Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie install

2003-08-19 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Tuesday 19 August 2003 13:47, Thomas Page wrote: I recently downloaded iso's for Gentoo 1.4, and am looking for advice on the best way to install it. I currently have a mandrake 8.2 box, with a ton of stuff I've downloaded, medical and electronics info, and I'd rather not have to back it up

[gentoo-user] Optimal speed for burning Linux ISO images

2003-08-19 Thread Ronald Kuwawi
Hello all, Is there any particular optimal speed when burning Linux ISO images? - does that particular speed is influenced by the CD-RW drive, burning software, and CD-R media? thanks :) Ronald -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] small installation

2003-08-19 Thread Gustav_Schaffter
Sounds too small for Gentoo. I have successfully installed Gentoo on a 1.2 GB HD, but 80MB... What do you intend to do with the system? Run a gateway, a router, a firewall? There are special distros for these kind of installations. I'm currently setting up a bering installation on a

RE: [gentoo-user] Optimal speed for burning Linux ISO images

2003-08-19 Thread Gwendolyn van der Linden
Is there any particular optimal speed when burning Linux ISO images? - does that particular speed is influenced by the CD-RW drive, burning software, and CD-R media? I'd say its the lowest number of all of the above. If you have a decent computer then it's the minimum of the CDR media

Re: [gentoo-user] x eats my mem and cpu

2003-08-19 Thread Javier Villavicencio
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 15:12:05 +0200 Spider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm prone to suspect that the case is unreleased pixmaps in gaim, which means that gaim allocates memory from the X server with each time it shows a flashy picture, but at the end of the process it doesn't -release- theese

[gentoo-user] Install with serial-ata disk

2003-08-19 Thread Robert Arroyo
Hello, I want to install gentoo on a computer with a serial-ata disk. With the basic ivecd 1.4 my intel serial-ata controller is not detected. I have read in the forums that stables kernels don't support many serial-ata controller, so my question is that what is the way i can use to intall

[gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo 1.4 on a WiFi laptop

2003-08-19 Thread Martin LORANG
Hi all, I have a laptop with a lucent technology orinoco wifi pcmcia ethernet adapter. This adapter works wery well with the Knoppix live CD. I boot the Gentoo 1.4 install CD with : gentoo dokeymap dopcmcia Then : modprobe orinico_cs The modules are loaded : checked with lsmod. The net-setup

Re: [gentoo-user] Ant build succeeded, but...

2003-08-19 Thread Frederic Soulier
On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 04:09, Phil Barnett wrote: On Tuesday 12 August 2003 8:12 am, Larry Meadors wrote: The message Buildfile: build.xml does not exist! happens when you run ant and there is not a build.xml file in the current directory, or you do not specify one on the command line.

Re: [gentoo-user] small installation

2003-08-19 Thread Ewald Geschwinde
I need it for a embedded system. Should run on a flash rom with 128 MB It's OT but does anyone know any distribution who is good for embedded handling?? Regards Ewald Geschwinde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds too small for Gentoo. I have successfully installed Gentoo on a 1.2 GB HD, but

Re: [gentoo-user] small installation

2003-08-19 Thread Nicolas STURMEL
Ewald Geschwinde wrote: I need it for a embedded system. Should run on a flash rom with 128 MB I know people who managed to put a debian system on a 128 Mb flash for an embedded system running an Epia 5000. But this kind of operations are tricky. Perhaps you should look in

Re: [gentoo-user] small installation

2003-08-19 Thread Frederick Kautz
You could probably build one from scratch... compile the kernel and any GNU programs that are absolutely necessary for running the system. http://www.linuxrouter.org/ http://www.frazierwall.com http://www.coyotelinux.com/ are linux firewalls and NAT systems in a floppy.

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo 1.4 on a WiFi laptop

2003-08-19 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
1. Run lsmod on Knoppix to find out which modules are needed for wifi card 2. Load these modules by hand using modprobe, if you receive Can't locate ... error, then reconfigure, build and boot new kernel with missing modules, goto 2. 3. If the card is now available, modify your

Re: [gentoo-user] small installation

2003-08-19 Thread Ewald Geschwinde
Nicolas STURMEL wrote: Ewald Geschwinde wrote: I need it for a embedded system. Should run on a flash rom with 128 MB I know people who managed to put a debian system on a 128 Mb flash for an embedded system running an Epia 5000. But this kind of operations are tricky. Perhaps you should

Re: [gentoo-user] small installation

2003-08-19 Thread Nicolas STURMEL
Ewald Geschwinde wrote: Do you have an url of this debian system and how they managed to get debian down like this Not at all, i only know that they spent much time to manage this. Did you compress your 140Mb system ? the good idea is to put a system.tgz on the flash witch is untared on a

[gentoo-user] Error in mail.log

2003-08-19 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Hi, I have this error in my mail.log. what can i do to get this fixed? Aug 19 11:24:11 rivendell spamd[2180]: Cannot open bayes_path /home/istari/.spamassassin/bayes R/O: The directory exists spamassassin is install also bogofilter TIA Patrick -- If we don't get more power to the warp

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 oddities

2003-08-19 Thread Ulrich Plate
Chris I wrote: I've seen the same when switching from a 2.4 to 2.5 kernel. I guess something in the new mouse input system made things more sensitive. I had to turn sensitivity and acceleration all the way down in the gnome config. Maybe some playing with xset(1) will help? Try

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 oddities

2003-08-19 Thread Ulrich Plate
Jason Stubbs wrote: * The console lost the | character, no matter how hard I hammer on that key on my Japanese 106 keyboard. Works fine in X, though. Exactly the same deal here. It's frustrating, isn't it? Well, yes it is. And I don't have the foggiest what could be causing this. I'll

Re: [gentoo-user] x eats my mem and cpu

2003-08-19 Thread a_k_b
Same problems here, sure it's gaim, sure sylpheed-claws releases it's memory without problems, but, when you have all your gtk+ apps killed, why the memory isn't released?? well, i tested around for a while now and have to say that it really seems to be gaim. the less i chat with gaim, the

Re: [gentoo-user] x eats my mem and cpu

2003-08-19 Thread Spider
begin quote On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 12:41:15 +0200 a_k_b [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but why is this all related to X's memory usage? shouldnt a program use its own memory area? or is this related to the framework it uses (gtk2), since the framework must use X directly instead of starting a

Re: [gentoo-user] building a file server

2003-08-19 Thread Tom Condon
On Monday 18 August 2003 18:06, Jason Stubbs carved in (Bgranite: (B What do you mean exactly when you say that NT only came (B with FTP on the servers? You mean the command line ftp (B client? You mean an FTP server itself? Win2k/XP et al have (B iis (cut version on the workstations) but my

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie install

2003-08-19 Thread Yannick Le Saint
My question is, is there a safe way to install OVER my mandrake (ie leaving partitions as is), does anyone know of any FAQs/HOWTOs to accomplish this. You can install gentoo keeping your existing partition and data, but anyway, my best advice would be to SAVE YOUR FILES in some place first.

Re: [gentoo-user] x eats my mem and cpu

2003-08-19 Thread a_k_b
This then makes for a mess when a sloppy coder doesn't deallocate RAM as he should when having used X pixmap calls. This is a gaim bug that should be filed. mh sure... i understand this. but cant there be kind of prevention? i think if its so easy to do those things with xfree, there should

[gentoo-user] Analog dail-up

2003-08-19 Thread Gwendolyn van der Linden
Hi all, I want to use my analog modem (a combined Ethernet/modem PCMCIA card from 3COM) to dial up to my ISP using a normal analog phone line, when I'm on the road. Is there a document that describes somewhere how I set that up? The installation guide only mentions ADSL. Barring that, what

Re: [gentoo-user] building a file server

2003-08-19 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Tuesday 19 August 2003 20:49, Tom Condon wrote: (B On Monday 18 August 2003 18:06, Jason Stubbs carved in (B What do you mean exactly when you say that NT only came (B with FTP on the servers? You mean the command line ftp (B client? You mean an FTP server itself? Win2k/XP et al have (B

Re: [gentoo-user] Analog dail-up

2003-08-19 Thread Jason Stubbs
I want to use my analog modem (a combined Ethernet/modem PCMCIA card from 3COM) to dial up to my ISP using a normal analog phone line, when I'm on the road. Is there a document that describes somewhere how I set that up? The installation guide only mentions ADSL. As long as your modem

RE: [gentoo-user] Analog dail-up

2003-08-19 Thread Gwendolyn van der Linden
As long as your modem detects okay, it's very easy. Just emerge ppp, edit /etc/conf.d/net.ppp0 and then either run /etc/init.d/net.ppp0 start or rc-update add net.ppp0 default to your liking. I had a quick look at /etc/conf.d/net.ppp0, and it seems quite easy, as you say. I'll try it out

RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo poll #4 results

2003-08-19 Thread Mark Knecht
No, you're right. Personally, I've built from both; Stage 3 means you're up and running much faster. Over time your system will rebuild (especially the next time you run emerge rsync emerge --deep --update world). Given that your system *will* be rebuilt eventually with all your spiffy

Re: [gentoo-user] Install with serial-ata disk

2003-08-19 Thread Yuri Enshin
Robert Arroyo wrote: Hello, I want to install gentoo on a computer with a serial-ata disk. With the basic ivecd 1.4 my intel serial-ata controller is not detected. I have read in the forums that stables kernels don't support many serial-ata controller, so my question is that what is the way i

[gentoo-user] using Alt-F? to switch between consoles

2003-08-19 Thread Andrew Gaffney
I don't remember if it was this way with RedHat or Slackware, but with Gentoo, I can only use the left Alt key when switching between consoles. How do I make it so I can use either the left or the right Alt key? -- Andrew Gaffney -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Two mailservers on the same machine?

2003-08-19 Thread Angel Gabriel
Is it possible to run more than one copy of postfix on the same machine? I run mailman, and whenever there is a post to the machine, for a while people sending mail inside my subnet, can't connect to it, because all the processes are taken up. Adding more won't help because mailman will just use

Re: [gentoo-user] x eats my mem and cpu

2003-08-19 Thread Theofilos Intzoglou
Hi a_k_b! Another app that seemed to eat all my available memory was xchat version 1.8.x that used gtk+1.2.x. After 2 or 3 hours of chatting in the gentoo channel resulted in the X using about 256MB RAM (all of it that is :-P) and 250MB swap making the system unstable and only usuable after I

Re: [gentoo-user] Error in mail.log

2003-08-19 Thread Yorkshire Dave
On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 11:02, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: Hi, I have this error in my mail.log. what can i do to get this fixed? Aug 19 11:24:11 rivendell spamd[2180]: Cannot open bayes_path /home/istari/.spamassassin/bayes R/O: The directory exists spamassassin is install also

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice - slower than death

2003-08-19 Thread Theofilos Intzoglou
Hi rh! I remember that if I try to start ooffice when my [EMAIL PROTECTED] program is already running with nice 19 using all available cpu, ooffice took about a minute to start giving me an empty window! Switching between open windows would make the window of ooffice appear transparent/empty and

Re: [gentoo-user] small installation

2003-08-19 Thread Lloyd D Budd
On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 04:08, Ewald Geschwinde wrote: I need it for a embedded system. Should run on a flash rom with 128 MB It's OT but does anyone know any distribution who is good for embedded handling?? I believe the intention of the Gentoo fork, www.Zynot.org is embedded systems. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Live CD Bootscreen

2003-08-19 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Larry Augschöll wrote: Yeah, I have seen the splash screens on the game CDs before. The new live cd is the same thing, but with a (in my opinion) better image. It looks really slick! I want it now ;-)! This sounds like a workaround: http://www.aichler.net/gentoo/bootsplash/ The work found on

Re: [gentoo-user] portage issues ..is it my fault?

2003-08-19 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Simon Mushi wrote: Hi Dhruba, Thanks for the responseumm the output of emerge info was as follows Portage 2.0.48-r7 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.3.1-r4) There was an update to portage today to Portage 2.0.49_pre18. Try that update and do an emerge sync after the update. And just to

Re: [gentoo-user] Two mailservers on the same machine?

2003-08-19 Thread Cal Evans
Yes, it is possibl if you run one of them on a non-standard port. It's not a good solutions to the problem. A better solution would be to throttle mailman so that won't be able to swamp your server. =C= * * Cal Evans * http://www.eicc.com * We build IT solutions * Angel Gabriel said: Is it

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice - slower than death

2003-08-19 Thread Ulrich Plate
rh wrote: Unmerged openoffice and emerged openoffice-bin. Same thing. Slow, slow, slow. Running any distributed computing stuff by any chance? Zetagrid? That's what makes my Openoffice grind almost to a halt. Cheers Ulrich Plate pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] emerge ~arch portage _highly_ recommended?

2003-08-19 Thread Lloyd D Budd
Why does 'emerge sync' _highly_ recommend update portage now when it is masked? Updating Portage cache... ...done! * An update to portage is available. It is _highly_ recommended * that you update portage now, before any other packages are updated. * Please do so and then update ALL of

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice - slower than death

2003-08-19 Thread rh
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 17:21:47 +0300 Theofilos Intzoglou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi rh! I remember that if I try to start ooffice when my [EMAIL PROTECTED] program is already running with nice 19 using all available cpu, ooffice took about a minute to start giving me an empty window!

RE: [gentoo-user] using Alt-F? to switch between consoles

2003-08-19 Thread Mark Knecht
I don't remember if it was this way with RedHat or Slackware, but with Gentoo, I can only use the left Alt key when switching between consoles. How do I make it so I can use either the left or the right Alt key? For me it's the same under Redhat 9. Both CTRL keys work, but only the left ALT

Re: [gentoo-user] x eats my mem and cpu

2003-08-19 Thread Javier Villavicencio
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 13:55:19 +0200 a_k_b [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mh sure... i understand this. but cant there be kind of prevention? i think if its so easy to do those things with xfree, there should be something like an automatically deallocation of the memory the app used. would be much

Re: [gentoo-user] using Alt-F? to switch between consoles

2003-08-19 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Mark Knecht wrote: I don't remember if it was this way with RedHat or Slackware, but with Gentoo, I can only use the left Alt key when switching between consoles. How do I make it so I can use either the left or the right Alt key? For me it's the same under Redhat 9. Both CTRL keys work, but only

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 oddities

2003-08-19 Thread Chris I
On 2003.08.19 06:26, Ulrich Plate wrote: Chris I wrote: I've seen the same when switching from a 2.4 to 2.5 kernel. I guess something in the new mouse input system made things more sensitive. I had to turn sensitivity and acceleration all the way down in the gnome config. Maybe some

[gentoo-user] lirc with kernel 2.6.0 test3

2003-08-19 Thread Jan Meier
Hello, was anybody able to compile the lirc module with kernel 2.6 test3? I get many error messages? What can i do? Bye Jan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Error in mail.log

2003-08-19 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
On 19 Aug 2003 15:35:12 +0100 Yorkshire Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 11:02, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: Hi, I have this error in my mail.log. what can i do to get this fixed? Aug 19 11:24:11 rivendell spamd[2180]: Cannot open bayes_path

[gentoo-user] iptables 1.2.8 problem

2003-08-19 Thread downtime null
apparently iptables was upgraded in my last 'emerge -u world' or something. anyway, something has changed and a command that used to work doesn't now. the command was : # iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -j SNAT -o eth0 --to 10.1.0.27 now it says iptables: Invalid argument so i discovered that

[gentoo-user] notebook brightness with 2.6

2003-08-19 Thread Chris I
Okay, this is a fairly recent issue, it has not effected me with 2.4.22 ac-sources kernels, nor with some older 2.6-test kernels. I'm almost sure that this started with the bk5 patch on 2.6-test3 (i previously used it without the updated bk patches). The Issue: my notebook, like most, has

Re: [gentoo-user] Error in mail.log

2003-08-19 Thread Mike Arrison
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 12:02:06PM +0200, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: Hi, I have this error in my mail.log. what can i do to get this fixed? Aug 19 11:24:11 rivendell spamd[2180]: Cannot open bayes_path /home/istari/.spamassassin/bayes R/O: The directory exists spamassassin is

[gentoo-user] dma not enabled

2003-08-19 Thread Pupeno
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 When I start my computer I always get this message: ** * Warning: The dma on your hard drive is turned off. * * This may really slow down the fsck process.*

[gentoo-user] Found an MS-DOS partition table, not a dynamic disk.

2003-08-19 Thread Pupeno
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 When I boot up I get this, is this an error ? what's wrong ? what does it mean ? how do I solve it ? Partition check: /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0:7ldm_validate_partition_table(): Found an MS-DOS partition table, not a dynamic disk. p1 p2 p3

Re: [gentoo-user] iptables 1.2.8 problem

2003-08-19 Thread Fred Clausen
downtime null wrote: apparently iptables was upgraded in my last 'emerge -u world' or something. anyway, something has changed and a command that used to work doesn't now. the command was : # iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -j SNAT -o eth0 --to 10.1.0.27 now it says iptables: Invalid argument so

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge ~arch portage _highly_ recommended?

2003-08-19 Thread Lloyd D Budd
On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 13:49, Mike Williams wrote: fooll portage # emerge portage Calculating dependencies !!! all ebuilds that could satisfy portage have been masked. !!! Error calculating dependencies. Please correct. This is worrying, you should get portage-2.0.48-r5 I believe.

Re: [gentoo-user] dma not enabled

2003-08-19 Thread Robert Young
/dev/hdX it your device that wish to enable dma on. do a hdparm -i /dev/hdX to be sure that you can enable dma. e.g.: angus root # hdparm -i /dev/hda /dev/hda: Model=QUANTUM BIGFOOT TS12.7A, FwRev=A21.0G00, SerialNo=381906129356 Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw15uSec Fixed DTR10Mbs }

[gentoo-user] wvdial and username/password

2003-08-19 Thread Meka[ni]
Is there anyone who uses wvdial and doesn't have to write username and password by hand in /etc/ppp/{pap,chap}-secrets? I've tried everything I could remeber and read from man pages, but nothing helps. Here is my wvdial.conf: [Dialer Defaults] Modem = /dev/ttyS2 Baud = 115200 Init1 =

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice - slower than death

2003-08-19 Thread Theofilos Intzoglou
Hi rh! On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 13:15:06 -0400 rh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, that was exactly the problem...I had setiathome running in the background and as soon as I killed it , openoffice works fine. I wish I had of discovered this before I un-emerged openoffice and emerged openoffice-bin.

Re: [gentoo-user] Found an MS-DOS partition table, not a dynamic disk.

2003-08-19 Thread Robert Young
What is the history of these drives? I would assume this has to do with your other post. (If the DMA warning is from the same computer) Pupeno wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 When I boot up I get this, is this an error ? what's wrong ? what does it mean ? how do I

Re: [gentoo-user] iptables 1.2.8 problem

2003-08-19 Thread downtime null
i emerged iptables again ('emerge -p iptabes' showed that it was't installed), mv the new init script over and restarted it. i'm still getting the same error. then, on kind of a fluke, i added the path to the executable on the command line, and it accepts the command. go figure. I read this

[gentoo-user] shoot the bullet in your foot :)

2003-08-19 Thread Spundun Bhatt
heh I have a small question. I have removed a lot of files using rm -R, Is there any mecahnism in reiserfs to recover the removed files? Thanx Spundun -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] iptables 1.2.8 problem

2003-08-19 Thread Jeffrey Smelser
sounds to me like you got two versions of iptables running.. which iptables to find it. Hopefully its something you did and not a rootkit... -Original Message- From: downtime null [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 1:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] shoot the bullet in your foot :)

2003-08-19 Thread Kai Lindenberg
Am Dienstag, 19. August 2003 20:56 schrieb Spundun Bhatt: heh I have a small question. I have removed a lot of files using rm -R, Is there any mecahnism in reiserfs to recover the removed files? Thanx Try the rebuild-tree option of reiserfsck, but this can corrupt other files, so backup your

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo 1.4 on a WiFi laptop

2003-08-19 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
Martin LORANG wrote: I boot the Gentoo 1.4 install CD with : gentoo dokeymap dopcmcia Then : modprobe orinico_cs The modules are loaded : checked with lsmod. The net-setup eth0 fails because I have no eth0 device ! Do you have a wlan0? My laptop (IBM T30) shows eth0 for the onboard ethernet and

[gentoo-user] transcode

2003-08-19 Thread plord
Hi All, I've emerge'd transcode but it isn't the latest version. I notice that the gentoo cvs has a later ebuild file. Whats the right way to get transcode 0.6.8 emerge'd ? Thanks, Pete -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] dma not enabled

2003-08-19 Thread Alec Berryman
Additionally, there is a hdparm script to do this on boot - /etc/init.d/hdparm. On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 13:21, Robert Young wrote: /dev/hdX it your device that wish to enable dma on. do a hdparm -i /dev/hdX to be sure that you can enable dma. e.g.: angus root # hdparm -i /dev/hda

Re: [gentoo-user] dma not enabled

2003-08-19 Thread Pupeno
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 19 August 2003 15:21, Robert Young wrote: /dev/hdX it your device that wish to enable dma on. do a hdparm -i /dev/hdX to be sure that you can enable dma. e.g.: angus root # hdparm -i /dev/hda /dev/hda: Model=QUANTUM BIGFOOT

Re: [gentoo-user] dma not enabled

2003-08-19 Thread Robert Young
Pupeno wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 19 August 2003 15:21, Robert Young wrote: /dev/hdX it your device that wish to enable dma on. do a hdparm -i /dev/hdX to be sure that you can enable dma. e.g.: angus root # hdparm -i /dev/hda /dev/hda:

Re: [gentoo-user] dma not enabled

2003-08-19 Thread Nicolas STURMEL
Pupeno wrote: So, what may be wrong then ? (I didn't enable anything on the HDs yet) Perhaps did you mis-config your kernel. Look in IDE/ATAPI options to see if you enabled the driver corresponding to your chipset. -- Nicolas -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] transcode

2003-08-19 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 19 August 2003 20:11, plord wrote: Hi All, I've emerge'd transcode but it isn't the latest version. I notice that the gentoo cvs has a later ebuild file. Whats the right way to get transcode 0.6.8 emerge'd ? transcode 0.6.8 is

Re: [gentoo-user] dma not enabled

2003-08-19 Thread Tom Wesley
On Tuesday 19 August 2003 20:48, Nicolas STURMEL wrote: Pupeno wrote: So, what may be wrong then ? (I didn't enable anything on the HDs yet) Perhaps did you mis-config your kernel. Look in IDE/ATAPI options to see if you enabled the driver corresponding to your chipset. This is likely to

Re: [gentoo-user] dma not enabled

2003-08-19 Thread brett holcomb
Check out man hdparam. You use that to turn it on. On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 11:59:26 -0300 Pupeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 When I start my computer I always get this message: ** * Warning: The dma on

Re: [gentoo-user] dma not enabled

2003-08-19 Thread Tom Wesley
On Tuesday 19 August 2003 20:46, brett holcomb wrote: Check out man hdparam. You use that to turn it on. On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 11:59:26 -0300 Pupeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 When I start my computer I always get this message:

Re: [gentoo-user] dma not enabled

2003-08-19 Thread brett holcomb
Well, hdparam is used (at least that's what I used) and the man page is a good place to start reading about it. It gave me enough info to see what needed to be done and even be able to ask questions. Yes, it isn't a one step process but a knowledge of the man page is a could place to start.

Re: [gentoo-user] transcode

2003-08-19 Thread plord
Mike Williams wrote: On Tuesday 19 August 2003 20:11, plord wrote: Hi All, I've emerge'd transcode but it isn't the latest version. I notice that the gentoo cvs has a later ebuild file. Whats the right way to get transcode 0.6.8 emerge'd ? transcode 0.6.8 is currently marked as 'unstable', if

Re: [gentoo-user] dma not enabled

2003-08-19 Thread Tom Wesley
On Tuesday 19 August 2003 21:08, brett holcomb wrote: Well, hdparam is used (at least that's what I used) and the man page is a good place to start reading about it. It gave me enough info to see what needed to be done and even be able to ask questions. Yes, it isn't a one step process but

Re: [gentoo-user] dma not enabled

2003-08-19 Thread brett holcomb
We all have those days G. Take a break - I find a good break is to go kick a windows machine G On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 21:11:46 +0100 Tom Wesley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 19 August 2003 21:08, brett holcomb wrote: Well, hdparam is used (at least that's what I used) and the man page is a

Re: [gentoo-user] wvdial and username/password

2003-08-19 Thread Makurin Roman
19.08.2003, 22:33, Meka[ni]: Is there anyone who uses wvdial and doesn't have to write username and password by hand in /etc/ppp/{pap,chap}-secrets? I've tried everything I could remeber and read from man pages, but nothing helps. Here is my wvdial.conf: [Dialer Defaults]

Re: [gentoo-user] x eats my mem and cpu

2003-08-19 Thread a_k_b
mh sure... i understand this. but cant there be kind of prevention? i think if its so easy to do those things with xfree, there should be something like an automatically deallocation of the memory the app used. would be much better to prevent this... and give an option to NOT to do, if

Re: [gentoo-user] shoot the bullet in your foot :)

2003-08-19 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Tuesday 19 August 2003 18:56, Spundun Bhatt wrote: heh I have a small question. I have removed a lot of files using rm -R, Is there any mecahnism in reiserfs to recover the removed files? short answer: no long one: it depends, but the chances are very slim. You could pay 25$ and ask reiser

[gentoo-user] IDE bus speed

2003-08-19 Thread Scharf Yuval
Hello, Can someone explain to me the following log messages from the kernel: ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx ICH2: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev f9 ICH2: chipset revision 2 ICH2: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at

Re: [gentoo-user] IDE bus speed

2003-08-19 Thread Nicolas STURMEL
Scharf Yuval wrote: Hello, Can someone explain to me the following log messages from the kernel: ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx ICH2: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev f9 ICH2: chipset revision 2 ICH2: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs

Re: [gentoo-user] IDE bus speed

2003-08-19 Thread Scharf Yuval
Hello, I don't understand your answer Nicolas. Because My bus is 33MHz I get 27MB/s. I understand that. What I'm asking is if the UDMA(100) means that the HD is capable of 100MB/s and the bus holds it back. Does it mean that with a newer motherboard my HD will work much faster? Yuval Scharf On

Re: [gentoo-user] IDE bus speed

2003-08-19 Thread Nicolas STURMEL
Scharf Yuval wrote: Hello, I don't understand your answer Nicolas. Because My bus is 33MHz I get 27MB/s. I understand that. What I'm asking is if the UDMA(100) means that the HD is capable of 100MB/s and the bus holds it back. Does it mean that with a newer motherboard my HD will work much

Re: [gentoo-user] IDE bus speed

2003-08-19 Thread nmeyers
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 12:19:23AM +0300, Scharf Yuval wrote: Hello, I don't understand your answer Nicolas. Because My bus is 33MHz I get 27MB/s. I understand that. He's saying you get 27MB/s because your drive is capable of that data rate. It doesn't matter how fast your bus is if that's

RE: [gentoo-user] IDE bus speed

2003-08-19 Thread Rex Young
Hello, I don't understand your answer Nicolas. Because My bus is 33MHz I get 27MB/s. I understand that. What I'm asking is if the UDMA(100) means that the HD is capable of 100MB/s and the bus holds it back. Does it mean that with a newer motherboard my HD will work much faster? Yuval Scharf I

RE: [gentoo-user] IDE bus speed

2003-08-19 Thread Jason . Santos
Hello, I don't understand your answer Nicolas. Because My bus is 33MHz I get 27MB/s. I understand that. What I'm asking is if the UDMA(100) means that the HD is capable of 100MB/s and the bus holds it back. Does it mean that with a newer motherboard my HD will work much faster? Yuval

Re: [gentoo-user] IDE bus speed

2003-08-19 Thread Nicolas STURMEL
Rex Young wrote: I think that you're stuck on the 33MHz. Don't be. I believe that they all operate at 33MHz where they are UDMA 100, UDMA 133, etc. 33MHz is the speed that this bus operates at. I think you are wrong too :-P The size of the IDE bus ( 16 bits ) didn't change since quitte a

RE: [gentoo-user] IDE bus speed

2003-08-19 Thread Scharf Yuval
I get between 27MB/s and 30MB/s Yuval Scharf On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I don't understand your answer Nicolas. Because My bus is 33MHz I get 27MB/s. I understand that. What I'm asking is if the UDMA(100) means that the HD is capable of 100MB/s and the bus

Re: [gentoo-user] IDE bus speed

2003-08-19 Thread Scharf Yuval
Nicolas, If you are reffering to hdb you are wrong because there is no device there. So, If I sum up your answers then my HD is capable of 30MB/s. The UDMA(100) is a sales persons trick. My bus is 33Mhz and it is not holding back my HD. So, If I like to buy a new motherboard and a new HD, what

Re: [gentoo-user] IDE bus speed

2003-08-19 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Tuesday 19 August 2003 21:05, Scharf Yuval wrote: Hello, Can someone explain to me the following log messages from the kernel: ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx ICH2: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev f9 ICH2: chipset revision 2 ICH2: not 100%

RE: [gentoo-user] IDE bus speed

2003-08-19 Thread Rex Young
Rex Young wrote: I think that you're stuck on the 33MHz. Don't be. I believe that they all operate at 33MHz where they are UDMA 100, UDMA 133, etc. 33MHz is the speed that this bus operates at. I think you are wrong too :-P The size of the IDE bus ( 16 bits ) didn't change since quitte

Re: [gentoo-user] IDE bus speed

2003-08-19 Thread Ian Truelsen
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 00:52:01 +0300 (IDT) Scharf Yuval [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nicolas, If you are reffering to hdb you are wrong because there is no device there. So, If I sum up your answers then my HD is capable of 30MB/s. The UDMA(100) is a sales persons trick. My bus is 33Mhz and it

Re: [gentoo-user] IDE bus speed

2003-08-19 Thread Nicolas STURMEL
Ian Truelsen wrote: Probably the only way to get significantly better performance is by going to SCSI. IDE RAID could also be a ( cheaper ) solution. -- Nicolas -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] shoot the bullet in your foot :)

2003-08-19 Thread Zack Gilburd
On Tuesday 19 August 2003 11:56 am, Spundun Bhatt wrote: heh I have a small question. I have removed a lot of files using rm -R, Is there any mecahnism in reiserfs to recover the removed files? Thanx Spundun `reiserfsck --rebuild-tree` MIGHT do it for you. I am guessing here. -- Zack

Re: [gentoo-user] pcmcia-cs install

2003-08-19 Thread adam mcmaster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lionel Laratte wrote: | Hi all, | | I am on the home stretch in completing my first Gentoo install on my | PII-266 Compaq Presario 1655 laptop. Unfortunately, when I go to emerge | the pcmcia-cs package as the instructions say, I get a 404 not found |

RE: [gentoo-user] IDE bus speed

2003-08-19 Thread Bjorn Sodergren
So, If I like to buy a new motherboard and a new HD, what should I buy? Assume that I would like to get the best a person might expect from a home computer. Another issue holding back IDE performance is that the IDE bus is sometimes tied into the PCI bus which is limited to 128mb/sec (give

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Donation disclosure

2003-08-19 Thread Brian Downey
http://news.gmane.org/onethread.php?group=gmane.linux.gentoo.userroot=%3C2 00308142213.35578.tawesley%40yahoo.com%3E But it seems to be conveniently missing from the web version: * Location: http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20030818-newsletter.xml Why is it missing from the web version?

[gentoo-user] training bogofilter

2003-08-19 Thread blade-
Hi all, Its a OT but maybe someone knows anyway, I use spamassassin and have not been able to get bayes filter working with it, after over 5000 spam messages I think it would be working by now. So I have deceided to use bogofilter and spamassassin combo, can I use the spam that spam assassin

[gentoo-user] openMosix possibilities?

2003-08-19 Thread Mark Weinstein
Does anyone out here have any experience with the openMosix issues being experienced on Gentoo? It seems to me from what I've read that most of the issues only occur when an emerge is in progress and the machines segfault. If you were to disable each node from the cluster ONLY during an emerge,

[gentoo-user] udma question

2003-08-19 Thread Jorge Almeida
OK, since today is dma-day...:) I have two HDs, hda and hdc (hdb is the DVD/ROM drive and hdd doesn't exist). Both IDE channels have 80-conductor 40-pin cables. This is what hdparm -t says: root $ hdparm -t /dev/hda /dev/hda: Timing buffered disk reads: 120 MB in 3.01 seconds = 39.87

Re: [gentoo-user] udma question

2003-08-19 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Wednesday 20 August 2003 00:06, Jorge Almeida wrote: OK, since today is dma-day...:) I have two HDs, hda and hdc (hdb is the DVD/ROM drive and hdd doesn't exist). Both IDE channels have 80-conductor 40-pin cables. you should not (never!) but a harddisk and a cdrom/dvd-drive on one channel.

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