Re[2]: [gentoo-user] intelfb and 945GM

2008-03-27 Thread Sergey Kobzar
> uvesafb works, but it is a bit slow, and requires user-space programs to > run. Its a great peice of code and such, but something that is > kernel-space and able to use hardware effectivly would be even nicer. That's why I tried intelfb before... no luck. -- Sergey -- gentoo-user@lists.gent

Re: [gentoo-user] intelfb and 945GM

2008-03-27 Thread forgottenwizard
On 21:42 Tue 25 Mar , Sergey Kobzar wrote: > >> That's one of the reason why I wanted intelfb, but got no luck. I'm > >> using uvesafb at the moment, but still hope intelfb will be fixed > >> soon. > >> > > I seem to have missed the start of this thread, but if you don't mind, > > could you gi

Re: [gentoo-user] Unplugging USB wireless adapter

2008-03-27 Thread Dale
Grant wrote: > Whenever I unplug a USB wireless adapter I must reboot in order for it > to be recognized again. Is there a way to avoid the reboot? > > - Grant making usb modular and unload/reload the modules? I think I just needed to make sure to stop net.wlan0 before removing the

Re: [gentoo-user] Unplugging USB wireless adapter

2008-03-27 Thread Grant
> > Whenever I unplug a USB wireless adapter I must reboot in order for it > > to be recognized again. Is there a way to avoid the reboot? > > > > - Grant > > making usb modular and unload/reload the modules? I think I just needed to make sure to stop net.wlan0 before removing the adapter.

[gentoo-user] OOo 2.4 and Java

2008-03-27 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
Hi! Have installed OOo 2.4 on ~amd64/x86_64 with these flags: cups dbus eds firefox java kde ldap pam -binfilter -debug ... At starting any OOo programm konsole shows: javaldx failed! Tool-Options-Java dialog finds all three installed JREs, but after selecting radio control for any of them an

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

2008-03-27 Thread Chuanwen Wu
Hi, > You should change your server-layout to something like > > Section "ServerLayout" > Identifier "Layout0" > Screen "Screen1" > InputDevice"Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard" > InputDevice"Touchpad" "CorePointer" > Option "AIGLX" "tr

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

2008-03-27 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
Florian Philipp wrote: FWIW, AntiVir, Bitdefender, and F-Prot run quite well on Linux, and each has BOTH Linux and Windows Trojan and virus signatures. So you can install these and scan your windows box, and then scan your Linux box/downloads for malware (e.g. openoffice files, media files, et

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless: Limit rate to strengthen connection?

2008-03-27 Thread Richard Marzan
On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 19:52 -0700, Grant wrote: > > > > > > I'm trying to strengthen a wireless connection that spans about > > > 150 > > > > > > feet and has to go through about 5 walls. I bought two of these: > > > > > > > > > > > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N8

Re: [gentoo-user] rate_wlan0= ( "2M" ) not working

2008-03-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:25:42 -0700, Grant wrote: > 'iwconfig wlan0 rate 2M' works for limiting the wireless bitrate, but > I'd like to have this limit applied whenever wlan0 is started. You could put it in the postup function of /etc/conf.d/net. -- Neil Bothwick Penis Envy is a total Phallusy

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating an initrd for loading...

2008-03-27 Thread Benjamen R. Meyer
Florian Philipp wrote: On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 14:31 -0400, Benjamen R. Meyer wrote: Florian Philipp wrote: On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 12:35 -0400, Benjamen R. Meyer wrote: How can I mount the initrd image to verify it has the modules, etc. and verify it is a valid image? There is a wiki-entry abo

Re: [gentoo-user] Unplugging USB wireless adapter

2008-03-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 27. März 2008, Grant wrote: > Whenever I unplug a USB wireless adapter I must reboot in order for it > to be recognized again. Is there a way to avoid the reboot? > > - Grant making usb modular and unload/reload the modules? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

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

2008-03-27 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 27 March 2008, Dale wrote: Florian Philipp wrote: This is getting OT but I still want to ask: Is it really necessary to run an anti-virus on linux? I just want to hear some opinions on that topic because I thought security fixes for your software are the

[gentoo-user] Unplugging USB wireless adapter

2008-03-27 Thread Grant
Whenever I unplug a USB wireless adapter I must reboot in order for it to be recognized again. Is there a way to avoid the reboot? - Grant -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] rate_wlan0= ( "2M" ) not working

2008-03-27 Thread Grant
'iwconfig wlan0 rate 2M' works for limiting the wireless bitrate, but I'd like to have this limit applied whenever wlan0 is started. 'rate_wlan0=( "2M" )' in '/etc/conf.d/net' doesn't work on either the client or router. That syntax isn't documented in net.wireless, but I did find it with Google.

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless: Limit rate to strengthen connection?

2008-03-27 Thread Grant
> > I'm trying to strengthen a wireless connection that spans about 150 > > feet and has to go through about 5 walls. I bought two of these: > > > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833164110 > > > > for either end of the connection, but I'm having trouble making it > >

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

2008-03-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 27 March 2008, Dale wrote: > Florian Philipp wrote: > > This is getting OT but I still want to ask: > > Is it really necessary to run an anti-virus on linux? I just want > > to hear some opinions on that topic because I thought security > > fixes for your software are the way to go for

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating an initrd for loading...

2008-03-27 Thread Florian Philipp
On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 14:31 -0400, Benjamen R. Meyer wrote: > Florian Philipp wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 12:35 -0400, Benjamen R. Meyer wrote: > >> My main question comes down to this: I am using the 'genkernel' package > >> to build & install the kernel and initrd image. Both show up in /b

Re: [gentoo-user] portage/firewall

2008-03-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:33:53 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > I'd say, try http. > > Jeez. You didn't read the original posting, did you? It's FTP, period. It's FTP, which is blocked by the firewall, so use only HTTP mirrors in /etc/make.conf. There is no requirement to use FTP for downloads. If rs

[gentoo-user] Re: Gnome: No sound - "No volume control GStreamer plugins and/or devices found"

2008-03-27 Thread Michael Schmarck
Albert Hopkins letterboxes.org> writes: > The GNOME 2.22 versions of Rhythmbox and Sound Juicer depend on > gst-plugins-meta. Great to hear! > So you should get over it. I will. I "don't care" much about the 2.20 version then. They'll be history soon anyway. Cheers, Michael -- gentoo-user@l

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome: No sound - "No volume control GStreamer plugins and/or devices found"

2008-03-27 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 16:56 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > There's a damn good reason why rhythmbox does does depend on -meta. > That will never happen, so you should get over it. The GNOME 2.22 versions of Rhythmbox and Sound Juicer depend on gst-plugins-meta. So you should get over it. --a

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

2008-03-27 Thread Dale
Florian Philipp wrote: This is getting OT but I still want to ask: Is it really necessary to run an anti-virus on linux? I just want to hear some opinions on that topic because I thought security fixes for your software are the way to go for fighting virae on linux. I have not ran a anti-vi

[gentoo-user] Re: Gnome: No sound - "No volume control GStreamer plugins and/or devices found"

2008-03-27 Thread Michael Schmarck
Alan McKinnon gmail.com> writes: > > On Thursday 27 March 2008, Michael Schmarck wrote: > > > The question now is why were the alsa, oss and other drivers > > > removed from the -base ebuild? > > > > Because they belong to the meta package, I suppose. The real > > question rather is, why was rb

Re: [gentoo-user] PRNG is not seeded

2008-03-27 Thread Dale
Alex Schuster wrote: Roger Mason writes: Alex Schuster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [/dev/random, /dev/urandom] Does anyone know what exactly creates these device nodes and why it could fail? Some kernel option? grep RANDOM /usr/src/linux/.config CONFIG_HW_RANDOM=y CONFIG_H

Re: [gentoo-user] Weirdness Here

2008-03-27 Thread CJoeB
Chris Brennan wrote: look in your /etc/fstab, is /boot set to noauto? If it is, then /boot isn't being mounted at boot, mount it by hand, then take a peek ... Thanks. I figured that out. The thing that stymied me is that I normally don't have to manually mount /boot. Anyway, things are okay

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

2008-03-27 Thread Conway S. Smith
On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:18:57 +0100 "Dirk Heinrichs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 27. März 2008 schrieb Florian Philipp: > > > Is it really necessary to run an anti-virus on linux? I just want > > to hear some opinions on that topic because I thought security > > fixes for your softw

Re: [gentoo-user] Weirdness Here

2008-03-27 Thread Chris Brennan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 look in your /etc/fstab, is /boot set to noauto? If it is, then /boot isn't being mounted at boot, mount it by hand, then take a peek ... CJoeB wrote: | Hi Guys, | | Something weird is going on with my system. I have been trying to | upgrade the ker

Re: [gentoo-user] virusses on Linux [was: Re: Boot Gentoo to clean windows]

2008-03-27 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 27 March 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: > This is getting OT but I still want to ask: > Is it really necessary to run an anti-virus on linux? I just want > to hear some opinions on that topic because I thought security > fixes for your software are the way to go for fighting virae on > l

Re: [gentoo-user] Weirdness Here

2008-03-27 Thread Jason Carson
Did you create a separate /boot partition when installing Gentoo. If so you need to mount it mount /dev/sda1 /boot or whatever is your boot partition > Hi Guys, > > Something weird is going on with my system. I have been trying to > upgrade the kernel, but no matter what I select, I can't seem

[gentoo-user] Re: Weirdness Here

2008-03-27 Thread CJoeB
Disregard the message below. I've figured it out. Sorry! ;-( Colleen CJoeB wrote: Hi Guys, Something weird is going on with my system. I have been trying to upgrade the kernel, but no matter what I select, I can't seem to get the sata drive on my laptop recognized. So, I've been stickin

Re: [gentoo-user] Static mod_perl with apache2

2008-03-27 Thread Jason Carson
I'm not totally sure what you are talking about but to get perl to work with apache2 you need to add -D PERL to /etc/conf.d/apache2 APACHE2_OPTS="-D PERL" > Hi list: > > The situation is the next, i'm trying to install mod_perl as a static > module with apache2, but apparently this isn't possible

[gentoo-user] Weirdness Here

2008-03-27 Thread CJoeB
Hi Guys, Something weird is going on with my system. I have been trying to upgrade the kernel, but no matter what I select, I can't seem to get the sata drive on my laptop recognized. So, I've been sticking to a kernel that works. That is just a lead-in to the situation. Today, I wanted t

Re: [gentoo-user] portage/firewall

2008-03-27 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 27 March 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: > On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 17:55 +0200, Elyahou ITTAH wrote: > > If your proxy don't let ftp pass, use > > > > torify > > Please try to avoid doing this with large packages. Tor is a > distributed net built by volunteers. Flooding it with large > downl

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating an initrd for loading...

2008-03-27 Thread Benjamen R. Meyer
Florian Philipp wrote: On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 12:35 -0400, Benjamen R. Meyer wrote: My main question comes down to this: I am using the 'genkernel' package to build & install the kernel and initrd image. Both show up in /boot. How much can I rely on genkernel to build a valid initrd image? Try

Re: [gentoo-user] Static mod_perl with apache2

2008-03-27 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 27 March 2008, Mario Ignacio Rodríguez Cortés wrote: > Hi list: > > The situation is the next, i'm trying to install mod_perl as a > static module with apache2, What is a "static module"?Something like a female stallion? Uwe -- Informal Linux Group Namibia: http://www.linux.org.na/

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

2008-03-27 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 27. März 2008 schrieb Florian Philipp: > Is it really necessary to run an anti-virus on linux? I just want to > hear some opinions on that topic because I thought security fixes for > your software are the way to go for fighting virae on linux. The main purpose is to remove virae f

Re: [gentoo-user] PRNG is not seeded

2008-03-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:38:15 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: > To see the static /dev > you must unmount /dev, which you can only do from a live-cd. That's not true, you can also see it by bind mounting root somewhere else. mount -bind / /mnt ls -l /mnt/dev -- Neil Bothwick If you're not part

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

2008-03-27 Thread Florian Philipp
On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 22:13 -0400, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: > Mikie wrote: > > Does anyone know of a product (hopefully free) that can clean a Windows > > PC while booted on Gentoo? > > > > I guess I need a good malware tool that runs on Linux and cleans NTFS > > volumes. > > > > Thanks. > > FWIW, A

Re: [gentoo-user] portage/firewall

2008-03-27 Thread Florian Philipp
On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 17:55 +0200, Elyahou ITTAH wrote: > If your proxy don't let ftp pass, use > > torify Please try to avoid doing this with large packages. Tor is a distributed net built by volunteers. Flooding it with large downloads is neither nice nor fast. I'd say, try http. signature.

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

2008-03-27 Thread Florian Philipp
On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 23:58 +0800, Chuanwen Wu wrote: > Hi, I have a Dell 1400 laptop. The touchpad can implement most > functions except vertical scrolling, horizontal scrolling and dragging > (not only in firefox, and also other applications). > > I have followed this guide > http://gentoo-wiki

Re: [gentoo-user] PRNG is not seeded

2008-03-27 Thread Florian Philipp
On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 23:24 +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 9:46 PM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:17:07 +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > > > when i restart sshd I get PRNG is not seeded > > > > #

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating an initrd for loading...

2008-03-27 Thread Florian Philipp
On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 12:35 -0400, Benjamen R. Meyer wrote: > I'm working on a Sparc system (SunBlade 2000 Desktop Server) that needs > an initrd image to load (due to having a QLA 2200 SCSI controller); but > I am having some trouble with the initrd image. > > (I had tried the gentoo-sparc lis

Re: [gentoo-user] uvesafb and screen resolution

2008-03-27 Thread Ricardo Saffi Marques
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 1:43 PM, Chris Brennan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > have you tried vga=ask ? > I did try that. But it suggests many different things. None of them works as I want it to (or as vesafb-tng would when I set up the resolution by myself on the kernel config). And worse: for me

[gentoo-user] Static mod_perl with apache2

2008-03-27 Thread Mario Ignacio Rodríguez Cortés
Hi list: The situation is the next, i'm trying to install mod_perl as a static module with apache2, but apparently this isn't possible directly with emerge or i haven't found the correct flag, can someone tell me if this is possible? or does it have manually?. I'm using apache2 with mpm_worker, if

Re: [gentoo-user] uvesafb and screen resolution

2008-03-27 Thread Chris Brennan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 have you tried vga=ask ? Chuanwen Wu wrote: | On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 3:55 AM, Ricardo Saffi Marques | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Sergey Kobzar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> |>> uvesafb works nice. |> Can anyone he

[gentoo-user] Creating an initrd for loading...

2008-03-27 Thread Benjamen R. Meyer
I'm working on a Sparc system (SunBlade 2000 Desktop Server) that needs an initrd image to load (due to having a QLA 2200 SCSI controller); but I am having some trouble with the initrd image. (I had tried the gentoo-sparc list, but it is slow - I'm not getting responses - and I need to finish

Re: [gentoo-user] PRNG is not seeded

2008-03-27 Thread Alex Schuster
Roger Mason writes: > Alex Schuster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [/dev/random, /dev/urandom] > > Does anyone know what exactly creates these device nodes and why it > > could fail? > > Some kernel option? > > grep RANDOM /usr/src/linux/.config > CONFIG_HW_RANDOM=y > CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_INTEL=y > CONFI

[gentoo-user] touchpad can't scroll

2008-03-27 Thread Chuanwen Wu
Hi, I have a Dell 1400 laptop. The touchpad can implement most functions except vertical scrolling, horizontal scrolling and dragging (not only in firefox, and also other applications). I have followed this guide http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Synaptics_Touchpad, but still can't fix the problem.

Re: [gentoo-user] PRNG is not seeded

2008-03-27 Thread Roger Mason
Alex Schuster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dale writes: > >> Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > >> > Both the files /dev/random and /dev/urandom are missing in my system. >> > >> I just noticed this on mine. Do you have the service urandom in the >> boot runlevel? > > Looking at the init script it seems l

Re: [gentoo-user] portage/firewall

2008-03-27 Thread Elyahou ITTAH
2008/3/27, Elyahou ITTAH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: If your proxy don't let ftp pass, use torify emerge gcc (from the tor package) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] portage/firewall

2008-03-27 Thread Elyahou ITTAH
If your proxy don't let ftp pass, use torify -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync errors

2008-03-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 27 March 2008, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 8:36 PM, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 27 March 2008, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > > > Hi > > > > > > I am running the command > > > > > > /usr/bin/rsync -avO /var/lib/mysql [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/v

Re: [gentoo-user] portage/firewall

2008-03-27 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 27 March 2008, Gavin Seddon wrote: > Hello, > I have inst. gtoo on a workstation at work. But portage complains > '-14:24:52-- > ftp://cudlug.cudenver.edu/pub/mirrors/distributions/gentoo/distfile >s/gcc-3.3.6-patches-1.4.tar.bz2 => > `/usr/portage/distfiles/gcc-3.3.6-patches-1.4.tar.b

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync errors

2008-03-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 27 March 2008, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > Hi > > I am running the command > > /usr/bin/rsync -avO /var/lib/mysql [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib/ > > /tmp/rsync-${TIMESTAMP}.log 2>&1 > > I am getting the below error in the log file > > mysql/ > rsync: failed to set permissions on "/var/lib/mys

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome: No sound - "No volume control GStreamer plugins and/or devices found"

2008-03-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 27 March 2008, Michael Schmarck wrote: > > The question now is why were the alsa, oss and other drivers > > removed from the -base ebuild? > > Because they belong to the meta package, I suppose. The real > question rather is, why was rb not updated to depend on -meta. > I filed https://

[gentoo-user] rsync errors

2008-03-27 Thread Kaushal Shriyan
Hi I am running the command /usr/bin/rsync -avO /var/lib/mysql [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib/ > /tmp/rsync-${TIMESTAMP}.log 2>&1 I am getting the below error in the log file mysql/ rsync: failed to set permissions on "/var/lib/mysql": Operation not permitted (1) rsync: failed to open "/var/lib/mys

[gentoo-user] Re: problem with 2 partition installation from gentoo minimal system

2008-03-27 Thread Fei Liu
Fei Liu wrote: Here is the complete grub.conf file: more /boot/grub/grub.conf default 0 timeout 8 gfxmenu (hd0,0)/boot/message title 2.6.24.4-default root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/kernel root=/dev/sda1 splash=silent showopts /etc/fstab: #/dev/BOOT /boot ext2

[gentoo-user] portage/firewall

2008-03-27 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hello, I have inst. gtoo on a workstation at work. But portage complains '-14:24:52-- ftp://cudlug.cudenver.edu/pub/mirrors/distributions/gentoo/distfiles/gcc-3.3.6-patches-1.4.tar.bz2 => `/usr/portage/distfiles/gcc-3.3.6-patches-1.4.tar.bz2' Resolving cudlug.cudenver.edu... 132.194.

Re: [gentoo-user] uvesafb and screen resolution

2008-03-27 Thread Ale
2008/3/27, Peter Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Tuesday 25 March 2008 20:42:47 Ale wrote: > > > Are you guys using uvesafb in the latest gentoo sources kernel? because > > i dont have the option to choose this one..i am using vesa > > > You have to select Connector - unified userspace <-> ke

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Gnome: No sound - "No volume control GStreamer plugins and/or devices found"

2008-03-27 Thread Michael Schmarck
Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 26 March 2008, Michael Schmarck wrote: >> Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Perhaps you could file a feature request at b.g.o. to get the old >> > behaviour back. It seems entirely reasonable to me that rhythmbox >> > should DEPEN

Re: [gentoo-user] uvesafb and screen resolution

2008-03-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 25 March 2008 20:42:47 Ale wrote: > Are you guys using uvesafb in the latest gentoo sources kernel? because > i dont have the option to choose this one..i am using vesa You have to select Connector - unified userspace <-> kernelspace linker in the Device Drivers page. Then you will h

Re: [gentoo-user] Eclipse - opening file - JVM crashes

2008-03-27 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
=== On Thursday 27 March 2008, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: === > Hi! > > ~amd64, eclipse 3.3.1.1 from portage, clean install/project dir. At > opening/creating any file (when editor view must appear) a JVM > crashes - example log file is attached. > > Any thoughts? Just an addition: the issue d

[gentoo-user] Re: openchrome, xvmc and mplayer

2008-03-27 Thread Marc Blumentritt
Uwe Thiem schrieb: On Wednesday 26 March 2008, Marc Blumentritt wrote: Hi, I just read on this list, that the x11 driver openchrome for via chipsets hit the tree. Does anyone know, if mplayer in portage tree is patched to work with openchrome and xvmc? It doesn't need to be patched. Just emer