[gentoo-user] Re: Digital camera recommendations?
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 21:04:48 -0400, Ernie Schroder wrote: > I'm using a Olympus D-550 here It meets your requirments and it's a 3 > megapixle camera with 2.8 optical and 3x digital zoom Cost is about > $250 (US) The camera itself looks just like a card reader to Linux so Thanks! I'll keep that in mind next time I go shopping. :) -- // Carl Hudkins :: Jabber [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: PGP 50238D9E // // "German beer is chemical-free / Germany's all right with me!" //--"Why Aye Man", Mark Knopfler -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Fluxbox fails to install... is it my fault?
Hi again... This time I must request a different sort of help. I'm trying to install fluxbox on an old laptop. chiana root # uname -a Linux chiana 2.4.20-gentoo-r7 #1 Sat Sep 20 21:06:09 EDT 2003 i586 Pentium 75 - 200 GenuineIntel GNU/Linux This is my setup: 1.2G root partition; /usr/portage is shared by NFS from my desktop machine (rw) as is /var/tmp/portage. My desktop PC is a dual-P3, so I'm running distcc to help speed compiling along. The laptop was installed from a Stage 3 tarball (09112003) last week, and just completed a 20-hour install of Xfree86 today. Now I have tried 3 times to build fluxbox. I've cleaned out /var/tmp/portage so that there's nothing left in there. Yet: libtool: link: cannot find the library `/var/tmp/portage/freetype-2.1.4/image//usr/lib/libfreetype.la' make[3]: *** [fluxbox] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/fluxbox-0.1.14-r2/work/fluxbox-0.1.14/src' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/fluxbox-0.1.14-r2/work/fluxbox-0.1.14/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/fluxbox-0.1.14-r2/work/fluxbox-0.1.14' make: *** [all] Error 2 !!! ERROR: x11-wm/fluxbox-0.1.14-r2 failed. !!! Function commonbox_src_compile, Line 114, Exitcode 2 !!! (no error message) I've attached the entire output of the third attempt, which I finally remembered to capture with "script". I was bothered at the very beginning by messages such as this: aclocal: configure.in: 226: macro `AM_PATH_XFT' not found in library util/Makefile.am:6: invalid unused variable name: `_SOURCES' util/Makefile.am:8: invalid unused variable name: `_LDADD' configure.in:298: warning: do not use m4_patsubst: use patsubst or m4_bpatsubst configure.in:324: warning: do not use m4_regexp: use regexp or m4_bregexp truetype configure: WARNING: If you wanted to set the --build type, don't use --host. If a cross compiler is detected then cross compile mode will be used. checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes /var/tmp/portage/fluxbox-0.1.14-r2/work/fluxbox-0.1.14/missing: Unknown `--run' option Try `/var/tmp/portage/fluxbox-0.1.14-r2/work/fluxbox-0.1.14/missing --help' for more information configure: WARNING: `missing' script is too old or missing Both automake and libtool are at current stable versions, and I am *NOT* running any "~x86" packages. Any ideas about what I could do to fix this? This is the *only* package that has failed so far. -- // Carl Hudkins :: Jabber [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: PGP 50238D9E // // "German beer is chemical-free / Germany's all right with me!" //--"Why Aye Man", Mark Knopfler fluxbox-fails.txt.bz2 Description: BZip2 compressed data pgp0.pgp Description: signature
[gentoo-user] Digital camera recommendations?
Hi, all... Ok, an upcoming vacation and my seeming inability to completely shoot a roll of film and get it developed before it's so old that half the pictures look like they were shot from behind brown draperies have got me thinking about getting a digital camera. Since I live in a Windows-free environment, any such camera must be compatible with Linux in at least these ways: * Appears to the system as a USB mass-storage device -- that means, no special software or drivers are needed; you just plug it in and you can then get your pictures off it like a normal filesystem. + This would also be a benefit if I needed to plug it into someone else's computer in order to upload the pix to myself or something. I've tried to deal with cameras at work (Kinko's) that needed special drivers, and had to give up when even the manufacturer's web site did not have have (Win2k) drivers that would work. * No more than two hours of screwing with config files or kernel rebuilds should be required to get it working. Further, it must be compatible with my budget, which means it costs less than $300 (US). :) I know this will not get me an ultra-high-quality camera, but from what I've read the photos from such a device should be more than sufficient for my meager needs. Does such a thing exist? If anyone has one, I'd sure like to know about it! Thanks in advance, -- // Carl Hudkins :: Jabber [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: PGP 50238D9E // // "German beer is chemical-free / Germany's all right with me!" //--"Why Aye Man", Mark Knopfler -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: mlDonkey - new install - questions & bugs?
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 04:12:49 +0100, Stroller wrote: > - How do I change the umask that mlDonkey writes files with..? I want > files world (or at least group) writable, so I can delete them over SMB > from my workstation when I've moved them somewhere else. There may be a better way, but I'd just use "chmod" for this. If the directory is owned by p2p of group p2p, and you use "chmod 6766 incoming", then all new files created there by any user (except root) will be owned by user p2p.p2p and have modes 766 (rwxrw-rw-). All users will be able to remove files from there; if you don't want that, use 7766 instead and only the directory's owner will be able to remove them. I use this for some common directories to make sure all the files are owned by one person, no matter who puts them there. See "man 1 chmod" for the gory details, particularly the parts on "suid", "sgid", and "sticky bit". Sorry I can't help with the other questions. :) -- // Carl Hudkins :: Jabber [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: PGP 50238D9E // // "German beer is chemical-free / Germany's all right with me!" //--"Why Aye Man", Mark Knopfler -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] DEBUGBUILD behavior changed?
Hi... I've noticed with several packages (most recently, kdenetwork), that setting DEBUGBUILD=true before the emerge still results in stripped binaries. It's still shown in make.globals as the way to get un-stripped builds, but most of the time it seems not to work. Should all of these failures be report against the ebuilds as bugs? Are we supposed to set "FEATURES=nostrip" instead? I thought it was supposed to be a global feature, but I see a lot of ebuild fixes regarding it. Is there a better way? Thanks, -- // Carl Hudkins :: Jabber [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: PGP 50238D9E // // "German beer is chemical-free / Germany's all right with me!" //--"Why Aye Man", Mark Knopfler -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo or Knoppix for ancient laptop?
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 11:39:48 +0200, Timo Boettcher wrote: > Cool box. I am running Gentoo on a Pentium 75MHz (yes, thats about > half your clock) with 14MB ram (third of yours). I DID change the > original 262MB HDD for a 10GB one, though. Perhaps you should think > about this, too. You might want to find out if you could put any > additional Ram in that thing... If I had money for more memory or drive space, I'd have already hit the computer shows for a (slightly) better machine. :) I have to make this work without any upgrades. I do admit, 10GB would be *much* nicer than 2! However, I have had pretty good stuff installed on it before. > I installed my laptop with a hdd adaptor to get the notebooks hdd > working in my Athlon TB 1,2GHz. For maintaining it, I have an tar.gz > image of the notebook on my dual P3 (these thinks rule, don't they? > *g*), chroot in and rsync it over. That's a good trick... probably makes upgrades much faster! >> I seem to have read that it is possible to install Gentoo >> from binaries only, so can it be done without installing GCC? [...] > It is possible to get a Gentoo Base-system in 800MB (including GCC AND > Sources (that one was a server)). You might want to go really low with > your fs-blocksize (1kb or so) to minimize loss. That is a good idea! I could go even lower... I think DOS floppies use 512-byte sectors; that would be good if most of the files are small. A server running in 800MB? Yeah, without X and lots of user programs, I can see that! Hey, I could go really retro and *not* install X... use Emacs for everything... ;) >> with (hd1,0), it does not work. (The Knoppix floppy also does not work >> -- it says it cannot find any CD drives and drops me to a horrible >> shell.) > If you think a shell is horrible, are you sure you are right here? It's not that I think *a* shell is horrible (Bash rocks!), but *that* shell is! It doesn't even have "ls" or tab completion, so if you want to run something, you'd better already know where it is. :) Anyway, I think I will have another try this weekend. Maybe I could put QNX or something there if Gentoo doesn't work. ;) -- // Carl Hudkins :: Jabber [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: PGP 50238D9E // // "German beer is chemical-free / Germany's all right with me!" //--"Why Aye Man", Mark Knopfler -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Gentoo or Knoppix for ancient laptop?
Hi, folks! Ok, here's the machine: 133 MHz (yes, *mega*, not giga or tera) Pentium! 48 MB RAM, 1.8 GB hard drive. (This is a Compaq LTE 5300.) It currently has a rudimentary OpenBSD installation -- it boots up, but X doesn't work and I don't really understand how the system is put together. (It's my machine for experimenting... and it has run Mandrake (many years ago when it would actually install on a 48MB machine), SuSE, Debian, and about a year ago I put OpenBSD on there, then forgot about it.) It has a floppy drive and CD drive that *SHARE* a bay, and a NetGear Ethernet card in the PCMCIA slot. I got OpenBSD onto it via a network install floppy set. Previously, Mandrake, SuSE, and Debian were installed by either putting it into "sleep" mode and swapping the drives out, or passing "hdb=noprobe hdb=cdrom" to the kernel when booting. Since I am fairly used to the way Gentoo works now, I am thinking that I could install it on this laptop, either using distcc to let my dual-P3 box do most of the building, or by using only binary packages. On the other hand, Knoppix has its appeal as well, since (if I could only get it to boot!) that would mean I could use the entire HD for just swap space and personal files. Yes, running it from a 4x CD would be slow and painful, but I wouldn't be trying to load KDE3 or anything... just Windowmaker or icewm or something lighter. I seem to have read that it is possible to install Gentoo from binaries only, so can it be done without installing GCC? I know, why not just go with Debian or something (after all, that's what Knoppix is based on)... and the answer is that I already know how Gentoo is set up, and I'd much rather have the same system on both machines, as that makes administration and housekeeping easier. BTW, I've just now found that I can (without changing a damn thing from whatever was already in place on OpenBSD) get into my files on the laptop using Konqueror and "fish://192.168.0.4/" -- so copying files to and from the laptop will be easy, though I'm not sure if any boot disks I might make on this machine will be able to handle ffs (OpenBSD's file system). I *have* made a GRUB floppy, but when I boot with it and then swap out the floppy drive for the CD drive, and try to boot a CD with (hd1,0), it does not work. (The Knoppix floppy also does not work -- it says it cannot find any CD drives and drops me to a horrible shell.) All I really need is, say, 25--50 MB, or even less, for personal files... and a laptop that can instantly become at home in any network (read DHCP) or *without* any network, just for personal use on the road. My question to those who, perhaps, have tried something similar, is: Should I continue to struggle with Knoppix, or is there a good way to get Gentoo on this thing? My thanks in advance for any suggestions! :) -- // Carl Hudkins :: Jabber [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: PGP 50238D9E // // "German beer is chemical-free / Germany's all right with me!" //--"Why Aye Man", Mark Knopfler -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Where's mkdosfs?
On Friday 04 April 2003 09:51, Ernie Schroder wrote: > Me thinks you're looking for dosfstools [After a 30-second emerge] Indeed I was! Eventually I probably would have gotten around to "emerge --searchdesc dosfs", but somehow that just wasn't intuitive. Thanks! -- // Carl Hudkins :: ICQ 5723399 :: PGP 50238D9E // // "Romulan spies, Romulan spies / Without honor in the Klingons' eyes // Wanna destroy the Enterprise / Romulan spies" // (To the tune of "Particle Man", by They Might Be Giants) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Where's mkdosfs?
Hi... Ok, I only need to deal with floppy disks once or twice a year here, but the other day I needed to format one in a DOS fashion. Trying the easy way, I popped up "Kfloppy", but it said it could not find "mkdosfs" and was therefore less than useful. Sure enough, "mkdosfs" does not exist on this system, nor can I find "mkfs.dos(fs)", which I suppose might be the real program. If somebody who does have it could tell me in which package this vital piece of software resides, I'd be... well, it would be nice to know. :) Thanks, -- // Carl Hudkins :: ICQ 5723399 :: PGP 50238D9E // // "Romulan spies, Romulan spies / Without honor in the Klingons' eyes // Wanna destroy the Enterprise / Romulan spies" // (To the tune of "Particle Man", by They Might Be Giants) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] usb or ps2?
On Tuesday 01 April 2003 17:50, Richard Watson wrote: > > and because your kernel now knows how big your screen is you should > > find that the mouse will move from one end of the screen to the other > > with a single stroke. > Am I missing something, or doesn't this depend on how big your > mousemat is? Exactly, which is why I'll never buy one of those cool cinemascope 16:9 displays -- I'd have to use my whole desk as a mouse pad, or buy a Logitech Optical Bowling Ball. -- // Carl Hudkins :: ICQ 5723399 :: PGP 50238D9E // // "Romulan spies, Romulan spies / Without honor in the Klingons' eyes // Wanna destroy the Enterprise / Romulan spies" // (To the tune of "Particle Man", by They Might Be Giants) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 100% processor usage during 'emerge sync'
On Saturday 22 March 2003 11:05, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: > Previously this didn't happen but during emerge sync nowadays my CPU > works flat out. It's a P4 2.66Ghz so not one to struggle but mouse > movements become jerky and this can get very frustrating since it's my > main machine. > > (1) Has the method of syncing changed in recent versions of portage? > (2) What can I do to improve this issue? No clue about (1), but for (2) you could try "nice -n 12 emerge sync", which will run emerge and all its children at a low priority so as not to interfere with whatever else you're doing. (I use -n 12 because I have [EMAIL PROTECTED] and dnetc running at 13 and 19, respectively, and I want it to still have higher priority.) For more fun, create an alias called "nsync" to do a background sync for you. Hm, or you could call it "hanson"... ;) With nice, I can even run full compiles while playing games or watching videos, with little noticeable effect except when the niced processes are doing lots of disk I/O. :) -- // Carl Hudkins :: ICQ 5723399 :: PGP 50238D9E // // "I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month; // and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it." // --Thomas Jefferson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] starting/stopping snort
On Monday 17 March 2003 23:36, Robert Cole wrote: > What else is telling the init system that it's started? I can't find > anything in the /etc/init.d/snort script that will point me to anything > other than that pid file. Run almost any script from /etc/init.d/ with no arguments and you should see this among the usage help: zap Reset a service that is currently stopped, but still marked as started, to the stopped state. Basically for killing zombie services. So, "/etc/init.d/snort zap" should get it *really* stopped, as far as the system is concerned; then a normal "start" should work. Good luck, -- // Carl Hudkins :: ICQ 5723399 :: PGP 50238D9E // // "I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month; // and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it." // --Thomas Jefferson pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: [gentoo-user] :(
On Tuesday 11 March 2003 09:02, Field, Jeffrey Gilbert wrote: > Martin is right .. this is 99% chance it is framebuffer support. The > nvidia driver and the framebuffer do not work at the same time. (this > is documented by nvidia). So, if you have the framebuffer buildt as a > module, remove it from your autoload; or remove it from your kernel > configuration. It seems I do have framebuffer support built into this kernel... I will go turn it off before I do my next kernel build. The card is *not* from Nvidia (and from the traffic on this list, I'm thinking I should not buy one), and is probably too old to have FB support anyway. :) Thanks to you and the others for your advice! -- // Carl Hudkins :: ICQ 5723399 :: PGP 50238D9E // // "I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month; // and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it." // --Thomas Jefferson pgp0.pgp Description: signature
[gentoo-user] :(
Hi... Hopefully someone can help with a problem I've had since Day One of using Gentoo. It has to do with which virtual terminal X11 inhabits. In all other flavors of Linux I've used (RedHat, Mandrake, SuSE, Debian...), will bring me back to my X session after I've used to get a command prompt. In Gentoo, however, trying this results in a hard system freeze -- even does nothing! :( My monitor shows "No Signal!" and goes into a Suspend state because of this, and I actually have to power down using the buttons on my case, then power up and boot to regain control. Obviously this does not help my uptime, when programs like Xine and Frozen-Bubble can bring my system to its knees. FYI, even if nothing is going haywire at the moment, and I just drop to a console to do some administrative task, I still can't get back to my X session. (Needless to say, I've made much more extensive use of "su" from Konsole lately than I ever did before... I used to just to get a text console, do whatever as root, then back to X11.) If somebody knows how I can fix this, I would be very happy to share in that knowledge! If it helps, I'm on a dual-P3 system at 800MHz, Abit VP6 motherboard, 1GB RAM, Hercules Graphite Terminator Pro (2MB) graphics card.[1] I'm running Gentoo-sources kernel, version 2.4.19-gentoo-r10. Thanks for any assistance, [1] Yeah, I know some folks will think the graphics card is a weak link in some way... but Linux has been my main helper in getting the most out of my hardware over the years, and until I have some *need* for accelerated 3D first-person-shooter games, I will keep this card. When it blows up or melts, I will replace it with something more current, but not before then. :-p -- // Carl Hudkins :: ICQ 5723399 :: PGP 50238D9E // // "I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month; // and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it." // --Thomas Jefferson pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: [gentoo-user] how do patches work?
On Saturday 08 March 2003 20:48, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> Suppose that I have two patches from different sources. And I'm
> interested in both. Is it possible to get both sets of changes?
Yes, as long as they don't change the same things. If diff A changes
things that diff B also wants to change, the program ("patch") that's
looking for the things to change will not be able to find what it's
looking for, so diff B will fail -- either completely or by one or more
"hunks".
So if you've got one kernel patch involving filesystems, and another
related to networking, odds are you can apply them both. If they are
both trying to change the way memory paging is performed, you probably
won't succeed in applying both patches. :)
--
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Re: [gentoo-user] kmail question
On Tuesday 04 March 2003 04:40, Voicu Liviu wrote: > I use Kmail with pop3. > Why doesn Kmail delete emails from server when I empty the Trash? It's been a long time since I used KMail with a POP3 account (I use fetchmail for that now), but generally mail is downloaded from the POP3 server onto the local hard drive when you check for new mail. Therefore, when you move a mail to the Trash, it's moving around on *your* computer, not the server. If you do not have that POP account set to "Delete messages from server after fetching", all of your mail will stay on the server even after you've downloaded it. -- // Carl Hudkins :: ICQ 5723399 :: PGP 50238D9E // // ...blah... pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: [gentoo-user] XChat ACII problem
On Monday 03 March 2003 13:23, Susie wrote: > I'm having problems getting the full characterset to load. Recompiling > hasn't done anything, I haven't found anything in the readme file or > the ebuild that might give me any idea of whats causing this. Anyone > else have this issue or have some idea how I can fix it? Thanks. I'm not sure what you mean by the "full" character set loading (high-ASCII characters, locale-specific glyphs, etc.), but you might give the XChat mailing list archives a look, and if you don't find anything there, the folks on the XChat-users list can usually offer up an answer. XChat mailing list including pointer to archives: http://www.xchat.org/mailinglist.html If you ask on there, you'll definitely need to mention which version you're trying to run, as XChat is in flux these days after the recent release of version 2.0. :) Good luck! -- // Carl Hudkins :: ICQ 5723399 :: PGP 50238D9E // // "I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month; // and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it." // --Thomas Jefferson pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: [gentoo-user] debug use flag?
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 22:02, Ian Truelsen wrote: > Would it be possible to implement a debug use flag that could be used > to add debugging options to ebuilds so that one could get a backtrace > without having to manually build from the sources? Already possible. :) DEBUGBUILD=true emerge package I got this from /etc/make.globals, BTW, which contains the following: # Debug build -- if defined, binaries won't be stripped #DEBUGBUILD=true You could set it in make.conf, of course, but I just use it one package at a time because I don't want to debug *everything*. :) -- // Carl Hudkins :: ICQ 5723399 :: PGP 50238D9E // // "I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month; // and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it." // --Thomas Jefferson pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: [gentoo-user] kde 3.1 missing mouse clicks
On Saturday 22 February 2003 23:08, Collins wrote: > Much of the time when working in kmail, I find that left mouse clicks > can be ignored. If I'm previewing mail and click on the X button to > delete mail, chances are good that nothing will happen until I click > again. Similar results when I click on a url in the text (kmail only > requires one click to open the browser). The behavior is erratic but > frequent. > Has anyone seen this behavior elsewhere? Yes, I see it all the time. I attribute it to tooltips, since by default one pops up if I leave the mouse sitting somewhere for one second. Have you tried turning them off completely, to see what happens? I know, there are no tooltips for URLs, but the same behavior occurs for various objects that *do* have tooltips (like the "Close" button for windows, or "Check New Mail" and such) so I feel it's related. For some reason, I find myself learning a lot of keyboard shortcuts. :-p -- // Carl Hudkins :: ICQ 5723399 :: PGP 50238D9E // // "I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month; // and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it." // --Thomas Jefferson pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update make.globals
On Saturday 22 February 2003 21:42, el lodger wrote: > As you can see most of the changes are minor. FEATURES is > commented in my make.conf. I just use the system defaults. > RSYNC_TIMEOUT can be simply commented as well. That leaves only the > header line to change.Should > I replace the original make.globals with the new one or just edit > make.conf and > forget about the header? I'd say just allow it to be replaced with the "new" file, since it's only going back to what it was before the upgrade to 2.0.47-r2. I make no changes to make.globals, and have a few minor mods to make.conf. -- // Carl Hudkins :: ICQ 5723399 :: PGP 50238D9E // // "I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month; // and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it." // --Thomas Jefferson pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Odd KDE Desktop problem
On Saturday 22 February 2003 11:15, Don Smith wrote: > Now and then I get a situation where the all the desktops stop > responding. The mouse cursor changes to the hand that it uses to point > at links in a browser, all the icons are gone and the desktop menu will > not pop up. Sorry I don't have a solution, but I can tell you something like this happened to me (for the first time!) yesterday. Due to sunspots or something while I was sleeping, my Kweather applet was unable to get its updates for many hours. I awakened to find dozens of "Timeout on server" type error boxes (which didn't show up on the panel, and must've all been stacked in the same place, because it just looked like the one box) so I clicked "Ok" very fast until they were all gone. After I got done exercising my finger, I tried to switch to another desktop by clicking on the pager, but nothing happened. Some docked apps, like Licq, would respond, but the clock and most everything else was frozen. However, switching desktops by worked, and by clicking on the exposed desktop I got a menu so I could log out of KDE. Perhaps this is related to what happened to you. I'll listen in, in case someone has a clue about it. :) KDE 3.x has other oddities I don't like, such as after running for a few days the screensaver refuses to activate. Oh, and if I log in over VNC, the keyboard applet segfaults. :-p However, this doesn't seem to cause any actual harm. -- // Carl Hudkins :: ICQ 5723399 :: PGP 50238D9E // // "I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month; // and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it." // --Thomas Jefferson pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo babble
On Thursday 20 February 2003 00:43, Tyler Trafford wrote: > Redhat attempts to provide you with a complete, pre-made, OS solution. > > Gentoo provides the bare-bones, tools, and a big sign that says "Do > It Yourself" in large, menancing, script. Too funny! :) Of course, the good thing about this system is that once I've finished the do-it-myself part (setup), maintaining and upgrading is fairly painless. (Aside from the occasional mind-boggling mystery, such as "Where in the World is index.sgml?" ;) After a few more weeks of therapy, my psychologist tells me, I should be able to deal with the complete lack of cute little wizards. DIY isn't that bad -- for instance making an ebuild for a program that doesn't already have one is easier than making an RPM in the same situation! -- // Carl Hudkins :: ICQ 5723399 :: PGP 50238D9E // // "I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month; // and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it." // --Thomas Jefferson msg01840/pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Sloppy installs and a FAQ or two
On Monday 17 February 2003 13:41, Michael Jinks wrote: > I applied a kludge -- stopped the build process after ./configure and > added a line to the Makefile to touch the missing file immediately > before it's installed. That got me through installation of linc, only > to run into another missing index.sgml file in atk-1.2.2. > Is this a known issue? Yes: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15270 Short answer: If you don't *program* GNOME applications you can add "-doc" to your USE flags and get around the problem. This removes (AFAIK) the building of extra documentation generally useful only to developers. There's also a link there to a fixup procedure for the system's handling of SGML, which works for some people (but didn't for me). -- // Carl Hudkins :: ICQ 5723399 :: PGP 50238D9E // // "I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month; // and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it." // --Thomas Jefferson msg01616/pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Need to downgrade KDE; how is a specific version specified with emerge?
On Monday 17 February 2003 09:52, Adrian Head wrote: > So how do I specify only KDE3.0.5a? > > "emerge -u kde-3.0.5a" doesn't seem to work. Did you try "emerge =kde-3.0.5a" ? Here (3.1 installed, 3.0.5a has been removed) I get this: rassilon@panopticon rassilon $ emerge -p =kde-3.0.5a These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuildUD] kde-base/arts-1.0.5a [1.1.0] [ebuildUD] kde-base/kdelibs-3.0.5a-r1 [3.1] [ebuildUD] kde-base/kdegames-3.0.5a [3.1] [ebuildUD] kde-base/kdebase-3.0.5a-r2 [3.1] [ebuildUD] kde-base/kdenetwork-3.0.5a [3.1] [ebuildUD] kde-base/kdemultimedia-3.0.5a [3.1] [ebuildUD] kde-base/kdetoys-3.0.5a [3.1] [ebuildUD] kde-base/kdepim-3.0.5a [3.1] [ebuildUD] kde-base/kdeaddons-3.0.5a [3.1] [ebuildUD] kde-base/kdeadmin-3.0.5a [3.1] [ebuildUD] kde-base/kdeartwork-3.0.5a [3.1] [ebuildUD] kde-base/kdeutils-3.0.5a [3.1] [ebuildUD] kde-base/kdegraphics-3.0.5a [3.1] [ebuildUD] kde-base/kdeedu-3.0.5a [3.1] [ebuildUD] kde-base/kde-3.0.5a [3.1] It looks to me like that would install the whole thing. Good luck! -- // Carl Hudkins :: ICQ 5723399 :: PGP 50238D9E // // "I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month; // and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it." // --Thomas Jefferson msg01604/pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: [gentoo-user] index.sgml
On Sunday 16 February 2003 14:22, gabriel wrote: > http://cvs.gentoo.org/~satai/sgmlfix.html > > that fixt everything for me Didn't help me, but reading that and related bugs brought up the question of what, exactly, the "doc" useflag does. I had enabled it, because I generally think documentation is a good thing to have, but is it only stuff like API docs? (In other words, not user documentation.) If it's only developer-related stuff, I guess I could turn it off and not miss anything. What's the word? -- // Carl Hudkins :: ICQ 5723399 :: PGP 50238D9E // // "I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month; // and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it." // --Thomas Jefferson msg01562/pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: [gentoo-user] index.sgml
On Monday 10 February 2003 16:47, Alcino Dall'Igna Junior wrote: > -- Installing ./html/up.png > -- Installing ./html/index.sgml > /bin/install: cannot stat `./html/index.sgml': No such file or > directory make[4]: *** [install-data-local] Error 1 Same thing happening here... hm, this upgrade is going to take a long time... :-p -- // Carl Hudkins :: ICQ 5723399 :: PGP 50238D9E // // "I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month; // and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it." // --Thomas Jefferson msg01518/pgp0.pgp Description: signature
[gentoo-user] Minor query: KDE + ghostscript + Asian fonts?
Hi... First off, this is a *very* minor issue for me, one that most people wouldn't even worry about. However, not being most people, I am wondering what is required to get printed output of Web pages, e-mails, etc. containing Asian fonts to look like it does on screen. (Note: I cannot even read any Asian languages! I just feel that if I can *see* it, I should be able to print it. I work in the quick-printing industry; maybe that has something to do with it. :) If, for instance, I go to the Japanese version of the Gentoo Weekly News, Konqueror displays a lot of Japanese characters -- as one would expect. If I try to print the page, however, I get a jumble of ASCII characters that does not look pretty. Examining the PostScript produced shows this: "% Asian postscript font requested. Using Verdana-Bold-H" So, after about an hour of Googling and not finding much of relevance, I thought I would ask here for advice or suggestions. Is there a package I should emerge, or a setting I should change, that would help here? I'll appreciate any information someone could provide! (Next time I'm bored, maybe I'll try printing in Arabic... I just think it's fun to be able to do this stuff, even if I don't need to.) -- // Carl Hudkins :: ICQ 5723399 :: PGP 50238D9E // // "I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month; // and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it." // --Thomas Jefferson msg01492/pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge ports
On Friday 14 February 2003 18:57, Eric Miller wrote: > I am behind a firewall. Exactly which ports do I need > to have open to use emerge? It may depend on your firewall (such as whether it uses state tracking), but here I haven't done anything special. AFAIK, allowing FTP and HTTP(S) should be enough. The rsync protocol (according to the man page) uses port 873, so you may need to open that one as well. -- // Carl Hudkins :: ICQ 5723399 :: PGP 50238D9E // // "I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month; // and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it." // --Thomas Jefferson msg01419/pgp0.pgp Description: signature
[gentoo-user] Cuecat?
Hi, everyone... Anybody remember those Cuecat thingies they were giving away at Radio Shack a couple years ago? (If you don't, it's basically a hand-held barcode scanner that plugs into a PS/2 keyboard port via a Y-cable.) Well, I have one sitting here and I am hoping to be able to use it for a large inventory project -- 1000+ books, magazines, and comics, all of which have a handy barcode. Currently, when I swipe a barcode with it, nothing at all happens. I'd expect some kind of code to spew out as if I had typed it in, since this thing *is* plugged into the keyboard port. One possible hitch is that I use software remapping to change a cheap normal keyboard into a lovely Dvorak layout. (Meaning my /etc/rc.conf has a line that says KEYMAP="dvorak", and I also use the Dvorak map in KDE.) However, since I get absolutely *nothing* when I try to scan a barcode now, I'm guessing the Cuecat's output is somehow separated from normal keyboard characters... which leads to the guess that it could somehow be made to work. If someone has a clue I could borrow, I'd be very happy. :) -- // Carl Hudkins :: ICQ 5723399 :: PGP 50238D9E // // "I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month; // and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it." // --Thomas Jefferson msg01228/pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -u question
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 09:45, Joshua Moore-Oliva wrote: > -u means upgrade. More specifically, -u looks at all of the dependencies of the specified package (or group) to see if any of them has an upgrade available -- whether needed or not. Normal "emerge somepackage" only checks the package itself, and will only display dependency upgrades if they are required to bring the specified package up to the new level. -- // Carl Hudkins :: ICQ 5723399 :: PGP 50238D9E // // "I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month; // and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it." // --Thomas Jefferson msg01163/pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Using prozilla with portage
On Sunday 09 February 2003 08:53, Theofilos Intzoglou wrote: > Well I use: > > GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/linux/gentoo > ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/ http://gentoo.linux.no/ > http://mirrors.sunsite.dk/gentoo/ > ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo > ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/distfiles/ " I also have multiple mirrors configured, but that wasn't what I was asking about. Prozilla is a downloader that uses multiple connections to speed things up. It should be able to download 25% of a file from ftp.tu-clausthal.de, while getting another 25% from ftp.snt.utwente.nl, 25% from mirrors.sunsite.dk, etc. Currently it's just using one at a time. Do you know how to change this behavior, or is it because prozilla can't talk to the ftp-search engines for whatever reason? -- // Carl Hudkins :: ICQ 5723399 :: PGP 50238D9E // // "I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month; // and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it." // --Thomas Jefferson msg01042/pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: [gentoo-user] KMail/OpenPGP still not working right even after fixes..
On Saturday 08 February 2003 10:19, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> There are two pgp modes in kmail. The plugin mode that can read all
> kinds of gpg and the builtin/legacy mode. The options you checked
> belong to the legacy mode. To configure the plugins go to the plugins
> page, select the plugin and click on the configure button.
[big sigh of relief]
Ok, I *totally* missed the fact that there was a "Configure" button for
the plugins! This makes a lot more sense now. :)
(Except for the fact that I still don't get a preview of whatever I've
just (hopefully) signed/encrypted... oh well, *that* must be a KMail
bug.)
Thanks, Paul!
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[gentoo-user] Using prozilla with portage
Hi, all... During the ibiblio slowness surrounding the release of KDE 3.1, I changed my default downloader to prozilla, and I do believe it helped things a little. However, I felt bad about it because now, instead of one connection to ibiblio.org (for example) I'm hogging *four* connections to the same place! That seems like the wrong way to use a downloader that's capable of multi-source downloads, doesn't it? So, my question is how do I configure it so that I can connect to four *different* sites when doing emerge? Also, it *never* connects to either of the ftpsearch sites given on the web site and in the default config file; every attempt results in an error. Does anyone know of search sites that actually work? -- // Carl Hudkins :: ICQ 5723399 :: PGP 50238D9E // // "I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month; // and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it." // --Thomas Jefferson msg00807/pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: [gentoo-user] KMail/OpenPGP still not working right even after fixes..
On Saturday 01 February 2003 15:37, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > I made a howto for aegypten+kmail: > http://www.cs.kun.nl/~pauldv/kmailgentoo.php Very helpful page -- told me exactly what I needed to know! All of the requirements are in portage, though most are masked; after going through the procedure I can verify signatures in KMail with no problems. :) I selected the pinentry-gtk tool after reading about a bug in the Qt version on this list, and it works for signing & encrypting mail. However, some oddities remain -- at least compared to the way things used to work in another distribution: Even though I have "Show signed/encrypted text after composing" checked, it is not shown. Though I have *not* checked "Automatically encrypt messages whenever possible", the "Encrypt Message" button is activated whenever I reply to a mail from a person whose key I have. This would be ok for personal mail, but I could easily post an encrypted mail to this list if I don't notice! :/ Does someone know if there is a way to fix the behavior, or should I report it as a KMail bug? Thanks, -- // Carl Hudkins :: ICQ 5723399 :: PGP 50238D9E // // "I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month; // and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it." // --Thomas Jefferson msg00805/pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: [gentoo-user] SHOREwall :)
On Thursday 06 February 2003 12:32, Cal Evans wrote: > I'm an idiot...SHOREWALL, not smoothwall. Well then, I can tell you I'm happy with it so far -- just on a single PC here, not a network. Installation was pretty simple, once I got past the requirement that state tracking must be enabled in the kernel! (I guess it should have been obvious, but it took me a very long time to figure out.) It does seem to have been masked forever... perhaps this is to make sure nobody installs it unless they are certain they want it. :) -- // Carl Hudkins :: ICQ 5723399 :: PGP 50238D9E // // "I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month; // and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it." // --Thomas Jefferson msg00802/pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: [gentoo-user] problems with quotas and pwlib
On Thursday 06 February 2003 01:53, Alexei G. Malinin wrote: > Today I had upgraded my gentoo box to stable, but qoutas did not work. > And and "emerge pwlib" does not work. > > > I have such packages as: > > sys-apps/quota > sys-kernel/crypto-sources > sys-kernel/linux-headers You did not mention whether your kernel supports quotas. I'm not a big expert on quota usage, but I *do* know that in order to work, they must also be enabled in your kernel. Assuming you compiled the kernel that's running at the moment, try this: root # grep QUOTA /usr/src/linux/.config CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_QUOTA=m # CONFIG_QUOTA is not set If you also get "CONFIG_QUOTA is not set", you will need to change your kernel configuration and rebuild it. If that doesn't solve your problem, perhaps someone else will have the answer. :) -- // Carl Hudkins :: ICQ 5723399 :: PGP 50238D9E // // "I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month; // and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it." // --Thomas Jefferson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
