[gentoo-user] make dev / udev question (1394 related)

2005-07-17 Thread Mark Knecht
le somewhere in some udev.conf file? Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] make dev / udev question (1394 related)

2005-07-17 Thread Mark Knecht
is? Or is there possibly supposed to be a link of some type from /dev/raw1394 to /dev/raw/raw1394? Or is my device not the same as yours? Thanks, Mark On 7/17/05, Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike Williams wrote: > > On Sunday 17 July 2005 22:35, Mark Knecht wrote: >

Re: [gentoo-user] make dev / udev question (1394 related)

2005-07-17 Thread Mark Knecht
Daniel, See my other post on this thread but as for the kernel it is updated: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ uname -a Linux godzilla 2.6.12-gentoo-r4 #1 Sat Jul 16 09:29:59 PDT 2005 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP1600+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ Thanks, Mark On 7/17/05, Daniel Drake <[EM

Re: [gentoo-user] make dev / udev question (1394 related)

2005-07-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On 7/17/05, Daniel Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Mark Knecht wrote: > > which would have made the device. Is the fact that the device isn't > > created a problem with the ebuild? Even if it was, how should this > > really be created for a

Re: [gentoo-user] make dev / udev question (1394 related)

2005-07-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On 7/17/05, Daniel Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > What's throwing me is that the libraw1394 emerge makes this limited > > complaint: > > > > > > Required /dev/raw1394 device fil

[gentoo-user] Can't emerge glibc as it completely fills /var

2005-07-18 Thread Mark Knecht
cales 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kB dragonfly ~ # There's probably a config option for where this work is done somewhere else. What would I change to temporarily move the elsewhere if indeed there is no bug. Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge glibc as it completely fills /var

2005-07-18 Thread Mark Knecht
On 7/18/05, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 08:36:32 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > dragonfly ~ # emerge -pv glibc > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > > > Calculating dependencies ...done! >

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge glibc as it completely fills /var

2005-07-18 Thread Mark Knecht
On 7/18/05, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 10:05:22 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > PORTAGE_TMPDIR determines where portage uses for temporary storage. > > > > I set this in make.conf, correct? > > Correct > > >

[gentoo-user] Gentoo Installation

2005-07-19 Thread Mark Humphrey
Does Gentoo have any sort of GUI for installation? I've followed the Gentoo Handbook, but a GUI would obviously be nicer. Email Disclaimer http://www.aplitec.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Installation

2005-07-19 Thread Mark Humphrey
Zac Medico wrote: > Mark Humphrey wrote: > >> Does Gentoo have any sort of GUI for installation? I've followed the >> Gentoo Handbook, but a GUI would obviously be nicer. >> > > Yes, it's the "Gentoo Installer" project: > http://www.gentoo

[gentoo-user] non-sudo way for user to run shutdown -h now? (or any equivalent)

2005-07-20 Thread Mark Knecht
that I could emerge? There's only two accounts on this machine - root & mythtv - and it's within the mythtv account that I want to be able to shut the machine down using a remote control only. Thanks for any and all ideas. Cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] non-sudo way for user to run shutdown -h now? (or any equivalent)

2005-07-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On 7/20/05, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > >Hi, > > I'm trying to get my mythfrontend box to allow a user to shut the > >machine down without the use of a keyboard. We are only using remote > >controls. suso doesn

[gentoo-user] Re: non-sudo way for user to run shutdown -h now? (or any equivalent)

2005-07-21 Thread Mark Knecht
Thanks! good info. cheers, Mark On 7/21/05, CoolAJ86 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You'll need to setuid on the binary (that makes it run by everone as if > root had run it). You may also want to configure acpi so that hitting > the off button causes a clean shutdown. > &g

[gentoo-user] Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory

2005-07-24 Thread Mark Shields
ep Mem MemTotal: 904336 kB MemFree: 91224 kB Any ideas? -- - Mark Shields -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory

2005-07-24 Thread Mark Shields
IL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 24 07 2005 21:46 Mark Shields wrote: > > I put some more memory in it, and it shows up fine > > as 1048576 KB (1 gigabyte). Gentoo, however, is only showing it as > > 904336 KB (883.14 MB) . > > Did you enable high Memory Support in

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory

2005-07-24 Thread Mark Shields
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /proc/meminfo | grep Mem MemTotal: 1034284 kB MemFree:953172 kB Thanks for the tip. But strangely, 12mb is still missing. On 7/24/05, Rudmer van Dijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 24 July 2005 22:21, Mark Shields wrote: > > No I d

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory

2005-07-24 Thread Mark Shields
17 minutes ago, yes. On 7/24/05, Brett I. Holcomb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did you build the kernel with high memory? > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory

2005-07-24 Thread Mark Shields
-- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- - Mark Shields -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory

2005-07-24 Thread Mark Shields
I'm fairly sure those options are disabled by default (I think). On 7/24/05, Mark Shields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 17 minutes ago, yes. > > On 7/24/05, Brett I. Holcomb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Did you build the kernel with high memory? > > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory

2005-07-24 Thread Mark Shields
Negative. I'm using a Geforce 4 MX 440 64mb card, and the motherboard doesn't come with onboard video. On 7/24/05, Tim Igoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Rudmer van Dijk wrote: > > On Sunday 24 July 2005 22:52, Mark Shields wrote: > > > >>[EMA

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory

2005-07-24 Thread Mark Shields
Ah, I wasn't aware, but that's a perfectly plausible explanation. On 7/24/05, Daniel Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Mark Shields wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /proc/meminfo | grep Mem > > MemTotal: 1034284 kB > > MemFree:

[gentoo-user] KDE 3.4

2005-07-25 Thread Mark Humphrey
Anyone know... when is a Gentoo release with packages disk with KDE 3.4 expected? Email Disclaimer http://www.aplitec.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] FS for laptop

2007-12-20 Thread Mark Kirkwood
used xfs on Mandake... before 'seeing the light' and moving to Gentoo... :-) . Conversly my experience with reiserfs has been consistent data corruption... so I avoid using it (mind you it's probably fine *now*, this was a few years ago). Cheers Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] FS for laptop

2007-12-20 Thread Mark Kirkwood
I wrote: I have used xfs on 2 Gentoo servers for the last year of so - several power outages, no problems: $ df -m Doh! meant to type 'mount' not 'df': $ mount /dev/md/2 on / type xfs (rw,noatime) /dev/md/0 on /boot type xfs (rw,noatime) /dev/md/3 on /tmp type xfs (rw,noatime) /dev/md/4 on /v

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting Question...

2007-12-21 Thread Mark Kirkwood
the article). The downside is you end up with a lot of partitions and filesystems to figure out how to size - but you can use LVM make it a bit more forgiving if you need to resize them. Cheers Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Enabling mmx USE flag on a Pentium 4 HTT?

2007-12-22 Thread Mark Shields
act that this ebuild has optional use flags for this setting is a red flag, in my opinion. I would recommend researching possible problems you may have before building any programs with the MMX use flag. -- - Mark Shields

[gentoo-user] Which ivtv driver for gentoo-sources-2.6.23-r5?

2007-12-25 Thread Mark Knecht
in /lib/modules. What version of ivtv is correct for this kernel? Thanks, Mark Linux video capture interface: v2.00 ivtv: Start initialization, version 1.0.0 ivtv0: Initializing card #0 ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge card (cx23416 based) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK1] enabled at IRQ 11 ACPI: PCI In

[gentoo-user] Firefox update results in Yahoo request for newer version

2008-01-03 Thread Mark Knecht
Yahoo! home page has to offer, please upgrade to a more recent browser. Supported browsers include: Internet Explorer 7 optimized by Yahoo! Firefox 2.0 Safari 2.0 Opera 9 Are others seeing the same thing? Thanks, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox update results in Yahoo request for newer version

2008-01-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Jan 3, 2008 5:17 AM, Brian Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 03:32:47 -0800 > "Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > >On my wife's 32-bit Gentoo machine we did a large Gnome update > > today w

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox update results in Yahoo request for newer version

2008-01-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Jan 3, 2008 2:57 PM, Brian Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 06:47:42 -0800 > > "Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Jan 3, 2008 5:17 AM, Brian Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > &

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't send attachments

2008-01-06 Thread Mark Shields
ut > address_file: > driver = appendfile > delivery_date_add > envelope_to_add > return_path_add > address_reply: > driver = autoreply > begin retry > * * F,2h,15m; G,16h,1h,1.5; F,4d,6h > begin rewrite > begin authenticators &

[gentoo-user] Any newer Gentoo install CDs?

2008-01-06 Thread Mark Knecht
could use? thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Any newer Gentoo install CDs?

2008-01-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Jan 6, 2008 3:42 PM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 15:21:07 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > > >My son built a PC Friday using an Asus P5E motherboard. We went to > > install Gentoo 2007.0 and found it didn't see the disk drives and

Re: [gentoo-user] Any newer Gentoo install CDs?

2008-01-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Jan 6, 2008 4:11 PM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 15:52:14 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > > >The drive is SATA. I'm not familiar with AHCI. (What? Advanced Host > > controller Interface or something like that? If this is a driver th

Re: [gentoo-user] Any newer Gentoo install CDs?

2008-01-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Jan 7, 2008 12:15 AM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 16:31:43 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > > >OK, I took a few minutes away from his Half Life game to look at > > BIOS. I found the AHCI option and enabled it. Of course he wanted to >

Re: [gentoo-user] AHCI in Windows (was: Any newer Gentoo install CDs?)

2008-01-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Jan 7, 2008 3:34 AM, Renat Golubchyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 16:31:43 -0800 "Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >OK, I took a few minutes away from his Half Life game to look at > > BIOS. I found the AHCI

Re: [gentoo-user] AHCI in Windows (was: Any newer Gentoo install CDs?)

2008-01-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Jan 7, 2008 8:10 AM, Renat Golubchyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 07:46:34 -0800 "Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Jan 7, 2008 3:34 AM, Renat Golubchyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi! > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Incredibly slow disk access

2008-01-07 Thread Mark Shields
't be there. lspci may be a good one to > check as well. > > Dang, that is slow tho. > > Dale > > :-) :-) > -- > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > > I'd also recommending after checking for the above, also check what level of UDMA is set. Try this: hdparm -I /dev/hda | grep -i dma Yours should say probably either udma3 or udma4. My SATA-I drive is set to udma5, for example: hdparm -I /dev/sda | grep -i dma DMA: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5 udma6 -- - Mark Shields

[gentoo-user] What's with this hald thing and why can't I rip CDs any more?

2008-01-08 Thread Mark Knecht
is hald and when did it show up as necessary. I watched movies using xine the other day and didn't need it. Is this a Gnome/sound-juicer thing or something more global? What's wrong with ripping? Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Incredibly slow disk access

2008-01-08 Thread Mark Shields
On Jan 8, 2008 12:53 AM, Renat Golubchyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 20:51:02 -0500 "Mark Shields" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > I'd also recommending after checking for the above, also check what > > level of UDMA is set.

Re: [gentoo-user] What's with this hald thing and why can't I rip CDs any more?

2008-01-09 Thread Mark Knecht
lse that those go? I don't have ivman installed. Should I? I didn't have a clue that Gentoo was going to apparently push some new hardware interface on us. So far this seems like quite a mess since my system is now broken. - Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] What's with this hald thing and why can't I rip CDs any more?

2008-01-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On Jan 9, 2008 10:49 AM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 10:41:16 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > Things here are still basically a disaster. I rebooted. No change. > > sound-juicer still only rips the 1st six tracks and then skips the >

Re: [gentoo-user] What's with this hald thing and why can't I rip CDs any more?

2008-01-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On Jan 9, 2008 5:16 PM, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Naiani Rosa de Barros wrote: > > On Jan 9, 2008 7:08 PM, Naiani Rosa de Barros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > On Jan 9, 2008 5:03 PM, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 overlay

2008-01-12 Thread Mark Shields
-d kde && layman -a kde > > Having said that KDE 4.0.0 should show up as package.mask'ed in gentoo-x86 > within a few days. Eclasses for this has just been submitted to -dev@ ... > > -- > Bo Andresen > Awesome. Glad to hear it's been submitted. Thanks for the info. -- - Mark Shields

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is GWN dead?

2008-01-12 Thread Mark Knecht
all. Rock solid operation. High availability of interesting software either through portage directly or through overlays like proaudio. Just my 2 cents and no matter what nothing in this email should ever be construed as anything except the greatest respect and reverence for those who make this disrto run. Cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Daniel Robbins' come back ?

2008-01-12 Thread Mark Kirkwood
James wrote: In my mind I'm an accomplished person. In her mind I'm just another stupid EE, Hey James - Interesting post - this eludes me tho, what is an EE? Cheers Mark P.s: a beer should cure all women problems -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Is GWN dead?

2008-01-13 Thread Mark Knecht
do, should be focused at supporting new motherboards as soon as possible to ensure I can always install Gentoo on the newest machines. As far as I'm concerned, and this is just me the dumb user type, it doesn't need X, frame buffers, sound or *anything* fancy. Just boot to a text console and let me do my work. That would be perfect. Thanks for listening. Cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Is GWN dead?

2008-01-13 Thread Mark Knecht
On Jan 13, 2008 11:26 AM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 11:15:38 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > 1) Boots new hardware well enough to do the install. The current > > LiveCD doesn't boot a P5E motherboard so I couldn't do the in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Is GWN dead?

2008-01-15 Thread Mark Knecht
s and today have probably built 20 Gentoo machines. My longest lived, used my my dad who will be 80 this year, has now been running over 5 years. I couldn't have done it without the folks on this list. Grant you, I get that I'm not the target market, but I am someone who has benefited greatly from Gentoo and the generosity of the folks on this list. I hope it will continue for others that follow over the years to come. Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] /var/lib/init.d/depcache: line 2777: config: command not found

2008-01-16 Thread Mark Knecht
x this? Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/lib/init.d/depcache: line 2777: config: command not found

2008-01-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Jan 16, 2008 10:43 AM, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 16 January 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:40:16 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > dragonfly ~ # /etc/init.d/mythbackend start > > > * Caching service depen

Re: [gentoo-user] What's the position on Chrony?

2008-01-27 Thread Mark Shields
text 2 -n 16- # kludge for baselayout-1 compatibility 17- [ -z "${svclib}" ] && config /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf 18: need clock hostname localmount 19- provide logger 20-} Remove the 'clock' word and it should let syslog-ng start. -- - Mark Shields

Re: [gentoo-user] (no subject)

2008-01-27 Thread Mark Shields
gt; unsubscribe > -- > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > > -- - Mark Shields

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild

2008-01-27 Thread Mark Knecht
Add -pv --tree to the emerge command and look at the hierarchy. Probably can do it through equery but I'd have to look up the command myself so I'll leave that to you. Hope this helps, Mark On Jan 27, 2008 12:04 PM, sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I recently removed

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost /sbin/rc

2008-01-28 Thread Mark Kirkwood
seeing if it brings any of the missing stuff back... (assuming you are able to boot the machine somehow - install cd + chroot etc). Cheers Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost /sbin/rc

2008-01-28 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Alex Schuster wrote: Um, system is up and running - as I wrote, I had a backup and just copied the missing files back, so the system came up again. I re-emerged baselayout then to make sure all is back in place. I just wondered how this could have gone wrong and thought I'd post what happen

[gentoo-user] Old machine having troubles syncing

2008-01-29 Thread Mark Knecht
d a Gentoo machine do anything like this. Any ideas much appreciated. I've been googling but haven't found a great answer yet. Thanks in advance. Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Old machine having troubles syncing

2008-01-29 Thread Mark Knecht
On Jan 29, 2008 4:21 PM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:16:25 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > First step would be eix-sync which is > > failing with only a message > > > > problems running time emerge --sync > > Run

Re: [gentoo-user] Old machine having troubles syncing

2008-01-29 Thread Mark Knecht
On Jan 29, 2008 5:04 PM, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 29, 2008 4:21 PM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:16:25 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > > First step would be eix-sync which is > > > fai

Re: [gentoo-user] Gcc problem

2008-01-29 Thread Mark Kirkwood
James wrote: Hello, Every seen this error? # gcc-config -l * gcc-config: Active gcc profile is invalid! [1] i586-pc-linux-gnu-4.1.2 the system will not compile anything? Ideas on fixing? James Try: $ gcc-config 1 This will tell the system that 4.1.2 is the guy to use (I guess your

Re: [gentoo-user] Old machine having troubles syncing

2008-01-30 Thread Mark Knecht
On Jan 29, 2008 9:25 PM, Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:04:28 -0800 > "Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Maybe I should run my own portage server here for our 6 home > > machines? > > You could then sy

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on xbox

2008-01-31 Thread Mark Knecht
;d probably stick with that before I went to all the trouble of hacking the hard drive and trying to make the XBox a computer. If you Google 'knecht xbox bios' you will likely run into many of the conversations I had back in 2005 on this subject. Hope this helps, Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo on xbox

2008-01-31 Thread Mark Knecht
k done in the last 2 years since I played with this sort of hardware. http://www.copying-xbox-games.com/tutorials.php?tutorialid=0029 Whether any of these BIOS options fully support installing Linux would require a bit of study. Good luck, Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo on xbox

2008-01-31 Thread Mark Knecht
u get it running. I have a couple of old XBoxes here that would be nice to make some use of. FYI - when I did this project it was to use the XBox as a MythTV frontend. Cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] [Slightly OT] ext3 for Windows XP/Vista?

2008-02-03 Thread Mark Knecht
without being forced to use windows file systems. Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [Slightly OT] ext3 for Windows XP/Vista?

2008-02-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Feb 3, 2008 4:13 PM, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Feb 3, 2008 4:00 PM, Pupino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi Mark, > > I'm using that driver on windows vista from some weeks ago till now > > and it seems to give no trouble.

Re: [gentoo-user] [Slightly OT] ext3 for Windows XP/Vista?

2008-02-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Feb 3, 2008 4:00 PM, Pupino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/2/3, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > With an eye toward sharing some directories on my Gentoo machines with > > either Windows machines across my network or just making ext3 > > partitio

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

2008-02-15 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Supermicro P4TDER). Cheers Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

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

2008-02-15 Thread Mark Kirkwood
PCI-X with its 100, 133.33 and 266.66 MHz variants will get you 763, 1017 and 2034 MB/s. Cheers Mark P.S : also typo'ed the machine - is a P3TDER... -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.3.1 Won't Start As User

2008-02-21 Thread Mark Knecht
OpenOffice or OpenOffice-bin? I'm running 2.3.1 here on my AMD64. No problems that I've seen so far. - Mark On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 5:51 PM, Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I emerged OpenOffice 2.3.1 on my amd64 install running gentoo-2.6.23-r5 > kernel. I c

Re: [gentoo-user] Switch between sound cards?

2008-02-24 Thread Mark Knecht
t? > > - Grant > -- > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > > Why switch between them when you can use them both at the same time as hw:0 and hw:1? - Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /etc/modules.d/alsa # Alsa 0.9.X kernel modules' configuration file. # $Header: /var/cvsroot/g

Re: [gentoo-user] Switch between sound cards?

2008-02-24 Thread Mark Knecht
card using Aqualung and configuring it from the command line. (Actually in my launcher.) to the best of my knowledge there has never been a way to simply switch sound cards on the fly in Alsa. I've requested this sometime back but the developers haven't shown any interest. Hope this help

Re: [gentoo-user] Switch between sound cards?

2008-02-24 Thread Mark Knecht
t; >to the best of my knowledge there has never been a way to simply > > switch sound cards on the fly in Alsa. I've requested this sometime > > back but the developers haven't shown any interest. > > > > Hope this helps, > > Mark > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Switch between sound cards?

2008-02-25 Thread Mark Knecht
ed it but it sounds interesting. http://proaudio.tuxfamily.org/wiki/index.php?title=PulseAudio Cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Ghosting a Ext3 partition

2008-02-29 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Hmm - I would have thought it would... but for future reference I would recommend using a more Linux friendly (and reliable) tool like dumpe2fs ... Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Can anyone tell me?

2008-03-01 Thread Mark Knecht
;, 'unstable', etc. Very few (in my experience) 'break' my machine, but I have a rule that any package energed as part of emerge system must be stable and I personally add ~x86 or ~amd64 only for specific packages that I want or need some new feature. Hope this helps, Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Ghosting a Ext3 partition

2008-03-01 Thread Mark Kirkwood
ools for /boot, /, /usr, /var *at least*. I've had the misfortune of helping many people restore their broken Linux and Freebsd systems... and the only backups I've never had issues with have been the *dump variety. They are a little unfriendly at first, but they work. regards Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Ghosting a Ext3 partition

2008-03-01 Thread Mark Kirkwood
was thinking there - 'dumpe2fs' is completely wrong, should have written 'dump', sorry! regards Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Ghosting a Ext3 partition

2008-03-02 Thread Mark Kirkwood
tems - but it is pretty important to get able to backup of (for instance ) / ... and you usually don't have much option other than doing it live! regards Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Ghosting a Ext3 partition

2008-03-02 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Rasmus Andersen wrote: FreeBSD's softupdates should make filesystem state always consistent, metadatawise. Or so I think I remember, its been a while. That might aleviate some of the problems noted on the dump page I referenced. Freebsd's dump -L (live option) uses ufs2 snapshot capability

Re: [gentoo-user] Ghosting a Ext3 partition

2008-03-03 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Jonathan Haws wrote: On Sunday March 2 2008 16:43, Mark Kirkwood wrote: Right - what you intend the backup to protect against drives all this sort of stuff. The thing that is driving my backups is a hard disk failure. Hence I was using Ghost instead of something else so I can backup

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox update results in Yahoo request for newer version

2008-03-05 Thread Mark Knecht
8th IIRC. It is no longer a problem here. Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Bizarre SSH connection reset

2008-03-09 Thread Mark Shields
oo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > > Are you thinking his ISP is doing port-based connection filtering? -- - Mark Shields

Re: [gentoo-user] Bizarre SSH connection reset

2008-03-11 Thread Mark Shields
a day reminding me of their AUP. > > --Mike > > -- > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > > Who knows their Sandvine equipment is horrendous. But let's not get off topic. Collin: it may not be a "5-second rule". It may just be cutting it off after a certain amount of traffic has passed based on the protocol/port used. But I'm just speculating. Let's hear what fire-eyes has to say. -- - Mark Shields

Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

2008-03-11 Thread Mark Knecht
o. However if I wanted to get around those I could probably do something in a chroot but I'm not that motivated. If I was building a desktop machine today I wouldn't build 64-bit. I see no advantage and a few disadvantages, but either way you go you'll probably be fine. Cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

2008-03-14 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:00:41 -0700 > "Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 12:22 AM, Jamie Dobbs > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

2008-03-14 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:06:07 -0700 > "Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: >

Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

2008-03-14 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Filipe Sousa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Mark Knecht wrote: > > | On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | > | It's an interestin

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing a printer to XP: Samba vs IPP

2008-03-17 Thread Mark Shields
gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > > It sounds like you need to enable guest and public access to the printer. Here is an older guide, but it seems to have the relevant stuff you need: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=110931 These lines: public = yes guest ok = yes Check out the guide for the appropriate places to put them. -- - Mark Shields

Re: [gentoo-user] NEURAL NET SOFTWARE

2008-03-18 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 5:08 AM, Gavin Seddon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > HI DOES ANYONE KNOW OF GOOD TRAINABLE NN SOFTWARE ON PORTAGE? > -- > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > > FANN -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] iTunes with Gentoo?

2008-03-18 Thread Mark Knecht
Linux. If I don't use iTunes to rip then I do it in Linux using K3b. Hope this helps, Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] External hard disk doesn't mount on boot

2008-03-20 Thread Mark Knecht
in, no joy. > > So why is this only executing when I use udevstart? > Good work Dan. I'll save this thread for future reference. As someone who has used lots of external drives in the past you might want to do your mount by label or some sort of drive specific UUID and not by /dev/sd

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Power supply or motherboard dead?

2008-03-21 Thread Mark Shields
s (not Emachines supplied) back in my early days doing this (PSU wasn't Emachines, either). So, it can happen with other PSU/motherboards. If the motherboard has a status light and it isn't even coming on, then the motherboard is dead. Even bad CPUs I've damaged still allowed the motherboard, fans, etc. to power up (though nothing came up on the screen). -- - Mark Shields

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD vs. Intel on Gentoo?

2008-03-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 12:07 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sonntag, 23. März 2008, Neil Walker wrote: > > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > price/performance still favours AMD. > > > > How on earth do you justify that statement? > > > AMD Athlon64 X2 EE 6000+ 129€ (

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

2008-03-26 Thread Mark Knecht
e to forcibly drive them off. I run these in their 'bridging' mode and don't use any Linux wireless. All my Gentoo machines use wired networks talking to these boxes or the router directly. Hope this helps, Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -aDNvu world fails

2008-03-29 Thread Mark Knecht
> -- > Kevin O'Gorman, PhD > For now mask java above whatever revision is currently installed and move on. When your emerge is complete remember to remove the mask. When they fix the file/digest/whatever is causing the problem it will start working again. Hope this helps, Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -aDNvu world fails

2008-03-29 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 9:41 AM, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 9:23 AM, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 9:10 AM, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROT

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -aDNvu world fails

2008-03-29 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Norberto Bensa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > I never emerge everything I see in the list since most are > > dependencies themselves and I don't want to add them to my world file. > > > > emerge -1 wha

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop keeps freezing

2008-03-31 Thread Mark Knecht
rom another machine can you ssh in and then watch from there? Is the laptop dead or is it just not responding to its own keyboard? If it's still alive what's in the log files? Probably there are lots more things to do but these are the sort of things I'd try first. Good luck, Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] startup script in /etc/init.d does not perform the stop part.

2008-03-31 Thread Mark Shields
sshd | default > > syslog-ng | default > > *train | default* > > urandom | boot > > vixie-cron | default > > xdm | default > > > > Maybe you should post your script too! > > Regards, > > Daniel > -- > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > > What he said. Post the contents of /etc/init.d/train -- - Mark Shields

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