[gentoo-user] DVD drive not found on new AMD64 system

If this is better asked on gentoo-amd64, please let me know. I am new to Gentoo, but have used GNU/Linux as the only operating system whenever I have a choice (on workstations and servers) since early 2001. Even then, this has me really stumped. Maybe someone can offer some insight... Setup: AMD6

SOLVED: [gentoo-user] DVD drive not found on new AMD64 system

On 2005-06-03 14:52 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Do *NOT* use "cable select". Yes, "it works with Windoze", but then > so do "Winmodems". Set master/slave properly. You are not the first > person to have run into problems with cable select. First off: thanks, Walter! Yes, setting master/

Re: [gentoo-user] AMI - Primary Master Hard Disk Error??

On 2005-06-04 11:11 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Pri Master: IBM-DPTA-371360 P74IA30A > Ultra-DMA Mode 4, S.M.A.R.T capable and status OK > Pri.Slave: TOSHIBA CDW/DVD SD-R1612 TB02 > Ultra-DMA Mode 2 > Auto-Detecting USB Mass Storage Devices > 00 USB mass storage devices found and conf

Re: [gentoo-user] X11, always have to press space-bar when want some special chars (' " ...)

On 2005-06-05 16:15 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > had to prace the space-bar each time I press some special buttons to get the > ' displayed e.g. (or the "). > > Why is this? Could it be the "deadkeys" setting? -- Michael Kjörling, [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://michael.kjorling.com/ * ASCII R

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/shadow syntax

On 2005-06-06 15:51 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I can't seem to find any official documentation on /etc/shadow syntax. > Searching google I find loads of conflicting explantions of the meaning of > x,!,!!,* in the password field. The given password is encrypted, and then compared to whatever

[gentoo-user] What wants to pull in busybox?

Earlier today, I did an emerge --sync and proceeded to update world, including portage (now 2.0.53). I have an amd64 system running mostly stable, with a bunch of ~amd64 packages listed in my package.keywords and a small portage tree overlay that is not of relevance here. Now. For some reason, eve

Re: [gentoo-user] What wants to pull in busybox?

On 2005-12-29 21:05 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > $ grep busybox /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/packages > *sys-apps/busybox Since I don't need this (if my system breaks, I have several live-CDs available that are much more likely to be bootable to begin with), and had so much trouble wit

[gentoo-user] System shutdown from within Xfce

I run Xfce 4.2.3.2 and want to be able to shut down my system from within X. At the moment I have to log in as root and then issue a shutdown command, but Xfce is supposed to support doing this through the GUI. Looking around turned up the Xfce documentation and specifically

Re: SOLVED: [gentoo-user] System shutdown from within Xfce

On 2006-01-04 11:09 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I can now shut down and reboot from within the GUI, and it doesn't >> seem to have opened any obvious other security holes. > > well, except ANY user in your wheel group can shut down your > box.not saying that's a bad thing, but you need

Re: [gentoo-user] No xterms after kernel upgrade.

On 2006-01-08 13:03 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I recently upgraded the kernel on my laptop to 2.6.14-r5, as well as > Xorg, and many other packages. Since this change I cannot run an > xterm anymore. I seem to recall this happening to me years ago, but > I do not remember the cause. Did you

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't send email anymore. O_O

On 2006-01-12 15:54 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > " An error occurred while sending mail. The mail server responded: > 5.7.1 Relaying > denied. Please verify that your email address is correct in your > Mail preferences and try again." This generally means that you are using the wrong mail se

Re: [gentoo-user] Improving SpamAssassin's accuracy...

On 2006-01-16 03:00 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Can anyone help explain the "status=bounced (mail for > mail.validdomain.co.uk loops back to myself" error message, please? It actually is pretty self explanationary. It means that a mail was received (from a host that is allowed to relay, in

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Mozilla: Bug or problem with MY system

On 2006-01-20 09:03 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > /usr/lib/mozilla/mozilla-bin: symbol lookup > error: /usr/lib/mozilla/components/libgfx_gtk.so: undefined symbol: > pango_x_font_map_for_display > mozilla-bin exited with non-zero status (127) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ Have you tried a revdep-reb

[gentoo-user] Redefining a single key in Xorg 6.8?

I run x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6 and would like to redefine a single key on the keyboard. I found a number of tutorials on how to create a completely custom keyboard layout, but this seems like overkill. How do I change this one key without creating a whole new layout, preferably only for my own a

SOLVED: [gentoo-user] Redefining a single key in Xorg 6.8?

On 2006-02-02 19:51 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > See 'man xmodmap', the examples near the end, things like: > > xmodmap -e "keycode 240 = a A space Return" Great, thanks! I thought xmodmap was what I was looking for but missed the part on the -e switch. -- Michael Kjörling, [EMAIL PROTE

[gentoo-user] Logging out and back in kills DRI?

I am having some trouble with X11 DRI on my AMD64 system. It works fine the first time after a reboot (I have xdm in the default runlevel so get a graphical login) but after logging off and back on, all I get is software rendering. I use x11-base/x11-drm-20051223 (compiled against my current kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] changing from X to shell

On 2006-02-03 11:04 -0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > after some updates, changing from KDE to shell seems to be disabled. I > do this by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Fn, where n<7. > > how do I re-enable it again? Check to see if you have DontVTSwitch set in your xorg.conf. -- Michael Kjörling, [EMAIL P

Re: [gentoo-user] Logging out and back in kills DRI?

On 2006-02-03 22:13 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Seeing that here too sometimes. It seems that the app that used > the DRI doesn't fully release it, so that when X restarts it sees > the DRI as being occupied, and is unable to use it. It looks like > a bug -- either in the app, X, or the

[gentoo-user] Can't get iptables to work on AMD64, 2.6.12-gentoo-r10

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 My system is AMD64, Linux 2.6.12-gentoo-r10 (from gentoo-sources), iptables 1.3.2 and generally up-to-date. I can't seem to get iptables to work. Netfilter support is compiled into the kernel (compiling it as a module and loading that gave the same res

FIXED: [gentoo-user] Can't get iptables to work on AMD64, 2.6.12-gentoo-r10

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2005-09-25 02:19 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Do you have any IP tables modules too? ("grep IP_NF_ > /usr/src/linx/.config" should tell you). That's it. Buried among those dozens of lines I found the clue I was looking for: CONFIG_IP_NF_FILTER

Re: [gentoo-user] 2005.1 Universal CD install

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2005-09-28 14:46 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is X already installed? (the system boots to a text login) Most likely. I did a stage 3 installation of 2005.1 a few days ago and ended up getting both X and a whole bunch of other stuff installed.

Re: [gentoo-user] 2005.1 Universal CD install

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2005-09-28 06:52 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A stage 3 will not install X, unless you do emerge something after install > that requires Xlike when I did an emerge kde-meta...that got X > installed, then kde and xdm, etc. That's right. S

Re: [gentoo-user] Size of portage tree

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2005-09-28 07:30 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've noticed /usr/portage is standing at a little over 2 gigs in > size. Is this about normal? Don't forget that portage keeps all downloaded source code in /usr/portage/distfiles. The actual port

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a network

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2005-09-29 15:19 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I thought I could just allow Linux to forward the packets, but I couldn't > figure out the routing since I'm not dealing with a whole subnet, only a few > allocated IPs. If a network delegation d

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie: Install process @ chroot

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2005-10-07 04:19 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > livecd / # chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash > chroot: cannot run command `/bin/bash': No such file or directory > > livecd / # ls -l /bin/bash > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 680316 Jul 22 18:23 /bin/bash T

Re: [gentoo-user] Fumblefingers corrupts an ebuild, plea for help

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2005-10-15 10:07 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there a way to force a fresh copy? `emerge --sync' (which has already been suggested), or, since in this case only a single ebuild is broken, www.gentoo-portage.com offers ebuild downloads. - -

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: CPU Temperature

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2005-10-16 07:27 +1300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > AMD Athlon 64 3200+ (Socket 939) > > Motherboard sensors indicate that the CPU core is running at a constant 65 > degrees Celcius and this figure does not change more than a degree no > matter wha

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash Pattern Matching Syntax

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2005-10-15 15:25 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I want to list the files in a directory that end in ".jpg" irregardless of > case. Thus after reading the bash man page, it seems I should be able to > issue a command something along the lines o

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng can't be removed by rc-update

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2005-10-19 09:26 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I recently decided to use sysklogd instead of syslog-ng. But the > command "rc-update del syslog-ng default" will not remove the file from > /etc/init.d. It should be deleted when you unmerge sysl

Re: [gentoo-user] how to obtain a GPG Key

D of your key. For example, my output is (snipped, as I have several secret keys on my key ring): [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ gpg --list-secret-keys /home/michael/.gnupg/secring.gpg sec 1024D/BDE9ADA6 2003-04-22 uid

[gentoo-user] Xfce 4.2.2 taskbar button caption oddity

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Recently, I made some changes to my xfce-4.2.2 configuration. Everything seemed fine until a few days later (this morning) when I rebooted. Now the taskbar button captions overflow onto the next button (or even farther) if they don't fit, instead of be

Re: [gentoo-user] Generate data dvd iso image with growisofs or other

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2005-10-26 09:34 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm having trouble digging out of google and growisofs --help how to > create a dvd data image. growisofs --help give very little to work > with but the reference to mkisofs lead me to man mkisofs

Re: [gentoo-user] list of all installed packages?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2005-10-29 13:17 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sorry, for asking such a trivial question, but how can I find which > packages have been emerged on my system? As time goes, I lost track You could look at /var/lib/portage/world, but that will onl

[gentoo-user] SOLVED: Xfce 4.2.2 taskbar button caption oddity

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2005-10-26 12:14 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Recently, I made some changes to my xfce-4.2.2 configuration. > Everything seemed fine until a few days later (this morning) when I > rebooted. Now the taskbar button captions overflow onto the next

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to install a cable modem connection

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2005-10-29 20:26 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Here's where I get a little stuck. My internet programs are not > recognising this eth1 connection. What step do I need to perform in > order to get the internet connection working? A good starti

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Version

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2005-10-31 22:41 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > make && make modules_install > > then change /etc/lilo.conf to the new(and only) kernel You need to copy the new bzImage (arch/*/boot/bzImage) into place, and re-run lilo for the changes to take e

Re: [gentoo-user] DNS trouble

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2005-11-14 12:46 -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > does someone have a clue about what is going on ? Yes, `nslookup' is fundamentally broken. Try `host' or `dig' (with its `-x' option) instead. And don't expect RFC 1918 address space to be resolva

Re: [gentoo-user] root password gremlin

On 2005-11-17 20:17 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I KNOW my password. And I also tried the 2 techniques > for changing it (the init="/bin/sh" in the bootloader > and chrooting from the live-cd). I change them > succesfully but it still doesn't work! Check to make sure the console is listed in

[gentoo-user] Radeon 9200/Xorg refresh rate

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a ATI Radeon 9200 graphics card (lspci says ATI Technologies, device 5940, rev 01) which currently drives my monitor at 48.5 kHz 60 Hz 1024x768 using x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r4 and the "radeon" driver. I would like to raise the refresh rate to 7

Re: [gentoo-user] Radeon 9200/Xorg refresh rate

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2005-11-17 17:04 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Current x.org versions should be able to auto-detect the VertRefresh > and HorizSync settings, as well as appropriate modelines. So I would > comment out all such stuff from your xorg.conf file, an

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC only for priviliged users?

On 2005-12-10 12:06 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I meant something like: > for (;;) malloc(1000); If this is what you are worried about, it sounds like you would be a lot better off setting up some sort of resource limits than simply limiting access to the compiler. I know for a fact that PAM

Re: [gentoo-user] setting the xfce4-mixer levels

On 2005-12-11 13:50 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does anyone know where to set the volume levels that appear for > xfce4-mixer? What's wrong with using xfce4-mixer for that? I do that myself and it works absolutely flawlessly. -- Michael Kjörling, [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://michael.kjorling

Re: [gentoo-user] setting the xfce4-mixer levels

On 2005-12-11 16:58 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > xfce4-mixer works great but the levels always reset after a reboot. I > need a way to set them permanently. # rc-update add alsasound boot -- Michael Kjörling, [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://michael.kjorling.com/ * ASCII Ribbon Campaign: Against

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] moving mountpoint to folder

On 2005-12-13 12:33 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > So, my question is, does anyone know what will happen if I try to > umount -l, remove the /usr/lib mountpoint, and rename /usr/lib2 to > /usr/lib? It would seem that there'd be no problem as long as I > don't need to log into a new shell? Going

Re: [gentoo-user] readcd -clone and iso9660 ?

On 2005-12-14 17:45 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Yes, it works, cp /dev/cdrom image.iso too. But some CDs have errors > (scratches) that cp/cat can't handle. Tried dd with `conv=noerror'? -- Michael Kjörling, [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://michael.kjorling.com/ * ASCII Ribbon Campaign: Against

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need help correcting my DNS configuration

On 2005-12-16 10:31 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > it frequently does) my applications which require knowing what host > they're running on. They don't seem to be smart enough to look > at /etc/hosts. Some people on one of my Linux lists suggested that Did you check to make sure /etc/nsswitch

Re: [gentoo-user] data base program

On 2005-12-20 00:24 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there any program for makeing data bases as fast as ms access > (works fast, small) and free as openbase? I am not familiar with OpenBase, but Kexi and OpenOffice.org Base come to mind as general-purpose alternatives to Microsoft Access. -

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags, command line and packages.use

On 2005-12-21 16:35 -0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > modifying the default USE for them, but I did that at command line > (yeah, yeah, I know, don't tell me), now, is there some easy way to > put the CURRENT USE flags that the packages in world are using at > packages.use? I am afraid that an "eme

Re: [gentoo-user] SIOCADDRT: No such device

On 2005-12-21 21:50 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > - ziig conf.d # route add 192.168.4.1 > - SIOCADDRT: No such device Do you mean to do "route add -net default gw 192.168.4.1"? -- Michael Kjörling, [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://michael.kjorling.com/ * ASCII Ribbon Campaign: Against HTM