Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-22 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 22 December 2006 11:40, Jeff Rollin wrote: > On 22/12/06, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 02:10:58 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > > > I'm starting to wonder if you missed this mail on the subject: > > > > > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-22 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 22 December 2006 12:36, Jeff Rollin wrote: > > It is a known problem, discussed in its own bug and on gentoo-dev. A lot > > of people (like me), don't get all the mails sent to > > gentoo-[user,dev,amd64...]. For some unknown reasons that mails are > > dropped and never delivered. And no,

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-23 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Saturday 23 December 2006 15:44, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 12:47:04 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > > > Maybe, but they do provide an extremely useful fallback, especially > > > for those of us running ~arch systems. Being able to roll back to an > > > older, working version

Re: [gentoo-user] Do you see circle? I see ellipse

2006-12-30 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Saturday 30 December 2006 18:18, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > Hi! > > Some time ago I used GeForce card and was able (with own ModeLine > in xorg.conf) to set 1280x960 mode at 83Hz (with both 'nv' and 'nvidia' > drivers). > > After migrating to another hardware I use integrated to motherboard > vide

Re: [gentoo-user] Do you see circle? I see ellipse

2006-12-30 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Saturday 30 December 2006 19:38, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > Without modelines xorg selects 1280x1024 mode. > > Well, I have played with 'videogen', tried plenty of different params > without any success. Are there other similar utils which can help here? > > Is the driver (i810) known to do work a

Re: [gentoo-user] Do you see circle? I see ellipse

2006-12-30 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Saturday 30 December 2006 23:07, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > Aha... May be ddc submodule is more clever than it needed? :-) Is it > possible to prevent the submodule loading? 'man xorg.conf' has nothing > about 'ddc'. I have looked at xorg log from old case (when my modeline > worked fine). There i

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia and Minefield?

2007-01-09 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Tuesday 09 January 2007 19:00, Bruno Lustosa wrote: > > If I could, I would leave nvidia forever, but I guess there are no > better (or less worse) alternative, so I must stick to these crappy > drivers. > Also, this seems to have started after I had to replace nvidia-drivers > with nvidia-lega

Re: [gentoo-user] Xgl and direct rendering or 'Would you like Xorg or Xgl, sir?'

2007-01-18 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 18 January 2007 18:32, Jan Stępień wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I've been using Xgl for quite a long time without any serious problems. > Recently I've tried to launch America's Army (emerged one, version > 2.5.0) on my box, but... > > ~ armyops > Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on

Re: [gentoo-user] Xgl and direct rendering or 'Would you like Xorg or Xgl, sir?'

2007-01-18 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 18 January 2007 23:47, Jan Stępień wrote: > On 18 Sty, 19:50, "Hemmann, Volker Armin" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > nope. It isn't. > > Xgl and direct rendering are exclusive. One or the other. > > Pity. That would be lovely. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Xgl and direct rendering

2007-01-19 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 19 January 2007 16:52, Richard Fish wrote: > On 1/19/07, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 1/18/07, Jan Stępień <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 1. Is it possible to enable somehow direct rendering on Xgl, therefore > > > allowing OpenGL apps to work as ought to. > > > > No..

Re: [gentoo-user] Xgl and direct rendering or 'Would you like Xorg or Xgl, sir?'

2007-01-19 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 19 January 2007 15:01, Jan Stępień wrote: > Jan Stępień napisał(a): > > Fair enough. Firstly I'll check whether AIGLX will be working with my > > video card, and in case of failure I'll give xlaunch a shot. > > I've reemerged Xorg adding "aiglx" to USE variable, modified > /etc/X11/xorg.c

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia card swap

2007-01-21 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 21 January 2007 02:49, James wrote: > hello, > > I have a system using this card: > "NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400]" > > and I want to use this card: > "NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]" > > to hopefully get more perfomance on 3D applications. > > Can I just swap the hardware or do I have to edit > (

Re: [gentoo-user] Who does save my screen? (xorg-server-1.2.0)

2007-01-25 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 25 January 2007 22:41, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > Hi! > > After updating up to xorg-server-1.2.0 after ~10-15min "somebody" turns my > monitor off as I have configured this or that screensaver. But I have not > changed anything at all. > > Where to dig in? > > > Andrew xset ? -- gentoo-

[gentoo-user] please ignore

2006-01-17 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, please ignore this mail, it is just a test. And don't flame me for it, it is legit. See bugzilla. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware Testing a PC

2006-01-19 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 20 January 2006 02:01, Nick Rout wrote: > Install gentoo and then compile kde/gnome/openoffice while playing three > movies. > booom instand oom ;) but compiling kde or ooo is a better ram test than memtest86, which is known for false positive and not finding obvious errors. cpubburn

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware Testing a PC

2006-01-19 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 20 January 2006 02:16, Midnight Toker wrote: > Not really an option. > > I want to be able to test PCs running Windoze as well as Linux / > whatever else, so it cant really frag the harddrive. -Although i like > to think a Stage1 Gentoo build puts new boxes through their paces :) > > Any

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-20 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 20 January 2006 13:00, Paul wrote: > my findings with KDE is that its bloadware > if I wanted bloat , I'd run windows > > KDE is not bloated, it is feature complete, fully integrated (while gnome is a collection of third party applications) and while gnome takes away choices, KDE enab

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-20 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 20 January 2006 15:37, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > My wife and I use GNOME. KDE is too Windows-like for us. I can't stand > Windows XP. I think it's the most annoying OS I've ever attempted to > use... gnome is much more windows like than KDE. With KDE you have lots and lots of opti

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE? [OT]

2006-01-20 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 20 January 2006 22:02, Abhay Kedia wrote: > On Friday 20 January 2006 15:01, darren kirby wrote: > > Unscientific: > > Google for: > > "kde rules" --> 40,900 > > "kde sucks" --> 9,660 > > "gnome rules" --> 554 > > "gnome sucks" --> 10,500 > > > > Draw your own conclusions. > > ..or we cou

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-20 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Saturday 21 January 2006 00:44, Alan E. Davis wrote: > On 1/21/06, Mike Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > even go back to Afterstep or Enlightenment, but for now kde-3.5 works > > for me. > > May I ask others' experiences with e17? I just wasted my holiday > installing e17 on two of three mac

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-21 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, I have only one question: how do you deal with the data-eating bugs, nautilus is known for? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-21 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 22 January 2006 00:02, Ernie Schroder wrote: > On Saturday 21 January 2006 14:46, a tiny voice compelled Neil Bothwick to > > write: > > PS vi and emacs are the same > > OH MY GOD NO! Not that again. why not? he is correct. Both were made to drive their users crazy. vi with stupid

Re: [gentoo-user] artsd using a TON of memory

2006-01-29 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 29 January 2006 11:23, Dale wrote: > Oh, I can log out and back in, it's back to normal. I hate logging out > almost as much as I hate to reboot. I like my slideshow OK. o_O so just kill it ... killall -9 artsd && artsd or something like that. Why log out if you can kill it? And

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE programs starts slowly

2006-01-29 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 29 January 2006 11:29, Korondi Márk wrote: > programs using some kdelib or - if I'm right -, DCOP starts slowly, and > after starting cannot run fine. > For example: KDE starts up slower than in the previous installation. usually this is a not correctly set up /etc/hostname > Then I

Re: [gentoo-user] artsd using a TON of memory

2006-01-29 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 29 January 2006 12:35, Dale wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > >On Sunday 29 January 2006 11:23, Dale wrote: > >>Oh, I can log out and back in, it's back to normal. I hate logging out > >>almost as much as I hate to reboot. I like my slideshow

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-7.0.0-rc1: Cannot switch to VC's

2006-01-29 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 29 January 2006 18:11, fire-eyes wrote: > I just upgraded to xorg-server-7.0.0-rc1, and I can now no longer switch > to VC's. I used to be able to do this by holding ctl-alt and pressing > F1, for example. > > Does anyone out there happen to know how I can once again do this? well, I can

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-7.0.0-rc1: Cannot switch to VC's

2006-01-29 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 29 January 2006 18:36, fire-eyes wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > On Sunday 29 January 2006 18:11, fire-eyes wrote: > >>I just upgraded to xorg-server-7.0.0-rc1, and I can now no longer switch > >>to VC's. I used to be able to do this by holding

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-7.0.0-rc1: Cannot switch to VC's

2006-01-29 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 29 January 2006 19:44, fire-eyes wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > On Sunday 29 January 2006 18:36, fire-eyes wrote: > >>Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > >>>On Sunday 29 January 2006 18:11, fire-eyes wrote: > >>>>I just upgraded to x

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr is full

2006-01-29 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Monday 30 January 2006 00:15, Jason W Elliot wrote: > that I don't need. Is it safe to remove the stuff in > /usr/portage/distfiles? yes. you may also have a look into localepurge. Oh, and putting portage onto reiserfs is helpfull. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] "dev" packages

2006-01-30 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Monday 30 January 2006 19:16, Tom Smith wrote: > I'm working on an install of Xen 3.0 (manual install, not from Portage) > and trying to locate its listed prerequisites. I'm having trouble > locating two of them: > > "zlib-dev" > "python-dev" that is only relevant for binary (rpm) distros, whic

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia and X

2006-02-01 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, load the module before starting X. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia and X

2006-02-02 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 02 February 2006 08:11, Stefan Istvan wrote: > > If other part of the log is needed to find out what's wrong, tell me, > and I will provide it. ok, I am way out of my waters. I think, you should try it here: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=14 it is the n

Re: [gentoo-user] problem emerging UT2004

2006-02-03 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 03 February 2006 14:37, Steve B. wrote: > Hey everybody, > >   This is kind of stupid problem, but I just can't seem to figure this one > out.  I can't emerge UT2004.  I set my CD_ROOT to my cdrom (/media/hdc) and > the first CD copies fine, but it never gives me time to umount and mount

Re: [gentoo-user] [KDE] move to thrash vs erase for sure

2006-02-03 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 03 February 2006 16:27, Cláudio Henrique wrote: > when I right click a file in konqueror, it gives me only one delete > option, the one to move files to the thrash can. however, sometimes I > want to shred a file, instead of just putting it on a thrash can. how > can I do this? is there a

Re: [gentoo-user]

2006-02-05 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 05 February 2006 21:43, Nick Rout wrote: > An ironic comment from someone whose sig is longer than their message! > an ironic statement from someone who top posts! ;) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user]

2006-02-05 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 05 February 2006 23:45, Rafael Fernández López wrote: > Well my signature is there because I want it to be there. But I don't > want a comment from the list how I HAVE TO UNSUBSCRIBE. One thing is the > signature, and another thing is the information messages from mailing > system. > wel

Re: [gentoo-user] system freezes....

2006-02-06 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 03 February 2006 14:36, Marco Calviani wrote: > Hi list, >i'm a Travelmate 8005 laptop user, running an updated gentoo box. > I'm routinely experiencing system freezes 1 or 2 times every two days, > without an apparent cause; everything stops, starting from mouse to > keyboard, so tha

Re: [gentoo-user] system freezes....

2006-02-06 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Monday 06 February 2006 21:07, Marco Calviani wrote: > Hi, > > > yupp, kernel waits for some time outs, if you did not set unmaskirq with > > hdparm, this may make your laptop pretty unresponsive. > > do you mean that i have to set the umaskirq option also for cdrom? I > had it set with hdparm o

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm crippled?

2006-02-07 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Tuesday 07 February 2006 17:15, Uwe Thiem wrote: > Hi folks, > > I am trying to connect solid state thin clients (*not* LTSP ones) to a > gentoo server. There is one big problem: kdm on the gentoo box does not > connect to the X server on the thin client. I > tweaked /usr/kde/3.5/share/config/kd

Re: [gentoo-user] [solved] kdm crippled?

2006-02-07 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Tuesday 07 February 2006 22:32, Uwe Thiem wrote: > I must have been completely brain-dead over the last couple of days. > Completely forgot that the thin client IP addresses had to be reverse > resolveable for xdmcp. =8-O > > Uwe > (wondering when the other brain cell will die) I would never t

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting at archives on tapes

2006-02-08 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Wednesday 08 February 2006 03:54, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > Got it. > > tar -tvb 240 -f /dev/tape0n | more > > lists the files. I did some searching and found that the error (cannot > allocate memory) sometimes shows up when the block size is wrong. > do'h, that is why I always save the comma

Re: [gentoo-user] KDM and portage

2006-02-08 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Wednesday 08 February 2006 15:45, Daniel D Jones wrote: > Can someone either explain or give me a pointer to an explanation for the > following: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/ # emerge --pretend kdm > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > Calculating dependencies ...done! > [blocks

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc problem with amd64

2006-02-09 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 09 February 2006 12:40, Nadav Horesh wrote: >   retry with O2 and without mfpmath and -msse3? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] KDM - KDE root problem

2006-02-09 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 09 February 2006 18:45, El TuZa wrote: > Hi, I'm new to gentoo..I have just emerged KDE and it works fine, but > I can't log with the root account from kdm, or either create a root > account in a console using 'su'. the user has to be in group wheel > Another thing is that even I cha

Re: [gentoo-user] KDM - KDE root problem

2006-02-09 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 09 February 2006 19:42, El TuZa wrote: > > runlevel? gentoo? runlevel? > > Sorry, I told I was new to gentoo...I was using slackware till I got > my amd64 and slamd64 didn't do it for me. How does gentoo manage with > runlevels? how to do to start kdm automatically? rc-update add xdm d

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS/USE...

2006-02-10 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 10 February 2006 17:23, Jarry wrote: > Sorry for asking probably trivial question, but if I have in > /etc/make.conf: CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -pipe -O2" , > > does it still make sense to include use-options: > USE="3dnow mmx sse" ??? yes, because the USE flag is something completly diff

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenGL X desktop

2006-02-11 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Saturday 11 February 2006 03:06, Daevid Vincent wrote: > Whoa. Check out this demo of a new OpenGL X desktop. IMHO it blows away the > Mac OS/X > > http://www.freedesktop.org/~davidr/xgl-demo1.xvid.avi > > Anyone have any other info on when this will be available? How does it > work? look into

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenGL X desktop

2006-02-11 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, whoever answered me(Jorge?), I accidently deleted your message. And to be honest: I don't know how to turn on shadows&stuff in gnome. I do not use it. Last time I touched gnome was 2.0 and after that experience I left it for good. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenGL X desktop

2006-02-11 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Saturday 11 February 2006 22:56, Tim Igoe wrote: > I guess it was referring to the thread on the Gentoo forums > > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-386012-highlight-xgl.html > > Daevid Vincent wrote: > > I'm sorry, could you give me/us the URL for the forum? > > > > Is that a gentoo forum or

Re: [gentoo-user] WARNING! : Newbie ahead -- EMERGEncy problems

2006-02-12 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 12 February 2006 09:56, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: > From: Rafael Fernández López <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] WARNING! : Newbie ahead -- EMERGEncy problems > Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 09:58:22 +0100 > > Hi Rafael ! > > Thank you for your reply ! :) > Are there any i

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenGL X desktop

2006-02-12 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Monday 13 February 2006 00:09, Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 13:18 +, Paulo J. Matos wrote: > > I really wonder what type of hardware is the guy using to be able to > > run all that. :) > > > >From the speed at which some of the apps start, I'd say he's using some > > _very_ s

Re: [gentoo-user] trying KDE (again)

2006-02-13 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Tuesday 14 February 2006 00:35, Iain Buchanan wrote: > Welcome to my post, and remember to leave your flamewars at the door :) > > I've just installed KDE for the first time in a couple of years. It > seems to have come a long way. > > However, I have some eye candy I want to bring from Gnome -

Re: [gentoo-user] trying KDE (again)

2006-02-14 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Tuesday 14 February 2006 06:34, Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 00:54 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > On Tuesday 14 February 2006 00:35, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > Welcome to my post, and remember to leave your flamewars at the door :) > > > &g

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

2006-02-15 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 16 February 2006 04:06, James wrote: > Benno Schulenberg gmail.com> writes: > > > sensors -s > > > No sensors found! > > > > There's no sensor module loaded. sensor-detect will have told you > > what chip it has found, select it in "Hardware Monitoring support" > > (two down from I2C

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 16 February 2006 14:06, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Izar Ilun wrote: > > I say that, It'll be just: > > - /boot > > - swap > > - /home > > - / (all the rest) > > That's not advisable. I'd strongly suggest to create > filesystems for /boot, swap, /home, /opt, /usr, /var > and / (of course).

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 16 February 2006 13:19, Izar Ilun wrote: > I'm installing Gentoo and I'd like you to suggest me how much disc space I > should use for /. > > My machine is Pentium4, 1GB RAM, 200 GB HD ATA > > It's a desktop machine with Gentoo as the only and exclusive OS. > > Will run KDE. Amarok, Ope

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 16 February 2006 16:14, Robert Crawford wrote: > The main reason for putting /var, /tmp, and portage on their own > partitions is to minimize fragmentation on /, especially with a source > distro like Gentoo. And yes, Linux does fragment and does require > attention, especially with re

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 16 February 2006 15:45, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > On Thursday 16 February 2006 14:06, Alexander Skwar wrote: > >> Izar Ilun wrote: > >> > I say that, It'll be just: > >> > - /boot > >> > - swa

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 16 February 2006 16:02, Richard Fish wrote: > Having / on its own partition can result in a similar improvement, > because the drive doesn't have to seek over your files in /home or > /opt to get to something in /lib. it still has to move at the beginning of the partition, look up, whe

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

2006-02-16 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 16 February 2006 17:27, James wrote: > > > It also looks like the power supply is not regulating very well? > > > Can I believe these voltages? > > > > no > > but you can never believe the voltages. > > The absolut numbers are irrelevant. > > What is important: are there any fluctuation

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 16 February 2006 17:18, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > On Thursday 16 February 2006 15:45, Alexander Skwar wrote: > >> Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > >> > On Thursday 16 February 2006 14:06, Alexander Skwar wrote: > >> &

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-security] AMD64 + Hard Drive weirdness...

2006-02-16 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 16 February 2006 17:32, Jeff wrote: > Moving my thread over to the proper list... first... > > Now then - thanks to everyone on the list for your help. I've had barely > any sleep lately, so I must apologize first, for putting the original > thread onto the security mailing list by mist

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 16 February 2006 21:11, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 18:46:57 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: > > > If partition A > > > runs out of space while partition B has plenty, > > > > Then you made B too large, which is the main cause of the problem. > > Of course, but if your need

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 16 February 2006 20:40, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > On Thursday 16 February 2006 17:18, Alexander Skwar wrote: > >> Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > >> > On Thursday 16 February 2006 15:45, Alexander Skwar wrote: >

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware issues, probably overheating, help?

2006-02-16 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
sounds like weak/dying PSU. Get a new one. Enermax builds good ones. Don't buy coba, fortron/sourge. Be carefull with antec (have 12V problems). -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-17 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 17 February 2006 07:33, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > On Thursday 16 February 2006 20:40, Alexander Skwar wrote: > >> Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > >> > On Thursday 16 February 2006 17:18, Alexander Skwar wrote: >

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware issues, probably overheating, help?

2006-02-17 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 17 February 2006 12:03, Mrugesh Karnik wrote: > On Friday 17 February 2006 04:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > A long shot, but I had this happen once due to bad power supply. > > > > Is there a chance the power supply is failing? If you have an alternate > > supply, you may want to swap

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-17 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 17 February 2006 19:38, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Richard Fish wrote: > > On 2/17/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Friday 17 February 2006 07:33, Alexander Skwar wrote: > >> > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-17 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 17 February 2006 23:15, Patrick Börjesson wrote: > > an attacker does not need a place, where everybody can write. He just > > needs SOME place, where he can write - like the home-directory of the > > user he just corrumpted. > > What's to say that the only way to get access to a system

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - "Not getting gentoo-user at espersunited.com" OR "Has anybody seen the owner recently?"

2006-02-18 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, had the same problem some weeks ago. Reason was some header mangling done in the rz of my 'provider' that made the mailing list discard my messages. If gentoo+owner does not get back on you, maybe because they do not get your messages? Try bugzilla. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] CD/DVD/R/RW-manufacturer - HOWTO identify?

2006-02-18 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Saturday 18 February 2006 19:00, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > On Saturday 18 February 2006 18:25, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > > Hi! > > > > Is there a tool to identify a CD/DVD/R/RW-manufacturer? > > Cdrecord tries to detect the disk manufacturer at the beginning of the > write process. Look for cdrecord

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] CD/DVD/R/RW-manufacturer - HOWTO identify?

2006-02-18 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Saturday 18 February 2006 18:25, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > Hi! > > Is there a tool to identify a CD/DVD/R/RW-manufacturer? the drive? hdparm man hdparm, if you don't know which option you need. the blanks? none that is reliable - best to look at the package and google -- gentoo-user@gentoo.o

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] CD/DVD/R/RW-manufacturer - HOWTO identify?

2006-02-19 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 19 February 2006 04:16, James wrote: > hdparm -I /dev/hdc > ATAPI CD-ROM, with removable media > Model Number: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-R2412 > Serial Number: Z34A308331 > Firmware Revision: 1015 well, every info that is needed for identification ;) -- gen

Re: [gentoo-user] lspci shows 2 entries for video card?

2006-02-19 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 19 February 2006 05:27, Walter Dnes wrote: > I'm trying to see if I can tweak things a little bit. Here are the > last 2 entries from the output of "lspci -v"... IIRC this ati cards have to chips, so it is normal to have to entries in lspci. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] trying kde "no support for hal"??

2006-02-19 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 19 February 2006 10:29, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 17:52:08 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > As there's a close relation between kernel version & dbus,hal,ivman > > > versions, not all combinations work, watch out. > > > > hmm, I have linux-2.6.15-r5 (suspend2); hal 0.5.5

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and Flash Cards

2006-02-19 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 19 February 2006 14:50, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: > Good morning everyone: > > I am hitting a bit of an issue here -- there are work arounds available > but I would like to do it right. Here is the issue > > I use Gentoo on my laptop that I use for digital photography. When I > shoot, I

Re: [gentoo-user] trying kde "no support for hal"??

2006-02-19 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Monday 20 February 2006 00:19, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > and do you ahve the right entries in fstab for devices covered by hal? > > Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the combined idea of hal, dbus, udev > and "auto mounting" that you don't need entries in fstab? Of course, I > have an entry

Re: [gentoo-user] tape drives and backups

2006-02-21 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 04:51, Nick Smith wrote: > i recently accuired a DDS3 tape drive, ive never used a tape drive > with linux at all. what software is out that supports tape drives and > how to i access it? tar -cf /dev/st0 writes to tape tar -xf /drv/st0 reads from tape mt and mtx for r

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Any auto-hiding panels with a bunch of dependancies?

2006-02-22 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Wednesday 22 February 2006 06:58, Walter Dnes wrote: and what is about kicker? it can autohide - and if you have koffice installed, you should have covered most of its dependencies. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] CVSup vs Gentoo's Rsync

2006-02-23 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 23 February 2006 11:26, Alexander Kirillov wrote: > >>I already think Gentoo base system requirements are a bit heavy just > >> having python in there. (I'm trying to run gentoo on my WRT54G 1.1; > >> storage over nfs/nbd) It would be completely over-the-top to require > >> Modula 3 s

Re: [gentoo-user] amd64/x86

2006-02-23 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 23 February 2006 18:24, daniel wrote: > On Thursday 23 February 2006 07:54, Boris Fersing wrote: > > 2006/2/23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm going to install Gentoo on Athlon64-based workstation, > > > but I'm a little confused about hardware profiles

Re: [gentoo-user] CVSup vs Gentoo's Rsync

2006-02-23 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 24 February 2006 00:39, Alexander Kirillov wrote: > >>BSD ports system may not be as complex as Gentoo's > >>and needs more attention to maintain port dependencies > >>but this "abuse of make" IS REAL FAST. > > > > portage is REAL SLOW. > > So you should install/use cdb, which makes the w

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with kicker

2006-02-23 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 24 February 2006 00:33, Walter Dnes wrote: > > kicker seems to have problems on my system, to say the least. I don't > have the full KDE install, and this is causing problems, even if it > doesn't specifically list the full KDE as a dependency. When I > right-click on the panel, and

Re: [gentoo-user] CVSup vs Gentoo's Rsync

2006-02-24 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 24 February 2006 07:00, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Alexander Kirillov wrote: > > If I got it right here's the link for those interested: > > http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_speed_up_portage_with_cdb > > Does this work with recent portage releases? > it stopped some weeks ago - but in the gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] CVSup vs Gentoo's Rsync

2006-02-24 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 24 February 2006 15:37, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > On Friday 24 February 2006 07:00, Alexander Skwar wrote: > >> Alexander Kirillov wrote: > >> > If I got it right here's the link for those intere

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] cdrtools and dvdrtools - which one to prefer?

2006-02-24 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 24 February 2006 18:35, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > If I understand well, these packages are interchangeable. Which one to > prefer? I use k3b for CD-R/CD-RW audio and data burning, and DVD+R/DVD-RW > (for data). cdrdao for cdrom and dvd+rw-tools for dvd? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] Motherboards

2006-02-24 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Saturday 25 February 2006 02:27, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > I need to purchase a motherboard that supports SATA and am looking for > recommendations. I used to use ASUS but their support is non-existent and > totally stupid. Unfortunately this will be for a Windows system but I'd > like feedba

Re: [gentoo-user] CVSup vs Gentoo's Rsync

2006-02-25 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Saturday 25 February 2006 07:37, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > that is the only change I remember at the moment (and which did not went > > into the wiki). > > Not true anymore :) I just added "your" changes to the wiki. 'your&#x

Re: [gentoo-user] Motherboards

2006-02-25 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Saturday 25 February 2006 07:55, Jarry wrote: > Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > > Thanks. I believe Tom's Hardware liked ASRock, too. I'll add them to my > > list. > > > >>>I need to purchase a motherboard that supports SATA and am looking for > >>>recommendations. I used to use ASUS but their sup

Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus

2006-03-06 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Monday 06 March 2006 08:11, Alexander Skwar wrote: > > There's no virus scanner for Linux, that is wrong. There are several. > as there are (at least > currently) no virusses for Linux. No, there are virii and worms in the wild. > > The scanners you'll find, will check for Windows virus.

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to Gentoo

2006-03-09 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 09 March 2006 20:16, Jim wrote: > Hey group, > > I am a long time Linux user, however I am new to Gentoo. I used Red > Hat/Fedora for many years, then my own Linux based on LFS and the last > year I have been using Ubuntu. > > I really like Ubuntu because of apt, however I have had fru

Re: [gentoo-user] moving /usr

2006-03-10 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 10 March 2006 15:53, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >I have an out of disk space problem machine. It looks like moving > /usr to a new partition would be the best thing to do. How can I do > this safely? go to the suse support database. Look up your question. They recommend tar (I did it

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Monday 13 March 2006 05:23, JimD wrote: > Hey group, > > My trusty old computer died tonight :( I am stuck with my winders laptop > for a few days until I can get in a new mobo and processor. I am looking > at getting something like an AMD 64 or a Pentium D dual core. I can get > one of the t

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Monday 13 March 2006 20:28, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Monday 13 March 2006 12:31, Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about > > 'Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination': > > Did you do AMD64 for gentoo or just x86? I just finished getting > > everything compiled and setup where I like it.

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Monday 13 March 2006 19:31, Jim wrote: > On 163692080 "Hemmann, Volker Armin" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > There is no good reason to buy intel today. > > > > But... emm... I bought a Venive S939, 3200+ 1000MHZ HT for less than 130¤ > &

Re: [gentoo-user] Updated gentoo systems and fresh installs

2006-03-13 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Monday 13 March 2006 21:54, Trenton Adams wrote: > Hi guys, > > Is there a difference between the two? I have 2005.1 installed. As > I've always understood it, my system will now always be up-to-date, as > long as I keep updating it. Is 2006.0 any different than 2005.1 after > the system has

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo USE flags

2006-03-15 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Tuesday 14 March 2006 15:02, Goran Maksimoviæ wrote: > Hi! > > I have already asked this but I will ask again. I am looking for who could > write me a list of USE flags to setup in make.conf, so anyone? I need > desktop system with KDE and not GNOME, support for DVD and CD ripping and > burning,

Re: [gentoo-user] User mounting

2006-03-16 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 16 March 2006 20:48, JimD wrote: > Do I need to do anything special to let users (me) mount an cifs > share? I don't want to have to use sudo all the time. I can > mount/umount /mnt/cdrom without sudo. Here is my /etc/fstab entry: > > //kaleb/C$ /mnt/kaleb cifs > defaults,noauto,us

Re: [gentoo-user] cdb with portage 2.1 (was: CVSup vs Gentoo's Rsync)

2006-03-17 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 17 March 2006 19:24, Alexander Skwar wrote: > > Is anyone using CDB with Portage 2.1? with the latest portage incarnations it does not work anymore at all. But portage got a lot speedier too, so the problem is not soo big. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing file systems

2006-03-19 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 19 March 2006 13:04, Sumeet Pal Singh wrote: > HI > This mail is not directly related to gentoo. > I have gentoo,ubuntu 5.10 on my system and using FC3 since it was released. > > I tried to install FC4 on my system by sharing the swap and /home partition > between FC4 and ubuntu. The inst

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