Re: [gentoo-user] emacs vs. gnome and xorg-1.5.3

2009-05-05 Thread Robert Cernansky
On Tue, 5 May 2009 23:22:28 -0400 David Relson wrote: > > > > David Relson writes: [snip] > > > > > When I start it from a gnome terminal, emacs reports "No > > > > > fonts match '8x13'". Anybody know how to fix this? > > 'xlsfonts | grep 8x13' returns nothing. Ok, that confirms that problem i

Re: [gentoo-user] can't stop the panic on eeepc

2009-05-05 Thread maxim wexler
> You gotta use a "delay" (or "wait", can't remember exactly) > parameter > for the kernel to wait while the disc is recognized, dunno > exactly, > but 2 to 5 seconds should be enough. I have an EEE 701 and Well there's a 10 sec 'timeout' but I can make that infinite by hitting the arrow key. T

Re: [gentoo-user] emacs vs. gnome and xorg-1.5.3

2009-05-05 Thread David Relson
On Tue, 05 May 2009 15:51:41 +0200 Robert Cernansky wrote: > On Tue, 5 May 2009 07:41:34 -0400 David Relson > wrote: > > > On Tue, 5 May 2009 12:20:14 +0200 > > Alex Schuster wrote: > > > > > David Relson writes: > > > > > > > I'm now running xorg-1.5.3 and emacs no longer works! I've got > >

Re: [gentoo-user] A networking question...

2009-05-05 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Tue, 05 May 2009 22:28:22 +0100 Steve wrote: > Sascha Hlusiak wrote: > > The easiest thing would probably be to just use ssh port forwarding because > > you already have all the pieces running anyway. Wouldn't a simple > > > > ssh -L 12345:secondapache:https u...@remotessh ... > I really wa

Re: [gentoo-user] union merge for binpkg makers

2009-05-05 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Tue, 5 May 2009 16:32:39 -0400 Simon wrote: > > Storage space comes pretty cheap these days, so prehaps it's just > > easier to get dirt-cheap 80G harddisk and build (and keep) all the > > packages from sum of the worlds on it in a dedicated chroot or VM? > > Well, i'm keeping all packages cu

Re: [gentoo-user] can't stop the panic on eeepc

2009-05-05 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 20:23, maxim wexler wrote: > > Hi group, > > My 900A with a fresh gentoo install boots into a panic. Says it doesn't like > my root=/dev/sda2 option. But that *is* the root partition. > > fstab: > > /dev/sda1   /boot     ext2    noauto,noatime     1 2 > /dev/sda2   /      

[gentoo-user] can't stop the panic on eeepc

2009-05-05 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, My 900A with a fresh gentoo install boots into a panic. Says it doesn't like my root=/dev/sda2 option. But that *is* the root partition. fstab: /dev/sda1 /boot ext2noauto,noatime 1 2 /dev/sda2 / ext3noatime0 1 almost exactly like the model in

Re: [gentoo-user] A networking question...

2009-05-05 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 05 May 2009, Sascha Hlusiak wrote: > Am Dienstag 05 Mai 2009 23:28:22 schrieb Steve: > > Sascha Hlusiak wrote: > > > The easiest thing would probably be to just use ssh port forwarding > > > because you already have all the pieces running anyway. Wouldn't a > > > simple > > > > > > ssh

Re: [gentoo-user] A networking question...

2009-05-05 Thread Sascha Hlusiak
Am Dienstag 05 Mai 2009 23:28:22 schrieb Steve: > Sascha Hlusiak wrote: > > The easiest thing would probably be to just use ssh port forwarding > > because you already have all the pieces running anyway. Wouldn't a simple > > > > ssh -L 12345:secondapache:https u...@remotessh > > > > and the brow

Re: [gentoo-user] A networking question...

2009-05-05 Thread Steve
Sascha Hlusiak wrote: The easiest thing would probably be to just use ssh port forwarding because you already have all the pieces running anyway. Wouldn't a simple ssh -L 12345:secondapache:https u...@remotessh and the browsing to https://localhost:12345 do the trick? Or you could use a ppp

Re: [gentoo-user] A networking question...

2009-05-05 Thread Sascha Hlusiak
Am Dienstag 05 Mai 2009 22:32:38 schrieb Steve: > I've a gentoo box sat behind a firewall - it runs a apache and sshd with > holes punched through NAT to allow remote access. It runs DHCP and DNS > services for my LAN. > > I would like to run a second instance of apache on a fresh IP address - > t

[gentoo-user] A networking question...

2009-05-05 Thread Steve
I've a gentoo box sat behind a firewall - it runs a apache and sshd with holes punched through NAT to allow remote access. It runs DHCP and DNS services for my LAN. I would like to run a second instance of apache on a fresh IP address - to simulate a hosted environment supporting https. I ne

Re: [gentoo-user] union merge for binpkg makers

2009-05-05 Thread Simon
> Storage space comes pretty cheap these days, so prehaps it's just > easier to get dirt-cheap 80G harddisk and build (and keep) all the > packages from sum of the worlds on it in a dedicated chroot or VM? Well, i'm keeping all packages currently, and diskspace is cheap for home computers, but not

Re: [gentoo-user] Synaptic touchpad sensitive after upgrade to Xorg 1.5.3

2009-05-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 05 May 2009 14:37:06 Mike Mazur wrote: > Hi, > > After my upgrade to Xorg 1.5.3 I reconfigured my synaptic touchpad to > be controlled with hal. I copied the fdi policy found in > /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/11-x11-synaptics.fdi to /etc/hal/fdi/policy. > My only changes are disabling VertT

Re: [gentoo-user] How to IPSEC "M$oft" VPN client setup

2009-05-05 Thread Graham Murray
Michael Higgins writes: > Is there a useful Gentoo document anyone might suggest describing how one > *connects to* a VPN device of the 'Microsoft' flavour "with IPSEC"? I do not know about a Gentoo document, but I have connected a Gentoo system and Windows PC using racoon on the Gentoo syste

Re: [gentoo-user] How to IPSEC "M$oft" VPN client setup

2009-05-05 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Michael Higgins wrote: > > Is there a useful Gentoo document anyone might suggest describing how one > *connects to* a VPN device of the 'Microsoft' flavour "with IPSEC"? Haven't tried it (i use vpnc to connect to a Cisco VPN) but this page may give you some clue

[gentoo-user] How to IPSEC "M$oft" VPN client setup

2009-05-05 Thread Michael Higgins
Is there a useful Gentoo document anyone might suggest describing how one *connects to* a VPN device of the 'Microsoft' flavour "with IPSEC"? Cheers, -- |\ /|| | ~ ~ | \/ ||---| `|` ? ||ichael | |iggins\^ / michael.higgins[at]evolone[dot]o

Re: [gentoo-user] union merge for binpkg makers

2009-05-05 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Tue, 5 May 2009 10:27:52 -0400 Simon wrote: ... > Right now, here's the base of the process to get one PC updated > (without my unison world): > host> emerge --sync > host> emerge -uDN sum(worlds) [builds binpkgs] > > PC> emerge -uDN -k world > - > > Here's the process ( a bit more comp

[gentoo-user] union merge for binpkg makers

2009-05-05 Thread Simon
Hi there, i've been using my host online to compile updates for like the past year or so... My host is currently configured so that its world file is the combination of all my PCs at home's world. So the host has x11 installed and lots of other completely useless stuff for a remote host! I dec

Re: [gentoo-user] sync'ing two computers (not related to emerge)

2009-05-05 Thread Simon
Issue is resolved (solution below) > An unstable link is probably triggering your issue. If the link dies and > comes back, unison (at least version 2.27.57, what I have here) gets > confused and just sits there. What's interesting is that if unison is > killed on the initiating machine, the remot

Re: [gentoo-user] emacs vs. gnome and xorg-1.5.3

2009-05-05 Thread Robert Cernansky
On Tue, 5 May 2009 07:41:34 -0400 David Relson wrote: > On Tue, 5 May 2009 12:20:14 +0200 > Alex Schuster wrote: > > > David Relson writes: > > > > > I'm now running xorg-1.5.3 and emacs no longer works! I've got > > > emacs-22.3.1 installed. Normally I can start it from the Gnome > > > start

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Munin Monitor

2009-05-05 Thread AllenJB
Thanks to those who notified me of this erroneous posting. Obviously the passwords have now been changed. I have absolutely no idea why Thunderbird decided to send that mail to the gentoo-user list. Perhaps it's time I changed my preferred email client! AllenJB

[gentoo-user] Re: Munin Monitor

2009-05-05 Thread AllenJB
Paul Littlefield wrote: On 03/05/09 Allen Brooker wrote: I've given you access to the web view at https://admin.apserver.co.uk/munin Username: paully Password: bigj1gs Nope, this does not let me in :-( Try again now. server2.bigjigs.co.uk is currently resolving to my server, so you can s

[gentoo-user] Synaptic touchpad sensitive after upgrade to Xorg 1.5.3

2009-05-05 Thread Mike Mazur
Hi, After my upgrade to Xorg 1.5.3 I reconfigured my synaptic touchpad to be controlled with hal. I copied the fdi policy found in /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/11-x11-synaptics.fdi to /etc/hal/fdi/policy. My only changes are disabling VertTwoFingerScroll and setting TapButton1 and TapButton2 to 1 and

Re: [gentoo-user] emacs vs. gnome and xorg-1.5.3

2009-05-05 Thread David Relson
On Tue, 5 May 2009 12:20:14 +0200 Alex Schuster wrote: > David Relson writes: > > > I'm now running xorg-1.5.3 and emacs no longer works! I've got > > emacs-22.3.1 installed. Normally I can start it from the Gnome > > start menu or from a gnome terminal. Now it seems that nothing > > happens w

Re: [gentoo-user] Using the x11 overlay

2009-05-05 Thread Alex Bennee
2009/5/5 Neil Bothwick : > On Tue, 5 May 2009 11:50:18 +0100, Alex Bennee wrote: > >> I thought I may as well try the x11 overlay so added it to layman but >> obviously the package mask is still in effect. I assume the manually >> editing /usr/portage/profile/package.mask will cause problems when t

Re: [gentoo-user] Using the x11 overlay

2009-05-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 5 May 2009 11:50:18 +0100, Alex Bennee wrote: > I thought I may as well try the x11 overlay so added it to layman but > obviously the package mask is still in effect. I assume the manually > editing /usr/portage/profile/package.mask will cause problems when the > package.mask is updated.

[gentoo-user] Using the x11 overlay

2009-05-05 Thread Alex Bennee
Hi, I had manually built (via my own local overlay) more recent versions of large chunks of X to get around some slugish performance on my Intel based setup. However I noticed by xf86-video-intel driver got downgraded today due to an updated package.mask with the message: R?mi Cardona (29 Apr 20

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy (when Amarok 2 is running)

2009-05-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 05 Mai 2009, Alex Schuster wrote: > Hi there! > > I cannot access /dev/dsp once Amarok 2 has started playback, even if the > playback was stopped. I have to close Amarok, then /dev/dsp is accessible > again. Does anyone know why this is? > > This happens in KDE4, 2.6.28-tuxonice-r3 kern

[gentoo-user] /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy (when Amarok 2 is running)

2009-05-05 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! I cannot access /dev/dsp once Amarok 2 has started playback, even if the playback was stopped. I have to close Amarok, then /dev/dsp is accessible again. Does anyone know why this is? This happens in KDE4, 2.6.28-tuxonice-r3 kernel, audio device according to lspci is "ATI Technologie

Re: [gentoo-user] emacs vs. gnome and xorg-1.5.3

2009-05-05 Thread Alex Schuster
David Relson writes: > I'm now running xorg-1.5.3 and emacs no longer works! I've got > emacs-22.3.1 installed. Normally I can start it from the Gnome start > menu or from a gnome terminal. Now it seems that nothing happens when > I start it from the start menu. When I start it from a gnome te

Re: [gentoo-user] Adaptec 2820SA - Slowwwwwwwwww?

2009-05-05 Thread Paul Sobey
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Paul Sobey wrote: I have a server running Gentoo X64 2.6.27-gentoo-r8 with an Adaptec 2820SA configured with a simple mirror. This card is a PCI-X card but due to an oversight on my part is plugged into a standard PCI slot on a PCI-E motherboard. Still, I'm getting some

[solved][gentoo-user] remove a package from world without unmerging?

2009-05-05 Thread KH
Alan McKinnon schrieb: > > vi /var/lib/portage/world > > followed by intelligent use of the "/" and "dd" functions in vi :-) > rofl

Re: [gentoo-user] remove a package from world without unmerging?

2009-05-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 05 May 2009 09:44:58 KH wrote: > Hi, > > I am searching for the opposite of emerge --noreplace . I forgot > -1 and now the package is part of the world file. It does not belong > there, it is a dependency I wanted to update. I don't want to run > --unmerge and -av1 again. What can I do?

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2009-05-05 Thread Antonio Quartulli
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Re: [gentoo-user] 'buntu --> gentoo --> eeepcFIXED

2009-05-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 4 May 2009 20:32:33 -0700 (PDT), maxim wexler wrote: > > Does the dialup work at all. Can you ping any of the gentoo > > mirrors? Did > > mirrorselect work? > > emerge mirrorselect is further down the page under "Last configuration > touches". Which is a puzzlement. Before failing portag

Re: [gentoo-user] remove a package from world without unmerging?

2009-05-05 Thread Xavier Parizet
On Tue, 05 May 2009 10:00:40 +0200, KH wrote: > Dale schrieb: >> AllenJB wrote: >>> From Portage 2.2 rc30 onwards you can use --deselect. This ability is >>> not present in any previous version. >>> >>> Until you're using Portage 2.2, the other alternative is to manually >>> edit the world file (M

Re: [gentoo-user] remove a package from world without unmerging?

2009-05-05 Thread KH
Dale schrieb: > AllenJB wrote: >> From Portage 2.2 rc30 onwards you can use --deselect. This ability is >> not present in any previous version. >> >> Until you're using Portage 2.2, the other alternative is to manually >> edit the world file (MAKE A BACKUP FIRST!) >> >> AllenJB >> > > I have done

Re: [gentoo-user] remove a package from world without unmerging?

2009-05-05 Thread Dale
AllenJB wrote: > From Portage 2.2 rc30 onwards you can use --deselect. This ability is > not present in any previous version. > > Until you're using Portage 2.2, the other alternative is to manually > edit the world file (MAKE A BACKUP FIRST!) > > AllenJB > I have done this a few times as well and

Re: [gentoo-user] remove a package from world without unmerging?

2009-05-05 Thread AllenJB
From Portage 2.2 rc30 onwards you can use --deselect. This ability is not present in any previous version. Until you're using Portage 2.2, the other alternative is to manually edit the world file (MAKE A BACKUP FIRST!) AllenJB KH wrote: Hi, I am searching for the opposite of emerge --norep

[gentoo-user] remove a package from world without unmerging?

2009-05-05 Thread KH
Hi, I am searching for the opposite of emerge --noreplace . I forgot -1 and now the package is part of the world file. It does not belong there, it is a dependency I wanted to update. I don't want to run --unmerge and -av1 again. What can I do? kh