Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to make the laptop sleep?

2005-02-18 Thread Ian K
Hi there, Perhaps your laptop's BIOS has an option so that when you close the panel/screen your laptop goes into sleep by itself? This feature obviously doesn't require Windows. I also know that some of the newer laptops and pretty much all Toshiba made ones allow you to control your fan with the

Re: [gentoo-user] SoundCard Issue

2005-02-18 Thread Ian K
Hi again! Yes, upon going into the menuconfig, my current kernel does have ISA Support enabled (*). Please also note that the appropriate kernel option for my card: Device drivers ->Sound ->->Sound Card Support (*) ->->->ALSA ->->->->ALSA (*) ->->->->ISA Devices ->->->->->Yamaha OPL3-SA2/SA3 (

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS questions for Prescott

2005-02-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 18 February 2005 08:36 pm, "Walter Dnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 10:55:51AM -0600, Will Clifton wrote > > > I have a question about my make.conf for my new P4 Prescott 3.2. > > Before I get too busy installing I want to set my CFLAGS to get the > > most out o

Re: [gentoo-user] mysterious lockups

2005-02-18 Thread John Patrick Coder
the most common cause of random freezing is bad capacitors on the mother board bad ones usually bulge up or leak a crystalizing liquid. If you have an MSI board made with tiwanese caps this is the problem. Don't be discouraged from trying to recap your board I have had 100% success trying just be

[gentoo-user] Best way to make the laptop sleep?

2005-02-18 Thread Hareesh Nagarajan
Hi, Times at which I am not by my laptop I leave my laptop locked using 'xlock'. I know this isn't the best way because 'xlock' consumes many CPU cycles. What is the best way to lock my laptop so that when I do resume work my laptop isn't at 75 degree celcius (My CPU fan doesn't seem to stop or s

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS questions for Prescott

2005-02-18 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 10:55:51AM -0600, Will Clifton wrote > I have a question about my make.conf for my new P4 Prescott 3.2. Before I get > too busy installing I want to set my CFLAGS to get the most out of my chip. Is > the following too much? I'm not a programmer, but this is what I got out of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A query on C/C++ and GDB

2005-02-18 Thread Hareesh Nagarajan
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 20:10:11 +0100, Philip Nilsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Run ldd on the program you want to debug to know what it > links against. For my program ldd says this among other things: libstdc++.so.5 => /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.4/libstdc++.so.5 (0xb7f0d000) Now,

Re: [gentoo-user] SoundCard Issue

2005-02-18 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 01:06:51AM +, Ian K wrote > >| The soundcard is not listed with lspci, as it is an ISA card. Is there > >| a command to show the ISA devices? > >| > >Yes think so. Try "lshw | grep ISA", 'emerge lshw'. Using it output's an > >ISA-device on my mobo. > >HTH > >Rumen > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: DVD copy?

2005-02-18 Thread Aleksandar Radovic
This is anything but proper Linux solution: DVD shrink under wine works perfectly for me. On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 09:34 +0100, Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: > Hi all, > > I want to make a backup copy of my DVDs, but since they are copy protected > I can't just copy them via k3b. I thougt I coul

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's Bandwidth Measurement Abilities

2005-02-18 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, James wrote: > Thanks for pointing out about iftop and iptraf. > I'll take a look. RRD-style graphs would be > nice as was pointing out by A. Khattri. Cacti is great for RRD graphs. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Anyone using mod_security with Apache 1.x???

2005-02-18 Thread A. Khattri
I have this installed and running on a web server but I see no LoadModule or AddModules commands for it in apache.conf. I do see an Include for the mod_security.conf file. How can I know this DSO is loaded and working? I see nothing in the logs. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Unattended sftp?

2005-02-18 Thread Grant
> > I'm also concerned about sending my > > password for these systems over the internet in clear text. > > Ah, you're doing that whether you are doing it manually or automagically via > a cron task. So if you're not worried about the manual upload, why worry > about the automated upload? I'm no

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging udev: is it sane?

2005-02-18 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Has worked for months here. Check out the udev tutorial on Gentoo and the links in the tutorial. I'm running an all udev system. On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Christoph Eckert wrote: Hi, a short question: I'd like to start playing with udev, but I'd like to not mess up my system. Is it save to emerge it

[gentoo-user] trouble with logrotate & apache2

2005-02-18 Thread Covington, Chris
Hi all, Whenever I do a logrotate, it seems my apache2 stops logging though there are new log files created but with 0 size. I'm using syslog-ng if it matters. I have the following logrotate configuration for apache2 (the prerotate scp works without prompting because I've exchanged keys): /va

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CVS gentoo tutorial

2005-02-18 Thread Antoine
Thomas Kirchner wrote: * On Feb 18 19:21, James ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I can more easily learn Subversion, and use it to check in code from a cvs respository, modify the code and send it back to a CVS repository (one that I do not control, such as ffmpeg) easier than actually employing CVS? T

Re: [gentoo-user] USB pendrive and missing /dev/sda

2005-02-18 Thread Scott Taylor
On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 17:05 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: > Scott correctly points out that the lowspeed option kills /dev/sda and > /dev/sda1 for USB. However, you should now see /dev/uba and /dev/uba1 > instead. They serve the same function for USB. Mount /dev/uba1 instead > of /dev/sda1, and it

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging udev: is it sane?

2005-02-18 Thread Christoph Eckert
> It is safe. As long as you leave devfs compiled into your > kernel, you can switch between udev and devfs at boot time, > until you are happy with udev and remove devfs altogether. > > See http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml Argh. RTFM ;-) . Thanks a lot for the link (which I could ha

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging udev: is it sane?

2005-02-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 23:11:57 +0100, Christoph Eckert wrote: > Is it save to emerge it, or will it remove existing parts of > my current system, or affect it in any way? It is safe. As long as you leave devfs compiled into your kernel, you can switch between udev and devfs at boot time, until you

[gentoo-user] emerging udev: is it sane?

2005-02-18 Thread Christoph Eckert
Hi, a short question: I'd like to start playing with udev, but I'd like to not mess up my system. Is it save to emerge it, or will it remove existing parts of my current system, or affect it in any way? Thanks for any hint. Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] cleaning up memory statistics...

2005-02-18 Thread Richard Robson
On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 11:08 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > Is there a command that tells Linux to really memory that is really > not in use? I'm sure top is not the best app for looking at this so > what app would be better? cat /proc/meminfo and the following link to make sense of it... http://linu

Re: [gentoo-user] USB pendrive and missing /dev/sda

2005-02-18 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 04:29:32PM +, Calvin Spealman wrote > For most of the time my machine has been set up, I have been able to use USB > storage devices without any trouble (mostly). Recently, after a kernel > upgrade, I found that /dev/sda had gone missing. The confusing part is that > I h

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's Bandwidth Measurement Abilities

2005-02-18 Thread James
Sascha Lucas rus.uni-stuttgart.de> writes: > > I was hoping for some way of gathering this information and generating > > graphs like MRTG - would be nice to see historical bandwidth consumption > > of a client's site. > > sorry... I know that net-analyzer/ntop can store RRD-graphes, but I have

Re: [gentoo-user] CVS gentoo tutorial

2005-02-18 Thread Daniel Westermann-Clark
On 2005-02-18 13:04:53 -0500, A. Khattri wrote: > CVS doesn't handle directories very well. Specifically, when you move > stuff around you might find yourself having to manually remove old > directories. [16:16:40 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ cat ~/.cvsrc cvs -q checkout -P update -d -P diff -u -d -p Yo

Re: [gentoo-user] cleaning up memory statistics...

2005-02-18 Thread Sascha Lucas
Hi Mark, Is there a command that tells Linux to really memory that is really not in use? I'm sure top is not the best app for looking at this so yes there is: i.e. "free -m". the line starting with "-/+" tells you what's used by apps without filesystem cache and buffers and what's free. the "-m"

[Fwd: RE: [gentoo-user] Xorg and Gnome or KDE on Gentoo]

2005-02-18 Thread Chris Cox
Original Message Subject:RE: [gentoo-user] Xorg and Gnome or KDE on Gentoo Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 15:24:58 -0500 From: Dennis Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thanks, I will look into that. The Knoppix gave some ideas, but really seems to be a

RE: [gentoo-user] Unattended sftp?

2005-02-18 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I'm also concerned about sending my > password for these systems over the internet in clear text. Ah, you're doing that whether you are doing it manually or automagically via a cron task. So if you're not worried about the manual upload, why worry about the automated upload? Based on the syste

Re: [gentoo-user] cleaning up memory statistics...

2005-02-18 Thread Mike Noble
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Knecht wrote: | Is there a command that tells Linux to really memory that is really | not in use? I'm sure top is not the best app for looking at this so | what app would be better? | | Here's a picture of my machine running Gnome and Mozilla immed

Re: [gentoo-user] Unattended sftp?

2005-02-18 Thread Mike Noble
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Grant wrote: | I need to ftp different text files to different systems (google, | yahoo, etc.), and I'd like to be able to set up a cron job so it is | done automatically every day. I'm also concerned about sending my | password for these systems over

Re: [gentoo-user] Randr, xorg and KDE

2005-02-18 Thread Holly Bostick
Robert G. Siebeck wrote: Hi, I use x.org 6.8.0 and KDE 3.3.2. In KDE control centre under devices -> display I get the message that my X server needs RANDR (Resize and Rotate), which is needed to change the display resolution. Actually RandR is supported and activated. In /var/log/Xorg.0.log I foun

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo's Bandwidth Measurement Abilities

2005-02-18 Thread Sascha Lucas
I was hoping for some way of gathering this information and generating graphs like MRTG - would be nice to see historical bandwidth consumption of a client's site. sorry... I know that net-analyzer/ntop can store RRD-graphes, but I have no experiences with that. Sascha. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

[gentoo-user] Re: CVS gentoo tutorial

2005-02-18 Thread Thomas Kirchner
* On Feb 18 18:58, James ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Thanks for all of your input. No problem - revision control is a wonderful thing, and not as difficult as it might seem at first. There's really no other way to go, and when you learn the basics, you'll find all kinds of uses you didn't think

[gentoo-user] Re: CVS gentoo tutorial

2005-02-18 Thread Thomas Kirchner
* On Feb 18 19:21, James ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I can more easily learn Subversion, and use it to check in code from a cvs > respository, modify the code and send it back to a CVS repository (one that > I do not control, such as ffmpeg) easier than actually employing CVS? > That is, It's ea

Re: [gentoo-user] X and I855GM

2005-02-18 Thread Sascha Hlusiak
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 |> |> what is you problem with X?? 3D acceleration?? |> |> |> |> |> | yes, the graphic card normally do it but it doesn't.and it seems for |> dvd |> | play, it use cpu ressource instead of using the graphic card accel. |> |> And of course you need to co

[gentoo-user] Randr, xorg and KDE

2005-02-18 Thread Robert G. Siebeck
Hi, I use x.org 6.8.0 and KDE 3.3.2. In KDE control centre under devices -> display I get the message that my X server needs RANDR (Resize and Rotate), which is needed to change the display resolution. Actually RandR is supported and activated. In /var/log/Xorg.0.log I found the following line: (

[gentoo-user] Re: CVS gentoo tutorial

2005-02-18 Thread James
Antoine gmail.com> writes: > I suggest you forget CVS for the moment and try subversion > (http://subversion.tigris.org/), if only for the book > (http://svnbook.red-bean.com/). Subversion is a better version of CVS > and everything that could be done the same way was. The book is simply > fa

[gentoo-user] Re: A query on C/C++ and GDB

2005-02-18 Thread Philip Nilsson
On 17-02-05 20:47 -0600, Hareesh Nagarajan wrote: > Hi, > > What are the libraries/programs that need to be compiled with '+debug' > so that GDB has *all* the info to step through library functions? At > present GDB does not seem to have STL info. > > Must I re-compile/re-emerge > 1. glibc > 2. l

[gentoo-user] Re: gensplash with 2.6.10-r6 kernel. [solved]

2005-02-18 Thread Frank Lynch
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 19:01:11 +, Frank Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 14:39:24 +, Frank Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > Yesterday I tried to rebuild my kernel to use gensplash, I followed > > the very good howto at [1] and opted to compile gensplash

[gentoo-user] cleaning up memory statistics...

2005-02-18 Thread Mark Knecht
Is there a command that tells Linux to really memory that is really not in use? I'm sure top is not the best app for looking at this so what app would be better? Here's a picture of my machine running Gnome and Mozilla immediately after a reboot. top - 11:02:50 up 3 min, 2 users, load average:

Re: [gentoo-user] Unattended sftp?

2005-02-18 Thread Luke Ravitch
On 2005-02-18 11:00, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can sftp send files securely with a single command? I would just > emerge it and figure it out but it has a long list of dev-perl > dependencies for me. Does anyone use sftp like that? If you have sftp, you have ssh. How about scp? It's p

[gentoo-user] Re: CVS gentoo tutorial

2005-02-18 Thread James
Thomas Kirchner halffull.org> writes: > Yeah, there are vim plugins that integrate CVS directly into the editor. > I don't personally use them, as I'm a control freak console-masochist, but > I've heard they're nice. Check vim.org's scripts section. Thanks Tom, Your advice is well received, as

[gentoo-user] Re: gensplash with 2.6.10-r6 kernel.

2005-02-18 Thread Frank Lynch
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 14:39:24 +, Frank Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Folks, > Yesterday I tried to rebuild my kernel to use gensplash, I followed > the very good howto at [1] and opted to compile gensplash into the > kernel using genkernel. I am not using the initramfs image stuff. > Eve

[gentoo-user] Unattended sftp?

2005-02-18 Thread Grant
I need to ftp different text files to different systems (google, yahoo, etc.), and I'd like to be able to set up a cron job so it is done automatically every day. I'm also concerned about sending my password for these systems over the internet in clear text. A previous thread tells me wput can ft

Re: [gentoo-user] New versions of software not in portage

2005-02-18 Thread Spider
On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 18:42 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: > > Yes. Preferably with an updated ebuild attached. :-) . Please, only do this if there are actual changes to the build. if all you do is cp $olbduild $newbuild, don't bother attaching it. its more work to download, compare and review it

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo's Bandwidth Measurement Abilities

2005-02-18 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Sascha Lucas wrote: > > I have a web server with many IP aliases - but it looks there no way of > > measuring throughput of the pseduo-interfaces. Any suggestions on how to > > do that? Ideally we'd like to measure total and current bandwidth used by > > an IP. > > may be this

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CVS gentoo tutorial

2005-02-18 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Antoine wrote: > I suggest you forget CVS for the moment and try subversion > (http://subversion.tigris.org/), if only for the book > (http://svnbook.red-bean.com/). Subversion is a better version of CVS > and everything that could be done the same way was. The book is simply

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS questions for Prescott

2005-02-18 Thread Jean-Francois Gagnon Laporte
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 10:55:51 -0600, Will Clifton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any opinions are appreciated. > > cflags=-O3 -mcpu=pentium4 -march=pentium4 -mmmx -msse -m3dnow > -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe > chost=i686-pc-linux-gnu > makejopts="-j3" ( because of the 2 virtuals cpus?? ) > At least r

Re: [gentoo-user] CVS gentoo tutorial

2005-02-18 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, James wrote: > Second, question: > As I experiment around with this code, any directories > I create are automatically appear in the main cvs repository, according > to the gentoo-cvs-tutorial? I understand that my code does not get uploaded > until I issue a 'cvs commit', but

[gentoo-user] Re: CVS gentoo tutorial

2005-02-18 Thread Thomas Kirchner
* On Feb 18 18:09, James ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Actually no, I use vi/elvis/vim as my preferred editor. IDE's are nice too, > especially when you work with a PC(MS) developers and want to entice them to > use > Linux. Meh, I've given up there ;) If they're not impressed with the power nati

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CVS gentoo tutorial

2005-02-18 Thread Antoine
James wrote: Karsten Baumgarten gmx.net> writes: James wrote: [snip] | Third, I want to use an IDE such as Eclipse, Anjuta or whatever. Any suggestions | on which IDE to use? Any examples or Tutorials on using the IDE with CVS? | Fogel's book nor any docs/tutorials I've found do not address the

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg and Gnome or KDE on Gentoo

2005-02-18 Thread Chris Cox
Dennis Taylor wrote: Thanks to all who have responded, I am going to try the Knoppix later today to see if I can get a better X config file. I suspect that the probing done to get the configuration for the monitor did not work quite right. I can probably dig some more and figure out how to get it

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS questions for Prescott

2005-02-18 Thread John Myers
On Friday 18 February 2005 09:06, Karsten Baumgarten wrote: > Will Clifton wrote: > | Also, will I be wanting to enable SMP support in my kernel? I read that > | somewhere too. > > You definitely want SMP (see above). You also need SMT (that's the HyperThreading part) -- t3h 3l3ctr0n3rd <[EMAIL

[gentoo-user] Re: CVS gentoo tutorial

2005-02-18 Thread James
Thomas Kirchner halffull.org> writes: > > Third, I want to use an IDE such as Eclipse, Anjuta or whatever. > > Any suggestions > > on which IDE to use? Any examples or Tutorials on using the IDE with CVS? > > Fogel's book nor any docs/tutorials I've found do not address the use of an > > IDE w

Re: [gentoo-user] New versions of software not in portage

2005-02-18 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 12:46:01 -0500 Matthew Daubenspeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | What is the "polite and acceptable" way of pointing out that a package | has a newer release then that which is in portage? Bugzilla? Bugzilla, but not straight away. Leave it for at *least* a few days after the re

RE: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo installation won't let me set root'spasswd [SOLVED]

2005-02-18 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le vendredi 18 février 2005 à 10:43 -0600, Michael Sullivan a écrit : > I told the PC to "emerge world"; will that rebuild everything with the > new i586 CFlag? no. You have to "emerge --emptytree world" (or "emerge -e world") > Do I need to rebuild the kernel too? No. The kernel set its own

Re: [gentoo-user] is it possible to emerge only the docs for a package

2005-02-18 Thread Matan Peled
John Myers wrote: On Thursday 17 February 2005 11:51, Catalin Trifu wrote: I don't usually use docs, so i add doc to package.use but i forgot :) to add it to a package. is there a possibility to emerge only the docs from a package Nope. You'll have to re-merge the whole package. Sorry. Unless

RE: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo installation won't let me set root'spasswd [SOLVED]

2005-02-18 Thread Ivan Yosifov
I strongly suggest you start over. The kernel in particular filters most if not all of the user set CFLAGS , because the kernel has very special requirements. Yes , you will loose a lot of time , but I don't think the risk of having random problems all over the place is worth it in the long term. I

[gentoo-user] Re: CVS gentoo tutorial

2005-02-18 Thread Thomas Kirchner
* On Feb 18 16:59, James ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Then to initialize cvs I issued: > #cvs -d /usr/local/cvsroot init This isn't necessary for simply checking out files. Unless you want to *host* a CVS repo, you can simply do your next step: > #cvs -z9 -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/ff

Re: [gentoo-user] New versions of software not in portage

2005-02-18 Thread Holly Bostick
Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: What is the "polite and acceptable" way of pointing out that a package has a newer release then that which is in portage? Bugzilla? Yes. Preferably with an updated ebuild attached. :-) . Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] New versions of software not in portage

2005-02-18 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
What is the "polite and acceptable" way of pointing out that a package has a newer release then that which is in portage? Bugzilla? -- Matthew Daubenspeck http://www.oddprocess.org 12:44:56 up 27 days, 22:27, 1 user, load average: 0.11, 0.08, 0.08 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: CVS gentoo tutorial

2005-02-18 Thread James
Karsten Baumgarten gmx.net> writes: > > James wrote: > > [snip] > > | Third, I want to use an IDE such as Eclipse, Anjuta or whatever. Any > suggestions > | on which IDE to use? Any examples or Tutorials on using the IDE with CVS? > | Fogel's book nor any docs/tutorials I've found do not addr

Re: [gentoo-user] CVS gentoo tutorial

2005-02-18 Thread Karsten Baumgarten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James wrote: [snip] | Third, I want to use an IDE such as Eclipse, Anjuta or whatever. Any suggestions | on which IDE to use? Any examples or Tutorials on using the IDE with CVS? | Fogel's book nor any docs/tutorials I've found do not address the use o

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS questions for Prescott

2005-02-18 Thread Benjamin Martin
On 10:55 Fri 18 Feb , Will Clifton wrote: You can use march=pentium4 and -msse3 to use the SSE3 instruction set (although there isn't much code around using it). I've been using this quite successfully for a while. Also you should enable SMP support in the kernel config. Cheers, Ben > I have

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS questions for Prescott

2005-02-18 Thread Karsten Baumgarten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Will Clifton wrote: | I have a question about my make.conf for my new P4 Prescott 3.2. Before I get | too busy installing I want to set my CFLAGS to get the most out of my chip. Is | the following too much? I'm not a programmer, but this is what I got o

[gentoo-user] CVS gentoo tutorial

2005-02-18 Thread James
Hello all, BACKGROUND: I've been looking at :http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/cvs-tutorial.xml and http://www.fredshack.com/docs/cvs.html, and the book by Karl Fogel(1999) to learn more about cvs. Here are a few questions that I've somehow missed. ffmpeg is the cvs repository I'm using as a learnin

Re: [gentoo-user] Flash stopped to work in mozilla/epiphany/firefox

2005-02-18 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le vendredi 18 février 2005 à 15:34 +0100, Frédéric Grosshans a écrit : > Macromedia's Flash recently stopped working in epiphany. I've probably > done something stupid but I don't know what. To be more specific, epiphany (and othe gecko-based browser, like mozilla and firefox) seems to use a par

RE: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo installation won't let me set root'spasswd [SOLVED]

2005-02-18 Thread Michael Sullivan
I told the PC to "emerge world"; will that rebuild everything with the new i586 CFlag? Do I need to rebuild the kernel too? It took twelve hours yesterday to build the kernel. Would the packages being built for i686 affect the networking capabilities too? I rebooted the PC and couldn't connect

[gentoo-user] CFLAGS questions for Prescott

2005-02-18 Thread Will Clifton
I have a question about my make.conf for my new P4 Prescott 3.2. Before I get too busy installing I want to set my CFLAGS to get the most out of my chip. Is the following too much? I'm not a programmer, but this is what I got out of reading some forum posts and man gcc. I also read the setting the

RE: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo installation won't let me set root'spasswd [SOLVED]

2005-02-18 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Hope you have a spare week or so with a machine that slow. :) Either that or a distcc compile farm, which is what I use for keeping a gentoo p133 system up to date... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo installation won't let me set root'spasswd [SOLVED]

2005-02-18 Thread Matthew Cline
> Ah, but if you built the box from gentoo stage 1 or 2, you're probably going > to want to start all over again (not necessary if built from stage 3). > > Likely the entire system was built using the i686 architecture and you'll > run into other problems (i.e. illegal instruction errors) as time

RE: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo installation won't let me set root'spasswd [SOLVED]

2005-02-18 Thread Dave Nebinger
> >From /etc/make.conf: > > CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer" > CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" > CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" > MAKEOPTS="-j2" > > > The machine is has a Pentium MMX 199MgHz processor, so I'm not sure if > the i686 is right (I thought i686 was a Pentium II) so I changed CHOST > to

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo installation won't let me set root's passwd [SOLVED]

2005-02-18 Thread Michael Sullivan
>From /etc/make.conf: CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" MAKEOPTS="-j2" The machine is has a Pentium MMX 199MgHz processor, so I'm not sure if the i686 is right (I thought i686 was a Pentium II) so I changed CHOST to x86 and changed CFLAG

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo's Bandwidth Measurement Abilities

2005-02-18 Thread Sascha Lucas
I have a web server with many IP aliases - but it looks there no way of measuring throughput of the pseduo-interfaces. Any suggestions on how to do that? Ideally we'd like to measure total and current bandwidth used by an IP. may be this helps? --- from man iftop --- SOURCE / DEST AGGREGATION

Re: [gentoo-user] ntfs vs *nix fs

2005-02-18 Thread Szakacsits Szabolcs
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Jean-Francois Gagnon Laporte wrote: > There is another myth that you can't have reliable write support in > linux well at least if you're willing to compromise (not really native > kernel support ...). There is a way to use the native ntfs.sys driver > in linux There are ev

Re: [gentoo-user] ntfs vs *nix fs

2005-02-18 Thread Jean-Francois Gagnon Laporte
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 01:05:55 +0100 (MET), Szakacsits Szabolcs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Bob Sanders wrote: > > > NTFS is a variation of VAX/VMS' original filesystem. Internally at > > DEC it was known as ODS2 (On Disk Structure 2). > > This is quite interesting but ar

[gentoo-user] gensplash with 2.6.10-r6 kernel.

2005-02-18 Thread Frank Lynch
Hi Folks, Yesterday I tried to rebuild my kernel to use gensplash, I followed the very good howto at [1] and opted to compile gensplash into the kernel using genkernel. I am not using the initramfs image stuff. Everything appeared to work just fine I get all that lovely eye-candy. However when my

[gentoo-user] Resuming from suspend to RAM gives blank virtual console

2005-02-18 Thread Raf
Hi, I am able to suspend and wake up my Dell Inspiron 8500, however my VC1 (Cntr+Alt+F1) does not wake up (just stays blank). BUT X wakes up fine! To get it to this point I had to unload uhci_hcd ehci_hcd modules before suspending (reload them back during wakeup). However I don't know what to d

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo's Bandwidth Measurement Abilities

2005-02-18 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Sascha Lucas wrote: > I use iftop and iptraf for Bandwidth Measurement. This are great to > measure per ip/port/interface. Take a look in the net-analyzer category > (/usr/portage/net-analyzer/*). Perhaps you will find something > interesting. I have a web server with many IP

[gentoo-user] Flash stopped to work in epiphany

2005-02-18 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Macromedia's Flash recently stopped working in epiphany. I've probably done something stupid but I don't know what. ( # emerge netscape-flash doesn't help) Can anyone here help me ? Fred -- Frédéric Grosshans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] ntfs vs *nix fs

2005-02-18 Thread Szakacsits Szabolcs
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Colin wrote: > Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: > > >There are some myths about Linux NTFS support (like it's experimental, > >corrupts data, etc) even if they aren't true for about 3-4 years. The fact > >is read is fully usable and write isn't fully implemented yet. This means > >t

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems building GTK+

2005-02-18 Thread David Corbin
On Thursday 17 February 2005 09:14 pm, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > Unless you've actively changed you CHOST (in make.conf) it hasn't changed, > so you don't have to include that parameter. In the error message > "/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.4/libstdc++.la: No such file or > director

RE: [gentoo-user] Xorg and Gnome or KDE on Gentoo

2005-02-18 Thread Dennis Taylor
Thanks to all who have responded, I am going to try the Knoppix later today to see if I can get a better X config file. I suspect that the probing done to get the configuration for the monitor did not work quite right. I can probably dig some more and figure out how to get it to use a lower r

Re: [gentoo-user] bootsplash and 2.6.9-gentoo kernel

2005-02-18 Thread Holly Bostick
Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 05:00, Jean-Francois Gagnon Laporte wrote: please read this doc and all of your answers will be answered. http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_fbsplash I'm using fbsplash currently and it's sweet. But how about getting a progress bar instead of having all the words

Re: [gentoo-user] Soft power off lost

2005-02-18 Thread Ralph Slooten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yes, I believe Compaq Presario's (seeing as it's HP now) benefit from the Toshiba extras module (your basic Fn function keys ~ like screen brightness)... however this should not have much to do with the shutting down part. If I had to take another gue

Re: [gentoo-user] 2 mice

2005-02-18 Thread Sascha Lucas
Hi, my normal mouse is ps/2 and this one is USB, so that won't work for me. I am going to try using the I-Pen as the only mouse (comment out the main mouse in XF86Config), and see how that goes. Why not? Both map to /dev/psaux or /dev/input/mouse0. I have configered one pointer for xorg (should a

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo's Bandwidth Measurement Abilities

2005-02-18 Thread Sascha Lucas
Any suggestions or ideas are most welcome. I use iftop and iptraf for Bandwidth Measurement. This are great to measure per ip/port/interface. Take a look in the net-analyzer category (/usr/portage/net-analyzer/*). Perhaps you will find something interesting. Sascha. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org ma

[gentoo-user] xsupplicant anyone?? Experience?

2005-02-18 Thread Ow Mun Heng
Hi all, I just want to determine if anyone here has gotten any positive experience with using xsupplicant (open1x.sourceforge.net) Based on my understanding in reading the "user's guide", xsupplicant is good for network access authentication mostly with wireless devices. What is the possi

Re: [gentoo-user] Soft power off lost

2005-02-18 Thread Ducky Z.
My laptop is Compaq Presario 2500. I was upgrading the kernel from 2.6.8-nitro to 2.6.10-morph. I will also try to add toshiba extra. Sincerely, D. On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 07:38:18 +0100, Ralph Slooten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > | I have also en

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: DVD copy?

2005-02-18 Thread Dirk Raeder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: > Hi all, > > I want to make a backup copy of my DVDs, but since they are copy protected > I can't just copy them via k3b. I thougt I could rip it with dvd:rip and > then burn it to DVD, but it seems that dvd:rip is o

Re: [gentoo-user] starting custom scripts/applications at boot time

2005-02-18 Thread Zbynek Houska
A. Khattri píše v Pá 18. 02. 2005 v 01:19 -0500: > > Why not write a script for the binary and put the "sleep 60" in there? > Then run the script in the background from local.start. I did, of course :-) and I have the following in /etc/conf.d/locat.start /root/webcam.sh & file is executable a

Re: [gentoo-user] X and i810

2005-02-18 Thread Octavio Ruiz (Ta^3)
Doug Lovett, who happens to be smarter than you, thinks: > Chris Cox wro > > >>Are you using the latest xorg-x11 ? I see a driver for i810 > >>in /usr/lib/modules. I'm not sure when they added a driver for this > >>video card but I don't remember seeing it in any past versions of XFree86 > >

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: DVD copy?

2005-02-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 09:34:51 +0100, Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: > Isn't there a CloneDVD-like tool for Linux, which I can use to make > backup copies of my copy protected DVDs? vobcopy will copy the DVDs file structure to HD, decrypting along the way. Then use growisofs or k3b to write it.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: DVD copy?

2005-02-18 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
Not exactly what you ask, but vobcopy will decrypt and copy the VOB to yout hd. raffaele Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: Hi all, I want to make a backup copy of my DVDs, but since they are copy protected I can't just copy them via k3b. I thougt I could rip it with dvd:rip and then burn it to DV

[gentoo-user] OT: DVD copy?

2005-02-18 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
Hi all, I want to make a backup copy of my DVDs, but since they are copy protected I can't just copy them via k3b. I thougt I could rip it with dvd:rip and then burn it to DVD, but it seems that dvd:rip is only for backups to CD-ROM (or did I miss something?). Isn't there a CloneDVD-like tool

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo installation won't let me set root's passwd

2005-02-18 Thread Ivan Yosifov
What are your CFLAGS in /etc/make.conf ? What does 'emerge --pretend --update --deep world' say ( shadow may be missing some dep ) ? On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 23:05 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: > livecd root # mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc > mount: none already mounted or /mnt/gentoo/proc bus

Re: [gentoo-user] Gensplash/bootsplash

2005-02-18 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 15:07, Ryan Viljoen wrote: > Why not use fbspalsh and set splash to silent instead of verbose. > > kernel /2.6.10-gentoo-r6/kernel-2.6.10-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/hda3 > video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr,[EMAIL PROTECTED] splash=verbose,theme:emergence > > This will give you a screeen much

Re: [gentoo-user] SoundCard Issue

2005-02-18 Thread Ian K
Rumen Yotov wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Ian K wrote: | Bob Sanders wrote: | |>> Hey everyone, |>> I sent this about 4 days ago, and got no response. |>> Can someone check into it please? |>> |> |> |> I followed this last week and did some looking around. Others |> seem