[gentoo-user] Re: packages.gentoo.org: dead?

2007-08-09 Thread Alexander Skwar
Jarry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do I have problem on my side, Yes, you do. You seem to be unable to scroll back a few pages in this mailing list, to see that this question has been asked two times. or is that site really down? Yep. Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Update World situation (again)

2007-08-09 Thread Csányi András
Hi Collen! What type of nvidia-card have you? I have older card and this works only (or older) this version of nvidia-drivers: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.8776-r1 nvidia card (lspci output): VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV28 [GeForce4 Ti 4200 AGP 8x] András ps.: sorry my

Re: [gentoo-user] Update World situation (again)

2007-08-09 Thread Colleen Beamer
Csányi András wrote: Hi Collen! What type of nvidia-card have you? I have older card and this works only (or older) this version of nvidia-drivers: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.8776-r1 nvidia card (lspci output): VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV28 [GeForce4 Ti 4200 AGP

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Mathematica 6 Gentoo amd64

2007-08-09 Thread Aleksey V. Kunitskiy
On Wednesday 08 August 2007 20:18, Jure Varlec wrote: I never tried version 6, but they used to have 64 bit version for 5, so I guess there should be one for 6 :/ . Since the 5.1 that I used was native 64 bit, it needed no chroot. Version 6 tells me that it can't find libstdc++.so.5. I tried

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Mathematica 6 Gentoo amd64

2007-08-09 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 15:19:31 +0300 Aleksey V. Kunitskiy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Version 6 tells me that it can't find libstdc++.so.5. I tried to create this symlink manualy(pointing to the libstdc++ 6.0.8 ) but it didn't give me any results Emerge libcompat to get libstdc++ 5. (and undo

Re: [gentoo-user] tools to detect hardware

2007-08-09 Thread Chuanwen Wu
2007/8/8, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Chuanwen Wu wrote: I use lspci,now.But lspci can't provide so much information as everest or cpu-z do.For example,the FSB,and the socket of the CPU and so on. For the CPU ONLY, you can

Re: [gentoo-user] tools to detect hardware

2007-08-09 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Chuanwen Wu wrote: But this file still doesn't tell you the information of the FSB or socket type. Yes, that's true. - -- Arturo Buanzo Busleiman - Consultor Independiente en Seguridad Informatica SHOW DE FUTURABANDA - Sabado 18 de Agosto 2007

Re: [gentoo-user] VE-225 cable

2007-08-09 Thread deface
' dmesg | tail | grep sd ' will output device when connected ( assuming its usb ) else use ' /sbin/fdisk -l ' find the disk, make a dir to mount it to ' mkdir /mnt/tempdrive ' then mount the drive to it ' mount /dev/sdX /mnt/tempdrive ' Assuming your kernel has the filesystem support.

Re: [gentoo-user] tools to detect hardware

2007-08-09 Thread Chuanwen Wu
oh,the phpsysinfo seems need to install Apache first: * Fatal error: Your configuration file sets the server type Apache * Fatal error: but the corresponding package does not seem to be installed! * Fatal error: Please emerge =net-www/apache-1.3 or correct your settings. * Fatal error(s) -

Re: [gentoo-user] Update World situation (again)

2007-08-09 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Colleen Beamer: Okay, I just recompiled the kernel using 2.6.21-r4. All the same selections in make menuconfig. The *only* difference was that the xserver wasn't running in the background when I compiled the nvidia-drivers. This is surprising. Everytime I have forgotten to shut

Re: [gentoo-user] tools to detect hardware

2007-08-09 Thread Paul
from the name of the processer you can look up the fsb and socket online. as far as i know there are not any programs with a built in database, but if there is i would like to know too. On 8/9/07, Chuanwen Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: oh,the phpsysinfo seems need to install Apache first: *

[gentoo-user] Re: VE-225 cable

2007-08-09 Thread James
deface deface at uberpenguin.net writes: ' dmesg | tail | grep sd ' will output device when connected ( assuming its usb ) else use ' /sbin/fdisk -l ' find the disk, make a dir to mount it to ' mkdir /mnt/tempdrive ' then mount the drive to it ' mount /dev/sdX /mnt/tempdrive '

Re: [gentoo-user] tools to detect hardware

2007-08-09 Thread Mirek Dvořák
Hi try to use dmidecode hope, it will help you Mirek 2007/8/9, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED]: from the name of the processer you can look up the fsb and socket online. as far as i know there are not any programs with a built in database, but if there is i would like to know too. On 8/9/07,

Re: [gentoo-user] program autostart from another user [OT]

2007-08-09 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 30 July 2007 17:55:37 Mark Shields wrote: I see... Just curious, why would you need a program to be executed by a user who isn't logged in? The only reason I can imagine is a daemon, server o similar; Yes, this is a server :). Use the start-stop-daemon like he suggested.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Mathematica 6 Gentoo amd64

2007-08-09 Thread Aleksey V. Kunitskiy
On Thursday 09 August 2007 15:52, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Emerge libcompat to get libstdc++ 5. (and undo that symlink attempt) I can not unmask it. This package has no amd64 keyword and all my tries putting something like =sys-libs/lib-compat-1.4.1 -* ~* in package.keywords have no results.

Re: [gentoo-user] Update World situation (again)

2007-08-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 10:00:19 -0600, darren kirby wrote: This is surprising. Everytime I have forgotten to shut down the X server the nVidia installer detects it running and refuses to continue... The Nvidia installer does, but this doesn't happen when you install with Portage. IMO, this is A

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Mathematica 6 Gentoo amd64

2007-08-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 19:34:25 +0300, Aleksey V. Kunitskiy wrote: Emerge libcompat to get libstdc++ 5. (and undo that symlink attempt) I can not unmask it. This package has no amd64 keyword and all my tries putting something like =sys-libs/lib-compat-1.4.1 -* ~* in package.keywords have no

Re: [gentoo-user] Update World situation (again)

2007-08-09 Thread Denis
On 8/9/07, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Nvidia installer does, but this doesn't happen when you install with Portage. IMO, this is A Good Thing, you can install and compile a kernel update then emerge nvidia-drivers to have the drivers available when you boot into your new

[gentoo-user] Minimum HD space for a firewall

2007-08-09 Thread James
Hello, I'm building several gentoo firewalls for friends out of old pc parts (586 class) I've built a few but, now I need to try and slim down the firewall to a minimum of disk usage. I have a bunch of old 1G and 2G IDE drives. This firewalls support 3 to 4 ethernet sements with the forth

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Mathematica 6 Gentoo amd64

2007-08-09 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 19:34:25 +0300, Aleksey V. Kunitskiy wrote: Emerge libcompat to get libstdc++ 5. (and undo that symlink attempt) I can not unmask it. This package has no amd64 keyword and all my tries putting something like =sys-libs/lib-compat-1.4.1 -*

Re: [gentoo-user] Minimum HD space for a firewall

2007-08-09 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
James schrieb: so what tricks exist to get a minimalistic gentoo firewall to exits on 1G of disk space? Any good wikis are most welcome. Right now, I'm looking a GNAP. These systems mostly do not boot from a CD drive, but maybe I could put /boot and swap on the HD and the rest is read from a

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] which DVB-T USB tuner?

2007-08-09 Thread Eric Martin
I haven't tried any of those, but I love my Hauppauge Win-PVR 350. it makes a Cel600 w/312MB of ram an amazing mythbox On 8/2/07, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 11:18:16 +0200, pat wrote: I want to buy DVB-T USB tuner. I'm thinking about MSI DigiVOX A/D II or

Re: [gentoo-user] Minimum HD space for a firewall

2007-08-09 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Donnerstag 09 August 2007 19:31 schrieb James: Hello, I'm building several gentoo firewalls for friends out of old pc parts (586 class) I've built a few but, now I need to try and slim down the firewall to a minimum of disk usage. I have a bunch of old 1G and 2G IDE drives. This

[gentoo-user] Re: Minimum HD space for a firewall

2007-08-09 Thread James
Stefan G. Weichinger lists at xunil.at writes: WRAP-boards have up to 3 fast-ethernet-ports, but if you have to use your boxes, it will work out fine with a 1G hdd. Hm, If I wanted to use CF or SD cards in these old system, is there an inexpenive interface converter (say CF to ide)

Re: [gentoo-user] Update World situation (again)

2007-08-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 13:03:45 -0400, Denis wrote: Oh I never thought about that. So you need just the new kernel's sources and not necessarily having the new kernel *running* when you emerge nvidia-drivers for the new kernel? That's right. I have a short script that copies the running kernel's

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] which DVB-T USB tuner?

2007-08-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 14:09:45 -0400, Eric Martin wrote: I haven't tried any of those, but I love my Hauppauge Win-PVR 350. it makes a Cel600 w/312MB of ram an amazing mythbox One DVB card? How do you manage? I have one dual-tuner card and one single tuner card in my mythbox! -- Neil Bothwick

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Minimum HD space for a firewall

2007-08-09 Thread Chris Egger
There does exist ide to CF adaptors that will plug right into the motherboard ide slot and they are relatively cheep. I think I got mine at newegg. I know this is a gentoo list, but IPCop or PFsense has a great firewall product that can be easily adapted to a CF Card. I believe there are

Re: [gentoo-user] Update World situation (again)

2007-08-09 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Donnerstag 09 August 2007 19:03 schrieb Denis: On 8/9/07, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Nvidia installer does, but this doesn't happen when you install with Portage. IMO, this is A Good Thing, you can install and compile a kernel update then emerge nvidia-drivers to have the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Minimum HD space for a firewall

2007-08-09 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
James schrieb: Hm, If I wanted to use CF or SD cards in these old system, is there an inexpenive interface converter (say CF to ide) that is redily available? I don't know your location so the sources I would check for supplies very likely won't help you: I am in Austria/Europe. PC

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Minimum HD space for a firewall

2007-08-09 Thread James R.Campbell
On Thu Aug 9 13:14 , James [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent: Stefan G. Weichinger xunil.at writes: WRAP-boards have up to 3 fast-ethernet-ports, but if you have to use your boxes, it will work out fine with a 1G hdd. Hm, If I wanted to use CF or SD cards in these old system, is there an

[gentoo-user] Set up drupal with postgres

2007-08-09 Thread Mick
Hi All, I am trying to set up drupal on a box that has postgresql instead of mysql. The problem is that the script offered in the Gentoo Wiki[1] is for mysql as quoted below: USE mysql; INSERT

[gentoo-user] Re: Minimum HD space for a firewall

2007-08-09 Thread James
Florian Philipp f.philipp at addcom.de writes: I'm building several gentoo firewalls for friends out of old pc parts (586 class) http://gentoo-wiki.com/TinyGentoo Very cool, but, I'll have to look into this versus GNAP after I get firewall built quick for a friend. Right now, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Set up drupal with postgres

2007-08-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 09 August 2007, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Set up drupal with postgres': USE mysql; \c postgres INSERT INTO user (host, user, password, select_priv, insert_priv, update_priv) VALUES ('localhost', 'drupal', PASSWORD('passwd'), 'Y', 'Y', 'Y'); CREATE USER

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Minimum HD space for a firewall

2007-08-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello James, If I wanted to use CF or SD cards in these old system, is there an inexpenive interface converter (say CF to ide) that is redily available? Yes, I bought one from http://linitx.com and use it in my MythTV frontend. -- Neil Bothwick I'm warning you! One step closer and I'll

Re: [gentoo-user] Set up drupal with postgres

2007-08-09 Thread Mick
On Thursday 09 August 2007 20:29, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Thursday 09 August 2007, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Set up drupal with postgres': USE mysql; \c postgres INSERT INTO user (host, user, password, select_priv, insert_priv, update_priv) VALUES

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo dying? was: packages.gentoo.org down?

2007-08-09 Thread Joseph
On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 16:42 +0200, Christian Heim wrote: On Tuesday 07 August 2007 15:12:51 Alexander Skwar wrote: Hi! Is it just me, or is http://packages.gentoo.org/ not available? Alexander Skwar It's being closed until further notice. Regards, Christian Is it another

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo dying? was: packages.gentoo.org down?

2007-08-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 14:45:21 -0600, Joseph wrote: The last time that web-page was updated was last Monday. Does emerge --sync pulls new/updated packages? Why don't you try it before spreading speculation about the death of a distro? -- Neil Bothwick A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Mathematica 6 Gentoo amd64

2007-08-09 Thread Aleksey V. Kunitskiy
On Thursday 09 August 2007 19:48, Neil Bothwick wrote: I don't think that's the right package. % qfile libstdc++.so.5 sys-libs/libstdc++-v3 (/usr/lib64/libstdc++-v3/libstdc++.so.5) app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-compat (/usr/lib32/libstdc++.so.5) Of course, I forgot about it... Thanks guys! ;)

[gentoo-user] emerge reporting different number of ._cfg....s

2007-08-09 Thread Gary Artim
Hi -- emerge has been reporting +1 more ._cfg then I find when I run find. This has just started happening. I reinstalled the findutils just to be sure I haven't been hack (i know this isn't bullet proof), am I missing some place that emerge looks or ?? any help is greatly appreciated! Gary

[gentoo-user] Flashing BIOS trouble

2007-08-09 Thread Grant
I just installed an AMD64 Athlon X2 cpu on my motherboard which was previously running an AMD64 Sempron. Now I get an error about an unknown processor from the BIOS. I can't even boot to a CD or run the BIOS setup. How can I flash the BIOS from this position? - Grant -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo dying? was: packages.gentoo.org down?

2007-08-09 Thread Xav'
Neil Bothwick a écrit : On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 14:45:21 -0600, Joseph wrote: The last time that web-page was updated was last Monday. Does emerge --sync pulls new/updated packages? Why don't you try it before spreading speculation about the death of a distro? I also don't see why

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo dying? was: packages.gentoo.org down?

2007-08-09 Thread Joseph
On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 01:52 +0200, Xav' wrote: I also don't see why packages.gentoo.org will be in relation with the rsync mirrors which are completely separated... Maybe this lack from pgo is due to an attack or such thing, or simply an heavy modification of the site... And about

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Flashing BIOS trouble

2007-08-09 Thread Xav'
Grant a écrit : I just installed an AMD64 Athlon X2 cpu on my motherboard which was previously running an AMD64 Sempron. Now I get an error about an unknown processor from the BIOS. I can't even boot to a CD or run the BIOS setup. How can I flash the BIOS from this position? - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ATI Rage XL and Proview PL716s

2007-08-09 Thread Xav'
Fan Yang a écrit : Hi Xavier, Thanks for your reply and the inet6 problem was successfully fixed. But I am still having problem to start X. As a final resort, I intalled both ati and xorg drivers and test which one works. After trying flgrx, vesa and radeon, I finally found that ati is the

[gentoo-user] Re: ATI Rage XL and Proview PL716s

2007-08-09 Thread Fan Yang
Hi Xavier, Thanks for your reply and the inet6 problem was successfully fixed. But I am still having problem to start X. As a final resort, I intalled both ati and xorg drivers and test which one works. After trying flgrx, vesa and radeon, I finally found that ati is the one I need to put into

Re: [gentoo-user] packages.gentoo.org down?

2007-08-09 Thread Albert W. Hopkins
Hi. I'm sorry for the late response but the following will hopefully clear up some things. I am out of town all this week and all next week. I have no access to Gentoo's servers and limited access to the Internet. On top of that I am *very* busy ATM. There is a problem with the site that

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo dying? was: packages.gentoo.org down?

2007-08-09 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 8/9/07, Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 16:42 +0200, Christian Heim wrote: On Tuesday 07 August 2007 15:12:51 Alexander Skwar wrote: Hi! Is it just me, or is http://packages.gentoo.org/ not available? Alexander Skwar It's being closed until further

Re: [gentoo-user] Set up drupal with postgres

2007-08-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 09 August 2007, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Set up drupal with postgres': On Thursday 09 August 2007 20:29, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Thursday 09 August 2007, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON drupal.* TO drupal@'%' IDENTIFIED

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge reporting different number of ._cfg....s

2007-08-09 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 8/9/07, Gary Artim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi -- emerge has been reporting +1 more ._cfg then I find when I run find. This has just started happening. I reinstalled the findutils just to be sure I haven't been hack (i know this isn't bullet proof), am I missing some place that

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo dying? was: packages.gentoo.org down?

2007-08-09 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
I have always used gentoo-portage.com On 8/9/07, Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/9/07, Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 16:42 +0200, Christian Heim wrote: On Tuesday 07 August 2007 15:12:51 Alexander Skwar wrote: Hi! Is it just me, or is

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Flashing BIOS trouble

2007-08-09 Thread Dan Cowsill
On 8/9/07, Xav' [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Grant a écrit : I just installed an AMD64 Athlon X2 cpu on my motherboard which was previously running an AMD64 Sempron. Now I get an error about an unknown processor from the BIOS. I can't even boot to a CD or run the BIOS setup. How can I

[gentoo-user] unable to compile totem

2007-08-09 Thread John covici
' '--disable-nvtv' ebuild.sh, line 586: Called die !!! econf failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. !!! A complete build log is located at '/var/log/portage/media-video:totem-2.18.2:20070809-235346.log'. I do have firefox compiled

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Flashing BIOS trouble

2007-08-09 Thread Grant
I just installed an AMD64 Athlon X2 cpu on my motherboard which was previously running an AMD64 Sempron. Now I get an error about an unknown processor from the BIOS. I can't even boot to a CD or run the BIOS setup. How can I flash the BIOS from this position? - Grant First

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Flashing BIOS trouble

2007-08-09 Thread Norberto Bensa
Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha escrito: But that motherboard doesn't appear here: http://www.msicomputer.com/support/TechSupport.asp Perhaps there's no need for an update or there's no one available right now. Try contacting MSI directly. They use to be very friendly (just don't mention you

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to compile totem

2007-08-09 Thread Norberto Bensa
John covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha escrito: checking whether to compile the browser plugins... yes checking which gecko to use... configure: error: Gecko firefox not found Either disable nsplugin _or_ emerge firefox Regards, Norberto

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to compile totem

2007-08-09 Thread John covici
on Friday 08/10/2007 Norberto Bensa([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote John covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha escrito: checking whether to compile the browser plugins... yes checking which gecko to use... configure: error: Gecko firefox not found Either disable nsplugin _or_ emerge firefox But

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Flashing BIOS trouble

2007-08-09 Thread Grant
But that motherboard doesn't appear here: http://www.msicomputer.com/support/TechSupport.asp Perhaps there's no need for an update or there's no one available right now. Try contacting MSI directly. They use to be very friendly (just don't mention you run Linux) I found the update I

Re: [gentoo-user] tools to detect hardware

2007-08-09 Thread Chuanwen Wu
lshw is very detailed and it can even format the output to html or xml file.Just like: lshw -html my_html_file This function is very good!It let you find the information more easily. 2007/8/8, W.Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: lshw, along with lspci, lsusb and probably others. Dont forget the

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Flashing BIOS trouble

2007-08-09 Thread Grant
But that motherboard doesn't appear here: http://www.msicomputer.com/support/TechSupport.asp Perhaps there's no need for an update or there's no one available right now. Try contacting MSI directly. They use to be very friendly (just don't mention you run Linux) I found the