Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to configure thochpad sensitivity (using hal)?

2010-11-18 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday 18 November 2010 14:18:55 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:32:42 +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote: I thought the real reason for leap years was to boot the turnover of the wedding industry. s/boot/boost/ Oh? How does that work? There's a tradition here that women

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: i486

2010-11-24 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 24 November 2010 11:23:48 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 22:53:02 +, David W Noon wrote: Apparently it's not quite a full i686. The research I did at the time indicated that using anything higher than i486 was asking for problems. I am a little surprised by

Re: [gentoo-user] smartmontools can 'kill' a certain sata disk:

2010-11-30 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday 30 November 2010 10:02:01 Thanasis wrote: on 11/29/2010 10:10 PM Volker Armin Hemmann wrote the following: http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/wiki/SamsungF4EGBadBlocks just because some of you might have missed it... Apart from Samsung F4 EcoGreen, it also refers

Re: [gentoo-user] smartmontools can 'kill' a certain sata disk:

2010-11-30 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday 30 November 2010 10:53:21 Thanasis wrote: on 11/30/2010 11:17 AM J. Roeleveld wrote the following: On Tuesday 30 November 2010 10:02:01 Thanasis wrote: on 11/29/2010 10:10 PM Volker Armin Hemmann wrote the following: http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/wiki

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 09:55:37 Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 12/15/10 09:40:48, Dale wrote: Hi again, For those mot up to date. I built a new rig that has a Nvidia GT220 card in it. I bought a brand new monitor this morning, a LG W2253, and it worked one time. I had to reboot

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 10:03:58 Dale wrote: Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 12/15/10 09:40:48, Dale wrote: Hi again, For those mot up to date. I built a new rig that has a Nvidia GT220 card in it. I bought a brand new monitor this morning, a LG W2253, and it worked one time. I

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 10:26:16 Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday 15 December 2010 10:03:58 Dale wrote: Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 12/15/10 09:40:48, Dale wrote: Hi again, For those mot up to date. I built a new rig that has a Nvidia GT220 card in it. I bought

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 10:54:14 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 10:17:01 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: 1.) Add hal to the USE flags of /etc/make.conf. This is going to be fun ;-) Yes, I remember that episode on his last machine :) -- Joost

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 11:10:03 Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 12/15/10 10:56:21, Adam Carter wrote: I confirmed with lsmod and even rmmod and modprobed it back in a few times. Still no joy. I really think it is either the card or the xorg.conf file. Thing is, when

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 11:20:20 Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: Dale, Rather then rebooting, did you shut down the whole machine, eg. power off and unplug power and then start it again? I have, in the past, had issues where a card wasn't being reset properly during a reboot

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 11:30:46 Adam Carter wrote: I don't think that's true. In my Xorg.0.log I do have (EE) Failed to load module dri (module does not exist, 0) (EE) Failed to load module dri2 (module does not exist, 0) and still, X11 is running just fine. I

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 11:45:34 Adam Carter wrote: On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: I hope you are right. If it is missing modules, what do I need to do to fix it? I did a emerge -e nvidia-drivers and everything built fine. fwiw xorg

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 10:08:30 Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 02:40:48 -0600, Dale wrote: [ 2081.057] (EE) Failed to load module dri (module does not exist, 0) [ 2081.057] (EE) Failed to load module dri2 (module does not exist, 0) [ 2082.101] (EE)

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 12:39:27 Dale wrote: Pintér Tibor wrote: how about just checking the bloody Xorg logs to see what could have gone wrong? (/var/log/Xorg.0.log) That's where the errors came from that I posted in my first post. Here is the results of the latest test. I shut

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 12:39:27 Dale wrote: Pintér Tibor wrote: how about just checking the bloody Xorg logs to see what could have gone wrong? (/var/log/Xorg.0.log) That's where the errors came from that I posted in my first post. Here is the results of the latest test. I shut

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 12:44:59 Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday 15 December 2010 10:08:30 Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 02:40:48 -0600, Dale wrote: [ 2081.057] (EE) Failed to load module dri (module does not exist, 0) [ 2081.057] (EE) Failed

Re: !! SOLVED !! Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 13:37:33 Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday 15 December 2010 12:39:27 Dale wrote: Pintér Tibor wrote: how about just checking the bloody Xorg logs to see what could have gone wrong? (/var/log/Xorg.0.log) That's where the errors came from that I

Re: !! SOLVED !! Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 08:26:11 Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday 15 December 2010 13:37:33 Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: snipped Am glad you got it working. Enjoy the new machine :) -- Joost I went back and looked at the nvidia driver guide on gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird (?) permission problem...

2010-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 15:41:25 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk [10-12-15 15:40]: On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:13:31 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: And this happens to any mountpoint I mount that device on regardless of its perm settings before the mount

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird (?) permission problem...

2010-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 16:20:32 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org [10-12-15 16:00]: On Wednesday 15 December 2010 15:41:25 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk [10-12-15 15:40]: On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:13:31 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de

Re: !! SOLVED !! Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 20:35:15 Dale wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Wednesday 15 December 2010 13:33:03 J. Roeleveld wrote: Not sure how much memory you have, but a 6Gig ramdisk mounted at /var/tmp

Re: [gentoo-user] Linksys router BEFSR41 loosing internet

2010-12-20 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sunday 19 December 2010 21:35:57 Dale wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 19 December 2010 13:17:51 Dale wrote: I found a how to. I read it. This is what I got out of it. It sounds like I need to let the modem use DHCP with the phone company. Correct. Then I need to set

Re: [gentoo-user] Linksys router BEFSR41 loosing internet

2010-12-20 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday 20 December 2010 11:44:11 Peter Humphrey wrote: (What follows has grown rather long. I hope it doesn't come over too much as a lecture.) It's fairly straightforward once you get the hang of it. The address of a device is a 64-bit number, expressed as four 16-bit numbers joined

Re: [gentoo-user] Linksys router BEFSR41 loosing internet

2010-12-20 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday 20 December 2010 13:24:11 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 20 December 2010 12:04:27 J. Roeleveld wrote: For the sake of the archives, I do need to correct you here. With the current IP-numbers (IPv4) it's a 32-bit number, expressed as four 8- bit numbers (A byte is 8 bit

Re: [gentoo-user] depclean wants to remove hal, which kills xdm

2010-12-20 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday 20 December 2010 15:55:40 Allan Gottlieb wrote: Vincent-Xavier JUMEL endymion+gen...@thetys-retz.net writes: Le 20 décembre à 15:12 Allan Gottlieb a écrit Something seems wrong. Yesterday depclean removed hal and then xdm wouldn't run. Re-merging hal (with -1) fixed this, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-04 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday 03 January 2011 18:43:28 Jörg Schaible wrote: Hi, starting with the 2.6.36-r5 kernel of the Gentoo sources my boot device changes. With 2.6.35 and below it is alway /dev/sda3, with the new kernel it seems that anything that is internally connected with USB is assigned a device

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-07 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday 07 January 2011 09:47:28 Jörg Schaible wrote: Hi Dale, Dale wrote: Jörg Schaible wrote: that approves my tests ... :-/ Had to boot this morning 5 times, since the root device switched arbitrarily between sde3 and sdg3 and I've chosen by bad luck always the wrong one. It

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-07 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 05 January 2011 13:35:28 Dale wrote: Jörg Schaible wrote: that approves my tests ... :-/ Had to boot this morning 5 times, since the root device switched arbitrarily between sde3 and sdg3 and I've chosen by bad luck always the wrong one. It seems there is also some timing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-07 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday 07 January 2011 15:01:48 pk wrote: On 2011-01-07 10:34, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Friday 07 January 2011 09:47:28 Jörg Schaible wrote: Another option would be to patch the kernel to either support Labels natively or to have it include a scan harddisks in following order

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange problem with audio CDs

2011-01-12 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday 10 January 2011 10:48:56 Jake Moe wrote: I can't seem to get audio CDs to work with my drive. Data CDs work fine, I can mount the filesystem and read them. Data and Video DVDs seem to work fine as well. But when I try to listen to an audio CD, I get the attached errors in log.bz2.

Re: [gentoo-user] vbox 64-bit guest will fail to detect a 64-bit CPU and will not be able to boot.

2011-01-12 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 12 January 2011 09:27:00 kashani wrote: On 1/12/2011 12:04 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: System uname: linux-2.6.34-gentoo-r12-x86_64-intel-r-_core-tm-_i7_cpu_l_6...@_2.13ghz-w ith-gentoo-1.12.14 Timestamp of tree: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 15:45:01 + That chip looks okay.

Re: [gentoo-user] vbox 64-bit guest will fail to detect a 64-bit CPU and will not be able to boot.

2011-01-12 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 12 January 2011 16:17:09 Valmor de Almeida wrote: On 01/12/2011 05:39 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday 12 January 2011 09:27:00 kashani wrote: On 1/12/2011 12:04 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: System uname: linux-2.6.34-gentoo-r12-x86_64-intel-r-_core-tm-_i7_cpu_l_6

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A tiny titillating taste of grub2

2011-01-13 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday 13 January 2011 01:40:09 Dale wrote: You got a crystal ball or something? Not yet, my supplier is still awaiting new stock from the manufacturer... -- Joost

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange problem with audio CDs

2011-01-13 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday 13 January 2011 07:12:48 Jake Moe wrote: If you're talking about proper Audio-CD as one that's audio-only, no mixed data in there as well, then yes, I'm sure. And I have over 500 CDs; I can't test them all. :-P But yeah, a selection of CDs have all had the same result. And

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange problem with audio CDs

2011-01-13 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday 13 January 2011 11:33:09 Jake Moe wrote: On 01/13/11 18:12, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Thursday 13 January 2011 07:12:48 Jake Moe wrote: If you're talking about proper Audio-CD as one that's audio-only, no mixed data in there as well, then yes, I'm sure. And I have over 500 CDs

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange problem with audio CDs

2011-01-13 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday 13 January 2011 12:07:02 Joerg Schilling wrote: J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: Can you actually play that wav-file? Or is it just a collection of garbage? As far as I know, CD-Paranoia access the cd-drive a bit more directly then other tools. Eg. it approaches

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange problem with audio CDs

2011-01-13 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday 13 January 2011 12:07:02 Joerg Schilling wrote: J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: Can you actually play that wav-file? Or is it just a collection of garbage? As far as I know, CD-Paranoia access the cd-drive a bit more directly then other tools. Eg. it approaches

Re: [gentoo-user] grub installation problem

2011-01-13 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday 13 January 2011 12:17:24 Dale wrote: Jacques Montier wrote: I re-emerged grub in Gentoo with my separated (sda3) boot partition mounted and now it works ! I don't understand... Jacques I wonder if it is a bug or something in the CD you booted? I recently booted

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange problem with audio CDs

2011-01-13 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday 13 January 2011 13:37:04 Joerg Schilling wrote: J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: From the FAQ on cdparanoia's website (http://xiph.org/paranoia/faq.html) it looks like that it's not based on cdda2wav, but actually uses a re-write of cdda2wav since January 1998

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange problem with audio CDs

2011-01-13 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday 13 January 2011 19:12:05 pk wrote: On 2011-01-13 17:54, Joerg Schilling wrote: cdda2wav nows aabout vendor unique SCSI commands that give better results and it knows about various defects and deviations from the Red book standard. With this knowledge, it is able to extract

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Backing up emails

2011-01-20 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday 20 January 2011 15:23:08 Matt Harrison wrote: Hi guys, I know this isnt really a gentoo question but you always seem to come with an amazing answer in the end ;) I've got a friend who uses dreamhost for mail, and he's trying to move away from it to something a little more

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Backing up emails

2011-01-20 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday 20 January 2011 16:19:40 Nils Andresen wrote: Am 20.01.2011 15:31, schrieb J. Roeleveld: - Use a Mail-client (thunderbird, kmail,) to copy them across (copy folder should work) That has always been my choice, too. Never failed me. Never had more than 1 GB, though

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Backing up emails

2011-01-21 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday 20 January 2011 18:07:14 Matt Harrison wrote: On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 03:46:56PM +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 20.01.2011 15:23, schrieb Matt Harrison: I'm hoping someone here has an idea for something that will let me make a copy of all his mail, in the current folder

Re: [gentoo-user] Geographical location of an URL/IP-address

2011-01-23 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sunday 23 January 2011 06:08:12 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, is there any tool/mechanism to locate a given URL or IP-address on the globe automatically? I mean: I feed the tool with an IP-address or an URL and it will respond: France, Paris I dont mean a tool, whose output I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Geographical location of an URL/IP-address

2011-01-23 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sunday 23 January 2011 10:22:52 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org [11-01-23 10:16]: On Sunday 23 January 2011 06:08:12 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, is there any tool/mechanism to locate a given URL or IP-address on the globe automatically? I mean: I

Re: [gentoo-user] modifying iptables: how can I prevent locking me out?

2011-01-24 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday 24 January 2011 19:47:43 Jarry wrote: Hi, I have to change rather complex iptables rules on server and I do not want to lock me out as this server is about 50 miles away. So how should I do it? I can back up the old rules by running: /etc/init.d/iptables save and it will be

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia card problems

2011-01-25 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday 25 January 2011 13:55:51 Zhu Sha Zang wrote: With these vga card 00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C61 [GeForce 7025 / nForce 630a] (rev a2) after compiling x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-260.19.36 with these flags (acpi gtk multilib) i'm receiving this

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simultaneously emerging multiple packages with same dependencies

2011-01-27 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday 27 January 2011 15:05:25 YoYo Siska wrote: On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 03:33:21PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 01/27/2011 03:11 PM, Dale wrote: [...] I am using the -j option for the first time now. I'm updating KDE. It seems to work fine. It doesn't scroll all the stuff

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simultaneously emerging multiple packages with same dependencies

2011-01-27 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday 27 January 2011 19:56:23 Allan Gottlieb wrote: On Thu, Jan 27 2011, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 17:09:27 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: So on a 20 package world update, only 19 are faster while the 20th runs at the same speed? Where's the loss there? Even if the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simultaneously emerging multiple packages with same dependencies

2011-01-27 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday 27 January 2011 21:25:02 Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 01/27/2011 09:41 PM, Dale wrote: YoYo Siska wrote: Yes. It might not be perfect, but mostly it works pretty well. Once make started 10 or so process,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simultaneously emerging multiple packages with same dependencies

2011-01-27 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday 27 January 2011 22:06:30 YoYo Siska wrote: On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 08:18:34PM +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Thursday 27 January 2011 19:56:23 Allan Gottlieb wrote: On Thu, Jan 27 2011, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 17:09:27 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: So

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simultaneously emerging multiple packages with same dependencies

2011-01-27 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday 27 January 2011 22:06:30 YoYo Siska wrote: On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 08:18:34PM +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Thursday 27 January 2011 19:56:23 Allan Gottlieb wrote: On Thu, Jan 27 2011, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 17:09:27 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: So

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simultaneously emerging multiple packages with same dependencies

2011-01-27 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday 27 January 2011 23:05:22 Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 3:46 PM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Thursday 27 January 2011 21:25:02 Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 01/27/2011 09:41 PM, Dale

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simultaneously emerging multiple packages with same dependencies

2011-01-27 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday 27 January 2011 23:59:24 Mick wrote: I'm running i7 Q 720 (4 cores, hyperthreaded) and have MAKEOPTS=-j9 without any slowdown. One or two packages (like OpenOffice) will fail and need -j=1 to emerge. Otherwise no noticeable drop in desktop responsiveness. I have not set up

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simultaneously emerging multiple packages with same dependencies

2011-01-27 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday 27 January 2011 23:53:04 Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 01/27/2011 09:41 PM, Dale wrote: I noticed the same thing with mine. It used a LOT of ram. I have 4Gbs and it was up to about 3Gbs at one point and using some swap as well. I'm hoping to max out to 16Gbs as soon

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone successful in paravirtualizing Gentoo on XenServer?

2011-03-24 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, March 24, 2011 7:37 am, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:30, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 00:03, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: snipped previous attempts More update on my odyssey. I went back to HVM and reboot using the Install

Re: [gentoo-user] the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?)

2011-03-24 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wed, March 23, 2011 5:43 pm, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Wednesday 23 March 2011 14:04:23 Mr. Jarry wrote: On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: And if you don't care about barriers, jfs might be a good choice. Knowing nothing about

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone successful in paravirtualizing Gentoo on XenServer?

2011-03-24 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, March 24, 2011 9:20 am, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 14:47, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Thu, March 24, 2011 7:37 am, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:30, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 00:03, Pandu Poluan pa

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone successful in paravirtualizing Gentoo on XenServer?

2011-03-24 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, March 24, 2011 10:36 am, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 15:32, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: Hmmm... currently I set xencons=hvc0 (also in /etc/inittab, s/tty0/hvc0/) I'll see what happens if I return them to tty0. Good luck there :) No joy. Changing xencons

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone successful in paravirtualizing Gentoo on XenServer?

2011-03-24 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, March 24, 2011 1:19 pm, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 18:21, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Thu, March 24, 2011 10:36 am, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 15:32, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: -- snip -- Hmm... I don't use kernel-modules

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone successful in paravirtualizing Gentoo on XenServer?

2011-03-24 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, March 24, 2011 1:57 pm, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Thu, March 24, 2011 1:19 pm, Pandu Poluan wrote: -- snip -- Can't hurt to try, now that I've gotten a bootable kernel. Can always fallback to the previous one. Let me know how that goes. Compiling all the M into * still results

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone successful in paravirtualizing Gentoo on XenServer?

2011-03-24 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, March 24, 2011 2:10 pm, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 19:57, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Thu, March 24, 2011 1:19 pm, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 18:21, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Thu, March 24, 2011 10:36 am, Pandu Poluan

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM (Was: the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?))

2011-03-24 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, March 24, 2011 12:30 pm, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Thursday 24 March 2011 08:49:52 J. Roeleveld wrote: On Wed, March 23, 2011 5:43 pm, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: md raid devices can do barriers. Don't know about lvm. But lvm is such a can of worms I am surprised people still

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM for data drives but not the OS

2011-04-07 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, April 7, 2011 7:31 pm, BRM wrote: - Original Message From: Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org On Thursday 07 April 2011 06:52:26 BRM wrote: - Original Message From: Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org On Thursday 07 April 2011 06:20:55 BRM wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM for data drives but not the OS

2011-04-08 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Fri, April 8, 2011 11:01 pm, Dale wrote: Dale wrote: root@fireball / # pvcreate /dev/sdb Physical volume /dev/sdb successfully created root@fireball / # Step one done. It didn't puke on my keyboard. lol Now to see what else I can get into. Not going to put anything important on

Re: [gentoo-user] Firmware exists but fails to load

2011-08-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Mon, August 15, 2011 11:13 am, Adam Carter wrote: # dmesg | grep firm [ 70.453673] r8169 :02:00.0: eth0: unable to load firmware patch rtl_nic/rtl8168d-2.fw (-2) # ls -l /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168d-2.fw -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1324 Aug 12 13:09 /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168d-2.fw

Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB v2

2011-08-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Mon, August 15, 2011 11:52 am, Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello List, I'm sure I saw a thread recently describing progress in understanding and using grub-2, but now I can't find it. I have six months of articles here too, and I've searched gmane and the gentoo archive. Perhaps I'm being

Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB v2

2011-08-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Mon, August 15, 2011 3:06 pm, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 15 August 2011 11:07:31 J. Roeleveld wrote: There also was a thread called [gentoo-user] [cookbook] grub2 for idiots like me by walt (24 January 2011) which is, I believe, what you're looking for. That looks like the one

Re: [gentoo-user] Another Install Issue

2011-10-17 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Mon, October 17, 2011 12:35 am, Florian Philipp wrote: snipped I agree that the problem should be solved but just in case Colleen wants to continue with his installation (I know, he is installing Gentoo for the first time so I doubt he values his time very high ;-) ), I suggest he either

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

2011-10-19 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wed, October 19, 2011 7:39 am, Colleen Beamer wrote: Semi-solved. On 10/18/11 19:21, Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Colleen Beamer colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, My CD drive will read data CD's, but will not play audio CD's. I've tried with kscd

Re: [gentoo-user] udev rules for an iPod Touch?

2011-11-07 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sun, November 6, 2011 6:49 pm, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Samstag 05 November 2011, 20:45:15 schrieb Joost Roeleveld: Virtualbox has decent USB-pass-through support. Even quite high performance. Thanks for your help. I do appreciate it virtualbox is also pretty broken at the

Re: [gentoo-user] Network problem with linux server

2011-11-07 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Mon, November 7, 2011 12:13 pm, Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: Hi All. This problem is not strictly related to gentoo, however I'm sure someone here will be able to help me in some way: sorry if I bother you! I'm having a really strange problem: for some reason, everytime I reboot my

Re: [gentoo-user] Network problem with linux server

2011-11-07 Thread J. Roeleveld
Please do NOT top-post. On Mon, November 7, 2011 12:34 pm, Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: You are totally right: I'm not using gentoo, but I'm serching for help and gentoo's mailing list is the most technical one: I'm truly sorry for the OT. If asking questions on how to do things on non-Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Network problem with linux server

2011-11-07 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Mon, November 7, 2011 1:15 pm, Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: What about the documentation? I have noticed that most binary distros require the use of their graphical admin tools to make any changes to the configuration. I read the documentation and tried to carefully follow it. Now I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Something weird and I'm confused. BIOS and SATA is empty

2011-11-08 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Mon, November 7, 2011 1:32 pm, Dale wrote: SNIP I looked for such a option but I can't find it anywhere. It may be there but I can't find it. Since it is working and the AHCI controller sees the drives, I'm going to leave well enough alone. I checked my desktop at home last night and the

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Binary install distro

2011-11-10 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, November 10, 2011 8:03 pm, Dale wrote: SNIPPED Any tips or tricks on Kubuntu anyone? Sort of a basic 'this is how you update/install something for idiots' type thing. lol I think Sabayon would be a better option, but if you really want to go with *buntu/debian: - Install X # sudo

Re: [gentoo-user] Something weird and I'm confused. BIOS and SATA is empty

2011-11-11 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tue, November 8, 2011 10:33 am, Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: On Mon, November 7, 2011 1:32 pm, Dale wrote: All this from a raccoon knocking out power. Pesky critter. Raccoons are doing some behaviour studies in your area, didn't you get the memo? :) -- Joost The only report

Re: [gentoo-user] The LIGHTEST web server (just for serving files)?

2011-11-14 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sat, November 12, 2011 2:11 pm, YoYo Siska wrote: On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 07:40:08PM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: During my drive home, something hit my brain: why not have the 'master' server share the distfiles dir via NFS? So, the question now becomes: what's the drawback/benefit of

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Are push backups flawed?

2011-11-14 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tue, November 15, 2011 3:32 am, Grant wrote: You identified a flaw in the system as you were using it. You're right, those are flaws. However, you can fix those flaws by applying some magic as a sysadmin. That's why several posts in the thread have mentioned versioning your backups in

Re: [gentoo-user] A helping hand with virtual machines, please.

2011-11-23 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wed, November 23, 2011 12:06 am, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 22:29:23 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: What I like about VBox is that you get all the useful bits in the open-source version. Except USB support. Huh? I used VirtualBox with a MSWindowsXP guest to use a negatives

Re: [gentoo-user] A helping hand with virtual machines, please.

2011-11-23 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tue, November 22, 2011 11:47 pm, William Kenworthy wrote: snipped YMMV ... VB is stable and rarely if ever breaks, app and modules just work - performance is as good as vmware I actually found VB to have better performance. When using virtual machines, I tend to run multiple

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A helping hand with virtual machines, please.

2011-11-23 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wed, November 23, 2011 1:59 pm, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: The 23/11/11, Joseph Davis wrote: I agree a list of issues, just broad ones, would be helpful. I am interested in VMs, so knowing which ones have what problems, and my own needs, would be help me make a good choice. Please,

Re: [gentoo-user] A helping hand with virtual machines, please.

2011-11-23 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wed, November 23, 2011 2:34 pm, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:57:31 +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote: What I like about VBox is that you get all the useful bits in the open-source version. Except USB support. Huh? I used VirtualBox with a MSWindowsXP guest to use

Re: [gentoo-user] Process to resize ext3 file system at the command line?

2011-11-24 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Fri, November 18, 2011 1:33 am, Mark Knecht wrote: On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:13:09 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: Do you have separately partitioned drives with those partitions arranged into single-partition arrays, or do

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo location for squirrelmail attachments

2011-12-08 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, December 8, 2011 8:37 pm, Stroller wrote: On 8 December 2011, at 19:17, Grant wrote: I ran squirrelmail/configtest.php and realized I don't have an attachment directory set up for Squirrelmail: ERROR: Attachment dir (/var/local/squirrelmail/attach/) does not exist! I don't even

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I keep baselayout-1?

2011-12-08 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, December 8, 2011 5:01 pm, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Dec 8, 2011 9:46 PM, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: This server is ~50 miles away, and if I screw something and it does not boot up, I will have to go there and fix it on place. One small typo in ~50 config-files which must be updated

Re: [gentoo-user] apache - virtual host not working

2011-12-11 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Mon, December 12, 2011 7:23 am, Joseph wrote: Any any body provide me with hint why my virtual host is not working in apache? We'll try :) I've copied server config files from one computer to another. Which config-files? I think apache uses the following: /etc/conf.d/apache /etc/apache/*

Re: [gentoo-user] apache - virtual host not working

2011-12-11 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Mon, December 12, 2011 8:03 am, Matthew Finkel wrote: On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 1:23 AM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: in: modules.d/00_default_settings.**conf # We configure the default to be a very restrictive set of features. Directory / Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] apache - virtual host not working

2011-12-11 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Mon, December 12, 2011 8:21 am, Joseph wrote: On 12/12/11 02:03, Matthew Finkel wrote: On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 1:23 AM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: In /etc/hosts I have: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost mydomain.ca syscon5 10.0.0.100 www.mydomain.ca If I

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM: extending volume groups and logical volumes

2011-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday 16 December 2011 03:18:16 Allan Gottlieb wrote: I need to add space to /var (thank you, libreoffice), which is on lvm. Since my one volume group vg is getting low, I thought this would be a good time to extend it as well. Actually, you need space in /var/tmp/portage Alan (McKinnon)

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD gives error but works fine

2011-12-20 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tue, December 20, 2011 9:02 am, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Dec 20, 2011 6:04 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: -8 snip Anyway, maybe we can keep each other updated (on list of off, either is fine with me) about our progress. On list, please. Although ATM I have no need to

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM: extending volume groups and logical volumes

2011-12-20 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sat, December 17, 2011 2:37 am, Allan Gottlieb wrote: On Thu, Dec 15 2011, Allan Gottlieb wrote: SNIPPED 3. I decided to use another suggestion (from neil) to use PORTAGE_TMPDIR, roeleveld's idea of just using temporary space, and Webb suggested /z for extra space. Allan, Just a

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, January 26, 2012 8:16 am, Dale wrote: Hi list, I ran across this news item about Google: http://alturl.com/s7xi5 The long URL is below. I'm sort of getting to where I don't like Google since they seem to be doing things that I'm just not comfy with. Next they will want a camera

Re: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question for old farts. lol

2012-01-29 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sun, January 29, 2012 2:16 pm, Dale wrote: snipped The little green light stayed on all the time so I unplugged it. I'm hoping someone here may still have one of these and can shed some light on this. The light staying on could also be because the floppy-flatcable is plugged in

Re: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question for old farts. lol

2012-01-31 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tue, January 31, 2012 6:30 pm, Walter Dnes wrote: On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 06:05:12PM +0100, Michael Hampicke wrote Sweet. I had 15 minutes in the office how long before someone makes a pointless, unrelated Windows insult out of my post pool; I just won $5. I was using Win3.1 - and was

Re: [gentoo-user] recommendation for a router/WAP

2012-02-01 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, February 2, 2012 2:08 am, Allan Gottlieb wrote: I have a linksys wrt54G that is acting a little funny. Since my new laptop supports 1Gig wired ethernet and the wrt is 100Meg, I should upgrade even if the funny turns out to be just a config error on my laptop. This is a home system.

Re: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question for old farts. lol

2012-02-01 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wed, February 1, 2012 6:36 am, Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: On Tue, January 31, 2012 6:30 pm, Walter Dnes wrote: On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 06:05:12PM +0100, Michael Hampicke wrote Sweet. I had 15 minutes in the office how long before someone makes a pointless, unrelated Windows insult

Re: [gentoo-user] Can no longer use symlinks in /etc/init.d with openrc-0.9.8.4 ?

2012-02-16 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, February 16, 2012 6:24 am, Pandu Poluan wrote: I am wondering if any of you had experienced the same difficulty as me: A couple of days ago, I upgraded openrc from (whatever version it was previously) to 0.9.8.4. One of the scripts in /etc/init.d was a symlink to

Re: [gentoo-user] Can no longer use symlinks in /etc/init.d with openrc-0.9.8.4 ?

2012-02-16 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, February 16, 2012 12:39 pm, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Feb 16, 2012 6:14 PM, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Am 16.02.2012 11:12, schrieb Pandu Poluan: On Feb 16, 2012 3:33 PM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org mailto:jo...@antarean.org wrote: SNIP Pandu, I

Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED gentoo-sources menuconfig feature/weirdness

2012-02-23 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, February 23, 2012 12:25 pm, Alan McKinnon wrote: Just don't do what I did earlier: sit in Joburg and configure the firewall on a Xen host in deepest darkest Africa where there's no tarred roads to get to it. How did you get the server there? Flown it in? I've seen the roads in Africa

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