Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Java Version

2007-08-27 Thread Abraham Marín Pérez
Thufir escribió: On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 13:41:49 +0200, Abraham Marín Pérez wrote: How do I get the plugin into Firefox? I have the USE flag in place, and a 32 and 64 bit plugin appears available, but still nothing shows for about:plugins. The fetch restriction appears when

Re: [gentoo-user] no shorewall

2007-08-27 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, W.Kenworthy wrote: No problems on multiple systems built using oldconfig and not rebuilding iptables. OK, that means it's not some problem related with gentoo-sources patches. In the kernel I turn everything on by default and build it modular - this might be the cause

Re: [gentoo-user] building a box for Gentoo (update)

2007-08-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Philip Webb, OTOH, I do have a couple of words of caution about the Motherboard. The new Intel chipsets do not provide an IDE controller so motherboard manufacturers have to go get a 3rd party IDE/PATA controller if they want that support on their Intel motherboards. My new HDD

Re: [gentoo-user] dependencies from eclass and from ebuild

2007-08-27 Thread David Bonnafous
Hi, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Friday 24 August 2007 18:24:33 David Bonnafous wrote: I'm working to get a stable portage overlay to keep ebuild and files I used to build my system. But even if I keep the ebuild and all the files needed, the command emerge --sync

Re: [gentoo-user] cdrom and usb automounting problem..

2007-08-27 Thread purple
ummm, anyone there who tried to help, just to let you know problem is solved with this morning's emerge -NDuva world where new udev release (115) apeared..i just casualy pluged stick and it was instanty automounted on fstab defined point (/mnt/usb) as well as a cdrom with same instant mounting few

Re: [gentoo-user] dependencies from eclass and from ebuild

2007-08-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 24 August 2007, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Friday 24 August 2007 18:49:38 Alan McKinnon wrote: Sounds like you want to keep the old eclass around inside the overlay and let portage update ${PORTDIR}/eclass/* as it sees fit? I have this setup, I simply created an eclass

Re: [gentoo-user] building a box for Gentoo (update)

2007-08-27 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Montag 27 August 2007 05:44:55 schrieb Philip Webb: 070826 Aaron Clark wrote: On 20-Aug-07, at 3:06 PM, Philip Webb wrote: (1bd) The mobo listed is described on the ASUS site under 'VGA' as Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3100 integrated High-definition video processing with

Re: [gentoo-user] no shorewall

2007-08-27 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, 26 Aug 2007, David Snider wrote: Anybody managed to get shorewall working with gentoo-sources 2.6.22-r5? I upgraded from 2.6.20, and there went the firewall. I used oldconfig I recently updated to 2.6.22-r5. Shorewall seems to be working great. No errors

Re: [gentoo-user] Merlin XU870

2007-08-27 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Montag 27 August 2007 07:52:35 schrieb Michael Gisbers: Am Sonntag 26 August 2007 schrieb Florian Philipp: Am Sonntag 26 August 2007 21:53:47 schrieb Michael Gisbers: Am Samstag 25 August 2007 schrieb Florian Philipp: Am Mittwoch 22 August 2007 17:31:33 schrieb Florian Philipp:

Re: [gentoo-user] possible MBR corruption?

2007-08-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 22:29:58 +0200, Marc Joliet wrote: Yeah, I should have set noauto the instant I found out about it. Any other recommended mount options? Right now they are defaults,noauto,user_xattr 1 2 The trouble with using noauto is that sooner or later you will forget to mount /boot

[gentoo-user] Re: building a box for Gentoo (update)

2007-08-27 Thread James
Florian Philipp f.philipp at addcom.de writes: If you buy new drives, buy SATA. Although IDE is fast enough for optical drives, the cables block the airflow in your case and with SATA you don't need to think about hdparm tuning, jumpers and such like. Sata has one property that is

Re: [gentoo-user] dependencies from eclass and from ebuild

2007-08-27 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 27 August 2007 10:58:02 Alan McKinnon wrote: If I switch to paludis, is it relatively[1] easy to revert back to portage in the event of $UNKNOWN_REASON? (I'm really just looking for a yes or no here) [SNIP] [1] 'relative' is a relative term :-) If it's a similar order of magnitude

Re: [gentoo-user] no shorewall

2007-08-27 Thread David Snider
Jorge Almeida wrote: On Sun, 26 Aug 2007, David Snider wrote: Anybody managed to get shorewall working with gentoo-sources 2.6.22-r5? I upgraded from 2.6.20, and there went the firewall. I used oldconfig I recently updated to 2.6.22-r5. Shorewall seems to be

Re: [gentoo-user] dependencies from eclass and from ebuild

2007-08-27 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 27 August 2007 10:39:25 David Bonnafous wrote: After a sync (see below what and how) when I try to re-merge a package (same version) and emerge tell me that there is a dependency not satified I would like to know where this dependency come from. Because this is a new dependency,

[gentoo-user] Default group for users

2007-08-27 Thread Mick
Hi All, I have a box which until recently had only one user. When I created this user as e.g. user_name1 his home became owned by user_name1:users. This cascaded to directories below /home/user_name1. No directory called user_name1 was created at the time. More recently, I created a new

Re: [gentoo-user] possible MBR corruption?

2007-08-27 Thread Mick
On Monday 27 August 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote: Alternatively, ditch a separate /boot altogether, it really isn't needed with modern hardware. Please tell us more. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] The big clean up

2007-08-27 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 27 August 2007 03:28:34 W.Kenworthy wrote: Some files did turn out to be from currently installed packages (curl, gnuplot, glade, ...) that revdep-rebuild didnt pick up - a bit of a worry ... Probably the most reliable version of revdep-rebuild currently in the tree is in gentoolkit

Re: [gentoo-user] possible MBR corruption?

2007-08-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Mick, Alternatively, ditch a separate /boot altogether, it really isn't needed with modern hardware. Please tell us more. A separate /boot is to get round BIOS limitation that prevent accessing beyond the first so many cylinders (1024?) of a drive, so it was essential to have the

Re: [gentoo-user] Default group for users

2007-08-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 27 August 2007, Mick wrote: Hi All, I have a box which until recently had only one user. When I created this user as e.g. user_name1 his home became owned by user_name1:users. This cascaded to directories below /home/user_name1. No directory called user_name1 was created at the

Re: [gentoo-user] dependencies from eclass and from ebuild

2007-08-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 27 August 2007, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Monday 27 August 2007 10:58:02 Alan McKinnon wrote: If I switch to paludis, is it relatively[1] easy to revert back to portage in the event of $UNKNOWN_REASON? (I'm really just looking for a yes or no here) [SNIP] [1] 'relative' is

Re: [gentoo-user] possible MBR corruption?

2007-08-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 27 August 2007, Mick wrote: On Monday 27 August 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote: Alternatively, ditch a separate /boot altogether, it really isn't needed with modern hardware. Please tell us more. Many many many years ago, back in the dark days of small drives and broken BIOSes, we

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't install Gentoo on Dell Inspiron 530

2007-08-27 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 23:22:56 -0400 Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that I have a working keyboard and a busybox shell, I'm trying to mount a USB key. I did... mknod /dev/sda b 8 0 mknod /dev/sda1 b 8 1 ...inserted a USB key, and tried mounting it. dmesg indicates that

Re: [gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant+ndiswrapper, Dell E1505, Broadcom 4311 wireless problem

2007-08-27 Thread Willie Wong
The following lines worries me a bit. On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 12:16:23AM -0400, Penguin Lover Lingyun Yang squawked: Starting AP scan (specific SSID) Scan SSID - hexdump_ascii(len=6): 41 50 54 32 32 42 APT22B Trying to get current scan results first

[gentoo-user] Shutting down WLAN and network

2007-08-27 Thread Florian Philipp
Hi! I've already tried my luck on gentoo-laptop but that list seems to be dead. Is there a neat and easy way to shut down the ethernet and WLAN adapters of my notebook when I don't need them? Thanks in advance! Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutting down WLAN and network

2007-08-27 Thread Michael Gisbers
Am Montag 27 August 2007 schrieb Florian Philipp: Hi! I've already tried my luck on gentoo-laptop but that list seems to be dead. Is there a neat and easy way to shut down the ethernet and WLAN adapters of my notebook when I don't need them? Hi, it's me again ;-) Do you want to shut them

[gentoo-user] [solved] Re: gensplash problem with X

2007-08-27 Thread Marc Blumentritt
Marc Blumentritt schrieb: Hi, when I boot my new system with gensplash, the console is OK up until X is started via gdm. Afterward all consoles are smeared and broken. Starting X via startx results in a similar problem plus X is not starting. I try to give you all relevant data in the hopes

Re: [gentoo-user] Default group for users

2007-08-27 Thread Mick
On Monday 27 August 2007, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Montag, 27. August 2007 schrieb ext Mick: I have a box which until recently had only one user. When I created this user as e.g. user_name1 his home became owned by user_name1:users. This cascaded to directories below /home/user_name1. No

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutting down WLAN and network

2007-08-27 Thread Noud Aldenhoven
On 8/27/07, Michael Gisbers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Montag 27 August 2007 schrieb Florian Philipp: Hi! I've already tried my luck on gentoo-laptop but that list seems to be dead. Is there a neat and easy way to shut down the ethernet and WLAN adapters of my notebook when I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Default group for users

2007-08-27 Thread Mick
On Monday 27 August 2007, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 27 August 2007, Mick wrote: Hi All, I have a box which until recently had only one user. When I created this user as e.g. user_name1 his home became owned by user_name1:users. This cascaded to directories below

Re: [gentoo-user] no shorewall

2007-08-27 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, David Snider wrote: Here's my .config Thanks, David. Your configuration works for me. Meanwhile, I ended up by selecting all modules in my former config, even those that are plainly irrelevant (according to the help in menuconfig) and shorewall now starts OK. I just

Re: [gentoo-user] possible MBR corruption?

2007-08-27 Thread Mick
On Monday 27 August 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 22:29:58 +0200, Marc Joliet wrote: Yeah, I should have set noauto the instant I found out about it. Any other recommended mount options? Right now they are defaults,noauto,user_xattr 1 2 The trouble with using noauto is

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutting down WLAN and network

2007-08-27 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Montag 27 August 2007 19:45:47 schrieb Noud Aldenhoven: On 8/27/07, Michael Gisbers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Montag 27 August 2007 schrieb Florian Philipp: Hi! I've already tried my luck on gentoo-laptop but that list seems to be dead. Is there a neat and easy way to

Re: [gentoo-user] no shorewall

2007-08-27 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Jorge Almeida wrote: Meanwhile, I ended up by selecting all modules in my former config, even those that are plainly irrelevant (according to the help in menuconfig) and shorewall now starts OK. I just wish I were any wiser, which I'm not. Sure you are. You've learned that shorewall sets up

Re: [gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant issues

2007-08-27 Thread Eric Martin
What pid does it get when you stop the process and start a new one; 5872 or is that only when you first start up? I had a problem similar to that a while ago but I haven't used my wireless card in ages... On 8/22/07, Daniel V. Cowsill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use wpa_supplicant with madwifi

Re: [gentoo-user] possible MBR corruption?

2007-08-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 27 August 2007, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] possible MBR corruption?': Alternatively, ditch a separate /boot altogether, it really isn't needed with modern hardware. Unless you want to use LVM. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-.

Re: [gentoo-user] Java Version

2007-08-27 Thread sean
Abraham Marín Pérez wrote: The instructions on Gentoo's site differ a bit from the actual results. eselect java-nsplugin list results as below Available 32-bit Java browser plugins Available 64-bit Java browser plugins No numbered options as to choose one. I am on AMD64 and using the 64 bit

Re: [gentoo-user] possible MBR corruption?

2007-08-27 Thread Dave Jones
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote on 27/08/07 22:52: On Monday 27 August 2007, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] possible MBR corruption?': Alternatively, ditch a separate /boot altogether, it really isn't needed with modern hardware. Unless you want to use LVM.

Re: [gentoo-user] possible MBR corruption?

2007-08-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 15:52:39 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Alternatively, ditch a separate /boot altogether, it really isn't needed with modern hardware. Unless you want to use LVM. In which case it's just as easy to use a small root partition, including /boot, /lib, /bin etc. and

Re: [gentoo-user] no shorewall

2007-08-27 Thread William Kenworthy
Checking the obvious: you have gone through and manually checked that the modules are still being built? There has been some renaming going on within netfilter that just using oldconfig misses a few (leaves them unselected, but didnt ask if I wanted them built). Not sure which kernel versions

[gentoo-user] [maybe solved] Can't install Gentoo on Dell Inspiron 530

2007-08-27 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 11:01:09PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote I got a shiny new Dell Inspiron from the PC fairy. Windows Vista works OK (at least good enough for Windows). It does not want to be formattedg. I insert the latest minimal install CD, and things start off OK at the beginning of

[gentoo-user] Re: FQDN v. localhost

2007-08-27 Thread Thufir
Here's what I did, but I didn't do all of the steps specified. Is this correct? I want to configure a FQDN for leafnode: localhost ~ # localhost ~ # localhost ~ # localhost ~ # cat /etc/conf.d/net # This blank configuration will automatically use DHCP for any net.* # scripts in

Re: [gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant issues

2007-08-27 Thread Dan Cowsill
On 8/27/07, Eric Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What pid does it get when you stop the process and start a new one; 5872 or is that only when you first start up? I had a problem similar to that a while ago but I haven't used my wireless card in ages... On 8/22/07, Daniel V. Cowsill [EMAIL

[gentoo-user] linux desktop search engines are ugly!

2007-08-27 Thread Shaochun Wang
Hi guys: I wouldn't like, but i have to say that all current available linux desktop search engines are rubbish. Keep reading, and you'll know why. 1. Beagle is full of buggy. Can you imagine what makes a software consumes five hundrend Megabits of memory? On my system, this beast consumes

Re: [gentoo-user] linux desktop search engines are ugly!

2007-08-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag, 28. August 2007, Shaochun Wang wrote: Hi guys: I wouldn't like, but i have to say that all current available linux desktop search engines are rubbish. Keep reading, and you'll know why. 1. Beagle is full of buggy. Can you imagine what makes a software consumes five hundrend

Re: [gentoo-user] linux desktop search engines are ugly!

2007-08-27 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting Shaochun Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED]: there is no useable desktop search engine for linux. That's the best thing about opensource!!! Code one yourself :-P This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutting down WLAN and network

2007-08-27 Thread Michael Gisbers
Am Montag 27 August 2007 schrieb Noud Aldenhoven: On 8/27/07, Michael Gisbers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Montag 27 August 2007 schrieb Florian Philipp: Hi! I've already tried my luck on gentoo-laptop but that list seems to be dead. Is there a neat and easy way to shut down