Re: [gentoo-user] this is so much fun

2004-01-01 Thread Collins
On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 20:58:01 -0800 Ben Munat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok... where does portage put apps that I emerge? Like mozilla > firebird? It's not on my path and doing a locate on "firebird", all I > find are the /usr/portage, /var/db and /var/cache files. > I presume you emerge mozill

Re: [gentoo-user] this is so much fun

2004-01-01 Thread Ben Munat
Ack! Nevermind. Sorry, I should look a little more carefully before I post. b Ben Munat wrote: Ok... where does portage put apps that I emerge? Like mozilla firebird? It's not on my path and doing a locate on "firebird", all I find are the /usr/portage, /var/db and /var/cache files. -- [EMA

[gentoo-user] this is so much fun

2004-01-01 Thread Ben Munat
Ok... where does portage put apps that I emerge? Like mozilla firebird? It's not on my path and doing a locate on "firebird", all I find are the /usr/portage, /var/db and /var/cache files. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo 2004.0 - Bug-Reports

2004-01-01 Thread Collins
More info See bugzilla #36989 (trivial). Install from stage1 leaves fileutils, textutils, sh-utils in /var/cache/edb/world. This causes emerge world to produce an error message for each, viz. *** Package in world file is not installed: sys-apps/ I presume this is because they were repl

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: who broken?

2004-01-01 Thread Octavio Ruiz (Ta^3)
KamaolaKid, who happens to be smarter than you, thinks: > who [am i] and whoami are different programs. % who am i where "am i" are ARG1 n' ARG2 for "who". :) If ARG1 ARG2 given, -m presumed: `am i' or `mom likes' are usual. (% man who) > > -- Kyle S. > > > Tom Wesley wrote: > >On Thu, 200

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo 2004.0 - Bug-Reports

2004-01-01 Thread Collins
More Info: it might be helpful to add a comment line to the new minimalist /etc/make.conf, i.e. # see /etc/make.conf.examples for additional information When I stumbled across this, I assumed that this was unintentional, but then I found bugzilla 36959 that describes the change and reque

Re: [gentoo-user] end of this thread... I promise [was: gtk+1.2 vs gtk+2.0 ]

2004-01-01 Thread Ben Munat
Well, I found a README file that helped me edit XF86Config to get my dual-head monitors working... merged desktop and all. Still wouldn't mind running that PowerDesk program some day to take advantage of some of it's advanced settings, but I worry about that later. Thanks for your replies. b

Re: [gentoo-user] devfs problem

2004-01-01 Thread Lincoln A. Baxter
On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 19:37, Collins wrote: > On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 14:23:10 -0500 > "Lincoln A. Baxter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 14:13, Collins wrote: > > > On Thu, 1 Jan 2004 13:51:50 -0500 > > > Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > On Thursday 01 J

Re: [gentoo-user] gtk+1.2 vs gtk+2.0

2004-01-01 Thread Collins
On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 16:31:43 -0800 Ben Munat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > sigh... I just love linux... > > Ok, so I assume it would be bad/impossible to *also* install gtk+1.2? > Meaning I should unmerge 2.0 and emerge gtk again with some option to > specify the version I want? Would I then not

Re: [gentoo-user] gtk+1.2 vs gtk+2.0

2004-01-01 Thread Ben Munat
Man... you get a something to work and then something else doesn't. I got the matrox powerdesk app to compile and run. But then it makes a dialog box with textfields to enter the path to the XF86Config file and a backup XF86Config and when I click okay, it kills my X server! Anyway, my question

Re: [gentoo-user] mysterious acts by emerge -e gcc [really weird]

2004-01-01 Thread Tom Hendrikx
On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 01:02, Redeeman wrote: > and if it can help, i can tell that after i did this, under startup i > get this message: > > cannot find setfont executable > hi, seems like you already found the problem ;) $ which setfont /usr/bin/setfont $ qpkg -f /usr/bin/setfont sys-apps/kbd

Re: [gentoo-user] gtk+1.2 vs gtk+2.0

2004-01-01 Thread Ben Munat
Nevermind... got it... it's "emerge \ b Ben Munat wrote: Brett Mansfield wrote: I also (like many others) have gtk-1.2 and gtk-2 installed. IMHO the easiest thing to do is: "emerge gtk-1.2.x gtk-2.x.x" which will install them both at the same time. (this is what I did (IIRC)) and have had no p

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with emerge qmail-scanner

2004-01-01 Thread R Greenwell
I deleted the 9 items listed and re-ran emerge qmail-scanner with the same results. Is there another place I can download the qmail-maildir++patch that has a matching checksum? I am new to Gentoo and emerge. Thanks and Happy New Year. Robert On Thursday, January 1, 2004, at 05:29 AM, Norbert

Re: [gentoo-user] gtk+1.2 vs gtk+2.0

2004-01-01 Thread Ben Munat
Brett Mansfield wrote: I also (like many others) have gtk-1.2 and gtk-2 installed. IMHO the easiest thing to do is: "emerge gtk-1.2.x gtk-2.x.x" which will install them both at the same time. (this is what I did (IIRC)) and have had no problems, YMMV. Just tried "emerge -p gtk-1.2.x", "emerge -

Re: [gentoo-user] gtk+1.2 vs gtk+2.0

2004-01-01 Thread Ben Munat
Andrew Gaffney wrote: Just do something like 'emerge \I've tried several variations on this and it always says "there are no masked or unmasked builds to satisfy ... " Things like: emerge -p \<=x11-libs/gtk+1.2.10 emerge -p \<=gtk+1.2.10 emerge -p \<=gtk+2 emerge -p \<=x11-libs/gtk+2.0 etc. Wha

Re: [gentoo-user] gtk+1.2 vs gtk+2.0

2004-01-01 Thread Brett Mansfield
On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 12:04, Ben Munat wrote: > Thanks everyone for the quick responses... > > So, using the rpm version sounds easiest... or, would I still need > gtk+1.2 even if I did use the rpm? And emerge says it wants to install > about two dozen packages (perl, mysql(??), postgres(??), etc.

Re: [gentoo-user] gtk+1.2 vs gtk+2.0

2004-01-01 Thread Ben Munat
Thanks everyone for the quick responses... So, using the rpm version sounds easiest... or, would I still need gtk+1.2 even if I did use the rpm? And emerge says it wants to install about two dozen packages (perl, mysql(??), postgres(??), etc. etc.) in order to give me rpm... do I really need all o

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Daily job running

2004-01-01 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Friday 02 Jan 2004 00:40, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > * Gerhard W. Gruber (2003-12-29 10:21 +0100) > > > 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] gtk+1.2 vs gtk+2.0

2004-01-01 Thread Janne Johansson
On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 02:31, Ben Munat wrote: > sigh... I just love linux... > > Ok, so I assume it would be bad/impossible to *also* install gtk+1.2? No, I have them both installed. Portage installs gtk+1.2 and gtk+2.x to different slots automatically. > Meaning I should unmerge 2.0 and emerg

Re: [gentoo-user] gtk+1.2 vs gtk+2.0

2004-01-01 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 16:31:43 -0800 Ben Munat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Ok, so I assume it would be bad/impossible to *also* install gtk+1.2? | Meaning I should unmerge 2.0 and emerge gtk again with some option to | specify the version I want? Would I then not be able to use a zillion | progra

Re: [gentoo-user] gtk+1.2 vs gtk+2.0

2004-01-01 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Ben Munat wrote: sigh... I just love linux... Ok, so I assume it would be bad/impossible to *also* install gtk+1.2? Meaning I should unmerge 2.0 and emerge gtk again with some option to specify the version I want? Would I then not be able to use a zillion programs that expect gtk 2.0? Also, th

[gentoo-user] Re: Daily job running

2004-01-01 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Gerhard W. Gruber (2003-12-29 10:21 +0100) > 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 l

Re: [gentoo-user] gtk+1.2 vs gtk+2.0

2004-01-01 Thread michael fivis
Ben Munat wrote: sigh... I just love linux... Ok, so I assume it would be bad/impossible to *also* install gtk+1.2? Meaning I should unmerge 2.0 and emerge gtk again with some option to specify the version I want? Would I then not be able to use a zillion programs that expect gtk 2.0? Also, t

Re: [gentoo-user] devfs problem

2004-01-01 Thread Collins
On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 14:23:10 -0500 "Lincoln A. Baxter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 14:13, Collins wrote: > > On Thu, 1 Jan 2004 13:51:50 -0500 > > Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Thursday 01 January 2004 01:34 am, Ben Munat wrote: > > > > Just wanted t

Re: [gentoo-user] gtk+1.2 vs gtk+2.0

2004-01-01 Thread Ben Munat
sigh... I just love linux... Ok, so I assume it would be bad/impossible to *also* install gtk+1.2? Meaning I should unmerge 2.0 and emerge gtk again with some option to specify the version I want? Would I then not be able to use a zillion programs that expect gtk 2.0? Also, the matrox powerdes

Re: [gentoo-user] devfs problem

2004-01-01 Thread Ben Munat
I had compiled the kernel w/o devfs... gentoo kept telling me I should have it... recompiled the kernel with devfs... boot failed right after devfs was mounted cuz /dev was empty except .devfsd and initctl. Never figured out why it was doing that... reinstalled. Now that I'm running with devfs

Re: [gentoo-user] gtk+1.2 vs gtk+2.0

2004-01-01 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Ben Munat wrote: Can I compile a program expecting gtk+1.2 if I have gtk+2.0? I'm trying to compile the matrox powerdesk program to setup my dual monitors but the .configure fails because it can't find gtk-config. It seems that gtk+2.0 now uses pkg-config instead of gtk-config. Can I just creat

Re: [gentoo-user] mysterious acts by emerge -e gcc [really weird]

2004-01-01 Thread Redeeman
and if it can help, i can tell that after i did this, under startup i get this message: cannot find setfont executable On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 00:47, Redeeman wrote: > hi, for some days ago, i did a hard reset on my system. which caused my > gcc to break, so i decided to do emerge -e gcc, and i di

Re: [gentoo-user] gtk+1.2 vs gtk+2.0

2004-01-01 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 15:55:57 -0800 Ben Munat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Can I compile a program expecting gtk+1.2 if I have gtk+2.0? No, unfortunately not. -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail:ciaranm at gentoo.org Web: http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge older kernel

2004-01-01 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Thanks. I'll do that from now on. Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 18:09:48 -0500 "Brett I. Holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Okay - for my learning what happens when you do what I said and not | use the form you have? Is this only for kernel ebuilds or for all? It doesn't add an

[gentoo-user] gtk+1.2 vs gtk+2.0

2004-01-01 Thread Ben Munat
Can I compile a program expecting gtk+1.2 if I have gtk+2.0? I'm trying to compile the matrox powerdesk program to setup my dual monitors but the .configure fails because it can't find gtk-config. It seems that gtk+2.0 now uses pkg-config instead of gtk-config. Can I just create a symlink from

[gentoo-user] mysterious acts by emerge -e gcc [really weird]

2004-01-01 Thread Redeeman
hi, for some days ago, i did a hard reset on my system. which caused my gcc to break, so i decided to do emerge -e gcc, and i did: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -e gcc and it updated the following: gettext gawk gnuconfig libtool sed zlib python-fchksum bzip2 libtermcap-compat texinfo groff cronbase

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge older kernel

2004-01-01 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 18:09:48 -0500 "Brett I. Holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Okay - for my learning what happens when you do what I said and not | use the form you have? Is this only for kernel ebuilds or for all? It doesn't add an entry to the world file. IIRC it also doesn't update virtua

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms very fast

2004-01-01 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: Another bad thing is, I can't adjust PCM output signal level in alsamixer. that is because the cmi9739 sucks AND the drivers are incomplete. You have two options: get the drivers from cmedia and install an acient redhat kernel or buy a nice cheap soundcard. Believe me,

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE doesn' t play login sound

2004-01-01 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Thursday 01 Jan 2004 22:52, Gerhard W.Gruber wrote: > On my system sound is working. I have two installations and one > doesn't play the login sound when I login via KDM while the other > does. I think this would be only an option somewhere in the control > center, but I looked there and couldn'

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge older kernel

2004-01-01 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Okay - for my learning what happens when you do what I said and not use the form you have? Is this only for kernel ebuilds or for all? Thanks. Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 17:26:03 -0500 "Brett I. Holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Go into /usr/portage/sys-kernel and then the s

Re: [gentoo-user] Generate MD5 checksum

2004-01-01 Thread Phil Sexton
On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 17:57, Gerhard W Gruber wrote: > I tried to make my own ebuild for the newest ATI drivers. I noticed that, > among others, I had to provide an MD5 checksum for the downloaded file. How > can I create this? md5sum -- Phil Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi'

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms very fast

2004-01-01 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Tom Wesley wrote: I'd be willing to bet you're using the disk writer output plugin... Check in the Preferences dialog and select either the alsa(generic)/esd(gnome)/arts(kde) plugin, depending on what environment you're using. I recommend using alsa for everything now, as it all works on my PC he

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge older kernel

2004-01-01 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 17:26:03 -0500 "Brett I. Holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Go into /usr/portage/sys-kernel and then the subdirectory for the | kernel you want. You will see ebuilds for older versions. Do an | | emerge ./kernelIwant.ebuild Please don't do that, it screws things up. Inste

Re: [gentoo-user] Generate MD5 checksum

2004-01-01 Thread Daniel Drake
Simple: ebuild /path/to/your/ebuild digest Daniel. Gerhard W. Gruber wrote: I tried to make my own ebuild for the newest ATI drivers. I noticed that, among others, I had to provide an MD5 checksum for the downloaded file. How can I create this? Thanks! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge older kernel

2004-01-01 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
You're welcome. Gerhard W. Gruber wrote: On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 17:26:03 -0500, "Brett I. Holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Go into /usr/portage/sys-kernel and then the subdirectory for the kernel you want. You will see ebuilds for older versions. Do an emerge ./kernelIwant.ebuild Thanks. -

[gentoo-user] Generate MD5 checksum

2004-01-01 Thread Gerhard W . Gruber
I tried to make my own ebuild for the newest ATI drivers. I noticed that, among others, I had to provide an MD5 checksum for the downloaded file. How can I create this? Thanks! -- Gerhard Gruber Maintainer of SoftICE for Linux - http://sourceforge.net/projects/pice Fast application launcher - ht

Re: [gentoo-user] Proc devices permissions

2004-01-01 Thread Jeff de Ruyter
On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 07:01, Paul Stear wrote: > On Thu 1 January 2004 17:26, Mike Williams wrote: > > Thanks for the info mike, > Do you mean put the chmod line in local.start? What do I do if I boot > without the printer/scanner connected and the plug it in when I am running? You will need to em

[gentoo-user] KDE doesn' t play login sound

2004-01-01 Thread Gerhard W . Gruber
On my system sound is working. I have two installations and one doesn't play the login sound when I login via KDM while the other does. I think this would be only an option somewhere in the control center, but I looked there and couldn't find it. Anybody knows where this is? Thanks! -- Gerhard Gr

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge older kernel

2004-01-01 Thread Gerhard W . Gruber
On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 17:26:03 -0500, "Brett I. Holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Go into /usr/portage/sys-kernel and then the subdirectory for the kernel >you want. You will see ebuilds for older versions. Do an > >emerge ./kernelIwant.ebuild Thanks. -- Gerhard Gruber Maintainer of SoftICE

Re: [gentoo-user] almost ready for the jump ...

2004-01-01 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, You can often find newer versions of packages in portage, masked. # emerge -p R sane-backends [ebuild N] dev-lang/R-1.6.1 [ebuild N] media-gfx/sane-backends-1.0.12-r2 # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -p sane-backends R [ebuild N] media-gfx/sane-backends-1.0.13-r2 [ebuild N]

Re: [gentoo-user] Resize and move ext3 and reiserfs partitions

2004-01-01 Thread Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
"Jamie Jennings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [snip] > How can I do this? Neither parted or Partition Magic will move/resize my > ext3 or reiserfs partitions. Is there another tool I can use? If your /home is sufficiently large, you could copy tar the contents of / and /boot to it, then recreat

[gentoo-user] emerge -S problem

2004-01-01 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I did an emerge -S on several words (and I picked some I knew were in the description!) and always get this. What is causing this. I run portage 2.4.49-r20 (specs below). Searching... /Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1995, in ? searchinstance.execute(mysea

[gentoo-user] ebuild package gets weirder

2004-01-01 Thread Konstantinos Agouros
Hi, after upgrading to portage -r20 the ebuild package already fails with the following message: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/portage/bin/xpak", line 6, in ? import xpak ImportError: No module named xpak tbz2tool: inf.xpak doesn't exist mv: cannot stat `glibc-2.3.2-r3.t

Re: [gentoo-user] almost ready for the jump ...

2004-01-01 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
For the scanner - check and see if sane supports it. If so emerge sane-backend and then set up the /etc/sane.d conf file. As for the other - what is the program name. You might check the portage directory and see if there is a newer ebuild that is masked. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right. I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge older kernel

2004-01-01 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Go into /usr/portage/sys-kernel and then the subdirectory for the kernel you want. You will see ebuilds for older versions. Do an emerge ./kernelIwant.ebuild Gerhard W. Gruber wrote: How can I emerge an older kernel than 2.4.23? I would like to do this for testing purposes for my module. Of co

[gentoo-user] emerge older kernel

2004-01-01 Thread Gerhard W . Gruber
How can I emerge an older kernel than 2.4.23? I would like to do this for testing purposes for my module. Of course I can download the source from kernel.org but I would like to know if there is an " gentoo-approved"(tm) way. :) -- Gerhard Gruber Maintainer of SoftICE for Linux - http://sourcefor

[gentoo-user] almost ready for the jump ...

2004-01-01 Thread michele . alzetta
Right. I'm impressed with Gentoo's speed, outperforms mandrake 9.2 in an iincredible way; after having solved a few problems (gnome took forever to log out for instance, until I added a host.conf file in /etc with order hosts, bind in it ... now why was that file missing ?). I have just two m

[gentoo-user] Resize and move ext3 and reiserfs partitions

2004-01-01 Thread Jamie Jennings
Hi. I've had Gentoo installed for a little more than a week now and I really like it a lot better than my previous distro. Anyway, my problem is that I was a bit too conservative when creating my partitions on my laptop. I need to add space to my root partition. I've freed 2 gigs from my NTFS part

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms very fast

2004-01-01 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 01 January 2004 22:22, Norbert Kamenicky wrote: > Happy New Year to all! > > I have problem with xmms ... > it "plays" 4 min's song in cca 2 seconds (silence on output). as Mr Wesley said, the diskwriter plugin is the culprit, change it to something else. > Another bad thing is, I c

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms very fast

2004-01-01 Thread Tom Wesley
On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 21:22, Norbert Kamenicky wrote: > Happy New Year to all! > > I have problem with xmms ... > it "plays" 4 min's song in cca 2 seconds (silence on output). > mpg123 plays that song properly, but sound is distorted > (like if 1W repro receives 100 wats). > Another bad thing is,

[gentoo-user] xmms very fast

2004-01-01 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Happy New Year to all! I have problem with xmms ... it "plays" 4 min's song in cca 2 seconds (silence on output). mpg123 plays that song properly, but sound is distorted (like if 1W repro receives 100 wats). Another bad thing is, I can't adjust PCM output signal level in alsamixer. KDE starts with

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge question

2004-01-01 Thread thomas . degris
Hello, this is what I was wondering. I am thinking of doing something on top on emerge to be able to build non-dependant package at the same time for the same target. I think it would be more efficient than a 'make -jx' especially for the 'world' target. Thomas >If I understand what you are ask

Re: [gentoo-user] Old partition cleanup failing

2004-01-01 Thread Mark Knecht
Thanks Norbert. That worked nicely. Cheers, Mark On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 12:33, Norbert Kamenicky wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > > Maybe the best way to really clean this up would be to blow the > > partition away and recreate it in fdisk or some other tool? > > > > fdisk is for sure not necess

[gentoo-user] Re: worm games

2004-01-01 Thread Eamon Caddigan
William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My youngster likes the "worm" type games on the console. He used to > play with "nil" back in the bad old (mandrake) days, but it seems this > game is very out of date (mid 2000) and the tarball doesnt want to > compile under latest gentoo. > > Does a

Re: [gentoo-user] Old partition cleanup failing

2004-01-01 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Mark Knecht wrote: Maybe the best way to really clean this up would be to blow the partition away and recreate it in fdisk or some other tool? fdisk is for sure not necessary here ... Unmount the filesystem umount /dev/hda9 Make a new filesystem mkfs /dev/hda9 if u don't have /dev/hda9 line

Re: [gentoo-user] mad won't build

2004-01-01 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I guess mad is broken then. Anarconda wrote: Same here with other CFLAG. Brett I. Holcomb escribió: emerge -UD world told me mad needs to be updated. However, an emerge mad -pv gives this. When I do the emerge I get errors about undefined references (see below). Is the ebuild broken or is

Re: [gentoo-user] Proc devices permissions

2004-01-01 Thread Paul Stear
On Thu 1 January 2004 17:26, Mike Williams wrote: > On Thursday 01 January 2004 17:05, Paul Stear wrote: > > Hi, > > I have managed to get my epson CX5400 printer/scanner working but I have > > a problem with scanning. In order to use the scanner as a normal user I > > need to change file permissi

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.4.22 kernel and masq problem

2004-01-01 Thread SN
You have to emerge iptables again !!! - Original Message - From: "Chris Bare" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2004 8:03 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] 2.4.22 kernel and masq problem > I just built the 2.4.22-gentoo-r2 kernel and am now having a probl

Re: [gentoo-user] worm games

2004-01-01 Thread Andrew Farmer
On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 04:03:24 -0800, William Kenworthy muttered: > Nah, totally different animal. This one has worms that shoot each other > (from guns to nuclear bombs!). Sorta arcade style - something like the > "atomic tanks" game on steroids! xscorch? -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pg

[gentoo-user] Old partition cleanup failing

2004-01-01 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, When I first set up my Gentoo machine I had a test setup partition when I did the first install just to get familiar with how it all worked. Later I set the machine up for real and have been using it for 6 months with this old partition not mounted. Now I want to clean up that old partition

Re: [gentoo-user] devfs problem

2004-01-01 Thread Lincoln A. Baxter
On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 14:13, Collins wrote: > On Thu, 1 Jan 2004 13:51:50 -0500 > Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thursday 01 January 2004 01:34 am, Ben Munat wrote: > > > Just wanted to follow up in case anyone was wondering. > > > > > [ snipped ] > > > > Call me OLD FASHION,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: devfs problem

2004-01-01 Thread Jerry McBride
On Thursday 01 January 2004 02:10 pm, Eamon Caddigan wrote: > Wow, that *does* sound easier than dealing with devfs. > You forgot the smiley at the end of your message... Actually, using devfs, udev or static devices should be an install option. --

Re: [gentoo-user] devfs problem

2004-01-01 Thread Collins
On Thu, 1 Jan 2004 13:51:50 -0500 Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 01 January 2004 01:34 am, Ben Munat wrote: > > Just wanted to follow up in case anyone was wondering. > > [ snipped ] > > Call me OLD FASHION, but devfs is the first thing I dump after > installing gentoo on

Re: [gentoo-user] mad won't build

2004-01-01 Thread Anarconda
Same here with other CFLAG. Brett I. Holcomb escribió: emerge -UD world told me mad needs to be updated. However, an emerge mad -pv gives this. When I do the emerge I get errors about undefined references (see below). Is the ebuild broken or is it me? Thanks. These are the packages that I

[gentoo-user] Re: devfs problem

2004-01-01 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Call me OLD FASHION, but devfs is the first thing I dump after installing > gentoo on a new box. The steps I take are; recompile the kernel without devfs > support, add "gentoo-nodevfs" to the append line in lilo.conf, correct any > defvs associations

[gentoo-user] 2.4.22 kernel and masq problem

2004-01-01 Thread Chris Bare
I just built the 2.4.22-gentoo-r2 kernel and am now having a problem with IP masquerading. It worked fine under 2.4.20-gentoo-r9, so I copied the .config from that version, ran make oldconfig, then make menuconfig and checked things. Now, when I'm running the 2.4.22 kernel I get an error on the fol

Re: [gentoo-user] devfs problem

2004-01-01 Thread Jerry McBride
On Thursday 01 January 2004 05:09 am, Ben Munat wrote: > thanks for taking the time to let me know that... i wunder what the heck > the problem was... > > b > I missed your original post... what problems did you have? -- **

Re: [gentoo-user] devfs problem

2004-01-01 Thread Jerry McBride
On Thursday 01 January 2004 01:34 am, Ben Munat wrote: > Just wanted to follow up in case anyone was wondering. > > I wound up pretty much redoing the install. Everything seems to work > now... so far. And while I was working on the reinstall, it occured to > me what the original problem probably w

Re: [gentoo-user] scp error

2004-01-01 Thread Tom Hendrikx
On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 17:21, Jernej Zidar wrote: > While copying files over a ssh connection ( from me to a server) I got the > following error: Stale NFS file handle. The files that gave me this error > had zero file length though they were OK at home. This is not a SSH issue: you are having a NF

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo 2004.0 - Bug-Reports

2004-01-01 Thread Collins
More Info: 1. In addition to the missing /proc already reported, the stage1 tarball also does not create /mnt. Far from critical, but most people would expect this directory to be present. 2. Continued use of emerge inidcates that there is no permanent fix for the "invalid db entry for *dvfsd" p

Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need NAT?

2004-01-01 Thread Ian Truelsen
On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 13:44:14 +0100 "SN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So to answer your question yes you need NAT unless you have public ips > on those machines inside your network > Thanks. That is what I thought, but the info that I was able to locate seemed to be implying that iptables rules co

[gentoo-user] mad won't build

2004-01-01 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
emerge -UD world told me mad needs to be updated. However, an emerge mad -pv gives this. When I do the emerge I get errors about undefined references (see below). Is the ebuild broken or is it me? Thanks. These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done!

Re: [gentoo-user] Base layout causing pointless config updates

2004-01-01 Thread Collins
On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 18:53:26 +0100 Norbert Kamenicky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > SN wrote: > > - Original Message - > > From: "Andy Arbon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "gentoo-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 6:38 PM > > Subject: [gentoo-user] Base layout cau

Re: [gentoo-user] Base layout causing pointless config updates

2004-01-01 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
SN wrote: - Original Message - From: "Andy Arbon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "gentoo-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 6:38 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] Base layout causing pointless config updates Hello, I'm just wondering if anyone here knows if anything is being d

Re: [gentoo-user] Proc devices permissions

2004-01-01 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 01 January 2004 17:05, Paul Stear wrote: > Hi, > I have managed to get my epson CX5400 printer/scanner working but I have a > problem with scanning. In order to use the scanner as a normal user I need > to change file permissions on the de

Re: [gentoo-user] linmodem in gentoo...

2004-01-01 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
U'll have to emerge ltmodem after every kernel (re)compilation, i.e. similar as with ati or nvidia drivers. Do not forget to allow ppp related setup in kernel. Jernej Zidar wrote: It's simple. First you must emerge ltmodem and then you must configure your dial-up connection. The device you'll usee

Re: [gentoo-user] gtkglarea emerge problems FIXED!

2004-01-01 Thread Scott Jackson
just in case anyone has the same problem I did... idiotic me, missing the masked drivers on the portage tree. Apparently what happened was I tried to install the *official* official drivers from the actual .run file. bad idea. but I needed the later ones, and protage hadn't cut it, until I found

Re: [gentoo-user] cd busy

2004-01-01 Thread Spider
begin quote On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 17:19:55 +0100 Peter Eis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Goran Kavrecic wrote: > > >OK, > > > >'lsof | grep /mnt' returns: > >fam 801 goran 37r DIR 22,0 2048 411422720 > >/mnt/cdrom > > > > > >But I suppose I need this one. Don't I? > > > Well,

[gentoo-user] Proc devices permissions

2004-01-01 Thread Paul Stear
Hi, I have managed to get my epson CX5400 printer/scanner working but I have a problem with scanning. In order to use the scanner as a normal user I need to change file permissions on the device i.e. chmod 666 /proc/bus/usb/002/003 As I only have my computer on when needed I have to issue the a

Re: [gentoo-user] cd busy

2004-01-01 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Thursday 01 Jan 2004 15:14, Goran Kavrecic wrote: > It happens from time to time, that I mount the CD, use it, close all > related programs and when trying to unmoun tit returns that the > device is busy. > > The latest was a CD when I openned an html file with mozzila. > > You could try `umo

Re: [gentoo-user] cd busy

2004-01-01 Thread Tom Wesley
On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 16:19, Peter Eis wrote: > Goran Kavrecic wrote: > > >OK, > > > >'lsof | grep /mnt' returns: > >fam 801 goran 37r DIR 22,0 2048 411422720 > >/mnt/cdrom > > > > > >But I suppose I need this one. Don't I? > > > Well, from the man page it sounds to me like

[gentoo-user] scp error

2004-01-01 Thread Jernej Zidar
While copying files over a ssh connection ( from me to a server) I got the following error: Stale NFS file handle. The files that gave me this error had zero file length though they were OK at home. What does this error stand for? thanks, JZidar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] worm games

2004-01-01 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Thursday 01 Jan 2004 13:09, William Kenworthy wrote: > Can emerge install a rpm (how???) or should I extract the tarball > from it and build manually? Searching seems to imply its a manual > install, but you never know ... > > BillK > > On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 20:27, Peter Ruskin wrote: > > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] cd busy

2004-01-01 Thread Peter Eis
Goran Kavrecic wrote: OK, 'lsof | grep /mnt' returns: fam 801 goran 37r DIR 22,0 2048 411422720 /mnt/cdrom But I suppose I need this one. Don't I? Well, from the man page it sounds to me like 'fam' is some kind of monitor program to check for file changes. Probably it has

Re: [gentoo-user] Printing troubles

2004-01-01 Thread Daniel Drake
I [01/Jan/2004:16:47:05 +0100] Hint: Try setting the LogLevel to "debug" to find out more. You should do that for a start. The setting is found in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf Reload cups, print again, and examine the logs again. Daniel -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Printing troubles

2004-01-01 Thread Nejko Zidarjev
Hi! I hoped that I've solved the printing issue in Gentoo but I was wrong. Here it goes: using the Gentoo printing guide I installed Cups and my printer (HP Deskjet 656c), including hpijs. The printer is not printing. If I try to print the Cups' test page I get this error: I [01/Jan/2004:16:41:0

Re: [gentoo-user] Dynamic partition resize?

2004-01-01 Thread Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
Vanh Phom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I recently get a hold of a 40G drive. So I'm planing to move Debian out > to the new (new to me) drive. Debian currently occupied 2 partitions > (1,2) while Gentoo takes 3,4. I want Gentoo to own current drive. Is > there any app that would allow me to reall

Re: [gentoo-user] cd busy

2004-01-01 Thread Goran Kavrecic
OK, 'lsof | grep /mnt' returns: fam 801 goran 37r DIR 22,0 2048 411422720 /mnt/cdrom But I suppose I need this one. Don't I? Goran Na 1072970710, 2004-01-01 ob 16:25, je Peter Eis napisal(a): > Goran Kavrecic wrote: > > > It happens from time to time, that I mount the C

Re: [gentoo-user] cd busy

2004-01-01 Thread Peter Eis
Goran Kavrecic wrote: It happens from time to time, that I mount the CD, use it, close all related programs and when trying to unmoun tit returns that the device is busy. try 'lsof' to find out which program has files open on the cd. Peter The latest was a CD when I openned an html file with mo

[gentoo-user] cd busy

2004-01-01 Thread Goran Kavrecic
It happens from time to time, that I mount the CD, use it, close all related programs and when trying to unmoun tit returns that the device is busy. The latest was a CD when I openned an html file with mozzila. Regards & Happy New Year, Goran -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] emerge error - removing old packages?

2004-01-01 Thread Reinhard Brandstädter
Hi! recently I get these messages every time I'm using emerge. After any operation e.g. merging a new package I get this complaining about package kbd: >>> Auto-cleaning packages ... !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/*sys-fs/devfsd!!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/*sys-fs/devfsd sys-apps/kbd

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: OT: CD-ROM problems

2004-01-01 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Jason Stubbs wrote: I have a SONY CD-RW/DVD-ROM CRX810E drive that seems to be malfunctioning. I can read DVDs and, er, 'bought' CDs without problems. I can even write CDs which can be read with no problems on other machines. However, I can't read CDs that have been burnt (before or after this prob

[gentoo-user] going from Apache 2 back to Apache 1

2004-01-01 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Due to the lack of support for HTML-Mason with Apache 2 and mod_perl 2, I want to downgrade Apache to the latest 1.x.x stable version. Then I'll emerge mod_perl 1.x and HTML-Mason. Is there anything I should watch out for when going back to Apache 1? Can I use my same config file (mostly default

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [normal] [gentoo-user] APM howto

2004-01-01 Thread Fabian Braennstroem
Hello, On Wed, 2003-12-31 at 17:03, Marc Redmann wrote: > Hi Peter, > > > I always use CONFIG_APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF=y as well as ACPI, otherwise > > my PCs will not power off. > > Seems to me that it depends on the hardware you use, cause i am running > 2.6.0 kernel with acpi enabled and no a

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