Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo and strange traffic.

2010-08-17 Thread Adam Carter
> Is this easy to do? I have no idea where to start except that wireshark is > installed. > > Yep, start the capture with Capture -> Interfaces and click on the start button next to the correct interface, then right click on one of the packets that is to the yahoo box and choose Decode As set the

Re: [gentoo-user] Still Struggling With Wireless

2010-08-16 Thread Adam Carter
> > Hi, > > I'm biting the bullet here and asking for help. Yes! I've posted > before. And before anyone asks, I have read the responses to my > previous posts which helped little. I have read the documentation and > the wikis - ad nauseum. I'm still having problems with wireless. > > Things w

Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo and strange traffic.

2010-08-16 Thread Adam Carter
> > I just did a killall kopete and it did stop. Is there a way to "see" what > it is sending/receiving? I'm talking like is it a jpeg, some other file or > something else? > > rix portage # nmap -p 5050 -sV cs210p2.msg.sp1.yahoo.com Starting Nmap 5.21 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2010-08-17 11:27 EST

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages is huge

2010-08-16 Thread Adam Carter
> Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: -- transfer complete > Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: Bulk command transfer result=0 > Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: Attempting to get CSW... > Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: usb_stor_bulk_transfer_buf: > xfer 13 bytes >

Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo and strange traffic.

2010-08-16 Thread Adam Carter
> r...@smoker / # netstat -p > Active Internet connections (w/o servers) > Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State > PID/Program name > tcp0 0 192.168.1.2:43577 rdis.msg.vip.sp1.y:http > TIME_WAIT - > tcp0 0 192.168.1.2:43438

Re: [gentoo-user] backup sanity check

2010-08-15 Thread Adam Carter
> why backup mbr? installing grub takes less time then the backup and restore > of > the mbr. > > And dd for backups? Why wasting space? Why suffering from problems when the > new > harddisk has a different size? > Just tar up everything. > > Ok, so is this correct? Backup with tar; 1. boot from c

[gentoo-user] backup sanity check

2010-08-13 Thread Adam Carter
This is to backup my laptop from boot cdrom - how does it look? File systems; /dev/sda1 - /boot /dev/sda2 - swap /dev/sda3 - / So to backup; 1. Get MBR (grub and partition table): dd if=/dev/sda of=/otherdisk/sda-mbr.bin bs=512 count=1 2. Get /boot: dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/otherdisk/sda1.bin 3. Get /

Re: [gentoo-user] Mumble doesn't work anymore

2010-08-13 Thread Adam Carter
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 2:56 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Trying to start Mumble (version 1.2.2) aborts with: > > SSL: Added CA certificates from '/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt' > No ciphers of at least 128 bit found > Aborted > > > My guess is that the SSL line is an informational message

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kde-4.4.5 & Seamonkey weirdness

2010-08-10 Thread Adam Carter
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 6:06 AM, James wrote: > pk coolmail.se> writes: > > 'aticonfig --set-pcs-str=DDX,ForceXAA,TRUE' > > Works for me to (after a restart). Thanks.

Re: [gentoo-user] Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice

2010-08-09 Thread Adam Carter
> Alternatively I was running vulnerable/compromised software. My box > has sshd running, root login in ssh is not allowed, and pubkey only > logins (no passwords). It is behind a wireless router but port 22 is > open and pointing to this box, and a few others needed by other > applications. So I w

Re: [gentoo-user] kde-4.4.5 & Seamonkey weirdness

2010-08-09 Thread Adam Carter
> Ever since my upgrade to kde-4.4.5 my seamonkey windows > sporadically go black, when I move the mouse away from > them. Both the Web browser and the mail client do this > sporadically. Headers, toolbars and where the text appears > all sporadically get into the act. Even just the "subject > win

Re: [gentoo-user] Some corruption after gnome 2.30

2010-08-08 Thread Adam Carter
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Adam Carter wrote: > >> revdep-rebuild reported no issues, and re-emerging gtk+, thunar, >> and gnome-icon-theme had no effect. Last night I went with the nuclear >> option (emerge -eav --keep-going world), and it solved the problem. >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Some corruption after gnome 2.30

2010-08-07 Thread Adam Carter
> > > revdep-rebuild reported no issues, and re-emerging gtk+, thunar, > and gnome-icon-theme had no effect. Last night I went with the nuclear > option (emerge -eav --keep-going world), and it solved the problem. > I just tried emerge -e --keep-going gnome and it hasn't helped, so I guess i'll t

Re: [gentoo-user] Some corruption after gnome 2.30

2010-08-06 Thread Adam Zajac
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Florian Philipp < li...@f_philipp.fastmail.net> wrote: > Am 06.08.2010 12:00, schrieb Adam Carter: > > I'm running amd64 and am getting some screen corruption, which i believe > > coincided with the last gnome update. > [snip] >

[gentoo-user] Some corruption after gnome 2.30

2010-08-06 Thread Adam Carter
I'm running amd64 and am getting some screen corruption, which i believe coincided with the last gnome update. For example in firefox the address bar or bookmarks toolbar buttons can go black then come good again and i can get black bands when i scroll. revdep-rebuild hasnt helped. What should i tr

Re: [gentoo-user] Routing with gentoo...

2010-06-19 Thread Adam
> My situation is vaguely similar... I've one high-speed link at home > with only dynamic IP - and I've got rack-mounted server with multiple > static IPs, one of which I want to use from home in order to run a > mail-server, revision control service and various web-services... > keeping all the da

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: User & password scanning on pop3

2010-06-17 Thread Adam
>> Does anyone know how to block, or auto programs in Gentoo to >> limit >> or stop people scanning for a user/password hacking on your >> firewall? fail2ban

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: openrc conf.d/modules

2010-06-13 Thread Adam
> I missed your reference to openrc last time. Do you see any interesting > messages when you run /etc/init.d/modules restart? sphinx adam # /etc/init.d/modules restart * WARNING: you are stopping a boot service * Loading module acpi-cpufreq ... [ ok ] * Loading module fuse ...

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: openrc conf.d/modules

2010-06-12 Thread Adam
>> My modules file contains; > > Which 'modules' file do you mean? /etc/conf.d/modules >> modules="vmmon vmnet vmblock vmci vsock" >> >> modules_2_6="${modules_2_6} acpi-cpufreq" >> module_acpi_cpufreq_args_2_6="" >> >> modules_2_6="${modules_2_6} fuse" >> module_fuse_args_2_6="" >> >> modules_2

[gentoo-user] openrc conf.d/modules

2010-06-12 Thread Adam
My modules file contains; modules="vmmon vmnet vmblock vmci vsock" modules_2_6="${modules_2_6} acpi-cpufreq" module_acpi_cpufreq_args_2_6="" modules_2_6="${modules_2_6} fuse" module_fuse_args_2_6="" modules_2_6="${modules_2_6} usbhid" module_usbhid_args_2_6="quirks=0x05ac:0x1294:0x04" But the

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Basic device for a Gentoo router/firewall?

2010-05-24 Thread Adam
>> Does anyone know of a basic device that would function well as a >> Gentoo router/firewall? Using typical hardware seems like overkill. >> I should be able to offload package compilation duties to another >> local machine on the network. It would also be nice if it were small, >> cheap, and po

Re: [gentoo-user] Something happened on the way to X

2010-05-23 Thread Adam
> I don't use ATI but I think I read here a while back that ATI drivers > have to be compatible with certain versions of xorg. You may want to > see if you can use a newer version of the ATI drivers. > > You can look at the ebuild to see what exact versions. From what i > read, it looks like you

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing a shared interrupt

2010-05-22 Thread Adam
> Does anyone know how to prevent my "nouveau" video card and "ath" wifi > card from sharing interrupt 19? I can't move the video card slot and > I'd rather not move the wifi card slot if possible. > > BTW, does anyone see any other opportunity for interrupt optimization > here? I'm trying to op

Re: [gentoo-user] I've been hacked.

2010-05-12 Thread Adam
>>> looks like, your ISP has a Transparent Proxy Setup running. > > Should I be worried about that? No. >> Ports being shown as open does not mean that your machine is >> listening, more like the firewall has some holes in it. If the > > Really? I thought a service had to be listening for the

Re: [gentoo-user] arping network profile issue

2010-05-08 Thread Adam
On 05/08/10 15:25, Zhou Rui wrote: > What I want is finding a gateway out with ARP, and then assign the correct > gateway/route table, You cant discover a router with ARP. ARP finds the MAC address of a host that's associated with a given IP address. Ways of getting a ipv4 gateway are; - manual

Re: [gentoo-user] arping network profile issue

2010-05-07 Thread Adam
On 05/06/10 03:35, Zhou Rui wrote: > Hi folks, > I setup a network interface to switch in two different network with > different gateways using config_eth0=( "arping" ), and I can get gateway mac > when use arping2 command directly. > But the /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start always fails, can you help me

Re: [gentoo-user] WLAN speed either 800KB or 3MB

2010-04-25 Thread Adam
> Check that you have disabled 802.11b on your router, or you may find that an > adjacent client who's running 802.11b will drag your router down to 11Mb/s > max > (the actual throughput will be lower). Router is already fixed to g only. > While you're experiencing the lower downloads you can

Re: [gentoo-user] WLAN speed either 800KB or 3MB

2010-04-25 Thread Adam
>> Downloads over my 802.1g WLAN seem to always be at either of these two >> speeds. Billon ADSL+WLAN router one end, Intel 5100 on the laptop. Any >> ideas on how i stop it falling back to the slower speed? > > look for a not contested channel? I had assumed that congestion would reveal itself a

[gentoo-user] WLAN speed either 800KB or 3MB

2010-04-25 Thread Adam
Downloads over my 802.1g WLAN seem to always be at either of these two speeds. Billon ADSL+WLAN router one end, Intel 5100 on the laptop. Any ideas on how i stop it falling back to the slower speed?

Re: [gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox

2010-04-21 Thread Adam
>> ummm .. ok ? so your using the default xorg.conf .. could be why youve got >> bad performance. >> >> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml >> >> - >> deface > But the new version of xorg (from circa 1.7) dont really need xorg.conf, > moreover its discouraged to use one. (or just i think

Re: [gentoo-user] Are runlevels 3 4 5 the same?

2010-04-17 Thread Adam
On 04/18/10 15:21, Dale wrote: > Adam wrote: >> I want to choose console or X from grub, so i'm thinking i'll do >> something like 'rc-update delete xdm 4' and then pass softlevel=4 to my >> grub boot line, to make runlevel 4 a console ru

[gentoo-user] Are runlevels 3 4 5 the same?

2010-04-17 Thread Adam
I want to choose console or X from grub, so i'm thinking i'll do something like 'rc-update delete xdm 4' and then pass softlevel=4 to my grub boot line, to make runlevel 4 a console runlevel. Is that the right way to do it?

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk or filesystem issue?

2010-04-03 Thread Adam
> Probably neither. Can you Ctrl+F12 to see what the logs are > saying? I've been getting kernel Oops! on shutdown on one > machine of mine with the 2.6.31-gentoo-r10 kernel. Might be > similar Ok, i found this, which is mentioning fglrx, and the problem may have started when i changed drive

[gentoo-user] Disk or filesystem issue?

2010-04-03 Thread Adam
For the last few weeks i have been getting the single user prompt on shutdown, and reiserfs3 is performing a check(fix?) during boot. Seems to happen about 4 times out of 5. smartctl report looks ok. I have been using 2.6.31-gentoo-r6 for ages without issue. Any ideas?

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't unsubscribe from gentoo-user

2010-02-21 Thread Adam Van Ymeren
Never mind, gmail decided that the unsubscribe confirmation email was spam. Thanks for the help anyways though, -Adam On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 10:22 PM, John H. Moe wrote: > Adam Van Ymeren wrote: >> I've sent two emails to gentoo-user+unsubscr...@lists.gentoo.org over >> t

[gentoo-user] no libdri.so with ati-drivers-10.1

2010-02-20 Thread Adam
I tried 10.1 but just got a blank screen. The log file shows that xorg couldnt load libdri.so, and the file is missing under /usr/lib64/xorg. (its at /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libdri.so in 9.9-r2) So, any ideas or should i issue a bug report?

Re: [gentoo-user] [X11] radeonhd not working

2010-02-20 Thread Adam
> I get the following error lines in the console: > FATAL: Module radeon not found. > (EE) RADEONHD(0): RHDDRIVersionCheck: drmOpen("radeon", > "pci::05:05.0") failed. > > [ 1256.744546] uvesafb: mode switch failed (eax=0x34f, err=0). Trying > again with default timings. > > Radeon DRI is com

Re: [gentoo-user] squid - allowing only one domain

2010-01-21 Thread Adam
On 01/21/10 00:49, Joseph wrote: > On 01/20/10 21:24, Adam wrote: >> On 01/20/10 16:53, Joseph wrote: >>> I'm testing squid and want to allow only one domain but it is not >>> working (using iptable + squid) >>> iptable: >>> ACCEPT tcp

Re: [gentoo-user] squid - allowing only one domain

2010-01-20 Thread Adam
On 01/20/10 16:53, Joseph wrote: > I'm testing squid and want to allow only one domain but it is not > working (using iptable + squid) > iptable: > ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywheretcp > dpt:http owner UID match squid > ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere

Re: [gentoo-user] squid - allowing only one domain

2010-01-20 Thread Adam
On 01/20/10 16:53, Joseph wrote: > I'm testing squid and want to allow only one domain but it is not > working (using iptable + squid) > iptable: > ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywheretcp > dpt:http owner UID match squid > ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere

[gentoo-user] Gnome camera and pdf associations

2010-01-11 Thread Adam
Two issues: 1. Firefox and thunderbird both have GIMP as the default PDF viewer, which i can manually set to something else that's not in the drop down list, but i'd like to know if FF/TB get the list and defaults from Gnome, and if so, where is that configured? 2. When i use a connect a digital

Re: [gentoo-user] How to allow wheel users to open ports?

2010-01-11 Thread Adam
> I want to run webmail add-on on thunderbird with a wheel user. The system > doesn't allow the webmail to open at port below 1024. Any open port above > 1024 is not accessible. How can I solve this problem? Plenty of info via google, like http://stackoverflow.com/questions/413807/is-there-a-wa

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Rebuilding an NTFS directory structure

2010-01-10 Thread Adam
> The MP3 files probably have ID3 tags containing artist, album and title > information, so it should be possible to use a script to rename them > (Goggle will most likely turn up a few options). Looks like audiotag can do that, here's a snip of the help; --rename-filesrename fi

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Preparing a laptop for sale

2009-12-17 Thread Adam
>> dd is pretty thorough... afterall, it writes to every single block on the >> disk. >> > > And the resulting effect from doing that once is: > > Trivially easy to recover the data that was there just before you did the dd > > Why? Data on-disk is not a binary cell like ram. It is a magnetic p

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Google's public DNS service

2009-12-08 Thread Adam
> I know that anyone can use any DNS server that's exposed to the internet, > also for free, so what's the big deal about google? IMO a DNS server configured that way is poorly configured (unless you're actually trying to run a public service, as google is). Instead the use of BINDs allow-recursio

RE: [gentoo-user] Screen resolution problem

2009-09-14 Thread Adam Carter
> randr output is below. Video resolution _is_ at the maximum > it thinks is legitimate. In that case you may have to put a custom modeline into xorg.conf. Some of the modeline generators on the net are broken, so if you find one doesn't work try another.

RE: [gentoo-user] Screen resolution problem

2009-09-14 Thread Adam Carter
Also check out xrandr, run it without parameters to see what modes it knows about, then use -s 1280x1024 to set that mode. I have no idea how this interacts with the other options, but IIRC when I set my old laptop to 1600x1200 in xorg.conf it was ignored and xrandr worked and was persistant.

RE: [gentoo-user] 2.6.30 and reiserfs?

2009-09-14 Thread Adam Carter
> I have no issues whatsoever on this amd64 notebook with > 2.6.30 and reiser. > It's now on 2.6.31 and still working fine. My ancient x86 > file server is still > on 2.6.29, mostly as I'd read the same report you did. > > The problematic combination reported then was x86, reiser, > 2.6.30, IDE chi

RE: [gentoo-user] 2.6.30 and reiserfs?

2009-09-13 Thread Adam Carter
> I am using reiserfs just for my squid-cache nevertheless > after I booted > 2.6.30-r4 on an amd64 system, I couldn't create any files on that > partition. Is there a way to convert the partition to work or > do I really have to change filesystems? I had some weirdness with .30 and reiser. I was

RE: [gentoo-user] Unpacking a .exe file

2009-09-10 Thread Adam Carter
Did you try running the .exe with wine?

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: sSMTP write error...?

2009-09-07 Thread Adam Carter
> > 2009-09-03T17:30:15+00:00 obelix sSMTP[7233]: 421 4.3.0 collect: > > Cannot write ./dfn83HUEom007670 (bfcommit, uid=0, gid=209): > > Permission denied > > 2009-09-03T17:30:15+00:00 obelix ) > > > > I suppose it comes from mail-mta/ssmtp, but I do not understand. > > Some persmission problem?

[gentoo-user] Kernel 28/29/30 and ati-drivers and vwmare-workstation

2009-09-03 Thread Adam Carter
I use gentoo sources, and have just updated from .28-r5 to .29-r5 both using ati-drivers 9.8. glxgears dropped from 1850 to 1500, however vmware guest OSes appear to be loading twice as fast (used vmware-modules-1.0.0.23 with 28 and 1.0.0.23-r1 with 29). Interestingly ati-drivers 9.7 with .29 r

RE: [gentoo-user] gentoo sites go down too much!

2009-08-13 Thread Adam Carter
> Having Gentoo.org forum or wiki down when most of us rely > heavily on them is not acceptable. > If the current sever is not reliable (and it is NOT; > regardless if it is free or not) move it somewhere else. Cool. So you're volunteering to pay for it right?

RE: [gentoo-user] meld broken, maybe by python 2.6 update?

2009-08-05 Thread Adam Carter
> > hostname bin # meld > > No module named pygtk > > Meld requires pygtk 2.8.0 or higher. > > I tried re-emerging pygtk but it didnt help. How can i make pygtk > > 'locateable'? > > Did you run python-updater? > > Be prepared for a long list of packages which need rebuild. This might > also includ

[gentoo-user] meld broken, maybe by python 2.6 update?

2009-08-05 Thread Adam Carter
hostname bin # meld No module named pygtk Meld requires pygtk 2.8.0 or higher. I tried re-emerging pygtk but it didnt help. How can i make pygtk 'locateable'?

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: python 3.1 safe as default python?

2009-08-02 Thread Adam Carter
> Just installing it doesn't break portage. But using it does! :) > > 19:14:44 poke:~ $ eselect python list > Available python interpreters: > [1] python2.6 > [2] python3.1 > 19:17:24 poke:~ $ sudo eselect python set 2 > 19:17:31 poke:~ $ emerge --info > File "/usr/bin/emerg

Re: [gentoo-user] installing git with masked packages

2009-07-13 Thread Adam Van Ymeren
gt; Hello, > > I'm trying to install git on gentoo. I'm getting a dependency that > is > > masked, it's a perl lib and am wondering a workaround? > > Thanks. > > Dave. > > Dave, > > Posting the exact error message may help (us to help you). > > -a > > > > Hi Dave, I don't think that's a problem with installing git. Take a look at this thread: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-712898-highlight-.html -Adam

[gentoo-user] cfg-update with meld fails

2009-07-08 Thread Adam Carter
Ok, I think this problem occurred during the last gnome update. When cfg-update kicks off meld it dies with the error below. Running meld as a user works fine, running say xterm as root works fine but running meld as root fails. Anyone know what's wrong? I googled the error but didn't come up w

RE: [gentoo-user] ATI 9.6 with 2.6.29-r5 issues

2009-07-02 Thread Adam Carter
> Unmasked and emerged 9.6 with xorg-server 1.6.1.901-r4 > Signal 11 on startx. >From Matthias post earlier today "Kernels .29 and .30 are not supported, but >patched to work somehow in this release." So try it with a 2.6.28 kernel, and let us know if it helps.

RE: [gentoo-user] ATI-Driver 9.6 support?

2009-07-02 Thread Adam Carter
xorg-server-1.5.3-r6, which is currently the "stable" package for ~amd64. Not sure why that wasnt picked up when i installed 9.6). FWIW i'm still on 2.6.28. I was doing the dodgy with 9.5 and 9.6 (before the ebuild was out) and just running the ati installer. It worked. Rgs, Adam.

RE: [gentoo-user] Machine doesn't respond to broadcast ping.

2009-06-25 Thread Adam Carter
> It shouldn't matter, anyway, if they're all behind a NAT router, > should it? Correct. Since a broadcast ping from the Internet cant make it to your network, you're fine. Surprised about MacOSX tho...

RE: [gentoo-user] Machine doesn't respond to broadcast ping.

2009-06-25 Thread Adam Carter
> > I've got one machine here on the LAN which isn't responding to broadcast > > ping. Any idea why not? > > You need to set icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts to 0. Default is > 1, mainly for dos prevention: > > # sysctl net.ipv4.icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts=0 I thought it would default to off in most O

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server-1.5 update/old kernel+old fglrx

2009-06-24 Thread Adam Carter
> > So you want the radeon/ati driver, the package name is > xf86-video-ati, so I guess that means you want ati in VIDEO_DEVICES. > > It's "radeon" in recent X.Org, not "ati". Not sure when that > changed. Probably with xorg-server 1.5. Damn - I had checked the /usr/portage/x11-drivers directory

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server-1.5 update/old kernel+old fglrx

2009-06-24 Thread Adam Carter
> I am scanning the /var/log/Xorg.0.log looking for info on what chip > this is. I'm not finding anything that says what Radeon family it's > part of. lspci tells me what I posted here already - that it's part of > the IGP 9100 family. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_ATI_Graphics_Proces

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server-1.5 update/old kernel+old fglrx

2009-06-24 Thread Adam Carter
I havent been following this thread but have you checked the open source drivers? New features are always being ported in. The two options are; - Radeon driver (module is named ati) - Radeonhd driver (module is named radeon) Check out the current features here http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature

RE: [gentoo-user] Problem with the graphic card

2009-06-19 Thread Adam Carter
Thank you all. I think I'll wait, however, do you think that that is the problem that cause glxinfo | grep renderer direct rendering: Yes OpenGL renderer string: Software Rasterizer On my ubuntu machine, I get : direct rendering: Yes OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) 965Q GEM 20090326 2

RE: [gentoo-user] Problem with the graphic card

2009-06-18 Thread Adam Carter
> x...@localhost ~ $ glxinfo | grep renderer > OpenGL renderer string: Software Rasterizer If you're worried about 3D performance, run 'eselect opengl list' To see if you have a hardware accelerated option, and if so 'eselect opengl set ' will fix that. If you want more 2D speed, you'll need to

RE: [gentoo-user] Best way to determine what video card I have?

2009-06-10 Thread Adam Carter
lspci | grep VGA Or if that doesn't work lshw -class display

RE: [gentoo-user] Touchpad wont click with xorg-server-1.5.3-r6

2009-06-04 Thread Adam Carter
> > I can no longer tap the touchpad to cause a mouse click. It > worked in 1.5.3-r5, but i think r5 was -hal, whereas i have built -r6 +hal. > > > > I cant see any touchpad related patches in r6. Should i try > -hal, reverting to -r5 or something else? > > > > I have no input devices defined in my

[gentoo-user] Touchpad wont click with xorg-server-1.5.3-r6

2009-06-02 Thread Adam Carter
I can no longer tap the touchpad to cause a mouse click. It worked in 1.5.3-r5, but i think r5 was -hal, whereas i have built -r6 +hal. I cant see any touchpad related patches in r6. Should i try -hal, reverting to -r5 or something else? I have no input devices defined in my xorg.conf. Dell lap

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict

2009-05-27 Thread Adam Carter
> Sorry Kevin, I wasn't paying attention and thought you were > using ati-drivers/flgrx package, which is where > /usr/lib64/opengl/ati comes from. Since you're not using > flgrx I would expect you would use > /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libdri.so and That was supposed to be /usr/lib/opengl

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict

2009-05-27 Thread Adam Carter
> >> For me, > >> libdri.so is a symlink to > /usr/lib64/opengl/ati/extensions/libdri.so > >> libglx.so is a symlink to > /usr/lib64/opengl/ati/extensions/libglx.so (since you havent > run the eselect to repoint it yet, it will be set to > /usr/lib64/opengl/xorg-x11/extensions/libglx.so). > >> > >

RE: [gentoo-user] USE="mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow 3dnowext"

2009-05-27 Thread Adam Carter
> > > actually care about moving binary packages around. Thoughts? > > > > thoughts: there are distros that hold your hand already. > > There's also Windows. For just in case Ubuntu doesn't hold > enough of your hand. I'm with Wyatt on this one. Can we appreciate there may be a difference betwe

RE: [gentoo-user] USE="mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow 3dnowext"

2009-05-25 Thread Adam Carter
'grep flags /proc/cpuinfo' to see what features the CPU supports, and add those to USE. You'll recognise most but apparently "pni" = sse3 (but then my core2 also shows ssse3 as wellodd)

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict

2009-05-25 Thread Adam Carter
> > DRI requires kernel support - Device Drivers -> Graphics -> > Direct Rendering Manager, and you'll want to select the > correct ATI support under that. > > That's always been there, as modules. If I modprobe for r128, it gets > loaded along with module "drm". It makes no difference to the sta

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict

2009-05-25 Thread Adam Carter
> This seems a step backwards. No screens found, and still 3 things > that would not load. Results follow: > > === startx run begins > xauth: creating new authority file /root/.serverauth.21944 > > > X.Org X Server 1.5.3 > Release Date: 5 November 2008 > X Protocol Version 11, Revisi

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict

2009-05-24 Thread Adam Carter
> RESULTS: fglrx loads, but does not see the adapter. There's also a > problem with the mouse driver -- some undefined symbol. Have you rebuilt your kernel after emergeing xf86-input-mouse? If so you probably need to re-emerge xf86-input-mouse.

RE: [gentoo-user] nagging USE flag question

2009-05-18 Thread Adam Carter
> The time has come to edit make.conf on my new gentoo-netbook. > But one thing has always bothered me: What's the point of > specifying a *negative* flag with a hyphen? Why not just > leave the flags you don't use out of the file entirely? Some flags are on by default, so this stops their use.

RE: was [gentoo-user] Re: New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 now old nvidia drivers

2009-05-17 Thread Adam Carter
> > For you guys with older hardware/drivers, have you tried > turning on CONFIG_UNUSED_SYMBOLS and recompiling the kernel > to see if its helps? (Kernel hacking -> Enable > unused/obsolete exported symbols). > That is a good find. I can't say that it is the problem but > it was not > enabled on

was [gentoo-user] Re: New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 now old nvidia drivers

2009-05-17 Thread Adam Carter
For you guys with older hardware/drivers, have you tried turning on CONFIG_UNUSED_SYMBOLS and recompiling the kernel to see if its helps? (Kernel hacking -> Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols). I use it to support vmware server 1.x and ati flgrx drivers (with 2.6.26 or later kernels). IIRC

RE: [gentoo-user] upgrading from kernel 2.6.24-rc6 to latest kernel

2009-05-12 Thread Adam Carter
> My Gentoo laptop is a Macbook Pro SantaRosa (late 2007, probably > MA896LL/A , following wikipedia). Since I use it for work I've always > been quite conservative with it... it is an x86 machine and I upgrade > things only after having read things here and there on the ML and > possibly elsewhere

RE: [gentoo-user] Capture dmesg output on boot?

2009-05-11 Thread Adam Carter
> I've been trying to get to the bottom of my recent troubles > with my IDE > controller working with the 2.6.28 kernel. Now, linux never boots > without a kernel panic, so dmesg never gets logged... Is > there any way > to have the kernel dump the boot log somewhere? I'd settle for > scrolling

RE: [gentoo-user] automated install || stage4? rapid deployment?

2009-05-11 Thread Adam Carter
> I'm curious how other sysadmins rapidly deploy a slew of new Gentoo > systems? In this case I'm setting up many dozens of Gentoo servers > inside of VMware ESX and having to destroy and redeploy said systems > regularly. > > The "hardware" (virtual, of course) varies ever so slightly, so > clonin

RE: [gentoo-user] Cursor keys stopped working in VMware workstation

2009-05-07 Thread Adam Carter
> I have been using VMware workstation V. 5.5.9 and a Logitech > wireless keyboard for some time. Today I somehow mistyped a Ctrl- > sequence while in the VM window, meaning to enter it elsewhere instead of the > VM. Now, the cursor keys between the main keys and the keypad have stopped > workin

RE: [gentoo-user] really old box for a firewall

2009-04-27 Thread Adam Carter
> have here (pentium-mmx) into a firewall/router. > I tried a live cd, with the intent of building up a 32bit chroot in my > big box, and syncing it into the old one. (All 64bit native in the > studio boxes) > > when i inserted the live cd to begin the process, i got an error > message at boot whic

[gentoo-user] GUI for touchscreen PC?

2009-04-25 Thread Adam Carter
I have 800x480 resolution, but with the touchscreen the pointer is clumsy to use. I need something that has large buttons, and will re-size dialogue windows so that the buttons at the bottom still fit on the window. Any suggestions?

RE: [gentoo-user] Confusing persistent sync problem

2009-04-23 Thread Adam Carter
Welcome to crane.gentoo.org Server Address : 134.68.220.74 Contact Name : mirror-ad...@gentoo.org Hardware : 2 x Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 1700MHz, 2024MB RAM Please note: common gentoo-netiquette says you should not sync more than once a day.

[gentoo-user] FW: jre memory heap size issue

2009-04-21 Thread Adam Carter
Sorry - here it is in plain text for the luddites, j/k :-) I have set -Xmx256m using the Java control panel GUI, and; sphinx jre # pgrep -lf java 8949 /opt/sun-jdk-1.6.0.13/jre/bin/java -Xmx256m -Xbootclasspath/a:/opt/sun-jdk-1.6.0.13/jre/lib/javaws.jar:/opt/sun-jdk-1.6.0.13/jre/lib/deploy.jar:/o

[gentoo-user] jre memory heap size issue

2009-04-21 Thread Adam Carter
I have set -Xmx256m using the Java control panel GUI, and; sphinx jre # pgrep -lf java 8949 /opt/sun-jdk-1.6.0.13/jre/bin/java -Xmx256m -Xbootclasspath/a:/opt/sun-jdk-1.6.0.13/jre/lib/javaws.jar:/opt/sun-jdk-1.6.0.13/jre/lib/deploy.jar:/opt/sun-jdk-1.6.0.13/jre/lib/plugin.jar -classpath /opt/sun-

RE: [gentoo-user] Dell laptop install fail

2009-04-16 Thread Adam Carter
From: Francisco Rivas [mailto:taken...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 7:11 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Dell laptop install fail Hi, What Dell Laptop do you have?. because I tried to install Gentoo amd64 in a E4300 and

RE: [gentoo-user] Kernel fails to boot on Via Epia

2009-04-16 Thread Adam Carter
> > VFS: Cannot open root device "303" or unknown-block (3,3) > > Please append a correct boot option; here are the available: > > Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on > > unknown-block(3,3) > > The kernel is unable to find your root device. Try with the > sda notation, if th

[gentoo-user] Dell laptop install fail

2009-04-16 Thread Adam Carter
Much like http://bugs.gentoo.org/26150 the ia64 boot cd is not recognised and the bios falls through to boot the hard disk. Knoppix boots fine, but if i were to try to install from 32 bit knoppix it will fail as soon as I chroot as i would then be attempting to run 64 bit binaries from the stage

RE: [gentoo-user] vmware overlay, server v2 no console

2009-04-03 Thread Adam Carter
I've upgraded to vmware server v2 and it seems to be working, ie i cant start my suspended guest OSes, but from the web GUI i cant get the console to popup after loading the firefox plugin. When i click the area that says "click anywhere to open the console" nothing happens. I've not used v2 b

[gentoo-user] vmware overlay, server v2 no console

2009-04-03 Thread Adam Carter
I've upgraded to vmware server v2 and it seems to be working, ie i cant start my suspended guest OSes, but from the web GUI i cant get the console to popup after loading the firefox plugin. When i click the area that says "click anywhere to open the console" nothing happens. I've not used v2 be

RE: [gentoo-user]

2009-03-24 Thread Adam Carter
> May just be a coincidence. I'm seeing this on my wife's machine after > an update to Gnome-2.24.x from 2.22.x. No changes in disk drives here. > > If you're not against starting from a new desktop then try making a > new user and seeing if that new user has the same problem. If it > doesn't then

RE: [gentoo-user] Usernames in ssh attacks

2009-03-19 Thread Adam Carter
e just made a mistake in their DNS config (or maybe used a wildcard record), and set the PTR record to be postmas...@dns.cablecentro.net.co instead of a hostname. I'm assuming the reason you usually see IP addresses is that there is no PTR record set for that IP Are you running Fail2ban or similar? Rgs, Adam

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Grep question

2009-03-05 Thread Adam Carter
> > awk '/^foo/,/^bar/' a > > > > does the same :) > > Nice... Thanks for all these answers. Interesingly when I moved the sed script (sed "s/;/\\n/g") from Linux to Solaris it failed as Solaris sed doesn't like putting the newline character as the "translated to" bit. Installing GNU sed on the

[gentoo-user] Grep question

2009-03-01 Thread Adam Carter
I need to select all the lines between string1 and string2 in a file. String1 exists on an entire line by itself and string2 will be at the start of a line. What's the syntax? I cant use -A as there is a variable number of lines. Thanks.

RE: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug.

2008-12-21 Thread Adam Carter
(tongue heading swiftly in the direction of cheek) Ring ring. Ring ring. "Hello, Gentoo user list speaking" "Oh hi. It's the 1990s calling. We want our plain text email back" "No"

RE: [gentoo-user] Curious pattern in log files from ssh...

2008-12-04 Thread Adam Carter
> > Also take a note that there are no "known-compromised hosts" > > What about hosts listed in RBLs? > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_DNS_blacklists. It > would be interesting to see if how much correlation there is > between ssh brute forcing bots and the contents of the various lists

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