Re: [gentoo-user] Can I clean contacts with isopropyl alcohol?

On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 22:58:16 -0300 "Ricardo Bevilacqua" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So: is it safe to clean the contacts of a PCI card with isopropyl > > alcohol and a cotton swab? > > > > Of course it's safe, just turn everything off, take the card out and > clean it with the alcohol. Most

Re: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 18:06:21 -0700 "Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One seemingly large problem is that > revdep-rebuild wants to rebuild packages that are no longer in portage > so you have to remove those from the rebuild or attempt to change > revision numbers by hand on the fly in th

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Lenovo distro poll

On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 11:42:30 +0400 Peter Volkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have not seen this link here, but I think it's worth it. > Vote, please! ;) > > http://lenovoblogs.com/insidethebox/?p=98 > > "I'm going to put another poll question up asking which Linux you all > would like to see o

Re: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:36:56 -0700 "Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.la' or > unhandled argument `/usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.la' looks like your libraries are a little off. Have you tried revdep-rebuild? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ma

Re: [gentoo-user] usb suspend bug for mouse?

On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:23:52 -0700 Thufir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a run of the mill USB optical mouse which has worked fine for > several years. Recently it started "stalling" , "hanging" or > "freezing" from gentoo. > > Haven't yet tried a different mouse. Perhaps it's just worn

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot situation

On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:54:01 -0400 "Colleen Beamer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I used fdisk - deleted all the partitions, created the new partition > table and created file systems on them. I can read data from the > drive - any text file that I can "cat" displays fine. I just can't > get the

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Problems with USB subsystem after upgrading to 2.6.22

On Sunday 09 September 2007, Dan Johansson wrote: > After upgrading to 2.6.22 one of my USB-devices stopped working "out of the > box". I've found a workaround (see below) to get it working. And my > question is how can I make this automatically? > > Here's the

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot situation

On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 22:15:53 -0500 Colleen Beamer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried this, but couldn't find a way to switch it off. Super glue the button to the case? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH won't restart

On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 12:30:56 -0700 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How does my host get root access like that? > > - Grant > Auto-logged in console, perhaps? Or access to the filesystem on a locally administered fileserver or something? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH won't restart

On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 13:48:12 -0700 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What about just having them reboot and start my manual daemon? Would > that accomplish the same thing? That would probably work too, but I don't think rebooting is likely to help. At the very best it's an additional waiting p

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH won't restart

On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 13:14:20 -0700 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you but doesn't it look like there must be a problem that is > preventing my sshd from starting? Won't '/usr/bin/sshd -p 3' just > fail, or is that more likely to work than '/etc/init.d/sshd start'? It seems to me that th

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with routing

On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 22:48:20 +0200 Hans-Werner Hilse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is on what computer? On the "server" (I guess it's the router) the > last line would effectively prevent routing for the client (but I > don't know why ICMP works...). I would suggest starting without it > and then s

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with routing

On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:59:03 +0200 Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > default HOMER-KUBUNTU64 0.0.0.0 UG0 0 0 eth0 What's this? I do not know if this should be here. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH won't restart

On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 12:23:37 -0700 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My host is pretty good about issuing commands for me. Any ideas > there? > > - Grant start sshd manually to get back in. something like '/usr/bin/sshd -p 3' (that would listen on port 3 for ssh connections) ("absolute path is

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH won't restart

On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 13:39:35 -0500 "Stephen Wittig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> That's why I usually have a telnet server up during ssh upgrade >> times. > The problem with connecting to the server via telnet is that your > password can be easily intercepted - which is one of the major reasons

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH won't restart

On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 12:12:13 -0700 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes. As a personal preference I don't usually chain commands > > together when trouble shooting something, but there is technically > > nothing wrong with doing so. > > And now I'm locked out. What do you think guys? > > -

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH won't restart

On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 09:58:53 -0700 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, I've got to be really careful here. I see the following processes > in 'ps -ef': > > root 2988 1 0 Sep04 ?00:00:00 /usr/sbin/sshd > root 7573 2988 0 07:28 ?00:00:00 sshd: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/

Re: [gentoo-user] awstats

On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 11:51:44 +0200 Naga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have you checked to see if mod_access.c is in apache-2.2.6? > If I'm not wrong the access modules have been reworked. They sure have. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA / sound not working

On Sat, 8 Sep 2007 08:07:15 -0400 Daniel D Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 06 September 2007 04:05:15 pm b.n. wrote: > > Daniel D Jones ha scritto: > > > New install of amd64 with multilib on an Asus K8V Deluxe mobo. > > > Trying to get sound working. > > > > What is the actual prob

[gentoo-user] [OT] Problems with USB subsystem after upgrading to 2.6.22

can select an active configuration: /sys/bus/usb/devices/2-1# echo 1 > bConfigurationValue /sys/bus/usb/devices/2-1# cat bConfigurationValue 1 After this the device works as expected. -- Dan Johansson, <http://www.dmj.nu> *** This message is print

Re: [gentoo-user] -x11-proto/xineramaproto Digest verification failed

On Sat, 8 Sep 2007 19:11:11 +0200 Herbert Laubner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > See message below: > > Herbert Laubner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted > [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on > Sat, 08 > Sep 2007 10:14:01 +0200: > > > > I am installing xorg-x11 on an amd64 machine. > > > > On xext

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH won't restart

On Sat, 8 Sep 2007 22:50:20 +0200 Alex Schuster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Josh Cepek writes: > > > I had a similar issue after a previous update to ssh when I went to > > restart it to get it to use the new binaries. One of the nice > > features of sshd is that your current session will say a

Re: [gentoo-user] apache configuration woes

On Fri, 7 Sep 2007 11:50:34 -0700 Michael Higgins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Either way, it seems like this should have been optional in the > upgrade, somehow. the names of the modules changed, so perhaps they were merged with httpd.conf erroneously becuase they were named differently. -- [EM

Re: [gentoo-user] Dspam/sql problem

On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 15:56:39 +0100 "Stuart Howard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now the problem is that no mails seem to get tagged as spam [other > than innocent] and it has been running prehaps 3 days now with at > least a couple of hundreds spam's going through it. is there any way to tell whet

Re: [gentoo-user] gpasswd

On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 16:36:36 +0200 Alex Schuster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Robert Walter writes: > > > i've added myself to the vboxusers group with "gpasswd -a robert > > vboxusers". when i do a "id robert" with root i see the added group > > but when i start a new xterm with user robert i'm s

Re: [gentoo-user] Oddities in apache2 update, other init bizarrity.

On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 13:23:25 -0700 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any luck? Can you just re-emerge the package and go through > etc-update properly? > > - Grant You will have to accept some of the changes to /etc/apache2/httpd.conf. some of the module names and files have changed; I also ha

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache2 2.0 -> 2.2 upgrade

On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 20:57:16 +0200 Christian Heim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Regards, > >Christian > > -- Thank you very much. that was indeed a mistake I made. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache2 2.0 -> 2.2 upgrade [solved]

well, if anyone has this problem, to fix it I commented out the Listen address in httpd.conf (defined for the default vhost anyway) I also had to comment out this section here. the comments said it was the default only if compiled with USE="-threads" but nevertheless it seemed to interfere. #

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound doesn't work in Flash

On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 15:00:12 -0400 Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm kinda desperate > at this point as I'm about to go on a very long tour through Europe > and I won't have time to troubleshoot this sorta thing then. well then I think there may be hope for you, for this isn't likely to pro

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache2 2.0 -> 2.2 upgrade

I have tracked down what appears to be the source of the difficulty with restarting apache 2.2 after an upgrade. to recap, here's the error: >zeus ~ # /etc/init.d/apache2 restart > * Starting apache2 ... >(98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address >0.0.0.0:80 no listening

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache2 2.0 -> 2.2 upgrade

I have discovered a really fun error message: >zeus dan # /etc/init.d/apache2 restart > * Starting apache2 ... >(98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address >0.0.0.0:80 no listening sockets available, shutting down >Unabl

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache2 2.0 -> 2.2 upgrade

On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 13:02:16 -0500 "Marzan, Richard non Unisys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Goodluck friend > Thanks, I needed it. I finally found a nice list of the information I need here: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/upgrading.html there's a message en route that covers all the major

Re: [gentoo-user] Oddities in apache2 update, other init bizarrity.

On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 09:27:32 -0700 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Today apache2 wants to upgrade to 2.2.4-r12. I've got cold feet. > Anyone tried this yet? I just started it out, to see what happens. I turned off the AC today, my feet aren't very cold ; ) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Oddities in apache2 update, other init bizarrity.

On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 09:27:32 -0700 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had the same problem yesterday, but rebooting the machine fixed it. > As for the KEEPENV, I was puzzled by that too but I didn't add > anything to env_whitelist and I left KEEPENV commented. Everything > seems to be fine. Pos

Re: [gentoo-user] Music Retrieval

On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 21:51:53 -0400 sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > sean wrote: > > >> > > I installed Audacious again and it works with error, I will just > > stick with that. I was only trying out Amarok. > That should have been without error. > -- as fun as errors are, I think we all we

Re: [gentoo-user] Oddities in apache2 update, other init bizarrity.

On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 19:55:44 -0700 "Kevin O'Gorman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > treat ~ # cd /etc/init.d > treat init.d # ./apache2 stop > * Stopping apache2 ... > No /usr/sbin/apache2 found running; none > killed. > [ !! ] > treat init.d # ./apache2 start > * WARNING: apache2 has already been

Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGE USE PHP additional options problem

On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 16:50:25 +0200 Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 this is not outlook express, it's kmail. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGE USE PHP additional options problem

mand like > that. Please show us the actual output of 'emerge -pv php'. > > Benno > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > It looks like he's trying to emerge from an ebuild file directly. Also not a good idea. -- Dan Cowsill http://www.danthehat.net -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Music Retrieval

On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 14:01:08 -0400 sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was only trying out Amarok. What did you think? I thought it was super cool, except it's resource utilization is so high i don't run it anymore if I can avoid. audacious seems almost completely better to me > I suspect t

Re: [gentoo-user] MCE in kernel

On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 06:51:38 +1000 "Alan E. Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think your solution is the better one, though. > > I did follow the instructions of the boot messages and installed an > mce log translation utility, but I didn't make sense of what to do > with it. The thing is, yo

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Lets push our disttro "Gentoo" UP - Cast your vote!

On Sat, 1 Sep 2007 01:10:30 -0700 Guillermo Antonio Amaral Bastidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On the other hand, a "vanilla" Gentoo installation could be > > considered a bare Stage 3, which has so little software installed > > it has to be the most secure. Also worth pointing out is since s

Re: [gentoo-user] openMosix? Now what?

s' similar questions) on the gentoo cluster mailing list, gentoo-cluster. perhaps the following link will be useful to you: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.cluster/ -- Dan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] MCE in kernel

#x27;nomce' to your kernel boot line in grub and you should be able to boot with MCE turned of to reconfigure. -- Dan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] genkernel vs kernel manual compilation

On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 18:44:34 -0400 "Ryan Sims" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] > > Ok, I've decided I'm doing more damage than good here. Arnau, if you > want to take this off list away from the static (much of it generated > by me, apologies), please feel free to email me, I'll help as far

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel vs kernel manual compilation

On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 19:05:47 -0300 Norberto Bensa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I don't know - but I know that genkernel's config sucks. > > > > Why? > > I can make menuconfig and then: > > sudo genkernel --oldconfig --no-clean all > Well, I make it a point to not use genkernel, but do

Re: [gentoo-user] linux desktop search engines are ugly!

On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:54:27 +0200 (CEST) Cipher van Byte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As far as I'm concerned the structure of directories and links (hard > or symbolic) were invented to eliminate the _need_ of having such > searching engines. > > Using those search engines is like reinventing t

Re: [gentoo-user] openvpn and nfsmount

On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 21:18:47 +0200 (CEST) Cipher van Byte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It isn't good idea to mount nfs over openvpn. Both are highly > unstable. Openvpn is highly unstable? really? mine's been up for days. NFS is highly unstable? Hardly. Perhaps you mean that it's unstable

Re: [gentoo-user] Server Network Configuration

On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 09:49:51 -0700 (PDT) BRM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'll have to check into iproute2. Seems interesting...won't be able to > try until tonight (after I get home), but will certainly share the > results. > > Thanks, > > Ben. Ben, iproute2 is the latest and greatest

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: i586 install

On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 20:53:28 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > journaling is just a waste of space > and time. not to mention breaking compatibility with older bootloaders. not that it's likely to matter, but yet another con. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] "Treason uncloaked!" solution?

On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 20:17:17 +0200 Hans-Werner Hilse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:55:06 -0500 > Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > It usually means that the other side of the TCP > > > connection reduced

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] advices about motherboard+cpu+fan(+soundcard) combo?

On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:36:38 +0200 Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd say if you stick with AMD, try the boxed cooler and test it. > Since it's not a dedicated silent system, it might be good enough. If > you switch to Intel, buy a good cooler from the beginning. > Furthermore, be su

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] advices about motherboard+cpu+fan(+soundcard) combo?

On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 23:23:23 +0100 Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 00:05:24 +0200, b.n. wrote: > > > The onboard Intels were a good lifesaver. I'm considering an Intel > > Core Duo... what's wrong with them that AMD does right? :) > > Nothing AFAICT. I have a Core2

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] advices about motherboard+cpu+fan(+soundcard) combo?

On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 13:41:39 +0200 "brullo nulla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IIRC, Intel onboard videocards were well > supported open source... They do a really nice job on 2D in my experience. But if you are accelerating 3d opengl in hardware, like glxgears for example, expect artifacts to

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA hell : master channel permanently at zero volume, no sound

On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 12:54:23 +0200 Hans-Werner Hilse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:03:55 +0200 "b.n." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > What concerns me is that alsamixer nevers shows a volume control on > > Master anymore, and amixer says: > > > > Simple mixer co

Re: [gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant issues

oot > > has something to do with wpa_ctrl. > > > > I hope you fine fellows can piece something together with this or give > > me some documentation I might read. > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > No, it's always 5872. Before and after startup. Glad you could make it :D -- Dan Cowsill http://www.danthehat.net -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] "Treason uncloaked!" solution?

On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 23:48:55 +0200 Hans-Werner Hilse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 12:18:16 -0700 > Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Sometimes I get "Treason uncloaked!" in dmesg when running > > bittorrent. The solution here: > > > > http://www.linuxquestions.o

Re: [gentoo-user] Rolling upgrades, are you making sure everything gets restarted?

same URL as the old one. Still a no-go :-( I put in some dubugging lines (three print-lines), and the result is that the first time the program reaches the following program segment (line 118 ansd 119) everything works (no error). packages.setdefault(packagename,Package(packagename))

Re: [gentoo-user] Rolling upgrades, are you making sure everything gets restarted?

genericups' Could you please try to explain whats wrong? Regards, -- Dan Johansson, <http://www.dmj.nu> *** This message is printed on 100% recycled electrons! *** signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub md5crypt broken

On 8/20/07, Don Jerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/20/07, Dan Cowsill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I started having problems with my boot password not too long after I > > changed it and I stumbled upon something altogether weird. > > > > The follow

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub md5crypt broken

On 8/20/07, Vladimir Rusinov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 8/21/07, Dan Cowsill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I started having problems with my boot password not too long after I > > changed it and I stumbled upon something altogether weird. > > >

[gentoo-user] Grub md5crypt broken

No capitalization, no spaces, no nonsense. And yet the hashes md5crypt returns are all different. Now, that's no good if you ask me. Is anyone else experiencing the same issue? Thanks. -- Dan Cowsill http://www.danthehat.net -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Internet bridge

On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:56:13 +0200 Etaoin Shrdlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What interfaces was the win2003 server using previously for bridging > and connecting to the Internet? I'm not entirely sure windows 'bridging' is equivalent to linux Ethernet bridging. Specifically, wouldn't linux Eth

[gentoo-user] Firefox and Synaptics mousepad

if there is some sort of firefox setting I can change to disable that function? Thanks, -- Dan Cowsill http://www.danthehat.net -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] new gnome fails except for root

On 8/14/07, Allan Gottlieb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At Tue, 14 Aug 2007 10:49:56 -0400 Dan Cowsill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > An interesting development: I removed my user from the system and > > deleted his home folder. After that, I made the user agai

Re: [gentoo-user] new gnome fails except for root

On 8/14/07, Dan Cowsill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/13/07, Allan Gottlieb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I updated to the new gnome. After battling the expat problem, I was > > able to get a clean emerge and an empty revdep-rebuild (with Bo's > > help

Re: [gentoo-user] new gnome fails except for root

blem seemed to be .gnome2 and .metacity. Perhaps it's a problem with metacity? Either way, I'm by no means a guru, but I'll try to help as much as possible. -- Dan Cowsill http://www.danthehat.net -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] expat troubles now gnome *very flakey*

On 8/13/07, Dan Cowsill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/13/07, Allan Gottlieb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I successfully battled the expat problem (with Bo's help) and > > revdep-rebuild reports no further need to recompile. > > > > But gnome seems

Re: [gentoo-user] expat troubles now gnome *very flakey*

in believing that this is not likely to make > things worse. For example emacs-22 and firefox-2.0.0.6 work fine now. > > thanks > allan > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > I'm currently updating the world tree on my machine and I did run into the expat issue. L

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: packages.gentoo.org down?

e no one was being paid to address it in a prompt fashion. -- Dan Cowsill http://www.danthehat.net -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: packages.gentoo.org down?

On 8/10/07, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:01:09 -0400, Dan Cowsill wrote: > > > If there was a little explanation earlier on, we could have > > avoided the panic and dissemination of false information that > > followed. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: packages.gentoo.org down?

On 8/10/07, Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 10 August 2007 09:27:17 Alexander Skwar wrote: > > Albert W. Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Again, I apologize for the outage. We'll be back online next week and > > > hopefully after that we'll have a better way of de

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Flashing BIOS trouble

t possible you may have touched some of the contacts on the chip? If so, your CPU may be fried. On the plus side, the chip might make an interesting geek accessory if you hung it from some sort of chain. -- Dan Cowsill -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] packages.gentoo.org down?

I've always prefered gentoo-portage.com to the alternative. On 8/7/07, Graham Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Christian Heim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > It's being closed until further notice. > > So would it not be a good idea to announce this on the front page[1] or at > least redirect

[gentoo-user] Stop net.eth0 from starting?

I've got wifi configured with madwifi and use my wifi interface a lot more than the ethernet I had thought that removing net.eth0 from rc-update, but that didn't seem to work. Every time I booted, the interface tried to go up and get dhcp information. I then read about and used a preup function t

[gentoo-user] Switching from Genkernel to manual build

Is there any specific process to or problems one might encounter as a result of switching from a Genkernel built kernel over to a manually built kernel? Thanks. -- -·=»Ðŧħ«=·- ï¿½ï¿½í¢‹ï¿½z���(��&j)b� b�

Re: [gentoo-user] where to place command to be executed on X.org start

when no X is running (e.g. when logging in via ssh). -- Dan Keder http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xkeder/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine freezes during gcc compile

othly... Does anyone know of any special considerations I should take with the processor? Thanks. On 7/30/07, Dan Cowsill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, I've done some reading and indeed it probably is overheating. > I'll probably prop it up on some jewel cases and blow a fa

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine freezes during gcc compile

CTED]> wrote: > On 7/30/07, Dan Cowsill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just got myself a new laptop and wanted to install Gentoo on it. > > After getting a working base system installed, I tried to install > > Xorg-x11, but the machine froze while trying to com

[gentoo-user] Machine freezes during gcc compile

I just got myself a new laptop and wanted to install Gentoo on it. After getting a working base system installed, I tried to install Xorg-x11, but the machine froze while trying to compile gcc. Keep in mind, there were no error messages, logs or anything of that nature. Just a straight up lack of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: insert text onto a PDF

ed? > > I'm not seeing a ps2pdf package to emerge. Does it go by another name? # equery b $(which ps2pdf) [ Searching for file(s) /usr/bin/ps2pdf in *... ] app-text/ghostscript-esp-8.15.3 (/usr/bin/ps2pdf) -- Dan Johansson, <http://www.dmj.nu> **

Re: [gentoo-user] The Future of the Gentoo Foundation

Then the idea that the Gentoo Foundation might 'cease to exist as an entity' isn't really bad news? Some clarification might be in order. On 7/27/07, Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Freitag, 27. Juli 2007, Daniel da Veiga wrote: > > http://www.osnews.com/story.php/18315/The-F

Re: [gentoo-user] XSESSION="Xsession" doesn't work!

Have you used ~/.xsession ? That's what I do for a 'custom' session. Search for xsession in the X manpage for more information on this. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3??

I read a little bit of the new license, and restrictive though it may be and also strange for a pillar of the open source community to suddenly change is directive so drastically, I am still comforted. I believe the essential beauty of this community is that we cannot be governed by software lice

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting domainname doesn't work.

On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 13:29:09 +0200 Elias Probst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 127.0.0.1 hosname.domain.local localhost hostname > > Ok, thank you! Now it works. > But I'm still wondering about the variable in conf.d/net. > It seems this variable is totally useless. Do you think your server-sup

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg configuration

On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 20:08:00 + Thufir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's some emerge oddities I've run into: > > Am I the only one who sees this as nearly uselessly packed with wierd characters? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Absymal IDE performance with gentoo-sources-2.6.22 and why hda instead of sda?

On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:53:17 +0200 Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > but I use no such parameters and > > haven't any problems. > > I think I was unable to boot without them in pre 2.6.21 times. But > maybe this has changed. I'll find out. > > Thanks again, > > Alexander Skwar

Re: [gentoo-user] Another question regarding grub......

On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 22:50:18 +0800 Andrew Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just wondering, is there a way to make grub just display the boot > options, that is the various OS's that I can boot to through grub, > without timing out to the default? At times I turn my PC on, wander > off to fix up s

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg configuration

On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:00:41 +0200 "Xav'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'll reboot and try copying some stuff around. Also, "emerge gnome" > > will give me a basic gnome? Yeah, pretty much. I don't use gnome but helped my roommate install gnome on gentoo without reading that guide. I think

Re: [gentoo-user] Absymal IDE performance with gentoo-sources-2.6.22 and why hda instead of sda?

On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 10:01:44 +0200 Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What do I have to do, so that the drive is fast in kernel 2.6.22 as > well? > > I'm booting the 2.6.22 kernel with this entry in grub menu.lst: > > ,[ kernel 2.6.22 ] > | title Gentoo GNU/Linux (zuletzt gebaut

Re: [gentoo-user] USB modem locks weirdly

On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 09:51:38 +0200 Clara García <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So it is a DNS problem but I have the correct DNS of my ISP > in /etc/resolv.conf I don't think so. It sounds like it when > I just get an "google.com unknown host" that happens, but nevertheless I think the problem is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: memtest fails, but is it the RAM?

On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 08:59:12 +0930 Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I hear a bios beep, and that's it. > Maybe it's a MBoard issue? Maybe a video card issue? Hmmm, I don't > want to replace the whole lot! Ever hear of a POST code? if not, look up the post codes for your bios / mother

Re: [gentoo-user] System for PIII now lives in K7; any way to rebuild without full reinstall?

On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 18:31:33 -0500 Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan Farrell wrote: > > Howdy folks. Today I have a fun exercise but am short on ideas. > > Any suggestions? > > > > I have an old hard drive from my router, a Pentium III. Now i've

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] building a machine for Gentoo

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 04:49:42 -0400 Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 070709 Dan Farrell wrote: > > 070710 Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> KVM's are OS independent; they can get you into the BIOS or > >> console; you can s

Re: [gentoo-user] building a machine for Gentoo

On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 21:35:22 -0700 "Julian Simioni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/9/07, Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Agreed, of course, but one nice thing about extra ram that it might > > be pertinent to mention is that it can be

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] selecting boot(active?) partition

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:09:07 +0200 "pat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Some information what I've used to remove GRUB from MBR. In windows > (don't beat me) there are tools 'fixmbr' and 'fixboot' and Ive used > them. You could try 'fdisk /mbr' from windows command line. That should replace your MBR

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] building a machine for Gentoo

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 08:32:49 +0930 Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > because KVM's are OS independent; they can get you into the BIOS or > console; you can see boot messages; network doesn't need to be working Just to > name a few benefits. So yes, I agree if you're only interested in

Re: [gentoo-user] building a machine for Gentoo

On Mon, 09 Jul 2007 20:59:36 -0400 Ophidian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And yes, the 2GB RAM is probably > overkill since I've never actually taken it all that close to filling > up RAM let alone swapping to disk. Agreed, of course, but one nice thing about extra ram that it might be pertinent

Re: [gentoo-user] building a machine for Gentoo

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 00:45:18 +0300 "Aleksey V. Kunitskiy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 10 July 2007 02:46, b.n. wrote: > > If you want to start with 1 Gb, buy a > > single 1 Gb stick, and not two 512 Mb ones -so when you will want to > > upgrade, you'll have less problems. > I think it'

Re: [gentoo-user] serial terminal

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 00:53:09 +0300 "Aleksey V. Kunitskiy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 10 July 2007 00:39, Patrick May wrote: > > RDP, VNC, X, etc. is replacing a lot of it. Why walk over when a > > couple mouse clicks or keys (for SSH) you can "be there." > > When the system is instal

Re: [gentoo-user] upgrade kernel

On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 23:56:12 +0400 "Vladimir Rusinov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/9/07, Luigi Pinna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I have problems to upgrade my kernel from 2.6.18-r6 to upper > > versions. If I use my 2.6.18-r6 config file and I do a make, after > > reboot I can't boot th

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