[gentoo-user] evolution 2.2.1.1 can't subscribe to folders

2005-05-05 Thread Iain Buchanan
. I also checked google, but I think the message is too new (from 2.2.1.1) so no luck there. Is there something else I need to do, or has anyone else got subscriptions working with evolution 2.2.1.1? If so, I will start looking at our mail server... TIA, -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging x11-libs/gtk+-2.6.4-r1 had failed.

2005-05-05 Thread Iain Buchanan
/pentium3-pc-linux-gnu` did you change arch's lately? HTH, -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] evolution 2.2.1.1 can't subscribe to folders

2005-05-07 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 01:37 -0500, Paul Varner wrote: > On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 10:35 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > It is working fine here thanks... it appears I just had to restart evolution after selecting "show only subscribed folders" for me to be able to subscri

[gentoo-user] xscreensaver-demo locks up laptop

2005-05-10 Thread Iain Buchanan
(because BioF is automatically selected). Can't even ping it. But for others, say anemone, it all works fine. I don't quite know what to do next, given that I can't do anything until I reboot, which is too late to see whats going on... Any ideas? Thanks, -- Iain Buchanan &l

Re: [gentoo-user] xscreensaver-demo locks up laptop

2005-05-10 Thread Iain Buchanan
o I fix it? I tried recompiling all ebuilds that were vaguely GL related, but it still crashes... any other ideas? Thanks, -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] xscreensaver-demo locks up laptop

2005-05-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 17:58 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 14:48 +1000, Ric de France wrote: > > Iain, > > > > On 5/11/05, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > this is a wierd one - xscreensaver-demo locks up my laptop (for cert

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT, game-related,long] Changing file dates?

2005-08-01 Thread Iain Buchanan
://liflg.org ). could you provide the specific script (or link to it), rather than just the liflg main page? thanks, -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] sha1sum of cd

2005-08-08 Thread Iain Buchanan
sometimes get weird cd errors from burning too fast for the media / writer / universe. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] sha1sum of cd

2005-08-08 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 10:47 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 00:18 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > I've downloaded a KNOPPIX cd and burned it onto a cd via cdrecord (k3b > > having recently evolved to > > brain death). The command was > > cdr

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Mozilla & Google behind the scenes payola

2005-08-10 Thread Iain Buchanan
e that this will include information about my searching habits to better tailor results to me? If I don't like it, I can use another engine. Just some thoughts! -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Mozilla & Google behind the scenes payola

2005-08-10 Thread Iain Buchanan
dress bar and then scrolling down to network.prefetch-next and toggling it to false" -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] gensplash oddity

2005-08-22 Thread Iain Buchanan
x27;m not sure about the --bootsplash and --gensplash, but this was after trial and error with quite a few different ways, so it works and I leave it!! -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Dell 1850/Dell Partition

2005-09-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
.conf: title Dell Diagnostics lock rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 HTH, -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] modules-update weirdness

2005-09-21 Thread Iain Buchanan
${CFGFILE2}!" and I can now generate modprobe.conf properly, but is this the right way to go? Should the modules-update be referencing both /etc/modprobe.old AND /etc/modprobe.conf.old? Or are there (a lot of) typos in there? I don't know where to go from here, I could just leave modules-updat

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: gmail

2005-09-21 Thread Iain Buchanan
nvites or if you have spare invites, go to http://www.highwayman.org/gmail/ They have about 700. You ask for one, and then donate yours back to them for the next person in the list. As you can see, it works so well, they have 100's spare. -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] idea about small footprint gentoo

2005-09-22 Thread Iain Buchanan
apps :) running the same kernel so we could copy programs between them if need be. (The HMI runs a complete installation.) If you're planning on doing it in a short amount of time, think again! It won't be trivial, but the concept is at least possible. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Can I make dhcpcd run in background when trying to get an ip address?

2005-09-24 Thread Iain Buchanan
that no other init script will require your net.eth1 connection and it can take time without holding other scripts up. I've never tried this idea, so it could be fundamentally flawed, but its just a thought! HTH, -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] 2.6.13 is 10x slower than 2.6.12!

2005-09-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
same thing - slow running 2.6.13, so surely there must be some people in the world running it ok! Any help on this would be appreciated. TIA, -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.13 is 10x slower than 2.6.12!

2005-09-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 19:52 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > On 9/26/05, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just compiled 2.6.13-gentoo-r2 with mostly the same options as > > 2.6.12-gentoo-r7 (my reference point). The first time I booted, it took > > about

Re: [gentoo-user] idea about small footprint gentoo

2005-09-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
em with X is also my intension. then you'll probably have more problems than I did. I ran a very simple installation. Glad to be some help! -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] idea about small footprint gentoo

2005-09-27 Thread Iain Buchanan
;s see in a few days/weeks. post back when you get to the next stage, I'd be interested in seeing how you go. thanks, -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.13 is 10x slower than 2.6.12!

2005-09-28 Thread Iain Buchanan
what made me think it was a kernel issue. Plus, my fans weren't running, as they would be if there was something taking up cpu resources. > look in logs I didn't think of that!! Maybe there's something in dmesg that will give me a clue... Thanks, -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] [smp related] 2.6.13 is 10x slower than 2.6.12!

2005-10-03 Thread Iain Buchanan
else confirm this? What should I do? Is there a kernel.org bugzilla? Or perhaps I should put it in the gentoo bugzilla? Any pointers would be appreciated... thanks. On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 12:11 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > I just compiled 2.6.13-gentoo-r2 with mostly the same options as > 2.

Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla usage monitoring

2005-10-04 Thread Iain Buchanan
you're using switches; or 2) use netstat, although this may only give you hosts, and not full paths. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla usage monitoring

2005-10-04 Thread Iain Buchanan
or 3) monitor his mozilla history file, if you have access to his home directory. If you copied it to your own mozilla directory, you'd get dates and times as well as specific links... (Standard disclaimer about evil monitoring applies ;) -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --

Re: [gentoo-user] [smp related] 2.6.13 is 10x slower than 2.6.12!

2005-10-05 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 09:36 +0100, Richard Brown wrote: > On 04/10/05, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Any pointers would be appreciated... > > Are you using gentoo-sources? This is the recommended routine here. > > http://dev.gentoo.org/~dsd/genpa

[gentoo-user] too many kernel problems!

2005-10-09 Thread Iain Buchanan
rs. Many thanks, [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/141911 [2] http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5165 [3] http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5165#c16 [4] http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5165#c17 [5] 5? There is no 5! Why do you want 5?! -- Iain Buchanan &

Re: [gentoo-user] new kernel and problems

2005-10-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
spiron 9100 P4 3GHz HT. I'd be interested to know if your problems are from the same cause. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] "text-only" email parts in evolution 2.4

2005-10-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
I recently upgraded gnome to 2.12 (went smoothly, looks great!) and with it came evolution 2.4.1. One of the features of 2.2.3 that I found great was the "only show text parts of messages" plug in. This is the first time I saw evolution support such a (long wanted) feature. However, it appears t

[gentoo-user] "text-only" email parts in evolution 2.4

2005-10-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
I recently upgraded gnome to 2.12 (went smoothly, looks great!) and with it came evolution 2.4.1. One of the features of 2.2.3 that I found great was the "only show text parts of messages" plug in. This is the first time I saw evolution support such a (long wanted) feature. However, it appears t

[gentoo-user] "slotting" openoffice 2.0

2005-10-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
verwriting each others files, etc.? any help would be appreciated! thanks, -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] stealth ethernet

2005-10-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
You would at the very least have to be detectable in hardware, otherwise the hardware (switch, hub, whatever) won't even talk to you. -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] HyperThreading won't activate

2005-10-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
on and off in the bios. I have an option for it. I don't know if any of this will help you, cause I don't know what your problem is! Hope something helps though. Feel free to ask for more info about my system. -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] HyperThreading won't activate

2005-10-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
ou might find some of your keycodes change for your mm keys though. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] lots of wierd traffic with smb mounted share

2005-10-21 Thread Iain Buchanan
iptables activated, and the result is the same. Thanks. mount.smbfs Version 3.0.20b. -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] shutdown, restart problem

2005-10-24 Thread Iain Buchanan
river conflicting with your framebuffer driver. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] partition sizes and home directories

2005-10-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
ps install themselves there. ATM in /opt I have enemy-territory, quake 3, blackdown jdk and jre, vmware, and acrobat 7, as well as some others, totalling 1.1Gb!! > Now I just have to figure what I want /home to be, or perhaps could the > default setup for users be located in /usr/home? > W

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge R

2005-10-27 Thread Iain Buchanan
erge -upD world` followed by a `revdep-rebuild` if kernel / gcc / major things like that have changed. > > I am not able to sort out the problem until next week, but thought that > > I would ask so that I have a few things to check out once I am back > > online. Sorry if you k

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge R

2005-10-27 Thread Iain Buchanan
if a little large. I use the openoffice-bin (version 2) and it works great! > btw do you use wpa_supplicant > with the rt2500 driver ? no, I've been meaning to for a while, so it's on my list of "been meaning to's" cya, -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] "top" for disk access

2005-10-27 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi all, is there a top-like utility that can tell me what processes are doing the most disk reads/writes? Sometimes my disk will go crazy, and my system slow down. I usually know its updatedb, or something similar, but sometimes I have no idea why. Any ideas? thanks, -- Iain Buchanan <[EM

Re: [gentoo-user] "top" for disk access

2005-10-28 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi, thanks for your reply, On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 00:05 -0700, Bryan Whitehead wrote: > On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > is there a top-like utility that can tell me what processes are doing > > the most disk reads/writes? > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird pauses making me nuts

2005-10-31 Thread Iain Buchanan
If so, try something from the command line (no X) and see if it still happens... HTH, -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Paralell process in Bash

2005-11-07 Thread Iain Buchanan
ou could use nohup: `nohup command args &` or quite cool would be screen: `screen -dm command args` (no & required here). With screen, you can then manually connect to each created screen and see the output from each parallel task. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] how to upload files...?any tool?

2005-11-10 Thread Iain Buchanan
you have? ftp, sftp, ssh? HTH, -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] oxford vs prolific vs other firewire chipsets

2005-11-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
able manner. I appreciate your suggestions, especially if you're using a particular device already. Thanks, -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout broke my system

2005-11-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
re's some behaviour with glibc and recent versions of portage that really screw things up. More info here http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112082 It may not be your issue, but HTH! -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] fixing fstab

2005-11-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 14:31 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: > On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 17:13:15 -0800 (PST) > Bryan Whitehead wrote: > > > I still don't understand the logic of not having vi installed by default > > over nano... > > easier for newbies. since when was gen

Re: [gentoo-user] after dd many badblocks on new SATA HD

2005-11-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
dd use any sort of error checking? > Any suggestions? they way I do it every time, is create the partitions and use rsync. Then you know every file will be copied correctly, and you can pick up at some later stage between reboots. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] fixing fstab

2005-11-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
rl-leftarrow, ctrl-leftarrow, ctrl-leftarrow, ctrl-leftarrow, ctrl-leftarrow, alt-l, alt-l, alt-l, alt-l, alt-l. Could it be any simpler?!! -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] fixing fstab

2005-11-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 09:28 +0100, Mariusz Pękala wrote: > You know that ellotheth just wanted to scream, and it was not a mistake? Yes, I was just making an attempt at humour... > ;-) :-7 -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel build no update grub

2005-11-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
to have a newline here. Remove it! > initrd (hd0,0)/initramfs-2.6.12-gentoo-r9 ^ don't need (hd0,0) here either > So am I in the ball park? looks good, did you actually try it? what happened? HTH, and post back with results!! -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel build no update grub

2005-11-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 20:29 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > From what you've posted, I think your grub.conf should look something > > like this > I'm trying it that way now. I've set a few other resolutions in t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Dig

2005-11-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
existence that has every package > > > installed - for a start some packages block others. > > > > I never said every, just many (tons) of the most commonly used packages. > > I found dig and what package it belonged to looking on this system. emerge -S dig but that seems to take about 3 years longer than last time I used it, so there are various packages made to speed this up, such as: esearch -S dig -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] error source? on update of world

2005-11-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 22:33 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > The messages below show up at the login prompt when I boot my updated > world system. Did you update all the config files before you rebooted? -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: error source? on update of world

2005-11-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 02:10 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 22:33 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> The messages below show up at the login prompt when I boot my updated > >> world system. > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] error source? on update of world

2005-11-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
login`. Try re-emerging it and see if you missed updating /etc/login.defs by accident. (I have pam-login-4.0.12, and I don't see those config items in /etc/login.defs) If that fails, post back and we'll see! -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Scroll back buffer on boot screen

2005-11-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
/O, I can scroll through it. > I don't use framebuffer splash type stuff, just the basic terminal. I have framebuffer, so YMMV, -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sync

2005-11-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
ile to use with ndiswrapper (from windows NT instead of windows XP for example), or look for a native linux driver for your network card. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sync

2005-11-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
er then don't use it! If not, then try playing around with different hardware / drivers until you isolate the problem... HTH, -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout broke my system

2005-11-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
eaks? That what I'd do! Also: post your results on bugzilla (under an existing bug if there is one, or make a new one) so the devs know what the issue are. This is occasionally the fun you get with ~x86 :) -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] about console resolution

2005-11-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
uessing, but 720x400 may be something the nvidia framebuffer is determining, and overriding vesafb-tng... dunno... > Can you help me? I hope so :^) -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] postfix 'myorigin' and default [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2005-11-21 Thread Iain Buchanan
er and recipient addresses, # myorigin also specifies the default domain name that is appended # to recipient addresses that have no @domain part. Is there any way around this? Perhaps with a different MTA? MTIA! -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] OT: recommendation for external usb2 / firewire 2.5in hd case

2005-11-21 Thread Iain Buchanan
e tried vosonic products already. Alternatively, firewire would be nice, but I think it would cost too much $$ for the same features. Thanks, -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] what is the best strategy for using sysklogd with iptables?

2005-11-22 Thread Iain Buchanan
yet to figure this out by myself. I must be missing some doc > info somewhere. How about going to the source of the logging? You can change log files and output with iptables + ulog. ulog is quite nice. -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] mail command and attachment?

2005-11-23 Thread Iain Buchanan
time you can say "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" or just "user" in most cases. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Where are the suspend2 options in suspend2-sources-2.6.14-r1-3

2005-11-24 Thread Iain Buchanan
k CONFIG_X86_HT (I think) HTH, -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Where are the suspend2 options in suspend2-sources-2.6.14-r1-3

2005-11-25 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 09:09 +0100, Uwe Klosa wrote: > Iain Buchanan wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-11-24 at 09:17 +0100, Uwe Klosa wrote: > > > > > When I updrade my kernel from suspend2-sources-2.6.14 to -r1 or r3 all > > > options for SUSPEND2 are gone. I have tried wi

[gentoo-user] wtf is superfloppy? (vosonic usb drive)

2005-12-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
n /dev/sda I heard some whispers of other vosonic owners - how did you get your drive working? I have a plain IBM 20Gb in it at the moment, formatted with the X's Drive itself. The drive shows under windows, after the 3 card reader slots. MTIA! -- Iain Buchanan Nullum magnum ingenium

Re: [gentoo-user] wtf is superfloppy? (vosonic usb drive)

2005-12-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi, thanks for your help, On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 09:12 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 16:25:47 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > All I've found so far, is something mentioning the "superfloppy" format > > (what's that?). Supposedly I c

Re: [gentoo-user] wtf is superfloppy? (vosonic usb drive)

2005-12-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 10:24 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Montag, 12. Dezember 2005 07:55 schrieb ext Iain Buchanan: > > > Unable to open /dev/sda > > Do you have CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=m (aka SCSI Disk support) in your kernel > config? yep, actually its its CONFIG

Re: [gentoo-user] wtf is superfloppy? (vosonic usb drive)

2005-12-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 10:43 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > On 12/12/05, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 22:44:35 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > > > > > > This just means the filesystem is on the whole disk, it is not > &

Re: [gentoo-user] vosonic usb drive, SCSI_MULTI_LUN, won't boot

2005-12-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
/host5/target5:0:0/5:0:0:3 as you can see, sda, sdb, sdc, and sdd (including sdd1) which is the internal HD - woohoo. If only I could boot... thanks for the help so far! -- Iain Buchanan All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory... -- Larry Wall -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with vfat partition

2005-12-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
ig` show? (replace /usr/src/linux/.config with wherever your kernel config file is) You could also try `modprobe vfat` before you mount the disk HTH, -- Iain Buchanan Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. -- Mark Twain, "Pudd&

Re: [gentoo-user] wtf is superfloppy? (vosonic usb drive)

2005-12-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 08:48 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 11:57:44 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > > > What does tail-f /var/log/messages show while you plug in the > > > > device? > > [snip] > > Only one device is detected, de

Re: [gentoo-user] wtf is superfloppy? (vosonic usb drive)

2005-12-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 10:51 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 15:11:54 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > It appears the final solution is: > > > > 1) CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN=y > > 2) linux-2.6.15-rc5 > > I have a multi-card reader that works fin

[gentoo-user] converting any video to mpeg-1, mpeg-4 or DivX-5

2005-12-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Bit Rate : 4Mbps Audio : AAC Format :.MP4 ,Simple Profile without 4MV DivX-5.x Resolution : [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bit Rate : 4Mbps Audio : MPEG-1 Layer III, AAC, ADPCM Format :.AVI , Remark:DivX-3.x/4.x unsupported -- Iain Buchanan Even historians fail to le

Re: [gentoo-user] converting any video to mpeg-1, mpeg-4 or DivX-5

2005-12-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 12:59 +0900, Chris White wrote: > On Thursday 15 December 2005 12:45, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > > I have a shiny new usb "media drive" (with internal hd, lcd, AV out) > > that plays photos, music and video. I have a few choices for video[1]. &

Re: [gentoo-user] converting any video to mpeg-1, mpeg-4 or DivX-5

2005-12-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 14:04 +0900, Chris White wrote: > On Thursday 15 December 2005 13:51, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > 3. with a video file recorded from my digital still camera[1], I can't > > fast forward or re-wind (on the device). Is this a "feature" of A

Re: [gentoo-user] converting any video to mpeg-1, mpeg-4 or DivX-5

2005-12-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
"Couldn't find video filter 'divx4'." ffmpeg also seems to fail: $ ffmpeg -i test.wmv -b 4000 -r 30 -s 352x288 -aspect 4:3 -vcodec mpeg4 test.avi when I copy test.avi to the device as test.mp4, it says "file content error!" Any further suggestions? thanks, -- Iain B

Re: [gentoo-user] converting any video to mpeg-1, mpeg-4 or DivX-5

2005-12-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 09:55 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 13:15:54 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > 2. what program will convert 'anything' to said format. > > transcode and mencoder will do it, but ffmpeg is easier to use. Less > arcane optio

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: converting any video to mpeg-1, mpeg-4 or DivX-5

2005-12-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
Success! Partially at least (skip to the bottom if you want to know how!) On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 15:02 +, James wrote: > Iain Buchanan netspace.net.au> writes: > > > Space it not too much of an issue > > Disc space is a relative thing. It always get's filled up

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 setup-script

2005-12-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
so go for it! [PS - you seem to have made this post by replying to a different thread in the mailing list - not everybody will see it, as some people collapse or ignore threads they're not interested in] HTH, -- Iain Buchanan ## Signoff: insurgent (razzin' frazzin' motherfu... stupid directx...) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A Gentoo Enema

2005-12-22 Thread Iain Buchanan
mail-client/evolution-2.2.3-r2 Sat Sep 3 00:38:31 2005 >>> mail-client/evolution-2.2.3-r3 Fri Oct 14 14:43:07 2005 >>> mail-client/evolution-2.4.1 Sun Dec 11 19:55:31 2005 >>> mail-client/evolution-2.4.2.1 -- Iain Buchanan COBOL is for morons. -- E.W. Dijkstra -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] web based imaage manipulation, slide show etc

2005-12-22 Thread Iain Buchanan
t's part of that particular style. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan A bird in the hand makes it awfully hard to blow your nose. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] skype experiences: good/bad/etc

2006-03-21 Thread Iain Buchanan
o :) No offence to the wiki-author, but I tend to do this first: $ emerge skype and see what happens. I've never had any issues and I've been using skype for ages. Of course, YMMV, which is where the wiki comes in :) -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] make -j 4 recoverable ?

2006-03-21 Thread Iain Buchanan
I'd add: If the package fails with MAKEOPTS="-j4" but works with MAKEOPTS="-j1", then please file a bug. This way, the devs can either fix it, or force the offending ebuild to use -j1, so other people don't have the same problem. -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: bash scripting help requested. Quoting?

2006-03-21 Thread Iain Buchanan
${#UNNEEDED_FILES[*]} ; i++ )) ; do echo I\'ll do stuff to look for \'${UNNEEDED_FILES[$i]}\' done HTH, -- Iain Buchanan Why isn't there some cheap and easy way to prove how much she means to me? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] how to apply a patch to ebuild?

2006-03-22 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 08:56 -0300, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: > Hi I was reading the bug report 114915 at gentoo bugzilla and it > mentions a patch to ebuid, I had downloaded the patch but I don't have > any clue about how can I apply it to current ebuid. well, how confident are you at having a go

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation Problem

2006-03-22 Thread Iain Buchanan
ed to do the mirrorselect or dns info commands) Once you've chrooted to your new install, just type 'emerge --resume' and it should continue from the last package that was installed. Hope this works for you, -- Iain Buchanan Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't make eight cats

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question : specific software version no more available

2006-03-22 Thread Iain Buchanan
endencies on them. > and what would be the process if i really need to stick with > > one version which is no longer there? If you _must_ have a particular version for ever, then use the PORTDIR_OVERLAY in /etc/make.conf HTH, -- Iain Buchanan There is no distinction between any AI pr

Re: [gentoo-user] skype experiences: good/bad/etc

2006-03-22 Thread Iain Buchanan
n your prefs. -- Iain Buchanan For good, return good. For evil, return justice. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE version

2006-03-23 Thread Iain Buchanan
own fault if it kills your system. ~ARCH you can install if you want, it may do bad things, but if so you're probably the first to know about it. File a bug and help move it to ARCH. ARCH is good for everyone else. -- Iain Buchanan Humor in the Court: Q: What is the meaning of sperm be

Re: [gentoo-user] resuming emerges

2006-03-23 Thread Iain Buchanan
ue after moving it. This is also a good idea. > But I'm affraid those are your only options. not so. You could also install openoffice-bin. You could even setup hibernate, so that you don't have to shutdown. Just hibernate your laptop, and when it starts up again the emerge will co

Re: [gentoo-user] screen flickers/static

2006-03-23 Thread Iain Buchanan
y be the video module you're using... -- Iain Buchanan How do I type "for i in *.dvi do xdvi i done" in a GUI? (Discussion in comp.os.linux.misc on the intuitiveness of interfaces.) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] screen flickers/static

2006-03-23 Thread Iain Buchanan
with drivers (eg try the standard vesa driver). If 2. then try making one, then play around with it. -- Iain Buchanan If you sell diamonds, you cannot expect to have many customers. But a diamond is a diamond even if there are no customers. -- Swami Prabhupada -- gentoo-user@ge

Re: [gentoo-user] is it toast?

2006-03-23 Thread Iain Buchanan
;dmesg | tail or so The "read-only" is a bit misleading - I get this message when mount can't understand the filesystem, even though it may be ok. If you don't need any data from the drive, see if you can re-fdisk and re-format it. Unplug it first and plug in agai

[gentoo-user] wget -c strange behaviour

2006-03-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
shouldn't do this even if the server can't resume, wget should just die. And why also does it not appear to finish, even though the mp3 sounds complete? many thanks, -- Iain Buchanan Loneliness is a terrible price to pay for independence. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] telnet localhost

2006-03-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 05:58 +0100, THUFIR HAWAT wrote: > I want to test that leafnode is up and running, so am using telnet: [snip] > Why can I not telnet to my own localhost? maybe your services are not listening on lo, and only on eth0? -- Iain Buchanan Arrakis teaches the attitude

Re: [gentoo-user] telnet localhost

2006-03-27 Thread Iain Buchanan
to get there! I think this is what's happening anyway. At least you have it working. I am curious though, are "hawat.thufir.gmail.com" and "arrakis" both names for your machine? cya, -- Iain Buchanan The major sin is the sin of being born. -- Samuel Beckett -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] modular Xorg made it to ~x86

2006-03-27 Thread Iain Buchanan
I noticed after a sync a few nights ago, that modular xorg is in ~x86. I also noticed a few people here have installed a while ago already. so, can I just go ahead with it? I need a functional X on this box, but I'm happy to put up with a few quirks. What are the gotcha's? thanks

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