Re: [gentoo-user] Adaptec ATA 2 channel raid card?

2003-12-05 Thread Joel Palmius
If I remember it right, the 1200A uses the same driver as 2400A, which is a card I use right now in my gentoo box. It compiles as dpt_i2o kernel module, and you might have to modprobe it in the installation phase. Unfortunately, adaptec has not updated the module to fit the 2.6 kernel. So it

[gentoo-user] rsync error?

2003-12-05 Thread John GIlger
Trying to run 'emerge sync' -- I keep getting time errors and a failure to connect. What does rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(83) mean? Is the problem on my end? TIA John -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] usb hpoj hotplug problems with HP OJD125xi printer/scanner

2003-12-05 Thread Jimmy Rosen
Well, now I've gotten it to print ok from linux as well, however the scanning with hpoj still has the same problem. The printing works after using setting up the printer as follows: foomatic-configure -s cups -p HP-OfficeJet_D125 -c file:/dev/usb/lp0 -n HPPrinter -d hpijs writing to

Re: [gentoo-user] Way OT: Doesn't IP need TCP or UDP for transport?

2003-12-05 Thread David Mallwitz
On Friday 05 December 2003 12:12 am, Joshua Banks wrote: I'll do some more research on IP to get a better understanding. You might want to get a copy of the late, great W. Richard Steven's TCP/IP Illustrated, Vol. 1 (ISBN 0-201-63346-9) to help your research. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

[gentoo-user] .bin/.cue -- .iso ?

2003-12-05 Thread raptor
someone to know a tool for converting .bin/.cue to .iso images ?! w/o using CD's just generating one file from the other ... tia -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] .bin/.cue -- .iso ?

2003-12-05 Thread Tom Wesley
On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 08:51, raptor wrote: someone to know a tool for converting .bin/.cue to .iso images ?! w/o using CD's just generating one file from the other ... tia Try this: # emerge esearch # eupdatedb $ esearch -S cue snip * app-cdr/bin2iso Latest version available:

[gentoo-user] Gnome desktop background

2003-12-05 Thread Oliver Lange
Hi everybody, Who knows which application is responsible for loading the Gnome desktop background image ? Each time i launch gdm, my desktop is blank. If i launch the desktop background image setting application (from the gnome desktop config menu), the application can remember which picture i've

[gentoo-user] Gnome user-startup

2003-12-05 Thread Oliver Lange
Hi everyone, Is there a personal startup file in my homedir for entering an X/Gnome session ? Each time i log into my Gnome system, i'd like to execute a script (mounting some windows drives to my home dir), and each time i log out, another script shall unmount the drives. Howto ? -- [EMAIL

[gentoo-user] can't install gentoo

2003-12-05 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Hi, i'm trying to install gentoo on a new laptop Compaq nx9010, the starup always freezes at usb and hotplug detection stage. Even trying to start with gentoo nousb,dokeymap still activates the usb detection. whats now the next step to get gentoo installed ? Patick -- Well Bones, do the new

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome user-startup

2003-12-05 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Yes, in your menu, desktop prefs, advanced, - sessions there you can add user defined programs and scripts. ps i have translated the menu names from dutch so ... Patrick Op vr 05-12-2003, om 10:02 schreef Oliver Lange: Hi everyone, Is there a personal startup file in my homedir for

Re: [gentoo-user] can't install gentoo

2003-12-05 Thread Matthias Witschel
Hi! Try to start with nohotplug. Did the trick on my box. Later, with self compiled kernel, hotplugging worked fine. I just had to turn it of for installation. Hi, i'm trying to install gentoo on a new laptop Compaq nx9010, the starup always freezes at usb and hotplug detection stage. Even

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

2003-12-05 Thread Arturo di Gioia
On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 02:17, Bryan Whitehead wrote: Arturo, To get the ft3xx driver to load on boot with initrd do this: hope this helps. Thanks for your complete and quick response. I'll try this as soon as possible (with GRUB, but it's almost the same than with LILO). -- [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] broken portage or what ?

2003-12-05 Thread raptor
this simple script works : import os os.mkdir('/usr/share/doc/gnome-terminal-2.4.1') the question is why I get error in portage.py but not in this script ?! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] vim does not care about tabspace

2003-12-05 Thread Jan Drugowitsch
On Friday 05 December 2003 05:53, Josh Helmer wrote: On Thursday 04 December 2003 05:30 pm, Jan Drugowitsch wrote: On Thursday 04 December 2003 22:07, Jan Drugowitsch wrote: Somehow, vim doesn't case about the set tabespace in the ~/.vimrc file. Although I've a clear 'set ts=4' in there,

Re: [gentoo-user] can't install gentoo

2003-12-05 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Indeed, but it was without the combination of dokeymap thanks Op vr 05-12-2003, om 10:23 schreef Matthias Witschel: Hi! Try to start with nohotplug. Did the trick on my box. Later, with self compiled kernel, hotplugging worked fine. I just had to turn it of for installation. Hi, i'm

[gentoo-user] no nic support

2003-12-05 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Hi, I can't find the right driver for my laptop, it a Compaq nx9010 with a National semiconductor Corp DP83815/81640/100 Mac Phyter PCI adaptor. TIA Patrick -- Well Bones, do the new medical facilities meet with your approval? They do not. It's like working in a damn computer center PGP Key:

[gentoo-user] Copy a file from CD with errors

2003-12-05 Thread romildo
Hello. I want to copy a file from a CD, but the CD is demaged and am getting errors reading from it. How can I read the entire file, even with some errors? That is, I want to read the file with the errors, as later I will try to recover the erroneous part. Any clues? Romildo -- [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] broken portage or what ?

2003-12-05 Thread raptor
Very strange even that I'm root see below the snippet , can someone explain me this.. So I mv /usr/share/doc /usr/share/doc2 then moved all readable files back to doc.. but all these undeletable directories stays in doc2, any idea how can I delete them and how in first place such thing can

Re: [gentoo-user] Copy a file from CD with errors

2003-12-05 Thread Yannick Le Saint (kyncani)
You could try `dd if=damagedfile of=newfile conv=noerror' On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 09:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I want to copy a file from a CD, but the CD is demaged and am getting errors reading from it. How can I read the entire file, even with some errors? That is, I want

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync error?

2003-12-05 Thread Kathy Wills
John GIlger wrote: Trying to run 'emerge sync' -- I keep getting time errors and a failure to connect. What does rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(83) mean? Is the problem on my end? TIA I have been getting the same errors for over a week now. I filed a bug report.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome user-startup

2003-12-05 Thread Oliver Lange
Patrick Marquetecken wrote: Yes, in your menu, desktop prefs, advanced, - sessions there you can add user defined programs and scripts. ps i have translated the menu names from dutch so ... Yeah NP, but i experienced problems when starting shell scripts from that mentioned session prefs stuff;

[gentoo-user] Mouse in Kdrive

2003-12-05 Thread Elton Algera
Hi, I have an old laptop running X, but I'd rather have it to run the smaller kdrive, as it has only 50 M RAM. The server starts, boots up the windowmanager, but the mouse and the touchpad refuse to work. I use the following line to start kdrive: xinit -- /usr/X11R6/bin/Xvesa -dpi 96 -mouse

Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail

2003-12-05 Thread Jeff Smelser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 04 December 2003 04:55 pm, Jason Stubbs wrote: Apologies (again) for the other e-mail... On Friday 05 December 2003 01:13, Mike Williams wrote: Important changes (compared to KMail 1.5): Operations on the parent of a closed thread

[gentoo-user] wireless sparklan wl-611

2003-12-05 Thread Andrea Cerisara
Anyone known if there is a way to use a pcmcia card sparklan wl-611? I don't found anything interesting. Thanks. -- Andrea Cerisara Powered by Gentoo 1.4 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuilds to rpms

2003-12-05 Thread brett holcomb
You're welcome. I've never tried it so let us know how it works. On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 19:04:50 -0700 Ron Wills [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 18:19, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Check out man ebuild for a start. PERFECT Thank you!!! # ebuild pkg rpm On Thursday 04 December

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

2003-12-05 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 04 December 2003 18:17, Redeeman wrote: 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 Yes, you broadcast a magic packet waking up the specified MAC addressed machine.

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless sparklan wl-611

2003-12-05 Thread Elton Algera
What chipset is on that card? Can you give us the lspci -v output? Elton On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Andrea Cerisara wrote: Anyone known if there is a way to use a pcmcia card sparklan wl-611? I don't found anything interesting. Thanks. -- Andrea Cerisara Powered by Gentoo 1.4 --

Re: [gentoo-user] no nic support

2003-12-05 Thread Elton Algera
I guess natsemi.o ?? (CONFIG_NATSEMI in kernel) Your chip number is in the Configure.help with this driver. Elton On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: Hi, I can't find the right driver for my laptop, it a Compaq nx9010 with a National semiconductor Corp DP83815/81640/100

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless sparklan wl-611

2003-12-05 Thread Andrea Cerisara
Elton Algera wrote: What chipset is on that card? Can you give us the lspci -v output? Elton On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Andrea Cerisara wrote: Anyone known if there is a way to use a pcmcia card sparklan wl-611? I don't found anything interesting. Thanks. -- Andrea Cerisara

[gentoo-user] Re: Copy a file from CD with errors

2003-12-05 Thread sf
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I want to copy a file from a CD, but the CD is demaged and am getting errors reading from it. How can I read the entire file, even with some errors? That is, I want to read the file with the errors, as later I will try to recover the erroneous part. Any clues? You

Re: [gentoo-user] Way OT: Doesn't IP need TCP or UDP for transport?

2003-12-05 Thread Erik S. Johansen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 05 December 2003 05:39, Joshua Banks wrote: Hello, I thought for any type of IP packet to go out onto the internet Zone (passed the local default gateway) that the packet needed to use either TCP or UDP to accomplish transportation?

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome user-startup

2003-12-05 Thread Keith Dart
On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 02:40, Oliver Lange wrote: Patrick Marquetecken wrote: Yes, in your menu, desktop prefs, advanced, - sessions there you can add user defined programs and scripts. ps i have translated the menu names from dutch so ... Yeah NP, but i experienced problems when

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

2003-12-05 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Quoting Andrew Cowie [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 04:45, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: Also, the Rio Karma http://www.digitalnetworksna.com/shop/_templates/item_main_Rio.asp?model=220cat=53 has FLAC and Ogg Vorbis support. Silly question, but does it have Linux support? :) I

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless sparklan wl-611

2003-12-05 Thread Elton Algera
Sure you'll see some output. Just try to load the basic modules for pcmcia (pcmcia_core,yenta_socket,i8*,ds) For example, in my laptop the wireless card from Edimax gave the following lines: 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 8180 (rev 20)

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

2003-12-05 Thread collins
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 16:12, Jonathan Stickel wrote: SN wrote: Firestarter is pretty good and it allows easy manuall adjustments. Since it useses plain files ere you can insert ports or hosts and so on, very flexible. You can even use it for scripted actions. Firestarter seems to

Re: [gentoo-user] module parameter, and modules-update

2003-12-05 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Friday 05 Dec 2003 04:04, Leon Fitinghoff wrote: For lm_sensors, I have to load the it87 module, with the parameter temp_type=0x1c The only place I found it87 is in /etc/conf.d/lm_sensors - but when I put a parameter after the module name it has no effect. Where / how shall I put the

[gentoo-user] Framebuffer Support

2003-12-05 Thread Al Smith
Hey Folks, Got a problem with framebuffer. I am on a Toshiba 1805-S274 Laptop with Gentoo installed with kernel: 2.4.20-gentoo-r6 I have compilied framebuffer into my kernel with the following options: Console Drivers | - Framebuffer Support |- [*] Support for frame

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless sparklan wl-611

2003-12-05 Thread Andrea Cerisara
Elton Algera wrote: Sure you'll see some output. Just try to load the basic modules for pcmcia (pcmcia_core,yenta_socket,i8*,ds) For example, in my laptop the wireless card from Edimax gave the following lines: 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 8180

[gentoo-user] gcc 3

2003-12-05 Thread Oliver Lange
Hello everyone, I've problems with compiling an own project with GCC 3.2. Everything compiles well under GCC 2.95.3, but with GCC3, i get linker errors like this: warning: undefined reference to `operator new(unsigned)' warning: undefined reference to `operator delete(void*)' warning: undefined

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless sparklan wl-611

2003-12-05 Thread Thomas Richards
I just looked up the card on http://www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters.html According to that its a Broadcom card, atleast it thinks it is. In that case you need to install a program called DriverLoader that wraps the windows driver for us in linux, since broadcom doesnt want to release

Re: [gentoo-user] .bin/.cue -- .iso ?

2003-12-05 Thread Redeeman
On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 09:57, Tom Wesley wrote: On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 08:51, raptor wrote: someone to know a tool for converting .bin/.cue to .iso images ?! w/o using CD's just generating one file from the other ... tia Try this: # emerge esearch # eupdatedb $ esearch -S cue

[gentoo-user] problem setting up cvs server

2003-12-05 Thread Aaron Walker
I am trying to setup my Gentoo box as a cvs server so that I have a central repository for my code since I have multiple machines I test it on (mainly FreeBSD). I emerge'd cvs and xinetd, and setup the repository as the cvs docs say. I created the cvs user and cvs group. My

Re: [gentoo-user] broken portage or what ?

2003-12-05 Thread raptor
I'm still with python 2.2 emerge -p python These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] dev-lang/python-2.2.3-r5 [2.2.2] On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 09:35:54 + David Gethings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 09:34, raptor

Re: [gentoo-user] .bin/.cue -- .iso ?

2003-12-05 Thread Spider
begin quote On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 15:48:59 +0100 Redeeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # emerge esearch # eupdatedb $ esearch -S cue jmm, why esearch?! what is the meaning with all those tools, emerge -s works perfect for me :) but btw, what does eupdatedb do? eupdatedb works something

Re: [gentoo-user] problem setting up cvs server

2003-12-05 Thread Brian Downey
I am trying to setup my Gentoo box as a cvs server so that I have a central repository for my code since I have multiple machines I test it on (mainly FreeBSD). I emerge'd cvs and xinetd, and setup the repository as the cvs docs say. I created the cvs user and cvs group. My

Re: [gentoo-user] problem setting up cvs server

2003-12-05 Thread Larry Meadors
I know I am not fixing your problem, but cvs over ssh is sooo much easier. No xinetd, nothing, just get ssh working and get the user access set up and you are done. Next time I set up a vcs server, i will not even bother with pserver. Larry [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/05/03 7:51 AM I am trying to

[gentoo-user] SIOCSIFFLAGS: device or resource busy

2003-12-05 Thread Kevin Reichhart
eth0 was working fine, then I edited /etc/conf.d/net and added a gateway and rebooted. When it came back up, eth0 didn't come up (and spit out the above error). ifconfig eth0 shows that everything looks good, except that it's not up. ifconfig eth0 up gives the same error. So, it appears

RE: [gentoo-user] SIOCSIFFLAGS: device or resource busy

2003-12-05 Thread Al Smith
I had the same problem. If the gateway is on a different subnet then you are then you need to add a another gateway to connect to it. For example: ipaddress: 192.0.0.1 default gateway: 192.1.1.1 Before the route can be added you need to take your base IP and use that is a gateway to the default

RE: [gentoo-user] SIOCSIFFLAGS: device or resource busy

2003-12-05 Thread Al Smith
If what I sent doesn't work please forward your /etc/conf.d/net file and your /etc/init.d/eth0 file Thanks, Al Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Kevin Reichhart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 10:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Re: [gentoo-user] SIOCSIFFLAGS: device or resource busy

2003-12-05 Thread Anupam Kapoor
is your nic module installed ? anupam Kevin Reichhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: eth0 was working fine, then I edited /etc/conf.d/net and added a gateway and rebooted. When it came back up, eth0 didn't come up (and spit out the above error). ifconfig eth0 shows that everything looks good,

[gentoo-user] HP NetServer LH3000

2003-12-05 Thread Thomas Smith
I'm planning to install Gentoo on a customer's HP NetServer LH3000 with an external HP DLT drive. Has anyone setup Gentoo on this server? If so, would you mind providing me with some feedback on the experience (problems, incompatibilities, etc)? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

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

2003-12-05 Thread Simon Mushi
Hello, Thanks a lot for the tip...it worked, and the recompile was so much faster. I really like this new time saving feature as make clean is now unneccessary. Best Simon On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Octavio Ruiz (Ta^3) wrote: Simon Mushi, who happens to be smarter than you, thinks: Hey people,

[gentoo-user] Gentoo Questions from a Debian User

2003-12-05 Thread John Goerzen
Hello, I've been a Debian user for many years and am trying out Gentoo this week. I've found a lot of information online -- thanks -- but I am left with some questions. 1. How can I ensure that my Gentoo system has only Free software? I was somewhat surprised and alarmed to find that emerge

[gentoo-user] like korganizer in Gnome ?

2003-12-05 Thread SMS WebMaster
Hi I want to use any organizer in gnome , is there any program like korganizer in gnome ? dont say to me Use evolution because it is very slow and it's don't support non-English very well Any help ? -- http://www.4-SMS.Com http://eShop.4-SMS.Com http://Mozilla.4-SMS.Com -*- If Linux doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Questions from a Debian User

2003-12-05 Thread Sven Vermeulen
On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 10:24:43AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: 1. How can I ensure that my Gentoo system has only Free software? [...] This is being worked on. However, due to the recent security issues, the development of ACCEPT_LICENSES has been pushed back in favor of signed

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Questions from a Debian User

2003-12-05 Thread Spider
begin quote On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 10:24:43 -0600 John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've been a Debian user for many years and am trying out Gentoo this week. I've found a lot of information online -- thanks -- but I am left with some questions. 1. How can I ensure that my

Re: [gentoo-user] broken portage or what ?

2003-12-05 Thread John Ziniti
Spider wrote: Filesystem errors. Really, this looks like bad magic in your filesystem. I'll second what Spider says and add that I was having similar behavior with a dying hard-drive. You could be having hardware problems (my drive would make an audible and repetitive clicking noise reminiscent

[gentoo-user] Installation Hangs... Twice!

2003-12-05 Thread Jason Newquist
Hey, Great community. I've been lurking for a while before finally deciding to install Gentoo, which I attempted to do yesterday! I've attempted to install on my three year-old Dell Dimension 8100 1.5Gz P4 + 512MB RAM + 200GB disk 80GB disk, twice now, and the installation has hung on a black

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation Hangs... Twice!

2003-12-05 Thread Elton Algera
Hi, You can restart the machine with the live cd, try to mount the root fs again: mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/gentoo in case the root partition is the second partition on your first ide drive. You should then take a look at /mnt/gentoo/var/log/emerge.log This should give you some info on which

Re: [gentoo-user] failed to generat dependacies

2003-12-05 Thread Elton Algera
Check the contents of /etc/make.profile/virtuals; e.g. grep linux-sources /etc/make.profile/virtuals in my case it gives sys-kernel/gentoo-sources. You can change it, however, by changing profiles (/etc/make.profile symb. link) If this grep yields somethings else that's only masked then

Re: [gentoo-user] .bin/.cue -- .iso ?

2003-12-05 Thread Alan
eupdatedb works something like updatedb / locate does for the rest of the system, but only on the portage tree. esearch is a -far- faster implementation of emerge -S or emerge -s. (wonderfully so) /me makes a note to add eupdatedb into cron. Great and fast proggy, but if you forget to

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

2003-12-05 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Friday 05 Dec 2003 11:03, Simon Mushi wrote: Thanks a lot for the tip...it worked, and the recompile was so much faster. I really like this new time saving feature as make clean is now unneccessary. You can still do `make clean`. It's `make dep` that's unnecessary with the 2.6 kernels.

[gentoo-user] Solved: gcc3 linker issue

2003-12-05 Thread Oliver Lange
Hello everybody, My gcc3 linker issue hast just been solved by a user in the gcc mailing list, who suggested to use g++ for linking instead of gcc. That solved the problem. I still wonder why gcc 2.95.3 worked well without using g++ for linking. However.. happy again. :) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2003-12-05 Thread Rex Young
On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 04:45, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: Also, the Rio Karma http://www.digitalnetworksna.com/shop/_templates/item_main_Ri o.asp?model=220cat=53 has FLAC and Ogg Vorbis support. Silly question, but does it have Linux support? :) [Presumably a USB mass-storage driver

[gentoo-user] OpenSSL errors with mutt

2003-12-05 Thread Adam Mercer
Hi I'm using mutt 1.5.4 and everything now and again I get the following error Invoking OpenSSL... Error: unable to create OpenSSL subprocess! no certfile S/MIME certificate owner does not match sender Any ideas whats going on here? Cheers Adam -- Electrons on a bender -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] failed to generat dependacies

2003-12-05 Thread Marius Mauch
On 12/05/03 Elton Algera wrote: Check the contents of /etc/make.profile/virtuals; e.g. grep linux-sources /etc/make.profile/virtuals in my case it gives sys-kernel/gentoo-sources. You can change it, however, by changing profiles (/etc/make.profile symb. link) If this grep yields

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation Hangs... Twice!

2003-12-05 Thread Jon Ellis
On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 10:02, Jason Newquist wrote: Second time, I tried stage 2, by the book, no modififcations to any config files. A couple times during the various compiling process I heard a series of five beeps. By the time I ran into the office to check the machine and hit a key to

[gentoo-user] kopete 0.7.4 ebuild

2003-12-05 Thread Bram De Smet
Been testing Kopete version 0.7.4. It seems pretty stable to me. -- .:|:. Linux! May the Open Source be with you! |o o| http://www.menteb.org /. V .\ |/| |\| \W W/ DON'T PANIC! GnuPG key http://www.menteb.org/bram.gpg Key ID: 2F307829 @ http://pgp.mit.edu/ Fingerprint CAE0

[gentoo-user] Are Alsa-1.0.0rc2 ebuilds coming soon?

2003-12-05 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, The ~x86 branch got the 1.0.0rc1 ebuilds out in less than 2 days from the Alsa developers releasing that code. Will they do as well again with rc2? Will they'll do it even sooner? I really like Gentoo. This is a great system. Cheers, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] what will happen..

2003-12-05 Thread Ciortea Cristian
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 05 December 2003 20:15, Adrian Pirciu wrote: Gentoo is a great system.. but what will happen when the people that support it will get bored or leave or.. anything... who will continue the work ? what will happen then ? That's where users

Re: [gentoo-user] what will happen..

2003-12-05 Thread Bram De Smet
do not panic... keep breathing... if someone leaves, someone else will take over... it's always been like that in open source... if the project is interesting that is. On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 19:15, Adrian Pirciu wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gentoo is a great system..

Re: [gentoo-user] failed to generat dependacies

2003-12-05 Thread Elton Algera
Sorry, I don't see the big difference between my reply and yours. But then again maybe my english is not perfect. The only thing I tried to point out is that the virtuals are linked to real packages in /etc/make.profile/virtuals. If the real package is masked, then so is the virtual, yielding

Re: [gentoo-user] what will happen..

2003-12-05 Thread Marius Mauch
On 12/05/03 Adrian Pirciu wrote: Gentoo is a great system.. but what will happen when the people that support it will get bored or leave or.. anything... who will continue the work ? what will happen then ? Either others will join and continue the work or it will die, it's the same as with

Re: [gentoo-user] what will happen..

2003-12-05 Thread Adrian Pirciu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 05 December 2003 20:20, Marius Mauch wrote: On 12/05/03 Adrian Pirciu wrote: Gentoo is a great system.. but what will happen when the people that support it will get bored or leave or.. anything... who will continue the work ? what

Re: [gentoo-user] Are Alsa-1.0.0rc2 ebuilds coming soon?

2003-12-05 Thread brett holcomb
If it doesn't come out cp the ebuild for _rc1 and make it _rc2. That should do it. On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 10:05:04 -0800 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, The ~x86 branch got the 1.0.0rc1 ebuilds out in less than 2 days from the Alsa developers releasing that code. Will they do as well

[gentoo-user] buildpkg + moving packages

2003-12-05 Thread Adrian Pirciu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm maintaining 3 p3 computers, and i would like to compile stuff on one of them (using --buildpkg also) and then make the others use that package than compiling the whole thing again (although i'm using distcc). How can I publish that package for

Re: [gentoo-user] Are Alsa-1.0.0rc2 ebuilds coming soon?

2003-12-05 Thread brett holcomb
In many cases this is all that is necessary - if it downloads the file it will create the digest for you, if not run the digest trick. On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 10:40:22 -0800 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If it doesn't come out cp the ebuild for _rc1 and make it _rc2. That should do it.

RE: [gentoo-user] Are Alsa-1.0.0rc2 ebuilds coming soon?

2003-12-05 Thread Redeeman
if you rename a ebuild you need to do digest On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 19:40, Mark Knecht wrote: If it doesn't come out cp the ebuild for _rc1 and make it _rc2. That should do it. Brett, I wondered if it was that simple. Do I need to do that digests trick we spoke of, or is that not

Re: [gentoo-user] vncserver + gnome setup problem

2003-12-05 Thread Redeeman
On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 21:09, Shane Bouslough wrote: Hi All, I'm using a GRP 1.4 install, and I did an emerge of tightvnc. When I start a vncserver session and then connect remotely via a vnc client, I always get the typical X gray background as if twm was started. My ~/.vnc/xstartup

RE: [gentoo-user] buildpkg + moving packages

2003-12-05 Thread Jeffrey Smelser
I'm maintaining 3 p3 computers, and i would like to compile stuff on one of them (using --buildpkg also) and then make the others use that package than compiling the whole thing again (although i'm using distcc). How can I publish that package for the others to use it ? Can I use apache

[gentoo-user] old or non-existant ebuild

2003-12-05 Thread Jonathan Stickel
Suppose I want programs X and Y on my gentoo machine. I notice that the ebuild for program X is outdated, and there is no ebuild for program Y. Is there some forum where I can request the update or creation of ebuilds for these programs? Where can I learn about getting involved in the ebuild

RE: [gentoo-user] Are Alsa-1.0.0rc2 ebuilds coming soon?

2003-12-05 Thread Mark Knecht
In many cases this is all that is necessary - if it downloads the file it will create the digest for you, if not run the digest trick. Yes, my modified ebuild does download the file (so Thomas was making us do an extra step before) but makes me generate the digest as Redeeman said. rc2

RE: [gentoo-user] old or non-existant ebuild

2003-12-05 Thread Jeffrey Smelser
Suppose I want programs X and Y on my gentoo machine. I notice that the ebuild for program X is outdated, and there is no ebuild for program Y. Is there some forum where I can request the update or creation of ebuilds for these programs? Sometimes you can ask the devs, and they do

Re: [gentoo-user] old or non-existant ebuild

2003-12-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 11:30:14 -0800 Jonathan Stickel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Is there some forum where I can request the update or creation of | ebuilds for these programs? http://bugs.gentoo.org/ | Where can I learn about getting involved in the ebuild process? I am | not a programmer, but

[gentoo-user] NVidia nForce 2 and Gentoo

2003-12-05 Thread Paul Grenyer
Hi All I'm new around here and I'm hoping someone may be able to help me with a problem I have. I recently bought a Shuttle SN45G (http://us.shuttle.com/specs_access.asp?pro_id=279), which has an North bridge - NVIDIA nForce2 Ultra 400, South bridge - MCP-T chip-set. I have tried a number of

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation Hangs... Twice!

2003-12-05 Thread Jason Newquist
On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Elton Algera wrote: You should then take a look at /mnt/gentoo/var/log/emerge.log This should give you some info on which package the compilation crashed... Maybe you can post it here... Sure. The last entry in emerge.log is: 1070583503: === (2 of 44) Compiling/Merging

[gentoo-user] login problem in X

2003-12-05 Thread mornabis
Hi all there, when i login on X it pops a window saying that my session only lasted less than 10 seconds, when i view details in .xsession-errors it says: /etc/X11/gdm/PreSession//Default: Registering your session with wtmp and utmp /etc/X11/gdm/PreSession//Default: running: sessreg -a -w

Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia nForce 2 and Gentoo

2003-12-05 Thread Alan
On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 07:44:04PM -, Paul Grenyer wrote: Hi All I'm new around here and I'm hoping someone may be able to help me with a problem I have. I recently bought a Shuttle SN45G (http://us.shuttle.com/specs_access.asp?pro_id=279), which has an North bridge - NVIDIA nForce2

Re: [gentoo-user] what will happen..

2003-12-05 Thread Eric Paynter
Adrian Pirciu said: This is a very realistic answer. Thank you. I've seen many good projects dying.. it would be quite painful to see gentoo die.. i'm quite attached to it now :) But it's just an operating system, after all. I'm sure most of us have changed our OS several times over the

[gentoo-user] Great Distro

2003-12-05 Thread Yogesh Sharma
Hello Everyone, I have used RedHat, Mandrake, Debian and now Gentoo and would like to say that: 1. Gentoo is a Great Distribution 2. Install document is really easy and I was able to install it properly on first instance a. On IBM Think Pad T20 b. Compaq Presario 906US c. White Box

Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia nForce 2 and Gentoo

2003-12-05 Thread Paul Grenyer
Hi I went through this when I got my new MB as well :) Nice to know I'm not alone. :-) Try passing pci=noacpi to the kernel on boot. Do a search on forums.gentoo.org for 'a7n8x' which also has the nforce2 chipset and caused a bunch of problems. Hopefully the stock gentoo-sources kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Are Alsa-1.0.0rc2 ebuilds coming soon?

2003-12-05 Thread brett holcomb
Okay, I couldn't remember. I know that when I do a digest and the file does not exist it will go download the file so it can calculate the digest. Let me know what blows up. You know with this beta stuff Usermode Linux is looking attractive G. On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 11:27:37 -0800 Mark Knecht

Re: [gentoo-user] old or non-existant ebuild

2003-12-05 Thread brett holcomb
Go to Gentoo.org and look under Developer docs for a start. Also man ebuild man 5 ebuild, man emerge. Then set up an additional directory in /etc/make.conf - I can't remember the variable right now. However, I set mine to /usr/local/portage. Create /usr/local/portage and make the

Re: [gentoo-user] login problem in X

2003-12-05 Thread mornabis
all is ready, it was for k3b, i use it whit sudo and it changed .ICEauthority permissions, how could i write cds without using sudo?? mornabis wrote: Hi all there, when i login on X it pops a window saying that my session only lasted less than 10 seconds, when i view details in

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo for production servers.

2003-12-05 Thread brett holcomb
On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 14:38:15 -0500 Brett Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This quote was made by Daniel Robbins in an OSNews article. http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=1080 Gentoo Linux is currently a bleeding-edge type distro. It makes Gentoo Linux the ideal distribution for hobbyists

Re: [gentoo-user] Great Distro

2003-12-05 Thread Spider
begin quote On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 11:59:56 -0800 Yogesh Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Everyone, I have used RedHat, Mandrake, Debian and now Gentoo and would like to say that: 1. Gentoo is a Great Distribution Thanks, forwarding this to the core team just because praise is nice

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

2003-12-05 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 05 December 2003 17:25, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Friday 05 Dec 2003 11:03, Simon Mushi wrote: Thanks a lot for the tip...it worked, and the recompile was so much faster. I really like this new time saving feature as make clean is now

[gentoo-user] Gentoo Forums slow?

2003-12-05 Thread Lotas T Smartman
is it just me or are the gentoo fourms slow latly? did i miss something saying why? also the rsync mirrors are timing out a lot. im getting max users connected quite a few times. Any ideas? -- Lotas T Smartman, MCP www.lotas-smartman.net www.the-hairy-one.com www.lsn-blog.tk -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo for production servers.

2003-12-05 Thread Eric Paynter
brett holcomb said: This quote was made by Daniel Robbins in an OSNews article. http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=1080 Gentoo Linux is currently a bleeding-edge type distro. It makes Gentoo Linux the ideal distribution for hobbyists who get lots of cool toys before everyone else, but makes

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc 3

2003-12-05 Thread SN
GCC 3 is more strict then GCC 2.x, either check your code and get rid of the warnings or switch of some checking that gcc does. I'd check the code and see if you can improve it. - Original Message - From: Oliver Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 05,

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