Re: [gentoo-user] Recommend a program for line art and text

2007-01-30 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:26:37 -0800 "Kevin O'Gorman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've tried creating diagrams in xfig. It works fine for my LaTeX > documents, but does not export well to PNG for use in web pages. Hm, what do you mean by saying "not so well"? If it's just that it isn't antia

Re: [gentoo-user] did anything major change in acpi?

2007-01-29 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 14:34:51 + Gabriel Rossetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I reinstalled and there for upgraded my kernel form 2.6.18 to 2.6.19, > and also upgraded all the acpi related stuff like acpid. My laptop > overheats a lot now, it is around 90-96 degrees celcius when > compil

Re: [gentoo-user] ext3 partition dissapeared :(

2007-01-25 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 12:25:20 +0100 jcd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I used cfdisk and I'm sure that I allocated whole disk (I just deleted > remaining partition and created new one and just confirm size, because > it should take whole disk, and even if not, it souldn't create new > partition

Re: [gentoo-user] ext3 partition dissapeared :(

2007-01-24 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 19:37:16 +0100 jcd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Everything was fine" mean; I created partition and then formatted it > without any errors or warnings. There are messages from syslog: > --- > Jan 22 23:43:

Re: [gentoo-user] x11 display as v4l device

2007-01-23 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi again, On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 11:38:47 -0300 "Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > > Probably not. Since V4L is a kernel interface, you would need a dummy > > driver in the kernel. Probably the easiest way to

Re: [gentoo-user] ext3 partition dissapeared :(

2007-01-23 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 17:17:58 +0100 jcd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > So, I copied data from 160GB partition on DiskA to > > > temporary space on DiskB, then I deleted remaining NTFS partition on > > > DiskA and created one 200GB ext3 partition (I think so. In cfdsik I > > > chose partition

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: logrotate won't rotate portage logs

2007-01-21 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 16:46:36 + Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks HW, this is what logrotate -d shows re. portage logs: > > # logrotate -d /etc/logrotate.conf > [snip...] > rotating pattern: /var/log/portage/*.log > weekly (1 rotations) > [snip...]

Re: [gentoo-user] x11 display as v4l device

2007-01-21 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 22:18:20 -0300 "Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anybody know if there is some driver+tools that could present an > x11 display as a v4l device? Probably not. Since V4L is a kernel interface, you would need a dummy driver in the kernel. Probabl

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: logrotate won't rotate portage logs

2007-01-20 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 00:34:24 + Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I do not understand why the log files within /var/log/portage/ will > > not rotate on my PC, while they rotate fine on my laptop. The > > /etc/logrotate.conf is the same on both boxen: > [...] > Anyone? Anything I could l

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for a minimalistic system

2007-01-19 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 19:40:21 + "b.n." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Buy a couple spare RAM modules. Surely I agree with your will to build a > minimalistic system, this will help anyway and it's a nice experience, > but RAM is quite cheap and is the magic elisir that allows outdated > m

Re: [gentoo-user] Odd artifacts on screen

2007-01-19 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 16:30:17 +0200 Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Recently I've noticed that I tend to get strange smudging effects on > text displayed in X. I've attached a small (5k) .png that shows the > effect (it's the smudge on the word "have"). > [...] > (WW) AIGLX: 3D dr

Re: [gentoo-user] Good arguments to use Gentoo Linux?

2007-01-19 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:37:27 +0100 (CET) qfpvajdy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to convince my boss and my collegues to use Gentoo > GNU/Linux at the company office for the desktop system (and maybe one > day also for servers). Currently everybody uses its own Linux/Unix > system,

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a home router

2007-01-16 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 13:10:45 +0100 "Daniel Pielmeier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thanks, so i think that i have to get familiar with iptables > > > itself, because i want to some more than routing. I will try this > > > rules in the evening and tell you if it works. > > > > No fears, ip

Re: [gentoo-user] WiFi needs ESSID to connect?

2007-01-16 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 09:50:26 + Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am unable to connect to a wireless access point unless it is set to > announce its ESSID. Not announcing the ESSID won't help much, anyway. FWIW, if there are no beacons in the air, how should your WiFi client tell what

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a home router

2007-01-16 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 09:03:59 +0100 "Daniel Pielmeier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Personally, I'm quite happy with > > > > $ iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o ppp0 -j MASQUERADE > > $ iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j > > ACCEPT > > $ iptables -A FOR

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a home router

2007-01-15 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 00:30:30 +0100 "Daniel Pielmeier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - is forwarding actually really enabled? Just "cat" the > > relevant /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward. > > cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward > returns 1 > > > So remaining things to check would be > > - wher

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a home router

2007-01-15 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 19:17:45 +0100 "Daniel Pielmeier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Send the output from "iptables-save", please. Otherwise we could only > > guess if the problem is with your firewall rules or somewhere else. > > Here we go! > > # Generated by iptables-save v1.3.5 on Mon J

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a home router

2007-01-15 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 19:23:53 +0100 "Daniel Pielmeier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No, that's (usually) correct. But in the route excerpt you've cited > > above (please post "route -n" next time!) the route for "localhost" was > > set to "dev eth0". Also, the subnet was a /24 one, instead o

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a home router

2007-01-15 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 11:45:13 +0100 "Daniel Pielmeier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This here: > > > > > /etc/hosts > > > > > > 127.0.0.1 localhost > > > 192.168.0.1 gentoo-vdr.linux gentoo-vdr > > > 192.168.0.2 gentoo.linux gentoo > > > ::1 localhost > > I think l

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a home router

2007-01-15 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 14 Jan 2007 20:27:11 +0100 "Daniel Pielmeier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can connect from the router to the internet. > I can log in from the router to the desktop per ssh and back. > I have set up an rsync on the router and rsync works from the desktop. > I have set up dnsmasq on

Re: [gentoo-user] moving to ADSL

2007-01-14 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 14 Jan 2007 09:59:13 + Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What seems great about OpenWRT is the possibility of installing > > packages. Only debian packages made for OpenWRT. I guess I'll have to > > learn about that... > > Me too. I would also like to learn how to cross compil

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Is there a gcc-4.1.1 alternative?

2007-01-13 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 12:29:09 -0500 Randy Barlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 13 January 2007 09:42, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > This strace doesn't help me much. What does "attached" mean, anyway? > > I don't know what the problem is, but I can tell you that strace "attaches" >

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Hal compilation (after Dbus update)

2007-01-12 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 20:04:37 + Avaricen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The full listing can be found here: > http://gentoo.pastebin.ca/314398 Just because you're using a browser to read and write mail, don't assume others do. Trim down the output to the relevant part (here: some dbus funct

Re: [gentoo-user] compiling r1000 module

2007-01-12 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 22:46:02 +0100 "Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I try to compile the r1000 module for my laptop. > [...] > make[2]: *** No rule to make target `modules'. Stop. You don't compile 2.6 kernel modules with "make modules". Just use "make", t

Re: [gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated?

2007-01-11 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:38:38 -0500 John covici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, I did put my php version in the /etc/portage/package.mask, but it > still wants to install a new major version -- curiously it says ebuild > -ns rather than just -n or -u. I put the following line in there > =dev

Re: [gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated?

2007-01-11 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:50:31 -0500 John Covici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. I just did emerge --pretend --update --deep world, but there is a > package which I don't want to have emerge update automatically -- how > do I accomplish this? You can mask it in /etc/portage/package.mask, for

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Is this normal?

2007-01-11 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 08:42:01 -0600 Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is this normal?: > > 2899 root 17 0 131m 35m 224 R 0.3 59.2 11:03.55 cc1 > > I took this from a `top` listing. I'm trying to emerge > sys-devel/gcc-4.1.1-r3 on my server box. The merge hasn't move

Re: [gentoo-user] grub-install vs. manual install

2007-01-08 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 13:54:59 + Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you want (or are forced) to have /boot and your MBR on different > > harddrives (*not* partitions) invoke grub and do the manual install as > > described in the handbook rather than use grub-install which simply

Re: [gentoo-user] Out of space during emerge

2007-01-08 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 11:22:58 -0500 "Henk Boom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it unusual that I lost about 500 megabytes net in the past couple > of weeks due to upgrades? That will solely depend on your "world". Note that there might be some packages for which there's a _slotted_ new versi

Re: [gentoo-user] Through the looking glass: Reflections on Gentoo

2007-01-07 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 7 Jan 2007 22:14:26 +0100 "Ivan Sakhalin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > Now, you that have read this far may wonder, what is my point? Quite > simple, > comrades. It is a warning I bring you, and I ask you to stop for a moment and > reflect upon the situation we have rig

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I want my xmms

2007-01-03 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 3 Jan 2007 15:27:41 + (UTC) Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The X server is using 56M of virtual memory with 33M resident > and 10M shared. Audacious is using 58M of with 14M resident > and 10M shared. "possibly" shared, to be exact. Whether it actually _is_ shared is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: anti-portage wreckage?

2007-01-03 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 3 Jan 2007 11:03:34 - "Nelson, David (ED, PAR&D)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has the idea of distributing custom package.mask files > occured? This way you can "mask off" certain versions of software and > hence limit updates to minor changes. You can then use these on > s

Re: [gentoo-user] Few problems

2006-12-31 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 31 Dec 2006 14:42:57 +0100 Pavel Kouřil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kinfocenter shows the same.. 22,71/503,58MB RAM free, which is like a > 95% in conky. Memory consumption is not load! And it's pretty normal that Linux uses up all available RAM. Substract the current cache and buf

Re: [gentoo-user] arabtex ebuild/package?

2006-12-31 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 31 Dec 2006 00:52:56 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I do have a big problem due to there's no ebuild for arabtex > (http://www.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/ivi/bs/research/arab_e.html) in > portage ... and I'm not skilled enough to build one by myself yet (I'm still > a new to Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] broken ping reply after 30secs

2006-12-31 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 31 Dec 2006 03:52:30 +0100 Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It suddenly disappeared after putting down and reconfiguring > the eth interface (diretly w/ ifconfig). Then I remembered > I've put an "ifconfig eth0 up" into crontab, since it > sometimes disappeared. Now I've r

Re: [gentoo-user] udev-103 and blacklisting

2006-12-22 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 11:36:07 +0100 "Marco Calviani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > some days ago i've upgraded to udev-103 since it became stable. > However after this operation, as most of you know, > /etc/hotplug/blacklist stops working. There have been reportings on > this http://bugs.ge

Re: [gentoo-user] 10-local.rules and udev-103

2006-12-22 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 11:51:58 +0100 "Marco Calviani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > and now i've changed it to be: > > SUBSYSTEMS=="scsi",KERNEL=="sd*",ATTR{vendor}=="FUJIFILM",ATTR{model} > =="USB-DRIVEUNIT",NAME=="%k",SYMLINK=="camera" read and understand "man udev": matching is not assignme

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help setting up HostAP and Intersil Prism card via PCMCIA adapter

2006-12-22 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 23:26:29 -0800 "Daevid Vincent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had this working for years, but some UDEV or something changed and > now my wlan0 is gone and I can't figure out how to get it working > again. Did you actually try what David answered to your last question r

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-20 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 06:07:50 -0800 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Number of users is largely irrelevant, it's not as if Gentoo needs a > > number of "customers" to survive, it is a non-profit organisation > > producing free products. > > That's exactly the argument here, and the point

Re: [gentoo-user] Memory Usage

2006-12-15 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 17:26:11 +0200 Daniel Iliev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've read (don't remember where) there are patches to make kernel > change its swappiness value automatically, depending on the memory > usage for the particular moment. That would be the ck-patchset. Gentoo has it

Re: [gentoo-user] [O.T] Kernel and general Linux Benchmarking

2006-12-14 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 13:03:27 + Bruno Santos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to perform some benchmarks with the Kernel and with the distro > itself but i cannot find any satisfactory app for that. /usr/portage/benchmark/* ...but it absolutely depends on *what* you want to benchmark

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] IMAP4 behaviour

2006-12-12 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:30:19 + Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have noticed that the bandwidth consumed by an IMAP4 account of > mine is rather high and I believe this because of the following type > of behaviour: > > I click to send the message. The message is uploaded to the serve

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel: pre load a module

2006-12-12 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 21:09:00 -0300 Norberto Bensa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > > > I believe that if I load piix first (the PATA driver for Intel > > > chipset) I will not get this delay. > > > > I'm not sure about that

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel: pre load a module

2006-12-11 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 14:26:09 -0300 Norberto Bensa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > since Linux kernel 2.6.19 libata changes, my boot time has increased > at least 15 seconds. This is caused by ata_piix which tries > unsuccessfully to interrogate my DVD drive. > > I believe that if I load piix f

Re: [gentoo-user] screenrc configuration

2006-12-08 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 7 Dec 2006 16:29:45 + Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I launch screen I get an error message at the bottom of the > terminal: > > /etc/screenrc: termcapinfo: two or three arguments required > > This is relevant entries of my /etc/screenrc: > [...] > termcapinfo rxvt'hs:

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about /etc/fonts/fonts.conf: How to enable subpixel rendering

2006-11-22 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 11:33:35 +0100 Wolfgang Liebich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've read the http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Xorg_and_Fonts HOWTO. As > I'm now a LCD screen user, I wanted to enable subpixel > rendering. After reading the fonts.conf in /etc/fonts, I discovered > that this confi

Re: [gentoo-user] building a binary distribution

2006-11-22 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 07:44:31 + Sathish Vasudevaiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On the mythtv machine there is a spare partition > created for testing. I am thinking of the following > approach > - create all the binary packages > - NFS mount the spare partition > - install the binary p

Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking out of a chroot

2006-11-13 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 09:51:33 -0500 Brian Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The mount --bind thing looked nice, but you can't change the mount > permissions from what those directories already have, i.e. if I have > /stuff/pics on a filesystem mounted rw, I can't then mount --bind it > to r

Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking out of a chroot

2006-11-13 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 12:04:51 +0100 Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i would suggest an alias for this -> > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_alias.html#alias > > Aliases werde made for this kind of problem ( data's were not in the > documentroot) Yep, but they're not made for *this*

Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking out of a chroot

2006-11-12 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 09:56:31 -0500 Brian Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I will be running my apache2 server in a chroot. Most of my data for the > server (e.g. pictures, user webpages) are on another partition from my > chroot. I don't want to move all that data into the apache chroot

Re: [gentoo-user] My Snort server -- I Don't know whats wrong -- It seems to go to sleep

2006-11-11 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 17:32:10 -0500 "Timothy A. Holmes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The short summary is the box > keeps "going to sleep" on me. It wont respond to ssh or webpage > requests till I ping it about 10 times after that it works normally. First: I assume you've checked all cables

Re: [gentoo-user] iptables error

2006-11-08 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 8 Nov 2006 17:50:13 +0100 Arnau Bria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 8 Nov 2006 17:33:31 +0100 > Arnau Bria wrote: > > > > As iptables is very depending on the kernel's API, did you > > > - change kernel configuration? > > nop. just make oldconfig with default values for new op

Re: [gentoo-user] iptables error

2006-11-08 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 8 Nov 2006 16:29:45 +0100 Arnau Bria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've done a kernel upgrade, from 2.6.16 to 17-r8 and my iptables stop > working. As iptables is very depending on the kernel's API, did you - change kernel configuration? - try re-emerging iptables? -hwh -- gentoo-us

Re: [gentoo-user] WinXP under VMWare: no sound

2006-11-08 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 8 Nov 2006 08:31:20 +0100 Sergio Polini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [sp ~]$ aoss vmware & > [2] 5598 > [sp ~]$ ERROR: ld.so: object 'libaoss.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be > preloaded: ignored. What are the permissions on *this* one (aoss32 seems not to be for you, so /emul/linux/..

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing the NIC name

2006-11-06 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 6 Nov 2006 09:09:40 -0500 "Timothy A. Holmes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As the machine built, the realtech is eth0 and the intel is eth1 > > I would like to reverse those two names, so that snort can use the > higher capacity card for its sniffer. I am not quite sure where to > l

Re: [gentoo-user] sanba mount on host machine

2006-11-06 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 05 Nov 2006 13:47:12 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is this possible withou really negative impact of some sort. If this is a question (please clarify a bit, and use question marks when appropriate!): Of course it has a negative impact -- opposed to built-in storage, which should

Re: [gentoo-user] distfiles on samba and 2.6.18

2006-11-06 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 06 Nov 2006 00:09:23 +1100 Dave Oxley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since upgrading to the 2.6.18 kernel I get this on my client machine > when trying to emerge. I have distfiles mapped to a server samba share > and this works if I boot back up into 2.6.17. Does anyone have any > ideas

Re: [gentoo-user] WinXP under VMWare: no sound

2006-11-06 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 5 Nov 2006 12:55:58 +0100 Sergio Polini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since vmware-dsp (which is ~amd64) doesn't compile, I have: > - emerged alsa-oss > - chmod +s /usr/lib/libaoss.so.* ^^^ Why did you do that? Try setting it back and then use LD_PRELOAD. Your normal user account c

Re: [gentoo-user] Networking problems

2006-11-06 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 4 Nov 2006 07:24:51 -0500 (GMT-05:00) Jeff Cranmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For the /etc/resolv.conf file, I have: > search belkin > nameserver 192.168.2.1 > nameserver 207.69.188.185 > nameserver 207.69.188.186 > nameserver 207.69.188.187 Given that the router runs a local DNS (

Re: [gentoo-user] Mini Gentoo in VMWare

2006-11-06 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 2 Nov 2006 22:43:40 -0700 "Trenton Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone here played with minimalizing everything for use in vmware? No, not for that use, but for other uses, yes. But you need to specify what exactly you mean by saying "minimized". I wouldn't go the road an

Re: [gentoo-user] phonetic alphabet

2006-11-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 2 Nov 2006 09:40:31 +0200 Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > does anybody know about a font for the international phonetic > alphabet? e.g. SIL Doulos, SIL Charis http://www.sil.org/computing/catalog/show_software.asp?id=91 http://www.sil.org/computing/catalog/show_software.asp?i

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a simple .pls audio mp3-playing app?

2006-10-30 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 18:50:21 -0700 Ryan Tandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not familiar with Live365, but I listen to radio > (http://kplu.org) and similar streams off the Internet sometimes, and > I find that mplayer is more than up to the task, including dealing > with pls files. > > e

Re: [gentoo-user] Different install prefix - howto ?

2006-10-06 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:25:47 +0200 Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 06 October 2006 13:08, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > > > I'd like to install an experimental package with a different > > > prefix, say /usr/local/test > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Different install prefix - howto ?

2006-10-06 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 10:21:05 +0200 (CEST) Helmut Jarausch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to install an experimental package with a different prefix, > say /usr/local/test > What should I write into the ebuild file? I don't think the ROOT environment variable when emerging is what you

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - ipkungfu not

2006-10-06 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 18:53:55 -0500 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 05 October 2006 14:44, Hans-Werner Hilse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] OT - ipkungfu not': > > [...] > > Note that the

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - ipkungfu not

2006-10-05 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 13:59:06 -0500 Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What if I wanted 70.234.122.249, 70.234.122.250, and 70.234.122.251 as > the network. What would the syntax for those three be? I've never been > able to figure out what the 127.0.0.1/8 syntax means... That s

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Blocking only unsuccessful ssh connections

2006-10-05 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 20:47:18 +0200 "José González Gómez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unfortunately I'm not "responsible" for making these connections. I'm using > Maven (http://maven.apache.org/) to deploy some files to my server. Maven > seems to use a different ssh connection for every oper

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Blocking only unsuccessful ssh connections

2006-10-05 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 17:33:15 +0200 "José González Gómez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got a virtual private server hosted somewhere and they're blocking me > because their intrusion detection system detects 10 ssh connections in less > than 2 minutes from my current IP. My question is: is

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - ipkungfu not

2006-10-05 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 09:45:57 -0500 Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 15:22 +0200, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > > Yep. That's how it should be according to your iptables dump. I never > > fighted with ipkungfu, but I think the LOC

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - ipkungfu not

2006-10-05 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 08:07:49 -0500 Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ACCEPT all -- 192.168.1.0/24 anywherestate NEW > [...] > > And I can still detect all those ports open from nmap on another > machine. Yep. That's how it should be according to your ipta

Re: [gentoo-user] Eth0 not responding (sleeping??)

2006-10-05 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 08:23:38 -0400 "Timothy A. Holmes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Flaky switch? (Too) long or bad (non-standard) cabling? That > > was usually the explanation when I was seeing such behaviour. > > > Not sure what you mean about hijacking the thread, but I am sorry -- I >

Re: [gentoo-user] Eth0 not responding (sleeping??)

2006-10-05 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, First: stop hijacking threads! On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 15:21:58 -0400 "Timothy A. Holmes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The problem is that the network adapter seems to "fall asleep" > periodically. If I attempt to access the base webpage or ssh, I get no > response till I ping the box -- 8 pings

Re: [gentoo-user] Can anyone tell me where I've loused-up this apache config?

2006-10-03 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, sorry, On Tue, 3 Oct 2006 16:48:50 +0200 Hans-Werner Hilse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So basically that means you can only have one SSL server per IP. should have been "per IP:Port combination". -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Can anyone tell me where I've loused-up this apache config?

2006-10-03 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 03 Oct 2006 15:06:33 +0100 "Steve [Gentoo]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a working vhost configuration for several domains in apache2 > (latest stable from portage - 2.0.58) and I want to support not only > http services, but, for one domain name at least, I want to support an

Re: [gentoo-user] Wacky ssh X11 question...

2006-10-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 16:56:25 +0100 "Steve [Gentoo]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm unclear if the reason for the failure is the additional > tunnelling... Is this technique incompatible with X11 tunnelling? Is > there a way to make it work with a reverse-tunnel or something like > that? A

Re: [gentoo-user] Router 3rd and 4th net interface problem

2006-10-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 2 Oct 2006 10:49:34 -0500 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > How should eth1 and eth2 be > > > > > configured in /etc/conf.d/net ? > > > > They should be configured as part of a bridge device (see the > > > > bridging section of /etc/conf.d/net.example) and

Re: [gentoo-user] Widescreen resolution strangeness with nvidia

2006-10-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 2 Oct 2006 07:25:15 -0700 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The TV has a native resolution of 1366x768 as stated by the > manufacturer. If I specify that resolution in xorg.conf, it says it's > an invalid resolution and uses 1360x768 instead. Probably because that's the only mode b

Re: [gentoo-user] No device coming up if I plug in an USB device

2006-10-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:03:43 +0530 Mrugesh Karnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ah, I wanted to ask about this too. The same thing happens to me. I > need to reboot with the device plugged in, which is a pain. I'd > appreciate an answer as well. That's probably not for the same reason. Please

Re: [gentoo-user] No device coming up if I plug in an USB device

2006-10-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 2 Oct 2006 14:41:32 +0200 "Stephen Reynolds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ub(1.2): GetMaxLUN returned 0, using 1 LUNs > uba: uba1 > drivers/usb/core/inode.c: creating file '002' There's your device node. You did read the help of the kernel option for the "Low Performance USB Block d

Re: [gentoo-user] Router 3rd and 4th net interface problem

2006-09-29 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 22:06:21 -0500 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 28 September 2006 21:43, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Router 3rd and 4th net interface > problem': > > I'm pretty confused. I'm trying to get the system in quest

Re: [gentoo-user] NTP or chrony?

2006-09-26 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 22:28:28 +0100 Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmm, for some reason my ISP's ntp server does not work with my Gentoo > (it works with WinXP): > [...] > What's this "port time unreachable" message - the rdate command times > out of course. Well, the "time" port (37 tcp/u

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Why directories aren't files?

2006-09-18 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, > because nobody implemented it for most filesystems. Most filesystems > just define "generic_read_dir" as handling function for "readdir". > "generic_read_dir" always returns -EISDIR. sorry short correction, should read: ... as handling function for "read". "readdir" of course should be imp

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating a LFS system with Portage

2006-09-18 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 15:05:21 + "Alon Keren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm considering using Portage to build a Linux From Scratch system > (LFS basically means building a completely customized Linux machine, > using a toolchain). Hm, that's what portage does, anyway... So what exactly

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Why directories aren't files?

2006-09-18 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 17:13:11 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > For example, in Linux, you can't do 'cat .' while on FreeBSD you can. > > > Why? There is a practical reason? > > > Try vim . or, better view . It was mentioned before that applications have support for "reading directories".

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Why directories aren't files?

2006-09-18 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 11:10:57 +0200 Matteo Pillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was wondering why Linux doesn't treat directories like files, as > many other unix implementations do. Pragmatic answer: because nobody implemented it for most filesystems. Most filesystems just define "generic_

Re: [gentoo-user] xhost +local:root ???

2006-09-16 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 19:29:14 +0100 Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > emerge sux > > Use sux instead of su. or, if using sudo, do the following: append to /root/.bashrc: snip [[ -n "$SUDO_USER" ]] && [[ -n "$DISPLAY" ]] && export XAUTHORITY=/home/$SUDO_USER/.Xauthority sni

Re: [gentoo-user] Outputing 15.9kHz?

2006-09-15 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, (sorry, must have overlooked your last answer...) On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 01:32:36 -0700 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I always seem to get hsync out of range errors trying to go this low. > I guess my card can't go as low as necessary. Argh, my failure. I must have read "19.5 kHz" instead

Re: [gentoo-user] multicast routing from satillite to lan

2006-09-14 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 15:01:01 +0200 (SAST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> mrouted doens't work with 2.4 (according to docs) > > > > What docs? Well, I see it being written in the ebuild, but given > > that mrouted-3.9-beta3 is existing since June 1999, I don't think > > it is actually true. Did

Re: [gentoo-user] multicast routing from satillite to lan

2006-09-14 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 14:30:06 +0200 (SAST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > mrouted doens't work with 2.4 (according to docs) What docs? Well, I see it being written in the ebuild, but given that mrouted-3.9-beta3 is existing since June 1999, I don't think it is actually true. Did you try compiling

Re: [gentoo-user] MyWorld - how to set this up?

2006-09-14 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 13:44:22 +0200 (CEST) Helmut Jarausch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to keep several configurations. > Is it possible to setup additional "sets" like MyWorld,... > in addition to "world" and say "emerge MyWorld" ? you can create a (meta-)ebuild that doesn't instal

Re: [gentoo-user] Outputing 15.9kHz?

2006-09-13 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 18:21:44 -0700 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm using the modeline from this link: > > http://www.sput.nl/hardware/tv-x.html > > and my xorg.conf looks like this: > > Section "Monitor" > Identifier "monitor1" > Modeline "736x485i" 14.16 736 760 824

Re: [gentoo-user] Real CPU speed

2006-09-12 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 20:31:00 -0700 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > How can I determine my current CPU speed? I have a Celeron 700 > > > that should be running at 1050 if I insulated one of its pins > > > correctly. All of the information I can find on determining CPU > > > speed is re

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: gkrellm ??? Only as daemon ???

2006-09-10 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 10 Sep 2006 13:36:12 +0200 (CEST) Meino Christian Cramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I set "X" by default in /etc/make.conf...what happens to programs, > which simply doesn't know anything about "X" ... for example > "basename" (...yes, I know, "basename" is an builtin in most

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: gkrellm ??? Only as daemon ???

2006-09-10 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 10 Sep 2006 06:28:30 +0200 (CEST) Meino Christian Cramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But: Why contains gkrellm's default USE-flags "-X", so no gkrellm2 is > compiled? > I had to change package.use accordingly and recompiling makes gkrellm2 > then. There are no ebuild specific defa

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf problem

2006-09-09 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi (again), On Sat, 09 Sep 2006 08:14:47 -0500 Colleen Beamer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) I can't view some things in full screen. For instance, I play the > game Blobwars and if I try to set it to use full screen mode, the game > shows in the middle of the screen, the same size as it was w

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf problem

2006-09-09 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 09 Sep 2006 11:40:11 -0500 Colleen Beamer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mick wrote: > > Viewport refers to your virtual screen which is larger than the physical > > monitor screen. Placing the cursor at the edge of the monitors scrolls the > > screen in that direction, until the edg

Re: [gentoo-user] Outputing 15.9kHz?

2006-09-06 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 6 Sep 2006 08:03:48 -0700 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The guy there says it won't work because a computer outputs a > non-interlaced signal and a standard TV uses interlaced. Basically, > exactly what you said. From your link, it looks like an interlaced > signal can be speci

Re: [gentoo-user] Outputing 15.9kHz?

2006-09-06 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 5 Sep 2006 17:13:55 -0700 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to figure out if a device that converts a VGA output to a > component output for HDTV connection will work with a standard TV that > has component inputs. Your VGA card can probably generate that signal itself. Y

Re: [gentoo-user] initng or runit?

2006-08-23 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 13:58:01 +1200 "Thomas Kear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Having just had a quick look at runit, it appears we have the larger > collection of init scripts, however being simple bash scripts it could > be expected that runit's are slightly easier to make. Runit does *not*

Re: [gentoo-user] initng or runit?

2006-08-21 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 22:01:24 -0400 Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Would some kind soul save me a bit of research time? Which of the two > alternative init schemes are faster, initng or runit? That most likely doesn't depend on the init process. Most time is consumed by the numer

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