Re: [gentoo-user] PS/2 mouse not working

2005-07-25 Thread Bob Sanders
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 00:05:36 +0200 smoke3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/24/05, smoke3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm downloading a knoppix 3.9... i'll upload any result! For now none! Ok, some news: 1. Knoppix recognize the mouse as an ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse and I cannot get

Re: [gentoo-user] switching to LCD monitor

2005-07-25 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 20:08:38 -0400 Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Internet TV, or videos are one reason. Do you want an animated postage stamp in one corner of your 1280x1024 display? Software scaling imposes a heavy load on the cpu, so hardware scaling is preferable. As I

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r2 (AMD64 users please help)

2005-07-24 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 17:06:49 +0200 Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Argh, I don't get it. /u/p/p/default-linux/amd64/2005.0/use.mask contains multilib, but with a comment stating it is forced on when MULTILIB_ABIS is defined, and make.defaults has MULTILIB_ABIS=x86 amd64. Can any

Re: [gentoo-user] Audigy 2 ZS [SB0350] problems on AMD64

2005-07-23 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 14:00:34 +0200 Jules Colding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tried that. No success. Tried disabling ACPI too, same result (noise and clicks). Given you have am amd64 based machine, I'm pretty surprised at the noise. What else is on the PCI bus? As to cards, it doesn't need

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r2

2005-07-23 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 13:38:38 +0200 Jules Colding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: emerge --sync emerge -vauDN today gave me the following error. I had no problem, on my amd64 system, emergeing firefox this morning - [ I] www-client/mozilla-firefox (1.0.6-r2): Firefox Web Browser Here is my

Re: [gentoo-user] Audigy 2 ZS [SB0350] problems on AMD64

2005-07-23 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 20:51:53 +0200 Jules Colding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for your advise. I got sound working by disabling ALSA and using OSS instead. I think this is an ALSA AMD64 issue. No, it's not. The reason I can say that is I have a 2P Opteron with the same chipset as

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage

2005-07-22 Thread Bob Sanders
On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 17:50:05 + (UTC) James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, pretty lame, but that's why I missed the cdrecord man page. I did not think there was one... i The cdrecord man page is part of - app-cdr/cdrtools Perhaps it needs to be re-emerged? Any ideas how to get ALL of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: update - was 1.) Kernel panic - not syncing: Aiee, killing interupt handler

2005-07-22 Thread Bob Sanders
On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 17:52:09 -0600 Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody has any other solutions? i There are a few tools that will allow you to do some diagnosing. These will isolate your harddrive and drive controllers. app-benchmarks/bonnie (2.0.6): Performance Test of

Re: [gentoo-user] Audigy 2 ZS [SB0350] problems on AMD64

2005-07-22 Thread Bob Sanders
On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 18:12:02 +0200 Jules Colding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the above mentioned sound card installed in my dual 252 Opteron. I have enabled ALSA and OSS emulation in the kernel and everything is compiled in, no alsa modules. The card is correctly detected on boot-up and

Re: [gentoo-user] Going to Ubuntu - was 1.) Kernel panic - not syncing: Aiee, killing interupt handler

2005-07-21 Thread Bob Sanders
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 16:50:49 -0600 Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wasn't clear, the computer runs usually for 20 to 30minus and kernel panic comes up on the screen. I'm still googling for some solutions and I can only find some suggestion; no clear answer. i I think you have hardware

Re: [gentoo-user] Going to Ubuntu - was 1.) Kernel panic - not syncing: Aiee, killing interupt handler

2005-07-21 Thread Bob Sanders
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 18:46:42 -0600 Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I couldn't find the 32-bit mode feature in BIOS setting. Under what menu is it? Usually associated with the IDE controller or drives. Most newer bios' have it set to - AUTO, which should switch it into 32-bit, aka LBA mode.

Re: [gentoo-user] devpts question

2005-07-21 Thread Bob Sanders
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 22:50:04 -0300 Allan Spagnol Comar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am very curious about something, when I boot the system I can see the message mounting /dev/pts, well I looked at /etc/conf.d/rc and didn't find anything about devfs on my kernel options in

Re: [gentoo-user] Xwindows stopped working. No errors in Xorg log file.

2005-07-19 Thread Bob Sanders
On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 14:57:47 -0700 Daevid Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I run a pretty stable system. I do however run ~x86 for KDE and Gnome. Something changed recently in an emerge -Davu world or system that causes X to not start anymore? If you are not doing the script updates, then you

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] Advice on hardware

2005-07-18 Thread Bob Sanders
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 02:56:58 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok, I do not now PC Power Cooling, but I've had a couple of PSUs so far and the 'best' was and is an Enermax. A friend of mine has Enermax too, reliable good stuff. Yes and no. The basic power supply is

Re: [gentoo-user] Daily dumb question... chron.

2005-07-18 Thread Bob Sanders
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 13:06:29 +0100 Steve [Gentoo] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ne. I've noticed the directories /etc/cron.daily; /etc/cron.hourly; /etc/cron.monthly etc. and therein a bunch of non-user-specific administration tasks... For example, in ./etc/cron.daily I've logrotate.cron and

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] Advice on hardware

2005-07-15 Thread Bob Sanders
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 12:06:52 -0300 Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any advice? Yes - Get a 939 pin processor. 754 pin socket is going away. Also, it's not just the motherboard. If you are a gamer - start with the Gfx card. If you are going for one of the high end cards, be aware

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommended GB NIC

2005-07-14 Thread Bob Sanders
On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 20:10:40 -0500 Michael Madden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have several Dell Precision workstations (530, 610, and 620 models) with 3Com 3c905 10/100 NICs. We'd like to upgrade the NICs to GB. Which GB PCI card would you recommend to work with Gentoo 2005.0 running Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] Fixing xfs filesystem?

2005-07-11 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 19:15:48 +0200 Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: btw - Did the mount of the filesystem fail? Sure :(( Well, this is a real long shot; but, given that nothing sane has worked... With fdisk/cfdisk/parted, after writing down the starting block and

Re: [gentoo-user] I think I messed up USE flag by using -alsa as Gnome has no sound

2005-07-11 Thread Bob Sanders
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 03:10:34 +0200 Szabo Bence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I haven't got any sound too. I emerged all the alsa things, and when I alsaconf tries to start the sound I get this: Loading driver... * Loading ALSA modules ... * Loading:snd-card-0 ... * ERROR: Failed to

Re: [gentoo-user] Fixing xfs filesystem?

2005-07-10 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sat, 09 Jul 2005 21:20:02 +0200 Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A short time ago, there was a quick power outage, because of which some of my xfs filesystems broke :( xfs_repair also isn't successful :( [20:55:48 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~] $ sudo xfs_repair /dev/mapper/Crypt-daten

Re: [gentoo-user] Ati Linux Proprietary Driver

2005-07-04 Thread Bob Sanders
On Mon, 4 Jul 2005 08:46:43 +0200 Benjamin Fritzsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My Ati 9600 in my Inspiron works perfectly in 16:10 with the Ati-drivers. I doubt that. Maybe at 16x9 - 1600 x 900, but not 1600 x 1024. Or perahps Dell paid ATI to support that one model of display. Regardless

Re: [gentoo-user] Ati Linux Proprietary Driver

2005-07-03 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sat, 02 Jul 2005 19:31:42 +0100 Tim Igoe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe if Linux becomes more mainstream or used in offices more then perhaps they might improve the efforts towards the Linux drivers. Here is why ATI won't become much better over time - most of their developers don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Alsa stops working after 'emerge -uD world'

2005-06-29 Thread Bob Sanders
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 21:24:18 -0500 cothrige [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would seem that knowing that my files would be saved to the archive folder I had gotten a little bold when running dispatch-conf. But, I copied the old file back from the archive and ran alsaconf again. This time it

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Portable Music Player

2005-06-27 Thread Bob Sanders
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 15:22:34 -0400 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking to buy a portable music player, but I'm not sure what to get, so I'm polling for recommendations. Ogg/Vorbis support is a *requirement*, as is a Linux interface to the device. I've used a

Re: [gentoo-user] cloning drivers that are not the same size

2005-06-16 Thread Bob Sanders
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 13:11:33 +0800 Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually I would use fdisk/mke2fs and tar rather than rsync since it's much faster that way. I'd suggest another option - use xfs and xfsdump and xfsrestore. At the bottom of the xfsdump man page there are examples of

Re: [gentoo-user] cloning drivers that are not the same size

2005-06-16 Thread Bob Sanders
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 18:23:30 -0700 Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob Sanders wrote: This method looks interesting. I found a quote from Linux Torvalds saying dump can misbehave if there are dirty buffers. Has anyone experienced that? I haven't used dump in five or more years

Re: [gentoo-user] udev permissions problem?

2005-06-15 Thread Bob Sanders
On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 07:01:54 -0700 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have these devices: dragonfly ~ # ls -al /dev/v4l/ total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 140 Jun 14 19:25 . drwxr-xr-x 22 root root14100 Jun 14 19:25 .. crw-rw 1 root video 81, 64 Jun 14 19:25

Re: [gentoo-user] New stage1 install failed (groupadd not found)

2005-06-08 Thread Bob Sanders
On Wed, 08 Jun 2005 09:45:55 +0200 Jules Colding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 09:42 +0200, Jules Colding wrote: BTW: My make.conf is: # These settings were set by the catalyst build script that automatically built this stage # Please consult /etc/make.conf.example for a

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Ut2004 and language patch

2005-06-07 Thread Bob Sanders
On Tue, 7 Jun 2005 08:40:21 +0200 Luigi Pinna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to use ut2004 with different languages: I bought the Us version, but I'd like to listen the voice in italian or in german... Is there a patch that change the language? (Of course I must installed the voice...).

Re: [gentoo-user] Rebuild entire system - recompile all installed packages

2005-06-05 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sat, 4 Jun 2005 13:49:15 + (UTC) Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I get only 292. So emerge -De world would NOT re-compile everything that's on my system. Have you done a - regenworld? Sometimes, items get installed and not always put in the world file. Not often, but on

Re: [gentoo-user] photo management

2005-06-05 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sun, 5 Jun 2005 18:58:20 -0700 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do you guys use to manage your digital photos? [ I] media-gfx/digikam (0.7.1): digiKam is a digital photo management application for KDE. You only need parts of KDE, not everything. I run it under Enlightenment. Bob --

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-kernel-1.0.7664??

2005-06-05 Thread Bob Sanders
On Mon, 6 Jun 2005 00:06:06 -0400 Michael W. Holdeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone else have trouble with this upgrade? Mine complained about some sort of version mismatch, claiming the last installed was not 1.0.7664 but 1.0.7174? Mine went fine with the upgrade on an 2 amd64 and one

Re: [gentoo-user] photo management

2005-06-05 Thread Bob Sanders
On Mon, 06 Jun 2005 00:58:48 -0400 Simon Castillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob: does that works with gnome? If it doesn't... what about the Gnome desktop enviroment users? I don't have a full gnome nor kde install. I just use what I need from gnome and kde. I've not had problems with any

Re: [gentoo-user] telnet without telnetd anyone???

2005-06-04 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sat, 4 Jun 2005 01:14:31 -0400 Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just poking around through my system today. I see a directory /etc/xinet.d complete with cupsd and telnetd config files (WTF?). I'm sure we're all aware of the (in)security of telnetd. And yes, I had

Re: [gentoo-user] Printer setup tool

2005-05-29 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sat, 28 May 2005 15:24:29 -0500 (CDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there any tools to help me set up my printer (Hp Deskjet 722c)? The gentoo docs don't seem to work for my and I can't understand why. The computer thinks that its sending the jobs, reports that the printer is active and

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with new kernel

2005-05-29 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sun, 29 May 2005 21:52:42 +0100 Kevin Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been using a 2.6.7 kernel for months quite happily. Recently I decided to upgrade to 2.6.11-r9 but I am having problems. When booting it stalls with VFS: Cannot open root device 2105 or unknown block Googling

Re: [gentoo-user] After switching to udev partitions no longer mount automatically

2005-05-29 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sun, 29 May 2005 14:02:03 -0700 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Does udev somehow not support mounting by label? It's needs the device - /dev/hdxx defined somewhere. Normally this is defined in /etc/fstab. I'd guess that somewhere along the way, the labels were defined

Re: [gentoo-user] wiki software

2005-05-22 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sun, 22 May 2005 16:57:58 +0200 Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am looking for wiki software to install for our company intranet and I see that twiki is masked. Is this not the main wiki software? What do others use? We would want the possibility to restrict write access but apart

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get nvsound to work.

2005-05-22 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sun, 22 May 2005 15:34:41 + Qian Qiao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I emerged alsa-oss alsa-utils and nforce-audio and added nvsound in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6. I added the line alias sound-slot-0 nvidia as suggested by the nvidia documentation. I've unmuted everything in

Re: [gentoo-user] Radeon 9250

2005-05-20 Thread Bob Sanders
On Fri, 20 May 2005 09:59:33 -0700 (PDT) maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone at all. Got pointers? Got gotchas? Just use radeon as the driver. Don't bother with the ATI drivers until you have a working xorg.conf file. In the kernel select the DRI. Generally, Xorg will config it

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about supported hardware for Gentoo.

2005-05-19 Thread Bob Sanders
On Thu, 19 May 2005 22:15:55 -0400 Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I await my income-tax refund, I'm drooling over a couple of machines on a website that allows you to build to your own specs. One is an Intel P4 CPU 505 2.66GHz/533FSB/1M and the other is an AMD Athlon 64

Re: [gentoo-user] pcHDTV3000 - Anyone installed and use this?

2005-05-08 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sun, 8 May 2005 20:40:54 -0400 Michael Haan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2.6.9-r14 on Gentoo. I've installed the card built the drivers and installed using: I've installed it, but used 2.6.11-r6 along with the latest download of files from the web site. No problems. tvtime lets me watch

Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing Hard disk Wear?

2005-05-07 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sat, 07 May 2005 12:38:44 +0100 Ognjen Bezanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some people say that Setting the Hard disks to power down will extend their life, while others say that keeping the drives running constantly will extend their life (on the pretext that spin-up/downs wear the HD more

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