Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Project Idea

2005-02-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 01 February 2005 11:35 pm, John Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 01 February 2005 16:03, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: [On in reply to any one message in particular, so not quoting anyone.] Probably the best way to do this is to provide a drop-in replacement for make

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/filesystems is not considered when probing auto filesystemtype

2005-02-02 Thread Dirk Raeder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alexander Skwar wrote: Hi! In my /etc/fstab, I added the following line: /dev/SigmaTel /mnt/SigmaTel auto defaults,noauto,users 0 0 The mount manpage says: [snip] Because of that, I set my /etc/filesystems to contain *only* the

[gentoo-user] linux-headers vs linux26-headers

2005-02-02 Thread Ow Mun Heng
I'm not sure what the difference between these 2 different headers. Well, one is for 2.4 kernel and the other is for 2.6, but I'm using 2,6.10 kernel but I'm still using linux-headers instead of linux26-headers. What's the difference and should I be concerned? -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: IPTables - A good place to start ?

2005-02-02 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 05:21, Mal Herring wrote: Frankly, fwbuilder or guarddog would be a very nice front-end for iptables/netfilter. AS you mentioned, you _don't_ really want to know that much, so these programs would actually do all the behind the scenes for you automatically.

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to emerge xine-lib

2005-02-02 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 19:12, Holly Bostick wrote: Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 23:57, Bob Sanders wrote: It may have for you but I still see this error.. no-sse3 -ffunction-sections -MT dsputil_mmx.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/dsputil_mmx.Tpo -c dsputil_mmx.c -o .libs/dsputil_mmx.o

Re: [gentoo-user] Where to configure wireless net?

2005-02-02 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 02:45, Mats Lidell wrote: Ow wrote: Ow I don't have i-net access so I can't go through the howto. But it should Ow be a simple method to get it working. Ow eg: netgear MA401RA pccard [...] The question is about configuring built in wireless network support.

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg -configure error: Duplicate symbol __i686.get_pc_thunk.bx in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a:bitmapmod.o

2005-02-02 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 18:35, Kathy Wills wrote: Salmonpink Xuan wrote: # Xorg -configure X Window System Version 6.8.0 Release Date: 8 September 2004 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.8 Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.9-gentoo-r4SalmonpinkBuild2004-11-19 i686 [ELF] Current

[gentoo-user] Package.Mask / Do Not Upgrade these packages

2005-02-02 Thread Ow Mun Heng
I have a dilemma. and I don;t know gentoo well enough to solve it on my own. I don't want to perform compiles _every_ single day/week to catch up with x86. Doing emerge -uDv world is great at first but gets a bit tiring in the end as one has to fix/figure out what bombed (if any.) There are also

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Project Idea

2005-02-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 01:48:02 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: While the wrapper could tell something about what it's doing, based on the command-line, it can't tell you how many times gcc (for example) will be invoked in the future. A wrapper for make won't be able to do that either,

Re: [gentoo-user] Package.Mask / Do Not Upgrade these packages

2005-02-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 17:01:06 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: I read about using package.mask and thus I placed =www-proxy/squid-2.5.7-r2 Doing that and doing an emerge -uDpv world, I see that instead of wanting to upgrade, it now wants to downgrade it. If you currently have 2.5.7-r2 you should

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD ripping copying

2005-02-02 Thread romildo
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 09:38:14PM -0500, Jason Cooper wrote: [...] I suppose I'll make an ebuild for dvd9to5 first, Sometime ago I have done an ebuild for dvd9to5. I am attaching it here, in case you want to take a look. It is really simple. Romildo # Copyright 1999-2004 Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Package.Mask / Do Not Upgrade these packages

2005-02-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 03:01 am, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I read about using package.mask and thus I placed =www-proxy/squid-2.5.7-r2 Doing that and doing an emerge -uDpv world, I see that instead of wanting to upgrade, it now wants to downgrade it. How do I tell it

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Project Idea

2005-02-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 03:16 am, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 01:48:02 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: While the wrapper could tell something about what it's doing, based on the command-line, it can't tell you how many times gcc (for example) will

[gentoo-user] dhcpcd-eth0.info

2005-02-02 Thread Jorge Almeida
Anyone knows how is the file /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth0.info updated? I have a cable connection with dynamic IP, and the contents of the IP line in /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth0.info match my *former* IP, not the current one. And there exists a file /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth0.info.old, which makes it a bit more

Re: [gentoo-user] linux-headers vs linux26-headers

2005-02-02 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Ow Mun Heng ha scritto: I'm not sure what the difference between these 2 different headers. Well, one is for 2.4 kernel and the other is for 2.6, but I'm using 2,6.10 kernel but I'm still using linux-headers instead of linux26-headers. What's the difference and should I be concerned? the

[gentoo-user] mplayer ebuild

2005-02-02 Thread Tres Melton
I'm having a problem updating mplayer. I fixed it with the following commands: cd /usr/lib ln -s . X11R6 The bottom line is that libX11.so is in /usr/lib and according to line 3137 in /var/tmp/portage/mplayer-1.0_pre5-r5/work/MPlayer-1.0pre5try2/configure it is searching for the libX11.so

Re: [gentoo-user] Package.Mask / Do Not Upgrade these packages

2005-02-02 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 17:20, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Wednesday 02 February 2005 03:01 am, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I read about using package.mask and thus I placed =www-proxy/squid-2.5.7-r2 Doing that and doing an emerge -uDpv world, I see that instead of

[gentoo-user] portage troubles

2005-02-02 Thread Makurin Roman
Hi gentoo folks, I`ve got a problem with portage and sloted gcc3.3.x and gcc-3.4.x In my /etc/portage/package.keywords I have following line: sys-devel/gcc -~x86 Portage wants to install only gcc-3.3.x keyworded as x86. But my default compiler is gcc-3.4.1-r2 wich is keyworded as ~x86 and

Re: [gentoo-user] linux-headers vs linux26-headers

2005-02-02 Thread Jans Han Xie
linux26-headers is unmasked now. On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 11:10:10 +0100, Bastian Balthazar Bux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ow Mun Heng ha scritto: I'm not sure what the difference between these 2 different headers. Well, one is for 2.4 kernel and the other is for 2.6, but I'm using 2,6.10

Re: [gentoo-user] Package.Mask / Do Not Upgrade these packages

2005-02-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 18:30:28 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Using - www-proxy/squid-2.5.7-r2 --- Invalid atom in /etc/portage/package.mask: www-proxy/squid-2.5.7-r2 These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] www-proxy/squid-2.5.7-r4

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD ripping copying

2005-02-02 Thread Jason Cooper
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 09:38:14PM -0500, Jason Cooper wrote: [...] I suppose I'll make an ebuild for dvd9to5 first, Sometime ago I have done an ebuild for dvd9to5. I am attaching it here, in case you want to take a look. It is really

Re: [gentoo-user] Package.Mask / Do Not Upgrade these packages

2005-02-02 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le mercredi 02 février 2005 à 18:30 +0800, Ow Mun Heng a écrit : Using - www-proxy/squid-2.5.7-r2 --- Invalid atom in /etc/portage/package.mask: www-proxy/squid-2.5.7-r2 you probably typed www-proxy/squid-2.5.7-r2 , and not www-proxy/squid-2.5.7-r2 (no space between and www-proxy...)

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-driver build error

2005-02-02 Thread Holly Bostick
Mike Payson wrote: I've been trying to do an emerge -u world for about two weeks now. Every time it get's to alsa-driver-1.0.8_rc1, it crashes. Here's the error message I'm getting. Any ideas? Thanks! Mike gcc -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE=1

Re: [gentoo-user] linux-headers vs linux26-headers

2005-02-02 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
please don't top post on a discussion started bottom post. issued a emerge --sync but /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask still contains # [EMAIL PROTECTED] (1/12/2004) # Masking all 2.6 versions of kernel packages which were originally # 2.4 only so that we can merge 2.6 with 2.4 without forcing

[gentoo-user] Re: make a server on a resource-limited machine

2005-02-02 Thread Tom Van Doorsselaere
Marvelous howto! Did you post it already on the WIKI? Or on the forums? I'm sure a lot of people would be interested. Tom Heinz Sporn wrote: Hi! That's a toughy! But I think it's doable. Here are my SUGGESTIONS: 1. Develop the entire system on another machine (that's pretty much obvious) in a

Re: [gentoo-user] linux-headers vs linux26-headers

2005-02-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 02:36 am, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure what the difference between these 2 different headers. Well, one is for 2.4 kernel and the other is for 2.6, but I'm using 2,6.10 kernel but I'm still using linux-headers instead of linux26-headers.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Project Idea

2005-02-02 Thread Sebastian Flothow
Am 2. Feb 2005 um 06:35 Uhr schrieb John Myers: It would keep the connection to the master open, and would also have a consistent PID (unlike a shell script, which, AFAIK, may not). A shell script itself has a consistent PID. However, any command called within a shell script is assigned a new

Re: [gentoo-user] linux-headers vs linux26-headers

2005-02-02 Thread Jans Han Xie
On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 12:44:42 +0100, Bastian Balthazar Bux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: please don't top post on a discussion started bottom post. I apologize. :) issued a emerge --sync but /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask still contains I made a mistake since I thought what you are talking

Re: [gentoo-user] linux-headers vs linux26-headers

2005-02-02 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 13:43, Jans Han Xie wrote: I made a mistake since I thought what you are talking about is *linux26-headers* instead of *linux-headers-2.6*, and *linux26-headers* is unmasked while *linux-headers-2.6* masked. Now I'm confused with this two ebuilds. What's the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: make a server on a resource-limited machine

2005-02-02 Thread sporn-it
Thanks! Actually I didn't post that elsewhere - will do that anytime soon. In the meantime I'm about to to switch this tiny Gentoo system over to UDEV. I plan to post my experiences with that together with a more detailed view on the initrd part (linuxrc etc.) within the next days. Am Mittwoch,

Re: [gentoo-user] USB printer questions...

2005-02-02 Thread Arran Fraser
What do you mean by off-line - I usually take this to mean an electrical disconnection by, for example, pushing the offline button on the printer. do you mean cupsd stops running or something? Do you mean the printer physically turns itself off? Oh, sorry. I open CUPS manager in

[gentoo-user] Unicode and terminals

2005-02-02 Thread Lluís Batlle i Rossell
Hi! I use unicode in my system for long time ago... but I have problems with terminals since the first moment. So, when I issue a 'cat' command, there I can't do 'backspaces', and I get ^H instead. Reading in howto's, I've found that I have to patch 'stty', in order to have the option iutf8 in

[gentoo-user] Kernel NLS

2005-02-02 Thread Lluís Batlle i Rossell
Hi! I've never known what are the options of NLS in the kernel, for. Where can I setup them? What should I do with them, if I selected many encodings? Shouldn't I choose my 'working encoding' somewhere? I've noticed that the only filesystems that deals with encodings are the FAT ones, about

[gentoo-user] yet another tv card sound problem

2005-02-02 Thread Jean-Philippe Bosc
it has maybe been already discussed, but i've been searching through the internet for weeks now, and can't solve my problem : i bought a Hauppauge WinTV PVR 884 (bt878, or is it bt878a ?) and did all i could to make it work properly, running on a 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 kernel. I can tune, no problem

Re: [gentoo-user] portage troubles

2005-02-02 Thread James Hiscock
sys-devel/gcc -~x86 snip Is it normal or my fault ? Looks like it's your fault, assuming the first line quoted is a copy paste from package.keywords: you don't need the - before ~x86 - in other words, it should read: sys-devel/gcc ~x86 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] yet another tv card sound problem

2005-02-02 Thread Tamas Sarga
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Jean-Philippe Bosc wrote: it has maybe been already discussed, but i've been searching through the internet for weeks now, and can't solve my problem : i bought a Hauppauge WinTV PVR 884 (bt878, or is it bt878a ?) and did all i could to make it work properly, running on

[gentoo-user] Re: Unicode and terminals

2005-02-02 Thread Peter
On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 14:13:54 +0100, Llus Batlle i Rossell wrote: Reading in howto's, I've found that I have to patch 'stty', in order to have the option iutf8 in it. I don't know if the howto is old, but my 'stty' doesn't have that patch, and my terminals don't work. I've posted bug, that is

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel NLS

2005-02-02 Thread Peter
On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 14:15:20 +0100, Llus Batlle i Rossell wrote: I've never known what are the options of NLS in the kernel, for. I think this is encoding of filesystem names. Where can I setup them? In filesystems section. What should I do with them, if I selected many encodings?

[gentoo-user] Re: Strange UDP port activity

2005-02-02 Thread Peter
On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 07:05:21 +, fluffy wrote: Can anyone tell me what's happening here? nmap -sU -sV -p- 127.0.0.1 LOL. :) First I thought maybe you are using wrong nestat options, but now I know what's going on! Try tcpdump -ni lo. You will see, that it is nmap listening on that port

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel NLS

2005-02-02 Thread Lluís Batlle i Rossell
Hummm I've seen that only few filesystems depend on that. (Mostly, microsoft ones) About the 'setup'... I know I can setup them in the kernel configuration. :) I mean in runtime... The locales aren't related with that, in my opinion. That parameter is related to the mounting of the fs. And only

[gentoo-user] Re: gtk+1.2 and xorg-6.8.2_rc2/freetype-2.1.0. Font problem.

2005-02-02 Thread Peter
Hello. I try to resend this message again. I really need a sollution for my problem. I want to use gnucash, so I have to use gtk+-1 library. But I can't. Details, below. Please any help... On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 22:24:32 +0300, Peter wrote: Some time ago I configured this library to use shiny

Re: [gentoo-user] yet another tv card sound problem

2005-02-02 Thread Jean-Philippe Bosc
Le mercredi 02 février 2005 à 15:14 +0100, Tamas Sarga a écrit : Hi, The first what I would try if were you. Plug a headphone to the output of tvcard. If I don't miss , than you don't *sure* where is the problem. In output of tvcard or in input of soundcard. You should divide the sources

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Unicode and terminals

2005-02-02 Thread Lluís Batlle i Rossell
Ok I took the patch from the bugzilla, and I'm recompiling the ebuild for the actual stable coreutils :) Thanks!! Je la Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 05:32:51PM +0300, Peter skribis: On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 14:13:54 +0100, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote: Reading in howto's, I've found that I have to patch

[gentoo-user] more unicode, bash history editing

2005-02-02 Thread Lluís Batlle i Rossell
Hi again! I'm trying to solve all my problems with unicode. When I type in russian in bash, I can easily edit the line I'm typing (moving cursors, inserting, ...) But when I try to edit a command where there's russian text (so, twobyted-utf-8), I cannot do 'backspace' in the middle of the text,

[gentoo-user] Running portage snippets under slack?

2005-02-02 Thread Roger Andreassen
Hi, I'm pretty new to the Gentoo Linux, but I've managed to get a working system. Gentoo was built neatly under a Slackware xterm. Nice title bar. In fact I use cron jobs under Slackware to record TV shows when I'm at work so this thrilled me no end. I'm stuck without internet at home but I

Re: [gentoo-user] make a server on a resource-limited machine

2005-02-02 Thread Vitaly Ivanov
Setup tiny system with Gentoo is very easy. You need powerfull system. On powerfull system do something like this: mkdir /opt/gentoos/viaC3/root CHOST=i486-pc-linux-uclibc CFLAGS=-march=i486 -pipe -O2 CXXFLAGS=-march=i486 -pipe -O2 ROOT=/opt/gentoos/viaC3/root/ FEATURES=nodoc noinfo noman strip

Re: [gentoo-user] Running portage snippets under slack?

2005-02-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 16:48:31 +0100, Roger Andreassen wrote: I'm stuck without internet at home but I use the DVD that came with Linux Format nr 58. Good, I'm pleased it was useful to you. I was actually able to do a 'emerge --pretend --verbose kde', copy the screen echo and take it to a

RE: [gentoo-user] Running portage snippets under slack?

2005-02-02 Thread Dave Nebinger
Just how does an ebuild work, would it be easy to make a bash scipt which Slackware already use for building packages? Emerge et. Al. are python-based scripts for the most part, but they have a great deal of dependencies for the rest of the system. For example, if you check your /etc/init.d

Re: [gentoo-user] An ebuild to stable.

2005-02-02 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 20:23:07 -0600 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Right, but this doesn't happen automatically, AFAIK. A request on | b.g.o could help, esp. if the ebuild has been forgotten. It's | unlikely that an ebuild goes stable before 30 days are up, sincethat | is

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.10-hardened-r3 sound card driver changes

2005-02-02 Thread Grant
On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 16:45:48 -0800, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sound works great for me in 2.6.7 by selecting the following PCI device: * Intel i8x0/MX440, SiS 7012; Ali 5455; NForce Audio; AMD768/8111 but there is no such option in 2.6.10 and the closest I see is this: *

[gentoo-user] cannot emerge groff

2005-02-02 Thread Darío Mariani
Hello: I'm trying to install Gentoo on an IBM xSeries 236 (Dual Xeon). When I run scripts/bootstrap.sh, after some time it stops with an error trying to emerge groff. This is the message from a stand alone emerge: livecd portage # emerge groff Calculating dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of

Re: [gentoo-user] Running portage snippets under slack?

2005-02-02 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 16:48, Roger Andreassen wrote: Before I'm yelled at I will not forward bug reports to the portage maintainers if this doesn't work. Just how does an ebuild work, would it be easy to make a bash scipt which Slackware already use for building packages? You can do

Re: [gentoo-user] root .bash_history...

2005-02-02 Thread Billy Holmes
Maarten wrote: morpheus:~ # rm -f .bash_history morpheus:~ # ps morpheus:~ # kill -9 18077 or use another shell # exec csh -e 'rm ~/.bash_history' -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.10-hardened-r3 sound card driver changes

2005-02-02 Thread Grant
On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 16:45:48 -0800, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sound works great for me in 2.6.7 by selecting the following PCI device: * Intel i8x0/MX440, SiS 7012; Ali 5455; NForce Audio; AMD768/8111 but there is no such option in 2.6.10 and the closest I see is this: *

[gentoo-user] mii-tool = ethtool ?

2005-02-02 Thread Nick Niemeyer
I am running into problems using mii-tool with the e1000 Intel Cards. Has anyone had any problems using ethtool in place of mii-tool? If so what are things that I should look out for? Thanks -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] more unicode, bash history editing

2005-02-02 Thread Lluís Batlle i Rossell
Oh, I wrote awfully. My problems come editing a command which I took from history (using, for example the UP key). Je la Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 04:41:32PM +0100, Lluís Batlle i Rossell skribis: Hi again! I'm trying to solve all my problems with unicode. When I type in russian in bash, I can

Re: [gentoo-user] mii-tool = ethtool ?

2005-02-02 Thread Kashani
Nick Niemeyer wrote: I am running into problems using mii-tool with the e1000 Intel Cards. Has anyone had any problems using ethtool in place of mii-tool? If so what are things that I should look out for? My understanding is that some cards work for ethtool, some work for mii-diag, some work

[gentoo-user] Another way to view apache2's logs

2005-02-02 Thread Grant
I've been using webalizer to analyze apache2's access_log. When I browse the raw log file, I realize I'm missing out on a lot of information when I'm using webalizer, but then again, the raw log file is too much info. Is there another tool that lets you see, for example, all raw log entries that

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Project Idea

2005-02-02 Thread John Myers
On Wed, February 2, 2005 1:24 am, Sebastian Flothow said: Am 2. Feb 2005 um 06:35 Uhr schrieb John Myers: It would keep the connection to the master open, and would also have a consistent PID (unlike a shell script, which, AFAIK, may not). A shell script itself has a consistent PID. However,

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.10-hardened-r3 sound card driver changes

2005-02-02 Thread Bob Sanders
Here are the modules I loaded: snd snd-seq-device snd-seq snd-page-alloc snd-pcm snd-timer snd-ac97-codec snd-intel8x0 Any ideas? Did you unmute the main, pcm, and ext. power amp switch (if there is one) in alsamixer? Or raise the gain of the appropriate channels with alsamixer?

Re: [gentoo-user] linux-headers vs linux26-headers

2005-02-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 06:43 am, Jans Han Xie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I made a mistake since I thought what you are talking about is *linux26-headers* instead of *linux-headers-2.6*, and *linux26-headers* is unmasked while *linux-headers-2.6* masked. Now I'm confused with this two

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.10-hardened-r3 sound card driver changes

2005-02-02 Thread Grant
Here are the modules I loaded: snd snd-seq-device snd-seq snd-page-alloc snd-pcm snd-timer snd-ac97-codec snd-intel8x0 Any ideas? Did you unmute the main, pcm, and ext. power amp switch (if there is one) in alsamixer? Or raise the gain of the appropriate channels

Re: [gentoo-user] root .bash_history...

2005-02-02 Thread taurus
Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 08:04, Peter Karlsson wrote: Hi! Yesterday, I discovered that my root accounts .bash_history was of size 0 (zero). This can be a sign of a hacked computer. Depends.. On some systems, where it's shared root users, I sometimes export HISTSIZE=10

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Project Idea

2005-02-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 11:59 am, John Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, February 2, 2005 1:24 am, Sebastian Flothow said: Am 2. Feb 2005 um 06:35 Uhr schrieb John Myers: It would keep the connection to the master open, and would also have a consistent PID (unlike a shell

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.10-hardened-r3 sound card driver changes

2005-02-02 Thread Bob Sanders
I turned the volume and pcm up in the xfce4 mixer (even though it's grayed out), but alsamixer is a bad command. When I open xmovie in a terminal and try to play an MP3, I get this: open odevice failed Ahh...that's a different issue. So what's in /dev, /dev/snd/, and /dev/sound/? Did you

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcpcd-eth0.info

2005-02-02 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Jorge Almeida: Anyone knows how is the file /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth0.info updated? This file is updated by your dhcp client, in your case it would appear to be dhcpcd. It should be updated everytime you reconnect to your ISP, or when your dhcp lease runs out (the length of lease time

[gentoo-user] newbie installation problem: lost Internet/network card after install

2005-02-02 Thread bogdan romocea
Dear Gentoo users, I managed to get through the stage 3 installation from a Universal CD and everything was ok, except that after rebooting no Internet connection is available. ifconfig doesn't show anything, it appears my network card is not recognized. (I have DSL through a router, dynamically

Re: [gentoo-user] USB printer questions...

2005-02-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 07:12 am, Arran Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, it is often a default setting to log everything to vt-12, which you can see by pressing CTRLALTF12. (Return to your GUI with CTRLALTF7.) FWIW, this was not enabled by default when I installed gentoo. It is

Re: [gentoo-user] newbie installation problem: lost Internet/network card after install

2005-02-02 Thread Bob Sanders
Is there a way I can fix this without starting the installation from scratch? Since when I boot up from the Universal CD I do have Internet access, I'd expect this to be a very simple problem (install a package, change some settings) - but can't figure out how to solve it. Boot the

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox crash and burn

2005-02-02 Thread Devon Miller
Something to file away for future reference, From: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_Mode_(Firefox) Safe Mode is a Firefox startup mode where all the extensions you have installed are disabled. This is useful for debugging and seeing which extension might be causing

Re: [gentoo-user] newbie installation problem: lost Internet/network card after install

2005-02-02 Thread Matthew Cline
Boot the LiveCD, setup the network, root password, sshd, mount the partitions and proc (per the install guide), cd /mnt/gentoo, chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash, env-update, source /etc/profile, and rebuild the kernel, emerge sync, emerge coldplug, emerge hotplug, rc-update add coldplug

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Project Idea

2005-02-02 Thread John Myers
On Wed, February 2, 2005 10:01 am, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. said: On Wednesday 02 February 2005 11:59 am, John Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, February 2, 2005 1:24 am, Sebastian Flothow said: Am 2. Feb 2005 um 06:35 Uhr schrieb John Myers: It would keep the connection to the master

Re: [gentoo-user] newbie installation problem: lost Internet/network card after install

2005-02-02 Thread Matthew Cline
# /etc/init.d/dhcpd stop # /etc/init.d/dhcpd start Matt Whoops, I think that this shoudl be: # /etc/init.d/net.eth0 stop # /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] firefox random lockups

2005-02-02 Thread comsatcat
As of two days ago, firefox started to randomly lockup. Things will work fine for awhile, then when I go to a random site, it will just lock solid. The only way I've been able to get it to not lock up is to rm -rf /tmp/*. Does anyone know which files may be causing the lockup or does anyone

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Project Idea

2005-02-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 12:52 pm, John Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, February 2, 2005 10:01 am, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. said: On Wednesday 02 February 2005 11:59 am, John Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, February 2, 2005 1:24 am, Sebastian Flothow said: Am 2. Feb

[gentoo-user] esound, public and localhost

2005-02-02 Thread Lluís Batlle i Rossell
Hi! Since some time ago I'm trying to configure my box to run 'esound', so many hosts can play sound through my speakers, and me, in the local computer, can also play sounds. Ignoring the configuration of gentoo (to avoid config files), if I start the server with: esd -tcp Then I can play from

Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL related portage recommended *downgrades*?

2005-02-02 Thread Kashani
William Yang wrote: While I understand how to avoid applying these changes, I'm trying to understand why this change is now being recommended. I'm also confused, as http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=mod_auth_mysql doesn't show mod_auth_mysql as being stable, and the latest stable for

[gentoo-user] strange speeds

2005-02-02 Thread raptor
hi, I have sysKonnect 1gb card integrated on the mobo after working several hours I start to get slowdowns.. no errors in ifconfig, no reconfiguration of 1g... nothing seems wrong, but the ping to this machine becomes from 8 ms to 200ms.. I can feel the lag, download speed can become more than

Re: [gentoo-user] USB printer questions...

2005-02-02 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 09:12:22 -0400 Arran Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On a side note, this problem would be a little less severe if I could restart the printer without being root. Can anyone provide a hint for that? use sudo perhaps? -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

[gentoo-user] Getting dual monitors to work

2005-02-02 Thread George Bingham
Hey all, I've just installed 2.4.26. I have two graphics cards, each has a monitor, my primary display is an old ATI (Rage 128), and the other one is an NVidia GEforce 2. I have X installed and working with the KDE desktop using the ATI card it's monitor. I have not been able to get the nvidia

Re: [gentoo-user] Running portage snippets under slack?

2005-02-02 Thread Nick Rout
A couple of years ago there was a howto floating about for using portage on other distros. It was possible at that stage, maybe it still is. the instructions at the time were basically: untar the portage emergency snapshot into your distro (thats the portage programs tarred up for those

[gentoo-user] Re: firefox random lockups

2005-02-02 Thread Thomas Kirchner
* On Feb 2 5:07, comsatcat ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) thusly jotted: As of two days ago, firefox started to randomly lockup. Things will work fine for awhile, then when I go to a random site, it will just lock solid. The only way I've been able to get it to not lock up is to rm -rf /tmp/*. Does

RE: [gentoo-user] Getting dual monitors to work

2005-02-02 Thread Dave Nebinger
Here's a few relevent pieces of my xorg.conf file: We need to see the server layout section to determine if the layout incorporates both screens... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting dual monitors to work

2005-02-02 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, George Bingham wrote: Hey all, I've just installed 2.4.26. I have two graphics cards, each has a monitor, my primary display is an old ATI (Rage 128), and the other one is an NVidia GEforce 2. I have X installed and working with the KDE desktop using the ATI card it's monitor.

Re: [gentoo-user] yet another tv card sound problem

2005-02-02 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 15:14:01 +0100 (CET) Tamas Sarga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Jean-Philippe Bosc wrote: it has maybe been already discussed, but i've been searching through the internet for weeks now, and can't solve my problem : i bought a Hauppauge WinTV PVR

Re: [gentoo-user] Running portage snippets under slack?

2005-02-02 Thread Jean-Francois Gagnon Laporte
On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 09:46:24 +1300, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A couple of years ago there was a howto floating about for using portage on other distros. It was possible at that stage, maybe it still is. the instructions at the time were basically: untar the portage emergency

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting dual monitors to work

2005-02-02 Thread George Bingham
hey guys, Thanks, Tried the suggestions about the ServerLayout section, I'd had similar entries in there before, still nothing happening to the other monitor when I launch X, no errors seem to be generated either. Is there something to do to get the secondary graphics card monitor working

Re: [gentoo-user] yet another tv card sound problem

2005-02-02 Thread Jean-Philippe Bosc
Le jeudi 03 février 2005 à 09:53 +1300, Nick Rout a écrit : similarly plug another sound source (ipod, cdplayer etc) into your line in of the ensoniq and make sure that is working. thanks. at least i now know that my line-in is well configured. neither the ensoniq-1371 or the cable i use to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox random lockups

2005-02-02 Thread Collins Richey
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 15:39:26 -0500, Thomas Kirchner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * On Feb 2 5:07, comsatcat ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) thusly jotted: As of two days ago, firefox started to randomly lockup. Things will work fine for awhile, then when I go to a random site, it will just lock solid.

Re: [gentoo-user] yet another tv card sound problem

2005-02-02 Thread Bob Sanders
thx for your answer. When i plug my headphones to the line-out of my tvcard, i still can hear no sound (and the tvaudio isn't used when i launch tvtime). But my father tested it with his windows system and it worked perfectly (if you think he laughed at me and my linux box... you're

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcpcd-eth0.info

2005-02-02 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, darren kirby wrote: quoth the Jorge Almeida: Anyone knows how is the file /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth0.info updated? This file is updated by your dhcp client, in your case it would appear to be dhcpcd. It should be updated everytime you reconnect to your ISP, or when your dhcp lease

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting dual monitors to work

2005-02-02 Thread James Hiscock
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 21:19:53 +, George Bingham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hey guys, Thanks, Tried the suggestions about the ServerLayout section, I'd had similar entries in there before, still nothing happening to the other monitor when I launch X, no errors seem to be generated

[gentoo-user] newsgroup reader recommendations

2005-02-02 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I never use newsgroups but my dad has and wants something simple to work along side of Firefox since (apparently) the newsreader is stripped out of that program. What's recommended for a non-experienced user. Mostly I just want it to be easy for him and not too difficult for me to set

Re: [gentoo-user] newsgroup reader recommendations

2005-02-02 Thread Frank Lynch
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 15:43:38 -0800, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I never use newsgroups but my dad has and wants something simple to work along side of Firefox since (apparently) the newsreader is stripped out of that program. What's recommended for a non-experienced user.

Re: [gentoo-user] newsgroup reader recommendations

2005-02-02 Thread Bob Sanders
Hi, I never use newsgroups but my dad has and wants something simple to work along side of Firefox since (apparently) the newsreader is stripped out of that program. What's recommended for a non-experienced user. Mostly I just want it to be easy for him and not too difficult for me

Re: [gentoo-user] newsgroup reader recommendations

2005-02-02 Thread Christoph Eckert
What's recommended for a non-experienced user. Mostly I just want it to be easy for him and not too difficult for me to set up. If you're on KDE, try knode. Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] yet another tv card sound problem

2005-02-02 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 22:24:18 +0100 Jean-Philippe Bosc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le jeudi 03 février 2005 à 09:53 +1300, Nick Rout a écrit : similarly plug another sound source (ipod, cdplayer etc) into your line in of the ensoniq and make sure that is working. thanks. at least i now

Re: [gentoo-user] newsgroup reader recommendations

2005-02-02 Thread Ric de France
I never use newsgroups but my dad has and wants something simple to work along side of Firefox since (apparently) the newsreader is stripped out of that program. What's recommended for a non-experienced user. Mostly I just want it to be easy for him and not too difficult for me to set

Re: [gentoo-user] newsgroup reader recommendations

2005-02-02 Thread Mark Knecht
Thanks all. I emerged thunderbird-bin and pan. That will give him a choice. cheers, Mark On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 11:00:55 +1100, Ric de France [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I never use newsgroups but my dad has and wants something simple to work along side of Firefox since (apparently) the

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting dual monitors to work

2005-02-02 Thread George Bingham
Hey all, I got it to work, I had to add the 'BusID xx:xx:xx' into the Device section for the nvidia card, once I did that, it sprang to life when I started X. But, now I have another problem, I have successfully emerge the nvidia-glx and it succeeds when I run opengl-update nvidia. Now,

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