Re: [gentoo-user] WinXP under VMWare: no sound

2006-11-04 Thread Sergio Polini
Richard Fish: > On 11/4/06, Sergio Polini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sound does not work. Sometimes (not always) I get a message > > like "cannot connect to /dev/dsp". > > Even if I do not get that message, even if the sound card looks > > connected (no red "x") sound is not working. > > I've f

Re: [gentoo-user] WinXP under VMWare: no sound

2006-11-04 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/4/06, Sergio Polini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sound does not work. Sometimes (not always) I get a message like "cannot connect to /dev/dsp". Even if I do not get that message, even if the sound card looks connected (no red "x") sound is not working. I've found a VMWare document about a wra

[gentoo-user] WinXP under VMWare: no sound

2006-11-04 Thread Sergio Polini
I'm experimenting with VMWare. I've installed VMWare Workstation (5.5.1.19175-r7 ebuild) and created a Windows Virtual Machine. Then I've installed VMWare Player (in another Gentoo partition), so I can "play" the VM I've created. It works fine. Running Internet Explorer under Linux is rather amu

[gentoo-user] Bringing services back up

2006-11-04 Thread Grant
When one of my systems loses its connection to the wireless network for a period of time, it stops the services which rely on net.ath0. Once it's back on the network, I can run 'rc' to start all the services again. Is there a way to have those services start again on their own once net.ath0 is re

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless on boot

2006-11-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 4 Nov 2006 13:53:39 +0100, Luigi Pinna wrote: > But I continue to have some problems... > First, on boot time net.eth0 gives up and I must wait until timeout > before that boot could continue. emerge ifplugd and read the comments about it in /etc/conf.d/net.example -- Neil Bothwick "

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg 7.0 to 7.1 -- is this a problem

2006-11-04 Thread Harm Geerts
On Saturday 04 November 2006 17:58, Adrian wrote: > I was intending to upgrade xorg 7.0 to 7.1, before doing so I noticed > something. I'm not sure if this is a problem or not, so I wanted to > ask before I mess up my system. Don't ask, search. This has been asked and answered a few times on the

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg 7.0 to 7.1 -- is this a problem

2006-11-04 Thread Andrey
On Saturday 04 November 2006 16:58, Adrian wrote: > Here, the xorg-x11-7.1 does not indicate any of these flags will be > used. Is this the correct behaviour? Or is something going on? Try to use: emerge -pvuDN xorg-x11 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ETH0 Startup Problem

2006-11-04 Thread Ryan Crisman
The livecd has 8139cp and 8139too loaded but the installed version only has 8139cp loaded, and mii also is loaded with both the network modules out to the side of it on the live cd, and the install only has the one to the side of it. Thats what it was displaying so I did:echo "8139too" >> /etc/modu

[gentoo-user] xorg 7.0 to 7.1 -- is this a problem

2006-11-04 Thread Adrian
Greetings all; I was intending to upgrade xorg 7.0 to 7.1, before doing so I noticed something. I'm not sure if this is a problem or not, so I wanted to ask before I mess up my system. First, take a look when I do a pretend to see what would happen when emerging 7.0, which is currently installe

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Secure remote backup

2006-11-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 4 Nov 2006 13:56:04 +0100, Dan Johansson wrote: > Me and a friend are looking into the possibility to do > cross-site-remote-backups (I'm backing up my data to a directory in his > box and he on mine). We want the connection and remote-storage to > encrypted and we do not want to open too

Re: [gentoo-user] Some problems I've been having

2006-11-04 Thread Harley Peters
Michael Sullivan wrote: On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 16:39 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 03 Nov 2006 10:28:15 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: Run make menuconfig, press / and type 'CX2341'. It said No Matches Found. Should I just mask this version of ivtv for now until I get a newer kernel? W

Re: [gentoo-user] Networking problems

2006-11-04 Thread Jeff Cranmer
Perhaps removing all the lines from the net configuration script was the key after all. It didn't work on the next boot-up cycle, but on the one following that, without performing any extra configuration steps, the network connection was operational :-/ I have a network. Now I can proceed with

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Secure remote backup

2006-11-04 Thread Daniel Iliev
Dan Johansson wrote: > Me and a friend are looking into the possibility to do > cross-site-remote-backups (I'm backing up my data to a directory in his box > and he on mine). We want the connection and remote-storage to encrypted and > we do not want to open too many ports in our firewalls. Any

[gentoo-user] Unable to emerge with nss_ldap in use.

2006-11-04 Thread Qian Qiao
Hi, I've come across this very strange problem. I have a few work stations configured to use pam_ldap and nss_ldap. The portage user and portage group are on the local machines, i.e, in /etc/passwd and /etc/group. with passwd: files ldap shadow: files ldap group: files ldap in

Re: [gentoo-user] Networking problems

2006-11-04 Thread Mick
On Saturday 04 November 2006 12:24, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > Comparing this with the equivalent working connection via my Mandriva Linux > boot-up, /etc/resolv.conf is the same, but route -n returns Kernel IP > routing table > Destination Gateway Genmask FlagsMetricR

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Secure remote backup

2006-11-04 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Saturday 4 November 2006 13:56, Dan Johansson wrote: > Me and a friend are looking into the possibility to do > cross-site-remote-backups (I'm backing up my data to a directory in > his box and he on mine). We want the connection and remote-storage to > encrypted and we do not want to open too

[gentoo-user] [OT] Secure remote backup

2006-11-04 Thread Dan Johansson
Me and a friend are looking into the possibility to do cross-site-remote-backups (I'm backing up my data to a directory in his box and he on mine). We want the connection and remote-storage to encrypted and we do not want to open too many ports in our firewalls. Any suggestions on how this cou

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless on boot

2006-11-04 Thread Luigi Pinna
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 19:54, giovedì 2 novembre 2006, Mick ha scritto: > If I understand you correctly, you won't find the entry you're > looking for. You need to create a link with the name of your usb card > interface. ifconfig -a will show you what the new network

Re: [gentoo-user] Networking problems

2006-11-04 Thread Jeff Cranmer
After reading the comments at the top of the /etc/conf.d/net, a blank file will automatically use DHCP for any net.* scripts in /etc/init.d, so I commented out all the parameters that I'd added. The file then matches the one in the livecd boot-up that I used to install the OS. For the /etc/res

Re: [gentoo-user] CTRL+ALT arrows keys to move between words in Konsole

2006-11-04 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Marco Lazzeri wrote: > many emerges ago, I used to move between words in my bash Konsole > keeping pressed CTRL+ALT and using the arrows keys, exactly like > the more classic ESC+B (backward) & ESC+F (forward) do. How to do it for Ctrl+Alt+arrow I don't know, but for just Ctrl+arrow add this to y

Re: [gentoo-user] ETH0 Startup Problem

2006-11-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 3 Nov 2006 22:28:06 -0500, Ryan Crisman wrote: > Anyone have any ideas. The eth0 worked on the live CD and when i do > LSPCI i can see that it see the device. Did you build the correct module with your kernel? lsmod will show if it's loaded. If you're not sure which one you need, run lsm

[gentoo-user] CTRL+ALT arrows keys to move between words in Konsole

2006-11-04 Thread Marco Lazzeri
Hi, many emerges ago, I used to move between words in my bash Konsole keeping pressed CTRL+ALT and using the arrows keys, exactly like the more classic ESC+B (backward) & ESC+F (forward) do. Somewhere I lost that behavior. Do you know why? And, more important, do you know how I could restore tha