Re: [gentoo-user] How to compile 64bit Gentoo on a 32bit system?

2006-01-11 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Abhay Kedia wrote: | Thanks for the reply Neil but I don't have a fast connection. Just a 64kbps | connection. If I follow GRP way then first I'll have to download a live CD, | then the GRP Packages and then undergo the whole process of downloading

Re: [gentoo-user] Php strangeness

2006-01-11 Thread kashani
Martins Steinbergs wrote: looks like i have the same problem, and it strats with [ebuild UD] dev-php/PEAR-XML_RPC-1.4.0 [1.4.4] 26 kB 1.4.4 is removed from portage In php 5.1.1 it looks like you can add xmlrpc to your USE flags. The change log in PEAR-XML_RPC leads me to believe that is

Re: [gentoo-user] How to compile 64bit Gentoo on a 32bit system?

2006-01-11 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Thursday 12 January 2006 05:08, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > Do a stage 3 install plus GRP packages. You'll have a fully working 64 > bit desktop in around an hour. Then edit make.conf and /etc/portage/* to > suit your needs, emerge --sync and emerge -e world while using the system. > Thanks for the

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu problems

2006-01-11 Thread Andrew Frink
On 1/12/06, W.Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am having some problems in how gentoo has split up qemu.  There areversion 0.8.0 builds for qemu-user and qemu-softmmu.  There is also akqemu ebuild at version 0.7.2.Installing just qemu-user and qemu-softmmu gives a kqemu error on running qemu. 

Re: [gentoo-user] How to do "account management" across multiple Unix boxes?

2006-01-11 Thread Alexander Skwar
Joshua Schmidlkofer schrieb: > IMNSHO NIS is a big fat waste. I would strongly recommend against. it. Why? It's simple to setup and does what the OP wanted. PS: Please no HTML mails. Please no top posts. Alexander Skwar -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Practical Backup Solution

2006-01-11 Thread Mark Shields
Here's what I did. I mounted a partition of my home PC's 80 gig partition using samba and gave the server write access. Right now I just make a stage4 backup manually then copy it over to that hard drive, but I'm going to modify the script where I can run it in a cron job weekly. I also burn a c

[gentoo-user] qemu problems

2006-01-11 Thread W.Kenworthy
I am having some problems in how gentoo has split up qemu. There are version 0.8.0 builds for qemu-user and qemu-softmmu. There is also a kqemu ebuild at version 0.7.2. Installing just qemu-user and qemu-softmmu gives a kqemu error on running qemu. Should I be using kqemu, even if it appears to

Re: [gentoo-user] Practical Backup Solution

2006-01-11 Thread Roy Wright
Richard Fish wrote: On 1/11/06, Lord Imbrius the Despondent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: inserted when there clearly is. Other times it gets 3 quarters of the way through the write and throws an I/O error. I need to be able to back up around 32-40MB nightly and around 1.2GB weekly. Speed do

Re: [gentoo-user] Strangeness with KDE 3.4

2006-01-11 Thread Willie Wong
Can't help with all your problems, but I do what I can: On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 09:49:34PM -0500, Penguin Lover Shawn Singh squawked: > Hey all, > > I recently rebuilt my Gentoo box, but have had a few problems that > I've not been able to figure out: > > 1. The sound doesn't work > i.e. I c

Re: [gentoo-user] RESEND: [OT - Manually entering a new mail account into Evolution]

2006-01-11 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 02:40:13PM -0800, Penguin Lover James Ausmus squawked: > > > > I'm trying to emerge that version of evolution, but it won't let me. > > Observe: > > > > camille evolution # cat /etc/portage/package.keywords | grep 'evolution' > > mail-client/evolution-2.4.2.1 ~x86 > > > Th

Re: [gentoo-user] su stopped working [SOLVED]

2006-01-11 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 02:34:24PM -, Michael Kintzios wrote > This can be avoided if you use the -a (for append) option. Huh??? [m3000][root][~] usermod -a -G audio user2 usermod: invalid option -- a Usage: usermod [-u uid [-o]] [-g group] [-G group,...] [-d home [-m]] [-

[gentoo-user] Strangeness with KDE 3.4

2006-01-11 Thread Shawn Singh
Hey all, I recently rebuilt my Gentoo box, but have had a few problems that I've not been able to figure out: 1. The sound doesn't work i.e. I can't play any music files (mp3s, wavs etc) -- in xmms I get an error telling me that it failed

Re: [gentoo-user] slow boot after kernel upgrade

2006-01-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Richard Fish schreef: > On 1/11/06, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 14:27 +0100, Uwe Klosa wrote: >> >>>Or you can try 2.6.15-suspend2. >> >>? >> >>What exactly do you mean? Is there a suspend2-sources version up to >>2.6.15? > > > Only if you emerge --sync.

[gentoo-user] Re: A New Linux Way

2006-01-11 Thread James
Iain Buchanan netspace.net.au> writes: > Me too. > > > Yet Linux lacks a robust open source SCADA plan. > > Because there isn't the money for some company to come in and push Linux > as being the Way To Go, sell lots of licenses, and make profits. Linux > doesn't work that way - too many dist

Re: [gentoo-user] slow boot after kernel upgrade

2006-01-11 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/11/06, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 14:27 +0100, Uwe Klosa wrote: > > Or you can try 2.6.15-suspend2. > > ? > > What exactly do you mean? Is there a suspend2-sources version up to > 2.6.15? Only if you emerge --sync. :-> -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.

Re: [gentoo-user] Practical Backup Solution

2006-01-11 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/11/06, Lord Imbrius the Despondent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > inserted when there clearly is. Other times it gets 3 quarters of the way > through the write and throws an I/O error. I need to be able to back up > around 32-40MB nightly and around 1.2GB weekly. Speed doesn't matter. Any >

Re: [gentoo-user] X.org V7.0 partial success

2006-01-11 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/11/06, Matthias Bethke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yup, I figured that was the motivation---but X.org and XFree86 are still > different projects with different code and all, so I was surprised that > the name starts in xf86- and the description says X.org... Wouldn't > xf86-something indicate

Re: [gentoo-user] A New Linux Way

2006-01-11 Thread Eric Bliss
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 03:49 pm, Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 15:29 -0800, Eric Bliss wrote: > > Although, to actually give this post > > SOME relevance to the original thread, will using Saviour Linux on your > > computer assure it of going to Electronic Heaven when it fina

[gentoo-user] More BOINC

2006-01-11 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
(Starting a new thread since this is a different subject.) Okay, I know I'm being hard-headed about this, but I run a pure 64-bit system. I think the only 32-bit application I run right now is OO.o and I'm gonna drop that sucka as soon as koffice can render the WinWord forms I have to use for

Re: [gentoo-user] Practical Backup Solution

2006-01-11 Thread Andrew Frink
On 1/11/06, Lord Imbrius the Despondent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, all.  I have a small webserver/mail server running Gentoo.  I need tofind a backup solution that will work for this type of setup.  Unfortunately,there is no working driver for a parallel floppy-protocol (backpack) tape drive

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating DVD-menus from pictures

2006-01-11 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Thank you, found it out a few hours ago, it works fine with i=1; while [ $i -le 762 ]; do convert -crop 720x576+$i+0 walpergen.jpg $i.jpg; i=$[$i+1]; done Iain Buchanan schrieb: > On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 18:56 +0100, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > > >>My picture source is a image i downscaled to th

Re: [gentoo-user] 2005.1 installs on dual-core amd64

2006-01-11 Thread John Jolet
> > do you have a SATA cdrom drive? > Cynyr. no. it's ide. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Practical Backup Solution

2006-01-11 Thread Lord Imbrius the Despondent
Hello, all. I have a small webserver/mail server running Gentoo. I need to find a backup solution that will work for this type of setup. Unfortunately, there is no working driver for a parallel floppy-protocol (backpack) tape drive for Linux 2.6. I've tried LOTS of things to get that drive w

Re: [gentoo-user] slow boot after kernel upgrade

2006-01-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 14:27 +0100, Uwe Klosa wrote: > Or you can try 2.6.15-suspend2. ? What exactly do you mean? Is there a suspend2-sources version up to 2.6.15? thanks, -- Iain Buchanan Deflector shields just came on, Captain. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] RESEND: [OT - Manually entering a new mail account into Evolution]

2006-01-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
I saw your post on the evolution-list as well. I think your best bet would be to try and get evolution working without the crash. Do you have a trace? Evolution used to crash for me all the time, until I looked at the trace and saw a library needed recompiling. Now its rock-solid. Feel free to

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating DVD-menus from pictures

2006-01-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 18:56 +0100, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > My picture source is a image i downscaled to the size of 720x1000. I > have manually extracted pictures from this one with the size of > 720*576, increasing the offset in x-axis pixel by pixel. The animated > menu should play these pictu

Re: [gentoo-user] A New Linux Way

2006-01-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 15:29 -0800, Eric Bliss wrote: > On Wednesday 11 January 2006 03:06 pm, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > > I think once we've got to the stage of UK (and AU) vs US spelling, I can > > > > invoke "Godwin's Law"[1] hereby ending the discussion completely and > > > > immediately ;) > >

Re: [gentoo-user] X.org V7.0 partial success

2006-01-11 Thread Matthias Bethke
Hi Andrew, on Wednesday, 2006-01-11 at 16:27:41, you wrote: >try adding > 'Section "DRI" > mode 0660 > Group "video" > endsection' > to your xorg.conf Oh, that rings a bell, I think I did that to another config a long time ago...thanks, I'll try tomorrow @work! > and no

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A New Linux Way

2006-01-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 16:16 +, James wrote: [a rant] > I have even offered to spent my limited financial resources to get > talented people to develop specific software and make it open source so that > it can be used freely, ... Just add your offer to one of these sites. [They may all be of

Re: [gentoo-user] PowerPC - cannot boot from CD.

2006-01-11 Thread Midnight Toker
Right, what you need to do goes a little something like this; if the mac is on, switch it off. Get a pen, and hold down the 'programmers button'. On a B&W Mac, its the little button underneath the power button on the RIGHT hand side. (the other is the reset button). Tap the power switch (kee

Re: [gentoo-user] How to compile 64bit Gentoo on a 32bit system?

2006-01-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 02:57:43 +0530, Abhay Kedia wrote: > I have a EM64T enabled processor but currently running x86 install. Now > I would like to install 64bit Gentoo on this system but since this is > the only PC that I have, it is indispensable for me. I can't put it in > command line mode or r

Re: [gentoo-user] A New Linux Way

2006-01-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 21:27:56 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: > Uwe > (who is good for throwing these Chinese solid state thin clients, I > have got yesterday, out of the [wW]indows) I hope you are referring to computer hardware and not undernourished oriental customers :) -- Neil Bothwick LaForge [ex

Re: [gentoo-user] A New Linux Way

2006-01-11 Thread Eric Bliss
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 03:06 pm, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > I think once we've got to the stage of UK (and AU) vs US spelling, I can > > > invoke "Godwin's Law"[1] hereby ending the discussion completely and > > > immediately ;) > > > > > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law > >

Re: [gentoo-user] A New Linux Way

2006-01-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 13:39 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 22:21:23 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > I think once we've got to the stage of UK (and AU) vs US spelling, I can > > invoke "Godwin's Law"[1] hereby ending the discussion completely and > > immediately ;) > > > > [1]

Re: [gentoo-user] BOINC and https

2006-01-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Paul Varner schreef: > On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 23:26 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: > >> Statux schreef: >> >>> Unmerge the BOINC from portage and download/manually install it >>> from the site. The version in portage is very old and for some >>> reason, it hasn't been updated. >> >> Which is why I

Re: [gentoo-user] BOINC and https

2006-01-11 Thread Paul Varner
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 23:26 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: > Statux schreef: > > Unmerge the BOINC from portage and download/manually install it from > > the site. The version in portage is very old and for some reason, it > > hasn't been updated. > > I haven't had time to try to figure out what to d

Re: [gentoo-user] RESEND: [OT - Manually entering a new mail account into Evolution]

2006-01-11 Thread James Ausmus
On 1/11/06, Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Have you tried a revdep-rebuild -p -v to see if there is a dependency > > issue that would be causing the evolution crash? Also, have you tried > > a re-emerge of evolution and evolution-data-server? Another option > > would be to emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] PowerPC - cannot boot from CD.

2006-01-11 Thread Anthony Roy
Hi Holly, > Well, I'm not a Mac user (for a very long time now), but this sounds as > if the CD is for some reason not bootable. The CD is perfectly browsable from within OSX. > How did you burn it? Burnt from ISO image as I always do with iso images - that's certainly not the problem. I know

Re: [gentoo-user] How to do "account management" across multiple Unix boxes?

2006-01-11 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
IMNSHO NIS is a big fat waste.  I would strongly recommend against. it. =)  It does simplify a number of things, and I honestly have never actually tried to make the LDAP integration work on BSD.Kerberos is not an account management tool - it is authentication management,  I use it all the time, an

Re: [gentoo-user] RESEND: [OT - Manually entering a new mail account into Evolution]

2006-01-11 Thread Michael Sullivan
Have you tried a revdep-rebuild -p -v to see if there is a dependency > issue that would be causing the evolution crash? Also, have you tried > a re-emerge of evolution and evolution-data-server? Another option > would be to emerge the ~x86 evolution (2.4.2.1) - it has been quite a > bit more stab

Re: [gentoo-user] BOINC and https

2006-01-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Statux schreef: > Unmerge the BOINC from portage and download/manually install it from > the site. The version in portage is very old and for some reason, it > hasn't been updated. I've been wondering about this issue myself-- my bf runs BOINC (and in fact is a tester thereof) under Windows, and h

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - ipkungfu

2006-01-11 Thread Andrew Frink
On 1/11/06, Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 16:30 -0500, Andrew Frink wrote:>>> On 1/11/06, Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> I'm trying to install ipkungfoo on my server box.  I followed > the> instructions in the README file.  W

Re: [gentoo-user] BOINC and https

2006-01-11 Thread Statux
Unmerge the BOINC from portage and download/manually install it from the site. The version in portage is very old and for some reason, it hasn't been updated. I had the same problem with the same project until I upgraded to 5.2.13. I contacted the project and they confirmed that the old versions do

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - ipkungfu

2006-01-11 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 16:30 -0500, Andrew Frink wrote: > > > On 1/11/06, Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to install ipkungfoo on my server box. I followed > the > instructions in the README file. When I went to start it, it > gave me a >

Re: [gentoo-user] cyrus-sasl, courier-authlib, which one? or both?

2006-01-11 Thread kashani
Bill Roberts wrote: I am planning on building a simpler email system (I don't use imap, virtual domains, or a user database). In my quest for Zen-like simplicity and rock-solid quality, I'm planning on using postfix, plus courier as a pop3 server. For authentication, some guides use sasl, some u

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - ipkungfu

2006-01-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Michael Sullivan schreef: > I'm trying to install ipkungfoo on my server box. I followed the > instructions in the README file. When I went to start it, it gave me > a string of errors, that I'm not sure how to fix: > > bullet ipkungfu # ipkungfu Checking configuration... FATAL: Module > ip_t

Re: [gentoo-user] PowerPC - cannot boot from CD.

2006-01-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Anthony Roy schreef: > Hi MT, > > >>1) Insert the CD and wait for it to mount it (an icon will >> appear on >>the desktop). > > > Done, and can browse CD in the Finder just fine. > > >>2) Click on your little apple icon (top left of the screen), >> select >>'System

[gentoo-user] BOINC and https

2006-01-11 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
I'm trying to use BOINC to participate in some of the distributed computing projects out there, however, I am having trouble attaching to the worldcommunitygrid.org project. I provide boinc with the URL and account key. It successfully downloads the master page, but then blows up trying to acc

Re: [gentoo-user] 2005.1 installs on dual-core amd64

2006-01-11 Thread Andrew Frink
On 1/11/06, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wednesday 11 January 2006 14:35, Lares Moreau wrote:> On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 14:15 -0600, John Jolet wrote:> > I've encountered very weird behavior with ALL flavors of 2005.1 and> > 2005.1-r1 install media for amd64.  boots, but then says it can't

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - ipkungfu

2006-01-11 Thread Andrew Frink
On 1/11/06, Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm trying to install ipkungfoo on my server box.  I followed theinstructions in the README file.  When I went to start it, it gave me astring of errors, that I'm not sure how to fix:bullet ipkungfu # ipkungfu Checking configuration...FATAL: M

Re: [gentoo-user] X.org V7.0 partial success

2006-01-11 Thread Andrew Frink
On 1/11/06, Matthias Bethke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I used xorg-x11-6.8.99 on my laptop so far because its i915 chipsetwasn't properly supported in 6.8.2. Now the last update, -r4, broke thesupport again (or so I read on some forum when I investigated why Xwouldn't start any more), so I decided

[gentoo-user] How to compile 64bit Gentoo on a 32bit system?

2006-01-11 Thread Abhay Kedia
Hello Everyone, I have a EM64T enabled processor but currently running x86 install. Now I would like to install 64bit Gentoo on this system but since this is the only PC that I have, it is indispensable for me. I can't put it in command line mode or run it on a live CD for 3-4 days and allow it

Re: [gentoo-user] PowerPC - cannot boot from CD.

2006-01-11 Thread Anthony Roy
Hi MT, > 1) Insert the CD and wait for it to mount it (an icon will > appear on > the desktop). Done, and can browse CD in the Finder just fine. > 2) Click on your little apple icon (top left of the screen), > select > 'System Preferences' > > 3) Select '

[gentoo-user] OT - ipkungfu

2006-01-11 Thread Michael Sullivan
I'm trying to install ipkungfoo on my server box. I followed the instructions in the README file. When I went to start it, it gave me a string of errors, that I'm not sure how to fix: bullet ipkungfu # ipkungfu Checking configuration... FATAL: Module ip_tables not found. iptables v1.3.4: can't i

[gentoo-user] cyrus-sasl, courier-authlib, which one? or both?

2006-01-11 Thread Bill Roberts
I am currently running my email server on my workstation, providing email for myself and my wife. I use mutt, my wife uses outlook. I basically used the virtual email server guide, it has run ok for two years, but my wife suddenly cannot access her email. The issue seems to be the pop3 server, no

Re: [gentoo-user] RESEND: [OT - Manually entering a new mail account into Evolution]

2006-01-11 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/11/06, Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I sent this into gentoo-user last night, but never received it back from > the list. I'm sending it again... I got both... Not really answering the question you asked, but it should be pretty trivial to setup fetchmail to grab mail from t

[gentoo-user] X.org V7.0 partial success

2006-01-11 Thread Matthias Bethke
I used xorg-x11-6.8.99 on my laptop so far because its i915 chipset wasn't properly supported in 6.8.2. Now the last update, -r4, broke the support again (or so I read on some forum when I investigated why X wouldn't start any more), so I decided to give 7.0 a try. The usual great Gentoo HOWTOs hel

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/hda not created

2006-01-11 Thread Daniel Drake
Michael George wrote: I've got one of my servers that doesn't have /dev/hda on it at boot time. I've got a lite-on DVD burner there that works just fine (once I create the device) and is noted as "hda" in the boot messages. However, /dev/hda doesn't exist. That's a problem. /dev/hda?* did exi

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/hda not created

2006-01-11 Thread Michael George
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 01:32:29PM -0700, Lares Moreau wrote: > On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 15:20 -0500, Michael George wrote: > > I've got one of my servers that doesn't have /dev/hda on it at boot > > time. > > > > I've got a lite-on DVD burner there that works just fine (once I create > > the device)

Re: [gentoo-user] How to do "account management" across multiple Unix boxes?

2006-01-11 Thread Alexander Skwar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > I'm sure there's plenty of packages and documentation on how to do > this, but I don't know what it's called, so I don't know where to > start looking. You either use NIS or nowadays might use LDAP. Alexander Skwar -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/hda not created

2006-01-11 Thread Gerhard Hoogterp
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 21:20, Michael George wrote: > I've got one of my servers that doesn't have /dev/hda on it at boot > time. > > I've got a lite-on DVD burner there that works just fine (once I create > the device) and is noted as "hda" in the boot messages. > > However, /dev/hda doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] 2005.1 installs on dual-core amd64

2006-01-11 Thread John Jolet
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 14:35, Lares Moreau wrote: > On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 14:15 -0600, John Jolet wrote: > > I've encountered very weird behavior with ALL flavors of 2005.1 and > > 2005.1-r1 install media for amd64. boots, but then says it can't find > > ROOT. 2005.0 works fine, as does x86

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating DVD-menus from pictures [solved]

2006-01-11 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
ok i found it out for myself, it works for me with this commandline for i in *.jpg; do convert $i ppm:- ; done | ppmtoy4m -n50 -F25:1 -A59:54 -I p -r -S 420mpeg2 | mpeg2enc -n p -f8 -b5000 -a3 -o matrix_menu_background.m2v -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] 2005.1 installs on dual-core amd64

2006-01-11 Thread Lares Moreau
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 14:15 -0600, John Jolet wrote: > I've encountered very weird behavior with ALL flavors of 2005.1 and 2005.1-r1 > install media for amd64. boots, but then says it can't find ROOT. 2005.0 > works fine, as does x86 2005.1. More detail pls. boots from the LiveCD? but cant fin

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/hda not created

2006-01-11 Thread Lares Moreau
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 15:20 -0500, Michael George wrote: > I've got one of my servers that doesn't have /dev/hda on it at boot > time. > > I've got a lite-on DVD burner there that works just fine (once I create > the device) and is noted as "hda" in the boot messages. > > However, /dev/hda doesn'

Re: [gentoo-user] How to do "account management" across multiple Unix boxes?

2006-01-11 Thread Lares Moreau
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 13:57 -0600, John Jolet wrote: > > Given the name of a couple key packages and/or web links, I think I > > could figure the rest out. > openldap is one way > kerberos is another (don't pick this one) > nis or YP is another > I prefer openldap, but be warned, all of these metho

[gentoo-user] Verizon KPC650 - disconnect after 1-2 minutes.

2006-01-11 Thread kurtg
I just bought a Verizon KPC650 Wireless Broadband card. I actually got it work, but after a few minutes I get a "LCP terminated by peer" disconnect. Has anybody had success with this or other Verizon cards? --Kurt Jan 10 12:40:17 seeker pppd[7358]: local IP address 70.199.74.109 Jan 10 12

[gentoo-user] /dev/hda not created

2006-01-11 Thread Michael George
I've got one of my servers that doesn't have /dev/hda on it at boot time. I've got a lite-on DVD burner there that works just fine (once I create the device) and is noted as "hda" in the boot messages. However, /dev/hda doesn't exist. That's a problem. /dev/hda?* did exist, though... I tried t

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating DVD-menus from pictures

2006-01-11 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Thank you, i know this article, there i found this method convert matrix_menu_background.jpg ppm:- | ppmtoy4m -n50 -F25:1 -A59:54 -I p -r -S 420mpeg2 | mpeg2enc -n p -f8 -b5000 -a3 -o matrix_menu_background.m2v here i can make a menu from only one image, how can i change this commandline to make

Re: [gentoo-user] RESEND: [OT - Manually entering a new mail account into Evolution]

2006-01-11 Thread James Ausmus
On 1/11/06, Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I sent this into gentoo-user last night, but never received it back from > the list. I'm sending it again... > > Forwarded Message > From: Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: gentoo-user > Subject: OT - Manually en

[gentoo-user] 2005.1 installs on dual-core amd64

2006-01-11 Thread John Jolet
I've encountered very weird behavior with ALL flavors of 2005.1 and 2005.1-r1 install media for amd64. boots, but then says it can't find ROOT. 2005.0 works fine, as does x86 2005.1. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How to do "account management" across multiple Unix boxes?

2006-01-11 Thread John Jolet
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 14:04, Shawn Singh wrote: > NIS comes to mind and some recommended docs are: > > http://www.linux-nis.org/nis-howto/HOWTO/NIS-HOWTO.html > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Setup_NIS > Please be aware of the security issues surrounding nis. may not be a problem in your env

Re: [gentoo-user] How to do "account management" across multiple Unix boxes?

2006-01-11 Thread Shawn Singh
NIS comes to mind and some recommended docs are: http://www.linux-nis.org/nis-howto/HOWTO/NIS-HOWTO.html http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Setup_NISOn 1/11/06, John Jolet < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:On Wednesday 11 January 2006 13:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:> Is there a term for the situation where yo

Re: [gentoo-user] How to play Musepack files in MPlayer?

2006-01-11 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 23:44, Willie Wong wrote: > > [01:09 PM]wwong ~ $ mplayer X-Mod_radio_x-level.mpc > MPlayer 1.0pre7try2-3.4.4 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team > Ah...thanks a lot. That struck a cord :) I did a major mistake. While searching for mplayer and musepack, I had an idea that CVS v

Re: [gentoo-user] How to do "account management" across multiple Unix boxes?

2006-01-11 Thread John Jolet
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 13:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there a term for the situation where you have one computer as the > "user account master" and every other machine recognizes all user > accounts that are specified on the master? > > I'm sure there's plenty of packages and documentat

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating DVD-menus from pictures

2006-01-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Daniel Pielmeier schreef: > Thank you for your suggestions, > > i know the article and so i know qdvdauthor. > > I don't know if qdvdauthor is capable of creating a animated menu > from a series of pictures. My picture source is a image i downscaled > to the size of 720x1000. I have manually extr

[gentoo-user] How to do "account management" across multiple Unix boxes?

2006-01-11 Thread matthew . garman
Is there a term for the situation where you have one computer as the "user account master" and every other machine recognizes all user accounts that are specified on the master? I'm sure there's plenty of packages and documentation on how to do this, but I don't know what it's called, so I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] A New Linux Way

2006-01-11 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 10 January 2006 18:17, Michael Sullivan wrote: > On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 16:03 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 10:31:57 -0500, Darryl Wagoner wrote: > > > It looks interesting concept similar to something I can up with but > > > haven't had the time to do anything with. What i

Re: [gentoo-user] A New Linux Way

2006-01-11 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 11 January 2006 18:22, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 16:55:19 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: > > Ooh, Neil, you're such a pedant! > > You're too kind :) Shivers are good for the soul. ;-) ... and pedants are good for software development. Uwe (who is good for throwing these Chinese

RE: [gentoo-user] PowerPC - cannot boot from CD.

2006-01-11 Thread Midnight Toker
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.orgSubject: Re: [gentoo-user] PowerPC - cannot boot from CD. Ant, I'm actually running a B&W G3 mac (450MHz) as my main desktop machine. Personally I think its ace, but then I'm also using it with OS10.4 If you're wanting to boot from CD, you can try the following: 1) I

[gentoo-user] Evolution and the gnome clock applet

2006-01-11 Thread Andrew Frink
Has anyone noticed that evolution and the gnome clock applet show different starting times. mine show events starting 1 hour later than they actully do. Cynyr.

Re: [gentoo-user] slow boot after kernel upgrade

2006-01-11 Thread Sanda Pavel
> Basically, its related somehow to SMP kernels (I presume you have a > hyperthreaded P4?) If so, there are patches available, which I still > have on my machine if you want them, (or I can dig out the various > bugzilla references)... > > But by far the easiest way to get around it is to use 2.6

Re: [gentoo-user] How to play Musepack files in MPlayer?

2006-01-11 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 03:39:09PM +0530, Penguin Lover Abhay Kedia squawked: > Actually I did try that but it doesn't work. If you see I do have xmms use > flag enabled and xmms-musepack installed as well but same error. Musepack > forums mention that mplayer is natively playing musepack files i

Re: [gentoo-user] PowerPC - cannot boot from CD.

2006-01-11 Thread Midnight Toker
Ant, I'm actually running a B&W G3 mac (450MHz) as my main desktop machine. Personally I think its ace, but then I'm also using it with OS10.4 If you're wanting to boot from CD, you can try the following: 1) Insert the CD and wait for it to mount it (an icon will appear on the

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating DVD-menus from pictures

2006-01-11 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Thank you for your suggestions, i know the article and so i know qdvdauthor. I don't know if qdvdauthor is capable of creating a animated menu from a series of pictures. My picture source is a image i downscaled to the size of 720x1000. I have manually extracted pictures from this one with the si

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU opinions...

2006-01-11 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 12:23:19PM +0100, Penguin Lover Alexander Skwar squawked: > >From time to time, I also tried to get qemu running. The > big hurdle for me was, that I never got networking running > in the guest OS. > > Could somebody please post some basic guidelines - or maybe > even a st

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU opinions...

2006-01-11 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 08:19:58AM -0700, Penguin Lover Tom Smith squawked: > One other question... With Win4Lin, for example, one can start the > Windows session in lieu of an X session--so all the user sees is > Windows. My users will be accessing the server via VNC so this feature > of Win4Lin w

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU opinions...

2006-01-11 Thread Tom Smith
Thank you for the input, Andrew. A VNC session starts its programs (including the Desktop, session managers, etc) from ~/.vnc/xstartup. Currently, the following is what my users' xstartup contains: ~/.vnc/xstartup: #! /bin/sh win --fwin & Win4Lin actually acts as the X desktop so the users never

Re: [gentoo-user] A New Linux Way

2006-01-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 16:55:19 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: > Ooh, Neil, you're such a pedant! You're too kind :) -- Neil Bothwick Press any key... no, no, no, NOT THAT ONE! signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU opinions...

2006-01-11 Thread Andrew Frink
Tom, I hacked that in by putting qemu in ~/.xinitrc so when the user does startx thats what they get. i believe that vnc uses the same file to figure out what to run after XCynyr. On 1/11/06, Tom Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Excellent! Sounds like everyone likes QEMU, so I'm definitely goin

[gentoo-user] mldonkey does not even start to build

2006-01-11 Thread Christian Herzyk
Hello all, I am trying to install mldonkey (p2p) on my system (amd64, Gentoo 2005.1). But this is as far as it gets: arnor ~ # emerge net-p2p/mldonkey Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) net-p2p/mldonkey-2.6.4-r2 to / >>> md5 files ;-) mldonkey-2.5.21-r2.ebuild >>> md5 files

[gentoo-user] Re: A New Linux Way

2006-01-11 Thread James
Petr Kocmid project-bhairava.org> writes: > On Tuesday 10 January 2006 04:40, Mark Stewart wrote: > > Hello fellow Linux Users! > > We here at SaviourLinux.com desire to create a united universal way. > > Please visit the website for more information, but here is the purpose: > You missed the t

Re: [gentoo-user] remove suse, install gentoo

2006-01-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Anthony Roy schreef: > I replaced SUSE with Gentoo on my server a few months back. I > installed Gentoo from Suse, so that the server stayed up and running > whilst I installed and configured everything. I did the install on a > separate partition, and once everything was configured and any data

[gentoo-user] RESEND: [OT - Manually entering a new mail account into Evolution]

2006-01-11 Thread Michael Sullivan
I sent this into gentoo-user last night, but never received it back from the list. I'm sending it again... Forwarded Message From: Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: gentoo-user Subject: OT - Manually entering a new mail account into Evolution Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 23:40

Re: [gentoo-user] A New Linux Way

2006-01-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: > On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 22:21:23 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > >>I think once we've got to the stage of UK (and AU) vs US spelling, I can >>invoke "Godwin's Law"[1] hereby ending the discussion completely and >>immediately ;) >> >>[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_l

Re: [gentoo-user] remove suse, install gentoo

2006-01-11 Thread Anthony Roy
I replaced SUSE with Gentoo on my server a few months back. I installed Gentoo from Suse, so that the server stayed up and running whilst I installed and configured everything. I did the install on a separate partition, and once everything was configured and any data copied over, I booted up into G

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating DVD-menus from pictures

2006-01-11 Thread talisein
On 20:55 Tue 10 Jan , Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > has anybody experience regarding this topic, i tried it with mjpegtools, > but in the conversion stopped with a segmentation fault. Check out qdvdauthor. It makes this point-and-click easy. Currently in ~x86. -- Andrew Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU opinions...

2006-01-11 Thread Tom Smith
Excellent! Sounds like everyone likes QEMU, so I'm definitely going to give it a shot. One other question... With Win4Lin, for example, one can start the Windows session in lieu of an X session--so all the user sees is Windows. My users will be accessing the server via VNC so this feature of Win4L

Re: [gentoo-user] Sorry about the spam

2006-01-11 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 1/11/06, Mark Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Really, I should have thought more about the first e-mail (oops). > Thank you for all your comments! > > Here is what the goal is (as of now): > - To have some kind of useful standard among the many distributions. > - To compensate those who nee

Re: [gentoo-user] Sorry about the spam

2006-01-11 Thread Robin
So in reality Saviour Linux will not be a disturbution of it's own just a "branch" of Gentoo (for example) That is my take on it. On 1/11/06, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Stewart wrote: > > > > > > >Really, we could make Gentoo the official distribution of Saviour > >Linux. Personally

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