[gentoo-user] Gnome 2.4 : Raise window on mouse click

2003-09-15 Thread Lloyd D Budd
Hi, I upgraded to Gnome 2.4, and I like Select windows when the mouse moves over them. Since upgrading, a click on the window does not raise the window. I have to click on the title bar or border. I do not see anything relevant in: Applications - Desktop Preferences - Windows Any one else

[gentoo-user] Poll #8

2003-09-15 Thread Harold Martin
Slashdot. Need I say more? Harold -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] advice regarding LVM needed

2003-09-15 Thread Matthew Vaughn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Both EVMS2 and LVM2 are backwards-compatible with LVM1 and the volumes generated by it. Stroller wrote: | | On 15 Sep 2003, at 2:05 pm, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: | | Am Montag, 15. September 2003 15:04 schrieb Collins Richey: | | Correct me if I'm wrong,

[gentoo-user] jar

2003-09-15 Thread Pietro Leone
Emerging and compiling db-4.0.14-r2 (for vlc) I obtain this output, why it does not like my jar executable? The directory in which jar is IS into the PATH env variable, but the bash does not view it and so does make. [snip] checking for gcj... gcj -C checking if gcj -C works... yes checking for

Re: [gentoo-user] jar

2003-09-15 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! Pietro Leone was rumored to have written: Emerging and compiling db-4.0.14-r2 (for vlc) I obtain this output, why it does not like my jar executable? The directory in which jar is IS into the PATH env variable, but the bash does not view it and so does make. [snip] checking

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -u system

2003-09-15 Thread Joshua Banks
What do you mean times outlike your not gettting a reply from the needed site assuming that you have internet connectivity issues resolved? Can you get to other sites on the internet? Works for me deadmeat jbanks # emerge -up system These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

[gentoo-user] SATA woes!!

2003-09-15 Thread Lindsay Haisley
Having given up, at least for now, on the onboard Promise RAID controller on my new mb, I switched the two Seagate SATA HDs onto the descrete SATA connectors on the MB. They're coming up, but with errors, or not at all in the stock gentoo kernel. The stock gentoo kernel hangs on boot after the

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -u system

2003-09-15 Thread Collins Richey
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 17:28:26 -0700 (PDT) Joshua Banks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do you mean times outlike your not gettting a reply from the needed site assuming that you have internet connectivity issues resolved? Can you get to other sites on the internet? Works for me

[gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo and Gentoo Weekly Newsletter

2003-09-15 Thread TongKe Xue
Hello, I'm currently thinking about installing Gentoo on a laptop with a centrino processor. I tried reading through the fourms but could not find a definitive answer to the following: for the optimizations flags, should I use those for a pentium 3 or a pentium 4? Similarly, if I wanted to

[gentoo-user] LC_ALL undeclared (app-editors/gedit-2.4.0)

2003-09-15 Thread John Ziniti
I've recently upgraded to the ~x86 version of gnome-2.4, and most things compiled fine. I had to --inject a few packages to get through the emerge (gedit, and zenity). Compiling broke with the following message about LC_ALL. Line 354 is: setlocale(LC_ALL, ); I don't have LC_ALL set in the

Re: [gentoo-user] jar

2003-09-15 Thread Luke Macken
emerge dev-java/blackdown-jdk java-config --set-system-vm=blackdown-jdk-1.4.1 that took care of it for me luke On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 02:15:13AM +0200, Pietro Leone wrote: Emerging and compiling db-4.0.14-r2 (for vlc) I obtain this output, why it does not like my jar executable? The

Re: [gentoo-user] What creates System.map, config and vmlinuz?

2003-09-15 Thread David Friggens
* David Friggens [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-09-16 11:16]: * Lindsay Haisley [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-09-15 17:40]: bzImage doesn't contain the system symbol map, but the symbol map is I'm sure I read that it does. I'll assume I'm wrong as I wait to track down my source later on. OK, firewall's

Re: [gentoo-user] web cam

2003-09-15 Thread momesana
The probably best software for video-conferencing is Gnomemeeting developed by Damien S. just do: emerge gnomemeeting and everything should work. another Software that might be usable in testing out ya webcam in xawtv. If you have got a logitech Express you need either the: qce-ga (the

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Poll #8

2003-09-15 Thread Norberto Bensa
Sean Johnson wrote: The question is: Where did you first hear about gentoo?. I'm pretty sure it was slashdot ... Slashdot and/or OSnews. Regards, Norberto -- 20:29:56 up 1 day, 2 min, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.03, 0.07 pgp0.pgp Description: signature

Re: [gentoo-user] What creates System.map, config and vmlinuz?

2003-09-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 15:40, Lindsay Haisley wrote: bzImage doesn't contain the system symbol map, but the symbol map is frequently used to translate numeric locations in bzImage into symbol names for debugging purposes. System.map isn't required. The file

[gentoo-user] Re: how to install gentoo without a CDROM?

2003-09-15 Thread David Stewen
I found this on a web page about 3 months ago and have been using thismethod of installing ever since. I hope someone finds it useful.from DavidGentoo Floppy InstallAuthor: Matthias Kerstner - [EMAIL PROTECTED]Last changed:

Re: [gentoo-user] What creates System.map, config and vmlinuz?

2003-09-15 Thread Brett I . Holcomb
You haven't made a mistake. You can name them anything you want so long as the lilo.conf or grub conf files have the right name. Distros like Caldera used vmlinuz for the kernel name, Gentoo has bzImage. I name mine vmlinuz-2.4.20-XFS for example or vmlinuz-2.4.20-XFS-test - it helps me keep

Re: [gentoo-user] What creates System.map, config and vmlinuz?

2003-09-15 Thread Collins Richey
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 18:31:46 -0700 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 15:40, Lindsay Haisley wrote: bzImage doesn't contain the system symbol map, but the symbol map is frequently used to translate numeric locations in bzImage into symbol names for debugging

Re: [gentoo-user] What creates System.map, config and vmlinuz?

2003-09-15 Thread David Friggens
* Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-09-15 18:31]: Does 'make vmlinuz' make an uncompressed kernel? No, 'make vmlinux' does, but you don't want that on x86. 'make vmlinuz' produces an error. The other 2/3's are where do the System.map and config files come from? I've just been reading

Re: [gentoo-user] What creates System.map, config and vmlinuz?

2003-09-15 Thread Lindsay Haisley
Thus spake Mark Knecht on Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 08:31:46PM CDT On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 15:40, Lindsay Haisley wrote: bzImage doesn't contain the system symbol map, but the symbol map is frequently used to translate numeric locations in bzImage into symbol names for debugging purposes.

[gentoo-user] /boot/grub and grub.conf are gone???

2003-09-15 Thread Joshua Banks
Ok... I just upgraded KDE to 3.1.3 stable finally... I went to load the new kernel. I was running 2.4.20-gentoo-r5 and upgraded to 2.4.20-gentoo-r7 These are the steps that I took as root. 1 cd /usr/src 2 dir linux linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r5 linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r7 3 rm linux 4 ln -s

Re: [gentoo-user] What creates System.map, config and vmlinuz?

2003-09-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 19:06, Brett I.Holcomb wrote: You haven't made a mistake. Brett Collins. You say mistake. I say 'mistake'. I did understand, especially after Lindsay's explanation about the 'convention' being to change the name, that it's just a 'mistake' and not a mistake. ;-) But

Re: [gentoo-user] Samba NT Domain

2003-09-15 Thread Steven Elling
On Monday 15 September 2003 06:15, Brian Reichholf wrote: Actually, let me rephrase that: Logon works quite fine, but what do I use for `valid users'? %U is a bit harsh, also that didn't turn out to work (so far) trying to share /tmp as an attempt to get general shares working I entered

Re: [gentoo-user] /boot/grub and grub.conf are gone???

2003-09-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 19:29, Joshua Banks wrote: What the hell did I do??? mount /boot Gentoo doesn't run with the boot partition mounted. I guess it mounts at boot time and is then unmounted for safety. If you copied things there, you'll need to move them somewhere else so that the

Re: [gentoo-user] What creates System.map, config and vmlinuz?

2003-09-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 19:26, Lindsay Haisley wrote: Gentoo kernels create /proc/config which is the contents of the config file used to generate the kernel. Even if you wipe out your kernel tree you can just copy /proc/config to .config in a new kernel tree and you can reproduce the running

Re: [gentoo-user] What creates System.map, config and vmlinuz?

2003-09-15 Thread Collins Richey
Keep asking questions. That's the best way to learn. In a year or two, you'll be fielding these questions for a new crop of newbies. It's best, of course, to do a little bit of research on your own. Otherwise, some people on the list get a little bit cranky. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area

Re: [gentoo-user] LC_ALL undeclared (app-editors/gedit-2.4.0)

2003-09-15 Thread Leendert van den Berg
LC_ALL is defined in the include file locale.h The source file where the compile fails is probably failing to include this header file. (Configure script problem?) Leendert On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 20:55:14 -0500 John Ziniti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've recently upgraded to the ~x86 version of

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6 issues.

2003-09-15 Thread Collins Richey
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 14:55:54 -0700 Josh Helmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 15 September 2003 02:06 pm, Collins Richey wrote: On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 09:50:06 -0700 Josh Helmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks... I have been playing with 2.6 for a while now

[gentoo-user] Gentoo or Knoppix for ancient laptop?

2003-09-15 Thread Carl Hudkins
Hi, folks! Ok, here's the machine: 133 MHz (yes, *mega*, not giga or tera) Pentium! 48 MB RAM, 1.8 GB hard drive. (This is a Compaq LTE 5300.) It currently has a rudimentary OpenBSD installation -- it boots up, but X doesn't work and I don't really understand how the system is put

Re: [gentoo-user] /boot/grub and grub.conf are gone???

2003-09-15 Thread Chris I
On 2003.09.15 22:29, Joshua Banks wrote: I'm assuming that I can just reconfig /etc/fstab and manually create a grub directory and grub.conf file in that directory? Recreate fstab and mount your /boot partition. Oh,,, when I try and open another shell window and su my password keeps on being

Re: [gentoo-user] What creates System.map, config and vmlinuz?

2003-09-15 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Tuesday 16 September 2003 05:26, Lindsay Haisley wrote: Gentoo kernels create /proc/config which is the contents of the config file used to generate the kernel. Even if you wipe out your kernel tree you can just copy /proc/config to .config in a new kernel tree and you can reproduce the

Re: [gentoo-user] clearing out distfiles?

2003-09-15 Thread lexxx_h
Thanks for that. Any reason that distclean isn't in portage? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs Build Failure During Upgrade

2003-09-15 Thread Steven Elling
On Friday 01 August 2003 19:23, Steven Elling wrote: snip Why is the build trying to use '/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.2.2/libstdc++.la' when I have gcc-3.2.3-r1 install and not 3.2.2? Hey guys / gals, this has cropped up again while trying to do an upgrade from kdeaddons 3.1.2 to

Re: [gentoo-user] /boot/grub and grub.conf are gone???

2003-09-15 Thread Joshua Banks
Thanks Chris and Mark. When you do a etc-update system what do you usually choose? This is a very confusing area for me and this is where I know that I messed up. I don't really understand what I need to do here even after reading stuff on the Forum the choices still don't make sense. You have

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -u system

2003-09-15 Thread Joshua Banks
Why do you say that Collins? Joshua Banks --- Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 17:28:26 -0700 (PDT) Joshua Banks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do you mean times outlike your not gettting a reply from the needed site assuming that you have internet

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -u system

2003-09-15 Thread Collins Richey
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 20:58:47 -0700 (PDT) Joshua Banks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why do you say that Collins? Joshua Banks --- Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 17:28:26 -0700 (PDT) Joshua Banks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do you mean times outlike

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -u system

2003-09-15 Thread Kevin Miller, Jr.
I found out what the problem was. Turns out that alpha.gnu.org is not a mirror site yet my computer considered it as such. Thus, I edited the make.conf file and added the Oregon State mirror. I used it since it is the closest and I have had no problems with it. Problem solved and I was able to

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -u system

2003-09-15 Thread blade-
you shouldnt do -3 either just press enter to see differences on for first file, if you edited the file keep original, if its something thats never seen by you replace it, thats what i do anyway and never had any problems, if you are unsure never delete original. Joshua Banks wrote: A.

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -u system

2003-09-15 Thread blade-
also sorry there is more then 3 choices you got 1 is keep new and 2 is keep old or vice versa, cant remeber which way, anyway when u select first message by pressing enter or pressing 1, it will give you a list of commands after showing you the difference between the 2 files blade- wrote: you

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -u system

2003-09-15 Thread Joshua Banks
Thanks Blade.. --- blade- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: also sorry there is more then 3 choices you got 1 is keep new and 2 is keep old or vice versa, cant remeber which way, anyway when u select first message by pressing enter or pressing 1, it will give you a list of commands after showing you

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -u system

2003-09-15 Thread Joshua Banks
Thanks Collins, Whats the easiest command to cp all the subdirectories and files in those subdirectories in /ect to another directory? JBanks --- Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 21:15:19 -0700 (PDT) Joshua Banks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A. Funny you should

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -u system

2003-09-15 Thread blade-
might try cp -r man says -r for recursive Joshua Banks wrote: Thanks Collins, Whats the easiest command to cp all the subdirectories and files in those subdirectories in /ect to another directory? JBanks --- Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 21:15:19 -0700 (PDT)

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -u system

2003-09-15 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Joshua Banks wrote: Whats the easiest command to cp all the subdirectories and files in those subdirectories in /ect to another directory? mkdir /etc.bak; cp -r /etc/* /etc.bak -- Andrew Gaffney -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -u system

2003-09-15 Thread Joshua Banks
Thanks Andrew. JBanks --- Andrew Gaffney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joshua Banks wrote: Whats the easiest command to cp all the subdirectories and files in those subdirectories in /ect to another directory? mkdir /etc.bak; cp -r /etc/* /etc.bak -- Andrew Gaffney -- [EMAIL

[gentoo-user] gpm dependency?

2003-09-15 Thread Owen Gunden
Why is emerge -DUpv world trying to install gpm? I am not USEing gpm, and I don't have any of the apps that directly depend on gpm installed: $ etcat depends gpm | tail +2 | perl -ne '$_ .= ; print unless /gpm\?/' * app-editors/xwpe-1.5.29a =sys-libs/gpm-1.20.0 * app-misc/twin-0.3.8-r1

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