[gentoo-user] What STABLE nForce 680i based motherboard?

2007-05-04 Thread Richard Ruth
What STABLE nForce 680i based motherboard? I am about to build a new Gentoo system, most of the components I have already chosen and are listed at the end of this post. (It will be a Core 2 Duo E6700 based system, nForce 680i chipset with one GeForce 8800 GTS card.) For gaming (windoze) t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reducing disk usage

2007-05-04 Thread waltdnes
On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 09:15:47AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote > On Friday 04 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I accomplish this by moving /tmp /usr and /var to the /home > > partition. > > Surely you meant "move the /tmp, /usr and /var to the / partition"? Let me rephrase myself... - *P

[gentoo-user] about kdrive

2007-05-04 Thread anhnmncb
Hi, list: The last time I used kdrive(maybe one month ago), I found it was very quick, but it couldn't find the font's dir and always tried to find fonts in /var/tmp/portage/x11-base/kdrive/work/...(sorry, but I can't remember exactly the dir ...), I also have tried kdrive which inclued in xorg-s

[gentoo-user] OT - Question about spamass-milter

2007-05-04 Thread Michael Sullivan
I have a bunch of lines like this in my /var/log/mail.log on my server box: Milter (spamassassin): local socket name /var/run/spamass-milter.sock unsafe The trouble is that the file does not exist: baby ~ # ls /var/run/spamass-milter.sock ls: cannot access /var/run/spamass-milter.sock: No such f

Re: [gentoo-user] It is Bugday time!

2007-05-04 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Nistor Andrei: > > It is Bugday time once again! Join #Gentoo-Bugs on Freenode tomorrow > > (Saturday) and help us fix as many bugs as possible! > > How does it work? I've never been to a Bugday before... What time should I > join #gentoo-bugs? I'm in there now. Not a lot of action exce

Re: [gentoo-user] eix way too verbose

2007-05-04 Thread Vaeth
> > nazgul ~ # eix gimp-print > [I] media-gfx/gimp-print > Available versions: 4.2.7 (~)5.1.0 {cups foomaticdb gimp gtk nls > ppds readline} > Installed versions: 5.1.0(20:50:45 05/02/07)(cups foomaticdb gimp > gtk -nls ppds readline) > Homepage:http://gimp-print.sou

Re: [gentoo-user] It is Bugday time!

2007-05-04 Thread Nistor Andrei
On Friday 04 May 2007, Alexander Færøy wrote: > Hello! > Hello! > It is Bugday time once again! Join #Gentoo-Bugs on Freenode tomorrow > (Saturday) and help us fix as many bugs as possible! > How does it work? I've never been to a Bugday before... What time should I join #gentoo-bugs? > Have fun!

RE: [gentoo-user] It is Bugday time!

2007-05-04 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
Is there a place for someone who is not a programmer? I am an admin and user TIM -Original Message- From: Alexander Færøy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 10:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] It is Bugday time! Hello! It is Bugd

Re: [gentoo-user] Xserver on Dell Inspiron M1710

2007-05-04 Thread Nikola Goranov
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 03 May 2007, Mick wrote: Colleen's machine is a laptop. They don't have horiz and vert sync signals... Those settings apply only to CRT displays. 99 times out of 100, LCD screens do just fine with a minimal xorg.conf. Here's mine: Section "Monitor" #

Re: [gentoo-user] Xserver on Dell Inspiron M1710

2007-05-04 Thread Colleen Beamer
Hi all, First, I have to thank you *all* for your patience with me. I'm not a developer and my formal computer training is limited. However, I'm not stupid (I know no one has implied that), but I get a little frustrated when I've done something successfully a half dozen times and now it doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] MAJOR udev problem, PLEASE help

2007-05-04 Thread Trenton Adams
Sorry for not replying earlier. Yes, I found it to be a fireware ethernet. Why udev would put that first makes no sense. I found another email on the list where someone had the same problem. Thanks. On 5/2/07, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 2 May 2007 21:43:13 -0600, Trento

[gentoo-user] It is Bugday time!

2007-05-04 Thread Alexander Færøy
Hello! It is Bugday time once again! Join #Gentoo-Bugs on Freenode tomorrow (Saturday) and help us fix as many bugs as possible! Have fun! Best regards, Alexander -- Alexander Færøy Bugday Lead Alpha/IA64/MIPS Architecture Teams User Relations, Quality Assurance and Release Engineering pgpWz

Re: [gentoo-user] Xserver on Dell Inspiron M1710

2007-05-04 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 08:50 -0400, Colleen Beamer wrote: > Iain Buchanan wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 00:32 -0400, Colleen Beamer wrote: > > > >> Mouse support is compiled into my kernel (genkernel) > >> Although the section for keyboard is there, there isn't a relevant > >> choice to pick, bu

RE: [gentoo-user] Xserver on Dell Inspiron M1710

2007-05-04 Thread JD
I might be able to help as well (also didn't see the earlier part of this thread)... I have several M710's at work running both gentoo and Ubuntu, and X is running ok on them. Getting the config from a liveCD is a good place to start if you're really not sure. One thing though - since some other

Re: [gentoo-user] Xserver on Dell Inspiron M1710

2007-05-04 Thread Rumen Yotov
On Fri, 04 May 2007 08:48:20 -0400 Colleen Beamer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > david wrote: > > What happens when you; > > > > emerge -pv xorg-x11 > > > What do you mean, "What happens"? It emerges, no error messages. > > Regards, > > Colleen > > > > Hi, Don't have the OP mail-thread, but j

Re: [gentoo-user] Xserver on Dell Inspiron M1710

2007-05-04 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 04 May 2007 08:48:20 -0400 Colleen Beamer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What happens when you; > > > > emerge -pv xorg-x11 > > > What do you mean, "What happens"? It emerges, no error messages. Well, with the "-p" flag it should just pretend to. And show the effective USE flags, w

Re: [gentoo-user] Xserver on Dell Inspiron M1710

2007-05-04 Thread Colleen Beamer
Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 00:32 -0400, Colleen Beamer wrote: > >> Mouse support is compiled into my kernel (genkernel) >> Although the section for keyboard is there, there isn't a relevant >> choice to pick, but I assume that's because this is a laptop. > > are you able to post

Re: [gentoo-user] Xserver on Dell Inspiron M1710

2007-05-04 Thread Colleen Beamer
david wrote: > What happens when you; > > emerge -pv xorg-x11 > What do you mean, "What happens"? It emerges, no error messages. Regards, Colleen > -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] xorg-7.2 and ati-drivers-8.32.5

2007-05-04 Thread Remy Blank
I have noticed xorg-7.2 just went stable. I am currently using 7.1 with the stable binary ATI drivers ati-drivers-8.32.5 and the kernel gentoo-sources-2.6.19-r5. Has anybody with the same configuration done the update? Does it work for you? (Yes, I know, binary drivers suck. I'm not trying to star

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup /sys ?

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

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Email to Hotmail not working

2007-05-04 Thread Arnau Bria
On Fri, 04 May 2007 03:30:24 +1000 Dave Oxley wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Dave Oxley wrote: [...] > > I had no SPF record for my domain name. Hotmail obviously rejects > emails without this nowdays. http://www.openspf.org/ I do have SPF record and I'm not able t

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup /sys ?

2007-05-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 04 May 2007, Florian Philipp wrote: > Hi guys! > > When trying to back up my system with rdiff-backup (everything except > proc, tmp, mnt, media and distfiles) I get a lot of errors like this: First, please don't hijack threads. Your mail's header shows: In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[gentoo-user] Re: Backup /sys ?

2007-05-04 Thread Remy Blank
Florian Philipp wrote: > Should I even try to backup sys? Is it important for rebuilding the system > after rm -rf / ? No, /sys is like /proc, it's dynamically create by the kernel. And please, don't hijack threads, i.e. don't reply to another arbitrary message, but post a new one. -- Remy

[gentoo-user] Backup /sys ?

2007-05-04 Thread Florian Philipp
Hi guys! When trying to back up my system with rdiff-backup (everything except proc, tmp, mnt, media and distfiles) I get a lot of errors like this: "UpdateError sys/block/sda/range Updated mirror temp file /backup/gentoo64/sys/block/sda/rdiff-backup.tmp.709 does not match source" or "ListEr

Re: [gentoo-user] lbx and X under Gentoo

2007-05-04 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Thu, 3 May 2007 15:49:05 + (UTC) Konstantinos Agouros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > is there some black magic or a USE flag one needs to know to get the > LBX extension into a X-Server for gentoo? > > Regards, > > Konstantin Hi, Konstantin It is supposed that X over compressed s

Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage

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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reducing disk usage

2007-05-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 04 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I accomplish this by moving /tmp /usr and /var to the /home > partition. Surely you meant "move the /tmp, /usr and /var to the / partition"? It won't work moving them to /home unless you put symlinks in and that would just be ... odd alan --