Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [wildly OT]advice for a wireless antenna?

2008-05-13 Thread Grant
Sorry, I don't see how firmware can affect sensitivity. I've been involved in writing firmware for RF data communications stuff for a long time, and I've certainly never been able to affect sensitivity. I can say that I was really struggling to get a reliable wireless

Re: [gentoo-user] guest additions for vbox-1.6 gentoo guest on xp host

2008-05-13 Thread PaulNM
de Almeida, Valmor F. wrote: Verifying archive integrity... All good. Uncompressing VirtualBox 1.6.0 Guest Additions for Linux installation ... VirtualBox 1.6.0 Guest Additions installation Which: no dkms in (/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin...) Building

Re: [gentoo-user] UPS recommendation

2008-05-13 Thread PaulNM
Arthur Britto wrote: You likely want more than a minute. Most likely, you don't want your system to crash when coming back up when power fails soon after it is restored: your system could be in the middle of a fsck. Generally, you want enough capacity to: power off, power on, and then power

Re: [gentoo-user] installing lomount

2008-05-13 Thread PaulNM
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 11 May 2008, Martin Lehmann wrote: Now the problem is, that this is a image of a whole hdd. I only need one partition out of it. Then i want to copy the content of this partition to a partition located of the real hdd A brute force approach, but probably the

Re: [gentoo-user] installing lomount

2008-05-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 13 May 2008, PaulNM wrote: Even better would be losetup from sys-apps/util-linux. see: http://www.nabble.com/%22loopback-mount%22-hard-drive-image-created-w ith-dd--td14945355.html He doesn't want to mount a dd'ed *filesystem* as a loopback device, he wants to mount a single

Re: [gentoo-user] installing lomount

2008-05-13 Thread PaulNM
Alan McKinnon wrote: http://www.nabble.com/%22loopback-mount%22-hard-drive-image-created-w ith-dd--td14945355.html He doesn't want to mount a dd'ed *filesystem* as a loopback device, he wants to mount a single filesystem out of several which is inside an entire diskimage file. losetup

[gentoo-user] eix-test-obolete

2008-05-13 Thread reader
When running `eix-test-obsolete' after update world and revdep-rebuild I get a list of 14 pkgs under the heading as listed below. What does this mean... I'm running ~x86 and have been for yrs so the ones that show `U' should have gotten updated during ... -vuD world. root # emerge -vp

[gentoo-user] jwhois quit working

2008-05-13 Thread reader
Has anyone else noticed jwhois queries to have quit working? I get root # jwhois 128.111.24.43 [Querying whois.arin.net] [Error creating socket] [Unable to connect to remote host] If I change the default server, still get the same message. Changing to alpha style notation: jwhois

Re: [gentoo-user] eix-test-obolete

2008-05-13 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 6:05 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When running `eix-test-obsolete' after update world and revdep-rebuild I get a list of 14 pkgs under the heading as listed below. What does this mean... I'm running ~x86 and have been for yrs so the ones that show `U' should have

Re: [gentoo-user] eix-test-obolete

2008-05-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 13 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When running `eix-test-obsolete' after update world and revdep-rebuild I get a list of 14 pkgs under the heading as listed below. What does this mean... I'm running ~x86 and have been for yrs so the ones that show `U' should have gotten updated

Re: [gentoo-user] eix-test-obolete

2008-05-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 13 May 2008 07:18:33 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: I guess I don't understand how the system got these packages but appears not to know much about them. Try adding --with-bdeps y and see if that addresses it. I've got this in my make.conf file EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=--with-bdeps y

[gentoo-user] Constant hammering from Chinese IPs on prt 102[67]

2008-05-13 Thread reader
On on a cable provider (comcast). My router shows a constant hammering from numerious chinese IPs on port 1027 and 1026. Its not really apparent what is going on .. looking at the date graph presented here: http://isc.sans.org/port.html?port=1027 Other google hits don't say much about it

Re: [gentoo-user] Constant hammering from Chinese IPs on prt 102[67]

2008-05-13 Thread Justin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: On on a cable provider (comcast). My router shows a constant hammering from numerious chinese IPs on port 1027 and 1026. Its not really apparent what is going on .. looking at the date graph presented here: http://isc.sans.org/port.html?port=1027 Other google hits

[gentoo-user] Re: Constant hammering from Chinese IPs on prt 102[67]

2008-05-13 Thread reader
Justin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If so what is the massive chinese interest in icq? found this in the net: http://www.grc.com/port_1026.htm http://www.grc.com/port_1027.htm That doesn't give any analysis of why this port is being hammered by hundreds, even thousands of IP originating

[gentoo-user] Re: eix-test-obolete

2008-05-13 Thread reader
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 13 May 2008 07:18:33 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: I guess I don't understand how the system got these packages but appears not to know much about them. Try adding --with-bdeps y and see if that addresses it. I've got this in my make.conf

[gentoo-user] Re: eix-test-obolete

2008-05-13 Thread reader
Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I guess I don't understand how the system got these packages but appears not to know much about them. Try adding --with-bdeps y and see if that addresses it. I've got this in my make.conf file It does want to upgrade one of the pkgs with that set.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: eix-test-obolete

2008-05-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 13 May 2008 11:46:26 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another possibility is that ypou merged them with the --oneshot option, or that they were pulled in as a dependency of a package you no longer have (or has been updated to a version that is no longer dependent on them). What

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: eix-test-obolete

2008-05-13 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 10:00 AM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 13 May 2008 11:46:26 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another possibility is that ypou merged them with the --oneshot option, or that they were pulled in as a dependency of a package you no longer have

Re: [gentoo-user] df showing rootfs

2008-05-13 Thread Miika Linnapuomi
Sun, 11 May 2008 23:53:19 +0100 Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 12 May 2008 01:05:56 +0300, Daniel Iliev wrote: So, please, check what your /etc/fstab reads about / in case you have accidentally overwritten it by answering yes to etc-update or dispatch-conf. That's not

[gentoo-user] Nice level for X11

2008-05-13 Thread Abraham Gyorgy
Hello guys, in which configuration file can I set a nice level for X11? (this makes all graphical software run much faster, at least when I used Debian). Thanks in advance

Re: [gentoo-user] Nice level for X11

2008-05-13 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 21:50 +0200, Abraham Gyorgy wrote: Hello guys, in which configuration file can I set a nice level for X11? (this makes all graphical software run much faster, at least when I used Debian). I forget, but I tried it a while back and didn't see positive results. In my

Re: [gentoo-user] Nice level for X11

2008-05-13 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Tuesday 13 May 2008, Abraham Gyorgy wrote: Hello guys, in which configuration file can I set a nice level for X11? (this makes all graphical software run much faster, at least when I used Debian). Nice factor for X makes graphical software run fater? I don't thinl so. Not at all. Uwe --

Re: [gentoo-user] Nice level for X11

2008-05-13 Thread Andrey Falko
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Abraham Gyorgy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello guys, in which configuration file can I set a nice level for X11? (this makes all graphical software run much faster, at least when I used Debian). Thanks in advance If you run startx, I think you can do

Re: [gentoo-user] Nice level for X11

2008-05-13 Thread Andrey Falko
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 13 May 2008, Abraham Gyorgy wrote: Hello guys, in which configuration file can I set a nice level for X11? (this makes all graphical software run much faster, at least when I used Debian). Nice factor for X

Re: [gentoo-user] Nice level for X11

2008-05-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 13 May 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: On Tuesday 13 May 2008, Abraham Gyorgy wrote: Hello guys, in which configuration file can I set a nice level for X11? (this makes all graphical software run much faster, at least when I used Debian). Nice factor for X makes graphical software run

Re: [gentoo-user] Nice level for X11

2008-05-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag, 13. Mai 2008, Abraham Gyorgy wrote: Hello guys, in which configuration file can I set a nice level for X11? (this makes all graphical software run much faster, at least when I used Debian). which is how many years ago? really, with a recent kernelX you more likely HURT

[gentoo-user] Re: eix-test-obolete

2008-05-13 Thread reader
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think you should, as long as nothing system-critical is listed, and emerge shouts loudly about removing those. I think your are probably right... For example, one of the listed pkgs is: gnome-base/libgnomeui which equery says `firefox' and

[gentoo-user] Re: eix-test-obolete

2008-05-13 Thread reader
Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 10:00 AM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 13 May 2008 11:46:26 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another possibility is that ypou merged them with the --oneshot option, or that they were pulled in as a

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] MTRR and PAT

2008-05-13 Thread pk
Andrey Falko wrote: Ahh I see. I don't know much about MTRR...all I know is that you can adjust them via grub: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1chap=10 Hmm... I missed that one. Thanks. My grub kernel command line (which I haven't given much thought to since it's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: eix-test-obolete

2008-05-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 13 May 2008 16:18:42 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I somehow doubt that firefox will cease to work if I unmerge libgnomeui. So what if it does? It not like it will stop your computer booting and is nothing a revdep-rebuild couldn't fix. -- Neil Bothwick 668 - The neighbour of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: eix-test-obolete

2008-05-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 13 May 2008 10:06:39 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: I think you should, as long as nothing system-critical is listed, and emerge shouts loudly about removing those. On a long list of packages to be cleaned I find it comforting to use emerge -C package1 package2 package3 and

Re: [gentoo-user] Nice level for X11

2008-05-13 Thread Andrey Falko
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 10:33 PM, Daniel Iliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 13 May 2008 21:50:24 +0200 Abraham Gyorgy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello guys, in which configuration file can I set a nice level for X11? (this makes all graphical software run much faster, at least when

Re: [gentoo-user] Nice level for X11

2008-05-13 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Tue, 13 May 2008 21:50:24 +0200 Abraham Gyorgy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello guys, in which configuration file can I set a nice level for X11? (this makes all graphical software run much faster, at least when I used Debian). Thanks in advance If I wanted to change the niceness of X,

[gentoo-user] Why does my system still want gcc 3.4.9?

2008-05-13 Thread felix
I have been battling this weirdness for several months, and it has been getting worse and worse. Now I can't even unpack half the man pages. The short of it is that a lot of binaries on my system are linked against gcc 3.4.9, even if I remerge them from scratch. It happened with gcc 4.2.2, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Nice level for X11

2008-05-13 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Tue, 13 May 2008 22:42:39 -0400 Andrey Falko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello guys, in which configuration file can I set a nice level for X11? (this makes all graphical software run much faster, at least when I used Debian). Thanks in advance If I wanted to change the

RE: [gentoo-user] guest additions for vbox-1.6 gentoo guest on xp host

2008-05-13 Thread de Almeida, Valmor F.
-Original Message- From: PaulNM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 7:25 AM de Almeida, Valmor F. wrote: Verifying archive integrity... All good. Uncompressing VirtualBox 1.6.0 Guest Additions for Linux installation Well, first I'd do a dmesg |

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Constant hammering from Chinese IPs on prt 102[67]

2008-05-13 Thread Justin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Justin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If so what is the massive chinese interest in icq? found this in the net: http://www.grc.com/port_1026.htm http://www.grc.com/port_1027.htm That doesn't give any analysis of why this port is being hammered by