[gentoo-user] Failed to start VMware

2004-02-08 Thread Deling Ren
I emerged vmware-workstation and ran vmware-config.pl and here is the result: ... Starting VMware services: Virtual machine monitor failed The configuration of VMware Workstation 4.0.5 build-6030 for Linux for this running kernel completed successfully.

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel IP routing table

2004-02-07 Thread Deling Ren
Yes, route is what you need. Use IP address if hostname does not work. On Sat, 7 Feb 2004, Anthony Hoppe wrote: > How do you delete an entry in the kernel IP routing table (command > "route")? I've tried but it always gives me either "unknown host" or > "No address associated with name." > > ~ A

[gentoo-user] Why auctex requires Xaw3d?

2004-01-13 Thread Deling Ren
I tried to emerge app-emacs/auctex and got this error message: * * Emacs needs to be compiled with Xaw3d support. * Please emerge emacs with USE="Xaw3d". * and it refused to continue. I modified the ebuild and commented out the "die ..." statement. Everything went well then. I have been using

Re: [gentoo-user] fluxbox keys

2004-01-13 Thread Deling Ren
Not sure about fluxbox, but I am using openbox on a Solaris machine in the office. I use bbkey to define the key combinations. I heard there are better alternatives now but I don't remember their names. Regards. Deling On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Marshal Newrock wrote: > I've recently switched from KDE

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge problem

2004-01-13 Thread Deling Ren
It seems that you are trying to emerge a "~x86" ebuild? Try exporting env variable ACCEPT_KEYWORDS as "~x86". Regards. Deling On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Thomas Degris wrote: > Hello, > > what should I do with this kind of error ? > > # emerge -uUDpv world > > These are the packages that I would merge,

Re: [gentoo-user] installing system on other pc and then move it

2004-01-13 Thread Deling Ren
I don't see a problem with it if you can plug in the scsi drives to a hardware platform which is otherwise identical or similar to server. You can just format the hard drive on the new system and dump the whole partition from the server to the new system (except /proc and /tmp) and I suppose it wou