Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-7: no console switching; can't exit gnome sanely.

2006-03-05 Thread fire-eyes
I get console-switching back? >> >>Option "DontVTSwitch" "Off" >> >>in the xorg.conf > > > This doesn't appear to work. Although I don't understand why I should need to > specify a value for DontVTSwitch anyway. Is "Off" no longer the default? > > Thanks > Robert I noticed this problem when I

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-7: no console switching; can't exit gnome sanely.

2006-03-05 Thread fire-eyes
> > This problem is because of the keyboard layout. If you > use KDE go to Control Center / Regional & > Accessibility / Keyboard Layout and select the right > one for your keyboard. Thanks for the advice. I have done this, logged out of kde, and logged back in, however it still does not work at

Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla - pop-ups not blocked !!

2006-03-19 Thread fire-eyes
On Sunday 19 March 2006 12:48, Rohit Sharma wrote: >

[gentoo-user] Are my posts getting through?

2005-04-13 Thread fire-eyes
I can't really think of another way to verify this so here we go. Are my posts making it through to the list? I recently posted one about a 3Com card but never saw it show up. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] 3Com 3C996B-T: Software shows 1000Mbps, get 100Mbps or less speeds

2005-04-13 Thread fire-eyes
Sorry if this is a repost, it seems to have disappeared into the bit bucket. I put a 3Com 3C996B-T 1000Mbps NIC in my system. It uses the tg3 (broadcom) driver, which I have compiled in. The kernel messages show the link at 1000. The light on the NIC shows this. The lights on the switch show this

[gentoo-user] 3Com problem: solved

2005-04-13 Thread fire-eyes
Welp it was a routing issue. I made a specific routing entry for the system I was testing from, and it worked out to about 18 - 20MB/s. The limiting factor is the old scsi disks. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] 3Com 3C996B-T: Software shows 1000Mbps, get 100Mbps or less speeds

2005-04-13 Thread fire-eyes
> Ok, this is free advice and may or may not be worth any more than that > -- I'm new here, but since nobody answered > Is your kernel configured for 1Gb as-such under the networking? > (In win now to do mail; not set up undel linux yet, so I can't check > exactly what/where.) > Also may nee

[gentoo-user] Evolution Calendar: Server?

2005-04-13 Thread fire-eyes
I'm intrested in using some sort of central server to house calendars for Evolution, does anyone know what's involved in that, what USE flag support I need in evolution, etc? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Umerge All Versions of KDE

2005-04-15 Thread fire-eyes
How do I unmerge all versions of KDE? I understand "kde" is a meta package, so emerge -C kde isn't going to do this (though I sure wish it would). -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

2005-04-17 Thread fire-eyes
On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 18:17 +0200, Jarry wrote: > Hi, > > I'm installing Gentoo 2005.0 using universal installation CD > on a small, general purpose server (apache+mysql+php, mail, > some net-games, teamspeak, ftp, shells, 20-30 users, etc.). > > Up to now I always used ext2, but now I want to tr

[gentoo-user] Hardware Raid: using smartctl on individual drives

2005-04-20 Thread fire-eyes
I'm using 100% hardware raid. I have a raid1 as well as a raid5. I can use smartctl on each array, but I can't seem to figure out how to aim it at one physical disk. Any ideas? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Ethernet Card Init order?

2005-04-20 Thread fire-eyes
I have two NIC's in a server. One always comes up as eth0, the other always eth1. One is on-board, the other is an add-on. I'd like to swap them around, that is to say, have the NIC that is currently eth0 become eth1, and the NIC which is eth1 become eth0. Is this possible? -- gentoo-user@gento

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet Card Init order?

2005-04-20 Thread fire-eyes
On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 19:53 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: > fire-eyes wrote: > > >I have two NIC's in a server. One always comes up as eth0, the other > >always eth1. One is on-board, the other is an add-on. > > > >I'd like to swap them around, that is to say

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet Card Init order?

2005-04-20 Thread fire-eyes
On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 12:05 -0600, Tres Melton wrote: > This is my lilo (grub has the same thing) > > append="ether=5,0xe400,eth0 ether=10,0x300,eth1" > > and it ensures that eth0 is the one on irq5 and eth1 on irq10 That's what I was looking for, I'll have to give that a shot. Thanks! -- gent

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet Card Init order?

2005-04-20 Thread fire-eyes
On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 12:05 -0600, Tres Melton wrote: > This is my lilo (grub has the same thing) > > append="ether=5,0xe400,eth0 ether=10,0x300,eth1" > > and it ensures that eth0 is the one on irq5 and eth1 on irq10 I'm trying to figure out the I/O addresses. For one of the cards we have this,

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet Card Init order?

2005-04-20 Thread fire-eyes
On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 20:53 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: > It seems you are correct. According to > > http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/Ethernet-HOWTO-8.html#lilo > > And /usr/src/linux/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt, you should be > able to get away with just > > "netdev=eth1,eth0" > >

[gentoo-user] NIC Swapping Fun Continued

2005-04-21 Thread fire-eyes
So I'm using a 2.6 kernel, and trying to figure out how to cause eth0 and eth1 to swap. That is, eth0 start up as eth1, and eth1 start up as eth0. I was told here about the netdev argument to the kernel. I tried about 9 different ways of using this, but the documentation isn't exactly as clear as

Re: [gentoo-user] NIC Swapping Fun Continued

2005-04-21 Thread fire-eyes
On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 22:12 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 10:04 -0400, fire-eyes wrote: > > So I'm using a 2.6 kernel, and trying to figure out how to cause eth0 > > and eth1 to swap. That is, eth0 start up as eth1, and eth1 start up as > > eth0. >

Re: [gentoo-user] NIC Swapping Fun Continued

2005-04-21 Thread fire-eyes
On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 15:33 +0100, Jonathan Wright wrote: > fire-eyes wrote: > > Well, my fault for not mentioning. But I don't enable module loading > > support on servers, it is a security risk. > > Fair enough. I've done the same on my servers. What's th

Re: [gentoo-user] NIC Swapping Fun Continued

2005-04-21 Thread fire-eyes
On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 15:51 +0100, Jonathan Wright wrote: > fire-eyes wrote: > > I would do this however one of them is built into the motherboard. > > > > I found a document which claimed with grub all Ihad to do was > > netdev=irq=24,name=eth0 however I tried

Re: [gentoo-user] NIC Swapping Fun Continued

2005-04-21 Thread fire-eyes
On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 16:14 +0100, Jonathan Wright wrote: > fire-eyes wrote: > > My understanding was that ether= was for 2.4 kernels, in fact the docs > > for 2.6 say netdev= is the replace ment, but at this point i'm willing > > to try. > > Continuing the search,

Re: [gentoo-user] NIC Swapping Fun Continued

2005-04-21 Thread fire-eyes
On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 17:46 +0200, Bert Buchholz wrote: > On Thu 21.04 10:04, fire-eyes wrote: > > So I'm using a 2.6 kernel, and trying to figure out how to cause eth0 > > and eth1 to swap. That is, eth0 start up as eth1, and eth1 start up as > > eth0. > > Sim

[gentoo-user] nameif segfault: SOLVED

2005-04-21 Thread fire-eyes
Just wanted to pass on that nameif was the solution to my NIC device swapping issues. I had mentioned that it kept setfaulting, though it was indeed doing its job. I found a bugreport, and it turns out that if the config file you pass nameif has more than 3 lines, it segfaults. This is fixed in ne

[gentoo-user] 1000Mbps NIC Getting 100Mbps speeds

2005-04-22 Thread fire-eyes
I have installed a 1000Mbps NIC in my system. This is the system some of you read about me where I was trying to swap the names of eth0 and eth1 so maybe that has something to do with my problem. The light on the NIC shows 1000Mbps link, as does the switch it is connected to. Kernel messages show

[gentoo-user] 1000Mbps NIC problems solved

2005-04-23 Thread fire-eyes
First off, thanks to those who responded kindly, it is really appreciated. I feel very silly, but apparently the problem is the system itself. All this time I was testing for speed by connecting to it from another system, and fetching a file via ftp. I never PUT one until yesterday, and then I did

Re: [gentoo-user] 1000Mbps NIC Getting 100Mbps speeds

2005-04-22 Thread fire-eyes
On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 12:49 -0400, A. Khattri wrote: > Can we assume the switch you're using supports Gb ethernet? Yes, it does. > BTW, is the NIC using a PCI-X/PCIe slot? All I know is that it's a 64-bit slot,it is not a newer system. > If it isn't, you probably won't get the performance you

[gentoo-user] Saving Space on Backups: rm -r /usr/portage/* ?

2005-04-25 Thread fire-eyes
I'm keeping a series of full system backups. However i'd like to remove anything portage related *that could be replaced by just an emerge sync*. can I just remove /usr/portage/* in these older backups? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Web Based Job Ticket System?

2005-04-29 Thread fire-eyes
I'm looking for a web based job ticket system. We use apache 2 and mysql currently, and also have php 4/5. Any suggestions? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2005-05-03 Thread fire-eyes
On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 17:32 -0500, kashani wrote: > Is there something especially complicated about going into your > settings > in Thunderbird and setting gentoo.org as a domain that prefers text > emails? He doesn't want to, it's his choice. It is also my choice to filter mails from him which a

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

2005-05-03 Thread fire-eyes
On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 06:12 +, Calvin Spealman wrote: > I will remember to use plain text for this list, but let it be known > that I don't want to and I shouldn't have to. Nor should I have to tolerate seeing it, and will filter html mail to this list to the trash. Which of course means one

[gentoo-user] Please Use Subjects

2005-05-08 Thread fire-eyes
There's quite a lot of messages today with zero subject, all I see is [gentoo-user]. This gets confusing when you get a ton of mail a day. It might be interesting to many others too, but they end up deleting it because it's got no subject. Or at least respond to subjectless messages with a subject

Re: [gentoo-user]

2005-05-09 Thread fire-eyes
On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 03:19 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sun, 08 May 2005 21:42:55 -0400 fire-eyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > | There's quite a lot of messages today with zero subject, all I see is > | [gentoo-user]. This gets confusing when you get a ton of mail

[gentoo-user] evolution 2.2.1.1: Mail and Contacts features showing, others not

2005-05-10 Thread fire-eyes
I'm using evolution 2.2.1.1. Up until today, in the lower left corner there were three buttons: Mail, Contacts, Calendar, and one other I forget. Today, I only see Mail and Contacts. This is rather alarming, as I use the Calendar features extensively. Digging around the menus doesn't really reveal

Re: [gentoo-user] evolution 2.2.1.1: Mail and Contacts features showing, others not

2005-05-10 Thread fire-eyes
On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 08:35 -0400, fire-eyes wrote: > I'm using evolution 2.2.1.1. Up until today, in the lower left corner > there were three buttons: Mail, Contacts, Calendar, and one other I > forget. Today, I only see Mail and Contacts. This is rather alarming, as > I use the

Re: [gentoo-user] evolution 2.2.1.1: Mail and Contacts features showing, others not

2005-05-10 Thread fire-eyes
On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 08:43 -0400, fire-eyes wrote: > Eh, looks like I found the problem. On STDOUT when starting evolution: > > evolution-2.2:6552): evolution-shell-WARNING **: Cannot activate > 'OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_Calendar_Component:2.2': g_module_open of >

Re: [gentoo-user] evolution 2.2.1.1: Mail and Contacts features showing, others not

2005-05-10 Thread fire-eyes
On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 09:15 -0400, fire-eyes wrote: > On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 08:43 -0400, fire-eyes wrote: > > Eh, looks like I found the problem. On STDOUT when starting evolution: > > > > evolution-2.2:6552): evolution-shell-WARNIN

Re: [gentoo-user] evolution 2.2.1.1: Mail and Contacts features showing, others not

2005-05-10 Thread fire-eyes
On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 15:14 +0100, Edward Catmur wrote: > > Continuing this, I did a revdep-rebuild -p. It wanted to remerge > > evolution-data-server, but when doing that I get a flood of errors > > ending in this: > > > > /usr/lib/libsoup-2.2.so: undefined reference to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]' >

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.0

2005-05-11 Thread fire-eyes
On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 13:53 +, James wrote: > Hello All, > > OpenOffice 2.0 looks significantly enhanced. Does anybody have > a guestimate or insight as to when it will be available, via > emerge? > > Has anybody compiled OO 2.0 directly? If so what are your > results and is it stable? As s

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.0

2005-05-11 Thread fire-eyes
By the way, I merged openoffice-bin 1.9.93 . I don't see the beta versions in the standard (non-bin) ebuild. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Stale Samba in Portage

2005-08-01 Thread fire-eyes
On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 15:57 -0700, Raymond Lillard wrote: > Now on to my topic. I have noticed that the Samba version > presently available in Portage is v3.0.10. # emerge -pv samba These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] net-fs/sam

Re: [gentoo-user] Stale Samba in Portage

2005-08-01 Thread fire-eyes
On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 07:14 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS='~x86' emerge samba -s ACCEPT_KEYWORDS done on the command line is a very poor idea, use /etc/portage/package.use instead. I forget the specifics, but I have seen a system run into serious problems and library screwups

Re: [gentoo-user] enlightenment 16 or 17

2005-08-03 Thread fire-eyes
On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 14:45 +0200, Fernando Meira wrote: > How stable is e17? The new stuff worth it? Any comments about this? E17 is still beta or maybe even just alpha code. It is not stable by a long shot, and I find it rather difficult to use, when everything compiles (it often doesn't). For

Re: [gentoo-user] Compression tools Compared

2005-08-13 Thread fire-eyes
On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 12:13 +, Fernando Meira wrote: > Hi, > that lzma is quite impressive!! Interesting, there is an .ebuild in the source too ;) It's not in portage, however. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Compression tools Compared

2005-08-13 Thread fire-eyes
On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 05:44 -0700, Stephen Micheals wrote: > ive used lzma for a while in windows using 7zip but have not had much > time to test it in linux using p7zip yet. (emerge p7zip) > Sounds like P7 doesn't have the capability to remember user names group names etc, definately a "i'd try i

Re: [gentoo-user] Compression tools Compared

2005-08-13 Thread fire-eyes
On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 11:49 -0300, Norberto Bensa wrote: > So what's the problem? You'll be using something like "tar | 7z" or > whatever > the command for lzma is. I mean, tar handles ownership and > permissions. Or am > I missing something? I could be missing something, my brain isn't working

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-15 Thread fire-eyes
On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 11:28 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > can report WORKSFORME on unstable packages. This will provide the > data > necessary to help know when packages should be marked stable. > > > > isn't that what bugs.gentoo.org is for? I thought so at one point but got sort of flamed for it

[gentoo-user] Evolution 2.2.3 Filtering Time (Too Long!)

2005-08-23 Thread fire-eyes
I have posted about this before, with no real solution, figured i'd throw it out again see what happens. I am using evolution 2.2.3. The speed of the filtering is atrocious. For example, this morning I had 42 new messages, and it took 3 minutes 50 seconds to get it done, an dmove it into the appro

Re: [gentoo-user] Evolution 2.2.3 Filtering Time (Too Long!)

2005-08-24 Thread fire-eyes
On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 09:06 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: > 3. use a compound filter rather than separate ones (this assumes there > is less overhead doing this - subjectively it does seem quicker) Thanks for the tips. The above one is the only one I don't really understand, can you elaborate a bit?

[gentoo-user] Unable to unmerge php and mod_php

2005-08-26 Thread fire-eyes
Hi, I am trying to unmerge all versions of php and mod_php on my system. However: # emerge -C php mod_php dev-php/mod_php selected: 4.3.2-r5 4.3.8 protected: none omitted: none >>> 'Selected' packages are slated for removal. >>> 'Protected' and 'omitted' packages will not be

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to unmerge php and mod_php

2005-08-27 Thread fire-eyes
On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 23:29 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > That's irrelevant. Portage keeps the ebuilds used to install each > package > in /var/db/pkg. Otherwise updating a deprecated package would be > impossible. The problem is that the ebuild uses an eclass that no > longer > exists. Bingo. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Any booby-traps with AMD64?

2005-08-27 Thread fire-eyes
On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 23:41 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > Bad news... my 1.8 ghz P4 died recently and I'm now running on my > emergency backup 6-year-old Dell (450 mhz PIII and 128 megs of RAM). > Let's just say that editing 2560 X 1920 digital photos in GIMP is a > "rather liesurely" process. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network

2005-08-30 Thread fire-eyes
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 00:51 +1000, Andrew Lowe wrote: > Hi all, > I have the situation where I've been loaned an old Sun SPARC > box for > some work. It has a static IP somewhere in the 192.168.0.* range, > which > my home network also is in. My question is, how can I find out the IP > a

[gentoo-user] exim-4.50-r1: fails to stop via init.d,

2005-09-06 Thread fire-eyes
I am using exim-4.50-r1, and it does not stop via /etc/init.d/exim stop . It simply gives "!!". More detailed errors on that sure would be nice. Looking into this, it's not creating the pid file specified in the init.d script. I have to kill exim manually, then pass zap to the init.d script to str

Re: [gentoo-user] exim-4.50-r1: fails to stop via init.d,

2005-09-06 Thread fire-eyes
On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 16:27 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > Has anybody else seem this? My permissions sure seem fine. > > Including /var/run? Some programs drop root privileges before > starting, > so you need the chmod 1777 /var/run. Thanks for the reply. /var/run is 1777 (it was before), yet

Re: [gentoo-user] exim-4.50-r1: fails to stop via init.d,

2005-09-06 Thread fire-eyes
On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 16:27 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 09:59:22 -0400, fire-eyes wrote: > > > I am using exim-4.50-r1, and it does not stop via /etc/init.d/exim > > stop . It simply gives "!!". More detailed errors on that sure would be > &

[gentoo-user] emerge -e world / --resume

2005-09-12 Thread fire-eyes
If I do an emerge -e world , and interrupt it, will I be able to --resume it? Including after a reboot? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Kernel says "hdd" is my dvd drive, /dev/hdd does not exist

2005-09-12 Thread fire-eyes
Howdy. I have my kernel telling me that it found my dvd drive at "hdd" : hdd: PLEXTOR DVDR PX-708A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive However, /dev/hdd doesn't even exist: # stat /dev/hdd stat: cannot stat `/dev/hdd': No such file or directory I am using udev-068. Any clues as to what's going on here

[gentoo-user] Suggestions? Network monitoring scripts

2005-09-13 Thread fire-eyes
I'm looking for suggestions on software which could do the following 1) if our primary gateway goes down, do nothing 2) if it does go down, change the default gateway to line B 3) when the primary comes back, set the gateway back to B. I have two physical interfaces and one alias. -- gentoo-user@g

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions? Network monitoring scripts

2005-09-14 Thread fire-eyes
Ian Clowes wrote: > fire-eyes wrote: > >>I'm looking for suggestions on software which could do the following 1) >>if our primary gateway goes down, do nothing 2) if it does go down, >>change the default gateway to line B 3) when the primary comes back, set >&g

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions? Network monitoring scripts

2005-09-14 Thread fire-eyes
Ian Clowes wrote: > fire-eyes wrote: > >>I'm looking for suggestions on software which could do the following 1) >>if our primary gateway goes down, do nothing 2) if it does go down, >>change the default gateway to line B 3) when the primary comes back, set >&g

[gentoo-user] xorg-x11-6.8.2-r3: rdesktop badness after xorg upgrade

2005-09-16 Thread fire-eyes
I upgraded to xorg-x11-6.8.2-r3 , as per http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200509-07.xml . Now when I run rdesktop-1.4.1 to connect to a win 2003 teriminal server here, then use putty (a free ssh client), my normally green cursor turns black, and leaves a trail of black on black boxes be

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11-6.8.2-r3: rdesktop badness after xorg upgrade

2005-09-17 Thread fire-eyes
cons) > > Sounds up your street, the long and short of it was that reverting > back to r1 "may" fix it but the people involved did not have much > success, prehaps track the bug and see if anyone has made a wrokaround > byt now. > > stu > > On 9/16/05, fire-eyes

[gentoo-user] smartctl: target a signle disk of a scsi raid array, not the raid array?

2005-09-22 Thread fire-eyes
How do I use smartctl (smartmontools) on a single disk in a scsi raid array? I've done it before, I just forget how. /dev/sda is the entire array, not an individual "disk". -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] udev-070: cannot find dvd drive

2005-09-24 Thread fire-eyes
Hello, I am using udev-070 and I cannot find my dvd drive. The kernel certainly finds it: hdd: PLEXTOR DVDR PX-708A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive However /dev/hdd doesn't even exist. Furthermore, neither do /dev/dvd or /dev/dvdrom or /dev/cdrom or anything of the sort. Leaving me zero access to read o

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot merge mozilla or mozilla-firefox

2005-09-25 Thread fire-eyes
Zac Medico wrote: > Your build logs show that in both cases you got segmentation faults when > running perl. I suggest that you roll back to the last working version of > perl that you had. > > Zac Well, it was the same version of perl actually, however I have remerged it and still run into t

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot merge mozilla or mozilla-firefox

2005-09-25 Thread fire-eyes
Rumen Yotov wrote: > Hi, > Check if your perl is compiled with "ithreads" USE-flag. > I have it ON with no problems but there's an warning in it's > description (if enabled). > HTH.Rumen You're right, it is on. Which is interesting, because I had problems in the past with that, and I thought I ha

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot merge mozilla or mozilla-firefox

2005-09-25 Thread fire-eyes
fire-eyes wrote: > Rumen Yotov wrote: > > >>Hi, >>Check if your perl is compiled with "ithreads" USE-flag. >>I have it ON with no problems but there's an warning in it's >>description (if enabled). >>HTH.Rumen > > > You'

[gentoo-user] SOLVED: Cannot merge mozilla or mozilla-firefox

2005-09-25 Thread fire-eyes
I solved this issue. Rather, "we" solved this issue. I'd like to thank those who helped me, I am so happy. The problem was ithreads USE flag in both libperl and perl. Removing those, remerging libperl, running perl-cleaner all, then remerging perl, and again running perl-cleaner all, resulted in b

Re: [gentoo-user] udev issue? (No /dev/cdroms/XXX on two machines)

2005-09-27 Thread fire-eyes
Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >It seems that on two of my machines, after recent updates, I no > longer have /dev/cdroms and therefore cannot mount CDs, etc. I can > mount them by hand using the old style /dev/hda. The hardware works. > It just seems that udev is now doing something different. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] udev issue? (No /dev/cdroms/XXX on two machines)

2005-09-27 Thread fire-eyes
Mark Knecht wrote: > Done. > > In my case the drives are there and working, but the /dev/ names are > more old style. Wanna trade systems? :) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Newest version of OpenOffice (2.0rc1) in portage?

2005-09-29 Thread fire-eyes
John Lange wrote: > I'd like to test the newest version of OpenOffice which is 2.0rc1. > > I have 1.1.4 installed currently. > > When I do emerge --search openoffice it does not show a 2.0 version as > being available. Is this because I need to "unmask" something or because > nothing past 1.1.4 i

Re: [gentoo-user] Newest version of OpenOffice (2.0rc1) in portage?

2005-09-29 Thread fire-eyes
fire-eyes wrote: > Currently, those are only available with openoffice-bin. I am using > 2.0.0rc1 right now. All you need to do is use the appropriate unmask in > /etc/portage/package.unmask (you may need to create /etc/portage/ first: > > >>=app-office/openoffice-bin-1.

Re: [gentoo-user] Good command for wiping a hard drive?

2005-09-30 Thread fire-eyes
Oliver Friedrich wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > >>>What simple command can Ido to write data to the whole drive? > > > Hi Mark, > > well, its not Gentoo, but DBAN is specialy Designed for secure wiping... > > http://dban.sourceforge.net/ > > Give it a try... > > BeowulfOF There is also b

Re: [gentoo-user] [smp related] 2.6.13 is 10x slower than 2.6.12!

2005-10-04 Thread fire-eyes
Iain Buchanan wrote: > Not long ago, I griped about 2.6.13 being _very_ slow to boot and run. > My original email is at the bottom. > > I've since recompiled the kernel without SMP and Hyperthreading, and the > system is _much_ faster. > > So, there is a problem with 2.6.13 and SMP or Hyperthread

[gentoo-user] Evolution: "*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x08144e90 ***"

2005-10-14 Thread fire-eyes
When I try to run evolution-2.4.1, i get "*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x08144e90 ***" on STDOUT and it doesn't start. It doesn't exit either, i have to ctl-c in the terminal. I got this with 2.2 as well. I have been completely unable to run evolution because of this. Any ideas

Re: [gentoo-user] porno filtering using squid?

2005-10-15 Thread fire-eyes
Gentoo Shadow wrote: > dear friends, > > 1) how to band(block) porno web url(s)+web contents using squid-cache > server? > > 2) which filtering tool is de best for a internet-cafe? Have a look at Dans Guardian, it works with squid to do just that. I know of entire ISP's using it. I think the eb

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Generate data dvd iso image with growisofs or other

2005-10-26 Thread fire-eyes
Note: mkisofs (in cdrtools) is what you create the ISO with, growisofs is what you use to write the iso to DVD with. Yeah, I think "growisofs" is a confusing name, too. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] gnome 2.12.1 won't start with xfce4-4.2.2 running as the same user

2005-11-05 Thread fire-eyes
I installed gnome 2.12.1. I am running xfce4 on display :0 . I tried to start gnome session on :1 via: startx /usr/bin/gnome-session -- :1 , however it bails with "gnome-session: you're already running a session manager". Any ideas? I am not running another gnome session. I was able to do this in

Re: [gentoo-user] *** glibc detected *** malloc(): memory corruption (fast): 0x081fb2c1 ***

2005-11-18 Thread fire-eyes
Michael Sullivan wrote: > I don't really know who to ask about this error. I searched for an > explanation on Google and it gave me a link to the Gentoo German forums, > so I thought maybe someone here could help me with this. > > I wrote a Qt program. It compiles just fine, but when I try to ru

Re: [gentoo-user] *** glibc detected *** malloc(): memory corruption (fast): 0x081fb2c1 ***

2005-11-19 Thread fire-eyes
Michael Sullivan wrote: > On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 15:00 -0500, fire-eyes wrote: > >>Michael Sullivan wrote: >> >>>I don't really know who to ask about this error. I searched for an >>>explanation on Google and it gave me a link to the Gentoo German forums,

Re: [gentoo-user] *** glibc detected *** malloc(): memory corruption (fast): 0x081fb2c1 ***

2005-11-19 Thread fire-eyes
David Morgan wrote: > It's not kernel related, it's glibc telling you that you screwed up with > memory allocation somewhere. > > The only 'fix' is to fix your code, so no one can help without seeing it > (apart from maybe listing some common mistakes that cause this). Okay. My difference is tha

[gentoo-user] Xorg 7 rc's: Unable to Switch VTY's

2005-11-23 Thread fire-eyes
I'm using Xorg 7 rc's, and I'm no longer able to switch to say, the console. Or perhaps another session that I have started up with a different WM/DE, as the same user. Any ideas? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5

2005-12-01 Thread fire-eyes
Thiago Lüttig wrote: > Hi, someone has installed the kde 3.5 how it´s running ?? I have tried to install kde-meta-3.5.0, however I get problems while merging kdetalk-3.5.0 . I am not sure yet if I am alone on this one. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114078 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

[gentoo-user] Total system hangs, flightgear, nvidia drivers

2005-12-09 Thread fire-eyes
Hell, I am running into some very irritating problems when trying to use newer nvidia drivers. Instead of covering the whole story and info here, I have placed it into this text file. I sure would appreciate some input! http://fire-eyes.org/temp/badness.txt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing lis

Re: [gentoo-user] Total system hangs, flightgear, nvidia drivers

2005-12-09 Thread fire-eyes
Richard Fish wrote: > On 12/9/05, fire-eyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Hell, I am running into some very irritating problems when trying to use >>newer nvidia drivers. >> >>Instead of covering the whole story and info here, I have placed it into >>th

Re: [gentoo-user] Total system hangs, flightgear, nvidia drivers

2005-12-09 Thread fire-eyes
Bob Sanders wrote: > On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 18:43:45 -0500 > fire-eyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Hell, I am running into some very irritating problems when trying to use >>newer nvidia drivers. >> > > > The newer Nvidia drivers have a tight

[gentoo-user] Continuing xorg/nvidia driver issues

2005-12-10 Thread fire-eyes
A few of you responded with suggestions, and I got the help of others as well. However I am still having the same issue. I have updated this URL with more info, I am still looking for input into this. I did define my modeline. http://fire-eyes.org/temp/badness.txt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org maili

[gentoo-user] Update: Continuing xorg/nvidia driver issues

2005-12-10 Thread fire-eyes
It seems that my issues are caused by not xorg. Nor nvidias drivers, but by xfce4. Sounds odd but it is true. Something appears to be wrong with its resolution/display manager. I can use its settings to set the resolution back to 1600x1200, however it completely ignores the virtual, which drives m

Re: [gentoo-user] I'd really like to stay with you

2006-04-14 Thread fire-eyes
On Friday 14 April 2006 17:11, Franta wrote: > ... but THIS is impossible > > [blocks B ] sys-apps/coldplug (is blocking sys-fs/udev-089-r2) > [blocks B ] <=x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking > x11-drivers/xf86-input-elographics-1.0.0.5) > [blocks B ] <=x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blockin

[gentoo-user] bash completion

2006-04-24 Thread fire-eyes
Hi, i'm trying to use bash completion. That is, the extended bash completion. I merged bash-completion, and it tells me to do the following: einfo "Add the following to your ~/.bashrc to enable completion support." einfo "NOTE: to avoid things like Gentoo bug #98627, you should set alias

Re: [gentoo-user] bash completion

2006-04-24 Thread fire-eyes
On Monday 24 April 2006 18:45, JimD wrote: > try the following: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ source /etc/bash_completion > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ modprobe -v snd-inte[tab][tab] > snd-intel8x0   snd-intel8x0m   snd-interwave   snd-interwave-stb > > > I have to hit tab twice to get a list.  Replace snd-int

Re: [gentoo-user] bash completion

2006-04-24 Thread fire-eyes
On Monday 24 April 2006 20:05, JimD wrote: > Do you have your terminal set to create a login shell?  I noticed that > /etc/profile will source /etc/profile.d/*.sh when you log in.  However > if you look in /etc/profile.d/, bash-completion gets installed as > bash-completion and not bash-completion.

Re: [gentoo-user] PC freeze with ati-drivers and gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3

2006-04-26 Thread fire-eyes
On Wednesday 26 April 2006 12:29, Ptitjack wrote: > I have some problem with gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3 and ati-drivers. > Everything works fine when logging in, but my pc freezes without any > error message when logging out. > Do you get that same trouble on your own ? > I really don't know what to

Re: [gentoo-user] ipw2200 chipset mini wireless card

2006-05-05 Thread fire-eyes
On Friday 05 May 2006 08:44, William Kenworthy wrote: > I have a new sony lappy with a ipw2200 chipset mini wireless card. > Should I be using the in kernel (2.6.16-r3) drivers or the builds in > portage?  Is the a configuration guide for this setup on gentoo? Some will say in kernel, some will sa

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI and Linux

2006-05-07 Thread fire-eyes
On Sunday 07 May 2006 18:54, JimD wrote: > I am looking to get a new video card.  I have used an NVidia with Linux > for a *long* time now.  I can't recall when I last bought an ATI card, > at least 6 years or more. Summary: ATI does make good hardware. However, good hardware paired with poor dr

Re: [gentoo-user] how to stop skype im use

2006-05-10 Thread fire-eyes
On Wednesday 10 May 2006 04:29, El Nino wrote: > dear all, > > how to stop skype IM? using squid or iptables. > > please help me I think I saw a posting about that on the netfilter (aka iptables) mailing list, search around. In short, it is very difficult indeed. -- "When you walk across the f

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5

2006-05-27 Thread fire-eyes
On Saturday 27 May 2006 10:41, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > True.  But why keep 3.4? > > because 3.5 has some bugs - and some people have less problems tolerate > this bugs than others. I must agree here. I have been using the 3.5 ebuilds since they entered the tree many months) on two system

Re: [gentoo-user] migrating firefox 1.5 - issues should I be aware?

2006-06-03 Thread fire-eyes
On Saturday 03 June 2006 12:36, b.n. wrote: > I'm gonna quite tired of the infinite amount of time Firefox 1.5.x is > waiting in the ~x86 limbo... > > But since I trust my developers I know I'm risking, so: I'd like to > know: which issues do I risk in migrating from 1.0.8 to 1.5? I don't > talk th

Re: [gentoo-user] Which process is using port 5060 ?

2006-06-15 Thread fire-eyes
On Thursday 15 June 2006 12:21, Dave S wrote: > Hi all, > > Apparently my SIP port 5060 is in use. Is there a Linux command to tell me > what process is using this port. I have a vague memory of seeing such a > command but just cannot remember or find it. netstat -anp | grep :5060 More useful wou

[gentoo-user] dvdrip: significant frame loss during rip

2006-06-20 Thread fire-eyes
I am using dvdrip. Every time out of three titles I have tried so far, the ripping phase always gives an error at the end, such as: "It seems that transcode ripping stopped short. The movie has 187351 frames, but only 152564 were ripped. This is most likely a problem with your transcode/libdvdr

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