[gentoo-user] Access to CD-ROM permitions problems

2003-03-05 Thread Ivan Smirnov
Hello all! I use Gentoo 1.4_rc3 for work, and usual not use floppy & cdrom... But... In one day.. I try to use it... user# mount /mnt/cdrom user# mount: only root can mount /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 on /mnt/cdrom ??? Only root in gentoo can use CD-ROM ??? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] consolehelper?

2003-03-05 Thread Magnus Heino
Hi. I recently moved from RH to Gentoo. Using RH and the consolehelper application, I was able to give access to programs such as "poweroff" to unpriv users. Is there a defined way to do this in gentoo? http://nodevice.com/sections/ManIndex/man0187.html -- /Magnus -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] m

Re: [gentoo-user] gstreamer problem

2003-03-05 Thread Ivan Smirnov
Mathew Leland Alexander wrote: Can you be more specific please. What other problems are you having. What does gst-register say? Try running gst-launch-ext "filename" to see if your gstreamer install works. Kinda need more info and file a bug report please. Would be greatly appreciated. On Mon,

Re: [gentoo-user] Access to CD-ROM permitions problems

2003-03-05 Thread Louis C. Candell
add noauto,users,rw or noauto,users,ro to the section in /etc/fstab for the cd-rom and / or the floppy. Read: man mount for more information. Louis C. Candell -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Problem upgrading kdelibs

2003-03-05 Thread Joel Wright
Hi guys, Really got a problem here. Trying to upgrade my Gentoo (1.4 stable) box, and it fails trying to update kdelibs. It says it can't find the qt-mt library (which is in /usr/qt/3/lib - I checked). Any help trying to solve this problem would be greatly appreciated. Here are the relevant ou

[gentoo-user] If emerge fails with - cannot find library

2003-03-05 Thread Adrian Head
I've just had a problem emerging various additional KDE apps: they would fail with an error like that below: libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.2.1/libstdc++.la' The fix was found in a previous email on this list but was not obvious so this email is for

Re: [gentoo-user] Kroupware

2003-03-05 Thread Alex Walker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 05 March 2003 02:11, Mike Diehl wrote: > Is anyone working on an ebuild for Kroupware? It looks like it needs an > enhansed version of kmail and korganizer, at least There were 4 replies to this last time you asked, if you aren't sub

Re: [gentoo-user] Opinion Poll: KDE Vs Gnome

2003-03-05 Thread Joshua Moore-Oliva
On March 5, 2003 12:07 am, Raghuram Rajagopal wrote: > Hi All, > > Which desktop (KDE/Gnome) suits the best based on > >1. Performance Gnome very slightly beats out KDE here.. but it's only really in loading speed. > 2. Efficiency

Re: [gentoo-user] chost, cflags, and cxxflags examples

2003-03-05 Thread Stephan Feder
Everyone take a look at /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-pc-linux-gnu/3.2.2/specs Especially section *cpp_cpucommon: should explain how the CPU related flags are evaluated. Regards, Stephan -- Alex Schuster wrote: > > Richard writes: > > > CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -mcpu=athlon-xp -O3 -pi

Re: [gentoo-user] Opinion Poll: KDE Vs Gnome

2003-03-05 Thread Don Smith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Raghuram Rajagopal wrote: |Sorry, if this question would startup a hardtalk here. | |- Original Message - |From: "Mike Diehl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 10:59 AM |Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Opi

[gentoo-user] Kgpg v0.9.5 - doesn't seem to run correctly

2003-03-05 Thread Adrian Head
Well I was able to emerge kgpg; however, I have not been able to use it as normal. Qt: 3.1.0 KDE: 3.0.5a kgpg: 0.9.5 Kgpg doesn't run like normal - no window - no hint of even displaying anything on the screen. Running from the commandline shows no seg faults or any messages. If running from

Re: [gentoo-user] chost, cflags, and cxxflags examples

2003-03-05 Thread Spider
begin quote On Tue, 04 Mar 2003 17:59:10 -0500 Jason Giangrande <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the link. Do you know what "-fomit-frame-pointer" does? > It's one of the recommend flags for pretty much every processor. > it omits the frame pointer, a register that points back in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Kgpg v0.9.5 - doesn't seem to run correctly

2003-03-05 Thread Adrian Head
Sorry for the noise.. How dumb do I feel :-( The new version doesn't bring up an app like the older version - it puts an icon on the kicker - then you work from the pull-down menu. Silly me - cannot see the wood for the trees. Adrian On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 21:00, Adrian Head wrote: > Well I was

Re: [gentoo-user] chost, cflags, and cxxflags examples

2003-03-05 Thread Spider
begin quote On 04 Mar 2003 20:59:17 + Mike Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use this on my athlon-xp (someone posted it here a while ago) Do you even -know- what several of theese do? -ffast-math *shudder* Well, As long as you rebuild a package with "emerge -e package" before doin

[gentoo-user] Would you like a little WINE with that?

2003-03-05 Thread Keppy
Well after weeks of fscking around with Bochs (cool but way too slow at this stage) and VMWare (Windows XP and 98) I finally got Lotus Notes up and running on my Gentoo system with WINE. http://ar.com.au/~keppy/index.html (A text-based browser will not help you.) I'm still in a state of shock

[gentoo-user] Problems installing on an IBM Thinkpad R31

2003-03-05 Thread Tim Sutton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi I am trying to install Genttoo (I am a gentoo virgin :-) on my laptop. WHen the livecd boots, I get the logo, but when the kernel starts loading, it gets just reboots the machine and dumps me back to the splash screen :-( Can anyone suggest a cu

RE: [gentoo-user] Problems installing on an IBM Thinkpad R31

2003-03-05 Thread Gwendolyn van der Linden
> I am trying to install Genttoo (I am a gentoo virgin :-) on > my laptop. WHen > the livecd boots, I get the logo, but when the kernel > starts loading, it gets > just reboots the machine and dumps me back to the splash > screen :-( Can > anyone suggest a cure for my Gentoo bloos? Before the kern

[gentoo-user] Fsck'ed system

2003-03-05 Thread david mattatall
I added ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" to my /etc/make.conf and royally fscked my system with a beta version of gcc and Xfree 3.0 which doesn't like to keep from chrashingwell I decided to revert and apperently I can't build the packages I want to download to. CRAP! I'm freaking out here, I now have

Re: [gentoo-user] [Q] System security -- root access

2003-03-05 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Tuesday 04 March 2003 23:20, Daniel Carrera wrote: > Hello, > > I have a question about system security. I have an idea and I was hoping > that someone could tell me whether it's good or bad. > > For a single-user computer, I would normally have only two accounts: root > and (say) 'dcarrera' --

Re: [gentoo-user] Opinion Poll: KDE Vs Gnome

2003-03-05 Thread Ernie Schroder
>On Wednesday 05 March 2003 05:43, Don Smith wrote: > The only thing worse is asking what editor should be > included on the Live CD :) kate! I want kate on the live CD! :) -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Would you like a little WINE with that?

2003-03-05 Thread Heino Herrlich
Keppy wrote: K> If you are running Windows XP as the guest OS and value the information inside it at all, stop what you are doing and proceed to backup that information the best way you can. Why? I had it setup K> nicely when one day the virtual machine was killed without shutting down properly

Re: [gentoo-user] Opinion Poll: KDE Vs Gnome

2003-03-05 Thread Arturo di Gioia
On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 13:49, Ernie Schroder wrote: > >On Wednesday 05 March 2003 05:43, Don Smith wrote: > > The only thing worse is asking what editor should be > > included on the Live CD :) > > kate! I want kate on the live CD! :) Xfree, Wine and Notepad on stage1! ;-P -- Arturo di Gioia <[E

Re: [gentoo-user] Opinion Poll: KDE Vs Gnome

2003-03-05 Thread brett holcomb
Don't worry about it. Desktops are a very personal thing. No one can tell you what's best for you. For ne neither - I use xfce. On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 11:10:38 +0530 "Raghuram Rajagopal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sorry, if this question would startup a hardtalk here. - Original Message ---

Re: [gentoo-user] Fsck'ed system

2003-03-05 Thread Arturo di Gioia
On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 13:08, david mattatall wrote: > I added ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" to my /etc/make.conf and royally fscked my > system with a beta version of gcc and Xfree 3.0 which doesn't like to keep > from chrashingwell I decided to revert and apperently I can't build the > packages I

Re: [gentoo-user] updating config files

2003-03-05 Thread brett holcomb
Where possible I use etc-update and let it do the replace/merge as it avoids me making mistakes. However, sometimes you may have to do it manually. On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 08:44:37 +0100 Magnus Heino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the fast respones guys. I ran etc-update and chose optio

Re: [gentoo-user] Would you like a little WINE with that?

2003-03-05 Thread Andy Arbon
BTW, since I am a fairly new linux user i have no idea what happens when linux crashes When Linux *what*?? ;) Andy -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Problems installing on an IBM Thinkpad R31

2003-03-05 Thread Gwendolyn van der Linden
> I am trying to install Genttoo (I am a gentoo virgin :-) on > my laptop. WHen > the livecd boots, I get the logo, but when the kernel > starts loading, it gets > just reboots the machine and dumps me back to the splash > screen :-( Can > anyone suggest a cure for my Gentoo bloos? You can also us

Re: [gentoo-user] Access to CD-ROM permitions problems

2003-03-05 Thread brett holcomb
No. Check /etc/devfsd.conf and you'll find users probably need to be in the cdrom group. On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 11:17:25 +0300 Ivan Smirnov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello all! I use Gentoo 1.4_rc3 for work, and usual not use floppy & cdrom... But... In one day.. I try to use it... user# mount /

[gentoo-user] request for new ebuild: nvrec

2003-03-05 Thread romildo
Hello. I would like to request an ebuild for the program NewVideoRecorder (nvrec) http://nvrec.sourceforge.net/ Regards, Romildo PS: I do not know what is the proper way of requesting a new ebuild. If it is not here, please tell me where it is. -- Prof. Jos? Romildo Malaquias

Re: [gentoo-user] Would you like a little WINE with that?

2003-03-05 Thread Heino Herrlich
Andy wrote: >> BTW, since I am a fairly new linux user i have no idea what happens >> when linux crashes AA> When Linux *what*?? AA> ;) AA> Andy LOL, catched :D I will let you know when my Gentoo box *what* :) -- Mit freundlichen Grüssen Heino Herrlich mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: [gentoo-user] Opinion Poll: KDE Vs Gnome

2003-03-05 Thread Fredrik Jagenheim
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 01:51:37PM +0100, Arturo di Gioia wrote: > On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 13:49, Ernie Schroder wrote: > > > > kate! I want kate on the live CD! :) > > Xfree, Wine and Notepad on stage1! ;-P Bah, use free software! I say OpenOffice on stage1 for all editing needs. ;) //Humming, u

Re: [gentoo-user] updating config files

2003-03-05 Thread Alec Berryman
> Is there a reason why etc-update doesn't use colors in the output, just like > emerge? This could make it much more easy to merge files. It's not etc-update that doesn't do color, it's diff. Check out your /etc/etc-update.conf for instructions on switching to vimdiff. -- Alec Berryman <[EMA

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems installing on an IBM Thinkpad R31

2003-03-05 Thread Tim Sutton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Sorry I should have said - I have already tried turning off all the options offered by pressing F2 - still no luck :-( The laptop currently has debian woody on it and it boots fine from a debian boot cd :-( Tim On Wednesday 05 March 2003 12:05,

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems installing on an IBM Thinkpad R31

2003-03-05 Thread Tim Sutton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks - I will try this ! Tim On Wednesday 05 March 2003 12:58, Gwendolyn van der Linden wrote: > > I am trying to install Genttoo (I am a gentoo virgin :-) on > > my laptop. WHen > > the livecd boots, I get the logo, but when the kernel > > starts

[gentoo-user] Gentoo 1.2 download sites (Was Problems installing on an IBM Thinkpad R31)

2003-03-05 Thread Tim Sutton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi I am now trying to get hold a 1.2 release of gentoo livecd - but it does not seem to be on any of the mirrors I looked at - can anyone point me to it? Thanks - -- Tim Sutton BDWorld Middleware Programmer - -

Re: [gentoo-user] Would you like a little WINE with that?

2003-03-05 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 08:07, Heino Herrlich wrote: > I will let you know when my Gentoo box *what* :) That should read "if" but then again, newbie root can do strange things -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Access to CD-ROM permitions problems

2003-03-05 Thread Celestial Wizard
On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 23:00, brett holcomb wrote: No. Check /etc/devfsd.conf and you'll find users probably need to be in the cdrom group. whats more likely is that you need to add user in /etc/fstab eg /dev/cdroms/cdrom0  /mnt/cdrom  iso9660 noauto,ro,user 0 0

Re: [gentoo-user] request for new ebuild: nvrec

2003-03-05 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 08:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello. > > I would like to request an ebuild for the program > NewVideoRecorder (nvrec) > > http://nvrec.sourceforge.net/ > > Regards, > > Romildo > > PS: I do not know what is the proper way of requesting > a new ebuild. If it

Re: [gentoo-user] Would you like a little WINE with that?

2003-03-05 Thread Heino Herrlich
Ernie wrote: ES> On Wednesday 05 March 2003 08:07, Heino Herrlich wrote: >> I will let you know when my Gentoo box *what* :) ES> That should read "if" but then again, newbie root can do strange things It´s very kind of you to send two mails about my little fault ;) You got my full attention Ern

[gentoo-user] problem with xxdiff

2003-03-05 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
Hello all, I want to try out xxdiff for diff/merging with etc-update. But during compiling I get the following error: == == g++ -c -pipe -DCOMPILER_GNU

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 1.2 download sites (Was Problems installingon an IBM Thinkpad R31)

2003-03-05 Thread Olson, Isaac
you could try this: http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/releases/build/1.2/ -Isaac Tim Sutton wrote: Hi I am now trying to get hold a 1.2 release of gentoo livecd - but it does not seem to be on any of the mirrors I looked at - can anyone point me to it? Thanks -- [EMA

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 1.2 download sites (Was Problems installing on an IBM Thinkpad R31)

2003-03-05 Thread Sandor MISKEY
* Tim Sutton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030305 14:29]: > I am now trying to get hold a 1.2 release of gentoo livecd - but it does not > seem to be on any of the mirrors I looked at - can anyone point me to it? ftp.mirror.ac.uk:/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/releases/build/1.

Re: [gentoo-user] bootloader switch

2003-03-05 Thread mikepolniak
On 21:50 Tue 04 Mar , Ben Sparks wrote: > Is it possible to switch boot loaders? I started off with lilo, but > would really like to switch to grub. I don't want things to get > messy...if you think they will I'll stick with lilo. I made the switch to grub over a year ago and havent touche

Re: [gentoo-user] kmail question

2003-03-05 Thread Carl Hudkins
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 ser

[gentoo-user] Mysql compile error

2003-03-05 Thread Craig Main
Hi all, Firstly I must apologise if this has already been addressed in this forum.I did try a search on bugs.gentoo.org without much luck. I probably need to learn the system a bit better. That out of the way, here is my problem: when doing an emerge mysql, I get this error: g++ -O3 -DDBUG_OFF -

[gentoo-user] Newbie question - migration from RH8

2003-03-05 Thread Jose Gonzalez Gomez
Hi, I've been a RH8 user for a few months, and I'm really sick of the rpm stuff. I had a lot of problems installing a few things, and I still have things not working, like video conferencing. I heard of the gentoo distribution and thought I'd give it a try. I'm a freelance Java develo

Re: [gentoo-user] Mysql compile error

2003-03-05 Thread Celestial Wizard
On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 00:37, Craig Main wrote: > when doing an emerge mysql, I get this error: > > g++ -O3 -DDBUG_OFF -march=pentium3 -pipe -O3 -felide-constructors > -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -fno-implicit-templates -fno-exceptions > -fno-rtti -rdynamic -o .libs/mysql mysql.o readline.o sql_str

Re: [gentoo-user] bootloader switch

2003-03-05 Thread Ben Sparks
mikepolniak wrote: On 21:50 Tue 04 Mar , Ben Sparks wrote: Is it possible to switch boot loaders? I started off with lilo, but would really like to switch to grub. I don't want things to get messy...if you think they will I'll stick with lilo. I made the switch to grub over a year

[gentoo-user] kicker prob

2003-03-05 Thread Robert Cole
I just completely reinstalled my system from scratch and a fresh KDE 3.1 install and noticed that I can no longer drag and drop app icons to the quicklaunch bar and insert them there. I use to get a black bar where the insert would take place. Now it seems to only want to launch whatever app I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems installing on an IBM Thinkpad R31

2003-03-05 Thread brett holcomb
Hit F2 at the boot prompt and see if some of the options such as noacpi might help. I don't use a laptop but the comments indicate some options are for laptops. On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 11:56:31 + Tim Sutton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi I am trying

Re: [gentoo-user] bootloader switch

2003-03-05 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 15:54, Ben Sparks wrote: > > thanks for the info I'll try the boot disk out before I make the > switch. What would be the cleanest way to remove lilo from my system? emerge grub (if not yet merged). Install grub according to the gentoo install manual. Make sure you edi

[gentoo-user] affraid of these "warnings"

2003-03-05 Thread Ben Sparks
I've been emerging kde since oh, about midnight last night and every once and a while I'll glance at the screen and sometimes I'll see a random "warning this..or warning that" should I be concerned with these warnings or are they just a common occurance when compiling from scratch? I have not

Re: [gentoo-user] bootloader switch

2003-03-05 Thread Ben Sparks
Paul de Vrieze wrote: On Wednesday 05 March 2003 15:54, Ben Sparks wrote: thanks for the info I'll try the boot disk out before I make the switch. What would be the cleanest way to remove lilo from my system? emerge grub (if not yet merged). Install grub according to the gentoo install m

Re: [gentoo-user] affraid of these "warnings"

2003-03-05 Thread brett holcomb
It's just a warning - don't worry about it. In some case the program has a construct that is no longer used but it hasn't been updated to a new way of doing things. Some are due to the compiler being picky. On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 10:11:19 -0500 Ben Sparks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've been em

[gentoo-user] bastille linux for gentoo

2003-03-05 Thread Bjornar B. Larsen
Hello list, has anyone experience using bastille on gentoo? I did google "bastille site:gentoo.org", but it turned up empty. Thanks for any help, Bjornar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Xfree Trivial Quo (Shaded n' Trans)

2003-03-05 Thread Ta^3 Deftkore
Hi guys, well.. I had installed XFree 4.2.9XX and i had a beautiful mouse pointer with shaded and transparency and when i upgrade XFree 4.2.XX to XFree 4.3 this characteristic had disappeared and i do not know how can i turn it on. :-D Any suggestions?. Thanks Before hand. -- Octavio H. Rui

[gentoo-user] Grub and Win2K dual boot

2003-03-05 Thread Graham, Steve
I'll be dual booting gentoo with windows 2000 - My question is this, can I install grub on the MBR of the second hard drive, then switch the boot order in BIOS to point to the second HD and then have an option on the grub menu to boot into Win2k? Thanks for the help, Steve -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] Xfree Trivial Quo (Shaded n' Trans)

2003-03-05 Thread gabor
On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 15:27, Ta^3 Deftkore wrote: > Hi guys, well.. I had installed XFree 4.2.9XX and i had a beautiful mouse pointer > with shaded > and transparency and when i upgrade XFree 4.2.XX to XFree 4.3 this characteristic > had > disappeared and i do not know how can i turn it on. :-D

Re: [gentoo-user] Opinion Poll: KDE Vs Gnome

2003-03-05 Thread dsoper
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 10:37:18AM +0530, Raghuram Rajagopal wrote: > Hi All, > > Which desktop (KDE/Gnome) suits the best based on > >1. Performance > 2. Efficiency > 3. Multithreaded application handling process > 4. Ease of use >

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 1.2 download sites (Was Problems installing on an IBM Thinkpad R31)

2003-03-05 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 08:48, Tim Sutton wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi > > I am now trying to get hold a 1.2 release of gentoo livecd - but it > does not seem to be on any of the mirrors I looked at - can anyone > point me to it? > > Thanks > > > - -- > Tim Sut

Re: [gentoo-user] Opinion Poll: KDE Vs Gnome

2003-03-05 Thread Andy Arbon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |> Which desktop (KDE/Gnome) suits the best based on |> |> 1. Performance |>2. Efficiency |>3. Multithreaded application handling process |>4. Ease of use |>5. Be

Re: [gentoo-user] bootloader switch

2003-03-05 Thread Ted Ozolins
Ben Sparks wrote: If I use grub to test it out should I use the boot disk or rewrite the MBR? I've heard of some people having serius problems when using lilo and grub at the same time...or I could just be misunderstanding your post. can I unmerge lilo first? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailin

[gentoo-user] Emerge security

2003-03-05 Thread Ales Stibal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello there, someone posted here security note for emerge. I appreciate this question, because I wonder emerge is running as root all the time? Why not to setiud only while downloading and compiling? For example emerge user/group will write to /usr/po

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question - migration from RH8

2003-03-05 Thread Martin Larsson
On ons, 2003-03-05 at 15:42, Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: > Hi, > > I've been a RH8 user for a few months, and I'm really sick of the > rpm stuff. I had a lot of problems installing a few things, and I still > have things not working, like video conferencing. I heard of the gentoo > distr

Re: [gentoo-user] what Programming tools are there to use

2003-03-05 Thread Daniel Carrera
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 09:04:28PM +, Mitch wrote: > Cool, I'll check those out. > heard about ruby, but didnt realy seen much of it. > python of course in Gentoo a lot. > > thx for the advise. > > does this work also good for writing X (graphical) programs? I really like Ruby-Gnome2 : http

Re: [gentoo-user] Opinion Poll: KDE Vs Gnome

2003-03-05 Thread Alexander Futasz
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 07:55:34 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Which desktop (KDE/Gnome) suits the best based on > > > >1. Performance > > 2. Efficiency > > 3. Multithreaded application handling process > > 4. Ease of use > > 5

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub and Win2K dual boot

2003-03-05 Thread Louis C. Candell
You sure can! I have a dual boot win98se system on another box which has the bootloader on /dev/hdb. Just change the boot-up sequence in the BIOS and you should be fine. I *think* i have my bios set up to boot off of the "D" drive instead of "C." Louis C. Candell -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing lis

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge security

2003-03-05 Thread Andrew
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 17:15:26 + Ales Stibal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello there, > someone posted here security note for emerge. I appreciate > this question, because I wonder emerge is running as root all the > time? > > Why not to setiud only while downloading and compiling? > For exampl

Re: [gentoo-user] Would you like a little WINE with that?

2003-03-05 Thread Spundun Bhatt
On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 04:57, Andy Arbon wrote: > > BTW, since I am a fairly new linux user i have no idea what happens > > when linux crashes > > When Linux *what*?? > > ;) > I know what you mean :) But just for the sake of fairness I have had to reboot my gentoo box because of hangs. It has ha

Re: [gentoo-user] Would you like a little WINE with that?

2003-03-05 Thread brett holcomb
Have you tried clt-atl-backspace to reset the x server? On 05 Mar 2003 09:54:59 -0800 Spundun Bhatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 04:57, Andy Arbon wrote: I know what you mean :) But just for the sake of fairness I have had to reboot my gentoo box because of hangs. It has happ

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem upgrading kdelibs

2003-03-05 Thread Sundance
I heard Joel Wright said: > Really got a problem here. Trying to upgrade my Gentoo (1.4 stable) > box, and it fails trying to update kdelibs. It says it can't find the > qt-mt library (which is in /usr/qt/3/lib - I checked). KDE 3.1 depends on Qt 3.1, not 3.0, as mentionned in the error output.

Re: [gentoo-user] Would you like a little WINE with that?

2003-03-05 Thread Spundun Bhatt
On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 09:52, brett holcomb wrote: > Have you tried clt-atl-backspace to reset the x server? > Oh sorry forgot to mention :) yes I did... > On 05 Mar 2003 09:54:59 -0800 > Spundun Bhatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 04:57, Andy Arbon wrote: > >I know what you

Re: [gentoo-user] Would you like a little WINE with that?

2003-03-05 Thread gabriel
On March 5, 2003 12:54 pm, Spundun Bhatt wrote: > I know what you mean :) But just for the sake of fairness I have had to > reboot my gentoo box because of hangs. It has happened 3-4 times > randomly in last 3 months that after sitting idle for sometime it > hangs... I see a frozen Xscreensaver and

Re: [gentoo-user] missing /usr/lib/transcode/export_ffmpeg4.so

2003-03-05 Thread Jens Mayer
* On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 20:47:28 +0100, Jens Mayer wrote: > * On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 19:30:43 +0100, Tony Clark wrote: > [not having /usr/lib/transcode/export_ffmpeg4.so after transcode > update] >> Sounds like you don't have ffmpeg installed or possibly the wrong version. >> You need a 0.4

[gentoo-user] Re: affraid of these "warnings"

2003-03-05 Thread Peter Gantner
Quoting Ben Sparks from Mar 5 > I've been emerging kde since oh, about midnight last night and every > once and a while I'll glance at the screen and sometimes I'll see a > random "warning this..or warning that" should I be concerned with these > warnings or are they just a common occurance whe

Re: [gentoo-user] Opinion Poll: KDE Vs Gnome

2003-03-05 Thread Susie
On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 18:28:27 +0100 Alexander Futasz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > all of these points are a given when you use openbox. as many might > know openbox was branched from blackbox, just like fluxbox. and while > fluxbox might be more popular, the better of the three really is > openbox.

Re: [gentoo-user] Would you like a little WINE with that?

2003-03-05 Thread Spundun Bhatt
On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 09:56, gabriel wrote: > On March 5, 2003 12:54 pm, Spundun Bhatt wrote: > > I know what you mean :) But just for the sake of fairness I have had to > > reboot my gentoo box because of hangs. It has happened 3-4 times > > randomly in last 3 months that after sitting idle for so

[gentoo-user] is gcc compiling?

2003-03-05 Thread Spundun Bhatt
Hi I cant get the source compile for the latest gcc 3.2.2-r3. Here is the final error. Is somebody getting it to compile?Or getting a similar error? Thanx Spundun /var/tmp/portage/gcc-3.2.2-r3/work/build/gcc/xgcc -shared-libgcc -B/var/tmp/portage/gcc-3.2.2-r3/work/build/gcc/ -nostdinc++ -L/var/tmp

Re: [gentoo-user] Would you like a little WINE with that?

2003-03-05 Thread Susie
On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 09:54:59 -0800 Spundun Bhatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I know what you mean :) But just for the sake of fairness I have had > to reboot my gentoo box because of hangs. It has happened 3-4 times > randomly in last 3 months that after sitting idle for sometime it > hangs...

[gentoo-user] Re: updating config files

2003-03-05 Thread Matthew Gatto
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 06:20:30AM -0600, Alec Berryman wrote: > > Is there a reason why etc-update doesn't use colors in the output, just like > > emerge? This could make it much more easy to merge files. > > It's not etc-update that doesn't do color, it's diff. Check out your > /etc/etc-update

Re: [gentoo-user] Would you like a little WINE with that?

2003-03-05 Thread Spundun Bhatt
On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 10:12, Susie wrote: > to switch to a console/terminal. Out of curiosity which screen saver > does that to you? I havent installed any perticular screensaver separately I think these are the default bunch of screensaver that come with xscreensver. They run in random ord

Re: [gentoo-user] is gcc compiling?

2003-03-05 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, On Wednesday 05 March 2003 19:15, Spundun Bhatt wrote: > Hi I cant get the source compile for the latest gcc 3.2.2-r3. > Here is the final error. Is somebody getting it to compile?Or getting a > similar error? > Thanx > Spundun > [...] > `/var/tmp/portage/gcc-3.2.2-r3/work/build/i686-pc-linux-

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: updating config files

2003-03-05 Thread Spundun Bhatt
On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 10:18, Matthew Gatto wrote: > On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 06:20:30AM -0600, Alec Berryman wrote: > > > Is there a reason why etc-update doesn't use colors in the output, just like > > > emerge? This could make it much more easy to merge files. > > > > It's not etc-update that do

Re: [gentoo-user] updating config files

2003-03-05 Thread Jim Nutt
On 05 Mar 2003 06:20:30 -0600 Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there a reason why etc-update doesn't use colors in the output, > > just like emerge? This could make it much more easy to merge files. > > It's not etc-update that doesn't do color, it's diff. Check out your > /etc/et

Re: [gentoo-user] Would you like a little WINE with that?

2003-03-05 Thread nealbirch
Heino Herrlich wrote: Ernie wrote: ES> On Wednesday 05 March 2003 08:07, Heino Herrlich wrote: I will let you know when my Gentoo box *what* :) ES> That should read "if" but then again, newbie root can do strange things It´s very kind of you to send two mails about my little fault ;) You go

[gentoo-user] New portage & userpriv (I think)

2003-03-05 Thread Alex Walker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The new portage can use the userpriv stuff, and I have it enabled. Part of this requires the distfiles directory to be g+rw, hence every time portage is run, it appears that portage runs "chmod -R g+rw /store/distfiles/" (yes, that's where my distfi

Re: [gentoo-user] New portage & userpriv (I think)

2003-03-05 Thread Mike Williams
On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 18:54, Alex Walker wrote: > The new portage can use the userpriv stuff, and I have it enabled. > > Part of this requires the distfiles directory to be g+rw, hence every time > portage is run, it appears that portage runs "chmod -R g+rw > /store/distfiles/" (yes, that's wher

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question - migration from RH8

2003-03-05 Thread nealbirch
Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: Hi, I'm a freelance Java developer, and I have two machines: one that serves as develoment server I have taken a look to several reviews of Gentoo, and they all tell the same about installing it: it takes a loong time. I cannot afford having one of my machin

Re: [gentoo-user] Would you like a little WINE with that?

2003-03-05 Thread Stephan Feder
Does the magic sysrq still work (ALT-SysRQ-k; see /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sysrq.txt)? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] is gcc compiling?

2003-03-05 Thread Spundun Bhatt
On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 10:30, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > Hi, > > On Wednesday 05 March 2003 19:15, Spundun Bhatt wrote: > > Hi I cant get the source compile for the latest gcc 3.2.2-r3. > > Here is the final error. Is somebody getting it to compile?Or getting a > > similar error? > > Thanx > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: updating config files

2003-03-05 Thread Matthew Gatto
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 10:37:33AM -0800, Spundun Bhatt wrote: > On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 10:18, Matthew Gatto wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 06:20:30AM -0600, Alec Berryman wrote: > > > > Is there a reason why etc-update doesn't use colors in the output, just like > > > > emerge? This could make

[gentoo-user] emerge iptables doesn't work

2003-03-05 Thread Martin Borchert
Hi there, Earlier today I started installing gentoo from stage 1 and up to now it worked fine. However emerge iptables results in >>> Unpacking ... * Applying Patches... ... >>> Source unpacked Making dependencies: Please wait And then the dependency-files iptables.d and iptables-standalone.de

Re: [gentoo-user] Opinion Poll: KDE Vs Gnome

2003-03-05 Thread Alexander Futasz
On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 10:04:56 -0800, Susie wrote: > I do have openbox on here but generally am in blackbox. Waimea seems > more unusual out of the blackbox family of window managers(at least > look wise ie no tool bar and moving the mouse shifts desktops, etc). > I'm still trying to figure out wha

Re: [gentoo-user] Mysql compile error

2003-03-05 Thread Alok Singhal
On 06/03/03: 00:47, Celestial Wizard wrote: > Check out http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16267 > > There is a bug in glibc 2.3.2_pre1 where errno is not defined. > > Breaks a few apps If I understood this correctly, glibc is perfectly right in not defining errno. The C standard require

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question - migration from RH8

2003-03-05 Thread Louis C. Candell
My last Gentoo Linux install (rc2) took me less than 45 minutes. I went with a stage-3 tarball, emerge sync and scp'ed a working kernel from another gentoo box which had everything I needed for my new box built into the kernel instead of modules. emerge cron & system loggers and raid tools lvm us

Re: [gentoo-user] Opinion Poll: KDE Vs Gnome

2003-03-05 Thread Alexander Futasz
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 20:29:35 +0100, Alexander Futasz wrote: > > Waimea seems > > more unusual out of the blackbox family of window managers(at least > > look wise ie no tool bar and moving the mouse shifts desktops, etc). i forgot to mention: with openbox you can choose wether you want the toolbar

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub and Win2K dual boot

2003-03-05 Thread J Herzfeld
From: "Graham, Steve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date sent: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 09:35:19 -0600 Subject:[gentoo-user] Grub and Win2K dual boot Easily done. Grub is pretty flexible. I have a dual b

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub and Win2K dual boot

2003-03-05 Thread Ben Sparks
Louis C. Candell wrote: You sure can! I have a dual boot win98se system on another box which has the bootloader on /dev/hdb. Just change the boot-up sequence in the BIOS and you should be fine. I *think* i have my bios set up to boot off of the "D" drive instead of "C." Louis C. Candell -- [EMAI

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: affraid of these "warnings"

2003-03-05 Thread Ben Sparks
Peter Gantner wrote: Quoting Ben Sparks from Mar 5 I've been emerging kde since oh, about midnight last night and every once and a while I'll glance at the screen and sometimes I'll see a random "warning this..or warning that" should I be concerned with these warnings or are they just a com

Re: [gentoo-user] Opinion Poll: KDE Vs Gnome

2003-03-05 Thread Susie
On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 20:33:46 +0100 Alexander Futasz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i forgot to mention: with openbox you can choose wether you want the > toolbar to be shown or not. Ahh cool along with it's other features. I'll have to take a closer look. I like blackbox but I don't particularly

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