[gentoo-user] No /dev/v4l/video0

2005-01-07 Thread Scott Rollins
My TV cable was out for a couple of weeks, but until then, my TV tuner card was working under Linux. Unfortunately, it no longer does. I think I may have done a too hasty replace on a configuration file when I did an emerge world in that time. Error message that comes up complains of a missing

[gentoo-user] Re: Determine how many packages are in portage

2005-01-07 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Friday 07 January 2005 04:39, Ow Mun Heng wrote: how does one count the # of packages supported by the current portage? ls -laR | wc -l definately does not work eupdatedb would work, since it counts down to 0. There's got to be another way. esync, that uses eupdatedb shows: macula root

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge anything

2005-01-07 Thread Arctic Paintball Oy
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `as': No such file or directory This means that the compiler can't find the assembler. It's either not where gcc expects it to be or not there at all. You didn't accidentally unmerge

Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/v4l/video0

2005-01-07 Thread Mariusz Pkala
Error message that comes up complains of a missing /dev/v4l/video0 file I haven't re-compiled my kernel, so that shouldn't be it. Any suggestions on how to fix my problem? (Or other info you would need?) First 'obvious' thing that comes to mind is: kernel module not loaded. Have you been

[gentoo-user] Re: Filesystem Benchmarks

2005-01-07 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Friday 07 January 2005 02:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I did run a little benchmark earlier today without seeing this thread. I had been suffering from Reiser3 for quite some time and switched to Reiser4 yesterday. Reiser4 was really nice in that it made my disk really silent. It is

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge anything

2005-01-07 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 7. Januar 2005 09:46 schrieb ext Arctic Paintball Oy: binutils is 2.15.92.0.2-r2 but binutils-config is 1.5 though 1.6 is available and emerged 1.6 right away. binutils-config -l [1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-2.15.92.0.2 I see no * at the end of the line, which marks the selected

Re: [gentoo-user] XORG keybord konfiguration

2005-01-07 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Am Donnerstag, 6. Januar 2005 14:04 schrieb Bill Roberts: On 13:26 Thu 06 Jan , Alexander Puchmayr wrote: Am Donnerstag, 6. Januar 2005 12:35 schrieb Bill Roberts: On 11:11 Thu 06 Jan , Alexander Puchmayr wrote: Hi there! After moving from xfree86 to xorg-x11 I have a

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge anything

2005-01-07 Thread Arctic Paintball Oy
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Freitag, 7. Januar 2005 09:46 schrieb ext Arctic Paintball Oy: if your error goes away if you select the profile with binutils-config i686-pc-linux-gnu-2.15.92.0.2 Then the output should look like this: = binutils-config -l [1]

Re: [gentoo-user] XORG keybord konfiguration

2005-01-07 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Am Donnerstag, 6. Januar 2005 13:52 schrieb Jan Callewaert: * Alexander Puchmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-01-06 13:26:44 +0100]: Am Donnerstag, 6. Januar 2005 12:35 schrieb Bill Roberts: On 11:11 Thu 06 Jan , Alexander Puchmayr wrote: Hi there! After moving from xfree86 to

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnu problems with Dutch as default languge

2005-01-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Patrick Marquetecken wrote: Hi, I tried today to create a sub key with my email at work so i executed: gpg --edit-key x adduid and got this: Echte naam: Patrick Marquetecken E-mail adres: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Opmerking: U heeft deze gebruikerscode gekozen: Patrick Marquetecken [EMAIL

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo using a lot of disk space

2005-01-07 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Friday 07 January 2005 05:59, Alec wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I just noticed that my Gentoo root partition has almost 28 GB in use. /usr/portage/distfiles is only 10% of that. The remainder seems awfully big. All my personal stuff is in other directories, AFAIK. Anybody have a

Re: [gentoo-user] Playing a Video CD on Linux

2005-01-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Peter Ruskin wrote: On Friday 07 January 2005 00:44, Jeff Cranmer wrote: I have a Video CD which I'd like to be able to play on my Gentoo box. xine can do that. MPlayer can do it too-- just right-click on the Video window, and choose VCD=Open Disc (I know it's a VCD due to the file structure, but

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

2005-01-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 16:40:38 -0500 (EST), Marshal Newrock wrote: Does anyone have suggestions for an email client which has per-folder options for new messages. Sylpheed-claws can do this. -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 6: Pretty ugly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo using a lot of disk space

2005-01-07 Thread Mike Williams
On Friday 07 January 2005 09:21, Francesco Talamona wrote: du -sk --max-depth=1 That will tell you where the most space is taken up, then go into that directory, and run the command again, and again, and again. There is probably a better way ( I normally only use that on 200mb home

Re: [gentoo-user] Determine how many packages are in portage

2005-01-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 11:39:52 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: how does one count the # of packages supported by the current portage? qpkg | wc -l -- Neil Bothwick Silly wabbit.QWKs are for QWKidds. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/v4l/video0

2005-01-07 Thread Scott Rollins
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 09:50:14 +0100, Mariusz Pkala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Error message that comes up complains of a missing /dev/v4l/video0 file I haven't re-compiled my kernel, so that shouldn't be it. Any suggestions on how to fix my problem? (Or other info you would need?) First

[gentoo-user] Re: XORG keybord konfiguration

2005-01-07 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Friday 07 January 2005 10:03, Alexander Puchmayr wrote: snip The setup tool seems to remove it automatically whe upgrading from xree4.3 to xorg-x11. Since it didn't work, I noticed this difference and added it -- without success. OK, I removed the line and now I am at the same point as

[gentoo-user] Gecko-SDK

2005-01-07 Thread David Morgan
On 16:25 Thu 06 Jan , Edward A Mihalow Jr wrote: Not to long ago after doing a emerge sync emerge -uDp world I have gecko-SDK package as a dependency. It takes amost if not as long to compile as Mozilla. Does anyone know if this really is required or is this a developer package and can

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Filesystem Benchmarks

2005-01-07 Thread Marc Ballarin
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 22:12:38 -0700 Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's encouraging to hear. My only 3 experiences with reiserfs (1x late 2.4, 2x on 2.6, never again in this lifetime) led to total fs corruption after a powerfail. Power failure is completely different to a crash!

[gentoo-user] special note at the end of 2.6.10 changelog

2005-01-07 Thread Francisco Ares
Hi, all Something special in a note from Linux at the end of the changelog for the new kernel version when compiling with newer gcc versions: .. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't use -march=pentium3 for gcc tuning. rth tells me that some versions of gcc may end up using the

[gentoo-user] Firefox Java enabled.

2005-01-07 Thread Alexander
Hello friends, I have just compiled mozilla-firefox-1.0 with java use flag set. But even after that I cannot run java applets like bank login systems. So I tried to manually install java run-time, using j2re-1.4.6 from Sun. When I emerge it, I get an error saying it is not a suficient java VM,

Re: [gentoo-user] special note at the end of 2.6.10 changelog

2005-01-07 Thread Marc Ballarin
On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 09:10:37 -0200 Francisco Ares [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, all Something special in a note from Linux at the end of the changelog for the new kernel version when compiling with newer gcc versions: .. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't use -march=pentium3 for gcc

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo using a lot of disk space

2005-01-07 Thread Francisco Ares
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Nope. Ccache not installed. I don't know anything about it. Is it worth learning? ++ kevin just if you use to compile several times the same package (tweaking USE flags, for example). ccache will save binary compiled files in a (normally) 2G max. cache directory to

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox Java enabled.

2005-01-07 Thread Francisco Ares
You may try blackdown java, also in portage Francisco Alexander wrote: Hello friends, I have just compiled mozilla-firefox-1.0 with java use flag set. But even after that I cannot run java applets like bank login systems. So I tried to manually install java run-time, using j2re-1.4.6 from Sun.

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox Java enabled.

2005-01-07 Thread Marc Ballarin
On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 07:23:36 -0200 Alexander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello friends, I have just compiled mozilla-firefox-1.0 with java use flag set. But even after that I cannot run java applets like bank login systems. So I tried to manually install java run-time, using j2re-1.4.6 from

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox Java enabled.

2005-01-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Alexander wrote: Hello friends, I have just compiled mozilla-firefox-1.0 with java use flag set. But even after that I cannot run java applets like bank login systems. So I tried to manually install java run-time, using j2re-1.4.6 from Sun. When I emerge it, I get an error saying it is not a

Re: [gentoo-user] INBOX variable is wrong

2005-01-07 Thread Ralph Slooten
I use courier-imap and squirrelmail, and it works fine here. The location of the inbox does not need to be specified. In my config/config.php: $default_folder_prefix = ''; $trash_folder = 'INBOX.Trash'; $sent_folder= 'INBOX.Sent'; $draft_folder

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox Java enabled.

2005-01-07 Thread Jaroslav Sladek
I use sun-jdk (from portage) without any trouble in firefox 1.0. I emerged it with mozilla use flag, so it created appropriate symlink in /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins, and firefox works just fine. That's all that was needed. I don't think emerging firefox with java use flag is vital, only thing that

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox Java enabled.

2005-01-07 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
snip I'm a Linux user, but my boyfriend (with whom I live) (still) uses Windows, and even under that he had a horrible time with our bank's Java system (because he's a Mozilla user). He either had to use IE, or downgrade Sun's Java, because the bank had not upgraded their server/software

[gentoo-user] Re: Problem with Nvidia Module

2005-01-07 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Friday 07 January 2005 14:29, Daniel G. Siegel wrote: i think i know, what's the problem is... do you have either Xorg or opengl-update in /etc/portage/packages.keywords? if so, then here you have the problem. you have to insert both or none of them... Greetings daniel Incorrect: I have

[gentoo-user] Re: Problem with Nvidia Module

2005-01-07 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Friday 07 January 2005 15:14, Francesco Talamona wrote: On Friday 07 January 2005 14:29, Daniel G. Siegel wrote: i think i know, what's the problem is... do you have either Xorg or opengl-update in /etc/portage/packages.keywords? if so, then here you have the problem. you have to

Re: [gentoo-user] Qmail relay dor single host

2005-01-07 Thread Mike Williams
On Friday 07 January 2005 13:28, Reno Romanin wrote: I have emerged qmail/vpopmail, everything is working fine except the relay for a single host I added to tcp rules. To add the host I put host ip:allow,RELAYCLIENT= In /etc/tcprules.d/tcp.qmail-smtp and then ran tcprules

Re: [gentoo-user] howto recover the xfree ebuild

2005-01-07 Thread Agustin Navarro
On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 07:53:31 -0600, Andrew Gaffney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Agustin Navarro wrote: Is there a way to recover the xfree ebuild ??? First, why? Second: http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/x11-base/xfree/?root=gentoo-x86 This is an old machine and I have trouble

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Filesystem Benchmarks

2005-01-07 Thread Billy
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Uhm... No. ext3 does full journaling, reiserfs does not. Then there's also the pesky little issue of reiser recovery tools being far less reliable than the ext3 ones. ext3 is just rock solid. It's based on ext2, which has been in the Linux tree for practically forever. Any

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Filesystem Benchmarks

2005-01-07 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Reiser4 is a nice toy to play with, but I gave up on it months ago as it really made my kernels less stable, and I didn't see any real benefits. On the [ck] mailing list, I even posted some benchmarks against xfs and reiser4 using a real world test case, and XFS was better by a small margin.

[gentoo-user] libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 sys-libs/lib-compat

2005-01-07 Thread Covington, Chris
Hi all, I have a server that I'd like to run AVG anti-virus on. This server has the following USE flags: USE=-kde -gnome -qt -gtk -alsa -X -oss -tcltk -ipv6 ldap ssl When I try to run AVG it says: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3: cannot open shared object file:

Re: [gentoo-user] special note at the end of 2.6.10 changelog

2005-01-07 Thread Graham Murray
Marc Ballarin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: AFAICT this is only an issue for kernel code. And as the kernel build process sets the CFLAGS itself, is not something which the user (as opposed to the kernel developer) should worry about. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 sys-libs/lib-compat

2005-01-07 Thread Matthew Cline
So I saw that libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 is part of sys-libs/lib-compat but when I do an emerge --pretend lib-compat I get the following: Looking at the ebuild for lib-compat, it depends upon libsdl, which depends upon X. Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 sys-libs/lib-compat

2005-01-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Matthew Cline wrote: So I saw that libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 is part of sys-libs/lib-compat but when I do an emerge --pretend lib-compat I get the following: Looking at the ebuild for lib-compat, it depends upon libsdl, which depends upon X. Matt Can one not toggle that USE flag and compile it

Re: [gentoo-user] libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 sys-libs/lib-compat

2005-01-07 Thread Covington, Chris
On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 16:50 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: Matthew Cline wrote: So I saw that libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 is part of sys-libs/lib-compat but when I do an emerge --pretend lib-compat I get the following: Looking at the ebuild for lib-compat, it depends upon libsdl, which

Re: [gentoo-user] libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 sys-libs/lib-compat

2005-01-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Covington, Chris wrote: On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 16:50 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: Matthew Cline wrote: So I saw that libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 is part of sys-libs/lib-compat but when I do an emerge --pretend lib-compat I get the following: Looking at the ebuild for lib-compat, it depends upon

Re: [gentoo-user] libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 sys-libs/lib-compat

2005-01-07 Thread Covington, Chris
On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 16:54 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: Can one not toggle that USE flag and compile it -sdl? Or is it a hard dependency (don't see how it could be, if it's got a USE flag to facilitate splitting the X-related stuff out)? Thank you!!! That worked perfectly. Chris

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to dd copy an xfs partition. No joy.

2005-01-07 Thread Bob Sanders
I just tried to copy an xfs partition with dd bs=1024000 if=... of=... and got no joy. The OS was in single-user when I did this. All seemed okay, but the destination drive refuses to mount. We been using this for a few years to copy xfs partitions - xfsdump -l 0 - /sourcedisk

[gentoo-user] cups-kprinter problem

2005-01-07 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
I keep having a problem with cups-kprinter. It is with tryiong to print pdf files. I also get an error stating that a filter is not available for mime type octet/stream. What is that and how should I fix it? I don't get it with another machine, but can't find what is borked on this one. Here

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Filesystem Benchmarks

2005-01-07 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Friday 07 January 2005 07:07, death rince wrote: Hi, Hi. I figured that you might need another response as most of this thread just turned into a flame war. ;) I was browsing through benchmarks of Reiserfs and other filesystem when I came across this,

Re: [gentoo-user] howto recover the xfree ebuild

2005-01-07 Thread Phil Sexton
On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 09:50, Agustin Navarro wrote: This is an old machine and I have trouble emerging xorg. The system freezes or reboots while compiling. other than that, the machine works fine. It sounds as if you may have some flaky RAM. I suggest running memtest86 to eliminate that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo using a lot of disk space

2005-01-07 Thread Alec
Francesco Talamona wrote: On Friday 07 January 2005 05:59, Alec wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I just noticed that my Gentoo root partition has almost 28 GB in use. /usr/portage/distfiles is only 10% of that. The remainder seems awfully big. All my personal stuff is in other directories,

[gentoo-user] The Gimp jpeg

2005-01-07 Thread Vittorio
Dear All, I compiled gimp 2.0.4 from the latest stage1 but it doesn't support jpeg files requiring an extra library. Therefore I've just compiled the media-libs/jpeg library from stage1 but gimp is still unable to open jpeg files. What else should I compile? Thanks Vittorio --

[gentoo-user] OT: Seeking recommendation for new graphics card...

2005-01-07 Thread Dave Nebinger
Okay folks, I've had enough of my Nvidia card. I need to get a new card that will be more compatible with Gentoo Linux. Here's the basic requirements: 1. PCI based (as the nvidia is using agp and it's onboard :-( 2. Completely compatible and dependable with the 2.6+ series of kernels. 3.

Re: [gentoo-user] The Gimp jpeg

2005-01-07 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 20:16:59 +0100 Vittorio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I compiled gimp 2.0.4 from the latest stage1 but it doesn't support jpeg files requiring an extra library. Therefore I've just compiled the media-libs/jpeg library from stage1 but gimp is still unable to open jpeg files.

Re: [gentoo-user] The Gimp jpeg

2005-01-07 Thread Heinz Sporn
Look at the output of emerge -pvV gimp. You'll notice that it uses the jpeg flag. So either perform USE=jpeg emerge gimp or add jpeg to your USE flags in /etc/make.conf and emerge Gimp again. Vittorio schrieb: Dear All, I compiled gimp 2.0.4 from the latest stage1 but it doesn't support jpeg

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

2005-01-07 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Peter Gordon wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: | 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? Yes, it's entirely possible. Just pass an ARCH=um to

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Seeking recommendation for new graphics card...

2005-01-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Dave Nebinger wrote: Okay folks, I've had enough of my Nvidia card. I need to get a new card that will be more compatible with Gentoo Linux. Here's the basic requirements: 1. PCI based (as the nvidia is using agp and it's onboard :-( 2. Completely compatible and dependable with the 2.6+ series of

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo and rc hell?

2005-01-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 13:12:34 -0700, Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: yes ;) thing about putting a script that changes your configuration i.e. /etc/init.d/conf1 /etc/init.d/conf2 hmm... looks doable, but isn't it kind of messy (instead of having one script and just changing config you end up

Re: [gentoo-user] cups-kprinter problem

2005-01-07 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Friday 07 January 2005 13:21, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: Here is the error when trying to print a .ps file to a .pdf file using kprinter and cups. A print error occurred. Error message received from system: gs -q -dSAFER -dPARANOIDSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite

RE: [gentoo-user] OT: Seeking recommendation for new graphics card...

2005-01-07 Thread Dave Nebinger
What kind of nVidia card do you have? I've got a Matrox G400 here which would be fine for your needs, and I'm willing to trade/barter. Output of cfg2html.sh: VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NVCrush11 [GeForce2 MX Integrated Graphics] (rev b1) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Not a joke or

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo and rc hell?

2005-01-07 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Use a single script and have it check /proc/cmdline to see which runlevel has been called. /etc/init.d/functions.sh do this for u with the function get_bootconfig() this function set both BOOTLEVEL and DEFAULTLEVEL, the variables to pass at startup are bootlevel and softlevel respectively

[gentoo-user] colortail: reproducable bug

2005-01-07 Thread W. B. Maguire II
Hello all: I'm having some problems with 'colortail'. I tried to send all this information to the package author, but it appears that he/she no longer exists! ;-) Is anyone else using 'colortail'? It sure would be nice to not have to reinvent the wheel... Anyway, since I went to the trouble

[gentoo-user] Tarball Glibc

2005-01-07 Thread Mickael - DjTechno
Hello, I search glibc-2.3.4-20040808-r1 's tarball to install gentoo stage1 without internet. Thanks, Mickaël -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.6.9 - Release Date: 06/01/2005 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2005-01-07 Thread Marc Ballarin
On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 19:40:12 +0100 Bastian Balthazar Bux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: not very lucky, I've tryed differents kernel sources with differents failures. One seems to arrive from the linker, the other probably is a .config issue. Try to disable Tracing thread support

RE: [gentoo-user] colortail: reproducable bug

2005-01-07 Thread Dave Nebinger
Dude, I thought I'd run it in the debugger to see if I could determine where the breakage was occurring... First I emerged it and validated that I too was getting the segmentation fault. So I cd to /usr/portage/app-misc/colortail and issue ebuild colortail-0.3.0-r3.ebuild unpack to extract the

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Seeking recommendation for new graphics card...

2005-01-07 Thread Bob Sanders
Okay folks, I've had enough of my Nvidia card. Could you elaborate? If you're not using the 3d capabilites, then the nv driver that comes with Xorg is fully open source. No need for any nvidia binary driver. So I'm curious as to the issue you're having. I need to get a new card that will

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

2005-01-07 Thread Trond Danielsen
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 12:21:49AM -0500, jim wrote: Chiheb Djabri wrote: Hi My Nvidia modules seems not to work; after installing nvidia-glx and modifying xorg.conf I did opengl-update nvidia and the results: *Switching to nvidia openGL interface ln: Creating symbolic link

RE: [gentoo-user] OT: Seeking recommendation for new graphics card...

2005-01-07 Thread Dave Nebinger
Okay folks, I've had enough of my Nvidia card. Could you elaborate? If you're not using the 3d capabilites, then the nv driver that comes with Xorg is fully open source. No need for any nvidia binary driver. So I'm curious as to the issue you're having. It's just too darn unstable.

Re: [gentoo-user] battery applet/monitors in Fluxbox

2005-01-07 Thread Trond Danielsen
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 05:23:35PM -0800, Peter Gordon wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hareesh Nagarajan wrote: | I am currently using Gkrellm to display the life of my battery in | Fluxbox. Gkrellmshows 100% battery even when I havent plugged in the | power cord. Is

[gentoo-user] blocker!?

2005-01-07 Thread Bruno Lustosa
After syncing, I tried to update everything, and there's a blocker. Strangely enough, I tried to look at /usr/portage/app-text/dgs, and the directory doesn't exist. Also, I don't have xorg-x11 installed, I'm still using xfree86. Anyone experiencing similar problems? alegria ~ # emerge --deep -up

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Seeking recommendation for new graphics card...

2005-01-07 Thread Marc Ballarin
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 14:53:13 -0500 Dave Nebinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's just too darn unstable. The only kernel module I could get working with the card was a locally-compiled version built from the drivers from nvidia.com. The latest version from nvidia won't work at all, I'm using

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Seeking recommendation for new graphics card...

2005-01-07 Thread Bob Sanders
Could you elaborate? If you're not using the 3d capabilites, then the nv driver that comes with Xorg is fully open source. No need for any nvidia binary driver. So I'm curious as to the issue you're having. It's just too darn unstable. The only kernel module I could get

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Seeking recommendation for new graphics card...

2005-01-07 Thread Brant Katkansky
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 14:53:13 -0500, Dave Nebinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay folks, I've had enough of my Nvidia card. Could you elaborate? If you're not using the 3d capabilites, then the nv driver that comes with Xorg is fully open source. No need for any nvidia binary driver.

Re: [gentoo-user] blocker!?

2005-01-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Bruno Lustosa wrote: After syncing, I tried to update everything, and there's a blocker. Strangely enough, I tried to look at /usr/portage/app-text/dgs, and the directory doesn't exist. Also, I don't have xorg-x11 installed, I'm still using xfree86. Anyone experiencing similar problems? alegria ~

Re: [gentoo-user] blocker!?

2005-01-07 Thread Bruno Lustosa
No, not experiencing this problem (for several reasons) but I seem to recall hearing that dgs was removed from Portage not that long ago (which would explain why it does not appear in your Portage tree). In any case, you presumably emerged it sometime before that (possibly as a dependency

RE: [gentoo-user] blocker!?

2005-01-07 Thread Dave Nebinger
emerge -C dgs to fix the blocker. It was removed from the portage tree. After syncing, I tried to update everything, and there's a blocker. Strangely enough, I tried to look at /usr/portage/app-text/dgs, and the directory doesn't exist. Also, I don't have xorg-x11 installed, I'm still

[gentoo-user] Hot Babe and Debian (GENTOO :-)

2005-01-07 Thread Joseph
http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/27/1535248 --quote- The Web page for Hot Babe describes it as: A small graphical utility which displays the system activity in a very special way. When the CPU is idle, it displays a dressed girl, and when

[gentoo-user] filesystem error

2005-01-07 Thread Robert Colonna
I am getting this error when booting The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an

[gentoo-user] mutt keybindings

2005-01-07 Thread Maik Musall
Hello, I use mutt on several hosts, and on the gentoo boxes things are different and I could not find out why with the mutt docs and websites and FAQs alone. Especially, BackSpace does not scroll one line backwards when viewing a mail, although the ? key shows that to be a valid keybinding. When

Re: [gentoo-user] filesystem error

2005-01-07 Thread Peter Gordon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Colonna wrote: | I am getting this error when booting | | The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 | filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 | filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something

Re: [gentoo-user] Hot Babe and Debian (GENTOO :-)

2005-01-07 Thread Andres Järv
If you look at the official home page, there already is one. Not in portage tree though AFAIK. http://dindinx.net/hotbabe/download.php http://dindinx.net/hotbabe/gentoo/hot-babe-ebuild.tar.bz2 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Hot Babe and Debian (GENTOO :-)

2005-01-07 Thread Peter Gordon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joseph wrote: | Anybody and an ebuild; I'm sure our community would grow much faster and | we would upgrade more often :-) They already have an ebuild tarball on their site: http://dindinx.net/hotbabe/download.php (It's down near the bottom) - -- ()

Re: [gentoo-user] filesystem error

2005-01-07 Thread Robert Colonna
should be ext3 filesystem.../etc/fstab says it is...is there some other way i could verify that it is and if it is not how could i go about changing it. would i just apply mke2fs -j On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 13:50:15 -0800, Peter Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-

[gentoo-user] Powerfailure hosed Dev filesystem

2005-01-07 Thread David Busby
List, I had a power failure today, no UPS. I had my gentoo box setup to use raid on /dev/md1 and /dev/md0. I have devfs on. When I reboot my system cannot find /dev/md1, but can find /dev/md0. /etc/raidtab is OK, if I boot off the livecd (2004.3) I can say raidstart /dev/md0 and

[gentoo-user] Re: XORG keybord konfiguration

2005-01-07 Thread heide
Alexander Puchmayr alexander.puchmayr at linznet.at writes: snip MY xorg.conf looks like this Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard0 Driver kbd Option XkbModel pc104 Option XkbLayout de Option XkbVariant

[gentoo-user] Re: mutt keybindings

2005-01-07 Thread leffeman
On 07-01-05 22:15 +0100, Maik Musall wrote: Hello, I use mutt on several hosts, and on the gentoo boxes things are different and I could not find out why with the mutt docs and websites and FAQs alone. Especially, BackSpace does not scroll one line backwards when viewing a mail, although

Re: [gentoo-user] courier-imap and Sylpheed

2005-01-07 Thread Grant
I'm switching from Squirrelmail to Sylpheed for imap email, but I'm not sure what the server names for receiving and sending should be. Can anyone point me in the right direction? - Grant My email is set up entirely on my server (postfix + courier-imap). I'm just not sure

[gentoo-user] portage problem / cups

2005-01-07 Thread Joseph
When I try to emerge -uDav world it is trying to upgrade cups to newer version that doesn't exist! Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] net-print/cups-1.1.23 [1.1.23_rc1] When I try to compile it I get: !!! Couldn't download cups-1.1.23-source.tar.bz2. Aborting. But checking

Re: [gentoo-user] Powerfailure hosed Dev filesystem

2005-01-07 Thread David Busby
David Busby wrote: List, I had a power failure today, no UPS. I had my gentoo box setup to use raid on /dev/md1 and /dev/md0. I have devfs on. When I reboot my system cannot find /dev/md1, but can find /dev/md0. /etc/raidtab is OK, if I boot off the livecd (2004.3) I can say raidstart

Re: [gentoo-user] Powerfailure hosed Dev filesystem

2005-01-07 Thread David Miller
On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 16:35:17 -0800, David Busby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Busby wrote: List, I had a power failure today, no UPS. I had my gentoo box setup to use raid on /dev/md1 and /dev/md0. I have devfs on. When I reboot my system cannot find /dev/md1, but can find /dev/md0.

Re: [gentoo-user] portage problem / cups

2005-01-07 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Maybe the package hasn't made it to the mirrors yet. The ebuild can exist but not the packages. Try again later. On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Joseph wrote: When I try to emerge -uDav world it is trying to upgrade cups to newer version that doesn't exist! Calculating world dependencies ...done!

[gentoo-user] smb support in konqueror

2005-01-07 Thread yerffej
Just installed samba on my Gentoo system. I can access remote shares at the command line using the mount command. But when I try to access remote shares from konqueror using smb://server/share i get an error smb protocol not supported. How do you enable support in Konqueror? --

Re: [gentoo-user] portage problem / cups

2005-01-07 Thread Joseph
Yes, this is the case. What puzzled me is that I couldn't find new ebuild even on Gentoo server; it appeared maybe two hours after I rsync. -- #Joseph On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 22:51 -0500, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Maybe the package hasn't made it to the mirrors yet. The ebuild can exist but not

Re: [gentoo-user] portage problem / cups

2005-01-07 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
There is a bug on this - the ebuild has a bad SRC_URI. I just did another sync and the cups ebuild shows up as being downloaded. As soon as portage stops udating it's cache I'll see if that fixes the problem. On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Joseph wrote: Yes, this is the case. What puzzled me is

Re: [gentoo-user] portage problem / cups

2005-01-07 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Nope, didn't work. Maybe tomorrow there will be an updated ebuild. On Sat, 8 Jan 2005, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: There is a bug on this - the ebuild has a bad SRC_URI. I just did another sync and the cups ebuild shows up as being downloaded. As soon as portage stops udating it's cache I'll