Re: [gentoo-user] System.map not found - unable to check symbols

2006-05-09 Thread Glenn Enright
> > > > > System.map not found - unable to check symbols. > > > > > which doesn't seem to cause problems during/after booting (??). > > > > > > > > > > I did a manual kernel compilation > > > > > > > > To do this, I always do: > > > > > > > > make all modules_install install > > > > > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Windows <->Linux Video Chat App

2006-05-06 Thread Glenn Enright
On Sunday 07 May 2006 8:18 am, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Saturday 06 May 2006 15:05, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Windows <->Linux Video Chat App': > > On Sat, 2006-05-06 at 17:10 +0200, Simon Kellett wrote: > > > Netmeeting on Windows should be ab

Re: [gentoo-user] xf86-input-mouse-1.0.4 not compiling?

2006-05-03 Thread Glenn Enright
On Thursday 04 May 2006 4:40 am, Stephen Cantini wrote: > CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -msse3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" Dont know much about the app, but does removing -msse3 make any difference? pgppYVe2voelB.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-kernel vs. gentoo-sources

2006-05-03 Thread Glenn Enright
On Thursday 04 May 2006 7:35 am, S. Schwartz wrote: > Richard Fish wrote: > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127618 > > Thanks for the link, very interesting indeed. > > In comment #18 someone says that Nvidia won't release a newer legacy > driver set any time soon, whereas in the nVNews-fo

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound problems on catherine.espersunited.com

2006-05-01 Thread Glenn Enright
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 8:51 am, Michael Sullivan wrote: > I fixed it. I feel really stupid about it too. When I was helping her > to diagnose the problem, I asked her to open the volume control and make > sure everything was turned up all the way. She said it was, and when I > checked in alsamix

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound problems on catherine.espersunited.com

2006-05-01 Thread Glenn Enright
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 2:47 am, Michael Sullivan wrote: > The sound stopped working on my wife's computer about a week ago. I've > run every test I can think of and can't seem to track the problem > down. /etc/init.d/alsasound starts up fine. I can run alsamixer on her > computer just fine (on m

Re: [gentoo-user] Modules autoloading?

2006-04-29 Thread Glenn Enright
On Saturday 29 April 2006 7:39 am, Willie Wong wrote: > Dear all, > > I performed a massive update on my laptop last night, and started > observing the following behaviour on boot. > > A message would pop-up saying to the effect that "udev is processing > kernel events" and then proceeds to

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayerplug-in problem

2006-04-27 Thread Glenn Enright
On Monday 24 April 2006 3:30 pm, Glenn Enright wrote: > Yeah I been through this too. > I get this error when trying to play movie files, sound file work fine > (Gecko:17960): Gtk-WARNING **: Can't set a parent on widget which has a > parent rebuilding xine-lib seems to have fixe

Re: [gentoo-user] Two things, AC97 sound and Gnome issues!

2006-04-27 Thread Glenn Enright
On Friday 28 April 2006 12:41 am, Christopher E wrote: > 1. I am have a error message when booting about snd_via82xx not > found. FATAL: Module snd_via82xx not found. is the exact message. > > I have the driver as part of the kernel, when I don't ALSA then gives > a message like this: > ALSA dev

Re: [gentoo-user] bash completion

2006-04-24 Thread Glenn Enright
On Tuesday 25 April 2006 2:49 pm, Glenn Enright wrote: just added a statement at the end of my profile file to manually run /etc/bash-completion and it all seems to work as expected now. Just got an issue with csh scripts spitting errors about bindkey not existing and a dodgy goto command

Re: [gentoo-user] bash completion

2006-04-24 Thread Glenn Enright
On Tuesday 25 April 2006 12:52 pm, JimD wrote: > Glenn Enright wrote: > > On Tuesday 25 April 2006 12:24 pm, JimD wrote: > >> I also recommend renaming /etc/profile.d/bash-completion to > >> /etc/profile.d/bash-completion.sh so it gets picked up by /etc/profile. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] bash completion

2006-04-24 Thread Glenn Enright
On Tuesday 25 April 2006 12:24 pm, JimD wrote: > > I also recommend renaming /etc/profile.d/bash-completion to > /etc/profile.d/bash-completion.sh so it gets picked up by /etc/profile. Doing that creates an error about /etc/bash_completion.sh not existing -- It pays in England to be a revolutiona

[gentoo-user] bindkey

2006-04-24 Thread Glenn Enright
Does anyone know which package supplies this function. -- Ginger snap. pgp2jyDQJ7VAK.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayerplug-in problem

2006-04-24 Thread Glenn Enright
On Monday 24 April 2006 6:37 pm, Colleen Beamer wrote: > Hi, > > Today, I updated my system. Among the updates were a kernel update, a > firefox update and an mplayer update. > > Everything seems to be working fine except that I can't get the mplayer > plugin to work properly in Firefox. After up

Re: [gentoo-user] What's broken with portage now?

2006-04-23 Thread Glenn Enright
On Monday 24 April 2006 9:11 am, Mick wrote: > > If I were to delete something it has to be the lot. Which directory > am I supposed to rm? Before you do that try emerge metadata or emerge sync -- Chemistry professors never die, they just fail to react. pgpGontcxyAOM.pgp Description: PGP sig

Re: [gentoo-user] aRts sound server on KDE 3.5.2?

2006-04-19 Thread Glenn Enright
On Thursday 20 April 2006 8:12 am, Michael B. Trausch wrote: I got this all the time with ac97 chipset with older versions of arts. Maybee you are running a similar chipset? or an old driver or something? what kernel version do you run? From google with search on 'arts cpu overload' http://www.a

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_NICENESS for real

2006-04-05 Thread Glenn Enright
On Thursday 06 April 2006 11:08, Iain Buchanan wrote: > wlll, it's not exactly old - it's a 3.0GHz P4 laptop (Inspiron > 9100). It could be a RAM issue - only 512 Mb. > > But I definately notice it when emerging sources, and then trying to > switch virtual workspaces when I have, say, firefox

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_NICENESS for real

2006-04-04 Thread Glenn Enright
On Wednesday 05 April 2006 12:56, Iain Buchanan wrote: > meetoo! I've noticed it helps with cpu allocation, but not with the > disk. If you're emerging something like sources, or openoffice, portage > still gets too much disk "time" and other processes suffer. nice > doesn't seem to affect disk

Re: [gentoo-user] OT every second rightclick in KDE: the context menu does not stay

2006-04-03 Thread Glenn Enright
On Tuesday 04 April 2006 12:58, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > emm, I don't want to change my theme at the moment (it is > dekorator+qtcurve), because I am not annoyed or really hit by this. I could > get his behaviour, bit it does not bother me ;) Nice :). I had to install XP recently for my wife

Re: [gentoo-user] first ebuild, looking for reviewer

2006-04-03 Thread Glenn Enright
On Tuesday 04 April 2006 12:54, Roy Wright wrote: > Howdy, > > Writing my first ebuild and would like to have it reviewed. Is there a > forum or list or volunteer? > > The ebuild is for CastPodder 4.0 (http://www.castpodder.net/) which has > an open request in > bugs.gentoo.org: > > http://bugs.

Re: [gentoo-user] every second rightclick in KDE: the context menu does not stay

2006-04-03 Thread Glenn Enright
On Tuesday 04 April 2006 09:59, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > On Monday 03 April 2006 22:22, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > > Anyone else seeing this? Just to make sure I'm not having a subtly > > broken system. > > yepp, see the same - easy workaround: don't release the right mouse > button.. as lo

[gentoo-user] trouble installing blender

2006-03-29 Thread Glenn Enright
below is a smaple of the results from my attempts to install blender. Anyone able to help with why the config portion is bailing? The ebuild doesnt fail, but the only things installed are some scripts and the desktop icon, nothing seems to be getting actually built. This applies to the 2.40 an

Re: [gentoo-user] file limit

2006-03-22 Thread Glenn Enright
On Thursday 23 March 2006 13:50, Bruce Therrien wrote: > Is there a limit to the files contained in a directory? > we have over 19,000 in our store graphics directory > and sometimes cannot acces it because the ftp > software says it's not a directory. > It's on an IBM server running gentoo. > More

Re: [gentoo-user] QT 4

2006-03-16 Thread Glenn Enright
On Friday 17 March 2006 08:11, James wrote: > Hello, > > Has anyone any experiences with developing software with QT4? > > checking whats available, with 'emerge -pv qt', I see: > x11-libs/qt-3.3.4-r8 > > Nothing else... If I add x11-libs/qt to the package.keywords > file, I get > x11-libs/qt-4.1.1

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

2006-03-14 Thread Glenn Enright
On Wednesday 15 March 2006 17:50, Ghaith Hachem wrote: > On 3/15/06, Joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If I try "cp /dev/hdc file.iso" I get an error: > > cp: reading "/dev/hdc' : Input/output error > > there's a problem with the disk then it's not reading it the disk is unmounted right? --

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Glenn Enright
On Tuesday 14 March 2006 00:53, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > there may even be some intentional slowdown when you do a bios / chip > based disable > lol -- "All my life I wanted to be someone; I guess I should have been more specific." -- Jane Wagner -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Glenn Enright
On Monday 13 March 2006 21:47, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > Hyper-Transport is a way for CPUs to exchange data directly rather than > going through a memory controller, thus allowing limited resources (L1/2/3 > cache) to be used more effectively. In particular, process migration > causes fewer

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] annotate html pages

2006-03-07 Thread Glenn Enright
On Wednesday 08 March 2006 02:54, Harry Putnam wrote: > Glenn Enright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > while not having investigated it too much, openoffice and other similar > > apps all process web pages... perhaps they can do the work for you? > > Looks like a prod

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] annotate html pages

2006-03-06 Thread Glenn Enright
On Tuesday 07 March 2006 15:17, Harry Putnam wrote: > All the while the book appears as rendered html. And doesn't have to > be switched to source and back or something distracting. while not having investigated it too much, openoffice and other similar apps all process web pages... perhaps they

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: package.provided syntax

2006-03-06 Thread Glenn Enright
On Tuesday 07 March 2006 07:51, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> cvs-emacs-24 > [ebuild U ] app-editors/emacs-cvs-22.0.50-r1 notice anything about the versions? the dependancy is obviously version specific, so yuor provision will need to be also -- We are upping our standards ... so up yours.

Re: [gentoo-user] cups and parallel printing

2006-03-02 Thread Glenn Enright
On Thursday 02 March 2006 18:19, Glenn Enright wrote: Scratch that. got it working finally! seems there was something not quite right with the esp driver, and now a new kernel build along with a foomatic driver did the trick! Yay!!! -- Al Gore resembled a Vulcan desperately in need of a blow

[gentoo-user] cups and parallel printing

2006-03-01 Thread Glenn Enright
I strugglung to get my hp720c printer to work under my latest install. I have tried many things as follows... * emerged ghostscript, foomatic, pnm2ppd, and cups * fiddled with kernel settings re plugnplay related to a bug mentioned ealier on the list. I can print to files in whatever format, a

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia hangs Xorg

2006-03-01 Thread Glenn Enright
On Thursday 02 March 2006 00:37, Jonatan Antoni wrote: > Hi again, > Starting up xorg just with 'startx' works fine.. xfce4 comes up. But > lateron it hangs with nearly 100 percent of cpu-time usage, > especially if I use the webbrowser firefox. Use a process viewer to see what is chugging through

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox & OOo oddness

2006-02-25 Thread Glenn Enright
On Sunday 26 February 2006 01:55, Peter Ruskin wrote: > > See > http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=384087&highlight=filepicker+kde nice site. opens up a few posibilities too. :) -- Every absurdity has a champion to defend it. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] got lprng?

2006-02-21 Thread Glenn Enright
On Monday 20 February 2006 14:36, Manuel A. McLure wrote: > On Sunday 19 February 2006 05:47 pm, Glenn Enright wrote: > > after modprobe lp > > lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven). > > > > after cat textfile... > > lp0: ECP mode > > Some googling brough

Re: [gentoo-user] got lprng?

2006-02-19 Thread Glenn Enright
On Monday 20 February 2006 13:54, Manuel A. McLure wrote: > On Sunday 19 February 2006 05:14 pm, Glenn Enright wrote: > > On Monday 20 February 2006 11:29, Manuel A. McLure wrote: > > > /bin/echo -e -n Hello\\015\\012World\\015\\012\\014 >textfile.txt > > > > I am

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox java plugin

2006-02-19 Thread Glenn Enright
On Monday 20 February 2006 13:49, Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 14:02 +1300, Glenn Enright wrote: > > the blakcdown version is a little dated now, but should still work with > > most sites. > > what jre would you recommend? > -- > Iain Buchanan > >

Re: [gentoo-user] got lprng?

2006-02-19 Thread Glenn Enright
On Monday 20 February 2006 11:29, Manuel A. McLure wrote: > /bin/echo -e -n Hello\\015\\012World\\015\\012\\014 >textfile.txt I am having similar difficulty getting my hp720c working. After trying the test you suggested, I still got just nothing on the printer. I have both parport, parport_pc, a

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox java plugin

2006-02-19 Thread Glenn Enright
On Monday 20 February 2006 08:39, Antoine wrote: > Hi, > I can't seem to find out how to get java working again in firefox (1.5). > I am running blackdown (std, 1.4.2) and I simply don't get java with > most sites now. Is it possible that I need to update to sun's 1.5? > Cheers > Antoine the blakcd

Re: [gentoo-user] gthumb 2.6.8 doesn't save images anymore

2006-01-22 Thread Glenn Enright
On Monday 23 January 2006 02:47, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Hello! > > Since a few days, gthumb doesn't save changed images anymore. When I > try to save an image as jpeg, it creates a 0 byte file. When I try to > save a PNG, it does the same and, as a bonus :), it crashes. > > A while back, this use

Re: [gentoo-user] New install, I still can't send email. Same error too.

2006-01-18 Thread Glenn Enright
On Thursday 19 January 2006 05:41, Willie Wong wrote: > Hum, is there a place in Mozilla to set your name/alias that goes in > the "From" field for an e-mail? Can you double check that to see if > you made a typo in the e-mail address or something? Sometimes ISPs > reject mails sent to be relayed b

Re: [gentoo-user] Improving SpamAssassin's accuracy...

2006-01-15 Thread Glenn Enright
On Monday 16 January 2006 06:01, Stroller wrote: > I'm looking at dcc now - it looks useful, but I'm not yet clear on > how to configure it (with SpamAssassin?). perldoc Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::DCC in the file /etc/spamassassin/init.pre add this line loadplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plu

Re: [gentoo-user] Improving SpamAssassin's accuracy...

2006-01-15 Thread Glenn Enright
On Monday 16 January 2006 04:28, Stroller wrote: > It does indeed seem very good, but again it requires training, which > is something I'm trying to avoid in this instance. > > Stroller. No solution you have is going to be perfect I suspect. Really it does come down to individual requirements, be

Re: [gentoo-user] Regular user can't offload usb camera`

2005-12-29 Thread Glenn Enright
On Friday 30 December 2005 16:09, Glenn Enright wrote: > On Friday 30 December 2005 06:43, Gerhard Hoogterp wrote: > Interesting I can get it to work the first time it is connected. But after > disconnetcting or turning off the camera (a Kodak cx7330) it doesnt work > anymore. Neithe

[gentoo-user] microtek scanner

2005-12-29 Thread Glenn Enright
Trying to get a Microtek C6 scanner working. I haev generic scsi support loaded as module, hotplug does its thing, and I get the following. Any tips on how I can follow up on this? Would really like to get it going. usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 8 usb 3-1: USB disc

Re: [gentoo-user] Regular user can't offload usb camera`

2005-12-29 Thread Glenn Enright
On Friday 30 December 2005 06:43, Gerhard Hoogterp wrote: Interesting I can get it to work the first time it is connected. But after disconnetcting or turning off the camera (a Kodak cx7330) it doesnt work anymore. Neither as root or as user. It looks liek every time I reconnect a usb device th

Re: [gentoo-user] Regular user can't offload usb camera`

2005-12-29 Thread Glenn Enright
On Friday 30 December 2005 06:43, Gerhard Hoogterp wrote: > I had something alike and found that the hotplug script was looking > for /var/run/console/console.lock to see who owned the console (and to use > this info to chown the usbfile) > > You can easily check if you have the same problem: disco

Re: [gentoo-user] grub,sata,savedefault and error 27

2005-12-28 Thread Glenn Enright
On Wednesday 28 December 2005 10:15, capsel wrote: > Have you read info grub ?? > fallback should be on top and it is, savedefault fallback can be in > "title" section and means that I want to save as a default "fallback" > which in my case is 0. > > I think it should be EOT for now... I've checked

Re: [gentoo-user] grub,sata,savedefault and error 27

2005-12-27 Thread Glenn Enright
On Wednesday 28 December 2005 08:13, capsel wrote: > 2005/12/27, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On 12/27/05, capsel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > title gentoo > > > root (hd0,0) > > > kernel /bzImage root=/dev/sdb2 > > > savedefault fallback that last line does nothing in the confi

Re: [gentoo-user] world problems

2005-12-27 Thread Glenn Enright
On Wednesday 28 December 2005 07:28, Richard Fish wrote: > On 12/25/05, Bob Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Here's my list of what it want to take > > out of the world file - > > > > 'app-emulation/crossover-office-bin' has no ebuilds available > > 'games-fps/unreal-tournament-bonuspacks' ha

[gentoo-user] [OT] Merry Christmas!

2005-12-23 Thread Glenn Enright
To all you good people who make up the gentoo community. Its a privelige to be a member of such a lively and creative forum. Cheers to you all. Hope you all enjoy your day tomorrow. Merry Christmas! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] RFC about kooka block

2005-12-19 Thread Glenn Enright
On Tuesday 20 December 2005 11:50, Francesco Talamona wrote: > Isn't it a bit strange? Shouldn't be kooka blocked, as it is already > installed? > Ok, kde il slotted, but... Maybe I miss something about split > ebuilds :-) > > Is this a bug? Any comments? > > Ciao > Francesco You do seem to

[gentoo-user] opengl brightness setting

2005-12-16 Thread Glenn Enright
Does anyone know if there is somewhere I can configure opengl settings? All my opengl applications are extremely dark and I have to chnage setings just for those apps. For example mplayer runs most reliably on my system with opengl except I am constantly having to adjust the brightness/contras

Re: [gentoo-user] hal emerge conflict [SOLVED]

2005-12-15 Thread Glenn Enright
On Friday 16 December 2005 10:24, Richard Fish wrote: > Since you do not use gnome, you probably don't care whether gnome-vfs > supports hal or not: > > echo "gnome-base/gnome-vfs -hal" >>/etc/portage/package.use > > -Richard Of course! :) Simple elegant fix. Thanks for your insight. -- [Lois' s

[gentoo-user] hal emerge conflict

2005-12-15 Thread Glenn Enright
I installed kde3.5 which is great, but to do soI had to unmask some packages, including hal. So I have version 0.5.5.1 installed. Unfortunately I also have gnome-light installed, which requires hal-0.4 for gnome-vfs. Any ideas on how I might solve this conflict. I dont really need gnome, but it

Re: [gentoo-user] Notification of Limited Account Access (Routing Code: C840-L1111-Q110-1113)

2005-12-13 Thread Glenn Enright
On Wednesday 14 December 2005 17:23, Michael Sullivan wrote: > I tried to notify the real Paypal that someone was posing at them, but > they didn't even have an abuse address... send it to spoof at paypal dot com -- Mary had a little lamb, The lamb turned out to be a ram, Now Mary has a little la

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] moving mountpoint to folder

2005-12-13 Thread Glenn Enright
On Wednesday 14 December 2005 09:33, michael higgins wrote: > So, my question is, does anyone know what will happen if I try to umount > -l, remove the /usr/lib mountpoint, and rename /usr/lib2 to /usr/lib? It > would seem that there'd be no problem as long as I don't need to log into a > new shell

Re: [gentoo-user] hyperthreading

2005-12-13 Thread Glenn Enright
On Wednesday 14 December 2005 09:29, Nick Smith wrote: > its a server, i dont think i built ACPI into the kernel cause i didnt > need/want it, dont think that should make a difference. >From what I can see SMP functoinality seems to rely quite heavily on ACPI discovery. Having said that, lots of

Re: [gentoo-user] Unmerged older KDE, revdep-rebuild fails (no ebuild)

2005-12-12 Thread Glenn Enright
On Monday 12 December 2005 20:11, Maxime Robert-Schreyers wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > >On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 13:17:29 +0100, Maxime Robert-Schreyers wrote: > >>I've emerged KDE 3.5 last week (unmasking it in > >>/etc/portage/package.unmask and /etc/portage/package.keywords) > >>I had no trouble a

Re: [gentoo-user] straggling with paper size

2005-12-05 Thread Glenn Enright
look in /var/log/portage if you have it enabled higer log files will br for more recent emerges -- Don't worry so loud, your roommate can't think. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm will not start

2005-12-03 Thread Glenn Enright
On Sunday 04 December 2005 19:07, Joseph wrote: > > In the kde Control Center, go to > > Reigonal &Accesibility -> Country/Reigon Layout > > select the tab Misc > > Choose the paper format you prefer. Be aware this is the default setting > > for kde and not just kpdf. > > I have it "letter"

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm will not start

2005-12-03 Thread Glenn Enright
On Sunday 04 December 2005 17:27, Joseph wrote: > > Now, I'm fighting with kpdf, as it tries to print on A4 instead of > "letter" format. In the kde Control Center, go to Reigonal &Accesibility -> Country/Reigon Layout select the tab Misc Choose the paper format you prefer. Be awa

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - GIMP question

2005-12-02 Thread Glenn Enright
On Sat, 03 Dec 2005 18:14, Michael Sullivan wrote: > It works great in Linux using Mozilla, but > when my wife tries to view the page in Internet Explorer the image > appears with a white background. What's going wrong here? Any ideas? Probably MS doesnt support png in IE? PNG is an opensource f

Re: [gentoo-user] grub on a SATA drive

2005-11-29 Thread Glenn Enright
On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 19:45, Heinz Sporn wrote: > > When I boot w/ the grub floppy I do: > > > > grub> root (hd0,1) > > Fs is ext2, part type 0x83 > > grub> kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda6 > > [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x120, size 0x1463b31] > > ...VFS: Cannot open root device "sda6" or unkn

Re: [gentoo-user] How does Portage prioritze emerges in emerge world?

2005-11-26 Thread Glenn Enright
On Sun, 27 Nov 2005 06:47, Holly Bostick wrote: > 1) disable the symlink USE flag and manage the redirect manually, which > would enable me to download any kernel at any time without concern for > whether a kernel module was upgrading in the same operation; or I guess I'll go for option 1, but the

Re: [gentoo-user] grub on a SATA drive

2005-11-24 Thread Glenn Enright
On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 05:31, maxim wexler wrote: > I note grub doesn't like root(sd0,1), returns "Error > 23: Error while parsing number". > > But what do I call it? hd0 and hd1 are taken. > > -mw Just to make sure, remember that grub has to be installed in the boot sector of your drive and it nee

Re: [gentoo-user] Return of My Continuing ALSA woes

2005-11-23 Thread Glenn Enright
On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 09:24, Harold Naparst wrote: > > and then: > > /etc/init.d/alsasound restart > * WARNING: you are stopping a boot service. > * Storing ALSA Mixer Levels ... > /usr/sbin/alsactl: get_control:149: Cannot read control info '2,0,0,Front > Playback Volume,0': Invalid argument

Re: [gentoo-user] use of /usr/src/linux symlink

2005-11-09 Thread Glenn Enright
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 06:37, Robert Crawford wrote: > I guess it depends on how much updating and compiling you do as too how > aggrevating this would become, but since it's no big deal to change it, I'd > recommend doing it as a matter of course, so you don't have to stop and do > it during an emerg

Re: [gentoo-user] use of /usr/src/linux symlink

2005-11-09 Thread Glenn Enright
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 04:54, Holly Bostick wrote: > Secondly, you're *using* 2.6.14, and you're keeping 2.6.12 around as a > fallback. It's very unlikely you're going to actually boot into 2.6.9, > and while you may boot into 2.6.12, you are not in fact doing so > (because 2.6.14 is working OK). > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange problem with partition reiserfs

2005-11-05 Thread Glenn Enright
On Sat, 05 Nov 2005 19:29, Rafael Barreto wrote: > I'm with a very strange problem with a partition reiserfs. When I installed > gentoo I created a partition to save my personal docs and I formatted it > with reiserfs filesystem. Today, I was wrinting a little program in python > using Kate and, ac

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot open root device "hde4" or uknown-block(0,0)

2005-11-04 Thread Glenn Enright
On Sat, 05 Nov 2005 19:59, Willie Wong wrote: > On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 08:54:56PM -0800, Bill Six wrote: > > "VFS: Cannot open root device "hde4" or > > uknown-block(0,0) > > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > > Kernel panic.." > > It's a 120 Gig harddrive > > /dev/hde1 is 20 Gigs, for

Re: [gentoo-user] "wiping" unused space and/or secure erasing of files

2005-10-30 Thread Glenn Enright
On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 15:57, Glenn Enright wrote: > On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 01:33, Mike Williams wrote: > > On Sunday 30 October 2005 09:08, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > > With the right hardware, forensics are *far* beyond this. > > > > The NSA *crush* old hardware. > > Y

Re: [gentoo-user] "wiping" unused space and/or secure erasing of files

2005-10-30 Thread Glenn Enright
On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 01:33, Mike Williams wrote: > On Sunday 30 October 2005 09:08, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > With the right hardware, forensics are *far* beyond this. > > The NSA *crush* old hardware. > You ever seen a car crushed? Complete car, engine, drive train, interior, > wheels, everything, crush

Re: [gentoo-user] "wiping" unused space and/or secure erasing of files

2005-10-29 Thread Glenn Enright
On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 14:42, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > app-misc/secure-delete > > Description: Secure file/disk/swap/memory erasure utilities > Just out of interest, I understand ext3 is pretty good at eliminating old data during delete, because the data structure is so abstract? So in this

Re: [gentoo-user] Agetty

2005-10-24 Thread Glenn Enright
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 12:59, Daniel Faulknor wrote: > On 10/24/05, Glenn Enright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 20:27, Daniel Faulknor wrote: > > > Hi everyone > > > After my kernel loads i get the message > > > INIT: cannot execute &qu

Re: [gentoo-user] Agetty

2005-10-24 Thread Glenn Enright
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 05:30, Glenn Enright wrote: > On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 02:48, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > > either that or you are playing with a new kernel, and forgot > > > to compile support for the filesystem which /sbin is on. > > > > If this was the case, ho

Re: [gentoo-user] Agetty

2005-10-24 Thread Glenn Enright
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 02:48, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > either that or you are playing with a new kernel, and forgot > > to compile support for the filesystem which /sbin is on. > > If this was the case, how could init be executed, or even read inittab? > it is possibly on a separate partition. -- I

Re: [gentoo-user] Agetty

2005-10-24 Thread Glenn Enright
On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 20:27, Daniel Faulknor wrote: > Hi everyone > After my kernel loads i get the message > INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/agetty" > INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/agetty" > INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/agetty" > INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/agetty" > INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/agetty" > I

Re: [gentoo-user] power loss when emerging

2005-10-19 Thread Glenn Enright
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 19:38, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: > Hi all, I had a doubt, I got a power loss when emerging gcc > it was almost at final, when I do a emerge --resume, it beguns all > over again so my doubt is if there a way to continue compilation > from where it stops. > > thanks, Alla

Re: [gentoo-user] Annoying Plugin pop-up, Firefox and Epiphany

2005-10-18 Thread Glenn Enright
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 20:39, Dave Cameron wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm running Gentoo on a SunBlade 100 SPARC machine, and so can't install > Sun Java or "Macromedia crap". Does anyone know how/if you can disable > the plugin popup on Epiphany and Firefox, it's really frustrating to > have these constant

Re: [gentoo-user] low-level formatting a harddrive

2005-10-18 Thread Glenn Enright
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 20:40, maxim wexler wrote: > > I used fdisk and mkdosfs to format the first half > fat32 but it makes no difference. > Did your problems start when you tried to remove windows? Or was the disk just plain flakey to begin with? -- /* The HME is the biggest piece of shit I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting $TERM in Konsole (and others)

2005-10-16 Thread Glenn Enright
Konsole would be started, change the TERM environment > and start the indicated shell. This isn't happening. > > I guess it's time to look in a bugs database for KDE. > > ++ kevin > > On 10/15/05, Glenn Enright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 16 Oc

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting $TERM in Konsole (and others)

2005-10-15 Thread Glenn Enright
On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 03:06, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I run Konsole for shell sessions, and things are going slightly wrong. > I've tracked it down to the fact that although I've set the Konsole > preferences to $TERM=linux, that variable is obdurately "xterm". > > When I put an echo in .bashrc or .ba

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: CPU Temperature

2005-10-15 Thread Glenn Enright
On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 19:57, Jamie Dobbs wrote: > I built myself an AMD64 based system a week ago using the following > components: > > Albatron K8NF4U motherboard > AMD Athlon 64 3200+ (Socket 939) > 1GB DDR Memory > Albatron TC6200 video card > > Motherboard sensors indicate that the CPU core is ru

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to calculate Linux Kernel version [New Thread]

2005-10-06 Thread Glenn Enright
On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 22:27, Bogo Mipps wrote: > *getfilevar > * Could not find a usable .config in the kernel source directory. > * Please ensure that /usr/src/linux points to a configured set of Linux > sources. > * If you are using KBUILD_OUTPUT, please set the environment var so that >

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to calculate Linux Kernel version [New Thread]

2005-10-06 Thread Glenn Enright
On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 08:04, Bogo Mipps wrote: > On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 20:42, Glenn Enright wrote: > > On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 06:42, Glenn Enright wrote: > > > Try this... > > > > > > ls -l /usr/src/linux > > > uname -r > > > > > > these

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to calculate Linux Kernel version [New Thread]

2005-10-06 Thread Glenn Enright
On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 06:42, Glenn Enright wrote: > Try this... > > ls -l /usr/src/linux > uname -r > > these should give you the same version. If not you need to adjust the linux > symlink to reflect the kernel version you are running. Then > > cd /usr

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to calculate Linux Kernel version [New Thread]

2005-10-05 Thread Glenn Enright
Try this... ls -l /usr/src/linux uname -r these should give you the same version. If not you need to adjust the linux symlink to reflect the kernel version you are running. Then cd /usr/src/linux cp /boot/config-$(uname -r) ./ make oldconfig && make Now

Re: [gentoo-user] sk98lin

2005-10-04 Thread Glenn Enright
On Tue, 04 Oct 2005 17:00, Martin Ullrich wrote: > Hi! > > I tried both sk98lin (which works with SuSE) and skge. But none of > them seems to detect my ethernet card correctly. > > Martin > > 2005/10/1, Mark Shields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > IIRC, sk98lin is deprecated; use skge instead (I have one

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my video card or motherboard going?

2005-10-03 Thread Glenn Enright
On Mon, 03 Oct 2005 17:26, Joseph wrote: > > what type of monitor are you using? can you test that on another box to > > see if it gives a good picture? Also does increasing the colour > > saturation on the monitor make the problem significantly worse? Make sure > > there are no new speakers or ma

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my video card or motherboard going?

2005-10-02 Thread Glenn Enright
On Mon, 03 Oct 2005 04:53, Joseph wrote: > All of a sudden I've noticed strange green color around all the letters > and icons on desktop, some object have vertical green stripes. > Would it be an indication that motherboard or video is going? > > This bos has ASUS A7V8X Motherboard and GeForce4 MX

Re: [gentoo-user] Update portage cache ... horribly slow

2005-09-29 Thread Glenn Enright
On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 08:22, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 04:58:12 +0000, Glenn Enright wrote: > > I second esync. It is a nice script that runs a little faster than > > 'emerge sync'. > > It calls emerge sync, so how can it run faster? > > # Th

Re: [gentoo-user] Update portage cache ... horribly slow

2005-09-28 Thread Glenn Enright
list that follows... #! /bin/sh # /etc/cron.daily/esync.automated # # Based on rkhunter script by Aaron Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> # Written by Glenn Enright on 14-Oct-2004 # # Purpose # To provide a facility to regularly update the portage tree via cron

Re: [gentoo-user] codec drivers problem.

2005-09-25 Thread Glenn Enright
On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 08:45, David Harel wrote: > Jonathan, Thanks for your explanation. > > I still don't get it. > The command emerge should have done the dependent packages before doing > the desirable package anyway. Also, if I have to specify additional > packages while doing mplayer, how do I a

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to calculate Linux Kernel version

2005-09-16 Thread Glenn Enright
On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 12:17, Holly Bostick wrote: > So, I would ask: Is the source that /usr/src/linux links to configured? > Has it been compiled? > > Holly Point taken. As always your posts are detailed and helpful :) -- PIZZA!! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to calculate Linux Kernel version

2005-09-16 Thread Glenn Enright
On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 10:18, Holly Bostick wrote: > Dave Nebinger schreef: > >> "/usr/src/-> linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r4" > >> > >> "/usr/src/linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r4" exists > > > > You need to link /usr/src/linux to /usr/src/linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r4, > > as in: > > > > # cd /usr/src # ln -sf linux-2.6.1

Re: [gentoo-user] grub over the top of Win XP

2005-09-06 Thread Glenn Enright
On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 04:40, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >OK, the target machine is now rebuilt. I decided since I had to > rebuild both WinXP and Gentoo that I'd just put them on the same hard > drive. The Gentoo install is complete right up to the point where I > run grub and write it somewhere an

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Dock Application

2005-08-26 Thread Glenn Enright
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:56, Michael Crute wrote: > This is kind of off topic but could someone please look at this > screenshot (http://pstudios.ath.cx/screenshots/kody-nov-4-04.png) and > tell me what dock (or icon set) this guy is using. Thanks > > -- > > Michael E

Re: [gentoo-user] fan noise in recent kernels

2005-08-25 Thread Glenn Enright
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:44, Mark Knecht wrote: > Humm... I tried gkrellm2 on one machine. It runs but I haven't figured > out how to make it show me fans and temps. I wonder if this older Asus > A7V266-E machine can do that? > > I also emerge gkrellm-sensors but I'll have to find some info on how >

Re: [gentoo-user] fan noise in recent kernels

2005-08-25 Thread Glenn Enright
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 06:24, Mark Knecht wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -al /sys/bus/i2c/drivers/ > dev_driver/ i2c_adapter/ w83781d/ w83l785ts/ ^^^ ^^^ looks like you have modules compiled in for your motherboard sensors. You can at least look

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