Re: [gentoo-user] Latest portage version

2003-07-26 Thread Marius Mauch
On 07/26/03 Jason Giangrande wrote: > I just updated to the latest version of portage and when I check what > packages I need, by doing an emerge -up world, I get a few lines like > the following. > > > [blocks B] > dev-lang/perl-5.8.0-r12) > > What are blocks? Are these packages that are

[gentoo-user] Latest portage version

2003-07-26 Thread Jason Giangrande
I just updated to the latest version of portage and when I check what packages I need, by doing an emerge -up world, I get a few lines like the following. > [blocks B] dev-lang/perl-5.8.0-r12) What are blocks? Are these packages that are blocked by devs because they may (or do) have issues

[gentoo-user] wvdial DNS and {pap,chap]-secrets

2003-07-26 Thread Meka[ni]
My wvdial is working ONLY when I write nameserver in resolv.con and username and password in chap-secrets. I know that vdial can figure out DNS and write it to resolv.conf. At least it could on SuSE. Here is mu wvdial.con: [Dialer Defaults] Modem = /dev/ttyS2 Baud = 115200 Init1 = ATX3 In

RE: [gentoo-user] Oops forgot subject - SSLeay doesnt see OpenSSL

2003-07-26 Thread Bjorn Sodergren
I filed a bug for this this morning. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25319 I worked around it by, ebuild /usr/portage/dev-perl/Net-SSLeay/Net-SSLeay-1.22.ebuild unpack cd /var/tmp/portage/Net-SSLeay-1.22/work/Net_SSLeay.pm-1.22/ ./Makefile.PL -t Touch ../.compiled ebuild /usr/portage/dev-

Re: [gentoo-user] Ruined 3 HD's ??

2003-07-26 Thread Douglas Russell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 27 July 2003 1:26 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 03:12:26PM -0400, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: > > I amtrying toinstall 1.4_rc4 off the install cd,I think I have now ruined > > 3 HD's. > > The machine is a Gateway 500S.

Re: [gentoo-user] Ruined 3 HD's ??

2003-07-26 Thread paulcol
On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 03:12:26PM -0400, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: > I amtrying toinstall 1.4_rc4 off the install cd,I think I have now ruined 3 > HD's. > The machine is a Gateway 500S. With an intel 865G chipset. Original 1 HD 40G > Maxtor Fireball 3, I added another WD400BB 40gdrive as slave.

Re: [gentoo-user] gray screen after init 5

2003-07-26 Thread Renat Golubchyk
Hi! SB> Hi, SB> I installed gentoo a while ago already. SB> The first part of the boot goes fine, and then when it switches SB> to level 5, my screen becomes gray for at least one or two minutes SB> before i can see the X login screen. It is working fine but it just SB> takes forever. SB> Note

Re: [gentoo-user] which java?

2003-07-26 Thread Marius Mauch
On 07/27/03 Sami Näätänen wrote: > On Saturday 26 July 2003 20:03, Janne Johansson wrote: > > On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 19:46, Jason Calabrese wrote: > > > I use the sun-jdk which I think is actually mislabeled in the > > > Portage tree. The sun-jdk actualy installs Sun's java sdk not the > > > jdk.

[gentoo-user] Some misc stuff

2003-07-26 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
Hi; all my Gentoo systems (desktop Athlon 1.3 Ghz, "server" Pentium 166 Mhz, and laptop Pentium IV 1.8 Ghz), are near perfection. Really; they work so good I want to cry of joy. This unbelievable heaven it's just not perfect because some little annoying things: 1. In both my Gnome setups, I've

Re: [gentoo-user] which java?

2003-07-26 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Saturday 26 July 2003 20:03, Janne Johansson wrote: > On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 19:46, Jason Calabrese wrote: > > I use the sun-jdk which I think is actually mislabeled in the > > Portage tree. The sun-jdk actualy installs Sun's java sdk not the > > jdk. > > As I see it sdk==jdk, sdk == software dev

[gentoo-user] Re: 802.11 cards

2003-07-26 Thread Martin Gramatke
Ian Delahorne wrote: > Which 802.11{b,g} PCI cards work well with (gentoo) Linux? More > specifically, which D-Link or NetGear cards work well? My notebook has a WLAN mini PCI card. 'lspci' says it has a prism 2.5 chipset: '02:05.0 Network controller: Harris Semiconductor Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipse

[gentoo-user] gray screen after init 5

2003-07-26 Thread Stephane Brossier
Hi, I installed gentoo a while ago already. The first part of the boot goes fine, and then when it switches to level 5, my screen becomes gray for at least one or two minutes before i can see the X login screen. It is working fine but it just takes forever. Note that I am using 'kdm'. I tried to

[gentoo-user] Oops forgot subject - SSLeay doesnt see OpenSSL

2003-07-26 Thread jhthree
Whenever I try to emerge SSLeay I get this error: Checking for OpenSSL-0.9.6g or newer... I could not find your OpenSSL in `INSTALLDIRS=vendor' Please provide OpenSSL-0.9.6g installation directory (get from http://www.openssl.org/ if you don't have it; please note that SSLeay is no longer suppor

[gentoo-user] Net-SSLeay not recognizing OpenSSL 0.9.6j

2003-07-26 Thread Ryan Grange
>>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache... >>> dev-libs/openssl-0.9.6j merged. dev-libs/openssl selected: none protected: 0.9.6j omitted: none >>> clean: No packages selected for removal. >>> emerge (2 of 3) dev-perl/Net-SSLeay-1.22 to / >>> md5 src_uri ;-) Net_SSLeay.pm-1.22.tar.gz >>> Unpacki

[gentoo-user] modules/kernel problem

2003-07-26 Thread hmhansolo
hey i have been having some module/kernel problems. on any and all modules on my system, i get unresolved symbols error when i try to modprobe/insmod them. this includes my nvidia module, ip_tables modules, any and all modules. i have been having this problem since day one of installation of my ge

[gentoo-user] translating nokia[non-gentooish]

2003-07-26 Thread Gëzim
Hi, I was wondering if someone knows how I would translate a Nokia cell phone from some languages (eg german, english, italian, etc.)into other languages? Thanks, Gëzim __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebui

Re: [gentoo-user] Ruined 3 HD's ??

2003-07-26 Thread Cal Evans
Sorry for what may seem to be a stupid question but have you checked the jumpers on the drivers? If you have 2 masters on the same buss you eon't be able to boot the machine. =C= * * Cal Evans * http://www.christianperformer.com * Stay plugged in to your audience! * Michael W. Holdeman said: > I

Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Ruined 3 HD's ??

2003-07-26 Thread Timo Boettcher
Hi Michael, Nachricht vom Samstag, 26. Juli 2003, 22:05:19: > I have the disc, trouble is with the drive plugged in I can't even > boot a floppy or CD. If I leave the drive unplugged and boot the WD > floppy, then plug it in, it finds it and everything is fine > according to the SW. Call/Email WD

Re: [gentoo-user] Ruined 3 HD's ??

2003-07-26 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
I have the disc,trouble is with the drive plugged in I can't even boot a floppy or CD. If I leave the drive unplugged and boot the WD floppy,then plug it in,it finds it and everything is fine according to the SW. I did noticethat the Maxtor drive says it is ATA133, and the WD is ATA100. I think

Re: [gentoo-user] Ruined 3 HD's ??

2003-07-26 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Michael W. Holdeman wrote: I amtrying toinstall 1.4_rc4 off the install cd,I think I have now ruined 3 HD's. The machine is a Gateway 500S. With an intel 865G chipset. Original 1 HD 40G Maxtor Fireball 3, I added another WD400BB 40gdrive as slave. When the drive is new it will boot it up fine, I

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: sSMTP and AUTH

2003-07-26 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Brian Richardson (2003-07-26 20:37 +0200) > On July 26, 2003 11:05, Thorsten Kampe wrote: >> * Michael Gruetzner (2003-07-26 14:29 +0200) >>> I try to send my mail via mutt and ssmtp from the console. The remote >>> host is GMX wich wants ssmtp to authenticate via smtp-auth. Is this >>> supported

[gentoo-user] Ruined 3 HD's ??

2003-07-26 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
I amtrying toinstall 1.4_rc4 off the install cd,I think I have now ruined 3 HD's. The machine is a Gateway 500S. With an intel 865G chipset. Original 1 HD 40G Maxtor Fireball 3, I added another WD400BB 40gdrive as slave. When the drive is new it will boot it up fine, I infact installed all of 1.

[gentoo-user] xmms-arts package

2003-07-26 Thread Brian Richardson
I'm curious. The packages.mask file in /usr/portage/profiles has mentioned that support for xmms-arts will be removed as it is not being maintained upstream. However, from my point of view, it works as well as it needs to. What is being planned to replace this package? I need XMMS for Musepack

Re: [gentoo-user] I'm afraid. :P

2003-07-26 Thread Yannick Le Saint
On Saturday 26 July 2003 17:55, Jonathan Nichols wrote: > Hmm.. I've never seen the "blocks" thing pop up. What's that about? > > Also, has anyone updated Perl to r12 yet? Experiences? :) > > > mail jnichols # emerge -up --deep world > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > Calc

[gentoo-user] Missing fonts

2003-07-26 Thread Doug Gorley
G'day list, I'm having issues with my fonts... I recently upgraded to XFree 4.3.0, and have been running xfs for some time now. However, I seem to have lost some of the fonts I was previously using. In particular, Roostheavy (and, I believe, most or all of the freefont package) are not avail

Re: [gentoo-user] No modules work -- I8K running Gentoo 1.4 w/ kernel 2.4.20-gentoo-r5

2003-07-26 Thread Brian Richardson
On July 26, 2003 06:59, Bud Roth wrote: > insmod hid > Using /lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r5/kernel/drivers/usb/hid.o > /lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r5/kernel/drivers/usb/hid.o: unresolved > symbol input_register_device_Rea84a233 This error means that your kernel is configured to use module versioning

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sSMTP and AUTH

2003-07-26 Thread Brian Richardson
On July 26, 2003 11:05, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > * Michael Gruetzner (2003-07-26 14:29 +0200) > > > I try to send my mail via mutt and ssmtp from the console. The remote > > host is GMX wich wants ssmtp to authenticate via smtp-auth. Is this > > supported by sSMTP? > > man ssmtp Nothing in there. T

Re: [gentoo-user] I'm afraid. :P

2003-07-26 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 10:55:02AM -0700, Jonathan Nichols wrote: > Hmm.. I've never seen the "blocks" thing pop up. What's that about? > > Also, has anyone updated Perl to r12 yet? Experiences? :) > > > mail jnichols # emerge -up --deep world > > These are the packages that I would merge, in o

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Minimal Gentoo install

2003-07-26 Thread Anders Eriksson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > * Anders Eriksson (2003-07-26 10:16 +0200) > I'd like to add a warning here. I (being a longtime Linux and distcc > > user, albeit a gentoo newcommer) tried emerge -e world with distcc. > It turned out that zlib did NOT like that. For some reason it, > during > ./confi

[gentoo-user] I'm afraid. :P

2003-07-26 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Hmm.. I've never seen the "blocks" thing pop up. What's that about? Also, has anyone updated Perl to r12 yet? Experiences? :) mail jnichols # emerge -up --deep world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [blocks B] [blocks B] [blo

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Light Linux Laptop?

2003-07-26 Thread b stephen harding
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 12:11:22 -0500 (CDT) Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know of a good laptop to run linux on (preferably gentoo)? > > The only graphical program I intend to run is Mozilla, otherwise I > will use text based programs. I guess I just want a dumb terminal that > can d

[gentoo-user] Re: sSMTP and AUTH

2003-07-26 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Michael Gruetzner (2003-07-26 14:29 +0200) > I try to send my mail via mutt and ssmtp from the console. The remote > host is GMX wich wants ssmtp to authenticate via smtp-auth. Is this > supported by sSMTP? man ssmtp -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] which java?

2003-07-26 Thread Janne Johansson
On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 19:46, Jason Calabrese wrote: > I use the sun-jdk which I think is actually mislabeled in the Portage tree. > The sun-jdk actualy installs Sun's java sdk not the jdk. As I see it sdk==jdk, sdk == software development kit and jdk == java development kit. The sun jre (java ru

Re: [gentoo-user] which java?

2003-07-26 Thread Jason Calabrese
I use the sun-jdk which I think is actually mislabeled in the Portage tree. The sun-jdk actualy installs Sun's java sdk not the jdk. The sdk contain all the dev tools like javac and javadoc and the jdk is just for running prebuilt java apps. It looks like sun-j2sdk tries to build the sdk from

[gentoo-user] XFree / fn key LCD/CRT switching problem.

2003-07-26 Thread raymond
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have an odd problem on an IBM Thinkpad a21m. Prior to upgrading portage a few days ago and merging the new configs (it also upgraded base system and a lot of other stuff) I was able to switch between CRT and LCD screens w/ the Thinkpad Fn + F7 ke

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

2003-07-26 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Håvard Wall wrote: Ciaran McCreesh wrote: To be certain my original CFLAGS was "-march=athlon-xp -O3 -mmmx -msse -m3dnow -mfpmath=sse -pipe" which I changed to "-march=athlon-xp -O2 -mfpmath=sse -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe". Come to think of it the performance gain may be due to the omit-frame-

[gentoo-user] No modules work -- I8K running Gentoo 1.4 w/ kernel2.4.20-gentoo-r5

2003-07-26 Thread Bud Roth
I had a perfectly working Gentoo 1.4 installation on my Inspiron 8100k. All the modules worked perfectly and loaded automatically during bootup. Then, I either reinstalled my kernel or did an emerge world. I am not sure what I did, but now, none of the modules work. Below is a paste of two atte

[gentoo-user] sSMTP and AUTH

2003-07-26 Thread Michael Gruetzner
Hello, I try to send my mail via mutt and ssmtp from the console. The remote host is GMX wich wants ssmtp to authenticate via smtp-auth. Is this supported by sSMTP? Thanks in advance. Michael -- /* Fuck. The f-word is here so you can grep for it :-) */ 2.4.3 linux/include/asm-mips/m

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

2003-07-26 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Saturday 26 July 2003 19:07, Håvard Wall wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > >> To be certain my original CFLAGS was "-march=athlon-xp -O3 -mmmx -msse > >> -m3dnow -mfpmath=sse -pipe" which I changed to "-march=athlon-xp -O2 > >> -mfpmath=sse -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe". Come to think of it the >

[gentoo-user] Re: Firewall solution

2003-07-26 Thread Jonathan C.
Hnestly, I would recommend shorewall for ease of configuration. However, since it's based on iptables, I do not think it can sort out file types, so I would recommend squid, which is a proxy server to achieve what you want. HTH, Jonathan C. On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 10:

[gentoo-user] Re: MozillaFirebird problem with Quicktools

2003-07-26 Thread Jonathan C.
Same problem here, ever since I installed the radial menu. unmerging, deleting every single file regarding firebird, and re-emerging did not help. Jonathan C. On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, Klaus D. Neumann wrote: > On Sunday 20 July 2003 08:22 pm, Alan wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 06:47:49PM -0700

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

2003-07-26 Thread Håvard Wall
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: To be certain my original CFLAGS was "-march=athlon-xp -O3 -mmmx -msse -m3dnow -mfpmath=sse -pipe" which I changed to "-march=athlon-xp -O2 -mfpmath=sse -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe". Come to think of it the performance gain may be due to the omit-frame-pointer flag. Commen

[gentoo-user] Re: MozillaFirebird problem with Quicktools

2003-07-26 Thread Jonathan C.
Ok, solved it : unmerge, delete every sing reference to firebird (even .phoenix in /root and /home/$User, condolences for your bookmarks, remerge. Should work. There is also a thread on the gentoo forum dealing with the problem : http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=67840&highlight=firebird+ch

[gentoo-user] Re: Minimal Gentoo install

2003-07-26 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Anders Eriksson (2003-07-26 10:16 +0200) > I'd like to add a warning here. I (being a longtime Linux and distcc > user, albeit a gentoo newcommer) tried emerge -e world with distcc. > It turned out that zlib did NOT like that. For some reason it, during > ./configure, decided that my system wa

Re: [gentoo-user] Minimal Gentoo install

2003-07-26 Thread Anders Eriksson
Hi folks, I'd like to add a warning here. I (being a longtime Linux and distcc user, albeit a gentoo newcommer) tried emerge -e world with distcc. It turned out that zlib did NOT like that. For some reason it, during ./configure, decided that my system was not shared-object capable, and skipp

[gentoo-user] nfs problems

2003-07-26 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Hi, I have a sun solaris 2.6 configured as nfs server for some Gentoo machines. The UID's are the same on the sever/clients. I can connect with mount -f nfs server:/path /localpath but when i start to put some data on the share it start to copy some bytes and then it stops, i have to shutdown an

Re: [gentoo-user] which java?

2003-07-26 Thread Svein Harald Soleim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 26 July 2003 09:21, Kurt V. Hindenburg wrote: > Can anyone give a comparsion as to which java to use? Also, sun has 3 > versions; what is what? > > blackdown-jdk/blackdown-jre/ > > ibm-jdk/ ibm-jre/ > > sun-j2ee/ sun

[gentoo-user] which java?

2003-07-26 Thread Kurt V. Hindenburg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Can anyone give a comparsion as to which java to use? Also, sun has 3 versions; what is what? blackdown-jdk/blackdown-jre/ ibm-jdk/ ibm-jre/ sun-j2ee/ sun-j2sdk/ sun-jdk/ - -- ^^^ Kurt There is no good nor evil; ther