Re: [gentoo-user] What things wont run without hal being started?

2007-10-10 Thread Rumen Yotov
On (10/10/07 19:44) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I received this message after emerging hal: > * The HAL daemon needs to be running for certain applications to > * work. Suggested is to add the init script to your start-up > * scripts, this should be done like this : > * `rc-update add hald defau

[gentoo-user] What things wont run without hal being started?

2007-10-10 Thread reader
I received this message after emerging hal: * The HAL daemon needs to be running for certain applications to * work. Suggested is to add the init script to your start-up * scripts, this should be done like this : * `rc-update add hald default` What applications are being referenced here? --

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage through a proxy

2007-10-10 Thread David W Noon
On Wednesday 10 Oct 2007 14:40 in article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> of linux.gentoo.user, Neil Bothwick([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 09:11:42 -0400, James Colby wrote: > >> Does anyone know if it possible to configure emerge to use the value >> of >> $http_proxy as my proxy? I use m

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: how do I kick a MAC address off my hostapd WiFi network?

2007-10-10 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:07:19 -0600 Ted Ozolins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In Canada you can > download/upload all the music you want legally,( we've paid for it ten > times over via a levy against all recording media) huh? would you do just a little elaborating? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing l

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: how do I kick a MAC address off my hostapd WiFi network?

2007-10-10 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:50:30 -0700 "Daevid Vincent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've thought about setting up a "hotel page" type system, but it's > just one more thing I don't have time to futz with. If push came to > shove, I'd just start blacklisting ALL MAC's (or I should say > whitelisting *

RE: [gentoo-user] OT: how do I kick a MAC address off my hostapd WiFi network?

2007-10-10 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 16:50 -0700, Daevid Vincent wrote: > > -Original Message- > > I was wondering what would happen if someone downloaded some music > > illegally or some child porn? How would you prove it was them and not > > you? Being a good neighbor is nice but you need to be > >

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: how do I kick a MAC address off my hostapd WiFi network?

2007-10-10 Thread Ted Ozolins
Dale wrote: > Mick wrote: >> PS. Where I live I have to pay for bandwidth (although where I currently >> work >> I don't). So your concept of offering bandwidth for free seems somewhat >> strange to me. Furthermore, I would be concerned what different people may >> be using the Internet for a

RE: [gentoo-user] OT: how do I kick a MAC address off my hostapd WiFi network?

2007-10-10 Thread Daevid Vincent
> -Original Message- > I was wondering what would happen if someone downloaded some music > illegally or some child porn? How would you prove it was them and not > you? Being a good neighbor is nice but you need to be > careful for sure. Dunno. I suppose I'd show some logs from the DHCP

[gentoo-user] Problems after long-due emerge -uDN world

2007-10-10 Thread Henk Boom
Hi, I did an update last week-end after not doing one since the spring (I know, naughty me >_>). Aside from the really horrible libexpat update which took me most of the weekend to fix, I'm having some behaviour issues now, with which I would greatly appreciate help in fixing. First, my alt key se

Re: [gentoo-laptop] Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with CPU temperature (Santa Rosa CPU)

2007-10-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch, 10. Oktober 2007, Marco Calviani wrote: > > AFAIK only if you have lm_sensors installed and sensors working. > > Yes there are both installed. But what do you mean? that controlling the fan speed without acpi needs a) lm_sensors. b) sensors being working and c) fancontrol working.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Remerge the system with gcc-4.1?

2007-10-10 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 10 October 2007, Daevid Vincent wrote: > What is the compelling reason to update if any? I've masked out this new > GCC for many months and have had no "issues" thus far that I know of. As I understand it, your future compiles will faster, safer, more stable and what have you, as th

[gentoo-user] Re: Perl module problem

2007-10-10 Thread Moshe Kamensky
* Naga Toro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [10/10/07 14:15]: > On Sunday 07 October 2007 20.21.57 Moshe Kamensky wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Does /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Scalar/Util.pm exist? What is the > > output of > > > > perl -le 'print foreach @INC' > > $ perl -le 'print foreach @INC' > /etc/perl >

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: how do I kick a MAC address off my hostapd WiFi network?

2007-10-10 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 10 October 2007, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 10:10 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Wednesday 10 October 2007, Daevid Vincent wrote: > > > Anyways, sometimes I have stupid neighbors who don't quite "get it" > > > and will just blindly let their computers connect to my

Re: [gentoo-user] whoa, this new(ish) portage is nice

2007-10-10 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 10 October 2007 20:53:51 Christopher Copeland wrote: > On 10 Oct 2007, at 13:57, Mark Shields wrote: > > I was thinking the same. I remember when I first started using > > Gentoo (2004?) when doing updates, I always wished it would spit > > out the notices at the end instead of every

Re: [gentoo-user] whoa, this new(ish) portage is nice

2007-10-10 Thread Christopher Copeland
On 10 Oct 2007, at 13:57, Mark Shields wrote: I was thinking the same. I remember when I first started using Gentoo (2004?) when doing updates, I always wished it would spit out the notices at the end instead of every emerge. Imagine my surprise when I saw they had implemented that. Good

Re: [gentoo-laptop] Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with CPU temperature (Santa Rosa CPU)

2007-10-10 Thread Marco Calviani
> > AFAIK only if you have lm_sensors installed and sensors working. Yes there are both installed. But what do you mean? m -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-laptop] Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with CPU temperature (Santa Rosa CPU)

2007-10-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch, 10. Oktober 2007, Marco Calviani wrote: > Hi Beso, > sorry i misunderstood your suggestion. I did what you suggest and > this is the result of the trip_points: > > critical (S5): 100C > > which i suppose is the reason why at that temperature the laptop switch > off. So, nothing

Re: [gentoo-laptop] Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with CPU temperature (Santa Rosa CPU)

2007-10-10 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi Beso, sorry i misunderstood your suggestion. I did what you suggest and this is the result of the trip_points: critical (S5): 100C which i suppose is the reason why at that temperature the laptop switch off. So, nothing except for the critical state. Should i have to add there something

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Perl module problem

2007-10-10 Thread Naga Toro
On Sunday 07 October 2007 20.21.57 Moshe Kamensky wrote: > Hi, > > Does /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Scalar/Util.pm exist? What is the > output of > > perl -le 'print foreach @INC' $ perl -le 'print foreach @INC' /etc/perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/

Re: [gentoo-user] whoa, this new(ish) portage is nice

2007-10-10 Thread Mark Shields
On 10/9/07, William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, I agree. Especially the messages at the end - it is really > appreciated now its finally here. > > Ahh, progress ... > > BillK > > On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 15:52 -0700, kashani wrote: > > I've been buried in work again and hadn't had

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa problem

2007-10-10 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:04:11 +0800 "Chuanwen Wu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just setup a gentoo in my dell1400 laptop,and until now,the sound > problem is not solved yet. > > Here is the problem: > $ aplay 01.mp3 > ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:864:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave > aplay:

Re: [gentoo-user] cyrus-imapd: DBERROR db4: Database handles still open at env

2007-10-10 Thread Alexander Reitzel
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-499634-highlight-db4.html does that help? Am Mittwoch, 10. Oktober 2007 16:25:49 schrieb Arnau Bria: > On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:15:15 +0200 > > Alexander Reitzel wrote: > > then thats what fucked your whole cyrus databases. > > first shut down cyrus, then move /v

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with CPU temperature (Santa Rosa CPU)

2007-10-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch, 10. Oktober 2007, Marco Calviani wrote: > Sorry i missed the attachment. > > regards, > m CONFIG_ACPI_FAN=m the module is loaded, right? does anything change, when you compile it into the kernel? I have to admit - I don't know anything about laptops... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] cyrus-imapd: DBERROR db4: Database handles still open at env

2007-10-10 Thread Arnau Bria
On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:15:15 +0200 Alexander Reitzel wrote: > then thats what fucked your whole cyrus databases. > first shut down cyrus, then move /var/imap/db* (backup1, backup2, > whatnot..) to some backup folder ie: /root/cyrus and then restart it. > > thats not where the mails are stored, s

Re: [gentoo-user] cyrus-imapd: DBERROR db4: Database handles still open at env

2007-10-10 Thread Alexander Reitzel
then thats what fucked your whole cyrus databases. first shut down cyrus, then move /var/imap/db* (backup1, backup2, whatnot..) to some backup folder ie: /root/cyrus and then restart it. thats not where the mails are stored, so youll lose no data. the db folders with everything will be regenera

Re: [gentoo-user] cyrus-imapd: DBERROR db4: Database handles still open at env

2007-10-10 Thread Arnau Bria
On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:17:10 +0200 Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > Hi, [...] > > Did you try to remove that file? It should probably get recreated on > next start. (Don't kill it now, just move it away for testing and then > try starting Cyrus) Yep, I removed it, and it creates it agian with same erro

Re: [gentoo-user] cyrus-imapd: DBERROR db4: Database handles still open at env

2007-10-10 Thread Arnau Bria
On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:08:45 +0200 Alexander Reitzel wrote: > did you also update your db version? yep. now I have: [I] sys-libs/db (4.5.20_p2(4.5)@04/10/07): Oracle Berkeley DB cheers, Arnau -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage through a proxy

2007-10-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 09:11:42 -0400, James Colby wrote: > Does anyone know if it possible to configure emerge to use the value of > $http_proxy as my proxy? I use my laptop both at home and at work, I > have a script that sets the $http_proxy env variable depending on where > I am, and I would lik

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa problem

2007-10-10 Thread Chuanwen Wu
2007/10/10, Randy Barlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Chuanwen Wu wrote: > > I also tried to emerge alsa-driver and didn't use the driver in the > > kernel,but the result was all the same. > > I don't know the module name for the HD, but did you add it to > /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 and/or modpr

Re: [gentoo-user] cyrus-imapd: DBERROR db4: Database handles still open at env

2007-10-10 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:52:25 +0200 Arnau Bria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Error occurred while processing mail: > -ERR [SYS/PERM] Error initializing TLS > > > and I see this in log files: > > Oct 5 18:22:21 afrodita pop3[14410]: DBERROR db4: Database handles > still open at environment c

[gentoo-user] Portage through a proxy

2007-10-10 Thread James Colby
List members - Does anyone know if it possible to configure emerge to use the value of $http_proxy as my proxy? I use my laptop both at home and at work, I have a script that sets the $http_proxy env variable depending on where I am, and I would like to have emerge use that value. I have tried

[gentoo-user] Xorg won't use my TFT monitor as screen 0

2007-10-10 Thread David Sveningsson
Hi, I recently bought a new TFT monitor. I used to have 2 CRT monitors with an nvidia graphics card. I configured Xorg to use two separate screens and *not* twin-view. When I replaced the monitor that used to be screen 0 with the new TFT monitor Xorg cannot use it as screen 0 any more. And the pla

Re: [gentoo-user] Introduction (new member) and first ask-for-help... :-)

2007-10-10 Thread Ricardo Saffi Marques
@Iain: I tried that but it didn't really work. But thanks to THAT suggestion I found the solution to the problem. Read below. @ Volker: I may try to do that, though I must say I've installed many systems using the -Os instead of -O2 without a single problem. It turned out to be something really sim

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with CPU temperature (Santa Rosa CPU)

2007-10-10 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi Volker, i'm attaching my kernel .config. As you can see all the ACPI related points are enabled. > posting your config? make menuconfig and reading the help-text to all the > acpi-options? > Thanks, i've found fancontrol, but since the laptop lacks some chipset to control the fan itself, the

Re: [gentoo-user] cyrus-imapd: DBERROR db4: Database handles still open at env

2007-10-10 Thread Alexander Reitzel
did you also update your db version? Am Mittwoch, 10. Oktober 2007 11:52:25 schrieb Arnau Bria: > Hi, > > I've posted my question in forums and cyrus list, but I still have no > reply... so, I decided to post here too. > > > I've updated my cyrus-imapd > and now I'm not able to make it work again.

Re: [gentoo-user] Introduction (new member) and first ask-for-help... :-)

2007-10-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
replace -Os with O2 and rebuild system&bash? and if that does not help: remove all the crap you don't need from the kernel? try without raid? only start the init-scripts you really need? oh, please remove the fb-stuff that makes nvidia complain -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] cyrus-imapd: DBERROR db4: Database handles still open at env

2007-10-10 Thread Arnau Bria
Hi, I've posted my question in forums and cyrus list, but I still have no reply... so, I decided to post here too. I've updated my cyrus-imapd and now I'm not able to make it work again. Every time I try to fetch my mail (using pop3) I get an error in my MUA: Error occurred while processing ma

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-laptop] Problem with CPU temperature (Santa Rosa CPU)

2007-10-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch, 10. Oktober 2007, Marco Calviani wrote: > Hi Beso, > actually i'm getting this error: > > cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/TZ01/polling_frequency > > > cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/TZ01/cooling_mode > hm, you might want to google ;) I really don't know anything about laptops ;) -- [

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with CPU temperature (Santa Rosa CPU)

2007-10-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch, 10. Oktober 2007, Marco Calviani wrote: > yes i can imagine there could be something wrong with ACPI, but how > can i recognize it? posting your config? make menuconfig and reading the help-text to all the acpi-options? > What is fancontrol? a nice tool, included into lm_sensors

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: HowTo switch the default gcc

2007-10-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Helmut Jarausch, > This does not suffice here. > e.g. in /etc/profile.env the environment variable PATH begins with > export PATH='/opt/bin:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.1.1: > this doesn't exist anymore =^ > /usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.1.2

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: HowTo switch the default gcc

2007-10-10 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 9 Oct, ds wrote: > On 10/9/07, Helmut Jarausch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Thanks, >> but what value of CHOST should I take? >> I currently have >> CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" >> and gcc-4.1.2 is the standard C-compiler. >> Now, I'd like to switch to gcc-4.2.1. > > There is an official guid

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: how do I kick a MAC address off my hostapd WiFi network?

2007-10-10 Thread dexter
Your iptables rule is almost ok, if I were you i'd do something like this: iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -m mac --mac-source 00:19:7E:C5:02:AB -j DROP and iptables -A INPUT -m mac --mac-source 00:19:7E:C5:02:AB -j DROP That should do the job Daevid Vincent pisze: I have my WiFi network on a h

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: how do I kick a MAC address off my hostapd WiFi network?

2007-10-10 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 10:10 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 10 October 2007, Daevid Vincent wrote: > > Anyways, sometimes I have stupid neighbors who don't quite "get it" > > and will just blindly let their computers connect to my WAP. UGH! > > They sit on it for hours and days and gener

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: how do I kick a MAC address off my hostapd WiFi network?

2007-10-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 10 October 2007, Daevid Vincent wrote: > Anyways, sometimes I have stupid neighbors who don't quite "get it" > and will just blindly let their computers connect to my WAP. UGH! > They sit on it for hours and days and generally piss me off. > > How can I boot someone off my network? I u

Re: [gentoo-user] Traveling: DSL modem via USB?

2007-10-10 Thread Grant
> Perfect, thanks Dan! > > > > - Grant > > Let me know if it works, please. I just might be switching my server > to business DSL and if I do, I would much rather have a modem > connected to my computer than a stand-alone. For sure, I'm in a different location now but I'll be back there in a coup

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with CPU temperature (Santa Rosa CPU)

2007-10-10 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi Volker, yes i can imagine there could be something wrong with ACPI, but how can i recognize it? What is fancontrol? m > ACPI. You might be missing some options there. Or something else. Are you > using fancontrol? If yes, try without, if no, try with it ;) > -- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-laptop] Problem with CPU temperature (Santa Rosa CPU)

2007-10-10 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi Beso, actually i'm getting this error: cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/TZ01/polling_frequency cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/TZ01/cooling_mode m On 10/9/07, Beso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > your thermal doesn't poll make it poll like this: > echo "2 seconds" > > /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/T