Re: [gentoo-user] Re: reiserfschk stops boot but reports nothing

2006-03-11 Thread Ryan Tandy
Harry Putnam wrote: Do you want to run this program?[N/Yes] (note need to type Yes if you do): yes enter echo $? 16 I'm probably splitting hairs here, but... have you tried actually typing 'Yes' with a capital Y? A case mismatch and an assumption of 'No' would explain the syntax error

Re: [gentoo-user] Another reason to begin USE with -*

2006-03-11 Thread Ryan Tandy
Walter Dnes wrote: Why in (diety's) name does the the average user need apache2? Or emboss (European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite)? After the ipv6 fiasco, I began USE with -*, like so... http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/143049 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] reiserfschk stops boot but reports nothing

2006-03-11 Thread Ryan Tandy
Harry Putnam wrote: Do you want to run this program?[N/Yes] (note need to type Yes if you do): yes enter Oh yes, Ryan was not splitting hairs. Yes must be entered just like it asks. Capital Y e s. Yup and whatever the problem was it was fixed on the first pass. Thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Rsync backup problem2

2006-03-10 Thread Ryan Tandy
2. How do other gentoo'ers achieve backup onto a windows machine? In my case, with dd and gzip. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] how to enable glx

2006-03-10 Thread Ryan Tandy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I enabled the glx, but it seems the speed is still slow. $ glxinfo | grep rendering direct rendering: Yes The output of glxgears is about 130 FPS. I use intel_agp. Yes, it's not a particularly powerful card. Since direct rendering is now enabled, that's about

Re: [gentoo-user] how to enable glx

2006-03-10 Thread Ryan Tandy
As I have stated before I get around 230 FPS when [EMAIL PROTECTED] is running and it jumps to around 1300 FPS when I stop [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nothing else changed. This is an Radeon 9000 Mobility. Make sure you have nothing else running and see if that makes a difference. The Rage

Re: [gentoo-user] Drive Failing?

2006-03-10 Thread Ryan Tandy
Ash Varma wrote: hda: dma_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }...: 1 Time(s) Every time I have ever seen this error, it has been because of a drive getting ready to die. It could be the ribbon, but have a backup ready just in case. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] how to enable glx

2006-03-08 Thread Ryan Tandy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't enable glx on my video card, the following is output of lspci in my system: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x (rev 64) My kerenl is linux-2.6.15-suspend2-r6. Any hints about it? Best Regards!

Re: [gentoo-user] equery, make.conf USE flag mismatch on amd64

2006-03-08 Thread Ryan Tandy
Kumar Golap wrote: Apologies for not having done my research properly In this /specific/ case, you don't have to because the ebuilds and gcc know that x86_64 CHOST means that mmx etc. ARE supported and they will hard-enable them (you may not turn them off). Do you mean that,

Re: [gentoo-user] how to enable glx

2006-03-08 Thread Ryan Tandy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 06:19:40PM -0800, Ryan Tandy wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't enable glx on my video card, the following is output of lspci in my system: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M AGP

Re: [gentoo-user] Iptables Tarpit

2006-03-06 Thread Ryan Tandy
Erik Westenbroek wrote: iptables: No chain/target/match by that name I don't see a chain or other target named TARPIT - it's not defined anywhere on the page you referenced as far as I see, so you may have to dig it up elsewhere. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: modules built post kernel install (on the fly)

2006-03-04 Thread Ryan Tandy
Harry Putnam wrote: I guess I sort of thought there was some trick way to just compile a module and not do all the linking and grinding of `make' against the whole tree. Unless you've done 'make clean' previously, 'make' will only compile required files based on changes you've made to your

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] program to create buttons and graphic text

2006-03-01 Thread Ryan Sims
suggest you use text and CSS for styling, rather than images. Graphic text is something of a contradiction in terms. [/OT] -- Ryan W Sims () ascii ribbon /\ campaign - against html mail - against proprietary attachments -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Writing to a 256MB Rom

2006-03-01 Thread Ryan Holt
Hey,Little bit of an odd question here. But Say I wanted to write to an imbedded 256MB Rom Drive. Specifically, I'd like to install a minimalistic Linux install onto a mini-server that contains only a ROM storage space How could I go about this?

Re: [gentoo-user] Writing to a 256MB Rom

2006-03-01 Thread Ryan Holt
Is there any difference between ROM and NVRam?I think I mis-spoke when I said ROM; because it's actually Non Volatile Ram.On 3/1/06, Franta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 15:00 -0500, Ryan Holt wrote: Hey, Little bit of an odd question here. But Say I wanted to write

Re: [gentoo-user] Writing to a 256MB Rom

2006-03-01 Thread Ryan Holt
Okays. So assuming it's NVRAM, is that something that I'm likely going to be able to write to without some type of equipment?On 3/1/06, Toby 'qubit' Cubitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 04:16:33PM -0500, Ryan Holt wrote: Is there any difference between ROM and NVRam?Yes. ROM

Re: [gentoo-user] aMuleweb problem

2006-02-26 Thread Ryan Tandy
Izar Ilun wrote: Hello, If I activate aMuleWeb in the aMule's traditional GUI it works perfect, but now I don't want aMuleWeb to run separatelly from amuled, so I'm trying to use the /etc/init.d/amuleweb script. This is the error I get when I run it: *Code:* gentoo ibai #

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: KDE, metapackages, and monolithic packages

2006-02-26 Thread Ryan Tandy
Mike Myers wrote: Duncan wrote [deleted] Thanks a lot for the detailed explanation. Do you know if there's a way or going to be a way to handle the split ebuilds so that reemerging or unemerging a split ebuild will reemerge or unemerge the corresponding packages? It seems like the ebuilds

Re: [gentoo-user] Where do these use flags come from?

2006-02-26 Thread Ryan Tandy
Brett I. Holcomb wrote: They come from /etc/make.conf or /etc/portage/package.use. The profile you are using has defaults set. On Sunday February 26 2006 21:00, Bo Andresen wrote: I decided I wanted to remove the ipv6 use flag which I have had enabled in make.conf for quite a while but

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr as noexec? (was GB for / partition flamewar)

2006-02-17 Thread Ryan Tandy
Maarten wrote: Or else, if /usr can be mounted noexec without trouble, I'll donate 75 bogomips to the FSF. Can we get that in writing, with a signature, creative use of {sym,hard} links and nested mounts notwithstanding? ;) Where trouble is defined as a system that won't run

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Konqueror as an FTP Client

2006-02-16 Thread Ryan Holt
Thanks all for your help!Turns out that Kasablanca will work for me, gftp for some reason or another crashes, but Konqueror still can't work correctly; guess is it has something to do with that bug. On 2/16/06, Harm Geerts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 16 February 2006 02:05, Ryan Holt

[gentoo-user] Konqueror as an FTP Client

2006-02-15 Thread Ryan Holt
are that Konqueror is opening too many simultaneous connections and the FTP Site doesn't like it. Can anybody help me?-- Ryan Holt[EMAIL PROTECTED](240) 620-6585

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror as an FTP Client

2006-02-15 Thread Ryan Holt
. My initial thoughts are that Konqueror is opening too many simultaneous connections and the FTP Site doesn't like it. Can anybody help me? -- Ryan Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (240) 620-6585--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Ryan Holt[EMAIL PROTECTED](240) 620-6585

Re: [gentoo-user] is kde 3.5 stable enough?

2006-02-14 Thread Ryan Holt
If I were to setup a KDE 3.5 environment, what packages aside from kde-base should I setup with the ~amd64 exception in my /etc/portage/package.keywords ?On 2/14/06, Steven S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, b.n. wrote: Hi, I still can't see KDE 3.5 in the stable x86. Since I'd like

Re: [gentoo-user] Good program for ogg?

2006-02-13 Thread Ryan Sims
) is a great console app that supports lots of different formats, very simple app. -- Ryan W Sims () ascii ribbon /\ campaign - against html mail - against proprietary attachments -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Belkin F5D8010 Wireless Card

2006-02-12 Thread Ryan Viljoen
? Cheers Rav -- Ryan Viljoen Bsc(Eng) (Electrical) The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them. - Albert Einstein -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-volume-manager

2006-02-09 Thread Ryan Tandy
Iain Buchanan wrote: snip This doesn't seem to be the right way to go, as I can mount the drive _without_ nls_utf8, but gnome-volume-manager can't... thanks for any comments! So GVM is trying to force it to utf8. I would try two things: 1) I'm not familiar with GVM at all, but see if

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Yipes I lost the ability to smb:// browse

2006-02-09 Thread Ryan Tandy
Harry Putnam wrote: Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: after you put USE=samba smb into your /etc/make.conf, type $ emerge -p --newuse world to see all the ebuilds affected by the new use flags. I hope this clears it up a bit for you. Otherwise, keep posting :) There aren't any

Re: [gentoo-user] daemon start up problem

2006-02-08 Thread Ryan Tandy
K. Mike Bradley wrote: Here is the script: snip You haven't read the documentation for Gentoo rc-scripts. This script was likely developed for a different distribution, for example Debian. Gentoo rc-scripts require, in addition to start() and stop(), a checkconfig() function that lets

Re: [gentoo-user] really weird way to install

2006-02-07 Thread Ryan Viljoen
. -- Ryan Viljoen Bsc(Eng) (Electrical) The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them. - Albert Einstein -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-volume-manager

2006-02-07 Thread Ryan Tandy
Iain Buchanan wrote: On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 21:59 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 17:26 -0800, Ryan Tandy wrote: Also under File Systems, you can change the default code page and IO charset for vfat filesystems, which should remove the warning. any

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-volume-manager

2006-02-07 Thread Ryan Tandy
Iain Buchanan wrote: On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 17:33 -0800, Ryan Tandy wrote: Iain Buchanan wrote: [snip] I left them as is, and compiled nsl_utf8 as a module (so I don't have to restart). When I load the module and plug in the drive, /var/log/messages now shows: Feb 7 22:07:18

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-volume-manager

2006-02-06 Thread Ryan Tandy
Iain Buchanan wrote: Hi, due to the recent discussions about automounting usb drives, I thought I'd try gnome-volume-manager again. I compiled it, started dbus and hald, started gnome-volume-manager, restarted gnome (just in case), but when I plug in a drive I get (in /var/log/messages): Feb

Re: [gentoo-user] PHP upgrade breaks Squirrelmail

2006-01-30 Thread Ryan Tandy
Dan Johansson wrote: On Monday 30 January 2006 15.35, ellotheth rimmwen wrote: On 1/29/06, Dan Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fatal error: Call to undefined function ctype_print() in /var/www/localhost/htdocs/squirrelmail/plugins/gpg/gpg_hook_functions.php on line 842 Did

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X USE flag - what does it do?

2006-01-30 Thread Ryan Tandy
Simon Kellett wrote: Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any changed flags will have a * after them. I thought that meant that the option was auto-selected for you (eg if the default for this ebuild is -perl, but you have perl installed it will change the default to +perl and

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild never seems to work

2006-01-27 Thread Ryan Tandy
Daevid Vincent wrote: snip It generates some line like this: emerge --oneshot =app-admin/gnome-system-tools-1.4.1 =app-editors/gedit-2.12.1 =app-text/evince-0.5.0 =gnome-base/control-center-2.12.2-r1 =gnome-base/gdm-2.8.0.7 .. What I don't understand is why doesn't it just do this:

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual Boot System Setup

2006-01-24 Thread Ryan Tandy
*/Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED]/* wrote: Aha, the old I've tried it and it didn't work for me so it's not possible trick ;) *shifty eyes* maybe... but I know other people who have also tried it and failed, and I have yet to see a written account of it happening. So - guilty until

Re: [gentoo-user] Full Squid Cache

2006-01-23 Thread Ryan Viljoen
-- Ryan Viljoen Bsc(Eng) (Electrical) Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable. - Mark Twain -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-23 Thread Ryan Viljoen
of such modules occur if one uses the split ebuilds, surely it becomes that much more difficult? (93 messages later, come on all this and we dont hit 100?) -- Ryan Viljoen Bsc(Eng) (Electrical) Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable. - Mark Twain -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] xscreensaver on startup (quick question)

2006-01-23 Thread Ryan Tandy
Álvaro Castro wrote: Hello!! This may be a very stupid question, but google doesn't answer me... I'm using enlightenment 17 and entrance as display manager. I would like to have xscreensaver loaded when I start my session (and, if possible on any other environment like e16 or fluxbox, that I

Re: [gentoo-user] doom3 sound

2006-01-23 Thread Ryan Tandy
Cláudio Henrique wrote: will I have to recompile my kernel with OSS then? On 1/24/06, Jason Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 24 January 2006 11:33, Cláudio Henrique wrote: I managed to have doom3 working on my system, but now the problem is with the sound. It is like the

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual Boot System Setup

2006-01-23 Thread Ryan Tandy
Iain Buchanan wrote: massive snippage 1. use the windows to chain-boot linux (possible, but I don't know what for :) even more massive snippage Sorry, this isn't possible - I should know, I've tried in the past. Wasted too much time on it, too. Windows can only multi-boot with other

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-21 Thread Ryan Viljoen
, Gnome, et al. Bleh! -- Ryan Viljoen Bsc(Eng) (Electrical) Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable. - Mark Twain -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't browse WinXP shares from gentoo

2006-01-21 Thread Ryan Viljoen
to access the shares? -- Ryan Viljoen Bsc(Eng) (Electrical) Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable. - Mark Twain -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Proxy server related issue

2006-01-20 Thread Ryan Viljoen
something along the lines of this is discussed in the Security Guide. -- Ryan Viljoen Bsc(Eng) (Electrical) Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable. - Mark Twain -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-20 Thread Ryan Viljoen
HAVE THE POWER TO CHOOSE! :D -- Ryan Viljoen Bsc(Eng) (Electrical) Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable. - Mark Twain -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: getting rid of gnome

2006-01-20 Thread Ryan Tandy
Ernie Schroder wrote: On Thursday 19 January 2006 12:39, a tiny voice compelled Neil Bothwick to write: On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:30:52 -0500, Ernie Schroder wrote: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [nomerge ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-alsa-0.8.10 [nomerge ]

Re: [gentoo-user] python: stack smashing attack

2006-01-20 Thread Ryan Viljoen
and that you are not emerging critical packages. -- Ryan Viljoen Bsc(Eng) (Electrical) Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable. - Mark Twain -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Full Squid Cache

2006-01-18 Thread Ryan Viljoen
. Anyway any help would be appreciated. -- Ryan Viljoen Bsc(Eng) (Electrical) Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable. - Mark Twain -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] conf.d/net config syntax

2006-01-16 Thread Ryan Viljoen
emerge world? 2. Is your net.eth0 linked to your net.lo? 3. Similarly with you net.eth1? -- Ryan Viljoen Bsc(Eng) (Electrical) Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable. - Mark Twain -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Wifi Monitor

2006-01-16 Thread Ryan Viljoen
Hi all Could someone suggest a descent wifi monitor preferably one that fits in the taskbar. I am using the following: Fluxbox Torsmo So anything that fits in with those 2 will be great. Cheers Rav -- Ryan Viljoen Bsc(Eng) (Electrical) Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more

Re: [gentoo-user] Improving SpamAssassin's accuracy...

2006-01-15 Thread Ryan Viljoen
the mail that is flagged as spam to the users spam folder and let them sort it out but in a school environment /dev/null is a lot more suitable. Cheers Rav -- Ryan Viljoen Bsc(Eng) (Electrical) Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable. - Mark Twain -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

[gentoo-user] Routing I think

2006-01-15 Thread Ryan Viljoen
. In addition the access to the net is through 192.168.1.4 (proxy server). Now on the previous server the teachers could get the mail and browse the net from the 192.168.4. network. Could someone advise me on how to go about doing this on the new server. Thanks Rav -- Ryan Viljoen Bsc(Eng) (Electrical

Re: [gentoo-user] Improving SpamAssassin's accuracy...

2006-01-15 Thread Ryan Viljoen
their mail and dont bother to maintain their inbox so putting the spam in a seperate folder would just allow it to accumulate. -- Ryan Viljoen Bsc(Eng) (Electrical) Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable. - Mark Twain -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Routing I think

2006-01-15 Thread Ryan Viljoen
IP forwarding must be enabled on your new server: echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward That is assuming you are using IP version 4. Great thanks Uwe, I thought I might have forgotten something as simple as this. -- Ryan Viljoen Bsc(Eng) (Electrical) Facts are stubborn things, but statistics

[gentoo-user] [OT?] ram question

2006-01-14 Thread Ryan Sims
are in together, or if only the new stick is in. Is this indicative of something? I'm already pretty convinced that it's a bad stick, but I wondered if anyone could shed further light for me. -- Ryan W Sims () ascii ribbon /\ campaign - against html mail - against proprietary attachments -- gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] ram question

2006-01-14 Thread Ryan Sims
is happening? Or should I just test them each individually? I will look for other test programs, as well. -- Ryan W Sims () ascii ribbon /\ campaign - against html mail - against proprietary attachments -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Multi-user Console Viewing

2005-12-29 Thread Ryan Tandy
Delca wrote: somebody knows a program that let me see what others are doing on their consoles? i.e.: I'm root and with 'w' command i see that 'foo' user is running 'vi index.php' but i need to see what is he typing so i can have control of what is he doing. Thanks in advance, Santiago del

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

2005-12-29 Thread Ryan Viljoen
KISS - keep it short and simple. Doesnt that also stand for keep it simple stupid!? You can also use port knocking for additional security for SSH. I dont know anything about VPN so I wont comment. -- Ryan Viljoen Bsc(Eng) (Electrical) When you say I wrote a program that crashed Windows

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

2005-12-29 Thread Ryan Viljoen
. -- Ryan Viljoen Bsc(Eng) (Electrical) When you say I wrote a program that crashed Windows, people just stare at you blankly and say Hey, I got those with the system, for free. - Linus Torvalds, 1995 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild problems

2005-12-28 Thread Ryan Tandy
snip dev-lang/python selected: 2.3.3-r1 protected: 2.4.2 omitted: none snip Python is slotted, meaning you can have more than one version installed at a time. You're using the current version, but the old one is still there, unneeded. To make sure you've completely migrated

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Merry Christmas!

2005-12-24 Thread Ryan Viljoen
Merry Christmas all! Its now 42min into Christmas day in South Africa! -- Ryan Viljoen Bsc(Eng) (Electrical) When you say I wrote a program that crashed Windows, people just stare at you blankly and say Hey, I got those with the system, for free. - Linus Torvalds, 1995 -- gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with openoffice2 and menu fonts

2005-12-23 Thread Ryan Viljoen
the rest of your GTK apps have large fonts? If so emerge gtk-chtheme that will allow your change the font size. The only difference is, is that you need to export: OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=gnome before starting OO2. More info here: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Beautify_GNOME#OpenOffice -- Ryan Viljoen

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocking package... How do I fix it?

2005-12-22 Thread Ryan Viljoen
world. -- Ryan Viljoen Bsc(Eng) (Electrical) When you say I wrote a program that crashed Windows, people just stare at you blankly and say Hey, I got those with the system, for free. - Linus Torvalds, 1995 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] BASH 3.1 - DON't UPGRADE

2005-12-22 Thread Ryan Viljoen
bash-3.1-r1 isn't hard masked anymore. Is it now safe to upgrade to bash v3.1? It seems so, I've just upgraded and rebooted without incident. I just did a emerge sync and then emerge world. Bash v3.1 was emerged a reboot later and my scripts were broken. Bleh! Back to Bash v3.0 -- Ryan

Re: [gentoo-user] BASH 3.1 - DON't UPGRADE

2005-12-22 Thread Ryan Viljoen
On 12/22/05, Ernie Schroder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just for fun, why would one want to emerge an unstable bash? Is there some feature that I have to have? It wasnt on purpose I assure you, I only notice after the emerge world was complete. -- Ryan Viljoen Bsc(Eng) (Electrical) When you say

[gentoo-user] Gentoo Runlevels while booting

2005-12-21 Thread Ryan Viljoen
this is great cause you can login and such assuming you dont have any network dependent login services (NIS and NFS shares). So I was wondering if this was possible with Gentoo. Its not as simple as adding xdm to the boot runlevel. dont worry I tried... Any thoughts? -- Ryan Viljoen Bsc(Eng

Re: [gentoo-user] autopoweroff

2005-12-21 Thread Ryan
You can tell if the machine rebooted itself by looking at /var/log/messages and checking the datestamps. The 1st thing to load is usually syslog. You can also check the datestamp of /var/log/dmesg and that will tell you the date that it last booted also. cucu ionut cristian wrote: I leave

[gentoo-user] SIOCADDRT: No such device

2005-12-21 Thread Ryan Viljoen
the following: - ziig conf.d # route add 192.168.4.1 - SIOCADDRT: No such device This however did not give an error: - ziig conf.d # route add 192.168.4.1 gw 192.168.4.1 I can quite happily ping 192.168.4.1. Any ideas? -- Ryan Viljoen Bsc(Eng) (Electrical) When you say I wrote

[gentoo-user] Re: SIOCADDRT: No such device

2005-12-21 Thread Ryan Viljoen
Ok its the default fallback option that is not working correctly. If I use: - config_eth0=( 192.168.4.128/24 ) - routes_eth0=( default via 192.168.4.1 ) with no DHCP config then it works fine. -- Ryan Viljoen Bsc(Eng) (Electrical) When you say I wrote a program that crashed Windows

Re: [gentoo-user] SIOCADDRT: No such device

2005-12-21 Thread Ryan Viljoen
the fallback route that is not working correctly. Here is what is in my /etc/conf.d/net fallback_eth0=( 192.168.4.128 netmask 255.255.255.0 ) fallback_route_eth0=( default via 192.168.4.1 ) -- Ryan Viljoen Bsc(Eng) (Electrical) When you say I wrote a program that crashed Windows, people just stare

Re: [gentoo-user] SIOCADDRT: No such device

2005-12-21 Thread Ryan Viljoen
) fallback_route_eth0=( default via 192.168.4.1 ) -- Ryan Viljoen Bsc(Eng) (Electrical) When you say I wrote a program that crashed Windows, people just stare at you blankly and say Hey, I got those with the system, for free. - Linus Torvalds, 1995 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] data base program

2005-12-20 Thread Ryan
Here is a little trick you can use on google when looking for converters.. Put the file extension of the file you want to convert in front of the number 2. Like this: mdb2, and if you know the file extension of the target, add that AFTER the 2. Like this: mdb2mysql or mdb2sql. This is

Re: [gentoo-user] More on mbr

2005-12-20 Thread Ryan
It may be easier to just remove lilo with lilo -U If you cant get the machine to boot so that you can type that, just use a live cd like Knoppix or PCLinuxOS, then make symlinks so that lilo would run. IE: mv etc etc.old ln -s /mnt/etc /etc mv boot boot.old ln -s /mnt/boot /boot then

Re: [gentoo-user] how2use gaim for google talks

2005-12-19 Thread Ryan Viljoen
: talk.google.com Anyway hope that helps anyone wanting to use the Google Talk instant messenger service with gaim. Cheers Rav -- Ryan Viljoen Bsc(Eng) (Electrical) When you say I wrote a program that crashed Windows, people just stare at you blankly and say Hey, I got those with the system, for free

Re: [gentoo-user] i'm new of list

2005-12-19 Thread Ryan Viljoen
was told they do. Welcome aboard. Sometimes it is a fun ride. Dale :-) Oh yes dont we know it :P Welcome to the list Gianluca hope you find it a useful tool in solving your problems and helping others solve theirs. -- Ryan Viljoen Bsc(Eng) (Electrical) When you say I wrote a program

Re: [gentoo-user] data base program

2005-12-19 Thread Ryan
The very newest version of OpenOffice (2.0.x) has this ability. This is a great way to go if you couple it with a Mysql or PostGress database server. But it can also use it's own little standalone DB if you dont have access to a server. The Forms editor is probably what you are looking for

[gentoo-user] 000299 !!! ERROR: media-libs/mesa-6.4.1-r1 failed.

2005-12-18 Thread Ryan
Today, I decided it was time to try and upgrade my ATI Drivers to see if it would help with the White colored textures in the NWN's CEP Hak's, so I set aside the whole day to get this done. I figured I'd also upgrade Xorg while I was at it so I tried installing Xorg 7 which is working now, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Remore control of current desktop

2005-12-18 Thread Ryan
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_TightVNC_connecting_to_current_session The wiki thing is a useful tool if you search for things on it. It may not have everything, but it did have what you were lookin for. Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 19:46 -0500, Daniel D Jones wrote: Is there

Re: [gentoo-user] Notification of Limited Account Access (Routing Code: C840-L1111-Q110-1113)

2005-12-13 Thread Ryan Tandy
Ian wrote: Im not even going to dignify this message with a reply. I received a similar message, sent from a DHCP box at the University of Houston, pointing to a falsified PayPal site hosted on a hidden folder at pcgroom.com. I have notified both the University (address and date/time the

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make emerge skirt a package built from tar.gz

2005-12-13 Thread Ryan Tandy
emerge --inject 'app-foo/bar-1.2.3' Sounds like that's what you're thinking of. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to make emerge skirt a package built from tar.gz

2005-12-13 Thread Ryan Tandy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ryan Tandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: emerge --inject 'app-foo/bar-1.2.3' Sounds like that's what you're thinking of. -- That may be a way to do it. It isn't what I was thinking of though. I've never heard of this and man emerges has almost nothing to say

Re: [gentoo-user] lighter xscreensaver ?

2005-12-12 Thread Ryan Viljoen
On 12/13/05, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a program like xscreensaver that is lighter weight? All I want to do is blank and lock the screen after a little bit (or on command). I use xfce. - Grant xlockmore will do exactly that. It works well and is extremely light. -- When you

Re: [gentoo-user] LTSP server requirements

2005-12-12 Thread Ryan Viljoen
On 12/11/05, Martins Steinbergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, I'm considering to setup LTSP server with one terminal (old IBM Pentium 200Mh RAM32) attached. If i get from windows box one specific dos application and all data run under dosbox I'll go for LTSP unless there should be expensive

[gentoo-user] gnome/gdm logout problem

2005-12-08 Thread Ryan Sims
information that would apropos, let me know. -- Ryan W Sims () ascii ribbon /\ campaign - against html mail - against proprietary attachments -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Firefox toolbar font size

2005-12-07 Thread Ryan Viljoen
Hi all, Does anyone know how to change the application font sizes? What I mean by this is the font sizes used to display the menus in firefox, open office and other programs. I run fluxbox. Currently they are quite large and I would like to decrease them. Thanks Rav -- When you say I wrote a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox toolbar font size

2005-12-07 Thread Ryan Viljoen
On 12/7/05, Edwin Kapauni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ryan Viljoen wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know how to change the application font sizes? What I mean by this is the font sizes used to display the menus in firefox, open office and other programs. I run fluxbox. Currently

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox toolbar font size

2005-12-07 Thread Ryan Viljoen
I take it you don't have GNOME installed (beyond the gtk libs needed to run Firefox)? Then try gtk-chtheme (emerge gtk-chtheme). This will allow you to change the settings for both the font name and size of the GTK2 fonts used on your system (it lets you change the theme too, but you

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox toolbar font size

2005-12-07 Thread Ryan Viljoen
On 12/7/05, Ryan Viljoen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know how to change the application font sizes? What I mean by this is the font sizes used to display the menus in firefox, open office and other programs. I run fluxbox. Currently they are quite large and I would like

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Again on hdd recognition. It's seen but no fdisk

2005-12-07 Thread Ryan Tandy
Harry Putnam wrote: Probably out of sheer stupidity... Does it have something to do with the disk not being seen by fdisk? Actually it is something of a mute point now ... I decided to do a fresh install from (recent) gentoo minimal cd. I see already that at least the install OS has spotted

Re: [gentoo-user] setup samba server

2005-12-06 Thread Ryan Viljoen
Hi, I'm trying to setup a samba server on my gentoo system to share a few different directories. I want user authentication, so I can say user A has access to dir nr.1, user B to dir nr.1 and nr.2 etc. and appropriately set permissions on the gentoo server. I started by using the

Re: [gentoo-user] setup samba server

2005-12-06 Thread Ryan Viljoen
On 12/6/05, Robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had an instance where I needed to use smbpasswd -a user_name to add a user to Samba. And I they don't need to be a member of the samba group. In my Samba setup experiences anyway. Hope this helps. Yeah sorry, I checked up on my suggestion and

Re: [gentoo-user] setup samba server

2005-12-06 Thread Ryan Viljoen
On 12/7/05, David Obwaller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 07:15:08PM +0200, Ryan Viljoen wrote: On 12/6/05, Robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had an instance where I needed to use smbpasswd -a user_name to add a user to Samba. And I they don't need to be a member

Re: [gentoo-user] [Not specifically Gentoo] Forcing a new IP address with DHCP

2005-12-05 Thread Ryan Tandy
John J. Foster wrote: On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 05:07:22PM -0800, Ryan Tandy wrote: I have a Linksys WRT54GS router running openWRT firmware that gets its IP via DHCP from my ISP. That's all working fine. I also have an account with dyndns.org that is supposed to get updated when my IP

Re: [gentoo-user] [Not specifically Gentoo] Forcing a new IP address with DHCP

2005-12-02 Thread Ryan Tandy
Good afternoon, It's evening here, but I get the general idea. :) I have a Linksys WRT54GS router running openWRT firmware that gets its IP via DHCP from my ISP. That's all working fine. I also have an account with dyndns.org that is supposed to get updated when my IP changes. This is

Re: [gentoo-user] no more NV_SATA, etc support in kernel?

2005-11-30 Thread Ryan Tandy
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 17:22, maxim wexler wrote: Hello everybody, hi! I note NV_SATA, SIL_SATA, CONFIG_FORCEDETH and whatever other options are no longer offered in make menuconfig for the stage3 tarballed kernel 2.6.12-r6 or for the latest 2.6.14-r2. These are precisely the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: default stage3

2005-11-21 Thread Ryan Sims
the toolchain with the new toolchain, with the idea that the new toolchain will compile/assemble/link/etc everything in a different way than the old toolchain. Please correct if I'm wrong. -- Ryan W Sims () ascii ribbon /\ campaign - against html mail - against proprietary attachments -- gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.14 Nvidia

2005-11-06 Thread Ryan L
Norberto Bensa wrote: Philip Webb wrote: Has anyone got Nvidia to work with Kernel 2.6.14 ? Yup. In /etc/conf.d/local.start /sbin/NVmakedevices.sh or mknod /dev/nvidia0 c 195 0 mknod /dev/nvidiactl c 195 255 I'm using the 2.6.14-acid2 kernel and the latest nvidia-kernel and

Re: [gentoo-user] accessing usb mp3 player

2005-11-04 Thread Ryan Viljoen
What is the command that you use to mount it? -- When you say I wrote a program that crashed Windows, people just stare at you blankly and say Hey, I got those with the system, for free. - Linus Torvalds, 1995 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] accessing usb mp3 player

2005-11-04 Thread Ryan Viljoen
On 11/4/05, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #mount -t usbfs /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb aha! when I use -t vfat I see 'em. Thanks for the hint. But shouldn't I be getting a wrong fs error for usbfs? Sure no problem, enjoy! :P -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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