Re: [gentoo-user] Lightweight httpd

Eamon Caddigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [ ... ] > Some programs that look interesting (found 'em all in portage) are: > boa, monkeyd, cherokee, and fnord. Would anybody with experience in > one or more of these share their opinion? Are there any others I'm > missing? for the record, on an

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Keyboard layouts

Tommi Pirinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > > If you think 2.6.x kernels are stable, try using an unpatched 2.6.1 > > kernel with a GB or Japanese (or possibly German) keyboard. > > Actually, almost any non-english keyboard is affected somehow. in X at least, my no-l

Re: [gentoo-user] IDE RAID 0 and 1

Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 20:20:40 +0100 > Jimmy Rosen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Kernel SW raid: One customer wanted a very cheap storage solution > > for the cluster I built him. So I deployed a 2x120GB raid 1 on > > kernel SW raid. Very simple setu

Re: [gentoo-user] naming an xterm

Andrew Gaffney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I routinely have atleast 3 xterm's at any one time. I need a way to > easily distinguish between them. Is there a command I can run from > the xterm to change its title to something I specify? personally, I like having a very clean prompt and keep th

Re: [gentoo-user] Kmplayer

Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [ ... ] > It seems that now I have "gmplayer" which works properly, though I > have no idea where it came from. gmplayer is the standard GUI for mplayer. it comes from mplayer being built with --enable-gui. -- Terje -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailin

Re: [gentoo-user] "etc-update" versus Manual update opinions..

"brett holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you blindly say update it then etc-update sure will mess it up. on a unix-system mostly anything you do blindly, as root, will mess up your system. and, on a unix-system, with your eyes open, that mess can be fixed. > Every update that etc-

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem couldn't be fixed?

(sorry for the late reply, I haven't had time to read my gentoo-user-box as of late) Spider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Terje Kvernes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > giving /usr a partition of its own isn't that odd, is it? :-) > > Not really, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem couldn't be fixed?

Spider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [ ... ] > Thats strange, 40Mb for root? Unless you partitioned /usr off I'm > really quite curious about how you managed to do that. giving /usr a partition of its own isn't that odd, is it? :-) then again, my home server currently has around 20 parti

Re: [gentoo-user] auto Emerge world

Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Saturday, 23 August 2003, at 11:42 pm, Terje Kvernes wrote: > > > I've been running ~x86 on three boxes for a couple of months now, > > with the latest and greatest. things work surprisingly well, with > > some tidb

Re: [gentoo-user] auto Emerge world

Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [ ... ] > (0) By all means use mostly stable packages, but let all update > recommendations age 2 weeks before performing the updates, then do > them singly and manually watching for anomalies and recommendations. I've been running ~x86 on three box

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading to 1.4?

Spider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [ about upgrading ] > From pre 1.2? Could be messier but should appear the same way as > 1.2 to 1.4 I'm currently doing a 1.0 -> 1.4 upgrade on one box. some trickyness, since I need to keep it usable (ie: X has to work, as well as fvwm2, galeon, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux kernel 2.6.* benchmarking/testing

"Hemmann, Volker Armin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [ about the 2.6 kernel ] > faster? "different". > ok, after an app run 30 secs, it starts to speed up, but try to move > a xawtv/xawdecode window around directly after the start. Or Xine, > or xmms. It is jerky at its best, it is horrible

Re: [gentoo-user] bttv where is it?

(subject lowercased) "Meka[ni]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've seen that my friend has no problem with bttv, but I can > not find it. I've compiled everything under v4l but there is no bttv > module. My kernel is 2.6.0-test3. Where to find that module? it's part of the kernel, und

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources

Chris I <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [ ... ] > I had to go through a bit of trouble to get my synaptics touchpad > working. It wasnt hard, it was just different than with 2.4 -- it > threw it into a ps/2 compat mode, which i thought was how the device > normally worked, wheras I had to change it

Re: [gentoo-user] Best processor for Video Encoding type job

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Farmer) writes: [ ... ] > Anyway, if you're planning to do serious video work, you probably > ought to use OS X anyway. (Horrors!) As great as Linux is, I don't > think there's a lot of movie editing software for Linux, other than > perhaps film-gimp; however, OS X has

Re: [gentoo-user] PHP or Perl

daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [ ... ] > for example, mail() is a php function that sends mail to someone. > this capability is available in perl, but requires much more work on > your behalf. in perl, you have to open a pipe to your mail binary, > write to it and then close the pipe. e

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with blocked ebuilds

Ben Ricker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I forgot to mention that I had tried that and perl will not even > update. It fails with the same error. unmerge the blocking packages, then update perl. -- Terje -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading the kernel

Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [ ... ] > Again, no. All you should have to do: > * emerge sys-kernel/development-sources * emerge module-init-tools (from "~x86") [ ... ] -- Terje -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Mad at Mozilla 1.4 : it broke my galeon.

"Jonathan C." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [ ... ] > Does anyone have any suggestions as to how make my dear galeon work > again? edit /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask, and remove the line about galeon being masked, after that: USE="gtk2" emerge mozilla galeon that works fine for me

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Windows partitions ro

Jorge Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [ ... ] > /dev/hda8 /mnt/winvfatrw,user,umask=000 0 0 my personal solution is to use autofs and generate auto.misc for /misc with the proper permissions. the snippet below is from a RedHat box at work, but

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer stalling after a second

Henti Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Terje Kvernes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Henti Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > I have a problem with maplayer lately. It used to work fine, but > > > now when I try to play a file

Re: [gentoo-user] SUMMARY: Kernel 2.6.0 test1 Exploits

Tom Syroid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [ ... ] > - anyone know if I have to manually create the /sys directory? Bug? > [creating the /sys directory removes the error -- tested as I was > writing this] you need to create /sys as it is the mount point for the filesystem, just like you'd crea

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 net drivers

Andrew Gaffney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there no longer support for Davicom NICs using the dmfe driver? I > can't seem to find it anywhere in menuconfig. I even searched > through the .config and can't seem to find anything in the net > section that has anything to do with it. since Dav

Re: [gentoo-user] Update world, new problems with modules

"Michael W. Holdeman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Did anyone solve this yet? > > I messed up BIG time and unmerged baselayout on my desktop! this shouldn't be such a big deal? boot from the installation CD, mount your installation under /mnt/gentoo as usual, and chroot to /mnt/gentoo.

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.0-test1 badness

"Kurt V. Hindenburg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here's something scary... > > Linux rachael.cn.net 2.6.0-test1 #2 Tue Jul 15 11:58:53 EST 2003 i686 > AMD Duron(tm) processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux > > Jul 15 12:50:57 [kernel] Badness in pci_find_subsys at > drivers/pci/search.c:132 > Jul 15

Re: [gentoo-user] HELP! I dorked it myself!

Spider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [ ... ] > boot with "init=/bin/sash" very sound advice, and thank you Gentoo for having /bin/sash installed by default. :-) > mount -o remount,rw / you probably want to run 'devfsd' at this stage. > mount /usr/ > emerge baselayout if mount fa

Re: [gentoo-user] [OFF-TOPIC] How can i test my Bandwidth ?

"Ricardo Nuno" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > can you be more specific? hm, I though we'd have an ebuild for it, sorry. > what is TTCP and here can i get it. TTCP (Test TCP) has become more a concept than a single application these days. the basic idea is that you put up a sender and a

Re: [gentoo-user] [OFF-TOPIC] How can i test my Bandwidth ?

"Ricardo Nuno" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [ ... ] > So i wanted to ask you guys how should i test the line before i pick > up the phone to "scream" at my ISP TTCP works well for something like this. -- Terje -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer stalling after a second

Henti Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a problem with maplayer lately. It used to work fine, but now > when I try to play a file it playes for a second then stops. I can > forward and reverse fine and it playes for a second then stops again what output plugin are you using? -- Te

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 Test

(reference header fixed manually. when starting a new thread, please don't reply to an existing article.) Tom Syroid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm preparing to build/test the new 2.6 kernel on my dual Athlon > box. I'm current running gentoo-sources 2.4.20-r5. welcome to the club.

Re: [gentoo-user] Opteron anyone?

Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [ ... ] > A small thing ti consider also, the fastest production opteron is > "only" a 1.8gig chip. Wait till the xeon stompers come out this > fall... clock frequency doesn't equal the ability to crunch numbers. on a RISC, this would be a fair as

Re: [gentoo-user] Opteron anyone?

Daniel Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 03:22:06PM +0200, Terje Kvernes wrote: > > > ordered a dual 1.8Ghz Opteron to do numbercrunching. we've also > > bought a dual 3.06Ghz P4 Xeon with HyperThreading to compare it > > with, but

Re: [gentoo-user] lots of duplicates in /usr/lib

"Thomas Schweikle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi! > > on one system I have found lots of duplicate libs in /usr/lib: > > -rw-r--r--1 root root 1303154 May 25 02:48 cracklib_dict.pwd > -rw-r--r--1 root root 1303154 May 25 02:48 cracklib_dict.pwd > ... > -rw-r--r--

Re: [gentoo-user] Opteron anyone?

Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [ ... ] > Dan, can you do me a favor? Next time you boot the opteron, make a > note what the bogomip number is and let us know... I'm curious what > it reports. bogomips aren't worth anything in real life. they tend to reflect the clock frequency

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo isn't slow :)

Daniel Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [ ... ] > I think that a modern uni-processor system with preempt and the > low-latency patches enabled would be great for audio work. I don't > think you'd specifically need SMP, unless maybe I'm unaware of some > special situations where it would be

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo is slow

Christian Aust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [ ... ] > p.s.: I'd like to know because I'm just about to switch one of our > production machines over to gentoo... so server performance matters > to me. apart from the standard warnings around "I hope you know what you're doing when you're putt

Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla 1.4 build fails, "ex" missing?!

Matthew Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [ ... ] > Vim is now a dependency of Mozilla?? :-/ and csh. believe it or not. although, neither of these dependencies are mentioned in the ebuild. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24115 > -- Terje -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] window manager selection

Richard Kilgore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [ ... ] > 1. not but-ugly, like TWM, VTWM, CTWM, and FVWM >I care more about functionality, but these are simply >depressing to look at. http://terje.kvernes.no/tmp/snapshot2.png >. is this butt-ugly? [ ... ] > Sawfish is

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.5.74 kernel with alsa

Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sven Blumenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Enable OSS emulation in your kernel... thats what I did with 2.5.70 > > and it works fine :) > > Yeah, the old "should be ok." I have all the necessary modules and > settings and modules-update, but n

Re: [gentoo-user] kerenl 2.5.74 fails to boot

Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [ ... ] > No framebuffer support, but the ^%$£ 2.5 config turned off VGA > console support! I've had the same problem over and over again with 2.5.*, with or without VGA console support. of course, 2.5.74 fails upon building spb2 (FireWire stor

Re: [gentoo-user] convert unix time stamp to human readable

Timo Boettcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [ ... ] > == Begin paste unix-to-human-time.pl == > #! /usr/bin/perl -p > s/^\d+\.\d+/localtime $&/e; > == End paste unix-to-human-time.pl interesting use of $&. :-) -- Terje

Re: [gentoo-user] File Sharing between Linuxes

Chris I <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [ ... ] > The only problem is that there seems to be a bug when mounting an > nfs share on localhost that I cannot fix. It takes five minutes, yet > works fine after mounting. have you tunneled the appropriate portmap stuff as well? -- Terje -- [EMAIL P

Re: [gentoo-user] Server application choices?

Matthew Daubenspeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [ ... ] > Although, I just use ssh to copy files (sftp or scp). 'rsync -e ssh' is your friend. :-) -- Terje -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Windows to linux... What was that app?

Dan Fairs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [ ... ] > Public sector adoption in particular is interesting. Here in the UK, > it looks like the government are a Microsoft shop, with the > Government Gateway and all. Has anyone been involved in a Gentoo > deployment in the public sector? at the depa

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Windows to linux... What was that app?

Zack Gilburd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [ ... ] > Amen. Sysadmins are the downfall of both operating systems. > Unfortunately, it's a lot easier to get behind in patches (unless > you are using some nifty package management like portage ;)) in a > Linux distribution than it is in Windows 2003

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems compiling modules

Martin Schlemmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 09:08, Jesper Blauendahl wrote: > > > I'm trying to switch to the development-sources (2.5.70) to get a better > > support for my hardware. The kernel compiles nicely. But I have SCSI > > Emulation, SCSI device support, SCSI CD

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems compiling modules

Jesper Blauendahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [ ... ] > > Failed to calculate dependencies > > > modprobe: QM_MODULES: Function not implemented > > What am I missing in the setup ? loadable module support? -- Terje -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Verdict on Evolution 1.4.0

Matthew Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [ ... ] > Call it what you like, they look blurry though... like someone > penciled the GUI text with a 4B and then smudged it over with a > sweaty thumb ;) the appearance of anti-aliased fonts depend a lot on resolution, the font in question and

Re: [gentoo-user] how to use a worldfile copied from other system.

Sigurd Stordal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I had to reinstall my gentoo, but I saved my world file, no I would > like to use the old worldfile and install all the packages I had > installed before. But when I copied this over the worldfile in > /var/cache/edb and run emerge -p it complain about

Re: [gentoo-user] IDE RAID suggestions

Matt Tucker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [ ... ] > If you've got the money (and particularly if you want to do RAID-5), > I highly recommend the 3ware cards. They've got a 4-channel card (so > you can put each drive on a separate channel, with none of this > master/slave stuff) which supports RA

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.1-r1 - klauncher unknown protocol

Daniel Whitfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [ I normally avoid answering top-posted articles, but oh well ] > I'm having the same problem as Kilian and I tried adding the KDEDIRS > path to /etc/env.d/49kdelibs-3.1 and nothing has changed. Any other > suggestions? for me the "simple" solutio

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why is my computer using swap?

Doug Gorley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [ ... ] > Thanks to everyone for the replies. I wasn't really concerned, > since I'm already seeing a huge performance boost since installing > the extra 512MB of RAM, but I thought it was curious that it was > still even looking at the swap. Now I know

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from READONLY medium

Michael Maeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [ ... ] > So I shrinked Gentoo to fit on a 64MB CF card (can be shrinked even > a lot more). this is interesting, very interesting. can you give some hints as to how you did this? I tried a bit, but gave up. the biggest issue I had was that I

Re: [gentoo-user] LSB compliance

"Ted Goodridge, Jr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > /opt is bad because it's contents are not supposed to be dependent > > on anything else. /usr/local is bad because it's meant for > > non-distribution packages. > > I'm curious...why is it so much of a problem to put it in > /usr/local? http

Re: [gentoo-user] Ext3 LVM

Carlos Molina Garcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [ ... ] > At this moment, I can't find any utilitie for ext3 that permit > resize the lv on a mounted fs. On the reiser area, the reisize > utilitie can't be used on a mounted fs. eh? resize_reiserfs works fine on mounted volumes. -- Terje

Re: [gentoo-user] LSB compliance

Daniel Carrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 05:30:26AM +0100, Terje Kvernes wrote: > > > because stuff in /opt is supposed to be static packages, not > > dependent on anything else on the system, least of all other > > packages (heck, forma

Re: [gentoo-user] LSB compliance

Daniel Carrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > converting a binary rpm to an ebuild is doable. but only to the > > extent of minor dependency-checking and tracking installed files. > > maybe someone feels like a masochist and "fixes this" sometime. > > There's no need to fix anything. As long as

Re: [gentoo-user] Ext3 LVM

Matthew Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [ ... ] > XFS has xfs_growfs which works on mounted volumes. I *think* > resierfs has something similar. ext2 has it as well. Reiserfs has 'resize_reiserfs', which works well. by the way, shrinking Reiserfs is not something you'd really want to

Re: [gentoo-user] Ext3 LVM

Terje Kvernes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Matthew Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [ ... ] > > > Well at first it seems like a solution, but I don't think it is. > > it should work "out-of-the-box" on ext3 as well as ext2, don&#x

Re: [gentoo-user] Ext3 LVM

Matthew Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [ ... ] > Well at first it seems like a solution, but I don't think it is. it should work "out-of-the-box" on ext3 as well as ext2, don't let the name fool you. :-) [ ... ] -- Terje -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Ext3 LVM

Carlos Molina Garcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want to know if there is a "online" mechanism to extend or shrink > an ext3 logical volume on linux - lvm..?? 'emerge search ext2' will point you to ext2resize. http://ext2resize.sourceforge.net/ > -- Terje -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] LSB compliance

Daniel Carrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [ ... ] > With respect to (1), I don't think that's quite true. I read an > article a few days ago by one of the LSB members who said that the > LSB doesn't require distros to use RPM as their package system. > Rather, it requires them to be *able* to

Re: [gentoo-user] XFS not enabled, is that on purpose? JFS users beware of XFS.

Oleg Letsinsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [ ... ] > Strange. I use XFS from the day it came to Linux and have never had > a problem with it - even my "experiments" with early nvidia drivers, > causing hardware lockups (during compilations) didn't break it. filesystems are interesting things

Re: [gentoo-user] Opinions on Gentoo

Daniel Carrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [ ... ] > Regardless, I'm glad to know that ebuilds are easier to make than > RPMs. Who knows, I might actually need to make one some day. just have a peak at how ebuilds work and look: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-howto.xml > http://cv

Re: [gentoo-user] Unsubscribe help was Re: [gentoo-user] svg viewer?

Jonathan Gill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there some way that the list can put details of how to > unsubscribe at the bottom of the mails, similar to how most lists > work? how about reading the headers starting with ^List? List-Post: List-Help:

Re: [gentoo-user] Via C3 optimization

Patrick Nehls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I use one of the Via mini-itx boards with embedded C3/800Mhz CPU. It > runs Gentoo 1.4/current portage tree just fine but as stated, only > with the i586 optimizations. I believe the Gentoo user forums had > some threads in the past on this. Apparently t

Re: [gentoo-user] portage downgrade?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Susie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Is there something wrong with the last portage release? I just > > did an "emerge rsync && emerge -up --deep world" and got: > > > > [ebuildUD] sys-apps/portage-2.0.46-r12 [2.0.47-r2] > > I'm experiencing the same thing here. Is

Re: [gentoo-user] portage-2.0.47

Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Didn't someone report a major screwup with this version of portage? Is > portage-2.0.47-r2 (new being offered unmasked) a fix for the problem and > therefore safe to apply? http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16047 > might bite you with 2.0.47-r2 th

Re: [gentoo-user] xfree slowdowns... is that normal?

Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [ ... ] > Usually this behavior only occurs on a slower machine. I used to > encounter that on my PIII-800MZ, but now that I'm using an Athlon-XP > 1900, I don't see that behavior. You can overcome that by giving > the X server a negative nice value before