Re: [gentoo-user] slow boot after kernel upgrade

2006-01-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 14:27 +0100, Uwe Klosa wrote: > Or you can try 2.6.15-suspend2. ? What exactly do you mean? Is there a suspend2-sources version up to 2.6.15? thanks, -- Iain Buchanan Deflector shields just came on, Captain. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Practical Backup Solution

2006-01-11 Thread Lord Imbrius the Despondent
Hello, all. I have a small webserver/mail server running Gentoo. I need to find a backup solution that will work for this type of setup. Unfortunately, there is no working driver for a parallel floppy-protocol (backpack) tape drive for Linux 2.6. I've tried LOTS of things to get that drive w

Re: [gentoo-user] 2005.1 installs on dual-core amd64

2006-01-11 Thread John Jolet
> > do you have a SATA cdrom drive? > Cynyr. no. it's ide. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating DVD-menus from pictures

2006-01-11 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Thank you, found it out a few hours ago, it works fine with i=1; while [ $i -le 762 ]; do convert -crop 720x576+$i+0 walpergen.jpg $i.jpg; i=$[$i+1]; done Iain Buchanan schrieb: > On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 18:56 +0100, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > > >>My picture source is a image i downscaled to th

Re: [gentoo-user] Practical Backup Solution

2006-01-11 Thread Andrew Frink
On 1/11/06, Lord Imbrius the Despondent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, all.  I have a small webserver/mail server running Gentoo.  I need tofind a backup solution that will work for this type of setup.  Unfortunately,there is no working driver for a parallel floppy-protocol (backpack) tape drive

[gentoo-user] More BOINC

2006-01-11 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
(Starting a new thread since this is a different subject.) Okay, I know I'm being hard-headed about this, but I run a pure 64-bit system. I think the only 32-bit application I run right now is OO.o and I'm gonna drop that sucka as soon as koffice can render the WinWord forms I have to use for

Re: [gentoo-user] A New Linux Way

2006-01-11 Thread Eric Bliss
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 03:49 pm, Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 15:29 -0800, Eric Bliss wrote: > > Although, to actually give this post > > SOME relevance to the original thread, will using Saviour Linux on your > > computer assure it of going to Electronic Heaven when it fina

Re: [gentoo-user] X.org V7.0 partial success

2006-01-11 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/11/06, Matthias Bethke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yup, I figured that was the motivation---but X.org and XFree86 are still > different projects with different code and all, so I was surprised that > the name starts in xf86- and the description says X.org... Wouldn't > xf86-something indicate

Re: [gentoo-user] Practical Backup Solution

2006-01-11 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/11/06, Lord Imbrius the Despondent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > inserted when there clearly is. Other times it gets 3 quarters of the way > through the write and throws an I/O error. I need to be able to back up > around 32-40MB nightly and around 1.2GB weekly. Speed doesn't matter. Any >

Re: [gentoo-user] slow boot after kernel upgrade

2006-01-11 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/11/06, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 14:27 +0100, Uwe Klosa wrote: > > Or you can try 2.6.15-suspend2. > > ? > > What exactly do you mean? Is there a suspend2-sources version up to > 2.6.15? Only if you emerge --sync. :-> -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.

[gentoo-user] Re: A New Linux Way

2006-01-11 Thread James
Iain Buchanan netspace.net.au> writes: > Me too. > > > Yet Linux lacks a robust open source SCADA plan. > > Because there isn't the money for some company to come in and push Linux > as being the Way To Go, sell lots of licenses, and make profits. Linux > doesn't work that way - too many dist

Re: [gentoo-user] slow boot after kernel upgrade

2006-01-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Richard Fish schreef: > On 1/11/06, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 14:27 +0100, Uwe Klosa wrote: >> >>>Or you can try 2.6.15-suspend2. >> >>? >> >>What exactly do you mean? Is there a suspend2-sources version up to >>2.6.15? > > > Only if you emerge --sync.

[gentoo-user] Strangeness with KDE 3.4

2006-01-11 Thread Shawn Singh
Hey all, I recently rebuilt my Gentoo box, but have had a few problems that I've not been able to figure out: 1. The sound doesn't work i.e. I can't play any music files (mp3s, wavs etc) -- in xmms I get an error telling me that it failed

Re: [gentoo-user] su stopped working [SOLVED]

2006-01-11 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 02:34:24PM -, Michael Kintzios wrote > This can be avoided if you use the -a (for append) option. Huh??? [m3000][root][~] usermod -a -G audio user2 usermod: invalid option -- a Usage: usermod [-u uid [-o]] [-g group] [-G group,...] [-d home [-m]] [-

Re: [gentoo-user] RESEND: [OT - Manually entering a new mail account into Evolution]

2006-01-11 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 02:40:13PM -0800, Penguin Lover James Ausmus squawked: > > > > I'm trying to emerge that version of evolution, but it won't let me. > > Observe: > > > > camille evolution # cat /etc/portage/package.keywords | grep 'evolution' > > mail-client/evolution-2.4.2.1 ~x86 > > > Th

Re: [gentoo-user] Strangeness with KDE 3.4

2006-01-11 Thread Willie Wong
Can't help with all your problems, but I do what I can: On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 09:49:34PM -0500, Penguin Lover Shawn Singh squawked: > Hey all, > > I recently rebuilt my Gentoo box, but have had a few problems that > I've not been able to figure out: > > 1. The sound doesn't work > i.e. I c

Re: [gentoo-user] Practical Backup Solution

2006-01-11 Thread Roy Wright
Richard Fish wrote: On 1/11/06, Lord Imbrius the Despondent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: inserted when there clearly is. Other times it gets 3 quarters of the way through the write and throws an I/O error. I need to be able to back up around 32-40MB nightly and around 1.2GB weekly. Speed do

[gentoo-user] qemu problems

2006-01-11 Thread W.Kenworthy
I am having some problems in how gentoo has split up qemu. There are version 0.8.0 builds for qemu-user and qemu-softmmu. There is also a kqemu ebuild at version 0.7.2. Installing just qemu-user and qemu-softmmu gives a kqemu error on running qemu. Should I be using kqemu, even if it appears to

Re: [gentoo-user] Practical Backup Solution

2006-01-11 Thread Mark Shields
Here's what I did. I mounted a partition of my home PC's 80 gig partition using samba and gave the server write access. Right now I just make a stage4 backup manually then copy it over to that hard drive, but I'm going to modify the script where I can run it in a cron job weekly. I also burn a c

Re: [gentoo-user] How to do "account management" across multiple Unix boxes?

2006-01-11 Thread Alexander Skwar
Joshua Schmidlkofer schrieb: > IMNSHO NIS is a big fat waste. I would strongly recommend against. it. Why? It's simple to setup and does what the OP wanted. PS: Please no HTML mails. Please no top posts. Alexander Skwar -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu problems

2006-01-11 Thread Andrew Frink
On 1/12/06, W.Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am having some problems in how gentoo has split up qemu.  There areversion 0.8.0 builds for qemu-user and qemu-softmmu.  There is also akqemu ebuild at version 0.7.2.Installing just qemu-user and qemu-softmmu gives a kqemu error on running qemu. 

Re: [gentoo-user] How to compile 64bit Gentoo on a 32bit system?

2006-01-11 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Thursday 12 January 2006 05:08, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > Do a stage 3 install plus GRP packages. You'll have a fully working 64 > bit desktop in around an hour. Then edit make.conf and /etc/portage/* to > suit your needs, emerge --sync and emerge -e world while using the system. > Thanks for the

Re: [gentoo-user] Php strangeness

2006-01-11 Thread kashani
Martins Steinbergs wrote: looks like i have the same problem, and it strats with [ebuild UD] dev-php/PEAR-XML_RPC-1.4.0 [1.4.4] 26 kB 1.4.4 is removed from portage In php 5.1.1 it looks like you can add xmlrpc to your USE flags. The change log in PEAR-XML_RPC leads me to believe that is

Re: [gentoo-user] How to compile 64bit Gentoo on a 32bit system?

2006-01-11 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Abhay Kedia wrote: | Thanks for the reply Neil but I don't have a fast connection. Just a 64kbps | connection. If I follow GRP way then first I'll have to download a live CD, | then the GRP Packages and then undergo the whole process of downloading

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