RE: [gentoo-user] Machine doesn't respond to broadcast ping.

2009-06-25 Thread Adam Carter
> > I've got one machine here on the LAN which isn't responding to broadcast > > ping. Any idea why not? > > You need to set icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts to 0. Default is > 1, mainly for dos prevention: > > # sysctl net.ipv4.icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts=0 I thought it would default to off in most O

[gentoo-user] NX* recommendation / help

2009-06-25 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I have been using net-misc/nxserver-freeedition / nxclient for quite some time and it was working great (over an DSL line) But, some time ago, all of a sudden, it stopped working (some task died) Can anybody give me some recommendations on - HowTos - use nxserver-freeedition or nxserver-fre

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: To be mesa or not to be mesa...

2009-06-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 05:58:29 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > if it exists. If "emerge -p --depclean" wants to unmerge mesa, then > > you don't need it. Just make sure to run revdep-rebuild afterwards > > to make sure to packages were broken by this. > > in the past a lot of packages ne

Re: [gentoo-user] udev, cryptsetup, and ensuing problems

2009-06-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:16:51 -0400, John P. Burkett wrote: > The response included the following lines: > * Determining the location of the kernel source code > * Found kernel source directory: > * /usr/src/linux > * Found sources for kernel version: > * 2.6.20-gentoo-r6 > * Checking

Re: [gentoo-user] NX* recommendation / help

2009-06-25 Thread David
Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I have been using net-misc/nxserver-freeedition / nxclient for quite some time and it was working great (over an DSL line) But, some time ago, all of a sudden, it stopped working (some task died) Can anybody give me some recommendations on - HowTos - use nxserver-fr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server-1.5 update/old kernel+old fglrx

2009-06-25 Thread bn
Mark Knecht ha scritto: > No, I need a new kernel also. The kernel on this machine is 2 years > old. Also, I have about a dozen packages masked so I've unmasked those > and will need to get the whole machine up to date. There is something I didn't understand at all in this thread. Why did you nee

Re: [gentoo-user] NX* recommendation / help

2009-06-25 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 25 Jun, David wrote: > Here is what I did; > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-728963-highlight-.html > > That was a while ago so check the elog for any new details. The only > problem I ran across was that after an update I had to rerun; > nxsetup --install --setup-nomachine-key --clean -

[gentoo-user] Stuck on enabling drm for xorg-server.

2009-06-25 Thread James Homuth
I'm running Gentoo on a 5-year-old Presario 2200 series with onboard intel graphics card. I've managed to get everything working on it so far, with the exception of xorg+dri. I *think* I've compiled everything into the kernel that needs to be for intel's GMA graphics cards (I have an 852/855 card,

Re: [gentoo-user] To be mesa or not to be mesa...

2009-06-25 Thread Philip Webb
090625 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > I am using an nvidia graphics card GeForce (7600 GT (rev a2)) > with the nvidia drivers. Do I need mesa to be installed ? > I am heavily using OpenGL with Blender. On my machine with an 'Asus EN8500GT Nvidia 512 MB DDR2 800' card root:502 root> eix ^mesa$

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine doesn't respond to broadcast ping.

2009-06-25 Thread Stroller
On 25 Jun 2009, at 08:10, Adam Carter wrote: I've got one machine here on the LAN which isn't responding to broadcast ping. Any idea why not? You need to set icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts to 0. Default is 1, mainly for dos prevention: # sysctl net.ipv4.icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts=0 I thou

[gentoo-user] problem reading zip files

2009-06-25 Thread Doug ONeal
I have had a problem dumped on me that I cannot resolve. A user archived some very large datasets using Info-zip (app-arch/zip-2.32-r1) and the original data has been deleted. The zip executable is a 64-bit binary and the user assumed that large archives were possible. A typical archive is on th

Re: [gentoo-user] NX* recommendation / help

2009-06-25 Thread David
Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 25 Jun, David wrote: > > >> Here is what I did; >> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-728963-highlight-.html >> >> That was a while ago so check the elog for any new details. The only >> problem I ran across was that after an update I had to rerun; >> nxsetup --ins

Re: [gentoo-user] problem reading zip files

2009-06-25 Thread Robert Bridge
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Doug ONeal wrote: > I have had a problem dumped on me that I cannot resolve. A user > archived some very large > datasets using Info-zip (app-arch/zip-2.32-r1) and the original data has > been deleted. The zip > executable is a 64-bit binary and the

Re: [gentoo-user] problem reading zip files

2009-06-25 Thread Arttu V.
On 6/25/09, Doug ONeal wrote: > I am guessing that all of the data is actually present in the zip > archives but I cannot get to it. Trying > version 3.0 of info-zip or any of the other linux & windows unzip > programs has not been successful > in extracting any of the later files in the archives

Re: [gentoo-user] udev, cryptsetup, and ensuing problems

2009-06-25 Thread John P. Burkett
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:16:51 -0400, John P. Burkett wrote: > >> The response included the following lines: >> * Determining the location of the kernel source code >> * Found kernel source directory: >> * /usr/src/linux >> * Found sources for kernel version: >> *

[gentoo-user] Re: problem reading zip files

2009-06-25 Thread Doug O'Neal
On 06/25/2009 09:51 AM, Arttu V. wrote: > On 6/25/09, Doug ONeal wrote: >> I am guessing that all of the data is actually present in the zip >> archives but I cannot get to it. Trying >> version 3.0 of info-zip or any of the other linux & windows unzip >> programs has not been successful >> in ex

[gentoo-user] virtual modem

2009-06-25 Thread sean
I was looking through portage trying to find any tools that might allow me to trick an old program that has built modem support to instead communicate over a local network.I found nothing, does anyone know of such a package? I have an old program running in dosbox that I am tying to get to c

Re: [gentoo-user] NX* recommendation / help

2009-06-25 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 2:18 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > I have been using net-misc/nxserver-freeedition / nxclient for quite > some time and it was working great (over an DSL line) > > But, some time ago, all of a sudden, it stopped working (some task died) Check in your user ~/.nx/ directory an

Re: [gentoo-user] virtual modem

2009-06-25 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 9:56 AM, sean wrote: > I was looking through portage trying to find any tools that might allow me > to trick an old program that has built modem support to instead communicate > over a local network.I found nothing, does anyone know of such a package? > > > I have an old pro

Re: [gentoo-user] virtual modem

2009-06-25 Thread sean
Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 9:56 AM, sean wrote: I was looking through portage trying to find any tools that might allow me to trick an old program that has built modem support to instead communicate over a local network.I found nothing, does anyone know of such a package? I ha

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problem reading zip files

2009-06-25 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Doug O'Neal wrote: > On 06/25/2009 09:51 AM, Arttu V. wrote: >> On 6/25/09, Doug ONeal wrote: >>> I am guessing that all of the data is actually present in the zip >>> archives but I cannot get to it. Trying >>> version 3.0 of info-zip or any of the other linux &

Re: [gentoo-user] Stuck on enabling drm for xorg-server.

2009-06-25 Thread Florian Philipp
James Homuth schrieb: > I'm running Gentoo on a 5-year-old Presario 2200 series with onboard > intel graphics card. I've managed to get everything working on it so > far, with the exception of xorg+dri. I *think* I've compiled everything > into the kernel that needs to be for intel's GMA graphics c

Re: [gentoo-user] NX* recommendation / help

2009-06-25 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 25 Jun, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 2:18 AM, Helmut > Jarausch wrote: >> I have been using net-misc/nxserver-freeedition / nxclient for quite >> some time and it was working great (over an DSL line) >> >> But, some time ago, all of a sudden, it stopped working (some task died)

[gentoo-user] Re: problem reading zip files

2009-06-25 Thread Doug O'Neal
On 06/25/2009 11:31 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Doug O'Neal wrote: >> On 06/25/2009 09:51 AM, Arttu V. wrote: >>> On 6/25/09, Doug ONeal wrote: I am guessing that all of the data is actually present in the zip archives but I cannot get to it. Trying v

Re: [gentoo-user] NX* recommendation / help

2009-06-25 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 25 Jun, Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 2:18 AM, Helmut >> Jarausch wrote: >>> I have been using net-misc/nxserver-freeedition / nxclient for quite >>> some time and it was working great (over an DSL line) >>> >>> But, som

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problem reading zip files

2009-06-25 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Doug O'Neal wrote: > On 06/25/2009 11:31 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Doug O'Neal wrote: >>> On 06/25/2009 09:51 AM, Arttu V. wrote: On 6/25/09, Doug ONeal wrote: > I am guessing that all of the data is actually present in t

[gentoo-user] xfce 4.6 dualhead

2009-06-25 Thread Fernando Antunes
Hi everyone. Is there anyone using xfce 4.6 in a notebook, one card with internal LCD and a external VGA connector or whatelse external connector, who had got desktop and display programs in settings menu to work fine ? My desktop program only shows me just one monitor and display shows me just on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server-1.5 update/old kernel+old fglrx

2009-06-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 1:47 AM, bn wrote: > Mark Knecht ha scritto: > >> No, I need a new kernel also. The kernel on this machine is 2 years >> old. Also, I have about a dozen packages masked so I've unmasked those >> and will need to get the whole machine up to date. > > There is something I didn

[gentoo-user] Question about sfdisk

2009-06-25 Thread Norman Rieß
Hello, i am trying to change the partitionlayout of a disk with sfdisk in a script. Partitioning works fine. But now i want to leave a partition untouched. So how can i "ignore" a certain partition? With input like ,,, ,42000,7,* ,148000,7, or ; ,42000,7,* ,148000,7, the first line of course

[gentoo-user] LVM HDD problem

2009-06-25 Thread Hung Dang
Hi all, We have some hard drives on our server and one of them seem to have problem. I wonder how can I check and fix the error from a specific hard drive? Thanks a lot Hung

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM HDD problem

2009-06-25 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:01:04 -0600 Hung Dang wrote: > Hi all, > We have some hard drives on our server and one of them seem to have > problem. I wonder how can I check and fix the error from a specific hard > drive? Try using smartctl (sys-apps/smartmontools), it can usually show at once that th

RE: [gentoo-user] Machine doesn't respond to broadcast ping.

2009-06-25 Thread Adam Carter
> It shouldn't matter, anyway, if they're all behind a NAT router, > should it? Correct. Since a broadcast ping from the Internet cant make it to your network, you're fine. Surprised about MacOSX tho...