Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] install ISO not bootable

2009-09-06 Thread mattmatteh
On Sun, 6 Sep 2009, Cr??stian Viana wrote: I tried install-powerpc-minimal-2008.0, it didn't work too. I have an IBM pSeries POWER4. try install-powerpc-minimal-2008.0.iso ? i dont remember if i used that one or not. what powerpc computer do you have ? matt i only have 2 ibooks here.

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] install ISO not bootable

2009-09-06 Thread Crístian Viana
is there any way I can boot the CD through yaboot? I'm not familiar with this program. I googled about it and I found out I can type something like: cd:1,/boot/yaboot but that doesn't work for me. I guess it has something to do with the boot directory on the ISO image, but I don't know if I can

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] install ISO not bootable

2009-09-06 Thread kahl
Cristian, any other suggestion of how to boot will be appreciated, when the CD doesn't boot itself. there's a Red Hat already installed on the machine, if it helps. and I think the floppy drive isn't working, so I can't use it (it shows input/output errors when I try to access some

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} reverse DNS problem?

2009-09-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 06 September 2009 02:16:23 Stroller wrote: Why hasn't greylisting been mentioned? I greylist and it ends up blocking at least 99% of spam in my experience. There are some disadvantages to greylisting mentioned here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greylisting#Disadvantages I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Making sure I am a good netizen and secure.

2009-09-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 06 September 2009 01:17:21 Mick wrote: Well, on my system it is kdelibs that pull it in: # emerge --depclean -pv net-misc/mDNSResponder Calculating dependencies... done! net-misc/mDNSResponder-107.6-r5 pulled in by: kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.10-r6 despite the fact that I do

[gentoo-user] What does it take to get debug symbols from /lib/ld-2.9.so?

2009-09-06 Thread Erik
I have emerged glibc with debug -glibc-omitfp and restarted the system. But when I execute valgrind /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox I only see things like this: Invalid read of size 4 at 0x4018620: (within /lib/ld-2.9.so) No filename:linenumber here. What does it take to get debug symbols

[gentoo-user] Re: What does it take to get debug symbols from /lib/ld-2.9.so?

2009-09-06 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/06/2009 09:43 AM, Erik wrote: I have emerged glibc with debug -glibc-omitfp and restarted the system. But when I execute valgrind /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox I only see things like this: Invalid read of size 4 at 0x4018620: (within /lib/ld-2.9.so) No filename:linenumber here.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What does it take to get debug symbols from /lib/ld-2.9.so?

2009-09-06 Thread Graham Murray
Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de writes: Don't emerge with debug -glibc-omitfp. Emerge with splitdebug in FEATURES. And make sure you include a -g option (eg -ggdb) in CFLAGS

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What does it take to get debug symbols from /lib/ld-2.9.so?

2009-09-06 Thread Erik
Nikos Chantziaras skrev: On 09/06/2009 09:43 AM, Erik wrote: I have emerged glibc with debug -glibc-omitfp and restarted the system. But when I execute valgrind /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox I only see things like this: Invalid read of size 4 at 0x4018620: (within /lib/ld-2.9.so) No

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Making sure I am a good netizen and secure.

2009-09-06 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 06 September 2009 01:17:21 Mick wrote: Well, on my system it is kdelibs that pull it in: # emerge --depclean -pv net-misc/mDNSResponder Calculating dependencies... done! net-misc/mDNSResponder-107.6-r5 pulled in by: kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.10-r6

[gentoo-user] Re: What does it take to get debug symbols from /lib/ld-2.9.so?

2009-09-06 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/06/2009 11:22 AM, Erik wrote: Nikos Chantziaras skrev: On 09/06/2009 09:43 AM, Erik wrote: I have emerged glibc with debug -glibc-omitfp and restarted the system. But when I execute valgrind /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox I only see things like this: Invalid read of size 4 at

[gentoo-user] Re: IDE/USB problem : not both disks recognized on same IDE channel

2009-09-06 Thread Rohit
To Volkerarmin and Wwong, Thanks for your inputs - both of you. I will try these both right away and let you know. Best regards, Rohit 2009/9/5 Rohit rohit.sha...@iitbombay.org Hi there, I rejoin the list after 5-6 years. Was able to fix most of the things myself but this one has me

[gentoo-user] mp3splt-gtk, hearts and hwinfo fails to emerge

2009-09-06 Thread Dale
/portage/elog/media-sound:mp3splt-gtk-0.5.4:20090906-084928.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/media-sound/mp3splt-gtk-0.5.4/temp/environment'. * Failed to emerge media-sound/mp3splt-gtk-0.5.4, Log file: '/var/log/portage/elog/media-sound:mp3splt-gtk-0.5.4

Re: [gentoo-user] mp3splt-gtk, hearts and hwinfo fails to emerge

2009-09-06 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sonntag, 6. September 2009 schrieb Dale: The next one is hwinfo. I googled for it and it appears to be broke and well known that it is so. Does anyone know if it is going to be fixed and do I just ditch it until another day? I don't use it much anyway. Ideas? Thoughts? Heavy

Re: [gentoo-user] mp3splt-gtk, hearts and hwinfo fails to emerge

2009-09-06 Thread Dale
Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Am Sonntag, 6. September 2009 schrieb Dale: The next one is hwinfo. I googled for it and it appears to be broke and well known that it is so. Does anyone know if it is going to be fixed and do I just ditch it until another day? I don't use it much anyway.

Re: [gentoo-user] mp3splt-gtk, hearts and hwinfo fails to emerge

2009-09-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 06 September 2009 11:20:04 Dale wrote: Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Am Sonntag, 6. September 2009 schrieb Dale: The next one is hwinfo. I googled for it and it appears to be broke and well known that it is so. Does anyone know if it is going to be fixed and do I just ditch it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Making sure I am a good netizen and secure.

2009-09-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 06 September 2009 10:40:53 Dale wrote: Recent kde-libs-3.5 have a hard dependency on zeroconf/nDSNResponder. A contentious decision at the time KDE-4 uses avahi There is hope for the future, if I ever get to liking KDE 4. I got KDE 4.3 installed but just ain't warmed

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Virtualization

2009-09-06 Thread William Kenworthy
Basicly, you dont have a chance - 2.6.30 is incompatible with legacy vmware. Each vmware version builds against only a restricted range of kernels, and usually lags a few versions behind even with the latest. Your choices are: 1. downgrade the kernel to something compatible with your vmware

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Making sure I am a good netizen and secure.

2009-09-06 Thread Mick
On Sunday 06 September 2009, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2009-09-05, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: The cheapest solution by far to networking a second PC in the LAN is to use your first PC as a router and forward packets through it. Buying an Ethernet switch is probably a lot easier.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kon Colivas is working again on a new scheduler for Desktop/Multimedia/Gaming PCs

2009-09-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 06 September 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 09/06/2009 05:08 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: You are complaining here, but I can not remember one single mail from you on lkml. Why? http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/26/199 ah, about a hardware problem. But not about

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kon Colivas is working again on a new scheduler for Desktop/Multimedia/Gaming PCs

2009-09-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 06 September 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 09/06/2009 05:10 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Sonntag 06 September 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 09/06/2009 03:50 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: and maybe you should decrapify your config a bit? Namespaces? Seccomp?

[gentoo-user] Re: IDE/USB problem : not both disks recognized on same IDE channel

2009-09-06 Thread Rohit
The results are encouraging ! I am able to see both disks on at least 1 IDE channel, so we have surely fixed the problem with the kernel. Will check cabling etc for the other IDE channel. Thanks very much ! Rohit 2009/9/6 Rohit rohit.sha...@iitbombay.org To Volkerarmin and Wwong, Thanks for

Re: [gentoo-user] mp3splt-gtk, hearts and hwinfo fails to emerge

2009-09-06 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 06 September 2009 11:20:04 Dale wrote: Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Am Sonntag, 6. September 2009 schrieb Dale: The next one is hwinfo. I googled for it and it appears to be broke and well known that it is so. Does anyone know if it is going to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Making sure I am a good netizen and secure.

2009-09-06 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 06 September 2009 10:40:53 Dale wrote: Recent kde-libs-3.5 have a hard dependency on zeroconf/nDSNResponder. A contentious decision at the time KDE-4 uses avahi There is hope for the future, if I ever get to liking KDE 4. I got KDE 4.3

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What does it take to get debug symbols from /lib/ld-2.9.so?

2009-09-06 Thread Erik
Nikos Chantziaras skrev: On 09/06/2009 11:22 AM, Erik wrote: Nikos Chantziaras skrev: On 09/06/2009 09:43 AM, Erik wrote: I have emerged glibc with debug -glibc-omitfp and restarted the system. But when I execute valgrind /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox I only see things like this:

[gentoo-user] Creating virtual server using VirtualBox

2009-09-06 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Everyone, I am using my laptop to test virtualization before setting it up on the servers. I am familiar with vmware but since I am unable to get vmwre-server going on kernel 2.6.3r5, I am using virtualbox. My question is in terms of the HardDisk setting. The host has SATA hdd and I do not

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Virtualization

2009-09-06 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
walt wrote: [] I don't use vmware but I do use virtualbox every day and I love it. It's extremely fast even compared to kvm, which I also use on my newest machine with hardware virtualization support. Some questions, please: 1. How would you contrast these two packages for security use?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Virtualization

2009-09-06 Thread Nick Khamis
1) Security is for exploiting 2) If they are well versed on the drivers that virtualization technologies use, then yes they can tell they are on a virtual machine and not on dedicated server. 3) You can bridge network connection physically on the network minus the nic of course 4) Virtualization

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Virtualization

2009-09-06 Thread walt
On 09/06/2009 09:38 AM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: walt wrote: [] I don't use vmware but I do use virtualbox every day and I love it. It's extremely fast even compared to kvm, which I also use on my newest machine with hardware virtualization support. Some questions, please: 1. How would you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Making sure I am a good netizen and secure.

2009-09-06 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 06 September 2009 10:49:13 Alan McKinnon wrote: One thing [kde:4] definitely is not, is the next evolution of KDE-3. Comparisons with KDE-3 are going result in disappointment Well, that seems to condemn v4 out of hand :-) . If it can't compare favourably with its predecessor, what's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Making sure I am a good netizen and secure.

2009-09-06 Thread Mick
On Sunday 06 September 2009, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 06 September 2009 10:49:13 Alan McKinnon wrote: One thing [kde:4] definitely is not, is the next evolution of KDE-3. Comparisons with KDE-3 are going result in disappointment Well, that seems to condemn v4 out of hand :-) . If it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Making sure I am a good netizen and secure.

2009-09-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 06 September 2009 19:31:27 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 06 September 2009 10:49:13 Alan McKinnon wrote: One thing [kde:4] definitely is not, is the next evolution of KDE-3. Comparisons with KDE-3 are going result in disappointment Well, that seems to condemn v4 out of hand :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] mp3splt-gtk, hearts and hwinfo fails to emerge

2009-09-06 Thread Arttu V.
On 9/6/09, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: It just did here. That is one failed emerge that is fixed. Two more to go. Both hearts and mp3splt-gtk compiled just fine here (amd64). Maybe your box needs two doses of revdep-rebuild, python-updater, perl-updater or something? -- Arttu V.

Re: [gentoo-user] mp3splt-gtk, hearts and hwinfo fails to emerge

2009-09-06 Thread Arttu V.
On 9/6/09, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I ran revdep-rebuild -i and it said it was fine. I updated python a few weeks ago and I ran python-updater afterwards. Just for kicks it is running again and since it is taking a while, it must be planning on updating something. I have never

Re: [gentoo-user] mp3splt-gtk, hearts and hwinfo fails to emerge

2009-09-06 Thread Dale
Arttu V. wrote: On 9/6/09, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: It just did here. That is one failed emerge that is fixed. Two more to go. Both hearts and mp3splt-gtk compiled just fine here (amd64). Maybe your box needs two doses of revdep-rebuild, python-updater, perl-updater or

Re: [gentoo-user] mp3splt-gtk, hearts and hwinfo fails to emerge

2009-09-06 Thread Dale
Arttu V. wrote: On 9/6/09, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I ran revdep-rebuild -i and it said it was fine. I updated python a few weeks ago and I ran python-updater afterwards. Just for kicks it is running again and since it is taking a while, it must be planning on updating

Re: [gentoo-user] cb2bib doesn't install from the ebuild

2009-09-06 Thread Arttu V.
On 9/6/09, Alan E. Davis lngn...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone successfully installed cb2bib from the ebuild? Every time I have tried, there are a number of tenuous blocks, so I've installed from source. I haven't used cb2bib, but what I happened to gather: are you referring to the ebuilds in

[gentoo-user] Re: Creating virtual server using VirtualBox

2009-09-06 Thread walt
On 09/06/2009 09:21 AM, Nick Khamis wrote: Hello Everyone, I am using my laptop to test virtualization before setting it up on the servers. I am familiar with vmware but since I am unable to get vmwre-server going on kernel 2.6.3r5, I am using virtualbox. My question is in terms of the HardDisk

[gentoo-user] trim for ssds

2009-09-06 Thread Maxim Wexler
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIM_%28SSD_command%29 trim has been implemented in the 28 kernel. Anybody know what the option is called? It ain't 'trim'. Maxim

[gentoo-user] After yrs of silence... I need sound

2009-09-06 Thread Harry Putnam
I've gone literally for yrs with no sound on my desktop machines I rarely find a need for it. But now I'm trying to take some online courses and find trying to work on windows machine when coding and other sorts of editor intensive stuff is involved... I really feel much more adept on linux.

Re: [gentoo-user] After yrs of silence... I need sound

2009-09-06 Thread Arttu V.
On 9/7/09, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Neither do I see any errors: mplayer some.wav from a cmdprompt shows the file playing... but I'm hearing nothing. Run alsamixer and un-mute the channels? -- Arttu V.

Re: [gentoo-user] After yrs of silence... I need sound

2009-09-06 Thread Dale
Harry Putnam wrote: I've gone literally for yrs with no sound on my desktop machines I rarely find a need for it. But now I'm trying to take some online courses and find trying to work on windows machine when coding and other sorts of editor intensive stuff is involved... I really feel

Re: [gentoo-user] After yrs of silence... I need sound

2009-09-06 Thread Mick
On Sunday 06 September 2009, Harry Putnam wrote: Kernel modules: snd-intel8x0 Assuming you have the right kernel driver compiled and the module loaded (search in the help pages of the Intel sound device drivers when you run make menuconfig to make sure you have chosen the right one) then you

Re: [gentoo-user] After yrs of silence... I need sound

2009-09-06 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Harry Putnamrea...@newsguy.com wrote: I've gone literally for yrs with no sound on my desktop machines I rarely find a need for it. But now I'm trying to take some online courses and find trying to work on windows machine when coding and other sorts of

Re: [gentoo-user] trim for ssds

2009-09-06 Thread Stroller
On 6 Sep 2009, at 22:21, Maxim Wexler wrote: According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIM_%28SSD_command%29 trim has been implemented in the 28 kernel. Anybody know what the option is called? It ain't 'trim'. It won't be a userspace command that you can type in at the command prompt,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Virtualization

2009-09-06 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 1:14 PM, waltw41...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/06/2009 09:38 AM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: walt wrote: [] I don't use vmware but I do use virtualbox every day and I love it. It's extremely fast even compared to kvm, which I also use on my newest machine with hardware

[gentoo-user] Re: trim for ssds

2009-09-06 Thread walt
On 09/06/2009 02:21 PM, Maxim Wexler wrote: According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIM_%28SSD_command%29 trim has been implemented in the 28 kernel. Anybody know what the option is called? It ain't 'trim'. First, thanks for the link, which led me to lwn.net. Those guys have some

[gentoo-user] Mythtv ATSC WinTV 1600

2009-09-06 Thread Neal Hogan
I hope you receive the stuff below with a grain of appreciation. I've asked for help on the mythtv forum, but have yet to get it. I recently acquired a new Hauppauge WinTV 1600 and have successfully gotten the analog side working with the analog channels (1-99). That is, I can plug my (Comcast)

Re: [gentoo-user] mp3splt-gtk, hearts and hwinfo fails to emerge

2009-09-06 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: Arttu V. wrote: On 9/6/09, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I ran revdep-rebuild -i and it said it was fine. I updated python a few weeks ago and I ran python-updater afterwards. Just for kicks it is running again and since it is taking a while, it must be planning

[gentoo-user] replacement for xli?

2009-09-06 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, Is there any smallsized replacement for media-gfx/xli for loading pictures to the desktop background? xli breaks my update since it wants jpeg-6b-r8 (yes, I have jpeg-compat installed) -- may be hardcoded? Thanks a lot in advance! mcc -- Please don't send me any Word- or

Re: [gentoo-user] replacement for xli?

2009-09-06 Thread forgottenwizard
On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 04:25:57AM +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Is there any smallsized replacement for media-gfx/xli for loading pictures to the desktop background? I use hsetroot to set background images. You could try xsetroot, or feh (which can be used to display images and set the

Re: [gentoo-user] replacement for xli?

2009-09-06 Thread meino . cramer
forgottenwizard phrexianrea...@hushmail.com [09-09-07 04:39]: On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 04:25:57AM +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Is there any smallsized replacement for media-gfx/xli for loading pictures to the desktop background? I use hsetroot to set background images. You could