[gentoo-user] Intel Graphics Triple Monitor Setup

2007-11-24 Thread Florian Philipp
in theory ... Thanks in advance! Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 LiveCD 2007.0 problem

2007-11-25 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sun, 2007-11-25 at 15:27 -0500, David Relson wrote: > On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 19:51:09 + > Neil Walker wrote: > > > David Relson wrote: > > > I've gotten this same NMI error the last 4 times I've booted -- even > > > using a second copy of the 2007.0 LiveCD that I happened to have > > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] disk problem after kernel update

2007-12-09 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sun, 2007-12-09 at 13:59 +0100, pat wrote: > Hello, > > I've try to update kernel from 2.6.20-gentoo-r8 to 2.6.23-gentoo-r3. I've > copied > config, run make oldconfig and then make. > > At boot time the new kernel maps disks as hdax, but previous kernel mapped > disks > as sdax. So, if I wa

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Rules

2007-12-14 Thread Florian Philipp
ty problems and I can't - at least for now - help solving them, I don't like to bother our had working devs and bug wranglers with stuff like that. - Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Rules

2007-12-15 Thread Florian Philipp
On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 18:13 -0600, Dale wrote: > Florian Philipp wrote: > > > > Okay, here it goes: > > > > I think we could need a better support for binary packages. > > There was a thread in here a few months ago about how to offer binary > > packages

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Rules

2007-12-15 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 07:06 -0600, Dale wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 03:44:55 -0600, Dale wrote: > > > > > > > That is when you compile it on another machine then install it on the > > > laptop. The -K option comes to mind here. > > > > > > > Which is what I t

Re: [gentoo-user] realtek 8197 wireless card setup

2007-12-16 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 23:19 -0500, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > On Tuesday 11 December 2007 09:48:10 am Mick wrote: > > On Tuesday 11 December 2007, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > > > I believe that I have this enabled, however ieee80211 is still barfing > > > out by asking for CONFIG_NET_RADIO. > > > > > > I'll

[gentoo-user] High Definition and OSS

2008-05-23 Thread Florian Philipp
Hi list! I'm thinking about buying a BlueRay- and HD-DVD-combo reader. Can I use GNU/Linux standard software (mplayer preferred) to watch HD-movies or does its copy protection stop me from using it? If so, are there any workarounds? Thanks in advance! Florian Philipp signature.asc Descri

Re: [gentoo-user] High Definition and OSS

2008-05-24 Thread Florian Philipp
does its copy protection stop me from using it? If so, > > are there any workarounds? > > > > Thanks in advance! > > > > Florian Philipp > > > I think you have to run software to decrypt the DVD on the fly and > then have mplayer read the stream. > The

Re: [gentoo-user] s2ram - on resume : iwl3945 Kill Switch On

2008-05-24 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sat, 24 May 2008 12:47:35 -0300 "Claudinei Matos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hy guys, > > I'm giving suspend a try on my Acer Aspire and everything is working > fine in both s2disk and s2ram, > except from my wireless card Intel 3945ABG which refuse to work when > system is resumed. > > Aft

Re: [gentoo-user] High Definition and OSS

2008-05-24 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sat, 24 May 2008 17:15:34 +0100 Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 24 May 2008, at 10:03, Florian Philipp wrote: > >> ... > >> I would avoid bluray until it gets easier to play. > > > > Hmm, on which features depends the encryption? Would a W

[gentoo-user] Java default Swing stile

2008-05-30 Thread Florian Philipp
TK, QT or whatever I have here other than through the functionality in the programs themeselve? Or is it really the Java-VM who's dictating what's the default for a given platform (Windows/Linux)? Thanks in advance! Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Java default Swing stile

2008-05-31 Thread Florian Philipp
On Fri, 30 May 2008 22:04:55 +0200 "Dirk Uys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 9:20 PM, Florian Philipp > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi list! > > > > I've recently started both programming and using some Ja

Re: [gentoo-user] Which Java Runtime is "best"?

2008-06-01 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 10:24:57 -0400 "Walter Dnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I haven't seen an interesting site using Java for a long while. I > recently stumbled across http://discover.itsc.uah.edu/amsutemps/ and > decided it would be nice to actually view it. I haven't had Java on > my machi

Re: [gentoo-user] Which Java Runtime is "best"?

2008-06-04 Thread Florian Philipp
On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 15:12:51 +0300 ionut cucu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 18:37:28 +0200 > Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 10:24:57 -0400 > > "Walter Dnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: [gentoo-user] Which Java Runtime is "best"?

2008-06-04 Thread Florian Philipp
On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 19:24:10 +0200 Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 15:12:51 +0300 > ionut cucu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 18:37:28 +0200 > > Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: [gentoo-user] Subversion emerge fails

2008-06-09 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 12:52:03 +0200 "Dirk Uys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone. > > When I emerge subversion, i get the following error: > > > checking for availability of Berkeley DB... no > configure: error: Berkeley DB 4.0.14 wasn't found. > > !!! Please attach the following file whe

Re: [gentoo-user] Subversion emerge fails

2008-06-11 Thread Florian Philipp
On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:17:44 +0200 "Dirk Uys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hmm, probably > > > > a) broken ebuild (missing bdb dep) > > b) broken ./configure script (which can't find existing bdb) > > > > > > cu > > -- > > - > >

[gentoo-user] Thunar and encrypted partitions

2008-06-13 Thread Florian Philipp
uot;thunar-volman --device-added" with the hal udi, nothing happens, no message, no nothing. Thunar is compiled with the crypt-USE flag, of course. Thanks in advance! Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless hidden association problem

2008-06-17 Thread Florian Philipp
On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:07:31 +0100 "Paul Melvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Sergey, > > Thanks for that, since my question I have found that if I enter the > iwconfig command into /etc/conf.d/net it does work; i.e. > > iwconfig eth1 essid name_of_ssid > > However I am not sure how this wou

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless hidden association problem

2008-06-17 Thread Florian Philipp
On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:03:44 +0100 "Paul Melvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Florian, > > Mine will not associate with the hidden ap, my files are below, > please have a look to see if I have missed anything as I would like > to get this working > > /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf >

Re: [gentoo-user] temporarily lower gcc's optimization flags - HowTo

2008-06-18 Thread Florian Philipp
On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:20:52 +0200 (CEST) Helmut Jarausch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > due to a bug with gcc-4.3.1 when used with -O2 or higher > I need to emerge a package with a lower optimization (-O1) > than my default in /etc/make.conf (which is -O2) > > Is there a means to do so wi

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading without breaking LVM

2008-06-18 Thread Florian Philipp
On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:41:12 +0100 Matt Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > Some of you may remember my problems with lvm after an update in > http://www.archivum.info/gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org/2008-04/msg00899.html > > I'm now headed back towards the same situation. I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading without breaking LVM

2008-06-18 Thread Florian Philipp
On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:01:03 +0100 Matt Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:46:25PM +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: > > Which versions are you using, to which shall they be updated and on > > which arch are you? Knowing emerge --info and your profil

Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB question

2008-06-18 Thread Florian Philipp
On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:34:35 -0400 "Matthew R. Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've just compiled a new kernel. I then mounted the boot partition, > copied the new bzimage across, along with .config and system.map. I > then edited the grub.conf But when I reboot it offers me the same > options a

[gentoo-user] OT: PATA performance

2008-06-28 Thread Florian Philipp
erformance. Would it cause problems when both devices exchange data, for example when burning or ripping a DVD? Could I still watch a DVD while, for example, making a backup to or from that HDD? Thanks in advance! Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] DMRAID and complex setups

2008-06-28 Thread Florian Philipp
up of fake-RAID (NVidia MoBo-controller) and Linux softRAID fare better? Thanks in advance! Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] MDRAID and complex setups

2008-06-28 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:02:23 +0200 Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi list! > > I a PC of mine I've got two 160GB and a 320GB disk. I'd like to > create a JBOD (a.k.a. Concatenation) of the two 160GB disks and > create a RAID1 out of that JBOD

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: PATA performance

2008-06-29 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:19:26 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Samstag, 28. Juni 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: > > Hi list! > > > > I've got a little question. Here I've got a PC with two 40GB hard > > disks, a CD-burner and

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: PATA performance

2008-06-29 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 13:14:18 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sonntag, 29. Juni 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: > > > > > cheap SATA-controller: EUR 35 > > your are looking at the wrong places. Cheap sata-controller: 20€. > > che

[gentoo-user] OT: Filesystem permissions

2008-07-03 Thread Florian Philipp
, however, there might be cases in which need to change both for special folders. How do I do this without needing any interaction from the users? Thanks in advance! Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] Grub on a new disk

2008-07-03 Thread Florian Philipp
se wait..." and then another 10sec or more to open the menu. I think I had this problem a long time ago but I can't remember the solution. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance! Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Filesystem permissions

2008-07-03 Thread Florian Philipp
On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 17:52:29 +0200 Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 03 July 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: > > Hi list! > > > > I'm a bit dissatisfied with the way umask and filesystem permissions > > work and I'd like to know if a

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub on a new disk

2008-07-04 Thread Florian Philipp
On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 23:04:26 +0100 Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 03 July 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I've recently moved /boot from /dev/hda to /dev/hdd. Then I've > > installed grub with > > for i in /dev/hd{a

Re: [gentoo-user] 4 GB and Intel Core 2 Duo

2008-07-04 Thread Florian Philipp
On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 08:49:45 -0700 (PDT) Pawel K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > I have 4 GB of ram and a Intel Core 2 Duo E4500. > I compiled the kernel as follows: > Processor family >   Core 2/newer Xeon > > Subarchitecture Type >   PC-compatible > > High Memory Support >   Off > > Al

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub on a new disk

2008-07-04 Thread Florian Philipp
On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 12:11:01 +0200 Sebastian Günther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Florian Philipp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [04.07.08 11:20]: > > On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 23:04:26 +0100 > > Recheck your grub.conf. Maybe you have the wrong root parameter > and/or path to the kern

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Filesystem permissions

2008-07-04 Thread Florian Philipp
On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 16:24:52 +0200 Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 03 July 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: > > > You want to set the setgid bit on the containing directory and > > > chgrp that directory to the group involved. > > > > Argh

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Filesystem permissions

2008-07-04 Thread Florian Philipp
On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 18:35:58 +0200 Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 04 July 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: > > > I've just set the umask 0007 in /etc/profile. With the rule that > > every user has his own primary group (as it is default), this i

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Filesystem permissions

2008-07-04 Thread Florian Philipp
On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 20:08:43 +0200 Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Freitag, 4. Juli 2008 schrieb Florian Philipp: > > On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 18:35:58 +0200 > > > > Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Friday 04 July 2008, Floria

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub on a new disk

2008-07-05 Thread Florian Philipp
On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 17:48:38 +0200 Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > I've recently moved /boot from /dev/hda to /dev/hdd. Then I've > installed grub with > for i in /dev/hd{a,b,d}; do grub-install --recheck $i; done > > Now the system boot

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub on a new disk

2008-07-05 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 12:18:28 +0100 Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As far as I can understand the problem arises because you have > installed grub everywhere. When your BIOS kicks in it goes to the > first disk's MBR, reads the GRUB boot code, which starts probing each > and every device where

Re: [gentoo-user] DMRAID and complex setups

2008-07-05 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:24:46 +0300 Daniel Iliev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:02:23 +0200 > Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi list! > > > > I a PC of mine I've got two 160GB and a 320GB disk. I'd like to &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub on a new disk

2008-07-05 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 15:06:31 +0100 Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've already changed the BIOS boot order to look at /dev/hdd's MBR > > first but that didn't help. > > Right, have you checked your device.map to see if there's anything > untoward in there? > (fd0) /dev/fd0 (hd0) /dev/hda

[gentoo-user] Re: DMRAID and complex setups

2008-07-06 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 11:03:45 +0200 Francesco Talamona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 05 July 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: > > - Could I disable the kernel auto-detection and instead add a custom > > init-script prior to checkfs and localmount? > > It's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DMRAID and complex setups

2008-07-06 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 11:32:36 +0200 Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 11:03:45 +0200 > Francesco Talamona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Saturday 05 July 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: > > > - Could I disable the kernel auto-dete

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DMRAID and complex setups

2008-07-06 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 14:02:14 +0300 Daniel Iliev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 11:32:36 +0200 > Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 11:03:45 +0200 > > Francesco Talamona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub on a new disk

2008-07-06 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 10:08:29 +0100 Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just in case, you may want to try this: > > # grub <--Also use --no-floppy if it hangs probing a floppy drive > that doesn't exist--> > grub> root (hd2,0) <--If your /boot drive is e.g. in /dev/hdd1)--> > grub> setup (hd0) <-

Re: [gentoo-user] Uwe Thiem

2008-07-14 Thread Florian Philipp
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan McKinnon schrieb: | It's a sad day for me today. Uwe Thiem, who has been on this list longer | than I have, passed away on Friday. My friend Alastair put up a little | tribute here: | | http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=2574 | | What that page doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Mail on multiple laptops

2008-07-15 Thread Florian Philipp
Grant Edwards schrieb: On 2008-07-15, Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 03:25:58PM +, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2008-07-15, Nicolai Beuermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I was looking into IMAP but I can't really figure out how it works Maybe one can compare

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Mail on multiple laptops

2008-07-15 Thread Florian Philipp
Grant Edwards schrieb: On 2008-07-15, Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 08:00:22AM -0700, Michael Higgins wrote: On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:11:08 -0400 (EDT) "James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, July 15, 2008 9:05 am, Michael Pobega wrote: I've always had ju

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub on a new disk

2008-07-20 Thread Florian Philipp
Florian Philipp schrieb: On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 10:08:29 +0100 Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just in case, you may want to try this: # grub <--Also use --no-floppy if it hangs probing a floppy drive that doesn't exist--> grub> root (hd2,0) <--If your /boot drive is e.g

Re: [gentoo-user] Help! with a pam upgrade, lockout, etc.

2008-07-25 Thread Florian Philipp
Jayson Smith schrieb: Hi, I'm running Gentoo. As part of an unrelated package upgrade, PAM got upgraded. Ever since, or sometime afterward, anything requiring a username and password fails. My POP3 server fails, I can't even log in as root! If I try to log in at the console, it takes the use

Re: [gentoo-user] Sync'ing and compiling pkgs for multiple PCs

2008-07-31 Thread Florian Philipp
Simon schrieb: Your email is very long, so I'm not sure if I've taken it all in, but what I'd suggest is a shared /usr/portage directory (easily done by NFS) and distcc. This creates a dependency on the host that contains the portage tree. It also remove some flexibility. For example, taking

Re: [gentoo-user] Why does emerge -auvND world wants to install old gentoo-soruces?

2008-08-04 Thread Florian Philipp
Grant Edwards schrieb: I've got gentoo-sources 2.6.25-r7 installed, and that's the only verions of the kernel sources that I have installed. Suddenly (starting today) "emerge -auvtND world" wants to install an older version of gentoo-sources (2.6.25-r6), and I can't figure out why: Did you

Re: [gentoo-user] X doesn't work with Intel 915GM

2008-08-06 Thread Florian Philipp
Zhou Rui schrieb: Hi, I'm using a Intel 915 on board VGA card. After I install the Xorg, and run: # Xorg -configure # X -config xorg.conf.new The X startup failed but there is now error reported... I cannot find what's wrong with my config, so what should I do in this situation. For a start,

Re: [gentoo-user] X doesn't work with Intel 915GM

2008-08-07 Thread Florian Philipp
Zhou Rui schrieb: 2008/8/7 Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Zhou Rui schrieb: Hi, I'm using a Intel 915 on board VGA card. After I install the Xorg, and run: # Xorg -configure # X -config xorg.conf.new The X startup failed but there is now error reported... I cannot find what&#

Re: [gentoo-user] X doesn't work with Intel 915GM

2008-08-07 Thread Florian Philipp
Zhou Rui schrieb: 2008/8/7 Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Zhou Rui schrieb: 2008/8/7 Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Zhou Rui schrieb: Hi, I'm using a Intel 915 on board VGA card. After I install the Xorg, and run: # Xorg -configure # X -config xorg.conf.new The

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} High capacity backup plan needed

2008-08-09 Thread Florian Philipp
Grant schrieb: I'm struggling to come up with a plan for making backups that is both effective and economical. I have 4 Gentoo systems: 1. strong local desktop 2. weak local desktop 3. laptop 4. hosted remote server I'd like to backup the important system and data files from each of these syst

Re: [gentoo-user] [extremly, wildly, obscenely OT] Is there a Linux system without GNU userlands?

2008-08-10 Thread Florian Philipp
b.n. schrieb: Hi, I ask it here because I really don't know where to ask it. Is there a Linux system somewhere with a *non-GNU* userland? I wonder in particular if: - there are Linux systems using the BSD userlands - there are Linux systems using completely non-standard userlands... let's say

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] stretching AVI in time

2008-08-26 Thread Florian Philipp
Andrew Gaydenko schrieb: Sorry, my initial message wasn't clear: the final goal is to prepare DVD to adjust a geometry of a TV with CRT. P.S. Oh, this mencoder magic... :-) Most DVD-players nowadays can handle photo-CDs/DVDs. Have you tried to just put the JPEG on a CD? signature.asc D

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID with mixed drive sizes

2008-08-27 Thread Florian Philipp
Benoit St-Pierre schrieb: I'm in the planning stages of setting up a file server and am considering using RAID. My concern is that my drive sizes are mixed. I have two 500GB SATA drives, a 320GB IDE and a 250GB IDE. I would like to set these up so that the maximum amount of disk space is usable

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID with mixed drive sizes

2008-08-30 Thread Florian Philipp
Matthias Bethke schrieb: Hi Florian, on Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 10:29:07PM +0200, you wrote: Note1: NEVER EVER build some kind of RAID other than "Linear" (also called JBOD) over two IDE disks on the same cable. Performance will suffer greatly as will security because most simple onboard controlle

Re: [gentoo-user] Partition schme question

2008-09-02 Thread Florian Philipp
Neil Bothwick schrieb: On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 14:15:03 -0300, Ale wrote: I am thinking if i will get better performance mounting /var/tmp/ and/or /usr/portage in other partition. I use ext2 for each of these, as it is the fastest filesystem and journalling isn't needed for filesystems that cont

Re: [gentoo-user] Partition schme question

2008-09-02 Thread Florian Philipp
Alan McKinnon schrieb: On Tuesday 02 September 2008 21:14:25 Florian Philipp wrote: You should also consider putting them near the beginning of the disk. You can do this by booting a live-CD and use gparted to move your root-partition. These days you have absolutely no guarantee that a

[gentoo-user] OpenOffice quickstarter

2008-09-21 Thread Florian Philipp
is gone since 2.0.0 So, where is this quicklauncher? Thanks in advance! Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice quickstarter

2008-09-21 Thread Florian Philipp
Justin schrieb: Florian Philipp schrieb: Hi list! Somehow I think I'm missing something: As it seems, app-office/ooqstart-gnome and app-office/oooqs are going away real soon and there is supposed to be a quicklauncher which is emerged with app-office/openoffice. So far, so good, bu

Re: [gentoo-user] Correct Setup for DVDRAM

2008-10-03 Thread Florian Philipp
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > Hi, > > since I own a LG HD-LT-DT GSA-4163B bruner, which > allows to burn DVDRAM discs I try to generate a > setup, which successfully writes data to a DVDRAM. > > Everything else works fine. But writing a complete DVDRAM > takes "hours". As recommended I use UDF as

Re: [gentoo-user] new kernel, hdparm not happy

2008-10-05 Thread Florian Philipp
David Relson schrieb: > Greetings! > > I've recently updated from kernel 2.6.20 to 2.6.24 a little used > machine. The new kernel is working quite well. However hdparm isn't > happy. > > Running either "hdparm -d0 /dev/hda" or "hdparm -d1 /dev/hda" gives a > "HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation no

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] Correct Setup for DVDRAM

2008-10-08 Thread Florian Philipp
Simon schrieb: > Storing data on a dvd is always quite useful and dvds cost much less > than usb keys or other... I've been thinking about one thing. > > Is there any such thing as an incremental filesystem for > write-once-read-only media (ie. DVD+-R)?... > UDF is supposed to support this (see

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacements for ivman

2008-10-11 Thread Florian Philipp
Alan McKinnon schrieb: > I'm looking into ivman and pmount for automounting amongst other things while > using e17. > > ivman was last updated Feb 2007 according to the official sourceforge page, > and the maintainer is listed as "". 18 months is a long time, so this > package looks like it

Re: [gentoo-user] telnet program

2008-10-29 Thread Florian Philipp
Neil Bothwick schrieb: > On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:40:17 -0400, kcc wrote: > >> I want to install telnet client but couldn't find the emerge search > > net-misc/netkit-telnetd contains client and server. > > If you just need a client, you can also use the one in busybox: `busybox telnet` It sho

Re: [gentoo-user] telnet program

2008-10-29 Thread Florian Philipp
Neil Bothwick schrieb: > On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:33:56 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: > >> If you just need a client, you can also use the one in busybox: >> >> `busybox telnet` > > Or do "sudo ln -s busybox /bin/telnet" and you can call it as telnet. >

Re: [gentoo-user] lzma archives

2008-11-06 Thread Florian Philipp
Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto schrieb: > On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Nickolay Hodyunya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> How to extract lzma archives? > > by lzma archive, you probably mean a lzma-compressed tar archive. > You can extract them with > lzma -dc compressedarchive.tar.lzma | tar -xv -f

Re: [gentoo-user] Office web filtering

2008-11-08 Thread Florian Philipp
Stroller schrieb: > Hi there, > > Anyone got any suggestions regarding web filtering for a small office of > a dozen employees? > [...] > So what I'd prefer is really some kind of system that pops up a message > "this site cannot be displayed because it is in the filter category > [pr0n|frivolous

[gentoo-user] Bluez hcid.conf syntax

2008-11-14 Thread Florian Philipp
encrypt disable; } When I use this configuration I'm asked for a PIN for the connection, which - naturally - doesn't work. When I disable auth and encrypt for all devices, it works. Have I misunderstood the syntax for this file? Thanks in advance! Florian Philipp signature.asc

[gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.26 and iwl3945

2008-11-14 Thread Florian Philipp
out of ideas at the moment and Gentoo Bugzilla doesn't offer much on these topics. I've attached the kernel config and a part of dmesg where iwlwifi caused an oops after I've restarted the net.eth1 script but then it worked flawlessly. Thanks in advance! Florian Philipp kernel_config

Re: [gentoo-user] .mov files not showing video

2008-11-16 Thread Florian Philipp
Michael Moore schrieb: > Hi, > > I received a few quicktime files from a friend; however, when I play it > there is no video. The audio stream is fine. My friend can play it fine > in the application "Media Player Classic" for Microsoft Xp. > [...] > > Any pointers would be handy. > Can you po

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.26 and iwl3945

2008-11-16 Thread Florian Philipp
Florian Philipp schrieb: > Hi list! > > I recently updated from tuxonice-2.6.24-r9 to tuxonice-2.6.26. > > I hoped it would solve irregular kernel crashes on my Dell notebook and > would reactivate the wifi LED. However, it caused more problems than it > solved. [...] >

[gentoo-user] Add something to KDE's shutdown

2007-04-30 Thread Florian Philipp
wn ASAP. What would be the best way to do this? Thanks in advance, Florian Philipp pgpKsWmS1Z0UC.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk partition query

2007-05-01 Thread Florian Philipp
Stuart Howard: > I went brave and tried Alans method, I wanted a tidy disk :) > > Not to worry but for me [dont know my error ] it did not work and > killed my XP install, so reverted back to method A essentially and > reinstalled wingaming XP so all is fine now. > I shall consider it a lesson to r

Re: [gentoo-user] Add something to KDE's shutdown

2007-05-01 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Montag 30 April 2007 10:56 schrieb Hemmann, Volker Armin: > On Montag, 30. April 2007, Florian Philipp wrote: > > Hi guys! > > > > I'd like to let my system automatically back up every time I shutdown or > > reboot using KDE's menu entry with a simple scri

Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage

2007-05-04 Thread Florian Philipp
> I've found myself with a full hard disk and no obvious choices for > reducing usage. Are there any not-so-obvious ways to free up hard > disk space? > > - Grant If you like experimenting, you might consider this: http://e2compr.sourceforge.net/ I've not tested it myself and I've not even read

[gentoo-user] Backup /sys ?

2007-05-04 Thread Florian Philipp
ckup sys? Is it important for rebuilding the system after rm -rf / ? Thanks in advance, Florian Philipp pgpfMFqLbbn1Q.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup /sys ?

2007-05-04 Thread Florian Philipp
> On Friday 04 May 2007, Florian Philipp wrote: > > Hi guys! > > > > When trying to back up my system with rdiff-backup (everything except > > proc, tmp, mnt, media and distfiles) I get a lot of errors like this: > > First, please don't hijack threads. You

[gentoo-user] slocate's index

2007-05-07 Thread Florian Philipp
Hi! I would like to know if there is a package, daemon or whatever that automatically updates an index to seach the file system. I'm a bit tired of slocate -u [wait 5min] every time I emerge something. Thanks in advance Florian Philipp pgpwO3E2pMnjz.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] convert rpm to ebuild

2007-05-10 Thread Florian Philipp
ssing up portage? Is there something like "alien"? Thanks in advance Florian Philipp pgpwG6QaE8n2x.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] convert rpm to ebuild

2007-05-10 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Donnerstag 10 Mai 2007 21:53 schrieb Bo Ørsted Andresen: > On Thursday 10 May 2007 21:06:13 Florian Philipp wrote: > > I thought this question would be quiet common but I've been unable to get > > an answer googling and looking through howtos. Actually there are some > &

Re: [gentoo-user] convert rpm to ebuild

2007-05-10 Thread Florian Philipp
> quoth the b.n.: > > darren kirby ha scritto: > > > Well, you can install RPM... > > > > > > # emerge -p rpm > > > > > > You could then, presumably, install the RPM, though I have not ever > > > tried this: > > > # rpm -i foopackage.i386.rpm > > > > I fear this way Portage would not be aware of th

Re: [gentoo-user] convert rpm to ebuild

2007-05-10 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Donnerstag 10 Mai 2007 22:29 schrieb Bo Ørsted Andresen: > On Thursday 10 May 2007 22:16:59 Florian Philipp wrote: > > > > I thought this question would be quiet common but I've been unable to > > > > get an answer googling and looking through howtos. Actually th

Re: [gentoo-user] convert rpm to ebuild

2007-05-11 Thread Florian Philipp
> quoth the Florian Philipp: > > Maybe I should formulate another question: Where is the big difference > > between a binary ebuild and a binary rpm / deb and why is it so hard to > > convert them? > > Another thought: > > Unless I've missed it, you've

Re: [gentoo-user] noatime option is ignored for /

2007-05-13 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Sonntag 13 Mai 2007 15:48 schrieb Robert Cernansky: > Hello, > > I just found out that 'noatime' mount option is ignored on my system for > / (root) partition. In /etc/fstab I have entry for /: > > /dev/sda6 / ext3 noatime,usrquota,grpquota > > and 'mount' command shows: > > /

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting Started

2007-05-14 Thread Florian Philipp
tos. Just take a look to this site if there is a guide to your laptop [1]. If not, you can follow this one [2]. [1] http://tuxmobil.org/hp.html [2] http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ATI_Drivers Regards Florian Philipp pgpp32GWOpymC.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Funny comment made by kuroo.

2007-05-15 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Dienstag 15 Mai 2007 21:07 schrieb David Harel: > Greetings, > > > Using kuroo, sometimes I get a notice such as: QA Notice: Package has > poor programming practices which may compile fine but exhibit random > runtime failures. Any idea what trigers such as message? > > -- > Thanks. > > David Ha

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox & pluggins

2007-05-19 Thread Florian Philipp
easy to configure ? > What packages do I need ? Any tricks to make it work ? > Thanks to people who know, > > - > ~adj~ This one worked for me: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_AMD_64#nspluginwrapper The whole site might be interesting for you. Regards Florian Philipp pgpjWAQzhkK0R.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] strange system behaviour.

2007-05-21 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Montag 21 Mai 2007 09:08 schrieb Mick: > On Monday 21 May 2007 00:16, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 00:30 +0300, Nistor Andrei wrote: > > > On Monday 21 May 2007, Marek Miller wrote: > > > > Yes, it is a RAM defect. Is there a way to define upper limit of RAM, > > > > so I can p

[gentoo-user] Howto Read the Fine Manual

2007-05-22 Thread Florian Philipp
Hi! This question is so basic it's nearly embarrassing to ask... Why doesn't apropos or man -k find anything? For example: # man -k man man: nothing appropriate Thanks in advance Florian Philipp pgpqzhnBchGEd.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto Read the Fine Manual

2007-05-23 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Dienstag 22 Mai 2007 22:53 schrieb Bo Ørsted Andresen: > On Tuesday 22 May 2007 22:09:33 Florian Philipp wrote: > > Why doesn't apropos or man -k find anything? > > > > For example: > > # man -k man > > man: nothing appropriate > > sys-apps/man insta

[gentoo-user] Changing libaries

2007-05-25 Thread Florian Philipp
flag and re-emerged xine-lib but Kaffeine kept using the old lib which was still in RAM, I presume. Naturally, the problem was solved when he rebooted but I wonder how I could achieve the effect without rebooting. Thanks in advance Florian Philipp pgpIgCsINzPLt.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Semi OT: 64 bit processors, the Linux Kernel, and x86 Gentoo.

2007-05-25 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Freitag 25 Mai 2007 14:31 schrieb Denis: > > > What makes the difference between a 64 bit kernel, and a 32 bit kernel? > > > > Use of 64-bit machine code [*], particularly instructions that make use > > of 64-bit native[**] registers[***]. > > Is there any slowdown for the 64-bit set-up when it

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing libaries

2007-05-25 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Freitag 25 Mai 2007 15:39 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > -Original Message- > > From: Florian Philipp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 10:20 PM > > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > > Subject: [gentoo-user] Changing libaries > &

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