[gentoo-user] Re: Reaching my network over the internet

2005-10-16 Thread Gabriel M. Beddingfield
Grant wrote: Hello, I'd like to ssh into my network over the internet. Do I need to set up VPN for that? Can anyone point me in the right direction? It depends on what you're trying to do. If you just want to ssh into a machine on your network... then no. From a shell session on that

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: PostgreSQL with unknown message to starting

2005-10-10 Thread Gabriel M. Beddingfield
Mariusz P?kala wrote: This time it's about no entry for postgres in /etc/shadow. :-) This line, added to /etc/shadow, would be OK: postgres:!:12654:0:9:7::: Hi Mariusz, This is what I had: postgres:!!:0:0:9:7:::8021806 This is what I changed it to:

[gentoo-user] Re: xml mode for emacs

2005-10-08 Thread Gabriel M. Beddingfield
Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: Hi all, I emerged nxml to edit xml files with emacs; it works great, but when I open an xml file it is sgml xml-mode, I have to switch to nxml by hand; this seems to be new since some time ago nxml was the default mode. In the site-gentoo.el file which is

[gentoo-user] Re: PostgreSQL with unknown message to starting

2005-10-08 Thread Gabriel M. Beddingfield
Javier Uribe wrote: hi people. I have compile PostgreSQL satisfactorily, my doubt is when starting, it appears the next message highwaystar ~ # /etc/init.d/postgresql start * Starting PostgreSQL ... su: Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info. (Ignored)

[gentoo-user] PAM problem: su: Authentication token is no longer valid; new one required.

2005-10-07 Thread Gabriel M. Beddingfield
I recently install postgresql. When I start the server, I'm getting what looks like a PAM error. orion ~ # /etc/init.d/postgresql start * Starting PostgreSQL ... You are required to change your password immediately (root enforced) su: Authentication token is no longer valid; new one required.

[gentoo-user] Re: New list member installing gentoo

2005-06-30 Thread Gabriel M. Beddingfield
Jason Castonguay wrote: /var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r1/work/build-default-i586-pc-linux-gnu-linuxthreads/rt/aio_notify.og The bug is not reproducible, so it is likely a hardware or OS problem. make[2]: *** Are you finding the bug to be repeatable? Did you try it again? Do you get

[gentoo-user] Re: Getting PCMCIA to work

2005-05-31 Thread Gabriel M. Beddingfield
Digby Tarvin wrote: Base system is now coming up fine, but my PCMCIA lan card is not being recognised. What is the make/model of the NIC you are trying to use? Please post the output from either command: 'lspci' or 'cat /proc/pci' There's about 3 typical PCMCIA drivers, and then many more on

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Anyone Know Why a New Kernel Would Kill Networking?

2005-05-27 Thread Gabriel M. Beddingfield
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, May 27, 2005 2:27 am, Gabriel M. Beddingfield said: This sounds like you need to re-emerge the driver for your NIC. For example, every time I upgrade my kernel I have to do something like this: # cd /usr/src # rm linux # ln -s newkernel linux If you set

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone Know Why a New Kernel Would Kill Networking?

2005-05-26 Thread Gabriel M. Beddingfield
Michael Haan wrote: I'll take a look at those things, but the odd thing is I can boot the old kernel and networking is just fine. Only the kernel has changed (and not even the kernel options). This sounds like you need to re-emerge the driver for your NIC. For example, every time I upgrade

[gentoo-user] Re: RESOLVED: No sound: ALSA and software suspend2

2005-05-24 Thread Gabriel M. Beddingfield
Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote: 2. If there's not already a bug report on bugs.kde.org, I plan to post one. Viz bug # 106189 http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106189 -- G a b r i e l M . B e d d i n g f i e l d -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Panasonic Toughbook

2005-05-24 Thread Gabriel M. Beddingfield
Ian K wrote: Can you please tell me where to go to get this mailing list's archives? What does this error mean anyway? Ian http://www.google.com/search?q=acpi+mailing+listie=UTF-8oe=UTF-8 -- G a b r i e l M . B e d d i n g f i e l d -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

[gentoo-user] RESOLVED: No sound: ALSA and software suspend2

2005-05-22 Thread Gabriel M. Beddingfield
This is in reference to: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-userm=111525434728903w=2 Summary of problem: Audio in KDE didn't work when switching from 2.6.9 kernel to 2.6.11 kernel. Resolution/workaround: 1. Open KMix mixer window 2. Select Switches tab 3. Turn off both Headphone Jack

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo discrimination

2005-05-18 Thread Gabriel M. Beddingfield
Ognjen Bezanov wrote: There was that whole Gentoo is for ricers website which generally mocked the gentoo community for their 'futile' quest to eck every last ounce of CPU power from their machines. The gentoo community generally Pretty funny website! Their URL is pretty fitting, too:

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: DSL modem + Web Server + Home Box

2005-05-15 Thread Gabriel M. Beddingfield
david wrote: Thanks for the reply.I'm new to this so your explanation really helps.The dsl modem's set-up page is at 192.168.1.254.It is also the default gateway.Here is resolv.conf; snip I'm getting a little lost here. It looks like you're trying to do 2 distinct tasks here. It looks like:

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: DSL modem + Web Server + Home Box

2005-05-15 Thread Gabriel M. Beddingfield
Colin wrote: I know that EarthLink dial-up has no port forwarding or port blocking in effect. I think they'll let you run servers from behind dial-up connections, but I know that it's a no-no from behind their high-speed connections, unless you get a business plan. IIRC, their gamers DSL

[gentoo-user] Re: DSL modem + Web Server + Home Box

2005-05-14 Thread Gabriel M. Beddingfield
david wrote: My DSL modems's add is 192.168.1.254 so that is the default gateway.The server's add is eth0/192.168.1.96 and I enabled ip pass through in the modem to the server,works fine.Next I wanted to set up the server as a router with a crossover cable to home box.home box address is

[gentoo-user] Re: XMMS Stopped Playing

2005-05-13 Thread Gabriel M. Beddingfield
Kent Borg wrote: Recently xmms stopped working. It will launch, but it won't play anything. I try to play a file and nothing happens, I try to play an internet stream and I get a file dialog. I think it broke in the upgrade from 1.2.10-r13 to 1.2.10-r5. Suggestions? Have you recently

[gentoo-user] Re: equery which gives wrong version?

2005-05-01 Thread Gabriel M. Beddingfield
Nick Rout wrote: equery which packagename is meant to give you the full path and name of the ebuild file for the version of packagename that portage would install. however on my system it gives the latest unstable version, at least of mythtv. For some reason, this problem intrigued me...

[gentoo-user] Re: equery which gives wrong version?

2005-05-01 Thread Gabriel M. Beddingfield
Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote: 2. Based on their input, file a bug report. IMHO, I think the default should work the way you suggest, and there should be some way to expand it to include packages. That should read: ...to include masked packages. -- G a b r i e l M

[gentoo-user] Re: Wrong Aspell PATH

2005-05-01 Thread Gabriel M. Beddingfield
Luigi Pinna wrote: Hello! I installed a new Gentoo box with KDE3.4 and aspell but, if I try to use aspell in kmail (I said in the control center to use aspell), I read that the PATH is wrong or check if I installed apell. I use aspell 0.60.2 from the portage tree, where can I modify the

[gentoo-user] Re: No sound: ALSA and software suspend2

2005-05-01 Thread Gabriel M. Beddingfield
Richard Fish wrote: Do you have /etc/hibernate/hibernate.conf setup to restart alsa on suspend/resume? # StopServices alsasound No, I didn't. After adding various versions (including 'ResumeServices alsasound'), the problem actually got worse. Does the sound card start working after

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: equery which gives wrong version?

2005-05-01 Thread Gabriel M. Beddingfield
Nick Rout wrote: Thanks for your investigation, you are obviously far more au fait with the finer points of the portage/python thing than I am. Nope. That's actually my first delve into tracing a python. I can't even do Hello, World! in Python. However, the syntax looks like a cross between

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: No sound: ALSA and software suspend2

2005-05-01 Thread Gabriel M. Beddingfield
Walter Dnes wrote: KDE uses the artsd sound daemon. Have you configured artsd properly? Whether artsd is properly configured or no... I would never wager on it, but I think it's OK. Everything works great with a 2.6.9 kernel, but not 2.6.11. In trying to isolate the problem, I went into

[gentoo-user] No sound: ALSA and software suspend2

2005-04-30 Thread Gabriel M. Beddingfield
I recently upgraded my kernel from 2.6.9-gentoo-r13 to 2.6.11-suspend2. I wanted to get software suspend v2 working. (I'm using a laptop, and boot / shutdown is just taking forever.) I seem to have most everything worked out except this: When I boot, I can't get the soundcard to make any