Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need help enabling iptables support in kernel

2007-11-12 Thread Bryan Whitehead
I don't see what the big deal is - you are choosing to do everything manually by running gentoo and compiling your own kernel. If you don't like having to learn things like this why not use Ubuntu or Fedora? On Nov 12, 2007 8:35 PM, Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at

[gentoo-user] Re: Disk ARchiver command line questions

2007-11-12 Thread Thufir
On Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:17:59 +, Joost Roeleveld wrote: >> 2.) As it stands, it's going to take 862 slices to backup this data >> without compression? I asked for slices of 690M, why is it only >> showing as 106M for this particular slice? > > Not sure, am guessing it's not going through the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: revdep-rebuild issues

2007-11-12 Thread Rumen Yotov
On (12/11/07 21:49) James wrote: > Alex Schuster wonkology.org> writes: > > > "emerge -a --depclean" > > and a little bit of manual removals, did the trick. > > > thx, > > James > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > Hi, When running 'revdep-rebuild' you could use "-i" option to

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need help enabling iptables support in kernel

2007-11-12 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 10:53:52AM -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote > On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 15:40 +0200, Daniel Iliev wrote: > > > > I believe your problem comes from: > > > > # CONFIG_IP_NF_CONNTRACK_SUPPORT is not set > > > > Build this module and try again. > > > This option isn't even availab

Re: [gentoo-user] grub hell

2007-11-12 Thread maxim wexler
--- Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:27:55 -0800 (PST) > maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > rootnoverify (hd1,0) > > > map (hd1)(hd0) > > > > Error 11: Unrecognized device string > > > > Press any key to continue... > > > > > > > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] grub hell

2007-11-12 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:27:55 -0800 (PST) maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > rootnoverify (hd1,0) > > map (hd1)(hd0) > > Error 11: Unrecognized device string > > Press any key to continue... > > > > > > _

[gentoo-user] {OT} Cable latency & Skype

2007-11-12 Thread Grant
I just switched from DSL to cable and I'm noticing a significant delay when using Skype, even when nothing else is happening on my network. Has anyone else noticed this and had success "fixing" it? I'm using a Gentoo router so I can try just about anything. - Grant -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing l

[gentoo-user] glibc unmerged by accident

2007-11-12 Thread de Almeida, Valmor F.
Hello, After a successful upgrade from profile 2006.1 to 2007.0, I decided to unmerge some unused packages from world and accidentally had glibc on the emerge command line from a cut and paste operation. glibc was unmerged and now I can't use common shell commands such as ls or cp to list and co

Re: [gentoo-user] grub hell

2007-11-12 Thread maxim wexler
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Re: [gentoo-user] grub hell

2007-11-12 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 13:25:43 -0800 (PST) maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've tried all the possibilities. Except the working one. Don't give up! I don't mean to discount your reply but I am worried I expressed myself poorly. I think your configuration should look like: rootnoverif

Re: [gentoo-user] VT8237R Plus / no sound

2007-11-12 Thread Neil Walker
Uwe Thiem wrote: Is it simply not supported yet, or does anybody know a trick? I know from experience (having spent the last few months struggling with a VIA-based laptop) that VIA chipsets are just not worth the pain. :( However, the trick in your case may be to load the right driver. If

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - finding rgb code of the background of an image

2007-11-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 03:09:44PM -0600, Penguin Lover Michael Sullivan squawked: > Alpha: rgba(0,255,0,1)#00FF > Background color: black > Transparent color: rgba(0,255,0,1) > It claims that the background is black, but the gif doesn't show a > background at all, and the BMP sho

[gentoo-user] Re: revdep-rebuild issues

2007-11-12 Thread James
Alex Schuster wonkology.org> writes: > "emerge -a --depclean" and a little bit of manual removals, did the trick. thx, James -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - finding rgb code of the background of an image

2007-11-12 Thread Alex Schuster
Michael Sullivan writes: > The background of the image looks green to me (0, 255, 0), but identify > claims it's white. Is there a way I can know for sure without having to > go through all the RGB codes? The convert created BMP's won't open in > gimp Strange. I suggest asking the experts o

Re: [gentoo-user] grub hell

2007-11-12 Thread maxim wexler
> In your grub.conf, you say the root is on (hd0,0) > but then remap (hd1) > as (hd0). Whereas the root partition for windows > boot in my case is > the first hard drive listed after 'map', yours is > the second I suggest > you reverse this. As I stated before, I've tried all the possibilitie

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - finding rgb code of the background of an image

2007-11-12 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 15:46 -0500, Willie Wong wrote: > On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 02:17:32PM -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > The background of the image looks green to me (0, 255, 0), but identify > > claims it's white. Is there a way I can know for sure without having to > > go through all the R

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - finding rgb code of the background of an image

2007-11-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 02:17:32PM -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: > The background of the image looks green to me (0, 255, 0), but identify > claims it's white. Is there a way I can know for sure without having to > go through all the RGB codes? The convert created BMP's won't open in > gimp

[gentoo-user] OT - finding rgb code of the background of an image

2007-11-12 Thread Michael Sullivan
My wife and I are working on a programming project together. I have a number of transparent .gif files that I've converted to BMP with imagemagick's convert command. I'm trying to discover what their background color is so that I can make the backgrounds transparent once again. I've discovered t

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild issues

2007-11-12 Thread Alex Schuster
James writes: > Upon a routine upgrade, I followed up with revdep-rebuild -p. > The problem is the system wants to rebuild versions of packages > that are very old. 'equery depengs reveals that nothing > is dependent of the first few packages. [...] > > I'm open to suggestions as to how to clean

[gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild issues

2007-11-12 Thread James
Hello, Upon a routine upgrade, I followed up with revdep-rebuild -p. The problem is the system wants to rebuild versions of packages that are very old. 'equery depengs reveals that nothing is dependent of the first few packages. I'm open to suggestions as to how to clean up this mess: Here is t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: The setup program seems to have failed.

2007-11-12 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 07:42:58 + Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It should say something like "You can make a manual install > > now using Gentoo handbook, or you may try an automated installer by > > running "installer" now, but beware its experimental, and doesn't > > always work". Such mess

Re: [gentoo-user] grub hell

2007-11-12 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 09:52:49 -0800 (PST) maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > grub.conf: > > #XP > title=XP > rootnoverify (hd0,0) > map (hd1)(hd0) > makeactive > chainloader +1 > boot > > (I used one 'map' command following Dan Farrell's > model but using two made no difference) not

Re: [gentoo-user] oggenc ogg flac files

2007-11-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 09:25:44PM +0100, Penguin Lover Florian Philipp squawked: > Can anyone confirm that it is not possible to transcode ogg-flac files > to ogg-vorbis although the necessary use flags are set (vorbis-tools > +flac; flac +ogg) and the man page says it's possible? Yes, I just tr

Re: [gentoo-user] grub hell

2007-11-12 Thread maxim wexler
> My guess is that you have incompatible jumper > settings on the back of the > drives. Check these and make sure that they reflect > what the BIOS sees. > Also, check your /boot/grub/device.map for > consistency. Then use tab > completion from the grub prompt to find devices and > bootable

[gentoo-user] second usb bluetooth dongle not being recognised at startup

2007-11-12 Thread Vladimir Rusinov
Hello! I'm developing some kind of headless bluetooth terminal, based on Gentoo Linux. Currently it's casual x86 pc with 2 usb bluetooth dongles. Dongles have been plugged to usb ports and not being removed. After sturtap, system can't see one (randomly) of them. The second one are turned off and

Re: [gentoo-user] VT8237R Plus / no sound

2007-11-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 12 November 2007, David Sveningsson wrote: > Uwe Thiem skrev: > > Hi folks, > > > > subjects says it all actually. I have a new motherboard with the VIA > > VT8237R Plus chip on it. Tried kernel 2.6.22-r5 and 2.6.23-r1 but > > couldn't get sound to work. All the relevant modules are loaded I thi

Re: [gentoo-user] VT8237R Plus / no sound

2007-11-12 Thread David Sveningsson
Uwe Thiem skrev: > Hi folks, > > subjects says it all actually. I have a new motherboard with the VIA VT8237R > Plus chip on it. Tried kernel 2.6.22-r5 and 2.6.23-r1 but couldn't get sound > to work. All the relevant modules are loaded I think: > uwix src # lsmod | grep snd > snd_pcm_oss

[gentoo-user] VT8237R Plus / no sound

2007-11-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, subjects says it all actually. I have a new motherboard with the VIA VT8237R Plus chip on it. Tried kernel 2.6.22-r5 and 2.6.23-r1 but couldn't get sound to work. All the relevant modules are loaded I think: uwix src # lsmod | grep snd snd_pcm_oss35648 0 snd_mixer_oss

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - revdep-rebuild wants to rebuild gcc over and over again

2007-11-12 Thread Markus Schönhaber
Michael Sullivan wrote: > I ran revdep-rebuild about a month ago, It asked to remerge gcc-4.1.2. > I allowed it. Every revdep-rebuild I've run since then has asked to > build it again. How do I get out of this loop? https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125728#c29 Regards mks -- [EMAIL PR

[gentoo-user] OT - revdep-rebuild wants to rebuild gcc over and over again

2007-11-12 Thread Michael Sullivan
I ran revdep-rebuild about a month ago, It asked to remerge gcc-4.1.2. I allowed it. Every revdep-rebuild I've run since then has asked to build it again. How do I get out of this loop? Here's my revdep-rebuild -pv: camille ~ # revdep-rebuild -pv Configuring search environment for revdep-rebui

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation problem

2007-11-12 Thread Mick
On Monday 12 November 2007, Peter Alfredsen wrote: > On Monday 12 November 2007, Fabio wrote: > > Thank you very much Peter. This is my ethernet card: > > > > 82557/8/9 Ethernet pro 100 > > There are two ethernet cards in your machine, as evidenced by the error > message "eth1: PHY reset until link

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation problem

2007-11-12 Thread Peter Alfredsen
On Monday 12 November 2007, Fabio wrote: > Thank you very much Peter. This is my ethernet card: > > 82557/8/9 Ethernet pro 100 There are two ethernet cards in your machine, as evidenced by the error message "eth1: PHY reset until link up". Enumeration starts at eth0, then eth1, etc. What is the

Re: [gentoo-user] grub hell

2007-11-12 Thread Eric Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 maxim wexler wrote: > Previously I had a problem with hard drive that turned out was a > faulty IDE controller, not the drive, not the cable. > > Now I can't use /dev/hdb but /dev/hdc is OK. So my set up is > /dev/hda(WinXP) and /dev/hdc(gentoo), ie, W

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation problem

2007-11-12 Thread Fabio
Thank you very much Peter. This is my ethernet card: 82557/8/9 Ethernet pro 100 I downloaded the latest cd minimal installation image for amd64. So what do you suggest me to do? thanks! Fabio Peter Alfredsen wrote: On Sunday 11 November 2007, Fabio wrote: I want to install gentoo from a m

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: The setup program seems to have failed.

2007-11-12 Thread Mick
On Monday 12 November 2007, Miernik wrote: > Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I _highly_ recommend using a the manual install method from the gentoo > > handbook. It's valuable for many reasons, not the least of which > > being its flexibility. > > OK, now I know, I've done it with the m

Re: [gentoo-user] grub hell

2007-11-12 Thread Mick
On Sunday 11 November 2007, maxim wexler wrote: > Hi group, > > Previously I had a problem with hard drive that turned > out was a faulty IDE controller, not the drive, not > the cable. > > Now I can't use /dev/hdb but /dev/hdc is OK. So my set > up is /dev/hda(WinXP) and /dev/hdc(gentoo), ie, WinX