[gentoo-user] Xorg + VNC 4 = total system freeze

2005-01-05 Thread Dave Nebinger
I'm looking for help getting VNC working... I've got Xorg 6.8.1.901, VNC 4, kernel 2.6.10, Nvidia graphics card w/ Nvidia-supplied driver. X works fine on the desktop w/o any problems. I emerged VNC 4 from the console (X not running) and fired up X and everything was cool. Starting the command

RE: [gentoo-user] Problem with Nvidia Module

2005-01-05 Thread Dave Nebinger
I've had many problems with the Nvidia module and, frankly, I'd be happy to dump the card altogether to something that is a little more open and integrated with the kernel. This opinion won't, however, help to solve your problem. The only way I could get the Nvidia card to work was to do the foll

RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Debian for network product?

2005-01-06 Thread Dave Nebinger
Building any commercial product for a target distribution is a bad idea IMHO. You've limited yourself to gentoo or debian for deployment, but have already shut out the significant numbers of redhat (plus derivatives) folks, mandrake folks, suse folks, plus the many other various flavors of linux t

[gentoo-user] What must be re-emerged to switch from X.org to XFree86?

2005-01-06 Thread Dave Nebinger
I cannot get VNC to run w/x.org x11 (I think there's some sort of incompatibility involved), so I'm planning a switch from xorg to xfree86 (Honestly I don't know if VNC will work there, either). Can I simply swap xfree for xorg, or will I need to re-emerge kde etc. also? Dave -- gentoo-user@ge

RE: [gentoo-user] Mondo problem!

2005-01-06 Thread Dave Nebinger
Do you have the following in the config file for your kernel?   CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=y     -Original Message- From: John Dangler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 3:18 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Mondo problem! Importanc

[gentoo-user] OT: Seeking recommendation for new graphics card...

2005-01-07 Thread Dave Nebinger
s of kernels. 3. Capable of driving monitor at 1600x1200. I don't use the box for gaming or image processing. It's strictly for developing code, browsing, document editing, and other simple tasks. Please send me your recommendations for brand, memory, etc. Thanks in advance! Dave Nebinger

RE: [gentoo-user] OT: Seeking recommendation for new graphics card...

2005-01-07 Thread Dave Nebinger
> What kind of nVidia card do you have? I've got a Matrox G400 here which > would be fine for your needs, and I'm willing to trade/barter. Output of cfg2html.sh: VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NVCrush11 [GeForce2 MX Integrated Graphics] (rev b1) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) > Not a joke

RE: [gentoo-user] colortail: reproducable bug

2005-01-07 Thread Dave Nebinger
Dude, I thought I'd run it in the debugger to see if I could determine where the breakage was occurring... First I emerged it and validated that I too was getting the segmentation fault. So I cd to /usr/portage/app-misc/colortail and issue "ebuild colortail-0.3.0-r3.ebuild unpack" to extract the

RE: [gentoo-user] OT: Seeking recommendation for new graphics card...

2005-01-07 Thread Dave Nebinger
> > Okay folks, I've had enough of my Nvidia card. > > > > Could you elaborate? If you're not using the 3d capabilites, then > the nv driver that comes with Xorg is fully open source. No need > for any nvidia binary driver. So I'm curious as to the issue you're > having. It's just too darn un

RE: [gentoo-user] blocker!?

2005-01-07 Thread Dave Nebinger
emerge -C dgs to fix the blocker. It was removed from the portage tree. > > After syncing, I tried to update everything, and there's a blocker. > Strangely enough, I tried to look at /usr/portage/app-text/dgs, and > the directory doesn't exist. Also, I don't have xorg-x11 installed, > I'm still

[gentoo-user] Upgrading GCC...

2005-01-10 Thread Dave Nebinger
Hey, all. I've got two working gentoo systems built from the 2004.02 live cd. Following the instructions in the handbook, the systems were constructed with gcc 3.3.4 as the base. The 3.4.x chain of gcc is out there in portage, and I am now curious as to whether to upgrade gcc and what steps to t

RE: [gentoo-user] OT: GMAIL accounts

2005-01-10 Thread Dave Nebinger
I'm sure there's some tracking going on at gmail so they can identify a) who is sending invites, b) who accepts the invites, and c) who does not accept the invites. Unlike the AOL cd's, they're getting relationship information with the invites and can see who's connected to who. > -Original M

RE: [gentoo-user] OT: GMAIL accounts

2005-01-10 Thread Dave Nebinger
I figured you'd get hammered when you asked for one. ;-) > > Thanks for the GMAIL invite guys! > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] 2.6.10r4

2005-01-11 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Nope. I have been using it for a day now and everything works just fine. Well I sure judge stability by whether things work for a whole *day*. I've had 2.6.10-nitro4 running for a week with no problems. Does that make it stable? Probably not even close. I'll be happy with two weeks ;-) Dave

[gentoo-user] emerge openoffice results in *tiny* fonts...

2005-01-11 Thread Dave Nebinger
I just emerged openoffice (that was a wonderful 24 hours waiting for the build to complete ;-) When I open a text document and use a font, say times 12, the display appears to size the font at an extremely miniscule size (maybe a couple of pixels in height, if that). I'm thinking it might be a fr

RE: [gentoo-user] emerge openoffice results in *tiny* fonts...

2005-01-11 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Hi Dave, > > did you check the zoom for your document? OpenOffice sometimes starts > with a horrible zoom of say 33%, to fit a whole page on your screen. Try > changing the zoom to 100%. That was the first thing I did. Increasing the font size to 96 point and zoom to 200% resulted in a viewa

RE: [gentoo-user] Gnome Emerge fails

2005-01-11 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I've been battling this problem for a month now. The only alternative I > found to go into /usr/portage/media-sound/alsa-driver and try installing > ebuilds from the newest one to the oldest until you find one that works. > I'm sorry, but I don't know how to find what version of alsa-driver I'm

RE: [gentoo-user] Gnome Emerge fails

2005-01-11 Thread Dave Nebinger
> To believe that the box you hold with square holes is sufficient to > satisfy all other people's shapes spherical and elliptical is just not > what Gentoo is about. Nor do I believe that no one should use alsa drivers outside of the kernel; obviously there is full support for using a bleeding ed

FW: [gentoo-user] Re: Backup script issues

2005-01-11 Thread Dave Nebinger
> OK. I echoed every line that is to be run before it is run. I know it > looks like commands take up more than one line, but they don't - it's > just the text wrap. > > On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 20:05 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 08-01-05 10:28 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > > I'm hav

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Backup script issues

2005-01-11 Thread Dave Nebinger
Ooops, wrong list. Sorry guys... > -Original Message- > From: Dave Nebinger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 12:04 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: FW: [gentoo-user] Re: Backup script issues > > > OK. I echoed every line that i

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Backup script issues

2005-01-11 Thread Dave Nebinger
Oops again, it was the right list. Ah well. Hope this fixes things for you Michael... > -Original Message- > From: Dave Nebinger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 12:10 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: [gentoo-user]

RE: [gentoo-user] Gnome Emerge fails

2005-01-11 Thread Dave Nebinger
James do you have alsa in your USE flags? > To be completely honest, I have no idea what alsa is ^_^ except the > basics that is, but i'm gonna try manually emerging it, and if that > fails i'll try some of the other workarounds suggested. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] courier-imap upgrade problems

2005-01-11 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Have been trying to upgrade (via emerge -Du world or emerge -u > courier-imap) and neither authlib-0.52 or courier-imap-4.0.1 will > complete compiling...same error in both cases. Here is the last few > lines of output that I get...maybe someone can tell me what it means. I > thought it had somet

RE: [gentoo-user] emerging app-admin/fam-2.7.0-r2 fails

2005-01-12 Thread Dave Nebinger
> see config.log > configure:2004: g++ {-O2 -march=pentium3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer} conftest.cc >&5 > g++: {-O2: No such file or directory > cc1plus: error: unrecognized option `-fomit-frame-pointer}' Dude, your CXXFLAGS are hosed. They should not be surrounded by braces. Since they are su

RE: [gentoo-user] DWL-520 Rev. E - anyone have this working onGentoo?

2005-01-12 Thread Dave Nebinger
> As with any hardware, it's best to put in some research as to the > product's reputation before purchase. Why bust his chops? He did 'research' by having a working card already in place. He purchased another one expecting it to work also. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Apache error

2005-01-12 Thread Dave Nebinger
> [] [error] (2)no such file or directory. cannot create > SSLMutex with file > '/var/cache/apache2/ssl_mutex.6480' > Configuration Failed. Does the /var/cache/apache2 directory exist? Does it have writable permissions by the apache user? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Emerge imlib2 fails

2005-01-12 Thread Dave Nebinger
Did you recently upgrade gcc? You should be running 3.3.4 (test by running "gcc --version"). If not, then yes libstdc++ is hosed in that it is not available for the compiler you're using. If this is the case, try the "fix_libtool_files.sh" with the version of gcc you're running, but you may need

RE: [gentoo-user] Documentation

2005-01-12 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Instead, I'm somewhat disorientated by the fact that under gentoo it seems > to me that it is not easy to find all the documentation and the howtos of > the installed packages. > > Could you please help me pinpointing where: > > 1) I can find the documentation and the howtos in my installation;

RE: [gentoo-user] Upgrading perl

2005-01-13 Thread Dave Nebinger
Emerging perl does not automatically emerge perl modules that you may have installed via emerge (at least it didn't in my case), and it definitely will not emerge modules that you've installed by hand (i.e. via cpan). After completing the perl upgrade you'll need to reinstall the modules again. >

[gentoo-user] fix_libtool_files.sh question...

2005-01-13 Thread Dave Nebinger
For those that may have missed it, after upgrading to gcc 3.3.5 you need to run "fix_libtool_files.sh 3.3.4" to get compiles working again. But that raises a question - why are we passing the old version to the script? Does it use that as a key to find files that need to be updated to the latest

RE: [gentoo-user] Upgrading perl

2005-01-13 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I'm reading about: > > /usr/portage/dev-lang/perl/files/libperl_rebuilder > > in the forums. Does that re-emerge your perl modules for you? Haven't tried it. In order to keep the number of 'update world' packages to a minimum, I don't tend to emerge something that I don't know that I need. B

RE: [gentoo-user] cannot get openh232 compiled

2005-01-13 Thread Dave Nebinger
> [ output of emerge openh232 snipped ] > /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.5/include/g++-v3/iostream: In > destructor >`virtual > H225_TransportAddress_ipAddress::~H225_TransportAddress_ipAddress() >': > /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.5/include/g++-v3/iostream:1331: > internal

RE: [gentoo-user] cannot get openh232 compiled

2005-01-13 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Most segfaults are hardware related and rarely exactly reproducible. Hah, some programmer fed you a line of crap and you chowed down on it ;-) As a long-time unix programmer, I can assure you that 99.99% of segfaults are code related, not hardware related. Segmentation faults are the result of

RE: [gentoo-user] before begining

2005-01-13 Thread Dave Nebinger
> > Don't hesitate to ask any questions. > > That's my problem. I've been using SuSE for so long I feel I should know > more. I feel embarrassed asking what are probably trivial questions to > most on here but are big issues for me. The thing I love about gentoo (and LFS) is the fact that you can

RE: [gentoo-user] small X station

2005-01-13 Thread Dave Nebinger
> did anybody experiment with putting gentoo on slightly old machine > (P166/96M) with X support etc? Kick that old P166 to the curb and pick up a used PII/PIII either online or from your local paper. Might cost you $100-$200 bucks, but it will save you the pain of trying to get anything, windows

RE: [gentoo-user] Binary Package Repository?

2005-01-13 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I said, for me, I don't need the granularity that is provided most > of the time. You're not forced into running the emerge --sync followed by emerge -uD world processes. If your box is working fine for you, then just leave it alone. Rely on the old saying "If it's not broke, don't fix it."

RE: [gentoo-user] BT848 driver.

2005-01-13 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Which one of those, if any, is the one I need? It's supposed to be 2388x. Hey RTFM! We don't take those kinds of questions here :-P Just kidding. I don't know for sure, but certainly you could modprobe them until you find the one that works... But, according to http://www.wlug.org.nz/TvTune

RE: [gentoo-user] System crash when switching off an usb2 dvd writer, help !

2005-01-13 Thread Dave Nebinger
What is the state of the drive when you powerdown/unplug? Is there currently a disk mounted on the drive? Do you have hotplug/coldplug installed and set up correctly? > > But when I switch it off, or unplug it, gentoo freezes : when under kde, > the programs stops responding, and after few seco

RE: [gentoo-user] specify a gcc profile per package

2005-01-13 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Is there some way to specify a gcc profile on a per-port basis, like the > package.foo files in /etc/portage? I tried to google for it but I > couldn't find anything. Nope. Would be difficult to implement as different folks would have different gcc version(s) installed; how would the package k

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: sys-apps/acl + attr to world file or not?

2005-01-13 Thread Dave Nebinger
Well, possibly you could unmerge them by completing the following steps: 1. copy the library files for the packages to a temporary location. 2. unmerge the packages. 3. copy the library files back to their original location (may need to do this from the livecd if the failures are as catastrophic a

RE: [gentoo-user] specify a gcc profile per package

2005-01-13 Thread Dave Nebinger
> > Perhaps, however, you're trying to come up with the wrong solution to a > > specific problem... What are you trying to solve? > > I'm trying to work around this > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43944 > > The other thing that's worked for me in the past in similar situations is > to >

RE: [gentoo-user] which cvs frontend to use?

2005-01-14 Thread Dave Nebinger
> In general if I go to the cvs form of a software > package, that is installed on my gentoo system but missing the latest > version or key patches, are there any caveats (gotchas)? The packages in gentoo simplify the build process, but that's all. You are free to download, build, and install any

RE: [gentoo-user] 2004.3 install failure during stage2->stage3, while installing gettext

2005-01-16 Thread Dave Nebinger
Hey, guys, for the 2 to 3 stage, try manually to complete an "emerge -e system". Something probably thinks this was already done, hence the bootstrap script reporting nothing to do. The "emerge -e system" will re-emerge all of the system files as if they hadn't been done yet and will probably cle

RE: [gentoo-user] Any way to kill frozen X/KDE?

2005-01-16 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Since I should have included some details, I'm using version 6.8.0-r3 of > the X.org X server or whatever it's called, and the keyword-masked > 1.0.6629-r1 nVidia drivers (would use the not-keyword-masked version, > but it refused to work). Both were installed through Portage. Kernel is > 2.6

RE: [gentoo-user] Problems booting

2005-01-16 Thread Dave Nebinger
A, sure I have a suggestion... You're trying to install a souped up 2.6.10 kernel (with the love patches) to an old pentium 133? That's probably your first mistake, but your choice... In your kernel config (either via menuconfig or whatever) you should specify the kernel that you're using, specif

RE: [gentoo-user] Any way to kill frozen X/KDE?

2005-01-16 Thread Dave Nebinger
Ah, but now that you have a working kernel it's easy to upgrade. Unpack the kernel source, then "make mrproper", then copy your 2.6.9 config file to .config, then "make oldconfig". You'll only be prompted for new options (most of which you can accept the default for) and, after "make" will have a

RE: [gentoo-user] Any way to kill frozen X/KDE?

2005-01-16 Thread Dave Nebinger
onses I got; I'm going to probably go with one of the suggested cards. -Original Message- From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2005 7:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Any way to kill frozen X/KDE? On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 19:33:17 -0500 &qu

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: BT848 driver.

2005-01-16 Thread Dave Nebinger
> So, would that help if you would copy your config files for TV card from > SuSE to the Gentoo? Tony's problems (as I understand them) have been kernel-related, not config for the programs themselves. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Is it advised to wait for 2005.0 for a first installation?

2005-01-24 Thread Dave Nebinger
> So, now I'm wondering whether it is adviceable to wait for the 2005.0 > release with all its updates or whether I can just as well go along > with 2004.3 and get the updates through Portage? Most of the info that you see fly across this list is typically related to a) folks not RTFMs (i.e. gli

RE: [gentoo-user] APC UPS

2005-01-25 Thread Dave Nebinger
emerge apcupsd && rc-update add apcupsd default   -Original Message- From: Chris Young [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 2:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] APC UPS   I have received an old UPS ( APC Smart-UPS 1000Va (670W) ) ( DB9/RS

RE: [gentoo-user] sleep dies with SIGUSR1 sometimes

2005-01-25 Thread Dave Nebinger
> -Original Message- > i am running > sys-apps/coreutils-5.2.1 Well, I'm not sure exactly what might be causing sleep to be issuing a SIGUSR1 signal, but here's a few suggestions: 1. coreutils-5.3 is available from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.3.tar.gz so you might want to

RE: [gentoo-user] Clear password in pureftpd

2005-01-25 Thread Dave Nebinger
> -Original Message- > I have forgotten the password of one of the pureftpd accounts. With > pure-pw I only can see the encripted password. Is there any way to see > the clear password? The reason you can't see the clear password is because it would be a security issue. If someone hacked

RE: [gentoo-user] /var/tmp/portage ?

2005-01-25 Thread Dave Nebinger
Feel free to whack at will (assuming there's no emerge actively running). /var/tmp/portage is where portage builds packages; once their built and installed the contents are not needed. Don't whack the /var/tmp/portage directory itself, just the contents. > -Original Message- > From: rapt

RE: [gentoo-user] Moving e-mail

2005-01-25 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I followed a virtual mail server howto in the forums, fetchmail - procmail > - courier -imap - postfix - squirrelmail and it works perfect. > The only question i have is, i'm gathering mail for years with sylpheed- > claws in a maildir, it are several thousend of mails in sub dirs. > How do i ge

RE: [gentoo-user] OT: How many posts do you have saved for this mailing list?

2005-01-26 Thread Dave Nebinger
Why save them? The list is archived and you can easily find what you're looking for with an advanced google search. > If its ok though, how many messages do you have from this list? > > Me? 16,371 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] re-emerge A Whole New System + World on an exsiting system?

2005-01-26 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Just wondering if this is the method to use when you change CFLAGS or > USE variables and want everything (system too?) recompiled with the new > settings? Yes. Also if you do stupid things like upgrade to gcc 3.4 only to realize it severely broke things and want to go back to 3.3.5... Note, h

RE: [gentoo-user] Bootstrapping in amd64

2005-01-26 Thread Dave Nebinger
> When it starts compiling gettext, configure gives an error stating my > compiler cannot create executables. This is a sure sign that your CFLAGS are messed up. Don't be afraid of the config.log file; inside it you will see what configure was trying to compile and the exact error message generat

RE: [gentoo-user] Problems with starting brltty at boot (fwd)

2005-01-26 Thread Dave Nebinger
Hi Cheryl, welcome to Gentoo. I'm not familiar with the brltty gentoo package, but the great thing about gentoo is it's flexibility in regards to package handling. This relates to your situation in that I believe you've found a case where the default gentoo package obviously does not work for you

RE: [gentoo-user] Problems with starting brltty at boot (fwd)

2005-01-26 Thread Dave Nebinger
> step 3 seems to be the problem. I very much like gentoo so far; just would > like to get over this little hump. Cheryl, if you have a working kernel it is quite possible to use the kernel configuration for building a kernel for your target gentoo system. More likely, however, is that the brltty

RE: [gentoo-user] Problems with starting brltty at boot (fwd)

2005-01-27 Thread Dave Nebinger
> No, actually i'm very comfortable with kernel configuration. I don't think > there is anything wrong with my kernel settings per se as brltty isn't > actually dependent on the kernel in that sense. the problem at least seems > to be with being able to access /dev/vcsa or /dev/vcc/(whatever); eit

[gentoo-user] OK, who do I have to thank? (WARNING TO THOSE ABOUT TO EMERGE)

2005-01-27 Thread Dave Nebinger
Who do I have to thank for the recent x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.1.902-r1 ebuild and it's nested spawning of bash processes grinding my systems to a total halt? I'd really like to thank him/her/them because now I have to drive out to reboot the systems. For those that need to know, here's the output o

RE: [gentoo-user] OK, who do I have to thank? (WARNING TO THOSE ABOUT TO EMERGE)

2005-01-27 Thread Dave Nebinger
> > Who do I have to thank for the recent x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.1.902-r1 > ebuild > > and it's nested spawning of bash processes grinding my systems to a > total > > halt? > > > > Off hand, given that the ebuild is hard masked - > > # Don't use this, work in progress > KEYWORDS="-*" This is the

RE: [gentoo-user] OK, who do I have to thank? (WARNING TO THOSEABOUT TO EMERGE)

2005-01-27 Thread Dave Nebinger
Okay, I've taken enough flames for this. Obviously I thought that by electing to use -* and/or ~x86 packages I could assist testing the packages for future promotion to gentoo stable, possibly contributing back into the community; I did not think that I was electing to emerge broken ebuilds that w

RE: [gentoo-user] Nvidia with Kernel-2.6.10-r6

2005-01-27 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I would Like to be informed if Nvidia driver is really working with > kernel-2.6.10-r6. In my case, the driver didn't worked...I receive the > error: No screen found from XServer. Before, I has kernel-2.6.9-r13 and > the same problem was there too. You'll hear differing opinions about the nvidia

RE: [gentoo-user] compile error / missing libraries?

2005-01-27 Thread Dave Nebinger
Libdl and libpthread are parts of glibc.  You should have a file named libdl.a and libdl.so in /usr/lib.   The libpthread you should have also, but you might need the “threads” or “nptl” use flags when compiling glibc in order to get libpthread.   -Original Message- From: Sev

RE: [gentoo-user] Suggested Video Cards

2005-01-28 Thread Dave Nebinger
I went with an ati radeon; works perfectly w/o any issues. More than I can say for the nvidia card I had... > I'm thinking of getting a new test system and am wondering what video > cards people suggest using with Gentoo. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] compile error / missing libraries?

2005-01-28 Thread Dave Nebinger
ebuild   R   ] sys-libs/glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1 Is it safe to unmerge linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r2 and then install linux-headers? On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 18:39, Dave Nebinger wrote: Libdl and libpthread are parts of glibc.  You should have a file named libdl.a and libdl.so in /usr/lib.   The libp

RE: [gentoo-user] Blocked package not installed?!

2005-01-28 Thread Dave Nebinger
You only want to use ‘nptl’ or ‘threads’ but not both.  Take threads out and then try it again.   Note that when you redo glibc it’s often recommended to do ‘emerge –e system’ or ‘emerge –e world’ (at your preference) to make sure the system is linked correctly.   -Original Messa

RE: [gentoo-user] using distcc to compile gentoo using debian, suse and gentoo

2005-01-28 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I have several Gentoo, Debian and SuSE boxes. I want to set up compiler > pool (using distcc) for Gentoo compilation. To do this, I plan to build > gcc from sources which I got from /usr/portage/distfiles, on Debian and > Suse. I have some questions: > > 1. I think I should also apply Gentoo pat

RE: [gentoo-user] Nvidia with Kernel-2.6.10-r6

2005-01-28 Thread Dave Nebinger
> here's a detail of my Xorg.0.log file: Okay, how about the xorg.conf file? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] OT: have 2 video cards, can I have 2 consoles (non-x)?

2005-01-28 Thread Dave Nebinger
If I have two video cards (one pci & one agp), can I have two consoles, one per card? I've got the X setup working for the dual cards, but I'm wondering about the possibility of having dual consoles. Ideally I'd like to have X running from one card and a console running from the second card. Any

RE: [gentoo-user] Creating xorg.conf automagically

2005-01-31 Thread Dave Nebinger
> > Try running > >X -configure > > > That command doesn't work. That's because, with Xorg, the command should be "Xorg -configure". However, don't expect too much from the output of this command. On my system it couldn't recognize the ATI Radeon card I have (it elected to use the ati driver

RE: [gentoo-user] OT: Project Idea

2005-02-01 Thread Dave Nebinger
> eprogress - a general-purpose hierarchical progress reporting system Oh, so you mean something like http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Watch_emerge_progress but hacked into the compiling subsystem? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Error while "bootstrap.sh"

2005-02-01 Thread Dave Nebinger
> checking that C++ compiler can compile simple program... no > configure: error: a working C++ compiler is required This is an error in your CFLAGS and/or CXXFLAGS. Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Problems with stage1 install

2005-02-01 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I'm trying to do an stage1 on an pentium, but im getting this error when > bootstrapping: Follow the instructions for emerging 2.6 headers: 1. emerge -C linux-headers 2. emerge --oneshot --nodeps linux26-headers 3. scripts/bootstrap.sh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Running portage snippets under slack?

2005-02-02 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Just how does an ebuild work, would it be > easy to make a bash scipt which Slackware already use for building > packages? Emerge et. Al. are python-based scripts for the most part, but they have a great deal of dependencies for the rest of the system. For example, if you check your /etc/init.d

RE: [gentoo-user] Getting dual monitors to work

2005-02-02 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Here's a few relevent pieces of my xorg.conf file: We need to see the server layout section to determine if the layout incorporates both screens... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] DistCC + Portage Questions

2005-02-03 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I know all of that and I've already set up the distccd on the local host > in this way (not via distcc_hosts but by configuring distccd on > localhost). BUT, for some reason portage does _not_ use distcc at all > but the "normal" gcc and this will result in -jN jobs running on > localhost. Phil,

RE: [gentoo-user] Help with a script please...

2005-02-04 Thread Dave Nebinger
Yeah, wget "http://address:port/..."; > -Original Message- > From: Mal Herring [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 1:02 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Help with a script please... > > > wget -O - | grep > > I forgot to mention that the p

RE: [gentoo-user] Home server

2005-02-08 Thread Dave Nebinger
> > My provider blocks everything under port 1024 so i was thinking > > will ht://digg be a solution? > > I like a web solution. > > You could just set Apache to a higher port numberI could be > totally mad on this; missing something incredibly obvious, but that's > what occurs to me. Even be

RE: [gentoo-user] dhcp failing to start

2005-02-08 Thread Dave Nebinger
Yeah, look in /var/log/* for the reason it failed. > Hi When starting my dhcpd I get this > > Setting ownership on dhcpd.leases [ok] > starting dhcpd [ !! ] > > any ideas? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Failed to emerge svgalib; kernel has not been configured yet [SOLVED]

2005-02-08 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I'm confused as to when /usr/src/linux is used or _should_ be used. I > wouldn't think it would be a good idea to build against these headers or > to > rely on /usr/src/linux at all. In any event, I've been trying to get out > of > the habit of compiling and messing around with kernels in /usr/

RE: [gentoo-user] samba requires cups?

2005-02-09 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Is cups necessary for samba? No, it is not required for samba for filesharing/domains/etc., but cups is used for the printer sharing. If you don't need printer sharing, do 'USE="-cups" emerge -pv samba'. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] 2 questions: frame buffer, dma

2005-02-09 Thread Dave Nebinger
> 1) where I have to enable DMA access to hdd ??? (using reiserfs) /etc/conf.d/hdparm > 2) I want to start my text console in figher resolutin, I know I need > frame buffer, but I trying without sucess :-\ What all I have to do ??? Config framebuffer in kernel, make appropriate changes in /boot/

RE: [gentoo-user] Samba getpeername failed - Reverse DNS?

2005-02-09 Thread Dave Nebinger
> > Anyone have any suggestions? I need to get this printing slowness problem > resolved. It is possible to use cups for printing w/o using samba (that's how my environ is set up). There's info out there at http://www.owlfish.com/thoughts/winipp-cups-2003-07-20.html that will explain how to do i

RE: [gentoo-user] Filesystem Choice

2005-02-10 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I want to know which filesystem is a better choice for having lots > (>4billion) directories. The dirs will be in tree format, so at the > root will be 256 dirs, each with 256 sub-dirs, each with 256 sub-dirs. > This will go on for 8 to 12 levels deep (I don't know yet) Then each > dir will hav

RE: [gentoo-user] Filesystem Choice

2005-02-10 Thread Dave Nebinger
> > ReiserFS does deal with billions of tiny files better than almost > > all other file systems. You're going to run into inode issues with ext3 > > as well. However what you're doing sounds like it belongs in a database > > instead of creating weird data structures within your filesystem. > >

RE: [gentoo-user] Filesystem Choice

2005-02-10 Thread Dave Nebinger
> A database would not work because I wouldn't be able to > #1 make this easy tree structure to scan If it 'works' as a directory, it is therefore hierarchical in nature and can be structured in a database. > #2 it will be smaller storage wise in files and in a DB > with all that overhead It

RE: [gentoo-user] 2 questions: frame buffer, dma

2005-02-10 Thread Dave Nebinger
> After that there's message: > setting using_dma to 1 (on) > HDIO_SET_DMS failes: Operation not permitted > using_dma = 0 (off) > > The computer is IBM ThinkPad R30 and disk is Hitachi 30GB. First you need to know that the DMA option is valid for the disk and/or chipset that you're using. Try t

RE: [gentoo-user] [Gentto-user] "R for Gentoo linux"

2005-02-14 Thread Dave Nebinger
> What's the best way to install R? That depends upon your needs. For a simple usage scenario, emerge is the best as it will become part of your world file and will be updated automatically as new releases are put out. For a custom usage (i.e. you need to use special options for the configure sc

RE: [gentoo-user] Patches

2005-02-15 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Well, there are 2 tarballs with patches. Can someone tell me where > ${DISTDIR} is? I'd like to have a look at the tarballs to at least know > what I'm patching. ... or where do I find the genpatches-*? > ... and where is ${WORKDIR}? Maybe the _README will tell me what I > want to know. Thes

RE: [gentoo-user] symlinks missing when distcc installed

2005-02-15 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Then, it didn't work. Distcc did not distribute any compile tasks to > the other computers. I tracked it down as far as I can. It looks > like there are not any links from the /usr/lib/distcc/bin directory to > the distcc binary. > > For a short term solution, I created the links on the PCs t

RE: [gentoo-user] Postfix excessive logging

2005-02-15 Thread Dave Nebinger
> For every single mail I get I see a few hundred(!) lines of logs... :-( > I reckon something is running in debug mode, but try as I might I cannot > find > what is (and where it is configured). A log excerpt is to be found below. It's mostly the smtpd guy (it looks like) that is generating the l

RE: [gentoo-user] Installing GENTOO from CD

2005-02-15 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I was comparing the installation instructions for Gentoo with that of > other Linuxes. I currently have Libranet, SuSE, two KNOPPIXes, UBUNTU, > installed and of course some decisions, such as you mention, were needed > but not to the extent that Gentoo requires. They didn't have a 100 > page s

RE: [gentoo-user] Error in the emerge of gpm-1.20.1

2005-02-16 Thread Dave Nebinger
> My questions are : > > a. Why is this happening (i.e. is this a bug, or a misconfiguration on my > side) > b. How should I fix this ? Don't believe it's a bug, but then I'm not running emacs so I don't have that use flag set. You could try an env-update, which would rebuild the ld cache and mi

RE: [gentoo-user] Cygwin and Sygwin

2005-02-16 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Is it the same thing? Freshmeat shows no projects with that name and google matches seem to indicate they are the same (people entering typos). http://www.cygwin.org Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Cygwin and Sygwin

2005-02-16 Thread Dave Nebinger
> http://www.cygwin.org Oops, that should have been http://www.cygwin.com Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Assistance? Kernel 2.6.10-as2-grsec-20050124: proftpd segfaulting(11 / SIGSEGV)

2005-02-16 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Now, does this mean grsecurity sent that signal? Or is this just the > signal logging? Grsecurity is sending the signal. Segment violations are usually culprits of bad pointer referencing, not that it would help identify why grsecurity is failing. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] mysterious lockups

2005-02-17 Thread Dave Nebinger
> On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 08:27:42AM -0800, Bob Sanders wrote: > > Typically it's the graphics drivers hanging the AGP bus. But you > > didn't memtion if you were running xscreensaver. If you're > > running xscreensaver, do - > > Then, when it hang again, ssh in and killall xscreensaver. > > Wel

RE: [gentoo-user] ntfs vs *nix fs

2005-02-17 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I had a google but didn't find anything. Anyone know of any > investigations trying to measure ntfs vs other *nix fss? I know that it > is a bit like comparing apples with oranges but might be nice. Last I heard write support to ntfs was still classified as experimental. I don't know that I'd w

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