Re: [gentoo-user] emerge funnies.

2003-02-21 Thread Matt Tucker
-- Jonathan Gill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thusly: > Trying to do a world update and I get told that ispell is masked (yup > it is...or at least the emacs one.) and it cant upgrade things. > Calculating world dependencies | > !!! all ebuilds that could satisfy "app-xemacs/ispell" have been > m

Re: [gentoo-user] bouncing messages?

2003-02-21 Thread Susie
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 23:59:06 -0800 Ted Ozolins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Its only bouncing mail being forwarded to what may now be a > non-existing email address. I have gotten a few of those but it does > get remedied. > > -- > Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO) > Westbank, B. C. Ok thanks. Because I'v

[gentoo-user] usb mouse

2003-02-21 Thread Stef
I have a problem with getting a usb mouse to work, no matter what i do xfree gives me the message, that 'usb' is an unknown protocol. I am using Xfree86 4.2.1 on a 2.4.19-r10 gentoo kernel, running on a laptop, usb 1.1 does anyone have an idea on how to fix that? Thanks. Stef -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge funnies.

2003-02-21 Thread Christian Herzyk
Jonathan Gill wrote: Trying to do a world update and I get told that ispell is masked (yup it is...or at least the emacs one.) and it cant upgrade things. The system is a gentoo 1.4rc1 with all stable packages, no accept_keywords used at all. I did emerge a while back ispell, and it seems that

Re: [gentoo-user] usb mouse

2003-02-21 Thread Robert Arroyo i Andreu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 El Viernes, 21 de Febrero de 2003 09:14, Stef escribió: > I have a problem with getting a usb mouse to work, no matter what i do > xfree gives me the message, that 'usb' is an unknown protocol. > I am using Xfree86 4.2.1 on a 2.4.19-r10 gentoo kernel,

AW: [gentoo-user] usb mouse

2003-02-21 Thread Stef
I have tried IMPS/2 but all the mouse does is move to the lower left of the screen no matter in which direction I move it, same goes for the other protocols available, the mouse doesn't work at all or it just randomly moves around the screen. cat /dev/usb/hid/hiddev0 works but with x the mouse does

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge funnies.

2003-02-21 Thread Jonathan Gill
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks to Christian and Matt for the pointers on this one. Seems that there was a package called ps-print that was/is dependent on ispell. Ive removed ispell and text-modes from the system and the world file and also removed ps-print from the syste

Re: AW: [gentoo-user] usb mouse

2003-02-21 Thread Dagan McGregor
([<> On 21 Feb 2003 Stef did profess: <>]) > I have tried IMPS/2 but all the mouse does is move to the lower left of the > screen no matter in which direction I move it, same goes for the other protocols > available, the mouse doesn't work at all or it just randomly moves around the > screen. cat

Re: AW: [gentoo-user] usb mouse

2003-02-21 Thread Toby Dickenson
On Friday 21 February 2003 8:34 am, Stef wrote: > I have tried IMPS/2 but all the mouse does is move to the lower left of the > screen no matter in which direction I move it, same goes for the other > protocols available, the mouse doesn't work at all or it just randomly > moves around the screen.

Re: [gentoo-user] mount /mnt/cdrom failing???

2003-02-21 Thread Alex Walker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 17 February 2005 18:50, Steven wrote: > Hello all. You do realise your system clock is out by 2 years don't you? Alex - -- There is a Massachusetts law requiring all dogs to have their hind legs tied during the month of April. [I tak

Re: [gentoo-user] kde 3.1 konqueror keyboard shortcuts

2003-02-21 Thread Mike Williams
On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 00:11, Norberto Bensa wrote: > On Thursday 20 February 2003 07:44 pm, Mike Williams wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 22:42, Collins wrote: > > > 2. Can shortcuts be added? > > 2) Yep > > How? The answer to 1 answered that. -- Mike Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.

Re: [gentoo-user] USE one more time!

2003-02-21 Thread Jonathan Chocron
I have noticed the same thing, it is due to the export CONFIG_PROTECT="-*" instruction that you pass right before emerging portage. I only see one solution : you can 'export CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/make.conf"' Hope this helps Jonathan --- "Brett I. Holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > I

Re: [gentoo-user] USE one more time!

2003-02-21 Thread Mike Williams
On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 01:36, Brett I.Holcomb wrote: > 1. Is my edited /etc/make.conf really used during bootstrap. > > 2. Is the USE variable used for stage 1? Sort of. If you look in the bootstrap script there are (were?) references to 'cleanup', this, I believe, handles the moving around of m

Re: [gentoo-user] kde and superuser

2003-02-21 Thread Mike Williams
On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 03:58, Johnh wrote: > Anyone know what kde does internally when you select filemanager > superuser mode? It will ask you for the root password. You can run any program this way, with kdesu. -- Mike Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digital

[gentoo-user] Suggestion to portage

2003-02-21 Thread Bruno Lustosa
I just came to think of a very useful feature to portage, and I'm sure someone has to have thought of it in the past. When we emerge a lot of packages, emerge will calculate dependencies, make a list of packages to build (in order), and then begin the cycle: - download package #1 - build/install p

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestion to portage

2003-02-21 Thread Mike Williams
On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 09:34, Bruno Lustosa wrote: [snip] > Wouldn't it be smarter if it would split this in 2 threads, one for > downloads and one for builds? > So, it would download package #1, and as soon as it finished, it would > start building package #1 AND downloading package #2. Downloading

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestion to portage

2003-02-21 Thread Bruno Lustosa
* Mike Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [21-02-2003 06:39]: > The problem I see is, what happens when #1 finishes compiling, but #2 > hasn't finished downloading? But I'm sure a smart developer type could > get around that with some fancy threading type stuff, or something. What happens today when #1

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestion to portage

2003-02-21 Thread Joshua Moore-Oliva
I believe this functionality already exists.. a -f option seems for some reason stuck in my mind. I've never usedit, but I've heard it mentioned int he forums try searching there. Josh. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

AW: AW: [gentoo-user] usb mouse

2003-02-21 Thread Stef
When i try /dev/usbmouse as the device it doesn't do anything at all neither cat nor X, same goes for the ExplorerPS/2 protocol, with /dev/usbmouse nothing happens and with /dev/usb/hid/hiddev0 it just jumps around the screen randomly yes it is a Microsoft IntelliExplorer, but I have the same p

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestion to portage

2003-02-21 Thread Mike Williams
On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 09:43, Bruno Lustosa wrote: > What happens today when #1 finishes compiling? It starts and waits for > #2 to finish downloading. It would be the same, just a little faster. > Instead of starting #2 from the begining, it would already be started, > and would just need to wait f

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestion to portage

2003-02-21 Thread Mike Williams
On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 09:48, Joshua Moore-Oliva wrote: > I believe this functionality already exists.. a -f option seems for some > reason stuck in my mind. > > I've never usedit, but I've heard it mentioned int he forums try searching > there. -f fetches all tarballs, for later compilation. I u

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange problem with su/pam

2003-02-21 Thread Sam Mason
Susie wrote: >I >found that postfix or exim also hangs when trying to deliver the mail >then ability to log in and su goes all wacky. Sounds like the something to do with your resolver (probably DNS); when your email needs to be delivered, it uses the resolver to find out where to send the mail.

[gentoo-user] Some help with fstab

2003-02-21 Thread aSe
I'm going through my first install and I'm running into some issues setting up fstab. I see the examples but, i've got some questions. What i've setup is. hda1 and hda3 are both ext3, hda1 is /boot and hda3 is /. hda2 is swap. What would be a good set of lines i should use? what do the number

Re: [gentoo-user] Some help with fstab

2003-02-21 Thread Robert Arroyo i Andreu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 El Viernes, 21 de Febrero de 2003 12:49, aSe escribió: > I'm going through my first install and I'm running into some issues > setting up fstab. I see the examples but, i've got some questions. > > What i've setup is. hda1 and hda3 are both ext3, hda1

RE: [gentoo-user] Some help with fstab

2003-02-21 Thread aSe
>El Viernes, 21 de Febrero de 2003 12:49, aSe escribió: >> I'm going through my first install and I'm running into some issues >> setting up fstab. I see the examples but, i've got some questions. >> >> What i've setup is. hda1 and hda3 are both ext3, hda1 is /boot and >> hda3 is /. hda2 is swap. >

Re: [gentoo-user] XFree-4.2.99 compile error

2003-02-21 Thread Peter Lemken
On Friday 21 February 2003 08:43, Mr R A Mercer wrote: > On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Peter Lemken wrote: > > > > > System is a PIV mobile, CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe", > > MAKEOPTS="-j4" > > Don't know if its related, but the recommended setting for MAKEOPTS is > CPUS+1, ie on a uniprocessor syst

RE: [gentoo-user] perc3/di aacraid problem

2003-02-21 Thread Bjornar B. Larsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > But did you compile the driver for your raid card into the kernel??? Thank you very much for answering. I thought I'd compiled the driver I needed into the kernel, and the other adaptec drivers as modules just in case. It turns out I'd enabled all adaptec drivers as mod

[gentoo-user] Curious about updates to modlogan (MODular LOGfile ANalyzer)

2003-02-21 Thread Eric Livingston
Seems like a good package for flexible logfile tracking/analysis, but the latest ebuild (0.7.18) is way out of date (latest from the site is 0.8.4) and the Changelog has a ton of stuff in it. Is anyone actively keeping the ebuild(s) for this package up to date? Thanks, Eric -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual PIII 933 Stage 1 build time

2003-02-21 Thread brett holcomb
Yes, I think so. I wish I could get the LiveCD to work. It's been 10 hours so far. On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 02:19:05 -0300 Bruno Lustosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * Brett I. Holcomb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20-02-2003 22:40]: Anyone have any idea how long stage 1 should take on a dual PIII 933 with 2

Re: [gentoo-user] USE one more time!

2003-02-21 Thread brett holcomb
This is during stage 1 - I don't set the CONFIG_PROTECT until AFTER stage 1. On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 10:26:07 +0100 (CET) Jonathan Chocron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have noticed the same thing, it is due to the export CONFIG_PROTECT="-*" instruction that you pass right before emerging portage. I

Re: [gentoo-user] USE one more time!

2003-02-21 Thread brett holcomb
Thanks. I figured bootstrap would want a solid, known set of parameters. Now if I can figure out why building stage 1 takes so long! On 21 Feb 2003 09:27:46 + Mike Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 01:36, Brett I.Holcomb wrote: 1. Is my edited /etc/make.conf real

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestion to portage

2003-02-21 Thread Stefan Jones
Mike Williams said: > On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 09:48, Joshua Moore-Oliva wrote: >> I believe this functionality already exists.. a -f option seems for >> some reason stuck in my mind. >> >> I've never usedit, but I've heard it mentioned int he forums try >> searching there. > > -f fetches all tarball

[gentoo-user] installing linux on sony vaio pcg-r505

2003-02-21 Thread nandrats
I just bought the vaio pcg-r505 and tried to install linux. Unfortunately, the kernel doesn't not recognize the i.LINK CDROM drive in the docking station. Has anyone an idea of how to install it anyway or to make the CDROM drive available for linux. The next problem is that Windows XP doesn't le

Re: [gentoo-user] installing linux on sony vaio pcg-r505

2003-02-21 Thread Lars Geiger
On Friday, February 21, 2003 at 07:31:21 [GMT -0600], nandrats wrote: > I just bought the vaio pcg-r505 and tried to install linux. > Unfortunately, the kernel doesn't not recognize the i.LINK CDROM drive > in the docking station. Has anyone an idea of how to install it anyway > or to make the CDR

Re: [gentoo-user] kde 3.1 konqueror keyboard shortcuts

2003-02-21 Thread Stephen Boulet
What program gets exected by the "configure shortcuts" menu? I don't seem to have one under "Settings". On Thursday 20 February 2003 06:01 pm, Mike Williams wrote: > On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 23:58, Collins wrote: > > Damn, I feel stupid. I spent a long time looking under Configure > > Koqueror and

Re: [gentoo-user] USE one more time!

2003-02-21 Thread Matt Tucker
-- Jonathan Chocron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thusly: > I have noticed the same thing, it is due to the export > CONFIG_PROTECT="-*" instruction that you pass right > before emerging portage. I only see one solution : > you can 'export CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/make.conf"' > > Hope this helps A

Re: [gentoo-user] kde 3.1 konqueror keyboard shortcuts

2003-02-21 Thread Mike Williams
On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 14:00, Stephen Boulet wrote: > What program gets exected by the "configure shortcuts" menu? I don't seem to > have one under "Settings". As far as I can see, it's just another thread of konq... I certainly don't think I have anything unusual installed, just kdelibs, base, an

[gentoo-user] XFree86/4.2 / HPOmnibook 6000 / VT_GETMODE failed

2003-02-21 Thread Martyn J. Pearce
Greetings, I'm currently experiencing a sharp lack of joy whilst trying to install Gentoo on a HP Omnibook 6000. All was well until I tried to fire up X. I'm continually hitting VT_GETMODE failed which is somewhat cryptic. I can find nothing on this via google, nothing on the XFree86 site,

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge funnies.

2003-02-21 Thread Matt Tucker
-- Jonathan Gill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thusly: > Thanks to Christian and Matt for the pointers on this one. > > Seems that there was a package called ps-print that was/is dependent > on ispell. Ive removed ispell and text-modes from the system and > the world file and also removed ps-print

[gentoo-user] mplayer and rtc

2003-02-21 Thread Ladanyi Akos
Hi! What is the correct way to set the permissions of /dev/misc/rtc in order that mplayer can use it. Simply add read permission using chmod, or some devfsd.conf tweaking is needed? Akos PS: Sorry if this is evident, but I don't know much about devfs... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] mplayer and rtc

2003-02-21 Thread Sipos Tibor
(From MPlayer docs:) If you are running kernel 2.4.19pre8 or later you can adjust the maximum RTC frequency for normal users through the /proc filesystem. Use this command to enable RTC for normal users: echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq Regards, Sipi -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing lis

Re: [gentoo-user] USE one more time!

2003-02-21 Thread brett holcomb
Thank you, Matt, for the explanation. That clears it up. My PIII dual 933 is on glibc after 10 hours so maybe sometime this week it will finish! On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 06:13:23 -0800 Matt Tucker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -- Jonathan Chocron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thusly: I have noticed the

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer and rtc

2003-02-21 Thread brett holcomb
I would say set permissions in /etc/devfs.d/myfile.conf (you will have to create the file) and put a REGISTER for permissions statement in. You can use the sound devices as a model. On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 15:29:24 +0100 Ladanyi Akos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi! What is the correct way to set

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange problem with su/pam

2003-02-21 Thread Susie
On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 11:46:49 + Sam Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sounds like the something to do with your resolver (probably DNS); > when your email needs to be delivered, it uses the resolver to find > out where to send the mail. And when you log in, it will do a reverse > lookup to s

Re: [gentoo-user] installing linux on sony vaio pcg-r505

2003-02-21 Thread Ulrich Plate
Lars Geiger wrote: > On Friday, February 21, 2003 at 07:31:21 [GMT -0600], nandrats wrote: > > > I just bought the vaio pcg-r505 and tried to install linux. > > Unfortunately, the kernel doesn't not recognize the i.LINK CDROM > > drive in the docking station. Has anyone an idea of how to install

[gentoo-user] two-wheel mouse

2003-02-21 Thread Peter Gantner
Hi! I have a strange mouse by fujitsu, called the TouchBird. Instead of the middle mouse button is has a small touchpad, which functions as a third button by double tapping, and as two mouse wheels (up-down, left-right) when dragging the finger. I got the up-down wheel functionality and the t

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestion to portage

2003-02-21 Thread Alex Walker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 21 February 2003 09:34, Bruno Lustosa wrote: > Wouldn't it be smarter if it would split this in 2 threads, one for > downloads and one for builds? Well, you can kinda force it to do this if you're careful... in one terminal run: emerge -uf

[gentoo-user] Re: portage downgrade?

2003-02-21 Thread Jehan
Susie wrote: So I don't know if there is some weirdness amoungst the servers or if actually there is a problem with the newer version of portage and they want us to return to the earlier version. That would be cool to get an announcement when a package is downgraded so that we know if it's a pa

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm login failed - pam errors *SOLVED*

2003-02-21 Thread Roger Miliker
On Wednesday 19 February 2003 18:12, Roger Miliker wrote: > Hello, > > I recently emerged a new glibc, kdelibs and kdebase (no 3.0.x versions > around). > > I cannot use kdm to login anymore - it just says login failed. > > root@linux roger # cat /var/log/syslog |grep kdm > > shows: > . > Feb

[gentoo-user] parallel emerges

2003-02-21 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Is it safe to run to separate emerge's if they have nothing in common? Or even if they do have something in common? For instance, would I be able to run 'emerge -u world' on one terminal, and run 'emerge whatever' on another terminal where the second one requires something that would be updated

[gentoo-user] Dell Latitude c840/grub problems

2003-02-21 Thread Wouter Depuydt
Hello, I'm Having problems installing grub on a Dell Latitude c840. Everything builds/installs fine but upon first reboot, grub hangs: "loading grub ..." and there it stops. My disk layout on a 40GB harddisk: hda2 : NTFS - Windows2000 hda1: extended partition hda5: linux swap hda6: Gentoo linux

Re: [gentoo-user] Dell Latitude c840/grub problems

2003-02-21 Thread brett holcomb
You set the timeout but did you set prompt for LILO so it will allow you to enter the image you want booted? On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 17:40:02 + "Wouter Depuydt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, Installing Lilo allowed me to boot Gentoo, but I could not choose booting Windows. Lilo automatica

Re: [gentoo-user] Dell Latitude c840/grub problems

2003-02-21 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Wouter Depuydt wrote: Installing Lilo allowed me to boot Gentoo, but I could not choose booting Windows. Lilo automatically booted the default image (Gentoo Linux) although I had the timeout set to 1000. Did you remember the 'prompt' keywork in your lilo.conf? -- Andrew Gaffney -- [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] bouncing messages?

2003-02-21 Thread Daniel A. Segel
> I'm wondering why I got the warning saying messages to me have been > bouncing. I've not blocked anyone and frankly I have been recieving > mail... Anyone else get the warning? I received a buonce message this morning for 3 or 4 messages that were sent 2 weeks ago. It's possible they did bounc

Re: [gentoo-user] parallel emerges

2003-02-21 Thread Daniel A. Segel
> Is it safe to run to separate emerge's if they have nothing in common? > Or even if they do have something in common? For instance, would I be > able to run 'emerge -u world' on one terminal, and run 'emerge whatever' > on another terminal where the second one requires something that would > be

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: portage downgrade?

2003-02-21 Thread Ajay Sharma
> PS: and the same way, a changelog would be useful when upgrading to > know about all the cool new feature. There are changelogs, just look in /usr/portage/i-dont-remember/portage/Changelog There are Changelog's for every package. later, ajay ---

Re: [gentoo-user] bouncing messages?

2003-02-21 Thread Susie
On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 09:52:22 -0800 (PST) "Daniel A. Segel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I received a buonce message this morning for 3 or 4 messages that were > sent 2 weeks ago. It's possible they did bounce because I might have > been playing with my delivery options at that time, but it was >

Re: [gentoo-user] bouncing messages?

2003-02-21 Thread brett holcomb
I think this happens when someone has a problem with their ISP or their mailbox. It fills up and bounces messages. I had problems with a former ISP who had problems with their server mirroring and it bounced messages thinking my mailbox was full. On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 10:16:33 -0800 Susie <[EM

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: portage downgrade?

2003-02-21 Thread Susie
On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 10:14:01 -0800 (PST) Ajay Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > PS: and the same way, a changelog would be useful when upgrading to > > know about all the cool new feature. > > There are changelogs, just look in > /usr/portage/i-dont-remember/portage/Changelog > > There are

[gentoo-user] Samba

2003-02-21 Thread Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos
Hi all, After emerging Samba and following the tips from gentoo webpage I started Samba. I get: lpstat: Unable to connect to server : Connection refused. Does anyone know what this means? Do I need to emerge any other application? I'm using cups and I have already emerged cups. Any ideas? Best

Re: [gentoo-user] bouncing messages?

2003-02-21 Thread Susie
On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 13:18:51 -0500 brett holcomb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think this happens when someone has a problem with their > ISP or their mailbox. It fills up and bounces messages. > I had problems with a former ISP who had problems with > their server mirroring and it bounced m

Re: [gentoo-user] Samba

2003-02-21 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
On Friday 21 February 2003 18:59, Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos wrote: > After emerging Samba and following the tips from gentoo webpage I > started Samba. I get: > lpstat: Unable to connect to server : Connection refused. You have to provide more infos ... ee. what command are you u

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: portage downgrade?

2003-02-21 Thread Norberto Bensa
On Friday 21 February 2003 03:14 pm, Ajay Sharma wrote: > > PS: and the same way, a changelog would be useful when upgrading to > > know about all the cool new feature. > > There are changelogs, just look in > /usr/portage/i-dont-remember/portage/Changelog > > There are Changelog's for every packag

Re: [gentoo-user] kde 3.1 konqueror keyboard shortcuts

2003-02-21 Thread Norberto Bensa
On Friday 21 February 2003 06:21 am, Mike Williams wrote: > On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 00:11, Norberto Bensa wrote: > > On Thursday 20 February 2003 07:44 pm, Mike Williams wrote: > > > On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 22:42, Collins wrote: > > > > 2. Can shortcuts be added? > > > > > > 2) Yep > > > > How? > > The

Re: [gentoo-user] Samba

2003-02-21 Thread Mike Williams
On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 17:59, Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos wrote: > Hi all, > > After emerging Samba and following the tips from gentoo webpage I > started Samba. I get: > lpstat: Unable to connect to server : Connection refused. > > Does anyone know what this means? Do I need to eme

Re: [gentoo-user] kde 3.1 konqueror keyboard shortcuts

2003-02-21 Thread Mike Williams
On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 18:42, Norberto Bensa wrote: > Ahhh You meant you can add new keyboard-shotcuts to already defined > actions. Sorry, should have been more verbose first time around :) -- Mike Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message

Re: [gentoo-user] bouncing messages?

2003-02-21 Thread brett holcomb
On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 10:38:41 -0800 Susie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 13:18:51 -0500 brett holcomb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think this happens when someone has a problem with their ISP or their mailbox. It fills up and bounces messages. I had problems with a former IS

Re: [gentoo-user] bouncing messages?

2003-02-21 Thread brett holcomb
Sorry I wasn't clear. It's not YOUR mailbox - it's whoever that user is that shows up in the bounced emails - his mailbox is broken. In my case emails TO me were bouncing back to others. On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 10:38:41 -0800 Susie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 13:18:51 -0500 br

[gentoo-user] PHP emerge error

2003-02-21 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, i want to upgrade with -u world, but PHP 4.3.0 fails with ./configure checking base type of last arg to accept... socklen_t checking return type of qsort... void checking for mysql_close in -lmysqlclient... yes checking for ncurses support... no checking for Oracle-OCI8 support... no checking

Re: [gentoo-user] bouncing messages?

2003-02-21 Thread Susie
On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 13:57:23 -0500 brett holcomb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry I wasn't clear. It's not YOUR mailbox - it's > whoever that user is that shows up in the bounced emails - > his mailbox is broken. In my case emails TO me were > bouncing back to others. Ahh ok thanks. Yes t

[gentoo-user] Found the Reason (was: portage downgrade?)

2003-02-21 Thread Susie
Ok I found the answer... duh me... it was in package.mask # <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (20 Feb 2003) # Odd problems on select systems and is breaking some ebuilds. =sys-apps/portage-2.0.47-r2 -- Susie (Arienadean\Kelticess) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

RE: [gentoo-user] PHP emerge error

2003-02-21 Thread Cal Evans
check the archives, this was solved earlier this week. It has to do with JDK's before 1.4.1. -Original Message- From: Denny Schierz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 1:17 PM To: gentoo-user Subject: [gentoo-user] PHP emerge error hi, i want to upgrade with -u w

Re: [gentoo-user] PHP emerge error

2003-02-21 Thread Magnus Lie Hetland
Cal Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > check the archives, this was solved earlier this week. It has to do with > JDK's before 1.4.1. It doesn't seem quite "resolved" to me. It's fine that emerging the a masked-out jdk fixes things, but shouldn't simply emerge -u php work, out of the box? To have

[gentoo-user] Challanging install problem

2003-02-21 Thread George Mathews
What lies ahead is not for the faint of heart. My laptop has no built in disck drives except a hard drive. I have read how to install linux on it. I need one of two things to work in order to insatll gentoo. They are the ability to use a usb cdrom to install or the ability to mount a vfat partiti

RE: [gentoo-user] gcc install error ( bootstrap )

2003-02-21 Thread richard pijnenburg
I've looked at the temp's but nothing is overheated So, I don't know what could be wrong. I've installed gentoo on an other pc without any probs. Any one a idea ? -Original Message- From: Joe Stone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 12:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc install error ( bootstrap )

2003-02-21 Thread brett holcomb
Seg faults are usually hardware - memory, cpu, or motherboard. You might run memtest86 or try swapping modules. Put the minimum number in and see what happens. I have a motherboard that won't handle but one out of the four modules I have. There is an excellent troubleshooting guide for this

[gentoo-user] mobile question - pretty general

2003-02-21 Thread sean.d
I just joined this list with change in my mind. Been a slackware user forever now, and am looking to see what all my recently converted co-workers are talking about. My current laptop is just about to die, and I'm in the market for a new one (even a used one, but new to me) that will be fully sup

[gentoo-user] serveral things for emerge

2003-02-21 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, i wanted to emerge mjpegtools but it fails of artsc, because the ./configure scripts doesn't find the arts includes. For some weeks i had the the same problems with other things (i don't now anymore, what is was). It looks like, that the portage doesn't update the envoirement for the bash. S

Re: [gentoo-user] PHP emerge error

2003-02-21 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, thanks @all for help the USE="-java" emerge -u php works thx cu denny On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 20:16, Denny Schierz wrote: > any suggestions? Denny Schierz [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Wenn jemand von der EDV-Abteilung sa

Re: [gentoo-user] mobile question - pretty general

2003-02-21 Thread Jonathan Morton
My current laptop is just about to die, and I'm in the market for a new one (even a used one, but new to me) that will be fully supported. Thus far, every laptop I have used has had one piece of hardware or another not quite work...this holds true for all my distros of choice - kinda sad :) Every

Re: [gentoo-user] mobile question - pretty general

2003-02-21 Thread sean.d
i was giving thought to getting a new powerbook actually... one of those pretty 17inchers :) yes, even the laptops made for linux have issues.. i have a tuxtop obsidian with a winmodem - the modem works fine... the only thing that doesnt work is the hardware control for the volume...there are wo

Re: [gentoo-user] mobile question - pretty general

2003-02-21 Thread Jonathan Morton
which powerbook are you using? The G3/400 "Firewire", codename Pismo. It's a great machine, except the graphics (an 8MB Rage128 Mobility) are dated these days and non-upgradable. Pity - it's about the only non-upgradable part of the whole machine. :-( Works fine and excellent performance for

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin

2003-02-21 Thread Robert Cole
Looks like to me it's another vmware type of app. Is there an advantage over vmware other than price? Robert On Thursday 20 February 2003 06:43 am, jim wrote: > On Wednesday 19 February 2003 10:51 pm, Ulrich Plate wrote: > > NEVER type in a hurry... :) http://www.netraverse.com/gentoo.htm > > T

Re: [gentoo-user] serveral things for emerge

2003-02-21 Thread Denny Schierz
On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 22:11, Denny Schierz wrote: > /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.2.1/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: > cannot find -lartsc there was an error from me, i did i symlink from /usr/kde/3.1 to /usr/kde/3.0. it must be only /usr/kde/3 then it works. cu Denny Schierz [E

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin

2003-02-21 Thread sean.d
win4lin runs semy quick compared to vmware...atleast in my experience with it... > Looks like to me it's another vmware type of app. Is there an advantage > over vmware other than price? > > Robert > > > On Thursday 20 February 2003 06:43 am, jim wrote: >> On Wednesday 19 February 2003 10:51 pm

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin

2003-02-21 Thread Brice B
Robert, I personally use and like win4lin. My main use is for Macromedia Fireworks MX(yeah.. I know I could do sodipodi), and some other design apps. It has better performance of vmWare & I love the way it is integrated into my reiser filesystem. You may want to checkout: http://www.compu

Re: [gentoo-user] PHP installation problem

2003-02-21 Thread Meir Kriheli
On Thursday 20 February 2003 16:06, Henk Abma wrote: > I was setting up a very basic server, with only mail, apache and php, but > to my surprise php insisted on getting X even though * had -x as a use > flag. The flag is -X (capital X). You should also add -qt to the mix (otherwise php will buil

[gentoo-user] USB Mouse no Longer Detected Correctly

2003-02-21 Thread Arlo White
I just did a emerge -u world and there was about 3 screen fulls of packages. I began updating and portage had trouble on that docbook-sgml package. At this point I rebooted and attempted to get back into X, except I couldn't cause it couldn't find the mouse. I continued to update the list of pac

Re: [gentoo-user] mobile question - pretty general

2003-02-21 Thread Jason Nielsen
I'd go check the forums for the new 17" TiBook before I drop that kind of K. I know that Nvidia only supports x86 arch for it's binary drivers. So for very new Nvidia cards.. it might even take a while for framebuffer support, very crummy. You are better off in Linux with the previous version AT

[gentoo-user] Can /var/db/pkg be rebuilt?

2003-02-21 Thread Mark Saunders
Last night i was encoding some cd's while slightly drunk.. To make some disk space, i thought i'd delete /var/tmp/portage/*.. but i accidentally deleted /var/db/pkg/* instead. Is there anyway to rebuild the package database or does this system need reinstalling? Mark -- Mark Saunders <[EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] mobile question - pretty general

2003-02-21 Thread sean.d
> I'd go check the forums for the new 17" TiBook before I drop that kind > of K. I know that Nvidia only supports x86 arch for it's binary > drivers. So for very new Nvidia cards.. it might even take a while for > framebuffer support, very crummy. You are better off in Linux with the > previous

Re: [gentoo-user] Can /var/db/pkg be rebuilt?

2003-02-21 Thread sean.d
oh man, ive done that... except it was a bit different... i was doing some db maintenance in mysql a few years back and dropped mysql instead of the db i meant to delete... that made my life fun :) > Last night i was encoding some cd's while slightly drunk.. > > To make some disk space, i thou

[gentoo-user] Re: portage downgrade?

2003-02-21 Thread Jehan
Ajay Sharma wrote: PS: and the same way, a changelog would be useful when upgrading to know about all the cool new feature. There are changelogs, just look in /usr/portage/i-dont-remember/portage/Changelog There are Changelog's for every package. In /usr/portage/sys-apps/portage/ChangeLog. This

[gentoo-user] Via C3 optimization

2003-02-21 Thread Jacob Gemmell
I've been looking at getting one of the various dirt cheap Linodws PCs out there with the Via C3 processor and loading Gentoo on it. I was wondering if anyone out there has gotten one of these and could post thier /proc/cpuinfo. I'm curious about the flags and bogomips. And on a related note, ar

[gentoo-user] Re: Found the Reason

2003-02-21 Thread Jehan
Susie wrote: it was in package.mask Cool, I didn't know that there was a file explaning why a package is masked. Then I retracted what I said about announcing downgrades (well, it could still be a little more publicized) Jehan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Via C3 optimization

2003-02-21 Thread sean.d
taken from: http://idot.com/TheStore/Desktop/787Spec.asp?Product.id=787&Cate.id=2 "Preorder today! Begins shipping on 03/01/2003" much like what theo wrote on the openbsd list when asked if openbsd will run on this... without a timemachine, one cant tell... they ship on march 1st...so why not j

Re: [gentoo-user] Found the Reason (was: portage downgrade?)

2003-02-21 Thread Robert Cole
It's rather annoying that during this thread the developers didn't jump in and let us know about this problem in the first place. I'm beginning to think they don't read this mailing list. I've seen this happen on a number of occasions. On Friday 21 February 2003 11:38 am, Susie wrote: > Ok I fo

Re: [gentoo-user] Via C3 optimization

2003-02-21 Thread Jacob Gemmell
There are machines out there running the Via C3 processor already. I didn't even think of looking at the BSD mailing lists to see what they had to say. Though I am still curious about the /proc/cpuinfo output, if anyone has tried out a Via C3 already. On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, sean.d wrote: > taken

Re: [gentoo-user] Su problems

2003-02-21 Thread John P. Marr
bash-2.05b$ ls -l /etc/pam.d total 88 -rw-r--r--1 root root 227 Feb 19 07:56 chage -rw-r--r--1 root root 227 Feb 19 07:56 chfn -rw-r--r--1 root root 227 Feb 19 07:56 chsh -rw-r--r--1 root root 232 Feb 18 20:39 cups -rw-r--r--1

Re: [gentoo-user] Via C3 optimization

2003-02-21 Thread sean.d
the little bit of info i just came across... there is a ton of documentation in japanese..but that doesnt do anyone any good... hope this helps :) http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0301.2/0003.html http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~me/linux/via_epia_800.html http://forums.viaarena.com/categorie

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