Re: [gentoo-user] emerging new system vs complete reinstall

2004-01-03 Thread William Kenworthy
emerge -e world will pick up nearly all packages emerge --resume to pick where a package fails. It works fine on a small, simple systems but fails more often than not on complex desktops because there always seem to be a few packages that need some work before they will build. I usually trap the

Re: [gentoo-user] Enemy Territory not working?

2004-01-03 Thread Simon Prosser
At 00:41 04/01/2004, you wrote: I've seen reports about problems like this with the latest nvidia drivers, try reverting to the 44xx series if you run the 5x ones now. its not a driver issue ..read the forums there is a problem with /dev/dsp and arts/esd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] env.d

2004-01-03 Thread Ben Munat
So, how can I have my regular user take advantage of env.d? My path just has the two or three obvious entries. I can add other stuff manually, but c'mon, this is gentoo... gotta be a configuration somewhere... b -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird System Behavior after Overclocking

2004-01-03 Thread Tom Richards
Oh, sorry bout that. begin quote On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 15:42:21 + Tom Richards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently got a new machine, as some of you may remember from my FS post before xmas. The CPU I have is an AMD Athlon 2000+ and I'm running an Abit KD7A mobo. I can get the system to

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Quick emerge -u world questions

2004-01-03 Thread Robert G . Waycott
From: Spider [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/01/03 Sat PM 07:36:39 EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Quick emerge -u world questions lots of weird segfault /ice.. Are you overclocking? If so this could be a show of

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing /usr/portage across machines?

2004-01-03 Thread Tom Fredrik Blenning Klaussen
On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 04:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I nfs-share /usr/portage. It works fine for me. When talking about sharing /usr/portage I do it at home, but I get a huge performance hit when it comes to dependency calculation. Is there any network filesystem very well suited for this

[gentoo-user] DirectFB and screen

2004-01-03 Thread Bill Roberts
Is there anyway of using DirectFB with screen? I use DirectFB with links -g to get a graphical browser from the command line. Works great, except when I try to use it with screen. My workaround is to open a second virtual terminal, but that is a kludge. Any suggestions. -- Bill Roberts --

Re: [gentoo-user] env.d

2004-01-03 Thread Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
Ben Munat [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yeah, I read through that doc, but it didn't seem to have anything about root vs. regular user. However, I have (sort of) solved my problem... discovered that su-ing to my regular user from root is not the same as logging in as that user... certain login

Re: [gentoo-user] env.d

2004-01-03 Thread Phil Barnett
On Saturday 03 January 2004 8:54 pm, Ben Munat wrote: Yeah, I read through that doc, but it didn't seem to have anything about root vs. regular user. However, I have (sort of) solved my problem... discovered that su-ing to my regular user from root is not the same as logging in as that

[gentoo-user] Bootmenu for selecting a GUI to start

2004-01-03 Thread Thorsten Kampe
Hello, I'm looking for a solution to hook somekind of a boot menu into the boot process. Something like 'Do you want to start the GUI (kdm)? [Y]es [N]o' If I select Yes within five seconds /etc/init.d/xdm start is executed - otherwise not. What's the best way to do this without changing or

Re: [gentoo-user] env.d

2004-01-03 Thread Ben Munat
thank you very much... extremely helpful Phil Barnett wrote: On Saturday 03 January 2004 8:54 pm, Ben Munat wrote: Yeah, I read through that doc, but it didn't seem to have anything about root vs. regular user. However, I have (sort of) solved my problem... discovered that su-ing to my

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird System Behavior after Overclocking

2004-01-03 Thread Andrew Cowie
On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 07:26, Tom Richards wrote: Oh, sorry bout that. And please don't include the entire body of someone else's email just to have a one line response. Take the time to quote the relevant section and reply to that. I don't need to see the whole previous message - It's ok - I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Quick emerge -u world questions

2004-01-03 Thread Spider
begin quote On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 21:46:45 -0500 Robert G. Waycott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Spider, I don't follow your suggestion to 'check the RAM fex.' What's 'fex.'? fex, short for for example in this case, sig11 is a common error on compilations for systems where there are hardware

[gentoo-user] System Load Monitor

2004-01-03 Thread Steve B.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I would like to graphicaly be able to monitor various aspects of my gentoo system. For example, cpu load, mem load, eth load. Are there any sys load monitors one would recommended (preferably one that will work with fluxbox). Thanks, Steve - --

[gentoo-user] RE: motherboard

2004-01-03 Thread Ashay Humane
I have an A7N8X Dlx and a Biostar MNCD Pro. Having run Gentoo on both with Barton's 2500+ with 512MB PC3200, I would say there's no difference in performance/stability between these two. Asus soundstorm features are inaccessible in Linux anyways (afaik). So if you don't care for onboard SATA,

Re: [gentoo-user] RE: motherboard

2004-01-03 Thread Steve B.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I read somewhere how to setup the sound in linux (well KDE anyways) I will try and track them down. On Sunday 04 January 2004 05:57, Ashay Humane wrote: I have an A7N8X Dlx and a Biostar MNCD Pro. Having run Gentoo on both with Barton's 2500+

[gentoo-user] problem with portage and alsa-lib

2004-01-03 Thread Glenn Johnson
I am maintaining an ~x86 system and have alsa-lib-1.0.0_rc2 installed. When doing an 'emerge -Dup world', portage wants to downgrade alsa-lib to 0.9.8. What is strange is that it seems that alsa-lib itself is causing this. I did an 'emerge -C alsa-lib' to remove alsa-lib-1.0.0_rc2. Then upon

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Dynamic partition resize?

2004-01-03 Thread Vanh Phom
On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 20:37, Simon Kellett wrote: parted does enough of this for free !! One thing it can not do is extend ext2 downwards, but you can work around this by creating a new partition below, moving the files down, deleting the upper partition and then extending the lower partition

[gentoo-user] dm-crypt

2004-01-03 Thread Jerry McBride
Anybody else using it with their gentoo? It's going to be the replacement (most likely) for the current crypto-loop solution. -- ** Registered Linux User Number 185956

[gentoo-user] Odd emerge activity

2004-01-03 Thread Tom Richards
Since I was so attacked in my previous post...hopefully this one goes better(and no, my machine is correctly clocked while this is happening...) This has only happened with a couple packages that I have installed, but this one is the most recent. On all the ones it has happened, the programs

Re: [gentoo-user] System Load Monitor

2004-01-03 Thread KamaolaKid
gkrellm -- Kyle S. Steve B. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I would like to graphicaly be able to monitor various aspects of my gentoo system. For example, cpu load, mem load, eth load. Are there any sys load monitors one would recommended (preferably one that will work

Re: [gentoo-user] System Load Monitor

2004-01-03 Thread Jason Cooper
Steve B. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I would like to graphicaly be able to monitor various aspects of my gentoo system. For example, cpu load, mem load, eth load. Are there any sys load monitors one would recommended (preferably one that

[gentoo-user] gimp and gif files

2004-01-03 Thread Collins
I don't see any way to get gimp to create a gif file. The option is there but greyed out. I've tried emerging gimp with USE=gif but that does no good. Looking at the ebuilds, I don't even see gif in the IUSE list. Any ideas. -- Collins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] how can i safely install masked package?

2004-01-03 Thread Tianran Chen
I'm sorry if this is a stupid question. I am just tring to install gdesklets, which is a masked package. Is there a safe way to install such packages without make damage to the dependency tree? Thanks for any help. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

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