[gentoo-user] problem with emerge -e system

2005-04-02 Thread pat
Hi, I'vy tryed to install 2005.0 and emerge -e system ends with this: emerge (124 of 147) net-fs/openafs-1.2.10-r1 to / md5 src_uri ;-) openafs-1.2.10-src.tar.bz2 but the specified archive is correctly uploaded. What I have to do to fix it ??? Thanks to all. Pat --

Re: [gentoo-user] OT Gentoo firewall appliances?

2005-04-02 Thread Aleksandar Radovic
There is Gentoo-embedded project and a mailing list, you definitely want to check that out. As for the cheap, low power platforms, these two companies have cheap and promising boxes: - Soekris: http://www.soekris.com/ - WRAP: http://www.pcengines.ch/ Linksys WRT54G is one of the of-the-shelf

[gentoo-user] KDE 3.4

2005-04-02 Thread David Corbin
Any idea when kde 3.4 will be unmasked? David -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.4

2005-04-02 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Sunday 03 April 2005 00:22, David Corbin wrote: Any idea when kde 3.4 will be unmasked? It's been unmasked since shortly after it was released. Unless you are referring to moving to stable? Regards, Jason Stubbs -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Building packages only when doing emerge world

2005-04-02 Thread Mike Turcotte
A. Khattri wrote: On Sat, 2 Apr 2005, Nick Rout wrote: I think the problem is that if you build a whole lot of packages only, without installing them, then (because each package is not actually installed on a live filesystem) any package that depends on an earlier one will fail. I know what I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Building packages only when doing emerge world

2005-04-02 Thread Robert G. Hays
So make a backup first! My system has some (cheap :( ) bays instaled on the front so I don't have to dig the computer out of it's hole, untangle, open, untangle again (so to speak), unscrew drives, c. I just power-off, insert turn key, pull carrier out, insert different carrier, turn--remove

Re: [gentoo-user] MADWIFI driver...

2005-04-02 Thread Grant
I realised that the madwifi-driver package is masked and that this indicates that I may experience problems, but I suspect I'm more problems than others - considering that loads of people appear to have the madwifi drivers working with other distributions. I've hunted on the web for

[gentoo-user] Keeping things clean

2005-04-02 Thread James
Hi all, I've been running Gentoo for a week or two now, all is going well, but I'm using up a lot of hard disk space with all these sources I've downloaded and uncompressed. I've had a quick look in the Portage docs, but can't find anything that looks like a solution to this problem. So my

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't complete the install!

2005-04-02 Thread Robert G. Hays
I was thinking that it is convenient to have everything in one place for tracking. Where I don't think this applies, I do trim. Apologies for any offence; none was intended it was not laziness, just maybe not-quite-correct thought-process. rgh. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Keeping things clean

2005-04-02 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Saturday 02 April 2005 19:48, James wrote: I've had a quick look in the Portage docs, but can't find anything that looks like a solution to this problem. So my question: is there a function in Portage that allows me to delete old unpacked source files and tarballs (e.g. emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] MADWIFI driver...

2005-04-02 Thread Jason Cooper
Steve ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: Can anyone tell me if they've got the madwifi-drivers working under Gentoo (with a 2.6 kernel)? If so - where do our approaches differ? What kernel options are actually required? Do I really need all the modules I've got in my autoloading (I don't care

Re: [gentoo-user] Host, Schmost!

2005-04-02 Thread John Lowell
Nick Rout wrote: yeah for god's sake ifconfig and route -n -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nick, Kashani and the everyone else, Sorry for the delay in replying. A business emergency has caused it. I'll write later today. Thanks for your

Re: [gentoo-user] MADWIFI driver...

2005-04-02 Thread John Myers
On Saturday 02 April 2005 08:21, Steve wrote: Noting that the first error is generated by the wlan module, following a session with Google I suspected that my kernel needed wireless network support... I used menuconfig and made these selections: -- [*] Wan interfaces support Comtrol

Re: [gentoo-user] Keeping things clean

2005-04-02 Thread Tim Janssen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've had a quick look in the Portage docs, but can't find anything that looks like a solution to this problem. So my question: is there a function in Portage that allows me to delete old unpacked source files and tarballs (e.g. emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] user can't mount

2005-04-02 Thread maxim wexler
Wrong! So I deleted nosuid from fstab and ran etc-update. Why etc-update? /etc/fstab changed Since then, only root can mount drives. Yes, /cdrom and /floppy have the user flag in their respective fstab lines. I didn't touch them. Use either users or user, depending on your

RE: [gentoo-user] Monthly BugDay reminder!

2005-04-02 Thread maxim wexler
--- Dave Nebinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Monthly BugDay reminder! On Apr 1, 2005 8:39 AM, Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 22:10:00 +1200 Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I

Re: [gentoo-user] Keeping things clean

2005-04-02 Thread John Myers
On Saturday 02 April 2005 09:48, James wrote: should I delete them 'manually'? Yes. Tarballs are in /usr/portage/distfiles, build areas are in /var/tmp/portage. Delete the stuff in /var/tmp/portage as you wish, but be aware that many times, a minor (-rX) update to a package will use the same

[gentoo-user] Nvidia 6629 fail on 2.6.11.5

2005-04-02 Thread Stuart Howard
Hi all I have just compiled a new kernel using vanilla 2.6.11.5 which works sucessfully, however when I come to startx I get an error when using 1.0.6111 nvidia kernel and glx drivers. So I decided to emerge 1.0.6629 the latest stable build, unfortunally I am getting a build error [posted below].

Re: [gentoo-user] Keeping things clean

2005-04-02 Thread Brett Schroeder
James wrote: Hi all, I've been running Gentoo for a week or two now, all is going well, but I'm using up a lot of hard disk space with all these sources I've downloaded and uncompressed. Not that I'm aware of, but I've only been using Gentoo for 1 month (FreeBSD for several years). The

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia 6629 fail on 2.6.11.5

2005-04-02 Thread fire-eyes
On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 18:11 +0100, Stuart Howard wrote: Error 1 make[2]: *** [_module_/var/tmp/portage/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629-r1/work/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1/usr/src/nv] Error 2 NVIDIA: left KBUILD. nvidia.ko failed to build! make[1]: *** [module] Error 1 make: *** [module] Error 2

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.4

2005-04-02 Thread David Corbin
On Saturday 02 April 2005 10:32 am, Jason Stubbs wrote: On Sunday 03 April 2005 00:22, David Corbin wrote: Any idea when kde 3.4 will be unmasked? It's been unmasked since shortly after it was released. Unless you are referring to moving to stable? I tried emerge kde-meta. It says it's

Re: [gentoo-user] MADWIFI driver...

2005-04-02 Thread Steve
Grant wrote: The only module you need to autoload is ath_pci. The kernel option you must be missing is: That is a surprise - I used the same card under FreeBSD and that definitely also needed ATH_HAL - but I bow to your greater experience with Gentoo... I'm guessing from the output from

Re: [gentoo-user] Keeping things clean

2005-04-02 Thread James
Thanks! James Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Saturday 02 April 2005 19:48, James wrote: I've had a quick look in the Portage docs, but can't find anything that looks like a solution to this problem. So my question: is there a function in Portage that allows me to delete old unpacked source files

Re: [gentoo-user] MADWIFI driver...

2005-04-02 Thread Steve
Jason Cooper wrote: Bad move. Exposing a single port to the internet is more than enough. I also only expose a few ports (including ssh) to the net. My logs are full of knucklehead script kiddies trying to get in through ssh. At a minimum, disallow root login, and listen on a port other than 22.

Re: [gentoo-user] MADWIFI driver...

2005-04-02 Thread Steve
Jason Cooper wrote: The relevant portion of my '/etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6': wlan ath_hal ath_pci everything else autoloads from these three. By any chance can you point me at documentation which explains what facilities are presented by ath_hal and wlan (as a previous post suggests

Re: [gentoo-user] MADWIFI driver...

2005-04-02 Thread Jason Cooper
Steve ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: Jason Cooper wrote: Bad move. Exposing a single port to the internet is more than enough. I also only expose a few ports (including ssh) to the net. My logs are full of knucklehead script kiddies trying to get in through ssh. At a minimum, disallow

Re: [gentoo-user] MADWIFI driver...

2005-04-02 Thread Grant
By any chance can you point me at documentation which explains what facilities are presented by ath_hal and wlan (as a previous post suggests these two aren't strictly necessary.) Is it possible that ath_hal and wlan are loaded anyway as dependencies of ath_pci? I think that's exactly what

Re: [gentoo-user] MADWIFI driver...

2005-04-02 Thread Jason Cooper
Steve ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: While they didn't used to be (I'd misread WAN as Wireless LAN - Doah!) but they are now... However I still get a (now single) error ath_pci: Unknown symbol ieee80211_ioctl - about which I'm as unclear as I was about the dozens of unknown symbols I saw

Re: [gentoo-user] MADWIFI driver...

2005-04-02 Thread Jason Cooper
Jason Cooper ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: '/lib/modules/`uname-r`/' and then run depmaod -ae again just in case. That should've been 'depmod -ae', sorry. Cooper. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] MADWIFI driver...

2005-04-02 Thread Steve
Grant wrote: By any chance can you point me at documentation which explains what facilities are presented by ath_hal and wlan (as a previous post suggests these two aren't strictly necessary.) Is it possible that ath_hal and wlan are loaded anyway as dependencies of ath_pci? I think that's

Re: [gentoo-user] MADWIFI driver...

2005-04-02 Thread Jason Cooper
Grant ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: By any chance can you point me at documentation which explains what facilities are presented by ath_hal and wlan (as a previous post suggests these two aren't strictly necessary.) Is it possible that ath_hal and wlan are loaded anyway as dependencies

Re: [gentoo-user] MADWIFI driver...

2005-04-02 Thread Steve
Jason Cooper wrote: aha? In you kernel .config, what is CONFIG_KMOD set to? If set, it allows the kernel to autoload modules as needed, for example, when they are dependencies of ath_pci.ko ... If unset, and wlan.ko isn't listed first in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6, this could be the

Re: [gentoo-user] MADWIFI driver...

2005-04-02 Thread Grant
By any chance can you point me at documentation which explains what facilities are presented by ath_hal and wlan (as a previous post suggests these two aren't strictly necessary.) Is it possible that ath_hal and wlan are loaded anyway as dependencies of ath_pci? I think that's exactly

[gentoo-user] akregator troubles

2005-04-02 Thread Makurin Roman
Hi All! I`ve got a problem with akregator from kdepim-3.4.0. When I trying to star it it gives me an error Could not find the Akregator part; please check your installation. How can I solve this ? Thanks -- Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 105266647 pgpBQRQekdgNa.pgp Description: PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia 6629 fail on 2.6.11.5

2005-04-02 Thread Stuart Howard
thx for reply I found a few bugs but this one seems to match http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85802 I dont see a workaround at the moment so am falling back to 2.6.10 for a quiet life ;) stu On Apr 2, 2005 6:25 PM, fire-eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 18:11 +0100,

Re: [gentoo-user] MADWIFI driver...

2005-04-02 Thread Jason Cooper
Steve ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: Jason Cooper wrote: aha? In you kernel .config, what is CONFIG_KMOD set to? If set, it allows the kernel to autoload modules as needed, for example, when they are dependencies of ath_pci.ko ... If unset, and wlan.ko isn't listed first in

Re: [gentoo-user] MADWIFI driver...

2005-04-02 Thread Steve
Jason Cooper wrote: Steve ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: While they didn't used to be (I'd misread WAN as Wireless LAN - Doah!) but they are now... However I still get a (now single) error ath_pci: Unknown symbol ieee80211_ioctl - about which I'm as unclear as I was about the dozens of

[gentoo-user] system with no network needs updates

2005-04-02 Thread Grant
I've got a system that needs a few package updates before its wireless connection will start working and ethernet doesn't seem to be cooperating. I think what I need to do is fetch a few packages on another system, burn them to a CD, and copy them from the CD to the appropriate places on the

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia 6629 fail on 2.6.11.5

2005-04-02 Thread Matan Peled
Stuart Howard wrote: thx for reply I found a few bugs but this one seems to match http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85802 I dont see a workaround at the moment so am falling back to 2.6.10 for a quiet life ;) stu Or, you could try the newer nVidia drivers in ~x86. mkdir

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.4

2005-04-02 Thread Taylor Morrow
This means it's in the unstable branch. Although it is recommended that you wait until it enters stable, you can override this with: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge kde-meta Keep in mind that it probably still has some bugs that have not been fixed, hence the unstable label. On Apr 2, 2005 11:35

Re: [gentoo-user] E-Builds for DVD Software

2005-04-02 Thread Ralph Slooten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've used 'lxdvdrip' to make backup copies of various DVD's. lxdvdrip ... However, I have noticed some irregularities with it. Have you tried the way I described (for this DVD with problems)? What are the rip times for the method you use compared

Re: [gentoo-user] MADWIFI driver...

2005-04-02 Thread Jason Cooper
Steve ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: Jason Cooper wrote: Steve ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: While they didn't used to be (I'd misread WAN as Wireless LAN - Doah!) but they are now... However I still get a (now single) error ath_pci: Unknown symbol ieee80211_ioctl - about which I'm as

[gentoo-user] genkernel-3.1.6 fails for my situation

2005-04-02 Thread Yuan MEI
My system configuration is a bit strange: (laptop) 1 IDE hard drive, only /boot is on that, for storing kernel and initrd, and the place for grub 1 pcmcia--usb2.0 adapter 1 usb2.0 externel hard drive, for /, /usr, /home... everything else, because it is quite big :-) so, the laptop could find

Re: [gentoo-user] MADWIFI driver...

2005-04-02 Thread Steve
Jason Cooper wrote: try: # find /lib/modules/`uname -r`/ -name wlan.ko -print 'locate' is only accurate as of the last time you updated its database. OK - I was just being lazy - which happened not to matter because I knew my locate database was up-to-date. [ I'd included the grep line for

[gentoo-user] Going to X.org

2005-04-02 Thread Ian K
Hey! Yes, its hard to believe, but Im sadly still on XFree. Can someone tell me in simple terms how to convert? KDE 3.4 has the genuine transparency thing, right? Ian begin:vcard fn:Ian K n:K;Ian email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] note;quoted-printable:Pentium 3=0D=0A= 500mHz=0D=0A= 256MB

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia 6629 fail on 2.6.11.5

2005-04-02 Thread Daniel Drake
Stuart Howard wrote: thx for reply I found a few bugs but this one seems to match http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85802 I dont see a workaround at the moment so am falling back to 2.6.10 for a quiet life ;) There is a workaround: Don't use the inbuilt kernel AGPGART. (the nvidia driver

Re: [gentoo-user] Going to X.org

2005-04-02 Thread Robert Persson
On April 2, 2005 05:07 am, quoth Ian K: Hey! Yes, its hard to believe, but Im sadly still on XFree. Can someone tell me in simple terms how to convert? KDE 3.4 has the genuine transparency thing, right? Ian X.org uses a configuration file called xorg.conf. It follows the same format as

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo version of KDE 3.3 won't preview truetype fonts

2005-04-02 Thread Robert Persson
Solved this by upgrading to KDE 3.4. Robert On March 25, 2005 10:54 pm, quoth Robert Persson: KDE 3.3 won't preview truetype fonts, either in icons or in kfontpreview. All I see is an empty white square for the icon or a window with the name etc. of the font and then a big empty white space.

Re: [gentoo-user] Going to X.org

2005-04-02 Thread Peter Gordon
Ian K wrote: Hey! Yes, its hard to believe, but Im sadly still on XFree. Can someone tell me in simple terms how to convert? It's fairly simply really. You should just need to unmerge XFree86, then install X.org X11. If you want to, you can make a backup tarball of your current XFree86 installtion

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel-3.1.6 fails for my situation

2005-04-02 Thread Mike Williams
On Saturday 02 April 2005 20:37, Yuan MEI wrote: well, make such a good initrd file each time along with the upgrading of kernels is quite time consuming, so I choose genkernel to do it for me.  What I have to do, is copy a .config to /etc/kernel.  This goes well till genkernel-3.1.1b, but the

Re: [gentoo-user] Going to X.org

2005-04-02 Thread Mike Williams
On Saturday 02 April 2005 14:07, Ian K wrote: Yes, its hard to believe, but Im sadly still on XFree. Can someone tell me in simple terms how to convert? KDE 3.4 has the genuine transparency thing, right? emerge unmerge xfree emerge xorg-x11 /etc/init.d/xdm restart I then added the following

Re: [gentoo-user] Going to X.org

2005-04-02 Thread mfyang
Mike Williams wrote: On Saturday 02 April 2005 14:07, Ian K wrote: Yes, its hard to believe, but Im sadly still on XFree. Can someone tell me in simple terms how to convert? KDE 3.4 has the genuine transparency thing, right? emerge unmerge xfree emerge xorg-x11 /etc/init.d/xdm restart

[gentoo-user] mplayer and streaming wma

2005-04-02 Thread Phill MV
For some reason mplayer can't handle some of the online radios my father likes to check out from time to time (i.e. going to http://www.tsf.pt/online/primeira/default.asp and clicking on TSF em directo on the navigation bar. See http://www.cbc.ca/listen/streams/r1_montreal_32.html for an english

[gentoo-user] Host, Schmost!

2005-04-02 Thread John Lowell
Nick, Kashani, jstubbs and others, OK, *ifconfig *... eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:04:75:DC:B8:4E inet addr:192.168.1.44 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:110 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:1

[gentoo-user] corrupted file names on 1.68Mb floppy

2005-04-02 Thread Joseph
I've corrupted file names on 1.68Mb floppy when I try to boot it. I've created 1.68Mb floppy copied some files onto it, I can mount it OK the first time; all files look normal. However, when I boot from the floppy on another machine and try to read it again all the file names have strange

Re: [gentoo-user] Going to X.org

2005-04-02 Thread Peter Gordon
mfyang wrote: Do you need to add any patch or install other things to enable the composite support? Thanks! None that I know of. You will need compositing support in your window manager. I know Xfce's WM (xfwm4) already has it as of the 4.2 release candidates. I'm not certain aboug GNOME

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer and streaming wma

2005-04-02 Thread Matan Peled
Phill MV wrote: For some reason mplayer can't handle some of the online radios my father likes to check out from time to time (i.e. going to http://www.tsf.pt/online/primeira/default.asp and clicking on TSF em directo on the navigation bar. See

Re: [gentoo-user] Host, Schmost!

2005-04-02 Thread Mike Williams
On Saturday 02 April 2005 22:26, John Lowell wrote: and *route -n *... Kernel IP routing table Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface 192.168.1.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0 127.0.0.0       127.0.0.1       255.0.0.0  

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh authentication wierdness

2005-04-02 Thread Robert Persson
Thanks once again to you and to Dave Nebinger for the additional help. On April 1, 2005 09:37 am, quoth A. Khattri: On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Robert Persson wrote: ssh -v zebedee showed that zebedee was being translated as 127.0.0.1, despite what it says in /etc/hosts. Adding ListenAddress

RE: [gentoo-user] Host, Schmost!

2005-04-02 Thread Kris
your broadcast needs to be 192.168.1.255 ... what's in /etc/resolv.conf ??? can you ping any of the ip's in it ??? Kristopher W. Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: John Lowell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2005 3:26 PM To: [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Host, Schmost!

2005-04-02 Thread John Lowell
Mike Williams wrote: On Saturday 02 April 2005 22:26, John Lowell wrote: and *route -n *... Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 127.0.0.0 127.0.0.1

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual-boot Windows with Gentoo? (say it ain't so)

2005-04-02 Thread Grant
1. I'm traveling and need to connect my laptop to strange Internet connections that (with Linux) require exotic configs. Well, I share this worry. I haven't yet run into anyplace wired or wireless that Gentoo couldn't handle What kind of configurations have you had to use? Does dhcp

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual-boot Windows with Gentoo? (say it ain't so)

2005-04-02 Thread Grant
I have three Gentoo workstations. One is a laptop I take with me, and the other two are used by other people and stay at a remote location that I only visit occasionally. I would like nothing more than to have Gentoo and only Gentoo on these three machines but I'm scared of something

Re: [gentoo-user] Host, Schmost!

2005-04-02 Thread Nick Rout
On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 16:26 -0500, John Lowell wrote: Nick, Kashani, jstubbs and others, OK, *ifconfig *... eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:04:75:DC:B8:4E inet addr:192.168.1.44 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer and streaming wma

2005-04-02 Thread Phill MV
Had you read the remainder of the message you would've seen I had already tried that ;). On Apr 2, 2005 4:37 PM, Matan Peled [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Phill MV wrote: For some reason mplayer can't handle some of the online radios my father likes to check out from time to time (i.e. going to

Re: [gentoo-user] restricted IMAP configuration

2005-04-02 Thread Grant
I'm using courier-imap. I'd like to be able to set up an imap client on a single workstation to be the only client that can access a particular imap account. Not sure what you mean here - do you need to strictly enforce this so no other machine can access the IMAP server at all? Or is

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild always emerges the same package

2005-04-02 Thread Grant
| | | I always get the same thing from revdep-rebuild, no matter how | | | many times it emerges blackdown-jdk: | | | | This is one of the many reasons you shouldn't use binary | | packages. | | | | I didn't think I was. I don't think I've ever used an 'emerge -K' | |

Re: [gentoo-user] Host, Schmost!

2005-04-02 Thread John Lowell
Nick Rout wrote: On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 16:26 -0500, John Lowell wrote: Nick, Kashani, jstubbs and others, OK, *ifconfig *... eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:04:75:DC:B8:4E inet addr:192.168.1.44 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST

[gentoo-user] checking user messages from emerge

2005-04-02 Thread William Kenworthy
How can I view the user messages from an emerge done in the past? In this case I emerged a new gcc on an old system last night and I just realised I need to check that the libpath is correctly set, and I think the path is mentioned at the end of the gcc emerge - but how do I check it now its long

[gentoo-user] Change Resolution

2005-04-02 Thread Shawn Singh
My screen resolution is set at 640 x 480...and (as you might understand) I'd like to change it. I've used the docs provided at: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml?style=printable As my guide but nothing has changed. This is a copy of my xorg.conf: Section ServerLayout

Re: [gentoo-user] Host, Schmost!

2005-04-02 Thread Nick Rout
On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 18:08 -0500, John Lowell wrote: Nick Rout wrote: On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 16:26 -0500, John Lowell wrote: Nick, Kashani, jstubbs and others, OK, *ifconfig *... eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:04:75:DC:B8:4E inet addr:192.168.1.44

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.4

2005-04-02 Thread David Corbin
On Saturday 02 April 2005 02:26 pm, Taylor Morrow wrote: This means it's in the unstable branch. Although it is recommended that you wait until it enters stable, you can override this with: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge kde-meta Keep in mind that it probably still has some bugs that have not

Re: [gentoo-user] system with no network needs updates

2005-04-02 Thread Stroller
On Apr 2, 2005, at 8:22 pm, Grant wrote: ...I think what I need to do is fetch a few packages on another system, burn them to a CD, and copy them from the CD to the appropriate places on the network-less system. For baselayout, would I want to get and put /usr/portage/sys-apps/baselayout/* ? To

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.4

2005-04-02 Thread Jerry McBride
On Saturday 02 April 2005 07:32 pm, David Corbin wrote: On Saturday 02 April 2005 02:26 pm, Taylor Morrow wrote: This means it's in the unstable branch. Although it is recommended that you wait until it enters stable, you can override this with: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge kde-meta

Re: [gentoo-user] restricted IMAP configuration

2005-04-02 Thread Stroller
On Apr 2, 2005, at 11:24 pm, Grant wrote: I'm using email as the clock in/clock out mechanism for my employees and I'd like to make sure they can only do that when they're at work. Is there an IMAP client that will let me hide the password once it's set up? That should be enough right there.

[gentoo-user] Block size for media files

2005-04-02 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, I'm in the process of building a linux box that will hold a lot of media files, ogg's, mpeg, avi, etc etc. As these files are large, I'm looking to use either JFS or XFS on the partitions in question. For the optimal performance, and utilisation on disk space I should set the block

[gentoo-user] [OT] Packet size with TCP/IP

2005-04-02 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, Just a quick question someone here may be able to answer. I've read recently about the speed trials that various research institutes do in pushing large volumes of data across the Internet. They have to use standard equipment but I think they can fiddle the software. One of the things

Re: [gentoo-user] restricted IMAP configuration

2005-04-02 Thread Grant
I'm using email as the clock in/clock out mechanism for my employees and I'd like to make sure they can only do that when they're at work. Is there an IMAP client that will let me hide the password once it's set up? That should be enough right there. U... can't you firewall it so

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.4

2005-04-02 Thread Mike Williams
On Sunday 03 April 2005 01:37, Jerry McBride wrote: Keep in mind that it probably still has some bugs that  have not been fixed, hence the unstable label. Well, is there an expectation on when it will 'stablize'? As far as KDE.org goes, it is stable. I've been using it since it's been

[gentoo-user] Error trying to get nvidia-glx for AMD64

2005-04-02 Thread Michael Haan
I'm getting the following: tibeaux root # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~amd64 emerge -p nvidia-glx These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-nvidia (is blocking media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.7174-r1) [ebuild U ]

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia 6629 fail on 2.6.11.5

2005-04-02 Thread Stuart Howard
Using the latest nvidia [1.0.7174] builds has done the trick, I can use 2.6.11.5 and nvidia in X. I will have to wait and see on stability I guess, thx for the help chaps. stu ps. I had to fight with package.keywords for a while as the above instruction returned an invalid atom response when

[gentoo-user] adding to the wiki

2005-04-02 Thread Grant
I can't figure this out. I tried to add this to the wiki: == Burning ISO images with cdrecord == Here is a pretty self-explanatory line for burning an ISO image to a CD with cdrecord: {{Box_Code|Burn the ISO image:| # cdrecord -dev=/dev/cdrom blank=fast ~/image.iso }} The blank=fast portion can

Re: [gentoo-user] Host, Schmost!

2005-04-02 Thread John Lowell
Nick Rout wrote: On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 18:08 -0500, John Lowell wrote: Nick Rout wrote: On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 16:26 -0500, John Lowell wrote: Nick, Kashani, jstubbs and others, OK, *ifconfig *... eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:04:75:DC:B8:4E inet

Re: [gentoo-user] Host, Schmost!

2005-04-02 Thread Mike Williams
On Sunday 03 April 2005 03:10, John Lowell wrote: # For setting the default gateway # gateway=192.168.1.1 gimli root # tail /etc/conf.d/net # #broadcast_eth0=192.168.0.255 192.168.0.255 #netmask_eth0=255.255.255.0 255.255.255.0 # For setting the default gateway # #gateway=eth0/192.168.0.1

Re: [gentoo-user] restricted IMAP configuration

2005-04-02 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 05:06:55PM -0800, Grant wrote: I'm using email as the clock in/clock out mechanism for my employees and I'd like to make sure they can only do that when they're at work. Is there an IMAP client that will let me hide the password once it's set up? That should be

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Packet size with TCP/IP

2005-04-02 Thread A. Khattri
On Sun, 3 Apr 2005, Andrew Lowe wrote: Just a quick question someone here may be able to answer. I've read recently about the speed trials that various research institutes do in pushing large volumes of data across the Internet. They have to use standard equipment but I think they can

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.4

2005-04-02 Thread Jerry McBride
On Saturday 02 April 2005 08:08 pm, Mike Williams wrote: On Sunday 03 April 2005 01:37, Jerry McBride wrote: Keep in mind that it probably still has some bugs that  have not been fixed, hence the unstable label. Well, is there an expectation on when it will 'stablize'? As far as

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh authentication wierdness

2005-04-02 Thread A. Khattri
On Sat, 2 Apr 2005, Robert Persson wrote: One thing I haven't worked out is how to Listen to a group of addresses without having to put each one in a separate line. If ListenAddress 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 is illegal, and ListenAddress 192.168.1.0/24 is also illegal, how can I tell my

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh authentication wierdness

2005-04-02 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 01:44:13PM -0800, Robert Persson wrote One thing I haven't worked out is how to Listen to a group of addresses without having to put each one in a separate line. If ListenAddress 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 is illegal, and ListenAddress 192.168.1.0/24 is also

Re: [gentoo-user] restricted IMAP configuration

2005-04-02 Thread Stroller
On Apr 3, 2005, at 2:06 am, Grant wrote: I'm using email as the clock in/clock out mechanism for my employees and I'd like to make sure they can only do that when they're at work. Is there an IMAP client that will let me hide the password once it's set up? That should be enough right there.

Re: [gentoo-user] adding to the wiki

2005-04-02 Thread Stroller
On Apr 3, 2005, at 3:06 am, Grant wrote: I can't figure this out. I tried to add this to the wiki: == Burning ISO images with cdrecord == This is a section title, so should be shown at the top of the preview page. Here is a pretty self-explanatory line for burning an ISO image to a CD with

Re: [gentoo-user] adding to the wiki

2005-04-02 Thread Grant
I can't figure this out. I tried to add this to the wiki: == Burning ISO images with cdrecord == This is a section title, so should be shown at the top of the preview page. Here is a pretty self-explanatory line for burning an ISO image to a CD with cdrecord: {{Box_Code|Burn

Re: [gentoo-user] Change Resolution

2005-04-02 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 11:51:49PM +, Shawn Singh wrote My screen resolution is set at 640 x 480...and (as you might understand) I'd like to change it. I've used the docs provided at: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml?style=printable As my guide but nothing has changed.

Re: [gentoo-user] Keeping things clean

2005-04-02 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Sunday 03 April 2005 02:48, James wrote: Hi all, I've been running Gentoo for a week or two now, all is going well, but I'm using up a lot of hard disk space with all these sources I've downloaded and uncompressed. I've had a quick look in the Portage docs, but can't find anything that

Re: [gentoo-user] Host, Schmost!

2005-04-02 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Sunday 03 April 2005 03:10, John Lowell wrote: # For setting the default gateway # gateway=192.168.1.1 On Sunday 03 April 2005 11:34, Mike Williams wrote: # For setting the default gateway # #gateway=eth0/192.168.0.1 #gateway=eth0/192.168.128.1 ie. You need the eth0/ prepending

Re: [gentoo-user] checking user messages from emerge

2005-04-02 Thread Nick Rout
look in /var/log/portage/ On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 07:41 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: How can I view the user messages from an emerge done in the past? In this case I emerged a new gcc on an old system last night and I just realised I need to check that the libpath is correctly set, and I

Re: [gentoo-user] Change Resolution

2005-04-02 Thread Nick Rout
You really need to look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log Quite likely your minitor is not being correctly probed by xorg, which therefore defaults to a low resolution. If that is the problem then you need to add HorizSync and VertRefresh lines into your configuration file in the monitor section. Here is

[gentoo-user] Mounting Problem with Gentoo Release 2005.0

2005-04-02 Thread Mark Brown
I was assisting on an gentoo install for my friend's computer using the newly released 2005.0 install CD. The install CD boots up fine, but after I partition the hard drive and create the filesystem (reiserfs) I cannot mount the newly created OS. The error it stated was: mount: /dev/hda1

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer and streaming wma

2005-04-02 Thread Phill MV
That's my exact problem. Thanks. On Apr 2, 2005 4:52 PM, Peter Gai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: do you have your mplayer compiled with the 'network' USE flag? That fixed the problem here... HTH Peter On Apr 2, 2005 11:22 PM, Phill MV [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For some reason mplayer can't

[gentoo-user] Nvidia and Dlloader

2005-04-02 Thread Willie Wong
I've heard that nvidia-1.0.7167 and above now works with xorg using dlloader. But if I try to start X, it hops to vt7, everything goes blank, and stops. If I change back to the vt that I was on when trying to start X, I get X Window System Version 6.8.2 Release Date: 9 February 2005 X Protocol

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