Re: [gentoo-user] .bashrc

2003-08-08 Thread Collins Richey
On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 21:13:05 -0500 Steven Elling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 07 August 2003 17:02, Dr. Robert M. Fuhrer wrote: At 03:55 PM 8/7/2003 -0600, Collins Richey wrote: On Thu, 07 Aug 2003 15:19:12 -0400 Dr. Robert M. Fuhrer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading to 1.4?

2003-08-08 Thread Spider
begin quote On Wed, 06 Aug 2003 00:57:24 -0400 Mark Renouf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I upgrade to 1.4 without starting from scratch? I'd like the features added in the latest release, like automated kernel building, etc... Depends on what you upgrade from. from 1.2 ? Go look at

Re: [gentoo-user] x-chat buttons missing

2003-08-08 Thread Zack Gilburd
On Thursday 07 August 2003 01:50 pm, Kees Bergwerf wrote: On my SuSE linux machine I have x-chat 1.8.10 and on my gentoo linux machine I have x--chat 2.0.4 In the 2.0.* versions there are buttons missing :-( In x-chat 1.8.* there are right from the topic a few buttons [T][S][I][P][M][B][L]

[gentoo-user] ownership of devices

2003-08-08 Thread Christian Bartl
Dear Gentoo users, as I have problems with ALSA since the last upgrade of alsa-libs/driver/utils I verified the permissions of /dev/dsp and noticed that there are several device owned by the user I normally login as. Heres the output of ls -ld $(find /dev ! -user root): crw--- 1 psy

RE: [gentoo-user] .bashrc

2003-08-08 Thread Condon Thomas A KPWA
Anthony Floyd wrote: On Thu, 07 Aug 2003 13:32:08 -0400 daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On August 7, 2003 01:05 pm, Ernie Schroder wrote: Hi All, I just messed up! I blew away my .bashrc. It seems that it might be recoverable because my aliases are still working. Any ideas? i've

Re: [gentoo-user] Bootstrapping a Heterogeneous compile farm?

2003-08-08 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Friday 08 August 2003 02:00, Adam Scriven wrote: What I'd like to setup is a compile farm/cluster, using two of my existing machines. The number will eventually grow, but my wife won't let me bring my old computers out of storage in this tiny apartment. :) I'd like to be able to compile

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie Portage Question

2003-08-08 Thread Christopher Egner
The man page (man emerge) says that you can inject a package. Or make portage assume its installed by: emerge -i pkgname or emerge inject pkgname If portage thinks the latest version is installed it won't worry that you have a newer one installed. Hope that helps. Side note for everyone else,

Re: [gentoo-user] 1.4_final CFLAGS Generation?

2003-08-08 Thread Riyad Kalla
They might be referring to the genflags package, it comes with strangely names info2flags, info2host and host2flags. It parses your machine information and spits back safe/fast flags for you. Kind of a middle ground. Not freakishly optimized, but also not going to cause you to segfault at

RE: [gentoo-user] Linux 2.6 and ALSA

2003-08-08 Thread Mark Knecht
Hello My laptop ALSA sound works with Linux 2.6 but my volume levels (main,pcm,cd) are reset to zero on every boot. How can I preserve my sound levels? Do I need to emerge any alsa packages like tools, utils etc? There is no alsa currently on this system except for 2.6 kernel. Many

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6 kernel - Cannot open Eterm

2003-08-08 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Jason Stubbs wrote: Ahh, anyway, back to Dhruba. It seems that I posted the same message twice instead of posting the reply to my own message. I was able to emerge and run eterm with no problems. Did you try doing that Hi Jason, Eterm works now so I did not bother doing an lsof. Now onto my

[gentoo-user] which user i'm logged

2003-08-08 Thread raptor
how to see under which user i'm logged in... i mean when I do su user and I have no intication on the prompt is there way to see the user i'm logged... is this the correct one : #echo $USER tia -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux 2.6 and ALSA

2003-08-08 Thread Christoph Strake
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 10:02:18PM +0100, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: Hello My laptop ALSA sound works with Linux 2.6 but my volume levels (main,pcm,cd) are reset to zero on every boot. How can I preserve my sound levels? Do I need to emerge any alsa packages like tools, utils etc? There

Re: [gentoo-user] xine GUIs that work with GNOME2?

2003-08-08 Thread Jason A. Pfeil
Oh. I didn't realize that you could emerge a specific .ebuild file. Hmmm...interesting. :-) Thanks! --Jason On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: As I understand it the ebuild will set conditions on what it needs to have built (the dependencies). Just doing -u will say it has the

[gentoo-user] Xfree86 problem

2003-08-08 Thread Brian Richardson
Hello, As I went to watch a movie on my TV, there was an error I hadn't seen before. I've included the relevant log bits: (II) Loading sub module int10 (II) LoadModule: int10 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/linux/libint10.a (II) Module int10: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for

Re: [gentoo-user] network help needed

2003-08-08 Thread Sean Higgins
Hello Alberto, To solve the problem, here is what I have done. I wrote a service called netconfig which runs before net.* and wlan. The file is attached and is put in /etc/init.d. I set it up to run using rc-update add netconfig boot... If you look at the begining of the program, there is

Re: [gentoo-user] x-chat buttons missing

2003-08-08 Thread Marius Mauch
On 08/08/03 Kees Bergwerf wrote: Op donderdag 7 augustus 2003 23:57, schreef Yeechie Tu: Does anybody know how I can get these buttons in x-chat 2.0.4 on my gentoo machine? one word: options perhaps I need one more word :-/ What options? Well, although I don't need the buttons

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources

2003-08-08 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Chris I wrote: As I said, framebuffer, at least for me, refuses to work no matter how hard I try, wheras with 2.4 it worked with so little effort it was eerie. This, I think, is due to the fact that the radeonfb is being worked on (was forked) again, and something broke compatability with

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange error

2003-08-08 Thread Spundun Bhatt
On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 16:21, Yeechie Tu wrote: Calculating world dependencies \ !!! all ebuilds that could satisfy =sys-libs/db-4.1 have been masked. !!!(dependency required by net-nds/openldap-2.1.22 [ebuild]) !!! Problem with ebuild dev-php/mod_php-4.3.2-r5 !!! Possibly a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Fetching updates with cron

2003-08-08 Thread Chris I
On 2003.08.07 15:57, Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Chris I (2003-08-07 21:23 +0200) Did you try checking to see if ${DISTDIR} is a valid variable outside of portage? Try a cron script that does something like: echo ${DISTDIR} | mail -s distdir check myemailaddress; or even env | mail -s env

[gentoo-user] bash prompt?

2003-08-08 Thread Ernie Schroder
I have 2 Gentoo boxes here and #2 has an annoying habbit I can't find a solution for. On box #1 an xterm gives me a prompt like so: [EMAIL PROTECTED] current_directory $ Box # 2 shows this same format for a root xterm, but a user xterm shows: bash-2.05b$ Virtual terminals (ctrl+alt+F2-F6) show

Re: [gentoo-user] mkinitrd

2003-08-08 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 5. August 2003 04:25 schrieb ext wes chow: Which package has the mkinitrd program? I can't seem to find it... Short answer: None. Longer answer: mkinitrd usually is a shell script specific to a particular distribution. In Gentoo, creating an initrd is part of the genkernel

Re: [gentoo-user] bash prompt?

2003-08-08 Thread Joe Chiocchi
On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 12:22:00 -0400 Ernie Schroder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have 2 Gentoo boxes here and #2 has an annoying habbit I can't find a solution for. On box #1 an xterm gives me a prompt like so: [EMAIL PROTECTED] current_directory $ Box # 2 shows this same format for a root xterm,

[gentoo-user] opengl-update nvidia

2003-08-08 Thread Collins Richey
On my system, this does not appear to be permanent. I issue the command, then glxgears and glxinfo work fine. After reboot, I need to do this again. From glxinfo ... OpenGL renderer string: GeForce2 MX/PCI/SSE/3DNOW! OpenGL version string: 1.4.0 NVIDIA 44.96 ... From XFree86.0.log ... (**)

Re: [gentoo-user] gthumb issues

2003-08-08 Thread Scott Carmichael
I also had nothing but trouble with gthumb, and terrible replyage from the author... So I went to pornview... Despite the name, it's useful. :) // Scott Carmichael - http://jobe.ca/ drewbian said on 08.08.03 at 20:26: Hi, Not exactly a fix but I have found gqview to be a suitable

Re: [gentoo-user] x-chat buttons missing

2003-08-08 Thread Kees Bergwerf
Op donderdag 7 augustus 2003 23:57, schreef Yeechie Tu: Does anybody know how I can get these buttons in x-chat 2.0.4 on my gentoo machine? one word: options perhaps I need one more word :-/ What options? --Kees -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] patching source

2003-08-08 Thread Renat Golubchyk
Morning! On Wednesday 06 August 2003 06:24, downtime null wrote: is it possible to download an ebuild package, patch the source, then build the package? I don't know whether there is an automated solution, but the best I can come up with is the following: 1. Fetch the files: emerge -f

Re: [gentoo-user] wish?

2003-08-08 Thread Robert Kruus
It is rumored that Steven Elling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 05 August 2003 11:27, Mark Knecht wrote: Thanks. I understood the basic steps, but 'which wish' failed on this system and emerge -s wish didn't find it in the database. 'type -p name-of-command' (BASH shell built-in)

[gentoo-user] Re: opengl-update borked

2003-08-08 Thread Sebastian Bergmann
Theofilos Intzoglou wrote: Hi Sebastian! Hi Theofilos, What is the error you get when you try to emerge blender? that's all in my bug report. Greetings, Sebastian -- Sebastian Bergmann http://sebastian-bergmann.de/ http://phpOpenTracker.de/ Das Buch zu PHP 5:

[gentoo-user] Kernel compile issue??

2003-08-08 Thread Mark Johanson
I'm not sure if my kernel compile is finishing correctly. I am setting up from a stage 3 tarball, and when I get to the end of what the compile is doing and gives me a command prompt I get no indication the compile finished correctly. The last line before the command prompt reads: if [ -r

Re: [gentoo-user] Wanted: GUI programmer (GLIS)

2003-08-08 Thread Norberto BENSA
Nathaniel McCallum wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well given that gentoo will always have python on their install cds is that another alternative? Python is not on the liveCD. Errr... How does portage runs then? Norberto pgp0.pgp Description: signature

Re: [gentoo-user] window focus in fluxbox

2003-08-08 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Nick Gommans wrote: Settings under [Settings]-[Configure] that manage the window focus. If you activate Focus New Windows it will automatically give focus to the newly activated window. It looks like this option only gives focus to newly *created* windows. I already had that option set but it

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc questions

2003-08-08 Thread Spider
begin quote On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 13:46:23 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How reliable *is* the usage of distcc? Generally its quite reliable. As we find packages that don't build using it we can excempt them manually. As a rule. try it, then try it again (could just be a broken Makefile that

[gentoo-user] Fetching updates with cron

2003-08-08 Thread Thorsten Kampe
Hi, I have a vcron job[1] that syncs the portage tree und afterward fetches available updates - at least that's how it is supposed to work. The sync works fine and the fetch, too, at least according to /var/log/emerge.log[2]. But actually the .tar.bz never reaches /usr/portage/distfiles, so I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xmodmap problem

2003-08-08 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Michael Mauch wrote: Jorge Almeida wrote: What is puzzling is that xev agrees with the wanted behavior and not with the actual behavior! According to xev, the key with keycode 66 (the one just under tab and above shift) should work as ModeSwitcher: KeyRelease

[gentoo-user] Re: If is doesn't compile with -O3 -pipe is that not a BUG?

2003-08-08 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Robert Young (2003-08-08 18:39 +0200) Just a thought I submitted a bug against Mozilla http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26068 It seems to be because of my CFLAGS CFLAGS=-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer These are *exactly* my flags and Mozilla compiled with those (okay

[gentoo-user] gentoo and laptops (good one)

2003-08-08 Thread Mike Bellemare
Hi sorry for the other message, I've got a couple of questions... each time i boot my laptop, ive got to open /etc/X11/XF86Config as root and close it. if i fail to do that, my mice (the touchpad and the ps/2 mouse) keep going on the lower left corner and doing like a right-button mouse

Re: [gentoo-user] How to configure xdm to accept connections from other boxes?

2003-08-08 Thread Steven Elling
On Friday 08 August 2003 10:39, Jussi Sirpoma wrote: Hi, I'm trying to configure xdm to accept connections from other machines in the network. I've done it once to a Mandrake box but I do not have those conig files available and I'm not getting very far with the default gentoo ones. This is

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange error

2003-08-08 Thread el lodger
On 05 Aug 2003 17:14:59 -0700 Spundun Bhatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 16:21, Yeechie Tu wrote: Calculating world dependencies \ !!! all ebuilds that could satisfy =sys-libs/db-4.1 have been masked.!!!(dependency required by net-nds/openldap-2.1.22 [ebuild])

Re: [gentoo-user] xine GUIs that work with GNOME2?

2003-08-08 Thread brett holcomb
No, the [] is what you have. On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 11:29:59 -0500 Jeffrey Smelser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your getting it backwards.. Whatever is in the [] is what its upgrading TOO..So gconf is going from 1.0.8-r5 TO 2.2.0 Thanks, Jeff -Original Message- From: Jason A. Pfeil

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo and laptops (good one)

2003-08-08 Thread Steven Elling
On Friday 08 August 2003 20:32, Mike Bellemare wrote: Hi sorry for the other message, I've got a couple of questions... each time i boot my laptop, ive got to open /etc/X11/XF86Config as root and close it. if i fail to do that, my mice (the touchpad and the ps/2 mouse) keep going on the

Re: [gentoo-user] Live CD is very buggy

2003-08-08 Thread wes chow
I've seen the rotating wheel thing once before on one of my installs. Other than that, there were no problems. To get around it, I simply set a passwd and used a different console. Wes On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The shell prompt for the live cd is messed up. the rotating

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux 2.6 and ALSA

2003-08-08 Thread Theofilos Intzoglou
I have been using the 2.6.0 test series kernels and I can say that alsa works very well with the various tools and utils. At least they do with my SB Digital :-) I have injected the alsa-driver package and I can now emerge everything I want that uses alsa. On 07 Aug 2003 15:46:42 -0700 Mark