[gentoo-user] DVD Authoring Tools
Does anyone know of any GUI tools for DVD authoring? Something comparable to K3b that does data and video would be perfect. Are dvdauthor and dvdrtools the only options? Thanks -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] USB 2.0 Trouble
Patrick Marquetecken wrote: When i try of make a new filesystem on a new usb 2.0 mass device my laptop just freezes. I had this also when i power on a digital camera that is also usb 2.0. My laptop has usb 2.0. I'm using without problems a usb 1.0 mass device and mice. What can i do to avoid this? I'm using the gentoo-sources 2.4.20-gentoo-r5 Are your USB 2.0 ports based on VIA devices? There have been lots of VIA-related enhancements to the USB 2.0 code in later 2.4.21 kernels, so you might try a later kernel. (or an NEC-based card) Seth [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Spell checker for Mozilla
On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 09:28:22AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 12:20:12AM -0700, Seth Zirin wrote: > > > > Are there any convenient ebuilds to > > add a spell checker to Mozilla? > > > > See http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/ Yes, I am familiar with http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/. I am looking for an existing ebuild if there is one. Seth -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Spell checker for Mozilla
Sorry if it is a FAQ. I'm thinking of switching from Evolution to Mozilla Mail but see that there is no default spell checker. Are there any convenient ebuilds to add a spell checker to Mozilla? Thanks, Seth -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Syncronizing directories
On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 19:39, Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos wrote: > I have a situation I don't know how to solve it. I have a PC and a > laptop usually connected to each other and each of them have a directory > that should be syncronized. I mean, when I change the contents of the > directory in one place, issuing a command in the other place should make > it up to date and vice versa. I think you know what I mean. Is there any > straightforward way to do this? Have a look at the man page for rsync. Rsync can run over ssh between two Linux systems and can synchronize a Linux directory with a Windows directory if the Windows directory is mounted using a "mount -t smbfs" command. There are many other ways, but none superior to rsync. Seth [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Fork of Gentoo?
On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 07:46, Chip Marshall wrote: > This is probably slightly off topic, but for an interesting overview > of the forking history of UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems, check > out http://www.levenez.com/unix/history.html > > It doesn't cover all the various Linux distros, since that would > probably take up another 7 pages. Yeah, but it covers all sorts of nearly insignificant point releases for Linux, SunOS and BSD while it excludes major architecturally different versions of System V (e.g., segment swapping vs. demand paging) in the SVR2 era. It also does not cover the heavy cross pollination of System V and Solaris that resulted in the original SVR4 and Solaris 2. A bunch of vendor specific flavors of UNIX with unique architectures (Gould, Auragen Systems, Amdahl UTS, Tandem Integrity S2, AT&T Apache, etc.) are also missing. The mid-1980's AT&T Apache version is especially interesting because it ran as a single instance on distributed clusters with both loosely and tightly coupled multiprocessors. Seth -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Backup to windowsXP
On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 01:17, Paul Stear wrote: > My wifes windows XP machine is almost redundant and I have been trying to > backup my gentoo box over the network onto a spare disk in the other machine. > I am just lost I cannot get windows to see gentoo. > I have managed to transfer files the other way i.e. windoes to gentoo. I sometimes temporarily store large things on a Windows box with lots of space and do this: 1) Share a directory on the Windows box with appropriate share security and permissions. 2) Mount that directory on the Linux box with the command: mount -t smbfs -o username=ME //WINBOX/DIR /m1 ME is my user name on the Windows box, WINBOX is the network name of the box and DIR is the name of the shared directory. The mount command prompts for the password. 3) Use rsync to copy the tree of stuff from Linux to Windows: rsync -avP SRCDIR /m1 4) Unmount the Windows directory: umount /m1 I don't normally leave Samba running so I find this easier than starting Samba, adding a new share, moving data and then deleting the share. Good luck. Seth -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo/m68k
On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 20:00, Zach Lowry wrote: > I realize that m68k is 10-years old, > but it still has several uses, The m68k is a lot older than ten years! I was programming 68000's back in 1979-1980 and had a job porting V7 UNIX to them in 1983. Seth -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] stop & continue merging
On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 09:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Control-z is typically suspend. To later be resumed with the fg command. > That might work. I've never suspended a compile myself so I can't say for > sure. I use control-z a lot if I am reading my email and need to check > something. It may or may not have deeper complication with more exotic > programs. But if you find it works, by all means let me know. If you run the emerge under screen(1) you can pause it with Control-Z and later resume it from the same or even a different login session. Screen is great for managing long-running tasks that you might want to monitor from several places. Seth [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Cisco 352 PCMCIA Drivers
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 16:21, Jason Tedesco wrote: > > Did you try the drivers from net-wireless/linux-wlan-ng? > > The reason why I haven't used the wlan-ng drivers is because I thought they where > drives for the Prism chipset. > > Just as another note Cisco cards are not on the wlan-ng compatibility list, so I > don't think I'll be trying it. > http://www.linux-wlan.com/linux-wlan/index.html#Compatibility The Cisco 352 card is not compatible with the linux-wlan-ng drivers because Cisco cards use a non-Prism2 MAC controller internally. The correct drivers to use are airo.o and airo_cs.o. Newer versions of these airo drivers work fine with the wireless-tools iwconfig and related commands. I don't recall whether the kernel now comes with the latest drivers or if you need to still get them from the corresponding sourceforge project. Seth [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How can I permanently accept unstable ebuilds?
On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 01:18, Janne Johansson wrote: > > I'd like to test gcc-3.3 and emerged sys-devel/gcc/gcc-3.3.ebuild. > > However, when I try to recompile another package, emerge -p would > > downgrade gcc first. How can I keep gcc-3.3, without upgrading all > > other packages by issuing ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86? Best regards, > > You could pin it in the world file It that a superior method to copying the desired ebuild to the local portage overlay and then removing the "~x86" from the KEYWORDS? I've used this latter method and wonder whether the local ebuild will be replaced if/when a higher revision one appears in the stable tree... Seth -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] freevo
On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 16:06, Shawn wrote: > Is there going to possibly be a freevo in portage? They seem to support > ebuild, but I haven't looked into it too feverishly. > > If not in portage, does anyone know how to get something I can drop into > /usr/local/portage? I've always wanted to try it out. I found the following script a while back when I googled and have used it to successfully installed freevo on several gentoo systems: http://freevo.sourceforge.net/gentoo/rsync-freevo Seth [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] DVD Drive in Freevo?
What configuration is necessary to convince Freevo that my DVD drive is a DVD and not a CDROM? Freevo refuses to play movies off the DVD drive but standalone mplayer works fine with the appropriate options. Linking /dev/dvd to /dev/cdrom and adding a /dev/dvd entry to the ROM_DRIVES list in the Freevo config does not help. Do I need something in /etc/fstab perhaps? If so, what filesystem type? iso9660? Seth [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] ERROR: dev-php/php-4.3.1 failed
Forgive me if this is a known issue, but I'm a Gentoo newbie... On a system with a current sync of portage, I get the following error during an 'emerge php': checking whether to enable pcntl support... yes checking for fork... no configure: error: pcntl: fork() not supported by this platform !!! ERROR: dev-php/php-4.3.1 failed. !!! Function econf, Line 273, Exitcode 1 !!! econf failed Is there a quick easy solution, or do I need to debug this myself? Thanks, Seth [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
