Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2004.0 -- Testers needed

2003-12-28 Thread Jon Le Miere
On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 04:50, Benjamin Judas wrote: > The upcoming release of Gentoo-Linux 2004.0 needs testers as soon as > possible. The following parts have to be tested: > > + The Live-CD and installing via Live-CD > + The stages and installation from those > + stage3 + GRP Installation >

Re: [gentoo-user] libext2fs.so.2 // mc

2003-12-28 Thread Al Raq
On Friday 26 December 2003 22:20, Al Raq wrote: > On Friday 26 December 2003 03:33, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 01:22:01 -0500 Al Raq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > | I can not execute mc. > > | This is the error message: > > | mc: error while loading shared libraries: libext2fs.

[gentoo-user] Gentoo 2004.0 -- Testers needed

2003-12-28 Thread Benjamin Judas
The upcoming release of Gentoo-Linux 2004.0 needs testers as soon as possible. The following parts have to be tested: + The Live-CD and installing via Live-CD + The stages and installation from those + stage3 + GRP Installation If you want to contribute and have the appropriate ressources on

Re: [gentoo-user] Xwindows setup

2003-12-28 Thread Harlan
On Sunday 28 December 2003 08:02 pm, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Harlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And, finally, here is the output of the startx command: > > > > hostname: Unknown host > > > > > > XFree86 Version 4.3.0 > > Release Date: 27 February 2003 > > X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Rele

Re: [gentoo-user] Wine & StarCraft

2003-12-28 Thread Ani Adarsh
On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 18:38, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: Hi, The installation of wine and StarCraft went fine. Now if i want to play it i get this error: It has according to me, to do with sound, i have sound while installing. I have tried several settings, search google but no solution. If

Re: [gentoo-user] Xwindows setup

2003-12-28 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Harlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And, finally, here is the output of the startx command: > > hostname: Unknown host > > > XFree86 Version 4.3.0 > Release Date: 27 February 2003 > X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6 > Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.20-gentoo-r9 i686 [ELF] > Build Da

[gentoo-user] NTPL

2003-12-28 Thread Ani Adarsh
hi ppl, I've been tryin and cant seem to find out how to enable NTPL in the 2.6 kernel ... I know it gotta be easy ... Somebody tell me how ... cheers Ani

Re: [gentoo-user] floppy access

2003-12-28 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Sunday 28 Dec 2003 22:04, Bruce E. Harris wrote: > ok, this one have me at a loss. I am trying to access my floppy via > Gentoo and having no luck. I tried to create a floppyfw and coyote > floppy and it could not access /dev/fd0. Looking in at /dev I see fd/ > but not fd0. I added /dev/fd0 to m

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dvdwriter package

2003-12-28 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Sunday 28 Dec 2003 19:38, Eamon Caddigan wrote: > Hey, good timing. I suppose I'm not the only one who got a DVD-burner > for Christmas () -- does anyone have a preference between the > above packages? What about burning DVD movies? I happily use cdrecord-ProDVD, which isn't in portage. You ca

Re: [gentoo-user] WAS "A good book on C programming", now an APPOLOGY

2003-12-28 Thread Scott Jackson
On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 12:12:56 +0100 "SN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Scott Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2003 6:19 PM > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] WAS "A good book on C programming", now an > APPOLOGY

[gentoo-user] there are no masked or unmasked ebuilds to satisfy "virtual/x11" ???

2003-12-28 Thread gabor
i did an emerge sync, and an emerge -up world, and i got the following: Calculating world dependencies \ emerge: there are no masked or unmasked ebuilds to satisfy "virtual/x11". !!! Problem with ebuild media-gfx/gqview-1.3.7 !!! Possibly a DEPEND/*DEPEND problem. !!! Depgraph creation failed.

[gentoo-user] Xwindows setup

2003-12-28 Thread Harlan
Hello All, I am trying to get Xwindows running on a computer with a built-in video card to avail. Below is the setup of the computer, XF86Config file and the output from the startx command. Any ideas / suggestions? If you have an example XF86Config that would work, or a pointer to it, wou

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dvdwriter package

2003-12-28 Thread Jon Le Miere
On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 19:38, Eamon Caddigan wrote: > Gerhard W Gruber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I did an esearch and found the following two packages: > > > > * app-cdr/dvdrtools > > Latest version available: 0.1.4 > > Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] > > Size of

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: A good book on C Programming?

2003-12-28 Thread Gerhard W . Gruber
On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 22:32:09 +0100, Oliver Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >With GNU/Linux, you might prefer staying with C, while some GUI systems >are based on C++. Wrong. >C++ is modern; it enforces the developer into a proper pogramming style and >is preferred for writing large projects, bu

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dvdwriter package

2003-12-28 Thread Gerhard W . Gruber
On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 19:38:14 + (UTC), Eamon Caddigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hey, good timing. I suppose I'm not the only one who got a DVD-burner >for Christmas () -- does anyone have a preference between the above >packages? What about burning DVD movies? Actually I had my DVD writer si

Re: [gentoo-user] VMware4 & Winmodem

2003-12-28 Thread Gerhard W . Gruber
On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 18:45:42 +0100, Nejko Zidarjev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lately I've been trying to get my winmodem, which is working flawlessly in >Linux, to work in VMware4 (guest OS: WinXP). The help states that it is >possible, but it does not state how it is to be done. I assumed t

[gentoo-user] floppy access

2003-12-28 Thread Bruce E. Harris
ok, this one have me at a loss. I am trying to access my floppy via Gentoo and having no luck. I tried to create a floppyfw and coyote floppy and it could not access /dev/fd0. Looking in at /dev I see fd/ but not fd0. I added /dev/fd0 to my etc/fstab but no change. I cant not mount my floppy eit

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: A good book on C Programming?

2003-12-28 Thread Oliver Lange
Gavin Henry wrote: Hi all, > One more question, should I go for C or C++? Which will benefit me more with GNU/Linux? With GNU/Linux, you might prefer staying with C, while some GUI systems are based on C++. C++ is modern; it enforces the developer into a proper pogramming style and is preferred

Re: [gentoo-user] Wine & StarCraft

2003-12-28 Thread Thomas Richards
I emailed my friend to try to get more specifics from him(ie. where he got his info for the script). When I get a return I shall pass on the information. I know he didnt write it all himself and he got the idea from somewhere else, I hope it fixes yer problem. Tom Patrick Marquetecken wrote:

[gentoo-user] abiword-SSL

2003-12-28 Thread Bryce
I know there were problems with abiword and the switch from openSSL from 0.9.6 to 9.7. And i was hoping that abiword-2.0.2 would have had these problems fixed. But alas they didn't. I did the work around of creating links from 9.7 to masquarade as 9.6, but abiword was too buggy for me to use.

Re: [gentoo-user] Wine & StarCraft

2003-12-28 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Thomas and Mark, I have indeed the problems your describing, I have removed the OSS line from the wine config and StarCraft start up now, but no keyboard. I'm going to dig around next weekend. Again thanks all Op zo 28-12-2003, om 14:52 schreef Thomas Richards: > My roommate in college was mess

[gentoo-user] Re: dvdwriter package

2003-12-28 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Gerhard W Gruber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I did an esearch and found the following two packages: > > * app-cdr/dvdrtools > Latest version available: 0.1.4 > Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] > Size of downloaded files: 1,407 kB > Homepage:http://www.nongnu

Re: [gentoo-user] dvdwriter package

2003-12-28 Thread Jason Cooper
Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > On Sunday 28 December 2003 01:33, Meka[ni] wrote: > > On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 10:05:54 +0100 > > > > > > Description: A set of tools for DVD+RW/-RW drives. > > > > > > When I tried emerge --pretend dvdrtools I got the normal response telling > > > me what

Re: [gentoo-user] Wine & StarCraft

2003-12-28 Thread Thomas Richards
My roommate in college was messing with doing the same thing. I do not know specifics, but I can tell you about what he did to get it to work. His setup was a dual boot, so Starcraft was already installed on his windows drive. Whenever he started the program he never had sound and no keyboar

Re: [gentoo-user] Wine & StarCraft

2003-12-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 10:38, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: > Hi, > > The installation of wine and StarCraft went fine. > Now if i want to play it i get this error: > It has according to me, to do with sound, i have sound while installing. > I have tried several settings, search google but no solutio

[gentoo-user] Wine & StarCraft

2003-12-28 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Hi, The installation of wine and StarCraft went fine. Now if i want to play it i get this error: It has according to me, to do with sound, i have sound while installing. I have tried several settings, search google but no solution. If someone could shine some light on this mater or, or is willing

[gentoo-user] VMware4 & Winmodem

2003-12-28 Thread Nejko Zidarjev
Hi to all! Lately I've been trying to get my winmodem, which is working flawlessly in Linux, to work in VMware4 (guest OS: WinXP). The help states that it is possible, but it does not state how it is to be done. I assumed that it must have something to do with serial ports, so I enabled one a

Re: [gentoo-user] dvdwriter package

2003-12-28 Thread Collins
On Sunday 28 December 2003 03:54, Gerhard W. Gruber wrote: > On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 10:33:36 +0100, "Meka[ni]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is the impact if I try to install this? I read that these masked > packages are not yet testted. Does this mean it will break my system? Can I > try it and

[gentoo-user] libglade -- no such Python module

2003-12-28 Thread Richard R
I have a small python application that I want to transfer to my new Gentoo system. I can't seem to find (and emerge) the portage package that contains the python libglade module. File "./callerid-show.py", line 11, in ? import gtk, libglade, sys, MySQLdb, traceback ImportError: No module na

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] dhcpcd question

2003-12-28 Thread Guy Van Sanden
On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 15:24, Reinhard Brandstädter wrote: > Guy Van Sanden wrote: > > > I was wondering what this message in the logs meant: > > dhcpcd[162]: broadcasting second DHCP_DISCOVER > > > from the dhcpcd man page: > > -S Forces dhcpcd to send second DHCP_DISCOVER message even afte

Re: [gentoo-user] dvdwriter package

2003-12-28 Thread Collins
On Sunday 28 December 2003 01:33, Meka[ni] wrote: > On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 10:05:54 +0100 > > > Description: A set of tools for DVD+RW/-RW drives. > > > > When I tried emerge --pretend dvdrtools I got the normal response telling > > me what is to be built. When I tried the same with the dvd+rw-

Re: [gentoo-user] hdd surface test

2003-12-28 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Meka[ni] wrote: Is there a program that can check disk for damages? I need a surface scan similar to windows because I suspect that there is something wrong with one of my discs. If it is important, my hard disk is IDE. Thanx time dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/null simple reads complete surface

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] dhcpcd question

2003-12-28 Thread Reinhard Brandstädter
Guy Van Sanden wrote: I was wondering what this message in the logs meant: dhcpcd[162]: broadcasting second DHCP_DISCOVER from the dhcpcd man page: -S Forces dhcpcd to send second DHCP_DISCOVER message even after receiving DHCP_OFFER on the first one. Some DHCP servers expect the c

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing mondo-rescue

2003-12-28 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Martin LORANG wrote: Hi group, I'm looking for a good backup/restore system. I'll test mondo-rescue. if I do "emerge -pv mondo-rescue" I get the following : These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N] app-a

Re: [gentoo-user] Color LS

2003-12-28 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Vanh Phom wrote: Hi, Anyone know how to get color ls to work in 2.6.0? You need to set an alias: alias ls='ls --color' another one I use a lot is: alias ll='ls -l' alias la='ls -la' -- Andrew Gaffney -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] lost networking on NForce2 after turning hotplugging off?

2003-12-28 Thread Matthias Witschel
By the short version: looks as if the needed module was being loaded by hotplug-service. Load at boot time via /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-. Hope this helps :-) Have a happy new year! >Short version - Would turning off hotplug using 'rc-update del > hotplug default' cause the 3Com networ

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with portage dependencies needed

2003-12-28 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Still the same problem with mozilla ... first answer sent to Spider, but not gentoo-user. Thanke you, Spider ! You are right ... it was in the deep night, I was very tired ... do not know how it happend, but " -X" was really missing in my USE flags, "-doc" is also a good tip, since after adding t

[gentoo-user] Re: [normal] Re: [gentoo-user] dvdwriter package

2003-12-28 Thread Marc Redmann
Hi Gerhard, > On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 10:33:36 +0100, "Meka[ni]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > emerge --pretend /usr/portage/app-cdr/dvd+rw-tools. If that doesn't work try > > to change > >ACCEPT_KEYWORDS in /etc/make.conf. Good luck > That didn' t work. What would I have to write in the ACCE

[gentoo-user] [OT] dhcpcd question

2003-12-28 Thread Guy Van Sanden
A somewhat off topic question, I'm using dhcpcd on an internet connected box, and it has been having problems for a week or so. I was wondering what this message in the logs meant: dhcpcd[162]: broadcasting second DHCP_DISCOVER This is an entire log snippet of a failed connection, if you know wha

Re: [gentoo-user] dvdwriter package

2003-12-28 Thread Gerhard W . Gruber
On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 10:33:36 +0100, "Meka[ni]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > emerge --pretend /usr/portage/app-cdr/dvd+rw-tools. If that doesn't work try > to change >ACCEPT_KEYWORDS in /etc/make.conf. Good luck That didn' t work. What would I have to write in the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS? I looked

Re: [gentoo-user] WAS "A good book on C programming", now an APPOLOGY

2003-12-28 Thread Gerhard W . Gruber
On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 12:12:56 +0100, "SN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> you know, if you wanted to get a developer's opinion, there IS a >"gentoo-devel" list :-P >> this is gentoo-user... > >So you have to be on the developer list to be a developer? Funny very funny. No. But the attitude of the or

[gentoo-user] /dev/pts what is it?

2003-12-28 Thread Gerhard W . Gruber
When booting I get an errormessage from modprobe /dev/pts not available or something like that. I have no idea what /dev/pts is for or which module this requires. Any ideas? -- Gerhard Gruber Maintainer of SoftICE for Linux - http://sourceforge.net/projects/pice Fast application launcher - http:/

Re: [gentoo-user] WAS "A good book on C programming", now an APPOLOGY

2003-12-28 Thread SN
- Original Message - From: "Scott Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2003 6:19 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] WAS "A good book on C programming", now an APPOLOGY > you know, if you wanted to get a developer's opinion, there IS a "gentoo-deve

Re: [gentoo-user] hdd surface test

2003-12-28 Thread Rudmer van Dijk
On Sunday 28 December 2003 05:25, Meka[ni] wrote: > Is there a program that can check disk for damages? I need a surface scan > similar to windows because I suspect that there is something wrong with one > of my discs. If it is important, my hard disk is IDE. Thanx you could try badblocks q

Re: [gentoo-user] Color LS

2003-12-28 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 02:41:06 + Vanh Phom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Hi, | Anyone know how to get color ls to work in 2.6.0? | Vanh It just works for me... Didn't have to change anything. Works on all of these without anything fancy: Linux snowdrop 2.6.0-mm1 #1 Sun Dec 28 09:30:01 GMT 2003 i

Re: [gentoo-user] List police on replies

2003-12-28 Thread Michael Andreen
Hi, On Saturday 27 December 2003 16.08, Tom Wesley wrote: > My point is that should the Gentoo list itself remove extra reply-to's > and add one to ensure that the replies get sent to the list and not to > personal mailboxes? Since this all sides will agree about this issue at about the same time

Re: [gentoo-user] Color LS

2003-12-28 Thread Redeeman
hi, i run 2.6(did since test4) i never tried use color ls, but i dont see why it wouldnt work. ls --color gives me colors, both in X and the tty, hope you get it working On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 03:41, Vanh Phom wrote: > Hi, > Anyone know how to get color ls to work in 2.6.0? > Vanh > > > -- > [EMA

[gentoo-user] Color LS

2003-12-28 Thread Vanh Phom
Hi, Anyone know how to get color ls to work in 2.6.0? Vanh -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ripping DVD to ISO

2003-12-28 Thread Manuel Pérez López
El Domingo, 28 de Diciembre de 2003 05:31, Andrew Gaffney escribió: > What is the recommended, tried and true procedure for ripping a DVD > straight to an ISO? I have a friend who is trying to do this. I recommended > to him to use 'dd', but he said that he got weird errors reading from the > DVD w

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: A good book on C Programming?

2003-12-28 Thread Reinhard Brandstädter
SN wrote: > A defacto standard is: Kernighan, Ritchie "The C rogramming Language" I would not call it standard...it's the Holy Bible of C Programming :-) Reinhard -- Reinhard Brandstaedter [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 0x033B81DB -Student of Computer Science - J.K. University of Linz - -

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [normal] Re: [gentoo-user] newbie: cant seem to emerge telnet - any ideas?

2003-12-28 Thread William Kenworthy
ssh does not seem to do everything telnet does. For instance, I run an imap server, and "ssh -p 143 hostname" will not return the same as "telnet hostname 143" ssh is not the be all and end all that some people think it is. Telnet is probably as safe a program as ssh ***EXCEPT*** it sends all da

[gentoo-user] Installing mondo-rescue

2003-12-28 Thread Martin LORANG
Hi group, I'm looking for a good backup/restore system. I'll test mondo-rescue. if I do "emerge -pv mondo-rescue" I get the following : These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N] app-arch/lzop-1.01

[gentoo-user] Re: ripping DVD to ISO

2003-12-28 Thread Felix Kurth
Try this: http://james.nontrivial.org/projdvd.htm felix Andrew Gaffney wrote: > What is the recommended, tried and true procedure for ripping a DVD > straight to an ISO? I have a friend who is trying to do this. I > recommended to him to use 'dd', but he said that he got weird errors > reading

Re: [gentoo-user] dvdwriter package

2003-12-28 Thread Meka[ni]
On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 10:05:54 +0100 "Gerhard W. Gruber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I did an esearch and found the following two packages: > > * app-cdr/dvdrtools > Latest version available: 0.1.4 > Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] > Size of downloaded files: 1,407 k

[gentoo-user] dvdwriter package

2003-12-28 Thread Gerhard W . Gruber
I did an esearch and found the following two packages: * app-cdr/dvdrtools Latest version available: 0.1.4 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 1,407 kB Homepage:http://www.nongnu.org/dvdrtools/ Description: This is the dvdrtools

Re: [gentoo-user] Playing Starcraft

2003-12-28 Thread Brendan Sullivan
emerge wine i have it working perfectly, albeit a tiny bit on the slow side in menu's Brendan On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 11:45, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: > Hi, > > At this moment i jump to windows to play StarCraft. I found > winex-transgaming in the portage but you have to pay for it. > > W