Re: [gentoo-user] Eeek: many open ports

Hi, Could it be torrents..? On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 11:08 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > Eeek!! > > Just fooling around with some software on my laptop, I found that my Gentoo > desktop has an even dozen open inet ports with something listening to them, > in addition to the ones I would expect (25,

Re: [gentoo-user] Changed monitor and even the BIOS screen doesn't show up.

meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Another thing, Dale: Try to activate the settings menu of the monitor in question when it is attached (nonworking) to the PC. If you can see the menu: The monitor does not hang. When in the menu try to figure out, whether the monitor thinks it is receiving a signal.

Re: [gentoo-user] Changed monitor and even the BIOS screen doesn't show up.

meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Dale [10-12-14 06:04]: Dale wrote: meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Dale [10-12-14 05:04]: Hi, I am in the process of switching from the old rig to the new rig. While doing the install I was using a Gateway EV700 monitor and it worked fine.

Re: [gentoo-user] Changed monitor and even the BIOS screen doesn't show up.

Dale [10-12-14 07:12]: > Dale wrote: > >meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > >> > >>Next shot in the dark: > >>Some monitors can be asked to offer their physical data like > >>resolution and such. It is called EDID or something like that. > >> > >>May be the BIOS (or the graka) tries to ask the monitor ab

Re: [gentoo-user] Changed monitor and even the BIOS screen doesn't show up.

Dale [10-12-14 07:12]: > Dale wrote: > >meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > >> > >>Next shot in the dark: > >>Some monitors can be asked to offer their physical data like > >>resolution and such. It is called EDID or something like that. > >> > >>May be the BIOS (or the graka) tries to ask the monitor ab

Re: [gentoo-user] Changed monitor and even the BIOS screen doesn't show up.

Dale wrote: meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Next shot in the dark: Some monitors can be asked to offer their physical data like resolution and such. It is called EDID or something like that. May be the BIOS (or the graka) tries to ask the monitor about its EDID data and the return is "The sound of

Re: [gentoo-user] Changed monitor and even the BIOS screen doesn't show up.

meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Next shot in the dark: Some monitors can be asked to offer their physical data like resolution and such. It is called EDID or something like that. May be the BIOS (or the graka) tries to ask the monitor about its EDID data and the return is "The sound of Silence" ...

Re: [gentoo-user] Changed monitor and even the BIOS screen doesn't show up.

Dale [10-12-14 06:04]: > Dale wrote: > >meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > >>Dale [10-12-14 05:04]: > >>>Hi, > >>> > >>>I am in the process of switching from the old rig to the new rig. > >>>While doing the install I was using a Gateway EV700 monitor and it > >>>worked fine. I unhooked the cables from

Re: [gentoo-user] Changed monitor and even the BIOS screen doesn't show up.

Dale wrote: meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Dale [10-12-14 05:04]: Hi, I am in the process of switching from the old rig to the new rig. While doing the install I was using a Gateway EV700 monitor and it worked fine. I unhooked the cables from my old rig and moved in the new rig. The new monitor

Re: [gentoo-user] Changed monitor and even the BIOS screen doesn't show up.

Dale [10-12-14 05:28]: > meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > >Dale [10-12-14 05:04]: > > > >>Hi, > >> > >>I am in the process of switching from the old rig to the new rig. > >>While doing the install I was using a Gateway EV700 monitor and it > >>worked fine. I unhooked the cables from my old rig an

Re: [gentoo-user] Changed monitor and even the BIOS screen doesn't show up.

meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Dale [10-12-14 05:04]: Hi, I am in the process of switching from the old rig to the new rig. While doing the install I was using a Gateway EV700 monitor and it worked fine. I unhooked the cables from my old rig and moved in the new rig. The new monitor is a Gat

Re: [gentoo-user] Changed monitor and even the BIOS screen doesn't show up.

Dale [10-12-14 05:04]: > Hi, > > I am in the process of switching from the old rig to the new rig. > While doing the install I was using a Gateway EV700 monitor and it > worked fine. I unhooked the cables from my old rig and moved in the > new rig. The new monitor is a Gateway EV910. When

[gentoo-user] Changed monitor and even the BIOS screen doesn't show up.

Hi, I am in the process of switching from the old rig to the new rig. While doing the install I was using a Gateway EV700 monitor and it worked fine. I unhooked the cables from my old rig and moved in the new rig. The new monitor is a Gateway EV910. When I boot with the Gateway EV910 hook

Re: [gentoo-user] 3Com PCMCIA network card not recognised

On 13/12/2010, at 10:53pm, Mick wrote: > On Monday 13 December 2010 07:44:51 Stroller wrote: >> >> The only things I've done is to recompile my kernel a couple of times - >> once to add in the drivers statically (CONFIG_PCMCIA_3C589=y), instead of >> as modules, to see if that would make a differ

Re: [gentoo-user] Gigabyte and controlling fans

Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 16:42:51 -0600, Dale wrote: Of course, it's not like you ever had problems with your mouse and keyboard drivers and HAL... And I got rid of hal too. If hal had worked, I'd be using it. It didn't so I removed it. Nothing complicated wi

Re: [gentoo-user] 3Com PCMCIA network card not recognised

On 13/12/2010, at 10:53pm, Mick wrote: >> ... >> The only things I've done is to recompile my kernel a couple of times - >> once to add in the drivers statically (CONFIG_PCMCIA_3C589=y), instead of >> as modules, to see if that would make a difference, and second time to >> match another PCMCIA op

Re: [gentoo-user] Gigabyte and controlling fans

On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 16:42:51 -0600, Dale wrote: > > Of course, it's not like you ever had problems with your mouse and > > keyboard drivers and HAL... > And I got rid of hal too. If hal had worked, I'd be using it. It > didn't so I removed it. Nothing complicated with that. You're assuming t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 3Com PCMCIA network card not recognised

On 13/12/2010, at 10:51pm, Stroller wrote: >> ... >> OK, shot in the dark: >> >> /usr/sbin/update-pciids >> ... > > I'll try it now. I'm not terribly optimistic, though, as this is such an old > card, so is sure to be in the PCI IDs database. Nope, no difference. Stroller.

Re: [gentoo-user] make.conf for Pentium E2140

On 13/12/2010, at 1:51pm, VeroLom wrote: > Hello, Gentoo users! > > I want to install Gentoo on my computer at work. I have installed Gentoo on > my home computer, but it have Athlon64 processor. Hello, and welcome to the list! :) * passes around a tray of homebaked cookies * I would be grat

Re: [gentoo-user] Gigabyte and controlling fans

On Monday 13 December 2010 16:40:13 Dale wrote: > Maybe I found one thing I am lucky in. ;-) don't worry, the luck will run out sooner or later ;)

Re: [gentoo-user] 3Com PCMCIA network card not recognised

On Monday 13 December 2010 07:44:51 Stroller wrote: > I have a fairly old laptop, but which has a really nice screen and which is > actually still quite useful for some simple tasks and for "thin clienting" > and stuff. I like to keep it around as a spare, at least. For one thing I > want to use it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 3Com PCMCIA network card not recognised

On 13/12/2010, at 1:34pm, James wrote: > Stroller stellar.eclipse.co.uk> writes: > >> if I bridge it with the laptop's internal network card. >> However, the 3Com network card doesn't seem to be recognised under my >> installation of Gentoo. > > > OK, shot in the dark: > > /usr/sbin/update-

Re: [gentoo-user] Gigabyte and controlling fans

Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 10:58:54 -0600, Dale wrote: Rule of thumb: everything you need to boot built in, everything else modules. Results in the least problems. Well, having them built in has worked all these years. Of course, it's not like you ever had

Re: [gentoo-user] Gigabyte and controlling fans

Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Monday 13 December 2010 10:58:54 Dale wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Sunday 12 December 2010 20:34:22 Dale wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Sunday 12 December 2010 05:20:27 Dale wrote: That comes from lm-senso

Re: [gentoo-user] make.conf for Pentium E2140

> > I want to install Gentoo on my computer at work. I have installed Gentoo on > my home computer, but it have Athlon64 processor. I have some troubles with > make.conf. Which CHOST and CFLAGS I need to set up? > Have you read: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Safe_Cflags ?

Re: [gentoo-user] Eeek: many open ports

On 12/13/2010 2:22 PM, Bill Longman wrote: On 12/13/2010 02:02 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 1:18 PM, pkmailto:pete...@coolmail.se>> wrote: On 2010-12-13 22:08, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > Netstat agrees that they're open but does not disclose which process is

Re: [gentoo-user] Gigabyte and controlling fans

On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 10:58:54 -0600, Dale wrote: > > Rule of thumb: everything you need to boot built in, everything else > > modules. Results in the least problems. > Well, having them built in has worked all these years. Of course, it's not like you ever had problems with your mouse and keyboar

Re: [gentoo-user] Eeek: many open ports

On 12/13/2010 02:02 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 1:18 PM, pk > wrote: > > On 2010-12-13 22:08, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > Netstat agrees that they're open but does not disclose which > process is > > listening. > > > > D

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] starting wlan0 only when wireless is turned on

On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 14:02:55 +, Mick wrote: > >> Interesting! Can wicd manage encryption WPA/WPA2 without > >> wpa_supplicant? > > > > No, wpa_supplicant is a dependency of wicd. > > Right, I thought as much, but Valmor's removal of > /etc/wpa_supplicant/*.conf through me out. That wasn'

Re: [gentoo-user] Eeek: many open ports

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 1:18 PM, pk wrote: > On 2010-12-13 22:08, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > Netstat agrees that they're open but does not disclose which process is > > listening. > > > > Does anybody know how to find this out? > > netstat only lists listening processes when you're root... > > N

Re: [gentoo-user] Eeek: many open ports

On Monday 13 December 2010 13:08:18 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > Eeek!! > > Just fooling around with some software on my laptop, I found that my Gentoo > desktop has an even dozen open inet ports with something listening to them, > in addition to the ones I would expect (25, 80 and so on). > They are a

[gentoo-user] Re: Eeek: many open ports

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > Eeek!! > > Just fooling around with some software on my laptop, I found that my Gentoo > desktop has an even dozen open inet ports with something listening to them, > in addition to the ones I would expect (25, 80 and so on). > They are all

Re: [gentoo-user] Eeek: many open ports

On 2010-12-13 22:08, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > Netstat agrees that they're open but does not disclose which process is > listening. > > Does anybody know how to find this out? netstat only lists listening processes when you're root... Best regards Peter K

[gentoo-user] Eeek: many open ports

Eeek!! Just fooling around with some software on my laptop, I found that my Gentoo desktop has an even dozen open inet ports with something listening to them, in addition to the ones I would expect (25, 80 and so on). They are all in the range 32768-6. Netstat agrees that they're open but doe

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID6 for / ?

Am 2010-12-11 00:08, schrieb Neil Bothwick: > On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 14:47:26 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > >>> Since / only needs about 200MB, space isn't really an issue, and RAID1 >>> gives the highest redundancy. The main reason I don't put / on a >>> higher RAID level is that it adds the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FAN-Speed readout/control ???

On Monday 13 December 2010 18:08:26 James wrote: > gmx.de> writes: > > When I try to enable fan control via bios I got a warning and loud > > beeps from the BIOS *AND* the fan do not start... > > I did not see your explicit board or chipset at the > coreboot.org site. > > IF you are adventureso

[gentoo-user] Re: FAN-Speed readout/control ???

gmx.de> writes: > When I try to enable fan control via bios I got a warning and loud > beeps from the BIOS *AND* the fan do not start... I did not see your explicit board or chipset at the coreboot.org site. IF you are adventuresome. Well, there are some similar chipsets to yours and bi

Re: [gentoo-user] Gigabyte and controlling fans

On Monday 13 December 2010 10:58:54 Dale wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Sunday 12 December 2010 20:34:22 Dale wrote: > >> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >>> On Sunday 12 December 2010 05:20:27 Dale wrote: > That comes from lm-sensors. Hmmm. Since I have my stuff built > into

Re: [gentoo-user] Gigabyte and controlling fans

Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Sunday 12 December 2010 20:34:22 Dale wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Sunday 12 December 2010 05:20:27 Dale wrote: That comes from lm-sensors. Hmmm. Since I have my stuff built into the kernel, can I still use that or would they clash so

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] starting wlan0 only when wireless is turned on

On 12/13/2010 09:02 AM, Mick wrote: > On 13 December 2010 09:04, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 07:26:22 +, Mick wrote: >> >>> Interesting! Can wicd manage encryption WPA/WPA2 without wpa_supplicant? >> >> No, wpa_supplicant is a dependency of wicd. > > Right, I thought as much,

Re: [gentoo-user] Gigabyte and controlling fans

On Monday 13 December 2010 15:54:02 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Rule of thumb: everything you need to boot built in, everything else > modules. Results in the least problems. Good thinking. My rule of thumb has been to compile-in everything that has to be present on every run and everything el

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Firefox 3.6.12 problem?

On Monday 13 December 2010 14:02:38 Urs Schutz wrote: > Did you try to use the configuration dialog for the Menu > bar / Navigation toolbar / Bookmarks toolbar? If not, please > right mouse click on the «STOP» button, and choose > «Customize...»). I used a different route to the same dialogue. >

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] starting wlan0 only when wireless is turned on

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 02:02:55PM +, Mick wrote: > Right, I thought as much, but Valmor's removal of > /etc/wpa_supplicant/*.conf through me out. > > Can wicd write to /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf? I don't know, but, then again, why would it need to? I know that wicd does write

Re: [gentoo-user] Gigabyte and controlling fans

On Sunday 12 December 2010 20:34:22 Dale wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Sunday 12 December 2010 05:20:27 Dale wrote: > >> That comes from lm-sensors. Hmmm. Since I have my stuff built into > >> the > >> kernel, can I still use that or would they clash somehow? > >> > >> Also, this i

[gentoo-user] Re: 3Com PCMCIA network card not recognised

Xavier Parizet gentooist.com> writes: > > /usr/sbin/update-pciids > Or USE flag +network-cron which installs a CRON task to run thoses > utils on a regular basis (once a month or sth). Ah, very cool: Monthly cronjob to update hddtemp.db. Adds a cron job which does a weekly subm

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox doesn't build - gcc compilers

On 12/13/2010 04:57 AM, dhk wrote: > On 12/13/2010 07:50 AM, Xavier Parizet wrote: >> On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 07:34:16 -0500, dhk wrote: >> You need to run: >> gcc-config x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-4.4.4 && source /etc/profile && gcc -v >> >> If the above commande output gcc version 4.4.4, then you're done,

Re: [gentoo-user] Gigabyte and controlling fans

On 12/12/2010 06:34 PM, Dale wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> On Sunday 12 December 2010 05:20:27 Dale wrote: >> >>> That comes from lm-sensors. Hmmm. Since I have my stuff built into the >>> kernel, can I still use that or would they clash somehow? >>> >>> Also, this is a desktop not a

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] starting wlan0 only when wireless is turned on

On 13 December 2010 09:04, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 07:26:22 +, Mick wrote: > >> Interesting! Can wicd manage encryption WPA/WPA2 without wpa_supplicant? > > No, wpa_supplicant is a dependency of wicd. Right, I thought as much, but Valmor's removal of /etc/wpa_supplicant/*.c

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Firefox 3.6.12 problem?

On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 00:38:06 + Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday 12 December 2010 16:09:41 Klaus Müller wrote: > > > Try [installing] a different firefox theme from > > https://addons.mozilla.org > > But I've already tried a vanilla setup by creating a test > user, and separately by moving

[gentoo-user] make.conf for Pentium E2140

Hello, Gentoo users! I want to install Gentoo on my computer at work. I have installed Gentoo on my home computer, but it have Athlon64 processor. I have some troubles with make.conf. Which CHOST and CFLAGS I need to set up? - v...@219ver:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id

[gentoo-user] Re: FAN-Speed readout/control ???

Volker Armin Hemmann googlemail.com> writes: > build all sensor drivers AND all transport as modules > run sensors-detect > edit lm_sensors conf in /etc/conf > rc-update add lm_sensors default > pwmconfig > lots of stuff > rc-update add fancontrol default. I have, on occations, found this data

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 3Com PCMCIA network card not recognised

On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 13:34:56 + (UTC), James wrote: Stroller stellar.eclipse.co.uk> writes: if I bridge it with the laptop's internal network card. However, the 3Com network card doesn't seem to be recognised under my installation of Gentoo. OK, shot in the dark: /usr/sbin/update-pci

[gentoo-user] Re: 3Com PCMCIA network card not recognised

Stroller stellar.eclipse.co.uk> writes: > if I bridge it with the laptop's internal network card. > However, the 3Com network card doesn't seem to be recognised under my > installation of Gentoo. OK, shot in the dark: /usr/sbin/update-pciids My experience is sometimes this data base

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox doesn't build - gcc compilers

On 12/13/2010 07:50 AM, Xavier Parizet wrote: > On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 07:34:16 -0500, dhk wrote: >> How can I get Firefox and Imagemagick working? >> >> I had two gcc compiles installed on my machine 3.4.3 and 4.4.4. After >> reading that gcc 3.4.3 was not necessary anymore since gcc 4.4.4 was >> s

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox doesn't build - gcc compilers

On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 07:34:16 -0500, dhk wrote: How can I get Firefox and Imagemagick working? I had two gcc compiles installed on my machine 3.4.3 and 4.4.4. After reading that gcc 3.4.3 was not necessary anymore since gcc 4.4.4 was stable. I removed gcc 3.4.3 and left 4.4.4 to get imagemag

[gentoo-user] Firefox doesn't build - gcc compilers

How can I get Firefox and Imagemagick working? I had two gcc compiles installed on my machine 3.4.3 and 4.4.4. After reading that gcc 3.4.3 was not necessary anymore since gcc 4.4.4 was stable. I removed gcc 3.4.3 and left 4.4.4 to get imagemagick updated. Now both imagemagick and firefox fail

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] starting wlan0 only when wireless is turned on

On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 07:26:22 +, Mick wrote: > Interesting! Can wicd manage encryption WPA/WPA2 without wpa_supplicant? No, wpa_supplicant is a dependency of wicd. -- Neil Bothwick SCSI: System Can't See It signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] preserved-rebuild will not run at all

On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 01:06:36 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > I agree that the tree should be in sync, but how come I was able to > > unmerge the package? It must keep the information somewhere -- and it > > didn't tell me anything about having packages with no ebuilds -- that > > would have been