Re: [gentoo-user] twinview with geforce2 mx 400

2003-12-04 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Chris Bare -- [ snip ] Option ConnectedMonitor crt,crt I use a CRT and TV out and had luck with this line: Option ConnectedMonitor AUTO,AUTO HTH! Greetings, Matthias -- Homer: I keep hearing this horrible irregular thumping noise. Pump

Re: [gentoo-user] twinview with geforce2 mx 400

2003-12-04 Thread Øyvind Stegard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am trying to get twinview work under linux but I cannot find any tools to do it properly (yanc seems not to work though it changes the XF86config file) and I can't find any valuable tutorials. I am about to go crazy about this because it works perfectly under

Re: [gentoo-user] Compiling progress

2003-12-04 Thread Mauro Arnoldi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 03 December 2003 21:59, brett holcomb wrote: Not with a tool that I know of. Until you get some history just ask on the list. Which tool are you talking about?? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux)

[gentoo-user] kernel compile error (2.6.0-test11-r1)

2003-12-04 Thread Simon Mushi
Hey people, I just decided to move from 2.4 to 2.6 - beata tonight and towards the end of compiling the 2.6.0.test11-r1 kernel the compilation quit with the following error: AR arch/i386/lib/lib.a GEN .version CHK include/linux/compile.h UPD include/linux/compile.h CC

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Python 2.3

2003-12-04 Thread Tom Eastman
On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 17:25, RoT wrote: just do what I did and emerge python 2.3 but keep the 'python' symlink in /usr/lib pointing to 2.2. It just means that when you want to invoke 2.3 you will need to specifically type 'python2.3' but portage and the like will still use 2.2. Sounds like a

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernels 2.4.20 don't work with reiserfs

2003-12-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
Wes Gray said, No doubt this is only a problem for certain people, but there are others. Maybe things work if you use genkernel. I did everything manually using vanilla-sources. Did you create an initrd file? Genkernel creates one for 2.4.22 whereas it didn't for 2.4.20 and this may

[gentoo-user] what is wrong with head and tail?

2003-12-04 Thread Rudmer van Dijk
Hi, I noticed this about a week ago: head: `-1' option is obsolete; use `-n 1' Try `head --help' for more information. and tail seems to do the same thing... this is very annoying since it breaks a lot of scripts, including configure scripts to build packages... why is this obsoleted? And

[gentoo-user] emerge + wget fails with proxy

2003-12-04 Thread Helder Rossa
hi, when I did a kernel 2.6 installation my wget failed. Think is a bug because of the IPv6 stuff, so i did USE=-ipv6 emerge wget and worked wget working. but now even if i set http_proxy wget wont use the proxy :-S -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge rsync ?

2003-12-04 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Oliver Lange -- Seems that emerge misunderstands 'rsync' as 'sync' ?? you can update your portage tree (list of installable packages) with $ emerge sync and you can upgrade the program rsync with $ emerge net-misc/rsync HTH! Greetings, Matthias -- I wore my extra

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge rsync ?

2003-12-04 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 05:57, Oliver Lange wrote: Hi everyone, How can i upgrade rsync ? 'emerge -up rsync' gave the following error: emerge: the sync action does not support --pretend. Seems that emerge misunderstands 'rsync' as 'sync' ?? emerge net-misc/rsync signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge + wget fails with proxy

2003-12-04 Thread Martin Netolicky
hi, I reported similar problem few days ago, but I didn't upgrade kernel, just upgrade wget. Next update wasn't succesful because of wget. Next I try USE=-ipv6 emerge wget as someone helped me (thanks!), but wget still fails, wrote only --some time-- http://some.url/some.page =

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -up world

2003-12-04 Thread Patrick Börjesson
When i enter 'emerge -up world', emerge currently doesn't show me any update. Fine, but if i enter e.g. 'emerge -up epiphany', i get this: [ebuild U ] net-www/epiphany-1.0.4 [1.0] So i must assume that 'emerge -u world' would not update all and everything (deps). So how can i

Re: [gentoo-user] error updating lcms

2003-12-04 Thread Paul Stear
On Wed 3 December 2003 19:58, Ciortea Cristian wrote: snip !!! File is corrupt or incomplete. (Digests do not match) our recorded digest: 9b90cad3620776e891ef686da0678918 your file's digest: b21a563eeb240e08d3371cb1426b2bc6 !!! File does not exist:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Python 2.3

2003-12-04 Thread Keith Dart
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 14:25, Tom Eastman wrote: On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 17:25, RoT wrote: just do what I did and emerge python 2.3 but keep the 'python' symlink in /usr/lib pointing to 2.2. It just means that when you want to invoke 2.3 you will need to specifically type 'python2.3' but portage

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -up world

2003-12-04 Thread Oliver Lange
Patrick Börjesson wrote: So how can i emerge updates for everything installed on my box ? emerge -u `qpkg -nc -I` -vp ^ Should show all updates that are available for the packages that you currently have installed. *** WARNING *** Argh... i've accidently used this without the -p option, now my

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernels 2.4.20 don't work with reiserfs

2003-12-04 Thread Christian Anthon
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 11:58:51AM -0800, Wes Gray wrote: On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 02:39:08PM -0500, Mojo B. Nichols wrote: I run with / as reiserfs 2.20 no problem. I think you need to enable reiserfs in the kernel, and, I believe it can't be a module either. The problem is not with

[gentoo-user] emerge rsync ?

2003-12-04 Thread Oliver Lange
Hi everyone, How can i upgrade rsync ? 'emerge -up rsync' gave the following error: emerge: the sync action does not support --pretend. Seems that emerge misunderstands 'rsync' as 'sync' ?? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -up world

2003-12-04 Thread Christian Aust
Oliver Lange ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) schrieb am 04.12.2003 12:53 Uhr: emerge -u `qpkg -nc -I` -vp *** WARNING *** Argh... i've accidently used this without the -p option, now my world file contains all these packages... now i got to sort them out by hand, piece-by-piece... any better

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6 kernel and sensors

2003-12-04 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Thursday 04 Dec 2003 01:27, Robert Crawford wrote: That's the ticket! Getting sensor readouts with 2.6 kernels is so much easier than 2.4.xx, that it's not even comparable. Basically, just compile i2c stuff as modules (including your hardware's modules), and load your specific modules at

RE: [gentoo-user] what is wrong with head and tail?

2003-12-04 Thread John Ross Hunt
Hi, I noticed this about a week ago: head: `-1' option is obsolete; use `-n 1' Try `head --help' for more information. and tail seems to do the same thing... this is very annoying since it breaks a lot of scripts, including configure scripts to build packages... why is this obsoleted?

Re: [gentoo-user] Excluding maildirs from updatedb

2003-12-04 Thread Jeff Smelser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 03 December 2003 09:26 pm, Collins Richey wrote: On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 20:54:00 -0600 Jeff Smelser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 03 December 2003 07:52 pm, Stroller wrote: My

Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird-cvs problem

2003-12-04 Thread brett holcomb
Kent, do an updatedb then slocate -i thunderbird | more and see what you get. Somewhere in there is the Thunderbird executable. They may not have linked it to /bin but it's got to be there somewhere. If not add to the bug report. On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 22:02:47 -0700 Kent Jantz [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -up world

2003-12-04 Thread Oliver Lange
Christian Aust wrote: What's wrong with adding those packages to world? After all, they are already installed on your system, and if I understand it right, will be updated next time you issue emerge -u world. Isn't this what you planned to do by entering emerge -u `qpkg -nc -I` -vp in the first

RE: [gentoo-user] emerge -up world

2003-12-04 Thread John Ross Hunt
Patrick Börjesson wrote: So how can i emerge updates for everything installed on my box ? emerge -u `qpkg -nc -I` -vp ^ Should show all updates that are available for the packages that you currently have installed. *** WARNING *** Argh... i've accidently used this without the -p

Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail

2003-12-04 Thread Jeff Smelser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 03 December 2003 02:12 am, Christian Herzyk wrote: With kmail you can either have threading on or threading off. With threading on, it goes by the headers _and_ the time of receipt. If you delete messages as you read them, it might

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -up world

2003-12-04 Thread Jeff Smelser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 04 December 2003 07:01 am, Oliver Lange wrote: That's the missing puzzle piece. If i only used this option... now i guess it'll cost me a day of work to fix my world file back to normal... i've reduced my world file to about 60 entries

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -up world

2003-12-04 Thread Spider
begin quote On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 13:18:09 +0100 Oliver Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christian Aust wrote: What's wrong with adding those packages to world? After all, they are already installed on your system, and if I understand it right, will be updated next time you issue

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -up world

2003-12-04 Thread mathieu perrenoud
Le Jeudi, 4 Décembre 2003 12.53, Oliver Lange a écrit : any better solutions for automatically updating all packages on my box without changing my world favorites ??? I think you might want to try this: emerge -Dup world from man emerge: --deep (-D) When used in

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/modules.autoload.d options?

2003-12-04 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 04 December 2003 13:43, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: Is it possible to define /etc/modules.autoload.d lists for specific kernels? I have two different kernels installed: 2.4.20-gaming-r3 and 2.4.23. The latter has some feature that

Re: [gentoo-user] Back OT: Prince of Persia commercial

2003-12-04 Thread Sami Näätanen
On Tuesday 02 December 2003 17:41, Spider wrote: begin quote On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 09:19:41 -0600 Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone mention a clone, or an emulator/VM setup that can play said old game? ( nope, the ps/2 that I ran it on originally is dead

Re: [gentoo-user] redifining harddrive partitions and restore linux

2003-12-04 Thread David Gethings
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 12:30, Helder Rossa wrote: hi, I want to clear all partitions of my HDD and then put the data of the partitions that I have now in those new partitions. I'm wondering if it is possible. basically I want to redefine my HDD partitions without re-installing all the

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo.org IP address change?

2003-12-04 Thread Collins Richey
On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 01:29:08 -0500 Lincoln A. Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did this happen? It seems that the gentoo ezmlm was rejected by smtp at comcast.net as in invalid IP address. Did anyone else get this? No, and as you can see, I'm on comcast as well. -- Collins Richey - Denver

[gentoo-user] /etc/modules.autoload.d options?

2003-12-04 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Is it possible to define /etc/modules.autoload.d lists for specific kernels? I have two different kernels installed: 2.4.20-gaming-r3 and 2.4.23. The latter has some feature that autoloads its own autodetected modules, and causes problems when I try to load them again through modules.autoload.d.

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge + wget fails with proxy

2003-12-04 Thread Helder Rossa
its a bug. so just use the dnsname and not the ip http_proxy=http://dnsname:3128 wget ... working for me I reported similar problem few days ago, but I didn't upgrade kernel, just upgrade wget. Next update wasn't succesful because of wget. Next I try USE=-ipv6 emerge wget as someone helped

Re: [gentoo-user] what is wrong with head and tail?

2003-12-04 Thread Spider
begin quote On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 11:51:57 +0100 Rudmer van Dijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I noticed this about a week ago: head: `-1' option is obsolete; use `-n 1' Try `head --help' for more information. and tail seems to do the same thing... this is very annoying since it breaks a

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -up world

2003-12-04 Thread Patrick Börjesson
This does not give the same results as the mentioned 'magic'... emerge -u `qpkg -nc -I` -p give me [snip] And emerge -uDp world gives me: [snip] Surely this is a bug? Actually, it not... Say you want to try out a package and when installing it you install a whole bunch of dependencies

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -up world

2003-12-04 Thread Tom Wesley
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Patrick [ISO-8859-1] Börjesson wrote: This does not give the same results as the mentioned 'magic'... emerge -u `qpkg -nc -I` -p give me [snip] And emerge -uDp world gives me: [snip] Surely this is a bug? Actually, it not... Say you want to try out a

Re: [gentoo-user] Ogg Vorbis very bad quality (compared to MP3)

2003-12-04 Thread Sami Näätanen
On Thursday 04 December 2003 05:40, Norberto Bensa wrote: Frédéric COIFFIER wrote: I'm disappointed... Oookey... Thank you. Next!!! Seriously. Which files? Can you host a few samples so we can help you track your problem? I use Ogg to encode my CDs because at half the size of MP3 it

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare question from the forum

2003-12-04 Thread Alexandru GHERMAN
I read about that on the forums. The way you said below solved the problem for someone having kernel 2.6.0 but I have 2.4.20. On Thursday 04 December 2003 15:58, Anders Hasselqvist wrote: On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Alexandru GHERMAN wrote: blmartin777 wrote: I can't even get it to install. It

Re: [gentoo-user] Ogg Vorbis very bad quality (compared to MP3)

2003-12-04 Thread David Gethings
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 14:44, Spider wrote: Well, if that's the case, may I suggest flac ? ( emerge flac ). OMG! Why have I not heard of this codec before! This is exactly what I've been looking for! Thanks Spider! Now I have to re-rip my CD collection. ;) Cheers Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] redifining harddrive partitions and restore linux

2003-12-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
Peter Eis said, You could use partimage (it's on the gentoo live CD). The only problem is, that the target partition size must be at least the same size as the original partition. If not, you could use resize2fs or resize_reiserfs to shrink the partition before imaging it. Cheers Neil --

Re: [gentoo-user] redifining harddrive partitions and restore linux

2003-12-04 Thread David Gethings
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 14:59, Helder Rossa wrote: hummm... just tar / untar the partitions?!! - boot from a cd; - tar the parttions; - create / edit parttions; - untar the stuff to the partition i want; - install bootloader. think I'm not forgetting nothing. - and that's it?!!

Re: [gentoo-user] what is wrong with head and tail?

2003-12-04 Thread Ulrich Plate
Rudmer van Dijk wrote: head: `-1' option is obsolete; use `-n 1' Try `head --help' for more information. and tail seems to do the same thing... this is very annoying since it breaks a lot of scripts, including configure scripts to build packages... ...like the Zetagrid client. Glad

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare question from the forum (fwd)

2003-12-04 Thread Alexandru GHERMAN
That's it ! It works ! Thanks a lot Elton. On Thursday 04 December 2003 17:29, Elton Algera wrote: -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 16:08:20 +0100 (CET) From: Elton Algera [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare question from the

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot problems - AMD64 install

2003-12-04 Thread Jimmie Houchin
Found my problem. In my kernel config, either by default or my selection I don't remember, in the Kernel Hacking section there was a setting for IOMMU force on... which was selected. I deselect that option for no IOMMU debugging, etc and the new kernel boots without problem. Thanks for all

Re: [gentoo-user] Ogg Vorbis very bad quality (compared to MP3)

2003-12-04 Thread Spider
begin quote On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 16:19:25 +0100 Redeeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 15:44, Spider wrote: begin quote On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 15:56:49 +0200 Sami Näätanen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sandly the sound in it self is not what it should be. Ie the sound

Re: [gentoo-user] Low memory build (fwd)

2003-12-04 Thread Elton Algera
Hi, I just finished configuring my old laptop (P1/166 with 54M memory). I built the entire filesystem on my new Athlon 3000+, which is a bit faster. If you have a fast machine with some spare diskspace, you can untar a stage3 for pentium1 in it, and then build all the stuff you need. mkdir

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare question from the forum (fwd)

2003-12-04 Thread Elton Algera
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 16:08:20 +0100 (CET) From: Elton Algera [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare question from the forum Hi, I had the same problem with a 2.4.20 kernel. For me the solution was removing the

Re: [gentoo-user] Back OT: Prince of Persia commercial

2003-12-04 Thread brett holcomb
What's UAE? Thanks. On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 16:00:42 +0200 Sami Näätanen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 02 December 2003 17:41, Spider wrote: begin quote You could also download the original Amiga version and play it with UAE. It has better graphics than the DOS version. there is a WinUAE

[gentoo-user] mingetty on CD isn't mingetty in ebuild

2003-12-04 Thread William (Andy) Smith
I'm not sure where to look this one up, or if anyone's bothered to mention it. The mingetty that is made with the ebuild is only one shot. After you logout, it won't let you log back in. I've had to download the mingetty source and the autologin behaves the same as the one on the CD, but then

Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail

2003-12-04 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Thursday 04 December 2003 22:25, Christian Herzyk wrote: Jeff Smelser wrote: On Wednesday 03 December 2003 02:12 am, Christian Herzyk wrote: With kmail you can either have threading on or threading off. With threading on, it goes by the headers _and_ the time of receipt. If you delete

Re: [gentoo-user] redifining harddrive partitions and restore linux

2003-12-04 Thread Helder Rossa
i think you don't need to do nothing special cause i remember i used dd do bak the partition, mounted the image and just copied the data to a clean partition. I'm not sure but the root (/) partition or another is just the same... on NOT! :-) I will test it in another PC... not the same hardware

[gentoo-user] anoying terminal

2003-12-04 Thread Helder Rossa
hi, my terminal in gnome when I'm writing a command bigger than the console size it wraps the text to the same line that i was witting on :-S . ex: xx/[EMAIL PROTECTED]: dir$ cd xxx [wrap] but it has to be: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: dir$ cd

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel compile error (2.6.0-test11-r1)

2003-12-04 Thread Octavio Ruiz (Ta^3)
Simon Mushi, who happens to be smarter than you, thinks: Hey people, I just decided to move from 2.4 to 2.6 - beata tonight and towards the end of compiling the 2.6.0.test11-r1 kernel the compilation quit with the following error: LD .tmp_vmlinux1 drivers/built-in.o(.text+0xbeee0): In

Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Ogg Vorbis very bad quality (compared to MP3)

2003-12-04 Thread Robert Cernansky
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 15:56:49 +0200 Sami Näätanen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SN For higher bit rates ogg produces worse quality, but same goes between Worse than what? Worse than ogg on lower bitrates or worse than mp3 on same bitrate? Robert. -- Robert Cernansky E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] redifining harddrive partitions and restore linux

2003-12-04 Thread Collins Richey
On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 15:43:29 + Helder Rossa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i think you don't need to do nothing special cause i remember i used dd do bak the partition, mounted the image and just copied the data to a clean partition. I'm not sure but the root (/) partition or another is just

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel compile error (2.6.0-test11-r1)

2003-12-04 Thread Collins Richey
On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 03:12:37 + (DST) Simon Mushi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey people, I just decided to move from 2.4 to 2.6 - beata tonight and towards the end of compiling the 2.6.0.test11-r1 kernel the compilation quit with the following error: AR arch/i386/lib/lib.a GEN

RE: [gentoo-user] Ogg Vorbis very bad quality (compared to MP3)

2003-12-04 Thread Rex Young
Sandly the sound in it self is not what it should be. Ie the sound doesn't represent the sound it should. I have tested these with 'Hells Bells' and there really is clear differences although my hearing is not even closely thesame level as with my wifes. She is classical

Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail

2003-12-04 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 04 December 2003 12:27, Jeff Smelser wrote: On Wednesday 03 December 2003 02:12 am, Christian Herzyk wrote: With kmail you can either have threading on or threading off. With threading on, it goes by the headers _and_ the time of

[gentoo-user] genkernel and bootsplash

2003-12-04 Thread Chris Bare
I've spent an hour reading forum stuff about bootsplash, but I don't see any answers to the issue of using genkernel and bootsplash together. The problem is that they both create their own initrd file, and I don't know how to combine them. Does anyone have bootsplash working with a genkernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Ogg Vorbis very bad quality (compared to MP3)

2003-12-04 Thread Redeeman
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 04:40, Norberto Bensa wrote: Frédéric COIFFIER wrote: I'm disappointed... Oookey... Thank you. Next!!! Seriously. Which files? Can you host a few samples so we can help you track your problem? I use Ogg to encode my CDs because at half the size of MP3 it sounds

[gentoo-user] glftpd 1.32 and baselayout 1.8.6.12-r2

2003-12-04 Thread Gentoo LB
Hello .. Anyone successful at all getting glftpd to run zipscripts under the gentoo environment? Is there still a need for hacking xinetd? If anyone does have this working, please post your scripts or email them to me .. I only ask this because I still can not get my glftpd to function using

Re: [gentoo-user] Back OT: Prince of Persia commercial

2003-12-04 Thread Oliver Lange
brett holcomb wrote: What's UAE? An Amiga emulator. The Amiga version of Prince Of Persia came with better graphics than the DOS version. I can remember playing POP on one of my Amigas.. :) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] anoying terminal

2003-12-04 Thread Patrick Börjesson
my terminal in gnome when I'm writing a command bigger than the console size it wraps the text to the same line that i was witting on :-S . ex: xx/[EMAIL PROTECTED]: dir$ cd xxx [wrap] but it has to be: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: dir$ cd

Re: [gentoo-user] Ogg Vorbis very bad quality (compared to MP3)

2003-12-04 Thread Spider
begin quote On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 15:56:49 +0200 Sami Näätanen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sandly the sound in it self is not what it should be. Ie the sound doesn't represent the sound it should. I have tested these with 'Hells Bells' and there really is clear differences although my hearing is

[gentoo-user] Portage Cleanup

2003-12-04 Thread Al Smith
I was wondering is there a way to cleanup portage cleanly that won't screw with any thing? Such as remove the source for products installed and such? And if this is done will portage still keep track of what's been installed? Thanks, Al Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -up world

2003-12-04 Thread Oliver Lange
John Ross Hunt wrote: any better solutions for automatically updating all packages on my box without changing my world favorites ??? emerge --oneshot Emerge as normal, but do not add the packages to the world profile for later updating. That's the missing puzzle piece. If i only used this

Re: [gentoo-user] redifining harddrive partitions and restore linux

2003-12-04 Thread Helder Rossa
hummm... just tar / untar the partitions?!! - boot from a cd; - tar the parttions; - create / edit parttions; - untar the stuff to the partition i want; - install bootloader. think I'm not forgetting nothing. - and that's it?!! I want to clear all partitions of my HDD and then put the

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage Cleanup

2003-12-04 Thread Oliver Lange
Al Smith wrote: I was wondering is there a way to cleanup portage cleanly that won't screw with any thing? Such as remove the source for products installed and such? And if this is done will portage still keep track of what's been installed? The sources are only installed temporary until a package

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare question from the forum

2003-12-04 Thread Anders Hasselqvist
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Alexandru GHERMAN wrote: blmartin777 wrote: I can't even get it to install. It tells me that it was not configured right and to run vmware-config.pl, and when I do that it says it build everything it needs for the 2.6 kernel. It does that over and over. I got the

RE: [gentoo-user] Help with install

2003-12-04 Thread Nicolas Nilles
whitch kernel you use?? if you use 2.4.?? you should get sound suport loded as module, and re emerge alsa-driver, then do a /etc/init.d/alsa restart, I have the same sound card and work great for me , each time that i compile kernel, i will have to re emerge alsa, (in kernels 2.4.??) cheers

[gentoo-user] redifining harddrive partitions and restore linux

2003-12-04 Thread Helder Rossa
hi, I want to clear all partitions of my HDD and then put the data of the partitions that I have now in those new partitions. I'm wondering if it is possible. basically I want to redefine my HDD partitions without re-installing all the stuff that I have. if i do dd if=/dev/hda2 of=hda2.iso and

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernels 2.4.20 don't work with reiserfs

2003-12-04 Thread Wes Gray
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 12:29:21PM +0100, Christian Anthon wrote: Same problem here. I had to comment out rootfs checking in checkrootfs during bootup since I had no old kernel to use. The problem probably lies with reiserfs tool and not the kernel. My problem does occur in

Re: [gentoo-user] anoying terminal

2003-12-04 Thread brett holcomb
Under bash my terminal wraps to the next line if I type a long line. On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 17:18:53 +0100 Patrick Börjesson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my terminal in gnome when I'm writing a command bigger than the console size it wraps the text to the same line that i was witting on :-S . ex:

Re: [gentoo-user] anoying terminal

2003-12-04 Thread brett holcomb
Under bash my terminal wraps to the next line if I type a long line. On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 17:18:53 +0100 Patrick Börjesson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my terminal in gnome when I'm writing a command bigger than the console size it wraps the text to the same line that i was witting on :-S . ex:

Re: [gentoo-user] anoying terminal

2003-12-04 Thread derek holzer
Tips for configuring bash [including text wrap]: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-tip-prompt/ best, d. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Compiling progress

2003-12-04 Thread Tom Wesley
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 07:21, Mauro Arnoldi wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 03 December 2003 21:59, brett holcomb wrote: Not with a tool that I know of. Until you get some history just ask on the list. OK, forums are back up, try this link:

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -up world

2003-12-04 Thread Oliver Lange
Hi everyone, I'm just posting this for the case that anybody wants to know about how to update a gentoo box. I created a script because i usually don't like to type all the stuff by hand everytime. Please correct me if my comments are wrong.. Here we go: #!/bin/bash # the following line is

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage Cleanup

2003-12-04 Thread Oliver Lange
Al Smith wrote: Currently I have 588mg in /usr/portage can this area be cleaned up without damaging anything? I guess that most of these 588 megs are located in /usr/portage/distfiles, which is the directory where all downloaded source tarballs are stored. If you don't need them anymore, it is

Re: [gentoo-user] what is wrong with head and tail?

2003-12-04 Thread Rudmer van Dijk
On Thursday 04 December 2003 14:20, Spider wrote: head: `-1' option is obsolete; use `-n 1' Try `head --help' for more information. why is this obsoleted? POSIX compliance. ok, acceptable And the most irritating part is that is not phased out, like giving a warning and then

Re: [gentoo-user] anoying terminal

2003-12-04 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Quoting Helder Rossa [EMAIL PROTECTED]: my terminal in gnome when I'm writing a command bigger than the console size it wraps the text to the same line that i was witting on :-S . Yeah, mine does that too! It's a real pain... -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone

Re: [gentoo-user] Excluding maildirs from updatedb

2003-12-04 Thread Stroller
On Dec 4, 2003, at 2:11 am, Collins Richey wrote: On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 01:52:42 + Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is conceivable, however, that I might have several users on the system, each of whom has a large Maildir who yet may desire to be able to locate other files in /home.

Re: [gentoo-user] Excluding maildirs from updatedb

2003-12-04 Thread Stroller
On Dec 4, 2003, at 2:54 am, Jeff Smelser wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 03 December 2003 07:52 pm, Stroller wrote: My problem is that updatedb is including the all the contents of my mail folders, located in ~/.Maildir so that when I run `locate 123`, for

Re: [gentoo-user] anoying terminal

2003-12-04 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Quoting Helder Rossa [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Tips for configuring bash [including text wrap]: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-tip-prompt/ I copied the env var PS1 of another Linux that works and still not working :-S You're using gnome-terminal? Me too, and I have the

RE: [gentoo-user] Excluding maildirs from updatedb

2003-12-04 Thread Jeffrey Smelser
On Dec 4, 2003, at 2:11 am, Collins Richey wrote: On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 01:52:42 + Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is conceivable, however, that I might have several users on the system, each of whom has a large Maildir who yet may desire to be able to locate other files

[gentoo-user] Wake on lan (Again...)

2003-12-04 Thread Elton Algera
Hi everyone, I posted a message some months ago about a problem with wake on lan, but noone knew the solution back then. So here's another shot. I have a asus a7n8x motherboard, with integrated ethernet (nvidia chipset...). For Wake on Lan to work, it is required that the network interface

Re: [gentoo-user] Ogg Vorbis very bad quality (compared to MP3)

2003-12-04 Thread Alan
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 11:45:50AM -0600, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: Quoting David Gethings [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 14:44, Spider wrote: Well, if that's the case, may I suggest flac ? ( emerge flac ). OMG! Why have I not heard of this codec before! This is exactly what

[gentoo-user] rsync port - firewall config

2003-12-04 Thread Jonathan Stickel
I've setup a firewall with Guarddog, which I use because it is relatively simple but seems to be comprehensive. However, it does not have rsync in its protocol list. I've tried to make a user-defined protocol for port 873 (which is the rsync port I believe), but it doesn't seem to work. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Wake on lan (Again...)

2003-12-04 Thread Redeeman
sorry this is not an answer, but. wake on lan, is that so i can start the computer from the lan? it would be cool On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 19:08, Elton Algera wrote: Hi everyone, I posted a message some months ago about a problem with wake on lan, but noone knew the solution back then. So

Re: [gentoo-user] anoying terminal

2003-12-04 Thread Azhdeen
On Thursday 04 December 2003 18:59, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: You're using gnome-terminal? Me too, and I have the same problem. Maybe gnome-terminal's to blame. maybe not, Konsole behaves the same, but not always, and I can't find what makes it wrap OK or not. -- I haven't lost my mind. It

Re: [gentoo-user] anoying terminal

2003-12-04 Thread Thomas Achtemichuk
On 12/04/03 11:05:43, Helder Rossa wrote: my terminal in gnome when I'm writing a command bigger than the console size it wraps the text to the same line that i was witting on :-S . By default bash doesn't check it's window size after every command. The good thing is that you can make it. Add

Re: [gentoo-user] Ogg Vorbis very bad quality (compared to MP3)

2003-12-04 Thread Norberto Bensa
Frédéric COIFFIER wrote: Le Jeudi 04 Décembre 2003 04:40, Norberto Bensa a écrit : Frédéric COIFFIER wrote: I'm disappointed... I use Ogg to encode my CDs because at half the size of MP3 it sounds twice better. Ok. So, what is the version of your Ogg Vorbis libraries ? When you use

Re: [gentoo-user] Ogg Vorbis very bad quality (compared to MP3)

2003-12-04 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Quoting Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In case you're wondering, you have to specify the --ogg option to make it completely Ogg-compatible. Here's my flac line: $ flac -V --ogg -8 -o something.flac something.wav -V verifies the conversion -8 gives maximum (lossless) compression -o

Re: [gentoo-user] anoying terminal

2003-12-04 Thread Azhdeen
On Thursday 04 December 2003 19:49, Thomas Achtemichuk wrote: echo shopt -s checkwinsize ~/.bashrc (or /etc/profile) source ~/.bashrc try again It works correctly! In my opinion this is something (along with a decent PS1) that should be added to the default /etc/profile or

Re: [gentoo-user] Ogg Vorbis very bad quality (compared to MP3)

2003-12-04 Thread Alan
When you say ogg-compatible do you mean that it'll be identified as an ogg file by anything that plays ogg (the docs and FAQ aren't completely clear on this). IE: I can have completely lossless compression and have it appear to be an ogg file? Or am I missing something I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA, RAID 0, suggestions

2003-12-04 Thread Arturo di Gioia
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 16:47, Arturo di Gioia wrote: Now I'm in that situation: -Intel i875P chipset (which, AFAIK, has two SATA slots and should be able to do (hardware?) RAID 0) -Promise Fasttrak S150 TX2plus PCI controller, where the two SATA hds are actually attached. No standard ATA

Re: [gentoo-user] what is wrong with head and tail?

2003-12-04 Thread Stroller
On Dec 4, 2003, at 10:51 am, Rudmer van Dijk wrote: I noticed this about a week ago: head: `-1' option is obsolete; use `-n 1' Try `head --help' for more information. ... why is this obsoleted? And the most irritating part is that is not phased out, like giving a warning and then continue, but

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync port - firewall config

2003-12-04 Thread SN
Ah boy, now it made the round and people get crazy. Hey you don't have to block traffic from inside to outside, then in general you should block all ports and only open up ports you need for services that want to be accessed from outside. . The rsync problem only affects rsync servers not

Re: [gentoo-user] Excluding maildirs from updatedb

2003-12-04 Thread Paul Varner
Stroller wrote: Personally, I just execute 'updatedb -e dir1,dir2,dir3 where dir1, etc. is the fully qualified path for a directory I want to exclude. Whilst this is practical on my current system, it wouldn't be should I expand to 50... 500... 5000 users. So I guess that in that case I'd

[gentoo-user] XDirectFB and Gnome problems

2003-12-04 Thread Thomas Richards
Hi, I recently decided to try using the XDirectFB. I got it to work with a bunch of window managers(but not KDE), so I decided to try out gnome. Launching gnome with the XDirectFB has no problems, and usng it is a blast. The only problem is that I can't kill gnome without having a fight

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