Re: [gentoo-user] how to stop skype im use

2006-05-10 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 10 May 2006 03:29, "El Nino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] how to stop skype im use': > how to stop skype IM? using squid or iptables. Have you looked at the layer7 packet filtering kernel patches and iptables extensions? -- "If there's one thing we've established

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM2 problems

2006-05-10 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 12:40, Barny M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] LVM2 problems': > Any further suggestions how to troubleshoot or fix the issue ? See my answer to your previous post. Also, gmail doesn't show you your own messages. -- "If there's one thing we've established

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM2 Problems

2006-05-10 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 10:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] LVM2 Problems': > I recently synced my Gentoo (2.6.7-gentoo-r13) and after emerging > updated ebuilds, sure lvm2 was one of them and a reboot I lost my > mounted fs. > /dev/cont/swap noneswap

Re: [gentoo-user] Network UPS Tools (NUT)

2006-05-10 Thread Thomas Kear
> Except one thing, everything is handled fine by gentoo's start-up > scripts. The exception is this: If NUT shuts the box down, a flag > /etc/killpower is created. At the end of the shutdown process this flag > determines whether the UPS itself is to be switched of by software. > It seems to me t

Re: [gentoo-user] Network UPS Tools (NUT)

2006-05-10 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 09:32, Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] Network UPS Tools (NUT)': > Hi folks, > > anybody using them? If so I have got a question. I'm not but... > Except one thing, everything is handled fine by gentoo's start-up > scripts. The exception is this: I

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need help with NAT

2006-05-10 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 05:26, Mrugesh Karnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] OT - Need help with NAT': > Hi, > > I have been having trouble forwarding packets using iptables on my > Gentoo box. I am no iptables expert. > > I connect to the internet using rp-pppoe. I use firestarter

Re: [gentoo-user] All-in-Wonder 9800 Pro Advice Needed!

2006-05-10 Thread ted leslie
i used to, not with gentoo, but i think regardless of what distro you use, you need to check out the gatos project it also depends on what AIW you use, there are three, the old rage, the radeon, and the newest one, which might be a variation of the radeon, but perhaps different. With gatos i ha

[gentoo-user] All-in-Wonder 9800 Pro Advice Needed!

2006-05-10 Thread Christopher E
Hello every one! Is there any one out there that has a All-in-Wonder that is able to watch TV on a Gentoo system? IF so could you be so kind and inform me of how you got it to work. I have on my sys: stable is what every is from portage Gentoo (latest stable) Gnome (latest stable) X11 7 (late

Re: [gentoo-user] try gentoo again?....LIVE version device support?

2006-05-10 Thread John Jolet
On May 10, 2006, at 4:48 PM, ted leslie wrote: Feed up with a few other distros, i am giving GENTOO another look. I tried it when it first came out and had .. hmmm. a bit of trouble. I assume things are alot more refined now. I am looking for a distro to base a LIVE DVD (or CD) from,

[gentoo-user] Gentoo ADSL wireless router (3 questions)

2006-05-10 Thread Grant
I set up my spare Gentoo box up as a wireless router for my new Verizon ADSL connection by following the instructions here: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/home-router-howto.xml My setup is a little different though because I'm using a madwifi card to provide wireless access. Things are working re

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-10 Thread lordsauronthegreat
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 11:33 am, Neil Bothwick wrote: > I am writing a comparative review of a number of X terminals, so I > thought I'd draw on the collective wisdom of this list. which are your > most/least favourite X terminals, and why? I love YaKuake. It's better than Kuake in that it's just

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-10 Thread lordsauronthegreat
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 02:41 pm, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Samuel Baldwin wrote: > > Alexander Skwar wrote: > >> That's something I'll never understand - why make the text on > >> a terminal harder to read, by using transparency? > >> Granted, it'll look better, but that's it. > >> IMO transpare

Re: [gentoo-user] cvsweb - error: permission denied

2006-05-10 Thread kashani
Kristian Poul Herkild wrote: I have a cvs-repository on my gentoo box, used in my exam project. However, cvsweb gives following error when trying to access the module in the repository: Error: eksamen/: Permission denied It's no doubt something really stupid, but I can't seem to find the soluti

Re: [gentoo-user] Glibc-2.4 and Gcc-4.0.3??

2006-05-10 Thread Jerry McBride
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 02:11, Farhan Ahmed wrote: > Jerry McBride wrote: > > Anyone here running a ~x86 box and have the latest glibc and a 4.0.3 gcc > > running on it? > > I used to run gcc-4.0.3 and latest glibc (don't remember the version > number) some time ago.. But now running gcc-4.1.0 and g

Re: [gentoo-user] unison and the modular X

2006-05-10 Thread W.Kenworthy
No, ocaml hasnt been touched since Nov last year. If dnd errors off on the -ep, I'll try tree and see if that shows anything. Thanks, BillK On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 09:39 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 10 May 2006 08:12:27 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: > ... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

[gentoo-user] try gentoo again?....LIVE version device support?

2006-05-10 Thread ted leslie
Feed up with a few other distros, i am giving GENTOO another look. I tried it when it first came out and had .. hmmm. a bit of trouble. I assume things are alot more refined now. I am looking for a distro to base a LIVE DVD (or CD) from, Can anyone comment on how good GENTOO LIVE CD is on de

[gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-10 Thread Simon Kellett
"b.n." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Neil Bothwick wrote: >... > At home I use rxvt. Simple, very fast on startup. > > At work I use konsole. I like the "session" thing it has and the tabs, > since I use a lot of interactive shell apps like python-ipython-octave > at work they often comes quite ha

Re: [gentoo-user] System.map not found - unable to check symbols

2006-05-10 Thread Devon Miller
On 5/10/06, Paul B. Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Unless it has changed recently, the system I just installed last monthactually looks for it in /usr/src/linux, not /boot. It still complainsduring boot even though I actually have one there, presumably it is looking before filesystems are mounte

Re: [gentoo-user] System.map not found - unable to check symbols

2006-05-10 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Wed, 10 May 2006, Devon Miller wrote: > This message is being issued by /sbin/module-update. It is called from > /etc/init.d/modules to update /etc/modules.conf. It's complaining because > /boot has not been mounted yet. As far as I can tell, /boot is treated no > differently than any other non

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-10 Thread Martins Steinbergs
On Wednesday 10 May 2006 09:54, Philip Webb wrote: > 060509 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > I am writing a comparative review of a number of X terminals > > which are your most/least favourite X terminals, and why? I use konsole because of tabs and because of manner how to cut/copy/paste. And because ko

Re: [gentoo-user] System.map not found - unable to check symbols

2006-05-10 Thread Devon Miller
This message is being issued by /sbin/module-update. It is called from /etc/init.d/modules to update /etc/modules.conf. It's complaining because /boot has not been mounted yet. As far as I can tell, /boot is treated no differently than any other non-root filesystem. Ultimately, I think, the fault l

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-10 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Wed, 10 May 2006, Justin Findlay wrote: + On 5/10/06, Jorge Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Konsole. Allows me to set a background. Nothing fancy, just a very light yellow wich I find appropriate for my eyesight. Also allows to customize text colors (directories, symlinks,etc). These tw

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-10 Thread Nagatoro
Matthias Langer wrote: > Maybe this has something to do with your screen resolution; as you are > using a 'slow' laptop, i guess you are using 1024x768, while i use > 1280x1024 in my athlon-xp 2400+. Same resluts (more or less) with 100 000 lines and new version. -- Naga -- gentoo-user@gentoo.o

RE: [gentoo-user] System.map not found - unable to check symbols

2006-05-10 Thread de Almeida, Valmor F.
> -Original Message- > From: Glenn Enright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 7:58 PM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] System.map not found - unable to check symbols > > > > > > > System.map not found - unable to check symbols. > > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and OpenOffice keyboard problems [solved]

2006-05-10 Thread Dave Jones
Bo Andresen wrote on 10/05/06 12:55: > On Tuesday 09 May 2006 20:31, Dave Jones wrote: >>For some strange reason, on my system OpenOffice seems to need the >>locale set to utf8 to work properly with international keyboard layouts. >>Without it, the ' and " keys are dead, working only with AltGr p

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-10 Thread Matthias Langer
On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 16:25 +0200, Nagatoro wrote: > Matthias Langer wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 13:58 +0200, Matthias Langer wrote: > >> On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 07:51 +0200, Nagatoro wrote: > >> [snip] > >>> Least: > >>> ... Gnome-terminal, slow, and in my opinion horrible color support. > >> [

Re: [gentoo-user] how to stop skype im use

2006-05-10 Thread Jarry
fire-eyes wrote: On Wednesday 10 May 2006 04:29, El Nino wrote: how to stop skype IM? using squid or iptables. I think I saw a posting about that on the netfilter (aka iptables) mailing list, search around. In short, it is very difficult indeed. I think squid could solve this problem. Alt

[gentoo-user] Re: Clue to enable DRI/GLX support on PCI Express card

2006-05-10 Thread Sven Köhler
> I was wondering if someone could show me where to look information to > enable DRI/GLX on a ATI X300 PCI Express video board. > > I was wanting to test some 3d games, but without enableing DRi is just > impossible. What's the problem? emergeing ati-drivers doesn't work? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.o

[gentoo-user] Video Intel 82865g

2006-05-10 Thread Fernando Ferrari
Hi, I’m use a Xorg version 7.0.0 and the video card Intel 82865G, and Xorg don’t work with vesa or fbdev, Any ideas?   Thanks   Saludos Fernando Ferrari Desarrollador Linux http://fernandorferrari.blogspot.com    

Re: [gentoo-user] how to stop skype im use

2006-05-10 Thread fire-eyes
On Wednesday 10 May 2006 04:29, El Nino wrote: > dear all, > > how to stop skype IM? using squid or iptables. > > please help me I think I saw a posting about that on the netfilter (aka iptables) mailing list, search around. In short, it is very difficult indeed. -- "When you walk across the f

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-10 Thread Justin Findlay
On 5/10/06, Jorge Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Konsole. Allows me to set a background. Nothing fancy, just a very light yellow wich I find appropriate for my eyesight. Also allows to customize text colors (directories, symlinks,etc). These two points are _really_ important--we're not talkin

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-10 Thread Nagatoro
Matthias Langer wrote: > On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 13:58 +0200, Matthias Langer wrote: >> On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 07:51 +0200, Nagatoro wrote: >> [snip] >>> Least: >>> ... Gnome-terminal, slow, and in my opinion horrible color support. >> [snip] >> >> Gnome terminal used to be slow, but vte (the underlyi

Re: [gentoo-user] partitioning for multimedia performance and dual-booting linux/windex

2006-05-10 Thread Liviu
1. install the windows ext2/3 driver.2. install rfsd (http://rfsd.sourceforge.net) to access reiserfs partitions. An alternative for accessing in read-only mode Linux drives is Total Commander's Ext2+Reiser plugin. Ext2 and ext3 work fine. Never tried ReiserFS. "Plugin to open Ext2 and Reiser fi

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-10 Thread Michael George
I use terminal from Xfce4. It's very much like gnome-terminal, which I like, but it appears to be much lighter. Next to that I just use plan ol' xterm when I don't need colors or tabs. It's about as light as you can get... If it makes a difference, I use ctwm as my window manager... On Tue, May

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-10 Thread Matthias Langer
On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 13:58 +0200, Matthias Langer wrote: > On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 07:51 +0200, Nagatoro wrote: > [snip] > > Least: > > ... Gnome-terminal, slow, and in my opinion horrible color support. > [snip] > > Gnome terminal used to be slow, but vte (the underlying library) has > beem optimi

Re: [gentoo-user] how to configure raid

2006-05-10 Thread John Jolet
On May 10, 2006, at 7:15 AM, El Nino wrote: pls see my below answers... On 5/10/06, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On May 10, 2006, at 12:44 AM, El Nino wrote: > dear list friends, > > i'm new to raid. i have a netfinity5000 server with 5 scsi+raid, 256mb > ram, p3 450mhz 1 proces

Re: [gentoo-user] how to configure raid

2006-05-10 Thread El Nino
pls see my below answers... On 5/10/06, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On May 10, 2006, at 12:44 AM, El Nino wrote: > dear list friends, > > i'm new to raid. i have a netfinity5000 server with 5 scsi+raid, 256mb > ram, p3 450mhz 1 processor. pl guide me to configure the raid from > gent

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-10 Thread Matthias Langer
On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 07:51 +0200, Nagatoro wrote: [snip] > Least: > ... Gnome-terminal, slow, and in my opinion horrible color support. [snip] Gnome terminal used to be slow, but vte (the underlying library) has beem optimized heavily during the last few month. I've a simple program that measures

Re: [gentoo-user] how to configure raid

2006-05-10 Thread John Jolet
On May 10, 2006, at 12:44 AM, El Nino wrote: dear list friends, i'm new to raid. i have a netfinity5000 server with 5 scsi+raid, 256mb ram, p3 450mhz 1 processor. pl guide me to configure the raid from gentoo. note: i trid to configure it using de server guide but it faild saying 'need minimu

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-10 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Wed, 10 May 2006, Alexander Skwar wrote: Jorge Almeida wrote: I don't have much use for other frills: I open and close konsole windows via keyboard shortcuts, so it's easier to open a new window than a new tab (unless there is a way to open, close and cycle through tabs via keyboard, which

Re: [gentoo-user] can gnome use prelink?

2006-05-10 Thread wu chuanwen
2006/5/9, JimD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Yes you should get much faster startup times of Gnome 2.14 than that. How to do that?I really don't know how to read the startup script.How can i improve or rebuild my system. My laptop is a Pentium M 1.73 GHz, 1 GB memory and a 5400 RPM SATA laptop drive.

Re: [gentoo-user] can gnome use prelink?

2006-05-10 Thread wu chuanwen
2006/5/9, JimD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: wu chuanwen wrote: > 2006/5/7, JimD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> hdparm -Tt /dev/hda > Thank you!Here are some results: /dev/hda: Timing cached reads: 816 MB in 2.00 seconds = 407.87 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 166 MB in 3.01 seconds = 55.17 MB/sec

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and OpenOffice keyboard problems [solved]

2006-05-10 Thread Bo Andresen
On Thursday 04 May 2006 15:29, Dave Jones wrote: > I didn't get these errors when I ran the oowriter2 command above, so I > guess my localdef for the en_GB.utf8 must have been OK. > > Case closed, an irritating problem fixed. From another thread: On Tuesday 09 May 2006 20:31, Dave Jones wrote: >

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM2 Problems

2006-05-10 Thread Barny M
Richard Fish wrote: > On 5/9/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> vgchange -a y >> device-mapper: deps ioctl failed: Invalid argument >> _deps: task run failed for (254:0) >> Failed to add device (254:0) to dtree > > > My guess is a conflict between the device-mapper versi

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-10 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Wed, 10 May 2006, YoYo siska wrote: I think the defaults are (at least here ;) Ctrl-Alt-N for new tab, Shift-Left or Shift-Right to switch tabs. Or just Settings->Configure shortcuts, I personaly don't like Shift-arrows much, I'm used to use them in apps inside the term (vim, ...) Not bad.

Re: [gentoo-user] what does NR stands for?

2006-05-10 Thread Rasmus Andersen
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 05:18:22PM +0800, fei huang wrote: > anybody who has some ideas about this prefix of numerous macros within linux > source code? > NR_TASKS for instance, I just could not find any explanation. number Rasmus -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] what does NR stands for?

2006-05-10 Thread fei huang
anybody who has some ideas about this prefix of numerous macros within linux source code?NR_TASKS for instance,  I just could not find any explanation. thanks.

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get minimal portage-logs

2006-05-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 9 May 2006 18:22:24 -0700, Daevid Vincent wrote: > In /etc/make.conf I have PORT_LOGDIR="/var/tmp/portage-logs" > > This is great in that I can then read through the billions of .log > files to see if there are any post install manual tasks I have to do. > > However, a good majority of t

Re: [gentoo-user] unison and the modular X

2006-05-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 10 May 2006 08:12:27 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: > Nope, installed it and rebuilt again unison as well Did you re-emerge ocaml too? I did that at some time while trying to fix this so it may have had an effect. > > The font wanted to pull in dnd and xemacs packages - dnd failed to build >

Re: [gentoo-user] unison and the modular X

2006-05-10 Thread W.Kenworthy
Fixed. Something between the #150 and ~#180 packages of an ~250 package "emerge system -ep" was the problem. BillK On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 08:12 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: > Nope, installed it and rebuilt again unison as well > > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] how to stop skype im use

2006-05-10 Thread El Nino
dear all, how to stop skype IM? using squid or iptables. please help me -- ... (((o)))~--~--~-- Proud to be a Sinhalese. SINHALESE ARE GENIUSES OF IRRIGATION http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~sydney/sinhales.htm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Warning: Color name "black" is not defined

2006-05-10 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hi! Since a recent update, I always get error messages like the following, when I start certain applications (eg. xterm): Warning: Color name "black" is not defined xterm: Cannot allocate color red xterm: Cannot allocate color magenta On bgo, I found http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78385

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-10 Thread Alexander Skwar
Jorge Almeida wrote: > I don't have much use for other frills: I open and close konsole windows > via keyboard shortcuts, so it's easier to open a new window than a new > tab (unless there is a way to open, close and cycle through tabs via > keyboard, which I don't know...). To open a tab, hit ++

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-10 Thread YoYo siska
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 07:31:46AM +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: > Konsole. Allows me to set a background. Nothing fancy, just a very light > yellow wich I find appropriate for my eyesight. Also allows to customize > text colors (directories, symlinks,etc). These two points are _really_ > important--

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-10 Thread Philip Webb
060509 Neil Bothwick wrote: > I am writing a comparative review of a number of X terminals > which are your most/least favourite X terminals, and why? Konsole : it fits well with my KDE desktop, is very easy to configure, has tabs when I need them, has a nice font (Fixed GNU 11/13); KDE starts 2