Re: [gentoo-user] all wine apps in another language!

2005-02-28 Thread Iain Buchanan
Just in case anyone else has the same problem... On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 15:00 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > All my wine apps are for some reason using a language or font that I > can't understand! after much playing around and semi-fruitless google searching, I saw this article: http://groups.goo

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get more text consoles?

2005-02-28 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 01:02:13PM +0100, Fr?d?ric Grosshans wrote > Le samedi 26 f?vrier 2005 ? 17:08 -0500, Walter Dnes a ?crit : > > Non-negotiable item 1) My eyes aren't what they used to be, and I find > > 80x48 on a 19-inch CRT in bright cyan text on black to be much easier on > > the eyes

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie Hardware Advice

2005-02-28 Thread Ian K
Dave Nebinger wrote: From personal experience, I can say this: DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE GET AN ATI CARD. I am very happy with my new nVidia card. I went through hell with my ATI card. So I greatly recommend nVidia. From personal experience, I can say this: DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE G

Re: [gentoo-user] Do not get an ATi (Was: Newbie Hardware Advice)

2005-02-28 Thread Heinz Sporn
Hi! That recommendation is quite harsh IMHO - although I prefer Nvidia over Ati myself. With the latest release of stable drivers both Ati and Nvidia fully support Xorg 6.8 including 3D DRI. The reason why so many people literally hate Ati when it comes to Linux is rather simple: their Linux driv

[gentoo-user] wine-systray too small

2005-02-28 Thread Iain Buchanan
I'm sure I'm not the only one with this problem, but I can't find any reference to it anywhere... When I start an app such as getright that minimises straight away to the systray, I get a tiny window with no icons, which my window list calls "Wine-Systray". I have to be super accurate to put the

[gentoo-user] all wine apps in another language!

2005-02-28 Thread Iain Buchanan
All my wine apps are for some reason using a language or font that I can't understand! I thought at first it was just the one application, but then I tried other windows applications, and even wine's regedit, and they all use this strange font / language (kind of looks like arabic). I can't see a

Re: [gentoo-user] Mysterious GDB Error!

2005-02-28 Thread Gregory P. Smith
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 01:27:50AM -0600, Hareesh Nagarajan wrote: > > (appears below). Now when I run GDB I get the following: > > 1. warning: Unable to find dynamic linker breakpoint function. > GDB will be unable to debug shared library initializers > and track explicitly loaded dynamic code.

Re: [gentoo-user] moving along . . .

2005-02-28 Thread Phil Sexton
On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 23:47, maxim wexler wrote: > > > http://www.edmunds-enterprises.com/linux/cart.php/ba/pdtl/product/218 > > > > How different are these from the packageCDs on the > gentoo site? In a pinch I can get one of these from a > pal in town who has broadband. That's how I got the > i

Re: [gentoo-user] *SLOW* hard drive

2005-02-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 05:18, Willie Wong wrote: > On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 09:50:56PM -0500, Jerry McBride wrote: > > You guys are really making me freak out about my Maxtor harddrive. > How exactly does SMART work? I had that working in one of the IBM > thinkpads before, but it only gave me "wa

Re: [gentoo-user] Compiling Java, Effective?

2005-02-28 Thread Ducky Z.
Thank you so much, Sir! On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 14:22:40 +, Qian Qiao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 11:36:44 +0630, Ducky Z. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does "sun-jdk" and "sun-j2sdk" matter much on compiling java sources? > > sun-jdk is a binary ebuild, you'll need to down

Re: [gentoo-user] moving along . . .

2005-02-28 Thread maxim wexler
> http://www.edmunds-enterprises.com/linux/cart.php/ba/pdtl/product/218 > How different are these from the packageCDs on the gentoo site? In a pinch I can get one of these from a pal in town who has broadband. That's how I got the install iso. Besides, I know I need a whack of X11R6*src files(fo

Re: [gentoo-user] moving along . . .

2005-02-28 Thread maxim wexler
> > Wait... I thought the context was with GDM? Then > pasting is the right > button, not the middle/wheel. the wheel does it for me -mw __ Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/mailde

Re: [gentoo-user] *SLOW* hard drive

2005-02-28 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 09:50:56PM -0500, Jerry McBride wrote: > I find it odd how success with hardware brands varies from person to person. > Sometimes even from business to business > > Over here, we run Maxtor Diamond Max drives, 7200rpm, 8meg cache, ata 133 in > just about everything. T

Re: [gentoo-user] Two Distros, One Drive

2005-02-28 Thread maxim wexler
> I have never put two versions of Linux on one > computer. I want to keep > hdb3 for my use while installing Gentoo on hdb1. Is > this do-able? Are the grub.conf.example IIRC covers this issue > there any pitfalls to watch out for? not really, as long as you have suitable boot media ca

Re: [gentoo-user] Do not get an ATi (Was: Newbie Hardware Advice)

2005-02-28 Thread Peter Gordon
Keith Gable wrote: From personal experience, I can say this: DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE GET AN ATI CARD. Just to satiate my curiosity, why do you say this? I'm planning on purchasing a Sapphire Radeon 9250 that I found on NewEgg because of the Free Software driver support (X.org and DRI). Were

Re: [gentoo-user] Two Distros, One Drive

2005-02-28 Thread Phil Sexton
On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 22:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > There are a lot of "gotchas" to multi-booting x86 machines; the > architecture just wasn't designed for it. I'd say the answer is a > qualified "yes, it should work." But you should expect to spend some > quality time with this and have compl

Re: [gentoo-user] *SLOW* hard drive

2005-02-28 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Jerry McBride wrote: > I find it odd how success with hardware brands varies from person to person. > Sometimes even from business to business > > Over here, we run Maxtor Diamond Max drives, 7200rpm, 8meg cache, ata 133 in > just about everything. The model numbers escape

Re: [gentoo-user] Two Distros, One Drive

2005-02-28 Thread Collins Richey
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 21:17:23 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 09:32:16PM +, Bo Grimes wrote: > > > Right now I have Linux on hdb3 and Windows 98 on hda1 with a FAT32 > > partition for Windows apps on hdb1. HDB2 is swap. I want to keep the 6 > > gig

Re: [gentoo-user] Two Distros, One Drive

2005-02-28 Thread George Roberts
Bo Grimes wrote: First, thanks for all the feedback on video cards. I am about to attempt my first Gentoo install, and I plan on taking it very slowly since the whole reason I want to go Gentoo is to find my last distro, optimize it for my system and learn as much as possible in the process. Ho

Re: [gentoo-user] boot nightmare. grub grub grub....

2005-02-28 Thread afabian
On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 01:13:00AM -0500, J. Patrick Campbell wrote: > i've been fighting this new install for 2 days now. > i've tried grub and lilo. > grub just scrolls 'GRUB' down the screen, no matter what do. > lilo prints 02 about 30 times and stops > i've tried 2 hard drives in this machine

Re: [gentoo-user] Two Distros, One Drive

2005-02-28 Thread afabian
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 09:32:16PM +, Bo Grimes wrote: > Right now I have Linux on hdb3 and Windows 98 on hda1 with a FAT32 > partition for Windows apps on hdb1. HDB2 is swap. I want to keep the 6 > gig hda1 with Windows just for a few educational games my kids still use > that wouldn't run

Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB on JFS root partition won't boot

2005-02-28 Thread Keith Gable
Okay, well, then I was wrong :). Don't have to be mean about it. On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 23:17:27 +0100, Harald Arnesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Keith Gable <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm pretty sure your boot partition has to be ext2/ext3. HTH. > > You are wrong. > -- > Hilsen Harald. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Two Distros, One Drive

2005-02-28 Thread Raphael Melo
Yes, it is doable, it would be a problem if they were in the same partition, but that doesn't seem to be your case. On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 21:32:16 +, Bo Grimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First, thanks for all the feedback on video cards. > > I am about to attempt my first Gentoo install, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Unmounting my iPod makes the system freeze

2005-02-28 Thread Keith Gable
YAY! It works beautifully. Thanks a whole lot! :) On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 11:23:17 -0600, Keith Gable <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think that using fam might be the quickest way out. I'll try that > when I get home. Thanks! (this problem has been bugging me since I got > the iPod, so it's nice that

Re: [gentoo-user] *SLOW* hard drive

2005-02-28 Thread Jerry McBride
On Monday 28 February 2005 04:25 pm, Mike Turcotte wrote: > I had a 40 GB Maxtor ATA drive in my server running Slack for a while, > then Gentoo. I had a similar problem with the drive getting slower and > slower all the time. Now it will read at less that 5MB / Sec, sometimes > under 1 with only 5

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Schematic Drawing software

2005-02-28 Thread Peter Gordon
James wrote: Hello all, I'm looking for a drawing program, that has lots of symbols such as networking and electrical symbols, build in. Something like RFflow (http://www.rff.com/) for the pc. I'd be nice if the output files could be loaded directly into OpenOffice. Any suggestions? Dia maybe? # em

[gentoo-user] Two Distros, One Drive

2005-02-28 Thread Bo Grimes
First, thanks for all the feedback on video cards. I am about to attempt my first Gentoo install, and I plan on taking it very slowly since the whole reason I want to go Gentoo is to find my last distro, optimize it for my system and learn as much as possible in the process. However, I don't wa

RE: [gentoo-user] *SLOW* hard drive

2005-02-28 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Mike Turcotte wrote: > I had a 40 GB Maxtor ATA drive in my server running Slack for a while, > then Gentoo. I had a similar problem with the drive getting slower and > slower all the time. Now it will read at less that 5MB / Sec, sometimes > under 1 with only 5% of the drive

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with X.org

2005-02-28 Thread Dion Sole
Yep, known problem. Remove the "hardened" and "pie" USE flags from your system, then recompile gcc. Then try compiling Xorg again. On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 23:50 +0100, pat wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to setup my Xorg, but all time I have met this error: > Duplicate symbol __i686.get_pc_thunk.bx in

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with X.org

2005-02-28 Thread Bill Davidson
On 23:50 Mon 28 Feb , pat wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to setup my Xorg, but all time I have met this error: > Duplicate symbol __i686.get_pc_thunk.bx in > /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a:bitmapmod.o > Also defined in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a Are you running a hardened

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] "The Internet as a big subnet"

2005-02-28 Thread Mike Williams
On Monday 28 February 2005 22:52, Mike Williams wrote: > > Looking at it though, why don't you setup the PCs on the local network > > to use a gateway on the Datacenter network (say 'firewall' on the > > Datacenter bit). 'West' would then act as a router sending the data > > though East, into the f

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] "The Internet as a big subnet"

2005-02-28 Thread Mike Williams
On Monday 28 February 2005 21:47, Jonathan Wright wrote: > I've not really done much with VPNs, at least not in the way you're > trying to configure it. I'm not sure how to have two 'catch-all' > gateways, 'cause the one for the VPN would override the original one for > the internet, and then the V

[gentoo-user] problem with X.org

2005-02-28 Thread pat
Hi, I'm trying to setup my Xorg, but all time I have met this error: Duplicate symbol __i686.get_pc_thunk.bx in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a:bitmapmod.o Also defined in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a Could someone help me ??? Thanks Pat -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org maili

Re: [gentoo-user] Dependencies are broken

2005-02-28 Thread Tero Grundström
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Hamie wrote: > Well... Now it's completely dead... I ran 'emerge -ev dvdrip' and it > removed gcc... Then the last 90 odd failed... emerge -e does not remove anything. You are either messing with us or portage, big time. -- T.G. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie Hardware Advice

2005-02-28 Thread Sami Samhuri
* On Mon Feb-28-2005 at 09:09:52 AM -0500, Bo Grimes said: > Short version: > > Are there some graphics cards that work better with Gentoo than others > with a basic run of the mill home system (AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+ > processor and 1024 MB of RAM)? I want crisp text and enough 3D > accelera

RE: [gentoo-user] everyone please stop double posting

2005-02-28 Thread Dennis Taylor
Sorry. Too used to hitting reply all. Will be more careful in future. -Original Message- [ rant deleted to save bandwidth ] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] everyone please stop double posting

2005-02-28 Thread Nick Rout
The last two messages i got to this list people have double posted: Harald re Grub/JFS put the list in To and CC Dennis re Xorg put the list in To: twice Its pretty annoying to those who have limited bandwidth and equally limited time to read the list. -- Nick Rout -- gentoo-user@gentoo.o

Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB on JFS root partition won't boot

2005-02-28 Thread Harald Arnesen
Keith Gable <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm pretty sure your boot partition has to be ext2/ext3. HTH. You are wrong. -- Hilsen Harald. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Xorg and Gnome or KDE on Gentoo

2005-02-28 Thread Dennis Taylor
Well, it appears the magic is to rebuild the kernel with the 82845G driver as a module rather than just present.  I'm clueless why it needs be configured as a module.  If anyone can shed light on that, I would appreciate it.  Meanwhile, I have KDE running, and I suspect that twm and Gnome wi

Re: [gentoo-user] Dependencies are broken

2005-02-28 Thread Sami Samhuri
* On Mon Feb-28-2005 at 08:24:22 PM +, Hamie said: > > And make.conf has (Minus the comments) > > damned ~ # grep -v "^#" /etc/make.conf > > > USE="16bit 3dnow 3dnowex aac aalib acpi4linux apache2 avi bash-completion \ > cgi chipcard css divx4linux dvd dvdr dvdread emacs evo evo2 exif f

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] "The Internet as a big subnet"

2005-02-28 Thread Jonathan Wright
Mike, I've not really done much with VPNs, at least not in the way you're trying to configure it. I'm not sure how to have two 'catch-all' gateways, 'cause the one for the VPN would override the original one for the internet, and then the VPN would be trying to send though itself. Looking at it

Re: [gentoo-user] Dependencies are broken

2005-02-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 10:44:53 +, Hamie wrote: > damned ~ # emerge -pvt dvdrip > > These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order: > > Calculating dependencies ...done! > [ebuild N] media-video/dvdrip-0.50.18 -cdr -gnome 227 kB > [ebuild N] dev-perl/gtk-perl-0.7008-r10

Re: [gentoo-user] Dependencies are broken

2005-02-28 Thread Hamie
Nick Rout wrote: why are you using emerge -e?? because I don't understand it yet? Anyway... I think I know what happened... I didn't realise that portage put it's database in /var... And after I got my base installed, I re-mounted my old /var from my debian install... So user error... Whoo

RE: [gentoo-user] *SLOW* hard drive

2005-02-28 Thread Mike Turcotte
I had a 40 GB Maxtor ATA drive in my server running Slack for a while, then Gentoo. I had a similar problem with the drive getting slower and slower all the time. Now it will read at less that 5MB / Sec, sometimes under 1 with only 5% of the drive used. Tried on multiple machines and confirmed that

Re: [gentoo-user] Dependencies are broken

2005-02-28 Thread Nick Rout
why are you using emerge -e?? -e will recompile everything thet dvdrip depends on. bad move!! On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 22:08:57 + Hamie wrote: > Well... Now it's completely dead... I ran 'emerge -ev dvdrip' and it > removed gcc... Then the last 90 odd failed... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mai

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox - XML Parsing Error: undefined entity

2005-02-28 Thread Joseph
On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 13:39 -0700, Joseph wrote: > After recent upgrade one of my Firfox profile was open and now when I > try to display version number in this profile I get: > XML Parsing Error: undefined entity > > When I try to display version number in the another profile (that was > closed)

Re: [gentoo-user] Dependencies are broken

2005-02-28 Thread Hamie
Nick Rout wrote: On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 15:23:33 + Hamie wrote: Marc Ballarin wrote: [deleted] [ebuild N] net-analyzer/fping-2.4_beta2-r1 [ebuild N] media-video/dvdrip-0.50.18 Thats pretty weird becausethe N in each line says portage thinks those are new (as opposed to upd

[gentoo-user] UML troubles

2005-02-28 Thread Maarten
Hi list, I'm building my first usermode linux system, using the Gentoo howto. When I booted linux, it hung(*) because it couldn't find any modules, so I went back and built and installed modules target, mounted the rootfs as loopdevice and copied all of the fresh /lib/modules/x.y.z to /mnt/loo

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - dovecot question [WAS OT - uw-imap question]

2005-02-28 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 12:42:13 -0800 (PST) Michael Sullivan wrote: > espersunited.com is resolved in the ISP's DNS server. and gives you an external internet ip address that is not going to work from in your lan. if you are lucky you will be trying to reach your router, and god help you if you hav

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Evolution spell checkers

2005-02-28 Thread Oliver Lemke
On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 22:33 +0200, Ivan Yosifov wrote: > Hello Guys, > > I am trying to install additional spell checks for Evolution. How do I > do it , what do I emerge ? AFAIK Evolution uses aspell ( is this so ? ), > so I have emerged aspell-fr , for example , but Evolution does not see > the

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - dovecot question [WAS OT - uw-imap question]

2005-02-28 Thread Michael Sullivan
espersunited.com is resolved in the ISP's DNS server. --- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > yes but how is plain old espersunited.com resolved? > > on that hosts file it isn't. > > On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 11:51:42 -0800 (PST) > Michael Sullivan wrote: > > > bullet root # cat /etc/hosts > > #

[gentoo-user] Firefox - XML Parsing Error: undefined entity

2005-02-28 Thread Joseph
After recent upgrade one of my Firfox profile was open and now when I try to display version number in this profile I get: XML Parsing Error: undefined entity When I try to display version number in the another profile (that was closed) it works correctly showing ver. 1.0.1 Which file should I de

[gentoo-user] Installing Evolution spell checkers

2005-02-28 Thread Ivan Yosifov
Hello Guys, I am trying to install additional spell checks for Evolution. How do I do it , what do I emerge ? AFAIK Evolution uses aspell ( is this so ? ), so I have emerged aspell-fr , for example , but Evolution does not see the new dictionary. Tried rebuilding Evolution , to no avail. -- Than

Re: [gentoo-user] Dependencies are broken

2005-02-28 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 15:23:33 + Hamie wrote: > Marc Ballarin wrote: > > >On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 02:14:40 + > >Mike Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > >>e? Isn't an emptytree a bit excessive? > >>A plan ole 'emerge dvdrip -pv', possible with a tree (like Neil > >>suggested),

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - dovecot question [WAS OT - uw-imap question]

2005-02-28 Thread Maarten
On Monday 28 February 2005 20:07, Michael Sullivan wrote: > First of all, I don't have access to the host command: > My god, are you dense ?!? One last time then: E M E R G EB I N D - T O O L S (hint: then you WILL have the 'host' command) > Secondly, I am trying to access my server box t

Re: [gentoo-user] Dependencies are broken

2005-02-28 Thread Bill Davidson
On 15:23 Mon 28 Feb , Hamie wrote: > Well... Something is definately screwy on my system... An 'emerge -pv > dvdrip' lists a whole lot of updates & wanrs me to update portage first > at risk of killing something if I don't, but when I do an 'emerge -u > portage' it says there's nothing to ud

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - dovecot question [WAS OT - uw-imap question]

2005-02-28 Thread Nick Rout
yes but how is plain old espersunited.com resolved? on that hosts file it isn't. On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 11:51:42 -0800 (PST) Michael Sullivan wrote: > bullet root # cat /etc/hosts > # Do not remove the following line, or various > programs > # that require network functionality will fail. > > 127.

Re: [gentoo-user] Dependencies are broken

2005-02-28 Thread Bill Davidson
On 20:24 Mon 28 Feb , Hamie wrote: [snip] > A completely different list from the emerge above... Lots of updates... > > damned ~ # emerge -pvuD dvdrip > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > Calculating dependencies ...done! > [blocks B ] sys-apps/sysvinit (from pk

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie Hardware Advice

2005-02-28 Thread Qian Qiao
For linux, I'd recommend a nVidia card perhaps a 6600. For gaming, both ATI and nVidia can do very well. I have a 9700pro and a 6600GT, the nVidia binary driver is way better under linux than the ATI one. -- Joe -- Money can't buy everything. Sometimes money can't even buy a gun... -- gentoo-us

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - dovecot question [WAS OT - uw-imap question]

2005-02-28 Thread Michael Sullivan
bullet root # cat /etc/hosts # Do not remove the following line, or various programs # that require network functionality will fail. 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain 192.168.1.4 blossom.espersunited.com blossom 192.168.1.3 baby.espersunited.com baby 192.168.1.2 bullet.espersunited.com bullet 192.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - dovecot question [WAS OT - uw-imap question]

2005-02-28 Thread Michael Sullivan
I did. --- Kashani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Sullivan wrote: > > Will bind-tools give me dig as well? I was afraio > I'd > > have to do an emerge -Ss for it... > > yes, now install it already!! :) > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > = _

Re: [gentoo-user] uuencode

2005-02-28 Thread Ernst Herzberg
On Montag 28 Februar 2005 19:58, David Corbin wrote: > Where is uuencode packaged? > > What is the correct way way to find this out myself? I don't know, if it is correct way, but useful: http://www.gentoo-stats.org/index.php?c=search -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] moving along . . .

2005-02-28 Thread Phil Sexton
On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 13:28, maxim wexler wrote: > right, but there's a lot to download yet and my > connection(on a good day) takes ~1hr/5M during which > the phone is not available. Meanwhile I'd like to be > able to read html and pdf files. Why not order a "Gentoo Essentials (3 CD Set)"? http

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - dovecot question [WAS OT - uw-imap question]

2005-02-28 Thread Kashani
Michael Sullivan wrote: Will bind-tools give me dig as well? I was afraio I'd have to do an emerge -Ss for it... yes, now install it already!! :) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] uuencode

2005-02-28 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le lundi 28 février 2005 à 14:17 -0500, Dave Nebinger a écrit : > > Where is uuencode packaged? > > I think it's part of uulib. > > > What is the correct way way to find this out myself? > > esearch -S uuencode If you emerged esearch and synced through esync ... Otherwise, emerge -S uuenco

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - dovecot question [WAS OT - uw-imap question]

2005-02-28 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 11:07 -0800, Michael Sullivan wrote: > First of all, I don't have access to the host command: > > baby root # host espersunited.com > -bash: host: command not found read our lips - emerge bind-tools > > > Secondly, I am trying to access my server box through > espersun

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - dovecot question [WAS OT - uw-imap question]

2005-02-28 Thread Michael Sullivan
Will bind-tools give me dig as well? I was afraio I'd have to do an emerge -Ss for it... --- "A. Khattri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > > First of all, I don't have access to the host > command: > > > > baby root # host espersunited.com > > -bash

Re: [gentoo-user] *SLOW* hard drive

2005-02-28 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Justin Patrin wrote: > Already knew about that. It's set to the highest setting already. As I > said, it used to work much better but it's been getting slower and > slower lately. If its 3 or 4 years old I would try replacing it. (And dont buy Maxtor - they suck). -- A. --

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - dovecot question [WAS OT - uw-imap question]

2005-02-28 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Michael Sullivan wrote: > First of all, I don't have access to the host command: > > baby root # host espersunited.com > -bash: host: command not found Yeah, which is why you do "emerge bind-tools" first :-) -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] uuencode

2005-02-28 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Where is uuencode packaged? I think it's part of uulib. > What is the correct way way to find this out myself? esearch -S uuencode Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - dovecot question [WAS OT - uw-imap question]

2005-02-28 Thread Michael Sullivan
First of all, I don't have access to the host command: baby root # host espersunited.com -bash: host: command not found Secondly, I am trying to access my server box through espersunited.com because most of my users are outside the network and will be connecting to espersunited.com remotely. I

Re: [gentoo-user] moving along . . .

2005-02-28 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 10:49:39AM -0800, maxim wexler wrote: > > > > > You can highlight and paste text with different > > mouse buttons, although > > I forgot which off hand. > > click and drag w/left button to copy; click wheel to paste > Wait... I thought the context was with GDM? Then pa

[gentoo-user] uuencode

2005-02-28 Thread David Corbin
Where is uuencode packaged? What is the correct way way to find this out myself? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] moving along . . .

2005-02-28 Thread darren kirby
quoth the maxim wexler: > > As others have said, "emerge xorg-x11 -pf", but why > > not recompile your > > kernel with PPP support? You're going to have to do > > it sooner or later > > and sooner will avoid a lot of hassle and reboots. > > right, but there's a lot to download yet and my > connecti

Re: [gentoo-user] *SLOW* hard drive

2005-02-28 Thread Maarten
On Monday 28 February 2005 19:18, Justin Patrin wrote: > On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 10:01:23 -0800, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 09:39:30 -0800, Justin Patrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hdparm /dev/hda (change as needed) > > > > and you can check speed using > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] moving along . . .

2005-02-28 Thread maxim wexler
> > You can highlight and paste text with different > mouse buttons, although > I forgot which off hand. click and drag w/left button to copy; click wheel to paste __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Find what you need with new enhanced search. h

Re: [gentoo-user] moving along . . .

2005-02-28 Thread Tom Wesley
maxim wexler wrote: I'd like at least to be able to use my mouse to cut and paste. gentoo finds my usb, logitec optical mouse on boot. Is there a method of configuring it without having to set up X. Check out GPM: # emerge -av gpm # /etc/init.d/gpm start You can highlight and paste text with diff

Re: [gentoo-user] *SLOW* hard drive

2005-02-28 Thread maxim wexler
> > Does anyone have any tips for me? FWIW, boot on my box, a K6-2, with gentoo on an ATA drive complained that DMA was turned off and that this would cause fsck to be very slow. I tried adding hdparm something something as recommended in the handbook but without success. Then I did emerge udev a

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - dovecot question [WAS OT - uw-imap question]

2005-02-28 Thread Maarten
On Monday 28 February 2005 18:43, Michael Sullivan wrote: > All machines are using the same /etc/hosts file. I > copied it over using scp. I'm having major DNS > problems here though. I tried to connect to > espersunited.com port 143 through telnet and > encountered a courier-imap server. I'm u

Re: [gentoo-user] moving along . . .

2005-02-28 Thread maxim wexler
> > As others have said, "emerge xorg-x11 -pf", but why > not recompile your > kernel with PPP support? You're going to have to do > it sooner or later > and sooner will avoid a lot of hassle and reboots. right, but there's a lot to download yet and my connection(on a good day) takes ~1hr/5M duri

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Oracle 9iR2

2005-02-28 Thread Kashani
Antoine wrote: There is a guy that works at oracle that uses Gentoo. He has got it (9i, I guess R2) running fine and has instructions somewhere. He may mention something cos I think he reads this list. It certainly doesn't require gcc 2.95. I think I had it completely installed but seeing as I k

Re: [gentoo-user] connrate replacement

2005-02-28 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi Alexander, On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 19:51:39 +0300 Alexander Kirillov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [quotes re-sorted] > > - use netfilter to route relevant connections through a shaper > > device (which is a - AFAIK - experimental kernel feature, > This netfilter approach you've mentioned. Is it somet

Re: [gentoo-user] *SLOW* hard drive

2005-02-28 Thread Justin Patrin
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 10:01:23 -0800, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 09:39:30 -0800, Justin Patrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I originally installed Gentoo on my server box a very long time ago > > (3-4 years I think) and it's still running strong. However, I'm > > n

Re: [gentoo-user] *SLOW* hard drive

2005-02-28 Thread Justin Patrin
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 12:58:30 -0500, Bill Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 09:39 Mon 28 Feb , Justin Patrin wrote: > > I originally installed Gentoo on my server box a very long time ago > > (3-4 years I think) and it's still running strong. However, I'm > > noticing *big* lags when doing

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Oracle 9iR2

2005-02-28 Thread Antoine
Chris Boot wrote: Hi, If I remember correctly, you'll have a hard time installing the database unless you can run the older version of Java: the NetCA that runs to create your database and setup your tnsnames.ora file requires JDK 1.1 and won't work on any newer version (it will complain about p

Re: [gentoo-user] *SLOW* hard drive

2005-02-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 09:39:30 -0800, Justin Patrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I originally installed Gentoo on my server box a very long time ago > (3-4 years I think) and it's still running strong. However, I'm > noticing *big* lags when doing anything HD related. Even starting up > simple progra

Re: [gentoo-user] *SLOW* hard drive

2005-02-28 Thread Bill Roberts
On 09:39 Mon 28 Feb , Justin Patrin wrote: > I originally installed Gentoo on my server box a very long time ago > (3-4 years I think) and it's still running strong. However, I'm > noticing *big* lags when doing anything HD related. Even starting up > simple programs takes some waiting while th

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Oracle 9iR2

2005-02-28 Thread Konstantinos Agouros
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Boot) writes: >This is a cryptographically signed message in MIME format. >--ms030105070203050509070101 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >Hi, >If I remember correctly, you'll

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Oracle 9iR2

2005-02-28 Thread Konstantinos Agouros
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Schafer) writes: >Hi, >did you check all the Oracle prerequisites? I had very similar behaviour >on a machine with insufficient amount of (physical) memory. 1gig of ram should be enough for the installer. The trick with the window was -Y in the SSH-

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - dovecot question [WAS OT - uw-imap question]

2005-02-28 Thread Michael Sullivan
All machines are using the same /etc/hosts file. I copied it over using scp. I'm having major DNS problems here though. I tried to connect to espersunited.com port 143 through telnet and encountered a courier-imap server. I'm using dovecot. --- Maarten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monda

Re: [gentoo-user] Dependencies are broken

2005-02-28 Thread Hamie
Francisco Ares wrote: did you use emerge -D dvdrip Yep... Here's the output from that... It just complaiuns that gtk is missing (Which it is, because gtk wants something else). damned ~ # emerge -D dvdrip Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 4) gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.4.2 to / >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Dependencies are broken

2005-02-28 Thread Hamie
Marc Ballarin wrote: On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 02:14:40 + Mike Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: e? Isn't an emptytree a bit excessive? A plan ole 'emerge dvdrip -pv', possible with a tree (like Neil suggested), would be just fine. gtk+1.x (or rather gtk-perl) is supposed to be a hard depe

Re: [gentoo-user] Dependencies are broken

2005-02-28 Thread Hamie
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 21:53:09 +, Hamie wrote: Currently I'm trying to get dvdrip on there... But it's complaining that gtk isn't available.. Try to emerge gtk+ and it complains that it needs an Xft Pango backend... ARRGGHH!!! What does "emerge -pvt dvdrip" show?

[gentoo-user] *SLOW* hard drive

2005-02-28 Thread Justin Patrin
I originally installed Gentoo on my server box a very long time ago (3-4 years I think) and it's still running strong. However, I'm noticing *big* lags when doing anything HD related. Even starting up simple programs takes some waiting while the HD is accessed. During large operations (say another

[gentoo-user] [OT] "The Internet as a big subnet"

2005-02-28 Thread Mike Williams
Hey, I have a problem. That should be fairly easily resolvable. But it isn't. The available documentation sucks. And my head hurts. http://wiki.openswan.org/index.php/The%20Internet%20as%20a%20big%20subnet I have an office, I have a datacentre. If office accesses the internet it must not appear

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to su anymore

2005-02-28 Thread Christoph Eckert
> > But please don't ask me where I've set it ages ago ;-) . > > So why bother posting? sorry, I just felt in the mood to remember the old un*x joke. But you're right, I should have shut up... Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - dovecot question [WAS OT - uw-imap question]

2005-02-28 Thread Maarten
On Monday 28 February 2005 15:26, Michael Sullivan wrote: > baby root # host bullet > -bash: host: command not found 1) emerge bind9-tools 2) when in doubt, always connect using IP adresses instead of DNS names > I don't handle my own DNS (I don't know how yet). My Many things in Linux depend o

Re: [gentoo-user] Unmounting my iPod makes the system freeze

2005-02-28 Thread Keith Gable
I think that using fam might be the quickest way out. I'll try that when I get home. Thanks! (this problem has been bugging me since I got the iPod, so it's nice that I could finally find someone who had a small idea what the issue could be ^_^ -- most people were like "uh, I don't know...") So, y

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVR sourceforge project and gentoo

2005-02-28 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le vendredi 25 février 2005 à 17:02 -0500, A. Khattri a écrit : > emerge ebuilder It's hardmasked and "grep -B3 ebuilder /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask" gives : # <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (08 Dec 2004) # app-portage pre-christmas cleaning, these packages are unmaintained upstream # and have open

Re: [gentoo-user] Unmounting my iPod makes the system freeze

2005-02-28 Thread Daniel Drake
Keith Gable wrote: Gamin, 2.6.10-gentoo-r5 Disabling inotify in the kernel, disabling inotify in the gamin config, or reverting back to fam should solve your issue. Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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