Re: [gentoo-user] BT848 driver.

2005-01-14 Thread Mariusz Pękala
On 2005-01-13 21:44:49 + (Thu, Jan), Tony Boom wrote: > And guess what the Conexant 2388x module will be called? > > It's called cx8800. Now why I didn't think of that I'll never know :) > > Seriously I didn't know about xconfig, only menu config and that doesn't > give the same info as xcon

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange portage update suggestion [SOLVED]

2005-01-14 Thread Ivan Yosifov
Thanks for the advice. emerge -uDtv world showed me that several plugins were still 0.8.5 and that's why it wanted to downgrade. I unmasked them , emerged them and portage no longer wants to downgrade :) . On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 00:00 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: > Ivan Yosifov wrote: > > Hello Ever

Re: [gentoo-user] Prism Orinico on 2.6 kernel

2005-01-14 Thread Scott Taylor
On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 18:28 -0600, Kurt Guenther wrote: > However, I'm not sure how to take it from here. Shouldn't it show up as > a network device? There talk of a: > > /etc/conf.d/wireless That first became available with baselayout-1.11.* which I think are all still keyworded with ~arch. e

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sys-apps/acl + attr to world file or not?

2005-01-14 Thread Jan Callewaert
* Dave Nebinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-01-13 14:38:06 -0500]: > Well, possibly you could unmerge them by completing the following steps: > > 1. copy the library files for the packages to a temporary location. > 2. unmerge the packages. > 3. copy the library files back to their original locatio

Re: [gentoo-user] mail client

2005-01-14 Thread Michele Di Trani
On Friday 14 January 2005 01:12, John Dangler wrote: > Can someone recommend a mail client I can load for commandline access? I'm pine , mutt . Hope it helps :) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] where is the best university to study security and networks w/ gentoo like system?

2005-01-14 Thread Ovi
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Re: [gentoo-user] BT848 driver.

2005-01-14 Thread Tony Boom
On Friday 14 January 2005 00:32, Nick Rout wrote: > I think you are on the wrong track. the cx8800 appears to be the driver > for the Conexant 2388x chipset. the Conexant 2388x *chipset* is the > successor to the BT878 *chipset*, but you still need BT848 driver if you > have a bt848/bt878 chipset.

Re: [gentoo-user] AC97 Onboard Audio Driver?

2005-01-14 Thread Kevin Philp
I am not sure how you deduced he can use the i810? Surely thats only if he has Intel chips on his board. My board has VIA VT8233 chips and so I had to enable the VT82?? option in the kernel. What you need to do is look at your motherboard manual and find out what the sound chip is. If its VIA i

Re: [gentoo-user] AC97 Onboard Audio Driver?

2005-01-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 09:21:25 +, Kevin Philp wrote: > What you need to do is look at your motherboard manual and find out what > the sound chip is. Or do "lspci | grep -i audio". -- Neil Bothwick You know the end of the world is near when the Spice Girls start reproducing. -- gentoo-user@

Re: [gentoo-user] BT848 driver.

2005-01-14 Thread Tony Boom
On Friday 14 January 2005 07:59, Mariusz PÄkala wrote: > $ Âgrep -r 2388 /usr/src/linux-2.6.10-gentoo-r4/Documentation/video4linux/ I get exactly the same output... /usr/src/linux-2.6.10-gentoo-r4/Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Cards: XCapture PV-CX881P(cx23881) /usr/src/linux-2.6.10-gentoo-r

[gentoo-user] find + ls + grep + cp + CLI + Bash madness

2005-01-14 Thread Ow Mun Heng
Hi All, I have no idea how else to put the subject. It's weird behaviour. I'm trying to move a bunch of PDFs which has the words "gentoo" in it into a folder marked as "Gentoo/" and somehow I'm not succedding. (I'm too stubborn to want to do it the cut and paste way in nautilus" $find . -iname g

[gentoo-user] glsa-check

2005-01-14 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Hi, If i understand glsa-check correct it rely on portage updates. If i don't regular update glsa-check won't know about new vulnerabilitys is this correct ? The reasen i'm asking this is because i must apply a automatic vulnerability scanner for all the Gentoo machines and the only way i know

Re: [gentoo-user] find + ls + grep + cp + CLI + Bash madness

2005-01-14 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 17:48:15 +0800 Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I'm trying to move a bunch of PDFs which has the words "gentoo" in it | into a folder marked as "Gentoo/" and somehow I'm not succedding. | (I'm too stubborn to want to do it the cut and paste way in nautilus" Assuming by

Re: [gentoo-user] find + ls + grep + cp + CLI + Bash madness

2005-01-14 Thread Jan Callewaert
* Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-01-14 17:48:15 +0800]: > Hi All, > > I have no idea how else to put the subject. It's weird behaviour. > > I'm trying to move a bunch of PDFs which has the words "gentoo" in it > into a folder marked as "Gentoo/" and somehow I'm not succedding. > (I'm too

Re: [gentoo-user] find + ls + grep + cp + CLI + Bash madness

2005-01-14 Thread purslow
050114 Ow Mun Heng wrote: > I'm trying to move a bunch of PDFs which has the words "gentoo" in it > into a folder marked as "Gentoo/" and somehow I'm not succedding. ... > 'Cyrus Imapd-Gentoo.pdf' > 'Gentoo Linux rsync Mirrors Policy.pdf' > 'Gentoo chroot.pdf' others have offered ways to solve you

[gentoo-user] Evolution and Synce (Pocket PC Sync)

2005-01-14 Thread Ani Adarsh
Anybody know how I can sync my pocket PC to evolution or anything else for that matter .. I use synce and it ties up well with my gnome desktop although I was thinking of writing something to do auto connect for me .. I had used synce and multisync earlier but now after i built it . it seems to m

Re: [gentoo-user] Monospace font ala RedHat

2005-01-14 Thread Mark Farmer
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 13:53:30 +, Peter Ruskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 21 December 2004 12:39, Mark Farmer wrote: > > The font i am talking about can be clearly seen here: > > http://www.phpmp.com/photos/albums/fedora094/Screenshot_Gnome_ter > >minal.png > > That font looks a bit

Re: [gentoo-user] find + ls + grep + cp + CLI + Bash madness

2005-01-14 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 14. Januar 2005 10:48 schrieb ext Ow Mun Heng: > $find . -iname *gentoo* -print > ./Email Servers/Setting up Mail under Gentoo.pdf > ./Gentoo > ./Gentoo/gentoolkit.pdf > ./Gentoo Linux rsync Mirrors Policy.pdf > ./Cyrus Imapd-Gentoo.pdf > ./openMosix Cluster on Gentoo.pdf > ./Gentoo chr

Re: [gentoo-user] stats program

2005-01-14 Thread witalis
Dnia piÄtek 07 stycznia 2005 00:50, Grant napisaÅ: > I went with Webalizer over AWstats because it generates static pages. > AWstats seems to be a bit more full-featured, but not by too much. There is also analog http://www.analog.cx/ which has strange license and development cycle (major versio

Re: [gentoo-user] Synchronizing PalmOS w/ OSS groupware?

2005-01-14 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- > J-Pilot is very very nice, currently the closest thing to the Palm > Desktop. It has exactly and only the features of the Palm Pilot. > Evo/Korganizer have features in the desktop that don't translate to > the Pilot, and they miss some

Re: [gentoo-user] mail client

2005-01-14 Thread Harald Arnesen
"John Dangler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can someone recommend a mail client I can load for commandline access? I'm > having some problems with a baseline backup and don't want to load the X > environment until I get this baseline backed up. Thanks. Any input is > appreciated. emacs + gnus

Re: [gentoo-user] BT848 driver.

2005-01-14 Thread Mariusz Pękala
On 2005-01-14 09:26:27 + (Fri, Jan), Tony Boom wrote: > On Friday 14 January 2005 07:59, Mariusz Pękala wrote: > > > $  grep -r 2388 /usr/src/linux-2.6.10-gentoo-r4/Documentation/video4linux/ > > I get exactly the same output... > > /usr/src/linux-2.6.10-gentoo-r4/Documentation/video4linux/b

[gentoo-user] emerge without rsync

2005-01-14 Thread Frank Schafer
Hi, Is there a possibility to emerge a package without rsync? I have a quite new inststallation and use to install packages if i need them. There should be a way to save a package to /usr/portage/distfiles via (say) ftp and use this instead of downloading it during emerge. If I get it right this

Re: [gentoo-user] BT848 driver.

2005-01-14 Thread Holly Bostick
Tony Boom wrote: I've just recompiled my kernel with what I thought was support for my WinTV PCi card. Apparently the driver for a bt848 card is now Conexant 2388x. I've compiled that and the appropriate sound driver in. You know, everybody... it seems to me that we're stumbling about somewhat

Re: [gentoo-user] BT848 driver.

2005-01-14 Thread Tony Boom
On Friday 14 January 2005 10:55, Mariusz PÄkala wrote: > Back to the topic: read the > /usr/src/linux/Docum*/video4*/{CARDLIST,bttv/Cards}* and if you find > nothing, read the rest of files here. I am almost sure you will find what > you need. I've read it all, it tells me about bttv, It tells me

Re: [gentoo-user] WiFi success story :|

2005-01-14 Thread Holly Bostick
Frank Schafer wrote: Hi, the original poster (me ;), got the card (ipw2200) working, would very like to use the gentoo methods, but wasn't able to get wpa_supplicant (masked) to work. He tried to ebuild wpa_supplicant and the (needless) madwifi was downloaded and installed too amd the build failed.

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge without rsync

2005-01-14 Thread Michele Di Trani
On Friday 14 January 2005 11:21, Frank Schafer wrote: > There should be a way to save a package to /usr/portage/distfiles via > (say) ftp and use this instead of downloading it during emerge. Have you tried emerge -f ? (it just fetch the packages you need without starting any compilation. I usua

Re: [gentoo-user] BT848 driver.

2005-01-14 Thread Holly Bostick
Tony Boom wrote: People keep telling me I have to compile the bttv module into my kernel, I have no idea whatsoever how to do that, it is not there. Can anyone else who is using 2.6.10-gentoo-r4 *please* just run a make menuconfig and see if the driver is in fact missing (it is very remotely po

Re: [gentoo-user] BT848 driver.

2005-01-14 Thread Tony Boom
On Friday 14 January 2005 11:35, Holly Bostick wrote: > What is the exact name and model number of the card, so you or we can > look it up and *see* what chipset it is using OK, after ripping my PC to bits and taking the card out this is what it is. On the card: PAL-BG/I 62314 Rev BM On the ac

Re: [gentoo-user] xterm style scrolbars. Can it be improved.

2005-01-14 Thread David Harel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 11:26:25AM +0200, David Harel wrote: X-chat. On RH I got nice scrollbars. On gentoo I got xterm style scrollbars. All I did was emerge to those products. Is there away to improve the scrollbars? Sounds like (not sure) that it was compiled

Re: [gentoo-user] BT848 driver.

2005-01-14 Thread spox
No wonder that you don't find bttv drivers in your kernel configuration that easily. For a Hauppauge WinTV PCI you'll need the following kernel configuration: Device Drivers-> Multimedia devices -> Video for Linux -> compile that as module Device Drivers-> Multimedia devices -> Video for Linux ->

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge without rsync

2005-01-14 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 14. Januar 2005 12:21 schrieb ext Frank Schafer: > Is there a possibility to emerge a package without rsync? Yes, just do it. rsync only updates the portage tree, it doesn't touch any package installed on your system. You may not get the latest version of a package if your portage tr

Re: [gentoo-user] BT848 driver.

2005-01-14 Thread Holly Bostick
Tony Boom wrote: On Friday 14 January 2005 11:35, Holly Bostick wrote: What is the exact name and model number of the card, so you or we can look it up and *see* what chipset it is using OK, after ripping my PC to bits and taking the card out this is what it is. On the card: PAL-BG/I 62314 Rev BM

Re: [gentoo-user] BT848 driver.

2005-01-14 Thread spox
I see - you're propably missing another thing too: Check Device drivers -> I2C support * or M Device drivers -> I2C support -> I2C device interface * or M Device drivers -> I2C support-> I2C Algorithms -> I2C bit-banging interfaces * or M Device drivers -> I2C support-> I2C Hardware Bus suppor

Re: [gentoo-user] BT848 driver.

2005-01-14 Thread Holly Bostick
spox wrote: No wonder that you don't find bttv drivers in your kernel configuration that easily. For a Hauppauge WinTV PCI you'll need the following kernel configuration: Device Drivers-> Multimedia devices -> Video for Linux -> compile that as module Device Drivers-> Multimedia devices -> Video fo

Re: [gentoo-user] BT848 driver.

2005-01-14 Thread Holly Bostick
spox wrote: I see - you're propably missing another thing too: Check Device drivers -> I2C support * or M Device drivers -> I2C support -> I2C device interface * or M Device drivers -> I2C support-> I2C Algorithms -> I2C bit-banging interfaces * or M Device drivers -> I2C support-> I2C Hardware

Re: [gentoo-user] BT848 driver.

2005-01-14 Thread Tony Boom
On Friday 14 January 2005 12:07, Holly Bostick wrote: > I know it's not much, given that I'm using the wrong kernel, but hope it > helps anyway. SuSE isn't a problem, I've been watching TV on this box for years with SuSE. I can boot off a Knoppix live CD and my TV works, I tried FC2 and 3 and I

Re: [gentoo-user] BT848 driver.

2005-01-14 Thread Tony Boom
On Friday 14 January 2005 12:19, spox wrote: > Device Drivers-> Multimedia devices -> Video for Linux -> Video for > Linux -> BT848 Video for Linux -> compile that as module Spox, I know your trying to help and I do appreciate it very much but I don't know any other way of saying... "I don't hav

Re: [gentoo-user] BT848 driver.

2005-01-14 Thread spox
I remember that it took me quite some time to get my kernel right for that card - the rest was more or less easy. The I2C dependency is a real nasty thing. Am Freitag, den 14.01.2005, 13:26 +0100 schrieb Holly Bostick: > spox wrote: > > I see - you're propably missing another thing too: > > > > C

Re: [gentoo-user] BT848 driver.

2005-01-14 Thread Tony Boom
On Friday 14 January 2005 12:27, spox wrote: > After enabling I2C go back to Multimedia and THEN you should see BT848. Now I have it thank you, I'll try again now. Thank you Spox. -- Tony. Gentoo Linux. Registered Linux user #316959 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Problems...

2005-01-14 Thread Peter Karlsson
Hi! I'm running an xdm/xfce4 combination (I tried gdm first but I don't like it's dependencies). One of my problems is that the startup-script is run twice: petekarl 8494 8468 0 13:09 ?00:00:00 /bin/sh /etc/xfce4/xinitrc petekarl 8524 8494 0 13:09 ?00:00:00 /bin/sh /etc/xfce

Re: [gentoo-user] BT848 driver.

2005-01-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 12:31:04 +, Tony Boom wrote: > > Device Drivers-> Multimedia devices -> Video for Linux -> Video for > > Linux -> BT848 Video for Linux -> compile that as module > > Spox, I know your trying to help and I do appreciate it very much but I > don't know any other way of sayi

Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs error

2005-01-14 Thread Alec
Ken McLennan wrote: G'day there Gentoo People, I'm trying to emerge Quanta+, and although it started off quite nicely it's now reached kdelibs-3.3.2-r1 and I get this error: bash-2.05b# emerge --resume *** Resuming merge... >>> emerge (1 of 2) kde-base/kdelibs-3.3.2-r1 to / Traceback (most re

Re: [gentoo-user] BT848 driver.

2005-01-14 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick wrote: The easiest way to find where to set the option, and what it depends on, is to run make menuconfig, press / and type in 'bt848'. It Tried this on two machines and it showed the location of the BT848 setting on both, even though it didn't show up in the options on one of them be

Re: [gentoo-user] BT848 driver.

2005-01-14 Thread spox
The BT848, 878 and 881 are all video chipsets. But you were absolutely right with I2C. Am Freitag, den 14.01.2005, 12:48 + schrieb Neil Bothwick: > On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 12:31:04 +, Tony Boom wrote: > > > > Device Drivers-> Multimedia devices -> Video for Linux -> Video for > > > Linux -> B

Re: [gentoo-user] find + ls + grep + cp + CLI + Bash madness

2005-01-14 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 18:04, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 17:48:15 +0800 Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > | I'm trying to move a bunch of PDFs which has the words "gentoo" in it > | into a folder marked as "Gentoo/" and somehow I'm not succedding. > | (I'm too stubborn to

Re: [gentoo-user] find + ls + grep + cp + CLI + Bash madness

2005-01-14 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 18:10, Jan Callewaert wrote: > * Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-01-14 17:48:15 +0800]: > > > Hi All, > > > > I have no idea how else to put the subject. It's weird behaviour. > > > > I'm trying to move a bunch of PDFs which has the words "gentoo" in it > > into a fol

Re: [gentoo-user] find + ls + grep + cp + CLI + Bash madness

2005-01-14 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 18:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 050114 Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > I'm trying to move a bunch of PDFs which has the words "gentoo" in it > > into a folder marked as "Gentoo/" and somehow I'm not succedding. > ... > > 'Cyrus Imapd-Gentoo.pdf' > > 'Gentoo Linux rsync Mirrors Policy

Re: [gentoo-user] find + ls + grep + cp + CLI + Bash madness

2005-01-14 Thread YoYo siska
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 05:32:22AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 050114 Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > I'm trying to move a bunch of PDFs which has the words "gentoo" in it > > into a folder marked as "Gentoo/" and somehow I'm not succedding. > ... > > 'Cyrus Imapd-Gentoo.pdf' > > 'Gentoo Linux rsync M

Re: [gentoo-user] find + ls + grep + cp + CLI + Bash madness

2005-01-14 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Ow Mun Heng ha scritto: On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 18:04, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 17:48:15 +0800 Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I'm trying to move a bunch of PDFs which has the words "gentoo" in it | into a folder marked as "Gentoo/" and somehow I'm not succedding. | (I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] kde meta ebuild

2005-01-14 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Friday 14 January 2005 16:36, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: (B> Am Freitag, 14. Januar 2005 08:19 schrieb ext Martoni: (B> > On the site (http://kde-metaebuilds.berlios.de/) it states that: (B> > "However, it is being merged slowly into portage and should be the (B> > main/only set of official kde e

Re: [gentoo-user] kde meta ebuild

2005-01-14 Thread Martoni
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 22:19:53 +0900, Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not to be condescending or anything but... Apparently the split-up ebuilds are > ready and the only issues left are related to the upgrade process rather than > installation, which is why the split-up ebuilds aren't in t

[gentoo-user] system backup with quickpkg

2005-01-14 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
The following oneline create binary packages for all installed ebuilds. # find /var/db/pkg/ -type d -mindepth 2 -exec quickpkg {} \; adding a backup of /etc is it enough to recreate the same system/installation ? there are drawback, known bugs? tnx -- Francesco Riosa -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mail

Re: [gentoo-user] system backup with quickpkg

2005-01-14 Thread Charlie Gehlin
I would include user(s) home-dirs, as many settings gets stored there. Oh, and kernel-configs :) Charlie On Fri, January 14, 2005 14:40, Bastian Balthazar Bux said: > The following oneline create binary packages for all installed ebuilds. > > # find /var/db/pkg/ -type d -mindepth 2 -exec quickpk

[gentoo-user] Radeon M7 and resuming from suspend-to-ram

2005-01-14 Thread Tomi Kallio
Hello. I'm running gentoo on Compaq Evo N800V laptop with radeon M7. At the moment I'm using gentoo-dev-sources version 2.6.10-r4. For the first time suspend-to-ram almoust works but I'm having trouble resuming radeon/screen. After resuming, display on laptop stays black with just "weak" backli

Re: [gentoo-user] system backup with quickpkg

2005-01-14 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Charlie Gehlin ha scritto: I would include user(s) home-dirs, as many settings gets stored there. Oh, and kernel-configs :) Charlie This was intended as startup backup, the user data like server data is intended to be backupped in other ways. Backup kernel config is a good idea I was forgettin

Re: [gentoo-user] mail client

2005-01-14 Thread Trey Gruel
> emacs + gnus emacs... an os unto itself.. ;) -- trey -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub

2005-01-14 Thread Jans H. Xie
Do you use "rootnoverify" instead of "root" cmd? On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 15:29:02 -0500, Alwood, Garrod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I try and load Windows from XP I get an error that says Filesystem > type unknown, partition type 0x7. How do I fix? > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list >

Re: [gentoo-user] mail client

2005-01-14 Thread André Braselmann
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 08:12:58PM -0500, John Dangler wrote: > Can someone recommend a mail client I can load for commandline access? I?m > having some problems with a baseline backup and don?t want to load the X > environment until I get this baseline backed up. Thanks. Any input is > apprecia

Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs error

2005-01-14 Thread Ioan Marius Curelariu
What version of portage are you using? Just count the >>"<<  in  >>emergelog(" === ("+str(mergecount)+" of "+str(len(mymergelist))+")< They don't match!.. On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 07:52 -0500, Alec wrote: Ken McLennan wrote: > G'day there Gentoo People, > > I'm trying to emerge Quanta+, a

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-libs/gtk+-2.4.14 emerge problem?

2005-01-14 Thread Billy Holmes
Alexander Kirillov wrote: $ fix_libtool_files.sh 3.3.4 There's been a long thread on the subject recently. I just got bit by it this morning. It seems gcc was upgraded to 3.3.5 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] newbie again: what program ls listening on my port 32770?

2005-01-14 Thread Billy Holmes
Zhang Weiwu wrote: 32770/tcp open sometimes-rpc3 it's probably portmap/rpc related. try stopping NFS, statd, and portmap and see if that port closes up. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] find + ls + grep + cp + CLI + Bash madness

2005-01-14 Thread Billy Holmes
Ow Mun Heng wrote: I'm trying to move a bunch of PDFs which has the words "gentoo" in it into a folder marked as "Gentoo/" and somehow I'm not succedding. (I'm too stubborn to want to do it the cut and paste way in nautilus" why not # mv *Gentoo* Gentoo/ ? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] OT - Gentoo course on paper

2005-01-14 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Hi, I must give a Gentoo course on paper by monday, so that we can give this course to the people of our helpdesk. Are there people on this list who have done this, i mean create a course, it would be for preople who know nothing about Linux or a tiny bit. If so would you share this document wi

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Gentoo course on paper

2005-01-14 Thread Joel Merrick
On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 16:55 +0100, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: > Hi, > > I must give a Gentoo course on paper by monday, so that we can give this > course to the people of our helpdesk. > > Are there people on this list who have done this, i mean create a course, it > would be for preople who k

Re: [gentoo-user] anaconda and bogl-devel

2005-01-14 Thread Bob Sanders
> Hello there: > I downloaded anaconda from vidalinux web site but it asks for libbterm > and libbogl (never head of them before). I went down to rpmfind.net and > it told me that something called bogl-devel provided such things...but I > don't know where to find the tarballs and I don't trus

[gentoo-user] fluxbox help

2005-01-14 Thread Nick Smith
i have a problem/complaint with fluxbox, i cannot for the life of me get the desktop to stay, every reboot i get a flash of what it should be then it goes away, i have already commented out the line: #rootCommand: bsetroot -solid grey20 as per the wiki on fluxbox, and it still doesnt stick, every

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Gentoo course on paper

2005-01-14 Thread Joel Merrick
On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 16:55 +0100, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: > Hi, > > I must give a Gentoo course on paper by monday, so that we can give this > course to the people of our helpdesk. For a less sarcy answer: I would presume that the won't be using emerge or other tools? I would hope they're

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Gentoo course on paper

2005-01-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 16:55:49 +0100, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: > If so would you share this document with me, its not that i wil not > create it myself. Its done but there are (i'm sure) things that i forgot > or are better. Why not post what you've so far, so other can suggest additions and imp

Re: [gentoo-user] AC97 Onboard Audio Driver?

2005-01-14 Thread Jadex
El vie, 14-01-2005 a las 09:21 +, Kevin Philp escribiÃ: > I am not sure how you deduced he can use the i810? Surely thats only if he > has > Intel chips on his board. My board has VIA VT8233 chips and so I had to > enable the VT82?? option in the kernel. You mean you have a AC87 chipset boar

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Gentoo course on paper

2005-01-14 Thread Joel Merrick
On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 16:08 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > If your VCR still flashes 12:00 - then Linux is not for you. > I disagree mate! Mine's still set at 12:00 and so is the car stereo, lol Thank god for mythtv and RDF :) -- Joel Merrick email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mobile: 07929 208 56

Re: [gentoo-user] fluxbox help

2005-01-14 Thread Jans H. Xie
Have you set this in your ~/.fluxbox/init file? session.screen0.rootCommand:fbsetbg -l; -l tells fbsetbg to save & restore your background. On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 10:59:31 -0500 (EST), Nick Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i have a problem/complaint with fluxbox, i cannot for the life > of me

Re: [gentoo-user] Evolution and Synce (Pocket PC Sync)

2005-01-14 Thread Jadex
El vie, 14-01-2005 a las 16:05 +0530, Ani Adarsh escribiÃ: > Anybody know how I can sync my pocket PC to evolution or anything else Go to Evolution's tools menu and then go to Pilot Settings, if it complains about Gnome Pilot utils you must install gnome-pilot and gnome-pilot-conduits... -- live

Re: [gentoo-user] AC97 Onboard Audio Driver?

2005-01-14 Thread Bob Sanders
Kevin wrote: > I am not sure how you deduced he can use the i810? Surely thats only if he > has > Intel chips on his board. My board has VIA VT8233 chips and so I had to > enable the VT82?? option in the kernel. > Well, no. If he has an AMD, Intel, Ali, Sis, or nForce chipset, it will be i81

Re: [gentoo-user] AC97 Onboard Audio Driver?

2005-01-14 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Thanks for the help all! I've got sound again -- woo-hoo! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] anaconda and bogl-devel

2005-01-14 Thread Jadex
El vie, 14-01-2005 a las 07:58 -0800, Bob Sanders escribiÃ: > nowaday as the lib is named - libtermcap.so, while on some BSD Thanx, by the way it is libbterm what i'm seeking (yeap a -lbterm in gcc flags) anyone knows something about it? -- live free() or die() Jadex signature.asc Description: E

RE: [gentoo-user] AC97 Onboard Audio Driver?

2005-01-14 Thread John Dangler
If it's Intel, use intel8x0 / snd-intel8x0 -Original Message- From: Nicholas Pappas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 11:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] AC97 Onboard Audio Driver? Hello all. I just removed my PCI sound card,

RE: [gentoo-user] system backup with quickpkg

2005-01-14 Thread John Dangler
are you going to back these packages up to another drive or write to them a cd/dvd ? if removable media, do you need to be able to boot from the media with a gentoo kernel for recovery/restore ? -Original Message- From: Bastian Balthazar Bux [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, Janua

Re: [gentoo-user] fluxbox help

2005-01-14 Thread Keith P Hassen
Nick Smith wrote: i have a problem/complaint with fluxbox, i cannot for the life of me get the desktop to stay, every reboot i get a flash of what it should be then it goes away, i have already commented out the line: #rootCommand: bsetroot -solid grey20 as per the wiki on fluxbox, and it still doe

[gentoo-user] vlc without gui

2005-01-14 Thread Mauro Faccenda
Hi All, I've just emerged vlc with those USE flags: media-video/vlc-0.8.1 -3dfx +X -a52 +aalib +alsa (-altivec) -arts +bidi -cdda -cddb -cdio -debug -dts -dvb +dvd +esd +faad -fbcon +ffmpeg +flac +freetype -ggi -gnutls +hal -httpd -joystick -libcaca -lirc -live +mad +matroska -mozilla +mpeg2 +n

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless a nogo

2005-01-14 Thread Ed Jabbour
On Thursday 13 January 2005 08:20 pm, you wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 19:25:35 -0500, Ed Jabbour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 13 January 2005 03:47 pm, you wrote: > > > It appears that iwconfig is failing to set your WEP key. If your > > > password has any charcters that are signifi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Am I paranoid? Is this the IP address for raptor.gentoo.org?

2005-01-14 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Ed Epstein: > > Thanks, it came through. I read the script; it looks handy. How often does > the snapshot get updated on most of the mirrors? > According to the rsync mirror guide: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/rsync.xml 2x/h between :00 and :10 , and :30 and :40 This is what gentoo as

Re: [gentoo-user] AC97 Onboard Audio Driver?

2005-01-14 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Ack, new problem! :( I got the sound working, but now I can't have two programs using the audio device at the same time. I looked in the Gnome Sound setup and made sure the "start sound server at startup" was selected, restarted Gnome but still no sharing. Did I miss another config f

[gentoo-user] pcmcia serial doesn't work

2005-01-14 Thread Vittorio
I compiled the 2.6.9 kernel enabling pcmcia and the pcmcia-cs stuff. Now it happens that while if I insert in the pcmcia slot a wireless card it works, inserting a serial card it declares that cannot find the serial_cs.o module, which is true! In what package is that module included? Thanks Vitt

Re: [gentoo-user] AC97 Onboard Audio Driver?

2005-01-14 Thread Christoph Eckert
> I got the sound working, but now I can't have two programs > using the audio device at the same time. I looked in the > Gnome Sound setup and made sure the "start sound server at > startup" was selected, restarted Gnome but still no > sharing. > Did I miss another config file somewhere that m

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge without rsync

2005-01-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 14 January 2005 05:21 am, Frank Schafer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a possibility to emerge a package without rsync? > I have a quite new inststallation and use to install packages if i need > them. Most gentoo package mirrors are http or ftp not rsync. I'm fairly sure I onl

Re: [gentoo-user] find + ls + grep + cp + CLI + Bash madness

2005-01-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 14 January 2005 04:32 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > others have offered ways to solve your immediate problem, > but the real solution is not to insert spaces into file or directory Bowing to the whim of the computer is a bad practice to get into, better to learn how to command it. > n

Re: [gentoo-user] find + ls + grep + cp + CLI + Bash madness

2005-01-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 14 January 2005 07:00 am, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was using > > find . -type f -maxdepth 1 -iname *gentoo* > > and that didn't work. How come?? (it lists everything!) *gentoo* was being expanded by bash; I'm not sure why find didn't give you an error. -- Boyd Steph

[gentoo-user] Re: mail client

2005-01-14 Thread Matthew Kennedy
Trey Gruel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> emacs + gnus > > emacs... an os unto itself.. ;) Perfect for a baseline backup then. -- Matthew Kennedy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] AC97 Onboard Audio Driver?

2005-01-14 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Thanks Christoph. I understand the basics of how the sound system works, and I did see that video before (very well done) when I was working to get MIDI working w/ my old card. My trouble is that I didn't alter anything beyond the driver being used in the kernel (at least, to my knowle

Re: [gentoo-user] mail client

2005-01-14 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 10:03:56 -0500 Trey Gruel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > emacs + gnus | | emacs... an os unto itself.. ;) Shame it lacks a decent text editor. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://

Re: [gentoo-user] keymapping question-fluxbox

2005-01-14 Thread Nick Smith
> Hello All, > > This really belongs to a fluxbox list but there's so little > traffic... > > Having to do with, for example, the .fluxbox/keys file. I really > don't > know what Mod1, Mod4 etc etc means. Mod1 is the ALT key? (us > keyboard > pc104) Then what is Mod4? The "Windows" key? Or is it "

Re: [gentoo-user] AC97 Onboard Audio Driver?

2005-01-14 Thread Bob Sanders
> It's a real bummer. The onboard sound is better then my old sound > card (scary thought), but it doesn't want to play nice with more then > one > app at a time. Curses! > AC'97 never had hardware mixing. It's takes a real DSP for that to occur. Some sound servers support softw

Re: [gentoo-user] find + ls + grep + cp + CLI + Bash madness

2005-01-14 Thread daniel
On January 14, 2005 01:19 pm, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Friday 14 January 2005 07:00 am, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > I was using > > > > find . -type f -maxdepth 1 -iname *gentoo* > > > > and that didn't work. How come?? (it lists everything!) > > *gentoo* was being expa

Re: [gentoo-user] AC97 Onboard Audio Driver?

2005-01-14 Thread Holly Bostick
Nicholas Pappas wrote: Thanks Christoph. I understand the basics of how the sound system works, and I did see that video before (very well done) when I was working to get MIDI working w/ my old card. My trouble is that I didn't alter anything beyond the driver being used in the kerne

Re: [gentoo-user] AC97 Onboard Audio Driver?

2005-01-14 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Thanks Holy and Bob. I went ahead and just tossed my old sound card back in and everything is back up and playing nice with each other! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] qc-usb-messenger driver

2005-01-14 Thread James Hiscock
>The website that had the drivers for my quickcam messenger has > gone offline. I am stuck now with a camera i know works in linux but > has no drivers. You can imagine my pain as I type this and it just > sits on my monitor mocking me daily. If someone has the drivers from > this guy/gals

Re: [gentoo-user] qc-usb-messenger driver

2005-01-14 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
James Hiscock wrote: The website that had the drivers for my quickcam messenger has gone offline. I am stuck now with a camera i know works in linux but has no drivers. You can imagine my pain as I type this and it just sits on my monitor mocking me daily. If someone has the drivers from this

Re: [gentoo-user] qc-usb-messenger driver

2005-01-14 Thread James Hiscock
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/showproduct.php?product=2036 lists > some drivers for it qc-usb is not the same as qc-usb-messenger: qc-usb is for the Logitech QuickCam Web (and similar models, like the Lego webcam that you get with the VisionCommand expansion for the Robotics Invention Sy

Re: [gentoo-user] AC97 Onboard Audio Driver?

2005-01-14 Thread Christoph Eckert
> Sorry, but your onboard sound doesn't have hardware mixing > (do any of them, except maybe nForce?), so you will have to > use a sound server. > > Run arts (if using KDE), or esd (if using anything else for > a DE/WM), and set all sound-producing programs that have > such settings (xmms, gaim, e

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