Re: [gentoo-user] Experiences with PCI express and Gentoo Linux?

2005-03-02 Thread Mike Williams
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 23:20, Praise wrote: I am going to buy a new PC, but I am worried about hardware compatibility between Pci Express and Linux. Anybody is willing to share experience about it? Yep, it Just Works. -- Mike Williams pgpioANoGkVVa.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] linux-2.6.11 is out

2005-03-02 Thread Daniel Drake
Richard Brown wrote: nvidia-kernel won't work with a vanilla 2.6.11, you'll have to wait for an ebuild for ck or gentoo-dev-sources I don't think you are right here. gentoo-dev-sources is not patched with anything that would aid nvidia compatibility. I think you might be right in saying that

[gentoo-user] Sound Won't Work

2005-03-02 Thread Shawn Singh
I've got this error message, and my sound won't work...where do I start troubleshooting, or has anyone encountered this error and can share their solution... Error artsmessage Sound server fatal error: cpu overload, aborting I'm running kernel 2.6.9-gentoo-r13. I've compiled support for my

Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird RSS problem

2005-03-02 Thread Christoph Eckert
I'm using mozilla-thunderbird-1.0 for reading RSS feeds. When selecting an article, thunderbird only displays the title of the article in the message window instead of loading the web page. On another system (debian unstable) it works as expected. Is this a gentoo related issue? Or is it

[gentoo-user] emerge sync: failed cache update errors

2005-03-02 Thread mel
Hi all, I'm seeing a lot of these while performing emerge sync: Failed cache update: media-plugins/libdc1394-1.0.0 Corruption detected when reading key 'libdc1394-1.0.0': Key count mismatch What are the causes? It only happens during emerge sync. The solution is to rm -rf /usr/portage emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sync: failed cache update errors

2005-03-02 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 08:45:44 +0800 mel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I'm seeing a lot of these while performing emerge sync: | | Failed cache update: media-plugins/libdc1394-1.0.0 Corruption | detected when reading key 'libdc1394-1.0.0': Key count mismatch | | What are the causes? It only happens

Re: [gentoo-user] Experiences with PCI express and Gentoo Linux?

2005-03-02 Thread Damian Kolkowski
* Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-03 00:55]: On Wednesday 02 March 2005 23:20, Praise wrote: I am going to buy a new PC, but I am worried about hardware compatibility between Pci Express and Linux. Anybody is willing to share experience about it? Yep, it Just Works. Cool, SATA

Re: [gentoo-user] Experiences with PCI express and Gentoo Linux?

2005-03-02 Thread Mike Williams
On Thursday 03 March 2005 01:25, Damian Kolkowski wrote: Cool, SATA works to, but: .~. # hdparm -t /dev/hda /dev/sda /dev/hda: Timing buffered disk reads: 174 MB in 3.03 seconds = 57.38 MB/sec /dev/sda: Timing buffered disk reads: 152 MB in 3.02 seconds = 50.37 MB/sec

Re: [gentoo-user] Experiences with PCI express and Gentoo Linux?

2005-03-02 Thread Damian Kolkowski
* Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-03 02:42]: Cool, SATA works to, but: .~. # hdparm -t /dev/hda /dev/sda /dev/hda: Timing buffered disk reads: 174 MB in 3.03 seconds = 57.38 MB/sec /dev/sda: Timing buffered disk reads: 152 MB in 3.02 seconds = 50.37 MB/sec

Re: [gentoo-user] Experiences with PCI express and Gentoo Linux?

2005-03-02 Thread Glenn Enright
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 14:59, Damian Kolkowski wrote: * Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-03 02:42]: Cool, SATA works to, but: .~. # hdparm -t /dev/hda /dev/sda /dev/hda: Timing buffered disk reads: 174 MB in 3.03 seconds = 57.38 MB/sec /dev/sda: Timing

[gentoo-user] Creation of ebuild

2005-03-02 Thread pepone pepone
Hello I creating a new ebuild for Ice (Internet Comunication Engine) http://www.zeroc.com this is my first ebuild and i want know how i my ebuild can detect the version of a program that is installed in the system the problem is that i order to suscefuly compile my

Re: [gentoo-user] Creation of ebuild

2005-03-02 Thread Dion Sole
Use the has_version function to check. Syntax is has_version category/package-version and it returns 0 if the particular version is installed. So to check for db, has_version =sys-libs/db-4.2.52_p2 would return 0 if that version is installed. On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 04:07 +0100, pepone pepone

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: howto tune SpamAssassin

2005-03-02 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 16:13 -0500, Thomas Kirchner wrote: * On Mar 2 21:50, Matthias F. Brandstetter (gentoo-user@gentoo.org) wrote: after upgrading SA to version 3 I now do get lots of false negative. I trained my filter via sa-learn, and many of these FP do have BAYES_99, but they do

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: howto tune SpamAssassin

2005-03-02 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 16:13 -0500, Thomas Kirchner wrote: * On Mar 2 21:50, Matthias F. Brandstetter (gentoo-user@gentoo.org) wrote: after upgrading SA to version 3 I now do get lots of false negative. I trained my filter via sa-learn, and many of these FP do have BAYES_99,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How do I get more text consoles?

2005-03-02 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 12:28:42PM -0500, A. Khattri wrote On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Peter wrote: Well. I have some screen/vim related problems too. If I try to use vim in screen up, down and other arrow keys do not work properly. May be you know how to solve this issue? When re-connecting

Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME Volume Hotkeys (or how to set what my master volume control actually increases/decreases...)

2005-03-02 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 18:01 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 12:51 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 21:24 -0500, Phil Sexton wrote: On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 21:19, Keith Gable wrote: What I'm asking is one of these two things: 1) How can I map the master

Re: [gentoo-user] HFS

2005-03-02 Thread bergeron
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 07:56:47PM +, Julien Cayzac wrote: Has anyone tried HFS on an intel box, as an alternative to the ext3/reiser/jfs/xfs mess? I'm assuming you're talking about Macintosh HFS/HFS+. I've read/written slices on PPC, and used it to read a firewire drive on Intel. You're

[gentoo-user] /proc filled up /

2005-03-02 Thread A. Khattri
I had an emerge fail because of lack of disk space on / so I checked it out: # cd / # ls bin/ dev/ home/ lost+found/ opt/ root/ service/ tmp@ var/ boot/ etc/ lib/ mnt/ proc/ sbin/ sys/ usr/ # du -sh * 5.2Mbin 1.0Kboot 592Kdev 2.2Metc 12M home 13M

Re: [gentoo-user] /proc filled up /

2005-03-02 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, A. Khattri wrote: Is it normal for /proc to be so big? Never mind - I just realized that /proc doesn't actually take up any space at all - the problem was elsewhere! -- A. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] gconf-editor: acme: use_pcm doesn't work

2005-03-02 Thread Iain Buchanan
following up my investigation into getting that-part-of-gnome-that-used-to-be-done-by-acme which makes your volume keys adjust the pcm mixer, instead of the master, I found: gconf-editor / apps acme use_pcm (bool) I noticed it was already 'on', so I had a few goes of toggling it,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: howto tune SpamAssassin

2005-03-02 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 20:21 -0800, Jonathan Nichols wrote: Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 16:13 -0500, Thomas Kirchner wrote: * On Mar 2 21:50, Matthias F. Brandstetter (gentoo-user@gentoo.org) wrote: after upgrading SA to version 3 I now do get lots of false negative. I

Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME Volume Hotkeys (or how to set what my master volume control actually increases/decreases...)

2005-03-02 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 14:16 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 18:01 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 12:51 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 21:24 -0500, Phil Sexton wrote: On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 21:19, Keith Gable wrote: What I'm asking

Re: [gentoo-user] /proc filled up /

2005-03-02 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 23:56 -0500, A. Khattri wrote: I had an emerge fail because of lack of disk space on / so I checked it out: # du -sh * 1017M proc Is it normal for /proc to be so big? du -chs /proc/kcore 512M/proc/kcore 512Mtotal This is from a laptop with 512MB of RAM.

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound Won't Work

2005-03-02 Thread Keith Gable
Sorry if this sounds too stupid, too simple, or too man, what does he think I am, stupid?, but, have you unmuted your mixers? The reason I ask is this: yesterday, I went through about an hour and a half trying to figure out why my new motherboard's new onboard sound didn't work, even though it was

[gentoo-user] Backspace don't work under man cmd

2005-03-02 Thread Ow Mun Heng
I used to be able to use the backspace key under xterm but I'm not sure since when the function became not-available. I checked that it works under gnome-terminal. I noticed that in gnome-terminal, there is a compatibility option backspace key generates ASCII DEL How do I do the same for

Re: [gentoo-user] linux-2.6.11 is out

2005-03-02 Thread W.Kenworthy
This will probably stir up some flames, but: the package.keywords system sucks 1. you put things in there and you forget about them 2. extra work for no user gain over the old system (I know the old system is broke, but from what I agther it was broken on purpose to create the package.keyword

[gentoo-user] Forcing fsync()

2005-03-02 Thread Hareesh Nagarajan
Hi, I am aware this isn't a programming mailing list, but since I've got such wonderful responses from users in this ML, I thought I'd go ahead with my post. My problem is that I haven't figured out how I must fsync an output stream (in C++) even after reading the contents of this link:

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need sendmail help

2005-03-02 Thread Mike Noble
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Sullivan wrote: | I set the MX record (correctly, I hope). Can you | recommend a good friendly (easy to understand for a | network know-nothing like myself) book or online | resource that I can learn DNS and/or Unix networking | in general

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