[gentoo-user] Money Dance

2003-03-29 Thread Alex Combas
I'm thinking of purchasing Money Dance because I'm looking for a good financial program that will let me make on-line bill payments and do on-line banking. And Money dance certainly looks good, and its pretty inexpensive. Has anyone gotten it to run on Gentoo yet? -- Alex -- [EMAIL

[gentoo-user] svgalib

2003-03-29 Thread bryce verdier
I can't compile the new version of svgalib, it fails while trying to find grsecurity.h or something along those lines. Has anyone seen, heard, or expirenced this problem before... or just know of how to fix it?? thanks in advance, bryce -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Unmerged python.. ack

2003-03-29 Thread Susie
Look in the ebuild for where to get the tarball and compile it normally without emerge. After it's compiled and installed then reemerge it. At least thats my guess. I've not had this problem. On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 02:39:24 -0500 Will Buckner (Wcc) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I accidentally

Re: [gentoo-user] Who uses sudo?

2003-03-29 Thread Arnold Krille
On Saturday 29 March 2003 07:27, Abhishek Amit wrote: PS: I am not using sudo. perhaps I should but there is only me at the pc doing administrative tasks and root needs the standard-environment-variables not the ones of a user... I still use sudo. You'r proble may be fixed by putting source

[gentoo-user] Kernel parameters for iptables

2003-03-29 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Hi, Witch parameters in neet to ativate in the kernel to have iptables support? Patrick -- Knowledge in a databank,is like food which is in a deepfreeze. Nothing comes out better than what is initially put in. PGP Key: http://users.pandora.be/rivendell/marquetp.gpg Registered Linux User

Re: [gentoo-user] Who uses sudo?

2003-03-29 Thread Andy Arbon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 | | What with variables the user is setting but root needs them not set? Currently | I am using [EMAIL PROTECTED] to get root from my k(!)onsole. It works great... | And by this way the variables WANT_AUTOMAKE_* and co which the user has set | are not

Re: [gentoo-user] USB Mass Storage

2003-03-29 Thread latin hypercube
IIRC you need the SCSI modules available. Do you? On Tuesday 25 March 2003 07:43, Gwendolyn van der Linden wrote: hub.c: new USB device 00:02.0-2, assigned address 5 usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout usb.c: USB device not responding, giving up (error=-110) hub.c: new USB device 00:02.0-2,

Re: [gentoo-user] Thinkpad and tpctl

2003-03-29 Thread latin hypercube
I had similar problems but no time to poke around. I've simply installed the older tpctl/thinkpad combination (3.2) which works fine. emerge =tpctl-3.2 On Thursday 27 March 2003 03:33, Timothy Grant wrote: Wow, two questions in approximately two minutes I'm running Gentoo 1.4rc3 on a

Re: [gentoo-user] USB Mass Storage

2003-03-29 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, for usb-mass -storage you need: usb-storage, ide-scsi, sd_mod. I have a usb-flash stick, working fine connected via an 1.1a hub to a 2.0 port. Glück Auf, Volker -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.1.1 RAM

2003-03-29 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, i noticed the same thing, but it starts on my system with KDE 3.1. I never can running my system longer than two days, otherwise the sytem is swapping heavy (and i have 256DDR Ram). Also if i starting a (x)screensaver from kde. Nice pictures, but bad performance after the screensaver

Re: [gentoo-user] Who uses sudo?

2003-03-29 Thread Arnold Krille
On Saturday 29 March 2003 12:14, Andy Arbon wrote: | I am using [EMAIL PROTECTED] to get root from my k(!)onsole. It works | great... And by this way the variables WANT_AUTOMAKE_* and co which the | user has set | are not set with root's. No guarantees, because I haven't tested it, but can't

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.1.1 RAM

2003-03-29 Thread Renat Golubchyk
Hi! MFB I am not sure, but I think there is a problem with KDE 3.1.1 and its MFB memory usage. Since my upgrade from 3.1 I have noticed that after MFB some days (of using my computer) my memory is fully used and my MFB machine begins to swap. I haven't changend anything else (only added MFB

Re[2]: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.1.1 RAM

2003-03-29 Thread Renat Golubchyk
Hi! RG I had the same problem with KDE 2. So it seems like KDE has a memory RG leak somewhere. Forgot to mention that I have 512MB RAM. Regards, Renat -- Access denied--nah nah na nah nah! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] getting rid of gdm pre-startup nvidia splash screen grey screen

2003-03-29 Thread Pius Lee
Hi all, When I start gdm, 1) the nvidia screen with a green eye thingie pops up, 2) the screen turns grey, and finally 3) gdm shows up. Is there any way to get rid of steps 1) and 2) (even though they probably take less than a second to load), or at least change them both to a blank, black

Re: [gentoo-user] getting rid of gdm pre-startup nvidia splash screen grey screen

2003-03-29 Thread Anarconda
Pius Lee wrote: Hi all, When I start gdm, 1) the nvidia screen with a green eye thingie pops up, 2) the screen turns grey, and finally 3) gdm shows up. Is there any way to get rid of steps 1) and 2) (even though they probably take less than a second to load), or at least change them both to a

Re: [gentoo-user] getting rid of gdm pre-startup nvidia splashscreen grey screen

2003-03-29 Thread Jon \GenKiller\
I could be wrong, but I don't believe you can get rid of step 1, as that's the curse of using the nvidia drivers. Step 2 is xfree86 loading. The only way you'll get gdm to load is if xfree is already loaded. I'm not sure how to change the xfree86 window to black. I'm sure it can be done, just

Re: [gentoo-user] getting rid of gdm pre-startup nvidia splash screen grey screen

2003-03-29 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Saturday 29 March 2003 08:45 am, Pius Lee wrote: Hi all, When I start gdm, 1) the nvidia screen with a green eye thingie pops up, 2) the screen turns grey, and finally 3) gdm shows up. Is there any way to get rid of steps 1) and 2) (even though they probably take less than a second to

Re: [gentoo-user] Compiling ALSA segments..

2003-03-29 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Well, then it's memtest86 G! No use, since I only have one module ;) On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 12:55, brett holcomb wrote: You can also pull out all the memory modules except one and see if it segfaults. If so put another one in and see what happens. If it doesn't, try another one again

Re: [gentoo-user] Money Dance

2003-03-29 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Well, if it's the Money Dance I'm familiar with it is no longer supported - hasn't been for a year or so. AppGen closed that part of thier business down. The mailing list is dead and so is Money Dance. There was talk by the original other of doing another Financial program but I haven't

Re: [gentoo-user] Unmerged python.. ack

2003-03-29 Thread Collins Richey
On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 01:22:42 -0800 Susie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Look in the ebuild for where to get the tarball and compile it normally without emerge. After it's compiled and installed then reemerge it. At least thats my guess. I've not had this problem. On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 02:39:24

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.1.1 RAM

2003-03-29 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Saturday 29 March 2003 09:31 am, Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: -- quoting Ernie Schroder -- As you see, it happens here too. I do use one of those GL screensavers from KDE. Though this did happen with 3.1 on this box and 3.0.5 on the other, it seems to be worse now.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.1.1 RAM

2003-03-29 Thread Scott Thomason
On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 09:41:29 -0500 Ernie Schroder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 29 March 2003 09:31 am, Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: I just ran top and issued the -M command and now I see 14 instances of kdeinit, each using an average of 3.5% memory. Does a new kdeinit start each

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel parameters for iptables

2003-03-29 Thread Andrew Gaffney
If you use 'make menuconfig' or 'make xconfig', under Network Options, choose 'Network packet filtering (replaces ipchains)' and then go into the subment 'IP: Netfilter Configuration' and set the options you need. Patrick Marquetecken wrote: Hi, Witch parameters in neet to ativate in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Money Dance

2003-03-29 Thread Steven
On Saturday 29 March 2003 12:23 am, Alex Combas wrote: I'm thinking of purchasing Money Dance because I'm looking for a good financial program that will let me make on-line bill payments and do on-line banking. And Money dance certainly looks good, and its pretty inexpensive. Has anyone

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.1.1 RAM

2003-03-29 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Saturday 29 March 2003 11:51 am, Scott Thomason wrote: On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 15:31:24 +0100 Matthias F. Brandstetter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: interesting point ... I use one of those GL screensavers from KDE as well. Maybe that's the fault? Other opinions? I think this is a more likely

Re: [gentoo-user] Money Dance (is NOT dead)

2003-03-29 Thread Steven
FWIW, It most certainly is NOT dead. It is supported. The development IS active, and I have over 200 messages from their mailing list in the last two months. For more information you might check the website: http://www.moneydance.com Peace. On Saturday 29 March 2003 06:23 am, Brett I. Holcomb

Re: [gentoo-user] sound opinions?

2003-03-29 Thread nealbirch
Tom Nicholson wrote: Can anyone suggest why my sound doesn't work or where to look for further clues? I've built a gentoo box from older parts to learn with. I wanted just command line stuff to study servers like apache, proftp, samba, etc. so no gui. I remembered there's a sound card in the

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.1.1 RAM

2003-03-29 Thread nealbirch
Ernie Schroder wrote: On Saturday 29 March 2003 11:51 am, Scott Thomason wrote: On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 15:31:24 +0100 Matthias F. Brandstetter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: interesting point ... I use one of those GL screensavers from KDE as well. Maybe that's the fault? Other opinions? I think this

Re: [gentoo-user] php sprintf troubles on a pentium4

2003-03-29 Thread Joshua Moore-Oliva
Fixed the problem.. there is a floating point problem with march=pentium4 instead of -march=pentium4 used -mcpu=pentium4 Submitted bug to gentoo to prevent builds on php going through with march=pentium4 Josh. On March 28, 2003 11:51 am, Joshua Moore-Oliva wrote: This seems to be a

Re: [gentoo-user] sound opinions?

2003-03-29 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
For ALSA - per the directions - build sound support into the kernel as a MODULE - soundcore. Do NOT include support for the sound card either via modules or built-in. Tom Nicholson wrote: Can anyone suggest why my sound doesn't work or where to look for further clues? I've built a

Re: [gentoo-user] Money Dance (is NOT dead)

2003-03-29 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Well, that's good news for sure! When I left the mailing list it was deader than a doornail and the original author despaired of resurrecting the original. I'll have to download it and try it. I wonder if it's the same guy who wrote the original. I was going to buy a copy when the bottom

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.1.1 RAM

2003-03-29 Thread Arnold Krille
On Saturday 29 March 2003 19:47, nealbirch wrote: Ernie Schroder wrote: As a side note, I have been playing the beta of Neverwinter Nights, which uses GL. After a session of a couple of hours or so, there will be a HUGE amount of memory lost somewhere, and occasionally things close on my

Re: [gentoo-user] Money Dance (is NOT dead)

2003-03-29 Thread Timothy Grant
My understanding is that the original author was able to get back the rights to his code and is now developing and supporting it. Of course I may be wrong about that too. On Saturday 29 March 2003 11:11 am, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Well, that's good news for sure! When I left the mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: replacing kernel on install CD

2003-03-29 Thread Jason Nielsen
Hi there, I retool the Live-CD all the time for different reasons... i.e. add source (kernel, vcron, sysklogd, portage tree) so that you don't need an internet connection etc. Here is how I go about doing it, bear in mind I've never tried to add a new kernel, but the principle is still

[gentoo-user] Corrupted ebuilds in Portage?

2003-03-29 Thread Doug Gorley
Is it just me, or is anyone else experiencing this as well? [EMAIL PROTECTED] portage $ sudo emerge rsync starting rsync with rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage... Welcome to merkur.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (137.226.232.99). This server is part of the SunSITE Central Europe and is located

Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupted ebuilds in Portage?

2003-03-29 Thread Timothy Grant
On Saturday 29 March 2003 12:07 pm, Doug Gorley wrote: Is it just me, or is anyone else experiencing this as well? [EMAIL PROTECTED] portage $ sudo emerge rsync These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies / aux_get(): (3) Error in

Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Corrupted ebuilds in Portage?

2003-03-29 Thread Renat Golubchyk
Hi! TG On Saturday 29 March 2003 12:07 pm, Doug Gorley wrote: Is it just me, or is anyone else experiencing this as well? [EMAIL PROTECTED] portage $ sudo emerge rsync These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies / aux_get(): (3) Error in

Re: Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Corrupted ebuilds in Portage?

2003-03-29 Thread Susie
I'm part of the portage group, wheel, et al yet I still get like messages when doing a search sometimes. Usually I rsync again after and the ones it complained on weren't things that would of matched my search anyways. On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 21:46:15 +0100 Renat Golubchyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[gentoo-user] Screwed up /dev

2003-03-29 Thread Cedric Veilleux
Hi, I screwed up my /dev by doing all kind of stupid things with the files in it. I thought a reboot would replace everything since I am using devfs but I was wrong. Everything seems to work properly but I get warnings about missing devices at boot and my /dev really does not look

Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupted ebuilds in Portage?

2003-03-29 Thread Norberto BENSA
On Saturday 29 March 2003 05:07 pm, Doug Gorley wrote: Calculating world dependencies / aux_get(): (3) Error in sys-libs/cracklib-2.7-r6 ebuild. Check for syntax error or corruption in the ebuild. (--debug) Add yourself to portage group. Regards, Norberto pgp0.pgp

[gentoo-user] Palette issue with Gnomemeeting and PWC 8.10

2003-03-29 Thread Ralph F. De Witt
Hello All: I found this message on the gnomemeeting-list. This explains the palette issue I have been having with gnomemeeting and trying to get it to work. Begin forwarded message: Date: 29 Mar 2003 22:04:23 +0100 From: Damien Sandras [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

Re: [gentoo-user] Money Dance

2003-03-29 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
It sure does. I liked Money Dance and Sean (from what I saw of him in the mail list) and was disappointed when it went down. I'm glad he regained control of it. Looks like I need to pay a visit there. On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 09:23:50 -0500 Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, if

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching between eth0 and eth1

2003-03-29 Thread Paul de Vrieze
The problem is really those services that depend on net... Could it be possible to not run those services? That would be my first suggestion. You could run a dummy network device. That should solve the net dependency problem. Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Researcher Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] Screwed up /dev

2003-03-29 Thread Norberto BENSA
On Saturday 29 March 2003 06:09 pm, Cedric Veilleux wrote: and my /dev really does not look right, with lots of extra nodes ending with a - like /dev/radio0- Sound familiar to me... I did: rm -rfv /lib/dev-state/* in single user, and it fixed my problem. YMMV. Regards, Norberto

Re: [gentoo-user] Who uses sudo?

2003-03-29 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Saturday 29 March 2003 11:29, Arnold Krille wrote: What with variables the user is setting but root needs them not set? Currently I am using [EMAIL PROTECTED] to get root from my k(!)onsole. It works great... And by this way the variables WANT_AUTOMAKE_* and co which the user has set are

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo vs LFS

2003-03-29 Thread Collins Richey
[ snip ] On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 23:34:43 +0100 Paul de Vrieze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 28 March 2003 07:48, Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla wrote: Frankly, I think LFS is a good thing to try if you have spare time and want to understand how Linux works in great detail: there's nothing that

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem burning CDs

2003-03-29 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Saturday 29 March 2003 05:37, Norberto BENSA wrote: On Friday 28 March 2003 10:32 pm, Norberto BENSA wrote: On Friday 28 March 2003 10:00 pm, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: try a new ide-cable. Ahhh... Ok. No luck. I've tried a new cable and even recompiled a new kernel, modules,

Re: [gentoo-user] replacing kernel on install CD

2003-03-29 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Saturday 29 March 2003 04:02, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I guess that's what you essentially do. Gentoo is booted off the LiveCD with a kernel of Gentoo's choice. However, during the install you have to run make menuconfig and specify what you want for kernel options. Then you run make dep

RE: [gentoo-user] Cable Modem Configuration

2003-03-29 Thread Matt Neimeyer
I've got multiple NIC's in the box (one for each port, to each room in the house). However, that leaves me one short to connect the cable modem. I connected it via USB and using the CDCEther driver (as a module) I do see the following in my dmesg log... emmmA generally less expensive,

Re: Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Corrupted ebuilds in Portage?

2003-03-29 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Saturday 29 March 2003 21:52, Susie wrote: I'm part of the portage group, wheel, et al yet I still get like messages when doing a search sometimes. Usually I rsync again after and the ones it complained on weren't things that would of matched my search anyways. There is/was some bug in

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo migration stragety?

2003-03-29 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Friday 28 March 2003 23:58, Alec Berryman wrote: I wouldn't say that Gentoo requires a /boot. Personally, I don't use one - OK, it might save my kernel if my other partitions corrupt, but if so a kernel would be the least of my worries. A /boot is reccomended and is good practice, but is

Re: [gentoo-user] replacing kernel on install CD

2003-03-29 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
If you build one during the install with everything you need it will support your hardware. The LiveCD kernel may not support all but during the install you get to make your own. On Saturday 29 March 2003 04:02, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I guess that's what you essentially do. Gentoo is

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem burning CDs

2003-03-29 Thread Norberto BENSA
On Saturday 29 March 2003 07:55 pm, Paul de Vrieze wrote: I had packet command errors on my work machine that tended to show up at 0:15 (cron.d wakeup time) and twice totally locked my machine and filesystem (ext3). When the same harddisk was also making strange noices (those indicative of

Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupted ebuilds in Portage?

2003-03-29 Thread Timothy Grant
On Saturday 29 March 2003 12:46 pm, Renat Golubchyk wrote: Hi! TG On Saturday 29 March 2003 12:07 pm, Doug Gorley wrote: Is it just me, or is anyone else experiencing this as well? [EMAIL PROTECTED] portage $ sudo emerge rsync These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.1.1 RAM

2003-03-29 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Saturday 29 March 2003 01:47 pm, nealbirch wrote: Ernie Schroder wrote: On Saturday 29 March 2003 11:51 am, Scott Thomason wrote: On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 15:31:24 +0100 Matthias F. Brandstetter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: interesting point ... I use one of those GL screensavers from KDE

Re: [gentoo-user] HP scanjet 2300c

2003-03-29 Thread Susie
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 23:43:09 -0800 Ted Ozolins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let us know how it turns out once you've decided to apply the patch. I've been looking to pick up an inexpensive scanner, if this one can be made to work then that would be great.. The patch by looks of it should support

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.1.1 RAM

2003-03-29 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Ernie Schroder -- Looks like it's time for a reboot and go non GL for a screensaver. I'll post back in a couple of days yes, me too :) -- I don't think anything I've ever done is wrong! - Homer Simpson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Log into remote X server via kdm

2003-03-29 Thread Maxime Larocque
Hi, I don't know about multiple server selection in KDM, but right now I have 2 networked gentoo PCs. To login to a remote node, I type X -query remotecomputer (Where remotecomputer is your remote computer IP or name) It even works from cygwin, from my main computer, which is sadly on

[gentoo-user] sigh!

2003-03-29 Thread Robert Cole
SIGH! * That's from 2 days of trying to get lvm to work on top of linux software raid (md) level 0 to work. YES! Got it finally! Whew! After wading through a half dozen ancient docs (dating back to references to linux kernel 2.4.0

[gentoo-user] System and World question

2003-03-29 Thread Arun Bhanu
Hi, When I do a emerge system I get the following output(attached at the end of the mail). Notice that vim-6.1 appears in the update of system. As far as I know, vim is not part of system. Then why is it showing up in the system update. The other question is that when I do a emerge world nano

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem burning CDs

2003-03-29 Thread Norberto BENSA
On Saturday 29 March 2003 01:37 am, Norberto BENSA wrote: On Friday 28 March 2003 10:32 pm, Norberto BENSA wrote: On Friday 28 March 2003 10:00 pm, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: try a new ide-cable. Ahhh... Ok. No luck. I've tried a new cable and even recompiled a new kernel, modules,