Re: [gentoo-user] Re: $LINGUAS question

2008-05-23 Thread Bill Roberts
I had something similar happen, and a reboot, or perhaps a restart of xwindows solved it. Bill Roberts On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 2:55 AM, »Q« [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 03:13:44PM +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote: Does it matter

Re: [gentoo-user] Ati or Nvida

2008-06-18 Thread Bill Roberts
hanging on with an old AGP nvidia 6600GT and relatively obsolete motherboard in anticipation of better solutions coming soon. Bill Roberts On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 9:32 PM, fire-eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Platoali wrote: Well, last night the graphic card of my laptop got broken. So I'm

[gentoo-user] cups and virtual/X11

2005-12-16 Thread Bill Roberts
around b.g.o for a while, but did't find anything relevant. Any ideas? Bill Roberts pgpUlpNAdjjh1.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] cups and virtual/X11

2005-12-16 Thread Bill Roberts
On 18:49 Fri 16 Dec , Rumen Yotov wrote: On (16/12/05 10:57), Bill Roberts wrote: When I try to upgrade to the latest stable version of CUPS, portage trys to drag in X windows. I'm not sure if this is caused by the changes happening in preparation for the new version of xorg

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Port named runs on

2005-12-16 Thread Bill Roberts
On 12:25 Fri 16 Dec , Michael Sullivan wrote: How would I find out what port named runs on (so I could open that port on my firewall)? grep domain /etc/services Bill Roberts pgpOJ7bTpeoWj.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge Question

2005-12-17 Thread Bill Roberts
/148810 for details. Bill Roberts pgp519Q2iBpmZ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternative Window Managers

2005-12-30 Thread Bill Roberts
, seems just right for me. Good luck in finding the one that is just right for you. Bill Roberts pgpQRfFWGRCNR.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Sata Controllers and drives

2006-01-09 Thread Bill Roberts
kernel settings. CONFIG_SCSI=y CONFIG_SCSI_SATA=y CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_VIA=y CONFIG_SCSI_QLA2XXX=y Good luck. Bill Roberts On 20:50 Sun 08 Jan , Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I have a system I need to upgrade from SCSI with an Adaptec 3210S RAID (I'm using HItachi nee IBM SCSI Ultrastor drives which

Re: [gentoo-user] Sata Controllers and drives

2006-01-09 Thread Bill Roberts
. Expensive, but in my opinion, worth it. I see they have come out with 150GB. I'd better hold on to my pocketbook. Bill Roberts On 20:50 Sun 08 Jan , Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I have a system I need to upgrade from SCSI with an Adaptec 3210S RAID (I'm using HItachi nee IBM SCSI Ultrastor drives

[gentoo-user] cyrus-sasl, courier-authlib, which one? or both?

2006-01-11 Thread Bill Roberts
suggestions/pointer appreciated. Bill Roberts pgpVsFmwxnkO5.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] ipw2200 dmesg error [SOLVED]

2006-01-16 Thread Bill Roberts
-wireless/ieee80211-1.1.6. I am not using the kernel modules. Machine is ibm tp-t43. Good luck to all. Bill Roberts pgp7lyQQTghqY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA Hardware vs Software RAID

2006-01-20 Thread Bill Roberts
ATA150 Hard Drive. Blazing speed with the raptors, lower speed, lower cost for the backups. Good luck. Bill Roberts pgpBOvMMTTbz5.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] SATA Hardware vs Software RAID

2006-01-21 Thread Bill Roberts
believe. They had so many problems, it was killing their business. I think they may have done some re-engineering, maybe they are not bad now, but I don't trust them anymore. Good luck. Bill Roberts pgpAiIKMhTs3j.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] How to activate PC speaker with kernel 2.6.14?

2006-01-22 Thread Bill Roberts
device support │ │ - Generic input layer (needed for keyboard, mouse, ...) (INPUT [=y]) Not very obvious, is it? Good luck Bill Roberts pgpF0vdwMxsow.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] http-replicator: error: invalid directory '/var/cache/http-replicator' [ ok ]

2006-01-27 Thread Bill Roberts
-replicator' [ ok ] My /etc/conf.d/http-replicator looks identical Below is my /etc/conf.d/http-replicator Hope these notes help. It works great once in place. Good luck Bill Roberts pgpivBLH9bzH1.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Electricsheep (General Question)

2006-01-27 Thread Bill Roberts
supposed to do? I played with this a couple of years ago. It is a applet for xscreensaver, I don't recall the detail of configuring it, but it wasn't too difficult. But it does chew up alot of bandwidth, and the results were less than spectacular. I ended up unmerging it. Good luck Bill Roberts

Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED: DHCP Timeouts

2006-01-29 Thread Bill Roberts
is definatively the only DHCP server on a network. It changes the be- haviour from strict RFC compliance so that DHCP requests on unknown leases from unknown hosts are not ignored. This allows new hosts to get a lease without a tedious timeout under all circum- stances. Good luck. Bill Roberts

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing role of router

2006-03-05 Thread Bill Roberts
it know where to send the 192.168.1.0 traffic. Good luck Bill Roberts pgpsJn0yEAbCZ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] sound recording software in gentoo

2006-03-05 Thread Bill Roberts
for that purpose (recording, sequencing, mixing, sound effects), and which of those does Gentoo have in the Portage tree? Try a search of the gentoo-users archives on gmane.org. Mark Knecht lead several discussions of exactly this topic. Good luck Bill Roberts pgpjNR13aawyY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] 2005 doesn't detect eth0

2005-04-10 Thread Bill Roberts
On 11:36 Sun 10 Apr , Bill Roberts wrote: On 21:31 Sun 10 Apr , Kitti Jaisong wrote: boot from liveCD it can detect eth0 and when boot by loader it can't detect eth0 what's the misstage ? When you configured the kernel, did you configure the driver for your ethernet card

[gentoo-user] nvidia newbie

2005-04-15 Thread Bill Roberts
in the guide again. No joy. Reverted to the r5 kernel, it works great. Can someone initiate me in the mysteries of nvidia and doing kernel upgrades? Thanks. Bill Roberts pgpzIyRzfw3EQ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] evolution

2005-05-04 Thread Bill Roberts
. Turn that on in /etc/make.conf and see what happens. Bill Roberts pgp4CcmeKgCHE.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Which IMAP is happiest with gentoo?

2005-05-14 Thread Bill Roberts
Try http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/mb2md/ Bill Roberts On 17:45 Fri 13 May , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the excellent advice, Jonathan. Yes, I figured I'd have to move out of mbox sooner or later. I wonder if there are tools to convert mbox files to maildir format - I

Re: [gentoo-user] adding files to an iso image

2005-05-21 Thread Bill Roberts
it there. I did a little googling and found the following tutorial: http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue87/sunil.html Looks like a bit of work, but it is all laid out nicely. Bill Roberts pgpw32LDSCq9Y.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] emerge busybox Why?

2005-06-04 Thread Bill Roberts
My usual emerge -uavDt world this morning wanted to emerge busybox. It doesn't show as a dependency for anything, and I've never emerged it for anything. Any idea why?? Bill Roberts pgp1U8FSsV8oZ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] making my own router

2005-10-07 Thread Bill Roberts
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Re: [gentoo-user] udevstart Segmentation fault - Urgent

2005-10-19 Thread Bill Roberts
=109789 I was able to boot using a gentoo=noudev option. The newest best guess on the problem involves the gcc2.patch. Guess I'll try going back to earlier udev 'til it gets fixed. Bill Roberts pgp0gwfsJQAcb.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS setting for Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.73GHZ stepping 08

2005-10-24 Thread Bill Roberts
-- Thanks, Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list I have: CFLAGS=-02 -march=pentium4 Seems to work nicely on my M processor. Bill Roberts pgpEV7wAWznAr.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] -mtune for P4M (dothan)

2005-11-01 Thread Bill Roberts
with the pentium4 flag, on the theory of If it ain't broke, don't fix it, until I get some definitive guidance, or until I need to do a recompile. Any cflag guru's out there?? Bill Roberts pgpoEugoP4wIK.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo still on the right path?

2005-11-17 Thread Bill Roberts
with a blank slate, and adding only what is absolutely essential. No cruft. It's not for everyone, and it's not the only true way. But it works for me. Good Luck Bill Roberts pgpMrNqhSY0Ss.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] 80211/IPW2200 vs. Kernel 2.6.14

2005-11-19 Thread Bill Roberts
to that. Any opinions? I tried the 2.6.14 kernel with the ipw2200 driver, and it didn't work. Maybe it was fixed in release 2. Bill Roberts pgp7ld5VKi62A.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Let's make a map of Gentoo users

2005-12-07 Thread Bill Roberts
I can see the map in firefox on one computer, cannot see the map at all in firefox on another. Looked through the settings, use flags, etc., and couldn't find any differences. Anyone have an idea what might cause this?? Bill Roberts On 19:25 Tue 06 Dec , Daniel da Veiga wrote: I would bet

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with world update

2005-12-07 Thread Bill Roberts
didn't solve the problem for me, the ebuild didn't seem to recognize the downloaded files. Maybe I put them in the wrong place. I was hoping waiting a few days would get the problem solved, but I see it's still there. Bill Roberts pgpfqk1LJwi6g.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] dmesg yes fdisk no - new HDD

2005-12-07 Thread Bill Roberts
disconnecting the atapi cdrw temporarily. Can fdisk see it then?? Bill Roberts pgpbksrDd3sGn.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with world update

2005-12-07 Thread Bill Roberts
On 13:35 Wed 07 Dec , Holly Bostick wrote: Bill Roberts schreef: On 01:55 Wed 07 Dec, Holly Bostick wrote: Rafael Fernández López schreef: Hello, I am running a emerge -u world and there is a package (realplayer) that keeps failing the build due to an error in package

Re: [gentoo-user] Let's make a map of Gentoo users

2005-12-07 Thread Bill Roberts
On 10:06 Wed 07 Dec , Billy Holmes wrote: Bill Roberts wrote: I can see the map in firefox on one computer, cannot see the map at all in firefox on another. Looked through the settings, use flags, etc., and couldn't find any differences. it only works with javascript enabled. Do you

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages becomes bigger

2005-06-27 Thread Bill Roberts
I'm using logrotate (and logwatch), and find them both very satisfactory. You could do it manually, or via a script. There is no automatic log rotation in syslog-ng. Bill On 17:11 Mon 27 Jun , askar ... wrote: I noticed that the /var/log/messages file grows. I'm using syslog-ng. Do I

Re: [gentoo-user] Adaptec 1210SA / 1205SA opinions

2005-06-27 Thread Bill Roberts
If you have a SATA controller on your motherboard (i.e., SATA connections), the I would recommend foregoing the SATA controller and just going with software RAID. If you want hardware RAID, spend the money and get 3Ware. Linux software RAID works very well. Bill Roberts On 13:49 Mon 27 Jun

Re: [gentoo-user] driver for 3Com 3c905 100BaseTX [Boomerang]????

2005-06-27 Thread Bill Roberts
Do a search in 'make menuconfig' for CONFIG_E100. That's what you want. I think they call it something like 3c950 series or something that does not match 3c905. Bill Roberts On 21:24 Mon 27 Jun , askar ... wrote: Hello! Is there anybody who knows how to make 3Com 3c905 100BaseTX

Re: [gentoo-user] (A bit OT) Gentoo on a Dell OptiPlex G1

2005-06-28 Thread Bill Roberts
There is a problem with the power supply on Dell. At some point, they reversed the polarity, making it proprietary. If you put a non-Dell motherboard on one of those machines without changing out the powersupply, you'll fry it. The details are available at http://hardwareguys.com . Bill Roberts

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk Backup From One Machine To Another

2005-06-29 Thread Bill Roberts
for a cold iron restore?? Bill Roberts On 11:14 Wed 29 Jun , Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 17:45:52 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: rdiff-backup --restore-as-of 1D12h /backup/path/to/file will restore file to the version you used 36 hours ago. Wow.. That does seem interesting

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer codecs

2005-07-06 Thread Bill Roberts
where to put... can anyone help me? My solution was to emerge mplayer with the xv and win32codecs USE flags set (among others), then set the default video output to xv in mplayer.conf. Bill Roberts pgppzPWtOXXNZ.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] vmware/xorg.conf issues

2005-07-15 Thread Bill Roberts
a mobile classroom. But I may have to use XP plus vmware if I can't sort these full-screen issues out. Any pointers are appreciated. Bill Roberts pgpoCgQ9mdCFc.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware/xorg.conf issues

2005-07-15 Thread Bill Roberts
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 14482 Jul 15 10:04 installer.sh -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 58854 Jul 15 10:22 locations Kernel version matches. I also did an emerge -C', removed all files, and re-emerged. Still blurred full-screen. Thanks Bill Roberts pgpZPj3OGEZVZ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem access to Gentoo from XP over SSH - suggestions?

2005-07-15 Thread Bill Roberts
, which gives you the desktop, and it can be tunneled over ssh. Very nice. The fastest desktop product is nx and nxserver. It is not opensource, but I believe there is some provision for personal use. I would guess that it can be tunneled over ssh. Not sure about the mapping. Bill Roberts

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware/xorg.conf issues

2005-07-15 Thread Bill Roberts
at me, but see my comments inline below... Bill Roberts wrote: I am going NUTS trying to figure out how to make full-screen mode work properly in vmware-workstation 5. I can go into full-screen mode, but it looks like only half of the lines get drawn, so it's very ugly, impossible to read

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware/xorg.conf issues --SOLVED--

2005-07-17 Thread Bill Roberts
On 00:03 Sat 16 Jul , Richard Fish wrote: Bill Roberts wrote: Richard I tried all of your suggestions, without success. See inline comments: Note device and monitor section of xorg.conf at end: I've had one further idea. I have a 4-port kvm switch (Cybex), it has never

Re: [gentoo-user] OT SATA-2 drive support in Gentoo

2005-07-27 Thread Bill Roberts
. If you want hardware RAID, 3ware seems to be the ticket. hdparm -Tt /dev/md0 /dev/md0: Timing cached reads: 3080 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1538.70 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 410 MB in 3.00 seconds = 136.46 MB/sec Not cheap, but I think they're worth every nickel. Bill