Re: [gentoo-user] DVD Authoring Tools

2003-11-18 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Tuesday 18 November 2003 14:08, Seth Zirin wrote: Does anyone know of any GUI tools for DVD authoring? Something comparable to K3b that does data and video would be perfect. Are dvdauthor and dvdrtools the only options? K3b 0.10.2cvs does data DVD and eMovix DVD but not video DVD as yet.

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I adjust / limit the bandwidth used by my machine?

2003-11-18 Thread Spider
begin quote On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 14:31:53 +0800 Zarick Lau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is it possible to limited the bandwidth used by my machine? This requires you to go to the mighty google, and look for keywords such as : Linux, Traffic Control, Traffic Limiting, QoS, Howto This

Re: [gentoo-user] cups printing problems

2003-11-18 Thread Harlan
Thank you for replying. /dev/lp0 - printers/0 Thanks, Harlan... On Monday 17 November 2003 11:20 am, Rex Young wrote: Hello Everyone, Here is what I have tried: bash-2.05b# grep 420C /usr/share/foomatic/db/source/printer/*

Re: [gentoo-user] cups printing problems

2003-11-18 Thread Harlan
Thank you for replying. I did, and still do, have the cupsd running. I do start it they way you suggest. I have even stopped it and restarted it several times. Still no joy. Thanks, Harlan... On Monday 17 November 2003 12:55 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 11:11:51AM

Re: [gentoo-user] cups printing problems

2003-11-18 Thread Harlan
Thank you for your reply. I tried -L /dev/lp0 and -L file:/dev/lp0 Still no joy. Thanks, Harlan... On Monday 17 November 2003 11:24 am, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: Le 11/16/03 Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit notamment: Here is what I have tried: bash-2.05b# grep 420C

[gentoo-user] Gentoo internal structure

2003-11-18 Thread Sergey V. Spiridonov
Hi, 1. Is Gentoo commercial or non-commercial organization? 2. Is there Gentoo project leader, like in Debian? How is it elected? 3. How key decisions are done? Is there voting system? 4. Can Gentoo maintainers correct the Social Contract? Thanks in advance. -- Best regards, Sergey Spiridonov

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo internal structure

2003-11-18 Thread Senectus -
08:10:47.0345 (UTC) FILETIME=[78C14210:01C3ADAB] Hi, 1. Is Gentoo commercial or non-commercial organization? From memory its a private non cemmercial company. Though there are plans in the works to change this, and make it public 2. Is there Gentoo project leader, like in Debian? How is it

Re: [gentoo-user] X11 crashing when switching to terminal or shutdown

2003-11-18 Thread Henti Smith
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 22:05:28 -0500 Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try disabling framebuffer if you're using it. Or switch to vesa if you're using riva. I'm not using framebuffer ... nor am I useing riva .. I'm using the nvidia drivers fromt he website Henti -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] strange boot message Xargs: environment is too large for exec

2003-11-18 Thread Zarick Lau
On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 18:02, Andreas Schmitzer wrote: hello, recently i installed gentoo 1.4 for ahtlon-xp. while booting the message appears : cleaning /var/lock, /var/run, Xargs: environment ist too large for exec try upgrade the findutils what does it mean and how do i solve

Re: [gentoo-user] X11 crashing when switching to terminal or shutdown

2003-11-18 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Tuesday 18 November 2003 07:40, Henti Smith wrote: I've had some problems with X11 before related to crashing when starting up on a gf2 card in another machine. This machine has a ti4800 which so far has been running fine. I however updated X11 to xfree-4.3.0-r3 and still starts up fine,

Re: [gentoo-user] X11 crashing when switching to terminal or shutdown

2003-11-18 Thread Henti Smith
On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 17:42:42 +0900 Jason Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I find that I can't use the console - or specifically I can't see it. But X remains fine; that is I can switch back to it and continue using it. Consoles are always blank after starting X, though. Drivers before 4363 (I

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I adjust / limit the bandwidth used by my machine?

2003-11-18 Thread Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos
Thanks a lot! :D Going to read it now! On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 06:53, Greg Donald wrote: On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Zarick Lau wrote: Is it possible to limited the bandwidth used by my machine? Linux Advanced Routing Traffic Control HOWTO: http://lartc.org/howto/index.html -- Paulo J. Matos

[gentoo-user] Different CPU priorities for processes - HOWTO?

2003-11-18 Thread Chris Carter
Hi, A really nice feature I enjoyed using in my old HP3000 was having different CPU queues that had different CPU priorities. During configuration, you could define which processes (users, housecleaning, database, etc.) go into which queue. Critical apps got higher priority, users got medium

[gentoo-user] Security updates

2003-11-18 Thread Fabien Fivaz
Hi, I installed Gentoo from a GRP CD and do not want emerge to update gnome, KDE, especially, I don't want them to be compiled (until I really want to use my laptop for sunday afternoon barbecue!) I asked myself if it was possible to emerge only security updates ? Does emerge -u system

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse wheel problems

2003-11-18 Thread Dennis Freise
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 15:15:21 -0500 Joel Konkle-Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Logitech Cordless Navigator Duo set (keyboard mouse on one USB), which includes a wheel mouse. When I try using the wheel though, nothing happens. I've tried it in several different apps, too, and

Re: [gentoo-user] fb in 2.6.0-test9

2003-11-18 Thread Dennis Freise
On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 09:15:49 +0800 Zarick Lau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have just played around with the 2.6.0-test9-gentoo, with the new bootsplash patch for 2.6 however, I got a problem, while most other driver for my box seems ok, I found that I can't use the fb (nothing under

Re: [gentoo-user] Security updates

2003-11-18 Thread MAL
Fabien Fivaz wrote: Hi, I installed Gentoo from a GRP CD and do not want emerge to update gnome, KDE, especially, I don't want them to be compiled (until I really want to use my laptop for sunday afternoon barbecue!) I asked myself if it was possible to emerge only security updates ? Does

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 2.6 and Touchpad

2003-11-18 Thread Redeeman
sorry it took so long, this will hopefully help you! ection Module Loadextmod Loadglx Loadsynaptics Loaddbe Loadrecord Loadxtrap Loadspeedo Loadfreetype Loadtype1 Loaddri

RE: [gentoo-user] Different CPU priorities for processes - HOWTO?

2003-11-18 Thread Chris Carter
Is this type feature available in Linux? thinking of something like the nice command: nice -+19 command, to set lowest priority, and nice -0 for highest priority. -- Sigurd Stordal master in Petrology/mineralogy President of GOGS Opuscreator VS in DNM95 Thanks. I was not aware of

[gentoo-user] Syntax to upgrade kernel

2003-11-18 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi all folks, I am running kernel (/usr/src/linux/Makefile) VERSION = 2 PATCHLEVEL = 4 SUBLEVEL = 20 EXTRAVERSION = -gentoo-r7 and prepared upgrading it to r8 Kindly advise what will be the correct command line to upgrade kernel from Gentoo website to retain old kernel. So there will be 2

Re: [gentoo-user] Speaker problems?

2003-11-18 Thread brett holcomb
Does your system have a mixer for the sound - if not merge one and see if it lets you unmute the headphones. On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 17:32:41 -0500 Joel Konkle-Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Gaffney wrote: Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: Ernie Schroder wrote: On Monday 17 November 2003 04:18

Re: [gentoo-user] system time/hw clock

2003-11-18 Thread Marianne Taylor
On November 17, 2003 21:57, Donnie Berkholz wrote: On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 16:10, Marianne Taylor wrote: My system ie hwclock is set to the local time. But each time I reboot my system clock is set to 8 hrs before my hwclock. Somewhere my system seems to be correcting for Greenwich time,

Re: [gentoo-user] Syntax to upgrade kernel

2003-11-18 Thread brett holcomb
Emerge the kernel you want, link /usr/src/linux to the new directory and then build it. Move the new bzImage to /boot with a new name of course. Modify grub, boot. On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 20:41:38 +0800 Stephen Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all folks, I am running kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] system time/hw clock

2003-11-18 Thread Ric Messier
I've no idea what Windows doesn't treat time correctly means. I've been dual booting for years and only have problems when I do something dumb on the UNIX side (like not setting the /etc/localtime link) or sometimes under OpenBSD but I forget what the problem there is/was. Ric On 2003.11.17

Re: [gentoo-user] Syntax to upgrade kernel

2003-11-18 Thread mathieu
Le Mardi 18 Novembre 2003 13:41, Stephen Liu a écrit : Hi all folks, I am running kernel (/usr/src/linux/Makefile) VERSION = 2 PATCHLEVEL = 4 SUBLEVEL = 20 EXTRAVERSION = -gentoo-r7 and prepared upgrading it to r8 Kindly advise what will be the correct command line to upgrade kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] interesting article: optimizing GCC

2003-11-18 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Tuesday 18 November 2003 05:44, Jason Stubbs wrote: On Tuesday 18 November 2003 09:57, Chris Graves wrote: interesting article about selecting gcc optimizations (found on OSNews.com). http://www.coyotegulch.com/acovea/index.html Quite a good article! Shame it doesn't apply to us. I

[gentoo-user] PCSC smartcard reader

2003-11-18 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi there, Does anyone have any experience with getting a Reflex 72 v2 serial smart card reader working, whether it be in Gentoo or not? (but preferably with gentoo, obviously :P) I need to use it to hold an ssh key for public key authentication to

RE: [gentoo-user] system time/hw clock

2003-11-18 Thread Mark Knecht
-Original Message- From: Marianne Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 1:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] system time/hw clock My system ie hwclock is set to the local time. But each time I reboot my system clock is set to 8 hrs

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo user -- Questions

2003-11-18 Thread Luke Scharf
On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 20:51, Luke Scharf wrote: 3. How does the hotplugger know to start /etc/init.d/net.eth1 when I insert my PCMCIA wireless card? I didn't set up any sort of relation between eth1 and the orinoco module, nor do I know where this

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo user -- Questions

2003-11-18 Thread Luke Scharf
Installing the 2.4.22 kernel (gentoo-test-sources) made all of my acpi problems go away -- and all of my system resource usage issues (real or perceived) go away too. :-) How long does it usually take for a package like gentoo-test-sources to be approved for the stable system? Thanks, -Luke On

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo internal structure

2003-11-18 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Sergey V. Spiridonov -- Hi, 1. Is Gentoo commercial or non-commercial organization? 2. Is there Gentoo project leader, like in Debian? How is it elected? 3. How key decisions are done? Is there voting system? 4. Can Gentoo maintainers correct the Social Contract?

RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo SLOW with Seti@home

2003-11-18 Thread Jeffrey Smelser
Finallyrunning TOP occurred to me and when I did, I saw a root session running nanoand i could not recall having logged in as root and run nano any time in the past few days. But I can't rule it out as I almost certainly would have adjusted the host name of the local portage

Re: [gentoo-user] proxy

2003-11-18 Thread Andrew Farmer
On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 04:37:48 -0800, Redeeman muttered: i am need of a a proxy server, because my brother is on the lan, and he wants to make daemons, and i have all the ports :D i dont know anything about it, and i dont have much time, so i am in need of a secure and easy proxy server, i have

Re: [gentoo-user] system time/hw clock

2003-11-18 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 09:02, Ric Messier wrote: I've no idea what Windows doesn't treat time correctly means. I've been dual booting for years and only have problems when I do something dumb on the UNIX side (like not setting the /etc/localtime link) or sometimes under OpenBSD but I forget

[gentoo-user] dual-head

2003-11-18 Thread Andrew Gaffney
I've finally figured out a use for my 2 video cards and monitors. I have a nice 17 attached to an AGP ATI Rage 128 (I say this like I should be proud of it) and a circa 1994 CTX 15 monitor hooked to a generic SiS card. What I want to do is run the console from my small monitor with a 800x600 fb

Re: [gentoo-user] strange boot message Xargs: environment is too large for exec

2003-11-18 Thread Richard Kilgore
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 04:16:57PM +0800, Zarick Lau wrote: On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 18:02, Andreas Schmitzer wrote: hello, recently i installed gentoo 1.4 for ahtlon-xp. while booting the message appears : cleaning /var/lock, /var/run, Xargs: environment ist too large for

[gentoo-user] Portage Error

2003-11-18 Thread dennis
Why am I getting this error in portage when I emerge packaged. I got this while emerging mplayer. - dennis Auto-cleaning packages ... !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/*sys-fs/devfsd!!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/*sys-fs/devfsd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] dual-head

2003-11-18 Thread Larry Meadors
..or you could use X on both. With a maximized terminal in the smaller one. Probably a simpler setup. :-/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/18/03 8:52 AM I've finally figured out a use for my 2 video cards and monitors. I have a nice 17 attached to an AGP ATI Rage 128 (I say this like I should be proud of

Re: [gentoo-user] proxy

2003-11-18 Thread Redeeman
hehe ok On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 16:44, Andrew Farmer wrote: On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 04:37:48 -0800, Redeeman muttered: i am need of a a proxy server, because my brother is on the lan, and he wants to make daemons, and i have all the ports :D i dont know anything about it, and i dont have much

Re: [gentoo-user] dual-head

2003-11-18 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Larry Meadors wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/18/03 8:52 AM I've finally figured out a use for my 2 video cards and monitors. I have a nice 17 attached to an AGP ATI Rage 128 (I say this like I should be proud of it) and a circa 1994 CTX 15 monitor hooked to a generic SiS card. What I want to do is

Re: [gentoo-user] dual-head

2003-11-18 Thread Jeff MacDonald
I will only be doing text-based work on the smaller monitor. There is no reason for me to kill resources running X twice. I have a problem of not getting work done because there are DVDs I'd rather watch. This way, I can have a movie going on the big monitor and be getting my work

Re: [gentoo-user] dual-head

2003-11-18 Thread Lucas Sallovitz
Larry Meadors wrote: ..or you could use X on both. With a maximized terminal in the smaller one. Probably a simpler setup. :-/ The problem with that is that AFAIK, X can handle different resolutions but not different colordepths. I learned that when I wanted to put an old vga card next to a

[gentoo-user] Frontpage support for Apache

2003-11-18 Thread Thomas Smith
I haven't seen any support for Frontpage and Apache on Gentoo--is there none? The only packages I've found are external and require patching Apache to work. If this is the case, is there a good/better/best way to integrate patches into the Portage system so it can be managed as part of it?

[gentoo-user] Tk for Python

2003-11-18 Thread David Gethings
Hi, I'm looking for the Tkinter lib for Python. So far my 'emerge search's have not born any fruit. Does anyone know what ebuild this lib is in. Is it even in an ebuild? Yes I have done an 'emerge sync' within the last 24 hours. Cheers Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Tk for Python

2003-11-18 Thread Jeffrey Smelser
http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=Tkinter Most things python, are in dev-python.. Hi, I'm looking for the Tkinter lib for Python. So far my 'emerge search's have not born any fruit. Does anyone know what ebuild this lib is in. Is it even in an ebuild? Yes I have done an

RE: [gentoo-user] Tk for Python

2003-11-18 Thread Jeffrey Smelser
Opps. my mistake.. I should have read it better.. There isn't one.. :) Let me crawl back in my hole.. http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=Tkinter Most things python, are in dev-python.. Hi, I'm looking for the Tkinter lib for Python. So far my 'emerge search's have not

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo user -- Questions

2003-11-18 Thread Hall Stevenson
You could go with gs-sources as it's based on an even *newer* kernel, 2.4.23_pre8 or pre9. I switched to that and my attempts at getting USB mouse, keyboard, and digital camera went away (not without add'l work, mind you ... that add'l work *may* have worked with an older kernel too). Hall At

Re: [gentoo-user] dual-head

2003-11-18 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Andrew Gaffney wrote: I will only be doing text-based work on the smaller monitor. There is no reason for me to kill resources running X twice. I have a problem of not getting work done because there are DVDs I'd rather watch. This way, I can have a movie going on the big monitor and be getting

Re: [gentoo-user] Syntax to upgrade kernel

2003-11-18 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi mathieu, Thanks for your detail advice. I have following points expected to be advised. - snip - Kindly advise what will be the correct command line to upgrade kernel from Gentoo website to retain old kernel. So there will be 2 kernels at boot for selection. I use Grub. 1. emerge the

Re: [gentoo-user] system time/hw clock

2003-11-18 Thread Ric Messier
On 2003.11.18 10:51, Donnie Berkholz wrote: It means that in my experience, if you don't have time set to UTC in Linux, every time you boot Windows it will mess your time up. I've never set my time to UTC under linux and Windows never messes my time up. Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows XP

Re: [gentoo-user] Syntax to upgrade kernel

2003-11-18 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 12:07 PM 11/18/2003, you wrote: # make clean dep # make bzImage modules # make modules_install # cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-gentoo-r8 I suppose arch/i386/boot/bzImage will be created after make modules_install No, make bzImage actually creates that file. The instructions

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse wheel problems

2003-11-18 Thread Ted Ozolins
Dennis Freise wrote: I have a logitech keyboard with a mousewheel on it, which is detected and used _instead_ of the mousewheel on the mouse. Maybe it's the same for you ? That is because the wheel onthe Logitech keyboard is detected first and becomes /dev/input/mouse0 and your mouse (wich is

RE: [gentoo-user] Tk for Python

2003-11-18 Thread David Gethings
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 16:49, Jeffrey Smelser wrote: Opps. my mistake.. I should have read it better.. There isn't one.. :) Let me crawl back in my hole.. http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=Tkinter Most things python, are in dev-python.. Thanks Jeffery. You've managed to get

Re: [gentoo-user] system time/hw clock

2003-11-18 Thread Javier Gostling
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 12:08:51PM -0500, Ric Messier wrote: On 2003.11.18 10:51, Donnie Berkholz wrote: It means that in my experience, if you don't have time set to UTC in Linux, every time you boot Windows it will mess your time up. I've never set my time to UTC under linux and

Re: [gentoo-user] Tk for Python

2003-11-18 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 18 November 2003 17:20, David Gethings wrote: Odd that there is no ebuild for Tkinter. As far as I am aware it is practially considered core to Python. I think you need to set the tcltk USE variable for it to be built along with python

RES: [gentoo-user] Portage Error

2003-11-18 Thread Fellipe
try #emerge rsync and try again merge mplayer banza | -Mensagem original- | De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Enviada em: terca-feira, 18 de novembro de 2003 14:08 | Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Assunto: [gentoo-user] Portage Error | | | Why am I getting this

Re: [gentoo-user] Tk for Python

2003-11-18 Thread David Gethings
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 17:30, Mike Williams wrote: I think you need to set the tcltk USE variable for it to be built along with python USE=tcltk emerge python I'll check that when I get home. Cheers Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] system time/hw clock

2003-11-18 Thread A. Craig West
On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Javier Gostling wrote: Actually, Windows assumes the hw clock to be set to local time, so if you set Linux to UTC, then Linux will mess your time. I had this happen some time ago, and instructing Linux that the hw clock is in local time solved the issue. I've never really

[gentoo-user] 802.11b that works ... MSoft mn510 usb works

2003-11-18 Thread Heitzso
I tried current netgear and d-link pcmcia 802.11b w/o success. They've both moved to non-prism chipsets. I didn't try to download and compile proprietary d-link, did try w/o success netgear's (realtek). The Microsoft MN510 usb 802.11b adapter is prism based and worked w/o too much fuss using

[gentoo-user] XFree loading incorrect driver

2003-11-18 Thread Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos
Hi all, I've upgraded my kernel from gentoo-sources 2.4.20-r5 to r8, used genkernel (which is great), hotplug, etc. However I lost DRI. Now direct rendering is off and I can't get it back on. I have radeon module from xfree-drm loaded but it's not being used becase Xfree (using the latest) is

Re: [gentoo-user] system time/hw clock

2003-11-18 Thread Senectus -
I get the same problem.. yes I'm dual booting with winxp.. and now it seems that if I try to fix the time in linux (KDE) The App crashes.. :-( Senectus 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

Re: [gentoo-user] An F in an ebuild description?

2003-11-18 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos wrote: Hi all, Can someone please explain me what the following F means? [ebuildFU ] media-video/realplayer-8-r7 [8-r6] It means that the file will have to be fetched manually and placed into /usr/portage/distfiles. If you do 'emerge -u realplayer'

Re: [gentoo-user] cups printing problems

2003-11-18 Thread Harlan
Hi Kathy, Thank you for replying. I am downloading and installing the latest version of gimp-print, which found a newer version of foomatic programs. I did already have the ppd file for my HP printer installed. I will take a little while for the compiles to work; my print server is a slow

Re: [gentoo-user] system time/hw clock

2003-11-18 Thread brett holcomb
Windows doesn't use UTC for the hw clock. You set the BIOS to local time and windows works from there. Where things get messed up is when you set your hardware clock to UTC, tell Linux that and then dual boot. The time get's messed up by Windows. You might check the archives as there have

[gentoo-user] Gentoo-sources

2003-11-18 Thread Chase Jeffery D
Title: Gentoo-sources Does anyone have a list of kernel settings for build time that includes iptables/netfilter/mangaling ? I'm having a heck of a time Building the kernel. I continually get errors or genkernel won't get past Make Modules. I've looked at the log in var but thats not much

Re: [gentoo-user] An F in an ebuild description?

2003-11-18 Thread Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos
Thanks a lot! On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 18:11, Andrew Gaffney wrote: Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos wrote: Hi all, Can someone please explain me what the following F means? [ebuildFU ] media-video/realplayer-8-r7 [8-r6] It means that the file will have to be fetched

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo internal structure

2003-11-18 Thread Sven Vermeulen
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 09:11:57AM +0100, Sergey V. Spiridonov wrote: 1. Is Gentoo commercial or non-commercial organization? It currently is a company (Gentoo Technologies Inc.) but steps are being taken to become a non-for-profit organisation. 2. Is there Gentoo project leader, like in

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo internal structure

2003-11-18 Thread brett holcomb
What's wrong with the social contract?? On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 19:44:45 +0100 Sven Vermeulen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 09:11:57AM +0100, Sergey V. Spiridonov wrote: 4. Can Gentoo maintainers correct the Social Contract? Everybody can propose to alter the Social Contract.

Re: [gentoo-user] PCSC smartcard reader

2003-11-18 Thread Daniel Struck
I have one here, and to be honest, I have no idea if it's working or not, or if it's me just not using it correctly, or using the right tools. You may have a look at these sites: http://www.opensc.org/ http://www.linuxnet.com/ Daniel -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Syntax to upgrade kernel

2003-11-18 Thread mathieu perrenoud
On Tuesday 18 November 2003 18:07, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi mathieu, Thanks for your detail advice. I have following points expected to be advised. - snip - Kindly advise what will be the correct command line to upgrade kernel from Gentoo website to retain old kernel. So there will be 2

Re: [gentoo-user] X11 crashing when switching to terminal or shutdown

2003-11-18 Thread mathieu perrenoud
On Tuesday 18 November 2003 09:57, Henti Smith wrote: On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 17:42:42 +0900 Jason Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I find that I can't use the console - or specifically I can't see it. But X remains fine; that is I can switch back to it and continue using it. Consoles are

Re: [gentoo-user] Dynamic DNS recommendations

2003-11-18 Thread rd
ZONEEDIT is a great service. Have been using it for years. Highly recommended. -rdg --- Matthew Daubenspeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 07:34:19AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, My ISP keeps moving my DHCP cable modem IP and I cannot keep up with it from remote

Re: [gentoo-user] moving to new partition

2003-11-18 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Jason Stubbs wrote: Well, there's something that cp doesn't do... Most *nix gurus will tell you to use some magically tar and cpio pipe to do the job. I would have put that but I couldn't find an appropriate example. ;-) Here u have such example :-) : find src_dir -print | cpio -pduml

Re: [gentoo-user] interesting article: optimizing GCC

2003-11-18 Thread Spider
begin quote On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 17:47:03 +0200 Sami Näätänen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 18 November 2003 05:44, Jason Stubbs wrote: On Tuesday 18 November 2003 09:57, Chris Graves wrote: interesting article about selecting gcc optimizations (found on OSNews.com).

Re: [gentoo-user] strange boot message Xargs: environment is too large for exec

2003-11-18 Thread rd
When I installed gentoo back on 1.3, I too had this message. One of the updates to baselayout (I think) fixed the problem. Are you current on your 'emerge -u world'? -rdg --- Zarick Lau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 18:02, Andreas Schmitzer wrote: hello, recently i

Re: [gentoo-user] Security updates

2003-11-18 Thread rd
MAL -- Yes the security update issue is important for me as well. There was a thread somewhere from australia (I believe) where a guy is installing gentoo for a large customer with lots of servers. The ability to update security without breaking a gentoo system is a real problem that I hope

Re: [gentoo-user] PCSC smartcard reader

2003-11-18 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 18 November 2003 18:55, Daniel Struck wrote: I have one here, and to be honest, I have no idea if it's working or not, or if it's me just not using it correctly, or using the right tools. You may have a look at these sites:

Re: [gentoo-user] Time Adjustment

2003-11-18 Thread Mike Roberts
I got ntp working this morning. Still get the same message in Gnome, but who cares as the time is more exact now than I could ever get it myself. Thanks a lot Andrew and MadMax. On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 20:32, MadMax wrote: On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 17:21:49 -0800, Mike Roberts muttered: Simple

[gentoo-user] gentoos (OT)

2003-11-18 Thread mathieu perrenoud
All answers about gentoo ;-) http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Peter_and_Barbara_Barham/gentoo.htm more pictures: http://images.google.com/images?q=gentoo+-linux -- mathieu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo user -- Questions

2003-11-18 Thread Luke Scharf
That kernel seems to work pretty well too -- and I don't have to use the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 bit. When using gs-sources, is there any way to get genkernel to automagically copy the bzImage to /boot and run make modules_install like it does with the other kernels? Thanks, -Luke On Tue,

[gentoo-user] xconfig

2003-11-18 Thread Paul Stear
Hi all, I wanted to use xconfig to make a new kernel but it fails. What do I need to use xconfig instead of menu config? Thanks Paul -- This message was sent using gentoo linux and kmail -- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo internal structure

2003-11-18 Thread Sergey V. Spiridonov
Sven Vermeulen wrote: Thank you for anwers. Here are some more. 3. How key decisions are done? Is there voting system? Gentoo has several top-level projects [1]. Each project is in charge for a well-defined part of the distribution. When decisions need to be made, the situation is discussed at

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo internal structure

2003-11-18 Thread Jeffrey Smelser
What's with your questions?? Sven Vermeulen wrote: Thank you for anwers. Here are some more. 3. How key decisions are done? Is there voting system? Gentoo has several top-level projects [1]. Each project is in charge for a well-defined part of the distribution. When decisions

Re: [gentoo-user] xconfig

2003-11-18 Thread Janne Johansson
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 22:45, Paul Stear wrote: Hi all, I wanted to use xconfig to make a new kernel but it fails. How does it fail? What do I need to use xconfig instead of menu config? Depends. -- Janne So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

Re: [gentoo-user] xconfig

2003-11-18 Thread Tom Wesley
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 20:45, Paul Stear wrote: Hi all, I wanted to use xconfig to make a new kernel but it fails. What do I need to use xconfig instead of menu config? Thanks Paul -- This message was sent using gentoo linux and kmail -- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list What

[gentoo-user] Local mail delivery?

2003-11-18 Thread Luke Scharf
I'm running ssmtp (the default sendmail program, I think) on Gentoo. It works great for sending messages (like this one), but it doesn't seem to do too well for local mail delivery. The only things that I use local mail delivery for are reading the results of cronjobs and for things like

Re: [gentoo-user] dual-head

2003-11-18 Thread Alan
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 12:25:10PM -0400, Jeff MacDonald wrote: I will only be doing text-based work on the smaller monitor. There is no reason for me to kill resources running X twice. I have a problem of not getting work done because there are DVDs I'd rather watch. This way, I can

Re: [gentoo-user] Local mail delivery?

2003-11-18 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Luke Scharf wrote: I'm running ssmtp (the default sendmail program, I think) on Gentoo. It works great for sending messages (like this one), but it doesn't seem to do too well for local mail delivery. The only things that I use local mail delivery for are reading the results of cronjobs and for

Re: [gentoo-user] interesting article: optimizing GCC

2003-11-18 Thread Oliver Lange
Sami Näätänen wrote: So the test made would suit for compile or rendering farms, but not for desktop environment. Absolutely. Very hard to find out why some desktop program recently crashed if any system binary might be the reason.. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] What Guest OS do you run on Vmware?

2003-11-18 Thread FX
question, What guest OS('s) do you have running on your vmware? Have you run into an OS that would not install on vmware? What steps did you take that might of been different for an install? the reason i ask is i ran mandrake version 9.1rc-1 on vmware and it froze my gentoo box? I had no

Re: [gentoo-user] Mylex DAC960PD-3

2003-11-18 Thread Philipp Kügle
Am Montag, 17. November 2003 22:37 schrieb Christian Schäfer: I thought it was a kernel patch? is it integrated in the current kernel? In 2.4 and 2.6 do you know if it is possible to flash new firmware without burning an eeprom? In the archive is a tool to flash (fwpd352.exe) an a image to

[gentoo-user] cardreader and hotplug questions

2003-11-18 Thread Alan
I have hotplug set up to recognize my CF flash card reader properly, but it's not user friendly just yet. Right now when I want to use it I have to put the card in the reader, run /etc/init.d/hotplug restart, and it comes up fine. If I don't restart hotplug the dev/sda* devices don't show up. I

Re: [gentoo-user] What Guest OS do you run on Vmware?

2003-11-18 Thread Alan
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 01:03:23PM -0800, FX wrote: question, What guest OS('s) do you have running on your vmware? Have you run into an OS that would not install on vmware? What steps did you take that might of been different for an install? I have run windowsxp, windows2000 and gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] xconfig

2003-11-18 Thread Paul Stear
On Tue 18 November 2003 20:48, Janne Johansson wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 22:45, Paul Stear wrote: Hi all, I wanted to use xconfig to make a new kernel but it fails. How does it fail? What do I need to use xconfig instead of menu config? Depends. This is the error output, hope it

Re: [gentoo-user] Local mail delivery?

2003-11-18 Thread Luke Scharf
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 15:52, Andrew Gaffney wrote: ssmtp does not work this way. It is pretty much a mail gateway. I don't know if it can be done the way you propose without a full mail server. The only way I know to get local mail delivery is with a full mail server such as sendmail or

Re: [gentoo-user] xconfig

2003-11-18 Thread Tom Wesley
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 21:22, Paul Stear wrote: On Tue 18 November 2003 20:48, Janne Johansson wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 22:45, Paul Stear wrote: Hi all, I wanted to use xconfig to make a new kernel but it fails. How does it fail? What do I need to use xconfig instead of menu

Re: [gentoo-user] xconfig

2003-11-18 Thread Janne Johansson
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 23:22, Paul Stear wrote: This is the error output, hope it helps, I seem to remember along time ago mention was made of needing something extra for xconfig to work. bash-2.05b# cd /usr/src/linux bash-2.05b# make xconfig ... wish -f scripts/kconfig.tk make: wish:

Re: [gentoo-user] xconfig

2003-11-18 Thread Robert Crawford
On Tuesday 18 November 2003 4:22 pm, Paul Stear wrote: On Tue 18 November 2003 20:48, Janne Johansson wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 22:45, Paul Stear wrote: Hi all, I wanted to use xconfig to make a new kernel but it fails. How does it fail? What do I need to use xconfig instead

Re: [gentoo-user] xconfig

2003-11-18 Thread Barry Marler
Emerge -pv dev-lang/tk? On 21:22 Tue 18 Nov, Paul Stear wrote: On Tue 18 November 2003 20:48, Janne Johansson wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 22:45, Paul Stear wrote: Hi all, I wanted to use xconfig to make a new kernel but it fails. How does it fail? What do I need to use xconfig

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo user -- Questions

2003-11-18 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 03:23 PM 11/18/2003, you wrote: When using gs-sources, is there any way to get genkernel to automagically copy the bzImage to /boot and run make modules_install like it does with the other kernels? You know, I've been using this for years make install It doesn't do 'make modules_install'

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