[gentoo-user] Where can I find video4linux drivers for these devices?

2007-04-07 Thread Rui Shen
Hi all, I have two devices currently doesn't work: 1. A USB webcam, no suitable driver matches its abcd:cdef vendor/product id pair. lsusb shows: Bus 003 Device 002: ID abcd:cdef 2. A USB TV tuner, though the kernel recognizes it and load em28xx module, my xawtv just can't show any

[gentoo-user] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2007-04-07 Thread William Kenworthy
I have one quite old machine that was an early upgrade to gcc 4.1. As a consequence, I have an error that was apparently due to some bugs in the upgrade process that for me appears (only) in net-print/gnome-cups-manager-0.31-r2. ../libgnomecups/.libs/libgnomecupsui-1.0.so: undefined reference to

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] umask and sticky bit

2007-04-07 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Fri, 6 Apr 2007, Håkon Alstadheim wrote: Jorge Almeida wrote: I would like the default permissions for directories created by a particular user to be 1775. Is there some way to achieve this? I think umask doesn't deal with the sticky bit. umask is a MASK. The application suggests

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh'ing livecd

2007-04-07 Thread Mick
On Saturday 07 April 2007 02:21, deface wrote: do you have ssh running on both machines? sshD is a service, must be installed. It should be already installed on (any) LiveCD. Just run: /etc/init.d/sshd start to start it. -- Regards, Mick pgpJC4XbcUwsR.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh'ing livecd

2007-04-07 Thread Pongracz Istvan
And do not forget to give a password to root user, because normally the password is a random one. Use 'passwd'. Regards, IStván -- Nyílt forráskód azokra az igazán nehéz napokra. BSA Open source for those really hard days. BSA http://www.osbusiness.hu -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2007-04-07 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Saturday 07 April 2007, William Kenworthy wrote: I have one quite old machine that was an early upgrade to gcc 4.1. As a consequence, I have an error that was apparently due to some bugs in the upgrade process that for me appears (only) in net-print/gnome-cups-manager-0.31-r2.

[gentoo-user] a weird problem regarding internet connection...

2007-04-07 Thread Coder TuX
Hello! My name is Andrei. I'm having this weird issue since last night. I went out for a couple of hours, leaving my computer on. When I got home I noticed I had been disconnected from all my IM accounts, ktorrent was stalled, everything was frozen, i couldn't even load a website. I tried

Re: [gentoo-user] a weird problem regarding internet connection...

2007-04-07 Thread Dale
Coder TuX wrote: Hello! My name is Andrei. I'm having this weird issue since last night. I went out for a couple of hours, leaving my computer on. When I got home I noticed I had been disconnected from all my IM accounts, ktorrent was stalled, everything was frozen, i couldn't even load a

Re: [gentoo-user] a weird problem regarding internet connection...

2007-04-07 Thread Mick
On Saturday 07 April 2007 11:29, Coder TuX wrote: Hello! My name is Andrei. I'm having this weird issue since last night. I went out for a couple of hours, leaving my computer on. When I got home I noticed I had been disconnected from all my IM accounts, ktorrent was stalled, everything was

Re: [gentoo-user] a weird problem regarding internet connection...

2007-04-07 Thread Tony Stohne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Coder TuX said the following on 2007-04-07 12:29: | ... | | DHCP - working fine, i've got the same settings as ever (it's a static | configuration through DHCP) | Pinging the gateway/dns server - works fine. | Pinging google.com http://google.com: it

Re: [gentoo-user] a weird problem regarding internet connection...

2007-04-07 Thread Coder TuX
@ Dale: ping 216.239.37.99 works fine, however if I try to open a http connection it times out... /etc/resolv.conf is the same as ever: nameserver 89.34.124.1 I will reboot in a few minutes to try the dig command...

Re: [gentoo-user] a weird problem regarding internet connection...

2007-04-07 Thread Tony Stohne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Coder TuX said the following on 2007-04-07 13:12: | @ Dale: ping 216.239.37.99 http://216.239.37.99 works fine, however if | I try to open a http connection it times out... | | /etc/resolv.conf is the same as ever: nameserver 89.34.124.1 |

Re: [gentoo-user] a weird problem regarding internet connection...

2007-04-07 Thread Coder TuX
resolv.conf is -rw-r--r-- so that's not the issue.. I noticed that ping works for about every ip i've tried, but TCP connexions don't. why could that happen? I can browse my local webserver however... On 4/7/07, Tony Stohne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash:

Re: [gentoo-user] a weird problem regarding internet connection...

2007-04-07 Thread Tony Stohne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Coder TuX said the following on 2007-04-07 14:46: | resolv.conf is -rw-r--r-- so that's not the issue.. | | I noticed that ping works for about every ip i've tried, but TCP | connexions don't. why could that happen? I can browse my local webserver |

Re: [gentoo-user] a weird problem regarding internet connection...

2007-04-07 Thread Joe Menola
On Saturday 07 April 2007 8:54 am, Tony Stohne wrote: If not it is clearly a problem with DNS not resolving properly, so check your network configuration (/etc/conf.d/net.eth0 or whatever your file is called)! Also read the example file in the same directory - it's full of valuable info on how

Re: [gentoo-user] a weird problem regarding internet connection...

2007-04-07 Thread Tony Stohne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joe Menola said the following on 2007-04-07 16:07: |... | Those were the days my friend...:) | I agree :D //T -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (MingW32) iD8DBQFGF6eDJDzv6DN+QUkRAgvfAKCT2GPS3uLnNGnmsIF8aU6jphYXrACgwRWA

Re: [gentoo-user] a weird problem regarding internet connection...

2007-04-07 Thread Coder TuX
On 4/7/07, Tony Stohne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Coder TuX said the following on 2007-04-07 14:46: | resolv.conf is -rw-r--r-- so that's not the issue.. | | I noticed that ping works for about every ip i've tried, but TCP | connexions don't. why

Re: [gentoo-user] a weird problem regarding internet connection...

2007-04-07 Thread Martin Hudec
Coder TuX wrote: Pinging the IP address works, pinging the corresponding domain name doesn't. So far it looks like the issue with name resolution. Check with: # dig @IP -t a DOMAIN +multiline. IP is the ip address of your dns server (could be one from resolv.conf, could be another) DOMAIN

Re: [gentoo-user] a weird problem regarding internet connection...

2007-04-07 Thread Tony Stohne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Coder TuX said the following on 2007-04-07 16:30: | | Pinging the IP address works, pinging the corresponding domain name | doesn't. | | If not it is clearly a problem with DNS not resolving properly, so check | your network configuration

Re: [gentoo-user] a weird problem regarding internet connection...

2007-04-07 Thread Coder TuX
On 4/7/07, Tony Stohne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Coder TuX said the following on 2007-04-07 16:30: | | Pinging the IP address works, pinging the corresponding domain name | doesn't. | | If not it is clearly a problem with DNS not resolving properly,

Re: [gentoo-user] a weird problem regarding internet connection...

2007-04-07 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 07 April 2007, Coder TuX wrote: On 4/7/07, Tony Stohne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Coder TuX said the following on 2007-04-07 14:46: | resolv.conf is -rw-r--r-- so that's not the issue.. | | I noticed that ping works for about every ip

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh'ing livecd

2007-04-07 Thread maxim wexler
--- Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 07 April 2007 02:21, deface wrote: do you have ssh running on both machines? sshD is a service, must be installed. It should be already installed on (any) LiveCD. Just run: /etc/init.d/sshd start to start it. It *was* started. So

Re: [gentoo-user] OT (ish): What are the average requirements of a small business server?

2007-04-07 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 3 Apr 2007 17:34:24 +0100 Joel Merrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list!! Greetings, Joel. With the advent of Vista and all the bells and whistles that it provides, one can't help think that a lot of this functionality is grossly overkill for a small business environment. I've not

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh'ing livecd

2007-04-07 Thread Norberto Bensa
maxim wexler wrote: --- Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It should be already installed on (any) LiveCD. Just run: /etc/init.d/sshd start It *was* started. So it's something else. But thanks anyway. What does it say when you try to ssh from your workstation? I mean: [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?

2007-04-07 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 21:07:02 +0200 Tony Stohne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mick said the following on 2007-04-05 19:07: | ... | Hmm, neither less not cat give me color output. Passing --color=y to either | tells me things like: |

[gentoo-user] Mounting /dev from udev ... [oops]

2007-04-07 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, Got the above error on first reboot of fresh system. Only link to this particular error in google is from a German site which I can't read. (none)/# dmesg|tail reveals ... VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly Freeing unused kernel memory: 128k freed NET: Registered

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?

2007-04-07 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 5 Apr 2007 14:24:02 + (UTC) Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-04-05, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not default to a _useful_ condition? But, it does! The colors are very useful! Only on certain terminals.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?

2007-04-07 Thread Mike Markowski
Dan Farrell wrote: ...White terminal backgrounds, aside from the invisible color problem, also are hella ugly. When I look between reading printed papers or journals and the computer screen I like windows with white background (actually a little off-white) black text. That way I can

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting /dev from udev ... [oops]

2007-04-07 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 7 Apr 2007 10:46:40 -0700 (PDT) maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi group, Hi. You did a pretty poor job explaining your problem, but I think I understand. Looks like /dev isn't mounted. .. Using 2.6.12-r6 kernel on Pentium III. Dude, your kernel is really old. We're on 2.6.19

Re: [gentoo-user] X locks up

2007-04-07 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Michael George wrote: What happens is that sometimes (amazingly frequently) when I have open office running on my right screen and I click File, the displays will freeze. The system is still running, because I can get in from one of my terminals. I check and X is consuming 100% of one

Re: [gentoo-user] a weird problem regarding internet connection...

2007-04-07 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 07 April 2007, Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] a weird problem regarding internet connection...': On 07 April 2007, Coder TuX wrote: Pinging the IP address works, pinging the corresponding domain name doesn't. So it's definitely a DNS problem. Have

Re: [gentoo-user] Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?

2007-04-07 Thread Tony Stohne
Dan Farrell said the following on 2007-04-07 19:26: Hey tony, maybe this is beyond your control, or maybe you don't care, and if not i respect your autonomy in such matters, but your reply block punctuation character '|' defeats the very helpful colorization of my and many other browsers that

[gentoo-user] Just testing...

2007-04-07 Thread Tony Stohne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ..for block characters... //T -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (MingW32) iD8DBQFGF/UXJDzv6DN+QUkRAj52AJ43ZwetgtqNr3TndMksfnxC5ndZ+wCgtQOf 3eBmVeH60+Fdk6wVhyU+ErA= =HXSD -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Just testing...

2007-04-07 Thread Tony Stohne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tony Stohne said the following on 2007-04-07 21:46: | ..for block characters... | | //T ...and answering to it to see if it works... -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (MingW32)

Re: [gentoo-user] X locks up

2007-04-07 Thread Michael George
On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 09:11:15PM +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Michael George wrote: What happens is that sometimes (amazingly frequently) when I have open office running on my right screen and I click File, the displays will freeze. The system is still running, because I can get in

[gentoo-user] Re: Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?

2007-04-07 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-04-07, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Only on certain terminals. They're quite unreadable on a white background (which has always been the default for xterm and it's descendants, right?). Why this is the case, I don't think I'll ever understand. White terminal backgrounds,

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting /dev from udev ... [oops]

2007-04-07 Thread maxim wexler
Dude, your kernel is really old. We're on 2.6.19 or 2.6.20 right now. There were significant updates and bugfixes. Youve got to update your system. Why on earth is a new install getting 2.6.12? So what? The Pentium III is older that the software. I don't need all the bells and

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting /dev from udev ... [oops]

2007-04-07 Thread Dale
maxim wexler wrote: Also, upgrades are difficult here in the boonies. Modem speed is approx 28k. Need Mail bonding? Go to the Yahoo! Mail QA for great tips from Yahoo! Answers users.

Re: [gentoo-user] sylpheed claws quotes colourisation (was: Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?)

2007-04-07 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Sat, 7 Apr 2007 12:26:31 -0500 Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 21:07:02 +0200 Tony Stohne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mick said the following on 2007-04-05 19:07: | ... | Hmm, neither less not cat give me color output. Passing --color=y to either | tells me

Re: [gentoo-user] sylpheed claws quotes colourisation (was: Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?)

2007-04-07 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 8 Apr 2007 01:07:30 +0200 Renat Golubchyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 7 Apr 2007 12:26:31 -0500 Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 21:07:02 +0200 Tony Stohne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mick said the following on 2007-04-05 19:07: | ... | Hmm,

[gentoo-user] Gentoo and WindowMaker

2007-04-07 Thread Brad Camroux
Greetings, I've been trying to get WindowMaker working on my Gentoo box, so far without success. It's very difficult to find anything on Google et. al., too about getting things working. Today I managed to find the wmaker.inst program to install WindowMaker for the current user, but when I try