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

2005-01-08 Thread Dirk Raeder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 08 January 2005 01:25, Grant wrote: 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?

[gentoo-user] Need software to convert .wmv to MPEG

2005-01-08 Thread Jamie Dobbs
Is anyone aware of any software for Gentoo to allow the conversion of .wmv files to MPEG? Basically what I'd really like is something like the virtualdub (www.virtualdub.com) software available for Windows so that I can convert between various video formats. Cheers Jamie --

Re: [gentoo-user] smb support in konqueror

2005-01-08 Thread Nicolas Vollmar
On Saturday 08 January 2005 05.16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Need software to convert .wmv to MPEG

2005-01-08 Thread Holly Bostick
Jamie Dobbs wrote: Is anyone aware of any software for Gentoo to allow the conversion of .wmv files to MPEG? Basically what I'd really like is something like the virtualdub (www.virtualdub.com) software available for Windows so that I can convert between various video formats. Cheers Jamie

RE: [gentoo-user] Need software to convert .wmv to MPEG

2005-01-08 Thread Wayne Oliver
- -Original Message- - From: Jamie Dobbs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Sent: 08 January 2005 10:49 - - Is anyone aware of any software for Gentoo to allow the - conversion of - .wmv files to MPEG? - Basically what I'd really like is something like the virtualdub - (www.virtualdub.com)

[gentoo-user] When did X.org get installed?

2005-01-08 Thread Ric de France
Hi Gentoo Users, This may sound like a weird question, but how do I find out when X.org got installed on my system. When I originally installed Gentoo, it was with XFree86, not X.org... and I recently discovered during an emerge -upD world that it's recompiling X.org. I'm assuming I must have

Re: [gentoo-user] When did X.org get installed?

2005-01-08 Thread Jrgen David
On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 21:29:10 +1100 Ric de France [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Gentoo Users, Hello Ric, Any suggestions as to how I can find this out? Does anyone know when XFree86 was deprecated in Portage? genlop -t xorg-x11 Maybe you have to emerge app-portage/genlop. HTH Juergen

[gentoo-user] genkernel enhancements?

2005-01-08 Thread Stoian Ivanov
Hi All, I'm a new Gentoo user, and I find Gentoo marvelous distro. Thou some question emerge mostly on genkernel behavior. Surprisingly I found that genkernel does not modify Processor type and leaves it to 486 which is bad on AMD-K7 system. Other disturbing thing is persistive usage

Re: [gentoo-user] When did X.org get installed?

2005-01-08 Thread Alin Dobre
Hello, On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 21:29:10 +1100, Ric de France [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Gentoo Users, This may sound like a weird question, but how do I find out when X.org got installed on my system. When I originally installed Gentoo, it was with XFree86, not X.org... and I recently

[gentoo-user] kdeartwork-3.3.2 failing compilation

2005-01-08 Thread Vittorio
I have been building my own gentoo box from scratch with the latest stage1. Now, I'm compiling everything and the kde stuff with the following USE variable # echo $USE -java -gnome kde dvd cdr alsa jpeg tiff jpeg tiff gimpprint BUT kdeartwork fails during compilation. Here it is an extract of

Re: [gentoo-user] When did X.org get installed?

2005-01-08 Thread Agustin Navarro
On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 21:29:10 +1100, Ric de France [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Gentoo Users, This may sound like a weird question, but how do I find out when X.org got installed on my system. When I originally installed Gentoo, it was with XFree86, not X.org... and I recently discovered

Re: [gentoo-user] The Gimp jpeg HELP

2005-01-08 Thread Vittorio
I didn't succeed! I had a go with: # echo $USE -java -gnome kde dvd cdr alsa jpeg tiff jpeg tiff gimpprint # emerge unmerge gimp To be on the safe side!!! # emerge -b gimp BUT I'm still unable to open a jpg file (of the hundreds I used to work with!!) under the Gimp (unknown

[gentoo-user] xcdroast GDK_PIXBUF problems

2005-01-08 Thread Vittorio
I'm emerging xcdroast from the latest stage1 with the following USE # echo $USE -java -gnome kde dvd cdr alsa jpeg tiff jpeg tiff gimpprint the configuration of xcdroast fails because of a missing GDK_PIXBUF (see the extract below). What should I do? Ciao Vittorio

Re: [gentoo-user] When did X.org get installed?

2005-01-08 Thread Ric de France
Thanks to everyone so far for your responses... On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 07:20:50 -0400, Agustin Navarro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems that at somepoint, xfree-4.3.0-r8 got renamed to xorg-x11-4.3.0-r8. The next emerge -uD world upgrades it to xorg-x11-6.8.0-r3 and xterm and utempter got

Re: [gentoo-user] When did X.org get installed?

2005-01-08 Thread Agustin Navarro
On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 23:06:53 +1100, Ric de France [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Therefore, will I be running the lastest X.org (and in the process have migrated off XFree86) if I go through with the emerge? ...Ric .. yes but be careful. I think you should not be doing it in X. Also to be sure:

Re: [gentoo-user] blocker!?

2005-01-08 Thread Francisco Ares
Bruno Lustosa wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel enhancements?

2005-01-08 Thread Francisco Ares
Try genkernel --menuconfig --install [--bootsplash] all after the make mrproper you'll be presented at tne menu configuration tool for configuring your kernel, where you can select your processor, hardware drivers, kernel behavior, security models, etc., etc., etc., If you don't feel

Re: [gentoo-user] Equivalent of ~/.xinitrc while using a DM?

2005-01-08 Thread YoYo Siska
fire-eyes wrote: I would like a command run when I log in via GDM. It wouldn't be putting it in ~/.xinitrc , because I have startkde in there from my startx days. And now I use gnome. Where should I put this command to be run after I've logged in via GDM? Hi, each display manager (GDM, KDM XDM)

Re: [gentoo-user] Web calendar with overlay feature

2005-01-08 Thread YoYo Siska
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Along these lines, can anyone recommend a gentoo-friendly web calendar, which would allow a small group of people to each have their own calendar, and to optionally overlay one or more calendar on top of another? For instance, my wife and I would maintain separate

[gentoo-user] Connection tracking table growing till lockup

2005-01-08 Thread Sebastian Dröge
Hi, after changing my iptables rules I got a problem. First of all the connection tracking table is growing until no more network connections are allowed. this happens faster when mldonkey is running. it seems that many connections are not closed correctly and resist in the table for almost

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

2005-01-08 Thread Mike Williams
On Friday 07 January 2005 18:23, 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

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox Java enabled.

2005-01-08 Thread Yoann Pannier
Francisco Ares wrote: You may try blackdown java, also in portage Whatever jdk you choose, make sure you emerge it with 'mozilla' in your USE flags, or you won't get the plugin installed. -- Yoann Pannier -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] When did X.org get installed?

2005-01-08 Thread Phill
Agustin Navarro wrote: .. yes but be careful. I think you should not be doing it in X. Nonsense, everything should be just fine up until you restart X. If memory serves me right, Xfree and X.org use the same config files, so in theory just keep a copy of your xfree86.conf handy just in

[gentoo-user] libxfce.so belongs to which package?

2005-01-08 Thread myang
After emerge mozilla-firefox-1.0, I fired it up, but got the message GTK-warning, unable to load loadable module, libxfce.so. Can anybody tell me which package include this module? I don't want to install xfce anyway. Thanks! MF -- Life sucks, but we can change it. pgpoZhQGcCfZs.pgp

[gentoo-user] Backup script issues

2005-01-08 Thread Michael Sullivan
I'm having issues with my backup scripts. I wrote both backup scripts back when I was using FC1 on my client PC. One is a full backup of two user accounts in /home and then /etc and the other creates a list of files created/modified the date before the script is run and then only backs those

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] smb support in konqueror

2005-01-08 Thread yerffej
From: Nicolas Vollmar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/01/08 Sat AM 03:25:02 CST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] smb support in konqueror On Saturday 08 January 2005 05.16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just installed samba on my Gentoo system. I can

Re: [gentoo-user] smb support in konqueror

2005-01-08 Thread Nicolas Vollmar
On Saturday 08 January 2005 17.51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 08 January 2005 05.16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] smb support in konqueror

2005-01-08 Thread Phil Sexton
On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 11:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you set samba in your USE variable when you have compiled kde? No I didn't. Is that The problem? How do you fix that? Edit the /etc/make.conf file: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1chap=5#doc_chap5 --

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] smb support in konqueror

2005-01-08 Thread Phil Sexton
On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 12:30, Phil Sexton wrote: On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 11:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you set samba in your USE variable when you have compiled kde? No I didn't. Is that The problem? How do you fix that? Edit the /etc/make.conf file:

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

2005-01-08 Thread Phill
Best (tidbit) yet is if you follow the links of their graphic artist, you'll find the following http://neverland.net/bellamy/mc/linux/index.php (specifically http://neverland.net/bellamy/mc/linux/img/penguibm.jpg ) Which, personally, is hilarious/awesome. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] imlib2 mask

2005-01-08 Thread Joseph A. Nagy, Jr.
I just want to ask any Gentoo Devs on this list, do you guys think before you mask something? Enough packages depend on imlib2 that you guys masking it has created a problem: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# emerge -puDv world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world

[gentoo-user] Re: [ltp] OSD with tpb not working with T30, xorg, gentoo KDE

2005-01-08 Thread Shaw
Hi Joe, On Friday 07 January 2005 11:15 am, Joe LaPenna wrote: On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 19:25:28 -0800, Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: problem only occured when I loaded an application that sourced my .bashrc. Is there a problem with these lines? there, but that didn't work either. Any ideas

[gentoo-user] The only things keeping me using Windows

2005-01-08 Thread Jamie Dobbs
he only software keeping me using Windows is: DreamWeaver - I just love its ease of use and power. All the stuff from www.popcap.com as I love fun, quirky little games. Yes I guess I could play the flash versions of the games - is there any way these can be 'downloaded' so I don't have to be

Re: [gentoo-user] The Gimp jpeg HELP

2005-01-08 Thread Heinz Sporn
Again: perform an emerge -pvV gimp It should come up with something like: : These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] media-gfx/gimp-2.0.4 +aalib (-altivec) -debug -doc gimpprint* +jpeg +mmx* -mng* +png +python +sse* -svg* +tiff -wmf*

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

2005-01-08 Thread Alec
Phill wrote: Best (tidbit) yet is if you follow the links of their graphic artist, you'll find the following http://neverland.net/bellamy/mc/linux/index.php (specifically http://neverland.net/bellamy/mc/linux/img/penguibm.jpg ) *coughs* Work-safe links, or at least a warning :P Which,

Re: [gentoo-user] The only things keeping me using Windows

2005-01-08 Thread Alec
Jamie Dobbs wrote: he only software keeping me using Windows is: DreamWeaver - I just love its ease of use and power. KDE's own Quanta And someone's NVU, which is Mozilla Composer with more DreamWeaver-like features. All the stuff from www.popcap.com as I love fun, quirky little games.

[gentoo-user] Re: Backup script issues

2005-01-08 Thread leffeman
On 08-01-05 10:28 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: I'm having issues with my backup scripts. I wrote both backup scripts back when I was using FC1 on my client PC. One is a full backup of two user accounts in /home and then /etc and the other creates a list of files created/modified the date

Re: [gentoo-user] The only things keeping me using Windows

2005-01-08 Thread Michael Sullivan
emerge net-www/netscape-flash On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 14:05 -0500, Alec wrote: Jamie Dobbs wrote: he only software keeping me using Windows is: DreamWeaver - I just love its ease of use and power. KDE's own Quanta And someone's NVU, which is Mozilla Composer with more

[gentoo-user] cannot get ttmkfdir compiled

2005-01-08 Thread Radu Filip
# emerge -Dpv world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] x11-misc/ttmkfdir-3.0.9-r2 [3.0.9] -debug 0 kB [ebuild U ] x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.0-r3 [4.3.0-r8] -3dfx +3dnow +bitmap-fonts -cjk -debug -dlloader -dmx -doc

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot get ttmkfdir compiled

2005-01-08 Thread Jans H. Xie
re-emerge libtool On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 21:13:24 +0200 (EET), Radu Filip [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # emerge -Dpv world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] x11-misc/ttmkfdir-3.0.9-r2 [3.0.9] -debug 0 kB [ebuild U

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot get ttmkfdir compiled

2005-01-08 Thread Radu Filip
Thanks buddy, that one worked ;-) Have a nice evening On Sat, 8 Jan 2005, Jans H. Xie wrote: re-emerge libtool -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] The Gimp jpeg HELP

2005-01-08 Thread Vittorio
Perhaps I'm somewhat slow or I don't understand how to use emerge correctly but ... as I stated my USE : - # echo $USE -java -gnome kde dvd cdr alsa jpeg tiff jpeg tiff gimpprint - *** contains *** the jpeg

[gentoo-user] Palm/Visor + Gnome 2 + Evo 2 + gpilotd Problems...

2005-01-08 Thread David D. Rea
Hi All- Just finished upgrading to Evolution 2, and I'm having a lot of trouble syncing up my PalmOS device... It all started just after running Evolution 2 for the first time, when I tried to sync. It appeared to sync fine, went through the motions, but did not actually update the

[gentoo-user] THE .muttrc color definition set

2005-01-08 Thread Grant
I just plugged in a set of color definitions for the .muttrc file from the web, and it sure is cool. Can anyone point me toward their favorite? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Powerfailure hosed Dev filesystem

2005-01-08 Thread David Busby
David Miller wrote: On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 16:35:17 -0800, David Busby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you're not familiar with mdadm I highly recommend that you and anyone else running md devices emerge this tool. The tool is pretty easy to use so I won't go into any details on this list. But with it

[gentoo-user] The only things keeping me using Windows

2005-01-08 Thread David Morgan
On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 07:51:48 +1300, Jamie Dobbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DreamWeaver - I just love its ease of use and power. Have a look at http://osdir.com/slash3344.html and see if that interests you All the stuff from www.popcap.com as I love fun, quirky little games. I can't get

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel enhancements?

2005-01-08 Thread Alexander Kirillov
Other disturbing thing is persistive usage of /devfs which is marked OBSOLETE in 2.6 kenels. Using --udev does not help at all thou udevd is loaded but if I put a RC_DEVICES=udev in /etc/conf.d/rc on boot system states that i miss something for udev support... (I've emerged coldplug and

Re: [gentoo-user] kdeartwork-3.3.2 failing compilation

2005-01-08 Thread Sascha Hlusiak
Vittorio schrieb: I have been building my own gentoo box from scratch with the latest stage1. Now, I'm compiling everything and the kde stuff with the following USE variable # echo $USE -java -gnome kde dvd cdr alsa jpeg tiff jpeg tiff gimpprint BUT kdeartwork fails during compilation. Here it

Re: [gentoo-user] The Gimp jpeg HELP

2005-01-08 Thread Heinz Sporn
Well, I am sorry Vittorio but I am not sure if you understand the concept of the magic USE flag right. Let me put it this way: 1. Look into your /etc/make.conf 2. Check if the line starting with USE= contains the string jpeg 3. Remove all occurences of -jpeg in that file 4. Run an emerge -pvV

Re: [gentoo-user] Palm/Visor + Gnome 2 + Evo 2 + gpilotd Problems...

2005-01-08 Thread Heinz Sporn
I do have a similar issue here. My Tungsten E synchronizes perfectly with jPilot. With Evolution only contacts are somewhat working. Memos / calender are simply ignored. Not even an initial forced copy from Palm to Evolution works - no warnings no errors. So at least I guess we are not alone

[gentoo-user] Gentoo for All the Unusual Reasons

2005-01-08 Thread Grant
Sorry if this has already been posted. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7438 - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Palm/Visor + Gnome 2 + Evo 2 + gpilotd Problems...

2005-01-08 Thread David D. Rea
On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 00:37 +0100, Heinz Sporn wrote: I do have a similar issue here. My Tungsten E synchronizes perfectly with jPilot. With Evolution only contacts are somewhat working. Memos / calender are simply ignored. Not even an initial forced copy from Palm to Evolution works - no

Re: [gentoo-user] The Gimp jpeg HELP

2005-01-08 Thread Vittorio
Heinz: Well, I am sorry Vittorio but I am not sure if you understand the concept of the magic USE flag right. Apparently I didn't understand that! Let me put it this way: 1. Look into your /etc/make.conf 2. Check if the line starting with USE= contains the string jpeg I now have a richer

[gentoo-user] DEPEND/RDEPEND search

2005-01-08 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Exist a bash way to search a value (read package) inside DEPEND/RDEPEND variables defined in the ebuilds. If not which is the easyer way ? tia francesco -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] blocker!?

2005-01-08 Thread Bruno Lustosa
On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 10:41:49 -0200, Francisco Ares [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this new computer so different from the latter? I have already copied hard disks among three computers (all Pentium 3) with success, (just a kernel re-compile for one of them). The computer I am using now has an

[gentoo-user] udev and cdrecorder permissions

2005-01-08 Thread Makurin Roman
Hi All! I`ve got a problem with udev and my cdrecorder permisions. Cdrecorder is /dev/hdd, in /etc/udev/permissions.d/50-udev.permissions I found these lines: sr*:root:cdrom:660 scd*:root:cdrom:660 pcd*:root:cdrom:0660 cdrom*:root:cdrom:0660 dvd:root:cdrom:0660 rdvd:root:cdrom:0660

[gentoo-user] wiki down?

2005-01-08 Thread Nick Smith
is it just me or is www.gentoo-wiki.com down? i can bring up other sites, i did a google search for gentoo wiki and it brough up all kinds of pages, but any time i click on a link to actually go to the wiki, i get a page cannot be displayed. anyone else experiencing this? -- Nick Smith a.k.a.

Re: [gentoo-user] wiki down?

2005-01-08 Thread Matt Ozborn
Nick Smith wrote: is it just me or is www.gentoo-wiki.com down? i can bring up other sites, i did a google search for gentoo wiki and it brough up all kinds of pages, but any time i click on a link to actually go to the wiki, i get a page cannot be displayed. anyone else experiencing this? --

Re: [gentoo-user] THE .muttrc color definition set

2005-01-08 Thread afabian
On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 01:43:13PM -0800, Grant wrote: I just plugged in a set of color definitions for the .muttrc file from the web, and it sure is cool. Can anyone point me toward their favorite? bash-2.05b$ grep color .muttrc # My color scheme color status yellow blue color header red

Re: [gentoo-user] udev and cdrecorder permissions

2005-01-08 Thread Mitko Moshev
Makurin Roman wrote: Hi All! I`ve got a problem with udev and my cdrecorder permisions. Cdrecorder is /dev/hdd, in /etc/udev/permissions.d/50-udev.permissions I found these lines: sr*:root:cdrom:660 scd*:root:cdrom:660 pcd*:root:cdrom:0660 cdrom*:root:cdrom:0660 dvd:root:cdrom:0660

[gentoo-user] Login, Schmogin

2005-01-08 Thread John Lowell
Sad to say, it's about a week later and I've still no answer to a question I've raised here a couple timesand on the forums also. Isay thisin no way to complain but rather to express utter surprize, actually.There's a lot of first class Linux talent availableon this mailing list so if I've

Re: [gentoo-user] wiki down?

2005-01-08 Thread Mike Noble
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nick Smith wrote: | is it just me or is www.gentoo-wiki.com down? i can bring up | other sites, i did a google search for gentoo wiki and it brough | up all kinds of pages, but any time i click on a link to | actually go to the wiki, i get a page

Re: [gentoo-user] Login, Schmogin

2005-01-08 Thread David D. Rea
On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 00:28 -0800, John Lowell wrote: [snip] I have no idea what in heaven's name would cause a delay of this kind. Is an answer to this problem really so obscure? God knows, maybe it is. I'm pretty far down the Linux food chain, even farther so in the Gentoo community, but

[gentoo-user] latest balsa ebuild

2005-01-08 Thread reg hughson
I recently downloaded (and deleted by mistake) an ebuild for the latest version of balsa (2.2.6, I believe) but now I cannot seem to find from where I got it. Anyone know where I can find it? Thx. pgpOhljRTHQB6.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] latest balsa ebuild

2005-01-08 Thread Andrew Gaffney
reg hughson wrote: I recently downloaded (and deleted by mistake) an ebuild for the latest version of balsa (2.2.6, I believe) but now I cannot seem to find from where I got it. Anyone know where I can find it? There is a balsa-2.2.5 ebuild at http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57200. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Login, Schmogin

2005-01-08 Thread Keith P Hassen
John Lowell wrote: The install went on without a hitch but, booting up, I reach the end of the init sequence and there's a delay of 22 seconds before Starting local ... transitions in to the usual This is .. and the login prompt. The first thing I would do is have a look at

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

2005-01-08 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 17:34, Holly Bostick wrote: On the other hand, I can't understand how to use dispatch-conf at all. Why would that be the case? The way you described etc-update, to me it seems the same as dispatch-conf. Admitedly there are minor differences, but both of it does the same

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

2005-01-08 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 17:49, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: # ls -d1 /usr/portage/games-misc/fortune-* /etc/portage/sets/fort # vi /etc/portage/set/fort :%s/\/usr\/portage\/// # emerge -pv fort I prefer this way # ls -ld /usr/portage/games-misc/fortune-* | sed -e s:^.*/usr/portage/:: |

[gentoo-user] Monster emerge -- an odd thing or two

2005-01-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Having carefully backed up my whole root partition, I just embarked on the huge emerge that had built up in just the few days around the new years. I was worried about Xorg, of course -- it was going to be a major pain if that didn't work. In the event, everything seems fine, but there were some

[gentoo-user] Getting the most out of ATI Rage XL video

2005-01-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I'm semi-stuck with ATI Rage XL video on this machine (It's built into the motherboard) and I've been more or less ignoring it because I had other things to do. But I've been noticing all the traffic about ATI drivers, 2D and 3D and so on -- all without much understanding because I've never had

Re: [gentoo-user] Login, Schmogin

2005-01-08 Thread John Lowell
Keith P Hassen wrote: John Lowell wrote: The install went on without a hitch but, booting up, I reach the end of the init sequence and there's a delay of 22 seconds before Starting local ... transitions in to the usual This is .. and the login prompt. The first thing I would do is have a

Re: [gentoo-user] Login, Schmogin

2005-01-08 Thread John Lowell
Daniel Westermann-Clark wrote: Have you made any modifications to /etc/conf.d/local.start? -- Daniel Westermann-Clark Daniel, Thank you for writing. No, /etc/conf.d/local.start has no entries, just the commented-out boilerplate. Any other thoughts. jlowell -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Login, Schmogin

2005-01-08 Thread John Lowell
David D. Rea wrote: On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 00:28 -0800, John Lowell wrote: I'm pretty far down the Linux food chain, even farther so in the Gentoo community, but this occurred to me... Is there some way you can crank up the debug output level on the kernel itself?? Usually whenever I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Login, Schmogin

2005-01-08 Thread Alec
John Lowell wrote: Keith P Hassen wrote: John Lowell wrote: The install went on without a hitch but, booting up, I reach the end of the init sequence and there's a delay of 22 seconds before Starting local ... transitions in to the usual This is .. and the login prompt. The first

Re: [gentoo-user] Set up Cross-Compile environment [Was Re: [gentoo-user] pre/cross-building packages...]

2005-01-08 Thread Alec
Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 18:00, 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Login, Schmogin

2005-01-08 Thread Keith P Hassen
Alec wrote: John Lowell wrote: Keith P Hassen wrote: John Lowell wrote: The install went on without a hitch but, booting up, I reach the end of the init sequence and there's a delay of 22 seconds before Starting local ... transitions in to the usual This is .. and the login prompt.

Re: [gentoo-user] latest balsa ebuild

2005-01-08 Thread reg hughson
On Sunday 09 January 2005 01:20, Andrew Gaffney wrote: reg hughson wrote: I recently downloaded (and deleted by mistake) an ebuild for the latest version of balsa (2.2.6, I believe) but now I cannot seem to find from where I got it. Anyone know where I can find it? There is a balsa-2.2.5

Re: [gentoo-user] Set up Cross-Compile environment [Was Re: [gentoo-user] pre/cross-building packages...]

2005-01-08 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 15:13, Alec wrote: Ow Mun Heng wrote: I'm sorry, but how does one actually go about setting up a cross compilation environment? Does the GCC needs to be the same only? Regardless of arch? Unless I build it generic meaning, something like mcpu=pentium Try

Re: [gentoo-user] Login, Schmogin

2005-01-08 Thread John Lowell
Alec wrote: Anything in dmesg? I know one way to get past it ( without solving the bug, which is the real issue here ) is to just remove the local script from running, since it's empty. It doesn't have to be run. However, also check /var/log/message and anywhere else you might have

Re: [gentoo-user] Login, Schmogin

2005-01-08 Thread Daniel Westermann-Clark
On 2005-01-09 02:11:40 -0800, John Lowell wrote: No, /etc/conf.d/local.start has no entries, just the commented-out boilerplate. Any other thoughts. Sorry, I see that you mentioned that in your initial email. What I really should have asked is: Do you see the [ ok ] after Starting local...,