Re: [gentoo-user] FreeAgent USB drive

2008-05-16 Thread Akselii
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 9:20 PM, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have a FreeAgent(Seagate) usb drive, that shows up as /medea/sdb1 in Konqueror. I can go thru it via Konqueror and see all of the files (dll .exe, docs etc) but I cannot cd into the directories and sub directories and

Re: [gentoo-user] Nice level for X11

2008-05-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 15 May 2008, Mick wrote: You'll probably get better results with X by selecting a suitable process scheduler and configuring your HZ to 1000 Now, this I have noticed making a difference.  Not all schedulers are born the same.  I have found that (the current version of) CFQ is

Re: [gentoo-user] Nice level for X11

2008-05-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 15 May 2008, Mick wrote: As a matter of interest, I remember reading somewhere that squeezing 1000Hz out of an old machine may have the opposite effect to that intended.  Is this pub talk, or have you experienced something that confirms this? No, it's not just pub talk. The trick

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto mask release candidates?

2008-05-16 Thread Marko Kocić
Is it possible in packages.mask to mask only release candidates/alpha/beta versions, while leaving final releases unmasked? what is the aim of this? To have a stable system? In that case you should make sure ACCEPT_KEYWORDS in make.conf does NOT have a ~ Then you may get release

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto mask release candidates?

2008-05-16 Thread Justin
Marko Kocić schrieb: Is it possible in packages.mask to mask only release candidates/alpha/beta versions, while leaving final releases unmasked? what is the aim of this? To have a stable system? In that case you should make sure ACCEPT_KEYWORDS in make.conf does NOT have a ~ Then you

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto mask release candidates?

2008-05-16 Thread Justin
Justin schrieb: Marko Kocić schrieb: Is it possible in packages.mask to mask only release candidates/alpha/beta versions, while leaving final releases unmasked? what is the aim of this? To have a stable system? In that case you should make sure ACCEPT_KEYWORDS in make.conf does NOT

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto mask release candidates?

2008-05-16 Thread Marko Kocić
In my portage there are only rc for 26. So just add =sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.26 to your packages.keywords. I ment sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.26!! Yes, but then I will not be notified by portage that new version (2.6.26 final) is available. I will have to manually track versions.

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto mask release candidates?

2008-05-16 Thread Justin
Justin schrieb: Marko Kocić schrieb: In my portage there are only rc for 26. So just add =sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.26 to your packages.keywords. I ment sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.26!! Yes, but then I will not be notified by portage that new version (2.6.26 final) is

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto mask release candidates?

2008-05-16 Thread Justin
Marko Kocić schrieb: In my portage there are only rc for 26. So just add =sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.26 to your packages.keywords. I ment sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.26!! Yes, but then I will not be notified by portage that new version (2.6.26 final) is available. I will

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto mask release candidates?

2008-05-16 Thread Marko Kocić
You have to put it in packages.keywords and not mask! Just add following to /etc/portage/packages.mask =sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.26_rc* =sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.27_rc* =sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.28_rc* =sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.29_rc* On my system it works.

[gentoo-user] Could not join to Windows 2k3 domain: Failed to set servicePrincipalNames

2008-05-16 Thread Vladimir Rusinov
Hello! I'm trying to join my Gentoo box to Windows 2003 domain and I need some help. I've set up smb.conf,. krb5.conf, got a krb ticket, but I'm not able to join domain: # net ads join -U [EMAIL PROTECTED] -d2 [2008/05/16 16:13:11, 2] lib/interface.c:add_interface(81) added interface

Re: [gentoo-user] FreeAgent USB drive

2008-05-16 Thread Stroller
On 15 May 2008, at 19:20, James wrote: ... I have a FreeAgent(Seagate) usb drive, that shows up as /medea/sdb1 in Konqueror. I can go thru it via Konqueror and see all of the files (dll .exe, docs etc) but I cannot cd into the directories and sub directories and see any files. ... What does

Re: [gentoo-user] FreeAgent USB drive

2008-05-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 11:20 AM, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have a FreeAgent(Seagate) usb drive, that shows up as /medea/sdb1 in Konqueror. I can go thru it via Konqueror and see all of the files (dll .exe, docs etc) but I cannot cd into the directories and sub directories and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re enter chroot install

2008-05-16 Thread Alex Schuster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: James [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: # mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev [...] Any of the above steps that are not necessary? Other have commented about the .../boot stuff but in dozens of times chrooting during all kinds of install situations I've never done

[gentoo-user] Daemon Group Accounts

2008-05-16 Thread King Spook
I was looking at my users and groups on my box, and I realized that certain services add user accounts with specific UIDs, but then just gets the next GID for it's corresponding group. I know I, personally, would like to have the UIDs and GIDs match (and I spent the time with usermod, groupmod,

Re: [gentoo-user] ttyS0 conflict was UPS recommendation

2008-05-16 Thread maxim wexler
Thanks for your exhaustive replies. I've decided to go for the APC ES-350 for seventy bucks at the local Staples. been following this page: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_APCUPSD Kernel seems to have all the right stuff... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ emerge -pv apcupsd These are the packages that

Re: [gentoo-user] ttyS0 conflict was UPS recommendation

2008-05-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 16 May 2008 14:57:24 -0700 (PDT), maxim wexler wrote: Thanks for your exhaustive replies. I've decided to go for the APC ES-350 for seventy bucks at the local Staples. But when I try dialup I get this: Device ttyS0 is blocked by PID 3981 which turns out is apcupsd. So I have

[gentoo-user] Re: FreeAgent USB drive

2008-05-16 Thread James
Stroller stroller at stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes: On 15 May 2008, at 19:20, James wrote: ... I have a FreeAgent(Seagate) usb drive, that shows up as /medea/sdb1 in Konqueror. I can go thru it via Konqueror and see all of the files (dll .exe, docs etc) but I cannot cd into the

Re: [gentoo-user] Daemon Group Accounts

2008-05-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 16 May 2008, King Spook wrote: I was looking at my users and groups on my box, and I realized that certain services add user accounts with specific UIDs, but then just gets the next GID for it's corresponding group. I know I, personally, would like to have the UIDs and GIDs match

[gentoo-user] Re: FreeAgent USB drive

2008-05-16 Thread James
Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com writes: I have multiple external USB drives that I use with this kernel. However I do have a couple that don't seem to work so well. My clue is to look at dmesg with the drive attached and then again after the drive is first attached. In the case of a good

[gentoo-user] Re: Daemon Group Accounts

2008-05-16 Thread King Spook
Well, naturally I wasn't going to file a bug unless someone told me they were supposed to have matching uids/gids. It just seemed odd, for example, to have clamav's uid=103, and it's gid=1004. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ttyS0 conflict was UPS recommendation

2008-05-16 Thread maxim wexler
--- On Fri, 5/16/08, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ttyS0 conflict was UPS recommendation To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Date: Friday, May 16, 2008, 3:21 PM On Fri, 16 May 2008 14:57:24 -0700 (PDT), maxim wexler

[gentoo-user] Multiple error messages for each keystroke in nano

2008-05-16 Thread Bob Young
Okay, I've had this happen before and was never able to fix it, hopefully someone here will recognize what is happening and tell me where I went wrong. I'm installing a new Gentoo box, and have the basic system installed ( without X ). The problem began after I completed a successful emerge

[gentoo-user] Re: Multiple error messages for each keystroke in nano

2008-05-16 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Saturday 17 May 2008, Bob Young wrote: Can anybody explain what's going on here, and tell me how I can fix it?   BTW, if I edit with vi.everything works fine, and of course typing at the console works okay as well. Just a guess... Did you run etc-update? Ciao Francesco --