[gentoo-user] Bug in Gentoo udev guide?

2005-04-06 Thread David D. Rea
I noticed that the Gentoo udev Guide (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml) still refers to the 2.6 kernels as being proided by gentoo-dev-sources... udev is meant to be used in combination with a 2.6 kernel (like development-sources or gentoo-dev-sources). I thought for 2005.0 that was

[gentoo-user] Portage downgrading question

2005-04-06 Thread David D. Rea
Hi All- I needed to fill out a PDF form today, so I figured I'd try the new Adobe Acrobat Reader 7. I did the following: `ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge -pv acroread` And subsequently emerged the package without the -pv. All went well, and acroread seems to work happily enough on my box. I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage downgrading question

2005-04-06 Thread David D. Rea
On Wed, April 6, 2005 1:32 pm, Scott Jones said: Dave, I believe that echo =app-text/acroread-7.0 ~x86 /etc/portage/package.keywords will fix your problem. Basically you put programs you want to have masked ~x86 in the file package.keywords in the directory /etc/portage Scott Jones

[gentoo-user] USB mass storage help

2005-04-05 Thread David D. Rea
Hi All- I'm trying to get my new Canon 20D to talk to my Gentoo box, but so far no luck getting the mass storage device driver to see it: 1) `dmesg` reports the following when plugging in camera: usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 63 Normally the usb-storage driver

Re: [gentoo-user] USB mass storage help

2005-04-05 Thread David D. Rea
On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 11:54 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: The Canon 300D and A75 don't present themselves as mass storage devices, so I doubt the 20D does either. You can access it with gphoto, or by using camera:/ in Konqueror, but not as a block device. Personally, I prefer to use a card

[gentoo-user] Samba getpeername failed - Reverse DNS?

2005-02-09 Thread David D. Rea
Hi All- Having some odd difficulties with samba and Windows XP SP2 clients. File share browsing works just fine, but printing is taking forever. It takes several seconds to get a print dialog on a WinXP box, then several seconds more if you want to change printers, then several seconds more to

Re: [gentoo-user] simple backups

2005-02-03 Thread David D. Rea
On Thu, February 3, 2005 11:04 am, Nick Smith said: i read up on the man page of rsync and got that this command will backup my server to another external drive i have: mail root # rsync -avz / /mnt/backup/ but when i run that command i get a bunch of 'no such file errors' and then it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: hosting plan? [OT]

2005-01-27 Thread David D. Rea
On Thu, January 27, 2005 10:12 am, Zhang Weiwu said: Come on, I just wish to find a host for my homepage:) Instead of having a pretty geek girlfriend (which is admirable, only a few people have the luck), why not try to appreciate art, music, literature, poem... that any thing make you not

Re: [gentoo-user] ISP blocking smtp

2005-01-20 Thread David D. Rea
Time to start thinking about colocating SMTP_A or speaking with Comcast about unblocking the SMTP port... This may require purchasing business-class service or a static IP address... On Thu, January 20, 2005 11:08 am, Nick Smith said: well i understand that, but SMTP_B would be whoever im

Re: [gentoo-user] ISP blocking smtp

2005-01-20 Thread David D. Rea
On Thu, January 20, 2005 11:51 am, Michael Sullivan said: I've been following this thread, but I'm still a little confused; You have a domain name (I think); you have a Linux system. Why do you use comcasts' SMTP server? My domain is espersunited.com. I use Cox Business Services as my ISP

Re: [gentoo-user] System Recovery

2005-01-20 Thread David D. Rea
On Thu, January 20, 2005 12:25 pm, James said: What alternatives (like a boot floppy) do I have to get this system up, so I can copy off critical files? Try burning yourself a Knoppix CD, and boot directly into this. Then you can perhaps burn your critical files off to a CD, or SCP your files

[gentoo-user] Palm/Visor + Gnome 2 + Evo 2 + gpilotd Problems...

2005-01-08 Thread David D. Rea
Hi All- Just finished upgrading to Evolution 2, and I'm having a lot of trouble syncing up my PalmOS device... It all started just after running Evolution 2 for the first time, when I tried to sync. It appeared to sync fine, went through the motions, but did not actually update the

Re: [gentoo-user] Palm/Visor + Gnome 2 + Evo 2 + gpilotd Problems...

2005-01-08 Thread David D. Rea
On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 00:37 +0100, Heinz Sporn wrote: I do have a similar issue here. My Tungsten E synchronizes perfectly with jPilot. With Evolution only contacts are somewhat working. Memos / calender are simply ignored. Not even an initial forced copy from Palm to Evolution works - no

Re: [gentoo-user] Login, Schmogin

2005-01-08 Thread David D. Rea
On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 00:28 -0800, John Lowell wrote: [snip] I have no idea what in heaven's name would cause a delay of this kind. Is an answer to this problem really so obscure? God knows, maybe it is. I'm pretty far down the Linux food chain, even farther so in the Gentoo community, but