Re: [gentoo-user] emerge mplayer fails horribly

2003-10-08 Thread Brian Richardson
On October 7, 2003 10:05 pm, Mark Knecht wrote: > remove both of the font-ariel files in /usr/portage/distfiles and > re-emerge > > The mplayer team made a mistake in changing a file or two without > renaming it apparently. I reported this last evening. It's in Bugzilla. Hate to be a pedant, but n

[gentoo-user] cacert.org?

2003-10-08 Thread Brian Richardson
Hello, Does anybody know anything about these guys? The idea of a free SSL certificate is cool, but their e-mail comes from a black-listed IP. Are they safe, or am I best just leaving it alone? Regards, Brian -- A certain amount of opposition is a help, not a hindrance. Kites rise against the

Re: [gentoo-user] mailing list archives: at gmane.

2003-10-08 Thread Brian Richardson
On October 7, 2003 01:18 pm, Peter Ruskin wrote: > Yes, I think http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ is the > best archive for gentoo-user - _and_ it's black-on-white so it doesn't > give you the same headache as that marc.theaimsgroup.com does. I keep a local archive of the gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] Keyborad refresh rate annoyance

2003-10-07 Thread Brian Richardson
On October 6, 2003 01:49 pm, Prabhat Gupta wrote: > Hi, > > I have following in my local.start > > kbdrate -r 30 -d 250 > > still, I have to give the same command (as root) everytime I boot into > KDE ( I don't have GNOME). > > What can I do to fix this. You can add that line before startkde in /e

[gentoo-user] printing multiple pages per sheet

2003-10-03 Thread Brian Richardson
Hello, I'm trying to print some text documents with multiple pages per sheet. However, these options on the printer's property sheet. Could anybody suggest what may be missing? My printer, a Lexmark Optra E+ supports PostScript. Thanks, Brian -- Man is the only animal that can remain on frien

Re: [gentoo-user] modules vs. compiled in

2003-10-03 Thread Brian Richardson
On October 3, 2003 06:27 am, Juha-Mikko Ahonen wrote: > On pe, 2003-10-03 at 15:02, gabriel wrote: > > what if you disabled "loadable module support" in the kernel? > > Wont help you as it is possible to insert code directly into the kernel > via /dev/kmem. Making the kernel memory read-only is an

Re: [gentoo-user] auto Emerge world

2003-08-25 Thread Brian Richardson
On August 22, 2003 04:01 pm, Spider wrote: > And, Normally i never script updates. i don't think anyone in their sane > mind does that. our system as it is builds on manual updates and slow > migration, since we do api-changing / config changing updates... > > Had we had a stable product with a si

[gentoo-user] Suggestions: site-wide search engine

2003-08-22 Thread Brian Richardson
What would you suggest as a site-wide search engine? I've tried namazu without much success. (I can't resolve my configuration issue, and the mailing list hasn't helped.) But I'd really like *something* for searching through my MHonArc mailing lists. Regards, Brian -- It is difficult to soar

Re: [gentoo-user] GPG signature bad?

2003-08-22 Thread Brian Richardson
On August 22, 2003 10:54 am, Brian Richardson wrote: > My GPG signature has just showed up as bad in KMail (It worked > yesterday...). I've done a world update since then. Is my signature bad? Or > is something else to blame? That was strange. It's showing as good now. Rega

[gentoo-user] GPG signature bad?

2003-08-22 Thread Brian Richardson
My GPG signature has just showed up as bad in KMail (It worked yesterday...). I've done a world update since then. Is my signature bad? Or is something else to blame? Regards, Brian -- My CODE of ETHICS is vacationing at famed SCHROON LAKE in upstate New York!! [Public key available at http://

Re: [gentoo-user] error building t1lib

2003-08-17 Thread Brian Richardson
On August 17, 2003 11:16 pm, Brian Richardson wrote: > Failing that, I don't understand why the dependency is not being picked up > and installed. Is this a problem with virtual packages? (ie. Does a virtual > dependency need to be installed prior to all other operations) Yad

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms crashes on .wav

2003-08-17 Thread Brian Richardson
On August 17, 2003 12:02 pm, Jorge Almeida wrote: > On Sat, 16 Aug 2003, Andrew Farmer wrote: > Thanks for your comments. I use "kernel-space" alsa. I don't use masked > ebuilds, because I don't feel lucky! Pity that some parts of KMix and KRec > are badly documented, but this is another matter...

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: ezmlm warning

2003-08-17 Thread Brian Richardson
On August 17, 2003 06:50 pm, bob bob wrote: > Hmm.. Anyone else getting this warning.. or is it reserved for lamer > hotmail users like me? :-P The earlier reply from Brian Downey is something to consider. But this mail transcript does in fact not like @hotmail.com addresses. It's bad netiquette,

Re: [gentoo-user] error building t1lib

2003-08-17 Thread Brian Richardson
On August 17, 2003 06:28 pm, oom wrote: > Greetings Gentooers! > > While doing an emerge world -UD it fails on t1lib: Hmmm. It appears that t1lib has an optional dependancy on tetex (which is a virtual package, BTW.) Have you tried: USE="-tetex" emerge -U t1lib? Failing that, I don't understand

Re: [gentoo-user] building a file server

2003-08-17 Thread Brian Richardson
On August 17, 2003 10:44 pm, David H. Askew wrote: > It will mainly be for other linux clients, but I would like to be able > to plug my win2000 work laptop into the network and have the files > available also. Is samba my only choice for supporting the windows > clients, or is there another optio

Re: [gentoo-user] Read only root

2003-08-14 Thread Brian Richardson
On August 12, 2003 01:36 pm, Steven Elling wrote: > If util-linux and/or the kernel were modified to get all the information on > the mounts in /proc/mounts, /etc/mtab would be unnecessary. And, if > /etc/mtab was needed by something, a symbolic link could be created for > backward compatibility. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Read only root

2003-08-14 Thread Brian Richardson
On August 9, 2003 07:22 am, Gareth Jones wrote: > I would like to make root read only, but it seems that this is not > possible. I've put /var, /home, /tmp and /usr one different file systems, > and that works ok - but gentoo writes to /etc during bootup. I can't put > /etc on a separate file syste

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?]:xmms under Gentoo

2003-08-14 Thread Brian Richardson
On August 12, 2003 06:10 pm, Mark Knecht wrote: >Thanks. That gets me closer. It was set for OSS. I've switched to > trying Alsa. Still no sound though, and unfortunately the xmms site > documentation page doesn't have any info on configuring for Alsa. > >Should all of the other settings th

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?]:xmms under Gentoo

2003-08-14 Thread Brian Richardson
On August 12, 2003 05:17 pm, Mark Knecht wrote: >The xmms site is telling me to look at the 'Devices Tab' which I > can't find so far. Where is it in this little tiny GUI? Left click on the upper left corner of the GUI, select Options->Preferences. Select the OSS driver from the list of outpu

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with SCSI

2003-08-14 Thread Brian Richardson
On August 12, 2003 02:28 pm, Ewald Geschwinde wrote: > I don't have a system yet this is when I insert the cd and want to > install the gentoo cd's > > I'm not new to linux but I have not done any of the bootloader things > before I have the gentoo screen after booting from cd where I can select >

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with SCSI

2003-08-14 Thread Brian Richardson
On August 12, 2003 08:49 am, Ewald Geschwinde wrote: > I have a problem with my SCSI cdrom > I have an adaptec controller 2940. > My problem is: > > kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2 > > and then > > CD not found Does the following line exist in /etc/module

Re: [gentoo-user] automake/conf madness

2003-08-14 Thread Brian Richardson
On August 13, 2003 11:14 pm, Kurt V. Hindenburg wrote: > Why is it neccessary to have some many versions of automake and > autoconf...this is ridiculous... :-( > > /usr/bin/automake@ /usr/bin/automake-1.5* /usr/bin/automake-1.7* > /usr/bin/automake-1.4* /usr/bin/automake-1.6* > > /usr/bin/au

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with SCSI

2003-08-14 Thread Brian Richardson
On August 12, 2003 02:51 pm, Ewald Geschwinde wrote: > Now I'm stuck with that: > > Beginning storage detection > detected aic7xxx hardware > scanning for aic7xxx_old ... > > and this runs for about 7 minutes > does this takes so long or am i facing a bigger problem?? > > starting with: > gentoo do

[gentoo-user] Xfree86 problem

2003-08-08 Thread Brian Richardson
Hello, As I went to watch a movie on my TV, there was an error I hadn't seen before. I've included the relevant log bits: (II) Loading sub module "int10" (II) LoadModule: "int10" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/linux/libint10.a (II) Module int10: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge error

2003-08-04 Thread Brian Richardson
On August 3, 2003 11:05 pm, Stephen Turner wrote: > hey im having trouble, ive been rsyncing for 3-4 days now and still come > up with a bad perl package which seems to stop me from updating, :( ive > run this box for quite some time so not sure if that matters anyways i > attatched the output if y

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge error

2003-08-04 Thread Brian Richardson
On August 3, 2003 11:05 pm, Stephen Turner wrote: > hey im having trouble, ive been rsyncing for 3-4 days now and still come > up with a bad perl package which seems to stop me from updating, :( ive > run this box for quite some time so not sure if that matters anyways i > attatched the output if y

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS problems

2003-08-03 Thread Brian Richardson
On July 31, 2003 12:30 pm, Christopher Egner wrote: > Now I would assume the (everyone) means what it says, everyone can > access it. However when I do: > > mount fanny:/vol/data/home /mnt/home > > I get: > mount: RPC: Authentication error; why = Client credential too weak > > Are there settings th

[gentoo-user] xmms-arts package

2003-07-26 Thread Brian Richardson
I'm curious. The packages.mask file in /usr/portage/profiles has mentioned that support for xmms-arts will be removed as it is not being maintained upstream. However, from my point of view, it works as well as it needs to. What is being planned to replace this package? I need XMMS for Musepack

Re: [gentoo-user] No modules work -- I8K running Gentoo 1.4 w/ kernel 2.4.20-gentoo-r5

2003-07-26 Thread Brian Richardson
On July 26, 2003 06:59, Bud Roth wrote: > insmod hid > Using /lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r5/kernel/drivers/usb/hid.o > /lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r5/kernel/drivers/usb/hid.o: unresolved > symbol input_register_device_Rea84a233 This error means that your kernel is configured to use module versioning

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sSMTP and AUTH

2003-07-26 Thread Brian Richardson
On July 26, 2003 11:05, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > * Michael Gruetzner (2003-07-26 14:29 +0200) > > > I try to send my mail via mutt and ssmtp from the console. The remote > > host is GMX wich wants ssmtp to authenticate via smtp-auth. Is this > > supported by sSMTP? > > man ssmtp Nothing in there. T

Re: [gentoo-user] RFC: Gentoo Linux secure, SPAM-free e-mail HOWTO

2003-07-24 Thread Brian Richardson
On July 24, 2003 18:25, Cal Evans wrote: > http://www.cubik.ca/~brian/gentoo-full-featured-email.howto.txt > * > * Cal Evans > * http://www.christianperformer.com > * Stay plugged in to your audience! > * I've copied the file so that both posted links work. Sorry for the confusion. Regards, Brian

[gentoo-user] RFC: Gentoo Linux secure, SPAM-free e-mail HOWTO

2003-07-24 Thread Brian Richardson
The full text of this HOWTO is too large for the list. Please read it at: http://www.cubik.ca/~brian/gentoo-linux-full-featured-email.howto.txt Any comments or helpful suggestions would be appreciated. Don't worry, I haven't configured anything to send encrypted mail to mailing lists :) And I'v

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages absent

2003-07-24 Thread Brian Richardson
On July 24, 2003 05:50, Stephen Boulet wrote: > I've emerged metalog according to the directions, but there is no > /var/log/messages. > > Is this normal? Apologies for the encrypted e-mail. The answer I sent was that metalog does not use /var/log/messages. The metalog syslog is under /var/log/e

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages absent

2003-07-24 Thread Brian Richardson
bin0.bin Description: version code msg.asc Description: encrypted data

Re: [gentoo-user] Xlib error with several programs

2003-07-10 Thread Brian Richardson
ning su, you also need "export XAUTHORITY=$HOME/.Xauthority". This will give your clients the authority it needs to connect to the display. HTH, Brian -- Brian Richardson Java Programmer brian 'at' cubik 'dot' ca -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] !!! ERROR: x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r3 failed.

2003-07-10 Thread Brian Richardson
4.3.0-r2.ebuild See Bugzilla #22372 for more information. -- Brian -- Brian Richardson Java Programmer brian 'at' cubik 'dot' ca -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] celeron 1.2 GHz's compile options

2003-07-10 Thread Brian Richardson
. > My cpu is Intel celeron 1.2G Best is -O3 -march=pentium3. However, the Celeron _is_ significantly slower than a Pentium III of the same speed. -- Brian -- Brian Richardson Java Programmer brian 'at' cubik 'dot' ca -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Servlets under Gentoo?

2003-07-10 Thread Brian Richardson
serv. Thanks, Brian -- Brian Richardson Java Programmer brian 'at' cubik 'dot' ca -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list