Re: [gentoo-user] Re: net-snmp 5.7.2_rc1 on xen

2012-12-30 Thread Matt Harrison
On 30/12/2012 10:55, Holger Hoffstaette wrote: On Sun, 30 Dec 2012 02:06:51 +, Matt Harrison wrote: All has gone well except the new version of net-snmp (5.7.2_rc1) refuses Current is 5.7.2 final.. * Starting snmpd ... pcilib: Cannot open /proc/bus/pci pcilib: Cannot find any

[gentoo-user] net-snmp 5.7.2_rc1 on xen

2012-12-29 Thread Matt Harrison
Hi list, I've been away from Gentoo for quite a while but recently a friend asked me to help update an aged linode vps running on Xen. All has gone well except the new version of net-snmp (5.7.2_rc1) refuses to start as Xen doesn't provide access to PCI info: * Starting snmpd ... pcilib:

[gentoo-user] jabberd2 + muc

2012-09-19 Thread Matt Harrison
Hi list, I know this isn't really in the remit of the list but I'm hoping there is an expert lurking here somewhere. Does anyone have experience setting up Jabber, especially with mu-conference? I'm trying to set it up for some colleagues but I'm running into a lack of documentation, overly

Re: [gentoo-user] jabberd2 + muc

2012-09-19 Thread Matt Harrison
On 19/09/2012 23:50, Michael Mol wrote: On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Matt Harrison iwasinnamuk...@genestate.com wrote: Hi list, I know this isn't really in the remit of the list but I'm hoping there is an expert lurking here somewhere. Does anyone have experience setting up Jabber

Re: [gentoo-user] Mythtv problems

2011-10-27 Thread Matt Harrison
On 26/10/2011 22:19, Michael Sullivan wrote: On 10/26/11 14:45, Michael Sullivan wrote: On 10/26/11 14:05, Michael Sullivan wrote: On 10/26/11 14:03, Michael Sullivan wrote: On 10/26/11 13:31, Michael Sullivan wrote: On 10/26/11 11:36, Mark Knecht wrote: On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 9:29 AM,

Re: [gentoo-user] Dennis Ritchie

2011-10-15 Thread Matt Harrison
On 15/10/2011 12:33, luis jure wrote: hello boys [1], i know i don't participate much on this list, but this does not mean that i don't try to follow most of the threads (not all of them, i admit). i realized just now that no one has commented on the news of the recent death of dennis

Re: [gentoo-user] Dennis Ritchie

2011-10-15 Thread Matt Harrison
On 15/10/2011 13:26, Matt Harrison wrote: On 15/10/2011 12:33, luis jure wrote: hello boys [1], i know i don't participate much on this list, but this does not mean that i don't try to follow most of the threads (not all of them, i admit). i realized just now that no one has commented

[gentoo-user] disappearing mail

2011-09-05 Thread Matt Harrison
I've got an odd problem and I really can't work out what is causing it. I have two gentoo mailservers under my control, one is working fine (it seems) but the other is just not getting mail out. I'm not even sure if this will be delivered until I see it come back through the list. According to

Re: [gentoo-user] disappearing mail

2011-09-05 Thread Matt Harrison
On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 04:48:31PM +0100, Matt Harrison wrote: I've got an odd problem and I really can't work out what is causing it. I have two gentoo mailservers under my control, one is working fine (it seems) but the other is just not getting mail out. I'm not even sure

Re: [gentoo-user] disappearing mail

2011-09-05 Thread Matt Harrison
On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 02:16:08PM -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 09/05/2011 11:48 AM, Matt Harrison wrote: I've got an odd problem and I really can't work out what is causing it. I have two gentoo mailservers under my control, one is working fine (it seems) but the other is just

Re: [gentoo-user] disappearing mail

2011-09-05 Thread Matt Harrison
On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 02:33:47PM -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 09/05/2011 02:21 PM, Matt Harrison wrote: On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 02:16:08PM -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 09/05/2011 11:48 AM, Matt Harrison wrote: I've got an odd problem and I really can't work out what is causing

Re: [gentoo-user] disappearing mail

2011-09-05 Thread Matt Harrison
On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 02:45:18PM -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 09/05/2011 02:38 PM, Matt Harrison wrote: I got the test message; everything looks perfect, sorry =) Well thanks for trying Michael. Tomorrow I will call up one of the providers and ask them to check through logs

[gentoo-user] fighting over keyboard layouts

2011-08-11 Thread Matt Harrison
Hi list, I've just spent the last 4 days or so trying to get an old laptop up to date. It hasn't been sync'd for at least 8 months so you can imagine the hell it's been. Anyway, I've managed to get everything nicely updated but there's one problem that I just can't fix or find relevant

Re: [gentoo-user] fighting over keyboard layouts

2011-08-11 Thread Matt Harrison
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 11:00:47PM +0100, David W Noon wrote: On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 21:14:59 +0100, Matt Harrison wrote about [gentoo-user] fighting over keyboard layouts: [snip] No matter what I do (which admittedly isn't very much as I don't know X stuff that well), I cannot get a decent

[gentoo-user] OT: future moderation

2011-06-11 Thread Matt Harrison
Hi list, An odd post here but I'm sitting up after midnight with a few beers and I wanted to get an advanced word on this. I don't know if anyone is subscribed to the ruby-talk mailing list at the moment (or used to be on the comp.lang.lisp group a while ago). There is an odd character

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vmware opengl

2011-06-08 Thread Matt Harrison
On 07/06/2011 23:16, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 06/08/2011 12:17 AM, Matt Harrison wrote: [...] Well I eventually managed to get the vmwgfx gallium driver to compile, but I get an undefined symbol when trying to load it with xorg. I'll give up with it now unless anyone else has an idea

[gentoo-user] vmware opengl

2011-06-07 Thread Matt Harrison
Hi list, I have to run windows most of the time on my main desktop for work reasons, but every now and then I install a gentoo guest on vmware to see how the latest DMs are coming along. The current KDE4 is vastly improved from last time, extremely responsive and everything is really

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vmware opengl

2011-06-07 Thread Matt Harrison
On 07/06/2011 20:34, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 06/07/2011 09:43 PM, Matt Harrison wrote: Hi list, I have to run windows most of the time on my main desktop for work reasons, but every now and then I install a gentoo guest on vmware to see how the latest DMs are coming along. The current

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vmware opengl

2011-06-07 Thread Matt Harrison
On 07/06/2011 20:34, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 06/07/2011 09:43 PM, Matt Harrison wrote: Hi list, I have to run windows most of the time on my main desktop for work reasons, but every now and then I install a gentoo guest on vmware to see how the latest DMs are coming along. The current

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vmware opengl

2011-06-07 Thread Matt Harrison
On 07/06/2011 21:40, Matt Harrison wrote: On 07/06/2011 20:34, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 06/07/2011 09:43 PM, Matt Harrison wrote: Hi list, I have to run windows most of the time on my main desktop for work reasons, but every now and then I install a gentoo guest on vmware to see how

[gentoo-user] installing ffi gem

2011-04-21 Thread Matt Harrison
I've just tried setting up a new development machine and I'm stuck installing the ffi gem for ruby. According to a bug I found (can't find it now I'm afraid) the gentoo devs do not support installing gems via the gem command and directed the user to use the dev-ruby/ffi package. Unfortnately,

Re: [gentoo-user] installing ffi gem

2011-04-21 Thread Matt Harrison
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 05:33:05PM -0700, kashani wrote: On 4/21/2011 4:57 PM, Matt Harrison wrote: I've just tried setting up a new development machine and I'm stuck installing the ffi gem for ruby. According to a bug I found (can't find it now I'm afraid) the gentoo devs do

[gentoo-user] OT: SEO

2011-03-26 Thread Matt Harrison
Hi list, I really don't know where to go to find out this information so I am hoping that someone here can point me in the right direction. I worry that most information out there on this subject is somewhat...suspicious in nature and I'm looking for a reliable source to answer some questions.

Re: [gentoo-user] encrypted email (gentoo-windows)

2011-03-25 Thread Matt Harrison
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 10:09:23PM +0100, Sebastian Be?ler wrote: Am 25.03.2011 19:51, schrieb James: It's been a while since I set up a mail server, but, if that (postfix) is what I need to do, then just tell how (overview) the packages you'd use, or is this part of postfix? Mail

Re: [gentoo-user] encrypted email (gentoo-windows)

2011-03-25 Thread Matt Harrison
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 10:26:24PM +0100, Sebastian Be?ler wrote: Am 25.03.2011 22:13, schrieb Matt Harrison: On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 10:09:23PM +0100, Sebastian Be?ler wrote: Mail encryption is, as far as I know, something that works on the client-side only. The mail server doesn't see

[gentoo-user] ripping my hair out with audio over hdmi

2011-03-09 Thread Matt Harrison
I've googled for days, tried upteen different settings and nearly gone bald and I still cannot get audio over hdmi working on this nVidia ION chipset. I've made tiny bits of progress here and there which (reading many many MANY forum posts) should mean it is working, but no. Is there anyone

Re: [gentoo-user] ripping my hair out with audio over hdmi

2011-03-09 Thread Matt Harrison
On 09/03/2011 12:55, Matt Harrison wrote: I've googled for days, tried upteen different settings and nearly gone bald and I still cannot get audio over hdmi working on this nVidia ION chipset. I've made tiny bits of progress here and there which (reading many many MANY forum posts) should mean

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ripping my hair out with audio over hdmi

2011-03-09 Thread Matt Harrison
On 09/03/2011 15:10, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2011-03-09, Matt Harrisoniwasinnamuk...@genestate.com wrote: I've googled for days, tried upteen different settings and nearly gone bald and I still cannot get audio over hdmi working on this nVidia ION chipset. My only suggestion would be to

Re: [gentoo-user] ripping my hair out with audio over hdmi

2011-03-09 Thread Matt Harrison
On 09/03/2011 15:25, Vizo Allman wrote: This is what I have to get hdmi audio out on my zotac ion board in the .asoundrc of the acoount I am playing audio from I put pcm.!default { type plug slave.pcm hdmi } without that I get no sound from hdmi Hi Vizo, Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately

Re: [gentoo-user] ripping my hair out with audio over hdmi

2011-03-09 Thread Matt Harrison
On 09/03/2011 18:15, Vizo Allman wrote: well I have CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_REALTEK=y CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_ANALOG=y CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_SIGMATEL=y CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_VIA=y CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_ATIHDMI=y CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_NVHDMI=y CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_INTELHDMI=y CONFIG_SND_HDA_ELD=y

Re: [gentoo-user] ripping my hair out with audio over hdmi

2011-03-09 Thread Matt Harrison
On 09/03/2011 18:15, Vizo Allman wrote: well I have CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_REALTEK=y CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_ANALOG=y CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_SIGMATEL=y CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_VIA=y CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_ATIHDMI=y CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_NVHDMI=y CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_INTELHDMI=y CONFIG_SND_HDA_ELD=y

Re: [gentoo-user] ripping my hair out with audio over hdmi

2011-03-09 Thread Matt Harrison
On 09/03/2011 18:42, Vizo Allman wrote: did you do the nvhdmi also? Yes that was the only one I already had (oh except for the realktek which gets the analog working). I'm 95% sure the kernel/modules are ok. The various different pieces of information on the mixer setup for example just

Re: [gentoo-user] ripping my hair out with audio over hdmi

2011-03-09 Thread Matt Harrison
On 09/03/2011 18:46, Vizo Allman wrote: also when you run alsamixer what card do you see The only card available to alsamixer is HDA NVidia with the chip: NVidia MCP79/7A HDMI. As I said previously, there's not explicit HDMI channel, but 3 S/PDIFs which are something to do with it. Thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] ripping my hair out with audio over hdmi

2011-03-09 Thread Matt Harrison
On 09/03/2011 18:52, Vizo Allman wrote: Here is the what I get back when I do a aplay -l also I had to make sure everything is turned on in alsamixer and make sure you are putting .asoundrc in the home directory you are working with. when I first tried I put the .asoundrc in root but I was

Re: [gentoo-user] ripping my hair out with audio over hdmi

2011-03-09 Thread Matt Harrison
On 09/03/2011 19:45, Vizo Allman wrote: I was just testing on my box everything work on xbmc and mythtv but I scant get speaker-test to give my sound what are you trying use? Well I was testing with speaker-test and aplay, but I noticed that they didn't produce any sound on XBMC LiveCD

Re: [gentoo-user] ripping my hair out with audio over hdmi

2011-03-09 Thread Matt Harrison
On 09/03/2011 19:49, Matt Harrison wrote: On 09/03/2011 19:45, Vizo Allman wrote: I was just testing on my box everything work on xbmc and mythtv but I scant get speaker-test to give my sound what are you trying use? Well I was testing with speaker-test and aplay, but I noticed

Re: [gentoo-user] ripping my hair out with audio over hdmi

2011-03-09 Thread Matt Harrison
On 09/03/2011 20:23, Vizo Allman wrote: whats your .asoundrc look like. I can try it on mine Thanks, attached is the one I stole from XBMC. I've tried so many other ones too but they all have the same silence. Matt pcm.both { type route slave { pcm multi

Re: [gentoo-user] any mythtv/set top box experts?

2011-02-28 Thread Matt Harrison
On 28/02/2011 22:06, Hamilton Silva wrote: On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 7:21 PM, Matt Harrisoniwasinnamuk...@genestate.com wrote: Hi all, I've recently started to set up a mythtv box for my parents. I've found a USB DVB-T receiver which works perfectly and I've got the system up and running on some

[gentoo-user] any mythtv/set top box experts?

2011-02-27 Thread Matt Harrison
Hi all, I've recently started to set up a mythtv box for my parents. I've found a USB DVB-T receiver which works perfectly and I've got the system up and running on some old hardware. Now I've been tasked with finding something small that can sit by their TV and do it all. I've been looking

[gentoo-user] OT: Backing up emails

2011-01-20 Thread Matt Harrison
and asking if they can tar up the maildirs and give me access to them via FTP or something. 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 structure and replicate it onto another machine. Grateful for any help, Matt

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

2011-01-20 Thread Matt Harrison
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 structure and replicate it onto another machine

Re: [gentoo-user] courier imap over nfs

2010-08-02 Thread Matt Harrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/08/2010 08:17, Stroller wrote: On 2 Aug 2010, at 00:11, Matt Harrison wrote: ... On 01/08/2010 18:19, Stroller wrote: Have you considered Dovecot? I haven't, no. Not for any reason other than I hit upon courier first and I has always

[gentoo-user] courier imap over nfs

2010-08-01 Thread Matt Harrison
Just wondering if anyone has any experience with courier-imap serving mailboxes over NFS. From googling around it seems courier should support remote homedirs but I can't get it working. My user authenticates according to the logs, but the client reports invalid credentials. Remove the NFS home

Re: [gentoo-user] courier imap over nfs

2010-08-01 Thread Matt Harrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, thanks for the replies guys On 01/08/2010 18:17, kashani wrote: On 8/1/2010 8:06 AM, Matt Harrison wrote: Just wondering if anyone has any experience with courier-imap serving mailboxes over NFS. From googling around it seems courier should

Re: [gentoo-user] v4l need tuning?

2010-05-09 Thread Matt Harrison
On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 08:45:57PM +0100, Matt Harrison wrote: Actually I've just found the paperwork, it's an LMLBT44 from Linux Media Labs. Their website isn't much help, it did point me to the module arguments to use, so it's now no longer detected as a generic unknown card

[gentoo-user] v4l need tuning?

2010-05-08 Thread Matt Harrison
Hi List, I got a capture card (4 port composite) ages ago, and I remember I had it working perfectly. I've just reinstalled it into a fresh gentoo box and connected one of the cameras, and all I'm getting is noise. I know its a real image as when I put my hand over the camera lens, the

Re: [gentoo-user] v4l need tuning?

2010-05-08 Thread Matt Harrison
Actually I've just found the paperwork, it's an LMLBT44 from Linux Media Labs. Their website isn't much help, it did point me to the module arguments to use, so it's now no longer detected as a generic unknown card. Unfortunately I'm still seeing the same issues. Thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] samba vs. cifs

2010-05-05 Thread Matt Harrison
On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 06:42:09PM +0200, KH wrote: Hi List, I just ran in a problem: net-fs/mount-cifs (net-fs/mount-cifs is blocking net-fs/samba-3.4.6) Somba is pulled in by the samba use-flag. The PC only is client to a server running samba. Do I need samba for this anymore? More

Re: [gentoo-user] vixie-cron keeps stopping

2010-04-15 Thread Matt Harrison
On 15/04/2010 09:20, Alan McKinnon wrote: You probably don't want to hear this, but: vixie-cron is problematic in the extreme. I have endless hassle with it's weird behaviours. Use a different cron daemon. I don't mind hearing this :) I only use vixie-cron as that is what I started

[gentoo-user] vixie-cron keeps stopping

2010-04-14 Thread Matt Harrison
Its been happening for a while but I haven't got round to find out why, but every so often (anything between a week or an hour) vixie-cron just stops. There's nothing in the logs, the service just stops. I have no idea where to start looking for a culprit so I'm hoping someone here has some

[gentoo-user] vixie-cron keeps stopping

2010-04-14 Thread Matt Harrison
I apologise if this has come twice, it didn't appear to post correctly first time, not even on the archives. Its been happening for a while but I haven't got round to find out why, but every so often (anything between a week or an hour) vixie-cron just stops. There's nothing in the logs, the

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: amavis and DKIM verification

2010-01-11 Thread Matt Harrison
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 04:09:07PM +0100, Xavier Parizet wrote: Le 10/01/2010 22:26, Matt Harrison a ??crit : I say OT because it's my understanding of DKIM that lets me down here, not Gentoo. I'm just not sure who to ask or even if it could be something Gentoo related. I've recently

[gentoo-user] OT: amavis and DKIM verification

2010-01-10 Thread Matt Harrison
or misconfigured something. If anyone knows about DKIM and might be able to shed a light on this, I'd love to hear. It's not a big problem, just a puzzle I'm interested in. Thanks Matt Harrison pgp46Pqij6XrY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Seamonkey and LastPass

2009-11-29 Thread Matt Harrison
Dale wrote: So, another question. Is there a tool that is local and would do something like this? I am using Seamonkey 2.0 nowadays. It seems to have some tools available to it that the old Seamonkey doesn't. Dale :-) :-) There is a tool I've used in the past called PasswordMaker. It

[gentoo-user] Yahoo Messenger replacement

2009-08-03 Thread Matt Harrison
Hi guys, I've recently needed to communicate with some people using Yahoo Messenger. It's not ideal but i'm unable to migrate them to something more open. I've got it working fine on my windows machine at work, but unfortunately I'm unable to get it working on my gentoo laptop. I've so far

Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo Messenger replacement

2009-08-03 Thread Matt Harrison
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 10:28:20AM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Paul Hartmanpaul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Matt Harrisoniwasinnamuk...@genestate.com wrote: Hi guys, I've recently needed to communicate with some

Re: [gentoo-user] Dial-up while travelling?

2009-07-05 Thread Matt Harrison
Grant wrote: I have good equipment and good methods for connecting to the internet via ethernet, wireless, or cell phone while travelling, and I'm also wondering about dial-up. Does it work well on Gentoo? Should a laptop's internal modem work, or would I be better off buying an external one?

Re: [gentoo-user] Is starting xdm enough to see something in X?

2009-05-22 Thread Matt Harrison
Mark Knecht wrote: On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 11:49 AM, bn brullonu...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Knecht ha scritto: Title sort of says it. I have an old machine that I'm setting up as a Myth server. I didn't want X on the machine but I'm having trouble so I emerged xdm and start it using

Re: [gentoo-user] help needed to connect wifi on eeeSTOKED!

2009-05-15 Thread Matt Harrison
James Ausmus wrote: On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 1:53 PM, maxim wexler bliss...@yahoo.com mailto:bliss...@yahoo.com wrote: ifconfig wlan0 up iwlist wlan0 scan reveals the network name, the chan. iwconfig wlan0 essid Network Name iwconfig wlan0

[gentoo-user] yet another eeepc story

2009-05-10 Thread Matt Harrison
I know this has probably all been covered by I've looked around and failed to find a succinct source of information. I'm wanting to try gentoo on my eeepc 900, but I'm failing at some very basic level. I've got an external CD drive attached and booted from the current i686-2008 minimal cd.

Re: [gentoo-user] yet another eeepc story

2009-05-10 Thread Matt Harrison
Florian Philipp wrote: How about a good old sneakernet? [1] Grab a memory stick and use it to transfer data between your eee and a decent machine. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneaker_net Hey thanks for the reply, Ok so assuming I can get the stage3 and portage snapshot plus some

Re: [gentoo-user] yet another eeepc story

2009-05-10 Thread Matt Harrison
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 10 May 2009 18:57:28 +0100, Matt Harrison wrote: I'm wanting to try gentoo on my eeepc 900, but I'm failing at some very basic level. I've got an external CD drive attached and booted from the current i686-2008 minimal cd. Unfortunately this doesn't work

Re: [gentoo-user] yet another eeepc story

2009-05-10 Thread Matt Harrison
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 10 May 2009 21:42:46 +0100, Matt Harrison wrote: The only other thing I was thinking about is: If the appropriate drivers for this eee900 are indeed in the 2.6.28 series, can you provide pointers to the locations of necessary options? I have read here

Re: [gentoo-user] yet another eeepc story

2009-05-10 Thread Matt Harrison
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 10 May 2009 21:42:46 +0100, Matt Harrison wrote: The only other thing I was thinking about is: If the appropriate drivers for this eee900 are indeed in the 2.6.28 series, can you provide pointers to the locations of necessary options? I have read here

Re: [gentoo-user] yet another eeepc story

2009-05-10 Thread Matt Harrison
Matt Harrison wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 10 May 2009 21:42:46 +0100, Matt Harrison wrote: The only other thing I was thinking about is: If the appropriate drivers for this eee900 are indeed in the 2.6.28 series, can you provide pointers to the locations of necessary options? I have

Re: [gentoo-user] IDE is called hda

2009-04-16 Thread Matt Harrison
Thomas Chef wrote: Aha I understand. But what if my cd installation names my disk hda, but when I download the gentoo kernel source and build it it will use sda. So in my lilo.conf I must use hda, and when the new kernel boots it looks for hda (because of my lilo.conf), but in that case it

Re: [gentoo-user] Constant Load 1.00+ on new Toshiba laptop

2009-02-18 Thread Matt Harrison
Shawn Haggett wrote: On Wednesday 18 February 2009 16:24:45 Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Beau Henderson b...@thehenderson.com wrote: G'day, I was wondering if anyone might have any idea's as to what is causing my new Toshiba A300 Satelite to idle at a load

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo as a production server - insecure?

2009-02-16 Thread Matt Harrison
james wrote: Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinrichs at online.de writes: would you please be so kind and avoid hijacking other threads next time. Um, you must not have read the response. I did specifically address and provide remedy if indeed having gcc installed on a machine is a security

Re: [gentoo-user] Should this hardware work?

2009-02-15 Thread Matt Harrison
connection. This should mean that once the infrared connection is established, you should be able to print as if it was a physical serial connection. Of course, getting the IR connection established might be easier said than done. HTH -- Matt Harrison

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: homemade nas setup

2009-01-31 Thread Matt Harrison
Harry Putnam wrote: Matt Harrison iwasinnamuk...@genestate.com writes: I know its a little OT, but I have to mention ZFS. It'll mean running Solaris or FreeBSD in order to get the best out of it, but it's worth it. I changed my fileserver from a gentoo box with software raid and lvm over

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: homemade nas setup

2009-01-31 Thread Matt Harrison
Harry Putnam wrote: Matt Harrison iwasinnamuk...@genestate.com writes: Are you backing up any windows boxes onto the ZFS? Is it just a matter of making it available by way of samba/cifs? I'm using it for both attached storage via ISCSI, and standard sharing on a domain via cifs. I've got

Re: [gentoo-user] homemade nas setup

2009-01-29 Thread Matt Harrison
and see what you think. -- Matt Harrison A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Remote image editing (crop rotate)

2009-01-25 Thread Matt Harrison
the need to copy them around the network. Of course, if it's something you need to judge by eye, that isn't an option. -- Matt Harrison

Re: [gentoo-user] Restricting Firefox website access

2009-01-17 Thread Matt Harrison
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 17 January 2009 20:12:06 Grant wrote: This requires only that the computer in question has a static IP or a permanent lease (so you always know what it is), and you know the IP of the web sites to be accessed (dig is a very good friend). Allow these, deny

[gentoo-user] motherboard died?

2009-01-15 Thread Matt Harrison
Hi all, A few weeks ago there was a discussion about audio interference when running 3d applications. Well mine kept getting worse (it didn't to it at all a month ago) until I got fed up. I opened the side and (gently!) moved some of the power cables away from the data cables to see if that

Re: [gentoo-user] motherboard died?

2009-01-15 Thread Matt Harrison
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 09:32:15 +, Matt Harrison wrote: I can't see how I could have properly killed some hardware just by moving a cable an inch to one side. Did you touch a grounded object before putting your hand inside the case. A static discharge could kill

Re: [gentoo-user] motherboard died?

2009-01-15 Thread Matt Harrison
Dale wrote: Matt Harrison wrote: Hi all, A few weeks ago there was a discussion about audio interference when running 3d applications. Well mine kept getting worse (it didn't to it at all a month ago) until I got fed up. I opened the side and (gently!) moved some of the power cables away from

Re: [gentoo-user] motherboard died?

2009-01-15 Thread Matt Harrison
Dale wrote: Matt Harrison wrote: Dale wrote: Matt Harrison wrote: Hi all, A few weeks ago there was a discussion about audio interference when running 3d applications. Well mine kept getting worse (it didn't to it at all a month ago) until I got fed up. I opened the side and (gently!) moved

Re: [gentoo-user] motherboard died?

2009-01-15 Thread Matt Harrison
Dan Cowsill wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 4:32 AM, Matt Harrison iwasinnamuk...@genestate.com wrote: Hi all, A few weeks ago there was a discussion about audio interference when running 3d applications. Well mine kept getting worse (it didn't to it at all a month ago) until I got fed up. I

Re: [gentoo-user] non-PHP webmail in portage?

2009-01-09 Thread Matt Harrison
Grant wrote: Does anyone know of a good (or OK) webmail client in portage that doesn't use PHP? I use squirrelmail now but I have PHP installed only for that and I think PHP slows apache2 down a bit. - Grant I don't think you'll find anything faster except maybe written in C, which is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: rsh failed : Connection reset by peer

2009-01-07 Thread Matt Harrison
Chuanwen Wu wrote: I guess maybe rsh does not allow to login as root. Probably not, RSH was abandoned years ago and I'm surprised there are any applications still around that haven't moved to ssh. Exposing the root user to an already unsafe transmission is asking for trouble IMHO.

Re: [gentoo-user] pre-emerge steps

2009-01-01 Thread Matt Harrison
Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 01/01/09 Mick said: I guess there is bugzilla for posting bugs or even requests, but if as Alan says the hardware in question is that obscure/obsolete, then interest for continuing its dev't will undoubtedly decline with time. Maybe the recent 2.6.27 kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] High-pitched sound from inside the PC when opening menus

2008-12-31 Thread Matt Harrison
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: This is a question that is off topic of course, but I'm not sure *where* it would be on-topic. Considering that Gentoo users are also often so-called enthusiasts, I'll drop the question here ;) In KDE (3), when enabling the fade effect for menus, clicking on a menu

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] High-pitched sound from inside the PC when opening menus

2008-12-31 Thread Matt Harrison
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Wednesday 31 December 2008, 15:56, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: It's coming from the case, not the speakers. BTW, this happens in both gentoo and windows xp for me. Same here. The sound is loudest when running the Mother Nature test of 3DMark 03. Happening with every

Re: [gentoo-user] provided kernel

2008-12-27 Thread Matt Harrison
Simon wrote: Hi there, long ago i installed a 2.6.24 kernel in /usr/src manually. I had added the line sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.24 (without quotes) to the file /etc/portage/profile/package.provided. There is no kernel in /var/lib/portage/world... This may be related to the fact i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-12-26 Thread Matt Harrison
Dale wrote: I have to say that after my recent transfer, my login got a whole one second faster. I can't tell any difference anywhere else. Of course, portage has always been on its own partition and used ext3. We need a hard drive engineer on here. :/ Dale :-) :-) Hey, I've been

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-12-26 Thread Matt Harrison
Dale wrote: But if we learned to much, we may be dangerous or something. Sometimes to much knowledge can be bad. lol I !think! I tried XFS once. If it was XFS, you need to have a UPS for sure. Every time the system crashed I had to re-install. I never got it to recover even once. I have

[gentoo-user] QoS and tc

2008-12-06 Thread Matt Harrison
Hi list, I'm trying to set up some sort of QoS for my small network. I've got a pretty slow 512kb/256kb ADSL line and I'd like to have it managed better. All the examples I have found[1] talk a lot about outbound..or inbound, but not both. The problem is that my upstream bandwidth is half

[gentoo-user] squid with active directory

2008-10-20 Thread Matt Harrison
Hi all, I have a gentoo box that acts as a firewall, router and squid proxy. I've been following a guide[1] to integrate squid authentication with our active directory domain. The guide is a little bit out of date and it doesn't seem to work for me. Authentication is refused to

Re: [gentoo-user] squid with active directory

2008-10-20 Thread Matt Harrison
Let me clarify a little bit: Before attempting this integration, I had an acl line like this: acl internal src 10.194.217.0/24 And i'm allowing that like so: http_access allow internal I'm just not sure how to change this to allow access to authenticated users while prompting for those not

Re: [gentoo-user] OT joomla, defacement and remote shell

2008-09-14 Thread Matt Harrison
Michele Schiavo wrote: How can i prevent the execution of this file ? Please don't spread an infected file to the whole list, just give a description of your problem and people might be able to help. Right now it just looks like you're trying infect list members with something. Matt

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} GPG: pub sec keys required to decrypt?

2008-09-09 Thread Matt Harrison
It looks like I've imported a pub/sec keypair now. Should I remove the public key for security? Maybe I misunderstood from the beginning and having both keys on the same system isn't a security issue? - Grant It is still a security issue, but only as much as any other data on your

Re: [gentoo-user] idea on updates

2008-08-28 Thread Matt Harrison
Joshua D Doll wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:22:00 + (UTC), James wrote: Why, could the dev add an option that parses out all of those pesky admin things into either a singular log file? Or better yet, a gui popup that lists just those instructions for each package.

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} High capacity backup plan needed

2008-08-09 Thread Matt Harrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: | what about a nice little tapelib - used from ebay? DLT and LTO drivers are | extremly robust. The tape cardridges can endure a lot of punishment and are | made to lay around for years, waiting for the emergency. You even

[gentoo-user] [slightly OT] recommendations for streaming audio solutions

2008-07-31 Thread Matt Harrison
Hi all, This is a tiny bit OT but not totally. I used to have a streaming audio server setup using tunez (http://tunez.sourceforge.net/) but that is no longer in development (since 2004). Is there something in portage that I can use to stream audio over icecast, both mp3 and ogg and control

Re: [gentoo-user] Success (mostly)

2008-07-27 Thread Matt Harrison
Alan E. Davis wrote: On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 11:46 AM, David Relson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A few years back I bought a Tyan SMP board (dual Athlon 1000's if I recall). I was very pleased as it screamed through builds. Then summer arrived, and with a computer room that gets warmish, I had

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KVM mouse and keyboard recognition

2008-07-19 Thread Matt Harrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Harry Putnam wrote: | Neil Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | Harry Putnam wrote: | Maybe I have to do something special regarding USB recognition? | | I have a similar device - a StarTech StarView SV831HD 8-port KVM. It | supports both PS/2 and

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu working but invisible

2008-07-18 Thread Matt Harrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 dhk wrote: | So what is the solution to making grub visible again? I remember when | it changed, I didn't understand the message displayed and I still don't | know the fix. | | Running emerge --config grub doesn't work. | | Is it as simple as

[gentoo-user] eee pc query

2008-07-15 Thread Matt Harrison
I've got one of these Asus EEEPc's and I'm thinking about installing gentoo on it as the (xubuntu) distro isn't really up to par with gentoo IMHO. I'm not worried about messing things up as I can just re-image it with the supplied discs if something goes wrong but I do have a couple of

[gentoo-user] grub menu working but invisible

2008-07-14 Thread Matt Harrison
I just updated grub as part of my regular updates and it gave me the message that I should re-install grub to my MBR otherwise stage1 and stage2 would mismatch. I ran grub-install as normal and it (apparently) installed the bootloader without problems. However, now, when I boot up, I don't

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