[gentoo-user] MythTV, cmipci, bttv, alsa

2003-11-29 Thread Greg Donald
I am having issues getting sound to work in MythTV, or any TV program for that matter, I also tried xawtv and it seems the same, no sound. I installed ALSA, and it works great in other audio apps like xmms. I have the CMedia chipset: $ cat /proc/pci |grep audio Multimedia audio controller:

Re: [gentoo-user] gkrellm 1 vs gkrellm 2

2003-11-29 Thread purslow
031128 Peter Ruskin wrote re location of sensors w/i Gkrellm display: > I have them in the middle of the display, > but you can still select from {default,CPU,Proc} as in version 1. thanx: you have to hilite them individually in the cfg box (not too clear). however, the CPU/PROC choices simply mix

Re: [gentoo-user] MythTV, cmipci, bttv, alsa

2003-11-29 Thread Andrew B. Panphiloff
Сбт, 29.11.2003, в 10:42, Greg Donald пишет: > I am having issues getting sound to work in MythTV, or any TV program > for that matter, I also tried xawtv and it seems the same, no sound. I > installed ALSA, and it works great in other audio apps like xmms. > > I have the CMedia chipset: > >

[gentoo-user] error in reg. cache

2003-11-29 Thread Vít Vomáčko
>>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache... [texinfo-4.5] bash: line 1: /sbin/depscan.sh: No such file or directory I'm doing bootstrap and it writes this message a lot...What's wrong? Nadstandardní služby - prodloužený bezplatný servis 2+2 rok

Re: [gentoo-user] error in reg. cache

2003-11-29 Thread Oliver Lange
Vít Vomáčko wrote: Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache... [texinfo-4.5] bash: line 1: /sbin/depscan.sh: No such file or directory I'm doing bootstrap and it writes this message a lot...What's wrong? Are you sure that you properly called chroot to your install system, including the appropriate mount comm

Re: [gentoo-user] error in reg. cache

2003-11-29 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Saturday 29 November 2003 17:32, Vít Vomáčko wrote: > >>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache... > > [texinfo-4.5] bash: line 1: /sbin/depscan.sh: No such file or directory > > I'm doing bootstrap and it writes this message a lot...What's wrong? The error is actually after ld.so.cache has been regene

[gentoo-user] Gnome games

2003-11-29 Thread Oliver Lange
Hello everyone, Why does gnome depend on gnome games ? Is there really anybody in the world really playing any of these absolute mega crap games ? That's a big package which i just don't want to see on my box... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome games

2003-11-29 Thread Sven Vermeulen
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 10:16:40AM +0100, Oliver Lange wrote: > Why does gnome depend on gnome games ? > Is there really anybody in the world really playing > any of these absolute mega crap games ? That's a big > package which i just don't want to see on my box... The gnome packet is a wrapper fo

[gentoo-user] Kernel HOW TO needed

2003-11-29 Thread John GIlger
I've installed Gentoo 1.4 on my box from Stage 1. Everything has gone smooth as silk -- until tonight. I am trying to configure CUPS for my HP-OfficeJet 7110. Following the instructions in the docs posted at gentoo.org, it seems that I need to compile a printer module -- "modprobe printer" does

[gentoo-user] Generating MD5 passwords

2003-11-29 Thread Guy Van Sanden
Hello I'm looking for a way to generate MD5 passwd passwords on the command line. This is a workarround because rpc.yppasswdd is broken on my NIS server. Any suggestions? Kind regards Guy -- __ Guy Van Sanden http://uni

[gentoo-user] Re: Generating MD5 passwords

2003-11-29 Thread Sven Vermeulen
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 11:31:54AM +0100, Guy Van Sanden wrote: > I'm looking for a way to generate MD5 passwd passwords on the command > line. This is a workarround because rpc.yppasswdd is broken on my NIS > server. mkpasswd --hash="md5" Sven Vermeulen -- ^__^ And Larry saw that i

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Re: Generating MD5 passwords

2003-11-29 Thread Guy Van Sanden
Thanks, that does it! On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 11:46, Sven Vermeulen wrote: > On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 11:31:54AM +0100, Guy Van Sanden wrote: > > I'm looking for a way to generate MD5 passwd passwords on the command > > line. This is a workarround because rpc.yppasswdd is broken on my NIS > > server

[gentoo-user] Website manager

2003-11-29 Thread Craig Main
Hi all, Can someone recommend some software to handle website management (syncing development local site with live remote site) It needs to have a gui. TIA Craig -- Craig Main RHCE ST Solutions Cell: 082-323-4670 Home Tel: 011-760-1900 AIM: SATuxman; ICQ: 75815570 http://www.stsolutions.co.za

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot telnet to Gentoo box... how do I get this to go?

2003-11-29 Thread Murray Shields
Thanks to all who responded to my questions - it is now working a treat. Whilst they were all helpful and put me in the right direction this post coupled with another from Jerry McBride got it done. Thanks! Murray Andrew B. Panphiloff wrote: В Сбт, 29.11.2003, в 04:22, Murray Shields пишет:

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot telnet to Gentoo box... how do I get this to go?

2003-11-29 Thread Murray Shields
Jerry McBride wrote: Take note, DO NOT use telnet across your firewall or oterwise on an unprotected network. If you do, you are really, really asking for problems. Nah... it's on a dedicated media machine running Gentoo and Freevo in the lounge. The entire internal network is firewalled wit

[gentoo-user] Kmail

2003-11-29 Thread Jeff Smelser
Trying to use kmail in thread mode, as I read the thread, on this list actually, I have an annoying thing where when I delete a message in the thread it wants to move the thread around because the time of the message I am on now, isnt as old as the other message... How can I stop that, I just w

Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail

2003-11-29 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Saturday 29 November 2003 21:52, Jeff Smelser wrote: > Trying to use kmail in thread mode, as I read the thread, on this list > actually, I have an annoying thing where when I delete a message in the > thread it wants to move the thread around because the time of the message I > am on now, isnt

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS

2003-11-29 Thread Ulrich Rhein
Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The biggest improvement in performance will come by adding > -fomit-frame-pointer to your flags. That won't actually change anything but remove three instructions from some function calls. The resulting performance improvement is practically insignifica

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS

2003-11-29 Thread Ulrich Rhein
Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've found with my AthlonXP that when using -Os just about everything runs > much slower. Most noticably was kmail which took about 3 times as long to > clean up the mail folders on exit. Pretty much everything ran sluggish > though. It's *very* unlik

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is boot.log

2003-11-29 Thread Collins Richey
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 13:01:48 +0800 Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi MAL, > > >> - snip - > >> > >> 1. Boot computer into GRUB > >> > >> 2. Choose the most recent kernel on the list. > >> > >> 3. Press the "e" key to edit the commands for that kernel before > >> booting. > >> > >> 4. O

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome games

2003-11-29 Thread Stroller
On Nov 29, 2003, at 9:16 am, Oliver Lange wrote: Why does gnome depend on gnome games ? Is there really anybody in the world really playing any of these absolute mega crap games ? That's a big package which i just don't want to see on my box... Have you considered reading the ebuild..? DESCRIPTION

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS

2003-11-29 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Saturday 29 November 2003 22:25, Ulrich Rhein wrote: > Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The biggest improvement in performance will come by adding > > -fomit-frame-pointer to your flags. > > That won't actually change anything but remove three instructions from > some function calls.

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS

2003-11-29 Thread William Kenworthy
On an athlon Tbird with 1G ram, -Os is very very slow compared to -O2 (measured). -Os seems to be better on (very?) low memory machines, but I have only measured on the athlon and am going on others for that info. -fomit-frame-pointer gave a slight, but measurable improvement - hardly worth the e

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS

2003-11-29 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Saturday 29 November 2003 22:28, Ulrich Rhein wrote: > Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I've found with my AthlonXP that when using -Os just about everything > > runs much slower. Most noticably was kmail which took about 3 times as > > long to clean up the mail folders on exit. Pret

[gentoo-user] emerge -e pam

2003-11-29 Thread Jeff Smelser
I was trying to reemerge box this morning and noticed: make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/pam-0.75-r11/work/Linux-PAM-0.75/modules/pam_permit' make[2]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/pam-0.75-r11/work/Linux-PAM-0.75/modules/pam_pwdb' This module will not be compiled on this syst

[gentoo-user] modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-200

2003-11-29 Thread Paul Robinson
When I start a vpn client on my gentoo box I get this in the /var/log/messages (repeating forever): Nov 29 08:34:23 planet modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-200 I believe that I have compiled my kernel with IP tunnelling. How do I resolve this problem? Thanks -- [EMAIL PRO

[gentoo-user] Dutch-speaking Gentoo Users Meeting on 5/12/03

2003-11-29 Thread Nikolas Garofil
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 To every Dutch speaking gentoo user: There will be a meeting of gentoo users on 5/12/03 in Mortsel (in the south of Antwerp,Belgium). Everyone is invited, but don't expect something big, it's just a small meeting in a tavern. It starts at 20:00. Niko

[gentoo-user] odd mails in my email this morning Spider

2003-11-29 Thread Ernie Schroder
I'm getting about a dozen undelivered mail messages this morning with gentoo headers originating from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spider, I think you have a problem. -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome games

2003-11-29 Thread Oliver Lange
Stroller wrote: Should you require other parts of Gnome without Gnome-games, I suggest you emerge those parts separately - I think that `emerge gnome-desktop` will pull in much of what you require. I just solved that thing by adding gnome-games to the package mask.. :) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS

2003-11-29 Thread Oliver Lange
Jason Stubbs wrote: The biggest improvement in performance will come by adding -fomit-frame-pointer to your flags. I must say there definately is a very noticable improvement to system responsiveness. It may only remove three instructions from some function calls, but it frees up a register or t

Re: [gentoo-user] odd mails in my email this morning Spider

2003-11-29 Thread Oliver Lange
Ernie Schroder wrote: I'm getting about a dozen undelivered mail messages this morning with gentoo headers originating from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spider, I think you have a problem. Yeah i also received some. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] php and gd library

2003-11-29 Thread Michael Spohn
Hello all, I hope this is not way off topic - if, so pleas accept my appologies. I tried to install the PostNuke module Photoshare 3.0 which does not initialize and complais that the gd picture library is not installed on the server. I compiled php with the gd useflag and thought it should be int

[gentoo-user] Odd crashes

2003-11-29 Thread Ernie Schroder
For the last 3 mornings, my main Gentoo box has been locked solid. it has no keyboard or mouse response and attempting to ssh in from another box on the LAN gives "no route to host" errors. I've been looking at logs to try to figure out what's going on and I think I've narrowed it down to my ba

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS

2003-11-29 Thread Ulrich Rhein
Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Saturday 29 November 2003 22:25, Ulrich Rhein wrote: >> Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > The biggest improvement in performance will come by adding >> > -fomit-frame-pointer to your flags. >> That won't actually change anything but remove t

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS

2003-11-29 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Sunday 30 November 2003 00:31, Ulrich Rhein wrote: > Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Saturday 29 November 2003 22:25, Ulrich Rhein wrote: > >> Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > The biggest improvement in performance will come by adding > >> > -fomit-frame-pointer to

[gentoo-user] cups: "Unable to send print file to printer: Invalid argument"

2003-11-29 Thread Christian Fischer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi. i've tried to get working my famous minolta_color_page_pro_l gdi printer with cups. it's a parallel port printer. i have it working under vmware-gsx-server on the same machine. i use parport, parport_pc and ppdev as a module. device uri is parall

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot telnet to Gentoo box... how do I get this to go?

2003-11-29 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 29 November 2003 12:43, Murray Shields wrote: > Jerry McBride wrote: > >Take note, DO NOT use telnet across your firewall or oterwise on an > >unprotected network. If you do, you are really, really asking for > > problems. > > Nah... it's o

Re: [gentoo-user] Odd crashes

2003-11-29 Thread Ernie Schroder
OK so the box crashed again after being up less than an hour. It was running gtk-gnutella mplayer kmail and one MoxillaFirebird brower. the /var/log/messages shows nothing. I've openet 2 konsoles on my desktop after disabling the screen saver and the plan is to run top in one and ps aux

Re: [gentoo-user] Odd crashes

2003-11-29 Thread Tom Wesley
On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 17:06, Ernie Schroder wrote: > OK so the box crashed again after being up less than an hour. It was > running gtk-gnutella mplayer kmail and one MoxillaFirebird brower. > the /var/log/messages shows nothing. I've openet 2 konsoles on my > desktop after disabling the s

Re: [gentoo-user] Odd crashes

2003-11-29 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Saturday 29 November 2003 17:15, Tom Wesley wrote: > On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 17:06, Ernie Schroder wrote: > > OK so the box crashed again after being up less than an hour. It was > > running gtk-gnutella mplayer kmail and one MoxillaFirebird brower. > > the /var/log/messages shows nothing. I'v

Re: [gentoo-user] odd mails in my email this morning Spider

2003-11-29 Thread rd
Guys -- Bet he won't get the email you are sending to tell him he is not getting email!! ;-)) -rdg On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 08:54, Oliver Lange wrote: > Ernie Schroder wrote: > > I'm getting about a dozen undelivered mail messages this morning with > > gentoo headers originating from [EMAIL PROTE

[gentoo-user] dev-util/eclipse-sdk-bin end-of-life

2003-11-29 Thread Karl Trygve Kalleberg
Hi. I'm on the prowl again. This time, I'm removing the eclipse-sdk-bin ebuild, as 1) it only exists as ~x86 and ~ppc (that is, marked as unstable on x86 and ppc, and not even available on any other platforms). 2) it has been superceeded by dev-util/eclipse-sdk, which is the ebuild we'll pr

Re: [gentoo-user] Website manager

2003-11-29 Thread Jonas Widarsson
Quanta for kde maybe? http://quanta.sourceforge.net Jonas Craig Main wrote: Hi all, Can someone recommend some software to handle website management (syncing development local site with live remote site) It needs to have a gui. TIA Craig -- Craig Main RHCE ST Solutions Cell: 082-323-4670 Home

Re: [gentoo-user] Website manager

2003-11-29 Thread Jonas Widarsson
Or make an attempt to learn CVS. www.cvshome.org and use a GUI frontent on top of it. Jonas Craig Main wrote: Hi all, Can someone recommend some software to handle website management (syncing development local site with live remote site) It needs to have a gui. TIA Craig -- Craig Main RHCE ST

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot telnet to Gentoo box... how do I get this to go?

2003-11-29 Thread Jerry McBride
On Saturday 29 November 2003 07:41 am, Murray Shields wrote: > Thanks to all who responded to my questions - it is now working a treat. ---SNIP--- Now that it's all fresh in your mind (obviously not in mine) why don't you write up a step-by-step guide for us and have it posted to the s-x-s websi

Re: [gentoo-user] odd mails in my email this morning Spider

2003-11-29 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Saturday 29 November 2003 11:58 am, rd wrote: > Guys -- > > Bet he won't get the email you are sending to tell him he is not > getting email!! ;-)) > > -rdg > > On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 08:54, Oliver Lange wrote: > > Ernie Schroder wrote: > > > I'm getting about a dozen undelivered mail messages t

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge of latest qmail seems to have broken mail delivery

2003-11-29 Thread Lincoln A. Baxter
I have posted the fix to this to: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34646 The problem WAS as bug in qmail-pop3d.c that was released with qmail-1.03. Until a fix is released, this can be fixed by 'consumers' as follows: ebuild /usr/portage/net-mail/qmail/qmail-1.03-r13.ebuild unpack #make t

Re: [gentoo-user] odd mails in my email this morning Spider

2003-11-29 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 10:58:33 -0600 rd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Bet he won't get the email you are sending to tell him he is not | getting email!! ;-)) I passed on the message via irc. Spider sends his apologies, seems he's been screwed over by his ISP blocking mail, and he'll sort it "as soon

[gentoo-user] ispell or aspell

2003-11-29 Thread Jeff Smelser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is there really any difference?? Kmail seems to support both so is it just a matter of which one I like better.. I am using kde if that means anything. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/yORcld4MRA3gEwYRAp+yAKDZp

[gentoo-user] Mass storage device (camera) only works once

2003-11-29 Thread Wes Gray
I have a new digital camera which via some playing around I've gotten to mount as a mass storage device. I can mount and unmount it fine, but if I unmount and disconnect the camera, then reconnect it then I can't mount it. If I reboot the computer then it works again. The error is: moun

Re: [gentoo-user] depend on qt

2003-11-29 Thread Manuel Jenne
> On Saturday 29 November 2003 13:37, Manuel Jenne wrote: > > Hi, > > > > a long time ago I've installed some packeges on my server that need qt > > and some othe X packages. I think that I all unmerged it but on "emerge > > -Du world -p" he would always install qt: > > > > Calculating world depend

Re: [gentoo-user] Mass storage device (camera) only works once

2003-11-29 Thread Ian Truelsen
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 10:31:15 -0800 Wes Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a new digital camera which via some playing around I've gotten > to mount as a mass storage device. I can mount and unmount it fine, > but if I unmount and disconnect the camera, then reconnect it then I > can't mount

[gentoo-user] calling all SQL gurus

2003-11-29 Thread Andrew Gaffney
I have a query that I am trying to setup with MySQL under Linux. It uses 2 different tables: people and invoice. Here are the relevant fields: People == id lname fname insid homephone homeemail Invoice === id (in format mmddxxx) In the people table, the 'insid' field points to another

Re: [gentoo-user] ispell or aspell

2003-11-29 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 12:24:24 -0600 Jeff Smelser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Is there really any difference?? Kmail seems to support both so is it | just a matter of which one I like better.. Well, seemant removed virtual/spell in favour of just using aspell... His explanation on irc: 20:06 <@see

Re: [gentoo-user] depend on qt

2003-11-29 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Manuel Jenne wrote: On Saturday 29 November 2003 13:37, Manuel Jenne wrote: Hi, a long time ago I've installed some packeges on my server that need qt and some othe X packages. I think that I all unmerged it but on "emerge -Du world -p" he would always install qt: Calculating world dependencies .

[gentoo-user] nvidia 3D problem

2003-11-29 Thread purslow
i have a nicely working Gentoo system (XP 2500+ , nVidia GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x ). i'ld like to get 3D acceleration working, insofar as it's not now. actually, i'm not sure whether this will improve the look of 3D graphics or merely make more efficient use of my hardware. following a recent thread

Re: [gentoo-user] ispell or aspell

2003-11-29 Thread Eric Paynter
> Is there really any difference?? Kmail seems to support both so is > it just a matter of which one I like better.. For many words where ispell is stumped without a clue, aspell still comes up with several suggestions, and almost always one of them is right. -Eric -- arctic bears - email and

[gentoo-user] USB scanner

2003-11-29 Thread Jorge Almeida
I just bought a USB scanner (Epson perfection 1660), and, of course, I can't get it to work under linux. Murphy rules. The kernel is 2.4.22 vanilla, with usb support compiled in. Something is wrong at a base level, because the file /proc/bus/usb/devices is empty! The scanner was already on when I

Re: [gentoo-user] Odd crashes

2003-11-29 Thread Ernie Schroder
Thanks for the help so far... the box crashed again after about 3.5 hrs. Top and ps aux show nothing of help. Does anyone have any idea of how else I can track this down? Ernie On Saturday 29 November 2003 11:35 am, Renat Golubchyk wrote: > On Saturday 29 November 2003 17:15, Tom Wesley wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Odd crashes

2003-11-29 Thread Jeff Smelser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 29 November 2003 02:20 pm, Ernie Schroder wrote: > Thanks for the help so far... the box crashed again after about 3.5 > hrs. Top and ps aux show nothing of help. Does anyone have any idea > of how else I can track this down? Here is your

Re: [gentoo-user] Mass storage device (camera) only works once

2003-11-29 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Saturday 29 November 2003 01:38 pm, Ian Truelsen wrote: > On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 10:31:15 -0800 > > Wes Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a new digital camera which via some playing around I've > > gotten to mount as a mass storage device. I can mount and > > unmount it fine, but if I unm

Re: [gentoo-user] USB scanner

2003-11-29 Thread Thomas Achtemichuk
Do you have USB scanner support compiled in or as a module? The option you're looking for is CONFIG_USB_SCANNER in the USB section. When you plug the scanner in you should see a message in dmesg like: hub 4-0:1.0: new USB device on port 1, assigned address 3 drivers/usb/image/scanner.c: USB

Re: [gentoo-user] USB scanner

2003-11-29 Thread Bryan Feir
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 07:13:35PM +, Jorge Almeida wrote: > I just bought a USB scanner (Epson perfection 1660), and, of course, I > can't get it to work under linux. Murphy rules. Sorry to hear that. I'm quite happy with my Epson Perfection 1650 USB scanner, and have had few problems wit

[gentoo-user] Software for 3D File Conversion under Portage

2003-11-29 Thread Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos
Hi all, Is there any software to convert 3DS files to OBJ files under portage? Best regards, -- Paulo J. Matos : pocm [_at_] mega . ist . utl . pt Instituto Superior Tecnico - Lisbon Computer and Software Eng. - A.I. - > http://mega.ist.utl.pt/~pocm --- -> God had a deadline...

Re: [gentoo-user] USB scanner

2003-11-29 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, Thomas Achtemichuk wrote: > Do you have USB scanner support compiled in or as a module? As a module. > When you plug the scanner in you should see a message in dmesg like: >hub 4-0:1.0: new USB device on port 1, assigned address 3 >drivers/usb/image/scanner.c: USB sca

Re: [gentoo-user] Odd crashes

2003-11-29 Thread John
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, Ernie Schroder wrote: > Thanks for the help so far... the box crashed again after about 3.5 > hrs. Top and ps aux show nothing of help. Does anyone have any idea I had an odd "freezing" problem that I am pretty sure I have figured out... My fstab had a wrong entry for t

Re: [gentoo-user] USB scanner

2003-11-29 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, Bryan Feir wrote: >The fact that the file exists at all means you must have USB and the > USB filesystem compiled into the kernel. What about the host drivers? > You need to have one of either UHCI or OHCI installed as well, and it > has to be the appropriate one to your

Re: [gentoo-user] ispell or aspell

2003-11-29 Thread Helgi Örn Helgason
On 2003-11-29, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > [...] > Well, seemant removed virtual/spell in favour of just using aspell... > His explanation on irc: > > 20:06 <@seemant> ciaranm: I think I might have removed it, come to >think of it, because I was on a kick to get everything converted >to aspe

Re: [gentoo-user] ispell or aspell

2003-11-29 Thread Helgi Örn Helgason
On 2003-11-29, Jeff Smelser wrote: > > Is there really any difference?? Kmail seems to support both so is it just a > matter of which one I like better.. > > I am using kde if that means anything. > What matters at least for many is that aspell doesn't cover as many languages. Ispell will disap

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia 3D problem

2003-11-29 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Check the Nvidia docs for what you need in XF86Config. Then try running opengl-update nvidia. On Saturday 29 November 2003 13:51, you wrote: > i have a nicely working Gentoo system > (XP 2500+ , nVidia GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x ). > i'ld like to get 3D acceleration working, insofar as it's not now.

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia 3D problem

2003-11-29 Thread purslow
031129 Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > 031129 Philip Webb wrote: >> i have a nicely working Gentoo system >> (XP 2500+ , nVidia GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x ). >> i'ld like to get 3D acceleration working, insofar as it's not now. >> following a recent thread here, i did the following: >> emerge nvidia-glx (

[gentoo-user] installation first boot help

2003-11-29 Thread Walt Frampus
I just spent most of today installing Gentoo 1.4. Everything went smoothly and I was actually surprised. I unmounted everything before telling the computer to reboot. Once I rebooted, I got a lilo from a previous distro installation and of course, a kernel panic because this distro isn't there anym

[gentoo-user] How to log informations?

2003-11-29 Thread Vít Vomáčko
I would like to log informations which are showed after emerging some builds (like Portage---it says, that you should do etc-update). Sometimes on non-graphical console it beeps, but i my X not, and I would log because I want to go away from my computer and dont know about beeps etc. ___

Re: [gentoo-user] installation first boot help

2003-11-29 Thread Ian Truelsen
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 16:02:16 -0500 Walt Frampus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just spent most of today installing Gentoo 1.4. Everything went > smoothly and I was actually surprised. I unmounted everything before > telling the computer to reboot. Once I rebooted, I got a lilo from a > previous di

Re: [gentoo-user] installation first boot help

2003-11-29 Thread KamaolaKid
Sure, just fire up the liveCD again and mount your partitions like you did for the install. Then setup your grub.conf and then run the grub installation and setup procedure outlined in the install docs. -- Kyle S. Walt Frampus wrote: I just spent most of today installing Gentoo 1.4. Everythin

[gentoo-user] HELP: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-200

2003-11-29 Thread Paul Robinson
Any idea how I can fix this? My vpn client won't connect and I see this repeatedly in the /var/log/messages: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-200 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How to log informations?

2003-11-29 Thread Rust
Vít Vomáčko wrote: I would like to log informations which are showed after emerging some builds (like Portage---it says, that you should do etc-update). Sometimes on non-graphical console it beeps, but i my X not, and I would log because I want to go away from my computer and dont know about beeps

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia 3D problem

2003-11-29 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
The docs are the ones installed. Check /usr/share/doc/nvidia-glx* and there is a README. It contains a wealth of information about it. You can also get the same readme from the Nvidia site under the linux drivers section. There is a link to the readme. Opengl-update is run when you want to

Re: [gentoo-user] Odd crashes

2003-11-29 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, Ernie Schroder wrote: > Thanks for the help so far... the box crashed again after about 3.5 > hrs. Top and ps aux show nothing of help. Does anyone have any idea > of how else I can track this down? In a word, memtest86. -- CAUTION: Product will be hot after heating -- [E

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -e pam

2003-11-29 Thread POLAX
I'm building a new system with X and pam enabled. I get the following error when emerging X: 'security/pam_appl.h': file not found in '/var/tmp/portage/XFree-4.3.0-r3/work/xc/programs/xdm/dm.h' line 105 Could these problems be related? > I was trying to reemerge box this morning and noticed: >

Re: [gentoo-user] Odd crashes

2003-11-29 Thread Jerry McBride
On Saturday 29 November 2003 05:28 pm, Marshal Newrock wrote: > On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, Ernie Schroder wrote: > > Thanks for the help so far... the box crashed again after about 3.5 > > hrs. Top and ps aux show nothing of help. Does anyone have any idea > > of how else I can track this down? > > In a

Re: [gentoo-user] Odd crashes

2003-11-29 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Saturday 29 November 2003 05:28 pm, Marshal Newrock wrote: > On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, Ernie Schroder wrote: > > Thanks for the help so far... the box crashed again after about > > 3.5 hrs. Top and ps aux show nothing of help. Does anyone have > > any idea of how else I can track this down? > > In a

Re: [gentoo-user] Odd crashes

2003-11-29 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, Ernie Schroder wrote: > Memtest86 passes without error or crash, for that matter. But, good > point. I tried that yesterday. Hmmm. it's been up 4 1/2 hrs now. > That's the best so far today. I actually had bad RAM that passed a memtest86. Of course, I only had it on normal

[gentoo-user] wine difficulties

2003-11-29 Thread felix zaslavskiy
Seems like the emerge cvs build dies. Should i try building from their sources ? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Odd crashes

2003-11-29 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Saturday 29 November 2003 05:46 pm, Marshal Newrock wrote: > On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, Ernie Schroder wrote: > > Memtest86 passes without error or crash, for that matter. But, > > good point. I tried that yesterday. Hmmm. it's been up 4 1/2 hrs > > now. That's the best so far today. > > I actually h

Re: [gentoo-user] Odd crashes

2003-11-29 Thread Andrew Cowie
On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 03:35, Renat Golubchyk wrote: > You can also use the "watch" command, e.g. "watch ps aux" would run "ps aux" > every 2 seconds and display the results. If you want to run it every 30 > seconds just do "watch -n 30 ps aux". "man watch" for details. BTW, watch is > in sys-app

Re: [gentoo-user] Odd crashes

2003-11-29 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 30 November 2003 00:38, Ernie Schroder wrote: > On Saturday 29 November 2003 05:28 pm, Marshal Newrock wrote: > > On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, Ernie Schroder wrote: > > > Thanks for the help so far... the box crashed again after about > > > 3.5 hrs. Top and ps aux show nothing of help. Does anyon

Re: [gentoo-user] HELP: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-200

2003-11-29 Thread Paul Varner
On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 15:26, Paul Robinson wrote: > Any idea how I can fix this? My vpn client won't > connect and I see this repeatedly in the > /var/log/messages: > > modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-200 I can't help you fix the problem but according to /usr/src/linux/Documentation/de

Re: [gentoo-user] Odd crashes

2003-11-29 Thread Jerry McBride
On Saturday 29 November 2003 07:00 pm, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > Maybe your CPU fan got dusty. > Try clean it and get cpuburn. If your computer does not survives hours of > cpuburn, it is a sign for a inadequate cooling or a dying PSU. > If your computer locks up, while doing PSU stressing thi

Re: [gentoo-user] Odd crashes

2003-11-29 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Ernie, check the inside of the case and make sure it's clean and dust free and ALL the fans are running. I would also run memtest86 with all the tests just to see what happens. On Saturday 29 November 2003 18:38, you wrote: > On Saturday 29 November 2003 05:28 pm, Marshal Newrock wrote: > > On

Re: [gentoo-user] Odd crashes

2003-11-29 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 15:38, Ernie Schroder wrote: > On Saturday 29 November 2003 05:28 pm, Marshal Newrock wrote: > > On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, Ernie Schroder wrote: > > > Thanks for the help so far... the box crashed again after about > > > 3.5 hrs. Top and ps aux show nothing of help. Does anyone hav

Re: [gentoo-user] Mass storage device (camera) only works once

2003-11-29 Thread William Kenworthy
This is one of linux's gotchas. rmmod the usb-storage module and re modprobe it. Or wait 10 mins or so after unmounting for the module cleaning code to fix it. As far as I know, its bad luck if you are using a non-modular kernel for USB - reboot. BillK On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 02:31, Wes Gray wro

[gentoo-user] Can not see SCSI devices

2003-11-29 Thread axeios
Hi all, This is the first time I have tried to install Gentoo 1.4 (i686) and have spent most of the day trying to figure out why the fdisk can not see the /dev/sda, it only see's /dev/hda and shows me a size of 512mb. My system is made up of a dual PII 400mhz, with about 128mb and i have three

Re: [gentoo-user] Odd crashes

2003-11-29 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Saturday 29 November 2003 07:52 pm, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > Ernie, check the inside of the case and make sure it's clean and > dust free and ALL the fans are running. I would also run memtest86 > with all the tests just to see what happens. > > On Saturday 29 November 2003 18:38, you wrote: >

Re: [gentoo-user] Odd crashes

2003-11-29 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Saturday 29 November 2003 08:12 pm, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 15:38, Ernie Schroder wrote: > > On Saturday 29 November 2003 05:28 pm, Marshal Newrock wrote: > > > On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, Ernie Schroder wrote: > > > > Thanks for the help so far... the box crashed again after > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Odd crashes

2003-11-29 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Looks like you've covered the bases. It is probably not memory but just to be sure run the full set of tests overnight. When did you take the case off? On my systems I have to have the case sides on or the temperature goes way up. Yes, it sounds weird but these are server cases and evidently

[gentoo-user] Compiling KDE

2003-11-29 Thread Dennis Robertson
Hello List, I mentioned earlier and there was another post about the compile error: Error kde-base/kde-libs-3.1.4 failed Function kde_src_compile, line 137,Exitcode2 died running emake, kde_src_compile: make. On google someone suggests the latest headers are broken and to use version 2.4.19-r1.ebu

[gentoo-user] alsa-tools : hdspconf, hdsploader missing!?!

2003-11-29 Thread derek holzer
Using latest Alsa-drivers, Alsa-tools [both 0.9.8] from Portage with my Hammerfall HDSP PCMCIA soundcard, which quit working in an unexplained manner after my last emerge -uUD world. the hdspmixer app reports the following: HDSPMixer 1.1 - Copyright (C) 2003 Thomas Charbonnel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] Compiling KDE

2003-11-29 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Sunday 30 November 2003 10:43, Dennis Robertson wrote: > On google someone suggests the latest headers are broken and to use version > 2.4.19-r1.ebuild. I have this version installed. Are you sure it's not slotted? i.e. are there any other linux-headers installed? If there are, then the other

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-tools : hdspconf, hdsploader missing!?!

2003-11-29 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Check the archives of the Alsa mail list. There was some discussion there on the loader for these cards. Not having one I didn't pay much attention to it. On Saturday 29 November 2003 21:00, you wrote: > Using latest Alsa-drivers, Alsa-tools [both 0.9.8] from Portage with my > Hammerfall HDSP

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