Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?

2010-03-14 Thread fire-eyes
Jarry wrote: Hi, I noticed this error when I try to sync my portage tree: --- obelix ~ # emerge --sync >>> Starting rsync with rsync://134.68.220.73/gentoo-portage... >>> Checking server timestamp ... timed out rsync error: received SIGINT, SIGTERM, or SIGHUP (code 20) at rsync.c(

Re: [gentoo-user] Acrobat Reader 7

2005-05-17 Thread fire-eyes
On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 16:21 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: > Nope. It is there and it is disabled. The problem is that the program > keeps asking whether I want to enable it! I have read a few things on this issue, though I do not use the product. It actually goes to a wider problem, where if javas

Re: [gentoo-user] Acrobat Reader 7

2005-05-17 Thread fire-eyes
On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 09:20 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > Has it annoyed you enough yet to turn on JavaScript? Hopefully not, documents which have been written to do so can then litrally call home. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Acrobat Reader 7

2005-05-17 Thread fire-eyes
On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 17:51 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: > I _will not_ enable JavaSpook. > > What remains to be decided is whether I'll give up using Acrobat > Reader. I guess I don't see what is special about Acrobat's own reader. I have problems with it because 1) It is Adobe 2) It is binary

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Elite not discrimination

2005-05-19 Thread fire-eyes
On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 16:00 -0700, rob3 wrote: > We are a special breed. Much like FreeBSD, but on Torvalds side of the > fence. May peace and a wonderfull feeling of elitism fill your heart. > > Sincerely, Rob. Certainly applies here. I rule. No, WE rule. Us gentooers love our linux brethern/

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-23 Thread fire-eyes
On Sun, 2005-05-22 at 20:17 -0700, James Colannino wrote: > I'm very against HTML mail, just for the record. That being said, > aren't there HTML filters for command line mail clients that will strip > tags from your view of the text and make it more readable? Just wondering. A major point is t

[gentoo-user] Error when running ethereal through ssh tunneled X11

2005-05-23 Thread fire-eyes
When I ssh into one of my servers, using X11 tunneling, then su - to root, then try to run ethereal the following happens: # ethereal The program 'ethereal' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)'. (Deta

[gentoo-user] pptpclient: Wants MPPE In Kernel, I can't Find it

2005-05-24 Thread fire-eyes
I'm trying to use pptpclient-1.6.0. On its home page it says I need MPPE support in the kernel and PPPD. For PPPD it was easy, a nice little USE flag. As far as MPPE support, it says that if I modprobe ppp-compress-18 and that works, I should be all set. However I get: Fatal: Module ppp_mppe_mpp

[gentoo-user] Unable to unmerge php

2005-05-24 Thread fire-eyes
I am following this document http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/howto-gentoo.phtml And when I get to emerging pptpconfig: # emerge -pv pptpconfig These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] <=dev-php/php-4.99.99 (is blocking dev-php/php-

Re: [gentoo-user] pptpclient: Wants MPPE In Kernel, I can't Find it

2005-05-24 Thread fire-eyes
On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 14:09 -0400, Jason Cooper wrote: > fire-eyes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > > I'm trying to use pptpclient-1.6.0. > > > > On its home page it says I need MPPE support in the kernel and PPPD. For > > PPPD it was easy, a nice little USE

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to unmerge php

2005-05-24 Thread fire-eyes
On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 20:15 +0300, Rumen Yotov wrote: > Hi, > Think your first problem is that you are mixing php & mod_php they are > different things. > Please run: "emerge php -pv" and post the output to see what version > you > have if any. > PHP isn't slotted, so you could have either 4.3.x or

Insulting People or Projects On The List [Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Reiser4, encryption]

2005-05-31 Thread fire-eyes
On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 10:40 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > ricer4 isn't supported on Gentoo systems and will likely not be > supported for a very long time. My own opinion, however, I think the list could do without the potential insults to a filesystem. > When it actually works we might start t

[gentoo-user] Shell Script runs fine directly, fails in crontab

2005-06-02 Thread fire-eyes
I built the following shell script to bring up a pptp tunnel, grab a file via rsync, change some perms, and bring the tunnel down. When I run it directly logged in as root, I don't get problems. /usr/sbin/pon det-cle && \ sleep 3 ppp0_address=$(/sbin/ifconfig ppp0 | grep addr | awk '{print $2}' |

Re: [gentoo-user] Shell Script runs fine directly, fails in crontab

2005-06-02 Thread fire-eyes
On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 12:37 -0400, A. Khattri wrote: > On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, fire-eyes wrote: > > > However, when I run it from cron as the same shell script (and redirect > > STDERR and STDOUT to files): > > > > ppp0: error fetching interface information: Device n

Re: [gentoo-user] Shell Script runs fine directly, fails in crontab

2005-06-02 Thread fire-eyes
On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 14:17 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: > Check if root will run the process and if the environment where the > script will run is correct (like shell and umask). I'm not sure, but a > #! usually makes my scripts run correctly at cron. Yep my first line is #!/bin/sh. -- gentoo

RE: [gentoo-user] Shell Script runs fine directly, fails in crontab

2005-06-02 Thread fire-eyes
On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 14:54 -0400, Dave Nebinger wrote: > Sometimes there are environmental differences that are not immediately > obvious between executing a command at the shell vs. within a cron task. > > A great hint I saw was to use the 'sys-process/at' package's command to > schedule the scr

[gentoo-user] Error when running ethereal through ssh tunneled X11

2005-06-02 Thread fire-eyes
When I ssh into one of my servers, using X11 tunneling, then su - to root, cp ~useriloggedinas/.Xauthority . , then try to run ethereal the following happens: # ethereal The program 'ethereal' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadWindow

Re: [gentoo-user] Error when running ethereal through ssh tunneled X11

2005-06-02 Thread fire-eyes
On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 21:27 +0200, Chris Prior wrote: > Try using ssh -Y instead of ssh -X. > (or set trusted forwarding in ssh_config) Hrm. That did it. I'm curious, can you tell me a bit more than th eman page about what -Y is? It basically says it's trusted, but doesn't go any further. Thank y

[gentoo-user] Cron job environmental differences: solved

2005-06-02 Thread fire-eyes
First off, thanks to those on the list who replied to my intitial problem, where it seemed that the environment for a script which cron was running was different from when it was run directly as root. I made the second line (after #!/bin/sh) source /etc/profile , and pow it started working. Right

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub nonsense

2005-06-05 Thread fire-eyes
On Sat, 2005-06-04 at 20:46 -0700, rob3 wrote: > My $million advice. Go to www..gnu.org, and just download the Grub > source and compile it. Just make a note somewhere on your copy of the > Gentoo manual (you did print it out didn't you? haha) that grub is > not in the emerge system. It's not?

[gentoo-user] emerge -pv world error

2005-06-08 Thread fire-eyes
When performing an emerge -pv world on an x86 server, I got this today: These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=sys-libs/pam-0.78" have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete y

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-libs/pam-0.78-r2: ERROR: pam_access have dependencies in /usr.

2005-06-10 Thread fire-eyes
On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 12:39 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Hi! > > I'm trying to compile sys-libs/pam-0.78-r2 and get the > following error: > > /bin/install -c -m 755 pam_xauth.so > /var/tmp/portage/pam-0.78-r2/image//lib/security > test -d /var/tmp/portage/pam-0.78-r2/image//usr/share/man/man

[gentoo-user] nxserver-freenx - Is there a client?

2005-06-10 Thread fire-eyes
Perhaps I'm confused here, but I'm looking int freenx. Using esearch freenx, this was the only item I found: net-misc/nxserver-freenx Now the name of it implies it's just a server, is the client in there too, or is this seperate? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] nxserver-freenx ; documentation?

2005-06-10 Thread fire-eyes
I just installed nxserver-freenx, however it doesn't appear any documents were installed with it. Meaning I have no idea how to even set it up. Any pointers? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] nxserver-freenx ; documentation?

2005-06-10 Thread fire-eyes
On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 10:52 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > > --- fire-eyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I just installed nxserver-freenx, however it doesn't > > appear any > > documents were installed with it. Meaning I have no > > idea how

[gentoo-user] freenx-nxserver fun continued: nxproxy port

2005-06-10 Thread fire-eyes
Okay so I got this nxserver stuff going fine. I can connect to the server machine over its ssh port. But then it seems that something called nxproxy is trying to connect from the client, to the server, on TCP port 5000. I've looked for documents or a config file for nxproxy, because I can't use th

Re: [gentoo-user] Samba problems

2005-06-18 Thread fire-eyes
On Sat, 2005-06-18 at 14:01 +0200, Mauro Arnoldi wrote: > Hi to everyone > I have upgraded my gentoo system (emerge -Du system) and I included an > upgrade even of GCC and other basic system programs. Now I have a problem > with samba: > > /etc/init.d/samba start > * samba -> start: smbd ... > /u

[gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild badness

2005-06-18 Thread fire-eyes
I'm trying to do a revdep-rebuild -pv (pretend, verbose) however I get errors, and I can't complete it. What should I do? # revdep-rebuild -pv Checking reverse dependencies... Packages containing binaries and libraries broken by any package update, will be recompiled. Collecting system binaries

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild badness

2005-06-18 Thread fire-eyes
On Sat, 2005-06-18 at 21:32 +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: > On Saturday 18 June 2005 21:18, fire-eyes wrote: > > I'm trying to do a revdep-rebuild -pv (pretend, verbose) however I get > > errors, and I can't complete it. What should I do? > > > > All prepared. Sta

Re: [gentoo-user] What's with all the config file updates???

2005-06-18 Thread fire-eyes
On Sat, 2005-06-18 at 13:18 -0400, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > I don't know about there being a manual but one way is to have etc-update > show you the differences - that shows what's being taken out and what's > added. That and full backups. A good idea, folks. Can save a lot of trouble. -- g

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get PHP to work with Apache2

2005-06-18 Thread fire-eyes
On Sat, 2005-06-18 at 13:24 -0400, Michael Haan wrote: > Apache2 is trying to download php files, not run them. What gives? You need to set the types up in apache's config. I haven't done this in a while so I don't quite remember. That and the way apache is configured in gentoo has changed wildly

[gentoo-user] Odd Ethereal Error

2005-06-21 Thread fire-eyes
I've run into a strange ethereal error. I use system A to log into system B, via ssh -Y, then run ethereal from there. It shows up on system A. This has worked fine for a while, but now as you'll see in the screenshot, the buttons along the top are missing their graphics, and where you usually hav

Re: [gentoo-user] Odd Ethereal Error

2005-06-21 Thread fire-eyes
On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 08:53 -0400, fire-eyes wrote: > I've run into a strange ethereal error. I use system A to log into > system B, via ssh -Y, then run ethereal from there. It shows up on > system A. > > This has worked fine for a while, but now as you'll see in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Odd Ethereal Error

2005-06-21 Thread fire-eyes
On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 17:23 +0200, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 08:53:43 -0400 > fire-eyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've run into a strange ethereal error. I use system A to log into > > system B, via ssh -Y, then r

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] MyOSS Magazine - Edition 3 Available Now!

2005-07-04 Thread fire-eyes
On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 16:42 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > Hi All, > > Just wanted to announce that MyOSS Magazine - Edition 3 (We're Edition > 3!) is now officially hitting the street. This is a community driven > project which aims to publish monthly. (Sorry if this is considered as > spam). I hav

[gentoo-user] nxclient question

2005-07-11 Thread fire-eyes
I started up a nx server on a knoppix 3.8 system. The system username it sets up is "nxuser". I try to connect from my gentoo system, and the user it is trying to use to connect first to SSH is "nx". I have been unable to find where to change this. Note that this is not the nx username that you p

[gentoo-user] [OT] LiveCD with rdiff-backup?

2005-07-11 Thread fire-eyes
Hello, I am using rdiff-backup for my full system backups. Of course, it would be annoying if I had to use it to do a full restore. I would need a LiveCD with rdiff-backup on it. I am assuming the gentoo install cd's dont have this. I have looked at knoppix, it is not on those. Any ideas? Or per

[gentoo-user] Flightgear 0.9.8: YF-23 aircraft there one day, not the next

2005-07-27 Thread fire-eyes
Hi. I used to play flightgear 0.9.8 quite a lot. Then I stopped for a few months. I tried again last night, using the "YF-23" aircraft. But it's not working. fgfs --show-aircraft doesn't even list it anymore. I reinstalled the game, and it's still not there. I don't understand, what the heck happe

[gentoo-user] Dell XPS 420 (Nvidia video card)

2007-12-24 Thread fire-eyes
Hello, Is anyone on the list using a Dell XPS 420 with an Nvidia card (I avoid ati)? I am curious as to how it is working out for you, as I am considering getting one. Also, if you went with their non-descript wireless card, did it work in linux? How about the onboard ethernet? I am interested i

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

2008-01-12 Thread fire-eyes
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 12 January 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Robbins offers to take back Gentoo leadership. What about it ? Read http://blog.funtoo.org/2008/01/here-my-offer.html I've kept very quiet about Gentoo politics for a long time, but Daniel's blog has promoted me

[gentoo-user] Laptop: Thinkpad T43: Disks Very Slow Under Load, Were Fast in the Past

2008-03-06 Thread fire-eyes
Hello, I'm running gentoo on an IBM Thinkpad T43. In the past, disk access was fine under load (CPU or disk). These days, the disk becomes painfully slow under moderate to high CPU usage (such as compiling) or copying more than a few MB. GUI's become almost totally unresponsive and at times I

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop: Thinkpad T43: Disks Very Slow Under Load, Were Fast in the Past

2008-03-06 Thread fire-eyes
Andrey Falko wrote: On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 10:38 PM, fire-eyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I'm running gentoo on an IBM Thinkpad T43. In the past, disk access was fine under load (CPU or disk). These days, the disk becomes painfully slow under moderate to high CPU usa

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop: Thinkpad T43: Disks Very Slow Under Load, Were Fast in the Past

2008-03-07 Thread fire-eyes
Thomas Kahle wrote: Hi, I had problems with CFS too. Similar to the one's you describe. Under heavy disk/cpu-load (like emerge and updatedb in parallel) the system was unresponsive. I changed the scheduler back to anticipatory and the problem was gone. Interestingly i also have a thinkpad, X30 i

Re: [gentoo-user] Bizarre SSH connection reset

2008-03-10 Thread fire-eyes
Hmm, I don't know . . . The particular address I was trying to connect was definitely blocked. Other than not beeing able to connect with a browser, nc, httping and tcptraceroute confirmed it). Could it be an area/account specific block perhaps? When I questioned the owner he said that this

Re: [gentoo-user] Bizarre SSH connection reset

2008-03-12 Thread fire-eyes
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 I don't have the pcap file

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 2.0.0.5

2007-07-24 Thread fire-eyes
Stratos Psomadakis wrote: i just did an update,and firefox 2.0.0.5 has been added to the tree(~ masked)... but i just read a post at slashdot.org that says about a password vulnerability of 2.0.0.5... here's the link: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/23/1450224 i just want to ask if

[gentoo-user] xorg-x11: How To Calibrate Monitor Color?

2007-08-29 Thread fire-eyes
I'm using xorg 7.2.0 with open source drivers on an ati card. How would I calibrate my monitor? i.e. what a photographer or graphics person would want to to, do ensure I'm seeing accurate colors on my screen? (I hope these don't expire) xorg.conf: http://rafb.net/p/ONo2dK80.html Xorg.0.log: http

[gentoo-user] Xorg 7.3: Xorg Overriding My Config File (loading GLX when I don't want it)

2007-09-15 Thread fire-eyes
Hello, I'm using Xorg 7.3 and am trying to prevent loading of glx module (very unstable on my laptop). Commenting out Load "glx" doesn't stop it. Using Disable "glx" doesn't stop it. Doing the same for dri doesn't stop it. In fact the logs say for each of those, on one line that they are disabled

[gentoo-user] Hibernate / Suspend Problems on a Desktop

2008-05-20 Thread fire-eyes
t this point I am at a loss, trying over and over again to get this working. Any tips would be much appreciated. fire-eyes / Fieldy -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] [OT] Tip: Firefox: Mouse Wheel Left/Right for History

2008-05-22 Thread fire-eyes
Hello, Just ran across a nifty trick for firefox, and wanted to get it on the list, as well as searched by search engines. Hope this is useful. I enabled my mouse wheels left-right functionality, however, it was reversed to xorg. So I flipped it in xorgs config. Seamonkey got it right someh

Re: [gentoo-user] Ati or Nvida

2008-06-17 Thread fire-eyes
Platoali wrote: Well, last night the graphic card of my laptop got broken. So I'm considering to replace it with a workstation for some graphic applications (Mainly blender and gimp.) I need 3d acceleration, and my poor laptop was rendering for hours to get my job done. So I decide to buy a works

[gentoo-user] Errors with External eSATA Drive (DRDY ERR / ICRC ABRT)

2008-06-27 Thread fire-eyes
Hello, I keep running into errors while using an external eSATA drive. I have searched for information regarding this issue, and there just is not much out there. The best information I've seen mentions that a user was having this issue, but it went away as long as the disk was connected to t

Re: [gentoo-user] light httpd

2008-07-17 Thread fire-eyes
chloe K wrote: Hi all what is the different between light httpd vs typical apache? how can i tun sysclt for httpd to increase performance thank you - Yahoo! Canada Toolbar : Search from anywhere on the web a

Re: [gentoo-user] Is gentoo-portage and gentoo-wiki offline?

2008-10-17 Thread fire-eyes
KH wrote: Hi, I cannot reach: http://gentoo-portage.com/ http://gentoo-wiki.com Are those websites off the air right now? Does anybody know when they will be back? Are there any substitutes to those web pages? I still miss packages.gentoo.org as it used to be :-( see also: http://packages.lar

[gentoo-user] Please, Stop the Dolphin Massacre Thread!

2007-02-23 Thread fire-eyes
Subject says it all. Come on folks let's keep it on subject. Please keep the number of replies to this down. Seriously, please, stop responding to that thread. -- "I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot

Re: [gentoo-user] How was the PHP upgrade?

2007-03-08 Thread fire-eyes
Grant wrote: > Has anyone upgraded to the recently stable php-5.2.1-r3? How did it go? > > - Grant It went very well. I use lighhtpd + gallery, and I did not even have to rebuild either one of them for things to just work. Suhosin or whatever (man, where do they get these names?) worked fine, to

Re: [gentoo-user] How was the PHP upgrade?

2007-03-08 Thread fire-eyes
Grant wrote: >> > Has anyone upgraded to the recently stable php-5.2.1-r3? How did it >> go? >> > >> > - Grant >> >> It went very well. I use lighhtpd + gallery, and I did not even have to >> rebuild either one of them for things to just work. Suhosin or whatever >> (man, where do they get these n

[gentoo-user] Asterisk in a vserver wants module-init-tools, wants baselayout... bork.

2007-03-20 Thread fire-eyes
Hello, I added the voip overlay to my system. Went to set up asterisk, but it wants module-init-tools, which wants baselayout. baselayout, all versions, are masked on my system. This is because I'm in a vserver. In a vserver, baselayout-vserver has to be used. So I'm stuck right now. Any ideas ou

Re: [gentoo-user] virtual/x11 masked

2007-03-27 Thread fire-eyes
Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > After today update have found such message (see below). Does it > meen, we all must wait for all x11-dependant packages maintainers > to modify plenty ebuild files? > > > Andrew > > > emerge -pvDuN world > > These are the packages that would be

[gentoo-user] Reminder: Move to modular xorg (virtual/x11 masked)

2007-03-27 Thread fire-eyes
If you see that virtual/x11 is masked, this is because it's time to move to modular xorg. Modular xorg has been in the tree for quite a while now, and the long-term plan to migrage gentoo away from non-modular xorg has now been moved to the next step. You can read how to do exactly this here: http

[gentoo-user] Constructive Suggestions Regarding the Colorized Output Thread

2007-04-05 Thread fire-eyes
Plenty of noise over this one, with zero useful accomplishments. My suggestions: 1) Stop replying to the emails 2) Felix: File a bug, you are wasting your time ranting here 2a) If you don't want to file a bug, then kindly drop it 3) Be respectful and courteous to each other That is all. Hav

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is the latest release 2006.1?

2007-04-17 Thread fire-eyes
Neil Walker wrote: Be lucky, Neil This is completely offtopic. But "Be lucky" made me think of the movie Demolition man, is this where you got it? In that case, the reply to that line was amusing :P -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage

2007-04-26 Thread fire-eyes
Grant wrote: I've found myself with a full hard disk and no obvious choices for reducing usage. Are there any not-so-obvious ways to free up hard disk space? - Grant I'll agree with the other suggestions which i'll put here: 1) rm -r /var/tmp/portage/* (the /* is important) 2) rm -r /usr/por

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: How to check for an existing ethernet link ?

2006-10-01 Thread fire-eyes
Meino Christian Cramer wrote: Hi, sorry for being off topic, but I think, folks of this list have the knowledge to answer my question and I have no idea who to ask else... I need to check from within a C-program whether the computer, the program is running on (OS: Linux), is connected to th

[gentoo-user] Circular Block? kde-env / kdelibs

2006-10-10 Thread fire-eyes
Okay this is interesting, I don't know how to resolve it. Any ideas? - kde-env isn't installed, as it is listed as N below. - Removing kdelibs first does not resolve the issue. With kdelibs left installed: [blocks B ] kde-base/kde-env (is blocking kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.4-r2) [blocks B ]

Re: [gentoo-user] Circular Block? kde-env / kdelibs -- RESOLVED

2006-10-10 Thread fire-eyes
fire-eyes wrote: Okay this is interesting, I don't know how to resolve it. Any ideas? - kde-env isn't installed, as it is listed as N below. - Removing kdelibs first does not resolve the issue. With kdelibs left installed: [blocks B ] kde-base/kde-env (is blocking kde-base/kde

Re: [gentoo-user] Circular Block? kde-env / kdelibs -- RESOLVED

2006-10-10 Thread fire-eyes
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 09:39:32 -0400, fire-eyes wrote: klvemkdvd was depending on kde-env, and klvemkdvd was no longer in portage. Unmerging it resolved the issue. You could have seen this straight away by adding --tree to the emerge command. Yup, I wasn't aware

[gentoo-user] xorg 7.1 radeon hardware acceleration? x300 (M22 [Radeon Mobility M300])

2006-10-15 Thread fire-eyes
I am interested in getting hardware acceleration, if that's the right term, with xorg 7.1 and xorgs radeon drivers. I tried this a while ago but it meant a lot of messing with cvs software and goofing with header files, it was a pain. Hopefully it's easier now. lspci lists my card as GA compat

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg 7.1 radeon hardware acceleration? x300 (M22 [Radeon Mobility M300])

2006-10-16 Thread fire-eyes
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 16 October 2006 00:02, fire-eyes wrote: I am interested in getting hardware acceleration, if that's the right term, with xorg 7.1 and xorgs radeon drivers. I tried this a while ago but it meant a lot of messing with cvs software and goofing with header file

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg 7.1 radeon hardware acceleration? x300 (M22 [Radeon Mobility M300])

2006-10-16 Thread fire-eyes
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 16 October 2006 15:50, fire-eyes wrote: Using a IBM (yes, it says IBM on it ;p) Thinkpad T43. As for the closed drivers, I have zero intentions of touching them again anytime soon, those things regularly lock my system up so hard i've had severe filesystem d

[gentoo-user] ipw2200 + Intel Pro Wireless 2915 a/b/g: "ipw2200: Firmware error detected. Restarting."

2006-10-25 Thread fire-eyes
I am having a very irritating problem with the wireless driver and card above. Sometimes, but not all the times, it gets into this phase where the wireless drops, comes back, drops, comes back (etc) and eventually I start seeing this in kernel logs: ipw2200: Firmware error detected. Restartin

Re: [gentoo-user] ipw2200 + Intel Pro Wireless 2915 a/b/g: "ipw2200: Firmware error detected. Restarting."

2006-10-26 Thread fire-eyes
Ovidiu Bivolaru wrote: > I'm interested in IFC patch. Where did you get it ? Thanks. Well, it's IBM Fan Control patch, not Intel Fan Control, so I was wrong. not sure if it will work outside of an IBM Thinkpad. I looked and looked, but I can't seem to find this patch. So I'll just post the source

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-28 Thread fire-eyes
Norberto Bensa wrote: > CapSel wrote: >> So my question is - how can I help to eliminate this bug(s)? > > Can you check your RAM please? Reiserfs (3.x that is) is very stable. I'm > using it for five years now. No data loss or corruption. > > And DON'T use XFS if you can't afford an UPS. Strong

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-28 Thread fire-eyes
Norberto Bensa wrote: > b.n. wrote: >> Yes, but it costs money :) > > Not that much really if you think how much it will save :) > > You don't need a keep-my-box-up-30-days UPS. A 15 minutes UPS will do just > fine and they are very cheap nowdays. Another nice note is that APC and probably othe

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ipw2200 + Intel Pro Wireless 2915 a/b/g: "ipw2200: Firmware error detected. Restarting."

2006-10-29 Thread fire-eyes
7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: > Hope that you get a more useful response FWIW, I Had precisely these > symptoms on my Sony 2200 laptop - and can't tell you why - but it is > rock sold now. I think there were two things going on: > > 1. This might be a "kill" switch? Some of my problems were certainly du

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ipw2200 + Intel Pro Wireless 2915 a/b/g: "ipw2200: Firmware error detected. Restarting."

2006-10-29 Thread fire-eyes
William Kenworthy wrote: > On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 11:11 -0500, fire-eyes wrote: >> 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: > >> I don't have a physical switch, but perhaps there is a software switch. >> This laptop has never run windows, so I can't say that is a factor. >&g

Re: [gentoo-user] Die, process! Die!

2006-10-30 Thread fire-eyes
Michael Sullivan wrote: > I know my subject line is a little melodramatic, but this is really > frustrating. I frequently have processes that killall doesn't kill and > kill -9 doesn't touch. For instance, this is taken from top: > > 24135 root 16 0 229m 35m 1064 S 0.3 59.7 8:52.11

Re: [gentoo-user] bugzilla ban ?

2006-11-07 Thread fire-eyes
Enrico Weigelt wrote: > Hi folks, > > > I just wanted to log into bgo after quite a long off time to report > some bugs, but had see this: > > "20062709 - Disabled for one week due to bugspamming" > > So it seems, I'm absolutely not welcomed. > > > cu https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenSSH security

2006-11-07 Thread fire-eyes
James Colby wrote: > List members - > > I am running OpenSSH on my home gentoo server. I was examining the > log files for OpenSSH and I noticed multiple login attempts from the > same IP address but with different user names. Is there a simple way > that I can block an IP address from attemptin

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenSSH security

2006-11-07 Thread fire-eyes
Pavel Sanda wrote: >> In addition to fail2ban, look at deny2hosts and sshdfilter. > > accidentally i was solving the same problem today. > i tried to use hosts.allow/deny but it seems sshd doesnt > reflect to them (i have tcpd use flag on). > is openssh on gentoo supposed to work with these files

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI frustration

2006-12-22 Thread fire-eyes
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 18:38, James wrote: > Hello, > > I've been trying to get 3D working on a amd64(pci-3e) mobo that has an ATI > 1900 video card: > TI Technologies Inc R580 [Radeon X1900 XT] Primary > > I first setup the radeon driver and it crawled with bzflag (the 3D software > I test

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I want my xmms

2006-12-29 Thread fire-eyes
On Friday 29 December 2006 14:42, Mick wrote: > I'm missing xmms too. I hope xmms2 will eventually be developed enough to > use as a stable package, but without the bloatware that winamp has become. xmms2 is nothing like the first version. It is a client / daemon setup really. Few users of xmms

[gentoo-user] Alsa Badness

2005-12-28 Thread fire-eyes
I dropped my alsa issue into a pastebin, so I'm just going to lazily copy it here. Thanks for reading :) I am using kernel 2.6.14.4 , compiled myself and installed myself. I am using alsa-driver-1.0.10 and alsa-lib-1.0.10. When I try to start the alsasound script, I get pages of errors simila

Re: [gentoo-user] Alsa Badness

2005-12-29 Thread fire-eyes
fire-eyes wrote: > I drop[snip] Okay this has been resolved. I have been using alsa kernel drivers, and something along the way pulled in alsa-driver. Odd though, I can't figure out what, equery d alsa-driver shows nothing.. Reinstalling the kernel did the trick. Thanks for the r

[gentoo-user] DVD movie playing issues

2006-01-22 Thread fire-eyes
I am having problems playing DVD movies. The Movies are: Bourne Identity Primus - Hallucinogenetics concert Both of these work on my desktop system, also running gentoo with the same USE flags in mplayer and xine. This is a brand new IBM Thinkpad T43, running gentoo. Here's what we get with Bo

[gentoo-user] SOLVED sort of: DVD movie playing issues

2006-01-22 Thread fire-eyes
The dvd drive came regionless so I had to set it. Now I'm getting different software related issues, but at least it's not hardware anymore. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] doom3 sound

2006-01-24 Thread fire-eyes
Cláudio Henrique wrote: > I managed to have doom3 working on my system, but now the problem is > with the sound. It is like the one of a robot. I have tried using > alsa, but the problem remains. How can I fix this? > []'s > claudio. > I see the same problem. Though I have only tried the demo. I

Re: [gentoo-user] 3.5 hours!

2006-01-28 Thread fire-eyes
Ernie Schroder wrote: > I haven't seen any new posts in 3 and a half hours. That must be a new record. Oh yeah? I guess this is a good time to post my problem then and break that (other than this message). -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] DHCP Timeouts

2006-01-28 Thread fire-eyes
I am having problems with dhcp on my wireless interface. Which is confusing, it worked fine before. It just times out. If I assign everything manually, there are no issues. Some ask if it's because association with the AP is taking too long, but I know it is not that, because I am manually startin

[gentoo-user] SOLVED: DHCP Timeouts

2006-01-28 Thread fire-eyes
fire-eyes wrote: > I am having problems with dhcp on my wireless interface. Which is > confusing, it worked fine before. It just times out. If I assign > everything manually, there are no issues. > > Some ask if it's because association with the AP is taking too long, but >

[gentoo-user] xorg-server-7.0.0-rc1: Cannot switch to VC's

2006-01-29 Thread fire-eyes
I just upgraded to xorg-server-7.0.0-rc1, and I can now no longer switch to VC's. I used to be able to do this by holding ctl-alt and pressing F1, for example. Does anyone out there happen to know how I can once again do this? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] xorg-x11-7.0.0-r1: Can't load glx module with radeon driver

2006-01-29 Thread fire-eyes
Yee haw. I'm using xorg-x11-7.0.0-r1. I am using their radeon driver, and trying to get glx to load. It is my understanding that it now has 3d support (glx). However when I try to start glxgears, I get this: $ glxgears Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". Error: couldn't get an RGB,

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-7.0.0-rc1: Cannot switch to VC's

2006-01-29 Thread fire-eyes
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > On Sunday 29 January 2006 18:11, fire-eyes wrote: > >>I just upgraded to xorg-server-7.0.0-rc1, and I can now no longer switch >>to VC's. I used to be able to do this by holding ctl-alt and pressing >>F1, for example. >> >>D

[gentoo-user] USER ERROR: xorg-x11-7.0.0-r1: Can't load glx module with radeon driver

2006-01-29 Thread fire-eyes
fire-eyes wrote: > Yee haw. > > I'm using xorg-x11-7.0.0-r1. I am using their radeon driver, and trying > to get glx to load. It is my understanding that it now has 3d support (glx). > > However when I try to start glxgears, I get this: > > $ glxgears > Xlib: ex

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Question about new bash

2006-01-29 Thread fire-eyes
Michael Sullivan wrote: > I wrote a script a long time ago for resizing pictures uploaded to a > certain directory on my server box. The script was supposed to check to > see if any JPG files in the directory had not been resized, and if they > hadn't, it was supposed to resize them. It did some

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-7.0.0-rc1: Cannot switch to VC's

2006-01-29 Thread fire-eyes
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > On Sunday 29 January 2006 18:36, fire-eyes wrote: > >>Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: >> >>>On Sunday 29 January 2006 18:11, fire-eyes wrote: >>> >>>>I just upgraded to xorg-server-7.0.0-rc1, and I can now no longer swi

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-7.0.0-rc1: Cannot switch to VC's

2006-01-29 Thread fire-eyes
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > On Sunday 29 January 2006 19:44, fire-eyes wrote: > >>Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: >> >>>On Sunday 29 January 2006 18:36, fire-eyes wrote: >>> >>>>Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: >>>> >>>>>On Su

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags - Why use ntpl/ntplonly in make.conf?

2006-02-02 Thread fire-eyes
Jeff wrote: > Just wondering - how would my system benefit from using ntpl/ntplonly? I > don't see very much 'official' documentation of these USE flags, but > Googling, I see a lot of people using it to 'optimize' their gcc/system. > > Anyone care to comment? > Myself I tried ntpl (and also ntp

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging UT2004

2006-02-03 Thread fire-eyes
Steve B. wrote: > Hey everybody, > > This is kind of stupid problem, but I just can't seem to figure this one > out. I can't emerge UT2004. I set my CD_ROOT to my cdrom (/media/hdc) and > the first CD copies fine, but it never gives me time to umount and mount the > second CD. It simply tr

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging UT2004

2006-02-04 Thread fire-eyes
Steve B. wrote: > On Friday 03 February 2006 23:06, fire-eyes wrote: > >>Steve B. wrote: >> >>>Hey everybody, >>> >>> This is kind of stupid problem, but I just can't seem to figure this >>>one out. I can't emerge UT2004. I se

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