Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.2 compile problem

2009-02-04 Thread Norberto Bensa
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Jerry McBride wrote: > If you need more info, feel free to email me direct. why? off-list communications should only be done with off-topic conversations. If you have a solution for him, you should share it with the list so others can find solutions to similar pr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: hal - what's the benefit of using it

2009-02-04 Thread Norberto Bensa
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 6:44 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > The benefit for me is that I plug my USB flash stick in my PC and it pops up > in my desktop without me needing to enter voodoo console commands to mount > it. +1 That and... this is my xorg.conf : Section "Module" Load"glx"

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo's advantage: "optimized for your system" -- huh?

2009-02-03 Thread Norberto Bensa
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 8:39 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > AFAICT, the "performance" benefit due to compiler optimization > is practically nil in real-world usage. It used to make a difference, but not anymore with today microprocessors. > In my experience the huge benefit of source-based distros s

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2 and 3.5

2009-02-01 Thread Norberto Bensa
On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Daniel D Jones wrote: > Uh, someone's confused here. It may very well be me but I'm not following you > at all. The other post concerned startkde blocking kdelibs. Yes. I'm sorry. You're using monolithic KDE. I don't remember if startkde was part of kdebase. Mayb

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2 and 3.5

2009-02-01 Thread Norberto Bensa
On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Daniel D Jones wrote: > On Sunday 01 February 2009 15:40:29 Norberto Bensa wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Daniel D Jones > wrote: >> > I have KDE 3.5 and 4.1 installed and am trying to upgrade to 4.2. I'm >> > getti

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: When did bzImage move?

2009-02-01 Thread Norberto Bensa
On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Sonntag 01 Februar 2009, Geralt wrote: >> Nobody here using the genkernel package to build his kernel? I'm using >> it all the time, makes initramfs creation so much easier :-) > > who needs an initramfs? > Me of course! I have root

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2 and 3.5

2009-02-01 Thread Norberto Bensa
On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Daniel D Jones wrote: > I have KDE 3.5 and 4.1 installed and am trying to upgrade to 4.2. I'm getting > the following: > You'll need kde-3.5.10 (or kdebase-startkde at least) Look in the archives, a similar question was posted a few days ago.

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple ISPs into a Gentoo box

2009-02-01 Thread Norberto Bensa
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Grant wrote: > Has anyone put > something like that together? Yes. > Can I make use of the combined > bandwidth and not just the redundancy? Hm. If I understand you correctly, then no. You can't. But you can -for example- use one link or the other based on sou

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kdeprefix is broken?

2009-01-31 Thread Norberto Bensa
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 7:31 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Norberto Bensa wrote: >> >> Hello list, >> >> I emerged KDE-4.2 (RC first, final now) and Phonon wasn't getting any >> backend. No video, no sound. >> >> After recompiling KDE-4.2 with -

Re: [gentoo-user] kdeprefix is broken?

2009-01-31 Thread Norberto Bensa
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > almost the same as on my box (except I have kdeprefix set and gstreamer > disabled), yup.. strange. Don't worry. I'll keep searching. >> Thanks :) (I had to ask my girlfirend what "Glück Auf" means :-) ) > > I hope she gave you the

Re: [gentoo-user] kdeprefix is broken?

2009-01-31 Thread Norberto Bensa
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Samstag 31 Januar 2009, Norberto Bensa wrote: > >> >> Ok. Thanks. Maybe there's something broken deeper in my box. > > which phonon related packages do you have installed? zool...@venkman ~ $ eix -I p

Re: [gentoo-user] kdeprefix is broken?

2009-01-31 Thread Norberto Bensa
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Samstag 31 Januar 2009, Norberto Bensa wrote: >> Hello list, >> >> I emerged KDE-4.2 (RC first, final now) and Phonon wasn't getting any >> backend. No video, no sound. > > I have 4.2+kdepref

[gentoo-user] kdeprefix is broken?

2009-01-31 Thread Norberto Bensa
Hello list, I emerged KDE-4.2 (RC first, final now) and Phonon wasn't getting any backend. No video, no sound. After recompiling KDE-4.2 with -kdeprefix, I see both Xine and Gstreamer listed as backends. So the question is: is kdeprefix a deprecated/not recommended/broken/unsupported feature? I

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge --sync kde-base/

2009-01-27 Thread Norberto Bensa
Thanks NIck and AllenJB I just wanted kde-4.2 like in: "hey! I want kde 4.2 and I want it right now!" :-) Anyway, I already have it.

[gentoo-user] emerge --sync kde-base/

2009-01-27 Thread Norberto Bensa
Hello, I'm wondering. Is it posible to emerge --sync part of the tree. For example, I want to only sync kde-base/ and kde-misc/? Thanks in advance, Norberto

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild

2009-01-25 Thread Norberto Bensa
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 9:41 PM, Vizo Allman wrote: > I keep getting this message when I run revdep-rebuild : > "emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy > "sys-devel/gcc:x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6" > I have no idea how to begin to troubleshoot this. Any hints? what does "emerge -p gcc:3.4" say?

Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted my kernel .config

2009-01-23 Thread Norberto Bensa
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Justin wrote: > But nevertheless you need to do a make odlconfig to > adopt your .config to the new config options. Nope. That's not true. The diference between "oldconfig" and just "make" is that oldconfig will present a prompt when a new option was added. You

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing PAM from my system, is it adviseable?

2009-01-23 Thread Norberto Bensa
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Mike Kazantsev wrote: > On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 04:03:52 +0100 > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >> so, could you please answer mine now: >> why should pam be used in the first place on a usual server/desktop which has >> restricted access anyway? > > I find it useful

Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted my kernel .config

2009-01-23 Thread Norberto Bensa
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Alejandro wrote: > make oldconfig only can give you problems i don,t see any benefict.. just my > person experience... I have never seen any problem with make oldconfig, YMMV, but stating it _will_ give you problems is simply not true.

Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted my kernel .config

2009-01-23 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting Justin : Than he has a non solvable problem recovering his config. But, who will remove this option? Not remove, but someone (me for example) could make it =m ;-) In that case you just do: modprobe configs gunzip -c /proc/config.gz > /usr/src/linux/.config make oldconfig -

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing PAM from my system, is it adviseable?

2009-01-22 Thread Norberto Bensa
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 1:43 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > so nothing 90% of all users ever use or need. In a Linux only enrironmet? Yeah, perhaps. But what if you Linux box runs in a Windows domain? What if your users are stored in AD? > if you don't use any of that 'stackable' stuff or o

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing PAM from my system, is it adviseable?

2009-01-22 Thread Norberto Bensa
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 1:03 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > in the past pam breakage caused login trouble, In the past... Like when there's were not enough documentation or it was too cryptic? > so, could you please answer mine now: > why should pam be used in the first place on a usual ser

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing PAM from my system, is it adviseable?

2009-01-22 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting Volker Armin Hemmann : On Freitag 23 Januar 2009, Norberto Bensa wrote: What's so bad/hard about pam that everyone wants to remove it? what is so good/usefull about pam that one shall keep it? Doesn't asnwer th

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing PAM from my system, is it adviseable?

2009-01-22 Thread Norberto Bensa
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 3:11 PM, James Homuth wrote: > I'm getting more than a little irritated with > its attempts to interfere with my attempts to configuring any program with > an optional PAM plugin. What's so bad/hard about pam that everyone wants to remove it? Maybe if you ask for directio

Re: [gentoo-user] cnn.com flash videos crash firefox

2009-01-22 Thread Norberto Bensa
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 9:07 PM, Grant wrote: >> Do cnn.com videos *not* crash for anyone with the latest Firefox? > > Edit /etc/adobe/mms.cfg and set "WindowlessDisable = 1" and see if that helps. +1 I was having the same problem now that

Re: [gentoo-user] cnn.com flash videos crash firefox

2009-01-22 Thread Norberto Bensa
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Stroller wrote: > I am sorry to tell you that your computer is a redneck republican, and this > is why it's crashing. AH HA HAAA!... I was drinking coffee when I read your comment. I just ruinned my LCD :( BTW: The video plays fine here. OMG! Look at how ma

Re: [gentoo-user] resolving blocks from sets

2009-01-21 Thread Norberto Bensa
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Nick Cunningham wrote: > > > 2009/1/21 Norberto Bensa > > I believe theres a qt-copy in the THE overlay, although i havent had a > chance to confirm it. Yup. layman qting-edge has the set @qt-all-live-kde which is qt-copy from kde-svn. BTW

Re: [gentoo-user] resolving blocks from sets

2009-01-20 Thread Norberto Bensa
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 3:05 AM, Norberto Bensa wrote: > BTW, do you know where's qt-copy in portage/layman? I've added > qting-edge and kde-crazy, but neither have it. I guess it is @qt-all-live-kde in qting-edge, isn't it?

Re: [gentoo-user] resolving blocks from sets

2009-01-20 Thread Norberto Bensa
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 2:50 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Mittwoch 21 Januar 2009, Norberto Bensa wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 2:25 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann >> >> wrote: >> > don't try the beta, try qt-copy ;) >> >> Ohhh... Let's

Re: [gentoo-user] resolving blocks from sets

2009-01-20 Thread Norberto Bensa
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 2:25 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > don't try the beta, try qt-copy ;) Ohhh... Let's try that then :) Thanks.

Re: [gentoo-user] resolving blocks from sets

2009-01-20 Thread Norberto Bensa
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 2:13 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > a) why do you want to install 4.5 beta? To see if it solves a nasty bug in systray when composite is enabled. > b) why don't you just uninstall the phonon stuff? Oh. I'll try that. Thanks.

[gentoo-user] resolving blocks from sets

2009-01-20 Thread Norberto Bensa
Hello list, well. I couldn't resist and I emerged kde4.2 with something like this: sudo emerge @kdebase Now I want to upgrade Qt to 4.5beta but (see below) Is there any obvious way to solve this that can't see because it's 2AM and need some sleep or are @sets _evil_ ? And before you jump and

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange dependency of kopete-3.5.9 on qt-4*

2009-01-20 Thread Norberto Bensa
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > I suspect kopete-4.x got pulled into your emerge and it slipped past your > radar. But then OP should see kdelibs-4 installed (?)

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-driver version in gentoo-sources

2009-01-19 Thread Norberto Bensa
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Saphirus Sage wrote: > ls /usr/portage/metadata/cache/media-libs | grep alsa > > That should show you the alsa libs and drivers you have installed on > your system. > > Nope. That will give you what's available for install. You want something like: $ ls /var/db/pk

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange dependency of kopete-3.5.9 on qt-4*

2009-01-19 Thread Norberto Bensa
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Does anyone here know why we have this dependency of a kde-3 package on > qt-4? > It shouldn't. kopete ssl wants qca-tls-1 qca-tls-1 want qca-1 qca-1 want qt:3 what does emerge -pt kopete gives?

Re: [gentoo-user] Reconciling users and services

2009-01-17 Thread Norberto Bensa
On Saturday January 17 2009 20:09:31 Grant wrote: > I have some users on a system and some services. How can I make sure > only certain users can log into certain services? Depends on the service and how it is configured. Can you be more specific on what services yo want limited access?

Re: [gentoo-user] Disable remote login for certain user

2009-01-17 Thread Norberto Bensa
On Saturday January 17 2009 03:28:07 Grant wrote: > an ssh config setting, in shorewall, or somewhere else? You can: 1) use pam as described by Mike or 2) use sshd_config "AllowUsers" or 3) What I usually do is, disable pam in ssh so only keys are accepted. Only if you have the key, you can

Re: [gentoo-user] Append string on Kernel builds

2009-01-16 Thread Norberto Bensa
On Friday January 16 2009 18:58:55 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > The build system does that automatically as long as you don't "make > mrproper", You can backup .version

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH login with both key AND password?

2009-01-08 Thread Norberto Bensa
On Wednesday January 7 2009 22:11:56 Dave Jones wrote: > > Entering a passphrase encrypts the private part of the key, which you keep > only on the server. You only need the public part of the key on the client. Try it the other way: private on the client. Public on the server. The private part

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SSH login with both key AND password?

2009-01-07 Thread Norberto Bensa
On Wednesday January 7 2009 22:01:14 Paul Hartman wrote: > I guess I should have tried before asking! Every HOWTO/tutorial I > googled seemed to really emphasize the "no more password entry!" > aspect of key login. Thanks. That's right: no more password logins. However, you should (optionaly) lock

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r7 won't load network!

2009-01-06 Thread Norberto Bensa
On Tuesday January 6 2009 20:37:31 Denis wrote: > I'm doubtful that using oldconfig would make a driver not work because Unless the "driver" (module) changed name ;) (ata->pata/sata anyone?) Anyway, I've always used oldconfig except when moving from 2.4 to 2.6 Regards, Norberto

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Thanks and bye for now

2008-12-29 Thread Norberto Bensa
On Monday December 29 2008 19:38:48 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Norberto Bensa wrote: > > I'm currently compiling gcc-4.3.2-r2, I have no cursor lagging, stuck, > > or whatever. Everything is normal. Like if I were not compiling at all. > > I've just emerged glibc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Thanks and bye for now

2008-12-29 Thread Norberto Bensa
On Monday December 29 2008 11:24:40 Dale wrote: > > Dale wrote: > >> [...] I can't say > >> that I have > >> ever heard of evdev before. > > [...] > Is this required for the new kernels? Nope. I just wanted you to test other device drivers.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Thanks and bye for now

2008-12-29 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting Dale : It is software on mine. I can boot the new kernels and it is jumpy as crap. It is really slow to respond and when it does, it just jerks all over the place and is difficult to click on links and buttons. I can reboot with the old kernel and it works fine, just like it should.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Thanks and bye for now

2008-12-29 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting Nikos Chantziaras : It got worse with kernel 2.6.28, btw, especially mouse cursor movement. It gets stuck and skips very noticeably. Fortunately, it's not a point yet where I would describe it as unusable, but if the trend continues, desktop will be totally unusable by 2.6.31/32 when d

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Thanks and bye for now

2008-12-27 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting Nikos Chantziaras : On my Gentoo at home, yes. The mouse cursor skips, scrolling gets skippy/laggy too. I have a dual core e6...@3.33ghz with 4GB DDR2 RAM. Just like me, but I have it set to default clock: 2.4GHz. Beyond that, it gets somewhat funny :-/ Are you sure your HDs run

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Thanks and bye for now

2008-12-27 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting Nikos Chantziaras : Why? Does Gentoo forget how to do something? Why can't you just "set and forget" your Gentoo boxes? Gentoo is difficult to install. For who? And BTW, that doesn't answer the question. Also, if it's left un-updated for longer periods of time, it tends to break

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Thanks and bye for now

2008-12-27 Thread Norberto Bensa
On Saturday December 27 2008 15:14:26 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > I run Debian on my server because it's "set and forget". With Gentoo at > home, I have to take good care of it to keep it going. Why? Does Gentoo forget how to do something? Why can't you just "set and forget" your Gentoo boxes?

Re: [gentoo-user] Thanks and bye for now

2008-12-26 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting Mark Kirkwood : Due to a new work situation where extensive use is made of Debian, I feel the need to have a Debian-based play server. This unfortunately means my trusty Gentoo box is to be sacrificed :-( At work we abuse Ubuntu and that means I need to know it by heart, but I didn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Gmail and that stupid spam filter. :-@

2008-12-26 Thread Norberto Bensa
This is OT but here I am anyway: Quoting Hilco Wijbenga : When you see spam in your inbox do you use "Report spam"? When you see valid email in your spam do you use "Not spam"? I found it learns very quickly what I consider spam and what not. I also tend to go through the spam folder whenever t

Re: [gentoo-user] Gmail and that stupid spam filter. :-@

2008-12-26 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting Dale : Thought about marking them ALL as "not spam" and just screwing their spam filter right up. Sort of a get even thing there. :-@ I did that many many many many times. I hate google for not let me disable the stupid spam filter. **BUT** I found a workaround: Ideas? I down

Re: [gentoo-user] Ridiculous nagging problem unable to ping

2008-12-07 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 127.0.0.0 127.0.0.1 255.0.0.0 UG0 0 0 lo 0.0.0.0 19

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5.10: Visual glitch in taskbar

2008-10-29 Thread Norberto Bensa
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/7797/kdefn4.png That happens on my girlfriend account but not mine (same box BTW) This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

Re: [gentoo-user] what can I do besides waiting or complaining about missing kompozer?

2008-10-25 Thread Norberto Bensa
On Saturday October 25 2008 12:21:01 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Samstag, 25. Oktober 2008 15:32:50 schrieb Norberto Bensa: > > > > WTF is playman!? > > The paludis equivalent of layman. If development has moved to paludis, I guess I'll have to move to it. How much trou

Re: [gentoo-user] what can I do besides waiting or complaining about missing kompozer?

2008-10-25 Thread Norberto Bensa
On Saturday October 25 2008 09:21:41 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > # playman -l|grep -i arcon > arcon | svn://svn.ospdev.net/svnroot/arcon/trunk/arcon- > overlay WTF is playman!?

Re: [gentoo-user] Is gentoo-portage and gentoo-wiki offline?

2008-10-17 Thread Norberto Bensa
On Friday October 17 2008 07:56:10 Dale wrote: > Not sure what the problem is tho. They're compiling 2.6.27-gentoo with -j11 on the same box that runs wiki; which, btw, is a 386sx with 4MB of RAM. Please be patient, it will take a few weeks.

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacements for ivman

2008-10-11 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting Erik Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Does software rot when it's unmaintained or why is that a problem? No, but it develops incompatibilities over time... This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs-3.5.10-r1 and kima

2008-10-09 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting Andrew Gaydenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Thoughts? emerge -1 kde-misc/kima This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

Re: [gentoo-user] get rid of xf86-video-* drivers

2008-10-09 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting Erik Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Please, disable HTML in your client or at least tell it to send a plain text version as well. I see hardly readable raw HTML code in mutt. Then change your MUA :) I mean, there are more important reasons to not send HTML to public mailing lists than yo

Re: [gentoo-user] NTFS free space disappeared

2008-09-22 Thread Norberto Bensa
- Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - On 20 Sep 2008, at 18:36, Norberto Bensa wrote: On Saturday September 20 2008 11:22:21 Stroller wrote: NTFS file-systems written (created?) by Vista add some new & special features. Do you have more info on that? Any link? This Wikipe

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm + the DISPLAYMANAGER var.

2008-09-21 Thread Norberto Bensa
What is the correct place to set DISPLAYMANAGER? /etc/conf.d/xdm This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with apache on amd64

2008-09-21 Thread Norberto Bensa
On my x86 system there is -D USERDIR. And what's on your /etc/conf.d/apache2 ? This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

Re: [gentoo-user] NTFS free space disappeared

2008-09-20 Thread Norberto Bensa
On Saturday September 20 2008 11:22:21 Stroller wrote: > NTFS file-systems written (created?) by Vista add some new & special > features. Do you have more info on that? Any link? Thanks, Norberto

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox networking

2008-09-18 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting Marc Joliet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: OK, I feel so stupid right now. Please don't. Nobody born knowing everything :) So now it works as intended, tested with WinXP and Ubuntu running in parallel (now that shows me why I should upgrade from 2 to 4GB RAM). Heh... Me too! Regards, Norbe

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox networking

2008-09-17 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting Marc Joliet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: except for the fact that VirtualBox seems to not run the script, even with the full path. I can run the script manually, creating vbox1 and then start the VM and everything works, but with: Attached to:vbox1 That's your problem. You should

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox networking [CONTINUE]

2008-09-17 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting pat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hilco Wijbenga wrote: Or my be another question :-) I need to run more then one guest OS, so I expect I need to create next bridge, but how? No no.. You're confusing bridges and interfaces. You make ONE bridge and add interfaces to it. Search my email with s

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox networking

2008-09-17 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting Marc Joliet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Right now I got it working without using a bridge. I can ping my Windows XP VM and it can ping everything else on my side, however, nmap won't work. I wonder why? Does the Windows firewall block it off? nmap runs on the guest? After all this, create

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox networking

2008-09-16 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting Hal Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: What kind of bidirectional communication are you looking for? OP wants to be able to run services on the guest. AFAIK, the only way to do that is setting up a bridge. This message was s

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox networking

2008-09-16 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting Marc Joliet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: What I need is the bidirectional communication between host and guest. Sorry, but I can't help you there, though I'm going to sit down and set that up myself when I have time (this year, I hope ;) ). I know! I know!! :-) The following assumes baselay

Re: [gentoo-user] xen gentoo as dom0 freeBSD as domU

2008-09-16 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting Tomáš Krasničan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi list, Hi! is it possible (if is how) to make freeBSD as xen domU on gentoo dom0? Yes, but AFAIK, it will only run in full virtualization mode; just like windows. Maybe (and only _maybe_) there's a way to run it in paravirtualization,

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH fixed; now su doesn't work

2008-09-14 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: sudo echo performance > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq scaling_governor won't work because the redirection is done as the user :) echo performace | sudo tee /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq scaling_governor now it does :-P

Re: [gentoo-user] passwd won't work

2008-09-14 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I think this is the same problem that wouldn't let me use su -. Post /etc/pam.d/system-auth This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

Re: [gentoo-user] ldap samba pdc problem

2008-09-13 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Setting stored password for "cn=manager,dn=example,dn=net" in secrets.tdb Your DN is wrong. Probably you meant: cn=manager,dc=example,dc=net This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messagin

Re: [gentoo-user] APIPA address

2008-09-10 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I keep getting this Class B subnet 169.254.0.0 in my routing table on my laptop and I'm not sure why this is happening (for some months now). perhaps you have zeroconf in USE (?) This message

Re: [gentoo-user] weekend amusement

2008-08-23 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: For those who missed it : http://www.besttechie.net/forums/Linux-Humor-t14545.html Gentoo's the best! I can't stop laughting!!! This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messagi

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo x86 to AMD64

2008-08-22 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting Anthony Metcalf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Now I have a system that flies, but I want to be able to use 64Bit VMware guests...so, I am quite sure I need to have a 64bit system for VMWare server to allow this... VMware will accept _and_ run x86_64 guest in x86 hosts. Regards, Norberto --

Re: [gentoo-user] Rate limiting TCP connections...

2008-08-18 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Norberto Bensa wrote: Ah!! But Windows (XP) uses TC by default. It doesn't use 20% of the network bandwidth unless you tweak some registry setting and/or disable QoS in network properties. That sounds like a fine plan for me... which one? remove qos

Re: [gentoo-user] Rate limiting TCP connections...

2008-08-17 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Does anyone else have this problem? Yes, everyone using TCP :) You can read Linux Advanced Routing and Traffic Control for more info (http://lartc.org/). Snappy answer... but I'm pretty sure I've never seen this before - on a wide range of OS and network

Re: [gentoo-user] Rate limiting TCP connections...

2008-08-17 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is there a straightforward way to make my Gentoo box 'play fair' and not hog 100% of the bandwidth? If your router doesn't give you bandwidth and/or traffic shaping control, you can drop some packets. For example, the following rule will accept up to 50 packets

Re: [gentoo-user] df and du difference

2008-08-17 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting Paul Colquhoun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Sat, 16 Aug 2008, Ward Poelmans wrote: On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 07:50, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the difference between du and df is about 640 - 188 = 452 MB. > and "df" is showing that my root is full 2.4 times more than "du". Normal...

Re: [gentoo-user] kerberos gurus? (SOLVED)

2008-08-09 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Am Donnerstag, 7. August 2008 02:01:30 schrieb Norberto Bensa: After copying the mentioned file, I get delegation in every box and it works. Is that the way it should be or am I missing something? Not quite. From the Kerberos V documen

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a gentoo workstation to Active Directory network

2008-08-07 Thread Norberto Bensa
Hello! Quoting Andrey Falko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Yoav Luf As far as I know, don't take my word for it, in order to use Active Directory on a GNU/Linux host, you need to setup LDAP and have it talk to AD. You just need Kerberos and lots of documentation exists o

[gentoo-user] kerberos gurus?

2008-08-06 Thread Norberto Bensa
Hello everyone! I'm doing my first steps into Kerberos V and I got it working but not the way I dreamed. My network: zeddmore (kdc) venkman (client) melnitz (client) I can login into venkman (or melnitz) and I get a ticket. If I ssh to zeddmore, it does so without a password and klist (on

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice about setting up split home directory

2008-08-03 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting Josh Cepek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Personally I'd suggest using LVM for this ++ 1) ++ 2) ++ 3) You can easily migrate between hard drives while the system is online by moving LV's from one Physical Volume (PV) (eg: a hard disk) to another. --!! Have you ever tried that? I've

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DNS Server Patches

2008-07-28 Thread Norberto Bensa
Norberto Bensa wrote: I don't get these tests. Why do they probe _my_ IP and not the IP of my DNS servers? What's the point on probing me if _maybe_ the servers are not patched? Heh... I'm Sorry. I sometimes forget I run my own DNS servers :) After changing my /etc

Re: [gentoo-user] DNS Server Patches

2008-07-28 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Dan Kiersky's own description, and web-based nameserver checker: http://www.doxpara.com/ Alternate web-based nameserver checker (recommended by me! ) https://www.dns-oarc.net/oarc/services/dnsentropy I don't get these tests. Why do they probe _my_ IP

RE: [gentoo-user] upgraded video card, nvidia drivers no longer work

2008-07-27 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting "Budd, Tracy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Is nvnews a lists.gentoo.org list? Nope -- NVidia forum. I don't have a URL at hand. Do a Google search This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

Re: [gentoo-user] 4 GB and Intel Core 2 Duo

2008-07-03 Thread Norberto Bensa
Neil Bothwick wrote: > That's the most likely case, because the HighMem option doesn't even > appear on a 64 bit system. He runs on 32 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] 4 GB and Intel Core 2 Duo

2008-07-03 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting Pawel K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: High Memory Support   Off You made you box to only see ~950MB :) From menuconfig: CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G: Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and between 1 and 4 gigabytes of physical RAM. Symbol: HIGHMEM4G [=y] Prompt: 4GB Defined at arch/x86/Kcon

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ati or Nvida

2008-06-19 Thread Norberto Bensa
Enrico Weigelt wrote: > I've made the big mistake of bying an notebook w/ geforce go 6100. I have one. Compaq Presario 3415LA (Sempron 3500+, GeForce 6150, Gentoo 64bit.) > So I strongly suggest, NOT to buy NV cards. Too late buddy. All my current boxes (6) run on NVidia cards, and are the mos

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list and PGP/MIME

2008-05-25 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting Wolf Canis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Is there a problem with signed messages? Signed messages doesn't make any sense on a mailing list. This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. -- gentoo-user@list

[gentoo-user] phpldapadmin 1.1.0.5 and firefox 3

2008-05-23 Thread Norberto Bensa
Hello list, is there anyone using phpldapadmin-1.1.0.5 with firefox-3 ? I can't get the login form using ff3. Any idea why not? Thanks in advance, Norberto This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. -

Re: [gentoo-user] conntrack and the netfilter howto

2008-05-11 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: "If you've already rebooted and are using your new netfilter-enabled kernel, you can view a list of active network connections that your machine is participating in by typing "cat /proc/net/ip_conntrack" Even with no firewall configured, Linux's conntrack function

Re: [gentoo-user] layman: svn broken?

2008-05-04 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: USE=-webdav-neon works here Hm. I have enabled boths webdav-something USE flags -which were disabled- and now it works. Thanks everyone! Norberto This message was sent using IMP, t

[gentoo-user] layman: svn broken?

2008-05-04 Thread Norberto Bensa
Hello list, svn (dev-util/subversion-1.5.0_rc4) doesn't want to update nor add layman's repos: $ sudo layman -a vmware * Running command "/usr/bin/svn co "http://overlays.gentoo.org/svn/proj/vmware/trunk/"; "/usr/portage/local/layman/vmware""... svn: Unrecognized URL scheme for 'http://

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc: different arch (amd64, x86)

2008-05-03 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting deface <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_AMD64-x86-distcc Thanks. Thanks. Thanks!!! BTW, nice handbook. After 6 years, clean boot in the first try. Gentoo's Docs rocks! This message was sent using IM

[gentoo-user] distcc: different arch (amd64, x86)

2008-05-03 Thread Norberto Bensa
Hello list, since Ubuntu Hardy didn't like my notebook, I'm currently installing Gentoo (amd64) on it. This is my first Gentoo install in almost six years!! So. I have two other boxes (Intel Core 2 Duo and AMD X2 3800+) that also run Gentoo (x86) and I would like to use them as distcc hos

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with mounting an ISO file as non-root

2008-04-23 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting Mike Mazur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: What can I do to be able to mount an arbitrary ISO image to an arbitrary mount point from the command line as non-root user? fuse-iso ? This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Mess

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE slow shutdown

2008-04-19 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi All, I have noticed that a box running pretty much vanilla KDE is taking an awful long time to exit the KDE session when I shutdown. Couldn't find anything in If you use Kopete, check if you have statistics plugin enabled. If so, disable it. HTH, No

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox: password field

2008-04-16 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting Pariksheet Nanda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Most likely the stars and asterisks difference is because your 2 desktops are using different themes. (Or one of the desktops uses a modified theme by the same name) An Ubuntu patch indeed. For those interested: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /usr/p

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