Re: [gentoo-user] Opera 8.00 random crashes

2005-04-23 Thread Dmitri Vassilenko
On Sunday April 24 2005 01:30, Robert Persson wrote: > Has anybody else been having the same trouble as me with Opera 8 crashing > all the time? Yes. I just get segfaults once in a while when I open a new tab. I couldn't stand this in beta2 and switched back to 7.54, which didn't have this prob

Re: [gentoo-user] Drawing petri-nets using Dia or XFig

2005-04-23 Thread W.Kenworthy
Try the gentoo-science list: your request may get lost in the noise here ... BillK On Sat, 2005-04-23 at 21:59 -0500, Hareesh Nagarajan wrote: > Hi, > > Are there extensions to XFig/Dia/Any_other_OSS_drawing_package for > drawing Petri-Nets? > > Thanks, > > Hareesh > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.o

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with setting up home router

2005-04-23 Thread askar ...
On 4/24/05, Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did you follow the gentoo home router guide? I suggest you start > over... with the line that says > > iptables -F > > you have LOTS of duplicate rules in your chain, and some of them > doesn't make sense: you don't want > > ACCEPT all -

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc-4.0.0?

2005-04-23 Thread Willie Wong
last I checked, the gcc4 ebuild isn't even hard-masked yet... it exists, but that's about it. Don't know if the "gentoo-user" list is the best place to ask this question at this moment. OTOH, searching around on the gentoo forums, it seems that some people are adventurous enough. Some problems the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to set monitor refresh rate in xorg

2005-04-23 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
Robert S wrote: I've looked at that - the "Monitor" section in my xorg.conf looks like this: Section "Monitor" Identifier "Dell" HorizSync31.0 - 54.0 VertRefresh 50.0 - 120.0 EndSection In other words, it allows a VertRefresh rate of up to 120. I looked at the Dell s

[gentoo-user] Opera 8.00 random crashes

2005-04-23 Thread Robert Persson
Has anybody else been having the same trouble as me with Opera 8 crashing all the time? It terminates suddenly and without warning. The problem is bad enough that I will have to go back to 7.54. The problem is not only with the opera-8.00 ebuild, but with both the dynamic and static tar.gz do

[gentoo-user] Re: Calculating Beats per Minute

2005-04-23 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/23/05, Peter Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I've not tried it myself, but I've read reports that you can do >> something like this with the sox tool. :-/ >> -- > > I hope it would be clear to folks that musicians are not metronomes. > There is no

Re: [gentoo-user] Iptables under IPV6 and USE questions.

2005-04-23 Thread Peter Gordon
Walter Dnes wrote: 1) First I'll have to rebuild my kernel with IPV6 support and reboot? Yes. You'll also need to enable the appropriate IPv6 netfilter options in your kernel. 2) I don't see the ip6tables binary anywhere on my system. Do I simply set +ipv6 in USE in /etc/make.conf and then run

[gentoo-user] gcc-4.0.0?

2005-04-23 Thread Jerry McBride
Anyone done anything "big" with the new compiler yet? Like an "emerge -e world"? -- ** Registered Linux User Number 185956 FSF Associate Member number 2340 since 05/20/2004

[gentoo-user] Iptables under IPV6 and USE questions.

2005-04-23 Thread Walter Dnes
My ISP appears to have at least some support for IPV6, which I can access even going through a NAT'ing ADSL-modem-cum-router. I know this because I got bitten by the Gentoo mirrorselect booby-trap when I installed. Now for the questions... 1) First I'll have to rebuild my kernel with IPV6 su

Re: [gentoo-user] WARNING: /etc removed from CONFIG_PROTECT portage-2.0.51.20

2005-04-23 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 12:22:41PM +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > > portage-2.0.51.20 is in ~x86, so my warning mainly applies to those who > > run a ~x86 system. > > strangely packages.gentoo.org reports that it is not available for any > systems. > I last synced about 5 hours ago, and I also see 2.

Re: [gentoo-user] Calculating Beats per Minute

2005-04-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On 4/23/05, Peter Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've not tried it myself, but I've read reports that you can do > something like this with the sox tool. :-/ > -- I hope it would be clear to folks that musicians are not metronomes. There is no specific BPM for any complete song other than tho

Re: [gentoo-user] WARNING: /etc removed from CONFIG_PROTECT portage-2.0.51.20

2005-04-23 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Sunday 24 April 2005 08:26, Renat Golubchyk wrote: > Hi! > > A big WARNING. > > Do NOT update to portage 2.0.51.20-r2! /etc has been removed from > CONFIG_PROTECT in make.globals, so your next update of baselayout will > overwrite your configs! Do not update portage until the issue is > resolved

[gentoo-user] Drawing petri-nets using Dia or XFig

2005-04-23 Thread Hareesh Nagarajan
Hi, Are there extensions to XFig/Dia/Any_other_OSS_drawing_package for drawing Petri-Nets? Thanks, Hareesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding support for Microsoft fonts in Open Office

2005-04-23 Thread Hareesh Nagarajan
On 4/23/05, Andrew Cowie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > /opt/Ximian-OpenOffice/share/fonts/truetype > /usr/share/fonts/corefonts > > Thanks! I did have to emerge corefonts as I didn't have it. -

Re: [gentoo-user] Calculating Beats per Minute

2005-04-23 Thread Peter Gordon
I've not tried it myself, but I've read reports that you can do something like this with the sox tool. :-/ -- () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email, /\ vCards, and proprietary formats. --- Peter A. Gordon (codergeek42) E-Mail: [EMAIL PRO

Re: [gentoo-user] WARNING: /etc removed from CONFIG_PROTECT portage-2.0.51.20

2005-04-23 Thread Peter Gordon
That's why you keep backups. ;-) Anyways, Thanks for the warning, Renat. I've added it to my package.mask just to be safe. (I'm running a full ~x86 setup on my desktop box.) Is -r1 safe to use? -- () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email, /\ vCards, and proprietary formats. -

Re: [gentoo-user] WARNING: /etc removed from CONFIG_PROTECT portage-2.0.51.20

2005-04-23 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 12:22:41 +1200 Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 02:06 +0200, Renat Golubchyk wrote: > > portage-2.0.51.20 is in ~x86, so my warning mainly applies to those > > who run a ~x86 system. > > strangely packages.gentoo.org reports that it is not available

Re: [gentoo-user] WARNING: /etc removed from CONFIG_PROTECT portage-2.0.51.20

2005-04-23 Thread Nick Rout
On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 02:06 +0200, Renat Golubchyk wrote: > On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:47:40 +1200 Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 01:26 +0200, Renat Golubchyk wrote: > > > Do NOT update to portage 2.0.51.20-r2! /etc has been removed from > > > CONFIG_PROTECT in make.glob

Re: [gentoo-user] WARNING: /etc removed from CONFIG_PROTECT portage-2.0.51.20

2005-04-23 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:47:40 +1200 Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 01:26 +0200, Renat Golubchyk wrote: > > Do NOT update to portage 2.0.51.20-r2! /etc has been removed from > > CONFIG_PROTECT in make.globals, so your next update of baselayout > > will overwrite your con

[gentoo-user] MythTV - recording (I think) but black on playback

2005-04-23 Thread Mark Knecht
Hello again, SHORT FORM: What is 'Xv support' and how do I set it up? xvinfo says 'screen #0 no adaptors present'. Thanks! BACKGROUND INFO: I've done some more testing of the PVR-250 at the command line and using all the /dev devices that seem to make sense. I recorded 1 minute of video using

[gentoo-user] Re: How to set monitor refresh rate in xorg

2005-04-23 Thread Robert S
I've looked at that - the "Monitor" section in my xorg.conf looks like this: Section "Monitor" Identifier "Dell" HorizSync31.0 - 54.0 VertRefresh 50.0 - 120.0 EndSection In other words, it allows a VertRefresh rate of up to 120. I looked at the Dell specs. It stil

Re: [gentoo-user] WARNING: /etc removed from CONFIG_PROTECT portage-2.0.51.20

2005-04-23 Thread Nick Rout
On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 01:26 +0200, Renat Golubchyk wrote: > Hi! > > A big WARNING. > > Do NOT update to portage 2.0.51.20-r2! /etc has been removed from > CONFIG_PROTECT in make.globals, so your next update of baselayout will > overwrite your configs! Do not update portage until the issue is > re

[gentoo-user] WARNING: /etc removed from CONFIG_PROTECT portage-2.0.51.20

2005-04-23 Thread Renat Golubchyk
Hi! A big WARNING. Do NOT update to portage 2.0.51.20-r2! /etc has been removed from CONFIG_PROTECT in make.globals, so your next update of baselayout will overwrite your configs! Do not update portage until the issue is resolved or you have a recent backup! See bug #90148: http://bugs.gentoo.or

[gentoo-user] Re: tweaking hdparm settings

2005-04-23 Thread James
Volker Armin Hemmann tu-clausthal.de> writes: > AFAIK, the readahead setting is a kernel-default thingie - nothing to fiddle > with. And nothing that is dependent on harddisk hardware (instead of > multicount). Instead, you should have used -c1 to activatte 32 bit io. I set c1 as you have sug

[gentoo-user] Calculating Beats per Minute

2005-04-23 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Another question about my music library. Are there any command-line tools available for Linux that will calculate the BPM of a music file? Bonus points if it'll traverse a library or update the files' metatada with the newly calculated value. This rules out BpmDJ, although input from anyoe who's

[gentoo-user] Re: vi is mising from the portage

2005-04-23 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Antoine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Vim's great, but sometimes you just want vi. >> >> I know a few people who swear by elvis, but I'm a little disappointed >> that portage lacks good ol' BSD vi (unless I'm missing it). > > http://www.vim.org/viusers.php What do I put in my ~/.vimrc to mak

[gentoo-user] Sorry

2005-04-23 Thread Al Bayrouni
Sorry. THIS POSTS are result of problems with my smtp.(my provider) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] cx88xx error

2005-04-23 Thread Al Bayrouni
Hello all, I compiled the kernel-2.6.11-r6 with videoforlinux support and conexant 2388xx support. When I modprobe cx88xx I have this error: FATAL: Error inserting cx88xx (/lib/modules/2.6.11-gentoo-r6/kernel/drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88xx.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see d

[gentoo-user] cx88xx error

2005-04-23 Thread Al Bayrouni
Hello all, I compiled the kernel-2.6.11-r6 with videoforlinux support and conexant 2388xx support. When I modprobe cx88xx I have this error: FATAL: Error inserting cx88xx (/lib/modules/2.6.11-gentoo-r6/kernel/drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88xx.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see d

[gentoo-user] cx88xx error

2005-04-23 Thread Al Bayrouni
Hello all, I compiled the kernel-2.6.11-r6 with videoforlinux support and conexant 2388xx support. When I modprobe cx88xx I have this error: FATAL: Error inserting cx88xx (/lib/modules/2.6.11-gentoo-r6/kernel/drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88xx.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (se

Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo Video

2005-04-23 Thread Nick Rout
OK so you got me wondering, and its raining and cold outside here, and sunday morning on a long week. My stage one install on the mini-itx box is too boring to watch so I had success in konqueror setting browser identification to "Netscape 4.76 on Mac ppc" - this is an athlon box, go figure.

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer compile error

2005-04-23 Thread H.J. Jung
On 4/23/05, Mrugesh Karnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: H.J. Jung wrote:>>> On 4/22/05, *Christoph Gysin* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:>> H.J . Jung wrote:>>  > When I try to compile Mplayer 1.0pre7 I get following errors:>  >>  > Checking for cc version ... 3.3.5-2005

Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo Video

2005-04-23 Thread Nick Rout
I don't know what yahoo tv is, but knowing yahoo I doubt I want it. However I have found that kaffeine seems to have the best browser integration for web based multimedia. On Sat, 2005-04-23 at 02:50 -0700, timothy johnson wrote: > What is the easiest way to get yahoo video working on gentoo, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice: emerge --resume

2005-04-23 Thread Kiawud
Taken from another email thread about the same subject: mel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -- 1. add the keyword "keepwork ccache" to FEATURES section in your make.conf 2. install ccache if you have not. emerge --resume will restart an emerg

Re: [gentoo-user] 1000Mbps NIC problems solved

2005-04-23 Thread Peter Gordon
Heh. That happens sometimes. :-) Glad you got it all figured out. -- () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email, /\ vCards, and proprietary formats. --- Peter A. Gordon (codergeek42) E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Public Key ID: 0x109DBECE GPG

Re: [gentoo-user] parallel emerge operations

2005-04-23 Thread Peter Gordon
If youput 'distlocks' in your FEATURES in /etc/make.conf, then Portage will use lockfiles to prevent different instances of Portage running from clobbering each other's file. If I'm not mistaken, this is on by default for most profiles. `man make.conf` for more information. :-) -- () The ASCII Rib

Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo Video

2005-04-23 Thread Peter Gordon
I don't know of any F/OSS way to do it, but I've heard success stories of people running IE6 through Wine. :-/ Perhaps that an help you. There're some guides on the forums I believe. -- () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email, /\ vCards, and proprietary formats.

Re: [gentoo-user] parallel emerge operations

2005-04-23 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 08:07:02AM -0400, Eric S. Johansson wrote: > last time I checked, one could not do two or more emerges at the same > time. Which raises the question would be OK to do an emerge fetch in > one process and a straight emerge on the same set of files on a second? > The rati

Re: [gentoo-user] mythtvbackend - starts but doesn't listen?

2005-04-23 Thread Mark Knecht
Lucien, Yes, this problem is solved now. There was a stale file called /var/lib/init.d/started/mythbackend that made the system think mythbacked was running when it wasn't. I removed that file and now the server is running: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /TVstorage/log $ ps aux | grep myth mark 18240 0

Re: [gentoo-user] Resolver not working

2005-04-23 Thread Alexander Kirillov
Have you checked /etc/host.conf and /etc/nsswitch.conf? Try a local name server and check the logs for the requests from your host. Sasha > I have tried more than one DNS server prior to posting the message. I can not > complete the installation because DNS is not working (unless I hard code the

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with setting up home router

2005-04-23 Thread Willie Wong
Did you follow the gentoo home router guide? I suggest you start over... with the line that says iptables -F you have LOTS of duplicate rules in your chain, and some of them doesn't make sense: you don't want ACCEPT all -- anywhereanywhere to be on the top of your INPUT chain, sinc

Re: [gentoo-user] mythtvbackend - starts but doesn't listen?

2005-04-23 Thread Lucien D.
that netstat command should be enough, on my box I get this: tv root # netstat -apn | grep 6543 tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:65430.0.0.0:* LISTEN 6678/mythbackend tcp0 0 127.0.0.1:6543 127.0.0.1:1115 ESTABLISHED 6678/mythbackend tcp

[gentoo-user] Re: mythtvbackend - starts but doesn't listen? (SOLVED)

2005-04-23 Thread Mark Knecht
Solved - For the record there was apparently a stale file in /var/lib/init.d/started. I didn't know anything about this directory. I removed that file using rm -f mythbackend and now mythtvbackend starts and stops correctly. [EMAIL PROTECTED] /TVstorage/log $ ps aux | grep myth mark 18240 0

Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice: emerge --resume

2005-04-23 Thread John Myers
On Tuesday 19 April 2005 05:01, Kurt Guenther wrote: > Just checking if I'm missing something. I resumed a merge that ran > over night and it appears to start from the beginning again. As this > merge won't complete in the 10 hrs I give it, is there some other trick > I can play? FYI: emerge --

Re: [gentoo-user] Wacky Mouse...

2005-04-23 Thread David Corbin
This problem continues. I've discovered the following: 1) The problem shows up with gpm, as well as X 2) I can plug in a USB mouse and it works fine. 3) If I boot into Windows (ugh), the touch pad works fine. (It's a bit slow in movement, but I assume that's driver settings). What's the likely

[gentoo-user] Gnome-light menu problems

2005-04-23 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Hi, I have installed gnome-light 2.8.1 on a new laptop, the result, i can't create a new item in the menu, its there if i see in the .gnome2/vfolders I have delete the vfolder. I can create starters on the desktop, but thats not so easy like the menu. I hate working like this. The contains of app

[gentoo-user] mythtvbackend - starts but doesn't listen?

2005-04-23 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, Continuing with my MythTV install this morning. I'm signed up with ZapIt and receiving cable TV channel info which I see correctly in mythtv-setup. However when I try to do the mythfilldatabase step I get a funny message that doesn't look right: dragonfly ~ # mythfilldatabase 2005-04-23 09:

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with gentoo 2005 bootstrapping

2005-04-23 Thread moonspollo
yes I did. any hits ? thank you!Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 20:22:01 -0700 (PDT), moonspollo wrote:> mounting loacl filesystem... > mount: mount point /proc/bus/usb does not exist > some local filesystem failed to mount Did you mount proc on /mnt/gentoo/proc before

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set monitor refresh rate in xorg

2005-04-23 Thread Matan Peled
Robert S wrote: > I've just installed a new Dell monitor. I've set the vert/horiz > refresh rates using the manufacturers' specs (congrats to Dell for > making these easily available). > > When I get into X I get a refresh rate of 60Hz by default, but I'm > able to increase this to 87 using the K

Re: [gentoo-user] parallel emerge operations

2005-04-23 Thread Magnus Varmfors
Hi there! I've done exactly this for quite some time. And I even implemented something resembling a program to do it for me, without the need for locking or other more advanced functionality. Ran it automatically every night, without supervision, and it worked fine for me. If you're interested, t

RE: [gentoo-user] Resolver not working

2005-04-23 Thread John Gallagher
I have tried more than one DNS server prior to posting the message. I can not complete the installation because DNS is not working (unless I hard code the mirrors in the host file). Is there any tools like dig or nslookup on the box at installation that I could test resolution with? I will also

Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo Video

2005-04-23 Thread Mark Knecht
Timothy, I asked about this quite awhile ago. No one seemed to have a working solution then. something about Yahoo not liking mplayer, etc. I'd love to get this going though. My wife and kid are using Linux now and they would love it. I'll be reading this thread and can try out any potential

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Network adapetors?

2005-04-23 Thread Stroller
On Apr 23, 2005, at 9:05 am, Devraj Mukherjee wrote: I am looking to switch to wireless networking and am unsure of which cards are well supported under Linux? I am looking for PCI styled cards and preferably ones that can do 54Mbps. Any experiences, suggestions? Prism54 cards work REALLY well

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with gentoo 2005 bootstrapping

2005-04-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 20:22:01 -0700 (PDT), moonspollo wrote: > mounting loacl filesystem... > mount: mount point /proc/bus/usb does not exist > some local filesystem failed to mount Did you mount proc on /mnt/gentoo/proc before chrooting? -- Neil Bothwick Headline: "Explosion At Sperm Bank,

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is video in Gentoo? (/dev/XXX)

2005-04-23 Thread Lucien D.
I believe ivtv comes with a perl script that lets u change channels. its called ptune.pl and its in the utils dir of the source.. If u compile from source u'll have to install the perl modules it relies on which I believe are all in portage. Video::Frequencies, Video::ivtv, Config::IniFiles, an

[gentoo-user] 1000Mbps NIC problems solved

2005-04-23 Thread fire-eyes
First off, thanks to those who responded kindly, it is really appreciated. I feel very silly, but apparently the problem is the system itself. All this time I was testing for speed by connecting to it from another system, and fetching a file via ftp. I never PUT one until yesterday, and then I did

[gentoo-user] Problems installing some parts of kde 3.4

2005-04-23 Thread Christian Herzyk
Hello all, I installed KDE 3.4 on my machine (mostly using the single packages not the meta packages). Most is running fine, but I cannot install some parts (ark and kde-i18n). When I try to merge them I get the following error: >>> emerge (1 of 1) kde-base/ark-3.4.0 to / >>> md5 files ;-) C

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the recommended order of maintenance updates?

2005-04-23 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: Probably, I can't see the whole range of effects, not having --update in the first emerge. obviously, I need to do more experimentation to understand the behavior. Although I will admit I'm running out of package I need to install. ;-) BTW Why you want to "fetch-all

[gentoo-user] parallel emerge operations

2005-04-23 Thread Eric S. Johansson
last time I checked, one could not do two or more emerges at the same time. Which raises the question would be OK to do an emerge fetch in one process and a straight emerge on the same set of files on a second? The rationale behind this is that if you can be fetching files prior to the time y

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the recommended order of maintenance updates?

2005-04-23 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Eric S. Johansson wrote: > Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: > >> This is not totally true, default useflag changes because >> "emerge --sync" update profiles or because you 've installed a >> particular package. >> This mean that after an emerge --sync sometimes run >> emerge --update --deep --newuse

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Network adapetors?

2005-04-23 Thread Matan Peled
Devraj Mukherjee wrote: > I am looking to switch to wireless networking and am unsure of which > cards are well supported under Linux? I am looking for PCI styled cards > and preferably ones that can do 54Mbps. > > Any experiences, suggestions? > > Thanks in advance. Well... I only know of the

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the recommended order of maintenance updates?

2005-04-23 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: This is not totally true, default useflag changes because "emerge --sync" update profiles or because you 've installed a particular package. This mean that after an emerge --sync sometimes run emerge --update --deep --newuse world is needed *twice* not only one time (t

Re: [gentoo-user] Who vets the gentoo front page ads?

2005-04-23 Thread Sami Samhuri
* On Tue Apr-19-2005 at 04:16:23 PM -0400, A. Khattri said: > On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Christoph Gysin wrote: > > > I assume he just wanted to get a life... > > Yeah, having a family, kids, will do that... Thanks for the warning. ;-) -- Sami Samhuri pgppNkeCa0xPe.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Resolver not working

2005-04-23 Thread Dominik Elsbroek
> livecd root # cat /etc/resolv.conf > nameserver 206.13.28.11 Did you try any other ns? like 194.25.0.68 or 194.25.0.60. Both "Deutsche Telekom" (german telecom). greets -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Admin system documentation

2005-04-23 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 21:57 -0500, kashani wrote: > > A few people I know are using Feather Linux to try to ghost partitions > and then lay them down on new machines. Haven't heard how well that's > working, but there was no reason why it would be an issue. > I use partimage for this.

Re: [gentoo-user] frame buffers

2005-04-23 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 16:00 -0400, A. Khattri wrote: > On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > Thanks Richard. So reading between the lines, frame buffers are ways > > of doing graphics when I'm not in X? Sort of like older DOS type > > graphics programs. It's talking to the hardware VGA and

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the recommended order of maintenance updates?

2005-04-23 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Dave Nebinger wrote: >> emerge portage >> etc-update [...] > >> emerge --update --deep --newuse world > > > You don't need --newuse unless you changed your use flags in /etc/make.conf. This is not totally true, default useflag changes because "emerge --sync" update profiles or because yo

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with setting up home router

2005-04-23 Thread askar ...
> What does iptables -L say? The result is: Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination ACCEPT all -- anywhere anywhere ACCEPT all -- anywhere anywhere REJECT udp -- anywhere anywhereudp dpt:bootp

Re: [gentoo-user] xpdf font problem?

2005-04-23 Thread Spoiala Cristian
On 4/22/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/22/05, Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 050422 Mark Knecht wrote: > > > Try http://linuxaudio.org/en/press/index.html > > > open # Issue 46: The Audacity of it! > > > Are the documents readable on your system? Not on mine. > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with setting up home router

2005-04-23 Thread Devraj Mukherjee
Is iptables setup properly? What does iptables -L say? Devraj askar ... wrote: FORWARD doesn't see those as destinated to 192.168.0.0/16, i guess. I'd rather use "state" module and write them as follows: iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED,RELATED \ -j ACCEPT iptables -A FO

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with setting up home router

2005-04-23 Thread askar ...
> FORWARD doesn't see those as destinated to 192.168.0.0/16, i guess. I'd > rather use "state" module and write them as follows: > > iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED,RELATED \ > -j ACCEPT > > iptables -A FORWARD -i eth1 -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED \ > -j ACCEP

[gentoo-user] Yahoo Video

2005-04-23 Thread timothy johnson
What is the easiest way to get yahoo video working on gentoo, and has anyone done it here? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] 1000Mbps NIC Getting 100Mbps speeds

2005-04-23 Thread Sascha Lucas
Right, everything except mii-tool (which apparently can't understand 1000Mbps) says 1000Mbps. ok. what I want to say is that mii-tool is knowen to report the wrong speed for all/some Gbit cards (just for the case of missunderstanding). Your setup seems to be fine. It's worth to try ping (floodpi

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is video in Gentoo? (/dev/XXX)

2005-04-23 Thread Christoph Gysin
Mark Knecht wrote: >>Are you using udev or devfs (or static devices) ? >> >> > Remember who you're talking to here Christoph. I'm a guitar >player, not an IT guy! ;-) > > Well, you're using gentoo. So I can assume (at least) that you can read, you're able to use google and finally will find

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the recommended order of maintenance updates?

2005-04-23 Thread Graham Murray
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Good point, Eric. Your point being that unless you stop and restart all > running daemons or other executables, you can't be sure that an updated > library is really being used. But you can easily check if anything is using an old (replaced) library. lsof | grep DEL

[gentoo-user] Wireless Network adapetors?

2005-04-23 Thread Devraj Mukherjee
I am looking to switch to wireless networking and am unsure of which cards are well supported under Linux? I am looking for PCI styled cards and preferably ones that can do 54Mbps. Any experiences, suggestions? Thanks in advance. -- Devraj Mukherjee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Eternity Technologies Pty.

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the recommended order of maintenance updates?

2005-04-23 Thread William Kenworthy
In my experience, you may get away with this regime for a short time on an almost new system, but it will almost invariably break an older system (due to "emerge depclean") The safest/most reasonable order is emerge sync glsa-check -l|grep "\[N" glsa-check -f AnyPackagesReportedAbove revdep-rebuil