Re: [gentoo-user] sacked my rc.conf

2005-08-31 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 1. September 2005 08:16 schrieb ext Jason W Elliot: > I accidentally removed my rc.conf file (don't ask). emerge baselayout HTH... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | M

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

2005-08-31 Thread Nagatoro
Steve B wrote: On 9/1/05, *Matt Garman* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: [...] So, having said that, what window manager do you use, and why? I use gnome with enlightenment as the WM, nice and good looking setup. But... still I'm thinking about trying KDE for real.

[gentoo-user] sacked my rc.conf

2005-08-31 Thread Jason W Elliot
I accidentally removed my rc.conf file (don't ask). I'm not sure how to write a new one. Is there a good set of defaults to start with? Is there an easy way to recover the old one, or generate a new one? Please help! My configuration now sucks! Thanks in advance! --

Re: [gentoo-user] What is HIGHPTE option in kernel?

2005-08-31 Thread Frank Schafer
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 23:23 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > [quote] > Allocate 3rd-level pagetables from highmem (HIGHPTE) > > The VM uses one page table entry for each page of physical memory. > For systems with a lot of RAM, this can be wasteful of precious > low memory. Setting this option will put

Re: [gentoo-user] Adaptec AIC7xxx kernel problems?

2005-08-31 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 1. September 2005 04:13 schrieb ext Brett I. Holcomb: > I'm wondering if it's just me or is anyone else having problems. I am > running 2.6.11-r6 with no problems on a system with an Adaptec 39160 > card. I tried to go to 2.6.12-r6 and r9 but kept getting kernel panics on > boot. I

[gentoo-user] Re: modifying locally an ebuild

2005-08-31 Thread Moshe Kaminsky
> Fernando Canizo schreef: > > > This is the thing: in mutt you can flag a message as important (you > > got only one flag), also you have a 'ctrl-d' command that deletes a > > full thread. Sometimes threads get off-topic (an unconstructive > > flame > > for example) and when i realize that, a

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is the emerge history

2005-08-31 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 00:00:41 -0400 John Dangler wrote: > Nick~ > where is genlop? (can't locate and no man page, so I'm guessing I need to > emerge something to get it...) emerge genlop (if all else fails try the obvious LOL) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Which drivers to use for audio and video?

2005-08-31 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi Walter, I'm setting up the same thing, although I used the 64-bit Gentoo install CD. Why are you using 32-bit? As for the ATI driver I set it up quickly today using the radeon driver from xorg-x11. I've got an Asus PCI-E 16x card. It worked fine the first time at 1280x1024 at 16-bit. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is the emerge history

2005-08-31 Thread Fernando Canizo
El 01/sep/2005 a las 01:00 -0300, John me decía: > Nick~ > where is genlop? (can't locate and no man page, so I'm guessing I need to > emerge something to get it...) Yes you need: $ eix genlop * app-portage/genlop Available versions: 0.30.2 ~0.30.3 Installed: no Homep

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is the emerge history

2005-08-31 Thread Matan Peled
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Jolet wrote: > good point. Isn't /var/log/emerge.log there anyway, and PORT_LOGDIR= only controls /var/log/portage/* ? - -- [Name ] :: [Matan I. Peled] [Location ] :: [Israel] [Public Key] :: [0xD6F42CA5]

RE: [gentoo-user] Where is the emerge history

2005-08-31 Thread John Dangler
Nick~ where is genlop? (can't locate and no man page, so I'm guessing I need to emerge something to get it...) Thanks John D -Original Message- From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 11:32 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-use

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is the emerge history

2005-08-31 Thread John Jolet
On Aug 31, 2005, at 10:41 PM, Nick Rout wrote: On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 22:30:56 -0500 John Jolet wrote: there's /var/log/emerge.log not necessarily, it depends whether you have specified a PORT_LOGDIR= in /etc/make.conf good point. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] workspace setups

2005-08-31 Thread John Dangler
As in - workspace1 | workspace2 | workspace3 | workspace4 (bottom right of the task bar in gnome desktop) I've figured out that if you open apps in one workspace, and then switch to another, those apps don't appear, which does give me some idea of the mechanics, but I'd like to customize what star

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE preferences

2005-08-31 Thread Norberto Bensa
Neil Bothwick wrote: > My best guess is that you didn't > emerge whichever component is responsible for this. I think it is kdebase-startkde -- Norberto Bensa 4544-9692 / 15-4190-6344 Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina pgpg6anO9YTZe.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is the emerge history

2005-08-31 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 22:30:56 -0500 John Jolet wrote: > there's /var/log/emerge.log not necessarily, it depends whether you have specified a PORT_LOGDIR= in /etc/make.conf > > On Aug 31, 2005, at 10:23 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org m

[gentoo-user] Which drivers to use for audio and video?

2005-08-31 Thread Walter Dnes
I've got a brand new AMD64, which I'm installing 32-bit Gentoo on. When setting up a system figuring out which drivers to build, my options are... Plan A) Boot Gentoo install CD and run "lsmod" to see which modules are loaded, so I know what to use. If The Gentoo install CD can't recognize so

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is the emerge history

2005-08-31 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
There is indeed.  Thanks very much. ++ kevinOn 8/31/05, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: there's /var/log/emerge.logOn Aug 31, 2005, at 10:23 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:> How can I find out the last few things I emerged?  I've tried the> docs, but I can't seem to find a helpful query, and > my

[gentoo-user] Emerge win fails -- what to do

2005-08-31 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
A second ebuild in the latest batch failed for me.  This time it's wine. Again, I'm not sure how to report such a thing; maybe someone could point me in the right direction.  Anyway, the tail end of the ebuild looks like:  Print Stylesheet//EN" jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/utils-0.6.14/docbook

Re: [gentoo-user] mldonkey wants a gui, [solved] -- where do the flags come from?

2005-08-31 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 11:00:17AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote > On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 18:51:26 +1000, Amphibian wrote: > > > Should I be explicitly declaring flag or -flag in the make.conf for > > every possible flag? > > That would be unworkable as flags are added or removed. It would also > over

[gentoo-user] libghoto2 emerge fails -- what to do?

2005-08-31 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
The latest ebuild of this library fails for me.   I'm not sure what to do, or even if this is the right place to post the info.  So I'm wondering what I should do next. The emerge output contains a lot of unusual stuff that looks like source code.  I don't generally see such stuff. The tail end lo

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is the emerge history

2005-08-31 Thread Nick Rout
genlop -l On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 20:23:24 -0700 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > How can I find out the last few things I emerged? I've tried the docs, but I > can't seem to find a helpful query, and > my attempts to browse my way to it have failed. > > My reason is that I've been trying to track down the

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is the emerge history

2005-08-31 Thread John Jolet
there's /var/log/emerge.log On Aug 31, 2005, at 10:23 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: How can I find out the last few things I emerged? I've tried the docs, but I can't seem to find a helpful query, and my attempts to browse my way to it have failed. My reason is that I've been trying to track do

[gentoo-user] Where is the emerge history

2005-08-31 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
How can I find out the last few things I emerged?  I've tried the docs, but I can't seem to find a helpful query, and my attempts to browse my way to it have failed. My reason is that I've been trying to track down the reasons why the latest ebuilds of libgphoto2 and of wine are failing, and in th

RE: [gentoo-user] workspace setups

2005-08-31 Thread W.Kenworthy
What do you mean by "workspace"??? - multiple desktops via the pager? BillK On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 22:32 -0400, John Dangler wrote: ... > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] workspace setups > > T -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How to work with etc-updates.

2005-08-31 Thread Mark Knecht
On 8/31/05, Jerry Turba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks everyone for your help. I will try using Marks rules and start > using dispatch-conf to be able to roll back any changes that don't seem > to work. > Jerry > Darn, that's scary! OK, if you're gonna follow someone as blind as me le me exp

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

2005-08-31 Thread Qiangning Hong
Bob Sanders wrote: > enlightenment E16. After messing with KDE, Gnome, Openbox, fluxbox, > flirting with XCFE and a few others, I came back to Enlightenment. As an XFCE user currently, I'm curious about what make you guys leave XFCE for other lightweight WMs? -- Qiangning Hong Registered Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] Adaptec AIC7xxx kernel problems?

2005-08-31 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Thursday 01 September 2005 04:13, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > I'm wondering if it's just me or is anyone else having problems. I am > running 2.6.11-r6 with no problems on a system with an Adaptec 39160 card. > I tried to go to 2.6.12-r6 and r9 but kept getting kernel panics on boot. > I have ano

[gentoo-user] I was wondering.....

2005-08-31 Thread timothy johnson
I had an idea for a display setup and was wondering if anyone had any idea on if its possible. I am currently using Gnome, and have four virtual desktops. My question is this... is it possible to have that same setup but have four other monitors that show those virtual display in a full screen mode

RE: [gentoo-user] workspace setups

2005-08-31 Thread John Dangler
Rats (I forgot to turn off mail on the win box) Sorry - I'm using gnome atm John D -Original Message- From: John Jolet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 10:25 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] workspace setups Those workspaces are

Re: [gentoo-user] workspace setups

2005-08-31 Thread John Jolet
Those workspaces are a feature of your windowmanager, not gentoo. Which window manager are you using? kde, or gnome, or what? On Wednesday 31 August 2005 17:20, JD ATL LP wrote: > My first email from my new gentoo laptop! > > I'm trying to figure out how these workspaces 'work'. > I want to setu

[gentoo-user] workspace setups

2005-08-31 Thread JD ATL LP
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 My first email from my new gentoo laptop! I'm trying to figure out how these workspaces 'work'. I want to setup one for business, and another for dev. e.g. in the business space, i'd have office apps, stock ticker, etc showing. in the dev space, i'd h

RE: [gentoo-user] nfs setup

2005-08-31 Thread John Dangler
Mike~ Thanks for the input. I'm going to emerge nfs-utils on the server and client now. I can't wait to get off this win machine! John -Original Message- From: Michael Crute [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 10:09 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: R

[gentoo-user] Adaptec AIC7xxx kernel problems?

2005-08-31 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I'm wondering if it's just me or is anyone else having problems. I am running 2.6.11-r6 with no problems on a system with an Adaptec 39160 card. I tried to go to 2.6.12-r6 and r9 but kept getting kernel panics on boot. I have another system I'm installing Gentoo on that has an Adaptec 2940uw o

Re: [gentoo-user] nfs setup

2005-08-31 Thread Michael Crute
On 8/31/05, John Dangler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm trying to get nfs setup between my gentoo boxes (both local)on the server, grep NFS /usr/src/linux/.config (on the server) returns:CONFIG_NFS_FS=mCONFIG_NFS_V3=yCONFIG_NFS_V4 is not setCONFIG_NFS_DIRECTIO is not set CONFIG_NFSD=mCONFIG_NFSD_V4

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

2005-08-31 Thread Holly Bostick
Steve B schreef: > On 9/1/05, *Matt Garman* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > > Before this gets into a flame war, let's just operate under the > assertion that the "best" window manager/desktop environment is > strictly a matter of personal preference. > > So, havin

Re: [gentoo-user] How to work with etc-updates.

2005-08-31 Thread Jerry Turba
Thanks everyone for your help. I will try using Marks rules and start using dispatch-conf to be able to roll back any changes that don't seem to work. Jerry Mark Knecht wrote: On 8/30/05, Jerry Turba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As I understand the process etc-update lists new configuratio

[gentoo-user] nfs setup

2005-08-31 Thread John Dangler
I'm trying to get nfs setup between my gentoo boxes (both local) on the server, grep NFS /usr/src/linux/.config (on the server) returns: CONFIG_NFS_FS=m CONFIG_NFS_V3=y CONFIG_NFS_V4 is not set CONFIG_NFS_DIRECTIO is not set CONFIG_NFSD=m CONFIG_NFSD_V4 is not set CONFIG_NFSD_TCP=y Are these setti

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

2005-08-31 Thread Bob Sanders
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 17:28:21 -0500 Matt Garman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So, having said that, what window manager do you use, and why? I > wouldn't trade the multitude of options availabe in Linux for > anything, but the choices can be overwhelming. > enlightenment E16. After messing wi

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with mysql

2005-08-31 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 18:04 -0500, Paul Maszy wrote: > > You shouldnt have restarted. > > mysql is already starting on boot up. It showing that many mysql > daemons is normal and ok. > > # /etc/init.d/mysql stop > --- You will probably get an error here, if everything happened as y

Re: [gentoo-user] extreme clock drift / openntpd won't sync

2005-08-31 Thread Matt Randolph
This is almost certainly a hardware problem. If it isn't a hardware problem, it is at least not distribution specific. This doesn't really belong in a Gentoo mailing list. That being said... Some rhetorical questions (in no particular order): Does the problem persist when you use Knoppix? Does

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with X100P clone

2005-08-31 Thread Andrew MacKenzie
+++ Walter Willis [gentoo-user] [Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 06:09:35PM -0500]: > i am change user asterisk for root and work fine > > is correct the change? It's possible you didn't add the "asterisk" user to the correct groups? I added asterisk to the "audio" and "dialout" groups. "dialout" is necess

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

2005-08-31 Thread Steve B
On 9/1/05, Matt Garman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Before this gets into a flame war, let's just operate under theassertion that the "best" window manager/desktop environment is strictly a matter of personal preference.So, having said that, what window manager do you use, and why?    I was in the sa

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

2005-08-31 Thread Fernando Canizo
El 31/ago/2005 a las 19:28 -0300, Matt me decía: > I've played with a lot of 'em, starting with fvwm, through window > maker, enlightenment 15 & 16, icewm, gnome, xfce, kde, blackbox... > I've been using Fluxbox for quite a while now. > > I want something that is fairly minimal/lightweight, but wi

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

2005-08-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 17:28:21 -0500, Matt Garman wrote: > So, having said that, what window manager do you use, and why? I > wouldn't trade the multitude of options availabe in Linux for > anything, but the choices can be overwhelming. KDE. I've tried others but always end up missing some feature

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE preferences

2005-08-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:45:17 +0100 (WEST), Jorge Almeida wrote: > > rm -fr ~/.kde3.4 > > cp -a ~/.kde3.3 ~/.kde3.4 > Nope. Nope what? Nope, it didn't work? nope you didn't try it? Your 3.3 preferences should have been transferred the first time you started 3.4, they were for me. My best guess i

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE preferences

2005-08-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:38:24 +0100 (WEST), Jorge Almeida wrote: > When kde started the first time, the wizard > showed its face and I told it to quit (didn't want to lose my > preferences, of course). You didn't have any preferences, that's why the wizard started. -- Neil Bothwick The program

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with X100P clone

2005-08-31 Thread Walter Willis
i am change user asterisk for root and work fine is correct the change? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with mysql

2005-08-31 Thread Paul Maszy
    You shouldnt have restarted.     mysql is already starting on boot up. It showing that many mysql daemons is normal and ok.     # /etc/init.d/mysql stop --- You will probably get an error here, if everything happened as you said. If not, your done.       kill -9 `ps -ef | grep mysql

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

2005-08-31 Thread Christoph Eckert
> Before this gets into a flame war, let's just operate under the > assertion that the "best" window manager/desktop environment is > strictly a matter of personal preference. yes it is. Mine is KDE. It eats hardware but I do not care. It's configurable and convenient, and I like the development

Re: [gentoo-user] extreme clock drift / openntpd won't sync

2005-08-31 Thread William Kenworthy
First add the line "tinker panic 0" to the top of ntp.conf (for ntpd, not openntp) This allows it to step when outside normal parameters. Otherwise it will register the time difference but wont try and correct it. If it is drifting faster than the allowable correction rate, it will slowly move to

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

2005-08-31 Thread John Jolet
I've pretty much settled on kde. I like the speed and functionality. I find gnome a little slow (on my hardware) and not quite as stable. I really like xfce, but find certain configuration tasks more difficult than in kde. On Aug 31, 2005, at 5:28 PM, Matt Garman wrote: Before this ge

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE preferences

2005-08-31 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:07:45 +0100 (WEST), Jorge Almeida wrote: I had the disastrous idea of trying to update kde 3.3 to 3.4 using the new split ebuilds. I tried to reduce bloat by emerging only what I thought I really use. Now I have lost ALL my norma

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE preferences

2005-08-31 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Christoph Eckert wrote: I had the disastrous idea of trying to update kde 3.3 to 3.4 using the new split ebuilds. I tried to reduce bloat by emerging only what I thought I really use. Now I have lost ALL my normal user's  preferences! AFAIK Gentoo allows to run two KD

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE preferences

2005-08-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:07:45 +0100 (WEST), Jorge Almeida wrote: > I had the disastrous idea of trying to update kde 3.3 to 3.4 using the > new split ebuilds. I tried to reduce bloat by emerging only what I > thought I really use. Now I have lost ALL my normal user's > preferences! rm -fr ~/.k

[gentoo-user] Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

2005-08-31 Thread Matt Garman
Before this gets into a flame war, let's just operate under the assertion that the "best" window manager/desktop environment is strictly a matter of personal preference. So, having said that, what window manager do you use, and why? I wouldn't trade the multitude of options availabe in Linux for

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE preferences

2005-08-31 Thread Christoph Eckert
> I had the disastrous idea of trying to update kde 3.3 to 3.4 using > the new split ebuilds. I tried to reduce bloat by emerging only what > I thought I really use. Now I have lost ALL my normal user's >  preferences! AFAIK Gentoo allows to run two KDE versions independently. ~/.kde is prob

[gentoo-user] extreme clock drift / openntpd won't sync

2005-08-31 Thread Matt Garman
My system clock is running extremely fast... so fast that even openntpd (apparently) can't catch up! I tried (oh how I tried) to get the "regular" ntp package to work. I could correct my clock using ntpdate, but I could never get ntpd to sync with any servers (see notes (*) below). So I got fed

[gentoo-user] KDE preferences

2005-08-31 Thread Jorge Almeida
I had the disastrous idea of trying to update kde 3.3 to 3.4 using the new split ebuilds. I tried to reduce bloat by emerging only what I thought I really use. Now I have lost ALL my normal user's preferences! This is the kind of thing that can't be explained by a careless use of etc-update.

Re: [gentoo-user] acpid

2005-08-31 Thread Mauro Faccenda
John Dangler wrote: > I got acpid emerged, started, and added to run level, but when I go into > gnome and mouse over the battery (the default applet) it says: > System is running on battery power > 0 minutes (0%) remain > > the laptop is plugged into the AC. what "acpi -V" returns? []'s

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with mysql

2005-08-31 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 22:37 +0100, Tim Igoe wrote: > > Michael Sullivan wrote: > > I am having trouble with /etc/init.d/mysql. I rebooted my system, and > > when it finished rebooting I tried to connect to the mysql daemon and > > failed. I looked in /var/log/mysql: There was a file there calle

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with mysql

2005-08-31 Thread Tim Igoe
Michael Sullivan wrote: > I am having trouble with /etc/init.d/mysql. I rebooted my system, and > when it finished rebooting I tried to connect to the mysql daemon and > failed. I looked in /var/log/mysql: There was a file there called > mysql.err. The contents were: > > 050831 15:47:29 mys

Re: [gentoo-user] Pinnacle MediaCenter 300i

2005-08-31 Thread Oliver Friedrich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Luigi Pinna wrote: > Has someone this card? I tried to configure it but no chance :-( I > found a pair letters about patch but for old kernels. I cannot > access to device. I don't know what I need exactly: the device (dvb > and analog) are in /dev An

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with mysql

2005-08-31 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 17:20 -0400, Eric Crossman wrote: > On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 15:52 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > I am having trouble with /etc/init.d/mysql. I rebooted my system, and > > when it finished rebooting I tried to connect to the mysql daemon and > > failed. I looked in /var/log

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with mysql

2005-08-31 Thread Eric Crossman
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 15:52 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > I am having trouble with /etc/init.d/mysql. I rebooted my system, and > when it finished rebooting I tried to connect to the mysql daemon and > failed. I looked in /var/log/mysql: There was a file there called > mysql.err. The content

[gentoo-user] Pinnacle MediaCenter 300i

2005-08-31 Thread Luigi Pinna
Has someone this card? I tried to configure it but no chance :-( I found a pair letters about patch but for old kernels. I cannot access to device. I don't know what I need exactly: the device (dvb and analog) are in /dev Any tip? Thanks, Luigi -- Public key GPG(0x073A0960) on http://keyserver.

[gentoo-user] Trouble with mysql

2005-08-31 Thread Michael Sullivan
I am having trouble with /etc/init.d/mysql. I rebooted my system, and when it finished rebooting I tried to connect to the mysql daemon and failed. I looked in /var/log/mysql: There was a file there called mysql.err. The contents were: 050831 15:47:29 mysqld started 050831 15:47:30 Can't star

Re: [gentoo-user] modifying locally an ebuild

2005-08-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 16:06:17 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > > When you think about it, the very name "overlay" indicates that this > > is how it should work. > > I suppose there's no way to avoid there being *some* issue-- this way, > you have to actively watch Portage to see if today is perhaps

Re: [gentoo-user] cpu flags / USE flags / compiler flags

2005-08-31 Thread capsel
please check it this is a flash animations proble. if it is then set XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=yes -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] cpu flags / USE flags / compiler flags

2005-08-31 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 31 August 2005 19:21, Mark Knecht wrote: > On 8/31/05, Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > before you panic, have you tried the firefox-bin packet with the same > > site? > > > > Maybe nspluginviewer is the culprit? I had to kill it so many times I > > can'

Re: [gentoo-user] What is HIGHPTE option in kernel?

2005-08-31 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Ow Mun Heng wrote: > [quote] > Allocate 3rd-level pagetables from highmem (HIGHPTE) > > The VM uses one page table entry for each page of physical memory. > For systems with a lot of RAM, this can be wasteful of precious > low memory. Setting this option will put user-space page table > entries in

Re: [gentoo-user] thunderbird stopped opening firefox windows...

2005-08-31 Thread Kevin Hanson
Qiangning Hong wrote: Antoine wrote: When I click on an email now nothing happens. It was fine and dandy for a while but now nothing... anyone got any ideas? Add the following line into prefs.js of your Thunderbird profile: user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "firefox");

Re: [gentoo-user] rc script opacity

2005-08-31 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: > On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 16:23:33 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > > >> The 'command prompt' referred to is probably the bootloader command >> prompt (I don't remember how LiLO does it, but in GRUB you can >> edit menu entries on the fly and boot from the edited entry). > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] modifying locally an ebuild

2005-08-31 Thread Holly Bostick
Fernando Canizo schreef: >> Is this a behaviour that a significant portion of the mutt userbase >> might want? Or are you just weird ;) ? > > > Well, you use thunderbird, so maybe you're more like a "mouse user". Yes, but I'm getting over it. Also I need to know how to work with at least one C

Re: [gentoo-user] cpu flags / USE flags / compiler flags

2005-08-31 Thread Mark Knecht
On 8/31/05, Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > before you panic, have you tried the firefox-bin packet with the same site? > > Maybe nspluginviewer is the culprit? I had to kill it so many times I can't > remember. Thanks Volker. I'll give it a try. I'm still interested

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcpcd 2.0.0 - Boot process hangs

2005-08-31 Thread Christoph Daldrup
Am 31.08.2005 18:44 schrieb Sergio Polini: > I emerged -uvDN world on Sunday and dhcpcd 2.0.0 is masked. According to , it isn't anymore, at least for amd64, x86 and sparc. ;) On my local system, it ist masked through the package.mask file n

Re: [gentoo-user] cpu flags / USE flags / compiler flags

2005-08-31 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Hi, before you panic, have you tried the firefox-bin packet with the same site? Maybe nspluginviewer is the culprit? I had to kill it so many times I can't remember. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Nagios

2005-08-31 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
Thank you all; I found the error on apache config; I had allowed the /usr/nagio/share directory and it work; I will give a look at jffnms as well to check it out On 8/31/05, Bruno Lustosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had an issue with Nagios on Gentoo, and it the ebuild putting the config >

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcpcd 2.0.0 - Boot process hangs

2005-08-31 Thread Sergio Polini
Christoph Daldrup: > I've recently done an "emerge -tuvD world" and dhcpcd was updated > from version dhcpcd-1.3.22_p4-r11 to version 2.0.0. The emerge went > fine, no error message, no note to update config-files, everything > seemed to be fine. > > But at the next reboot, I wasn't able to get an

RE: RESOLVED: RE: [gentoo-user] power management on laptop

2005-08-31 Thread John Dangler
Nick~ so far, here is what's in my /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 file - ac b44 battery button fan processor thermal ipw2100 ieee80211 ieee80211_crypt ieee80211_crypt_wep ieee80211_crypt_ccmp ieee80211_crypt_tkip nvidia #iptables -- This BORKS ipw right now... 8/29 : JD John -Original

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/local - one thing led to another

2005-08-31 Thread Michael Crute
On 8/31/05, John J. Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks - I'll do this when I get home tonight. But a question remains.Why didn't it work even if not the proper way of doing it? Why did a restart of the /etc/init.d/local script work properly? I really couldn't say why it didn't work unless per

[gentoo-user] dhcpcd 2.0.0 - Boot process hangs

2005-08-31 Thread Christoph Daldrup
Hello Gentoo-Users, I've recently done an "emerge -tuvD world" and dhcpcd was updated from version dhcpcd-1.3.22_p4-r11 to version 2.0.0. The emerge went fine, no error message, no note to update config-files, everything seemed to be fine. But at the next reboot, I wasn't able to get an IP adress

Re: RESOLVED: RE: [gentoo-user] power management on laptop

2005-08-31 Thread Nick Smith
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 12:03 -0400, John Dangler wrote: > I looked around a little more and found someone who had a box very similar > to mine and used the autoload settings from that article... All of the > applets are showing properly in gnome now! > > Thanks to you and Holly for the patient rep

[gentoo-user] cpu flags / USE flags / compiler flags

2005-08-31 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I've just recently (the last 4 or 5 days) been experiencing some lock-ups on Firefox. As far as I can tell these seem to come only when visiting certain web pages that have more multimedia content. When Firefox locks up it can be killed from a terminal and restarted. There are no messages in

RESOLVED: RE: [gentoo-user] power management on laptop

2005-08-31 Thread John Dangler
Renat~ Good Call!! I found a little block of text on tux where someone had apm loaded by default, and, after adding acpi, had nothing working. As I read through the text, the poster mentioned looking in modules.autoload.d several times and seeing nothing being added (they didn't add anything thems

Re: [gentoo-user] rc script opacity

2005-08-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 16:23:33 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > The 'command prompt' referred to is probably the bootloader command > prompt (I don't remember how LiLO does it, but in GRUB you can edit menu > entries on the fly and boot from the edited entry). It's the normal (root) shell prompt. You

Re: [gentoo-user] Nagios

2005-08-31 Thread Bruno Lustosa
I had an issue with Nagios on Gentoo, and it the ebuild putting the config file in the wrong directory. Check this out: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103060HTH,-- Bruno Lustosa, aka Lofofora  | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Network Administrator/Web Programmer | ICQ: 1406477Rio de Jane

[gentoo-user] Re: Nagios

2005-08-31 Thread James
Allan Spagnol Comar gmail.com> writes: > I was wondering if someone can help running a nagios on a gentoo sever. Hello Allan, You might want to consider 'jffnms' as it has many more feaures than nagios. it's in portage, currently masked. YMMV James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Nagios

2005-08-31 Thread John Jolet
what's in the /var/log/httpd/error_log for that attempt that fails? -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Finding other machines on the network

2005-08-31 Thread Holly Bostick
James schreef: > Holly Bostick planet.nl> writes: >>> James schreef: >>> Say 'Hello, to my little friend' >>> >>> arpscan >>> >>> >>> http://ish.cx/~jason/arpscan/ >>> >>> >>> Sure would be nice if is was ported to an ebuild.. >> >> Some reason you can't submit one to b.g.o (if that hasn

[gentoo-user] What is HIGHPTE option in kernel?

2005-08-31 Thread Ow Mun Heng
[quote] Allocate 3rd-level pagetables from highmem (HIGHPTE) The VM uses one page table entry for each page of physical memory. For systems with a lot of RAM, this can be wasteful of precious low memory. Setting this option will put user-space page table entries in high memory. [/quote] I have 1.

Re: [gentoo-user] Nagios

2005-08-31 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
Yep; every one has reading and executing permitions on all nagios tree (snip) On 8/31/05, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > does apache have read-access to the nagios sub? I've done nagios on redhat, > and will hopefully be doing it on gentoo soon. > On Wednesday 31 August 2005 10:02,

Re: [gentoo-user] power management on laptop

2005-08-31 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:40:46 -0400 "John Dangler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do I tell whether my laptop supports acpi or apm? > > I'm sorry to keep throwing this up right now, but lack of experience > begs more questions. I've found a lot of information about this box > (dell inspiron 8600

Re: [gentoo-user] booting into single mode

2005-08-31 Thread Philip Webb
050831 Bert Buchholz wrote: > On Wed 31.08 09:25, Philip Webb wrote: >> Is it still possible to boot into 'single' mode, >> ie directly into a no-login root system (for emergencies) ? > You can always do that by appending init=/bin/sh to the kernel line This gets the same result as 'append="emerge

[gentoo-user] WEP woes

2005-08-31 Thread Nick Smith
Im having a heck of a time getting wep to work with either iwconfig or wpa_supplicant, ive followed the how-to, read over the wiki pages, and looked at the example file in /etc and i still cannot get it to let me connect with WEP, i can see the AP, get the freg/voltage etc, but i cant get an ip fro

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Finding other machines on the network

2005-08-31 Thread Eric Crossman
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 14:50 +, James wrote: > Holly Bostick planet.nl> writes: > > > > James schreef: > > > > Say 'Hello, to my little friend' > > > > arpscan > > > > http://ish.cx/~jason/arpscan/ > > > > Sure would be nice if is was ported to an ebuild.. > > > Some reason you can't

Re: [gentoo-user] Nagios

2005-08-31 Thread John Jolet
does apache have read-access to the nagios sub? I've done nagios on redhat, and will hopefully be doing it on gentoo soon. On Wednesday 31 August 2005 10:02, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: > I was wondering if someone can help running a nagios on a gentoo sever. > > I had emerged Apache and nagios; >

[gentoo-user] Nagios

2005-08-31 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
I was wondering if someone can help running a nagios on a gentoo sever. I had emerged Apache and nagios; I edited commonapache.conf putting the following lines: ScriptAlias /nagios/cgi-bin/ /usr/nagios/sbin/ Alias /nagios/ /usr/nagios/share/ AllowOverride None Options ExecCGI F

Re: [gentoo-user] Please point me to the doco on an nVidia install

2005-08-31 Thread Andrew Lowe
Christoph Gysin wrote: Andrew Lowe wrote: I've managed to build up a machine that uses an nVidia nforce2 chipset. I'm now in the process of installing the nVidia drivers. The problem is that I'm sure I've come across doco that describes what to do but for the life of me I can't remember w

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Finding other machines on the network

2005-08-31 Thread James
Holly Bostick planet.nl> writes: > James schreef: > > Say 'Hello, to my little friend' > > arpscan > > http://ish.cx/~jason/arpscan/ > > Sure would be nice if is was ported to an ebuild.. > Some reason you can't submit one to b.g.o (if that hasn't been done > already)? Hello Holly, I'

Re: [gentoo-user] power management on laptop

2005-08-31 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 10:40 -0400, John Dangler wrote: > How do I tell whether my laptop supports acpi or apm? > > I'm sorry to keep throwing this up right now, but lack of experience begs > more questions. I've found a lot of information about this box (dell > inspiron 8600) from googling, forum

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