Re: [gentoo-user] Adaptec 29160 Setup

2006-06-28 Thread Bob Sanders
Hi Sean, On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 22:22:51 -0400 sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thought you might be interested on how things went. Sorry for the delay, I am recovering from an injury I suffered a little over a week ago. Anyway, due to not being able to troubleshoot the SCSI cd-rom

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI XPress 200m - direct rendering don't work

2006-06-25 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 11:26:48 + Rudson Ribeiro Alves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The X start with DRI, but gl programs and X halt the system in the exit. This is the and of this tunnel? Not anything I can recommend from here. If GL is causing a halt and the bad memory location is

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI XPress 200m - direct rendering don't work

2006-06-24 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 03:17:36 + Rudson Ribeiro Alves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, I was wanting install ati-drivers with DRI suport on my notebook zv6000 (AMD 64bit Linux Gentoo system), but the module fglrx don't load ~ # modprobe fglrx FATAL: Error inserting fglrx

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do when you can't loggin

2006-06-21 Thread Bob Sanders
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 15:41:56 +0100 Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Those of you that only use x86 based system don't know how lucky you are to have two decent bootloaders. If you took the worst aspect of LILO and GRUB and added some extra user-hostility for luck, you'd still have

Re: [gentoo-user] Adaptec 29160 Setup

2006-06-19 Thread Bob Sanders
On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 16:07:42 -0400 sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am able to see the scsi cdrw and the jaz drive. Tried mounting the jaz drive but as expected it failed, the format of the unit cartridge is UFS. But it at least saw it, assigned it, and tried to mount when I manually tried.

Re: [gentoo-user] Adaptec 29160 Setup

2006-06-18 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 14:13:44 -0400 sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to get my recently built system to recognize my Adaptec 29160 configured on the system. I have SCSI built into the kernel, here is the dmesg statement, SCSI subsystem initialized, Do you have SCSI Transport

Re: [gentoo-user] supported mp3 players (hardware)

2006-06-17 Thread Bob Sanders
On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 19:48:37 -0400 Samuel Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know if iRiver's support ogg? I use that exclusively and transcoding everything to mp3 would not be pleasant. My iFP-999 supports ogg. I use it on Linux - Gentoo with ifp-manager (which is not in Portage) and

Re: [gentoo-user] An alternative to http-replicator

2006-06-10 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 10:25:25 + Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the pros/cons of mounting portage over NFS Vs http-replicator? If you only have one architecture and one system type or one system that can be a superset of the others, nfs will serve you fine. If you have multiple

Re: [gentoo-user] An alternative to http-replicator

2006-06-10 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 22:43:03 -0400 Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My approach requires 2 emerges (boa and rsyncd) and their config files on the server plus inserting the server as the preferred mirror in 2 lines in /etc/make.conf on the client(s). That's close to what I do at work.

Re: [gentoo-user] New USE flags???

2006-05-09 Thread Bob Sanders
On Tue, 9 May 2006 20:06:53 -0600 Justin Findlay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not even the most dogged user is going to read through every flag and decide if he wants it set or not. I do and set specific sets of flags for each machine I run. It does take about 30 min. and I do have to check for

Re: [gentoo-user] Modular Xorg 7 won't start with nVidia GeForce4 440 Go

2006-04-10 Thread Bob Sanders
On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 15:48:36 -0700 Daevid Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using the latest 8756 version of the nvidia driver. Try this - emerge -C nvidia-kernel nvidia-glx emerge -av =nvidia-kernel-1.0.8178-r3 =nvidia-glx-1.0.8178-r1 Set the /etc/X11/xorg.conf driver

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcp server

2006-03-28 Thread Bob Sanders
On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 19:09:21 +0530 Hiren Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 { ^ shouldn't that be a 2? Bob -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 on board video

2006-03-21 Thread Bob Sanders
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 17:46:01 -0500 JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did I leave anything out that is needed for nvidia on an amd64? Or should I not expect anything more from the on board NVIDIA GeForce 6100 even though it is running over PCI-e? Onboard video uses system memory. So the

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 on board video

2006-03-21 Thread Bob Sanders
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 22:32:41 -0500 JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well I have been married a little over 5 years. I let my wife manage the finances starting a few years ago. She knows how much money is in the bank down to a dime. If I tap-mac and get cash, I get the 3rd-degree of what was

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommended amd64 box for Gentoo

2006-03-18 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sat, 18 Mar 2006 03:06:42 -0500 Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My main worries would be proprietary stuff like RealPlayer and the win32codecs portion of mplayer. Both work for me within reason. The win32codecs I use with mplayer-bin. And Realplayer works. But if you are one that

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommended amd64 box for Gentoo

2006-03-17 Thread Bob Sanders
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 19:07:46 -0800 Bob Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 13:04:58 -0600 Michael Madden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could someone recommend an amd64 box to use with Gentoo 2006.0? I had considered one of the following workstations; has anyone had good

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.15-gentoo-r7 and dhcpcd

2006-03-16 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 16:52:48 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since I switched to kernel 2.6.15-gentoo-r7 (from r5), with an identical .config file, dhcpcd doesn't stay alive as a daemon: - it starts okay at boot time and eth1 gets its address from IAF, then it dies - when the lease time's

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommended amd64 box for Gentoo

2006-03-16 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 13:04:58 -0600 Michael Madden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could someone recommend an amd64 box to use with Gentoo 2006.0? I had considered one of the following workstations; has anyone had good or bad experience with these workstations and Gentoo for amd64? HP xw9300 Sun

Re: [gentoo-user] stock tracker

2006-03-11 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 07:55:39 -0600 Qv6 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello: I'm looking for a scrolling stock ticker/tracker for Kde or Gnome. Any good one out there? I've used tclticker for ages. It's not desktop specific. http://www.nyx.net/~tpoindex/tcl.html Bob - --

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-03-01 Thread Bob Sanders
On Wed, 1 Mar 2006 10:30:48 -0600 Bruce Burden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 09:36:05PM +0100, Benno Schulenberg wrote: My real issue is that fglrx worked under Suse 9.2, and not under Gentoo. But, no, I am NOT going back. Try installing xfishtank under

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo kixtstart/jumpstart equivalent

2006-02-18 Thread Bob Sanders
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 21:54:04 -0800 gentuxx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Also, one inherent flaw with your suggestion is the requirement of a livecd. I know you mentioned floppy, but these are SPARC boxen and I doubt I could fit all the

Re: [gentoo-user] 4/8 CPU Gentoo server

2006-02-08 Thread Bob Sanders
On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 15:52:01 -0800 gentuxx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, Just wondering if anyone here has any experience with gentoo on a 4/8 CPU server. I've been running it for years on a 4P PIII Xeon and my take is I won't run more

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD 64 bit system selections

2006-02-01 Thread Bob Sanders
For video data, use a linear stripe across two controllers. And at least three controllers for HD video. But HD video requires SCSI or SAS, stripped across multiple controllers and 15Krpm drives in the arrays. I should be a bit more detailed. For - Uncompressed SD video - 60

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD 64 bit system selections

2006-01-31 Thread Bob Sanders
On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 17:58:53 + (UTC) James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the best 64 bit processor choice for performance for Gentoo? Dual-core? Perhaps you should ask what the best price performance/watt in the cpu range? Generally it's best to figure out your needs and then

Re: [gentoo-user] 3dlabs Wildcat Realizm

2006-01-22 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 14:04:53 +0100 (CET) Álvaro Castro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, any one uses Wildcat Realizm? No, but I did use a VP970 for awhile. The problem you;ll have is that Gentoo moves much faster than 3DLabs, and much faster than Xig, which used to supply the Linux driver for

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-20 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 09:44:19 +1000 Alan E. Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: May I ask others' experiences with e17? I just wasted my holiday installing e17 on two of three machines. It is smaller than Kde, but background is 20% of cpu . Buggy. Beautiful. A PITA to configure, and menus

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware Testing a PC

2006-01-20 Thread Bob Sanders
On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 09:26:23 + Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try searching Freshmeat for stress test, there are several programs to put network, CPU, I/O etc. through their paces. There's also StressLinux, a live CD containing a number of these programs. emerge -uDNav stress

Re: [gentoo-user] Dell LCD display

2006-01-14 Thread Bob Sanders
On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 20:04:48 -0600 Anthony E. Caudel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm thinking about getting one of the Dell Widescreen Ultrasharp LCD displays. Has anyone used one under Gentoo (x86) and how good is it? If you're referring to the 24 model - 2405FPW, yes I'm running on an

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world?

2006-01-14 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 19:58:07 +0100 Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, [blocks B ] media-libs/libungif (is blocking media-libs/giflib-4.1.4) [blocks B ] app-text/xpdf-3.01-r4 (is blocking app-text/poppler-0.4.3-r4) [empty/missing/bad digest]: sys-devel/gcc-config-1.3.12-r6

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - Need MythTV setup help (resend)

2006-01-08 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 23:17:27 -0600 Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried the test cat /dev/video0 test.mpg and opening it in mplayer and all I got was the blank screen. Blank screen indicates no signal. I tried it with /dev/video24 and got static Typical tuner input, no

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade + gcc dilemma

2006-01-08 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sun, 08 Jan 2006 01:50:10 -0600 Anthony E. Caudel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, my problem is, how do I avoid the extra 100, unnecessary compiles? I tried emerge --emptytree --upgrade -p but it ignored the upgrade option so I can't combine them that way. Simply put you can't. The base

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - Need MythTV setup help (resend)

2006-01-08 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sun, 8 Jan 2006 08:50:31 -0800 Bob Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One other thing - if you're using a 64-bit machine, you'll need to run - mplayer-bin test.mpg to see the default capture. The format isn't recognized in the 64-bit version of mplayer because the codecs are 32-bit. Bob

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - Need MythTV setup help (resend)

2006-01-07 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 18:42:09 -0600 Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I said, I tried setting up the evilwm stuff from the MythTV section on the Gentoo wiki. I ran kdm and selected Custom and logged in as my test user. The screen cleared and then it spit me back out at the kdm

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - Need MythTV setup help (resend)

2006-01-01 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sun, 1 Jan 2006 17:47:19 -0800 Bob Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems that something is not stable with the X server or with the card drivers. For now, perhaps forget MythTV and just see if you can get a stable input running with something like tvtime - [ N] media-tv/tvtime

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - Need MythTV setup help (resend)

2005-12-31 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 00:40:06 -0600 Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I didn't see anything there that hinted at being my TV card, yet I KNOW it's in there. It works great in Windows. It's a Hauppage WinTV-PVR-250. Why doesn't it show up in /dev? Well, I've got the PVR-350. Have

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - Need MythTV setup help (resend)

2005-12-30 Thread Bob Sanders
On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 16:08:02 -0600 Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to find out what each device node is connected to hardwarewise? I'm wonderine if /dev/video0 is NOT the correct device for my tv card, and if one of the other sixty-three /dev/video* nodes, but I

Re: [gentoo-user] A few (gentoo-newbie) questions (mainly about binary packages)

2005-12-29 Thread Bob Sanders
On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 15:24:58 + Richard Neill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1)My main machine is a laptop, so it doesn't really have either the disk space for sources or CPU power to compile everything kernel,X,kde,openoffice ...). Is there a way to do a binary install that will get me a fully

Re: [gentoo-user] world problems

2005-12-27 Thread Bob Sanders
On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 17:52:16 -0800 Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115593 That's with portage-2.0.53, right? Zac Yes, that's it. From the bug, it seems the problems are in the ebuilds. However, the updated portage's solution is to remove them

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ebuild for dev-java/sun-j2sdk?

2005-12-26 Thread Bob Sanders
On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 15:48:25 +0100 Peper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While writing this i thought about smth: cannot displaying licenses be implemented in emerge? If you want to progress(fetch the file) you must accept displayed license. Maybe sun will be happy with that... Licenses are

Re: [gentoo-user] world problems

2005-12-25 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 14:08:04 -0500 Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not talking about wars all over the place. I'm doing my monthly update on my emergency backup machine. Here's what I've run into. Has pmidi been deprecated? Don't think so. And don't run - emaint -f world.

Re: [gentoo-user] (Newbie)Emerge Problem

2005-12-24 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 19:49:49 +0530 Sumeet Pal Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I am having problems with emerge working during installation. I have Pentium4 with HT PC, and tried to install gentoo-2005 twice, eveything was fine ,hardware was easily detected, but network did not work well

Re: [gentoo-user] cms

2005-12-11 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 07:39:07 -0600 Qv6 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folks: I am looking for a really good Content Management System that is feature-rich and easy to install. Webgui seems good, but the install is tedious. Pmwiki works well. Allows creations of groups (farms), is easy to

Re: [gentoo-user] ERROR: sys-apps/ivman-0.5_pre2 failed.

2005-12-10 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 10:17:07 -0600 Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was doing a emerge -e world to make sure everything was in order after the gcc upgrade and poking KDE 3.5 into the mix as well. I only have 92 packages left. OK, any ideas on what went south? I added ivman to the

Re: [gentoo-user] Total system hangs, flightgear, nvidia drivers

2005-12-09 Thread Bob Sanders
On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 18:43:45 -0500 fire-eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hell, I am running into some very irritating problems when trying to use newer nvidia drivers. The newer Nvidia drivers have a tighter spec on speeds. They also now need mode lines for, as I recall, resolutions above

Re: [gentoo-user] error building pdflib during gcc-3.4 upgrade

2005-12-05 Thread Bob Sanders
On Mon, 05 Dec 2005 18:10:02 -0500 John Blinka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm in the emerge -e world step of the gcc-3.4 upgrade as documented on http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/x86/gcc-upgrading-guide.xml. Unfortunately, after compiling for a day or two, the upgrade has terminated

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Video capture card recommendations

2005-12-01 Thread Bob Sanders
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 11:50:24 + (UTC) James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you receiving and correctly displaying HDTV broadcast over the air with these cards? If so, Which one do you like better for HDTV reception? We're moving to all HDTV broadcast in my area of Florida in early 2006...

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Succinct compilation of system info...

2005-11-29 Thread Bob Sanders
On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 08:36:38 -0600 Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You mentioned possibly obscure system inventory scripts in perl. So apparently you already know it can be a time consuming undertaking to dig one up with google, test it, etc etc. Do you know of one off the top of

Re: [gentoo-user] Video capture card recommendations

2005-11-28 Thread Bob Sanders
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 10:32:11 -0500 Budd, Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just need a bare-bones card to make backups of my VCR tapes and DVDs. Not even interested in a TV-tuner though I guess they all include that. Gentoo support is a must. I have both a PVR-350 Hauppauge and an HD-3000

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Succinct compilation of system info...

2005-11-28 Thread Bob Sanders
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 22:31:28 -0600 Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want straight command line so redirect is possible, but a thorough summary. Not just hdw or pci or usb. I want that but also what filesystems, df -h cat /etc/fstab which users, cat

Re: [gentoo-user] Dinosaur Matrox Mystique: corruption

2005-11-17 Thread Bob Sanders
On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 00:56:18 +1000 Alan E. Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How would you recommend to go about trying vesa. That may be what Ubuntu is doing. Turn on vesa framebuffer? Yes. Under - Device Driver -- Graphics support -- Select VESA VGA graphics support The further

Re: [gentoo-user] Dinosaur Matrox Mystique: corruption

2005-11-17 Thread Bob Sanders
On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 13:11:58 +1000 Alan E. Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did download this driver, and when I installed, a message was generated that the version was wrong. Maybe I'll try again, and just install it anyway. I wonder if the HAL use flag needs to be set to use the driver?

Re: [gentoo-user] Dinosaur Matrox Mystique: corruption

2005-11-16 Thread Bob Sanders
On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 20:50:14 +1000 Alan E. Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I gather that there was a bug in the mga drivers some time ago, and it appears that the xorg drivers have incorporated the patches I have seen during my google searches. I had one running on Gentoo last year, before

Re: [gentoo-user] recommendatoin for a new server

2005-11-12 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 08:31:10 +0600 El Nino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i'm looking for sata raid,amd opteron around 1GB ram. I wouldn't worry about whether it's parallel or sata raid. If you need high i/o it needs to be SCSI. Otherwise either IDE or SATA works fine with little difference in

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia driver problem

2005-11-12 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 05:06:12 +0200 sempsteen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've installed the nvidia drivers by the walkthrough of Gentoo Linux nVidia Guide. Emerge installed nvidia-glx v1.0.6629-r6 and nvidia-kernel v1.0.6629-r4 with no problems and i did the necessary changes in the

Re: [gentoo-user] What is recommended behavior for complete updating of an old system ?

2005-11-11 Thread Bob Sanders
On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 16:46:41 +0100 Jimmy Rosen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Primary: What is a recommended way to update an old system to minimize the amount of broken ebuilds? Is emerge --emptytree world a good idea? Is it better than a clean install? Or is the documentation's way good

Re: [gentoo-user] 14TB filesystem problems...

2005-11-11 Thread Bob Sanders
On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 16:19:26 -0800 (PST) Bryan Whitehead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So if I use a non-traditional partition... then I should be good? Use parted/gparted and select EFI GUID Partition support in your kernel config, under Files types -- Partition types. Make the partition an EFI

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild is giving me fits

2005-11-02 Thread Bob Sanders
On Wed, 02 Nov 2005 19:29:14 -0600 Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As you can see I have a few broken thingys. It says I need to re-emerge apache and I have never used apache in my life. What the heck does it need that for? This is my desktop rig not some fancy server. Perhaps you have

Re: [gentoo-user] LTSP vs. Diskless Nodes

2005-11-01 Thread Bob Sanders
On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 05:40:28 + Ryan Viljoen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What would you guys suggest in terms of specs for a server, serving say 50 odd thin clients? Probably 2P Opteron with 2 GB to 8 GB main memory. Cpus around 2 GHz. You'll have to calculate the memory needs of each

Re: [gentoo-user] LTSP vs. Diskless Nodes

2005-10-31 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 22:55:24 +0200 Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of the big problems with Linux diskless is it really doesn't scale well, it doesn't allow for clients to run multiple versions of the os, Why would you want to do that? Ah! Not everyone would. But there are

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird pauses making me nuts

2005-10-31 Thread Bob Sanders
On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 21:31:33 +0100 Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What else could I do alongside it, other than running an emerge or something? You could switch to a non-proprietary gfx driver, and try that, though it might not work with the ATI card you have. Try emerging

Re: [gentoo-user] LTSP vs. Diskless Nodes

2005-10-29 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 09:45:22 +0100 Ryan Viljoen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am wondering what the difference is between using LTSP and Diskless Nodes is for creating a thin client network. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ltsp.xml http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/diskless-howto.xml#doc_chap3 What

Re: [gentoo-user] LTSP vs. Diskless Nodes

2005-10-29 Thread Bob Sanders
Since I'm rambling now, guess I should do the rest of the memory download... One of the big problems with Linux diskless is it really doesn't scale well, it doesn't allow for clients to run multiple versions of the os, nor for different arch types to co-exist off one server of a different arch

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop

2005-10-26 Thread Bob Sanders
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 08:26:53 -0700 (PDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a gross first pass, my impression is that ThinkPads and Dells seem to do well with Linux. Do your collective experiences confirm or deny this? Works fine on IBM X31 and T42. Bob - -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] burning compressed iso

2005-10-22 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 15:37:27 +0100 (BST) damian bamforth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to burn an iso image with a .bz2 extension (the full file name is livecd64-ahorn5.iso.bz2). I only have windows xp. Download Puppy Linux, burn a cd, boot it up. You also have the option of

Re: [gentoo-user] i386 vs amd64

2005-10-20 Thread Bob Sanders
On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 20:07:47 -0400 Sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have several Loki game titles around, are they able to run on amd64 gentoo? Some do, with a bit of finding out when to wave the chicken. Unreal Tournament installs and runs without problem, once it's unmasked. Others

Re: [gentoo-user] udev and nvidia

2005-10-12 Thread Bob Sanders
On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 8:57:59 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On a new system I built I had to recreate the /dev/nv* items. The problem is udev is not creating the device nodes like it should. Neither 0.68, nor 0.70. Why? Don't know. I took NVmakedevices.sh from an older nvidia-kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] top - 99.9% wa? What's 'wa'?

2005-09-22 Thread Bob Sanders
On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 14:59:55 -0700 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm looking at this mythbackend server machine using top. Sometimes the CPU usage goes to essentially 100%, but only in the 'wa' section. What is 'wa'? I searched through the man page but didn't see anything about

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: disappearing hdc

2005-09-17 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 20:01:41 +0200 capsel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So the problem is : When RC_DEVICE_TARBALL=no there is no lp0 and sometimes hdc, it doesn't depend on cd/dvd disc inside my dvd, or on if my printer is set to on/off On a properly operating system, /dev/lp0 will be

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers: bad md5 sum

2005-09-16 Thread Bob Sanders
On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 14:46:33 -0400 Michael Crute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/14/05, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I'd really like -- a 6600-- is right out). If you're gonna spend that much money go all the way for a 6800 its well worth the cash. Maybe not. It

Re: [gentoo-user] hardware advice for dual-processor set-up on gentoo

2005-09-15 Thread Bob Sanders
On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 19:27:08 -0400 - - [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is the first time I heard of intel compilers and I am using dual 3.2GHz irwindales with 1 mb cache each and 2 GB of ram. Is there any advantage to using these compilers over GCC? What performance gain can I expect? It

Re: [gentoo-user] hardware advice for dual-processor set-up on gentoo

2005-09-14 Thread Bob Sanders
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 23:47:11 -0500 Denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess the other advantage is that a good dual Xeon system with 4GB RAM will run me around $3000, whereas a dual Opteron (with dual core) system with 4GB RAM will run me more like $4300. If the Opterons are currently at their

Re: [gentoo-user] cpu flags / USE flags / compiler flags

2005-09-05 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sun, 4 Sep 2005 21:59:10 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In either case, I wouldn't want to extrapolate Xeon Irwindale results to all Intel X86 chips, let alone AMD. /usr/portage/app-benchmarks has several items in it. Does anybody know which ones have floating-point tests? There

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

2005-09-05 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sun, 4 Sep 2005 23:46:02 -0400 Paul Hoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Bob, I found your email really informative and I have a question regarding one of your final comments. To paraphrase, you state that doing things the hard way will make employees more knowledgeable, more so than

Re: [gentoo-user] cpu flags / USE flags / compiler flags

2005-09-05 Thread Bob Sanders
On Mon, 5 Sep 2005 20:35:10 -0700 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob, I don't think this was ever the point. The question was: For this specific machine what would be the best flags? You;ll hate this - it depends on what your main apps do. Are they i/o intensive, compute

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

2005-09-04 Thread Bob Sanders
On Mon, 5 Sep 2005 00:56:56 +0100 Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fair comment. If you're talking about individual user/admins then the learning curve of installing and administering a different OS (not necessarily more difficult, just different) is a serious obstacle. Based on my

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

2005-09-01 Thread Bob Sanders
On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 10:40:08 +0800 Qiangning Hong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob Sanders wrote: enlightenment E16. After messing with KDE, Gnome, Openbox, fluxbox, flirting with XCFE and a few others, I came back to Enlightenment. As an XFCE user currently, I'm curious about what make you

Re: [gentoo-user] Adaptec AIC7xxx kernel problems?

2005-09-01 Thread Bob Sanders
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 22:13:43 -0400 (EDT) Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm wondering if it's just me or is anyone else having problems. I am running 2.6.11-r6 with no problems on a system with an Adaptec 39160 card. I tried to go to 2.6.12-r6 and r9 but kept getting kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge of glibc-2.3.5-r1 fails

2005-09-01 Thread Bob Sanders
On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 08:19:39 -0400 Lincoln Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I consistently get an ACCESS DENIGHED error will trying to emerge glibc. Does anyone else get this: I haven't seen the problem. A few things to look at may be - - running out of diskspace. -

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying between hard drives potential newbie question

2005-09-01 Thread Bob Sanders
On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 00:05:48 + Stuart Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a record for myself and or others who may ever need this I performed the following steps 1. Beat head on wall for not thinking to buy a UPS. Most UPSs below about US$400 are junk. You'd be served just as well with

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

2005-08-31 Thread Bob Sanders
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 17:28:21 -0500 Matt Garman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, having said that, what window manager do you use, and why? I wouldn't trade the multitude of options availabe in Linux for anything, but the choices can be overwhelming. enlightenment E16. After messing with

Re: [gentoo-user] Yet another geforce4 problem

2005-08-26 Thread Bob Sanders
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 16:29:34 +0400 Alexander Kirillov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I've recently installed GeForce4 MX440 AGP 8x into my gentoo box and got it working. Bootsplash, opengl and so on.. But one serious problem remains. I have 90% chance to get garbled screen right after

Re: [gentoo-user] DVB-T

2005-08-26 Thread Bob Sanders
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 18:25:36 +0200 Luigi Pinna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! I want to buy a DVB-T card Gentoo compatible and I need a S-Video input too. I searched a lot by Internet but I found only few news... (no info about S-Video input or if it works) I don't want to pay much

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Mozilla Google behind the scenes payola

2005-08-11 Thread Bob Sanders
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 21:19:43 +0200 Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How would you feel if a company bought lots of too-small-to-be-readily-visible flying cameras (like the mosquito-cams in the Dan Brown book Deception Point :-)) and followed you around wherever you went (in these public

Re: [gentoo-user] weird 1000baseT problem

2005-08-11 Thread Bob Sanders
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 20:40:12 +0100 Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am puzzled. First I thought that the Gb NIC on box A is somehow kaput but case 1 surely shows it is performing. What the heck is going on here? I would be deeply indebted to any person on this list that could shed some

Re: [gentoo-user] multiple kernels in grub

2005-08-11 Thread Bob Sanders
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 23:15:38 -0400 John Dangler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In /boot, I have both linux-2.6.12-gentoo-r6 and kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r6. In /boot/grub/grub.conf, only the genkernel is listed Just edit /boot/grub/grub.conf. You can read about how in the -

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - How to work with USB DVD-RW/CD-RW drive

2005-08-10 Thread Bob Sanders
On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 09:53:13 -0700 (PDT) Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the output above I noticed the lines: Vendor_info: 'TOSHIBA ' Identifikation : 'CD/DVDW SD-R5372' Revision : 'TU53' Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW I happen to know that this

Re: [gentoo-user] Which filesystem for a notebook?

2005-08-09 Thread Bob Sanders
On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 17:33:27 +0800 Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I too use XFS for my Home Directory. I think I've suffered 1 instance of curruption in the entire 2 years I've had this laptop. (Touch Wood) Perhaps I should mention one of the main reasons I use XFS - the tools.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Mozilla Google behind the scenes payola

2005-08-09 Thread Bob Sanders
On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 20:14:26 -0400 John J. Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Even IF only one of those allegations are true, I'm disappointed in Mozilla's choices. They were, until a few days ago, non-profit. Google may be the best general purpose search engine out there right now, but IF

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - How to work with USB DVD-RW/CD-RW drive

2005-08-09 Thread Bob Sanders
On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 14:15:45 -0700 (PDT) Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gentoo. I ordered a Pacific Digital USB DVD-RW/CD-RW drive on August 1 and it came in today. I'm not quite sure how to go about using it though. I mainly use xcdroast for writing CDs (I make daily backups

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux comm program

2005-08-09 Thread Bob Sanders
On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 18:51:55 -0400 Daniel D Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone aware of a decent comm program for Linux?  Something along the lines of SecureCRT for Windows?  (SecureCRT is a commercial program. There's supposed to be a Linux port in progress but I'd much prefer to use

Re: [gentoo-user] eterm issue

2005-08-08 Thread Bob Sanders
On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 09:01:09 +0200 Arek Murzyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use udev and Legacy(BSD) with 2.6.12-r6. How to check if I use virtual terminal? How to switch to Unix98 - I can't find this option in menuconfig. It's on the same menu, just above the BSD pseudo terms.

Re: [gentoo-user] Which filesystem for a notebook?

2005-08-08 Thread Bob Sanders
On Mon, 08 Aug 2005 23:40:36 +0200 Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! What filesystem(s) do you recommend for use on a notebook? I'm looking for a FS that's fairly stable even if all of a sudden the power goes away (battery empty) and one, that also doesn't (overly)

Re: [gentoo-user] Regetting Runlevel

2005-08-07 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sat, 6 Aug 2005 22:27:15 -0400 Heath E Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok strange one here , I got home tonight and somehow my ferrets got up on the computer key board got logged in as su and managed to get into my runlevel files and delete them. Not all but a good amount . Also in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Please confirm my understanding

2005-08-06 Thread Bob Sanders
On Fri, 05 Aug 2005 21:41:15 -0400 C.Beamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Now for the question. I need confirmation of my understanding. In the make.conf file when setting up the USE flags, I include anything that I want to have compiled into the

Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED: permissions problem with kino

2005-08-06 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sat, 06 Aug 2005 08:57:41 +0200 Jean Magnan de Bornier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le 06 août à 07:30:12 Jean Magnan de Bornier [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrit notamment: Looking at the two necessary modules for kino: /dev/raw/raw1394 is in group disk, while /dev/dv1394-0 is in group root; (is

Re: [gentoo-user] permissions problem with kino

2005-08-05 Thread Bob Sanders
On Fri, 05 Aug 2005 17:29:05 +0200 Jean Magnan de Bornier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am trying to use kino, but face some permission problems. modules raw1394 an dv1394 are loaded, but when I want to use kino I get the answer that: dv1394 open: Permission non accordée (not granted)

Re: [gentoo-user] Botched Gentoo Install

2005-08-03 Thread Bob Sanders
On Wed, 03 Aug 2005 21:02:32 -0400 C.Beamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Welcome to the fun. After attempting to connect to the xserver, I got my shell prompt back again with the following printed on the screen: New driver is i810 (==)Using default built in configuration (EE) open /dev/fb0:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Audigy 2 ZS [SB0350] problems on AMD64

2005-07-30 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 22:39:17 +0200 Daniel Vrcic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm aware of the fact that OSS is deprecated and that it will be removed, but in this case I don't like that fact. Why? I have old SB Live! card, based on emu10k1 chip too, and I think that emu10k1 kernel driver gives

Re: [gentoo-user] serial console

2005-07-30 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 19:20:36 -0400 David H. Askew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was looking around and found a Cisco console cable in a box of old junk. It has, surprise surprise, RJ-45 on one side, and 9-pin serial on the other. Would that work? Maybe, but Cisco is known for having a

Re: [gentoo-user] Enlightenment segfaults?

2005-07-28 Thread Bob Sanders
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 16:10:30 -0400 Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some more observations to my problem: 1. If, after I started X, I leave it overnight in a vc, then nothing bad happens. It looks like firefox is causing the problem or perhaps one of the GTK libs or the GTK

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