Re: [gentoo-user] Clarifying meaning of x86 and ~x86

2003-07-29 Thread Sebastian Hungerecker
On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 10:25:30 +1000 Jonathan Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > just wanted to clarify my understanding of x86 and ~x86. The prefix ~ says that a program (not the ebuild) is unstable, the prefix ^ means, that the package is nearly unusable and no prefix means that the app runs mostly

[gentoo-user] Big Gentoo Logo

2003-07-29 Thread João Seabra
Hi Can anyone tell me here can I get a big gentoo (just the G) and the moo logo? JPG,povray,whatever,or how to make one would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, João Seabra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Build a binary package under another *non-gentoo* PC

2003-07-29 Thread Stefano
Alle 08:28, mercoledì 30 luglio 2003, Dan Foster ha scritto: > One possible approach is to temporarily NFS mount /var/tmp/portage from the > other Linux machine to your laptop, do the build+install, then unmount. > > That's what someone here did recently for the OpenOffice build :) Thanks for sug

Re: [gentoo-user] Nailing a particular version locally

2003-07-29 Thread Jonathan Kelly
Hi Marius, On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 03:16:32 +0200 Marius Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 07/30/03 Jonathan Kelly wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I was wondering, is there a way of nailing particular versions on my > > system(s), sort of like a local /etc/make.profile/packages, that won't > > get ov

Re: [gentoo-user] Build a binary package under another *non-gentoo* PC

2003-07-29 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! Stefano was rumored to have written: > I've discovered that 1,5 GB are not enough to emerge openoffice, so I'm > asking about the procedure (if one) to build the gentoo openoffice binary > package with k6-2 optimization for my laptop, under my second pc. This > one is an athlon xp 1.8

[gentoo-user] Build a binary package under another *non-gentoo* PC

2003-07-29 Thread Stefano
I've discovered that 1,5 GB are not enough to emerge openoffice, so I'm asking about the procedure (if one) to build the gentoo openoffice binary package with k6-2 optimization for my laptop, under my second pc. This one is an athlon xp 1.8 that runs a debian SID with gcc 3.3 compiler. Perhaps b

Re: [gentoo-user] Clarifying meaning of x86 and ~x86

2003-07-29 Thread Jonathan Kelly
Hi Spider, On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 06:52:15 +0200 Spider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > begin quote > On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 10:25:30 +1000 > Jonathan Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi there, > > > > just wanted to clarify my understanding of x86 and ~x86. I sort of > > assumed x86 mean stable

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying Gnus

2003-07-29 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
Le 07/29/03 Dmitry Suzdalev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit notamment: > Hello! > > I was thinking about changing my mail agent from KMail to Gnus :). Just want > to give it a try. Good idea! > Well, I have several questions. First of all -- can I transfer all my > mail (in Maildir format) from K

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems encoding MP2

2003-07-29 Thread Håvard Wall
Andrew Farmer wrote: At 29 July, 2003 Miguel Bl?zquez wrote: [...] Therefore, the distribution is not the problem. Any ideas? Is it posible that the tools 'toolame' or 'mp2enc' had been compiled with some parameter defined in /etc/make* and that parameter affects negatively? No, make options won't

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying Gnus

2003-07-29 Thread Anupam Kapoor
hi dmitry, please see inline. Dmitry Suzdalev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello! > > I was thinking about changing my mail agent from KMail to Gnus :). Just want > to give it a try. excellent ! > Well, I have several questions. > First of all -- can I transfer all my mail (in Maildir format)

[gentoo-user] portage group issues

2003-07-29 Thread Bryce
Hey all, my normal user account is in the portage group( i even checked /etc/group), however, whenever i use my account to do some emergeing ( short of compiling) i always get that "not part of portage group" error. Has anyone else seen or dealt with this problem?? thanks, bryce -- [EMAIL PRO

Re: [gentoo-user] Clarifying meaning of x86 and ~x86

2003-07-29 Thread Spider
begin quote On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 10:25:30 +1000 Jonathan Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > > just wanted to clarify my understanding of x86 and ~x86. I sort of > assumed x86 mean stable and I assumed that meant that the "software" > was stable, or does it just refer the fact that the

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware has stopped working

2003-07-29 Thread Jens Mayer
* On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 21:04:56 -0700, FX wrote: > I ran into the same prob. i had vmware 3.0 and now its updated to 4.0 > and the s/n does not work. hmm http://www.vmware.com/products/desktop/ws_upgrade_faqs.html https://www.vmware.com/vmwarestore/newstore/buy_wkst_upgrade.jsp Rega

[gentoo-user] emerge -up world error

2003-07-29 Thread Ole
Hi there, I got this strange error and I can't figure out what it is that is wrong. I have tried with revdep-rebuild, emerge rsync, updating python and portage. But still I get this error Has anybody seen this before? emerge -p world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculati

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware has stopped working

2003-07-29 Thread FX
I ran into the same prob. i had vmware 3.0 and now its updated to 4.0 and the s/n does not work. hmm On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 16:36, Simon Mushi wrote: > Hi, > > Do you remember what packages were updated exactly? > > Try re-running the vmware-config script. > > Best of luck, > > Si

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware has stopped working

2003-07-29 Thread Simon Mushi
Hi, Do you remember what packages were updated exactly? Try re-running the vmware-config script. Best of luck, Simon On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, William Kenworthy wrote: > Hi, one of the recent updates has killed my vmware 3.x. - not sure when, > but must have been in only the last week or so ... >

[gentoo-user] installing using pcmcia

2003-07-29 Thread Rick Sivernell
Hi all I have a Dell CPx laptop and want to install gentoo on it. My question is on install where you setup the net what do you do for the pcmcia eth-pcmcia-X or what and the command to do so. Many thanks in advance. cheers -- Rick Sivernell Dallas, Texas 75287 972 306-2296 [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using syslog-ng..?

2003-07-29 Thread Alan
> - Why isn't syslog-ng supplied with a suitable cron script to tidy my > logfiles..? This would be handled by logrotate, but you still have to come up with the config files for it yourself :\ I managed to grab a bunch off my debian box, but it'd be nice to see logrotate as a USE variable and e

Re: [gentoo-user] perl emerge problems

2003-07-29 Thread el lodger
On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 04:29:52 +0200 Alberto Bert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've update perl but emerge don't want do it. > > bash-2.05b# emerge -pv perl > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > Calculating dependencies ...done! > [blocks B] dev-lang/perl-5.8.

Re: [gentoo-user] perl emerge problems

2003-07-29 Thread R'twick Niceorgaw
On Tuesday 29 July 2003 10:29 pm, Alberto Bert wrote: > Hi, > > I've update perl but emerge don't want do it. > > bash-2.05b# emerge -pv perl > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > Calculating dependencies ...done! > [blocks B] dev-lang/perl-5.8.0-r12) > [blocks B] d

Re: [gentoo-user] perl emerge problems

2003-07-29 Thread Jarrett Graham
emerge -C Test-Simple File-Spec; emerge -pv perl; emerge Test-Simple File-Spec On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 22:29, Alberto Bert wrote: Hi, I've update perl but emerge don't want do it. bash-2.05b# emerge -pv perl These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...

[gentoo-user] perl emerge problems

2003-07-29 Thread Alberto Bert
Hi, I've update perl but emerge don't want do it. bash-2.05b# emerge -pv perl These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [blocks B]

[gentoo-user] konquerror strange behaviour

2003-07-29 Thread Alberto Bert
Hi all, I just re-configured the gentoo-network for a dinamic IP network. It was some time that I didn't emerge anything, so I checked what's new and I installed libsdtc++ gcc and glibc while installing glibc konquerror started to don't work, it cannot reach any host: An error occured while load

[gentoo-user] Anyone using syslog-ng..?

2003-07-29 Thread Stroller
A week or two ago I installed syslog-ng-1.6.0_rc3 because it does some filtering I require on logs from my firewall & printer, which access it by port 514. Previously I had sysklogd-1.4.1 installed, and this had a script in cron.daily which zipped up & archived all old logfiles. Now that script is

Re: [gentoo-user] Clarifying meaning of x86 and ~x86

2003-07-29 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Jonathan Kelly -- > just wanted to clarify my understanding of x86 and ~x86. I sort of > assumed x86 mean stable and I assumed that meant that the > "software" was stable, or does it just refer the fact that the > ebuild is stable and working and won't break your system,

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sync taking forever

2003-07-29 Thread Ian Truelsen
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 17:27:28 -0400 Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It'd be "most excellent" if portage used a faster database engine... > say mysql.. to catalog it's data. > I would be all for this, so long as it is optional. I don't want to have mysql running on a firewall say, jus

Re: [gentoo-user] Nailing a particular version locally

2003-07-29 Thread Marius Mauch
On 07/30/03 Jonathan Kelly wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering, is there a way of nailing particular versions on my > system(s), sort of like a local /etc/make.profile/packages, that won't > get overwritten everytime I "emerge sync" ... I was guessing I could > just copy/usr/portage/profiles/defaul

[gentoo-user] Nailing a particular version locally

2003-07-29 Thread Jonathan Kelly
Hi, I was wondering, is there a way of nailing particular versions on my system(s), sort of like a local /etc/make.profile/packages, that won't get overwritten everytime I "emerge sync" ... I was guessing I could just copy /usr/portage/profiles/default-x86-1.4 somewhere and point /etc/make.profile

Re: [gentoo-user] Round 2: modules/kernel problem & No modules work -- i8k

2003-07-29 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 05:16, Bud Roth wrote: > On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 08:13, Jason Stubbs wrote: > > Try depmod -a -F /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r5/System.map > > Don't know if it'll work, but could be the problem. > > I did that, but to no avail. There is no System.map. See: > > # ls > COPY

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS problem

2003-07-29 Thread Theofilos Intzoglou
Hi Michael! nfsmount is in the nfs-utils package along with some other utilities. On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 11:20:10 -0400 "Michael W. Holdeman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried/etc/init.d/nfsmount filenot found?? > > > Mike > > > On Tuesday 29 July 2003 05:11 am, Theofilos Intzoglou wrote: >

[gentoo-user] vmware has stopped working

2003-07-29 Thread William Kenworthy
Hi, one of the recent updates has killed my vmware 3.x. - not sure when, but must have been in only the last week or so ... Before I hit vmware's help - and as this appears to have been due to one of the recent gentoo upgrades as vmware has been working well up until now: Trying to run vmware (fr

[gentoo-user] Clarifying meaning of x86 and ~x86

2003-07-29 Thread Jonathan Kelly
Hi there, just wanted to clarify my understanding of x86 and ~x86. I sort of assumed x86 mean stable and I assumed that meant that the "software" was stable, or does it just refer the fact that the ebuild is stable and working and won't break your system, but all bets are off as to whether the sof

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sync taking forever

2003-07-29 Thread Bering
Collins Richey wrote: On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 14:32:59 -0400 daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On July 29, 2003 01:50 pm, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: Emerge sync was never really 'quick' as such. A lot of files (~5) files get updated each time including cache during the 'hang' that you mention.

[gentoo-user] Network Card Problems

2003-07-29 Thread Jason Giangrande
This seems a bit odd. I'm installing gentoo on a box that has a 3Com 3cSOHO100-TX network card. The card works fine when booting off the CD and seems to use the 3c59x module, but after the install, using the same module, the card does not work. I've double checked the kernel and all settings seem c

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sync taking forever

2003-07-29 Thread Marius Mauch
On 07/29/03 Fred Van Andel wrote: > > Marius Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (07/29/2003 15:08) > > >On 07/29/03 daniel wrote: > > > >> On July 29, 2003 04:48 pm, Marius Mauch wrote: > >> > The better way would be to rewrite portage with a modular > >approach,> > so it can use different bac

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sync taking forever

2003-07-29 Thread Fred Van Andel
Marius Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (07/29/2003 15:08) >On 07/29/03 daniel wrote: > >> On July 29, 2003 04:48 pm, Marius Mauch wrote: >> > The better way would be to rewrite portage with a modular approach, >> > so it can use different backends (the current code is not very >> > friendly for

Re: [gentoo-user] xpm file display programs?

2003-07-29 Thread Theofilos Intzoglou
Hi Mark! Did you try display of the package Imagemagick? On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 07:41:06 -0700 "Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, >Can anyone recommend a very light program that will display xpm >files? I > do not need to edit them. I didn't want to load something as large as >

Re: [gentoo-user] UTF-8

2003-07-29 Thread Theofilos Intzoglou
Hi Gour! It's good to hear that! That is what I'm trying to acheive here. Well it seems that fluxbox doesn't like UTF encoding for some reason and sylpheed gives me boxes instead of letters when I try to use a unicode font. At least KDE works :-) Does anyone know of a mailer for X that supports UT

Re: [gentoo-user] Q: "emerge sync" or "emerge rsync"

2003-07-29 Thread el lodger
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 17:20:43 -0500 Steven Elling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is the difference between "emerge sync" and "emerge rsync"? > > I've read that several people use "emerge sync" but I always do > "emerge rsync" according to the older x86 Install docs. None. -- Powered by GENTOO

[gentoo-user] mutt: ??? is not a mailbox

2003-07-29 Thread Christian Bartl
Hello, I am trying to set up a mail-system according to http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/guide-to-mutt.xml, but when I launch "mutt -y" and try to access a mailbox (e.g. duplicates) I get the error /home/psy/MuttMail/duplicates is not a mailbox. I already found some information that mutt expects "F

Re: [gentoo-user] Q: "emerge sync" or "emerge rsync"

2003-07-29 Thread Marius Mauch
On 07/29/03 Steven Elling wrote: > What is the difference between "emerge sync" and "emerge rsync"? > > I've read that several people use "emerge sync" but I always do > "emerge rsync" according to the older x86 Install docs. > > Is the only difference that rsync updates the cache using server-

[gentoo-user] Q: "emerge sync" or "emerge rsync"

2003-07-29 Thread Steven Elling
What is the difference between "emerge sync" and "emerge rsync"? I've read that several people use "emerge sync" but I always do "emerge rsync" according to the older x86 Install docs. Is the only difference that rsync updates the cache using server-side caches? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing l

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sync taking forever

2003-07-29 Thread Marius Mauch
On 07/29/03 daniel wrote: > On July 29, 2003 04:48 pm, Marius Mauch wrote: > > The better way would be to rewrite portage with a modular approach, > > so it can use different backends (the current code is not very > > friendly for that). But that needs a lot of time. > > alright then, i have som

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

2003-07-29 Thread Steven Elling
On Tuesday 29 July 2003 10:19, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: > Can you suggest a solution? I have not had that exp. with the 4 others I > have, but they are all getting more prop. stuff on em it seems. > > The only thing I can think of is to try another Maxtor just like the > original in it and if tha

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sync taking forever

2003-07-29 Thread Collins Richey
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 14:32:59 -0400 daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On July 29, 2003 01:50 pm, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: > > Emerge sync was never really 'quick' as such. A lot of files > > (~5) files get updated each time including cache during the > > 'hang' that you mention. > > so

Re: [gentoo-user] Round 2: modules/kernel problem & No moduleswork -- i8k

2003-07-29 Thread Bud Roth
On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 08:13, Jason Stubbs wrote: > Try depmod -a -F /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r5/System.map > Don't know if it'll work, but could be the problem. > I did that, but to no avail. There is no System.map. See: # ls COPYING MAINTAINERS README config.old

[gentoo-user] procinfo and uptime

2003-07-29 Thread pb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi i noticed that procinfo gives some strage output about uptime. after few days it looks like it was reset after getting to some value (3-4 days, i didn't check it exactly). it happens also with user, nice, system and idle values. it's true for 2.4.x

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sync taking forever

2003-07-29 Thread Jerry McBride
It'd be "most excellent" if portage used a faster database engine... say mysql.. to catalog it's data. On Tuesday 29 July 2003 05:15 pm, daniel wrote: > On July 29, 2003 04:48 pm, Marius Mauch wrote: > > The better way would be to rewrite portage with a modular approach, so > > it can use differ

[gentoo-user] high load under nfs copying

2003-07-29 Thread Alan
Howdy folks. This isn't really gentoo specific, but I have a large RAID5 array (3x80G) shared via NFS to allow access to photos and music from my other computers on my gentoo stable server. When copying a large number of files over to that system, I'm noticing a HUGE jump in load. I'm get

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sync taking forever

2003-07-29 Thread daniel
On July 29, 2003 04:48 pm, Marius Mauch wrote: > The better way would be to rewrite portage with a modular approach, so > it can use different backends (the current code is not very friendly for > that). But that needs a lot of time. alright then, i have some (not much, but some time). what langu

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sync taking forever

2003-07-29 Thread Marius Mauch
On 07/29/03 William Hubbs wrote: > On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 02:32:59PM -0400, daniel wrote: > > On July 29, 2003 01:50 pm, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: > > > Emerge sync was never really 'quick' as such. A lot of files > > > (~5) files get updated each time including cache during the > > > 'han

Re: [gentoo-user] xpm file display programs?

2003-07-29 Thread Andrew Farmer
At 29 July, 2003 Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >Can anyone recommend a very light program that will display xpm files? I > do not need to edit them. I didn't want to load something as large as gimp > just to view a file. xv. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signa

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems encoding MP2

2003-07-29 Thread Andrew Farmer
At 29 July, 2003 Miguel Bl?zquez wrote: > In both situations, the MP2 file is generated, but the sound is very > poor. It likes "metallic sound". If the same file I try to encode in the > same computer, with the same tool, but with another distribution, the > file is generated right. Therefore, th

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sync taking forever

2003-07-29 Thread William Hubbs
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 02:32:59PM -0400, daniel wrote: > On July 29, 2003 01:50 pm, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: > > Emerge sync was never really 'quick' as such. A lot of files (~5) > > files get updated each time including cache during the 'hang' that you > > mention. Unless you have a very

Re: [gentoo-user] what application?

2003-07-29 Thread Phil Sexton
On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 15:32, Gëzim Hoxha wrote: > Hi guys, > I thought I had bookmarked the page that had, the list > of equivalent software for windows and linux, like > there was a list, and in there were categories of > apps. in windows, and you could find out what's the > equivalent app. in lin

Re: [gentoo-user] Keymap not loading

2003-07-29 Thread el lodger
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 18:46:18 +0100 Dhruba Bandopadhyay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > el lodger wrote: > > On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 16:24:24 + > > Dan Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>Hot Diggety! Richard Kilgore was rumored to have written: > >> > >>>You could try re-emerging kbd, and

[gentoo-user] what application?

2003-07-29 Thread Gëzim
Hi guys, I thought I had bookmarked the page that had, the list of equivalent software for windows and linux, like there was a list, and in there were categories of apps. in windows, and you could find out what's the equivalent app. in linux. Anyone know the page? Thanks, Gëzim __

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sync taking forever

2003-07-29 Thread Marius Mauch
On 07/29/03 daniel wrote: > On July 29, 2003 01:50 pm, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: > > Emerge sync was never really 'quick' as such. A lot of files > > (~5) files get updated each time including cache during the > > 'hang' that you mention. Unless you have a very fast computer it > > will ta

[gentoo-user] Trying Gnus

2003-07-29 Thread Dmitry Suzdalev
Hello! I was thinking about changing my mail agent from KMail to Gnus :). Just want to give it a try. Well, I have several questions. First of all -- can I transfer all my mail (in Maildir format) from Kmail to Gnus? Second: do I have to have emacs installed for getting Gnus to work? I saw that

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sync taking forever

2003-07-29 Thread daniel
On July 29, 2003 01:50 pm, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: > Emerge sync was never really 'quick' as such. A lot of files (~5) > files get updated each time including cache during the 'hang' that you > mention. Unless you have a very fast computer it will take some time. so what're the chances th

Re: [gentoo-user] [blocks B ]

2003-07-29 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Mark Knecht wrote: emerge ExtUtils-MakeMaker -C emerge babygimp -vp Dhruba, OK, thanks. That will apparently work, but why has this happened? I'd like to understand why, after being a Gentoo user for 4-5 months, I'm suddenly seeing a bunch of these sorts of messages. Is this due to some new porta

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sync taking forever

2003-07-29 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
William Hubbs wrote: Hi all, has anyone else noticed that emerge sync is taking a lot longer lately? I have noticed that lately it is taking a lot longer to finish -- After the message Updating portage cache . Done. It just hangs there for a long time then finally exits. I saw a segmentat

Re: [gentoo-user] Keymap not loading

2003-07-29 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
el lodger wrote: On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 16:24:24 + Dan Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hot Diggety! Richard Kilgore was rumored to have written: You could try re-emerging kbd, and if that doesn't help, try running the command: # strace -fF -o log loadkeys uk Better yet: # strace -fF -e tra

Re: [gentoo-user] network question...

2003-07-29 Thread Joe
Thanks! I had forgotten to put it in the modules.autoload file. It works great now :) - Joe :) - Original Message - From: "David H. Askew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 12:09 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] network question... > If you are usi

RE: [gentoo-user] network question...

2003-07-29 Thread Mark Knecht
Joe, In the future you might want to refrain from sending HTML formatted email. I've found that many Linux folks won't read it! Doesn't bother me though. You may not have it in your modules.conf file if you actually tried to make it a module. Sometimes it's best to build the drivers as m

Re: [gentoo-user] network question...

2003-07-29 Thread David H. Askew
If you are using modules .. modprobe natsemi else compile it into the kernel and reboot edit /etc/conf.d/net .. change the settings to reflect your setup execute: /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start if all goes well .. add net.eth0 to the default runlevel : execute: rc-update add net.eth0 default a

Re: [gentoo-user] Keymap not loading

2003-07-29 Thread el lodger
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 16:24:24 + Dan Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hot Diggety! Richard Kilgore was rumored to have written: > > > > You could try re-emerging kbd, and if that doesn't help, try > > running the command: > > > > # strace -fF -o log loadkeys uk > > Better yet: > > # s

Re: [gentoo-user] network question...

2003-07-29 Thread brett holcomb
Check the install instructions about setting up the net.eth0 file. You need to set up the file with your addresses and add it to the default runlevel. On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 12:05:06 -0500 "Joe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I am in the process of installing Gentoo on my laptop (HP ze51

[gentoo-user] network question...

2003-07-29 Thread Joe
Hello,    I am in the process of installing Gentoo on my laptop (HP ze5185) and I= have a networking question.  I had a great network connection with the l=iveCD, but now my network card isn't recognized / installed.      When I do an 'ifconfig' all I see is the lo setting, not an eth0.  At

Re: [gentoo-user] RE: Intel 865G Soung

2003-07-29 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
That did it,Thanks!!! Mike On Tuesday 29 July 2003 11:34 am, Jason Short wrote: > `Headphone' is turned up, but is still off. > > try it through alsamixergui, it might make more sense. (yes, that's a > separate ebuild.) > > On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 11:26:50 -0400 > > "Michael W. Holdeman" <[EMAIL PRO

[gentoo-user] strace fun [was: Re: [gentoo-user] Keymap not loading]

2003-07-29 Thread Richard Kilgore
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 04:24:24PM +, Dan Foster wrote: > Hot Diggety! Richard Kilgore was rumored to have written: > > > > You could try re-emerging kbd, and if that doesn't help, try > > running the command: > > > > # strace -fF -o log loadkeys uk > > Better yet: > > # strace -fF -e t

Re: [gentoo-user] Keymap not loading

2003-07-29 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! Richard Kilgore was rumored to have written: > > You could try re-emerging kbd, and if that doesn't help, try > running the command: > > # strace -fF -o log loadkeys uk Better yet: # strace -fF -e trace=chdir,open -o log loadkeys uk -Dan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Keymap not loading

2003-07-29 Thread Richard Kilgore
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 03:12:06PM +0100, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: > Hello, > > On boot keymaps do not load. When I do: > > /etc/init.d/keymaps start > > I get > > > * Loading key mappings... > cannot open file uk > * Error loading key mappings [ !! ] > /etc/init.d/keymaps

Re: [gentoo-user] VirusWall

2003-07-29 Thread Bram De Smet
dark root # emerge -s viruswall Searching... [ Results for search key : viruswall ] [ Applications found : 0 ] On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 18:05, Fellipe Weno wrote: > Hi guys > > Anyone know if exist this ebuild?? > > Banza -- .:|:. Linux! May the Open Source be with you! |o o| http://w

[gentoo-user] VirusWall

2003-07-29 Thread Fellipe Weno
Hi guys   Anyone know if exist this ebuild??   Banza

RE: [gentoo-user] [blocks B ]

2003-07-29 Thread Mark Knecht
> > Mark, check out this week's GWN: > http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20030728-newsletter.xml > > The long and short of it is that due to changes in the way modules are > handled with Perl, some modules need to be remerged. Well, some module > might not be needed separately at all. So, unmer

[gentoo-user] Win4Lin 5

2003-07-29 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
I have been a long time user of Win4Lin and love it. So when building my new desktop I decided to use the Gentoo ebuild to install. Everything seemed to go fine except I cannot get my license file to install. What do I need to do to get the license to install? Mike -- Michael W. Holdeman Powe

RE: [gentoo-user] [blocks B ]

2003-07-29 Thread Mark Knecht
> > emerge ExtUtils-MakeMaker -C > emerge babygimp -vp > Dhruba, OK, thanks. That will apparently work, but why has this happened? I'd like to understand why, after being a Gentoo user for 4-5 months, I'm suddenly seeing a bunch of these sorts of messages. Is this due to some new portage policy?

[gentoo-user] emerge sync taking forever

2003-07-29 Thread William Hubbs
Hi all, has anyone else noticed that emerge sync is taking a lot longer lately? I have noticed that lately it is taking a lot longer to finish -- After the message Updating portage cache . Done. It just hangs there for a long time then finally exits. I saw a segmentation violation at thi

Re: [gentoo-user] RE: Intel 865G Soung

2003-07-29 Thread Jason Short
`Headphone' is turned up, but is still off. try it through alsamixergui, it might make more sense. (yes, that's a separate ebuild.) On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 11:26:50 -0400 "Michael W. Holdeman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here is the output from amixer.. > > bash-2.05b$ amixer > Simple mixer contro

[gentoo-user] RE: Intel 865G Soung

2003-07-29 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
Here is the output from amixer.. bash-2.05b$ amixer Simple mixer control 'Master',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 31 Front Left: Playback 24 [77%] [on] Front Right: Playback 24 [77%] [on] Simple mixer control

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS problem

2003-07-29 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
I tried/etc/init.d/nfsmount filenot found?? Mike On Tuesday 29 July 2003 05:11 am, Theofilos Intzoglou wrote: > Hi Michael! > > You can add the nfsmount that starts the portmap deamon > automatically. > > On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 18:48:49 -0400 > > "Michael W. Holdeman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

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

2003-07-29 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
Can you suggest a solution? I have not had that exp. with the 4 others I have, but they are all getting more prop. stuff on em it seems. The only thing I can think of is to try another Maxtor just like the original in it and if that doesn't work I'll have to call gateway and tell them its bad?

Re: [gentoo-user] [blocks B ]

2003-07-29 Thread Anthony Floyd
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 07:38:24 -0700 Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, >I have seen this 'blocks' thing a bunch recently. Is this a problem? > What is emerge telling me? That I cannot emerge this program? > >I have not been following any discussions in this area on the list. > Do

Re: [gentoo-user] Keymap not loading

2003-07-29 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: Hello, On boot keymaps do not load. When I do: /etc/init.d/keymaps start I get * Loading key mappings... cannot open file uk * Error loading key mappings [ !! ] Guess I should have checked with bugs. The following bug explains the problem and prov

Re: [gentoo-user] [blocks B ]

2003-07-29 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I have seen this 'blocks' thing a bunch recently. Is this a problem? What is emerge telling me? That I cannot emerge this program? I have not been following any discussions in this area on the list. Do I need to fix something? BTW - the program babygimp is not import

Re: [gentoo-user] xpm file display programs?

2003-07-29 Thread Håvard Wall
xv ? Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, Can anyone recommend a very light program that will display xpm files? I do not need to edit them. I didn't want to load something as large as gimp just to view a file. Thanks, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- hw -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] xpm file display programs?

2003-07-29 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, Can anyone recommend a very light program that will display xpm files? I do not need to edit them. I didn't want to load something as large as gimp just to view a file. Thanks, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] [blocks B ]

2003-07-29 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I have seen this 'blocks' thing a bunch recently. Is this a problem? What is emerge telling me? That I cannot emerge this program? I have not been following any discussions in this area on the list. Do I need to fix something? BTW - the program babygimp is not important to me, but I

[gentoo-user] XFree loading warnings

2003-07-29 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Hello When I do: grep WW /var/log/XFree86.0.log I get: (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such file or directory) (WW) (1400x1050,Monitor0) mode clock 122MHz exceeds DDC maximum 110MHz (WW) NVIDIA(0): Not using mo

[gentoo-user] Keymap not loading

2003-07-29 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Hello, On boot keymaps do not load. When I do: /etc/init.d/keymaps start I get * Loading key mappings... cannot open file uk * Error loading key mappings [ !! ] It was working perfectly before and today I have only performed four updates: * mysql * nvidia-kernel * nvidia-gl

Re: [gentoo-user] Finding dependencies of a package

2003-07-29 Thread Stephen Boulet
'qpkg -q ...' gave me the information: # qpkg -q Imaging-py21 dev-python/Imaging-py21-1.1.3-r1 DEPENDED ON BY: net-zope/cmfphoto-0.2 Makes sense, since zope depends on python 2.1 for the moment. Thanks to all for their help. -- Stephen On Tuesday 29 July 2003 06:16 am, Dhruba Bandopadh

Re: [gentoo-user] Round 2: modules/kernel problem & No modules work -- i8k

2003-07-29 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Tuesday 29 July 2003 10:16, Bud Roth wrote: > I posted earlier about the same problem. I tried both depmod -a and > update-modules. Also, my sound device "/dev/dsp" is missing. I'm > confused. Any ideas? > > moosilauk linux # depmod -a > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in > /lib/modules/2.4.2

Re: [gentoo-user] K3b + (s)vcd questions

2003-07-29 Thread D.J. Bolderman
On ma, 28 jul 2003, Jason Stubbs wrote: > On Monday 28 July 2003 06:27, D.J. Bolderman wrote: > > I have some MPG videos which I want to burn with K3B. So I create a > > new video project, drag the MPG file to it, and K3B gives me the > > message that the MPG file already has to be in VCD format.

Re: [gentoo-user] UTF-8

2003-07-29 Thread Gour
Theofilos Intzoglou ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Thanks for your reply. This is what I have done so far and it seems to > work. However fluxbox is giving me a hard time crashing an sylpheed > gives me text full of boxes if I use a unicode font, even for english > text. Also the keyboard layout cha

Re: [gentoo-user] Finding dependencies of a package

2003-07-29 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Stephen Boulet wrote: Hmm, this doesn't seem to work. After doing: emerge -u -p --deep world, I get a list of packages, and dev-python/Imaging-py21 is on the list. When I do emerge -u -p world, dev-python/Imaging-py21 isn't listed. But doing: # etcat -d dev-python/Imaging-py21 [

[gentoo-user] Problems encoding MP2

2003-07-29 Thread Miguel Blázquez
Hello, When I try to encode a WAV file in order to obtein a MP2 file, the result is incorrect. I use two tools in order to perform the operation: toolame and mp2enc, using the command lines: toolame -b 224 file.wav mp2enc -V -o file.mp2 < file.wav In both situations, the MP2 file is generated, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Nessus-core 2.0.6 ebuild limbo

2003-07-29 Thread Aben Siatris
Dňa Ut 29. Júl 2003 12:14 Christian Aust napísal: > Hi all, > > I was wondering if somebody could please make up his mind, if > nessus-core 2.0.6a-r1 or else should be stable. Since some days, > nessus-core shows up in the list of either up- or downgraded packages, > always switching between those

[gentoo-user] Nessus-core 2.0.6 ebuild limbo

2003-07-29 Thread Christian Aust
Hi all, I was wondering if somebody could please make up his mind, if nessus-core 2.0.6a-r1 or else should be stable. Since some days, nessus-core shows up in the list of either up- or downgraded packages, always switching between those two versions. What'swrong with this package? Best regards,

Re: [gentoo-user] UTF-8

2003-07-29 Thread Theofilos Intzoglou
Hi gabor! Thanks for your reply. This is what I have done so far and it seems to work. However fluxbox is giving me a hard time crashing an sylpheed gives me text full of boxes if I use a unicode font, even for english text. Also the keyboard layout change doesn't work that good as I can write in

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