Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 = pcmcia + usb adapter

rsrc_nonstatic 11776 1 yenta_socket pcmcia_core33684 4 3c589_cs,pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic pcmcia 32172 1 3c589_cs Build the relevant USB drivers for your machine into the kernel. HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 = pcmcia + usb adapter

On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Simon Turner wrote: > Strange it took almost a day before I could see my post! Guess I was > "moderated"... > > Hi Mick, > Thanks for the reply. I've gone through about 4 kernel recompiles, > each time wondering with questi

Re: [gentoo-user] Error in network commands in root mode

connection but something on your > local machine, I'm not sure what causes it. Some selinux policy maybe? > Or an iptables rule with an owner match on uid 0? Check how is the proxy variable defined for both users: # env | grep -i proxy $ env | grep -i proxy You may need to define the sa

Re: [gentoo-user] what NFP means?

re information, you can > read Grant's post on the gentoo-nfp mailing list. > ** > > Any help will be appreciated? It literally means "Not For Profit" and is a term used for charities to distingu

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge?

n't need it, as attr doesn't support reiser. I'm looking > > at my own reiser-based machine and wondering why on earth I ever merged > > it myself # equery depends attr [ Searching for packages depending on attr... ] sys-apps/acl-2.2.45 (>=sys-apps/attr-2.4) sys-apps/coreutils-6.9-r1 (acl? sys-apps/attr) YMMV. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge?

On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Mick wrote: > On Wednesday 13 February 2008, you wrote: > > Hi Mick, > > > > Wednesday, February 13, 2008, 9:14:31 PM, you wrote: > > > # equery depends attr > > > [ Searching for packages depending on attr... ] > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Fake IMAP -> Real IMAP

ned MSWindows botnets out there that make the US No.1 in spam generated traffic. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: load too high

Building from source is cool. Building OOo yourself is just cruel. The cruelty is actually worse: the machines that will benefit most from an OOo compile from source, are those old, low memory, asthmatic boxen, that take two days to complete the emerge! I am tempted to start cross-compiling. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Odd problem with OpenSSH

h/id_rsa type -1 > > > debug1: identity file /home/dsl/.ssh/id_dsa type -1 > > > ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host As I said above, have you generated new keys? If yes, you could copy public key A to the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file and do away with the need to enter a password. It's only then that you can turn PasswordAuthentication no. Hope this helps. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] evince and letter size paper

ying above is set to letter? Has evince got it's own application level configuration for paper size under printer settings, or something like that? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] Error printing pdf through Konqueror

Any idea why I get this when I try to print a HTML page using Konqueror? (gs -q -dSAFER -dPARANOIDSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=$out{/home/michael/adsl_home.pdf} -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -c .setpdfwrite -f '/tmp/kde-michael/kdeprint_op1mhIzE' ). -- Regards, Mick sig

[gentoo-user] [OT] SSH port forwards behind restrictive firewall

o assume that to be able to run a tunnel through this internet gateway I should run something like: ssh -L :localhost:443 [EMAIL PROTECTED] or are ssh packets somehow distinguishable by their headers, so that a cleverly crafted firewall will still identify them and drop them? -- Regar

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenVPN setup

as a disproportionately small probability of getting cracked, than your average WinXP IT illiterate user around the world. So, it's really a matter of how paranoid you would like to get about it. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] SSH port forwards behind restrictive firewall

On Monday 18 February 2008, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > On Monday 18 February 2008, Mick wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I think that I have confused myself with this. I am behind a > > firewall/http proxy which seems to only allow outbound connections on > > ports 80 &am

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] SSH port forwards behind restrictive firewall

On Monday 18 February 2008, Willie Wong wrote: > On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 07:26:28PM +, Penguin Lover Mick squawked: > > > ssh -p 443 -L :smtpserver:25 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > and configure your mail client to send to localhost, port . > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] SSH port forwards behind restrictive firewall

On Tuesday 19 February 2008, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > On Tuesday 19 February 2008, Mick wrote: > > > Does your mail server at home have a real ip address? You can do > > > > > > ssh -l -p 443 -N ssh.server.address -L > > > localport:mail.server.address:remot

Re: [gentoo-user] XML editor

the subset markup to . > > Is there an app that I can use for this without programming effort? Not sure if Quanta will do what you're after? I recall it has some XML code in there, but don't know if it offers the functionality you want. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Unmerge failure

rerm: 1 > * The 'prerm' phase of the 'dev-libs/libxml2-2.6.27' package has failed > * with exit value 1. The problem occurred while executing the ebuild > * located at '/var/db/pkg/dev-libs/libxml2-2.6.27/libxml2-2.6.27.ebuild'. > * If necessary, m

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Interrogate network for devices

On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Dale wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > It turned out to be a simple matter of cycling the various > > > modem/router PC s in the right order. Once I got the help desk it > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: md5sum for directories?

ck up. Alternatively and more appropriately if you run this as part of a back up process, there is the -W option. From the man page: -W, --verify attempt to verify the archive after writing it HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] sshfs issue

minal to crash, but not the whole machine. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] [Probably off-topic] How do I find out what is consuming the bandwidth?

nts a switch as as opposed to a > hub... > > Nice try though... Have you tried ntop? It has various breakdowns and in promiscuous mode it should show where the bandwidth goes. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] beware ebay seller

sell rebuilt, or end of line PCs, usually with upgraded components and one year's manufacturer's warranty. I have found that as long as you don't get carried away you can get a machine cheaper than any of the chains that sell them over here in the UK, even if they

[gentoo-user] DPI is giving me a headache!

xorg.conf, or not. I have no modeline set. All I can think that is amiss is the DPI. I seem to be getting a DPI of 90x89: $ xdpyinfo | grep resolution resolution:90x89 dots per inch Could this be the cause of my headache and how should I fix it? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] DPI is giving me a headache!

t Power Management (VESA/EPA/NUTEK compliant); On-Screen Manager (OSM) lock out User Controls: On/Off; OSM menu; Interfaces Plug & Play; Asset Management: VESA DDC2B; DDC2Bi; DDC/CI and EDID standard Horizontal Frequency: 31–82 kHz Vertical Frequency:

[gentoo-user] 403 error on apache2

== Can you please advise if I need to change anything in the default Gentoo apache configuration to set it up to work with vhosts and drupal? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] No fish!

. I've tried revdep-rebuild and nothing seems to want to be rebuilt. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] No fish!

On Monday 03 March 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 21:14:25 +0000, Mick wrote: > > I am not sure when this started, but trying to connect to ssh servers > > using fish with Konqueror fails with this message: > > > > The process for the fish://ftp.

Re: [gentoo-user] Tomcat 5.5.26 issue

on: http://bugs.gentoo.org -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Digest of gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org issue 1422 (76278-76327)

quot; - and I doubt it can be described as a weasel-word in > this context. Depending on the particular discipline context "issue" can also mean a risk that has now been realised/manifested; the familiar "oh sh*t!" moment, e.g. when you realised that rm -Rf / was not what yo

[gentoo-user] Citrix client connection problem

address and the browser cannot resolve this. As far as I understand this solution works with guess what: MSWindows (my work is a Microsoft shop) and AppleMac. Any ideas what it might take to get it going under Gentoo? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] No fish!

On Monday 03 March 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 21:14:25 +0000, Mick wrote: > > I am not sure when this started, but trying to connect to ssh servers > > using fish with Konqueror fails with this message: > > > > The process for the fish://ftp.

Re: [gentoo-user] Citrix client connection problem

On Tuesday 04 March 2008, eric wrote: > Mick wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I am trying to connect to my work's T-Snap citrix desktop. I have > > installed net-misc/icaclient-10.6-r3 but when I click on the rem

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] firefox fonts

lue. Unless you know what it was you could experiment with -dpi when you launch X or try xrandr. This of course means that you will need to revert all application level changes. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Citrix client connection problem

On Tuesday 04 March 2008, eric wrote: > Mick wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I am trying to connect to my work's T-Snap citrix desktop. I have > > installed net-misc/icaclient-10.6-r3 but when I click on the rem

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS: Need help setting up my parallel port printer

Internet Printing Protocol (ipp) > LPD/LPR Host or Printer > SCSI Printer > Serial Port #1 > > but no parallel port. It used to be on there. How can I get it back, or > is parallel port called something else now? Haven't tried it myself, but have you tried HPLIP? Also

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Brainstorm?

cks and balances needed here to avoid such vote poisoning of the system - although it will probably be self regulating. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Bizarre SSH connection reset

t; If the reset is not coming from the server or the client (I don't have > any problems when I'm at a hotspot), where could it be coming from? Are you using the same NIC on the laptop? If yes, then the issue could be related to your router configuration., but my money is on your keepalive settings. See if my suggestions above help. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: apache vhost issue...

ally? Add this to /etc/apache2/modules.d/00_default_settings.conf file: Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride All Order deny,allow Allow from all HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Bizarre SSH connection reset

ed my bittorrenting > at times, but never anything like this. Of course, ymmv. IIRC they also block port 80 for sure on their retail accounts. They don't want the average punter to run a webserver at home. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] [OT] Petition against ISPs 'phishing' their users

.php/topic,61201.0.html (although Plusnet do not engage in such practices on their own network). I understand that there are big threads in Virgin Media and BT forums too. Petition here: http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/ispphorm/ Thank you for your attention. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description:

Re: [gentoo-user] Bizarre SSH connection reset

On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Dan Farrell wrote: > On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:51:42 + > > Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday 10 March 2008, Dan Farrell wrote: > > > On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:43:55 -0400 > > > > > > Mike Edenfield <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: [gentoo-user] Make krusader default file manager

ot launch '/usr/bin/krusader' "...something else i could > > do?? Have you looked at the access rights/ownership of /usr/bin/krusader just in case there's a fs corruption or something else amiss? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] kopete and msn contacts

I don't really have a solution, just a kludge. If you feel inclined to delete/add contacts you may wish to dive into ~/.kde3.5/share/apps/kopete/contactlist.xml An xml or text editor should make it easy to edit the contents. If no bug has been raised for this, you may want to oblige? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Synaptics touchpad mistaken(?) for Logitech Wheel Mouse

egards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

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

> 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. You will also want to configure cups.conf to listen not only to localhost, but to also listen to the IP address of the XP box. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering root password

t I may lose my private key (never say never), or lose a drive and need to access my data pronto from a back up makes me somewhat nervous. Should I be more brave that this? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] touchpad can't scroll

Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Option "InputFashion" "Mouse" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "Name" "GenPS/2 Genius Mouse" Option "Vendor" "0002" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "False" Option "Buttons" "9" EndSection === So, you may want to replace your "/dev/input/mouse1" for mice and see if that fixes things. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] portage/firewall

bound connections to port 80 are allowed and rsync will not work. Follow the webrsync advice above. HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Boot Gentoo to clean windows

t; > (Dazuko additionally allows realtime scans of compilation read/writes). > > IMHO, Linux and MAC are the next frontier for malware, and -SADLY- > AntiMalware signature and heuristic techniques are one thing we can > learn about from Windows :-( http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcwo

Re: [gentoo-user] portage/firewall

On Saturday 29 March 2008, Per-Erik Westerberg wrote: > fre 2008-03-28 klockan 09:21 + skrev Mick: > > On Thursday 27 March 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:33:53 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > > > > I'd say, try http. > > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] touchpad can't scroll

On Sunday 30 March 2008, Chuanwen Wu wrote: > On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So, you may want to replace your "/dev/input/mouse1" for mice and see if > > that fixes things. > > Still can't fix the problem. Hmm, wha

[gentoo-user] uvesafb fails to work

:emergence quiet CONSOLE=/dev/tty1 initrd /boot/fbsplash-emergence-1280x1024 Any ideas? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] uvesafb fails to work

On Sunday 30 March 2008, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > Mick schrieb: > > Hi All, > > > > I've just compiled kernel-2.6.24-gentoo-r3 which comes with uvesa and > > thought of using it on a box of mine. However, amidst other weird and > > wonderful errors that

Re: [gentoo-user] uvesafb fails to work

On Sunday 30 March 2008, Matt Edens wrote: > Oops forgot the link to the website. > http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/uvesafb/<http://dev.gentoo.org/%7Espo >ck/projects/uvesafb/> Thanks Matt, I have followed spock's instructions in the first place. -- Regards,

Re: [gentoo-user] Master - Slave MySQL Database Server

/gentoo-wiki.com/MySQL -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] uvesafb fails to work

I emerged something here? Can't remember seeing this in the wiki article, as in it wasn't a must for fb splash to work (I think). -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] installing vmware?

mally, you have to register it in VM afresh, etc. There may be workarounds to the registration issue though: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-579333.html What I haven't worked out yet is this. Can I create an image from the original installation and use this with the VM? How do I go about this? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] uvesafb fails to work

On Wednesday 02 April 2008, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > Mick schrieb: > > # dmesg | grep uvesafb > > Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda3 > > video=uvesafb:[EMAIL PROTECTED],ywrap,mtrr:4 > > splash=silent,fadein,theme:emergence quiet CONSOLE=/dev/tty1 > > uvesafb: A

Re: [gentoo-user] Networking problems on new install?

all. Another thing to consider if your card is seen by ifconfig (i.e. you probably have found the right driver for the card) but dhcpcd still times out: you may need to recompile the dhcpcd client with the vram USE flag. Some dhcp server implementations won't play nicely without it. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] probeall error in /etc/modprobe.conf

I've just booted kernel 2.6.24-gentoo-r4 and I noticed an WARNING: message about ignoring bad line 159 in /etc/modprobe.conf. This is the infamous line: probeall /dev/svga svgalib_helper Have you noticed anything similar? Why does it happen? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Descri

Re: [gentoo-user] X (i810) won't start with undefined symbol

All > done." Even after an 'rm -rf .revdep*'. # ls -la /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libexa.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 55140 Feb 4 16:39 /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libexa.so Is your access rights & ownership the same? Have you tried rebuilding x11-base/xorg-server ? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Webmin not accepting root logins

interface was on webmin, but what Alan suggests above has always worked for me (once I manage to get the right path for the printer). HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] scp escape characters

7;t have any. What's the right way of doing this? Both boxen running gentoo and I was using bash shell. -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] scp escape characters

On 16/04/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 16.04.2008, 15:06 +0100 schrieb ext Mick: > > > > I was trying to scp a file which had spaces in its name; e.g. > > > > This\ is\ the\ name\ of\ it.txt > I tried it in my zsh,

[gentoo-user] KDE slow shutdown

Hi All, I have noticed that a box running pretty much vanilla KDE is taking an awful long time to exit the KDE session when I shutdown. Couldn't find anything in the logs. How could I troubleshoot it? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] gpgsm is giving me a headache

st of certs). Any ideas how I could make this work? I can't recall having such problems with the CACert.org certificates (or if I did I can't recall what's the fix!). -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: gpgsm is giving me a headache

On Saturday 19 April 2008, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I am trying to import an SSL certificate into gpgsm/kleopatra and I cannot > seem to be able to make it work: > > 1. Trying the CLI gives me: > = > $ > gpgsm --import > /med

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE slow shutdown

On Saturday 19 April 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Samstag, 19. April 2008, Mick wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I have noticed that a box running pretty much vanilla KDE is taking an > > awful long time to exit the KDE session when I shutdown. Couldn't fin

Re: [gentoo-user] Messed up - how do I emerge coreutils once coreutils is gone?

more detail check previous posts on this very topic: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/197609 -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE slow shutdown

On Saturday 19 April 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Samstag, 19. April 2008, Mick wrote: > > How do you mean I need to run lsof? Use Ctrl+Alt+F1 to switch to a > > console quickly while KDE is shutting down and run it from there, > > exactly - and you do have to do i

Re: [gentoo-user] Messed up - how do I emerge coreutils once coreutils is gone?

ly discover that I did something stupid after the event . . . ;-) -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Messed up - how do I emerge coreutils once coreutils is gone?

could emerge coreutils and mktemp successfully again. You don't need to emerge mktemp. It is now included in the coreutils package (hence the block message). -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Question re: UUID

using labels, but never really ventured into it (I think I tried it once on a server). Can I do it retrospectively on ext2, reiserfs and xfs, or is it going to erase the contents of the partition? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Question re: UUID

ary harm to my machine . . . -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] somebody using x11-drm?

r loaded [drm] Setting GART location based on new memory map [drm] writeback test succeeded in 1 usecs HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Question re: UUID

inned to not have taken it personally in the unlikely event that it were so intended - we'll you got to be to work here . . . :-)) Reiserfstune it is then - I was supposed to know that but when you are suddenly threatened with redundancy it all gets a bit blurry. Thanks guys. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] Splitting .mov files

Hi All, I have a rather large .mov file which I want to split into two separate files. What options are available to me? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Splitting .mov files

s to be point & click skill level at the receiving end. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Network access to MySQL

ser of course, otherwise the socket will not be accessible). As others have mentioned the firewall adds security by restricting inbound source addresses. HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] skype notworking

ersion `GLIBCXX_3.4.4' not found (required by /opt/skype/skype) > when I try skype I get the above. Can anyone help pls? Did you try revdep-rebuild -X -v -p ? -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Kaffeine audio problem

have any sound in .mkv when using kaffeine?? this seems to happen > only for .mkv files with vorbis sound embedded as i can play just fine .mkv > files with aac sound embedded...thanks for your response... Have you enabled the vorbis flag when emerging kaffeine? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] Lilo error when booting to windows

somehow put an > entry > in ntldr so that instead of booting to windows to fall back to lilo menu > again so that > i don't have to reboot?? Google for "boot Linux with ntldr" or "chainload linux with ntldr". But it is not maintenance free. -- Regards, M

[gentoo-user] [OT] Virtualbox-ing existing WinXP

documentation and some of its forums, but I still find the whole concept a bit alien, I am not clear on the exact steps for getting there. Has any one attempted this in Gentoo? How did you go about it? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE slow shutdown

On Sunday 20 April 2008, Philip Webb wrote: > 080419 Volker Armin Hemmann & Mick discussed: > M> a box running vanilla KDE is taking an awful long time > M> to exit the KDE session when I shutdown. > VAH> lsof & grep can tell you which files are accessed. > V

Re: [gentoo-user] pygtk threading disabled at compile time

hout threads support, but the ebuild > doesn't have an USE option for threads, and when it compiles i see the > option --enable-threads flashing by, so i guess pygtk *should* have > threads enabled. any ideas? I assume that you have tried the basics like /usr/sbin/python-updater and revdep-rebuild -X -v -p ? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Virtualbox-ing existing WinXP

allation anyway). When you say it'll take three days for the registration to lock up, does this mean that it will only kick in if I leave Virtualbox running for three days continuously, or will it know/remember how long I have been running it since the very first time I booted it up? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Virtualbox-ing existing WinXP

On Sunday 04 May 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 4 May 2008 19:47:13 +0100, Mick wrote: > > I assumed (wrongly) that since it is the same physical hardware and the > > same partition image it will not ask me to re-register it. > > But it's not the same hardware, you

Re: [gentoo-user] Which openoffice

--- The funny thing is that this PIII laptop is *significantly* faster than the PIII desktop that had its MoBo blow up on me. The irony of course is that the compiled from source is most needed on those machines that take the longest to emerge. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] portage & foomatic problem

20080507 I am about to also upgrade: net-print/foomatic-db-3.0.20070508 because cups wants to downgrade?! [D] net-print/cups Installed versions: 1.2.12-r8 Strangely this is only evident when I use eix -l cups, not when I run emerge -upDv world. Then we'll see if I can print anymo

Re: [gentoo-user] What version of netscape-flash to use with konqueror?

top/next/"; Nope, Opera-9.50_beta2 seems to have problems playing flash (e.g. on bbc iplayer). I haven't tried yet 9.50_beta2_p1951. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Home page slowness

ng clean the website and consider our new visitors needs at the same time (plus things like the much asked for Documentation search field?). ;-) Just my 2c's. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fun with Foo (matic) ?

ups to work? I have been carrying it around for the last few years, but I was not sure if it is needed. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Home page slowness

ade piece of fine Italian > machinery. And I like it that way. Absolutely, so do I. On the other hand, I am inclined to give every help and opportunity to a willing Gentoo starter. I am not for a minute suggesting that Gentoo is a broad appeal Linux system. All I am saying is let's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xorg-server and my mouse

entioned in the documentation? > > Could't find one, so i have guessed from the entry in my xorg.conf. *g* > > - xorg.conf - > Option "XkbOptions""compose:menu" > --- What is the meaning of the "compose:menu"? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] Corrupt files or ntfs-3g fs?

o not have another disk as large to back up first. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupt files or ntfs-3g fs?

On Saturday 11 April 2009, Xav' wrote: > On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 09:37:35 +0100, Mick wrote: > > Is there an application I could use to remove them and free the space on > > the > > disk, or should I run chkdisk or fsck first? I cannot afford to lose the > > > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xorg-server and my mouse

On Saturday 11 April 2009, Hartmut Figge wrote: > Mick: > > > >What is the meaning of the "compose:menu"? > So i have need of a compose key. Years ago there was a combination of > AltGr and Shift_Left which could be used but that stopped to work. I see, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Some hints about evdev versus xorg and your mouse and keyboard

i/policy/10-xinput-configuration.fdi for the synaptics behaviour to be as it was before the xorg upgrade. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

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

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

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