[gentoo-user] radeon screen resolution

2015-12-28 Thread john
the future???!! John

Re: [gentoo-user] radeon screen resolution

2015-12-28 Thread john
On Mon, 28 Dec 2015 13:41:57 + Mick wrote: > On Monday 28 Dec 2015 09:11:10 john wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have installed Gentoo on to another partition in order to use > > radeon drivers for desktop instead of fglrx. > > > > When I start my resol

Re: [gentoo-user] radeon screen resolution

2015-12-29 Thread john
for EDID data, unless the > > monitor told you what it is? > > > > or if the monitor manufacturer told you what it should be > > /alanm > I have had a play with that but no success yet. I have followed the howto but no success yet but I think now I will have to find .bin file or settings from manufacturer. Darn these gaming monitors! Thanks John

Re: [gentoo-user] radeon screen resolution

2015-12-30 Thread john
On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 04:54:48 +0100 wrote: > john wrote: > > > On Tue, 29 Dec 2015 11:05:12 +0200 > > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > > > On 29/12/2015 11:01, Mick wrote: > > > > On Tuesday 29 Dec 2015 02:00:33 waben...@gmail.com wro

Re: [gentoo-user] DNS testing

2016-05-24 Thread john
code(s) running on a transparent bridge, if > anyone has that sort of configuration that you'd be willing to share? > > [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mirrorselect > > > curiously, > James > > namebench is the tool that springs to mind John

[gentoo-user] QEMU virtio_gpu

2016-11-24 Thread john
eonsi (-freedreno) -i915 -i965 -ilo -intel -nouveau -r100 -r200 -r300 -r600 (-vc4) -vmware" 0 KiB virglrenderer is installed. If anyone has qemu and virtio-gpu running please let me know and I'll keep trying. Many Thanks John

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU virtio_gpu

2016-11-25 Thread john
On Thu, 24 Nov 2016 13:12:33 + john wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to run qemu virtual machine with virtio_gpu using the > following command > > /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 4096 -smp 8 -localtime > -cdrom Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-25_Beta-1.1.iso -b

Re: [gentoo-user] All ~arch users: do not update python

2010-08-02 Thread John Campbell
On 08/02/2010 05:53 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Updating python to 2.6.5_p20100801 will break portage. emerge will stop > working after that and there's no information on how to recover from > that right now (because emerge won't work, you can't downgrade to the > previous, working python versi

Re: [gentoo-user] All ~arch users: do not update python

2010-08-02 Thread John Campbell
On 08/02/2010 06:20 PM, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 03:53 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> Updating python to 2.6.5_p20100801 will break portage. emerge will stop >> working after that and there's no information on how to recover from >> that right now (because emerge won't w

[gentoo-user] amanda run and build failure

2010-08-08 Thread John Blinka
Hi, All, After a long period of flawless behavior, I have recently (since August 2) had both runtime and build failures with amanda. I do daily gentoo updates, always use revdep-rebuild and lafilefixer, always follow post installation advice in the log. I can't reinstall amanda because the build

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: amanda run and build failure

2010-08-08 Thread John Blinka
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 12:35 PM, walt wrote: > On 08/08/2010 05:58 AM, John Blinka wrote: >> >> >> the end of the log file contains >> >> /usr/bin/install: will not overwrite just-created >> >> `/var/tmp/portage/app-backup/amanda-2.6.0_p2-r4/ima

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation gentoo problem.

2009-10-15 Thread John Moe
you can use the "noload" option as described in the handbook (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=2) under "Booting the Installation CD", as well as the options listing on the boot screen of the install CD. Just list the modules that are causing problems. John Moe

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel iwl3945 problem

2009-10-15 Thread John Moe
hatever other things might be related to the wireless in portage. > > ~daid > > > Well, I've used emerge -C and then emerge again on dhcpcd and iwl3945-ucode. I'm not sure if I did that with wireless-tools, but I'll try that now. Actually, I'll unmerge all three and re-emerge them again. Are there any others that I'm missing? I can't think of any other packages that would apply; at least, not that I specified. John Moe

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation gentoo problem.

2009-10-15 Thread John Moe
igwasm wrote: > > - Original Message - From: "John Moe" > To: > Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 1:40 PM > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Installation gentoo problem. > > >> Igor Spiridonov wrote: >>> Hi. I tryed install "gentoo 1

Re: [gentoo-user] livedvd v10.1 on eee PC

2009-10-17 Thread John Campbell
On 10/17/2009 07:55 PM, Maxim Wexler wrote: > In my case(asus 900a), whether I use startx at the boot prompt or let > xdm start by default, the X window starts to open and I see a glimpse > of the desktop but then the screen goes black and flickers and just > the outline of the mouse cursor is vis

Re: [gentoo-user] sendmail: write permition problem?

2009-11-10 Thread John Lowry
Jarry wrote: > 220 mail.somemydomain.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.14.0/8.14.0; Tue, 10 Nov 2009 > 19:57:31 GMT > HELO > 501 5.0.0 HELO requires domain address > > Q1: Why on my "HELO" sendmail does not respond with "250 OK"? The hostname in the HELO message needs to be included. It does not unnecessar

[gentoo-user] Avahi + mDNSResponder at the same time?

2009-11-19 Thread John Lowry
I was under the impression that avahi with the mDNSResponder-compat USE flag would make it possible to have both mDNSResponder and avahi installed at the same time, yet I am getting blocked packages error messages. Is this impossible to pull off?

Re: [gentoo-user] eth1 won't start

2009-11-27 Thread John Lowry
What is the contents of your /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules file contain? Also, what about ifconfig -a? Roger Mason wrote: Hello all, I have a machine[1] into which I installed a second NIC. It is identified by lspci as: 00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Accton Technology Corporation S

Re: [gentoo-user] eth1 won't start

2009-11-28 Thread John Lowry
Roger Mason wrote: Hello John & Walt, Thanks for the responses. Here is the information you asked for. John Lowry writes: What is the contents of your /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules # PCI device 0x10b7:0x9200 (3c59x) SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATT

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Preparing a laptop for sale

2009-12-16 Thread John Lowry
Darik's Boot and Nuke is a good projects for wiping. http://www.dban.org/ On 12/16/2009 10:49 AM, Grant wrote: > I'm about to sell my old laptop and I'd like to wipe out the data and > install any flavor of Linux via USB (the CD drive doesn't work any > more). I've got a bootable USB key that wi

Re: [gentoo-user] off-topic: logitech mice (MX1000)

2009-12-20 Thread John Campbell
On 12/15/2009 11:11 AM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > It seems to me that this mouse sends two button events for some of the > "physical buttons". For example moving the wheel to the left reports >button press 13 >button press 6 >button release 6 >button release 13 > > Similar results f

[gentoo-user] Is Gentoo going to represent at SCALE 8x?

2009-12-31 Thread John Lowry
Seeing if there is plan in place to man a booth and, if not, get interest in manning one.

[gentoo-user] shutdown

2005-05-22 Thread John Dangler
During shutdown, I get 2 errors - ERROR: problems stopping dependent services. "bootmisc" is still up. ERROR: problems stopping dependent services. "clock" is still up. Further down, I get a message saying "saving random seed", and nothing happens after that. I need to power the box off and ba

[gentoo-user] font and mouse pointer size different between accounts

2005-05-26 Thread John Drouhard
This isn't really a problem, but the reason behind this is annoying me to no end. I have two accounts on my computer: 1 for my everyday use, the other to test random window managers and setups with. I have them both set up to use the gentoo-silver mouse theme, but the mouse pointer in my everyday

[gentoo-user] Invitation to join the Web Services Discussion Forum

2005-06-04 Thread John Eliacy
Dear Madam/Sir,   We, a group of enthusiastic web services developers and researchers, have started a new discussion forum at http://www.ws-talk.com to bring together academics and industry people interested in the subject of Web Services and related technologies, such as agents, distributed archi

Re: [gentoo-user] Scaning of outgoing email

2005-06-05 Thread John Drouhard
o for this, can anyone put me in the wright > direction? > > TIA > Patrick Scanning for what? What program do you want to use to scan? John Drouhard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Scaning of outgoing email

2005-06-08 Thread John Drouhard
/HOWTO_Spam_Filtering_with_Gentoo,_Postfix,_Amavis There's a couple howto's on the subject that I used when setting my system up in the same way that you want it. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. John -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] HTTPS/CA

2005-06-23 Thread John Ziniti
Iain Buchanan wrote: On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 16:54 -0700, David Busby wrote: Gurus, In this hypothetical situation how would someone break in or view the data transmitted? [snip] Since traffic is limited to IPs that I trust and everyone must have a certificate signed by my CA how can jerk

Re: [gentoo-user] howto install gentoo without a cd-rom

2005-07-19 Thread John Blinka
ot;-O2 -mcpu=i586 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i386-pc-linux-gnu" Do these differences prevent the Dell XPi 150 CD from being able to use the distcc results from the other machines? John -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] switching CPU's -- what strange things do I need?

2008-01-25 Thread John covici
anks in advance for any assistance. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] switching CPU's -- what strange things do I need?

2008-01-25 Thread John covici
on Friday 01/25/2008 Andrey Falko([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > On Jan 25, 2008 10:00 AM, John covici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi folks. I right now have my CCFLAGS set to CFLAGS="-O2 > > -mtune=athlon-xp -pipe" -- now I am getting one of those new In

[gentoo-user] strange ethernet behavior with Superjmicro mb and Gentoo

2008-02-13 Thread John covici
I must do such a thing? If I don't do the rmmod and modprobe the dual port card is still recognized, but the mb one is not.. Thanks in advance for your help. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici

Re: [gentoo-user] vesa-tng not working with kernel 2.6.24

2008-02-19 Thread John covici
OK, thanks I will check this out. on Tuesday 02/19/2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > > On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 06:24:52 -0500, John covici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Hi. I compiled gentoo-sources 2.6.24-r2 -- however the vesa-tng > > seemed

[gentoo-user] vesa-tng not working with kernel 2.6.24

2008-02-19 Thread John covici
is that I can't find the vesatng in the .config, but if I go into make menuconfig its there, so can someone explain why things are not working properly for 2.6.24? Thanks. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? J

Re: [gentoo-user] vesa-tng not working with kernel 2.6.24

2008-02-19 Thread John covici
on Tuesday 02/19/2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > > On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 06:24:52 -0500, John covici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Hi. I compiled gentoo-sources 2.6.24-r2 -- however the vesa-tng > > seemed to disappear -- its in the .confi

RE: [gentoo-user] nvidia drivers don't compile under kernel 2.6.24

2008-02-19 Thread John covici
ing to an older kernel version. > > You can do this with eselect kernel list and then eselect kernel set > > -Original Message- > From: John covici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: dinsdag 19 februari 2008 12:28 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: [gen

[gentoo-user] nvidia drivers don't compile under kernel 2.6.24

2008-02-19 Thread John covici
appreciated. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] gnome-terminal compile failure during world update

2008-03-13 Thread John covici
gnome-terminal-2.18.4/temp/environment'. Any assistance on this would be appreciated. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Encrypted backups under Gentoo

2008-04-18 Thread John covici
s. Would not these problems be solved by something like rdiff-backup which I have been using for a short time. Its not encrypted, however and I am not sure what happened to the developer, but it does seem to work. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub heartbreaker

2008-04-24 Thread John covici
gt; require that on the kernel line > Well, I had to put a lot more parameters for it to work -- I am not using grub but my parameters aside from the ro are init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/sda2 udev and some more specific to me. I am using something close to the original gentoo configs, so it uses an initrd parameter also which you need separately in grub. Hope this helps. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Messed up - how do I emerge coreutils once coreutils is gone?

2008-04-28 Thread John Krukoff
not in control > > > -- > Alan McKinnon > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com > > -- > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list UAC can be disabled. Fairly easily, in fact: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/disable-user-account-control-ua c-the-easy-way-on-windows-vista/ - John Krukoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008

2008-04-29 Thread John covici
x86/2007.0 (I don't even have a 2008.0 -- maybe I need to sync)? Will it unmaks useful packages or someting? Thanks. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008

2008-04-29 Thread John covici
on Tuesday 04/29/2008 Alan McKinnon([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > On Tuesday 29 April 2008, John covici wrote: > > > OK, what will I gain if I change the profile from > > /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop to > > /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x

[gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-29 Thread John covici
I was trying to do an --update --deep --with-bdeps=y world today and got the following strange message: [blocks B ]

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-29 Thread John covici
on Tuesday 04/29/2008 Ian Graeme Hilt([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > On Tuesday 29 April 2008 08:27:57 pm John covici wrote: > > I was trying to do an --update --deep --with-bdeps=y world > > today and got the following strange message: > > [blocks B ] > dev-l

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread John covici
on Wednesday 04/30/2008 Alan McKinnon([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > On Wednesday 30 April 2008, John covici wrote: > > I was trying to do an --update --deep --with-bdeps=y world today and > > got the following strange message: > > [blocks B ] > dev-libs/libgweather-2

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread John covici
on Wednesday 04/30/2008 Neil Bothwick([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:24:59 -0400, John covici wrote: > > > > > I was trying to do an --update --deep --with-bdeps=y world today > > > > and got the following strange message: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread John covici
on Wednesday 04/30/2008 John covici([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > on Wednesday 04/30/2008 Neil Bothwick([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > > On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:24:59 -0400, John covici wrote: > > > > > > > I was trying to do an --update --deep --with-bdeps=y world

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread John covici
-- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread John covici
on Wednesday 04/30/2008 Alan McKinnon([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > On Wednesday 30 April 2008, John covici wrote: > > > OK, here is the requested output. > > These questions are coming up a lot lately, and it's always the same > stuff: how the hell do I read this

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread John covici
on Wednesday 04/30/2008 Alan McKinnon([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > On Wednesday 30 April 2008, John covici wrote: > > on Wednesday 04/30/2008 Alan McKinnon([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > > > > > > [nomerge ] media-sound/sound-juicer-2.22.0 [2.20.1-r1] >

[gentoo-user] Blocking package is not actually installed

2008-05-01 Thread John covici
s. You might want to look at a previous thread of a couple of days ago which I started and was quite informative. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Problem running gnome as a normal user

2008-05-02 Thread John covici
-ambiguout show-all-if-ambiguout: No such file or directory Anyone have an idea as to what is happening or even how to troubleshoot such a thing? Thanks. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem running gnome as a normal user

2008-05-02 Thread John covici
on Friday 05/02/2008 deface([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > can you verify the user is in the video group? > grep video /etc/group > > deface Yep, the user is in the video group. > > On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 23:06 -0400, John covici wrote: > > Hi. I can run gnome as roo

[gentoo-user] telephony

2009-04-22 Thread John covici
y, it was a > primitive place, militarily speaking. The only weapon they had ever > invented worth mentioning was a crude and inefficient nuclear-reaction > bomb for which they had not even developed the logical defense. - > Asimov -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] conflict in update

2009-04-26 Thread John covici
mistake of forgetting to put the -1, so it would be interesting if there were a way to at least get a list of such packages. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

[gentoo-user] Re: Digest of gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org issue 1790 (94678-94727)

2009-04-30 Thread John Hennessy
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Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition

2009-05-04 Thread John covici
logs). What I would really like to do is get rid of everything except the most recent compile of each program in /var/log/portage -- anyone have a script to do that? -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition

2009-05-04 Thread John covici
on Monday 05/04/2009 Mick(michaelkintz...@gmail.com) wrote > On Monday 04 May 2009, John covici wrote: > > on Monday 05/04/2009 Philipp Riegger(li...@anderedomain.de) wrote > > > > > You'd be amazed how much junk collects in /var/log/portage over time

[gentoo-user] python 2.6 and mailman

2009-05-06 Thread John covici
I am wrong in any of this, but the easiest thing would be to get a version of mailman compatible with 2.6. Thanks in advance for any ideas on this problem. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] python 2.6 and mailman

2009-05-06 Thread John covici
on Wednesday 05/06/2009 David Relson(rel...@osagesoftware.com) wrote > On Wed, 6 May 2009 05:06:51 -0400 > John covici wrote: > > > Hi. I upgraded to python 2.6 -- at the time I didn't know that this > > would break mailman, buut there is a version of mailman comp

Re: [gentoo-user] python 2.6 and mailman

2009-05-06 Thread John covici
on Wednesday 05/06/2009 Neil Bothwick(n...@digimed.co.uk) wrote > On Wed, 6 May 2009 05:06:51 -0400, John covici wrote: > > > Hi. I upgraded to python 2.6 -- at the time I didn't know that this > > would break mailman, buut there is a version of mailman compatible &

Re: [gentoo-user] python 2.6 and mailman

2009-05-06 Thread John covici
> > -- > Neil Bothwick > > WinErr 005: Multitasking attempted - System confused Thanks much -- that will fix things up just fine. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

[gentoo-user] Re: Digest of gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org issue 1801 (95228-95277)

2009-05-12 Thread John Hennessy
unsubscribe

[gentoo-user] Gnome complaining about automount of audio CD

2009-05-13 Thread John covici
a use flag in gnome-base/gvfs called cdda which when you have it in there, asks you what you want to do with your audio cd, if that is not there I was getting a message about not being able to mount the cd. Hope that helps. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it.

[gentoo-user] massive problems with gdm 2.26.1-r1

2009-05-27 Thread John covici
know what is happening, or should I file a bug? -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

[gentoo-user] cannot completely shut down my system from command line

2009-06-02 Thread John covici
or fix? Thanks in advance for any good ideas. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot completely shut down my system from command line

2009-06-02 Thread John covici
on Tuesday 06/02/2009 Sebastian G nther(sam...@guenther-roetgen.de) wrote > * John covici (cov...@ccs.covici.com) [02.06.09 09:24]: > > Hi. I am running unstable gentoo and baselayout2, however when I > > shutdown my system with something like shutdown -r now -- it gets into &g

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot completely shut down my system from command line

2009-06-02 Thread John covici
on Tuesday 06/02/2009 James Ausmus(james.aus...@gmail.com) wrote > 2009/6/2 John covici > > > on Tuesday 06/02/2009 Sebastian G nther(sam...@guenther-roetgen.de) wrote > > > * John covici (cov...@ccs.covici.com) [02.06.09 09:24]: > > > > Hi. I am runnin

Re: [gentoo-user] uvesafb will not work on my dell d820 laptop?

2009-06-20 Thread John covici
on Saturday 06/20/2009 Ian Lee(i...@leehouse.eclipse.co.uk) wrote > John covici wrote: > > Hi. I have a Dell Latitude D820 laptop and for the life of me, I > > can't get uvesafb to work. There are no messages, I just get the 25 > > lines by 80 column screen. I

[gentoo-user] strange warning after upgrading php

2009-06-23 Thread John covici
revealed nothing. Thanks in advance for your assistance. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ncurses is gone

2009-07-07 Thread John covici
gt; Is there a binary repo? (Back to sabayon?). I suppose I need to > know the exact version. Does it matter which use flags it was > compiled with? I wonder if you say -C and -P would it still use ncurses since you are turning off color and progress indications? -- Your life i

[gentoo-user] how to amrecover in amanda-2.6.0

2009-07-15 Thread John Blinka
ges contains nothing enlightening. Neither does /var/amanda/my_host/log.* Thanks for any ideas on how to debug this! John Blinka

Re: [gentoo-user] how to amrecover in amanda-2.6.0

2009-07-17 Thread John Blinka
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 2:32 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > Try "amoldrecover" for a start ... > >From what I understand, amoldrecover is for recovering files on a >=2.5 client from a < 2.5 server. My server and clients are all >=2.6. Am I misunderstanding? John

Re: [gentoo-user] how to amrecover in amanda-2.6.0

2009-07-30 Thread John Blinka
y. (Sorry for the very long delay in replying. My backup machine's root partition disk started failing, and it has taken me a long time to rebuild things.) John

[RESOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] how to amrecover in amanda-2.6.0

2009-08-01 Thread John Blinka
itted user-name # | | client amanda amdump server amanda amdump client root amindexd amidxtaped I used the fqdn for the client and server names in the above files. John Blinka

[gentoo-user] how do I resolve udev145 masked issue?

2009-08-01 Thread John covici
not resolved. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] how do I resolve udev145 masked issue?

2009-08-02 Thread John covici
on Sunday 08/02/2009 Alan McKinnon(alan.mckin...@gmail.com) wrote > On Sunday 02 August 2009 00:59:22 John covici wrote: > > Hi. On my latest update attempt, I get the following message: !!! All > > ebuilds that could satisfy ">=sys-fs/udev-145[extras]" have been

Re: [gentoo-user] how do I resolve udev145 masked issue?

2009-08-02 Thread John covici
on Sunday 08/02/2009 Neil Bothwick(n...@digimed.co.uk) wrote > On Sun, 2 Aug 2009 04:45:46 -0400, John covici wrote: > > > > run the emerge with the -t option to see what is pulling in > > > udev- > > > > I get the same thing if I emer

Re: [gentoo-user] how do I resolve udev145 masked issue?

2009-08-02 Thread John covici
on Sunday 08/02/2009 Neil Bothwick(n...@digimed.co.uk) wrote > On Sun, 2 Aug 2009 07:31:41 -0400, John covici wrote: > > > (dependency required by "sys-apps/devicekit-power-010" [ebuild]) > > (dependency required by > > "gnome-extra/gnome-power-mana

Re: [gentoo-user] how do I resolve udev145 masked issue?

2009-08-02 Thread John covici
on Sunday 08/02/2009 Neil Bothwick(n...@digimed.co.uk) wrote > On Sun, 2 Aug 2009 14:53:48 -0400, John covici wrote: > > > I am using the gnome overlay from layman. > > It might have been helpful to menyion that :( > > > If I comment out the source line for

[gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant and at&t 2wire gateway

2008-11-22 Thread John Blinka
I understand what's going on, and I haven't found any enlightenment in web searches. Does anyone know what this means, where I'm stuck, and how to go forward? Thanks for any help, John Blinka

Re: [gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant and at&t 2wire gateway

2008-11-22 Thread John Blinka
a AP with WPA encryption . > > ej: > > wpa_passphrase AP_id password : > > that generate --> > > network={ > ssid="AP_id" > #psk="password" > psk=993142399374b6d582da81a6d4887ef7a9283a0e00dd4678681aac5e0a2478e9 > } > > copy into wpa_supplicant.conf. > Thanks, but tried that without success. John

Re: [gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant and at&t 2wire gateway

2008-11-23 Thread John Blinka
ious: have you tried associating and connecting to the > Internet without any encryption? No harm in asking the obvious, even if I don't know enough for this to be obvious to me. I assume that I would have to tell my wireless router not to encrypt, and that I would have to make some adjustment in /etc/conf.d/net or /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf to turn encryption off. Any advice on how to do this? John

Re: [gentoo-user] Using projector as my monitor

2008-11-23 Thread john stampe
. Regards, John From: Norman Hakim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 8:07:07 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Using projector as my monitor NORMAN HAKIM YAHYA --- On Sun, 11/23/08, Robert Bridge <[EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Modules Not Autoloading

2008-11-26 Thread John covici
e is a migration guide at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openrc-migration.xml Hope this helps. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: boot messages; vga; vesa; HDTV monitor

2008-12-01 Thread john stampe
Oops, a slight typo in the last message the boot option should be fbcon=font: John From: john stampe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Monday, December 1, 2008 6:11:47 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: boot messages; vga; vesa

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: boot messages; vga; vesa; HDTV monitor

2008-12-01 Thread john stampe
as a boot option. Regards, John From: 7v5w7go9ub0o <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Monday, December 1, 2008 8:29:48 AM Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: boot messages; vga; vesa; HDTV monitor Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Saturda

[gentoo-user] ssmtp & at&t woes

2008-12-01 Thread John Blinka
that my password and username combination functions. I can telnet to smtp.att.yahoo.com at either port 465 or 587 and get a response, so nothing is blocking either port. Any insights or suggestions? John Blinka

[gentoo-user] do we have the package "ncurses-devel" or something like that?

2008-12-03 Thread John covici
m with ncurses-devel? if there's no such thing in > GENTOO_MIRRORS, where can I download the source? Its named differently -- just ncurses. You might want to get a package called eix, where you can do quick searches for packages and have more fun. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] ssmtp & at&t woes

2008-12-04 Thread John Blinka
.yahoo.com ESMTP [->] EHLO tobey [<-] 250 8BITMIME [->] STARTTLS [<-] 502 unimplemented (#5.5.1) send-mail: Cannot open smtp.att.yahoo.com:587 Can't send mail: sendmail process failed with error code 1 John

Re: [gentoo-user] ssmtp & at&t woes

2008-12-04 Thread John Blinka
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 3:33 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi John, > > I suppose you use a wrong username. According to > http://helpme.att.net/article.php?item=287 you have to use the full mail > address. Otherwise check your password for correctness. Tried that.

Re: [gentoo-user] ssmtp & at&t woes

2008-12-04 Thread John Blinka
worked immediately without any of the at&t pain. Thanks to everyone who responded! John

Re: [gentoo-user] ssmtp & at&t woes

2008-12-05 Thread John Blinka
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 7:36 AM, Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > On 5 Dec 2008, at 03:12, John Blinka wrote: > >> ... >> I've run out of patience with this and am >> now relaying my mail to smtp.gmail.com via ssmtp. That worked >> immediately w

[gentoo-user] dispatch-conf problem

2009-01-01 Thread John covici
any help. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

[gentoo-user] Re: dispatch-conf problem

2009-01-01 Thread John covici
on Thursday 01/01/2009 Nikos Chantziaras(rea...@arcor.de) wrote > John covici wrote: > > > Also, if I want to roll back, say, /etc/init.d/fsck, I am not sure > > which file to choose -- in the archive directory there is an > > /etc/init.d directory which contains fsck

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dispatch-conf problem

2009-01-01 Thread John covici
tions for those files and what happens if I update the same file again? -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

[gentoo-user] VMware-Workstation 6.5.0, 6.5.1 problem

2009-01-20 Thread John Smith
Hello, I can't get vmware-workstation to work properly. I've tried vmware-workstation 6.5.0 and 6.5.1. Either one crashes when clicking the "Create a new virtual machine" button. It gives no error nothing it just quits the program. The user is in the vmware group. Everything seems to work fine ex

Re: [gentoo-user] VMware-Workstation 6.5.0, 6.5.1 problem

2009-01-20 Thread John Smith
Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:20 AM, John Smith wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I can't get vmware-workstation to work properly. >> >> I've tried vmware-workstation 6.5.0 and 6.5.1. Either one crashes when >> clicking the &quo

[gentoo-user] a couple of openrt questions

2009-01-30 Thread John covici
nd it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

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