Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: Linux killer app

2005-04-06 Thread Martoni
On Apr 7, 2005 5:17 AM, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:3. the friendliness and willingness of the users and this type ofmailing list.Not to disappoint you, but my experience is that the Gentoo community is above and beyond the rest (I know of, RH/Mandrake/Linux general ng's) in friendliness, h

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

2005-04-06 Thread Richard Fish
John Myers wrote: >>On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Richard Fish wrote: >> >> >>>I think NetBIOS can be used at the ethernet level as >>>well, but that seems fairly uncommon nowadays. >>> >>> >No. > > > Yep, I had not googled enough yet when I wrote that. Thanks for correcting me. -Richard --

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

2005-04-06 Thread Richard Fish
A. Khattri wrote: >On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Richard Fish wrote: > > >NetBeui is NetBIOS running over another transport like TCP/IP or Netware. > > Sorry, but this is false. NetBIOS over TCP/IP is neither netbeui nor NBF (the current incarnation of netbeui for NT/2000/XP). http://www.microsoft.co

Re: [gentoo-user] learning to write ebuilds, failed to login anonymously into cvs server

2005-04-06 Thread Kiawud
Not sure if this will help at all, but I came across this article today. Towards the end, it briefly discusses how to create ebuilds for Gentoo: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7438 -Hani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2005-04-06 Thread John Myers
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 19:12, A. Khattri wrote: > On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Richard Fish wrote: > > I think NetBIOS can be used at the ethernet level as > > well, but that seems fairly uncommon nowadays. No. > NetBeui is NetBIOS running over another transport like TCP/IP or Netware. No. > Windows 9

Re: [gentoo-user] no /dev/ttyUSB0 device

2005-04-06 Thread Richard Fish
Andrew Gaffney wrote: >Tom Van Doorsselaere wrote: > > >>Recently my girlfriend purchased a cable to connect her cell phone to >>the computer. After some reading on the internet I found out I had to >>load the modules usbserial and pl2303. >>According to my online resources, a device /dev/ttyUSB

Re: [gentoo-user] think i killed my gentoo box

2005-04-06 Thread Richard Fish
Mike Owen wrote: >On Apr 6, 2005 5:27 PM, Nick Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>what is the exact command i need to use to mount both dev and proc? >> >> > >You can mount proc with: >"mount none -t proc /proc" > >If you are using devfs you can mount dev with: >"mount none -t devfs /dev

[gentoo-user] Roadmap

2005-04-06 Thread timothy johnson
I recently found what looks like a cool gps program called roadmap, anyone know of a ebuild for this? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Crystal Space and Planeshift

2005-04-06 Thread Bruno Lustosa
Hello. Has anyone here been able to install either Crystal Space or Planeshift? Crystal Space couldn't be found any mirror. Planeshift depends on it, but is also marked with keyword "-*", effectively making it unavailable. Btw, for those who don't know, CS is a platform for development of 3D games.

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

2005-04-06 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Richard Fish wrote: > I think NetBIOS can be used at the ethernet level as > well, but that seems fairly uncommon nowadays. NetBeui is NetBIOS running over another transport like TCP/IP or Netware. Windows 98 uses NetBeui (so there's probably many millions of machines that sti

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: Linux killer app

2005-04-06 Thread Nick Rout
I prefer to think of killer features, so my vote is for the following: 1. the GPL - it means we can see the source and fix it if necessary (well I can't but the smarter cookies can and are usually prepared to help) 2. the plain text configuration file, for similar reasons. 3. the friendliness an

Re: [gentoo-user] learning to write ebuilds, failed to login anonymously into cvs server

2005-04-06 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Robert G. Hays wrote: Note if you're not used to V.C.S.'s :: you can get tings without *officially* checking them out. There are instructions for the Gentoo version of this somewhere, I suppose. Sorry I completely don't understand what you mean by saying 'V.C.S' ? rgh. Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On

Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate posts from "John Lowell" on the Digest

2005-04-06 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: > yes if the user was using windoze only as telnet client (from a dos > session) to a unix machine. > Otherwise your switching time assumption are a bit too optimistic. Not really: http://software.itmanagersjournal.com/article.pl?sid=05/03/23/18022

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need help with sendmail

2005-04-06 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Michael Sullivan wrote: > Through most of this morning my ISP was down, so the > mail that I attempted to send this morning was > deferred due to lack of an Internet connection. Now > that the connection is back I find that sendmail won't > send the messages it has queued. Th

Re: [gentoo-user] think i killed my gentoo box

2005-04-06 Thread Mike Owen
On Apr 6, 2005 5:27 PM, Nick Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Calvin Walton wrote: > >> On Apr 6, 2005 4:50 PM, Nick Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> wrote: > >> > >>>well i tried that and it looked like it was going to work, but > >>> i > >>>get this > >>> > >>>ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /dev/con

[gentoo-user] Gnome desktop integration questions

2005-04-06 Thread William H. Carlin, Jr.
How can I activate some of the Gnome Desktop Integration features. Particularly in 'Clock'. I would like to turn on the Quickalarm (like in Ximian Desktop 2) and to turn on the evolution-data-server integration to see upcoming appointments. In evolution I have noticed a option in the ./configure

Re: [gentoo-user] think i killed my gentoo box

2005-04-06 Thread Nick Smith
> Calvin Walton wrote: >> On Apr 6, 2005 4:50 PM, Nick Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >>>well i tried that and it looked like it was going to work, but >>> i >>>get this >>> >>>ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /dev/console >>> >>>any ideas? that is all that is in the log file as well. >> >> >> Just

Re: [gentoo-user] no /dev/ttyUSB0 device

2005-04-06 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 06 Apr 2005 17:17:32 -0500 Andrew Gaffney wrote: > > According to my online resources, a device /dev/ttyUSB0 (or > > /dev/usb/USB0 or /dev/usb/tts/0) should be created. > > I just went through this same thing. For me, the device ended up in > /dev/tts/USB0, I think. Thats where it ended

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: moving from mod_perl1 to mod_perl2

2005-04-06 Thread Ash Varma
On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 17:42 -0500, Kashani wrote: > We've got a pretty complicated middle ware app that we're trying to > move from Apache1 w/mod_perl1 to Apache2 w/mod_perl2. The transition is > turning into a nice little quagmire. Would anyone like to share some > links on getting the mo

Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf and binary files borkage

2005-04-06 Thread Edward Catmur
> After an "emerge -e" runned as usually dispatch-conf , but keyboard in > xorg stopped working. > discovered that this happen because dispatch-conf ( rcs ) doesn't handle > very well binary files. First, in /etc/dispatch-conf.conf make sure this line does NOT have "-a" in it. # Diff for display

Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf and binary files borkage

2005-04-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 07 Apr 2005 00:56:51 +0200, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: > After an "emerge -e" runned as usually dispatch-conf , but keyboard in > xorg stopped working. > discovered that this happen because dispatch-conf ( rcs ) doesn't handle > very well binary files. There's a patch to dispatch-conf t

Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf and binary files borkage

2005-04-06 Thread Kathy Wills
Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: > > see bug 69869 . > > After an "emerge -e" runned as usually dispatch-conf , but keyboard in > xorg stopped working. > discovered that this happen because dispatch-conf ( rcs ) doesn't handle > very well binary files. > Now I've two question: > > 1) does this happen

Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate posts from "John Lowell" on the Digest

2005-04-06 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
A. Khattri wrote: On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Robert G. Hays wrote: I refer back to my 'oh i forgot' emai... That said, yes, *Some* lessons, but it shouldn't have to be more than a day's-worth for most users. Then maybe 1 day, *max*, for each *complex* application. I remember DOS 2.0; thought that then

Re: [gentoo-user] think i killed my gentoo box

2005-04-06 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Calvin Walton wrote: On Apr 6, 2005 4:50 PM, Nick Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: well i tried that and it looked like it was going to work, but i get this ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /dev/console any ideas? that is all that is in the log file as well. Just wondering, do the devices that should be in

[gentoo-user] dispatch-conf and binary files borkage

2005-04-06 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
see bug 69869 . After an "emerge -e" runned as usually dispatch-conf , but keyboard in xorg stopped working. discovered that this happen because dispatch-conf ( rcs ) doesn't handle very well binary files. Now I've two question: 1) does this happen also to you ? try run cd /etc grep -rls '<<< /

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need help with sendmail

2005-04-06 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Thursday 07 April 2005 07:35, Michael Sullivan wrote: > Through most of this morning my ISP was down, so the > mail that I attempted to send this morning was > deferred due to lack of an Internet connection. Now > that the connection is back I find that sendmail won't > send the messages it has

[gentoo-user] OT: moving from mod_perl1 to mod_perl2

2005-04-06 Thread Kashani
We've got a pretty complicated middle ware app that we're trying to move from Apache1 w/mod_perl1 to Apache2 w/mod_perl2. The transition is turning into a nice little quagmire. Would anyone like to share some links on getting the most out of compatibility mode, dealing with ModPerl::Registry,

[gentoo-user] OT - Need help with sendmail

2005-04-06 Thread Michael Sullivan
Through most of this morning my ISP was down, so the mail that I attempted to send this morning was deferred due to lack of an Internet connection. Now that the connection is back I find that sendmail won't send the messages it has queued. They just sit there in the queue directory. I can send m

Re: [gentoo-user] think i killed my gentoo box

2005-04-06 Thread Calvin Walton
On Apr 6, 2005 4:50 PM, Nick Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > well i tried that and it looked like it was going to work, but i > get this > > ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /dev/console > > any ideas? that is all that is in the log file as well. Just wondering, do the devices that should be in /dev ex

Re: [gentoo-user] no /dev/ttyUSB0 device

2005-04-06 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Tom Van Doorsselaere wrote: > Recently my girlfriend purchased a cable to connect her cell phone to > the computer. After some reading on the internet I found out I had to > load the modules usbserial and pl2303. > According to my online resources, a device /dev/ttyUSB0 (or > /dev/usb/USB0 or /dev/

[gentoo-user] no /dev/ttyUSB0 device

2005-04-06 Thread Tom Van Doorsselaere
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, Recently my girlfriend purchased a cable to connect her cell phone to the computer. After some reading on the internet I found out I had to load the modules usbserial and pl2303. According to my online resources, a device /dev/ttyUSB0 (or /dev/u

Re: [gentoo-user] "Shared" ftp directory?

2005-04-06 Thread timothy johnson
I used the mount --bind cmd when making a dir that all my users could read to On Apr 6, 2005 1:16 PM, fire-eyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to come up with a way for two seperate users logging in via > FTP to have a location where they can share files back and forth. > > T

Re: [gentoo-user] think i killed my gentoo box

2005-04-06 Thread Nick Smith
> I don't think that (by itself) is going to help anything. The OP > umerged > sysvinit. That means he's missing a pretty important file: > /sbin/init. > When it can't find /sbin/init, the kernel tries /etc/init, > /bin/init, and > finally /bin/sh (so that recovery can be attempted). This is > what

Re: [gentoo-user] think i killed my gentoo box

2005-04-06 Thread Nick Smith
> I don't think that (by itself) is going to help anything. The OP > umerged > sysvinit. That means he's missing a pretty important file: > /sbin/init. > When it can't find /sbin/init, the kernel tries /etc/init, > /bin/init, and > finally /bin/sh (so that recovery can be attempted). This is > what

Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate posts from "John Lowell" on the Digest

2005-04-06 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Robert G. Hays wrote: > I refer back to my 'oh i forgot' emai... That said, yes, *Some* > lessons, but it shouldn't have to be more than a day's-worth for most > users. Then maybe 1 day, *max*, for each *complex* application. I > remember DOS 2.0; thought that then, think th

Re: [gentoo-user] Two users, two soundcards. How ?

2005-04-06 Thread Ivan Yosifov
Thanks for the help everyone. FYI, this is the reply I ( eventually ) got from alsa-user: ___ > A pc has two soundcards, and two users. I want one soundcard to be > accessible ONLY to one of the users, the other - ONLY to the othe

[gentoo-user] "Shared" ftp directory?

2005-04-06 Thread fire-eyes
Hello, I'm trying to come up with a way for two seperate users logging in via FTP to have a location where they can share files back and forth. That is to say, user A and user B would both be able to get to this, write to it, delete files even if they were put there by the other user etc. The on

Re: [gentoo-user] learning to write ebuilds, failed to login anonymously into cvs server

2005-04-06 Thread Robert G. Hays
Note if you're not used to V.C.S.'s :: you can get tings without *officially* checking them out. There are instructions for the Gentoo version of this somewhere, I suppose. rgh. Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Wed, 06 Apr 2005 11:34:00 +0800 Zhang Weiwu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | >| The first step

Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate posts from "John Lowell" on the Digest

2005-04-06 Thread Robert G. Hays
Below... Philip Webb wrote: 050405 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: 050405 "Eric S. Johansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: maybe one should stop blaming the user and consider that X11 is crying for a good UI for configuration. I hear Mandrake have quite a nice GUI configuration tool these days.

Re: [gentoo-user] GUI X configuration (Was: Duplicate posts from ...)

2005-04-06 Thread Robert G. Hays
Below... Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Hi, for me xf86cfg, xf86config were always able to set up a sane config file. I needed to clean it up and corrected some things to make it 'better' but the basic version always worked so, I am satisfied with the tools, xog/xf86 is delivering for that tas

[gentoo-user] Problems with xine

2005-04-06 Thread Paul
Hi all, I can't get xine to work, I have tried different dvds but none will work, however, they all play with kmplayer. The following is the errors I am getting. Can anybody help please? This is xine (X11 gui) - a free video player v0.99.3. (c) 2000-2004 The xine Team. libdvdread: Using libdvdcs

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: reply prefix in evolution

2005-04-06 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Matan Peled -- > Possibly because e-mail clients that reply with AW: also break the > headers in some strange way... ... but kmail has no problem sorting and threading those messages, so why can't evolution handle this? Any ideas for solving this issue, or do I have to

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage downgrading question

2005-04-06 Thread David D. Rea
On Wed, April 6, 2005 1:32 pm, Scott Jones said: > Dave, > > I believe that > > echo "=app-text/acroread-7.0 ~x86" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords > > will fix your problem. Basically you put programs you want to have masked > ~x86 in the file package.keywords in the directory /etc/portage > > Sco

Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate posts from "John Lowell" on the Digest

2005-04-06 Thread Robert G. Hays
OK, *thats* the focusing of the comment that I mentioned. Had that been there in the first place, I wouldn't'a jumped. Still no reason not to have nice tools though, for those making the transition... could even 'waste'(not!) time telling un Gentoo-virgins whatinhell is actually being done, t

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge uD world : gtk+-2.6.4-r1 failed!

2005-04-06 Thread Bradley Serbu
Didn't work... Did you notice the //usr instead of /usr when search for the file/directory. Could this be the problem. I'm searching the bugzilla and not seeing any with //usr being fixed or reported. The fix_lib_tools.sh seems to just fix the version. - Brad Bradley Serbu wrote: Thanks Guys, I'

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge uD world : gtk+-2.6.4-r1 failed!

2005-04-06 Thread Scott Jones
On Apr 6, 2005 1:41 PM, Bradley Serbu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:brads $ sudo fix_libtool_files.sh 3.3.5 * Scanning libtool files for hardcoded gcc library paths...Tried this and the command ran successfully, but didn't fix the error.- BradChristoph Gysin wrote:>Bradley Serbu wrote:Ok, looks lik

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge uD world : gtk+-2.6.4-r1 failed!

2005-04-06 Thread Bradley Serbu
brads $ sudo fix_libtool_files.sh 3.3.5 * Scanning libtool files for hardcoded gcc library paths... Tried this and the command ran successfully, but didn't fix the error. - Brad Christoph Gysin wrote: Bradley Serbu wrote: Ok, looks like the no such directory at the bottom, but I included a bunch

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: Linux killer app

2005-04-06 Thread Robert G. Hays
Bjoern Michaelsen wrote: There is no "killer app" that didnt get ported, I guess. But linux is much more secure already by default. Which is why I nominate Linux itself as the Linux 'killer-ap'! (&, btw, where did those killer-apps start from???! :) ) rgh. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage downgrading question

2005-04-06 Thread Willie Wong
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3&chap=3 or, simply # echo '=app-text/acroread-7.0 ~x86' >> /etc/package.keywords W On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 01:12:12PM -0500, David D. Rea wrote: > Hi All- > > I needed to fill out a PDF form today, so I figured I'd try the new Adobe

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge uD world : gtk+-2.6.4-r1 failed!

2005-04-06 Thread Bradley Serbu
Thanks Guys, I'm giving it a shot now... but when you say focus your search on a certain error message, where are you talking about searching. Google? The forums? List Archives (I don't have a site for this)? I've ran into ebuild problems before and just waited for a couple more releases or di

Re: [gentoo-user] Stop The Duplicate Post Whining Please

2005-04-06 Thread Robert G. Hays
Naaah,Robert & fire-eyes are right, Eric, we shouldda changed the title in there somwhere ( :| But you're probably right too!; it's just that the name-change was most likely the correct thing to do. *Sigh.* ) & I'll jump right back outta this thread before it gets to be another hairy mons

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage downgrading question

2005-04-06 Thread Steingrim Dovland
* David D. Rea > The only place I can find some semblance of a recommendation to prevent > this behavior is here: > > http://users.dslextreme.com/~craig.lawson/linux_notes/gentoo_portage.html Read the section on Portage in the Gentoo Handbook and the portage man-page. The handbook section that de

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage downgrading question

2005-04-06 Thread Scott Jones
On Apr 6, 2005 1:12 PM, David D. Rea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Hi All-I needed to fill out a PDF form today, so I figured I'd try the new AdobeAcrobat Reader 7. I did the following:`ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -pv acroread`And subsequently emerged the package without the -pv. All went well, andac

[gentoo-user] Portage downgrading question

2005-04-06 Thread David D. Rea
Hi All- I needed to fill out a PDF form today, so I figured I'd try the new Adobe Acrobat Reader 7. I did the following: `ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -pv acroread` And subsequently emerged the package without the -pv. All went well, and acroread seems to work happily enough on my box. I'm impr

Re: [gentoo-user] changing permissions on a usb scanner device with 2.6 kernel

2005-04-06 Thread Richard Fish
Claus Ladekjær Wilson wrote: >Only root can use my hp 5200 scanner. I don't use hotplug and I read about the >usb-scanner script which I cannot find on my computer. >Is there a command like >chmod 666 ? >My kernel is 2.6.7 and my device is >hp:libusb:001:003 > > Try adding other users to the

Re: [gentoo-user] Java eats my memory [was: Performance problem (slow hard drive?)]

2005-04-06 Thread Robert G. Hays
Also re swap-size: how big is your swap partition? rgh. Ivan Yosifov wrote: Are you running the server vm ? On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 18:46 +0200, Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: So it seems I have finally found the reason why my machine slows down... should I be worried of this? : PID USER PR NI

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge uD world : gtk+-2.6.4-r1 failed!

2005-04-06 Thread Christoph Gysin
Bradley Serbu wrote: > Ok, looks like the no such directory at the bottom, but I included a > bunch more incase I'm missing something else... > > grep: //usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.5/libstdc++.la: No such > file or directory > /bin/sed: can't read > //usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-pc-linux-gnu/3

Re: [gentoo-user] Java eats my memory [was: Performance problem (slow hard drive?)]

2005-04-06 Thread Richard Fish
A. Khattri wrote: >On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: > > >>It seems Java takes 1,5Gb of memory!!! Am I right? >> >> Seems to be right. Wow. Even VMWare running XP on my system only consumes 350MB of memory!! >Isn't that "virtual memory" ? > >The resident size is 80Mb no? >

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge uD world : gtk+-2.6.4-r1 failed!

2005-04-06 Thread Scott Jones
On Apr 6, 2005 12:40 PM, Bradley Serbu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Ok, looks like the no such directory at the bottom, but I included abunch more incase I'm missing something else.../bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc  -O2 -mcpu=i686-pipe -Wall   -o libpixbufloader-xpm.la -rpath/usr/

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

2005-04-06 Thread Grant
> >>> PS and I dont see how the line in the wiki could have worked well > >>> unless > >>> emerge -fp used to have different behavior. > >> > >> > >> Thanks a lot Eugene, that second line worked great. Let me know if I > >> should update the wiki: > >> > >> gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Gentoo_for_dialup_us

[gentoo-user] IRQ problem with USB camera

2005-04-06 Thread Grant
I used to be able to connect my USB camera to my Gentoo system, but I haven't tried it in a while and now when I try it I get this from dmesg: ohci_hcd: Unlink after no IRQ? Controller is probably using the wrong IRQ. I've tried enabling all of the IRQ options in the kernel to no avail. Does an

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge uD world : gtk+-2.6.4-r1 failed!

2005-04-06 Thread Bradley Serbu
Ok, looks like the no such directory at the bottom, but I included a bunch more incase I'm missing something else... /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe -Wall -o libpixbufloader-xpm.la -rpath /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/loaders -avoid-version -module io-xpm

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge uD world : gtk+-2.6.4-r1 failed!

2005-04-06 Thread Jason Cooper
Bradley Serbu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > make[4]: *** [libpixbufloader-tiff.la] Error 1 > make[4]: Leaving directory > `/var/tmp/portage/gtk+-2.6.4-r1/work/gtk+-2.6.4/gdk-pixbuf' > make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 > make[3]: Leaving directory > `/var/tmp/portage/gtk+-2.6.4-r1/work/gtk+-

[gentoo-user] emerge uD world : gtk+-2.6.4-r1 failed!

2005-04-06 Thread Bradley Serbu
When doing my first emerge uD world after a fresh 2005.0 install. I recived the following error, has anyone experieced the same, or know of a fix? FYI: I'm not using the ~x86 keyword on this box so this error is from the latest stable tree. - Brad make[4]: *** [libpixbufloader-tiff.la] Error 1

Re: [gentoo-user] Java eats my memory [was: Performance problem (slow hard drive?)]

2005-04-06 Thread Ivan Yosifov
Are you running the server vm ? On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 18:46 +0200, Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: > So it seems I have finally found the reason why my machine slows > down... should I be worried of this? : > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SWAP SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND > 17023 jgonzale

Re: [gentoo-user] ggi is low level library (lower then SDL)?

2005-04-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 16:38, AurÃlien Reynaud wrote: > Le mercredi 06 avril 2005 Ã 15:26 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann a Ãcrit : > > ggi is a lowlevel graphics system, to replace X or svgalib. > > > > SDL is an abstraction for ogl/X/svgalib/directX and a lot of other stuff. > > Not quite. > > GG

Re: [gentoo-user] Java eats my memory [was: Performance problem (slow hard drive?)]

2005-04-06 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: > So it seems I have finally found the reason why my machine slows > down... should I be worried of this? : > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SWAP SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND > 17023 jgonzale 15 0 1522m 80m 1.4g 87m S 28.0 16.3 0:03.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDM configuration...

2005-04-06 Thread Digby Tarvin
GDM it is then. I have just emerge'd it - now to give it a try.. I certanly don't want to re-invent the wheel if an existing dm will do what I want.. Fingers crossed... Regards, DigbyT P.S. I forgot to mention - I quite like the analogue clock on the XDM greeter, so I am hoping GDM will have som

[gentoo-user] Java eats my memory [was: Performance problem (slow hard drive?)]

2005-04-06 Thread Jose Gonzalez Gomez
So it seems I have finally found the reason why my machine slows down... should I be worried of this? : PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SWAP SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND 17023 jgonzale 15 0 1522m 80m 1.4g 87m S 28.0 16.3 0:03.81 java 17022 jgonzale 15 0 1522m 80m 1.4g 87m S 26.

Re: [gentoo-user] pernicious printer problem

2005-04-06 Thread Lucien Dunning
Think this is ur problem. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-301503.html On Apr 6, 2005 2:06 AM, Michael Ulm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lucien Dunning wrote: > > I know in the CUPS guide it suggests to push data right to /dev/lp0 ( > > echo "bla bla bla" > /dev/lp0), did u try this? I know

Re: [gentoo-user] think i killed my gentoo box

2005-04-06 Thread John Myers
On Wed, April 6, 2005 7:07 am, Bastian Balthazar Bux said: > James Hiscock wrote: >>>you can try: >>> >>>#mount -oremount,ro / >> >> >> ummm... shouldn't that be "rw", not "ro"? >> -- >> gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list >> >> > yes :P I don't think that (by itself) is going to help anything. Th

Re: [gentoo-user] Horizontal lines

2005-04-06 Thread Bill Six
I think you're right. Thanks for your help. Bill --- Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ugh... you most likely have a hardware issue. > > Why? The screen capture you sent to the list > displays perfectly, > which means that X is rendering correctly. The > problem is then most > likely you

[gentoo-user] changing permissions on a usb scanner device with 2.6 kernel

2005-04-06 Thread Claus Ladekjær Wilson
Only root can use my hp 5200 scanner. I don't use hotplug and I read about the usb-scanner script which I cannot find on my computer. Is there a command like chmod 666 ? My kernel is 2.6.7 and my device is hp:libusb:001:003 -- Venlig hilsen / Greetings from Claus Ladekjær Wilson Bellisvænget 18 D

Re: [gentoo-user] KDM configuration...

2005-04-06 Thread James Hiscock
> So all I want is 'login name' and 'password' entry boxes and the > 'session type' menu that was taken away GDM's got just that - with a couple more options (configuration, shutdown menu) -- and it's heavily theme-able, so you can probably find something appropriate for you in the gdm-themes

Re: [gentoo-user] KDM configuration...

2005-04-06 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 08:33:59AM -0400, James Hiscock wrote: > > Anyway, at least I now know to stop looking. I guess I either change the > > source or roll back to an older version. > > > > Or does anyone know of any interesting alternatives to XDM and KDM that > > I should look at? > > gdm? e

Re: [gentoo-user] ggi is low level library (lower then SDL)?

2005-04-06 Thread Aurélien Reynaud
Le mercredi 06 avril 2005 Ã 15:26 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann a Ãcrit : > ggi is a lowlevel graphics system, to replace X or svgalib. > > SDL is an abstraction for ogl/X/svgalib/directX and a lot of other stuff. Not quite. GGI is an abstraction as well. You can run ggi apps over X, framebuffer,

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: Linux killer app

2005-04-06 Thread Covington, Chris
ps - and ut2004 ;) --- Chris Covington IT Plus One Health Management 75 Maiden Lane Suite 801 NY, NY 10038 646-312-6269 http://www.plusoneactive.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: Linux killer app

2005-04-06 Thread Covington, Chris
> What do you think is a Linux killer app (if there is > such a beast at all)? Apache, Samba, Postfix, Sendmail, Oracle, Sybase, Weblogic, Websphere? --- Chris Covington IT Plus One Health Management 75 Maiden Lane Suite 801 NY, NY 10038 646-312-6269 http://www.plusoneactive.com -- gentoo-use

Re: [gentoo-user] think i killed my gentoo box

2005-04-06 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
James Hiscock wrote: you can try: #mount -oremount,ro / ummm... shouldn't that be "rw", not "ro"? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list yes :P -- No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it. ~ Charles M. Schulz But sometimes run fast is better ~ Francesco R. -- gentoo-user@gento

Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate posts from "John Lowell" on the Digest

2005-04-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 06 Apr 2005 09:03:03 -0400, Eric S. Johansson wrote: > the first time you install gentoo, it is amazing, > the second time you install gentoo, it is empowering, > the third time you install gentoo, it is wearying There was mention of an automated installer in GWN some months back, followe

Re: [gentoo-user] think i killed my gentoo box

2005-04-06 Thread James Hiscock
> you can try: > > #mount -oremount,ro / ummm... shouldn't that be "rw", not "ro"? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] think i killed my gentoo box

2005-04-06 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Nick Smith wrote: sorry i havent been keeping up with the list as much as i should so i dont know if this has been addressed or not. i recently did an emerge -uD on my gentoo laptop, its been several months since this has been done, it said that sysvinit was blocking something from being installed,

Re: [gentoo-user] ggi is low level library (lower then SDL)?

2005-04-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Hi, On Wednesday 06 April 2005 10:22, éæ å wrote: > Being dumb again. I really know nothing about graphic libraries. > > I noticed many packages can be compiled with "ggi" or "sdl" USE flag, and > libsdl can be compiled with "ggi" USE flag, but libggi cannot be compiled > with "sdl" USE flag. Then

Re: [gentoo-user] Bug in Gentoo udev guide?

2005-04-06 Thread Jason Cooper
David D. Rea ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > I noticed that the Gentoo udev Guide > (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml) still refers to the 2.6 > kernels as being proided by gentoo-dev-sources... > > "udev is meant to be used in combination with a 2.6 kernel (like > development-sources

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: Linux killer app

2005-04-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 06:27, Martoni wrote: > What do you think is a Linux killer app (if there is such a beast at all)? > the gimp, it kills harddisk space, cpu cycles, and the nerves of the person trying to use it. A real killer. If you mean 'killer app' in a positive sense, I would vote

Re: [gentoo-user] Performance problem (slow hard drive?)

2005-04-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 04:03, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 17:35 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > I also experimented > > a little bit with swsusp (without much success), > > try suspend2 then.. 15 secs from running to hibernate thanks, swsusp also shut down my box in less

Re: [gentoo-user] GUI X configuration (Was: Duplicate posts from ...)

2005-04-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Hi, for me xf86cfg, xf86config were always able to set up a sane config file. I needed to clean it up and corrected some things to make it 'better' but the basic version always worked so, I am satisfied with the tools, xog/xf86 is delivering for that task -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

[gentoo-user] think i killed my gentoo box

2005-04-06 Thread Nick Smith
sorry i havent been keeping up with the list as much as i should so i dont know if this has been addressed or not. i recently did an emerge -uD on my gentoo laptop, its been several months since this has been done, it said that sysvinit was blocking something from being installed, so i thought to

Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate posts from "John Lowell" on the Digest

2005-04-06 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 22:45:21 -0700 Robert Persson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | But what's wrong with tools to make things easier if they don't impair | the performance of the system? Why not have a nice simple | X-configurator that does the job of the SuSE or mandrake equiv

[gentoo-user] Bug in Gentoo udev guide?

2005-04-06 Thread David D. Rea
I noticed that the Gentoo udev Guide (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml) still refers to the 2.6 kernels as being proided by gentoo-dev-sources... "udev is meant to be used in combination with a 2.6 kernel (like development-sources or gentoo-dev-sources)." I thought for 2005.0 that was

Re: [gentoo-user] 3Com Gigabit NIC's in Linux?

2005-04-06 Thread fire-eyes
On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 13:49 +0200, Timo Boettcher wrote: > > I can't really tell if these 3com gigabit NIC's work in linux, anybody > > happen to know? > > > 3C996B-T > > 3C2000-T > > 3c996b-t works here, don't know about the other. Great to hear, thank you for the input. -- gentoo-user@gent

Re: [gentoo-user] Stop The Duplicate Post Whining Please

2005-04-06 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Robert Persson wrote: On April 5, 2005 05:12 pm, quoth fire-eyes: I get home and more than half the posts are people complaining about the dupe posts. I know it must have looked a bit depressing at first sight, but if you read some of the later posts you would have found that the thread had quickl

Re: [gentoo-user] KDM configuration...

2005-04-06 Thread James Hiscock
> Anyway, at least I now know to stop looking. I guess I either change the > source or roll back to an older version. > > Or does anyone know of any interesting alternatives to XDM and KDM that > I should look at? gdm? entrance? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] KDM configuration...

2005-04-06 Thread Digby Tarvin
Thank you both for your comments. A little bit disappointing given that there is so much questionable configurability in the kdmrc file, yet something I actually used is taken away with no configuration option to put it back :-/ It may be that most users like to stick to the one WM, but how many w

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache RProxy setup

2005-04-06 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
> Eric S. Johansson wrote: > >> Leo wrote: >> >>> Eric: >>> >>> I am not familiar with pound... >>> >>> My reverse proxy is only for web requests :) This is how i do it in the apache conf: ProxyPass /exchange/ http://SPBmail/exchange/ ProxyPassReverse /exchange/ http://SPBmail/exchange/ the sec

Re: [gentoo-user] 3Com Gigabit NIC's in Linux?

2005-04-06 Thread Timo Boettcher
Hi, * fire-eyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tuesday, April 5, 2005, 9:49:30 PM: > I can't really tell if these 3com gigabit NIC's work in linux, anybody > happen to know? > 3C996B-T > 3C2000-T 3c996b-t works here, don't know about the other. Timo -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] what's the use of "etcat use"?

2005-04-06 Thread Russ Brown
Christoph Gysin wrote: > Russ Brown wrote: > >> Excellent, good spot: especially considering that the option isn't >> mentioned anywhere in the man page... I also tried 'equery --help' but >> nothing there either. It hadn't occurred to me to just try running the >> command with no package argument

Re: [gentoo-user] Americas Army

2005-04-06 Thread Christoph Gysin
Cumbers wrote: Americas Army within portage is trying to download from 3dgamers the 221 version of the game, which has been replaced with the 230 version. So the emerge tries to download a file that is not there, but the 230 download is. It's still in the testing branch. You can try packages from t

Re: [gentoo-user] what's the use of "etcat use"?

2005-04-06 Thread Christoph Gysin
Russ Brown wrote: Excellent, good spot: especially considering that the option isn't mentioned anywhere in the man page... I also tried 'equery --help' but nothing there either. It hadn't occurred to me to just try running the command with no package argument. $ equery uses --help Display USE flags

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Sending mail to a program

2005-04-06 Thread Michele Noberasco
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 17:41:44 +0200 Christian Parpart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The file defines lots of standard software error codes. Didn't know of this include... will have a look at it :-) > > while (getline(&line, &len, stdin) != -1) > > fprintf(out, "%s", line); > hmm...

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