[gentoo-user] Fwd: How to configure a Radeon 7500 PCI card...

2005-07-21 Thread Joe
-- Forwarded message --From: Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: Jul 18, 2005 10:17 AM Subject: How to configure a Radeon 7500 PCI card...To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]I was trying to follow the guides and figure things out for myself but I have not been able to.  The guide (http://www.gent

[gentoo-user] emerge - Tips and Tricks

2024-09-01 Thread Joe
run emerge -uavDN --with-bdeps=y @world when i want to reinstall or like the manual says if there is a use flag that has been changed by me or the dev. Am i doing it right or what should i do that can help me and newer people Thanks Joe

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge - Tips and Tricks

2024-09-01 Thread Joe
On 9/1/24 16:56, Dale wrote: Joe wrote: Hello, I'm looking for some tips and tricks regarding emerge. I know there is a cheat sheet on what stuff you can do. But i would like emerge exclusively . Normally i run emerge -uavDU --with-bdeps=y @world when i don't want a re

[gentoo-user] Sound on Chromebook

2024-09-01 Thread Joe
Hi, Has anyone got sound working on a Chromebook say 2020-Newer ? Could you please tell me the steps. Followed this with no luck. <https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1166746-highlight-.html> Thanks Joe

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound on Chromebook

2024-09-01 Thread Joe
On 9/1/24 22:24, Dale wrote: Joe wrote: Hi, Has anyone got sound working on a Chromebook say 2020-Newer ? Could you please tell me the steps. Followed this with no luck. <https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1166746-highlight-.html> Thanks Joe I use Firefox and Seamonkey myse

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound on Chromebook

2024-09-03 Thread Joe
On September 2, 2024 11:43:02 AM PDT, Dale wrote: >Joe wrote: >> On 9/1/24 22:24, Dale wrote: >>> Joe wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> Has anyone got sound working on a Chromebook say 2020-Newer ? >>>> >>>> Could you

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Power supply or motherboard dead?

2008-03-19 Thread Joe Menola
On Wednesday 19 March 2008 8:41:52 am Grant wrote: > A Gentoo desktop of mine won't turn on anymore. I was hoping it was > the power supply but I've installed a new one which doesn't fix the > problem. Is there a sure way to know if the motherboard needs > replacement or if I have two dead power

Re: [gentoo-user] Why does emerge ignore APACHE2_MPMS?

2008-04-22 Thread Joe User
Am Dienstag, 22. April 2008 00:25:23 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > My make.conf has this line: > > APACHE2_MPMS="mpm-prefork mpm-worker" That line should be APACHE2_MPMS="prefork worker" Regards, Joe User -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Which openoffice

2008-05-06 Thread Joe User
\1\/10+/';grep '^cpu MHz' /proc/cpuinfo|awk '{print $4"/30+";}';free|grep '^Mem'|awk '{print $3"/1024/3+"}';df -P -k -x nfs -x smbfs|awk '{if ($1 ~ "/dev/(scsi| sd)"){ s+= $2} s+= $2;} END {print s/1024/50"/15+70";}'`|sed 's/,/./'| bc|sed 's/\(..$\)/.\1cm/' Regards, Joe User -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] installing lomount

2008-05-11 Thread Joe User
during 'emerge util-linux': http://git.kernel.org/?p=utils/util-linux-ng/util-linux-ng.git;a=tree;f=mount;hb=HEAD Building it manually should work fine. Regards, Joe User -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Remote install @Hetzner

2008-06-21 Thread Joe User
s happening :( Did anyone manage to get an remote install in such an situation ? (maybe even @ Hetzner). thx Hi Enrico, have a look at http://www.rootforum.de/wiki/gentoo/01_hardened "Bootloader installieren", it's a grub bug. Regards, Joe User -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] usernames starting w/ digit

2008-06-23 Thread Joe User
seradd doesnt accept usernames starting > digits, while other distros do ? > > > cu Hi, look at shadow-$version/libmisc/chkname.c and the gentoo patches. Regards, Joe User -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems compiling gcc 4.2.4 and 4.3.1-r1

2008-07-14 Thread Joe User
John covici schrieb: Hi, > > [snip] > > Portage 2.1.4.4 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/developer, gcc-4.1.2, > glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.24-gentoo-r5 i686) ^^ that's your major problem... Regards, Joe User -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Why can't kernel-2.6.19-gentoo-r5 see my root partition?

2007-02-03 Thread Joe Menola
On Saturday 03 February 2007 11:06 am, Michael Sullivan wrote: > I upgraded my kernel to 2.6.19-gentoo-r6 this morning.  I used > genkernel.  I followed these steps: In the interest of confusion...the .19 kernel sees all hdd's as /dev/sdx including ide. Your sda6 is most likely sdb6 or some othe

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Bon Echo (why?)

2007-02-25 Thread Joe Menola
On Sunday 25 February 2007 12:55 pm, Dan Farrell wrote: > but 'IceWeasel' is ugly.  Bon Echo is such a nice name.   I'd prefer firefox_alt or something similar. Something that tells me what it is -jm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] a weird problem regarding internet connection...

2007-04-07 Thread Joe Menola
On Saturday 07 April 2007 8:54 am, Tony Stohne wrote: > If not it is clearly a problem with DNS not resolving properly, so check > your network configuration (/etc/conf.d/net.eth0 or whatever your file > is called)! Also read the example file in the same directory - it's full > of valuable info on

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk partition query

2007-04-30 Thread Joe Menola
On Monday 30 April 2007 5:01:41 am Stuart Howard wrote: > Can I for example delete the swap and then create an extended > partition within the free space and finally create logical partitions > as required? > > Can swap be assigned to an extended/logical partition? Yes and yes...as an added bonus

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: DVD recording speed is awfully low

2006-10-18 Thread Joe Menola
On Wednesday 18 October 2006 10:43 am, Matias Grana wrote: > Also, when I booted there was a message saying that it couldn't load > ide-cd. I can't find that message now. I don't have ide-cd compiled into > the kernel nor as a module, though. What say "hdparm /dev/hdb" ? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Scary Paritioning - Need Help

2006-10-19 Thread Joe Menola
On Thursday 19 October 2006 7:02 pm, Lord Sauron wrote: > I have three partitions on my workstation's hard drive. > > /dev/sda1 = ntfs (windows) > /dev/sda3 = linux-swap > /dev/sda4 = ext3 (SuSE 10.1) > > Where sda2 should be used to be and XFS partition for Kubuntu. > > My question is thus: how wo

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-28 Thread Joe Menola
On Saturday 28 October 2006 2:02 pm, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > And DON'T use XFS if you can't afford an UPS. > > Unless you're using a laptop. Solar UPS? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub problems

2006-10-29 Thread Joe Menola
On Sunday 29 October 2006 1:22 pm, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > Update. > > After a little bit of surfing, I tried the command grub-install --recheck > /dev/sda That changed the device map file so that the /dev/sda drive mapped > to hd2 > > The full /boot/grub/device.map listing is now > (fd0)   /dev/fd0

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub problems

2006-10-29 Thread Joe Menola
On Sunday 29 October 2006 1:56 pm, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > >Try running grub, then at the grub command line: > >>root (hd2,5) > >>setup /dev/sda > >>quit > > > >-jm > > When I run setup /dev/sda, I get the error > "Error 11: Unrecognised device string" Try setup "(hd2)"...also I think the root comma

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems

2006-10-29 Thread Joe Menola
On Sunday 29 October 2006 6:49 pm, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > I'm going to borrow a Windows 2000 or XP OS and see if that will install. >  If that fails, or unless someone comes up with any other solutions, I'll > take the computer back to the shop :-/ It seems to me that bios and grub have different i

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS Wont mount

2006-11-14 Thread Flophouse Joe
(s) that need to be able to mount this filesystem. man exports(5) will give you the details, but you'd probably want something like the following: /etc/exports: /home 192.168.1.100(no_root_squash,rw) Joe -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS Wont mount

2006-11-14 Thread Flophouse Joe
On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, timothy johnson wrote: Joe, I have tried this and got the same results On 11/14/06, Flophouse Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, timothy johnson wrote: > mount 10.250.107.10:/home /mnt/pdc1Home > returns > mount: 10.250.107.10:/home

Re: [gentoo-user] offline runlevel

2006-11-15 Thread Flophouse Joe
would be more appropriate in the "default" or "offline" runlevel? Joe -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with script for iptables

2006-11-15 Thread Flophouse Joe
d way. :) It's entirely possible that I'm misunderstanding the design of netfilter, but it seems to me that the solution to complicated rulesets is to permit boolean logic in rules like so: iptables -A INPUT \ \(-i eth0 -or -i wlan0) -and \(-p tcp --dport ssh\) \ -j ACCEPT Joe -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with script for iptables

2006-11-15 Thread Flophouse Joe
On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, Mick wrote: On Wednesday 15 November 2006 21:25, Flophouse Joe wrote: On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, Mick wrote: UPLINK="eth0 wlan0 ppp0" for x in ${INTERFACES} do iptables -A INPUT -i ! ${x} -j ACCEPT . . .

Re: [gentoo-user] Accidentally deleted contents of /sbin

2006-11-16 Thread Flophouse Joe
since the backup was taken-- then restoring the backup would be the easiest option. In this case, though, it seems like a reasonable tradeoff to wait for all your packages to recompile in order to be more confident that your system won't blow up on you. Joe -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Accidentally deleted contents of /sbin

2006-11-16 Thread Flophouse Joe
On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, Flophouse Joe wrote: Yes, I think an "emerge --deep --emptytree world" would be in order. Wow. The other posters are right. Re-emerging everything is a waste of time. It'd be much easier to re-emerge only the packages that had placed files into

Re: [gentoo-user] Accidentally deleted contents of /sbin

2006-11-16 Thread Flophouse Joe
On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, Bo ?rsted Andresen wrote: On Thursday 16 November 2006 17:40, Flophouse Joe wrote: Yes, I think an "emerge --deep --emptytree world" would be in order. Why? And what exactly do you expect --deep to do with --emptytree? Using --deep is a force of habit for up

Re: [gentoo-user] Accidentally deleted contents of /sbin

2006-11-16 Thread Flophouse Joe
On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, James Colby wrote: I had one file in /etc that needed updating, and when I tried to run etc-update it was missing. I'm not clear on what's happened. Is it etc-update that's missing or is it something else? Joe -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Newly created user can't ssh in but others can?

2006-11-17 Thread Flophouse Joe
er attempts to login? Does the output change-- and reveal any hints-- if sshd is run in the forground in debug mode? Joe -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] man openssl

2006-11-17 Thread Flophouse Joe
ight be a good idea to submit a bug about it.) Joe -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub set default for next reboot?

2006-12-05 Thread Flophouse Joe
effect is that the "default" boot entry is reset every time Grub boots something. For one-off cases where you only want to boot something once, you manually set it with "grub-set-default", and rely on the "savedefault N" directive in that one-off stanza to reset the grub default immediately after it's selected. Joe -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub set default for next reboot?

2006-12-05 Thread Flophouse Joe
ould never have its default boot entry reset to its "normal" value. If you used grub-set-default and did nothing else, then you'd always boot the new kernel. On the other hand, if grub-set-default were able to set a for-this-boot-only boot entry by itself, then why would the i

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub set default for next reboot?

2006-12-06 Thread Flophouse Joe
-R. That's the reason I am comfortable using it on a headless server as well as desktops. Agreed completely. Joe -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: One more time -- KDM 3.5.5 and kdesktop crash

2006-12-06 Thread Joe Menola
On Wednesday 06 December 2006 2:01 pm, James wrote: > Steve Brenneis surry.net> writes: > > I had this under a title related to nVidia drivers, but I have > > determined that my KDM problems probably aren't related to that. > > > > After upgrading to KDE 3.5.5, I can no longer start KDE from KDM.

Re: [gentoo-user] PC Speaker is an Input Device?

2006-12-08 Thread Flophouse Joe
s where it is: Device Drivers Input device support Miscellaneous devices PC Speaker support It gets listed in your kernel's config as "CONFIG_INPUT_PCSPKR". As to why the PC speaker is grouped with the input devices? Your guess is as good as mine. Joe -- gento

Re: [gentoo-user] mkisofs for XP CD

2006-12-17 Thread Flophouse Joe
ou can shove this El Torito image back into the new CD by passing "-b eltorito_boot_image" to mkisofs. (See mkisofs(1).) From there, you burn as usual. Paul Thurrott discusses this practice from a Windows perspective. Even if the execution is different, the concepts remain the same: http:

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel woes..

2006-12-20 Thread Flophouse Joe
uild . It manages a list of packages that provide kernel modules and lets you re-emerge all of them at once. It comes in handy if you don't want to bother remembering which systems need which kernel module packages after every kernel change. Joe -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT, but short

2006-12-23 Thread Joe Menola
On Saturday 23 December 2006 4:08 pm, Michael Sullivan wrote: > Is anyone out there using Residential SBC/Yahoo DSL with dynamic DNS? I > want to know if the ISP blocks incoming requests to your servers if > you're not paying them the rate for a static IP... Yes and yes. Unless you setup your se

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: More ALSA trouble

2005-12-30 Thread Joe Menola
On Friday 30 December 2005 5:43 pm, Michael Sullivan wrote: > I ran alsaconf (again).  When it tried to start alsasound it gave all > those same errors again. Alsaconf is only used for modular kernels. Running it on compiled in modules tends to muck up the system pretty good. The easiest way to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: More ALSA trouble

2005-12-30 Thread Joe Menola
On Friday 30 December 2005 6:09 pm, Michael Sullivan wrote: > On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 18:00 -0600, Joe Menola wrote: > > On Friday 30 December 2005 5:43 pm, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > > I ran alsaconf (again).  When it tried to start alsasound it gave all > > &

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: More ALSA trouble

2005-12-30 Thread Joe Menola
On Friday 30 December 2005 7:15 pm, Michael Sullivan wrote: > I meant that I compiled ALSA with support for my sound card as > modules... Try deleting your config file and rerun alsa conf. -jm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] need help with kmail

2006-01-02 Thread Joe Menola
On Sunday 01 January 2006 10:00 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Kmail is broken after cleaning out old kde versions (3.1-3.4) starting it > from a terminal shows the following when I attempt to send an email. > Receiving email works properly. Try deleting and setting up smtp server. "Check what ser

Re: [gentoo-user] need help with kmail

2006-01-02 Thread Joe Menola
On Monday 02 January 2006 8:19 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Monday 02 January 2006 08:57, a tiny voice compelled Joe Menola to write: > > On Sunday 01 January 2006 10:00 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Kmail is broken after cleaning out old kde versions (3.1-3.4) starti

Re: [gentoo-user] need help with kmail

2006-01-02 Thread Joe Menola
On Monday 02 January 2006 4:22 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've looked at qmail, it seems postfix blocks it. I suppose I won't be any > worse off without postfix. I'll read up on qmail and see if it will serve > my purpose for the short term, but I REALLY want to get kmail working. I'm > becommi

Re: [gentoo-user] booting fsck

2006-01-07 Thread Joe Menola
On Saturday 07 January 2006 8:04 am, Martins Steinbergs wrote: > ReiserFS: hdb9: warning: sh-2021: reiserfs_fill_super: can not find > reiserfs on hdb9 > thats ok, there is no reisefs, but ext3 Check that /etc/fstab contains a correct entry for hdb9 file system (ext3 not reiserfs). -jm -- gento

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

2006-01-30 Thread Joe Menola
On Monday 30 January 2006 6:09 pm, Michael Sullivan wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls /dev/floppy > ls: /dev/floppy: No such file or directory Check for /dev/floppy/0 (note: floppy is a folder) If neither /dev/fd0 or /dev/floppy/0 exist then verify the drive is valid via bios setup. -jm -- gent

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get notified of new mail in custom mail folders

2006-03-03 Thread Joe Martel
Hi Masood, Are you filtering your mail into maildirs or mbox files? e.g. a Maildir would look something like /home/masood/.maildir/[some more directories here] whereas an mbox would be one file like /home/masood/.mail Joe Masood Ahmed wrote: Hi, I have a email system comprising of

Re: [gentoo-user] Drive Failing?

2006-03-10 Thread Joe Menola
On Friday 10 March 2006 8:37 pm, Ash Varma wrote: > thanks... > ordered a new drive earlier today.. will probably take the machine offline > and replace the drive... Keep in mind that any attempt to backup or copy this drive could be what kills it completely. My advice is don't use the drive un

Re: [gentoo-user] reiserfschk stops boot but reports nothing

2006-03-11 Thread Joe Menola
On Saturday 11 March 2006 9:58 am, Harry Putnam wrote: > Giving root pwd and running reiserfschk /dev/hdb6 returns the prompt > really quick and no output. No such file "reiserfschk", typo or are you looking for... Usage: reiserfsck [mode] [options] device Modes: --check

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: reiserfschk stops boot but reports nothing

2006-03-11 Thread Joe Menola
On Saturday 11 March 2006 10:19 am, Harry Putnam wrote: > But as you might guess typing a non-command would not produce silence > as reported. > >    reiserfschk > -su: reiserfschk: command not found > > So it was a typo, I used the right command and then again adding --check > after bootup had fin

[gentoo-user] udev and initrd

2005-08-09 Thread Joe Rizzo
fine and ext3 is compiled into the kernel. This was working when using devfs. How do I get this to work? Do I need devfs compiled into the kernel? Thanks for the help, Joe Rizzo Loading 3w-9xxx.ko module 3w-9xxx: scsi0: AEN: WARNING (0x04:0x0008): Unclean shutdown detected:unit=0. scsi0 : 3ware

RE: [gentoo-user] udev and initrd

2005-08-09 Thread Joe Rizzo
Thanks for the response. I think I'm having an issue unrelated to udev. 3ware tech support said the driver included with the kernel was old and suggested to build the latest driver as a module. Thanks, Joe -Original Message- From: Volker Armin Hemmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[gentoo-user] 802.1q/VLAN issue

2005-08-09 Thread Joe Rizzo
, Joe Rizzo # cat /etc/conf.d/net config_eth0=( "null" ) vlans_eth0="16" config_eth0_16=( "10.8.16.16 broadcast 10.8.16.255 netmask 255.255.255.0" ) routes_eth0_16=( "-net 0.0.0.0 netmask 0.0.0.0 gw 10.8.16.1" ) # ip addr 1: lo: mtu 16436 qdisc

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-14 Thread Joe Menola
On Sunday August 14 2005 2:42 pm, Paul Hoy wrote: > Linux from Scratch looks very interesting: it appears to rapidly support > the latest updates and it has decent documentation. Does any one have any > perspectives on Linux from Scratch, from a Gentoo point-of-view? Does > anyone wish to share a c

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-14 Thread Joe Menola
On Sunday August 14 2005 4:22 pm, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 16:05:22 -0500, Joe Menola wrote: > > I've built both Gentoo and LFS. A side by side comparison comes up > > pretty much equal. Except for documentation, where Gentoo wins hands > > down.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-14 Thread Joe Menola
On Sunday August 14 2005 4:37 pm, Nick Rout wrote: > On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 16:05:22 -0500 > > Joe Menola wrote: > > On Sunday August 14 2005 2:42 pm, Paul Hoy wrote: > > > Linux from Scratch looks very interesting: it appears to rapidly > > > support the

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-14 Thread Joe Menola
On Sunday August 14 2005 4:38 pm, Nick Rout wrote: > Unstable does not really cut it IMHO. I am a gentoo enthusiast through > and through, but plonking something in portage with a ~ beside it does > not constitute a release of a recent version IMHO. Can you name any version of Linux where version

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-14 Thread Joe Menola
On Sunday August 14 2005 5:43 pm, Paul Hoy wrote: > On Aug 14, 2005, at 5:05 PM, Joe Menola wrote: > > On Sunday August 14 2005 2:42 pm, Paul Hoy wrote: > >> Linux from Scratch looks very interesting: it appears to rapidly > >> support > >> the latest updates a

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-14 Thread Joe Menola
On Sunday August 14 2005 8:48 pm, Zac Medico wrote: > You can export variables in the shell (not generally recommended) or put > them directly on the command line. > > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -s foo > > It's best to use /etc/portage/package.keywords to keep your package > specific keywords (d

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc builds but won't install

2005-08-15 Thread Joe Menola
On Monday August 15 2005 6:45 pm, darren kirby wrote: > Hello all, > > I have been having some problems getting glibc installed. It builds just > fine, but when it comes time to move the files into the live filesystem it > craps out with this error: > > > > >>> /usr/share/i18n/locales/oc_FR > >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc builds but won't install

2005-08-15 Thread Joe Menola
On Monday August 15 2005 7:20 pm, darren kirby wrote: > Hello, > # chown -R root /usr/share/i18n/locales > chown: cannot access `/usr/share/i18n/locales/[EMAIL PROTECTED]': Permission > denied chown: cannot access `/usr/share/i18n/locales/tig_ER': Permission > denied chown: cannot access `/usr/shar

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow HD

2005-08-17 Thread Joe Menola
On Wednesday August 17 2005 7:56 pm, Pupeno wrote: > On Wednesday 17 August 2005 18:44, Mark Knecht wrote: > > A quick test would be > > > > hdparm > > I got this: > /dev/hda: > Timing cached reads: 1344 MB in 2.00 seconds = 672.10 MB/sec > Timing buffered disk reads:8 MB in 3.51 seconds

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow HD

2005-08-17 Thread Joe Menola
On Wednesday August 17 2005 9:02 pm, Pupeno wrote: > I have all as modules, maybe I am just missing to load it. Personally, I would compile them into kernel. You can get the module names from menuconfig/xconfig by selecting them and choosing help. Modprobe them, then hdparm /dev/hda. If dma is n

[gentoo-user] net-setup

2005-08-20 Thread Joe Menola
After messing up my eth1 via manual configuration, and discovering that net-setup wasn't on my disc, I reverted back to dhcp by copying net.sample to net. Searching the forums enlightened me to the fact that net-setup is part of the livecd-tools build. I'm thinking that net-setup should be part

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa config - help

2005-08-20 Thread Joe Menola
On Saturday August 20 2005 2:42 pm, John Dangler wrote: > my /etc/modules.d/alsa file contained this (after alsaconf) > alias snd-card-0 snd-*** err [lib/liblow.c(329)]: > alias sound-slot-0 snd-*** err [lib/liblow.c(329)]: > > I changed it to > alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0 > alias sound-slot-0 sn

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa config - help

2005-08-20 Thread Joe Menola
On Saturday August 20 2005 4:27 pm, John Dangler wrote: > if you had kernel support built-in, and running alsaconf was what caused > the problem (which I think is what caused this problem as well), why would > you rerun alsaconf after recompiling the kernel ?  wouldn't that cause the > same problem

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa config - help

2005-08-20 Thread Joe Menola
On Saturday August 20 2005 5:02 pm, John Dangler wrote: > Joe~ > That's what my .config has now (CONFIG_SND_INTEL8X0=m) Hmmm, no reason for alsaconf to fail then. Unless you skipped/forgot "make modules_install? What say "modprobe intel8x0" ? -jm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa config - help

2005-08-20 Thread Joe Menola
On Saturday August 20 2005 5:02 pm, John Dangler wrote: > Joe~ > That's what my .config has now (CONFIG_SND_INTEL8X0=m) Just peeked at my config, looks like alsa also has to be modular, as well. # Advanced Linux Sound Architecture # CONFIG_SND=m -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa config - help

2005-08-20 Thread Joe Menola
On Saturday August 20 2005 6:13 pm, John Dangler wrote: > Mike~ > As a matter of fact, no.  all the other snd_ modules show, but not intel8x0 > > Thanks for the assistance.  This is beginning to give me a slight > headache... You will still need alsa-drivers if you have built snd_intel8x0 as a mod

Re: [gentoo-user] what's next

2005-08-21 Thread Joe Menola
On Sunday August 21 2005 11:24 am, John Dangler wrote: > I'd like a good backup solution w/boot capability, but mondo is right out! > It's too flaky at the moment. > I'd like to get a backup of the system at this stage before adding a > desktop environment, so that I have somewhere to go back to in

Re: PartImage and SystemRescueCd (Was: RE: [gentoo-user] what's next)

2005-08-21 Thread Joe Menola
On Sunday August 21 2005 4:36 pm, John Dangler wrote: > I noticed that partimage (0.6.4-r3) is available on portage, but > SystemRescueCd (SystemRescueCd-x86-0.2.15) isn't. > a) Have you had any problems getting these up and running? > b) Have you noticed any collisions with adding packages to your

Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread Joe Menola
On Thursday August 25 2005 10:47 am, Grant wrote: > I have forgotten the root password of my remote server. Is there any > way to retrieve or reset it? > If you can get access to the root partition (ie:mount from a livecd) and have a working /etc/passwd with a known password for root, move the or

[gentoo-user] Proposed option for etc-update

2005-08-27 Thread Joe Menola
90% of the time I've broken a Gentoo install has involved etc-update and admittedly myself doing something stupid. I've since developed the habit of tarring the /etc directory before running update. So I was thinking it would be nice to have a -B option for etc-update which creates /somewhere/l

Re: [gentoo-user] Proposed option for etc-update

2005-08-27 Thread Joe Menola
On Saturday August 27 2005 11:57 am, Kai Ole Schultz wrote: > On 27 August 2005 18:44 Joe Menola wrote : > > So I was thinking it would be nice to have a -B option for etc-update > > which creates /somewhere/logical/etc.tar.gz before running etc-update. > > Why not use

Re: [gentoo-user] ftp

2005-08-27 Thread Joe Menola
On Saturday August 27 2005 9:08 pm, John Jolet wrote: > I like gftp...works in kde, too. Ditto. -jm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Windows on a second drive?

2005-09-05 Thread Joe Menola
On Monday September 5 2005 8:50 am, Mark Knecht wrote: > Thanks Brett. > > I did think that Windows cared where it's boot loader was and that it > had to be the first partition on the drive. Is that not true? > Windows bootloader needs to be on the first nfs/vfat partition on the boot drive and th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: authorization faliure when sending email

2005-09-05 Thread Joe Menola
On Monday September 5 2005 2:56 pm, Matthew Lee wrote: > I tried reemerging kdepasswd, it didn't solve the > problem. > In answer to the other question the SMTP server does > require authentication.  The settings I have now > worked fine last week, which is why I'm sure it's > something on my lapto

Re: [gentoo-user] VMware Workstation trouble

2005-09-21 Thread Joe Menola
On Wednesday September 21 2005 2:56 pm, Grant wrote: > Hello, since updating to the latest vmware workstation 4.5 via > portage, I haven't been able to start my XP virtual machine. When I > click "Start this virtual machine", nothing happens at all. Does > anyone know why this is happening? > The

Re: [gentoo-user] VMware Workstation trouble

2005-09-21 Thread Joe Menola
On Wednesday September 21 2005 5:54 pm, Grant wrote: > > > Hello, since updating to the latest vmware workstation 4.5 via > > > portage, I haven't been able to start my XP virtual machine. When I > > > click "Start this virtual machine", nothing happens at all. Does > > > anyone know why this is

Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla usage monitoring

2005-10-04 Thread Joe Menola
On Tuesday October 4 2005 8:36 pm, Iain Buchanan wrote: > or 3) monitor his mozilla history file, if you have access to his home > directory. If you copied it to your own mozilla directory, you'd get > dates and times as well as specific links... > > (Standard disclaimer about evil monitoring appl

[gentoo-user] POSTFIX and SASL

2005-10-05 Thread Joe Strusz
ue the ehlo command, i do get AUTH PLAIN lines... whats going on? please help im racking my brains. Joe Strusz IT Assistant Oxford Publishing, Inc. 307 West Jackson Avenue Oxford, MS 38655-2154 800-247-3881 662-236-5510x40 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nightclub.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] POSTFIX and SASL

2005-10-05 Thread Joe Strusz
Actually if youd look... smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes is in fact there... I add those smtpd_recipient_restrictions and it still does the same thing Anyways... some help perhaps? At 10:26 AM 10/5/2005, you wrote: On Wednesday 05 October 2005 10:17, Joe Strusz wrote: > Ive read ev

[gentoo-user] POSTFIX and SASL

2005-10-05 Thread Joe Strusz
op postfix/smtpd[7964]: master_notify: status 1 Oct 5 15:41:12 op postfix/smtpd[7964]: connection closed Please help! Joe Strusz IT Assistant Oxford Publishing, Inc. 307 West Jackson Avenue Oxford, MS 38655-2154 800-247-3881 662-236-5510x40 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nightclub.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] POSTFIX and SASL

2005-10-05 Thread Joe Strusz
om unknown[64.89.173.227] Oct 5 15:41:12 op postfix/smtpd[7964]: disconnect from unknown[64.89.173.227] Oct 5 15:41:12 op postfix/smtpd[7964]: master_notify: status 1 Oct 5 15:41:12 op postfix/smtpd[7964]: connection closed Please help! Joe Strusz IT Assistant Oxford Publishing, Inc. 307

[gentoo-user] POSTFIX and SASL

2005-10-05 Thread Joe Strusz
No, thats not it... what about master.cf? Could someone send me a sample master.cf with SASL running? Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 10:55:45 -0500 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Joe Strusz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] POSTFIX and SASL Could it be because Im receivin

[gentoo-user] POSTFIX and SASL

2005-10-05 Thread Joe Strusz
:10:55 op postfix/smtpd[10183]: master_notify: status 1 Oct 5 16:10:55 op postfix/smtpd[10183]: connection closed Joe Strusz IT Assistant Oxford Publishing, Inc. 307 West Jackson Avenue Oxford, MS 38655-2154 800-247-3881 662-236-5510x40 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nightclub.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] POSTFIX and SASL

2005-10-05 Thread Joe Strusz
: 0 kB - Original Message - From: "kashani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 11:31 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] POSTFIX and SASL Joe Strusz wrote: No, thats not it... what about master.cf? Could someone send me a sample master.cf with SASL

Re: [gentoo-user] POSTFIX and SASL

2005-10-05 Thread Joe Strusz
r] POSTFIX and SASL Joe Strusz wrote: No, thats not it... what about master.cf? Could someone send me a sample master.cf with SASL running? sasl requires no changes to master.cf what's an emerge -pv cyrus-sasl look like? kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] POSTFIX and SASL

2005-10-05 Thread Joe Strusz
quot; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 11:31 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] POSTFIX and SASL Joe Strusz wrote: No, thats not it... what about master.cf? Could someone send me a sample master.cf with SASL running? sasl requires no changes to master.cf what's

Re: [gentoo-user] POSTFIX and SASL

2005-10-05 Thread Joe Strusz
Again ... 250-PIPELINING 250-SIZE 1024 250-VRFY 250-ETRN 250-STARTTLS 250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 250-AUTH=LOGIN PLAIN DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 250 8BITMIME auth plain anN0cnVzegBqc3RydXN6AHVwMmw= 535 Error: authentication failed auth plain anN0cnVzegBqc3RydXN6AHVwMmw 535 Error: auth

Re: [gentoo-user] POSTFIX and SASL

2005-10-05 Thread joe strusz
I think your right Drew... heres one last post from my log... And Kashanie, thanks for trying.. i tried your suggested /etc/sasl2/smtpd.conf file... and this was the result :57:00 op postfix/smtpd[25216]: > r173h227.dixie-net.com[64.89.173.227]: 220 op.oxpub.com ESMTP Postfix Oct 5 13:

Re: [gentoo-user] POSTFIX and SASL

2005-10-05 Thread Joe Strusz
Im not familiar with stunnel could you point me toward some documentation? At 07:27 PM 10/5/2005, you wrote: After spending 5 mins trying to get SASL working myself... I just emerged stunnel and switched to simap/spop3... ;) On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Joe Strusz wrote: Ive read every forum

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr and /home to another partition

2005-10-06 Thread Joe Menola
On Thursday October 6 2005 7:49 pm, Matthias Langer wrote: > I want to move the /usr and /home directories to another partition, > because I'm thinking of buying a new HD. It would be great if both > directories were on the same partition, as splitting drives never seemed > very appealing to me. As

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get debug information if system crashs randomly?

2005-10-29 Thread Joe Menola
On Saturday 29 October 2005 11:50 pm, Qiangning Hong wrote: > I know there is memtest86 to test memory.  What tool can check health of > hard disks? http://grc.com/spinrite.htm -jm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Yikes, what have I done 3 1 seconds beeps on boot

2005-12-07 Thread Joe Menola
On Wednesday 07 December 2005 1:27 pm, Steven Susbauer wrote: > Where is it posted? > > Did plugging this back in end up fixing the problem? > > On 1/7/05, Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > It turned out to be unrelated to memory.  Just as I posted it had to > do with what I last had in m

Re: [gentoo-user] More on mbr

2005-12-20 Thread Joe Menola
On Tuesday 20 December 2005 5:45 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What this is all about is that I'm not succeding in overwriting the > lilo code mbr by running `grub setup' > > The grub command succeeds but when I attempt to boot I still get a > crippled lilo response.  By crippled I mean the dread:

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