Re: [gentoo-user] xorg is unable to detect mouse

2006-09-29 Thread Andrew Frink
On 9/29/06, Jason Weisberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Daniel,In case you had not noticed, compiling the entire distro from source is not the newbie way to install a linux distro either.  I think if you're that worried about autoconfiguration, you should probably look elsewhere. Daniel lliev wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: no usb mouse in xorg 7.1

2006-10-08 Thread Andrew Frink
Harm Geerts wrote: On Sunday 08 October 2006 13:20, Peter Gille wrote: Hello all, I have installed beryl and Xorg 7.1 as described in this guide: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_nVidia_GL_Desktop_Effects It is working great, except for the fact that my USB mouse, a Logitech MX-518, is no longer

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: no usb mouse in xorg 7.1

2006-10-09 Thread Andrew Frink
Harm Geerts wrote: > On Sunday 08 October 2006 18:38, Harm Geerts wrote: > >> On Sunday 08 October 2006 17:10, Andrew Frink wrote: >> >>> Will evdev handle unicode charecters? i have a mouse that has the >>> copyright symbol in it's name. >>&

Re: [gentoo-user] Auto-mount USB device

2006-10-09 Thread Andrew Frink
Stephen Liu wrote: Hi Iain, Still failed. # cat /etc/group | grep plugdev plugdev:x:1004:haldaemon,satimis if the logout-login doesn't work, then post the relevant part of /var/log/messages when plugging in the usb device. /var/log/message .. Oct 10 02:53:09 loca

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ati-driver update

2006-10-18 Thread Andrew Frink
oskar kapala wrote: Richard Fish wrote: xorg 7.1 or later require newer drivers. You either have to use the xf86-video-ati (the open source drivers included with x.org), or mask the new version of x.org. If you want to update to the current x.org, and abandon the proprietary ATI drivers, remo

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo wirelesss access point

2006-10-25 Thread Andrew Frink
W.Kenworthy wrote: Can someone point me to a document so I can set up a gentoo laptop with a built in ipw2200 wireless as an access point using wpa ??? I need to use it for a demo of some wireless 802.11 phones. Looking at the conf.d/net file doesnt show what I need to fill out to get a working

Re: [gentoo-user] aiglx vs 3d

2006-11-01 Thread Andrew Frink
oskar kapala wrote: Hi, Another ati problem. I wanted to try some eyecandy effects. I don't like gnome so I install aiglx and beryl which are more compatible with kde. I have ati radeon xpress 200 on amd64. When I add an option Option "Composite" "Enable" to my xorg.conf my 3d accel is gone:

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation of openoffice in 4 hours or more?! :s

2006-12-08 Thread Andrew Frink
Leandro Melo de Sales wrote: Hi, # date Tue Dec 5 10:12:01 BRT 2006 # emerge openoffice { in other terminal } # date Tue Dec 5 15:24:01 BRT 2006 and portage continues to compile openoffice, it didn't finished yet. Is it so slow or there are something wrong? My machine is a P4 (with Hype

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU opinions...

2006-01-11 Thread Andrew Frink
QEMU has been very good, with KQEMU even better. was running winXP and solidworks on for quite a while/cynyrOn 1/11/06, Uwe Klosa < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:I am also happy with QEMU. I used for an online game that uses DirectPlay wich is not supported by cedega or wine. Im running WinXPSP2 and it

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU opinions...

2006-01-11 Thread Andrew Frink
Tom, I hacked that in by putting qemu in ~/.xinitrc so when the user does startx thats what they get. i believe that vnc uses the same file to figure out what to run after XCynyr. On 1/11/06, Tom Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Excellent! Sounds like everyone likes QEMU, so I'm definitely goin

[gentoo-user] Evolution and the gnome clock applet

2006-01-11 Thread Andrew Frink
Has anyone noticed that evolution and the gnome clock applet show different starting times. mine show events starting 1 hour later than they actully do. Cynyr.

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

2006-01-11 Thread Andrew Frink
On 1/11/06, Matthias Bethke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I used xorg-x11-6.8.99 on my laptop so far because its i915 chipsetwasn't properly supported in 6.8.2. Now the last update, -r4, broke thesupport again (or so I read on some forum when I investigated why Xwouldn't start any more), so I decided

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - ipkungfu

2006-01-11 Thread Andrew Frink
On 1/11/06, Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm trying to install ipkungfoo on my server box.  I followed theinstructions in the README file.  When I went to start it, it gave me astring of errors, that I'm not sure how to fix:bullet ipkungfu # ipkungfu Checking configuration...FATAL: M

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

2006-01-11 Thread Andrew Frink
On 1/11/06, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wednesday 11 January 2006 14:35, Lares Moreau wrote:> On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 14:15 -0600, John Jolet wrote:> > I've encountered very weird behavior with ALL flavors of 2005.1 and> > 2005.1-r1 install media for amd64.  boots, but then says it can't

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - ipkungfu

2006-01-11 Thread Andrew Frink
On 1/11/06, Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 16:30 -0500, Andrew Frink wrote:>>> On 1/11/06, Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> I'm trying to install ipkungfoo on my server box.  I followed > the> 

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

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] Re: Evolution and the gnome clock applet [SOLVED]

2006-01-12 Thread Andrew Frink
On 1/12/06, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 13:45:21 -0500, Andrew Frink wrote:> Has anyone noticed that evolution and the gnome clock applet show> different starting times. mine show events starting 1 hour later than they > actully do. >> Cynyr.Ha

Re: [gentoo-user] New Macs

2006-01-12 Thread Andrew Frink
On 1/12/06, Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I got an email from Apple this morning announcing the new Intel-basedMacs. I was wondering if anyone knew whether one of the Gentoo Intelflavors would run on those systems or whether that would be a wholedifferent build --Mark[unwieldy legal disclaimer wo

Re: [gentoo-user] Modular xorg 7.0 crashes firefox

2006-01-14 Thread Andrew Frink
On 1/14/06, Kurt V. Hindenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: After upgrading to the modular xorg-x11 7.0, firefox-bin crashes on sites likemsnbc.com and cnn.com.  If I disable _javascript_ then it doesn't crash...Any ideas why or how to fix?   Regards, Kurtwww-client/mozilla-firefox-bin-1.5-r2--ge

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP Timeout Val not working

2006-01-18 Thread Andrew Frink
i belive the newest stable x86 baslayout is set to background the net.ethx scripts after 5 seconds of somesuch-CynyrOn 1/18/06, Kurt Guenther < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:I have Gentoo on my laptop and I'm frequently not connected to the network.  I had the DHCP timeout set to decent number and it wo

Re: [gentoo-user] doom3

2006-01-23 Thread Andrew Frink
On 1/23/06, Cláudio Henrique <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I guess I'll erase all the files, unmerge doom3 and then reinstall thewhole thing.On 1/23/06, Joshua Schmidlkofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> I only ever got the invalid key when I was using a key from the internet > which I had acquired.  Dow

[gentoo-user] DRI, modular X and the intel 855GM video card

2006-01-31 Thread Andrew Frink
Hey all i have a intel 855GM using the i810 driver in modualr X, just recently hardware acceleration stopped working. Not really sure why.here's my glx-info output.name of display: : 0.0libGL warning: 3D driver returned no fbconfigs.libGL error: InitDriver failedlibGL error: reverting to (slow) ind

Re: [gentoo-user] mysql support in php with out emerging mysql?

2006-02-07 Thread Andrew Frink
You could also try /etc/portage/package.providedcynyrOn 2/7/06, Jean Blignaut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks I'm trying to setup separate servers to provide separate servicesso want to have one running apache + php and a nother running mysql -Original Message-From: Francesco Riosa [mailt

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Errors compiling various ebuilds

2006-02-09 Thread Andrew Frink
On 2/9/06, Thomas Schweikle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: b.n. wrote:>> I am having problems compiling these ebuilds: dev-java/xml-commons-external-1.3.02>> dev-java/xerces-2.7.1 [2.6.2-r2]>> dev-java/xalan-2.7.0-r1 [2.6.0-r2 ]>> app-office/openoffice-2.0.1 [1.1.4-r1]>> dev-java/sun-jmx-1.2.1-r1 [

Re: [gentoo-user] TwinView Question

2006-02-15 Thread Andrew Frink
see this page found with google about twin view, http://www.gmpf.de/index.php/NVidia:TwinViewanyways the quick answer is add 'Option " TwinViewOrientation" "RightOf"' to your driver section. and as a note AFAIK twinview dosn't give seperate screens, so things like : 0.1 may not work. On 2/15/06, Ro

Re: [gentoo-user] Shall I wait for 2006.0 release?

2006-02-15 Thread Andrew Frink
seconds what daniel da veiga said, it's one of the many things nice about gentoo. On 2/15/06, Daniel da Veiga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2/15/06, Izar Ilun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> I'm about to install Gentoo in a Machine but I'm not sure if I shall install> 2005.1-r1  with an updated portag

Re: [gentoo-user] TARPIT iptables target

2006-02-23 Thread Andrew Frink
Daveto get tarpit support add the "extensions" USE flag when you emerge iptablescynyrOn 2/22/06, Dave Jones < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Hi,I was reading about the TARPIT target in the man iptables documentation, and thought I'd like to give it a try.  Unfortunately though, it seemsnot to be supporte

Re: [gentoo-user] gst-plugins

2006-02-23 Thread Andrew Frink
Graham,This happend to me on the .8.10 to .8.11 i just masked <=gst-*-0.8.10 Cynyr.On 2/23/06, Graham Murray < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:[rant mode] Many of the gstreamer plugins, but not all of them, have been updated (in ~x86) to 0.8.12. That some of them are still at0.8.11 is causing an upgrade/d

Re: [gentoo-user] Iptables Tarpit

2006-03-08 Thread Andrew Frink
You could also just add the "extensions" USE flag to iptables and that should give you tarpit supportOn 3/7/06, Dave Jones < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Erik Westenbroek wrote on 03/07/06 04:18:> I am attempting create a tarpit to protect against SSH Brute force > attempts.  I tried this: --snip--> ip

Re: [gentoo-user] Iptables Tarpit

2006-03-08 Thread Andrew Frink
ahh haven't really played that much with tarpit, thansk for clearing that up :-)On 3/8/06, Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:Hi Andrew,Andrew Frink wrote on 03/08/06 14:57:> You could also just add the "extensions" USE flag to iptables and that > should give yo

Re: [gentoo-user] missing 15GB of hard disk space

2006-03-15 Thread Andrew Frink
Did you grow/shrink reiserfs on those partitions after you resized them?On 3/14/06, Nich Steicke <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:Hey everyone,I have recently moved, and resized the partitions on my 120GB hdd (/dev/hdb). I moved and resized the partitions as there is data i verymuch want to keep, but don

Re: [gentoo-user] missing 15GB of hard disk space

2006-03-15 Thread Andrew Frink
Reiserfs does the same thing, 5% saved for root. On 3/15/06, Quag7 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> freed up, and was astonished to find that i had not gained > more free> space, but lost some! i was intreged to i took a look arround,> and found> that the space

Re: [gentoo-user] telnet localhost

2006-03-28 Thread Andrew Frink
did you enable telnet in your xinetd configs?On 3/27/06, THUFIR HAWAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 3/27/06, Gabriel Dain <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:> If you really wanted to telnet to yourself (i dont see any> circumstance in which this would be useful), you'd have to set up a> telnet/ssh server:>

Re: [gentoo-user] weird 4GB RAM and kernel issue

2006-04-01 Thread Andrew Frink
On 4/1/06, kashani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've made my problem go away, but I'm a bit curious about why it washappening.I've got nine or so Dell 1850's with 2 x 2GB chips. When I compilegentoo-source 2.6.15-r1 (and 2.6.14-r5) with support for 4GB I see only 3GB. 1GB lowmem and 2GB highm

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU questions?

2006-04-09 Thread Andrew Frink
On 4/9/06, Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi All...Anyone here using QEMU?I've run into a problem that I can't iron out...I've created an image of a winxp install disk using dd. When I run the imageusing QEMU, I get the "NTLDR no found" error... I'm using the current .0.8.0 version with k

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU questions?

2006-04-10 Thread Andrew Frink
ummm why not just use the cd in the drive?On 4/10/06, Fernando Antunes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is your command line like this : qemu -hda xxx.img -cdrom xp.iso -boot d On 4/9/06, Jerry McBride < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi All...Anyone here using QEMU?I've run into a problem that I can't ir

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Question about net.eth0 and the handbook [partially solved]

2006-04-19 Thread Andrew Frink
On 4/19/06, Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 22:50 +0200, Maxime Robert-Schreyers wrote:> Michael Sullivan wrote:>> >The guy I'm helping to install Gentoo says that he can get to his Linux> >installation and log in, but that he has no network unless he boots with >

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome 2.14 splash

2006-04-23 Thread Andrew Frink
On 4/22/06, JimD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Every time I start gnome the pretty splash comes up but it won't go awayuntil I click on it.  Has anyone see this oddity?  If so, is there a cure? Thanks,JimD--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing listdisable it compleatly in your session settingslove and kisse

Re: [gentoo-user] eix corruption?

2006-05-03 Thread Andrew Frink
On 5/3/06, JimD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:> This was caused by a change to the portage metadata format.  I believe the> solution is to add 'PORTDIR_CACHE_METHOD="backport"' to your /etc/eixrc.That was the ticket : ) Jim--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=There's no place

Re: [gentoo-user] An alternative to http-replicator

2006-06-10 Thread Andrew Frink
On 6/10/06, Michael Weyershäuser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-Hash: SHA1Jeremy Olexa wrote:>> Much simplier:> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Using_a_shared_portage_via_NFS I have used that setup for some time and must say that sharingportage over NFS is slow like hell.

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg meta apps

2006-07-05 Thread Andrew Frink
On 7/5/06, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I updated to the new xorg and discovered that a lot of applications(e.g. xcalc, xvidtune, etc.) were uninstalled when I unmerged themonolithic version, but were not reinstalled with the new meta.  So, Ithought of trying emerging them individually.  However

Re: [gentoo-user] linux router setup - howto?

2006-07-06 Thread Andrew Frink
Mike,in case you are lazy, or haven't had the time too look, this is the guide i followed to set this up for my house, http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_setup_a_home-server cynyrOn 7/6/06, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 20:09 -0400, Mike Markowski wrote:>echo "1" > /pro

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA & USB SCSI drives...

2006-07-13 Thread Andrew Frink
On 7/13/06, Sieb, Glenn E (Glenn) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi everyone..Running 2006.0, 2.6.15-r5 kernel1U box, SATA boot drive (sda), and an attached USB drive (in theory, sdb) for on-site backup storage.Problem is--if the USB drive is plugged into the system when it reboots, the *USB drive* com

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia+Xorg not allowing DRI.

2006-07-14 Thread Andrew Frink
On 7/14/06, Korthrun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Heyyas, I'm running:Xorg 7.0-r1nvidia-kernel 1.0.8762nvidia-glx 1.0.8762 I've followed the guide athttp://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml with the followingexceptions. I'm using a kernel.org kernel not a portage kernel, and Ididn't mak

Re: [gentoo-user] XGL + Compiz + OpenGL issues

2006-07-20 Thread Andrew Frink
i have had a problem with missing visuals is xorg 7.1 with taht card... i think it's also there is some versions of 7.0, you have to get the right CVS date to get rid of them it would seem.sorry for the unhelpfulness but i just thought i would let you know you aren't the only one. On 7/19/06, Jayso

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggested network fs for small lan ?

2006-07-22 Thread Andrew Frink
On 7/22/06, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nick Rout schrieb:> I wasted days getting NFS to not work. I switched to CIFS. It is working very well.Is file locking working over CIFS? How about permissionsand ownership? Working as well and easy as it does on NFS? What kind of problems did

Re: [gentoo-user] can't install ati-drivers

2006-07-25 Thread Andrew Frink
Hello,is that the newest version in portage? if not i would sujest upgrading as each version of ati-drivers is only good for certian kernelsCynyrOn 7/25/06, Stefán István <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello!I have a big problem installing ati driver. Please somebody help.When I try to install it I ge

Re: [gentoo-user] Lots of missing gentoo-user mail

2006-07-27 Thread Andrew Frink
On 7/27/06, Ralph Slooten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-Hash: SHA1Hiya,For the last 2 years I have been archiving structurally all mygentoo-user mails I have received into MySQL. In the last few months Ihave noticed that I have been receiving more and more broken thre

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA tuning ?

2006-08-16 Thread Andrew Frink
Meino,it wouldn't hurt to know which filesystem you are using, as that could(unlikely) be the problemCynyrOn 8/16/06, Meino Christian Cramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: "Richard Fish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SATA tuning ?Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 21:47:20 -0700> Moving this

Re: [gentoo-user] ifplugd and netplug annoyance

2006-08-16 Thread Andrew Frink
On 8/16/06, Mike Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hey,I installed ifplug a *long* time ago on this laptop, and it worked perfectly.After upgrading to the new baselayout I saw it had built in support for ifplugand netplug.Great I thought, I'll let it handle it. So I reinstalled ifplug to put all

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: hdparm and baselayout

2006-08-18 Thread Andrew Frink
Daniel,I think there are some settings in /etc/conf.d/hdparm that control if just hard disks or both get  options changed.  AndrewP.S. I'm not at my Linux box so I can't say for sure On 8/18/06, Daniel Pielmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Doesn't anybody have a clue?Or did anyone receive this mess

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie ebuild question

2006-08-18 Thread Andrew Frink
Jules,I think you need to add something like(see below) Read the man page for that one, or grep usr/portage/AndrewOn 8/18/06, Jules Colding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Hi,I am trying to create an ebuild file for evolution-brutus. It is presently looking like this (with comments removed):

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown block(0,0)

2006-08-18 Thread Andrew Frink
Rafael,Did you compile in support for your IDE "controller"?AndrewOn 8/18/06, Rafael Fernández López < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Hi,I've googled and I haven't got any successfull results. I've my hard disk as follows:/dev/hda1 - ext2 (here will go /boot)/dev/hda2 - swap/dev/hda3 - ext3 (here will go

Re: [gentoo-user] Bonehead mistake

2006-09-02 Thread Andrew Frink
On 9/2/06, Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 1 Sep 2006 23:27:44 -0400> "Colleen Beamer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote the words:>> I was told that there was a new version of gcc >> and that it would be installed into a new slot.>> I know that gcc is a compiler & without a compiler>> thi

Re: [gentoo-user] modular X : Ctl-Alt-F7 fails

2006-09-21 Thread Andrew Frink
On 9/20/06, Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've just updated to modular X & everything seems to be working,except that after  Ctl-Alt-F2  I can't get back to X with  Ctl-Alt-F7 .I can get back to the original raw terminal with  Ctl-Alt-F1 ,which shows  3  identical error messages.  I tried