[gentoo-user] via82cxxx_audio OSS

2003-03-08 Thread Tony Clark
This patch http://people.redhat.com/jgarzik/via82cxxx_audio/vt8233-support.patch when applied to linux-2.4.20 kernel fixes the module load problem. I guess it should fix the gentoo kernel versions as well. I can't say if you will actually get any sound out as I am still testing and I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] qt compiles fail

2003-03-08 Thread Joel Wright
Turns out this was a known bug! I had to remove gtk+ mozilla pango and freetype, then clean up after them and reinstall. Did this, and everything now seems to work fine. Thanks for all the help Joel. On Friday 07 March 2003 02:42, Oleg Letsinsky wrote: On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 02:05:02PM

[gentoo-user] Canon N640P scanner and SANE

2003-03-08 Thread Aki Hanninen
Hello, I managed to get my Canon N640P scanner working with sane-backends-1.0.9 half a year ago, but I recently reinstalled my Gentoo and now I cannot get it working again. The scanner is a paraller port version and uses the canon_pp backend for SANE. I remember that I had to enable

Re: [gentoo-user] init scripts and linux-wlan-ng

2003-03-08 Thread Lai Liu-yuan
1) Have you thought about rc-update add wlan ...? 2) I assume you have the reason to use different wlancfg-xxx settings, otherwise, wlancfg-DEFAULT should work with any AP. Like I use different channel at home that at school, I just comment out CHANNEL. A suggestion: How about messing with

[gentoo-user] FAM imon

2003-03-08 Thread Adrian Head
I'm having problems with getting FAM to use imon. I have compiled imon as a module (as requested in the kernel help) and read as much as I can about FAM. The problem is that imon doesn't seem to be used and as a result KDE Konq doesn't keep up with what is happening with the files it is

[gentoo-user] ZODB Ebuild?

2003-03-08 Thread Magnus Lie Hetland
Does anyone know of an ebuild script for ZODB (http://www.zope.org/Products/StandaloneZODB)? I couldn't find anything, and just thought I should ask before starting to fiddle with it myself. (I'm pretty green wrt. ebuild script writing :-]) -- Magnus Lie Hetland Nothing shocks me.

Re: [gentoo-user] via82cxxx_audio OSS

2003-03-08 Thread Tony Clark
On Saturday 08 March 2003 09.23, Tony Clark wrote: This patch http://people.redhat.com/jgarzik/via82cxxx_audio/vt8233-support.patch when applied to linux-2.4.20 kernel fixes the module load problem. I guess it should fix the gentoo kernel versions as well. I can't say if you will actually

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: text mode email program

2003-03-08 Thread Louis C. Candell
Björn Lindström [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gnus is a story by itself. It's really a newsreader, that can read mail by some tweaking. I guess the harm is already done if you're using emacs, though. :)) To funnay. Some tweakin' and a few hours of readin' is more like it! Mutt is a

Re: [gentoo-user] mod_php error

2003-03-08 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Saturday 08 March 2003 08:35, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cut . Yeah, dot-newline is the standard message terminator. Apparently pine does not escape this by ..newline which would work. So be advised not to include dot-newline in your message (adding a space should be sufficient too. Paul

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: text mode email program

2003-03-08 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Saturday 08 March 2003 12:39, Louis C. Candell wrote: I never really put much time into figuring out if the following could be done in 'mutt', so any of you mutt users correct me or enlighten me if the following can be done. One word: procmail Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Researcher Mail:

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.1 Compile fails at kdeaddons

2003-03-08 Thread latin hypercube
Had this same problem and there are some discussions on http://forums.gentoo.org What worked for me was to re-emerge libvorbis and then emerge kde again emerge libvorbis emerge kde On Friday 07 March 2003 23:00, richard terry wrote: Hi, After literally days of downloading via my dialup

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: text mode email program

2003-03-08 Thread Louis C. Candell
Björn Lindström [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Louis C. Candell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20030308 12:39]: Mutt is a *great* mail client and is pretty much good to go from the moment you emerge it from portage. You can find *great* ready made muttrc files out on the net, or I can provide you

[gentoo-user] a Bottleneck?

2003-03-08 Thread Stephen Turner
im having trouble with gtk-gnutella responding, its fine unless i have dl queues then the thing doesnt respond for long pieriods of time. thankfully linux was well planned out and allows me to atleast minimize it so i can do other things ;) god i love linux. anyhoot, im currious what you guys

[gentoo-user] Specify a 'configure' option

2003-03-08 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, how I can speficify a './configure' option to emerge? For example when I compile mplayer i would disable tv with '--disable-tv'. Many thanks! maur8. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Specify a 'configure' option

2003-03-08 Thread Sebastian Hungerecker
On Sat, 08 Mar 2003 15:54:13 NFT [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how I can speficify a './configure' option to emerge? For example when I compile mplayer i would disable tv with '--disable-tv'. Many ebuilds Support the Variable MYCONF. So try this: MYCONF=--disable-tv emerge mplayer

Re: [gentoo-user] Specify a 'configure' option

2003-03-08 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Many ebuilds Support the Variable MYCONF. So try this: MYCONF=--disable-tv emerge mplayer If the mplayer-ebuild does not support this, you could simpy edit the ebuild -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Thanks I'll try MYCONF and I'll tell you... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Slow gigabit...

2003-03-08 Thread Pär Wedin
Hi all! I recently upgraded my LAN to gigabit, but so far it's been a disappointment. It really isn't much faster than it used to be... If I fetch a large file from my proftpd server I get about 11 MB/s, and the same file from apache about 15 MB/s. I was hoping for at least twice that. The

Re: [gentoo-user] text mode email program

2003-03-08 Thread mikepolniak
On 07:09 Sat 08 Mar , richard terry wrote: I'm trying as previously mentioned to figure out why kdeaddons fails to compile, and I don't know if there is a text mode email program in the basic install I could use, instead of having to pull the hard drive out and swap to a working

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow gigabit...

2003-03-08 Thread Arturo di Gioia
On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 16:41, Pär Wedin wrote: Hi all! I recently upgraded my LAN to gigabit, but so far it's been a disappointment. It really isn't much faster than it used to be... If I fetch a large file from my proftpd server I get about 11 MB/s, and the same file from apache about

[gentoo-user] installation woes

2003-03-08 Thread cory
I've spent the last day working through a stage 1 install on an IBM Thinkpad T22. The install seems OK so far, except for pcmcia. For some reason pcmcia fails on startup. /etc/init.d/pcmcia start returns: /lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r1/pcmcia/ds.o: init_module: Operation not permitted

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow gigabit...

2003-03-08 Thread Arturo di Gioia
On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 17:11, Arturo di Gioia wrote: I think a program like TTCP could help you testing your true bandwidth http://www.pcausa.com/Utilities/pcattcp.htm ARGH! I just realized that I pointed you to a Windows version! Shame on me. By the way, Google should be your friend

RE: [gentoo-user] Slow gigabit...

2003-03-08 Thread Kevin J. Anderson
read the latest article on tomshardware.com on the subject. kev --Original Message- -From: Pär Wedin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 10:41 AM -To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Subject: [gentoo-user] Slow gigabit... - - -Hi all! - -I recently upgraded my LAN to gigabit,

Re: [gentoo-user] Install dilemma need some advice

2003-03-08 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Saturday 08 March 2003 01:40, Jason Giangrande wrote: I rebooted and the machine is hung at Verifying DMI pool data. It sat there like that for 10 minutes. I hit the reset and the same thing. It's been like that for an hour now. Is my new drive toast? does anyone have any ideas? I

[gentoo-user] Re: Slow gigabit...

2003-03-08 Thread Pär Wedin
Thanks! I use the TPTEST tool from http://sourceforge.net/projects/tptest/ I suspect they do pretty much the same ting. Sorry, I should have posted that too, of course! When I recieve 100MB to the server I get 245 Mbit/s and when I send 100 MB I get 150 Mbit/s. A far cry from 1Gbit/s in other

[gentoo-user] Re: Slow gigabit...

2003-03-08 Thread Richard Revis
Pär Wedin wrote: When I recieve 100MB to the server I get 245 Mbit/s and when I send 100 MB I get 150 Mbit/s. A far cry from 1Gbit/s in other words... Any Ideas? Sounds like ethernet to me? After all, the jump from 10mbit to 100mbit isn't exactly 10 times the performance now is it ;o)

[gentoo-user] RE: Slow gigabit...

2003-03-08 Thread Pär Wedin
Thanks for the reply! I have read the article. According to that article you need about 1 MHz cpu power per Mbit/s. I should get ca. 700 Mbit/s then, which I don't... /Pär. On Sat, 8 Mar 2003, Kevin J. Anderson wrote: read the latest article on tomshardware.com on the subject. kev --

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Slow gigabit...

2003-03-08 Thread Kevin J. Anderson
I would imagine, its either bound by cabling, the servers performance (cpu,ram, hard drive speed, dont forget the client's speed) or the switch. kev --Original Message- -From: Pär Wedin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 12:00 PM -To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Subject:

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing unstable/testing packages

2003-03-08 Thread Fredrik Jagenheim
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 08:44:13PM -0300, Norberto Bensa wrote: Hmm, you're doing it the hard way, no doubts :-) # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge whateverpackage This is what I do. However, whenever I later do a emerge -u world, my whateverpackage will be downgraded to the old version. I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing unstable/testing packages

2003-03-08 Thread Tomas Volka
On Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:30:20 +0100 Fredrik Jagenheim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think you can do emerge -uU world, -U flag should prevent unstable ebuilds which were emerged with ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86. At least it works for me, im using nvidia 4xxx ebuilds which are normally masked. But with -U

[gentoo-user] Trouble compiling mm-sources (linux-2.5.64-mm2)

2003-03-08 Thread Dessimat0r
Hi, I'm having trouble at the 'make bzImage' part of compiling my kernel. Here is the output from the make: dessimat0r linux # make bzImage make -f scripts/Makefile.build obj=scripts Starting the build. KBUILD_BUILTIN=1 KBUILD_MODULES= make -f scripts/Makefile.build obj=init GEN

[gentoo-user] Gentoo 1.4_rc3 install hangs at USB and PCI hotplug start

2003-03-08 Thread Volker Sturm
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I tried to install Gentoo 1.4_rc3 on a Laptop with the following configuration: - - Mobile Athlon XP 2000+ - - ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 64 MB - - Samsung CD-R/W DVD SN-324B - - IEEE 1394 Firewire interface - - Smart Link 56k Modem - - VIA Rhine II

[gentoo-user] How do I update only dependancies for everything?

2003-03-08 Thread Susie
The other day when looking at another program it told me there was an update for an dependancy I already had installed. However emerge -uD world isn't seeing it probably because it is a dependancy. I've tried emerge -uDo world but again that doesn't work. I'd like to keep my deps upto date as

Re: [gentoo-user] RE: Re: Slow gigabit...

2003-03-08 Thread Ted Ozolins
Marshal Newrock wrote: On Sat, 8 Mar 2003, [iso-8859-1] Pär Wedin wrote: Well, I don't really use the switch. I just used it to compare it with a 100Mbit network. The NIC's are directly connected with a shielded CAT6 cable, so that shouldn't be a problem. The server is a P3-733 with 384MB ram

Re: [gentoo-user] RE: Re: Slow gigabit...

2003-03-08 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Sat, 8 Mar 2003, Ted Ozolins wrote: I'm not 100% sure, but I think you'll only get gigabit speeds with a 64-bit, 66MHz interface. Standard PCI may be too slow. Consider the related fact that a 16-bit interface is unable to handle full 100Mbit speeds. What happens if you use idebus=66

[gentoo-user] PPP line sharing

2003-03-08 Thread Björn Lindström
I recently got a lodger who wish to share my modem ISP connection. Since I pay per minute I wish to do the following: a) Have my Gentoo box act as a gateway to the net for his Windows box. (This I can handle myself, I guess). b) Track our usage, so that we can pay a fair amount of the bill.

[gentoo-user] sigh

2003-03-08 Thread herzog
Any graceful way to recover from, uhhh, accidentally whacking /etc/init.d?? -- Larry Herzog Jr.Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain ZRXOA #1029 conceit, but in humility consider others [EMAIL PROTECTED] better than yourselves. - Philippians 2:3 -- [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] sigh

2003-03-08 Thread Louis C. Candell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any graceful way to recover from, uhhh, accidentally whacking /etc/init.d?? Now why would you do such a silly thing like that? :p I've made silly mistakes like that, and the only solution I found was having someone give me a copy of their /WHATEVERIDELETED So

Re: [gentoo-user] sigh

2003-03-08 Thread Ben Jones
On Saturday 08 March 2003 9:11 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any graceful way to recover from, uhhh, accidentally whacking /etc/init.d?? Sure... just restore from your most recent backup! Oh... oops. ;o) I guess you could do a qpkg -f /etc/init.d, to determine which packages you have hat

Re: [gentoo-user] sigh

2003-03-08 Thread herzog
Excellent! I will try this tonight once I get back to my htoel room. (i'm at the SANS2003 conference (man is San Diego nice!)) :) On Sat, 8 Mar 2003, Louis C. Candell wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any graceful way to recover from, uhhh, accidentally whacking /etc/init.d?? Now why

Re: [gentoo-user] sigh

2003-03-08 Thread Norberto BENSA
On Saturday 08 March 2003 06:11 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any graceful way to recover from, uhhh, accidentally whacking /etc/init.d?? Hmmm You could: emerge `find /var/db/pkg -name 'CONTENTS' | xargs grep -sl /etc/init.d \ | sed -e 's,/var/db/pkg/\(.*\)/CONTENTS,=\1,'`

Re: [gentoo-user] kdevelop

2003-03-08 Thread Yannick Le Saint
On Saturday 08 March 2003 22:11, bryce verdier wrote: Alright, i just tried to emerge kdevelop 3.0-alpha3... and there is no executable... even though it looks like it built. Which name are you looking for ? for me (i also have dev-util/kdevelop-3.0_alpha3) : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ qpkg -l

Re: [gentoo-user] sigh

2003-03-08 Thread Louis C. Candell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Excellent! I will try this tonight once I get back to my htoel room. (i'm at the SANS2003 conference (man is San Diego nice!)) :) Yeah our girls are really nice ;). I'm in the County directly north of you: Orange County. You should go down to La Jolla while you're

Re: [gentoo-user] mod_php error

2003-03-08 Thread Noberasco Michele
On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 10:10, Louis C. Candell wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, 8 Mar 2003, Louis C. Candell wrote: Use the following USE flag in /etc/make.conf : -jpeg That should work. This did the trick! Heh, I knew it would :p Actually, there are

[gentoo-user] configuring cdbakeoven crashes

2003-03-08 Thread Jason Giangrande
I'm running KDE 3.1 and I installed cdbakeoven. The program starts, but when I go to run it's configuration the configuration crashes with this description: The application KDE Control Module (kcmshell) crashed and caused the signal 11 (SIGSEGV) Anybody seen this before or know how to fix it?

Re: [gentoo-user] configuring cdbakeoven crashes

2003-03-08 Thread Rich Smith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have found cdbakeoven to be a very unstable package (and not just on Gentoo but Debian too), I got a more stable build by using very conservative cflags (just march=athlon-xp) and by emerging the masked ebuild (currently 2.0_beta2). This gave me

[gentoo-user] emerge world problem...

2003-03-08 Thread Meehan, Francois
Hi all, I am installing 1.4 rc 3 on a server, I got to the emerge world step but having the following problem: When doing emerge -p world it returns nothing to be updated or installed after calculating the dependencies. Any ideas? Francois -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world problem...

2003-03-08 Thread Sebastian Hungerecker
Any ideas? Did you do an emerge sync? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] emerge world problem...

2003-03-08 Thread Meehan, Francois
Yes... -Original Message- From: Sebastian Hungerecker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: March 8, 2003 8:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world problem... Any ideas? Did you do an emerge sync? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL

[gentoo-user] how do patches work?

2003-03-08 Thread Daniel Carrera
I sort of understand patches, but I still have a question. I know that a patch is a file that contains a set of changes to be made to another file or direcotry tree. So far so good. Now, my question is: is it possible to apply more than one patch to a source tree? Suppose that I have two

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade to X4.3, keyboard layout chaged.

2003-03-08 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 07 March 2003 18:15, Yinchie wrote: Hey, Stupid question but what keycombination is AltGr ? the 'Alt' on the right of the space-bar Glück Auf Volker -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade to X4.3, keyboard layout chaged.

2003-03-08 Thread gentoo
Stupid question but what keycombination is AltGr ? Right Alt. Xev says it has keycode 113. Don't know about US keyboards which only have Alt (left and right.) Works that way on US keyboards. The two alt keys have different scan codes. -- Thomas M. Beaudry k8la / ys1ztm [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Fwd: [gentoo-user] installation woes]

2003-03-08 Thread cory
Well, I've all but solved it. In /etc/init.d/pcmcia it says: if [ -z `fgrep ds /proc/modules | head -1 | cut -c1` ]; then /sbin/modprobe pcmcia_core $CORE_OPTS 2 /dev/null /sbin/modprobe $PCIC $PCIC_OPTS 2 /dev/null /sbin/modprobe ds fi Somewhere I read that module

Re: [gentoo-user] how do patches work?

2003-03-08 Thread Carl Hudkins
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

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.1 Compile fails at kdeaddons

2003-03-08 Thread Ben Sparks
latin hypercube wrote: Had this same problem and there are some discussions on http://forums.gentoo.org What worked for me was to re-emerge libvorbis and then emerge kde again emerge libvorbis emerge kde On Friday 07 March 2003 23:00, richard terry wrote: Hi, After literally days of

Re: [gentoo-user] configuring cdbakeoven crashes

2003-03-08 Thread Jason Giangrande
Upgrading to the masked version of cdbakeoven seems to have done the trick. Thanks for your help. Jason On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 19:35, Rich Smith wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have found cdbakeoven to be a very unstable package (and not just on Gentoo but Debian

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: text mode email program

2003-03-08 Thread gentoo
The bad part is that in order for Mutt to work as a high-volume mailer, you need to use procmail, which has the suckingest syntax I ever saw in a rc-file. I know there are some replacements for procmail, such as maildrop, but they somehow all seem to inherit the syntax stupidity from

Re: [gentoo-user] configuring cdbakeoven crashes

2003-03-08 Thread Rich Smith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jason, After I posted I emerged arson, which appears to be very stable and has a nicer interface than cdbakeoven :). I have now ditched cdbakeoven in favour of arson, give it a try and see what you think. Rich On Sunday 09 Mar 2003 3:53

Re: [gentoo-user] Python Bindings

2003-03-08 Thread gentoo
- God had a deadline... So, he wrote it all in Lisp! Personally I believe that items capable of warping the mind such as LSD and Lisp are works of Satan. Furthermore, it is obvious to anyone that has read Genisis that God uses C++. You provide a description and the

Re: [gentoo-user] how do patches work?

2003-03-08 Thread Daniel Carrera
On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 09:51:21PM -0500, Carl Hudkins 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Open Office packages

2003-03-08 Thread Troy Dack
On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 16:14, Jason Giangrande wrote: Does anyone know the differences between the openoffice package and the openoffice-bin package? OpenOffice - takes about 2 days to build OpenOffice-bin - takes about 10 minutes to install -bin is pre-compiled the binary package available

Re: [gentoo-user] Open Office packages

2003-03-08 Thread Jason Giangrande
Thanks, I think I'll install the 10 minute one then. Jason On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 00:15, Troy Dack wrote: On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 16:14, Jason Giangrande wrote: Does anyone know the differences between the openoffice package and the openoffice-bin package? OpenOffice - takes about 2 days

Re: [gentoo-user] Open Office packages

2003-03-08 Thread Mike Williams
On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 05:15, Troy Dack wrote: OpenOffice - takes about 2 days to build OpenOffice-bin - takes about 10 minutes to install -bin is pre-compiled the binary package available from openoffice.org and not as good looking. In my experience, compiling it yourself is a looong