[gentoo-user] OSD with tpb not working with T30, xorg, gentoo & KDE

2005-01-05 Thread Shaw
Hello All, I recently switched over to Gentoo from Mandrake on my Thinkpad. Ever since the switch, I haven't been able to get tpb to function properly. It hangs while trying to update the onscreen volume display- but only after a kde app has been loaded. To reproduce, all I have to do is start

Re: [gentoo-user] imap client recommendations

2005-01-05 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 13:53, Maarten wrote: > On Tuesday 04 January 2005 14:22, Jens Mayer wrote: > > My biggest IMAP folder so far had about +110k messages (A huge SPAM > 110k ? W o w. I have nowhere near that big folders, Mine are at most > between > I know that if I move a handful of messa

Re: [gentoo-user] imap client recommendations

2005-01-05 Thread Maarten
On Tuesday 04 January 2005 14:22, Jens Mayer wrote: > * On Tuesday 04 January 2005 10:06, Maarten wrote: > > Excuse me, but I use kmail with imap daily, so I feel well informed > > enough to say that kmail doesn't have a good imap implementation. > > It's far from being perfect, that's true. One th

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - forwarding ports with ssh

2005-01-05 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 05 January 2005 16:28, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: > dit you use [EMAIL PROTECTED] ^^ Dit is lekker, man. Sorry, couldn't resist. ;-) Uwe -- Alternative phrasing of the First Law of Thermodynamics: If you eat it, and you don't burn it off, you'll sit on it. http://www.uwix.iw

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa kernel or modular -- how to tell?

2005-01-05 Thread Manuel McLure
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Manuel McLure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Also, at some point you could *not* use the alsa-driver ebuild with a 2.6 kernel at all, so inertia has held me here. You mean it wouldn't work then but it works now, right? Because I use the alsa-driver ebuild all the time,

[gentoo-user] Gentoo Start-up Progress Bar

2005-01-05 Thread Ian K
Hi. For those of you who have been following my problemed laptop, where nothing would compile, I have decided to try a stage 1 install after a format. Since the furthest I got today was the step of configuring the make.conf, I was wondering if now, or in the near future would be a good time to go

Re: [gentoo-user] -R flag not working on chmod?[SOLVED]

2005-01-05 Thread Joseph A. Nagy, Jr.
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 10:20:17PM -0600, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote the following: > On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 04:13:54AM +, n_powell wrote the following: > > On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 09:28:46PM -0600 thus spake Joseph A. Nagy, Jr.: > > > Is anyone else having any issues with the '-R' flag when u

Re: [gentoo-user] -R flag not working on chmod?

2005-01-05 Thread Joseph A. Nagy, Jr.
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 04:13:54AM +, n_powell wrote the following: > On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 09:28:46PM -0600 thus spake Joseph A. Nagy, Jr.: > > Is anyone else having any issues with the '-R' flag when using chmod? I am > > and it's getting annoying. > > Nope, just tried it to test it out. W

Re: [gentoo-user] -R flag not working on chmod?

2005-01-05 Thread n_powell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 09:28:46PM -0600 thus spake Joseph A. Nagy, Jr.: > Is anyone else having any issues with the '-R' flag when using chmod? I am > and it's getting annoying. Nope, just tried it to test it out. What error? Nathan - -- NO WAR!

Re: [gentoo-user] Local Start-Up Slow

2005-01-05 Thread John Lowell
- Original Message - From: "Nicholas Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 2:18 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Local Start-Up Slow Nicholas, Thanks for the reply. As you can see, I've replied to Alec and, in replying to him, it is my intent to reply to you ide

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage and ccache

2005-01-05 Thread Alec
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Wednesday 05 January 2005 07:11 pm, Alec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: I want my ccache directory to be shared across all users. However, portage is not liking that idea. I've set up CCACHE_DIR so that it's in the default profile

Re: [gentoo-user] Local Start-Up Slow

2005-01-05 Thread John Lowell
Alec wrote: > > That will depend entirely on the contents of /etc/conf.d/local.start > > -- > Alec Warner Hi Alec, Thanks for the reply. Examining /etc/conf.d/local.start in nano, I see nothing that's enabled in any way, no entries other than the usual boilerplate and all of that is commented ou

[gentoo-user] -R flag not working on chmod?

2005-01-05 Thread Joseph A. Nagy, Jr.
Is anyone else having any issues with the '-R' flag when using chmod? I am and it's getting annoying. -- AIM: pres CTHULHU | ICQ: 18115568 | Yahoo: pagan_prince Jabber: DarkKnightRadick@(jabber.org|amessage.at) Libertarian @ Large PGP: 0xCF7EAA67 | < http://mc-luug.homelinux.org/mailman/listinf

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa kernel or modular -- how to tell?

2005-01-05 Thread Jans H. Xie
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 11:01:51 -0500, michael higgins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 03:37:28 + > "Jans H. Xie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I guess you haven't read this: > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml [1] > > > > Before you emerge the alsa-drivers, you shou

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage and ccache

2005-01-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 05 January 2005 07:11 pm, Alec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > >I want my ccache directory to be shared across all users. However, > > portage is not liking that idea. I've set up CCACHE_DIR so that it's > > in the default profile (to use it instead of ~/

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update difficult?

2005-01-05 Thread Grant
> >>> Is it me or does anyone else find etc-update difficult > >>> to do more than just "Replace original with update". > >>> I find the interactive menu not friendly at all. > >>> man etc-update is of no help either. > >>> Any suggestions? > >> you are using Gvim to show/edit the diffs, aren't you

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update difficult?

2005-01-05 Thread purslow
050105 Rick Lapp wrote: > On Wednesday 05 January 2005 09:06 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> 050105 Rick Lapp wrote: >>> Is it me or does anyone else find etc-update difficult >>> to do more than just "Replace original with update". >>> I find the interactive menu not friendly at all. >>> man etc-u

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update difficult?

2005-01-05 Thread Rick Lapp
No, tell me more about Gvim? On Wednesday 05 January 2005 09:06 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 050105 Rick Lapp wrote: > > Is it me or does anyone else find etc-update difficult > > to do more than just "Replace original with update". > > I find the interactive menu not friendly at all. > > man et

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa kernel or modular -- how to tell?

2005-01-05 Thread Barry . Schwartz
Manuel McLure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also, at some point you could *not* use the alsa-driver ebuild with > a 2.6 kernel at all, so inertia has held me here. You mean it wouldn't work then but it works now, right? Because I use the alsa-driver ebuild all the time, and I'm making new kernels

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update difficult?

2005-01-05 Thread purslow
050105 Rick Lapp wrote: > Is it me or does anyone else find etc-update difficult > to do more than just "Replace original with update". > I find the interactive menu not friendly at all. > man etc-update is of no help either. > Any suggestions? you are using Gvim to show/edit the diffs, aren't y

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update difficult?

2005-01-05 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 09:10, Mark Knecht wrote: > > I have tried dispatch-conf. I don't really remember how it went other > than I had trouble there too so I'm still using etc-update in my > 'very, very careful' mode... I use dispatch-conf since I got introduced to it. It's has Colordiffs and it

[gentoo-user] QA Notice : --depclean is not evil! (was: How to unmerge Xfce4 (totally))

2005-01-05 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 20:23, Jason Stubbs wrote: > On Wednesday 05 January 2005 19:25, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > Here's what I see at the top. > > QA Notice: ECLASS 'flag-o-matic' inherited illegally in > > dev-lang/swig-1.3.21 > > QA Notice: ECLASS 'eutils' inherited illegally in dev-lang/swig-1.3.21

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: imap client recommendations

2005-01-05 Thread Thomas Schweikle
John Drouhard wrote: > Thomas Schweikle wrote: >> Grant schrieb: >> >>>I'm moving from squirrelmail to mutt right now, but I also need >>>to set >>>up a GUI imap client for someone else to use. Does anyone have a >>>recommendation for a good and simple imap client with a real GUI? >> > >> Thun

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage and ccache

2005-01-05 Thread Alec
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: I want my ccache directory to be shared across all users. However, portage is not liking that idea. I've set up CCACHE_DIR so that it's in the default profile (to use it instead of ~/.ccache) and then chown'd it (recursively) to root:root and chmod'd it (recursive

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update difficult?

2005-01-05 Thread Mark Knecht
I cannot understand it either. It says things like left/right but shows things top/bottom. I never know what it's doing so I quit, save files, let it do the replacement and then compare the files again to put my edits back in. Worse I jsut don't do the update. My cups configuration is waiting for a

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update difficult?

2005-01-05 Thread Alec
Rick Lapp wrote: Is it me or does anyone else find etc-update difficult to do more than just "Replace original with update". I find the interactive menu not friendly at all. man etc-update is of no help either. Any suggestions? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list man dispatch-conf -- A

Re: [gentoo-user] Local Start-Up Slow

2005-01-05 Thread Alec
John Lowell wrote: Hopefully, someone can explain to me what might account for an inordinantly slow transistion in the boot sequence between "Starting local" and the login prompt. A very recent install takes about fifteen seconds or more to make this transistion whereas all previous installatio

[gentoo-user] etc-update difficult?

2005-01-05 Thread Rick Lapp
Is it me or does anyone else find etc-update difficult to do more than just "Replace original with update". I find the interactive menu not friendly at all. man etc-update is of no help either. Any suggestions? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] postfixadmin

2005-01-05 Thread HK
Hi, Has anybody managed to get postfixadmin from http://high5.net/postfixadmin/ to work with gentoo? I tried installing it manualy but later webapp-config won't add this service to list of php modules... There was postfixadmin ebuild a while ago on some mirror server but it is gone now :( reag

Re: [gentoo-user] graphical email client with per-folder notification

2005-01-05 Thread Benjamin Schwertfeger
Benjamin Schwertfeger wrote: Of course, Thunderbird support it. 1. Rightclick on the folder and select "Properties" 2. Activate Checkbox "Check this folder for new messages" 3. Wait for new messages Problem in Thunderbird: You have to see the folder in the tree to realize new messages. The parren

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop modem

2005-01-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 05 January 2005 04:20 pm, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Modem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 Modem Controller > > > > > (rev a0) > > I think I've got it set up properly now, but '/etc/init.d/net.ppp0 > start' gives me this: > > * Bringing ppp0 up ... > SIOCDELRT:

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop modem

2005-01-05 Thread Grant
> > > > Modem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 Modem Controller (rev > > > > a0) > > FATAL: Module ppp_generic not found. > > Did you make modules_install? > If so, try increasing the verbosity of modprobe so you can get more info on > what is failing. > > > system4 ~ # /etc/init.d/slmodem

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop modem

2005-01-05 Thread Grant
> > > > Modem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 Modem Controller (rev > > > > a0) > > FATAL: Module ppp_generic not found. > > Did you make modules_install? Whoops, no I hadn't. Good call. > If so, try increasing the verbosity of modprobe so you can get more info on > what is failing. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Local Start-Up Slow

2005-01-05 Thread Nicholas Jones
> what might account for an inordinantly slow transistion in the > boot sequence between "Starting local" and the login prompt. Would you by chance have things in /etc/conf.d/local.start ? --NJ pgpuAABqJTgdM.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problem with Nvidia Module

2005-01-05 Thread Chiheb Djabri
- Original Message - From: "Francesco Talamona" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 2:20 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Problem with Nvidia Module > On Wednesday 05 January 2005 17:59, Chiheb Djabri wrote: > > Yes, for sure I emerged even twice > > Ok, I assume you

[gentoo-user] Portage and ccache

2005-01-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
I want my ccache directory to be shared across all users. However, portage is not liking that idea. I've set up CCACHE_DIR so that it's in the default profile (to use it instead of ~/.ccache) and then chown'd it (recursively) to root:root and chmod'd it (recursively) to a=rwx. I've also set

Re: [gentoo-user] usermode-sources versus versus gentoo-dev-sources

2005-01-05 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Marc Ballarin wrote: On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 19:35:25 +0100 Bastian Balthazar Bux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It's possible to use gentoo-dev-sources or mm-sources (2.6.10) as user mode kernel? Should be possible. I've been using various kernels with various degrees of success. I highly recommen

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with Nvidia Module

2005-01-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 05 January 2005 01:47 pm, "Dave Nebinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The only way I could get the Nvidia card to work was to do the > following: [Wow! Too much work!] For me it was quite easy: 1. emerge -avt nvidia-kernel nvidia-glx 2. X -configure 3. opengl-update nvidia > Note

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with Nvidia Module

2005-01-05 Thread Bob Sanders
Dave Nebinger wrote: > > Like I said, all of these steps are pretty stupid and wouldn't be necessary > with a more compatible video card. Nvidia sucks, IMHO. > More appropriately all Gfx cards suck. Nvidia just sucks a little bit less than the others. I have been trying to move away from the p

RE: [gentoo-user] Problem with Nvidia Module

2005-01-05 Thread Dave Nebinger
I've had many problems with the Nvidia module and, frankly, I'd be happy to dump the card altogether to something that is a little more open and integrated with the kernel. This opinion won't, however, help to solve your problem. The only way I could get the Nvidia card to work was to do the foll

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libcaca emerge failure

2005-01-05 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 14:08:20 -0500, John S J Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Anyway, I've done it and emerge world completed. However the work > > around seems suspicious to require this library for an X application > > but to disable X support w

[gentoo-user] Re: Problem with Nvidia Module

2005-01-05 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Wednesday 05 January 2005 17:59, Chiheb Djabri wrote: > Yes, for sure I emerged even twice Ok, I assume you did "modprobe nvidia", does modprobe spit any errors? What does dmesg say? If a previous nvidia module is already loaded you should unload it first; "no screen found" has more to do wi

[gentoo-user] Local Start-Up Slow

2005-01-05 Thread John Lowell
Hopefully, someone can explain to me what might account for an inordinantly slow transistion in the boot sequence between "Starting local" and the login prompt. A very recent install takes about fifteen seconds or more to make this transistion whereas all previous installations involved no m

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libcaca emerge failure

2005-01-05 Thread John S J Anderson
Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anyway, I've done it and emerge world completed. However the work > around seems suspicious to require this library for an X application > but to disable X support when compiling the library. If you use the workaround in the bug description, you don't:

Re: [gentoo-user] Selective sound

2005-01-05 Thread Manuel McLure
Michael Sullivan wrote: I have alsa-lib installed, and I have get sound in most things, but evolution isn't one of them. I have evolution set to play a sound when new mail arrives, but it never does. The sound file I told it to play is actually from gaim, and in gaim it works. I added an Inbox M

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa kernel or modular -- how to tell?

2005-01-05 Thread Manuel McLure
michael higgins wrote: Okay, I grok that. So, then, is the option of compiling into the kernel an improvement, or not? It seems like it should be an improvement, otherwise, why do it? Or is it simply, like, replacing oss in the kernel? It looks like there may be two issues being discussed here - us

Re: [gentoo-user] usermode-sources versus versus gentoo-dev-sources

2005-01-05 Thread Marc Ballarin
On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 19:35:25 +0100 Bastian Balthazar Bux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's possible to use gentoo-dev-sources or mm-sources (2.6.10) as user > mode kernel? Should be possible. I've been using various kernels with various degrees of success. I highly recommend the additional -bb4

Re: [gentoo-user] turning the number pad on in kde automatically

2005-01-05 Thread Dirk Raeder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, emerge numlockx and add it to your .xsession, .bashrc or KDE/Gnome autostart (whatever you use) HTH Dirk On Wednesday 05 January 2005 19:06, Antoine wrote: > Hi, > Can anyone tell me how to do this? It used to happen automatically under > mand

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa kernel or modular -- how to tell?

2005-01-05 Thread Christoph Eckert
> Okay. I'm using a 2.6x kernel. So, there's really *no* good > reason to compile alsa into the kernel vs. modules? I > intend to use this box as a soft synth and perhaps > multitrack audio... if I ever get past configuration > issues, that is. You will surely. Gentoo is one of the best boxes for

[gentoo-user] usermode-sources versus versus gentoo-dev-sources

2005-01-05 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
It's possible to use gentoo-dev-sources or mm-sources (2.6.10) as user mode kernel? There are patches not already included in mainline kernel? thanks in advance francesco -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libcaca emerge failure

2005-01-05 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 13:01:06 -0500, John S J Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>From the forums: > > > > USE="-X" emerge libcaca > > > > but no bug report filed > > See > > cheers, > john. Yes,

Re: [gentoo-user] turning the number pad on in kde automatically

2005-01-05 Thread jonathan . a . mcguire
I do not have it here with me right now or access to this but I believe i just read this last night on the gentoo FAQs gives the instructions how to turn the num lock on for kde and gnome I believe |-+> | | "Antoine"| |

[gentoo-user] turning the number pad on in kde automatically

2005-01-05 Thread Antoine
Hi, Can anyone tell me how to do this? It used to happen automatically under mandrake (I think) and I haven't been bother to check how to do it... I wouldn't know where to start. Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libcaca emerge failure

2005-01-05 Thread John S J Anderson
Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>From the forums: > > USE="-X" emerge libcaca > > but no bug report filed See cheers, john. -- I don't need to compromise my principles, because they don't have the slightest bearing on what happens to

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I set the .maildir for virtual users with qmail

2005-01-05 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Jan Meier wrote: Hi, I read the following HOWTO: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/qmail-howto.xml and installed qmail and vpopmail. Everything works great and I added some virtual domains and virtual users. My problem is that I want to set the maildir for the virtual users. I want relate some vi

[gentoo-user] Re: libcaca emerge failure

2005-01-05 Thread Mark Knecht
>From the forums: USE="-X" emerge libcaca but no bug report filed On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 09:10:07 -0800, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, >Has this one come up yet? Since yesterday I cannot get past an > emerge of libcaca due to the following error: > > checking X11/XKBlib.h us

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa kernel or modular -- how to tell?

2005-01-05 Thread michael higgins
On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 17:13:20 +0100 Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > michael higgins wrote: > > > The problem with alsa in the kernel was, when attempting to emerge > > and update the world, it consistently failed at the newer alsa > > driver library release. This must be an unintended r

[gentoo-user] libcaca emerge failure

2005-01-05 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, Has this one come up yet? Since yesterday I cannot get past an emerge of libcaca due to the following error: checking X11/XKBlib.h usability... yes checking X11/XKBlib.h presence... yes checking for X11/XKBlib.h... yes configure: error: cannot find X11 development files !!! ERROR: media-l

[gentoo-user] Xorg + VNC 4 = total system freeze

2005-01-05 Thread Dave Nebinger
I'm looking for help getting VNC working... I've got Xorg 6.8.1.901, VNC 4, kernel 2.6.10, Nvidia graphics card w/ Nvidia-supplied driver. X works fine on the desktop w/o any problems. I emerged VNC 4 from the console (X not running) and fired up X and everything was cool. Starting the command

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Problem with Nvidia Module

2005-01-05 Thread Chiheb Djabri
-Original Message- From: Francesco Talamona [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: January 5, 2005 11:45 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Problem with Nvidia Module On Wednesday 05 January 2005 16:34, Chiheb Djabri wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "ji

[gentoo-user] Re: Problem with Nvidia Module

2005-01-05 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Wednesday 05 January 2005 16:34, Chiheb Djabri wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 12:21 AM > Subject: Problem with Nvidia Module > > > Chiheb Djabri wrote: > > > Hi > > > > > > My Nvidia modules seems not to work; af

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa kernel or modular -- how to tell?

2005-01-05 Thread Holly Bostick
michael higgins wrote: The problem with alsa in the kernel was, when attempting to emerge and update the world, it consistently failed at the newer alsa driver library release. This must be an unintended result, I think. Unless there is never a good reason to compile asla into the kernel, but I've

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa kernel or modular -- how to tell?

2005-01-05 Thread michael higgins
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 03:37:28 + "Jans H. Xie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I guess you haven't read this: > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml [1] > > Before you emerge the alsa-drivers, you should add a line in your make.conf: > ALSA_CARDS="here is your sound card type" > > After you

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.10

2005-01-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 05 January 2005 01:22, William Kenworthy wrote: > Not so, the case I am talking about is if you are rebuilding a > particular kernel multiple times (the same kernel) whilst changing > options. If you break a build, you have only one more chance to get it > right (the old symlink) befo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problem with Nvidia Module

2005-01-05 Thread Chiheb Djabri
- Original Message - From: "jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 12:21 AM Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Problem with Nvidia Module > Chiheb Djabri wrote: > > > Hi > > > > My Nvidia modules seems not to work; after installing nvidia-glx and > > modifying xorg.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - forwarding ports with ssh

2005-01-05 Thread Jan Callewaert
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-01-05 15:46:55 +0100]: > On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 15:41:08 +0100, Jan Callewaert > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Patrick Marquetecken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-01-05 15:28:15 +0100]: > > > > > On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 13:38:39 +0100 > > > Jan Callewaert <[EMAI

[gentoo-user] Re: Modifying the gentoo livecd...

2005-01-05 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Wednesday 05 January 2005 10:10, Peter Karlsson wrote: > Hi! > > I was just wondering if someone knows if there's an easy way to > modify an existing gentoo livecd (install-x86-minimal-2004.3-r1.iso). > The reason I'm asking is that I've gotten bitten by > "http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - forwarding ports with ssh

2005-01-05 Thread lousyphreak
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 15:41:08 +0100, Jan Callewaert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Patrick Marquetecken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-01-05 15:28:15 +0100]: > > > On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 13:38:39 +0100 > > Jan Callewaert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > -- > > > > > > I want to do something similar. I

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - forwarding ports with ssh

2005-01-05 Thread Jan Callewaert
* Patrick Marquetecken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-01-05 15:28:15 +0100]: > On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 13:38:39 +0100 > Jan Callewaert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > -- > > > > I want to do something similar. I can't login immediately so I have to > > pass via a gateway too. But if I execute the comma

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - forwarding ports with ssh

2005-01-05 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 13:38:39 +0100 Jan Callewaert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -- > > I want to do something similar. I can't login immediately so I have to > pass via a gateway too. But if I execute the command as executed above, > I arrive back at the client: > > $ ssh -fNL 1234:targetmachine

Re: [gentoo-user] stats program

2005-01-05 Thread Alexander
Dont know if something like this exist. But I think its easy to do with php or perl. The approach I would use is reading the log files, searching for the correct pattern then save the found info in a database server. Another script would read this info and print it to the website. What do you th

Re: [gentoo-user] arts/kde bombs: cpu overload, aborting

2005-01-05 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 05 January 2005 12:06, Robert S wrote: > Recently, when I get into KDE (3.3.2), there is no startup sound. When I > start a sound app. from the command line I get server status: busy message > in the terminal window. If I cocontinue to use an app producing sound I > eventually get a

[gentoo-user] fsck not seeing /etc/fstab?

2005-01-05 Thread Qian Qiao
Hi, I've ran into the fsck not finding /dev/ROOT /dev/BOOT problem. But the strange things is: the following is the /etc/fstab file, which is correctly setup AFAICT: Can anyone give me any hint on what other things might cause this problem. # NOTE: If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the no

Re: [gentoo-user] Stage1/Stage2/Stage3

2005-01-05 Thread Matan Peled
Ow Mun Heng wrote: The idea is _not_ to upgrade the system. (at least in a Major way) What I meant was, if you emerge sync once in a while, and also run emerge world -uDav every now and then, eventually all your packages will be compiled. Not something like an emerge -e world ... Just upgrading

[gentoo-user] keychain and gpg-agent problem

2005-01-05 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Hi, I have installed keychain on two machines and it is working fine on one of them. On the other keychain, or better gpg-agent, keeps asking for the passphrase everytime I open a new shell. I checked everything releated to gpg on both machines and installations and configuration look identical

Re: [gentoo-user] RE: Wireless lan with netgear wg511 and Gentoo

2005-01-05 Thread Marc Schlienger
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 09:07:01PM +1100, David Stewen wrote: > I have a ASUS A2400H Laptop. I followed the following two forum threads and > have WEP working on my PCMCIA Netgear WG511. > > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=177446&highlight=wg511 > > The thread above is the for the WG511

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop modem

2005-01-05 Thread Trond Danielsen
goto "http://www.linuxmodems.org";; if ( (you_modem == winmodem ) && no_driver_avail) { got_to_the_library_and_lend_a_book (); } On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 05:33:04PM -0800, Grant wrote: > There's a modem built into my Dell Inspiron 1000. I would guess it's > a winmodem but I don't know that for a

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - forwarding ports with ssh

2005-01-05 Thread Jan Callewaert
On 2005-01-04, Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 04 January 2005 23:12, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: > > I recently needed to know and was informed how to do similar, so I'll > pass on > the information. :) > > There are three parts: > > client(1357) - your snort machine > ssh "

Re: [gentoo-user] Can I get desktop shortcut in xfce4???

2005-01-05 Thread n_powell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 10:13:36AM +0900 thus spake Seung Hyun Cho: > i am using alt+f8... now... > > and I hope i can see desktop shortcut icon in the next version of xfce~ Sorry if this is a dub I didn't follow the whole thread...but I know a lot o

Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean is not evil! (was: How to unmerge Xfce4 (totally))

2005-01-05 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Wednesday 05 January 2005 19:25, Ow Mun Heng wrote: (B> Here's what I see at the top. (B> QA Notice: ECLASS 'flag-o-matic' inherited illegally in (B> dev-lang/swig-1.3.21 (B> QA Notice: ECLASS 'eutils' inherited illegally in dev-lang/swig-1.3.21 (B> QA Notice: ECLASS 'toolchain-funcs' inher

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing oracle jdbc2

2005-01-05 Thread Jan Callewaert
* Patrick Marquetecken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-01-05 12:42:03 +0100]: > On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 11:44:11 +0100 > Jan Callewaert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > ebuild /usr/portage/dev-java/jdbc2-oracle/jdbc2-oracle-9.2.0.3 digest > >>> Generating digest file... > <<< jdbc2-oracle-9.2

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing oracle jdbc2

2005-01-05 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 11:44:11 +0100 Jan Callewaert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > ebuild /usr/portage/dev-java/jdbc2-oracle/jdbc2-oracle-9.2.0.3 digest >>> Generating digest file... <<< jdbc2-oracle-9.2.0.3-classes12.zip <<< jdbc2-oracle-9.2.0.3-ocrs12.zip <<< jdbc2-oracle-9.2.0.3-nls_charset

Re: [gentoo-user] kmail - incorrect time?

2005-01-05 Thread Christoph Eckert
> If I remember correctly yhese should be some sort of binary > file, correct. Where/how do I get the correct files? I'm not familiar with it, but AFAIK you're right, it should be binary files. The last I had such a mess was on mandrake, but on Gentoo it worked just right out of the box. Be

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop modem

2005-01-05 Thread Christoph Eckert
> There's a modem built into my Dell Inspiron 1000.  I would > guess it's a winmodem but I don't know that for a fact. >  Does anyone have any tips on getting it working?  I'm > stuck somewhere for a few hours tomorrow, and the only way > to get online is > boop-boop-beep-boop-boop-beep-boop. If

Re: [gentoo-user] How to unmerge Xfce4 (totally)

2005-01-05 Thread purslow
050105 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > 05 Jan 2005 10:06:10 +0800 Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 20:01, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Meh, please don't use Blackbox, I keep on plotting > >> So.. is that how things work, devolope

Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean is not evil! (was: How to unmerge Xfce4 (totally))

2005-01-05 Thread Christian Hoenig
So, On Wednesday 05 January 2005 08:30, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Dienstag, 4. Januar 2005 19:46 schrieb ext Trond Danielsen: > > On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 01:27:04PM +0100, Christian Hoenig wrote: > > > so, people, don't be scared of --depclean. Make sure your worldfile is > > > ok, then everythin

Re: [gentoo-user] Selective sound

2005-01-05 Thread Christoph Eckert
> I have alsa-lib installed, and I have get sound in most > things, but evolution isn't one of them.  I have evolution > set to play a sound when new mail arrives, but it never > does.  The sound file I told it to play is actually from > gaim, and in gaim it works. Which soundfile is it? /dev/dsp

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing oracle jdbc2

2005-01-05 Thread Jan Callewaert
* Patrick Marquetecken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-01-05 11:33:13 +0100]: > Hi, > > I'm trying to install jdb2-oracle, witch demands that you download the > nessecery files from oracle and rename, so i dit. > Now i got the "error" that the filesize don't match. The only way to get this > to work

[gentoo-user] RE: Wireless lan with netgear wg511 and Gentoo

2005-01-05 Thread David Stewen
I have a ASUS A2400H Laptop. I followed the following two forum threads and have WEP working on my PCMCIA Netgear WG511. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=177446&highlight=wg511 The thread above is the for the WG511 http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=225871&highlight=wg511 This t

[gentoo-user] Installing oracle jdbc2

2005-01-05 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Hi, I'm trying to install jdb2-oracle, witch demands that you download the nessecery files from oracle and rename, so i dit. Now i got the "error" that the filesize don't match. The only way to get this to work is to create a new digest i supose, but how? The "error" NIDS-console distfiles # em

Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean is not evil! (was: How to unmerge Xfce4 (totally))

2005-01-05 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 14:36, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 13:08, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 10:13:20 +0800 Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > | That is good tip. I would like to know.. how come some packages (i > > | believe, dependencies) are not inclu

Re: [gentoo-user] pre/cross-building packages...

2005-01-05 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Dienstag, 4. Januar 2005 22:13 schrieb ext Bastian Balthazar Bux: sorry, he has different architectures, distcc stills is not cross compile capable. Errh, why shouldn't it? Once you have setup a working cross compilation environment (i.e. compiling on x86 for m68k)

[gentoo-user] arts/kde bombs: cpu overload, aborting

2005-01-05 Thread Robert S
Recently, when I get into KDE (3.3.2), there is no startup sound. When I start a sound app. from the command line I get server status: busy message in the terminal window. If I cocontinue to use an app producing sound I eventually get a dialog saying: Sound server fatal error: cpu overload, abor

Re: [gentoo-user] pre/cross-building packages...

2005-01-05 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 4. Januar 2005 22:13 schrieb ext Bastian Balthazar Bux: > sorry, he has different architectures, distcc stills is not cross > compile capable. Errh, why shouldn't it? Once you have setup a working cross compilation environment (i.e. compiling on x86 for m68k), you will be able to do

Re: [gentoo-user] Modifying the gentoo livecd...

2005-01-05 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 17:10, Peter Karlsson wrote: > Hi! > > I was just wondering if someone knows if there's an easy way to modify an > existing gentoo livecd (install-x86-minimal-2004.3-r1.iso). The reason I'm > asking is that I've gotten bitten by > "http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72055

Re: [gentoo-user] pre/cross-building packages...

2005-01-05 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Alec wrote: Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: On January 4, 2005 02:11 pm, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: the following is probably a starting point LISTOFEBUILDS="uno due tre" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer" \ CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu \ CXXFLAGS=${CFLAGS} LIN