Re: [gentoo-user] Re: "loopback mount" hard-drive image created with dd?

2008-01-23 Thread Tom
; then OPT2=",${OPT}" ; fi PSTARTB=`sfdisk -d "$INFILE" | grep "start=" | head -n"$PARTITION" | tail -n1 | sed 's/.*start=[ ]*//' | sed 's/,.*//'` PSTART=$[ $PSTARTB * 512 ] #PSIZEB=`sfdisk -d "$INFILE" | grep "size=" | head -n4 | tail -n1 | sed 's/.*size=[ ]*//' | sed 's/,.*//'` #PSIZE=`echo "$PSIZEB * 512" | bc` mount "$INFILE" "$MOUNTPOINT" -o loop,offset="$PSTART""$OPT2" #,sizelimit="$PSIZE""$OPT2" - Tom -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] intelfb usage in grub

2009-04-20 Thread Tom
re simple, just kernel ... video=vesafb:mtrr:3,ywrap vga=795 That gives me 1280x1024. I don't know at what refreshrate though... those options, what do they do? are they also valid for vesafb? noaccel hwcursor vram=4 ? Tom

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: When did bzImage move?

2009-02-01 Thread Tom
file, and make install copies this to /boot/kernel-versionstring (and system.map and .config respectably)? Also how exactly do you then need to build the kernel. Does a simple 'make' suffice? Tom

Re: [gentoo-user] When did bzImage move?

2009-02-01 Thread Tom
I'm not alone, maybe the documentation should be changed to make this (non)-issue a tad clearer. Or maybe it actually is, and I just missed something... Tom

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: When did bzImage move?

2009-02-02 Thread Tom
>maybe a pointer to the documentation? Is there such a thing? I mean a comprehensive guide for doing such work on (not only) gentoo systems? Tom

Re: [gentoo-user] games-fps without blood

2009-02-02 Thread Tom
I played Wolfenstein 3D as I was 7, and Doom when I was 8. And I'm in no way disturbed...I think ;) I think you can turn off gore in quake 3,so maybe anything (free) derived from that engine also has the option!? Tom

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: start X at startup without a login manager

2009-03-20 Thread Tom
Or use qingy :) It uses directfb, but its very lean, and you can set it to autologin I think...which would probably not even use dircetfb, as qingy also has a 'text-fallback-mode'. Try it, you'll like it ;-) Tom

[gentoo-user] Boot via floppy from cdrom

2009-03-25 Thread Tom
ng this, was using 2.3 kernels and were generally out of date :( Tom

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot via floppy from cdrom

2009-03-26 Thread Tom
> Why wast your time with floppies? Boot from a USB stick that has > plenty of storage on it for kernels and drivers. Bios doesn't support it :( Tom

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot via floppy from cdrom

2009-03-26 Thread Tom
the bios. Doing that upsets my WinXP install, which is also a non-option. So basically I'm stuck with the 'via floppy' method, which is nice, reminds me of the 'good old times' ;) Tom

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot via floppy from cdrom

2009-03-26 Thread Tom
> Mentioning the obvious just in case ... have you run a checksum on > it? Perhaps they should email it again to you? No, I just sent them my request. If that was the problem, I'm going to cry, and pull my hair out ;-) Thanks...hoping... Tom

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Accidentally issued hdparm -X /dev/hda on running system

2009-04-02 Thread Tom
an using hdparm ;-P Holding my thumbs! Tom

[gentoo-user] about wireless networking

2008-10-21 Thread Tom
/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf settings ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant ctrl_interface_group=0 ap_scan=1 network={ ssid="TP-LINK" key_mgmt=NONE wep_key0="XXX" # wep_key1="1234567890123" # wep_key2="1234567890123" wep_tx_keyidx=0 priority=5 #

Re: [gentoo-user] about wireless networking

2008-10-22 Thread Tom
Stroller wrote: > > On 22 Oct 2008, at 04:53, Tom wrote: >> /etc/conf.d/net settings >> #Wireless with WPA_SUPPLICANT >> modules=("wpa_supplicant") >> ... >> >> but ping command result >> smiler tom # ping 192.168.2.1 >> PING 192.1

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-08 Thread Tom Hendrikx
tself. Most stuff works here without any HAL tinkering: $ ls -l /etc/hal/fdi/policy/ total 0 $ Maybe the documentation is a bit too much here, it should probably say that you should start working with the HAL policies when you notice that some things are not working right (and when that happens do something like echo 'keyboard-type missing-feature HAL example' > google) -- Regards, Tom signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Broken upgrade from udev troubles.

2009-12-16 Thread Tom Bennet
I spent the day recovering from a Gentoo upgrade, and thought I'd document the experience in case it helps someone else. I'm running a custom kernel 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 on amd64, though I don't think the rarer hardware is relevant. I tend to put off upgrading my Gentoo box because anytime I do, some

[gentoo-user] glibc+ipv6 loopback resolving issues

2010-02-02 Thread Tom Hendrikx
.04 (libc6 version 2.9-4ubuntu6) and 9.10 (2.10.1-0ubuntu15). Could someone explain to me if this is intended behaviour, and why, as I tend to see this more as a bug? -- Regards, Tom PS: I tested this by using the name-addr-test utils provided by postfix (2.6.5 tarball, auxiliary/name

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout2/openrc question

2010-02-02 Thread Tom Hendrikx
issue with openrc: =sys-apps/openrc-0.6.0-r1 depends on =sys-apps/sysvinit-2.87-r3, and both are in ~arch. Unmask both, emerge them, run etc-update and be fine. -- Regards, Tom

Re: [gentoo-user] ntfs mounted partition

2005-05-14 Thread Tom Wesley
port for ntfs is only partially implemented and is a separate kernel option. See /usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt for details. -- Tom Wesley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-user] Zoneminder

2005-05-14 Thread Tom Wesley
l be to create a bug and assign it to www-misc. -- Tom Wesley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-user] next step X

2005-05-14 Thread Tom Wesley
supplied with Firefox. See http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86872 for more information if you're interested in this. Hope this helps, -- Tom Wesley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-user] Applying other patches.

2005-05-20 Thread Tom Wesley
y directory and copy to ebuilds there, that way you can version bump your overlay as the main portage tree gets updated. Of course, if your manually applied patches may be of use to others then you should probably file bugs at bugs.gentoo.org. Remember that patches that may not be desired by everyone should utilise a local USE flag to control patching. -- Tom Wesley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-user] -fvisibility=hidden

2005-05-21 Thread Tom Wesley
See http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86898 -- Tom Wesley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh/scp browser?

2005-05-30 Thread Tom Wesley
> some simple app that knows the account/password for certain machines, > shows me what's there and then allows drag and drop between the two? > >I'm looking in the category list but nothing pops up. > > Thanks, > Mark > gftp can do this. -- Tom Wesley <[

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh/scp browser?

2005-05-30 Thread Tom Wesley
ction. I'm looking around now for instructions on setting > that up. Drop down control in the top right hand corner. Select ssh2 :) -- Tom Wesley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge busybox Why?

2005-06-04 Thread Tom Wesley
ubbs Of course if you're particularly adept at breaking your system, busybox may not work unless it is statically linked. # echo sys-apps/busybox static >> /etc/portage/package.use Before you emerge it. -- Tom Wesley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-user] where is the functionality of etcat

2005-07-12 Thread Tom Wesley
+ + ~ + + + 2.10| ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 2.10-r1 | + + + ~ + ~ + + 2.10.1_pre0 | ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Hope this is helpful to someone ;) -- Tom Wesley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> eshowkw Description: Binary data pgpNM7WBJBiEj.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutdown Issues

2005-07-17 Thread Tom Wesley
ion is timing out. My router has options that tell it to create the connection on requirement or to keep it up all the time. Perhaps fiddling with any similar settings will solve the problem. -- Tom Wesley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgpvdzT5BYQmJ.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] gentoo mail server

2009-01-27 Thread Tom Brown
n it comes to a production server. What about major upgrades? If I keep the system updated regularly, is a major upgrade necessary? Thanks! Tom

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo mail server

2009-01-28 Thread Tom Brown
see that as too much to ask if I don't have to reinstall from scratch! Thanks guys! Tom

[gentoo-user] unlink ACCESS VIOLATIONs

2007-12-06 Thread Tom Brown
my system fubar? Any ideas? Why is unlink getting ACCESS DENIED errors when I run emerge as sudo? Thanks, Tom ... >>> Source compiled. --- ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY --- LOG FILE = "/var/log/sandbox/sandbox-gnome-base_-_gnome-desktop-2

Re: [gentoo-user] unlink ACCESS VIOLATIONs

2007-12-07 Thread Tom Brown
On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 08:23 -0800, Tom Brown wrote: > Hi, > > I think I've got my gentoo installation all effed up. I went a few weeks > without doing a --sync followed by a emerge -uD world. On top of that I, > I installed my own version of Python 2.5.1 from the sou

Re: [gentoo-user] Performance problem at writing big files and Multitasking

2007-02-07 Thread Tom Naujokas
On 2/7/07, Daniel Pielmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: No other suggestions? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Could your problem be similar to this: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-user&m=114252338111258&w=2 Tom

Re: [gentoo-user] which NIC is which?

2010-11-12 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > How to find out which physical NIC is for example eth0 ? > > If I have 2 NICs in the box, for example one e1000 and one from 3com, > how to find out which one is eth0 ? > > I looked up /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules where

Re: [gentoo-user] mkfs.ext4 -j /dev/sdb1

2010-11-27 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 4:07 PM, James wrote: > > I just added a new drive to an existing system > using an ext4 (journaled) file system. > > I was not sure about using the -j option > so I did it anyway. Correct assumption? > Irrelevant?  no examples to ponder. > > comments or observations on the

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: python, accounting & gentoo

2012-08-24 Thread Tom Cocagne
airly light, it may be simpler to use a raw database than a full-fledged ERP/accounting system. Given your problem description, you've certainly got your work cut out for you. I hope these help. Good luck! Tom On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 12:22 PM, James wrote: > Hello > > I'm loo

Re: [gentoo-user] Loss of VT switching capabilities after Gnome 2.16 upgrade

2006-12-16 Thread Tom Naujokas
ntial theme/settings problems which make sense because > things look a little dry, here (it has a big-java-applet feel). The upgrade guide at: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/gnome/howtos/gnome-2.16-upgrade.xml mentions possible problems with gnome-settings-daemon and what can be done

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emacs shell color question

2006-12-27 Thread Tom Naujokas
ROTECTED] ~ $ echo $TERM emacs [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ find /usr/share/terminfo -name emacs -print [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ Doesn't this indicate that the terminal type "emacs" is missing from the terminfo database. If so, how would I get it back? Tom -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emacs shell color question

2006-12-27 Thread Tom Naujokas
rep ls alias d='ls --color' alias ll='ls --color -l' alias ls='ls --color=auto' $ I've never customized those aliases. > > No. Emacs terminal is internal to [Xe]macs > But still, wouldn't commands like ls or gcc need the terminfo in order to kn

Re: [gentoo-user] What to backup?

2006-01-02 Thread Tom Martin
etc/ > /var/lib/mysql/ (for some databases) > > Is there anything else I should be backing up? I suspect there are > some more things in /var that should be included. /var/lib/portage. You'll have your world file, in case you lose everything, so you'll be able to rebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up crufty packages

2006-01-03 Thread Tom Martin
; > > > > > > # emerge -depclean --pretend will give you a list of orphaned > packages. USE WITH CARE It is not fool proof. Although I'd still recommend caution, emerge -uDN world beforehand will make things substantially more reliable. -- Tom Martin, http://dev.ge

Re: [gentoo-user] imapsync dependency not merged

2006-01-03 Thread Tom Martin
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/imapsync-ssl line 299. > Well spotted. Could you file a bug assigned to [EMAIL PROTECTED], please? Thanks, -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, vim, recruiters Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: printing lots of file.doc files

2006-01-04 Thread Tom Martin
well lacking > > ideas? app-text/wv might be usable -- it can convert docs to PDF or postscript. If the quality isn't that great (I've never tried it) or the documents are quite complex, I think you're going to have to find a way to do it from within OpenOffice. -- Tom

Re: [gentoo-user] package conflict on update

2006-01-05 Thread Tom Martin
could this be handled? Perhaps emerge > could somehow figure out the reason for such a conflict, and then > automatically unmerge the original package? Not really a question to the portage developers -- just unmerge openmotif (the blocker) and continue as normal. -- Tom Martin, http://dev.ge

Re: [gentoo-user] xcompmgr?

2006-01-05 Thread Tom Martin
rogram, then X will crash. This is likely the cause of your problems. The difficulty is, for the moment, you have to sacrifice either GLX if you want to use Composite reliably. -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, vim, recruiters Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] package conflict on update

2006-01-05 Thread Tom Martin
ocking errors appear. Then again, I don't really see any gaping problems with the current system; once someone has encountered their first pair of blocking packages, they then understand how to fix blockers in future. I doubt it's worth the effort. /shrug -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] eix, can I trust it at all?

2006-01-06 Thread Tom Martin
On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 18:18:40 +0100 Petr Kocmid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Please somebody explain to me the following event: > > (snip) You didn't update the eix database. -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, vi

[gentoo-user] vnc.so

2006-01-06 Thread Tom Smith
use flags for VNC but was unable to.) Thanks in advance for the help. ~ Tom -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] The Grand Remerge

2006-01-06 Thread Tom Martin
ngs. The one desktop and > eone server I run with Gentoo at work don't do anything like this. > My date is set correctly and it doesn't look like I had anything in > /usr/portage with wrong dates either, that's the only reason I could > think of so far. > Could you please

Re: [gentoo-user] vnc.so

2006-01-06 Thread Tom Smith
is pretty obvious). What's odd, though, is that performance is MUCH worse VNC-ing to my Gentoo server on port :0 then it is on port :1, for example. Puzzling... Anyone have ideas as to how I can improve this aspect of vnc.so? ~ Tom BTW... To enable the VNC password, add the following l

[gentoo-user] two keyboards, two mouses, two monitors, one computer?

2006-01-07 Thread Tom Eastman
and mouse controlling a pointer on one of the monitors, and the other keyboard and mouse controlling the *other* monitor. Is this crazy talk? How can we make this happen? Thanks! Tom -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: two keyboards, two mouses, two monitors, one computer?

2006-01-07 Thread Tom Eastman
vikram ranade wrote: > it is definately do-ablei remember reading about this guy who did > this so that his g/f could use the comp at the same time.. > have to dig out the article. > Vikram Ranade Funny you should mention that that's the exact use-case on my mind :-) Let me know if yo

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo installer suggestions

2006-01-08 Thread Tom Martin
y a good idea to drop a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and post to their mailing list. -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, vim, recruiters Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] QEMU opinions...

2006-01-10 Thread Tom Smith
very much appreciate any feedback you all can give me about your experience with QEMU. Best Wishes, Tom -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU opinions...

2006-01-11 Thread Tom Smith
re of Win4Lin works out pretty well. Does QEMU support anything like this or does it need to be run from within an X session? Thanks again to everyone for their opinion of QEMU! ~ Tom Tom Smith wrote: >Hi all, > >I've been using Win4Lin TS 3.0 for some time to server Win98SE to fiv

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU opinions...

2006-01-11 Thread Tom Smith
to hide all the technical and CLI stuff from the users. Andrew Frink wrote: >Tom, > I hacked that in by putting qemu in ~/.xinitrc so when the user does >startx thats what they get. i believe that vnc uses the same file to figure >out what to run after X >Cynyr. > >On 1/1

[gentoo-user] USE flags: mmx sse sse2

2006-01-12 Thread Tom Smith
vantage of each one? I checked the USE flag descriptions and there wasn't anything indicating indicating whether the can or should be used together. Thanks in advance for your help. ~ Tom -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags: mmx sse sse2

2006-01-12 Thread Tom Smith
;2006/1/12, Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >>On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 03:09:40PM -0700, Penguin Lover Tom Smith squawked: >> >> >>>Are these flags mutually exclusive? >>> >>>I know, for example, that if I have a Pentium II that the MMX flag

Re: [gentoo-user] Source Code?

2006-01-13 Thread Tom Martin
few > of these programs. So far i have only been lucky with OpenSolaris and > FreeBSD. Every Linux distribution I can think of uses the same GNU coreutils, fileutils, etc. Hit www.gnu.org. That said, some distributions may apply a few patches, but this is still minor. They're all

[gentoo-user] Basic SMTP server

2006-01-15 Thread Tom Smith
I need to find a basic SMTP server, one that will allow the server to send outbound messages (such as Cronjob status and various alerts) and will allow LAN devices (such as printers and copiers) to relay mail through it. It doesn't need to support SMTP AUTH, TLS, or anything of that nature--it just

Re: [gentoo-user] How To set compile time options in emerge

2006-01-17 Thread Tom Martin
scribe all USE flags available for that package. -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, vim, recruiters Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] UDEV permissions

2006-01-17 Thread Tom Smith
I'm working on a manual QEMU install (that is, I'm installing from source downloaded from their website). There's a reference in their kqemu documentation about setting UDEV permissions on /dev/kqemu. I initially disregarded this, but now it's become an issue. It was easily resolved by /manually/

Re: [gentoo-user] UDEV permissions

2006-01-17 Thread Tom Smith
Thank you. I am using the latest udev from Portage. The file I found in /etc/udev/rules.d is 50-dev.rules. Haven't tired it yet but will tomorrow. Neil Bothwick wrote: >On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 14:50:08 -0700, Tom Smith wrote: > > > >>What I'm having difficulty with i

Re: [gentoo-user] UDEV permissions

2006-01-17 Thread Tom Smith
Well, I didn't emerge the Gentoo qemu--it is a few versions behind the official so I opted for using the official release (0.8.0, I believe). Perhaps I'll try the Portage version of qemu before proceeding much further. :-? Richard Fish wrote: >On 1/17/06, Tom Smith <[EMAIL P

[gentoo-user] Passing "./configure" options via emerge

2006-01-18 Thread Tom Smith
I installed app-emulation/bochs using the default USE flags. Afterwards, I tried to enable "rfb" but received a message that indicated it wasn't enabled. After some research, I discovered this is a "configure" option that isn't enabled in the bochs ebuild script. Is there a way to pass this sort

Re: [gentoo-user] Passing "./configure" options via emerge

2006-01-18 Thread Tom Smith
mulation/bochs/bochs-2.2.1-r1.ebuild !!! Reason: Filesize does not match recorded size" Is there a way I can override this behavior? (The file size obviously doesn't match because I added an additional ./configure option to it. Neil Bothwick wrote: >On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 13:23:13 -0700, To

Re: [gentoo-user] Passing "./configure" options via emerge

2006-01-18 Thread Tom Smith
4:52:26 -0700, Tom Smith wrote: > > > >>Well, I tried that and get the same error--">>PANIC<< bochsrc.txt: >>display library 'rfb' not available". >> >> > >OK, so this isn't one of "most ebuilds" > >

[gentoo-user] vim USE flag: vim-with-x

2006-01-20 Thread Tom Smith
I've been trying to determine what this particular USE flag does but there doesn't seem to be a description of it anywhere (I also checked gentoo-portage.com). Does anyone know what this USE flag does or what additional functionality it enables in vim? Thanks in advance for your help. -- gentoo-

Re: [gentoo-user] vim USE flag: vim-with-x

2006-01-20 Thread Tom Smith
Rumen Yotov wrote: >On (20/01/06 10:00), Tom Smith wrote: > > >>I've been trying to determine what this particular USE flag does but >>there doesn't seem to be a description of it anywhere (I also checked >>gentoo-portage.com). >> >>Does anyon

[gentoo-user] SSH and terminal emulation

2006-01-23 Thread Tom Smith
I use Kermit 95 to connect to my server. When I run "pstree" from an SSH session, I get the following type of output: pcadobe ssh # pstree initqwqaacraid tq2*[agetty] tqcron tqevents/0 tqkhelper tqkhpsbpkt tqkjournald tqksoftirqd/0 tqkswapd0 tqkthreadq

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH and terminal emulation

2006-01-23 Thread Tom Smith
John Jolet wrote: > what is the output of "echo $TERM"? pcadobe ~ # echo $TERM linux pcadobe ~ # -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH and terminal emulation

2006-01-23 Thread Tom Smith
John Jolet wrote: > > On Jan 23, 2006, at 1:00 PM, Tom Smith wrote: > >> John Jolet wrote: >> >>> what is the output of "echo $TERM"? >> >> >> pcadobe ~ # echo $TERM >> linux >> pcadobe ~ # >> > try "expor

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH and terminal emulation

2006-01-23 Thread Tom Smith
John Jolet wrote: > > On Jan 23, 2006, at 1:56 PM, Tom Smith wrote: > >> John Jolet wrote: >> >>> >>> On Jan 23, 2006, at 1:00 PM, Tom Smith wrote: >>> >>>> John Jolet wrote: >>>> >>>>> what is the out

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH and terminal emulation

2006-01-23 Thread Tom Smith
John Jolet wrote: > > On Jan 23, 2006, at 2:41 PM, Tom Smith wrote: > >> John Jolet wrote: >> >>> >>> On Jan 23, 2006, at 1:56 PM, Tom Smith wrote: >>> >>>> John Jolet wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> O

Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

2006-01-24 Thread Tom Smith
Jeff wrote: >Hey guys. > >I've got this big fat backup server with no space left on the hard drive >to store a tar file. I'd like to pipe a tar through ssh, but not sure >what the command would be. Something to the effect of: > ># cat /var/backup | ssh backup.homelan.com 'tar data.info.gz' > >So t

Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

2006-01-24 Thread Tom Smith
John Jolet wrote: > > On Jan 24, 2006, at 11:20 AM, Tom Smith wrote: > >> Jeff wrote: >> >>> Hey guys. >>> >>> I've got this big fat backup server with no space left on the hard >>> drive >>> to store a tar file. I'

Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

2006-01-24 Thread Tom Smith
John Jolet wrote: > > On Jan 24, 2006, at 11:46 AM, Tom Smith wrote: > >> John Jolet wrote: >> >>> >>> On Jan 24, 2006, at 11:20 AM, Tom Smith wrote: >>> >>>> Jeff wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hey guys. >>>>&g

Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

2006-01-24 Thread Tom Smith
Ernst Herzberg wrote: >On Tuesday 24 January 2006 21:40, Jeff wrote: > > >>DUH ME! Open mouth, insert face... >> >>Ok, what I *meant* to say from post #1, is, the filesystem I'm >>tarballing is quite large - 25g. The tar command should be able to >>digest this, yes? Should I be worried? >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

2006-01-24 Thread Tom Smith
John Jolet wrote: > > On Jan 24, 2006, at 9:10 PM, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > >> On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 17:23 +, Francesco Riosa wrote: >> >>> Jeff wrote: >>> Hey guys. I've got this big fat backup server with no space left on the hard drive to store a tar file. I'd like to

Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

2006-01-25 Thread Tom Smith
Uwe Thiem wrote: >On 25 January 2006 06:46, Tom Smith wrote: > > > >>I read something some time ago that suggested if you transfer a >>compressed file over a compressed SFTP connection, for example, that it >>would take longer to transfer the data versus if only th

Re: SOLVED [gentoo-user] Win4Lin NumLock issue

2006-01-26 Thread Tom Smith
how this works because the number keypad has always worked within X during a VNC session, problems arose only during a Win4Lin or QEMU session and only within those sessions. Anyway, thought this might help others who may be having the same or similar problems. ~ Tom John Jolet wrote: > that no l

Re: SOLVED [gentoo-user] Passing "./configure" options via emerge

2006-01-26 Thread Tom Smith
ursor perfectly to the cursor in QEMU and Bochs. I thought this one might be useful to others having the same problem. ~ Tom Tom Smith wrote: >Man, I tell you what... > >Bochs built correctly and the RFB stuff worked... Sort of. There seems >to be an issue with both QEMU and Bochs when u

Re: SOLVED [gentoo-user] Win4Lin NumLock issue

2006-01-27 Thread Tom Smith
is does at the real console. Ron Bickers wrote: >On Thu January 26 2006 17:41, Tom Smith wrote: > > > >>Sheesh, I finally found a solution to this very annoying problem (may >>also help the gentleman with the UK keyboard problem (Peter Ruskin?)... >>I actually disc

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-drivers/ati-drivers and latest kernel (stable)

2006-01-29 Thread Tom Naujokas
). > -- Remy This combination works fine for me: linux-2.6.14-gentoo-r5 x11-drivers/ati-drivers 8.14.13-r3 sys-apps/hal 0.5.5.1-r3 Tom Naujokas -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] "dev" packages

2006-01-30 Thread Tom Smith
age that resembles these names, nor do I see "dev" packages at all for zlib or python. Both zlib and python are, of course, already installed. Are these packages something that I really need to install or are they included with the Gentoo base install? Thanks in advance for your help. ~ Tom -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] CD and DVD indexing tool

2006-01-31 Thread Tom Eastman
it would be nicer if there was some kind of metadata gathering, such as ID3 tags / JFIF / MPEG info etc. etc. Are there tools available that are any good at this? Any suggestions? Thanks! Tom -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] eth0 does not exist

2006-03-02 Thread Tom Haddon
nyone help out? Am I just missing a kernel module? Tom Haddon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. - Random quotes courtesy of fortune. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] eth0 does not exist

2006-03-02 Thread Tom Haddon
Thanks, much appreciated. Turns out it was ne2k-pci. Added that to the file you mentioned and it was all good. Thanks, Tom On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 11:56 -0500, sHadoW MaN wrote: > Hi > > This is certainly because you haven't loaded your network card driver at > boot time.

[gentoo-user] Gnome does not mount audio CD

2006-03-05 Thread Tom Naujokas
or timeframe, I haven't tried this in a while. Since at least before the Gnome 2.12 upgrade. Thanks in advance for any help, Tom Naujokas -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome does not mount audio CD

2006-03-06 Thread Tom Naujokas
On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 00:21 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: > On 3/5/06, Tom Naujokas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Last time I tried putting a CD in the CD drive everything seemed > > to work OK. The "Audio Disc" icon appeared on my Gnome desktop, > > I could

[gentoo-user] Mouse not detected

2006-03-06 Thread Tom Haddon
/class/input/intput1 Can anyone point me (!) in the direction of what I need to do to get my mouse recognized? Thanks, Tom Tom Haddon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your ignorance cramps my conversation. - Random quotes courtesy of fortune. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse not detected

2006-03-06 Thread Tom Haddon
Genius, thanks. On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 08:16 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > On 3/6/06, Tom Haddon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have gentoo installed on QEMU and I'm having problems with the mouse > > not being detected. I have no /dev/mouse which means X won't s

Re: [gentoo-user] .dmrc error

2006-03-08 Thread Tom Haddon
I had the same problem on Ubuntu. Just issue chmod 755 /home/. This isn't recursive and doesn't mean everyone can execute anything in your home directory - the execute bit only means traverse in reference to directories, so you should be okay. Thanks, Tom On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 1

Re: [gentoo-user] .dmrc error

2006-03-08 Thread Tom Haddon
; view the content on the folder. > > is there any other way to solve the problen. > > > > > On 3/8/06, Tom Haddon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had the same problem on Ubuntu. Just issue chmod > 755 /home/. > This isn't recursive a

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.15

2006-03-16 Thread Tom Naujokas
fig.gz. There is a reference in the handbookto this:  http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1#genkernel Tom Naujokas

[gentoo-user] building mousedev as module

2005-04-07 Thread Tom Hosiawa
nuxwacom-0.6.7/src/2.6.11/Makefile:69: *** You requested to build mousedev with configure, but mousedev is not a module in your kernel config. Stop. -- Tom -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Slightly complex Hard Drive Qeustion

2005-04-14 Thread Tom Moyer
would have to edit /etc/fstab, but I'm not sure how to go about changing my Grub setup to handle the new drive setup. Thanks, Tom -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Slightly Complex Hard Drive Question

2005-04-14 Thread Tom Moyer
I want to use all three for Gentoo if possible. Thanks Tom -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly Complex Hard Drive Question

2005-04-14 Thread Tom Moyer
Gentoo) to primary master (hda) instead of leaving it as primary slave (hdb). I guess it really doesn't matter though. On 4/14/05, Robert G. Hays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tom Moyer wrote: > > >I would like to swap hda and hdb. > >I don't want to swap an

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly Complex Hard Drive Question

2005-04-14 Thread Tom Moyer
e hdisk on the same channel, so you need to take > that into account while you are deciding which goes where for what use. > > His point is still valid. Especially if you have a fast cd/dvd or none. > > rgh. > > Kashani wrote: > > > Tom Moyer wrote: > > > >

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