[gentoo-user] distcc - what does "toolchain" mean?

I read in numerous places that if you run a distccd farm, all the machines should run the same "toolchain". I am not sure what is included in the term "toolchain". I know gcc should all be the same version. What else?? Thanks. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sync problem

Robert Arroyo i Andreu wrote: As said in the forum, emerging portage again don't solve this problem, at least for me... Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list I think it's system-wide because I'm getting it too: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=64432 Kent -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailin

Re: [gentoo-user] Windows to linux... What was that app?

On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 12:35:43 -0700 Zack Gilburd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 30 June 2003 12:33 am, Gavrila wrote: > > Il lun, 2003-06-30 alle 06:37, Zack Gilburd wrote: > > > On Sunday 29 June 2003 08:42 pm, Jerry McBride wrote: > > > > As a true linux follower I'm always looking for wa

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc - what does "toolchain" mean?

Am Dienstag, 1. Juli 2003 09:35 schrieb ext Nick Rout: > I read in numerous places that if you run a distccd farm, all the > machines should run the same "toolchain". > > I am not sure what is included in the term "toolchain". I know gcc should > all be the same version. What else?? Basically, gcc

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sync problem

On Monday 30 June 2003 11:36 pm, Robert Arroyo i Andreu wrote: > El Martes, 1 de Julio de 2003 08:32, Robert Arroyo i Andreu escribió: > > Ok, i see: > > If i emerge portage again, and i do an 'emerge -puD world', i get the > correct answer. > But when i do another 'emerge sync' again, it gets corr

[gentoo-user] Re: distcc - what does "toolchain" mean?

Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Dienstag, 1. Juli 2003 09:35 schrieb ext Nick Rout: >> I read in numerous places that if you run a distccd farm, all the >> machines should run the same "toolchain". >> >> I am not sure what is included in the term "toolchain". I know gcc should >> all be the same versio

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sync problem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 01 Jul 2003 00:55:47 -0700 Zack Gilburd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Known issue. use `emerge --sync` for the time being. The solution is > being worked on. Unfortunately that still doesn't work as same error pops up. I've tried "emerge sy

Re: [gentoo-user] help:emerge sync error.

Does your ISP _require_ you to use http proxy? - Original Message - From: zz To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 9:23 AM Subject: [gentoo-user] help:emerge sync error. Sorry if someone has asked this question.I'm a newbie to gentoo.When I emer

RE: [gentoo-user] emerge sync problem

I 've also tried all the emerge syncing combos, and i still get the same problem. i guess i'll just wait. Essien -Original Message- From: Susie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 10:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sync problem -BEG

Re: [gentoo-user] bad mozilla-mail

Jorge Almeida wrote: My mozilla-mail is misbehaving badly: it does not start and mozilla starts eating ressources (98% cpu usage, acording to top).I had to killall mozilla-bin. Anyone found this behavior before? I reemerged mozilla with USE="-gtk2", but no use... (BTW, is it safe yet to compile

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sync problem

On Sunday 29 June 2003 04:39 pm, Essien Ita Essien wrote: > I 've also tried all the emerge syncing combos, and i still get the same > problem. Yea, well the truth of the matter is that OSU (which all other rsync mirrors update from) is having problems. They'll be fixed soon enough. -- Zack Gi

[gentoo-user] Create a custom CD with Gentoo

Hi, I would like to create a custom distribution of Linux. Here is the description of the CD I would like to make: - Possibility to compile all selected packages (including the kernel) with my own option - Execute a script at the beginning of instal

[gentoo-user] More than one drive

I my storage drive has grown past its bounds. I have purchased another drive and installed it in the machine. How do I get myth to see more than one directory as for storage? Eric -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sync problem

On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 10:48, Zack Gilburd wrote: > On Sunday 29 June 2003 04:39 pm, Essien Ita Essien wrote: > > I 've also tried all the emerge syncing combos, and i still get the same > > problem. > > Yea, well the truth of the matter is that OSU (which all other rsync mirrors > update from) is

Re: [gentoo-user] More than one drive

Please ignore. Sorry worng list... On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Eric Thelin wrote: > I my storage drive has grown past its bounds. I have purchased another > drive and installed it in the machine. How do I get myth to see more > than one directory as for storage? > > Eric > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] m

[gentoo-user] how do i distcc from stage1?

How do i utilise distcc from stage1 install. I have unravelled the stage1 tarball and chrooted etc. I emerge -p distcc and get the following, which is an awful lot to do before getting the benefit of distcc. is there some trick to this?: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N ] sys-devel/l

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge sync problem

Robert Arroyo i Andreu wrote: Hello, Today, when i try an 'emerge sync', i get this message: ... I get exactly the same. Filed a bug: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23798 Regards, Stephan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sync problem

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ date ; echo ${gabor} Tuesday 01 July 2003 06:13 am > > Yea, well the truth of the matter is that OSU (which all other rsync > > mirrors update from) is having problems. They'll be fixed soon enough. > > if you can't wait, set the SYNC variable: > export SYNC="rsync://rsync16

Re: [gentoo-user] Windows to linux... What was that app?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 01 July 2003 05:04, Richard Kilgore wrote: [snip] > Obviously I'm having some fun here, and exaggerating Windows > shortcomings and avoiding Linux shortcomings, but in my > experience, it is simply NOT the case that Linux is harder to > use.

Re: [gentoo-user] Help!

Phil Barnett wrote: I haven't been able to emerge many things recently and they all appear to hinge around the same type of error. For example, I tried to emerge the new sun java and it failed with: tbz2tool: inf.xpak doesn't exist mv: cannot stat `sun-jdk-1.4.1.03.tbz2': No such file or directo

Re: [gentoo-user] Windows to linux... What was that app?

Hi, > I was visiting a (german) police station a few weeks ago. They use GNU/Linux > with the windowmaker WM, I guess SuSE is their flavor. I asked the That's an interesting point. I keep reading that Europe is ahead of the US in Linux adoption, and the Far East and Asia are ahead of both. Does

[gentoo-user] courier-imap + tcpserver ?

I installed courier-imap to serve only the localhost (in order to access a local maildir via Kmail without allowing Kmail to take over the maildir ...). It works. The problem is that courier-imap is not compatible with xinetd, and I want to deny access from all but the localhost; this is done

[gentoo-user] OpenOffice woes

I emerged OpenOffice today (actually yesterday, took ~24 hours to build). Everything appeared to work fine (no errors), but when I try to run any component, I get this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] larry $ oowriter running openoffice.org setup... setup failed.. abort [EMAIL PROTECTED] larry $ oosetup runni

Re: [gentoo-user] help:emerge sync error.

:) No .I'm in a universityand I'm oblidged to run a program to visit WWW. But this program can only run on windows.So I use my classmate's computer as a proxy.I could emerge at first but after a while it said time out and exit. - Original Message - From: Leonid Podo

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice woes

Did you run the setup for the user? On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 06:37:48 -0500 Larry Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I emerged OpenOffice today (actually yesterday, took ~24 hours to build). Everything appeared to work fine (no errors), but when I try to run any component, I get this: [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [gentoo-user] how do i distcc from stage1?

I think you are trying to do this too early. To be practical, you will need to build at least a basic system, running on its own kernel. distcc can then be the first native package you build (after vim of course!) and there will not be too many dependencies. I suspect that if you go ahead and bu

Re: [gentoo-user] USB and Firewire user guides

On 30/6/03 11:28 am, "Paul Stear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I may be missing something but I have been trying to get a usb storage device > to work and to get my dv camera to work via my firewire board. > > Is their a how-to, user guide, instructions, etc that I can look at? > If anyone has t

Re: [gentoo-user] help:emerge sync error.

zz wrote: :) No .I'm in a universityand I'm oblidged to run a program to visit WWW. But this program can only run on windows.So I use my classmate's computer as a proxy.I could emerge at first but after a while it said time out and exit. What /is/ this program? Sounds like some

Re: [gentoo-user] evolution-1.4.0

Mikhail P. wrote: Hello, Is there any brief instructions on how to emerge evolution-1.4.0 on stable x86 system? It appears that 1.4.0 is much better than 1.2.x.. ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge =evolution-1.4.0 -vp Check use flags and deps and then do: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge =evolution-1.4.0 -

Re: [gentoo-user] bad mozilla-mail

On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, MAL wrote: > Jorge Almeida wrote: > > My mozilla-mail is misbehaving badly: it does not start and mozilla starts > > eating ressources (98% cpu usage, acording to top).I had to killall > > mozilla-bin. > > Anyone found this behavior before? I reemerged mozilla with USE="-gtk2

Re: [gentoo-user] how do i distcc from stage1?

Nick Rout wrote: How do i utilise distcc from stage1 install. I have unravelled the stage1 tarball and chrooted etc. I emerge -p distcc and get the following, which is an awful lot to do before getting the benefit of distcc. is there some trick to this?: The order of events should be as follows. (

Re: [gentoo-user] bittorrent?

On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 11:45:31PM -0400, MIKE MacMartin wrote: > More info... in a bttest.py run, here's the list of fails: > > the following tests failed: > BitTorrent.Downloader.test_choke_clears_active > BitTorrent.Downloader.test_got_have_single > BitTorrent.Downloader.test_stops_at_backlog >

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice woes

Isn't that what the second command is doing? On Tuesday 01 July 2003 11:49 am, brett holcomb wrote: Did you run the setup for the user? On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 06:37:48 -0500 Larry Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I emerged OpenOffice today (actually yesterday, took ~24 >hours to build). >

Re: [gentoo-user] how to change the monitor resolution?

On Jun 30 at 01:20PM-0400, Ernie Schroder wrote: > On Monday 30 June 2003 09:18 am, drewbian wrote: > > Hi, Hope I'm not duplication someone elses post but I havn't been > > following this thread very closly, Just in case no one has mention it > > if your using Xfree 4.3 take a look at the xranr co

[gentoo-user] VNC problems

For the life of me, I can't get a vnc server running on this machine. My second Gentoo box is fine. I've tried tightvnc-1.2.8 (same version running on other box) and 1.2.7 both emerges finish apparently successfully but do not build Xvnc. I've tried copying Xvnc from the other box but this isn'

Re: [gentoo-user] how to change the monitor resolution?

On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 23:19, Alberto Bert wrote: > On Jun 30 at 01:20PM-0400, Ernie Schroder wrote: > > On Monday 30 June 2003 09:18 am, drewbian wrote: > > > Hi, Hope I'm not duplication someone elses post but I havn't been > > > following this thread very closly, Just in case no one has mention i

Re: [gentoo-user] USB and Firewire user guides

Thanks for your reply, I have made some small progress but my /dev/usb and /dev/scsi are blank. I'm not sure what to do now. I did discover that I was not using the USE flag usb, which I have now corrected but still no device recognition. regards Paul On Tue 1 July 2003 13:04, Stroller wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] evolution-1.4.0

Dhruba Bandopadhyay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Tue, 01 Jul 2003 13:30:04 +0100: Mikhail P. wrote: >Hello, > >Is there any brief instructions on how to emerge evolution-1.4.0 on stable x86 >system? It appears that 1.4.0 is much better than 1.2.x.. ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge =evolution-1.4.0 -v

Re: [gentoo-user] Windows to linux... What was that app?

On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 15:58:11 -0700 Zack Gilburd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi! Your mail was sooo full of (intentional?) misunderstandings that I couldn't believe it. Others have addressed most of them, but lets take this as a another example... > > Well currently they are still using Windows, a

Re: [gentoo-user] how do i distcc from stage1?

Am Dienstag, 1. Juli 2003 11:34 schrieb ext Nick Rout: > How do i utilise distcc from stage1 install. I have unravelled the stage1 > tarball and chrooted etc. I emerge -p distcc and get the following, which > is an awful lot to do before getting the benefit of distcc. is there some > trick to this?

RE: [gentoo-user] USB and Firewire user guides

> Hello all, > I may be missing something but I have been trying to get a usb > storage device > to work and to get my dv camera to work via my firewire board. > > Is their a how-to, user guide, instructions, etc that I can look at? > If anyone has these items working perhaps they will be kind > en

[gentoo-user] Pretty Linux

Hi all, Just a curiosity, try to search in Google for: "pretty linux". Surprise! Gentoo Linux Homepage is the first to come up! :D Best regards, Paulo J. Matos -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Mouse stops working

Hi, I am using an USB mouse that used to work fine until recently (unfortunately I cannot say when exactly it started). Now and then I get the following problem: I can move the mouse but none of the clicks are working. When I switch to the console I can start gpm and the mouse seems to work fin

Re: [gentoo-user] evolution-1.4.0

Christian Aust wrote: and how will you prevent "emerge -up world" from downgrading evolution next time you're updating your system? "emerge -U" isn't actually an Inject stub for latest stable version. emerge -i net-mail/evolution-1.2.4 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Icons tarball

Hi all, I've downloaded from Gentoo Page a tarball with a lot of very nice icons. Is there a way to load them automaticly and to use them instead of the default ones? Best regards, -- Paulo J. Matos : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Instituto Superior Tecnico - Lisbon Computer Science and Software Eng. - AI

Re: [gentoo-user] how do i distcc from stage1?

On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 09:34:36PM +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > How do i utilise distcc from stage1 install. I have unravelled the stage1 > tarball and chrooted etc. I emerge -p distcc and get the following, which > is an awful lot to do before getting the benefit of distcc. is there some > trick to t

Re: [gentoo-user] USB and Firewire user guides

>Make sure you check out the web site www.linux1394.org for more setup > info. Specifically the Getting Started pages. > Also check out http://kino.schirmacher.de/ There is an ebuild for kino, it's a simple video capture/editing program that comes with some useful command line tools too. If

Re: [gentoo-user] Pretty Linux

On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 17:12, Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos wrote: > Hi all, > > Just a curiosity, try to search in Google for: "pretty linux". > Surprise! Gentoo Linux Homepage is the first to come up! :D > > Best regards, > > Paulo J. Matos Searching for "Linux distro" shows Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Windows to linux... What was that app?

On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 15:58:11 -0700 Zack Gilburd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (not taking into account that > > linux doesn't really need a anti-virus software). > > What a terrible assumption. No it's not. > A well thought out and planned attack can be executed and completed > sucessfully aga

[gentoo-user] Controlling Gentoo bootup display

I'm not after funky bootsplash screens but what I would like to do is control the boot/shutdown messages. If possible, I would like to display a message during boot, such as 'Initialising...', and nothing else. The same during shutdown. However, I also need the boot scripts to start a program

Re: [gentoo-user] Windows to linux... What was that app?

On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 04:58:09PM +0300, Janne Johansson wrote: > If I was to set up a linux-box with gnome/kde and a graphical login, >with mozilla, balsa/sylpheed/evolution (pre-configured of course) and >openoffice buttons in the workspace/toolbar, why would the ever need to >touch the comm

Re: [gentoo-user] Windows to linux... What was that app?

* On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 17:38:42 +0300, Janne Johansson wrote: > Yes, and if more people used linux, more viruses would propably exist, > but even then a regular user could only hose his/her own files, and not > the whole computer. With more and more people using linux, you will have more and m

Re: [gentoo-user] Windows to linux... What was that app?

On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 11:19:04AM +0100, Dan Fairs wrote: > Public sector adoption in particular is interesting. Here in the UK, it > looks like the government are a Microsoft shop, with the Government > Gateway and all. Has anyone been involved in a Gentoo deployment in the > public sector? I'v

[gentoo-user] Problem to emerge all bz2 based packages

Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) net-im/psi-0.9 to / >>> md5 src_uri ;-) psi-0.9.tar.bz2 >>> md5 src_uri ;-) qssl-2.0.tar.bz2 >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking psi-0.9.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/psi-0.9/work tar: This does not look like a tar archive tar: Skipping to next

[gentoo-user] mozilla build

Hi, I'm building mozilla and by emerge -pv I get a lot of USE option not set. Are they somewhere described, I don't want install something which I'll never use (like mozilla mail). For example, how about mozinterfaceinfo and moxaccess? Alberto -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] realplayer: cannot open the audio device,an application may be using it

Hi, I've been trying to install realplayer a hundred times and once the installation has finished, I always get the error message: "cannot open the audio device, an application may be using it" Everything else works with my sound settings. I'm using the OSS drivers (no alsa). A truss shows that re

[gentoo-user] [OT] The Computer Geek Diet

Morning all, As an humorous change of pace to all the serious "stuff" that's been tossed around on this list over the past week or so, check out Nick Petreley's LinuxWorld column this week: j In particular, the Gentoo Geek Calorie Guide: Gentoo Linu

[gentoo-user] File Sharing between Linuxes

Hi all, I have two computers running gentoo and they are connected through network cards. How can I share files between them? Best regards, Paulo J. Matos -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] portage error

OK, can anyone see how to fix this??? portage is trying to use "tar -xf" on a tar.bz2 file. Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) sys-apps/portage-2.0.48-r2 to / >>> md5 src_uri ;-) portage-2.0.48-r2.tar.bz2 >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking portage-2.0.48-r2.tar.bz2 to /var/tm

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem to emerge all bz2 based packages

Big ME TOO on that one. Is it just me, or is gentoo less fun last night and today? On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 10:03, Philippe Van Hecke wrote: > Calculating dependencies ...done! > >>> emerge (1 of 1) net-im/psi-0.9 to / > >>> md5 src_uri ;-) psi-0.9.tar.bz2 > >>> md5 src_uri ;-) qssl-2.0.tar.bz2 > >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] realplayer: cannot open the audio device, an applicationmay be using it

Louis-Benoit JOURDAIN wrote: I've been trying to install realplayer a hundred times and once the installation has finished, I always get the error message: "cannot open the audio device, an application may be using it" Either reboot to free sound driver and start realplayer as the first applicatio

Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla build

On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 17:04:24 +0200 Alberto Bert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm building mozilla and by emerge -pv I get a lot of USE option not > set. Are they somewhere described, I don't want install something > which I'll never use (like mozilla mail). try ufed [ ] mozaccess ( ) Lo

Re: [gentoo-user] File Sharing between Linuxes

On 01 Jul 2003 16:18:21 + Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have two computers running gentoo and they are connected through > network cards. How can I share files between them? scp, nfs, ftp, http,... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice woes

No. If I remember correctly, I merged OO, then under my user had to run another install to setup the user. As my user I ran the setup in the openoffice/bin directory. OO is under /opt if you installed in the default location - IIRC. What you did was run oowriter which trys to start the off

Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla build

Alberto Bert wrote: I'm building mozilla and by emerge -pv I get a lot of USE option not First of all, emerge ufed and use it to select and deselect use flags. Doing it by hand is much more tedious and error prone. set. Are they somewhere described, I don't want install something which I'll never

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice woes

On Tue, 01 Jul 2003 11:38:24 -0400 "brett holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No. If I remember correctly, I merged OO, then under my > user had to run another install to setup the user. That is true, if you install it from the package distributed by OO.org. Every time I've emerged OO, whethe

[gentoo-user] vmware 4 networking problem

I've been struggling to get bridged networking in vmware 4.0 to work for me. I didn't have any problems in vmware 3.2. Does anyone know of any issues? I could just stick with 3.2, but then I have to emerge individual packages instead of emerge -du world to avoid upgrading vmware-workstation. I'm u

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice woes

Hmm, I've had to do - After emerge I ran the setup (I found it somewhere in a readme) and it copied a bunch of stuff to my home under an OO directory. It wouldn't work otherwise. I'm not at the Gentoo machine so I can't check the exact program. On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 18:43:43 +0300 Janne Johans

Re: [gentoo-user] portage error

Shawn wrote: OK, can anyone see how to fix this??? portage is trying to use "tar -xf" on a tar.bz2 file. First, delete the distfile and try to re-emerge. If no luck, do it manually. ebuild /path/to/ebuild unpack | tar -xjf into /var/tmp/portage/portage-2.0.48-r2/work ebuild /path/to/ebuild com

Re: [gentoo-user] Controlling Gentoo bootup display

MAL wrote: I'm not after funky bootsplash screens but what I would like to do is How about non-funky images that are displayed via silent bootsplash and show messages like 'Initialising system' and 'Shutting down system'? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] File Sharing between Linuxes

NFS can do that... there's an NFS how to on The Linux Documentation Project Site (http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html/) happy learning. Essien -Original Message- From: Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 01

RE: [gentoo-user] USB and Firewire user guides

> > There is an ebuild for kino, it's a simple video capture/editing program > that comes with some useful command line tools too. > Chris, Is there an ebuild for gscanbus anywhere? Thanks, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] sound and acpi

Hi, I'm trying to make working the sound on my notebook. A kind guy already explained to me that I need acpi support and that can work just using 2.4.19 kernel (wrong patches for 2.4.20 aparently.) Now I installed and using 2.4.19 but I cannot hear anything! I saw that there is a apci4linux USE o

Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla build

Alberto Bert wrote: set. Are they somewhere described, I don't want install something which I'll never use (like mozilla mail). You persuaded me to contribute officially to the descriptions. :) http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23814 -- Dhruba Bandopadhyay | dhruba[AT]codewordt.co.uk | ICQ:

Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla build

On Jul 01 at 05:15PM+0100, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: > Alberto Bert wrote: > >set. Are they somewhere described, I don't want install something which > >I'll never use (like mozilla mail). > > You persuaded me to contribute officially to the descriptions. :) :-) thanks, Alb -- [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [gentoo-user] sound and acpi

Isn't acpi for power management. You need to look at Alsa. On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 18:04:15 +0200 Alberto Bert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I'm trying to make working the sound on my notebook. A kind guy already explained to me that I need acpi support and that can work just using 2.4.19 kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] sound and acpi

Alberto Bert wrote: I'm trying to make working the sound on my notebook. A kind guy already explained to me that I need acpi support and that can work just using Correct me if I'm wrong but ACPI has nothing at all to do with sound. ALSA provides sound and ACPI performs power management. If you do

Re: [gentoo-user] sound and acpi

On Jul 01 at 05:20PM+0100, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: > Alberto Bert wrote: > >I'm trying to make working the sound on my notebook. A kind guy already > >explained to me that I need acpi support and that can work just using > > Correct me if I'm wrong but ACPI has nothing at all to do with sound.

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware 4 networking problem

Dear Lloyd, I had a similar problem with bridged network tending to disappear sometimes. It used to happen just after I recompiled my kernel.. and the had to re-run the vmware-config script again and re-define a few network details... it takes less than a minute..it is usually located under /opt/v

Re: [gentoo-user] sound and acpi

Hi, Am Dienstag, 1. Juli 2003 18:19 schrieb brett holcomb: > Isn't acpi for power management. You need to look at > Alsa. on modern laptops (legacy free) the interrupt handling is done by acpi, my ToshSat5000 needs it too. Kai -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Dual Display

Are you sure you have a duel head graphics card in your laptop. I think many/most? laptops let you connect up to an external monitor, but usually it will just switch your display over to the external monitor. If you know it is a duel head card then this howto might help.. http://www.tldp.org/HOW

Re: [gentoo-user] File Sharing between Linuxes

At 30 June, 2003 Essien Ita Essien wrote: > NFS can do that... As long as you're hooked up, you could also try just using scp/sftp to avoid the Nightmare File System. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] New user trying to get SSH running

On Monday 30 June 2003 19:43, MIKE MacMartin wrote: > On June 30, 2003 10:33 pm, Sean Bossinger wrote: > > Worked like a charm! Thanks > > Don't forget to etc-update add sshd default Oops, what he meant was: "rc-update add sshd default" Sorry. :-\ -- Know your neighbor. Discover independent m

Re: [gentoo-user] sound and acpi

Alsa is needed to give the sound, then once you install acpi. On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 18:29:57 +0200 Kai Lindenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Am Dienstag, 1. Juli 2003 18:19 schrieb brett holcomb: Isn't acpi for power management. You need to look at Alsa. on modern laptops (legacy free) the in

Re: [gentoo-user] Controlling Gentoo bootup display

Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: MAL wrote: I'm not after funky bootsplash screens but what I would like to do is How about non-funky images that are displayed via silent bootsplash and show messages like 'Initialising system' and 'Shutting down system'? Sounds great... I take it you mean using the bo

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Dual Display

On July 01, 2003, Bobby R. Cox sent me the following: > I believe you are correct. I am pretty sure that I have the same setup > as most. I am able in windows ( for work purposes ) to use both > monitors seperately. I can't let windows out do Linux, so I thought I > would ask if anyone had any ex

RE: [gentoo-user] File Sharing between Linuxes

Nightmare File System! lol... that's the first time i've heard that Essien -Original Message- From: Andrew Farmer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 6:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] File Sharing between Linuxes At 30 June, 2003 Essien Ita Essi

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge accident

--- The missing lib is part of GCC. `env-update` should fix things. Zack Gilburd All I started 'env-update', 'mc', 'wvdial'. All can't find there LIB But I found them all in /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-pc-linux-gnu/3.2.2 Any Idea Thanks Charlie -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Samba + LDAP

Ahh, thank you very much. Handy howto too. On 2003.06.28 23:50:29 -0400, Stephen Varga wrote: > Here is the command I used to create the certs for my ldap server > > openssl req -new -x509 -nodes -out server.pem -keyout server.pem -days > 365 > > I got this from Turbo Bayour's LDAPv3-HowTo, whic

Re: [gentoo-user] File Sharing between Linuxes

Also known as the Network Failure System. NFS is great for maintaining permissions and ease of setup. It's security and stability model are debatable Samba is fine for windows integration, but permissions are not maintained If you run KDE the connect to the other computer with kio_fish. Do thi

RE: [gentoo-user] File Sharing between Linuxes

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > At 30 June, 2003 Essien Ita Essien wrote: >> NFS can do that... > > As long as you're hooked up, you could also try just using scp/sftp to > avoid the Nightmare File System. So, you are suggesting that someone who doesn't know about NFS should go figure out how to set u

RE: [gentoo-user] Windows to linux... What was that app?

> >Insert an image into a .doc. Try to open that .doc with >OpenOffice. Open and >shut case. > >> > I've tried getting my father to use Linux. The drawbacks >and the reason >> > why he went back to Windows was because of compatibility with other >> > computers. He's a business man, he needs

Re: [gentoo-user] File Sharing between Linuxes

Hi ng, I like shfs, which is secure as well. You only need a sshd runningon the box you like to mount. If you only like to copy a file I would use scp. => ssh + sshd is all you need. /CrPy Am Dienstag, 1. Juli 2003 18:18 schrieb Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos: > Hi all, > > I have

[gentoo-user] what is installed in my gentoo?

Hi all, is there any way to check what is installed in my pc? I meen what I emerged up to now. Alb -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] what is installed in my gentoo?

Alberto Bert wrote: > Hi all, > > is there any way to check what is installed in my pc? > I meen what I emerged up to now. > > Alb emerge -pe system ? In Harmony's Way, and In A Chord, Tom :-}) Thomas A. Condon Barbershop Bass Singer Registered Linux User #154358 A Jester Unemployed --

Re: [gentoo-user] File Sharing between Linuxes

At 01 July, 2003 Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > At 30 June, 2003 Essien Ita Essien wrote: > >> NFS can do that... > > > > As long as you're hooked up, you could also try just using scp/sftp to > > avoid the Nightmare File System. > > So, you are suggesting that someone

[gentoo-user] Failing emerge world

Alright, I'm having a few problems. Maybe this is that whole baselayout thing I still don't understand. bash-2.05b# emerge -up world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies \!!! eclass 'http://people.redhat.com/otaylor/memprof/memprof-0.4.1.tar.gz' i

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware 4 networking problem

On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 08:26, Simon Mushi wrote: > Dear Lloyd, > > I had a similar problem with bridged network tending to disappear > sometimes. It used to happen just after I recompiled my kernel.. and the > had to re-run the vmware-config script again and re-define a few network > details... it

Re: [gentoo-user] what is installed in my gentoo?

On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 11:29:59 -0700 Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote: > Alberto Bert wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > is there any way to check what is installed in my pc? > > I meen what I emerged up to now. > > > > Alb > > emerge -pe system ? Nope, that would only list system packages, and even with

Re: [gentoo-user] Failing emerge world

SYNC="rsync://rsync16.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" emerge sync then try it On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 09:00, Christopher Egner wrote: > Alright, I'm having a few problems. Maybe this is that whole baselayout > thing I still don't understand. > > > > bash-2.05b# emerge -up world > > These are the

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