Re: [gentoo-user] handbook ?'s

2005-01-10 Thread Heinz Sporn
I am not sure which handbook you are talking about but the latest Gentoo handbook explains bootstrapping and system emerging quite detailed: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=6 Did you skip a page? ;-) Travis Osterman schrieb: I was doing a gentoo installation (st

[gentoo-user] Networking not working... what to do?

2005-01-10 Thread Colin
I've got a problem. I have many computers in my house: [1] - - - - [AP/Router][3]Internet | [2]|==wired==[4] [1] - My computer (P4 2.6C, 512 MB RAM) Operating systems: Windows XP SP2, Gentoo (once I can fix that bu

[gentoo-user] Build Host/Environment/optimisations

2005-01-10 Thread Ow Mun Heng
Hi all, I'm hoping you guys can fill a void where I've not been able to google on. I've read the gentoo-wiki on "Howto build a build host" as well as tried using distcc to speed up compilation. (on this one, I'm unsure if it was my error or something else as last night, when I tried to us

[gentoo-user] Re: Build Host/Environment/optimisations

2005-01-10 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 15:59, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm hoping you guys can fill a void where I've not been able to google > on. > > I've read the gentoo-wiki on "Howto build a build host" as well as tried > using distcc to speed up compilation. (on this one, I'm unsure if it was

Re: [gentoo-user] gdm & xfce4

2005-01-10 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 13:18, Peter Karlsson wrote: > Is there someone who can tell me how to make xfce4 the default "session"? > I think the file is /etc/rc.conf # Defaults depending on what you install currently include: # # Gnome - will start gnome-session # kde- - will start startkde (ex: kde

[gentoo-user] Gentoo Install w/o using LiveCD

2005-01-10 Thread Ow Mun Heng
is it possible to do a nfs/pxe/dhcp/tftp install of Gentoo? Most of my machines does not have a cdrom and it would be nice to be able to just boot it via pxe or nfs or something. What are my options? -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 11:18:44

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Install w/o using LiveCD

2005-01-10 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Ow Mun Heng wrote: is it possible to do a nfs/pxe/dhcp/tftp install of Gentoo? Most of my machines does not have a cdrom and it would be nice to be able to just boot it via pxe or nfs or something. What are my options? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml -- Andrew Gaffney Gentoo Linux Devel

Re: [gentoo-user] Tool to keep up the time?

2005-01-10 Thread Trond Danielsen
If you don't need anything fancy, I would go for openntpd. Check out the difference in size! Don't be fooled by the desription, it's not only a server * net-misc/ntp Latest version available: 4.2.0-r2 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 2,4

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Install w/o using LiveCD

2005-01-10 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 10. Januar 2005 04:19 schrieb ext Ow Mun Heng: > What are my options? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml HTH... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)151 1513 6954 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [gentoo-user] Networking not working... what to do?

2005-01-10 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 16:19, Colin wrote: > I've got a problem. I have many computers in my house: > [1] - - - - [AP/Router][3]Internet > | > [2]|==wired==[4] > > > [1] - My computer (P4 2.6C, 512 MB RAM) > Operatin

Re: [gentoo-user] Resolution change

2005-01-10 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 01:54, Bill Six wrote: > Nevermind. sys-apps/ddcxinfo-knoppix gave me what I > needed. Wow.. Cool program.. Will try it once I get I-Net access. > > > --- Bill Six <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I recently ran "emerge --update world". After doing > > so,

Re: [gentoo-user] wiki down?

2005-01-10 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 12:14, Matt Ozborn wrote: > Nick Smith wrote: > > >is it just me or is www.gentoo-wiki.com down? It's Off and On for me too -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Install w/o using LiveCD

2005-01-10 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 16:43, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Montag, 10. Januar 2005 04:19 schrieb ext Ow Mun Heng: > > > What are my options? > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml i distinctly remember reading this before, yet it didn't register in my mind. /getting_old Thanks -- Ow Mu

Re: [gentoo-user] gdm without gconf

2005-01-10 Thread Trond Danielsen
USE="-bonobo -fam -tcpd" should remove the ram, portmap and bonobo deps. gnome-base/gnome-light gives you a barebone gnome install, only enough to run gnome apps. You could take a look at thatone. On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 09:32:26PM +0100, Peter Karlsson wrote: > Hi! > > I would like to build & us

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Looking for a CMS..

2005-01-10 Thread Trond Danielsen
Hi! just curious, but I wonder why you can not run gallery? I think that it is better than any cms gallery I have seen. On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 07:52:37AM +0100, Heinz Sporn wrote: > After evaluating around a dozen different say middle-class Open Source > CMS I landed at XOOPS which I am using fo

Re: [gentoo-user] gdm & xfce4

2005-01-10 Thread Trond Danielsen
On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 02:20:47PM +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 13:18, Peter Karlsson wrote: > > Is there someone who can tell me how to make xfce4 the default "session"? > > > > I think the file is /etc/rc.conf > > # Defaults depending on what you install currently include:

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

2005-01-10 Thread Ric de France
Thanks to everyone who collaborated on this... just did it and it turned out fine... and on Phil's comment, I actually did the upgrade while X was running... the only file I really needed to worry about was the XF86Config file... all the other files appear to merge without issue... Well done also

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

2005-01-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 14:29:44 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: > I know dispatch-conf does the same thing, but it does it a different > way, and I don't understand the output (it displays diffs, for example, > in such a way that I can't recognize which is which, and I don't easily > see the commands

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

2005-01-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 13:05:29 -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > Tell me how you examine 300 unfamiliar diffs in ten minutes. You don't. You apply those you have time to look at and leave the rest until later. If something stops working, you check its config files first. On the other hand, it you -5 t

[gentoo-user] Dell Precision 670 with Nvidia Quadrofx 3400

2005-01-10 Thread regatta
Hi everyone, We have Dell Precision 670 with Nvidia Quadrofx 3400. and we installed the latest video driver from Nvidia and we can get the two monitors combined into one big display, but we can't get them to act as two separate screens. any help in that ? -- Best Regards, ---

[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo and

2005-01-10 Thread Urs Joss
Dmitry S. Makovey athabascau.ca> writes: > [...] during startup I need most of the config files to be substituted > before services will start etc., and with quickswitch I still need to write > rc script and start it somewhere between localmount and hostname > setup [...] You can select the

[gentoo-user] Sane Netword daemon

2005-01-10 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Hi, My scanner (Agfa touch) is supported by sane, but its connected to my home server. I have read the website of sane network deamon and they talk only of "grant access to parallel port scanner" My Agfa is a usb scanner does this means that i can not use this kind of setup? TIA PAtrick -- "Plea

[gentoo-user] xorg-x11-6.8.1.901 Build Error ?

2005-01-10 Thread Patrick
Hi, i've got a brand new install on a drive, did the basic stuff ( emerge -up world, etc. ) i've not completed the install though, and i can't seem to build Xorg, ( emerge gnome ) Make.conf variables : AUTOCLEAN="yes" MAKEOPTS="-j2" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86 x86" USE="nntp sse mmx static mysql gno

[gentoo-user] OT disk partitions and going crazy (yes still more)

2005-01-10 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Scsi device can have a maximum of 15 partitions ? brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 0 Jan 10 14:45 /dev/sda brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 1 Jan 10 14:45 /dev/sda1 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 14 Jan 10 14:45 /dev/sda14 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 15 Jan 10 14:45 /dev/sda15 brw-rw 1

[gentoo-user] firefox freezes

2005-01-10 Thread ZeeGeek
I've upgraded to firefox 1.0 and the strange problem came. when I visit SOME webpages containing flash, the whole browser freezes. For example, after www.mtv.com is fully loaded and click BACK, firefox will freeze. Has anyone met this problem? pgpjxgwBST9cD.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] emptytree recompile when switching to nptl?

2005-01-10 Thread Ed Epstein
I was wondering what really needs to be done to switch to nptl on an existing 2.6 system. According to this document: http://gentoo-wiki.com/NPTL#Switching_to_NPTL you don't need to recompile anything other than glibc to gain the full end-user performance benefits of nptl (though it does sugges

Re: [gentoo-user] emptytree recompile when switching to nptl?

2005-01-10 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 06:27:33 -0800 Ed Epstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I was wondering, which is the accurate method of switching? The accurate method is the one described in the official Gentoo documentation. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools) Mail

Re: [gentoo-user] emptytree recompile when switching to nptl?

2005-01-10 Thread Ed Epstein
Regarding "Re: [gentoo-user] emptytree recompile when switching to nptl?", Ciaran McCreesh said: > On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 06:27:33 -0800 Ed Epstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > | I was wondering, which is the accurate method of switching? > > The accurate method is the one described in the offici

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware setup

2005-01-10 Thread Nick Smith
> I think youve stuffed up. Remove all bits of the vmware you > have just > installed, "emerge vmware-workstation". > Run /opt/vmware/bin/vmware-config as root" then > start /opt/vmware/bin/vmware as user and add your licence etc. > rc-update add vmware default so the changes survive the reboot

Re: [gentoo-user] emptytree recompile when switching to nptl?

2005-01-10 Thread Ed Epstein
Regarding "Re: [gentoo-user] emptytree recompile when switching to nptl?", Ciaran McCreesh said: > On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 06:27:33 -0800 Ed Epstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > | I was wondering, which is the accurate method of switching? > > The accurate method is the one described in the offici

Re: [gentoo-user] emptytree recompile when switching to nptl?

2005-01-10 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 06:45:30 -0800 Ed Epstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Thanks Ciaran. I've begun the emerge. Oy. At least I can still work | while it's doing its thing. Why is there this conflicting information | in the Wiki? *shrug* It's a wiki, anyone can write whatever they like there. Re

Re: [gentoo-user] emptytree recompile when switching to nptl?

2005-01-10 Thread Alec Warner
Ed Epstein wrote: I was wondering what really needs to be done to switch to nptl on an existing 2.6 system. According to this document: http://gentoo-wiki.com/NPTL#Switching_to_NPTL you don't need to recompile anything other than glibc to gain the full end-user performance benefits of nptl (tho

[gentoo-user] GUI Archives browser for gnome?

2005-01-10 Thread michael higgins
I've been wishing I had a filebrowser for archived files. What do I emerge that contains such a beast? I've been using the gnome-light package... Or, better yet, how would I get that kind of info out of portage? -- mike higgins -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emptytree recompile when switching to nptl?

2005-01-10 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 06:53:35 -0800 Ed Epstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Oh yeah, I have another question. How does this fact relate to the | notion of dynamically linked binaries? Dynamic linking doesn't mean that linked packages will carry on working when you hit a major ABI change such as ena

Re: [gentoo-user] handbook ?'s

2005-01-10 Thread Travis Osterman
> I am not sure which handbook you are talking about but the latest Gentoo > handbook explains bootstrapping and system emerging quite detailed: 2004.3 http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/2004.3/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=6 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emptytree recompile when switching to nptl?

2005-01-10 Thread Ed Epstein
Regarding "Re: [gentoo-user] emptytree recompile when switching to nptl?", Ciaran McCreesh said: > On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 06:53:35 -0800 Ed Epstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > | Oh yeah, I have another question. How does this fact relate to the > | notion of dynamically linked binaries? > > Dyna

[gentoo-user] Upgrading GCC...

2005-01-10 Thread Dave Nebinger
Hey, all. I've got two working gentoo systems built from the 2004.02 live cd. Following the instructions in the handbook, the systems were constructed with gcc 3.3.4 as the base. The 3.4.x chain of gcc is out there in portage, and I am now curious as to whether to upgrade gcc and what steps to t

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware setup

2005-01-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 09:43:28 -0500 (EST), Nick Smith wrote: > i have re-ran vmware-config.pl 4 times now, and each time it > says completed successfully, what gives? rm /etc/vmware/not_configured -- Neil Bothwick If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.or

Re: [gentoo-user] GUI Archives browser for gnome?

2005-01-10 Thread Trond Danielsen
emerge file-roller On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 09:58:34AM -0500, michael higgins wrote: > > I've been wishing I had a filebrowser for archived files. What do I emerge > that contains such a beast? I've been using the gnome-light package... > > Or, better yet, how would I get that kind of info out

[gentoo-user] DirectFB

2005-01-10 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
I am browsing their site, and the screenshots look quite good. Is there anybody using it that can give an opinion? What are the advantages and disadvantages compared with a traditional X window system (eg, Xorg)? Thanks -- "I have been condemned to a terrible place, where men of unspeakable wi

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: GMAIL accounts

2005-01-10 Thread Beber [Gentoo]
I have 15 invite if some want too ++ Beber On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 10:02:08 -0800, Mike Noble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I have a few invitations for GMAIL accounts if anyone would like > one please send me an email off line. > > Mike > -BE

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware setup

2005-01-10 Thread Nick Smith
> On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 09:43:28 -0500 (EST), Nick Smith wrote: > >> i have re-ran vmware-config.pl 4 times now, and each time it >> says completed successfully, what gives? > > rm /etc/vmware/not_configured > DOH! i knew i missed a step, your a life saver, thanks alot nick > > -- > Neil Bothwick

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading GCC...

2005-01-10 Thread Andres Moore
Im using a Pentium-M Notebook (Compaq NC4000), then the gcc 3.4 supports the pentiu-m flag. For the process check the Howto: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Migrate_to_GCC_3.4 Then, for a existing installation: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Recompile_with_different_Use_flags Just a note. Be carefu

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Looking for a CMS..

2005-01-10 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On January 9, 2005 02:24 pm, Daniel G. Siegel wrote: > Hi! > > I'm looking for a good CMS, that i can run on my Gentoo machine and > on the FreeBSD-Server, where i don't have a root-account. It > doesn't have to exist in portage, i could write an ebuild. > > The CMS should have: > > A _very_ good g

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox freezes

2005-01-10 Thread neil
ZeeGeek wrote: I've upgraded to firefox 1.0 and the strange problem came. when I visit SOME webpages containing flash, the whole browser freezes. For example, after www.mtv.com is fully loaded and click BACK, firefox will freeze. Has anyone met this problem? I just tried it and it works perfectly h

Re: [gentoo-user] ...but i need xfree!

2005-01-10 Thread Trey Gruel
On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 16:52:24 +0930, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 00:32 -0500, daniel wrote: > [snip] > > why is it that xfree had to be removed but other stuff that most people > > never > > touch (like kdrive) is still in there? > > on a side note, nothing is

[gentoo-user] Re: Emerge groff failure.

2005-01-10 Thread Qian Qiao
I've searched the forums and bugzilla, it was suggested that I do a emerge --sync and then emerge again. However, it didn't work in my case. Any hints? -- Joe -- Money can't buy everything. Sometimes money can't even buy a gun... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware setup

2005-01-10 Thread Dan Barr
On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 09:43:28 -0500 (EST), Nick Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I think youve stuffed up. Remove all bits of the vmware you > > have just > > installed, "emerge vmware-workstation". > > Run /opt/vmware/bin/vmware-config as root" then > > start /opt/vmware/bin/vmware as us

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware setup

2005-01-10 Thread Nick Smith
> I ran into a perpetual re-configuration problem with VMWare > also. > Every time I booted, it would complain about not being compiled > for > the running kernel. I'd log in, run vmware-config.pl, which > would > complete successfully. But then on the next boot, same error. > > The solution was to

[gentoo-user] emerge

2005-01-10 Thread Darragh Bailey
Downloaded 2004.3 release before christmas and I've been working on getting it setup over christmas when ever I had the time. Main issue was that I'm using a dialup connection of 33Kbps so I basically would have to retreive the files beforehand using a server or access elsewhere and then copy the

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware setup

2005-01-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 11:18:19 -0500, Dan Barr wrote: > The solution was to set RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="yes" in /etc/conf.d/rc. I > was running a full udev system, so I had set that option to no. But, > with it set to no, each time I rebooted the machine, the /dev entries > that vmware_config.pl created

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware setup

2005-01-10 Thread Dan Barr
On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 11:21:58 -0500 (EST), Nick Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > well i know nothing about udev so i know thats not my problem, > it seems to be working now once i got rid of the not_configured > file, installing a virtual machine as we speak. so if you dont > mind explaining, wha

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware setup

2005-01-10 Thread Dan Barr
On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 16:46:12 +, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 11:18:19 -0500, Dan Barr wrote: > > > The solution was to set RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="yes" in /etc/conf.d/rc. I > > was running a full udev system, so I had set that option to no. But, > > with it set to

Re: [gentoo-user] GUI Archives browser for gnome?

2005-01-10 Thread Peter Gordon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 michael higgins wrote: | I've been wishing I had a filebrowser for archived files. What do I emerge that contains such a beast? I've been using the gnome-light package... I quite like file-roller, for what it's worth... # emerge app-arch/file-roller | O

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware setup

2005-01-10 Thread Nick Smith
i have one small problem now, i can only run it as root and not as a normal user, is this how its suppose to be? nick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge

2005-01-10 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Darragh Bailey: > Downloaded 2004.3 release before christmas and I've been working on > getting it setup over christmas when ever I had the time. > > Main issue was that I'm using a dialup connection of 33Kbps so I > basically would have to retreive the files beforehand using a server > o

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox freezes

2005-01-10 Thread Beber [Gentoo]
personnaly I have the same, but it freeez when I start it, waiting 30s to 1 minutes else work fine Maybe it's because I don't have an internet connection On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 16:10:43 +, neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ZeeGeek wrote: > > I've upgraded to firefox 1.0 and the strange problem c

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg locks up

2005-01-10 Thread Sarpy Sam
On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 16:05:22 -0700, Sarpy Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A number of people have reported problems with i810 and xorg-6.8.x > > IIRC, the solution was to downgrade to version 6.7.0. I use a > > computer at work that has this chipset, and while it works with > > some of the time,

Re: [gentoo-user] DirectFB

2005-01-10 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Etaoin Shrdlu: > I am browsing their site, and the screenshots look quite good. Is there > anybody using it that can give an opinion? > What are the advantages and disadvantages compared with a traditional X > window system (eg, Xorg)? > > Thanks I have used directFB on a gentoo-based ut

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: GMAIL accounts

2005-01-10 Thread Martoni
On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 16:46:48 +0100, Beber [Gentoo] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have 15 invite if some want too > Another 10 ... -- Regards, Martin S -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT disk partitions and going crazy (yes still more)

2005-01-10 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Bastian Balthazar Bux: > Scsi device can have a maximum of 15 partitions ? > > brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 0 Jan 10 14:45 /dev/sda > brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 1 Jan 10 14:45 /dev/sda1 > > brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 14 Jan 10 14:45 /dev/sda14 > brw-rw 1 root dis

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware setup

2005-01-10 Thread Nick Smith
> i have one small problem now, i can only run it as root and not > as a normal user, is this how its suppose to be? > > nick > and one more question, how do gentoo users get around error: XFree86 direct graphics (DGA extension) initialization failed. Cannot switch to full screen mode since we

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: GMAIL accounts

2005-01-10 Thread Nick Smith
> On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 16:46:48 +0100, Beber [Gentoo] > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I have 15 invite if some want too >> > > Another 10 ... > > Another 15 here > -- > Regards, > > Martin S > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2005-01-10 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 calenda

Re: [gentoo-user] usb & hotplug problems

2005-01-10 Thread Bob Sanders
> I recently moved to kernel 2.6.9 compiling a new system from scratch every > in > my all my gentoo linux notebook. > > Now I'm sure I enabled the usb stuff in the kernel and compiled and installed > hotplug according to the instructions in the handbook. > Did you also install coldplug? An

Re: [gentoo-user] Dell Precision 670 with Nvidia Quadrofx 3400

2005-01-10 Thread darren kirby
quoth the regatta: > Hi everyone, > > We have Dell Precision 670 with Nvidia Quadrofx 3400. and we installed > the latest video driver from Nvidia > > and we can get the two monitors combined into one big display, but we > can't get them to act as two separate screens. > > any help in that ? Are y

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: GMAIL accounts

2005-01-10 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Nick Smith: > > > > On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 16:46:48 +0100, Beber [Gentoo] > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I have 15 invite if some want too > > > > Another 10 ... > > Another 15 here Anyone else starting to think that gmail invites are about as useful as AOL free trial CDs? I

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg release oscillating between 6.7 and 6.8?

2005-01-10 Thread Bob Sanders
Kevin wrote: > How do I learn enough to make an intelligent choice between the two options? > That is: > 1) What do I give up by dropping ati-drivers? As you have a Rage XL, nothing. The Rage XL is a very old chip that is supported well in Xorg. It really doesn't have much in the way of 3D abil

RE: [gentoo-user] OT: GMAIL accounts

2005-01-10 Thread Dave Nebinger
I'm sure there's some tracking going on at gmail so they can identify a) who is sending invites, b) who accepts the invites, and c) who does not accept the invites. Unlike the AOL cd's, they're getting relationship information with the invites and can see who's connected to who. > -Original M

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: GMAIL accounts

2005-01-10 Thread Antoine
Martoni wrote: On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 16:46:48 +0100, Beber [Gentoo] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have 15 invite if some want too Another 10 ... 6 here. I think they must be getting to saturation point by now... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: GMAIL accounts

2005-01-10 Thread JM Fraser
No one has sent me any! (whimper...) On 17:44:23 January 10, 2005 darren kirby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > quoth the Nick Smith: > > > > > > > On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 16:46:48 +0100, Beber [Gentoo] > > > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> I have 15 invite if some want too > > > > > > Anot

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: GMAIL accounts

2005-01-10 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Dave Nebinger: > I'm sure there's some tracking going on at gmail so they can identify a) > who is sending invites, b) who accepts the invites, and c) who does not > accept the invites. > > Unlike the AOL cd's, they're getting relationship information with the > invites and can see who's

Re: [gentoo-user] imap client recommendations

2005-01-10 Thread YoYo Siska
Frederik 'Freso' S. Olesen wrote: On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 18:07:55 +0100, Jens Mayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At least I found one plugin for coloring different quote levels, which thunderbird isn't (or wasn't?) able to do. It both was and is able to do that. If you're talking about the extension I

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: GMAIL accounts

2005-01-10 Thread david
darren kirby wrote: quoth the Nick Smith: On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 16:46:48 +0100, Beber [Gentoo] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have 15 invite if some want too Another 10 ... Another 15 here Anyone else starting to think that gmail invites are about as useful as A

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: GMAIL accounts

2005-01-10 Thread Maarten
On Monday 10 January 2005 18:34, Nick Smith wrote: > > > > On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 16:46:48 +0100, Beber [Gentoo] > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I have 15 invite if some want too > > > > Another 10 ... > > Another 15 here Can we please cease this Gmail invite thing / kill this thread ? I

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading GCC...

2005-01-10 Thread Jerry McBride
On Monday 10 January 2005 10:19 am, Dave Nebinger wrote: > Hey, all. I've got two working gentoo systems built from the 2004.02 live > cd. Following the instructions in the handbook, the systems were > constructed with gcc 3.3.4 as the base. > > The 3.4.x chain of gcc is out there in portage, and

RE: [gentoo-user] OT: GMAIL accounts

2005-01-10 Thread JM Fraser
Thanks for the GMAIL invite guys! On 17:53:54 January 10, 2005 "Dave Nebinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm sure there's some tracking going on at gmail so they can identify > a) who is sending invites, b) who accepts the invites, and c) who > does not accept the invites. > > Unlike the AOL c

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading GCC...

2005-01-10 Thread Andres Moore
Well, actually Im almost desperate for the pentium-m flag...then, the emerge system was OK. Actually Im using a mix of 3.3 in world, and 3.4 in system!..wacko!.. :) But, its working now, without problems. And you can go back to 3.3.4...if you switch the compiler properly, and start the emerge upda

RE: [gentoo-user] OT: GMAIL accounts

2005-01-10 Thread Dave Nebinger
I figured you'd get hammered when you asked for one. ;-) > > Thanks for the GMAIL invite guys! > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] ebuild for xine-lib-1_rc8-r1 buggy !

2005-01-10 Thread Antonio Coralles
The ebuild for xine-lib-1_rc8-r1 doesn't set my costum CFLAGS properly; at the beginning of the configuration process i got some warnings about overriding CFLAGS [ use CFLAGS_AM instead ]. During the compeilation i get something like this: ... -mcpu=athlon -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer  <

[gentoo-user] emerge broken?

2005-01-10 Thread Alex Bennee
emerge managed to get stuck while rebuilding glibc and now I can't do anything with it as it seems to keep exiting before doing anything useful. CAn anyone point me at what might be wrong? I ran it though phython -v and I got: [EMAIL PROTECTED] glibc # python -v /usr/bin/emerge --newuse world # in

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for xine-lib-1_rc8-r1 buggy !

2005-01-10 Thread Antonio Coralles
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The ebuild for xine-lib-1_rc8-r1 doesn't set my costum CFLAGS properly; at the beginning of the configuration process i got some warnings about overriding CFLAGS [ use CFLAGS_AM instead ]. During the compeilation i get something like this: -mcpu=athlon -O3 -pipe -f

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware setup

2005-01-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 11:54:44 -0500 (EST), Nick Smith wrote: > i have one small problem now, i can only run it as root and not > as a normal user, is this how its suppose to be? chmod +r /opt/vmware/bin/vmware fixed that for me. -- Neil Bothwick deja vous - the act of forgetting someone's name

[gentoo-user] Re: ...but i need xfree!

2005-01-10 Thread Barry . Schwartz
daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > so how do i just tell gentoo not to try to upgrade me? is the following my > only choice? is it a good one? > > # emerge --inject x11-base/x11-xorg > > why is it that xfree had to be removed but other stuff that most people never > touch (like kdrive) is

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: GMAIL accounts

2005-01-10 Thread Steven Susbauer
Please, this is indeed VERY off topic and has nothing to do with Gentoo in any sense (other than maybe "I can open gmail in my ebuild of firefox"). If you have gmail invites, that's great, send them to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - If you want gmail invites, put in your email addy at http://isnoop.net/gm

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: GMAIL accounts

2005-01-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 09:44:23 -0800, darren kirby wrote: > Anyone else starting to think that gmail invites are about as useful as AOL > free trial CDs? You can't drive a cat crazy with a Gmail invite on a string, or put one in the microwave. AOL CDs are far more useful :) -- Neil Bothwick If

[gentoo-user] Keymap

2005-01-10 Thread Tony Boom
Could someone please tell what keymap to use for a United Kingdom keyboard and how to set it up please. My current map is uk but that turns out to Ukranian. Many thanks. -- Tony. Gentoo Linux. Registered Linux user #316959 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2005-01-10 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 09 January 2005 22:05, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 10:09:38 +0100, Francesco Talamona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is not called for. I held off sync for about 2 weeks. Later > you talk about planning large emerges for when you can deal with > them. Make up your m

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware setup

2005-01-10 Thread Dan Barr
On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 19:15:57 +, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 11:54:44 -0500 (EST), Nick Smith wrote: > > > i have one small problem now, i can only run it as root and not > > as a normal user, is this how its suppose to be? > > chmod +r /opt/vmware/bin/vmware

Re: [gentoo-user] gdm & xfce4

2005-01-10 Thread Peter Karlsson
On Mon, 10 Jan 2005, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 13:18, Peter Karlsson wrote: > > Is there someone who can tell me how to make xfce4 the default "session"? > > > > I think the file is /etc/rc.conf > > # Defaults depending on what you install currently include: > # > # Gnome - will s

Re: [gentoo-user] gdm without gconf

2005-01-10 Thread Peter Karlsson
On Mon, 10 Jan 2005, Trond Danielsen wrote: > USE="-bonobo -fam -tcpd" should remove the ram, portmap and bonobo > deps. > gnome-base/gnome-light gives you a barebone gnome install, only enough > to run gnome apps. You could take a look at thatone. Ok, thanks! I'll try that. Best regards Peter

[gentoo-user] usb & hotplug [AGAIN]

2005-01-10 Thread Vittorio
I recently moved to kernel 2.6.9 compiling a new system from scratch every in my all my gentoo linux notebook. Now I'm sure I enabled the usb stuff in the kernel and compiled and installed hotplug according to the instructions in the handbook. The weird fact is that, even though the usbfs fil

Re: [gentoo-user] usb & hotplug [AGAIN]

2005-01-10 Thread Christoph Eckert
> WShat's going on and what should I do? Again me with no experience ;-) . On my machine, I get: lsmod | grep -i ohci ohci_hcd 23560 0 ohci1394 35716 0 ieee1394 312376 2 eth1394,ohci1394 lsmod | grep -i uhci uhci_hcd 35216 0 lsmod | g

Re: [gentoo-user] gdm & xfce4

2005-01-10 Thread Peter Karlsson
On Mon, 10 Jan 2005, Trond Danielsen wrote: > 1. /etc/rc.conf : > XSESSION=XFce4 # Think this is the right name Oh, I had XSESSION=xfce4 (all lowercase)... > 2. ~/.xsession: > #!/bin/bash > exec startxfce4 I had an xsession which I copied from my ~/.xinitrc, alth

[gentoo-user] undelete tool

2005-01-10 Thread Mauro Faccenda
Is there any undelete tool for a reiserfs partition? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Keymap

2005-01-10 Thread Tony Boom
On Monday 10 January 2005 20:28, Peter Ruskin wrote: >   Identifier  "Keyboard1" Thanks you very much for that Peter. I had to reboot to enable the changes, even as root I was denied permission to restart from a consol. On rebooting I had no way of starting KDE and had to edit the above back to

[gentoo-user] Serial device problem

2005-01-10 Thread Vittorio
I compiled a linux gentoo system and kernel 2.6.9 from scratch on my notebook connected to an external modem. Now it happens that while with kernel 2.4 I could see /dev/ttyS0 in /var/log/messages during the boot, with the new 2.6 kernel I can't see anything of the kind ..and of course, the modem

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ...but i need xfree!

2005-01-10 Thread daniel
On January 10, 2005 02:43 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > so how do i just tell gentoo not to try to upgrade me? is the following > > my only choice? is it a good one? > > > > # emerge --inject x11-base/x11-xorg > > > > why is it that xfree had to be removed

Re: [gentoo-user] usb & hotplug [AGAIN]

2005-01-10 Thread Vittorio
I do not have anything of the kind but I can modprobe it! I think I'll have to call these modules into /etc/modules.d/kernel-2.6 to have the started at boot time. Am I right? Vittorio Alle 21:46, lunedì 10 gennaio 2005, Christoph Eckert ha scritto: > > WShat's going on and what should I do?

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox or Xorg font rendering?

2005-01-10 Thread Covington, Chris
On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 20:00 -0600, Kathy Wills wrote: > >I've got a GTK Styles and Fonts applet in my KDE Control Center, but > >I'm not sure what package I installed to get it (if any - might be > >standard in the current KDE releases)... that should do what you want > >it to do, I think... No nee

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