Re: [gentoo-user] mp3blaster

2003-04-05 Thread Aaron Matteson
Tom, do you happen to be a member of the avlug? On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 18:31, Tom Nicholson wrote: > After getting sound working on my console-only, 4 gig server box I > became dissatisfied with mpg123 when I couldn't pause it interactively. > So I found mp3blaster on the net. So where's the prob

[gentoo-user] how can I have a /proc/bus/usb with kernel "linux-2.4.21_pre6-gs" ?

2003-04-05 Thread srusinsky
hello all, It seems that I don't have no /proc/bus/usb after a kernel build. I have searched but couldn't find in the 'menuconfig' no reference to /proc into USB menu, and in the filesystems menu no /proc/usb option. since that I have to use a Windows XP as a gateway because I can't launch my

Re: [gentoo-user] mp3blaster

2003-04-05 Thread Tom Nicholson
> At 06:31 PM 04/05/2003 -0800, you wrote: > >The mp3blaster is designed from getgo for console use, so I read, and > >uses ncurses so why all the x-base and font stuff? Is this a fault of > >the ebuild or the portage or me? > > I'm betting you didn't modify your USE variables in the /etc/make.con

[gentoo-user] Question on Portage

2003-04-05 Thread Susie
Why is there 2 of pretty much every ebuild? I ask as I noticed awhile back there seems to be ebuilds in both /var/db/pkg/ and /usr/portage/ Isn't that redundant? Don't we need just one copy of an ebuild per package? I'm just curious why... Anyways other than that why even with my frequent

[gentoo-user] Icculus Quake II

2003-04-05 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
What exactly is the Icculus Quake II? A long time ago I played QII on windows and would like to do it on Linux now. At one time I saw some docs on getting the windows stuff to run on Linux but it looked like a mess. Is the Icculus stuff a pretty exact port of QII? I have a lot of add-ons adv

[gentoo-user] Sandbox problems when creating ebuild

2003-04-05 Thread Doug Gorley
Hello list, I'm creating an ebuild for GRASS GIS, and I'm having sandbox problems that my inexperience is preventing me from fixing. GRASS wants to create a directory called grass5, and the directory creation is what's causing the errors. Currently, the part of my ebuild that sets the install di

Re: [gentoo-user] mp3blaster

2003-04-05 Thread MrPaulAR
At 06:31 PM 04/05/2003 -0800, you wrote: The mp3blaster is designed from getgo for console use, so I read, and uses ncurses so why all the x-base and font stuff? Is this a fault of the ebuild or the portage or me? I'm betting you didn't modify your USE variables in the /etc/make.conf file (you hav

Re: [gentoo-user] vim-r21 & vim-r20

2003-04-05 Thread William Kenworthy
Same here ... have not gotten past it yet. BillK On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 10:02, bryce verdier wrote: > Hey all, tried emergeing the new vim release and while its going through the > configure script it gets to a point where its asking for "ptyranges" and it > freezes. If i go and look at the syst

[gentoo-user] mp3blaster

2003-04-05 Thread Tom Nicholson
After getting sound working on my console-only, 4 gig server box I became dissatisfied with mpg123 when I couldn't pause it interactively. So I found mp3blaster on the net. So where's the problem? well, I had to install 'by hand' (./configure make make install) instead of using emerge and being

[gentoo-user] vim-r21 & vim-r20

2003-04-05 Thread bryce verdier
Hey all, tried emergeing the new vim release and while its going through the configure script it gets to a point where its asking for "ptyranges" and it freezes. If i go and look at the system through top it shows that "yes" is taking up all the system resources. Has anyone heard of this before

Re: [gentoo-user] Lame LBreakout2 question...

2003-04-05 Thread Timothy Grant
On Saturday 05 April 2003 04:10 pm, Timothy Grant wrote: > What does the right arrow --> that flashes on the lower right hand side of > the LBreakout2 screen mean? Thanks much for all who answered my question! -- Stand Fast, tjg. Timothy Grant www.craigelachie.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mai

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation/Deinstallation of rhythmbox

2003-04-05 Thread Chris I
Patrick Marquetecken wrote: Hi, i'm going to install Rhythmbox. But i normal install only programs with if possible no KDE or Gnome support it make some programs heavy to load, now i've seen that rhythmbox have from both files !! If i want to deinstall it, do i just emerge -C XXX and go from bott

[gentoo-user] Xfree 4.3.0-r1

2003-04-05 Thread Susie
I was wondering are there any plans in the future to list the keyboard updates as trivial updates? I ask as there were alot of them when it came to etc-update time. From the looks of them they probably could of been emerged as trivial updates perhaps. I just figure if they were listed as such it

Re: [gentoo-user] survey: gentoo corporate usage?

2003-04-05 Thread Vano D
> > > > The portage tree isnt that big... it's about 90 megs. > > > > I think he means the source packages as well. I actually meant the /usr/portage/ directory without the distfiles dir :-) I don't know why I thought it was bigger than 90 megs. Still, 90 megs is big but good news is that compre

Re: [gentoo-user] Lame LBreakout2 question...

2003-04-05 Thread Susie
On Sat, 05 Apr 2003 16:10:42 -0800 Timothy Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What does the right arrow --> that flashes on the lower right hand > side of the LBreakout2 screen mean? It means you can warp to the next level by hitting "w"... in the settings you can tell it what the minimum amount

Re: [gentoo-user] Lame LBreakout2 question...

2003-04-05 Thread C. Brewer
On Sat, 5 Apr 2003 16:10:42 -0800 Timothy Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What does the right arrow --> that flashes on the lower right hand side of the > LBreakout2 screen mean? > > -- > Stand Fast, > tjg. > > Timothy Grant > www.craigelachie.org > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] Lame LBreakout2 question...

2003-04-05 Thread C. Brewer
On Sat, 5 Apr 2003 16:10:42 -0800 Timothy Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What does the right arrow --> that flashes on the lower right hand side of the > LBreakout2 screen mean? > > -- > Stand Fast, > tjg. > > Timothy Grant > www.craigelachie.org > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

[gentoo-user] Lame LBreakout2 question...

2003-04-05 Thread Timothy Grant
What does the right arrow --> that flashes on the lower right hand side of the LBreakout2 screen mean? -- Stand Fast, tjg. Timothy Grant www.craigelachie.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How many "testing/unstable" ebuilds did you emerge?

2003-04-05 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Saturday 05 Apr 2003 23:54, Alec Berryman wrote: > You ought to file a bug report about this and get it added to the > gentoo-stable project's page. I understand that the maintainer of the > project has left Gentoo, though, so no idea when it would be committed. Bug #18826 -- Gentoo-1.4.2.8 U

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel won't compile

2003-04-05 Thread Warren Johnson
Tom Wesley wrote: Greetings List, I just downloaded and am trying to install gentoo. Everything goes fine until I try to build the kernel. I am using the gentoo-sources kernel. I am using the install instructions from the web site. The kernel goes along fine for a while then stops with somethi

[gentoo-user] Stable Gentoo.org seems to be having problems

2003-04-05 Thread Susie
I got a server 500 error trying to go there and it comments on it being a java failure in the server. Here is a snippet: root cause javax.servlet.ServletException: Communication link failure: java.net.SocketException The output was quite long. Don't know if I should bother attaching it but if

Re: [gentoo-user] glitch in GL

2003-04-05 Thread Mitchell James
I haven't load on any of those types of programs.  So hopefully noting like that was installed during other emerges.  I normally do a pretend and don't remember seeing such a dependence. Mitchell James bryce verdier wrote: I had the same problem, and in doing a little digging on my system i

[gentoo-user] gtkhtml-1.1.10 failed

2003-04-05 Thread Alex Combas
creating art/Makefile creating capplet/Makefile creating components/Makefile creating components/html-editor/Makefile creating components/html-editor/GNOME_GtkHTML_Editor.oaf.in creating components/ebrowser/Makefile creating components/http-storage-module/Makefile creating config.h linking ./intl/l

Re: [gentoo-user] How many "testing/unstable" ebuilds did youemerge?

2003-04-05 Thread Alec Berryman
On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 16:50, Peter Ruskin wrote: > Yes, thanks Alec. It's clever sed stuff, one of my weaker points. > However, it assumes that /var/db/pkg contains accurate records and it > doesn't. If you emerge something with ~x86 keyword and later you sync > and that package has become st

Re: [gentoo-user] How many "testing/unstable" ebuilds did you emerge?

2003-04-05 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Saturday 05 Apr 2003 23:38, Alec Berryman wrote: > On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 16:33, Peter Ruskin wrote: > > This is the script I now use to keep track of the unstable builds: > > There's a similar script at the gentoo-stable site, also in bash: > http://stable.gentoo.org/notes.jsp Yes, thanks Alec.

Re: [gentoo-user] How many "testing/unstable" ebuilds did youemerge?

2003-04-05 Thread Alec Berryman
On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 16:33, Peter Ruskin wrote: > This is the script I now use to keep track of the unstable builds: There's a similar script at the gentoo-stable site, also in bash: http://stable.gentoo.org/notes.jsp -- Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-ke

Re: [gentoo-user] X problem

2003-04-05 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Saturday 05 Apr 2003 21:49, Ernie Schroder wrote: > After a month of no X problems, I'm back to an occasional glitch in my > X sessions. Normally, a session will start with a screen resolution of > 75x 75 dpi. From time to time and for no apparent reason, a session > will open with 112x112 dpi r

[gentoo-user] How many "testing/unstable" ebuilds did you emerge?

2003-04-05 Thread Peter Ruskin
It's not as easy as I thought to find that out. After running unstable for a while I had so many that it was hard to know what was stopping wine and winex from working ( they worked fine on my stable partition ). So I commented ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" in my make.conf and did `emerge world -u`.

Re: [gentoo-user] glitch in GL

2003-04-05 Thread bryce verdier
I had the same problem, and in doing a little digging on my system i found out it was [EMAIL PROTECTED] running in the background. So maybe if you have something like [EMAIL PROTECTED], or seti, running in the background that could be causing your glitch. bryce On Saturday 05 April 2003 11:4

Re: [gentoo-user] X problem

2003-04-05 Thread Norberto BENSA
On Saturday 05 April 2003 05:49 pm, Ernie Schroder wrote: > After a month of no X problems, I'm back to an occasional glitch in my X > sessions. Normally, a session will start with a screen resolution of > 75x 75 dpi. From time to time and for no apparent reason, a session > will open with 112x112

[gentoo-user] X problem

2003-04-05 Thread Ernie Schroder
After a month of no X problems, I'm back to an occasional glitch in my X sessions. Normally, a session will start with a screen resolution of 75x 75 dpi. From time to time and for no apparent reason, a session will open with 112x112 dpi res. IIRC, I can put the screen size in my XF86Config, but

[gentoo-user] minor glade errors.

2003-04-05 Thread Spundun Bhatt
Hi While emerging glade today I got the following errors... the errors ddint stop the build but I am concerned that this might break things... TRhey occure both when I try the version 0.6.4 and 1.1.3. anybody has any ideas abot this? Thanx a lot Spundun

[gentoo-user] glitch in GL

2003-04-05 Thread Mitchell James
I am having a problem with any GL program. About every 20 seconds the screen stutters. This happens with nVidia drivers after 2880. My assumption is that there is another process running that is causing this. I am attemping to use "top -Si" in batch mode to find out what process is causing

[gentoo-user] USB scanner true libusb

2003-04-05 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Hi, I'm trying to get my scanner to work, but with no results. I have followd this web-site: http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/gt68xx-backend/ It says that my kernel 2.4.20 wil not recognised my scanner (Medion MD9458) unles i upgrade to at least 2.4.21-r4, according to kernel.org is 2.4.20 the

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage snapshots

2003-04-05 Thread Dmitry Suzdalev
Because for me it works much too long than downloading snapshot. :) > Why not emerge sync - that will update your tree. > > > Hello! > > > > How do you think, are the following commands safe to do in the case that > > i already have portage tree in /usr/portage that is a bit outdated: > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage snapshots

2003-04-05 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Why not emerge sync - that will update your tree. > Hello! > > How do you think, are the following commands safe to do in the case that i > already have portage tree in /usr/portage that is a bit outdated: > > $ wget http://gentoo.linux.no/snapshots/portage-20030401.tar.bz2 > $ cp /tmp/portage-20

[gentoo-user] Portage snapshots

2003-04-05 Thread Dmitry Suzdalev
Hello! How do you think, are the following commands safe to do in the case that i already have portage tree in /usr/portage that is a bit outdated: $ wget http://gentoo.linux.no/snapshots/portage-20030401.tar.bz2 $ cp /tmp/portage-20030401.tar.bz2 /usr && cd /usr $ tar -xvjpf portage-20030401.ta

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware & samba: "no permission to access resource"

2003-04-05 Thread gabriel
oops thanks for that i had the wrong password plugged in. vmware is pretty sweet -- fools in a country delay the independence of its people - jomo Kenyatta -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel won't compile

2003-04-05 Thread Tom Wesley
On Saturday 05 April 2003 17:23, Dmitry Suzdalev wrote: > Could you report a bit more output that was before this error? :) > > Best regards, Dmitry. > > > Greetings List, > > > > I just downloaded and am trying to install gentoo. Everything goes fine > > until I try to build the kernel. I am usi

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel won't compile

2003-04-05 Thread Dmitry Suzdalev
Could you report a bit more output that was before this error? :) Best regards, Dmitry. > Greetings List, > > I just downloaded and am trying to install gentoo. Everything goes fine > until I try to build the kernel. I am using the gentoo-sources kernel. > I am using the install instructions

Re: [gentoo-user] Package management for non-ebuild software

2003-04-05 Thread Jan Drugowitsch
> If you do wrie an ebuild, you might as well subit it to Bugzilla as > well(bugs.gentoo.org). Takes five second to you and enhances portage for > everyone else. I am quite sure now that I'll take a closer look at the gentoo build system when I've got some time left over. As I wouldn't care about

[gentoo-user] kernel won't compile

2003-04-05 Thread Warren Johnson
Greetings List, I just downloaded and am trying to install gentoo. Everything goes fine until I try to build the kernel. I am using the gentoo-sources kernel. I am using the install instructions from the web site. The kernel goes along fine for a while then stops with something like the fol

[gentoo-user] new thread:: emerge gnome fails

2003-04-05 Thread Nick Torenvliet
Hi, The place where the gnome emerge bombs is in var/tmp/portage/libxml2-2.5.6/work/libxml2-2.5.6/nanohttp.c line 808 in a function called xmlNanoHTTPConnectAttempt. It says the variable len is undeclared. If you go to the file in quesiton len is declared as :SOCKLEN_T len; -- Nick Torenvlie

Re: [gentoo-user] Cups printing gives garbage

2003-04-05 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
The only thing that works now is: foomatic-configure -s cups -p 62112 -c lpd://192.168.123.254/lp -n Epson-zw -d stcolor works fine for b&w but not for color Patrick On Sat, 5 Apr 2003 10:49:34 +0200 Arnold Krille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 04 April 2003 19:15, Patrick Marquetecken

Re[2]: [gentoo-user] rdate vs. ntpdate

2003-04-05 Thread Timo Boettcher
Hi Jani-Matti, Nachricht vom Samstag, 5. April 2003, 14:14:46: > Timo Boettcher wrote: >> So ntpdate will cease to exist? Any hint on why? > ntpd -q does the exact same thing as ntpdate did (fix the time once, and > then quit), so ntpdate has become pretty useless. THX Timo -- [EMAIL PRO

Re: [gentoo-user] X flicker,flicker,flicker fine...

2003-04-05 Thread Jesse Jacobs
Hello Sami, Thanks for spending some time to help me out. I've tried these settings to no avail. :( Option "UseEdidFreqs" "0" Option "IgnoreEDID""1" When the driver loads, EDID is igrored. The monitor cannot be probed because of the KVM. In the README it st

Re: [gentoo-user] survey: gentoo corporate usage?

2003-04-05 Thread William Kenworthy
I guess you dont use a modem like a lot of us have to ... :) BillK On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 14:14, Abhishek Amit wrote: ... > The portage tree isnt that big... it's about 90 megs. > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware & samba: "no permission to access resource"

2003-04-05 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Saturday 05 April 2003 01:06 am, gabriel wrote: > any idea what that means? here's what i've done: > > installed gentoo 1.2 running X 4.2 & kde 3.1.1 > emerged vmware-workstation > ran the config program and guessed at the values > (pretty much went with the default every time) > installed wi

Re: [gentoo-user] mod_php problem

2003-04-05 Thread Xabier Ochotorena
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 El Sábado, 5 de Abril de 2003 00:39, Ted Ozolins escribió: > I believe this is caused by having or is trying to use java. In you > /etc/make.conf place in your USE= lane -java . Then it shlould emerge > without a problem. I had that and so have other

Re: [gentoo-user] rdate vs. ntpdate

2003-04-05 Thread Jani-Matti Hätinen
Timo Boettcher wrote: > So ntpdate will cease to exist? Any hint on why? ntpd -q does the exact same thing as ntpdate did (fix the time once, and then quit), so ntpdate has become pretty useless. -- Cheers, Jani-Matti Hätinen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] survey: gentoo corporate usage?

2003-04-05 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Saturday 05 April 2003 12:58, Spider wrote: > begin quote > On Sat, 5 Apr 2003 04:16:13 +0300 > > Sami Näätänen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And here is my comments on them. > > > > > *) simple configuration of alternate GRP address' (for internal > > > network, make admin make packages and s

Re: [gentoo-user] survey: gentoo corporate usage?

2003-04-05 Thread dave crane
> But be aware of > Gentoo 1.4's glibc 2.3, I could not install 9iR2 on it... ive got a legacy oracle 8.0.5 installed on a gentoo 1.4/glibc2.3 system. its a little outdated (by postgres) :P [ root @ crunch ] /usr/lib > emerge -s glibc Searching... [ Results for search key : glibc ] [ Applicati

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about 2.5.66 kernel

2003-04-05 Thread Dmitry
Hello, Chris! >It might not be the source that differs, it could be a documentation >file. Perhaps there are files that were removed since the original >tarball. I'm not sure if they'd be removed as well or just ignored. >Theres really alot of things that could be different. Thanks for explana

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about 2.5.66 kernel

2003-04-05 Thread Dmitry
Hello, Max! Thank you VERY much. I'll try it next time! :) That would work great for me :) Best regards, Dmitry. >(Sorry for the previous e-mail, it seems I forgot to force a text e-mail) > >Hi Dmitry, > >One way to work around the next emerge sync problem and be able to use >your personal tar

Re: [gentoo-user] survey: gentoo corporate usage?

2003-04-05 Thread Spider
begin quote On Sat, 5 Apr 2003 04:16:13 +0300 Sami Näätänen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And here is my comments on them. > > > *) simple configuration of alternate GRP address' (for internal > > network, make admin make packages and sign, then deply) > > Should this be like the Portage tree

Re: [gentoo-user] xine does not emerge

2003-04-05 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sat, 5 Apr 2003, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: Nope. The problem is almost certainly the pthread thing, but I was unable to google my way through it. Thanks anyway. > I have installed xine with these USE variable: '-kde -gnome pda scanner' > > > Patrick > > > On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 21:30:28 +01

Re: [gentoo-user] survey: gentoo corporate usage?

2003-04-05 Thread Carlos C. Gonzalez
Hi Mark, You know one thing I really like about this list is that it seems to be quite free of the brainless flaming and unreasoned arguments that sometimes typify forums and newsgroups that I have participated in. Thanks again for your input Mark. Rest assured that I did not take anything

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge won't update (to newest version of nvidiadriver)

2003-04-05 Thread Jose Gonzalez Gomez
Thilo, See inline Thilo Schwidurski wrote: Whenever I try an emerge -p nvidia-kernel or emerge -p nvidia-glx it will show me a "R" (not an expected "U") for the installed 3xxx version (I dont have the exact number here on my W2K box). R stands for replace. You are trying to emerge t

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge gnome fails

2003-04-05 Thread Tom Wesley
On Saturday 08 March 2003 1:28 am, Nick Torenvliet wrote: > Hi there, I'm pretty new to gentoo, I've got a working installation, and a > X11 instance, I'm trying to put gnome on top of it. > > When I do an "emerge gnome" I get an error that looks like this > > !!! Error: dev-libs/libxml2-2.5.6 fail

Re: [gentoo-user] survey: gentoo corporate usage?

2003-04-05 Thread Tom Wesley
On Saturday 05 April 2003 7:14 am, Abhishek Amit wrote: > On 05:15 Sat 05 Apr , Vano D wrote: > > This is why it would be a superb idea for Gentoo to adopt something like > > Knoppix. What I would really love to see is a "Knoppix Gentoo" where the > > whole base is a Gentoo system with portage

[gentoo-user] emerge won't update (to newest version of nvidia driver)

2003-04-05 Thread Thilo Schwidurski
Whenever I try an emerge -p nvidia-kernel or emerge -p nvidia-glx it will show me a "R" (not an expected "U") for the installed 3xxx version (I dont have the exact number here on my W2K box). But there is this newer 4xxx ebuild package in the ...portage/.../media-video/... path (or tree). How

Re: [gentoo-user] Cups printing gives garbage

2003-04-05 Thread Arnold Krille
On Friday 04 April 2003 19:15, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: > But wy is it good whit gimp? > I have created a printer with the web interface but with the same results. Perhaps you should use the GIMP-printer-drivers.. Ive got a C62 and it works well with "EPSON Stylus C62, CUPS+GIMPprint v4.3.5(en

Re: [gentoo-user] survey: gentoo corporate usage?

2003-04-05 Thread Mark Bainter
Carlos C. Gonzalez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Mark, > > Hmm You may have a point here too Mark. I guess I tend to view newbies > through the lens of my experience. Since I still consider myself a newbie. > I tend to read the documentation and do my own research and frankly > oftentime

Re: [gentoo-user] xine does not emerge

2003-04-05 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
I have installed xine with these USE variable: '-kde -gnome pda scanner' Patrick On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 21:30:28 +0100 (WEST) Jorge Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just emerged sync and still cannot emerge xine (same problem last > weekend). Any idea? > TIA. > > emerge xine-ui > Calculat