Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/root

2003-07-12 Thread Norberto BENSA
Kurt V. Hindenburg wrote: Here's why my fstab has : /dev/discs/disc0/part8 / reiserfs noatime 0 0 %ls -l /dev/root lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 33 2003-07-07 07:13 /dev/root - ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part8 I'm not using devfsd and haven't been since I installed

Re: [gentoo-user] recommended CFLAGS for Dual Athlon MP 2200

2003-07-12 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Using those CFLAGS (athlon-mp instead of xp...typo), I did a base install of Gentoo. The bootstrap took 49 minutes. The 'emerge system' took 50 minutes. I love this system! :) Andrew Gaffney wrote: I'm installing Gentoo on a dual Athlon MP 2200 system that I just built. What CFLAGS are other

Re: [gentoo-user] synaptics driver (tuxmobil) problem withclevo/sager/pro-star etc laptop

2003-07-12 Thread Florian Huber
On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 12:22:14 -0400 R'twick Niceorgaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have installed the synaptics driver from tuxmobil with 2.4.21-ck3 kernel and xfree 4.3.0 on a prostar 5634 laptop. Now when I start X, mouse just goes to the top left corner and sits there. ANy one

[gentoo-user] gentoo is slow

2003-07-12 Thread William Kenworthy
We were able to get three identical machines where gentoo, Mandrake and debian were installed for a basic i386/i586/optimised by gentoo (-march=petium3 -pipe -O3) comparison. Nothing fancy, roughly standard installs, of similar configuration (where debian was a mixture of various versions) so

[gentoo-user] Sawfish patch - where should I submit this?

2003-07-12 Thread Andrew Farmer
I've put together a patch to sawfish 1.3 to fix an annoying bug where iconified windows never appeared when cycling due to a bug in the window-order function, which used window-appears-in-workspace-p incorrectly. I've attached this patch; where should it go to? If I understand correctly, sawfish

Re: [gentoo-user] hostname with dynamic IP?

2003-07-12 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Norberto BENSA wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ date ; echo ${Jorge Almeida} Friday 11 July 2003 05:45 am On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Norberto BENSA wrote: You can set /etc/hostname to any name you like. My boxes are named after Ghostbusters' characters movie: stantz, zeddmore,

[gentoo-user] re: USB keyboards and the kernel

2003-07-12 Thread fa_3xcuhfhsx7523bvc
Andrew Gaffney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to use a USB keyboard with my Gentoo box. (I have no other type of keyboard.) Should I compile support in the kernel, or should I just use modules? You may not need to do anything. On most newer Award(?) BIOS's, there

Re: [gentoo-user] [DEBATE] Gentoo on laptops

2003-07-12 Thread CrPy
Hi ng, Am Freitag, 11. Juli 2003 14:36 schrieb MAL: ... ext3 can also be set to commit the journal less frequently, (30 mins instead of 5 mins). To be honest though, unless you want the hard drive to sit in power saving mode all the time, the small write required to write a journal every 5

Re: [gentoo-user] Dial up problem

2003-07-12 Thread Daz-Manu
On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 04:08:40 +0300 ahmed Okda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i am new to gentoo and i got the livecd 3 stages 1.4.rc4 i want to ask few questions 1) how can i configure my external dial up modem during installtion of gentoo Which modem is it ? You should check at :

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo is slow

2003-07-12 Thread Spider
begin quote On 12 Jul 2003 16:27:38 +0800 William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only real difference seems to be the modular gentoo-sources 2.4.20 kernel - could that be the problem - but I would not expect applications to be overly affected by the kernel? Items such as dma, disk

[gentoo-user] Tipp: more X sessions starting from kde panel

2003-07-12 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, if you want to start more Xsessions on F8 F9 F10 you have to add this lines into /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers: do the following: nano /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers 1. comment the standard 0: local with an # 2. put this line into this file xsessions from F7 to F10 # :0 [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] [LONG] New dependancies? (GhostScript CUPS,USE flags).

2003-07-12 Thread Stroller
On 10/7/03 8:35 pm, Marius Mauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 19:23:23 +0100 Stroller wrote: Can anyone explain this, please..? I would have expected `USE=-cups emerge ghostscript` not to install CUPS at all. Reading the ghostscript ebuild the following line showed up in

Re: [gentoo-user] question

2003-07-12 Thread Stephen Varga
Rick, What Nathan and others have conculuded from the information you provided that is that the program you running is trying to create a hard-linked file across mount points, you can not do this, you can only create soft-links across mount points. I am guessing that when you built your Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] lm_sensors - Will it work with my MB?

2003-07-12 Thread Mike Roest
Doug Gorley wrote: Howdy all, Can someone please tell me how to determine if my MB (ASUS A7V266-E) is supported by lm_sensors? I was a bit confused by the hardware compatibility list on the web site. Thanks! It should work just fine I have a board that has the same chipset and it works (not an

Re: [gentoo-user] lm_sensors - Will it work with my MB?

2003-07-12 Thread H Demers
Hi, I have look at the spec of your mobo and you have the VT8233 South Bridge on the ASUS A7V266-E, so lm-sensors will work with your mobo. Good luck! drix Doug Gorley wrote: Howdy all, Can someone please tell me how to determine if my MB (ASUS A7V266-E) is supported by lm_sensors? I was a

Re: [gentoo-user] filesystem error?

2003-07-12 Thread Gent00
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 El Jue 10 Jul 2003 02:42, Norberto BENSA escribió: | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ date ; echo ${William Kenworthy} | Wednesday 09 July 2003 08:27 pm | | reiserfs is fantastic - much better than ext3 which occaionally acts | like the hack that it is | | I

[gentoo-user] Re: Tipp: more X sessions starting from kde panel

2003-07-12 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Denny Schierz (2003-07-12 14:08 +0200) if you want to start more Xsessions on F8 F9 F10 you have to add this lines into /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers: do the following: [...] Now you have in the K-Panel a new entry called something like Start new Session . Klick on this and after that, you can

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo is slow

2003-07-12 Thread Daniel Robbins
On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 04:27:38PM +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: Mandrake and debian (monolithic, no modules) used the 2.4.21 kernel, against 2.4.20 gentoo-sources with preempt etc (it seems gentoo is behind here?) To compare performance, you should use similarly configured kernels.

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo is slow

2003-07-12 Thread Christian Aust
Am Sa, 2003-07-12 um 18.35 schrieb Daniel Robbins: On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 04:27:38PM +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: Mandrake and debian (monolithic, no modules) used the 2.4.21 kernel, against 2.4.20 gentoo-sources with preempt etc (it seems gentoo is behind here?) To compare

[gentoo-user] esound problems

2003-07-12 Thread Peter McCracken
I've been having some problems after upgrading my kernel to 2.4.21 (which probably has more to do with my failure to configure it properly, rather than a problem with the kernel itself). One of these problems is with esound (I think). When I try to compile libgtkhtml-3.0.7 (for evolution), it

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo is slow

2003-07-12 Thread Stroller
On 12/7/03 5:35 pm, Daniel Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 04:27:38PM +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: Mandrake and debian (monolithic, no modules) used the 2.4.21 kernel, against 2.4.20 gentoo-sources with preempt etc (it seems gentoo is behind here?) To compare

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo is slow

2003-07-12 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Stroller wrote: On 12/7/03 5:35 pm, Daniel Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 04:27:38PM +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: Mandrake and debian (monolithic, no modules) used the 2.4.21 kernel, against 2.4.20 gentoo-sources with preempt etc (it seems gentoo is behind here?)

Re: [gentoo-user] [DEBATE] Gentoo on laptops

2003-07-12 Thread Chris I
On 2003.07.11 07:27, Timo Boettcher wrote: I disagree here. I would use ext3, because of the journal. A laptop is very rarely used in such stable environment as a desktop, and I would choose a the additional fs-security over few minutes more runtime anytime. But of course I understand your point.

Re: [gentoo-user] question

2003-07-12 Thread Rick Sivernell
Stephan, Nathan, Jan Excuse me a little, I tend to get upset after screwing with stuff that should work the 1st time. Now I have fixed the problem. Let me explain properly what what the problem is, I am cooled off nowg. In developing a program on Caldera system, I have moved the code to

[gentoo-user] emerge rsync to local server

2003-07-12 Thread Harlan
Hello, I am trying to setup a local server. I followed the directions in the rsync howto on gentoo.org. The rsync-gentoo-portage.sh script seems to have pulled down the files just fine. I am having problems getting my local computers to connect with the rsyncd daemon. The daemon appears

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge rsync to local server

2003-07-12 Thread Ian Truelsen
On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 13:11:55 -0500 Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have changed the GENTOO_MIRRORS variable in the /etc/make.conf file to be: GENTOO_MIRRORS=rsync://192.168.1.50 (my local server). The local computers keep trying to connect to an outside server (they don't have direct

Re[2]: [gentoo-user] [DEBATE] Gentoo on laptops

2003-07-12 Thread Timo Boettcher
Hi Chris, Nachricht vom Samstag, 12. Juli 2003, 19:51:00: On 2003.07.11 07:27, Timo Boettcher wrote: I use my laptop for school and work. Unfortunately, after coming home last night and falling asleep doing my homework, the laptop battery ran out. I would definately never use anything

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge rsync to local server

2003-07-12 Thread Veit Waltemath
On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 01:11:55PM -0500, Harlan wrote: Hello, I am trying to setup a local server. I followed the directions in the rsync howto on gentoo.org. The rsync-gentoo-portage.sh script seems to have pulled down the files just fine. I am having problems getting my local

[gentoo-user] emerge rsync to local server

2003-07-12 Thread Harlan
Hello, I am trying to setup a local server. I followed the directions in the rsync howto on gentoo.org. The rsync-gentoo-portage.sh script seems to have pulled down the files just fine. I am having problems getting my local computers to connect with the rsyncd daemon. The daemon appears

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo is slow

2003-07-12 Thread Daniel Robbins
On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 06:30:38PM +0100, Stroller wrote: To compare performance, you should use similarly configured kernels. Preempt decreases overall performance significantly but also increases interactivity greatly. Things will benchmark slower with it enabled, like you are

[gentoo-user] backup ntfs volume from gentoo boot cd

2003-07-12 Thread Tom Wesley
Hi all, I am trying to create a simple disaster recovery solution for a server, but before I started I wanted to check the theory. The server uses a set of 2 SCSI disks (36GB each) mirrored using hardware RAID-1. There are two partitions, the system C and data D. If I boot the system using a

Re: [gentoo-user] Tipp: more X sessions starting from kde panel

2003-07-12 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Saturday 12 Jul 2003 13:08, Denny Schierz wrote: hi, if you want to start more Xsessions on F8 F9 F10 you have to add this lines into /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers: do the following: nano /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers 1. comment the standard 0: local with an # 2. put this line into this file

Re: [gentoo-user] filesystem error?

2003-07-12 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 10 July 2003 01:27, William Kenworthy wrote: Havent had a problem with reiserfs on raid, except where the ide cable on one drive fell out when in full flight ... And the main mess was because I didnt identify the problem soon enough and tried to fix it by reformating the raid,

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo is slow

2003-07-12 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, 2003-07-12 at 12:16, Daniel Robbins wrote: On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 06:30:38PM +0100, Stroller wrote: To compare performance, you should use similarly configured kernels. Preempt decreases overall performance significantly but also increases interactivity greatly. Things will

[gentoo-user] emerge go crazy

2003-07-12 Thread Svein Harald Soleim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 right now I took a emerge -DUp world and found something disturbing. [ebuildU ] dev-db/mysql-4.0.13-r3 [3.23.57] [ebuildU ] net-www/apache-2.0.47 [1.3.27-r3] why the hell would I upgrade my apache 1.3x to 2.0x? and mysql 3x to 4x. Not until I

RE: [gentoo-user] emerge go crazy

2003-07-12 Thread Bjorn Sodergren
They've moved apache 2.0 and MySQL 4.0 from ~x86 to stable, so any update will update both of these. MySQL 4.0 isnt a big deal, much has changed but most everything in the databases still works properly, you will need to re-emerge PHP and any thing else that relies on MySQL Apache though, I

[gentoo-user] gentoo isn't slow :)

2003-07-12 Thread Daniel Robbins
On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 12:50:49PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Daniel, One sort of urban legend that's out there in the Linux audio community has to do with the value of a dual vs. single processor systems and how much they can help in this area. It depends what you are looking for. If you

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge -u system after rsync SIGH

2003-07-12 Thread Heribert Slama
On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 13:25:56 +0300, in gmane.linux.gentoo.user, Leonid Podolny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..] Well, once you perform a full 'emerge -uD world' and then do it regularly (I do it about twice a week), then the whole process takes ten minutes or so -- it replaces only the newly

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge go crazy

2003-07-12 Thread Svein Harald Soleim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 12 July 2003 22:06, Bjorn Sodergren wrote: They've moved apache 2.0 and MySQL 4.0 from ~x86 to stable, so any update will update both of these. MySQL 4.0 isnt a big deal, much has changed but most everything in the databases still

Re: [gentoo-user] recommended CFLAGS for Dual Athlon MP 2200

2003-07-12 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Charlie wrote: Salut Andrew, have a Tyan S2462 Thunder K7 with 2 x 1200 Athlon MP (now I know) had the problem that cat /proc/cpuinfo gave me the attached log. I interchanged the two cpus and have still the same output CPU0 = AMD Athlon (tm) MP and CPU1= AMD Athlon (tm) Processor. Do you

Re: [gentoo-user] recommended CFLAGS for Dual Athlon MP 2200

2003-07-12 Thread Tom Wesley
On Saturday 12 July 2003 21:22, Andrew Gaffney wrote: Charlie wrote: Salut Andrew, have a Tyan S2462 Thunder K7 with 2 x 1200 Athlon MP (now I know) had the problem that cat /proc/cpuinfo gave me the attached log. I interchanged the two cpus and have still the same output CPU0 =

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge go crazy

2003-07-12 Thread Yannick Le Saint
On Saturday 12 July 2003 19:53, Svein Harald Soleim wrote: right now I took a emerge -DUp world and found something disturbing. [ebuildU ] dev-db/mysql-4.0.13-r3 [3.23.57] [ebuildU ] net-www/apache-2.0.47 [1.3.27-r3] why the hell would I upgrade my apache 1.3x to 2.0x? and mysql 3x

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge go crazy

2003-07-12 Thread Svein Harald Soleim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 12 July 2003 22:48, Yannick Le Saint wrote: On Saturday 12 July 2003 19:53, Svein Harald Soleim wrote: right now I took a emerge -DUp world and found something disturbing. [ebuildU ] dev-db/mysql-4.0.13-r3 [3.23.57] [ebuildU

Re: [gentoo-user] lm_sensors - Will it work with my MB?

2003-07-12 Thread Doug Gorley
Thanks for your help. I got lm_sensors working, and now I'm a bit concerned about the readings. Take a look at temp3: as99127f-i2c-0-2d Adapter: SMBus Via Pro adapter at e800 Algorithm: Non-I2C SMBus adapter VCore 1: +1.79 V (min = +1.74 V, max = +1.93 V) VCore 2: +0.08 V

[gentoo-user] emerge packages locally

2003-07-12 Thread Harlan
This worked quite well, Thank you very much. I have another question. How do I get my local computer to serve files from /usr/portage/distfiles? I am setting up my own server because I have a very slow dial-up and don't really want to download the same files over and over each time I setup a

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge go crazy

2003-07-12 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Saturday 12 Jul 2003 21:16, Svein Harald Soleim wrote: yeah. But I need to do that after every emerge sync ;( No you don't btw. The file is in /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask No it isn't. The file he was talking about is /etc/portage/profiles/package.mask. If you don't have it,

Re: [gentoo-user] recommended CFLAGS for Dual Athlon MP 2200

2003-07-12 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Tom Wesley wrote: On Saturday 12 July 2003 21:22, Andrew Gaffney wrote: Charlie wrote: Salut Andrew, have a Tyan S2462 Thunder K7 with 2 x 1200 Athlon MP (now I know) had the problem that cat /proc/cpuinfo gave me the attached log. I interchanged the two cpus and have still the same output

[gentoo-user] Thank you to the Gentoo developers!

2003-07-12 Thread Dan Foster
Some comments: 1. Many folks at work -- the system engineers and developers -- LOVES Gentoo! It's such a refreshing breath of fresh air. 2. The docs are top notch -- kudos to those who put it together. Even when it isn't 100% complete, it's often still enough to get us started on the

[gentoo-user] Questions (fb color bg, logo, cloop, etc)

2003-07-12 Thread Dan Foster
A couple questions: 1. How can I get the same kind of coloured background - just like the one from the install CD? I find it easier to read than a white-text-on-black background. Maybe I'm weird, but that's just me. ;) 2. How can I keep the Gentoo logo at the bottom? I think it'd be a

[gentoo-user] Suggestions for improvement

2003-07-12 Thread Dan Foster
Some suggestions: 1. emerge is missing one key function -- I say key, because we can't consider deploying Gentoo as the OS of choice for x86 servers unless it has this feature: the ability to see what ebuilds were installed on the system and what version they are. Package management

Re: [gentoo-user] lm_sensors - Will it work with my MB?

2003-07-12 Thread jenora
On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 01:53:51PM -0700, Doug Gorley wrote: Thanks for your help. I got lm_sensors working, and now I'm a bit concerned about the readings. Take a look at temp3: as99127f-i2c-0-2d [...] temp1: +34?C (limit = +60?C) temp2: +61.0?C

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo is slow

2003-07-12 Thread nmeyers
On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 12:50:49PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: One sort of urban legend that's out there in the Linux audio community has to do with the value of a dual vs. single processor systems and how much they can help in this area. The argument seems to go that on a DP machine

[gentoo-user] lm-sensors

2003-07-12 Thread MIKE MacMartin
Question: how does one get this working? What do I need in kernel? It's complaining about my i2c being too old - but I don't even remember compiling it into the kernel. MIKE -- Beware the JabberOrk -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for improvement

2003-07-12 Thread Bjorn Sodergren
1) emerge gentoolkit qpkg does that Note, that in debian, apt-* doesn't show what packages are installed, you need to query dpkg. Also, apt-* are front-ends to dpkg and its many tools. emerge info in gentoo currently reports Portage configuration information. 2) Gentoo network installation

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for improvement

2003-07-12 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Saturday 12 Jul 2003 22:13, Dan Foster wrote: 1. emerge is missing one key function -- I say key, because we can't consider deploying Gentoo as the OS of choice for x86 servers unless it has this feature: the ability to see what ebuilds were installed on the system and what version they

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for improvement

2003-07-12 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! Bjorn Sodergren was rumored to have written: 1) emerge gentoolkit qpkg does that Ah! Very nice. Just emerge'd it... qpkg -I -v looks to be a winner. Note, that in debian, apt-* doesn't show what packages are installed, you need to query dpkg. Also, apt-* are front-ends to

RE: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for improvement

2003-07-12 Thread Bjorn Sodergren
Cool! I'll give it a try. Thanks for the update/corrections :) Hey, Us gentoo users, we rock like that :) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo is slow

2003-07-12 Thread Terje Kvernes
Christian Aust [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [ ... ] p.s.: I'd like to know because I'm just about to switch one of our production machines over to gentoo... so server performance matters to me. apart from the standard warnings around I hope you know what you're doing when you're putting

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge go crazy

2003-07-12 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Svein Harald Soleim wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 right now I took a emerge -DUp world and found something disturbing. [ebuildU ] dev-db/mysql-4.0.13-r3 [3.23.57] [ebuildU ] net-www/apache-2.0.47 [1.3.27-r3] why the hell would I upgrade my apache 1.3x to 2.0x? and

[gentoo-user] Who is this mlind@stravar.ca idiot?

2003-07-12 Thread Peter Ruskin
I keep getting failure notices for this fellow. Anyone else? Hi. This is the qmail-send program at stravar.ca. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sorry, no

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo isn't slow :)

2003-07-12 Thread Terje Kvernes
Daniel Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [ ... ] I think that a modern uni-processor system with preempt and the low-latency patches enabled would be great for audio work. I don't think you'd specifically need SMP, unless maybe I'm unaware of some special situations where it would be

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge go crazy

2003-07-12 Thread Svein Harald Soleim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 12 July 2003 23:05, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Saturday 12 Jul 2003 21:16, Svein Harald Soleim wrote: yeah. But I need to do that after every emerge sync ;( No you don't btw. The file is in /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask No it

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions (fb color bg, logo, cloop, etc)

2003-07-12 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Dan Foster wrote: A couple questions: 1. How can I get the same kind of coloured background - just like the one from the install CD? I find it easier to read than a white-text-on-black background. Maybe I'm weird, but that's just me. ;) 2. How can I keep the Gentoo logo at the bottom? I

Re: [gentoo-user] Who is this mlind@stravar.ca idiot?

2003-07-12 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Peter Ruskin wrote: I keep getting failure notices for this fellow. Anyone else? Hi. This is the qmail-send program at stravar.ca. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for improvement

2003-07-12 Thread Marius Mauch
Hi, qpkg to show the installed packages has already be mentioned, I just want to add that emerge search supports regular expressions and will also report the installed and available versions for all packages that match the given expression. Marius -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge packages locally

2003-07-12 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Harlan (2003-07-12 23:03 +0200) I have another question. How do I get my local computer to serve files from /usr/portage/distfiles? It's described in the Howto: [gentoo-packages] path= /usr/portage/distfiles

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge go crazy

2003-07-12 Thread Svein Harald Soleim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 13 July 2003 01:05, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: Svein Harald Soleim wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 right now I took a emerge -DUp world and found something disturbing. [ebuildU ] dev-db/mysql-4.0.13-r3

[gentoo-user] /etc/dnsdomainname question

2003-07-12 Thread Ian Truelsen
I was looking at the newly re-written install docs (well, done by the way) and I noticed that the hostname looks to be being broken up as /etc/hostname as the machine name and /etc/dnsdomainname as the domain segment. So, if I have mymachine.mydomain.com, then hostname should have mymachine in it

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge go crazy

2003-07-12 Thread Spider
begin quote On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 22:58:58 +0200 Svein Harald Soleim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: right now I took a emerge -DUp world and found something disturbing.[ebuildU ] dev-db/mysql-4.0.13-r3 [3.23.57] [ebuildU ] net-www/apache-2.0.47 [1.3.27-r3] why the hell would I

[gentoo-user] win98 config behind Gentoo router

2003-07-12 Thread Klaus D. Neumann
Hi, Could anyone please give me a hint how to configure a win98 box behind a gentoo router? Just replaced Dad's broken WinXP box with a brandnew computer where I installed win98 for him. Using my Gentoo box as router it worked perfectly with Dad's old computer. Now I can ping between gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for improvement

2003-07-12 Thread Spider
begin quote On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 21:13:38 + Dan Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some suggestions: 1. the ability to see what ebuilds were installed on the system and what version they are. You already got the solutions of qpkg and emerge.log from others, let me come here with some

Re: [gentoo-user] Who is this mlind@stravar.ca idiot?

2003-07-12 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Peter Ruskin wrote: I keep getting failure notices for this fellow. Anyone else? I don't know who he is, but I'm beginning to not like him :( -- Andrew Gaffney -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/dnsdomainname question

2003-07-12 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Ian Truelsen wrote: I was looking at the newly re-written install docs (well, done by the way) and I noticed that the hostname looks to be being broken up as /etc/hostname as the machine name and /etc/dnsdomainname as the domain segment. So, if I have mymachine.mydomain.com, then hostname should

Re: [gentoo-user] win98 config behind Gentoo router

2003-07-12 Thread nmeyers
On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 04:11:41PM -0700, Klaus D. Neumann wrote: Hi, Could anyone please give me a hint how to configure a win98 box behind a gentoo router? Just replaced Dad's broken WinXP box with a brandnew computer where I installed win98 for him. Using my Gentoo box as router it

Re: [gentoo-user] win98 config behind Gentoo router

2003-07-12 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Klaus D. Neumann wrote: Hi, Could anyone please give me a hint how to configure a win98 box behind a gentoo router? Just replaced Dad's broken WinXP box with a brandnew computer where I installed win98 for him. Using my Gentoo box as router it worked perfectly with Dad's old computer. Now I

Re: [gentoo-user] win98 config behind Gentoo router

2003-07-12 Thread Finne Boonen
wanneer moet jij in Brussel izijn voor Joachim? Finne On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 04:11:41PM -0700, Klaus D. Neumann wrote: Hi, Could anyone please give me a hint how to configure a win98 box behind a gentoo router? Just replaced Dad's broken

Re: [gentoo-user] win98 config behind Gentoo router

2003-07-12 Thread Zack Gilburd
On Saturday 12 July 2003 04:11 pm, Klaus D. Neumann wrote: Hi, Could anyone please give me a hint how to configure a win98 box behind a gentoo router? Just replaced Dad's broken WinXP box with a brandnew computer where I installed win98 for him. Using my Gentoo box as router it worked

Re: [gentoo-user] Who is this mlind@stravar.ca idiot?

2003-07-12 Thread Spider
begin quote On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 23:11:12 +0100 Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I keep getting failure notices for this fellow. Anyone else? Hi. This is the qmail-send program at stravar.ca. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge go crazy

2003-07-12 Thread Zack Gilburd
On Saturday 12 July 2003 12:53 pm, Svein Harald Soleim wrote: right now I took a emerge -DUp world and found something disturbing. [ebuildU ] dev-db/mysql-4.0.13-r3 [3.23.57] [ebuildU ] net-www/apache-2.0.47 [1.3.27-r3] why the hell would I upgrade my apache 1.3x to 2.0x? and mysql

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo is slow

2003-07-12 Thread Zack Gilburd
Troll. -- Zack Gilburd http://tehunlose.com GnuPG Key ID: A79A45668240AB6C pgp0.pgp Description: signature

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/dnsdomainname question

2003-07-12 Thread Chris Bare
I was looking at the newly re-written install docs (well, done by the way) and I noticed that the hostname looks to be being broken up as Sorry, if I missed it, this is the first mention I've seen of re-written install docs. When did the re-written ones go up and where are they? What's

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo is slow

2003-07-12 Thread William Kenworthy
Looks like I picked the wrong kernel. :( Is there a kernel that is regarded as the best performer for processing like gimp, spreadsheets etc (scientific workstation or graphic workstation might be the categories?) Or is just switching off low-latency and pre-empt with gentoo sources likely to be

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo is slow

2003-07-12 Thread Zack Gilburd
On Saturday 12 July 2003 04:29 pm, Zack Gilburd wrote: Troll. Eh, maybe I was a little harsh here... .21's IDE core code was completely rewritten and has given, in some cases, 120% performance gains over .20's IDE code. It's entirely unfair to compare the two kernels. -- Zack Gilburd

[gentoo-user] cdrw not detected

2003-07-12 Thread Jorge Almeida
I'm trying to setup cd burning, but it seems that the CDRW drive is not even being detected. I searched the forums, but found nothing relevant for this stage. Any suggestion on what to do at this point? TIA The relevant (I think) data: hda: HD hdb: DVDROM hdc:HD hdd: - hde:CDRW (LG ATAPI) hdf:

Re: [gentoo-user] win98 config behind Gentoo router

2003-07-12 Thread Klaus D. Neumann
On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 16:23:41 -0700, Zack Gilburd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 12 July 2003 04:11 pm, Klaus D. Neumann wrote: Hi, Could anyone please give me a hint how to configure a win98 box behind a gentoo router? Just replaced Dad's broken WinXP box with a brandnew computer where I

Re: [gentoo-user] win98 config behind Gentoo router

2003-07-12 Thread Klaus D. Neumann
On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 18:22:09 -0500, Andrew Gaffney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Klaus D. Neumann wrote: Hi, Could anyone please give me a hint how to configure a win98 box behind a gentoo router? Just replaced Dad's broken WinXP box with a brandnew computer where I installed win98 for him. Using

Re: [gentoo-user] win98 config behind Gentoo router

2003-07-12 Thread nmeyers
On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 04:59:38PM -0700, Klaus D. Neumann wrote: On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 16:23:41 -0700, Zack Gilburd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 12 July 2003 04:11 pm, Klaus D. Neumann wrote: Hi, Could anyone please give me a hint how to configure a win98 box behind a gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] win98 config behind Gentoo router

2003-07-12 Thread Klaus D. Neumann
On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 20:00:41 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 04:59:38PM -0700, Klaus D. Neumann wrote: On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 16:23:41 -0700, Zack Gilburd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 12 July 2003 04:11 pm, Klaus D. Neumann wrote: Hi, Could anyone please give me a

[gentoo-user] w/o devfsd - Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/root

2003-07-12 Thread Kurt V. Hindenburg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 12 July 2003 01:21 am, Norberto BENSA wrote: I'm not using devfsd and haven't been since I installed Gentoo. What do you mean you don't use devfsd? Have you modified your init scripts? http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24361 -

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge go crazy

2003-07-12 Thread William Kenworthy
As a general principle, shouldnt apache 2 (and mysql 4) be slotted and something like gcc-config used to switch between them to keep everybody happy? BillK On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 04:58, Svein Harald Soleim wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 12 July 2003 22:48,

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge go crazy

2003-07-12 Thread Marius Mauch
On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 16:28:54 -0700 Zack Gilburd wrote: On Saturday 12 July 2003 12:53 pm, Svein Harald Soleim wrote: right now I took a emerge -DUp world and found something disturbing.[ebuildU ] dev-db/mysql-4.0.13-r3 [3.23.57] [ebuildU ] net-www/apache-2.0.47 [1.3.27-r3] why

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge go crazy

2003-07-12 Thread Andrew Gaffney
William Kenworthy wrote: As a general principle, shouldnt apache 2 (and mysql 4) be slotted and something like gcc-config used to switch between them to keep everybody happy? I don't think this can really be done this way. Slots and programs like gcc-config are all good for libraries and

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge go crazy

2003-07-12 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Marius Mauch wrote: (There was an announcement on -dev). There was an announcement here on gentoo-user too...just 4 days ago. The thread was called '**HEADS UP** Apache2 + MySQL4 moving to stable status'. -- Andrew Gaffney -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] win98 config behind Gentoo router

2003-07-12 Thread Collins Richey
On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 16:11:41 -0700 Klaus D. Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Could anyone please give me a hint how to configure a win98 box behind a gentoo router? Just replaced Dad's broken WinXP box with a brandnew computer where I installed win98 for him. Using my Gentoo box as

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/dnsdomainname question

2003-07-12 Thread Marius Mauch
On 07/12/03 Ian Truelsen wrote: I was looking at the newly re-written install docs (well, done by the way) and I noticed that the hostname looks to be being broken up as /etc/hostname as the machine name and /etc/dnsdomainname as the domain segment. So, if I have mymachine.mydomain.com, then

Re: [gentoo-user] Tipp: more X sessions starting from kde panel

2003-07-12 Thread Noberasco Michele
You can also use qingy (http://qingy.sourceforge.net), that allow you to log in into as many enviroments as you want, all at the same time. Sorry about publicizing my own software, but I couldn't resist ;-) Regards, Michele Noberasco -- Linux *IS* user friendly: it just appears to be selective

Re: [gentoo-user] win98 config behind Gentoo router

2003-07-12 Thread Klaus D. Neumann
Nope, didn't work here. :-( On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 18:36:38 -0600, Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 16:11:41 -0700 Klaus D. Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Could anyone please give me a hint how to configure a win98 box behind a gentoo router? Just replaced Dad's

[gentoo-user] new docs?

2003-07-12 Thread Daniel Robbins
On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 07:32:07PM -0400, Chris Bare wrote: Sorry, if I missed it, this is the first mention I've seen of re-written install docs. When did the re-written ones go up and where are they? What's different in the new version? I added a complete fdisk and mkfs tutorial to the

[gentoo-user] -fPIC

2003-07-12 Thread Norberto BENSA
Hello, is -fPIC a good thing (tm) ? What exactly does it do? Thanks, Norberto pgp0.pgp Description: signature

Re: [gentoo-user] filesystem error?

2003-07-12 Thread Norberto BENSA
Gent00 wrote: El Jue 10 Jul 2003 02:42, Norberto BENSA escribió: | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ date ; echo ${William Kenworthy} | Wednesday 09 July 2003 08:27 pm | | reiserfs is fantastic - much better than ext3 which occaionally acts | like the hack that it is | | I couldn't say it better :-)

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