[gentoo-user] ps shows pegasus process running - what is it?

2009-11-07 Thread Stroller
Hi there, I have just found a process called "pegasus" running on my machine. Does anyone know what it is, please? # ps -e | grep peg 816 ?00:00:00 pegasus # A Google suggested I might be able to find it's path thusly: # ps -e -o pid,args | grep peg 816 [pegasus] 13927 grep --col

Re: [gentoo-user] ps shows pegasus process running - what is it?

2009-11-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 07 November 2009, Stroller wrote: > Hi there, > > I have just found a process called "pegasus" running on my machine. > Does anyone know what it is, please? > > # ps -e | grep peg >816 ?00:00:00 pegasus > # > > A Google suggested I might be able to find it's path thusly: >

Re: [gentoo-user] WiFi access point with iwl3945

2009-11-07 Thread Florian Philipp
Mike Mazur schrieb: > Hi, > > I'm trying to set up my laptop to be a wireless access point. It has > an iwl3945 card. I followed the "Atheros Ath5k Wireless Access Point" > article on gentoo-wiki.com[1] before realizing that it was Atheros > specific. > > Part of the setup uses hostapd[2]. Lookin

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange iwl3945 behavior (possibly wpa_supplicant related?)

2009-11-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 07 November 2009 04:20:09 Mike Edenfield wrote: > Thanks to some good advice from here, I've narrowed down my wireless > problems to one specific configuration. Unfortunately it's the one I > really need to work (of course). > > My laptop has an Intel 3954, using the iwlwifi driver, w

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel GMA 4500MHD

2009-11-07 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Fri, 2009-11-06 at 17:18 +, James wrote: > Hello, > > I'm looking at a Dell Vostro 1720 Laptop with this Intel video > chip: Intel® Integrated Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD > > Anyone with any experience or comments as to Intel's video > offerings, as far as it related to (X)/Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg won't start on intel iMac

2009-11-07 Thread daid kahl
2009/11/6 Roger Mason : > Hello, > > I have an intel iMac Core 2 Duo with an ATI radeon HD 2400 XT video > card.  I have not been able to get X working. > I'm also running on an apple machine (macbook), so I might be able to help. My video card is intel, so my settings won't be exactly the same.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Unclaimed display?

2009-11-07 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 04 November 2009 07:29:03 Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: > On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 01:29:26PM +0100, Mick wrote: > > I am looking at the lshw of a compaq desktop with pci-express and a > > Radeon X600 and see that it's VGA and secondary dispalyes are > > "unclaimed". What does this mean? >

[gentoo-user] Usb keyboard automatic layout

2009-11-07 Thread Damian
Hello, I often need to use unicode characters when I'm writing in Spanish. For that purpose I've set up my .Xmodmap in the following way: clear Lock keycode 66 = Multi_key After running xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap I can use the caps lock as a multi key in my laptop keyboard. However, wheneve

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-07 Thread daid kahl
2009/11/4 Harry Putnam : > I'll say right from the start, that building a new kernel, has always > been a problem for me.  I don't remember ever not having a problem, in > 10+ yrs.. > > Many people here seem to find it completely easy... not me. > > I tried closely comparing the current working ker

Re: [gentoo-user] ps shows pegasus process running - what is it?

2009-11-07 Thread Stroller
On 7 Nov 2009, at 10:01, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Samstag 07 November 2009, Stroller wrote: Hi there, I have just found a process called "pegasus" running on my machine. Does anyone know what it is, please? # ps -e | grep peg 816 ?00:00:00 pegasus # A Google suggested I migh

Re: [gentoo-user] ps shows pegasus process running - what is it?

2009-11-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 07 November 2009, Stroller wrote: > On 7 Nov 2009, at 10:01, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Samstag 07 November 2009, Stroller wrote: > >> Hi there, > >> > >> I have just found a process called "pegasus" running on my machine. > >> Does anyone know what it is, please? > >> > >> # ps

[gentoo-user] {OT?} What happened to iexplore in wine?

2009-11-07 Thread Grant
I haven't used wine's /usr/bin/iexplore to test a website in IE for a while, and now it looks like that binary is no longer installed. Does anyone know how to get it, or if there is a replacement of some sort? I looked at the files installed by wine in /usr/bin but didn't see anything. - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT?} What happened to iexplore in wine?

2009-11-07 Thread Neal Hogan
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 7:02 AM, Grant wrote: > I haven't used wine's /usr/bin/iexplore to test a website in IE for a > while, and now it looks like that binary is no longer installed.  Does > anyone know how to get it, or if there is a replacement of some sort? > I looked at the files installed by

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT?} What happened to iexplore in wine?

2009-11-07 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Sat, 7 Nov 2009 05:02:54 -0800, Grant wrote: > I haven't used wine's /usr/bin/iexplore to test a website in IE for a > while, and now it looks like that binary is no longer installed. Does > anyone know how to get it, or if there is a replacement of some sort? > I looked at the files installed

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT?} What happened to iexplore in wine?

2009-11-07 Thread alex ponomarev
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Grant wrote: > I haven't used wine's /usr/bin/iexplore to test a website in IE for a > while, and now it looks like that binary is no longer installed. Does > anyone know how to get it, or if there is a replacement of some sort? > I looked at the files installed b

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT?} What happened to iexplore in wine?

2009-11-07 Thread Grant
>> I haven't used wine's /usr/bin/iexplore to test a website in IE for a >> while, and now it looks like that binary is no longer installed.  Does >> anyone know how to get it, or if there is a replacement of some sort? >> I looked at the files installed by wine in /usr/bin but didn't see >> anythi

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT?} What happened to iexplore in wine?

2009-11-07 Thread Boris Fersing
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 14:28, Grant wrote: >>> I haven't used wine's /usr/bin/iexplore to test a website in IE for a >>> while, and now it looks like that binary is no longer installed.  Does >>> anyone know how to get it, or if there is a replacement of some sort? >>> I looked at the files instal

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT?} What happened to iexplore in wine?

2009-11-07 Thread Grant
I haven't used wine's /usr/bin/iexplore to test a website in IE for a while, and now it looks like that binary is no longer installed.  Does anyone know how to get it, or if there is a replacement of some sort? I looked at the files installed by wine in /usr/bin but didn't see >

Re: [gentoo-user] WiFi access point with iwl3945

2009-11-07 Thread Mike Mazur
Hi, On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 18:08, Florian Philipp wrote: > Mike Mazur schrieb: >> I'm trying to set up my laptop to be a wireless access point. It has >> an iwl3945 card. I followed the "Atheros Ath5k Wireless Access Point" >> article on gentoo-wiki.com[1] before realizing that it was Atheros >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange iwl3945 behavior (possibly wpa_supplicant related?)

2009-11-07 Thread Mike Edenfield
On Sat, 2009-11-07 at 12:09 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Saturday 07 November 2009 04:20:09 Mike Edenfield wrote: > > When using NetworkManager on my work network, however, things go > > horribly wrong. I get tons of this in my kernel logs: > > > > wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:1e:58:04:1e:

[gentoo-user] "deleted inode referenced"

2009-11-07 Thread Philip Webb
In the course of trying to get X to work on my ASUS 1005HA netbook, I had to power the machine off several times. In the course of this, some damage seems to have occurred to the file system. There are files in /var /tmp which I can't remove: the msg is "EXT2-fs error: ext2_lookup: deleted inod

[gentoo-user] ipsec-tools-0.7.3 fails to build

2009-11-07 Thread Mick
Like so: i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I./../libipsec - D_GNU_SOURCE -include ./src/include-glibc/glibc-bugs.h -I./src/include-glibc - I./src/include-glibc -I./../../src/racoon/missing -D_GNU_SOURCE -include ../../src/include-glibc/glibc-bugs.h -I../../src/include-glibc -

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg won't start on intel iMac

2009-11-07 Thread Roger Mason
Hello David, daid kahl writes: > 2009/11/6 Roger Mason : >> I have an intel iMac Core 2 Duo with an ATI radeon HD 2400 XT video >> card.  I have not been able to get X working. >> > > I'm also running on an apple machine (macbook), so I might be able to > help. My video card is intel, so my set

Re: [gentoo-user] ipsec-tools-0.7.3 fails to build

2009-11-07 Thread alex ponomarev
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 8:10 PM, Mick wrote: > Like so: > > i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I./../libipsec - > D_GNU_SOURCE -include ./src/include-glibc/glibc-bugs.h > -I./src/include-glibc - > I./src/include-glibc -I./../../src/racoon/missing -D_GNU_SOURCE -include > ../../s

Re: [gentoo-user] services on ASUS 1005HA

2009-11-07 Thread Philip Webb
091106 Florian Philipp wrote: > Philip Webb schrieb: >> Can anyone who uses one of these machine advise me >> how far the usual services are relevant for a netbook ? >> -- hald (+dbus) vixie-cron slocate run on my desktop machine, >> but don't seem necessary for a netbook which I wb using only

Re: [gentoo-user] ipsec-tools-0.7.3 fails to build

2009-11-07 Thread Mick
On Saturday 07 November 2009 17:16:48 alex ponomarev wrote: > On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 8:10 PM, Mick wrote: > > Like so: > > > > i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I./../libipsec - > > D_GNU_SOURCE -include ./src/include-glibc/glibc-bugs.h > > -I./src/include-glibc - > > I./src/inc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: terminal settings

2009-11-07 Thread Michael P. Soulier
ine... msoul...@anton:~$ backup_pa.sh & [1] 15388 msoul...@anton:~$ Backup up remote dirs etc/httpd usr/local/etc git var/www home/pawsitiveapproach to local file pa_backup.20091107.tar.gz... msoul...@anton:~$ jobs [1]+ Running backup_pa.sh & and then [1]+ Stopped

Re: [gentoo-user] ipsec-tools-0.7.3 fails to build

2009-11-07 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Mick schrieb am 07.11.2009 18:10: > Like so: > > i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I./../libipsec - > D_GNU_SOURCE -include ./src/include-glibc/glibc-bugs.h -I./src/include-glibc - > I./src/include-glibc -I./../../src/racoon/missing -D_GNU_SOURCE -include > ../../src/include-g

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-07 Thread Harry Putnam
daid kahl writes: > 2009/11/4 Harry Putnam : >> I'll say right from the start, that building a new kernel, has always >> been a problem for me.  I don't remember ever not having a problem, in >> 10+ yrs.. >> >> Many people here seem to find it completely easy... not me. >> >> I tried closely comp

[gentoo-user] help with tinydns setup

2009-11-07 Thread James
All, I'm trying to set up a DNS server here for a lab environment. - hijacking a TLD (linux.com let's say, as an example) - trying to point several Linux boxen in a sandbox with no internet connectivity So, here's a copy of my tinydns data file: .linux.com:172.18.109.125:a:259200 =server1.linux

Re: [gentoo-user] help with tinydns setup

2009-11-07 Thread Roy Wright
On Nov 7, 2009, at 3:49 PM, James wrote: All, I'm trying to set up a DNS server here for a lab environment. Thoughts? Ideas? I use dnsmasq as my home dns/dhcp server. It was super easy to configure. You might want to give it a look. HTH, Roy

Re: [gentoo-user] ipsec-tools-0.7.3 fails to build

2009-11-07 Thread Mick
On Saturday 07 November 2009 18:30:16 Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > Mick schrieb am 07.11.2009 18:10: > > Like so: > > > > i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I./../libipsec - > > D_GNU_SOURCE -include ./src/include-glibc/glibc-bugs.h > > -I./src/include-glibc - I./src/include-glibc >

[gentoo-user] Re: decrapify your kernel config WAS: ps shows pegasus process running - what is it?

2009-11-07 Thread Stroller
On 7 Nov 2009, at 11:32, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: ... I'd love to know what the name of the kernel module is so I can unload it: $ zcat /proc/config.gz | grep -i pegasus CONFIG_USB_PEGASUS=y it is not a module, but compiled in. You have to rebuild your kernel. And probably decrapify

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: decrapify your kernel config WAS: ps shows pegasus process running - what is it?

2009-11-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 08 November 2009, Stroller wrote: > On 7 Nov 2009, at 11:32, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >> ... > >> I'd love to know what the name of the kernel module is so I can > >> unload > >> it: > >> > >> $ zcat /proc/config.gz | grep -i pegasus > >> CONFIG_USB_PEGASUS=y > > > > it is not a mod

Re: [gentoo-user] WiFi access point with iwl3945

2009-11-07 Thread Stroller
On 7 Nov 2009, at 05:21, Mike Mazur wrote: ... I'm trying to set up my laptop to be a wireless access point. It has an iwl3945 card. I followed the "Atheros Ath5k Wireless Access Point" article on gentoo-wiki.com[1] before realizing that it was Atheros specific. Gentoo-wiki is a mess. :( If o

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: decrapify your kernel config WAS: ps shows pegasus process running - what is it?

2009-11-07 Thread Stroller
On 8 Nov 2009, at 00:10, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: ... using a livecds kernel is probably the worst decision out there. http://www.kroah.com/lkn/ as you can see, you don't have to download it. Or just do it step for step, reading help files. seccomp? Except Andrea Arcangeli nobody uses it.

Re: [gentoo-user] "deleted inode referenced"

2009-11-07 Thread Stroller
On 7 Nov 2009, at 17:05, Philip Webb wrote: ... There are files in /var /tmp which I can't remove: the msg is "EXT2-fs error: ext2_lookup: deleted inode referenced: 16388". I got round the problem by creating new dirs, copying everything else & renaming the dirs, but that leaves me with

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: decrapify your kernel config WAS: ps shows pegasus process running - what is it?

2009-11-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 08 November 2009, Stroller wrote: > On 8 Nov 2009, at 00:10, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > ... > > using a livecds kernel is probably the worst decision out there. > > > > http://www.kroah.com/lkn/ > > > > as you can see, you don't have to download it. > > > > Or just do it step for st

[gentoo-user] Suncom FX2000 Joystick: Buttons but not analog working...

2009-11-07 Thread Marcus Wanner
I have an old Suncom FX200 Joystick which I recently tried to get working with my gentoo system. I tried using various methods, with outcomes varying from epic fail to almost success, and finally got results after following the guide at http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Joystick I did what it sai

Re: [gentoo-user] "deleted inode referenced"

2009-11-07 Thread William Kenworthy
On Sat, 2009-11-07 at 12:05 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: > In the course of trying to get X to work on my ASUS 1005HA netbook, > I had to power the machine off several times. In the course of this, > some damage seems to have occurred to the file system. > There are files in /var /tmp which I can'

[gentoo-user] Re: Intel GMA 4500MHD

2009-11-07 Thread James
Albert Hopkins letterboxes.org> writes: > As some have reported Intel Graphics cards don't perform as well as > other competitors in 3D graphics. It's fine though for people like me > who aren't gamers and need powerful graphics hardware. I use > GNOME/Compiz and things work pretty exceptional

Re: [gentoo-user] "deleted inode referenced"

2009-11-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 08 November 2009 04:46:50 William Kenworthy wrote: > On Sat, 2009-11-07 at 12:05 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: > > BTW is Ext2 the best fs for this machine ? Might Ext3 or Ext4 be better > > ? -- I use Reiserfs on my desktop machines. > > Have you tried fsk on it? - "man e2fsck" > > The l

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: decrapify your kernel config WAS: ps shows pegasus process running - what is it?

2009-11-07 Thread Dale
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Sonntag 08 November 2009, Stroller wrote: > >> On 8 Nov 2009, at 00:10, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> >>> ... >>> using a livecds kernel is probably the worst decision out there. >>> >>> http://www.kroah.com/lkn/ >>> >>> as you can see, you don't have to do

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange iwl3945 behavior (possibly wpa_supplicant related?)

2009-11-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 07 November 2009 18:11:05 Mike Edenfield wrote: > controlling the NIC. So, yeah, it seems like the difference is with > NetworkManager and/or wpa_supplicant, but I have no idea what that > difference is. > > (Also, to head off the upcoming "just don't use NetworkManager": this > lapto

Re: [gentoo-user] services on ASUS 1005HA

2009-11-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 07 November 2009 19:51:10 Philip Webb wrote: > Yes, it's very useful: thanks as usual. > > BTW I'm surprised how fast the little machine is compiling stuff: > it's faster than my 2003 machine & approaches my 2007 Core 2 Duo. > > Also, there's a reference in a Gentoo Wiki article to hy