RE: [gentoo-user] Load Balancing / Redundant Network ?

2005-09-19 Thread Mal Herring
> In a bonding situation don't both NIC's need to be plugged > into the same switch or have things changed in the technology > recently? I think the failure that the original author is > trying to plan for is a switch failure not a NIC failure. Thanks for all the replies, I was pointed in the d

Re: [gentoo-user] scp or sftp from another local machine in GENTOO_MIRRORS?

2005-09-19 Thread Nagatoro
Nagatoro wrote: Try and search the wiki (gentoo-wiki) for http-mirror. It does a great Guess I got a brain fart... As Mark wrote it should be http-replicator and nothing else. -- Naga -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] new gentoo installed but can't boot: "Disk Boot Failure, Insert System Disk And Press Enter"

2005-09-19 Thread michael
Thanks for the suggestion, Walter. Yes, I did have the jumper set to "master", as appropriate. But see my next post. Michael On Sun, 18 Sep 2005, Walter Dnes wrote: On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 12:06:57AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Thanks for the idea. As I've said, I've been using this comp

Re: [gentoo-user] new gentoo installed but can't boot: "Disk Boot Failure, Insert System Disk And Press Enter"

2005-09-19 Thread michael
Thanks John. None of your suggestions turned up the problem directly, but they did get me thinking and I tried the same disk on different connectors and at different settings. I found that I can boot from the primary slave device and the secondary master device. I didn't try the secondary slave de

[gentoo-user] emerge sync question

2005-09-19 Thread Paweł Madej
Hello, i'm going to setup server machine on Gentoo Linux and my question is if it is possible to mask portage categories which i won't to update such as whole X apps games desktop utils and so on ... which I'll never install and use on this server. This will make faster syncing and rebuildin

[gentoo-user] weird behaviour of x11-terms/aterm

2005-09-19 Thread Paweł Madej
When i start aterm i got below error on my console: $ aterm aterm has encountered a problem interacting with X Windows : Request: 2,Error: 3(BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)) in resource: 0x0 Other weird behaviour is that Midnight Commander on aterm won't respect F1 - F4 keys

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo 2005.1 and FTDI USB/serial adapter: device not created

2005-09-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 20:23:30 -0700 (PDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > To answer my own question, I just had to make the device using mknod. > Now my FTDI device works! Which device are you using? I may need one of these and it would be nice to be able to buy one I know works. -- Neil Bothwick

[gentoo-user] dev-lang/python vulnerability

2005-09-19 Thread Paweł Madej
I've done glsa-check -t new and i got that my python is vulnerable i got in world only dev-lang/python-2.4.1-r1 but it says that vulnerable is <2.3.5-r2 so i've searched for any vulnerable version on my system and i've found python-2.3.5 My question is: Could I unmerge 2.3.5 version which is

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sync question

2005-09-19 Thread Oscar
I'm not sure about the games, but avoiding installing X is quite simple! This is what I use on my gentoo server: USE="-gpm ipv6 imap gd gd-external jpeg png -svga -X -gnome -kde -qt -gtk -gtk2 xml xml2 apache2 tiff mysql offensive -samba" I think there is a way to choose what categories you want

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sync question

2005-09-19 Thread Paweł Madej
Oscar wrote: I'm not sure about the games, but avoiding installing X is quite simple! This is what I use on my gentoo server: USE="-gpm ipv6 imap gd gd-external jpeg png -svga -X -gnome -kde -qt -gtk -gtk2 xml xml2 apache2 tiff mysql offensive -samba" I think there is a way to choose what cate

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-lang/python vulnerability

2005-09-19 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Monday 19 September 2005 18:35, Paweł Madej wrote: > I've done glsa-check -t new and i got that my python is vulnerable > > i got in world only dev-lang/python-2.4.1-r1 but it says that vulnerable > is <2.3.5-r2 so i've searched for any vulnerable version on my system > and i've found python-2.3

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sync question

2005-09-19 Thread Mike Williams
On Monday 19 September 2005 09:54, Paweł Madej wrote: > i'm going to setup server machine on Gentoo Linux and my question is if > it is possible to mask portage categories which i won't to update such > as whole X apps games desktop utils and so on ... which I'll never > install and use on this ser

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sync question

2005-09-19 Thread Konst
On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 10:54:54AM +0200, Paweł Madej wrote: > Hello, > > i'm going to setup server machine on Gentoo Linux and my question is if it is > possible to mask portage categories which i > won't to update such as whole X apps games desktop utils and so on ... which > I'll never insta

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sync question

2005-09-19 Thread Paweł Madej
Konst wrote: On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 10:54:54AM +0200, Paweł Madej wrote: http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Exclude_categories_from_emerge_sync Thank you Konst & Mike for fast answer. That is what I was looking for Greets Paul -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Mouse wheel doesn't work

2005-09-19 Thread Stewart Taylor
Hi all Just about got Gentoo up and running as I want it. Taken a while with all the tweaking and re-tweaking but I've not had as much fun with a computer for years. I've got a couple of problems which, so far, have got me pulling my hair out as nothing I try fixes them. I've got a Microso

[gentoo-user] VMware 5.0 stopped working after last emerge

2005-09-19 Thread Jules Colding
Hi, I am now getting: "Unable to change virtual machine power state: Failed to connect to peer process." when I try to boot any guest OS. I have added myself to the vmware group, executed the vmware-config.pl script and even logged out and in again. Any ideas? Thanks, jules VMware version:

[gentoo-user] Font sizes very small in KDE

2005-09-19 Thread Stewart Taylor
Hi All I've got a problem with the display under KDE. I've just installed Gentoo for the first time. Under KDE the font sizes are very small compared with what they should be. Compared with the same hardware under Suse 8.0 all text displays a little over half the size. this affects KDE app

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse wheel doesn't work

2005-09-19 Thread Peter Eis
Stewart Taylor wrote: > I've got a Microsoft Intellimouse (ps2) which seems to be detected > correctly but the wheel will not work under KDE. Under KDE Control > center > peripherals >mouse I get the option to adjust the scroll > rate, but this has no effect. The wheel seems to be working as a lef

Re: [gentoo-user] VMware 5.0 stopped working after last emerge

2005-09-19 Thread Jules Colding
On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 12:53 +0200, Jules Colding wrote: > Hi, > > I am now getting: > > "Unable to change virtual machine power state: Failed to connect to peer > process." I found the fix here: http://software.groupbrowser.com/nextthread51611.html It seems that /opt/vmware/lib/bin/vmware-vmx

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse wheel doesn't work

2005-09-19 Thread Scott Brady
On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 08:46 pm, Stewart Taylor wrote: > I've got a Microsoft Intellimouse (ps2) > which seems to be detected correctly but > the wheel will not work under KDE. When you edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf you should have the something similar to the following under the Input Device Section

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse wheel doesn't work

2005-09-19 Thread Holly Bostick
Stewart Taylor schreef: > Hi all > > Just about got Gentoo up and running as I want it. Taken a while with > all the tweaking and re-tweaking but I've not had as much fun with a > computer for years. I've got a couple of problems which, so far, > have got me pulling my hair out as nothing I try

Re: [gentoo-user] openvpn

2005-09-19 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
Adding the route to my default gateway solved the problem !!! thank you all for the help !!! Allan On 9/18/05, capsel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > AFAIK: > packets can not reach destinations in other subnet (except 0.0.0.0) > than the subnet of your IP. You must have assigned an IP address from >

[gentoo-user] alias

2005-09-19 Thread Matthias Langer
Recently i was woundering where gentoo stores the aliases i get by: $ alias alias d='ls --color' alias ll='ls --color -l' alias ls='ls --color=auto' alias mc='. /usr/share/mc/bin/mc-wrapper.sh' The reason i want to know this is mainly because i want to add my own ones to this list without fooli

Re: [gentoo-user] Font sizes very small in KDE

2005-09-19 Thread Holly Bostick
Stewart Taylor schreef: > Hi All > > I've got a problem with the display under KDE. I've just installed > Gentoo for the first time. Under KDE the font sizes are very small > compared with what they should be. Compared with the same hardware > under Suse 8.0 all text displays a little over half

Re: [gentoo-user] alias

2005-09-19 Thread Holly Bostick
Matthias Langer schreef: > Recently i was woundering where gentoo stores the aliases i get by: > > $ alias > alias d='ls --color' > alias ll='ls --color -l' > alias ls='ls --color=auto' > alias mc='. /usr/share/mc/bin/mc-wrapper.sh' > > The reason i want to know this is mainly because i want to a

Re: [gentoo-user] alias

2005-09-19 Thread Peter van Eck
in $HOME/.bashrc or $HOME/.bash_profile rgds, Peter Matthias Langer wrote: > Recently i was woundering where gentoo stores the aliases i get by: > > $ alias > alias d='ls --color' > alias ll='ls --color -l' > alias ls='ls --color=auto' > alias mc='. /usr/share/mc/bin/mc-wrapper.sh' > > The reas

Re: [gentoo-user] alias

2005-09-19 Thread brettholcomb
You can put them in your ~/.bash_rc or _profile - I can't remember of the top of my head. For host wide ones I created a /etc/bash.rc where I put stuff I want everybody to get - or at least start with as they can override it. I then source this in the ~/.bash?? and to make sure new users get it

Re: [gentoo-user] applets on gnome-2.12.0

2005-09-19 Thread Bruno Lustosa
On 9/19/05, Nagatoro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Don't remember the bug number but the solution is in bugzilla (searchfor gnome 2.12 applet). If I recall correctly you need to reemerge acertain package. (btw Gnome 2.12 looks good! :) ) I did file a bug, and was marked as a duplicate of this one: h

Re: [gentoo-user] Font sizes very small in KDE

2005-09-19 Thread David Helstroom
Holly Bostick wrote: Stewart Taylor schreef: Hi All I've got a problem with the display under KDE. I've just installed Gentoo for the first time. Under KDE the font sizes are very small compared with what they should be. Compared with the same hardware under Suse 8.0 all text displays a

Re: [gentoo-user] alias [RESOLVED]

2005-09-19 Thread Matthias Langer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can put them in your ~/.bash_rc or _profile - I can't remember of the top of my head. For host wide ones I created a /etc/bash.rc where I put stuff I want everybody to get - or at least start with as they can override it. I then source this in the ~/.bash?? and t

[gentoo-user] Eclass 'portability' does not exist for 'gnome-base/gconf-2.10.1-r1'

2005-09-19 Thread Eric S. Johansson
trying to upgrade the system and I'm getting this error. Eclass 'portability' does not exist for 'gnome-base/gconf-2.10.1-r1' suggestions for how to fix would be most welcome thanks in advance --- eric -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Eclass 'portability' does not exist for 'gnome-base/gconf-2.10.1-r1'

2005-09-19 Thread Holly Bostick
Eric S. Johansson schreef: > trying to upgrade the system and I'm getting this error. > Eclass 'portability' does not exist for 'gnome-base/gconf-2.10.1-r1' > > suggestions for how to fix would be most welcome > > thanks in advance > > --- eric I just had that error with howl; a sync fixed it.

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacing main harddisk

2005-09-19 Thread Paul
Well I have carried out the procedure outlined in your message, but I have had some problems. When booting the new disc it always failed with a reiserfs problem (I once rebuilt the tree), after 3 attempts I still had errors so I formated the partition with ext2, copied all the files and reboote

Re: [gentoo-user] Analog acquisition

2005-09-19 Thread Tamas Sarga
On Sat, 10 Sep 2005, Luigi Pinna wrote: > > Hello! > I have a lot of problems with my TV card > I can see TV (but only with tvtime and not with xawtv or kdetv), but I > can't use teletext (for example with alevt) or to select a external > source like S-Video. > How can I find the problem? Wit

Re: [gentoo-user] Eclass 'portability' does not exist for 'gnome-base/gconf-2.10.1-r1'

2005-09-19 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Holly Bostick wrote: Eric S. Johansson schreef: trying to upgrade the system and I'm getting this error. Eclass 'portability' does not exist for 'gnome-base/gconf-2.10.1-r1' suggestions for how to fix would be most welcome thanks in advance --- eric I just had that error with howl;

[gentoo-user] how to backup kmail saved mails

2005-09-19 Thread Gentoo Shadow
hi! friends, i want to get backup of my KMail saved mails. so pls help me to do this. -- ..."The future lies ahead." ___< Have you mooed today? > ---\^__^ \   (oo) \___ (__) \ )\/\||-

Re: [gentoo-user] Eclass 'portability' does not exist for 'gnome-base/gconf-2.10.1-r1'

2005-09-19 Thread Holly Bostick
Eric S. Johansson schreef: > Holly Bostick wrote: > >> Eric S. Johansson schreef: >> >> >>> trying to upgrade the system and I'm getting this error. Eclass >>> 'portability' does not exist for 'gnome-base/gconf-2.10.1-r1' >>> >>> suggestions for how to fix would be most welcome >>> >> >> I ju

RE: [gentoo-user] Replacing main harddisk

2005-09-19 Thread Michael Kintzios
> -Original Message- > From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 19 September 2005 14:39 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Replacing main harddisk > > > Well I have carried out the procedure outlined in your > message, but I have had > some problems. >

Re: [gentoo-user] how to backup kmail saved mails

2005-09-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Monday 19 September 2005 16:02, Gentoo Shadow wrote: > hi! > > friends, > > i want to get backup of my KMail saved mails. so pls help me to do this. tar up the Mail folder in your /home directorie and burn it onto a cd or tar it onto a tape. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] how to restore KMail backuped mails

2005-09-19 Thread Gentoo Shadow
hi! friends, i get a full backup of my home folder & repartioned it to install linux again. so now i used the newly installed os. so i extracted all my backups tar ball to my home folder but still my old saved mails not appear on my kmail application. so can any body help me restore them. Thank Y

Re: [gentoo-user] how to backup kmail saved mails

2005-09-19 Thread Gentoo Shadow
i have done this... but during restoration all other desktop files are  i getting restored except the mails on KMail. pls advice to restore them correctly... Thank You with AdvanceOn 9/19/05, Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:On Monday 19 September 2005 16:02, Gentoo Shadow wrote:> h

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacing main harddisk

2005-09-19 Thread Paul
Thanks for the response, I do have an entry /dev/console, user root, group tty. It has no symlinks. I would have to reconnect the suspect disk to check if it is the same. Thanks Paul On Monday 19 Sep 2005 15:23, Michael Kintzios wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Paul [mailto:[EM

Re: [gentoo-user] cdrdao woes

2005-09-19 Thread A. R.
Hello, I am not sure if you have already tried the following: replace    --device ATA:1,0,0 with:    --device /dev/ For some reason that I do not understand, when I try --device ATA: etc. cdrdao does not work for me, but when I use --device /dev/hdc it does work. Maybe it will work for you to

Re: [gentoo-user] [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN) `localhost' does NOT match server name

2005-09-19 Thread Christoph Gysin
Joseph wrote: The (CN) of the certificate match out company name it doesn't match localhost I assume your apache is configured with hostname "localhost". What does your apache.conf look like? (snipped to the relevant parts, of course) Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'<*>'|sed 's. ..'|tr

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacing main harddisk

2005-09-19 Thread S. ancelot
Hi, Download linux sysrescue live cd on the web and use dd_rescue bye Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: You can make a precise copy of your disk with dd command using dd if=/dev/hdaX of=backupfile.iso and then on the disk you want to write the data with dd if=backupfile.iso of=/dev/hdXX; if bouth d

Re: [gentoo-user] Security Updates and Portage Trees

2005-09-19 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jason Stubbs wrote: >On Monday 19 September 2005 15:00, gentuxx wrote: > >>does updating a package for a security fix using the "--oneshot" option >>update the same package that is "housed" in the "world" tree? > > >There is no world "tree". There is

Re: [gentoo-user] how to backup kmail saved mails

2005-09-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Monday 19 September 2005 16:49, Gentoo Shadow wrote: > i have done this... but during restoration all other desktop files are i > getting restored except the mails on KMail. pls advice to restore them > correctly... > hm, I don't know, what you did, but when I pack my backups (tar -cf /dev/st0

Re: [gentoo-user] Dell 1850/Dell Partition

2005-09-19 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Can you do that? Has Compaq stopped putting half their "BIOS" in a small hidden partition? Some years ago at work, we got a Compaq server for use as a linux server. It came with NT4. So the CS guys blew away the partitions, and installed RedHat7.0. The thing would not boot. Yes, he can

Re: [gentoo-user] Analog acquisition

2005-09-19 Thread Luigi Pinna
Alle 15:41, lunedì 19 settembre 2005, Tamas Sarga ha scritto: > Hi, > > I realized it too, but in the past I was able to record with xawtv. I > haven't done it for a time, yesterday I tried to record, but I didn't > see anything in xawtv. I emerged kdetv, it found the channels with > the wizard, bu

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -pv mplayer questions[ANSWERED]

2005-09-19 Thread maxim wexler
gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Emerge_MPlayer has the best explanation so far. BTW, Mark, look at the gentoo doc "Upgrading" re symlink to make.profile --- Rumen Yotov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > what about all those others? > > > Look at gcc-home page, think there's plenty of info, > also this the

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse wheel doesn't work

2005-09-19 Thread Stewart Taylor
Hi Thanks to Holly , Peter and Scotty for the fix. It now works a treat. Stewart -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacing main harddisk

2005-09-19 Thread Paul
On Monday 19 Sep 2005 18:22, S. ancelot wrote: > Hi, > Download linux sysrescue live cd on the web > and use dd_rescue > bye > Do you mean the install-x86-universal-2005.1.iso? I could not find any sysrescue live cd listed. If I do a "dd_rescue" what would I do to get the initial console workin

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacing main harddisk

2005-09-19 Thread Noah Roberts
Paul wrote: >On Monday 19 Sep 2005 18:22, S. ancelot wrote: > > >>Hi, >>Download linux sysrescue live cd on the web >>and use dd_rescue >>bye >> >> >> > >Do you mean the install-x86-universal-2005.1.iso? I could not find any >sysrescue live cd listed. >If I do a "dd_rescue" what would I d

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse wheel doesn't work

2005-09-19 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stewart Taylor wrote: > Hi > > Thanks to Holly , Peter and Scotty for the fix. It now works a treat. > > Stewart Um, I have the same problem. But (and I suspect this is why), I have no /etc/X11/xorg.conf. KDE runs great! I've done a 'find / -name

RE: [gentoo-user] Mouse wheel doesn't work

2005-09-19 Thread Dave Nebinger
> 1) Why wouldn't a default xorg.conf be installed? Xorg.conf contains detailed info about your installation, a default one doesn't do you much good except for to use a vanilla x config. > 2) Is there possibly another config file that my system is using? I'm sure it defaults to a simple confi

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse wheel doesn't work

2005-09-19 Thread Holly Bostick
gentuxx schreef: > Stewart Taylor wrote: > > >>> Hi >>> >>> Thanks to Holly , Peter and Scotty for the fix. It now works a >>> treat. >>> >>> Stewart > > > Um, I have the same problem. But (and I suspect this is why), I have > no /etc/X11/xorg.conf. KDE runs great! I've done a 'find / -na

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse wheel doesn't work

2005-09-19 Thread Sergio Polini
Holly Bostick: > > 3) Could the vmware-tools sample be sufficient to build one > > (xorg.conf)? > > Why would you bother? There is a configuration utility, you know. I > don't know what it's called though, as I've never used it (just > renamed my XF86Config to xorg.cfg and went on from there). > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse wheel doesn't work

2005-09-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 12:23:50 -0700, gentuxx wrote: > 2) Is there possibly another config file that my system is using? Do you have a /etc/X11/XF86Config or /etc/X11/XF86Config. Xorg uses them if it can't find its own config. -- Neil Bothwick "DOOM ", said Pooh, and Slaughtered Christopher Ro

[gentoo-user] New apache layout

2005-09-19 Thread A. Khattri
Just went through the apache update on three servers. I duly removed /etc/apache/conf/apache.conf and restarted apache successfully. Question: can I safely remove /etc/apache/conf/* (after migrating any settings to the new conf files of course). -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] recording sound from SPDIF port using KDE KRec

2005-09-19 Thread Joseph
Does anybody have a good link how to capture audio from SPDIF? When I connect the audio to my SPDIF-IN I can hear the the voice on the speakers but when I try to record using KDE "KRec" nothing is captured. I suppose the KRec is not configured correctly. Anybody has good link how to do it. -- #J

Re: [gentoo-user] recording sound from SPDIF port using KDE KRec

2005-09-19 Thread Christoph Eckert
> Does anybody have a good link how to capture audio from SPDIF? > When I connect the audio to my SPDIF-IN I can hear the the voice on > the speakers but when I try to record using KDE "KRec" nothing is > captured. I suppose the KRec is not configured correctly. > Anybody has good link how to do i

Re: [gentoo-user] New apache layout

2005-09-19 Thread Manuel McLure
A. Khattri wrote: Just went through the apache update on three servers. I duly removed /etc/apache/conf/apache.conf and restarted apache successfully. Question: can I safely remove /etc/apache/conf/* (after migrating any settings to the new conf files of course). I just did this on my web serv

Re: [gentoo-user] recording sound from SPDIF port using KDE KRec

2005-09-19 Thread Joseph
On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 23:09 +0200, Christoph Eckert wrote: > > Does anybody have a good link how to capture audio from SPDIF? > > When I connect the audio to my SPDIF-IN I can hear the the voice on > > the speakers but when I try to record using KDE "KRec" nothing is > > captured. I suppose the KRe

Re: [gentoo-user] recording sound from SPDIF port using KDE KRec

2005-09-19 Thread Christoph Eckert
> Thank you for the pointers. > Do I have to have SPDIF enable in kernel?  I don't see any PCM IN > supports in arts or alsamiser.   I use a cheap USB soundcard with the snd_usb_audio module and didn't need to add any additional kernel option. In my alsamixer the SPDIF input appears as »Input 2

Re: [gentoo-user] recording sound from SPDIF port using KDE KRec

2005-09-19 Thread Joseph
On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 00:11 +0200, Christoph Eckert wrote: > > Thank you for the pointers. > > Do I have to have SPDIF enable in kernel? I don't see any PCM IN > > supports in arts or alsamiser. > > I use a cheap USB soundcard with the snd_usb_audio module and didn't > need to add any addition

Re: [gentoo-user] recording sound from SPDIF port using KDE KRec

2005-09-19 Thread Christoph Eckert
> Is alsamixer call KMix in KDE? That is all I see under Multimedia > menu. I have Alsa build into the kernel, so it starts at boot, my > sound card is some kind of Via-chipset on the motherboard. If this is the only card on your system, I guess that kmix will show you the same controls as alsam

Re: [gentoo-user] Random Kernel Crashes ... Need more info

2005-09-19 Thread Kris Kerwin
Dave, Yup. Had a feeling that you might be right about that one. It seems that the computer will still crash, but certainly not as often. My guess: there is a bigger problem that is aggravated when the computer is under more stress; ie: tracking excessive amounts of kernel complaints, etc. I'v

Re: [gentoo-user] new gentoo installed but can't boot: "Disk Boot Failure, Insert System Disk And Press Enter"

2005-09-19 Thread michael
Hi gentuxx, As you may have seen in my reply to another helpful person, same disk worked on a different setting (primary slave instead of primary master). perhaps the disk is going bad, although it's only a couple years old. Thanks for your suggestion, Michael On Sat, 17 Sep 2005, gentuxx wrot

Re: [gentoo-user] Random Kernel Crashes ... Need more info

2005-09-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 20 September 2005 00:56, Kris Kerwin wrote: > Dave, > > Yup. Had a feeling that you might be right about that one. > > It seems that the computer will still crash, but certainly not as often. My > guess: there is a bigger problem that is aggravated when the computer is > under more stres

Re: [gentoo-user] [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN) `localhost' does NOT match server name

2005-09-19 Thread Joseph
On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 17:14 +0200, Christoph Gysin wrote: > Joseph wrote: > > The (CN) of the certificate match out company name it doesn't match > > localhost > > I assume your apache is configured with hostname "localhost". > > What does your apache.conf look like? (snipped to the relevant part

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse wheel doesn't work

2005-09-19 Thread Nick Rout
/var/log/Xorg.log.0 (I think thats what it is named, its pretty easy to find in /var/log) will tell you what config file X is using. X _may_ work without a config file _if_ everything is auto detected, but I have never struck it (then again all my hardware is oldish). More likely it is working

[gentoo-user] Mail configuration problem

2005-09-19 Thread C. Beamer
Hi all, Yesterday, I posted asking for a Gentoo equivalent of something I was able to do in Fedora, I got some answers which were of assistance, one being to check my logwatch.conf file to see what the frequency was set at. This helped because it was set weekly and since I had just installed log

Re: [gentoo-user] Security Updates and Portage Trees

2005-09-19 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Tuesday 20 September 2005 01:12, gentuxx wrote: > >>If every security fix comes out with "--oneshot" being recommended, > >>how do I know if it's a dependency of a package in world, or an entity > >>in world? (This seems like an extension of the questioning above.) > > > >What does it matter in

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacing main harddisk

2005-09-19 Thread Philip Webb
050919 Paul wrote: > On Monday 19 Sep 2005 18:22, S. ancelot wrote: >> use dd_rescue > I could not find any sysrescue live cd listed. I got it from www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/ & installed it in /usr/local , but it appears to be in Portage : sys-fs/dd-rescue I haven't had need to use

Re: [gentoo-user] recording sound from SPDIF port using KDE KRec

2005-09-19 Thread Nick Rout
Nice looking sound tools there (http://alsamodular.sourceforge.net/) - is there an ebuild? On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 23:09:49 +0200 Christoph Eckert wrote: > Recommendation: Use qarecord in ALSA mode. It has a nice levelmeter so > you immediately can see if there's audio coming in or not. -- Nick R

Re: [gentoo-user] Security Updates and Portage Trees

2005-09-19 Thread W.Kenworthy
One point I have never seen mentioned is *why* would you *not* want a package in the world file - especially if you want it to be managed by the system? BillK On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 09:07 +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: > On Tuesday 20 September 2005 01:12, gentuxx wrote: > > >>If every security fix c

Re: [gentoo-user] Security Updates and Portage Trees

2005-09-19 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 W.Kenworthy wrote: >One point I have never seen mentioned is *why* would you *not* want a >package in the world file - especially if you want it to be managed by >the system? > >BillK > I guess maybe that's part of what I'm getting at. ;-) > >On Tu

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with Script that sends out HTML emails[SOLVED-Agn]

2005-09-19 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Sun, 2005-09-18 at 22:36 -0500, John Jolet wrote: > On Sunday 18 September 2005 22:11, A. Khattri wrote: > > On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > > Be that as it may, I'm not Perl person (picked up the book, but haven't > > > really progressed anywhere hehe). > > > > > > But.. when push c

Re: [gentoo-user] Random Kernel Crashes ... Need more info

2005-09-19 Thread Dave Nebinger
well, at first, let memtest86(+) run for some hours. Volker's got a good point here... second, check that your box does not get too hot. Crashes on stress are mostly overheating or PSU going bad. Mentioned that to him about the heat... Kris, were you able to get lm_sensors running on the b

Re: [gentoo-user] Mail configuration problem

2005-09-19 Thread Dave Nebinger
I cat'ed the dead letter file and at the end, the following appears: send-mail: RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (504 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Sender address rejected: need fully-qualified address) Can't send mail: sendmail process failed with error code 1 What MTA are you using, Colleen? That will be

Re: [gentoo-user] Random Kernel Crashes ... Need more info

2005-09-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 20 September 2005 04:14, Dave Nebinger wrote: > > fourth, check your board and cards for 'funny looking' condensators - > > like deformation, round tops, or even some brown 'dirt' at their base. > > This I think will be hard for him, Volker, as I believe he's running a > laptop. In tha

[gentoo-user] GNU Time

2005-09-19 Thread Justin Hart
The version of time included doesn't seem to include the -o switch, allowing the output to be put in a file. Is there a way to get this? -- Justin W. Hart -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Mail configuration problem

2005-09-19 Thread C. Beamer
Dave Nebinger wrote: >> I cat'ed the dead letter file and at the end, the following appears: >> >> send-mail: RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (504 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Sender address rejected: need fully-qualified address) >> Can't send mail: sendmail process failed with error code 1 > > > What MTA

Re: [gentoo-user] GNU Time

2005-09-19 Thread Michael Crute
On 9/19/05, Justin Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The version of time included doesn't seem to include the -o switch,allowing the output to be put in a file.Is there a way to get this?  Not sure how `time -o` worked but perhaps `time > filename` -Mike-- Michael E.

Re: [gentoo-user] Mail configuration problem

2005-09-19 Thread John Jolet
On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 23:09 -0400, C. Beamer wrote: > Dave Nebinger wrote: > > >> I cat'ed the dead letter file and at the end, the following appears: > >> > >> send-mail: RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (504 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Sender address rejected: need fully-qualified address) > >> Can't s

Re: [gentoo-user] Mail configuration problem

2005-09-19 Thread kashani
John Jolet wrote: You could stay with ssmtp, just edit the config file (i think it's /etc/ssmtp.conf or something). It doesn't do aliases, but you can set ONE alias for all destination uids under 1000. Alternatively, you can unmerge ssmtp and emerge sendmail (or better yet, in my opionion, p

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -pv mplayer questions

2005-09-19 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 08:49:12PM -0700, maxim wexler wrote > > > --- Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 9/18/05, maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 > > > apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr > >

[gentoo-user] Dependency determination

2005-09-19 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is there a way with emerge or equery to determine what other package a given package is a dependency for? As a clarification, I have the "net-dialup/" subtree excluded from portage as described by another thread on this list (/etc/portage/rsyc_exclude

Re: [gentoo-user] GNU Time

2005-09-19 Thread Alexander Skwar
Michael Crute schrieb: > Not sure how `time -o` worked but perhaps `time > filename` And the latter does what? Alexander Skwar -- College: The fountains of knowledge, where everyone goes to drink. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] how to backup kmail saved mails

2005-09-19 Thread Norberto Bensa
Gentoo Shadow wrote: > i have done this... but during restoration all other desktop files are i > getting restored except the mails on KMail. pls advice to restore them > correctly... you need to restore .kde/share/apps/kmail/ AND .kde/share/config/kmailrc -- Norberto Bensa 4544-9692 Ciudad

Re: [gentoo-user] GNU Time

2005-09-19 Thread Norberto Bensa
You want sys-process/time Justin Hart wrote: > The version of time included doesn't seem to include the -o switch, > allowing the output to be put in a file. > > Is there a way to get this? > -- > Justin W. Hart -- Norberto Bensa 4544-9692 Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina -- gentoo-user@gentoo

[gentoo-user] running mldonkey with umask 0002

2005-09-19 Thread Robert Persson
I would like to run mldonkey with umask 0002. However I cannot work out how to do this. The Gentoo version of /etc/init.d/mldonkey calls start-stop-daemon, but start-stop-daemon doesn't have a umask option. As mldonkey is the only program that runs as user p2p, I would be happy if I could get

[gentoo-user] apache upgrade to -r31

2005-09-19 Thread W.Kenworthy
Hi, I am looking the current apache upgrade to -r31. There are a number of MPM ("Multi-Processing Module implementing a hybrid multi-threaded multi-process web server") related use flags. I have not seen any discussions on these so is there anyone willing to comment on their "desirability" - is t

Re: [gentoo-user] Dependency determination

2005-09-19 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, gentuxx wrote: > As a clarification, I have the "net-dialup/" subtree excluded from > portage as described by another thread on this list > (/etc/portage/rsyc_excludes). But when I run "emerge --ask --verbose > - --update --newuse --deep world", I get the "net-dialup/ppp" pac

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with Script that sends out HTML emails[SOLVED-Agn]

2005-09-19 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > I did it, didn't have to go through perl. Just added a mail_header() to > my script. > mail_header() > { > echo "MIME-Version:1.0" > echo "From:[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > echo "To:$RECIPIENT" > echo "Subject:Quotes $DATE" >

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with Script that sends out HTML emails[SOLVED-Agn]

2005-09-19 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 01:23 -0400, A. Khattri wrote: > On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > > I did it, didn't have to go through perl. Just added a mail_header() to > > my script. > > #!/bin/sh > > # > > TEMPFILE="/tmp/file.$$" > > PORTFOLIO_SCRIPT=$HOME/scripts/portfolio.sh > > > > $PORT

Re: [gentoo-user] Dependency determination

2005-09-19 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A. Khattri wrote: >On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, gentuxx wrote: > >>As a clarification, I have the "net-dialup/" subtree excluded from >>portage as described by another thread on this list >>(/etc/portage/rsyc_excludes). But when I run "emerge --ask --verbose

[gentoo-user] Bash + Awk + variable assignation.

2005-09-19 Thread Ow Mun Heng
Remember my script that sends out HTML emails? Well, that's done, but it's in-efficient. The actual script that parses screen-scrapes. Initial script only went to get the "Last Price" now, I would like to add the "Day Range" last_price() { value="$(lynx -dump "$url$symbol" | grep 'Last price:' |

[gentoo-user] kcheckgmail unable to log in

2005-09-19 Thread Philippe Aerts
Hi, I installed the latest (0.5.4) version of kcheckgmail. It appears in my tray but it can't login (login failed, bad username/pasword) I'm sure i entered my credentials correct, and my gmail account is valid any ideas ? Best Regards, Phil

[gentoo-user] Few questions from Gentoo (not Linux) newb

2005-09-19 Thread Bob Alexander
Dear friends, trying out Gentoo after many years (mostly) on Debian. Q1) I wanted to use the swsusp2 patch to the kernel. emerged a package and in fact it was an entirely new kernel tree with the patches included. The swsusp2 patches are not at the latest level and I am having problems (kernel

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