Re: [gentoo-user] screen is blinking with nvidia

2005-04-14 Thread Al Bayrouni
Tim Beck wrote: Just curious...is it a very very faint blinking, or is it a more dramatic blackening effect? I noticed the same thing with my workstation (which also has an nvidia card) and just thought I was nuts. But it doesn't seem to do it in windows, so... On 4/14/05, Al Bayrouni <[EMAIL PROT

Re: [gentoo-user] X random freeze but mouse still moves

2005-04-14 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: > MalachiX wrote: > >>I have been battling an ongoing problem for a while. When I am on >>Linux, X will just randomly freezes/hangs. I can not control alt >>backspace. The mouse still moves though, it is only the screen that >>freezes. >> >>The problem has been on G

Re: [gentoo-user] boot with serial console

2005-04-14 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 15:50:30 -0400 "Eric S. Johansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I have a system with an apparently dead keyboard interface. is there | any chance I could use the standard (or near standard) minimal boot CD | and install everything via serial console? What arch? It's supported

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly Complex Hard Drive Question

2005-04-14 Thread Robert G. Hays
Tom Moyer wrote: I would like to swap hda and hdb. I don't want to swap any data across the drives I just want to have Gentoo be the only OS installed. Linux, including Gentoo, can run from any drive in the system. If Gentoo is not already your default boot from Grub, you can easily make it so; as

Re: [gentoo-user] mount

2005-04-14 Thread Robert G. Hays
All Three. rgh. Al Bayrouni wrote: Magnus Varmfors wrote: Hi there! I think it'd be CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP, yes. But if you set it to "y", it's compiled into kernel and isn't a module. If you want it to be a module, set it to "m". In menuconfig, it's Device Drivers -> Block Devices -> Loopback device

Re: [gentoo-user] mount

2005-04-14 Thread Robert G. Hays
Oh, and then you have to copy /usr/src//arch//boot/bzImage to /boot, and add the new kernel to your grub or lilo. If using an Intel or AMD (etc) cpu, and if you have your source-dir set as it should be, this is exactly: cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot and add the new kerne

[gentoo-user] Unslotted duplicates

2005-04-14 Thread George Garvey
I'm getting a lot of duplicates that are not slotted installed. I use pye almost always, instead of emerge. Has something changed that broke pye? Has the way that emerge -u works changed? Cleaning this up is a hassle. I'd like to stop it from happening. It looks like it started a couple of we

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about kernel-equivalence

2005-04-14 Thread Robert G. Hays
Nick Rout wrote: ok, now that i've rebooted windoze again and email is -maybe- working again, i'll finish that email. doe anybody know where i might find the kernel-derivations and maybe patches? What do you mean derivations? The patches for any gentoo kernel set are usually genpatches-${K

[gentoo-user] Autoloading scsi scanner kernel modules

2005-04-14 Thread Toby Cubitt
I have an old HP scanner that works fine with one of the drivers included in the kernel. I compiled the driver as a module since I don't use the scanner all that often. However, this means the scanner doesn't work unless it's switched on before booting. Up till now, I've just su-ed to root, and re

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly Complex Hard Drive Question

2005-04-14 Thread Kashani
Tom Moyer wrote: Also from one response: "Put the drives on separate channels." Why? I want to use all three for Gentoo if possible. My mentioning it was more of a pointer for you to think about which drives you were going to be using most often rather than /dev/hd? ascetics. If you have the two

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly Complex Hard Drive Question

2005-04-14 Thread Tom Moyer
yeah but i don't think i will right away i thought I could get qemu to run Windows XP but it seems there is a bug in it that prevents it from booting correctly so I'll wait to do this for now. I figured that the system would be more organized if i moved the promary drive(120 Gig with Gentoo) to pri

Re: [gentoo-user] boot with serial console

2005-04-14 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 15:50:30 -0400 "Eric S. Johansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I have a system with an apparently dead keyboard interface. is there | any chance I could use the standard (or near standard) minimal boot CD | and install everything via serial console? Wh

Re: [gentoo-user] screen is blinking with nvidia

2005-04-14 Thread Tim Beck
Thanks! I double checked my xorg.conf with the specifications of my monitor and lowered the range of the horizontal refresh rate. This seems to have fixed the issue. On 4/14/05, Al Bayrouni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tim Beck wrote: > > >Just curious...is it a very very faint blinking, or is i

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about kernel-equivalence

2005-04-14 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 18:36:50 -0400 Robert G. Hays wrote: > > > > <...derivations...> That is, which > kernel.org kernel-w.x.y.z > did which > gentoo kernel-w.x.y-gentoo-rz > come from, then get patched, and with which patches. Oh and by the way if you just want the sources that Linu

[gentoo-user] Mouse pads

2005-04-14 Thread Mark Knecht
Does anyone else have trouble finding cool mouse pads? Does anyone else think that if they Gentoo store sold Gentoo mouse pads that they would buy 3 or 4 of them. I do. I don't know where to vote for these things but if others agree and if store type people are here make a few mouse pads. I'd pay

Re: [gentoo-user] X random freeze but mouse still moves

2005-04-14 Thread MalachiX
> Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: > > MalachiX wrote: > > > >>I have been battling an ongoing problem for a while. When I am on > >>Linux, X will just randomly freezes/hangs. I can not control alt > >>backspace. The mouse still moves though, it is only the screen that > >>freezes. > >> > >>The p

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly Complex Hard Drive Question

2005-04-14 Thread Robert G. Hays
He has a very good point. The other thought is do you have a CD or DVD in one of the channels? If so, you need to check that the cd/dvd is as fast as your hdisk, because a channel can only talk as fastas the slowest drive on it; to talk aste would be to confuse the slow device & maybe cause it to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly Complex Hard Drive Question

2005-04-14 Thread Robert G. Hays
inlining... Tom Moyer wrote: yeah but i don't think i will right away i thought I could get qemu to run Windows XP but it seems there is a bug in it that prevents it from booting correctly so I'll wait to do this for now. I figured that the system would be more organized if i moved the promary driv

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly Complex Hard Drive Question

2005-04-14 Thread Tom Moyer
my dvd drive is only like 2 monthes old. It is a Memorex Dual Layer DVD+/- RW I think it is fairly fast. I guess now I'm just wondering would it be worth my time to make my gentoo drive my primary master, a second hard drive the primary slave, the last hard drive the secondary slave, and the dvd

[gentoo-user] SSH printing to remote printer

2005-04-14 Thread Joseph
Here is my setup; my gentoo box1 <-> internet <-> remote firewall/print server <-> remote gentoo box2 | V printer I want to print a "document" from my "gentoo box1" to a

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a Mail Auto-Responder for Web via Email

2005-04-14 Thread Nick Rout
I knew a guy once who worked in a call centre, he did not have web access, but had email access. If he wanted to view a web page he sent an email to some external provider with the url in the body of the email, and a short time later he would get the web page back as an attachment. OK so he was ge

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly Complex Hard Drive Question

2005-04-14 Thread William Kenworthy
drives on separate channels: ide busses que commands serially, and wait for responses tying up the channel. The workaround is to put your high throughput devices on separate channels, keep generally slower cdroms away from faster devices, and keep cd burners on their own channel. Yes, rather di

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH printing to remote printer

2005-04-14 Thread Nick Rout
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/5462 On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 18:22:36 -0600 Joseph wrote: > Here is my setup; > my gentoo box1 <-> internet <-> remote firewall/print server <-> remote > gentoo box2 >| >V >

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse pads

2005-04-14 Thread Ethan Zonca
totallyOn 4/14/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does anyone else have trouble finding cool mouse pads? Does anyoneelse think that if they Gentoo store sold Gentoo mouse pads that theywould buy 3 or 4 of them. I do.I don't know where to vote for these things but if others agree and if stor

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse pads

2005-04-14 Thread Peter De Zutter
On 4/15/05, Ethan Zonca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: totallyOn 4/14/05, Mark Knecht < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does anyone else have trouble finding cool mouse pads? Does anyoneelse think that if they Gentoo store sold Gentoo mouse pads that theywould buy 3 or 4 of them. I do.I don't know where to v

[gentoo-user] resuming emerge

2005-04-14 Thread Pupeno
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is there any way to resume emerging ? I have a workstation which spent about 5 hours compiling OpenOffice and I had to turn it off, I'd like to continue building it (that's the idea behind make and incremental building, isn't it?). Is it possible ?

Re: [gentoo-user] X random freeze but mouse still moves

2005-04-14 Thread Peter De Zutter
On 4/15/05, MalachiX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote:> > MalachiX wrote:> >> >>I have been battling an ongoing problem for a while.  When I am on> >>Linux, X will just randomly freezes/hangs.  I can not control alt > >>backspace.  The mouse still moves though, it is only th

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo security guide question

2005-04-14 Thread James Hiscock
> 'Scuse me, this must be the English class -- I thought I was in the > Computer Science / Political Science Building... Sorry. > > Enough already please, everybody? ...sorry... showing my BA here... I get a little picky about silly things like that... ;) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing lis

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse pads

2005-04-14 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: > Does anyone else have trouble finding cool mouse pads? Does anyone > else think that if they Gentoo store sold Gentoo mouse pads that they > would buy 3 or 4 of them. I do. > > I don't know where to vote for these things but if others agree and if > store

Re: [gentoo-user] X random freeze but mouse still moves

2005-04-14 Thread Daniel Hackney
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I had this problem as well. If you are using composite, try turning that off, as that is what did it for me. Actually, I think I could have done some combination of leaving composite on and fiddling with AllowCompositeWithGLX. MalachiX wrote: >I hav

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a Mail Auto-Responder for Web via Email

2005-04-14 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 12:30 -0400, Robert G. Hays wrote: > A. Khattri wrote: > > >Sounds like a great way to send spam. > > > Or worse. Why is this needed? > rgh. Good for ppl that don't have access to I-Net. (me) -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neur

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a Mail Auto-Responder for Web via Email

2005-04-14 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Nick Rout wrote: > Thirdly you could use it to do something like home control > > To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject:Warm up > > TURNON AIR_CONDITIONING 22C Scary. > Plus some authentication!! Yes, some VERY GOOD form of authentication would have to be employed... -- -- gen

Re: [gentoo-user] mount

2005-04-14 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 18:29:35 -0400 Robert G. Hays wrote: > If using an Intel or AMD (etc) cpu, and if you have your source-dir set > as it should be, this is exactly: > cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot > and add the new kernel to your grub or lilo. > rgh If you are using

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a Mail Auto-Responder for Web via Email

2005-04-14 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 21:18 -0400, A. Khattri wrote: > On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Nick Rout wrote: > > > Thirdly you could use it to do something like home control > > > > To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject:Warm up > > > > TURNON AIR_CONDITIONING 22C > > Scary. if implemented Well, that could be a possi

Re: [gentoo-user] Killing two birds....

2005-04-14 Thread Jerry McBride
I said I'd come back with some results Here we go... Test bed was an old Compaq 700us, my personal war machine. It sports an amd Athlon 4, 1600 with 512meg and a 20gig hard drive. No scsi on this machine, just plain old eide... I mad a number of runs with portage, only had time to work on

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a Mail Auto-Responder for Web via Email

2005-04-14 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 21:18:32 -0400 (EDT) A. Khattri wrote: > On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Nick Rout wrote: > > > Thirdly you could use it to do something like home control > > > > To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject:Warm up > > > > TURNON AIR_CONDITIONING 22C > > Scary. > > > Plus some authentication!! >

Re: [gentoo-user] resuming emerge

2005-04-14 Thread Jan Han Xie
On Friday 15 April 2005 09:43, Pupeno wrote: > Is there any way to resume emerging ? I have a workstation which spent > about 5 hours compiling OpenOffice and I had to turn it off, I'd like to > continue building it (that's the idea behind make and incremental building, > isn't it?). > Is it possib

Re: [gentoo-user] resuming emerge

2005-04-14 Thread Eugene Rosenzweig
Pupeno wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is there any way to resume emerging ? I have a workstation which spent about 5 hours compiling OpenOffice and I had to turn it off, I'd like to continue building it (that's the idea behind make and incremental building, isn't it?). Is i

Re: [gentoo-user] resuming emerge

2005-04-14 Thread mudrii
Eugene Rosenzweig wrote: Pupeno wrote: Is there any way to resume emerging ? I have a workstation which spent about 5 hours compiling OpenOffice and I had to turn it off, I'd like to continue building it (that's the idea behind make and incremental building, isn't it?). Is it possible ? If no,

Re: [gentoo-user] X random freeze but mouse still moves

2005-04-14 Thread Jon Le Miere
MalachiX wrote: > I have been battling an ongoing problem for a while. When I am on > Linux, X will just randomly freezes/hangs. I can not control alt > backspace. The mouse still moves though, it is only the screen that > freezes. > > The problem has been on Gentoo forum for a few months now:

Re: [gentoo-user] boot with serial console

2005-04-14 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 15. April 2005 01:13 schrieb ext Eric S. Johansson: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > What arch? It's supported on sparc, mips, hppa and arm at least and > > should work automatically. > > sorry, x86 Just boot the CD with 2.6 kernel and check with zcat /proc/config.gz|grep CONFIG_SERIAL_C

Re: [gentoo-user] why my screen on book computer is too small?

2005-04-14 Thread steven pan
http://www.linux-laptop.net/ to find your laptop model On 4/14/05, "帅哥:->代小飞" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > HI; > I use the HP omin book to install the gentoo linux; > when I use the console in the system, the console's only the 600*480; > I want the change the console to the whool screen(1024*768

[gentoo-user] IBM Thinkpad with Belkin Wireless

2005-04-14 Thread Richard Watson
I'm contemplating installing Gentoo on a 4 year old IBM Thinkpad with a Belkin Wireless card in the PCMCIA Card slot. I'm sick of it crashing on Windows 98 ... Does anyone have any tips that I should consider that are not in the Gentoo Install instructions. I've run up a few servers with Gentoo in

Re: [gentoo-user] resuming emerge

2005-04-14 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
mudrii wrote: Eugene Rosenzweig wrote: Pupeno wrote: Is there any way to resume emerging ? I have a workstation which spent about 5 hours compiling OpenOffice and I had to turn it off, I'd like to continue building it (that's the idea behind make and incremental building, isn't it?). Is it pos

Re: [gentoo-user] why my screen on book computer is too small?

2005-04-14 Thread "åå:->äåé"
Kiawud wrote: >I have the HP Omnibook 500 ... I can post/send you my grub and >xorg.conf files if you think it would help. If I remember, I'm using >'vesafb' for the initial boot and then set xorg.conf to use the >'radeon' driver. > >-Hani > >-- >gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] IBM Thinkpad with Belkin Wireless

2005-04-14 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 16:10:11 +1000 "Richard Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I'm contemplating installing Gentoo on a 4 year old IBM Thinkpad with | a Belkin Wireless card in the PCMCIA Card slot. I'm sick of it | crashing on Windows 98 ... | | Does anyone have any tips that I should consider

Re: [gentoo-user] how to subscribe but get no mail

2005-04-14 Thread Andrea Barisani
On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 12:09:29PM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > Sorry to post this here but I've already contacted the listserver with > the info address and faq address. Neither of those sources have any > info about this. What address have you used? > > I want to subscribe here but get no mes

Re: [gentoo-user] resuming emerge

2005-04-14 Thread mudrii
Mrugesh Karnik wrote: mudrii wrote: Eugene Rosenzweig wrote: Pupeno wrote: Is there any way to resume emerging ? I have a workstation which spent about 5 hours compiling OpenOffice and I had to turn it off, I'd like to continue building it (that's the idea behind make and incremental building,

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