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

2003-08-14 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Wednesday 06 August 2003 21:32, Robert Young wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Wednesday 06 August 2003 18:10, Robert Young wrote: snip This is my cat cpuinfo [EMAIL PROTECTED] proc]# cat cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family

[gentoo-user] OpenOffice - slower than death

2003-08-14 Thread rh
Hi. Just finished emerge'ing openoffice (24 hours later!!) and it is slower than death. It can take sometimes 5-10 seconds just to open the menus. Does anybody else have this problem? And did you manage to correct it? I thought compiling the source would be faster than the -bin files but I

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

2003-08-14 Thread Mark Fisher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 14 Aug 2003 6:20 pm, a_k_b wrote: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND 7523 root 15 0 637m 222m 6120 S 3.0 44.2 922:50.18 X as you can see X uses about 44% of my memory at the moment (cpu time

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?]:xmms under Gentoo

2003-08-14 Thread Jorge Almeida
On 12 Aug 2003, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, Sorry - this is far more an application question than a Gentoo question. (I think) Does the Gentoo version of xmms install the OSS Output plugin? If so, how do I select it? I'm trying to run xmms to play a CD and it has complained out my

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc questions

2003-08-14 Thread Nathaniel McCallum
I'd like to vote that a distcc howto get some space in the official install documentation... Lots of people are using it, and there is a lot of confusion (and wrong information) on how to use it. Just do a search on google for distcc gentoo and you'll find lots of ways that don't work. Plus

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Backups

2003-08-14 Thread Chris I
On 2003.08.10 15:44, Peter Ruskin wrote: Hmmm. Seems it's no longer supplied: $ qpkg -f /etc/gentoo-release [20:42 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] I still have it but I don't know where it came from any more. $ ll /etc/gentoo-release -rw-r--r--1 root root 35 Jul 30 23:08

[gentoo-user] [OT?]:xmms under Gentoo

2003-08-14 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, Sorry - this is far more an application question than a Gentoo question. (I think) Does the Gentoo version of xmms install the OSS Output plugin? If so, how do I select it? I'm trying to run xmms to play a CD and it has complained out my possibly not having the right output plugin

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

2003-08-14 Thread Van Gale
Heschi Kreinick wrote: But, you ask, how do I get rid of them? That's what dep-clean is for. It's in gentoolkit. Run it. I clean my systems out like this: emerge -C `dep-clean -U -C|grep /` I'd never tried dep-clean before, and this post motivated me to look at it. A dep-clean -U -C shows about

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

2003-08-14 Thread Spider
begin quote On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 22:28:41 +0200 a_k_b [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well, on a regular basis its especially gaim and sylpheed-claws. both apps in different versions (same problem for a couple of months now and many newer (partly cvs-) updates of these apps. Sylpheed-claws uses

Re: [gentoo-user] kde problems with dcopserver...

2003-08-14 Thread Al Raq
--- Al Raq [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I tried with all possible solutions (google and irc) to have kde3 starts but in vain. Every time I try to start kde using kdm or gdm I have a message saying: could not read network connection list. /home/me/.DCOPserver_localhost__0 Please

[gentoo-user] More problems with uml

2003-08-14 Thread Christopher Egner
You would think this wouldn't be so hard. Ok, I understand how reroute all those darned xterms. The problem however is that I can't seem to get things working right. First problem, when I issue: linux con=pts con0=fd:0,fd:1 That works great, xterms are gone, the console gets routed whatever I

[gentoo-user] sound in wmaker?

2003-08-14 Thread Klaus D. Neumann
Hi, How can I add sound to wmaker? Is there something like wmsound for Gentoo? TIA! -- Best regards, Klaus - Gentoo-Linux = the better choice! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

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

2003-08-14 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Spider wrote: This is the interesting variable : echo $GDK_USE_XFT 1 Set that to 0, and AA text is disabled. Its set in the /etc/env.d/50gtk2 variable for all users, or simply wrap evolution in a script, or alter your personal login sessions to disable AA //Spider One more gnome and

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with SCSI

2003-08-14 Thread Ewald Geschwinde
Brian Richardson wrote: On August 12, 2003 08:49 am, Ewald Geschwinde wrote: 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 Does the following line

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with SCSI

2003-08-14 Thread Brian Richardson
On August 12, 2003 08:49 am, Ewald Geschwinde wrote: 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 Does the following line exist in

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

2003-08-14 Thread Paul K. Dickson
Could you pass those scripts this way? Thanks! On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 08:53, Sigurd Stordal wrote: What's the problem? Anyone was able to create those .sub files? How? I'm using mencoder to get the .sub/.idx files. just check out mplayer's website to get it going, or I can send you a simple

Re: [gentoo-user] Very bad performance

2003-08-14 Thread Michael Gruetzner
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 09:31:22PM +0100, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: I'm not sure about ICH4 but ICH is here. Main menu Sound Intel ICH (i8xx), SiS 7012, NVidia nForce Audio or AMD 768/811x Also, check this one maybe. Main menu ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support Intel PIIXn chipsets support

Re: [gentoo-user] Sometimes she boots, sometimes she doesnt.Orsometimes she dies..

2003-08-14 Thread brett holcomb
Normally fsck, otherwise xfs_check for XFS. Reiserfs, etc. may have their own check routines. On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 14:06:41 -0700 Leonard Bernstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello .. how can i perform a disk check of the file systems? regards LB - Original Message - From: Tom Wesley

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

2003-08-14 Thread Spider
begin quote On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 04:19:03 +0200 Marius Mauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, although I don't need the buttons I got interested in the matter and checked the config file as there seem no option in the GUI for it. Right click on a channel, a set of three checkboxes down in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Translated OpenOffice

2003-08-14 Thread Adam Scriven
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 04:17:37PM +0200, Sven Vermeulen wrote: On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 04:06:02PM +, Andrea Bergia wrote: - How can I get a translated version of OpenOffice? In fact, I want OpenOffice in Italian. Yes, this is possible. Run ~# export LANGUAGE=05 emerge

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

2003-08-14 Thread Spider
begin quote On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 15:56:28 -0700 Riyad Kalla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can get a gist of this (not necessarily benchmarks, but stability results) in the CFLags central thread. It took me the better part of 3 Well, I have the gist of it, more or less ;-) As regards to

[gentoo-user] Apache2 with mod_ssl but without apache1

2003-08-14 Thread Wolfram Umlauf
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 my harddisks. So I tried to cheat with emerge insert

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel conundrum

2003-08-14 Thread Nick Fisher
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

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

2003-08-14 Thread Tony Rein
There's a good article in the latest Linux Journal about converting phonograph records to digital format. You might want to check their website - some of that might be applicable. --Tony On Tuesday 12 August 2003 07:08 am, Mueller, Andreas wrote: i would suggest to use a audio cassette drive

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice - slower than death

2003-08-14 Thread Karl-Heinz Zimmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Donnerstag, 14. August 2003 21:15, rh wrote: Hi. Just finished emerge'ing openoffice (24 hours later!!) and it is slower than death. It can take sometimes 5-10 seconds just to open the menus. That's strange! Did you compile with debug?

Re: [gentoo-user] thin bcast?

2003-08-14 Thread nmeyers
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 11:05:25PM +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: I just emerged bcast, which is supposed to have a GUI. Well, it seems that only /usr/lib/bcast is installed. No binary nor anything else. Moreover, the homepage http://heroines.sourceforge.net seems to ignore it completelly.

RE: [gentoo-user] Well, my RAID array is screwed (was df != fdisk)

2003-08-14 Thread Rex Young
It turns out that for some reason mkreiserfs only allocated 60G on my 120G Raid array. I rebooted on my 1.4 LiveCD and attempted to debug_reiserfs my array, but wound up getting a screen full of I/O errors on one of my drives (the first one of the array). I suspect it's not actually the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: portage logs

2003-08-14 Thread Theofilos Intzoglou
Hi Thorsten! The logs, that emerge produces, have no default name. Also, a log is created for every package that is being emerged and after that emerge, the log file will never be opened again for something to be added. Logrotate is usually used for logs with standard names that you want to do

RE: [gentoo-user] New VIDEO_CARDS parameter?

2003-08-14 Thread Mark Knecht
!!!Please set at least one video card in VIDEO_CARDS. USE is depreciated. Still interested, but USE actually seems to work. Still, thanks for any future pointers. Cheers, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] thin bcast?

2003-08-14 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've occasionally seen ebuilds fail to install most or all of their files - with no failure message. I'd recommend trying again. You also might consider deleting your cached ebuild and changing mirrors, in case you happened to get a corrupt copy.

Re: [gentoo-user] Ebuild description

2003-08-14 Thread brett holcomb
I filled a bug on it quite awhile ago but never heard back on it. I don't have the bug number but a query will give it. You might add to it. On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 13:41:35 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just noticed that this ebuild description doesn't look right: * sys-apps/acl

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help configuring a HP DeskJet 940c

2003-08-14 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Sunday 10 Aug 2003 20:54, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Sunday 10 Aug 2003 12:49, Ralph F. De Witt wrote: snip Sorry, you said 940, I did 948... $ ll /usr/share/ppd/HP/HP-DeskJet_940C-hpijs.ppd.gz -rw-rw-r--1 root root 4022 Jul 31 23:32 /usr/share/ppd/HP/HP-DeskJet_940C-hpijs.ppd.gz

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with user mode linux

2003-08-14 Thread Christopher Egner
I'm wondering if there isn't some sort of kernel option to control vc's or maybe a kernel compile option (although I haven't seen one). They aren't static, so I'm a bit lost. -- Christopher In 1968 it took the computing power of 2 C-64's to fly a rocket to the moon. Now, in 1998 it takes the

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

2003-08-14 Thread William Hubbs
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 06:20:25PM +0100, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] email system for the home network

2003-08-14 Thread Christopher Fisk
On Sun, 10 Aug 2003, rh wrote: Fetchmail / Procmail is working. But where exactly does fetchmail put your email before it passes it to procmail? Fetchamil normally will pass the message to your local MTA. be it sendmail/postfix/qmail/etc. Your MTA will then process the mail and pass it to

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo poll #4

2003-08-14 Thread Spider
begin quote On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 07:20:00 -0700 Fred Van Andel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is your favorite way of installing gentoo? a) From stage1 b) From stage2 c) From stage3 Select only 1 option only. From Stage 2 unless I'm debugging something in the compilersuite. And

[gentoo-user] Donation disclosure

2003-08-14 Thread Tom Wesley
Hi all, Not sure if this should be here, or -devel, so I post here to not annoy too many people. Does Gentoo publish it's donation incomes anywhere? I have to admit that I haven't donated a thing, was about the hit the button, and thought, well, how much? Surely they can't make, package,

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

2003-08-14 Thread Alan
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 11:20:54AM -0500, Christopher Egner wrote: On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 11:17, Alan wrote: Maybe prelink should be used all the time on gentoo? Make it part of the default so that it's always there and able to make things even faster. How does one enable prelink anyway?

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?]:xmms under Gentoo

2003-08-14 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Mine did that, too. You may be connected fine but XMMS will read the tracks but the audio comes through the connection between the CD and the sound card. You may be fine - I was throwing out something that worked for me. I don't use the OSS plugin - I merged the Alsa plugin for XMMS and

Re: [gentoo-user] lmsensors

2003-08-14 Thread Kees Bergwerf
Op donderdag 14 augustus 2003 17:01, schreef Pupeno: Is there any document that you would recomend to get lmsensors working on Gentoo with gentoo-sources ? (I have an Asus A7N8X Deluxe board). have you checked http://forums.gentoo.org ? (search for: lmsensors or ksensors) In the kernel you

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

2003-08-14 Thread Spider
begin quote On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 22:07:32 +0100 Dhruba Bandopadhyay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One more gnome and evolution related question. How do I change the font that is used in the GUI of evolution? The size is quite large and I'd like to make it smaller. gnome-font-properties --

Re: [gentoo-user] Very bad performance

2003-08-14 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Michael Gruetzner wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 09:31:22PM +0100, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: I'm not sure about ICH4 but ICH is here. Main menu Sound Intel ICH (i8xx), SiS 7012, NVidia nForce Audio or AMD 768/811x Also, check this one maybe. Main menu ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support Intel PIIXn

Re: [gentoo-user] x doesn't work!

2003-08-14 Thread Jimmy Rosen
I think you are onto something here. I just stumbled on the same problem. Trying old monitors don't work unless I set the resolution down to lowest standard 640x480, but new monitors will work just fine. If you check the log you probably have huge lists of video modes that are tried out.

Re: [gentoo-user] Very bad performance

2003-08-14 Thread Michael Gruetzner
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 10:20:25PM +0100, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: To improve performance I do the following. -- enable dma and other options in /etc/conf.d/hdparm (all_args=-c1 -d1 -k1 -m16 -u1) -- preemptive kernel support -- low latency scheduling -- run a lightweight window manager

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

2003-08-14 Thread a_k_b
uhm... i think both of the mentioned apps use them, dont they? gaim uses gtk-2, sylpheec-claws gtk-1.2 i talked about pixmaps :) sry if i didnt say this properly :-) but, i think its gaim or gtk itself, since gaim is the one which has _always_ had a problem with slowing down after a while and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-x86] Re: [gentoo-user] X forwarding

2003-08-14 Thread Pupeno
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 13 August 2003 15:08, Alex wrote: check out the man page for xhost, that may help I've already done it and added the computer where the application is running to the list of allowed hosts. Thanks. ssh should take care of

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

2003-08-14 Thread Rex Young
Yup. I can duplicate my root on ext[23] and try that too. hmm...I hadn't considered that. Well, I'm not sure that I have sufficient space available in any regard. good luck, and tell me how it goes. -rex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

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

2003-08-14 Thread Norberto BENSA
Hello, 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 problem

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

2003-08-14 Thread Sigurd Stordal
What's the problem? Anyone was able to create those .sub files? How? I'm using mencoder to get the .sub/.idx files. just check out mplayer's website to get it going, or I can send you a simple bash shell script to do it for you. My progress in doing a dvd to divx conversion is running some

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

2003-08-14 Thread Martin Monsorno
Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One potential problem. If you did not have USE='CUPS' in effect when you emerge ghostscript, you have the wrong ghostscript support. It's worth a try to issue 'USE=CUPS emerge ghostscript'. Thanks, that did the trick. Seems I had a compiled

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel conundrum

2003-08-14 Thread nmeyers
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 01:41:14PM -0400, Nick Fisher wrote: As you surmise, eip is the interesting register. Sort the contents of /proc/ksyms and see where it falls. In my /proc/ksyms (which won't match yours!), I see these entries bracketing that value: c02f04b0

[gentoo-user] Configure ATI RAGE128 PRO All-in-wonder

2003-08-14 Thread Davi Jose O Bueno
HI, I have a: Athlon 800Mhz. 512 Mb RAM ATI All-in-Wonder Rage 128 Pro AGP 4x 32VRAM Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 Platinum Ethernet card Maxtor 30 Gb with Gentoo 1.4.rc3 instaled I want to configure my video card for TV capture. Any one can help my?? djob -- You're everywhere. You're

Re: [gentoo-user] anyone using quakeforge?

2003-08-14 Thread Norberto BENSA
Chris I wrote: When you posted your message I decided it might be fun to play it again, and it failed on me. Error messages? -- 00:07:10 up 3 days, 6 min, 1 user, load average: 0.24, 0.32, 0.66 pgp0.pgp Description: signature

Re: [gentoo-user] lmsensors

2003-08-14 Thread Svein Harald Soleim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 14 August 2003 17:01, Pupeno wrote: Is there any document that you would recomend to get lmsensors working on Gentoo with gentoo-sources ? (I have an Asus A7N8X Deluxe board). Thank you. Same Board as me :) compile in i2c in the

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

2003-08-14 Thread Rex Young
With one of the 2.4 series kernels, I noticed that I could not issue 'mount -o remount,rw /'. I had to issue the full command. Same thing here. If it isn't the full command, it won't work. With the 2.6.0-test1 series kernel I could not use any of the devices (/dev/sda3, /dev/sda3 or

Re: [gentoo-user] Donation disclosure

2003-08-14 Thread ueberlamer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 14 August 2003 23:13, Tom Wesley wrote: Hi all, Not sure if this should be here, or -devel, so I post here to not annoy too many people. Does Gentoo publish it's donation incomes anywhere? A disclosure of donation data would

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

2003-08-14 Thread Steven Elling
On Wednesday 13 August 2003 13:46, Rex Young wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] anyone using quakeforge?

2003-08-14 Thread Chris I
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. -- Chris I I'm a geek with

Re: [gentoo-user] X forwarding

2003-08-14 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Dit you set Xforwarding True for the client !! computer A /etc/ssh_config Patrick On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 18:48:10 -0300 Pupeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Gentoo users I'm ssh from my computer (A) to another computer (B) and I want to run an

Re: [gentoo-user] Donation disclosure

2003-08-14 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Excellent, Karl. In fact it's really none of our business what model Gentoo chooses. On Freitag, 15. August 2003 00:35, ueberlamer wrote: On Thursday 14 August 2003 23:13, Tom Wesley wrote: Hi all, Not sure if this should be here, or -devel, so I post here to not annoy too many

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] Distro Day (Measuring the benefits of the Gentooapproach)

2003-08-14 Thread Christopher Egner
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 11:17, Alan wrote: Maybe prelink should be used all the time on gentoo? Make it part of the default so that it's always there and able to make things even faster. How does one enable prelink anyway? Is there an option somewhere I missed? -- Christopher In 1968 it took

Re: [gentoo-user] Well, my RAID array is screwed (was df != fdisk)

2003-08-14 Thread Eric Livingston
Note that the TX4 RAID card, is essentially a *software* raid card (i.e. glorified IDE controller). There is very few true IDE raid card with support under linux. 3ware and ARCO DupliDisk are the only ones. http://www.linux-ide.org/chipsets.html -Ross Do you mean by that that the pdcraid

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-x86] Re: [gentoo-user] X forwarding

2003-08-14 Thread Alex
check out the man page for xhost, that may help I've already done it and added the computer where the application is running to the list of allowed hosts. Thanks. ssh should take care of the xhost issue I would stop messing with the configs and se if you can get it to go over the command

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

2003-08-14 Thread Ben Kennedy
On 11 8 2003 at 6:20 pm -0400, Tom Wesley wrote: use /proc/config - its a full kernel config - if it works, use it Thanks Tom, that's what I've now done... and it works. I would love to know what the problem was... maybe someday when I have a lot of time to kill, I will try random permutations

RE: [gentoo-user] Well, my RAID array is screwed (was df != fdisk )

2003-08-14 Thread Rex Young
Agreed. I have three systems right now that are fully RAIDed, one a high use server, a personal server, and my personal workstation, all of which use software raid, one of which uses a PCI-IDE card (promise tx-2000 or something) to add the extra channels that are needed. I use one of Promise's

Re: [gentoo-user] Start up dependencies

2003-08-14 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Having an issue with startup dependencies. Replaced metalog with syslog-ng. syslog-ng starts up fine, however everything that needs logger to startup fails saying it can't find metalog. Also gives this error? * ERROR: Problem starting needed services. All the startup

Re: [gentoo-user] X forwarding

2003-08-14 Thread Pupeno
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 13 August 2003 09:56, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: Dit you set Xforwarding True for the client !! computer A /etc/ssh_config Yes, if I don't do it, I get a shorter msg of access denied or something like that. thank you. - -- Pupeno:

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

2003-08-14 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Heschi Kreinick wrote: snip Your initial discussion did not relate to my bug at all. But, you ask, how do I get rid of them? That's what dep-clean is for. It's I did not ask this. usual, I think this is a documentation bug, not a portage bug. Would you really prefer that Portage waste its time

[gentoo-user] how to swap on a file

2003-08-14 Thread Adam Dunstan
so im trying to use swapon to make use of a swap file i made with # dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=1024 count=65536 then mkswap /mnt/sammy/swapfile then swapon /mnt/sammy/swapfile but i get swapon: swapfile: Invalid argument im kinda new at all this, so im sorry to wast ppl's time, but

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?]:xmms under Gentoo

2003-08-14 Thread Bryan Feir
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 04:54:40AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 19:42, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Mine did that, too. You may be connected fine but XMMS will read the tracks but the audio comes through the connection between the CD and the sound card. You may be fine - I

Re: [gentoo-user] Sometimes she boots, sometimes she doesnt. Or sometimes she dies..

2003-08-14 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Tuesday 12 August 2003 21:04, you wrote: Hello .. not that this cant happen .. but its a brand new Dell 1600sc server .. guess i can try and take a look at it .. or maybe run somekind of stats app .. gkrellmd or something .. regards oh yes, such things can happen. A weak PSU may pass

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

2003-08-14 Thread Christian Aust
Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Wed, 13 Aug 2003 10:43:18 -0700: From what I see here, emerge wants to update dev-perl/perl to revision -r12. I appear to have r11 installed. emerge would like to do something early in the emerge process (install 3 things including File-Spec? I'm not

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

2003-08-14 Thread Anthony Floyd
Hi Mark, On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 10:43:18 -0700 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 [snip] This particular issue has been raised before on the list and

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

2003-08-14 Thread William Hubbs
Hi Dhruba, On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 02:39:22PM +0100, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: Hello Given that this issue arises quite frequently I have filed a bug about it. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26540 Please read it and provide feedback either on the bug or on this list.

Re: [gentoo-user] how to swap on a file

2003-08-14 Thread Roel Schroeven
Adam Dunstan list-at-urban.net.au |Gentoo mailing list(s)| wrote: swapon: /mnt/sammy/swapfile: Invalid argument i had put a space but, still no dice Is /mnt/sammy/swapfile on a local filesystem? -- Codito ergo sum Roel Schroeven -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] thin bcast?

2003-08-14 Thread Patrick Börjesson
The only thing I can think of is that some USE variable might be missing. What toolkit does the GUI use? 'emerge bcast -vp' should show what use-flags it uses but as it seems the bcast ebuild doesn't use any. Looking at the ebuild itself (/usr/portage/media-video/bcast/bcast-2000c-r2.ebuild)

[gentoo-user] Start up dependencies

2003-08-14 Thread herzog
Having an issue with startup dependencies. Replaced metalog with syslog-ng. syslog-ng starts up fine, however everything that needs logger to startup fails saying it can't find metalog. Also gives this error? * ERROR: Problem starting needed services. All the startup scripts are stock, so

[gentoo-user] X forwarding

2003-08-14 Thread Pupeno
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Gentoo users I'm ssh from my computer (A) to another computer (B) and I want to run an X application on B be displayed on A. I enabled X Forwarding but when I run the application I get the following error: _X11TransSocketOpen: socket() failed

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?]:xmms under Gentoo

2003-08-14 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Make sure that you have the sound device (CD, etc.) actually connected because that's what is used.  When I had problems gettting XMMS to give sound (all other sound worked) it was because I had the CD, not the DVD connected to the soundcard port.  I'd check it - I thought mine was until I

[gentoo-user] Wireless Card

2003-08-14 Thread michel.dicroci
Hi! 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, configuration). I want a G one, does 3Com a good one to choose? I would like to have review from someone who bought it... Thanks! Michel

Re: [gentoo-user] Read only root

2003-08-14 Thread Brian Richardson
On August 9, 2003 07:22 am, Gareth Jones wrote: I would like to make root read only, but it seems that this is not possible. I've put /var, /home, /tmp and /usr one different file systems, and that works ok - but gentoo writes to /etc during bootup. I can't put /etc on a separate file system,

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

2003-08-14 Thread Jorge Almeida
Thank you, Thomas and Nathan. This should be enough to get me starting. -- Jorge Almeida -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] kvirc with SSL

2003-08-14 Thread Pupeno
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 How can I compile kvirc with SSL ? (beta2) Thank you. - -- Pupeno: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kde.org - --- Help the hungry children of Argentina, please go to (and make it your homepage):

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel conundrum

2003-08-14 Thread Nick Fisher
Hot Diggety! Nick Fisher was rumored to have written: Every kernel I have compiled for this one machine has failed. My general test is to recompile the kernel multiple times (As recomended by DRobbins). One of my kernels once made it through three compiles. If I start from the liveCD and

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel conundrum

2003-08-14 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Tuesday 12 August 2003 19:52, 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 heck do I

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo poll #4

2003-08-14 Thread bob bob
What is your favorite way of installing gentoo? a) From stage1 == From Stage1 b) From stage2 c) From stage3 Do you use binary (GRP) packages? (Y/N) Y Imagine a school with children that can read and write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age

Re: [gentoo-user] X forwarding

2003-08-14 Thread Pupeno
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 13 August 2003 08:46, drewbian wrote: On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 07:48, Pupeno wrote: Hello Gentoo users I'm ssh from my computer (A) to another computer (B) and I want to run an X application on B be displayed on A. I enabled X

Re: [gentoo-user] Ant build succeeded, but...

2003-08-14 Thread Larry Meadors
The message Buildfile: build.xml does not exist! happens when you run ant and there is not a build.xml file in the current directory, or you do not specify one on the command line. Running ant will not create build.xml, but instead will process an existing one. When you run the emerge, what

Re: [gentoo-user] Sometimes she boots, sometimes she doesnt. Or sometimes she dies..

2003-08-14 Thread Leonard Bernstein
Hello .. not that this cant happen .. but its a brand new Dell 1600sc server .. guess i can try and take a look at it .. or maybe run somekind of stats app .. gkrellmd or something .. regards lb - Original Message - From: Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED];

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with user mode linux

2003-08-14 Thread Christopher Egner
On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 11:43, Christopher Egner wrote: We're almost there. Three questions now. What exactly did we do here. If i'm not mistaken we attached the console to pts right? So which console is that, is that the same one we're seeing output the startup info? Next why does this require

[gentoo-user] anyone using quakeforge?

2003-08-14 Thread Norberto BENSA
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 :-/ Thank you, Norberto -- 19:29:11 up 1 day, 19:28, 1 user, load average: 1.59, 1.28, 0.81

RE: [gentoo-user] Free, or at least cheap AntiVirus

2003-08-14 Thread Jeffrey Smelser
I read some pages that the main site was down (Problems I guess) but the mirror sites where being updated still. So maybe that what happened... Thanks, Jeff -Original Message- From: Mark Fisher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 4:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] Ebuild description

2003-08-14 Thread brett holcomb
Thanks! On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 18:44:25 -0700 Robin H. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 04:55:18PM -0400, brett holcomb wrote: I filled a bug on it quite awhile ago but never heard back on it. I don't have the bug number but a query will give it. You might add to it.

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

2003-08-14 Thread Ben Kennedy
Greetings all, I am new to Gentoo, and looking forward to all that it will offer, after having run various RedHat boxes over the last couple of years. I've eagerly performed a fresh install on one of my old machines, but am having no luck getting the thing to boot. I've followed the x86 install

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with user mode linux

2003-08-14 Thread Christopher Egner
On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 09:33, Andrej Kacian wrote: Have a peek in /etc/inittab. This helps, but there's still a problem. Commenting out those lines just disables the tty. I still get the windows (which are unclosable without shutting down the uml). -- Christopher Egner If it wasn't for fog, the

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with SCSI

2003-08-14 Thread Ewald Geschwinde
Ahhh. In that case, please check the boot options for the standard Gentoo kernel, as documented in: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml Note the doscsi boot option (which presumably is not enabled per default, as it breaks some ethernet cards.) HTH, Brian Now I'm stuck

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

2003-08-14 Thread daniel
On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 09:23, Renat Golubchyk wrote: From /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc : --- cut here --- debug - Tells configure and the makefiles to build for debugging. Effects vary acrosss packages, but generally it will at least add -g to CFLAGS. Remember to set FEATURES+=nostrip too.

[gentoo-user] video 4 linux

2003-08-14 Thread Davi Jose O Bueno
Hi, i can't up v4l module any can help my? #insmod /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-xfs-r3/drivers/media/video/v4l1-compat.o /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-xfs-r3/drivers/media/video/v4l1-compat.o: couldn't find the kernel version the module was compiled for #insmod

Re: [gentoo-user] Read only root

2003-08-14 Thread Brian Richardson
On August 12, 2003 01:36 pm, Steven Elling wrote: If util-linux and/or the kernel were modified to get all the information on the mounts in /proc/mounts, /etc/mtab would be unnecessary. And, if /etc/mtab was needed by something, a symbolic link could be created for backward compatibility.

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel conundrum

2003-08-14 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! Nick Fisher was rumored to have written: Every kernel I have compiled for this one machine has failed. My general test is to recompile the kernel multiple times (As recomended by DRobbins). One of my kernels once made it through three compiles. If I start from the liveCD and

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