Re: [gentoo-user] South Florida Gentoo Users?

2003-08-14 Thread Riyad Kalla
Think Mike nailed it on the head here. The forums on Gentoo's site I think are a reflection of: 1) Why Gentoo is growing so fast 2) What a positive community can do to a product 3) An example of how fast ANYONE can learn even the toughest subjects. I've never participated in the IRC channel, but

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

2003-08-14 Thread Riyad Kalla
It would be nice (I agree with you) if by the time they reach 1.0 or whenever the program has enough data collected to really help, if it could generate safe/optimized settings like below, and then in parens provide say an additional set of more Experimental options as you mentioned Tom.

Re: [gentoo-user] x eats my mem and cpu

2003-08-14 Thread a_k_b
Ok , this soudnds rather aggrevating indeed. could you think through what programs you are using on a regular basis, since it probably is some program leaking pixmaps into X and failing to reclaim them. well, on a regular basis its especially gaim and sylpheed-claws. both apps in different

Re: [gentoo-user] iptables and nmap results

2003-08-14 Thread Spider
begin quote On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 14:55:31 -0500 Mike Bellemare [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi I've build myself a firewall with iptables. it's working great and all, except that using nmap to check how to see if i could see some difference on the OS detection option, and it's doing none.

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux 2.6 and ALSA

2003-08-14 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Friday 08 August 2003 22:46, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: Well, you just have to emerge alsa-utils. alsa-driver is not a dependency, so it's ok I think and it works. I have no idea how else to solve this. You are correct! So, why not take the scripts and modules.d files from the ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] anyone using quakeforge?

2003-08-14 Thread Norberto BENSA
Chris I wrote: On 2003.08.12 18:34, Norberto BENSA wrote: Hello, for me, 0.5.4 is seriously broken. Menu doesn't appear, 640x480 doesn't render correctly. Anyone with the same problems? 0.5.2 was ok, but rantsomeone/rant deleted it from portage :-/ I cannot even get it to compile.

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/checkroot cannot remount root fs

2003-08-14 Thread Shawn
With 2.[56].* beyond some point, I had to use /dev/root instead of / in checkroot. I guess I'm no stranger to breakage due to inadvisable upgrades. On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 16:38, Steven Elling wrote: On Wednesday 13 August 2003 13:46, Rex Young wrote: I have baselayout-1.8.6.10, kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Very bad performance

2003-08-14 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Michael Gruetzner wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 03:05:39PM +0200, Arne Halenza wrote: Hi Michael, maybe your DMA mode is not activated? You can check and activate it using the hdparm command (check the man-page about the command, I don't know the details at the moment). I had a similar

[gentoo-user] Where is pland?

2003-08-14 Thread Thomas Preissler
Hello, did I miss something, but I can't find pland, the planner daemon? There is no ebuild for plan(d), or can it be merged with another ebuild? Greets, Tom -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple distdirs patch

2003-08-14 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 12:11:20AM -0500, Kurt V. Hindenburg wrote: Just a quick note : If you want to have mutlitple directories in your distfiles search, try my patch. There are still a number of things that don't work. Make sure you have the original portage.py as backup.

Re: [gentoo-user] Witch net analyzer do you use ?

2003-08-14 Thread Shane Hickey
On Sat, 9 Aug 2003 20:53:24 +0200 Patrick Marquetecken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a net analyzer, for monitor trafic, broadcasts, colisions, band width and so on, if possible with a graphical So what can you all advice me ? I'm not sure if it's exactly what you are

Re: [gentoo-user] Translated OpenOffice

2003-08-14 Thread Andrea Bergia
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle Tuesday 05 August 2003 13:06, Collins Richey ha scritto: The current oppenoffice-bin builds run almost as fast as those compiled from source, so for me it's not worth 10+ hours of compiling. Are you sure it does? OpenOffice is really slow,

RE: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources

2003-08-14 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
quote who=Gwendolyn van der Linden I have the same problem with 2.5 / 2.6-test kernels with my 7500 mobility. In my case the framebuffer does not autodetect correctly (I get a very distorted display), and only lower resolutions work properly if I hand-pick them. The 2.4 series framebuffer

Re: [gentoo-user] timezone

2003-08-14 Thread Meka[ni]
On 06 Aug 2003 15:13:33 -0400 Tom Hosiawa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having trouble properly setting the time zone on gentoo. I currently triple boot between WinXP, RH9 and Gentoo, the problem is my time on gentoo shows up 4 hours earlier than in WinXP and RH9 I've already linked

[gentoo-user] distcc questions

2003-08-14 Thread Ole Langbehn
Hi, my home network consists of 1 Athlon XP 1800 and a P120 Server. So I thought I would give distcc a try (maybe not a bad idea :). What I want is: Everything should be compiled on the fast Athlon machine. I got this setup working, but I still have a few questions: first of all, the relevant

[gentoo-user] Disabling anti-aliasing in Evolution?

2003-08-14 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Hello No matter how much one preaches about the merits of anti-aliasing of fonts and xft in GUI I'm afraid I just can't be convinced. I must be rid of this blurred text and GUI once and for all. How can I turn off anti-aliasing in Evolution 1.4.4 and disable xft if applicable and should this be

[gentoo-user] [OT] audio cassette - digital

2003-08-14 Thread Jorge Almeida
I would like to convert the contents of an audio cassette to a digital format. This is not gentoo specific, but I don't know anything about this matters. Any tips/links-to-doc/pointing-to-the-right-direction would be appreciated! My sound card is an Ensoniq 5880. -- Jorge Almeida -- [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge libgnome failed

2003-08-14 Thread Spider
begin quote On 08 Aug 2003 18:09:28 -0400 Tom Hosiawa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to emerge gnome, when it gets to the emerging libgnome I get this snip After doing some searching I found libasound is part of alsa, but I'm not using alsa (-alsa in USE). Any ideas? some file in

[gentoo-user] fltk without xft support?

2003-08-14 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I'm asking a question I don't understand and I probably won't understand the answer unless it's really basic. Thanks in advance for helping. (This is coming from a non-Gentoo application developer using my system remotely...) 1) Does the version of fltk installed on my system have xft

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

2003-08-14 Thread Jason A. Pfeil
Totem gives me the same stuff. It looks like my xmms USE flag is messing up the mix. Grrr...let me see if that's doing it. --Jason On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Alan wrote: On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 11:47:50AM -0400, Jason A. Pfeil wrote: Does anyone know why whenever I want to install *any* of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Making portage

2003-08-14 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Tuesday 12 August 2003 10:40 pm, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Do you mean you want to add an ebuild for a package? If so check out the developer docs on ebuilds on the Gentoo website, then read man 1,5 ebuild and look at some ebuilds. How can I make (and post) portage? There is a package I

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

2003-08-14 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Jussi Sirpoma (2003-08-08 17:39 +0200) 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 what I

[gentoo-user] emerge kdevelop-3.0_alpha5 fails because of sticky.xpm and AdaAST.hpp (gcc 3.3)

2003-08-14 Thread Joe Stone
hi ! I wanted to emerge kdevelop 3.0_alpha5 but it bailed out at two points First at /var/tmp/portage/kdevelop-3.0_alpha5/work/kdevelop-3.0a5/lib/widgets/sticky.xpm with: ...snip. /bin/sh ../../libtool --silent --mode=compile --tag=CXX g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../..

Re: [gentoo-user] anyone using quakeforge?

2003-08-14 Thread Norberto BENSA
Chris I wrote: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../../../include -I../../../../include -march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mfpmath=sse -mmmx -msse -msse2 -march=i686 -O3 -ffast-math -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -fexpensive-optimizations -fstrict-aliasing -pipe -Wall

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc questions

2003-08-14 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 01:14:42PM +0200, Jens Mayer wrote: * On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 12:00:16 +0200, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: Logically, I'd say you need ccache on the host piloting the build: ccache caches the results of preprocessing (or rather a hash thereof) and distcc

Re: [gentoo-user] resiserfs

2003-08-14 Thread Frank Gruellich
* rh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6. Aug 03 Just wondering if anyone else has had bad experience with reiserfs. [ext3 good, reiserfs bad] URL:http://www.namesys.com/faq.html#sig-11 URL:http://www.namesys.com/faq.html#sig-11-ext2 Abstract: reiserfs is much more stress for your hardware than any

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

2003-08-14 Thread Robert Young
CFLAGS=-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer now work. I guess I need to be running mem check on this computer. Riyad Kalla wrote: Robert keep us updated, this is interesting to me to know the answer as well. Best, -Riyad Robert Young wrote: Spider wrote: begin quote

[gentoo-user] conf.d/local.start doesn't run automatically

2003-08-14 Thread
Hi, I just discovered that my /etc/conf.d/local.start script doest not run automatically when boot up, I have to run it myself, anyone have the same problem? -- Best Regard, LR _ MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com/cn --

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie Portage Question

2003-08-14 Thread Ian Truelsen
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 19:30:16 +0100 Jordan Elver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I was wondering how I can handle the merging of ~x86 packages. For example, I wanted to install opera 7 which is unstable, so I did: KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge opera Which gave the desired result. The problem now

Re: [gentoo-user] fltk without xft support?

2003-08-14 Thread Mark Knecht
Spider, Thanks very much for showing how to go about figuring this stuff out. This is an email I will save for future reference. Cheers, Mark On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 06:28, Spider wrote: begin quote On 07 Aug 2003 05:02:03 -0700 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm asking a

RE: [gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/checkroot cannot remount root fs

2003-08-14 Thread Shawn
Yup. I can duplicate my root on ext[23] and try that too. On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 14:09, Rex Young wrote: Ok, good. I will look when I have a spare 0.5 hours or something as well. Mostly I wanted to know I had not pulled a thinko. Since I know it's not just me now, I'll devote a little bit

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc Error

2003-08-14 Thread Zack Gilburd
On Saturday 09 August 2003 10:50 am, Jeffrey Smelser wrote: gen-locale.sh: line 48: 31350 Segmentation fault I18NPATH=. Segfaults are caused by faulty hardware, namely memory, or CFLAGS that are too aggressive. I suggest you look into both. To check your memory, run memtest86. To make

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc questions

2003-08-14 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 01:46:05PM +0200, Jens Mayer wrote: That sounds logical to me, too. Thanks for the clarification, I will try this the next too hot evening I can't sleep at night (it's about 30°C at midnight in Mannheim, Germany). ;) You're lucky it's about 35 in Paris, France :(

Re: [gentoo-user] bash prompt?

2003-08-14 Thread brett holcomb
Check out man bash for ps1, ps2, etc. It sounds like the user has set up a different prompt. 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

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

2003-08-14 Thread Chris I
On 2003.08.09 09:47, Peter Eis wrote: Chris I wrote: My usb mouse does this when I plug it in. No idea why yet, but I dont see how your solution would have any effect. Check for the correct mouse protocoll. Try IMPS/2 if it's a wheel mouse or just PS/2 if it's still not working. Did you create

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome install

2003-08-14 Thread Terry Churchill
My pet monkey insists that on Aug 13 2003 at 10:01PM Chris I [EMAIL PROTECTED] warbled: One thing you may wish to do is change the xmms ebuild, or emerge it manually. IIRC, some part of gnome depended on xmms, which (if you have the gnome USE flag set, which you probably do) wanted to pull

[gentoo-user] Re: Apache2 with mod_ssl but without apache1

2003-08-14 Thread Wolfram Umlauf
On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 18:52:08 +0100 Dhruba Bandopadhyay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wolfram Umlauf wrote: How can I emerge mod_ssl WITHOUT emerging apache-1.x as well? The Apache2 ebuild by default builds SSL support into itself whether you want it or not. IMHO it is extremely misleading

[gentoo-user] emerging clisp - error

2003-08-14 Thread Marcin Daczkowski
hello. has anyone problems with emerging clisp 2.29 /actual clisp version available after today's emerge rsync/? this gcc invokation produces error: gcc -W -Wswitch -Wcomment -Wpointer-arith -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -fomit-frame-pointer -Wno-sign-compare -O2 -fexpensive-optimizations

Re: [gentoo-user] Very bad performance

2003-08-14 Thread Arne Halenza
Hi Michael, maybe your DMA mode is not activated? You can check and activate it using the hdparm command (check the man-page about the command, I don't know the details at the moment). I had a similar problem in the past. The chipset I used was supported, but not in DMA mode. So I had the

[gentoo-user] Re: Newbie Portage Question

2003-08-14 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Jordan Elver (2003-08-06 20:30 +0200) I was wondering how I can handle the merging of ~x86 packages. For example, I wanted to install opera 7 which is unstable, so I did: KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge opera Which gave the desired result. The problem now though is that everytime I do an

Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla don't display font correctly

2003-08-14 Thread Sven Kabelin
When I try to read japanese text with Mozilla, various common characters not exist or display correctly Emerge media-fonts/kochi-substitute-20030628 first. And then, 1. add: dir/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/dir between fontconfig and /fontconfig in

Re: [gentoo-user] Failing to boot gentoo 1.4 on new install

2003-08-14 Thread Vincent van de Camp
Oops, since I had difficulties booting from the livecd, I assumed you had those too... sorry:) All my gentoo boxes are running 2.6.0-test3, with as many items as possible built as modules. The A7V runs 2.6 too, without a problem. I'm not at home at this moment, but if you still have problems,

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.4.21 and broadcom

2003-08-14 Thread Kees Bergwerf
Op zondag 10 augustus 2003 17:34, schreef Timo Boettcher: Nachricht vom Freitag, 8. August 2003, 00:39:00: I am looking in the menuconfig from the gentoo-sources 2.4.21 but I can't see any support for my broadcom network card anymore :-( Has it gone? It was supported in the 2.4.20-r5

[gentoo-user] postfix (w/ virtual domains) + autoresponder

2003-08-14 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
Hi all, I have set up and running Postfix (w/ virtual domains, MySQL auth., etc. like in virtual mail system guide from Gentoo.org docs). Now I want to add a vacation autoresponder to this system (maybe with the programm vacation, but this is not a must). I only found answers on google for

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.0 killed my touchpad...

2003-08-14 Thread Jerry McBride
Thanks for the concerns, Ryan. I fixed the problem by compiling mm-sources. Comes patched to supply a synaptics support option... It actually works. As for my actually doing the patching myself... it never works. First time for me that a patch I applied failed to work. Anyways, mm-sources did

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo poll #4

2003-08-14 Thread Norberto BENSA
Fred Van Andel wrote: Please respond by emailing your reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Please do NOT reply within the mailing list !!! pgp0.pgp Description: signature

Re: [gentoo-user] nfs mount of portage

2003-08-14 Thread Panard
you had to add no_root_squash option to /etc/exports at the line corresponding. Le Mercredi 13 Août 2003 20:41, Patrick Marquetecken a écrit : Hi, I'm placing this moment my /usr/portage on my home server I have unmount my local /usr/portage, and dit a nfs mount as root.

Re: [gentoo-user] .bashrc

2003-08-14 Thread Dr. Robert M. Fuhrer
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 typeset -f? No man entry for this. What does 'typeset' do. Sorry; it's a bash built-in. It displays the definitions of all the user-defined functions

Re: [gentoo-user] dvd::rip, mplayer, subtitles.

2003-08-14 Thread Andrusky
On Aug 14, 2003 [13:15] -0300, Norberto BENSA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Content-Description: signed data Paul K. Dickson wrote: Could you pass those scripts this way? Thanks! Seconded. Seems like mencoder is much more powerful that dvd::rip :-/ Thanks, Norberto dvd::rip is really just a

Re: [gentoo-user] posting a useful bug to bugzilla

2003-08-14 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Monday 11 August 2003 13:54, gabriel wrote: the new version of kopete (0.7) while full of really cool features, doesn't work at all on my machine and continues to crash. so i filled out a bug report on bugs.kde.org. the problem is, i wasn't able to offer much information, even though i

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources

2003-08-14 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Chris I wrote: -1400x1050 lcd (seems we all have the same res) I havent tried lower modes yet. I don't suppose anyone knows anything about the vga= mode for 1400x1050 with vesa using an nvidia card? Chris. Many thanks on your input regarding the touchpad. Mine is now working perfectly. I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.0 killed my touchpad...

2003-08-14 Thread Chris I
On 2003.08.06 21:21, Jerry McBride wrote: I tought I'd chime in here to touch base with anyone having problems with the new 2.6.0 test kernel and touchpads in laptops. I admin an odd lot of about 80 laptops at work and I've been looking into testing the 2.6.0 kernel on some of the various brands

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for wlan carbus card

2003-08-14 Thread Chris I
On 2003.08.08 16:26, Martin Gramatke wrote: hi, I am looking for wlan 802.11b carbus card wich is supported by kernel 2.4.20 and wlan-linux-ng drivers too. Installation and stability should be as painless as possible. Could you recommend somthing, please? I just got a Linksys 802.11b card for

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

2003-08-14 Thread Jason A. Pfeil
Thanks for the hint, Chris. I got it squared away already. Thanks! --Jason On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Chris I wrote: On 2003.08.07 11:47, Jason A. Pfeil wrote: Does anyone know why whenever I want to install *any* of the xine GUIs (oxine, gxine, xine-ui) it wants to downgrade me as follows?

Re: [gentoo-user] Orphaned packages

2003-08-14 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Monday 11 August 2003 14:13, Craig Main wrote: Lo all, I am running out of diskspace on my laptop. How can I remove packaged that no longer are depended on? Or at least find out which packages are not needed by any other ones and are therefore safe to unmerge. dep-clean will show what

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with SCSI

2003-08-14 Thread Julius Loman
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 02:05:46PM +0200, Ewald Geschwinde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Julius Loman wrote: any HW problems ? no runs fine under red hat 8, debian woody and what about to install it from chrooted environment from those other distros ? i made it like this on my notebook, i

[gentoo-user] System hosed with input/output errors

2003-08-14 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Yesterday I did an emerge sync, updated system, then started a world update. I canceled it on the qt update. Today I started the system with no problems, ran for a while (emerge sync) then shutdown. When I brought it back up I got init - spawning too fast, waiting 5 miuntes. I shutdown

Re: [gentoo-user] AAH! No gnucash in german whatever I try... and..de translation help?

2003-08-14 Thread Theofilos Intzoglou
Hi Henri! Try running 'ls -s /usr/share/locale/de /usr/share/locale/[EMAIL PROTECTED]' if the link doesn't already exist. It maybe that it is searching for a directory [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the locale directory, not finding one and using the default C messages. Hope that helps! On Wed, 6 Aug 2003

[gentoo-user] RDesktop

2003-08-14 Thread Michel Di Croci
Hi! :) I need help configuring rdesktop. It's always telling me that I'm trying to connect to my own computer even if my own computer is on linux! :) Have you encounter this type of error? The program doesn't return any error... so I don't know where to check, it's Windows XP that's telling

Re: [gentoo-user] portage logs

2003-08-14 Thread Collins Richey
On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 02:11:13 +0300 Theofilos Intzoglou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would be nice if the logs that emerge creates were compressed with gzip of even better with bzip2. Another nice feature would be to automatically erase the old ones. Are these features already implemented?

Re: [gentoo-user] Failing to boot gentoo 1.4 on new install

2003-08-14 Thread Vincent van de Camp
Ah... the Asus A7V... :) I've had it too, I needed to turn off as many options as possible to get the livecd to boot: noscsi; nodhcp; nousb; no-what-have-you (don't have a cd here to check what the options are). If all else fails, you may also want to reset the bios to factory settings to make

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: etc-update and fstab...

2003-08-14 Thread Marius Mauch
On 08/10/03 Wolfram Umlauf wrote: On 10 Aug 2003 05:49:24 -0700 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 01:44, Wolfram Umlauf wrote: maybe zoinks from http://zoinks.mikelockwood.com/ is the solution for you. Works perfecly for me. cu, wum Wolfram,

Re: [gentoo-user] thin bcast?

2003-08-14 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's the version I have. The source is cached at: /usr/portage/distfiles/bcast-2000c-src.tar.gz and has a length of 5402399 and an MD5SUM of 1648ade202eadfca9522d5371c003820. FWIW, my metadata cache says I obtained it from:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Backups

2003-08-14 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Sunday 10 Aug 2003 16:40, Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: -- quoting Thorsten Kampe -- Sorry, but what is Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.9? Has this something to do with Gentoo 1.2, 1.4_rc4, 1.4? cat /etc/gentoo-release I have no such file. Maybe it is on latest

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot print to a printserver with CUPS

2003-08-14 Thread Theofilos Intzoglou
Hi Martin! Did you try to setup the printer from the web interface? You just have to point your web browser to http://localhost:631. Some times it works better than setting the printer configuration yourself. Hope that helps! On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 19:56:46 +0200 Martin Monsorno [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge, and read-only source directories.

2003-08-14 Thread Andrew Farmer
At 11 August, 2003 Adam Scriven wrote: What I'd like to have happen is, emerge downloads and unpacks the source as usual, but it then treats that source as if it were in a read-only heirarchy. Therefore, it would put all the files it creates for my system (config files, object files, final

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

2003-08-14 Thread Karl-Heinz Zimmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Dienstag, 5. August 2003 18:13, Nathaniel McCallum wrote: Want to work on a project that hundreds (thousands hopefully) will use? GLIS (Gentoo Linux Install Script) is looking for a GUI programmer to write a custom frontend for Gentoo's

RE: [gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/checkroot cannot remount root fs

2003-08-14 Thread Rex Young
I have baselayout-1.8.6.10, kernel 2.6.0-test3-mm1, and util-linux-2.12. Upon installing util-linux-2.12, I was no longer able to remount my root filesystem for checkroot to work on boot. I really should be able to just mount -n -o remount,ro / or use /dev/root, or whatever is in /proc/mounts,

[gentoo-user] NFS Problems / Lockd?

2003-08-14 Thread Matt Neimeyer
I've got two computers that were running Windows until this weekend. The one can use NFS home directories mounted from the server fine. The other is complaining it can't lock /home/matt/.gconf/%gconf-xml-backend.lock/ior and that my operating system probably has NFS file locking misconfigured.

[gentoo-user] posting a useful bug to bugzilla

2003-08-14 Thread gabriel
the new version of kopete (0.7) while full of really cool features, doesn't work at all on my machine and continues to crash. so i filled out a bug report on bugs.kde.org. the problem is, i wasn't able to offer much information, even though i have gdb installed, the only messages i get are a

Re: [gentoo-user] sorry about erratic mail

2003-08-14 Thread Chris I
On 2003.08.07 00:00, wes chow wrote: I've been having problems with my mail server and it may have just spewed out a bunch of old email to gentoo-user. Sorry for filling your inboxes with trash. Thats okay, i filled my /home today by accident, and shortly after posting an apology to that I

Re: [gentoo-user] Very bad performance

2003-08-14 Thread Michael Gruetzner
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 09:49:59AM -0500, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: If it detected the chipset, it is almost certainly compiled in ... or it wouldn't have checked for it. At boottime I get the following message: 'ICH4: chipset detected but driver not compiled in!' So I guess that at least the

Re: [gentoo-user] Normal applications under OpenMosix?

2003-08-14 Thread Spider
begin quote On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 17:59:35 +0100 Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/8/03 5:40 pm, Jeffrey Smelser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I ran a 3 cluster system and things migrate constantly.. What's nice is that any application you run, can be migrated. It doesn't matter what

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] Distro Day (Measuring the benefitsof the Gentoo approach)

2003-08-14 Thread Riyad Kalla
Thanks for standing up Bill and posting, this was an interesting read. The HT question I've seen asked a few times on the forums, but I don't rmeember if it was buried on paeg 200 of the CFlags Central post :) Best, -Riyad William Kenworthy wrote: I'll stick my hand up and say I was the person

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

2003-08-14 Thread Spider
I did have a stability problem with Mozilla when I compile with USE=gtk2 but that problem goes away with USE=-gtk, and either way it completes the ebuild just fine. I think you mean that it goes away with USE=-gtk2 : ) And this sort of scenario is the reason there is a gtk2 use flag. In

[gentoo-user] job posting for tech. oriented hedge fund

2003-08-14 Thread wes chow
Sorry if I'm breaking list etiquette by posting this... My partner and I recently started a hedge fund. We need some help and are looking to hire a hardcore systems guy. (We run Gentoo, of course) If you're interested, please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here's the

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Card

2003-08-14 Thread Chip Marshall
On August 12, 2003, Octavio Ruiz (Ta^3) sent me the following: On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 04:00:17PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to buy a new Wireless Card, can you tell me a compatible one with Gentoo which I could find easy information on the web (for installation,

Re: [gentoo-user] Orphaned packages

2003-08-14 Thread daniel
On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 09:19, Tom Wesley wrote: Try 'emerge depclean -p' Just don't forget the -p and read the warning depclean kicks out :-) i would very much reccomend against that. emerge gentoolkit and use dep-clean: # emerge gentoolkit # dep-clean it's a much more useful script and

Re: [gentoo-user] dvd::rip, mplayer, subtitles.

2003-08-14 Thread Norberto BENSA
Paul K. Dickson wrote: Could you pass those scripts this way? Thanks! Seconded. Seems like mencoder is much more powerful that dvd::rip :-/ Thanks, Norberto pgp0.pgp Description: signature

Re: [gentoo-user] bash prompt?

2003-08-14 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Friday 08 Aug 2003 17:22, Ernie Schroder 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, but a user xterm shows:

[gentoo-user] Problem with SCSI

2003-08-14 Thread Ewald Geschwinde
I have a problem with my SCSI cdrom I have an adaptec controller 2940. My problem is: kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2 and then CD not found Can anybody help me I have tried the gentoo 1.4 x86 and the 1.4 basic version. (live cd's) Regards Ewald

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge - How do I get around a 'block'?

2003-08-14 Thread R'twick Niceorgaw
On 13 Aug 2003 at 10:43, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I'm having a problem understanding how to actually handle a blocked package in emerge and move forward. I've attached a portion of what I'm seeing in my xterm, along with the little bit of the man page on emerge that seems to apply, but I

Re: [gentoo-user] network help needed

2003-08-14 Thread Janne Johansson
On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 20:25, Alberto Bert wrote: up to now I'm doing something EXTREMELY stupid: I have 2 /etc/conf.d/net and I switch between them manually, then since I don't know how to restart the network with new parameters, I reboot :-( (/etc/init.d/net.eth0 stop and start doesn't work,

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux 2.6 and ALSA

2003-08-14 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: From: Christoph Strake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, Just add --- alsactl restore --- to your /etc/conf.d/local.start and --- alsactl store --- to your /etc/conf.d/local.stop This works fine for me! alsactl does

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

2003-08-14 Thread Sebastian Bergmann
Nathaniel McCallum wrote: Want to work on a project that hundreds (thousands hopefully) will use? Please don't start a new thread by replying to a posting in an old thread. Thanks, Sebastian -- Sebastian Bergmann http://sebastian-bergmann.de/ http://phpOpenTracker.de/

Re: [gentoo-user] ownership of devices

2003-08-14 Thread Christian Bartl
I'm sorry for sending twice. Just found out that the described effect only occures when I'm logged into KDE with this user. After logoff owner is reset to root. Still confused -- Christian Bartl [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa config files

2003-08-14 Thread Jayson Garrell
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 15:41, Jayson Garrell wrote: Hello everyone; I'm trying to install alsa on my desktop and I am running into a problem. Following the document @ http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml I got some new hard drives and decided that I was just going to

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot print to a printserver with CUPS

2003-08-14 Thread Martin Monsorno
Theofilos Intzoglou [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Did you try to setup the printer from the web interface? You just have to point your web browser to http://localhost:631. Some times it works better than setting the printer configuration yourself. Hope that helps! that's the way i configured my

[gentoo-user] mplayer doesn't do fullscreen anymore with -vo xv

2003-08-14 Thread Carlos
Hey people, Suddenly (probably due to a emerge -UD world upgrade, something related to directfb which forced me to recompile mplayer) mplayer refuses to do fullscreen when using the xv output, in windowed mode it works perfectly but when I switch to fullscreen the window just

Re: [gentoo-user] mysql 4.x

2003-08-14 Thread gabriel
On August 6, 2003 11:20 pm, downtime null wrote: when i recently ran 'emerge -U world', mysql was upgraded to 4.0 which i'm happy about. the only problem is that it won't start and it won't stop. when i run '/etc/init.d/mysql start' it says that it's already running, but when i run

Re: [gentoo-user] Normal applications under OpenMosix?

2003-08-14 Thread Spider
begin quote On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 12:58:17 -0500 Jeffrey Smelser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess I get different results here. My compiles migrate all the time.. I do remember the early versions of the software not migrating to often unless you basically forced the damn thing, but its come a

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache2 with mod_ssl but without apache1

2003-08-14 Thread Timo Boettcher
Hi Wolfram, Nachricht vom Sonntag, 10. August 2003, 17:26:00: Hi, i started emerge -up world and found a new version of mod_ssl. The emerge wanted to downgrade my Apache2 to Apache1. I know, it's not a real downgrade but an install into another slot but I dont like unused software fill up

Re: [gentoo-user] console unusable after vidmode change

2003-08-14 Thread Chris I
On 2003.08.10 17:18, Yorkshire Dave wrote: Recompile your kernel without framebuffer support I have the same problem here, that's how I cured it. One day it will get fixed properly, but don't hold your breath, the problem has existed a while. I've used the VESA framebuffer on my geforce2 desktop,

Re: [gentoo-user] dvd::rip, mplayer, subtitles.

2003-08-14 Thread Andrusky
anyone with ${SUBJECT} experience? I have 4 dvd images on my HD and I'd like to convert them to avi and keep the subtitles in Spanish. From what I've read, I can't render them on the movie (argh!!!) but I can create a vobsub file that can be used by mplayer's -sub option. The

Re: [gentoo-user] cat cpuinfo /CFLAGS - is it realy an XP?

2003-08-14 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Wednesday 06 August 2003 19:32, Robert Young wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Wednesday 06 August 2003 18:10, Robert Young wrote: I was told this CPU was an XP by my vendor. Why does it not say in the model name that it is an XP see cat cpuinfo bellow. It is currently

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel conundrum

2003-08-14 Thread nmeyers
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 03:52:34PM -0400, Nick Fisher wrote: I have a machine that I cannot compile a stable 2.4.20 kernel for, yet the one off of the 1.4_rc2 liveCD works fine. I'm guessing there is an option or a patch that is/isn't set/applyed. Apart from good old trial and error how the

Re: [gentoo-user] MD5SUM missmatch in LiveCDs can any body check it?

2003-08-14 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Octavio Ruiz (Ta^3) wrote: I downloaded both (Athlon) LiveCD's twice and i have the same error. I downloaded x86, pentium3, base and of course athlon-xp. The first 3 (4 isos, i'm still downloading the 2nd CD of x86) LiveCD's are ok, and have correct md5checksum's. But with Athlon-XP i'm having

Re: [gentoo-user] cat: write error: Broken pipe while emerging

2003-08-14 Thread Vincent van de Camp
This happens to me each and every time I emerge something, on all of the eight computers that I run gentoo on. I read in the forums that a nonexistent TMP or TEMP dir may be the cause for this, but I have no TMP dirs set up in my environment. I've never had problems with programs not working

Re: [gentoo-user] Disabling anti-aliasing in Evolution?

2003-08-14 Thread Alan
Sorry, I should probably have explained in further detail what I meant about wrap evolution in a script;-) Or I should have completely read your reply first, instead of glancing over it and getting the general gist :) -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage: Updating all installed packages

2003-08-14 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
William Hubbs wrote: Here is an addition to this. I just ran your commands, and the only packages that were omitted by --deep were net-ftp/ftp and sys-apps/netkit-base. As I recall, these were part of the system profile at one time, but they have been removed. Is it possible that the qpkg -I

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