Re: [gentoo-user] DirectFB

2005-01-11 Thread David Mallwitz
Ow Mun Heng wrote: > * dev-libs/DirectFB-extra > Description: Extra image/video/font providers and graphics/input > drivers for DirectFB > > * dev-libs/DirectFB > Description: Thin library on top of the Linux framebuffer devices > > * x11-base/xdirectfb > Description: XDirec

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding output of 'uptime' to python sig

2004-02-15 Thread David Mallwitz
On Sunday 15 February 2004 12:00 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: > > Thanks, Dave. One last item if you have the patience. What would I > need to add the output of 'uname -a'? > > Thanks again. uname=string.strip(os.popen("/bin/uname -a").readline()) print uname -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding output of 'uptime' to python sig

2004-02-15 Thread David Mallwitz
On Sunday 15 February 2004 11:13 am, Trey Sizemore wrote: > I have a python script that I use currently in my sig and wanted to > add a line to show the output of the 'uptime' command. > > Would someone be able to tell me how to do this? Such as add it as a > line under the current sig? Here's th

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple versions of gcc

2004-01-02 Thread David Mallwitz
On Friday 02 January 2004 10:28 am, Gerhard W.Gruber wrote: > Gentoo uses the curent version of gcc with 3.2.3. Can I have 2.95 > also installed on the same system and how can I do this? Yes, emerge -p /usr/portage/sys-devel/gcc/gcc-2.95.3-r8.ebuild >How can I switch between them? /usr/bin/gcc-

Re: [gentoo-user] Find all installed packages with "-alsa"?

2003-12-14 Thread David Mallwitz
> Hmm, this is interesting, but ultimately not very useful. Here's the > output: > > -- > # cd /var/db/pkg > # for i in $(grep -l 'alsa' */*/IUSE | cut -d '/' -f 1-2); do grep > "\-alsa" ${i}/USE; done > x86 avi crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif jpeg libg++ libwww mad > mikmod motif mpeg ncurses nl

Re: [gentoo-user] EPIA CFLAGS

2003-12-10 Thread David Mallwitz
On Tuesday 09 December 2003 10:19 pm, Rex Young wrote: > > Lets compare notes. What gcc version are you using? Do you use the > > kernel i2c modules, or the ebuild (if so, which version)? Would you > > mind posting the ivtv section of your /etc/modules.conf? > > gcc version: I think it updated to

Re: [gentoo-user] EPIA CFLAGS

2003-12-09 Thread David Mallwitz
On Tuesday 09 December 2003 08:09 pm, Rex Young wrote: > pretty well without via's binary drivers. I forced some things to > load and recompiled mythtv to take advantage of the mpeg2 decoder > and it worked out quite nicely. for playback. Then, I couldn't > recompile the ivtv modules. Yeah, tha

Re: [gentoo-user] EPIA CFLAGS

2003-12-09 Thread David Mallwitz
On Tuesday 09 December 2003 04:54 pm, Jayson Garrell wrote: > On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 13:32, David Mallwitz wrote: > > On Tuesday 09 December 2003 11:58 am, Jayson Garrell wrote: > > > What are the best CFLAG opts for this mobo? Is there a C3 option > > > or do I need go

Re: [gentoo-user] EPIA CFLAGS

2003-12-09 Thread David Mallwitz
On Tuesday 09 December 2003 11:58 am, Jayson Garrell wrote: > What are the best CFLAG opts for this mobo? Is there a C3 option or > do I need go with i586 or i686. I don't need any help installing > Gentoo or mythtv, I just wanted to make this setup as fast as it can > be. http://www.viaarena.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Way OT: Doesn't IP need TCP or UDP for transport?

2003-12-05 Thread David Mallwitz
On Friday 05 December 2003 12:12 am, Joshua Banks wrote: > I'll do some more research on IP to get a better understanding. > You might want to get a copy of the late, great W. Richard Steven's TCP/IP Illustrated, Vol. 1 (ISBN 0-201-63346-9) to help your research. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing l

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual-Opteron Workstations?

2003-10-23 Thread David Mallwitz
On Thursday 23 October 2003 04:00 am, Bryan Whitehead wrote: > Does anyone know where I could purchase a off-the-shelf (as in I just > order a complete system) from a major vendor? Try Penguin Computing, they advertise several dual Opteron systems and I've had a good experience with them in the p

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless connection.

2003-09-24 Thread David Mallwitz
On Tuesday 23 September 2003 02:29 pm, Prabhat Gupta wrote: > Dave, > > I did repatch the kernel and also build the driver. I didn't do make > mrproper though. > > The wireless connection works but I have to stop it and then start > again. > > /etc/init.d/net.eth1 stop > /etc/init.d/net.eth1 start

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless connection.

2003-09-23 Thread David Mallwitz
Prabhat Gupta wrote: I am using: http://ruslug.rutgers.edu/~mcgrof/802.11g/ dirver for that PCMCIA card. There is a dependency in the /etc/init.d/net.eth1 for PCMCIA. I don't know what else to add there :( Prabhat Repatch the kernel and rebuild the driver. Every time you upgrade your kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Idiots guide to NAT and DHCP

2003-09-21 Thread David Mallwitz
On Sunday 21 September 2003 07:43 pm, Jason Stubbs wrote: > > I want to setup a DHCP server on my desktop machine so that I can > > plug my laptop into my second network port and then access the > > internet through my desktop using NAT. However I can't get it too > > work. I've followed as much of

Re: [gentoo-user] getting Gentoo to work with VMware...

2003-09-09 Thread David Mallwitz
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 06:45 pm, Alan wrote: > On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 06:33:55PM -0500, John Crabtree wrote: > > I'm looking at installing Gentoo using VMware 4.0, is there a HOWTO > > that explains how to do this? Or can someone who has already > > installed Gentoo using VMware 4.0 spare s

Re: [gentoo-user] 3ware Escalade 7500-4 and Gentoo 1.4

2003-08-26 Thread David Mallwitz
Ing. Martin Gauklitz wrote: hi. i checked my gentoo linux 1.4 cd1 and i found that there is a 3ware kernel module is available! try 'modprobe 3w-'... i checked the file /proc/config (it is the current kernel-config) for the occurence "3W" and it shows that 3ware support is done via a

Re: [gentoo-user] bttv WHERE IS IT?

2003-08-14 Thread David Mallwitz
Look under /usr/src//drivers/media/video for the source, /usr/src//Documentation/video4linux/bttv for the docs and /lib/modules//kernel/drivers/media/video for the module. Dave On Sunday 10 August 2003 05:45 pm, Meka[ni] wrote: > I've seen that my friend has no problem with bttv, but I ca

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update and fstab...

2003-08-03 Thread David Mallwitz
On Sunday 03 August 2003 05:36 pm, Ian Tindale wrote: > I'd like some sort of flag system which says to etc-update: > "I've chosen to alter this file myself before, at some point in time" > or > "I've never touched this file in my life before, in fact, I didn't > know it even existed." > > Of cours

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using syslog-ng..?

2003-07-30 Thread David Mallwitz
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 08:45 pm, Stroller wrote: > On 30/7/03 3:45 am, "Alan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> - Why isn't syslog-ng supplied with a suitable cron script to tidy > >> my logfiles..? > > > > This would be handled by logrotate, but you still have to come up > > with the config files

Re: [gentoo-user] multiple ethernet cards

2003-07-19 Thread David Mallwitz
wes chow wrote: This is probably not the most elegant solution, but here it is anyway: /sbin/iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -j DROP -d ! 192.168.0.2 /sbin/iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -j DROP -d ! 192.168.0.10 I'll try it out. Don't have access to the machines right now, but I'll let you know later th

Re: [gentoo-user] failures

2003-05-27 Thread David Mallwitz
Rick, Try running "dmesg |grep devfs", the output should read something like "Mounted devfs on /dev". If that's not there, then you may not have your new kernel installed or booted. Dave Rick Sivernell wrote: list For 3 weeks I have been trying t build a system, on a PIII w/ a 60g HD. Th

Re: [gentoo-user] configuring postfix to masquerade the address

2003-02-20 Thread David Mallwitz
From the Postfix config file in /etc/postfix/main.cf: # SENDING MAIL # # The myorigin parameter specifies the domain that locally-posted # mail appears to come from. The default is to append $myhostname, # which is fine for small sites. If you run a domain with multiple # machines, you should (1)