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

2005-09-06 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 9/6/2005 8:49 PM W.Kenworthy wrote: The module thats responsible for /dev/input/mouse0 creates the node when it loads via udev: is the modules loaded? /dev/mouse is usually (on I come from the FreeBSD world and thus, I'm a linux newb. Sorry for the simple questions. What module should

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

2005-09-07 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 9/6/2005 10:00 PM Willie Wong wrote: On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 09:03:09PM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: No rubbish. Not working. Thanks for your help. That means it is not an X problem, but a problem at the kernel (unlikely) or your hardware. You said it is part of a wireless

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

2005-09-07 Thread Drew Tomlinson
se not found. Because I haven't made any changes, I suspect my system never used them. I'll try changing the batteries in the mouse as another poster suggested. If that doesn't solve it, then I'll venture into this further. Thanks, Drew On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 21:03 -0700,

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

2005-09-08 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Thanks for all of your help! Drew If I am wrong about the mouse, exactly what type of mouse and ports are you trying to use (as you have probably gathered, this has a bearing on whats happening) BillK On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 10:00 -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 9/6/2005 9:53 PM W.Kenwo

[gentoo-user] ntpd & timezone

2005-09-11 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I'm new to Gentoo. I've built a system based on the 2.6-11 kernel and everything has been working fine. Some time passed and I thought it a good idea to update. Thus I ran emerge -uvD world to update. Then I ran etc-update to merge the conf files. I basically accepted replacement of conf f

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd & timezone

2005-09-11 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 9/11/2005 9:34 PM Mark Shields wrote: What does ls -ln /etc/localtime return? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -ln /etc/localtime lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 27 May 8 11:07 /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/PST8PDT Thanks for your reply! Drew On 9/12/05, *Drew Tomlinson* <[EMAIL PRO

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd & timezone

2005-09-12 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 9/11/2005 11:41 PM Nick Rout wrote: On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 23:36 -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 9/11/2005 9:34 PM Mark Shields wrote: What does ls -ln /etc/localtime return? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -ln /etc/localtime lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 27 May 8 11:07 /etc/localtime

[gentoo-user] nvtv Seg Faults After 'emerge -uvD world'

2005-09-13 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I'm running a 2.6.11-r6 kernel on a box whose main purpose is MythTV. Everything was working fine until I did an upgrade using 'emerge -uvD world' followed with 'revdep-rebuild'. Now nvtv seg faults when I first attempt to run it. Additional attempts result in this error message: Fatal: Can

[gentoo-user] Re: MythTV help

2005-09-13 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 9/13/2005 7:27 AM Luigi Pinna wrote: Can you help me,please? I can't set up MythTv! I had a database access problem! $mythfilldatabase 2005-09-13 16:24:37.095 New DB connection, total: 1 2005-09-13 16:24:37.203 Unable to connect to database! 2005-09-13 16:24:37.204 Driver error was [1/1045]:

Re: XMLTV and tv_grab_de_tvtoday (Was: [gentoo-user] Re: MythTV help)

2005-09-13 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 9/13/2005 10:17 AM Luigi Pinna wrote: Alle 17:14, martedì 13 settembre 2005, Drew Tomlinson ha scritto: I did see your message on the list and I understand your frustration. But unfortunately, I'm not a MySQL expert nor am I a MythTV expert. I don't know the exact answer to yo

Re: [gentoo-user] nvtv Seg Faults After 'emerge -uvD world'

2005-09-14 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 9/13/2005 2:30 PM Nick Rout wrote: On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 07:06 -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: I'm running a 2.6.11-r6 kernel on a box whose main purpose is MythTV. Everything was working fine until I did an upgrade using 'emerge -uvD world' followed with 'revdep-reb

Re: [gentoo-user] nvtv Seg Faults After 'emerge -uvD world' -- SOLVED!!!

2005-09-15 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Apparently nvtv does not work with the nvidia drivers after 1.0.7174. See 'man portage' and look for package.mask to see how to limit versions. Drew On 9/14/2005 6:59 PM Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 9/13/2005 2:30 PM Nick Rout wrote: On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 07:06 -0700, Drew Tomli

[gentoo-user] Portage - Is ffmpeg Build with libmp3lame Support?

2005-09-16 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I'm fiddling around with VLC (http://www.videolan.org/), a streaming client/server for Linux. It's docs tell me that it can output mp3 streams if ffmpeg has been compiled with libmp3lame support. I've looked at my current use flags for ffmpeg and see this: [ebuild R ] media-video/ffmpeg-

[gentoo-user] Is There a Way to Re-emerge Software and Its Dependencies?

2005-09-16 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I set the ~x86 use flag for ffmpeg, getting the newest version in the tree. However now I'm having issues. What I'd like to try is re-emerging ffmpeg and all it's dependencies before reverting back to the older version. Is there a way to do this with the emerge tool? I've read the man page

Re: [gentoo-user] Is There a Way to Re-emerge Software and Its Dependencies?

2005-09-16 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 9/16/2005 2:50 PM A. Khattri wrote: On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Drew Tomlinson wrote: I set the ~x86 use flag for ffmpeg, getting the newest version in the tree. However now I'm having issues. What I'd like to try is re-emerging ffmpeg and all it's dependencies before revert

Re: [gentoo-user] Right recipe for gentoo-user procmail

2005-10-02 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 10/1/2005 1:50 AM Nick Rout wrote: On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 19:54 -0400, Dave Nebinger wrote: Just set up the following recipe for postfix/courier-imapd/procmail: :0 * ^(From|Cc|To).*gentoo-user $HOME/.maildir/.Gentoo.User/new/ do not drop it in the "new" subdir, procmail will look

Re: [gentoo-user] Right recipe for gentoo-user procmail

2005-10-03 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 10/2/2005 2:06 PM Nick Rout wrote: On Sun, 02 Oct 2005 08:39:52 -0700 Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 10/1/2005 1:50 AM Nick Rout wrote: On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 19:54 -0400, Dave Nebinger wrote: Just set up the following recipe for postfix/courier-imapd/procmail: :0 * ^(From|Cc

Re: [gentoo-user] POSTFIX and SASL

2005-10-05 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Have you tried asking at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Probably like many others here, I looked over your configs and compared the SASL part with mine to see if there's any obvious omissions. I found none and thus, did not post. Don't assume no one is attempting to help you just because you've only gott

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple command line stuff

2005-10-11 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Mark Knecht wrote: On 10/10/05, Spider (D.m.D. Lj.) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 19:06 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I don't have a single book on Linux. (Amazing...) Can someone recommend a simple book on command line stuff, or better yet a good web site on this

Re: [gentoo-user] Shell through the web

2005-10-11 Thread Drew Tomlinson
James Colby wrote: Hi All - I am wondering if anyone has any suggestions of a way to get to a shell over the web using only port 80 or port 443. I would like to be able to open up a shell on my gentoo box from , but I am behind a firewall. I have searched sourcforge and freshmeat and have

Re: [gentoo-user] udev and nvidia

2005-10-11 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Alexander Puchmayr wrote: Hi! After upgrading the system and hence switching to kernel 2.6.13 and udev, my nvidia device nodes are no longer available and I did not find any way to create them automatically by udev. According to http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml, I have * nvidia

[gentoo-user] Is There An Ebuild For aee?

2005-10-14 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I've used 'app-editors/easyedit' which is an ebuild of 'ee' available from http://mahon.cwx.net/. Also on that page is 'aee' which is a superset of 'ee'. I'd like to give it a try and was wonder if there was an ebuild in portage. I have been unable to find one. I also recall reading about n

Re: [gentoo-user] Is There An Ebuild For aee?

2005-10-15 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 10/14/2005 10:02 PM A. Khattri wrote: On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Drew Tomlinson wrote: I also recall reading about non-official ebuilds available at somewhere like bugs.gentoo.org. Is there something preventing you from doing a search in Bugzilla? Not at all. Just needed to know

[gentoo-user] Bash Pattern Matching Syntax

2005-10-15 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I want to list the files in a directory that end in ".jpg" irregardless of case. Thus after reading the bash man page, it seems I should be able to issue a command something along the lines of "ls [*.[JjPpGg]]" or "ls *.[JjPpGg]" but neither of these work and return a "No such file or directo

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash Pattern Matching Syntax

2005-10-15 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 10/15/2005 3:38 PM Michael Kjorling wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2005-10-15 15:25 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to list the files in a directory that end in ".jpg" irregardless of case. Thus after reading the bash man page, it seems I should be able t

[gentoo-user] Script Run From Cron Sometimes Leaves Defunct sh Process

2005-10-24 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I wrote a script to read a smbfs mounted filesystem and make symlinks to the files locally. The script appears to run fine interactively and fine most of the time when run by cron. I run the script every half hour. Over the course of a week or so, 15 - 20 defunct sh processes show up in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Script Run From Cron Sometimes Leaves Defunct sh Process

2005-10-24 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 10/24/2005 1:04 AM Heinz Sporn wrote: Am Sonntag, den 23.10.2005, 07:36 -0700 schrieb Drew Tomlinson: # Create symlink from original file to $newfile in $local_dir # specified above. ln -s "$original" "$local_dir/$newfile" Just a suggesti

[gentoo-user] Advansys SCSI Support in 2.6.13-r5 Kernel?

2005-10-30 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I am trying to upgrade from a 2.6.11 genkernel to 2.6.13-r5 genkernel. However when booting, I get a message about root not being a valid root device and then a prompt to enter the correct one. I'm a noob at this so don't assume I've done the obvious. :) I've searched Google and it appears

Re: [gentoo-user] Advansys SCSI Support in 2.6.13-r5 Kernel?

2005-10-30 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 10/30/2005 9:33 AM Holly Bostick wrote: Drew Tomlinson schreef: I am trying to upgrade from a 2.6.11 genkernel to 2.6.13-r5 genkernel. However when booting, I get a message about root not being a valid root device and then a prompt to enter the correct one. it appears likely

Re: [gentoo-user] Advansys SCSI Support in 2.6.13-r5 Kernel? --SOLVED!!!

2005-11-01 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 10/30/2005 9:46 AM Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 10/30/2005 9:33 AM Holly Bostick wrote: Drew Tomlinson schreef: I am trying to upgrade from a 2.6.11 genkernel to 2.6.13-r5 genkernel. However when booting, I get a message about root not being a valid root device and then a prompt to enter

[gentoo-user] Begging For Help With ALSA and Lirc

2005-11-03 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I had MythTV 0.18 running just fine on a Gentoo 2.6.11-r6 kernel built with genkernel. Then I upgraded the hardware to a Athlon 2800 XP processor running on an Asus motherboard with an Nvidia2 chipset and upgraded the kernel to 2.6.13-r5 from Gentoo sources using genkernel. The system has a P

Re: [gentoo-user] Begging For Help With ALSA and Lirc

2005-11-03 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 11/3/2005 11:24 AM Christoph Eckert wrote: But the two things I can't seem to get working are ALSA and lirc. My sound card is an Audigy that uses the emu10k1 driver. if the module is loaded you shoud see the card when doing a cat /proc/asound/cards Thank you for your response. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Begging For Help With ALSA and Lirc

2005-11-04 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 11/3/2005 12:26 PM Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hi, On Thu, 03 Nov 2005 11:11:41 -0800 Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: And lirc won't load. I get these errors when inserting the module: tv mythtv # modprobe lirc_dev FATAL: Error inserting lirc_dev (/lib/modules/2.

Re: [gentoo-user] Begging For Help With ALSA and Lirc

2005-11-04 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 11/4/2005 8:52 AM Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hi, On Fri, 04 Nov 2005 06:31:55 -0800 Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: And lirc won't load. I get these errors when inserting the module: [...] well, and what does dmesg say? Do you have i2c support in the k

[gentoo-user] [Fwd: Frozen Video]

2005-11-05 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I have a box running kernel version 2.6.13-r5, and MythTV 0.18.2 built from portage. I'm using a video card with the nvidia nv18 chipset (6600?). I also have a custom xorg modeline for my widescreen HDTV. My video card is connected via a VGA to component converter. The screen looks good and reg

Re: [gentoo-user] [Fwd: Frozen Video]

2005-11-07 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 11/5/2005 9:12 PM Nick Rout wrote: On Sat, 05 Nov 2005 16:15:37 -0800 Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a box running kernel version 2.6.13-r5, and MythTV 0.18.2 built from portage. I'm using a video card with the nvidia nv18 chipset (6600?). I also have a

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix Install Method

2005-12-10 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On Saturday 10 December 2005 12:08 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a system on an Abit motherboard with the Nvidia GeForce 4 > chipset. Make that an NForce 4 chipset. Got confused between graphics and motherboards. :) > here are two SATA disks in a hardward stripe > configuration using

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix Install Method

2005-12-10 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 12/10/2005 1:04 PM Nick Smith wrote: On 12/10/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a system on an Abit motherboard with the Nvidia GeForce 4 chipset. There are two SATA disks in a hardward stripe configuration using the controller built in to the motherboard. The machi

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix Install Method

2005-12-10 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 12/10/2005 1:17 PM Stroller wrote: On Dec 10, 2005, at 5:08 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a system on an Abit motherboard with the Nvidia GeForce 4 chipset. There are two SATA disks in a hardward stripe configuration using the controller built in to the motherboard. ... I booted t

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix Install Method

2005-12-10 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 12/10/2005 1:50 PM Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 12:08:50 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However there is some data on the drive that I'd like to recover before blowing the disk away. I booted the latest Knoppix dated 9/23/05 and see two icons on the desktop for my drives.

[gentoo-user] ivtv 0.5 ebuild?

2005-12-10 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Someone on the MythTV list recommended I install ivtv 0.5 to get a pctv HD-3000 card working. However portage shows the current version at 0.4-r2. Is there an ebuild for 0.5? Kicks to the portage overlay process welcome. Thanks, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs,

Re: [gentoo-user] ivtv 0.5 ebuild?

2005-12-10 Thread Drew Tomlinson
-sync just yesterday. Thanks anyway, Drew On Saturday 10 December 2005 20:25, Drew Tomlinson wrote: Someone on the MythTV list recommended I install ivtv 0.5 to get a pctv HD-3000 card working. However portage shows the current version at 0.4-r2. Is there an ebuild for 0.5? Kicks to the porta

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix Install Method

2005-12-10 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 12/10/2005 3:47 PM Shawn Haggett wrote: Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 12/10/2005 1:17 PM Stroller wrote: On Dec 10, 2005, at 5:08 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a system on an Abit motherboard with the Nvidia GeForce 4 chipset. There are two SATA disks in a hardward stripe

[gentoo-user] ivtv 5.1 From Portage?

2005-12-25 Thread Drew Tomlinson
It was suggested to me on the MythTV list to upgrade from 0.4 to 0.5.0 or 0.5.1. However after running 'emerge --sync', portage still show 0.4.0-r2 as the latest version. I have it unmasked with the '~x86' in package.keywords so I assume this is the latest version in the normal portage tree.

[gentoo-user] Can't Re-Emerge lirc After Kernel Upgrade

2005-12-27 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I upgraded from 2.6.13-r5 to 2.6.14-r5 using gentoo-sources. I'm using this machine for MythTV and I noticed lirc was not working after the upgrade. So I tried rebuilding it but lirc 0.7.2 (the same version I was using before) fails to build. I have no idea what's wrong and haven't found any

[gentoo-user] Startup Script Help

2006-05-12 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Every time there's a power outage at my home, my Gentoo box fails to start. This is because it attempts to configure the network via DHCP before my DHCP server has finished its startup. Thus I'm trying to think of a way to get the Gentoo box to "wait" a few minutes if DHCP fails on boot up.

Re: [gentoo-user] Startup Script Help

2006-05-15 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 5/12/2006 9:51 AM Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 12 May 2006 09:23:06 -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: Every time there's a power outage at my home, my Gentoo box fails to start. This is because it attempts to configure the network via DHCP before my DHCP server has finished its st

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