[gentoo-user] Alsa RTC and extending swap space

2005-08-25 Thread krgn
Hello, Has anyone experience with the Alsa RTC-module and how install it? My problem is only how apply the diff-files to the kernel and I would like to know how to do it. Just how to generally do that sort of thing. Can anyone give me a quick tipp? Would it make a SIGNIFICANT difference to the no

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: migrating to gcc-3.4.4

2005-08-25 Thread Fernando Meira
On 8/24/05, Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 08:30:11PM +, Fernando Meira wrote:> Oh.. and by the way, how reliable is this prediction?> (...)> [ebuild N ] sys-apps/hdparm-5.9> [ebuild N ] sys-libs/pwdb-0.62 >> Estimated update time: 6 hours, 7 minutes.>> All syste

[gentoo-user] fan noise in recent kernels

2005-08-25 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, Maybe I'm imagining things but it seems that all of my machines have gotten noticibly noisier with some of the most recent kernels, ala 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 or -r9. Has anyone else noticed this? This observation comes from both a couple of Pundit-R's running mythfrontend as well as an Intel-base

Re: [gentoo-user] Root login, KDE-3.4

2005-08-25 Thread Eddie Mihalow Jr
Ted Ozolins wrote: Just completed an "emerge -uvD world" on all my systems here. The update went extremely smooth, many thanks to the Gentoo developers and package maintainer. Now root is not permitted to login to KDE, which is just fine by me except for login into my lab-rat. My test machine is

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-25 Thread Alec Shaner
Nick Rout wrote: I know I should upload this to bugs.gentoo.org, but as we are in the middle of a thread i thought I'd load it here for anyone interested to try (and to criticise) Please be gentle with me, this is my first ebuild. The ebuild is attached, as is the small startup script. The way

RE: [gentoo-user] Alsa RTC and extending swap space

2005-08-25 Thread Michael Kintzios
> -Original Message- > From: krgn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 25 August 2005 13:00 > To: Gentoo List > Subject: [gentoo-user] Alsa RTC and extending swap space > > > Hello, > > Has anyone experience with the Alsa RTC-module and how install it? My > problem is only how apply the

[gentoo-user] [OT]Deafenig Silence

2005-08-25 Thread Tony Davison
Everone gone home, or have my mail filters finally eaten the world? -- Tony Davison [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] webcdwriter

2005-08-25 Thread patrick . marquetecken
Hi, Because my server is the only computer with a dvd writer i was thinking of installing webcdwriter. My server doesn't have Xorg installed on it, so when i do a emerge -pv i get a huge list, even with -X -gnome and so on in my use settings. Is there a way to install this without all these ?

[gentoo-user] network driver

2005-08-25 Thread John Dangler
With the laptop base build running, I took my old file server (P3 running old m$) and decided to convert this to a test server for web dev. I just went with a stage 3 and genkernel (never tried this before), and the basics went fine. I'm up to chap 7.e (looking for .ko), and I need to make sure th

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]Deafenig Silence

2005-08-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 15:21:20 +0100, Tony Davison wrote: > Everone gone home, or have my mail filters finally eaten the world? We're all at the party, enjoying the free beer and pizza. Weren't you invited? ;-) -- Neil Bothwick Don't hate yourself in the morning, sleep until noon. pgptdq7Ss

Re: [gentoo-user] webcdwriter

2005-08-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 11:50:03 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Because my server is the only computer with a dvd writer i was thinking > of installing webcdwriter. My server doesn't have Xorg installed on it, > so when i do a emerge -pv i get a huge list, even with -X -gnome and so > on in my use

Re: [gentoo-user] network driver

2005-08-25 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, John Dangler wrote: > With the laptop base build running, I took my old file server (P3 running > old m$) and decided to convert this to a test server for web dev. I just > went with a stage 3 and genkernel (never tried this before), and the basics > went fine. I'm up to chap

Re: [gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description?

2005-08-25 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Jerry McBride wrote: > I think most "linux nerds" (me included) distain top posting because it's the > default setting of some email app that runs on the windows OS I know this post was a troll - but its the dumbest thing Ive ever read. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org m

Re: [gentoo-user] network driver

2005-08-25 Thread Ted Ozolins
John Dangler wrote: >With the laptop base build running, I took my old file server (P3 running >old m$) and decided to convert this to a test server for web dev. I just >went with a stage 3 and genkernel (never tried this before), and the basics >went fine. I'm up to chap 7.e (looking for .ko), a

Re: [gentoo-user] network driver

2005-08-25 Thread Ted Ozolins
John Dangler wrote: >With the laptop base build running, I took my old file server (P3 running >old m$) and decided to convert this to a test server for web dev. I just >went with a stage 3 and genkernel (never tried this before), and the basics >went fine. I'm up to chap 7.e (looking for .ko), a

Re: [gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description?

2005-08-25 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Jonathan Nichols wrote: > I remember the days of "netiquette." I guess I'm a grizzled old Usenet > hippie. :| No you're not - there's no excuse for not being polite and considerate of others when posting. And that includes not top-posting and trimming your quoted part to only

[gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread Grant
I have forgotten the root password of my remote server. Is there any way to retrieve or reset it? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2005-08-25 Thread Dave Nebinger
>Maybe I'm imagining things but it seems that all of my machines > have gotten noticibly noisier with some of the most recent kernels, > ala 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 or -r9. Has anyone else noticed this? This > observation comes from both a couple of Pundit-R's running > mythfrontend as well as an Inte

Re: [gentoo-user] /home becoming readonly every night

2005-08-25 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Nick Rout wrote: > From a log investigation you might be right. > > Bugger, it is a newish disk too. > > Better dig out the receipt and get ready to ask for a replacement. I had a Maxtor drive die just after the one-year warranty expired. We had one server with Maxtors that d

Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread Greg Shikhman
Well, if you or someone at the location has access to grub they could add the singleuser flag. This will allow you to change the password. On 8/25/05, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have forgotten the root password of my remote server.  Is there anyway to retrieve or reset it? - Grant--gentoo-u

Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread John Jolet
remotely? if there is, couldn't anyone get it? If the system is patched and up-to-date, you should have to be at the keyboard. On Thursday 25 August 2005 10:47, Grant wrote: > I have forgotten the root password of my remote server. Is there any > way to retrieve or reset it? > > - Grant -- J

Re: [gentoo-user] genlop times was: migrating to gcc-3.4.4

2005-08-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 11:51:32AM +, Fernando Meira wrote: > I have a P4-2.4GHz laptop. > I forgot to say that the estimation time was made by genlop. And was quite > wrong! It took something like 11h to compile 112 packages, (though I've > interrupted while compiling gcc-3.3.6.. so it had

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-25 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Uwe Thiem wrote: > Folks, we have got computing power on our desks that equals that of a medium > sized data centre 10 years ago. Of course, I want the bloody computer and its > tools to do all the sidetracking little tasks and concentrate myself on > algorithms and data struc

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]Deafenig Silence

2005-08-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 04:21:47PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 15:21:20 +0100, Tony Davison wrote: > > > Everone gone home, or have my mail filters finally eaten the world? > > We're all at the party, enjoying the free beer and pizza. > > Weren't you invited? > > ;-) > I

RE: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I have forgotten the root password of my remote server. Is there any > way to retrieve or reset it? Sure, just use the root backdoor service that every linux system exposes to connect and change the password. Ooops, the secret's out, I guess I have to worry about all of you folks using it to

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]Deafenig Silence

2005-08-25 Thread Tony Davison
On Thursday 25 August 2005 16:21, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 15:21:20 +0100, Tony Davison wrote: > > Everone gone home, or have my mail filters finally eaten the world? > > We're all at the party, enjoying the free beer and pizza. > > Weren't you invited? > > ;-) That'll be in the s

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]Deafenig Silence

2005-08-25 Thread Tony Davison
On Thursday 25 August 2005 16:22, Mark Knecht wrote: > Appears to be the latter. I'm getting messages from the list, > although it is a bit slower jsut recently. > > - Mark > > On 8/25/05, Tony Davison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Everone gone home, or have my mail filters finally eaten the world

RE: [gentoo-user] [OT]Deafenig Silence

2005-08-25 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Everone gone home, or have my mail filters finally eaten the world? If your mail filters are eating the world, you won't know it because the replies won't arrive. So it's almost pointless responding, isn't it? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 08:47:29AM -0700, Grant wrote: > I have forgotten the root password of my remote server. Is there any > way to retrieve or reset it? > > - Grant AFAIK it is not possible short of brute force hacking it. If it were, it sort of defeats the point of security on the box... Y

Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread Grant
> Well, if you or someone at the location has access to grub they could add > the singleuser flag. This will allow you to change the password. > Thanks for a real solution. They will attach a KVM unit to the machine and I can log into the KVM. Would that help? - Grant > > > > I have forgotte

RE: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread Ric Messier
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Dave Nebinger wrote: Sorry, couldn't resist. Of course there is no way at all to do this, nor would you want to be able to, cause if you could do it anyone could and would do it. That's not technically true and the sarcasm wasn't really warranted. I can think of a cou

Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread Michael Crute
On 8/25/05, Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: AFAIK it is not possible short of brute force hacking it. If it were,it sort of defeats the point of security on the box...Your best bet is to get someone your trust to boot into single for youand reset the password there. W--ARTHUR  It's not a que

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

2005-08-25 Thread krzaq
On 8/25/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, >Maybe I'm imagining things but it seems that all of my machines > have gotten noticibly noisier with some of the most recent kernels, > ala 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 or -r9. Has anyone else noticed this? This > observation comes from both a coupl

Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread Michael Crute
On 8/25/05, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks for a real solution.  They will attach a KVM unit to themachine and I can log into the KVM.  Would that help?- Grant--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Sure that would work but if you have a sudo user your can do it without rebooting. -Mike-- _

Re: [gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description?

2005-08-25 Thread Michael Crute
On 8/25/05, A. Khattri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: No you're not - there's no excuse for not being polite and considerate ofothers when posting. And that includes not top-posting and trimming yourquoted part to only what is necessary for context. Unfortunately most people are too lazy to bother trim

RE: [gentoo-user] network driver

2005-08-25 Thread John Dangler
I didn't want to just 'try it', since, as I said, I've been wrong before. I'm not really sure how to install this setup, since my laptop has all new hardware in it, and the kernel has modules for the laptop. All of the information I find in googling is about Linksys wireless cards. This box is o

RE: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread Dave Nebinger
> > > > Sorry, couldn't resist. Of course there is no way at all to do this, > nor > > would you want to be able to, cause if you could do it anyone could and > > would do it. > > > > That's not technically true and the sarcasm wasn't really warranted. I can > think of a couple of possibilities,

[gentoo-user] bbgallery and template files

2005-08-25 Thread Harry Putnam
First if this ends up being a nearly duplicate post... my apologies. I tried a similar version from a different machine that has apparently not made it to the server. I recently went looking for image manipulation tools in general and web gallery software in particular... I found in portage someth

Re: [gentoo-user] bbgallery and template files

2005-08-25 Thread Holly Bostick
Harry Putnam schreef: > First if this ends up being a nearly duplicate post... my apologies. > I tried a similar version from a different machine that has apparently > not made it to the server. > > I recently went looking for image manipulation tools in general and > web gallery software in parti

RE: [gentoo-user] bbgallery and template files

2005-08-25 Thread Dave Nebinger
> No templates at all. > > Any one here have experience with this tool or can suggest a debugging > approach. First, file it as a bug as the ebuild would be incomplete. Second, you might need to build the package from scratch in order to determine if it is a build issue in general (i.e. perhaps

RE: [gentoo-user] network driver

2005-08-25 Thread John Dangler
I am currently at Chap 7 from the handbook... nowhere near X yet. I have the basic system installed, and am nearing the reboot. I'm trying to find out what I need to have in modules.autoload.d ... John D -Original Message- From: Ted Ozolins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, Aug

Re: [gentoo-user] genlop times was: migrating to gcc-3.4.4

2005-08-25 Thread Fernando Meira
On 8/25/05, Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 11:51:32AM +, Fernando Meira wrote:> I have a P4-2.4GHz laptop.> I forgot to say that the estimation time was made by genlop. And was quite> wrong! It took something like 11h to compile 112 packages, (though I've > inter

RE: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread John Dangler
Grant~ I had the same thing happen to me on one of our dedi servers. I called the isp and they had a way of recovering the password, although it cost me $75 to get it done. Basically, they told me that it's a sophisticated 'hack' into the machine to get it back. If there's another way, I'd also

RE: [gentoo-user] network driver

2005-08-25 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, John Dangler wrote: > btw - > lsmod currently shows - > ModuleSizeUsed By > tulip 42336 0 OK, so what does "ifconfig -a" show? Also, the output of "lspci" would be useful (I think someone asked earlier). -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

[gentoo-user] Re: bbgallery and template files

2005-08-25 Thread Harry Putnam
"Dave Nebinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> No templates at all. >> >> Any one here have experience with this tool or can suggest a debugging >> approach. > > First, file it as a bug as the ebuild would be incomplete. > > Second, you might need to build the package from scratch in order to > d

[gentoo-user] activex support

2005-08-25 Thread James
Hello, Has anyone successfully used ActiveX with firefox or mozilla? http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/mozilla.htm James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] /home becoming readonly every night

2005-08-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Thursday 25 August 2005 17:46, A. Khattri wrote: > I had a Maxtor drive die just after the one-year warranty expired. We had > one server with Maxtors that died twice in one year. > > Because of this, we now have a "Seagate-only" policy for hard-drives - > they may cost a bit more but they're r

Re: [gentoo-user] [asking again] keyboard/mouse woes on 2.6 kernel

2005-08-25 Thread Timur Aydin
Ben Munat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Really hoping someone has some idea on this... haven't found any solid > answers on the web... > I have an AMD64 system (but I am running the 32 bit version of Gentoo on it) and I am seeing mouse problems. The mouse wheel doesn't work at all. Sometimes the

[gentoo-user] [RESOLVED] network driver

2005-08-25 Thread John Dangler
Ok. I found some info about tulip drivers. I added tulip to modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 and rebooted (while sweating)... eth0 is up and running fine! Thanks for all the help. (It's usually a combination of this list, google, portage, and wiki that solves these problems quick!) John D -Or

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

2005-08-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On 8/25/05, Dave Nebinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Maybe I'm imagining things but it seems that all of my machines > > have gotten noticibly noisier with some of the most recent kernels, > > ala 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 or -r9. Has anyone else noticed this? This > > observation comes from both a c

Re: [gentoo-user] /home becoming readonly every night

2005-08-25 Thread José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández
On Thursday 25 August 2005 15:07, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Thursday 25 August 2005 17:46, A. Khattri wrote: > > I had a Maxtor drive die just after the one-year warranty expired. We had > > one server with Maxtors that died twice in one year. > > > > Because of this, we now have a "Seagate-

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

2005-08-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On 8/25/05, krzaq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/25/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > >Maybe I'm imagining things but it seems that all of my machines > > have gotten noticibly noisier with some of the most recent kernels, > > ala 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 or -r9. Has anyone else n

Re: [gentoo-user] /home becoming readonly every night

2005-08-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 08:07:52PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > well, my new seagate died in the first week.. .the second one run for years > without problems... > > Seagate = Sie geht oder sie geht nicht. (it works or not). > If it is DOA or dies very soon, you can always demand they

Re: [gentoo-user] /home becoming readonly every night

2005-08-25 Thread Alec Shaner
A. Khattri wrote: I had a Maxtor drive die just after the one-year warranty expired. We had one server with Maxtors that died twice in one year. Because of this, we now have a "Seagate-only" policy for hard-drives - they may cost a bit more but they're reliable and many come with a three year wa

[gentoo-user] sudo

2005-08-25 Thread John Dangler
I’m looking into setting up sudo on my latest test box (stage3/genkernel 2.6.12—r9) In portage, sudo says “Allows users or groups to run commands as other users”.  The latest stable shows 1.6.8_p9 (although the one before is it unstable, and the one before that is stable) hmm… Anyway, the

Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 12:38:42PM -0400, Michael Crute wrote: > All you really need is an account with sudo rights then `sudo passwd root` > and your all set, else your suck with singleuser. > If the OP has sudo set up, would he really be sending a mail to the list? And if he didn't, setting up

Re: [gentoo-user] genlop times was: migrating to gcc-3.4.4

2005-08-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 05:33:14PM +, Fernando Meira wrote: > I would say that most of the emerged packages were emerged before.. but > maybe not that much so that genlop could be accurate. Also, a new compiler > was being used.. no idea how much can that change the performance. That might.

Re: [gentoo-user] /home becoming readonly every night

2005-08-25 Thread Mike Williams
On Thursday 25 August 2005 16:46, A. Khattri wrote: > I had a Maxtor drive die just after the one-year warranty expired. We had > one server with Maxtors that died twice in one year. > > Because of this, we now have a "Seagate-only" policy for hard-drives - > they may cost a bit more but they're re

Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread Michael Crute
On 8/25/05, Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If the OP has sudo set up, would he really be sending a mail to thelist? And if he didn't, setting up sudo would be a catch 22 now,wouldn't it?Though, granted, the OP did only say he lost root passwd, and not superuser access...Indeed and most ofte

Re: [gentoo-user] activex support

2005-08-25 Thread Michael Crute
On 8/25/05, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello,Has anyone successfully used ActiveX with firefox or mozilla?http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/mozilla.htmI just took a look and it seems like this is a Windoze only thing. Linux doesn't implement ActiveX anyhow. -Mike-- __

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo

2005-08-25 Thread Jonathan Wright
John Dangler wrote: > The connecting page is a Solaris page that doesn’t exist. I’m trying to > find out exactly what this means, since it’s a recommended piece from > the Gentoo security handbook. There's a page at the gentoo wiki with some information about how to set it all up: "S/keys are on

Re: [gentoo-user] activex support

2005-08-25 Thread Daniel da Veiga
Cedega implemented a plugin for using activex with mozilla, check it at the transgaming site www.transgaming.com. Theres an ebuild for it, I'm sure... On 8/25/05, Michael Crute <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/25/05, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Has anyone successfully us

Re: [gentoo-user] activex support

2005-08-25 Thread Phill MV
Nor will there ever be any implementation of it, as far as I know. Try wine'ing Internet Explorer, that usually works just fine.On 25/08/05, Michael Crute <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 8/25/05, James < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello,Has anyone successfully used ActiveX with firefox or mozilla?htt

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo

2005-08-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 02:40:59PM -0400, John Dangler wrote: > skey says it's a "Linux Port of OpenBSD Single-key Password System" That's > all the info I've been able to find out so far. > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Skeys w -- "Pages one and two [of Zaphod's presidential speech] had been

Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread Greg Shikhman
Well, I just remembered hearing about rootkits. I think all you need is access to a user and a rootkit, but I haven't used one so I wouldn't know...but a simple google search came up with some linux rootkits :p

Re: [gentoo-user] activex support

2005-08-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 03:01:28PM -0400, Michael Crute wrote: > On 8/25/05, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > Has anyone successfully used ActiveX with firefox or mozilla? > > > > http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/mozilla.htm > > > > > I just took a look and it seems like

[gentoo-user] Can't compile gconf-2.10.1-r1

2005-08-25 Thread José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández
I am upgrading my system from a GRP install and it has been a mess, I have solved various errors and now I have this one that I don't know how to solve: make[2]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/gconf-2.10.1-r1/work/GConf-2.10.1/gconf' /usr/bin/orbit-idl-2 ./GConfX.idl orbit-idl-2 2.12.2 com

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't compile gconf-2.10.1-r1

2005-08-25 Thread José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández
On Thursday 25 August 2005 16:26, José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández wrote: > fix_libtool_files.sh `gcc -dumpversion` --oldarch i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc fix_libtool_files.sh 3.3.5-20050130 --oldarch i386-pc-linux-gnu fixed it, where "3.3.5-2005013" is the result of `gcc -dumpversion`, *sigh*. -- José Pabl

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

RE: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Well, I just remembered hearing about rootkits. I think all > you need is access to a user and a rootkit, but I haven't > used one so I wouldn't know...but a simple google search > came up with some linux rootkits :p Sure, but is it really something you want to install on your system? It mig

RE: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread John Dangler
yeah - and someone using a rootkit was able to successfully login to our old dedicated server and wreak havoc on it, too. That led to a complete rebuild of the server (which now runs seLinux... (Understandably, there may have been steps we could/should have taken to prevent it, but this was setup

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-25 Thread Markus Döbele
Can't the rest be automated too? I mean creating the directories and to check first if portage is installed? Would be easier for the users. Then a link should be created in PATH thet you can type laby everywhere. Thats what I do in my rpm: mkdir -p /usr/games/laby cp -r ./* /usr/games/laby (Here

[gentoo-user] Windows Media Player

2005-08-25 Thread Ian K
Hi there, I was wondering if anyone here has gotten Windows Media Player 9 or 10 to work with Wine. On the Wine website, it has Media Player 9 listed. Although there are threee discouraging comments. Any one here getting it working? Thanks! Ian begin:vcard fn:Ian K n:K;Ian email;internet:[EMAIL PRO

Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández
On Thursday 25 August 2005 16:59, John Dangler wrote: > yeah - and someone using a rootkit was able to successfully login to our > old dedicated server and wreak havoc on it, too. That led to a complete > rebuild of the server (which now runs seLinux... (Understandably, there may > have been steps

Re: [gentoo-user] bbgallery and template files

2005-08-25 Thread Roy Wright
Holly Bostick wrote: Harry Putnam schreef: First if this ends up being a nearly duplicate post... my apologies. I tried a similar version from a different machine that has apparently not made it to the server. I recently went looking for image manipulation tools in general and web gallery s

Re: [gentoo-user] gforce4 and gensplash [RESOLVED]

2005-08-25 Thread Alexander Kirillov
Can I make gensplash to work with gforce4? yes What fb driver are you using? I've tried with vesafb which was working well with my onboard i810 chip without success. Eventually got it working with vesafb-tng. Had to splash_geninitramfs with all available resolutions (was using 1024x768) and

[gentoo-user] Re: activex support

2005-08-25 Thread James
Daniel da Veiga gmail.com> writes: > > Cedega implemented a plugin for using activex with mozilla, check it > at the transgaming site www.transgaming.com. This looks promising. > Theres an ebuild for it, I'm sure... app-emulation/cedega is this the ebuild you are referring to? James -- g

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-25 Thread Alec Shaner
Markus Döbele wrote: Can't the rest be automated too? I mean creating the directories and to check first if portage is installed? Would be easier for the users. Then a link should be created in PATH thet you can type laby everywhere. Once the ebuild is officially in the portage tree, it is al

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: activex support

2005-08-25 Thread Holly Bostick
James schreef: > Daniel da Veiga gmail.com> writes: > > >>Cedega implemented a plugin for using activex with mozilla, check it >>at the transgaming site www.transgaming.com. > > > This looks promising. > > >>Theres an ebuild for it, I'm sure... > > > app-emulation/cedega > > is this the e

Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread Grant
> Grant~ > I had the same thing happen to me on one of our dedi servers. I called the > isp and they had a way of recovering the password, although it cost me $75 > to get it done. Basically, they told me that it's a sophisticated 'hack' > into the machine to get it back. If there's another way,

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

2005-08-25 Thread krzaq
I couldnt find a good program to do this. I've rewriten an old piece of code to work with i2c. It's configurable and works quite well. If you like I can email the source to you. On 8/25/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/25/05, krzaq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 8/25/05, Mark K

Re: [gentoo-user] Windows Media Player

2005-08-25 Thread Michael Crute
On 8/25/05, Ian K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi there,I was wondering if anyone here has gotten Windows Media Player 9 or 10to work with Wine. On the Wine website, it has Media Player 9 listed.Althoughthere are threee discouraging comments. Any one here getting it working? Thanks!Ian I tired 9 and

Re: [gentoo-user] /home becoming readonly every night

2005-08-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Thursday 25 August 2005 20:38, Willie Wong wrote: > On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 08:07:52PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > well, my new seagate died in the first week.. .the second one run for > > years without problems... > > > > Seagate = Sie geht oder sie geht nicht. (it works or not). >

RE: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread John Dangler
Wow! That was decent of them. Is it a dedicated server or a colo ? John D -Original Message- From: Grant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 4:57 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system > Grant~ > I

RE: [gentoo-user] sudo

2005-08-25 Thread John Dangler
so, the best place to start would be to emerge sudo (and it's dependencies), and then try and configure it from there... (?) I'm guessing that, with the use flags set, it would also grab skey... John D -Original Message- From: Jonathan Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, Au

Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread Joe Menola
On Thursday August 25 2005 10:47 am, Grant wrote: > I have forgotten the root password of my remote server. Is there any > way to retrieve or reset it? > If you can get access to the root partition (ie:mount from a livecd) and have a working /etc/passwd with a known password for root, move the or

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo

2005-08-25 Thread Jonathan Wright
John Dangler wrote: > so, the best place to start would be to emerge sudo (and it's dependencies), > and then try and configure it from there... (?) I'm guessing that, with the > use flags set, it would also grab skey... Something like that. But, at the end of the day, it depends whether you want

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo

2005-08-25 Thread C.Beamer
John Dangler wrote: > I’m looking into setting up sudo on my latest test box > (stage3/genkernel 2.6.12—r9) > > In portage, sudo says “Allows users or groups to run commands as other > users”. The latest stable shows *1.6.8_p9 (although the one before is > it unstable, and the one before that is s

Re: [gentoo-user] Windows Media Player

2005-08-25 Thread Jonathan Wright
Michael Crute wrote: > I tired 9 and one point in time and it was a disaster. Didn't work at > all then I saw the light and now use mplayer with win32 codecs. Agreed. MPlayer will even support RealPlayer along with the standard win32codecs. I do find some issues with stability, at least mainly wit

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

2005-08-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On 8/25/05, Glenn Enright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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

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

2005-08-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On 8/25/05, krzaq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I couldnt find a good program to do this. > I've rewriten an old piece of code to work with i2c. > It's configurable and works quite well. > If you like I can email the source to you. > That would be great, but why not make it an ebuild and put it in

Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread Grant
> Wow! That was decent of them. Is it a dedicated server or a colo ? > > John D Hey John, It's a dedicated (not virtual dedicated) box. They changed the password and forwarded me the new one. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description?

2005-08-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 11:39:14 -0400 (EDT), A. Khattri wrote: > I know this post was a troll - but its the dumbest thing Ive ever read. You know you've been on the internet too long when the trolls are no longer amusing... -- Neil Bothwick Ralph's Observation - It is a mistake to allow any mech

Re: [gentoo-user] ati -- dreaded "xf86-ENOMEM" error

2005-08-25 Thread maxim wexler
--- Ryan Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/23/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Hi Maxim, > >An AGP support issue probably. Which kernel are > you using? > > I found that running with a 2.6.12 kernel gave me > this error; > downgrading to 2.6.11 fixed it. here's a relev

Re: [gentoo-user] Windows Media Player

2005-08-25 Thread Jerry McBride
On Thursday 25 August 2005 09:40 pm, Jonathan Wright wrote: > Michael Crute wrote: > > I tired 9 and one point in time and it was a disaster. Didn't work at > > all then I saw the light and now use mplayer with win32 codecs. > > Agreed. MPlayer will even support RealPlayer along with the standard >

Re: [gentoo-user] genlop times was: migrating to gcc-3.4.4

2005-08-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 14:51:33 -0400, Willie Wong wrote: > BUT!!! It seems that there is a bug with genlop and newer versions of > portage because some issues with a sandbox lockfile. Search for > "genlop sandbox" on bugs.gentoo.org for more info. In any case, for > the time being, until the bug is

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]Deafenig Silence

2005-08-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 17:19:27 +0100, Tony Davison wrote: > A'll working fine now, just put it down to my ISP's habit of losing > touch with the world. It went quiet for several hours for me too, so I suspect something upstream. -- Neil Bothwick NOTE: The most fundamental particles in your com

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] sudo

2005-08-25 Thread Holly Bostick
C.Beamer schreef: > John Dangler wrote: > > >>I’m looking into setting up sudo on my latest test box >>(stage3/genkernel 2.6.12—r9) >> >>In portage, sudo says “Allows users or groups to run commands as other >>users”. The latest stable shows *1.6.8_p9 (although the one before is >>it unstable, an

RE: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread John Dangler
Hmm - Maybe I need to look into a different service ? John -Original Message- From: Grant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 5:52 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system > Wow! That was decent of t

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