Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Config Manager

2006-12-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 18:07:42 -0700, Trenton Adams wrote: Want this to be managed outside the standard menu config because it will make it easier to switch to a new kernel, such as xen-sources, or vanilla-sources. I can then keep the default settings of that particular kernel, and enable all

Re: [gentoo-user] desperation question: disklabel, unable to write to disk, etc.

2006-12-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 01:23:13 +, Alan E. Davis wrote: Can anyone point me to the right literature on line or other help? It could be a hardware problem, but one suspects the partition table and boot record. Gpart was unable to determine the sector size. Try running cfdisk with the -z

[gentoo-user] leafnode

2006-12-23 Thread Oliver Večernik
Hi, I emerged leafnode and started xinetd but: $ telnet localhost 119 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to zipo.vecernik.at. Escape character is '^]'. Connection closed by foreign host. # tail -n 3 /var/log/messages Dec 23 09:30:48 zipo xinetd[26585]: FAIL: nntp address from=127.0.0.1 Dec 23

[gentoo-user] OT: Follow-up on the HDD problems...

2006-12-23 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Some of you may remember the problem I was having with my SATA II HDD in Windows XP (but not in Linux). To recap: My drive got switched from UDMA mode to PIO mode in Windows (only). I ended up having to reinstall Windows. After some careful

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-23 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 22 December 2006 10:06, Neil Bothwick wrote: A bin package is equally cumbersome. You will very quickly consume huge amounts of disk space - at least equal to all the current packages on the system plus old ones that were updated. Maybe, but they do provide an extremely useful

Re: [gentoo-user] Vmware player startup error message

2006-12-23 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 21 December 2006 20:53, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: When I start vmware player, I always get this message: /opt/vmware/player/lib/bin/vmplayer: /opt/vmware/player/lib/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2) Vmware seems to

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 12:47:04 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: Maybe, but they do provide an extremely useful fallback, especially for those of us running ~arch systems. Being able to roll back to an older, working version in seconds rather than minutes or hours is a definite benefit.

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Config Manager

2006-12-23 Thread Daniel Iliev
Trenton Adams wrote: Hi guys, Does anyone know of a kernel config manager that manages the kernel configuration settings that I want? For instance, I want this network driver, and that driver, and the other driver. Want this to be managed outside the standard menu config because it will

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Config Manager

2006-12-23 Thread Dale
Daniel Iliev wrote: Yet another approach: cd /usr/src/linux/ zcat /proc/config.gz .config make oldconfig make config | menuconfig | xconfig If he has that enabled in the kernel. That can be a good thing to have around though. Especially if you accidentally erase your old config.

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 23 December 2006 08:44, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?': On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 12:47:04 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: Maybe, but they do provide an extremely useful fallback, especially for those of us running ~arch systems.

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-23 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Saturday 23 December 2006 15:44, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 12:47:04 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: Maybe, but they do provide an extremely useful fallback, especially for those of us running ~arch systems. Being able to roll back to an older, working version in

[gentoo-user] Almost Completely OT - Hacking the Telephone Adapter

2006-12-23 Thread Michael Sullivan
My wife and I signed up with Vonage VoIP service last week. They sent us a telephone adapter to plug into our DSL modem/router that would allow us to use our analog phones with Vonage. Since it's plugged in to our router, I found its IP address and scanned it with nmap. The thing allows http

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Config Manager

2006-12-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 17:22:36 +0200, Daniel Iliev wrote: make config | menuconfig | xconfig ... | gconfig -- Neil Bothwick System halted - Press all keys at once to continue. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Apple keyboards with Gentoo

2006-12-23 Thread Benjamin Sobotta
On Friday 22 December 2006 19:31, A. Khattri wrote: On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Nelson, David \(ED, PARD\) wrote: I may be preaching to the converted, but have you tried Ctrl-Alt-Fx keys to try and get a console? Does the keyboard have any odd switches to turn the F keys on? My logitech keyboard

Re: [gentoo-user] Apple keyboards with Gentoo

2006-12-23 Thread Benjamin Sobotta
Hi again. Maybe you can also have a look for example at the xorg.lst file in the rules directory for X and then adjust your xorg.conf properly... B On Saturday 23 December 2006 18:27, Benjamin Sobotta wrote: On Friday 22 December 2006 19:31, A. Khattri wrote: On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Nelson,

Re: [gentoo-user] hal startup messages [solved]

2006-12-23 Thread Roger Mason
Hello all, Roger Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I upgraded to the ~x86 versions then reverted to those given in my original post. I ran revdep-rebuild afterwards and verified that nothing further needed rebuilding by running revdep-rebuild -p, which reported everything as being consistent.

[gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2006-12-23 Thread Dale
Hi, I would like to backup some stuff and can't quite find a program to use. I'm looking for something that can backup to CD or DVD and can span them over more than one CD if needed. Some of what I have will require several CDs. It would be nice if it would tar it or zip it but it is not

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update and /etc/portage/package.*

2006-12-23 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 22 December 2006 12:30, Arnau Bria wrote: It's the first time that etc-update changes something in my /etc/portage dir. It has changed x11-themes/emerald-themes cause it has changed its category and removed ksudoku... I undestand first change, but not second one, so could someone

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2006-12-23 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Saturday 23 December 2006 19:45, Dale wrote: Hi, I would like to backup some stuff and can't quite find a program to use. I'm looking for something that can backup to CD or DVD and can span them over more than one CD if needed. Some of what I have will require several CDs. It would be

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2006-12-23 Thread David Relson
On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 21:56:12 +0100 Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Saturday 23 December 2006 19:45, Dale wrote: Hi, I would like to backup some stuff and can't quite find a program to use. I'm looking for something that can backup to CD or DVD and can span them over more than one CD if

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2006-12-23 Thread Roger Mason
Hi Dale, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would like to backup some stuff and can't quite find a program to use. I'm looking for something that can backup to CD or DVD and can span them over more than one CD if needed. Some of what I have will require several CDs. It would be nice if it

[gentoo-user] OT, but short

2006-12-23 Thread Michael Sullivan
Is anyone out there using Residential SBC/Yahoo DSL with dynamic DNS? I want to know if the ISP blocks incoming requests to your servers if you're not paying them the rate for a static IP... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2006-12-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 17:52:15 -0330, Roger Mason wrote: I would like to backup some stuff and can't quite find a program to use. I'm looking for something that can backup to CD or DVD and can span them over more than one CD if needed. Some of what I have will require several CDs. It

Re: [gentoo-user] OT, but short

2006-12-23 Thread Joe Menola
On Saturday 23 December 2006 4:08 pm, Michael Sullivan wrote: Is anyone out there using Residential SBC/Yahoo DSL with dynamic DNS? I want to know if the ISP blocks incoming requests to your servers if you're not paying them the rate for a static IP... Yes and yes. Unless you setup your

Re: [gentoo-user] OT, but short

2006-12-23 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sat, 2006-12-23 at 16:37 -0600, Joe Menola wrote: On Saturday 23 December 2006 4:08 pm, Michael Sullivan wrote: Is anyone out there using Residential SBC/Yahoo DSL with dynamic DNS? I want to know if the ISP blocks incoming requests to your servers if you're not paying them the rate for

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2006-12-23 Thread Ed Santiago
I'm looking for something that can backup to CD or DVD and can span them over more than one CD if needed. Some of what I have will require several CDs. It would be nice if it would tar it or zip it but it is not required. I've been in the same boat the last week, and have investigated a

[gentoo-user] Wrong dependencies to postgresql

2006-12-23 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, since jakub (as always) closes all my bugs, I'll report the issue to this list before completely giving up and never ever waste a single second on reporting bugs ... Lots of packages have an wrong/unnecessary dependency to postgresql. Three cases: a) probably traditionally

Re: [gentoo-user] desperation question: disklabel, unable to write to disk, etc.

2006-12-23 Thread Alan E. Davis
Thank you, Neil: Neither of these worked: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1 dd: writing `/dev/hda': Input/output error 1+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes (0 B) copied, 3.96744 seconds, 0.0 kB/s gparted shows the whole disk as unallocated. When I try to install a new partition,

Re: [gentoo-user] desperation question: disklabel, unable to write to disk, etc.

2006-12-23 Thread Daniel Iliev
Alan E. Davis wrote: Thank you, Neil: Neither of these worked: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1 dd: writing `/dev/hda': Input/output error 1+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes (0 B) copied, 3.96744 seconds, 0.0 kB/s gparted shows the whole disk as unallocated. When I try

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2006-12-23 Thread Dale
David Relson wrote: On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 21:56:12 +0100 Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Saturday 23 December 2006 19:45, Dale wrote: Hi, I would like to backup some stuff and can't quite find a program to use. I'm looking for something that can backup to CD or DVD and can span them

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2006-12-23 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 17:52:15 -0330, Roger Mason wrote: I would like to backup some stuff and can't quite find a program to use. I'm looking for something that can backup to CD or DVD and can span them over more than one CD if needed. Some of what I have will

[gentoo-user] Re: Almost Completely OT - Hacking the Telephone Adapter

2006-12-23 Thread James
Michael Sullivan michael at espersunited.com writes: allow us to use our analog phones with Vonage. Since it's plugged in to our router, I found its IP address and scanned it with nmap. The thing allows http and ssh access. nmap said the adapter runs Linux with a 2.4.x kernel. I played

[gentoo-user] How to see Windows graphics chars

2006-12-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I would not ordinarily care about Windows pseudo-graphics characters, but for one brief moment on one project I need to manipulate them a bit. This is a bit hard on KDE and gentoo as things stand because the terminals don't know about that encoding/font/codepage/whatever. I see there's a way to

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2006-12-23 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 17:52:15 -0330, Roger Mason wrote: I would like to backup some stuff and can't quite find a program to use. I'm looking for something that can backup to CD or DVD and can span them over more than one CD if needed. Some of what I have