[gentoo-amd64] sorry for not being around

2006-03-09 Thread Gavin
hi, The dogs chewed thru the broadband cable.

[gentoo-amd64] /dev/hda1 won't mount from grub

2006-03-09 Thread Gavin
Hi, I reinstalled and the boot partition wont mount.  It is reiser, boot flag set on hda1.   However, it boots from grub command line.  Can anyone help? Gavin

[gentoo-amd64] grafics not working

2006-03-09 Thread Gavin
      On my new inst. (latest) I get nop gfx and no penguin at bt.  Has the support for ati cards alterted?

Re: [gentoo-amd64] /dev/hda1 won't mount from grub

2006-03-09 Thread Gavin
MAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 3:26 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] /dev/hda1 won't mount from grub On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 03:11:26PM -, Gavin wrote: Hi, I reinstalled and the boot partition wont mount. It is reiser, boot flag set on hda1. However, it boot

Re: [gentoo-amd64] /dev/hda1 won't mount from grub

2006-03-09 Thread Gavin
yes. different names but root same and hda3 not sda - Original Message - From: "Brett Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 4:44 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] /dev/hda1 won't mount from grub On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 03:54:12PM -0

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: /dev/hda1 won't mount from grub

2006-03-10 Thread Gavin
ubject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: /dev/hda1 won't mount from grub Gavin posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Thu, 09 Mar 2006 15:54:12 +: sorry for my shallow q? when it trys to boot it immediatley gives an error complaining it can't mount '/dev/hda1`. I then goto&

Re: [gentoo-amd64] /dev/hda1 won't mount from grub

2006-03-10 Thread Gavin
Here's my conf, the kernel is a 'ln -s' to /boot/bzimage. Gavin. - Original Message - From: "Gavin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 5:09 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] /dev/hda1 won't mount from grub yes. different

Re: [gentoo-amd64] /dev/hda1 won't mount from grub

2006-03-10 Thread Gavin
default 0 timeout 3 #splashimage=(hd0,0)boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz title=GENTOOLINUX-2.6.15-R7 root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.15-gentoo-r7 root=/dev/hda3 sorry - Original Message - From: "Gavin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 1:03 PM Subj

Re: [gentoo-amd64] /dev/hda1 won't mount from grub

2006-03-10 Thread Gavin
d64] /dev/hda1 won't mount from grub On Thursday 09 March 2006 09:11, "Gavin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-amd64] /dev/hda1 won't mount from grub': Hi, I reinstalled and the boot partition wont mount. It is reiser, Reiser, eh? Some versions of

[gentoo-amd64] test

2005-12-01 Thread Gavin Seddon
-- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-amd64] k3b not workong

2005-12-01 Thread Gavin Seddon
app-cdr/cdrdao-1.2.0-r1 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 63, Exitcode 2 !!! could not compile' Can anyone help? Gavin. ps. This is my work email, so no Camellions in sight. -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchest

Re: [gentoo-amd64] k3b not workong

2005-12-01 Thread Gavin Seddon
[all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/cdrdao-1.2.0-r1/work/cdrdao-1.2.0' make: *** [all] Error 2 !!! ERROR: app-cdr/cdrdao-1.2.0-r1 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 63, Exitcode 2 !!! could not compile' tHANKS. n Thu, 2005-12-01 at 07:27 -0600

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: k3b not working [fixed]

2005-12-02 Thread Gavin Seddon
Duncan's suggestion worked... Thanks. Gavin. On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 15:36 -0700, Duncan wrote: > Gavin Seddon posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted > below, on Thu, 01 Dec 2005 14:39:45 +: > > > > > > > hI, > > wITH 'CDRDAO' i RECEIVED

[gentoo-amd64] kile wizard only works when root

2005-12-02 Thread Gavin Seddon
acted the maintainers. They haven't helped. Gavin. -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] kile wizard only works when root[fixed]

2005-12-03 Thread Gavin Seddon
n::KActionCollection( QObject *parent, const char *name, KInstance *instance ) KCrash: Application 'kile' crashing... Unable to start Dr. Konqi' Drkonqi is merged and I am in 'wheel' Thanks. Everything else seems ok so I will leave this Q? Gavin. On Fri, 2005-12-02 at

[gentoo-amd64] vmware

2005-12-04 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, I have tried to start vmware and I get 'failed to start unable to connect to peer process. I have purchased vm previously but this still happens with my serial. Do I need this and can anyone help? Gavin. -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Universi

Re: [gentoo-amd64] vmware

2005-12-05 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hithanks for all the responses. If I chgrp to vmware will I be able to use su? Gavin On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 16:37 +, theboywho wrote: > On Sunday 04 December 2005 16:16, Nuitari wrote: > > > Hi, I have tried to start vmware and I get > > > 'failed to start unable

Re: [gentoo-amd64] vmware

2005-12-06 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, Thanks. I usually edit '/etc/group' but the extra info is v. useful. Gavin. On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 08:20 -0600, Brett Johnson wrote: > There are a couple ways of modifying groups; > > First you can use "vigr", this will load /etc/groups in your default > ed

[gentoo-amd64] further vmware issues

2005-12-06 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, vmware begins to start, then I get a few errors before it stops 'could not open /dev/vmmon failed to initialize monitor device unable to find a valid peer to connect to unable to reply to the dialog pipe read failed' Can anyone help? -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Phar

Re: [gentoo-amd64] further vmware issues

2005-12-06 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, I tried to remerge but, 'Oemerge remodprobe Calculating dependencies emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "remodprobe".' Thanks Gavin ps I 'rm -rf /etc/vmware' n Tue, 2005-12-06 at 21:27 +0800, Taka John Brunkhorst wrote: > remodprobe, reconfig -- D

[gentoo-amd64] athlon-xp

2005-12-06 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi I am so impressed with Gentoo I have volunteered to put it on a pals pc. He has an athlon-xp. Would this use a x86 inst. cd? -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-amd64] vmware [fixed]

2005-12-07 Thread Gavin Seddon
to connect to peer process. > > > I have purchased vm previously but this still happens with my serial. > > > Do I need this and can anyone help? > > > Gavin. > > > > It can be 2 things > > Either /dev/vmmon is missing or you do not have permissions for

[gentoo-amd64] memory

2005-12-07 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, I have decided to put 2 * 1Gig cards in my box. Will Gentoo accept this immediately? Gavin -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-amd64] scsi tape

2005-12-07 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, When I first booted the inst. cd it wouldn't. So I removed the initio scsi controller for my tape and all was ok. During my exploits I noticed an initio module. I compiled scsi tape into the kernel. Should it work now or do you recommend a different controller, if so, which? Thanks.

[gentoo-amd64] initio seen, mt -f doesn't work

2005-12-08 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, I have a scsi tape with an initio controller. 'dmesg' sees initio 360p. But when I use mt I get ' mt -f /dev/st0 eject /dev/st0: No such device or address' Where will the tape be? Thanks. -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Ma

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: initio seen, mt -f doesn't work

2005-12-08 Thread Gavin Seddon
Yes /dev/st0 is there. How should I start the device, as far as I remember I built all scsi modules into the kernel. Gavin. On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 07:40 -0700, Duncan wrote: > find /dev/ -name st0" -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Mancheste

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: initio seen, mt -f doesn't work

2005-12-08 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, root is in tape group. I cannot use mt as a user anyway. I can't see initio in 'dmesg' anymore, also?? Thanks On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 08:13 -0700, Duncan wrote: > Gavin Seddon posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted > below, on Thu, 08 Dec 2005 14:57:31 +: >

Re: [gentoo-amd64] initio seen, mt -f doesn't work

2005-12-09 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi Script attached. I am going to rebuild the kernel anyway. Gavin On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 11:46 -0500, Billy Holmes wrote: > Brett Johnson wrote: > > As an example, look for your primary hard drive entry (hda, hde, sda etc). > > There should be a similar entry for st0 after it d

Re: [gentoo-amd64] initio seen, mt -f doesn't work

2005-12-09 Thread Gavin Seddon
Thanks Which modules do I need to add to 'etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6'? Gavin. On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 08:08 -0600, Brett Johnson wrote: > > st: Version 20050830, fixed bufsize 32768, s/g segs 256 > > It appears to me that the st driver is loading properly, but I did

Re: [gentoo-amd64] initio seen, mt -f doesn't work

2005-12-11 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, When I modprobe initio I get the single word 'killed' at which the whole system freezes and I have to switch off at the box. Do I need to modify the kernel? Thanks. On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 12:14 -0600, Brett Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 05:55:28PM +, Gavin

Re: [gentoo-amd64] initio seen, mt -f doesn't work

2005-12-12 Thread Gavin Seddon
Is there a way of determining the board type, other than opening the box and removing the card. I don't have it's original box. Thanks. On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 07:39 -0600, Brett Johnson wrote: > On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 10:32:20AM +, Gavin Seddon wrote: > > Hi, > >

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: k3b not working [fixed]

2005-12-12 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, 1.2.0 is in my package list. How do I find 1.2.1? On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 16:34 +, Luis Medinas wrote: > 1.2.1 -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: k3b not working [fixed]

2005-12-12 Thread Gavin Seddon
On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 10:14 +, Gavin Seddon wrote: > > Hi, > > 1.2.0 is in my package list. How do I find 1.2.1? > > > you should read portage documentation available on www.gentoo.org > > but you can simply upgrade to 1.2.1 doing this > echo "ap

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: initio seen, mt -f doesn't work

2005-12-12 Thread Gavin Seddon
ich works. On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 04:57 -0700, Duncan wrote: > Gavin Seddon posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted > below, on Mon, 12 Dec 2005 09:50:56 +: > > > Is there a way of determining the board type, other than opening the box > > and removing the ca

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: k3b not working [fixed]

2005-12-12 Thread Gavin Seddon
advanced and I WILL study it more. Sorry for the redundant questions. On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 05:24 -0700, Duncan wrote: > Gavin Seddon posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted > below, on Mon, 12 Dec 2005 11:29:29 +: > > > I had found this > > > > http://u

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: k3b not working [fixed]

2005-12-12 Thread Gavin Seddon
I see, you mean truncating it like this. On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 05:24 -0700, Duncan wrote: > Gavin Seddon posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted > below, on Mon, 12 Dec 2005 11:29:29 +: > > > I had found this > > > > http://users.dslextreme.com/~craig.lawso

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: Re: k3b not working [fixed]

2005-12-12 Thread Gavin Seddon
Coffee time. I ave endless questions tho' -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: Re: k3b not working [fixed]

2005-12-12 Thread Gavin Seddon
have come from some of > my worst mistakes! That to me seems fortunate. > > What is unfortunate is the person who can not recover or learn from their > mistakes (which was not the case here). -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Ox

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: Re: k3b not creating bootable cd

2005-12-12 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi I just attempted to burn an is for Gentoo for the pc here but after it read in the iso the start button didn't appear. I looked in setup>devices and none were listed. Also, when preparing the image for 'iso cue toc' it is using mkisofs not cdrecord. Is this correct for a cd image? -- gentoo

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: initio seen, mt -f doesn't work

2005-12-16 Thread Gavin Seddon
On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 18:36 -0800, Steve Herber wrote: > Besides lspci and lsusb, I like lshw. > > sys-apps/lshw > > >From the man page: > > lshw is a small tool to extract detailed information on the hardware > configuration of the machine. It can report exact memory configuration, > f

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: initio seen, mt -f doesn't work

2005-12-16 Thread Gavin Seddon
ersion: 02 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: scsi bus_master resources: ioport:c400-c4ff iomemory:ff5fe000-ff5fefff irq:5' -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road, Mancheste

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: initio seen, mt -f doesn't work

2005-12-16 Thread Gavin Seddon
On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 09:17 -0600, Brett Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 02:56:38PM +0000, Gavin Seddon wrote: > > description: SCSI storage controller > > product: 360P > > vendor: Initio Corporation > >

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: initio seen, mt -f doesn't work

2005-12-19 Thread Gavin Seddon
11:46 AM > Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: initio seen, mt -f doesn't work > > > > On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 04:26:23PM +, Gavin Seddon wrote: > >> This is my 1st Gentoo and the tape never worked on Debian. It does work > >> on Redhat/Fedora but a tape&#x

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: initio seen, mt -f doesn't work

2005-12-19 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, I am not thinking of fedora as an option. I will go to the 2.4 kernel and get removable hdds in the future. Do I put the 2.4 name in '/etc/portage/package.keywords'" and emerge the source then genkernel --menuconfig kernel? -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: initio seen, mt -f doesn't work

2005-12-19 Thread Gavin Seddon
0MB\80MB/sec. > - Original Message - > From: "Brett Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Monday, December 19, 2005 9:28 AM > Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: initio seen, mt -f doesn't work > > > > On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 10:23:56AM +000

[gentoo-amd64] kdesu

2005-12-19 Thread Gavin Seddon
hi all things are coming together today, k3b sees my cd/dvd and my paper is out. chuffed. however, when I run k3bsetup I get 'kdesu' isn't found. What do I need? -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road, Mancheste

Re: [gentoo-amd64] kdesu

2005-12-19 Thread Gavin Seddon
at there is a portage package and I see that it is > installed in my Fedora Core 4 partition. > > Locate is very handy. > > Cheers! > > Steve Herber [EMAIL PROTECTED] work: 206-221-7262 > Security Engineer, UW Medicine, IT Services home: 425-454-2399 >

[gentoo-amd64] /var/log

2005-12-21 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi all, I have been looking in '/var/log' for users logging on. The files and directories in there are fastidiously organised (to say the least). Better than usual UNIX distros. What is the best place to look for logins/hacks. Gavin. -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Phar

[gentoo-amd64] firewall

2005-12-21 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, I have merged iptables. Will they start at boot and is there a link for configuring on Gentoo? Thanks. -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] /var/log

2005-12-21 Thread Gavin Seddon
Sorry, I also use 'metalog. On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 12:45 +, Craig Webster wrote: > On 21 Dec 2005, at 12:32, Gavin Seddon wrote: > > I have been looking in '/var/log' for users logging on. The files and > > directories in there are fastidiously organised (to s

Re: [gentoo-amd64] firewall

2005-12-22 Thread Gavin Seddon
It's alright for some. I eat lunch with a couple of dogs (canine). Gavin On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 09:01 -0800, Steve Herber wrote: > I would recommend you use Shorewall for an easy way to configure and > manage you iptables based linux firewall. The documentation is excellent. > P

Re: [gentoo-amd64] firewall

2005-12-23 Thread Gavin Seddon
t; is not broken in any way that I can tell, just the interface has a couple of > small bugs AFAICT. > > On Thursday 22 December 2005 05:17 am, Gavin Seddon wrote: > > It's alright for some. I eat lunch with a couple of dogs (canine). > > Gavin > > > > On Wed, 2005

[gentoo-amd64] kmplot

2005-12-28 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, I think this may be an 'off-list' q? if so sorry. I have just discovered kmplot for gentoo. Can this be used for enzyme kinetics, km etc? Is there a page telling me how? If this is the case donations are in order since this kind of software isn't cheap. Gavin. -- Dr Gavin S

[gentoo-amd64] updating world

2006-01-10 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, I have been updating my system. Firstly I used 'emerge --sync' then 'emerge --update world'. However, the update stops with a segmentation fault. Is this a big problem that needs fixing and how? Thanks. -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sci

Re: [gentoo-amd64] updating world [solved]Hi

2006-01-15 Thread Gavin Seddon
contain nothing. This is great to use together with --pretend. This makes it possible for developers to get a complete overview of the entire dependency tree of a certain package. Thanks. Gavin. -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmac

[gentoo-amd64] opengl

2006-01-15 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, I'm logging onto work and trying to start an application. It fails telling me 'unable to start opengl window'. I have merged 'x11-base/opengl-update' and my resolution is 1600x1200 using an sgi monitor. My screen depth is 24. Can anyone help? -- Dr Gavin Sedd

[gentoo-amd64] error updating deep world

2006-01-19 Thread Gavin Seddon
ke[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/dbus-0.23.4-r1/work/dbus-0.23.4' make: *** [all] Error 2 !!! ERROR: sys-apps/dbus-0.23.4-r1 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 112, Exitcode 2' Can anyone help? Gavin. -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Ph

Re: [gentoo-amd64] error updating deep world

2006-01-19 Thread Gavin Seddon
Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/dbus-0.23.4-r1/work/dbus-0.23.4' make: *** [all] Error 2 !!! ERROR: sys-apps/dbus-0.23.4-r1 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 112, Exitcode 2' On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 10:17 -0200, Fernando Boaglio wrote: > Try to emerge

[gentoo-amd64] ssh fwbuilder

2006-01-19 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, In the instructions for fwbuilder to test the password it tells me to ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED], I get 'ssh: firewall: Name or service not known'. I have created the key, when I try to install what's my username? -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Re: [gentoo-amd64] error updating deep world

2006-01-19 Thread Gavin Seddon
" and then retry "emerge -D world". > > -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] ssh fwbuilder

2006-01-19 Thread Gavin Seddon
ewall"? > > > > ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] uses ssh to login user root into a machine called > > firewall. > > I guess you actually need > > > > ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > On Thursday 19 January 2006 12:56, Gavin Seddon wrote: > >>Hi,

Re: [gentoo-amd64] ssh fwbuilder

2006-01-19 Thread Gavin Seddon
hine called > firewall. > I guess you actually need > > ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > On Thursday 19 January 2006 12:56, Gavin Seddon wrote: > >Hi, > >In the instructions for fwbuilder to test the password it tells me to > > > >ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED], I

Re: [gentoo-amd64] error updating deep world

2006-01-19 Thread Gavin Seddon
U ] media-video/transcode-0.6.14-r3 [0.6.14-r2] (-3dnow) +X -a52 (-altivec) -dv -dvdread +encode -fame +gtk -imagemagick +jpeg -lzo -mjpeg (-mmx) +mpeg -network -ogg +quicktime +sdl (-sse) (-sse2) -theora +truetype -v4l -vorbis +xml2 -xvid 2 kB Total size of downloads: 5,178 kB' Thanks. -- Dr

Re: [gentoo-amd64] error updating deep world

2006-01-19 Thread Gavin Seddon
ry re-running this script again to see if it * can be fixed. * emerge -p \=sys-apps/dbus-0.23-r3' at the end, is this ok? On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 09:06 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > On 1/19/06, Gavin Seddon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I have just tri

Re: [gentoo-amd64] ssh fwbuilder

2006-01-20 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, This logging in business is the recommended test for my generated password. Really I need the username to install my compiled fwall. A user of root doesn't work so that is why I'm mithering you guys. -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of

Re: [gentoo-amd64] error updating deep world

2006-01-20 Thread Gavin Seddon
change to another Linux unfair. I fully understand I am taking up other peoples time and for this I apologise. But, what are user lists for other than fix and air problems/issues. Gavin. -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road, Mancheste

Re: [gentoo-amd64] ssh fwbuilder

2006-01-20 Thread Gavin Seddon
a firewall, all I need to do is install the fwall I have built. However, this needs a user and pass. I generated the password but I can't activate the inst procedure. The sshing was just a recommended test. Do I need to allow ssh root login to install my firewall? Thanks. -- Dr Gavin S

Re: [gentoo-amd64] error updating deep world [working]

2006-01-20 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, I ran python-updater and merged dbus, all works now. Thanks Gavin. -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] error updating deep world

2006-01-20 Thread Gavin Seddon
it was the comment about changing Linuxes I disagreed with. Gavin. -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] error updating deep world>> gentoo general

2006-01-20 Thread Gavin Seddon
hanging now however, I am always 'on-the-lookout for a superior workstation so I may change in the future to ia64 Gentoo. Are Iitanium machines the best (robust/speed). Or, are the Opterons or athlon64 better. For that matter how do amd machines differ? -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharma

Re: [gentoo-amd64] error updating deep world>> gentoo general

2006-01-21 Thread Gavin Seddon
tself. Performance wise, the Opterons are > also far enough ahead of the Intel offerings to make it worthwhile to > stick with AMD. > > YMMV and My opinions are my own. > -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] error updating deep world>> gentoo general

2006-01-21 Thread Gavin Seddon
hough with some special Nvidia cards, it's possible > to get 4 Gfx pipe on 2 PCIe x16 slots. That's not to say it works well, as > it's > pretty much beta hardware and drivers at the moment. > > Bob > -- > - > QA Curmudgeon. > Wacky and bizarre testing(TM) performed while-U-wait. > - > See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > - -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] 64 newbie

2006-01-24 Thread Gavin Seddon
x. GOOD CHOICE -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-amd64] ailed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket k3b

2006-01-27 Thread Gavin Seddon
//k3b.plainblack.com/message-board/error-k3bdevicedevice-unable-to-do-inquiry I followed this through. But, still have the same probs. I upgraded to the kernel-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.14-gentoo-r5 kernel and I have the same problem. Can anyone help? Gavin. -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmac

[gentoo-amd64] fwbuilder taking ages to compile

2006-02-02 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hello, I've built a new fw from scratch. Included eth0 and lo. When I click compile, I get no error, i get the screen telling me fwb_ipt is executed. Then nothing happens. I s it compiling or waiting for something? Gavin. -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sci

[gentoo-amd64] Re: fwbuilder taking ages to compile[fixed]

2006-02-02 Thread Gavin Seddon
Sorry, got it sorted -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-amd64] k3b error

2006-02-06 Thread Gavin Seddon
=2 dev=/dev/hdc speed=32 -tao driveropts=burnfree -eject -data /home/mbpssgms/install-x86-minimal-2005.1-r1.iso ' Can anyone help? -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] k3b error

2006-02-06 Thread Gavin Seddon
Which package contains cdrecord? > - > > check permission - k3bsetup ? > try to re-emerge cdrecord > > anyway - it should work, however - setting "burning group" makes it better > > Piotr -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Fragmentation (Was: Re: Re: Re: Wow! KDE 3.5.1 & Xorg 7.0 w/ Composite)

2006-02-08 Thread Gavin Seddon
a good > candidate for /var/tmp or /usr/postage. Reiser3 has proven to fragment too, > and one of the last system I installed was formated with XFS, which I will > "defragment" in a few weeks. Hopefully I could then come with numbers. > > BTW, does someone know of a tool

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: Fragmentation (Was: Re: Re: Re: Wow! KDE 3.5.1 & Xorg 7.0 w/ Composite)

2006-02-09 Thread Gavin Seddon
> -- > Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. > "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- > and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in > http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html > > -- Dr Ga

[gentoo-amd64] database software

2006-02-09 Thread Gavin Seddon
- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-amd64] apple laptop

2006-02-15 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, I have my eye on a apple laptop. It is 400Mhz. Will this run Gentoo and setup on a wireless lan? What will be will it be 64 bit, that is are they quite fast. It's only for working while I watch tv in the evening. Would it be worth it. 15" tft 300ram. ~300 quid. -- Dr Ga

[gentoo-amd64] wireless setup from install

2006-02-16 Thread Gavin Seddon
. BTW the p4 is temporarily connected to a monitor, kb/m. I have searched the www extensively but nothing seems to anwser my prob. So, if someone can point to a url this would be useful. )Thanks. Gavin. -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester

[gentoo-amd64] iconify vs minimise

2006-02-19 Thread Gavin Seddon
ops running for different apps. This is an excellent feature of IRIX where I first came across this. Does anyone know how to enable this in kde? I have looked on google and I saw hints this may be a feature of KDE 3.5. Is this true? Gavin. -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Scien

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: iconify vs minimise

2006-02-22 Thread Gavin Seddon
retty close to what you asked for, an icon based interface.' on 3.4. I right clicked on the bottom panel. cheers Gavin. -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-amd64] kasbar running

2006-02-23 Thread Gavin Seddon
Dear Duncan, I now have it running and yes it is what I wanted, thanks. I can now go back to 4 possible desktops. It didn't show previously since I had the menu bar at the top edge of the screen where minimised apps. go. When I removed this I got the kasbar option. Thanks. -- Dr Gavin S

[gentoo-amd64] x11 not working on ssh

2006-02-24 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, On Debian my ssh x11 interface would start. Now, on the remote box I get 'X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.' I have enabled x11 forwarding on both machines and used ssh -X to log on. Can anyone help? -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutica

Re: [gentoo-amd64] x11 not working on ssh

2006-02-25 Thread Gavin Seddon
100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > On Friday 24 February 2006 16:47, Gavin Seddon wrote: > > Hi, > > On Debian my ssh x11 interface would start. Now, on the remote box I > > get > > 'X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.' > > I have enable

Re: [gentoo-amd64] x11 not working on ssh

2006-02-27 Thread Gavin Seddon
/home/mbpssgms>>debug1: channel 1: free: x11, nchannels 2' Gavin. > Hi Gavin, > ssh sets up an file .Xauthority to exchange some MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE. Is that > file in the home directory on the remote server. To find out what goes wrong > I prefer to start the sshd

Re: [gentoo-amd64] x11 not working on ssh

2006-02-27 Thread Gavin Seddon
Can anyone advise? -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-amd64] test

2006-04-08 Thread Gavin Seddon
-- Dr Gavin Seddon Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road M13 9PL UK -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-amd64] test2

2006-04-11 Thread Gavin Seddon
-- Dr Gavin Seddon Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road M13 9PL UK -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] test2

2006-04-14 Thread Gavin Seddon
Ok, I've learnt my lesson. I won't send a test again. It turned out to be the university mail settings that had changed. Gavin On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 00:23 +1000, Ben Skeggs wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 11.04.2006, 16:28 -0400 schrieb B Vance: > > On Tue, 2006-04-11 at

[gentoo-amd64] torque

2006-05-25 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, I'm going to install Gentoo on a cluster at work consisting of 11 intels and 3 dec-alphas. TI am thinking of installing Torque as the batch queuing system. However, it is masked. Is it ok to use and does it run parallel jobs? Previously I installed nqs so I am used to the qmgr system.

Re: [gentoo-amd64] torque

2006-05-31 Thread Gavin Seddon
Will do, thanks . On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 07:08 -0700, Bob Sanders wrote: > Gavin Seddon, mused, then expounded: > > Hi, > > I'm going to install Gentoo on a cluster at work consisting of 11 intels > > and 3 dec-alphas. TI am thinking of installing Torque as th

[gentoo-amd64] vmplayer

2006-06-02 Thread Gavin Seddon
such file or directory' Can anyone help? Gavin -- Dr Gavin Seddon Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road M13 9PL UK -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-amd64] vmware not booting install cd

2006-06-24 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, I have vm 5.5 running.But, when I try and inst guest os and 'power on' the inst. cd doesn't boot. Can anyone suggest help? cheers. Gavin. -- Dr Gavin Seddon Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road M13 9PL UK -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] vmware not booting install cd

2006-06-25 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, Thanks. It doesn't boot if I pick '/dev/cdrom' either. I get the black screen with the progress bar then nothing. TThanks. btw. The cd is ok. gavin. On Sat, 2006-06-24 at 15:51 +0200, Thierry de Coulon wrote: > On Saturday 24 June 2006 15.01, Gavin Seddon wrote: >

Re: [gentoo-amd64] vmware not booting install cd

2006-06-28 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, this is vmware-workstation. When I power in it starts. I get the vmware progress bar. It says 'examining hardware'. Then there is an error that I cannot see and it all starts again. The cd will boot if I try and inst. on my machine as the 1ary os. Gavin -- Dr Gavin Seddon Ph

Re: [gentoo-amd64] vmware not booting install cd

2006-06-29 Thread Gavin Seddon
yes I checked this. I'll try the iso. On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 09:22 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > On 6/28/06, Gavin Seddon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > this is vmware-workstation. When I power in it starts. I get the > > vmware progress bar. It says &

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