Re: [gentoo-user] vipul's razor won't install

2003-12-08 Thread Rumen Yotov
On Tuesday 09 December 2003 07:17, Helgi Örn Helgason wrote: > On 2003-12-08, rd wrote: > > To prevent emerge world from upgrading... edit /etc/portage/package.mask > > and put ">dev-perl/Extutils-MakeMaker-6.05-r6" in it. This will mask > > anything newer until YOU remove this entry. > > Ah, won

[gentoo-user] error in compiling mutt

2003-12-08 Thread SMS WebMaster
checking for towupper... yes checking for towlower... yes checking for mbstate_t... yes checking for wchar_t functions... yes checking for nl_langinfo and CODESET... yes checking for nl_langinfo and YESEXPR... yes updating cache ./config.cache creating ./config.status creating Makefile creating int

Re: [gentoo-user] vipul's razor won't install

2003-12-08 Thread Helgi Örn Helgason
On 2003-12-08, rd wrote: > To prevent emerge world from upgrading... edit /etc/portage/package.mask > and put ">dev-perl/Extutils-MakeMaker-6.05-r6" in it. This will mask > anything newer until YOU remove this entry. > Ah, wonderful. Thank you. But /etc/portage/package.mask doesn't seem to exist

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.4.20-gentoo-r9 has "issues" (?)

2003-12-08 Thread Dennis Allison
If the "r9' kernels are 'redhat 9' derived, that problem probably has to do with threading (a back port and very different -- many threaded programs break) and/or a broken glibc. In the redhat world you need to upgrade the kernel to the bleeding edge, same with glibc to make most things work. On

Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs-qt conflict?

2003-12-08 Thread Tom Hosiawa
> I can't remember the exact reasoning as to why it was set up that way, but the > point of the exercise was to ensure that users upgraded qt before upgrading > kdelibs. > > If you can then unmerge kdelibs, upgrade qt and then reemerge kdelibs. > Otherwise, go into the qt-3.2.3.ebuild, remove t

Re: [gentoo-user] resolv.conf

2003-12-08 Thread blade-
Thanks Ian Truelsen wrote: On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 15:43:08 +1100 blade- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know the way to stop dhcpcd overwriting resolv.conf? i just cant remeber how to do it. Edit your /etc/conf.d/net file and change dhcpcd_eth0="..." to dhcpcd_eth0="-R". Chan

Re: [gentoo-user] resolv.conf

2003-12-08 Thread Ian Truelsen
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 15:43:08 +1100 blade- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Does anyone know the way to stop dhcpcd overwriting resolv.conf? i > just cant remeber how to do it. > Edit your /etc/conf.d/net file and change dhcpcd_eth0="..." to dhcpcd_eth0="-R". Change eth0 to appropriate in

[gentoo-user] resolv.conf

2003-12-08 Thread blade-
Hi all, Does anyone know the way to stop dhcpcd overwriting resolv.conf? i just cant remeber how to do it. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia acceleration problem

2003-12-08 Thread Jim
On Sunday 07 December 2003 11:17 pm, Ernie Schroder wrote: > On Sunday 07 December 2003 09:16 pm, Jim wrote: > > On Sunday 07 December 2003 01:55 pm, Ernie Schroder wrote: > > > On Sunday 07 December 2003 12:41 pm, collins wrote: > > > > On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 07:31, Ernie Schroder wrote: > > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Opinions on USB scanners in Linux?

2003-12-08 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Monday 08 December 2003 09:09 pm, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > I don't have a USB scanner (just an old Microtek IISP) but the > linux newsgroup I hang out in seems to like Epson scanners as they > have pretty good support for Linux. The Epson 1660 was mentioned > as well as the 2400, and 3200 seri

Re: [gentoo-user] Opinions on USB scanners in Linux?

2003-12-08 Thread Alma J Wetzker
I have heard the same for Epson scanners except for the ones that end in '70. They are reported to hate linux. -- Alma Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I don't have a USB scanner (just an old Microtek IISP) but the linux newsgroup I hang out in seems to like Epson scanners as they have pretty good

Re: [gentoo-user] Opinions on USB scanners in Linux?

2003-12-08 Thread rd
Matthew -- I don't want to bust your bubble... but scanning 35mm slides is not something that should be done with <$300 scanners. No if you want any kind of quality. It might be ok if you are just trying to build an "index"/"thumb gallery" of your pictures. To truly scan a slide into the comput

Re: [gentoo-user] vipul's razor won't install

2003-12-08 Thread rd
To prevent emerge world from upgrading... edit /etc/portage/package.mask and put ">dev-perl/Extutils-MakeMaker-6.05-r6" in it. This will mask anything newer until YOU remove this entry. -rdg On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 04:41, Helgi Örn Helgason wrote: > On 2003-12-07, rd wrote: > >OK, so I am go

Re: [gentoo-user] Opinions on USB scanners in Linux?

2003-12-08 Thread TriKster Abacus
I use a Epson Perfection 1660 Photo scanner under xsane It works great, bought it for like $89 bux -- TriKster Abacus irc.freenode.net #cllug #gentoo #linuxfriends irc.cotse.com #linux #linuxmall.us http://www.cllug.org http://www.trikster.homelinux.org icq# 266645328 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] maili

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.4.20-gentoo-r9 has "issues" (?)

2003-12-08 Thread Dennis Robertson
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 09:41 am, Øyvind Stegard wrote: > Hi, > > I just upgraded to the 2.4.20-gentoo-r9 kernel (from -r8), and it > suddenly OOps'ed (segfault caused by error in inode.c) when unmounting a > partition before reboot. This made me a bit suspicious, since I used the > exact same config as

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge with configure options

2003-12-08 Thread Alijandro Gumbs
Not all that bad of an idea (IMO),  I was unaware of the -vp option (to be honest I should have RTFM'd the portage document more,  but he should still check what options are being enabled when merging a package.  Also familiarizing himself with the e-build files *will* prove to be helpful.  Als

[gentoo-user] Fonts

2003-12-08 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
You know, I've heard complaints about Linux and fonts... but I just have to say. My fonts look DAMN good. Just had to share. -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [+1 662-518-1636] E-mail[EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Opinions on USB scanners in Linux?

2003-12-08 Thread Olson, Isaac
I've got a super-cheapo Mustek 1200UB flatbed. That scanner is a PITA when it comes to getting it working in Windows2k/XP. No problem with Mandrake 9.0+, Redhat 7.3+, or Gentoo - works perfect. Isaac Matthew Vaughn wrote: Hey, guys. I need your help. I'm really into 35mm photography (I hate

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world wants xfree

2003-12-08 Thread Spider
begin quote On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 13:21:00 +1100 blade- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jason Stubbs wrote: > > > > >That seems to be a bug. Can you remove -gtk2 again, run "emerge -ep" > >and then > >tell us which package comes immediately after gtk+? Thanks. > > > >Regards, > >Jason > > > >-- > >[

Re: [gentoo-user] Opinions on USB scanners in Linux?

2003-12-08 Thread Brian Hall
My Epson Perfection 640U works fine for me in Gentoo. Dont't remember what is cost, but it wasn't much, <$100? I use a scanning program called "QuiteInsane". No ebuild, I compile it from CVS. http://quiteinsane.sourceforge.net/cvs.html AFAIK, TWAIN support is irrelevant in Linux. Check to see if

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world wants xfree

2003-12-08 Thread blade-
Jason Stubbs wrote: That seems to be a bug. Can you remove -gtk2 again, run "emerge -ep" and then tell us which package comes immediately after gtk+? Thanks. Regards, Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list net-analyzer/nessus-core-2.0.8a -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Opinions on USB scanners in Linux?

2003-12-08 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I don't have a USB scanner (just an old Microtek IISP) but the linux newsgroup I hang out in seems to like Epson scanners as they have pretty good support for Linux. The Epson 1660 was mentioned as well as the 2400, and 3200 series. On Monday 08 December 2003 20:48, you wrote: > Hey, guys. I

[gentoo-user] Opinions on USB scanners in Linux?

2003-12-08 Thread Matthew Vaughn
Hey, guys. I need your help. I'm really into 35mm photography (I hate digital cameras), though I very much like keeping a digital portfolio of my pictures for online display. I decided that I would like to purchase a scanner for the sole purpose of converting my images to a digital format with

[gentoo-user] rc-script trouble

2003-12-08 Thread Makurin Roman
I wrote rc-script for linux_logo. How can I disable final "[ok]" mark ? -- Makurin Roman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernels > 2.4.20 don't work with reiserfs

2003-12-08 Thread Bryan Whitehead
Bryan Whitehead wrote: Wes Gray wrote: On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 02:39:08PM -0500, Mojo B. Nichols wrote: I run with / as reiserfs 2.20 no problem. I think you need to enable reiserfs in the kernel, and, I believe it can't be a module either. The problem is not with 2.4.20. 19 and 20 work fine,

Re: [gentoo-user] Stuck on dialup

2003-12-08 Thread Andrew Farmer
Here's a set of scripts I use to automatically sync/fetch/emerge all packages over a modem. Works great (for me at least). Note that you'll need gentoolkit installed. Intended usage is to run prepare-updates (as root) with an optional argument (which gets passed to sleep) to update your system. Th

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world wants xfree

2003-12-08 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Tuesday 09 December 2003 09:49, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > Jason Stubbs wrote: > > On Tuesday 23 December 2003 07:32, blade- wrote: > >>Michael Andreen wrote: > >>>A friend had the same problem, try to add -gtk2 to your USE flags. > >>> > >>>/Michael Andreen > >>> > >>>-- > >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] mai

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world wants xfree

2003-12-08 Thread Spider
begin quote On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 18:49:27 -0600 Andrew Gaffney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jason Stubbs wrote: > > On Tuesday 23 December 2003 07:32, blade- wrote: > > > >>Michael Andreen wrote: > >> > >>>A friend had the same problem, try to add -gtk2 to your USE flags. > >>> > >>>/Michael Andr

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world wants xfree

2003-12-08 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Jason Stubbs wrote: On Tuesday 23 December 2003 07:32, blade- wrote: Michael Andreen wrote: A friend had the same problem, try to add -gtk2 to your USE flags. /Michael Andreen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Thank you, that worked That seems to be a bug. Can you remove -gtk2 again, run "eme

[gentoo-user] MSI KT4 ULtra MB poweroff

2003-12-08 Thread William Kenworthy
Hi I have a MSI KT4 ULtra MB that refuses to poweroff, no matter what I do. Evene with a previous kernel that did poweroff before I swapped the MSI in, it still wouldnt do it. Also tried gs-sources and openmosix-sources to no avail Can someone share their bios/apm/acpi settings that work for thi

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world wants xfree

2003-12-08 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Tuesday 23 December 2003 07:32, blade- wrote: > Michael Andreen wrote: > >A friend had the same problem, try to add -gtk2 to your USE flags. > > > >/Michael Andreen > > > >-- > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > Thank you, that worked That seems to be a bug. Can you remove -gtk2 again, run "em

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge with configure options

2003-12-08 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Tuesday 09 December 2003 08:24, Helgi Örn Helgason wrote: > I've been trying to find out how to emerge a package with some configure > options but no go. I want to emerge timidity++ and it should be compiled > with the options --enable-audio=alsa --enable-server --enable-alsaseq. > How do I do t

[gentoo-user] Basic rc-script trouble

2003-12-08 Thread Makurin Roman
I wrote rc-script for linux_logo. How can I disable final "[ok]" mark ? -- Makurin Roman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge with configure options

2003-12-08 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On 08 Dec 2003 19:05:39 -0500 Alijandro Gumbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | You need to edit the e-build. Bad idea, and totally unnecessary. USE="alsa" is all that is needed. -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail:ciaranm at gentoo.org Web: http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm pgp0.pgp Description: PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge with configure options

2003-12-08 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Check the ebuild for the package and see what use flags it wants - or do emerge packagename -pv which lists what flags will be used or not used. If you can't set a USE flag then you may have to modify the ebuild. On Monday 08 December 2003 18:24, you wrote: > I've been trying to find out how

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge with configure options

2003-12-08 Thread Alijandro Gumbs
You need to edit the e-build.  If you want to install "timidity++-2.12.0" the file you would edit is "/usr/portage/media-sound/timidity++/timidity++-2.12.0.ebuild".  If you look at the file you will notice a number of config options are already being enabled,  check if any of them are the ones

[gentoo-user] 2.4.20-gentoo-r9 has "issues" (?)

2003-12-08 Thread Øyvind Stegard
Hi, I just upgraded to the 2.4.20-gentoo-r9 kernel (from -r8), and it suddenly OOps'ed (segfault caused by error in inode.c) when unmounting a partition before reboot. This made me a bit suspicious, since I used the exact same config as with -r8, and kernels from these series have never crashe

[gentoo-user] exim terminated by PAX

2003-12-08 Thread Yogesh Sharma
Hi, Following is coming in my logs: Dec 8 16:33:25 test PAX: From 192.168.101.1: terminating task: /usr/sbin/exim(exim):30170, uid/euid: 0/0, EIP: 0062, ESP: 580A2A3C Dec 8 16:33:25 test PAX: bytes at EIP: . I have 2.4.20-gentoo-r9 kernel compiled from genkernel using genkernel --config

[gentoo-user] java-gnome won't emerge

2003-12-08 Thread Scott Stoddard
Hello all, I have tried to emerge java-gnome several times only to come upon the same error. (Have tried emerge sync, world, etc in between tries). There error(s) that I am getting are: ** creating java-gtk.spec sed: -e expression #1, char 43: Unterminated `s' command sed: -e exp

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel upgrade

2003-12-08 Thread Rumen Yotov
On Monday 08 December 2003 18:37, Helgi Örn Helgason wrote: > On 2003-12-08, David Gethings wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 15:37, David Gethings wrote: > > > If you wish to change the kernel config use 'genkernel --config'. If > > > not then just run 'genkernel'. > > > > Sorry, forgot to mention.

[gentoo-user] emerge with configure options

2003-12-08 Thread Helgi Örn Helgason
I've been trying to find out how to emerge a package with some configure options but no go. I want to emerge timidity++ and it should be compiled with the options --enable-audio=alsa --enable-server --enable-alsaseq. How do I do this? Cheers, /HÖ -- /// Helgi Örn Helgason, Registered GNU/Linux U

Re: [gentoo-user] Stuck on dialup

2003-12-08 Thread William Kenworthy
To add, dont delete the /usr/portage/distfiles directory afterwards thinking that you have finished with the source code. You may find yourself re-downloading it all again! Modems require a little bit of extra thought (saying someone who now has had broadband for 2 weeks! - and was on a modem sin

Re: [gentoo-user] Managing Distributed Gentoo Boxes

2003-12-08 Thread Timo Boettcher
Hi, * Celestial Wizard, Monday, December 8, 2003, 8:01:24 AM: > By boxes I mean both servers and SOE desktops. > Basically our "rules" are standard installs for roles. IE - Firewalls, > File and Print (not many), Web Application, Database, SOE Desktops etc... > On these boxes we also dont inst

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernels > 2.4.20 don't work with reiserfs

2003-12-08 Thread Bryan Whitehead
Wes Gray wrote: On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 02:39:08PM -0500, Mojo B. Nichols wrote: I run with / as reiserfs 2.20 no problem. I think you need to enable reiserfs in the kernel, and, I believe it can't be a module either. The problem is not with 2.4.20. 19 and 20 work fine, 21, 22, and 23 don't. A

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world wants xfree

2003-12-08 Thread blade-
Michael Andreen wrote: A friend had the same problem, try to add -gtk2 to your USE flags. /Michael Andreen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Thank you, that worked -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] CUPS printing problem with windows share

2003-12-08 Thread R'twick Niceorgaw
Hi All, I'm trying to setup cups printing with a windows printer share. However, I'm getting an error like cli_session_request failed message. I had it setup fine with my laptop running gentoo sometime back but now with my gentoo desktop can not set it up. I have also installed suse 9.0 as well as

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world wants xfree

2003-12-08 Thread Michael Andreen
On Monday 22 December 2003 23.17, blade- wrote: > my use flags are like so: > USE="apache2 clamav imap maildir php sasl -arts -avi -cups -gtk -kde \ > -gnome -qt -quicktime -X" > > does anyone know why it wants to emerge all these things that were not > needed before? A friend had the same

Re: [gentoo-user] Package info (Was: HiZ PpL)

2003-12-08 Thread Helgi Örn Helgason
On 2003-12-09, Jason Stubbs wrote: > > The only way that I know of at the moment is by checking the changelog. This > can be found in the portage tree or by using the options -p and -l to emerge. > Ok, I'll take a look at the -pl option. Thanks. /HÖ -- /// Helgi Örn Helgason, Registered GNU/L

[gentoo-user] emerge world wants xfree

2003-12-08 Thread blade-
Hi all, I am updating my server but for some reason it wants to emerge xfree and a few other things i dont think are needed, here is what it wants: [ebuild U ] dev-java/java-config-1.1.7 [1.1.5] [ebuild U ] sys-apps/coreutils-5.0-r5 [5.0-r3] [ebuild U ] sys-apps/shadow-4.0.3-r9 [4.0.3

Re: [gentoo-user] Package info (Was: HiZ PpL)

2003-12-08 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Tuesday 09 December 2003 06:52, Helgi Örn Helgason wrote: > On 2003-12-09, Jason Stubbs wrote: > > On Tuesday 09 December 2003 02:43, Helgi Örn Helgason wrote: > > > One thing I miss in emerge is something similar to *apt-get show > > > [package]* which lists a rather (often) detailed descriptio

Re: [gentoo-user] A problem with MozillaFirebird

2003-12-08 Thread Scharf Yuval
Yuval Scharf On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Chris Graves wrote: > > > > I installed MozillaFirebird and it works fine with English websites. > > > > But, when I go to a Hebrew website instead of Hebrew letters I get those > > > > funny squares each includes 4 characters. > > > > This'll happen when you d

Re: [gentoo-user] A problem with MozillaFirebird

2003-12-08 Thread Chris Graves
> > > I installed MozillaFirebird and it works fine with English websites. > > > But, when I go to a Hebrew website instead of Hebrew letters I get those > > > funny squares each includes 4 characters. > > This'll happen when you don't have any font installed for the characters > > the web page is

Re: [gentoo-user] Package info (Was: HiZ PpL)

2003-12-08 Thread Helgi Örn Helgason
On 2003-12-09, Jason Stubbs wrote: > On Tuesday 09 December 2003 02:43, Helgi Örn Helgason wrote: > > > > One thing I miss in emerge is something similar to *apt-get show > > [package]* which lists a rather (often) detailed description of the > > package in question, similar to *rpm -qi [package]*.

Re: [gentoo-user] A problem with MozillaFirebird

2003-12-08 Thread Scharf Yuval
On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Andrew Farmer wrote: > On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 12:51:54 -0800, Scharf Yuval muttered: > > Hello, > > > > I installed MozillaFirebird and it works fine with English websites. > > But, when I go to a Hebrew website instead of Hebrew letters I get those > > funny squares each includes

Re: [gentoo-user] A problem with MozillaFirebird

2003-12-08 Thread Andrew Farmer
On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 12:51:54 -0800, Scharf Yuval muttered: > Hello, > > I installed MozillaFirebird and it works fine with English websites. > But, when I go to a Hebrew website instead of Hebrew letters I get those > funny squares each includes 4 characters. > > How do I tell the browser to use

[gentoo-user] lm_sensors, or rather /etc/conf.d/sensors

2003-12-08 Thread Leon Fitinghoff
Dear Frodo, thanks for providing the lm_sensors ebuild in Gentoo. Sometimes a module needs a parameter, such as the it87 for Asus A7V600 board, eg to define sensor types. However, nowhere is it stated how to include a parameter. After advice from Peter Ruskin on the gentoo-user list, I tried t

Re: [gentoo-user] ripping music cd to mp3

2003-12-08 Thread Matthew Kennedy
Tom Hosiawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > After doing some googling, I know I can't mount a music cd. > > So if I want to rip the songs of the cd to mp3's with a program like > lame, how do I tell it where the input wav file is? Or is there some > better way to ripping music cd's? [...] I'm sure

[gentoo-user] A problem with MozillaFirebird

2003-12-08 Thread Scharf Yuval
Hello, I installed MozillaFirebird and it works fine with English websites. But, when I go to a Hebrew website instead of Hebrew letters I get those funny squares each includes 4 characters. How do I tell the browser to use Hebrew fonts? What is that funny font that Firbird is using? Thanks, Yuv

[gentoo-user] Re: LiveCD boot freeze on my P4P800 motherboard?

2003-12-08 Thread Eelco den Heijer
ubject: LiveCD boot freeze on my P4P800 motherboard? From: "Frans Meijer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 16:10:06 +0100 (CET) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I'm trying to install Gentoo on my new MoBo: ASUS P4P800DeLuxe containing an Intel 865PE chipset with SATA, RAID, GB Ethernet and what

Re: [gentoo-user] open office build: app-office/openoffice-1.1.0-r2

2003-12-08 Thread Klaus Neumann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was getting a error while trying to build openoffice: open_wr: /opt/OpenOffice.org1.0.3/foo.tmp unlink:/opt/OpenOffice.org1.0.3/delme One of the bugzilla reports said to rm .sversionrc, which did the trick. I had changed my CFLAGS to: CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -Os -

[gentoo-user] open office build: app-office/openoffice-1.1.0-r2

2003-12-08 Thread nealbirch
I was getting a error while trying to build openoffice: open_wr: /opt/OpenOffice.org1.0.3/foo.tmp unlink:/opt/OpenOffice.org1.0.3/delme One of the bugzilla reports said to rm .sversionrc, which did the trick. I had changed my CFLAGS to: CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -Os -pipe -mfpmath=sse -msse

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel upgrade

2003-12-08 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 08 December 2003 19:30, Helgi Örn Helgason wrote: > On 2003-12-08, Mike Williams wrote: > > genkernel creates an /etc/kernels/config- per kernel version. > > When I change kernel, but want to keep the old config (as best is > > possible) I co

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't find /proc in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab

2003-12-08 Thread Paul Grenyer
On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 21:57, rd wrote: Hi > Try "proc /proc procdefaults 0 0" > This is what my /etc/fstab has in it. That worked, thanks! -- Regards Paul Paul Grenyer Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.paulgrenyer.co.uk Please note my change of email address. -- [EMAIL PR

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel upgrade

2003-12-08 Thread Helgi Örn Helgason
On 2003-12-08, Mike Williams wrote: > > genkernel creates an /etc/kernels/config- per kernel version. > When I change kernel, but want to keep the old config (as best is possible) I > copy the config- to the new version and genkernel away. > Ok, that's interesting. What if you want to change ker

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernels > 2.4.20 don't work with reiserfs

2003-12-08 Thread Andrew Farmer
On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 10:58:55 -0800, Wes Gray muttered: > On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 11:37:13AM -0800, Wes Gray wrote: > > I ran into this problem a while back upgrading from 2.4.20 to 21 or 22 > > where when it booted up the new kernel it would fail mounting my / > > partition which is running reiserf

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernels > 2.4.20 don't work with reiserfs

2003-12-08 Thread Wes Gray
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 11:37:13AM -0800, Wes Gray wrote: > I ran into this problem a while back upgrading from 2.4.20 to 21 or 22 > where when it booted up the new kernel it would fail mounting my / > partition which is running reiserfs. I posted, and while no solution > was found, others mention

Re: [gentoo-user] Stuck on dialup

2003-12-08 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Larry W.Irwin Sr. wrote: On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 10:50:49 -0600 Andrew Gaffney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm pretty sure that the LiveCD has support for ppp. Also, if you have another Linux distro already installed, you can connect to the internet from there, and install from there. I read about

Re: [gentoo-user] HIGHLY interrestion sound tests, on various formats

2003-12-08 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Achilles Limbouris wrote: I agree with Robert & Xyvind, that can't be real music ;) The .bz2 compression ratio (vs. the wav) was 1 : 5.781 I tried bzipping some Chopin (bzip2 version 1.02, no cmdline options) and I got a measley 1 : 1.24 Personally though, (with my speakers at least), I can't tell

Re: [gentoo-user] Stuck on dialup

2003-12-08 Thread Larry W . Irwin Sr .
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 02:14:18 +0900 Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A warning though: the initial installation (that is getting a bootable system) > will take you about 4 days combined downloading and compiling time judging > from your CPU. X11 and your favourite WM will then take you a

Re: [gentoo-user] Stuck on dialup

2003-12-08 Thread Larry W . Irwin Sr .
On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 10:50:49 -0600 Andrew Gaffney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm pretty sure that the LiveCD has support for ppp. Also, if you have another Linux > distro already installed, you can connect to the internet from there, and install > from there. I read about using another dist

Re: [gentoo-user] Package info (Was: HiZ PpL)

2003-12-08 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Tuesday 09 December 2003 02:43, Helgi Örn Helgason wrote: > On 2003-12-09, Jason Stubbs wrote: > [...] > > > but it's still very easy to find out and to configure them all. > > Essentially, all the things that apt-get does portage does too - the only > > differences are reverse dependencies (whi

[gentoo-user] HIGHLY interrestion sound tests, on various formats

2003-12-08 Thread Achilles Limbouris
I agree with Robert & Xyvind, that can't be real music ;) The .bz2 compression ratio (vs. the wav) was 1 : 5.781 I tried bzipping some Chopin (bzip2 version 1.02, no cmdline options) and I got a measley 1 : 1.24 Personally though, (with my speakers at least), I can't tell the difference between 1.4

Re: [gentoo-user] HIGHLY interrestion sound tests, on various formats

2003-12-08 Thread Øyvind Stegard
Redeeman wrote: the one i got compressed alot was from a cd with soundtrack from a game, so no voice from a singing person, maybe that has something to say Perhaps very repetative, with each repetition containing exactly the same samples .. Like, for instance, a MOD/tracker-like file converted to

RE: [gentoo-user] HiZ PpL

2003-12-08 Thread Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower)
Just to confirm the bug, I have that same problem as well. I haven't looked into it yet. -Original Message- From: Jason Stubbs On Tuesday 09 December 2003 01:14, Black Hand wrote: > - i have a strange problem with gxine in debian. some times fail (segment > fault) when i try to put gxine

Re: [gentoo-user] Package info (Was: HiZ PpL)

2003-12-08 Thread Helgi Örn Helgason
On 2003-12-09, Jason Stubbs wrote: [...] > but it's still very easy to find out and to configure them all. Essentially, > all the things that apt-get does portage does too - the only differences are > reverse dependencies (which will come to portage very soon) and USE flags > (which automate the

Re: [gentoo-user] Stuck on dialup

2003-12-08 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Larry W.Irwin Sr. wrote: > Hi, > > I am very interested in using Gentoo "compile from source". However, > I only have a dialup connection to the net. Reading the docs told me > that I must install the stage 3 tarball to be able to use ppp. It also > says that using the stage 3 tarball requires

[gentoo-user] Re: vipul's razor won't install

2003-12-08 Thread Christian Rubbert
On Sun, 07 Dec 2003 19:52:32 +0100 Redeeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > still doesent work: > Appending installation info to > /var/tmp/portage/razor-2.36-r1/image//usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/perllocal.pod > blib/script/razor-client > Can't locate Razor2/Preproc/deHTMLxs.pm in @INC (@INC con

Re: [gentoo-user] HiZ PpL

2003-12-08 Thread Dennis Freise
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 02:07:33 +0900 Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have never tried distcc with cygwin but I think it would probably be more > trouble than it is worth. distcc is not recommended with different gcc > versions and cygwin almost definately uses an older version than (one

Re: [gentoo-user] HiZ PpL

2003-12-08 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Tuesday 09 December 2003 02:12, Sigurd Stordal wrote: > Well, I have just helped a friend of mine installing on an old slot a > athlon 750. compiling base took some hour, but we where at stage 3 after > about one day. Then took about 24 hour to compile kde, gnome and > openoffice. > > But then t

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild installing old package

2003-12-08 Thread Chris Bare
> > You may have multiple versions of galeon installed, check > etcat versions '^galeon$' > Remove your old galeon versions and revdep-rebuild again. * net-www/galeon : [ ] net-www/galeon-1.2.10a (0) [ ] net-www/galeon-1.2.11 (0) [ ] net-www/galeon-1.2.12 (0)

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel upgrade

2003-12-08 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 08 December 2003 16:37, Helgi Örn Helgason wrote: > I don't know if you are totally wrong, but this is what i dug out; if > you take a look at the /usr/sbin/genkernel script then you can see that > it is supposed to search for a file called

Re: [gentoo-user] qms 815mr

2003-12-08 Thread Sigurd Stordal
> anyone to have an idea how can I print with QMS-815MR printer ?! from the linuxprinting.org home page, there seems not to be any info about this printer. That would suggest that it's not supported. But it is supported by the commercial esp pro driver. go to www.easysw.com/printpro searching the

Re: [gentoo-user] Stuck on dialup

2003-12-08 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Tuesday 09 December 2003 01:50, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > Larry W.Irwin Sr. wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am very interested in using Gentoo "compile from source". However, > > I only have a dialup connection to the net. Reading the docs told me > > that I must install the stage 3 tarball to be abl

Re: [gentoo-user] HiZ PpL

2003-12-08 Thread Sigurd Stordal
On Monday 08 December 2003 17:14, Black Hand wrote: > - exist precompiled binaries for gnome2.4 and openoffice? and if i use > Precompiled binaries > can i recompile the same versions, for example i install precompiled > binaries for gnome and > openoffice, and after i reinstall the same packages,

Re: [gentoo-user] HIGHLY interrestion sound tests, on various formats

2003-12-08 Thread Redeeman
On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 17:01, Øyvind Stegard wrote: > Redeeman wrote: > > and as an answer to Øyvind Stegard's question: > > its not a joke, and if i uncompress the tarball it works 100% and i get > > the same md5sum of the file before and after. > > > > and yes, this was ripped from a original cd,

Re: [gentoo-user] HiZ PpL

2003-12-08 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Tuesday 09 December 2003 01:14, Black Hand wrote: > AMD Duron 900 Mhz, 512MB RAM, 20GB HD (10GB are going to try Gentoo if i > like to do) i have in my hoem network an AthlonXP 2400+ machine with 512MB > DDR RAM with WinXP installed (brother machine) and i like to try and test if > i can use

Re: [gentoo-user] HIGHLY interrestion sound tests, on various formats

2003-12-08 Thread Alan
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 02:28:45PM +0100, Christian Aust wrote: > Redeeman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) schrieb am 08.12.2003 14:12 Uhr: > > > HMM, i just tested this again, but with another track, and it seems it > > depends extremely much on what track it is > > I've tried it on a 16 Minutes Audio file

Re: [gentoo-user] Stuck on dialup

2003-12-08 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Larry W.Irwin Sr. wrote: Hi, I am very interested in using Gentoo "compile from source". However, I only have a dialup connection to the net. Reading the docs told me that I must install the stage 3 tarball to be able to use ppp. It also I'm pretty sure that the LiveCD has support for ppp. Als

[gentoo-user] Stuck on dialup

2003-12-08 Thread Larry W . Irwin Sr .
Hi, I am very interested in using Gentoo "compile from source". However, I only have a dialup connection to the net. Reading the docs told me that I must install the stage 3 tarball to be able to use ppp. It also says that using the stage 3 tarball requires a 686 processor. I am running an AMD

[gentoo-user] perl and qmail aliases

2003-12-08 Thread Andrew Gaffney
I'm running qmail on my Gentoo box. I wrote a Perl script that runs a query against a MySQL db to get a list of customer email addresses. This script then takes a full email for input and rewrites the 'To' header and sends it with qmail-inject for each email address from the db. I have an alias

Re: [gentoo-user] ripping music cd to mp3

2003-12-08 Thread HvR
emerge grip On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 20:35, Tom Hosiawa wrote: After doing some googling, I know I can't mount a music cd. So if I want to rip the songs of the cd to mp3's with a program like lame, how do I tell it where the input wav file is? Or is there some better way to ripping music cd's?

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel upgrade

2003-12-08 Thread Helgi Örn Helgason
On 2003-12-08, David Gethings wrote: > On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 15:37, David Gethings wrote: > > If you wish to change the kernel config use 'genkernel --config'. If not > > then just run 'genkernel'. > Sorry, forgot to mention. If you do not run genkernel with --config then > it does a 'make oldconfi

Re: [gentoo-user] ripping music cd to mp3

2003-12-08 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Redeeman wrote: > so, to produce the best quality mp3 with variable bitrate joint sterio > 320kbps i shall do: > > lame -m j -q 0 -v -b 32 -B 320 -V 0 > > i guess 0 is best in -V too? > > for ogg to get 320kbps joint sterio and variable bitrate i dont > understand? does it do that automatically? >

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel upgrade

2003-12-08 Thread Barry Marler
On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 17:17:15 +0100 Guy Van Sanden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I copied the config file in /etc/kernels/... > Genkernel uses that file if it exists. > > Everything went fine, execpt that USB seems broken in gentoo-r9 (at > least on my system). If you wished to preserve the func

Re: [gentoo-user] ripping music cd to mp3

2003-12-08 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Redeeman wrote: > now we talk about this, what encoder for mp3 supports 320kbps variable > bitrate joint sterio ? that is the thing that generates best sound for > the disk cost, but now i want to test ogg too, (and maybe stop use > mp3). i did this with audio catalyst in windoze > > can ogg/vorbis

Re: [gentoo-user] ripping music cd to mp3

2003-12-08 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Josh Helmer wrote: > On Sunday 07 December 2003 09:35 pm, Tom Hosiawa wrote: >> After doing some googling, I know I can't mount a music cd. >> >> So if I want to rip the songs of the cd to mp3's with a program like >> lame, how do I tell it where the input wav file is? Or is there some >> better wa

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo for production servers.

2003-12-08 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Tom Wesley wrote: > I think that there is a high degree of probability that > portage-ng(-ng(-ng)) ;) will include some form of tree selection. I > personally would like to see something like this. Either pointing to > a completely different rsync server set, or having a extended set of > archite

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel upgrade

2003-12-08 Thread Guy Van Sanden
I copied the config file in /etc/kernels/... Genkernel uses that file if it exists. Everything went fine, execpt that USB seems broken in gentoo-r9 (at least on my system). On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 16:49, David Gethings wrote: > On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 15:37, David Gethings wrote: > > If you wish to c

[gentoo-user] HiZ PpL

2003-12-08 Thread Black Hand
Hi i am a amigan (Amithlon box) for years and now a GNU/Linux/Debian user from some months. i go to Debian because i dislike RedHat "Windows-Like" style to do the things and because the Debian distro is very estimated for some ex-amigan users that now use GNU/Linux. I like Debian too, i upgrade

Re: [gentoo-user] HIGHLY interrestion sound tests, on various formats

2003-12-08 Thread Øyvind Stegard
Redeeman wrote: and as an answer to Øyvind Stegard's question: its not a joke, and if i uncompress the tarball it works 100% and i get the same md5sum of the file before and after. and yes, this was ripped from a original cd, using grip, which i used cdparanoia within. Pardon me, then. I guess this

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