[gentoo-user] Re: What doesnt work with 2.6 ?

2004-02-13 Thread Tomasz Grzegurzko
Michael W. Holdeman PTFD9100 at beanstalk.net writes: I can't even get it to boot! On Tuesday 03 February 2004 06:48 pm, William Kenworthy wrote: There's lots of use 2.6 messages here, but does anyone have a list of what doesnt work/needs work list for general desktop machines before I

[gentoo-user] Problem emerge scrollkeeper-0.3.14

2004-02-13 Thread Gregory Staggel
Hello, When I tried to emerge scrollkeeper-0.3.14 I got this error: http://users.gentoo.gr/~gstag/gentoo_debug/1909-scrollkeeper-0.3.14.log But I can't find which ebuild packet contains XML::Parser Any ideas who I can solve this problem? - Thanks, Gregory --

[gentoo-user] Portage suggestion

2004-02-13 Thread Timo Lindemann
Hi all, Everytime I install a Gentoo on a system, I curse and scream about one of the major flaws in portage. Whenever I want just one program emerged, say, on a laptop using xfce4 on xfree, USE=-kde -esd -arts -alsa -oss: I want to emerge anjuta, portage wants gnomelibs, which in turn want

Re: [gentoo-user] Synaptics touchpad, kernel 2.6, XFree 3.3

2004-02-13 Thread Jose González Gómez
Tom, I have exactly the same problems as Mathew, so could you please tell me how have you configured kernel and X? Right now I have enabled the event input interface in kernel, and have tried to load the synaptics module in X, but X is not able to find it (now I remember I have tested

Re: [gentoo-user] where to define shell aliases?

2004-02-13 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Sven Köhler wrote: i remember a distro where /etc/portage included some file like /etc/aliases which containes the common aliases like alias ls=ls --color /etc/aliases contents user aliases for sendmail :-) (other MTA can use it as well). I have them in /etc/profile.d/aliases.bash (avilable

Re: [gentoo-user] Mail confirmation requests

2004-02-13 Thread Jose González Gómez
Hi there, I've been reading and posting here for more than a year now, and I think this is the first time I've seen such a thread here. First of all, I think every individual here is helpful for the rest of the community. Regardless of her experience level, I think everybody here may

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage suggestion

2004-02-13 Thread Jose González Gómez
Timo, I'm installing Gentoo in a laptop and had a similar problem, but just adding -kde -arts to the USE variable in /etc/make.conf did the trick. Regards Jose Timo Lindemann escribió: Hi all, Everytime I install a Gentoo on a system, I curse and scream about one of the major

Re: [gentoo-user] perfomance 2.6.3 = 2.4

2004-02-13 Thread Grendel
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Guy Van Sanden uttered the following immortal words, I tested the responsiveness of the GUI by starting the same DIVX rip on dvdrip under both kernels. dvdrip is a frontend that uses transcode, so what were your average FPS per rip like between the 2.4 and the 2.6

Re: [gentoo-user] broken gcc-config and suspicious linux-headers 2.4.21

2004-02-13 Thread Wazow
Just for information of all those following this thread, there is an interesting related thread at forums: see http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=132041 Andrzej Wazow wrote: Hi, I have recently upgraded to gentoo-sources 2.6.1. Now portage wants to emerge old 2.4 headers for some

[gentoo-user] busted

2004-02-13 Thread Simon Chappell
Hello this is my first post as a relative newbie to gentoo.. I have performed a few Gentoo installs and so far am impressed, it seems easier to maintain than a redhat or suse and does not try to hide any of the backend from you. My current problem is with emerge. I have a server and a laptop,

Re: [gentoo-user] busted

2004-02-13 Thread Markus Klimke
Simon Chappell wrote: Hello this is my first post as a relative newbie to gentoo.. I have performed a few Gentoo installs and so far am impressed, it seems easier to maintain than a redhat or suse and does not try to hide any of the backend from you. My current problem is with emerge. I have a

Re: [gentoo-user] busted

2004-02-13 Thread Simon Chappell
Thanks for the reply but i have Glib installed (See Attached) unless it is another glib ? Thanks again Simon Simon Chappell wrote: Hello this is my first post as a relative newbie to gentoo.. I have performed a few Gentoo installs and so far am impressed, it seems easier to maintain than a

[gentoo-user] / partition full after emerge

2004-02-13 Thread Tiago Lima
Hi, I have my / 9Gb partition full after emerging a large number of packages... What can I safely remove? I think my /var/tmp is responsible... with 2.5Gb... and with openoffice I guess... Tiago Lima -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Which kernel version to select?

2004-02-13 Thread Grendel
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, blade- uttered the following immortal words, It means that all the kernel versions above that have been masked. You can use: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge /usr/portage/sys-kernel/gentoo-dev-sources/ gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.2.ebuild I will compile my own kernel from the

Re: [gentoo-user] / partition full after emerge

2004-02-13 Thread Priit Külaots
Tiago Lima wrote: Hi, I have my / 9Gb partition full after emerging a large number of packages... What can I safely remove? I think my /var/tmp is responsible... with 2.5Gb... and with openoffice I guess... Tiago Lima It's safe to remove anything in /var/tmp/portage and

Re: [gentoo-user] / partition full after emerge

2004-02-13 Thread Martin Carpella
Tiago Lima [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have my / 9Gb partition full after emerging a large number of packages... What can I safely remove? I think my /var/tmp is responsible... with 2.5Gb... and with openoffice I guess... After emerge you can safely delete /var/tmp/portage and

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage suggestion

2004-02-13 Thread Timo Lindemann
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 10:21:11 +0100, Jose Gonzlez Gmez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Jose, Timo, I'm installing Gentoo in a laptop and had a similar problem, but just adding -kde -arts to the USE variable in /etc/make.conf did the trick. I stated quite explicitly that USE does NOT solve

Re: [gentoo-user] / partition full after emerge

2004-02-13 Thread David Gethings
On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 10:50, Tiago Lima wrote: Hi, I have my / 9Gb partition full after emerging a large number of packages... What can I safely remove? I think my /var/tmp is responsible... with 2.5Gb... and with openoffice I guess... Setting AUTOCLEAN=yes will help minimise the diskspace

Re: [gentoo-user] perfomance 2.6.3 = 2.4 - A-FRIGGIN-Men!

2004-02-13 Thread Arne Vogel
TriKster Abacus wrote: Either way, these 2.6.X zealots are full of crap! I could probably write a small essay over the difference between speed and responsiveness, but I think I'll just plonk you. PS: tar xjf linux-x.y.z.tbz2 made my system basically unusable for half a minute under 2.4.24.

Re: [gentoo-user] perfomance 2.6.3 = 2.4

2004-02-13 Thread Arne Vogel
Guy Van Sanden wrote: I tested the responsiveness of the GUI by starting the same DIVX rip on dvdrip under both kernels. In 2.4, I can still launch Mozilla and k3b, although it takes them a few seconds longer. (about 17-25 seconds to fully load) On 2.6, nothing on my desktop is visually

Re: [gentoo-user] Synaptics touchpad, kernel 2.6, XFree 3.3

2004-02-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
Is there anybody out there with a laptop with kernel 2.6, XFree 3.3 and a working Synaptics touchpad? I couldn't get the synaptics driver to work at all with 3.3, and the standard driver gave terrible response. So I bit the bullet and emerged xfree 4.3.99-902-r1 and synaptics 0.12.1 and it

[gentoo-user] Re: When portage doesn't know about the latest release of a package...

2004-02-13 Thread Claes Wallin
Kevin wrote: Thanks for the replies, Rob. Problem is, apparently all the rsync mirrors (I've tried 5-10 of them now) think that 1.2.10 is the latest version of OpenAFS. Any idea how to point portage to the source site for a particular package? In many cases, the source site is included as

Re: [gentoo-user] perfomance 2.6.3 = 2.4 - A-FRIGGIN-Men!

2004-02-13 Thread Grendel
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Arne Vogel uttered the following immortal words, TriKster Abacus wrote: Either way, these 2.6.X zealots are full of crap! I could probably write a small essay over the difference between speed and responsiveness, but I think I'll just plonk you. PS: tar xjf

Re: [gentoo-user] busted

2004-02-13 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi Simon, Simon Chappell wrote: However when i try to emerge to xmms or jnust about any media type application i get errors like this ; aclocal: configure.in: 56 : macro 'AM_PATH_GLIB' not found in library.. and the attached output at the end o the emerge attempt.. I also cannot emerge gnome

Re: [gentoo-user] perfomance 2.6.3 = 2.4 B.S.!!!!!

2004-02-13 Thread Aaron Walker
On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 00:10, Collins Richey wrote: Unfortunately, I've been running 2.5/2.6 too long now to remember 2.4 results all that well, but I can certainly echo your description of the compile process. I'm running an 'emerge -e system' to a clone of my system in a chroot right now.

Re: [gentoo-user] APM settings

2004-02-13 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Friday 13 Feb 2004 07:24, Anthony Hoppe wrote: How do I set APM settings like HDD powerdown and display powerdown? For HDD powerdown you can use hdparm: /sbin/hdparm -y /dev/hd? Peter -- == Gentoo Linux: Portage 2.0.50-r1.

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage suggestion

2004-02-13 Thread Jose Gonzlez Gmez
Timo, No problem. Whenever somebody says This works for me it doesn't mean he thinks you are stupid nor necessarily he misses the point. It just mean This works for me, maybe the problem is in another place. I just was trying to help you, and I hope I can finally do it. Let's see, in my

Re: [gentoo-user] Synaptics touchpad, kernel 2.6, XFree 3.3

2004-02-13 Thread Jose González Gómez
Oh... what the [EMAIL PROTECTED] that was... I wasn't aware of the synaptics ebuild ! Thanks a lot regards Jose Neil Bothwick escribió: Is there anybody out there with a laptop with kernel 2.6, XFree 3.3 and a working Synaptics touchpad? I couldn't get the synaptics

Re: [gentoo-user] portage||emerge problem

2004-02-13 Thread Kathy Wills
ZsoL wrote: Hi! After emerging something, i get the following: * Processed 391 info files: 5 errors; run with emerge --verbose to view errors. Even though, everything works just fine. Anybody can help me how to get rid of this error? I have had this same thing for a while now. Nothing has been

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage suggestion

2004-02-13 Thread Timo Lindemann
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 14:06:45 +0100, Jose González Gómez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jose, no, no, no and NO. The problem is that i want to emerge licq, licq asks for kdelibs, and kdelibs for arts. I said emerge licq which NEEDS kdelibs, but NOT arts. I proposed a mode where just the PRIMARY and

Re: [gentoo-user] busted

2004-02-13 Thread Markus Klimke
Simon Chappell wrote: Thanks for the reply but i have Glib installed (See Attached) unless it is another glib ? I can't figure out what's going wrong installing xmms on your machine, but maybe someone else had pointed this into bugs.gentoo.org. -Markus -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] postgresql wont start ?

2004-02-13 Thread raptor
yes : #ls /var/lib/postgresql/data/ base global pg_clog pg_hba.conf pg_ident.conf PG_VERSION pg_xlog postgresql.conf |raptor wrote: | |as shown after emerging and config I started postgresql : | | /etc/init.d/postgresql start | * Starting postgres... | * Please see log file:

Re: [gentoo-user] busted

2004-02-13 Thread William Kenworthy
Try export WANT_AUTOCONF=2.1 or export WANT_AUTOCONF=2.5 The macros changed between versions. Usually the ebuild should select the correct one, but sometimes you will have to tell it. autoconf --version to check its worked. BillK On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 22:18, Markus Klimke wrote: Simon

Re: [gentoo-user] my sound went away

2004-02-13 Thread Nickolay Savchenko
Thomas T. Veldhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thursday 12 February 2004 03:27 pm, Nickolay Savchenko wrote: You've misunderstood. Gnome sound works, but ocassionaly it becomes muted. I think the problem is related to permissions. 5 minutes ago my father logged out from his gnome session

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage suggestion

2004-02-13 Thread Jose González Gómez
Timo, I'm not a KDE expert neither an expert in compiling, but it seems kdelibs *needs* arts to be compiled, so this is not a fault of portage, this is a fault of KDE, as they are not giving this option. From COMPILING in kdelibs-3.1 (sorry I haven't the latest version installed):

Re: [gentoo-user] perfomance 2.6.3 = 2.4 more

2004-02-13 Thread Collins Richey
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 23:50:17 -0600 TriKster Abacus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would be curious to know the memory size of the machines whose owners are singing the praises of, or conversely complaining about, 2.6. All my machines cept 1 are running on at least 512mb of ram ddr400 I

[gentoo-user] Re: where to define shell aliases?

2004-02-13 Thread Sven Khler
Um, i hope you mean /etc/profile. of course i do, somehow i wrote /etc/protage instead. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] perfomance 2.6.3 = 2.4 - A-FRIGGIN-Men!

2004-02-13 Thread Collins Richey
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 18:24:12 +0600 (LKT) Grendel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... DVD rips and encoding take long on 2.6 than 2.4 around 26 fps on 2.4 and ~ 16 fps on 2.6. It makes a large difference in time that extra 8fps so when I want to rip a dvd I switch to kernel 2.4. Yeah, but you have

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem emerge scrollkeeper-0.3.14

2004-02-13 Thread Collins Richey
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 10:45:18 +0200 Gregory Staggel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But I can't find which ebuild packet contains XML::Parser dev-perl/XML-Parser -- Collins - Denver Area - Gentoo stable kernel 2.6.2-rc1 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage suggestion

2004-02-13 Thread Spider
begin quote On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 14:16:08 +0100 Timo Lindemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 14:06:45 +0100, Jose González Gómez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jose, no, no, no and NO. The problem is that i want to emerge licq, licq asks for kdelibs, and kdelibs for arts. I said

Re: [gentoo-user] Synaptics touchpad, kernel 2.6, XFree 3.3

2004-02-13 Thread Aaron Walker
On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 08:08, Jose González Gómez wrote: Oh... what the [EMAIL PROTECTED] that was... I wasn't aware of the synaptics ebuild ! Thanks a lot regards Jose Same response here! haha *runs off to 'emerge synaptics' Aaron -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] perfomance 2.6.3 = 2.4 - A-FRIGGIN-Men!

2004-02-13 Thread Grendel
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Collins Richey uttered the following immortal words, On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 18:24:12 +0600 (LKT) Grendel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... DVD rips and encoding take long on 2.6 than 2.4 around 26 fps on 2.4 and ~ 16 fps on 2.6. It makes a large difference in time that

Re: [gentoo-user] / partition full after emerge

2004-02-13 Thread Tiago Lima
Ok, thanks! On Friday 13 February 2004 10:55, Priit Külaots wrote: Tiago Lima wrote: Hi, I have my / 9Gb partition full after emerging a large number of packages... What can I safely remove? I think my /var/tmp is responsible... with 2.5Gb... and with openoffice I guess...

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem emerging musicbrainz

2004-02-13 Thread Phil Barnett
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 13 February 2004 2:47 am, Phil Barnett wrote: Since I tried to emerge KDE 3.2, I've been sticking on this error. Anyone know how to get around this error? In the fine tradition of replying to one's self: It was a problem I created when

[gentoo-user] [OT What is linux-gate.so.1

2004-02-13 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Hi, after the last world update, when I look at dynamically linked executables with ldd, I see this as first line: linux-gate.so.1 = (0xe000) I've never seen this before. Does anybody know what this is and where it comes from, since I can't find a file with that name anywhere. Thanx...

Re: [gentoo-user] udev devfs - possible conflict?

2004-02-13 Thread Arne Vogel
Jakub Krajcovic wrote: Well, i couldn't wait for your reply so i learned the hard way... After unmerging devfsd and merging udev, i could not connect using ppp (ISDN) - and whoa: *user* panic. and since i know nothing about udev config, i came back to devfs. Oh... that's too bad! *supressing

[gentoo-user] unable to check root filesystem

2004-02-13 Thread Christoph Gysin
my system doesn't boot correctly. it keeps hanging because checkroot complains not being able to check the root fs. when I mount / readonly by hand: # mount | grep hda3 /dev/hda3 on / type reiserfs (rw,noatime,notail) / is mounted readwrite. # mount -o remount,ro / I mount it readonly. # mount

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc-config

2004-02-13 Thread Arne Vogel
Mike wrote: I have three versions of gcc installed on my system: 2.95.3, 3.2.3, and 3.3.2. I'm using gcc-config to select a version. gcc-3.3.2 was recently installed. But, I'm still using gcc-3.2.3 most of the time and experimenting with gcc-3.3.2. Now, after ever package emerge portage wants to

[gentoo-user] root aliases (vi=vim)

2004-02-13 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I did some Googling to no avail. My root account had no .bashrc so I tried adding one with an alias vi=vim command but it doesn't seem to work. What's the best way to do an alias in the root account? Thanks, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] locales and SquirrelMail Translations.

2004-02-13 Thread Javier Villavicencio
Hi, searching for a solution to this problem regarding SquirrelMail not translating anything but showing the options to select the languages, I've found that locales -a only shows: Código: sdg root # locale -a C POSIX When it should list the whole locales supported in the system. AFAIK gentoo

[gentoo-user] Laptop on wireless network cannot see other machine

2004-02-13 Thread Laurent Duperval
Hi, IO have a Toshiba Satellite laptop and a desktop on a wirells network. I'm using a Linksys wireless router. The desktop is plugged onto the router using an Ethernet cable. The laptop is using a wireless card. The desktop can see, ping and connect to the laptop. However, the laptop can

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT What is linux-gate.so.1

2004-02-13 Thread Spider
begin quote On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 16:10:06 +0100 Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, after the last world update, when I look at dynamically linked executables with ldd, I see this as first line: linux-gate.so.1 = (0xe000) I've never seen this before. Does anybody know

Re: [gentoo-user] root aliases (vi=vim)

2004-02-13 Thread Christoph Gysin
Mark Knecht wrote: I did some Googling to no avail. My root account had no .bashrc so I tried adding one with an alias vi=vim command but it doesn't seem to work. What's the best way to do an alias in the root account? You did the right thing. start a new bash and try again. bye, christoph

Re: [gentoo-user] root aliases (vi=vim)

2004-02-13 Thread gabriel
On February 13, 2004 10:36 am, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I did some Googling to no avail. My root account had no .bashrc so I tried adding one with an alias vi=vim command but it doesn't seem to work. What's the best way to do an alias in the root account? you can put your aliases in

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to check root filesystem

2004-02-13 Thread Mike
On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 04:13:46PM +0100, Christoph Gysin wrote: my system doesn't boot correctly. it keeps hanging because checkroot complains not being able to check the root fs. when I mount / readonly by hand: # mount | grep hda3 /dev/hda3 on / type reiserfs (rw,noatime,notail) /

Re: [gentoo-user] / partition full after emerge

2004-02-13 Thread Arne Vogel
Priit Külaots wrote: Tiago Lima wrote: Hi, I have my / 9Gb partition full after emerging a large number of packages... What can I safely remove? I think my /var/tmp is responsible... with 2.5Gb... and with openoffice I guess... Tiago Lima It's safe to remove anything in

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to check root filesystem

2004-02-13 Thread Collins Richey
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 16:13:46 +0100 Christoph Gysin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my system doesn't boot correctly. it keeps hanging because checkroot complains not being able to check the root fs. [ rest snipped ] This won't help, but your experience only comfirms my decision never again to

Re: [gentoo-user] perfomance 2.6.3 = 2.4 - A-FRIGGIN-Men!

2004-02-13 Thread Ric Messier
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Ian Truelsen wrote: Excuse me for interrupting, but does it make a lot of sense to be benchmarking what is essentially a development kernel? I would think that when they are in the single digits in releases, they are simply trying to make sure that everything works. Once

Re: [gentoo-user] perfomance 2.6.3 = 2.4 - A-FRIGGIN-Men!

2004-02-13 Thread Matthew Kennedy
Grendel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Arne Vogel uttered the following immortal words, TriKster Abacus wrote: Either way, these 2.6.X zealots are full of crap! I could probably write a small essay over the difference between speed and responsiveness, but I think

Re: [gentoo-user] Making cdrecord work

2004-02-13 Thread Bob White
Glenn, I emerged cdrtools, and ran cdrecord -scanbus dev=ATAPI, and cdrecord reported it found a Sony CDR at 0,1,0. However, trying to burn an ISO image with cdrecord -v speed=24 dev=ATAPI:0,1,0 -data path_to.iso failed. On my 2.4 kernel system, I needed to add hdc=ide-scsi to the boot line

Re: [gentoo-user] root aliases (vi=vim)

2004-02-13 Thread Matthew Kennedy
Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I did some Googling to no avail. My root account had no .bashrc so I tried adding one with an alias vi=vim command but it doesn't seem to work. What's the best way to do an alias in the root account? While its a good idea to keep the root

Re: [gentoo-user] Making cdrecord work

2004-02-13 Thread Bob White
Collins, On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 09:01:30 -0500 (EST) Bob White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What version of cdrecord? What error messages? Version 2.01a23. It installed with the cdrtools. This works just fine on my machines with cdrtools-2.01_alpha25. OTOH, I've heard rumors that cdrdao does

Re: [gentoo-user] Alsa 2.6.1

2004-02-13 Thread Arne Vogel
David Stevenson wrote: I started with 2.4.22, emerged alsa sound and it worked fine. Then I emerged 2.6.1-mm1 and lost alsa. I have now been through menuconfig adding alsa-oss modules, and redoing make modules modules_install and now it looks like it is working, but no music. The gnome volume

[gentoo-user] Opera invocation very slow with KDE 3.2

2004-02-13 Thread Paul Oldham
I have Opera set to be my default browser in Evolution, so when I click a hyperlink in an email it open it a running instance of Opera. Since I've gone to KDE3.2 there's now a pause of about 10 seconds between clicking the link and Opera starting to move. I've now eliminated Evolution from the

Re: [gentoo-user] Making cdrecord work

2004-02-13 Thread Grendel
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Bob White uttered the following immortal words, I got it fixed last night. I had to recompile the 2.4 kernel and exclude SCSI support, as well as put hdc=ide-scsi in the kernel config line in grub. As soon as I did that, everything started working. The way I understood

Re: [gentoo-user] locales and SquirrelMail Translations.

2004-02-13 Thread fifo
At 2004-02-13 16:45 +0100, Javier Villavicencio wrote: Hi, searching for a solution to this problem regarding SquirrelMail not translating anything but showing the options to select the languages, I've found that locales -a only shows: C?digo: sdg root # locale -a C POSIX When it

Re: [gentoo-user] Alsa 2.6.1

2004-02-13 Thread Grendel
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Arne Vogel uttered the following immortal words, Emerge alsa-oss, or emerge alsa-xmms and switch to the xmms alsa output plugin. I would recommend using alsa-oss anyway as a lot of audio utilities count on OSS support to be present. Grendel -- Hi, I'm a signature

[gentoo-user] Filesystem corruption with Software RAID1 on kernel 2.6 and Si3112

2004-02-13 Thread Tiago Lima
Hi, I've posted this in the foruns but it appears no one answers, so I decided to try in here... I've been trying to install a gentoo box with software RAID1 for about four days now... No success... I had all sorts of problems, at first I started using reiserfs and when I got filesystem

[gentoo-user] Catching Important Portage Messages

2004-02-13 Thread Dave Knopp
Hey All, How does one catch the important messages from portage at the end of emerge operations -- withOUT all the build information messages? I saw this question the other day - but without a satisfactory answer. TIA, Dave Details When emerging a package, there's generally a bunch of

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] root aliases (vi=vim)

2004-02-13 Thread brettholcomb
Mark, I modified my /etc/skel/.bash_profile to source /etc/bash.rc so any users created get what's in /etc/bash.rc. I then copied the .bash* files from /etc/skel to /root and you will have the files. Any new users get the new files. Essentially /etc/bash.rc serves as a place to define

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage suggestion

2004-02-13 Thread Norberto Bensa
Timo Lindemann wrote: On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 14:06:45 +0100, Jose González Gómez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jose, no, no, no and NO. The problem is that i want to emerge licq, licq asks for kdelibs, and kdelibs for arts. I said emerge licq which NEEDS kdelibs, but NOT arts. Calm down and

Re: [gentoo-user] kong cache

2004-02-13 Thread Norberto Bensa
Chris wrote: where does konq cache eveything from the web? Don't cross post. Thanks, Norberto -- Linux 2.6.2-mm1 Pentium III (Coppermine) GenuineIntel GNU/Linux 12:14:52 up 19:49, 2 users, load average: 3.66, 3.54, 2.36 pgp0.pgp Description: signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage suggestion

2004-02-13 Thread Norberto Bensa
Timo Lindemann wrote: Next thing, I want licq. I pretend. Guess what appears on the list? artsd! I cant stand it, really. Gentoo would be such a nice distro, but it is ALL BLOATED. $ emerge -pv licq These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done!

[gentoo-user] emerge --usepkgs gs-sources not finding all patches - PROBLEM

2004-02-13 Thread Mark Meninger
Hello, This is my first time Linux install (ever!!). I'm doing the stage-3 install and I am using (or going to use) pre-compiled binaries. I'm trying to load the gs-sources kernel, but I am getting messages that the loader is unable to download all the required patches because the ftp sites

Re: [gentoo-user] portage||emerge problem

2004-02-13 Thread Dan Egli
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ZsoL wrote: | Hi! | After emerging something, i get the following: | | * Processed 391 info files: 5 errors; run with emerge --verbose to view | errors. | | Even though, everything works just fine. Anybody can help me how to get rid of | this error? |

Re: [gentoo-user] portage||emerge problem

2004-02-13 Thread Kurt V. Hindenburg
On Friday 13 February 2004 8:11 am, Kathy Wills wrote: | ZsoL wrote: | * Processed 391 info files: 5 errors; run with emerge --verbose | to view errors. | | I have had this same thing for a while now. Nothing has been found | to get rid of it. Everything runs and works fine so I don't even |

Re: [gentoo-user] perfomance 2.6.3 = 2.4 more

2004-02-13 Thread TriKster Abacus
Collins Richey wrote: Thanks for the rundown. I just can't remember: are you in the group reporting better performance, the same, or worse on 2.6? I am the highly disputed one claiming 2.6.X kernels are not all they are said to be. .. probably goin a bit overboard.. but I guess I let my anger

[gentoo-user] cygwin terminal problem logging into gentoo

2004-02-13 Thread john lawler
I've been having this problem ever since I installed gentoo. I use ssh under Cygwin to login to my Gentoo box, and I've noticed whenever I try to look at 'top', when it goes fullscreen, it seems to put one character past the end of the line that the cygwin terminal can display, so that

Re: [gentoo-user] perfomance 2.6.3 = 2.4 - A-FRIGGIN-Men!

2004-02-13 Thread TriKster Abacus
Ric Messier wrote: On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Ian Truelsen wrote: Excuse me for interrupting, but does it make a lot of sense to be benchmarking what is essentially a development kernel? I would think that when they are in the single digits in releases, they are simply trying to make sure that

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Win NT 2k

2004-02-13 Thread Peter Wu
On 12/02/2004 9:16 PM, senectus wrote: I didn't say that it IS a hoax.. I said I believe it's a hoax.. It is not a hoax, at least, Microsoft does not think so. http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2004/Feb04/02-12windowssource.asp -- Peter Wu Powered by Microsoft Windows XP [Version

Re: [gentoo-user] perfomance 2.6.3 = 2.4 - A-FRIGGIN-Men!

2004-02-13 Thread TriKster Abacus
Grendel wrote: On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Collins Richey uttered the following immortal words, On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 18:24:12 +0600 (LKT) Grendel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... DVD rips and encoding take long on 2.6 than 2.4 around 26 fps on 2.4 and ~ 16 fps on 2.6. It makes a large difference in time

Re: [gentoo-user] root aliases (vi=vim)

2004-02-13 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 07:51, gabriel wrote: On February 13, 2004 10:36 am, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I did some Googling to no avail. My root account had no .bashrc so I tried adding one with an alias vi=vim command but it doesn't seem to work. What's the best way to do an alias in

[gentoo-user] Opera-7.23 ebuild question

2004-02-13 Thread Alex Efros
Hi! I's anybody knows why Opera require Openmotif? I've used different versions of Opera (including 7.23) a couple of years from 'opera*static*rpm' without any (Open|Less|...)tiff installed (on my LFS-based distro which I've used before hear about Gentoo). Second question: why 'emerge -pv' say I

Re: [gentoo-user] udev devfs - possible conflict?

2004-02-13 Thread Jakub Krajcovic
that's a great idea. Think i'll do the same before i start experimenting next time... On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 16:15:27 +0100 Arne Vogel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll definitely not emerge udev again until I'm sure I can spend some time figuring it out. Also, next time I'll just ls -lR /dev

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Win NT 2k

2004-02-13 Thread Andrew Farmer
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 17:20:28 -0800, senectus muttered: ... It's a hoax.. and not a very good one I believe.. It looks pretty real to me. It's hard to make up ~700MB of fake source code, and I'll be doing some spot-checking (on Reversi, perhaps) to see if some behaviours match. -- Andrew Farmer

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Win NT 2k

2004-02-13 Thread Jakub Krajcovic
OH MY GOD!! It's true... I wonder if the words microsoft and security will ever be mentioned in the same sentence again... On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 12:53:36 -0500 Peter Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2004/Feb04/02-12windowssource.asp -- GPG public keys

Re: [gentoo-user] Opera invocation very slow with KDE 3.2

2004-02-13 Thread Andrew Farmer
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 08:35:22 -0800, Paul Oldham muttered: I have Opera set to be my default browser in Evolution, so when I click a hyperlink in an email it open it a running instance of Opera. Since I've gone to KDE3.2 there's now a pause of about 10 seconds between clicking the link and

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Win NT 2k

2004-02-13 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Jakub Krajcovic wrote: OH MY GOD!! It's true... I wonder if the words microsoft and security will ever be mentioned in the same sentence again... I've never been able to say the two words in the same sentence and keep a straight face ;) -- Andrew Gaffney Network Administrator Skyline Aeronautics,

Re: [gentoo-user] perfomance 2.6.3 = 2.4 - A-FRIGGIN-Men!

2004-02-13 Thread Collins Richey
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 11:34:34 -0600 TriKster Abacus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ lots of stuff that we don't need to repeat snipped ] TriKster, The essential flaw in your benchmarks is this: all of these items are single activities, whereas the changes in kernel 2.6 are not designed to improve the

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Win NT 2k

2004-02-13 Thread Matthew Baxa
On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 12:29, Andrew Gaffney wrote: Jakub Krajcovic wrote: OH MY GOD!! It's true... I wonder if the words microsoft and security will ever be mentioned in the same sentence again... I've never been able to say the two words in the same sentence and keep a straight face ;)

Re: [gentoo-user] cygwin terminal problem logging into gentoo

2004-02-13 Thread Eric Livingston
I've been having this problem ever since I installed gentoo. I use ssh under Cygwin to login to my Gentoo box, and I've noticed whenever I try to look at 'top', when it goes fullscreen, it seems to put one character past the end of the line that the cygwin terminal can display, so that

[gentoo-user] alsa cannot find /dev/snd/seq

2004-02-13 Thread Tianran Chen
i recently upgrade to kernel 2.6.1, thus started to use alsa instead of oss. alsa support and all sound device drivers are compile into the kernel. now the sound works find, i can hear good sound without tweak anything. but whenever the 'alsasound' service start, it complains 'snd_ctrl_open

Re: [gentoo-user] perfomance 2.6.3 = 2.4 - A-FRIGGIN-Men!

2004-02-13 Thread TriKster Abacus
Collins Richey wrote: On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 11:34:34 -0600 TriKster Abacus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ lots of stuff that we don't need to repeat snipped ] TriKster, The essential flaw in your benchmarks is this: all of these items are single activities, whereas the changes in kernel 2.6 are not

Re: [gentoo-user] perfomance 2.6.3 = 2.4 - A-FRIGGIN-Men!

2004-02-13 Thread Alex Nelson
Collins Richey wrote: On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 11:34:34 -0600 TriKster Abacus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ lots of stuff that we don't need to repeat snipped ] TriKster, The essential flaw in your benchmarks is this: all of these items are single activities, whereas the changes in kernel 2.6 are not

[gentoo-user] Solution to mouse problems with X

2004-02-13 Thread Kevin
Hi All- Thanks for replies to my question about simultaneous emerge commands. I had a problem, but figured it out myself and thought I'd pass it along in case anyone else encounters something similar. I just installed my first Gentoo system, was setting up X according to the Gentoo Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop on wireless network cannot see other machine

2004-02-13 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Laurent Duperval wrote: When I try to ping the desktop I get this: ping 192.168.1.10 20 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 19014ms Desktop rejects icmp_echo packets, which can be done in different ways ... 1. by writing to icmp_echo* files in /proc dir 2. by firewall rules

[gentoo-user] I am stuck, please help

2004-02-13 Thread Radu Filip
Hi, I am trying to install a Gentoo box from scratch and I cannot get over a large package (kdebase): [...] ./usr/share/pixmaps/kde2.xbm ./usr/share/pixmaps/splash2.png Done. extracting info extracting kdebase-3.2.0 tar: Skipping to next header tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64

Re: [gentoo-user] perfomance 2.6.3 = 2.4 - A-FRIGGIN-Men!

2004-02-13 Thread Collins Richey
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 12:57:09 -0600 TriKster Abacus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Collins Richey wrote: On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 11:34:34 -0600 TriKster Abacus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... the changes in kernel 2.6 are not designed to improve the operation of single activities, but rather to

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Win NT 2k

2004-02-13 Thread Matt Garman
On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 12:34:32AM +0100, Spider wrote: other technologies that can be seen as infringing on some of MS turf. Its an easy, blunt lega weapon to weild against whole projects, stating that all progress past this point is only because you copied MS sources, weilding a large batch

Re: [gentoo-user] Opera invocation very slow with KDE 3.2

2004-02-13 Thread Paul Oldham
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 18:20:19 +, Andrew Farmer growled: On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 08:35:22 -0800, Paul Oldham muttered: I have Opera set to be my default browser in Evolution, so when I click a hyperlink in an email it open it a running instance of Opera. Since I've gone to KDE3.2 there's now

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