Re: [gentoo-user] Configuring 2.6 kernels

2005-01-23 Thread Francisco Ares
AFAIK, you have to rename your old ".config" as ".config.old" Hope this helps Francisco A. Khattri wrote: Ive had this problem for the last few 2.6 kernel releases. After emerging a kernel, I copy my old config over and then try and merge it before building a new kernel: # cd /usr/src/linux # cp /b

[gentoo-user] [OT]: how to set up postfix to use an authenticated smtp relay?

2005-02-27 Thread Francisco Ares
Sorry for the OT, but i think this may help other newbies as well I want to set up a few monitoring tools, and they all send e-mail reports. I've installed postfix but I can't find what should I do to allow it to use my user's password for my ISP smtp relay. I've already googled for it, found doz

Re: [gentoo-user] Dependencies are broken

2005-02-27 Thread Francisco Ares
did you use emerge -D dvdrip that -D is for dependencies also try emerge -pvuD dvdrip to see what portage thinks it is missing hope this helps Francisco Hamie wrote: OK. Frustrated debian user here... Maybe I should go back... Anyway... What am I doing wrong? I THOUGHT that one of the things that

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: SOLVED: how to set up postfix to use an authenticated smtp relay?

2005-02-27 Thread Francisco Ares
Thanks, it worked just fine from the first trial Francisco Sami Samhuri wrote: * On Sun Feb-27-2005 at 12:25:44 PM -0300, Francisco Ares said: [...] I've installed postfix but I can't find what should I do to allow it to use my user's password for my ISP smtp relay. I've

Re: [gentoo-user] Dependencies are broken

2005-02-27 Thread Francisco Ares
oops, sorry, have to read the manual more often ;-) Francisco Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 19:15:36 -0300, Francisco Ares wrote: emerge -D dvdrip that -D is for dependencies Err, no it's not. It is for --deep. emerge installs dependencies by default. --nodeps turns thi

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to su anymore

2005-02-27 Thread Francisco Ares
are you in the "wheel" group? Francisco lolox wrote: After updating system and world, I can't su anymore. when I try su, I get : "su: Permission denied Sorry." any idea ? lolox. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] special note at the end of 2.6.10 changelog

2005-01-07 Thread Francisco Ares
Hi, all Something special in a note from Linux at the end of the changelog for the new kernel version when compiling with newer gcc versions: " .. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Don't use "-march=pentium3" for gcc tuning. rth tells me that some versions of gcc may end up using the

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo using a lot of disk space

2005-01-07 Thread Francisco Ares
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Nope. Ccache not installed. I don't know anything about it. Is it worth learning? ++ kevin just if you use to compile several times the same package (tweaking USE flags, for example). ccache will save binary compiled files in a (normally) 2G max. cache directory to sa

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox Java enabled.

2005-01-07 Thread Francisco Ares
You may try blackdown java, also in portage Francisco Alexander wrote: Hello friends, I have just compiled mozilla-firefox-1.0 with java use flag set. But even after that I cannot run java applets like bank login systems. So I tried to manually install java run-time, using j2re-1.4.6 from Sun. Wh

Re: [gentoo-user] blocker!?

2005-01-08 Thread Francisco Ares
Bruno Lustosa wrote: No, not experiencing this problem (for several reasons) but I seem to recall hearing that dgs was removed from Portage not that long ago (which would explain why it does not appear in your Portage tree). In any case, you presumably emerged it sometime before that (possibly as a

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel enhancements?

2005-01-08 Thread Francisco Ares
Try genkernel --menuconfig --install [--bootsplash] all after the "make mrproper" you'll be presented at tne menu configuration tool for configuring your kernel, where you can select your processor, hardware drivers, kernel behavior, security models, etc., etc., etc., If you don't feel confortab