[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Asus A7N8X-Deluxe - What kernel works? -Itboots SATA!

2003-11-07 Thread David Stewen
No I'm not running SATA. I'm running IDE, old 1 and 2Gb drives. I've looked into it because I wanted to optimize this install as much as posible. I remember seeing a very good HOWTO for SATA on the Gentoo forums. David - Original Message - From: Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups:

[gentoo-user] Multiple instances of phpBB

2003-11-07 Thread Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos
Hi all, I'm having 2 sites served on my gentoo box, each should have it's own phpBB instance. So, I'd need to have 2 instances of phpBB installed in different directories. How can I do that? I've emerged it once and it installed to /home/httpd/htdocs/phpbb, but if I emerge it again it'll

[gentoo-user] stupid newbie question on where network interfaces are defined

2003-11-07 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
Ok, I have not seen where the network interfaces are defined. On debian it is in /etc/network/interfaces on FreeBSD it is in /etc/rc.conf What about gentoo? I need to change my ip address once I am done setting up and I want to add in some aliases as well. Thanks Chad gentoo newbie -- [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] stupid newbie question on where network interfaces are defined

2003-11-07 Thread Juha-Mikko Ahonen
On pe, 2003-11-07 at 09:09, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: Ok, I have not seen where the network interfaces are defined. On debian it is in /etc/network/interfaces on FreeBSD it is in /etc/rc.conf What about gentoo? /etc/conf.d/net signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: [gentoo-user] passing options to .ebuild

2003-11-07 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ext raptor wrote: | Hi is there a way to pass options or so to the .ebuild, like this : | | emerge pkg -option | | and then access this -option in some way into the .ebuild script ?! USE flags and environment variables can be used for this, i.e.

Re: [gentoo-user] passing options to .ebuild

2003-11-07 Thread raptor
then, what is the procedure to present some help and such..about the ebuild that is one thing .ebuild system lack. Take for example mod_perl, after its installation u have run emerge mod_perl postconf or some such.. but i had to search the forums and arhives to understand thhis.. messages that

[gentoo-user] SSH permission question

2003-11-07 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi folks, I have 2 boxes connected with a crossover cable for broadband sharing. Both of them can ping to each other. Broadband sharing has no problem. PC1 - RH9 eth0 - connected to broadband eth1 - connected to PC-2, IP 192.168.0.1 PC2 - Gentoo box eth0 - connected ot PC-1, IP 192.168.0.2

Re: [gentoo-user] fstab problem

2003-11-07 Thread Anders Hasselqvist
On Thursday 06 November 2003 07:46, you wrote: Can anyone please give me some advice as to how to read FreeBSD partitions under Linux? I did this during the weekend so I have it in fresh memory :) You have to add ufs filesystem support in the kernel. Under partition types you have to add PC

[gentoo-user] spamassassin broken

2003-11-07 Thread dave willis
i can't get it to work. this test works: spamassassin -t sample-spam.txt spam.out but this one doesn't: bash-2.05b# spamassassin -t sample-nonspam.txt nonspam.out Can't use an undefined value as an ARRAY reference at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/Mail/SpamAssassin/Dns.pm line 303.

Re: [gentoo-user] spamassassin broken

2003-11-07 Thread Sampsa
Perhaps the sample-nonspam.txt-file is empty...? ~/S On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, dave willis wrote: i can't get it to work. this test works: spamassassin -t sample-spam.txt spam.out but this one doesn't: bash-2.05b# spamassassin -t sample-nonspam.txt nonspam.out Can't use an

[gentoo-user] A hardware related question (does my laptop have AGP?)

2003-11-07 Thread Zarick Lau
Hi, I have a question regarding my laptop, I'd try to config the DRI stuff on my lovely laptop, but how can I know that, whether the box has AGP or not? From the manufacture spec : the display chip is ATI Rage Mobility-M (4MB SDRAM built-in) From kernel message (2.4.22-ck) (I do grep ati

[gentoo-user] rearranging hd for adding a winxp install

2003-11-07 Thread a_k_b
hi there i always wanted to prevent this, but now that there are so many new games outta there, i want to have a gaming os back on my hd... so i decided to install winxp additionally in a small partition on my first hard drive. but now, as you can imagine, there are _several_ problems. i got

[gentoo-user] How to handle 50 files in ... need updating.?

2003-11-07 Thread Karl-Heinz Zimmer
Hi all, after a world update now I got more than 50 config files needing updating and I am wondering if there might be a BETTER way of doing this - better than the usual manually diffing of each single file to see if I can take the old one or the new one or must merge with the new one... TIA,

Re: [gentoo-user] Word wrap non-html

2003-11-07 Thread Pierre-François Gomez
Hello ! First of all, this is my first post on this list. I'm a french gentoo user since the 1.4 RC4 pre-release and so far, i had been lucky enough to evolve without any serious issue : Gentoo is really a great distrib, probably the cleanier i used ;-) In short, i'm a software engineer in a

[gentoo-user] distributed.net client doesn't do networking

2003-11-07 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
Hi I just downloaded the latest distributed.net client for Linux/ELF x86. I run it and it cannot connect to the keyserver (by ip) nor can it resolve the keyserver name to an address. My OS X box has no problem and it sits on the same network. The Linux box can ping and ssh to the outside as

[gentoo-user] Error installing musescore

2003-11-07 Thread Paul Stear
I have installed museseq and xmms-musepack but have problems installing musescore, I get the following error message: checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... g++ -E checking for QT environment variable QTDIR... yes checking for QT includes (/usr/qt/3/include)... yes checking for QT libraries

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH permission question

2003-11-07 Thread Erwin Lang
Am Freitag, 7. November 2003 09:26 schrieb Stephen Liu: Hi folks, I have 2 boxes connected with a crossover cable for broadband sharing. Both of them can ping to each other.  Broadband sharing has no problem. PC1 - RH9 eth0 - connected to broadband eth1 - connected to PC-2,  IP 192.168.0.1

Re: [gentoo-user] How to handle 50 files in ... need updating.?

2003-11-07 Thread Juha-Mikko Ahonen
On pe, 2003-11-07 at 13:17, Karl-Heinz Zimmer wrote: Hi all, after a world update now I got more than 50 config files needing updating and I am wondering if there might be a BETTER way of doing this - better than the usual manually diffing of each single file to see if I can take the old

Re: [gentoo-user] Error installing musescore

2003-11-07 Thread Sampsa
Check config.log for a more detailed errormessage - configure should create one. There you can see exactly what was missing. I'm guessing you dont have qt-libs in your /etc/ld.so.conf or something like that. And remember to run ldconfig. So check if you have /usr/lib/qt-3.version/lib in your

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is /var full?

2003-11-07 Thread Karl-Heinz Zimmer
On Freitag, 7. November 2003 11:51, Aaron Walker wrote: I just installed gentoo for the first time earlier this week. Got everything up and running perfectly. I am very impressed. Anyways... I ran 'emerge openoffice' last night before I left for work, and when I came home there was an

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is /var full?

2003-11-07 Thread Frank Schäfer
Hi, /var/tmp/{distfiles,portage,portage-pkg} ? You can delete this. Regards Frank On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 11:51, Aaron Walker wrote: I just installed gentoo for the first time earlier this week. Got everything up and running perfectly. I am very impressed. Anyways... I ran 'emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is /var full?

2003-11-07 Thread Sampsa
Goto /var and do : sudo du -ks * | sort -n And check which directory is overflooded. I'm guessing /var/log - some process has gone wild and stuffed the log-dir full of stuff. ~/S On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Aaron Walker wrote: I just installed gentoo for the first time earlier this week.

[gentoo-user] ACER Laptop: DVD/CD Combo drive not detected entirely.

2003-11-07 Thread Karl-Heinz Zimmer
Hi, my old Acer TravelMate 260 makes a problem with Gentoo: the DVD/CD combo drive (DVD/CD reader + CD burner) is not detected completely. Starting k3b-setup I get told that there is no writer, but only a reader. Following the advise given there, I added modprobe ide-scsi to some file in

Re: [gentoo-user] spamassassin broken

2003-11-07 Thread dave willis
On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Sampsa wrote: Perhaps the sample-nonspam.txt-file is empty...? no, it's there. i get the same error on many other emails. bash-2.05b# spamassassin -t sample-nonspam.txt nonspam.out Can't use an undefined value as an ARRAY reference at

Re: [gentoo-user] ACER Laptop: DVD/CD Combo drive not detected entirely.

2003-11-07 Thread Fabien Fivaz
Now I would like to tell the kernel about my SCSI whishes: normally I would just add a append = hdc=ide-scsi to my /etc/lilo.conf - but Gentoo is using Grub, so where/how could I add these parameters now? Just add hdc=ide-scsi after the kernel hd(0,0)/.../kernel... root=/hd... hdc=ide-scsi

Re: [gentoo-user] ACER Laptop: DVD/CD Combo drive not detected entirely.

2003-11-07 Thread Karl-Heinz Zimmer
On Freitag, 7. November 2003 12:43, Fabien Fivaz wrote: Now I would like to tell the kernel about my SCSI whishes: normally I would just add a append = hdc=ide-scsi to my /etc/lilo.conf - but Gentoo is using Grub, so where/how could I add these parameters now? Just add hdc=ide-scsi

Re: [gentoo-user] ACER Laptop: DVD/CD Combo drive not detected entirely.

2003-11-07 Thread Fabien Fivaz
Karl-Heinz Zimmer wrote: On Freitag, 7. November 2003 12:43, Fabien Fivaz wrote: Now I would like to tell the kernel about my SCSI whishes: normally I would just add a append = hdc=ide-scsi to my /etc/lilo.conf - but Gentoo is using Grub, so where/how could I add these parameters now?

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH permission question

2003-11-07 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Erwin, Am Freitag, 7. November 2003 09:26 schrieb Stephen Liu: Hi folks, I have 2 boxes connected with a crossover cable for broadband sharing. Both of them can ping to each other. Broadband sharing has no problem. PC1 - RH9 eth0 - connected to broadband eth1 - connected to PC-2, IP

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is /var full?

2003-11-07 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ext Aaron Walker wrote: | I just installed gentoo for the first time earlier this week. Got | everything up and running perfectly. I am very impressed. Anyways... I | ran 'emerge openoffice' last night before I left for work, and when I | came home

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH permission question

2003-11-07 Thread Thomas Buntrock
On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 08:00:34PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi Erwin, Am Freitag, 7. November 2003 09:26 schrieb Stephen Liu: Hi folks, I have 2 boxes connected with a crossover cable for broadband sharing. Both of them can ping to each other. Broadband sharing has no problem.

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH permission question

2003-11-07 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Thomas, SSH already started on both boxes. $ ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] # ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] all work on both boxes including starting X server on the same box. Do you have a packetfilter installed on your gentoo box blocking the inbound traffic to port 22? After uncomment the line

Re: [gentoo-user] ACER Laptop: DVD/CD Combo drive not detected entirely.

2003-11-07 Thread Karl-Heinz Zimmer
[Sorry, I wrote nonsense] On Freitag, 7. November 2003 14:42, Karl-Heinz Zimmer wrote: The setup dialog of k3b _now_ lists the DVD combo drive as follows: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd (0,0,0) Note: the k3b lists the above as Reader device! But when I want to add this as my

Re: [gentoo-user] ACER Laptop: DVD/CD Combo drive not detected entirely.

2003-11-07 Thread Fabien Fivaz
So I have an alias scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi in /etc/modules.conf and the hdc=ide-scsi added to the kernel line in /boot/grub/grub.conf, but do I now have to re-initialize grub, or will it find that when rebooting? Just reboot... The setup dialog of k3b _now_ lists the DVD combo drive as

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple instances of phpBB

2003-11-07 Thread Dennis Freise
I'm having 2 sites served on my gentoo box, each should have it's own phpBB instance. So, I'd need to have 2 instances of phpBB installed in different directories. How can I do that? Either copy your phpBB directory somewhere else and use the copy for the second site (though the copy doesn't

[gentoo-user] Converting SoundFontFiles

2003-11-07 Thread Paul Stear
Hi all, I have some *.SF2 files that I want to use in kmidi, the documentation says that it has a utility sf2cfg, I have tried allsorts to get this working but all I get is a text file. Can anybody help with this please. regards Paul -- -- This message was sent using gentoo linux and kmail

Re: [gentoo-user] 5 button mouse in X.

2003-11-07 Thread Adrian Pirciu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Protocol should be IMPS/2, not PS/2 in /etc/X11/XF86Config (IM from IntelliMouse) On Friday 07 November 2003 06:59, Steve wrote: I have a PS/2 memorex 5 button mouse. The two side buttons I am not all that concerned about but it has a middle

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: System redesign

2003-11-07 Thread MAL
The Plan: Disks: -- Quantum 8GB IBM 42GB (previous root, probably dead - not gonna use) WD1 120GB WD2 120GB CD-RW DVD-ROM Connections: CD-RW IDE1 Master (hda) DVD-ROM IDE1 Slave (hdb) Quantum IDE2 Master (hdc) WD1 IDE3 Master (hde) \_ promise controller WD2

Re: [gentoo-user] Word wrap non-html

2003-11-07 Thread Guy Van Sanden
Evolution can do that! just check the box 'wants to recieve HTML mail' in a contact. I don't know about kmail, but I used it for years (and my wife still uses it), it can be trivially set up to send text Emails by default... On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 19:05, Hall Stevenson wrote: On Thu,

Re: [gentoo-user] fstab problem

2003-11-07 Thread Guy Van Sanden
What version of FreeBSD are you running? I'm asking because starting with 5.0, UFS2 is included, and you will need support for that in Linux if you used it. The UFS(1) module will not mount UFS2 slices. Maybe this link can help:

Re: [gentoo-user] fstab problem

2003-11-07 Thread Guy Van Sanden
Just a thought, but if it is just booting, they you may be in trouble. You should have set up the bootmanager in FreeBSD to that partition where FreeBSD is installed. Then you use LILO to point to other = /dev/hdx# label = FreeBSD You do not need to be able to mount te partition to boot it.

Re: [gentoo-user] Word wrap non-html

2003-11-07 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 08:24 AM 11/7/2003, you wrote: On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 19:05, Hall Stevenson wrote: On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 18:59, daniel wrote: On November 6, 2003 10:32 am, Hall Stevenson wrote: I don't know if it's possible for the list-server to handle either of these cases. Stripping HTML messages

Re: [gentoo-user] ACER Laptop: DVD/CD Combo drive not detected entirely.

2003-11-07 Thread Karl-Heinz Zimmer
On Freitag, 7. November 2003 13:53, Fabien Fivaz wrote: (...) The setup dialog of k3b _now_ lists the DVD combo drive as follows: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd (0,0,0) You won't have any /dev/hdc anymore (this is because gentoo is using devfs, I think). Change /etc/fstab to

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is /var full?

2003-11-07 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 06:07 AM 11/7/2003, you wrote: /var/tmp/{distfiles,portage,portage-pkg} ? You can delete this. Really ?? I know you can safely delete /var/tmp/distfiles, but I've always left the others alone. They do just appear to be directories though with just one file, .ebuild ?? Not to go off-topic

[gentoo-user] X sharing (OT?)

2003-11-07 Thread mathieu perrenoud
Hello, I'm looking for a tool that would do with X11 windows something similar that screen does with consoles. Something that would let me detach from windows and re-attach to them from somewhere else. I don't want the overhead of grabbing the whole desktop (like vnc). Is there something in

Re: [gentoo-user] ACER Laptop: DVD/CD Combo drive not detected entirely.

2003-11-07 Thread Fabien Fivaz
So the question is: How to tell Gentoo that this is also a Writer? Could you try the following command as root : # cdrecord --scanbus And tell me what it tells ? Fabien -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Word wrap non-html

2003-11-07 Thread Guy Van Sanden
It actually missed the 'random crash' feature, Oh and the MS creative Mime implementation :-) On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 14:40, Hall Stevenson wrote: At 08:24 AM 11/7/2003, you wrote: On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 19:05, Hall Stevenson wrote: On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 18:59, daniel wrote: On November 6,

RE: [gentoo-user] X sharing (OT?)

2003-11-07 Thread Chris Carter
portage? Else, does portage provide a console client for eMule? TIA If you are looking for clients that connect to the eDonkey network like eMule, then have a look at mldonkey (in Portage) and kmldonkey (also in Portage). Cheers! Chris -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ACER Laptop: DVD/CD Combo drive not detected entirely.

2003-11-07 Thread Karl-Heinz Zimmer
On Freitag, 7. November 2003 14:54, Fabien Fivaz wrote: So the question is: How to tell Gentoo that this is also a Writer? Could you try the following command as root : # cdrecord --scanbus And tell me what it tells ? This tells me: Cdrecord 2.01a14 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C)

Re: [gentoo-user] ACER Laptop: DVD/CD Combo drive not detected entirely.

2003-11-07 Thread Collins Richey
On Fri, 7 Nov 2003 14:42:24 +0100 Karl-Heinz Zimmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I have an alias scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi in /etc/modules.conf and the hdc=ide-scsi added to the kernel line in /boot/grub/grub.conf, but do I now have to re-initialize grub, or will it find that when rebooting?

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: System redesign

2003-11-07 Thread Spider
begin quote On Fri, 07 Nov 2003 13:18:16 + MAL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This looks quite good. This will require an initrd for both RAID and LVM, but i'm prepared to maintain that. I'm only using Ext2/3, as XFS just won't mix with the kernels I want to use, and ReiserFS isn't

Re: [gentoo-user] ACER Laptop: DVD/CD Combo drive not detected entirely.

2003-11-07 Thread Fabien Fivaz
Oups, crazy. It seems that your drive is * NOT * a Matshita DVD-ROM SR-8176. But is recognized as one... Could you do a # dmesg And look at beginning of what it returns, what is said about your driver (you will also see a line for your hard disk) ? Is it * really * a Matshita... ? You maybe

Re: [gentoo-user] Word wrap non-html

2003-11-07 Thread Collins Richey
On Fri, 07 Nov 2003 15:01:51 +0100 Guy Van Sanden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It actually missed the 'random crash' feature, Oh and the MS creative Mime implementation :-) Yes, and I really miss g the 'you're totally hosed' feature when the admins have to restore the server from a backup

Re: [gentoo-user] Error installing musescore

2003-11-07 Thread Paul Stear
Thanks for your help ~/S, The problem was the connection to :0.0 refused by server. So I did xhost +localhost and the it installed from the ebuild with the normal emerge command. Thanks again Paul On Fri 7 November 2003 10:43, Sampsa wrote: Check config.log for a more detailed errormessage -

Re: [gentoo-user] ACER Laptop: DVD/CD Combo drive not detected entirely.

2003-11-07 Thread Karl-Heinz Zimmer
On Freitag, 7. November 2003 15:28, Fabien Fivaz wrote: Oups, crazy. It seems that your drive is * NOT * a Matshita DVD-ROM SR-8176. But is recognized as one... Could you do a # dmesg And look at beginning of what it returns, what is said about your driver (you will also see a line for your

Re: [gentoo-user] X sharing (OT?)

2003-11-07 Thread Vano D
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 14:49, mathieu perrenoud wrote: Hello, I'm looking for a tool that would do with X11 windows something similar that screen does with consoles. Something that would let me detach from windows and re-attach to them from somewhere else. I don't want the overhead of

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH permission question

2003-11-07 Thread Thomas Buntrock
On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 08:37:00PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi Thomas, SSH already started on both boxes. $ ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] # ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] all work on both boxes including starting X server on the same box. Do you have a packetfilter installed on your gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] ACER Laptop: DVD/CD Combo drive not detected entirely.

2003-11-07 Thread Paul K. Dickson
A lot of good tips here, but unless your afraid of compiling your own kernel, what ALWAYS works best for me is to do the following in the kernel config: Under IDE/ATA device support: no support ide cdrom's support for scsi emulation * Under SCSI device support: scsi device support on * scsi

Re: [gentoo-user] A hardware related question (does my laptop have AGP?)

2003-11-07 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Zarick Lau wrote: Hi, I have a question regarding my laptop, I'd try to config the DRI stuff on my lovely laptop, but how can I know that, whether the box has AGP or not? From the manufacture spec : the display chip is ATI Rage Mobility-M (4MB SDRAM built-in) From kernel message (2.4.22-ck)

Re: [gentoo-user] Converting SoundFontFiles

2003-11-07 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Friday 07 November 2003 22:02, Paul Stear wrote: I have some *.SF2 files that I want to use in kmidi, the documentation says that it has a utility sf2cfg, I have tried allsorts to get this working but all I get is a text file. Read the help again. The second paragraph says: For each

RE: [gentoo-user] wine warcraft 3 (OT)

2003-11-07 Thread Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower)
Sorry I forgot to mark this thread as off-topic. So I guess you haven't got it to run...:) I checked the instructions on transgaming and on winehq. From what I gather, you don't need winex since war3 has an opengl mode and the only enhancement winex adds is directx stuff. And I tried following

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidea emerge instructions?

2003-11-07 Thread Christian Herzyk
Guy Van Sanden wrote: Thanks Matt I have been using the Nvidia drivers for about 2 years now, but I didn't know about the hardware acceleration option! Cool Guy This is from the Nvidia readme: Option RenderAccel boolean Enable or disable hardware acceleration of the

[gentoo-user] copying text from vmware

2003-11-07 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Does anyone know how to copy the entire screen or a few lines of text from VMWare? -- Andrew Gaffney -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH permission question

2003-11-07 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Thomas, Thomas Buntrock wrote: After uncomment the line iface_eth1=207.170.82.202 broadcast 207.0.255.255 netmask 255.255.0.0 on /etc/conf.d/net of PC2-Gentoo box, both box can ping each other Now on PC2-Gentoo box /etc/conf.d/net iface_eth0=192.168.0.2 broadcast 192.168.0.255 netmask

Re: [gentoo-user] passing options to .ebuild

2003-11-07 Thread MAL
raptor wrote: then, what is the procedure to present some help and such..about the ebuild that is one thing .ebuild system lack. Take for example mod_perl, after its installation u have run emerge mod_perl postconf or some such.. but i had to search the forums and arhives to understand thhis..

Re: [gentoo-user] copying text from vmware

2003-11-07 Thread Keith Dart
On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Andrew Gaffney wrote: Does anyone know how to copy the entire screen or a few lines of text from VMWare? Have you installed the vmware tools into the guest operating system? -- \/ \/ (O O) --

Re: [gentoo-user] copying text from vmware

2003-11-07 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Keith Dart wrote: On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Andrew Gaffney wrote: Does anyone know how to copy the entire screen or a few lines of text from VMWare? Have you installed the vmware tools into the guest operating system? I don't really have that option yet. I'm booting direct from the LiveCD in VMWare.

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidea emerge instructions?

2003-11-07 Thread Matt Chorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 07 November 2003 07:33 am, Christian Herzyk wrote: If you run the nvidia driver you user hardware acceleration for 3D (just compare the results of gears). This is only for the RENDER extension. Christian The RENDER extension being

Re: [gentoo-user] How to handle 50 files in ... need updating.?

2003-11-07 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 12:05 PM 11/7/2003, you wrote: --- Karl-Heinz Zimmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: after a world update now I got more than 50 config files needing updating and I am wondering if there might be a BETTER way of doing this - better than the usual manually diffing of each single file to see if I

Re: [gentoo-user] A hardware related question (does my laptop have AGP?)

2003-11-07 Thread Matt Chorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 07 November 2003 01:28 am, Zarick Lau wrote: Hi, I have a question regarding my laptop, I'd try to config the DRI stuff on my lovely laptop, but how can I know that, whether the box has AGP or not? From the manufacture spec : the

RE: [gentoo-user] X sharing (OT?)

2003-11-07 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I have been trying tightvnc this morning. Is it not possible to get tightvnc to transmit the whole root window so I can see the desktop on the vncserver machine, like I do with PC Anywhere? I thought it was, so I must be starting the vncserver incorrectly for doing that. Assuming you

Re: [gentoo-user] X sharing (OT?)

2003-11-07 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 08:49, mathieu perrenoud wrote: Hello, I'm looking for a tool that would do with X11 windows something similar that screen does with consoles. Something that would let me detach from windows and re-attach to them from somewhere else. I don't want the overhead of

[gentoo-user] Emerge/World file questions

2003-11-07 Thread Jordan Elver
Hi all, Should all packages that I emerge be added to the world file? I've noticed that MySQL which is merged does not exist in the world file. If any new version of a package exists and I have it in the world file, it should ask to update it when I emerge world, is that correct? Do I need to

[gentoo-user] MySQL 4.1 ebuild?

2003-11-07 Thread d. Taylor Singletary
Hi, I'm new to the list, but have been using Gentoo for awhile now. Does anyone know of any plans, or already completed ebuilds of the newer MySQL 4.1 tree? If not, how are people's experience upgrading to 4.1 on a gentoo box? Thanks, d. Taylor Singletary, Reality Technician

RE: [gentoo-user] MySQL 4.1 ebuild?

2003-11-07 Thread Jeffrey Smelser
According to http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=mysql an ebuild has not been created for it yet.. Hi, I'm new to the list, but have been using Gentoo for awhile now. Does anyone know of any plans, or already completed ebuilds of the newer MySQL 4.1 tree? If not, how are

Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL 4.1 ebuild?

2003-11-07 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 07 November 2003 19:17, Jeffrey Smelser wrote: According to http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=mysql an ebuild has not been created for it yet.. I have it running on my fileserver, only minor inconvenience is the new password

Re: [gentoo-user] X sharing (OT?)

2003-11-07 Thread mathieu perrenoud
On Friday 07 November 2003 18:57, Donnie Berkholz wrote: On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 08:49, mathieu perrenoud wrote: Hello, I'm looking for a tool that would do with X11 windows something similar that screen does with consoles. Something that would let me detach from windows and re-attach to

RE: [gentoo-user] MySQL 4.1 ebuild?

2003-11-07 Thread Luke Davison
Couldn't you just run the /usr/bin/mysql_fix_privilege_tables script to fix the passwords? Regards, Luke -Original Message- From: Mike Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 12:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL 4.1 ebuild?

Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL 4.1 ebuild?

2003-11-07 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 07 November 2003 20:17, Luke Davison wrote: Couldn't you just run the /usr/bin/mysql_fix_privilege_tables script to fix the passwords? Nope, 4.1 uses a different/better encryption method. - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

[gentoo-user] Problems updating

2003-11-07 Thread kevinc
Hi all. I have one system I'm trying to bring up to date via emerge, and am getting the following error. Any suggestions? gcc -o start-stop-daemon start-stop-daemon.o start-stop-daemon.o(.text+0x98): In function `main': : undefined reference to `__builtin_va_start'

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems updating

2003-11-07 Thread R'twick Niceorgaw
Hi Kevin, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said the following on 11/7/2003 3:37 PM Hi all. I have one system I'm trying to bring up to date via emerge, and am getting the following error. Any suggestions? gcc -o start-stop-daemon start-stop-daemon.o start-stop-daemon.o(.text+0x98): In function `main': :

Re: [gentoo-user] odd sudo problem

2003-11-07 Thread Ric Messier
On 2003.11.07 15:08, Jacob Smullyan wrote: Yes, I did do a real emerge sudo. If I had installed it manually, I'd be *really* surprised that it knew about /var/tmp/portage! Didn't mean installed manually. You can effect the same as an emerge by doing a series of ebuild commands. Ric -- [EMAIL

[gentoo-user] VMware and kernel 2.6.0test8

2003-11-07 Thread Nathaniel
I installed vmware from portage. I then ran vmware-config.pl. It built the modules fine, gave me no errors. Told me to run vmware so I did. When I do I get the error: VMware Workstation is installed, but it has not been (correctly) configured for your running kernel. To (re-)configure it,

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems updating

2003-11-07 Thread kevinc
Believe you got it in one. I disabled distcc and relaunched the emerge - it appears to be running now. The only downside is that I now get to upgrade my distcc farm this weekend. Oh well, whats one more maintenance task. Thanks! Kevin C. ps. Just noticed I'm on step 3 of 13 for my emerge -u

Re: [gentoo-user] VMware and kernel 2.6.0test8

2003-11-07 Thread Alex Schuster
Nathaniel writes: I installed vmware from portage. I then ran vmware-config.pl. It built the modules fine, gave me no errors. Told me to run vmware so I did. When I do I get the error: VMware Workstation is installed, but it has not been (correctly) configured for your running kernel.

Re: [gentoo-user] fstab problem

2003-11-07 Thread Ken McLennan
G'day there Chad, Well, since I normally am a FreeBSD person, I will point out that fdisk Aahhh...but what are you when you're abnormal? g on a gentoo system does know about FreeBSD types. However, the filesystem on a FreeBSD system is generally ufs up to FreeBSD4 and

Re: [gentoo-user] fstab problem

2003-11-07 Thread Ken McLennan
G'day there Anders, I did this during the weekend so I have it in fresh memory :) ...then tell your memory 'thanks' from me, as it worked well =) You have to add ufs filesystem support in the kernel. Under partition types you have to add PC BIOS-BSD disklabel support. Yep,

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is /var full?

2003-11-07 Thread Matt Chorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 07 November 2003 05:42 am, Hall Stevenson wrote: Really ?? I know you can safely delete /var/tmp/distfiles, but I've always left the others alone. They do just appear to be directories though with just one file, .ebuild ?? Not to go

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

2003-11-07 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Stephen Boulet 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. I have seen the advices you received, and have another solution: just add a line to /etc/fstab and put user option to options

Re: [gentoo-user] VMware and kernel 2.6.0test8

2003-11-07 Thread Nathaniel
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 17:14, Alex Schuster wrote: Nathaniel writes: I installed vmware from portage. I then ran vmware-config.pl. It built the modules fine, gave me no errors. Told me to run vmware so I did. When I do I get the error: VMware Workstation is installed, but it has not

Re: [gentoo-user] VMware and kernel 2.6.0test8

2003-11-07 Thread Nathaniel
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 17:44, Nathaniel wrote: On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 17:14, Alex Schuster wrote: Nathaniel writes: I installed vmware from portage. I then ran vmware-config.pl. It built the modules fine, gave me no errors. Told me to run vmware so I did. When I do I get the error:

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH permission question

2003-11-07 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Friday 07 November 2003 11:16 am, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi Thomas, Thomas Buntrock wrote: After uncomment the line iface_eth1=207.170.82.202 broadcast 207.0.255.255 netmask 255.255.0.0 on /etc/conf.d/net of PC2-Gentoo box, both box can ping each other Now on PC2-Gentoo box

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

2003-11-07 Thread Andrew Farmer
On Fri, 07 Nov 2003 15:38:01 -0800, Norbert Kamenicky muttered: Stephen Boulet 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 I have seen the advices you received, and have another solution:

Re: [gentoo-user] VMware and kernel 2.6.0test8

2003-11-07 Thread William Kenworthy
Make sure you run /opt/vmware/bin/vmware-config.pl and not vmware-config.pl. Older installs of vmware were a bit careless at some point and there can be old files in /usr/bin that dont match the current install and create this error. BillK On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 07:00, Nathaniel wrote: On Fri,

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is /var full?

2003-11-07 Thread Hall Stevenson
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 22:24, Matt Chorman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 07 November 2003 05:42 am, Hall Stevenson wrote: Really ?? I know you can safely delete /var/tmp/distfiles, but I've always left the others alone. They do just appear to be directories

Re: [gentoo-user] X sharing (OT?)

2003-11-07 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 15:09, mathieu perrenoud wrote: On Friday 07 November 2003 18:57, Donnie Berkholz wrote: On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 08:49, mathieu perrenoud wrote: Hello, I'm looking for a tool that would do with X11 windows something similar that screen does with consoles. Something

[gentoo-user] auto-login using ssh

2003-11-07 Thread Andrew Gaffney
I've seen a thread or 2 here before about this, but I can't seem to find them. I use ssh to login to a few different hosts on a regular basis. I want to set it up so I don't have to enter my password. How do I do this? -- Andrew Gaffney -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] auto-login using ssh

2003-11-07 Thread Matt Chorman
On Friday 07 November 2003 03:47 pm, Andrew Gaffney wrote: I've seen a thread or 2 here before about this, but I can't seem to find them. I use ssh to login to a few different hosts on a regular basis. I want to set it up so I don't have to enter my password. How do I do this? A simple google

Re: [gentoo-user] auto-login using ssh

2003-11-07 Thread Jayson Garrell
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 15:47, Andrew Gaffney wrote: I've seen a thread or 2 here before about this, but I can't seem to find them. I use ssh to login to a few different hosts on a regular basis. I want to set it up so I don't have to enter my password. How do I do this? On each host, as

Re: [gentoo-user] auto-login using ssh

2003-11-07 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 07 November 2003 23:47, Andrew Gaffney wrote: I've seen a thread or 2 here before about this, but I can't seem to find them. I use ssh to login to a few different hosts on a regular basis. I want to set it up so I don't have to enter my

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is /var full?

2003-11-07 Thread Spider
begin quote On Fri, 07 Nov 2003 18:42:27 + Hall Stevenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do recall a message recently about files in /var/tmp and that apps can expect them to remain there vs being deleted. Is there a bootup script that normally empties /tmp and other 'tmp' dirs ?? /var/tmp

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