Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk
On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 07:27 +, Stroller wrote: On 31 Jan 2006, at 01:03, Grant wrote: Hello! I've heard that data can be recovered from a formatted hard disk. Yes, it's fairly trivial, for someone who cares enough to try, to retrieve data from a disk that's merely been formatted. Although I've never tried to do so myself I regularly `shred /dev/hda` on customers' scrap PCs (see `info shred`) and a data recovery specialist last year offered to return 17gigs worth of data from a hard drive that had died containing only 8 gigs of files. I once deleted my partition table, created new partitions over the top (different sizes) but I _didn't _ run mkfs on any of it. I was able to use a tool to see where old partition boundaries were, and I recovered all the data intact :) It was many hours of farting around, but I did it :) If you use ext3, it is hard to recover the data, sure you could use grep over /dev/hda, but you don't know where the pieces are. If you're happy to put a 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle back together, then go for it. If you shred or wipe the data (run random data over the disk many times, with a bit of magic formulas thrown in) then apparently the FBI / CIA / KGB / WTFC has a magnetic data recovery tool to see what bit was written before the current bit (don't ask me how). So, it depends what you mean by format, and who has the time / money to bother trying to recover it. I've heard of government departments filing down the old HD's into little pieces, then mixing them in cement for the next building project. Could be an urban legend though. All of the above is subject to my own bad memory :) -- Iain Buchanan iain at netspace dot net dot au It's easy to solve the halting problem with a shotgun. :-) -- Larry Wall in [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: NIC setup? slow transfer speed
Stuart Howard wrote: OK well I give up I did, too... Transfer 39Mb file from gentoo - XP share using winXP copy trans time =5 mins [gentoo smb directory to XP share dir ie. XP shared dir Not mounted] I have a similar situation here, but with an additional interesting observation. If I copy a file from WinXP to an SMB share on a Gentoo server with the XP explorer, I get about 2MB/s throughput, which is not all too much on a 100Mb/s network. However, if I run the following command in the background (eth0 being the interface over which I copy): tcpdump -n -i eth0 /dev/null the throughput increases to about 8-10MB/s! I have no idea where this could come from. The only explanation I can see is that tcpdump puts eth0 into a sort of promiscuous mode, which interacts favorably in the SMB protocol. But I haven't been able to figure out how I should tune eth0 to get the same results without tcpdump. -- Remy Remove underscore and suffix in reply address for a timely response. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] kmail delete problem
Hi all, I am using kmail version 1.8.3 using KDE 3.4.3 and am experiencing multiple deletes. I click on the waste bin icon to delete the current read message and read the next one. Sometime I miss reading a message because 2 have been deleted instead of 1. This happens quite often, also sometimes when I select a message to read a duplicate copy appears in a new window. Is anybody else having this sort of problem? Has anybody been able to fix this? Any help would be appreciated. Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Autofs problem 4.1.3-r4
Hi all, having a terrible problem with autofs which I already had a couple months ago (wierd isn't fixed). When I start autofs I get: /home/usr/bin/automount: option -t requires a numeric argument, got, intr, nosuid,rsize=8192,wsize=8192. I was able to solve it at some point but now I can't remember how I did it. Does anyone know? Cheers, -- Paulo Jorge Matos - pocm at sat inesc-id pt Web: http://sat.inesc-id.pt/~pocm Computer and Software Engineering INESC-ID - SAT Group -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kmail delete problem
Hi Have you read this thread? [gentoo-user] Duplicate mouse clicks?? El Martes, 31 de Enero de 2006 11:20, Paul escribió: Hi all, I am using kmail version 1.8.3 using KDE 3.4.3 and am experiencing multiple deletes. I click on the waste bin icon to delete the current read message and read the next one. Sometime I miss reading a message because 2 have been deleted instead of 1. This happens quite often, also sometimes when I select a message to read a duplicate copy appears in a new window. Is anybody else having this sort of problem? Has anybody been able to fix this? Any help would be appreciated. Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate mouse clicks??(nearly resolved) De: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] (appjaws) Para: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Fecha: Jueves 16:44:45 On Thursday 26 Jan 2006 12:58, Richard Fish wrote: On 1/26/06, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am going to try a PS2 mouse at least it might help isolate the problem You can also try running xev, and try some clicking in the xev window, which will show you want events X is generating to the clients. If you see something like two button down or button up events, that could account for your double clicking. I think I might have solved this problem. I have changed the xorg.conf mouse protocol from auto to PS/2. The mouse is still connected to a USB port and now appears to work correctly. How strange, perhaps Peter and Dale could try this and see if it solves their problem as well. Ho wait my mouse wheel isn't working now - back to the drawing board Paul -- Javier Payno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Hard setting additional search domains into DHCP-overwrited resolv.conf
Marco Lazzeri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm sure enough I'm missing something, but I don't know where else I should look at. Any hints? You didn't mention checking /etc/conf.d/domainname. The first few lines in a stock one have this: # /etc/conf.d/domainname # When setting up resolv.conf, what should take precedence? # If you wish to always override DHCP/whatever, set this to 1. OVERRIDE=1 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11-7.0.0-r1: Can't load glx or via_drv module
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried what you said, and now I'm get to a point where it fails due to circular references between libglx and libGLcore. Which are those? Do you have a 'Load GLcore' in your xorg.conf? If so, then remove it. What does your xorg.conf look like now? Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11-7.0.0-r1: Can't load glx or via_drv module
On 1/31/06, Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried what you said, and now I'm get to a point where it fails due to circular references between libglx and libGLcore. Which are those? Do you have a 'Load GLcore' in your xorg.conf? If so, then remove it. What does your xorg.conf look like now? Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list If I add the Load GLcore I get a undefined symbol for __glX11(something I can't rember exactly, but it is a symbol in libglx.so) Without (or without) Load GLcore I get a failure on Load glx from and undefined symbol glCallList which is provided in libGLcore.so Ralph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] dead USB card?
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, Richard Fish wrote: On 1/28/06, Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 28 Jan 2006, Richard Fish wrote: It looks like the ohci and ehci drivers are fighting over the card. You don't need both, so I would disable ohci in your kernel configuration and see if that works. The card has 3 USB 1.1 sockets and a 2.0 one. Isn't it necessary to enable ohci to access the 1.1 sockets? Who designed this freakish thing...Dr Frankenstein??? Probably. Let's say that I'm always a good example of Murphy's laws. (Did I mention that the 1.1 USB controllers built in the MO are _uhci_? :)) Anyway, since I have no knowledge of this card, I could be wrong. But I would try either the ehci or ohci driver, but not both at the same time. Maybe there's something wrong with the motherboard, which is not young anymore. The USB card is just not working, whether under gentoo or knoppix. The card is not knew, and it worked before... Maybe I'll try changing PCI slots... (Sorry about the delay in replying, but my cable modem has been comatose for a few days.) Thanks, Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk
Iain Buchanan wrote: I've heard of government departments filing down the old HD's into little pieces, then mixing them in cement for the next building project. Could be an urban legend though. All of the above is subject to my own bad memory :) I have heard the same thing. I have watched some of them on TV get data off some unbelievable drives. Some had bent platters, serious scratches, been formatted a few times etc etc etc, After all that, they still got enough of what they wanted. They put a chemical on one and you could see the data with your eyes. It looked like a round bar code sort of. Whatever you use, if it does it quickly, it ain't worth the time. Really erasing something and rewriting data over it takes a bit of time. That little light should be on a while. I still wouldn't count on it. Shreading it and putting it in concrete may be a good idea. Maybe putting it in a MRI machine would help too. I would leave the room though. O_O Dale :-) -- To err is human, I'm most certainly human. I have four rigs: 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives. Named Smoker 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. Named Swifty 3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 224MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. Named Pokey 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. Named Putput All run Gentoo Linux, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk
On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 06:56 -0600, Dale wrote: Iain Buchanan wrote: I've heard of government departments filing down the old HD's into little pieces, then mixing them in cement for the next building project. Could be an urban legend though. All of the above is subject to my own bad memory :) I have heard the same thing. I have watched some of them on TV get data off some unbelievable drives. Some had bent platters, serious scratches, been formatted a few times etc etc etc, After all that, they still got enough of what they wanted. They put a chemical on one and you could see the data with your eyes. It looked like a round bar code sort of. hmm, sounds suspicious... It could have been some sort of serial number, but if you could see it with your eye, it definitely wasn't 0's and 1's of data. Someone will know (I don't) what the density is on a modern platter. -- Iain Buchanan iain at netspace dot net dot au I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they do today. -- Will Rogers -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Hard setting additional search domains into DHCP-overwrited resolv.conf
I too am interested in knowing how to do this. Theres no obvious place in /etc/config.d/net(work?) to set new search domains in resolv.conf if anyone can provide info on this, I'd appricate it. Thanks! Ben Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. - Brian W. Kernighan - Original Message From: Marco Lazzeri [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Tue 31 Jan 2006 11:38:12 AM IST Subject: [gentoo-user] Hard setting additional search domains into DHCP-overwrited resolv.conf Hi, I've been trying for a while to hard set additional search domains into my '/etc/resolv.conf', but the 'dhcpcd' daemon keeps overwriting the whole configuration at start. I've been googling around and searching into bugs.gentoo.org. I've also tried some kinds of settings from `man resolv.conf`: currently I'm starting the `dhcpcd` service with '-R -N -Y' params and I've also tried setting 'dhcpcd_eth0' into '/etc/conf.d/net' to 'nodns'. No way. I'm sure enough I'm missing something, but I don't know where else I should look at. Any hints? Thank you, Marco -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk
I understand that writing zeros over the file should permenately delete the
data but couldn't the data be cached elsewhere on the drive, especially with
journalling filesystems??
Cheers,
Ben
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it. - Brian W. Kernighan
- Original Message
From: Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Sent: Tue 31 Jan 2006 02:56:25 PM IST
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk
Iain Buchanan wrote:
I've heard of government departments filing down the old HD's into
little pieces, then mixing them in cement for the next building project.
Could be an urban legend though.
All of the above is subject to my own bad memory :)
I have heard the same thing. I have watched some of them on TV get data
off some unbelievable drives. Some had bent platters, serious
scratches, been formatted a few times etc etc etc, After all that,
they still got enough of what they wanted. They put a chemical on one
and you could see the data with your eyes. It looked like a round bar
code sort of.
Whatever you use, if it does it quickly, it ain't worth the time.
Really erasing something and rewriting data over it takes a bit of
time. That little light should be on a while. I still wouldn't count
on it. Shreading it and putting it in concrete may be a good idea.
Maybe putting it in a MRI machine would help too. I would leave the
room though. O_O
Dale
:-)
--
To err is human, I'm most certainly human.
I have four rigs:
1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two
80GB hard drives. Named Smoker
2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive.
Named Swifty
3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 224MBs of ram and a 2.5GB
drive. Named Pokey
4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB
SCSI drive. Named Putput
All run Gentoo Linux, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up
as servers.
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Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk
Iain Buchanan wrote: On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 06:56 -0600, Dale wrote: Iain Buchanan wrote: I have heard the same thing. I have watched some of them on TV get data off some unbelievable drives. Some had bent platters, serious scratches, been formatted a few times etc etc etc, After all that, they still got enough of what they wanted. They put a chemical on one and you could see the data with your eyes. It looked like a round bar code sort of. hmm, sounds suspicious... It could have been some sort of serial number, but if you could see it with your eye, it definitely wasn't 0's and 1's of data. Someone will know (I don't) what the density is on a modern platter. Well, the one you could see was a old floppy. I think it was a 5 1/4 floppy. You had to look close but after they put the chems on it, you could see it when they zoomed in on it pretty good. I would assume they could do the same for a hard drive and just use something to magnify it, like maybe a microscope or something. Dale :-) -- To err is human, I'm most certainly human. I have four rigs: 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives. Named Smoker 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. Named Swifty 3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 224MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. Named Pokey 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. Named Putput All run Gentoo Linux, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk
On 1/31/06, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you shred or wipe the data (run random data over the disk many times, with a bit of magic formulas thrown in) then apparently the FBI / CIA / KGB / WTFC has a magnetic data recovery tool to see what bit was written before the current bit (don't ask me how). It works because hard disks are still analog recording devices. The magnetic field used to write the data extends slightly outwards on either side of the track, and thus can record data (although with a much lower S/N ratio) in the space between tracks. If you have the right hardware that can be convinced to read the area between tracks, you have a chance of recovering the data. In fact in recent years manufacturers have nearly reached the limit on how tightly tracks can be squeezed together before they start overwriting each other. This is why laptop drives maxed out at 120G, until Seagate started using 'perpindicular recording'. Since there is so little spacing between the tracks now, I suspect (but can't say for certain) that the chances of recovering data from a modern large (160G) drive that has been 'shred'ed is pretty much nil, regardless of the amount of money you through at it. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: OT: Dead key on keyboard diagnostic?
Benno Schulenberg benno.schulenberg at gmail.com writes: James wrote: I think my 'delete' key has quite working on a portable. Any programs or tricks for diagnosis the problem ? Switch to a VT and run 'showkey' to see whether it still produces scan codes. showkey shows press and release of ascii '83' so I guess it working fine. My second delete key works fine, but is in an awkward location on the keyboard. This problem showed up recently after an emerge update world. Any ideas how to fix this? new map? When I boot (2.6.14-gentoo-r6) the laptop, I get an error messge about : System.map not found can not check symbols Ideas? James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk
Someone will know (I don't) what the density is on a modern platter. The highest density platters today are close to 100Gbit / square inch. So no, you won't see the bits with the naked eye! -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kmail delete problem
On 1/31/06, Javier Payno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ho wait my mouse wheel isn't working now - back to the drawing board Try ExplorerPS/2. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] app-arch/rpm-4.2.1 unmask problem
Hello, I'm having hard time unmasking and installing app-arch/rpm-4.2.1. I have tried with: package.keywords and with package.unmask =app-arch/rpm-4.2.1 app-arch/rpm ~86 but with no luck. What am I doing wrong. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kmail delete problem
On Tuesday 31 Jan 2006 12:49, Dale wrote: I raised the original mouse problem which I thought was resolved by changing the mouse protocal to ExplorerPS/2. Although the mouse works OK It still appears to be SOMETIMES double clicking. I have noticed that on boot I get an error module mousedev not found and something else but I don't appear to have a boot log!!! Any other ideas I could try? Paul Funny, I thought about that thread when I saw it was taking one click twice too. May want to check on that. If you look in the Xorg.0.log file in /var/log it should tell you what it tries to see it as. It may dmesg | grep mouse mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice be seeing it as the wrong thing. This may help too: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # dmesg | grep mouse mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # (II) LoadModule: mouse (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input/mouse_drv.o (II) Module mouse: vendor=X.Org Foundation compiled for 6.8.2, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: X.Org XInput Driver ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 0.4 . . . (==) NVIDIA(0): Silken mouse enabled (II) NVIDIA(0): v4l[/dev/video0]: using hw video scaling [YUY2]. . . . (**) Option Protocol ExplorerPS/2 (**) Mouse1: Device: /dev/input/mice (**) Mouse1: Protocol: ExplorerPS/2 (**) Option CorePointer (**) Mouse1: Core Pointer (**) Option Device /dev/input/mice (==) Mouse1: Emulate3Buttons, Emulate3Timeout: 50 (**) Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 (**) Mouse1: ZAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5 (**) Mouse1: Buttons: 5 (**) Mouse1: SmartScroll: 1 (**) Option CoreKeyboard (**) Keyboard1: Core Keyboard (**) Option Protocol standard (**) Keyboard1: Protocol: standard (**) Option AutoRepeat 500 30 (**) Option XkbRules xorg (**) Keyboard1: XkbRules: xorg (**) Option XkbModel pc105 (**) Keyboard1: XkbModel: pc105 (**) Option XkbLayout gb (**) Keyboard1: XkbLayout: gb (**) Option CustomKeycodes off (**) Keyboard1: CustomKeycodes disabled (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device Keyboard1 (type: KEYBOARD) (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device Mouse1 (type: MOUSE) (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device NVIDIA Event Handler (type: Other) (II) Mouse1: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded SetClientVersion: 0 8 -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Hard setting additional search domains into DHCP-overwrited resolv.conf
On 1/31/06, Schleimer, Ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I too am interested in knowing how to do this. Theres no obvious place in /etc/config.d/net(work?) to set new search domains in resolv.conf if anyone can provide info on this, I'd appricate it. Thanks! Ben Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. - Brian W. Kernighan Apparently Mr Kernighan likes to use falacies! :) Poor Mr. Kernighan. Someone who writes clever code is not smart enough to debug it? That's pretty funny. Write it right the first time, and you're more productive. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk
Grant wrote: Hello! I've heard that data can be recovered from a formatted hard disk. Were did you hear that? I've got a hard time believing that - as long as a format is somewhat like dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda. Lucky for me I don't have any interest in actually doing this, but I got in an argue\ment with a buddy last night about whether or not it was possible. I don't think so. Alexander Skwar -- /* This is total bullshit: */ linux-2.6.6/drivers/video/sis/init301.c -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Hard setting additional search domains into DHCP-overwrited resolv.conf
On 1/31/06, Trenton Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apparently Mr Kernighan likes to use falacies! :) Poor Mr. Kernighan. Um, you _do_ know who 'Mr Kernighan' is, right? -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk
Stroller wrote: On 31 Jan 2006, at 01:03, Grant wrote: Hello! I've heard that data can be recovered from a formatted hard disk. Yes, it's fairly trivial, for someone who cares enough to try, to retrieve data from a disk that's merely been formatted. Oh, is it? Please explain how! Although I've never tried to do so myself I regularly `shred /dev/hda` on customers' scrap PCs (see `info shred`) and a data recovery specialist last year offered to return 17gigs worth of data from a hard drive that had died containing only 8 gigs of files. Died hard drives are a *COMPLETELY* different matter. Alexander Skwar -- /* This is total bullshit: */ linux-2.6.6/drivers/video/sis/init301.c -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] uname -a question
On 1/30/06, Jerry Eastmanhouser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought that this was in the top 4 lines of the kernel Makefile. Standard location is going to be /usr/src/linux/Makefile VERSION = 2 PATCHLEVEL = 4 This is still true with the 2.6 kernel, except that there is now also a LOCALVERSION that comes from the .config file. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kmail delete problem
On Tuesday 31 Jan 2006 16:35, Richard Fish wrote: On 1/31/06, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 31 Jan 2006 12:49, Dale wrote: I raised the original mouse problem which I thought was resolved by changing the mouse protocal to ExplorerPS/2. Although the mouse works OK It still appears to be SOMETIMES double clicking. I have noticed that on boot I get an error module mousedev not found and something else but I don't appear to have a boot log!!! Any other ideas I could try? Hmm, seems I responded to the wrong part of a reply... Anyway, could you post the InputDevice and ServerLayout sections of your xorg.conf? Section ServerLayout Identifier X.org Configured Screen 0 Screen0 0 0 InputDeviceMouse1 CorePointer InputDeviceKeyboard1 CoreKeyboard EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard1 Driver kbd Option XkbModel pc105 Option XkbLayout gb EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse1 Driver mouse Option Protocol ExplorerPS/2 Option Device /dev/input/mice Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection The only obvious thing I saw missing in your xorg.0.log output was a line about core events, but maybe you just skipped it... I have just checked again and can't find any mention of core events in the log. Thanks for your help Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk
On 31 January 2006 15:19, Schleimer, Ben wrote: I understand that writing zeros over the file should permenately delete the data Don't believe people telling that. The data will still be recoverable (with the right hardware). That is so because overwriting a 0 with a 0 will lead to another level of manetic field than overwriting a 1 with a 0. The only way to wipe out data safely is to write different random bit over it several times. but couldn't the data be cached elsewhere on the drive, especially with journalling filesystems?? Journalling filesystems are a problem when it comes to wipe out single files. Wiping out the whole harddrive is still possible. Uwe -- Unix is sexy: who | grep -i blonde | date cd ~; unzip; touch; strip; finger mount; gasp; yes; uptime; umount sleep -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What mobile phone / PDA combination unit that syncs with Linux should I get?
Hey, when you find out, let me know as well. I think our only hope is to make our own. There is (I think) at least one open source cellphone project going on. Michael On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, David Dorward wrote: The contract on my mobile phone is coming up for renewal soon, so I'm shortly going to be in the market for a shiny new phone. (NB: I'm in the UK, so it is devices available in this country that I'm interested in). I'm looking for a few specific things... * Can talk to my Gentoo box * Has a calendar ... that can sync with Evolution * Has a keyboard or good handwriting recognition * Lets me write text files and then send them to my Gentoo box * Not /too/ expensive (Sub-?100 after the contract subsidy) Any recommendations for devices? Things that seem to fit are the Nokia Communicator replacement and various Pocket PC (eeek, Microsoft!) devices (although I don't know how well either of them work with Linux - Google kept turning up hits to review pages that had linux somewhere in the sidebar). -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.ukhttp://blog.dorward.me.uk -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] AMD 64 bit system selections
Hello, We'll I'm finally taking the plunge and building a high performance 64 bit AMD system. Oh, but the company paying for it insist upon windozXP 64bit, just in case Gentoo does not work. I'm really surprise some vendor is not listed on gentoo.org, as it'd make this purchase more straightforward, and It'd be a great opportunity to support Gentoo. Any 'off the shelf' system recommendations, or should I just purchase pieces? (Reasonable vendors that build systems and perform Gentoo installation here in the US?) What's the best 64 bit processor choice for performance for Gentoo? Dual-core? Complimentary ram specs? Mobo recommendations (lm_sensors and acpi support) in a 19 inch rack? N+1 redundant power supply recommendations? 10/100/1000 Ethernet support? What's the friendliest high end video card for displaying video (fast motion) that has open source drivers? Multiple displays? Which Sata-2 drives give good performance and size (400 G or more)? What's the best Raid level to run for storing, searching and manipulating tons of video, and should I get a Gentoo friendly controller or use software raid? Finally which file system would one recommed for this video server with the best, stable performance. ideas? James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Dead key on keyboard diagnostic?
James wrote: showkey shows press and release of ascii '83' so I guess it working fine. My second delete key works fine, but is in an awkward location on the keyboard. On my keyboard the normal Delete key produces keycode 111, and the Del key on the numeric pad produces keycode 53. Are you using the numeric Del as your normal delete key? Then NumLock should be off, otherwise it'll produce a decimal point. Any ideas how to fix this? new map? When I boot (2.6.14-gentoo-r6) the laptop, I get an error messge about : System.map not found can not check symbols That is something different entirely. When you install your kernel (which normally means copying bzImage to the /boot dir) you have to copy the System.map file (from the top dir of the kernel source) along with it, although this file is really only needed when you get oopses, so the kernel is able to tell in what function it occurs. Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11-7.0.0-r1: Can't load glx or via_drv module
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I add the Load GLcore I get a undefined symbol for __glX11(something I can't rember exactly, but it is a symbol in libglx.so) Without (or without) Load GLcore I get a failure on Load glx from and undefined symbol glCallList which is provided in libGLcore.so Please post the contents of your xorg.conf file. And the output of 'emerge -pv xorg-server xf86-video-via'. Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Kmail empty replies
A. R. wrote: I've been having some problems with kmail. When I reply to a message, the message is delivered blank: The original message and my response are both blank. What exactly do you mean with the message is delivered blank? If you configure KMail and set the Default send method as Send Later (under Accounts Sending), and you compose a message and press Ctrl+Enter, is the message in the outbox blank? And the original message becomes blank too? If you reply to a message, the content of that original message disappears? You are now using Gmail for sending messages, no? Please switch of the additional HTML you are sending. And please don't top-post. (http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/T/top-post.html) Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] PHP upgrade breaks Squirrelmail
On Monday 30 January 2006 22.35, Ryan Tandy wrote: Dan Johansson wrote: On Monday 30 January 2006 15.35, ellotheth rimmwen wrote: On 1/29/06, Dan Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fatal error: Call to undefined function ctype_print() in /var/www/localhost/htdocs/squirrelmail/plugins/gpg/gpg_hook_functions.ph p on line 842 Did you compile PHP5 with support for the character type functions (USE=ctype)? Now I have (;-) But I get the same result. Do I miss an USE-flag for ctype_print() to function correctly? Regards, Try re-merging Squirrelmail so it can link against the new php build. Did not help. (:-( The error does not seem to be Squirrelmail - but the PHP5 ebuild. I created a small php-script like this: ?php echo ctype_print(Dan Johansson); ? If I execute this on the commendline like this php x.php it works, but if I access the file through apache it does not. To further investigate I changed my script to: ?php phpinfo(); ? and behold, in the apache output it says in the Configure Command --disable-ctype and in the commandline output it says ctype functions = enabled I'm now going to look into the ebuild to see why PHP5 builds the cli and apache2 parts differently. -- Dan Johansson, http://www.dmj.nu *** This message is printed on 100% recycled electrons! *** pgptbk7O19ouh.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] AMD 64 bit system selections
On Jan 31, 2006, at 11:58 AM, James wrote: Hello, We'll I'm finally taking the plunge and building a high performance 64 bit AMD system. Oh, but the company paying for it insist upon windozXP 64bit, just in case Gentoo does not work. I'm really surprise some vendor is not listed on gentoo.org, as it'd make this purchase more straightforward, and It'd be a great opportunity to support Gentoo. Any 'off the shelf' system recommendations, or should I just purchase pieces? (Reasonable vendors that build systems and perform Gentoo installation here in the US?) What's the best 64 bit processor choice for performance for Gentoo? Dual-core? Complimentary ram specs? we're building our own with tyan motherboards, dual-core opterons and 4 gigs of ram (for the web servers, single core and 2 gigs). They have dual gig ethernet ports (one nvidia, one broadcom, drivers in the kernel). Haven't found any 400gig sata drives, at least not for a reasonable price, we're using i think some 250s with 3ware raid cards (the tyan motherboards only have fakeraid). Man these things SCREAM One word of caution...the amd64 boot image that's latest won't complete a boot, and the older 2005.0 has broken 3ware drivers. had to install 65-bit ubuntu on a small partition and boot to that to install gentoo. and that ubuntu is NOT smp enabled, so the build went slow until I could reboot into gentoo. we're building blade servers...not true blad servers, as each has it's own nics and power, but you can get 10 in a 7-u rack (I think it's 7 u) Mobo recommendations (lm_sensors and acpi support) in a 19 inch rack? N+1 redundant power supply recommendations? 10/100/1000 Ethernet support? What's the friendliest high end video card for displaying video (fast motion) that has open source drivers? Multiple displays? Which Sata-2 drives give good performance and size (400 G or more)? What's the best Raid level to run for storing, searching and manipulating tons of video, and should I get a Gentoo friendly controller or use software raid? Finally which file system would one recommed for this video server with the best, stable performance. ideas? James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Fresh install fails on Locale-gettext
I just finished doing a reinstall of my amd64 machine (using x86 though) and upon doing a: # emerge --update --deep --newuse world (I'd edited my use flags and done an emerge sync) I got this: # emerge --update --deep --newuse world Calculating world dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 49) dev-perl/Locale-gettext-1.05 to / md5 files ;-) Locale-gettext-1.04.ebuild md5 files ;-) Locale-gettext-1.01-r1.ebuild md5 files ;-) Locale-gettext-1.03.ebuild md5 files ;-) Locale-gettext-1.05.ebuild md5 files ;-) files/digest-Locale-gettext-1.01-r1 md5 files ;-) files/digest-Locale-gettext-1.03 md5 files ;-) files/digest-Locale-gettext-1.04 md5 files ;-) files/digest-Locale-gettext-1.05 md5 src_uri ;-) gettext-1.05.tar.gz Unpacking source... Unpacking gettext-1.05.tar.gz /var/tmp/portage/Locale-gettext-1.05/work Source unpacked. * Using ExtUtils::MakeMaker checking for gettext... no checking for gettext in -lintl... no gettext function not found. Please install libintl at Makefile.PL line 18. make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop. I tried emerging gettext again, no joy. rebooting didn't help either. What am I missing? -- somehow a bunch of sanctimonious wackos have managed to legalize torture - anonymous airline passenger, describing the u.s. ban on smoking during airline flights, 1990 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Fresh install fails on Locale-gettext
Try a revdep-rebuild and see if it wants to build something. On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, daniel wrote: I just finished doing a reinstall of my amd64 machine (using x86 though) and upon doing a: # emerge --update --deep --newuse world (I'd edited my use flags and done an emerge sync) I got this: # emerge --update --deep --newuse world Calculating world dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 49) dev-perl/Locale-gettext-1.05 to / md5 files ;-) Locale-gettext-1.04.ebuild md5 files ;-) Locale-gettext-1.01-r1.ebuild md5 files ;-) Locale-gettext-1.03.ebuild md5 files ;-) Locale-gettext-1.05.ebuild md5 files ;-) files/digest-Locale-gettext-1.01-r1 md5 files ;-) files/digest-Locale-gettext-1.03 md5 files ;-) files/digest-Locale-gettext-1.04 md5 files ;-) files/digest-Locale-gettext-1.05 md5 src_uri ;-) gettext-1.05.tar.gz Unpacking source... Unpacking gettext-1.05.tar.gz /var/tmp/portage/Locale-gettext-1.05/work Source unpacked. * Using ExtUtils::MakeMaker checking for gettext... no checking for gettext in -lintl... no gettext function not found. Please install libintl at Makefile.PL line 18. make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop. I tried emerging gettext again, no joy. rebooting didn't help either. What am I missing? -- somehow a bunch of sanctimonious wackos have managed to legalize torture - anonymous airline passenger, describing the u.s. ban on smoking during airline flights, 1990 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE starts and runs slowly
Also, make sure that net.lo is turned on. I had a problem a while ago with KDE taking forever to boot interact because net.lo wasn't starting in the init scripts. I guess its required. Just something to try and help out. bryce Richard Fish wrote: On 1/29/06, Korondi Márk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, everyone Yesterday I reinstalled gentoo, because I'd made the filesystem dirty (always used sudo, and installed programs not in portage randomly...) and I want a new, clean system. With Gentoo there is almost always an easier way than re-installing...but too late for that now. I install new kde (3.5.0), but there is a problem: While other programs - firefox, gftp, bittorrent - run fine, all of my programs using some kdelib or ,if I'm right, DCOP start slowly, and after starting cannot run fine. For example: KDE starts up slower than in the previous installation. Then I pick konqueror, it takes 2-3 secs. to start. Then I close, and re-exec it. 2-3 secs again (where is the cache?). BUT: KHTML starts to render the page, it hangs for 2 seconds, then begin to load. hmmm... Clicking refresh causes the same. Might be a prelinking issue...do you set KDE_IS_PRELINKED? And if so, is it really pre-linked? Running strace with the -tt option can also give you an idea of what the KDE application is doing during that 2-3 second delay. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: AMD 64 bit system selections
John Jolet john at jolet.net writes: We'll I'm finally taking the plunge and building a high performance 64 bit AMD system. Oh, but the company paying for it insist upon windozXP 64bit, just in case Gentoo does not work. I'm really surprise some vendor is not listed on gentoo.org, as it'd make this purchase more straightforward, and It'd be a great opportunity to support Gentoo. Any 'off the shelf' system recommendations, or should I just purchase pieces? (Reasonable vendors that build systems and perform Gentoo installation here in the US?) Well you pretty much just mentioned what I was leaning to. On the HD front, check out this bad boy: Hitachi T7K500, 500 GB SATA-2. Almost as fast as the WD 10,000 rpm raptor drives, from what I've read Thanks for the info. James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] DRI, modular X and the intel 855GM video card
Hey all i have a intel 855GM using the i810 driver in modualr X, just recently hardware acceleration stopped working. Not really sure why.here's my glx-info output.name of display: : 0.0libGL warning: 3D driver returned no fbconfigs.libGL error: InitDriver failedlibGL error: reverting to (slow) indirect renderingdisplay: :0 screen: 0direct rendering: Noserver glx vendor string: SGI server glx version string: 1.2server glx extensions: GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_OML_swap_method, GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_hyperpipe, GLX_SGIX_swap_barrier, GLX_SGIX_fbconfigclient glx vendor string: SGIclient glx version string: 1.4client glx extensions: GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_MESA_allocate_memory, GLX_MESA_swap_control, GLX_MESA_swap_frame_usage, GLX_OML_swap_method, GLX_OML_sync_control, GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGI_swap_control, GLX_SGI_video_sync, GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group, GLX_MESA_render_textureanyways the permissions on /dev/dri/card0 is rw for my user. any ideas would be helpful
[gentoo-user] Re: Re: CUPS -- fails better!
maxim wexler wrote: --- Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: maxim wexler wrote: [snip...] I [30/Jan/2006:14:52:31 -0700] Job 23 queued on 'deskjet' by 'root'. Why are you running it as root? That was a test page run from localhost631 which requires that I be root. Here's the command-line try, this time as root(the earlier example was as user): sarawak heathen # unix2dos env-lp-test | lpr -l unix2dos: converting file env-lp-test to DOS format ... lpr: error - stdin is empty, so no job has been sent. Sorry I can't help with the unix2dos thing - never used it (yet). Just checking some basics: Have you User lp, System lp, SystemGroup lp as well as Location / Order Deny,Allow Deny From All Allow From 127.0.0.1 /Location in your /etc/cups/cupsd.conf, with just the default authentication setup, i.e. no encryption, etc.? -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: PHP upgrade breaks Squirrelmail
On Tuesday 31 January 2006 20:11, Dan Johansson wrote: I'm now going to look into the ebuild to see why PHP5 builds the cli and apache2 parts differently. Could it be you forgot to restart apache after rebuilding php? The configure part for each SAPI is a generic function and doesn't care about which SAPI it's building for. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] amarok sound engine
On 1/31/06, C. Beamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know if you've solved this issue. I'm using the Xine engine with amaroK (1.3.6) and it works fine. Did you choose an output plugin in the 'Configure amaroK -- Engine' screen, or did you let it auto detect? Mine is set to auto detect. Try building with USE=-gstreamer -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS -- fails better!
On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:36:04 +0100 Harm Geerts wrote: On Monday 30 January 2006 23:00, maxim wexler wrote: I [30/Jan/2006:14:52:31 -0700] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel (PID 5870) for job 23. E [30/Jan/2006:14:52:31 -0700] PID 5869 stopped with status 3! I [30/Jan/2006:14:52:31 -0700] Hint: Try setting the LogLevel to debug to find out more. ditto, nothing prints Oh, and changing debug level in cupsd.conf doesn't have any effect. I saved the file; do I have to logout and in again? You'll need to restart cups after changing the config. e.g.: /etc/init.d/cups restart with loglevel set to debug cups will print more information on each step it takes. But with the current error you can already make an educated guess. /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel dies with errorcode 3, so this is where you've got to start looking. I wouldn't be suprised if it's a permission problem like Mick says. No look closer, that is NOT what it says!! It says PID 5869 stopped with status 3! PID 5869 is foomatic-rip (see two lines above, not quoted above, but in maxim's message) Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip (PID 5869) for job 23. parallel is the next PID 5870 google found a few references to foomatic-rip status 3. But anyway rasing the debug level may pinpoint it better. I have often found problems with versions of ghostscript when you get ripping problems with cups, but that may be a red herring :-) You could try running /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel from a console to see what happens (as the same user as cups is running under!) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk
I understand that writing zeros over the file should permenately delete the data Don't believe people telling that. The data will still be recoverable (with the right hardware). That is so because overwriting a 0 with a 0 will lead to another level of manetic field than overwriting a 1 with a 0. The only way to wipe out data safely is to write different random bit over it several times. Almost everyone seems to agree that recovering data from a formatted drive is possible. What is the process by which this is done? I've read here that: 1. The space between tracks contains historical data information. and: 2. There is a difference between a track written with a 0 and then overwritten with a 0 and a track written with a 1 and then overwritten with a 0. Are these the two processes by which this data recovery is made possible? - Grant Uwe -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] emerge update world and modular xorg-x11
I have installed modular xorg-x11 following the guides in gentoo (http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-howto.xml) and in gentoo-wiki (http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Modular_Xorg) and now I'm having trouble updating my system. how can I solve this? localhost ~ # emerge -uDav world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies - !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy virtual/x11 have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - virtual/x11-6.8 (masked by: package.mask) For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook. (dependency required by media-gfx/gimp-2.2.8-r1 [ebuild]) !!! Problem resolving dependencies for media-gfx/gimp !!! Depgraph creation failed. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: [kde Q] Gack too man shares showing up on desktop
Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've cleared all boxes at kcontrol/Desktop/Behavior/Device icons Also the top one, Show device icons, after which the whole list greys out? Egad, don't know why I couldn't see that one until you pointed it out. That cleared the slate... thanks. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] AMD 64 bit system selections
On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 17:58:53 + (UTC) James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the best 64 bit processor choice for performance for Gentoo? Dual-core? Perhaps you should ask what the best price performance/watt in the cpu range? Generally it's best to figure out your needs and then calculate the cost for each step up in cpu power to meet those needs. Complimentary ram specs? Personally, I prefer 2-2-2 or 2-3-2.5 ram, but it's expensive and not all applications benefit. Mobo recommendations (lm_sensors and acpi support) in a 19 inch rack? Tyan or Super Micro tend to be better choices. N+1 redundant power supply recommendations? Vendors change every year. If you've got big bucks and can find someone that will sell single units - Delta. Otherwise, whomever can meet the current demands. 10/100/1000 Ethernet support? On the motherboard - best is typically Broadcom or Intel. The rest are pretty good. What's the friendliest high end video card for displaying video (fast motion) that has open source drivers? Multiple displays? Doesn't exist. But Nvidia is the better bet as their drivers tend to work more often. Which Sata-2 drives give good performance and size (400 G or more)? What's the best Raid level to run for storing, searching and manipulating tons of video, and should I get a Gentoo friendly controller or use software raid? For video data, use a linear stripe across two controllers. And at least three controllers for HD video. But HD video requires SCSI or SAS, stripped across multiple controllers and 15Krpm drives in the arrays. Finally which file system would one recommed for this video server with the best, stable performance. XFS. Bob - -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk
On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 17:39 -0800, Grant wrote: Almost everyone seems to agree that recovering data from a formatted drive is possible. What is the process by which this is done? I've read here that: 1. The space between tracks contains historical data information. and: 2. There is a difference between a track written with a 0 and then overwritten with a 0 and a track written with a 1 and then overwritten with a 0. Are these the two processes by which this data recovery is made possible? They both rely on the fact that you can read what _was_ once written to the hard drive by examining the spaces. So that's one method. The other method of recovering data is just to cat /dev/hda, but that relies on the hd not being wiped (overwritten with 0's and 1's many times in a semi-random fashion!). -- Iain Buchanan iain at netspace dot net dot au Never make anything simple and efficient when a way can be found to make it complex and wonderful. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge update world and modular xorg-x11
On 1/31/06, Cláudio Henrique [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (dependency required by media-gfx/gimp-2.2.8-r1 [ebuild]) Upgrade to gimp-2.2.9, which has support for Modular X. Mike -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] CD and DVD indexing tool
Hey all, I'm looking for a utility that could be used for indexing the contents of the dozens and hundreds of CDRs and DVDRs that I've amassed over the years. I was kind of thinking just a heap of text files with the contents of 'tree' or 'ls -R' or something, but it would be nicer if there was some kind of metadata gathering, such as ID3 tags / JFIF / MPEG info etc. etc. Are there tools available that are any good at this? Any suggestions? Thanks! Tom -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] amarok sound engine
On Tuesday 31 January 2006 20:42, C. Beamer wrote: Martins Steinbergs wrote: Hi, Hi, I don't know if you've solved this issue. I'm using the Xine engine with amaroK (1.3.6) and it works fine. Did you choose an output plugin in the 'Configure amaroK -- Engine' screen, or did you let it auto detect? Mine is set to auto detect. Colleen I came to conclusion this isn't amarok or xine problem. different boots with different results with no change between. this sound bug comes together with fast clock what i hadn't solve, but buggy sound is only amarok, xine or xmms plays nice. at leats fast clock i can sync with hardware. martins -- Linux 2.6.15-ck2 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ 06:06:59 up 1:38, 4 users, load average: 3.20, 3.28, 3.25 pgpUnpVAOgyRD.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X USE flag - what does it do?
On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 10:54:27PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote No, it means the flag setting changed since the last install. The newer portage also has a % to show the flag has been added to the ebuild since the last install. You are thinking of use.defaults, which appear to have been phased out for the very latest portage, judging by the number of extra packages with -flag* that appeared in emerge --newuse world after updating portage. I had no idea so many of my USE flags had been set by use.defaults rather than the profile. I found out... the hard way... with ipv6 quite some time ago. Note the first entry in my USE variable... USE=-* 3dnow X a52 aac alsa bzip2 cdr dga dio divx4linux dri dvd dvdr dvdread encode exif ffmpeg flac fortran gb gif gtk2 imlib jpeg maildir mikmod mime mmap mmx mng mp3 mpeg ncurses nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ogg opengl plotutils png posix quicktime readline sdl sharedmem slang sockets sse theora threads tiff truetype vcd vorbis win32codecs wmf xpm xv zlib Gentoo is about control, and I want full control over the optional stuff. The only booby-trap I ran into is that I have to include... app-text/xpdf motif ...in /etc/portage/package.use. xpdf builds just the libs, *BUT NO XPDF EXECUTABLE*, if you don't have the motif flag somewhere. Sometimes, you have no choice, but to invoke package.use, because different apps function best in your environment with a different setting. E.g... - with X support compiled in, and DISPLAY set, mc sits and spins its wheels for several seconds when launched in a real text console. But sdl and various other apps don't do what I want them to do if not built with X support. - building all apps with the static flag is not normally practical. However, you want busybox to run standalone as a rescue facility, even if some libs are screwed up. It makes sense, to build busybox with static. I argue that it's foolhardy not to do so. If I find that most apps need a flag (e.g. X) I enable it generally in /etc/make.conf, and disable it in /etc/portage/package.use for the few packages that don't like it. If a flag is required for only 1 or 2 apps, I go the other way. -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Electricsheep (General Question)
Thanks!I got it working. I just left it on overnight. :)Thanks again!On 1/31/06, Steven Susbauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:It takes a lot longer than 8-10 minutes, I don't think their download server is very quick, or something like that. Wait a while and it willactually start working (and if you have it selected in kscreensaver orxscreensaver, you shouldn't need to configure anything).On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Simon Hogg wrote: On 1/27/06, Bill Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20:19 Fri 27 Jan , Ian wrote: Hey everyone I came across this app and and having issues getting it to work. I was told to leave it running so it could do a download. After 8-10 minutes, nothing came up. Is there any way I can verify what its doing? Is this what Im supposed to do? I played with this a couple of years ago. It is a applet for xscreensaver, I don't recall the detail of configuring it, but it wasn't too difficult. But it does chew up alot of bandwidth, and the results were less than spectacular.I ended up unmerging it. Good luck Bill RobertsIIRC the program you're trying to remember is xscreensaver-demoHTH,Simon-- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list-- Cheers,Ian
[gentoo-user] Abiword 2.2.11 crashes
Greetings all; Suddenly I've stated having a problem with Abiword 2.2.11 -- every time I cut or copy text it crashes. This version was working fine. I checked bugs.gentoo and couldn't find a bug report regarding this situation. I wonder if it has anything to do with the programs which I have upgraded lately, those being: -- Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] sys-apps/man-pages-2.20 [2.17] +nls 1,690 kB [ebuild U ] sys-apps/findutils-4.1.20-r2 [4.1.20-r1] -build +nls (-selinux) -static 759 kB [ebuild U ] app-editors/nano-1.3.9 [1.3.7] -build -debug -justify -minimal +ncurses +nls +slang +spell -unicode 1,109 kB [ebuild U ] gnome-base/orbit-2.12.4 [2.12.0] -debug +doc +ssl -static 661 kB [ebuild U ] gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.12.2 [2.10.0-r2] -debug +doc -gnutls -hal -howl +ipv6 -samba +ssl 1,521 kB [ebuild U ] gnome-base/gnome-menus-2.12.0-r1 [2.10.1] -debug 384 kB [ebuild U ] gnome-base/eel-2.12.2 [2.10.1] +X -debug 660 kB [ebuildU ] gnome-base/nautilus-2.12.2 [2.10.1-r1] +X -debug 3,962 kB [ebuildU ] app-cdr/cdrdao-1.2.1 [1.2.0-r1] -debug +encode +gnome -pccts 1,687 kB [ebuild U ] media-sound/ecasound-2.4.3 [2.3.3] +alsa +arts +audiofile* -debug +jack* -libsamplerate +mikmod +ncurses -oss* +python -ruby -sndfile +vorbis* 1,086 kB [ebuild U ] sys-apps/coreutils-5.2.1-r7 [5.2.1-r6] +acl* -build +nls (-selinux) -static 65 kB [ebuild U ] x11-terms/gnome-terminal-2.12.0 [2.10.0] -debug -static 1,644 kB [ebuild U ] app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.1 [0.2.0-r3] 81 kB [ebuild U ] app-office/koffice-1.4.2-r6 [1.4.1-r1] +arts -debug +doc -javascript -mysql +postgres -xinerama 19,030 kB --- I'm gonna try emerging Abiword again tonight to see if that helps. Any observations? Thank you very much. Adrian -- On The Fly Photography -:- Creation From Chaos On The Fly Photography: http://204EastSouth.com Purchase from On The Fly: http://204EastSouth.com/OTFStore.htm The Cynical Libertarian Society: http://www.204EastSouth.com/cls -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge update world and modular xorg-x11
On 1/31/06, Cláudio Henrique [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed modular xorg-x11 following the guides in gentoo (http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-howto.xml) and in gentoo-wiki (http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Modular_Xorg) and now I'm having trouble updating my system. how can I solve this? localhost ~ # emerge -uDav world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies - !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy virtual/x11 have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - virtual/x11-6.8 (masked by: package.mask) For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook. (dependency required by media-gfx/gimp-2.2.8-r1 [ebuild]) !!! Problem resolving dependencies for media-gfx/gimp !!! Depgraph creation failed. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Don't be surprised if there are more dependencies that need to be unmasked that are seemingly unrelated to modular X (this is not mentioned in the HOWTO). Ralph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk
Uwe Thiem wrote: On 31 January 2006 15:19, Schleimer, Ben wrote: I understand that writing zeros over the file should permenately delete the data Don't believe people telling that. Why not? I would believe those people. The data will still be recoverable Will it? Why is it, that there are no proofs at all that this is actually possible? Or do you have any prove? The only way to wipe out data safely is to write different random bit over it several times. 0 is good enough with modern hardware. That's so, because current harddrives have a much higher rate of staying in the track and thus do not write to the left or right of it. but couldn't the data be cached elsewhere on the drive, especially with journalling filesystems?? Journalling filesystems are a problem when it comes to wipe out single files. Yes. Wiping out the whole harddrive is still possible. But not with normal hardware. Alexander Skwar -- Here we are in America ... when do we collect unemployment? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] app-arch/rpm-4.2.1 unmask problem
Holly Bostick wrote: Joksim schreef: Hello, I'm having hard time unmasking and installing app-arch/rpm-4.2.1. I have tried with: package.keywords and with package.unmask =app-arch/rpm-4.2.1 app-arch/rpm ~86 but with no luck. What am I doing wrong. RPM-4.2.1 is neither package masked nor arch masked for x86. It is removed from/not available to the x86 tree, as well as several others (amd64, ppc64, ppc macos). eix rpm * app-arch/rpm Available versions: 4.0.4-r5 4.2 4.2-r1 -4.2.1 That's what that - means before the version number. You can still install it though- if you really want; I would strongly suggest checking the ChangeLog and b.g.o to find out what's going on, since a package being made unavailable to any part of the Portage tree indicates serious issues-- by adding the following to /etc/portage/package.keywords: app-arch/rpm -x86 (or -amd64 or -ppc64, or -ppc macos, depending on what you're using) But I wouldn't expect it to compile, or be worth the trouble it's likely to cause you, all things considered. Yes, I'm trying to install rpm on vserver and dev-libs/beecrypt depends on rpm-4.2.1. I have filled a bug: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=121046 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
