Re: [gentoo-user] Permissions of files in /sys/

2009-01-12 Thread Andrea Momesso
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: how to extract driver info from genkernel

2009-01-12 Thread Dale
Joshua Murphy wrote: > On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> Denis writes: >> >> You can use the "lspci" command, its in the pciutils package (if I'm not mistaken) to get your system hardware information. >>> Just like magic :-) Thank you so mu

[gentoo-user] Problems with IcyBox external HD with Cypress Chipset

2009-01-12 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, Rates of the datatransfers to and from my IceBox external HD (USB to IDE) with Cypress Chipset sometimes (relative often) breaks down to a view kBytes/sec. Simultaneously, mousemovements (USB mouse/Logitech) also start to stutter. The only way out of this scenario is a reboot. Unloading th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: how to extract driver info from genkernel

2009-01-12 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Denis writes: > >>> You can use the "lspci" command, its in the pciutils package (if I'm >>> not mistaken) to get your system hardware information. >> >> Just like magic :-) Thank you so much! > > If you liked lspci you will really like lspc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: how to extract driver info from genkernel

2009-01-12 Thread Dale
Harry Putnam wrote: > Denis writes: > > >>> You can use the "lspci" command, its in the pciutils package (if I'm >>> not mistaken) to get your system hardware information. >>> >> Just like magic :-) Thank you so much! >> > > If you liked lspci you will really like lspci -v. > Point

Re: [gentoo-user] Permissions of files in /sys/

2009-01-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:13:32 +0100, Momesso Andrea wrote: > Hmmm... Having not recived any answers might mean that my suspects are > right and there is no way to create an udev rule for my scope. udev rules create and name files in /dev. They use information from /sys but don't write there. > I

Re: [gentoo-user] Oops when mounting (some) XFS volumes

2009-01-12 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Eric Martin wrote: > I'm at the end of my rope with this problem and I'm hoping that people > here can help. I have a few boxes that are Oops'ing on startup due to > mounting some xfs volumes. I created a machine with the 2008.0 live > cd and the stage3-i686-hard

[gentoo-user] Oops when mounting (some) XFS volumes

2009-01-12 Thread Eric Martin
I'm at the end of my rope with this problem and I'm hoping that people here can help. I have a few boxes that are Oops'ing on startup due to mounting some xfs volumes. I created a machine with the 2008.0 live cd and the stage3-i686-hardened tarball. I'm using xfs on top of lvm2 and some xfs volu

[gentoo-user] Re: kqemu with 2.6.26 causes qemu segfault

2009-01-12 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2008-12-26, Willie Wong wrote: > On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 04:58:26AM +, Penguin Lover Grant Edwards > squawked: >> AFAICT, kqemu 1.3.0_pre11 is not compatible with 2.6.26 >> kernels. It seems to work fine with 2.6.25, but with 2.6.26 it >> causes qemu to crash with a segfault. I've seen o

[gentoo-user] Re: how to extract driver info from genkernel

2009-01-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Denis writes: >> You can use the "lspci" command, its in the pciutils package (if I'm >> not mistaken) to get your system hardware information. > > Just like magic :-) Thank you so much! If you liked lspci you will really like lspci -v. Pointed out to me recently here: From: Dale Subject:

[gentoo-user] Re: nfs failing to start

2009-01-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam writes: > I've apparently forgotten whatever little I may have know about > setting up nfs from having used it long ago. [...] > After setting all nfs related kernel items and booting the kernel. > Checking that mods appears to be installed and running. Making sure > portmapper is

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix and Domainkeys

2009-01-12 Thread Jason Carson
> On 12.01.2009 17:33, Jason Carson wrote: > [...] >> I don't understand what this part below means... >> >> Make sure you add these parameters to your dk-filter command line: >> -b sv -d your-domain.com -H -s /etc/mail/dk-filter/default.private >> -S default >> >> I tried the following two command

[gentoo-user] madwifi "Stuck beacon" causes mpd to skip

2009-01-12 Thread Grant
Whenever I get the following message in dmesg: wifi0: ath_bstuck_tasklet: Stuck beacon; resetting (beacon miss count: 11) the music playing on mpd skips. Does anyone know more about this? - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] after installing and running Xorg, my LCD colors in text mode are all wrong

2009-01-12 Thread b.n.
Willie Wong ha scritto: > On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 01:42:22PM -0500, Denis wrote: >> I just installed Xorg on the older Dell machine, for which I have a >> 17-inch Sony LCD screen. Before I did anything with X, my screen >> colors were just like I'm used to. Now, I fired up X, got it to work >> fi

Re: [gentoo-user] non-PHP webmail in portage?

2009-01-12 Thread Grant
Does anyone know of a good (or OK) webmail client in portage that doesn't use PHP? I use squirrelmail now but I have PHP installed only for that and I think PHP slows apache2 down a bit. - Grant >>> I don't think you'll find anything faster except maybe written in C,

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix and Domainkeys

2009-01-12 Thread Eray Aslan
On 12.01.2009 17:33, Jason Carson wrote: [...] > I don't understand what this part below means... > > Make sure you add these parameters to your dk-filter command line: > -b sv -d your-domain.com -H -s /etc/mail/dk-filter/default.private > -S default > > I tried the following two commands with no

Re: [gentoo-user] Network printing

2009-01-12 Thread Norman Rieß
Norman Rieß schrieb: > When i am home from work i will be able to provide some screenshots to > make things clearer. > > Regards > Norman > > > So here is the screenshot. http://www.smash-net.org/bilder/cups.png Notice: loki is the client and asgard is the server connected to the printer. The u

Re: [gentoo-user] after installing and running Xorg, my LCD colors in text mode are all wrong

2009-01-12 Thread Denis
That certainly is of interest - I never had this happen before, and I always used nvidia cards (when possible). This one is an older Dell with Radeon 7500 in it... Maybe it's a sign that it's dying or something. Or maybe it's something else entirely.

Re: [gentoo-user] after installing and running Xorg, my LCD colors in text mode are all wrong

2009-01-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 01:42:22PM -0500, Denis wrote: > I just installed Xorg on the older Dell machine, for which I have a > 17-inch Sony LCD screen. Before I did anything with X, my screen > colors were just like I'm used to. Now, I fired up X, got it to work > fine, and the colors are fine, b

[gentoo-user] after installing and running Xorg, my LCD colors in text mode are all wrong

2009-01-12 Thread Denis
Hello again, I just installed Xorg on the older Dell machine, for which I have a 17-inch Sony LCD screen. Before I did anything with X, my screen colors were just like I'm used to. Now, I fired up X, got it to work fine, and the colors are fine, but then I kill X and go back to text mode, and th

Re: [gentoo-user] tif libraries being ignored

2009-01-12 Thread Dale
Ted Miller wrote: > Dale wrote: >> Ted Miller wrote: >> > Yes, I missed that, and it did the trick (after re-emerging 11 >> > packages, including kde-libs). >> > >> > Where was it hidden, that I missed it? Or is it just one of those >> > things "you have to learn"? Seems like the tif package shou

Re: [gentoo-user] Permissions of files in /sys/

2009-01-12 Thread Momesso Andrea
On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 05:28:40PM +0100, Andrea Momesso wrote: > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 9:47 PM, Paul Hartman > wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Momesso Andrea > > wrote: > >> I'd like to make the file /sys/class/backlight/asus-laptop/brightness > >> writeable for users, so that I don

Re: [gentoo-user] how to extract driver info from genkernel

2009-01-12 Thread Denis
> You can use the "lspci" command, its in the pciutils package (if I'm > not mistaken) to get your system hardware information. Just like magic :-) Thank you so much! Denis

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix and Domainkeys

2009-01-12 Thread Jason Carson
> On 12.01.2009 00:13, Jason Carson wrote: >> Greetings, >> >> I am trying to setup postfix with domainkeys. I installed dk-milter and >> ran the following as I was told to do after emerging it ... > > DomainKeys is deprecated and is replaced by DKIM. You are much better > off using mail-filter/dk

Re: [gentoo-user] how to extract driver info from genkernel

2009-01-12 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 13:08, Denis wrote: > Hello, > > This will probably sound simplistic to most... I'm setting up an > older Dell PC, and I used genkernel to get it up and running, but how > do I figure out which drivers I actually need without knowing for sure > which hardware I have in the

[gentoo-user] how to extract driver info from genkernel

2009-01-12 Thread Denis
Hello, This will probably sound simplistic to most... I'm setting up an older Dell PC, and I used genkernel to get it up and running, but how do I figure out which drivers I actually need without knowing for sure which hardware I have in the machine? Genkernel loads a lot of drivers, and the ker

Re: [gentoo-user] Network printing

2009-01-12 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Peter Humphrey To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 5:44:52 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Network printing > On Saturday 10 January 2009 12:56:29 Norman Rieß wrote: > > You say you configured both printers on one server with CUPS-Webpag

[gentoo-user] Re: tif libraries being ignored

2009-01-12 Thread »Q«
In <496b3d63.3040...@yahoo.com>, Ted Miller wrote: > As a new user, what I need to know is: How do I find out that there > is such a thing as a 'tiff' flag? I could just as easily have > checked for a 'tif' flag, and not known that it was 'tiff'. Nothing > told me that installing the library di

Re: [gentoo-user] tif libraries being ignored

2009-01-12 Thread Ted Miller
Shawn Haggett wrote: On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 02:59:47 pm Ted Miller wrote: Dale wrote: Ted Miller wrote: [snip] Things work pretty well EXCEPT that the KDE based applications cannot handle *.tif files. I have the media-libs/tiff package emerged, but for some reason the KDE subsystem does not see

Re: [gentoo-user] tif libraries being ignored

2009-01-12 Thread Ted Miller
Dale wrote: Ted Miller wrote: > Yes, I missed that, and it did the trick (after re-emerging 11 > packages, including kde-libs). > > Where was it hidden, that I missed it? Or is it just one of those > things "you have to learn"? Seems like the tif package should add it, > or tell me to consider

Re: [gentoo-user] Network printing

2009-01-12 Thread Norman Rieß
Peter Humphrey schrieb: > Are you telling me that the printers the server knows of should appear in > the client's cups web page automatically? That certainly doesn't happen, > which is why I've been trying to tell the client where to find its > printers. > > No the webpage only runs on the s

Re: [gentoo-user] Network printing

2009-01-12 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 10 January 2009 12:56:29 Norman Rieß wrote: > You say you configured both printers on one server with CUPS-Webpage. I > assume this works and you can print a testpage with the Webpage. > Then you wrote "ServerName yourserver" in /etc/cups/client.conf . You > can now choose both printer

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix and Domainkeys

2009-01-12 Thread Eray Aslan
On 12.01.2009 00:13, Jason Carson wrote: > Greetings, > > I am trying to setup postfix with domainkeys. I installed dk-milter and > ran the following as I was told to do after emerging it ... DomainKeys is deprecated and is replaced by DKIM. You are much better off using mail-filter/dkim-milter.