Re: [gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel

On 3/24/06, Teresa and Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lord Sauron wrote: > > >On 3/24/06, Teresa and Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>Gabriel Dain wrote: > >> > >> > >> > However, I don't know how to rebuild the kernel > > > > > >>># cd /usr/src/linux > >>> > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: two usb memory devices

On 3/24/06, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Christoph Eckert christeck.de> writes: > > > > > Sure, I can put manual entries in to fix this, but, isn't that what > > > udev and hal/ivman/dbus are support to do, automagically? Every time > > > I want to use 2 usb memory sticks on any computer, my

[gentoo-user] mpg123: Can't open /dev/dsp! SOLVED!

On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 11:11:58PM -0800, Chad Feller wrote > can your run something like "ls -l /bin > /dev/dsp" Thanks for that hint. I tried it, and it complained about the device being busy. I used lsof, and found a bunch of channels in use by mplayer. I last used mplayer a few days ago,

Re: [gentoo-user] Hosted server as distcc machine

On Friday 24 March 2006 13:25, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Hosted server as distcc machine': > > > > It's probably better to use distcc over ssh, using an ssh-agent > > > > and PKI authentication. > > > How would ssh and PKI be set up in > > > the workflow? It isn't m

[gentoo-user] FIXED Re: pikdev-0.7.1-r2

James tampabay.rr.com> writes: > Yes, it tried to compile, but failed on kdelibs, so now I'm > rebuilding kdelibs Rebuilding kdelibs allowed pikdev-0.7.1-r2 to be compiled and installed Thanks, James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] is it toast?

2006/3/24, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I would bet a write-protect switch got flipped.  Otherwise, yes, ithink you have to replace it.  I can't imagine how the other guy couldhave damaged it from your description of the events though. Neither can I actually.But I've tried it with Windows as w

Re: [gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel

[1]http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=tree [2]http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=7 [3]http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kernel-upgrade.xml [4]http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/genkernel.xml If you new to kernel compile and config, Dont hurry.

[gentoo-user] {OT} mythtv opinions

I'm thinking of setting up one of my new-to-me P3-500 desktops as a mythtv system. Has anyone tried it? Any drawbacks? Are there superior alternatives? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel

Lord Sauron wrote: >On 3/24/06, Teresa and Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Gabriel Dain wrote: >> >> >> However, I don't know how to rebuild the kernel >>># cd /usr/src/linux >>> >>> > >Know how to do that... > > > >>># make menuconfig >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Asian fonts in X/Mozilla

Quote in my /etc/fonts/fonts.conf Kochi Mincho <-- Japanese fonts AR PL SungtiL GB <-- Chinese AR PL Mingti2L Big5 <-- Chinese ＭＳ 明朝 <-- Maybe Chinese or Japanese Baekmuk Batang <-- Korean FreeSerif <-- As I know, this font has many language support. In your screenshot, Korean character seems

[gentoo-user] ieee1394 card - ports order

Can someone enlighten me how the ports on firewire card function? I have only one device that is using firewire (DV Camera) so I can test only on single port. I installed the ieee1394 card, it has two 6-pin ports and one 4-pin port. I have connected the Digital Camera to one of the 6-pin ports and

[gentoo-user] Re: two usb memory devices

Daniel da Veiga gmail.com> writes: > > I have (2) usb memory devices that both work fine with hal/ivman/dbus: > > /dev/sdb1 500576 6464494112 2% /media/usbdisk > > /dev/sda1 127716 3922123794 4% /media/usbdisk > > since they both get 'automoun

[gentoo-user] Re: two usb memory devices

Christoph Eckert christeck.de> writes: > > Sure, I can put manual entries in to fix this, but, isn't that what > > udev and hal/ivman/dbus are support to do, automagically? Every time > > I want to use 2 usb memory sticks on any computer, my only option is > > to manually edit the fstab? > shou

Re: [gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel

Lord Sauron wrote: Hah! Think I found my problem! Correct me if I'm wrong! I just was reading some documentation using KDE Help Centre and found this thing called APMD. I tried typing "apmd" into Konsole, and it said "No APM support in kernel." Does this mean this is going to be as easy as "

[gentoo-user] Re: pikdev-0.7.1-r2

Chad Feller unr.nevada.edu> writes: > > wget http://pikdev.free.fr/pikdev-0.7.1-r1.tar.gz does not work > Note, that the tarball won't be pikdev-0.7.1-r1.tar.gz or > pikdev-0.7.1-r2.tar.gz the r1, r2 ,etc is merely the ebuild, but the > tarball will most always be the same, in this cas

Re: [gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel

Hah! Think I found my problem! Correct me if I'm wrong! I just was reading some documentation using KDE Help Centre and found this thing called APMD. I tried typing "apmd" into Konsole, and it said "No APM support in kernel." Does this mean this is going to be as easy as "emerge apmd"? On 3/2

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: pikdev-0.7.1-r2

James wrote: Chad Feller unr.nevada.edu> writes: Interestingly enough, and although not listed on their download page, you can still wget http://pikdev.free.fr/pikdev-0.7.0.tar.gz successfully Yes, but wget http://pikdev.free.fr/pikdev-0.7.1-r1.tar.gz does not work Note,

[gentoo-user] GUI installer freezes, hard drive problem?

I'm trying to run the Gentoo GUI installer on a desktop of mine from the 2006.0 LiveCD. It freezes as soon as I click "Forward" to go to the "Partitioning" section. How can I figure out what's going on? Is there a test I can run on the hard drive to see if there's a hardware problem causing this

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: pikdev-0.7.1-r2

(courtesy of an FC2 src.rpm here: http://linuxelectronique.free.fr/download/fedora/2/SRPMS/pikdev-0.7.1-0.fdr.2.src.rpm if anyone is interested where it came from) Chad Feller wrote: Get it here: http://www.seismo.unr.edu/~feller/pikdev-0.7.1.tar.gz I'll leave it up for the night if anyo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: pikdev-0.7.1-r2

Get it here: http://www.seismo.unr.edu/~feller/pikdev-0.7.1.tar.gz I'll leave it up for the night if anyone else wants it. James wrote: Chad Feller unr.nevada.edu> writes: Interestingly enough, and although not listed on their download page, you can still wget http://pikdev.free.fr

Re: [gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel

On 3/24/06, Teresa and Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gabriel Dain wrote: > > >>However, I don't know how to rebuild the kernel > >> > >> > > > ># cd /usr/src/linux Know how to do that... > ># make menuconfig I don't see a file called "menuconfig" in here. Will this work? All I see (that lo

[gentoo-user] Re: pikdev-0.7.1-r2

Chad Feller unr.nevada.edu> writes: > > Interestingly enough, and although not listed on their download page, > you can still > > wget http://pikdev.free.fr/pikdev-0.7.0.tar.gz > > successfully Yes, but wget http://pikdev.free.fr/pikdev-0.7.1-r1.tar.gz does not work eix pikdev * dev-

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: two usb memory devices

> Sure, I can put manual entries in to fix this, but, isn't that what > udev and hal/ivman/dbus are support to do, automagically? Every time > I want to use 2 usb memory sticks on any computer, my only option is > to manually edit the fstab? shouldn't it be possible to create an udev rule to give

[gentoo-user] Re: two usb memory devices

Daniel da Veiga gmail.com> writes: > > I have (2) usb memory devices that both work fine with hal/ivman/dbus: > > /dev/sdb1 500576 6464494112 2% /media/usbdisk > > /dev/sda1 127716 3922123794 4% /media/usbdisk > > since they both get 'automoun

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: pikdev-0.7.1-r2

Interestingly enough, and although not listed on their download page, you can still wget http://pikdev.free.fr/pikdev-0.7.0.tar.gz successfully James wrote: Rumen Yotov qrypto.org> writes: Hi, Seems to be an issue with the 0.7.1 tarball, it's missing. Just tried pikdev-0.7.1-r2 and rec

[gentoo-user] Re: pikdev-0.7.1-r2

Rumen Yotov qrypto.org> writes: > Hi, > Seems to be an issue with the 0.7.1 tarball, it's missing. > Just tried pikdev-0.7.1-r2 and received the same error as you. > Could fetch 0.6.6a though. > Check the homepage directly, get tarball if possible and put it in > distfiles dir. Ah, well this v

Re: [gentoo-user] screen flickers/static

...SKIP... > > Michael Sullivan wrote: > > > > > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] > > > 661/741/760/761 PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter (prog-if 00 [VGA]) > > > Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems Unknown device 1b13 > > > Flags: 66MHz, medium devs

Re: [gentoo-user] pikdev-0.7.1-r2

On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 21:49 +, James wrote: > hello, > > Portage says it's available, and upon issuing > 'emerge -uDp world' is want to upgrade, but I get this error: > > emerge -uD pikdev > Calculating dependencies ...done! > emerge (1 of 1) dev-embedded/pikdev-0.7.1-r2 to / > Downloadin

Re: [gentoo-user] screen flickers/static

On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 14:15 -0500, Jeff wrote: > As root: > > X -configure > > This will attempt to detect your X hardware - mouse, keyboard, video, > monitor - and create a new temporary file called xorg.conf.new. You'll > then be able to edit and use this file to test X. You'll need to modify >

Re: [gentoo-user] two usb memory devices

On 3/24/06, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I have (2) usb memory devices that both work fine with hal/ivman/dbus: > > /dev/sdb1 500576 6464494112 2% /media/usbdisk > > /dev/sda1 127716 3922123794 4% /media/usbdisk > > since they both

[gentoo-user] pikdev-0.7.1-r2

hello, Portage says it's available, and upon issuing 'emerge -uDp world' is want to upgrade, but I get this error: emerge -uD pikdev Calculating dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 1) dev-embedded/pikdev-0.7.1-r2 to / Downloading http://pikdev.free.fr/pikdev-0.7.1.tar.gz --09:14:50-- http://p

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo froze after 25 days of being up

On 3/24/06, Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 060324 Mark Shields wrote:> I've had Gentoo on my home server for a little over a year now.> I've never had a problem with it outright freezing until recently.> Yesterday I was playing World of Warcraft on my home PC > I have a kvm switch so I had

[gentoo-user] two usb memory devices

Hello, I have (2) usb memory devices that both work fine with hal/ivman/dbus: /dev/sdb1 500576 6464494112 2% /media/usbdisk /dev/sda1 127716 3922123794 4% /media/usbdisk since they both get 'automounted as /media/usbdisk, I cannot have them bot

Re: [gentoo-user] CRON (Vixie) not working for local users ...

On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 14:17:35 -0600 "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chad Feller wrote: > > 2) Check your appropriate log file (I use sysklogd), so something > > like tail -f /var/log/syslog might reveal something of interest. > Nothing special, no errors and no sign of it runnin

It's Working. [Re: [gentoo-user] CRON (Vixie) not working for local users ...]

Chad Feller wrote: Curious. I just tested it on two of my Gentoo boxes. added myself to the cron group (gpasswd -a cron), then as my regular user ran "crontab -e" and entered */5 * * * * /usr/bin/mutt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -s 'test from user' Well ... it's work

Re: [gentoo-user] dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso - DMA related problem

On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 13:08 -0500, JimD wrote: > On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 08:49:09 -0700 > Joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've disable IDE ATAPI CD-ROM in the kernel but the DVD-drive wasn't > > recognized upon reboot; well I think I just have to wait till they fix > > it in the kernel :-/ > >

Re: [gentoo-user] CRON (Vixie) not working for local users ...

Haven't been able to reproduce your problem yet, but just out of curiosity: What version of cron are you running? I've got: # emerge vixie-cron -pv These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] sys-process/vixie-cron-4.1-r

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Newbie question : specific software version no more available

On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 20:58:18 +0100, Simon Kellett wrote: > This is one of the (few) things I do not like about Gentoo - sort of > *forced* upgrades. There are manual workarounds, but I think it would be > very friendly if I could flag packages as not-to-upgrade: the ebuild > (and dependencies) wou

Re: [gentoo-user] Asian fonts in X/Mozilla

On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 12:00:37PM -0500, Jeff wrote: > Hey all. Have a look at the *bottom* of this Google screen shot: > > http://home.comcast.net/~jmg_071769/images/borkedcharacters.jpg > If you just want to display the chinese characters, it should be easy. Just emerge some chinese font packa

Re: [gentoo-user] CRON (Vixie) not working for local users ...

Chad Feller wrote: Curious. I just tested it on two of my Gentoo boxes. added myself to the cron group (gpasswd -a cron), then as my regular user ran "crontab -e" and entered */5 * * * * /usr/bin/mutt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -s 'test from user' I just tried this (

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with domainname

On 3/19/06, JimD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > In order to get a proper FQDN, you need to set up three files: > > /etc/hosts, /etc/conf.d/hostanme, /etc/conf.d/domainname. > > > > I also have the same problems as you in past, and one day I found > > that the most tri

[gentoo-user] Re: screen flickers/static

JimD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I first installed Gentoo I was using the vesa driver until I > downloaded the NVidia driver. With the vesa driver I too had > flickers. However once I installed the Nvidia driver the problem went > away. If you do have NVidia then the Xorg "nv" driver may

[gentoo-user] Re: is it toast?

Martin S gmail.com> writes: > > Haven't had the oppurtunity to look for a switch (haven't seen one though) as > > it's home and I'm not.But no I can't repartition it as evident from earlier > mails in the thread. It's read-only :(Martin S If you've got partition magic or similar software,

Re: [gentoo-user] screen flickers/static

Thanks :) "Warning: Do not "just" change the values of these two monitor related variables without consulting the technical specifications of your monitor. Setting incorrect values lead to out-of-sync errors at best and smoked up screens at worst."

[gentoo-user] Re: How to tar?

"Michael Kintzios" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have move my /usr onto a different machine as part of a migration > exercise, but the partition in question will barely contain it. Is > there a way of running tar ... Why do you need to tar it up ? Is there a network connect between the 2 machi

Re: [gentoo-user] screen flickers/static

On 3/24/06, Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As root: > > X -configure > > This will attempt to detect your X hardware - mouse, keyboard, video, > monitor - and create a new temporary file called xorg.conf.new. You'll > then be able to edit and use this file to test X. You'll need to modify > xorg

Re: [gentoo-user] CRON (Vixie) not working for local users ...

kashani wrote: Hmmm I've never had to so more than add users to the cron group... is it possible that the crons are running, but that the scripts have path issues or something similar? No. I have tried echo commands, which should hit the user email, I have tried simple scripts that put a f

[gentoo-user] Re: Newbie question : specific software version no more available

sebastien Pastor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When i got all those scripts stabilized, i really wanted to keep > exactly same version of binaries. After installing a new server, i got > the surprise not being able to use ecasound-2.3.3, the only version > available is the 2.4.3. This is one of t

[gentoo-user] ftp connection refused

Hello everybody, I keep casting this fly, hoping for a strike ;0 For a crossover lan. Ping OK. route -n confirms net setup on *both* machines iftraf indicates activity on remote machine when ftp command issued. adding debug switch returns: servname not supported for ai_socktype. googling poin

Re: [gentoo-user] CRON (Vixie) not working for local users ...

Curious. I just tested it on two of my Gentoo boxes. added myself to the cron group (gpasswd -a cron), then as my regular user ran "crontab -e" and entered */5 * * * * /usr/bin/mutt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -s 'test from user' Just to get it to email me every five

Re: [gentoo-user] CRON (Vixie) not working for local users ...

Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > According to this document, it indicates my setup SHOULD be working. It does suggest creating a cron.allow and adding all members that are allowed to use cron to this file. I fail to see the reasoning of adding users to the cron group AND to this file, but that i

Re: [gentoo-user] CRON (Vixie) not working for local users ...

Renat Golubchyk wrote: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/cron-guide.xml BTW ... following this document explicity ... it is still not working. $ ps ax | grep cron 3469 ?Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/cron 3515 pts/0S+ 0:00 grep cron $ ls -ld /etc/cron* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12 Mar 24

Re: [gentoo-user] CRON (Vixie) not working for local users ...

Renat Golubchyk wrote: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/cron-guide.xml According to this document, it indicates my setup SHOULD be working. It does suggest creating a cron.allow and adding all members that are allowed to use cron to this file. I fail to see the reasoning of adding users to

Re: [gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel

Richard Fish wrote: On 3/24/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Then reboot to your 'Safe' kernel to make sure things work. Oh, and obviously, you should do this *before* starting any work on rebuilding or installing a new kernel... -Richard Also, something to keep in min

Re: [gentoo-user] Hosted server as distcc machine

> > > > Is there anything wrong with > > > > making a remote machine [a] distcc system? > > > > > > Not really, but you do need to realize that distcc doesn't guarantee > > > that jobs will be sent to the remote machines and will not prevent > > > jobs from being run locally. > > > > Good to know f

Re: [gentoo-user] screen flickers/static

As root: X -configure This will attempt to detect your X hardware - mouse, keyboard, video, monitor - and create a new temporary file called xorg.conf.new. You'll then be able to edit and use this file to test X. You'll need to modify xorg.conf.new to take advantage of your particular hardware so

Re: [gentoo-user] is it toast?

On Friday 24 March 2006 16:23, Martin S wrote: > Haven't had the oppurtunity to look for a switch (haven't seen one though) > as it's home and I'm not. > But no I can't repartition it as evident from earlier mails in the thread. > It's read-only :( > hm, I am not sure, but it is not possible for s

Re: [gentoo-user] Asian fonts in X/Mozilla

On Friday 24 March 2006 09:00, Jeff wrote: > Hey all. Have a look at the *bottom* of this Google screen shot: > > http://home.comcast.net/~jmg_071769/images/borkedcharacters.jpg > > How do I get those Asian characters to appear? > > TIA! > > -Jeff > Try adding "cjk" to your USE flags and doin

Re: [gentoo-user] CRON (Vixie) not working for local users ...

Hi! On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 10:27:01 -0600 "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have several local users on my machine that are members of the cron > group. Vixie-Cron runs as my cron agent. It is running. However, > when I setup jobs to run in the users crontab, they are NEVER > e

Re: [gentoo-user] CRON (Vixie) not working for local users ...

Chad Feller wrote: I haven't tried this on gentoo, but in general, and on other linux distros: from crontab(1): If the cron.allow file exists, then you must be listed therein in order to be allowed to use this command. If the cron.allow file does not exist but the cron

Re: [gentoo-user] screen flickers/static

On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 13:17 -0500, Jeff wrote: > You could try, as root: > > lspci and/or lspci -v > > Here's mine for example: > > # lspci > 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 945G/GZ/P/PL Express Memory > Controller Hub (rev 02) > 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 945G/GZ/P/PL Express

Re: [gentoo-user] screen flickers/static

Michael Sullivan wrote: I'm not sure. Is there a way of finding out the video card without opening the case and looking? We have no idea where the manual went.. emerge pciutils && lspci -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] screen flickers/static

You could try, as root: lspci and/or lspci -v Here's mine for example: # lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 945G/GZ/P/PL Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 02) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 945G/GZ/P/PL Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 02) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporatio

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: awk scripting

On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 16:15:09 +0100 (CET) Sascha Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: thanks. the function lenght seems not defined. but substr($0,2) works. That was a typo. Should of course be "length". sorry. I was in a hurry and didn't noticed t

Re: [gentoo-user] screen flickers/static

On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 12:54 -0500, JimD wrote: > On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 08:15:37 -0600 > Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > My wife has the same problem with her computer running Gentoo, but I > > generated the xorg.conf file from X -configure when I first installed > > Gentoo on

Re: [gentoo-user] Splash livecd-2006.0 not working [SOLVED]

On Friday 24 March 2006 17:19, Richard Fish wrote: > On 3/24/06, Bo Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > root (hd0,1) > > Filesystem type is reiserfs, partition type 0x83 > > kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 > > video=vesafb-tng:[EMAIL PROTECTED],mtrr,ywrap > > splash=verbose,theme:livecd-2006.0

Re: [gentoo-user] Sendmail virtusertable

Hiren Dave wrote: Yes, I have MX record. This is a virtuserable concept. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] @yahoo.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] entry in there and that means mails that are sent to admin and yahoo.com should go to root. Am I right? I do not think so. At least I do not believ

[gentoo-user] ebuild dependencies and the --tree switch

Hi, I'm trying to understand how ebuild dependencies work in gentoo. If I type: emerge -vpu --deep --tree kde-base/kdebase I see the package x11-themes/gnome-icon-theme-2.12.1 at one of the roots of the tree. The kdebase version is 3.5.1-r3. Firstly how can anything other than kde-base/kdebase b

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: core packages for a dual-boot system

THUFIR HAWAT wrote: I looked for menu.1st and couldn't find it :( That should be menu.lst, with a lower-case "L" rather than the number 1. In any case it's a symlink to grub.conf (on my systems anyway), so it doesn't really matter. delta ~ # ls -l /boot/grub/grub.conf /boot/grub/menu.lst -rw

Re: [gentoo-user] is it toast?

Richard Fish wrote: I would bet a write-protect switch got flipped. Otherwise, yes, i think you have to replace it. I can't imagine how the other guy could have damaged it from your description of the events though. -Richard You might want to try it on another computer before giving it

[gentoo-user] Asian fonts in X/Mozilla

Hey all. Have a look at the *bottom* of this Google screen shot: http://home.comcast.net/~jmg_071769/images/borkedcharacters.jpg How do I get those Asian characters to appear? TIA! -Jeff -- Jabba the Hutt: Bring me Solo and the Wookiee! They will all suffer for this outrage.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo froze after 25 days of being up

060324 Mark Shields wrote: > I've had Gentoo on my home server for a little over a year now. > I've never had a problem with it outright freezing until recently. > Yesterday I was playing World of Warcraft on my home PC > I have a kvm switch so I had WoW running on my main PC > while I was working

[gentoo-user] X.org 7 rules?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I've updated my X.org to X.org 7. I have a laptop with an ATI RADEON MOBILITY 9700 (r300 chip), and I've haeard before of NEW X.ORG DRIVERS, and how they'd pretty empower radeon cards. Well, I have no direct rendering yet. I wonder if some

Re: [gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel

On 3/24/06, Lord Sauron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However, I don't know how to rebuild the kernel, or do so enabling Others have covered the mechanics of building and installing the kernel. Just a couple of points to try to keep you out of trouble: 1. However you install the kernel (by which

Re: [gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel

On 3/24/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Then reboot to your 'Safe' kernel to make sure things work. Oh, and obviously, you should do this *before* starting any work on rebuilding or installing a new kernel... -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How about ieee 1394 was:USB TV / Video capture devices

On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 01:05 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 19:49:40 -0700 > Joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 14:40 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > > > I am unclear what you mean here. what is a "Analog to Digital S-VHS > > > converter." I suspect it has RCA an

Re: [gentoo-user] CRON (Vixie) not working for local users ...

I haven't tried this on gentoo, but in general, and on other linux distros: from crontab(1): If the cron.allow file exists, then you must be listed therein in order to be allowed to use this command. If the cron.allow file does not exist but the cron.deny file does exist

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: awk scripting

Hi, On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 08:49:22 -0600 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 24 March 2006 07:34, Sascha Lucas > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] OT: > awk scripting': > > I want the awk analogon for "cut -f2-", which prints fields #2 to > > #n. Is this po

Re: [gentoo-user] is it toast?

On 3/24/06, Martin S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Haven't had the oppurtunity to look for a switch (haven't seen one though) > as it's home and I'm not. > But no I can't repartition it as evident from earlier mails in the thread. > It's read-only :( I would bet a write-protect switch got flipped.

[gentoo-user] CRON (Vixie) not working for local users ...

Hello! I have several local users on my machine that are members of the cron group. Vixie-Cron runs as my cron agent. It is running. However, when I setup jobs to run in the users crontab, they are NEVER executed. Not once, not ever! It seems that the ONLY jobs that run are via /etc/cron*

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo froze after 25 days of being up

That may or may not yield anything useful, depending on which logger you are using (as some don't write immediately). Rafael Bugajewski wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 24.03.2006 um 15:56 schrieb Mark Shields: s there anyway to find out why it froze? Check the kerne

Re: [gentoo-user] Splash livecd-2006.0 not working

On 3/24/06, Bo Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > root (hd0,1) > Filesystem type is reiserfs, partition type 0x83 > kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 video=vesafb-tng:[EMAIL PROTECTED],mtrr,ywrap > splash=verbose,theme:livecd-2006.0 quiet CONSOLE=/dev/tty1 >[Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1c00, size=0

RE: [gentoo-user] OT - Linewrap in vim

> -Original Message- > From: Rafael Bugajewski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 24 March 2006 14:30 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Linewrap in vim > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Am 24.03.2006 um 15:19 schrieb Michael Ki

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: awk scripting

Hi, On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 16:15:09 +0100 (CET) Sascha Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > > awk '{$1="";print $0}' > > > > (awk recalculates $0 when $n is modified) > > This still leaves you with one OFS starting the line (between $1 and > > $2), you c

Re: [gentoo-user] How to tar?

On Friday 24 March 2006 15:36, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > > Michael Kintzios wrote: > > > > what I think is needed > > > > here is untarring of the archive, while untarred data is > > > > dynamically deleted immediately after untarred to make space for > > > > more data to be untarred . . .

Re: [gentoo-user] dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso - DMA related problem

On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 22:51 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > On 3/23/06, Joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OK, here is dmesg output, the last two lines indicate that: > > hdc: DMA disabled > > hdc: ATAPI reset complete > > The lines that are interesting to me are: > > VP_IDE: IDE controller at PC

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo froze after 25 days of being up

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 24.03.2006 um 15:56 schrieb Mark Shields: s there anyway to find out why it froze? Check the kernel logs and look if there is somethig suspicious. Greets, Rafael -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (Darwin) iD8DBQFEJBHp54ML

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: awk scripting

On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: awk '{$1="";print $0}' (awk recalculates $0 when $n is modified) This still leaves you with one OFS starting the line (between $1 and $2), you can get rid of this using awk '{$1="";print substr($0,lenght(OFS))}' thanks. the function lenght seems n

[gentoo-user] alsamixer process after close 100% cpu

Hello list, I used alsatools for a long time, and never had any problems, but now on my laptop when I use alsamixer, sometimes when closed (using ESC to close) leaves the process running and using 100% CPU. I have to go to console and kill it. Laptop is HP Pavilion ze5470us. I don't have my lapto

[gentoo-user] Gentoo froze after 25 days of being up

Greetings list.  I've had Gentoo on my home server for a little over a year now.  I've never had a problem with it outright freezing until recently.  Yesterday I was playing World of Warcraft on my home PC (the server is also a router, my home PC connects through it).  I have a kvm switch so I had

Re: [gentoo-user] How about ieee 1394 was:USB TV / Video capture devices

On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 01:05:01 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > analog to dv is an expensive device, but some digital video cameras > have an analog rca input and you can convert old analog stuff to dv by > passing it through the camera. I am not sure if you have to record it > on to digital video tape fir

Re: [gentoo-user] My Gentoo is too secure ... ;)

On Mar 24, 2006, at 8:40 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Friday 24 March 2006 07:13, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] My Gentoo is too secure ... ;)': On Mar 23, 2006, at 11:31 PM, Gabriel Dain wrote: If the problem is you log straight into KDE, you could b

Re: [gentoo-user] How to tar?

On Friday 24 March 2006 05:53, "Michael Kintzios" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'RE: [gentoo-user] How to tar?': > -Original Message- > From: Benno Schulenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Michael Kintzios wrote: > > > what I think is needed > > > here is untarring of the archive, while

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: awk scripting

On Friday 24 March 2006 07:34, Sascha Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] OT: awk scripting': > I want the awk analogon for "cut -f2-", which prints fields #2 to #n. Is > this possible? I think: awk '{shift; shift; print $0}' -- "If there's one thing we've established over the

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: awk scripting

let's say you have a listing like this in a file name list.txt: aaa bbb aaa bbb aaa bbb aaa bbb aaa bbb if you wanna print the "bbb" column, you just have to do like this: cat list.txt | awk '{ print $2 }' if the listing is like this: aaa;bbb aaa;bbb aaa;bbb aaa;bbb aaa;bbb then you do:

Re: [gentoo-user] My Gentoo is too secure ... ;)

On Friday 24 March 2006 07:13, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] My Gentoo is too secure ... ;)': > On Mar 23, 2006, at 11:31 PM, Gabriel Dain wrote: > > If the problem is you log straight into KDE, you could boot from the > > Gentoo CD, and chroot to your system > > or

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: awk scripting

Hi, On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 14:34:22 +0100 (CET) Sascha Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want the awk analogon for "cut -f2-", which prints fields #2 to #n. > Is this possible? > > awk '{print $2???}' I'd do the following: awk '{$1="";print $0}' (awk recalculates $0 when $n is modified) This

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Linewrap in vim

On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 02:19:19PM -, Michael Kintzios wrote: > While on this topic, when I cut & paste in Vim it automatically inserts > indents on the front of each pasted line which messes up my config > files. I had it fixed some time ago and now I noticed it's back - would > you know how

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Linewrap in vim

"Michael Kintzios" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> -Original Message- >> From: JimD [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: 23 March 2006 21:20 >> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org >> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Linewrap in vim >> >> >> On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 12:18:44 -0600 >> Michael Sulliva

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Linewrap in vim

Michael Kintzios wrote: -Original Message- From: JimD [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 March 2006 21:20 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Linewrap in vim On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 12:18:44 -0600 Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there a way

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