[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo will never support vpn based on pptp. It's pity but it's fact.

2005-01-22 Thread Peter
On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 20:54:03 +, Daniel Drake wrote: So, you are correct in saying that Gentoo can't include this right now on our supported kernels. But it is not to say that it never will be supported. Well. I can't see the future :) But in the current situation, I have to look for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo will never support vpn based on pptp. It's pity but it's fact.

2005-01-22 Thread Nick Smith
On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 11:35 +0300, Peter wrote: On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 20:54:03 +, Daniel Drake wrote: So, you are correct in saying that Gentoo can't include this right now on our supported kernels. But it is not to say that it never will be supported. Well. I can't see the future :)

Re: [gentoo-user] Any way to kill frozen X/KDE?

2005-01-22 Thread Peng
On 01/20/05 17:57, Peng wrote: On 01/20/05 14:12, Douglas James Dunn wrote: you try going into your bios and lowering the AGP settings to 4x or 2x? It worked for me when AGP crashed my box No, I didn't. Forgot to. I'll try to remember to do it later. :P Don't feel like rebooting at the moment.

[gentoo-user] Cobalt RAQ

2005-01-22 Thread Windpaw
Does anyone have experience with installation of Gentoo onto Cobalt RAQ? I've just acquired a RAQ3, am upgrading the CPU to a K6-2 550mhz and installing 512mb RAM plus 2 * 200GB IDE disks for a small fileserver. Would be interested to hear people's experiences installing, and since I'm a bit

Re: [gentoo-user] new ati-drivers

2005-01-22 Thread Tony Boom
Hello Holly, Saturday, January 22, 2005, 12:56:24 AM, you wrote: HB I don't see fglrx, which is always a HB module, and modules always appear in lsmod when loaded. bash-2.05b$ lsmod Module Size Used by snd_pcm_oss46756 1 snd_mixer_oss 16256 2

Re: [gentoo-user] Where to specify languages ?

2005-01-22 Thread Antoine
Pupeno wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm currently defining the language to use in my gentoo installation by adding LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 export LANG LC_ALL to /etc/profile, which afaik, it's bash only, is there a better place to specify it ? a better way to

Re: [gentoo-user] gaim and msn

2005-01-22 Thread Antoine
Frédéric Grosshans wrote: I try to connect to msn using gaim (v1.1.1), but I do not manage to send messages. After minute, i receive the following error message : Message could not be sent because an error with the switchboard occurred Everything works fine with AMSN, but I'd

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What can I use to connect to a Microsoft VPN?

2005-01-22 Thread Rui Silva
there is also a cisco client to access windows mppe vpn if your search google for cisco vpn client you'll find it On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 11:35:32 +0300, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 18:21:18 +1300, Jamie Dobbs wrote: Work have the facility to VPN in to our LAN and I

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo will never support vpn based on pptp. It's pity but it's fact.

2005-01-22 Thread Jean-Francois Gagnon Laporte
On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 18:20:12 +0300, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. Have you ever tried to install gentoo from live cd that is based on gentoo sources which never had support of M$ vpn and when the only way to internet is to connect to your provider through this vpn? Then you'll never

[gentoo-user] subversion + apache2 = emerge madnes?

2005-01-22 Thread Stoian Ivanov
Yesterday I emerged subversion with USE='apache-2' emerge subversion today after a regular emerge --sync ; emerge -auD world I got myself in an interesting situation: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # emerge -auD world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge metalog failed...

2005-01-22 Thread Chul-Han Yoon
Try to merge that package with more than Just one mirror server. mirrorselect have -sX option # mirrorselect -a -s3 in mirrorselect help message: -a : automatic mode(Edit your /etc/make.conf automatically) -sX : Specify Number of servers for Automatic Mode to select. this is only valid

[gentoo-user] ignore update of one package in world

2005-01-22 Thread Antoine
Hi, There is currently a bug (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79046) that is stopping me from emerging world, is there any way to specify when emerging world not to update one of the packages, so the rest will attempt to pass? If not, what should I do? Cheers Antoine --

Re: [gentoo-user] gaim and msn

2005-01-22 Thread Fred
I use a older version of gaim with gentoo, and I have no problems sending messages to msn. the only problem I have is that sometimes people complain that I apear as offline to them. with windows I use v 1.1.1 and I don't have problems to. except for the one I mentioned before. Frederico G.

Re: [gentoo-user] new ati-drivers

2005-01-22 Thread Tony Boom
Hello Billy, Friday, January 21, 2005, 9:06:24 PM, you wrote: BH for Neverwinter Nights support also add this: BH Option KernelModuleParm agplock=0 # AGP locked user pages: BH disabled I went to add that but it's already there. BH Once you start X, go to a terminal and type as root:

Re: [gentoo-user] Disabling bootup info

2005-01-22 Thread Calvin Walton
On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 08:57:27 -0800, Mike Noble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem with any bootsplash is that if something does not work while booting, you will not know anything about it. For example if the ethernet card fails to activate you do not see the nice message telling you and now

[gentoo-user] misdeletion made things messed up

2005-01-22 Thread ZeeGeek
I misdeleted all the files in my home directory by running command rm -rf *. As I know this won't delete hidden files and directories. Luckily, I've made a backup of home directory several days ago. so I copied all the files and directories except those hidden ones back to my home DIR, hoping

[gentoo-user] misdeletion made things messed up

2005-01-22 Thread ZeeGeek
I misdeleted all the files in my home directory by running command rm -rf *. As I know this won't delete hidden files and directories. Luckily, I've made a backup of home directory several days ago. so I copied all the files and

Re: [gentoo-user] whos got the time?

2005-01-22 Thread James Hiscock
i dont have that in my rc.conf file anymore, if i remember correctly it got changed to something in /etc/conf.d with my last emerge world and It's in /etc/conf.d/clock -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] new ati-drivers

2005-01-22 Thread Ryan Sims
On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 05:07:56 +0100 (MET), Peter Karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Ryan Sims wrote: Got it all working, seems to be ok, and cedega is much happier than it was. I tried xcompmgr, and my desktop got really wierd; as if the background was a screenshot of

Re: [gentoo-user] new ati-drivers

2005-01-22 Thread Ryan Sims
Are you running as root? Looks like the user running fglrxinfo doesn't have permission for the X server. try xhost +local: as the user you logged into X as. On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 16:34:37 +, Tony Boom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Peter, Friday, January 21, 2005, 4:15:25 PM, you wrote:

[gentoo-user] misdeletion made things messed up

2005-01-22 Thread ZeeGeek
I misdeleted all the files in my home directory by running command rm -rf *. As I know this won't delete hidden files and directories. Luckily, I've made a backup of home directory several days ago. so I copied all the files and

Re: [gentoo-user] new ati-drivers

2005-01-22 Thread Holly Bostick
Tony Boom wrote: Hello Billy, Friday, January 21, 2005, 9:06:24 PM, you wrote: BH for Neverwinter Nights support also add this: BH Option KernelModuleParm agplock=0 # AGP locked user pages: BH disabled I went to add that but it's already there. BH Once you start X, go to a terminal and

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: How secure is osCommerce?

2005-01-22 Thread Grant
well i just played around with interchange, and lets just say, its not very user friendly, install said it finished, (which also took forever) and end the end there are NO files in my doc root, where is the site? who knows. i think ill stick with OSC, web based install, and most of all it

[gentoo-user] Error emerging mono

2005-01-22 Thread Shawn Singh
Hello all, I'm trying too install mono using: emerge mono It downloads the source code and begins compiling then it will stop and the following message will appear on the screen: !!! ERROR: dev-dotnet/mono-0.28 failed !!! Function src_compile, Line 47, Exitcode 2 !!! MCS compilation failure

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Microsoft Anti-Spyware Program

2005-01-22 Thread Shawn Singh
Nice...very nice!!! On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 11:55:11 -0500, Nicholas Pappas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found this on the Ubuntu forum, thought it was most amusing: http://www.rightstep.org/images/antispywareresultsdetai1.gif -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list --

Re: [gentoo-user] Dumping an image to a printer

2005-01-22 Thread Grant
I have a printer that doesn't have Linux drivers, but I know people are able to print to it from within perl by referencing the device directly. Would it be possible to print to this printer from within Firefox? I see that you can specify the exact command Firefox executes for

Re: [gentoo-user] new ati-drivers

2005-01-22 Thread Tony Boom
Hello Holly, Saturday, January 22, 2005, 11:31:57 AM, you wrote: HB opengl-update ati? HB Holly bash-2.05b# opengl-update ati * Switching to ati OpenGL interface... ln: creating symbolic link `/usr/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a' to `/usr/lib/opengl/ati/extensions/libglx.a': No such file or

Re: [gentoo-user] Disabling bootup info

2005-01-22 Thread James Hiscock
| That's what the F2 key is for if you want to see the text messages | during any particular boot, because you suspect there might be some | problem, F2 switches from silent mode to verbose mode, revealing the | messages. ...or, even better, change BOOTSPLASH_STOP_ON_ERROR=no to

Re: [gentoo-user] gaim and msn

2005-01-22 Thread Valarie and Nick Schmidt
I am also having the issue with MSN. Upgrade to 1.1.2 should be coming down the pipe. It fixes MSN issues it says. Nick On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 17:17:12 +0100, Frédéric Grosshans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I try to connect to msn using gaim (v1.1.1), but I do not manage to send messages. After

[gentoo-user] Very slow USB printing

2005-01-22 Thread Grant
I've got printing to my laser Samsung ML-1210 working via USB, but it takes a long time for it to start printing after telling it to. It's very fast in Windows. Now it takes 1-3 minutes depending on what is printing and that's when it's warm and ready to go. I've checked my kernel's USB

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting a Network Drive

2005-01-22 Thread Steven Mertens
hello, You have to emerge nfs-utils. On the serverside you have to make sure the nfs daemons are running. You also have to add the directory you wanna share in /etc/exports. (see man exports) And after that do exportfs -a On the server side you have to start /etc/init.d/nfs. On the client

[gentoo-user] Problem building qt-embedded-free-3.1.2

2005-01-22 Thread Dave Weaver
I'm attempting to emerge mythtv, but I get an error when it tries to build qt-embedded, as follows: --8- cd app make -f Makefile make[3]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/qt-embedded-3.1.2/work/qt-embedded-free-3.1.2/tools/designer/app' g++ -c -pipe -DQWS

Re: [gentoo-user] new ati-drivers

2005-01-22 Thread Holly Bostick
Tony Boom wrote: Hello Holly, Saturday, January 22, 2005, 11:31:57 AM, you wrote: HB opengl-update ati? HB Holly bash-2.05b# opengl-update ati * Switching to ati OpenGL interface... ln: creating symbolic link `/usr/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a' to `/usr/lib/opengl/ati/extensions/libglx.a': No

Re: [gentoo-user] rewriting kde menus (WAS: where to look for rss-glx screen savers)

2005-01-22 Thread James Hiscock
man, i almost switched from flux and this program made me keep it, its that good. i can have my menu's the way i want them now and i dont have to write anything! thanks again for tell about it. Glad to be of service -- and it _does_ sometimes pay to read the GWN... ;) --

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: How secure is osCommerce?

2005-01-22 Thread Grant
Hi, I'm wondering if anyone can tell me about the current security status of the MS2.2 release of osCommerce? I understand that there have been XSS vulnerabilities and DOS exploits, heve these been fixed in the MS2.2 downloadable from the site? Any help appreciated.

Re: [gentoo-user] whos got the time?

2005-01-22 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Friday 21 January 2005 23:53, Nick Smith wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ date Fri Jan 21 16:43:56 EST 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ su Password: laptux nick # date Fri Jan 21 16:44:01 EST 2005 they are both in sync together, just both out of sync with the real time, my flux clock says its

Re: [gentoo-user] new ati-drivers

2005-01-22 Thread Tony Boom
Hello Holly, Saturday, January 22, 2005, 12:16:47 PM, you wrote: HB Anyway, what does fglrxinfo say now (you might want to restart the X HB server, or even reboot to get accurate info as to what OGL renderer is HB actually being used)? Rebooted ad this is what I get... bash-2.05b$ fglrxinfo

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo will never support vpn based on pptp. It's pity but it's fact.

2005-01-22 Thread Sven Khler
Have you ever tried to install gentoo from live cd that is based on gentoo sources which never had support of M$ vpn and when the only way to internet is to connect to your provider through this vpn? Then you'll never understand my problems... http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76016 I'm not

[gentoo-user] sxcreensaver and glxgears again!

2005-01-22 Thread Collins Richey
Well, I'm stumped. I've been having trouble with xscreensaver and glxgears for months. They work for a while, and then they crap out the X server. Yesterday I had a repeat of this behavior after an upgrade that installed the following. 4993-glib-2.6.1.log 4993-shared-mime-info-0.14-r2.log

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo will never support vpn based on pptp. It's pity but it's fact.

2005-01-22 Thread Daniel Drake
Peter wrote: Well. I can't see the future :) But in the current situation, I have to look for workarounds like, mentioned by you, installation from package cd and then patching kernel. And I do not see any steps forward. So I told never. Of course may be one day... It just seems to me that the

[gentoo-user] Testing a wireless software upgrade remotely

2005-01-22 Thread Grant
Is there any way to test a wireless software upgrade remotely? For example, I upgraded to baselayout-1.11.8 a little while ago and it has caused major problems with my wireless connection. This was done locally, but if I needed to do it remotely would I be able to? VMware Workstation just

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: How secure is osCommerce?

2005-01-22 Thread Grant
If you're a PHP guy you might want to stick with OSC, but even then I would encourage you to switch to IC. I have to admit I've never delved into OSC and I don't know PHP (IC is a perl app), but now that I've got it under my belt I feel like I have a huge leg up on every non-IC website

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-list + gmail + evolution = strange behavior

2005-01-22 Thread Klaus Neumann
I switched from kmail to evolution 2.0.3. I am subscribed to this list once with my gmail account. I poll my gmail account with my local email client. Now, since I switched to evolution, I get every single mail from this list twice. Any other email arrives only once. When looking at my emails with

Re: [gentoo-user] ignore update of one package in world

2005-01-22 Thread Neil Walker
Antoine wrote: Hi, There is currently a bug (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79046) that is stopping me from emerging world, is there any way to specify when emerging world not to update one of the packages, so the rest will attempt to pass? If not, what should I do? Start the emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie install failed - emerge gentoo-dev-sources

2005-01-22 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Please start a new thread, it is not acceptable to hijack other threads. Most people will not give you any help when you hijack threads. Mike Can you tell me how it is that I hijacked a thread when I created a new message (not reply) and sent it to the list? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

[gentoo-user] emerge gentoo-dev-sources

2005-01-22 Thread Patrick Schmidt
AMD64 Going through the Gentoo Linux 2004.3 AMD64 Handbook, step 7.b. Installing the Sources, when I do emerge gentoo-dev-sources I get the following output, in its entirety: Calculating dependencies Unpacking source... Unpacking ucl-1.01.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/ucl-1.01-r1/work Source

Re: [gentoo-user] whos got the time?

2005-01-22 Thread Sarpy Sam
You can use any NTP server. Of course, it make sense to use one close to you. Best would be to use your ISP's NPT server. Just ask them. If they won't tell you launch nslookup. Inside nslookup, you do: set type=any ntp.your.isp.domain nslookup? bash-2.05b# nslookup bash: nslookup:

Re: [gentoo-user] new ati-drivers

2005-01-22 Thread Holly Bostick
Tony Boom wrote: Hello Holly, Saturday, January 22, 2005, 12:16:47 PM, you wrote: HB Anyway, what does fglrxinfo say now (you might want to restart the X HB server, or even reboot to get accurate info as to what OGL renderer is HB actually being used)? Rebooted ad this is what I get...

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie install failed - emerge gentoo-dev-sources

2005-01-22 Thread Leif B. Kristensen
On Saturday 22 January 2005 14:27, Patrick Schmidt wrote: Please start a new thread, it is not acceptable to hijack other threads. Most people will not give you any help when you hijack threads. Mike Can you tell me how it is that I hijacked a thread when I created a new message (not

Re: [gentoo-user] new ati-drivers

2005-01-22 Thread Tony Boom
Hello Holly, Saturday, January 22, 2005, 1:32:50 PM, you wrote: HB OK, this sucks. It's getting to me like that too. HB Given that fglrx is loaded (it did load after the reboot, right?), this HB should not be happening. It is loaded yes. HB 1) drivers not properly compiled (you have booted

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo will never support vpn based on pptp. It's pity but it's fact.

2005-01-22 Thread Holly Bostick
Daniel Drake wrote: Peter wrote: Well. I can't see the future :) But in the current situation, I have to look for workarounds like, mentioned by you, installation from package cd and then patching kernel. And I do not see any steps forward. So I told never. Of course may be one day... It just

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel,nvidia-kernel/glx upgrade - doom3 broken

2005-01-22 Thread Alex
On Friday 21 January 2005 12:03, Robert S wrote: snip $ LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libGL.so.1 doom3 ./doom.x86: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Have you tried running # opengl-update nvidia -- Cheers, Alex

[gentoo-user] Sync only once

2005-01-22 Thread David Corbin
I understand that doing emerge --sync more than once a day is bad behavior. I have multiple machines that share a single public IP address. How can I configure one to do the sync, and others to reference that once? Is there a HOWTO about this? David -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] gemsvnc

2005-01-22 Thread David Corbin
I notice that gemsvnc is no longer available (after syncing) where it once was. Is this a permanent situation, or temporary one? Why? David -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Sync only once

2005-01-22 Thread Andreas Korinek
Hi, On Saturday 22 January 2005 15:00, David Corbin wrote: I understand that doing emerge --sync more than once a day is bad behavior. I have multiple machines that share a single public IP address. How can I configure one to do the sync, and others to reference that once? Is there a HOWTO

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo will never support vpn based on pptp. It's pity but it's fact.

2005-01-22 Thread Daniel Drake
Holly Bostick wrote: But here's my question: is this issue not occurring solely because the user is trying to connect to said VPN through software? Yes, or their ISP forces them to use it.. So if the OP had such a router (or, alternatively, if and when I get my bf to switch to Linux, making this

Re: [gentoo-user] Cobalt RAQ

2005-01-22 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 10:01:42 + Windpaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Does anyone have experience with installation of Gentoo onto Cobalt | RAQ? I've just acquired a RAQ3, am upgrading the CPU to a K6-2 550mhz | and installing 512mb RAM plus 2 * 200GB IDE disks for a small | fileserver. Would

Re: [gentoo-user] subversion + apache2 = emerge madnes?

2005-01-22 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 12:47:18 +0200 Stoian Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Yesterday I emerged subversion with USE='apache-2' emerge subversion First, use package.use, not USE on the commandline. Second, you probably want apache2, not apache-2. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim,

[gentoo-user] Help me recording music...

2005-01-22 Thread Vittorio
Context:Latest Gentoo on pentium 4, intel8x0 sound card, kernel 2.6.10, alsa support. I have many a cassette of my favourite singers over the sixties to the eighties which I'd like to transfer on CDs. I use xcdroast smoothly for this last purpose but I'm absolutely unexperienced on what

[gentoo-user] Re: Sync only once

2005-01-22 Thread Gabriel M. Beddingfield
Andreas Korinek wrote: I understand that doing emerge --sync more than once a day is bad behavior. I have multiple machines that share a single public IP address. How can I configure one to do the sync, and others to reference that once? Is there a HOWTO about this? Sure:

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me recording music...

2005-01-22 Thread Mark Knecht
For this sort of task you might try Audacity, Rezound or Sweep. With a bit of effort they should all be capable of accomplishing what you want to do. Good luck, Mark On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 15:50:57 +, Vittorio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Context:Latest Gentoo on pentium 4, intel8x0 sound card,

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me recording music...

2005-01-22 Thread Christoph Eckert
1) Record the cassettes on files using a tape recorder connected to the mic port of the sound card (or there's some other way to do it?) 2) Translate those files into wav files to be burned with xcdroast. Shell: arecord or gramofile KDE: krec (enable full duplex for arts in the control

Re: [gentoo-user] Intalling Color Samsung CLP-500 printer driver

2005-01-22 Thread James Hiscock
It seems to me it fails on x86/glibc-2.1 I'm using sys-libs/glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1 I think this assumption is wrong (although it may be -me- who's wrong... shrug), but I have a feeling it's 'cuz you're trying to run this as a normal user, or you don't have X running. Try running it under X,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo will never support vpn based on pptp. It's pity but it's fact.

2005-01-22 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Saturday 22 January 2005 15:50, Holly Bostick wrote: But here's my question: is this issue not occurring solely because the user is trying to connect to said VPN through software? My ISP uses VPN as well, and at the moment I connect via the LAN using software routing on a Windows machine

Re: [gentoo-user] whos got the time?

2005-01-22 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Saturday 22 January 2005 15:35, Sarpy Sam wrote: You can use any NTP server. Of course, it make sense to use one close to you. Best would be to use your ISP's NPT server. Just ask them. If they won't tell you launch nslookup. Inside nslookup, you do: set type=any ntp.your.isp.domain

Re: [gentoo-user] Sync only once

2005-01-22 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Saturday 22 January 2005 16:00, David Corbin wrote: I understand that doing emerge --sync more than once a day is bad behavior. I have multiple machines that share a single public IP address. How can I configure one to do the sync, and others to reference that once? Is there a HOWTO about

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me recording music...

2005-01-22 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Saturday 22 January 2005 17:50, Vittorio wrote: Context:Latest Gentoo on pentium 4, intel8x0 sound card, kernel 2.6.10, alsa support. I have many a cassette of my favourite singers over the sixties to the eighties which I'd like to transfer on CDs. I use xcdroast smoothly for this last

Re: [gentoo-user] USB Gamepad

2005-01-22 Thread Charles Pittman
On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 00:20:39 +, timothy johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently started play more games in linux such as Unreal, Americas Army, and the SNES. For the first two the Kayboard mouse do a good job, but when it comes to SNES it just doesnt cut it. So I was thinking of

Re: [gentoo-user] whos got the time?

2005-01-22 Thread Holly Bostick
Uwe Thiem wrote: On Saturday 22 January 2005 15:35, Sarpy Sam wrote: You can use any NTP server. Of course, it make sense to use one close to you. Best would be to use your ISP's NPT server. Just ask them. If they won't tell you launch nslookup. Inside nslookup, you do: set type=any

Re: [gentoo-user] Sync only once

2005-01-22 Thread Goran Kavrecic
Uwe Thiem wrote: On Saturday 22 January 2005 16:00, David Corbin wrote: I understand that doing emerge --sync more than once a day is bad behavior. I have multiple machines that share a single public IP address. How can I configure one to do the sync, and others to reference that once? Is there

RE: [gentoo-user] OT: How secure is osCommerce?

2005-01-22 Thread John Dangler
To actually try and answer the question, I'm somewhat new to OSC. The one glaring thing I find that I wasn't very excited about was the fact that out-of-the-box OSC won't work without register_globals being ON in php.ini. Of course, a .htaccess file solves this locally. However, after looking

Re: [gentoo-user] ignore update of one package in world

2005-01-22 Thread Bill Davidson
On 10:04 Sat 22 Jan , Antoine wrote: Hi, There is currently a bug (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79046) that is stopping me from emerging world, is there any way to specify when emerging world not to update one of the packages, so the rest will attempt to pass? If not, what

Re: [gentoo-user] whos got the time?

2005-01-22 Thread Chris Boot
Hi, dig and nslookup are in net-dns/bind-tools. HTH, Chris On 22 Jan 2005, at 15:05, Uwe Thiem wrote: On Saturday 22 January 2005 15:35, Sarpy Sam wrote: You can use any NTP server. Of course, it make sense to use one close to you. Best would be to use your ISP's NPT server. Just ask them. If

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo will never support vpn based on pptp. It's pity but it's fact.

2005-01-22 Thread Holly Bostick
Uwe Thiem wrote: On Saturday 22 January 2005 15:50, Holly Bostick wrote: But here's my question: is this issue not occurring solely because the user is trying to connect to said VPN through software? My ISP uses VPN as well, and at the moment I connect via the LAN using software routing on a

Re: [gentoo-user] sxcreensaver and glxgears again!

2005-01-22 Thread John Myers
Collins Richey wrote: Finally, I entered 'glx-update xorg-x11' and the problem was gone. wtf! Why would I ever need to run glx-update more than once, most especially since there's only one choice these days? I don't know why you'd have to do it more than once, but there is still more than one

Re: [gentoo-user] Where to specify languages ?

2005-01-22 Thread Pupeno
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Je Vendredo Januaro 21 2005 20:58, Antoine skribis: Pupeno wrote: I'm currently defining the language to use in my gentoo installation by adding LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 export LANG LC_ALL to /etc/profile, which afaik, it's bash

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Where to specify languages ?

2005-01-22 Thread Pupeno
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Je Sabato Januaro 22 2005 10:17, Peter skribis: On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 13:45:00 -0300, Pupeno wrote: I'm currently defining the language to use in my gentoo installation by adding LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 export LANG LC_ALL to

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting a Network Drive

2005-01-22 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Thanks Mike, I ran through the list of commands you sent, on both the client and server, and added the following to /etc/export: /export01 * (rw,sync) Then I hop back onto the client and run the following command, and get the following error: linna nick # mount -t nfs sylia:/export01

[gentoo-user] Update of GTK2 failed

2005-01-22 Thread Kristian Bisgaard Lassen
Hi, I tried to upgrade my machine. When the emerge-script came to GTK2 it failed. This is what went wrong: /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -Wall -o libpixbufloader-tiff.la -rpath /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/loaders

Re: [gentoo-user] Update of GTK2 failed

2005-01-22 Thread John Myers
Kristian Bisgaard Lassen wrote: I do not have a directory named /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.4 but a directory called /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.5 and a file called /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.5/libstdc++.la. Can anybody tell me what to do? Try running

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting a Network Drive

2005-01-22 Thread Chris Boot
Hi, If I'm not mistaken you don't want a space between the * and (: /export01 *(rw,sync) HTH, Chris On 22 Jan 2005, at 16:18, Nicholas Pappas wrote: Thanks Mike, I ran through the list of commands you sent, on both the client and server, and added the following to /etc/export: /export01

[gentoo-user] JDK without X

2005-01-22 Thread Qian Qiao
Hi, I am having a server box that we intend to run some java application on it. I noticed that both Sun and IBM JDK(s) will require X. It would be pretty pointless to install X on a server box. Is there a way to install these JDKs without X? TIA. -- Joe -- Money can't buy everything.

Re: [gentoo-user] new ati-drivers

2005-01-22 Thread Peter Karlsson
On Sat, 22 Jan 2005, Tony Boom wrote: Hello Holly, Saturday, January 22, 2005, 1:32:50 PM, you wrote: HB OK, this sucks. It's getting to me like that too. HB Given that fglrx is loaded (it did load after the reboot, right?), this HB should not be happening. It is loaded yes. HB 1)

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting a Network Drive

2005-01-22 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Chris Boot wrote: If I'm not mistaken you don't want a space between the * and (: Thanks Chris, gave that a shot and reran 'exportfs -a' (just to be sure). No joy. :( I still get the Permission denied error. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] software suspend v2

2005-01-22 Thread Nick Smith
has anyone gotten this to work? i have tried the stable 2.6.9 patch and the two 2.6.10 and 2.6.11-r1 patch and all get the same error at the begining: laptux linux # /tmp/software-suspend-2.1.5.14-for-2.6.11-rc1/apply /tmp/software-suspend-2.1.5.14-for-2.6.11-rc1 Applying

Re: [gentoo-user] new ati-drivers

2005-01-22 Thread Billy Holmes
Tony Boom wrote: HB OK, this sucks. It's getting to me like that too. the biggest source of information is your /var/log/Xorg.0.log less it and look for dri lowercase. You're looking for something 3/5 to 4/5 from the end of the log. It should say either DRI succeeded, or dri failed. If it says,

Re: [gentoo-user] booteable cd

2005-01-22 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Jadex wrote: Hello gentooers: I googled around searching some info about how to make a booteable cd (or a live cd) and... nothing worked... any hint??? It's absolutely trivial ... 1 - prepare bootable floppy and test it 2 - copy the floppy to file: dd if=/dev/fd0 of=boot.image 3 -

Re: [gentoo-user] I cant get kde or gnome to work

2005-01-22 Thread Jeremy Whiting
Positive Negative wrote: I type startkde and it cant connect to x server I dont know how to start gnome but i think i installed that right i type startx and i get a really crappy xwindows So how do i get kde or gnome to work??? at the end of your /etc/rc.conf change the line to say

Re: [gentoo-user] new ati-drivers

2005-01-22 Thread Tony Boom
Hello Billy, Saturday, January 22, 2005, 5:34:48 PM, you wrote: BH the biggest source of information is your /var/log/Xorg.0.log BH less it and look for dri lowercase. I re emerged ati drivers, done everything I was told to do and there is no dri anywhere at all in the log. Closet I can get

Re: [gentoo-user] Sync only once

2005-01-22 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 17:17:08 +0200 Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Saturday 22 January 2005 16:00, David Corbin wrote: | I understand that doing emerge --sync more than once a day is bad | behavior. I have multiple machines that share a single public IP | address. How can I configure

Re: [gentoo-user] Any way to kill frozen X/KDE?

2005-01-22 Thread Douglas James Dunn
so far you have it completly disabled by having it set to 0 in xorg.conf. my guess it would either disable it or change it to one x. what I would do is re-enable it in xorg.conf and and try it disabled in the bios. but before you do run a glxgears and see if it improves it any if you disable it

[gentoo-user] A peculiar DNS puzzle...

2005-01-22 Thread Steve
I wonder if anyone can offer me any hints about a peculiar problem I'm experiencing - apparently with DNS lookups. I've been away from Linux for a few years but have recently installed Gentoo with a view to using it as a SO/HO email/file/print server... I used to consider myself a competent

[gentoo-user] libapreq2 ? someone ?

2005-01-22 Thread raptor
I see that libapreq2 is hardmasked, does anyone have tried it ?! Can I broke something else if i emerge it ? tia -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] software suspend v2

2005-01-22 Thread Nicolas Bailey
What kernel sources are you using? The patch applied cleanly to the 2.6.11-r1 version of development-sources for me. Nick On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 11:16:50 -0500, Nick Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: has anyone gotten this to work? i have tried the stable 2.6.9 patch and the two 2.6.10 and

Re: [gentoo-user] JDK without X

2005-01-22 Thread Matan Peled
Qian Qiao wrote: Hi, I am having a server box that we intend to run some java application on it. I noticed that both Sun and IBM JDK(s) will require X. It would be pretty pointless to install X on a server box. Is there a way to install these JDKs without X? TIA. -- Joe From the sun-jdk-1.5.0

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: AMD64 vs P4 w/HT

2005-01-22 Thread Douglas James Dunn
In my professional opinion... Its not worth it. Moores law is almost up. Soon we wont get any more transistors in the chips. The research community knows this. because And on top of that there has been remarkable strides in the field of quantum computing. There are already working prototypes

RE: [gentoo-user] A peculiar DNS puzzle...

2005-01-22 Thread Covington, Chris
* my resolv.conf file has nameserver 192.168.1.1 - which looks Why don't you put your ISP's DNS servers in /etc/resolv.conf instead of your router. Chris -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] JDK without X

2005-01-22 Thread Manuel McLure
Qian Qiao wrote: Hi, I am having a server box that we intend to run some java application on it. I noticed that both Sun and IBM JDK(s) will require X. It would be pretty pointless to install X on a server box. Is there a way to install these JDKs without X? As Matan Peled already mentioned, you

[gentoo-user] [imapd-ssl] authentication error: No such file or directory

2005-01-22 Thread Güray Sen
Hi, I have just emerged courier-imap, but I'm running into a configuration issue. I emerged courier-imap, created a ssl certificate and started the courier-imapd-ssl service. When I try to access my mail from an email client I get the following error in my /var/logs/mail/current logfile: Jan

Re: [gentoo-user] [imapd-ssl] authentication error: No such file or directory

2005-01-22 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 22 Jan 2005, [ISO-8859-1] Güray Sen wrote: I emerged courier-imap, created a ssl certificate and started the courier-imapd-ssl service. When I try to access my mail from an email client I get the following error in my /var/logs/mail/current logfile: Jan 22 20:44:11 [imapd-ssl]

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