a few days ago, vpnc 0.4 was released which includes rekeying support.
http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~massar/vpnc/

I tryed it and it was at least connected for over 13 hours instead of the 8 hours before connection died while vpnc was still running.

Now I noticed that my connection did close after ...

I switched my motherboard and now it seems to be working, probably a faulty PCI slot.

I noticed this in the syslog, maybe someone has seen this before?

Jan 6 01:43:50 darkness bttv0: timeout: drop=11 irq=143829/143829, risc=0fe1003c, bits: HSYNC OFLOW
Jan 6 01:43:50 darkness bttv0: reset, reinitialize
Jan 6 01:43:51 darkness bttv0: PLL: 28636363 => 35468950 ..........failed
Jan 6 ...

I have a strange problem with my tv card.

It's a hauppauge card that uses the bt878 driver.

Usually tv output is working fine, but all of a sudden, the video output becomes garbled with no sound.
After some time the output returns to normal.

I have this with xawtv and xdtv.

screenshot to show ...

I also have this problem of my davicom networkcard seeming to fail now and then. If I watch the lights on my switch, they are on for some time, then go out for a while.

lcpci gives: Davicom Semiconductor, Inc. 21x4x DEC-tulip compatible 10/100 Ethernet (rev 10)

If I ping to the machine, some ...

does anyone have a suggestion of things I could try?

I have a strange problem with my creative audigy 2 ZS card.

first some facts (to prevent people from asking those)

I am using kernel 2.6.15.3 at this moment and I have ALSA compiled into the kernel including the emu10k1 driver (not as modules)

I also have a c-media onboard soundcard wich works ...

I can confirm that this mppe in the kernel is working

I am testing it a little more to see if the connection stays on. If results are good, I won't have to use vpnc any longer. Vpnc is good and easy to connect, but the lack of rekeying support is something I really don't like about it.

hmm, it appears local.start is executed indeed, but commands like export and alias are not. If I put some service in there to start, it starts.

Anyone an idea why export and alias don't work here anymore? It used to work in the 2004.x ages, even though it does not belong there...

Check, if local.start indeed won't be executed:
Put something like this line echo "`/bin/date` local.start executed" >> /tmp/local.start.test into Your local.start -file. Then reboot, and check the test-file /tmp/local.start.test

I don't think local.start is the right place for what You want ...

I have a strange problem after I installed gentoo (stage 3 from universal liveCD)

I first had a problem with emerging packages, but I found on the forums that my use flags were not exported. After exporting the use flags, emerge worked.

I don't know why they are not exported at boottime, but this ...

I'm not completely sure, but I don't think those 2 things do the same.

Speedstep is scaling your frequency and voltage down to reduce power consumption. Cpufreq only puts idle cycles between the instructions to scale down the effective frequency but in reality remains at full speed, without any ...

yesterday I tried to boot my gentoo partition in vmware under windows.
It booted perfectly except for the fact that there was something with the network setting.

Startx gave me an error though: no screens found so I suppose I would have to edit my xorg.conf for that.

I used vmware 5 beta which is ...

aha, I compiled a new kernel following the alsa & dmix howto on gentoo-wiki.com and after running alsaconf it appears to be better now. It is not as loud as at first but still a bit loud.

At least I can easily adjust the volume now without crackling sounds at high volume.

now try to check out why ...

I have a strange thing going on with the synaptics touchpad in my notebook.
I have the gentoo-dev-sources (2.6.9) and the touchpad and tapping worked all out of the box, I didn't even have to fiddle with parameters in the xorg.config.

Great :D , what's the problem then?

When I reboot my notebook ...

I'm not having as much time as I want at the moment to be experimenting with my gentoo a little more, but next thing I'm going to try is not to use the built-in driver from the kernel but load the i8x0 driver for alsa. This way I should also be able to use dmix for software mixing which is not ...

Same problem here. Anyone an idea.

I compiled alsa in the kernel. Sound is working but terribly loud and when I change the master volume, it doesn't change anything.

I have a sis 7012 soundcard.

I had it working here (back with windows atm :oops: ) on a Jewel Saffier 1440 (www.jewelnotebooks.nl).

sis650 chipset (and videocard)
sis900 network
sis7012 sound

never tried to get the modem working (smartlink)
also never tried the firewire connection, since I don't have any hardware for that ...

you can put this in you local.start file.

It should solve it, but it would be better if alsmixer did remember it by his own.

and if you compile it in the kernel, not as module?
What does dmesg say about your eth0?

waarschijnlijk is het tar-bestand corrupt of heeft de cd-speler moeite om de cd te lezen.

oplossing in het eerste geval: stage opnieuw downloaden en md5 checksum controleren.

als dat voordien ook al in orde was dan kan je proberen gewoon eens opnieuw uit te pakken, of eens met een andere cd-rom ...

please, anyone?

I have no idea what could be the problem but at least it works now for me with that kernel so if you want you can compare your kernel-config with mine: http://studwww.ugent.be/~pspeybro/laatstaan/config

be sure to check the mass storage thing under USB and the scsi disk support

No, I added everything that was mentioned in the howto and I still cannot select it.
Is there a way to see what it depends on?

Here is my config: http://studwww.ugent.be/~pspeybro/laatstaan/config

Is this kernel really patched?

I'm using gentoo-dev-sources 2.6.7-gentoo-r11.
When I do "bootsplash_patch" it says that my kernel is already patched.
In menuconfig I can see "bootsplash configuration --> " but I cannot go in there to enable bootsplash.

Framebuffer is working, but no bootsplash :cry:

grub.conf piece:
title ...