Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare with artsdsp or esddsp?

2005-05-16 Thread Myk Taylor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I remember a while back running into this problem with vmware. Iirc, I had to point it to /dev/sound/adsp to get it working. Ryan wrote: > I am trying to get sound in VMWare but it will not recognize that > /dev/dsp is available through artsd or esd.

Re: [gentoo-user] console switching wierdness

2005-05-18 Thread Myk Taylor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Which framebuffer module are you using? I have an nVidia card, and found that using the nVidia framebuffer resulted in ~1 sec latency when switching between virtual consoles. Removing the nVidia framebuffer and using vesafb-tng was the solution for m

Re: [gentoo-user] Quicktime movies

2005-05-19 Thread Myk Taylor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 is media-libs/win32codecs-20050216 emerged with the 'quicktime' use flag set? Ian K wrote: > Hi. > I have a movie "something.mov" which I really want to view under Linux. > Xine wont play it, although it pretends to. Do you know of a program > that wi

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

2005-05-27 Thread Myk Taylor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Run sudo after you ssh. On my network, I backup my servers by setting up sudoers on the server I want to backup and running the following command from my workstation: ssh @ "sudo dump -uf- " | gzip > ...gz Pupeno wrote: > Hello, > I'm trying to set

[gentoo-user] When is Gentoo CVS synched to the trunk?

2005-06-02 Thread Myk Taylor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've noticed a few Gentoo bugs have been closed with remarks stating: 'fixed in CVS'. However, weeks later, I still haven't seen the changes reflected in the web view of Gentoo CVS. Are the maintainers committing to a different repository? And if so

Re: [gentoo-user] root block device unspecified error on boot

2005-06-02 Thread Myk Taylor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Have you directed the first-stage bootloader to find root on hda1? from http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/2005.0/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=10#doc_chap2 try 'grub-install /dev/hda' or 'grub' and grub> root (hd0,0) (Specify where your /

Re: [gentoo-user] When is Gentoo CVS synched to the trunk?

2005-06-02 Thread Myk Taylor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 D'oh. I see my mistake. The bug was fixed in an eclass, not the ebuild where I was expecting it. Sorry for the noise. Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Thu, 02 Jun 2005 01:23:02 -0700 Myk Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | I'v

Re: [gentoo-user] root block device unspecified error on boot

2005-06-03 Thread Myk Taylor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ah, sounds similar to the discussion on http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/topic-23080.html short version: make sure the drivers for the hdd device and filesystem are compiled into the kernel and doubld check your grub.conf kernel= line. - --myk Gento

Re: [gentoo-user] Another question on mailing cron-job output

2005-06-29 Thread Myk Taylor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This sounds perfectly reasonable. cron mails you and output the command sends to stdout, so yes, redirecting its output to a file would also prevent cron's email. the crontab lines would look something like: 0 * * * * command > /dev/null && echo "co

[gentoo-user] root and portage alternately own distcc lock files

2005-07-11 Thread Myk Taylor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 After getting ccache to work, I set up distcc with another computer on my lan and compiled a few packages to test it out. It worked great until I tried to compile busybox, where it displayed the error message: distcc[12251] (dcc_open_lockfile) ERROR:

Re: [gentoo-user] what's new with all those new packages?

2005-07-11 Thread Myk Taylor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I think if you're using Gentoo, there is an assumption that "if it's new (and acceptably stable), I want it". I agree that a comprehensive list of fixed bugs and new features would be nice for each updated package, but I imagine that it would be unwel

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms alternative

2006-10-28 Thread Myk Taylor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I had my music collection mounted over nfs and I ran into a similar problem: amarok wouldn't be able to read the entire thing and the nfs shares would stop working. The problem turned out to be that amarok keeps all these files /open/ and the remote s

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] ram question

2006-01-14 Thread Myk Taylor
memtest86+ ( http://www.memtest.org/ ) works well for detecting bad RAM, and comes standard on the x86 Gentoo install CD, I believe. Ryan Sims wrote: only the new stick is in. Is this indicative of something? I'm already pretty convinced that it's a bad stick, but I wondered if anyone could s

Re: [gentoo-user] KDM problem

2005-04-09 Thread Myk Taylor
All the scripts that kdm runs are in /usr/kde/3.3/share/config/kdm. Perhaps you need to look at Xsession, since that's what is run after kdm authenticates your password. errors go into ~/.xsession-errors --myk David Corbin wrote: Some time back after an emerge, I found out that logging into KDM

Re: [gentoo-user] KDM problem

2005-04-10 Thread Myk Taylor
A quick google search on 'Xlib: Protocol not supported by server' turned up this link: http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de/lofiversion/index.php/t3241.html Short answer: get rid of the pertinent ~/.{x,X}* files Google is your friend. --myk David Corbin wrote: Thanks. Here's what my .xsession-error

Re: [gentoo-user] Manually specifying nameservers

2005-05-07 Thread Myk Taylor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The dhcp client (root privileges -- chmodding resolv.conf won't help) overwrites /etc/resolv.conf when it gets an ip address. Do you control the dhcp server? I have a line in my /etc/dhcpd.conf (OpenBSD) like: option domain-name-servers 192.1

Re: [gentoo-user] Programs executed as root cannot connect to X server

2005-05-08 Thread Myk Taylor
If you're logged into a X as a user and su to root in a console, root won't have the appropriate credentials to access X (~/.Xauthority). One way around this is to allow forwarded X connections in sshd and run ssh -Y [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of su. the '-Y' parameter sets the DISPLAY var

Re: [gentoo-user] Sometimes emerges fail

2005-05-10 Thread Myk Taylor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I find that sometimes MAKEOPTS=-j2 is the culprit. Make sometimes tries to link an executable before all of its constituent object files are compiled (this shouldn't normally happen, but maybe the structure of the Makefile isn't exactly what make expe

Re: [gentoo-user] browser,news,mail

2005-08-27 Thread Myk Taylor
default gnupg (Enigmail) integration with Thunderbird was removed recently because of trouble with the build. from the ebuild: ewarn "Enigmail Support has been dropped since it doesn't work on fresh install." ewarn "The Gentoo Mozilla team is working on making enigmail its own build,"

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing Specific Kernel Sources

2005-12-17 Thread Myk Taylor
emerge -C gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r10 or emerge -C =gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r10 -C is short for --unmerge --myk C. Beamer wrote: I would like to remove the oldest one - specifically linux-2.6.12-gentoo-r10 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing Specific Kernel Sources

2005-12-17 Thread Myk Taylor
e dir is called)? Just curious, I always just used the rm -fr Myk Taylor wrote: emerge -C gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r10 or emerge -C =gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r10 -C is short for --unmerge C. Beamer wrote: I would like to remove the oldest one - specifically linux-2.6.12-gentoo-r10 -- gentoo-

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing Specific Kernel Sources

2005-12-18 Thread Myk Taylor
elow) for more than a year without problems. The lndir line is there to appease packages that build kernel modules, and expect to find ${KBUILD_OUTPUT}/include populated with header files. make is run as user 'portage' since some packages like to run make O="${KBUILD_OUTPUT}" m