Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

2008-03-26 Thread Richard Marzan
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Mark Knecht wrote: > | On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | > | It's an interesting question and one I've not tried to test. Does an > | AMD64 machine running a 32-bit or 64-bit install run faster or slo

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless: Limit rate to strengthen connection?

2008-03-26 Thread Grant
> > > > > I'm trying to strengthen a wireless connection that spans about 150 > > > > > feet and has to go through about 5 walls. I bought two of these: > > > > > > > > > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833164110 > > > > > > > > > > for either end of the co

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless: Limit rate to strengthen connection?

2008-03-26 Thread Grant
> > > > I'm trying to strengthen a wireless connection that spans about 150 > > > > feet and has to go through about 5 walls. I bought two of these: > > > > > > > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833164110 > > > > > > > > for either end of the connection, but I'm

[gentoo-user] Re: Boot Gentoo to clean windows

2008-03-26 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
Mikie wrote: Does anyone know of a product (hopefully free) that can clean a Windows PC while booted on Gentoo? I guess I need a good malware tool that runs on Linux and cleans NTFS volumes. Thanks. FWIW, AntiVir, Bitdefender, and F-Prot run quite well on Linux, and each has BOTH Linux and W

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problem with 2 partition installation from gentoo minimal system

2008-03-26 Thread Greg Bowser
VFS: Cannot open root device "sda1" or unknown-block(0,0) Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions: Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) (hey, I remembered not to top post for once!) Not that this hasn't been said, b

[gentoo-user] Re: problem with 2 partition installation from gentoo minimal system

2008-03-26 Thread Fei Liu
Here is the complete grub.conf file: more /boot/grub/grub.conf default 0 timeout 8 gfxmenu (hd0,0)/boot/message title 2.6.24.4-default root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/kernel root=/dev/sda1 splash=silent showopts /etc/fstab: #/dev/BOOT /boot ext2 noauto,noatim

[gentoo-user] Re: problem with 2 partition installation from gentoo minimal system

2008-03-26 Thread Fei Liu
Fei Liu wrote: Hello Group, I spend a whole day trying to get this to work. Here is my setup /dev/sda1 / ext3 noatime 0 1 /dev/sda2 swap grub is installed using the 'root (hd0,0)' and 'setup (hd0)', no problem. emerge kernel-sources

Re: [gentoo-user] libmad sound artifacts

2008-03-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:24:10 -0600, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > Hi; sorry to crosspost, but I know for a fact that gentoo-amd64 has a > much lower traffic than gentoo-user. Why apologise? If you know it's wrong, don't do it. Reposting the same day is also poor netiquette. If someone knows the a

[gentoo-user] libmad sound artifacts

2008-03-26 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
Hi; sorry to crosspost, but I know for a fact that gentoo-amd64 has a much lower traffic than gentoo-user. Some weeks ago I noticed serious artifacts in the sound quality of my desktop machine, when playing MP3's with Rhythmbox. It actually sounds like a hardware problem; a speaker cable which is

Re: [gentoo-user] iwl4965 performance

2008-03-26 Thread Thomas Kahle
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi again, the problem seems to be related to WEP Encryption. Today I tried in a WPA-Enterprise Network and it was much faster and more responsive too... I will give the subobtions and 2.6.24 kernel a try anyway. Thanks Tom Thomas Kahle wrote: | Hi,

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless: Limit rate to strengthen connection?

2008-03-26 Thread Jerry McBride
On Wednesday 26 March 2008 05:21:50 pm Grant wrote: > > > I'm trying to strengthen a wireless connection that spans about 150 > > > feet and has to go through about 5 walls. I bought two of these: > > > > > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833164110 > > > > > > for eit

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless: Limit rate to strengthen connection?

2008-03-26 Thread Grant
> > I'm trying to strengthen a wireless connection that spans about 150 > > feet and has to go through about 5 walls. I bought two of these: > > > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833164110 > > > > for either end of the connection, but I'm having trouble making it > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless: Limit rate to strengthen connection?

2008-03-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to strengthen a wireless connection that spans about 150 > feet and has to go through about 5 walls. I bought two of these: > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833164110 > > for either end of th

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless: Limit rate to strengthen connection?

2008-03-26 Thread Jerry McBride
On Wednesday 26 March 2008 04:53:24 pm Grant wrote: > I'm trying to strengthen a wireless connection that spans about 150 > feet and has to go through about 5 walls. I bought two of these: > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833164110 > > for either end of the connection, but

[gentoo-user] Wireless: Limit rate to strengthen connection?

2008-03-26 Thread Grant
I'm trying to strengthen a wireless connection that spans about 150 feet and has to go through about 5 walls. I bought two of these: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833164110 for either end of the connection, but I'm having trouble making it work well. I've noticed the con

Re: [gentoo-user] PRNG is not seeded

2008-03-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: > Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > > Both the files /dev/random and /dev/urandom are missing in my system. > > > > How do i go ahead in fixing this issue > > > > Thanks and Regards > > > > Kaushal > > I just noticed this on mine. Do you have the service urandom in the > boot runlevel? Look

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Gnome: No sound - "No volume control GStreamer plugins and/or devices found"

2008-03-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 26 March 2008, Michael Schmarck wrote: > Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Perhaps you could file a feature request at b.g.o. to get the old > > behaviour back. It seems entirely reasonable to me that rhythmbox > > should DEPENDs on gst-plugins-base which should conditionall

Re: [gentoo-user] iwl4965 performance

2008-03-26 Thread Florian Philipp
On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 17:28 +0100, Thomas Kahle wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > I am using the iwl4965 driver which is included in the kernel > 2.6.25-rc6. Everything works fine (Networkmanager, WPA2, etc.) The only > thing I experience is a very bad performa

Re: [gentoo-user] iwl4965 performance

2008-03-26 Thread José Pedro Saraiva
Hi, Have you tried using the driver from the 2.6.24* series kernel? I've been using iwl3945 from tuxonice-sources 2.6.24-r3 without any performance or stability problems whatsoever. Good luck. Regards, José Pedro On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Thomas Kahle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BE

Re: [gentoo-user] PRNG is not seeded

2008-03-26 Thread Dale
Kaushal Shriyan wrote: On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 9:46 PM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:17:07 +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > when i restart sshd I get PRNG is not seeded > > # /etc/init.d/sshd restart > PRNG is not

Re: [gentoo-user] PRNG is not seeded

2008-03-26 Thread Kaushal Shriyan
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 9:46 PM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:17:07 +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > > > when i restart sshd I get PRNG is not seeded > > > > # /etc/init.d/sshd restart > > PRNG is not seeded > > Does /dev/urandom exist? What are it's permissions

Re: [gentoo-user] openchrome, xvmc and mplayer

2008-03-26 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 26 March 2008, Marc Blumentritt wrote: > Hi, > > I just read on this list, that the x11 driver openchrome for via > chipsets hit the tree. Does anyone know, if mplayer in portage tree > is patched to work with openchrome and xvmc? It doesn't need to be patched. Just emerge it with "xv

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with 2 partition installation from gentoo minimal system

2008-03-26 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 26 March 2008, Fei Liu wrote: > Hello Group, I spend a whole day trying to get this to work. Here > is my setup > > /dev/sda1 / ext3 noatime > 0 1 /dev/sda2 swap > > grub is installed using the 'root (hd0,0)' and 'setup (hd0)', no

RE: [gentoo-user] problem with 2 partition installation from gent oo minimal system

2008-03-26 Thread Prado, Renato (R.)
I had this problem too... the problem was SCSI not being compiled in my kernel alongside the SATA driver. Remember to ensure none of them are being built into modules. Renato Borges A. Prado Product Engineer - Software Validation Team Visteon Automotive Systems - MSX International [EMAIL PROTECTED

[gentoo-user] 2 dispatch-conf questions

2008-03-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! Question 1: We all have replace-cvs enabled in /etc/dispatch.conf, do we, because this makes it easy to re-create old config versions. But how exactly would I get back an older version of a file? I've never seen an example yet. Would s.o. like to post a little example or point to some

[gentoo-user] openchrome, xvmc and mplayer

2008-03-26 Thread Marc Blumentritt
Hi, I just read on this list, that the x11 driver openchrome for via chipsets hit the tree. Does anyone know, if mplayer in portage tree is patched to work with openchrome and xvmc? Regards, Marc -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with 2 partition installation from gentoo minimal system

2008-03-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Fei Liu writes: > Hello Group, I spend a whole day trying to get this to work. Here is my > setup > > /dev/sda1 / ext3 noatime 0 1 > /dev/sda2 swap > > grub is installed using the 'root (hd0,0)' and 'setup (hd0)', no problem. > > emerge kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with 2 partition installation from gentoo minimal system

2008-03-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:40:10 -0400, Fei Liu wrote: > However everytime the system boots, it reports the VFS panic (no root > system found problem). The kernel has built in ext2 and ext3 support. > The error hint is to supply root option during boot, but my boot > command is this > kernel /boot/k

Re: [gentoo-user] PRNG is not seeded

2008-03-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:17:07 +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > when i restart sshd I get PRNG is not seeded > > # /etc/init.d/sshd restart > PRNG is not seeded Does /dev/urandom exist? What are it's permissions? -- Neil Bothwick Never eat more than you can lift. signature.asc Description: PG

Re: [gentoo-user] PRNG is not seeded

2008-03-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Kaushal Shriyan writes: > when i restart sshd I get PRNG is not seeded > > # /etc/init.d/sshd restart > PRNG is not seeded > # > > No idea as what is going on I can reproduce this behaviour when I rename both /dev/random and /dev/urandom. Are they perhaps both missing on your system? W

[gentoo-user] PRNG is not seeded

2008-03-26 Thread Kaushal Shriyan
Hi when i restart sshd I get PRNG is not seeded # /etc/init.d/sshd restart PRNG is not seeded # No idea as what is going on Thanks and Regards Kaushal

[gentoo-user] problem with 2 partition installation from gentoo minimal system

2008-03-26 Thread Fei Liu
Hello Group, I spend a whole day trying to get this to work. Here is my setup /dev/sda1 / ext3 noatime 0 1 /dev/sda2 swap grub is installed using the 'root (hd0,0)' and 'setup (hd0)', no problem. emerge kernel-sources worked fine.

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot Gentoo to clean windows

2008-03-26 Thread Davi Vidal
Em Wednesday 26 March 2008, Mikie escreveu: > Does anyone know of a product (hopefully free) that can clean a Windows > PC while booted on Gentoo? > > I guess I need a good malware tool that runs on Linux and cleans NTFS > volumes. > AFAIK, AVG runs on Linux. And you can use ntfs-3g.

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot Gentoo to clean windows

2008-03-26 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 26. März 2008 schrieb ext Mikie: > Does anyone know of a product (hopefully free) that can clean a Windows > PC while booted on Gentoo? > > I guess I need a good malware tool that runs on Linux and cleans NTFS > volumes. What do you mean with "clean"? Remove Windows? Use fdisk. Bye.

[gentoo-user] Boot Gentoo to clean windows

2008-03-26 Thread Mikie
Does anyone know of a product (hopefully free) that can clean a Windows PC while booted on Gentoo? I guess I need a good malware tool that runs on Linux and cleans NTFS volumes. Thanks. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] ATX PS recommendation

2008-03-26 Thread masterprometheus
maxim wexler wrote: > Hi group, > > I bought a Coolmax PS which was touted as the latest > and greatest and then it died. When I opened it up I > found the output crowded with puffy, oozing > electrolytic caps, most made by Fuhjyyu. A search for > Fuhjyyu on Google revealed that I'm not alone. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering root password

2008-03-26 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 26 March 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Dienstag, 25. März 2008 schrieb ext Uwe Thiem: > > Yes, and it isn't necessary. You lock your servers away so that > > nobody has physical access to them. > > What if you sell them or give them back (leased machines)? Do you > erase your discs

Re: [gentoo-user] permission denied (13)

2008-03-26 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 26. März 2008 schrieb ext Kaushal Shriyan: > On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Dirk Heinrichs > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, 26. März 2008 schrieb ext Kaushal Shriyan: > > > I am running the command > > > > > > /usr/bin/rsync -avO /var/lib/mysql [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var

Re: [gentoo-user] permission denied (13)

2008-03-26 Thread Kaushal Shriyan
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 26. März 2008 schrieb ext Kaushal Shriyan: > > I am running the command > > > > /usr/bin/rsync -avO /var/lib/mysql [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib/ > > > /tmp/rsync-${TIMESTAMP}.log 2>&1 > > > > I set the setfacl

Re: [gentoo-user] uvesafb and screen resolution

2008-03-26 Thread Alexander Meinke
Ian Lee wrote: i always thought vga= was only used by the old vesafb driver i use video=uvesafb:1024x768-32 i cant get any wide screen modes to work at all, anybody else know how?? Did you tried to find out what resolutions are supported by your graphic card (e.g. hwinfo --framebuffer)? I only

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Gnome: No sound - "No volume control GStreamer plugins and/or devices found"

2008-03-26 Thread Michael Schmarck
Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perhaps you could file a feature request at b.g.o. to get the old > behaviour back. It seems entirely reasonable to me that rhythmbox > should DEPENDs on gst-plugins-base which should conditionally DEPEND > on -alsa or -oss (or other sound systems). Isn'

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering root password

2008-03-26 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 25. März 2008 schrieb ext Uwe Thiem: > On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Grant wrote: > > > > Would the type of filesystem encryption you guys are talking about > > be unsuitable for a high-traffic server because of performance > > considerations? > > Yes, and it isn't necessary. You lock you

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering root password

2008-03-26 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 25. März 2008 schrieb ext Wael Nasreddine: > This One Time, at Band Camp, Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said, On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 07:02:59PM +0100: > > I use LUKS encrypted logical volumes. Root fs is encrypted with a > > password, all other volumes are encrypted with a keyfi

Re: [gentoo-user] permission denied (13)

2008-03-26 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 26. März 2008 schrieb ext Kaushal Shriyan: > I am running the command > > /usr/bin/rsync -avO /var/lib/mysql [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib/ > > /tmp/rsync-${TIMESTAMP}.log 2>&1 > > I set the setfacl command using the below command for the user ssp > > sudo setfacl -R -m g:ssp:rwx /var/lib

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: rhythmbox plays silently

2008-03-26 Thread Michael Schmarck
Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now, onto your actual problem. It is exceptionally hard to even attempt > to provide a solution unless someone else fixed the exact same problem > before, as you have not provided any configuration at all and very > little useful information. What would

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux & Motherboard

2008-03-26 Thread ionut cucu
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:45:21 + Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:09:19 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > I can't remember a single ethernet device in the last several years > > that wasn't fully supported and JustWorked(tm) straight out the box > > on any old a