[gentoo-user] Kernel Upgrade

2003-12-11 Thread Joshua Banks
Hello, Last time I tried to upgrade my kernel I botched it somehow. I would like to upgrade from 2.4.20-gentoo-r7 to r8 and move my r7 .config settings into the new r8 kernel. I used Genkernel to compile last time and this time I would like to manually do this for learning experience. I found the

[gentoo-user] ITeX PCI ADSL modem

2003-12-11 Thread Martin Polley
I have an ITeX PCI ADSL modem. Has anyone succeeded in getting one of these to work under Gentoo? If so, with which kernel and which driver? Which protocol do you use? (My connection is protocol T1.143 / 1577--classical IP over ATM.) TIA, -- *Martin Polley *Technical Communicator +972 (53) 8642

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Upgrade

2003-12-11 Thread Dennis Robertson
- Original Message - From: "Joshua Banks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 5:31 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] Kernel Upgrade > Hello, > > Last time I tried to upgrade my kernel I botched it somehow. I would > like to upgrade from 2.4.20-gentoo-r7

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Upgrade

2003-12-11 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 03:38, Dennis Robertson wrote: > No doubt you'll get more informed comment than I can provide on the > upgrading process. However, you should be aware that -r8 is the subject of a > security warning recommending upgrade to -r9. Quite a few of us encountered > bugs with -r9 so

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Upgrade

2003-12-11 Thread Joshua Banks
TOP POSTING this one: Ahhh.. Thanks Dennis. I will hold-off on upgrading then. Much appreciated. I would still like to get some confirmation on the info from my original posting (the one before this) from any of the seasoned kernel hackers out there please. Thanks, Joshua Banks --- Dennis Rober

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Upgrade

2003-12-11 Thread Joshua Banks
--- Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 03:38, Dennis Robertson wrote: > > No doubt you'll get more informed comment than I can provide on the > > upgrading process. However, you should be aware that -r8 is the > subject of a > > security warning recommending upgrade

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Upgrade

2003-12-11 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 05:10, Joshua Banks wrote: > --- Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Please don't recommend staying with a kernel that has a root exploit. > > I'd rather have a bug than get rooted. > > > So, does -r7 suffer from the same root exploit? Yes, everything below -r9 d

[gentoo-user] illegal instruction attempting to run emerge

2003-12-11 Thread Aaron Walker
I upgraded the kernel on my mail server (P233-MMX) from gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r8 to gs-sources-2.4.23-pre8, then afterwards emerge'd a binary gcc package compiled on my desktop machine. I rebooted to load the new kernel, and was going to finish 'emerge -u world' but emerge died with "Illegal in

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Multiple Nic's.

2003-12-11 Thread Joshua Banks
--- "Matthias F. Brandstetter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -- quoting Joshua Banks -- > > Thanks Matthias. > > you're welcome ;) > please report if you succeeded with your 2nd NIC! Pretty painless once all the research was done. The most confusing part was the fact that my nic c

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ATI TV out

2003-12-11 Thread Helder Rossa
hi, your XF86Config worked :-D now I can see my gnome desktop on my TV. I will try to merge with mine I have with ServerLayouts. How can I switch automatically from one ServerLayout to another? is that possible? But I still have a problem :-( that is when I watch a movie with MPlayer It gives no

Re: [gentoo-user] Planning for a future crash

2003-12-11 Thread Steven Marcotte
On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 20:00, Mark Knecht wrote: >I have two drives at his site, one internal and one external. I've > set things up for me to do manual backups of the system to the second > drive. (/etc and /home only for now. - comments on other things I should > be backing up?) Anyway, I now

[gentoo-user] "emerge kdevelop" gives me an error

2003-12-11 Thread Mauro Arnoldi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi to anyone, I'm trying to install kdevelop, but net-libs/libwww gives me this error while compiling creating wwwconf.h cd . && aclocal cd . && automake --foreign --include-deps Makefile cd . && autoconf aclocal.m4:267: error: m4_defn: undefined mac

Re: [gentoo-user] Evolution 1.5 on Gentoo

2003-12-11 Thread Guy Van Sanden
1.5? I'm assuming this is a development version as www.ximian.com reports 1.4.5 as the latest release. You can get 1.4.5 from portage anyway. I do not recommend trying evolution's development versions, unless you have a red-carpet supported system, in my experience it is dependency hell (some of

[gentoo-user] rc-update with dhcp interface?

2003-12-11 Thread Joshua Banks
Hello, I've just added another nic card and statically assigned the address and used "rc-update add net.eth1 default" and added the eth1 interface/address info in /etc/conf.d/net. This works fine right now with a static address. 2 questions: 1) Eth1 will be connected to a cable modem and will ne

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Upgrade

2003-12-11 Thread Joshua Banks
Ok. So now I'm aware of the root exploit and some of the bugs associated with -r9. Can I get a confident confirmation from someone that the following (How-To) -- Upgrade your Kernel -- listed below, is correct in its entirety?? Thanks, Joshua Banks --- Joshua Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hel

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -up world

2003-12-11 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 18:37:07 -0500 Tom Hosiawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I tried that, I get: > emerge: there are no masked or unmasked ebuilds to satisfy > "dev-python/PyXML". I just got the same message for a different package. I found out that its ebuild was already removed from portag

[gentoo-user] Wierd crashes (progress?)

2003-12-11 Thread Ernie Schroder
For those of you that have been following my problems with my unexplained crashes, I seem to be making progress. All of the suggestions made by people on the list have been considered and most tried but none provided a cause. I've started to turn things off on my system. Logic to

[gentoo-user] PHP-GTK

2003-12-11 Thread Tracy Cpl Derek E
Has anyone had any luck emerging php-gtk I keep getting configure not found and something about 'phpize' which I have no clue that is. All that I want to do is play around with learning php by creating gtk programs with it. Does anyone have any advice concerning this. Derek -- [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED: esd not starting

2003-12-11 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: I'm having a problem with my sound configuration. I'm using the i810_audio kernel module, which is the correct one for my sound (I've used it before). It get loaded properly at boot, I can use the Gnome volume control, and my system beeps are sound-card generated inste

RE: [gentoo-user] PHP-GTK

2003-12-11 Thread Tracy Cpl Derek E
More specifically : make: phpize: Command not found make: *** [buildmk.stamp] Error 127 /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: line 40:phpize: command not found !!! ERROR: dev-php/php-gtk-1.0.0.0 failed. !!! Function econf, Line 340, Exitcode 1 !!! no configure script found That is what # USE="gtk" ACCEPT_KEYWOR

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Upgrade

2003-12-11 Thread Vanh Phom
On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 07:31, Joshua Banks wrote: > [7] make menuconfig or make xconfig > [8] make dep clean bzImage modules modules_install > **My Comments** shouldn't this be "make dep && make clean bizImage Here the way I did it. make dep clean bzImage make install /// make install will cop

Re: [gentoo-user] python2.3 and portage...

2003-12-11 Thread Lucas Sallovitz
Jon Ellis wrote: I have just installed python2.3 and I am having problems emerging libraries for both python2.2 and 2.3. For example, I need pyGTK installed for both 2.2 and 2.3. If I emerge it with /usr/bin/python linked to python2.3, it will remove the pyGTK libraries from python2.2 every time

Re: [gentoo-user] PHP-GTK

2003-12-11 Thread mathieu perrenoud
Le Jeudi, 11 Décembre 2003 14.00, Tracy Cpl Derek E a écrit : > More specifically : > > make: phpize: Command not found > make: *** [buildmk.stamp] Error 127 > /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: line 40:phpize: command not found maybe you should install php-core. or recompile it? # qpkg -f /usr/bin/phpize dev-

Re: [gentoo-user] python2.3 and portage...

2003-12-11 Thread mathieu perrenoud
Le Jeudi, 11 Décembre 2003 14.05, Lucas Sallovitz a écrit : > Jon Ellis wrote: > >I have just installed python2.3 and I am having problems emerging > >libraries for both python2.2 and 2.3. For example, I need pyGTK > >installed for both 2.2 and 2.3. If I emerge it with /usr/bin/python > >linked t

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Upgrade

2003-12-11 Thread Dennis Robertson
Mea culpa. I'll simply practice what I preach and shut up about it. - Original Message - From: "Donnie Berkholz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 7:59 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Upgrade -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Solved: rp-pppoe

2003-12-11 Thread Oliver Lange
Dennis Freise wrote: Looks like you're missing some kernel-modules. Try settings these values in your kernel .config: CONFIG_PPP_ASYNC=m I've just activated the following option: 'PPP support for async serial ports' I guess this is equal to CONFIG_PPP_ASYNC ? That solved the puzzle. I didn't n

Re: [gentoo-user] again: rp-pppoe

2003-12-11 Thread Oliver Lange
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Network device support ---> ... PPP (point-to-point protocol) support [*] PPP filtering PPP over Ethernet (EXPERIMENTAL) I couldn't find an option like 'PPP filtering' (kernel v 2.4.20-gentoo-r9), but, however, the problem is solved now ( ---> previous msg) T

Re: [gentoo-user] again: rp-pppoe

2003-12-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Oliver Lange wrote: Network device support ---> ... PPP (point-to-point protocol) support [*] PPP filtering PPP over Ethernet (EXPERIMENTAL) I couldn't find an option like 'PPP filtering' (kernel v 2.4.20-gentoo-r9), but, however, the problem is solved now ( ---> previous msg) as sai

Re: [gentoo-user] Wierd crashes (progress?)

2003-12-11 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Thursday 11 Dec 2003 12:40, Ernie Schroder wrote: > For those of you that have been following my problems with my > unexplained crashes, I seem to be making progress. All of the > suggestions made by people on the list have been considered and most > tried but none provided a cause. I hop

Re: [gentoo-user] Wierd crashes (progress?)

2003-12-11 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Thursday 11 December 2003 21:40, Ernie Schroder wrote: > For those of you that have been following my problems with my > unexplained crashes, I seem to be making progress. All of the > suggestions made by people on the list have been considered and most > tried but none provided a cause. >

[gentoo-user] Can't start MozillaFirebird after upgrade to 0.7-r1

2003-12-11 Thread Patrick Börjesson
I upgraded mozilla-firebird over night and when trying to start it this morning it just died. No error output what so ever. Anyone else experiencing this? And more important: Anyone have a fix for it? Patrick Börjesson -- Public key ID: 4C5AB0BF Public key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net pgp0

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't start MozillaFirebird after upgrade to 0.7-r1

2003-12-11 Thread brett holcomb
Try renaming or deleting the ~/.phoenix directory - this is where you preferences are stored so renaming it would be best. On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 16:06:18 +0100 Patrick Börjesson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I upgraded mozilla-firebird over night and when trying to start it this morning it just di

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't start MozillaFirebird after upgrade to 0.7-r1

2003-12-11 Thread Patrick Börjesson
> Try renaming or deleting the ~/.phoenix directory - this > is where you preferences are stored so renaming it would > be best. Tried it, but it didn't work after that either. Patrick Börjesson -- Public key ID: 4C5AB0BF Public key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net pgp0.pgp Description: PG

[gentoo-user] alsa-driver confusion

2003-12-11 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, Why is emerge telling my it wants to install alsa-driver 0.9.8 when I have 1.0.0rc2 installed? It's strange that it's doing this only for the driver file and not the rest of Alsa: Wizard root # emerge -Up world >>> --upgradeonly implies --update... adding --update to options. These are the

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't start MozillaFirebird after upgrade to 0.7-r1

2003-12-11 Thread Ben Sparks
Patrick Börjesson wrote: Try renaming or deleting the ~/.phoenix directory - this is where you preferences are stored so renaming it would be best. Tried it, but it didn't work after that either. Patrick Börjesson did you delete the chrome directory in /usr/lib/MozillaFirebird? Some

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-driver confusion

2003-12-11 Thread brett holcomb
Because the driver is not unmasked. Just ignore emerge. It really wants to downgrade since the unmasked version is lower. I'm seeing it too every time I do a emerge -uD world -p so I ignore it. You can fix it by editing the ebuild and taking the ~x86 out of the KEYWORDS entry. On Thu, 11 De

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't start MozillaFirebird after upgrade to 0.7-r1

2003-12-11 Thread brett holcomb
Then it's broke . Don't know what else to tell you. Try running it from a terminal window and see what messages you get. On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 16:18:08 +0100 Patrick Börjesson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Try renaming or deleting the ~/.phoenix directory - this is where you preferences are stor

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't start MozillaFirebird after upgrade to 0.7-r1

2003-12-11 Thread Patrick Börjesson
> >>Try renaming or deleting the ~/.phoenix directory - this > >>is where you preferences are stored so renaming it would > >>be best. > > > >Tried it, but it didn't work after that either. > > > did you delete the chrome directory in /usr/lib/MozillaFirebird? > Sometimes this directory can ca

[gentoo-user] MTA with my special features wanted

2003-12-11 Thread Thomas Preissler
Hello folks, I am looking for an MTA with the following special features. The most important thing is that it is easy configurable, i.e. I do not really want hacking sendmail.cf style. 1) No local masquerading Local mails in the local domain must not be rewritten with my account ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] backup and recovery...

2003-12-11 Thread Lucas Sallovitz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am looking for a new backup & recovery system. is there any good tools in portage tree? i like to have a realtime backup and full-system-recovery facility. would you guys recommend me the best tool for backup & recovery? non-realtime backup system will be okay too ~

[gentoo-user] System update

2003-12-11 Thread Olli
How I can update all packages with emerge? Do 'emerge system' update all packages, outside base-system? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] again: rp-pppoe

2003-12-11 Thread Oliver Lange
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think you will need a firewall soon ... but it's your choise That's on top of my todo-list. I think that tldp.org will answer all questions, perhaps i'll install shorewall. Just glad to have at least pppoe working (hooray, champaign please :) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] maili

Re: [gentoo-user] System update

2003-12-11 Thread Sigurd Stordal
On Thursday 11 December 2003 16:59, Olli wrote: > How I can update all packages with emerge? > > Do > 'emerge system' update all packages, outside base-system? emerge -uD world (or -UD to only update not downgrade) -- Sigurd Stordal master in Petrology/mineralogy President of GOGS Opuscreator VS i

[gentoo-user] drive timeout

2003-12-11 Thread Robert Cole
I have only one drive on the raid controller right now but the kernel wants to keep looking for another drive and it takes a LONG time. Is there a way to get it to not keep looking? SiI3112 Serial ATA: IDE controller at PCI slot :02:04.0 SiI3112 Serial ATA: chipset revision 2 SiI3112 Serial

Re: [gentoo-user] System update

2003-12-11 Thread brett holcomb
emerge -uD system emerge -uD world Try both with the -p option to make sure it will do what you want. On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 17:59:56 +0200 "Olli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How I can update all packages with emerge? Do 'emerge system' update all packages, outside base-system? -- [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [gentoo-user] System update

2003-12-11 Thread Patrick Börjesson
> How I can update all packages with emerge? > > Do > 'emerge system' update all packages, outside base-system? emerge -Du world -vp ^Should show which packages that are going to be updated (remove -vp to do the actual merge), but might miss some if you've unmerged packages... To be sure that al

Re: [gentoo-user] System update

2003-12-11 Thread Barry Marler
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 17:59:56 +0200 "Olli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How I can update all packages with emerge? > > Do > 'emerge system' update all packages, outside base-system? emerge sync&&emerge -DUpv world -- Barry Marler Information Analyst II Center for Applied Genetic Technologies Un

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't start MozillaFirebird period!

2003-12-11 Thread Patrick Börjesson
Wtf?! Now I downgraded MozillaFirebird to 0.7 as I couldn't get the 0.7-r1 version to start up, but guess what. The fng application won't start anyway! Plase, someone help me. 0.7 worked for me yesterday... Patrick Börjesson -- Public key ID: 4C5AB0BF Public key available at wwwkeys.pg

Re: [gentoo-user] System update

2003-12-11 Thread Oliver Lange
Olli wrote: How I can update all packages with emerge? Do 'emerge system' update all packages, outside base-system? For upgrading *all* packages that are installed on my box, i'm using this one: emerge --oneshot -uU `qpkg -nc -I` -v -p after checking what's going to be installed, enter the same c

Re: [gentoo-user] Planning for a future crash

2003-12-11 Thread Chris Bare
> IIRC the LiveCD does support ssh. You might have to start the ssh daemon > with /etc/init.d/sshd start. Long ago I used it to get the stage 1 tarball > from one of my machines to the box that was to be a Gentoo box. > > Backups: > > /home/* > /etc/* > /usr/local/anything you've added here.

Re: [gentoo-user] System update

2003-12-11 Thread Oliver Lange
Patrick Börjesson wrote: emerge -Du `qpkg -I -nc` -vp We already had the same thread 1 or 2 weeks ago. Not using the --oneshot option will *screw up* your world favorites file, so you won't be able to have emerge depclean your system after firing that command. Never tell anyone to use this without

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't start MozillaFirebird period!

2003-12-11 Thread Adrian Pirciu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This mail won't help you. But this happened to me too, after installing one of the "extensions". No warning, no nothing. I emerged mozilla-firebird-bin and lived happily ever after (i didn't want to start another hours of compiling). On Thursday 11

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't start MozillaFirebird period!

2003-12-11 Thread Ted Ozolins
Patrick Börjesson wrote: Wtf?! Now I downgraded MozillaFirebird to 0.7 as I couldn't get the 0.7-r1 version to start up, but guess what. The fng application won't start anyway! Plase, someone help me. 0.7 worked for me yesterday... Patrick Börjesson What happens when you start it fr

Re: [gentoo-user] Planning for a future crash

2003-12-11 Thread Oliver Lange
Chris Bare wrote: Backups: /home/* /etc/* /usr/local/anything you've added here. I'd add /var/cache/edb/world, so you know what packages you had emerged before. I'd also add, for example: /root/* - who doesn't change things there ? /var/cache/edb/virtuals (i removed that emacs monster because i

Re: [gentoo-user] Planning for a future crash

2003-12-11 Thread mathieu perrenoud
Le Jeudi, 11 Décembre 2003 17.35, Chris Bare a écrit : > > IIRC the LiveCD does support ssh. You might have to start the ssh daemon > > with /etc/init.d/sshd start. Long ago I used it to get the stage 1 > > tarball from one of my machines to the box that was to be a Gentoo box. > > > > Backups: >

RE: [gentoo-user] alsa-driver confusion

2003-12-11 Thread Mark Knecht
> Because the driver is not unmasked. Just ignore emerge. > It really wants to downgrade since the unmasked version > is lower. I'm seeing it too every time I do a emerge -uD > world -p so I ignore it. You can fix it by editing the > ebuild and taking the ~x86 out of the KEYWORDS entry. > Bret

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't start MozillaFirebird period!

2003-12-11 Thread Patrick Börjesson
> What happens when you start it from a command line? Have you checked > to see if there is a lock file in .mozill~? Doesn't start does not > give enough info to really know what is or isn't happening. What happens when I start it from the command line is the same as when I don't start it from the

Re: [gentoo-user] Planning for a future crash

2003-12-11 Thread Oliver Lange
mathieu perrenoud wrote: Le Jeudi, 11 Décembre 2003 17.35, Chris Bare a écrit : /var is not another /tmp directory, there are lots of things in it, specially in /var/lib You should definitely not exclude /var from your backups. So keep /var in your backups, but remove /var/log, /var/tmp, /var/ru

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-driver confusion

2003-12-11 Thread Patrick Börjesson
> > Because the driver is not unmasked. Just ignore emerge. > > It really wants to downgrade since the unmasked version > > is lower. I'm seeing it too every time I do a emerge -uD > > world -p so I ignore it. You can fix it by editing the > > ebuild and taking the ~x86 out of the KEYWORDS entr

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-driver confusion

2003-12-11 Thread brett holcomb
If I remember correctly not all the alsa-1.0.x are masked so they dont' show up as needing replacement. Another thing we can do is emerge -UD world where U says do not downgrade or it's not supposed to (I hadn't thought of that before). Another option is emerge -i alsa-driver-0.98.ebuild whic

Re: [gentoo-user] MTA with my special features wanted

2003-12-11 Thread Yorkshire Dave
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 16:49:19 +0100 Thomas Preissler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello folks, > > I am looking for an MTA with the following special features. The > most important thing is that it is easy configurable, i.e. I do not > really want hacking sendmail.cf style. > > 1) No local masque

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't start MozillaFirebird period!

2003-12-11 Thread brett holcomb
I'd suggest unmerge it, clean out all files dealing with it in you home directory - look for other than .phoenix - maybe .mozilla, etc. Then remerge. On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 17:20:14 +0100 Patrick Börjesson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Wtf?! Now I downgraded MozillaFirebird to 0.7 as I couldn't get

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-driver confusion

2003-12-11 Thread brett holcomb
Thanks. I'll go back and see what I have in the ebuilds. I'll also check and see if I did a kernel update - I know I did but not just when I did it. On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 18:10:06 +0100 Patrick Börjesson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Because the driver is not unmasked. Just ignore emerge. > It

[gentoo-user] Semantics of emerge -u (was: System update)

2003-12-11 Thread Patrick Börjesson
> > emerge -Du `qpkg -I -nc` -vp > > > > We already had the same thread 1 or 2 weeks ago. Not using the > --oneshot option will *screw up* your world favorites file, so > you won't be able to have emerge depclean your system after firing > that command. Never tell anyone to use this without addin

[gentoo-user] NFS vs AFS vs?

2003-12-11 Thread brett holcomb
I'm currently using samba to share drives between windows and linux systems. Works okay for the windows systems to see the Linux drives. However, to share between Linux sysetms I need something else. I am considering NFS and noticed Gentoo has OpenAFS also. What are the advantages and disa

[gentoo-user] Re: [normal] [gentoo-user] resolv.conf

2003-12-11 Thread Marc Redmann
Hi blade, maybe you should check your date and time because evolution is telling me that your mail was received at 2003-12-23 which cannot be right. So myabe you can fix that because this a little bit annoying to me. brgds, Marc -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] alsa-driver confusion

2003-12-11 Thread Mark Knecht
> > Another thing we can do is emerge -UD world where U says > do not downgrade or it's not supposed to (I hadn't thought > of that before). This is the command I use. If I use emerge -up world then emerge tells me it's going to remove all of 1.0.0rc2 and install 0.9.8. I've currently done emerg

[gentoo-user] Re: [normal] Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-driver confusion

2003-12-11 Thread Marc Redmann
> KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge alsa-driver I think there is a little mistake in here, it should be: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge alsa-driver brgds, Marc -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [normal] Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-driver confusion

2003-12-11 Thread Patrick Börjesson
> > KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge alsa-driver > > I think there is a little mistake in here, it should be: > > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge alsa-driver Yeap, you're of course right. =) Patrick Börjesson -- Public key ID: 4C5AB0BF Public key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net pgp0.pgp Description: P

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-driver confusion

2003-12-11 Thread brett holcomb
I missed that. The D says do dependencies so I would assume it's going to merge stuff that alsa-driver depends on. Someone else gave a good explanation of what is happening. I understand - "I'm here but where is here?" . On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 09:40:33 -0800 "Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: [normal] Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-driver confusion

2003-12-11 Thread Mark Knecht
> > KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge alsa-driver > > I think there is a little mistake in here, it should be: > > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge alsa-driver > > brgds, Marc Well, yes but no. I'm typing these emails on a Windows box and sometimes mess up what I wrote in an email, but thanks for pointing that

[gentoo-user] install: bootstrapping w/NPTL support?

2003-12-11 Thread Chris Graves
Is it possible to bootstrap with NPTL support? Is there a particular stage1 tarball I need? -chris -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Semantics of emerge -u

2003-12-11 Thread Oliver Lange
Patrick Börjesson wrote: But is this really what one should expect from an update? Shouldn't emerge just _not_ modify the world file when one gives the -u flag? Well, i'm really not a gentoo expert (4 weeks ago i didn't know anything about it), but at the moment i fired that command, i saw emerge p

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS vs AFS vs?

2003-12-11 Thread Oliver Lange
brett holcomb wrote: I'm currently using samba to share drives between windows and linux systems. Works okay for the windows systems to see the Linux drives. However, to share between Linux sysetms I need something else. I am considering NFS and noticed Gentoo has OpenAFS also. What are the

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS vs AFS vs?

2003-12-11 Thread brett holcomb
Thanks. I'll check that out. On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 19:27:16 +0100 Oliver Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: brett holcomb wrote: else. I am considering NFS and noticed Gentoo has OpenAFS also. What are the advantages and disadvantages of each. If you don't copy tons of stuff (gigabytes each day

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS vs AFS vs?

2003-12-11 Thread Redeeman
i would say you should try nfs, it supports encryption too, and nfs is REALLY easy to use- On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 18:37, brett holcomb wrote: > I'm currently using samba to share drives between windows > and linux systems. Works okay for the windows systems to > see the Linux drives. However, t

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS vs AFS vs?

2003-12-11 Thread brett holcomb
I've used NFS on a VMS/Windows situation a long time ago and it worked well there. I was planning to do NFS but was wondering what OpenAFS might have that would be better. Thanks. On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 19:38:02 +0100 Redeeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: i would say you should try nfs, it suppor

[gentoo-user] Compiling for another machine?

2003-12-11 Thread POLAX
I would like to use my Pentium 3 (1GHz) to compile gentoo for my Pentium Classic (200MHz). How does this work? Won't there be problems with misdetecting the processor type in /mnt/gentoo/proc as well use when using uname in the chrooted environment? Or does the CHOST setting do some hacks to get

Re: [gentoo-user] install: bootstrapping w/NPTL support?

2003-12-11 Thread Thomas Achtemichuk
On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 13:15, Chris Graves wrote: > Is it possible to bootstrap with NPTL support? Is there a particular > stage1 tarball I need? I believe you'll need to do the bootstrapping under a 2.6 kernel as glibc won't build with nptl without one. I had some difficulties using the experiment

[gentoo-user] What does this crash output mean?

2003-12-11 Thread Nick Fisher
Hia, I have been having a few odd stability problems with one of my gentoo machines. It's a dual PIII500 with 768MB of ram running two SCSI drives in a software RAID 1 array. It had crashed a few times so I used the NMI Watchdog to try and figure out what was going on. Anyhow it's crashed again,

Re: [gentoo-user] Compiling for another machine?

2003-12-11 Thread Oliver Lange
POLAX wrote: I would like to use my Pentium 3 (1GHz) to compile gentoo for my Pentium Classic (200MHz). How does this work? Won't there be problems with misdetecting the processor type in /mnt/gentoo/proc as well use when using uname in the chrooted environment? Or does the CHOST setting do some

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't start MozillaFirebird period!

2003-12-11 Thread Kevin Hanson
Instead of deleting the chrome directory, just empty it. Leave the directory there. I had to do this (per release notes) when I upgraded firebird on a non-gentoo box. Cheers, Kevin brett holcomb wrote: I'd suggest unmerge it, clean out all files dealing with it in you home directory - look f

Re: [gentoo-user] Compiling for another machine?

2003-12-11 Thread Nick Fisher
> I would like to use my Pentium 3 (1GHz) to compile gentoo for my Pentium > Classic > (200MHz). > > How does this work? Won't there be problems with misdetecting the > processor > type in /mnt/gentoo/proc as well use when using uname in the chrooted > environment? Or does the CHOST setting do so

[gentoo-user] Distcc and OpenMosix

2003-12-11 Thread brett holcomb
If I install and use OpenMosix does distcc give me any gains. Wouldn't OpenMosix distribute the jobs across the machines or does distcc do some extra stuff just for portage and compiling Gentoo. Thanks. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Distcc and OpenMosix

2003-12-11 Thread Oliver Lange
brett holcomb wrote: If I install and use OpenMosix does distcc give me any gains. Wouldn't OpenMosix distribute the jobs across the machines or does distcc do some extra stuff just for portage and compiling Gentoo. 1. Some packages are building and then executing sub-makefiles. These sub-ma

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't start MozillaFirebird period!

2003-12-11 Thread Familjen Sjölander Värmfors
I seem to remember having the same problem on my other machine, but the funny thing was that I could run MozillaFirebird as root. If you get the same thing, i.e. that it runs perfectly if run by root, then you've got a problem with file security, and if I just could remember which directory...

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS vs AFS vs?

2003-12-11 Thread Redeeman
On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 19:44, brett holcomb wrote: > I've used NFS on a VMS/Windows situation a long time ago > and it worked well there. I was planning to do NFS but > was wondering what OpenAFS might have that would be > better. > i am not sure if this is right, but i have heard that coda is

Re: [gentoo-user] Distcc and OpenMosix

2003-12-11 Thread Redeeman
On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 20:43, brett holcomb wrote: > If I install and use OpenMosix does distcc give me any > gains. Wouldn't OpenMosix distribute the jobs across the > machines or does distcc do some extra stuff just for > portage and compiling Gentoo. > for compiling distcc is much better, op

Re: [gentoo-user] Evolution 1.5 on Gentoo

2003-12-11 Thread Frank J. Mattia
I do not recommend trying evolution's development versions, unless you have a red-carpet supported system, in my experience it is dependency hell (some of their test packages break other gnome programs). actually, they say on their site that using any dev version voids you right to support...

Re: [gentoo-user] Semantics of emerge -u

2003-12-11 Thread David Friggens
* Oliver Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-12-11 19:20]: > You're right, one should expect that an upgrade option shouldn't > install new packages from scratch emerge(1) says that -u is 'update' not 'upgrade' - it updates your system to have the latest version of a pkg, i.e. "install pkg X version

Re: [gentoo-user] MTA with my special features wanted

2003-12-11 Thread Dennis Freise
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 16:49:19 +0100 Thomas Preissler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello folks, > > I am looking for an MTA with the following special features. The > most important thing is that it is easy configurable, i.e. I do not > really want hacking sendmail.cf style. > > 1) No local masque

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Upgrade

2003-12-11 Thread Wes Gray
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 11:31:02PM -0800, Joshua Banks wrote: > I found the following on Gentoo web forum and just wanted someone to > take a look at this and tell me if this is outdated or still in its > correctedness. It also looks as though its missing some steps > concerning "System.map". Can s

Re: [gentoo-user] Distcc and OpenMosix

2003-12-11 Thread brett holcomb
Thanks. I figured there had to be a reason for having both of them. On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 21:52:23 +0100 Redeeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 20:43, brett holcomb wrote: If I install and use OpenMosix does distcc give me any gains. Wouldn't OpenMosix distribute the jobs acr

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Upgrade

2003-12-11 Thread brett holcomb
It's bzImage, not bizImage and it's a file. It's the generated kernel. Copy it to /boot and rename it as you please. make dep && ... and doing it all on one line are the same. the && form just quits after dep it something goes wrong but so will the other. On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 13:19:02 -080

[gentoo-user] DHCP interface?

2003-12-11 Thread Joshua Banks
Reposting in the hopes that I get a bite. I've researched this but don't seem to find anything significant that helps answer my 2 questions. JBanks --- Joshua Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I've just added another nic card and statically assigned the address > and used "rc-update

Re: [gentoo-user] install: bootstrapping w/NPTL support?

2003-12-11 Thread Tom Wesley
On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 19:13, Thomas Achtemichuk wrote: > On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 13:15, Chris Graves wrote: > > Is it possible to bootstrap with NPTL support? Is there a particular > > stage1 tarball I need? > > I believe you'll need to do the bootstrapping under a 2.6 kernel as > glibc won't build

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP interface?

2003-12-11 Thread Jayson Garrell
On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 13:35, Joshua Banks wrote: > Reposting in the hopes that I get a bite. I've researched this but > don't seem to find anything significant that helps answer my 2 > questions. > > JBanks > > --- Joshua Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I've just added anothe

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP interface?

2003-12-11 Thread Chris Bare
> Just change it in /etc/conf.d/net like you mentioned. That is all that > is needed. > > > > 2) Having added eth1 to the "default run-level" via "rc-update", will > > > switching the interface to dhcp (versus it being statically addressed > > > now) have an effect or not? If so, what (if simple)

RE: [gentoo-user] NFS vs AFS vs?

2003-12-11 Thread John Arrowwood
Perhaps you could start with explaining why you can't use Samba to share between Linux machines... If you have Samba support compiled into your kernel, you can mount Samba shares as easily as an NFS share. From: "brett holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [gentoo-user] install: bootstrapping w/NPTL support?

2003-12-11 Thread Tom Wesley
On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 21:46, Tom Wesley wrote: > On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 19:13, Thomas Achtemichuk wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 13:15, Chris Graves wrote: > > > Is it possible to bootstrap with NPTL support? Is there a particular > > > stage1 tarball I need? > > > > I believe you'll need to do t

  1   2   >