Re: [gentoo-user] is it safe to unmask sys-auth/policykit

2007-12-08 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
John covici schrieb: on Saturday 12/08/2007 Rumen Yotov([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On (08/12/07 18:46) Daniel Pielmeier wrote: John covici schrieb: on Saturday 12/08/2007 Rumen Yotov([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote John covici ??: Sorry if this is a duplicate -- II never got

Re: [gentoo-user] is it safe to unmask sys-auth/policykit

2007-12-08 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
John covici schrieb: on Saturday 12/08/2007 Daniel Pielmeier([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote John covici schrieb: on Saturday 12/08/2007 Rumen Yotov([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On (08/12/07 18:46) Daniel Pielmeier wrote: John covici schrieb: on Saturday 12/08/2007 Rumen Yotov([EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Binhost integrity questions

2007-11-27 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2007/11/27, Aniruddha [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Dan Farrell wrote: md5sum - compute and check MD5 message digest [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ dd if=/dev/urandom of=/tmp/md5src count=512 512+0 records in 512+0 records out 262144 bytes (262 kB) copied, 0.041335 s, 6.3 MB/s [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $

Re: [gentoo-user] kdegraphics

2007-11-20 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2007/11/20, econti [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, to-day I re-emerged kdegraphics. At the end I had this message: * /usr/kde/3.5/share/applications/kde/kfaxview.desktop: value image/fax-g3 for string list key MimeType in group Desktop Entry does not have a semicolon (';') as trailing character

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: compiz-fusion, emerald and xfce

2007-10-31 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2007/10/27, Marc Blumentritt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Daniel Pielmeier schrieb: I used this command: compiz --loose-binding --replace ccp emerald --replace A strange thing is that it only works when I execute it a few times. The first time I had no window decorations! Another thing

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem using the pppoe plugin

2007-10-27 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
John covici schrieb: Exactly where did you put your mtu -- I don't see it in the possibly options in /etc/conf.d/net.example for the pppd options. It is in the Section INTERFACE HANDLERS: # Some users may need to alter the MTU - here's how #mtu_eth0=1500 plugins_ppp0=(rp-pppoe) Are you sure

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem using the pppoe plugin

2007-10-27 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
I answer to your last two threads. OK, thanks to all who responded -- I had to do mtu_ppp0=1492 and then I had to do the iptables rule. I still wonder why the native package worked, but not the plugin? Go figure. It seems that the mtu problem only occurs when you use the kernel module and

Re: [gentoo-user] compiz-fusion, emerald and xfce

2007-10-26 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Marc Blumentritt schrieb: Hi, for some reason I do not get compiz-fusion running with xfce. I installed from portage tree and not from xeffects overlay. I want to use emerald as window decorator. Therefore I added in ccsm under window decorations - command emerald --replace. Using

Re: [gentoo-user] Armagetron and Gentoo?

2007-10-17 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
My question is now, where can I find this overlay? I've tried the above commands, but last didn't work: --begin quoting-- linux-zc4n / # layman -ka armagetron * Overlay armagetron does not exist! linux-zc4n / # --end quoting-- (Sorry for my art of quoting, I'm new here, and don't quite

Re: [gentoo-user] Armagetron and Gentoo?

2007-10-17 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2007/10/17, Sebastian Sitaru [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've got it (although not all! :( ). So now the layman command is starting and executes an svn command. And the svn command says, that it hasn't got SSL support! What a joke! I can't find any USE-flags with ssl or crypto in the subversion's USE

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu gcc version restriction

2007-10-17 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2007/10/17, pat [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, I want to use qemu. One of its parts (qemu-softmmu) requires gcc major version 3. My whole system is set up to use gcc major version 4 (because it supports pentium-m architecture). And question is: Is there a way how to setup different gcc for some

Re: [gentoo-user] portage sync error

2007-10-15 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/common-problems.xml I can't update portage: # emerge portage Calculating dependencies /!!! Cannot resolve a virtual package name to an ebuild. !!! This is a bug, please report it. (virtual/libiconv-0) This link also mentions how to update portage

Re: [gentoo-user] Can RAM render useless the encryption of the / and swap partitions?

2007-10-06 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Liviu Andronic schrieb: On 10/5/07, Daniel Pielmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is an option in baselayout's rc file to erase the swap at shutdown. Take a look at /etc/conf.d/rc under RC_SWAP_ERASE. As far as I understand, this is far from secure. You want at least some degree

Re: [gentoo-user] Can RAM render useless the encryption of the / and swap partitions?

2007-10-05 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Volker Armin Hemmann schrieb: In practice, after power is cut, everything in ram is lost. But not the stuff in swap I don't know if this was mentioned already but it is probably useful. There is an option in baselayout's rc file to erase the swap at shutdown. Take a look at

Re: [gentoo-user] How does module-rebuild know what's installed?

2007-10-05 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Randy Barlow schrieb: Howdy, every time I try to run module-rebuild on one of my systems it tries to emerge nvidia-legacy-drivers, which is no longer in portage. It's no big deal because I can obviously emerge the packages that need to be rebuilt manually, but I wanted to try and remove

Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating a system

2007-10-03 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Randy Barlow schrieb: Is it really necessary to back up /sys and /proc? What about /dev? I don't think it is necessary but it will consume almost no disk space so I don't worry. Also, to Björn, I didn't find a -a option in man tar, what does it do? Didn't find this option too! Is it

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg, 2 screen cards 2 monitors... Help!

2007-10-02 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Section Device Identifier ATI0 Driver radeon BusID PCI:1:0:0 Screen 0 EndSection Section Device Identifier ATI1 Driver radeon BusID PCI:2:10:0 Screen 1 EndSection (II) Primary

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg, 2 screen cards 2 monitors... Help!

2007-10-02 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2007/10/2, Evert [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Done that: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO] (rev 01) 02:0a.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV100 QY [Radeon 7000/VE] Does it work now with changing the BusID's? -- [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg, 2 screen cards 2 monitors... Help!

2007-10-02 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Section Device Identifier ATI0 Driver radeon BusID PCI:1:0:0 Screen 0 EndSection Section Device Identifier ATI1 Driver radeon BusID PCI:2:10:0 Screen 1 EndSection (II) Primary

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg, 2 screen cards 2 monitors... Help!

2007-10-02 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2007/10/2, Daniel Pielmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Section Device Identifier ATI0 Driver radeon BusID PCI:1:0:0 Screen 0 EndSection Section Device Identifier ATI1 Driver radeon BusID

Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating a system

2007-10-02 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Randy Barlow schrieb: So I was an idiot when I set up my system and didn't use LVM. Now that I'm out of disk space on one of my drives and kicking myself, I want to do it without doing a reinstall. If I use tar -cvjpf oldSystemThatShouldStillWorkWhenUnTarred.tar.bz2 /, then setup LVM, then

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg.conf changes and dual screen setup

2007-09-15 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
As it happens I noticed that my TV out also stopped working recently. However, I run ATI not nvidia. I blamed the latest xorg-server for it and left it at that. When I run xrandr, just like you, I only see the laptop's screen: == $ xrandr Screen 0:

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg.conf changes and dual screen setup

2007-09-15 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Sounds like the server doesn't implement RandR version 1.2 What does xrandr -v say. For me it is Server reports RandR version 1.2 If you don't have 1.2 you won't have the --output stuff. Also --on doesn't exist even in 1.2. I found man xrandr helpful. Randr 1.2 was introduced in xorg

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg.conf changes and dual screen setup

2007-09-11 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Since you are describing a TV out it might be your tertiary screen. When I type xrandr with no arguments I get Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1600 x 1200, maximum 1920 x 1920 VGA connected 1600x1200+0+0 (normal left inverted right) 0mm x 0mm 1920x1440 60.0

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg.conf changes and dual screen setup

2007-09-10 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Now my ~/bin/Xinitialize begins #!/bin/sh sleep 2 if xrandr | grep VGA connected ; then xrandr --verbose --output VGA --mode 1600x1200 --output LVDS --off else xrandr --verbose --output VGA --off --output LVDS --mode 1680x1050 fi xset s reset# above seems to

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg.conf changes and dual screen setup

2007-09-10 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
I have tested xrandr but it is useless for me! I tried various things but neither of them seem to have any effect on my secondary screen. I can only change the configuration of my primary monitor. Disabling randr in xorg conf has no effect too. Does anybody know what changes have to be done in

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg.conf changes and dual screen setup

2007-09-10 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Thanks for your answer, i will try if i can get it working like this but randr doesn't seem to work on the secondary device. I have heard that nvidia cards doesn't support randr 1.2 so i will give it a try with randr disabled in my configuration. I don't have nvidia so can't comment (I810)

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg.conf changes and dual screen setup

2007-09-10 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Allan Gottlieb schrieb: At Mon, 10 Sep 2007 09:24:59 +0200 Daniel Pielmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for your answer, i will try if i can get it working like this but randr doesn't seem to work on the secondary device. I have heard that nvidia cards doesn't support randr 1.2 so i

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg.conf changes and dual screen setup

2007-09-10 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
I found a bug at archlinux [1] which is describing my problem. There are two pictures attached. I have exactly the same problem. This bug was closed as wont fix because it should be a nvidia problem. This is possible, but i don't think so as the upgrade of xorg-server package obviously caused

[gentoo-user] Xorg.conf changes and dual screen setup

2007-09-09 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Hi, the update to xorg-server-1.3 broke my dual-screen setup. It creates a virtual screen size with the same size of the primary monitor for the second monitor which is my TV. So i can only reach a zone with 800x600 on the second device, even scrolling within the virtual screen is impossible. I

Re: [gentoo-user] xinit-1.0.4.ebuild - Digest verification failed:

2007-09-08 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Joseph schrieb: Is anybody getting the same message: Calculating world dependencies /!!! Digest verification failed: !!! /usr/portage/x11-apps/xinit/xinit-1.0.4.ebuild !!! Reason: Failed on MD5 verification !!! Got: 7ae3e7a071d5e4be0dcc383be0296cd4 !!! Expected:

Re: [gentoo-user] Updated bash crashed complete system

2007-09-04 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
I reinstall now bash 3.1_p17 which works fine. So it should be a bug in the bash-package 3.2_p15-r1? Current stable version of bash is 3.2_p17! Maybe try this one. 3.2_p15-r1 is not in the tree anymore. Maybe you should sync your tree! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Updated bash crashed complete system

2007-09-04 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
I reinstall now bash 3.1_p17 which works fine. So it should be a bug in the bash-package 3.2_p15-r1? In your first message the portage output says version 3.2_p17 now you write 3.2_p15-r1, which one is bugging you? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo still not up -- now no kbd driver

2007-09-01 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Hendrik Boom schrieb: Still having trouble with my first gentoo install. Now X fails to come up. The relevant message seems to be; # grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER (EE) Failed to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo still not up -- now no kbd driver

2007-09-01 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
make.conf ends with the lines INPUT_DEVICES=keyboard mouse VIDEO_CARDS=radeon Is this what you mean? Seems to be okay I use genkernel to create the kernel. Mind you, I ran genkernel in a chroot under Debian Etch. How can I tell whether keyboard support has been enabled? You can

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD burner recomendation

2007-08-30 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Don't use straight dvdauthor... unless: * You really enjoy editing large XML files hand * Making complex menus * Very familiar with DVD structure Creating the xml files is not that difficult. I have generated animated menus (with buttons which are highlighted on mouse over

Re: [gentoo-user] trying to make an ebuild

2007-08-29 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Noud Aldenhoven schrieb: Hello, I'm not sure in which mailing list this one belongs, so I hope I picked the right one. I was trying to make an ebuild for a small MUD client (tinyfugue). But it doesn't seem to work correct. When I try to compile it I get an ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY ERROR

Re: [gentoo-user] Mutt depends on Lynx ?

2007-08-12 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Philip Webb schrieb: I went to emerge the latest Mutt found it wanted to emerge Lynx too. I have a recent Lynx in /usr/local am experienced with both apps (yes, I know that that Lynx doesn't count for Portage). Does anyone know why Mutt wants to bring in Lynx ? According to the

Re: [gentoo-user] Replytolist plug-in for thunderbird not working

2007-08-11 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Yoann Pannier schrieb: Daniel Pielmeier wrote, On 2007-08-10 21:14: So when i start thunderbird i didn`t see the extra button for replytolist. Only reply and reply-all as usual. You may have to remerge x11-plugins/replytolist after every thunderbird update, like any other thunderbird addon

[gentoo-user] Replytolist plug-in for thunderbird not working

2007-08-10 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Hi! I have enabled this plug-in since it has been included in the thunderbird ebuild. However for some reason it doesn't work. I didn't bother until now, but as there are some inconsistencies with the gentoo mailing lists, (some use reply to munging and some not, see threads on gentoo-project

Re: [gentoo-user] IO scheduling

2007-07-31 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Aleksey V. Kunitskiy schrieb: Hi, Is there any possibility to adjust IO scheduling priority ? I found that rtorrent eats a lot of IO resourses when calculating hash, and I can't ajust that by making its nice higher. Even on +19 it is blocker Thanks There is ionice. It is part of

Re: [gentoo-user] Tkinter, where ?

2007-07-22 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: I just installed Scribus and plays with it. Some of its scrips need tkinter to execute. Tkinter seems ignored by portage. Quite surprising. Is there a gentoo way to install it ? It is ignored by portage as the scribus ebuild has no tk use flag which should

Re: [gentoo-user] Tkinter, where ?

2007-07-22 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
It is ignored by portage as the scribus ebuild has no tk use flag which should probably implemented. With this use flag portage will complain about missing tkinter and advises you to reinstall python with tkinter support. I had this kind of problem with another package before. Time to fill

Re: [gentoo-user] Tkinter, where ?

2007-07-22 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
It doesn't matter to me who files the bug. I just think it needs to be filed so that it can be fixed before it causes more trouble and is harder to fix. I just didn't want to search, then file one, us both file it at about the same time and end up with a duplicate bug. Thanks Dale

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc 4.2 and Core 2 Duo

2007-07-20 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Andrew Gaydenko schrieb: I have noticed, the official portage tree has included gcc 4.2. Now for Core 2 Duo CPU (amd64 Gentoo arch) I use in make.conf file: CFLAGS=-O2 -march=nocona -pipe gcc' changelog has this note: ... IA-32/x86-64 * -mtune=generic can

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc 4.2 and Core 2 Duo

2007-07-20 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
march and mtune together? stupid. native when you know your CPU? Does your CHOST say 'x86_64' or nocona? mmmx, msse2, mss3 stupid. Its all part of nocona (maybe not msse3 but everything else). And fomit-frame-pointer? AFAIK superfluos on the amd64 architecture, which was copied by intel -

Re: [gentoo-user] Downloading Flash videos

2007-06-26 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Mick schrieb: Hi All, I've been trying to download different flash embedded videos like: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4191382246884244677 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjV0Gws-BVM etc. I have used VideoDownloader with Firefox and FLV Downloader (which didn't work) and Video

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is wxWidgets/wxPython 2.8?

2007-06-25 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Grant Edwards schrieb: wxWidgets/wxPython 2.8 has been out for about 6 months now, but hasn't even made it into testing yet. The most recent version available in portage is 2.6.3. Is there some problem with wxWidgets/wxPython 2.8? Is there anything we users can do to help? Take a look

Re: [gentoo-user] scpa5XX and CONFIG_VIDEO_V4L1_COMPAT not listed

2007-06-22 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
sean schrieb: Trying to emerge spca5xx but during the build process it is stated that CONFIG_VIDEO_V4L1_COMPAT needs to be set in the kernel. That is fine, but I do not see this option anywhere in menuconfig. From what I read it should be located under device drivers multimedia devices, but

Re: [gentoo-user] scpa5XX and CONFIG_VIDEO_V4L1_COMPAT not listed

2007-06-22 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
sean schrieb: Trying to emerge spca5xx but during the build process it is stated that CONFIG_VIDEO_V4L1_COMPAT needs to be set in the kernel. That is fine, but I do not see this option anywhere in menuconfig. From what I read it should be located under device drivers multimedia devices, but

Re: [gentoo-user] 1st time framebuffer setup

2007-06-21 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Those are just two different ways for setting up a splash screen; I think gentoo is currently more directed to bootsplash rather than fbsplash. But neither of them is mandatory for framebuffer usage (and framebuffer console). In order to use the framebuffer, you just need to load the relevant

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Compile something with debugging information

2007-06-19 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
To debug this, I'd like to build postfix again, but this time portage should not strip the binaries and it should be compiled with debugging information compiled in (ie. with -g). How would I do that? There is a good howto which explains building packages with debug information and

Re: FeatureRequest Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?

2007-06-10 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
I also dislike the colorization, but for a more specific reason. Gentoo seems to assume one is using white on black rather than the default black on white in terminal windows. This makes yellow lettering entirely unreadable to me. If I could just change all occurrences of yellow to

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers for 8600 GT

2007-05-13 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
I did something rather dirty today. I downloaded the newest Nvidia Beta Drivers and copied it over to /usr/portage/distfiles under the same name the in-portage driver had. So while portage thinks the old drivers are installed - that's not the case :) Oh yes, dirty ;-) I assume you did also

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox shared folder anyone? [SOLVED]

2007-05-13 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Helmut Jarausch schrieb: The following steps were successful (for me) echo app-emulation/virtualbox-bin additions dvitool \ /etc/portage/package.use emerge app-emulation/virtualbox-bin# here 1.3.8-r1 create the virtual machine (WinXP in my case) as described and install

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers for 8600 GT

2007-05-12 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Today I bought a graphics card with Nvidia 8600 GT chipset without taking into account that there might be no official nvidia drivers supporting this card yet. There are beta drivers (v. 100.14.03) available on nzone, though, that should get that card working, but there's no ebuild for them

Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided

2007-05-08 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
I have x11-wm/beryl-0.2.1 installed on a stable system. One of its dependencies is ~x11-wm/aquamarine-0.2.1 which dies during compilation. This is fine with me because I installed beryl issuing: emerge --resume --skipfirst and it works OK. My problem is that portage wants to pull in aquamarine

Re: [gentoo-user] zd1211 patch?

2007-05-08 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
For what I understand, I must modify zd1211-83.ebuild, and rebuild the ebuild with: ebuild zd1211-83.ebuild digest (which worked fine) but, what should be the content of /tmp/net_dev.patch?¿? Cause I get: * Checking for suitable kernel configuration options...

Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird 2.0 browser fonts are tiny

2007-04-22 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Since upgrading to Thunderbird 2.0.0.0, the browser font used to display trees (folders, message lists) is tiny, so tiny that (a) I have difficulty reading it, and (b) nothing is rendered in bold. How can I change the size of the fonts in Thunderbird's browser? Go to Edit - Preferences - Go

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA kernel messages

2007-04-16 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2007/4/16, David Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am constantly getting errors like this. I don't think it is a problem with the drive although it might be. I have seen hard resetting port messages through my google searches but often they are associated with an error of some sort. I'm using 2.6.19.

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I enable package specific FEATURES and CFLAGS?

2007-04-14 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
# mkdir -p /etc/portage/env/mail-client # CAT END /etc/portage/env/mail-client/evolution CFLAGS=-march=k8 -O1 -ggdb -pipe FEATURES=$FEATURES splitdebug END Likewise for gnome-extra/evolution-data-server. I think here is some clarification needed, at least for me! Is this

Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-14 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: What is the average age of the gentoo user here? I become 27 in May and use Linux since 2004. I would have started earlier but the linux is difficult to use bias prevented me from trying it earlier. I began with Ubuntu which a friend of mine suggested to me. After a

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I enable package specific FEATURES and CFLAGS?

2007-04-14 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Bo Ørsted Andresen schrieb: On Saturday 14 April 2007 15:34:59 Daniel Pielmeier wrote: # mkdir -p /etc/portage/env/mail-client # CAT END /etc/portage/env/mail-client/evolution CFLAGS=-march=k8 -O1 -ggdb -pipe FEATURES=$FEATURES splitdebug END Likewise for gnome-extra/evolution-data

Re: [gentoo-user] headphones don't work since upgrade to kernel 2.6.19???

2007-04-02 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
I've rebooted today with kernel 2.6.19 (used 2.6.18 before). I have a Intel 945G/GZ/P/PL motherboard and a Intel hda on board soundcard (Alsamixer says Card: HDA Intel and Chip: Realtek ALC260). Look for the Bugs concerning the kernel and hda-intel drivers

Re: [gentoo-user] kopete-3.5.5-r2 failed

2007-03-21 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
I have a problem compiling kopete-3.5.5-r2 into my system. looks like a bug, see here: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154421 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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] Performance problem at writing big files and Multitasking

2007-02-08 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Did you try to play with ionice to assign priority. It has helped me a lot with io-intensive background taskes. Where can i get it. It seems to be included in util-linux but i have util-linux installed and ionice is missing! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2007-02-07 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
What I/O scheduler are you using? Did you try to experiment with the deadline or the cfq I/O schedulers? If you have them enabled in your kernel config, read Documentation/block/switching-sched.txt and see if things get better after changing the I/O scheduler for your hard disk. Of course, your

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

2007-02-07 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
The hdparm optimizations, the CFQ scheduler and maybe low latency desktop in the kernel are the best way to make your desktop useable under heavy disk usage.These are my hdparm settings: [snip] Thanks for your suggestions. As i have an SATA harddisk, can i use hdparm with it , i thought it

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

2007-02-07 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
The hdparm optimizations, the CFQ scheduler and maybe low latency desktop in the kernel are the best way to make your desktop useable under heavy disk usage.These are my hdparm settings: /dev/hda: multcount= 16 (on) IO_support = 1 (32-bit) unmaskirq= 1 (on) using_dma=

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware broken?

2007-02-07 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Sven Köhler schrieb: Hi, my vmware doesn't work anymore :-( I have no clue about the cause - maybe my update to 2.6.20 or perhaps bus? # vmware /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/bin/vmware: /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version information available

Re: [gentoo-user] Error while compiling splashutils-1.1.9.10-r1

2007-02-07 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Konstantin S. Budylov schrieb: Hi, When I try to compile latest splashutils, I have folowing error: = [ebuild N]media-gfx/splashutils-1.1.9.10-r1 USE=png truetype -hardened -kdgraphics ... ... Source unpacked. Compiling source in

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

2007-02-06 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
it took very long for the editor to load. I thought of wrong settings in cflags, or a wrong kernel config maybe the sata-controller or other things which may cause this problems. Thanks in advance for your help Daniel Pielmeier Here are a few things which might give some information over my system

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

2007-02-06 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Michael Schreckenbauer schrieb: Hi, Am Dienstag, 6. Februar 2007 schrieb Daniel Pielmeier: Hi all, i have bought components to assemble a new PC by myself. This are the main components. that's very interesting. You seem to have exactly the same problem I posted one minute before you

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

2007-02-06 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
What I/O scheduler are you using? Did you try to experiment with the deadline or the cfq I/O schedulers? If you have them enabled in your kernel config, read Documentation/block/switching-sched.txt and see if things get better after changing the I/O scheduler for your hard disk. Of

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

2007-02-06 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
What I/O scheduler are you using? Did you try to experiment with the deadline or the cfq I/O schedulers? If you have them enabled in your kernel config, read Documentation/block/switching-sched.txt and see if things get better after changing the I/O scheduler for your hard disk. Of

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a home router

2007-01-27 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Would it be ok for me to email you off list to get some help with a new setup of Shorewall that I did? It would be, but i am not sure if i can help you, because i have dropped shorewall and i am no firewall expert. I would suggest you to look at the shorewall guides at the shorewall homepage,

Re: [gentoo-user] Best printer to use with Gentoo.

2007-01-24 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2007/1/24, Carl Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've had no success getting my HP PSC 1610 Inkjet/Scanner connected to CUPS under Gentoo. Of course, there's no such thing as a best printer, but do any subscribers have recommendations for printers they've found easy to connect and use? Either inkjet or

Re: [gentoo-user] Best printer to use with Gentoo.

2007-01-24 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2007/1/24, Carl Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've had no success getting my HP PSC 1610 Inkjet/Scanner connected to CUPS under Gentoo. Of course, there's no such thing as a best printer, but do any subscribers have recommendations for printers they've found easy to connect and use? At OpenPrinting

Re: [gentoo-user] Best printer to use with Gentoo.

2007-01-24 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
The problem is using the localhost:631 interface, I don't know either: 1. The device. It's a USB printer, but the choices are: AppSocket/HP JetDirect Backend Error Handler Internet Printing Protocol (http) Internet Printing Protocol (ipp) LPD/LPR Host or Printer

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a home router

2007-01-23 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Hi all, i solved my problem by the help of the shorewall mailing list. The shorewall maintainer Tom Eastep helped me with a quick answer. It has nothing to do with shorewall so there is no file of shorewall causing this troubles. When i set up internet connection with pppoe-setup i have

Re: [gentoo-user] setting system's domain name

2007-01-21 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2007/1/21, John covici [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am having problems setting the domain name of a new gentoo installation. I looked at /etc/conf.d/net.examples and tried what seemed to me what they were looking for such as DNS_LO=domain name The host name works, although I would like to not have it

Re: [gentoo-user] setting system's domain name

2007-01-21 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Will this keep my /etc/resolv.conf in tact? On my system, yes, but backup /etc/resolv.conf and try it out with restarting /etc/init.d/net.eth0. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] setting system's domain name

2007-01-21 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
maybe the dns_domain setting is wrong i have this in my config but iam not sure if this really sets the domainname you can also try setting this in /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.0.1 hostname,domain-name hostname -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] setting system's domain name

2007-01-21 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
sorry it should be 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.0.1 hostname.domain-name hostname Hostname and domain-name must have a full stop in between. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a home router

2007-01-20 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
The only last thing I could suggest is running lsof to see what files are being accessed when you start the net.eth1 script. I tried lsof, but is there a possibility to run it constantly or for a specified time to catch the complete progress of the script, like the top command to monitor all

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a home router

2007-01-19 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Hi all! Thank you very much for trying to help me on this strange things. I hope i didn't have overseen a very simple thing which causes this problem. dale wrote [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # equery files shorewall [ Searching for packages matching shorewall... ] * Contents of

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a home router

2007-01-18 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
I've been holding back on replying for a while now, but I think you should try a simple iptables setup like this one: Excuse me, but my problem is not that my tables are not working, they work very well. I applied forwarding and masquerading, also a basic set of filtering rules which block all

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a home router

2007-01-18 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
If you really removed shorewall from your runlevel (rc-update del shorewall default) try this: rm /var/lib/iptables/rules-save i have removed shorewall from my runlevels and added iptables Did you do a /etc/init.d/iptables save by any chance? That's the only thing I can think of. the way

Re: [gentoo-user] Iptables

2007-01-18 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
How can I install and run iptables (with conntrack and all other modules) in a Gentoo 2006.1 box with kernel generated by genkernel? I tried emerge iptables, but when I type iptables -F I get something like this: FATAL: Module ip_tables not found. iptables v1.3.5: can't initialize iptables

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a home router

2007-01-18 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
hmm, shorewall must have done something that's more persistent. Have a look at /etc/runlevels, and make sure there is no shorewall stuff left in there. Also look in /etc/conf.d/net* and make sure there is no postup functions lying around. And make sure /etc/init.d/net.eth1 is a symlink to

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a home router

2007-01-17 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Hi again, it seems that i was running in another problem. This are my current iptables! Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination block all -- anywhere anywhere Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a home router

2007-01-16 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
But everything looks quite normal, except for that packets aren't routed. So its up to somebody else to tell exactly what that policy module in iptables does -- and how. I don't have answers left here -- except for the case that a manual iptables setup is sufficient. Personally, I'm quite happy

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a home router

2007-01-16 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Personally, I'm quite happy with $ iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o ppp0 -j MASQUERADE $ iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT $ iptables -A FORWARD -i ppp0 -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT Aaargh! That last one should have

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a home router

2007-01-16 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Thanks for that link. The document is _very_ good and complete. But I don't think it's particularly well suited for beginners. My suggestion would probably be very conservative: netfilter.org's own docs. http://www.netfilter.org/documentation/index.html np, i thought when i have to learn

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a home router

2007-01-16 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Thanks for that link. The document is _very_ good and complete. But I don't think it's particularly well suited for beginners. My suggestion would probably be very conservative: netfilter.org's own docs. http://www.netfilter.org/documentation/index.html I have now applied your masquerading and

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a home router

2007-01-15 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Hmmm, me either. I'm not sure about what it would be called. Do you have gkrellm installed? Sometimes I use it to see where the traffic is. That is how I knew it was iptables in my other thread. The data was getting there because gkrellm was seeing it but my system was not. No clue how one

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a home router

2007-01-15 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
I would check that you have done: echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward I think this is set, but i will check again. Also make sure ICMP isn't blocked anywhere. I have only blocked ping from the internet to the firewall and nowhere else. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a home router

2007-01-15 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Send the output from iptables-save, please. Otherwise we could only guess if the problem is with your firewall rules or somewhere else. Ok, i will do that when i am back home. i thought the output from iptables -L in my original post was enough. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a home router

2007-01-15 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface dslb-088-067-01 * 255.255.255.255 UH0 00 ppp0 localhost * 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth0 loopback*

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