[gentoo-user] Emerge World - lcms Fails

2005-05-14 Thread Drew Tomlinson
In an attempt to "clean up" my newly installed and get everything back to "default" as much as possible, I'm running 'emerge --emptytree world". The build failed on lcms-1.13. Here's the output: *** Gentoo sanity check failed! *** *** libtool.m4 and ltmain.sh have a version mismatch! *** *** (

[gentoo-user] Re:Pocket Outlook and IMAP - (Was re: Which IMAP is happiest with gentoo?)

2005-05-15 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 5/13/2005 9:55 AM Stroller wrote: On May 12, 2005, at 8:10 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I already have Postfix running and I happily read email on my server, but I'd like to read my email on my IMAP/SSL cellphone client. I've seen Courier, UW, and Cyrus, and perhaps there are others. Any recomme

Re: [gentoo-user] Which IMAP is happiest with gentoo?

2005-05-15 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 5/13/2005 10:39 AM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the fine comments. You are the second to recommend courier-imap, and I'll probably go that route. Re the phone behavior, I wonder if the cause of yours is the same as mine: I just discovered that although my phone can talk to IMAP servers, i

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge World - lcms Fails

2005-05-15 Thread Drew Tomlinson
man page about overriding the checksum check. Thanks, Drew Drew Tomlinson wrote: In an attempt to "clean up" my newly installed and get everything back to "default" as much as possible, I'm running 'emerge --emptytree world". The build failed

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge World - lcms Fails

2005-05-15 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 5/14/2005 8:59 AM Mark Knecht wrote: On 5/14/05, Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In an attempt to "clean up" my newly installed and get everything back to "default" as much as possible, I'm running 'emerge --emptytree world". The buil

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Advansys SCSI Not Available on 2005.0 LiveCD

2005-05-15 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 5/14/2005 12:54 PM Richard Fish wrote: Drew Tomlinson wrote: insmod: error inserting 'advansys.ko': -1 Invalid module format So is this because the module really won't work with Gentoo 2005.0? Or does this have something to do with 'depmod'. I'm beginning to

[gentoo-user] Do I Need bttv?

2005-05-15 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I'm trying to build a MythTV box on Gentoo based upon snippets of various guides I've found on the web. My TV card is Hauppauge's PVR-250. From what I've gathered, ivtv is the appropriate software to use with this card. However, bttv is loaded on startup in addition to ivtv. So my questions

Re: [gentoo-user] no /dev/v4l devices after switching to udev? (possibly)

2005-05-24 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 5/22/2005 6:43 PM Mark Knecht wrote: Brett, Thanks for your help. One way or another it finally started working. I don't know yet whether it will survive a reboot. I'll probably do that test later this evening or tomorrow but at least I'm finally getting v4l devices. I think it was most

Re: [gentoo-user] no /dev/v4l devices after switching to udev? (possibly)

2005-05-25 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 5/25/2005 4:16 AM Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 24 May 2005 18:11:59 -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: So now I am in the position of not knowing the proper way to start ivtv on boot. I checked the /etc/init.d for an ivtv script but did not find one. Should I make one and then use rc

[gentoo-user] How to Install Bacula Client Using Portage?

2005-07-08 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I'm new to both Gentoo and Linux so I apologize if this is a stupid question. I've used bacula on FreeBSD and would like to put the bacula client on a Gentoo box I have running MythTV. Is there a way to build the client only using portage? Or do I have to build the whole thing and then only

Re: [gentoo-user] How to Install Bacula Client Using Portage? -- SOLVED!!!

2005-07-09 Thread Drew Tomlinson
e.use: app-backup/bacula client-only This seems to do it as emerge -pv confirms portage sees the flag: app-backup/bacula-1.36.3-r1 +X +client-only -gnome +mysql +ncurses -postgres +readline -sqlite -static +tcpd Thanks again! Drew On 7/8/05, Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

[gentoo-user] Laptop ATI Integrated Video Performance?

2007-12-25 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I have a Gateway laptop with an integrated ATI graphics board. lspci detects it as: 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS485 [Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP] However when attempting to view a DVD at full screen, the display is a bit "jumpy" as if the video hardware is not fast

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop ATI Integrated Video Performance?

2007-12-29 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 12/25/2007 8:56 AM Stroller said the following: On 25 Dec 2007, at 15:59, Drew Tomlinson wrote: ... I'm using x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.433 and have followed guides and verified direct rendering is enabled (however I don't know if that matters for displaying video). Is this

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Laptop ATI Integrated Video Performance?

2007-12-29 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 12/25/2007 10:19 AM Grant Edwards said the following: On 2007-12-25, Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a Gateway laptop with an integrated ATI graphics board. lspci detects it as: 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS485 [Radeon Xpress 11

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop ATI Integrated Video Performance?

2007-12-29 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 12/25/2007 9:49 AM András Csányi said the following: 2007/12/25, Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I have a Gateway laptop with an integrated ATI graphics board. lspci detects it as: 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS485 [Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP] Howeve

Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?

2008-02-05 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:58:26 -0800, Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: I cannot get bridged netwokring to work, no matter what I try. I have searched high and low for an answer, and I have spend hours experimenting. Bridged networking broke for me when 2.6.21 came out and has

[gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.3.1 Won't Start As User

2008-02-21 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I emerged OpenOffice 2.3.1 on my amd64 install running gentoo-2.6.23-r5 kernel. I can start OpenOffice as root but not as a regular user. I have found some posts that suggest deleting ~/ooo-2.0 so it will be recreated with appropriate permissions. However this has not worked for me. Any sug

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.3.1 Won't Start As User

2008-02-21 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Mark Knecht wrote: OpenOffice or OpenOffice-bin? I'm running 2.3.1 here on my AMD64. No problems that I've seen so far. - Mark The actual OpenOffice that took many hours to compile on my AMD Turion TL-50 1.6ghz laptop. :) Thanks, Drew On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 5:51 PM, Drew

What is LD_LIBRARY_PATH? (Was Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.3.1 Won't Start As User)

2008-02-22 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Philip Webb wrote: 080221 Drew Tomlinson wrote: I emerged OpenOffice 2.3.1 on my amd64 install running gentoo-2.6.23-r5. I can start OpenOffice as root but not as a regular user. How are you starting it ? Do you enter eg 'oocalc' from a CLI or do you click on an icon in a

ATI Drivers Sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH (Was Re: What is LD_LIBRARY_PATH? (Was Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.3.1 Won't Start As User))

2008-02-22 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Willie Wong wrote: On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 09:52:39AM -0800, Penguin Lover Drew Tomlinson squawked: There are no error messages. When starting as a user, the splash graphic just sits there and the CPU usage is basically 100% for both X and oosplash.bin. When starting as root, the splash

Re: [gentoo-user] [Probably off-topic] How do I find out what is consuming the bandwidth?

2008-03-01 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 01 March 2008, Mike Mazur wrote: Hi, On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 2:26 AM, Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Situation: There's a LAN with a Netgear ADSL router... heterogenous OS, including Gentoo, are installed on various PCs on the LAN. I'd like to know w

[gentoo-user] Is gentoo-wiki Down?

2008-04-13 Thread Drew Tomlinson
For the past few days, anytime I've attempted to get to gentoo-wiki or gentoo-portage, my browser just "sits". I connect to other sites just fine. It may be my firewall/IDS but I'm not sure. Are these sites still available? Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Wareho

Re: [gentoo-user] Is gentoo-wiki Down?

2008-04-13 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Andrew Gaydenko wrote: === On Monday 14 April 2008, Drew Tomlinson wrote: === For the past few days, anytime I've attempted to get to gentoo-wiki or gentoo-portage, my browser just "sits". I connect to other sites just fine. It may be my firewall/IDS but I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Is gentoo-wiki Down?

2008-04-15 Thread Drew Tomlinson
ionut cucu wrote: On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 04:23:05 +0400 Andrew Gaydenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: === On Monday 14 April 2008, Drew Tomlinson wrote: === For the past few days, anytime I've attempted to get to gentoo-wiki or gentoo-portage, my browser just "sits

[gentoo-user] Adobe Air and TweetDeck

2009-04-15 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Has anyone had luck installing Adobe Air and TweetDeck on Gentoo? I followed http://www.flashinthepan.ca/computer-tips/linux-computer-tips/adobe-air-on-gentoo-linux to get the SDK installed and attempted to run TweetDeck 0.25. It starts but I get a lot of errors. Has anyone had luck getting this

Re: [gentoo-user] Adobe Air and TweetDeck

2009-04-18 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Alan McKinnon wrote: Thanks for your reply. > On Thursday 16 April 2009 03:00:59 Drew Tomlinson wrote: > >> Has anyone had luck installing Adobe Air and TweetDeck on Gentoo? I >> followed >> http://www.flashinthepan.ca/computer-tips/linux-computer-tips/adobe-air-on

[gentoo-user] 32 Bit Libraries (Was Adobe Air and TweetDeck)

2009-05-01 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Drew Tomlinson wrote: > Has anyone had luck installing Adobe Air and TweetDeck on Gentoo? I > followed > http://www.flashinthepan.ca/computer-tips/linux-computer-tips/adobe-air-on-gentoo-linux > to get the SDK installed and attempted to run TweetDeck 0.25. It starts > but I get

[gentoo-user] 32 bit Libraries on amd64

2009-05-14 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Is there some way to get 32 bit versions of libgnomebreakpad.so and libcanberra-gtk-module.so installed on my amd64 gentoo box? I'm attempting to run an Adobe Air application that requires these libraries. I can't seem to turn up anything on Google and am a total newb when it comes to librari

[gentoo-user] Virtualbox Display Broken After xorg Upgrade

2009-08-03 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I'm not sure where to start. I upgraded from xorg 1.4 to xorg 1.6. I also followed the ATI Migration guide at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/ati-migration-guide.xml. Everything seems fine except now Virtualbox 3.0.2 guest displays are unreadable. Before the upgrade, Virtualbox disp

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Virtualbox Display Broken After xorg Upgrade

2009-08-04 Thread Drew Tomlinson
walt wrote: > On 08/03/2009 11:53 PM, Drew Tomlinson wrote: >> I'm not sure where to start. I upgraded from xorg 1.4 to xorg 1.6. I >> also followed the ATI Migration guide at >> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/ati-migration-guide.xml. >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] Virtualbox Display Broken After xorg Upgrade -- SOLVED

2009-08-08 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Al wrote: Drew Tomlinson wrote: I'm not sure where to start. I upgraded from xorg 1.4 to xorg 1.6. I also followed the ATI Migration guide at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/ati-migration-guide.xml. Everything seems fine except now Virtualbox 3.0.2 guest display

[gentoo-user] Modules Not Autoloading

2008-11-26 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Modules are not autoloading since initial install with gentoo-sources 2.6.25. I have since upgraded to kernel 2.6.27 but the issue persists. In my previous Gentoo install and other Gentoo installs, autoloading modules worked. I do not know why they are not loading in this case. I have the f

Re: [gentoo-user] Modules Not Autoloading

2008-11-27 Thread Drew Tomlinson
John covici wrote: on Thursday 11/27/2008 Dale([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > Drew Tomlinson wrote: > > Modules are not autoloading since initial install with gentoo-sources > > 2.6.25. I have since upgraded to kernel 2.6.27 but the issue > > persists. In my previous Gen

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/: ntpd or ntp-client?

2009-02-04 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 13:38:11 +, Stroller wrote: > > >> So when I found the clock to be a week out of date I checked that ntpd >> appeared to be running (it was) and restarted it. The date remained >> the same. Stopping ntpd & starting ntp-client corrected the date

[gentoo-user] vncviewer Recommendation

2009-02-09 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I'm looking for an vncviewer for Linux that has the same features as the Tight VNC viewer on Windows. I really like how the Windows viewer will scale the desktop and "remember" connections. Also, it's very easy to choose between "low" and "high" bandwidth connections with the Windows version. I'

Re: [gentoo-user] vncviewer Recommendation

2009-02-09 Thread Drew Tomlinson
David Negreira wrote: > Drew Tomlinson wrote: > >> I'm looking for an vncviewer for Linux that has the same features as the >> Tight VNC viewer on Windows. I really like how the Windows viewer will >> scale the desktop and "remember" connections. Also, i

Re: [gentoo-user] vncviewer Recommendation

2009-02-09 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Aaron Clark wrote: > Drew Tomlinson wrote: >> I'm looking for an vncviewer for Linux that has the same features as the >> Tight VNC viewer on Windows. I really like how the Windows viewer will >> scale the desktop and "remember" connections. Also, it's

[gentoo-user] Help With pptpclient

2009-02-10 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I'm trying to connect to a Cisco 3650 VPN Concentrator at work. On Windows clients, I use the included dialup networking client and connect without issue using pptp. This is not a L2TP/IPSEC VPN. I want to do the same on a Gentoo client. I've Googled and found that pptpclient should do what I w

Re: [gentoo-user] Help With pptpclient -- SOLVED

2009-02-10 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Drew Tomlinson wrote: > I'm trying to connect to a Cisco 3650 VPN Concentrator at work. On > Windows clients, I use the included dialup networking client and connect > without issue using pptp. This is not a L2TP/IPSEC VPN. I want to do > the same on a Gentoo client. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] 3D Acceleration With Laptop - Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP -- SOLVED!!!

2007-07-09 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 07/03/07 06:17 Drew Tomlinson said the following: I have a laptop with ATI integrated graphics. lspci shows the graphics card as: 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS485 [Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP] I have been unsuccessful in getting X configured to work with this

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Flashplayer 9 working for anybody?

2007-08-06 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 8/3/2007 7:15 AM Grant Edwards wrote: On 2007-08-03, b.n. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Grant Edwards ha scritto: Flashplayer 9 doesn't seem to work for me. I've tried it in both Opera and Firefox, but for most videos (e.g. nytimes.com) it just sits there with the spinning "loading" ar

[gentoo-user] Mythtv Build Error - ESVN_REPO_URI Not Matched

2007-08-30 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I attempted to build media-tv/mythtv-0.20.2_p14357 and received an error. I Googled on the error but can find no relevant help. I don't know much about how portage works so I am at a complete loss. Can anyone point me in the right direction? I've included the emerge output below: >>> Emer

Re: [gentoo-user] Mythtv Build Error - ESVN_REPO_URI Not Matched - SOLVED!!!

2007-08-31 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 8/31/2007 12:59 AM Neil Bothwick said the following: On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:07:55 -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: I attempted to build media-tv/mythtv-0.20.2_p14357 and received an error. I Googled on the error but can find no relevant help. I don't know much about how portage works

[gentoo-user] VMWare Workstation 6.0.2 Bridged Networking w/Wireless Card

2007-12-10 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Is is possible to get VMWare Workstation 6.0.2 guest OSs to work via bridged networking on a wireless card? I've Googled and found threads regarding this issue. This one seems to be the most relevant: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/95630?tstart=0&start=0 My post is on the 3rd page as bein

[gentoo-user] Can't Decrypt WEP Packets After Upgrade From 2.6.23 to 2.6.25

2008-06-02 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Ever since I upgraded my gentoo-sources kernel from 2.6.23 to 2.6.25, I can no longer see packets on my wireless network for any device other than my own. The tcpdump output looks like this: 20:49:32.909144 00:12:bf:2a:2c:76 (oui Unknown) Unknown SSAP 0x10 > 00:1f:32:5f:fe:06 (oui Unknown) Un

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't Decrypt WEP Packets After Upgrade From 2.6.23 to 2.6.25

2008-06-07 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 6/6/2008 2:40 AM Mick said the following: On Tuesday 03 June 2008, Drew Tomlinson wrote: Ever since I upgraded my gentoo-sources kernel from 2.6.23 to 2.6.25, I can no longer see packets on my wireless network for any device other than my own. The tcpdump output looks like this: 20:49

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't Decrypt WEP Packets After Upgrade From 2.6.23 to 2.6.25

2008-06-07 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 6/5/2008 4:49 PM Eric Martin said the following: Drew Tomlinson wrote: Ever since I upgraded my gentoo-sources kernel from 2.6.23 to 2.6.25, I can no longer see packets on my wireless network for any device other than my own. The tcpdump output looks like this: 20:49:32.909144 00:12:bf

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is the gimmick to run tightvnc from windows to gentoo

2008-07-24 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Eric Martin wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Harry Putnam wrote: Josh Cepek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Harry Putnam wrote: David Blamire-Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I did this a while back and I got it working by tunnelling via SSH (using

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo laptop issues

2008-07-24 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Miernik wrote: list-catcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The most important of the problems involves the fan. The laptop gets a whole lot hotter using linux while compiling than it did using vista while compiling which implies that there is some fan control missing from my install. What sort o

[gentoo-user] Mouse Quits After Gnome Login

2008-08-01 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I have a laptop that has been working fine until my last world update yesterday. FWIW, it's probably been at least 3 months since the last update. I'm running the 2.6.25-r4 kernel from gentoo sources. Gnome version is 2.22. Xorg version is 7.3. Mouse is actually a Synaptics Touchpad on the

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice about setting up split home directory

2008-08-10 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Alan E. Davis wrote: Norberto and Josh: Thank you for the suggestion. It's on the back burner. I have the space to experiment with it now. I have balked for the time being on basis of, partly, my need to be able to swap drives in and out, and have it clear in mind which partitions belong

[gentoo-user] Help With Cron

2007-04-10 Thread Drew Tomlinson
My cron program is sys-process/vixie-cron-4.1-r9 and all cron jobs but one are running as I expect. Specifically, I want the following command to execute from cron: /usr/share/mythtv/mythrename.pl --format "%T %- %Y-%m-%d_%g-%i %A %- %S" --link /tv/pretty However it fails to run and I get t

Re: [gentoo-user] Help With Cron -- SOLVED

2007-04-10 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 4/10/2007 3:20 PM Drew Tomlinson wrote: My cron program is sys-process/vixie-cron-4.1-r9 and all cron jobs but one are running as I expect. Specifically, I want the following command to execute from cron: /usr/share/mythtv/mythrename.pl --format "%T %- %Y-%m-%d_%g-%i %A %- %S"

[gentoo-user] Trouble Getting Wireless Networking Configured

2007-06-26 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I have a Gateway 6454 laptop with 2.6.21-gentoo-r3 amd64 kernel running. I am trying to set up the wireless network. I have never done this before so I started with the Handbook's Wireless Networking section. I begin by attempting to figure out what network card I have. lspci reports the wire

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble Getting Wireless Networking Configured

2007-06-27 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 6/27/2007 1:12 AM Alan McKinnon said the following: On Wednesday 27 June 2007, Randy Barlow wrote: Drew Tomlinson wrote: I ran tcpdump on eth1 and no packets are leaving the interface. Thus I assume that's why I'm not getting an address. I don't know ho

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble Getting Wireless Networking Configured -- SOLVED

2007-07-03 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 6/27/2007 7:45 AM Drew Tomlinson said the following: On 6/27/2007 1:12 AM Alan McKinnon said the following: On Wednesday 27 June 2007, Randy Barlow wrote: Drew Tomlinson wrote: I ran tcpdump on eth1 and no packets are leaving the interface. Thus I assume that's why I'm n

[gentoo-user] 3D Acceleration With Laptop - Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP

2007-07-03 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I have a laptop with ATI integrated graphics. lspci shows the graphics card as: 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS485 [Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP] I have been unsuccessful in getting X configured to work with this card with dri enabled. I followed the guides at: http

Re: [gentoo-user] 3D Acceleration With Laptop - Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP

2007-07-03 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 7/3/2007 9:36 AM James Ausmus said the following: On 7/3/07, Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS485 [Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP] (EE) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable I'm at a loss. Can some kind soul please poin

Re: [gentoo-user] 3D Acceleration With Laptop - Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP

2007-07-03 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 7/3/2007 5:19 PM Jerry McBride said the following: On Tuesday 03 July 2007 07:55:40 pm Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 7/3/2007 9:36 AM James Ausmus said the following: On 7/3/07, Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologi

Re: [gentoo-user] 3D Acceleration With Laptop - Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP

2007-07-03 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 7/3/2007 6:36 PM Jerry McBride said the following: On Tuesday 03 July 2007 08:58:39 pm Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 7/3/2007 5:19 PM Jerry McBride said the following: On Tuesday 03 July 2007 07:55:40 pm Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 7/3/2007 9:36 AM James Ausmus said the following

Re: [gentoo-user] 3D Acceleration With Laptop - Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP

2007-07-03 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 7/3/2007 7:01 PM Drew Tomlinson said the following: On 7/3/2007 6:36 PM Jerry McBride said the following: On Tuesday 03 July 2007 08:58:39 pm Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 7/3/2007 5:19 PM Jerry McBride said the following: On Tuesday 03 July 2007 07:55:40 pm Drew Tomlinson wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] 3D Acceleration With Laptop - Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP

2007-07-03 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 7/3/2007 7:14 PM Mark Knecht said the following: > >The only thing to consider then is that your hardware is not supported by that >driver... > That may be true. I have been unable to confirm or deny that. Anyone else? Thanks, Drew See if Michael can help you at the Phoronix forum

[gentoo-user] Rx Errors on NIC

2005-12-29 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I have a AMD Athlon 2800+ processor running on a Asus A7N8X Deluxe motherboard. This motherboard uses the Nvidia NForce2 chipset. It has both an Nvidia and a 3Com 100 mbps network adapter integrated. Initially I used the Nvidia network adapter but noticed a lot of Rx errors. The "errors" an

[gentoo-user] Emerge is "Waiting for lirc_client.o.lock to be removed"

2006-01-12 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I've got some weirdness going on with my system after an upgrade. Seems that some things that were compiled with gcc 3.3 don't want to run with a kernel that was compiled with gcc 3.4. I'm not sure of this but that's my guess, especially after re-emerging a few packages (that one doesn't norm

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge is "Waiting for lirc_client.o.lock to be removed"

2006-01-12 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 1/12/2006 10:59 AM Neil Bothwick said the following: On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 10:45:30 -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote: I've stopped lircd, removed all lirc kernel modules, searched the entire file system for a file named "lirc_client.o.lock", searched Google for the same, even r

[gentoo-user] How To Set NIC? (Was: Rx Errors on NIC)

2006-01-19 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 12/29/2005 3:33 PM Drew Tomlinson wrote: I have a AMD Athlon 2800+ processor running on a Asus A7N8X Deluxe motherboard. This motherboard uses the Nvidia NForce2 chipset. It has both an Nvidia and a 3Com 100 mbps network adapter integrated. Initially I used the Nvidia network adapter

Re: [gentoo-user] How To Set NIC? (Was: Rx Errors on NIC)

2006-01-20 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 1/19/2006 11:37 PM Rumen Yotov said the following: On (19/01/06 18:15), Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 12/29/2005 3:33 PM Drew Tomlinson wrote: I have a AMD Athlon 2800+ processor running on a Asus A7N8X Deluxe motherboard. This motherboard uses the Nvidia NForce2 chipset. It has

Re: [gentoo-user] Have you seen my flamesuit? (Was: How many people use KDE?)

2006-01-21 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 1/21/2006 2:44 AM Neil Bothwick said the following: On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 14:08:29 +0900, Chris White wrote: I wanna to know KDE and Gnome which is more popular. That's the most blatant start of a flamewar I've seen... Ok, let's sit here and ponder. People like KDE, people like G

[gentoo-user] Cleaned Cruft and Broke ivtv - How to Fix?

2006-02-08 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I'm using Gentoo kernel 2.6.13-r5 kernel on a box whose primary purpose is MythTV. After upgrading to this kernel and reading about periodically cleaning cruft from systems, I followed some advice about doing something along the lines of 'emerge -depclean'. I thought everything was fine but n

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaned Cruft and Broke ivtv - How to Fix?

2006-02-09 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 2/9/2006 12:37 AM Neil Bothwick said the following: On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 18:07:39 -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote: So I tried rebuilding ivtv but the problem persists. Thus I suspect I deleted something I shouldn't have with 'emerge -depclean'. Any suggestion on the best wa

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaned Cruft and Broke ivtv - How to Fix?

2006-02-12 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 2/9/2006 8:14 AM Neil Bothwick said the following: On Thu, 09 Feb 2006 08:02:07 -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote: Thanks for your reply. revdep-rebuild -p did not return anything but maybe that's because I already tried reinstalling ivtv. I don't have genlop on my system. W

[gentoo-user] System Clock Problems

2006-02-12 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I have Gentoo 2.6.13-r5 kernel running and have used ntpd in broadcastclient mode to keep its time in sync on my home network. The other day, the system suffered and abrupt shutdown due to a power outage. Ever since then, the system clock gains about 10 seconds every 5 minutes. Also, I can't

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: System Clock Problems

2006-02-13 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 2/12/2006 8:01 PM Harry Putnam wrote: Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: The time server is a FreeBSD 6.0 box on my network. My other FreeBSD box and two Windows boxes get time from it just fine. Even the Gentoo box will set its clock with "ntpd -gq". I am curr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: System Clock Problems

2006-02-13 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 2/13/2006 12:22 PM Mark Knecht wrote: On 2/13/06, Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Anyway, I really appreciate your thoughts. Because this box runs MythTV, time is *VERY* important. Imagine my surprise when I went to watch the first day of the Olympics on to find out t

Re: [gentoo-user] System Clock Problems

2006-02-13 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 2/13/2006 1:11 PM Nick Rout wrote: If your system stopped suddenly the ntp.drfit file may have become corrupted. As I understand it this file has a value in it that tells the system how much drift there is in the system clock, and uses the figutre to compensate. If the figure is way out th

Re: [gentoo-user] System Clock Problems

2006-02-14 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 2/14/2006 6:32 AM Benno Schulenberg wrote: Drew Tomlinson wrote: I've tried both zeroing this file and removing it altogether. Zeroing doesn't work and if I delete it, it never gets recreated. I've even tried "touch"ing it but it remains empty. After touching

[gentoo-user] Advansys SCSI Not Available on 2005.0 LiveCD

2005-05-06 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I've used FreeBSD for about 4 years but am new to Linux. After starting with Fedora Core 3 two weeks ago, I quickly learned about "rpm hell" once I built a custom kernel to support my hardware. I missed the ports system with which I was familiar in FreeBSD. Several people suggested Gentoo mi

[gentoo-user] Re: Advansys SCSI Not Available on 2005.0 LiveCD

2005-05-06 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 5/6/2005 10:39 AM Drew Tomlinson wrote: I've used FreeBSD for about 4 years but am new to Linux. After starting with Fedora Core 3 two weeks ago, I quickly learned about "rpm hell" once I built a custom kernel to support my hardware. I missed the ports system with which I

Re: [gentoo-user] Advansys SCSI Not Available on 2005.0 LiveCD

2005-05-06 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 5/6/2005 2:43 PM A. Khattri wrote: On Fri, 6 May 2005, Drew Tomlinson wrote: So no I have a minimal 2005.0 LiveCD booted and am logged in via ssh. I'm following the installation handbook section 4 regarding partitioning. However I don't seem to have my SCSI drives available.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Advansys SCSI Not Available on 2005.0 LiveCD

2005-05-06 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 5/6/2005 2:49 PM Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 5/6/2005 10:39 AM Drew Tomlinson wrote: I've used FreeBSD for about 4 years but am new to Linux. After starting with Fedora Core 3 two weeks ago, I quickly learned about "rpm hell" once I built a custom kernel to support my hardware.

[gentoo-user] gentoo.org Is Down?

2005-05-07 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Can anyone get to http://www.gentoo.org? I keep getting an "Internal Server Error" so I don't think it's just me. Cheers, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, & More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Advansys SCSI Not Available on 2005.0 LiveCD

2005-05-07 Thread Drew Tomlinson
ooted from Knoppix and am building now. Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, & More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com On 5/7/05, Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5/6/2005 2:49 PM Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 5/6/2005 10:39 AM

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo.org Is Down?

2005-05-07 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 5/7/2005 8:23 AM Jason Stubbs wrote: On Sunday 08 May 2005 00:15, Drew Tomlinson wrote: Can anyone get to http://www.gentoo.org? I keep getting an "Internal Server Error" so I don't think it's just me. Works fine here. Could you check the IP address that www.gentoo.

[gentoo-user] Kernel Config - How to Enable Advansys SCSI Support?

2005-05-07 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I'm performing my first Gentoo install. I booted from a Knoppix CD and am following the installation handbook. My /boot will be on a scsi disk attached to a Advansys controller. I'm at the point of configuring my kernel and want to be sure I enable Advansys support in the kernel. It seems t

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Config - How to Enable Advansys SCSI Support?

2005-05-07 Thread Drew Tomlinson
ere for me. I'm using gentoo-source I just got today per the instructions. It's kernel version linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r6. Maybe yours is an older version? Thanks, Drew On Sat, 7 May 2005, Drew Tomlinson wrote: I'm performing my first Gentoo install. I booted from a Knoppix CD an

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Config - How to Enable Advansys SCSI Support?

2005-05-07 Thread Drew Tomlinson
kernel version when emerging gentoo-source? I'll bet it's in some form of 2.6.9 as it was seen in Fedora with that kernel version. Thanks, Drew On 5/7/05, Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm performing my first Gentoo install. I booted from a Knoppix CD and am follo

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Config - How to Enable Advansys SCSI Support? -- SOLVED!!!

2005-05-07 Thread Drew Tomlinson
necht wrote: On 5/7/05, Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5/7/2005 6:42 PM Brett I. Holcomb wrote: For me it shows up in menuconfig Device Drivers->SCSI Device Support->SCSI Low level Drivers and then selcet the Advansys option either as a module or in the kernel. If you

Re: [gentoo-user] Advansys SCSI Not Available on 2005.0 LiveCD

2005-05-08 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 5/8/2005 2:48 AM neil wrote: Drew Tomlinson wrote: Try "modprobe advansys" to load the driver... Thanks for the reply. However been there, done that. :) It seems the advansys.ko is not on the 2005.0 CD. Maybe it's on an older one? And if so, which?

[gentoo-user] First Install - Help Setting Root Password

2005-05-08 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I've followed the directions in the handbook and installed from a Knoppix boot. I've made it all the way to section 10.d (reboot). However upon reboot, I'm presented with a login prompt. I log in as root and enter the password I set in section 8.c but it tells me 'login incorrect'. I boot K

Re: [gentoo-user]

2005-05-08 Thread Drew Tomlinson
unity to enter a password after doing 'su'. How can I check to be sure I'm part of the wheel group? Thanks, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, & More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com On 5/9/05, *Drew Tomlinson* <[EMAIL PROT

Re: [gentoo-user] First Install - Help Setting Root Password

2005-05-08 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 5/8/2005 4:20 PM Mike Williams wrote: On Monday 09 May 2005 00:09, Drew Tomlinson wrote: I thought I did that with the '-G wheel' option I passed to useradd. I also think that if I'm not part of the wheel group, I wouldn't even have the opportunity to enter a password af

Re: [gentoo-user] First Install - Help Setting Root Password

2005-05-08 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 5/8/2005 4:42 PM Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 5/8/2005 4:20 PM Mike Williams wrote: On Monday 09 May 2005 00:09, Drew Tomlinson wrote: I thought I did that with the '-G wheel' option I passed to useradd. I also think that if I'm not part of the wheel group, I wouldn't even

Re: [gentoo-user] First Install - Help Setting Root Password -- Almost SOLVED!

2005-05-08 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 5/8/2005 5:29 PM Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 5/8/2005 4:42 PM Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 5/8/2005 4:20 PM Mike Williams wrote: On Monday 09 May 2005 00:09, Drew Tomlinson wrote: I thought I did that with the '-G wheel' option I passed to useradd. I also think that if I'm not pa

Re: [gentoo-user] Please Use Subjects

2005-05-08 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 5/8/2005 6:59 PM Holly Bostick wrote: fire-eyes schreef: There's quite a lot of messages today with zero subject, all I see is [gentoo-user]. This gets confusing when you get a ton of mail a day. It might be interesting to many others too, but they end up deleting it because it's got no subje

Re: [gentoo-user] First Install - Help Setting Root Password -- SOLVED!!!

2005-05-09 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 5/9/2005 4:17 AM Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 08 May 2005 17:53:26 -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: OK, I've done some more reading and found that the reason I couldn't use 'su' as myself was because /bin/su didn't have the setuid bit set. So in all my fooling around,

[gentoo-user] Portage & Software Versions

2005-05-11 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I'm a brand new Gentoo user. This is my first Linux distro but I do have experience with FreeBSD so I'm not brand new to *nix. :) Anyway, how can I get newer versions of software from portage? For example, I know the current version of MythTV is 0.18. Yet 'emerge --search' shows me this: *

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage & Software Versions -- SOLVED

2005-05-11 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 5/11/2005 5:36 PM Mark Knecht wrote: On 5/11/05, Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm a brand new Gentoo user. This is my first Linux distro but I do have experience with FreeBSD so I'm not brand new to *nix. :) Anyway, how can I get newer versions of softw

[gentoo-user] /dev/input/mouse0 Doesn't Exist

2005-09-06 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I can't start xorg as /dev/input/mouse0 doesn't exist. I used to have this working with the same hardware and don't recall making any changes. What things must be loaded or what should I check to get my mouse detected? I'm using 2.6.11 kernel with udev. Nudges to an appropriate web page are

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/input/mouse0 Doesn't Exist

2005-09-06 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 9/6/2005 1:24 PM Andreas Kerschbaumer wrote: Drew Tomlinson wrote: I can't start xorg as /dev/input/mouse0 doesn't exist. I used to have this working with the same hardware and don't recall making any changes. What things must be loaded or what should I check to get my

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/input/mouse0 Doesn't Exist

2005-09-06 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 9/6/2005 6:08 PM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 01:11:44PM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote I can't start xorg as /dev/input/mouse0 doesn't exist. I used to have this working with the same hardware and don't recall making any changes. What things must be

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