Re: [gentoo-user] What mixes up line order of world file?

2005-05-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On 5/16/05, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 16 May 2005 15:22:16 -0700 Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > |I've put my /var/lib/portage/world file in alphabetical order a few > | times but it keeps getting put back into non-alphabetical

Re: [gentoo-user] The NPTL difference

2005-05-16 Thread Mark Knecht
nux-gnu" USE="mozilla gnome kde -arts ladspa nptl nptlonly ladcca audiofile gimp gimpprint ppds usb alsa cdr dvd dvdr dvdread mmx sse sse2 mozcalendar caps jack jack-tmpfs fluidsynth tcltk sndfile v4l v4l2 mysql flac xscreensaver samba i8x0 mythtv apache2 lirc mjpeg xvid" CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" MAKEOPTS="-j2" Cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] removing gnome

2005-05-17 Thread Mark Knecht
deep world emerge -pv --depclean revdep-rebuild -p should come out clean and tell you there's no more work to do. Hope this helps, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] removing gnome

2005-05-17 Thread Mark Knecht
h the current set of flags. sorry, Mark On 5/17/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I put gnome on my system to try out gnopernicus which isn't working for > me. I'd like to take gnome off of my system now but don't want to > inadvertently remove needed X pa

[gentoo-user] world file clean-up - vi vs. vim - system profile

2005-05-17 Thread Mark Knecht
re are no ebuilds to satisfy "vi". flash ~ # Is this possibly a small bug in the profiiles somewhere? How should I remove vi and use vim? I presume I'm not really supposed to change a system profile. I've not had to do that before. Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] world file clean-up - vi vs. vim - system profile

2005-05-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On 5/17/05, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 17 May 2005 19:11:27 -0700 Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > | !!! Trying to unmerge package(s) in system profile. 'app-editors/vi' > | !!! This could be damaging to your system. >

Re: [gentoo-user] world file clean-up - vi vs. vim - system profile

2005-05-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On 5/17/05, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 17 May 2005 19:34:12 -0700 Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > | Great. vim is already installed so I'll can do an emerge -C vi from > | the command line and then just edit /var/lib/portage/world

[gentoo-user] Lost Gnome volume control

2005-05-18 Thread Mark Knecht
. What's the trick? Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

2005-05-18 Thread Mark Knecht
use, Mandrake or Debian, all of which I've tried and had problems with. At least on Gentoo I can get any application I want without all the problems of RPM hell. - Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo User Groups

2005-05-19 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi Jonathan, I'm in Los Gatos. I'd probably come to a meeting at least once in awhile. - Mark On 5/18/05, Jonathan Nichols <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The thread about discrimination is a good one.. it made me think about > local user groups, as people have mentioned

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

2005-05-19 Thread Mark Knecht
f a package is merged as a dependency, it will be updated by "emerge > world -uavDN", so it won't be added to the world file. There is never a > need to merge a dependency manually. > > > i made a file using 'qpkg -I' & keep it upto-date by hand with Vim

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing on Firewire drive?

2005-05-21 Thread Mark Knecht
find the equivalent for Yellow Dog I suppose. I run 4 external 1394 drives on x86 so I can help out if you get a better response from one of these command ideas. Good luck, Mark On 5/21/05, Charles Trois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The disk on my G4 iMac contains an installation

Re: [gentoo-user] next step X

2005-05-21 Thread Mark Knecht
On 5/21/05, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 13 May 2005 11:06 am, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My world file is 235 lines long. How screwed up is that really? How > > long it yours? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # wc -l /va

[gentoo-user] Switch from devfs to udev?

2005-05-21 Thread Mark Knecht
-gentoo-r9) Thanks in advance, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Switch from devfs to udev?

2005-05-21 Thread Mark Knecht
file said /dev/mouse instead of /dev/input/mice. Once I made that last change everythign seemed to come up fine. Now to see if this gets me closer to fixing the permissions problem for ivtv. thanks! - Mark On 5/21/05, Tim Igoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Install udev as in portage. T

Re: [gentoo-user] Switch from devfs to udev?

2005-05-21 Thread Mark Knecht
Thanks to all for your answers. Everything except Video4Linux seems to be working. I'm sure v4l is some oversight on my part. cheers, Mark On 5/21/05, Max <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Because no one mentioned it. There is also a Gentoo udev Guide: > > http://www.ge

[gentoo-user] no /dev/v4l devices after switching to udev? (possibly)

2005-05-22 Thread Mark Knecht
ory gandalf linux # uname -r 2.6.11-gentoo-r9 gandalf linux # I've checked that both have v4l support enabled in the kernel. What am I missing on this new machine? I'm sure there must just be some other thign required to get this turned on? I don't seem to be able to configure My

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Installing on Firewire drive?

2005-05-22 Thread Mark Knecht
ferred as. (hd0,X)? (hd1,X) Will you use grub on the YD installation to choose YD vs. Gentoo? If so then you might try entering grub under YD and seeing where the tab completion process tells you anything. Sorry I cannot be of more help. I know nothing of Macs so this is way far out stuff for me. Good luck, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] no /dev/v4l devices after switching to udev? (possibly)

2005-05-22 Thread Mark Knecht
ki for MythTV before. It has a number of small mistakes or at least ambiguities in it, from what I remember, when I did my wife's machine. Maybe I've missed something. Back to the drawing board. Thanks, Mark On 5/22/05, Brett I. Holcomb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You may need t

Re: [gentoo-user] no /dev/v4l devices after switching to udev? (possibly)

2005-05-22 Thread Mark Knecht
or possibly something that did happen taht caused them to be invalid. Problem is I don't have a clude what makes this happen? Why do any of these get involed in the first place? Is there some caracter device I need to create to make them happen the first time? I haven't found evidence of that in the wiki's but maybe I've missed it. Thanks much, Desperately Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] no /dev/v4l devices after switching to udev? (possibly)

2005-05-22 Thread Mark Knecht
#x27;t suddenly disappear! Anyway, thanks for the ideas. cheers, Mark On 5/22/05, Brett I. Holcomb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try the tarball no. It may be using the old devfs tarball. > > On Sun, 22 May 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > On 5/22/05, Brett I. Holcomb <

Re: [gentoo-user] portage v. yum with regards to java

2005-05-22 Thread Mark Shields
ut portage which allows > > <http://packagestest.gentoo.org/ebuilds/?sun-jdk-1.5.0.03>, which > > don't exist in yum? > > > > > > thanks, > > > > Thufir > > > > -- > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- > Nick Rout > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- - Mark Shields -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ipw2200

2005-05-23 Thread Mark Shields
gt; > > You should have a look at portage(5). > package.keywords (hint-hint-hint) > Then you should have a look at emerge(1). > --deep (-D) (hint-hint-hint) > -- > Today is Pungenday, the 70th day of Discord in the YOLD 3171 > > > -- - Mark Shields -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] no /dev/v4l devices after switching to udev? (possibly)

2005-05-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On 5/24/05, Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/22/2005 6:43 PM Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > All I hope for now is that they don't suddenly disappear! And they didn't. The machine works fine now. I still, however, have absolutely no idea how and why v

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Bad performance with external USB disk

2005-05-26 Thread Mark Knecht
They are not all the same on my Compaq and I do get better performance from the USB 2.0 ports. Good luck, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CFLAGS CPU optimization question.

2005-05-27 Thread Mark Shields
sing -fpmath=sse on early athlon-xp cpus is known to produce unstable > code, so beware :) > > Julien > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- - Mark Shields -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CFLAGS CPU optimization question.

2005-05-27 Thread Mark Shields
What port do you suggest (sorry for hijacking this thread!)? On 5/27/05, Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Change the sshd port, the hammering will be smaller... > > 2005/5/27, Mark Shields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Walter, > &

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CFLAGS CPU optimization question.

2005-05-27 Thread Mark Shields
500 > seconds of saved time per day to move to a nonstandard setup. That may > very well be the case, but a lot of people would probably decide that it's > not. > -- > Kirk Strauser > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- - Mark Shields -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CFLAGS CPU optimization question.

2005-05-27 Thread Mark Shields
I define "hammered" as more than a handful from the same IP. Between April 27th and May 22nd: # wc -l invalid.logins 1611 invalid.logins On 5/27/05, Mark Shields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is a personal server (router/ftp/sftp/ssh home server), and I'm >

Re: [gentoo-user] Back up with no root

2005-05-28 Thread Mark Shields
> > Thank you. > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFCl2JIBOPsJyAQkeARAglpAKChjai/SSVils4LLAhvBHFw4GPF0gCgx50O > 4JBov/gZcdie8jtIhnBLvGw= > =1cGc > -END PGP SIGNATURE- > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- - Mark Shields -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Back up with no root

2005-05-28 Thread Mark Shields
oops. It's "Then, add the user you want to be able to use sudo to the wheel group (usermod -g wheel )." On 5/28/05, Mark Shields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Obviously, if you've never used sudo you'll have to emerge the package > app-admin/sudo. Then, c

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Dual Boot

2005-05-28 Thread Mark Shields
vices.) When you ask the BIOS to boot > from a different hard disk (for instance your primary slave), that > harddisk is seen as hd0." > > For my setup hda1 is equal to (hd1,0) > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- - Mark Shields -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need help setting up Gentoo to access digital camera

2005-05-28 Thread Mark Knecht
opy photos off. I had to set up USB disk stuff in my kernels. With that in place when I connect the camera and look at dmesg I'll see the scsi device that got attached. (Usually sdb for me.) I think mount the camera using something like mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/camera and at that point I'm good to go. Good luck, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need help setting up Gentoo to access digital camera

2005-05-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On 5/28/05, Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2005-05-28 at 12:42 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > I don't do anything really fancy with mine. I just access pictures via > > Gnome's desktop interface and copy photos off. > > > > I had t

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] temperature of sys. and hdd

2005-05-29 Thread Mark Shields
amás > -- > Make the world confused!Zavard össze a világot! > Smile on monday morning!Mosolyogj hétfő reggel! > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- - Mark Shields -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Permission bug in Date command?

2005-05-29 Thread Mark Shields
I updated the date on my system because it was incorrect. Here's what happened: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mark $ date 052912112005 date: cannot set date: Operation not permitted Sun May 29 12:11:00 EST 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mark $ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mark $ date 052910132005 date: cannot set

Re: [gentoo-user] Back up with no root

2005-05-29 Thread Mark Shields
Yeah, you're right. I apologize. On 5/28/05, Pupeno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 28 May 2005 10:47, Mark Shields wrote: > > Obviously, if you've never used sudo you'll have to emerge the package > > app-admin/sudo. Then, configure /etc/sudoer

[gentoo-user] determining who is using a device

2005-05-29 Thread Mark Knecht
quiet --logfile /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log root 22790 0.0 0.0 1536 488 pts/0R+ 11:37 0:00 grep 21722 gandalf ~ # However when we look at mythfrontend it doesn't say that the program is recording anything so something seems messed up. MythTV problem or something else? Th

[gentoo-user] After switching to udev partitions no longer mount automatically

2005-05-29 Thread Mark Knecht
ry if not populated with files) # Adding the following line to /etc/fstab should take care of this: none/dev/shmtmpfs defaults 0 0 # Scanner none/proc/bus/usb usbfs defaults,devmode=0666,user=mark 0 0 gandalf ~ # Th

Re: [gentoo-user] Building and using binary packages with emerge/portage

2005-05-29 Thread Mark Shields
and 'man > emerge' fairly well, but they are a bit vague when it comes to binary > packages. I'll gladly RTFM if I knew a good one. I just don't want to > have to RTFSource. > > -- > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- - Mark Shields -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] After switching to udev partitions no longer mount automatically

2005-05-29 Thread Mark Knecht
On 5/29/05, Bob Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 29 May 2005 14:02:03 -0700 > Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > >Does udev somehow not support mounting by label? > > > > It's needs the device - /dev/hdxx defi

Re: [gentoo-user] After switching to udev partitions no longer mount automatically

2005-05-30 Thread Mark Knecht
On 5/30/05, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2005-05-29 at 17:39 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > This is, unfortunately, a very bad idea for removable media. What was > > sdb2 today will become sdc2 tomorrow and the suggestion you make will > >

[gentoo-user] HELP! - driver not working after boot but works when modprobed - did emerge -C devfsd cause this?

2005-05-30 Thread Mark Knecht
ate mostly non-~x86 box running 2.6.11-gentoo-r9 and is an Nforce-2 MB. It's been up and running Gentoo since it's birth almost 2 years ago. Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Building and using binary packages with emerge/portage

2005-05-30 Thread Mark Knecht
is probably accounts for revdep-rebuild never getting it quite right for binary packages like openoffice-bin and always wanting to re-emerge it again? Cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] HELP! - driver not working after boot but works when modprobed - did emerge -C devfsd cause this?

2005-05-30 Thread Mark Knecht
On 5/30/05, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > > I really do not understand how udev works other than there are some > >rules that create devices. Is it possible that with udev the required > >v4l devices are somehow not created

Re: [gentoo-user] HELP! - driver not working after boot but works when modprobed - did emerge -C devfsd cause this?

2005-05-30 Thread Mark Knecht
removing device node '/dev/vcc/a6' May 30 10:34:39 [su(pam_unix)] session closed for user root May 30 10:34:40 [PAM-env] Unknown PAM_ITEM: May 30 10:34:40 [sshd] PAM pam_putenv: delete non-existent entry; DISPLAY May 30 10:34:40 [PAM-env] Unknown PAM_ITEM: May 30 10:34:40 [sshd] PAM pam_

[gentoo-user] ssh/scp browser?

2005-05-30 Thread Mark Knecht
ws me what's there and then allows drag and drop between the two? I'm looking in the category list but nothing pops up. Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh/scp browser?

2005-05-30 Thread Mark Knecht
Tom and Nicholas, Thanks. I'll give them a try. Cheers, Mark On 5/30/05, Tom Wesley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 11:13 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > Hi, > >I think there must be some sort of simple GUI-based replacement for > > what

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh/scp browser?

2005-05-30 Thread Mark Knecht
On 5/30/05, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 30 May 2005 11:13:04 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > >I think there must be some sort of simple GUI-based replacement for > > what I'm doing all the time with ssh/scp. I first ssh into the machine > &

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh/scp browser?

2005-05-30 Thread Mark Knecht
er am I really) > I've always been able to do: > > sftp://[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dir/I/want > > in the nautilus location bar in gnome. I then bookmark it in nautilus, easy to > get to from then on. Game, set and match to Chris Woods. Thanks Chris! Exactly what I wanted. cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Building and using binary packages with emerge/portage

2005-05-30 Thread Mark Knecht
On 5/30/05, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 10:13 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > On 5/30/05, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think those binary packag

[gentoo-user] modules-update - modprobe.conf/modules.conf broken

2005-05-31 Thread Mark Knecht
ndalf modules.d # ls -la /etc/modprobe.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 227 May 31 10:41 /etc/modprobe.conf gandalf modules.d # WHY Ownership and permissions are the same for this file as for all other files in /etc/modules.d. help...I'm drowning...glug - Mark -- gentoo-user@

[gentoo-user] Re: modules-update - modprobe.conf/modules.conf broken

2005-05-31 Thread Mark Knecht
On 5/31/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > gandalf modules.d # cat /etc/modules.d/ivtv > alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c > alias char-major-81 videodev > alias char-major-81-0 ivtv > > modprobe tveeprom > modprobe ivtv ivtv_debug=1 tuner=57,57,57,57 > gandalf

Re: [gentoo-user] bandwidthd alternative

2005-05-31 Thread Mark Shields
t; Do you know any other alternative? > > --- > Miguel > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- - Mark Shields -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [Fwd: baselayout-1.11.12-r2 request for testers]

2005-06-02 Thread Mark Knecht
x27;2.6.11-gentoo-r6 preempt PENTIUMIII gcc-3.3' should be '2.6.11-gentoo-r6 preempt PENTIUM4 gcc-3.3' I hope someone can point me in the right direction to get this fixed ASAP. Thanks, Mark On 6/1/05, Paul Varner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Forwarded from gentoo-dev

Re: [gentoo-user] [Fwd: baselayout-1.11.12-r2 request for testers]

2005-06-02 Thread Mark Knecht
After some Googling it appears this kernel is built for Pentium III even though the hardware (and make.conf) say Pention 4. I am rebuilding the kernel and modules for Pentium 4. - Mark On 6/2/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike, >Where do I report problems? I se

Re: [gentoo-user] Does a stage 2 or 3 install eventually catch up with stage 1?

2005-06-02 Thread Mark Knecht
s I always feel I need to rebuild the kernel clean since I've updated gcc/glibc. I think this would be preferable to people who just want to get the machine up and running ASAP and deal with finishing the job later. Cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Does a stage 2 or 3 install eventually catch up with stage 1?

2005-06-02 Thread Mark Shields
That's an interesting idea, Phil. Perhaps a livecd that works like Knoppix, where you can choose to install it to your system? On 6/2/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/2/05, Phil Sexton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 18:00, Walter D

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] tips on my 1st try at iptables?

2005-06-02 Thread Mark Shields
;/etc/init.d/iptables save" saves the current rule set and > automatically restores it on startup). > > > -- > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- - Mark Shields -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] bandwidthd alternative

2005-06-03 Thread Mark Shields
t; applications for monitoring web traffic(browsing) etc? > -- > Thank you, > > Vincent A. Primavera. > > - Original Message - > From: Mark Shields > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 9:15 PM > Subject: Re: [gen

Re: [gentoo-user] Rebuild entire system - recompile all installed packages

2005-06-04 Thread Mark Shields
a lot, > > Alexander Skwar > -- > wok, n.: > Something to thwow at a wabbit. > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- - Mark Shields -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Rebuild entire system - recompile all installed packages

2005-06-04 Thread Mark Shields
Ha, brain-fart today. I see you already tried that. You can try --onlydeps. Check out man emerge On 6/4/05, Mark Shields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try the --emptytree option (with --pretend of course). > > On 6/4/05, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > &g

[gentoo-user] AMI - Primary Master Hard Disk Error??

2005-06-04 Thread Mark Knecht
ve some first hand knowledge what this message is really telling me is wrong. I have one other old hard drive that I could try but that's a couple of hours of work I'd rather not go through if there's a simple fix to this. (Like some BIOS setting, etc.) Thanks in advance, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] AMI - Primary Master Hard Disk Error??

2005-06-04 Thread Mark Knecht
died for numerous hardware reasons. Armed with that info I blew away the partitions, installed Gentoo from scratch and 3 hours later have a working Pundit-R sitting atop my TV. Now, on to build apps and get MythTV working. cheers, Mark On 6/4/05, Michael Kjorling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: &

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-06-04 Thread Mark Knecht
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda4 or possibly kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda4 which would be more the way I usually do it. On 6/4/05, maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Remove the "root (hd0,1)" line. That should (I > > hope) let you boot > > gentoo from the fl

[gentoo-user] Watch out folks!!! (Bug #95050 appears deadly!!!)

2005-06-04 Thread Mark Knecht
My new MythTV system I was bringing up today seems ot have bit the dust in a very ugly way. emerge --deep --update --newuse system was proceeding and then die. Now look at the results: localhost root # emerge -pv system /usr/bin/python: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot

Re: [gentoo-user] Watch out folks!!! (Bug #95050 appears deadly!!!)

2005-06-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/4/05, Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > localhost root # emerge -pv system > > /usr/bin/python: error while loading shared > > libraries: libstdc++.so.5: > > cannot

Re: [gentoo-user] Watch out folks!!! (Bug #95050 appears deadly!!!)

2005-06-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/4/05, Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Mark, > > You only need to get back libstdc++.so.5 ;-) > > Are you sure it's gone? Mine is in > /usr/lib/libstdc++-v3/libstdc++.so.5 and if yours is > still there then you can run ldconfig to fix it >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Installing on Firewire drive?

2005-06-04 Thread Mark Knecht
then you try (sdb and hit tab again and it would print a list of partitions. Possibly what you are thinking of as sda11 is readlly sdb11, etc. Wish I could help more. BTW: My interest is in 1394. I helped write some of the IEEE specs and use 1394 a lot myself. good luck, Mark On

[gentoo-user] How do I set xorg.conf monitor scan rates for S-Video/TV output?

2005-06-06 Thread Mark Knecht
drm myth11 root # When I start X then X runs but the sync is wrong and the video is laid over on it's side and rolling. I tried all the Alt-Ctrl-PageUp settings but they all do this. I'm unclear how to choose my monitor scan rates for a TV. Any and all clues really welcomed. Than

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I set xorg.conf monitor scan rates for S-Video/TV output?

2005-06-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/6/05, Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >I'm unclear how to choose my monitor scan rates > > for a TV. Any and all clues really welcomed. > > > > Thanks, > > Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I set xorg.conf monitor scan rates for S-Video/TV output?

2005-06-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/6/05, Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thanks. Tried it but same results, other than the > > Alt-Ctrl-+ stuff > > doesn't sequence anymore. (As expected.) Here's > > what&

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I set xorg.conf monitor scan rates for S-Video/TV output?

2005-06-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/6/05, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Mark Knecht wrote: > > >Hi, > > I have two machines (my laptop and a Pundit-R) that both have > >S-Video outputs which I would like to run X over to do MythTV with > >talking to TVs. Both mach

Re: [gentoo-user] BootSplash

2005-06-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/7/05, Allan Spagnol Comar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > guys I had installed splashutils and I confess I am totally lost :( . > where can I find information about it ? Possibly here? http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_fbsplash Good luck, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] What spins a drive up?

2005-06-08 Thread Mark Knecht
hat and at least make it more infrequent? I see nothing in /var/log/messages nor anything in dmesg. Is there somewhere else I should look? Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] What spins a drive up?

2005-06-08 Thread Mark Knecht
-- Forwarded message -- From: Tim Igoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Jun 8, 2005 6:27 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What spins a drive up? To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mark Knecht wrote: > Hello, >I'm experimenting with leaving a drive turned off in a Myt

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What spins a drive up?

2005-06-08 Thread Mark Knecht
1' and seeing what happens. cheers, Mark On 6/8/05, Remy Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > >I'm experimenting with leaving a drive turned off in a MythTV > > frontend. I have laptop_mode turned on with whatever it has for > > default se

Re: [gentoo-user] depclean sane?

2005-06-08 Thread Mark Knecht
openoffice-bin or other binary downloads. Basically go around the loop removing one or two and seeing how it goes. If revdep-rebuild sees a problem then you'll re-emerge what you need and be clean. Good luck, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] photo management

2005-06-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/8/05, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (please.. someone re-assure me!!) You are hereby reassured. ;-) - Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What spins a drive up?

2005-06-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/8/05, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 07:03 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > Thanks Remy. I'll investigate some of these settings. > > > > As I sat here at 6:48AM (roughly) the drive spun up again. I was > > watching 'to

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -pv world error

2005-06-08 Thread Mark Shields
. > . These pages are best viewed by coming to my house and looking at . > . my monitor. [S. Lucas Bergman (on his website)]. > .... > -- &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What spins a drive up?

2005-06-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/8/05, Remy Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > One setting I noticed rereading the config file was this one: > > > > > > Enable laptop mode always, not just when on battery? > > # (This will still disable lapto

Re: [gentoo-user] Uncluttering my world file

2005-06-08 Thread Mark Knecht
video/ati-drivers net-misc/ntp sys-apps/pciutils sys-apps/slocate sys-boot/grub sys-kernel/gentoo-sources sys-kernel/linux-headers sys-libs/glibc sys-process/vixie-cron www-client/links x11-wm/fluxbox myth11 root # Hope this helps, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] What spins a drive up?

2005-06-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/8/05, A. Khattri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > But as I said vixie-cron is turned off. How could hourly crons run? > > What else is running? > > Maybe you can run "ps -ef" and show us the output? >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What spins a drive up?

2005-06-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/8/05, Peter Ruskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 08 June 2005 16:35, Mark Knecht wrote: > > myth11 root # echo 1>/proc/sys/vm/block_dump > > myth11 root # cat /proc/sys/vm/block_dump > > 0 > > [18:03 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] > # echo 1 &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Uncluttering my world file

2005-06-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/8/05, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > >Hi Kevin, > > I don't know of an automated way to do it. I had to go through my > >machines by hand doing the emerge/depclean/revdep-rebuild process I > >outlined in an email

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What spins a drive up?

2005-06-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/8/05, Remy Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > >I'm experimenting with leaving a drive turned off in a MythTV > > frontend. I have laptop_mode turned on with whatever it has for > > default settings. I have vixie-cron turned off. On

[gentoo-user] problem booting from a USB flash drive

2005-06-09 Thread Mark Knecht
the kernel possibly need a boot line config option to tell it to boot from SCSI or something? Thanks in advance, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What spins a drive up?

2005-06-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/9/05, Remy Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Mark Knecht wrote: > >I got back to looking at this item this evening. dmesg is now full of > > this: > > > > pdflush(185): WRITE block 14947712 on hda3 > > syslog-ng(5341): dirtied inode

Re: [gentoo-user] problem booting from a USB flash drive

2005-06-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/9/05, Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Mark, > > I boot from a usb hard disk and I don't really have to > do anything special. Well, actually I load modules > from a genkernel initrd but that doesn't apply here > since you built in the drivers.

Re: [gentoo-user] problem booting from a USB flash drive

2005-06-10 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/10/05, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 10 Jun 2005 01:28:40 -0400, Colin wrote: > > > >Probably. You can save space with a compressed > > >filesystem like jjfs or squashfs. You probably want > > >to mount it read only since flash has limited write > > >cycles. > > > Kind

Re: [gentoo-user] problem booting from a USB flash drive

2005-06-10 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/10/05, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 10 Jun 2005 03:59:16 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > On 6/10/05, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > CF cards aren't lockable, but some CD-IDE adaptors have a write > > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] problem booting from a USB flash drive

2005-06-10 Thread Mark Knecht
he services are really starting. However I do have networking so that's a start. Thanks for doing the reading! - Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] problem booting from a USB flash drive

2005-06-10 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/10/05, Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Great call Zac! rootdelay=10 allowed me to boot from > > the flash drive > > Excellent! That's good to know. If you need any help >

Re: [gentoo-user] fglrxconfig

2005-06-11 Thread Mark Shields
; Does anyone have any clues on what might be going wrong? > > Cheers > > Antoine > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- - Mark Shields -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] fglrxconfig

2005-06-11 Thread Mark Knecht
with /dev/agpgart and your chipset support as modular. Turn off DRM support in the kernel. 5) Reboot with the new kernel 6) in xorg.conf choose: Option "MonitorLayout" "STV, NONE" 7) modprobe fglrx 8) Enjoy. Hopefully this will get you a bit closer. Good luc

Re: [gentoo-user] portage behaviour

2005-06-11 Thread Mark Shields
7;fam' with 'gamin' (unmerged fam) and today have to > rebuild 'courier-imap' with "-fam' USE-flag. > Result: now using 'emerge -DNu world -ptv' to check my upgrades (-N == > --newuse). x86-system with some ~x86. > HTH. Rumen > > > -- - Mark Shields -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] fglrxconfig

2005-06-11 Thread Mark Shields
Holly, Yeah, I was trying to remember. I know the open-source driver is called simply "ati". On 6/11/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What modules are loaded? I just set up a Radeon 9200 for MythTV using > the SVideo out. It was a bit difficult. This is for

Re: [gentoo-user] LiveCD distcc/Live CD's are Wonderfull

2005-06-12 Thread Mark Shields
n meditate after parking so that suddenly I am living > "in the moment" and the car location REGISTRATES in my brain. I am going > to try this last procedure, as I don't want to be having Alzheimer's > disease in my 40's. > > Thanks for all who listen. Now you know alot about me and who I am here in > Hillsboro, Oregon, where all sun is liquid sunshine i.e rain, haha. I am > Rob, disabled Berkeley BSEE, now turned Gentoo Linux hacker. I hope I can > have coffee with Linus the next time he is up here. He works only 3 miles > from where I live. > > Best regards, and sorry for this very OT OT subject. > > Sincerely, Rob N3FT > > > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- - Mark Shields -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Lost my NFS shares...

2005-06-13 Thread Mark Knecht
7;s fstab entry: dragonfly:/Musiclib /home/mark/Musiclib nfs noauto,user,ro 0 0 4) From my laptop: flash ~ $ mount Musiclib mount: dragonfly:/Musiclib failed, reason given by server: Permission denied flash ~ $ 5) In the server's /var/log/message file after attempting to conne

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