Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Virtual Caller ID with asterisk?

2006-12-09 Thread Iain Buchanan
RC, once you give the modem the CID command, the incoming ring notification changes from "RING" to "RING ". For the asterisk side of things, once again, the internet is your friend: http://nerdvittles.com/index.php?p=82 and I'm sure there are more... HTH, -- Iain

Re: [gentoo-user] nautilus 2.16.3 never/always shows backup files

2006-12-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
tches and upstream bug links, then either it'll be accepted, or marked as a duplicate of the bug you couldn't find. In either case it's worth it to get the problem resolved, IMHO. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan Software is like sex, it's better when it's free. -- Linus Torvalds -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ifconfig -> SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot assign requested address

2006-12-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
> Only the first has a regular mask (and therefore is source and target for > broadcasts) - the rest has /32 mask and is only valid for unicast > communication. good idea. > AFAIK this is true for both multiple cards on single network and multiple > aliases on single card. cya, -- Iain Buchanan The other day I... uh, no, that wasn't me. -- Steven Wright -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] bluetooth service starts without asking!

2006-12-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
ble wireless, then rename /etc/init.d/bluetooth before enabling the wireless again... Any thoughts on fixing this? thanks, -- Iain Buchanan He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. -- William Shakespeare, "Love's Labour's Lost" -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] bluetooth service starts without asking!

2006-12-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 00:39 +, Bruno Santos wrote: > Iain Buchanan wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I have an internal bluetooth (usb-based) "thing" which I use with linux. > > It also works with vmware, but only when the hci-usb module is unloaded > > f

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox, flash player, and youTube

2006-12-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
t; from http://javimoya.com/blog/youtube_en.php and have a little icon in your status bar which, on a right click, will let you download any mp3, flash, wmv, avi, etc, etc, on the current web page. HTH! -- Iain Buchanan Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
I heard "this is the best mailing list with the most knowledgeable users"? > nope. It is just the wave of people who want to use the > cool-distro-of-the-day. hey that was me once upon a time. That's how I found Gentoo, but then I wasn't a noob at that stage, so I recognised what I found and stuck to it... -- Iain Buchanan It's easier to get forgiveness for being wrong than forgiveness for being right. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
;s a > yearly growth of 60% or more. cya, -- Iain Buchanan A motion to adjourn is always in order. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] acpi battery events, Sony FS740

2007-01-02 Thread Iain Buchanan
touch ${ALREADY_PLUGGED_IN} fi else logger "Setting LCD to brightness ${BRIGHTNESS_BATTERY}" echo $BRIGHTNESS_BATTERY > /proc/acpi/sony/brightness rm ${ALREADY_PLUGGED_IN} fi - This will only work for the already-plugged-in-acpi-event, you may have to do a bit o

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome Power Management

2007-01-02 Thread Iain Buchanan
t;GConf > schema installer error, battery_low_percentage cannot be zero". And the > top says "Power Manager". Any ideas? try running gconf-editor and go to: /apps/gnome-power-manager/battery_percentage_low and setting it to something other than 0. It sounds like it's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: acpi battery events, Sony FS740

2007-01-03 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 19:46 -0600, »Q« wrote: > Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > To get around it, perhaps you could keep "state" with a file. eg > > (untested): > > [big snip] > > > HTH! > > It certainly did; thanks very much! After some tinker

[gentoo-user] [OT] where is PID_MAX_DEFAULT ?

2007-01-03 Thread Iain Buchanan
e in the header files - has the name changed? google was also unhelpful AFAICT. I'd appreciate help! thanks, -- Iain Buchanan Nothing cures insomnia like the realization that it's time to get up. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] where is PID_MAX_DEFAULT ?

2007-01-03 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 08:48 +0200, Daniel Iliev wrote: > Iain Buchanan wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I was just trying to compile one of my programs that includes > > linux/threads.h for the #define PID_MAX_DEFAULT, however, threads.h > > isn't there anymore!

Re: [gentoo-user] Fix file system permissions

2007-01-04 Thread Iain Buchanan
ter state than now, at least. do you use slocate? maybe the slocate database stores permission info for files it searches... you could "reverse" that info somehow... anyway, what's a customer doing with sudo access? -- Iain Buchanan Money is the root of all evil, and man needs

Re: [gentoo-user] display adjustments

2007-01-08 Thread Iain Buchanan
Size" but that did not work. not sure what that is. > Any ideas? What baffles me is the display is too big > in console mode too? yeah, that sounds like either the resolution is too big for the tv, or the video signal just needs a bit of tweaking! HTH, -- Iain Buchanan Conquest is

Re: [gentoo-user] can no longer switch to a VT - OT

2007-01-08 Thread Iain Buchanan
omewhere, and see if that helps... just a wild idea... -- Iain Buchanan The joys of love made her human and the agonies of love destroyed her. -- Spock, "Requiem for Methuselah", stardate 5842.8 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] net.eth0 net.eth1 net.eth2 persist in trying to come up even though not in any run level.

2007-01-08 Thread Iain Buchanan
SERVICES="!net.*" and set RC_NET_STRICT_CHECKING="lo" read the comments for more info! HTH, -- Iain Buchanan No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. -- Aesop -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] net.eth0 net.eth1 net.eth2 persist in trying to come up even though not in any run level.

2007-01-08 Thread Iain Buchanan
t boot. Use udev rules to have the naming as you want. For > example, I use hmm, now I look at it, I have RC_PLUG_SERVICES="!bluetooth", and yet the bluetooth service is still started automatically (not in any runlevel). thoughts? thanks, -- Iain Buchanan A classic is something

Re: [gentoo-user] net.eth0 net.eth1 net.eth2 persist in trying to come up even though not in any run level.

2007-01-09 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 19:56 +, Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 09 January 2007 01:13, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > hmm, now I look at it, I have RC_PLUG_SERVICES="!bluetooth", and yet the > > bluetooth service is still started automatically (not in any runlevel). > >

Re: [gentoo-user] dbus downgrade via revdep-rebuild

2007-01-09 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 22:01 -0800, Grant wrote: > I upgraded to dbus-1.0.2, but a subsequent revdep-rebuild wants to > downgrade dbus back to 0.62-r2. How can I fix this? try revdep-rebuild with -X HTH, -- Iain Buchanan A word to the wise is enough. -- Miguel de Cer

Re: [gentoo-user] Several Gentoo-Problems

2007-01-09 Thread Iain Buchanan
v/write_net_rules all_interfaces > > balearen chrissie # /lib/udev/write_net_rules all_interfaces > /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules exists, persistent interface names > not saved. if it already exists, try moving it to ~/ or somewhere safe, then run write_net_rules again...

Re: [gentoo-user] pants

2007-01-09 Thread Iain Buchanan
he other direction! what's the standard with smiley faces?! 5:) -- Iain Buchanan "I always avoid prophesying beforehand because it is much better to prophesy after the event has already taken place. " - Winston Churchill -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Top/Bottom Posting

2007-01-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
gt; Thus, replying below the signature may put your reply in the > same color, potentially rendering it invisible to some eyes. evolution automatically deletes everything including and below the dash-dash-space-newline when you reply. cya, -- Iain Buchanan We must believe in free will. We

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Question about kernels and kernel patches

2007-01-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
ch of the relevant files have changed, the patches _may_ still work. patch will tell you whether it fails or not. -- Iain Buchanan Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse. -- Arthur Baer -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Telling emerge to continue when something goes wrong

2007-01-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
g dependencies): pkg-a pkg-b pkg-c pkg-d emerge would build in the order pkg-b pkg-a pkg-d pkg-c. If emerge fails during pkg-b, whats to stop it continuing at pkg-d and then pkg-c? cya, -- Iain Buchanan Never trust anyone who says money is no object. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Telling emerge to continue when something goes wrong

2007-01-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
rge --resume), or on the next package > (emerge --resume --skipfirst). I should add that --skipfirst is sometimes "bad" because it ignores dependencies. If you let emerge do it, then you could only resume packages whose dependencies were satisfied. cya, -- Iain Buchanan When a fellow say

Re: [gentoo-user] net.eth0 net.eth1 net.eth2 persist in trying to come up even though not in any run level.

2007-01-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 20:39 +, Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 09 January 2007 23:12, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 19:56 +, Mick wrote: > > > On Tuesday 09 January 2007 01:13, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > > hmm, now I look at it, I have RC_PLUG_

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I emerge a program with debugging options?

2007-01-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
om my make.conf: DEBUG="-g" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe ${DEBUG}" CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" FEATURES="fixpackages userpriv usersandbox userfetch splitdebug" This way, I can comment out the DEBUG= line, and I don't get the debug info. see here for m

Re: [gentoo-user] Exclude package from emerge world ?

2007-01-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
ne ? yes, you can: emerge --resume --skipfirst after the failed wine build, and emerge will continue on with the next ebuild. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan "... And remember: if you don't like the news, go out and make some of your own." -- "Scoop" Nisker, KFOG ra

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a home router

2007-01-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 13:10 +0100, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > I haven't found a how-to like this. Do you know a good how-to? for linux howto's, I highly recommend tldp: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/networking.html#NETROUTING try the Masquerading-Simple-HOWTO. HTH, -- Iain

Re: [gentoo-user] how to bring down the sync range of your monitor?

2007-01-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
roll through /var/log/Xorg.0.log and see if you can see anything interesting about EDID or sync, etc. HTH! -- Iain Buchanan We question most of the mantras around here periodically, in case you hadn't noticed. :-) -- Larry Wall in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a home router

2007-01-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
t it really is deleted. Well, these idea's are really stabbing in the dark, but you gotta start somewhere! HTH, -- Iain Buchanan Workers of the world, arise! You have nothing to lose but your chairs. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] unknown symbol loading dvb module

2007-01-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
e linux-tv site either. Anyone had any luck with the dvb modules? Any ideas where this symbol comes from? Anyone know about kernel changes that might affect it? I am using 2.6.19... thanks for any help! cya, -- Iain Buchanan Ain't nothin' an old man can do for me but bring me a

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a home router

2007-01-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
st is running lsof to see what files are being accessed when you start the net.eth1 script. Other than that, I'm out of ideas, sorry! -- Iain Buchanan Nothing motivates a man more than to see his boss put in an honest day's work. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a home router

2007-01-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 01:01 -0600, Dale wrote: > Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > > ah yes, I recall the cruft script! Does it exclude any directories? > > > > If there is nothing shorewall related left, then the only explanation is > > that shorewall must have

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a home router

2007-01-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
124M here). Then you can diff them after installing and configuring shorewall. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure. -- Arthure "Bugs" Baer -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] AIGLX and Compiz: "No GLXFBConfig for default depth"

2007-01-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
z: No GLXFBConfig for default depth, this isn't going to work. compiz: Failed to manage screen: 0 compiz: No manageable screens found on display :0.0 the only thing on google I found was a suggestion to re-install the nvidia drives, but I'm using the x11 drm drivers... any ideas? t

Re: [gentoo-user] X configuration problem

2007-01-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
[snip] did you forget to add these to /etc/make.conf? INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse synaptics" VIDEO_CARDS="ati radeon vesa fbdev fglrx" you may use a different set of drivers of course. See google on these for more info :) HTH, -- Iain Buchanan "I always avoid prophesying

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X configuration problem

2007-01-21 Thread Iain Buchanan
ce is ok). I use the "kbd" driver, and so do you, so that looks fine. That leaves the possibility that somehow the drivers still aren't installed. Can you try this command (it wont "do" anything to your system) emerge -pv xf86-input-mouse xf86-input-keyboard and then this one: X -version Hope you're getting somewhere! [1] http://www.mesa3d.org/faq.html -- Iain Buchanan Suggest you just sit there and wait till life gets easier. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Do Debian's 2.6.18 problems exist in gentoo?

2007-01-21 Thread Iain Buchanan
stalls the kernel exactly as it is from kernel.org, with no patches, if you want to go that way. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best. -- Oscar Wilde -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a home router

2007-01-21 Thread Iain Buchanan
add this to /etc/conf.d/net: postup() { if [[ $1 == "eth1" ]] ; then /etc/init.d/iptables restart fi } or something similar. Not the ideal solution, but at least it would do it automatically. sorry I can't help any further :) -- Iain Buchanan Mollison's

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

2007-01-22 Thread Iain Buchanan
but > without any reasonably results. Could you tell me more about it or send > me a link to a proper website which could enlighten me? try these exact searches in google (include the site.. bit) INPUT_DEVICES VIDEO_CARDS site:http://www.gentoo.org and INPUT_DEVICES VIDEO_CARDS site:http://www.g

[gentoo-user] ati-drivers can work with 2.6.15!

2006-01-04 Thread Iain Buchanan
l, under "Power management options (ACPI, APM)" turn on "Legacy Power Management API (PM_LEGACY)". Then recompile the kernel (recompiling modules should not be necessary) and re-boot to this new kernel. Now, for me at least, ati-drivers-8.20.8 loads fine! HTH, -- Iain Bucha

[gentoo-user] firefox quickstart

2006-01-05 Thread Iain Buchanan
know_ I'm impatient :) but is there a firefox "quickstart" similar to what I saw on windows once upon a time? Openoffice used to have one too (in windows) - a little tray app that loaded ooffice into memory so that when you first used it, the start up time was short. TIA, --

Re: [gentoo-user] eix - What's eix, then?

2006-01-08 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 20:54 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 20:33:51 +, Stroller wrote: > > > I'm using esearch at the moment - should I change? > > I did. eix is basically esearch without the wait. what wait? I use esearch and I don't have to

Re: [gentoo-user] eix - What's eix, then?

2006-01-08 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 01:22 +, Stroller wrote: > On 9 Jan 2006, at 00:30, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 20:54 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 20:33:51 +, Stroller wrote: > >> > >>> I'm using esearch a

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list problems

2006-01-08 Thread Iain Buchanan
> > I've also noticed considerably less traffic on the lists in recent days, > > could this be due to a general email slow down due to an increase in spam > > email traffic? you mean I'm not the only one who is suddenly receiving 100x more spam about watches and other crap la

[gentoo-user] character buffered pipes (not line buffered) help!

2006-01-09 Thread Iain Buchanan
it didn't work. I tried various other approaches, but to no avail. When I run rsync by hand, it doesn't line buffer, but when pipe the output to something, it does. Is there any way around this? Many thanks, -- Iain Buchanan >Ever heard of .cshrc? That's a city in Bosnia.

Re: [gentoo-user] A New Linux Way

2006-01-10 Thread Iain Buchanan
t them 3. Why re-invent the wheel? Just join Gentoo and make it even better ;) -- Iain Buchanan Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies. :-) -- Larry Wall in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] A New Linux Way

2006-01-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
of UK (and AU) vs US spelling, I can invoke "Godwin's Law"[1] hereby ending the discussion completely and immediately ;) [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law cya on another thread :) -- Iain Buchanan Many pages make a thick book, except for pocket Bibles which are on very very thin paper. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] slow boot after kernel upgrade

2006-01-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
27;re trying to use the suspend2 patchset). I patched vanilla-2.6.15 with suspend2-2.2-rc16-for-2.6.15. I just looked at your .config - it looks like it is as I suspected. So try 2.6.15, but if you can't, let me know... -- Iain Buchanan The way to make a small fortune in the commoditie

Re: [gentoo-user] A New Linux Way

2006-01-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 13:39 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 22:21:23 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > I think once we've got to the stage of UK (and AU) vs US spelling, I can > > invoke "Godwin's Law"[1] hereby ending the discussion complet

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A New Linux Way

2006-01-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
re about 8 people when I joined, continued with bigger and better software and hardware with less components made by other people and more by us, and now we're over 30 people, and still moving. I'm sure we're not the only success story in the world. -- Iain Buchanan "MSDOS didn't get as bad as it is overnight -- it took over ten years of careful development." (By [EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] A New Linux Way

2006-01-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 15:29 -0800, Eric Bliss wrote: > On Wednesday 11 January 2006 03:06 pm, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > > I think once we've got to the stage of UK (and AU) vs US spelling, I can > > > > invoke "Godwin's Law"[1] hereby ending th

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating DVD-menus from pictures

2006-01-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
it up in a script to pick out the pieces. $ equery belongs `which convert` media-gfx/imagemagick-6.2.5.5 (/usr/bin/convert) HTH, -- Iain Buchanan "On a normal ascii line, the only safe condition to detect is a 'BREAK' - everything else having been assigned functions by Gnu EMACS.&q

Re: [gentoo-user] RESEND: [OT - Manually entering a new mail account into Evolution]

2006-01-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
to post your trace for inspection :) -- Iain Buchanan No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] slow boot after kernel upgrade

2006-01-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 14:27 +0100, Uwe Klosa wrote: > Or you can try 2.6.15-suspend2. ? What exactly do you mean? Is there a suspend2-sources version up to 2.6.15? thanks, -- Iain Buchanan Deflector shields just came on, Captain. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Source Code?

2006-01-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
ortage/sys-apps/baselayout /usr/portage/sys-apps/coreutils In each directory you will see a list of *.ebuild files, which are the "rules" for building this package. If you get this far and want me to keep going about ebuilds, just post back to the list. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan The be

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: PPTP + MPPE + pptpconfig + Kernel 2.6.15 + ndiswrapper -> unstable connectivity

2006-01-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
the thread, but I use a Broadcom BCM4306 802.11b/g mini-pci card in my laptop, and it works great between windows and linux with ndiswrapper. Don't use ndiswrapper 1.7 yet though :) HTH, -- Iain Buchanan The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A New Linux Way

2006-01-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 13:34 +, Mattias Merilai wrote: > echo "sci-fi/saviour-linux spell" >> /etc/portage/package.use && emerge > saviour-linux I think the devs moved it to "apps-vapourware/saviour-linux". -- Iain Buchanan Never buy what you do

Re: [gentoo-user] Source Code?

2006-01-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
far as I recall for Fedora (haven't used it in a while) what you download as a src.rpm is already patched the way Fedora has compiled it to make the rpm. I don't know about the others, but I assume all binary distro's would be the same or similar... HTH, -- Iain Buchanan "Qu

[gentoo-user] netscape-flash doesn't work with firefox 1.5

2006-01-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
w what? netscape-flash is the right ebuild for firefox isn't it? Any help appreciated, thanks, -- Iain Buchanan He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] netscape-flash doesn't work with firefox 1.5

2006-01-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi, (up late I see :) On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 00:46 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: > Iain Buchanan schreef: > > Hi, > > > > So, I unmerged netscape-flash, deleted any macromedia directories or > > stale flash plugins lying around, and reinstalled netscape-flash.

Re: [gentoo-user] netscape-flash doesn't work with firefox 1.5

2006-01-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 01:22 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: > Iain Buchanan schreef: > > > > what version of firefox are you running? > > 1.5-r9 (compiled, not -bin). me too... I just tried another a link "http://a.b/c.swf"; which didn't work, however when I down

[gentoo-user] usb1 performance out of usb2 external HD

2006-01-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
le to get at least double that... And as I've said, I know this port is usb 2.0. Any hints? thanks, -- Iain Buchanan IN MY OPINION anyone interested in improving himself should not rule out becoming pure energy. -- Jack Handley, The New Mexican, 1988. -- gentoo-user@

Re: [gentoo-user] usb1 performance out of usb2 external HD

2006-01-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 02:17 -0500, Willie Wong wrote: > On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 04:08:58PM +0930, Penguin Lover Iain Buchanan > squawked: > > I noticed I had uhci-hcd loaded (the usb 1 module?) so I unloaded it, > > and my keyboard stopped working!!! So using the laptop keyboar

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] photo slideshow program

2006-01-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
ensavers do it for you? Just a thought... HTH, -- Iain Buchanan If you fall and break your legs, don't come running to me. -Samuel Goldwyn -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] photo slideshow program

2006-01-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
any other) > video file? My humble apologies for the email and run :) I had my 4 month daughter on my lap; I was typing with one hand; and I didn't bother reading the original post :) I was just replying to one of the replies without knowing what you were really asking for... -- Iain Buc

Re: [gentoo-user] usb1 performance out of usb2 external HD

2006-01-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 06:40 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > On 1/15/06, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > $ sudo hdparm -tT /dev/sdd > > > > /dev/sdd: > > Timing cached reads: 3640 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1820.28 MB/sec > > Timing

Re: [gentoo-user] usb1 performance out of usb2 external HD

2006-01-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 07:21 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > On 1/16/06, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 06:40 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > > > On 1/15/06, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] usb1 performance out of usb2 external HD

2006-01-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
d that linux in generall is extremely slow with USB devices > sometimes. My external USB2 (ATA 100) drive gets 27M/sec on my > machine. And with a relatively new driver, you should see speeds > about like that. Is that calculating the times yourself, or with hdparm? thanks, -- Iain Bucha

Re: [gentoo-user] Source Code?

2006-01-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 12:27 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: > On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 18:27:32 +0930 > Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > As far as I recall for Fedora (haven't used it in a while) what you > > download as a src.rpm is already patched the way Fedora has compiled it > >

Re: [gentoo-user] New install, I still can't send email. Same error too.

2006-01-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
> edit > Sending Mail > Authentication. It looks like you're using mozilla though...) HTH, and as I said, I hope this wasn't already mentioned in the original thread... -- Iain Buchanan Do not count your chickens before they are hatched. -- Aesop -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] New install, I still can't send email. Same error too.

2006-01-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 23:12 -0600, Dale wrote: > On Tuesday 17 January 2006 22:48, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > > What you can try is: > > 1. Make sure you're actually on your isp.com network - get the ip > > address of their mail server, and get your ip address and

Re: [gentoo-user] New install, I still can't send email. Same error too.

2006-01-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi, In my haste to reply, I think I confused myself a bit (and you :) On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 00:05 -0600, Dale wrote: > On Tuesday 17 January 2006 23:48, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > > > Get the mail server (that you entered in you mail preferences), eg > > mail.isp.com an

Re: [gentoo-user] New install, I still can't send email. Same error too.

2006-01-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi again, sorry I didn't get back to you yesterday - I took my hard drive out last night and replaced it with a new one (plus a fresh install) and I only got it back up this morning. I think the traceroute and ethereal are the two leads to follow here: 1. why are you dialling into exceedtech but

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

2006-01-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
Re: [gentoo-user] Have you seen my flamesuit? *ROTFLMAO* that gave me the biggest laugh in a while... thanks :) -- Iain Buchanan That government is best which governs least. -- Henry David Thoreau, "Civil Disobedience" -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2006-01-21 Thread Iain Buchanan
ogramming languages actually! > I cry meta-flamewar on these two flamewars!! :P *heh heh* what's a better flamewar: the emacs vs vi flameware or the perl vs python flamewar? -- Iain Buchanan In God we trust; all else we walk through. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] which video card for dell2005fpw

2006-01-22 Thread Iain Buchanan
me colour, brightness, etc and they still looked different... -- Iain Buchanan Chihuahuas drive me crazy. I can't stand anything that shivers when it's warm. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual Boot System Setup

2006-01-23 Thread Iain Buchanan
o share between the two (video files, music, etc) HTH, -- Iain Buchanan Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so. -- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] swat "500 server error"

2006-01-23 Thread Iain Buchanan
#x27;ve never seen this before. The only reference on google I found was basically an "RTFM", but the manual was 948 pages!! (and there was no result from searching that error either). TIA, -- Iain Buchanan no BSD fans ? Elric: it's hard to be a gamer and a bsd fan :p -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual Boot System Setup

2006-01-23 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 22:05 -0800, Ryan Tandy wrote: > Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > >1. use the windows to chain-boot linux (possible, but I don't know what > >for :) > > > > > Sorry, this isn't possible - I should know, I've tried in the past

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: swat "500 server error"

2006-01-24 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 10:32 -0500, Peter wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 16:12:43 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > I installed samba, and xinetd, then edited /etc/xinetd.d/swat and set > > "disable=no". I restarted xinetd, and when I

Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

2006-01-24 Thread Iain Buchanan
to remember! (now, if only I'd backed up yesterday, before I did an accidental `rm *` instead of `rm *~`) -- Iain Buchanan It's not? Are you saying that you SHOULD allow people (other than William Wallace) to shoot lightning bolts from their arse? -- Seth Galbraith -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

2006-01-24 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 08:55 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 17:23 +, Francesco Riosa wrote: > > Jeff wrote: > > > Hey guys. > > > > > > I've got this big fat backup server with no space left on the hard drive > > > to st

RE: [gentoo-user] Superblock error

2006-01-24 Thread Iain Buchanan
An example /boot line for /etc/fstab /dev/hda1 /boot ext2defaults1 2 --- you will see that you have to change /dev/BOOT to /dev/hda1, or whatever drive / partition you have boot on. And the same for the other fstab entries. HTH, -- Iain Buchana

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: swat "500 server error"

2006-01-27 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 23:38 +, Francesco Riosa wrote: > Iain Buchanan wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 10:32 -0500, Peter wrote: > > > >> On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 16:12:43 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > >> > >>> Hi All, > >>> >

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-drivers/ati-drivers and latest kernel (stable)

2006-01-29 Thread Iain Buchanan
get a stable combination that gave decent frame rates. This is what I ended up with (I'm using ~x86): suspend2-sources-2.6.15-r4 ati-drivers-8.21.7 I don't have hal :) HTH, -- Iain Buchanan An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.

[gentoo-user] battstat requires apmd?

2006-01-29 Thread Iain Buchanan
-libs-1.4.2 USE="kde nls -doc" 0 kB [ebuild N] media-libs/imlib-1.9.14-r3 0 kB [ebuild NS ] gnome-base/orbit-0.5.17-r1 0 kB [ebuild NS ] sys-libs/db-1.85-r3 14 kB [ebuild N] sys-apps/apmd-3.2.1_p4 USE="X nls" 92 kB MTIA, -- Iain Buchanan "He flung himself on his horse and rode madly off in all directions." -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] battstat requires apmd? [solved]

2006-01-30 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 11:38 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: > Iain Buchanan schreef: > > Hi, > > > > I've just rebuilt my system, and emerged gnome-light this time instead > > of gnome. > > > > I noticed battstat isn't part of gnome-applets, but wh

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - How to find floppy drive

2006-01-30 Thread Iain Buchanan
> On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 17:56 -0600, Dale wrote: > > Hope that helps. I type it out because it took me a while to figure out > > what HTH was. LOL # emerge wtf $ wtf hth HTH: hope this helps (PS, sorry to hijack the thread :) -- Iain Buchanan Every man who is high up likes t

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - How to find floppy drive

2006-01-30 Thread Iain Buchanan
efore 1991. I didn't know it was that old. post means after - so if this is your dmesg output, yours was made after 1991. (If the date is in fact referring to the floppy hardware) -- Iain Buchanan A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse! -- Wm. Shakespeare, "He

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk

2006-01-31 Thread Iain Buchanan
u mean by format, and who has the time / money to bother trying to recover it. I've heard of government departments filing down the old HD's into little pieces, then mixing them in cement for the next building project. Could be an urban legend though. All of the above is subject to my own bad mem

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk

2006-01-31 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 06:56 -0600, Dale wrote: > Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > > > > >I've heard of government departments filing down the old HD's into > >little pieces, then mixing them in cement for the next building project. > >Could be an urban leg

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk

2006-01-31 Thread Iain Buchanan
fact that you can read what _was_ once written to the hard drive by examining the spaces. So that's one method. The other method of recovering data is just to cat /dev/hda, but that relies on the hd not being "wiped" (overwritten with 0's and 1's many times in a s

[gentoo-user] evolution won't play new mail sound

2006-02-01 Thread Iain Buchanan
installed. I tried running `esddsp evolution` but no sound either :( I tried turning on sounds for events, logged out and in again, but I don't get any sounds for events either ??!! any ideas? TIA, -- Iain Buchanan The greatest remedy for anger is delay. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless problem

2006-02-02 Thread Iain Buchanan
g (route -n) dhcp should set this up for you. See what those two commands say for starters. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan The early worm gets the bird. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] USB issue

2006-02-02 Thread Iain Buchanan
27; > manually. Thanks god, that the upgrade the day after fixed this. are you fixing your ._cfg files after you do an update? -- Iain Buchanan I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? -Benjamin Disraeli -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Error: Couldn't find a font for 'Helvetica'

2006-02-02 Thread Iain Buchanan
w font packages installed, but is there something I might be missing? Do I need to set some configuration option for font directories somewhere? thanks for any ideas, -- Iain Buchanan When the going gets tough, everyone leaves. -- Lynch -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my coreutils

2006-02-05 Thread Iain Buchanan
how many others?) know how to use busybox to restore a broken coreutils (ok, I'll admit thats a fairly obscure use, but the principle can be used elsewhere). I feel like trying it out just to see if it works... -- Iain Buchanan A company is known by the men it keeps. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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