Re: [gentoo-user] cups printing slow - page by page

2004-01-08 Thread Matthias Witschel
Hi Collins, I'm highly interested in this, since I'm planning to switch my companies print services from SuSE SLES to gentoo. How is the printer in question attached? What type of driver/filter are you using and what application produces the problematic jobs? I also expirienced such problems, but

[gentoo-user] Kernel folk - Where did the sk98lin network driver go in 2.4.22-gentoo ????

2004-01-08 Thread Lindsay Haisley
Does anyone know what happened to support for the 3Com LOM 3C940 in kernel linux-2.4.22-gentoo-r3? This was available as the sk98lin module in 2.4.20 and works fine for the 3Com 3C940, and in fact it looks as if some of the Gentoo kernel hackers enhanced it somewhat. The code is still in the kern

[gentoo-user] Fan not working

2004-01-08 Thread Danyelle Kelso
Hi and happy new year to all! I have a big problem and am going nuts trying to fix it. I installed Gentoo 1.4 onto my laptop. The laptop is a Gateway 450SX4. The fans dont kick on so my laptop powers itself down because it overheats. It works fine in Windows but not in Gentoo. I have tried:

RE: [gentoo-user] before I overwrite my old modules by mistake...

2004-01-08 Thread Mark Knecht
Bill & Paul, Thanks for the great ideas. I really appreciate your willingness to share all this stuff. Thanks! Mark On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 20:11, Paul Varner wrote: > On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 21:45, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > Why? If the directories are both there, why doesn't Alsa still work for

[gentoo-user] dmesg notifications

2004-01-08 Thread Dennis Robertson
Hello List, I have finally managed to get direct rendering to work with my asus A7N8X dlxe mobo and ati 9700pro graphics card using the 2.6.0-mm1 kernel. However, there seem to be problems with the installation. Alsa also works but doesn't seem to like it much. I also get a message about hdc. T

Re: [gentoo-user] font availability in gvim

2004-01-08 Thread Chris Bare
> Whenever I start gvim, I have only one font available. > Any thoughts? I had a problem when I built gvim with gtk2. Gtk2 uses the new anti-aliased font stuff and I was never able to configure it to use the good old-fashoned font that matches my xterm which I have been staring at every day for a

[gentoo-user] font availability in gvim

2004-01-08 Thread Matt Garman
Whenever I start gvim, I have only one font available. In particular, I like the "10x20" font. I can do something like xterm -fn 10x20 And I'll get an xterm that uses that font. So in my ~/.vimrc, I have the following line: set guifont=10x20 However, gvim loads with a tiny,

[gentoo-user] Re: Memory Usage

2004-01-08 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Pooh Sun Tzu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe it is just me, but I've never in my entire experience had swap > touched. And that is at 400 megs of RAM, in gnome, XFCE4, and fluxbox. > Cached, sure. But he is running into swap, and that isn't supposed to > happen. Well, I wrote a script to che

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the typical way to unmount /boot after bootup?

2004-01-08 Thread Collins
On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 09:56:18 +0530 Hareesh Nagarajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi: > > I'm running a Gentoo box for some time now. Due to frequent power cuts > I have to fsck my /boot partition (type ext2) often. How do I unmount > /boot immediately (or sometime later) after boot up? > Unles

[gentoo-user] cups printing slow - page by page

2004-01-08 Thread Collins
I've seen the same behavior with cups a number of times on different distros, but I've never been able to suss out the answer. When a file consists of multiple pages, cups prints them as though each page were a file by itself - long pause between pages. On other distros (SUSE 9.0, for example), t

[gentoo-user] What is the typical way to unmount /boot after bootup?

2004-01-08 Thread Hareesh Nagarajan
Hi: I'm running a Gentoo box for some time now. Due to frequent power cuts I have to fsck my /boot partition (type ext2) often. How do I unmount /boot immediately (or sometime later) after boot up? Thank you for your time. -- Hareesh Nagarajan The Instant Messenger with a difference! http://pugg

RE: [gentoo-user] before I overwrite my old modules by mistake...

2004-01-08 Thread Paul Varner
On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 21:45, Mark Knecht wrote: > Why? If the directories are both there, why doesn't Alsa still work for > both? Maybe I'm doing something wrong somewhere that I need to learn > about. > What is happening is the emerge command is removing the previous modules when it cleans up t

RE: [gentoo-user] before I overwrite my old modules by mistake...

2004-01-08 Thread Bill Kenworthy
There are some long standing bugs in portage about gentoo's handling of external modules installed into the kernel tree. My personal fix is to touch the modules after they are installed so poirtage leaves them alone before reinstalling. use "qpkg -f /lib/modules/\*" to list the packages you need

RE: [gentoo-user] before I overwrite my old modules by mistake...

2004-01-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 17:55, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > was probably me, and that has been fixed (I bugziller'd it) Kernel > builds should always install modules into new directories, but there > have been a couple of instances where in the rush to get a bugfix out, > they didnt increment the version

Re: [gentoo-user] I killed my xp boot sector with grub

2004-01-08 Thread Kevin Reichhart
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdXX will write zeros to every byte in your partition, effectively deleting everything there. Due to the malicious intent of the sender, I would like to see the sender removed from the list. However, since I'm not the list admin, it's not my call. If you want to use t

Re: [gentoo-user] I killed my xp boot sector with grub

2004-01-08 Thread Kevin Reichhart
Do NOT use dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdXX it will On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > Please dont post suggestions like this without a more detailed > explanation - newbies have been known to blindly follow such suggestions > with the predictable results. > > Also, the language is a b

Re: [gentoo-user] I killed my xp boot sector with grub

2004-01-08 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Please dont post suggestions like this without a more detailed explanation - newbies have been known to blindly follow such suggestions with the predictable results. Also, the language is a bit ... objectionable ... for a public list. Please no flames BillK On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 08:50, Norber

RE: [gentoo-user] before I overwrite my old modules by mistake...

2004-01-08 Thread Bill Kenworthy
was probably me, and that has been fixed (I bugziller'd it) Kernel builds should always install modules into new directories, but there have been a couple of instances where in the rush to get a bugfix out, they didnt increment the version correctly. Check the version and extraversion parameters

Re: [gentoo-user] mkinitrd

2004-01-08 Thread Bill Kenworthy
emerge the kernel you want, remake the symlink in /usr/src, rerun genkernel --config If the kernel is not too different to what you are currently using, copy the /etc/kernel/config-n to the new version number and genkernel will startup with most of the correct options set. The error you are seein

Re: [gentoo-user] I killed my xp boot sector with grub

2004-01-08 Thread Tom Hosiawa
> Hi there, > > I just replaced a win 98 with a win xp. xp overwrote the mbr, so i had > grub reinstall it. > > The problem is, that I used setup (hd0,0) instead of setup (hd0), write > it in the boot partition instead of the mbr. linux is running on a hdb, > so there is no effect. > > Is there

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] moving from debian to gentoo - setup and what have I forgotten?

2004-01-08 Thread Spider
begin quote On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 17:07:16 -0800 Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One other question about the system set up (not so much the RAID > setup) is how to best configure partitions. On my home system I have > one drive with hda1 being 10m for /boot, a small swap partition, and > the res

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] moving from debian to gentoo - setup and what have I forgotten?

2004-01-08 Thread Alan
> > - list whatever has been installed via cpan from the command line > > - copy across rdiff-backup backups directory so I don't have to upload > >multi-megabytes next time my home box does it's backup > > - anything else obvious I'm missing? > > I always save either /usr/src/linux/.config

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] moving from debian to gentoo - setup and what have I forgotten?

2004-01-08 Thread Alan
> okay, i setup this one from my own dev-box when I was doing a lot of > reinstalls on my only machine that then did everything from serving to > compiletesting things. However, it might be at least somewhat relevant > and something to start with: > > > http://dev.gentoo.org/~spider/migration-gui

[gentoo-user] [Q] html encoding - Korean

2004-01-08 Thread YOON. Joo-Yung
Hi, all, I am experiencing a character encoding difficulty after I changed to Gentoo from debian. There is a test page (http://arbago.com/ttt.html), and its page info in Netscape has "Encoding x-windows-949", but this must be "EUC-KR". I can not find a way how my page gets this abnormal encodin

Re: [gentoo-user] I killed my xp boot sector with grub

2004-01-08 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Is there a way to restore the winXP boot sector without reinstalling xp? I have very good universal solution for all micro$hit systems, which will prevent such troubles forever: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdXX hdXX is micro$hit partition Yeah, that works, but it kind of makes stuff like "Age of

Re: [gentoo-user] I killed my xp boot sector with grub

2004-01-08 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Thomas Buntrock wrote: Hi there, I just replaced a win 98 with a win xp. xp overwrote the mbr, so i had grub reinstall it. The problem is, that I used setup (hd0,0) instead of setup (hd0), write it in the boot partition instead of the mbr. linux is running on a hdb, so there is no effect. Is there

Re: [gentoo-user] I killed my xp boot sector with grub

2004-01-08 Thread Nicholas Hockey
Don't be an ass, he is asking a valid question, if you don't know the answer than don't post, there is no need for slamming, you troll. that being said i will go on to explain what i think is a solution You can use grub to boot your system, in fact lilo or grub is about the only way to boo

Re: [gentoo-user] command line tool for burning a music cd

2004-01-08 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Mike Williams wrote: On Thursday 08 January 2004 23:04, Norbert Kamenicky wrote: dd if=/dev/cdrom of=abitforbitcopy.iso this can hardly work with audio CD :-( I didn't tested that, and don't have an audio cd to hand to test, but I see no reason why it wouldn't work. dd is working on a block d

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] moving from debian to gentoo - setup and what have I forgotten?

2004-01-08 Thread Richard Kilgore
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 03:11:33PM -0800, Alan wrote: > Either this weekend or next I'm going to be moving my main server from > debian unstable to gentoo stable. My reasoning is pretty simple. I've > had more problems with debian unstable lately than gentoo stable (which > I run on my personal w

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] moving from debian to gentoo - setup and what have I forgotten?

2004-01-08 Thread Spider
begin quote On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 15:11:33 -0800 Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anyway, I'm setting up a checklist in my mind and trying to figure out > what I need to do and set up and back up before the move, if there's > something I've forgotten. The box is a web/db/jabber/mail system with

Re: [gentoo-user] what is adjust

2004-01-08 Thread Collins
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 23:16:00 + (WET) Jorge Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just found out that I have a file /usr/adjust > prw---1 root root0 Dec 7 15:08 adjust > > I have no idea what this is. It is not owned by any package, according > to qpkg -f. > Any info a

Re: [gentoo-user] command line tool for burning a music cd

2004-01-08 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 08 January 2004 23:04, Norbert Kamenicky wrote: > > dd if=/dev/cdrom of=abitforbitcopy.iso > > this can hardly work with audio CD :-( I didn't tested that, and don't have an audio cd to hand to test, but I see no reason why it wouldn't w

[gentoo-user] what is adjust

2004-01-08 Thread Jorge Almeida
I just found out that I have a file /usr/adjust prw---1 root root0 Dec 7 15:08 adjust I have no idea what this is. It is not owned by any package, according to qpkg -f. Any info about it? TIA, Jorge Almeida -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] [ot] moving from debian to gentoo - setup and what have I forgotten?

2004-01-08 Thread Alan
Either this weekend or next I'm going to be moving my main server from debian unstable to gentoo stable. My reasoning is pretty simple. I've had more problems with debian unstable lately than gentoo stable (which I run on my personal webserver), nicer control of things via cflags and such, and ge

Re: [gentoo-user] mkinitrd

2004-01-08 Thread Dave Chapman
My box is a retired Server. Intel SC450NX quad PII Xeon 450Mhz 2.5GB ram 6x 9GB sca harddrives 1x scsi DVD Nuckerl Stefan wrote: Are you sure you have use for an initrd, I'd say 99% of the people don't need a initrd. - Original Message - From: "David Chapman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <

Re: [gentoo-user] command line tool for burning a music cd

2004-01-08 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Mike Williams wrote: On Wednesday 07 January 2004 12:18, Anupam Kapoor wrote: hi all, sorry for the n00b question, but here goes: 'how do i create an exact replica of a music cd (for backup purposes :)' of course ! i can rip the .wav files and then burn them, but that sounds like too much work !!

Re: [gentoo-user] Keyboard is not working

2004-01-08 Thread Collins
On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 15:19:30 +0100 Sensei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Collins wrote: > > Pooh means Drivers -> Input Device Support -> Mice & Ps/2 Mouse > > Support > >Drivers -> Input Device Support -> Keyboards & (usually) > >AT > > keyboard support. > > > > Good luck,

Re: [gentoo-user] I killed my xp boot sector with grub

2004-01-08 Thread Collins
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 13:17:13 -0800 Drake Wyrm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 09:50:34PM +0100, in > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Manuel P???rez > L???pez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > El Jueves, 8 de Enero de 2004 20:59, Thomas Buntrock escribi«Ñ: > > > Is there a way to restore the

Re: [gentoo-user] Keyboard is not working

2004-01-08 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Sensei wrote: Hi. I have a very strange problem. I installed gentoo successfully on 8 ibm workstations. I installed gentoo on a dell pc and during the installation process everything works perfectly, but when I boot the brand-new machine the keyboard stops working. I don't know why!! It's a si

Re: [gentoo-user] Resize root partition

2004-01-08 Thread Bill Roberts
On 19:56 Thu 08 Jan , Elton Algera wrote: > > I tested gentoo for a while now and decided to make it my primary os on > > my machine. Therefor I want to resize the root partition (reiserfs), > > since it's now only 5gb. Which is the savest way to perform this? I > > don't think Partitionmagi

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with postfix and mutt

2004-01-08 Thread Torsten Veller
* Riccardo Gusso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > so that now it appear as 'home_mailbox = Maildir/'; then I have quitted > > > > this is different from mutt's standard 'folder' variable. > > And yes, you changed it? > > No: originally in the main.cf t

[gentoo-user] initrd vs initramfs

2004-01-08 Thread William Hubbs
Hi all, I am using gentoo with a 2.6 kernel and I have seen some references to initramfs. How do you create an initramfs image instead of an initrd image? Is it better to use an initramfs instead of an initrd? Thanks, William -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] switching harddrives

2004-01-08 Thread Nuckerl Stefan
Did this last week, you just need command: cp -rfp cp (copy) -r (recursive means all the way down in the directorys) -p (preserve date file permissions etc.) To make sure no interference is done while running this command I booted with a gentoo install cd mounted the old and the new partitions

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging module-init-tools-0.9.15_pre4 complains about old automake version

2004-01-08 Thread Nuckerl Stefan
- Original Message - From: "Patrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 2:15 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] emerging module-init-tools-0.9.15_pre4 complains about old automake version > hi everyone! > > i just tried to do an `emerge -uU world', but w

Re: [gentoo-user] migrating Mozilla profile

2004-01-08 Thread Nuckerl Stefan
- Original Message - From: "Andrew Gaffney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gentoo User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 5:40 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] migrating Mozilla profile > I am in the process of moving my main account from root (yes, I know, bad me) to a normal > u

Re: [gentoo-user] mkinitrd

2004-01-08 Thread Nuckerl Stefan
Are you sure you have use for an initrd, I'd say 99% of the people don't need a initrd. - Original Message - From: "David Chapman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 7:26 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] mkinitrd > I,m new to this so be gentle. Havin

Re: [gentoo-user] before I overwrite my old modules by mistake...

2004-01-08 Thread Nuckerl Stefan
- Original Message - From: "Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 8:21 PM Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] before I overwrite my old modules by mistake... > > If you take a look at /lib/modules you will see that each kernel version > > has i

Re: [gentoo-user] I killed my xp boot sector with grub

2004-01-08 Thread Nuckerl Stefan
Boot with the windows XP Installdisk, it will tell you that it found an XP Installation and ask you if you want to go on wioth rescue console, say yes, then at the prompt, type: fixmbr try if XP boots again, but I doubt it, since you wrote to hda1, try the second method then which should work; I

Re: [gentoo-user] I killed my xp boot sector with grub

2004-01-08 Thread Drake Wyrm
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 09:50:34PM +0100, in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Manuel P???rez L???pez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > El Jueves, 8 de Enero de 2004 20:59, Thomas Buntrock escribió: > > Is there a way to restore the winXP boot sector without reinstalling xp? > Are you sure this is the forum for you

RE: [gentoo-user] before I overwrite my old modules by mistake...

2004-01-08 Thread Mark Knecht
> > Yes, but there was a post yesterday (or so) about some new version of the > kernel not following that rule completely. (Or I misunderstood that > thread...) > > Thanks, > Mark > HI, Took the leap. Pulled the trigger. Everything looks OK. Cheers, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] I killed my xp boot sector with grub

2004-01-08 Thread Barry Marler
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 21:36:24 +0100 Thomas Buntrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 03:19:18PM -0500, Barry Marler wrote: > > On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 20:59:30 +0100 > > Thomas Buntrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi there, > > > > > > I just replaced a win 98 with a win xp

Re: [gentoo-user] I killed my xp boot sector with grub

2004-01-08 Thread Ben Sutton
On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 19:59, Thomas Buntrock wrote: > Is there a way to restore the winXP boot sector without reinstalling xp? > > Thanks, Thomas If you would like to restore the original XP bootloader this can be achieved by booting the Windows XP cdrom and starting a 'Recovery Console' session

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-games

2004-01-08 Thread brettholcomb
You could try using the inject option of emerge. > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: 2004/01/08 Thu PM 12:41:37 EST > To: Gentoo-user <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [gentoo-user] gnome-games > > Hi, I'm trying to create an automatic emerge -U --deep -world for several clients, the one of the p

Re: [gentoo-user] I killed my xp boot sector with grub

2004-01-08 Thread Rainer Sigwald
> I don't have a winxp boot floppy, only a cdrom. Will a 98 disk do? Boot from XP CD, run 'recovery console', log in to the right windows installation. Then run 'fixboot' and 'fixmbr' . . . will obliterate GRUB, but should boot windows. Then fix Linux. That's what I do when I mis-install grub o

Re: [gentoo-user] I killed my xp boot sector with grub

2004-01-08 Thread Manuel Pérez López
El Jueves, 8 de Enero de 2004 20:59, Thomas Buntrock escribió: > Is there a way to restore the winXP boot sector without reinstalling xp? Are you sure this is the forum for your question? This's a Linux-Gentoo forum, I think. -- --- Cordiales saludos Manuel Pérez López [EMAIL PROTECTED] h

Re: [gentoo-user] I killed my xp boot sector with grub

2004-01-08 Thread Thomas Buntrock
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 03:21:13PM -0500, Christopher Fisk wrote: > >Is there a way to restore the winXP boot sector without reinstalling xp? > > Boot with a win9x bootdisk. use fdisk to mark the windows XP disk as the > active partition. Then use the command: fdisk /mbr done, but no effect.

Re: [gentoo-user] Detecting network card

2004-01-08 Thread f . fiopa
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 08:22:11PM +0100, Elton Algera wrote: > > > On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Wes Gray wrote: > > > I'm helping a friend setup a Gentoo system, and when his kernel comes > > up networking is broken. The livecd detects the network and it works > > great, but when my friend boots into h

Re: [gentoo-user] I killed my xp boot sector with grub

2004-01-08 Thread Thomas Buntrock
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 03:19:18PM -0500, Barry Marler wrote: > On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 20:59:30 +0100 > Thomas Buntrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi there, > > > > I just replaced a win 98 with a win xp. xp overwrote the mbr, so i had > > grub reinstall it. > > > > The problem is, that I used

Re: [gentoo-user] PS1 environment variable under KDE

2004-01-08 Thread Jaroslav Urban
hi, i had this problem with kdm, are you using it? i don't really understand why doesn't it work, it's something like that it doesn't source the /etc/profile (i think you can specify it somehow in XSession file). i was too lazy to edit the XSession (or maybe it didn't work, I'm not sure now),

Re: [gentoo-user] I killed my xp boot sector with grub

2004-01-08 Thread Christopher Fisk
>Is there a way to restore the winXP boot sector without reinstalling xp? Boot with a win9x bootdisk. use fdisk to mark the windows XP disk as the active partition. Then use the command: fdisk /mbr That will return the MBR To windows XP bootable. Marking the XP partition active may or may n

Re: [gentoo-user] I killed my xp boot sector with grub

2004-01-08 Thread Barry Marler
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 20:59:30 +0100 Thomas Buntrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > > I just replaced a win 98 with a win xp. xp overwrote the mbr, so i had > grub reinstall it. > > The problem is, that I used setup (hd0,0) instead of setup (hd0), > write it in the boot partition instead

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with postfix and mutt

2004-01-08 Thread Riccardo Gusso
On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 13:09, Torsten Veller wrote: > * Riccardo Gusso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 14:17, Peter Wu wrote: > > > > > What's your home_mailbox in the main.cf? Is it a maildir? > > > > That line was commented in /etc/postfix/main.cf; I have uncommented it, > > so th

[gentoo-user] I killed my xp boot sector with grub

2004-01-08 Thread Thomas Buntrock
Hi there, I just replaced a win 98 with a win xp. xp overwrote the mbr, so i had grub reinstall it. The problem is, that I used setup (hd0,0) instead of setup (hd0), write it in the boot partition instead of the mbr. linux is running on a hdb, so there is no effect. Is there a way to restore the

[gentoo-user] emerging problems

2004-01-08 Thread f . fiopa
Hi, Ii'm getting this kind of error everytime I emerge stuff. this is the error: awk: cmd. line:1: (FILENAME=/etc/init.d/xfs FNR=296) warning: error writing standard output (Broken pipe) I emerged new portage and now i'm using portage-2.0.49-r21 and awk 3.1.3 thanx. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mai

Re: [gentoo-user] gripe about the "other docs" on gentoo.org

2004-01-08 Thread Marius Mauch
On 01/08/04 Jonathan Nichols wrote: > Hrm.. the virtual mailhosting system guide says that it was updated on > > January 7th, 2004. > > But there's no changelog that I can see! > > It would be nice to know *what* was updated, don't y'all agree? :) > I think that a brief ChangeLog for the docum

RE: [gentoo-user] before I overwrite my old modules by mistake...

2004-01-08 Thread Mark Knecht
> If you take a look at /lib/modules you will see that each kernel version > has its own directory. > > Cheers. Yes, but there was a post yesterday (or so) about some new version of the kernel not following that rule completely. (Or I misunderstood that thread...) Thanks, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [gentoo-user] Detecting network card

2004-01-08 Thread Elton Algera
On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Wes Gray wrote: > I'm helping a friend setup a Gentoo system, and when his kernel comes > up networking is broken. The livecd detects the network and it works > great, but when my friend boots into his kernel it doesn't work. Probably > he needs some network kernel options

Re: [gentoo-user] gripe about the "other docs" on gentoo.org

2004-01-08 Thread Daniel Drake
Google's cache contains a copy of the older version from dec 10 (but probably not for long, as it will update). http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:gRaa4SarfikJ:www.gentoo.org/doc/en/virt-mail-howto.xml+&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 Daniel Jonathan Nichols wrote: Hrm.. the virtual mailhosting system guide s

[gentoo-user] Re: DRI/GLX with ATI Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x and Linux 2.6 / XFree86 4.4

2004-01-08 Thread Sebastian Bergmann
Fred Wade wrote: > Horiz video sync is fine on high resolution (1400x1280), but off > at low res (640 x 480) for 2.4. Just to clarify: Nor XFree86 stuff works fine, ie. I have 1024x768 resolution, I only want to know how to enable DRI/GLX. -- Sebastian Bergmann http://sebastian-bergmann.de/

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-games

2004-01-08 Thread Chris I
On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 12:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to create an automatic emerge -U --deep -world for several clients, the > one of the problems i got is gnome-games, every emerge wants to install the games, > and because its for a company the games should not be install

Re: [gentoo-user] Vi does not work after emerge -U --deep world

2004-01-08 Thread Elton Algera
On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Spider wrote: > begin quote > On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 20:49:24 +0100 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Thanks, > > glad it worked > > > I wonder what people like me, would do without you :-) > > Wild guess : use another OS? ;.) > > //Spider > Or try running revdep-rebu

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo not resetting

2004-01-08 Thread Elton Algera
Hi, I have a Compaq Deskpro 4000DP (266MHz pII) and it won't reset... However, shutdown is fine, when I enable APM in the kernel. On reset the system hangs with a black screen and nothing helps but power off and power on... Any clues will be greatly appreciated. Elton -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [gentoo-user] mkinitrd

2004-01-08 Thread Mark Knecht
> I,m new to this so be gentle. Having come from a point and click > SuSE install. > I,ve installed Gentoo 1.4 stage3 OK but I want to recompile a 2.6 > or 2.4.22 > smp kernel in place of the genkernel that I installed. > > Now that I have emerged mkinitrd I get > "all your loop back devices are bu

Re: [gentoo-user] before I overwrite my old modules by mistake...

2004-01-08 Thread Anarconda
If you take a look at /lib/modules you will see that each kernel version has its own directory. Cheers. Mark Knecht escribió: Hi, I just wanted to check before I pull the trigger. I am doing a new kernel this morning going from gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r7 to 2.4.22-r3. Was there was something

[gentoo-user] gripe about the "other docs" on gentoo.org

2004-01-08 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Hrm.. the virtual mailhosting system guide says that it was updated on January 7th, 2004. But there's no changelog that I can see! It would be nice to know *what* was updated, don't y'all agree? :) I think that a brief ChangeLog for the documentation that hits the public site would be a *very*

Re: [gentoo-user] Resize root partition

2004-01-08 Thread Elton Algera
I would just boot the gentoo livecd, run fdisk to change the partitions to the right size, then use resize_reiserfs from the reiserfsprogs package, it's probably the safest... On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Christoph Schäfer wrote: > Hi, > > I tested gentoo for a while now and decided to m

[gentoo-user] before I overwrite my old modules by mistake...

2004-01-08 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I just wanted to check before I pull the trigger. I am doing a new kernel this morning going from gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r7 to 2.4.22-r3. Was there was something about this possibly overwriting the existing /lib/modules directory? If so, how would I ensure this does not happen? what do I chec

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: DJBDNS split-horizon with tagged records

2004-01-08 Thread scotth
Joshua Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > I'm trying to find someone who is using Djbdns split-horizon with > tagged records. > > Without explaining my major source of confusion, (as that would take up > to much space with-in this email), can someone with a network setup > using the ab

[gentoo-user] mkinitrd

2004-01-08 Thread David Chapman
I,m new to this so be gentle. Having come from a point and click SuSE install. I,ve installed Gentoo 1.4 stage3 OK but I want to recompile a 2.6 or 2.4.22 smp kernel in place of the genkernel that I installed. Now that I have emerged mkinitrd I get "all your loop back devices are busy" when I do

RE: [gentoo-user] AutoConf >= 2.50

2004-01-08 Thread Mark Knecht
> On Thursday 08 Jan 2004 04:16, Collins wrote: > > This sounds like a complete crock.  Is this a gentooism that no one > > else in the linux universe would be aware of? > > Mandrake do it too. In fact our autoconf perl script is written by > Mandrake's Guillaume Cottenceaux. > > Peter I'm not a

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem running games

2004-01-08 Thread Mauro Arnoldi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 aghartilap root # emerge -pv xfree These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r3 -3dfx -sse -mmx -3dnow +xml2 +truetype +nls -cjk +doc -ipv6 -debug -static +pam -sdk -

Re: [gentoo-user] migrating Mozilla profile

2004-01-08 Thread Andrew Gaffney
That does look like it will help. Thanks. Anarconda wrote: I hope this help you: http://www.mozilla.org/start/1.5/faq/profile.html#transport Andrew Gaffney escribió: I am in the process of moving my main account from root (yes, I know, bad me) to a normal user. The only problem I've come acros

Re: [gentoo-user] AutoConf >= 2.50

2004-01-08 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Thursday 08 Jan 2004 04:16, Collins wrote: > This sounds like a complete crock.  Is this a gentooism that no one > else in the linux universe would be aware of? Mandrake do it too. In fact our autoconf perl script is written by Mandrake's Guillaume Cottenceaux. Peter --

[gentoo-user] gnome-games

2004-01-08 Thread patrick . marquetecken
Hi, I'm trying to create an automatic emerge -U --deep -world for several clients, the one of the problems i got is gnome-games, every emerge wants to install the games, and because its for a company the games should not be installed. What is the best way to keep that package from mycomputers?

[gentoo-user] OT: how to get 8-bit input with Alt in gnome-terminal?

2004-01-08 Thread Richard Kilgore
Anyone know of an equivalent to XTerm's *VT100*eightBitInput: true (in app-defaults/XTerm) but for Gnome Terminal? - richard -- Richard Kilgore [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] migrating Mozilla profile

2004-01-08 Thread Anarconda
I hope this help you: http://www.mozilla.org/start/1.5/faq/profile.html#transport Cheers Andrew Gaffney escribió: I am in the process of moving my main account from root (yes, I know, bad me) to a normal user. The only problem I've come across so far is '~/.mozilla'. There are files such as pr

Re: [gentoo-user] DRI/GLX with ATI Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x and Linux 2.6 / XFree86 4.4

2004-01-08 Thread Fred Wade
I have a Clevo with a similar chip. Horiz video sync is fine on high resolution (1400x1280), but off at low res (640 x 480) for 2.4. For 2.6, only low res is ok. If DRM is off, 2.6 works the same as 2.4. I changed my HorizSync line to 50-200 to get the other resolutions, but I have no idea

Re: [gentoo-user] switching harddrives

2004-01-08 Thread Chris Bare
> I bought a new hard drive (80GB) and right now I'm > using a 40GB one. My question is: > Can I transfer gentoo / files into the partitions of > that harddrive and will it work? How would I go about > at doing this? The procedure I have used successfully was: install both drives boot from insta

[gentoo-user] migrating Mozilla profile

2004-01-08 Thread Andrew Gaffney
I am in the process of moving my main account from root (yes, I know, bad me) to a normal user. The only problem I've come across so far is '~/.mozilla'. There are files such as prefs.js that contain the string '/root' which is bad when it will be sitting in '/home/agaffney'. Can I replace '/roo

[gentoo-user] DRI/GLX with ATI Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x and Linux 2.6 / XFree86 4.4

2004-01-08 Thread Sebastian Bergmann
Hi, I have an Acer TravelMate 529TXV laptop with an ATI Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x graphics chip. Before I upgraded to Linux 2.6 and XFree86 4.3.99.902 (4.4.0 RC2) I had DIR/GLX support using the mach64 driver from [1]. But those don't work anymore with the new kernel / xfree versions.

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem running games

2004-01-08 Thread Ben Sutton
On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 14:48, Mauro Arnoldi wrote: > 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None > > I have an ATI Radeon, I went to the site you suggested me and I saw: > Important: Depending on which desktop you are going to install, you might want > to disable support for which desktops you are not using in /etc/m

RE: [gentoo-user] Problem running games

2004-01-08 Thread Mark Knecht
> well first you should find out what flags xfree uses > emerge -pv xfree > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > Calculating dependencies ...done! > [ebuild R ] x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r3 -3dfx -sse -mmx -3dnow > +xml2 +truetype +nls -cjk -doc -ipv6 -de

[gentoo-user] Re: [normal] Re: [gentoo-user] Problem running games

2004-01-08 Thread Marc Redmann
Hi Mauro, > Is that correct? > USE=glx emerge xfree?? It seems that there is no gla USE flag for xfree, do a "emerge -pv xfree" and you will see all the available USE flags for xfree, and there is no glx. By the way the ones marked in red are the flags that will be used for compiling xfree. Mayb

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem running games

2004-01-08 Thread Fred Labrosse
Mauro Arnoldi writes: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > Hi, > > I think you didn't compiled your xfree with GLX support. > > I got the same prob but i don't use my linux so i didn't spent time for > > recompiling xfree > > > > PS: how odd is to reply to an itali

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem running games

2004-01-08 Thread f . fiopa
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 03:34:24PM +0100, Mauro Arnoldi wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > Hi, > > I think you didn't compiled your xfree with GLX support. > > I got the same prob but i don't use my linux so i didn't spent time for > > recompiling xfree > > > > PS:

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem running games

2004-01-08 Thread Mauro Arnoldi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 aghartilap root # glxinfo name of display: :0.0 Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual visual x bf

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem emerging kdelibs

2004-01-08 Thread Davide Brini
- Original Message - From: "Ben Sutton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 3:34 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problem emerging kdelibs > Hiya, > > I discovered from reading Gentoo's forums (http://forums.gentoo.org) > that this problem is attri

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem running games

2004-01-08 Thread Mauro Arnoldi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > I think you didn't compiled your xfree with GLX support. > I got the same prob but i don't use my linux so i didn't spent time for > recompiling xfree > > PS: how odd is to reply to an italian user being italian myself > Is that correct? USE=

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem emerging kdelibs

2004-01-08 Thread Ben Sutton
On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 14:25, Davide Brini wrote: > !!! ERROR: kde-base/kdelibs-3.1.4 failed > !!! Function kde_src_compile, Line 123, Exitcode 2 > !!! died running emake, kde_src_compile:make > --- > The installation was proceeding smoothly until now...what can be causing >

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem running games

2004-01-08 Thread Ben Sutton
On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 13:52, Mauro Arnoldi wrote: > Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". > Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". > ERROR: Set Video Mode Failed > (Couldn't find matching GLX visual) > * The common theme appears to suggest you don'

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