RE: [gentoo-user] LiveCD and Mtools

2003-11-03 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 10:29, Brent L Johnson wrote: > Hmmm - I copied them as it said under section 25 of the > installation document: > > cp -a /mnt/cdrom/packages/* /usr/portage/packages/ > > I don't see an mtools package located in the packages/All > directory. The only one I find is in: > >

RE: [gentoo-user] Emerge problem

2003-11-03 Thread Belinus
I did do the mirrorselect both auto and interactive and I selected sites I knew to be working. Still did not work. So I got PO'd and formated the partition again and redid the untar'ing of stage 1, skipped the mirrorselect part and it works. It's currently syncing right now. Thanks for the sugges

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge problem

2003-11-03 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Belinus wrote: I commented out the GENTOO_MIRRORS line and up'd the retries to 25 in make.conf but I still get the same error. Jon Does mirrorselect give you back anything? That's odd. I haven't had trouble with emerge... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting an ISO image problems

2003-11-03 Thread Meka[ni]
On Mon, 3 Nov 2003 22:40:44 -0600 Stephen Boulet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What do I have to change to get this working? > > $ mount -t iso9660 -o ro,loop=/dev/loop0 bootcd.iso mnt/ > mount: only root can do that > > Thanks. > > -- > Stephen > From here to there >

RE: [gentoo-user] Operating System not Found

2003-11-03 Thread Brent L Johnson
> Okay, time for eliminating the simple stuff. > > Have you double checked that you haven't left a floppy in the > floppy disk drive? Hehe - I may be a gentoo n00b but Im not that bad. Yes there was no floppy in the drive :) > Is the BIOS configured to boot from the hard drive? Yes - I booted

Re: [gentoo-user] Operating System not Found

2003-11-03 Thread Paul Varner
Brent L Johnson wrote: > OK so wait - you say to NOT have /boot mounted during > "normal" use. Does "normal" use include compiling a new > kernel? In other words.. do I mount /boot when I run > genkernel?? And by watching the genkernel output > doesnt it just basically DO the same things as the

RE: [gentoo-user] Emerge problem

2003-11-03 Thread Belinus
I commented out the GENTOO_MIRRORS line and up'd the retries to 25 in make.conf but I still get the same error. Jon -Original Message- From: Jonathan Nichols [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 12:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge proble

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge problem

2003-11-03 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Belinus wrote: Is anyone having resolve errors for emerge tonight? I'm trying to "emerge sync" and I am getting 'Temproary failure in name resolution' errors but when I ping the IP from my Windows workstation it resolves just fine. /etc/resolve.conf is correct as well Any suggestions? It's workin

[gentoo-user] Emerge problem

2003-11-03 Thread Belinus
Is anyone having resolve errors for emerge tonight? I'm trying to "emerge sync" and I am getting 'Temproary failure in name resolution' errors but when I ping the IP from my Windows workstation it resolves just fine. /etc/resolve.conf is correct as well Any suggestions? Jon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

[gentoo-user] Mounting an ISO image problems

2003-11-03 Thread Stephen Boulet
What do I have to change to get this working? $ mount -t iso9660 -o ro,loop=/dev/loop0 bootcd.iso mnt/ mount: only root can do that Thanks. -- Stephen From here to there and there to here, funny things are everywhere. -- Dr Seuss -- [EMAIL PROTECT

[gentoo-user] vim/gvim issues

2003-11-03 Thread Bryce
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Has anyone else had pty issues when trying to compile the new gvim/vim ebuilds? Does anyone know of a simple work around for this? thanks in advance, bryce -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/pyl3tQGpkFAOeQERAgaX

RE: [gentoo-user] Operating System not Found

2003-11-03 Thread Brent L Johnson
OK so wait - you say to NOT have /boot mounted during "normal" use. Does "normal" use include compiling a new kernel? In other words.. do I mount /boot when I run genkernel?? And by watching the genkernel output doesnt it just basically DO the same things as the "old-fashioned way" ? And /boot

Re: [gentoo-user] gift problem

2003-11-03 Thread Makurin Roman
Thanks, It helps me. > On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 05:02:54AM +0300, Makurin Roman wrote: > : After emerge gift-*, I set up gift with gift-setup. But I`ve got the > : same error every time when try to execute giftd -d. > : > : > : *** ERROR: Your setup is incomplete *** > : > : You will need to run

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc optimizations

2003-11-03 Thread Bryce
On Tuesday 28 October 2003 11:59 pm, Javier Villavicencio wrote: > Hi, and sorry, but as I said, in that moment I wasn't sure about the > CFLAGS, the correct one is: -frename-registers > And you can see it in the benchmark in the next mails of this thread. OK, i tried using the -frename-registers;

[gentoo-user] /etc/make.profile is not a symlink error message

2003-11-03 Thread Trey Sizemore
I am getting the following error when I run emerge: '/etc/make.profile is not a symlink and will probably prevent most merges!!! It should point into a profile within /usr/portage/profiles/' I read an FAQ section in the gentoo user guide and issued the following command: ln -s /usr/portage/prof

RE: [gentoo-user] Operating System not Found

2003-11-03 Thread Doug Weimer
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 02:00, Hall Stevenson wrote: > Gentoo suggests that you normally NOT have /boot mounted during normal > use. If it's not, when you copy your new kernel image to /boot, it will > fail. In my case, I don't use 'genkernel', but compile mine the > old-fashioned way. Lastly, I run

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: damned usb mouse again

2003-11-03 Thread Hall Stevenson
On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 00:07, Michael Mauch wrote: > Hall Stevenson wrote: > > > On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 13:57, Roberto Padovani wrote: > > > > mine is exactly the same, though i think that the problem is somewhat > > > above X, since > > > > > > # cat /dev/input/mice > > > > > > doesn't show any

RE: [gentoo-user] Operating System not Found

2003-11-03 Thread Hall Stevenson
On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 02:40, Brent L Johnson wrote: > It's almost like it cant find grub in the > MBR or something. I just recompiled the kernel again, > re-ran grub with root(hd0,0) and setup(hd0) (which are > the same settings I did before when initially setting > the system up). > > Should I h

RE: [gentoo-user] Operating System not Found

2003-11-03 Thread Belinus
Have you tried downloading the source tarball from kernel.org or a mirror and doing it manually? -Original Message- From: Brent L Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 9:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Operating System not Found OK so I

RE: [gentoo-user] Operating System not Found

2003-11-03 Thread Brent L Johnson
OK so Im guessing no one has any ideas? Sheesh.. all I did was recompile the kernel and reboot and the system would no longer boot. I get no grub menu.. I get diddly. It's almost like it cant find grub in the MBR or something. I just recompiled the kernel again, re-ran grub with root(hd0,0) and

Re: [gentoo-user] iptables

2003-11-03 Thread Brian Doob
I just re-emerged iptables, but that didn't seem to help. Here's what happened: root # iptables -t nat -I POSTROUTING -j MASQUERAQDE -s 192.168.1.3/16 modprobe: Can't locate module ip_tables iptables v1.2.8: can't initialize iptables table `nat': Table does not exist (do you need to insmo

Re: [gentoo-user] gift problem

2003-11-03 Thread Jono Blashki
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 05:02:54AM +0300, Makurin Roman wrote: : After emerge gift-*, I set up gift with gift-setup. But I`ve got the : same error every time when try to execute giftd -d. : : : *** ERROR: Your setup is incomplete *** : : You will need to run gift-setup and be sure that you read

[gentoo-user] gift problem

2003-11-03 Thread Makurin Roman
After emerge gift-*, I set up gift with gift-setup. But I`ve got the same error every time when try to execute giftd -d. *** ERROR: Your setup is incomplete *** You will need to run gift-setup and be sure that you read absolutely every configuration option (no, really). Some default configurati

Re: [gentoo-user] armyopps190

2003-11-03 Thread Chris
I know it is. But when I went to the first several mirrors after having probs dowloading it wasnt is disfiles anymore. On Monday 03 November 2003 10:52 am, Matt Chorman wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Was it? It is still listed in portage... > > On Sunday 02 November

[gentoo-user] Question About Iptables Script and Sound

2003-11-03 Thread Kathy Wills
I have searched the forums and connot find an answer to either of my questions. I will be changing from Slackware 9.1 to Gentoo 1.4 starting later tonight. My computer acts as the firewall/gateway for my small home network. With slackware I use a script file /etc/rc.d/rc.iptables to povide this

[gentoo-user] Operating System not Found

2003-11-03 Thread Brent L Johnson
Has anyone run into this error when compiling a new kernel? This has happened to me twice today. I run genkernel --config.. made some configuration changes (didnt have some agp gart setting or something in the kernel so X Windows was bombing out).. rebooted and Im getting "Operating System not Fo

Re: [gentoo-user] Making .ebuild

2003-11-03 Thread Daniel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > This is the problematic part of the Makefile : > - > install-tcc:tcc check-install-dir scripts/localize.sh > ln -sf scripts/localize.sh . > tar cfh - $(TCC_BINDIST) | \ >

[gentoo-user] Ati Dual-Head & XVideo Extension

2003-11-03 Thread Paul Kimberley
Hi I don't know where to ask this (is there an ATI forum ?) but since i'm using gentoo I thought I'd ask here. I am using a Radeon 9500 pro and ati-drivers-3.2.8, I used fglrxconfig to create a XF86Config-4 using Dual-Head. The problem is that when I use the Dual head it seems that XVideo Exten

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups?

2003-11-03 Thread Ernie Schroder
Good point Bill. I do have ADSL and can d'load at roughly 165k/sec Distfiles, though becomes so large that it would soon overwhelm my 20 gig drive that I back up to. Perhaps it would be smart to copy some files from distfiles to ~/home where they would be backed up and I could later mov

[gentoo-user] Re: damned usb mouse again

2003-11-03 Thread Michael Mauch
Hall Stevenson wrote: > On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 13:57, Roberto Padovani wrote: > > mine is exactly the same, though i think that the problem is somewhat > > above X, since > > > > # cat /dev/input/mice > > > > doesn't show any understanig of my mouse movements. > > You're correct. If the kernel

[gentoo-user] problem with qmail an vpopmail...

2003-11-03 Thread Johannes Findeisen
hello all, can some please send me the /service/qmail-smtpd/run file? it must be configured for use with vpopmail... i' sitting here since some hours now and don't know what i'm doing wrong. i want to use smtp after pop or smtp authentication and i have destroyed my run file... i have read all

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie - Can't start Gnome

2003-11-03 Thread Stroller
I *think* that's because you've got an option checked to "reply in the same format as the message you're replying to". Certainly, earlier versions of Outlook & Outlook Distress had that option. Stroller. On Nov 3, 2003, at 7:46 pm, Brent L Johnson wrote: Yes but this setting gets overridden..

Re: [gentoo-user] downloading Yahoo! mail

2003-11-03 Thread Steven Elling
On Saturday 01 November 2003 12:59, HvR wrote: > On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 15:20, Steven Elling wrote: > > On Wednesday 29 October 2003 23:09, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > > > I want to be able to download my Yahoo! mail into Mozilla. I see that > > > in portage there are 2 programs for this: yosucker and f

Re: [gentoo-user] /tmp not empty at boot time

2003-11-03 Thread Bryan Whitehead
Patrick Marquetecken wrote: Hi, At boot time I see a message that /tmp en /vat/tmp are being cleared, but I still find files from months ago in there. Is this normal?, I would say no, but how do i fix this? Patrick This is fine according to LSB/FHS. /var/tmp should *not* be cleared after reboot:

Re: [gentoo-user] bad gentoo performance

2003-11-03 Thread William Kenworthy
Fact: take 3 distros, install to the reccomended settings (as far as is practical) and see which is faster. Gentoo was slowest. At the time (is it still the case?) -O3 was being reccomended for gentoo in general, celerons in particular (was a few months back now!) This flag has a rather drastic

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups?

2003-11-03 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Monday 03 November 2003 02:05, Rick [Kitty5] wrote: > What do people do / recommend for backing up? a scsi tape drive from ebay, some quality tapes, tar ;o) -- Conclusions In a straight-up fight, the Empire squashes the Federation like a bug. Even with its numerical advantage removed, the E

RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo box hung - how to debug?

2003-11-03 Thread Mark Knecht
> -Original Message- > From: Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 1:56 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo box hung - how to debug? > > > He should try a memory test, if he doesn't think his recent > merg

Re: [gentoo-user] Stage 1 install /w Lucent Winmodem

2003-11-03 Thread Jernej Zidar
no, you must first isntall the kernel, reboot and later on compile the Lucent Winmodem drivers. The best way to load it is to use modprobe. Zee - Original Message - From: "Joey Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 8:02 PM Subject: [gentoo-use

Re: [gentoo-user] Making .ebuild

2003-11-03 Thread Doug Weimer
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 02:53, raptor wrote: > tring to make an .ebuild for tcng but in the "make install" stage I'm getting errors > i.e. tcng install script tries to write > outside the sandbox.. > This is the problematic part of the Makefile : > - > install-tcc:tcc

RE: [gentoo-user] cervisia

2003-11-03 Thread Luke Davison
Guy, Cervisia is part of the code KDE distribution (as of KDE 3). You should be able to get it from kde-base/kdesdk. Regards, Luke -Original Message- From: Guy Van Sanden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 2:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] cervis

[gentoo-user] cervisia

2003-11-03 Thread Guy Van Sanden
Does anyone know why cervisia disappeared from the portage tree? It was in a couple of months back (I can check back on the Internet), but it is out now... -- __ Guy Van Sanden http://unixmafia.port5.com Registered Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] how to make own version of LiveCD?

2003-11-03 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Luke Davison -- > Matthias, > > Have you checked out this article on hacking the LiveCD? > > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=21327 no, not yet, but I will check it out! Thanks alot for this tip! Greets, Matthias -- Look, Marge, I'm sorry I haven't been a bett

Re: [gentoo-user] LiveCD 1.4 boot splash screen

2003-11-03 Thread Guy Van Sanden
Here's a howto http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=49036 On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 19:34, Paul K. Dickson wrote: > Can someone tell me what the program is that provides that sweet > boot screen and console 'window'? Thanks! > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list --

[gentoo-user] GCC error

2003-11-03 Thread Pietro Leone
Hallo, I tried to emerge gnugo, but during the compilation gcc give me this error: cc1: error: unrecognized option `-lang-c89' I know that c89 is the first standard for c, I searched for this option into the gcc man, but I found nothing, how can I correct this? Thanks, Pietro -- I will build

Re: [gentoo-user] Rebuilding kernel module ebuilds

2003-11-03 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Monday 03 Nov 2003 21:32, A. Craig West wrote: > Some time ago, somebody posted a script to re-emerge any ebuilds for > kernel modules after recompiling the kernel. alsa-driver and > pcmcia-cs come to mind as likely candidate ebuilds. I have been > trying to find this script both in the list arc

Re: [gentoo-user] PCMCIA with new Kernel

2003-11-03 Thread Kevin Miller, Jr.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Brent: I think you are looking for this thread: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=26716&highlight=pcmcia+nic Good luck. Kevin On Monday 03 November 2003 1:29 pm, Brent L Johnson wrote: > I got past it I think (thankfully.. I just read

[gentoo-user] Rebuilding kernel module ebuilds

2003-11-03 Thread A. Craig West
Some time ago, somebody posted a script to re-emerge any ebuilds for kernel modules after recompiling the kernel. alsa-driver and pcmcia-cs come to mind as likely candidate ebuilds. I have been trying to find this script both in the list archives and on the forums but have had no luck. Does this ri

RE: [gentoo-user] PCMCIA with new Kernel

2003-11-03 Thread Brent L Johnson
I got past it I think (thankfully.. I just read that Redhat is dumping their free Linux dist and will no longer be going past RH9). First when it failed I had it compiled in.. along with some of the drivers listed (even though I really didnt need them). It didnt work.. so I went to having it as a

[gentoo-user] Cuecat barcode reader

2003-11-03 Thread A. Craig West
Is anybody successfully using a cuecat barcode reader under gentoo? I applied the 2.4.21 patch to vanilla-sources-2.4.22, but it doesn't seem to be working properly. It is possible that there are changes from 2.4.21 to 2.4.22 that require modifications to the patch, but it applied quite cleanly...

RE: [gentoo-user] PCMCIA with new Kernel

2003-11-03 Thread Luke Davison
Brent, If you are still compiling PCMCIA as a module, are you loading the pcmcia_core module prior to loading the ds module? BTW, when I have needed PCMCIA in the past, I have always compiled it statically. Regards, Luke -Original Message- From: Brent L Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] Ebuild for Netjuke.....

2003-11-03 Thread Matt Chorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 03 November 2003 12:51 pm, Steve wrote: > Does anyone know of an ebuild for Netjuke? > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list It looks as if an ebuild was submitted back in April - but it does not look like it was ever entered into the porta

RE: [gentoo-user] IBS AS 400 eSeries

2003-11-03 Thread Kevin Bucknum
>> Greetings, >> >> Has anyone been able to build Gentoo, or any Linux distro, for IBM AS >> 400? > http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/RedbookAbstracts/sg246232.html? Open Ibm's redbox is a good place to start. I had a box I could play with for a while that was going to load SuSE on,

RE: [gentoo-user] Newbie - Can't start Gnome

2003-11-03 Thread Brent L Johnson
Yes but this setting gets overridden.. as you can see Im sending plain text now. Its overridden if you're replying to someone who didnt use plain text. You have to do like someone suggested earlier and once you hit reply go to Format -> Plain Text. - Brent > -Original Message- > From: L

RE: [gentoo-user] LiveCD 1.4 boot splash screen

2003-11-03 Thread Brent L Johnson
Sorry - it didnt work off the LiveCD during installation. Not that I needed it really.. but it failed and then gave me some splash error. No biggie.. Im more concerned with my PCMCIA woes.. I'm about ready to throw my laptop out the window into the front yard. If I can get that working I'll move

[gentoo-user] Ebuild for Netjuke.....

2003-11-03 Thread Steve
Does anyone know of an ebuild for Netjuke? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] LiveCD 1.4 boot splash screen

2003-11-03 Thread Luke Davison
Brent, Which kernel are you currently using? You will need FrameBuffer support compiled into your kernel in order to take advantage of the boot splash feature. Did you go through the how-to in the first link? Regards, Luke -Original Message- From: Brent L Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [gentoo-user] Newbie - Can't start Gnome

2003-11-03 Thread Mark Knecht
Actually, if you tell it to convert (yes, by hand) Outlook 2000 will just warn you that you'll lose formatting when you convert html to text. It works fine. I have to do it about 50 times per week on all these lists. I haven't tried it, but there is an option in Outlooks contact sections where, on

RE: [gentoo-user] Newbie - Can't start Gnome

2003-11-03 Thread Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower)
Yes, but if you are replying to an email with HTML in it, it won't use plain text. >-Original Message- >From: Luke Davison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 1:19 PM >To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' >Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Newbie - Can't start Gnome > > >Outlook 2000:

RE: [gentoo-user] LiveCD 1.4 boot splash screen

2003-11-03 Thread Brent L Johnson
Wow I never knew it really "did" anything. Running the install on my laptop gives me a display error so I either have to use the nofb kernel or hit the spacebar to continue after the error in normal mode. - Brent > -Original Message- > From: Luke Davison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent

RE: [gentoo-user] PCMCIA with new Kernel

2003-11-03 Thread Brent L Johnson
OK I'm getting close to giving up and loading redhat again I think. I changed my kernel configuration to load PCMCIA support as a module and ran genkernel again. Now at bootup time I get the following errors (repeatedly): /lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r6/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/ds.o: init_module: Oper

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups? abetter way?

2003-11-03 Thread HvR
Here is what i use from crontab once a day: it makes a space efficient copy of every file, and every version so i can retrieve any previous version, best to put the target snapshot directory on a different drive. adapted from: http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/ #!/bin/sh PATH

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE - Konqueror history bar empty

2003-11-03 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Monday 03 Nov 2003 18:33, Simon Windsor wrote: > Hi > > I have just build KDE and everything is going well, with a few very > minor glitches. > > The most annoying one at the moment is the Konqueror History bar. It > only ever has the current URL in it. > > Does anyone know how I can set it to s

RE: [gentoo-user] Newbie - Can't start Gnome

2003-11-03 Thread Luke Davison
Outlook 2000: Tools -> Options -> Mail Format tab, select Plain text from the "Send in this message format:" dropdown. -Original Message- From: Stroller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 11:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie - Can

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie - Can't start Gnome

2003-11-03 Thread Stroller
On Nov 3, 2003, at 3:32 pm, Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower) wrote: In the format menu, just click "plain text". It will convert an html email to plain text. As far as I know, there isn't an option that forces outlook to always use plain text... I'm pretty sure there is, in preferences, but I do

Re: [gentoo-user] Using new kernel versions

2003-11-03 Thread Jordan Elver
On Monday 03 November 2003 16:49, Andrew Farmer wrote: > On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 16:02:50 -0800, Jordan Elver muttered: > > > > Do I need to re-emerge ati-drivers? I thought it would use the same > > modules as > > th other kernel as listed in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6? > > Yes -- 2.6 uses a

[gentoo-user] Stage 1 install /w Lucent Winmodem

2003-11-03 Thread Joey Davis
I use a Lucent Winmodem, and have a tarball of the source code for the drivers. I can get the modem to work most of the time. What I need to be able to do is compile modules and install them using 'insmod' before I can use the modem. Is this possible to do in a Stage 1 install? Will it let m

RE: [gentoo-user] how to make own version of LiveCD?

2003-11-03 Thread Luke Davison
Matthias, Have you checked out this article on hacking the LiveCD? http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=21327 Regards, Luke -Original Message- From: Matthias F. Brandstetter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 10:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-use

Re: [gentoo-user] bad gentoo performance

2003-11-03 Thread Stroller
On Nov 2, 2003, at 10:13 pm, William Kenworthy wrote: There was actually a lot of misinformation and pure rubbish spread on this list about that ... I was present and can say what was done. In that case, debian and Mandrake WERE faster than gentoo - the figures are there in black and white. Ther

RE: [gentoo-user] LiveCD 1.4 boot splash screen

2003-11-03 Thread Luke Davison
Paul, Here is a link to the Gentoo Framebuffer, Bootsplash & Grubsplash How-to: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=49036 This might also be useful if you were looking for the bootsplash with progress bar found on the 1.4 LiveCD: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=100620 Regards, Lu

RE: [gentoo-user] how to make own version of LiveCD?

2003-11-03 Thread Jeffrey Smelser
Let me know how ya do it when you figure it out. I wouldn't mind being able to add some things myself.. I would think you could, I just have not actually done it since I found a different cd off freshmeat... You don't have to use the gentoo cd to install gentoo, it doesn't matter what cd you us

Re: [gentoo-user] LiveCD 1.4 boot splash screen

2003-11-03 Thread Stefan Harrington-Palmer
is it http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=49036 your after? :) Stefan - Original Message - From: "Paul K. Dickson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 6:34 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] LiveCD 1.4 boot splash screen > Can someone tell me what th

Re: [gentoo-user] LiveCD 1.4 boot splash screen

2003-11-03 Thread Redeeman
the gentoo forum has alot nice info, there is a tutorial, and it works, i did it myself :-) On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 19:44, Fabien Fivaz wrote: > Paul K. Dickson wrote: > > >Can someone tell me what the program is that provides that sweet > >boot screen and console 'window'? Thanks! > > > > >

[gentoo-user] how to make own version of LiveCD?

2003-11-03 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
Hi all, would it be possible to make an ISO of the Gentoo LiveCD, mount this ISO in some way, add some contents to it and burn it to a CD, so that it is still bootable and I can install from it, plus have all my added tools on this CD, so that I can copy them to the new system after installatio

Re: [gentoo-user] LiveCD 1.4 boot splash screen

2003-11-03 Thread Fabien Fivaz
Paul K. Dickson wrote: Can someone tell me what the program is that provides that sweet boot screen and console 'window'? Thanks! Here is a howto in Italian : http://www.gentoo.it/tips/FramebufferAndBoot.html I couldn't find a english translation. Maybe try with google...! Best wishes,

[gentoo-user] LiveCD 1.4 boot splash screen

2003-11-03 Thread Paul K. Dickson
Can someone tell me what the program is that provides that sweet boot screen and console 'window'? Thanks! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] KDE - Konqueror history bar empty

2003-11-03 Thread Simon Windsor
Hi I have just build KDE and everything is going well, with a few very minor glitches. The most annoying one at the moment is the Konqueror History bar. It only ever has the current URL in it. Does anyone know how I can set it to save the last 20 (+) web sites I have visited? Finally, I hav

Re: [gentoo-user] configure apache2

2003-11-03 Thread David Gethings
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 17:49, Peter Ruskin wrote: > WTF is all this crap? Now hang on! That's a bit strong! > Your html is not exactly welcome here. Can you tell? And nor is that attitude! This user has made 2 previous posts. Neither previous post mentioned that this user should not use HTML form

[gentoo-user] cvs update for kde

2003-11-03 Thread Steven Cain
I'm trying to do a kde update (complete) through cvs.  How do I make sure I have all the dependencies, update the dependencies, and then compile my updates without starting everything over and over and over again.  I keep trying to do it but it stops saying I need this version of this then t

Re: [gentoo-user] bad gentoo performance

2003-11-03 Thread Martin LORANG
Le Lundi 3 Novembre 2003 00:26, SN a écrit : > -fomit-frame-pointer > Don't keep the frame pointer in a register for functions that don't need > one. This avoids the instructions to save, set up and restore frame > pointers; it also makes an extra register available in many functions. It > also mak

Re: [gentoo-user] configure apache2

2003-11-03 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Monday 03 Nov 2003 17:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >   >   >   >   >   WTF is all this crap? Your html is not exactly welcome here. Can you tell? Peter -- == Portage 2.0.49-r15 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1,

RE: Re: [gentoo-user] configure apache2

2003-11-03 Thread Redeeman
something is wrong then, maybe your hostname or something, check configs in /etc/apache2/conf and try again On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 18:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > - Mensaje Original - > Remitente: Redeeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Destinatario: Gentoo Maillinglist [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Fec

RE: Re: [gentoo-user] configure apache2

2003-11-03 Thread xsebas
- Mensaje Original -Remitente: Redeeman [EMAIL PROTECTED]Destinatario: Gentoo Maillinglist [EMAIL PROTECTED]Fecha: Lunes, Noviembre 3, 2003 6:33pmAsunto: Re: [gentoo-user] configure apache2>just type:>/etc/init.d/apache2 start>that will start it>the config files is in /etc/apache2 - dont

Re: [gentoo-user] bad gentoo performance

2003-11-03 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Monday 03 Nov 2003 16:12, Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower) wrote: > . I wanted to make sure, so I emailed > gcc-help email address. Someone emailed me the following procedure to > determine exactly what flags are getting set for the different "O" > settings. > > > To figure out what the differen

Re: [gentoo-user] configure apache2

2003-11-03 Thread daniel
On November 3, 2003 12:29 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, someone can help me to configure apache2. I installed apache on gentoo > linux and I don't know wich files I have to modify to configure it. > > I modified  /etc/apache2/conf/apache2/conf/apache2.conf > > when I want to start it I type: >

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc compile errors

2003-11-03 Thread Redeeman
happend for me too, i just used my old stage tarball (a week older) and it worked perfect On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 18:29, Jon Ellis wrote: > I am trying to compile gcc-3.3.2-r2 and I keep getting this error. Any > idea whats going on? TIA. > > gcc -c -O -DIN_GCC -W -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wstri

Re: [gentoo-user] configure apache2

2003-11-03 Thread Redeeman
just type: /etc/init.d/apache2 start that will start it the config files is in /etc/apache2 - dont mess with them unless you have special needs, but open /etc/conf.d/apache2 and add -D PHP4 if you want php support, have fun! On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 18:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, someone can h

[gentoo-user] gcc compile errors

2003-11-03 Thread Jon Ellis
I am trying to compile gcc-3.3.2-r2 and I keep getting this error. Any idea whats going on? TIA. gcc -c -O -DIN_GCC -W -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wtraditional -pedantic -Wno-long-long -DHAVE_CONFIG_H-I. -I. -I/var/tmp/portage/gcc-3.3.2-r2/work/gcc-3

[gentoo-user] configure apache2

2003-11-03 Thread xsebas
Hi, someone can help me to configure apache2. I installed apache on gentoo linux and I don't know wich files I have to modify to configure it. I modified  /etc/apache2/conf/apache2/conf/apache2.conf when I want to start it I type: #apache2ctl start The pc wait some seconds and it don't show

[gentoo-user] Re: [Ardour-users] Ardour won't run on Gentoo

2003-11-03 Thread brett holcomb
Thanks. I'll check that out. On Mon, 3 Nov 2003 07:59:15 -0600 (CST) "David Snopek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Brett I. Holcomb said: I'm running the current release of Gentoo Linux and am having trouble getting Ardour to run at all. [ snip ] Ardour/GTK 0.412.0 running with libardour 0.698.0 L

[gentoo-user] PCMCIA with new Kernel

2003-11-03 Thread Brent L Johnson
I compiled PCMCIA support into a new kernel and when I reboot I get no lights on my linksys wpc11 v4 wireless pc card.. as though PCMCIA support isnt working. Any ideas why this is happening? Im recompiling the kernel now and specifying PCMCIA support as a module instead of compiled directly into

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing Printer only among Gentoo systems

2003-11-03 Thread Matt Chorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 02 November 2003 11:19 pm, Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm in a network of Gentoo systems. I'd like to know the best way to > share a printer. I imagine that if I was in a mixed network (win/linux) > the be

Re: [gentoo-user] armyopps190

2003-11-03 Thread Matt Chorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Was it? It is still listed in portage... On Sunday 02 November 2003 06:30 pm, Chris wrote: > does anyone know why armyopps190 was taken off the servers? - -- Matt http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x7D81740A -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: [gentoo-user] Using new kernel versions

2003-11-03 Thread Andrew Farmer
On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 16:02:50 -0800, Jordan Elver muttered: > Do I need to re-emerge ati-drivers? I thought it would use the same > modules as > th other kernel as listed in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6? Yes -- 2.6 uses a different module format than 2.4. I don't know if the ebuild can make

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia problems

2003-11-03 Thread Matt Chorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 03 November 2003 08:15 am, Michel Bellemare wrote: > Hi, > > I followed carefully the instructions given in the doc to enable my video > card to work in gentoo. > But when i start the X server, i've got this error message > > NV:could not ope

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia problems

2003-11-03 Thread David Gethings
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 16:15, Michel Bellemare wrote: > Hi, > > I followed carefully the instructions given in the doc to enable my video card > to work in gentoo. > But when i start the X server, i've got this error message > > NV:could not open control device /dev/nvidiactl (no such file or dire

Re: [gentoo-user] Vanilla behaviour in Gentoo Linux (long email)

2003-11-03 Thread Matt Chorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 02 November 2003 05:33 pm, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: > ** > Initially, sent to gentoo-dev but later sent also to gentoo-user for > feedback. ** It seems like you got a good idea, and decided to come up with a ton of ideas that are unnecess

[gentoo-user] nvidia problems

2003-11-03 Thread Michel Bellemare
Hi, I followed carefully the instructions given in the doc to enable my video card to work in gentoo. But when i start the X server, i've got this error message NV:could not open control device /dev/nvidiactl (no such file or directory) (EE)NVIDIA (o): failed to initialized NVIDIA kernel module (

RE: [gentoo-user] bad gentoo performance

2003-11-03 Thread Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower)
Small correction: Another list member pointed out to me that "fomit-frame-pointer" isn't enable for any of the "O" settings for x86 (according to the documentation). I wanted to make sure, so I emailed gcc-help email address. Someone emailed me the following procedure to determine exactly what flag

[gentoo-user] Ultra10 + 2.6.0-test9 + keyboard (type-6)

2003-11-03 Thread Eric Tichansky
Seems keyboard support is a known issue on Sparc64 with 2.6.0-x kernels... Has anyone successfully gotten it to work? (Specifically Type-5/6) The kernel boots into a login prompt, but that is about it. I do have shell access to it via ssh, so if debug info is in order, I can provide it. ~emtty

RE: [gentoo-user] /tmp not empty at boot time

2003-11-03 Thread Redeeman
sometimes i just delete everything in /tmp, no problems with that :-) On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 16:48, Jeffrey Smelser wrote: > I don't know what anyone else does here, but I use tmpwatch to clear that stuff.. > its in portage... I set /var /var/tmp /usr/distfiles. None of those directories on > my

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