[gentoo-user] Error after emerge

2004-01-20 Thread Persson
From some time in the past, at the end of the emerging of every package, portage says: >>> Auto-cleaning packages ... !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/*sys-fs/devfsd !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/*sys-fs/devfsd >>> No outdated packages were found on your system. Everything seemes to be fin

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on a CD?

2004-01-20 Thread qwerty
Ummm I don't like the idea, is better to have a small hd, like those old 1.4gb drives that a just CD. Imagine that there is a security update (kernel, iptables) and you've got to burn a new CD every time that this happens... Also is nice to play trought ssh to another host ;-) On Tue, 2004-01-20

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 or Dual Athlon or Other? Motherboard suggestions?

2004-01-20 Thread Thomas Achtemichuk
On 01/20/04 17:12:37, Jerry McBride wrote: Could you be more specific on the motherboard? Like a model or part number? Inquireing minds wish to know. :') Sure: 1 x Tyan TigerMPX (S2466N-4M Rev B or 2 or something) [1] 2 x Athlon MP 1900+ 2 x 512 Corsair PC2100 REG ECC 2 x Alpha PAL6035 Heatsinks

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS

2004-01-20 Thread qwerty
It's an O and not a zero ;-) What you shuld write is something like: -march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 12:33, Sergey Berezka wrote: > I have Athlon XP+ 1800 CPU. I type flags : -march=athlon-xp -03 -pipe > -fomit-frame-pointer in the make.conf. > Now, when i co

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot get boot splash work (initrd fail to load)

2004-01-20 Thread Rainer Sigwald
On 00:17 Wed 21 Jan , Tianran Chen wrote: > i am now using kernel 2.4.22-gentoo-r5, following exactly the steps shown, > i set up the the boot splash, recompile the kernel (this kernel is already > patched) and generate the initrd. but after reboot, i got error message > saying that: > > RA

[gentoo-user] cannot get boot splash work (initrd fail to load)

2004-01-20 Thread Tianran Chen
hi, i am trying to get the boot splash and background from terminals to work, however, after a whole day of try, it seems there are something i did wrong. i am now using kernel 2.4.22-gentoo-r5, following exactly the steps shown, i set up the the boot splash, recompile the kernel (this kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on a CD?

2004-01-20 Thread Rumen Yotov
On вт, 2004-01-20 at 20:39, Thomas Achtemichuk wrote: > On 01/20/04 13:34:31, Ian Truelsen wrote: > > I have been thinking about having my firewall box boot and run from a CD > > so that there are no writable filesystems and there should be no need to > > even have a HD. Can this be done with Gento

Re: [gentoo-user] Fun with WinTV-PVR250

2004-01-20 Thread Bryce
Thank you Carl for getting back to me. I ended up getting the 250 to work. It was an adventure to say the least. Being i'm running the 2.6 kernel. But it does work, and with a little fines(sp) i can get it to do what i want. thanks for your offer for help. bryce On Tuesday 20 January 2004 06:3

Re: [gentoo-user] MTRR - comments

2004-01-20 Thread Stijn Vander Maelen
On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 03:57, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >I was running the xine-bugreport program and it correctly pointed out > that my kernel doesn't have MTRR Support built in. I've never bothered > with this before. Is it worth adding? > > Athlon XP 2600+ > Gentoo Sources 2.4.22-r2 > AGP 4X

[gentoo-user] emerge error messages

2004-01-20 Thread Krikket
So I've finished compiling gnome, and it tells me I have an error. Type emerge --verbose for details. That produces an error message, because it's lacking a command to be verbose about. "emerge --verbose gnome" doesn't tell me of any errors. Okay... Given that I have no idea on what the error

Re: [gentoo-user] Partition size recommendations

2004-01-20 Thread Imran Sher Rafique
Err, wish I had your problem. I have 512MB of RAM, and 729MB of swap, and yet I find that I start to get very low on swap space after about 20+ days of uptime :( Once I get my new drive, I'm going to double the amount of swap. Regards, Imran Sher Rafique Simon Prosser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[gentoo-user] Anacron problem

2004-01-20 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I'm missing something with anacron. I merged it, then per the man pages updated the /etc/anacrontab file to add a line to run emerge sync. 1 2 PortageSync emerge sync However, when I run anacron -fdn to test it emerge sync command returns an error. The rest of the commands run (the

Re: [gentoo-user] STL for KDE

2004-01-20 Thread Olson, Isaac
Neal Lippman wrote: On Tuesday 20 January 2004 02:42 pm, Dan Egli wrote: I am trying to emerge KDE. But everytime I do it starts compiling arts which then dies in the conifg script saying unknown STL type. 'configure: error: "no known STL type found - did you forget to install libstdc++-devel ?"'

Re: [gentoo-user] problem displaying man pages

2004-01-20 Thread Imran Sher Rafique
Comments inline. Regards, Imran Sher Rafique Anupam Kapoor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Tue Jan 20, 2004 at 11:27:21AM -0800: > Richard Kilgore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 10:02:13AM -0800, Anupam Kapoor wrote: > >> hi all, > >> > >> i am having a strange pr

Re: [gentoo-user] MTRR - comments

2004-01-20 Thread Alan
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 06:57:47PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >I was running the xine-bugreport program and it correctly pointed out > that my kernel doesn't have MTRR Support built in. I've never bothered > with this before. Is it worth adding? > > Athlon XP 2600+ > Gentoo Sources 2.4.22

[gentoo-user] MTRR - comments

2004-01-20 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I was running the xine-bugreport program and it correctly pointed out that my kernel doesn't have MTRR Support built in. I've never bothered with this before. Is it worth adding? Athlon XP 2600+ Gentoo Sources 2.4.22-r2 AGP 4X adapter Asus A7V333-X motherboard Thanks in advance for your co

RE: [gentoo-user] Remount hangs on reboot...

2004-01-20 Thread Gabriel Gumbs
Is there a SCSI card & what file system are they formatted to? BTW, I've had this happen to me also with bad ram. -Original Message- From: Reno Romanin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 9:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] Remount hangs on reboot..

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS

2004-01-20 Thread nealbirch
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 17:33:09 +0200 "Sergey Berezka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have Athlon XP+ 1800 CPU. I type flags : -march=athlon-xp -03 -pipe > -fomit-frame-pointer in the make.conf. just to add my 2 u.s. cents (or one G.Bush dollar) worth, I used those flags (with the letter O, not the

[gentoo-user] Remount hangs on reboot...

2004-01-20 Thread Reno Romanin
quick system stats (in case it's a chipset thing) Asus A7V266-E (via chipset) Athlon XP 21000+ kernel 2.4.22-gaming-r6 (or is it .20...) When I try to reboot, my system always hangs on Remounting local filesystems read-only Never actually reboots, and this is a bit of a problem, because it's abou

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for glibc-3.2.3-r9

2004-01-20 Thread Marius Mauch
On 01/21/04 Marc Redmann wrote: > Hi all, > > I wanted to give glibc with nptl a try but emerge gave me this: > > USE="nptl" emerge -pv glibc > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > Calculating dependencies ...done! > [ebuild U ] sys-libs/glibc-2.3.2-r9 [2.3.2-r3] +

[gentoo-user] ebuild for glibc-3.2.3-r9

2004-01-20 Thread Marc Redmann
Hi all, I wanted to give glibc with nptl a try but emerge gave me this: USE="nptl" emerge -pv glibc These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] sys-libs/glibc-2.3.2-r9 [2.3.2-r3] +nls -pic -build So can anyone tell me where the nptl

Re: [gentoo-user] modem keeps hanging up

2004-01-20 Thread Linux Gentoo
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 00:01:56 -0600 LoneStar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote the words: > Linux Gentoo wrote: > > >On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 22:46:24 +0100 > >Norbert Kamenicky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote the words: > > > > > >>:-) there is plenty of dirs u can look too, but the most > >>proper on should be

Re: [gentoo-user] modem keeps hanging up

2004-01-20 Thread Linux Gentoo
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 23:00:46 + david stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote the words: > On Monday 19 January 2004 10:45 pm, Linux Gentoo wrote: > > It's got to be modem related or something with my configuration. > > There are config files in /etc/ppp but I don't know what I'm doing > > in thos

Re: [gentoo-user] modem keeps hanging up

2004-01-20 Thread Linux Gentoo
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 18:38:10 -0500 Bill Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote the words: > On 00:26 Tue 20 Jan , Norbert Kamenicky wrote: > > david stevenson wrote: > > >On Monday 19 January 2004 10:45 pm, Linux Gentoo wrote: > > > > > > >I had this sort of problem and fixed it by changing ISP.

Re: [gentoo-user] modem keeps hanging up

2004-01-20 Thread Linux Gentoo
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 00:26:27 +0100 Norbert Kamenicky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote the words: > david stevenson wrote: > > On Monday 19 January 2004 10:45 pm, Linux Gentoo wrote: > > > > I had this sort of problem and fixed it by changing ISP. And now use > > ADSL. But I have seen long discussions o

Re: [gentoo-user] kde 3.1.5 compile fails

2004-01-20 Thread Joshua Banks
I was having the same problem. Found some stuff about a bug related to "stdio.h" and was told to remove it. All KDE pkgs compiled without a problem after that. Here's your link. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32565 Although this was unreleated to KDE in the above link it was demenstrating

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop keyboard no longer working

2004-01-20 Thread Aaron Walker
Aaron Walker wrote: Ok, now this one has really stumped me. For some reason, all of a sudden my laptop keyboard isn't working in Gentoo. I upgraded the kernel to 2.4.22-gentoo-r5 last night, but everything was working fine afterwards. This morning I was trying to finish up the gnome 2.2 -> 2.

[gentoo-user] laptop keyboard no longer working

2004-01-20 Thread Aaron Walker
Ok, now this one has really stumped me. For some reason, all of a sudden my laptop keyboard isn't working in Gentoo. I upgraded the kernel to 2.4.22-gentoo-r5 last night, but everything was working fine afterwards. This morning I was trying to finish up the gnome 2.2 -> 2.4 upgrade (I instal

Re: [gentoo-user] kde 3.1.5 requires xft?

2004-01-20 Thread Jason Stubbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 21 January 2004 02:33, Peter Ruskin wrote: > On Tuesday 20 Jan 2004 16:00, Jason Stubbs wrote: > > On Tuesday 20 January 2004 21:28, Guy Van Sanden wrote: > > > emerge -U kde fails on xft not being thre, emerge -UDp kde lists it > > > as a

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on a CD?

2004-01-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Try this link :-) http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=57754&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=boot+usb+disk&sid=a226cea30b235aba314b2f23fe783b8a Ian Truelsen wrote: On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 13:52:41 -0500 gabriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: a while back i modified an

Re: [gentoo-user] STL for KDE

2004-01-20 Thread Neal Lippman
On Tuesday 20 January 2004 02:42 pm, Dan Egli wrote: > I am trying to emerge KDE. But everytime I do it starts compiling arts > which then dies in the conifg script saying unknown STL type. > 'configure: error: "no known STL type found - did you forget to install > libstdc++-devel ?"' > > I searche

Re: [gentoo-user] Unicode fonts missing?

2004-01-20 Thread Tommi Pirinen
Andrew Farmer wrote: On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 14:46:55 -0800, Aaron Walker muttered: Andrej Kacian wrote: Hi, what do I need installed in order for gucharmap to display exotic characters properly instead of displaying their code in a rectangle? I assume there will be se

Re: [gentoo-user] arts-1.1.5 emerge failure

2004-01-20 Thread Neal Lippman
Thank you. I did miss this on gentoo.org, but someone else had also mentioned it to me early this AM. I did "emerge gcc" and then "emerge -u arts" and it worked (a whole lot of compller warnings during the compile of arts, but it seemed to complete ok). I'm now completing the emerge -u world, a

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do when emerge cannot d/l a needed file?

2004-01-20 Thread Neal Lippman
Thanks. I was able to fix the d/l problem - it turned out (surprise) to be a misconfiguration in my firewall. Thanks for all who responded, and sorry for being dumb. I had to open a port in the firewall to fix this. I need to figure out how to get wget to use a proxy by default - there must be

Re: [gentoo-user] "at" ebuild fails

2004-01-20 Thread Dan Egli
Wes Gray wrote: Is the "at" ebuild broken, or is it just me: "emerge at" output --- gcc -c -march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DVERSION=\"3.1.8\" -DETCDI R=\"/etc/at\" -DLOADAVG_MX=0.8 -DDAEMON_USERNAME=\"at\" -DDAEMON_GROUPNAME=\" at\" -DLFILE=\"/var/cron/atjobs/.SEQ\" -Wall

[gentoo-user] Re: AMD64 or Dual Athlon or Other? Motherboard suggestions?

2004-01-20 Thread Acke Carlsson
Brenden Walker wrote: > I'm thinking about building a new system, and can't decide if I want to go > with AMD64 or dual Athlons (or something else)? > -VMWare workstation with Win2K Pro session running a windows app that > sucks up perhaps 25% virtual CPU 24x7, no chance of moving it to Linux

RE: [gentoo-user] SCSI emulation under Gentoo - MOSTLY SOLVED!

2004-01-20 Thread Mark Knecht
> > Any ideas about how to solve this? > > > Try adding "sg" to /etc/modules.autoload.d/ > Right idea. Thanks. sg by itself didn't work, but sg, sr_mod and ide-scsi all in there did. Maybe ide-scsi by itself would be enough? I'll play with it later. Thanks! - Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] SCSI emulation under Gentoo - MOSTLY SOLVED!

2004-01-20 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Tuesday 20 Jan 2004 23:08, Mark Knecht wrote: > The only problem I still have to solve is the drives are not > recognized at boot time. I have to su, do cdrecord -scanbus, and then > I can use them. > > Any ideas about how to solve this? > Try adding "sg" to /etc/modules.autoload.d/ Peter -- =

RE: [gentoo-user] SCSI emulation under Gentoo - MOSTLY SOLVED!

2004-01-20 Thread Mark Knecht
> Jani, Jens, Matt, Eamon & Jakub, >Thanks for your help so far. I think I'm closer, but for some reason > it's still not working for me. Maybe it's my kernel SCSI options? Maybe > it's a modules.conf setting? Maybe it's something under /etc/hotplug? > I'm not clear yet what is happening, but t

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.4 to 2.6 migration

2004-01-20 Thread Owen Ford
On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 15:24, Alan wrote: > > > I have a very similar system and would be using 2.6 if I could deal with > > > my mouse issues. In short, I have a logitech mx700 and after I got the > > > mouse speed problems fixed (moving from 2.4 to 2.6 sped the mouse up > > > about 100x :) I foun

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on a CD?

2004-01-20 Thread Ian Truelsen
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 13:52:41 -0500 gabriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > a while back i modified an old gentoo 1.2 install cd to do just that. > and yes, it's considerably more secure (ie. even if a rootkit gets > intalled, a reboot reverts everything back to normal). > That was my thinking. > t

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on a CD?

2004-01-20 Thread Ian Truelsen
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 19:48:47 +0100 Thomas Schneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 10:34:31 -0800 > Ian Truelsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have been thinking about having my firewall box boot and run from > > a CD so that there are no writable filesystems and there shou

Re: [gentoo-user] STL for KDE

2004-01-20 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Krikket wrote: > Then let me eliminate that one. Fresh install, complete to > repartitioning hard drives, and I've got the same problem. I've > never used the ~i386 or any other ~ flags. One reason I'm switching > to gentoo us because I'm tired of the unstability of some of the > other distros.

Re: [gentoo-user] vga=ext

2004-01-20 Thread larryB
On Tuesday 20 January 2004 10:08 pm, Andrew Farmer wrote: > On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 07:55:57 -0800, larryB muttered: > > I have successfully installed gentoo. In my grub.conf file, I > > included the line, > > "kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-2.4.24-2004-01-10 root=/dev/sda5 vga=ext". > > > > This line successf

Re: [gentoo-user] vga=ext

2004-01-20 Thread Matt Wilson
The rc file that plays with you font is /etc/rc.conf - you need to edit the CONSOLEFONT variable (defaults to "default8x16") to change your font. Either that or you can remove 'consolefont' from your default runlevel (rc-update remove consolefont default). Matt On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 15:55, larryB

Re: [gentoo-user] SCSI emulation under Gentoo

2004-01-20 Thread Mark Knecht
Jani, Jens, Matt, Eamon & Jakub, Thanks for your help so far. I think I'm closer, but for some reason it's still not working for me. Maybe it's my kernel SCSI options? Maybe it's a modules.conf setting? Maybe it's something under /etc/hotplug? I'm not clear yet what is happening, but there is a

Re: [gentoo-user] when will openmmtif 2.2 come out again?

2004-01-20 Thread Marius Mauch
On 01/20/04 Jinghua Tang wrote: > > > Does anyone know when will the openmmtif 2.2 re-appear in the > portage > tree? I had some precompiled program from binary distribution can not > be run. Maybe never, see http://www.motifdeveloper.com/tips/Motif22Review.pdf (Summary section) for detail

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 or Dual Athlon or Other? Motherboard suggestions?

2004-01-20 Thread Jerry McBride
On Tuesday 20 January 2004 10:43 am, Thomas Achtemichuk wrote: > You'll be blown away at how silky smooth an SMP system stays even through > the highest load. I've got a Tyan MPX board with a gig of ram and 2 1900+ > MPs - I couldn't ask for better Linux support, and the thing has been a > rock si

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 or Dual Athlon or Other? Motherboard sug gestions?

2004-01-20 Thread Jerry McBride
On Tuesday 20 January 2004 11:12 am, Brenden Walker wrote: > Thanks for all the thoughts, I guess I wanted an AMD64 simply for the cool > factor ;-).. Sounds like dualies is the way to go.. > > Dualies??? You mean the 64bit version I hope? :') -- **

Re: [gentoo-user] vga=ext

2004-01-20 Thread Andrew Farmer
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 07:55:57 -0800, larryB muttered: > I have successfully installed gentoo. In my grub.conf file, I included > the line, > "kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-2.4.24-2004-01-10 root=/dev/sda5 vga=ext". > > This line successfully changes the startup kernel screen from 25 lines > per screen

[gentoo-user] "at" ebuild fails

2004-01-20 Thread Wes Gray
Is the "at" ebuild broken, or is it just me: "emerge at" output --- gcc -c -march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DVERSION=\"3.1.8\" -DETCDI R=\"/etc/at\" -DLOADAVG_MX=0.8 -DDAEMON_USERNAME=\"at\" -DDAEMON_GROUPNAME=\" at\" -DLFILE=\"/var/cron/atjobs/.SEQ\" -Wall daemon.c daemon.

[gentoo-user] vga=ext

2004-01-20 Thread larryB
I have successfully installed gentoo. In my grub.conf file, I included the line, "kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-2.4.24-2004-01-10 root=/dev/sda5 vga=ext". This line successfully changes the startup kernel screen from 25 lines per screen to 50 lines per screen, which is as intended. However, sometime

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS

2004-01-20 Thread Andrew Farmer
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 13:26:26 -0800, Brendan Sullivan muttered: > k, maybe not header files, i'm not a programmer so i dont really know my > terminology...but it's something to do w/ the code being inline, and > having to jump out to get other information. Better explanation: -O3 (as opposed to -O

[gentoo-user] when will openmmtif 2.2 come out again?

2004-01-20 Thread Jinghua Tang
Does anyone know when will the openmmtif 2.2 re-appear in the portage tree? I had some precompiled program from binary distribution can not be run. Thanks! Jinghua -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Unicode fonts missing?

2004-01-20 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 13:19:47 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Farmer) wrote: > There will *always* be some characters that gucharmap can't display, for > the simple reason that not all 2**16 (or is it 2**32?) Unicode characters > aren't defined yet, and, even so, you're unlikely to have the fonts f

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS

2004-01-20 Thread Brendan Sullivan
k, maybe not header files, i'm not a programmer so i dont really know my terminology...but it's something to do w/ the code being inline, and having to jump out to get other information. maybe someone can explain better than me... hope so ;) Brendan On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 15:22, Andrew Farmer wro

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.4 to 2.6 migration

2004-01-20 Thread Alan
> > I have a very similar system and would be using 2.6 if I could deal with > > my mouse issues. In short, I have a logitech mx700 and after I got the > > mouse speed problems fixed (moving from 2.4 to 2.6 sped the mouse up > > about 100x :) I found that the buttons and scroll wheel stopped worki

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS

2004-01-20 Thread Andrew Farmer
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 12:00:15 -0800, Brendan Sullivan muttered: > I can't help you find that info...but i do know (at least in laymans > terms) what the basic differences of -O2 and -O3 are. > > The -O2 option when compiling, puts references to header files in the > locations where they are called.

Re: [gentoo-user] Unicode fonts missing?

2004-01-20 Thread Andrew Farmer
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 14:46:55 -0800, Aaron Walker muttered: > Andrej Kacian wrote: > >Hi, what do I need installed in order for gucharmap to display exotic > >characters properly instead of displaying their code in a rectangle? > > > >I assume there will be separate package for each unicode characte

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SCSI emulation under Gentoo

2004-01-20 Thread Jani-Matti Hätinen
On Tuesday 20 January 2004 22:53, Azhdeen wrote: > On Tuesday 20 January 2004 21:39, Jani-Matti Hätinen wrote: > > Why do you want to hide it? That is, do you want to make it impossible to > > use the drive, or do you want to create a more describing symlink to the > > drive? > > i'd like to hide i

Re: [gentoo-user] STL for KDE

2004-01-20 Thread Krikket
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Eric Paynter wrote: > Thomas T. Veldhouse said: > > Any chance you are running "~arch" rather than "arch"? The > > default "stable" gentoo tree seems to create the libraries (which > > contain STL) and the headers correctly. > > Not running "~" right now, but it could have be

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on a CD?

2004-01-20 Thread Bob White
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 10:34:31AM -0800, Ian Truelsen wrote: >> I have been thinking about having my firewall box boot and run from a CD >> so that there are no writable filesystems and there should be no need to >> even have a HD. Can this be done with Gentoo or do I have to look at one >> of t

Re: [gentoo-user] Install questions

2004-01-20 Thread Roger Sherman
On Monday 19 January 2004 06:11 pm, Greg Donald wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Roger Sherman wrote: > | Ok, tried to install about three times so far...all unmitigated > > disasters. I > > | run into the same problem every time, following the same routing. I > > follow

Re: [gentoo-user] STL for KDE

2004-01-20 Thread Krikket
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Eric Paynter wrote: > Dan Egli said: > > I am trying to emerge KDE. But everytime I do it starts compiling > > arts which then dies in the conifg script saying unknown STL > > type. > > 'configure: error: "no known STL type found - did you forget to > > install libstdc++-deve

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS

2004-01-20 Thread Stijn Vander Maelen
On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 16:33, Sergey Berezka wrote: > I have Athlon XP+ 1800 CPU. I type flags : -march=athlon-xp -03 -pipe > -fomit-frame-pointer in the make.conf. you typed a zero in "-03", it should "-O3" (with the "o" as in "option") > Now, when i compile any program , all the time line : unre

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SCSI emulation under Gentoo

2004-01-20 Thread Azhdeen
On Tuesday 20 January 2004 21:39, Jani-Matti Hätinen wrote: > Why do you want to hide it? That is, do you want to make it impossible to > use the drive, or do you want to create a more describing symlink to the > drive? i'd like to hide it like there's no more /dev/hdc to be seen anywhere -- I h

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SCSI emulation under Gentoo

2004-01-20 Thread Jani-Matti Hätinen
On Tuesday 20 January 2004 22:27, Azhdeen wrote: > On Tuesday 20 January 2004 21:13, Jakub Krajcovic wrote: > > If that's the case, than that's good and you should have a device called > > /dev/sr0. If you do, than that's your scsi-smulated cdrom... > > same subject, another part : > after I get sr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SCSI emulation under Gentoo

2004-01-20 Thread Matt Wilson
Apologies if I've missed the point of this discussion or if I'm making a point somebody already made, I've just joined the list (hi folks!). > Because for 2.6 kernels, all you have to do is load the module > ide-scsi at startup and give lilo (grub in your case) the hdx=ide-scsi > option, but for 2

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SCSI emulation under Gentoo

2004-01-20 Thread Azhdeen
On Tuesday 20 January 2004 21:13, Jakub Krajcovic wrote: > If that's the case, than that's good and you should have a device called > /dev/sr0. If you do, than that's your scsi-smulated cdrom... > same subject, another part : after I get sr0, is there a way to hide hdc ? (hdc is a DVD drive) I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Critical warning: Do not update GLIBC!

2004-01-20 Thread Collin Starkweather
On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 14:43, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: > Hello > > This is just to stop others sharing the misfortune that occurred to me. I > updated glibc to 2.3.2-r9 on stable x86 tree and it broke python, portage > and also most applications. > > Do NOT perform this update until bug 38619 [

[gentoo-user] kde 3.1.5 compile fails

2004-01-20 Thread Guy Van Sanden
Both kdegraphics and kdenetwork fail with similar errors, yet kdebase, kdeadmin etc compile. /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.2.3/include/stdio.h:428: than previous declaration `int fputc_unlocked(int, FILE*) throw ()' /usr/include/bits/stdio.h: In function `int putc_unlocked(int, FILE*)':

Re: [gentoo-user] arts-1.1.5 broken?

2004-01-20 Thread Brock Campbell
I ran into the same thing I might be a fool, but I just copied the MD5 sum into the arts1.1.5 digest file in place of the old one. and it seems to work all right, still recompiling kde though On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 02:42, Davide Brini wrote: > Emerging arts-1.1.5 stops with this error: > > !!! Fi

Re: [gentoo-user] SCSI emulation under Gentoo

2004-01-20 Thread Jani-Matti Hätinen
On Tuesday 20 January 2004 20:12, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >If I use a grub boot option like hdc=ide-scsi, then what /dev device do > I mount in fstab to use the device? It'll be the first device on the scsi bus. (Assuming that you don't have other scsi devices) It'll be somewhere in /dev/scs

Re: [gentoo-user] STL for KDE

2004-01-20 Thread Eric Paynter
Thomas T. Veldhouse said: > Any chance you are running "~arch" rather than "arch"? The > default "stable" gentoo tree seems to create the libraries (which > contain STL) and the headers correctly. Not running "~" right now, but it could have been the last time gcc was built. If so, then recompili

Re: [gentoo-user] STL for KDE

2004-01-20 Thread Dan Egli
Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: Dan Egli wrote: I am trying to emerge KDE. But everytime I do it starts compiling arts which then dies in the conifg script saying unknown STL type. 'configure: error: "no known STL type found - did you forget to install libstdc++-devel ?"' I searched on the net and f

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SCSI emulation under Gentoo

2004-01-20 Thread Jakub Krajcovic
Hi, and what kernel version are you running? Because for 2.6 kernels, all you have to do is load the module ide-scsi at startup and give lilo (grub in your case) the hdx=ide-scsi option, but for 2.4 kernels there is a lot of /etc/modules editing to do... You metnioned that /dev/cdrom devices d

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SCSI emulation under Gentoo

2004-01-20 Thread Jens Hoffrichter
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 10:29:09AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > > >If I use a grub boot option like hdc=ide-scsi, then what > > /dev device do I > > > mount in fstab to use the device? > > > > > >Do I need to make any changes at all in /etc/devfsd.conf to make this > > > work? > > > > IIRC,

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on a CD?

2004-01-20 Thread Alan
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 10:34:31AM -0800, Ian Truelsen wrote: > I have been thinking about having my firewall box boot and run from a CD > so that there are no writable filesystems and there should be no need to > even have a HD. Can this be done with Gentoo or do I have to look at one > of the sma

Re: [gentoo-user] GPRS

2004-01-20 Thread Jani-Matti Hätinen
On Tuesday 20 January 2004 19:45, Mauro Arnoldi wrote: > I tried almost any of that modules in usb-serial, but nothing. > I think that my problem is the correct port that identify my USB port: > /dev/usb show no files Have you switched on the USB Device Filesystem support in the kernel? > I t

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS

2004-01-20 Thread Brendan Sullivan
I can't help you find that info...but i do know (at least in laymans terms) what the basic differences of -O2 and -O3 are. The -O2 option when compiling, puts references to header files in the locations where they are called. The -O3 option, actually pulls the sections out of the header files, an

Re: [gentoo-user] STL for KDE

2004-01-20 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Eric Paynter wrote: > Dan Egli said: >> I am trying to emerge KDE. But everytime I do it starts compiling >> arts which then dies in the conifg script saying unknown STL >> type. >> 'configure: error: "no known STL type found - did you forget to >> install libstdc++-devel ?"' > > There is an open

Re: [gentoo-user] STL for KDE

2004-01-20 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Dan Egli wrote: > I am trying to emerge KDE. But everytime I do it starts compiling arts > which then dies in the conifg script saying unknown STL type. > 'configure: error: "no known STL type found - did you forget to > install libstdc++-devel ?"' > > I searched on the net and found on a mailingli

Re: [gentoo-user] STL for KDE

2004-01-20 Thread Kurt Bechstein
Check the bug posted below: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38634 Try remerging gcc and then try arts again as the bug report mentions. On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 14:42, Dan Egli wrote: > I am trying to emerge KDE. But everytime I do it starts compiling arts > which then dies in the conifg scr

Re: [gentoo-user] STL for KDE

2004-01-20 Thread Eric Paynter
Dan Egli said: > I am trying to emerge KDE. But everytime I do it starts compiling > arts which then dies in the conifg script saying unknown STL > type. > 'configure: error: "no known STL type found - did you forget to > install libstdc++-devel ?"' There is an open bug (I don't have the number

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS

2004-01-20 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
I saw that somewhere too. Can't find it either! Mike On Tuesday 20 January 2004 01:13 pm, Alan wrote: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 05:33:09PM +0200, Sergey Berezka wrote: > > I have Athlon XP+ 1800 CPU. I type flags : -march=athlon-xp -03 -pipe > > -fomit-frame-pointer in the make.conf. Now, when

[gentoo-user] STL for KDE

2004-01-20 Thread Dan Egli
I am trying to emerge KDE. But everytime I do it starts compiling arts which then dies in the conifg script saying unknown STL type. 'configure: error: "no known STL type found - did you forget to install libstdc++-devel ?"' I searched on the net and found on a mailinglist archive that you need

[gentoo-user] bootup keymap error

2004-01-20 Thread Ian Truelsen
When I boot up, I get the following error: * Loading key mappings input in flex scanner failed * Error loading key mappings And I don't get my dvorak keyboard layout. It took me forever to log in :) Anyone have any ideas what this error means? About the only thing that has changed since the last

Re: [gentoo-user] problem displaying man pages

2004-01-20 Thread Anupam Kapoor
Richard Kilgore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 10:02:13AM -0800, Anupam Kapoor wrote: >> hi all, >> >> i am having a strange problem displaying man page. when i try a man > >> page e.g. 'man ld' here is the output i get : >> >> , >> | parth% man ld >> | fgets: No such

RE: [gentoo-user] AMD64 or Dual Athlon or Other? Motherboard suggestions?

2004-01-20 Thread Brenden Walker
Hmm, time to check the overclockers/HardOCP website ;-) > -Original Message- > From: Andrew Gaffney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 12:34 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 or Dual Athlon or Other? > Motherboard suggestions? > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] problem displaying man pages

2004-01-20 Thread Richard Kilgore
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 10:02:13AM -0800, Anupam Kapoor wrote: > hi all, > > i am having a strange problem displaying man page. when i try a man > page e.g. 'man ld' here is the output i get : > > , > | parth% man ld > | fgets: No such file or directory > | Error reading man page /usr/share/m

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on a CD?

2004-01-20 Thread Thomas Achtemichuk
On 01/20/04 13:34:31, Ian Truelsen wrote: I have been thinking about having my firewall box boot and run from a CD so that there are no writable filesystems and there should be no need to even have a HD. Can this be done with Gentoo or do I have to look at one of the smaller distros? Also, does thi

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on a CD?

2004-01-20 Thread gabriel
On January 20, 2004 01:34 pm, Ian Truelsen wrote: > I have been thinking about having my firewall box boot and run from a CD > so that there are no writable filesystems and there should be no need to > even have a HD. Can this be done with Gentoo or do I have to look at one > of the smaller distros

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on a CD?

2004-01-20 Thread Thomas Schneider
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 10:34:31 -0800 Ian Truelsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been thinking about having my firewall box boot and run from a > CD so that there are no writable filesystems and there should be no > need to even have a HD. Can this be done with Gentoo or do I have to > look at

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.4 to 2.6 migration

2004-01-20 Thread Chris I
On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 13:10, Alan wrote: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 10:09:09AM -0600, Canek Pel?ez Vald?s wrote: > > Hi; I've some issues with the latests gentoo-sources (including several > > freezes with heavy processor/IO load), and by searching in the mailing > > lists and in the forums (and the

[gentoo-user] gentoo on a CD?

2004-01-20 Thread Ian Truelsen
I have been thinking about having my firewall box boot and run from a CD so that there are no writable filesystems and there should be no need to even have a HD. Can this be done with Gentoo or do I have to look at one of the smaller distros? Also, does this seem like a good idea? -- Ian Truelsen

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: SCSI emulation under Gentoo

2004-01-20 Thread Mark Knecht
> > Hi, > >If I use a grub boot option like hdc=ide-scsi, then what > /dev device do I > > mount in fstab to use the device? > > > >Do I need to make any changes at all in /etc/devfsd.conf to make this > > work? > > IIRC, the default devfsd.conf will create a symlink to hdc at > /dev/cdrom

Re: [gentoo-user] SCSI emulation under Gentoo

2004-01-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 10:12, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >If I use a grub boot option like hdc=ide-scsi, then what /dev device do I > mount in fstab to use the device? > >Do I need to make any changes at all in /etc/devfsd.conf to make this > work? > >I've been trying it out and also Goo

[gentoo-user] Re: SCSI emulation under Gentoo

2004-01-20 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, >If I use a grub boot option like hdc=ide-scsi, then what /dev device do I > mount in fstab to use the device? > >Do I need to make any changes at all in /etc/devfsd.conf to make this > work? IIRC, the default devfsd.conf will create a symlink

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS

2004-01-20 Thread Alan
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 05:33:09PM +0200, Sergey Berezka wrote: > I have Athlon XP+ 1800 CPU. I type flags : -march=athlon-xp -03 -pipe > -fomit-frame-pointer in the make.conf. > Now, when i compile any program , all the time line : unrecognized option '-03' > shows up. > What is the problem ? A

[gentoo-user] SCSI emulation under Gentoo

2004-01-20 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, If I use a grub boot option like hdc=ide-scsi, then what /dev device do I mount in fstab to use the device? Do I need to make any changes at all in /etc/devfsd.conf to make this work? I've been trying it out and also Googling around but haven't found the right info yet. Thanks, Mark

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