Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo, udev and Palm Tungsten T5

2005-08-13 Thread Heinz Sporn
Ok, let's see if I can remember how I got my Palm working ;-) UDEV: /etc/udev/rules.d/10-udev.rules BUS=usb, SYSFS{serial}=PalmSN12345678, NAME=pilot, MODE=0666 The MODE paramter is VERY important! There had been some changes in this area recently. And just to be sure add a permission

Re: [gentoo-user] How to incorporate foreign tarball into world

2005-08-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 01:53:41 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: I hate when this happens. I know that I read somewhere in the docs that you can take a tarball of an app that doesn't have a Gentoo ebuild and incorporate it into your world file, so that it knows at least that the app is installed,

[gentoo-user] kopete emerge fails on test

2005-08-13 Thread Glenn Enright
Im having problems compiling newer 'stable' versions of kopete with the tests active. It dies on kpasswordtest. Any kde gurus able to tell me why? I didnt really understand the source. -- Alaska: A prelude to No. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] audacity and gtk not playing nice

2005-08-13 Thread Adrian
Greetings. I recently made the mistake of upgrading something. Every time I do this I manage to break something else. I upgraded gtk+ and now when I try to run audacity I get: audacity: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libwx_gtk2-2.4.so: undefined symbol: _gtk_accel_group_attach For kicks I

Re: [gentoo-user] Which filesystem for a notebook?

2005-08-13 Thread Fernando Meira
Hi, I been moving my gentoo system to other partition (ran out of space). My old partition ran reiserfs 3.6 and due to this discussion, I've decided to run ext3 in the new partition. Still to find out if it was a wise decision... Anyway, the first thing I noticed was this: # df /dev/hda1

Re: [gentoo-user] Which filesystem for a notebook?

2005-08-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 11:29:18 +, Fernando Meira wrote: # df /dev/hda1 10080488 4406076 5162344 47% /mnt/gentoo /dev/hda4 4763112 3948116 814996 83% /mnt/old With exactly the same things in both sides, it seems that ext3 requires *much* more space ~450M. Can this be right, or I messed

Re: [gentoo-user] Compression tools Compared

2005-08-13 Thread Fernando Meira
Hi, that lzma is quite impressive!! Is not my purpose to hijack this topic, but I was wondering if anyone is kind enough to give me some comments about linux magazines. I been looking into that for some time, but not enough to subscribe one, as I wish to do. I know about Linux Journal and Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] Which filesystem for a notebook?

2005-08-13 Thread Fernando Meira
Ok, so then reiserfs is a good choice when disk-space is a limitation. In the Gentoo Handbook is stated that reiserfs greatly outperforms ext3 when dealing with some files, often by a factor of 10x-15x. But what about big files? I might just redo my moving process and turn the new partition to

Re: [gentoo-user] Compression tools Compared

2005-08-13 Thread fire-eyes
On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 12:13 +, Fernando Meira wrote: Hi, that lzma is quite impressive!! Interesting, there is an .ebuild in the source too ;) It's not in portage, however. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Which filesystem for a notebook?

2005-08-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 12:24:06 +, Fernando Meira wrote: Ok, so then reiserfs is a good choice when disk-space is a limitation. In the Gentoo Handbook is stated that reiserfs greatly outperforms ext3 when dealing with some files, often by a factor of 10x-15x. But what about big files? It

Re: [gentoo-user] Compression tools Compared

2005-08-13 Thread Stephen Micheals
ive used lzma for a while in windows using 7zip but have not had much time to test it in linux using p7zip yet. (emerge p7zip) On 8/13/05, fire-eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 12:13 +, Fernando Meira wrote: Hi, that lzma is quite impressive!! Interesting, there is

Re: [gentoo-user] Compression tools Compared

2005-08-13 Thread Zac Medico
fire-eyes wrote: Sounds like P7 doesn't have the capability to remember user names group names etc, definately a i'd try it killer for me. If it's anything like gzip or bzip2 then the compression algorithm does not need to support anything like usernames or groups. That stuff is handled by

Re: [gentoo-user] how to access mounted dir with non-root?

2005-08-13 Thread danielhf
On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 05:47:22PM +, Stefan K?gl wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i've found that i could not access the mounted directory with non-root users. 1. i chown directories under /mnt to the user, but so long as i mount, the permission of the specific dir will be

Re: [gentoo-user] audacity and gtk not playing nice

2005-08-13 Thread Robert Crawford
On Saturday 13 August 2005 06:26 am, Adrian wrote: Greetings. I recently made the mistake of upgrading something. Every time I do this I manage to break something else. I upgraded gtk+ and now when I try to run audacity I get: audacity: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libwx_gtk2-2.4.so:

Re: [gentoo-user] Which filesystem for a notebook?

2005-08-13 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 13 August 2005 12:29, Fernando Meira wrote: Hi, I been moving my gentoo system to other partition (ran out of space). My old partition ran reiserfs 3.6 and due to this discussion, I've decided to run ext3 in the new partition. Still to find out if it was a wise decision... Anyway, the

[gentoo-user] DV Digicam Panasonic NV GS 150 and Gentoo

2005-08-13 Thread Stefan Onken
Hi, I am wondering if anyone got some experiences with accessing a digicam (see subject) under Linux. when I connect the camera to the firewire port of my notebook I see in /var/log/messages: Aug 13 20:15:20 p7010 ieee1394: Current remote IRM is not 1394a-2000 compliant, resetting... Aug 13

[gentoo-user] bt878 + gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r6 = sound doesn't work (amd64)

2005-08-13 Thread Claudinei Matos
hi, since my motherboard suddenly die I decide to buy a amd64 processor. well, everything is fine, even gnome, mplayer, firefox, etc.. I did installed kdetv for use with my bt878 board and actually video is ok, but I can't get sound to work. In the oldest athlon-xp with kernel

[gentoo-user] 2005.1 min-install weirdness

2005-08-13 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everybody, After booting the 2005.1-min-install CD I browsed the contents for awhile and thought I'd try to setup dial-up by copying over the appropriate files from /etc/ppp/ on another drive. So I mounted that drive then, I'm not sure if it was immediately after that or what, all my

Re: [gentoo-user] Compression tools Compared

2005-08-13 Thread Norberto Bensa
Jerry McBride wrote: One side note, 7za does not record user/group info... It's a shame too as this make it pretty much useless in most linux backup scenarios. So what's the problem? You'll be using something like tar | 7z or whatever the command for lzma is. I mean, tar handles ownership

Re: [gentoo-user] Compression tools Compared

2005-08-13 Thread fire-eyes
On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 11:49 -0300, Norberto Bensa wrote: So what's the problem? You'll be using something like tar | 7z or whatever the command for lzma is. I mean, tar handles ownership and permissions. Or am I missing something? I could be missing something, my brain isn't working right

Re: [gentoo-user] how to access mounted dir with non-root?

2005-08-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 17:59:25 -0500, Michael Swanson wrote: Is this technique of umask=0 safe to use on an NTFS volume? I want to mount an NTFS drive on my desktop so that a regular user can access it. Is there a similar way to mount it with only read permissions, seeing as writing to