[gentoo-user] Re: emerge link error due to i586-pc-linux-gnu/i686-pc-linux-gnu mismatch
On sam, 14 jun 2003, Paul Hannah wrote: > Please! > > I've been trying to work out this problem for hours/days now, and my > previous email has seen no response. > > I'm just replying to plead on my knees for any hints, anything guys. I'm > clutching at straws, and as you can see wasting away my partying hours with > fruitless tinkering... > > Thanks. > > At 05:18 13/06/2003, I wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I've just recently finished a successful install of gentoo 1.4rc4 from > >stage 3, > >right through to kde, ftpd, apache, samba, etc. Something has changed > >however and everytime I try to emerge a package I get the error shown > >below. > > > >Basically it seems to be looking for the i586... library tree instead of > >the > >i686... tree (which exists and seems to be in order) > > > >I've done a grep i586 on set, /etc and /etc/* and it wasn't anywhere > >except within > >comments. The configure part of the emerge refers exclusively to i686... > > > >Well, I've looked everywhere I can think of, nothing seems to be the > >problem, > >hoping someone here can help. > > > >Thanks in advance, > >Paul. I'va had the exact same problem. OK, you must wonder where it comes from : simply enough, from the stage3 installs which uses a i586 optimized bootstrap for compatibility issues. You can see that in your /usr directory, you should see a directory named : i586-pc-linux-gnu. You need to bootstrap again (I did, worked like a charm, ALTHOUGH you should be warned that this will overwrite /etc/group, /etc/passwd, /etc/rc.conf and /etc/make.conf if you do not set the CONFIG_PROTECT variable properly). You can boostrap from within your system, or from the chrooted environment on the LiveCD. This should get things right. Last I would advise against using an unstable version of gcc (masked version) when bootstrapping as I tried and it rendered my system utterly unusable (no more emerge, ebuild or any command that relied on python would work), forcing me to reinstall. Regards, Jonathan > > > >--- > > > >/bin/sh ../../../libtool --mode=link g++ ...lesd -lsoundserver_idl > >-laudiofile -lm -lXft -ldl > >grep: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-pc-linux-gnu/3.2.2/libstdc++.la: No such file > >or > >directory > >sed: can't read /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-pc-linux-gnu/3.2.2/libstdc++.la: No > >such > >file or directory > >libtool: link: `/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-pc-linux-gnu/3.2.2/libstdc++.la' is > >not > >a valid libtool archive > >make[4]: *** [libkvilib.la] Error 1 > >make[4]: Leaving directory > >`/var/tmp/portage/kvirc-3.0.0_beta2-r1/work/kvirc-3.0.0-beta2/src/kvilib/build' > >make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 > >make[3]: Leaving directory > >`/var/tmp/portage/kvirc-3.0.0_beta2-r1/work/kvirc-3.0.0-beta2/src/kvilib' > >make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 > >make[2]: Leaving directory > >`/var/tmp/portage/kvirc-3.0.0_beta2-r1/work/kvirc-3.0.0-beta2/src' > >make[1]: *** [all] Error 2 > >make[1]: Leaving directory > >`/var/tmp/portage/kvirc-3.0.0_beta2-r1/work/kvirc-3.0.0-beta2/src' > >make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 > > > >!!! ERROR: net-irc/kvirc-3.0.0_beta2-r1 failed. > >!!! Function kde_src_compile, Line 123, Exitcode 2 > >!!! died running emake, kde_src_compile:make > > > > > > > >-- > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military. -- Clemenceau -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo/m68k
Lars Juel Nielsen wrote: > Could be fun to install Gentoo on my A600 and A1200 :D Would this be possible? The Amiga 600 and 1200 did not have a MMU, at least not out-of-the-box. And, IIRC, you need a MMU to run another OS apart from AmigaOS on Amiga. -- Sebastian Bergmann http://sebastian-bergmann.de/ http://phpOpenTracker.de/ http://www.professionelle-softwareentwicklung-mit-php5.de/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: updatedb
On dim, 15 jun 2003, Jason Nielsen wrote: > On Sun, 15 Jun 2003, Kirtis Bakalarczyk wrote: > > > On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 14:10:37 -0700 (PDT) > > Jason Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I updated recently and noticed that 'updatedb' runs periodically. > > > I don't recall this happening before but I'm sure it did.. my main concern > > > is that when it runs it sucks up all of my RAM (384 MB), which if it was > > > running previously it most certainly didn't! My system usually runs with > > > about 70MB when I have browser, terminals etc. (normal operation for me) > > > but when updatedb runs it basically launches my RAM usage up well over > > > 300MB and doesn't release when 'updatedb' finishes. I do understand how > > > Linux memory works so this shouldn't be a concern but it is irritating > > > because when I run a Fortran 90 or R job I need quite a bit of RAM and the > > > system freezes up starts to go to swap before releasing the cached > > > memory.. giving a very choppy feel.. and actually it effects the run time > > > of my code.. it's driving me crazy! Anyways I'm not sure anyone can help > > > out on this one but I was wondering if anyone else has noticed this > > > behavior or if it is something specific to my setup. > > > > > > > You could just remove it's entry from the crontab. Mine is under > > /etc/cron.daily/slocate. Just delete or move the file and you're golden. > > > > KIRT > > > > > > Thanks to Kirt and Wing for their responses. I have moved > /etc/cron.daily/slocate to /etc/cron.weekly. This is useful but I was > wondering if anyone else is experiencing this problem... or is it just me. > I sounds from the responses that it is just me.. I can't figure out why it > is doing this!! I've re-emerge slocate to see if this will help. Anyways > thats for the info. Hi, just to answer your question you are not totaly alone. For some reason, one of my computers (the laptop) reacts the same way whenever I am doing an updatedb or copying a large file from one disk to another. I am then left with 4M of ram out of 512M. I do not understand why, and have been looking for solutions in the kernel (the newer kernels have a memory limit option (it's in the GRsecurity patch), but have not been successful). What strikes me is that only the laptop behaves this way although it has about the same specs as my desktop (Laptop : P4B 1.7, 512 M Ram, Desktop : P4B2.4, 1G Ram). If anyone knows why... Jonathan > Cheers, > > Jason > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military. -- Clemenceau -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with running quake3
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> I arleady copy file "pak0.pak" to /opt/quake3/missionpack/ but it
> doesn't work. I have origina cd key.
/opt/quake3/baseq3 ;-)
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Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo/m68k
Am Sonntag, 15. Juni 2003 05:00 schrieb ext Zach Lowry: > Anyhow, that's all fixed now, and I hope to have an official stage1 > tarball ready soon. What this e-mail is for is to hopefully gather > interest in the port so that the powers that be may make it an > official Gentoo architecture. I realize that m68k is 10-years old, > but it still has several uses, and Gentoo can fulfil those uses quite > nicely. I have two Sun 3/80s that serve as DNS for me, and a Performa > 550 as a NTP server, A Quadra 660AV for video, etc. As the Monty > Python line goes, "They're Not Dead Yet!" So is my Amiga. Had the the same idea months ago, but didn't find the time. If I get my hands on a stage[123] I would be happy to put some "~m68k" into one or another ebuild :-) Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)151 1513 6954 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Cap Gemini Ernst & Young| Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hambornerstraße 55 | Web: http://www.cgey.com D-40472 Düsseldorf | ICQ#: 110037733 GPG Public Key C2E467BB | Keyserver: www.keyserver.net pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: [gentoo-user] evolution won't start
On Sunday 15 June 2003 10:23 pm, Chris I wrote: > On 2003.06.16 00:08, Klaus D. Neumann wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I did: > > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -pv evolution > > > > and got: > > > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > > > Calculating dependencies ...done! > > [ebuild R ] net-mail/evolution-1.2.4 +ssl +nls +mozilla -ldap - > > doc > > +spell > > -pda -ipv6 -kerberos +kde > > Okay. > > > Then I added +ssl +nls +mozilla -ldap -doc +spell -pda -ipv6 - > > kerberos > > +kde to > > my USE in /etc/make.conf > > Why did you do this??? I was under the impression that I'd have to. Well, apparently I was wrong. How do I figure out which USE variables are required for any given program to emerge? > > > then I emerged evolution with: > > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge evolution > > > > It installed fine but when I try to run it, it just shows the splash > > screen, > > nothing else. > > > > What did I do wrong? > > Did you have a previous version of evolution set up for your user? No. I nerver succeeded installing a functioning version. > it > might be some conflicting setting in your ~/evolution directory. try > moving it to evolution.backup and seeing if evo runs then. Same thing. Just the splash appears, and it has to be killed to remove it. Closing doesn't work either. BTW, galeon doesn't start either. Is there a connection? -- Best regards, Klaus -- Gentoo Linux = the better choice! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] evolution won't start
On 2003.06.16 00:08, Klaus D. Neumann wrote: Hi, I did: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -pv evolution and got: These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] net-mail/evolution-1.2.4 +ssl +nls +mozilla -ldap - doc +spell -pda -ipv6 -kerberos +kde Okay. Then I added +ssl +nls +mozilla -ldap -doc +spell -pda -ipv6 - kerberos +kde to my USE in /etc/make.conf Why did you do this??? then I emerged evolution with: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge evolution It installed fine but when I try to run it, it just shows the splash screen, nothing else. What did I do wrong? Did you have a previous version of evolution set up for your user? it might be some conflicting setting in your ~/evolution directory. try moving it to evolution.backup and seeing if evo runs then. -Chris I His designs were strictly honourable, as the phrase is: that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage. -- Henry Fielding, "Tom Jones" pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Can Linux web browsing be a complete experience?
> >Why isn't there an out-of-the-box Linux solution that's as good as > > Windows? > > Actually, if you really think about it, it neither is in Windows. Last > time I installed one, I had to go to Macromedia (Flash), Adobe > (Acrobat-Reader), Apple (Quicktime), RealNetworks (Realplayer), Sun > (Java) to get the needed plugins. Oh, yeah, and to Microsoft > (Mediaplayer). Yes, and no. In windows it seems a little nicer because it's a lot better (IMHO) about installing the plugins... you get a prompt saying "hey, install xyz", you click ok, it grinds for a few minutes, goes through an install wizard, and then you go back to the original window and voila! it's there and working. I admit that mozilla/mozillafirebird is a lot better in this respect now though. You no longer have to restart moz to get plugins recognized, simply copy the files into your plugins dir and reload and they work. As to answer the original question, no, I don't think that the browsing experience is quite as good in linux (yet), and while there are solutions (ximian desktop 2 is a very nice out of the box experience, and redhat 8/9 weren't all that bad) it's not everywhere. First of all, gentoo is by no means an end user distro. No offense, but if you don't expect to have to get your hands dirty you're using the wrong distro (for now anyway). Don't get me wrong, I love gentoo, but part of the reason I love it is because it *isn't* a end user distro. I like getting my hands dirty, and I think a lot of the other people on the list do as well. However, that's not to say that doing an "emerge gnome" *shouldn't* get everything set up and configured for you. A couple of other things that are against linux in the whole "out of the box" experience in general. First of all while macromedia has indeed "sold their soul to the devil", so have most of the other companies, but the important ones (flash, pdfs, java, etc) do work. Another thing is because linux is a multi-user system as compared to XP (much as they'd like to show different), you can't just install the acrobat reader plugin as a user, you still have to SU to root, emerge the plugin or run the file, wait for it to finish, and then go back to your user. Mac OS/X seems to have it right with running as a user with SU privileges all the time and then popping up a "please enter your user password" whenever a program needs to be installed. Not running as root, but running close enough to it that you can tasks like installing software much easier. I wish linux was a bit more like this. I am very used to popping up a root shell when I need to do things, but I don't think I should *have* to do this. I know the gnome people are talking about how to get a "root password asker" program set up for gnome, but there seems to be all sorts of debate about how to get it to work in all situations, in all architectures, and on all OSs that support GNOME... then it's left for another 6 months before someone askes the question again and it starts all over again, with no visible (that I can see) result. Redhat has a little applet that does this and allows you to run some of their apps for installing software or reconfiguring and it seems to work nicely, but because something like say, the flash installer program doesn't understand this, it doesn't ask and you end up having to drop to a root shell anyway. /rant Regards, alan -- Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://arcterex.net "There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games."-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Open Office problem
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ernie Schroder wrote: | I have had openoffice working in the past but it seems to break often | and I gfo through hell getting it back up. Against my better judgement, | I upgraded to 1.0.3 today and sho 'nuff, it's borked. Itry to run | oosetup as user and I get complaints that it can't find files in | /home/USER/.openoffice. Doing: | /home/ernie/.openoffice/1.0.3/setup opens the setup but that fails | trying to copy files to /home/USER/.kde2 (yup, running 3.1.2). I tried | renaming the .kde2 dir but that didn.t do it | Rummaging around a bit, I find/home/ernie/.openoffice/1.0.3/instdb.ins | that contains several sections like: | Directory gid_Dir_Kde2 | ParentID = PREDEFINED_HOMEDIR; | HostName = ".kde2"; | I'm guessing that this is my problem.How can I fix this? | I got the same error. I just deleted ~/.openoffice and installed it from scratch. Of course you loose your personal settings if you do it that way, but I had it back up and configured in a few minutes. - -- - - William F. Pearson, III [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.techwill.net gpg key http://www.techwill.net/files/wfp3.gpg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+7UPspfPDiNqvYvURAkLGAKC7NxanVbiFNEgRjKlUAIxZ1NDu6gCg8+4v P8kUtkWr2UZKY1bjZe4mWVw= =oe9m -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] evolution won't start
Hi, I did: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -pv evolution and got: These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] net-mail/evolution-1.2.4 +ssl +nls +mozilla -ldap -doc +spell -pda -ipv6 -kerberos +kde Then I added +ssl +nls +mozilla -ldap -doc +spell -pda -ipv6 -kerberos +kde to my USE in /etc/make.conf then I emerged evolution with: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge evolution It installed fine but when I try to run it, it just shows the splash screen, nothing else. What did I do wrong? -- Best regards, Klaus -- Gentoo Linux = the better choice! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice.org
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Norbert Kamenicky wrote: | I do not know, why you have installed gentoo linux, but it seems | it was a missunderstanding ...this distribution is definitely | NOT recommended for absolute beginers. | | Noro It's not for absolute beginners who don't have the patience or desire to learn. I was pretty much a beginner when I first installed Gentoo. But I really didn't like how the other distros did everything for you, and realizing that I would have to install software from scratch or some rogue package distributor to get the latest and greatest stuff, any other disto just didn't make since. Four months later I'm getting ready to totally remove my Windows installations and haven't booted into Windows in three months. It just takes time. I welcome linux beginners like me to try Gentoo, if they're willing to learn. Open Office takes so much time because it is huge. I wasn't prepared for the wait when I first emerged it either. - -- - - William F. Pearson, III [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.techwill.net gpg key http://www.techwill.net/files/wfp3.gpg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+7T5KpfPDiNqvYvURAuofAKDPJU8syZNIF7/3rVBB3iGwIBQxvACgi0ET Pci3D4hp+lyG8WdYTCreiE4= =dJmc -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Distfile mirror for University LAN.
On 2003.06.15 13:10, Saurabh Nanda wrote: Hi, We've been trying to come up with a solution for deploying a distfile mirror for our university intranet. There are a decent number of Gentoo users here, and it is a waste of bandwidth with people downloading the same packages off the internet. * So, we set up a central FTP server with certain popular distfiles. * We also started maintaining a list of all Gentoo users within the campus who were putting up *their distfiles* for FTP. So that people could add those servers to GENTOO_MIRRORS in their make.conf's This is not exactly the most viable solution, because: * It's difficult keeping track of Gentoo users with FTP servers on their machines. * Say, a certain distfile is on X's machine, but not on the central FTP server, and X has switched off his machine - the person who needs the distfile will have to download it off the net - even though the file is available in the LAN. * Could /usr/portage/distfiles be mounted as a SMB share, an NFS mount point, an AFS mount-point? * We would also be using a P2P service in the campus shorty. Could portage pick off files from the P2P network? * Has anyone tried this? What was your experience? I'm sure you'll get plenty of good help, but check out this weeks GWN, which just mailed out a few hours ago. There was an link in there to a fellow who posted a very verbose description of how to acheive this in the forums. -Chris I Where there is much light there is also much shadow. -- Goethe pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] masked file
hey i forgot the masked ebuilds file name and location and was also curious, is usermode-linux sources masked because its potentially dangerous if the user makes a mistake or because its got a serious bug? thanks = *// No cows were injured in the making of this message *// __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How can I automatically save attachments
On Fri, 14 Jun 2003, Jamie Dobbs wrote: >I'm pretty sure that I have asked this before and been referred to the >perfect script to handle it, but I can't find the original reply. > >I want to be able to have all attachments that come in to a certain >email address be saved automatically (called via. procmail most likely) >to a directory of my choosing. > >Can anyone recommend a good script for this purpose, it should just >decode and save all attachments to the email to the directory of my >choosing. In your .procmailrc: * ^(From):[EMAIL PROTECTED] |uudecode -o /path/where/you/want/to/save/file.ext Christopher Fisk -- I AM NOT THE NEW DALAI LAMA I AM NOT THE NEW DALAI LAMA Bart Simpson on chalkboard in episode 5F17 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] updatedb
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 07:22:27PM -0700, Jason Nielsen wrote: > On Sun, 15 Jun 2003, Kirtis Bakalarczyk wrote: > > > On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 14:10:37 -0700 (PDT) > > Jason Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I updated recently and noticed that 'updatedb' runs periodically. > > > I don't recall this happening before but I'm sure it did.. my main concern > > > is that when it runs it sucks up all of my RAM (384 MB), which if it was > > > running previously it most certainly didn't! My system usually runs with > > > about 70MB when I have browser, terminals etc. (normal operation for me) > > > but when updatedb runs it basically launches my RAM usage up well over > > > 300MB and doesn't release when 'updatedb' finishes. I do understand how > > > Linux memory works so this shouldn't be a concern but it is irritating > > > because when I run a Fortran 90 or R job I need quite a bit of RAM and the > > > system freezes up starts to go to swap before releasing the cached > > > memory.. giving a very choppy feel.. and actually it effects the run time > > > of my code.. it's driving me crazy! Anyways I'm not sure anyone can help > > > out on this one but I was wondering if anyone else has noticed this > > > behavior or if it is something specific to my setup. > > > > > > > You could just remove it's entry from the crontab. Mine is > > under /etc/cron.daily/slocate. Just delete or move the file > > and you're golden. > > > > KIRT > > > > > > Thanks to Kirt and Wing for their responses. I have moved > /etc/cron.daily/slocate to /etc/cron.weekly. This is useful but I was > wondering if anyone else is experiencing this problem... or is it just me. > I sounds from the responses that it is just me.. I can't figure out why it > is doing this!! I've re-emerge slocate to see if this will help. Anyways > thats for the info. updatedb is going to touch tons of data as it reads in i-nodes for all the files on your local filesystems. However, it does not need to have all of this data in memory at the same time. It should only need very little at any given point in time. But Linux keeps the most recently used data in memory as "buffered" and "cached" data. I think that what you're probably seeing is that the cached portion of memory on your system expands to full capacity. But cached memory will be discarded immediately when either updatedb or another process needs new memory for new data. So if things work as designed, this should not hurt your performance much. But updatedb is slamming the hell out of your disk, as it scans the whole thing, so that combined with CPU usage is probably what you're seeing. Changing the crontab file to run it with nice will help a little, probably, but anytime you have a process that slams the disk(s), you're bound to notice that your system is less responsive. Also, if I remember right, my /etc/crontab had cron.daily, cron.weekly, and cron.monthly running at midnight or thereabouts. I change this to 6:00 am so that I'm almost never actually trying to use my machine when it does it. This is really the more common setting in my experience. I don't know why Gentoo put it at midnight. - richard -- Richard Kilgore [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] spontaneous KERNEL panic?
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 20:26:34 -0400 gabriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i have an old pII 233 here that i've been using as a fileserver. just > a few days ago, i realised that i'd not installed the latest kernel so > i did the following: > > cd /usr/src/ > cp linux/.config linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r5 > rm linux > ln -s linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r5 linux > cd linux > make oldconfig > > make dep && make clean bzImage modules modules_install > Worth a try: cd linux cp .config /root/.config make mrproper cp /root/.config .config make oldconfig make dep && make clean bzImage modules modules_install also (not obvious whether you did this or not) mount /boot (if using a boot partition) cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/ cp System.map /boot/System.map- Update your /boot/grub/grub.conf (or menu.lst) or Update your lilo.conf and /sbin/lilo -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] emerge java version problems.
While doing an emerge, I recieve this: hp root # emerge sun-jdk Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) dev-java/sun-jdk-1.4.1.02-r1 to / >>> Unpacking source... !!! ERROR: dev-java/sun-jdk-1.4.1.02-r1 failed. !!! Function src_unpack, Line 30, Exitcode 0 !!! Please download j2sdk-1_4_1_02-linux-i586.bin from http://java.sun.comse/1.4.1/download.html (select the "Linux self-extracting file" package fot of the SDK) and move it to /usr/portage/distfiles However, when I follow that link, I end up with: j2sdk-1_4_1_03-linux-i586.bin (note the version change) Now what? -- Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can Linux web browsing be a complete experience?(fwd)
Hi Mark, >And please don't get me wrong. I have no great love of Windows. I'm > sure *someone* out there has a Linux setup that will do everything I > need. I just use it because it continues to be the most complete > platform for what I want and need to do. (And I don't even use many of > the file types you listed...) Windows sucks ass, and Mr. Bill is the spawn of Satan.. but that is just my opinion. Die Mr. Bill, die ;-)! > >If the answer is yes, then: > > 1) Where do I get instructions on what I need to download to get all > these things to work in a Linux browser, preferably Mozilla unless a > reason comes up that I cannot use it. There does not seem to be a good > set of instructions on doing this on the Gentoo site. > emerge netscape-plugger emerge netscape-flash emerge mplayerplug-in (this one might be masked but works fine for me) now make sure that the plug-ins are recognized by your browser of choice. As for the Java stuff I think that plugger takes care of that for you.. if not you will need to emerge blackdown-jdk if I recall. > 2) Once I install them, what do I have to do to get Mozilla to work with > them. (Ala the Evolution problem.) Open up preferences and add: evolution mailto:"%s"; under e-mail client.. you will have to figure out where to put this line. It is of course slightly different for each browser. Cheers, Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with running quake3
Brett I. Holcomb wrote: In Q2 it's a file that sets some default configuration. Check your CD for it or if you have run it on Windows check there. Hello When i try run quake3 system return this error: -- 534 files in pk3 files Sys_Error: Couldn't load default.cfg [EMAIL PROTECTED] quake3 $ What is default.cfg? Can you help me please? This game is very cool & I want play it :-) Thanks a lot. BTW: I have original cd quake3 I'm runnig quake3 on gentoo. I don't have windows. Where can I find the file (default.cfg)? On my Quake3 CD isn't this file. -- Alexander Netopier Leonov ICQ: 44434531 ftp://netopier.sh.cvut.cz Unofficial Linux Gentoo FTP Mirror Linux je ako iglu, nijake OKNA ani dvere, iba apache vo vnutri... . EOF -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with running quake3
Zack Gilburd wrote: On Saturday 14 June 2003 12:24, Alexander Netopier Leonov wrote: Hello When i try run quake3 system return this error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] quake3 $ ./q3ded Q3 1.32b linux-i386 Nov 14 2002 - FS_Startup - Current search path: /home/users/netopier/.q3a/baseq3 /opt/quake3/baseq3/pak8.pk3 (9 files) /opt/quake3/baseq3/pak7.pk3 (4 files) /opt/quake3/baseq3/pak6.pk3 (64 files) /opt/quake3/baseq3/pak5.pk3 (7 files) /opt/quake3/baseq3/pak4.pk3 (272 files) /opt/quake3/baseq3/pak3.pk3 (4 files) /opt/quake3/baseq3/pak2.pk3 (148 files) /opt/quake3/baseq3/pak1.pk3 (26 files) /opt/quake3/baseq3 ./q3ded/baseq3 -- 534 files in pk3 files Running in restricted demo mode. - FS_Startup - Current search path: /home/users/netopier/.q3a/demota /opt/quake3/demota ./q3ded/demota -- 534 files in pk3 files Sys_Error: Couldn't load default.cfg [EMAIL PROTECTED] quake3 $ What is default.cfg? Can you help me please? This game is very cool & I want play it :-) Thanks a lot. BTW: I have original cd quake3 You need to copy over your pak0.pak from your CD or a previous install. If you do not have this file, go buy Q3 because you'll need a unique (and vaild) CD-key to play online, anyways. I arleady copy file "pak0.pak" to /opt/quake3/missionpack/ but it doesn't work. I have origina cd key. -- Alexander Netopier Leonov ICQ: 44434531 ftp://netopier.sh.cvut.cz Unofficial Linux Gentoo FTP Mirror Linux je ako iglu, nijake OKNA ani dvere, iba apache vo vnutri... . EOF -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] updatedb
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003, Kirtis Bakalarczyk wrote: > On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 14:10:37 -0700 (PDT) > Jason Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I updated recently and noticed that 'updatedb' runs periodically. > > I don't recall this happening before but I'm sure it did.. my main concern > > is that when it runs it sucks up all of my RAM (384 MB), which if it was > > running previously it most certainly didn't! My system usually runs with > > about 70MB when I have browser, terminals etc. (normal operation for me) > > but when updatedb runs it basically launches my RAM usage up well over > > 300MB and doesn't release when 'updatedb' finishes. I do understand how > > Linux memory works so this shouldn't be a concern but it is irritating > > because when I run a Fortran 90 or R job I need quite a bit of RAM and the > > system freezes up starts to go to swap before releasing the cached > > memory.. giving a very choppy feel.. and actually it effects the run time > > of my code.. it's driving me crazy! Anyways I'm not sure anyone can help > > out on this one but I was wondering if anyone else has noticed this > > behavior or if it is something specific to my setup. > > > > You could just remove it's entry from the crontab. Mine is under > /etc/cron.daily/slocate. Just delete or move the file and you're golden. > > KIRT > > Thanks to Kirt and Wing for their responses. I have moved /etc/cron.daily/slocate to /etc/cron.weekly. This is useful but I was wondering if anyone else is experiencing this problem... or is it just me. I sounds from the responses that it is just me.. I can't figure out why it is doing this!! I've re-emerge slocate to see if this will help. Anyways thats for the info. Cheers, Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can Linux web browsing be a complete experience?
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> On Sunday 15 June 2003 19:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > WOW!
> > Inserts foot into mouth.
> > I really was not expecting that.
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> And this even works with KDE without netscape being installed!!! The
> all-in-a-box is KDE for me. Konquerer renders _much_ better than
> mozilla/netscape and is a lot faster!
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**BUT** you need motif :-/
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Re: [gentoo-user] Open Office problem
I installed OO 1.0.3 and it works. I just told it to ignore the files. They are for KDE and I don't run either. However, if you run KDE it may be a problem . I think the ebuild is broken - the directories existed and had permissions so they could be written to. If you don't run KDE you can ignore the errors - if you do that won't help ! > I have had openoffice working in the past but it seems to break often > and I gfo through hell getting it back up. Against my better judgement, > I upgraded to 1.0.3 today and sho 'nuff, it's borked. Itry to run > oosetup as user and I get complaints that it can't find files in > /home/USER/.openoffice. Doing: > /home/ernie/.openoffice/1.0.3/setup opens the setup but that fails > trying to copy files to /home/USER/.kde2 (yup, running 3.1.2). I tried > renaming the .kde2 dir but that didn.t do it > Rummaging around a bit, I find/home/ernie/.openoffice/1.0.3/instdb.ins > that contains several sections like: > Directory gid_Dir_Kde2 > ParentID = PREDEFINED_HOMEDIR; > HostName = ".kde2"; > I'm guessing that this is my problem.How can I fix this? -- Brett I. Holcomb AKA Grunt <>< -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Xfree 4.3.0-r3 locale problems
On Sunday 15 June 2003 07:26 pm, D.J. Bolderman wrote: > On za, 14 jun 2003, D.J. Bolderman wrote: > > I just emerged this latest version of Xfree, but it's giving me > > some problems. Emerge didn't produce any errors, but when I start > > mozilla, it just quits immediately. When I exit fluxbox after that, > > I see the following errors: > > > > (): Gdk_WARNING **: Locale not supported by xlib > > (): Gdk_WARNING **: Can not set locale modifiers > > > > When I start konqueror, I get this message: > > > > Qt: Locales not supported on X server > > > > And all characters in Konqueror are shown as little boxes. > > Ok guys, it seems the upgrade of Mozilla to r2 and Xfree to r3 really > screwed up my system... downgrading both packages didn't help. > Mozilla still crashes (except when I run it as root), KDE programs > still show little square boxes instead of normal characters. I've set > my locales correct, so that couldn't be a problem. > > I think it's just ridiculous that an upgrade of the 2 packages > mentioned can ruin my system. Do you have any suggestions before I > re-install my system and probably go back to debian ? > > Thanks > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Did you do etc-update to check updated config files after upgrading xfree? An update to xfree usually messes with fonts and many files need updating. Mozilla, I don't know about but I've seen messed up fonts in kde apps starting DURRING xfree updates. -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] MozillaFirebird Nightly Builds
Zack Gilburd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Upgrading your Firebird nightly is rather pointless, IMHO. Why not > just get a build that works and use it? Usually the nightly builds > are only going to mess things up, anyways. > > Also, binaries somewhat defeat the whole purpose of Gentoo. Aren't nigthly builds somewhat similar to building from a cvs checkout? Would it be difficult to create an ebuild that just checks out the cvs sources and builds them? /Rasmus Wiman http://rasmus.wiman.org http://dagbok.wiman.org I program my home computer Beam myself into the future -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Open Office problem
I have had openoffice working in the past but it seems to break often and I gfo through hell getting it back up. Against my better judgement, I upgraded to 1.0.3 today and sho 'nuff, it's borked. Itry to run oosetup as user and I get complaints that it can't find files in /home/USER/.openoffice. Doing: /home/ernie/.openoffice/1.0.3/setup opens the setup but that fails trying to copy files to /home/USER/.kde2 (yup, running 3.1.2). I tried renaming the .kde2 dir but that didn.t do it Rummaging around a bit, I find/home/ernie/.openoffice/1.0.3/instdb.ins that contains several sections like: Directory gid_Dir_Kde2 ParentID = PREDEFINED_HOMEDIR; HostName = ".kde2"; I'm guessing that this is my problem.How can I fix this? -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice.org
Ben Sparks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Days? I just emerged 1.0.3 yesterday while I was at work, took only > about 8-9 hours. I'm not sure if it makes a difference but I did > compile from the console with no X running. Athlon XP 2800+ nForce2 > 1gig PC2700 DDR. On the other hand, the REALLY annoying thing is that if I start compiling Oo with locales looking like this: bash-2.05b$ locale LANG=sv_SE LC_CTYPE="sv_SE" LC_NUMERIC="sv_SE" LC_TIME="sv_SE" LC_COLLATE="sv_SE" LC_MONETARY="sv_SE" LC_MESSAGES="sv_SE" LC_PAPER="sv_SE" LC_NAME="sv_SE" LC_ADDRESS="sv_SE" LC_TELEPHONE="sv_SE" LC_MEASUREMENT="sv_SE" LC_IDENTIFICATION="sv_SE" LC_ALL=sv_SE The ebuild will compile Oo, but install no binaries. Recompile time! I forget that one each time. /Rasmus Wiman http://rasmus.wiman.org http://dagbok.wiman.org I program my home computer Beam myself into the future -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can Linux web browsing be a complete experience?
Greetings Mark, Have you tried out Opera ... the stock 6.x that comes with "emerge opera" handles java pretty well, as well as the flash ... which you can get as a plugin Best, Simon On Sun, 15 Jun 2003, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >After using Linux more and more over the last couple of years most of > what I need to do for day to day life is pretty much together. However, > at least the way I've set things up, there is never a complete solution > for just browsing the web. There are always web pages I'm going to that > tell me I don't have plug-ins. A lot of it is Java based. Some of it is > Flash stuff. Sound is so so... Email links on web pages don't map to > Evolution. For all of those reasons my Windows box is usually turned on > for the time with Linux doesn't cut it. > >Why isn't there an out-of-the-box Linux solution that's as good as > Windows? > >I'm currently using Mozilla under fluxbox, but I've tried Konqueror > under KDE and didn't do as well. > >Am I not setting up tools that would make this better? Is there a > Gentoo doc that covers this subject? I see a Java page, and we have the > Alsa stuff, but I can't find anything that pulls it all together. > >Thanks for any pointers you can provide. > > Cheers, > Mark > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can Linux web browsing be a complete experience?
You might check ~/.gnome/Gnome - there is a set-help or some such entry there that you set to your browser name. I don't have the system handy to check out how I got evolution to do links in emails. > Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > instance, I have Evolution installed and running under Gentoo, but when > > I click on a mailto link on a web page Mozilla doesn't link that to > > Evolution, so it's not as ready to use as my Windows installations. > > Ok, here I have to admit that I don't know either how to tell Mozilla to > use a different MUA than it's own. Maybe it's some obscure option in > ~/.mozilla/default//prefs.js. > Is it actually doable in Windows (I'm not talking about IE, Mozilla)? -- Brett I. Holcomb AKA Grunt <>< -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can Linux web browsing be a complete experience?
Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > instance, I have Evolution installed and running under Gentoo, but when > I click on a mailto link on a web page Mozilla doesn't link that to > Evolution, so it's not as ready to use as my Windows installations. Ok, here I have to admit that I don't know either how to tell Mozilla to use a different MUA than it's own. Maybe it's some obscure option in ~/.mozilla/default//prefs.js. Is it actually doable in Windows (I'm not talking about IE, Mozilla)? >Certainly we have to install things in Windows to get IE to browse > all major file types. It is, however, more automatic than under Linux, > so I want to find out where I get the equivalent apps. My original > question was, as shown in the title of this thread: > > "Can Linux web browsing be a complete experience?" > > Is it for you? You managed a response (attitude intended or not) but you > chose to not answer the question. Can you successfully see every file Well, I stumbled about your claim of an 'out-of-the-box' solution, which there is neither on Linux nor on Windows. (but let's not get too picky - I didn't mean to be offensive) > type within you browser, and link to every media type in Linux that you > want to use? I cannot. I'm asking if other people can. If you can, > please share how you do this. Ok, so let me say it like this: Yes, I'm quite happy with browsing. There are certainly sites that don't display well because they are tailored towards IE - not much you can do about that, I'm afraid. There are obscure plugins that don't exist for Linux - see above. But the major ones are all available and if there isn't an ebuild for that, than you have to download it from the specific web site and install it manually. Please don't get me wrong, but you don't come up with a specific problem (besides Evolution). You ask 'can it be?' and I say 'yes, for me it is'. Furthermore it is not clear to me, e.g. if you already have installed Java and it's not always working the way it should or if it's not working at all or not even installed. Flash is available, even as ebuild, as another person wrote. So, what exactly are you missing? If you answer this question, me and others can actually help you. As a starting point: have a look at plugger, which is a Mozilla plugin that can link nearly any file type to a program of your choice. It comes with reasonable defaults. As video application I recommend mplayer, for sound xmms. There's even a special Mozilla plugin for mplayer, but I don't know how usable it is. Hope this helps a bit. Cheers, Juri P.S.: I don't use Gentoo for desktop stuff - yet. Currently it's RedHat (7.3), but that will change. -- Juri Haberland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] devfs
Spider wrote: begin quote On Sat, 14 Jun 2003 22:12:51 -0400 Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Per the Install docs - make sure experimental options is checked. I hate to say this, but can't these LiveCD default settings be baked into the gentoo-source kernel image so we aren't always stumbling against the same problems over and over again? if you look at the bootcd text message it tells you how to extract the kernel from there, its a good safe fallback for when you have troublesome hardware.. I know I had a NIC that didn't build properly (as in, it didnt take the driver I thought it should take) so i fell back to that and removed unnecessary things... To make that the default would be counterproductive in many cases. and, the defaults depend on what kernel you use. theres a lot of sources in our tree, and we keep instructions for the "lowest common denominator" which would be the vanilla tree. //Spider I figured everything out eventually. I guess there should be a big red label, "Warning, you are about to do something that has the greatest chance of fuggering your new gentoo install more than just about everything else here. So, really, if there was ever a time to actually read all the Notes and Warnings, this is it. Even though you've been at this for 3 days and are getting a little impatient." Gentoo is really interesting to work with. It forces me to think a lot more than the ones they call "Enterprise Ready". It's also a great indicator of how much you *really* know about Linux, and not some Certification Test. -- A man who carries a cat by its tail learns something he can learn in no other way. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] spontaneous KERNEL panic?
i have an old pII 233 here that i've been using as a fileserver. just a few days ago, i realised that i'd not installed the latest kernel so i did the following: cd /usr/src/ cp linux/.config linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r5 rm linux ln -s linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r5 linux cd linux make oldconfig make dep && make clean bzImage modules modules_install the compile went fine and i rebooted, and i was met by a kernel panic just after the iptables stuff: IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured established 16384 bind 32768 IPv4 over IPv4 tunneling driver ip_conntrack version 2.1 (2048 buckets, 16384 max) - 168 bytes per conntrack ip_tables: (C) 200-2002 Netfilter core team Unable to handle kernel Null pointer dereference at virtual address 0010 printing eip: c019f029 *pde = Oops: 0002 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[] EFLAGS: 00010282 eax ebx: c0186f74 ecx: edx: c012b928 esi: edi: c0125000 ebp: 0008e000 esp: c1zc7fc8 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process swapper (pid: 1, stackpage=c1ac7000) Stack: c0125000 c0186f74 c0187792 c032aa2e c01a0253 00010f00 c011ffb8 c0125000 0008e000 c01a257e c01a0240 c011e000 Call Trace:[] [] [] Code: ff 40 10 a1 28 b2 11 c0 83 48 14 18 a1 18 b2 11 c0 ff 40 10 <0> Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! figuring i'd just gibbled the compile or something, i rebooted and selected my "safe" kernel from grub (the one i had before this one). and i got exactly the same error. so now i'm thinking my hardware's broken, or maybe my boot partition is cooked... so i pull out the gentoo boot cd: mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot cd /mnt/gentoo/boot ls -la so i recompile the kernel, this time removing some of the more questionable stuff from the kernel (everything under iptables that said "experimental" and... nothing. same error message. what i'm looking to find out is whether or not this is fixable by either (a) some sort of minor fix (what'd i do?) or (b) a full re-install. or am i looking at having to buy new hardware? please o please help me! :-) thanks be to anyone who can help me out here. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] more on eth0 weirdness
I did some more work on figuring out what is wrong,and while I dont have it figured out yet, i have more information to add htat might be relevant. I ran tcpdump on a laptop connected to the same hub as the gentoo box. When I ping any host outside the network, It gets out, and a reply is indeed sent to the gentoo box and it arrives there. Why the gentoo box does not recognize it is beyond me. Any suggestions on how to proceed from here? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems setting up i855gm with xfree -- color depth and resolution.
I'm afraid specifying modelines isn't much help. If I do for 8bpp I get to scroll through the different resolutions. If I do for 16bpp I only get to scroll ( through 640x480. No, I've configured X on three other boxes by editing the XF86Config file and this thing has me befuddled. It isn't terribly good that I have to boot into the development kernel to get agpgart to work for the i855gm, where unfortunately my onboard ethernet driver is non-functional. Too many fronts in this war. I know it's capable because the log file lists a bunch of different possible modes, like this: *Mode: 30 (640x480) XResolution: 640 YResolution: 480 BitsPerPixel: 8 *Mode: 32 (800x600) XResolution: 800 YResolution: 600 BitsPerPixel: 8 *Mode: 34 (1024x768) *Mode: 38 (1280x1024) *Mode: 45 (1024x768) XResolution: 1024 YResolution: 768 BitsPerPixel: 16 Mode: 54 (1024x768) XResolution: 1024 YResolution: 768 BitsPerPixel: 32 Mode: 7c (1024x600) XResolution: 1024 YResolution: 600 BitsPerPixel: 8 --mycr0ft On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 12:54:09PM -0700, Pat Kerwan wrote: > > Try adding a Modes line to the Display subsections. For example: > > Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" > > note: the first mode in the list is the default, and you can switch to > one of the others from the list -- but I don't remember exactly how, > as I never use this ability. > > - PK > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can Linux web browsing be a complete experience?
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 16:25, Juri Haberland wrote: > > Actually, if you really think about it, it neither is in Windows. Last > time I installed one, I had to go to Macromedia (Flash), Adobe > (Acrobat-Reader), Apple (Quicktime), RealNetworks (Realplayer), Sun > (Java) to get the needed plugins. Oh, yeah, and to Microsoft > (Mediaplayer). > > Now, how is that different from Linux? > > Chust my 2 cents... > > Cheers, > Juri Juri, I'm not disagreeing with you on the first count, except it doesn't work as well under Linux. (Or you can just blow me off as I freely admit I'm just a user type who doesn't know much about software.) For instance, I have Evolution installed and running under Gentoo, but when I click on a mailto link on a web page Mozilla doesn't link that to Evolution, so it's not as ready to use as my Windows installations. And please don't get me wrong. I have no great love of Windows. I'm sure *someone* out there has a Linux setup that will do everything I need. I just use it because it continues to be the most complete platform for what I want and need to do. (And I don't even use many of the file types you listed...) Certainly we have to install things in Windows to get IE to browse all major file types. It is, however, more automatic than under Linux, so I want to find out where I get the equivalent apps. My original question was, as shown in the title of this thread: "Can Linux web browsing be a complete experience?" Is it for you? You managed a response (attitude intended or not) but you chose to not answer the question. Can you successfully see every file type within you browser, and link to every media type in Linux that you want to use? I cannot. I'm asking if other people can. If you can, please share how you do this. If the answer is yes, then: 1) Where do I get instructions on what I need to download to get all these things to work in a Linux browser, preferably Mozilla unless a reason comes up that I cannot use it. There does not seem to be a good set of instructions on doing this on the Gentoo site. 2) Once I install them, what do I have to do to get Mozilla to work with them. (Ala the Evolution problem.) 3) What sort of file types cannot be linked to helper apps today, for whatever reason? I presume none, but I don't know. Anyway, I'm still waiting for an answer. Cheers, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice.org
Ben Sparks wrote: And don't forget the number 1 requirement for this ebuild - at least 2Gig freespace in your /tmp directory or fs! The number 2 requirement, of course, is several days worth of patience. Days? I just emerged 1.0.3 yesterday while I was at work, took only about 8-9 hours. I'm not sure if it makes a difference but I did compile from the console with no X running. Athlon XP 2800+ nForce2 1gig PC2700 DDR. Relatively long time ... I have done it in 6 hours on this PC: CPU ... P4 1,6GHz 512KB cache (overclocked to 2,08GHz) RAM ... 512MB DDR PC2100 CL2 HDD... WD 800jb (8MB cache, hdparm -tT speed ... 45,2/380 MB/s ) Can you please more precisely specify your PC ? What about HDD speed (output from hdparm -Tt /dev/YOUR_HDD ) and CL of your DDRAM. Was your PC under significant load by other tasks ? noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] The Gimp and TrueType fonts...
I have successfully installed several TrueType fonts on my notebook computer. They are available to KDE and to many of my GTK apps (e.g., Gaim). However, they do not show up in my Gimp font selector. Can anyone explain this to me or explain how to make the fonts available? gimp.org says that if the fonts are available to X then they are available to The Gimp. But it's not working for me at the moment. -- Stand Fast, tjg. Timothy Grant www.craigelachie.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can Linux web browsing be a complete experience?
Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >After using Linux more and more over the last couple of years most of > what I need to do for day to day life is pretty much together. However, > at least the way I've set things up, there is never a complete solution > for just browsing the web. There are always web pages I'm going to that > tell me I don't have plug-ins. A lot of it is Java based. Some of it is > Flash stuff. Sound is so so... Email links on web pages don't map to > Evolution. For all of those reasons my Windows box is usually turned on > for the time with Linux doesn't cut it. > >Why isn't there an out-of-the-box Linux solution that's as good as > Windows? Actually, if you really think about it, it neither is in Windows. Last time I installed one, I had to go to Macromedia (Flash), Adobe (Acrobat-Reader), Apple (Quicktime), RealNetworks (Realplayer), Sun (Java) to get the needed plugins. Oh, yeah, and to Microsoft (Mediaplayer). Now, how is that different from Linux? Chust my 2 cents... Cheers, Juri -- Juri Haberland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] LCD flickers with XFree 4.3
Well, in answer to my own post: I edited the Monitor section of the XF86Config for this monitor, to more acurately reflect the H/V scan rates per the spec for the monitor. and presto... no more flicker. It must of been that the older version of X was less sensitive to these configurations? Thanks, I hope this helps someone else. Lincoln On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 18:36, Lincoln A. Baxter wrote: > This weekend I upgraded to XFree86 (4.3) (the latest unmasked in > portage). I have a Matrox 450 dual head video card: Screen0 is a 17" > CRT, and Screen1 is a generic 15" LCD display. > > After the upgrade, the LCD display (which used to be a pleasure to use), > now flickers horribly. Its like all the pixels a jumping around > constantly. > > Does anyone have any ideas for how get my LCD monitor (which was rock > steady in 4.2) to stop flickering? Could this have to do with "anti > aliased" fonts that we have been hearing so much about? > > Thanks. > > Lincoln -- Lincoln A. Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] CD Images
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Roest wrote: | Chris van der Pennen wrote: | | | While we're on the subject, what about progs for ripping bin/cue images? | I use cdrdao to burn bin/cues in both linux and windows. It's a console | app but there are GUI frontends out there. doh /me needs to read posts closer :) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+7Ptlw+I3MvUBM6QRAqhDAKCnR1dZOL0LKTq/d4LdXkUYRnvCxACfewve /iIvmk8aVjM5O3tAEpOfDkU= =bsiX -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] CD Images
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris van der Pennen wrote: | While we're on the subject, what about progs for ripping bin/cue images? I use cdrdao to burn bin/cues in both linux and windows. It's a console app but there are GUI frontends out there. $ emerge -s cdrdao Searching... [ Results for search key : cdrdao ] [ Applications found : 1 ] * app-cdr/cdrdao ~ Latest version available: 1.1.7-r1 ~ Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] ~ Size of downloaded files: 1,399 kB ~ Homepage:http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/ ~ Description: Burn CDs in disk-at-once mode -- with optional GUI frontend - --Mike -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+7Psaw+I3MvUBM6QRAjNVAJ0csW65O8EcICw7QcvZAoO5ou8mtwCdEud4 F3CRd/JDMCic7XshvOqv6TQ= =9CU+ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Curiosity - DirectFB
ah, well, i just noticed that directfb was emerged and i started to emerge xdirectfb :) does anybody perhaps have any resources on how i can get started with directfb _instead_ of Xfree? cheers, -bri On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 00:35, MIKE MacMartin wrote: > > so i did an `emerge -s directfb' and got the obvious results: > > `dev-libs/DirectFB', `dev-libs/DirectFB-extra' and 'x11-base/xdirectfb' > > > > but neither of these will work if i go for the `emerge -puD directfb' > > all i get is the following message: > > I wrestle with this a log ... emerge -s is essentially doing a grep -i on all > of them... note the "case insensitive" flag. Unfortunately, emerge doesn't > do this as well. So, the command you'd want is emerge DirectFB, emerge > DirectFB-extra or emerge xdirectfb. > > > > > cheers, > > -bri > MIKE -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] CD Images
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 02:03, Tom Wesley wrote: On Sunday 15 June 2003 19:19, gabor wrote: > On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 17:56, Tom Wesley wrote: > > On Sunday 15 June 2003 16:41, Lars Juel Nielsen wrote: > > > How would i mount a bin/cue set or convert it to a normal iso so it can > > > be mounted with mount -o loop,ro -t > > > > check http://hes.iki.fi/bchunk/ > > yes, that works, but > > hmmm.. do you know daemon-tools? > > basically what i'd like to have is a virtual cd-rom ... > > something that would be able to take an iso or a cue/bin or a > ccd(clonecd) image an 'mount' it to /dev/something, > and then i'd be able to use /dev/something as a regular dvd/cd-rom > drive. > > i know that 'losetup' can do something like this, but i had no success > with mounting a cue/bin... > > i know i can use bchunk to extract all the filesystems from a cue/bin, > and then i can mount the iso files, but for example with > daemon-tools-on-windows, i can mount a cue/bin image of an audio cd, and > then grab the audio tracks from the virtually mounted cd image with any > audiograbber tool. can i do the same on linux? > And for this there is * app-cdr/virtualcd-0.4 Latest version available: 0.4 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: [no/bad digest] Homepage:http://outertech.com/robert/virtualcd/ Description: mount bin/cue cd images although I have to admit to not having tried this one. While we're on the subject, what about progs for ripping bin/cue images? signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[gentoo-user] LCD flickers with XFree 4.3
This weekend I upgraded to XFree86 (4.3) (the latest unmasked in portage). I have a Matrox 450 dual head video card: Screen0 is a 17" CRT, and Screen1 is a generic 15" LCD display. After the upgrade, the LCD display (which used to be a pleasure to use), now flickers horribly. Its like all the pixels a jumping around constantly. Does anyone have any ideas for how get my LCD monitor (which was rock steady in 4.2) to stop flickering? Could this have to do with "anti aliased" fonts that we have been hearing so much about? Thanks. Lincoln -- Lincoln A. Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Curiosity - DirectFB
> so i did an `emerge -s directfb' and got the obvious results: > `dev-libs/DirectFB', `dev-libs/DirectFB-extra' and 'x11-base/xdirectfb' > > but neither of these will work if i go for the `emerge -puD directfb' > all i get is the following message: I wrestle with this a log ... emerge -s is essentially doing a grep -i on all of them... note the "case insensitive" flag. Unfortunately, emerge doesn't do this as well. So, the command you'd want is emerge DirectFB, emerge DirectFB-extra or emerge xdirectfb. > > cheers, > -bri MIKE -- Beware the JabberOrk -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Xfree 4.3.0-r3 locale problems
On za, 14 jun 2003, D.J. Bolderman wrote: > I just emerged this latest version of Xfree, but it's giving me some > problems. Emerge didn't produce any errors, but when I start mozilla, > it just quits immediately. When I exit fluxbox after that, I see the > following errors: > (): Gdk_WARNING **: Locale not supported by xlib > (): Gdk_WARNING **: Can not set locale modifiers > When I start konqueror, I get this message: > Qt: Locales not supported on X server > And all characters in Konqueror are shown as little boxes. Ok guys, it seems the upgrade of Mozilla to r2 and Xfree to r3 really screwed up my system... downgrading both packages didn't help. Mozilla still crashes (except when I run it as root), KDE programs still show little square boxes instead of normal characters. I've set my locales correct, so that couldn't be a problem. I think it's just ridiculous that an upgrade of the 2 packages mentioned can ruin my system. Do you have any suggestions before I re-install my system and probably go back to debian ? Thanks -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Curiosity - DirectFB
mmh, i'm curious, and i would like to try directFB i am currently using xfree and wanted to emerge directfb and/or xdirectfb so i did an `emerge -s directfb' and got the obvious results: `dev-libs/DirectFB', `dev-libs/DirectFB-extra' and 'x11-base/xdirectfb' but neither of these will work if i go for the `emerge -puD directfb' all i get is the following message: -- snip begin -- ebuild: there are no masked or unmasked ebuilds that satisfy "directfb". !!! Error calculating dependancies. Please correct. -- snip end -- any tips? cheers, -bri -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] dev-db/firebird-1.0.3 - Please test
Hello, Please help testing the new ebuild for dev/db-firebird. It's currently marked as ~x86, so make sure to have it in ACCEPT_KEYWORDS. This ebuild should close bugs #15071 and #16237. It features the following changes: - Kills lingering gds_lock_mgr processes left after emerging (#15071) - latest stable firebird release - 1.0.3.972 (#16237) - firebird placed under /etc/xinet.d (disabled by default) - 70firebird placed under env.d to add PATH, ROOT_PATH and CONFIG_PROTECT - config function to add gds_db to /etc/services - isc4.gdb and isc_config moved to /etc/firebird and symlinks to them under /opt/interbase added. This will prevent fututre emerges from overwriting the passwords db (which is the current situation). Right now it is just for the classic (i.e: inet) server. The super (i.e.: standalone daemon) will be added hopefully soon. Please backup your current isc4.gdb if you have any and move it to /opt/firebird after emerge. Cheers -- Meir Kriheli MKsoft systems -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: updatedb
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 02:10:37PM -0700, Jason Nielsen wrote: > I updated recently and noticed that 'updatedb' runs periodically. > I don't recall this happening before but I'm sure it did.. my main concern > is that when it runs it sucks up all of my RAM (384 MB), which if it was > running previously it most certainly didn't! My system usually runs with > about 70MB when I have browser, terminals etc. (normal operation for me) > but when updatedb runs it basically launches my RAM usage up well over > 300MB and doesn't release when 'updatedb' finishes. I do understand how > Linux memory works so this shouldn't be a concern but it is irritating > because when I run a Fortran 90 or R job I need quite a bit of RAM and the > system freezes up starts to go to swap before releasing the cached > memory.. giving a very choppy feel.. and actually it effects the run time > of my code.. it's driving me crazy! Anyways I'm not sure anyone can help > out on this one but I was wondering if anyone else has noticed this > behavior or if it is something specific to my setup. If you don't need the locate tool to find files on your system very fast - you can always use "find" instead - you could disable the periodic calls to updatedb. I guess it's just some cron job. How much memory does "updatedb" exactly need? As far as I know, it can slow down your system by hogging the CPU and disk I/O, but it shouldn't eat all your memory. Setting a nice value will reduce CPU usage, but not memory of course. You could also delay or plan the updatedb till your more important and CPU sensitive processes are completed, for example during lunch time or during the night. -- fingerprint = A3C4 DE50 712D 4FA8 C564 4D96 5E06 C9CC ECFA 19C5 Open source advocate -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Generic PCI IDE Chipset Support in new kernel
Stephen Boulet wrote: Anyone know what the new option in 2.4.21, "Generic PCI IDE Chipset Support", means? That's not new. IIRC, that's been in every 2.4.x kernel I've ever compiled. -- Andrew Gaffney -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] updatedb
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 14:10:37 -0700 (PDT) Jason Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I updated recently and noticed that 'updatedb' runs periodically. > I don't recall this happening before but I'm sure it did.. my main concern > is that when it runs it sucks up all of my RAM (384 MB), which if it was > running previously it most certainly didn't! My system usually runs with > about 70MB when I have browser, terminals etc. (normal operation for me) > but when updatedb runs it basically launches my RAM usage up well over > 300MB and doesn't release when 'updatedb' finishes. I do understand how > Linux memory works so this shouldn't be a concern but it is irritating > because when I run a Fortran 90 or R job I need quite a bit of RAM and the > system freezes up starts to go to swap before releasing the cached > memory.. giving a very choppy feel.. and actually it effects the run time > of my code.. it's driving me crazy! Anyways I'm not sure anyone can help > out on this one but I was wondering if anyone else has noticed this > behavior or if it is something specific to my setup. > You could just remove it's entry from the crontab. Mine is under /etc/cron.daily/slocate. Just delete or move the file and you're golden. KIRT > Cheers, > > Jason > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > -- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] updatedb
Hi all, I updated recently and noticed that 'updatedb' runs periodically. I don't recall this happening before but I'm sure it did.. my main concern is that when it runs it sucks up all of my RAM (384 MB), which if it was running previously it most certainly didn't! My system usually runs with about 70MB when I have browser, terminals etc. (normal operation for me) but when updatedb runs it basically launches my RAM usage up well over 300MB and doesn't release when 'updatedb' finishes. I do understand how Linux memory works so this shouldn't be a concern but it is irritating because when I run a Fortran 90 or R job I need quite a bit of RAM and the system freezes up starts to go to swap before releasing the cached memory.. giving a very choppy feel.. and actually it effects the run time of my code.. it's driving me crazy! Anyways I'm not sure anyone can help out on this one but I was wondering if anyone else has noticed this behavior or if it is something specific to my setup. Cheers, Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage question
> > I just did an emerge-UDp world and there are a bunch of packages that I > > would like to update. Open Office is NOT one of them. It struck me that > > it would be convenient to have a switch for portage so that I could do > > something like: > > # emerge -UD world --except openoffice > > Or is there an easy way to accomplish this? > > Try to write your specific version in the "world" file, then emerge will > assume that you need that version of openoffice, and not some other one. > Regards, > - -- > Juan Ángel > PGP key on pgp.rediris.es (8FAF18B7) > or search on http://www.rediris.es/cert/servicios/keyserver/ Well what I usually do is the following: cp /var/cache/edb/world /var/cache/edb/world.bak nano -w /var/cache/edb/world (now remove the line with openoffice) emerge -uDe world cp /var/cache/edb/world.bak /var/cache/edb/world This is a horrible hack I know but it works like a charm. I used to try to play around by pinning "=" the version in my world file but this didn't seem to work very well.. but it has been a long time since I tried, like back in 1.1 or earlier.. LOL! Cheers, Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Generic PCI IDE Chipset Support in new kernel
Anyone know what the new option in 2.4.21, "Generic PCI IDE Chipset Support", means? -- Stephen From here to there and there to here, funny things are everywhere. -- Dr Seuss -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems setting up i855gm with xfree -- color depth
> Try adding a Modes line to the Display subsections. For example: > > Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" > > note: the first mode in the list is the default, and you can switch to > one of the others from the list -- but I don't remember exactly how, > as I never use this ability. > ctrl alt + and ctrl alt - cycle back and forth through the list. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems setting up i855gm with xfree -- color depthand resolution.
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 02:47:50PM -0400, Jon Fox wrote: > I'm trying to set up my Dell D400 and am fighting the Intel 855GM > chipset video in this little guy... I can get xfree to recognize the > card, and it even says it has gobbled up the requested memory. > However everytime I tell it I want Mode "1024x768" and Depth 16 it > comes back with no screens found. If I use the snippet below it gives me > 16bpp but -ahem- in 640x480 mode. > > Anybody fought this battle before? > -- Jon/mycr0ft > > Section "Device" > Identifier "Card0" > Driver "i810" > VendorName "Intel Corp." > BoardName "852GM/852GME/855GM/855GME Chipset Graphics Controller" > ChipSet "852GM/855GM" > BusID "PCI:0:2:0" > VideoRam131072 > EndSection > > Section "Screen" > Identifier "Screen0" > Device "Card0" > Monitor"Monitor0" > DefaultDepth16 > SubSection "Display" > Depth 16 > EndSubSection > SubSection "Display" > Depth 24 > EndSubSection > EndSection > Try adding a Modes line to the Display subsections. For example: Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" note: the first mode in the list is the default, and you can switch to one of the others from the list -- but I don't remember exactly how, as I never use this ability. - PK > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Problems setting up i855gm with xfree -- color depth and resolution.
I'm trying to set up my Dell D400 and am fighting the Intel 855GM chipset video in this little guy... I can get xfree to recognize the card, and it even says it has gobbled up the requested memory. However everytime I tell it I want Mode "1024x768" and Depth 16 it comes back with no screens found. If I use the snippet below it gives me 16bpp but -ahem- in 640x480 mode. Anybody fought this battle before? -- Jon/mycr0ft Section "Device" Identifier "Card0" Driver "i810" VendorName "Intel Corp." BoardName "852GM/852GME/855GM/855GME Chipset Graphics Controller" ChipSet "852GM/855GM" BusID "PCI:0:2:0" VideoRam131072 EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Card0" Monitor"Monitor0" DefaultDepth16 SubSection "Display" Depth 16 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Distfile mirror for University LAN.
> There's been a lot of talk about this kind of setup on both the forums and > on this mailing list. I'd check the archives. > > If you wrote a p2p wrapper for portage, there would be many thanking you - > there's not one I'm aware of. > > Check the archives and the forums (there's one recent HOWTO under > 'Documentation, Tips & Tricks') for more specifics. Thanks for all the pointers. * I checked out the HOWTO in the forum. The Proxy idea is good, but not implementable in my scenario. * Thinking about it, NFS would be a pain for end users. They have re-compile their kernels and all. * I'm thinking of a centralized way to do stuff which would not put too much of a burden on end users. So that leaves me with SMB (people already have their samba servers up to recv net sends from other window machines). * The other would be, to couple the Gentoo Portage with fOOgle (an FTP Indexing engine that I wrote). So all those who want the central server to leach up their distfiles would use a web interface to make an entry into fOOgle's FTP server database. I think I'll complete the script in a day or two, and will post it here. Nandz. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can Linux web browsing be a complete experience?
On Sunday 15 June 2003 19:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > WOW! > Inserts foot into mouth. > I really was not expecting that. And this even works with KDE without netscape being installed!!! The all-in-a-box is KDE for me. Konquerer renders _much_ better than mozilla/netscape and is a lot faster! Arnold -- Get my public-key from pgp.mit.edu or pgp.uni-mainz.de --- Hi, I am a .signature virus. Please copy me into your ~/.signature and send me to all your contacts. After a month or so log in as root and do a rm / -rf. Or ask your administrator to do so... pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: [gentoo-user] USB CF reader hotplug mounting
i dont have any troubles with the mounting and umounting of my sony camera. it has a usb cable attatchment so :) i use it to even store files sometimes. anyways i got a simple script that allways mounts sda1 every time multiple times in one session and i have everything compiled into my kernel no modules. i think this is more like a bug but maybe it can be solved by switching to a module i dont know :( just figured id throw in my experience, maybe it will help. = *// No cows were injured in the making of this message *// __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Distfile mirror for University LAN.
Why not a proxy server? A (very well) workable model exists in Debian (apt-proxy package). Supports simultaneous requests; works with rsync, ftp, http servers, ... On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 19:10, Saurabh Nanda wrote: > Hi, > We've been trying to come up with a solution for deploying a distfile mirror > for our university intranet. > > There are a decent number of Gentoo users here, and it is a waste of bandwidth > with people downloading the same packages off the internet. > > * So, we set up a central FTP server with certain popular distfiles. > * We also started maintaining a list of all Gentoo users within the campus who > were putting up *their distfiles* for FTP. So that people could add those > servers to GENTOO_MIRRORS in their make.conf's > > This is not exactly the most viable solution, because: > * It's difficult keeping track of Gentoo users with FTP servers on their > machines. > * Say, a certain distfile is on X's machine, but not on the central FTP > server, and X has switched off his machine - the person who needs the > distfile will have to download it off the net - even though the file is > available in the LAN. > > * Could /usr/portage/distfiles be mounted as a SMB share, an NFS mount point, > an AFS mount-point? > * We would also be using a P2P service in the campus shorty. Could portage > pick off files from the P2P network? > * Has anyone tried this? What was your experience? > > TIA, > Nandz. > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Mozilla and Portage 2.0.48-r1
В ?? 15.06.2003, в 21:49, Kirtis Bakalarczyk пишет:
> I'm running ~x86 and i've been having trouble compiling Mozilla-1.3-r2. It fails
> with the following errors:
>
> /usr/lib/portage/bin/emake: line 14: 18266 Segmentation fault make ${MAKEOPTS}
> ${EXTRA_EMAKE} "$@"
> make[3]: *** [libs] Error 139
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/mozilla-1.3-r2/work/mozilla/widget/src'
> make[2]: *** [libs] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/mozilla-1.3-r2/work/mozilla/widget'
> make[1]: *** [tier_9] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/mozilla-1.3-r2/work/mozilla'
> make: *** [default] Error 2
>
> !!! ERROR: net-www/mozilla-1.3-r2 failed.
> !!! Function src_compile, Line 363, Exitcode 2
> !!! (no error message)
>
> The segmentation fault in emake seems especially interesting...
> Anyone else have this problem?
>
> KIRT
>
> CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -mmmx -msse2 -pipe"
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[gentoo-user] Problems with Mozilla and Portage 2.0.48-r1
I'm running ~x86 and i've been having trouble compiling Mozilla-1.3-r2. It fails with
the following errors:
/usr/lib/portage/bin/emake: line 14: 18266 Segmentation fault make ${MAKEOPTS}
${EXTRA_EMAKE} "$@"
make[3]: *** [libs] Error 139
make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/mozilla-1.3-r2/work/mozilla/widget/src'
make[2]: *** [libs] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/mozilla-1.3-r2/work/mozilla/widget'
make[1]: *** [tier_9] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/mozilla-1.3-r2/work/mozilla'
make: *** [default] Error 2
!!! ERROR: net-www/mozilla-1.3-r2 failed.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 363, Exitcode 2
!!! (no error message)
The segmentation fault in emake seems especially interesting...
Anyone else have this problem?
KIRT
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[gentoo-user] Re: Distfile mirror for University LAN.
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 22:40:00 +0530, Saurabh Nanda wrote: > * Has anyone tried this? What was your experience? I was thinking that a customised squid proxy just for portage would be pretty good. Tell the users to set up to use the proxy for portage _only_ (and tell them all to use your backbone's portage mirror - eg mirror.ac.uk/gentoo for UK universities - so common files always have the same URL - there are also some other neat tricks with squid you can use for this) and then have it cache everything for a month or so - self pruning of old versions, and no hickups when two people try and grab a new file at the same time. It can handle FTP and HTTP, so no problems there. You can even use authentication so that only approved university users can access it. Might be more tamper proof than NFS etc and less troublesome than maintaining a rsync mirror. -- This line intentionally left blank. 18:40:01 up 30 days, 4:54, 2 users, load average: 1.83, 1.11, 0.98 Current number of open Freenet connections: 64 E-mail address munged to prevent spam. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can Linux web browsing be a complete experience?
WOW! Inserts foot into mouth. I really was not expecting that. ~Mike On Sun, 15 Jun 2003, Sebastian Hungerecker wrote: > Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 19:19:02 +0200 > From: Sebastian Hungerecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can Linux web browsing be a complete > experience? > > On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 17:13:45 + (UTC) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I doubt Flash 6 will happen in any > > timely manner if at all. > > * net-www/netscape-flash > Latest version available: 6.0.79 > Latest version installed: 6.0.79 > Size of downloaded files: 1,374 kB > Homepage:http://www.macromedia.com/ > Description: Macromedia Shockwave Flash Player > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > -><- "And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly how much difference there is. :-)" --Larry Wall in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Distfile mirror for University LAN.
Brian Hall wrote: On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 12:25:38 -0500 Andrew Gaffney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Saurabh Nanda wrote: * Could /usr/portage/distfiles be mounted as a SMB share, an NFS mount point, an AFS mount-point? This works pretty well. As a matter of fact, I have my entire /usr/portage exported via NFS. Is this a better method than setting up a local rsync server? It really depends. I only have this setup on my home LAN, and ONLY because I am the only person to use these computers. If you're going to have a lot of potentially untrustworthy people using it, then its probably not the best idea. As for just sharing /usr/portage/distfiles, If you can set it up so that people can read and write, but not delete, that'd probably be the best way to do it. That way, you'd always have to someone download the file first, but after that, its there for anyone else to use. -- Andrew Gaffney -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Distfile mirror for University LAN.
Saurabh Nanda said: > Hi, > We've been trying to come up with a solution for deploying a distfile > mirror > for our university intranet. There's been a lot of talk about this kind of setup on both the forums and on this mailing list. I'd check the archives. Basically, a NFS mount is good, as long as it is read/write, so you don't have to keep track of who has what and make sure they upload it. Unfortunately, if two people start downloading at once, bad things happen. No fix as of yet, although some have suggested using prozilla. Another option is for each user to put up a http/ftp server and make the list publically available, so everyone can load them up into the make.conf and scroll through campus before going outside. If you wrote a p2p wrapper for portage, there would be many thanking you - there's not one I'm aware of. Also, while you're on the topic of saving bandwidth, check out deltup - it's in portage. Check the archives and the forums (there's one recent HOWTO under 'Documentation, Tips & Tricks') for more specifics. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Distfile mirror for University LAN.
Actually I have only /usr/portage/distfiles shared via NFS. Each machine has it's own /usr/portage, because I often edit .ebuilds and often they differ. But if you run identically the same setup on all machines, then exporting /usr/portage with all subfolders should work in most cases. Mikhail. On Sunday 15 June 2003 17:19, Brian Hall wrote: > On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 12:25:38 -0500 > > Andrew Gaffney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Saurabh Nanda wrote: > > > * Could /usr/portage/distfiles be mounted as a SMB share, an NFS > > > mount point, an AFS mount-point? > > > > This works pretty well. As a matter of fact, I have my entire > > /usr/portage exported via NFS. > > Is this a better method than setting up a local rsync server? -- If Microsoft were to vanish, who would we hate next? -- From a Slashdot.org post -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Distfile mirror for University LAN.
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 12:25:38 -0500 Andrew Gaffney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Saurabh Nanda wrote: > > * Could /usr/portage/distfiles be mounted as a SMB share, an NFS > > mount point, an AFS mount-point? > > This works pretty well. As a matter of fact, I have my entire > /usr/portage exported via NFS. Is this a better method than setting up a local rsync server? -- http://www.pcisys.net/~brihall Linux Consultant The bigger they are, the harder they hit you. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can Linux web browsing be a complete experience?
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 17:13:45 + (UTC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I doubt Flash 6 will happen in any > timely manner if at all. * net-www/netscape-flash Latest version available: 6.0.79 Latest version installed: 6.0.79 Size of downloaded files: 1,374 kB Homepage:http://www.macromedia.com/ Description: Macromedia Shockwave Flash Player -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Distfile mirror for University LAN.
Saurabh Nanda wrote: * Could /usr/portage/distfiles be mounted as a SMB share, an NFS mount point, an AFS mount-point? This works pretty well. As a matter of fact, I have my entire /usr/portage exported via NFS. -- Andrew Gaffney -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can Linux web browsing be a complete experience?
You would think with Java being so portable that it would actually work. I too have trouble with java sometimes, but for the most part it seems to work. The problem however with Flash isn't Linux its Macromedia. Macromedia sold their soul to the devil a long time ago, and who knows if they even care anymore. Last time I check there was a webpage that you could fill out a form saying you want Flash 6 for Linux, and they would think about it. With Flash moving into .NET stuff I doubt Flash 6 will happen in any timely manner if at all. IMHO, Mozilla still seems the best option over Konqueror. I found Konqueror to be a bit kludgy last I checked it (KDE 3.1). None-the-less the out-of-the-box solutions are there, but no matter how hard we try they are still lacking a few proprietary formats. Cheers, Mike On 15 Jun 2003, Mark Knecht wrote: > Date: 15 Jun 2003 09:54:53 -0700 > From: Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: Gentoo-User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [gentoo-user] Can Linux web browsing be a complete experience? > > Hi, >After using Linux more and more over the last couple of years most of > what I need to do for day to day life is pretty much together. However, > at least the way I've set things up, there is never a complete solution > for just browsing the web. There are always web pages I'm going to that > tell me I don't have plug-ins. A lot of it is Java based. Some of it is > Flash stuff. Sound is so so... Email links on web pages don't map to > Evolution. For all of those reasons my Windows box is usually turned on > for the time with Linux doesn't cut it. > >Why isn't there an out-of-the-box Linux solution that's as good as > Windows? > >I'm currently using Mozilla under fluxbox, but I've tried Konqueror > under KDE and didn't do as well. > >Am I not setting up tools that would make this better? Is there a > Gentoo doc that covers this subject? I see a Java page, and we have the > Alsa stuff, but I can't find anything that pulls it all together. > >Thanks for any pointers you can provide. > > Cheers, > Mark > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > -><- "And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly how much difference there is. :-)" --Larry Wall in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Distfile mirror for University LAN.
Hi, We've been trying to come up with a solution for deploying a distfile mirror for our university intranet. There are a decent number of Gentoo users here, and it is a waste of bandwidth with people downloading the same packages off the internet. * So, we set up a central FTP server with certain popular distfiles. * We also started maintaining a list of all Gentoo users within the campus who were putting up *their distfiles* for FTP. So that people could add those servers to GENTOO_MIRRORS in their make.conf's This is not exactly the most viable solution, because: * It's difficult keeping track of Gentoo users with FTP servers on their machines. * Say, a certain distfile is on X's machine, but not on the central FTP server, and X has switched off his machine - the person who needs the distfile will have to download it off the net - even though the file is available in the LAN. * Could /usr/portage/distfiles be mounted as a SMB share, an NFS mount point, an AFS mount-point? * We would also be using a P2P service in the campus shorty. Could portage pick off files from the P2P network? * Has anyone tried this? What was your experience? TIA, Nandz. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Can Linux web browsing be a complete experience?
Hi, After using Linux more and more over the last couple of years most of what I need to do for day to day life is pretty much together. However, at least the way I've set things up, there is never a complete solution for just browsing the web. There are always web pages I'm going to that tell me I don't have plug-ins. A lot of it is Java based. Some of it is Flash stuff. Sound is so so... Email links on web pages don't map to Evolution. For all of those reasons my Windows box is usually turned on for the time with Linux doesn't cut it. Why isn't there an out-of-the-box Linux solution that's as good as Windows? I'm currently using Mozilla under fluxbox, but I've tried Konqueror under KDE and didn't do as well. Am I not setting up tools that would make this better? Is there a Gentoo doc that covers this subject? I see a Java page, and we have the Alsa stuff, but I can't find anything that pulls it all together. Thanks for any pointers you can provide. Cheers, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] new kernel
begin quote On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 18:19:26 -0400 (EDT) "Jesse Jacobs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Alan said: > > On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 02:42:23PM -0700, Spundun Bhatt wrote: > >> If I update that package... do I need to rebuild the kernel or can > >I> just ignore this update? > > > > Well, if you want the new kernel you'll have to rebuild :) If you > > don't care about .21 you can ignore. > > > >> If I have to build this kernel, can I copy my .config file from the > >> earlier version or I need to reconfigure? > > > > Yup, copy your .config in and then run "make oldconfig" which will > > only prompt you for changed settings. You can then either just run > > your"make dep clean bzImage modules modules_install" or go into make > > menuconfig or make xconfig to make sure that everything is good. > > > > Can ya not just menuconfig initially? > No, if you do make menuconfig first it will set all the new options as default values without telling you about it. //Spider -- begin .signature This is a .signature virus! Please copy me into your .signature! See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] portage
begin quote On 13 Jun 2003 14:19:05 -0700 Chris Graves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't suppose there is a way to retrofit, say, a RH linux box with > portage? > > Is this because of the system structure or ??? > > curious, > -chris About a year or so ago somone did this for their production environment RH 7 machines, They installed portage, setup a compilation and system install, then used the rpm purge commands to remove all stale files from the redhat system until they had a clean system in gentoo, together with some scripts to whack off the remaining unclaimed files,, its a bit of a drag to do it this way, and not something I'd ever recommend, especially not if you dont know your systems complete innards and very well know how to make things work if you manage to break it. But it can be done. //Spider -- begin .signature This is a .signature virus! Please copy me into your .signature! See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] CD Images
yeah know that one on windows, you can get it for linux too?? On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 20:19, gabor wrote: > On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 17:56, Tom Wesley wrote: > > On Sunday 15 June 2003 16:41, Lars Juel Nielsen wrote: > > > How would i mount a bin/cue set or convert it to a normal iso so it can > > > be mounted with mount -o loop,ro -t > > > > check http://hes.iki.fi/bchunk/ > > yes, that works, but > > hmmm.. do you know daemon-tools? > > basically what i'd like to have is a virtual cd-rom ... > > something that would be able to take an iso or a cue/bin or a > ccd(clonecd) image an 'mount' it to /dev/something, > and then i'd be able to use /dev/something as a regular dvd/cd-rom > drive. > > i know that 'losetup' can do something like this, but i had no success > with mounting a cue/bin... > > i know i can use bchunk to extract all the filesystems from a cue/bin, > and then i can mount the iso files, but for example with > daemon-tools-on-windows, i can mount a cue/bin image of an audio cd, and > then grab the audio tracks from the virtually mounted cd image with any > audiograbber tool. can i do the same on linux? > > thx, > gabor -- In 1968 it took the computing power of 2 C-64's to fly a rocket to the moon. Now, in 1998 it takes the Power of a Pentium 200 to run Microsoft Windows 95. Something must have gone wrong. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage question
On Sunday 15 June 2003 12:17 pm, Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: > -- quoting Ernie Schroder -- > > > True, this will work, but, tell me: After at some point I do: > > # emerge -p openoffice- > > will openoffice be back in my "worldfile" and update normally? > > Wouldn't it still be simpler to have the --except switch? > > As said, I think that's not exactly what you were looking for, but > since there is AFAIK no --except or similar option, the --inject > option is one possible solution... > > And to you question: I think if you do the normal emerge after the > injection, it gets recorded in your worldfile and it gets updated as > usual. > > Greetings, Matthias Thanks Matthias. It seems that I can comment out the line: app-office/openoffice in /var/cache/edb/world and proceed with my # emerge -UD world as well. It's then a simple matter to go back and remove the comment. Maybe I will submit a feature request to bugzilla. -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re-installation fails to compile ncurses 5.3-r1
Hi, Decided to re-install (and repartition) my test rig where I do my evaluation of gentoo rc4. What works: - I booted up the CD - Used cfdisk to change a few partitions. - Re-created all(!) filesystems. (/boot as ext3, all other reiserfs) - Mounted partitions, chroot OK. - Edit make.conf (Set CHOST="i586", set CFLAGS="-march=i586 -O3 -pipe") - emerge sync, emerge portage all OK. - cd to /usr/portage OK - Started script: ./scripts/bootstrap.sh What fails: When ./scripts/bootstrap.sh has executed for about 45 minutes, it fails with the error messages: # configure: error: Shared libraries are not supported in this version # # !!! ERROR! sys-libs/ncurses-5.3-rc1 failed # !!! Function econf, line 304, Exitcode 1 # !!! econf failed and I can't get around it. Tried the same sequence twice (to exclude me having missed to execute some command). The classical "This used to work. It worked fine three days ago." reaction applies. Also, the classical "What do I do now?" question comes to mind. :-) Best regards Gus -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage question
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! > I just did an emerge-UDp world and there are a bunch of packages that I > would like to update. Open Office is NOT one of them. It struck me that > it would be convenient to have a switch for portage so that I could do > something like: > # emerge -UD world --except openoffice > Or is there an easy way to accomplish this? Try to write your specific version in the "world" file, then emerge will assume that you need that version of openoffice, and not some other one. Regards, - -- Juan Ángel PGP key on pgp.rediris.es (8FAF18B7) or search on http://www.rediris.es/cert/servicios/keyserver/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+7KAtaQjbS4+vGLcRAnEYAKCRK9MM7td1gPlpgjIraOti/zs22gCeJdHj SAu1OoarA7OzTVJdiqXw6fc= =dhes -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] CD Images
On Sunday 15 June 2003 19:19, gabor wrote: > On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 17:56, Tom Wesley wrote: > > On Sunday 15 June 2003 16:41, Lars Juel Nielsen wrote: > > > How would i mount a bin/cue set or convert it to a normal iso so it can > > > be mounted with mount -o loop,ro -t > > > > check http://hes.iki.fi/bchunk/ > > yes, that works, but > > hmmm.. do you know daemon-tools? > > basically what i'd like to have is a virtual cd-rom ... > > something that would be able to take an iso or a cue/bin or a > ccd(clonecd) image an 'mount' it to /dev/something, > and then i'd be able to use /dev/something as a regular dvd/cd-rom > drive. > > i know that 'losetup' can do something like this, but i had no success > with mounting a cue/bin... > > i know i can use bchunk to extract all the filesystems from a cue/bin, > and then i can mount the iso files, but for example with > daemon-tools-on-windows, i can mount a cue/bin image of an audio cd, and > then grab the audio tracks from the virtually mounted cd image with any > audiograbber tool. can i do the same on linux? > And for this there is * app-cdr/virtualcd-0.4 Latest version available: 0.4 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: [no/bad digest] Homepage:http://outertech.com/robert/virtualcd/ Description: mount bin/cue cd images although I have to admit to not having tried this one. -- Tom Wesley Please encrypt personal replies if possible. pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: [gentoo-user] devfs
begin quote On Sat, 14 Jun 2003 22:12:51 -0400 Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > > Per the Install docs - make sure experimental options is checked. > > > > > I hate to say this, but can't these LiveCD default settings be baked > into the gentoo-source kernel image so we aren't always stumbling > against the same problems over and over again? if you look at the bootcd text message it tells you how to extract the kernel from there, its a good safe fallback for when you have troublesome hardware.. I know I had a NIC that didn't build properly (as in, it didnt take the driver I thought it should take) so i fell back to that and removed unnecessary things... To make that the default would be counterproductive in many cases. and, the defaults depend on what kernel you use. theres a lot of sources in our tree, and we keep instructions for the "lowest common denominator" which would be the vanilla tree. //Spider -- begin .signature This is a .signature virus! Please copy me into your .signature! See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] CD Images
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 17:56, Tom Wesley wrote: > On Sunday 15 June 2003 16:41, Lars Juel Nielsen wrote: > > How would i mount a bin/cue set or convert it to a normal iso so it can > > be mounted with mount -o loop,ro -t > > check http://hes.iki.fi/bchunk/ yes, that works, but hmmm.. do you know daemon-tools? basically what i'd like to have is a virtual cd-rom ... something that would be able to take an iso or a cue/bin or a ccd(clonecd) image an 'mount' it to /dev/something, and then i'd be able to use /dev/something as a regular dvd/cd-rom drive. i know that 'losetup' can do something like this, but i had no success with mounting a cue/bin... i know i can use bchunk to extract all the filesystems from a cue/bin, and then i can mount the iso files, but for example with daemon-tools-on-windows, i can mount a cue/bin image of an audio cd, and then grab the audio tracks from the virtually mounted cd image with any audiograbber tool. can i do the same on linux? thx, gabor -- "Don't worry. I used the back of my sword. Oh, it's double-sided. Sorry." -Zelgadis, Slayers signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage question
-- quoting Ernie Schroder -- > True, this will work, but, tell me: After at some point I do: > # emerge -p openoffice- > will openoffice be back in my "worldfile" and update normally? > Wouldn't it still be simpler to have the --except switch? As said, I think that's not exactly what you were looking for, but since there is AFAIK no --except or similar option, the --inject option is one possible solution... And to you question: I think if you do the normal emerge after the injection, it gets recorded in your worldfile and it gets updated as usual. Greetings, Matthias -- I probably shouldn't have eaten that packet of powered gravy I found in the parking lot. - Homer Simpson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage question
On Sunday 15 June 2003 11:56 am, Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: > -- quoting Ernie Schroder -- > > > # emerge -UD world --except openoffice > > Or is there an easy way to accomplish this? > > Maybe that's not exactly what you are looking for, but you could try > to inject the packages you don't want to update. So it would look > like: > > shell$ emerge -i openoffice- > shell$ emerge -i > shell$ emerge -UD world > > If you then want to upgrade openoffice later, you still can do a > normal: > > shell$ emerge -p openoffice- > > HTH, Matthias True, this will work, but, tell me: After at some point I do: # emerge -p openoffice- will openoffice be back in my "worldfile" and update normally? Wouldn't it still be simpler to have the --except switch? -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] cd-burning
-- quoting Gavrila -- > It has all u're looking for except the cover editor, however u can > find plenty of programs for cover editing. > I don't know wha VCD's menus are, so I cannot guarantee... for more > info look at > http://k3b.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=about.html > > and check news section also for newst features :) ok, I will do that. The only need-to-have for me is the VCD from divx/mpeg and ACD from mp3 creation... Thanks, Matthias -- I probably shouldn't have eaten that packet of powered gravy I found in the parking lot. - Homer Simpson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] cd-burning
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 17:50, Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: > -- quoting Gavrila -- > > Have you ever tried k3b? I found it >really useful and easy to use! > > Try it u won't regret. > > Does it have features like mp3/divx(!)/mp(e)g to (Super) Video CD > decoding, a easy (Super) Video CD menu creation tool and a cover > editor? It has all u're looking for except the cover editor, however u can find plenty of programs for cover editing. I don't know wha VCD's menus are, so I cannot guarantee... for more info look at http://k3b.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=about.html and check news section also for newst features :) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage question
-- quoting Ernie Schroder -- > # emerge -UD world --except openoffice > Or is there an easy way to accomplish this? Maybe that's not exactly what you are looking for, but you could try to inject the packages you don't want to update. So it would look like: shell$ emerge -i openoffice- shell$ emerge -i shell$ emerge -UD world If you then want to upgrade openoffice later, you still can do a normal: shell$ emerge -p openoffice- HTH, Matthias -- Bart, a woman is like beer. They look good, they smell good, and you'd step over your own mother just to get one! - Homer Simpson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Nautilus Themes
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 15:59:18 +0200 Sebastian Bergmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How/where do I configure GNOME's icon themes, then? Using the gnome-theme-manager -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] CD Images
On Sunday 15 June 2003 16:41, Lars Juel Nielsen wrote: > How would i mount a bin/cue set or convert it to a normal iso so it can > be mounted with mount -o loop,ro -t check http://hes.iki.fi/bchunk/ emerge -s bchunk * app-cdr/bchunk Latest version available: 1.1.1 Latest version installed: 1.1.1 Size of downloaded files: 14 kB Homepage:http://hes.iki.fi/bchunk/ Description: Converts bin/cue CD-images to iso+wav/cdr -- Tom Wesley Please encrypt personal replies if possible. pgp0.pgp Description: signature
[gentoo-user] Portage question
I just did an emerge-UDp world and there are a bunch of packages that I would like to update. Open Office is NOT one of them. It struck me that it would be convenient to have a switch for portage so that I could do something like: # emerge -UD world --except openoffice Or is there an easy way to accomplish this? -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] cd-burning
-- quoting Gavrila -- > Have you ever tried k3b? I found it really useful and easy to use! > Try it u won't regret. Does it have features like mp3/divx(!)/mp(e)g to (Super) Video CD decoding, a easy (Super) Video CD menu creation tool and a cover editor? -- Mmm ... macamadamia nuts - Homer Simpson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing a Linux Partition
-- quoting Paulo J. Matos -- > I have my HD divided for Gentoo GNU/Linux and Windows but now it's > time to take windows out of it giving all space to Gentoo. How can > I erase the windows partition and resize the Gentoo Partition? I > know fdisk is able to erase partitions but how about resizing them? > How can I do that? I had some good experience with GNU parted. Maybe it could help you as well... Greetings, Matthias -- Mmm ... macamadamia nuts - Homer Simpson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] CD Images
How would i mount a bin/cue set or convert it to a normal iso so it can be mounted with mount -o loop,ro -t -- In 1968 it took the computing power of 2 C-64's to fly a rocket to the moon. Now, in 1998 it takes the Power of a Pentium 200 to run Microsoft Windows 95. Something must have gone wrong. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] cd-burning
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 17:39, Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: > -- quoting Gëzim -- > > I´m looking for some cd burning >software that´s very > > easy to use and nothing >fancy/advanced; maybe > > something like Easy Cd-Creater >[windows]. And > > hopefully I´ll get it working. > > Sadly, I have not seen anything Nero-like for Linux :( > I have not found any app that is as easy to use as Nero Burning Rom > for Windows and has as much features as it. Have you ever tried k3b? I found it really useful and easy to use! Try it u won't regret. > HTH, Matthias -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo/m68k
> Hello Everyone! > > This is to let everyone on these list know about my progress > concerning Gentoo/m68k. I have been working for the past month on the > port and have made signifigant progress. Portage is working, and a > Stage1 has been built. However, I was overzealous with my CFLAGS and > added -O3, which made my Stage1 chroot do odd things. > > Then, I decided to rebuild the entire system, but Debian's gcc > package broke, which had me cursing for about 2 weeks. I had glibc > builds failing left and right. (Well, actually, only one failed every > day, since I'm on a 33MHz machine. :) > > Anyhow, that's all fixed now, and I hope to have an official stage1 > tarball ready soon. What this e-mail is for is to hopefully gather > interest in the port so that the powers that be may make it an > official Gentoo architecture. I realize that m68k is 10-years old, > but it still has several uses, and Gentoo can fulfil those uses quite > nicely. I have two Sun 3/80s that serve as DNS for me, and a Performa > 550 as a NTP server, A Quadra 660AV for video, etc. As the Monty > Python line goes, "They're Not Dead Yet!" > > With Gentoo, we'll be able to squeeze every last bit of performance > out of these old beasts, as well as trim down the distribution to a > minimum, lending itself to netbooding and embedded work. m68k > hardware covers a vast landscape, including but not limited to > Macintosh, NeXT, Sun3, HP300, Amiga, and Atari. These machines were > high-end at the time, and can still be put to good use. > > Thanks for reading, and if you're interested in the work I've done, > please reply, so I can know that what I've done is worth releasing, > and the fine folks at Gentoo can know that m68k is a platform worth > supporting. > > Zach Lowry || Murfreesboro, TN || www.zachlowry.net > Linux / *BSD / Irix / Solaris / Apple / Unix Network Administration I actually had an idea to do this close to a year ago, however, I soon found that it required programming skills I didn't have. I still don't have them, but I'll be starting a computer science major in August, so I look forward to helping out however I can in the future. My personal reason for the port was to get an Apple Laserwriter (I don't remember the specific model, the machine itself is safe in a box) to accept print requests from machines other than its Macintosh LC III host. Turns out that there was some write-once on-printer programming involved in installing the printer as part of the installation procedure which permanently identified it as either Mac or PC compatible. All this was initially used about 11 years ago, and about 5 years ago my father got into this mess when he switched to PC. Unfortunately, I was not the IT wunderkind that I am today (though I am most assuredly in my present company) at that time, and I can only work off my father's vague memories of things he only half understood. The moral of the story? Please try and find a way to make a Mac printer accessible via Samba, or a similar method. I'm sure that's more easily said than done, but I feel it would be a worthwhile use of time and energy. After all, that printer can hit somewhere around 15 pages per minute even on a bad day, it'd make a nice workhorse for printing manuals. Thanks for your effort, Robert H. Haener IV
Re: [gentoo-user] cd-burning
-- quoting Gëzim -- > I´m looking for some cd burning software that´s very > easy to use and nothing fancy/advanced; maybe > something like Easy Cd-Creater [windows]. And > hopefully I´ll get it working. Sadly, I have not seen anything Nero-like for Linux :( I have not found any app that is as easy to use as Nero Burning Rom for Windows and has as much features as it. But I must say I have some good experience with Xcdroast, so maybe you could have a look at it... HTH, Matthias -- Mmm ... open-faced club sandwich - Homer Simpson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing a Linux Partition
Pak, Jaeho wrote: Norbert Kamenicky wrote: Paulo J. Matos wrote: Hi all, I have my HD divided for Gentoo GNU/Linux and Windows but now it's time to take windows out of it giving all space to Gentoo. How can I erase the windows partition and resize the Gentoo Partition? I know fdisk is able to erase partitions but how about resizing them? How can I do that? Best regards, Paulo Jorge Matos -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list I would say, the most easiest and safiest way is to make some of linux supported fs on winblowz partition and then mount it to existing fs tree ... it's not very common to run unix/linux system only on one partion anyway Noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list i don't know that. but, that's very dangerous. nooo, because you'll not touch any of existing partitions except of winblowz one !!! if you do not understand what I am saying, sorry for wasting my time ... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing a Linux Partition
Norbert Kamenicky wrote: Paulo J. Matos wrote: Hi all, I have my HD divided for Gentoo GNU/Linux and Windows but now it's time to take windows out of it giving all space to Gentoo. How can I erase the windows partition and resize the Gentoo Partition? I know fdisk is able to erase partitions but how about resizing them? How can I do that? Best regards, Paulo Jorge Matos -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list I would say, the most easiest and safiest way is to make some of linux supported fs on winblowz partition and then mount it to existing fs tree ... it's not very common to run unix/linux system only on one partion anyway Noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list i don't know that. but, that's very dangerous. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] TV tuner
I just grabbed a HAUPAUGE(sp) WIN-GO TV tuner model 190 from CompUSA for $49.00. It works perfectly under linux with the XAWTV app, using bttv.o and a base installation of framebuffers in the kernel. I had it installed and working in less time than it took to type this message. Cheers. On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 10:26:11 +0200 Martin Lesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tony Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Friday 13 June 2003 20.07, Christopher Egner wrote: > > > Whats the compatibility look like for tv tuners? Any suggestions? I'm > > > looking for something that can preferably watch one channel and record > > > another at the same time (is this possible?) > > You need 2 tuners to do this, which is possible. Take a look at > > www.mythtv.org. There are ebuilds in bugs.gentoo.org. Search on mythtv. > > I have really no reasonable knowledge about HF so the same question > enhanced: Is it technically possible to watch only some parts of more > than one channel with *one* card? I'm only interested in the vbi-data > which IIRC take only the first 3 (?) lines transmitted. So the > card/software (I use alevtd with the bttv module here) would have to > switch between the frequencies very fast and capture only the lines > which are important for the vbi part. > > Does anyone know something about and could give me some pointers? > > TIA, Martin > > -- > Better-Com bietet Support für freie Software > http://www.bettercom.de - Tel.: +49-40-38037272 > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
