Re: [gentoo-user] Xwindows setup

2003-12-29 Thread Stijn Vander Maelen
On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 05:40, Harlan wrote: > 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:

[gentoo-user] Daily job running

2003-12-29 Thread Gerhard W . Gruber
I want to have job that runs once a day when I power on my machine. With cron I have the problem that this has to be at a fixed time, yes? Since I switch my machine off when I don' t use it it can often happen that this will not run because the launchtime has been missed. I know that in Suse they h

Re: [gentoo-user] Daily job running

2003-12-29 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 10:21:57 +0100 "Gerhard W. Gruber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I want to have job that runs once a day when I power on my machine. | With cron I have the problem that this has to be at a fixed time, yes? | Since I switch my machine off when I don' t use it it can often happen |

[gentoo-user] CD- recording

2003-12-29 Thread Goran Kavrecic
I have Gentoo 1.4 on my PC, an CD-R, installed k3b(with cdrecord beneath) but it does no recognize/find the burner. What to do? Regards, Goran -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] NTPL

2003-12-29 Thread Stefan Vunckx
On Monday 29 December 2003 04:04, Ani Adarsh wrote: > 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 You don't have to enable it in the 2.6 kernel ... You have to recompile glibc

[gentoo-user] Howto: Linux 2.6.0 with ISDN

2003-12-29 Thread Simon Cahuk
Hi! I wrote how to get passive ISDN cards working under Linux 2.6.0. http://rcum.uni-mb.si/~uvp00845b Simon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] vmware moves RAM

2003-12-29 Thread Alex Huth
Hi guys! I'm in trouble with vmware. Everything worked fine till i recognized that vmware moves my RAM into cache. With in one Minute there is only 4000k free available everything else moves to cache ( ~40 per sec ). That occuers when i boot the guest. This happens when i start a guest ( W2K )

Re: [gentoo-user] Daily job running

2003-12-29 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 29 December 2003 09:21, Gerhard W. Gruber wrote: > I want to have job that runs once a day when I power on my machine. With > cron I have the problem that this has to be at a fixed time, yes? Since I > switch my machine off when I don' t use

Re: [gentoo-user] CD- recording

2003-12-29 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Monday 29 December 2003 11:00, Goran Kavrecic wrote: > I have Gentoo 1.4 on my PC, an CD-R, installed k3b(with cdrecord > beneath) but it does no recognize/find the burner. What to do? 1. What is the output of "cdrecord -scanbus"? 2. If you have an ATAPI burner, try "cdrecord -scanbus dev=ATAPI

[gentoo-user] Gentoo installation: compile fails

2003-12-29 Thread Michael Spohn
Hi, I tried to install Gentoo from stage 1 2 and 3 foolowing the very good installation docs but in all cases different programs refuse to compile with more or less the same error message: {Standard Input} Assembler messages {Standard Input} Error: Suffix or operands invalid for `movd' When star

Re: [gentoo-user] Daily job running

2003-12-29 Thread Gerhard W . Gruber
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 10:37:27 +, Mike Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >You can stick any jobs you wish to run on startup in /etc/conf.d/local.start, >and conversly jobs to run on shutdown in /etc/conf.d/local.stop Yes. but as I said it will be run everytime I reboot, yes? Of course if thi

Re: [gentoo-user] NTPL

2003-12-29 Thread Ani Adarsh
On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 10:02, Stefan Vunckx wrote: You have to recompile glibc WITH nptl support thanks .. got it now i got problems with nvidia-glx ... nvidia-glx does not work i had to switch to xfree opengl interface and my DRI is gone .. Any clues on this one ... <>

Re: [gentoo-user] CD- recording

2003-12-29 Thread Goran Kavrecic
Without ATAPI returns some removable devices. goran $ cdrecord -scanbus dev=ATAPI Cdrecord 2.01a14 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2003 Jörg Schilling scsidev: 'ATAPI' devname: 'ATAPI' scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2 Warning: Using ATA Packet interface. Warning: The related libscg interface

[gentoo-user] no logout

2003-12-29 Thread Jorge Almeida
I can't logout nor shutdown from a KDE session. When I try, the screen goes blank and that's it. I can't go to a virtual console with ctrl-alt-F? and I can't kill the X server with ctrl-alt-del. Only thing to do is a hard shutdown. This happens since I upgraded the kernel from 2.4.22 vanilla to 2.4

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo installation: compile fails

2003-12-29 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
On Monday 29 December 2003 12:21, Michael Spohn wrote: > Hi, > > I tried to install Gentoo from stage 1 2 and 3 foolowing the very good > installation docs but in all cases different programs refuse to compile > with more or less the same error message: > > {Standard Input} Assembler messages > {St

[gentoo-user] kernel 2.6 && iptables build incompatibilities ?

2003-12-29 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Hi there! I've tried to emerge iptables-1.2.8 with kernel-source tree of 2.6.0 in /usr/src/linux, and it failed with some undeclared symbols: emerge iptables Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) net-firewall/iptables-1.2.8-r1 to / >>> md5 src_uri ;-) iptables-1.2.8.tar.bz2 >>> U

Re: [gentoo-user] floppy access

2003-12-29 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
On Sunday 28 December 2003 23:04, 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

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

2003-12-29 Thread Senectus -
I can't for a few weeks either.. I just moved house and it takes two weeks to get my DSL installed :-/ Senectus "Imagine a school with children that can read and write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live." - Peter Cochrane From

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware moves RAM

2003-12-29 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
On Monday 29 December 2003 11:14, Alex Huth wrote: > Hi guys! > > I'm in trouble with vmware. Everything worked fine till i recognized that > vmware moves my RAM into cache. With in one Minute there is only 4000k > free available everything else moves to cache ( ~40 per sec ). That > occuers when i

[gentoo-user] USB scanner/printer

2003-12-29 Thread Paul Stear
Hi all, I have been trying to get my new epson scanner/printer CX5400 to work. I have followed the instructions and set the printer in cups as a C84. I also need to set the sane backend to recognise the device as a CX5200 but I need the actual vendor and product id. I should be able to get t

Re: [gentoo-user] NTPL

2003-12-29 Thread Stefan Vunckx
Ive read about ppl having problems with nvidia-glx on the fora, but here everything works like a charm, so can't shed a light on your problem ... Bonx On Monday 29 December 2003 12:55, Ani Adarsh wrote: > On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 10:02, Stefan Vunckx wrote: > > You have to recompile glibc WITH nptl

Re: [gentoo-user] NTPL

2003-12-29 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Stefan Vunckx wrote: > On Monday 29 December 2003 04:04, Ani Adarsh wrote: >> 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 > > You don't have to enable it in the 2.6 kerne

[gentoo-user] phpBB emerge

2003-12-29 Thread Rus Foster
Hi All, I've started taking my first steps with gentoo and am trying to install phpBB I've run the following localhost conf # emerge -vp net-www/phpBB These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies !!! all ebuilds that could satisfy "net-www/phpBB" have been maske

[gentoo-user] which is the best for Server

2003-12-29 Thread Roger
hi,all: I want to setup a server, which hosts small business on Internet. Which is the best one? Redhat 9? debian 3? gentoo? PLS advice. -- ~~~ China Cell Phone Rental http://www.pandaphone.com Start with Gentoo,Start with Freedom ~~

Re: [gentoo-user] which is the best for Server

2003-12-29 Thread Spider
begin quote On 29 Dec 2003 21:51:55 +0800 Roger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi,all: > > I want to setup a server, which hosts small business on Internet. > Which is the best one? Redhat 9? debian 3? gentoo? > PLS advice. it depends on your sysadmin. -- end of transmission -- -- begin .s

Re: [gentoo-user] which is the best for Server

2003-12-29 Thread Redeeman
On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 14:51, Roger wrote: > hi,all: > > I want to setup a server, which hosts small business on Internet. > Which is the best one? Redhat 9? debian 3? gentoo? > PLS advice. this is a strange strange thing to ask on a gentoo list :D but i will answer anyway. use redhat 9 if you wan

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6 && iptables build incompatibilities ?

2003-12-29 Thread Redeeman
i tried to build iptables yesterday, i am using 2.6.0, and it didnt build, not the same errors as you though, iptables version 1.2.7 builds just fine. On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 13:50, Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > Hi there! > > I've tried to emerge iptables-1.2.8 with kernel-source tree of 2.6.0 in >

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

2003-12-29 Thread Redeeman
what is it excatly that still needs testing? (i think i can put some time off to test) :) On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 14:04, Senectus - wrote: > I can't for a few weeks either.. I just moved house and it takes two weeks > to get my DSL installed :-/ > > Senectus > > > > "Imagine a school with child

Re: [gentoo-user] which is the best for Server

2003-12-29 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Roger -- > I want to setup a server, which hosts small business on Internet. > Which is the best one? Redhat 9? debian 3? gentoo? > PLS advice. Some discussion about this topic can be found on list archives: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-user&r=1&w=2 HTH! Greet

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo installation: compile fails

2003-12-29 Thread Michael Spohn
On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 13:30, Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > On Monday 29 December 2003 12:21, Michael Spohn wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I tried to install Gentoo from stage 1 2 and 3 foolowing the very good > > installation docs but in all cases different programs refuse to compile > > with more or less th

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware moves RAM

2003-12-29 Thread Alex Huth
Am Montag, 29. Dezember 2003 14:15 schrieb Alexander Puchmayr: > On Monday 29 December 2003 11:14, Alex Huth wrote: > > Hi guys! > > > > I'm in trouble with vmware. Everything worked fine till i recognized that > > vmware moves my RAM into cache. With in one Minute there is only 4000k > > free avai

[gentoo-user] safe to switch to linux-headers-2.6.0_beta11 ?

2003-12-29 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Since I'm running 2.6 now for good, I'd like to switch to the 2.6 headers and recompile glibc. I did this a few days ago, but when I tried to compile samba-3.0.1, it gave me some error about not including kernel headers in userspace. Other than that, I didn't notice any problems. Then again, I o

Re: [gentoo-user] which is the best for Server

2003-12-29 Thread Spider
begin quote On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 15:12:25 +0100 Redeeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 14:51, Roger wrote: > > hi,all: > > > > I want to setup a server, which hosts small business on Internet. > > Which is the best one? Redhat 9? debian 3? gentoo? > > PLS advice. > this is a

Re: [gentoo-user] safe to switch to linux-headers-2.6.0_beta11 ?

2003-12-29 Thread Spider
begin quote On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 08:38:10 -0600 Andrew Gaffney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since I'm running 2.6 now for good, I'd like to switch to the 2.6 > headers and recompile glibc. I did this a few days ago, but when I > tried to compile samba-3.0.1, it gave me some error about not > inclu

Re: [gentoo-user] which is the best for Server

2003-12-29 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Roger wrote: hi,all: I want to setup a server, which hosts small business on Internet. Which is the best one? Redhat 9? debian 3? gentoo? PLS advice. I have run a server with Slackware 8.1, RH 8, and now Gentoo. Each of them have their own strengths and weaknesses. Like someone else posted, it de

[gentoo-user] PCMCIA and Kernel 2.6.0

2003-12-29 Thread Cristiano Paris
Sorry if this is a past issue but I couldn't find anything in my list archives. I recently switched to kernel 2.6.0 (I did it before with the test series) and now I want to use it as my standard kernel. Is it safe to do it with Gentoo? Since I use a laptop I'm in the need to have PCMCIA suppor

Re: [gentoo-user] which is the best for Server

2003-12-29 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Roger wrote: > hi,all: > > I want to setup a server, which hosts small business on Internet. > Which is the best one? Redhat 9? debian 3? gentoo? > PLS advice. > -- > ~~~ > China Cell Phone Rental > http://www.pandaphone.com > Start with Gentoo,Start with Freedom

Re: [gentoo-user] safe to switch to linux-headers-2.6.0_beta11 ?

2003-12-29 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Andrew Gaffney wrote: > Since I'm running 2.6 now for good, I'd like to switch to the 2.6 > headers and recompile glibc. I did this a few days ago, but when I > tried to compile samba-3.0.1, it gave me some error about not > including kernel headers in userspace. Other than that, I didn't > notice

[gentoo-user] Framebuffer question

2003-12-29 Thread D.Wilkening
Hello everyone, i have some strange effects using Framebuffer-console (lilo: vga = 788 ) and Tvtime. About every 5 seconds the picture hangs for about half a second. When i get rid of this lilo-line, the picture is quite ok. In fact, it dont seem to be only in tvtime but in every X-app (like Fireb

Re: [gentoo-user] phpBB emerge

2003-12-29 Thread Kurt Lieber
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 01:51:50PM + or thereabouts, Rus Foster wrote: > Also I tried ACCEPT_KEYWORD="~x86" and still nothing. Could someone give > me a push in the right direction please Try: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -p phpBB (Note the "S" on the end of "ACCEPT_KEYWORDS") --kurt pgp

Re: [gentoo-user] NTPL

2003-12-29 Thread SN
- Original Message - From: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 2:51 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] NTPL > Stefan Vunckx wrote: > > On Monday 29 December 2003 04:04, Ani Adarsh wrote: > >> hi ppl, > >> I've been tryin and cant

Re: [gentoo-user] CD- recording

2003-12-29 Thread SN
If you use kernel 2.4 you have to use ide-scsi emulation, did you enable ide-scsi in your bootloader? for examplein bootloader lilo: append="hdc=ide-scsi" after that one needs to run k3bsetup. - Original Message - From: "Goran Kavrecic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gentoo User" <[EMAIL PR

Re: [gentoo-user] Daily job running

2003-12-29 Thread SN
crontab -e is your friend:-) - Original Message - From: "Gerhard W.Gruber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 12:32 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Daily job running On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 10:37:27 +, Mike Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Yo

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo installation: compile fails

2003-12-29 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
On Monday 29 December 2003 15:17, Michael Spohn wrote: > On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 13:30, Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > > On Monday 29 December 2003 12:21, Michael Spohn wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I tried to install Gentoo from stage 1 2 and 3 foolowing the very > > > good installation docs but in all

[gentoo-user] scanner recommendations

2003-12-29 Thread Kurt Bechstein
This isn't gentoo-centric, but I was just wondering if anyone could make any suggestions of a good quality scanner for use under linux with sane. I'm looking at grabbing an Epson Perfection 2400 which looks to be well supported, but thought I would check on the list first. Any input is welcome.

Re: [gentoo-user] CD- recording

2003-12-29 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 29 December 2003 15:50, SN wrote: > If you use kernel 2.4 you have to use ide-scsi emulation, did you enable > ide-scsi in your bootloader? You don't. I believe 2.6 only added the ability to specify a /dev entry in place of the scsi id stru

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

2003-12-29 Thread Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower)
>-Original Message- >From: Gavin Henry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2003 3:21 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [gentoo-user] OT: A good book on C Programming? > > >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >Hi all, > >During my degree, BEng (Hons) Electr

[gentoo-user] compiling alsa for via8233

2003-12-29 Thread Goran Kavrecic
I'm having problems emerging alsa-driver for my via8233 sound card. I run kernel 2.4.20 I followed instructions on http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml - makeconfig - recompile During 'configure' emerge replies with: checking for which soundcards to compile driver for... Unknown soundcard

Re: [gentoo-user] CD- recording

2003-12-29 Thread Goran Kavrecic
k3b finds the writer(altough ide-scsi is not added), but pops with the following message: --- cdrdao 1.1.7 does not support ATAPI The configured version of cdrdao does not support writing to ATAPI devices without SCSI emulation and there is at least one writer in your system not configured to use S

Re: [gentoo-user] Xwindows setup

2003-12-29 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Sunday 28 December 2003 11:40 pm, Harlan wrote: > Any other ideas? > > Thanks, > > Harlan... > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list You might try Knoppix. If booting to it lets you use X, you can do a lsmod to see what driver is being used and check kernel options and copy the XF86Config

Re: [gentoo-user] CD burning

2003-12-29 Thread David Obwaller
Am Fre, den 12.12.2003 schrieb Vanh Phom um 06:45: > > How do I emerge a package from the online site? > > Vanh first do 'emerge sync' to update your local portage tree. then you should be able to 'emerge cdrtools' and it will automatically install the latest cdrtools package. using the online

[gentoo-user] Re: [normal] [gentoo-user] compiling alsa for via8233

2003-12-29 Thread Marc Redmann
Hi Goran, > During 'configure' emerge replies with: > checking for which soundcards to compile driver for... Unknown soundcard > via8233, exiting! with the following command you should be able to emerge alsa-driver for your card: env ALSA_CARDS='via82xx' emerge alsa-driver In the future, check

Re: [gentoo-user] compiling alsa for via8233

2003-12-29 Thread brettholcomb
Did you check the alsa site (www.alsa-project.org) for details. It may be the card is defined to alsa as a via8xxx or something. My TB card is a cs42xx. > > From: Goran Kavrecic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2003/12/29 Mon AM 11:49:47 EST > To: Gentoo User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [gentoo-u

Re: [gentoo-user] Daily job running

2003-12-29 Thread Gerhard W . Gruber
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 16:52:22 +0100, "SN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >crontab -e is your friend:-) What does that solve? -e only allows me to edit it, but it has nothing to do to make sure a job is run once a day. -- Gerhard Gruber Maintainer of SoftICE for Linux - http://sourceforge.net/project

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

2003-12-29 Thread Vincent van de Camp
I have time & three spare computers to test with (P4, athlon and athlon-xp). Is there a testplan or some document, in which is described what to test, how to test it and when a test has either succeeded or failed? Vincent Benjamin Judas wrote: The upcoming release of Gentoo-Linux 2004.0 needs

[gentoo-user] font question

2003-12-29 Thread JurLan
Hi all .. I looked around the net a bit but did not find an answer that satisfied my needs for the following: I emerged freefonts, sharefonts and corefonts Everytime I boot, I have to do xset fp+ /path/to/fonts before I have the fonts available How can I do this automatically? Second question:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [normal] [gentoo-user] compiling alsa for via8233

2003-12-29 Thread Goran Kavrecic
I just realised that a few minutes ago. I checked everythin gseveral times. But made a mistake: There were all three chipsets mentioned so I wanted one of those. In the ALSA Soundcard Matrix are mentioned via8233, via8233a and via8235. While reading text including 'via82xx' I tought that I have

[gentoo-user] Re: USB scanner/printer

2003-12-29 Thread Paul Stear
Hi all, Some good news, I have managed to get the scanner part of the epson CX5400 working but only as root. I can't see what permissions I need to change so that a normal user can use the scanner. Any ideas please? I am still struggling with the printer side regards Paul original post I h

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo installation: compile fails

2003-12-29 Thread Anarconda
I compiled gentoo for my laptop with CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -mcpu=pentium4 -funroll-loops -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" without problems (this was december 20-21). Regards Alexander Puchmayr escribió: On Monday 29 December 2003 15:17, Michael Spohn wrote: On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 13:30, Alexa

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo installation: compile fails

2003-12-29 Thread Black Hand
Michael Spohn wrote: I tried to install Gentoo from stage 1 2 and 3 foolowing the very good installation docs but in all cases different programs refuse to compile with more or less the same error message: {Standard Input} Assembler messages {Standard Input} Error: Suffix or operands invalid for `

Re: [gentoo-user] Daily job running

2003-12-29 Thread Alberto Garcia Hierro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 El Lunes, 29 de Diciembre de 2003 10:21, Gerhard W.Gruber escribió: > I want to have job that runs once a day when I power on my machine. With > cron I have the problem that this has to be at a fixed time, yes? Since I > switch my machine off when I do

Re: [gentoo-user] safe to switch to linux-headers-2.6.0_beta11 ?

2003-12-29 Thread Scharf Yuval
Hello, What is the difference between the header trees? How will compiling an application using the new tree will improve it? Thanks, Yuval Scharf On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > Since I'm running 2.6 now for good, I'd like to switch to the 2.6 headers and > recompile > glibc. I

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

2003-12-29 Thread Benjamin Judas
Am Mon, den 29.12.2003 schrieb Vincent van de Camp um 18:44: > I have time & three spare computers to test with (P4, athlon and > athlon-xp). Is there a testplan or some document, in which is described > what to test, how to test it and when a test has either succeeded or failed? > > Vincent >

Re: [gentoo-user] font question

2003-12-29 Thread SN
Set the font patch in /etc/X11/XF86Config Just add another line: FontPath "/pathtoyourfonts" - Original Message - From: "JurLan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 6:54 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] font question Hi all .. I looked around the net

Re: [gentoo-user] compiling alsa for via8233

2003-12-29 Thread Bruce Munro
Goran Kavrecic wrote: I'm having problems emerging alsa-driver for my via8233 sound card. I run kernel 2.4.20 I followed instructions on http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml - makeconfig - recompile During 'configure' emerge replies with: checking for which soundcards to compile driver for

[gentoo-user] trying to emerge kde fails on xmms-1.2.7-r20

2003-12-29 Thread Michael Balamuth
Hello List, I have been trying to emerge kde which fails with errors on the above package name. I'm not sure how far to type the error messages, but here are the last ones: /usr/bin/xgettext: Non-ASCII string a Input/tonegen/tonegen.c:50. Please specify the source encoding through --from-code. m

Re: [gentoo-user] PCMCIA and Kernel 2.6.0

2003-12-29 Thread Andrew Westcott
On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 08:10, Cristiano Paris wrote: > Since I use a laptop I'm in the need to have PCMCIA support. Anyway, > emerging the pcmcia-cs package it keeps saying that it misses something > in the kernel headers (modversions.h). This file seems to have > disappeared in 2.6 kernel series

Re: [gentoo-user] trying to emerge kde fails on xmms-1.2.7-r20

2003-12-29 Thread Anarconda
Look at: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=118657 is a known problem. Regards. Michael Balamuth escribió: Hello List, I have been trying to emerge kde which fails with errors on the above package name. I'm not sure how far to type the error messages, but here are the last ones: /usr

[gentoo-user] ATI Radeon Mobility 7500

2003-12-29 Thread Greg Bolshaw
Is there anyone out there with the above graphics card that can get a higher framerate? I've read of people getting 2000+ FPS with this card, but aren't sure what I'm missing. I'm using the 2.6.0 kernel with the following compiled in: <*> /dev/agpgart (AGP Support) <*> Intel 440LX/BX/GX, I8xx

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

2003-12-29 Thread Alan
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 05:50:58AM +0100, 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 Inst

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

2003-12-29 Thread Alan
On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 12:47:55PM +0100, Gerhard W.Gruber wrote: > 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? I'm not sure exactly what it is, but if you're using

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing mondo-rescue

2003-12-29 Thread Alan
On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 07:43:44AM -0600, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > 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: >

Re: [gentoo-user] PCMCIA and Kernel 2.6.0

2003-12-29 Thread John Ziniti
Cristiano Paris wrote: Since I use a laptop I'm in the need to have PCMCIA support. Anyway, emerging the pcmcia-cs package it keeps saying that it misses something in the kernel headers (modversions.h). This file seems to have disappeared in 2.6 kernel series but pcmcia-cs keeps complaining. I'v

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI Radeon Mobility 7500

2003-12-29 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Greg Bolshaw wrote: > Is there anyone out there with the above graphics card that can get a higher > framerate? I've read of people getting 2000+ FPS with this card, but aren't sure > what I'm missing. > > I'm using the 2.6.0 kernel with the following compiled in: > <*> /de

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI Radeon Mobility 7500

2003-12-29 Thread Redeeman
On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 21:28, Greg Bolshaw wrote: > Is there anyone out there with the above graphics card that can get a higher > framerate? I've read of people getting 2000+ FPS with this card, but aren't sure > what I'm missing. > true that, i get ~1900fps. kernel 2.6.0 too, same options as yo

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI Radeon Mobility 7500

2003-12-29 Thread Greg Bolshaw
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 22:37:47 +0100 Redeeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > true that, i get ~1900fps. kernel 2.6.0 too, same options as you Could you possibly post a copy of your XF86Config? That's the only place I can think the differences could be. Kind regards -- Greg Bolshaw LPIC Consultant L

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

2003-12-29 Thread Gerhard W . Gruber
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 12:43:53 -0800, Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm not sure exactly what it is, but if you're using kernel 2.6 you'll >need to enable /dev/pts under filesystems. On 2.4 kernels you don't. No it' s 2.4.23 vanilla. When I boot I can see the modprobe tries to load something an

Re: [gentoo-user] Daily job running

2003-12-29 Thread Gerhard W . Gruber
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 19:54:03 +0100, Alberto Garcia Hierro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > sys-apps/anacron is what you need Thanks. Currently I have vixie-cron installed. Do I have to unmerge this? Are these two completely seperate beasts or do they clash? -- Gerhard Gruber Maintainer of Sof

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo installation: compile fails

2003-12-29 Thread Gerhard W . Gruber
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 19:01:26 +0100, Anarconda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I compiled gentoo for my laptop with > >CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -mcpu=pentium4 -funroll-loops -pipe >-fomit-frame-pointer" Can you use pentium4? I was avoiding it, because there was somewhere mentioned in the docs that

[gentoo-user] I love my gentoo. :)

2003-12-29 Thread Gerhard W . Gruber
The subjectline says it. I'm using gentoo now for about three weeks and I really like it. :) Previously I was using Suse and of course the ease of installation and system administration is quite nice, but gentoo beats it easily. It is a little bit harder to administrate because there are many thing

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo installation: compile fails

2003-12-29 Thread Jayson Garrell
On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 14:03, Gerhard W.Gruber wrote: > On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 19:01:26 +0100, Anarconda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >I compiled gentoo for my laptop with > > > >CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -mcpu=pentium4 -funroll-loops -pipe > >-fomit-frame-pointer" > > Can you use pentium4? I

Re: [gentoo-user] Daily job running

2003-12-29 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Monday 29 Dec 2003 22:01, Gerhard W.Gruber wrote: > On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 19:54:03 +0100, Alberto Garcia Hierro > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > sys-apps/anacron is what you need > > Thanks. Currently I have vixie-cron installed. Do I have to unmerge > this? Are these two completely seperate

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

2003-12-29 Thread Jayson Garrell
On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 14:00, Gerhard W.Gruber wrote: > On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 12:43:53 -0800, Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I'm not sure exactly what it is, but if you're using kernel 2.6 you'll > >need to enable /dev/pts under filesystems. On 2.4 kernels you don't. > > No it' s 2.4.23 vanil

Re: [gentoo-user] Wine & StarCraft

2003-12-29 Thread Brendan Sullivan
not sure it will help with the sound issue, but make sure you have these two lines at the bottom of your config file. [AppDefaults\\starcraft.exe\\x11drv] "DXGrab" = "Y" Brendan On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 12:38, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: > Hi, > > The installation of wine and StarCraft went fine.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo installation: compile fails

2003-12-29 Thread Gerhard W . Gruber
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 14:17:13 -0800, Jayson Garrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have had Gentoo on my laptop for almost a year now, and have been >using the pentium4 flags. I have not had any problems relating to the >use of those flags. > >gcc -v reports... >gcc version 3.3.2 20031022 (Gentoo Li

[gentoo-user] XEmacs and pending-del missing

2003-12-29 Thread Gerhard W . Gruber
I emerged xemacs and now I got an errormessage that pending-del is missing. I guess this is because I enabled the option "Delete Key Deletes Section" (which is disabled in my option menu, but I used an older version of the configuration file. Which package do I have to emerge to get this function?

Re: [gentoo-user] Daily job running

2003-12-29 Thread Gerhard W . Gruber
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 22:27:22 +, Peter Ruskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >They are separate. You should keep vixie-cron and emerge anacron. Thanks. Anacron seems to be exaclty what I needed, so I don't need to write some script. :) -- Gerhard Gruber Maintainer of SoftICE for Linux - http://

[gentoo-user] RPM and gentoo

2003-12-29 Thread Gerhard W . Gruber
I josticed got a notification that a new driver for my videocard is available at www.ati.com. Since I can't activate 3D acceleration I hope that this new driver will fix this. Of course there is no emerge yet, because the ati-driver package still has 3.2.8. Now I wonder what effects will that have

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo installation: compile fails

2003-12-29 Thread Jayson Garrell
On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 14:40, Gerhard W.Gruber wrote: > On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 14:17:13 -0800, Jayson Garrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I have had Gentoo on my laptop for almost a year now, and have been > >using the pentium4 flags. I have not had any problems relating to the > >use of those fla

Re: [gentoo-user] RPM and gentoo

2003-12-29 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Monday 29 Dec 2003 23:07, Gerhard W.Gruber wrote: > I josticed got a notification that a new driver for my videocard is > available at www.ati.com. Since I can't activate 3D acceleration I > hope that this new driver will fix this. Of course there is no emerge > yet, because the ati-driver packa

Re: [gentoo-user] RPM and gentoo

2003-12-29 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 29 December 2003 23:07, Gerhard W. Gruber wrote: > I josticed got a notification that a new driver for my videocard is > available at www.ati.com. Since I can't activate 3D acceleration I hope > that this new driver will fix this. Of course t

[gentoo-user] apache2, mod_perl and apache1

2003-12-29 Thread Manuel Pérez López
Hello: I had installed apache2 and mod_php. There is no problem. But, when I pretend to install mod_perl, emerge says me that it is necessary to install apache-1.3.29. Why is it into dependencies? (I had already installed apache-2) bash-2.05b# emerge -p mod_perl These are the packages that I

Re: [gentoo-user] Wine & StarCraft

2003-12-29 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I just installed StarCraft and have it working. I'm getting sound. Graphics appear to be 640x480 only, but maybe I'm missing something. I don't play this game. My son does. 1) I'm using a custom ebuild for WineX supplied by another member here. It supports Alsa-1.0.0rc2. I'm using OSS emula

Re: [gentoo-user] USB scanner/printer

2003-12-29 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Paul Stear wrote: Hi all, I have been trying to get my new epson scanner/printer CX5400 to work. I have followed the instructions and set the printer in cups as a C84. I also need to set the sane backend to recognise the device as a CX5200 but I need the actual vendor and product id. I shoul

RE: [gentoo-user] RPM and gentoo

2003-12-29 Thread senectus
You could use Alien to turn the rpm to a tzg then install it that way?? -Original Message- From: Gerhard W. Gruber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 30 December 2003 7:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] RPM and gentoo I josticed got a notification that a new driver

Re: [gentoo-user] Wine & StarCraft

2003-12-29 Thread Mark Knecht
I posted some screenshots, but I'm not much good at running a web server so forgive me if these don't work! http://marksmusic.myvnc.com/files/snap.xpm http://marksmusic.myvnc.com/files/snap0001.xpm http://marksmusic.myvnc.com/files/snap0002.xpm On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 16:59, Mark Knecht wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] apache2, mod_perl and apache1

2003-12-29 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Manuel Pérez López wrote: Hello: I had installed apache2 and mod_php. There is no problem. But, when I pretend to install mod_perl, emerge says me that it is necessary to install apache-1.3.29. Why is it into dependencies? (I had already installed apache-2) bash-2.05b# emerge -p mod_perl Thes

[gentoo-user] problem with mysql

2003-12-29 Thread Roger
I just update mysql through "emerge update mysql" after that , I type mysqld, I got the following information: 031230 10:15:37 Fatal error: Can't open privilege tables: Table 'mysql.host' doesn't exist 031230 10:15:37 Aborting 031230 10:15:37 mysqld: Shutdown Complete PLS help me. Roger --

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with mysql

2003-12-29 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Roger wrote: I just update mysql through "emerge update mysql" after that , I type mysqld, I got the following information: 031230 10:15:37 Fatal error: Can't open privilege tables: Table 'mysql.host' doesn't exist 031230 10:15:37 Aborting 031230 10:15:37 mysqld: Shutdown Complete First, did y

Re: [gentoo-user] RPM and gentoo

2003-12-29 Thread HvR
nice thing about using rpm is that you can uninstall it with rpm -e so why not use rpm? for those tar files that are not in portage i use checkinstall: just to ./configure then make and then run checkinstall instead of make install. checkinstall will make an rpm and install it, so that you can

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