Re: [gentoo-user] Traffic monitor

2005-05-21 Thread Jerry McBride
On Saturday 21 May 2005 06:56 pm, Joseph Drake wrote: > Does anyone know any good traffic monitor? I want to how much data is > transported when my machine's up. I emerged traffic-vis, but I don't > know how it works. Thanks for any advice. > I have a number of "text mode only" servers running ipt

Re: [gentoo-user] Traffic monitor

2005-05-21 Thread Jerry McBride
On Saturday 21 May 2005 09:13 pm, q-parser wrote: > Jerry McBride wrote: > >On Saturday 21 May 2005 06:56 pm, Joseph Drake wrote: > >>Does anyone know any good traffic monitor? I want to how much data is > >>transported when my machine's up. I emerged traffic-vis, b

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to keep a networkcard into 100mbit full duplex

2005-05-24 Thread Jerry McBride
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 09:07 pm, Qian Qiao wrote: > On 24/05/05, Patrick Marquetecken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Whats the best way to keep my networkcards in 100mbit full duplex, now i > > have put the commands in the /etc/conf.d/local.start. > > Shouldn't most network cards/hubs/s

[gentoo-user] Portage... where dreams come from....

2005-05-25 Thread Jerry McBride
Everytime I go to the portage tree, I find myself CONSTANTLY finding new gems and thing-a-ma-bobs that make my linux time a fun time. Thank you. Jerry McBride -- ** Registered Linux User

[gentoo-user] kde 3.4.1?

2005-05-29 Thread Jerry McBride
Well kde-3.4.1 has been in portage for a while now, but no source code is turning up on the mirrors... Anyone have an idea when this show goes on the road? I'm holding off building a new desktop computer so I won't have to goi through the kde emerge routine a second time... Jerry -- *

Re: [gentoo-user] LinkSys wpc11 V3

2005-05-29 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 29 May 2005 10:44 pm, Randall wrote: > I am considering trying Gentoo and was wondering if it was pretty good at > recognizing LinkSys wireless PCMCIA cards in a laptop ? The one I use with > SuSe and have used with Red Hat is a version 3 card, never could get the > version 4 cards to wo

Re: [gentoo-user] PCMCIA progress

2005-06-01 Thread Jerry McBride
On Wednesday 01 June 2005 08:59 pm, Digby Tarvin wrote: > Thanks Richard, > > The yenta tip certainly seems to have helped. The system now seems > to recognise the existance of the bridge, and when I insert the 3Com > card, it recognises both the network interface and the serial port > from the mod

Re: [gentoo-user] Cataloging MP3's

2005-06-05 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 05 June 2005 05:21 pm, Urs Schuetz wrote: > On Sun, 05 Jun 2005, Patrick wrote: > > I would like to add all my MP3 info like genre - artists - song > > and so on, of all the MP3 files that on my server into a mysql > > database. Is there a program that exists, or must i create my > > own

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.4 -> 2.6 wierdness

2005-07-05 Thread Jerry McBride
On Tuesday 05 July 2005 06:00 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Trying to Migrate to 2.6. But when I reboot into my new genkerneled > system, I cannot use X.org anymore, it complains about agpgart not > working. Even If I modprobe the kernel mod or even compile it in directly > it rejects it. > Any

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't login - needs pam_afs

2005-07-16 Thread Jerry McBride
On Saturday 16 July 2005 08:33 pm, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > Yesterday I removed openafs as I haven't used it for ages. However, now > I can not login as and the system won't start properly (netmount and > those depending on it don't run). I get messages about not being able > to find /usr/afsws/

Re: [gentoo-user] pam error, cant su -

2005-07-26 Thread Jerry McBride
On Tuesday 26 July 2005 10:23 am, Jorge Boscan wrote: > pam does not compile > > *** Building pam-unix module of the framework... > ---snip--- >* Checking if all modules were built... > > * ERROR: pam_cracklib have dependencies in /usr. I just had this problem while upgrading an

Re: [gentoo-user] Encripting /home

2005-07-27 Thread Jerry McBride
On Wednesday 27 July 2005 07:54 pm, Luigi Pinna wrote: > Alle 01:18, giovedì 28 luglio 2005, Pupeno ha scritto: > > Hello, > > I want to have the /home of my laptop encripted, with an external key > > (in a CD or floppy, until I get an usb pain drive), specially to be > > able to change the passphr

Re: [gentoo-user] mount cdrom: No buffer space available

2008-01-01 Thread Jerry McBride
On Tuesday 01 January 2008 10:50:26 pm Cocoy Dayao wrote: > Encountered: > > warhammer etc # mount /dev/cdrom > mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, mounting read-only > mount: No buffer space available > > i googled and found a "no buffer space available". > > followed suggestions on

Re: [gentoo-user] Sandisk mounting problems

2008-01-05 Thread Jerry McBride
On Saturday 05 January 2008 02:02:09 pm Jeff Cranmer wrote: > I have a new Sansa Sandisk MP3 player. > When I plug it in, I get the following dmesg output > > usb 2-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3 > ehci_hcd :00:1d.7: port 1 reset error -110 > hub 2-0:1.0: hub_port_sta

Re: [gentoo-user] Autofs or ivman?

2008-01-17 Thread Jerry McBride
On Thursday 17 January 2008 10:08:22 pm Stroller wrote: > Sorry for taking so long to reply to this - I've been kinda busy with > work the last few days. > > On 6 Jan 2008, at 17:25, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Sunday 06 January 2008, Stroller wrote: > >> Hi there, > >> > >> I was on #gentoo yester

Re: [gentoo-user] "loopback mount" hard-drive image created with dd?

2008-01-18 Thread Jerry McBride
On Friday 18 January 2008 01:54:58 pm Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Friday 18 January 2008, Jerry McBride wrote: > > On Friday 18 January 2008 01:01:18 pm Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > Won't work. He already said the .iso is a *disk* image, not a *file > > > system* image.

Re: [gentoo-user] "loopback mount" hard-drive image created with dd?

2008-01-18 Thread Jerry McBride
On Friday 18 January 2008 01:01:18 pm Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Friday 18 January 2008, Jerry McBride wrote: > > Stroller wrote: > > > Hi there, > > > > > > Before installing on a new laptop which came with Vista > > > pre-installed I took an image

[gentoo-user] "loopback mount" hard-drive image created with dd?

2008-01-18 Thread Jerry McBride
tables? > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions or advices, > > Stroller. > Try this... modprobe loop modprobe ntfs mkdir /mnt/iso mount -t ntfs /path/to/your/iso /mnt/iso -o loop,ro Assuming the iso is ntfs and you have loop and ntfs as modules... Cheers. Jerry McB

Re: [gentoo-user] "loopback mount" hard-drive image created with dd?

2008-01-18 Thread Jerry McBride
On Friday 18 January 2008 02:19:21 pm Jerry McBride wrote: > On Friday 18 January 2008 01:54:58 pm Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Friday 18 January 2008, Jerry McBride wrote: > > > On Friday 18 January 2008 01:01:18 pm Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > > Won't work.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.0

2008-01-19 Thread Jerry McBride
On Saturday 19 January 2008 02:58:11 pm Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > On Samstag, 19. Januar 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > On 19 January 2008, Dale wrote: > > > Uwe Thiem wrote: > > > > Hi folks, > > > > > > > > after the painful and time-consuming creation of > > > > /etc/portage/package.unmask for

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.0

2008-01-20 Thread Jerry McBride
> >> Now to spend the next couple days downloading all the KDE 4.0 stuff. > >> Stinking dial-up. :-@ > > > > That will take a lng while. Most KDE4 packages are far larger than > > there KDE3 counterparts. Just as an example: > > > > kdebase-3.3.8.tar.bz2 was 24MB. Now we have three kdebase ta

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.0

2008-01-21 Thread Jerry McBride
On Monday 21 January 2008 06:40:42 pm Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 09:09 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:00:35 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > not quite the same :) "emerge -u world" would download one package, > > > and compile it, download the next, compi

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 first impressions

2008-01-22 Thread Jerry McBride
Alan McKinnon wrote: > All in all, a very nice point-0 point-0 release. After using it for a > few hours, I can understand what all the hype was about :-) It does grow on you and it is an excellent step forward. That said, I can't wait to see this get polished off and fully fleshed out. I dear

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0 and dbus compile error

2008-01-22 Thread Jerry McBride
On Tuesday 22 January 2008 09:42:08 am Dale wrote: > Hi, > > I started my emerge of KDE 4.0 a while ago and I keep getting this error: > > >>> Emerging (1 of 177) app-misc/strigi-0.5.7 to / > > > > * strigi-0.5.7.tar.bz2 RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) > > ...[ ok ] > >

Re: [gentoo-user] LiveUSB

2008-01-23 Thread Jerry McBride
On Wednesday 23 January 2008 06:28:51 am 443-653-1569 wrote: > Wow! > > Didn't know it would be that simple, I've always had trouble with live usb > in the past, guess I'll give it a try. > > Bill Roberts > > On 23:47 Tue 22 Jan , Jason Dusek wrote: > > Posted -- please let me know what you thi

Re: [gentoo-user] (no subject)

2008-01-27 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 27 January 2008 07:06:59 am Christel Dahlskjaer wrote: > unsubscribe NO! -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?

2008-01-29 Thread Jerry McBride
On Tuesday 29 January 2008 04:26:01 pm Ricardo Saffi Marques wrote: > On 1/29/08, Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey Mike, > > > > I passed on vmware for my use as it is quite the overkill for my simple > > needs. Also, vmware does not current

Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?

2008-01-29 Thread Jerry McBride
hat this allows is for you to setup your windows image anyway you want, then reload your qemu image with cow file support enabled... and any modifications made during your windows session is written to the cow file, not your windows image. If things get really, really hashed up, closeup Qemu... delet

Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?

2008-01-29 Thread Jerry McBride
On Tuesday 29 January 2008 05:02:58 pm Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:21:36 -0500, Jerry McBride wrote: > > Also, vmware does not currently run on the most recent kernels. > > It's working on 2.6.23 and 2.6.24 here. When I was at the vmware website,

Re: [gentoo-user] Anti-aliasing

2008-01-30 Thread Jerry McBride
On Wednesday 30 January 2008 10:50:02 am econti wrote: > Hi all, > may be this is a stupid question but I am not able to set the > anti-aliasing on firefox and thunderbird. > > Regards > emilio You have a good trail to follow for your problem in the other messages... For my problem, with regards

Re: [gentoo-user] Anti-aliasing

2008-01-30 Thread Jerry McBride
On Wednesday 30 January 2008 12:25:46 pm Mateusz Mierzwinski wrote: > Jerry McBride pisze: > > On Wednesday 30 January 2008 10:50:02 am econti wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> may be this is a stupid question but I am not able to set the > >> anti-aliasing on firefo

Re: [gentoo-user] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2008-01-30 Thread Jerry McBride
On Wednesday 30 January 2008 01:17:34 pm Phil Sexton wrote: > -- > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list NO! -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?

2008-02-01 Thread Jerry McBride
On Friday 01 February 2008 08:21:38 am Michael Sullivan wrote: > On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 11:32 +0100, Pintér Tibor wrote: > > works fine more me, and always worked. > > workstation 5.5 has issues with it though, so upgrade to 6.0.x > > > > t > > > > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > On Wednesday 30 January

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} CUPS alternative?

2008-02-02 Thread Jerry McBride
On Saturday 02 February 2008 08:42:25 pm Grant wrote: > > > port-knocking is the biggest load of fud (Microsoft products apart) I > > > have heard about in ages. The term snake-oil comes to mind, as > > > does "security by obscurity and obfuscation" which we all know is no > > > security at all. >

[gentoo-user] CHOST question.

2008-02-05 Thread Jerry McBride
Morning... A small question to satisfy my curiosity about the CHOST setting in /etc/make.conf... Currently I have CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" on a computer with a pentium4 processor. Would it make any differences, at all, to change this to CHOST="pentium4-pc-linux-gnu" ? Would the compiler th

Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST question.

2008-02-05 Thread Jerry McBride
On Tuesday 05 February 2008 09:18:17 am Benedikt Morbach wrote: > Hi, > > no, it would not. > gcc would simply refuse to work, because CHOST="pentium4-pc-linux-gnu" > is not a valid CHOST. > CHOST describes the platform you build on. For optimizations take a > look at CFLAGS. > Where do I find a l

Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST question.

2008-02-05 Thread Jerry McBride
On Tuesday 05 February 2008 10:35:34 am Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 05 February 2008, Jerry McBride wrote: > > Should be interesting... It'll lay to rest what everyone speculates > > or postulates. :') > > No need. Been done. Question answered long ago. You

Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST question.

2008-02-05 Thread Jerry McBride
On Tuesday 05 February 2008 09:40:30 am Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 05 February 2008, Jerry McBride wrote: > > Would the compiler then be optimized for the pentium4 and thus run a > > tad bit faster? > > See Benedikt's answer for why you should not go down this r

Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST question.

2008-02-05 Thread Jerry McBride
On Tuesday 05 February 2008 10:28:01 am Dale wrote: > Jerry McBride wrote: > > On Tuesday 05 February 2008 09:40:30 am Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> On Tuesday 05 February 2008, Jerry McBride wrote: > >>> Would the compiler then be optimized for the pentium4 and t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No sound in mythfrontend

2008-02-07 Thread Jerry McBride
On Thursday 07 February 2008 08:45:50 pm Michael Sullivan wrote: > On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 19:23 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > I have no sound in mythfrontend anymore. Here's the emerge information: > > > > camille ~ # emerge -pv mythtv > > > > These are the packages that would be merged, in or

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No sound in mythfrontend

2008-02-09 Thread Jerry McBride
On Friday 08 February 2008 09:40:04 pm Michael Sullivan wrote: > On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 19:45 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 19:23 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > > I have no sound in mythfrontend anymore. Here's the emerge > > > information: > > > > > > camille ~ # eme

Re: [gentoo-user] Viewing BBC videos on Gentoo

2008-02-10 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 10 February 2008 12:48:44 pm Jeff Cranmer wrote: > Has anyone had any luck viewing videos on news.bbc.co.uk using gentoo? > > I have Firefox and mplayerplug-in installed, however I cannot view videos, > either with the embedded player or the standalone. > > Jeff Works here. Running Gento

Re: [gentoo-user] Viewing BBC videos on Gentoo

2008-02-10 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 10 February 2008 01:04:28 pm Matthew R. Lee wrote: > On Sunday 10 February 2008 15:00:38 Ian Lee wrote: > > Jeff Cranmer wrote: > > > Has anyone had any luck viewing videos on news.bbc.co.uk using gentoo? > > > > > > I have Firefox and mplayerplug-in installed, however I cannot view > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for PCI-X external SATA controller

2008-02-14 Thread Jerry McBride
On Thursday 14 February 2008 06:08:23 pm Neil Walker wrote: > Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > I can find a lot of cards that are almost what I want. But I have an > > external drive, and a PCI-X motherboard. Not internal, and not > > PCI-E. Anybody know of such a beast > > A quick Google led to this:

Re: [gentoo-user] Ext4 status - Alternative to ext2/3 for gentoo portage and more

2008-02-15 Thread Jerry McBride
On Friday 15 February 2008 03:05:13 pm Wael Nasreddine wrote: > Hey guys, > > Currently I have 2 partitions, a root and home partition, fortunately > on LVM array, I was thinking of splitting them to "/, /usr, /var, /home, > /usr/portage, /mnt/storage" the latter is to be used for Mp3z (around > 12

Re: [gentoo-user] sshfs issue

2008-02-28 Thread Jerry McBride
On Thursday 28 February 2008 04:19:22 pm ionut cucu wrote: > I'm running sshfs very often and I've noticed the following issue: > whenever the hub/swich(what ever is that keeping my lan together) > suddenly stops working while I'm using sshfs my computer crashes, or if > I;m lucky enough I get to d

Re: [gentoo-user] sshfs issue

2008-02-28 Thread Jerry McBride
On Thursday 28 February 2008 04:58:32 pm ionut cucu wrote: > On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:51:59 -0500 > > Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 28 February 2008 04:19:22 pm ionut cucu wrote: > > > I'm running sshfs very often and I've noticed

[gentoo-user] New trustees for the Gentoo Foundation were just elected

2008-03-04 Thread Jerry McBride
In case you guys missed it [ Quote ] | New trustees for the Gentoo Foundation  were just elected. The foundation | takes care of Gentoo's intellectual property (copyrights, trademarks) and | money. It ensures that nobody violates our copyrights and trademarks, serves | as a place to ho

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Brainstorm?

2008-03-07 Thread Jerry McBride
On Friday 07 March 2008 10:52:09 am Daniel Beecham wrote: > On 3/5/08, Rodrigo Lazo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Have you seen ubuntu brainstorm? > > > > http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/ > > > > What do you think? Personally I believe is a very good idea and may be > > worth copying. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] NEURAL NET SOFTWARE

2008-03-18 Thread Jerry McBride
On Tuesday 18 March 2008 08:08:22 am Gavin Seddon wrote: > HI DOES ANYONE KNOW OF GOOD TRAINABLE NN SOFTWARE ON PORTAGE? Hi Gavin, What would you do with a neural net? You've got me interested. For a long time now, I've been wanting to write a "smart" piece of software that would take in answe

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless: Limit rate to strengthen connection?

2008-03-26 Thread Jerry McBride
On Wednesday 26 March 2008 04:53:24 pm Grant wrote: > I'm trying to strengthen a wireless connection that spans about 150 > feet and has to go through about 5 walls. I bought two of these: > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833164110 > > for either end of the connection, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless: Limit rate to strengthen connection?

2008-03-26 Thread Jerry McBride
On Wednesday 26 March 2008 05:21:50 pm Grant wrote: > > > I'm trying to strengthen a wireless connection that spans about 150 > > > feet and has to go through about 5 walls. I bought two of these: > > > > > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833164110 > > > > > > for eit

[gentoo-user] Compiz-Fusion display error?

2008-04-19 Thread Jerry McBride
I upgraded my KDE 3.5.9 laptop to use compiz-fusion. It works! But i have a display problem... My laptop lcd is 1280x800 native. KDE, without compiz, uses theentire display, no problems... However, once I start up compiz, I loose the right third of the screen. That is, the display get cho

Re: [gentoo-user] automated install || stage4? rapid deployment?

2009-05-11 Thread Jerry McBride
On Monday 11 May 2009 08:14:07 pm Adam Carter wrote: > > I'm curious how other sysadmins rapidly deploy a slew of new Gentoo > > systems? In this case I'm setting up many dozens of Gentoo servers > > inside of VMware ESX and having to destroy and redeploy said systems > > regularly. > > > > The "ha

Re: [gentoo-user] automated install || stage4? rapid deployment?

2009-05-12 Thread Jerry McBride
On Monday 11 May 2009 10:21:56 pm James wrote: > Not a bad idea, Jerome. > > I imagine you create a new DVD every year or so so that you don't have > to wait forever when updating all packages on your system? > > -j Hi James, Actally, I update the dvd pretty regularly. I'm a real bug about stayi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel config hell

2008-12-27 Thread Jerry McBride
On Saturday 27 December 2008 10:48:19 am Harry Putnam wrote: > Nikos Chantziaras writes: > > > [...] > > >>> Well, my bit of wisdom here: Don't use modules. Do a "make > >>> menuconfig", disable everything you don't need, and compile > >>> everything you need in-kernel instead of as a module. > >

[gentoo-user] Gcc-4.3.3

2009-01-31 Thread Jerry McBride
Anyone else noticing problems with the new compiler? An example, sysklogd no longer builds with 4.3.3, but did with 4.3.2-r3, etc. etc. New (~x86) version of sysklogd fails too So far, I'm not able to get the sources cleaned up enough to get it to compile cleanly... I'm going back to 4.3.2

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gcc-4.3.3

2009-01-31 Thread Jerry McBride
On Saturday 31 January 2009 05:54:27 pm Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Saphirus Sage wrote: > > I couldn't even install gcc4.3.3 on my amd64 machine. The build failed > > each time and I essentially decided to just wait for the next revision. > > Working fine here. glibc-2.9_p20081201-r1 with linux-he

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.2 compile problem

2009-02-03 Thread Jerry McBride
On Tuesday 03 February 2009 12:53:22 am Dirk Uys wrote: > Hi > > I'm trying to emerge kde-4.2, but the kde-base/systemsettings-4.2.0 > ebuild fails: > > Scanning dependencies of target kdeinit_kxkb > [ 23%] Building CXX object > kcontrol/kxkb/CMakeFiles/kdeinit_kxkb.dir/kdeinit_kxkb_automoc.o > [ 2

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.2 compile problem

2009-02-04 Thread Jerry McBride
On Wednesday 04 February 2009 05:52:16 am Norberto Bensa wrote: > On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Jerry McBride wrote: > > If you need more info, feel free to email me direct. > > why? > > off-list communications should only be done with off-topic > conversations. If you

[gentoo-user] ibiblio dumps Gentoo distfiles to "save space"

2009-02-12 Thread Jerry McBride
Imagine my surprise when the nightly rsync of Gentoo distfiles with ibibilo resulted in my distfile repository getting totally deleted. After a few emails wit the admins at ibibilo I finally got the answer that I was looking for... the truth... >> Jerry, >> >> We are no longer rsyncing the di

Re: [gentoo-user] linux boot logo in 2.6.29-gentoo sources

2009-03-25 Thread Jerry McBride
On Wednesday 25 March 2009 05:51:30 pm Thanasis wrote: > on 03/25/2009 11:04 PM Alan McKinnon wrote the following: > > On Wednesday 25 March 2009 22:50:46 Thanasis wrote: > >> Has anyone seen the boot logo in 2.6.29-gentoo sources? > >> usr/src/linux/drivers/video/logo/logo_linux_vga16.ppm > >> > >

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC-4.3.2

2009-04-03 Thread Jerry McBride
On Friday 03 April 2009 05:15:21 pm Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:47:25 +0530, Masood Ahmed wrote: > > I like the -march=native and -mtune=native options. > > As long as you don't use distcc with differing hardware. I did that by accident once and trust me, it's a unforgettable les

[gentoo-user] 2 to 3??

2007-07-13 Thread Jerry McBride
Anyone aware of any plans for Gentoo/Portage moving to the gpl3.0 license? -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3??

2007-07-16 Thread Jerry McBride
On Monday 16 July 2007 08:15:43 am Mark Shields wrote: Personally... reading what I have about the gpl 3.0 , I'd be pretty comfortable having Gentoo/Portage moved to it. It offers a lot of protection that gpl 2. does not. Anyway, if it makes Microsoft "catch up" then it must be good. --

[gentoo-user] einit?

2007-07-22 Thread Jerry McBride
Anyone here using einit? I've a small problem. I can set a static ip address, no problems. But how and where do you establish the route to a gateway? I've googled to the wee hours and still haven't figured it out. I'm running einit from the layman overlay. Cheers. -- From the Desk of: Jero

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless setup bcm4311

2007-08-04 Thread Jerry McBride
On Saturday 04 August 2007 01:40:30 pm Matthew R. Lee wrote: > On Saturday 04 August 2007 12:59, Mick wrote: > > On Saturday 04 August 2007 16:55, Matthew R. Lee wrote: > > > I'm having problems getting the wifi on my laptop to work. > > > The laptop is a Compaq Presario V5214ea > > > The wifi card

Re: [gentoo-user] SLAB or SLUB in the kernel?

2007-08-18 Thread Jerry McBride
On Saturday 18 August 2007 04:51:20 pm Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Samstag, 18. August 2007, Mick wrote: > > Which of the two is it suitable for a desktop? > > SLAB > > slub is still very experimental, not well tested and extremly buggy. > > Don't use slub except on test systems. That said, s

Re: [gentoo-user] SLAB or SLUB in the kernel?

2007-08-19 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 19 August 2007 01:32:27 pm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Selon Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Samstag, 18. August 2007, Mick wrote: > > > Which of the two is it suitable for a desktop? > > > > SLAB > > > > slub is still very experimental, not well tested and extremly buggy.

Re: [gentoo-user] Very OT - Problems with mythfilldatabase

2007-08-19 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 19 August 2007 09:52:35 pm Michael Sullivan wrote: > Has anyone else had problems updating program listings with > mythfilldatabase? Here's my output from it: > No problems... I still have access to the zap2it servers until october, 10 of this year. After that I'll have to deal with: h

[gentoo-user] openMosix? Now what?

2007-09-01 Thread Jerry McBride
Well... since the demise of openMosix... What similar cluster software are gentoo users using? Anyone? -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Hacked by association?

2007-09-19 Thread Jerry McBride
On Wednesday 19 September 2007 07:16:09 pm Grant wrote: > > > I recognize everything in 'ps -ef' I think, but I've never really used > > > netstat before. Under "Active Internet connections" I don't > > > recognize: > > > > > > tcp localhost:10030 > > > tcp *:snpp > > > > Also, snpp is for pagers:

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2007-09-30 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 30 September 2007 12:31:51 pm Grant wrote: > > Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system? snip... Just my two cents worth here. Often I find a need to generate a duplicate of an existing gentoo installation and to ease the build process I run this script

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2007-09-30 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 30 September 2007 06:02:30 pm Neil Bothwick wrote: > Hello Jerry McBride, > > > Just my two cents worth here. Often I find a need to generate a > > duplicate of an existing gentoo installation and to ease the build > > process I run this script via cron... >

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading the kernel

2007-10-01 Thread Jerry McBride
On Monday 01 October 2007 10:19:57 pm Jed R. Mallen wrote: > Do you guys have a trick that will update a new kernel quickly? I'm using > 2.6.21-gentoo-r4 right now, and have foregone upgrading to 2.6.22-gentoo-r5 > and -r8 because I read somewhere that I can't just use my old .config file > for a n

[gentoo-user] Wireless question...

2007-10-08 Thread Jerry McBride
efore the wireless stuff? Also, are the entries in /etc/conf.d/net order specific? To me it seems if things are ordered "just right" you either get support for various commands or you don't. Anyone see anything "killer" wrong in my net file? Thanks for your time... and for the flame bots out there... I've googled my self to death and have been through the gentoo.forums. My specific setup issues aren't addressed. --- Jerry McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless question...

2007-10-08 Thread Jerry McBride
On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 14:11:30 -0400 Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm trying to polish off a gentoo install on a COMPAQ R3000 with > Broadcom 4306 wireless chips... > > I can manually setup a solid 54M connection without much effort, but > trying to

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc-4.2.2 + nvidia-driver = death ?

2007-10-11 Thread Jerry McBride
On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:28:16 +0200 (CEST) Helmut Jarausch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > having installed gcc-4.2.2 (and making it the default with the new > gcc-config - hurrah) You have a gcc-config that works??? What version is that, please? -- Jerry McBride --

[gentoo-user] Distcc problems...

2007-10-12 Thread Jerry McBride
c for each package listed. Maybe even honor a custom make option "-j" for listed packaged too. Would anyone else find this useful? -- Jerry McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Distcc problems...

2007-10-13 Thread Jerry McBride
On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 19:37:21 -0500 Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jerry McBride wrote: > > > > I've identified a few packages that simply will not compile when > > distcc is being used. > > > > Has anyone noticed problems with; ncurses, groff or lib

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc-4.2.2 compile failure

2007-10-15 Thread Jerry McBride
On Monday 15 October 2007 09:30:52 am Stuart Howard wrote: > As part of regular updates I have come across an error with gcc, the > system is ~x86. > The error has been occurring for a week or so and my usual wait till > it goes away approach does not seem to be working. Originally the > error was

Re: [gentoo-user] Alsa kernel driver problem

2007-10-24 Thread Jerry McBride
On Wednesday 24 October 2007 03:34:52 am Adam Carter wrote: > Alsaconf doesnt find any sound devices, however modules (in particular > snd_via82xx) are loaded; > > localhost linux # lsmod | grep snd > snd_pcm_oss29664 0 > snd_mixer_oss 12160 1 snd_pcm_oss > snd_seq_dummy

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT]advice for a wireless router

2007-10-29 Thread Jerry McBride
On Monday 29 October 2007 10:40:08 am Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2007-10-29, b.n. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dan Farrell ha scritto: > >> On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 01:13:25 +0100 > >> "b.n." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Think of an AP as a way to connect wireless interfaces to the same > >> switch/

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about the 2007.1

2007-11-10 Thread Jerry McBride
On Saturday 10 November 2007 01:42:04 am Daniel Barkalow wrote: > On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, James wrote: > > If you do not like my opinion, you should look at what Daniel Robbins > > had to say, as I ran across a posting of his today, about this very > > issue. An awesome collection of techies does not g

Re: [gentoo-user] LTSP 5

2007-11-18 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 18 November 2007 08:38:04 pm sean wrote: > Is anyone able to tell me what the status is of Gentoo moving to LTSP 5? > > http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/Ltsp5Status shows Gentoo as not > supported but states work is being done to provide LTSP-5 in the future. > > Doing some search

[gentoo-user] Audacious Madness???

2007-11-25 Thread Jerry McBride
Anyone here noticed how badly Audacious 1.4.2 is? I get random crashes and a host of other problems... something never experienced with XMMS. I traded a few emails over Audacious and it seems as though it sports a new (improved) thread model. Once I humbly suggested the "new model" has some wa

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.23 and bcm4311 802.11b/g?

2007-12-17 Thread Jerry McBride
On Monday 17 December 2007 04:30:16 am Eduardo Otubo wrote: > Hello Marzan, > > I have the same wifi card and tryed the same methods to get it working > and nothing. I'am using ndiswrapper right now, just until I can find a > way to make it work. Any news gonna mail our list. > > []'s > > On Dec 13

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.23 and bcm4311 802.11b/g?

2007-12-17 Thread Jerry McBride
Sorry for the second post on this, but if it helps... My /var/log/messages contains the following after loading the bcm43xx driver. Dec 17 10:20:38 spyro kernel: bcm43xx driver Dec 17 10:20:38 spyro kernel: bcm43xx: Chip ID 0x4306, rev 0x3 Dec 17 10:20:38 spyro kernel: bcm43xx: Number of cores:

Re: [gentoo-user] FS for laptop

2007-12-18 Thread Jerry McBride
On Tuesday 18 December 2007 03:56:10 pm Sergey Kobzar wrote: > Hi guys, > > I just had discussion with my friend which file system to use on > laptop with Gentoo. > > - ReiserFS looks unsupported now > - ext3 looks slow some time > - XFS maybe? > > Requirements are: > - low memory usage > - fast en

Re: [gentoo-user] FS for laptop

2007-12-18 Thread Jerry McBride
On Tuesday 18 December 2007 04:37:30 pm Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > On Dienstag, 18. Dezember 2007, Jerry McBride wrote: > > On Tuesday 18 December 2007 03:56:10 pm Sergey Kobzar wrote: > > > Hi guys, > > > > > > I just had discussion with my friend which fil

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 stability

2008-07-02 Thread Jerry McBride
On Wednesday 02 July 2008 06:00:57 pm b.n. wrote: > This thread is getting depressing. > > I use Kubuntu at work and FF3 worked without a hitch since the beta. > > On Gentoo, FF2 works good, but I'm quite perplexed to see that FF3 is so > many problems while a binary distro can flawlessly run a FF3

[gentoo-user] KDE 3.5.10 in portage...

2008-09-14 Thread Jerry McBride
In case you've missed it... the latest of the 3.5 version KDE is now in portage. It's still keyworded and masked, but still usable. Compiling it now. Cheers... If only 4.1.1 was there... :') Cheers again... -- "I was once told that adding ice to Makers Mark was alcohol abuse... Thank God!

Re: [gentoo-user] kde-4.1 SLOT in kdesvn-portage

2008-09-21 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 21 September 2008 09:26:15 pm Mike wrote: > Mike wrote: > > Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I use the kdesvn-portage overlay (the portage one, not the paludis-only > >> one). To still stay this side of sanity, I emerged the 4.1.1 SLOT. > >> > >> I updated layman -S today only to f

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/apache2 fails, but apache will run

2008-09-28 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 28 September 2008 09:26:06 pm Adam Carter wrote: > rix adam # /etc/init.d/apache2 start > * Starting apache2 ... > (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80 > no listening sockets available, shutting down > Unable to open logs

[gentoo-user] KDE 4.1.2... a winner!

2008-10-05 Thread Jerry McBride
Well, I took notice that kde 4.1.2 is in portage... I quickly removed kde-svn and layman and began the unmasking and keywording of 4.1.2. I let it all install over night and... This morning, with a little trepidation, I booted into KDE-4.1.2... no problems! This is the first of the recent kd

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.1.2... a winner!

2008-10-06 Thread Jerry McBride
On Monday 06 October 2008 04:07:27 pm b.n. wrote: > Roy Wright ha scritto: > > Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> On Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:08:23 +0200, b.n. wrote: > >>> Could you share your relevant package.mask and package.keywords, for > >>> the laziest of us? :) > >> > >> emerge autounmask > >> autounmask

Re: [gentoo-user] Asus Eee Gentoo install - no CD drive

2008-10-07 Thread Jerry McBride
On Monday 06 October 2008 08:01:08 pm Andrey Falko wrote: > On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Dan Cowsill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It is possible to get a Gentoo LiveCD running happily on a USB flash > > drive. I'm currently running Ubuntu eee on my 701, but before that I > > attempted a Gento

Re: [gentoo-user] Back up a server in real-time

2008-11-15 Thread Jerry McBride
On Saturday 15 November 2008 02:45:04 pm Mick wrote: > Without gentoo-wiki my knowledge level is rather poor (just like my > memory!) > > What would you use to back up a running server without taking it off line? What's wrong with gentoo-wiki.info? As for backup yes tar is good, but how about

Re: [gentoo-user] Back up a server in real-time

2008-11-15 Thread Jerry McBride
On Saturday 15 November 2008 07:08:42 pm Mick wrote: > On Saturday 15 November 2008, Dale wrote: > > Mick wrote: > > > Without gentoo-wiki my knowledge level is rather poor (just like my > > > memory!) > > > > > > What would you use to back up a running server without taking it off > > > line? > >

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Having a problem booting a vanilla kernel

2007-01-30 Thread Jerry McBride
On Monday 29 January 2007 09:43:45 pm Michael Sullivan wrote: > I wanted to try installing my Win4Lin 9x 5.0 software, so I unzipped my > vanilla kernel source Did you copy the old .config file into the new source directory??? -- -- Jerry McBride -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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