On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
I was wondering what gentoo-users think and practice about kernel
modules. Do most compile them in the kernel or load them at boot-up.
Note that I'm _NOT_ talking about those modules that have to be compiled
in such as for your filesystem.
Teresa and Dale wrote:
Care to guess how much I like modules:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] / # lsmod
Module Size Used by
nvidia 4551892 12
[EMAIL PROTECTED] / #
I would have that one in there if I could. I never did like them.
Why?
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Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
I was wondering what gentoo-users think and practice about kernel
modules. Do most compile them in the kernel or load them at boot-up.
Note that I'm _NOT_ talking about those modules that have to be compiled
in such as for your filesystem. This is about the other
oh, there is one thing where it is useful to have modules. That would
be projects where the codebase will be updated more often than you
update your kernels (I'm looking at you ALSA). In those circumstances
it may be more valuable to have the flexibility to update code without
having to reboot
What happened to my KDE 3.5.3?
The fonts are gone sorta -- at least to the point that makes KDE unusable.
If I fire up a terminal, the window is black, but I can see that things
are happening, as the cursor will move. but no text shows. if i do an
'ls' for example, i can see something
On Monday 12 June 2006 03:10, gentuxx wrote:
david wrote:
Try changing /dev/mouse
to
/dev/input/mice
or
/dev/psaux
OK, that worked as far as getting a running config. Now I just
have to figure out what the scan rates are for my monitor.
Most modern monitors report that to Xorg
Hi,
I thought I'd introduce myself as someone new to the list - good
netiquette and all.
I've been a very happy very contented gentoo user for over a year, and
if I had more bandwidth my life would be complete :-)
My question is, what are the local rules around here for how to behave
on
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I usualy start with a kernel with almost everything compiled in (but
only things I definitely need), only using modules when I have to
(USB for suspend2 comes to my mind). Over time whenever I need
something new (filesystem, hardware driver,...) I
On 6/12/06, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My question is, what are the local rules around here for how to behave
on list? I'm very much old school, and prefer lists over forums - in
my world top posting, no snipping, HTML mail and hi-jacking threads
are a huge no-no, pretty much strict
I haven't been able to figure out how to prevent that the new udev (090) loads
the ipw2100 (wireless lan) during boot. I don't use it very often, and I have
set the button that enables/disables the transmitter to also load/unload the
kernel module. Any hints or pointers appreciated?
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Hi guys,
I probably hit a bug in a linux (non-windows) version of Firefox.
If you are using FF 1.5.0.4 can you please try if about:cache
works for you after the steps listed below:
1. Type about:cache into location bar
and make sure about:cache works
2. Go to any other url. about:blank for
On Monday 12 June 2006 11:38, Alexander Kirillov wrote:
Does it work for you?
Nope, not until I have restarted Firefox.
Are you you using a binary/source build?
Source on ~x86.
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On 6/12/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I haven't been able to figure out how to prevent that the new udev (090) loads
the ipw2100 (wireless lan) during boot. I don't use it very often, and I have
set the button that enables/disables the transmitter to also load/unload the
kernel
Bo Ørsted Andresen a écrit :
On Monday 12 June 2006 11:38, Alexander Kirillov wrote:
Does it work for you?
Nope, not until I have restarted Firefox.
Are you you using a binary/source build?
Source on ~x86.
Same issue here, same version.
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On 12 June 2006 08:58, Alan McKinnon wrote:
My question is, what are the local rules around here for how to behave
on list? I'm very much old school, and prefer lists over forums - in
my world top posting, no snipping, HTML mail and hi-jacking threads
are a huge no-no, pretty much strict
Sorry if this is duplicate but I don't think the original arrived.
Hi all,
I moved my /var to a new disk and now amarok will nor work because it can't
connect to mysql
Can't connect to local MySQL server through
socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)
If I /etc/init.d/mysql stop
* Caching
On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 19:44:37 -0700, Richard Fish wrote:
On 6/10/06, Keith Kastorff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Run the gnome-settings-daemon...it will fix it, and you'll see your
Gnome theming under KDE too.
Keith, thanks for the pointer.
rant
WTF! Now I have to pull in a bunch of other
I moved my /var to a new disk and now amarok will nor work because it can't
connect to mysql
Can't connect to local MySQL server through
socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)
If I /etc/init.d/mysql stop
* Caching service dependencies ... [ ok ]
* WARNING:
On Monday 12 June 2006 11:46, Richard Fish wrote:
The most reliable method I have found is to remove the ipw lines
from /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.alias and modules.pcimap.
Surely they must have plans to make this possible in a config file? Anyway it
works. Thx.
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I moved my /var to a new disk and now amarok will nor work because it can't
connect to mysql
Can't connect to local MySQL server through
socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)
If I /etc/init.d/mysql stop
* Caching service dependencies ... [ ok ]
* WARNING:
Hi,
This morning I noticed that gam_server was eating 80 90% of cpu...
I'm trying to find who installed gamin in my system, the dependency,
but I found nothing... ('equery depends gamin' shows nothing, with -a,
equery breaks)
I looked for (gam_Server) PID and its PPID (1)...so I don't know
who
On Monday 12 June 2006 12:09, Alexander Kirillov wrote:
snip
So it looks as if I have really screwed up moving /var
The /var/run/mysql directory is empty
Check the permissions on /var/run/mysql.
It should be owned by mysql.
What's in mysql logs? They're probably in /var/log/mysql
Sasha
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Is it /var/run/mysql or /var/run/mysqld?
You should probably recreate /var/run/mysqld
and set the permissions.
/var/run/mysqld must have mysql:mysql permissions (drwxr-xr-x)
And make /etc/my.cnf a symlink to /etc/mysql/my.cnf
CLI utilities
On Monday 12 June 2006 10:50, Richard Fish wrote:
You'll do just fine here!
About the only other thing I've seen people get upset about is
large messages/attachments. Some poor souls have to pay by the
byte for bandwidthso be a bit careful if you ever need to post
a log file or output
Is their anything else that should not be root root in /var/run or /var/tmp ??
Probably. It depends on the programs you've installed.
Next time use cp -Rp to preserve the permissions.
Sasha
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Hello!
How can I make syslog-ng to accept connections from remote hosts?
Thanks,
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On Monday 12 June 2006 10:53, Uwe Thiem wrote:
That pretty much covers it.
alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za
Hey, another gentoo user from Southern Africa. ;-)
Uwe
There's more of us than you mighty think, the secret underground
gentoo conspiracy to take over and dominate the entire
On 17:12 Mon 12 Jun , Shaochun Wang wrote:
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Does anybody send me the freenet-0.5.2.1-r8 copy directly?
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On 6/12/06, Michael Weyershäuser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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I usualy start with a kernel with almost everything compiled in (but
only things I definitely need), only using modules when I have to
(USB for suspend2 comes to my mind). Over time whenever
Good morning all,
About 10 days ago we had a lightning strike very nearby that fried our
electric utilities transformer and my APC RS800 UPS. This in turn caused
my system to crash. When I brought it back up, all CMOS settings had been
lost. After setting what I could remember (no, I didn't
Hi, I'm having problems to monitor my battery status (on my laptop).
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state
present: yes
ERROR: Unable to read battery status
What can I do to make it work? Here is my acpi conf on kernel:
#
# ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface)
Daevid Vincent wrote:
What happened to my KDE 3.5.3?
The fonts are gone sorta -- at least to the point that makes KDE
unusable.
If I fire up a terminal, the window is black, but I can see that
things are happening, as the cursor will move. but no text shows. if i
do an 'ls' for example, i
On 6/12/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Monday 12 June 2006 11:46, Richard Fish wrote:
The most reliable method I have found is to remove the ipw lines
from /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.alias and modules.pcimap.
Surely they must have plans to make this possible in a
On one of two gentoo (x86_64 AMD Opteron) systems I just emerged the new portage-2.1 on, emerge is requiring gentoo-sources as a dependency required by "x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r7". Why? The 2nd system with an identical 2.6.16.20 vanilla-sources kernel does not have this problem.I tried removing
Hi folks,
I have batched a bunch of servers in my hosts file to block, for ads and
all that crap. I got them from several different places, some I have
found too, and am sure there are dups in there, same server but pasted
from several sources. I am not a programer at all and don't even really
On Monday 12 June 2006 16:38, Richard Ruth wrote:
On one of two gentoo (x86_64 AMD Opteron) systems I just emerged the new
portage-2.1 on, emerge is requiring gentoo-sources as a dependency required
by x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r7. Why?
The 2nd system with an identical 2.6.16.20 vanilla-sources
On Tuesday, 13 June 2006 2:12, Teresa and Dale wrote:
Hi folks,
I have batched a bunch of servers in my hosts file to block, for ads and
all that crap. I got them from several different places, some I have
found too, and am sure there are dups in there, same server but pasted
from several
On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 09:58:54AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
My question is, what are the local rules around here for how to behave
on list? I'm very much old school, and prefer lists over forums - in
my world top posting, no snipping, HTML mail and hi-jacking threads
are a huge no-no,
On 12 June 2006 15:32, John J. Foster wrote:
Good morning all,
About 10 days ago we had a lightning strike very nearby that fried our
electric utilities transformer and my APC RS800 UPS. This in turn caused
my system to crash. When I brought it back up, all CMOS settings had been
lost. After
On Monday 12 June 2006 08:59, Daevid Vincent wrote:
What happened to my KDE 3.5.3?
The fonts are gone sorta -- at least to the point that makes KDE
unusable.
have you done any fontconfig updates?
hm, maybe it helps to rebuild qt and kdelibs?
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On Monday 12 June 2006 18:23, Richard Fish wrote:
Ok, here is the 'correct' way to do it (I was too lazy to figure it
out until now...)
Excellent. It does work. Thank you very much. :)
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Raymond Lewis Rebbeck wrote:
On Tuesday, 13 June 2006 2:12, Teresa and Dale wrote:
Hi folks,
I have batched a bunch of servers in my hosts file to block, for ads and
all that crap. I got them from several different places, some I have
found too, and am sure there are dups in there, same
On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 09:23:28 -0700, Richard Fish wrote:
Ok, here is the 'correct' way to do it (I was too lazy to figure it
out until now...)
Before doing this, try listing the module in /etc/hotplug/blacklist, this
is supposed to prevent its automatic loading.
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Just would like to know if anybody have tried the usb HDTV tuner's under linux.
They seem handy and portable...but googling i did not find much about
linux usage or successes.
Thanks
Kumar
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I have an MS Word HTML file. I used Lynx to dump it to text and now I
want to get it to pdf. I opened it in OOo and saved as an OpenDocument.
However, all the paragraphs are hard wrapped at 80 characters so the
text does not take up the whole page.
Is there an easy way to go through the 100+
On 6/12/06, Teresa and Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks, read the man page, it was short so it didn't take long. I tried
this:
uniq -u /home/dale/Desktop/hosts /home/dale/Desktop/hostsort
I think that you need to run sort on the file first, then uniq.
HTH,
Matt
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On Monday 12 June 2006 19:21, Neil Bothwick wrote:
Before doing this, try listing the module in /etc/hotplug/blacklist, this
is supposed to prevent its automatic loading.
$ grep ipw /etc/hotplug/blacklist
# Don't hotplug ipw2100
ipw2100
$ ls -l /etc/hotplug/blacklist
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 829
On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 12:19:46 -0500, Teresa and Dale wrote:
uniq -u /home/dale/Desktop/hosts /home/dale/Desktop/hostsort
uniq only removes consecutive duplicate line, you need to use sort first
sort file | uniq newfile
or, possibly, depending on the format of your file
sort -u file newfile
On Tuesday, 13 June 2006 2:49, Teresa and Dale wrote:
Raymond Lewis Rebbeck wrote:
On Tuesday, 13 June 2006 2:12, Teresa and Dale wrote:
Hi folks,
I have batched a bunch of servers in my hosts file to block, for ads and
all that crap. I got them from several different places, some I have
On Monday 12 June 2006 18:19, Teresa and Dale wrote:
Thanks, read the man page, it was short so it didn't take long. I tried
this:
sort would be more appropriate. I don't believe uniq will find matches
anywhere in the file, i.e.
192
195
192
wouldn't get shortened, but
192
192
195
would.
Teresa and Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Thanks, read the man page, it was short so it didn't take long. I tried
this:
uniq -u /home/dale/Desktop/hosts /home/dale/Desktop/hostsort
It doesn't look like it did anything but copy the same thing over.
There are only 2 lines missing. Does
On 6/12/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Monday 12 June 2006 19:21, Neil Bothwick wrote:
Before doing this, try listing the module in /etc/hotplug/blacklist, this
is supposed to prevent its automatic loading.
$ grep ipw /etc/hotplug/blacklist
# Don't hotplug ipw2100
ipw2100
On Monday 12 June 2006 08:04, Ralph Slooten wrote:
Is it /var/run/mysql or /var/run/mysqld?
You should probably recreate /var/run/mysqld
and set the permissions.
/var/run/mysqld must have mysql:mysql permissions (drwxr-xr-x)
And make /etc/my.cnf a symlink to /etc/mysql/my.cnf
CLI
On 6/11/06, Anthony E. Caudel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was wondering what gentoo-users think and practice about kernel
modules. Do most compile them in the kernel or load them at boot-up.
I have heard a security argument made that it is safer to compile
everything into the kernel, and
Evan Klitzke wrote:
I have heard a security argument made that it is safer to compile
everything into the kernel, and disable support for modules entirely.
I would say this is a must on server. This way you would close
one potential security leak. Of course, it does not help if you
leave a few
On Monday 12 June 2006 19:55, Christer Ekholm wrote:
Teresa and Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Thanks, read the man page, it was short so it didn't take long.
I tried this:
uniq -u /home/dale/Desktop/hosts /home/dale/Desktop/hostsort
It doesn't look like it did anything but copy the
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Jason's recent inquiry about the alternate
terminals
caused me to
revisit an issue
On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Uwe Thiem wrote:
snip
after this:
hwclock -wu
to get your hardware clock right. Without u if your hw clock is running in
local time.
snip
But all that shows in the /var/log/ntp.log is
12 Jun 09:05:46 ntpd[19515]: ntpd exiting on signal 15
It probably terminated right
On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 20:39:20 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
If /etc/hosts has these lines:
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 localhost
uniq will see these as different even though they are actually the
same entry. So he needs something like tr to squash spaces. This will
do it (as root):
cat
On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 11:16:56 -0700, Evan Klitzke wrote:
I have heard a security argument made that it is safer to compile
everything into the kernel, and disable support for modules entirely.
The reason for this is that if someone can load malicious modules on
your system they can basically
On Wednesday 07 June 2006 21:50, Bob Young wrote:
On 6/7/06, Roy Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You might want to read:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=282474highlight=
which basically recommends:
emerge -s
emerge -s
emerge -e
emerge -e
Ugh,
Evan Klitzke wrote:
On 6/11/06, Anthony E. Caudel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was wondering what gentoo-users think and practice about kernel
modules. Do most compile them in the kernel or load them at boot-up.
I have heard a security argument made that it is safer to compile
everything into
Does 'revdep-rebuild -p' report any broken dependancies?
No.
Have you
tried re-merging kde-base/kdemultimedia-kioslaves?
No, but I will do it ASAP :)
Thanks for help.
m.
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gcc-4.1.1
On Wednesday 07 June 2006 21:50, Bob Young wrote:
Note that the
article does in the end, do a double
On 6/11/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday 11 June 2006 23:32, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: That sounds interesting, but I have no idea what to do about it. I think once upon a time, when I was first installing gentoo, I opted for KDE.I haven't done a thing about it since KDE
Francisco J. A. Ares schrieb:
but
I'd prefer to go back to the init script.
Thanks
Francisco
The old rp-pppoe init script works without problems on my up-to-date
gentoo router. I prefer this way, too.
If you need it, here is the script:
bragi ~ # cat /etc/init.d/rp-pppoe
Michael Weyershäuser wrote:
I usualy start with a kernel with almost everything compiled in (but
only things I definitely need), only using modules when I have to
(USB for suspend2 comes to my mind). Over time whenever I need
something new (filesystem, hardware driver,...) I tend to compile it
Arnau Bria wrote:
This morning I noticed that gam_server was eating 80 90% of
cpu... I'm trying to find who installed gamin in my system,
If you look at the ebuild
('less /usr/portage/app-admin/gamin/gamin-0.1.7.ebuild'), you'll
see that gamin provides the virtual fam.
$ equery depends fam
The old rp-pppoe init script works without problems on my up-to-date
gentoo router. I prefer this way, too.
Nobody needs the old init.d-script anymore. Here are the advantages of
using baselayout:
- you can unmerge rp-pppoe
- the pppoe-plugin provided by pppd uses the kernel
Yea, of course you can do that, though you have to be careful if your
kernel tree has changed to a different version than the one you're
booted from (usually you can still just force the module to load, but
a module from a different kernel tree may not want to play nicely with
everything else).
On 18:53 Mon 12 Jun , JimD wrote:
Sweet. Thanks for the tips. I need to start using OOo more ;-)
No need.
sed -e :a -e '$!N;s/\n[^$]//;ta' -e 'p;D' filename
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On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 10:37:08 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote:
Used to do that - heaps of problems when using multiple machines and
multiple users.
There used to be problems when trying to download the same file from two
computers at once, but NFS-aware file locking in portage fixed that quite
a
On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 17:52:21 -0500, Teresa and Dale wrote:
sort -u -k1,1 /etc/hosts /etc/hosts.new
avoids the need to use cat, uniq or tr. -k1,1 sorts on the first field
(space delimited) and -u remove lines where the sort field is the same.
Well that removed a few, all of them to be
On 00:13 Tue 13 Jun , David Morgan wrote:
sed -e :a -e '$!N;s/\n[^$]//;ta' -e 'p;D' filename
Gosh, what was I thinking?
sed -e :a -e '$!N;s/\n\([^$]\)/\1/;ta' -e 'p;D' filename
I expect there's a slightly nicer way, but I'm tired and I have an exam
in the morning...
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On 6/12/06, Bob Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That being said, seems these two articles appear to be giving out bad
information:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=282474highlight=
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-345229.html
Yes, I would have to agree. The first is just so
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On 6/12/06, Shaochun Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Any suggestion?
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Hey everyone,
when I load up gentoo it loads up a basic console login and when I try to
startx it loads up a really basic X interface with two terminals and a
analog looking clock. When I try to use xfce-session it loads up xfce but
things are out of place and it looks more like a basic X
Hi,
I'm getting a strange font problem in evolution and firefox - evolution
shows square boxes when it should be showing tabs, and firefox shows
square boxes in java applets when it should be showing spaces.
Both applications show the tab / space as well, but there's these little
boxes all over
Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
Teresa and Dale wrote:
Care to guess how much I like modules:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] / # lsmod
Module Size Used by
nvidia 4551892 12
[EMAIL PROTECTED] / #
I would have that one in there if I could. I never did like them.
John J. Foster wrote:
Good evening,
After having some recent issues with ntpd (which I'm not certain are
resolved), I decided to take a close look at my /etc/ntp.conf file.
Below are the _only_ lines in /etc/ntp.conf that are not commented out.
restrict 127.0.0.1 nomodify
driftfile
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Teresa and Dale wrote:
That's the whole thing. There is a command that I used that picked out
the three servers that has the fastest ping times but I can't remember
what it is. It's in the ofrums somewhere but I can't find it.
Dale
:-) :-)
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