Re: [gentoo-user] E-Builds for DVD Software
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've used 'lxdvdrip' to make backup copies of various DVD's. lxdvdrip ... However, I have noticed some irregularities with it. Have you tried the way I described (for this DVD with problems)? What are the rip times for the method you use compared to running DVDshrink with wine (if you have tried)? Greetings Ralph -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCTvH6AWKxH5yWMT8RArt7AKDdAMQqB1PzmlVx9NIBZnOYvknaNACgnWfT c2cwUDfej9LsMpvJc999yLc= =J8iK -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] E-Builds for DVD Software
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: Hi, can you make backup copies of copy protected DVDs with dvdrip? Of course, including menu and resizing to a single layer DVD, as some windows programs can do? Although I don't know the answer to that, however I did get DVDshrink to work well with wine (http://axljab.homelinux.org/DVD_to_DVD_-_DVDshrink). The ripping to ISO takes a while though (about 1:1 for the film with my 800MHz), however it's almost all automatic... and results are great, and all extras (menus/audio tracks etc) are avaliable. Easy to use too. Protection can be removed too. The resulting ISO is burned with growisofs to DVD. Greetings Ralph -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) iD8DBQFCS91vAWKxH5yWMT8RAnQxAKDHPtFMWGgF9J16i2kj6xXG2ANVqACfZzwW uWVaJrYJ2onnWTC4+edZlWs= =sPye -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] clock too fast
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Are there any warnings in the kernel messages about your clock? A possible solution would be running a ntpd server (not using the client, but the server). It *should* adjust your clock in stages to maintain the correct time ~ unnoticiably ;-) I read about this solution somewhere on the internet. Apparently it calculates the adjustments needed (based on difference in time of your hardware and the real time), and every few minutes adds/removes the needed seconds to your time. This also saves you from adjusting time smoothly (like in your case 30 minutes) without having errors from running services who use/need time. Greetings Ralph Antonio Coralles wrote: I've a strange problem: The clock of my computer ticks to fast - i get an error of about 30 minutes per day ... This problem just occured recently - a few days ago everthing was ok, possibly before 'emerge -up --deep world' ... Maybe someone can give me a hint. Thanks antonio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) iD8DBQFCSVRyAWKxH5yWMT8RAttWAKChy7OMH+5cgbVHPns2yNfPcvkUyACff1X3 eIvUWKYGUo3ahkVMTkAEeDk= =h0ze -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Reiserfs 3.6 vs 4
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi to all. Very recently I have dug into reiserfs 4 (using linux-2.6.11) on a test machine I have at work. The whole goal was to see the benifits of version 4 as compared to 3.6 (speed and reliability) which I have heard all about the last few months. Now I don't pretend to be an expert on reiserfs (even though I have used it very successfully for probably something going on 2 years now), however I was not impressed by it at all to tell the truth. On the namesys site they have a whole page dedicated to benchmarks, which of course I have read, but from the results I have gotten I cannot think of any sane reason why someone would want to use reiserfs4 over 3.6. The write speeds of version 4 are moderate (single stream) .. and very good when looking at more than one stream at once, but read/delete speeds utterly and truly suck (from what I have found [link below for my review]). This brings me back to here to ask those of you who are using it to share their views and experiences. Maybe I am doing something wrong, maybe not. The first thing that I noticed after creating the reiserfs4 partition was it's size 188KB. Is this right? Reiserfs 3.6 has an initial size of 33MB's. I know what this is (journal), but is it correct that reiserfs4's is initially so small, or is something really mucked up here (explaining the very bad results)? I posted my findings on my website if you are interested to compare to. The machine I used is however a low-end machine (500MHz) with an IDE drive, as it was the only machine I could risk for the tests (in case the machine blew up, immigrated, or just vanished ;-)) So, what are your experiences / views? Oh yes, the link to my review = http://axljab.homelinux.org/Reiserfs_3.6_vs_4.0 Greetings Ralph -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCQv+YAWKxH5yWMT8RAhJpAJ0ZYd4fAZI5Rhi2w0WX3TzdUJ31FwCg2uEk dBx/FztdS1XZyn5XSe/ozNA= =z47U -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Reiserfs 3.6 vs 4
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 18:57:45 +0100 Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | So, what are your experiences / views? reiser4 is unsupported to the extent that if you use it, you shouldn't submit *any* bugs that occur on that box via our bugzilla. This isn't a bug report, it's an evaluation of software, and a question being whether my evaluation of performance is correct or incorrect based on other user's experiences. I describe how I patched 2 vanilla kernel's to get reiserfs4 working, so why would I report this to Gentoo's bugzilla? This has little to do with Gentoo at all, except for the fact that I use it and that this is the gentoo-user list. All I am trying to do is to determine what the benifits are, if I gain any benifit from using it (or waiting to use it). The only way I can get a general picture of it in use is to ask, right? If you use it, you *will* find bugs, and you will likely experience data loss. I am quite sure there are bugs somewhere in it, which is why (again) I am asking if my results correspond to others results (speed). I did this test to compare speeds, not stability, although it should be fairly stable according to it's programmers who released version 4. Greetings Ralph -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCQ7NYAWKxH5yWMT8RAngrAJ9Ew0srl0xHOVhkeA+fiE4DTdKnlQCeMtYS /Q7b3XtLy5dMI5Tcp9fZnL8= =ad1B -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Touchpad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A good friend of mine has pretty much the same laptop as you have, and also had this issue last weekend (upgrading to 2.6.11). He discovered that he needed ohci support built in. It seems your mouse (even though it's a touchpad) required ohci usb support. If this doesn't solve it then I have no more ideas ;-) Greetings Ralph Marko Kocic wrote: Hi all, I'm not sure if this is off-topic, but I couldn't get my touchpad working ater installing xorg. I did everything like in xorg howto. Could anybody post some howto-tutorial how to achieve this? Do I need to recompile kernel, and if so, which modules I should include? I'm using kernel gentoo-2.6.9 on my Fujitsu Siemens Amilo laptop. Thanks, Marko -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) iD4DBQFCLYe1AWKxH5yWMT8RAhdZAKDGZNkwgbsty0GvxMewUZ6D5c2qAgCYskzt 70GfqSHj3EHx5zc4qtp75w== =IBNh -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] new wireless IP address on my LAN
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yes Chris, as well as MAC address filtering (not bulletproof, but helps). Also you should not advertise your SSID (turn it off). But please excuse my ignorance, if you run a public access point to which no control is done, do you really expect people not to log in when they discover it? It's like people running public ftp servers where anyone can upload / download... not the smartest thing in the world to do. Basically they are using your network, and are IN your network (bye bye firewall rules and certain things specific to internal interaction aswell). If you run an smtp server too in your network, you had better pray he's not a spammer (unlikely, but still the risk is there). Nice computer by the way ... Oh, I just let myself into your house ~ the front door was unlocked and open, with a big sign above the door telling me that ;-) Greetings Ralph Chris Cox wrote: Last night I just happen to connect to http://192.168.1.1/DHCP.htm and noticed something odd that I haven't seen before. There was a 2nd Wireless IP address on my local LAN. But I only have 1 wireless card connected on a Windows 2k machine. This one had a different Hostname on it so I'm thinking someone in the area was using my bandwidth/ broadband connection. So my next question is how should I prevent this in the furture? Should turning on WEP on my router fix this? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCKe2YAWKxH5yWMT8RAtGAAJ4oJoQOTDU7olUkQ2P2+W3ugQMuaQCfWQgA zl6w/olXG+nGOclHtpmB7cc= =LTIk -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] new wireless IP address on my LAN
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A. Khattri wrote: Yes and no. While it will block most people, MAC addresses can be spoofed anyway. Any idea how they could get your MAC address, or the only one the AP accepts? I don't think they would use brute force, but still don't know if it's possible to get too. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCKi2jAWKxH5yWMT8RAg49AJ9+NybuUadeH6j3qO87Fk4XoVadoQCeNpmA 1uFEXW3G8K+LOOthlw+xtP8= =9fuG -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] linux-2.6.11 is out
Good observation .. it's not even on the front page on kernel.org or on slashdot yet ;-) I am using the 2.6.11-rc5 version on my laptop which I cannot complain about. I haven't gotten around to testing all the extra hardware yet (I only installed it 2 days ago), so I guess I cannot accurately say it's all good ... I read a post though (by Linus) that mentioned several improvements for laptops (acpi etc). Greetings Ralph Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: Rumors are that this will be the more stable version of the last 2.6 series. What do you think about ? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] firefox 1.0.1 reload page problem
Unfortunately, with the way /. is written, while perfectly valid html, Umm, *cough* *cough* ;-) ... not nearly close to being remotely true here Slashdot is so bad that they have even blocked the W3C validator as users were complaining about it. Try it... save the index file (main page) of /. and upload it to the validator: File: Slashdot.htm Encoding: utf-8 Doctype:HTML 3.2 Errors: 115 115 errors on one page is definitely not perfectly valid html :P Actually the reason I bring this up is not to drill your opinion into the ground (nothing personal), but it goes back to when I often used dillo to surf with. Dillo, like many other browsers had big issues rendering slashdot. We did a lot of searching around then and found it to have terrible code. There were several compaints sent to slashdot to at least try fix their code. It seemed then only to get worse. Eventually we gave up, and they seem to have blocked validation services from showing just how bad their code actually is. All I'm trying to point out here is that you cannot base *any* browser on slashdot's code... that is unless you are testing for crashes ;-0 Greetings Ralph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] firefox 1.0.1 reload page problem
Willie Wong wrote: snipped to avoid length, not content Sorry to make such a big rant on the pedantics of code validity, and of course, nothing personal, but I really want to make a point distinguishing VALID code and PROPER code. Remember: just because it compiles doesn't mean it does what you want it to. /snipped Nicely put ;-) I stand corrected. It was just a quick glance I took at it while at work. I just saw the post, remembered /.'s history (missing closed /td /table tags to name 2 major skrewups) and answered. My appologies. Greetings Ralph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Soft power off lost
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yes, I believe Compaq Presario's (seeing as it's HP now) benefit from the Toshiba extras module (your basic Fn function keys ~ like screen brightness)... however this should not have much to do with the shutting down part. If I had to take another guess, I would guess that the 2.6.10-morph version is slighly broken (ACPI). You can simply try a test Download a fresh copy (vanilla) of 2.6.10, apply Alan Cox's patch (to fix acpi which was horribly broken for my laptop anyway) from here: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/linux-2.6/2.6.10/patch-2.6.10-ac12.bz2 Apply the patch, copy your current .config file to your new source, and try that one. This is the exact same setup as I run at home, which shuts down fine on my HP ze4268 laptop. If shutting down then works, you know what the cause is ;-) Sorry, that's about the best I can do here ... it's all a bit of guess-work from my side though. Hope this helps, Greetings Ralph Ducky Z. wrote: My laptop is Compaq Presario 2500. I was upgrading the kernel from 2.6.8-nitro to 2.6.10-morph. I will also try to add toshiba extra. Sincerely, D. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3-nr1 (Windows 2000) iD8DBQFCFcu0AWKxH5yWMT8RAjFIAKDSe1Vm/EOIlGNoraxNJVGb9afcQwCfdrQn BIfhR4OrOBmCmUrU4aXuA5w= =NXZP -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Soft power off lost
No ACPI support in your new kernel? Ducky Z. wrote: I've upgraded my kernel to 2.6.10-morph21 and my notebook now stops at Power Down when halting. It used to turn itself off automatically with my previous kernel. Any help is highly appreciated. D -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] desktop publishing
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I personally vouch for OpenOffice.org (draw part). I used to do desktop publishing several years ago with CorelDraw ... and find it to have most of the basic features C.D. used to have. I now use it aswell for the reason that most of what I do now is for my father, who uses Windows (with OO.org), making the documents interchangeable. Greetings Ralph timothy johnson wrote: | what opensource software to we have to recommend to do some small | desktop publishing, ie family newletterm and such. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCFQevAWKxH5yWMT8RAvt3AJwOodFkeDY5zuEJTVmDUiR/Mv07OACff0rj E8Y9q4HCKLTQl9U96OuNq+Q= =dciI -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Soft power off lost
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What laptop and kernel version? If it's a HP or Compaq then also add the toshiba extras as it adds some functions. Not sure if it's the cause here though depending on what model your laptop is. Greetings Ralph Ducky Z. wrote: | I have my ACPI support in the kernel. It looks like this: | | # Power management options (ACPI, APM) | # ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) Support | CONFIG_ACPI=y | CONFIG_ACPI_BOOT=y | CONFIG_ACPI_INTERPRETER=y | CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP=y | CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP_PROC_FS=y | CONFIG_ACPI_AC=y | CONFIG_ACPI_BATTERY=y | CONFIG_ACPI_BUTTON=y | CONFIG_ACPI_VIDEO=m | CONFIG_ACPI_FAN=y | CONFIG_ACPI_PROCESSOR=y | CONFIG_ACPI_THERMAL=y | # CONFIG_ACPI_ASUS is not set | CONFIG_ACPI_IBM=m | # CONFIG_ACPI_TOSHIBA is not set | CONFIG_ACPI_CUSTOM_DSDT_INITRD=y | CONFIG_ACPI_BLACKLIST_YEAR=0 | # CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG is not set | CONFIG_ACPI_BUS=y | CONFIG_ACPI_EC=y | CONFIG_ACPI_POWER=y | CONFIG_ACPI_PCI=y | CONFIG_ACPI_SYSTEM=y | # CONFIG_ACPI_CONTAINER is not set | # CONFIG_X86_ACPI_CPUFREQ is not set | CONFIG_PNPACPI=y | # CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_ACPI is not set | | I have also enabled swsup2 with my kenel. Would that be a problem? | | Thanks, | D -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCFYzVAWKxH5yWMT8RAorPAJ45TFBFlF0lknKQm/nbKkqgmooaXACg5t4l r0rPCeKbXsQqYR/FNwha3Yw= =5sCu -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Soft power off lost
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 | I have also enabled swsup2 with my kenel. Would that be a problem? No, I don't believe so as this should have nothing to do with it. It doesn't work reliably here on my laptop so I have it off, but still again, this should have nothing to do with powering down. You mentioned you upgraded your kernel .. from what version to what version? Greetings Ralph -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCFY1aAWKxH5yWMT8RAiTeAKDWd1UmR1hE/c4tqDdr7uo4mtqQYwCg0jM/ pMT/oceUjw3iWEJH9vuidds= =LLaD -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Courier Imap problem
I experienced this yesterday too but found the solution. I did get an error though during emerge as it said that authdaemond was already provided. What I needed to do was the following to get it working: * remove /etc/init.d/authdaemond (it's linked to nothing anyway, and does not work after the upgrade) * re-merge courier-authlib (it will create /etc/init.d/courier-authlib) Then was the second issue I experienced... courier-authlib will be default use mysql to try authenticate you with a text editor edit: /etc/courier/authlib/authdaemonrc (line 33) removing authmysql from the line, naming it something like: authmodulelist=authpam authuserdb authshadow authcustom make sure all courier-imap is shut down properly (I had several stale /var/lib/init.d/started/courier-* files... delete them and confirm they aren't runing in `ps aux`). * finally restart courier-imap / courier-authlib via /etc/init.d/ Basically what has happened here is that courier-imap has been split up into several smaller packages, and this obviously didn't go to well with upgrading. Hope this helps everyone ;-) Greetings Ralph David Corbin wrote: I had a working IMap installation. I did an upgrade that included several courier updates. Now I'm having connection problems. When I telnet to it, I get this: Connected to imap. Escape character is '^]'. * BYE imaplogin expected exactly two arguments. Connection closed by foreign host. I never even have the chance to send it a command. Ideas? David -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Repairing damaged partition
As for a solution ... I have no idea. As for prevention (in the future) .. try reiserfs. Greetings Ralph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xfce4 Boot?
I switched to xfce4 2 days ago, and had the same issue .. easy enough to fix though create a file: /etc/X11/Sessions/xfce4 in it write: #!/bin/sh /usr/bin/startxfce4 Make the script executable: `chmod 755 /etc/X11/Sessions/xfce4` Restart X Done. Now you have it in your KDM menus in the login screen ... Greetings Ralph Tony Boom wrote: Hello gentoo-user, Just emerged xfce4, was expecting to find it in the login menu but it's not, how does one boot into xfce insread of KDE please? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Xfce related websites
`emerge xfce4` Brett I. Holcomb wrote: How does one install these in xfce under gentoo? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Xfce related websites
Ralph Slooten wrote: `emerge xfce4` Sorry, missread ;-) morning blues I guess. Please ignore. Ralph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] iptables: block full ip-range
Hello fellow gentoo users, I run my own dedicated internet server from home with of course gentoo. What I have noticed, as probably many of you have, is that users from certain ISP's do daily attempts to relay mail, log into ssh etc etc ... Ok, so I'm pretty well secured as they don't even come close, but I'm still not happy. Most of these attempts come from kornet, as with most of my spam. What I would like to do is drop their whole entire ip-range with iptables... but how? I know how with a simple subnet, but some (they have several) of their ranges are given as: 218.144.0.0 - 218.159.255.255 Is there any way to add this range in iptables easily, without having to do each from 218.144* 218.145* etc etc Greetings Ralph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] iptables: block full ip-range
Wow, thanks Chris for the link I just asked my boss to explain it to me (without showing him your answer) and he manually worked it out to be exactly the same. The issue I have is binary etc ... it's still greek to me (I will try learn it soon though). Ok, now for the real n00b question :-) In which section did you work it out on that page (possibly a screenshot sent to my email if explaining is hard)? Thanks for the help, Greetings Ralph Chris Boot wrote: Hi, I found a nice IP address calculator at http://www.telusplanet.net/public/sparkman/netcalc.htm Using that, we get 218.144.0.0/12. HTH, Chris Ralph Slooten wrote: Hello fellow gentoo users, I run my own dedicated internet server from home with of course gentoo. What I have noticed, as probably many of you have, is that users from certain ISP's do daily attempts to relay mail, log into ssh etc etc ... Ok, so I'm pretty well secured as they don't even come close, but I'm still not happy. Most of these attempts come from kornet, as with most of my spam. What I would like to do is drop their whole entire ip-range with iptables... but how? I know how with a simple subnet, but some (they have several) of their ranges are given as: 218.144.0.0 - 218.159.255.255 Is there any way to add this range in iptables easily, without having to do each from 218.144* 218.145* etc etc Greetings Ralph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] iptables: block full ip-range
Thanks Chris ... it's not all 100% clear now, but slowly understanding more. When I eventually get it I'll create a php script to do it for me *g*. Thanks again for your time. I did find this though: http://logi.cc/nw/NetBitCalc.html (using the netaddr option). Maybe it'll interest others too. Ralph Chris Boot wrote: Hi, I used the IP Address Converter section. I got the binary for the first IP (218.144.0.0), which is: 11011010 1001 Then for the second (218.159.255.255), which is 11011010 1001 Notice how the first 12 bits stay the same, and the last 12 change? 12 is the magic number in this case. :-) There should be an easier tool for this, but it does the trick. Chris -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Spam Attempt?
Yes, attempts by spammers to use you as a relay. You say 200 machines all over the world in one hour? That does seem a LOT, seeing as I get probably about 10 a day. [EMAIL PROTECTED] is probably your best shot for the entry below (based on IP), however if there are in actual fact 200 per hour from *all* over the world this approach won't be very useful. Is your mailserver secure? Does it actually allow connections (smtp) from outside? If these spammers find a way in, there will be *many* abuse@ emails to your ISP ... so be aware. I suggest also checking logs to see what has actually been sent, by who and to who just to make sure they didn't already find a way. Let me guess though .. the most of the other attempts are coming from the USA, Korea and China, possibly also Brazil? If this is the case then we know it is spammers Michael Thompson wrote: For the past hour I have just watched over 200 dialup machines from all over the world attemp to connect to my Mailserver They were all rejected like the following Jan 19 09:05:07 polaris postfix/smtpd[24494]: warning: Illegal address syntax from host195-202.pool82191.interbusiness.it[82.191.202.195] in MAIL command: @ This lasted for about a hour. All I can think of is that I was picked on by some script/virus/Trojan looking to spam. Any Views? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] CD/DVD burning
It depends also on what kernel you are using. Seeing as you don't mention, it makes it a little hard ;-) Are you using IDE-SCSI emulation in your kernel? What do: cdrecord -scanbus and cdrecord -dev=ATAPI -scanbus produce? Greetings Ralph William Meertens wrote: Hi all, What's the logical explanation for this : I have three drives 1 IDE and 2 SCSI divided in : 1 IDE writer 1 SCSI writer 1 SCSI reader k3b detects only one : writer : /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/cd no scsi detected Eclipt Roaster and Gnome Toaster only detect scsi : Eroaster : 0,0,0 and 0,6,0 Gtoaster : /dev/sr0 (0,0,0) and /dev/sr1 (0,6,0) no ide detected GCDmaster detects a lot : for scsi : 0,0,0 -- no disk 0,6,0 -- no disk for ide : ATAPI: 0,1,0 -- no disk ATAPI: 1,0,0 -- ready ATAPI: 1,6,0 -- ready All the latest builds with the same USE variables. When using emerge -pv all dependencies turn up +red except the -debug is blue, witch is normal because it's not in my USE variable. What else is there to control this. The programs itself do not find anything that I input manually in the settings. Thanks in advance and for your attention, William. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 3D desktop / workplace switcher
http://desk3d.sourceforge.net/ ? IIRC it's in portage possibly masked. Greetings Ralph Ric de France wrote: Hi Gentoo users, I usually use the Gnome desktop and the way I change workspaces / desktops / workplaces is by clicking on the different squares on the Gnome bar. I recently saw someone demoing something in his version of Linux that did a 3D switch of the workspace. He did some key presses, and then desktop reduced a little, revealing another 3 desktops (like flat pieces of paper). He then did another key press and the current desktop rotated with one of the others, and then new one grew out to fit the screen proportions. Before I thought of asking what he did, the demo finished, and I never caught his contact details to ask what it was that did that. Just wondering if anyone knows what that may be (may be not specific to Gnome). And if that application is available in Portage, TIA, ...Ric -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] INBOX variable is wrong
I use courier-imap and squirrelmail, and it works fine here. The location of the inbox does not need to be specified. In my config/config.php: $default_folder_prefix = ''; $trash_folder = 'INBOX.Trash'; $sent_folder= 'INBOX.Sent'; $draft_folder = 'INBOX.Drafts'; In ./configure I haven't even set the Server software (it's still on other). Compare to your version, delete your user's configs (if they aren't important) in data/ that start with your username. Also, it's possibly a typo, but ~billbalt/.maildir ? You have a folder in your $HOME called ~billbalt? Or is billbalt your username? Then you should refer to it as ~/.maildir (for future reference). Maybe this helps? Greetings Ralph Bill Roberts wrote: I have been running an email system with postfix, procmail, mutt, etc. for some time. It has worked well. Some time ago, I setup courier-imap and cyrus-sasl to prepare for using squirrelmail. I tested imap with mutt, and after some stumbling around, it worked, though I haven't had any occasion to use imap since. I'm now trying to run squirrelmail, and I'm into a dead end. Hope someone can help. My logs tell me I am able to log in, but when squirrelmail tries to access INBOX, it fails, apparently because it INBOX is pointing to my my home directory (~billbalt) rather than to my maildir (~billbalt/.maildir). The logs on the server show the following type of errors: Jan 6 14:11:39 antec imapd-ssl: Error reading ACLs for INBOX.elinks: No such file or directory I think it will probably work if I can change INBOX to point to ~billbalt/.maildir, but I haven't found anywhere I can do that. I've spent hours going through the forums and the web. Any help is much appreciated. . . I'm leaving for Equador tomorrow, and I'd like to be able to keep up with my email. Thanks Bill Roberts -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Hotkeys / Omnibook on HP Pavilion with 2.6.3
Ahhh, so what you are saying is that even though the omnibook module (from the omke project) compiles and installs, it doesn't work (other than the deletion thingy when reinstalling modules *ggg*)? Your one does work I'm guessing? Call me whatever, but I'm not a programer. I just like to know exactly what such things do. Is it the omnibook module that provides the key-codes, and hotkeys that provides the functions associated with them? Is this assessment correct? I'm currently rebuilding the patched kernel now (needed to change a few minor things too + added the new Omnibook module)... If your patch supplies a working module, does this mean it's a kernel fault, or an omnibook (omke project) fault? On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 07:25:40 -0700 Scott Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This package is a kernel module. Original method to actually use it is to download it from sourceforge, run its make script which in doing so it calls the make from /usr/src/linux to build just this module and put it in /lib/modules/version/kernel/drivers/char/omnibook.ko then modprobe it and use it. Now I decide I want to change a usb driver or something unrelated in the kernel. So I make modules_install. Doing that clears out the lib/modules/... directory. So now I have to remember to go back into the omnibook tree and make make install it. Every time I rebuild the kernel. And if I forget to do that and reboot, I can't see my battery level or use the volume buttons... There is a script that comes with the omnibook module that would effectively integrate it like this for 2.4 kernels, though it would not do so for 2.6, and the 2.6-style Kconfig files were not included. I did submit these new/changed files upstream but have seen no response to it. Even if it did have a script to cleanly add it to 2.6, that would still be extra effort each time I grab a new rev of kernel. Having it here as a patch, all I need to do is add one line to any current kernel ebuild to get it to add this functionality to my kernel every time, and I don't have to worry about forgetting to rebuild an outside kernel module every time I change something in the kernel. And if this makes someone else's life easier too, then so much the better. Greetings Ralph -- http://axljab.homelinux.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Hotkeys / Omnibook on HP Pavilion with 2.6.3
Whoops, should have tried it first before posting. There seems to be no difference here, as the keys sill aren't recognised (at least the module is getting installed though, lol). Mailer, Browser, and the volume work as before, however the 3 other keys just produce the same kind of output I wrote earlier. Incidentally the 3 other buttons I have are known as: Shell, Idea and Help under hotkeys. Pressing all 3 produces this output (along with maybe a possible cause [XFree86 bug]): atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0x7a on isa0060/serio0). atkbd.c: This is an XFree86 bug. It shouldn't access hardware directly. atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0x7a on isa0060/serio0). atkbd.c: This is an XFree86 bug. It shouldn't access hardware directly. atkbd.c: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0xf3 on isa0060/serio0). atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e073 keycode' to make it known. atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0xf3 on isa0060/serio0). atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e073 keycode' to make it known. atkbd.c: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0xf0 on isa0060/serio0). atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e070 keycode' to make it known. atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0xf0 on isa0060/serio0). atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e070 keycode' to make it known. atkbd.c: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0xf1 on isa0060/serio0). atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e071 keycode' to make it known. atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0xf1 on isa0060/serio0). atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e071 keycode' to make it known. (Hope you can read the formatting ;-) ) Any ideas as it seems you Scott know what you are doing ;-) ? Greetings Ralph -- http://axljab.homelinux.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Hotkeys / Omnibook on HP Pavilion with 2.6.3
Hiya all, Maybe a bit off-topic, as it's laptop-related, but I'll try anyway. I have a HP Pavilion ze4268 laptop since last year, and have been running Gentoo on it since about the beginning. After a lot of searching around I finally managed to get most features working with the 2.4.x series kernels, however recently I upgraded to 2.6.3 and have lost some of the multi-media hotkeys. I have 5 buttons at the top, 2 which still work, the other 3 which don't anymore. They used to .. but anyway, I have traced through dmesg the problem, and that's simply being the fact that the keycode isn't understood, however it's description is Greek to me;-) The below dmesg output is for a button that should have 243 as it's keycode. Could anyone tell me how I'm actually supposed to set these codes? atkbd.c: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0xf3 on isa0060/serio0). atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e073 keycode' to make it known. atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0xf3 on isa0060/serio0). atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e073 keycode' to make it known. I always used a combination of the omnibook kernel module, and hotkeys with my own self_modified .def file, which worked for about 6 months perfect.. until now, and I cannot work out the problem or how to set them ;-) Any help would be appreciated... Greetings Ralph -- http://axljab.homelinux.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Mail confirmation requests
On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 20:09:58 + Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: only caught 92% of spam, with 1.16% false positives. So far I've been running it (bmf) for a week (yes wow, lol, but hear me out ;-) ), and it's gotten 100% of the approx 70+ spams I've received. Initially 2 good mails got through, but it's simply a matter of reprocessing those 2 incorrect mails through bmf again, stating they are incorrectly detected as spam, and you're set. It will take special precautions next time a similar one comes through. Incidentally both those e-mails were in Dutch, and the databases I had initially fed it were all in English mostly from mailing lists, so I'm not surprised ;-) For my good mail I fed it with most of my my friends / family / personal mails, and from all the mailing lists I belong to from this 2 weeks +-(can be downloaded from their monthly archives if need be). Ironically I didn't merge 1 single Dutch mail which caused an incorrect calculation, marking the mail as spam. I fed it with approx 500 spams I have received in the past couple of years from mycollection, and downloaded the latest 4 days archives of spam from ftp://spamarchive.org/pub/archives/submit/. I would definitely recommend this filter. I needed one that works easy, and spamassasin wasn't getting those spams with 1 link and 500 random words which counts at the moment of most of my spam, and bmf gets it every time! For each mail caught as spam, the database automatically updates itself with any new contents of that mail, making it learn as it's catching mails. If it makes a mistake (ie: you process it back through the filter once stating it's NOT spam) bmf corrects itself and stores the info that's required for it to pay spacial attention and kind of mail, and think 2/3/4 times before marking it as spam. It's a brilliant system I think. Anyways, just sharing my experience so far. Hope it was worth something Greetings Ralph -- http://axljab.homelinux.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Mail confirmation requests
On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 23:12:39 + Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's not *actually* 100%, then is it..? It's about (77/79*100)% = 97.4%. [1] Sorry, that was indeed bad wording. What I meant was those e-mails were not spam (thus good), and got marked as spam, filtered away. Greetings Ralph -- http://axljab.homelinux.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Fetching mail
On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 17:29:00 -0800 Alan Ianson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 04:02:48PM -0500, Ric Messier wrote: Looks like Pine will grab my mail from the pop3 server without any other software like fetchmail or exim? I should have looked into that a long time ago.. thanks. Yes, but this wasn't the actual intended way, and does have disadvantages AFAIK. Yep. Didn't used to be that way. In fact, it even allows you to pull mail with a different username from the one you are logged in with on the current server. Details are at: http://www.washington.edu/pine/faq/config.html Excellent, a couple things I can't figure out.. I can fetch mail from the server with my pop username but how do I send mail with my username? I have the domain set fine but it always uses my login name@ instead of my email username. In your .pinerc configure / add something like this: # Add these customized headers (and possible default values) when composing customized-hdrs=From: Alan Ianson [EMAIL PROTECTED] I hope this is still right, as I haven't used pine in ages now. This was taken from my old config file which I still have in ~/ I've looked through the faq about filtering msgs from a list into a different folder but don't see any examples and can't figure out what they mean. Can you give me an example? Procmail and fetchmail is what I think most users use. By setting up a ~/.fetchmailrc and running the fetchmail daemon it'll download you mail, sending it via procmail which will then do the filtering for you. There are many man pages / sites to help on this. Good luck! Greetings Ralph -- http://axljab.homelinux.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] how to make gentoo boot faster? (kernel 2.6.1)
On Mon, 09 Feb 2004 16:13:53 -0800 HvR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not use the hibernate feature of 2.6, then you wont need to reboot and between sleeps it uses no battery... You got it working? I tried it (default from kernel), and it majorly hung my laptop to serious proportions ;-) I used to use the patch from the swsup project, but they hadn't gotten a patch for 2.6.2 the last time I checked. Then it used to work, but not with the default 2.6.2 kernel. I was just wondering if you had it working by default? Greetings Ralph -- http://axljab.homelinux.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Bugs in the new portage?? (I guess I have to reinstall my system) :(
On Sat, 07 Feb 2004 13:50:31 -0800 Susie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: myval=match_from_list(mydep,self.xmatch(list-visible,None,mydep,mykey )) File /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py, line 3531, in match_from_listraise KeyError, Specific key requires an operator (%s) (try adding an '=') % (mydep) KeyError: Specific key requires an operator (dev-libs/elfutils-0.84) (try adding an '=') bash-2.05b$ Simply re-doing `emerge sync` solved it for me ;-) Greetings Ralph -- http://axljab.homelinux.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Alsa ; System beep
Hiya all, I have 2 general questions regarding my Gentoo install on my laptop. I have had Gentoo up and running for about 10 months now and it works great. Last night I decided to upgrade from 2.4.22 (self-build) to 2.6.2 (also self-build, thus not from the Gentoo emerge system). Anyway, it's working all generally fine, except for 1 problem, and 1 question: 1) Problem: I have no terminal bell (system beep) which on the one hand is annoying, yet sometimes handy (ifplugd and my network as an example). Is this a kernel option that you know of, or ...? Any ideas here? 2) Question: Since a while back I see that OSS in the kernel is depreciated, and ALSA is recommended, but for the life of me I cannot see what the advantage is of ALSA. AFAIK everything I use uses the OSS system (OSS-emulation in ALSA), so why not just use OSS instead of having to emulate it all? Greetings Ralph -- http://axljab.homelinux.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Alsa ; System beep
Hello again, On Thu, 05 Feb 2004 12:50:48 + Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/post-halloween-2.5.txt From that page: - Users wanting support for the PC speaker need to enable CONFIG_INPUT_PCSPKR, or you won't get a single beep. Ahha, thank you ! Took me about 30 minutes to locate that option, hidden away under misc, but I got it eventually. Initially I searched the .config file, but it had no mention of it, until I found it via menuconfig .. then an entry got added to the config. 2) Question: Since a while back I see that OSS in the kernel is depreciated, and ALSA is recommended, but for the life of me I cannot see what the advantage is of ALSA. AFAIK everything I use uses the OSS system (OSS-emulation in ALSA), so why not just use OSS instead of having to emulate it all? For a start, alsa is being actively developed, OSS is not. For many cards (including mine), ALSA works better - volumes go louder, it sounds better, surround sound is more customisable, etc. Other advantages include that ALSA supports SMP (OSS does not), ALSA has a good plugin system (allows for things like dmix), I have not looked for myself, but I believe ALSA also incorporates a good API for applications that support it - e.g. xmms with the alsa-xmms plugin. For applications that do not support the API, you can just rely on the OSS emulation. Thank you for your informative answer. Helps me a lot .. thank you. Greetings Ralph -- http://axljab.homelinux.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Alsa ; System beep
On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 14:54:09 +0100 Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you ever want to hear two or more sounds at the same moment? With oss you need some perversion like ESD or arts. With arts you just define the dmix plugin as default. Voila. I started alsaplayer once for 6 times. It sounded strange, but all six streams were ok. Yes, a known issue on both my machines ;-) I just recompiled, adding in Alsa and dropping OSS.. now to do a few tests. Thank you. Greetings Ralph -- http://axljab.homelinux.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Alsa ; System beep
On Thu, 05 Feb 2004 18:46:29 +0100 Arne Vogel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Err... you could've just added CONFIG_INPUT_PCSPKR=y to the .config file, I guess? :-} Umm, could have, yet the next time I wouldn't know either where to find it =) Greetings Ralph -- http://axljab.homelinux.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Your GPG signatures...
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 18:11:01 +0100 lukas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, Someone told me, that he can't verify my key. You can read this mail and my answer below. Does anybody know if it is ok, that my key on pgp.mit.edu differs from my localy stored public key? cu lukas Hi there Lucas, Checks out here fine ;-) [application/pgp-signature (Good signature)] Greetings Ralph -- http://axljab.homelinux.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
