[gentoo-user] Clock/Daylight Savings

2007-04-18 Thread Randy Barlow
Ever since the new daylight savings change, my clock hasn't done the "Spring Forward". I use ntp and the like, and it seems happy being behind by an hour. I can use the date command to set it correctly, but after the next reboot it's back to its old games. Pointers? R -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] m

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is the latest release 2006.1?

2007-04-18 Thread chris
On 4/18/07, Drew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Who'd have thought a Promise SATA300 TX4 would be unsupported in 2006.1? I'm running 2006.1 and my Promise SATA300TX4 worked fine on a new install. The kernel I started on was: 2.6.17-r8. I never changed anything in my BIOS or on teh controller i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FUSE (was: Add a module post kernel config/build)

2007-04-18 Thread Nistor Andrei
On Thursday 19 April 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:35:49 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: > >> Hm. Not so sure anymore. I seem to remember, that either sys-fs/ntfs3g > >> or sys-fs/fuse would completely refuse to build, if in-kern

Re: [gentoo-user] List installed packaged for 'system'

2007-04-18 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 19 April 2007 04:50:22 Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > # cd /var/db/pkg && \ >    emerge -peq system | sed -n 's|^\[ebuild[^]]*\] \([^ $]\+\).*$|\1|p' | \ >sed -r 's/-[^-]+(-r[0-9]+)*$//' | while read pkg; do >        for p in "${pkg}-"*; do >            quickpkg "=$p"; >        done; >

Re: [gentoo-user] List installed packaged for 'system'

2007-04-18 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 19 April 2007 04:50:22 Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: >     sed -r 's/-[^-]+(-r[0-9]+)*$//' | while read pkg; do Probably a good idea to insert a `sort -u`: sed -r 's/-[^-]+(-r[0-9]+)*$//' | sort -u | while read pkg; do -- Bo Andresen signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: [gentoo-user] List installed packaged for 'system'

2007-04-18 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 19 April 2007 04:28:37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I had installed the 2006.1 release on an i686 system. > Few weeks later I just synced the portage (only) > using a snapshot. Now using quickpkg i want to > create the binary packages of 'system' and > install it on an underpowered sy

[gentoo-user] List installed packaged for 'system'

2007-04-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, short question: How can I list all the installed packages with their version no.s which belong to the virtual 'system' ? emerge -pe system ---> this is giving me the list of packages which are latest in the portage. I want the same list but what is actually

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New kernel 2.6.20-r6

2007-04-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 22:58 +0100, Mick wrote: > On Wednesday 18 April 2007 19:37, Mick wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I see these two messages in dmesg and I am not sure what they're about: > > > > intel_rng: FWH not detected > > I think this has to do with: > > CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_INTEL=y > > Evident

[gentoo-user] Re: Add a module post kernel config/build

2007-04-18 Thread reader
"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wednesday 18 April 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] > Add a module post kernel config/build': >> Summary: >> How can I add an additional module once I've configured/built a kernel? >> >> Details: After looking thru the h

[gentoo-user] Re: FUSE (was: Add a module post kernel config/build)

2007-04-18 Thread reader
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:35:49 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: > >> Hm. Not so sure anymore. I seem to remember, that either sys-fs/ntfs3g >> or sys-fs/fuse would completely refuse to build, if in-kernel fuse was >> built. > > sys-fs/fuse builds the tools bu

Re: [gentoo-user] New kernel 2.6.20-r6

2007-04-18 Thread Guillermo A. Amaral
On Wednesday 18 April 2007, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > Mick wrote: > > hda: 39070080 sectors (20003 MB) w/1740KiB Cache, > > CHS=16383/255/63<6>hda: hw_config=600d, UDMA(100) > > > > What's the hw_config part? > > It just means that the "hardware configuration is good". > > Sorry, couldn't resist.

Re: [gentoo-user] New kernel 2.6.20-r6

2007-04-18 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Dan Cowsill wrote: > Lol ROFL! Why did I choose THIS moment (1) to understand the joke? Sincerely, Buanzo (1): After a good stout beer. Sorry, after TWO good stout beers. - -- Arturo "Buanzo" Busleiman - Consultor Independiente en Seguridad Info

[gentoo-user] Re: New kernel 2.6.20-r6

2007-04-18 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 18 April 2007 19:37, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I see these two messages in dmesg and I am not sure what they're about: > > intel_rng: FWH not detected I think this has to do with: CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_INTEL=y Evidently my laptop does not have a firmware hub (FWH) for generating random

Re: [gentoo-user] New kernel 2.6.20-r6

2007-04-18 Thread Dan Cowsill
Lol On 4/18/07, Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mick wrote: > hda: 39070080 sectors (20003 MB) w/1740KiB Cache, > CHS=16383/255/63<6>hda: hw_config=600d, UDMA(100) > > What's the hw_config part? It just means that the "hardware configuration is good". Sorry, couldn't resist. :)

Re: [gentoo-user] no images displayed in Konqueror or Gwenview

2007-04-18 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Mittwoch, 18. April 2007, Garry Smith wrote: > Hi, > > >> My Konqueror and Gwenview applications are not displaying images (no > >> thumbnails or images displayed) > >> > >> Gwenview 1.3.1 (Using KDE 3.5.5) > >> > >> What library do I need to be looking at to get png, gif, jpeg support > >> for

Re: [gentoo-user] no images displayed in Konqueror or Gwenview

2007-04-18 Thread Garry Smith
Hi, My Konqueror and Gwenview applications are not displaying images (no thumbnails or images displayed) Gwenview 1.3.1 (Using KDE 3.5.5) What library do I need to be looking at to get png, gif, jpeg support for these two applications? you need to rebuild qt with support for all of them

Re: [gentoo-user] New kernel 2.6.20-r6

2007-04-18 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Mick wrote: > hda: 39070080 sectors (20003 MB) w/1740KiB Cache, > CHS=16383/255/63<6>hda: hw_config=600d, UDMA(100) > > What's the hw_config part? It just means that the "hardware configuration is good". Sorry, couldn't resist. :) Benno -- Cetere mi opinias ke ne ĉio tradukenda estas. -- [EM

[gentoo-user] New kernel 2.6.20-r6

2007-04-18 Thread Mick
Hi All, I see these two messages in dmesg and I am not sure what they're about: intel_rng: FWH not detected hda: 39070080 sectors (20003 MB) w/1740KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63<6>hda: hw_config=600d, UDMA(100) What's the hw_config part? -- Regards, Mick pgpixq5sDfv1l.pgp Description: PGP sign

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Monitor SATA with smart?

2007-04-18 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Mittwoch, 18. April 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote: > It really depends. The Google study (one of the links above) says, > that SMART very often does not warn you about an impending failure. > So, even though SMART reports that everything is fine, it may very > well not be fine at all. Classic cas

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2007-04-18 Thread Dale
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > > > That's because it cannot find mindi: > > bach ~ # mindi > -bash: mindi: command not found > > /usr/sbin/mindi is a broken symlink to /usr/share/mindi/mindi, which does > not exist. There is a bug for this on b.g.o. (along with others for > missing dependencies in the eb

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2007-04-18 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Wednesday 18 April 2007 11:15, Dale wrote: > It has been a while and I still can not get mondoarchive to work. I > get > > this: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # mondoarchive > > Initializing... > > See /var/log/mondo-archive.log for details of backup run. > > root is mounted at /dev/hda > > Checking

[gentoo-user] Re: Monitor SATA with smart?

2007-04-18 Thread Sven Köhler
> is it possible to monitor SATA disks with smart? > sys-apps/smartmontools can not read smart on that disks. You have to tell smartmontools, that it's actually an ATA disk. SATA devices show up as SCSI devices, but the protocol is still ATA. So this can be done with the "-d ata" switch - also see

Re: [gentoo-user] Packet Shaping

2007-04-18 Thread Grant
> I switched from The Wonder Shaper and started using shorewall configs > and it's working great. I can't get ipp2p to identify bittorrent > traffic though, so I have the default set up for really low priority. > Thanks for your help! This is fun. > > - Grant Never got Shorewall traffic shaping

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage package.use

2007-04-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:34:38 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > > This will annul any entries for dev-java packages you already have in > > package.use. A safer option is to emerge flagedit and do > > With latest portage, no. It's accumulative now. As of 2.1.2 iirc. OK. I'd got bitten by this

Re: [gentoo-user] FUSE (was: Add a module post kernel config/build)

2007-04-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:35:49 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Hm. Not so sure anymore. I seem to remember, that either sys-fs/ntfs3g > or sys-fs/fuse would completely refuse to build, if in-kernel fuse was > built. sys-fs/fuse builds the tools but not the module if the kernel module is detected.

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage package.use

2007-04-18 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 18 April 2007 09:58:45 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 05:15:38 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > > # { echo "# disable doc for all packages in dev-java" && \ > > cd $(portageq portdir) && find dev-java -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 > > -type d | \ sed 's/$/ -doc/'; } >> /etc

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel net eth1 but no eth1

2007-04-18 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Many thanks, I'll try that. I'd never thought of this possibility. Is there an update-to-date documentation on udev-rules? Many thanks again, Helmut. On 18 Apr, Elias Probst wrote: > On Wednesday 18 April 2007 11:06:46 Helmut Jarausch wrote: >> >> How can I make the kernel bring up 'eth0' instea

[gentoo-user] FUSE (was: Add a module post kernel config/build)

2007-04-18 Thread Alexander Skwar
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 12:37:07 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: > >> As far FUSE is concerned, it might be advisable to stay away from the >> in-kernel FUSE and use the standalone sys-fs/fuse package. At >> least ntfs3g doesn't work with the in-kernel fuse. >

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Monitor SATA with smart?

2007-04-18 Thread Alexander Skwar
Matthias Fechner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Alexander, > > * Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [18-04-07 12:35]: >> Keep in mind though, that SMART doesn't give you reliable information, >> though. >> >> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> http://www.computerworld.com/blogs/node/5038 >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Add a module post kernel config/build

2007-04-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 12:37:07 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: > As far FUSE is concerned, it might be advisable to stay away from the > in-kernel FUSE and use the standalone sys-fs/fuse package. At > least ntfs3g doesn't work with the in-kernel fuse. Really? It works here, as do sshfs and encfs. -

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Monitor SATA with smart?

2007-04-18 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hello Alexander, * Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [18-04-07 12:35]: > Keep in mind though, that SMART doesn't give you reliable information, > though. > > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://www.computerworld.com/blogs/node/5038 > http://storagemojo.com/?p=383 > http://www.usenix.org/e

Re: [gentoo-user] Monitor SATA with smart?

2007-04-18 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hello Markus, * Markus Schnhaber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [18-04-07 12:26]: > It can. Try something like > smartctl -a -d ata /dev/sda > This ahould print all SMART info about the disk /dev/sda. The important part > wrt SATA disks is "-d ata" thx, works now fine. Best regards, Matthias -- "Progra

Re: [gentoo-user] Add a module post kernel config/build

2007-04-18 Thread Mike Williams
On Wednesday 18 April 2007 10:15:12 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Summary: > How can I add an additional module once I've configured/built a kernel? > > Details: After looking thru the handbook, especially section about > kernel config, I don't see information about how to add a module once > a kernel

[gentoo-user] Re: Add a module post kernel config/build

2007-04-18 Thread Alexander Skwar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Using `genkernel all' on latest sources (linux-2.6.20-gentoo-r6) I > ended up with no `fuse' module. As far FUSE is concerned, it might be advisable to stay away from the in-kernel FUSE and use the standalone sys-fs/fuse package. At least ntfs3g does

Re: [gentoo-user] Add a module post kernel config/build

2007-04-18 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Wednesday 18 April 2007 11:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Summary: > How can I add an additional module once I've configured/built a > kernel? > > Details: After looking thru the handbook, especially section about > kernel config, I don't see information about how to add a module once > a kerne

[gentoo-user] Re: Monitor SATA with smart?

2007-04-18 Thread Alexander Skwar
Matthias Fechner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is it possible to monitor SATA disks with smart? Keep in mind though, that SMART doesn't give you reliable information, though. Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.computerworld.com/blogs/node/5038 http://storagemojo.com/?p=383 http://www.use

Re: [gentoo-user] Add a module post kernel config/build

2007-04-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 18 April 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Add a module post kernel config/build': > Summary: > How can I add an additional module once I've configured/built a kernel? > > Details: After looking thru the handbook, especially section about > kernel config, I don't see

Re: [gentoo-user] Monitor SATA with smart?

2007-04-18 Thread Markus Schönhaber
Matthias Fechner wrote: > is it possible to monitor SATA disks with smart? Yes. > sys-apps/smartmontools can not read smart on that disks. It can. Try something like smartctl -a -d ata /dev/sda This ahould print all SMART info about the disk /dev/sda. The important part wrt SATA disks is "-d a

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is the latest release 2006.1?

2007-04-18 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 02:41:34 -0700 Drew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Who'd have thought a Promise SATA300 TX4 would be unsupported in > 2006.1? In all honesty, it's probably not absolutely "unsupported". Switch your SATA controller to compatibility mode in BIOS, don't care for DMA, and it wi

[gentoo-user] Add a module post kernel config/build

2007-04-18 Thread reader
Summary: How can I add an additional module once I've configured/built a kernel? Details: After looking thru the handbook, especially section about kernel config, I don't see information about how to add a module once a kernel is built and running. Using `genkernel all' on latest sources (linux-2

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is the latest release 2006.1?

2007-04-18 Thread Drew
> Once again, there should be some problem with my English. It is > official Gentoo release policy to have minimal, live, and platform > releases in sync. Posting a new image to forums is not that tightly > related to policies. No it's not, and I never suggested it was. As an Open Source project,

[gentoo-user] Monitor SATA with smart?

2007-04-18 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi, is it possible to monitor SATA disks with smart? sys-apps/smartmontools can not read smart on that disks. Best regards, Matthias -- "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger an

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel net eth1 but no eth1

2007-04-18 Thread Elias Probst
On Wednesday 18 April 2007 11:06:46 Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > How can I make the kernel bring up 'eth0' instead of 'eth1'. Take a look at /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules If you just delete this file, your devicenames will be "regenerated" by /etc/udev/rules.d/75-persistent-net-generato

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2007-04-18 Thread Dale
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > On Sunday 24 December 2006 04:53, Dale wrote: > > >> Speaking of booting, it would be nice if the first CD was bootable and >> could be restored that way. I only have one CD drive at the moment so >> something to boot from would be nice. >> > > Yes, that can be done.

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is the latest release 2006.1?

2007-04-18 Thread Andrey Gerasimenko
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 00:11:21 +0400, Neil Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Andrey Gerasimenko wrote: I do not see how it is hard to create a minimal installation CD image every time new hardware support is added into the kernel, or new gcc version goes stable, or new portage version goes sta

[gentoo-user] kernel net eth1 but no eth1

2007-04-18 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I hope someone can help. I've configured a 2.6.20 kernel manually (as I have done hundreds of times) but this time for a machine which has an Intel E1000 network adapter. When the kernel boots 'dmesg' shows that it uses this driver and calls it 'eth0', initially. But lateron, since the machi

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto get nvidia serial ATA with DMA running

2007-04-18 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hello Daniel, * Daniel Iliev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [17-04-07 15:22]: > May be it's a io-scheduling issue. This topic from the forums > could be helpful: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-462230.html thx, that helps a lot. Now I can trottle high volume copy operations. Best regards, Matthias --

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage package.use

2007-04-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 05:15:38 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > # { echo "# disable doc for all packages in dev-java" && \ > cd $(portageq portdir) && find dev-java -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 > -type d | \ sed 's/$/ -doc/'; } >> /etc/portage/package.use This will annul any entries for dev-java p