Re: [gentoo-user] Network problem with linux server

2011-11-07 Thread J. Roeleveld
Please do NOT top-post. On Mon, November 7, 2011 12:34 pm, Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: > You are totally right: I'm not using gentoo, but I'm serching for help and > gentoo's mailing list is the most technical one: I'm truly sorry for the > OT. If asking questions on how to do things on non-Gent

Re: [gentoo-user] Network problem with linux server

2011-11-07 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Mon, November 7, 2011 1:15 pm, Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: > What about the documentation? >> I have noticed that most binary distros require the use of their >> graphical >> admin tools to make any changes to the configuration. > > > I read the documentation and tried to carefully follow it. N

Re: [gentoo-user] Something weird and I'm confused. BIOS and SATA is empty

2011-11-08 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Mon, November 7, 2011 1:32 pm, Dale wrote: > I looked for such a option but I can't find it anywhere. It may be > there but I can't find it. Since it is working and the AHCI controller > sees the drives, I'm going to leave well enough alone. I checked my desktop at home last night and the d

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Binary install distro

2011-11-10 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, November 10, 2011 8:03 pm, Dale wrote: > Any tips or tricks on Kubuntu anyone? Sort of a basic 'this is how you > update/install something for idiots' type thing. lol I think Sabayon would be a better option, but if you really want to go with *buntu/debian: - Install # sudo apt-get

Re: [gentoo-user] Something weird and I'm confused. BIOS and SATA is empty

2011-11-11 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tue, November 8, 2011 10:33 am, Dale wrote: > J. Roeleveld wrote: >> On Mon, November 7, 2011 1:32 pm, Dale wrote: >>> All this from a raccoon knocking out power. Pesky critter. >> Raccoons are doing some behaviour studies in your area, didn't you get >>

Re: [gentoo-user] The LIGHTEST web server (just for serving files)?

2011-11-14 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sat, November 12, 2011 2:11 pm, YoYo Siska wrote: > On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 07:40:08PM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: >> During my drive home, something hit my brain: why not have the 'master' >> server share the distfiles dir via NFS? >> >> So, the question now becomes: what's the drawback/benefit

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Are "push" backups flawed?

2011-11-14 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tue, November 15, 2011 3:32 am, Grant wrote: >> You identified a flaw in the system as you were using it. You're right, >> those are flaws. However, you can " fix" those flaws by applying some >> magic >> as a sysadmin. That's why several posts in the thread have mentioned >> versioning your bac

Re: [gentoo-user] A helping hand with virtual machines, please.

2011-11-23 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wed, November 23, 2011 12:06 am, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 22:29:23 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> What I like about VBox is that you get all the useful bits in the >> open-source version. > > Except USB support. Huh? I used VirtualBox with a MSWindowsXP guest to use a "nega

Re: [gentoo-user] A helping hand with virtual machines, please.

2011-11-23 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tue, November 22, 2011 11:47 pm, William Kenworthy wrote: > YMMV ... VB is stable and rarely if ever breaks, app and modules "just > work" - performance is as good as vmware I actually found VB to have better performance. When using virtual machines, I tend to run multiple simultaneously. V

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A helping hand with virtual machines, please.

2011-11-23 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wed, November 23, 2011 1:59 pm, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: > The 23/11/11, Joseph Davis wrote: >> I agree a list of issues, just broad ones, would be helpful. >> >> I am interested in VMs, so knowing which ones have what problems, >> and my own needs, would be help me make a good choice. >> >> Plea

Re: [gentoo-user] A helping hand with virtual machines, please.

2011-11-23 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wed, November 23, 2011 2:34 pm, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:57:31 +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote: > >> >> What I like about VBox is that you get all the useful bits in the >> >> open-source version. >> > >> > Except USB support. >&

Re: [gentoo-user] Process to resize ext3 file system at the command line?

2011-11-24 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Fri, November 18, 2011 1:33 am, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:13:09 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >>> > Do you have separately partitioned drives with those partitions >>> > arranged into single-partition arrays, or do you ha

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo location for squirrelmail attachments

2011-12-08 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, December 8, 2011 8:37 pm, Stroller wrote: > > On 8 December 2011, at 19:17, Grant wrote: > >> I ran squirrelmail/configtest.php and realized I don't have an >> attachment directory set up for Squirrelmail: >> >> ERROR: Attachment dir (/var/local/squirrelmail/attach/) does not exist! >> >> I

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I keep baselayout-1?

2011-12-08 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, December 8, 2011 5:01 pm, Pandu Poluan wrote: > On Dec 8, 2011 9:46 PM, "Jarry" wrote: >> >> This server is ~50 miles away, and if I screw something >> and it does not boot up, I will have to go there and fix it >> on place. One small typo in ~50 config-files which must be >> updated is ju

Re: [gentoo-user] apache - virtual host not working

2011-12-11 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Mon, December 12, 2011 7:23 am, Joseph wrote: > Any any body provide me with hint why my "virtual host" is not working in > apache? We'll try :) > I've copied server config files from one computer to another. Which config-files? I think apache uses the following: /etc/conf.d/apache /etc/apach

Re: [gentoo-user] apache - virtual host not working

2011-12-11 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Mon, December 12, 2011 8:03 am, Matthew Finkel wrote: > On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 1:23 AM, Joseph wrote: >> in: modules.d/00_default_settings.**conf >> # We configure the "default" to be a very restrictive set of features. >> >> Options FollowSymLinks >> AllowOverride None >> Order deny,al

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] apache - virtual host not working

2011-12-11 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Mon, December 12, 2011 8:21 am, Joseph wrote: > On 12/12/11 02:03, Matthew Finkel wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 1:23 AM, Joseph wrote: >> >> In /etc/hosts I have: >> 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost mydomain.ca syscon5 >> 10.0.0.100 www.mydomain.ca >> >> If I comm

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM: extending volume groups and logical volumes

2011-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday 16 December 2011 03:18:16 Allan Gottlieb wrote: > I need to add space to /var (thank you, libreoffice), which is on lvm. > Since my one volume group vg is getting low, I thought this would be a > good time to extend it as well. Actually, you need space in /var/tmp/portage > Alan (McKinn

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD gives error but works fine

2011-12-20 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tue, December 20, 2011 9:02 am, Pandu Poluan wrote: > On Dec 20, 2011 6:04 AM, "Mark Knecht" wrote: >> > > ->8 snip > >> >> Anyway, maybe we can keep each other updated (on list of off, >> either is fine with me) about our progress. >> > > On list, please. Although ATM I have no need to b

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM: extending volume groups and logical volumes

2011-12-20 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sat, December 17, 2011 2:37 am, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > On Thu, Dec 15 2011, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > 3. I decided to use another suggestion (from neil) to use > PORTAGE_TMPDIR, roeleveld's idea of just using temporary space, and > Webb suggested /z for extra space. Allan, Just a quic

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ebuilds and overlay

2010-08-26 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday 26 August 2010 20:48:17 Al wrote: > > Have you thought to join IRC ? You've sent more than 70 mails both to > > gentoo-{user,alt} in less than a week. Most of them could be discussed > > and answered directly on IRC and doesn't require to CC the world. > > Hi Florian, > > yes, I am ha

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

2010-08-27 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday 27 August 2010 09:49:41 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 08/27/2010 10:37 AM, Dale wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > I been putting this off but it looks like the newer kernels are going to > > push me to changing this real soon. I have a older system, Abit NF7 2.0 > > motherboard with the older

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

2010-08-27 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday 27 August 2010 11:00:58 Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: > 2010/8/27 Nikos Chantziaras : > > On 08/27/2010 10:37 AM, Dale wrote: > >> I been putting this off but it looks like the newer kernels are going to > >> push me to changing this real soon. I have a older system, Abit NF7 2.0 > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

2010-08-27 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday 27 August 2010 11:49:00 Dale wrote: > J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Friday 27 August 2010 11:00:58 Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: > >> 2010/8/27 Nikos Chantziaras: > >>> On 08/27/2010 10:37 AM, Dale wrote: > >>>> I been putting this off

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

2010-08-27 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday 27 August 2010 17:57:01 Bill Longman wrote: > On 08/27/2010 01:10 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Friday 27 August 2010 09:49:41 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> Anyway, make sure you have a bootable Linux CD/DVD handy. That way, you > >> won't be able to bl

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

2010-08-27 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday 27 August 2010 18:03:51 Bill Longman wrote: > On 08/27/2010 01:50 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > On 08/27/2010 10:37 AM, Dale wrote: > Yet another way to use labels: > > When you make the filesystem, apply the name then i.e.: > > mke2fs -j -L SpeedySSD /dev/sde1 > > then in your

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

2010-08-29 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sunday 29 August 2010 03:24:42 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 08/28/2010 10:42 PM, Dale wrote: > > Alex Schuster wrote: > >> Dale writes: > >>> It would be nice if something like *fdisk could edit the labels tho. > >>> It would be so much easier. I didn't see anything in the man pages > >>> tho.

Re: [gentoo-user] request_module: runaway loop

2010-08-30 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday 30 August 2010 07:06:05 Mike Diehl wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to build a new duel quad-core server and I'm having some > problems. > > Just after it loads the keymap, I get this error: > > request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-464c > > A few minutes later, it panics. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] help with Persistent hard disk device names with udev

2010-08-30 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday 30 August 2010 15:00:28 Pau Peris wrote: > Hi, i would like to give persistent device names to the system hard > drives (just renaming its original device name to the one i want using > its serial number as identifier). I've created the following rules > which are not currently working. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoos community communication rant

2010-09-07 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday 07 September 2010 10:47:49 Al wrote: > >I'd be interested in how many people still have access to a news > > server these days. I don't and I'm not particularly interested in having > > to pay for access when email works well enough. > > You don't have to pay for access. Everybo

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoos community communication rant

2010-09-07 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday 07 September 2010 11:56:12 Al wrote: > It would be as simple as this: > > 1.) enter "news.gentoo.org" as news server to thunderbird > 2.) select the groups you want to read > > 2 steps not more. That is far more simple than subscribing to a mailing > list. > > Al Except that then I n

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoos community communication rant

2010-09-07 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday 07 September 2010 12:51:36 Al wrote: > 2010/9/7 J. Roeleveld : > > Except that then I need to do these 2 steps all the time and for every > > mailing list that I use. > > Only once for the news groups of gentoo. Only one click to subscribe > to a second group

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoos community communication rant

2010-09-07 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday 07 September 2010 18:57:12 Al wrote: > 2010/9/7 Volker Armin Hemmann : > > On Tuesday 07 September 2010, Al wrote: > >> > because he hopes that you finally shut up? > >> > >> Why do you read this thread and answer to it? Ignore it. > > > > I would, if you wouldn't put out a large perce

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoos community communication rant

2010-09-08 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 08 September 2010 02:27:16 Gregory Shearman wrote: > In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: > >> I'm reading your message via a usenet server. linux.gentoo.user is the > >> newsgroup. Replies of course go via the mailing list address. > > > > Is that seamless? Can you directly reply to a po

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoos community communication rant

2010-09-08 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 08 September 2010 10:43:13 Al wrote: > > emails too. But you still get the 'new mails' indicator. > > Good, that you finally start to understand that mails have their > disadvantages in producing noise. Actually, no... With NNTP and Email can both be configured to display in threaded

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoos community communication rant

2010-09-08 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 08 September 2010 17:14:13 Jonathan wrote: > On Tue, 7 Sep 2010 22:49:37 +0200 > > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > We go in circles here. NNTP is be default organzed in threads. You > > > don't open a topic that you are not interested in, even if the thread > > > has 500 messages.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoos community communication rant

2010-09-08 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 08 September 2010 23:27:52 Daniel Troeder wrote: > On 09/08/2010 05:27 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Wednesday 08 September 2010 17:14:13 Jonathan wrote: > >> On Tue, 7 Sep 2010 22:49:37 +0200 > >> > >> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick

2010-09-10 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday 10 September 2010 10:43:30 Jake Moe wrote: > On 10/09/2010 5:27 PM, Maciej Grela wrote: > > 2010/9/10 Jake Moe: > >> Hello all, > >> > >> I've been thinking about creating a Gentoo USB stick for install and > >> rescue purposes (and, of course, just to see if I could). I've mostly >

Re: [gentoo-user] Overlays & package.mask

2010-09-10 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday 10 September 2010 18:53:52 Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > Hi all, > > This morning I got > > centaur ~ # emerge -vDuNp world > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > > [ebuild UD] kde-base/pykde4-4.5.1 [4.5.1-r1] USE="semantic-de

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcpd missing in stage3 of AMD64...?

2010-09-12 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sunday 12 September 2010 16:26:23 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > currently I am on the way to install a AMD64 root system. > > I use the AMD64 gentoo iso to boot into a 64bit system. > There was a net-connection without any problems (using DSL and dhcp). > > After several steps I chroot

Re: [gentoo-user] copying /var&lib/world(32bitroot) -> 64bitroot ???

2010-09-12 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sunday 12 September 2010 19:27:10 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > Do I shoot into my own feet when copying the /var/lib/world-file > from my 32bit system to my 64bit system and doing a "emerge -e world" > then, when logged into my 64bit system to install the same stuff ??? > > best regard

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: what's going on with updates ?

2010-09-13 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday 13 September 2010 20:15:24 Stéphane Guedon wrote: > On Monday 13 September 2010 21:06:48 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > On 09/13/2010 09:15 AM, Stéphane Guedon wrote: > > > Since few days ( two or three ?), every time I launch emerge, it's > > > saying me it needs an update of portage itsel

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: what's going on with updates ?

2010-09-13 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday 13 September 2010 20:37:13 Stéphane Guedon wrote: > On Monday 13 September 2010 20:28:07 J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Monday 13 September 2010 20:15:24 Stéphane Guedon wrote: > > > On Monday 13 September 2010 21:06:48 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > > > On 09/13/

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: what's going on with updates ?

2010-09-13 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday 13 September 2010 21:00:42 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 09/13/2010 09:45 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > >> [...] > > > > I wouldn't expect people to run a Gentoo system with all packages on > > unstable. I tend to only select specific packages as unstable

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick

2010-09-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday 16 September 2010 00:34:39 Jake Moe wrote: > On 16/09/10 08:26, Dale wrote: > > Jake Moe wrote: > >> Thanks for that, I'll rebuild the genkernel with blkid support. > >> > >> As to the second suggestion, there is *no* /dev/sda1 (the partition in > >> question). It just doesn't exist

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick

2010-09-16 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday 16 September 2010 12:01:43 Jake Moe wrote: > On 09/16/10 16:22, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Thursday 16 September 2010 00:34:39 Jake Moe wrote: > >> On 16/09/10 08:26, Dale wrote: > >>> Jake Moe wrote: > >>>> Thanks for that,

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick

2010-09-21 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday 21 September 2010 07:35:13 Jake Moe wrote: > On 16/09/10 21:30, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > Please bear in mind, I have not actually used nor needed a ramdisk to > > boot from ever since I started using Gentoo. > > Not even when I played with booting from USB-sticks

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick

2010-09-22 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 22 September 2010 06:36:50 Jake Moe wrote: > Well, now that I've managed to get it booting, the only problem is that > I can't seem to get the disk label working right. In GRUB's menu.lst, > if I use root=LABEL=UsbRoot, it doesn't work (kernel panic, label not > found, but sda1 is

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick

2010-09-22 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 22 September 2010 11:13:01 Jake Moe wrote: > On 09/22/10 17:16, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Wednesday 22 September 2010 06:36:50 Jake Moe wrote: > > > > > > > >> Well, now that I've managed to get it booting, the only problem is that > &

Re: [gentoo-user] netbook

2010-11-08 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday 08 November 2010 18:16:00 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 18:59 on Monday 08 November 2010, James did > > opine thusly: > > Hello, > > > > OK, I want a 10" or so, netbook that'll > > run windows and gentoo on dual boot. > > > > I'd like to stay under $200, but in

Re: [gentoo-user] netbook

2010-11-08 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday 08 November 2010 22:08:53 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 22:11 on Monday 08 November 2010, J. > Roeleveld > > did opine thusly: > > > 2. Those SSDs are shite. Get a mechanical drive. 8G is also not enough > > > and the write perform

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Laptop battery not showing up in KDE, Smart Battery calibration

2010-11-10 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 10 November 2010 18:05:40 Paul Hartman wrote: > 2010/11/10 Fatih Tümen : > > On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 23:52, Paul Hartman > > > > wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > Last night I took it to full charge, put in memtest86+ boot CD and the > system lasted 9 minutes before battery was drained. So

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Laptop battery not showing up in KDE, Smart Battery calibration

2010-11-11 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday 11 November 2010 18:07:35 Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 12:05 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > If the soldering isn't done correctly, the battery-pack can literally > > explode when put under load. > > Yeah, I don't think the savings would be

Re: [gentoo-user] Hibernation doesn't work

2010-11-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday 15 November 2010 07:11:14 Benyamin Dvoskin wrote: > Hi , > > I've been trying to configure hibernation to work on my netbook , and > for some reason it doesnt work > when I go to hibernate , and then power up again , it starts as if from > scratch > > what can i check ? > what is the ri

Re: [gentoo-user] Hibernation doesn't work

2010-11-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday 15 November 2010 09:27:09 J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Monday 15 November 2010 07:11:14 Benyamin Dvoskin wrote: > > Hi , > > > > I've been trying to configure hibernation to work on my netbook , and > > for some reason it doesnt work > > when I go to hi

Re: [gentoo-user] [Waaay OT] Defrag tool for windoze

2010-11-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday 15 November 2010 10:32:00 Dale wrote: > Stroller wrote: > > On 15/11/2010, at 3:56am, Dale wrote: > >> ... > I am thinking like you on the reason it is not working. It was brought > to me because it was not running as fast as it used to. First thing I > noticed was that AVG hasn't b

Re: [gentoo-user] [Waaay OT] Defrag tool for windoze

2010-11-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday 15 November 2010 12:01:49 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday 15 November 2010 09:46:38 J. Roeleveld wrote: > > I ... only use MS Windows when I have no choice (eg. using MS Windows > > only software/applications for work). > > The one use I have for it nowadays is t

Re: [gentoo-user] [Waaay OT] Defrag tool for windoze

2010-11-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday 15 November 2010 15:50:37 Jacob Todd wrote: > Sounds like something is wrong with te drive, and spinrite.can probably fix > it. I don't see what Spinrite can do to help with defragging a harddrive for MS Windows? I like the bit where it explains "how it prevents a disk crash": "It fir

Re: [gentoo-user] [Waaay OT] Defrag tool for windoze

2010-11-16 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday 15 November 2010 18:07:27 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 17:10 on Monday 15 November 2010, J. > Roeleveld > > did opine thusly: > > > > How is this different from: > > 1) take a backup > > 2) check for bad secto

Re: [gentoo-user] [Waaay OT] Defrag tool for windoze

2010-11-16 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday 16 November 2010 03:33:19 Dale wrote: > Adam Carter wrote: > > > One post mentioned that this needs to be reinstalled, I AGREE. > > > > Re installation may be *correct*, but sometimes its impractical. I would > > 1. Pull the drive, and connect it to another fully patched, fully > >

Re: [gentoo-user] how to rebuild gentoo on a somewhat different hardware

2010-11-16 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday 16 November 2010 10:33:34 Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > I have an up-to-date ~amd64 GenToo installation with has been > built on a current AMD64 (Phenom II) machine where I used > -mtune=native in etc/make.conf since I didn't think of the case > that I would need to port this system

Re: [gentoo-user] [Waaay OT] Defrag tool for windoze

2010-11-16 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday 16 November 2010 10:53:28 Alex Schuster wrote: > J. Roeleveld writes: > > On Tuesday 16 November 2010 03:33:19 Dale wrote: > > > That's not doable here tho. This is a Linux only house. My nieces > > > puter is the only puter in the house with wi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to configure thochpad sensitivity (using hal)?

2010-11-18 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday 18 November 2010 12:37:16 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 00:42:52 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > c. our devs are assumed to only pretend to be pedantic geeky gits who > > nit-pick about words, and not to actually *be* like that their entire > > life 24/7/365/75. > > Indeed

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to configure thochpad sensitivity (using hal)?

2010-11-18 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday 18 November 2010 12:52:40 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 12:43:40 +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > > Indeed. After all, if they were really pedantic, they would point out > > > that you should have written either 24/7/52/75 or 24/365/75 :P > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to configure thochpad sensitivity (using hal)?

2010-11-18 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday 18 November 2010 14:18:55 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:32:42 +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > > I thought the real reason for leap years was to boot the turnover of > > > the wedding industry. > > s/boot/boost/ > > > Oh? How does

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: i486

2010-11-24 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 24 November 2010 11:23:48 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 22:53:02 +, David W Noon wrote: > > >Apparently it's not quite a full i686. The research I did at the time > > >indicated that using anything higher than i486 was asking for > > >problems. > > > > I am a little s

Re: [gentoo-user] smartmontools can 'kill' a certain sata disk:

2010-11-30 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday 30 November 2010 10:02:01 Thanasis wrote: > on 11/29/2010 10:10 PM Volker Armin Hemmann wrote the following: > > http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/wiki/SamsungF4EGBadBlocks > > > > just because some of you might have missed it... > > Apart from Samsung F4 EcoGreen, it also

Re: [gentoo-user] smartmontools can 'kill' a certain sata disk:

2010-11-30 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday 30 November 2010 10:53:21 Thanasis wrote: > on 11/30/2010 11:17 AM J. Roeleveld wrote the following: > > On Tuesday 30 November 2010 10:02:01 Thanasis wrote: > >> on 11/29/2010 10:10 PM Volker Armin Hemmann wrote the following: > >>> http://sourceforge.ne

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. < sighs >

2010-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 09:55:37 Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 12/15/10 09:40:48, Dale wrote: > > Hi again, > > > > For those mot up to date. I built a new rig that has a Nvidia GT220 > > card in it. I bought a brand new monitor this morning, a LG W2253, > > and > > it worked one time. I ha

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. < sighs >

2010-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 10:03:58 Dale wrote: > Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > On 12/15/10 09:40:48, Dale wrote: > >> Hi again, > >> > >> For those mot up to date. I built a new rig that has a Nvidia GT220 > >> card in it. I bought a brand new monitor this morning, a LG W2253, > >> and > >> it

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. < sighs >

2010-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 10:26:16 Dale wrote: > J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Wednesday 15 December 2010 10:03:58 Dale wrote: > >> Helmut Jarausch wrote: > >>> On 12/15/10 09:40:48, Dale wrote: > >>>> Hi again, > >>>> > >>&g

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. < sighs >

2010-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 10:54:14 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 10:17:01 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > 1.) Add "hal" to the USE flags of /etc/make.conf. > > This is going to be fun ;-) Yes, I remember that episode on his last machine :) -- Joost

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. < sighs >

2010-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 11:10:03 Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 12/15/10 10:56:21, Adam Carter wrote: > > > I confirmed with lsmod and even rmmod and modprobed it back in a > > > > few > > times. > > > > > Still no joy. I really think it is either the card or the > > > > xorg.conf file. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. < sighs >

2010-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 11:20:20 Dale wrote: > J. Roeleveld wrote: > > Dale, > > > > Rather then rebooting, did you shut down the whole machine, eg. power off > > and unplug power and then start it again? > > > > I have, in the past, had

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. < sighs >

2010-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 11:30:46 Adam Carter wrote: > > > I don't think that's true. > > > In my Xorg.0.log I do have > > > > > > (EE) Failed to load module "dri" (module does not exist, 0) > > > > > > (EE) Failed to load module "dri2" (module does not exist, 0) > > > > > > and still,

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. < sighs >

2010-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 11:45:34 Adam Carter wrote: > On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Adam Carter wrote: > > I hope you are right. If it is missing modules, what do I need to do to > > fix it? I did a emerge -e nvidia-drivers and everything built fine. > > > > fwiw xorg supplies the libd

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. < sighs >

2010-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 10:08:30 Dale wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 02:40:48 -0600, Dale wrote: > >> [ 2081.057] (EE) Failed to load module "dri" (module does not exist, 0) > >> [ 2081.057] (EE) Failed to load module "dri2" (module does not exist, > >> 0) [ 2082.101

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. < sighs >

2010-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 12:39:27 Dale wrote: > Pintér Tibor wrote: > > how about just checking the bloody Xorg logs to see what could have gone > > wrong? (/var/log/Xorg.0.log) > > That's where the errors came from that I posted in my first post. Here > is the results of the latest test. I

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. < sighs >

2010-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 12:39:27 Dale wrote: > Pintér Tibor wrote: > > how about just checking the bloody Xorg logs to see what could have gone > > wrong? (/var/log/Xorg.0.log) > > That's where the errors came from that I posted in my first post. Here > is the results of the latest test. I

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. < sighs >

2010-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 12:44:59 Dale wrote: > J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Wednesday 15 December 2010 10:08:30 Dale wrote: > >> Neil Bothwick wrote: > >>> On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 02:40:48 -0600, Dale wrote: > >>>> [ 2081.057] (EE) Failed to load

Re: !! SOLVED !! Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. < sighs >

2010-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 13:37:33 Dale wrote: > J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Wednesday 15 December 2010 12:39:27 Dale wrote: > >> Pintér Tibor wrote: > >>> how about just checking the bloody Xorg logs to see what could have > >>> gone wrong? (/var/l

Re: !! SOLVED !! Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. < sighs>

2010-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 08:26:11 Dale wrote: > J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Wednesday 15 December 2010 13:37:33 Dale wrote: > >> J. Roeleveld wrote: > > > > Am glad you got it working. Enjoy the new machine :) > > > > -- > > Joost > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird (?) permission problem...

2010-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 15:41:25 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Neil Bothwick [10-12-15 15:40]: > > On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:13:31 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > And this happens to any mountpoint I mount that device on regardless > > > of its perm settings before the mount > > > > Wit

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird (?) permission problem...

2010-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 16:20:32 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > J. Roeleveld [10-12-15 16:00]: > > On Wednesday 15 December 2010 15:41:25 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > Neil Bothwick [10-12-15 15:40]: > > > > On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:13:31 +0100, meino.cra...@gm

Re: !! SOLVED !! Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. < sighs>

2010-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 20:35:15 Dale wrote: > Paul Hartman wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Peter Humphrey > > > > wrote: > >> On Wednesday 15 December 2010 13:33:03 J. Roeleveld wrote: > >>> Not sure how much memory you have, bu

Re: [gentoo-user] Linksys router BEFSR41 loosing internet

2010-12-20 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sunday 19 December 2010 21:35:57 Dale wrote: > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Sunday 19 December 2010 13:17:51 Dale wrote: > >> I found a how to. I read it. This is what I got out of it. It > >> sounds like I need to let the modem use DHCP with the phone company. > > > > Correct. > > > >> The

Re: [gentoo-user] Linksys router BEFSR41 loosing internet

2010-12-20 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday 20 December 2010 11:44:11 Peter Humphrey wrote: > (What follows has grown rather long. I hope it doesn't come over too > much as a lecture.) > > It's fairly straightforward once you get the hang of it. The address of > a device is a 64-bit number, expressed as four 16-bit numbers joined

Re: [gentoo-user] Linksys router BEFSR41 loosing internet

2010-12-20 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday 20 December 2010 13:24:11 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday 20 December 2010 12:04:27 J. Roeleveld wrote: > > For the sake of the archives, I do need to correct you here. > > With the current IP-numbers (IPv4) it's a 32-bit number, expressed as > > four 8- bi

Re: [gentoo-user] depclean wants to remove hal, which kills xdm

2010-12-20 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday 20 December 2010 15:55:40 Allan Gottlieb wrote: > Vincent-Xavier JUMEL writes: > > Le 20 décembre à 15:12 Allan Gottlieb a écrit > > > >> Something seems wrong. > >> Yesterday depclean removed hal and then xdm wouldn't run. > >> Re-merging hal (with -1) fixed this, but again today depcl

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-04 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday 03 January 2011 18:43:28 Jörg Schaible wrote: > Hi, > > starting with the 2.6.36-r5 kernel of the Gentoo sources my boot device > changes. With 2.6.35 and below it is alway /dev/sda3, with the new kernel > it seems that anything that is internally connected with USB is assigned a > devic

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-07 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday 07 January 2011 09:47:28 Jörg Schaible wrote: > Hi Dale, > > Dale wrote: > > Jörg Schaible wrote: > >> that approves my tests ... :-/ > >> > >> Had to boot this morning 5 times, since the root device switched > >> arbitrarily between sde3 and sdg3 and I've chosen by bad luck always the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-07 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 05 January 2011 13:35:28 Dale wrote: > Jörg Schaible wrote: > > that approves my tests ... :-/ > > > > Had to boot this morning 5 times, since the root device switched > > arbitrarily between sde3 and sdg3 and I've chosen by bad luck always the > > wrong one. It seems there is also so

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-07 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday 07 January 2011 15:01:48 pk wrote: > On 2011-01-07 10:34, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Friday 07 January 2011 09:47:28 Jörg Schaible wrote: > > > > Another option would be to patch the kernel to either support Labels > > natively or to have it include a &

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange problem with audio CDs

2011-01-12 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday 10 January 2011 10:48:56 Jake Moe wrote: > I can't seem to get audio CDs to work with my drive. Data CDs work > fine, I can mount the filesystem and read them. Data and Video DVDs > seem to work fine as well. But when I try to listen to an audio CD, I > get the attached errors in log.b

Re: [gentoo-user] vbox 64-bit guest will fail to detect a 64-bit CPU and will not be able to boot.

2011-01-12 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 12 January 2011 09:27:00 kashani wrote: > On 1/12/2011 12:04 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > > System uname: > > linux-2.6.34-gentoo-r12-x86_64-intel-r-_core-tm-_i7_cpu_l_6...@_2.13ghz-w > > ith-gentoo-1.12.14 Timestamp of tree: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 15:45:01 + > > That chip looks

Re: [gentoo-user] vbox 64-bit guest will fail to detect a 64-bit CPU and will not be able to boot.

2011-01-12 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 12 January 2011 16:17:09 Valmor de Almeida wrote: > On 01/12/2011 05:39 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Wednesday 12 January 2011 09:27:00 kashani wrote: > >> On 1/12/2011 12:04 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > >>> System uname: > >>> linux

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A tiny titillating taste of grub2

2011-01-13 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday 13 January 2011 01:40:09 Dale wrote: > You got a crystal ball or something? Not yet, my supplier is still awaiting new stock from the manufacturer... -- Joost

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange problem with audio CDs

2011-01-13 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday 13 January 2011 07:12:48 Jake Moe wrote: > > If you're talking about "proper" Audio-CD as one that's audio-only, no > mixed data in there as well, then yes, I'm sure. And I have over 500 > CDs; I can't test them all. :-P But yeah, a selection of CDs have all > had the same result.

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange problem with audio CDs

2011-01-13 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday 13 January 2011 11:33:09 Jake Moe wrote: > On 01/13/11 18:12, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Thursday 13 January 2011 07:12:48 Jake Moe wrote: > >> If you're talking about "proper" Audio-CD as one that's audio-only, no > >> mixed data in ther

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange problem with audio CDs

2011-01-13 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday 13 January 2011 12:07:02 Joerg Schilling wrote: > "J. Roeleveld" wrote: > > Can you actually play that wav-file? Or is it just a collection of > > garbage? > > > > As far as I know, CD-Paranoia access the cd-drive a bit more directly > > th

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