Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} dvdrip permissions error, alternative?
On Saturday 07 October 2006 06:50, Grant wrote: > > > I think I'll stick with: > > > > > > dd if=/dev/dvd of=image.dvd > > > > That won't work on CSS scrambled discs. You'll copy the scrambled data > > but not the key. Instead, use vobcopy followed by growisofs. > > What about this (it's what I've been doing): > > lsdvd && dd if=/dev/dvd of=image.dvd > > Is there any advantage to creating an ISO filesystem out of the image > if you aren't going to burn it? yes. ease of transfer, keping everyting togther. still playable with xine dvd://path/to.iso why are you naming it image.dvd instead of image.iso? > Also, is there any way to compress > the image without doing any kind of transcoding or that type of > reprocessing? > the mpeg streams on the dvd ARE compressed. thats what the mpeg codec does. You can try the usual suspects - zip, bzip etc, but you won't get far. programs that reduce the size of DVD9 so that they will fit on a DVD5 usually requantise the stream, I am not sure what that means, but it is much quicker than transcoding to another codec like xvid. xvid will, of course, give you a much smaller avi file. the analogy with flac is not really appropriate. flac is a lossless compression, you start with an uncompressed wav file and end up with a losslessly compressed audio file. A DVD is already lossy compressed to mpeg2, so it is not logical to make an analogy with flac. As I said, you can requantise, but of course you lose something... > - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} dvdrip permissions error, alternative?
On Sat, 7 Oct 2006 13:43:50 -0700 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > yes. ease of transfer, keping everyting togther. still playable with xine > > dvd://path/to.iso > > > > why are you naming it image.dvd instead of image.iso? > > dd doesn't actually create an ISO filesystem does it? > > - Grant dd copies bit for bit. you copy an ISO filesystem to another place, you get an ISO file system. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} dvdrip permissions error, alternative?
On Sat, 7 Oct 2006 17:56:36 +0100 Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 6 Oct 2006 17:36:10 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > > > That won't work on CSS scrambled discs. You'll copy the scrambled data > > > but not the key. > > > > That's not true. The CSS key is in the standard filesystem data, not > > in some subtrack data. > > You're right. I read this information some years ago in a normally > reliable source, and saw no reason to doubt it as it made sense. bit I've > just tried a dd copy and it worked. It failed on the first attempt, but > after running lsdvd, it worked for the whole disc, and mplayer played it. > What is happenning here is that lsdvd is cracking the css keys via libdvdcss and caching the keys in ~/.dvdcss. If you move the image to another computer, or try to read it as another user, the keys will neeed to be cracked again. > > -- > Neil Bothwick > > "Bother," said Pooh, as he connected at 300 bps. > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} dvdrip permissions error, alternative?
On 10/8/2006, "Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >dvdbackup doesn't work on "The Life of Mammals" (and surely others) >and dd means bad portability. Are there any other options for a full >backup? perhaps there is some newfangled encryption on it. What version of libdvdcss do you have? Perhaps upgrading to a later version? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Annoying Bounces - myvietnam.org
Whenever I post to this list I get a slew of annoying bounce messages like the following: === This is the Postfix program at host myvietnam.org. I'm sorry to have to inform you that the message returned below could not be delivered to one or more destinations. For further assistance, please send mail to If you do so, please include this problem report. You can delete your own text from the message returned below. The Postfix program <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: can't create user output file == Although some are directed at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and some at chau. Can someone remove these people from the list. It has beeen going on for some time now. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Dumb question
On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 23:42:33 -0500 "Troy Curtis Jr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/10/06, Anthony E. Caudel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have been using Gentoo for more than 2 years now and have always > > wondered (but never asked - That's the "dumb" part) how Gentoo manages > > to update a package that happens to be running at the time. > > > > Given that the old version (the one running) is deleted, how does it > > manage to keep standing if you just cut its legs off? > > > > I've never seen this discussed anywhere which probably means everyone > > else already knows and are probably thinking to themselves, "Dumb question." > > > > Tony which leads top the point that if you update a daemon like sshd, yopu need to restart it, or else you are still running the old daemon. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] imaginary nvidia-glx blocking qt
on emerge -uDpv world I get: === [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ emerge -uDpv world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies - emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "media-video/nvidia-glx". (dependency required by "x11-libs/qt-4.1.4-r2" [ebuild]) !!! Problem resolving dependencies for app-arch/rpm !!! Depgraph creation failed. === Trouble is I do not have nvidia-glx installed. I have nvidia-driver installed. Other things: 1. yes it is a while since I emerged world 2. profile is x86/2006.1/desktop 3. nvidia-glx WAS in /var/lib/portage/world, but I commented it out, with no change 4. qt has a dependency: opengl? ( virtual/opengl virtual/glu ) - I suspect this of complicity in the problem. 5. This immediately follows an emerge -sync today, only thing I have done since then is emerge portage. Can anyone cast any more light? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] imaginary nvidia-glx blocking qt
On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 08:58:31 -0800 Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Nick Rout wrote: > > on emerge -uDpv world I get: > > > > === > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ emerge -uDpv world > > > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > > > Calculating world dependencies - > > emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "media-video/nvidia-glx". > > (dependency required by "x11-libs/qt-4.1.4-r2" [ebuild]) > > You're experiencing bug #154223 [1], which is fixed in the latest > ~arch versions of portage. If you want to work around the problem, > you can use `find /var/db/pkg -name PROVIDE | xargs grep > virtual/opengl` to find the old-style virtuals that are preventing > the new-style virtuals from working correctly. You should simply > remove any PROVIDE file that contains virtual/opengl. > > Zac > > [1] http://bugstest.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154223 Thank you -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Media Player
xine-ui is good at playing dvd's, complete with the full menu experience. Make sure you enable a number of use flags for xine-lib, including a52,dvd,xv. On Sun, 3 Dec 2006 12:59:07 + (UTC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hey, > Im relatively new to the whole gentoo system but im looking for a basic > easy to use dvd player program something that isn't too touchy basically. Any > reccomendations or opinions on this would be greatly appreciated! > > Thanks > > Kelly Stewart > Sent via BlackBerry® from Vodafone > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Finding my modem
On Fri, 08 Dec 2006 16:18:24 -0600 Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anybody give me any advice as to setting this up? I went to > http://tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/Modem-HOWTO/#s2 and have been trying > to follow it, but it's not going well. I downloaded the scanModem > script, and it's created several files, but it keeps griping because I > don't have the snd-intel8x0m module... What DID the file called modemData.txt produced by scanModem actually say? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] turning off irrelevant mplayer error
What output device is gmplayer set to use? Try explicitly setting it to alsa. for the command line look at /etc/mplayer.conf (system wide) or per user ~/.mplayer/config I think those setting also affect gmplayer, alsthough gmplayer also has a place to set such things within its gui - which may possibly be stored in ~/.mplayer/gui.conf I think if its not set to anything it may try all of its output drivers. Cheers. On Sat, 9 Dec 2006 12:04:42 -0800 (PST) maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi group, > > When I try to use gmplayer to play audio I get this > ugly error message on my desktop: > > [A0 0SS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device > /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy > > Doesn't stop gmplayer from working. It uses alsa OK. > > Got this on the command line too but it wasn't so in > your face. > > Anybody know how to stop it? Using 'artsdsp' keeps > audacity from complaining but it doesn't seem to work > in this instance. > > -Maxim > > > > > Any questions? Get answers on any topic at www.Answers.yahoo.com. Try it now. > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP and deny clients
On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 09:39:14 +0800 Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a gentoo server and a laptop both running dhcp (server) at home. > the server serves clients at home. > the laptop, serves client at NON-home places. > > when I plug my laptop into the home, clients will get to my laptop's > dhcp server instead of the home server's dhcp. > > is there a directive which can be used such that I can deny a (specific) > list of mac addresses from requesting addresses?? > 2 options afaict: 1. have 2 different runlevels, one starts the server, the other doesn't. Boot the relevant one in each situation. Or if you don't reboot, simply change runlevels as you go in and out of the house. 2. Get one of those nifty programs that discovers what network you are attached to and configures your laptop accordingly. I cannot remember what any of them are called sorry. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Do Debian's 2.6.18 problems exist in gentoo?
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 17:27:28 -0500 Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm in the process of installing gentoo now, in the hope of getting it to > work more reliably (and more up-to-date) than Debian. Debian's 2.6.18-3 > kernel includes backported msync-optimising patches from 2.19 that don't > work properly and have the effect of sometimes causing serious file-system > damage. (see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=401006 if > you're curious about gory details). > > What I was wondering was whether a similar misfortune has befallen > gentoo's 2.6.18 kernel, or whether gentoo's kernel developers have just > left the 2.6.19 patches in 2.6.19. > > Maybe I'm being silly asking about this, but I have become paranoid about > severe file system damage. > > -- hendrik there are a number of kernels you can install in gentoo - see inside the directory /usr/portage/sys-kernel. You can also see what patches have been applied by looking at the ebuilds. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] A New Linux Way
I haven't been brave enough to read all of this thread, but as we seem to have gotten onto the topic of spelling, has anyone noticed that the saviour linux website now consists of: "Saviour Linux comming soon!" copied and pasted, complete with the misspelling of the third word LOL. On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 10:10:10 -0800 Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote: [something pertaining to Godwin's law] -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How can I unsubscribe?
On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 21:34:17 +0100 Andrea Barisani wrote: > Lists header are just fine, you can use > [EMAIL PROTECTED] as well as > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > You can also try [EMAIL PROTECTED] or look up http://www.gentoo.org > and the lists page (it's there, easy to find). > > So there's plenty of ways to get the info you need without bothering the > lists itself (including your friendly [EMAIL PROTECTED]) yes except the OP said he had tried sending an empty email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and it had not worked. So what is he to do - i imagine the help address would just tell him the same. -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Source Code?
On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 18:27:32 +0930 Iain Buchanan wrote: > > As far as I recall for Fedora (haven't used it in a while) what you > download as a src.rpm is already patched the way Fedora has compiled it > to make the rpm. I don't know about the others, but I assume all binary > distro's would be the same or similar... For the record I think you are (slightly) wrong. The idea of source rpm's is that they contain the pristine sources from the upstream authors, along with a set of patches that get applied when you compile the src.rpm package. So you will likely get inside the src.rpm package: * the original unpatched source as a tar.gz or tar.bz2 file (as packaged upstream) * a set of patch files - some of which may be distro specific, some of which may have been produced elsewhere in the community * a .spec file which is the equivalent of the .ebuild file - ie the build and install instructions * scripts for pre/post install/uninstall actions. So in short it is pretty easy to find what patches have been applied to produce the binary package, provided you can find the src.rpm (even the .spec file will tell you a lot). -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Source Code?
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 09:50:51 +0930 Iain Buchanan wrote: > > The idea of source rpm's is that they contain the pristine sources from > > the upstream authors, along with a set of patches that get applied when > > you compile the src.rpm package. So you will likely get inside the > > src.rpm package: > > Of course, I stand corrected. I think you're right - it's been a long > time since I've been to binary or rpm world! And long may it stay that way. The only reason i get reminded about rpm's is when other people ask me for help - I often say "is your distro's version of foo compiled with support for bar?" - to which they go all glazed over, and i end up looking at the src.rpm file for them :-) -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] cruel & unusual?
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 18:36:26 + (UTC) James wrote: > Right before that, every time I sync I get this message: > speedup is 8.20 > > > After months/years of 'speedup' it should run very fast > in seconds, (or at least one would think). > > Is this 'cruel & unusual' of is this the devs enjoying > some humor at our expense.? > > PS (please don't take it seriously, as it's _HUMOR) > awe, 5 minutes later, it's 51%.but we have 'speedup'. speedup relates to the transfer of the files via rsync, not the metadata processing. Thats why it comes straight after the files have been transferred and before the metadata processing. In fact the speedup message is generated by rsync, blame rsync's authors :) -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] different video formats to mpeg2
any2vob transfers pretty well anything to .vob, which is dvd compatible mpeg-2 google finds it. On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 21:17:05 +0100 Marco Calviani wrote: > Hi list, >i need to transform different video format, that is wmv, rm, xvid > and divx to mpeg2. Is there a utility that deals with this? > > Regards, > MC > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Old kernel versions
On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 10:05:20 +0100 Andres Becerra Sandoval wrote: > Yes, you can clean the old kernel versions, this will free you some space. > > A quick way to do it is: > - back up your .config > - emerge -C gentoo-sources or whatever-sources (this will clean all versions) > - emerge gentoo-sources (only merges the actual) simpler to emerge -P gentoo-sources and get rid of all but the latest. (-P = prune) -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] different video formats to mpeg2
On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 21:39:55 +0100 Marco Calviani wrote: > Hi Nick and Mauro, > > > any2vob transfers pretty well anything to .vob, which is dvd compatible > > mpeg-2 > > thanks for your help. I would like to add that i've also found the > KmPg2 utility that is able to cope with it. Looks interesting how did you get it on your system? There doesn't seem to be an ebuild (not even in bugzilla ). Did you write an ebuild? if so please post it to bugs.gentoo.org and let us all know :) > > Regards, > Mc > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware Testing a PC
Install gentoo and then compile kde/gnome/openoffice while playing three movies. On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 00:55:23 + Midnight Toker wrote: > Memtest86 is (IMHO) a fantastic piece of software, but as the name > suggests, only tests RAM. > > I'm wondering if anyone can recommend software which will put a "PC" > through a full series of tests, including CPU, RAM, HDD... just > generally thrash a machine so I know the hardware is good. > > It would be even better if it could run off (a possibly doctored) > Gentoo Live CD. > > With thanks, > > MidnighToker. > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] X USE flag - what does it do?
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 12:12:45 +0100
Alexander Skwar wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Quite a number of packages support a X USE flag. The
> package that I'm right now looking at is vlc:
>
> [ebuild R ] media-video/vlc-0.8.4a USE="alsa arts cdda dvd esd ffmpeg
> matroska mp3 mpeg nls nsplugin ogg real vlm vorbis win32codecs wxwindows
> xml2 xv -3dfx -X -a52 -aac -aalib -avahi -bidi -corba -daap -debug -dts -dvb
> -fbcon -flac -ggi -gnutls -hal -httpd -joystick -libcaca -lirc -live -mod
> -ncurses -opengl -oss -png -samba -screen -sdl -shout -skins -speex -stream
> -svg -svga -theora -truetype -v4l -vcd -xinerama -xosd" 0 kB
>
> As you can see, I built vlc with USE=-X. What am I
> now missing? When I startup vlc, I still have a X
> GUI.
I suspect that something else has dragged in the gui part of glc -
wxwindows IIRC.
>
> A different example - gnupg:
>
> [ebuild R ] app-crypt/gnupg-1.4.2-r3 USE="X caps* ecc* idea* nls
> readline static* usb zlib -bzip2* -curl* -ldap -smartcard" 21 kB
>
> As you can see here, gnupg is built with the flag X set.
> What has been enabled with that?
>
A global use flag like X has different effects on different packages.
Ususally it affects whether or not an X gui is built. However the only
wat to really tell is to read the ebuild. In this case:
"RDEPEND="!static? (
${COMMON_DEPEND}
X? ( || ( media-gfx/xloadimage media-gfx/xli ) )
)
selinux? ( sec-policy/selinux-gnupg )""
This indicates that if the X flag is enabled, there will be a dependency on
either media-glx/xloadimage or media-gfx/xli
"econf \
[snip]
$(use_enable X photo-viewers) \
[snip]
${myconf} || die"
This indicates that something called photo-viewers is enabled in gnupg
if the X flag is present. What this does, i don't know (or care) and
will leave it to you to discover.
> Also quite a number of libraries support X, like
>
> [I--] [ ] gnome-base/libbonoboui-2.10.1-r1 (0)
> [I--] [ ] gnome-base/libgnomecanvas-2.12.0 (0)
> [I--] [ ] gnome-base/libgtop-2.12.2 (2)
> [I--] [ ] gnome-base/libglade-0.17-r6 (0)
>
> What do all of these do with X? And what would go away
> if X were disabled (-X)?
See above, look at the ebuilds.
>
--
Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Re: [gentoo-user] gcc version used for build?
On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 12:09:55 -0500 Michael A. Smith wrote: > gcc -v tells you what programs are invoked by gcc. gcc being a > collection of compilers, this can differ quite a bit depending on > your configuration. No it doesn't, it tells you how gcc was configured when it was compiled, as can be seen from your own ouput below. > > * > # gcc -v > Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.4/specs > Configured with: > /var/tmp/portage/gcc-3.4.4-r1/work/gcc-3.4.4/configure --prefix=/usr > --bindir=/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/3.4.4 > --includedir=/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.4/include > --datadir=/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.4 > --mandir=/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.4/man > --infodir=/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.4/info > --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.4/include/g++-v3 > --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu --disable-altivec > --enable-nls --without-included-gettext --with-system-zlib > --disable-checking --disable-werror --disable-libunwind-exceptions > --disable-multilib --disable-libgcj --enable-languages=c,c++,f77 > --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --enable-__cxa_atexit > --enable-clocale=gnu > Thread model: posix > gcc version 3.4.4 (Gentoo 3.4.4-r1, ssp-3.4.4-1.0, pie-8.7.8) > * -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- 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] Re: CUPS -- fails better!
On Wed, 1 Feb 2006 11:50:46 -0800 (PST) maxim wexler wrote: > sarawak heathen # /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel 34 > heathen error_log 1 error_log > ERROR: Unable to open parallel port device file > "/usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel": Text file busy > sarawak heathen # looks like it could be a permission error on the parallel port. what does ls -l /dev/lp0 say? If it is a link to another device file, then give us ls -l on that device too (mine points to /dev/printers/0) *cough* one assumes that you have support for the parallel port in your kernel (either built in or modularised) and if it is a module it is loaded? -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What trouble am I creating by commenting entries in [...]/packag.mask
On Fri, 03 Feb 2006 18:30:35 -0600 Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > the developers are currently in the process of switching to a modular > > X server. This is a big change which is known to break stuff. > > You should, however, be fine as long as you do use stable packages. > > > > See also the latest Gentoo Newsletter at > > http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20060130-newsletter.xml which also > > contains a migration guide. > > Thanks.. that explains things quite a lot... I guess I'm not really > ready to `migrate'. Looks like a lot of work. Its spelled out how to > do it but complicated enough for me to really botch things up. > > All I really wanted was to run xvidtune. Seems pretty extreme to go > thru the whole mess described there for that. I reasonably certain > threre is plenty of room in that process to make a mess and end up > pulling hair for a week. > > Maybe there is another tool that can do what xvidtune does? Far as I > know it is the only thing that will show you the actual resolution of > your display. `xwininfo' and `xdypinfo' do NOT do that. > > They show the desktop size which in my case is (virtual) 2048x1536. > The actual res thru my view port is something quite different. > > xvidtune knows about all that and reports whats really going on. xvidtune is part or xorg-x11. If you have the older style, stable xorg installed you already have xvidtune: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/media/torrents $ qpkg -f /usr/bin/xvidtune x11-base/xorg-x11 * > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] apache permssions
I wanted to use mod_status so I set -D INFO in /etc/conf.d/apache2 and my /etc/httpd.conf cotains the following: ExtendedStatus On SetHandler server-status Order deny,allow Deny from all Allow from localhost Looks to me as though it should allow connections from localhost, but it doesn't, I get 403 Forbidden. If I comment out the lines Deny from all, Allow from localhost it works, but not as it is written i the default file as quoted above. What am I doing wrong? Reading the manual here makes me believe it should be working: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_access.html#order -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] apache permssions
On Sat, 4 Feb 2006 15:58:53 -0800 darren kirby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > quoth the Nick Rout: > > I wanted to use mod_status so I set -D INFO in /etc/conf.d/apache2 and > > my /etc/httpd.conf cotains the following: > > > > > > ExtendedStatus On > > > > SetHandler server-status > > Order deny,allow > > Deny from all > > Allow from localhost > > > > > > > > Looks to me as though it should allow connections from localhost, but > > it doesn't, I get 403 Forbidden. > > Yeah, it should be working, and in fact it is exactly the same as on my > system > where it does work. Is your system having problems resolving localhost? Does > 127.0.0.1 work? > > > If I comment out the lines Deny from all, Allow from localhost it > > works, but not as it is written i the default file as quoted above. > > > > What am I doing wrong? > > > > Reading the manual here makes me believe it should be working: > > > > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_access.html#order > > -d Seems to be the same if i make the request to http://locahost/server-status the error message in the apache log seems to be the same whether i ask for loalhost/server-status or 127.0.0.1/server-status. (asked for 127.0.0.1) [Sun Feb 05 18:18:35 2006] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] client denied by server configuration: /var/www/localhost/htdocs/server-status (asked for localhost) [Sun Feb 05 18:20:59 2006] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] client denied by server configuration: /var/www/localhost/htdocs/server-status resolution for localhost seems to work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ host localhost localhost.rout.dyndns.org has address 127.0.0.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ host 127.0.0.1 1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer localhost. More pointers appreciated. I don't particularly need this, it damn annoys me that it sdoesn't work though. > -- > darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org > "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." > - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972 > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] apache permssions
On Sun, 5 Feb 2006 01:38:11 -0500 Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 06:26:16PM +1300, Penguin Lover Nick Rout squawked: > > > > > > > > ExtendedStatus On > > > > > > > > SetHandler server-status > > > > Order deny,allow > > > > Deny from all > > > > Allow from localhost > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Looks to me as though it should allow connections from localhost, but > > > > it doesn't, I get 403 Forbidden. > > > > > > Yeah, it should be working, and in fact it is exactly the same as on my > > > system > > > where it does work. Is your system having problems resolving localhost? > > > Does > > > 127.0.0.1 work? > > > > > Two really stupid observations on my part (probably doesn't matter, > but who knows?) If you try "Allow from 127.0.0.1" instead of > localhost, does it work? Yes it does! So it must be a resolution problem after all. Thank you. > and does it matter that deny,allow is all in > lowercase? I recall sometimes that arguments to directives are case > sensitive, though I suspect that not to be the case (no pun intended) > here. > Doesn't seem to matter. > Best, > > W > -- > "Ford had his own code of ethics. It wasn't much of one, > but it was his and he stuck by it, more or less. One rule > he made was never to buy his own drinks. He wasn't sure if > that counted as an ethic, but you have to go with what > you've got. " > Sortir en Pantoufles: up 84 days, 22:50 > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user]
An ironic comment from someone whose sig is longer than their message! On Sun, 05 Feb 2006 21:40:13 +0100 Rafael Fernández López <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But I'm against adding that to EVERY MAIL posted, that would increase > size, and that's not a power reason for increasing size that way. > > Bye, > Rafael Fernández López. > > - -- > Un saludo, > Rafael Fernández López. > > ``A la vista de suficientes ojos todos los errores resultan evidentes" - > Linus Torvalds > > ``The explanation for 'free software' is simple--a person who has > grasped the idea of 'free speech, not free beer' will not get it wrong > again" - Richard Stallman > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Anime Music Videos
Try MainActor. The SuSE rpm installs fime on gentoo, just emerge rpm It's dependencies are: libavc1394 libraw1394 SDL then just install it with rpm --nodeps It goes nicely into /opt On Sun, 5 Feb 2006 05:07:21 + Ian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey everyone, > What is your favorite video editor of choice for things like anime music > videos? > My friend on Windows has made a few with movie maker (eww!) and I was > wondering what > Linux apps can do a nice job of it? My anime is all stored in avi or mpeg. I > dont have dvds. > > Ive looked at Cinellera but I couldn't get it to work, after reading the > tutorial. > Thanks! > > -- > Cheers, > Ian > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user]
On Sun, 5 Feb 2006 22:03:36 +0100 "Hemmann, Volker Armin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 05 February 2006 21:43, Nick Rout wrote: > > An ironic comment from someone whose sig is longer than their message! > > > > an ironic statement from someone who top posts! > > ;) > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Damn you caught me! It was only because i didn't want to get caught up in his extensive sigs! > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: OT - GRP (WAS: Re: [gentoo-user] really weird way to install)
On Tue, 07 Feb 2006 16:17:41 -0600 Michael Sullivan wrote: > On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 21:42 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Tue, 7 Feb 2006 22:20:19 +0200, Ghaith Hachem wrote: > > > > > well there was a miracle today i got 3 free hours to manage to install > > > the system up to the bootloader but what i really need is X since this > > > is the family pc :-P > > > > Install X and a desktop from a GRP CD, it will only take a few minutes. > > > > A couple of years ago I was reading in the Gentoo Handbook about GRP, > and I saw something that I understood to mean that I could not use GRP > packages and custom-built packages on the same system. Is this true? The restrictions are really based on (1) the portage snapshot used when the GRP was made, and (2) your USE flags. If either change, then the GRP packages are not going to be much use to you. They are built as at a defined snapshot, so by the following week a lot of the packages will not match portage's idea of the latest and greatest. If you want to do a GRP, do NOT sync portage or change your USE flags until you have installed all you want. Then you can do a sync, set up USE, and compile anything u want updated. > > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] xterm big fonts
I hope this explanation is clear, i fear it won't be! I want to run a program in xterm, full screen, with one program running inside it. This program displays a curses window 42 characters wide, and I want that to fille the width of the xterm window, so that the writing in the windows is a big as possible on the screen. So I bascially need a font size that will give me 42 characters across the page at a fullscreen resolution of 720x576. I have read the man page for xterm but cannot figure out how to specify the fonts, or really where to begin. Any pointers would be appreciated. -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xterm big fonts
On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 12:51:39 +1300 Nick Rout wrote: > I hope this explanation is clear, i fear it won't be! > > I want to run a program in xterm, full screen, with one program running > inside it. > > This program displays a curses window 42 characters wide, and I want > that to fille the width of the xterm window, so that the writing in the > windows is a big as possible on the screen. So I bascially need a font > size that will give me 42 characters across the page at a fullscreen > resolution of 720x576. > > I have read the man page for xterm but cannot figure out how to specify > the fonts, or really where to begin. > > Any pointers would be appreciated. PS I would consider ither terms if they are easier, but don't want to bother with something as bloated as konsole :-) > -- > Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xterm big fonts
On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 20:27:39 + Mick wrote: > On a resource challenged machine like this ol' box of mine aterm runs like a > dream. Konsole is a bit heavier and it loads all sort of KDE components > with it. I mean, if you're already running KDE then they are already > running by default, but if you're running a lighter WM then konsole may not > be the slickiest solution. That was my intuitive thoughts too. I do not want to load the kde libraries, this machne is an epia M9000 running mythtv. I don't want any part of kde. Heres what i would need to install to run konsole (and note that all of konsole's use flags are off) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ USE=-java emerge -pv konsole These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N] dev-libs/libpcre-6.3 -doc 552 kB [ebuild N] net-dns/libidn-0.5.15 -doc -emacs -java +nls 1,925 kB [ebuild N] media-libs/libart_lgpl-2.3.17 -debug 282 kB [ebuild N] kde-base/kdelibs-3.4.3-r1 +alsa -arts +cups -debug -doc -jpeg2k -kdeenablefinal -kerberos -openexr +spell +ssl +tiff -xinerama -zeroconf 16,482 kB [ebuild N] kde-base/konsole-3.4.3 -arts -debug -kdeenablefinal -kdexdeltas -xinerama 21,900 kB Total size of downloads: 41,143 kB But anyway, thanks for all those who posted tips about the font thing, i think I will be able to get the hang of it now :-) -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0
On Wed, 8 Feb 2006 16:01:24 -0500 Ernie Schroder wrote: > On Wednesday 08 February 2006 15:19, a tiny voice compelled Jorge Martín to > write: > > Is Gentoo 2006.0 going to be released anytime soon? I want to install > > Gentoo on my home computer but I'm too lazy to insall 2005.1.r1 and upgrade > > all packages so I'm waiting for 2006.0. > > > Gentoo version numbers are not really very significant. Using the documented > install instructions, you will install all the latest applications updated > when you sync your portage tree. > -- > Regards, Ernie Very true, but what is useful is the GRP packages that are released with every release point, enabling an up to date precompiled gentoo with kde and/or gnome [1] to be up and running within an hour or two. I know precompiled binaries are not for everyone, but they can be very useful. [1] and/or XFCE? cannot recall off the top of my head. > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS not allowing configuration from browser
On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 05:02:31 -0800 Mark Knecht wrote: > On 2/9/06, Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Hi, > > >In the past I've been able to give root/password info when > > > configuring printers from within http://localhost:631 but now it no > > > longer works. This is true on both of our Gentoo machines. > > > > > >Has something changed about this in a recent update? I'm assuming > > > some recent update has botched things up. > > > > > >How do I get it enabled again so taht it asked for the admin passowrd? > > > > You do have cupsd running when this happens eh? > > > > /etc/init.d/cupsd status to find out > > /etc/init.d/cupsd start to start it. > > Yes, CUPS is running: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ /etc/init.d/cupsd status > * status: started > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ status does not always tell the truth. If cupsd had died an unnatural death, status would give the wrong answer. Try a /etc/init.d/cupsd restart and see what happens. $ > > It used to be that if I was in Firefox and tried to do something that > required administrator privileges then CUPS/Frefox popped up a dialog > box, I typed in root and root's password, and I was able to make the > change I needed. > > It is no longer working on both of our machines and I cannot configure CUPS. > > Also, and I find this VERY strange, but the printers we had configured > are still there and I can still print to them, but they are no longer > in printers.conf. How can I have printers working if they are not in > printers.conf? Has Gnome taken all this stuff over and hidden it from > me? > > dragonfly ~ # cat /etc/cups/printers.conf > # Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.1.23 > # Written by cupsd on Fri Feb 3 21:26:10 2006 > dragonfly ~ # > > Since there's a date of Feb. 3rd in this file I had been assuming > something happened at that time, but I don't know that's when this > problem specifically happened. I looked at /var/log/emerge and nothing > was emerged on that day. I had emerges on Jan. 30th, and then again on > Feb. 5th. > > I don't get it. > > Thanks for answering. > > Cheers, > Mark > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] System Clock Problems
If your system stopped suddenly the ntp.drfit file may have become corrupted. As I understand it this file has a value in it that tells the system how much drift there is in the system clock, and uses the figutre to compensate. If the figure is way out then the compensation will be way out. Take a look at /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift, if its seems like a large figure, then zero it and start again from scratch. ie stop ntpd, set the clock with ntpdate, then start the ntpd service again (preferably not while recording with mythtv LOL). On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 12:10:20 -0800 Drew Tomlinson wrote: > I have Gentoo 2.6.13-r5 kernel running and have used ntpd in > broadcastclient mode to keep its time in sync on my home network. The > other day, the system suffered and abrupt shutdown due to a power > outage. Ever since then, the system clock gains about 10 seconds every > 5 minutes. Also, I can't get ntpd to sync the clock. My command line > is "ntpd -A -b -g -u ntp:ntp". I've included some output running the > command with the debug switch below. > > I've also tried to gain more info with the ntpdc utility although I > don't really know what I'm doing. However it appears that ntpd does see > my FreeBSD time server even though it's not synced: > > ntpdc> peers > remote local st poll reach delay offsetdisp > === > =192.168.1.2 0.0.0.0 2 647 0.00038 -9.600170 1.98438 > > The time server is a FreeBSD 6.0 box on my network. My other FreeBSD > box and two Windows boxes get time from it just fine. Even the Gentoo > box will set its clock with "ntpd -gq". I am currently using this brute > force method via a cron job as a temporary workaround. > > Any ideas on what might have caused this recent change in behavior? > > Thanks for your help, > > Drew > > > --- Begin debug output --- > ntpd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Feb 11 19:19:56 PST 2006 (1) > addto_syslog: ntpd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Feb 11 19:19:56 PST 2006 (1) > addto_syslog: precision = 3.000 usec > create_sockets(123) > addto_syslog: no IPv6 interfaces found > bind() fd 4, family 2, port 123, addr 0.0.0.0, flags=8 > addto_syslog: Listening on interface wildcard, 0.0.0.0#123 > bind() fd 5, family 2, port 123, addr 127.0.0.1, flags=0 > addto_syslog: Listening on interface lo, 127.0.0.1#123 > bind() fd 6, family 2, port 123, addr 192.168.1.6, flags=8 > addto_syslog: Listening on interface eth1, 192.168.1.6#123 > init_io: maxactivefd 6 > local_clock: time 0 clock 0.00 offset 0.00 freq 0.000 state 0 > bind() fd 8, family 2, port 123, addr 192.168.1.255, flags=8 > io_setbclient: Opened broadcast client on interface 2, socket: 8 > io_setbclient: Opened broadcast clients > addto_syslog: frequency initialized -36.958 PPM from /etc/ntp/ntp.drift > local_clock: time 0 clock 0.00 offset 0.00 freq -36.958 state 1 > report_event: system event 'event_restart' (0x01) status 'sync_alarm, > sync_unspec, 1 event, event_unspec' (0xc010) > auth_agekeys: at 1 keys 1 expired 0 > timer: refresh ts 0 > receive: at 15 192.168.1.6<-192.168.1.2 mode 5 code 5 > Finding addr 192.168.1.2 in list of addresses > key_expire: at 15 > peer_clear: at 15 assoc ID 33252 refid INIT > newpeer: 192.168.1.6->192.168.1.2 mode 3 vers 4 poll 6 10 flags 0x210 > 0x20 ttl 0 key > receive: at 15 0.0.0.0<-192.168.1.2 mode 5 code 6 > peer 192.168.1.2 event 'event_reach' (0x84) status 'unreach, 1 event, > event_reach' (0x14) > auth_agekeys: at 60 keys 1 expired 0 > transmit: at 79 0.0.0.0->192.168.1.2 mode 3 > receive: at 79 192.168.1.6<-192.168.1.2 mode 4 code 1 > clock_filter: popcorn 7.896193 0.000960 > receive: at 82 192.168.1.6<-192.168.1.2 mode 5 code 6 > receive: at 82 0.0.0.0<-192.168.1.2 mode 5 code 6 > auth_agekeys: at 120 keys 1 expired 0 > transmit: at 143 0.0.0.0->192.168.1.2 mode 3 > receive: at 143 192.168.1.6<-192.168.1.2 mode 4 code 1 > clock_filter: n 2 off -9.600170 del 0.000386 dsp 3.937744 jit 1.703977, > age 64 > receive: at 148 192.168.1.6<-192.168.1.2 mode 5 code 6 > receive: at 148 0.0.0.0<-192.168.1.2 mode 5 code 6 > auth_agekeys: at 180 keys 1 expired 0 > transmit: at 206 0.0.0.0->192.168.1.2 mode 3 > receive: at 206 192.168.1.6<-192.168.1.2 mode 4 code 1 > clock_filter: n 3 off -9.600170 del 0.000386 dsp 1.938216 jit 1.639332, > age 127 > receive: at 215 192.168.1.6<-192.168.1.2 mode 5 code 6 > receive: at 215 0.0.0.0<-192.168.1.2 mode 5 code 6 > --- End debug output --- > > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel not updating...
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 12:26:19 -0800 gentuxx wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > >On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:29:50 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: > > > >> I was poking around in packages.gentoo.org, and noticed > >> > >>>that 2.6.15-r1 is unmasked for x86. So I run an `emerge --sync`, and > >>>`emerge -av gentoo-sources`. And it wants to rebuild my 2.6.13-r3 > >> > >>Hmmm, shouldn't it be emerge -uav gentoo-sources ? > >>I mean, "u" for "update"? > > > > > >It doesn't matter, because kernels arer slotted. > > > >Have you synced? It doesn't matter if the package is stable in Gentoo's > >portage tree if you sill have the old ebuild. > > > > > Yup. Did it today just to check before sending the first post. > (Mentioned this in the first post.) > I have a machine on which portage sometimes crashes near the end of emerge --sync. during the metadata part. This leaves portage in the position that it has all the ebuild files on the disk, but it's own database doesn't seem to know about it. Try emerge --metadata which will fix it if that is the problem. Anyway, to check when you last synced: genlop -r|tail (if you don't have genlop, it is in the package genlop (surprise?) the nitty gritties way to see what ebuilds are on your hard drive: ls /usr/portage/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources/*.ebuild -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Ebuild for net-mail/mailman
On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 09:54:00 -0500 (EST) A. Khattri wrote: > On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Jonatan Antoni wrote: > > > I've just emerged mailman-2.1.7 and noticed that it is installed to > > /usr/local/mailman. > > > > IMHO the /usr/local-directory is not the right place for installing > > software by a package-management. I think it would be much better to > > place it to /opt or split the package up into the existing /usr-directory. > > Generally, /opt in Gentoo is for binary-only or commercial packages. > > Its perfectly reasonable to have local stuff under /usr/local (see FHS: > http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2/fhs-4.9.html). in FHS that may be true, but IIRC it is not allowed for ebuilds. In fact I got stomped on in bugzilla for suggesting it in realtion to a different package. My install of mailman is also in /usr/local but I had never noticed this breach of ebuild etiquette before this thread mentioned it. Maybe there is some good reason in this case . > > Of course, you can change where stuff gets installed too. > > -- > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 15:04:06 -0700 Joseph wrote: > > > If I use: > > > dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso > > > > First of all, I would add the "bs" option to increase the buffer and > > therefore > > speed. Something like: > > dd bs=10 if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso > > No, this command didn't work either, I got about 700Mb and it quit, > though the light in the drive was flashing nothing was copied to ISO > file. > > > > > > I only get about 2Gb file and it stops or freezes, the disk is bout > > > 4.3Gb > > > > That would indicate read errors. Is the dvd scratched or dirty? Wash it > > with > > lukewarm water and dishwasher liquid and try again. > > DVD is brand new, no scratches. could be the reader then? Do you have another computer with a dvd drive and 4.7g available space? these things are fiddly, there are billions of little holes and a laser light reading them. There are manufacturing tolerances in the reader and the disk. There are imperfect firmwares in the drives. In short, sometimes a particular disk and a particular drive just don't get on. The drives also get old and tired. IMHO you need to be prepared to throw the drive out after some indeterminate (but not long enough) period and get a new one. Is this a movie or data? Have you tried just mounting then copying the files to your hard drive. This might identify where on the disk things are going wrong. If it is a small or unimportant file you might still have an effective backup. -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Packages CD for x86 with 2006.0
Is there a set of binary packages available on CD for 32 bit x86 of any description. The list on the release page seems to be. amd64 ppc (ppc) ppc (g4) ppc (64 bit - 32bit userland) ppc (64 bit - 64bit userland) sparc64 same on the torrents page. Do users of older machines (who could really do with a quick install method) miss out? Please don't argue against binary installs in your reply. I know the issues. Nick (running the annual chch gentoo mini installfest soon) -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 15:55:17 -0700 Joseph wrote: > On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 11:19 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: > > On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 15:04:06 -0700 > > Joseph wrote: > > > > > > > If I use: > > > > > dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso > > > > > > > > First of all, I would add the "bs" option to increase the buffer and > > > > therefore > > > > speed. Something like: > > > > dd bs=10 if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso > > > > > > No, this command didn't work either, I got about 700Mb and it quit, > > > though the light in the drive was flashing nothing was copied to ISO > > > file. > > > > > > > > > > > > I only get about 2Gb file and it stops or freezes, the disk is bout > > > > > 4.3Gb > > > > > > > > That would indicate read errors. Is the dvd scratched or dirty? Wash it > > > > with > > > > lukewarm water and dishwasher liquid and try again. > > > > > > DVD is brand new, no scratches. > > > > could be the reader then? Do you have another computer with a dvd drive > > and 4.7g available space? > > Yes, I've tired on two different systems, one is x86 and the other amd64 > with similar result on both of them; the copying stops at some point and > doesn't go any further. > One system has Philips DVD drive and the other one has BenQ DVD > > I can burn perfect DVD every time but getting it back in form of ISO > from DVD is a pain - IMPOSSIBLE. > > > these things are fiddly, there are billions of little holes and a laser > > light reading them. There are manufacturing tolerances in the reader and > > the disk. There are imperfect firmwares in the drives. In short, > > sometimes a particular disk and a particular drive just don't get on. > > The drives also get old and tired. IMHO you need to be prepared to throw > > the drive out after some indeterminate (but not long enough) period and > > get a new one. > > > > Is this a movie or data? Have you tried just mounting then copying the > > files to your hard drive. This might identify where on the disk things > > are going wrong. If it is a small or unimportant file you might still > > have an effective backup. > > I can mount the DVD without any problems. I created the DVD using > dvd-slideshow and it worked perfectly. > I can rip VOB's from the DVD using k3b or dvdrip; works in both > programs. > So I can recreate the DVD but what bugs me that I can not make a backup > to an ISO file using command line. OK I see you have considered most of the possibilities i considered. how about: mount /dev/dvd /mnt/dvd mkisofs -o mydvd.iso /mnt/dvd (disclaimer, other options might be needed. is mkisofs even the right program for dvd's? k3b is making me lazy) > > -- > #Joseph > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] can anyone please help me with gnome?
follow the instructions which are to start X with /etc/init.d/xdm start then report back On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 23:03:54 + Unknown wrote: > On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 22:27 +0100, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > > Unknown wrote: > > > X are working fine, > > > I use X right now, (i can xinit X windows to work or i can execute GDM, > chose "Custom session" which is nearly same xinit, with some unknown > window manager, not gnome though) > > How do you know X is working fine? > > > > > when i GDM > > > > You mean when you start gdm? How? What command do you give? What > > runlevel do you normally boot into? > > > I boot into normal mode(default one), get root access from console and > manually run "gdm", than log in using my current user(using custom > session, which is nearly same xinit by the way it looks), i did try root > and i did try to create new user and log in as user using "Gnome" > session - same story, nothing helped... > > > and log into PC > > > > You must already be logged in to be able to give commands... > > > > > it stops on splashscreen, > > > > It's maybe waiting for something? Is /home mounted? > > > home is 100% mounted, and if i am not mistaking, wouldnt it say smth > like, "blah blah blah cant access configuration files from home > directory, so i am using defaults"? > however its not the case > > > gnome-session shows mistakes, > > > right now it showed smth like: "gnomeui-warning": while connecting > manager: authentication rejected, reason : none of the authentication > protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed. > SESSION_MANAGER=local/drjoms:/tmp/.ICE-unix/6217 > > What mistakes? > mistakes may warry, but "SESSEION_MANAGER=... BLAH BLAH BLAH" is more or > less same, with exception of number(perhaps some sort of process id > number? i cant find it using pstree -p|grep $PROCESS_NUMBER) > > > > In short: too little info. > > http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > > > ok, i agree i am inexpirienced, but it looks a bit like an insult to me, > cause even though i am nooby and i didnt read rules properly and used > plain intuition, i did follow rules, i did try to locate smth on google, > i cant ask more experienced friend, cause i live in country where > ammount of people using hi speed internet is going down, no need to > explain futher, i did try to find an answere on forums, i did try irc(i > live in there, in #gentoo and in #linux chnannels) and hell no i would > sign for smth up to find an answere if it wouldnt be that bad :( > And BTW, i was adviced to ask this question in here, in casewhat - it > wasnt my decision, just i am a person who needs a help, if you can help > = please do so, critics wont help me much... > > Also, please first learn how to use a mailing list: do not answer an > > existing post when starting a new discussion. Start instead a new > > thread by clicking the mailing list's address. > > > thats a good idea, i shall do that, in fact, right now > > Benno > thank you for answering > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Packages CD for x86 with 2006.0
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 14:31:30 -0800 (PST)
Steven S. wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, Nick Rout wrote:
>
> > Is there a set of binary packages available on CD for 32 bit x86 of any
> > description. The list on the release page seems to be.
> >
> > amd64
> > ppc (ppc)
> > ppc (g4)
> > ppc (64 bit - 32bit userland)
> > ppc (64 bit - 64bit userland)
> > sparc64
> >
> > same on the torrents page.
> >
> > Do users of older machines (who could really do with a quick install
> > method) miss out?
> >
> > Please don't argue against binary installs in your reply. I know the
> > issues.
> >
> > Nick (running the annual chch gentoo mini installfest soon)
> >
> >
>
> It doesn't look like it's hiding somewhere on the mirrors. Perhaps they
> want you to stick with the 2005.1 packages? Really odd all around.
D'oh. RTFM Nick
2006.0 handbook, section 1b
"Is GRP Available?
Not all architectures provide GRP packages. That doesn't mean GRP isn't
supported on the other architectures, but it means that we don't have the
resources to build and test the GRP packages.
At present we provide GRP packages for the following architectures:
* The amd64 architecture (amd64)
* The ppc architecture (ppc32, ppc64)
* The sparc architecture (sparc64)
* The x86 architecture (athlon, athlon-xp,
athlon-mp, pentium-pro, pentium2, pentium3, pentium4 and pentium-m)
Note: THE PACKAGES ARE FOR I686 AND ARE AVAILABLE ON THE INSTALLER
LIVECD."
SHOUTING and extra *'s added by me to reinforce my previous silliness.
Sorry to bother you all.
"
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Re: [gentoo-user] can anyone please help me with gnome?
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 23:57:13 + Unknown wrote: > On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 12:17 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: > > follow the instructions which are to start X with > > > > > > /etc/init.d/xdm start > > > > then report back > > > You are gonna laugh, out put of "/etc/init.d/xdm start" was - "starting > GDM", well probably i did a stupid thing somewhere letting gdm coming > over XDM but, i didnt do that on purpose - first, second i am using > "pure" X right now by executing xinit, .xinitrc file has only "xterm" i > have feeling it can help somehow... > Do you want me to change topic somehow? /etc/init.d/xdm is the gentoo init script for X. It does NOT necessarily start xdm, it starts what you have specified in $DISPLAYMANAGER, which is set in /etc/rc.conf Therefore gdm starting is probably the correct result fo rrunning /etc/init.d/xdm start OK so once you have started gdm in the correct manner, does it work? -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 17:24:12 -0700 Joseph wrote: > > Good try, but it didn't work either. > When, I mount the DVD and try: > mkisofs -o mydvd.iso /mnt/dvdr/ > I get: > mkisofs: Input/output error. can not read from > '/mnt/dvdr/video_ts/vts_01_0.bup' > > I run out of ideas as well how to copy (my own) DVD to iso file. > > Thanks to all who responded, I'll put this case to rest I think. Just to flog a dead horse, I suspect that there is indeed some error on the dvd and that it is in the file video_ts/vts_01_0.bup It may be that the error is insufficient to matter on playback (after all, whats a few frames of video between friends, the eye hardly notices it ), but when the computer actually needs a bitwise copy it barfs? > > -- > #Joseph > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] can anyone please help me with gnome?
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 00:45:33 + Unknown wrote: > On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 13:35 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: > > On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 23:57:13 + > > Unknown wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 12:17 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: > > > > follow the instructions which are to start X with > > > > > > > > > > > > /etc/init.d/xdm start > > > > > > > > then report back > > > > > > > You are gonna laugh, out put of "/etc/init.d/xdm start" was - "starting > > > GDM", well probably i did a stupid thing somewhere letting gdm coming > > > over XDM but, i didnt do that on purpose - first, second i am using > > > "pure" X right now by executing xinit, .xinitrc file has only "xterm" i > > > have feeling it can help somehow... > > > Do you want me to change topic somehow? > > > > > > /etc/init.d/xdm is the gentoo init script for X. It does NOT necessarily > > start xdm, it starts what you have specified in $DISPLAYMANAGER, which > > is set in /etc/rc.conf > > > > Therefore gdm starting is probably the correct result fo rrunning > > /etc/init.d/xdm start > > > > OK so once you have started gdm in the correct manner, does it work? > > > > > it does, it asks me for user and password, and if i set those 2 correct > and mention that i need "gnome session" - than problems happen. > Gnome is started, i can see gentoo splash screen and thats the place > where it hangs... > > -- > > Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OK like another poster I suspect name resolution. He asked you what the hostname is, you didn't directly answer. what answer does the "hostname" command give? gnome is fussy about being able to resolve and reverse resolve your computer > > > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] can anyone please help me with gnome?
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 01:09:01 + Unknown wrote: > > OK like another poster I suspect name resolution. He asked you what the > > hostname is, you didn't directly answer. > > > > what answer does the "hostname" command give? > > > > gnome is fussy about being able to resolve and reverse resolve your > > computer > > > hostname > drjoms have you started net.lo? find out by /etc/init.d/net.lo status if it isn't going do : /etc/init.d/net.lo start Nick (running out of ideas) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > > > -- > > Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] can anyone please help me with gnome?
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 09:36:12 + Unknown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > /etc/init.d/net.lo start > > > ip link, shows that lo interface is there > > Nick (running out of ideas) OK. does this happen for all users? or just you? (don't come back and say you only have one user. if that is so make another one and see what happens. adduser makes a new user at the command line, but I find superadduser so much better, and it is only a short emerge away.) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Is my postfix being used as a relay?
If you want to see what each of the emails in your queue is take a look in /var/spool/postifx. In that dir there are a number of subdirectories, including one called defer and one called deferred. As I don't have anything stuck in there I can't recall exactly which of those subdors houses the deferred messages. They are indexed in a further level of subdirs numbered 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D.E,F depending on the first character of the email's ID number (which you can see in the output of mailq). It is a hex number. Does that make sense? On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 09:41:06 -0800 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On 3/17/06, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Yes, I expose this machine's port 25 on purpose. So I would like > > > to make > > > it a good netizen. > > > > > > I had done this with sendmail in previous distros, but am a > > > neophyte with > > > Postfix. Right now I want to verify if I have (or am) a problem. > > with postfix, it will, by default ONLY accept mail for which it > > considers itself the final destination for, or destinations that are > > in relay_domains. typically, out of the box, it will not relay mail > > for anyone, though it will accept mail for it, as resolved from the > > box's fqdn, or mydestination. > > > > I have mine set up to also allow you to relay if you authenticate > > (using sasl, via pam...or pam via sasl, if you want to look at it > > that way). basically that means I can send mail using this server > > from any network, as long as I set my client up to authenticate on > > send. but you can't randomly use it as a relay. > > -- > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > > > Although it seems this host is not a relay, that does not explain the > score or so of things languishing in my mail queue attempting to > contact sites I have no knowledge of, and which do not accept > the connection. Any hints how to explore this? > > ++ kevin > > > -- > Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Current state of the Gentoo installation process
On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 15:57:46 -0800 Grant wrote: > Hello, I installed Gentoo on my four systems a while ago and I've just > acquired a couple of new-to-me P3-500's. I'd like to install Gentoo > on these new systems but I'm a little confused by the changes made to > the installation process recently. I've never done anything but a > stage 1 installation, but I remember reading that those instructions > were removed from the installation documentation, and now I see a GUI > and a command line installer on the latest LiveCD. What is currently > the best installation method if I'm in the stage 1 mindset? > I guess if you read the handbook you could read the faq that it frers to: "How do I Install Gentoo Using a Stage1 or Stage2 Tarball? The Gentoo Handbook only describes a Gentoo installation using a stage3 tarball. However, Gentoo still provides stage1 and stage2 tarballs. This is for development purposes (the Release Engineering team starts from a stage1 tarball to obtain a stage3) but shouldn't be used by users: a stage3 tarball can very well be used to bootstrap the system. You do need a working Internet connection. Bootstrapping means building the toolchain (the C library and compiler) for your system after which you install all core system packages. To bootstrap the system, perform a stage3 installation. Before you start the chapter on Configuring the Kernel, modify the bootstrap.sh script to suit your needs and then run it: " I would just do a stage 3 install, forgetting the gui installer. > - Grant > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] turning off dhcp
On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 19:07:13 -0800 (PST) maxim wexler wrote: > --- Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 12:03:30 -0800 (PST), maxim > > wexler wrote: > > > > > I left the /etc/conf.d/(init.d?)net on both > > machines > > > UN-edited but only get the error message on the > > new > > > install on the i586. > > > > That file states that it will use DHCP unless you > > edit it to use static > > addresses. > > > > OK, I edited the net file on *both* machines > identically, like so: > > # For a static configuration, use something like this > # (They all do exactly the same thing btw) > config_eth0=( "192.168.0.2/24" ) > config_eth0=( "192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0" ) > > Now, the older box(K6) with the new install(2.6.15) > boots without error finds the NIC and sets up the > network. ifconfig reveals all is cool. > > But the newer box(Sempron) with the > earlier(2.6.12)kernel finds the on-board NIC but > doesn't set up the net nor give any errors. ifconfig > shows only the loop device is operational. The correct > module, forcedeth, *is* installed have you put net.eth0 in the runlevel? rc-update add net.eth0 default [snip useful info] -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] addusr (gentoo v. fedora)
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 20:32:42 + THUFIR HAWAT wrote: > On 3/21/06, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > .. > > if you add the -m argument to useradd, it will create the directory > > and own it by the user being added. > .. > > Ah, thanks all for responding :) > > > -Thufir Big tip of the day: emerge superadduser then utilise superadduser instead of adduser > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Lilypond version
search bugs.gentoo.org for "ALL lilypond" and you will see a number of bugs, including one referring to an ebuild for 2.7.0. You may also find the reason for later versions not being marked stable. The usual reason however is lack of developers. This aspect of gentoo is getting worse and worse. This is an observation. not a complaint. On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 19:44:21 -0300 Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: > Hi, I don't know where should I post this kind of message, but I need > to use lilypond as one of my working tools. I got stunned when I saw > today that lilypond version available at portage tree is 2.0.3 > the latest stable version is 2.6.5 and 2.0.3 is extreme old. > > Is there a reason that lilypond version is not up to date and > should I build myself ( without portage ) if I want to used it ? > > -- > An application asked: > "Requeires Windows 9x, NT4 or better", > so I´ve installed Linux > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help with Asterisk PABX
looks like you are not the only one: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85655 On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 09:49 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > Hi All, > I'm trying to play around with asterisk and I just emerged version 1.07 > and on startup I get these errors. > > $ sudo asterisk -vvc > > [res_features.so]Warning, flexible rate not heavily tested! > loader.c:258 > ast_load_resource: /usr/lib/asterisk/modules/res_features.so: undefined > symbol: adsi_available > loader.c:440 load_modules: Loading module res_features.so failed! > Ouch ... error while writing audio data: : Broken pipe > > > I've tried recompiling it again and it still spews the same thing. > > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] profile 2005.0 and missing make.defaults
On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 12:55:37 +0800 Ow Mun Heng wrote: > what is happening and why isn't there a make.defaults for 2005.0 > profile?? WIth this, euse isn't working There is a make.defaults for 2005.0. See /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.0/parent it contains a single entry .. (one dir up) one dir up has make.defaults, which is included by virtue of the "parent" entry. Its euse that is broken AFAIK > > $euse -i gtk > readlink: too many arguments > Try `readlink --help' for more information. > /usr/bin/euse: line 199: /make.defaults: No such file or directory > readlink: too many arguments > Try `readlink --help' for more information. > /usr/bin/euse: line 199: /make.defaults: No such file or directory > readlink: too many arguments > Try `readlink --help' for more information. > readlink: too many arguments > Try `readlink --help' for more information. > ERROR: /make.defaults is not readable > > > -- > Ow Mun Heng > Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz > 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! > Neuromancer 12:54:39 up 1 day, 3:39, 5 users, load average: 0.51, 0.40, > 0.33 > > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xine will not run
I believe this is caused by some library problem - have you recently re-compiled one of the libraries that xine depends on? If so you may need to re-compile xine. You could do more testing by running xine through strace emerge strace strace xine On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 14:44:05 +0100 Paul wrote: > Hi, > I am having trouble with xine, if I start it from the command line I get the > following error:- > > xiTK received SIGSEGV signal, RIP. > Aborted > > Any idea how to fix this? please > > Paul > -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] / approaching 100%
as root (because du will not count directories it cannot access) cd / du --max-depth=1|sort -n re-iterate by going into the next level you want to look at and doing the same On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 15:43:20 -0700 Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >I've got a remote Gentoo machine where the root / partition is > rapidly approaching 100% accoding to df. How can I fairly quickly > determine where the disk space is getting used? > > thanks, > Mark > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] A couple of weird portage errors
Can anyone help me with the following? I have a machine that is giving me this error : emerge -upD world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies - emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "virtual/pcmcia". !!! Problem with ebuild media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.6629-r1 !!! Possibly a DEPEND/*DEPEND problem. !!! Depgraph creation failed. nvidia-glx does not figure in any of the files in /etc/portage, but nvidia-kernel does sf portage # grep nvidia * package.keywords:=media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629-r4 ~x86 package.unmask:=media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629-r4 versions installed are (according to eix which has just been updated) sf portage # eix nvidia-glx * media-video/nvidia-glx Available versions: 1.0.6111-r1 1.0.6629-r1 *~1.0.6629-r5 *~1.0.7167-r1 *~1.0.7174-r1 Installed: 1.0.6629-r1 Homepage:http://www.nvidia.com/ Description: NVIDIA X11 driver and GLX libraries Found 1 matches sf portage # eix nvidia-kernel * media-video/nvidia-kernel Available versions: 1.0.6111-r3 1.0.6629-r1 1.0.6629-r4 *~1.0.7167-r1 *~1.0.7174 Installed: 1.0.6111-r3 1.0.6629-r4 Homepage:http://www.nvidia.com/ Description: Linux kernel module for the NVIDIA X11 driver Found 1 matches -- Nick Rout -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?
If the difference is thought to be kernel configuration, what is wrong with: diff knopppix.config gentoo.config I know there might be some extraneious stuff there that is irrelevant, but this could narrow things down quite considerably. knoppix is debian based, and debian traditionally has the .config stored in /boot IIRC. If not it might be obtainable from /proc/config.gz (obviously knoppix has to be running to get that one) On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 15:58:21 -0400 Robert G. Hays wrote: > Well, we know what the drive can do; at least, At Least!, so I am left > suspecting that the Gentoo kernel does not have the best setup for the > mobo, --or-- has something in there for safety that has the effect of > slowing the throughput down; make -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?
On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 18:44:20 -0400 Robert G. Hays wrote: > Might be 24+ hours before I get back from linux -- only do mail in > Netscape 7.1, which I only have in Win at the moment; working to get > linux full for my needs, which will include Netscape. IMHO move on to mozilla, unless there really is something showstopping holding you to netscrape. *shudder* have not used netscrape for many moons, didn't even know you could still get it? -- Nick Rout -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: Browsers and emailers [Was Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?]
On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 01:07 -0400, Robert G. Hays wrote: > Can Mozilla SHARE the Win/Netscape bookmarks, history, eddress-book, > **and** local accumulated-mail folders with my Win/Netscape ? I understand that the answer is "yes", although I have not done it. I think the answer would be the same for thunderbird/firefox. I have the same requirement with email, but solve it with imap. In other words I have a server with all my mail stored on it. I can access it with any client from any computer from any OS, including over the web via squirrelmail. I don't really know any mail clients that do not do imap. That, IMHO is the answer to accessing mail from different OSes, although it may not suit people who don't want or cannot afford another computer in their house/place of work. > > (I sometimes must spend *many* hours in Win to run tools and > applications to make money with. These programs (mostly related to > embedded tiny processors) are win-only, and have no > linux-equivalents, > and won't even run under Win4Lin since w4l9x basically does not > support > 'random' USB devices like embedded debuggers.) > > Feel free to jump in and educate me, Nick, folks! -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Misconceptions about Mac\Apple?
On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 13:24 -0600, Scott Taylor wrote: > The base is pretty much a linux but as has been mentioned before, they > have plenty of hardware-specific code and their cocoa which > realistically only works on their gear What rubbish, Mac does NOT run linux. The fact that it a posix-like unix-like system, and that lots of apps that will run on unix/linux will run on mac does not change the fact that linux is defined by the linux kernel, and the mac kernel is is certainly not a linux kernel. -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xine will not run
On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 14:18 +0100, Paul wrote: > Hi, > I have re-emerged xine and emerged strace. strace produced the following > error:- > futex(0x8114054, FUTEX_WAIT, 78, NULLxiTK received SIGSEGV signal, RIP. > ) = -1 EINTR (Interrupted system call) > +++ killed by SIGABRT +++ > I just don't know what to try next, any ideas?? > Paul in other words the same error, dressed up a bit! Unfortunately that means little to me, all i can suggest is google, but the threads I found there were pretty vague as to the cause. xine mailing list? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] USB wireless on laptop
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 16:58:32 -0500 LostSon wrote: > Well i have been at this for days and i have posted in the forums as well but > to no avail. so here goes > > Im having troubles getting my USB wireless working. I have the kernel configs > right i followed the how to on gentoo wiki. I have built my driver with > ndiswrapper and installed it as well. My led light comes on to let me know > the wireless module is working. Howerver when doing a iwconfig i get > > Code: > lo no wireless extensions > >eth0no wireless extensions is eth0 the wireless device or a wired ethernet port? If its a wired ethernet port then its pretty clear that the module for the card has not loaded, because otherwise it would have created a network interface. do the following: unplug the device dmesg -c plug in the device dmesg tell us what the second dmesg says. also what can you tell from /proc/bus/usb? ummm i assume you do have hotplug installed and running? > > > I updated my baselayout and all that as well. I had wireless working on this > laptop before with gentoo. I have recently done a fresh install. I wrote down > everything i did before to get it working but this time no luck > > The USB module is WirelessLAN Prism3 IEEE802.11b WM168 USB Module > > Im at a loss any ideas ?? Thanks. > > also i remember last time the card would show up with the lsusb command but > now all i get is this > > Code: > Bus 003 Device 001: ID : > Bus 002 Device 001: ID : > Bus 001 Device 001: ID : > > > as far as i know and believe i have USB enabled yes, i could be wrong though > how did you enable yours ? > also if i run iwconfig wlan0 i get this > > Code: > iwconfig wlan0 > wlan0 No such device > > > > its still not showing up > > i get this in dmesg > > Code: > Modules linked in: ndiswrapper > CPU:0 > EIP:0060:[]Tainted: G SVLI > EFLAGS: 00010212 (2.6.11-gentoo-r5) > EIP is at memcpy+0x1d/0x40 > eax: 0010 ebx: ccb30360 ecx: 0004 edx: > esi: c6eabecc edi: ebp: c6eabedc esp: c6eabea0 > ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 > Process artsd (pid: 7282, threadinfo=c6eaa000 task=ccd415b0) > Stack: c13f42e4 0050 c0331156 c6eabecc 0010 ccb30360 c0331f2a >ccb30360 c6eabecc 0050 0006 0005 >0001 8002 > Call Trace: > [] snd_timer_user_append_to_tqueue+0x46/0x50 > [] snd_timer_user_params+0x1ca/0x210 > [] snd_timer_user_ioctl+0x212/0x220 > [] do_ioctl+0x70/0xa0 > [] vfs_ioctl+0x65/0x1f0 > [] fd_install+0x2f/0x60 > [] sys_ioctl+0x45/0x70 > [] syscall_call+0x7/0xb > Code: 50 fd 31 c0 c3 31 d2 b8 f2 ff ff ff c3 90 83 ec 08 8b 44 24 14 89 34 24 > 8b 54 24 0c 89 7c 24 04 8b 74 24 10 89 c1 c1 e9 02 89 d7 a5 a8 02 74 02 > 66 a5 a8 01 74 01 a4 8b 34 24 89 d0 8b 7c 24 > > none of that looks as if it has anything to do with this problem, unless it is closely related in time to plugging or unplugging the device. > > but im not sure what it means any ideas, thanks. > -- > LostSon > > http://www.lostsonsvault.org -- Nick Rout -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: Pentium M is actually quite good. (Was: Re: Laptop_Mode was[Re: [OT] Ext3 Speed Issues? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] file system corrupted)])
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 07:26:39 -0400 Charles Pittman wrote: > > Do all Pentium M processors have integrated wireless? I guess that would > explain the wireless on/off button on the left-had side of my laptop (which > I can't use, because no program recognizes any of those hotkeys). No pentium m processors have integrated wireless. the pentium m is a cpu. However centrino machines have built in wireless, its part of the centrino spec. centrino also uses pentium m. but just because your machine has a pentium-m cpu, doesn't make it centrino. lspci should tell you if you have a wireless chipset in your machine. If it has a centrino sticker, then it should have wireless. Hope that clears up the confusion. -- Nick Rout -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] nmap results: need help
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 15:43:55 -0700 (PDT) death rince wrote: > hi, > > dunno if this is distribution specific, would > appreciate advice, it is on a redhat 9 machine, that > has to be replaced with gentoo. i had to come here > because i didn't get help else where. > > What I don't understand is the following. > > a) why does it show that the there is netbois ports samba? > b) why mysql is shown as unauthorised. > c) why is it showiing tftp as filtered. why it is open > in the first place > > I have attached the output of grep disable > /etc/xinetd.d/* below. > > I would appreciate some help on this. > > with regards > john doe > > > > 69/tcpfiltered tftp > 109/tcp open pop2 UW POP2 server > 2001.63rh > 110/tcp open pop3 UW Imap pop3 server > 2001.78rh > 135/tcp filtered msrpc > 137/tcp filtered netbios-ns > 138/tcp filtered netbios-dgm > 139/tcp filtered netbios-ssn > 143/tcp open imap UW imapd 2001.315rh > 445/tcp filtered microsoft-ds > 993/tcp open ssl/imap UW imapd 2001.315rh > 995/tcp open ssl/pop3 UW Imap pop3 server > 2001.78rh > 3306/tcp open mysqlMySQL (unauthorized) > 1/tcp open http Webmin httpd > > > > ./amanda: disable = yes > ./amandaidx:disable = yes > ./amidxtape:disable = yes > ./chargen: disable = yes > ./chargen-udp: disable = yes > ./comsat: disable = yes > ./daytime: disable = yes > ./daytime-udp: disable = yes > ./dbskkd-cdb: disable = yes > ./echo: disable = yes > ./echo-udp: disable = yes > ./eklogin: disable = yes > ./finger: disable = yes > ./gssftp: disable = yes > ./imap: disable = no > ./imaps:disable = no > ./ipop2:disable = no > ./ipop3:disable = no > ./klogin: disable = yes > ./krb5-telnet: disable = yes > ./kshell: disable = yes > ./ntalk:disable = yes > ./pop3s:disable = no > ./rexec:disable = yes > ./rlogin: disable = yes > ./rsh: disable = yes > ./rsync:disable = yes > ./servers: disable = yes > ./services: disable = yes > ./swat: disable = yes > ./talk: disable = yes > ./telnet: disable = yes > ./tftp: disable = yes > ./time: disable = yes > ./time-udp: disable = yes > > > > __ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! > http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout Barrister & Solicitor Christchurch <http://www.rout.co.nz> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to set a custom DNS server in resolv.conf when dncp.
On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 13:36 +0800, Penghui Wang wrote: > Hi lists: > > My computer uses dhcp-client to get IP and other useful information from > a dhcp server. During the period, my box would receive the IP address > and DNS server from the dhcp server. > > Here is my /etc/conf.d/net > > iface_eth0="dhcp" > dhcpcd_eth0="-h $HOSTNAME" > > and my /etc/resolv.conf would be setted to > > nameserver 192.168.0.138 > nameserver 192.168.0.138 > search example > > But i have built a DNS server on my own box. Then i > want /etc/resolv.conf to be set as the follow. > > nameserver 127.0.0.1 > search example > > What operations i need to do now? How is the correct /etc/conf.d/net? > > Thanks in advance. > > Wang Penghui Change your dhcp server to not set dns. or run dhcpcd with the -R option (clearly referred to in the man page thus: "-R Prevents dhcpcd from replacing existing /etc/resolv.conf file." > > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Personal Video Recorders
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 18:02:40 -0400 Lucien D. wrote: > Little update on what I said about the VIA mini-itx boards. Been > looking at them a little. Thie via EPIA SP, one of their newest > boards has a graphic processor with integrated MPEG-2 decoder and > MPEG-4 accelerator, not 100% sure what that is. > http://www.viaembedded.com/product/epia_sp_spec.jsp?motherboardId=261 > > It looks pretty sweet, and apparently they've released some of their > drivers for 2.6 as open source. > http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20050412PR204.html That is good news, but what is really needed is an open source driver for the mpeg-2 decoder, and (now) the "mpeg-4 accelerator" - as you say, whatever that is! > > one drawback is only a single pci slot, so u couldn't have more than > one tuner. but if u wanted to divide between a backend and frontend > this would make a great frontend. you can put in a riser and get two pci slots, which are then parallel to the mainboard and your case can still be slimline. (at least you can on the m series boards, i assume this one will be the same in that respect. > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: Pentium M is actually quite good. (Was: Re: Laptop_Mode was[Re: [OT] Ext3 Speed Issues? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] file system corrupted)])
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 11:58:39 -0400 Byron Pezan wrote: > > FYI here is an lspci output from a Dell Centrino machine. The Broadcom > entry at the bottom is the builtin wireless card, which incidentally > only works with NDISWrapper. AFAIK the Centrino branding requires Intel/PRO wireless stuff, not broadcom. How does your machine get a centrino sticker? or is broadcom a rebadged intel wireless set? or has the standard been relaxed? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrino http://www.intel.com/products/centrino/ [snip] > > > Controller (rev 20) > :02:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g > Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03) > > Byron > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a Mail Auto-Responder for Web via Email
With procmail you can pipe any message to any program you like Just start the "action" line with the pipe symbol eg: :0: :0 *^Subject.*Script |myprocessing.sh You might want some heavy security checking in the script! :-) On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 13:47 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > Hi All, > > Has any seen/tried to implement some sort of mail-responder to grab > webpages via email?? eg? set up a procmail recipe that waits on a > predefined set of message body > > GRAB http://www.google.com > > and then it will use lynx --dump or curl to grab the page and re-sends > it back to the original mail sender?? > > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Personal Video Recorders
On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 13:30 +0100, Ognjen Bezanov wrote: > > > > > from what i heard (an i have been a Mini-Itx Follower for over 5 years > now) is that Via had just a few days ago released all their drivers for > the Mini-ITX chipsets under open source licenses (including the graphics > acceleration) to boost linux support for its boards in the embedded/PVR > market. > > This means that the Mini-ITX's should soon have very good (if not > excellent) open source support, but currently we have to wait for all > these opensource drivers to be implemented by the community (they were > released only a few days ago, not enough > time to gather volunteers to develop/cleanup the code, merge with linux > kernel etc...) AFAIK this is not completely correct, as the mpeg-2 decoder is still a binary module with no available source code. This may apply to other parts of the hardware too. >From my point of view with a 1G-1.2G processor, the hardware mpeg-2 decoding is a key component, leave it out of the open bundle and its very annoying. > > Here is the news item regarding the drivers: > > http://www.epiacenter.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=508&mode=&order=0&thold=0 > > > Also note that you can get PCI riser cards which will give you two PCI > slots with the mini-itx (there exist ones which even give three slots, > but these are rare (and quite pricy) ) > > And there is in the works an EPIA-specific linux distro (with all the > drivers/kernel patches already in there) which is in beta (and i think > its based on gentoo, not sure, better check). Its known as /epiOS. /If > you have to have support for the hardware now (before the VIA drivers > become stable and merged into the general kernel tree) i would suggest > to try that distro. > > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Question about kernel-equivalence
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 16:06:46 -0400
Robert G. Hays wrote:
> ok, now that i've rebooted windoze again and email is -maybe- working
> again, i'll finish that email. doe anybody know where i might find the
> kernel-derivations and maybe patches?
>
> thanks,
> rgh
What do you mean derivations?
The patches for any gentoo kernel set are usually
genpatches-${KV_MAJOR}.${KV_MINOR}-${GPV}-base.tar.bz2 and
genpatches-${KV_MAJOR}.${KV_MINOR}-${GPV}-extras.tar.bz2
they are patched over a vanilla kernel.
see the ebuild for details
less `equery which gentoo-sources`
>
>
> Robert G. Hays wrote:
>
> > Trey Thank You.
> >
> > That didn't make things easier, but at least I know so I don't step
> > off a cliff (and i ain't no cartoon-character neither) by making a bad
> > assumption about the kernel. There are one or two obvious things I
> > can do, although they do take serious time. Sigh. I gotta think
> > about this some more
> >
> > I got a slow-panic on both of the (Linux/Win4Lin(/tarantula:1))
> > servers that I maintain, so I gotta "do some of that [admin] stuff!"
> > now...
> >
> > Thanks again!
> > rgh.
> >
> >
> > --
> > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
> >
> >
>
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> gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
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Re: [gentoo-user] Question about kernel-equivalence
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 18:36:50 -0400 Robert G. Hays wrote: > > > > <...derivations...> That is, which > kernel.org kernel-w.x.y.z > did which > gentoo kernel-w.x.y-gentoo-rz > come from, then get patched, and with which patches. Oh and by the way if you just want the sources that Linus built, then emerge vanilla-sources, there will be no patching from the kernel.org sources. > > I still gotta man equery & which. > Next time I boot to linux. equery is a general tool for mucking about with portage, and finding info about packages. equery which gives the full name and path of the ebuild that will be used if you emerge eg: [EMAIL PROTECTED] nick $ equery which samba /usr/portage/net-fs/samba/samba-3.0.13.ebuild if you put the command in back-ticks ` then its like typing the output of the command inside the ` ` on the command line eg less `equery which samba` (note the backticks, they are hard to spot) is equivalent to less /usr/portage/net-fs/samba/samba-3.0.13.ebuild (except that it always gives the up to date ebuld as reported by equery) in other words its just a shortcut to read the ebuild file. Note also that back ticks are deprecated, in favour of this construct: less $(equery which samba) - which gives the same result, although there is some technical difference that doesn't matter right now. I try and force myself to use the new $() way instead of back-ticks, but its one more character to type and all that shift keying to get the $() > > Thank you again!, > robert. > > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout Barrister & Solicitor Christchurch <http://www.rout.co.nz> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a Mail Auto-Responder for Web via Email
I knew a guy once who worked in a call centre, he did not have web access, but had email access. If he wanted to view a web page he sent an email to some external provider with the url in the body of the email, and a short time later he would get the web page back as an attachment. OK so he was getting around a restriction imposed by his employers, but he wasn't doing t much harm :) Secondly I have seen an email to fax gateway implemented in this way. Thirdly you could use it to do something like home control To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Warm up TURNON AIR_CONDITIONING 22C Plus some authentication!! On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 12:30:00 -0400 Robert G. Hays wrote: > A. Khattri wrote: > > >Sounds like a great way to send spam. > > > Or worse. Why is this needed? > rgh. > > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout Barrister & Solicitor Christchurch <http://www.rout.co.nz> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] SSH printing to remote printer
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/5462 On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 18:22:36 -0600 Joseph wrote: > Here is my setup; > my gentoo box1 <-> internet <-> remote firewall/print server <-> remote > gentoo box2 >| >V > printer > > I want to print a "document" from my "gentoo box1" to a printer that is > connected to "remote firewall/print server" WITHOUT COPYING DOCUMENT to > "remote gentoo box2". > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mount
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 18:29:35 -0400 Robert G. Hays wrote: > If using an Intel or AMD (etc) cpu, and if you have your source-dir set > as it should be, this is exactly: > cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot > and add the new kernel to your grub or lilo. > rgh If you are using grub and you call the kernel bzImage then you do not need to change anything in grub. - ie if the kernel is the same name as the previous kernel. If you are running lilo you need to run the lilo program even if the kernel name remains the same, because it will occupy different blocks on the disk. -- Nick Rout -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a Mail Auto-Responder for Web via Email
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 21:18:32 -0400 (EDT) A. Khattri wrote: > On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Nick Rout wrote: > > > Thirdly you could use it to do something like home control > > > > To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject:Warm up > > > > TURNON AIR_CONDITIONING 22C > > Scary. > > > Plus some authentication!! > > Yes, some VERY GOOD form of authentication would have to be employed... some sort of gpg signing I suppose. > > > -- > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Software Suspend2 using Gentoo Ebuilds - New Magazine MyOSS Mag
Definitely not spam, thats a great article. two questions - do any of the "standard" (ie in portage) kernel ebuilds include this patch? - is it possible to patch the gentoo-sources kernel with the suspend2 patch? Or will it only apply cleanly to a vanilla kernel? Just off to power up my laptop and try to get this going! On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 16:48 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > Hi All, > > Sorry if this is SPAM to some. This article was written for the newest > Free Online Magazine called MyOSS Magazine. Written by Me and reviewed > by Nigel Cunningham. > > Feel free to download and distribute. :-) > > Suspending with Software Suspend 2 > Learn about the successor to the linux suspend-to-disk (Software > Suspend) implementation. We bring to you its history, its design goals > and its features. In the end, we bring you a full tutorial on how to get > up and running with Suspend2. Get from a running system to full > suspend-to-disk in 15 seconds or lower. > > > Visit the Site --> http://mag.my-opensource.org > > Comments are appreciated. > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xdm and gdm login windows are different - how can I specify which to use
read the fine manual and look in /etc/rc.conf, it is all explained. On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 08:25:01 +1000 Richard Watson wrote: > Probably an obvious question but for the life of me I can't figure out how > to make xdm show the gdm login window at boot. > > To explain when I set "rc-update add xdm default" the login window is > different to the one shown when I run gdm at the commandline. > > I prefer the gdm login window. My wife is Italian and sometimes she prefers > to work off the desktop in Italian, and other times in English. The gdm > window allows her to easily switch between languages -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 100% disk full again
On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 07:50:14 -0400 Eric S. Johansson wrote: > right? wrong? what does a portage cleaner look like? http://clug.net.nz/index.php/GentooTips > > --- eric > > -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xdm and gdm login windows are different - how can I specify which to use
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 10:31:43 +1200 Jamie Dobbs wrote: > Try > > rc-update del xdm default > rc-update add gdm default > > This will change your logon manager to gdm BZZZT wrong! Change DISPLAYMANAGER= in /etc/rc.conf There is no /etc/init.d/gdm (or kdm) script in gentoo. > > Richard Watson wrote: > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Keeping files synced
unison http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ its in portage On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 22:15:45 -0400 Tom Moyer wrote: > I routinely switch between two different systems, and was wondering if > there was an easy way to keep my files synced between the two systems. > I'm wondering if there is an application I can use or anything like > that? > > Tom -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Who vets the gentoo front page ads?
Now I don't mind a strip of ads down the page on the gentoo web server, but when I click on the one that says "No BS Dedicated Gentoo Linux Servers from vr.org." and get a page that says : "The vr.org server special has ended. Please check back in the next few weeks for information on our next special or sign up to be notified & be first in line. If you want more information about our previous offer, you can see it here. Thanks for your interest, The vr.org Team" it just annoys me. Its has been like that for at least a few weeks, it doesn't inspire me to use vr.org, it doesn't instill me with confidence in the people who actually vet these ads and put them on gentoo's front page. -- Nick Rout -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Fax Server that can email Tif image
you probably want hylafax, its in portage, and I have had it going on a gentoo box. I am yet to complete the project. Also a quick google found this: http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/July2002/article249.shtml If you look at the bit about how to process the faxes (the author prints them and saves them in a backup directory) - you can change this to email them to any email address. I would change it to a pdf first, because pdf reading software seems to be more ubiquitous than tiff reading software. ie, you are quite likely to find acrobat reader in some random office/web cafe etc. On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 08:17:48 +1000 Richard Watson wrote: > Hi - I'm interested in finding out if I can set-up my Gentoo box to replace > my fax machine. Can it then be set-up to email me the received faxes > automatically on receipt. I travel a lot for work and it would be REALLY > useful. > > Regards, Richard > > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.9.15 - Release Date: 16/04/2005 > > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] route problem when reboot from eth1 to eth1
although you say you are using only eth0 OR eth1, it looks like you are using both, even when the LAN connection is not plugged in. when on wireless try /etc/init.d/net.eth0 stop and see if that fixes it. If that is the problem we should then look for a more permanent solution. On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 22:20:50 + Lingyun Yang wrote: > Hi all, > > I met a problem when I reboot from using eth1(wireless) to eth0, > I can't connect to internet, and after I delete one of the default route > it works, restart eth0 doesn't work for me. > > My home network: > > notebook eth0 ->Switch --->Gentoo(Iptables)---cable > modem--> Internet > | | > |> eth1->wireless router > > > I don't know how the route table comes out: > > when I can't connect, I typed route: > > walnut ~ # route > Kernel IP routing table > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface > 192.168.2.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth1 > 192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth0 > loopbacklocalhost 255.0.0.0 UG0 00 lo > default 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG0 00 eth0 > default 192.168.2.1 0.0.0.0 UG0 00 eth1 > > Is it normal ? > > These problem also makes my mozilla starts very slow. > > > My question is How to make /etc/init.d/net.eth* clear every thing > doesn't use any cache like things, > > by the way, my eth1 starting script is a soft link to eth0 > > > Thank you! > > Lingyun > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout Barrister & Solicitor Christchurch <http://www.rout.co.nz> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Recommendations for Webcams
option 1 take your laptop in and plug the camera in option 2 take a knoppix cd in, boot a computer in the shop and plug the camera in option 3 look for cameras then seek advice from this list or google about particular brands or models. On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 22:00:23 +0100 Jan Drugowitsch wrote: > On 4/20/05, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Jan Drugowitsch gmail.com> writes: > > > > Test before you purchase is my recommendation. > > Thanks for all the information! The testing before purchase won't be > easy, but I'll see what the shops say about that. > > Jan > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout \ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mplayer looks always blue
emerge mplayer should give you gmplayer, as well as mplayer, although there are so many USE flags for mplayer, and one or other of them may affect whether gmplayer is actually built. Maybe the gtk flag? emerge kmplayer for the kde front end. emerge xmmplayer OR xmms-xmmsmplayer for an mplayer plugin to xmms (I am not sure what the difference is between those two, eix found them for me) On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 11:26:34 +1200 (NZST) Jamie Dobbs wrote: > I don't have that problem, but I only seem to have command line access to > mplayer and no gui - there something that I haven't emerged, or some USE > flag I haven't turned on that will give me a pretty gui? > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 100% disk full again
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 20:40:46 -0500 Kirk Schneider wrote: > > Corrected script, suggest using with >portage-2.0.51. > > Here's a script I have to handle running the updates. > > If the portage hasn't been synced that day, it will clean out > the ccache files why do you clean ccache, doesn't that defeat the purpose of ccache? >and distfiles, > why do you clean out distfiles? what if a new r version of a package comes out that uses the same source files? some of us don't have unlimited bandwidth or big pipes. >then sync portage. > > Last line runs emerge to start updating the all the packages. > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] error emerging vlc
on my system that library appears to be provided by media-libs/xvid check whether xvid is installed, if it isn't, and it is a dependency for vlc then file a bug report at bugs.gentoo.org On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 21:20:03 -0500 Qv6 wrote: > > Folks: > > Please! > Need help emerging vlc. Get this error when I try: > > "*configure: error: Cannot fine libxvidcore library...*" > > Any clues will be appreciated. > > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 100% disk full again
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 22:33:06 -0500 Kirk Schneider wrote: > Considering your problem of slow downloads, I have changed the script > to remove files that have been on the system after 30 number of days. > Adjust the number of days based on your needs. well I sure can't complain about your responsiveness as a developer! -- Nick Rout -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tweaking USE settings
try emerge info to see what the end result of all the files. Also remember you have stackable (is that the name? its late) profiles. your profile is in /u/p/p/default.linux/x86/2005.0 but note the "parent" file in there, this contains a single entry: ".." - this means that everything in the directory above is also part of the profile. And guess what, so does the dir above have a parent file. And so on. so the make.defaults files in each of the included directories may add something to the profile. emerge info is a far easier way of seeing the end result! On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 20:23 +, James wrote: > Dave Nebinger joat.com> writes: > > > > ls -l /etc/make.profile should indicate what profile you're linked to. > > How come all of those 'use.defaults' files still > have 2004.x in the path names instead of 2005.0 ? > > > I believe the 2005.x standard is to use the > > /u/p/p/default-linux/use.defaults; the 2004 version(s) were used by those > > specific profiles. In fact if you look at the listing it would appear that > > the intention is that the profile-specific use.defaults are extensions to > > the d-l/use.defaults file, indicating that at some point along the way it > > was determined that no 2005.x specific additions are necessary. Obviously > > there are others more qualified than I to answer this one correctly. > > > Thanks, > > James > > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 100% disk full again
On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 08:50 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > Cleaning all distfiles was a decision I made on having high speed > > downloads. Considering your problem of slow downloads, I have > changed > > the script to remove files that have been on the system after 30 > number > > of days. Adjust the number of days based on your needs. > > There are scripts that clean out distfiles based on which are not > needed > by currently install packages. That seems a more appropriate approach > to > me than deleting everything over a randomly chosen age. This one (not my original work) I liked: http://clug.net.nz/index.php/GentooTips -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how to read dvd (encrypted) with mplayer
was the dvd USE flag on when you compiled mplayer? If so, the necessaries should have been dragged in. On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 12:43 +0200, Al Bayrouni wrote: > Hello all > > I have one movie dvd that I had get at dvdtheque. > I can't read it. > > which libraries I need? > > Thank you > Bayrouni. > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Where is video in Gentoo? (/dev/XXX)
On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 16:15 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > But isn't bttv required? MAybe I've misread somewhere. not for ivtv AFAIK > > As for ivtv yes, I've been trying to emerge ivtv all day long. > Something's wrong with the ebuild or the source code serverI guess. I > filed a quick bug report a couple of hours ago. > perhaps thats why it is masked :) > Is that driver required before the /dev/v4l/XXX is created? yes, quite likely. Anyway, your logs/dmesg should show whats going on. -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Where is video in Gentoo? (/dev/XXX)
On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 14:48 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > Appears to be udev: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ps aux | grep udev > root 4698 0.0 0.0 1428 436 ?S mark 16051 0.0 0.0 1476 464 pts/0R+ 14:47 0:00 grep udev > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ > I haven't got udev on the system with v4l on it, still on devfs. I would take a good look at dmesg, it should show the device being found and the device name allocated, or else the kernel log file (which varies from system to system). But wait, theres more... Re-reading your original post, you refer to the PVR-250 card and to the bttv driver BUT! the bttv driver does not drive the PVR-250. You need the ivtv driver. (I am assuming you are referring to the Hauppauge PVR-250) In fact, unless you also have a bt/conexant based card as well as the pvr-250, I cannot figure why bttv is loaded at all. > On 4/22/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 4/22/05, Christoph Gysin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > > > >Nick, > > > > you and Lucian seem to be on the same tack but I do not have a > > > >/dev/v4l directory: > > > > > > > >dragonfly ~ # ls -la /dev/v4* > > > >ls: /dev/v4*: No such file or directory > > > >dragonfly ~ # > > > > > > > >Video4Linux is compiled and I've got some device drivers loaded, but > > > >no v4l devices. One that has an interesting name anyway is > > > >/dev/vttuner, but no v4l. > > > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Advice sought on M9000 epia myth-box setup
I have a recently acquired M9000 epia box. I want to make a gentoo mythtv box. I have set up myth before, but not on an epia box. This machine has a Ezra C3 processor and castlerock graphics (lspci and /proc/cpuinfo below). This page http://gentoo-wiki.com/Safe_Cflags tells me I should use CHOST="i586-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=i586 -m3dnow -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" The gentoo install instructions also tell me that if I do a stage three install I cannot change CHOST, so am I right in saying that I have a choice of either doing a stage 1 install and getting i586 from scratch, or else I do an i386 stage 2 or 3 and then I am stuck with i386? And anyway what is the practical difference between i386 and i586 in terms of performance? I haven't done a stage one install before, but I will if there is going to be an appreciable difference in performance. Secondly, I am aware of this Howto http://www.epiawiki.org/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=EpiaHowto However I am not sure how up to date it is, and seek advice as to whether there is anything more up to date, particularly as I am aware of VIA recently opening at least some of their sources. Naturally I am keen to get hardware mpeg-2 decoding working, as well as tv-out. I intend to get a hauppauge pvr-250 or maybe a pvr-150 card for the tuner, these cards have hardware mpeg-2 encoding, and with the onboard mpeg-2 decoding I should be able to squeeze suffcient performance out of it to do some basic hard disk recording, as well as play dvd's. Any comments or hints are appreciated. livecd root # lspci :00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8623 [Apollo CLE266] :00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8633 [Apollo Pro266 AGP] :00:0d.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 80) :00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 80) :00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 80) :00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 80) :00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82) :00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge :00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT8233/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) :00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50) :00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 74) :01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8623 [Apollo CLE266] integrated CastleRock graphics (rev 03 livecd root # cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : CentaurHauls cpu family : 6 model : 8 model name : VIA C3 Ezra stepping: 9 cpu MHz : 933.098 cache size : 64 KB fdiv_bug: no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug: no coma_bug: no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu de tsc msr cx8 mtrr pge mmx 3dnow bogomips : 1839.10 -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
