Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia kernel major problems

2003-06-13 Thread Martin Larsson
On tor, 2003-06-12 at 19:23, Michael Rasile wrote: On Thu Jun 12, 2003 at 10:39:33PM +0200 or thereabouts, Martin Larsson wrote: Hello I'm trying to get nvidia drivers to work cause i wanted to test Americas army ;) altough, I must have done something terribly wrong somewhere :S ive

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Cisco 352 PCMCIA Drivers

2003-06-13 Thread Jason Tedesco
Thanks Jason that was a good tip. Pitty it didn't solve my problem, it still didn't find the files it was looking for. I have also noticed something else while starting pcmcia-cs with cisco cards. I have the following cards. The LMC352 card was ripped out of a cisco PCI card. When using the

Re: [gentoo-user] devfs

2003-06-13 Thread Mika Fischer
* Phil Barnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-06-13 09:16]: Either way, you also have to specify that devfs is run automatically at boot time. Or use: kernel /boot/bzImage ... devfs=mount in your menu.lst Cheers, Mika -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Cron emerge tips?

2003-06-13 Thread nealbirch
On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 04:13:20 +0100 Dhruba Bandopadhyay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tracy McKibben wrote: Just curious to hear how others are doing scheduled updates. I currently am doing an emerge -U world each night on my workstations, emerge -Up world on my server with the results

[gentoo-user] Bootstrapping on an already installed system

2003-06-13 Thread Jonathan Chocron
Hi, I currently have a gentoo installed from a stage 3 and I was wondering if I could bootstrap safely. The reason why is that my system is considered i586, but is really i686. Thanks in advance, Jonathan -- System going down at 5 this afternoon to install scheduler bug. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] media-plugins/xmms-arts masked?

2003-06-13 Thread Arnold Krille
Have to answer as a noatun/kde/arts freak... On Thursday 12 June 2003 22:33, daniel wrote: after kde3.1 came out, i decided that i might as well try out noatun again (hated it before, so i went back to xmms). and while it crashed *less* than it had before, the usability was still off...

Re: [gentoo-user] devfs

2003-06-13 Thread Tom Allison
Mika Fischer wrote: * Phil Barnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-06-13 09:16]: Either way, you also have to specify that devfs is run automatically at boot time. Or use: kernel /boot/bzImage ... devfs=mount in your menu.lst Cheers, Mika -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list So I should be able to just

Re: [gentoo-user] devfs

2003-06-13 Thread brett holcomb
You also need to build the kernel with autostart on boot for devfs. On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 22:20:32 -0400 Tom Allison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a little stuck. I didn't build my kernel with devfs support. So I set CONFIG_DEVFS_FS=y rebuild the kernel copy to /boot/bzImage and then what? I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd hangs at boot

2003-06-13 Thread Juri Haberland
brett holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, the network is running before local.start is executed. Local is last to start up and first to go down. Ok, I stand corrected ;) Cheers, Juri -- Juri Haberland [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd hangs at boot

2003-06-13 Thread brett holcomb
You're welcome! On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 12:08:10 + (UTC) Juri Haberland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: brett holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, the network is running before local.start is executed. Local is last to start up and first to go down. Ok, I stand corrected ;) Cheers, Juri -- Juri

Re: [gentoo-user] Bootstrapping on an already installed system

2003-06-13 Thread Zack Gilburd
On Friday 13 June 2003 02:32, Jonathan Chocron wrote: Hi, I currently have a gentoo installed from a stage 3 and I was wondering if I could bootstrap safely. The reason why is that my system is considered i586, but is really i686. Thanks in advance, Jonathan Yes, it is safe to bootstrap

Re: [gentoo-user] devfs

2003-06-13 Thread tallison
You also need to build the kernel with autostart on boot for devfs. Thanks. I think there is already a bug report on this devfs problem. But it would save a lot of time to have it outlined in the Installation Docs. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop + Gentoo

2003-06-13 Thread Thomas Buntrock
On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 01:24:23PM -0400, wes chow wrote: Do you have to do anything special to do this? Reload modules or something? Or does it just work? Sorry, it took me so long, had to run windoze on the laptop lately. I have the alsa modules compiled and have a long list modules

Re: [gentoo-user] devfs

2003-06-13 Thread Mika Fischer
Hi, Tom! * Tom Allison [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-06-13 12:50]: Or use: kernel /boot/bzImage ... devfs=mount So I should be able to just edit the grub menu and be done with this? There are *two* relevant options in the kernel config: [*] /dev file system support (EXPERIMENTAL) [*]

Re: [gentoo-user] 3 n00b questions (portage)

2003-06-13 Thread Kirtis Bakalarczyk
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 04:25:08 -0700 (PDT) Gëzim Hoxha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3.) If I were to do emerge kde then after say 10 packages, I have to stop, and do CTRL+C, what happenes? Is the package that was compiling gonna automatically finish compiling when I do emerge kde again?

Re: [gentoo-user] Cron emerge tips?

2003-06-13 Thread Cal Evans
Just curious, how did you setup a private rsync server? =C= * Cal Evans * http://www.christianperformer.com * Stay plugged into your audience * The measure of a programmer is not the number of lines of code he writes but the number of lines he does not have to write. * - Original Message

Re: [gentoo-user] 3 n00b questions (portage)

2003-06-13 Thread Ohad Lutzky
Another tip: emerge screen, and learn how to use it. I find this to be an incredibly useful tool; I might, for example, be emerging something big (read: KDE), and take breaks. Before I used screen, I'd leave it running on one of the virtual consoles and log out of X so other people can (slowly)

Re: [gentoo-user] 3 n00b questions (portage)

2003-06-13 Thread mike myers
in order to selectively start stopped processes, just type fg or bg and the number of the job. like, if you wanted to start the 2nd process, which would be vi, for example, then you would just do fg 2. On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 05:36, Christopher Egner wrote: You can actually do this with more than

RE: [gentoo-user] virtual/mta versus mod_php

2003-06-13 Thread Joel Osburn
Marius Mauch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The problem is that mod_php depends on a virtual/mta package. You have postfix installed which provides that package, but you masked the current versions (have a look at /usr/portage/net-mail/postfix to see all available versions, I think your masking needs to

Re: [gentoo-user] virtual/mta versus mod_php

2003-06-13 Thread Ohad Lutzky
I'd delete the ssmtp ebuilds and emerge rsync. Also check /etc/make.profile/virtuals... maybe virtual/mta is set to postfix. On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 08:57:23AM -0700, Joel Osburn wrote: Marius Mauch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The problem is that mod_php depends on a virtual/mta package. You have

Re: [gentoo-user] 3 n00b questions (portage)

2003-06-13 Thread Rev. Jeffrey Paul
On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Ohad Lutzky wrote: Another tip: emerge screen, and learn how to use it. I second this. GNU Screen is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Tip: try putting hardstatus alwayslastline %{rk}%H %{gk}%c:%s %{yk}%M%d %{wk}%?%-Lw%?%{bw}%n*%f %t%?(%u)%?%{wk}%?%+Lw%? in your

Re: [gentoo-user] 3 n00b questions (portage)

2003-06-13 Thread MAL
Rev. Jeffrey Paul wrote: On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Ohad Lutzky wrote: Another tip: emerge screen, and learn how to use it. I second this. GNU Screen is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Tip: try putting hardstatus alwayslastline %{rk}%H %{gk}%c:%s %{yk}%M%d %{wk}%?%-Lw%?%{bw}%n*%f

Re: [gentoo-user] virtual/mta versus mod_php

2003-06-13 Thread Marius Mauch
On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 08:57:23 -0700 Joel Osburn wrote: Marius Mauch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The problem is that mod_php depends on a virtual/mta package. You have postfix installed which provides that package, but you masked the current versions (have a look at /usr/portage/net-mail/postfix

Re: [gentoo-user] 3 n00b questions (portage)

2003-06-13 Thread Rev. Jeffrey Paul
On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, MAL wrote: Screen is indeed great so what do I have to do to have it as my default shell? :) I put the following in my .profile: if [ -z $STY ]; then screen -d -R exit fi -j -- Rev. Jeffrey Paul

RE: [gentoo-user] virtual/mta versus mod_php

2003-06-13 Thread Joel Osburn
Marius Mauch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I think that is because you still have a virtual/mail net-mail/postfix in your /var/cache/edb/virtuals, so a virtual/mta package is installed and there's no need to install another one. Right. So why does the mod_php ebuild think it needs to? If virtual/mta

[gentoo-user] can't set parameters with iwconfig

2003-06-13 Thread Martin Muellenberg
hi to all, i have a toshiba satellite notebook and i have bought a toshiba mini-pci wlan card (PA3189U-1MPC). i have already read the posts at http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=26716highlight=pcmciacs but it has not helped yet. a friend of mine alread tried to get it work without

Re: [gentoo-user] Cron emerge tips?

2003-06-13 Thread daniel
On June 13, 2003 11:48 am, Cal Evans wrote: Just curious, how did you setup a private rsync server? it wasn't anything really impressive, i just installed gentoo-rsync-mirror and followed the instructions at: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/rsync.xml and in my rsync-gentoo-portage.sh file, i

Re: [gentoo-user] screen (was: 3 n00b questions)

2003-06-13 Thread MAL
Rev. Jeffrey Paul wrote: On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, MAL wrote: Screen is indeed great so what do I have to do to have it as my default shell? :) I put the following in my .profile: if [ -z $STY ]; then screen -d -R exit fi Wouldn't screen -d -RR be more suited? Also, what happens in this

Re: [gentoo-user] virtual/mta versus mod_php

2003-06-13 Thread brett holcomb
The ebuilds for an application specify what it needs or provides. Check an ebuild and man 5 ebuild. On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 18:11:12 +0200 Marius Mauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 08:57:23 -0700 Joel Osburn wrote: Marius Mauch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The problem is that mod_php

Re: [gentoo-user] virtual/mta versus mod_php

2003-06-13 Thread Marius Mauch
On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 09:23:26 -0700 Joel Osburn wrote: Marius Mauch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I think that is because you still have a virtual/mail net-mail/postfix in your /var/cache/edb/virtuals, so a virtual/mta package is installed and there's no need to install another one. Right. So

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Verdict on Evolution 1.4.0

2003-06-13 Thread Matthew Kennedy
Zack Gilburd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thursday 12 June 2003 16:54, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: Hello I just the hard masked evolution 1.4.0 package after upgrading gtk+ and re-emerging my gtk-theme-engines. Now, although it emerged perfectly I have to say that after the wait for

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Cisco 352 PCMCIA Drivers

2003-06-13 Thread Jason Nielsen
H... well that can be a number of things. Can you give a cut of dmesg with the appropriate failed to load info. Do you get a double flat tone or one high pitched, one flat tone? If the later than you don't have /etc/wireless.opts set up proper. Another thing you can try is the following,

RE: [gentoo-user] virtual/mta versus mod_php

2003-06-13 Thread Joel Osburn
Brett Holcomb: Thanks for the suggestion. Checking the ebuild was one of the first things I did, but it only lists apache as a dependency, and is willing to use apache2 if that flag is set. I'm not clear where else dependencies are set. Quoth Marius Mauch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Ah, now I have an

Re: [gentoo-user] virtual/mta versus mod_php

2003-06-13 Thread Cal Evans
/usr/portage/eclass/php.eclass Specifies that there must be a virtual/mta. mod_php and php both inherit from this class. My guess is that since there is an upgrade for your installed virtual/mta, it wants to upgrade it as well. I would suggest that you manually upgrade any other packages that

RE: [gentoo-user] virtual/mta versus mod_php

2003-06-13 Thread Joel Osburn
Cal, thanks. That provides the missing link in my understanding of how dependencies are determined / inherited. I upgraded postfix to lastest (last, actually) 1.x series in portage, and all is well. I do maintain that the logic regarding emerge's -u flag is flawed in this situation. IMHO,

Re: [gentoo-user] screen (was: 3 n00b questions)

2003-06-13 Thread Rev. Jeffrey Paul
On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, MAL wrote: Wouldn't screen -d -RR be more suited? From the manpage: -d -R Reattach a session and if necessary detach or even create it first. -d -RR Reattach a session and if necessary detach or create it. Use the first session if more than one

[gentoo-user] Unicode from Mutt/Vim

2003-06-13 Thread Ohad Lutzky
For some reason, my mutt/vim combo is sending Hebrew mail as Unicode - this is undesired for me, as it makes it a hassle to change the encoding for many people (feel free to try and convince me otherwise). In vim, 'set encoding?' returns iso-8859-8 (the standard Hebrew encoding). What gives?

Re: [gentoo-user] screen (was: 3 n00b questions)

2003-06-13 Thread Ohad Lutzky
On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 01:42:03PM -0400, Rev. Jeffrey Paul wrote: On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, MAL wrote: Wouldn't screen -d -RR be more suited? From the manpage: -d -R Reattach a session and if necessary detach or even create it first. -d -RR Reattach a session and if

[gentoo-user] Scripting an install

2003-06-13 Thread Cal Evans
As always, pardon if this has been asked before. I don't remember seeing it on the list. Is it now possible or are there any plans in the future to allow for a scripted, hands-off, install? The mythtv discussion got me thinking about this. I don't want a mythTV that runs off of a CD but I don't

[gentoo-user] portage lost installed pckg - help?

2003-06-13 Thread Chris Graves
I don't know exactly what I did, but portage no longer knows what packages are installed on my system. Is there a way to recover or regenerate this list? thanks, -chris -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] portage lost installed pckg - help?

2003-06-13 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Chris Graves wrote: I don't know exactly what I did, but portage no longer knows what packages are installed on my system. Is there a way to recover or regenerate this list? thanks, -chris -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list 'Emerge regen' and run 'regenworld'. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] OT paper for migration windows to Linux

2003-06-13 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Hi, In September I start to write a paper for my degree in IT, its about migration a company from Windows to Opensource (Linux) and perhaps i can do it one day in the real live also :-). I have already the why migrate, prices, the programs, TOC and so on. I just have to write the white paper

Re: [gentoo-user] portage lost installed pckg - help?

2003-06-13 Thread Chris Graves
Dhruba, thanks for the tip... but it doesn't work. For example, I have xmms, gnome, evolution (...) installed, they are not in the world file and still aren't found after running 'emerge regen' and 'regenworld' any ideas? -chris On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 11:19, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: Chris

[gentoo-user] 2.4.21 officially out!

2003-06-13 Thread Alan
Any idea how long before the gentoo-sources are updated? -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT paper for migration windows to Linux

2003-06-13 Thread daniel
On June 13, 2003 02:22 pm, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: In September I start to write a paper for my degree in IT, its about migration a company from Windows to Opensource (Linux) and perhaps i can do it one day in the real live also :-). I have already the why migrate, prices, the programs,

Re: [gentoo-user] gkrellm sensors with Asus

2003-06-13 Thread brett holcomb
I think those modules appear magically when you emerge lm-sensors. At least they did for me. Either that or building the kernel/modules with the i2c items checked causes them to appear. I only checked the /dev and /proc in the i2c list. On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 15:16:10 -0400 Ernie Schroder

Re: [gentoo-user] gkrellm sensors with Asus

2003-06-13 Thread brett holcomb
Okay. I had to delete some of the modules (I don't have the list handy right now) that Peter Ruskin mentioned in post in reply to mine in order to get rid of unresolved references. I think it was an lm-sensors thread in the last week. On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 15:35:41 -0400 Ernie Schroder

[gentoo-user] ebuild for sg3_utils?

2003-06-13 Thread Chris Bare
Is there an ebuild for the sg3_utils (scsi generic) package? I searched for all the combinations I could think of, but didn't see one. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] netscape AIM

2003-06-13 Thread imputerate
hi all, and may this list thrive and prosper; should netscape AIM be installed by clicking on the netscape install button, or by means of 'emerge'? peter -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] netscape AIM

2003-06-13 Thread brett holcomb
I'd do the emerge route since it will let Gentoo keep track of it. On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 13:18:09 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all, and may this list thrive and prosper; should netscape AIM be installed by clicking on the netscape install button, or by means of 'emerge'? peter -- [EMAIL

[gentoo-user] Kernel Config

2003-06-13 Thread DS
Is there a way to save to a readable format the current kernel and its settings so it can be viewed for future builds? Doc

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Config

2003-06-13 Thread Chris Bare
Is there a way to save to a readable format the current kernel and its settings so it can be viewed for future builds? If the kernel is built with the right option, you can do: cat /proc/config to get the .config file the running kernel was built with. If you still have the build tree,

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Config

2003-06-13 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Friday 13 Jun 2003 21:29, DS wrote: Is there a way to save to a readable format the current kernel and its settings so it can be viewed for future builds? Already done: /usr/src/linux/.config Peter -- == Gentoo Linux: Gentoo Base System

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Config

2003-06-13 Thread brett holcomb
Yes, the /usr/src/linux/.config file is a text file. Save it somewhere such as myconfig. On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 15:29:33 -0500 DS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to save to a readable format the current kernel and its settings so it can be viewed for future builds? Doc -- [EMAIL

RE: [gentoo-user] Kernel Config

2003-06-13 Thread DS
Thanks everyone Doc -Original Message- From: brett holcomb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 3:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Config Yes, the /usr/src/linux/.config file is a text file. Save it somewhere such as myconfig. On

[gentoo-user] Help: hylafax broke following emerge -u world

2003-06-13 Thread Steven
Anyone else have this issue? I don't have a whole lot of data on this yet as I'm currently looking into it right now. But I will post more as I find out more. Best regards, Steven -- Know your neighbor. Discover independent media: http://www.thislife.org/ - This American Life - documenting

[gentoo-user] portage

2003-06-13 Thread Chris Graves
I don't suppose there is a way to retrofit, say, a RH linux box with portage? Is this because of the system structure or ??? curious, -chris -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] virtual/mta versus mod_php

2003-06-13 Thread Norberto BENSA
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ date ; echo ${Marius Mauch} Friday 13 June 2003 01:59 pm Ah, now I have an idea. I think the -u is the problem as it causes to upgrade dependencies IIRC (and --deep is to upgrade dependencies of dependencies). Because it sees that your installed version is not in the

Re: [gentoo-user] portage

2003-06-13 Thread Mike Roest
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Graves wrote: | I don't suppose there is a way to retrofit, say, a RH linux box with | portage? Sure there is, remove redhat and install gentoo. You'll have a fine working portage system you can use. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: [gentoo-user] new kernel

2003-06-13 Thread Alan
On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 02:42:23PM -0700, Spundun Bhatt wrote: If I update that package... do I need to rebuild the kernel or can I just ignore this update? Well, if you want the new kernel you'll have to rebuild :) If you don't care about .21 you can ignore. If I have to build this kernel,

[gentoo-user] stolen:Re: [gentoo-user] new kernel

2003-06-13 Thread Jonathan Nichols
-- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net ?? I'm still mad at you for stealing my Microsoft photo idea! ;) -Dr_Stein (from #userfriendly..back in the day) :P -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] new kernel

2003-06-13 Thread Jesse Jacobs
Hello, Alan said: On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 02:42:23PM -0700, Spundun Bhatt wrote: If I update that package... do I need to rebuild the kernel or can I just ignore this update? Well, if you want the new kernel you'll have to rebuild :) If you don't care about .21 you can ignore. If I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing old packages from /usr/portage/packages

2003-06-13 Thread romildo
On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 11:00:58AM -0700, Zack Gilburd wrote: Content-Description: signed data On Thursday 12 June 2003 07:58, keanu wrote: On Wednesday 11 June 2003 20:51, Jose Romildo Malaquias wrote: Does anybody has a script for removing old files from /usr/portage/packages ? I

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.4.21 officially out!

2003-06-13 Thread Jens Mayer
* On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 11:50:09 -0700, Alan wrote: Any idea how long before the gentoo-sources are updated? Hm. I think they'll be released when they are ready. ;) Regards, Jens -- Disk crisis, please clean up! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Count posts? ;)

2003-06-13 Thread Zack Gilburd
On Thursday 12 June 2003 03:13, Dmitry Suzdalev wrote: Hi! How do you think wouldn't it be nice to see how much messages each gentoo-user subscriber already posted? :) I mean can elzlm gather message statistics for each user like it's done in forums? For example I'd like to see signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding user to group

2003-06-13 Thread Zack Gilburd
On Wednesday 11 June 2003 07:53, Toby Dickenson wrote: On Wednesday 11 June 2003 14:39, Dmitry Suzdalev wrote: I'm asking this because I want to add user to portage group What is the reason for wanting a user to be in the portage group? Are you aware that anyone in that group can gain root

[gentoo-user] XCursor size

2003-06-13 Thread Ohad Lutzky
I really like the default Gentoo cursors (XFree-4.3.0-r2), but they're a tad small... I've been trying to resize them with ~/.Xresources and ~/.Xdefaults, but to no avail. My cursors are selected with ~/.icons/default (selecting them with ~/.Xresources or ~/.Xdefaults doesn't work either). Any

[gentoo-user] TV tuner

2003-06-13 Thread Christopher Egner
Hey everyone, Whats the compatibility look like for tv tuners? Any suggestions? I'm looking for something that can preferably watch one channel and record another at the same time (is this possible?) Thanks -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: new kernel

2003-06-13 Thread Einar S. Idsø
On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 18:28:30 -0400 (EDT) Jesse Jacobs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But yes rm, ln -s the symlink as most kernel specific modules use the symlink for referring to your current kernel source. This can be maddening as nothing else when you frequently switch between different kernels

Re: [gentoo-user] TV tuner

2003-06-13 Thread Tony Clark
On Friday 13 June 2003 20.07, Christopher Egner wrote: Hey everyone, Whats the compatibility look like for tv tuners? Any suggestions? I'm looking for something that can preferably watch one channel and record another at the same time (is this possible?) You need 2 tuners to do this, which

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new kernel

2003-06-13 Thread xcentric
The kernel stores all of its modules in /lib/modules/KERNEL_VERSION/ Where KERNEL_VERSION is usually be found by the command uname -r. Here's a tip: $ cd /lib/modules/`uname -r` # cd's into the modules for current kernel That's basically how it seperates though. So theoretically if you install

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.4.21 officially out!

2003-06-13 Thread MooktaKiNG
Its already available in vanilla-sources. You can try that in the mean time :-) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ date ; echo ${Jens Mayer} Friday 13 June 2003 07:48 pm * On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 11:50:09 -0700, Alan wrote: Any idea how long before the gentoo-sources are updated? Hm. I think they'll

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new kernel

2003-06-13 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Richard Revis wrote: How exactly does a kernel find it's modules? (Say as opposed to the modules you compiled for 1.4.20) - what does Linux do to keep things seperate? Well, I don't think you have to worry about conflicting modules from a 1.x series kernel since the kernel didn't have modules

Re: [gentoo-user] devfs

2003-06-13 Thread Tom Allison
Mika Fischer wrote: Hi, Tom! * Tom Allison [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-06-13 12:50]: Or use: kernel /boot/bzImage ... devfs=mount So I should be able to just edit the grub menu and be done with this? There are *two* relevant options in the kernel config: [*] /dev file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)

[gentoo-user] strange interaction between lilo and kernel

2003-06-13 Thread Klaus D. Neumann
Hi, Is there anything wrong with my /ect/lilo.conf?: - # $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/sys-apps/lilo/files/lilo.conf,v 1.3 2002/09/30 00:55:18 woodchip Exp $ # Author: Ultanium # Start LILO global section menu-scheme=Wb boot = /dev/hda

Re: [gentoo-user] portage

2003-06-13 Thread Zack Gilburd
On Friday 13 June 2003 14:19, Chris Graves wrote: I don't suppose there is a way to retrofit, say, a RH linux box with portage? Is this because of the system structure or ??? curious, -chris -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list People have ported portage to Slack, IIRC. However, no such

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.4.21 officially out!

2003-06-13 Thread Zack Gilburd
On Friday 13 June 2003 17:57, MooktaKiNG wrote: Its already available in vanilla-sources. You can try that in the mean time :-) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ date ; echo ${Jens Mayer} Friday 13 June 2003 07:48 pm * On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 11:50:09 -0700, Alan wrote: Any idea how long before

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing old packages from /usr/portage/packages

2003-06-13 Thread Lincoln A. Baxter
Very nice! Thanks, I had started to think some more about the problem, and you have solved it most elequently. Lincoln On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 18:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 11:00:58AM -0700, Zack Gilburd wrote: Content-Description: signed data On Thursday 12 June

Re: [gentoo-user] devfs

2003-06-13 Thread Rasmus Wiman
Mika Fischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Tom! * Tom Allison [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-06-13 12:50]: Or use: kernel /boot/bzImage ... devfs=mount So I should be able to just edit the grub menu and be done with this? There are *two* relevant options in the kernel config: [*] /dev

[gentoo-user] USB CF reader hotplug mounting

2003-06-13 Thread Chris Bare
I've got a USB sandisk Compact Flash reader. I can get it to work by loading the following modules: usb-storage64380 1 ehci-hcd 16328 0 (unused) usb-uhci 25324 0 (unused) usbcore67168 1 [usb-storage ehci-hcd usb-uhci] I have

Re: [gentoo-user] devfs

2003-06-13 Thread Tom Allison
Mika Fischer wrote: Hi, Tom! * Tom Allison [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-06-13 12:50]: Or use: kernel /boot/bzImage ... devfs=mount So I should be able to just edit the grub menu and be done with this? There are *two* relevant options in the kernel config: [*] /dev file system support

Re: [gentoo-user] Cron emerge tips?

2003-06-13 Thread gabriel
On June 13, 2003 09:01 pm, Brian Hall wrote: How much space does the rsync tree take up? ~205MB -- a true friend stabs you in the front - oscar wilde -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Verdict on Evolution 1.4.0

2003-06-13 Thread Chris I
On 2003.06.13 18:56, Zack Gilburd wrote: On Friday 13 June 2003 12:02, Terje Kvernes wrote: Matthew Kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [ ... ] Call it what you like, they look blurry though... like someone penciled the GUI text with a 4B and then smudged it over with a sweaty thumb ;)

[gentoo-user] emerge libgsf-1.8.1 Problem, and hassle workaround

2003-06-13 Thread Rod Smart
Hello. Whats changed in the emerging of libgsf-1.8.1? It seems that soon after the archive is extracted, the libgsf-1.8.1/doc/html directory that is created from the archive is erased. When you build this program, it tries to install index.sgml and as the directory had been

Re: [gentoo-user] devfs

2003-06-13 Thread Tom Allison
Tom Allison wrote: Mika Fischer wrote: Hi, Tom! * Tom Allison [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-06-13 12:50]: Or use: kernel /boot/bzImage ... devfs=mount So I should be able to just edit the grub menu and be done with this? There are *two* relevant options in the kernel config: [*] /dev

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Verdict on Evolution 1.4.0

2003-06-13 Thread Zack Gilburd
On Friday 13 June 2003 19:42, Chris I wrote: On 2003.06.13 18:56, Zack Gilburd wrote: On Friday 13 June 2003 12:02, Terje Kvernes wrote: Matthew Kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [ ... ] Call it what you like, they look blurry though... like someone penciled the GUI text

[gentoo-user] openoffice.org

2003-06-13 Thread Gëzim
Hi, I started merging openoffice and it´s really taking it´s time [about 5 hours] and it´s not yet done. My question is why can´t I go to openoffice.org and download the tar ball and install it from there, it would have take no more than 10 minuts I believe. Is it better to merge packages than to

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice.org

2003-06-13 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Gëzim Hoxha wrote: Hi, I started merging openoffice and it´s really taking it´s time [about 5 hours] and it´s not yet done. My question is why can´t I go to openoffice.org and download the tar ball and install it from there, it would have take no more than 10 minuts I believe. Is it better to

[gentoo-user] How can I automatically save attachments

2003-06-13 Thread Jamie Dobbs
I'm pretty sure that I have asked this before and been referred to the perfect script to handle it, but I can't find the original reply. I want to be able to have all attachments that come in to a certain email address be saved automatically (called via. procmail most likely) to a directory of my

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice.org

2003-06-13 Thread Gëzim
--- Andrew Gaffney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gëzim Hoxha wrote: Hi, I started merging openoffice and it´s really taking it´s time [about 5 hours] and it´s not yet done. My question is why can´t I go to openoffice.org and download the tar ball and install it from there, it would

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice.org

2003-06-13 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Gëzim Hoxha wrote: --- Andrew Gaffney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gëzim Hoxha wrote: Hi, I started merging openoffice and it´s really taking it´s time [about 5 hours] and it´s not yet done. My question is why can´t I go to openoffice.org and download the tar ball and install it from there, it

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice.org

2003-06-13 Thread Rasmus Wiman
Gëzim Hoxha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I started merging openoffice and it_s really taking it_s time [about 5 hours] and it_s not yet done. My question is why can_t I go to openoffice.org and download the tar ball and install it from there, it would have take no more than 10 minuts I

[gentoo-user] RPM's and Gentoo

2003-06-13 Thread Larry Wright
This may be a silly question, but if there is a piece of software that is only available as an RPM, how do I go about installing that on my Gentoo box? TIA Larry -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice.org

2003-06-13 Thread Norberto BENSA
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ date ; echo ${GXzim} Saturday 14 June 2003 12:00 am Hi, I started merging openoffice and it´s really taking it´s time [about 5 hours] and it´s not yet done. My question is why can´t I go to openoffice.org and download the tar ball and install it from there, it would

[gentoo-user] stop continue merging

2003-06-13 Thread Gëzim
Someone told me how to stop a package while merging then continue it [after a reboot or, whatever], but I deleted the message, how do I access the archives? Thank you, Zim __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com --

Re: [gentoo-user] RPM's and Gentoo

2003-06-13 Thread Marius Mauch
On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 22:24:37 + Larry Wright wrote: This may be a silly question, but if there is a piece of software that is only available as an RPM, how do I go about installing that on my Gentoo box? You can always try one of the following: - emerge rpm - emerge rpm2tgz and then either

Re: [gentoo-user] stop continue merging

2003-06-13 Thread gerrynjr
I believe it was control-x, don't hold me to it though. BTW, hello gentoo-mailinglists! On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 22:51, Gëzim Hoxha wrote: Someone told me how to stop a package while merging then continue it [after a reboot or, whatever], but I deleted the message, how do I access the archives?

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge link error due to i586-pc-linux-gnu/i686-pc-linux-gnu mismatch

2003-06-13 Thread Paul Hannah
Please! I've been trying to work out this problem for hours/days now, and my previous email has seen no response. I'm just replying to plead on my knees for any hints, anything guys. I'm clutching at straws, and as you can see wasting away my partying hours with fruitless tinkering...

Re: [gentoo-user] stop continue merging

2003-06-13 Thread xcentric
Some one please chim in if I am wrong here, but it is my understanding that control-s only stops output being displayed to the terminal. It won't actually stop things from happening. It is ment if things are scrolling to fast and you to stop to read it. Control-Q is its counter-part to continue

Re: [gentoo-user] Unicode from Mutt/Vim

2003-06-13 Thread Richard Kilgore
On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 08:48:21PM +0300, Ohad Lutzky wrote: For some reason, my mutt/vim combo is sending Hebrew mail as Unicode - this is undesired for me, as it makes it a hassle to change the encoding for many people (feel free to try and convince me otherwise). In vim, 'set encoding?'

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