Re: [gentoo-user] wiki software

2005-05-22 Thread Qian Qiao
On 22/05/05, Antoine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I am looking for wiki software to install for our company intranet and I > see that twiki is masked. Is this not the main wiki software? What do > others use? We would want the possibility to restrict write access but > apart from that we are

Re: [gentoo-user] what is the name of cdrom device decided by?

2005-05-22 Thread Janne Johansson
On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 12:45 +0800, ZeeGeek wrote: > On 5/23/05, jerry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When I used fedora, the cdrom device is named as "/dev/cdrom" . However, in > > my new gentoo system, it's recognized as /dev/hdd. > > > > Why is that? Could any one please explain it? > > > > And

Re: [gentoo-user] HTML is a security risk? (was: Re: No HTML in posts?)

2005-05-22 Thread Qian Qiao
The whole point of sending emails is to get others to read it, the simpler the mail is, the more client-friendly it will be, thus more people get/want to read it. When I fire up my mutt/pine, I don't want myself to become a human HTML parser, I'm there to read the emails, not to parse friggin HTML

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA drivers don't load - was Re: [gentoo-user] Soundcard not detected

2005-05-22 Thread Colin
Nick Rout wrote: On Mon, 23 May 2005 00:23:06 -0400 Colin wrote: I compiled ALSA as a module instead. That got rid of the above error, but /etc/init.d/alsasound still spits out the same error, but loads a few more modules: * Loading ALSA modules... [ ok ] * Loading: snd-card-0...

Re: [gentoo-user] what is the name of cdrom device decided by?

2005-05-22 Thread ZeeGeek
On 5/23/05, jerry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I used fedora, the cdrom device is named as "/dev/cdrom" . However, in > my new gentoo system, it's recognized as /dev/hdd. > > Why is that? Could any one please explain it? > > And how can I change that device name back to /dev/cdrom? > > Than

Re: [gentoo-user] HTML is a security risk? (was: Re: No HTML in posts?)

2005-05-22 Thread Andreas Karlsson
On Monday 23 May 2005 04.35, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > I don't think enabling HTML is a big risk. But, the risk does add to the > reasons I have for not reading HTML mails. I second that. There are NO apparent reason why one should post using HTML. If someone wants to show something that r

[gentoo-user] PCMCIA/USB2

2005-05-22 Thread Digby Tarvin
Anyone know of any good PCMCIA to USB2 cards (for adding USB ports to an older laptop) that work with gentoo Linux? Thanks, DigbyT -- Digby R. S. Tarvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digbyt.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA drivers don't load - was Re: [gentoo-user] Soundcard not detected

2005-05-22 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 23 May 2005 00:23:06 -0400 Colin wrote: > Nick Rout wrote: > > >go back to your original message Colin! > > > > When I went to run alsaconf, it said three times before the menu > >came up, "modinfo: could not find module snd" alsaconf seemed to work > >perfectly, and then it exited

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA drivers don't load - was Re: [gentoo-user] Soundcard not detected

2005-05-22 Thread Colin
Nick Rout wrote: go back to your original message Colin! When I went to run alsaconf, it said three times before the menu came up, "modinfo: could not find module snd" alsaconf seemed to work perfectly, and then it exited with a cheerful message. looks like you are missing snd.ko. I am n

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-22 Thread Jonathan Nichols
I'm very against HTML mail, just for the record. That being said, aren't there HTML filters for command line mail clients that will strip tags from your view of the text and make it more readable? Just wondering. You can do it with procmail, but it's a lot less painful to just clobber the

[gentoo-user] what is the name of cdrom device decided by?

2005-05-22 Thread jerry
When I used fedora, the cdrom device is named as "/dev/cdrom" . However, in my new gentoo system, it's recognized as /dev/hdd. Why is that? Could any one please explain it? And how can I change that device name back to /dev/cdrom? Thank you. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] portage v. yum with regards to java

2005-05-22 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 23 May 2005 03:46:27 +0100 THUFIR HAWAT wrote: > On 5/23/05, Mark Shields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > > I can't give you a factual answer, but I can give you a guess: it's > > possible yum has different guidelines on including files, such as > > the sun-jdk you pointed out. Lice

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-22 Thread James Colannino
Qian Qiao wrote: >Have you had any chance to read your emails under a command line >environment? I bet you won't like it, :P > > I'm very against HTML mail, just for the record. That being said, aren't there HTML filters for command line mail clients that will strip tags from your view of the

Re: [gentoo-user] portage v. yum with regards to java

2005-05-22 Thread Wade Brown
One simple fact, the ebuilds don't rely on the rpms, they use the self-extracting binaries distributed by Sun. Check the ebuild for 1.5.0.03: x86file="jdk-${MY_PVA}-linux-i586.bin" Sun distributes their JDK and JRE in two formats, the broken RPM you mentioned, and a generic self extracting/insta

Re: [gentoo-user] resume emerge after reboot

2005-05-22 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 28 April 2005 06:20 am, Tamas Sarga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to do an emerge -e world. It would take 3 days, but I can't > sleep next to my machine, 'cause of the sound of the 7000RPM CPU cooler. > If I start an emerge, then C-c it, shutdown, start the PC at morning, > can

Re: [gentoo-user] portage v. yum with regards to java

2005-05-22 Thread THUFIR HAWAT
On 5/23/05, Mark Shields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > I can't give you a factual answer, but I can give you a guess: it's > possible yum has different guidelines on including files, such as > the sun-jdk you pointed out. Licensing restrictions, maybe? But > no, that wouldn't make sense. O

Re: [gentoo-user] portage v. yum with regards to java

2005-05-22 Thread Nick Rout
A recent linux journal article postulated that writing custom package descriptions was easier in gentoo than in other packaging systems. ie it agreed with you that it is easier to write an ebuild than a rpm spec file or the debian equivalent. I agree too, because it just is easier & simpler IMHO.

[gentoo-user] HTML is a security risk? (was: Re: No HTML in posts?)

2005-05-22 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 22 May 2005 07:28 pm, Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not asking for the list to use HTML. I'm quite happy using plain > text. I was asking why Boyd thought HTML could be a security risk. 1) Parsing HTML adds more places for buffer overflow. Not a huge risk, but it's easier for a

Re: [gentoo-user] portage v. yum with regards to java

2005-05-22 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
My 2 cents worth. I used RPM for a long time, went to Gentoo about three years ago. This year I had to start using FC2 and FC3. I've been trying to use apt-get and looked at yum. Both of those made me appreciate how good portage is and how many packages we have available. Frankly both apt

Re: [gentoo-user] portage v. yum with regards to java

2005-05-22 Thread Nick Rout
I thought so, but it wasn't very clear. yum is not a packaging system, it is a front end to a packaging system (rpm) [1]. It will work on a number of different distros. You need to ask each distro why it does not package a particular program, or version thereof. http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yu

Re: [gentoo-user] portage v. yum with regards to java

2005-05-22 Thread Mark Shields
He's asking exactly that: why is a package in portage that's isn't allowed in yum, while both programs are 'repositories' of sorts. I can't give you a factual answer, but I can give you a guess: it's possible yum has different guidelines on including files, such as the sun-jdk you pointed out. L

Re: [gentoo-user] portage v. yum with regards to java

2005-05-22 Thread Nick Rout
what are you asking? On Mon, 23 May 2005 02:12:43 +0100 THUFIR HAWAT wrote: > what is about portage which allows > , which > don't exist in yum? > > > thanks, > > Thufir > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout --

Re: [gentoo-user] no /dev/v4l devices after switching to udev? (possibly)

2005-05-22 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
You're welcome. It may have been getting rid of the tarball and then when something needed it the devices got created. If I remember correctly devfs did that - when you needed it the device was created but I haven't looked into udev. I moved to it when I went from 2.4.x to 2.6.x a while back

Re: [gentoo-user] no /dev/v4l devices after switching to udev? (possibly)

2005-05-22 Thread Mark Knecht
Brett, Thanks for your help. One way or another it finally started working. I don't know yet whether it will survive a reboot. I'll probably do that test later this evening or tomorrow but at least I'm finally getting v4l devices. I think it was most likely a combination of not using the exi

[gentoo-user] portage v. yum with regards to java

2005-05-22 Thread THUFIR HAWAT
what is about portage which allows , which don't exist in yum? thanks, Thufir -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] pcHDTV300 - Almost there, I *think*

2005-05-22 Thread Jason Cooper
Michael Haan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > Ok, finally, the card loads: > > cx2388x dvb driver version 0.0.4 loaded cx88[0]: subsystem: 7063:3000, > board: pcHDTV HD3000 HDTV [card=22,autodetected] saa7115: starting > probe for adapter cx88[0] (0x1001b) tuner 1-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 > (cx88[0

[gentoo-user] Panasonic Toughbook

2005-05-22 Thread Ian K
Hi there, I have recently set up Gentoo on my friend's laptop, a Panasonic toughbook cf-37. I am currently having difficulty with sound use, but more importantly, his PCMCIA slot(?). When I put his wireless card (which he needs working) into the laptop, and do a dmesg, the following is appended: c

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA drivers don't load - was Re: [gentoo-user] Soundcard not detected

2005-05-22 Thread Nick Rout
On Sun, 22 May 2005 13:48:44 -0400 Colin wrote: > A. R. wrote: > > >When you enabled your card in the ALSA kernel config, did you select > >it as a module? > >Can you find the module files in the following directory? > >/lib/modules/2.6.11-gentoo-r9/kernel/sound > > > > > I tried compiling

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-22 Thread Peng
On 05/22/05 13:10, A. Khattri wrote: On Sun, 22 May 2005, Peng wrote: Meh. I do not have JavaScript enabled in Thunderbird, and I don't even know if it can have Java support. And I'm just not too worried about an HTML vulnerability. And if there is one, I'm quite sure Mozilla will fix it promp

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-22 Thread Peng
On 05/22/05 12:40, Qian Qiao wrote: On 22/05/05, Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 05/21/05 22:02, David Stanek wrote: As far as security, if the browser supports Java or JavaScript then bad things can happen. Or possibly an exploit for the HTML rendering engine. Many more chances for bad th

[gentoo-user] pcHDTV300 - Almost there, I *think*

2005-05-22 Thread Michael Haan
Ok, finally, the card loads: cx2388x dvb driver version 0.0.4 loaded cx88[0]: subsystem: 7063:3000, board: pcHDTV HD3000 HDTV [card=22,autodetected] saa7115: starting probe for adapter cx88[0] (0x1001b) tuner 1-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (cx88[0]) tuner 1-0061: type set to 52 (Thomson DDT 7610 (ATSC/

Re: [gentoo-user] shutdown

2005-05-22 Thread Peng
On 05/22/05 17:09, Jaap van Geffen wrote: On Sun, 22 May 2005 04:01:52 -0400, John Dangler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: During shutdown, I get 2 errors - ERROR: problems stopping dependent services. "bootmisc" is still up. ERROR: problems stopping dependent services. "clock" is still up. Fur

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
> > > > Then I request blocking all html-mails! > > > > Take that, stupid discussion! > > I think the chances of anyone from infra reading this thread (or still > reading it after it's been dragged out for so long) are pretty unlikely. > > Feel free to create a bug at bugs.gentoo.org about it thou

[gentoo-user] Dual-Head PCI console

2005-05-22 Thread Ognjen Bezanov
Hi all I am planning on setting up a dual-head display for a cluster project im doing. The idea is that two consoles (no Xwindows) can be displayed on two seperate screens. For example terminals F1 to F4 are for one screen and F5 to F8 the other. Is this possible? We were thinking on perhaps u

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo, LWS and Slackware for linux learner?

2005-05-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Hi, > http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=major written about > Slackware "...if you need help with your Linux box, find a Slackware > user. A Slackware user is more likely to fix the problem than a user > familiar with any other distribution...". Is it true? well Slackware is the distribut

[gentoo-user] Re: cx88_dvb: Unknown symbol cx22702_attach

2005-05-22 Thread Michael Haan
On 5/22/05, Michael Haan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anybody know how to fix this? > > Gentoo 2005.0 > AMD64 > vanilla sources 2.6.12-rc4 > pcHDTV300 / PVR 350 > SOLVED: http://seclists.org/lists/linux-kernel/2005/May/2383.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Plone

2005-05-22 Thread Kirk Lowery
Haim Ashkenazi wrote: > Your problem seems to be in CMFPhoto. somehow it tries to list files in > '/root' and it fails because it doesn't have permissions. either it's a > configuration problem, or it's a bug (I see that both zope and plone > you've installed are testing versions). If this is a c

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-22 Thread David Morgan
On 01:15 Mon 23 May , Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > that means, if someone (like me) requests blocking of html-mails on the > list-servers, this discussion will be gone? (well of course.. when no > html-mails are coming through, nobody can dsiscuss them...) > > Then I request blocking all ht

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sunday 22 May 2005 19:21, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > | I dont know why people are even discussing this. Posting in HTML is an > | absolute NO NO. It ignores those people that dont have (or want) HTML > | support in their email software and is poor netiquette. > > They're discussing it because no-

[gentoo-user] cx88_dvb: Unknown symbol cx22702_attach

2005-05-22 Thread Michael Haan
Anybody know how to fix this? Gentoo 2005.0 AMD64 vanilla sources 2.6.12-rc4 pcHDTV300 / PVR 350 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] RESOLVED: No sound: ALSA and software suspend2

2005-05-22 Thread Gabriel M. Beddingfield
This is in reference to: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-user&m=111525434728903&w=2 Summary of problem: Audio in KDE didn't work when switching from 2.6.9 kernel to 2.6.11 kernel. Resolution/workaround: 1. Open KMix mixer window 2. Select "Switches" tab 3. Turn off both "Headphone Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] shutdown

2005-05-22 Thread Jaap van Geffen
On Sun, 22 May 2005 04:01:52 -0400, John Dangler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: During shutdown, I get 2 errors - ERROR: problems stopping dependent services. "bootmisc" is still up. ERROR: problems stopping dependent services. "clock" is still up. Further down, I get a message saying "saving r

Re: [gentoo-user] No floppy drives found by 2005.0 install CD

2005-05-22 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 12:07:01AM -0400, A. Khattri wrote > On Sat, 21 May 2005, Walter Dnes wrote: > > > I saw this on one machine, and thought maybe the machine was flakey. > > Now I see it on another machine. The 2005.0 install CD comes up with a > > gazillion devices in /dev but there is n

Re: [gentoo-user] Browsing Network

2005-05-22 Thread A. Khattri
On Sun, 22 May 2005, Ryan Viljoen wrote: > Does anyone have any suggestions or such on how to go about browsing a > network? A command line app or gui either will do... Currently I have > the IP and folder name that I want to mount. Others have mentioned > using smbclient to access the dir but I r

Re: [gentoo-user] no /dev/v4l devices after switching to udev? (possibly)

2005-05-22 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Try the tarball no. It may be using the old devfs tarball. On Sun, 22 May 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: On 5/22/05, Brett I. Holcomb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Okay. That's not it. Here's what I have in /etc/conf.d/rc that pertains to udev/devfs. I assume you have RC_DEVFSD_STARTUP set to no bu

Re: [gentoo-user] Browsing Network

2005-05-22 Thread Andreas Karlsson
On Sunday 22 May 2005 23.00, Ryan Viljoen wrote: > hi all > > Does anyone have any suggestions or such on how to go about browsing a > network? A command line app or gui either will do... Currently I have > the IP and folder name that I want to mount. Others have mentioned > using smbclient to acce

Re: [gentoo-user] Browsing Network

2005-05-22 Thread Ryan Viljoen
I want to browse the "network neighbourhood" (excuse the windows terminology). I use ROX and mc however I do know that you can use smb:// in konqueror. On 5/22/05, Johannes Weiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 11:00:18PM +0200, Ryan Viljoen wrote: > > hi all > > > > Does an

Re: [gentoo-user] Browsing Network

2005-05-22 Thread Johannes Weiner
On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 11:00:18PM +0200, Ryan Viljoen wrote: > hi all > > Does anyone have any suggestions or such on how to go about browsing a > network? A command line app or gui either will do... Currently I have > the IP and folder name that I want to mount. Others have mentioned > using smb

Re: [gentoo-user] no /dev/v4l devices after switching to udev? (possibly)

2005-05-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On 5/22/05, Brett I. Holcomb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay. That's not it. Here's what I have in /etc/conf.d/rc that pertains > to udev/devfs. I assume you have RC_DEVFSD_STARTUP set to no but what > about the tarball? > > # Set to "yes" if you want to save /dev to a tarball on shutdown > #

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

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

[gentoo-user] Browsing Network

2005-05-22 Thread Ryan Viljoen
hi all Does anyone have any suggestions or such on how to go about browsing a network? A command line app or gui either will do... Currently I have the IP and folder name that I want to mount. Others have mentioned using smbclient to access the dir but I really would like to be able to browse...

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo, LWS and Slackware for linux learner?

2005-05-22 Thread Sami Samhuri
* On Mon May-23-2005 at 12:08:18 AM +0600, askar ... said: [...] > apt-get-like comfortable tools? That was my second question. What you > recommend for those, who would like to learn linux from fundamentals? > In order to do so, I think, learner has to do everything manually. I > haven't installed

Re: [gentoo-user] no /dev/v4l devices after switching to udev? (possibly)

2005-05-22 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Okay. That's not it. Here's what I have in /etc/conf.d/rc that pertains to udev/devfs. I assume you have RC_DEVFSD_STARTUP set to no but what about the tarball? # Set to "yes" if you want to save /dev to a tarball on shutdown # and restore it on startup. This is useful if you have a lot of

Re: [gentoo-user] fallback dns servers

2005-05-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, May 22, 2005 8:18 pm, Jean Magnan de Bornier said: >> /etc/conf.d/net/example :) >> > I don't have such a directory (/etc/conf.d/net/). Sorry, that should be /etc/conf.d/net.example -- Neil Bothwick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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

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

Re: [gentoo-user] fallback dns servers

2005-05-22 Thread Johannes Weiner
> > /etc/conf.d/net/example :) > > > I don't have such a directory (/etc/conf.d/net/). I found a complete > /etc/conf.d/net file on another machine but saw no preup() function there > (my system is up-to-date) > Maybe I missed something? Yes, it's in the /etc/conf.d/net.example -- Today is Boomt

Re: [gentoo-user] wiki software

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

Re: [gentoo-user] fallback dns servers

2005-05-22 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
Le 22 mai à 20:11:00 Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit notamment: > On Sun, 22 May 2005 18:20:29 +0200, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: > >> > See the preup() function in /etc/conf.d/net, this is executed before >> > the interface is brought up. >> > >> Thanks Neil, I adopted Walter's soluti

Re: [gentoo-user] weird permissions problem

2005-05-22 Thread Antoine
Renat Golubchyk wrote: > On Sun, 22 May 2005 19:23:41 +0200 Antoine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >>Hi, >>Anyone seen this before on reiser3 (as root and user is the same...)? >> >>tux Cod # ls -l DivX4FullInstaller.exe >>-rwxrwxrwx 1 antt users 726306 Sep 5 2004 DivX4FullInstaller.exe >>tux C

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo, LWS and Slackware for linux learner?

2005-05-22 Thread Philip Webb
050523 askar wrote: -- long rambling history snipped (smile) -- > Gentoo, Slackware and LFS are all source based distros. no: LFS is not a distro, but a form of education in Linux; Slackware is not source-based, tho' it is rather crude to outsiders; Gentoo is a source-based distro (there are a few

[gentoo-user] kde 3.3 monolothic to kde 3.4 splitted helper script?

2005-05-22 Thread Julien Cayzac
Hi, Has anybody already written a script which looks at the contents of a kde 3.3 install (and kde apps that relies on it) and outputs a listing of the splitted ebuilds required to get the same install with kde 3.4 ? Julien. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] weird permissions problem

2005-05-22 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Sun, 22 May 2005 19:23:41 +0200 Antoine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > Anyone seen this before on reiser3 (as root and user is the same...)? > > tux Cod # ls -l DivX4FullInstaller.exe > -rwxrwxrwx 1 antt users 726306 Sep 5 2004 DivX4FullInstaller.exe > tux Cod # rm -f DivX4FullInstaller.

Re: [gentoo-user] no /dev/v4l devices after switching to udev? (possibly)

2005-05-22 Thread Mark Knecht
Brett, Thanks. Looking at 50.xxx there are rules for v4l devices but for some reason they do not seem to be turning on: # v4l devices KERNEL="video[0-9]*", NAME="v4l/video%n", SYMLINK="video%n", GROUP="video" KERNEL="radio[0-9]*", NAME="v4l/radio%n", GROUP="video" KERNEL="vbi[0-9]*", NA

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo, LWS and Slackware for linux learner?

2005-05-22 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 22 May 2005 21:18:02 +0300 Ivan Lucian Aron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | well portage compiles/makes/makes installs for you and keeps a | database. but considering that compiling by hand isn't such a big | deal, think of emerge/portage like just a tool that does | ./configure;make;make inst

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo, LWS and Slackware for linux learner?

2005-05-22 Thread Ivan Lucian Aron
hum.. well portage compiles/makes/makes installs for you and keeps a database. but considering that compiling by hand isn't such a big deal, think of emerge/portage like just a tool that does ./configure;make;make install for you. On 5/22/05, askar ... <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear everybody!

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo, LWS and Slackware for linux learner?

2005-05-22 Thread askar ...
Sorry again and againg. In subject line, read LFS instead LWS. askar On 5/23/05, askar ... <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry, in the subject line I mean "LSF" instead "LWS". > > askar > > On 5/23/05, askar ... <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear everybody! > > > > I have one topic to discuss.

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo, LWS and Slackware for linux learner?

2005-05-22 Thread askar ...
Sorry, in the subject line I mean "LSF" instead "LWS". askar On 5/23/05, askar ... <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear everybody! > > I have one topic to discuss. > I'm not native speaker in english, but I will try. > > My first linux was Debian. I began using it in 1999 in fall, just > because m

Re: [gentoo-user] fallback dns servers

2005-05-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 22 May 2005 18:20:29 +0200, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: > > See the preup() function in /etc/conf.d/net, this is executed before > > the interface is brought up. > > > Thanks Neil, I adopted Walter's solution but I'll look at yours (I will > have to find a fresh /etc/conf.d/net, as I wip

[gentoo-user] Gentoo, LWS and Slackware for linux learner?

2005-05-22 Thread askar ...
Dear everybody! I have one topic to discuss. I'm not native speaker in english, but I will try. My first linux was Debian. I began using it in 1999 in fall, just because my senior course mate was using it. After that for me it was interesting to install several distros: Mandrake, Miracle, Turbo,

Re: [gentoo-user] Init script and input file

2005-05-22 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 22 May 2005 08:38 am, Luigi Pinna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello! > I built a crypt device and I want to mount it during the boot time but I > don't want to save the password in a file to use as input file. > I would that the system wait that I insert the password by hand... > Is it

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA drivers don't load - was Re: [gentoo-user] Soundcard not detected

2005-05-22 Thread Colin
A. R. wrote: When you enabled your card in the ALSA kernel config, did you select it as a module? Can you find the module files in the following directory? /lib/modules/2.6.11-gentoo-r9/kernel/sound I tried compiling in Aureal Vortex support, but when that also didn't work, I compiled it

Re: [gentoo-user] alcatel speedtouch usb modem

2005-05-22 Thread Johannes Weiner
On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 02:13:11PM -0300, Marcelo Cardoso Martinelli wrote: > has anyone been able to get the alcatel speedtouch usb modem to work > with Gentoo 2005.0? i've tried the instructions available in the > forums with no sucess. thanks. > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Foun

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA drivers don't load - was Re: [gentoo-user] Soundcard not detected

2005-05-22 Thread Colin
Christoph Eckert wrote: When I went to run alsaconf, it said three times before the menu came up, "modinfo: could not find module snd" alsaconf seemed to work perfectly, and then it exited with a cheerful message. what's in your /etc/modules.d/alsa after running alsaconf? Everything l

Re: [gentoo-user] Init script and input file

2005-05-22 Thread =?X-UNKNOWN?Q?Jos=E9_Angel_Rodr=EDguez_Leyva?=
On Sun, 22 May 2005, Ivan Lucian Aron wrote: use read -s to hide the output either that or stty -echo a fancy one: PASS=`dialog --passwordbox "Enter passphrase" 8 55 2>&1` -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] fallback dns servers

2005-05-22 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
Le 22 mai à 18:39:09 Johannes Weiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit notamment: >> Thanks Neil, I adopted Walter's solution but I'll look at yours (I will >> have to find a fresh /etc/conf.d/net, as I wiped out all unncessary >> lines). :-( >> > > It's in the baselayout, simply extract it from there

Re: [gentoo-user] no /dev/v4l devices after switching to udev? (possibly)

2005-05-22 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
You may need to define the devices in /etc/udev/rules/10.. The 50.xxx file is for standard devices but you can add some - I've done that for a couple of my devices. If you haven't already Gentoo docs have a udev guide with links to some good sites. On Sun, 22 May 2005, Mark Knecht wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-22 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 22 May 2005 13:10:57 -0400 (EDT) "A. Khattri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Sun, 22 May 2005, Peng wrote: | > Meh. I do not have JavaScript enabled in Thunderbird, and I don't | > even know if it can have Java support. And I'm just not too worried | > about an HTML vulnerability. And if t

Re: [gentoo-user] Init script and input file

2005-05-22 Thread Rumen Yotov
Luigi Pinna wrote: >Hello! >I built a crypt device and I want to mount it during the boot time but I >don't want to save the password in a file to use as input file. >I would that the system wait that I insert the password by hand... >Is it possible to do it? >I put the calling to the mount scrip

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-22 Thread A. Khattri
On Sun, 22 May 2005, Peng wrote: > Meh. I do not have JavaScript enabled in Thunderbird, and I don't even > know if it can have Java support. And I'm just not too worried about an > HTML vulnerability. And if there is one, I'm quite sure Mozilla will fix > it promptly. I dont know why people are

[gentoo-user] alcatel speedtouch usb modem

2005-05-22 Thread Marcelo Cardoso Martinelli
has anyone been able to get the alcatel speedtouch usb modem to work with Gentoo 2005.0? i've tried the instructions available in the forums with no sucess. thanks. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] weird permissions problem

2005-05-22 Thread Johannes Weiner
On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 07:23:41PM +0200, Antoine wrote: > Hi, > Anyone seen this before on reiser3 (as root and user is the same...)? > > tux Cod # ls -l DivX4FullInstaller.exe > -rwxrwxrwx 1 antt users 726306 Sep 5 2004 DivX4FullInstaller.exe > tux Cod # rm -f DivX4FullInstaller.exe > rm: can

[gentoo-user] weird permissions problem

2005-05-22 Thread Antoine
Hi, Anyone seen this before on reiser3 (as root and user is the same...)? tux Cod # ls -l DivX4FullInstaller.exe -rwxrwxrwx 1 antt users 726306 Sep 5 2004 DivX4FullInstaller.exe tux Cod # rm -f DivX4FullInstaller.exe rm: cannot remove `DivX4FullInstaller.exe': Permission denied Cheers Antoine

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-22 Thread Qian Qiao
On 22/05/05, Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 05/21/05 22:02, David Stanek wrote: > > > > As far as security, if the browser supports Java or JavaScript then > > bad things can happen. Or possibly an exploit for the HTML rendering > > engine. Many more chances for bad things to happen...thats w

Re: [gentoo-user] fallback dns servers

2005-05-22 Thread Johannes Weiner
> Thanks Neil, I adopted Walter's solution but I'll look at yours (I will > have to find a fresh /etc/conf.d/net, as I wiped out all unncessary > lines). :-( > It's in the baselayout, simply extract it from there. HTH, hannes pgpOVEcyAEd2d.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Init script and input file

2005-05-22 Thread Pat Kerwan
On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 06:05:41PM +0200, Johannes Weiner wrote: > On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 05:11:11PM +0200, Luigi Pinna wrote: > > Alle 16:49, domenica 22 maggio 2005, Johannes Weiner ha scritto: > > > > > Yeah encryption is not bad, but I wondered why to mount the disks at > > > once at bootti

Re: [gentoo-user] fallback dns servers

2005-05-22 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
Le 22 mai à 12:15:44 Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit notamment: > On Sat, 21 May 2005 12:35:45 +0200, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: > >> I want to execute "ln -sf /etc/resolv.conf.fac /etc/resolv.conf" >> *before* /etc/init.d/net.eth0, so that if I am at the "fac" (my office) >> location

Re: [gentoo-user] Init script and input file

2005-05-22 Thread Ivan Lucian Aron
On 5/22/05, Johannes Weiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 05:11:11PM +0200, Luigi Pinna wrote: > > Alle 16:49, domenica 22 maggio 2005, Johannes Weiner ha scritto: > > > > > Yeah encryption is not bad, but I wondered why to mount the disks at > > > once at boottime and make t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Installing on Firewire drive?

2005-05-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On 5/22/05, Charles Trois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > Sorry for a slight misunderstanding: I mentioned Yellow Dog just to > indicate that it had given confirmation that the 1394 drive is well > alive, and that its address is /dev/sdb. > > mac-fdisk is the command that is prescribed

Re: [gentoo-user] Init script and input file

2005-05-22 Thread Johannes Weiner
On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 05:11:11PM +0200, Luigi Pinna wrote: > Alle 16:49, domenica 22 maggio 2005, Johannes Weiner ha scritto: > > > Yeah encryption is not bad, but I wondered why to mount the disks at > > once at boottime and make the booting progress stop to enter the > > passphrase. You cand m

Re: [gentoo-user] public time server

2005-05-22 Thread =?UTF-8?B?QW5kcmVhcyBQcmllw58=?=
Joseph wrote: > I used these two time servers in the past with rdate and didn't have > much problem: > tick.usno.navy.mil > time.nist.gov > > However, I couldn't get any one of the to work yesterday, the first one > is working fine on windows but not with Linux. > > They respond to ping correctly

[gentoo-user] no /dev/v4l devices after switching to udev? (possibly)

2005-05-22 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I'm not 100% sure of this but I've been trying to set up a MythTV backend on a second system. The system was running and older kernel and devfs. I updated the kernel to 2.6.11-gentoo-r9 and included v4l support built into the kernel. I was using devfs at that time yesterday. I *thought* that

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

2005-05-22 Thread Qian Qiao
Hi, I'm trying to get nvsound to work on my nforce4 SLI mobo. I've got CONFIG_SOUND=y in my kernel configuration, and I unset CONFIG_SND and CONFIG_SOUND_PRIME. I emerged alsa-oss alsa-utils and nforce-audio and added nvsound in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6. I added the line alias sound-s

[gentoo-user] Re: Installing on Firewire drive?

2005-05-22 Thread Charles Trois
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : [gentoo-user] Installing on Firewire drive? 11039 - Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sujet: Re: [gentoo-user] Installing on Firewire drive? Expéditeur: Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date

[gentoo-user] Upgrade ndiswrapper

2005-05-22 Thread Patrick
Hi, I'm using on my home server the ndiswrapper, can i upgrade without problems or are there some caveats i must know of ? net-wireless/ndiswrapper-1.1-r1 [0.12-r3] TIA Patrick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] egroupware emerge crashes machine

2005-05-22 Thread Antoine
Hi, I am trying to set up egroupware on my home server and it fully crashes it when it gets to the line * vhosts USE flag not set - auto-installing using webapp-config * This is an installation * egroupware-1.0.0.007 is not installed - using install mode * Running /usr/sbin/webapp-config -I -h

Re: [gentoo-user] Init script and input file

2005-05-22 Thread Luigi Pinna
Alle 16:49, domenica 22 maggio 2005, Johannes Weiner ha scritto: > Yeah encryption is not bad, but I wondered why to mount the disks at > once at boottime and make the booting progress stop to enter the > passphrase. You cand mount it manually after the boot..? > > Hannes Yes, of course... but if

Re: [gentoo-user] public time server

2005-05-22 Thread Ivan Lucian Aron
On 5/22/05, Joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I used these two time servers in the past with rdate and didn't have > much problem: > tick.usno.navy.mil > time.nist.gov > > However, I couldn't get any one of the to work yesterday, the first one > is working fine on windows but not with Linux. >

[gentoo-user] public time server

2005-05-22 Thread Joseph
I used these two time servers in the past with rdate and didn't have much problem: tick.usno.navy.mil time.nist.gov However, I couldn't get any one of the to work yesterday, the first one is working fine on windows but not with Linux. They respond to ping correctly. Yesterday I've tried pool.ntp.

Re: [gentoo-user] Init script and input file

2005-05-22 Thread Johannes Weiner
On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 04:40:27PM +0200, Luigi Pinna wrote: > Alle 16:29, domenica 22 maggio 2005, Johannes Weiner ha scritto: > > > Why first encrypt and then automount it? > > I don't get this. If you want to hide it from someone, automounting > > isn't really good ;) If not, why encrypt it? >

Re: [gentoo-user] Init script and input file

2005-05-22 Thread Luigi Pinna
Alle 16:29, domenica 22 maggio 2005, Johannes Weiner ha scritto: > Why first encrypt and then automount it? > I don't get this. If you want to hide it from someone, automounting > isn't really good ;) If not, why encrypt it? > > Hannes I know that! :-) But I want to use the encrypted devices if s

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