Re: [gentoo-user] new box DRI problem : more

2007-10-30 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Philip Webb wrote: > The kernel is 2.6.22-r8 : I will try 2.6.23 tomorrow. No need, sorry, I was pointing you in the wrong direction. Kernel 2.6.22 already knows about 29c2 for i915. > I checked the wiki paragraph & the subdir it refers to > & the modules are already built & 'lsmod' shows them

Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 fallback configuration is ignored

2007-10-30 Thread Mark Shields
On 10/29/07, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday 28 October 2007, Dan Farrell wrote: > > On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:19:13 + > > > > Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Saturday 27 October 2007, Dan Farrell wrote: > > > > On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 21:58:11 +0930 > > > > > > > > Iain Buchana

[gentoo-user] usb tv - compro u300

2007-10-30 Thread William Kenworthy
I am having another go at getting a compro u300 usb receiver working under gentoo for mythtv. Is there anyone who has this running who can give me a list of kernel modules loaded and extra software needed (i.e., are mercurial and hg needed - they are not building for me at the moment, or are the d

[gentoo-user] Encrypted Backups

2007-10-30 Thread Florian Philipp
Hi list! I'm in need of a backup tool and an advice would be helpful because I need some special functionality. I want to make backups from my laptop to a cardreader (pcmcia), making daily full and hourly incremental backups *if the card is plugged in* (which might not be the case for as lon

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted Backups

2007-10-30 Thread Ed Santiago
Hi, >I want to make backups from my laptop to a cardreader (pcmcia), making >daily full and hourly incremental backups *if the card is plugged in* >... >Additionally I need some kind of encryption. I highly recommend dar: http://dar.linux.free.fr/ It handles incrementals well; has built-

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted Backups

2007-10-30 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 14:03 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: > Hi list! > > I'm in need of a backup tool and an advice would be helpful because I > need some special functionality. > > I want to make backups from my laptop to a cardreader (pcmcia), making > daily full and hourly incremental backu

Re: [gentoo-user] new box DRI problem : more

2007-10-30 Thread James Ausmus
On 10/30/07, Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Philip Webb wrote: > > The kernel is 2.6.22-r8 : I will try 2.6.23 tomorrow. > > No need, sorry, I was pointing you in the wrong direction. Kernel > 2.6.22 already knows about 29c2 for i915. > > > I checked the wiki paragraph & the subdir

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted Backups

2007-10-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:03:48 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: > If no one comes up with a better solution, I think two cronjobs with > tar, gpg and find will do it, don't you think? The alternative would be > rdiff-backup with some kind of encrypted and possibly compressed file > system. You coul

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding fonts in LaTeX (app-text/tetex-3.0_p1-r4)

2007-10-30 Thread Stroller
On 29 Oct 2007, at 20:07, Liviu Andronic wrote: This is not a solution in itself, but you might try this. ... This is a recent TeX distribution, compared to the ancient TeTeX one. Check to see if it provides the fonts you need. If it does, you might attempt to remove TeTeX by following the corr

Re: [gentoo-user] Writing an ebuild, #gentoo-dev-help best place?

2007-10-30 Thread Grant
> > > I'm writing an ebuild and need some help. Is #gentoo-dev-help the > > > best place to get it? > [...] > > > I've been checking it all morning here: > > > > > > http://cgiirc.blitzed.org/ > > > > > > and it always seems to be empty. Is that a real client? > > > > If it show it's empty, then

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted Backups

2007-10-30 Thread Florian Philipp
Albert Hopkins schrieb: On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 14:03 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: Hi list! I'm in need of a backup tool and an advice would be helpful because I need some special functionality. I want to make backups from my laptop to a cardreader (pcmcia), making daily full and hourly incr

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted Backups

2007-10-30 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 15:32 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: > Could I see that script? How do you invoke it, anacron/fcron? -- #!/bin/sh OUTFILE=/root/backup.tar.pgp tar -c --one-file-system -X /etc/mybackup.exclude -C / . ./boot | \ gpg --encrypt -r [EMAIL PROTECTED] --yes > $OUTFILE --- I

[gentoo-user] sshd Authentication Restrictions

2007-10-30 Thread Josh Cepek
I want to harden my ssh server by restricting most users to Public Key authentication only. I can set "ChallengeResponseAuthentication no" in the config file, but I can't figure out how to then allow a user or group within a Match section to use Keyboard-Interactive authentication. "ChallengeResp

Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 fallback configuration is ignored

2007-10-30 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 30 October 2007, Mark Shields wrote: > On 10/29/07, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday 28 October 2007, Dan Farrell wrote: > > > On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:19:13 + > > > > > > Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Saturday 27 October 2007, Dan Farrell wrote: > > > > > On

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding fonts in LaTeX (app-text/tetex-3.0_p1-r4)

2007-10-30 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 10/30/07, Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'll get on the case with this this evening, but in the meantime, any > idea how to add fonts to TeXLive, in case I need to? I could only suggest to look at the installation instructions found in cm-super, or some other well maintained font. Liv

[gentoo-user] Re: Encrypted Backups

2007-10-30 Thread James
Florian Philipp addcom.de> writes: > I'm in need of a backup tool and an advice would be helpful because I > need some special functionality. > I want to make backups from my laptop to a cardreader (pcmcia), making > daily full and hourly incremental backups *if the card is plugged in* > (wh

[gentoo-user] A week of struggle

2007-10-30 Thread econti
Hi all, as the subject says! ;-) Now my system should be updated. gcc, world and, to-day, the kernel. Well, everything seems to work fine . . . but: 1 among the boot options I had "vga=0x317". Now this option gives me: "You passed an undefined mode number." "Press to see video modes availa

[gentoo-user] (OT) ksmoothdock quirk

2007-10-30 Thread Mick
Hi All, I have set up a KDE desktop for my wife to have ksmoothdock at the bottom and the default KDE menu panel at the top. On the left edge of the desktop I have in a column various shortcuts (desktop icons). The problem is that each time the desktop is loaded and ksmoothdock is launched, t

Re: [gentoo-user] A week of struggle

2007-10-30 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 20:48:06 +0100 econti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > as the subject says! ;-) > Now my system should be updated. gcc, world and, to-day, the kernel. > Well, everything seems to work fine . . . but: > > 1 among the boot options I had "vga=0x317". Now this option gives

Re: [gentoo-user] new box DRI problem : more

2007-10-30 Thread Philip Webb
071030 James Ausmus wrote: > On 10/30/07, Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> build the Mesa modules from git, the 1.2.2 and 1.4 part: >> http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Building >> These three lines were added to i915/intel_context.h since 7.0.1: >> #define PCI_CHIP_G33_G

Re: [gentoo-user] new box DRI problem : more

2007-10-30 Thread Dale
Philip Webb wrote: > I did try unpacking the MesaLibs distfile, patching & repacking, > but of course Portage objected that the file size was incorrect ! > <> > > Any advice here too wb very welcome. > > You may be able to use the --digest feature so it doesn't check the tarball before using it

Re: [gentoo-user] new box DRI problem : more

2007-10-30 Thread Philip Webb
071031 Philip Webb wrote: > Meanwhile, what I believed to be a small irritant is proving a show-stopper. > Leaving aside DRI, the display from the new machine spills off the screen: See previous msg for full horror story, but I did check the DPI : both machines show 99x98 in answer to 'xdpyinfo'.