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

2003-08-14 Thread Leonard Bernstein
Hello .. how can i perform a disk check of the file systems? regards LB - Original Message - From: Tom Wesley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Leonard Bernstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 9:33 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Sometimes she boots, sometimes

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

2003-08-14 Thread gabriel
On August 11, 2003 07:33 pm, Bryan Feir wrote: On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 04:14:23PM -0700, Pat Kerwan wrote: On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 06:42:35PM -0400, gabriel wrote: you mentioned that this feature can enlarge a binary... does this mean i'll take a performance hit? i only ask 'cause if

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

2003-08-14 Thread nmeyers
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 07:04:57PM +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: Thanks to all the guys who answered. Assuming that I can get the hardware to work, what software to use to receive the signal from the sound card? I would need a hint about this before proceeding to read TFM :) You choices

Re: [gentoo-user] Which kernel for servers?

2003-08-14 Thread Mikhail P.
On Monday 11 August 2003 22:01, Thorsten Kampe wrote: Which kernel for a brave little Gentoo server running Zope and facing the big bad internet?! * gs-sources This patch [...] ensures that your mission critical servers will be up when you need them. [...] Where possible and without

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo as a server

2003-08-14 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Bram De Smet -- I'm glad to hear you have such great experiences too. emerge -pu world is worth checking, but I've learned that emerge -pu --deep world is even worse ;-) Why to do an emerge -[p]u [--deep] world on an production enviroment in general - is this a good

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

2003-08-14 Thread Leonard Bernstein
this box does not run X .. it seems to have just started.. its been running fine .. the problem just seems to have appeared.. i can boot to a prompt, but i must try multiple times before i get lucky .. dmesg shows nothing .. i am using vanilla-sources only patched with grsecurity no modules in

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

2003-08-14 Thread Jeffrey Smelser
All, I don't really antivirus my linux box since I don't have a mail server on it.. But am starting to use it as a file server to some windblows computers so antivirus is becoming more critical.. And who knows, maybe linux may get hit some day too.. Seriously though, I used Kasper for a long

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

2003-08-14 Thread Alec Berryman
On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 08:23, Renat Golubchyk wrote: 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,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Backups

2003-08-14 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- 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 baselayout? Don't have it merged... -- Matthias F. Brandstetter

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux kernel 2.6.* benchmarking/testing

2003-08-14 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 10 August 2003 02:01 pm, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: Hello Recently, I began using linux-2.6.0-test3 and experienced the following problems. (1) Touchpad did not work - filed as http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1072 (2) Could not open shell window (Eterm) - fixed problem

Re: [gentoo-user] I need a devfsd.conf tutorial.

2003-08-14 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Monday 11 August 2003 12:48, Timothy Grant wrote: I want to make the ThinkPad Buttons utility work on my Thinkpad, but it tells me that I don't have access to /dev/nvram. I've looked at the configuration file, but am not sure exactly what changes to make to give my users access to

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo poll #4

2003-08-14 Thread Theofilos Intzoglou
Hi Norberto! Yes, yes I know... My mistake! This time I forgot to change the email address :-P On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 16:04:38 -0300 Norberto BENSA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fred Van Andel wrote: Please respond by emailing your reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Please do NOT reply within the

Re: [gentoo-user] Russian input in Netbeans

2003-08-14 Thread Theofilos Intzoglou
Hi Vano! On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 16:59:03 +0500 Vano Beridze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Next, in my /opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2/jre/lib/font.properties monospaced.0=-bh-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-sans-*-%d-*-*-m-*- iso8859-1 monospaced.1=--standard symbols

[gentoo-user] Russian input in Netbeans

2003-08-14 Thread Vano Beridze
Hello I've got Netbeans 3.5 running on Gentoo Linux jdk1.4.2 The problem is that I can't type russian characters. I could type them in RedHat8 To narrow down the problem Here is the snip from my /etc/X11/XF86Config Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard1 Driver Keyboard Option

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

2003-08-14 Thread Peter Eis
Mike Bellemare wrote: im using imps/2...and i have no idea either why opening the file solve the problem but it does...another thing i've notice is that if my wheel start going crazy, if i kill X, my keypad stops working and bang, im good for a hard reboot with the power button :( as for the

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

2003-08-14 Thread Thomas Preissler
Hello, * Christopher wrote on 08/11/03: On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 10:54, Thomas Preissler wrote: Which startparameters for the uml-kernel do you use? Hey Tom. At the moment I don't use any. Which may in itself be a mistake, certain characters come out wrong []{} and a few others. I think that

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

2003-08-14 Thread Andrej Kacian
(11 Aug 2003 09:12:32 -0500) And Christopher Egner [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I finally got my uml running (after realizing I didn't have support for the type of executable /sbin/init was). However I was wondering if there was a way to control the number of virtual consoles. Right now I'm seeing

[gentoo-user] Procmail files being skipped?

2003-08-14 Thread Angel Gabriel
I have a feeleing that my ~/.procmailrc files are being skipped, it seems that email being delivered via fetchmail, is not following the rules in these files. Is there anyway, to force fetchmail to send all mail it collects to procmail? I use postfix as my MTA -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

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

2003-08-14 Thread Rich Smith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Out of interest what video drivers are you using?? If you are using the nvidia driver and a frame buffer for the kernel boot up then this is a known problem (its in the nvidia readme's). It is caused as two kernel drivers both want the same

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

2003-08-14 Thread Ralph F. De Witt
Hi all: I have just done a fresh install of Gentoo. When I tried to configure my printer using Cups and the latest hpijs version 1.4.1, I came up with an error message telling me the file was corroupted or broken. When I looked in the driver file the HP DeskJet 940C entry points to nothing, it

[gentoo-user] how to unpack SFV files/archives

2003-08-14 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
Hi all, I have a SFV file, which I want to unpack. But since SFV is only for validating (at least, it seems so to me) I have no idea how I can extract the data inside this file. I run it through bsdsfv, which told me that all is ok with the file. Good, and now? I am somewhat lost here, maybe

[gentoo-user] Re: vim 6.2 :help does not work

2003-08-14 Thread Martin Gramatke
Meanwhile I found my mistake by looking twice and harder into my ~/.vimrc: Debian uses compressed helpfiles. We must inform vim that the main helpfiles is compressed. Other helpfiles are stated in the tags-file. set helpfile=$VIMRUNTIME/doc/help.txt.gz Probably I copied my rc file from a

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror problem

2003-08-14 Thread \Stefan\
- Original Message - From: Balaji Srinivasan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 11:35 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] Konqueror problem Hi Everyone I synched up to the latest KDE etc on my gentoo system. Now everytime i start konqueror (or most X

[gentoo-user] df and fdisk differ on partition size ???

2003-08-14 Thread Eric Livingston
I'm using a Promise TX4 RAID card to create a four-disk array, made up of two pairs of striped, mirrored 60G drives. In other words, I take two 60G drives and stripe them together into a 120G partition for performance, then mirror that striped pair with another identical to it for data integrity.

[gentoo-user] glibc Error

2003-08-14 Thread Jeffrey Smelser
All, I am emergeing -w and glibc seems to have and update.. So, I am trying to upgrade.. I compile stuff all the time and three times now, it has errored here: gcc -nostdlib -nostartfiles -o /var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.2.5-r8/work/glibc-2.2.5/buildhere/localedata/tst-leaks

Re: [gentoo-user] bttv where is it?

2003-08-14 Thread Meka[ni]
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 00:41:17 +0200 Terje Kvernes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (subject lowercased) Meka[ni] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've seen that my friend has no problem with bttv, but I can not find it. I've compiled everything under v4l but there is no bttv module. My kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2003-08-14 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Sunday 10 Aug 2003 03:18, Renat Golubchyk wrote: Hi list! What is better to use for backups at home - CD-Rs, CD-RWs, another harddrive or something else? The standard way is to use tapes, but they are way too expensive for a home desktop system. Harddrives are also not that good, because

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

2003-08-14 Thread John S J Anderson
a_k_b [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: for months now i got the problem that X eats my mem and cpu after running awhile. i dont know the problem, since other guys told me they got much less problems than me with this... You're not running Xinerama by any chance, are you? john. -- What is

[gentoo-user] usb mass storage

2003-08-14 Thread Pupeno
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Gentoo users, I have a Sony DSC-U20 (digital still camera) that works as mass storage. In another distro (ark linux) just loading sd_mod and usb-storage and then pluging the camer was enough to get /dev/sda0 and mounting it allowed me to get

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux kernel 2.6.* benchmarking/testing

2003-08-14 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 10 August 2003 18:48, Jerry McBride wrote: On Sunday 10 August 2003 02:01 pm, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: Hello Recently, I began using linux-2.6.0-test3 and experienced the following problems. (1) Touchpad did not work - filed as

[gentoo-user] emerge -S for 1 package

2003-08-14 Thread Kurt V. Hindenburg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Often I want to see the output of --search without actually searching. That is I would like to do % emerge --newcommand ash and the output would the same as if I emerge --search ash with only ash info being listed. Is this possible now? *

Re: [gentoo-user] usb mass storage

2003-08-14 Thread David H. Askew
It sounds like the device is recognized as a mass storage device, but perhaps you are missing a low level driver ? If this is the same kernel version you used under ark linux .. then I would cd /usr/src/linux make menuconfig ..look in the usb section and investigate the low level devices enabled

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2003-08-14 Thread Yannick Le Saint
On Sunday 10 August 2003 02:52, Renat Golubchyk wrote: My home directory is 2.1G so I will need at least 4 CDRs for that. Also /etc is also worth backing up as well as some files from /var/cache/edb. What else would you suggest for a backup? I personnally get to save - /etc - my

[gentoo-user] console unusable after vidmode change

2003-08-14 Thread a_k_b
hi there, i got the following problem: for a few days now i cant switch back to a x-less vt any more. when i do this, i got a crappy screen with some green symbols on it, but cannot read anything. when my pc starts it is all okay, but when i start x and switch back / kill x, its that crappy. i

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

2003-08-14 Thread Riyad Kalla
sigh that is frustrating... after all that work/time you don't know anymore about what caused the problem :( Robert Young wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] mouse in console

2003-08-14 Thread Stroller
On 9/8/03 3:36 pm, Ernie Schroder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 09 August 2003 04:27 am, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: You need to enable the gpm use flag and then re-emerge the packages that use it. Also, you need to emerge gpm. Then configure it and start it. Applications like links

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

2003-08-14 Thread Chris I
On 2003.08.08 21:55, Jerry McBride wrote: Anyways, mm-sources did the trick. Do the scroll buttons and configurable pad-ranges work too? -- Chris I Right now I feel that I've got my feet on the ground as far as my head is concerned. -- Baseball pitcher Bo Belinsky pgp0.pgp Description: PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] vim 6.2 :help does not work

2003-08-14 Thread Michael Rasile
On Sun Aug 10, 2003 at 06:28:46PM +0200 or thereabouts, Martin Gramatke wrote: When I enter :help i get this error message: Sorry, help file /usr/share/vim/vim62/doc/help.txt.gz not found I worked around this by gzipping help.txt in that directory, but I wonder why :se helpfile points to the

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

2003-08-14 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Robert Young (2003-08-08 21:43 +0200) Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Robert Young (2003-08-08 18:39 +0200) 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

Re: [gentoo-user] usb mass storage

2003-08-14 Thread Pupeno
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 14 August 2003 23:10, David H. Askew wrote: It sounds like the device is recognized as a mass storage device, but perhaps you are missing a low level driver ? If this is the same kernel version you used under ark linux .. then I would

Re: [gentoo-user] ati drivers

2003-08-14 Thread David
On Thursday 14 August 2003 11:03 am, Kees Bergwerf wrote: bash-2.05b# emerge -up world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] media-video/ati-drivers-3.2.4 [2.9.13-r1] so after emerge -u world ...trying a lot of

Re: [gentoo-user] usb mass storage

2003-08-14 Thread Pupeno
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 14 August 2003 23:37, bob bob wrote: Just check also that its not showing up as /dev/sda1/ I think thats what my USB key shows up as.. I don't have any /dev/sd*: # ls /dev/sd* ls: /dev/sd*: No such file or directory Thanks. - --

Re: [gentoo-user] GkrellM help...

2003-08-14 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Sunday 10 August 2003 01:34, Joe Brault wrote: Hello, I have emerged GkrellM, but for some reason i'm not able to get it to run in gnome... I've been unsuccessful in finding any help on the web.. I was wondering if anyone here could point me in the right direction? I'm unable to find

Re: [gentoo-user] lmsensors

2003-08-14 Thread Pupeno
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 14 August 2003 19:33, Svein Harald Soleim wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] portage logs

2003-08-14 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Sunday 10 August 2003 01:11, Theofilos Intzoglou 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? The reason I'm asking

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel compile issue??

2003-08-14 Thread Big Rich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 That did it! Thanks for the info. Rich On Thursday 07 August 2003 09:58 pm, Tom Hosiawa wrote: I've had similar problems many times, after going through options one by one I discovered you need ramdisk and initrd build in (not module), and the

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

2003-08-14 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I notice that when it boots there is a message about can't calculate dependencies. The system works well with no errors (I can cd, ls, edit files) until I run emerge -u --deep world -p. Then I get something about updates for xQ 2002 where x is a number. After this I can still do things.

[gentoo-user] Requesting opinions on Freevo and MythTV under 1.4

2003-08-14 Thread John Turnbull
Hi: Is anybody using either Freevo or MythTV under Gentoo 1.4? What tuner and video cards are you using and what features have you been able to configure (and how hard was it)? I have an AMD Tunderbird 1 GHz and 1 G RAM - what is your setup? How happy are you? BTW. I have played with

[gentoo-user] xserver crash

2003-08-14 Thread Jaroslaw Rzepecki
Hi! I have just installed Gentoo on my Dell inspiron 2650 laptop. Everything is fine but i have a problem with xserver...: (I have GeForce 2) 1) When i start X with nv driver i starts ok but I can not close it... - it is still running after exit (from tvm) and when i try to kill it it hangs.

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

2003-08-14 Thread Riyad Kalla
Robert keep us updated, this is interesting to me to know the answer as well. Best, -Riyad Robert Young wrote: Spider wrote: begin quote On Fri, 08 Aug 2003 12:39:09 -0400 Robert Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a thought I submitted a bug against Mozilla

Re: [gentoo-user] ownership of devices

2003-08-14 Thread Thomas Buntrock
On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 12:02:10AM +0200, Christian Bartl wrote: 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. I

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

2003-08-14 Thread Jason A. Pfeil
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? running emerge -p gxine... These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N ] media-libs/libfame-0.9.0

[gentoo-user] net+sshd during installation..

2003-08-14 Thread raptor
My last three gentoo installation was over ssh-channel trought sshd running on knoppix my question is does gentoo live-cd has a sshd daemon... So that I can boot, setup the network, run sshd and install over the net.. and screen of cource :) tia raptor -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux 2.6 and ALSA

2003-08-14 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
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 and just put them in place manually? Then rc-update alsasound.

Re: [gentoo-user] mouse in console

2003-08-14 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Tom Hosiawa wrote: How do I get the mouse to work in virtual console? Tom -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list You need to enable the gpm use flag and then re-emerge the packages that use it. Also, you need to emerge gpm. Then configure it and start it. Applications like links should use it

Re: [gentoo-user] mutt in xterm does not beep [SOLVED]

2003-08-14 Thread Thomas Preissler
Hello, * gentoo-user wrote on 08/08/03: Hello folks,

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

2003-08-14 Thread Spider
begin quote On Fri, 08 Aug 2003 12:39:09 -0400 Robert Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 I changed them

Re: [gentoo-user] net+sshd during installation..

2003-08-14 Thread David H. Askew
Does sshd start in the default runlevel or does it have to be started manually. If it doesn't start by default, how hard would it be to modify the iso image to make it start on boot ? On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 10:03, Luke Macken wrote: Yep, the gentoo livecd does come with sshd, and screen. I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] usb mass storage

2003-08-14 Thread David H. Askew
it wouldn't show up as /dev/sgX or something like that .. i'm not that familiar with the psuedo scsi stuff On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 18:44, Pupeno wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 14 August 2003 23:37, bob bob wrote: Just check also that its not showing up as

Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla freezes the window sometime!

2003-08-14 Thread Zack Gilburd
On Thursday 07 August 2003 03:12 pm, Alberto Bert wrote: I can use mozilla in one network, but not in another one. Please don't send the same mail twice. You sent the same message two hours and eighteen minutes ago. If noone has a solution and you recieve 0 replies, then you need to look

Re: [gentoo-user] resiserfs

2003-08-14 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Wednesday 06 August 2003 13:33, rh wrote: Just wondering if anyone else has had bad experience with reiserfs. I started using Gentoo a few months ago, played with it until I knew what I was doing (sort of) and what I wanted to install and how I wanted it configured. Then I wiped the

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources

2003-08-14 Thread Chris I
On 2003.08.07 07:24, Gwendolyn van der Linden wrote: Do you think that radeon FB support is generally broke in 2.6? That would be bad, because I've the very same situation as you've described: Laptop, Radeon plus TFT display running best @ 1400x1050. That is interesting... I have an Asus

Re: [gentoo-user] usb mass storage

2003-08-14 Thread David H. Askew
that was intended to sound like a question/ramble On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 22:27, David H. Askew wrote: it wouldn't show up as /dev/sgX or something like that .. i'm not that familiar with the psuedo scsi stuff On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 18:44, Pupeno wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux 2.6 and ALSA

2003-08-14 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 15:26, Collins Richey wrote: So, I presume the alsa-tools and alsa-utils function work on 2.6.0? They appear to. I know a few folks from the Alsa-Devel lists have tried them. I have not personally done so myself. - Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Scrollkeeper errors.

2003-08-14 Thread Gregg
This is a fresh install. Stage3 + GRP for most things. While emerging things I get this a lot: Error: Updating Scrollkeeper file:///etc/xml/catalog:1: error: Document is empty ^ file:///etc/xml/catalog:1: error: Start tag expected, '' not found ^ file:///etc/xml/catalog:1: error: Document is

[gentoo-user] Linux 2.6 and ALSA

2003-08-14 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
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 thanks --

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

2003-08-14 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: Hello I'm running 2.6.0_beta2 kernel. In enlightenment I can open Xterms but not Eterms. If I type Eterm in Xterm I get the following error message. Well. Yet again I am in that perplexed frame of mind where my problem has been solved by the most unlikely of

Re: [gentoo-user] Blackbox

2003-08-14 Thread Alexander Futasz
On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 11:06:10 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it easy to install Blackbox on a Gentoo system? Is it more stable and faster than KDE? Do you suggest me any other GUI? I would suggest openbox. It looks and performs better than fluxbox or blackbox, IMHO. # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror problem

2003-08-14 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Thursday 07 Aug 2003 23:22, Collins Richey wrote: I'm not a regular kde user, but with konqueror I get: Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0. You say you are using the nvidia drivers, so you should have the following in /etc/X11/XF86Config: Section Module Loadglx

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

2003-08-14 Thread Alan
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 xine GUIs (oxine, gxine, xine-ui) it wants to downgrade me as follows? [snip] I'm not familiar with the frontends you're listing there, but have you tried totem? It

Re: [gentoo-user] Arts problem

2003-08-14 Thread Andrea Bergia
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle Wednesday 06 August 2003 10:52, Theofilos Intzoglou ha scritto: You just have to add ccache in FEATURES in /etc/make.conf and it is ready! It would be nice though to change CCACHE_SIZE in /etc/make.conf in something that would fit your hard

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

2003-08-14 Thread Robert Young
Thorsten Kampe wrote: * 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

Re: [gentoo-user] mysql 4.x

2003-08-14 Thread Jason A. Pfeil
Well, at least it wasn't a bug you had to track down like me. :-) Good luck! --Jason On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, downtime null wrote: it was actually a lot simpler than that... i wasn't using the new init script. On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 12:04:34AM -0400, Jason A. Pfeil wrote: I used to have a

Re: [gentoo-user] duplicate emails

2003-08-14 Thread David H. Askew
Hmm .. mines double posting ... hmm I wonder why. On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 15:18, David H. Askew wrote: I've noticed that I get duplicate emails on this list from several users. What might be causing this ? -- How many Microsoft engineers does it take to change a light bulb ? Answer : None,

Re: [gentoo-user] window focus in fluxbox

2003-08-14 Thread Alexander Futasz
On Sun, 03 Aug 2003 11:11:12 -0500, Andrew Gaffney wrote: I have fluxbox as my WM. When I'm using Mozilla, if I switch windows by using Mozilla's 'Window' menu, the new one comes to the front, but the old one still has focus in the background until I click in the new one. Why don't you try

Re: [gentoo-user] patching source

2003-08-14 Thread Henti Smith
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 07:23:31 -0700 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this is a bit of overkill don't you think why not just : ebuild file.ebuild unpack cd /var/tmp/portage/packagedir/work/packagedir_unpacked patch source tree ebuild file.ebuild compile ebuild file.ebuild merge

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

2003-08-14 Thread Collins Richey
On Wed, 06 Aug 2003 17:37:34 +0200 Martin Monsorno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

RE: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources

2003-08-14 Thread Gwendolyn van der Linden
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

Re: [gentoo-user] resiserfs

2003-08-14 Thread michel.dicroci
Hi! :) I've installed Gentoo on my system in the weekend. I just followed the installation doc and installed ReiserFS for the FileSystem. It didn't broke till 2 days... No probs when compiling Thanks ;) Michel De: rh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/08/06 mer. AM 09:33:16 GMT-04:00 À: [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] bash prompt?

2003-08-14 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Friday 08 August 2003 03:18 pm, Peter Ruskin wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Blackbox

2003-08-14 Thread Öì·å
Andrew Gaffney wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! :) Is it easy to install Blackbox on a Gentoo system? Is it more stable and faster than KDE? Do you suggest me any other GUI? I prefer WindowMaker. It is available as an ebuild and small, fast and very stable. Oh,blackbox is

[gentoo-user] can some one help with this problem?

2003-08-14 Thread bob bob
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=450309#450309 I know I've forgotten to do something simple.. like a ln or similiar.. Imagine a school with children that can read and write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.   - Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc questions

2003-08-14 Thread Tom Hosiawa
On a side note, I want to confirm if one of my assumptions about distcc is correct. When I have my Athlon Tbird desktop doing all the compilations for my Intel P4 laptop, all the cross-compilation stuff is handled automatically, correct? Tom -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

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

2003-08-14 Thread Spider
begin quote On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 18:40:02 -0400 Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 latest. To emerge previous versions you have to use the path

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie Portage Question

2003-08-14 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Wednesday 06 August 2003 20:30, Jordan Elver 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 Shouldn't that be ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 ? The problem now though

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading to 1.4?

2003-08-14 Thread Terje Kvernes
Spider [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [ about upgrading ] From pre 1.2? Could be messier but should appear the same way as 1.2 to 1.4 I'm currently doing a 1.0 - 1.4 upgrade on one box. some trickyness, since I need to keep it usable (ie: X has to work, as well as fvwm2, galeon, and some

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

2003-08-14 Thread Richard Kilgore
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 03:15:55PM -0400, 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. Does anybody else have this problem? And did you manage to correct it? I thought compiling

Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 problems after installing gentoo 1.4rc4

2003-08-14 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! Farrell Farahbod was rumored to have written: 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.26 eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xe08cf000, 00:02:44:14:1b:72, IRQ 11 eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139B' eth0: Setting half-duplex based on auto-negotiated partner ability .

[gentoo-user] X Windows Resolution Problem with KVM

2003-08-14 Thread Eric J. Lawrence
Greetings, I just installed a KVM (Linksys KVM2KIT 2 port) and plugged in my monitor. Now the screen is too big for the monitor. I have a 17inch and I have been running 1200x1024. My XF86Config is unchanged. Has anyone had this problem. Do I have to account for the highest resolution that the KVM

Re: [gentoo-user] resiserfs

2003-08-14 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 03:36:58PM +0200, Henti Smith wrote: On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 16:01:38 +0200 Ronald Landheer-Cieslak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only thing I can think of (off the top of my head) is that you may have forgotten to compile reiserfs support into your kernel.. doubt it ..

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with emerge world when using another/var/cache/edb/world

2003-08-14 Thread Theofilos Intzoglou
Hi oom! I think that on the thread that you are talking about, it was said that just copying the world file over to the new system doesn't really work. You have to do something like: emerge `cat /path/to/the/old/world` to get every package that you had in your old system. On 05 Aug 2003

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem.... Audigy 2

2003-08-14 Thread Riyad Kalla
Hah good call! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a SB Live in my other computer at my house, I think I'll use it instead! :) Michel De: Riyad Kalla [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/08/05 mar. PM 07:49:47 GMT-04:00 À: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problem Audigy 2 I had uncountable

Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 problems after installing gentoo 1.4rc4

2003-08-14 Thread Steven Marcotte
By chance do you have ACPI (the power management stuff) enabled in the kernel? If you do, you might try turning it off and see what happens. When ever I've tried ACPI, it has caused a variety problems ranging from the networking problems you describe to system lockups with the nvidia branded

[gentoo-user] Newbie Portage Question

2003-08-14 Thread Jordan Elver
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 though is that everytime I do an emerge world it wants to downgrade opera

[gentoo-user] filemap.c

2003-08-14 Thread blade-
Hi all, Is anyone getting a problem on boot with the latest mm-sources to do with fsck.ext3 kernel BUG at mm/filemap.c:1930! invalid operand: [#1] a heap of other stuff here. it crashes fsck and I have to ctrl D to continue booting. Regards -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

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

2003-08-14 Thread Nathaniel McCallum
[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. Nathaniel -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: update all installed packages - emerge -uDpv world (don't work)

2003-08-14 Thread CrPy
Hi Robert, Am Dienstag, 5. August 2003 21:56 schrieb Robert Kruus: But how often would you want to update all the packages on your system? Look at the output of emerge --depclean -p to see how many packages are installed. The emerge --deep -upv takes care of most those files not listed in

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

2003-08-14 Thread Jason A. Pfeil
Hrm...I forgot about totem. Thanks. I'll look into that one. --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 xine GUIs (oxine, gxine, xine-ui) it wants to downgrade me as

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

2003-08-14 Thread Mike Wojcikiewicz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 05 August 2003 13:45, Nathaniel McCallum wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well I dont think we should limit this project just to what is CURRENTLY on the LiveCD... if we need more libs, why not just add them to the LiveCD? Because

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

2003-08-14 Thread Norberto BENSA
Andrusky wrote: Trying following the examples on their webpage: http://www.theorie.physik.uni-goettingen.de/~ostreich/transcode/html/index. html Thanks, and I've found this one: http://bunkus.org/dvdripping4linux/en/single/index.html I haven't tried anything yet but it seems useful.

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