find anything that seemed >> to help. >> >> The main issue here is with digikam. I used to have it working, but >> some upgrade or other seemed to screw things up. >> >> Digikam loads just fin

Re: [gentoo-user] Digikam issue

2010-05-27 Thread Dale
CJoeB wrote: Hi, First, I have searched the archives and didn't find anything that seemed to help. The main issue here is with digikam. I used to have it working, but some upgrade or other seemed to screw things up. Digikam loads just fine. It recognizes and displays the pictures in the fold

[gentoo-user] Digikam issue

2010-05-27 Thread CJoeB
Hi, First, I have searched the archives and didn't find anything that seemed to help. The main issue here is with digikam. I used to have it working, but some upgrade or other seemed to screw things up. Digikam loads just fine. It recognizes and displays the pictures in the folders on my hard

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix question about auth and blocklists...

2010-05-27 Thread Brandon Vargo
On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 17:24 +0100, Steve wrote: > On 26/05/2010 20:32, Brandon Vargo wrote: > > I hope the above helps. > > > > Thank you very much... that was very informative. Unfortunately, I > now discover I fibbed when I said I had SASL auth set up - I only > thought I had... When I corr

Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need hdparm for serial ATA drive?

2010-05-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 27 May 2010 16:22:11 +0100, Mick wrote: > Newer machines invariably have SATA drives: > > Do I need to emerge hdparm for such a drive? % whatis hdparm hdparm (8) - get/set SATA/ATA device parameters SATA is still ATA, using the same basic command set but over a different

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix question about auth and blocklists...

2010-05-27 Thread Steve
On 26/05/2010 20:32, Brandon Vargo wrote: > I hope the above helps. > Thank you very much... that was very informative. Unfortunately, I now discover I fibbed when I said I had SASL auth set up - I only thought I had... When I correctly configure thunderbird, I get the following postfix messa

Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need hdparm for serial ATA drive?

2010-05-27 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Mick wrote: > Newer machines invariably have SATA drives: > > *-disk >description: ATA Disk >product: ST9500420ASG >vendor: Seagate >physical id: 0 >bus info: s...@0:0.0.0 >

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub & USB keyboard

2010-05-27 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 9:42 AM, wrote: > I have an USB keyboard that works fine thru evdev. At boot time, it allows the > BIOS to be called and set.Right after that grub displays its menu but just > ignores key strokes... > Any known solution ? In other terms, how can I 'teach' grub to read a US

[gentoo-user] Do I need hdparm for serial ATA drive?

2010-05-27 Thread Mick
Newer machines invariably have SATA drives: *-disk description: ATA Disk product: ST9500420ASG vendor: Seagate physical id: 0 bus info: s...@0:0.0.0 logical name: /dev/sda ver

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub & USB keyboard

2010-05-27 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 27.05.2010 16:42, schrieb alain.didierj...@free.fr: > I have an USB keyboard that works fine thru evdev. At boot time, it allows the > BIOS to be called and set.Right after that grub displays its menu but just > ignores key strokes... > Any known solution ? In other terms, how can I 'teach' grub

[gentoo-user] Grub & USB keyboard

2010-05-27 Thread alain . didierjean
I have an USB keyboard that works fine thru evdev. At boot time, it allows the BIOS to be called and set.Right after that grub displays its menu but just ignores key strokes... Any known solution ? In other terms, how can I 'teach' grub to read a USB keyboard at boot time ? -- ~adj~

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge --keep-going but it doesn't

2010-05-27 Thread Dale
walt wrote: On 05/27/2010 02:42 AM, Dale wrote: Hi folks. I'm doing a fresh install onto another hard drive. Just felt like doing a fresh one instead of copying. Anyway, I got most everything installed. I was doing my last set of installs, things like seamonkey, firefox, pigdin, gtkam and al

[gentoo-user] Re: danger-deep

2010-05-27 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-05-27, Iain Buchanan wrote: >> So I read about a very cool submarine game today >> on LJ: >> http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/danger-deep >> >> Only to discover it's already in portage. >> KUDOS to the Gentoo game devs for being >> on top of this one > > Doesn't run here. So

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge --keep-going but it doesn't

2010-05-27 Thread walt
On 05/27/2010 02:42 AM, Dale wrote: Hi folks. I'm doing a fresh install onto another hard drive. Just felt like doing a fresh one instead of copying. Anyway, I got most everything installed. I was doing my last set of installs, things like seamonkey, firefox, pigdin, gtkam and all the > other p

Re: [gentoo-user] new user can't run X apps

2010-05-27 Thread David Relson
On Wed, 5 May 2010 13:41:19 -0700 Grant wrote: > I created a new user with useradd but I get X errors like "cannot open > display" and "cannot connect to X server" when I try to run X apps as > the new user. I've tried restarting with the same results. Does > anyone know why this is happening? >

Re: [gentoo-user] danger-deep

2010-05-27 Thread Arttu V.
On 5/27/10, Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 17:45 +, James wrote: >> Folks, >> >> I just had to share this. >> >> So I read the Linux journal, mostly to do my >> part to keep publications about Linux alive. >> Occationally they write about something cool, >> though rarely rel

[gentoo-user] Re: [URGENT] Assistance Requested in Looking for Dr Francis T. Seow, Harvard Law School Research Fellow

2010-05-27 Thread Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)
Dear Christopher, I have sent countless emails to many governmental, non-governmental and international organizations in the world with the subject "Plea for Medical Help/Assistance". But surprisingly I get very few replies. Maybe the replies have been deleted or the emails I sent have been de

Re: [gentoo-user] Something happened on the way to X : solved

2010-05-27 Thread Dale
alain.didierj...@free.fr wrote: Selon Dale: alain.didierj...@free.fr wrote: Installing Gentoo on my computer... with ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" VIDEO_CARDS="fglrx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" everything's fine until I emerge xorg-server, which returns: [ebuild N] x11-base/xorg-drivers-

[gentoo-user] emerge --keep-going but it doesn't

2010-05-27 Thread Dale
Hi folks. I'm doing a fresh install onto another hard drive. Just felt like doing a fresh one instead of copying. Anyway, I got most everything installed. I was doing my last set of installs, things like seamonkey, firefox, pigdin, gtkam and all the other programs I use for this and that.

[gentoo-user] Re: [URGENT] Assistance Requested in Looking for Dr Francis T. Seow, Harvard Law School Research Fellow

2010-05-27 Thread Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)
Dear Christopher, I have sent countless emails to many governmental, non-governmental and international organizations in the world with the subject "Plea for Medical Help/Assistance". But surprisingly I get very few replies. Maybe the replies have been deleted or the emails I sent have been de

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk trouble ... or not yet?

2010-05-27 Thread Andrea Conti
> I was more thinking of a tool, which test the whole disc surface > and reports every bad sector. badblocks -wvs (which takes forever, but in my experience is quite good at make failing disks actually fail ;) During the test you can monitor the smart attributes (smartctl -A, esp. the reallocated

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk trouble ... or not yet?

2010-05-27 Thread Stroller
On 27 May 2010, at 01:19, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: ... Is there any way to check the disk without damaging its contents? If you have copied from /dev/sda to /dev/sdb then `md5sum /dev/sda / dev/sdb` will compare both drives. You're probably safest to compare a partition at a time `md5sum