Re: [gentoo-user] app-arch/rpm-4.2.1 unmask problem

2006-01-31 Thread Joksim
Holly Bostick wrote: Joksim schreef: Hello, I'm having hard time unmasking and installing app-arch/rpm-4.2.1. I have tried with: package.keywords and with package.unmask =app-arch/rpm-4.2.1 app-arch/rpm ~86 but with no luck. What am I doing wrong. RPM-4.2.1 is neither package masked nor

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk

2006-01-31 Thread Alexander Skwar
Uwe Thiem wrote: > On 31 January 2006 15:19, Schleimer, Ben wrote: >> I understand that writing zeros over the file should permenately delete the >> data > > Don't believe people telling that. Why not? I would believe those people. > The data will still be recoverable Will it? Why is it, that

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge update world and modular xorg-x11

2006-01-31 Thread ralpklm
On 1/31/06, Cláudio Henrique <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have installed modular xorg-x11 following the guides in gentoo > (http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-howto.xml) and > in gentoo-wiki (http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Modular_Xorg) and now I'm > having trouble updating my sy

[gentoo-user] Abiword 2.2.11 crashes

2006-01-31 Thread Adrian
Greetings all; Suddenly I've stated having a problem with Abiword 2.2.11 -- every time I cut or copy text it crashes. This version was working fine. I checked bugs.gentoo and couldn't find a bug report regarding this situation. I wonder if it has anything to do with the programs which I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Electricsheep (General Question)

2006-01-31 Thread Ian
Thanks!I got it working. I just left it on overnight. :)Thanks again!On 1/31/06, Steven Susbauer < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:It takes a lot longer than 8-10 minutes, I don't think their download server is very quick, or something like that. Wait a while and it willactually start working (and if you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X USE flag - what does it do?

2006-01-31 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 10:54:27PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote > No, it means the flag setting changed since the last install. The newer > portage also has a % to show the flag has been added to the ebuild since > the last install. > > You are thinking of use.defaults, which appear to have been ph

Re: [gentoo-user] CD and DVD indexing tool

2006-01-31 Thread Martins Steinbergs
On Wednesday 01 February 2006 04:34, Tom Eastman wrote: > Hey all, > > I'm looking for a utility that could be used for indexing the contents > of the dozens and hundreds of CDRs and DVDRs that I've amassed over the > years. I was kind of thinking just a heap of text files with the > contents of '

Re: [gentoo-user] amarok sound engine

2006-01-31 Thread Martins Steinbergs
On Tuesday 31 January 2006 20:42, C. Beamer wrote: > Martins Steinbergs wrote: > >Hi, > > > > Hi, > > I don't know if you've solved this issue. I'm using the Xine engine > with amaroK (1.3.6) and it works fine. Did you choose an "output > plugin" in the 'Configure amaroK --> Engine' screen, or di

[gentoo-user] CD and DVD indexing tool

2006-01-31 Thread Tom Eastman
Hey all, I'm looking for a utility that could be used for indexing the contents of the dozens and hundreds of CDRs and DVDRs that I've amassed over the years. I was kind of thinking just a heap of text files with the contents of 'tree' or 'ls -R' or something, but it would be nicer if there was s

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge update world and modular xorg-x11

2006-01-31 Thread Mike Owen
On 1/31/06, Cláudio Henrique <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (dependency required by "media-gfx/gimp-2.2.8-r1" [ebuild]) Upgrade to gimp-2.2.9, which has support for Modular X. Mike -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk

2006-01-31 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 17:39 -0800, Grant wrote: > > Almost everyone seems to agree that recovering data from a formatted > drive is possible. What is the process by which this is done? I've > read here that: > > 1. The space between tracks contains historical data information. > > and: > > 2.

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD 64 bit system selections

2006-01-31 Thread Bob Sanders
On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 17:58:53 + (UTC) James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What's the best 64 bit processor choice for performance for Gentoo? > Dual-core? Perhaps you should ask what the best price performance/watt in the cpu range? Generally it's best to figure out your needs and then calc

[gentoo-user] Re: [kde Q] Gack too man shares showing up on desktop

2006-01-31 Thread Harry Putnam
Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I've cleared all boxes at kcontrol/Desktop/Behavior/Device icons > > Also the top one, "Show device icons", after which the whole list > greys out? Egad, don't know why I couldn't see that one until you pointed it out. That cleared the slate... th

[gentoo-user] emerge update world and modular xorg-x11

2006-01-31 Thread Cláudio Henrique
I have installed modular xorg-x11 following the guides in gentoo (http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-howto.xml) and in gentoo-wiki (http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Modular_Xorg) and now I'm having trouble updating my system. how can I solve this? localhost ~ # emerge -uDav world

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk

2006-01-31 Thread Grant
> > I understand that writing zeros over the file should permenately delete the > > data > > Don't believe people telling that. The data will still be recoverable (with > the right hardware). That is so because overwriting a "0" with a "0" will > lead to another level of manetic field than overwrit

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS -- fails better!

2006-01-31 Thread Nick Rout
On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:36:04 +0100 Harm Geerts wrote: > On Monday 30 January 2006 23:00, maxim wexler wrote: > > I [30/Jan/2006:14:52:31 -0700] Started backend > > /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel (PID 5870) for job 23. > > E [30/Jan/2006:14:52:31 -0700] PID 5869 stopped with > > status 3! > > I [3

Re: [gentoo-user] amarok sound engine

2006-01-31 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/31/06, C. Beamer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know if you've solved this issue. I'm using the Xine engine > with amaroK (1.3.6) and it works fine. Did you choose an "output > plugin" in the 'Configure amaroK --> Engine' screen, or did you let it > auto detect? Mine is set to auto de

Re: [gentoo-user] amarok sound engine

2006-01-31 Thread C. Beamer
Martins Steinbergs wrote: >Hi, > >I emerged amarok, great gui to manage collection, but sound output is bumpy >with xine engine. gstreamer apears not to work at all. I tried to tweak >settings and xine config with no luck. However, playing adio directly in xine >output is clear. >What is your e

[gentoo-user] Re: PHP upgrade breaks Squirrelmail

2006-01-31 Thread Harm Geerts
On Tuesday 31 January 2006 20:11, Dan Johansson wrote: > I'm now going to look into the ebuild to see why PHP5 builds the cli and > apache2 parts differently. Could it be you forgot to restart apache after rebuilding php? The configure part for each SAPI is a generic function and doesn't care abou

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: CUPS -- fails better!

2006-01-31 Thread Mick
maxim wexler wrote: > > > --- Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> maxim wexler wrote: >> >> [snip...] >> > I [30/Jan/2006:14:52:31 -0700] Job 23 queued on >> > 'deskjet' by 'root'. >> >> Why are you running it as root? > > That was a test page run from localhost631 which > requires that I b

[gentoo-user] DRI, modular X and the intel 855GM video card

2006-01-31 Thread Andrew Frink
Hey all i have a intel 855GM using the i810 driver in modualr X, just recently hardware acceleration stopped working. Not really sure why.here's my glx-info output.name of display: : 0.0libGL warning: 3D driver returned no fbconfigs.libGL error: InitDriver failedlibGL error: reverting to (slow) ind

[gentoo-user] Re: X USE flag - what does it do?

2006-01-31 Thread Simon Kellett
Harm Geerts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > man emerge (sys-apps/portage-2.1_pre4-r1) > > build U ] sys-devel/distcc-2.16 [2.13-r1] USE="ipv6* -gtk -qt%" > Here we see that the make.conf variable USE affects how this package is > built. In this example, ipv6 optional support is enabled and bo

[gentoo-user] Re: AMD 64 bit system selections

2006-01-31 Thread James
John Jolet jolet.net> writes: > > We'll I'm finally taking the plunge and building a high performance > > 64 bit AMD system. Oh, but the company paying for it insist upon > > windozXP 64bit, just in case Gentoo does not work. I'm really surprise > > some vendor is not listed on gentoo.org, as it

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE starts and runs slowly

2006-01-31 Thread Bryce Verdier
Also, make sure that net.lo is turned on. I had a problem a while ago with KDE taking forever to boot & interact because net.lo wasn't starting in the init scripts. I guess its required. Just something to try and help out. bryce Richard Fish wrote: On 1/29/06, Korondi Márk <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] Fresh install fails on Locale-gettext

2006-01-31 Thread Steven Susbauer
Try a revdep-rebuild and see if it wants to build something. On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, daniel wrote: > I just finished doing a reinstall of my amd64 machine (using x86 though) and > upon doing a: > > # emerge --update --deep --newuse world > > (I'd edited my use flags and done an emerge sync) I got

[gentoo-user] Fresh install fails on Locale-gettext

2006-01-31 Thread daniel
I just finished doing a reinstall of my amd64 machine (using x86 though) and upon doing a: # emerge --update --deep --newuse world (I'd edited my use flags and done an emerge sync) I got this: # emerge --update --deep --newuse world Calculating world dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Dead key on keyboard diagnostic?

2006-01-31 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Benno Schulenberg wrote: > the Del key on the numeric pad produces keycode 53. Oops, I meant 83. Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] [OT] pilot-link

2006-01-31 Thread Cláudio Henrique
I've been having some problems compiling pilot-link. Can anyone halp me, please? Thanks in advance. Here goes the error messages: make[2]: Entering directory `/mnt/hdb/claudio/pilot-link-0.12.0-pre4/tests' if gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../include -I../include -g2 -Wall -MT contactsd

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD 64 bit system selections

2006-01-31 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 31, 2006, at 11:58 AM, James wrote: Hello, We'll I'm finally taking the plunge and building a high performance 64 bit AMD system. Oh, but the company paying for it insist upon windozXP 64bit, just in case Gentoo does not work. I'm really surprise some vendor is not listed on gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] [kde Q] Gack too man shares showing up on desktop

2006-01-31 Thread Benno Schulenberg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What do I need to turn off in kde-3.5 so that mounted or umounted > devices never show up on my desktop window? Maybe under KDE Components > Service Manager > Startup Services, switching off KDED Media Manager? And relogin to KDE. > I've cleared all boxes at kcontrol/

Re: [gentoo-user] PHP upgrade breaks Squirrelmail

2006-01-31 Thread Dan Johansson
On Monday 30 January 2006 22.35, Ryan Tandy wrote: > Dan Johansson wrote: > >On Monday 30 January 2006 15.35, ellotheth rimmwen wrote: > >>On 1/29/06, Dan Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>Fatal error: Call to undefined function ctype_print() > >>>in > >>>/var/www/localhost/htdocs/squirrelm

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Kmail empty replies

2006-01-31 Thread Benno Schulenberg
A. R. wrote: > > > I've been having some problems with kmail. > > > When I reply to a message, the message is delivered blank: > > > The original message and my response are both blank. What exactly do you mean with "the message is delivered blank"? If you configure KMail and set the Default send

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11-7.0.0-r1: Can't load glx or via_drv module

2006-01-31 Thread Benno Schulenberg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If I add the "Load GLcore" I get a "undefined symbol" for > __glX11(something I can't rember exactly, but it is a symbol in > libglx.so) > Without (or without) "Load GLcore" I get a failure on "Load glx" > from and "undefined symbol" glCallList which is provided in > libG

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Dead key on keyboard diagnostic?

2006-01-31 Thread Benno Schulenberg
James wrote: > showkey shows press and release of ascii '83' so I guess it > working fine. My second delete key works fine, but is in an > awkward location on the keyboard. On my keyboard the "normal" Delete key produces keycode 111, and the Del key on the numeric pad produces keycode 53. Are y

[gentoo-user] AMD 64 bit system selections

2006-01-31 Thread James
Hello, We'll I'm finally taking the plunge and building a high performance 64 bit AMD system. Oh, but the company paying for it insist upon windozXP 64bit, just in case Gentoo does not work. I'm really surprise some vendor is not listed on gentoo.org, as it'd make this purchase more straightforw

Re: [gentoo-user] What mobile phone / PDA combination unit that syncs with Linux should I get?

2006-01-31 Thread michael
Hey, when you find out, let me know as well. I think our only hope is to make our own. There is (I think) at least one open source cellphone project going on. Michael On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, David Dorward wrote: The contract on my mobile phone is coming up for renewal soon, so I'm shortly going

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk

2006-01-31 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 31 January 2006 15:19, Schleimer, Ben wrote: > I understand that writing zeros over the file should permenately delete the > data Don't believe people telling that. The data will still be recoverable (with the right hardware). That is so because overwriting a "0" with a "0" will lead to anot

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard setting additional search domains into DHCP-overwrited resolv.conf (OT)

2006-01-31 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/31/06, Trenton Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ROFL. I knew someone would ask that question. But, I thought ahh, > I'll leave them hanging. ;) Ah, I see. modprobe recognize_humor.ko Cheers, -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS -- fails better!

2006-01-31 Thread maxim wexler
--- Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > maxim wexler wrote: > > [snip...] > > I [30/Jan/2006:14:52:31 -0700] Job 23 queued on > > 'deskjet' by 'root'. > > Why are you running it as root? That was a test page run from localhost631 which requires that I be root. Here's the command-line try, this

Re: [gentoo-user] kmail delete problem

2006-01-31 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/31/06, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anyway, could you post the InputDevice and ServerLayout sections of > > your xorg.conf? > > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Mouse1" > Driver "mouse" > Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2" > Option "Dev

Re: [gentoo-user] kmail delete problem

2006-01-31 Thread Paul
On Tuesday 31 Jan 2006 16:35, Richard Fish wrote: > On 1/31/06, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 31 Jan 2006 12:49, Dale wrote: > > I raised the original mouse problem which I thought was resolved by > > changing the mouse protocal to "ExplorerPS/2". Although the mouse works > > OK It

Re: [gentoo-user] uname -a question

2006-01-31 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/30/06, Jerry Eastmanhouser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I thought that this was in the top 4 lines of the kernel Makefile. > > Standard location is going to be /usr/src/linux/Makefile > > > VERSION = 2 > PATCHLEVEL = 4 This is still true with the 2.6 kernel, except that there is now also a LO

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard setting additional search domains into DHCP-overwrited resolv.conf

2006-01-31 Thread Trenton Adams
ROFL. I knew someone would ask that question. But, I thought ahh, I'll leave them hanging. ;) On 1/31/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/31/06, Trenton Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Apparently Mr Kernighan likes to use falacies! :) Poor Mr. Kernighan. > > Um, you _do_ kno

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk

2006-01-31 Thread Alexander Skwar
Schleimer, Ben wrote: > I understand that writing zeros over the file should permenately delete the > data but couldn't the data be cached elsewhere on the drive, especially with > journalling filesystems?? Yes, that's pretty much possible. It could also happen, that the data is on a remapped (d

Re: [gentoo-user] kmail delete problem

2006-01-31 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/31/06, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 31 Jan 2006 12:49, Dale wrote: > I raised the original mouse problem which I thought was resolved by changing > the mouse protocal to "ExplorerPS/2". Although the mouse works OK It still > appears to be SOMETIMES double clicking. > I have not

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk

2006-01-31 Thread Alexander Skwar
Stroller wrote: > On 31 Jan 2006, at 01:03, Grant wrote: > >> Hello! I've heard that data can be recovered from a formatted hard >> disk. > > Yes, it's fairly trivial, for someone who cares enough to try, to > retrieve data from a disk that's merely been formatted. Oh, is it? Please explain h

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard setting additional search domains into DHCP-overwrited resolv.conf

2006-01-31 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/31/06, Trenton Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Apparently Mr Kernighan likes to use falacies! :) Poor Mr. Kernighan. Um, you _do_ know who 'Mr Kernighan' is, right? -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk

2006-01-31 Thread Alexander Skwar
Grant wrote: > Hello! I've heard that data can be recovered from a formatted hard > disk. Were did you hear that? I've got a hard time believing that - as long as a format is somewhat like "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda". > Lucky for me I don't have any interest in actually doing this, > but I go

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - How to find floppy drive

2006-01-31 Thread Roger Mason
At the risk of sending this even more OT Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse! > -- Wm. Shakespeare, "Henry VI" Should'nt that be Richard III? Cheers, Roger -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard setting additional search domains into DHCP-overwrited resolv.conf

2006-01-31 Thread Trenton Adams
On 1/31/06, Schleimer, Ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I too am interested in knowing how to do this. > Theres no obvious place in /etc/config.d/net(work?) to set new search > domains in resolv.conf > if anyone can provide info on this, I'd appricate it. > > Thanks! > Ben > > "Debugging is t

Re: [gentoo-user] kmail delete problem

2006-01-31 Thread Paul
On Tuesday 31 Jan 2006 12:49, Dale wrote: I raised the original mouse problem which I thought was resolved by changing the mouse protocal to "ExplorerPS/2". Although the mouse works OK It still appears to be SOMETIMES double clicking. I have noticed that on boot I get an error "module mousedev no

Re: [gentoo-user] [kde Q] Gack too man shares showing up on desktop

2006-01-31 Thread Martins Steinbergs
On Tuesday 31 January 2006 13:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What do I need to turn off in kde-3.5 so that mounted or umounted > devices never show up on my desktop window? > > After having been mounting and umounting stuff via cifs and connecting > external drives by usb I have a full dozen Icons

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Kmail empty replies

2006-01-31 Thread A. R.
Hi, I have not recompiled kmail since I installed it the very first time. I have recompiled kdelibs though, because I added hal support, however the problem with kmail was there before this. The version of kmail (as indicated by the e-build) is 3.4.3. Thank you for your help. Here is my emerge -

Re: [gentoo-user] app-arch/rpm-4.2.1 unmask problem

2006-01-31 Thread Holly Bostick
Joksim schreef: > Hello, > > I'm having hard time unmasking and installing app-arch/rpm-4.2.1. I have > tried with: > > package.keywords and with package.unmask > > =app-arch/rpm-4.2.1 > app-arch/rpm ~86 > > but with no luck. What am I doing wrong. > RPM-4.2.1 is neither package masked nor arc

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk

2006-01-31 Thread Ted Ozolins
In Canada, all government surplus computers have all the HD's removed and are sent out to be destroyed. I believe the HD's are melted down. The odd time they miss an HD and the news media have a field day with it. I have seen several demos where data on an HD that was formatted, repartitioned and

[gentoo-user] app-arch/rpm-4.2.1 unmask problem

2006-01-31 Thread Joksim
Hello, I'm having hard time unmasking and installing app-arch/rpm-4.2.1. I have tried with: package.keywords and with package.unmask =app-arch/rpm-4.2.1 app-arch/rpm ~86 but with no luck. What am I doing wrong. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] kmail delete problem

2006-01-31 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/31/06, Javier Payno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ho wait my mouse wheel isn't working now - back to the drawing board Try ExplorerPS/2. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk

2006-01-31 Thread Richard Fish
> Someone will know (I don't) what the density is on a modern platter. The highest density platters today are close to 100Gbit / square inch. So no, you won't see the bits with the naked eye! -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: Dead key on keyboard diagnostic?

2006-01-31 Thread James
Benno Schulenberg gmail.com> writes: > James wrote: > > I think my 'delete' key has quite working on a portable. Any > > programs or tricks for diagnosis the problem ? > Switch to a VT and run 'showkey' to see whether it still produces > scan codes. showkey shows press and release of ascii '

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk

2006-01-31 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/31/06, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you "shred" or "wipe" the data (run random data over the disk many > times, with a bit of magic formulas thrown in) then apparently the FBI / > CIA / KGB / WTFC has a magnetic data recovery tool to see what bit was > written before the curre

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk

2006-01-31 Thread Dale
Iain Buchanan wrote: >On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 06:56 -0600, Dale wrote: > > >>Iain Buchanan wrote: >> >> >> >>I have heard the same thing. I have watched some of them on TV get data >>off some unbelievable drives. Some had bent platters, serious >>scratches, been formatted a few times etc etc

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk

2006-01-31 Thread Schleimer, Ben
I understand that writing zeros over the file should permenately delete the data but couldn't the data be cached elsewhere on the drive, especially with journalling filesystems?? Cheers, Ben "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the cod

RE: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk

2006-01-31 Thread Michael Kintzios
> -Original Message- > From: Iain Buchanan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 31 January 2006 08:11 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a > formatted hard disk > > > On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 07:27 +, Stroller wrote: > > On 31 Jan 2

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard setting additional search domains into DHCP-overwrited resolv.conf

2006-01-31 Thread Schleimer, Ben
I too am interested in knowing how to do this. Theres no obvious place in /etc/config.d/net(work?) to set new search domains in resolv.conf if anyone can provide info on this, I'd appricate it. Thanks! Ben "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if y

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk

2006-01-31 Thread Schleimer, Ben
Hummm,, I just read the docs for shred and it doesn't garanttee that the data will be erased on a journalling filesystem. http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?shred+1 Nevermind, Ben --- "Schleimer, Ben" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I understand that writing zeros over the file should > permenate

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk

2006-01-31 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 06:56 -0600, Dale wrote: > Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > > > > >I've heard of government departments filing down the old HD's into > >little pieces, then mixing them in cement for the next building project. > >Could be an urban legend though. > > > >All of the above is subject t

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk

2006-01-31 Thread Dale
Iain Buchanan wrote: > > >I've heard of government departments filing down the old HD's into >little pieces, then mixing them in cement for the next building project. >Could be an urban legend though. > >All of the above is subject to my own bad memory :) > > I have heard the same thing. I hav

Re: [gentoo-user] dead USB card?

2006-01-31 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, Richard Fish wrote: On 1/28/06, Jorge Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, 28 Jan 2006, Richard Fish wrote: It looks like the ohci and ehci drivers are fighting over the card. You don't need both, so I would disable ohci in your kernel configuration and see if that

Re: [gentoo-user] kmail delete problem

2006-01-31 Thread Dale
Javier Payno wrote: > >I think I might have solved this problem. I have changed the xorg.conf mouse >protocol from "auto" to "PS/2". The mouse is still connected to a USB port >and now appears to work correctly. >How strange, perhaps Peter and Dale could try this and see if it solves their >pr

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11-7.0.0-r1: Can't load glx or via_drv module

2006-01-31 Thread ralpklm
On 1/31/06, Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I tried what you said, and now I'm get to a point where it fails > > due to circular references between libglx and libGLcore. > > Which are those? Do you have a 'Load "GLcore"' in your xorg.conf? > If so, then

[gentoo-user] What mobile phone / PDA combination unit that syncs with Linux should I get?

2006-01-31 Thread David Dorward
The contract on my mobile phone is coming up for renewal soon, so I'm shortly going to be in the market for a shiny new phone. (NB: I'm in the UK, so it is devices available in this country that I'm interested in). I'm looking for a few specific things... * Can talk to my Gentoo box * Has a calen

[gentoo-user] [kde Q] Gack too man shares showing up on desktop

2006-01-31 Thread reader
What do I need to turn off in kde-3.5 so that mounted or umounted devices never show up on my desktop window? After having been mounting and umounting stuff via cifs and connecting external drives by usb I have a full dozen Icons on my desktop that offer no delete item on right click menu. How do

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11-7.0.0-r1: Can't load glx or via_drv module

2006-01-31 Thread Benno Schulenberg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I tried what you said, and now I'm get to a point where it fails > due to circular references between libglx and libGLcore. Which are those? Do you have a 'Load "GLcore"' in your xorg.conf? If so, then remove it. What does your xorg.conf look like now? Benno -- gen

[gentoo-user] Re: Hard setting additional search domains into DHCP-overwrited resolv.conf

2006-01-31 Thread reader
Marco Lazzeri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm sure enough I'm missing something, but I don't know where else I > should look at. Any hints? You didn't mention checking /etc/conf.d/domainname. The first few lines in a stock one have this: # /etc/conf.d/domainname # When setting up resol

Re: [gentoo-user] kmail delete problem

2006-01-31 Thread Javier Payno
Hi Have you read this thread? "[gentoo-user] Duplicate mouse clicks??" El Martes, 31 de Enero de 2006 11:20, Paul escribió: > Hi all, > I am using kmail version 1.8.3 using KDE 3.4.3 and am experiencing multiple > deletes. I click on the waste bin icon to delete the current read message > and rea

[gentoo-user] Autofs problem 4.1.3-r4

2006-01-31 Thread Paulo J. Matos
Hi all, having a terrible problem with autofs which I already had a couple months ago (wierd isn't fixed). When I start autofs I get: /home/usr/bin/automount: option -t requires a numeric argument, got, intr, nosuid,rsize=8192,wsize=8192. I was able to solve it at some point but now I can't remem

[gentoo-user] kmail delete problem

2006-01-31 Thread Paul
Hi all, I am using kmail version 1.8.3 using KDE 3.4.3 and am experiencing multiple deletes. I click on the waste bin icon to delete the current read message and read the next one. Sometime I miss reading a message because 2 have been deleted instead of 1. This happens quite often, also someti

[gentoo-user] Hard setting additional search domains into DHCP-overwrited resolv.conf

2006-01-31 Thread Marco Lazzeri
Hi, I've been trying for a while to hard set additional search domains into my '/etc/resolv.conf', but the 'dhcpcd' daemon keeps overwriting the whole configuration at start. I've been googling around and searching into bugs.gentoo.org. I've also tried some kinds of settings from `man resolv.conf

[gentoo-user] Re: NIC setup? slow transfer speed

2006-01-31 Thread Remy Blank
Stuart Howard wrote: > OK well I give up I did, too... > Transfer 39Mb file from > gentoo -> XP share using winXP copy trans time >=5 mins [gentoo smb > directory to XP share dir ie. XP shared dir Not mounted] I have a similar situation here, but with an additional interesting observation. If I

[gentoo-user] Hard setting additional search domains into DHCP-overwrited resolv.conf

2006-01-31 Thread Marco Lazzeri
Hi, I've been trying for a while to hard set additional search domains into my '/etc/resolv.conf', but the 'dhcpcd' daemon keeps overwriting the whole configuration at start. I've been googling around and searching into bugs.gentoo.org. I've also tried some kinds of settings from `man resolv.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk

2006-01-31 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 07:27 +, Stroller wrote: > On 31 Jan 2006, at 01:03, Grant wrote: > > > Hello! I've heard that data can be recovered from a formatted hard > > disk. > > Yes, it's fairly trivial, for someone who cares enough to try, to > retrieve data from a disk that's merely been fo