[gentoo-user] full shutdown

2009-03-28 Thread Simon
... it doesnt show the progress, any ideas? (this is secondary though) Thanks in advance guys! Simon -- When Earth was the only inhabited planet in the Galaxy, it was a primitive place, militarily speaking. The only weapon they had ever invented worth mentioning was a crude and inefficient

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: full shutdown

2009-03-31 Thread Simon
at 9:42 PM, ABCD en.a...@gmail.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Simon wrote: Hi there,   this must be simple (it always is) but I can't figure out by myself.  I have one of the first eeepc (4gb) and when issuing `shutdown -h now` the computer shutdown perfectly

Re: [gentoo-user] full shutdown

2009-03-31 Thread Simon
OK, i'll check this out tonight (if i have enough time, and if i can remember!) Thanks! On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 11:39 PM, Mike Kazantsev mike_kazant...@fraggod.net wrote: On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 17:24:39 -0400 Simon turne...@gmail.com wrote:   I'm recompiling the kernel almost as often as I

Re: [gentoo-user] full shutdown

2009-03-31 Thread Simon
, Mar 30, 2009 at 3:15 AM, Steffen Loos fe...@gmx.net wrote: Simon schrieb: Hi there,   this must be simple (it always is) but I can't figure out by myself.  I have one of the first eeepc (4gb) and when issuing `shutdown -h now` the computer shutdown perfectly but forgets to cut the current. I

Re: [gentoo-user] full shutdown

2009-04-01 Thread Simon
! Thanks a lot! On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 3:17 AM, Steffen Loos fe...@gmx.net wrote: Steffen Loos schrieb: Simon schrieb: Hi there,   this must be simple (it always is) but I can't figure out by myself.  I have one of the first eeepc (4gb) and when issuing `shutdown -h now` the computer shutdown

Re: [gentoo-user] problem making bootable usb key

2009-04-08 Thread Simon
You might be interested in trying Slax (usb distro based on slackware), the kde environment doesnt suit the size of the monitor very well on the eeepc (if you have one that is as small as mine at 800x480), but using other wm works perfect. Slax is extremely small and comes with ISOs and TGZ that

[gentoo-user] telephony

2009-04-22 Thread Simon
hi there, i'm looking for suggestions and guidance. I have a vps host with gentoo on it, i dont think the vps is stable enough to ensure a good quality of service, but it could just need an upgrade, no big deal. I need a phone and the way i decided to go was to get a connection to the internet

Re: [gentoo-user] telephony

2009-04-23 Thread Simon
covici cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Take a look at a book called The Future of Telephony -- its free, but I am not sure where to get it. on Wednesday 04/22/2009 Simon(turne...@gmail.com) wrote   hi there,     i'm looking for suggestions and guidance.  I have a vps host with   gentoo on it, i

Re: [gentoo-user] telephony

2009-04-23 Thread Simon
, you brought some important points to consider! On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Michael Higgins li...@evolone.org wrote: On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:30:52 -0400 Simon turne...@gmail.com wrote: hi there,   i'm looking for suggestions and guidance. [] I tend to tell folks up front to never listen

Re: [gentoo-user] telephony

2009-04-23 Thread Simon
other priorities) or because the difficulties you found? Thanks! On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 2:22 AM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 22 Apr 2009, at 17:30, Simon wrote: ... I'm thinking on setting up asterisk, but having read about it in the past, i know as soon as i set it up

Re: [gentoo-user] telephony

2009-04-23 Thread Simon
a look at a book called The Future of Telephony -- its free, but I am not sure where to get it. on Wednesday 04/22/2009 Simon(turne...@gmail.com) wrote   hi there,     i'm looking for suggestions and guidance.  I have a vps host with   gentoo on it, i dont think the vps is stable enough

Re: [gentoo-user] telephony

2009-04-25 Thread Simon
You seem to want to know the difference, FXO vs FXS.  If I got this wrong, just delete it.  FXS is meant to interface to a telephone set, so it gives talk battery and (as needed) ringing current.  FXO is meant to interface to a line from a telco switch, so it accepts battery (if the circuit

Re: [gentoo-user] Software RAID vs Fake RAID

2009-04-27 Thread Simon
laugh!, for my small 4gb EeePC, it raid6 has been working super fine on software linux raid). Simon On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 8:18 AM, Yahya Mohammad mfya...@gmail.com wrote: Hi list, I'm setting up a new desktop machine with RAID 0. The motherboard I bought supports the so-called Fake RAID, which

Re: [gentoo-user] Software RAID vs Fake RAID

2009-04-27 Thread Simon
'growing' support is handled in hardware raid and i'm ready to believe it is inexistant in fakeraid... but I'm saying so without knowing... Simon

[gentoo-user] [slightly OT] Pocket Putty or similar

2009-04-28 Thread Simon
Hey guys! i just got my internet connection working through a new cellphone (pda). the connection works fine but is a battery eater (i share the cell data connection to wifi, and then from the pc connect to the phone's ad-hoc ap, very cool, but have the charger handy!) Anyway, I've come

Re: [gentoo-user] Software RAID vs Fake RAID

2009-04-28 Thread Simon
FS, i dont use ntfs because it used to lack write support long ago). That is, in windows, i would move the files in a folder created on the desktop, and then in linux, i would mount the windows drive and copy/move the files in /mnt/windrive/Documents*/simon/Desktop/folder_for_linux/. If you wish

Re: [gentoo-user] [slightly OT] Pocket Putty or similar

2009-04-28 Thread Simon
Hey guys!  i just got my internet connection working through a new cellphone (pda). I think we'll need to know which operating system(s) the phone runs in order to suggest anything. Makes sense! Sorry that i forgot! The phone is an HTC TyTN (also known as Hermes100, i think). It is running

[gentoo-user] GPRS connection through usb

2009-04-28 Thread Simon
normally (is it PPP? or something else?). The cellphone would also need to be setup to share its data connection to usb (but this seems quite simple... the linux part is the problem). Thanks for help and pointers! Simon

Re: [gentoo-user] GPRS connection through usb

2009-04-29 Thread Simon
with several external drivers) so i should be fine. I'll give this a try asap, but since i have a day off tomorrow, i might do some fiesta tonight, in any case, i should reply soon with success or failure! Thanks again! Simon

Re: [gentoo-user] GPRS connection through usb

2009-05-01 Thread Simon
You do NOT need PPP, but you do need a fairly recent kernel (= 2.6.27 at least, not sure of the details). You need at least CONFIG_USB_RNDIS_WLAN as m or y. With udev and 'm' things work mostly automatically on the linux side. On the phone you enable advanced networking (or else you will see

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving an installed system to RAID10

2009-05-02 Thread Simon
I know I'll need to change /boot/grub/grub.conf, /etc/fstab and any other files that refer to my current drive partitions, /dev/sda{1,2,3,4}. I am concerned whether my current kernel will recognize the /dev/md{1,2,3,4} arrays on booting, and before switching from the initrd root disk. How

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo older versions

2009-05-02 Thread Simon
On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Nitin Kanaskar nitinv...@gmail.com wrote: Ok - I am not clear about the terminology - packages, versions... But i need to install gentoo 2004/2005 - if this is right. I am a graduate student doing research on vulnerabilities, exploits and IDS. Hence I am

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

2009-05-02 Thread Simon
hi there! I've been using unison to synchronise and backup my computers. unison is based on rsync IIRC but with the difference that it 'remembers' the state of the folder that was synchronised. This way, if I delete a file on A, when sync'ing it will be deleted on B. While rsync would leave

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

2009-05-02 Thread Simon
If you are using ssh with unison, are you using the KeepAlive yes option in your ssh configuration? If not, add it, and your connection should not close from inactivity. If you are using direct sockets, unison will use a keepalive so it can timeout if the communication link is broken. Well i

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving an installed system to RAID10

2009-05-03 Thread Simon
Or you can create raid0 with partitions on both drives (sda1+sdb1) and mirror it on the second set of partitions on the same drives. But then you do not have any protection from total disk failure you'd normally expect from raid1. Only some very little protection against a sector failure.

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

2009-05-03 Thread Simon
on my HD against its local archive... anyway... Thanks, Simon

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

2009-05-03 Thread Simon
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/5976 http://kitenet.net/~joey/svnhome/ http://www.google.com/search?q=homedir+version+control Hey thanks Stroller, I'd be interested in these solutions, but i dont have enough space to copy everything in double (keep a backup). So what i do, and this is

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

2009-05-05 Thread Simon
ServerAliveInterval) Thanks all! Simon

[gentoo-user] union merge for binpkg makers

2009-05-05 Thread Simon
the unionfs at some point, etc...). What do you think? Should i start working on this? Or is there anything better out there? Thanks, Simon

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

[gentoo-user] Sync'ing and compiling pkgs for multiple PCs

2008-07-29 Thread Simon
for them) and that the compiling computer can compile all needed pkgs in one run preferably. As usual, if you can answer my question directly on the mailing list that'd be nice, if you could give URLs to some documentation that answers my question that'd be very nice too! Thanks, Simon

Re: [gentoo-user] Sync'ing and compiling pkgs for multiple PCs

2008-07-29 Thread Simon
I don't have time right now to answer all of your questions, but in terms of having all machines have the same list of installed packages, all you probably need is /var/lib/portage/world . This lists all of the packages that you emerged. I.e. those packages not brought in via dependencies. If you

Re: [gentoo-user] Sync'ing and compiling pkgs for multiple PCs

2008-07-30 Thread Simon
, not reproducible, so I'll drop my distcc issue and go on with the -e recompilation. Unless you have some more tips on using distcc on such a large compile? Thanks again, Simon

Re: [gentoo-user] Sync'ing and compiling pkgs for multiple PCs

2008-07-31 Thread Simon
and glibc (also binutils? what else?). Same everything on every machine, i'll double check glibc and binutils too. Thanks Stroller, I'm really starting to see how I can manage my mini IT lab now! Simon

Re: [gentoo-user] Sync'ing and compiling pkgs for multiple PCs

2008-07-31 Thread Simon
I would perhaps do some more investigation start a new thread about distcc problems. Yup, I'll do this major update on friday and report here about any issues strictly related to emerge and distcc. However, no news is good news! =) Thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] Sync'ing and compiling pkgs for multiple PCs

2008-07-31 Thread Simon
for a network FS. I believe it could even be used to replace completely my current use of unison. Definitely worth experimenting and if that succeeds, I'll consider migrating to it! Thanks again! Simon

[gentoo-user] distcc trivial issue (i'm sure)

2008-07-31 Thread Simon
no mention of the IP of any other hosts, nothing talking about connection issues or similar. I'm stuck here, I don't know what I'm looking for and help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Simon

[gentoo-user] (SOLVED) Re: distcc trivial issue (i'm sure)

2008-08-01 Thread Simon
of -j and all give pretty much the same results which is about 15% acceleration (computers are 433MHz/128Mb(swaps-a-lot), 450MHz(512Mb) and 700MHz(512Mb)). I don't think I should expect more acceleration, should I? Anyway, thanks and now, let's update these ancient monsters! Simon Simon wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] Building and Installing with gentoo to non-gentoo Linux

2008-08-13 Thread Simon
scratch) system but with few minor gentoo files. In both cases, maintenance will be your main problem (upgrades mostly) and unless you don't mind having a system that is hard/impossible to upgrade, I would look into that also! Simon Yoav Luft wrote: Hi, I have small device running linux

[gentoo-user] Trendnet TEW-424UB not working

2008-09-03 Thread Simon
, lsusb -v, and lspci -v (just in case). Thanks in advance for any help! Simon Linux version 2.6.24 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.1.2 (Gentoo 4.1.2 p1.1)) #7 SMP Fri Aug 29 10:32:22 EDT 2008 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: - 000a (usable) BIOS-e820

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to minimise resource usage during emerge

2008-09-13 Thread Simon
Yup, and on mine, here's what I do: I emerge all on one machine, which uses distcc on 2 other machines. Once machine1 is up2date, i rsync the binpkgs to machine2 and emerge using -k this time, all are installed by binary, those that are not found are emerged normally. Same process on last

Re: [gentoo-user] CF and Gentoo

2008-09-28 Thread Simon
an intelligent copy program such as rsync, sector lifespan would increase more randomly and more slowly. I do not recommend the use of flash cards for anything else than read-only data (that you can change sometimes). I compare it to a better-cd-rw. Simon

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/apache2 fails, but apache will run

2008-09-29 Thread Simon
those 2 files each and every time you update apache. I have never looked into that but maybe by removing the option -D DEFAULT_VHOST in you /etc/conf.d/apache2 might do the trick also. HTH, Simon Adam Carter wrote: rix adam # /etc/init.d/apache2 start * Starting apache2 ... (98)Address

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] Correct Setup for DVDRAM

2008-10-07 Thread Simon
be used like a rarely used hard-drive which does not suffer from magnetic deterioration (however unlikely this is). Any such tool? If not, this would be my first project dealing with kernel programming. Simon Florian Philipp wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Hi, since I own a LG HD-LT-DT GSA

Re: [gentoo-user] Asus Eee Gentoo install - no CD drive

2008-10-07 Thread Simon
Hey Grant, I'm the owner of an EeePC 701 (though it recently became defective, i'm opening a case with asus for repairs...). First thing i did was to burn Slax 6 (see slax @ http://www.slax.org/) on a USB key, boot it and `dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdc` (bye bye

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] Correct Setup for DVDRAM

2008-10-11 Thread Simon
Ok thanks, I'll hack my way through! Florian Philipp wrote: Simon schrieb: Storing data on a dvd is always quite useful and dvds cost much less than usb keys or other... I've been thinking about one thing. Is there any such thing as an incremental filesystem for write-once-read-only media

[gentoo-user] firefox crashes

2008-10-23 Thread Simon
maybe they'll help me out, but I thought maybe you guys here could help also? Here's the full output of ff when doing: `firefox linode.com/members`: No running windows found Type Manifest File: /home/simon/.mozilla/firefox/6n98gvbk.default/xpti.dat *** Registering Apprunner components (all right

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox crashes

2008-10-23 Thread Simon
v4l vesa vga via vmware voodoo Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMP RESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY Erik Hahn wrote: On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 10:48:47AM -0400, Simon wrote: Hi

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox crashes

2008-10-23 Thread Simon
Good try Albert, however I already had version 2.22.2 (which is how to solve the issue)... Thanks, Simon Albert Hopkins wrote: On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 10:48:47AM -0400, Simon wrote: Hi, recently (dunno why or when exactly) firefox has started crashing when loading certain pages. Two

Re: [gentoo-user] did anyone just get 400+ emails from this list?

2008-11-02 Thread Simon
This can happen if your email client forgot what last message it downloaded from your pop server while you have set it to leave messages on server. Iain Buchanan wrote: Hi, yes, I did... or at least I think. I'm using thunderbird (shredder) 3.0a2 (yes, aware of the risks, see the release

Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros chip with airodump-ng

2008-11-13 Thread Simon
Airodump-ng shows an empty table. I've seen the empty results also... The problem seems to be intermittent. But the location seems to be in relationship to the problem also; At home, I got blank results once out of a hundred scans I done... at my friend's place, I got only blank results

[gentoo-user] Binary package cruncher?

2008-11-15 Thread Simon
in advance! Simon

Re: [gentoo-user] Binary package cruncher?

2008-11-16 Thread Simon
disk now... So, basically, if gentoo is a meta-distribution, my host is my distribution and serves to build the packages that are then available to my PCs... Thanks, Simon

Re: [gentoo-user] Binary package cruncher?

2008-11-16 Thread Simon
with distcc. Thanks, Simon

Re: [gentoo-user] Curious pattern in log files from ssh...

2008-12-03 Thread Simon
(intrusion detection, etc...). Good luck! Simon Steve wrote: I've recently discovered a curious pattern emerging in my system log with failed login attempts via ssh. Previously, I noticed dictionary attacks launched - which were easy to detect... and I've a process to block the IP address of any

[gentoo-user] provided kernel

2008-12-27 Thread Simon
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Re: [gentoo-user] provided kernel

2008-12-28 Thread Simon
to me and might be worth a go :) I'll try. Btw, the nvidia-drivers depend on virtual/linux-sources iirc. Simon

[gentoo-user] SSL giving corrupted MAC on input

2009-07-06 Thread Simon
Hi there! I'm getting this issue where even very small transfers through ssh will cause this error message: Corrupted MAC on input. I've done my homework and found out this is not necessarily related to the network hardware as TCP would retransmit such corrupted packets, moreover the error

[gentoo-user] Re: SSL giving corrupted MAC on input

2009-07-06 Thread Simon
A quick troubleshooting i've done was to setup apache and simply wget a very large file over plain HTTP. Transfer worked, i did it a second time and diff'ed the two downloads, they were the same. I then did the same test over HTTPS and got an error (SSL3_GET_RECORD:decryption failed or bad

Re: [gentoo-user] SSL giving corrupted MAC on input

2009-07-20 Thread Simon
What did you recompile? There may still be a library using the sse2 flag. Have you tried using the --newuse or --reinstall changed-use emerge flags? Well, since all my problem were related to the use of ssh, i did a full: emerge -e openssh (took a 2 days on that super old pc, while shutdown

Re: [gentoo-user] SSL giving corrupted MAC on input

2009-07-20 Thread Simon
I'm running memtest86 on that pc at the moment, i will Went through 1 pass with zero errors, I'll try some more passes in case later... look more into the flags (i havent checked in the /etc/portage/packages.use, there might be some sse in there too that i missed). Checked all make.conf and

[gentoo-user] File synchronisation utility (searching for/about to program it)

2009-07-22 Thread Simon
this is the right choice. Thanks for reading, hopeful to be reading your answers! Simon

Re: [gentoo-user] File synchronisation utility (searching for/about to program it)

2009-07-25 Thread Simon
it will convince me i should program my own, better it will give me some good ideas or fortify some of my own good ideas and at best it will be the thing i've been looking for! Thanks again! Simon

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: File synchronisation utility (searching for/about to program it)

2009-07-25 Thread Simon
, once per day)... i've quickly calculated the key will last around 27 years. I'll be glad to buy a petabyte usbkey for 10$US in 27 years man! lol Simon

[gentoo-user] emerge portage error

2010-05-16 Thread Simon
Hi, Please help me to get rid of this error while emerging portage: # emerge portage Calculating dependencies... done! Verifying ebuild Manifests... starting parallel fetching pid 6030 Emerging (1 of 2) dev-lang/python-2.5.4-r4 to / * Python-2.5.4.tar.bz2 RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ...

[gentoo-user] VPS has issues emerging everything

2011-01-07 Thread Simon
Hi there, something went wrong during a previous update and now revdep-rebuild will kind-of freeze around 30%. When it freezes like that, the hosting company shows one of it's CPU core is used at 100% non-stop and the rest is idle. I have tried `emerge -e world` and with system, they all fail

[gentoo-user] Re: VPS has issues emerging everything

2011-01-07 Thread Simon
-rebuild was freezing, this one froze while finding dependencies)... if anyone has a guess, I'll try rebuilding that pkg and the winner gets a genuine 100$ of monopoly money. Simon On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Simon turne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there,  something went wrong during a previous

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VPS has issues emerging everything

2011-01-07 Thread Simon
/portage sys-apps/baselayout sys-fs/udev sys-apps/busybox I will redo a simple fsck.ext3 -c -c -f /dev/xvda and see what it says exactly (if it says anything). And then i will --sync and -e @system again... I'll reply to the list with my results... Thanks, Simon On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 12:36 PM

Re: [gentoo-user] VPS has issues emerging everything

2011-01-07 Thread Simon
-z + %% worked at this point). I'll reply here again with the next issue... Thanks, Simon Emerging (35 of 151) sys-devel/binutils-config-1.9-r4 * Package:sys-devel/binutils-config-1.9-r4 * Repository: gentoo * Maintainer: toolch

Re: [gentoo-user] VPS has issues emerging everything

2011-01-07 Thread Simon
// On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Simon turne...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, the fsck reported nothing wrong... I still got the same bug again... while doing `emerge -e @system`... It got stuck right after the Installing line below... Dale, I just checked my python

Re: [gentoo-user] VPS has issues emerging everything

2011-01-07 Thread Simon
Ok, was just doing a fsck.ext3 -c -c -C 1 /dev/xvda from within a rescue OS provided by my VPS provider... and it froze at the middle of it!!! So I guess Gentoo is not responsible after all... I've opened a support ticket with them... I'll let you know how it turns out. Simon On Fri, Jan 7

Re: [gentoo-user] VPS has issues emerging everything

2011-01-08 Thread Simon
that depend on glibc. I believe glibc was actually updated during my very initial update on monday and I haven't come to do that... but I guess everything will go smoothly from here. Thanks again for all your help guys! Simon On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Jacob Todd jaketodd...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] VPS has issues emerging everything

2011-01-08 Thread Simon
at full capacity and with zero errors. I don't know if I felt as good as this when I found the root cause... I just know that having root again feels great! ;) Okay... and now let's upgrade the kernel... ;P Thanks again, Simon On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Managing multiple Gentoo systems

2011-07-03 Thread Simon
good in combination with my suggestions, I haven't tried but it does seem very attractive. Simon

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} USB 3.0 hard drive speed test

2011-08-11 Thread Simon
It is my opinion that benchmarks should be done with a real benchmark tool. Try with bonnie++ This will really show you the strengths and weaknesses of your setup. Good luck, Simon On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am Donnerstag 11

Re: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought

2012-03-28 Thread Simon
Then copy /usr over: mount -o bind / /mnt mount -o remount,ro /usr cp -a /usr/* /mnt/ The bind moun t makes the root FS appear in a 2nd place, without /usr being populated by the content of your /usr partition. Don't forget to remove /usr from /etc/fstab. I can

Re: [gentoo-user] Tips for saving power needed...

2012-04-02 Thread Simon
approx time left. Many recomendations already posted in this emails will be suggested by powertop. Simon On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 8:10 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 7:57 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Apr 2, 2012 5:00 PM, Robert David

Re: [gentoo-user] 3.2.12 Kenel wont boot

2012-04-25 Thread Simon
The error just means it cannot find any device called /dev/sda4, but can only find your CD (sr0). I get this when booting from a usbkey and I need to tell the kernel to wait 5-10 seconds before detecting hdds. I also had this error when I used a config from my normal computers onto an older

Re: [gentoo-user] Any experience with swapfiles?

2012-05-02 Thread Simon
on 256mb file), then swapoff the 256 (takes a bit of time for swap data to move over), delete the 256. Downgrade can be done in the same manner. swapon -s (status) will be a good friend of yours now. Good luck! Simon On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 2:53 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: I have two machines

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

2012-05-08 Thread Simon
Also, there was a thread a good while back with this issue and their fix was to do a emerge -e world with everything optimized for their CPU and such.  May be worth thinking about at least. Video playback and CPU optimisations go hand in hand. One video I have had for a long time, I could

Re: [gentoo-user] VFAT problem

2012-07-20 Thread Simon
curious: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table#FATX Simon On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Hi, I have a Garmin GPS with a 32GB SD card. If I attach my

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How can I rewrite all empty sectors with zeros?

2012-07-23 Thread Simon
and recreate it each time (easy, and I often change the partition layout anyway). Simon

Re: [gentoo-user] resize raid1 array

2008-02-07 Thread Simon Turner
know ext23 support growing but I don't know about other filesystems. However, since it's a simple raid one, you could create a new raid device with one drive, format it at 500G, copy the stuff over from the old raid1, drop the old raid1 device and add it to the new one. Simon On 2/7/08, Rasmus

Re: [gentoo-user] resize raid1 array

2008-02-07 Thread Simon Turner
is done at the normal speed of a single drive, not hammed by the slow writes of the raid1, once done and tested I can re-add sdb1 and sync. Or if there is any complication during the modif, you get the great warm feeling of having a perfect backup in sdb1. =) Simon On Feb 7, 2008 7:31 AM, Rasmus

[gentoo-user] eth0 = pcmcia + usb adapter

2008-02-11 Thread Simon Turner
compiled in the kernel) and lspci was not found... I'm pretty confortable with everything exept these pcmcia cards... if anybody could give me a hand! Thanks, Simon Below are extracts from my current system (slax6rc6, livelinux based on slackware) ---(lspci)-- 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel

[gentoo-user] eth0 = pcmcia + usb eth

2008-02-11 Thread Simon Turner
compiled in the kernel) and lspci was not found... I'm pretty confortable with everything exept these pcmcia cards... if anybody could give me a hand! Thanks, Simon -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 = pcmcia + usb adapter

2008-02-12 Thread Simon Turner
: `find /usr/src/linux/ -name Kconfig -exec grep {} -Hn -e USB` Someone told it wasn't correct to edit the .config directly (most probably because of depencies), but is it possible, at my own risk? Thanks, Simon -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 = pcmcia + usb adapter

2008-02-13 Thread Simon Turner
Wow, that's a good start! I'll keep your post aside for when I go through the kernel again (i'm not at the point of setting up all software). At least, now that I got it working I can relax and start understanding what I've done! ;) Thanks a lot Mick! Simon Not sure, because I've never done

Re: [gentoo-user] How To set compile time options in emerge

2006-01-17 Thread Simon Prosser
On Wednesday 18 January 2006 12:36, Oumar Ndiaye wrote: Hi, I installed php-4 via emerge but I am having problems getting php to work with mysql. After many research I have concluded that php-4 is not compiled with the -with-mysql option. I need to recompile php-4 with the -with-mysql

[gentoo-user] Re: Old kernel versions

2006-01-21 Thread Simon Kellett
* not the kernel install (which you have done manually). (So you could do emerge gentoo sources, config, make, install etc, and immediately remove the kernel sources.) -- Simon Kellett,| Gentoo Linux, Fvwm, Firefox Darmstadt, Germany| Xemacs, Vm, Gnus -- gentoo-user

[gentoo-user] Re: Multiple Firefox v1.5 Instances

2006-01-21 Thread Simon Kellett
of FireFox V1.5? Does export MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1; firefox ; firefox -ProfileManager help ? -- Simon Kellett,| Gentoo Linux, Fvwm, Firefox Darmstadt, Germany| Xemacs, Vm, Gnus -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: which video card for dell2005fpw

2006-01-21 Thread Simon Kellett
the analog? I think yes: why convert to an analog signal when the source and receiver are both digital ? Also now problems with alignment. However, when I looked anyway, you could not save any money by only have DVI - you have to buy a card that supports both !! -- Simon Kellett,| Gentoo Linux

[gentoo-user] Re: which video card for dell2005fpw

2006-01-23 Thread Simon Kellett
/ NVIDIA (GeForce4) MX 4000 / 64Mb (but I only use 1280x1024). 39 Euros now. Works for me :-) (I forgot to mention that you may wish to choose a card that is *passively* cooled if you do not like fan noise !!) -- Simon Kellett,| Gentoo Linux, Fvwm, Firefox Darmstadt, Germany

[gentoo-user] Re: Are multiple emerges safe?

2006-01-29 Thread Simon Kellett
in /etc/make.conf (This feature is new and does not seem to be well documented, I read it on a Forum and have not had chance to use is yet !) -- Simon Kellett,| Gentoo Linux, Fvwm, Firefox Darmstadt, Germany| Xemacs, Vm, Gnus -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: X USE flag - what does it do?

2006-01-29 Thread Simon Kellett
. This will be different, for example, if you changed something in /etc/portage, or set flags on the command line for the previous emerge. -- Simon Kellett,| Gentoo Linux, Fvwm, Firefox Darmstadt, Germany| Xemacs, Vm, Gnus -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2006-01-30 Thread Simon Hogg
RobertsIIRC the program you're trying to remember is xscreensaver-demoHTH,Simon

[gentoo-user] Re: Are multiple emerges safe?

2006-01-30 Thread Simon Kellett
for downloading, the other to compile. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-297712-highlight-parallelfetch.html -- Simon Kellett,| Gentoo Linux, Fvwm, Firefox Darmstadt, Germany| Xemacs, Vm, Gnus -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: X USE flag - what does it do?

2006-01-30 Thread Simon Kellett
. Unfortunately man emerge does not help !! -- Simon Kellett,| Gentoo Linux, Fvwm, Firefox Darmstadt, Germany| Xemacs, Vm, Gnus -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless problem

2006-02-02 Thread Simon Prosser
heres my /etc/conf.d/net might give you some pointers if you dont want to use dhcp... config_ath0=( 192.168.2.3 netmask 255.255.255.0 brd 192.168.0.255 ) routes_ath0=( default gw 192.168.2.1 ) essid_ath0=belkin54g config_eth0=( 192.168.0.7 ) hth... On Thursday 02 February 2006 13:14, Iain

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless problem

2006-02-03 Thread Simon Prosser
On Friday 03 February 2006 08:10, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: OK, dhcpcd does the connection all right, and thanks for that; however I still need to enter the user and password informations. I guess it might be a provider matter? have a read of /etc/conf.d/wireless.example == all you needs

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