Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo for the Windows NT Kernel
Dave Nebinger wrote: http://gentooexperimental.org/nt/ Nah! It's got to be an april fool's joke... Has to be. Why else would it use "NT" and "comercial-grade" in the same paragraph? -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] package.keywords
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Are you sure the file is readable and free of mistakes? Thank you. Thought of everything but to check to see if the file was readable, I just assumed it was. Now back to upgrading my system : ) -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] package.keywords
In my "/etc/portage/package.keywords" I have "app-arch/dar ~x86" Yet when I try to -uvpD world, I get: Calculating world dependencies - !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=app-arch/dar-2.2.0" have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - app-arch/dar-2.2.0 (masked by: ~x86 keyword) - app-arch/dar-2.2.1 (masked by: ~x86 keyword) Isn't package.keywords the purpose to enable the "masked by: ~x86 keyword" package to be emerged? Am I missing something here. -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A perfect example
Collins Richey wrote: On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 00:37:53 +0100, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I accept that header-munging is incorrect behaviour, however it solves some real usage issues, albeit in an imperfect fashion. Maybe instead of arguing about "to mung or not to mung", we should be trying to find or create an alternative that solves the issues in a way more satisfying to everyone-- in other words, fix what's actually 'broken' (whether that be fixing one of the solutions, educating the users, or doing something completely new), rather than argue over which imperfect solution is less imperfect than the other. Or maybe, with 100% hindsight, make it a policy to follow normal business practices: 1. Decide the correct approach. 2. Test the effects. 3. Perhaps, gasp, even discuss this with others. 4. Notify the user-base in advance. 5. Provide some suggestions for hardship cases. 6. Stick by your guns. Of course, if you really prefer lots of whining, foist the change on the users with no advance warning. After all, we only want gurus on the list, so everyone will know what happened and what to do. Nicely put:) -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Programs crash after RAM upgrade on laptop!
Hareesh Nagarajan wrote: Yeah, the problem is fixed when I take out the RAM module on Linux! But Windows works perfectly with the new RAM module. Thanks, Hareesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Did you run memtest as was suggested? Just because it didn't crash on wintendo (yet) means nothing. Run memtest and if your new ram passes, then there is another problem, but I doubt it. I have a win98 box with known bad ram that I have to keep around because there just isn't anything on linux to replace Autocad-2000. I back up my work quite often. I cannot render my work on that box as it will lockup solid. I test all new ram with memtest86+ and if that goes well, I keep an old 10gig drive around that I use to bootstrap Gentoo. If that too succeeds then and only then will I trust that ram. Cheers: ) -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting Dos disk
Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I have a DOS floppy I try and mount but get the error: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0, or too many mounted file systems I've searched, didn't find any real answers. I checked this system against another Gentoo system that works just fine and mounts the floppy. What am I doing wrong. MSDOS and Vfat are compiled into the kernel. Thanks. /etc/fstab entry is shown below. # # Floppy # /dev/fd0/mnt/fd0vfat noauto,user,exec,nohide 0 0 does /mnt/fd0 exist? ls /mnt and see. If not mkdir /mnt/fd0 and try again. Cheers -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] APC UPS
Chris Young wrote: I have received an old UPS ( APC Smart-UPS 1000Va (670W) ) ( DB9/RS232 Cable ) What should I use to Monitor the UPS? CRY NUT and for a gui, WMNUT. Have a look on www.freshmeat.net for other apps. Cheers. -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: AMD64 vs P4 w/HT
Douglas James Dunn wrote: In my professional opinion... Its not worth it. Moores law is almost up. Soon we wont get any more transistors in the chips. The research community knows this. because And on top of that there has been remarkable strides in the field of quantum computing. There are already working prototypes of quantum computers. With a fully functional quantum computer ... well with the amount of compared throughput it would make modern computing now look like ... well a slide rule. The basic differences for the 64 bit processing is using 64 bits to process rather than 32. AMDs processor is basically an x86 with a 64 bit extension. A quantum computer on the otherhand instead of using a queue to process one calculation at a time. It can do a lot at once. I believe that 64 bit computing will just begin to gain momentum when quantum computing makes it obsolete. Right! Intel and AMD will push quantum computing out to the public when they have hordes of AMD64 and P4 sitting ready to be shipped. After spending millions on 64 bit tech they are going to abandon it? Even if quantum computing is made available Monday morning, how long until the average wage earner will be able to afford to buy one, without first taking out a second mortgage on his house, car and first born? I've spent more than two thirds of my life in the electronics technology sector and have seen all kinds of advances come and go. The best, the fastest and the greatest become mainstream only if the public at large accepts it (and can afford it). If better, faster and bigger were the deciding factors in technology, most people would have been running 68k systems rather then x86. If quantum computing is to be mainstream, it will first have to come out of the closet so that the rest of the world can have a good look at it. Then, if the software and O/S community decides to support it, it might become the next wave else it'll become just another O/S2. JMHO -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Spam Attempt?
Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: Think that he was pointing that on this list few person have that kind of knowledge. And so it's difficult for you have an adeguate answer. For example gentoo-server should be a better try. Optionally if you want to put an "off-topic" argument in whatever list you should mark it "[OT]" or similar. Who read it is more psicologicaly prepared to read an off-topic and so can chose to ignore it or to answer or to point you on the right place. best regards francesco riosa -- I disagree, I've found that there are quite a few very knowledgeable members on this list. I've seen many posts here re: setting up mail servers, web servers and security issues for just about anything in respect to the net. With the amount of mail generated by this list daily, shows that there is a very large (diverse) audience here. I do agree with the [OT] use in matters such as this, it cuts down on some of the sarcasm generated by such a post. However, such replies generate even more sarcasm and useless unnecessary posts. I've found that posts re: security have served as a "heads up" for others maintaining on the net. Cheers. -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware, bad?
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Years ago, you could buy a gigabyte, asus or tyan board and feel pretty safe. Today you are forced to find out, that they use the same cheap stuff, all the mobo-vendors are using. *rant* *morerant* *sigh* Glück Auf Volker We the consumers are to blame for that. For years we have accepted cheaper faster bleeding edge gadgets and never complained. We buy newer cars, the latest home entertainment gadgets and very seldom look at the finish of the product. If the automotive industry had tried to sell us plastic interior el cheapo looking vehicles in the 60's or 79's as they do today, we'd have run them out of town. Today we accept them without as much as a hint of disgust. As long as we want cheaper, faster and more, they'll make more cheaper, faster. Cheers -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware, bad?
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Saturday 15 January 2005 18:56, Ted Ozolins wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Voltages are correct throughout the process (Fluke 8025A multimeter). Temperature stays between 27 to 37 degrees celcius measured using a Fluke temp meter.) I rebuild/calibrate analog/digital test equipment for a living, believe me when I say that everything test ok. The only part of the mb I have not been able to test are the support chips. This is why I was inquiring re diag progs. ok, I just have to believe you ;) MSI is one of the mobo vendors, which a history of cheap, failing capacitors. Examining each capacitor with a good light and a magnifier is time consuming, but a good reason, to ask for the warranty, if you find some. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list The failing capacitors plagued quite a few manufacturers including IBM. My Matsonic had that problem (MS8127C) I replaced all the caps on that board and has been running great since (1.5yrs now) I borrowed a Gigabyte mobo and the end result was the same. Tried a new cpu and voila it just works. Two bad cpu's I would have never thought. The 1.2G Athlon has been my test CPU for quite some time and finally it is glitched. I replaced it with an AMD Athlon-xp 2600 and is now done with the bootstrap and is compiling the system. By the way, A great many mobo manufacturers bought those caps only to find the electrolyte formula to be faulty thus breaking down, taking the mobo with it. There was quite an article in just about every tech publication on this planet explaining that fiasco. Cheers. -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware, bad?
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Saturday 15 January 2005 09:43, Ted Ozolins wrote: In an attempt to install gentoo on the last system here not running gentoo the bootstrap segfaults part way through glibc-2.3.4. I thought it might be a bad ram so I ran memtest86+ overnight without any errors. I changed out the cpu (from athlon 1200 to athlon 1400) still the same error. Power-supply checks out OK (no garbage seen on a Tek 2335 or Tek 475 scope) MB is a new MSI KM2M. Are there any open source hardware diagnostic tools that I can use to trouble-shoot this further? I'm using the 2004-r3 universal live CD for this install from stage1-x86-2004.3 I do not know the tek-scope, but did you measure the voltages while the system was compiling, or did you measure an idling PSU? And are you sure, that it is not your cpu overheating? -- Voltages are correct throughout the process (Fluke 8025A multimeter). Temperature stays between 27 to 37 degrees celcius measured using a Fluke temp meter.) I rebuild/calibrate analog/digital test equipment for a living, believe me when I say that everything test ok. The only part of the mb I have not been able to test are the support chips. This is why I was inquiring re diag progs. -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Hardware, bad?
In an attempt to install gentoo on the last system here not running gentoo the bootstrap segfaults part way through glibc-2.3.4. I thought it might be a bad ram so I ran memtest86+ overnight without any errors. I changed out the cpu (from athlon 1200 to athlon 1400) still the same error. Power-supply checks out OK (no garbage seen on a Tek 2335 or Tek 475 scope) MB is a new MSI KM2M. Are there any open source hardware diagnostic tools that I can use to trouble-shoot this further? I'm using the 2004-r3 universal live CD for this install from stage1-x86-2004.3 -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Mail confirmation requests
It would be really nice if those individuals requesting confirmations of mail receipts would stop. Why would anyone use that on a list? You are not conversing with a single end user,so why do you need confirmation??? This practice sucks!! -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] postgresql wont start ?
raptor wrote: as shown after emerging and config I started postgresql : /etc/init.d/postgresql start * Starting postgres... * Please see log file: /var/lib/postgresql/data/postgresql.log it doesnt start and there is no such log generated ?! even after i done updatedb, locate cant find such file.. what can be the problem [ebuild R ] dev-db/postgresql-7.4.1-r1 tia Does /var/lib/postgresql exist? -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Don't update linux headers ! NEW Gentoo install broken
Arne Vogel wrote: Shore wrote: On Sun, 8 Feb 2004, Arne Vogel wrote: Reminds me of my father who once killed my c:\windows\system dir because he thought it was superfluous... I use to look after quite a few win98 boxes for some of the eldery arround Edmonton Alberta. One of the gents had gotten a complete computer system as a bonus for buying a new car. He got so tired of having a window pop up requesting him to register his O/S that he decided to take matters in his own hand and deleted that dang "regestry" . He didn't think that a software company had the right to clutter his desktop with that crap every time he started his computer. He thought he had deleted whatever was asking him to register. I informed him that he had made the right choice I put Caldera 1.3 on it and he's been using linux since. -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: email harassment
Andrew Gaffney wrote: On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 16:26, Andrew Gaffney wrote: I know this is a bit OT, but I've got a question. My stepmom's sister has been getting some creepy and/or stalkerish emails from someone with the email address '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. This person knows what her daughters and her car look like. What can she do? Should she report it to the police? Can they do anything without knowing who it is? Would contacting MSN/Hotmail do any good? Isn't this an FBI jurisdiction. I would email them (at least forward the trash she's been getting). Once they have probable cause, they can then get the court orders needed to track the sick bastard down (hopefully put him down while their at it) -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Software raid
Jared Thirsk wrote: ...Basically, all this just to say it can be done. This of course is by no means a howto, so backup your data if you care about it and read the fine manual(s) that the other nice people referenced. Jared Thanks to all who replied. I've got it all sorted out, running raid 1 and everything seems just fine. Not as bad as I thought it would be. -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] timezone
Mike wrote: Oookay...I don't know. I've always set my bios clock to UTC. I'm sorry I can't help. As you suggested in your first post maybe your zoneinfo file is corrupt. Have you tried to link to another zoneinfo file? Just a thought. Mike Yup, been there done that, no joy:-( Timezones have never been a problem here untill now. I'm begining to believe that something has messed up just not entirely sure what. Time zones (zoneinfo) I take is part of glibc? will re-emerging glibc an unwise move, caveats? -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] NPTL help
Collins Richey wrote: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/19051.html -- Holy sh#t! A friend (army buddy) use to have a sig (disclaimer) I thought was totally unecessary. I asked him not to put that in email to me as I found it offensive. My request was ignored. I then started to quote large portions from the works of Shakespear, Dohn, Edgar A. Poe and etc in my sig, he got the hint It seems that the corprate greed have indeed bred way too many fools. -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] timezone
Mike wrote: On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 11:39:54AM -0800, Ted Ozolins wrote: On a new install, I've edited the files to use localtime, Which files? /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Vancouver and I have it linked to /etc/localtime. Yet if I do "date" I get UTC! You mean the timezone is set to UTC? Or is the _time_ set to UTC. Also, how do you have your BIOS clock set? You usually want you BIOS set to UTC and the zoneinfo file will adjust UTC to your local time. The date header in your email says your time is UTC minus eight hours. The computer I'm using on the net is not the system giving me the prob's. This system I'm sending this on is running Gentoo and is as solid as a rock. Oh, it reports the time as PST not UTC! The first time I installed Linux the time setting confused me for months. HTH Mike -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list in rc.conf I have: CLOCK="local" Why would I want my bios clock set to UTC? I've never had any bios set to UTC in the years that I've been running Linux. I have five systems running here, three now on Gentoo (the time reports properly on them) one on slackware and the fifth on smoothwall (firewall) the bios clocks on all these are set to local time and they all report the correct time format. Just this new box I've just setup with Gentoo 1.4 that seems to be haveing a problem with this. When I run "date" on the newest addition It has "localtime needs to be set..." and no matter what I try (even after reboot) upon running "date" I get the same output with the time xx:xx:xx UTC. On all the other systems when I run "date" I get the expected: Mon Feb 2 19:32:16 PST 2004. rc.conf is setup the same on all the systems and they all have /etc/localtime symbolicly linked to the same file. The setups are virtually identical except for vid and nic's. I have setup my clock like this since Caldera 1.1 without ever having any problems. I'm running gentoo-sources 2.6.1 kernel. In the config I noticed the "bios set to UTC" and made sure that this was not selected, I even checked the config file to make sure. I just can't seem to figure this out. uname -a on that system reports: " 2.6.1-gentoo #1 Thu Jan 29 00:37:49 Local time zone must be set--see zic manu" ^ "date" reports: "Mon Feb 2 19:58:26 UTC 2004" ^^^ That should be PST. -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] test (timed)
Sent two emails to this list at about 11:00 this morning and still no sign of them at 16:00. Strange. -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Timezone
In case the zoneinfo files on that box is messed up somehow, what package is this in. -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] timezone
On a new install, I've edited the files to use localtime, /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Vancouver and I have it linked to /etc/localtime. Yet if I do "date" I get UTC! is there a bug in the lates stable in gentoo that I should know about? Is there been another "change" that I've missed somewhere re: time? -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Software raid
Before I totally mess things up, in order to use software raid (raid 1) do I have to select the partitions as a raid before the install? I have two identical drives with 50 megs at the begining of each drive for /boot . Do I have to start over with fdisk and redo the install? Do I sound rather confused, that s because right now I am:) Any pointers info rtfm welcome Cheers -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] vcron
Diego Zamboni wrote: THanks for all the relies, was just checking. Cheers -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] vcron
In setting up a new system on gentoo I get no masked or unmasked vcron. I take it that it is now vixie-cron? -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: HOw much power does a computer consume?
david stevenson wrote: On Monday 26 January 2004 7:30 pm, Jakub Krajcovic wrote: Hi guys, FIrst of all I apologize of an OT thread, but i would like to get an estimate of how much power (in Watts) would this consume: motherboard:QDI Legend I processor: Celeron 333 MHz graphics: STB Velocity 4400 (Riva TNT chipset), 16MB (agp) sound: SB Live! player (pci) HDD:probably WD, at max 20 GB (havent bought it yet and the old one got fried by a sudden power surge) optional:DVD ROM (probably one of the new toshibas) I've searched all my manuals, and did some (not much though, I confess) googling, and havent found a satisfactory answer.. I'm asking, because I decided to put this into my car and I need to know what type of inverter I should buy. Hmmm, I think you will find the actual power used is not the important figure. Power on peak will come in to it, but PC power supplies are expecting a sine wave they can pull large pulses of power from and inverters put out a current limited square wave, they do not work well together. Vastly oversizing may be OK, but I have not tried it. David -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list What makes you think that the computer power-supply is expecting a sine wave? The current is rectified and filtered then goes through switcher circuit to provide the various voltages for your computer. The square wave might normally create some noise, but in the power-supply used in computers, the filters seem to take care of it nicely. However, Why would you even bother with the expense of an inverter when for about the same money you can get a switcher that would replace the existing power-supply and run off of a secondary battery. Less heat to worry about and less to trouble-shoot if anything goes wrong. Now that I've just wasted all this band-width, why would you want to? There are all kinds of low-power mb/cpu combo's on the market that are not quite the power-hogs that desk-tops are? Some of these mobile cpu offerings will do everything bu park your car for you. Using a desk-top as a mobile computer would be sucking 20 to 30 amps from your vehicle (might even be more) I think you are very close to 200 to 250 watts consumption on a desktop running Cel 333 and since power supplies are not 100% efficient, that still (@100% ef) translate to over 20 amps (thats not including your monitor) -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] The irony of kernel development
Jakub Krajcovic wrote: Well, i personally agree to what Collins said in the first mail. I really do think that the problems with the (supposedly) less-stable 2.6 kernels less common. And people, how did you come to the conclusion that mostly "kernel-knowedgeable" people use the 2.6 series?? I mean, i don't think of myself as Mr Lamer, i can't hack the kernel in one afternoon either (that was probably a bit uptight, but i hope you get the picture). I think that the main reason why to use the 2.6 kernel is the performance increase especially in X, and the overall speed and i daresay stability. And unless someone really plans to do weird shit with the kernel, i doubt he will come across some significant problems... I'm begining to believe that the kernel developers jumped the 2.4.x ship a bit too soon to get on with 2.6.x. I've experience all sorts of small pita problems as I've migrated up the 2.4.x tree. Once I've caught up on some of my work here, (dang! I knew I should have drained that swamp, way too many critters to deal with) I'll be giving 2.6.x a shot on my main system. I have found that a lot of the "kernel savey" users aren't always the first to move up to a new kernel. The new kids on the block seem to lead perhaps because they feel that they must have the latest and greatest new toy. Having said that, "less problems reported because the user base have a greater knowledge in dealing with kernel related problems" falls way short of the truth. If I recall correctly, the first 2.4.x series started out with one patch after another. I ran with the 2.2.x on my firewall (upgraded and patched manytimes) untill this past weekend. That will be brought up to the 2.6.x kernel this coming weekend. My lab_rat has been running 2.6.1-rc1 without as much as a burp. I will be installing a new ATI card on it this week and see how that goes, if well then I'll be updating all the machines here to 2.6.1-rc1 or what ever is available on gentoo. I do not consider myself a linux expert nor am I a kernel(or anything else) hacker, my observations are merely from an end user perspective. JMHO -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] problem mounting NFS share
Stefan Vunckx wrote: I google'd a bit, and almost every thing I found said that portmap or the rpc daemon's aren't running. According to ps, both portmap and rpc.statd are running... I also tried putting it in /etc/fstab, to see if nfsmount would automatically mount it, but to no avail. Oh, and yes NFS in compiled into the kernel. Any ideas? Thanks, Aaron Check if your server is properly setup, meaning he'll have to grant your pc access (see if your IP is in the allowed setup and such). Bonx What have you in your export file? -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] White noice in sound
Chris Johnson wrote: "After a while"? Is the box getting hot? Might be software but it sounds more like a hardware problem either with the card or box. I have the same sound chip on my new mb and it does the same here. I monitor system temp with gkrellm and heat is not the problem (at least not here.) I've been trying to pin down the source of this for a while but it eludes me. Whenever this happens I've run top and check to see what is running that might cause this but that has not produced the culprit. If I do figure this out I'll post here. Cheers... -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Adding entries in start menu
khurram b wrote: Hi! I want to add my own category of programming in the start menu in kde. so that I click on the programes and it executes. Right click on the start button and choose menu editor. then click on the catagory where you would want the prog to reside and click on new item (on top). -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] apache conf
Ben Munat wrote: Well, I've pretty much determined that /etc/apache2/conf/apache2.conf is the right file. The weird thing is that I figured this out by switching the bind port to 8000 in that file... the server then responded on 8000, so I knew it was the right file and switched it back to 80. But now it's responding on both 80 and 8000!?!? And the phpinfo test file I put in the docroot only works through 8000. Anyone have any idea why? b PS: and yes, I did restart apache... Also check commonapache2.conf since in apache2.conf the line: Include conf/commonapache2.conf clearly indicates that this file is being read as well. -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: i need to wine to run...
Eamon Caddigan wrote: blade- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Eamon Caddigan wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If the setup program is made with install shield you need to install dcom95.exe first into your fake_windows Hmm, where can this file be found? Microsoft has a page offering it (http://www.microsoft.com/com/dcom/dcom95/download.asp), but the link is broken. Couldn't find it on my XP partition, either. Check the link again, I just downloaded it fine. D'oh! Clicking on the link in Firebird sent me to another page, but copying the link and wget'ting it worked fine. Thanks! Running the executable in wine, however, pops-up the following error: DCOM95 can only be installed on Windows 95. For Windows 98, please install latest DCOM98. For Windows NT, please install latest service packs. I'm using wine-20031212. -Eamon Why would you be downloading DCOM95 to run win98 progs? You need DCOM98. The info says it all. -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] apache conf
Ben Munat wrote: Hmm, I think I missed that blurb about running that command... however, I do have apache2.conf and commonapache2.conf under /etc/apache2/conf. Do you know what the ebuild script does? I have apache running... I (actually my brother) just wanted to edit some configuration stuff and the apache docs seem to talk about this non-existent httpd.conf file. b If you have apache running and you have the conf files then I'd say there is no need to run anything. Look at both the conf files as they are both used. If you are at all familiar with httpd.conf you'll see the dif. Look at the examples you've been reading about and the apache2.conf is very much the same. some of the configuration is in commonapache2.conf with the bulk in apache2.conf. Cheers -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] apache conf
Ben Munat wrote: Does gentoo use /etc/apache2/conf/apache2.conf instead of an httpd.conf file? Some docs I've found online talk about editing httpd.conf, but the only one I can find on my box is under /usr/portage... which is all install files, right? b -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Actually there should be two .conf files apache2.conf and commonapache2.conf. wasn't there a blurb to run a command after you emerged apache2? ie; ebuild /var/db/pkg/net-www/apache-2.0.48-r1/apache-2.0.48.r1.ebuild config -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] acroread printing
I noticed that acroread tries to use kprinter/ing to print . This only results with an error that kprinter could not be started. I have changed this many times in the past to correct this but I can not remember what it was. Anyone? -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] cups printing slow - page by page
Collins wrote: I've seen the same behavior with cups a number of times on different distros, but I've never been able to suss out the answer. When a file consists of multiple pages, cups prints them as though each page were a file by itself - long pause between pages. On other distros (SUSE 9.0, for example), the transition from one page to the next is at top speed. Currently on my gentoo system: cups-1.1.19-r1 foomatic-db-20031018 foomatic-filters-3.0.0.20031018 foomatic-3.0.0.20031018 foomatic-db-engine-3.0.0.20031018 ghostscript-7.07.1-r1 Does anyone have a clue what causes this behavior? No but I've got the same packages and using hpijs (hp deskjet 3520 ) My printing seems seemless on multiple page documents. I print off various shop manuals (pdf) on a continual basis. Tek scope manuals are huge. Cheers -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ATI console corruption
Murray Shields wrote: I have just installed Gentoo on a second machine (my second install ever). Immediately after the GRUB splash screen the text console uses a badly corrupted font. It cannot be easily read but I can make out enough to see that it is the normal boot process and that there is a complaint about a reiserfs partition that needs to be fixed. If I type the root password for single user mode the corruption persists so I am unable to do anything about the problem. If I continue the boot process the screen is corrected when it loads the user font - the entire screen is clear and normal as of that point. There is no othere corruption in any of the screens including X which starts and works fine. How do I fix this so I do not have corrupt text during the boot process? The system: Intel P4 1.8 512Md DDR ATI Radeon 9500 64Mb 40Gb HDD Mitsubishi Diamond View 1786 17" monitor 2.4 Kernel ati-drivers were emerged during install, so I do not know if the problem would exist without them... Thanks. perhaps vga=normal -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Rhythmbox
Spider wrote: begin quote On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 23:59:27 -0800 Ted Ozolins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Am I missing some lib here? seems you have a weird libid3tag installation, try rebuilding it and then trying rhythmbox again. (problems with libid3tag has been cropping up along the last few days, I have no real clue why it doesn't export all symbols ok.. just seems random :/ ) //Spider That worked nicely, Thanks again. -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Rhythmbox
Spider wrote: begin quote On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 23:59:27 -0800 Ted Ozolins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Am I missing some lib here? seems you have a weird libid3tag installation, try rebuilding it and then trying rhythmbox again. (problems with libid3tag has been cropping up along the last few days, I have no real clue why it doesn't export all symbols ok.. just seems random :/ ) //Spider I'll try that, thank you Cheers -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Rhythmbox
Am I missing some lib here? ../widgets/.libs/librbwidgets.a(mp3-stream-info-impl.o)(.text+0x505): In function `MP3_stream_info_impl_get_length_from_tag': : undefined reference to `id3_frame_field' ../widgets/.libs/librbwidgets.a(mp3-stream-info-impl.o)(.text+0x164e): In function `MP3_stream_info_impl_id3_tag_get_utf8': : undefined reference to `id3_frame_field' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[3]: *** [rhythmbox] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/rhythmbox-0.6.1-r1/work/rhythmbox-0.6.1/shell' make[2]: *** [all] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/rhythmbox-0.6.1-r1/work/rhythmbox-0.6.1/shell' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/rhythmbox-0.6.1-r1/work/rhythmbox-0.6.1' make: *** [all] Error 2 !!! ERROR: media-sound/rhythmbox-0.6.1-r1 failed. !!! Function gnome2_src_compile, Line 39, Exitcode 2 !!! compile failure -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] About apache + php
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And then I can only see the source of this file. What should I do? Give me some help ~ :) Once you emerged mod_php at the end of the emerge it gave you instructions to add -D PHP in your /etc/conf.d/apache2, APACHE2_OPTS="-D SSL -D PHP4" Did you do this? -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: OT: CD-ROM problems
Jason Stubbs wrote: mount gives me: /dev/cdroms/cdrom0: Input/output error mount: you must specify the filesystem type I have tried different kernels and using a lens cleaner. I even tried using FreeBSD which could read a burnt CD approx. 1 time in 20 attempts. Any ideas on what could have caused this? Any ideas on ways to fix it? Notebook peripherals aren't quite so cheap... -- Regards, Jason Stubbs Add a line in your /etc/fstab: /dev/cdroms/cdrom0/mnt/cdromiso9660noauto,user,ro0 0 The iso9660 is the filesystem type. /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 is the device (change to match your device). /mnt/cdrom is the mount point. Cheers... -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] eestock again
in make.conf: USE="X gtk kde imap maildir oss alsa sdl xml tcltk php java postgresql apxs DSO cups mysql apache" I've emerged apache-2, postgresql, php-4 and mod_php-4 in the order listed. I've installed eestock in /var/www/localhost/htdocs then started postgresql with /etc/init.d/postgresql -start then according to the eestock install directions: #su - #su - postgres #createuser -P answered the prompts and received the CREATE USER #createdb eestock #cd /var/www/localhost/htdocs/eestock/admin/utils psql -d eestock -U eestock -f eeStock_init This creates/fills all the fields/tables in database eestock. I can browse the database with phppgadmin with no problem. I've included the -i in the postgresql startup script so that postmaster can receive tcp/ip connections. In mozilla if I use http://localhost/eestock I get the page I expect to see without any errors (this would indicate that postgres is being connected to via tcp/ip. There are two temporary users root and admin with temp passwd root admin. This is where the problem is, I type in root and root for passwd and the root and disappear and nothing new happens. this should open an admin window but does not. For some reason the data base is not read and thus no authentication takes place that would allow administration of eestock. I'm at a total loss, I've spent hours of reading the postgresql, php, apache docs. Googled and tried to follow any leads I've found but no joy. It seems that there might be a permissions problem, I'm no longer sure. any suggestions welcome. -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] rc-update hotplug - boot or default?
Mark Knecht wrote: In general, where do I find info on each specific daemon and when it should be started? Thanks! Mark Looking at "Gentoo Linux 1.4 Installation Instruction" page 13: # emerge -k hotplug # rc-update add hotplug default also from installs of various server etal: mysqldefault postgresql default cupsddefault apache default ntpdefault HTH -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kernel panic - SCSI
Leonard, Phil wrote: Just installed gentoo stage3 on an IBM Netfinity 4000R and I'm getting the following kernel panic when I try to boot. This is my first attempt at installing gentoo. What have I done wrong? Partition check: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 Detected aic7xxx hardware Scanning for aic7xxx_old...PCI: Enabling device 02:0f.0 (0116 -> 0117) (scsi1) found at PCI 2/15/0 (scsi1) Wide Channel, SCSI ID=7, 16/255 SCBs (scsi1) Cables present (Int-50 NO, Int-68 YES, Ext-68 NO) (scsi1) Downloading sequencer code... 436 instructions downloaded scsi1 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.2.4/5.2.0 scsi0: Spurious SCSI interrupt scsi0: Spurious SCSI interrupt scsi0: Spurious SCSI interrupt scsi0:A:10:255 Attempt to issue message failed Kernel panic: HOST_MSG_LOOP with invalid SCB 0 In interrupt handler - not syncing Thanks, Philip Nothing really. I had the same problem (install from stage 1) I was fortunate as I didn't need my scsi card to boot with (cdrom and scanner are scsi) I removed my scsi card compiled the kernel with aic7xxx built in and deselected all other scsi cards in menuconfig. I shut it down, replaced the scsi card and booted into my new system. It seems that hotplugging is erroniously detectings cards you don't have ie: aic7xxx_old, AHA-294x and so on. I had quite a few posts replying saying that my kernel was the culprit but that was of no help. Is your scsi card builtin or an addon? -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mysql --SOLVED
Ted Ozolins wrote: I've emerged mysql and ran the ebuild /blahblahblah.ebuild config and have issued /etc/init.d/mysql start [that went ok] then: /usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root -h crash password somepassword root # /usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root -h crash password somepassword /usr/bin/mysqladmin: connect to server at 'crash' failed error: 'Lost connection to MySQL server during query' what am I doing wrong? anyone? Dang! Here I go answering my own post. When all else fails RTFM -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] mysql
To start with I'm not a data base, web or anything administrator, I am a tech. I tried to use eestock as an inventory program (postgres_php_apache) but couldn't get it to do a thing. Phppgadmin had no problems in working with eestock database which leads me to believe that the culprit is eestock. I've wasted enough time trying to get it to work. I've noticed quite a few inventory oferrings using mysql and will give one of them a shot if I can only get mysql to the first base. I've emerged mysql and ran the ebuild /blahblahblah.ebuild config and have issued /etc/init.d/mysql start [that went ok] then: /usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root -h crash password somepassword root # /usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root -h crash password somepassword /usr/bin/mysqladmin: connect to server at 'crash' failed error: 'Lost connection to MySQL server during query' what am I doing wrong? anyone? -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] php4
N. Owen Gunden wrote: On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 08:08:56PM -0800, Ted Ozolins wrote: Could this be why I cannot get postgres, php, apache and eestock to play nicely? How can I change this at compile time, or can I? emerge mod_php I have mod_php emerged, I had postgresql installed before php. looking at the log files eestock is connecting to postgresql. I can login to database eestock with phppgadmin. all the tables and entries are there. but for some dang reason once eestock connects to postgresql, I can not login as superuser nor admin (two default temp users). I do not get any errors anywhere its as if the request vapourize. I'm just wondering if its not an apache2 problem. I'll have to set this up on one of the slackware boxes (use apache 1). -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] php4
I'm still unable to authenticate any user under eestock. Using
phppgadmin, I can login and browse,play_with or destroy the eestock
database. I've tried to make sense of the ebuild to determine if php4
was built with "--with-pgsql" looking at the ebuild I noticed:
pkg_postinst() {
php_pkg_postinst
einfo "This is a CLI only build."
einfo "You can not use it on a webserver."
Could this be why I cannot get postgres, php, apache and eestock to play
nicely? How can I change this at compile time, or can I?
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: pgsql.so
James Orr wrote: On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 19:12, Ted Ozolins wrote: where can I find the the postgresql module for php4? It's installed with PHP. You might need to have postgres in your USE flag, not sure. I've emerged Postgresql and have "php postgresql postgres" in my USE= and still no pgsql.so .. I'm still trying to find out how and what I have to do to aquire this beast. It seems that without it I can not get eestock to authenticate, dang! -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] pgsql.so
where can I find the the postgresql module for php4? -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] apache2 and mod_auth_pgsql
James Orr wrote:
The mod_auth_pgsql does not seem to work with apache 2.
I have apache2 in my USE in make.conf
Wrong version of mod_auth_pgsql You'll have to go to:
http://www.giuseppetanzilli.it/mod_auth_pgsql2/dist/
and grab a new release of mod_auth_pgsql2. You will have to change the makefile as everything is incorrect. ie: it looks for /usr/local/ for apxs instead of /usr/sbin for apxs and not apxs2.
THe first three lines need to be changed to reflect the location of the lib and incl's.
APACHE2_HOME=/usr
PGSQL_LIB=/usr/lib/postgresql
PGSQL_INCLUDE=/usr/include/postgresql
then the line where it looks for apxs needs to be changed so it will find apxs2
shared:
${APACHE2_HOME}/sbin/apxs2
HTH
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Re: [gentoo-user] postgresql
Matthew Kennedy wrote: su postgres then it prompts me for a password. If root and admin are not the default passwds what the heck is it. -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C [...] There is no password :) As root, execute "su - postgres". The configuration files will be in the data sub-directory etc. Matt I've finally gotten this far and have been able to create the new data_base I require. and postgresql seems to be up and running. crash root # pg_ctl status -D /var/lib/postgresql/data pg_ctl: postmaster is running (pid: 1955) Command line was: /usr/bin/postmaster '-N' '1024' '-B' '2048' I'm trying to use eestock, a web based inventory program. Whenever I try to to start with (in mozilla) http://localhost/eestock, the eestock page comes up nicely but I get: *Warning*: pg_connect(): Unable to connect to PostgreSQL server: could not connect to server: Connection refused Is the server running on host 127.0.0.1 and accepting TCP/IP connections on port 5432? . in */var/www/localhost/htdocs/eestock/admin/utils/DB_Sql.inc* on line *44* PHP Error: pg_connect() failed. I have tried using tcpip_socket=true and port=5432 to no avail. Any ideas what to try next are welcome. Anyone running eestock, what did you have to do to get it to connect to postgresql? -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] postgresql
I was lead to believe that on a freshly installed postgresql theat the temporary password is root and admin. No matter what I try I keep getting login failed SORRY. What I tried is: su postgres then it prompts me for a password. If root and admin are not the default passwds what the heck is it. -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Printing Problems
Alan Watson wrote: Hi - I installed CUPS and can print from Open Office OK but none of my other programmes seem to work OK. Specifically I want to print a Latex DVI file and when I issue the command "dvips filename.dvi" nothing happens. Also the "lpr" command does not seem to work. Anyone got any ideas? Thanks, Alan Can you print a test page from the web_interface? ie: http://localhost:631 -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't start MozillaFirebird period!
Patrick Börjesson wrote: Wtf?! Now I downgraded MozillaFirebird to 0.7 as I couldn't get the 0.7-r1 version to start up, but guess what. The fng application won't start anyway! Plase, someone help me. 0.7 worked for me yesterday... Patrick Börjesson What happens when you start it from a command line? Have you checked to see if there is a lock file in .mozill~? Doesn't start does not give enough info to really know what is or isn't happening. -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] network printing
rd wrote: printer that is spooled from cups. Good luck... post how it goes. I may not be able to get back to you anymore tonight. -rdg/TacticalJack It seems that we have almost identical cupsd.conf other than the IP's. Viewing the error logs in /var/log, cupsd was trying to bind to 631 twice. Having a closer look at the conf I noticed that I had "Port 631" and further down a line "Listen 127.0.0.1:631" which I then hashed and restarted cupsd. It now works as it was suppose to. I keep asking others to look at their error logs and here I could have saved myself a lot of time and grief if only I had taken the time to read the dang log -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] network printing
rd wrote: Ted -- Let me understand this... you have cups on one linux box and want it to be the network printer server for other linux boxes? If so, I can help. -rdg This is correct. -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] network printing
I have four systems running at my home. I've always had them setup to print through one system ie:192.168.1.2:631 I've made quite a few changes here, mainly OS's. There is only one part time wintendo98 (dual -boot) Setting up samba to accept printing from the 98 box was trivial. The other three systems are linux only, one still running slack 9.1 while the printserver and other client are running gentoo 1.4, very recent and very uptodate. I've set up cups on crash (gentoo1.4) and I'm trying to get printing to work on lab_rat using cups. I've tried using http://192.168.1.2:631, http://192.168.1.2:631/Canon but nothing I use eems to work. I've googled only to find just about every document under the sun on samba but I keep overlooking the info on linux to linux network printing. A pointer or a slap might really be helpfull TIA -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help with install
Alma J Wetzker wrote: from the : Gentoo Linux Desktop configuration Guide: Configuring KDM nano -w /rc.conf #whay display manager do you use? [ xdm | gdm | kdm ] DISPLAYMANAGER=kdm save (^O) and exit nano. #rc-update add xdm default Now you will be in the graphical login when you reboot. Provided of course if you have X and kde installed. If you are going to use gnome you can change the kdm to gdm. Now for sound:) go and read up on alsa configuration: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml That should get your sound going. Remeber to have sound and the driver for sblive set as modules when you compile your kernel. You have to emerge alsa-driver after every kernel build. HTH -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help with install
Alma J Wetzker wrote: After running Caldera linux (happily) for several years, I tried to update the kernel of my system. Really bad plan. I now have gentoo running on an athlon XP system. I can get into the X system and most things appear to be running. I need help with a few things; How do I get sound? I have a SB Live! 5.1 and have alsa loaded. I tried loading emu10k1 but get an error (unresolved external) [If I could find more detail I would report it.] How do I get the system to come up in the graphical login? I have Gnome working but I would like to get kde up instead. Can I select that from a graphical login prompt? How do I get drivers for the cups printing system? I have a tektronix 740L color laser printer and none of the drivers packaged with cups give me color. (The HP postscript driver works with the printer in BW only.) I am sure this is just the beginning of a wonderful learning experience. I am now learning just how much my kids would like to use the system so any help would be gratefully received. -- Alma -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list I hate using "RTFM" to answer with but if you were to check-out gentoo.org site then docs from there click on installation related. The desktop instalation guide will walk you through the windows manager stuff. Also while you are there read the alsa howto, which is well presented and will help you get yoursb live card up and runing. HTH Cheers... -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] domainname
in issuing "domainname" it returns (none). I have domain blahblah.net in /etc/resolv.conf and the same in /etc/dnsdomainname but it still keeps returning (none) when queried. What have I not set? Querying for "hostname" returns the proper name. TIA -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] A good PCI modem that will work with Gentoo or Linux
Jayson Garrell wrote: On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 08:57, Christopher Lyon wrote: Can anybody recommend a good PCI internal modem that will work with Gentoo? I have found a couple of links out, idir.net/~. and they all seem to have outdated information. Any help would be appreciated. For the least amount of trouble. I have always found USR externel modems to work every time. I am sure that they make a pci version also. Jayson Garrell -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list USR makes an great pci modem (lists linux on the box) I've installed quite a few of these. -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] realplayer extension?
Looking at ~/files/mimeinfo , the file extensions for real player are correct. However, looking at "about plugin" in mozilla, it lists rpm as the file extension. Where the hell is it getting this crap from. Why is there a need for mimeinfo if moz is going to do its own nonsense for? Is there a place where I can change this? Looking under helper apps or plugins in preferences does not show real player anywhere. -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] I hate computers
Scharf Yuval wrote: Hi Andrew, You are referring to the system speaker, the beep producer. I'm referring to a real (lousy) internal speaker in a Compaq desktop. Yuval Scharf The only reason that wintendo uses the internal speakers is because the driver is setup that way. Just a "more_better_system_design" by Compaq. -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] cups printing problems
Harlan wrote: Hi Kathy, I put the ppd file in: /usr/share/cups/model/HP-DeskJet_420C-hpijs.ppd I believe that is what the directions said to do. Still don't have a device to select from in the dropdown combo box. Thanks Again, Harlan... I read in another of your posts that you had stop/start cupsd, however, I ran into the same problem when setting up my printer. After stopping cupsd I decided to check with "top" to see if in fact cupsd had been halted, it had not. I then "k" with "9" cupsd then I restarted cups and my printer appeared in the selection drop_down. Just a thought : ) -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] moz_mail_filters > evolution
Is there a way to import mail filters from Mozilla-1.5 to Evolution? -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Xsession
Jason Stubbs wrote: On Wednesday 19 November 2003 17:09, Ted Ozolins wrote: When I mess up I realy do a great job of it. Somehow I've managed to blank the contents of Xsession. I could really use a copy. Anyone? /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession attached. Jason Thanks Jason. I moved /usr to another partition and totally messed things up. I do not understand why any file in /etc or in any of its subdirectories got smurfed. This isn't the first time I've moved /usr to another partition or drive, but is the first time I've had any kind of a problem. I'm still trying to sort this out. I'm not new to linux (late 92) I look after several system over the internet and have to deel with bloopers all the time. Even kdm comes up with all the daemons represented as login users. This sure is strange! -- Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Xsession
When I mess up I realy do a great job of it. Somehow I've managed to blank the contents of Xsession. I could really use a copy. Anyone? -- Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ATI video card
Andrew Gaffney wrote: I've done a number of tests with this card. I have not gotten it to give me a picture on a regular monitor or an Apple monitor (has ports for both). In Linux, it shows up when I do scanpci, but it does not show up in the BIOS's PCI device list. The computer will boot with just this card in, but it will not boot without a video card. This makes absolutely not sense to me. As for flashing the card BIOS, how would I go about that? Joel Wright wrote: How about checking ATI's site, I've flashed matrox cards many times without a problem, they are usually DOS or wintedo ece files that once envoked do the flash and report fail or success with a sumary of the new version number etc. If there is a firmware upgrade or if it can be flashed to be pc compatible then the info should be on ATI's site. -- Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse wheel problems
Dennis Freise wrote: I have a logitech keyboard with a mousewheel on it, which is detected and used _instead_ of the mousewheel on the mouse. Maybe it's the same for you ? That is because the wheel onthe Logitech keyboard is detected first and becomes /dev/input/mouse0 and your mouse (wich is dectected after the keyboard) becomes /dev/input/mouse1. If you were to edit XF86Config and change the line /dev/input/mouse (or mice) to /dev/input/mouse1 it will probably fix things... I'm using Logitech iTouch on all four computers here with Logitech optical-wheel mice. It took some reading to figure out that the keyboard_before_mouse dected was messing things up here... -- Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel
William Kenworthy wrote: genkernel silently fails when it gets a build error - there is a logfile, but it didnt help me. Do a traditional "make modules" in /usr/src/linux and then track down which module it was. "irda" was the error I had with the latest gs-sources BillK It seems that gs-sources has an issue with sis chip-set. I tried the same mwith gentoo-sources and that went almost without a hitch.(usb keyboard was not recognised) I'll fix the keyboard issue once I've completed the install and configuration (I'll compile the kernel manually, at least then I'll know what I have.) I guess genkernel is usually ok, but I still like to do my own kernel from vanilla untouched source. I'll emerge that at some other time. Thanks. -- Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] genkernel
On a completely new install using default everything. emerged gentoo-sources emerged genkernel emerged hotplu issue genkernel and it starts as I would expect. When genkernel has complete its task there is no make modules_install no mention of busybox no mention of initrd. Have I messed something up so early in the install? -- Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mod_php
Norberto Bensa wrote: Ted Ozolins wrote: gabriel wrote: I didn't know I was cross compiling! Is there a way arround it?? the forums are great for this sort of thing: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=104223 revdep-ebuild? /usr/portage/app-portage/gentoolkit/files/scripts/revdep-rebuild NOTE: ***r***ebuild ;-) I got around the problem with mod-php by unmerging php and mod_php then unmerged and emerged wget (emerge -k wget). then continued with revdep-ebuild osname [name of shared object]. That post on the forum was as useless as t#ts on a bull. Finding and reporting a work-arround deserves more than incorrect blabbering. JMHO -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B.C. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mod_php
gabriel wrote: I didn't know I was cross compiling! Is there a way arround it?? the forums are great for this sort of thing: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=104223 revdep-ebuild? -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B.C. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] mod_php
I seem to be going arround in circles here. Trying to emerge mod_php-4.3.3 but each time I get: configure: error: can not run test program while cross compiling !!! ERROR: dev-php/mod_php-4.3.3-r3 failed. !!! Function econf, Line 338, Exitcode 1 !!! econf failed I didn't know I was cross compiling! Is there a way arround it?? -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B.C. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ssh keys
Ric Messier wrote: No prob. And no, the service is called apache2. You can look in /etc/init.d and see all the services. All rc-update really does is create a symlink in /etc/runlevels/ for the service. Init looks in that directory at boot and executes a start against all the scripts it finds in it. Analogous to the /etc/rcn.d directories under SYSV-style UNIX. Ric -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list This now makes sense, thank you again... Cheers -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B.C. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ssh keys SOLVED
Jeffrey Smelser wrote: Oh.. why are you running it directly?? Do this. /etc/init.d/sshd start... that will do it.. Any reason your running it manually? As Ric pointed out to me, what I had over-looked was adding sshd to default. since doing that all is well:) -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B.C. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ssh keys
Ric Messier wrote: This is done the first time you start the sshd service. /etc/init.d/sshd start. If you have added sshd to the default runlevel (rc-update add sshd default) it would have gen'd the keys for you when you booted into your new OS. Ric I knew I had overlooked something! Thanks Ric, that did it. One other question then, if I want apache (apache2ctl) started at boot what would be the add statement "rc-update add apache2ctl default"? -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B.C. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ssh keys
Jeffrey Smelser wrote: Gentoo runs this the first time you run the SSHD daemon.. So it wasn't overlooked. I'm definately still in the dark then. I've rebooted this system but there was no keys generated. running sshd results in: crash root # sshd Could not load host key: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key Could not load host key: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key Could not load host key: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key Disabling protocol version 1. Could not load host key Disabling protocol version 2. Could not load host key sshd: no hostkeys available -- exiting. I must be overlooking something just not sure what. -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B.C. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] ssh keys
I've never had to generate my keys for ssh. Under Slackware this is done the first time you boot into a fresh install. Under Gentoo this was not done. Now I'm not sure if this is something I've messed up or is there some step I've overlooked.? Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mod_php problem
On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 09:27, Alex wrote: > > !!! ERROR: dev-php/mod_php-4.3.1-r1 failed. > !!! Function src_compile, Line 216, Exitcode 1 > !!! bad ./configure > > > Has anyone gotten this? I believe this is caused by having or is trying to use java. In you /etc/make.conf place in your USE= lane -java . Then it shlould emerge without a problem. I had that and so have others. This has been pointed out on this list countless times. HTH -- Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C. Powered by Slackware 8.1, sent with Evolution -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] survey: gentoo corporate usage?
On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 00:17, Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: > So what's the problem with this? "Power users" could still do things > the way they like it, and Gentoo could gain mass adoption from people > (ok, idiot people, sorry again) that doesn't want to mess up with > compilers, boot managers and modprobing. I don't see this as making > Gentoo a clone of RedHat. I see this as imporving Gentoo and making it > something much better than RedHat. > > And don't forget that I love Gentoo the way it is right now, just I > think that a graphical installer would be a great thing for Gentoo to > gain mass adoption, that's all. > > Regards > Jose > That would be a nice addition:) Lets keep in mind that thanks to BG there are more idiot-users out there then there are power-users. I think the important consideration for future goals should be "mass" for only they can entice software companies to accept a dif OS: > -- Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C. Powered by Slackware 8.1, sent with Evolution -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] April fools?
On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 08:30, Graham, Steve wrote: > > Just as a follow up to all this, yes, it's a joke. Yes, we hooked an > amazine number of people and yes, I enjoyed every minute of it. :) > > Quite honestly, I'm surprised that so many people believed it. To me, the > notion that Gentoo would dump ebuilds in favor of RPMs is so far from the > realm of possibility as to be absurd. Obviously, some folks didn't find it > quite so impossible. :) > > I've received some feedback that perhaps I did too good of a job when > writing the piece and made things too believable. Hopefully, no harm was > done. Certainly none was intended. > > --kurt I was in the middle of trying to contrive some aprils fool stunt to pull at work prior to reading this and being in the mood to pull something this was aperent to be a joke. If I had read that slackware were to go rpm I would or might have taken the bate, but gentoo? not a chance. Never the less, very nicely done. -- Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C. Powered by Slackware 8.1, sent with Evolution -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] HP scanjet 2300c
On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 20:33, Collins Richey wrote: > > I also get this trying to find the scanner: > > The vendor and product information needs to be associated with > 'scanner'. I don't know how to do that for a built-in. It's worth a > try to remake your kernel with scanner as a module and try the autoload > information. > > -- > Collins > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing li should there not be an entry in saned.conf "usb 0x03f0 0x0901" Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C. Powered by Slackware 8.1, sent with Evolution -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] HP scanjet 2300c
On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 21:55, Susie wrote: > Thanks. I've actully found a kernel patch but for now I've tried > recompiling the kernel with some options changed and somethings changed > in modules.conf > > For anyone else with this scanner take a look at this(it adds support > for 2300c and a few other things): > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/usb/2.4/usb-scanner-3-2.4.21-pre3.patch > > -- > > Susie > VE7 HFA > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://arienadean.tripod.com/ Let us know how it turns out once you've decided to apply the patch. I've been looking to pick up an inexpensive scanner, if this one can be made to work then that would be great.. -- Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C. Powered by Slackware 8.1, sent with Evolution -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] HP scanjet 2300c
On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 20:56, Susie wrote: > Hi. I see by the mandrake hardware database that apprently they got > this scanner to run. I've just bought one but can't figure out how to > get it going. I thought it might take the plustek sane backend but no > luck. I've enabled all 3 scanner settings and paraport in the kernel as > modules, etc. Anyone got this particular scanner? How do I get it > going? It's listed as a "grey" or not much known about in the sane > database. However obviously something works with it if mandrake lists > it as something that appears to be functioning/known hardware. Thanks. > > -- > > Susie > VE7 HFA According to mustang.com/sane the 2300c is not supported (unknown chip-set) There are countless querries re this scanner but I've not seen any success post. Some are getting some results using a plustek driver but limited. Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C. Powered by Slackware 8.1, sent with Evolution -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to activate mod_perl in apache?
On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 17:38, Ted Ozolins wrote: > > > Include conf/mod_perl.conf > > I thought that if you do not have a mod_perl.conf then you should append httpd.conf with lines similar to these: LoadModule perl_module modules/libperl.so -- Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C. Powered by Slackware 8.1, sent with Evolution -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to activate mod_perl in apache?
On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 14:52, Mike Diehl wrote: > Hi all. > > I just finished emerge'ing mod_perl and apache. Now I'm trying to get apache > to load mod_perl when it starts. What do I have to add to the apache.conf > file? > Within your httpd.conf file you should put these lines so that apache will read yourr mod_perl.conf file. Include conf/mod_perl.conf -- Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C. Powered by Slackware 8.1, sent with Evolution -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: [Lcdproc] Pull-up resistors?
On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 14:49, Carl Nordlund wrote: > > Oh. And I was planning to have the lcd display quite distant from the > player itself - about 2-3 meters or something! > > I understand how Schmitt-triggers can be used to "clean" the signals but > then I get some more extra IC:s to stuff into my already stuffed casing. > So what about these pull-up resistors? How do they work and how to > connect them? > > Thanks in advance! > > Carl I take it that they didn't give example values? You could quite safely use 10-15k 1/8 watt (real tiny little guys) from the +5VDC supply line to each data line. This will keep each line above gnd potential and noise that would normally interfere would have to be greater than the supply voltage. -- Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C. Powered by Slackware 8.1, sent with Evolution -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] php
On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 22:43, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: > A while ago there was a thread a bout php, i had the same problem using -java in the > USE of /etc/make.conf dit it. > > Patrick Thank you:) -- Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C. Powered by Slackware 8.1, sent with Evolution -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] php
in trying to emerge php it bombs out with this error, any ideas? Anyone? I'm using blackdown jdk 1.3.1 if that has anything to do with it. I have emerged mysql but have not set it up yet. checking for Ovrimos SQL Server support... no checking whether to enable pcntl support... yes checking for fork... no configure: error: pcntl: fork() not supported by this platform !!! ERROR: dev-php/php-4.3.1 failed. !!! Function econf, Line 262, Exitcode 1 !!! econf failed -- Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C. Powered by Slackware 8.1, sent with Evolution -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] US's foreign policy (was: installing gentoowithout the internet)
On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 08:44, gabriel wrote: . > > lest we forget, that it was the americans that supported sadam in his genocide > initially and only moved against him when he moved into kuwait and threatend > stability in the region (ie. their oil supply). > > it's absolutely laughable that the american gov. is playing the humanitarian > card given their own human rights record. > > -- > war does not determine who is right--only who is left. > - bertrand russell Well. I was always taught that war accopmlishes only two things: 1: Makes the rich richer 2: Makes the suffering poor suffer even more. JMHO -- Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C. Powered by Slackware 8.1, sent with Evolution -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SBLive! 5.1 Digital Configuration
On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 18:58, Collins Richey wrote: > On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 21:10:02 - (GMT) > "Dhruba Bandopadhyay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I need the card for 5.1 sound with altec lansing ada 995. I do not use > > ALSA and do not wish to either. > > > > Just be aware that in the future you won't have any choice. Maybe as early as linux > 2.6 only the ALSA drivers will be maintained. It's a pain in the butt to set up all > the crappy aliases, but the gentoo doc can help, and it works like a hitch. As I > reported earlier, the kernel drivers flat do not work for my genuine Sound Blaster > 16pci; Read that sentence again; your's could have the same problem. There is > documentation on the ALSA website about the approprite driver to use. > > Good luck I'm really surprised, my genuine SoundBlaster 16pci setup without a hitch on both Gentoo-1.4rc, Slackware-8.8, and ~9.0. I'm wondering now did they change the chipset on these puppies? -- Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C. Powered by Slackware 8.1, sent with Mozilla -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ack! cupsd has died a horrible and miserable death!
Steven wrote: I have tried reviving via 'emerge cupsd', but all I get is this error when I try to connect to http://localhost:631 " An error occured while loading http://localhost:631: Could not connect to host localhost (port 631) " I'm checking the logs right now... Thanks for any help in advance, Steven is cupsd up and running? You can't connect to port 631 if cupsd is not started. -- Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C. Powered by Slackware 8.1, sent with Mozilla -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] RE: Re: Slow gigabit...
Marshal Newrock wrote: On Sat, 8 Mar 2003, [iso-8859-1] Pär Wedin wrote: Well, I don't really use the switch. I just used it to compare it with a 100Mbit network. The NIC's are directly connected with a shielded CAT6 cable, so that shouldn't be a problem. The server is a P3-733 with 384MB ram and the files are served from a lvm partition striped over two IBM GXP60 7200 rpm HD's. No one else but me are using the server. The client is an XP1600+ with 512MB ram and a Western Digital 7200 rpm & 8MB cache. The NIC's are from Intel (PRO/1000MT) so they ought to be good. I'm not 100% sure, but I think you'll only get gigabit speeds with a 64-bit, 66MHz interface. Standard PCI may be too slow. Consider the related fact that a 16-bit interface is unable to handle full 100Mbit speeds. What happens if you use idebus=66 ? -- Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C. Powered by Slackware 8.1, sent with Mozilla -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] bootloader switch
Collins wrote: how about "lilo -u" I would encourage anyone who has not used grub before to create a grub floppy first: 0. emerge grub if not already done. 1. Format a floppy (ext2 or even vfat) 2. mount the floppy 3. mkdir /mnt/floppy/boot 4. mkdir /mnt/floppy/boot/grub 5. copy all the *stage* files from wherever_grub_lives to /mnt/floppy/boot/grub 6. edit file /mnt/floppy/boot/grub/grub.conf with valid contents 7. grub 8. root (fd0) 9. setup fd0 10. quit 11 reboot from floppy. If not successful, edit the grub.conf and try again. Damn good advice Collins, this sure could save a lot of grief and probably bandwidth:) -- Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C. According to Ottawa "ALL CANADIANS ARE LIARS AND THIEVES" Powered by Slackware 8.1, sent with Mozilla -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] bootloader switch
Ben Sparks wrote: If I use grub to test it out should I use the boot disk or rewrite the MBR? I've heard of some people having serius problems when using lilo and grub at the same time...or I could just be misunderstanding your post. can I unmerge lilo first? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list how about "lilo -u" -- Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C. According to Ottawa "ALL CANADIANS ARE LIARS AND THIEVES" Powered by Slackware 8.1, sent with Mozilla -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
