[gentoo-user] aic7xxx endless loop

2003-12-17 Thread Helder Rossa
hi, I'm trying to install Gentoo but after boot when probing (or something) for the scsi device enters in a endless loop :-S. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Latex Packages

2003-12-17 Thread Troels Vognbjerg
Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos wrote: Hi all, What's the best way to install in Gentoo LaTeX packages? emerge app-text/tetex (TeTeX contains LaTeX) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Latex Packages

2003-12-17 Thread Troels Vognbjerg
Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos wrote: Hi all, What's the best way to install in Gentoo LaTeX packages? emerge tetex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: quote from distrowatch weekly

2003-12-17 Thread dave i
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 19:07:02 -0600, Jeff Smelser wrote: =) -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- =) Hash: SHA1 =) =) On Tuesday 16 December 2003 04:31 pm, Norberto Bensa wrote: =)> Bill Carlson wrote: =)> > On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Norberto Bensa wrote: =)> > > Jeff Smelser wrote: =)> > > > Servers don'

[gentoo-user] netstat

2003-12-17 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I mentioned some time ago that I had built a Gentoo machine for my 70+ year old dad and delivered it the day before Thanksgiving. Believe it or not, he's now got 16 days uptime and tells me he hasn't had any need at all to turn on his old Windows box! Evolution, Mozilla and Open Office seem

RE: [gentoo-user] Kmail SMTP secure authentication problem

2003-12-17 Thread Daniel Jiseok Song
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I tried. But it isn't solved. After waiting some second, all radio buttons except uppermost 'None' became disabled. I shrugged my shoulder and tested to send only to get same result. It said server responded this. I don't know how to solve this. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail SMTP secure authentication problem

2003-12-17 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 17 December 2003 00:47, Daniel Jiseok Song wrote: > Thank you very much. > I cannot check Kmail now because I'm in work now. My Gentoo box is in my > home. But I tried to telnet to the SMTP server and got this message. > ==

[gentoo-user] test message, please ignore

2003-12-17 Thread Deedra Waters
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[gentoo-user] How many gentoo users ?

2003-12-17 Thread Oliver Lange
Hi everyone, Has anyone tried to estimate how many people are currently using gentoo-linux ? Or other distros ? Good question, huh ? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] local rsync server

2003-12-17 Thread Oliver Lange
Hello everyone, The gentoo rsync mirror guide explains how to setup a public rsync mirror. What about an easier guide for the home user who wants to setup a simple LAN rsync mirror ? Should be easy to understand and also cover an example configuration file for rsyncd. Cheers.. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] logitech mx700 buttons and the 2.6 kernel

2003-12-17 Thread Robert G . Waycott
I use "Protocol" "IMPS/2" ... wheels/buttons work great. kernel-2.4.22 Robert G. Waycott From: Brendan Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 2003/12/17 Wed PM 09:27:12 EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] logitech mx700 but

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.0

2003-12-17 Thread Lincoln A. Baxter
On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 00:01, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > just saw kernel 2.6.0 has been released. Is there a roadmap on what is > happening with kernels in gentoo? > > i.e., will gs-sources move to 2.6 soon, or will there be a > gs-sources-2.6.n and a gs-sources-2.4.n > > Its more of an issue as to

[gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.0

2003-12-17 Thread Bill Kenworthy
just saw kernel 2.6.0 has been released. Is there a roadmap on what is happening with kernels in gentoo? i.e., will gs-sources move to 2.6 soon, or will there be a gs-sources-2.6.n and a gs-sources-2.4.n Its more of an issue as to what to look out for than to keep doing a "emerge sources -s" in

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel boot errors

2003-12-17 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Thomas Smith wrote: I'm getting two boot errors that I think are related. They are: lvm -- lvm_blk_ioctl: unknown cmd 0x5310 Trying to move old root to /initrd ... failed I get the second of your errors as well... no idea why though. -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [+1 66

Re: [gentoo-user] logitech mx700 buttons and the 2.6 kernel

2003-12-17 Thread Brendan Sullivan
well..i use the MX700 on my system..but i use 2.4.20 kernelhowever, i believe the input device sections should stay about the same here's mine...and the 3 buttons and the wheel work fine. The two side buttons do now however. I suppose someone will figure out how to fix that someday. But t

[gentoo-user] ACPI cpu throttling

2003-12-17 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
I'm using ACPI on my Dell laptop. How do I control CPU throttling in Gentoo? Is there a control app I can use, or a script I can run? -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [+1 662-518-1636] E-mail[EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] kernel boot errors

2003-12-17 Thread Thomas Smith
I'm getting two boot errors that I think are related. They are: lvm -- lvm_blk_ioctl: unknown cmd 0x5310 Trying to move old root to /initrd ... failed The errors themselves are located a few lines apart (line 245 and 250, respectively, in the attached dmesg.txt). Otherwise, the system boots fine

[gentoo-user] logitech mx700 buttons and the 2.6 kernel

2003-12-17 Thread Alan
Hey guys. Trying to get things working in the 2.6 kernel for me and I've come across another roadblock, this time to do with the mouse. It's not the speed, but the fact that my scroll wheel and extra buttons on the mx700 from logitech don't work anymore. Clicking any of the extra buttons or movin

Re: [gentoo-user] Compiling on another machine? - NFS problems

2003-12-17 Thread Nick Fisher
> On Tuesday 16 December 2003 12:03, George Mathews wrote: >> I was wondering if there was a way to use my desktop machine to compile >> for >> my laptop when I `emerge -uD world`. I would like to use my desktop >> because >> it is 4x the 600Mhz that the laptop is. > > Another option is to mount th

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sync error after power failure

2003-12-17 Thread Ian Truelsen
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 07:11:42 +0800 William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > /usr/portage/sys-apps/portage/files/README.RESCUE > Thank you for the suggestion, however I still get the same error and am still unable to sync. -- Ian Truelsen Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: ihtruelsen Homepage:

Re: [gentoo-user] Sensors with 2.6.0-test11 kernel

2003-12-17 Thread Cybercar
Thanks for this script, i'm going to run it and i'll tell you how it works. On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 23:31, Peter Ruskin wrote: > Just in case anyone is wondering how to display hardware sensor values > without using gkrellm and using the 2.6.0-test11 kernel, I've knocked > up a short bash scrip

Re: [gentoo-user] Solved: Can't see my own posts here

2003-12-17 Thread Cybercar
It doesn't matter. Just bored :) On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 23:03, Oliver Lange wrote: > The last email arrived. Seems that my previous mails fell into > some unstable wormhole.. :) > > Sorry to everyone. > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- - = Human knowledge belongs to the

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sync error after power failure

2003-12-17 Thread William Kenworthy
/usr/portage/sys-apps/portage/files/README.RESCUE BillK On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 05:41, Ian Truelsen wrote: > I was in the process of an emerge sync when the power failed. Upon > retrying, I get this: -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Latex Packages

2003-12-17 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
Le 12/17/03 Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit notamment: > Hi all, > > What's the best way to install in Gentoo LaTeX packages? > > Best regards, emerge tetex ate logo, -- Jean Magnan de Bornier 3 Cours Victor Hugo, 13980 Alleins France Tel: 04 90 59 33 94

[gentoo-user] Sensors with 2.6.0-test11 kernel

2003-12-17 Thread Peter Ruskin
Just in case anyone is wondering how to display hardware sensor values without using gkrellm and using the 2.6.0-test11 kernel, I've knocked up a short bash script that does just that. All the info comes from that new-fangled /sys directory. #

Re: [gentoo-user] wrong partition size

2003-12-17 Thread Tom Hosiawa
Settings the bios to not detect the second drive, and recreating the partition and filesystem seems to have done the job, it's now showing as 13GB. Tom -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't see my own posts here

2003-12-17 Thread Tom Wesley
On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 22:00, Oliver Lange wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I just fired two posts into this mailing list, but these mails > weren't bounced to (i.e. never reached) my email account. > I ask myself what's going on.. > > Maybe this mail will arrive back here. In this case i'll immediat

Re: [gentoo-user] Solved: Can't see my own posts here

2003-12-17 Thread Oliver Lange
The last email arrived. Seems that my previous mails fell into some unstable wormhole.. :) Sorry to everyone. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Can't see my own posts here

2003-12-17 Thread Oliver Lange
Hello everybody, I just fired two posts into this mailing list, but these mails weren't bounced to (i.e. never reached) my email account. I ask myself what's going on.. Maybe this mail will arrive back here. In this case i'll immediately send a 'solved' message. If not, I ask myself if anybody can

[gentoo-user] emerge sync error after power failure

2003-12-17 Thread Ian Truelsen
I was in the process of an emerge sync when the power failed. Upon retrying, I get this: receiving file list ... 69167 files to consider io timeout after 180 seconds - exiting rsync error: timeout in data send/receive (code 30) at io.c(103) rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (1589544 bytes rea

[gentoo-user] wrong partition size

2003-12-17 Thread Tom Hosiawa
I have a 6 and 13 GB hard drive in an older PII 333 system. The 13GB drive consists of just one partition taking up all the space. When I do df, it's reporting it as only 3.5GB partition: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hdb1 3534096513596

Re: [gentoo-user] booting from floppy (after install)

2003-12-17 Thread john gennard
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 12:01:52PM +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Tuesday 16 December 2003 10:32 schrieb ext john gennard: > > Hmm, you should. I just booted into a Live CD (1.4 RC4) and when I get a > prompt, dmesg gives me the info I want (near the end): > > inserting floppy driver fo

[gentoo-user] Installing Latex Packages

2003-12-17 Thread Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos
Hi all, What's the best way to install in Gentoo LaTeX packages? Best regards, -- Paulo J. Matos : pocm [_at_] mega . ist . utl . pt Instituto Superior Tecnico - Lisbon Computer and Software Eng. - A.I. - > http://mega.ist.utl.pt/~pocm --- -> God had a deadline... So, h

[gentoo-user] LM-sensors

2003-12-17 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Hi, Is there anyone on this list that has a lm-sersors config file for a medion MD6100? 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: http://users.pandora.be/rivendell/marquetp.gpg Fingerp

Re: [gentoo-user] zeroing out files and unused diskspace

2003-12-17 Thread brett holcomb
man dd - dd allows you to zero files and partitions! On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 14:36:27 +0100 Johan Van den Neste <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Are there any tools in portage that do this? I had a quick look, but I can't really find one. I mainly want this for use in a vmware gentoo install, to minimize

[gentoo-user] Just installed, booting problem

2003-12-17 Thread W. Blaine Dowler
Hi all, I just installed Gentoo Linux for the first time yesterday, working from a stage 1 installation. Everything seems fine, until it's time to reboot. (Well, the "slang" package isn't where the system expects it to be, but Google, grep, and nano pointed me to what needed changed and h

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_TMPDIR

2003-12-17 Thread Oliver Lange
Andrew Farmer wrote: On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 15:46:51 -0800, Yrjö Hatakka muttered: Viestissä Maanantai 15. Joulukuuta 2003 01:24, Oliver Lange kirjoitti: you may well delete /var/tmp/portage/* as long as you're not currently emerging some software. For example: rm -R /var/tmp/portage/* Don't do thi

[gentoo-user] zeroing out files and unused diskspace

2003-12-17 Thread Johan Van den Neste
Are there any tools in portage that do this? I had a quick look, but I can't really find one. I mainly want this for use in a vmware gentoo install, to minimize the size of a compressed image. thanks, nessie -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] -U or --upgradeonly does not work for me - it still try to downgrade?

2003-12-17 Thread Redeeman
i have problems too: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: /home/redeeman$ emerge -Up world >>> --upgradeonly implies --update... adding --update to options. These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] app-admin/gkrellm-2.1.21 [2.1.20] [ebuild N

Re: [gentoo-user] -U or --upgradeonly does not work for me - it still try to downgrade?

2003-12-17 Thread Andrew Gaffney
brett holcomb wrote: Try just -U, not both -u and -U. -U implies -u -- Andrew Gaffney -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] sys-kernel/gs-sources-2.4.23_pre8-r1 loses network

2003-12-17 Thread William Kenworthy
sys-kernel/gs-sources-2.4.23_pre8-r1 on 3 systems. All have lost their IP address at some stage. No logging that I have been able to identify shows any problem. Symptom is suddenly there is no network. Running ifconfig shows it as up, but no IP, or broadcast addresses. Starting and stopping th

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting proc at /proc

2003-12-17 Thread Azhdeen
> Hi all, > My init process is freezing after the above line is output to the > screen. The only thing I can think that I've done since the last boot > is emerged autofs, but I haven't even added it to the startup scripts > yet. Could this be affecting it? There's nothing wrong with the disk,

Re: [gentoo-user] -U or --upgradeonly does not work for me - it still try to downgrade?

2003-12-17 Thread brett holcomb
Try just -U, not both -u and -U. On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 08:58:34 +0200 "Alex V. Koval" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi anybody have idea why my emerge tries to downgrade my gaim-0.74 when I set flags as -U?? bash-2.05b# emerge -p -u -U world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Ca

[gentoo-user] Sun Java SDK problem

2003-12-17 Thread Vanh Phom
Hi All, I'm having problem with Sun Java SDK 1.4.2. The downloading process works fine except when I try to execute it after say yes to the license. It's abort complaining check sum error (file size different). Vanh -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] quote from distrowatch weekly

2003-12-17 Thread Peter Gantner
Quoting Jeff Smelser from Dec 16 > --[PinePGP]--[begin]-- > On Tuesday 16 December 2003 07:55 pm, Ladislav Bodnar wrote: > > On Wednesday 17 December 2003 09:32, Jeff Smelser wrote: > > > Listen moron. I didn't say anything about the popularity.. We

Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB booting problem

2003-12-17 Thread Christoph Schäfer
Helder Rossa schrieb: hi, I've installed grub and 3 partitions boot, swap and root in my SCSI hard drive. but when it boots grub shows the command line instead of a menu. when i write "configfile (hd0,0)/grub/grub.conf" it shows me the menu. how can I configure grub show by default the menu?? oth

[gentoo-user] GRUB booting problem

2003-12-17 Thread Helder Rossa
hi, I've installed grub and 3 partitions boot, swap and root in my SCSI hard drive. but when it boots grub shows the command line instead of a menu. when i write "configfile (hd0,0)/grub/grub.conf" it shows me the menu. how can I configure grub show by default the menu?? other thing is when I boo

[gentoo-user] kde-3.2beta2 and antialiasing

2003-12-17 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Hello, it seems the fonts in kde-3.2beta2 are not antialiased, even though in Control Center/Appearance & Themes/Fonts/Anti-Aliasing, the "Use anti-aliasing for fonts" is enabled. Is this a known issue for this beta, or is there something I can do about it ? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: pgsql.so

2003-12-17 Thread Ted Ozolins
James Orr wrote: On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 19:12, Ted Ozolins wrote: where can I find the the postgresql module for php4? It's installed with PHP. You might need to have postgres in your USE flag, not sure. I've emerged Postgresql and have "php postgresql postgres" in my USE= and still no

Re: [gentoo-user] booting from floppy (after install)

2003-12-17 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Tuesday 16 December 2003 17:21 schrieb ext [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > If you want a boot floppy that will boot linux you can also do this, > after you have built your kernel: > > # cd /usr/src/linux/ > > then put a floppy in fd0 and > > # make bzdisk John tried this also (see his first mail), but with

Re: [gentoo-user] -U or --upgradeonly does not work for me - it still try to downgrade?

2003-12-17 Thread Alex V. Koval
Thanks, Rumen: I found it, here is is: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30357 it means that if ebuild file was removed from portage, then it will allow for downgrade even if flag --upgradeonly is used. Alex On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 09:28:10 +0200, Rumen Yotov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ale

Re: [gentoo-user] -U or --upgradeonly does not work for me - it still try to downgrade?

2003-12-17 Thread Rumen Yotov
Alex V. Koval wrote: Maybe you used "~x86" when first emerged gaim. no, I do not know how to do that... If your default in make.conf is x86. I looked at make.conf and found that the only place where I can find x86: # would add '~x86' to ACCEPT_KEYWORDS to enable unstable/testing packages.

[gentoo-user] scripts/bootstrap.sh failed

2003-12-17 Thread Simon Striker
Hello Olli, I have enlarged the Swap from 50M to 480M. It has just finished the bootstrap process and It took about 36 hours on pentium 200 for it :) Now, I am going on stage 2 :):) Thanks all for advices! Simon Best regards, Simon Štriker Rusjanov trg 2 1000 Ljubljana +3864

Re: [gentoo-user] -U or --upgradeonly does not work for me - it still try to downgrade?

2003-12-17 Thread Alex V. Koval
Maybe you used "~x86" when first emerged gaim. no, I do not know how to do that... If your default in make.conf is x86. I looked at make.conf and found that the only place where I can find x86: # would add '~x86' to ACCEPT_KEYWORDS to enable unstable/testing packages. also, before it was workin

Re: [gentoo-user] -U or --upgradeonly does not work for me - it still try to downgrade?

2003-12-17 Thread Rumen Yotov
Alex V. Koval wrote: Hi anybody have idea why my emerge tries to downgrade my gaim-0.74 when I set flags as -U?? bash-2.05b# emerge -p -u -U world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] sys-devel/gettext-0.12.1 [0.11.5-r1]

[gentoo-user] -U or --upgradeonly does not work for me - it still try to downgrade?

2003-12-17 Thread Alex V. Koval
Hi anybody have idea why my emerge tries to downgrade my gaim-0.74 when I set flags as -U?? bash-2.05b# emerge -p -u -U world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] sys-devel/gettext-0.12.1 [0.11.5-r1] [ebuild UD] net-i