Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Bash completion problem: can anyone confirm?

2009-01-05 Thread Mick
2009/1/4 Nikos Chantziaras : > Mick wrote: >> >> On Sunday 04 January 2009, Graham Murray wrote: >>> >>> Willie Wong writes: >>>> >>>> Before I file a bug, I want to see if this is reproducible by others: >>>> >>>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r7 won't load network!

2009-01-09 Thread Mick
hat I try building the alsa drivers as modules. I tried it on for size and guess what, it worked! I have not idea why as modules it worked, while built in the kernel it did not. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r7 won't load network!

2009-01-10 Thread Mick
On Saturday 10 January 2009, Dale wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 22:37:44 +0000, Mick wrote: > >> Filed a bug and it was suggested to me that I try > >> building the alsa drivers as modules. I tried it on for size and guess > >> what, it w

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r7 won't load network!

2009-01-10 Thread Mick
On Saturday 10 January 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Saturday 10 January 2009 12:26:09 Mick wrote: > > On Saturday 10 January 2009, Dale wrote: > > > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > > On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 22:37:44 +, Mick wrote: > > > >> File

Re: [gentoo-user] Restricting Firefox website access

2009-01-13 Thread Mick
hich changes group to restricted one (but leaves uid > and home unchanged), Is this like creating a symlink to the original FF binary which you have moved somewhere else? Can you please explain? > then launches true firefox binary, to which only > that group has access. -- Regards,

Re: [gentoo-user] Network printing

2009-01-14 Thread Mick
e them effectively. In your case you just need to control access to your cups server by means of the allow/deny wrappers in /etc/cups/conf.d for machines in your LAN and let them through the iptables on the server machine. Increasing the verbosity of the access and error cups logs will show you

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I change MSS separately from MTU?

2009-01-14 Thread Mick
ection because of dropped packets, or how it will interact with the MTU set at 1492. In my case I have just set my MTU at 1492 to cater for the PPP authentication on my ISP's ADSL network. I leave the MSS to be at what the kernel wants it to be - typically MSS = MTU - 40. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Network printing

2009-01-15 Thread Mick
2009/1/15 Peter Humphrey : > On Wednesday 14 January 2009 08:58:11 Mick wrote: >> Increasing the verbosity of the access and error cups logs will show you >> what you need to (re)configure. > > It hasn't shown me yet, but I'll keep on plugging away at running test

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I change MSS separately from MTU?

2009-01-16 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 14 January 2009, Mick wrote: > On Monday 12 January 2009, Walter Dnes wrote: > > The only suggestion I've found via Google is iptables "mangle". Does > > it manage to change MSS without changing MTU? If so, what is the > > invocation in the &qu

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub Error 21: Selected disk does not exist

2009-01-17 Thread Mick
d environment? > I've done dozens of Gentoo installs, and I've never seen this > problem before. Did you try tab completion at: grub> root ( <--tab Had you chrooted properly at the time and could you see the grub fs under /boot/grub ?. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] X Program to show tty messages

2009-01-17 Thread Mick
tty12 and enter something like: destination xconsole { pipe("/dev/xconsole"); }; destination console_all { file("/dev/console"); }; in your /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub Error 21: Selected disk does not exist

2009-01-18 Thread Mick
plash.xpm.gz file, and you have to comment out the splashcreen > line in menu.lst. The path of the splash.xpm.gz has to be correct or you'll get problems booting up. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] qt blockages...

2009-01-19 Thread Mick
;, 'merge') (and 3 more) ('ebuild', '/', 'x11-libs/qt-4.4.2', 'merge') pulled in by >=x11-libs/qt-4.3:4 required by ('installed', '/', 'app-text/poppler-bindings-0.8.7', 'nomerge') =x11-libs/qt-4* required by ('installed', '/', 'net-wireless/wpa_supplicant-0.5.7', 'nomerge') x11-libs/qt required by world == I am running vlc-0.9.8a which is the only one available. How could I go about this? -- Regards, Mick

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-libs/wxGTK-2.8.9.1-r3 fails to emerge

2009-01-19 Thread Mick
2009/1/19 Justin : > Mick schrieb: [snip...] > You should provide "the top most build error". Otherwise helping is hard. Sorry, I thought I had. Here it goes: == /bk-deps i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -c -o coredll_dirdlg.o -D__WXGTK__ -I

[gentoo-user] x11-libs/wxGTK-2.8.9.1-r3 fails to emerge

2009-01-19 Thread Mick
stack: * ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile * environment, line 2666: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * emake || die "make failed."; * The die message: * make failed. Any ideas? -- Regards, Mick

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-libs/wxGTK-2.8.9.1-r3 fails to emerge

2009-01-19 Thread Mick
2009/1/19 Justin : > Mick schrieb: >> Sorry, I thought I had. Here it goes: >> == snip [...] >> == >> >> > I am sorry, but I still do not see the actual error. > > Did yo

Re: [gentoo-user] qt blockages...

2009-01-20 Thread Mick
2009/1/19 Dave Jones : > Mick wrote on 19/01/09 11:31: >> Unfortunately mine is not as easy: >> == [snip ...] >> == >> >> I am running vlc-0.9.8a which is the only one available. How could I >>

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-libs/wxGTK-2.8.9.1-r3 fails to emerge

2009-01-20 Thread Mick
from what you've seen no such message was shown. Either way, problem solved. Thanks again. -- Regards, Mick

Re: [gentoo-user] MTRR setting? Where could I have put it?

2009-01-22 Thread Mick
put this thing which I >> remembered having manual inserted so I can undo the damage. >> >> Also, what is this MTRR cleanup option? I can't seem to find it? >> >> W > > are you using a recent kernel? 2.6.27 or 28? I am using both. I have a mtrr entry in my kernel boot line like this: mtrr:4 but when configuring the new kernel I came across this option: MTRR cleanup enable value (0-1) which confused me. What am I supposed to choose here, other than the default 0 value? -- Regards, Mick

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why isn't sshd blocking repeated failed login attempts?

2009-01-22 Thread Mick
want to have a look at fail2ban. I recall it kicks in much faster. However, the best approach to this would probably be to use iptables and set a limit as to how many connections an unknown host could start. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why isn't sshd blocking repeated failed login attempts?

2009-01-23 Thread Mick
to match the rate of new connections? Drop everything that comes in thick and fast and, or drop repeated attempts from a certain ip address. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet radio?

2009-01-30 Thread Mick
r my needs: http://linuxcentre.net/getiplayer/ -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] STAR options have me confused

2009-02-01 Thread Mick
root 940288000 Feb 1 10:42 hda5_root1.tar ... Is this difference in size between the hda5_root1.tar and hda5_root1.star expected? I also show above the previous back up I did as a comparison (although I cannot recall exactly what op

Re: [gentoo-user] STAR options have me confused

2009-02-02 Thread Mick
On Sunday 01 February 2009, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Mick wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I do not seem to be able to run star with the correct options despite > > some experimenting ... and was hoping you could correct my errors. > > Try the command lines from th

[gentoo-user] Update mime database - won't!

2009-02-08 Thread Mick
veals that it's not there: # ls -la /usr/local/share/mime/ ls: cannot access /usr/local/share/mime/: No such file or directory Is there anything else that I need to do first before trying to update it? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Update mime database - won't!

2009-02-08 Thread Mick
On Sunday 08 February 2009, Justin wrote: > Mick wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I tried following the elog suggestion after emerging > > x11-misc/shared-mime-info-0.51, but I get this message back: > > > > # update-mime-database /usr/local/share/mime/ >

[gentoo-user] [OT] Sendmail and Comcast

2009-02-08 Thread Mick
long day trying to get it to run I have now grown blind to it. The error I get is: - Transcript of session follows - ... while talking to smtp.comcast.net: >>> MAIL From: SIZE=578 <<< 550 5.1.0 Authentication required 554 5.0.0 Service unavailable -- Regards, Mi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Sendmail and Comcast

2009-02-09 Thread Mick
sed smmsp as the user. I thought that this was the process runnind sendmail on my mailserver. > "I:myu...@comcast.net" "P:MYPASSWD" > "M: LOGIN PLAIN" # end authinfo > > Heed the comment about makemap or authinfo won't work. Thank you very much for y

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ALSA config problem

2009-02-10 Thread Mick
t as a module to get it to work with kernel 2.6.27-gentoo-r6/8. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] The Linux Ecosystem (with funny references to Gentoo vs Canonical)

2009-02-10 Thread Mick
t different user profiles here. To answer your friend's hypothetical question - he would either have to change your average Ubuntu's user technical aptitude, or change the user. Either attempt may mean the end of Ubuntu as we know it. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] seamonkey helper apps

2009-02-10 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 10 February 2009, James wrote: > Hello, > > I use to listen to my voice mail, via mplayer and seamonkey. I would have thought that mplayer is a bit of an overkill for playing .wav, have you tried /usr/bin/aplay? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a

Re: [gentoo-user] Using "root=LABEL=xxxx" in grub.conf

2009-02-10 Thread Mick
7;s mine, as an example: > > title=Gentoo Linux > kernel /vmlinux.gz realroot=/dev/evms/root vga=0x31B notsc > > Quite short and simple, isn't it? You don't even recognize that it uses an > initramfs (because it's embedded in the kernel itself). How do you

[gentoo-user] RAID controller

2009-02-15 Thread Mick
? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Fake MAC Address Bungling Wireless

2009-02-15 Thread Mick
t an ip address from your wireless router the zeroconf kicks in and assigns one of the private addresses reserved for this purpose. You could try recompiling dhcpcd without zeroconf and see what happens. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: seamonkey helper apps

2009-02-15 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 10 February 2009, James wrote: > Mick gmail.com> writes: > > > I use to listen to my voice mail, via mplayer and seamonkey. > > > > I would have thought that mplayer is a bit of an overkill for playing > > .wav, have you tried /usr/bin/aplay? > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: seamonkey helper apps

2009-02-15 Thread Mick
ing seamonkey afresh? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID controller

2009-02-15 Thread Mick
On Sunday 15 February 2009, Alex wrote: > Mick wrote: > > Hi, > > > Hi All, > > > > I am thinking of installing Gentoo on a Dell box with this RAID > > controller: > > > > http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/storage/RAID/PERC5/en/UG/HTML/chapt &

Re: [gentoo-user] Fake MAC Address Bungling Wireless

2009-02-15 Thread Mick
is removed or altered by a change of MAC. Run dhcpcd -T to see what the dhcp server or your router returns - or if it times out. Symptoms like this are often related to buggy wireless NIC drivers, or a weak signal between PC and router. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with evince (mime bad?)

2009-02-15 Thread Mick
text only is preferred. I think replies in the middle > are OK. Sort of keeps some things in context too. Not to forget trimming the 2 pages of previous historic messages and leaving in only what is relevant to the current stage in the conversation ... -- Regards, Mick signature.asc De

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo as a production server - insecure?

2009-02-16 Thread Mick
matters - static binaries won't be a > problem, so, if you're seriously considering that step to be necessary > - get rid of coreutils (especially that 'rm' utility) and all the > interpreters (even awk!) first. > > -- > Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net > -- Regards, Mick

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub broke out of the blue

2009-02-19 Thread Mick
The 1.5 images on the other hand are used to read the fs in which GRUB's stage 2 is installed. That's far too large to fit into a boot sector. I doubt that GRUB's e2fs_stage1_5 can read ext4, but I don't know really - a question for GRUB's mailing list? > I g

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo as a production server - insecure?

2009-02-20 Thread Mick
hought about it, but never went as far as trying to do it. I was even looking at GNAP to see if that would be an alternative to building (remotely) a server. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] ssl + apache2

2009-03-04 Thread Mick
sten on some obscure port rather than the default 443 then add Listen for the port number that you have configured for your SSL enabled (virtual) host. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] local mail processing

2009-03-04 Thread Mick
As Alan says you need to configure your ssmtp.conf and specify the port at which your mailserver is listening. You will need to add something like: mailhub=mailhub.adj.org:port_number and perhaps UseSTARTTLS=YES if your mailserver is using encryption (in which case it is likely listening on s

[gentoo-user] stuffit does not recognise .sitx

2009-03-17 Thread Mick
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: stuffit does not recognise .sitx

2009-03-17 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 17 March 2009, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2009-03-17, Mick wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > An applemac friend sent me a file with a .sitx extension. I installed > > stuffit, but I get this error: > > > > $ unstuff Limited1.sitx > > Unsupp

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: stuffit does not recognise .sitx

2009-03-18 Thread Mick
that's exactly what I am going to tell him ... :) -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing physical volume for lvm.

2009-03-23 Thread Mick
, as 4 logical partitions is a little too constrictive, Do you mean primary? > I > prefer the extra freedom to move things around with extended partitions. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] setting a USE flags for many packages

2009-03-23 Thread Mick
gle using app-doc/monodoc. [-] doc (dev-php5/ZendFramework): Installs the documentation [-] doc (dev-python/wxpython): Install HTML wxWidgets docs and wxpython API reference. [-] doc (media-libs/swfdec): Build documentation [-] doc (net-analyzer/cacti): install html documentation

Re: [gentoo-user] Who mount sysfs?

2009-03-24 Thread Mick
this thread. I have sysfs mounted: $ mount | grep sysfs sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec) However, I do not have sysfs in /etc/init.d/sysfs. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] start X at startup without a login manager

2009-03-25 Thread Mick
; > I agree with Sebastian, you should try "slim" > > http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/SLiM What is the benefit of SLiM compared to vanilla xdm + Fluxbox? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot via floppy from cdrom

2009-03-26 Thread Mick
n a checksum on it? Perhaps they should email it again to you? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror and https sites

2009-03-30 Thread Mick
Errors you should see if this is a javascript problem. Also I would think that you need to have your cookies switched on (haven't tried without). HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia drivers and a Geforce FX-5200 card.

2009-04-02 Thread Mick
oud next time). ;-) > P. S. I wonder if anyone here remembers when I first came here? < > scratches head > How can we forget ... :D -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Nmap 4.85BETA5 ebuild (Conficker scanning)

2009-04-02 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 31 March 2009, Stroller wrote: > This command performs the scan: > nmap -PN -T4 -p139,445 -n -v --script=smb-check-vulns --script-args > safe=1 192.168.0.0/16 Does this mean that if you have shut down ports 139 & 445 on the MSWIndows machine Conficker cannot work? --

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia drivers and a Geforce FX-5200 card.

2009-04-03 Thread Mick
On Thursday 02 April 2009, Dale wrote: > Mick wrote: > > How can we forget ... > > > > :D > > But I may take out something important. :/ I try to do that but I am > getting older. I forget. > > I guess I made a lasting impression, albeit bad I guess.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What annoys you?

2009-04-03 Thread Mick
WRONG THING and then you won't be annoyed anymore but > > glad. > > Didn't we have this discussion a couple of months ago? ... and a couple of months before that, ... and a coupl... :) -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] Re: Kgpg 1.2.2 does not show email addresses ...

2009-04-04 Thread Mick
On Monday 30 March 2009, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I just noticed today that my kgpg 1.2.2 (using KDE 3.5.9) is not showing > the email addresses of the public keys contained in it - i.e. the names are > blank. User IDs and signature email addresses are shown fine when one >

[gentoo-user] [off-topic] RPM binary on Gentoo

2009-04-05 Thread Mick
Hi All, I have an rpm binary which looks like this on a RH machine: /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/packageXXX.el5.i386.rpm How can I use this on a gentoo machine (I understand that it won't be maintained by portage). -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed me

Re: [gentoo-user] [off-topic] RPM binary on Gentoo

2009-04-06 Thread Mick
2009/4/6 Neil Bothwick : > On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 06:41:53 +0100, Mick wrote: > >> How can I use this on a gentoo machine (I understand that it won't be >> maintained by portage). > > Use rpm2targz to turn it into a tarball, then unpack it into your > root filesystem (a

[gentoo-user] New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5

2009-04-07 Thread Mick
ated Set 2 keyboard" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "gb,el" Option "XkbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll,compose:menu" EndSection ===

Re: [gentoo-user] New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5

2009-04-07 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 07 April 2009, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Tuesday 07 April 2009, Mick wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I've emerged the new xorg-server-1.5.3-r5, removed my xorg.conf as > > advised and noticed two things which I am not sure how to fix: > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5

2009-04-07 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 07 April 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 07 April 2009 10:39:45 Mick wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I've emerged the new xorg-server-1.5.3-r5, removed my xorg.conf as > > advised and noticed two things which I am not sure how to fix: > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] [xorg-server-1.5] managing graphic card

2009-04-07 Thread Mick
-configuration.fdi Not sure how things work with Nvidia. BTW, the new xorg dri is really slow. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5

2009-04-07 Thread Mick
pc105 gb,el grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll,compose:menu synaptics true true true true true = Can you please help? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [xorg-server-1.5] managing graphic card

2009-04-07 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 07 April 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Mick wrote: > > BTW, the new xorg dri is really slow. > > You need to enable EXA as acceleration type. And for that, you *need* > an xorg.conf. > >Section "Device" > Driver "r

Re: [gentoo-user] New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5

2009-04-07 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 07 April 2009, Sebastian Günther wrote: > * Mick (michaelkintz...@gmail.com) [07.04.09 18:46]: > > However, I have failed to: > > > > 3. Effect a left click when I tap on the synaptics pad. > > 4. Double click on the synaptics pad. > > Just a do

Re: [gentoo-user] New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5

2009-04-07 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 07 April 2009, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Tuesday 07 April 2009, Mick wrote: > > However, I have failed to: > > > > 3. Effect a left click when I tap on the synaptics pad. > > 4. Double click on the synaptics pad. > > 5. Press Ctrl+Alt+Backspace

Re: [gentoo-user] [off-topic] RPM binary on Gentoo

2009-04-07 Thread Mick
ies to /usr/local/ or /opt/ - the correct place to put binaries > unknown to a package manger (portage won't nuke them there) Thank you all for your advice. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kgpg 1.2.2 does not show email addresses ...

2009-04-07 Thread Mick
On Saturday 04 April 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Saturday 04 April 2009 21:36:00 Dale wrote: > > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > On Sat, 4 Apr 2009 12:41:53 +0100, Mick wrote: > > >> Second computer with the same symptoms ... this is not machine > > >> spec

Re: [gentoo-user] New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5

2009-04-07 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 07 April 2009, Daniel Barkalow wrote: > On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Mick wrote: > > > type="string">true > > Looks from the forum thread like the value of "TapButton1" should be a > button number, not a boolean. Someone reported success with

[gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 log messages

2009-04-08 Thread Mick
nded to do here? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 log messages

2009-04-08 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 08 April 2009, Mike Edenfield wrote: > On 4/8/2009 2:02 PM, Mick wrote: > > (WW) xf86OpenConsole: setpgid failed: Operation not permitted > > (WW) xf86OpenConsole: setsid failed: Operation not permitted > > These are common and shouldn't be causing any probl

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kgpg 1.2.2 does not show email addresses ...

2009-04-08 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 08 April 2009, Patrick Holthaus wrote: > Note to self: Always search bugzilla first: > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=263454 Thanks Patrick, I should do the same! ;-) -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] stage 1 howto?

2009-04-08 Thread Mick
ardware may still require a stage 1 (not sure as it has been a few years since I last tried it). I might have a 2004 installation CD somewhere with the handbook on it - please let me know if you can't find it and I'll start searching. Also, it may well be archived somewhere on the In

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 log messages

2009-04-09 Thread Mick
2009/4/8 Mike Edenfield : > On 4/8/2009 3:37 PM, Mick wrote: > >> Wikipedia is telling me that OTF are a Microsoft/Adobe creation - is Linux >> following suit and therefore xorg includes them in its list of fonts? > > OpenType (the catchy name for an OTF font) is ba

Re: [gentoo-user] stage 1 howto?

2009-04-09 Thread Mick
On Thursday 09 April 2009, HObbES wrote: > Hi Mick, > > If you have it, I'd like a copy please. I must have stored that 2004.1 LiveCD somewhere very safe, because I couldn't find it after I had a quick look. o_O However, the gentoo website still shows the full installation h

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating menu in KDE

2007-07-07 Thread Mick
On Saturday 07 July 2007 03:30, Philip Webb wrote: > 070706 Mick wrote: > > I uninstalled WINE and the KDE menu still shows it in its full glory. > > I even removed the .wine directory, but no change. > > Running the menu update tool does not change things either. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating menu in KDE

2007-07-07 Thread Mick
On Saturday 07 July 2007 09:18, Billy Wayne McCann wrote: > Philip Webb wrote: > > 070706 Mick wrote: > >> I uninstalled WINE and the KDE menu still shows it in its full glory. > >> I even removed the .wine directory, but no change. > >> Running the menu updat

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating menu in KDE

2007-07-07 Thread Mick
On Saturday 07 July 2007 09:51, Mick wrote: > On Saturday 07 July 2007 09:18, Billy Wayne McCann wrote: > > Philip Webb wrote: > > > 070706 Mick wrote: > > >> I uninstalled WINE and the KDE menu still shows it in its full glory. > > >> I even

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: live cd, ip fail

2007-07-07 Thread Mick
iface is mapped by udev to your RTL8139 ethernet card. For the link error you get, I think you need to have a CAT5 wire connecting your ethernet card to your router. If you want to configure your wireless connection instead (more complicated) then you need to modprobe -v sis900 and then

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: live cd, ip fail

2007-07-07 Thread Mick
shown under ifconfig as a recognised NIC device. Hope this helps. -- Regards, Mick pgpDilritcUEm.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] about grub

2007-07-07 Thread Mick
y time you boot - only when you want to change anything in it. -- Regards, Mick pgpCk9bFVJAmF.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] OOo-2.2.1 fails to emerge

2007-07-07 Thread Mick
[stamp/build] Error 1 !!! ERROR: app-office/openoffice-2.2.1 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1621: Called dyn_compile ebuild.sh, line 973: Called qa_call 'src_compile' ebuild.sh, line 44: Called src_compile openoffice-2.2.1.ebuild, line 328: Called die = -- Regards, Mick pgpMiNOO3zKTb.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] OOo-2.2.1 fails to emerge

2007-07-07 Thread Mick
On Saturday 07 July 2007 17:57, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 7 Jul 2007 17:14:36 +0100, Mick wrote: > > error: > > /var/tmp/portage/app-office/openoffice-2.2.1/work/ooo/build/OOF680_m18/so > >lver/680/unxlngi6.pro/inc/svtools/svtools.hrc: Permission denied > > H

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: live cd, ip fail

2007-07-08 Thread Mick
as that you were not running dhcpcd on the NIC connected to your router. -- Regards, Mick pgpgNAwR8icKx.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: usb external drive

2007-07-08 Thread Mick
On 06/07/07, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mick gmail.com> writes: > The wiki says not to use the FUSE module in the kernel, but to emerge it as a > separate module. I don't think it says anything about not including the > normal ntfs driver (I'm sure I have i

Re: [gentoo-user] Change the case of file names

2007-07-08 Thread Mick
gt; else > echo "File not found: '$1'" > fi > shift > done > > > Alex Thanks Alex, I was trying your script, but just like Etaoin's script it does not go beyond level 1 in the directory. All the subdirectories and files within them stay in Capital Case. How can I change it to recursively look into the directory? -- Regards, Mick pgp7kYXJICyQ8.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] USB modem locks weirdly

2007-07-08 Thread Mick
e.sourceforge.net/html/projects/huawei/huawei_tre.html I hope this helps. -- Regards, Mick pgpKqVUG5O7At.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] selecting boot(active?) partition

2007-07-11 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 10 July 2007 10:09, pat wrote: > On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 23:17:50 +0100, Mick wrote > > > On Wednesday 04 July 2007 08:51, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > Hello pat, > > > > > > > Problem is that when there're any non dos/windows partitions the boo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT vm WinXp] Can WinXp be Vm app from gentoo?

2007-07-11 Thread Mick
iend were to install Vista on VMWare (I assume that this is VMWare Workstation, not VMWare Player, right?) and take a snapshot of it, then it will always stay active? Or will Vista fire up, read the current date and use that to determine if the trial period has expired? Just curious. -- Regards, Mick pgpwR5TUnM8TV.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: memtest fails, but is it the RAM?

2007-07-11 Thread Mick
t; Maybe it's a MBoard issue? Maybe a video card issue? Hmmm, I don't > want to replace the whole lot! POST error. Could be due to dodgy memory. Have you tried removing the CMOS battery and then reflashing the BIOS with the latest firmware? -- Regards, Mick pgpEmlJYCkmOM.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] why so many reinstalls from portage?

2007-07-11 Thread Mick
don't see from the (verbose) output given why the reinstalls > are triggered. Any help in understanding would be appreciated. Err, the output seems to be . . . transparent? -- Regards, Mick pgp10XJwohPT7.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Remote access to windows desktops

2007-07-12 Thread Mick
h or without a ssh tunnel make sure you get the WinXP firewall set up right and ideally restricted to allow access on rdp or rfb ports from specific client IP addresses only. I hope this helps. -- Regards, Mick pgp2tJqT8oVqv.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Net don't work

2007-07-13 Thread Mick
On Friday 13 July 2007 15:01, sain yan wrote: > Yes! thanks > run ifconfig only the lo interface , no ethx Why?? Because you have not yet run modprobe -v for your card. PS. Please try not to top post or send HTML messages to this Mailing List. -- Regards, Mick pgpLszFESZl

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] selecting boot(active?) partition

2007-07-13 Thread Mick
On Thursday 12 July 2007 09:20, pat wrote: > On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 19:51:30 +0100, Mick wrote > > fixmbr will replace GRUB's boot code in the mbr with ntldr's (WinXP) > > . fixboot will replace the partition boot sector code with WinXP's. > > You'll ne

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Installation problems

2007-07-14 Thread Mick
nfig and then cd /usr/src/linux and run make oldconfig? Finish it off with make && make modules_install. Then copy the kernel image, System.map to your boot and edit your grub.conf to point it there. Genkernel if full of fat most of which you probably don't need anyway. HTH. -

[gentoo-user] hald won't start

2007-07-14 Thread Mick
How do I troubleshoot this? -- Regards, Mick pgpjoxylk9w2B.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] Re: hald won't start

2007-07-14 Thread Mick
On Saturday 14 July 2007 20:11, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I noticed on a box of mine that hald won't start: > == > # /etc/init.d/hald restart > * Starting Hardware A

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: hald won't start

2007-07-14 Thread Mick
On Saturday 14 July 2007 21:08, Dale wrote: > Mick wrote: > > I just noticed that I do not have CONFIG_INOTIFY_USER enabled in the > > kernel. Perhaps this has something to do with it? > > I'm not positive but I had several errors because I was missing that > option i

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