Re: [gentoo-user] alsa problem

2007-10-12 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:50:16 +0800 "Chuanwen Wu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No, /dev/dsp is OSS stuff. Aplay shouldn't use that. But it makes me > > wonder whether snd_pcm_oss is loaded? > Yes,have loaded it: > $ lsmod | grep snd_pcm_oss > snd_pcm_oss39648 0 > snd_mixer_oss

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa problem

2007-10-13 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 22:59:28 -0400 "Walter Dnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After this sequence, my ALSA sound finally started working again. I > don't know what happened. A wild guess is that "make" was trying to > "be efficient" and kept some code from a previous version, that > doesn

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa problem

2007-10-13 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 13 Oct 2007 22:23:35 +0800 "Chuanwen Wu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes,both my Windows XP and another linux os Redflag have sound. Is > there anyway that I can use the Redflag's modules to driver my > gentoo? Only by using its kernel, too. Then you would just copy the kernel (and

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa problem

2007-10-14 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 15:25:12 +0800 "Chuanwen Wu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Yes,both my Windows XP and another linux os Redflag have sound. Is > > > there anyway that I can use the Redflag's modules to driver my > > > gentoo? > > > > Only by using its kernel, too. Then you would just c

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging java with gcj

2007-10-14 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 13:59:23 +0200 Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've noticed that the gcj use flag is not enabled by default and > therefore all java code is compiled to byte code instead of native > binaries, am I correct? I think the gcj flag toggles if java support is ad

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa problem

2007-10-15 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:33:17 +0800 "Chuanwen Wu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The problem is fixed now! > I tried the alsa-driver-1.0.14_rc3, which is used by the Redflag os, > and everything is fine, now. > > It's very weird. Just as what I mentioned above, the 1.0.14_rc3 > version one is

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel compilation

2007-10-17 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:10:19 +0200 (CEST) Helmut Jarausch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2.) If I have to run "make modules_install", can I do this before I > > run "make" to compile the kernel image? > > No. I was under the impression that the modules_install target will include the all ta

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge update problem

2007-10-17 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:15:33 +0200 (CEST) Helmut Jarausch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man > page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook. > (dependency required by "www-client/epiphany-2.18.3" [ebuild]) > > !!! Depgraph creatio

Re: [gentoo-user] Network Monitoring

2007-10-17 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:38:10 -0400 James Colby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am looking for some advice. We have a user on our network that we > belive may be making inappropriate forum posts, violating our TOS for > internet usage. I am looking for some recommendations of software > that

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel compilation

2007-10-17 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:19:07 -0500 Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FYI, although this is somewhat popular and seen as a performance > enhancement to many, ...I don't think dynamic linking has *that* big overhead. I think most people do this in order to secure the kernel/userland bo

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} preforking mysqld?

2007-10-27 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 07:52:48 -0700 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have apache2 preforking and another important daemon preforking, and > after looking at my top process list, I'm wondering if I can get > mysqld preforking. It looks like there's only one mysqld process > running and it'

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem using the pppoe plugin

2007-10-27 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 11:35:05 -0400 John covici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What happens is that when I use this a computer on my local network > has intermittent connection problems -- it connects to google just > fine, but not to Microsoft sites and other places. Does this computer use the

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem using the pppoe plugin

2007-10-27 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 13:23:44 -0400 John covici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on Saturday 10/27/2007 Hans-Werner Hilse([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > > Hi, > > > > On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 11:35:05 -0400 > > John covici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} method for graphing server stuff?

2007-11-07 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 09:24:35 -0800 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was thinking it would be pretty handy to generate a series of > transposed (or not) graphs for data like cpu usage, mysql usage, > memory usage, external monitoring response times, http traffic, etc. > My external monitori

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} method for graphing server stuff?

2007-11-08 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 08:02:58 -0800 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I was thinking it would be pretty handy to generate a series of > > > > transposed (or not) graphs for data like cpu usage, mysql usage, > > > > memory usage, external monitoring response times, http traffic, > > > > e

Re: [gentoo-user] grub hell

2007-11-14 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 08:25:50 + Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I know the drive is OK cause it boots when the boot > > order in the BIOS starts with the first drive. > > Grub *should* be able to see what BIOS sees, but clearly this is not the case > here. Have you tried reinstallin

Re: [gentoo-user] grub hell

2007-11-14 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:27:49 -0800 (PST) maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > the only option seems to be to properly install grub > > to the first HD. > > grub-install /dev/hda renders the PC completely > unusable Hm, yeah, that's why I generally distrust running grub from within an

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ruby gems

2007-11-22 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 03:20:42 + (UTC) Thufir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > arrakis ~ # eix rails > [I] dev-ruby/rails > Available versions: > (1.1) 1.1.6 ~1.1.6-r1 > (1.2) ~1.2.0 ~1.2.1 ~1.2.2 ~1.2.3 > Installed versions: 1.1.6(1.1)(18:31:16 11/21/07)(doc fa

Re: [gentoo-user] Ghostscript - font path

2007-11-22 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 19:25:48 -0700 Joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "gs -h" gives me the following font path for Ghostscript > Search path: > [...] > Where these paths are coming from? Compiled into the binary? > According to > documentation: /usr/share/doc/ghostscript-esp-8.15.3/html/Us

Re: [gentoo-user] Ghostscript - font path

2007-11-22 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 10:13:50 -0700 Joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> "gs -h" gives me the following font path for Ghostscript > >> Search path: > >> [...] > >> Where these paths are coming from? > > > >Compiled into the binary? > > Not a good solution but, it would be better if we input

Re: [gentoo-user] Ghostscript - font path

2007-11-22 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, oops, wrote too long. So here's the follow-up: On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 10:42:54 -0700 Joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Where do you put "GS_FONTPATH=" > I was trying to put it in .bashrc (re-log) didn't work; in /etc/profile > env-update && source /etc/profile > export > GS_FONTPATH=/usr/

Re: [gentoo-user] Binhost integrity questions

2007-11-27 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:46:02 +0100 Aniruddha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you for your answer. I am afraid you go a little to fast for me. > What does "$ dd if=/dev/urandom of=/tmp/md5src count=512" exactly do? Put 512 blocks of pseudo-random stuff in /tmp/md5src. I think Dan just did

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Rules

2007-12-14 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 07:48:12 -0800 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lately I've been shopping around for other distros as well as looking > at *BSD. Gentoo development seems to have slowed way down and I like > things being improved as quickly as possible. FreeBSD is supposed to > be the

Re: [gentoo-user] realtek 8197 wireless card setup

2007-12-19 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, I cannot really go into details, but maybe I'm competent enough to make some notes on this: On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 21:47:55 -0500 Jeff Cranmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I manually edited the file /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/wireless/rtl8187_dev.c > [...] > I added the line > {USB_DEVICE

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommend a program for line art and text

2007-01-30 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:26:37 -0800 "Kevin O'Gorman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've tried creating diagrams in xfig. It works fine for my LaTeX > documents, but does not export well to PNG for use in web pages. Hm, what do you mean by saying "not so well"? If it's just that it isn't antia

Re: [gentoo-user] Dodgy hardware?!?!

2007-02-01 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 06:34:01 -0600 Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 23:27:10 +1100 > Dave Oxley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is there a way of testing the RAM? > > a great way, yes, and it's provided on the gentoo boot cds, even the > minimal. at the isolin

Re: [gentoo-user] IPtables question

2007-02-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 2 Feb 2007 09:45:53 +0100 Pawel Kraszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dnia środa, 31 stycznia 2007, James Colby napisał: > > > I have a small home server that I have connected to the internet > > through a linksys router and cable modem. The linksys router is > > currently forward

Re: [gentoo-user] no matter what kernel version I compile, It says it's 2.6.19-r4

2007-02-06 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 10:37:05 -0300 "Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe you are not putting the kernel on the real /boot and your grub > and kernel images are all... stored somewhere else, like the > real /boot? Yes, /boot _is_ apparently on a single partition (see

Re: [gentoo-user] Putting gentoo to work :)

2007-02-09 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 9 Feb 2007 19:43:16 +0200 "Alexandru Mincu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My setup will look like this: > big server with 2 or 3 gigabit ethernet cards and lots of sata drives in a > big raid array. > disk less workstations with 512mb or 1gb of ram, nvidia or integrated video > and a g

Re: [gentoo-user] QLogic QLA2xxx driver kernel 2.6.18+

2007-02-10 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 17:27:13 +0530 Ásgeir Halldórsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Has anyone found a solution to how to load the firmware dirvers > on boot in 2.6.18+ kernels. I read something about you need to put > the /lib/firmware files into initrd. But I dont know how or where > to

Re: [gentoo-user] switching to non-NPTL profile

2007-02-11 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 21:17:40 +0100 Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 11 February 2007 16:23:23 Pawel K wrote: > > There is a bit contradictionary information about that > > at: > > > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/uml.xml > > and > > http://gentoo-wiki.com/NPTL > > Yo

Re: [gentoo-user] Network problem

2007-02-12 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 09:54:42 +0100 "Roman Naumann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ifconfig eth0 gives me this: > > Link encap: > > UNSPEC HWaddr 44-4F-C0-00-14-31-AC-10-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 > [...] > I'm pretty sure the Mac-Addr is too long.. that's weird, > Also, when using Sabayon, the f

Re: [gentoo-user] 100% CPU usage with no processes to blame?

2007-02-14 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 13:31:31 -0500 "Timothy A. Holmes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I cannot trust the tools provided by the OS for finding out whats > going on-- than what can I trust -- this is intolerable! - if it is > simply a situation if a non root user not being able to see root > p

Re: [gentoo-user] HP Cluster on Gentoo

2007-02-20 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:33:32 +0100 Hans-Stefan Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> Merging sys-cluster/dlm-kernel-1.03.00 to / > --- /cluster/ > >>> /cluster/dlm.ko Hm. What does "uname -r" say on your system? What's /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/source linked to? Valid kernel location? -hw

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X-Forwarding over wireless

2007-02-22 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:49:42 + (UTC) Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-02-22, Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 22 February 2007 16:55, Grant Edwards wrote: > > > >> More likely it's latency. Most "modern" X apps seem to require > >> a lot of round-trips betwee

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with UNICODE and man pages encoding

2007-02-23 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 05:27:08 -0600 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 22 February 2007 23:14, paulie.x wrote: > > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. napsal(a): > > > On Thursday 22 February 2007, jcd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > > > > > about '[gentoo-user] Problem with UN

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with UNICODE and man pages encoding

2007-02-23 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 14:07:52 +0100 (CET) paulie.x <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So to the OP: Configure your terminal accordingly (for console: set > > consoletrans and -font correctly) or if you didn't yet, install a > > unicode-aware terminal program. > > It is not true because I'm alread

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet not working after instillition

2007-02-28 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 03:48:26 -0800 (PST) Harbir Singh Hundal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think i did copy resolv.conf during instilation, but anyway I have > recopied and not its working. Please tell a bit about your network infrastructure. When there's a DHCP server running: Did you set

Re: [gentoo-user] Synce and gentoo : crash RAPI driver

2007-03-01 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 12:23:27 +0100 "Arnaud FARINE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've upgraded my kernel too in 2.6.20, but the problem is the same ! > > I start dccm processus with my user. > I start synce-serial-start with root account > > When I plug my device a connection appears and is c

Re: [gentoo-user] Synce and gentoo : crash RAPI driver

2007-03-01 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 13:21:02 +0100 "Arnaud FARINE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok thanks for your answer...perhaps can you save me !! :-) Hopefully! At least, I managed to make a connection to my WM5 PDA. I'm not using any synchronization, however, just filesystem access. A suggestion right

Re: [gentoo-user] Synce and gentoo : crash RAPI driver

2007-03-01 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 14:40:28 +0100 "Arnaud FARINE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Great answer !! I understand that I must use the subversion If I > would like to have a chance to make something ;-) I think so. When I tried it using the (masked) version that is in Portage, it failed miserably.

Re: [gentoo-user] Synce and gentoo : crash RAPI driver

2007-03-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 12:55:33 +0100 "Arnaud FARINE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > yesterday I worked late!! And it has worked! Hurray! > Otherwise, what tools are you using to synchronize (if you had tested > some products, perhaps are you a preference)? I use Kontact and my > gentoo is instal

Re: [gentoo-user] daylight savings time

2007-03-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 08:45:42 -0330 Roger Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My home province (Newfoundland & Labrador) has, in its infinite > wisdom, decided to adopt daylight savings time from 11 to 04 November, > rather than the more common dates in April & October. > > Can someone tell me

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey and maps

2007-03-19 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 08:02:36 -0500 Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I didn't think about trying something like that. I tried renaming > .mozilla and it worked fine. I guess that does the same thing as a > new profile. So I guess it is something in there. Any idea what > that would be? >

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list software recommendation

2007-03-20 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 13:10:59 +0100 "Stephan Eberle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think I need help on this one. I have a Gentoo Linux server set up > and running on a Strato Server (german dedicated server hoster) and > would like to install a mailing list software. Unfortunately my mail >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: encfs forgot passwd following update world

2007-03-20 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 06:45:32 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a few fairly important things in that encrypted raw source > directory, any suggestions how I might retrieve them? Go back to a previous version of OpenSSL. There's an incompatibility with newer versions. See the encfs-user

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache Conf

2007-03-30 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:37:46 +0200 Kyle Vorster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I am trying to do is set server-wide 'custom' error pages, but > when a user uploads his own set of 'custom' error pages it should > over-right the server-wide pages and display the users pages. > > so looking

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh escape command

2007-03-30 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:38:41 -0400 Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, most likely the OP was typing something/anything that gave him a > empty prompt without hitting a newline (hitting ^C, ^Z on a running > program or just on the shell, typing something and hitting backspace > to de

Re: [gentoo-user] Thermal cpu

2007-04-03 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 02 Apr 2007 23:05:09 +0200 "Sylvain Chouleur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried to install and use lm_sensors but it don't detect any sensors. Since there are really lots of drivers, I just guess you didn't compile the right ones when building your kernel. > Moreover, I think it'

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge human readable format.

2007-04-03 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 3 Apr 2007 14:23:28 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I used to deal with --si or -H when using df as an example. By default, > size unit is byte, but when you want to understand the numbers with no > mental extra operation, It is quite good to print the more suitable > unit. > > Let'

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting /dev from udev ... [oops]

2007-04-10 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 7 Apr 2007 10:46:40 -0700 (PDT) maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Got the above error on first reboot of fresh system. Was udev compiled running the kernel in question? (Most probably not needed, though) Is kernel-headers matching that kernel version? That would probably be a

Re: [gentoo-user] dr.dk

2007-04-13 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:35:16 +0200 Johannes Skov Frandsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can't seem to play streaming radio from http://www.dr.dk. I followed > one of the links from http://www.dr.dk/netradio/afspillere.asp, but > totem just bitches about 'no uri handler implemented for mms:'.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-13 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:07:35 GMT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What is the average age of the gentoo user here? Well, the automatically determined average age (measured by typing speed, length of sentences and number of spelling errors as well as number of started flamewars) is 12,78 years. But

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I know which package needs to upgrade without using emerge --sync?

2007-04-13 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:45:04 +0100 Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:46:42 -0500, Fabio wrote: > > > Well, when I started with Gentoo Linux almost a year ago, I emerged > > --sync more than twice per week. I never experimented any damage or > > error. > > I h

Re: [gentoo-user] Packet Shaping

2007-04-13 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:24:03 -0700 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, I have packet shaping set up on my Gentoo router with iptables, > shorewall, and "The Wonder Shaper" which is a /etc/shorewall/tcstart > file. It seems to be working since internet radio is now full of > hiccups. :

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: problem :eht0 not getting detected

2007-04-14 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, BTW, learn about why top-posting is bad if you can spare some time... On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 21:54:56 -0700 "agam gupta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ya there were 4 driviers but none worked tried all optons > only rtl-8150 lods > but is not shown in the ifconfig or ifconfig -a does it out

Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-14 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 09:32:34 -0300 "Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > > Aargh! This seems to be the new excuse for writing ridiculously > > short mails w/o much information and background now

Re: [gentoo-user] Packet Shaping

2007-04-14 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 08:37:19 -0700 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After a lot of testing, these numbers seem to give me the best > performance as far as bittorrent download speed. > How can that be? Is DOWNLINK my upload and UPLINK my download? Hm, usually not. Are you by chance shaping

Re: [gentoo-user] Packet Shaping

2007-04-16 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 09:00:04 -0700 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > After a lot of testing, these numbers seem to give me the best > > > performance as far as bittorrent download speed. > > > How can that be? Is DOWNLINK my upload and UPLINK my download? > > > > Hm, usually not. Are yo

Re: [gentoo-user] Packet Shaping

2007-04-17 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:19:14 -0700 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's actually my upload rate that's difficult to limit. That's not > inbound traffic right? Right. You should be able to shape upload quite well. Did you try to lower allowed upload bandwith further below the nominate ban

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is the latest release 2006.1?

2007-04-18 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 02:41:34 -0700 Drew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Who'd have thought a Promise SATA300 TX4 would be unsupported in > 2006.1? In all honesty, it's probably not absolutely "unsupported". Switch your SATA controller to compatibility mode in BIOS, don't care for DMA, and it wi

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Understanding sshd response

2007-04-20 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 12:08:03 +0100 Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What does this mean? > > " Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version > RomCliSecure_4.12 debug1: no match: RomCliSecure_4.12 " That's in compat.c, l.58ff. (4.6pl1). There's a table with server/application speci

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel hangs after detecting the hard disk

2007-04-24 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 21:07:38 +0200 Iván Pérez Domínguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm having another problem, this time it's a kernel related problem. > I'm currently using kernel 2.6.13, and most things work fine. However, > when I try to update to a newer kernel (say 2.6.17 or 2.6.20)

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade using binary packages

2007-04-25 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 06:53:54 +0530 "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have an underpowered system which runs mythtv. Machine architecture? > 1. On a i686 machine generated the binary packages using tips > from this list.. > [...] > 5. Almost at the end of the glibc emerg

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.20-r6 panics with strange message

2007-04-30 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, Am Montag, den 30.04.2007, 17:24 +0200 schrieb Hemmann, Volker Armin: > On Montag, 30. April 2007, maxim wexler wrote: > > > > Yes, CONFIG_UNIX=y > > > > > > that is not the reiserfs option. > > > > I'm aware of that. But another PC with the 2.6.19 > > kernel and an IDE drive panicked until I

Re: [gentoo-user] Useless error messages from iptables-restore

2007-05-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 1 May 2007 22:38:27 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >The final remaining problem is with the 3 statements scattered > through the rules... > > -A ICMP_IN -p icmp -m state --state NEW -j UNSOLICITED > -A TCP_IN -p tcp -m state --state NEW -m tcp -j UNSOLICITED > -A UDP_IN -p udp -m

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Dell Inspiron M1710

2007-05-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 02 May 2007 00:47:21 -0400 Colleen Beamer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm having a heck of a time with the nvidia-drivers on my new Dell > Inspiron M1710. I can install the driver, but when the laptop is > booting, the font doesn't resize - something do do with the > framebuffer, bu

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting installation directories globally

2007-05-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 02 May 2007 04:03:23 +0200 Paul Sebastian Ziegler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Whats the purpose of this? > > To create a very clear directory structure for a small binary Linux > distribution I am planning to build using Gentoo and Portage. This doesn't make sense to me. ROOT is

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Dell Inspiron M1710

2007-05-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 02 May 2007 08:14:03 -0400 Colleen Beamer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What does "the font doesn't resize" mean exactly and how's that > > looking errorneous to you? > > It's not that it's erroneous. I'm just being a bit anal. In all my > other Gentoo installations, when the comp

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Dell Inspiron M1710

2007-05-03 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 02 May 2007 20:18:46 -0400 Colleen Beamer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hm, OK, I see. Does your kernel's command line contain a valid > > "video=..." setting? > > I'm not sure what you mean here. In my make.conf file, I have the > line video_cards="nvidia" No, I'm talking about b

Re: [gentoo-user] Xserver on Dell Inspiron M1710

2007-05-04 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 04 May 2007 08:48:20 -0400 Colleen Beamer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What happens when you; > > > > emerge -pv xorg-x11 > > > What do you mean, "What happens"? It emerges, no error messages. Well, with the "-p" flag it should just pretend to. And show the effective USE flags, w

Re: [gentoo-user] remote ssh session does not reflect my keyboard inputs

2007-05-08 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 7 May 2007 23:12:31 +0100 Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > = > $ echo $TERM > rxvt > > $ sudo echo $TERM > rxvt > = > which is the same like my Gentoo box. That doesn't matter. Question is rather whether the target machine has an entry in its terminf

Re: [gentoo-user] convert rpm to ebuild

2007-05-10 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 10 May 2007 22:50:42 +0200 Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since I can install an rpm after emerging rpm itself, there is no need to > convert it. All I have to do is to make portage aware of this package. Of > course I would have to take care of dependencies myself and

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why won't my computers use their own DNS servers?

2007-05-14 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 14 May 2007 09:18:02 -0500 Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On my network I have two computers, camille.espersunited.com > (70.234.122.250) and catherine.espersunited.com (70.234.122.251). > Each of these two computers runs its own local DNS server. They do > this to spe

Re: [gentoo-user] Remote administration of a server

2007-05-14 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 14 May 2007 15:42:45 -0300 "Daniel van Ham Colchete" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thinking about other options, does anyone have any other tip for me? Am I > going in the right direction? The two options you've mentioned are quite different. One gives console access, the other basica

Re: [gentoo-user] LiveUSB booting a USB harddrive

2007-05-15 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 15 May 2007 20:03:15 +0100 Nick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, if I follow the commands at the doc mentioned above, should all > work fine? the dd if=/usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/sda (or > whatever) is of particular concern, as it's a scary command to run > on a disk with non b

Re: [gentoo-user] IMAP server recommendations.

2007-05-17 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 17 May 2007 10:00:27 +0100 (BST) "Joost Roeleveld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was just looking for some opinions. I am replacing my current mail > > server. > > Right now I am using courier-imap and I am happy with it. The only thing > > that concerns me is that I have heard

Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupt USB pen drive

2007-05-18 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 18 May 2007 12:50:07 +0100 Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am getting the same errors as before: > == > # mount -t vfat -o loop /tmp/r1 /mnt/sda1 > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop1, >missing codepage or

Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupt USB pen drive

2007-05-18 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 18 May 2007 14:11:14 +0100 Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Did you try the recovery tools for the FS in question? > > I tried fsck.msdos but didn't fix it. Doesn't make me wonder, as I'll explain below, there's no file system starting at offset 0 in that image of your stick...

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo gets as bad SuSE: Circular dependencies [WAS: Thank you Gentoo devs]

2007-05-21 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 21 May 2007 13:57:14 +0400 "Andrey Gerasimenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just curious: why nobody suggests to allow Portage to use the > preferred method of binary distros: emerge several interdependent > packages in one transaction. Because this just wouldn't work. They're not c

Re: [gentoo-user] X11 from another machine

2007-05-21 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 22 May 2007 00:30:46 +0800 Andrew Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have the situation where I have to connect to a remote, > it's still in my office but X will be running across the network, Sun > server so that I can run a CAD system. In the past I've done this > from Window

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X11 from another machine

2007-05-21 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 21 May 2007 17:22:39 + (UTC) Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > However, the usual way to use remote X-based programs is just to let > > SSH do that. It can provide a tunnel for X. This is especially easy > > if the remote SSH server daemon has set its "X11Forwarding" >

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot emerge sys-block/nbd

2007-05-22 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 21 May 2007 22:38:48 -0400 Michael George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to emerge sys-block/nbd for my LTSP system. I get the > error: > configure: error: Could not find an nbd.h from 2.6 or above. What's the version of your linux-headers package? > But "locate nbd.h" gi

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend to swap on a diskless host

2007-05-23 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 23 May 2007 11:59:23 -0500 Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know swapon doesn't work on regular files, so to add my swap I need > to first use losetup to set up /dev/loop0 as my swap device. Then > swapon /dev/loop0 works. but how can I enable swap on loop0 before the > in

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing libaries

2007-05-25 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 25 May 2007 15:19:30 +0200 Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Another user had some trouble because Kaffeine couldn't > play .ogg-files. In the end we found out that he activated the > necessary USE-flag and re-emerged xine-lib but Kaffeine kept using > the old lib which was

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend to swap on a diskless host

2007-05-31 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 27 May 2007 16:21:03 +0200 "Michal 'vorner' Vaner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First: You need to load the kernel from the swap, in the time it > loads, you have no running kernel (well, there is a little part, but > that one has no clue about network). No, that's not entirely true.

Re: [gentoo-user] [perhaps OT] ssh from Gentoo into a RedHat server

2007-05-31 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 31 May 2007 11:42:48 +0100 Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Second, my id_dsa is my private key not my public key. My public > > > key is id_dsa.pub > > > > but you will need your private key to be authenticated. that's why > > it is *private*. > > That's right, so why does it:

Re: [gentoo-user] [perhaps OT] ssh from Gentoo into a RedHat server

2007-05-31 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 31 May 2007 09:08:38 -0400 Randy Barlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mauro Faccenda wrote: > > being a redhat, i suppose > > that it uses redhat with more less the default configuration, that > > tries to read your public key on your user home in the server > > (~/.ssh/authorized_use

Re: [gentoo-user] [perhaps OT] ssh from Gentoo into a RedHat server

2007-05-31 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 31 May 2007 19:28:09 +0100 Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > sshd will always search in the home directory as specified > > in /etc/passwd (in the normal case) or more sophisticated solutions > > like LDAP or NSS. So make sure it really *is* configured as the home > > directory. >

Re: [gentoo-user] postfix - how to test

2007-06-01 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 14:45:10 +0200 Johannes Skov Frandsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > testing if apache works is easy, you just go to http://localhost and > see if something happens, > but how do I test if postfix actual sends my mail? Errrm... Send a mail? (No, not to this list, at least

Re: [gentoo-user] postfix - how to test

2007-06-01 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 08:07:33 -0500 Albert Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 14:45 +0200, Johannes Skov Frandsen wrote: > > testing if apache works is easy, you just go to http://localhost and > > see > > if something happens, > > but how do I test if postfix actual se

Re: [gentoo-user] postfix - how to test

2007-06-01 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 16:29:56 +0200 Johannes Skov Frandsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well I guess I should have expected it to rather simple to test. But I > have never tried to configure a mailserver before > hence my somewhat naive question. > > So what I did was to change my smtp server

Re: [gentoo-user] perm link

2007-06-05 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 09:09:34 -0400 sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Trying to create a permanent link as such > "ln /dev/sr1 /dev/dvd" > And it works fine, but when the system is rebooted, link gone. > > What am I doing wrong? low level: You're creating the link on a tmpfs. This is by defi

Re: [gentoo-user] perm link

2007-06-05 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 5 Jun 2007 15:32:07 +0200 Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You will need to create a udev rule for this > > Something like: > > # cdrom symlinks and other good cdrom naming > KERNEL=="sr[0-9]*|hd[a-z]|pcd[0-9]*", ACTION=="add", > IMPORT{program}="cdrom_id --export $tempno

Re: [gentoo-user] Again: Critical bugs considered invalid

2007-06-05 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 5 Jun 2007 17:07:42 +0200 Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > just as I thought, certain folks had their lessons now it's > maybe worth contributing someting, it starts again: > Critical bugs are simply declared invalid. > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=180935 >

Re: [gentoo-user] Again: Critical bugs considered invalid

2007-06-05 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, short correction/addition: On Tue, 5 Jun 2007 17:48:17 +0200 Hans-Werner Hilse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] complicated solutions like e.g. using readlink(1) [...] or just throwing in find's "-L" switch. -hwh -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] postfix - how to test

2007-06-06 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 13:19:26 +0200 Johannes Skov Frandsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > running: > > nc localhost smtp > > allows me to send mail so I guess I'm good Hm, better test if it allows other people to do the same -- if it can be reached via the internet or potentially harmful oth

Re: [gentoo-user] postfix - how to test

2007-06-06 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 6 Jun 2007 11:13:09 -0500 Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > running: > > > > > > nc localhost smtp > > > > > > allows me to send mail so I guess I'm good > > > > Hm, better test if it allows other people to do the same -- if it can > > be reached via the internet or pot

Re: [gentoo-user] Again: Critical bugs considered invalid

2007-06-07 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 00:03:52 +0200 Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, since your awesome efforts last time, everyone here already > > knows you're the most polite bug reporter, absolutely fair and > > I'm really tired of your boring personal attacks. In fact, it was the fi

Re: [gentoo-user] startup woes with sshd, rsyncd, nfs, portmap

2007-06-07 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 15:55:45 -0400 "John Blinka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >sshd doesn't start >nfs doesn't start >rsyncd doesn't start Are those being started (i.e. tried to) at boot? Is it just "fail" then for you? There should at least be a bit of debug info in the output at s

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