Re: [gentoo-user] PCI video cards, hardware accel, upported by open-source drivers?

2012-04-15 Thread Drew
amp; NICs. Some can max a gen2 x8 slot and running on a gen1 you can see the performance hit. But I digress. ;-) -- Drew "This started out as a hobby and spun horribly out of control." -Unknown

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Acer Core2Duo only sees 3G of RAM

2009-12-05 Thread Drew
Isn't the memory hole above 3GB present even in the 64bit systems? Something about the MMIO reservations for the PCI bus taking up the top gig of the first four Gigs? -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie

Re: [gentoo-user] [solved] DOSEMU 1.4.0.0 won't run as ordinary user anymore

2009-08-30 Thread Drew
The changes to vm.mmap_min_addr were put in place to protect against a number of null pointer deference attacks. -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie

Re: [gentoo-user] Virtualbox Display Broken After xorg Upgrade -- SOLVED

2009-08-08 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Al wrote: Drew Tomlinson wrote: I'm not sure where to start. I upgraded from xorg 1.4 to xorg 1.6. I also followed the ATI Migration guide at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/ati-migration-guide.xml. Everything seems fine except now Virtualbox 3.0.2 guest display

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Virtualbox Display Broken After xorg Upgrade

2009-08-04 Thread Drew Tomlinson
walt wrote: > On 08/03/2009 11:53 PM, Drew Tomlinson wrote: >> I'm not sure where to start. I upgraded from xorg 1.4 to xorg 1.6. I >> also followed the ATI Migration guide at >> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/ati-migration-guide.xml. >> >

[gentoo-user] Virtualbox Display Broken After xorg Upgrade

2009-08-03 Thread Drew Tomlinson
s are Windows 7 and Windows XP. Both have the same symptoms. I've rebuilt virtualbox-bin and -modules. I've Googled but can't seem to find the right google-fu to turn anything up. Any suggestions on how to get things working again? Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The A

[gentoo-user] 32 bit Libraries on amd64

2009-05-14 Thread Drew Tomlinson
t comes to libraries and such. Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com

[gentoo-user] 32 Bit Libraries (Was Adobe Air and TweetDeck)

2009-05-01 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Drew Tomlinson wrote: > Has anyone had luck installing Adobe Air and TweetDeck on Gentoo? I > followed > http://www.flashinthepan.ca/computer-tips/linux-computer-tips/adobe-air-on-gentoo-linux > to get the SDK installed and attempted to run TweetDeck 0.25. It starts > but I get

Re: [gentoo-user] Adobe Air and TweetDeck

2009-04-18 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Alan McKinnon wrote: Thanks for your reply. > On Thursday 16 April 2009 03:00:59 Drew Tomlinson wrote: > >> Has anyone had luck installing Adobe Air and TweetDeck on Gentoo? I >> followed >> http://www.flashinthepan.ca/computer-tips/linux-computer-tips/adobe-air-on

[gentoo-user] Adobe Air and TweetDeck

2009-04-15 Thread Drew Tomlinson
this working? Thanks, Drew --- BEGIN Errors --- # /opt/AIR-SDK/bin/adl /opt/AIR-apps/TweetDeck/META-INF/AIR/application.xml /opt/AIR-apps/TweetDeck Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "gnomebreakpad": libgnomebreakpad.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Gtk-Messa

Re: [gentoo-user] Help With pptpclient -- SOLVED

2009-02-10 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Drew Tomlinson wrote: > I'm trying to connect to a Cisco 3650 VPN Concentrator at work. On > Windows clients, I use the included dialup networking client and connect > without issue using pptp. This is not a L2TP/IPSEC VPN. I want to do > the same on a Gentoo client. > >

[gentoo-user] Help With pptpclient

2009-02-10 Thread Drew Tomlinson
on what I'm missing? I've been at this for two days but can not figure out my errors. In cases where the guide indicates using a VPN server name, I have tried with both a made up (but common) server name and the actual IP address as this VPN server does not have a resolvable name. Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com

Re: [gentoo-user] vncviewer Recommendation

2009-02-09 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Aaron Clark wrote: > Drew Tomlinson wrote: >> I'm looking for an vncviewer for Linux that has the same features as the >> Tight VNC viewer on Windows. I really like how the Windows viewer will >> scale the desktop and "remember" connections. Also, it's

Re: [gentoo-user] vncviewer Recommendation

2009-02-09 Thread Drew Tomlinson
David Negreira wrote: > Drew Tomlinson wrote: > >> I'm looking for an vncviewer for Linux that has the same features as the >> Tight VNC viewer on Windows. I really like how the Windows viewer will >> scale the desktop and "remember" connections. Also, i

[gentoo-user] vncviewer Recommendation

2009-02-09 Thread Drew Tomlinson
dth connections with the Windows version. I've installed the TightVNC viewer on my Gentoo box and it does not appear to have any of these features. I'm looking for recommendations. Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/: ntpd or ntp-client?

2009-02-04 Thread Drew Tomlinson
k in > time. > To avoid running ntp-client and ntpd, look at the -g switch for ntpd. It will make the big jump once and then keep the clock in sync. Cheers, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Modules Not Autoloading

2008-11-27 Thread Drew Tomlinson
John covici wrote: on Thursday 11/27/2008 Dale([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > Drew Tomlinson wrote: > > Modules are not autoloading since initial install with gentoo-sources > > 2.6.25. I have since upgraded to kernel 2.6.27 but the issue > > persists. In my previous Gen

[gentoo-user] Modules Not Autoloading

2008-11-26 Thread Drew Tomlinson
ll me where my error may be? Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com

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

2008-08-10 Thread Drew Tomlinson
;m not knocking those who use LVM. Just understand the risk. :) Cheers, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com

[gentoo-user] Mouse Quits After Gnome Login

2008-08-01 Thread Drew Tomlinson
cause this behavior? Thanks, Drew

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo laptop issues

2008-07-24 Thread Drew Tomlinson
oo because you are actually "compiling" instead of just installing. Cheers, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is the gimmick to run tightvnc from windows to gentoo

2008-07-24 Thread Drew Tomlinson
:0 are available. I'm pretty sure x11vnc will do that. I do know there's a vnc server that will let you grab your current xsession and I think that's the one. Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong. I can confirm that x11vnc is the one. I use it often. Cheers,

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't Decrypt WEP Packets After Upgrade From 2.6.23 to 2.6.25

2008-06-07 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 6/5/2008 4:49 PM Eric Martin said the following: Drew Tomlinson wrote: Ever since I upgraded my gentoo-sources kernel from 2.6.23 to 2.6.25, I can no longer see packets on my wireless network for any device other than my own. The tcpdump output looks like this: 20:49:32.909144 00:12:bf

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't Decrypt WEP Packets After Upgrade From 2.6.23 to 2.6.25

2008-06-07 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 6/6/2008 2:40 AM Mick said the following: On Tuesday 03 June 2008, Drew Tomlinson wrote: Ever since I upgraded my gentoo-sources kernel from 2.6.23 to 2.6.25, I can no longer see packets on my wireless network for any device other than my own. The tcpdump output looks like this: 20:49

[gentoo-user] Can't Decrypt WEP Packets After Upgrade From 2.6.23 to 2.6.25

2008-06-02 Thread Drew Tomlinson
3 firmware. I was hoping that would fix it but no luck. I am also using the new MAC80211 stack instead of the older IEEE80211 stack. Any ideas on what I have done wrong? Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Is gentoo-wiki Down?

2008-04-15 Thread Drew Tomlinson
ionut cucu wrote: On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 04:23:05 +0400 Andrew Gaydenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: === On Monday 14 April 2008, Drew Tomlinson wrote: === For the past few days, anytime I've attempted to get to gentoo-wiki or gentoo-portage, my browser just "sits

Re: [gentoo-user] Is gentoo-wiki Down?

2008-04-13 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Andrew Gaydenko wrote: === On Monday 14 April 2008, Drew Tomlinson wrote: === For the past few days, anytime I've attempted to get to gentoo-wiki or gentoo-portage, my browser just "sits". I connect to other sites just fine. It may be my firewall/IDS but I'm

[gentoo-user] Is gentoo-wiki Down?

2008-04-13 Thread Drew Tomlinson
For the past few days, anytime I've attempted to get to gentoo-wiki or gentoo-portage, my browser just "sits". I connect to other sites just fine. It may be my firewall/IDS but I'm not sure. Are these sites still available? Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! V

Re: [gentoo-user] [Probably off-topic] How do I find out what is consuming the bandwidth?

2008-03-01 Thread Drew Tomlinson
and use a FreeBSD machine as my gateway. There is a tool called 'trafshow' I use for quick real time traffic analysis which might be useful for you. I found it in portage: net-analyzer/trafshow Cheers, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http

ATI Drivers Sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH (Was Re: What is LD_LIBRARY_PATH? (Was Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.3.1 Won't Start As User))

2008-02-22 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Willie Wong wrote: On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 09:52:39AM -0800, Penguin Lover Drew Tomlinson squawked: There are no error messages. When starting as a user, the splash graphic just sits there and the CPU usage is basically 100% for both X and oosplash.bin. When starting as root, the splash

What is LD_LIBRARY_PATH? (Was Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.3.1 Won't Start As User)

2008-02-22 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Philip Webb wrote: 080221 Drew Tomlinson wrote: I emerged OpenOffice 2.3.1 on my amd64 install running gentoo-2.6.23-r5. I can start OpenOffice as root but not as a regular user. How are you starting it ? Do you enter eg 'oocalc' from a CLI or do you click on an icon in a

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.3.1 Won't Start As User

2008-02-21 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Mark Knecht wrote: OpenOffice or OpenOffice-bin? I'm running 2.3.1 here on my AMD64. No problems that I've seen so far. - Mark The actual OpenOffice that took many hours to compile on my AMD Turion TL-50 1.6ghz laptop. :) Thanks, Drew On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 5:51 PM, Drew

[gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.3.1 Won't Start As User

2008-02-21 Thread Drew Tomlinson
suggestions on how to get this going? Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?

2008-02-05 Thread Drew Tomlinson
r me. If anyone knows any other tricks, I'd be happy to hear about them. I'm using a gentoo 2.6.23-r5 kernel with the Broadcom 4311 driver. Cheers, Drew -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Via vb70001 mini-itx vrs Gentoo

2008-01-21 Thread Drew
> It's got nothing to do with RAM timings and everything to do with the > fact that VIA couldn't care less about Linux users. One thing I have > learned in th last few months is don't touch VIA with a bargepole. My > VIA-based laptop went in the bin and I am now enjoying the luxury of an > Intel-b

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop ATI Integrated Video Performance?

2007-12-29 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 12/25/2007 9:49 AM András Csányi said the following: 2007/12/25, Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I have a Gateway laptop with an integrated ATI graphics board. lspci detects it as: 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS485 [Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP] Howeve

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Laptop ATI Integrated Video Performance?

2007-12-29 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 12/25/2007 10:19 AM Grant Edwards said the following: On 2007-12-25, Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a Gateway laptop with an integrated ATI graphics board. lspci detects it as: 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS485 [Radeon Xpress 11

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop ATI Integrated Video Performance?

2007-12-29 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 12/25/2007 8:56 AM Stroller said the following: On 25 Dec 2007, at 15:59, Drew Tomlinson wrote: ... I'm using x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.433 and have followed guides and verified direct rendering is enabled (however I don't know if that matters for displaying video). Is this

[gentoo-user] Laptop ATI Integrated Video Performance?

2007-12-25 Thread Drew Tomlinson
verified direct rendering is enabled (however I don't know if that matters for displaying video). Is this the best I can expect for this video hardware? I can post my xorg.conf if there's a possibility that some tweak will improve performance. Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magici

[gentoo-user] VMWare Workstation 6.0.2 Bridged Networking w/Wireless Card

2007-12-10 Thread Drew Tomlinson
and wireless. I'm stumped. I've used VMWare with Windows as the host but this is my first attempt at installing on a Linux host. Any ideas? Thanks, Drew -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Mythtv Build Error - ESVN_REPO_URI Not Matched - SOLVED!!!

2007-08-31 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 8/31/2007 12:59 AM Neil Bothwick said the following: On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:07:55 -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: I attempted to build media-tv/mythtv-0.20.2_p14357 and received an error. I Googled on the error but can find no relevant help. I don't know much about how portage works

[gentoo-user] Mythtv Build Error - ESVN_REPO_URI Not Matched

2007-08-30 Thread Drew Tomlinson
c_unpack' * ebuild.sh, line 44: Called src_unpack * mythtv-0.20.2_p14357.ebuild, line 108: Called subversion_src_unpack * subversion.eclass, line 254: Called subversion_fetch * subversion.eclass, line 179: Called die * * subversion.eclass: ESVN_REPO_URI (or specified URI) and working

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Flashplayer 9 working for anybody?

2007-08-06 Thread Drew Tomlinson
d on videos from other sites or with videos using a smaller format on nytimes.com This may help: http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=186198 Cheers, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] 3D Acceleration With Laptop - Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP -- SOLVED!!!

2007-07-09 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 07/03/07 06:17 Drew Tomlinson said the following: I have a laptop with ATI integrated graphics. lspci shows the graphics card as: 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS485 [Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP] I have been unsuccessful in getting X configured to work with this

Re: [gentoo-user] 3D Acceleration With Laptop - Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP

2007-07-03 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 7/3/2007 7:14 PM Mark Knecht said the following: > >The only thing to consider then is that your hardware is not supported by that >driver... > That may be true. I have been unable to confirm or deny that. Anyone else? Thanks, Drew See if Michael can help you at

Re: [gentoo-user] 3D Acceleration With Laptop - Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP

2007-07-03 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 7/3/2007 7:01 PM Drew Tomlinson said the following: On 7/3/2007 6:36 PM Jerry McBride said the following: On Tuesday 03 July 2007 08:58:39 pm Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 7/3/2007 5:19 PM Jerry McBride said the following: On Tuesday 03 July 2007 07:55:40 pm Drew Tomlinson wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] 3D Acceleration With Laptop - Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP

2007-07-03 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 7/3/2007 6:36 PM Jerry McBride said the following: On Tuesday 03 July 2007 08:58:39 pm Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 7/3/2007 5:19 PM Jerry McBride said the following: On Tuesday 03 July 2007 07:55:40 pm Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 7/3/2007 9:36 AM James Ausmus said the following

Re: [gentoo-user] 3D Acceleration With Laptop - Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP

2007-07-03 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 7/3/2007 5:19 PM Jerry McBride said the following: On Tuesday 03 July 2007 07:55:40 pm Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 7/3/2007 9:36 AM James Ausmus said the following: On 7/3/07, Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologi

Re: [gentoo-user] 3D Acceleration With Laptop - Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP

2007-07-03 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 7/3/2007 9:36 AM James Ausmus said the following: On 7/3/07, Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS485 [Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP] (EE) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable I'm at a loss. Can some kind soul please poin

[gentoo-user] 3D Acceleration With Laptop - Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP

2007-07-03 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I'm at a loss. Can some kind soul please point me in the right direction toward the steps needed to get 3D acceleration on my laptop? Should I be using x11 or ATI drivers? And if ATI drivers, any idea what is might be conflicting in my kernel? Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magici

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble Getting Wireless Networking Configured -- SOLVED

2007-07-03 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 6/27/2007 7:45 AM Drew Tomlinson said the following: On 6/27/2007 1:12 AM Alan McKinnon said the following: On Wednesday 27 June 2007, Randy Barlow wrote: Drew Tomlinson wrote: I ran tcpdump on eth1 and no packets are leaving the interface. Thus I assume that's why I'm n

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble Getting Wireless Networking Configured

2007-06-27 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 6/27/2007 1:12 AM Alan McKinnon said the following: On Wednesday 27 June 2007, Randy Barlow wrote: Drew Tomlinson wrote: I ran tcpdump on eth1 and no packets are leaving the interface. Thus I assume that's why I'm not getting an address. I don't know ho

[gentoo-user] Trouble Getting Wireless Networking Configured

2007-06-26 Thread Drew Tomlinson
and no packets are leaving the interface. Thus I assume that's why I'm not getting an address. The DHCP server has no problems with other machines on my network. The Wireless access point works with other devices too. So I'm stumped. Is this related to firmware? Other ideas? I appreciate you reading this far and will gladly accept any suggestions. Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is the latest release 2006.1?

2007-04-18 Thread Drew
le when you can't even install Gentoo onto it in the first place using the images available. Who'd have thought a Promise SATA300 TX4 would be unsupported in 2006.1? -Drew -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Help With Cron -- SOLVED

2007-04-10 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 4/10/2007 3:20 PM Drew Tomlinson wrote: My cron program is sys-process/vixie-cron-4.1-r9 and all cron jobs but one are running as I expect. Specifically, I want the following command to execute from cron: /usr/share/mythtv/mythrename.pl --format "%T %- %Y-%m-%d_%g-%i %A %- %S"

[gentoo-user] Help With Cron

2007-04-10 Thread Drew Tomlinson
7;--format " ..."' part. Thus my command looked like this: /usr/share/mythtv/mythrename.pl --link /tv/pretty But still I received email with the same error. I don't understand what cron doesn't like. The command runs just fine as the user from the command line. Can

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it possible to download packages from Windows XP?

2007-02-18 Thread Drew
x27;t work under gentoo but does under XP, so non-local data is impossible to snag. ;-) -Drew -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Random number generation

2006-12-09 Thread Drew
ve to do (if anything) to get my system using it instead of the software RNG? -Drew -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What's the use of mozilla-launcher?

2006-11-13 Thread Drew
one so chooses. http://www.w3.org/Addressing/URL/5_BNF.html#z73 Defines what is/isn't allowed in a URL. -Drew -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] how thorough is #emerge --sync?

2006-10-17 Thread Drew
I thought sync was supposed to "prime" portage to get the latest versions of software when needed. All sync does is download the latest ebuilds into your local portage tree. If the ebuild maintainers haven't gotten around to creating an ebuild for package 'foo-1.2.0' (the lastest) and are still

Re: [gentoo-user] where to put mknod & chmod

2006-10-13 Thread Drew
On 10/11/06, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wednesday 11 October 2006 18:00, maxim wexler wrote: > Hi group, > > One of my morning chores after booting linux is to su > and enter #mknod /dev/ppp c 108 0 and #chmod a+rw > /dev/parport0. > > Where can I park these commands to automate

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] RSA Vs DSA keys for SSH authentication

2006-10-09 Thread Drew
> DSA is mathematically stronger than RSA. However, that doesn't mean much > since most attacks don't come from attacking the core of the algorithm > anyway. Do you mean that an RSA key with twice the number of bits (e.g. 2048 or even higher) is still weaker (i.e. easier to crack) than the DSA k

Re: [gentoo-user] 64-bit system?

2006-09-27 Thread Drew
ithout lag. Of course 2GB of RAM will do that to ya. :) -Drew -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] nfs and samba doesn't mount at boot

2006-09-22 Thread Drew
Do You have any idea what can be wrong ? Thank You for help. -at Can you post the output of "rc-update show". Snowballs chance but I have an idea. -Drew -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] chroot to gentoo amd64

2006-09-22 Thread Drew
On 9/20/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thursday 21 September 2006 05:06, Drew wrote: > > You need a 64 bit kernel with CONFIG_IA32_EMUL enabled. > > Uh no. A 32bit chroot can be run on a 64bit kernel with IA32_EMUL > enabled however a 64bit chroot ca

Re: [gentoo-user] chroot to gentoo amd64

2006-09-20 Thread Drew
You need a 64 bit kernel with CONFIG_IA32_EMUL enabled. Uh no. A 32bit chroot can be run on a 64bit kernel with IA32_EMUL enabled however a 64bit chroot can *NOT* be run from a 32bit kernel. -Drew -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] 64-bit system?

2006-09-18 Thread Drew
real 2.5GHz (or higher) and watch it run circles around everything else in my collection. Who needs ricer flags when you have ricer hardware? ;-) -Drew -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Two systems or one?

2006-09-17 Thread Drew
Yes, but does it run Gentoo? ;) Maybe not Gentoo specifically but it runs a linux kernel inside. :) Hence the 'L'. -Drew -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Two systems or one?

2006-09-17 Thread Drew
of it and it's very configurable once reflashed. Make sure you get the GL model though as the other models are pretty much limited to stock firmware and later revisions were neutered to an extent. And did I say the GL's can be purchased new for ~$60? -Drew -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: What is up with the new "domainname" situation?

2006-09-17 Thread Drew
i.drew.homelinux.com) has the hostname of 'mini' set in /etc/conf.d/hostname, 'drew.homelinux.com' set in dns_domain= and mini.drew.homelinux.com listed under /etc/hosts. Please note this was tested on an amd64 setup with a single ethernet interface under VMware (running under M$ XP Pro x64). -Drew -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel.pid_max

2006-09-17 Thread Drew
ads.h (then manually branching through the code), I came to the conclusion that 32768 is the maximum permitted. Hopefully a kernel guru is watching and can confirm or deny my conclusions. I'm using a hardened kernel if that makes any difference. ;-) -Drew -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/profile.d/ and non-root users

2006-09-15 Thread Drew
to be executed it must have the 'x' flag set. I get bitten by this every so often when creating new scripts. -Drew -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] portage broken

2006-09-14 Thread Drew
//bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147010 -- -Drew -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox Keeps Hanging on some pages

2006-09-12 Thread Drew
ages manually? I did some digging with google and there does seem to be some problems with using liferea & mozilla/firefox together. Is liferea opening a firefox window within itself (similar to those annoying apps with a builtin MSIE browser) or is firefox opening the URL itself? -Drew -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox Keeps Hanging on some pages

2006-09-10 Thread Drew
ites that firefox chokes on, are there any common elements they all share? Perhaps a plugin or something thats called? Also, could you post your emerge --info? -Drew -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Startup Script Help

2006-05-15 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 5/12/2006 9:51 AM Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 12 May 2006 09:23:06 -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: Every time there's a power outage at my home, my Gentoo box fails to start. This is because it attempts to configure the network via DHCP before my DHCP server has finished its st

[gentoo-user] Startup Script Help

2006-05-12 Thread Drew Tomlinson
en it sleeps before trying again. Then maybe after so many DHCP failures, it finally uses a static configuration. However my scripting knowledge is limited so if someone would point me in the right direction, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Ma

Re: [gentoo-user] System Clock Problems

2006-02-14 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 2/14/2006 6:32 AM Benno Schulenberg wrote: Drew Tomlinson wrote: I've tried both zeroing this file and removing it altogether. Zeroing doesn't work and if I delete it, it never gets recreated. I've even tried "touch"ing it but it remains empty. After touching

Re: [gentoo-user] System Clock Problems

2006-02-13 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I don't get it. Thanks for your reply, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, & More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: System Clock Problems

2006-02-13 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 2/13/2006 12:22 PM Mark Knecht wrote: On 2/13/06, Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Anyway, I really appreciate your thoughts. Because this box runs MythTV, time is *VERY* important. Imagine my surprise when I went to watch the first day of the Olympics on to find out t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: System Clock Problems

2006-02-13 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 2/12/2006 8:01 PM Harry Putnam wrote: Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: The time server is a FreeBSD 6.0 box on my network. My other FreeBSD box and two Windows boxes get time from it just fine. Even the Gentoo box will set its clock with "ntpd -gq". I am curr

[gentoo-user] System Clock Problems

2006-02-12 Thread Drew Tomlinson
orkaround. Any ideas on what might have caused this recent change in behavior? Thanks for your help, Drew --- Begin debug output --- ntpd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Feb 11 19:19:56 PST 2006 (1) addto_syslog: ntpd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Feb 11 19:19:56 PST 2006 (1) addto_syslog: precision = 3.000 usec

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaned Cruft and Broke ivtv - How to Fix?

2006-02-12 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 2/9/2006 8:14 AM Neil Bothwick said the following: On Thu, 09 Feb 2006 08:02:07 -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote: Thanks for your reply. revdep-rebuild -p did not return anything but maybe that's because I already tried reinstalling ivtv. I don't have genlop on my system. W

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaned Cruft and Broke ivtv - How to Fix?

2006-02-09 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 2/9/2006 12:37 AM Neil Bothwick said the following: On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 18:07:39 -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote: So I tried rebuilding ivtv but the problem persists. Thus I suspect I deleted something I shouldn't have with 'emerge -depclean'. Any suggestion on the best wa

[gentoo-user] Cleaned Cruft and Broke ivtv - How to Fix?

2006-02-08 Thread Drew Tomlinson
on the best way to figure out what that "something" was and get things running again? Thanks, Drew -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Have you seen my flamesuit? (Was: How many people use KDE?)

2006-01-21 Thread Drew Tomlinson
his could be the start of another flame war especially since it could be argued that any OS is the "best" in specific situations. Cheers, Drew -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How To Set NIC? (Was: Rx Errors on NIC)

2006-01-20 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 1/19/2006 11:37 PM Rumen Yotov said the following: On (19/01/06 18:15), Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 12/29/2005 3:33 PM Drew Tomlinson wrote: I have a AMD Athlon 2800+ processor running on a Asus A7N8X Deluxe motherboard. This motherboard uses the Nvidia NForce2 chipset. It has

[gentoo-user] How To Set NIC? (Was: Rx Errors on NIC)

2006-01-19 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 12/29/2005 3:33 PM Drew Tomlinson wrote: I have a AMD Athlon 2800+ processor running on a Asus A7N8X Deluxe motherboard. This motherboard uses the Nvidia NForce2 chipset. It has both an Nvidia and a 3Com 100 mbps network adapter integrated. Initially I used the Nvidia network adapter

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge is "Waiting for lirc_client.o.lock to be removed"

2006-01-12 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 1/12/2006 10:59 AM Neil Bothwick said the following: On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 10:45:30 -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote: I've stopped lircd, removed all lirc kernel modules, searched the entire file system for a file named "lirc_client.o.lock", searched Google for the same, even r

[gentoo-user] Emerge is "Waiting for lirc_client.o.lock to be removed"

2006-01-12 Thread Drew Tomlinson
hed Google for the same, even rebooted, and am still stuck at this point. I keep using 'emerge --resume' to retry as i don't want to rebuild the 130+ things that have already been built. I just want to continue with the remaining 250+. Any ideas on how to overcome this hurdle? Thanks, Drew -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Rx Errors on NIC

2005-12-29 Thread Drew Tomlinson
starting to think I may have some configuration issues as I find it hard to believe that both ports are bad. I'm a Gentoo newbie and started with kernel 2.11. I've upgraded once to 2.13-r5 which is where I'm at now. I have not changed any networking parameter from their default

[gentoo-user] Can't Re-Emerge lirc After Kernel Upgrade

2005-12-27 Thread Drew Tomlinson
en't found anything via Google. Any ideas? Thanks, Drew --- BEGIN Build Failure Output ---. creating doc/man/Makefile creating config.h You will have to use the lirc_i2c kernel module. Now enter 'make' and 'make install' to compile and install the package. * Conv

[gentoo-user] ivtv 5.1 From Portage?

2005-12-25 Thread Drew Tomlinson
normal portage tree. I've read about overlays and non official ebuilds but don't understand the process. Can anyone tell me if there is an ebuild for ivtv 0.5 and nudge me to a newbie link that explains the overlay process? Thanks, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehous

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix Install Method

2005-12-10 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 12/10/2005 3:47 PM Shawn Haggett wrote: Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 12/10/2005 1:17 PM Stroller wrote: On Dec 10, 2005, at 5:08 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a system on an Abit motherboard with the Nvidia GeForce 4 chipset. There are two SATA disks in a hardward stripe

Re: [gentoo-user] ivtv 0.5 ebuild?

2005-12-10 Thread Drew Tomlinson
-sync just yesterday. Thanks anyway, Drew On Saturday 10 December 2005 20:25, Drew Tomlinson wrote: Someone on the MythTV list recommended I install ivtv 0.5 to get a pctv HD-3000 card working. However portage shows the current version at 0.4-r2. Is there an ebuild for 0.5? Kicks to the porta

[gentoo-user] ivtv 0.5 ebuild?

2005-12-10 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Someone on the MythTV list recommended I install ivtv 0.5 to get a pctv HD-3000 card working. However portage shows the current version at 0.4-r2. Is there an ebuild for 0.5? Kicks to the portage overlay process welcome. Thanks, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks,

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix Install Method

2005-12-10 Thread Drew Tomlinson
ms to have worked! However I'll keep the live CD in mind for future emergencies. I started with Knoppix because a previous Gentoo installation I did wouldn't work with the live CD. I had an Advansys SCSI card in that box which wasn't supported on the live CD but was supported with

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix Install Method

2005-12-10 Thread Drew Tomlinson
dows install & all your data intact. Recover the data to a portable drive & format. Thanks. I tried an overlay install again and things seem to be going well. Copying data now. Thanks for your ideas! Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books,

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix Install Method

2005-12-10 Thread Drew Tomlinson
t to get Knoppix to see the two individual drives as one logical striped drive? I can't recover the data from booting Windows because it's all screwed up and reboots itself shortly after logon. Thanks, Drew -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list what about safe mode? Safe

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix Install Method

2005-12-10 Thread Drew Tomlinson
lly instead of the > one logical striped drive it is. > > Is there some magic I can perform at the boot prompt to get Knoppix > to see the two individual drives as one logical striped drive? I > can't recover the data from booting Windows because it's all > screwed up

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