Re: [gentoo-user] Geographical location of an URL/IP-address

2011-01-23 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sunday 23 January 2011 06:08:12 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > is there any tool/mechanism to locate a given URL or IP-address on the > globe automatically? > I mean: I feed the tool with an IP-address or an URL and it will > respond: France, Paris > > I dont mean a tool, whose output I

Re: [gentoo-user] Geographical location of an URL/IP-address

2011-01-23 Thread meino . cramer
J. Roeleveld [11-01-23 10:16]: > On Sunday 23 January 2011 06:08:12 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > Hi, > > > > is there any tool/mechanism to locate a given URL or IP-address on the > > globe automatically? > > I mean: I feed the tool with an IP-address or an URL and it will > > respond: France,

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA - No Sound

2011-01-23 Thread Dale
Hazen Valliant-Saunders wrote: Alsaconf will probe the right module for you. have you run alsamixer? (Or gmixer or whichever mixer you like to unumte the channels with?) You need to unmute the channells; I will add this. It seems every time I do a install, I have to unmute the sound with

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Rail Model font for coders

2011-01-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 02:02 on Sunday 23 January 2011, Stroller did opine thusly: > On 20/1/2011, at 10:08pm, Nuno J. Silva wrote: > > Nikos Chantziaras writes: > >> On 01/20/2011 11:14 AM, > >> hare_krsna_hare_krsna_krsna_krsna_hare_hare_hare_rama_hare_rama_rama_ram > >> a_hare_h...@l

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA - No Sound

2011-01-23 Thread dhk
On 01/23/2011 06:10 AM, Dale wrote: > Hazen Valliant-Saunders wrote: >> Alsaconf will probe the right module for you. >> >> have you run alsamixer? (Or gmixer or whichever mixer you like to >> unumte the channels with?) >> >> You need to unmute the channells; >> > > I will add this. It seems ever

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: AHCI/IDE-question

2011-01-23 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 1:15 AM, Dale wrote: Other than copying a file and using time to measure how long it takes, what is the best test of a hard drive's speed? By running a benchmark tool that does exactly this. IOzone is a nice one: http://www.iozone.o

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA - No Sound

2011-01-23 Thread Dale
dhk wrote: On 01/23/2011 06:10 AM, Dale wrote: Hazen Valliant-Saunders wrote: Alsaconf will probe the right module for you. have you run alsamixer? (Or gmixer or whichever mixer you like to unumte the channels with?) You need to unmute the channells; I will add this. It s

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA - No Sound

2011-01-23 Thread dhk
On 01/23/2011 07:20 AM, Dale wrote: > dhk wrote: >> On 01/23/2011 06:10 AM, Dale wrote: >> >>> Hazen Valliant-Saunders wrote: >>> Alsaconf will probe the right module for you. have you run alsamixer? (Or gmixer or whichever mixer you like to unumte the channels with?) >>

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA - No Sound

2011-01-23 Thread Dale
dhk wrote: On 01/23/2011 07:20 AM, Dale wrote: dhk wrote: On 01/23/2011 06:10 AM, Dale wrote: Hazen Valliant-Saunders wrote: Alsaconf will probe the right module for you. have you run alsamixer? (Or gmixer or whichever mixer you like to unumte the channels with?

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA - No Sound

2011-01-23 Thread dhk
On 01/23/2011 07:44 AM, Dale wrote: > dhk wrote: >> On 01/23/2011 07:20 AM, Dale wrote: >> >>> dhk wrote: >>> On 01/23/2011 06:10 AM, Dale wrote: > Hazen Valliant-Saunders wrote: > > >> Alsaconf will probe the right module for you. >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA - No Sound

2011-01-23 Thread dhk
On 01/23/2011 07:55 AM, dhk wrote: > On 01/23/2011 07:44 AM, Dale wrote: >> dhk wrote: >>> On 01/23/2011 07:20 AM, Dale wrote: >>> dhk wrote: > On 01/23/2011 06:10 AM, Dale wrote: > > >> Hazen Valliant-Saunders wrote: >> >> >>> Alsaconf

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA - No Sound

2011-01-23 Thread Dale
dhk wrote: On 01/23/2011 07:55 AM, dhk wrote: By the way, that link is really good. It did confirm that I'm using the correct driver. I checked the plugs and nothing. I think I might try another sound card. The one I've been trying to get working is part of the mother board. I'm sure I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: AHCI/IDE-question

2011-01-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 4:02 AM, Dale wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 1:15 AM, Dale  wrote: >> >> > > Other than copying a file and using time to measure how long it takes, > what is the best test of a hard drive's speed? > By running a benchmar

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA - No Sound

2011-01-23 Thread pk
On 2011-01-23 14:23, dhk wrote: > The Sound Blaster didn't work either. Should I try enabling the > deprecated OSS in the kernel? You can always try it but I highly doubt it would improve the situation... What sound related USE flags have you enabled (i.e. alsa, oss[for compatibility] etc.)? A

[gentoo-user] Identifying missing modules...

2011-01-23 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, when doing as root lspci -vk I get all pci devices and "bus inhabitants" listed. Additionally there are often two lines added to each device saying similiar things like: Kernel driver in use: >XYZ> Kernel modules: and there other devices do not have similiar entries.

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA - No Sound

2011-01-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 23 January 2011 13:23:58 dhk wrote: Until you fellows start trimming your replies so that I don't have to scroll down several pages to find the one line you've added, I will not bother. Your contributions will go unread here. It's been a hard day and you make it harder. -- Rgds Pete

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up SMTP relay

2011-01-23 Thread Alex Schuster
kashani writes: > On 1/22/2011 1:34 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: > I handle it with Postfix. Dovecot is only imap and won't accept main > directly. Whoops. > 1. install postfix with USE sasl or devecot-sasl, I don't believe it > matters which. Add the following lines to the bottom of > /etc/post

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up SMTP relay

2011-01-23 Thread kashani
On 1/23/2011 11:23 AM, Alex Schuster wrote: Relaying does not work yet, I get a "Relay access denied (in reply to RCPT TO command)" error. But my initial goal is reached, I can send mail to {root,wonko}@wonkology.org. That's all I wanted. Many many thanks kashani! Your howto is much more than I

Re: [gentoo-user] Identifying missing modules...

2011-01-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 20:08 on Sunday 23 January 2011, meino.cra...@gmx.de did opine thusly: > Hi, > > when doing as root > > lspci -vk > > I get all pci devices and "bus inhabitants" listed. > Additionally there are often two lines added to each > device saying similiar things l

[gentoo-user] Re: Identifying missing modules...

2011-01-23 Thread walt
On 01/23/2011 10:08 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, My question is: How can I distinguish devices/entities, which do not need any driver to work and those, which need a driver but in the current setup the driver wasn't compiled in/compiled as module? Well, this is quick and dirty and you

[gentoo-user] Re: Setting up SMTP relay

2011-01-23 Thread walt
On 01/23/2011 12:20 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: I always think of the Postfix devs as people who take Unix philosophy seriously. The code does one thing and does it very very well: Are you accusing sendmail of being an OS that lacks only a good mailer?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Setting up SMTP relay

2011-01-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 22:48 on Sunday 23 January 2011, walt did opine thusly: > On 01/23/2011 12:20 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > I always think of the Postfix devs as people who take Unix philosophy > > > seriously. The code does one thing and does it very very well: > Are you accusing

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up SMTP relay

2011-01-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 21:56 on Sunday 23 January 2011, kashani did opine thusly: > On 1/23/2011 11:23 AM, Alex Schuster wrote: > > Relaying does not work yet, I get a "Relay access denied (in reply to > > RCPT TO command)" error. But my initial goal is reached, I can send mail > > to {r

Re: [gentoo-user] Geographical location of an URL/IP-address

2011-01-23 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sunday 23 January 2011 10:22:52 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > J. Roeleveld [11-01-23 10:16]: > > On Sunday 23 January 2011 06:08:12 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > is there any tool/mechanism to locate a given URL or IP-address on the > > > globe automatically? > > > I mean: I

[gentoo-user] Kernel config for wifi on AMD_64?

2011-01-23 Thread Walter Dnes
I got myself an AMD-based Acer notebook recently. The wireless chip shows up under lspci -v as... 06:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01) Subsystem: Foxconn International, Inc. Device e01f Flags: bus master,

Re: [gentoo-user] Identifying missing modules...

2011-01-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 10:08 AM, wrote: > > Hi, > > when doing as root > >    lspci -vk > > I get all pci devices and "bus inhabitants" listed. > Additionally there are often two lines added to each > device saying similiar things like: > >        Kernel driver in use: >XYZ> >        Kernel modu

[gentoo-user] [cookbook] grub2 for idiots like me

2011-01-23 Thread walt
Okay, I genuinely have grub2 installed and doing exactly what it's supposed to do: boot your machine using only partition LABELS, not device names/numbers. Below are a series of steps that *any* gentoo fan should recognize and be comfortable with. If you are not familiar with any of these steps

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA - No Sound

2011-01-23 Thread dhk
On 01/23/2011 12:47 PM, pk wrote: > On 2011-01-23 14:23, dhk wrote: > >> The Sound Blaster didn't work either. Should I try enabling the >> deprecated OSS in the kernel? > > You can always try it but I highly doubt it would improve the situation... > > What sound related USE flags have you enab

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up SMTP relay

2011-01-23 Thread kashani
On 1/23/2011 12:20 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: It manages it's own queues beautifully. But, and this makes me sad, it doesn't really want *me* to manage it's queues. Border controls are hard, and finding the 1,000 mails some idiot with a Windows bot just sent, and deleting them, is really hard. I'

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA - No Sound

2011-01-23 Thread Dale
dhk wrote: My make.conf Use is: USE="-arts -doc -evo -firefox -kde -qt -qt3 -qt4 -java X alsa cairo cdr device-mapper extras gdu gnome gtk jpeg png policykit sqlite svg tiff udev xml xulrunner xvmc" Everything is plugged in correctly and checked many times. As far as I know there aren't any sou

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up SMTP relay

2011-01-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 02:02 on Monday 24 January 2011, kashani did opine thusly: > On 1/23/2011 12:20 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > It manages it's own queues beautifully. But, and this makes me sad, it > > doesn't really want *me* to manage it's queues. Border controls are > > hard, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up SMTP relay

2011-01-23 Thread kashani
On 1/23/2011 4:26 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 02:02 on Monday 24 January 2011, kashani did opine thusly: On 1/23/2011 12:20 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: It manages it's own queues beautifully. But, and this makes me sad, it doesn't really want *me* to manage it's queue

Re: [gentoo-user] Geographical location of an URL/IP-address

2011-01-23 Thread meino . cramer
J. Roeleveld [11-01-24 04:05]: > On Sunday 23 January 2011 10:22:52 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > J. Roeleveld [11-01-23 10:16]: > > > On Sunday 23 January 2011 06:08:12 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > is there any tool/mechanism to locate a given URL or IP-address on the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Identifying missing modules...

2011-01-23 Thread meino . cramer
walt [11-01-24 04:05]: > On 01/23/2011 10:08 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > >Hi, > > >My question is: How can I distinguish devices/entities, > >which do not need any driver to work and those, which > >need a driver but in the current setup the driver wasn't > >compiled in/compiled as modul

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA - No Sound

2011-01-23 Thread pk
On 2011-01-24 00:49, dhk wrote: > Everything is plugged in correctly and checked many times. As far as I > know there aren't any sound daemons running, this is a new install, only > a couple of weeks old. Everything looks like it should be working, the > only thing is I don't hear anything. Sin

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up SMTP relay

2011-01-23 Thread Mick
On Monday 24 January 2011 01:22:09 kashani wrote: > On 1/23/2011 4:26 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Apparently, though unproven, at 02:02 on Monday 24 January 2011, kashani > > did > > > > opine thusly: > >> On 1/23/2011 12:20 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >>> It manages it's own queues beautifully. B

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up SMTP relay

2011-01-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 03:22 on Monday 24 January 2011, kashani did opine thusly: > > There's lots more examples, but they all follow a similar theme. > > Thanks for the extra detail, I found what you're describing very > interesting. I've never dealt with Postfix with more tha

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up SMTP relay

2011-01-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 09:00 on Monday 24 January 2011, Mick did opine thusly: > On Monday 24 January 2011 01:22:09 kashani wrote: > > On 1/23/2011 4:26 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > Apparently, though unproven, at 02:02 on Monday 24 January 2011, > > > kashani did > > > > > > opine th