Re: [gentoo-user] USB mass storage help

2005-04-05 Thread Sarpy Sam
On Apr 5, 2005 5:22 AM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 05 Apr 2005 07:03:57 -0400, David D. Rea wrote: Just needed something for the short term, until I can get a CF card reader that doesn't have a history of hosing CF cards! Use gphoto, Digikam (my preference) or

Re: [gentoo-user] USB 2.0 extermal hard drive question

2005-02-07 Thread Sarpy Sam
I just bought a Maxtor external hard drive the other day, hooked it up and it works fine. It's a simple drive and not one of the one touch backup models. I am using 2.6. kernel so I can't speak for 2.4 kernel. As soon as I plugged it in it was recognized as sda and I was able to mount it and

Re: [gentoo-user] A peculiar DNS puzzle...

2005-01-24 Thread Sarpy Sam
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 15:55:55 +0100, Mariusz Pkala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I emerged the bind-tools package and had a play with dig and nslookup. To further add to the intrigue of this bizarre problem - I was surprised to find that both dig and nslookup (like ping) correctly resolve

Re: [gentoo-user] whos got the time?

2005-01-22 Thread Sarpy Sam
You can use any NTP server. Of course, it make sense to use one close to you. Best would be to use your ISP's NPT server. Just ask them. If they won't tell you launch nslookup. Inside nslookup, you do: set type=any ntp.your.isp.domain nslookup? bash-2.05b# nslookup bash: nslookup:

Re: [gentoo-user] making multiple copies of the system

2005-01-15 Thread Sarpy Sam
On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 01:02:36 -0800 (PST), Dennis Allison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've constructed system A, now I want to clone it to make systems B and C. The machines I have have hot pluggable disks so my strategy was to partition a second disk identically and then physically copy the boot

Re: [gentoo-user] qmail and gentoo

2005-01-14 Thread Sarpy Sam
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 21:18:08 -0500, John Dangler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone here running qmail on gentoo 2.6.10 ? I've been trying for the better part of 8 hours to get sendmail to run with no luck. The tech at my isp said that qmail would be a lot simpler and easier to get up and

[gentoo-user] Make 2.6.10 kernel fails

2005-01-11 Thread Sarpy Sam
Trying to make the new kernel source fails with following errors. What am I doing wrong? bunkhouse linux # make make modules_install CHK include/linux/version.h SPLIT include/linux/autoconf.h - include/config/* make[1]: `arch/i386/kernel/asm-offsets.s' is up to date. CHK

Re: [gentoo-user] Make 2.6.10 kernel fails

2005-01-11 Thread Sarpy Sam
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 13:33:56 +0100, Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 05:27:35 -0700 you wrote: Trying to make the new kernel source fails with following errors. What am I doing wrong? CHK usr/initramfs_list

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg locks up

2005-01-10 Thread Sarpy Sam
On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 16:05:22 -0700, Sarpy Sam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A number of people have reported problems with i810 and xorg-6.8.x IIRC, the solution was to downgrade to version 6.7.0. I use a computer at work that has this chipset, and while it works with some of the time, it often

Re: [gentoo-user] cups problem

2005-01-10 Thread Sarpy Sam
On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 20:20:34 +, Michael W. Holdeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here are the config files. I have never understood cups config files. cupsd.conf on Client Machine On the client machine you have to configure the /etc/cups/client.conf file not the /etc/cups/cupsd.conf --

[gentoo-user] Xorg locks up

2005-01-09 Thread Sarpy Sam
With the developers depriceating xfree86 I am trying to get one computer running xorg and having difficulty. Everyone says you can use the exact same configuration file as xfree86 just rename it xorg.conf. Well I emerge xorg and renamed the file and when I start the xserver all I get is a bunch

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg locks up

2005-01-09 Thread Sarpy Sam
A number of people have reported problems with i810 and xorg-6.8.x IIRC, the solution was to downgrade to version 6.7.0. I use a computer at work that has this chipset, and while it works with some of the time, it often crashes and hangs with xorg-6.8.x. For me, it always crashes when DRI is