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

2005-04-05 Thread George Roberts
Walter Dnes wrote: >On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 07:07:35PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote > > > >>Having listened to said usability experts and found that all the >>software that I like completely breaks at least five of their seven >>heuristics, I wouldn't be inclined to take them too seriously... Th

Re: [gentoo-user] first boot problem

2005-03-26 Thread George Roberts
walt wrote: >I am trying to install gentoo on my Averatec 5400 laptop. When I fist >started the live cd, I did have to type 'gentoo noapic' in order to boot >the cd. Everything was working well during the install. I used genkernel >for the kernel configuration and lilo (a preference for me). When

Re: [gentoo-user] 6 gigs to clean up

2005-03-03 Thread George Roberts
would leave them there. Unless you are on a low cost, mega fast link having the sources already available speeds things up a lot. Alternatives are burn them to cdrom, put them on a remote nfs mount etc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] BillK On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 23:11 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: George

Re: [gentoo-user] 6 gigs to clean up

2005-03-03 Thread George Roberts
Holly Bostick wrote: George Roberts wrote: Firstly let me thank everbody for their responses. By "snapshot" (please excuse me, I am a noobie), do you mean have the system regenerate a "snapshot" of where the system is today. So that if I were to a "merge --newus

Re: [gentoo-user] 6 gigs to clean up

2005-03-03 Thread George Roberts
Firstly let me thank everbody for their responses. By "snapshot" (please excuse me, I am a noobie), do you mean have the system regenerate a "snapshot" of where the system is today. So that if I were to a "merge --newuse world", only the active packages in use as of today would be rebuilt. Or

[gentoo-user] 6 gigs to clean up

2005-03-03 Thread George Roberts
more reasonable/saner way to maintain my system. I am wondering is there any places where Portage stashes files that it has downloaded, or temp files (other than the tmp directory) that could be safely flushed. Thanks in advance. George -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Two Distros, One Drive

2005-02-28 Thread George Roberts
Bo Grimes wrote: First, thanks for all the feedback on video cards. I am about to attempt my first Gentoo install, and I plan on taking it very slowly since the whole reason I want to go Gentoo is to find my last distro, optimize it for my system and learn as much as possible in the process. Ho

[gentoo-user] Is this typical?

2005-02-25 Thread George Roberts
The other day I set out to find a way to turn my monitor off, for when I get distracted while away from my computer. I followed the instructions at http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Automatically_turn_off_your_monitor. But this was not successful :-( .  The monitor stays on. After google searching

Re: [gentoo-user] wow! 463 packages emerged and only one failure

2005-02-22 Thread George Roberts
Aaron Walker wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Knecht wrote: Amazing results. emerge -e world required 463 packages be emerged on my system. With only one exception they all worked first time. The one failure (nforce-audio) apprears to be a real problem so

Re: [gentoo-user] even more emerge questions

2005-02-21 Thread George Roberts
Mike Noble wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 George Roberts wrote: | It did turn out to be something borked, I found the link | http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Migrate_to_GCC_3.4. When I followed the | directions there, I ran into the same error messages. | When I checked my

Re: [gentoo-user] even more emerge questions

2005-02-21 Thread George Roberts
John Myers wrote: On Monday 21 February 2005 08:09, George Roberts wrote: *** Can only configure for one host and one target at a time. *** Can only configure for one host and one target at a time. *** Can only configure for one host and one target at a time. *** Can only configure for one host

[gentoo-user] even more emerge questions

2005-02-20 Thread George Roberts
I finished building my system about 3 days since then I have 2 packages in my emerge list that are not compleating. The first is sys-devel/binutils-2.15.92.0.2-r1, when it tries to install I get: . . . strip: strip --strip-unneeded strip: strip --strip-unneeded usr/lib/libopcodes-2.15.92.0.2.so

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting dual monitors to work

2005-02-02 Thread George Bingham
vidia. Now, when I access a menu from the toolbar in that screen, the background of the menu is all garbled and the menuitems are unreadable, plus, the image does not disappear when the mouse has moved away or selected another menu. How can I tell if it's loaded opengl correctly? Thanks, Geo

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting dual monitors to work

2005-02-02 Thread George Bingham
rePointer" InputDevice "Mouse2" "SendCoreEvents" InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection Thanks, George On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 15:52:02 -0500 (EST), Marshal Newrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, George Bingha

[gentoo-user] Getting dual monitors to work

2005-02-02 Thread George Bingham
th 24 Subsection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection EndSection Can anyone help? Thanks, George Bingham -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] OT: freetype vs. m$

2005-01-25 Thread George Garvey
Using VMware the other day I noticed something. I was running a program I develop on both Linux and in VMware with 2000 Pro. The font rendering is noticeably better on Linux. It is darker, and less blurry. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] off the wall question

2005-01-09 Thread George Garvey
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 06:47:14PM -0500, Nick Smith wrote: > this, is it possible to copy over my windows partition into a > vmware session? kinda like coping all the files of one harddrive Two ways off the top of the head: 1. Configure VMware to use your MS hard drive's partition directly.

[gentoo-user] modprobe iptables : device or resource busy ?

2004-02-10 Thread George Abraham
r and additionally, iptables v1.2.9: can't initialize iptables table `filter': iptables who? (do you need to insmod?) Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded. What is the problem here? Regards, George Abraham -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] su issues

2004-01-19 Thread George Abraham
U have to add yourself to the "wheel" group. Then "su" would work for you and you can become root with su Regards, George Abraham -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] x86+scsi problem

2003-12-25 Thread George Hernandez
I compiled /dev/pts support and STILL kernel hangs mounting /proc .. Does anyone have a suggestion??? On 12/24/03 5:38 PM, "George Hernandez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/24/03 3:01 AM, "Peter Ruskin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks pet

Re: [gentoo-user] x86+scsi problem

2003-12-24 Thread George Hernandez
y 24 Dec 2003 04:07, George Hernandez wrote: >> Hello all.. Hopefully you guys can help me. >> Here is my grub.conf file... >> [grub.conf] >> >> >> default 0 >> timeout 30 >> splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz >> >> title=Gentoo Linux >

Re: [gentoo-user] x86+scsi problem

2003-12-24 Thread George Hernandez
On 12/23/03 8:07 PM, "George Hernandez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My Hello all.. Hopefully you guys can help me. for some reason my box stalls at /proc.. I am running 2.4.23 kernel.. Here is my grub.conf file... [grub.conf] > > > default 0 > timeout 30

[gentoo-user] x86+scsi problem

2003-12-23 Thread George Hernandez
Hello all.. Hopefully you guys can help me. Here is my grub.conf file... [grub.conf] default 0 timeout 30 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title=Gentoo Linux root (hd0,0) kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-2.4.23 root=/dev/sda3 [end] Here is my fstab.. [fstab] /dev/sda1            /boot           

[gentoo-user] Compiling on another machine?

2003-12-15 Thread George Mathews
I was wondering if there was a way to use my desktop machine to compile for my laptop when I `emerge -uD world`. I would like to use my desktop because it is 4x the 600Mhz that the laptop is. -- Thanks, George Mathews -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Openssl error after update

2003-11-10 Thread Nazarey, George
Chris, First, see if that file exist. Second, check /etc/ld-config to see if the directory is there. Third, run ld-config manually. George -Original Message- From: Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 2:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo

RE: [gentoo-user] Font Installation

2003-11-10 Thread Nazarey, George
Tracy, Are you getting any errors from xfs? That might help. I haven't played around with that font, but I have had errors with other fonts and the error log has helped me greatly. George Nazarey -Original Message- From: Tracy LCpl Derek E [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: M

RE: [gentoo-user] Offtopic: Network switch driving me crazy.

2003-11-05 Thread Nicholas George
On the windows box try running "netstat -e" from the command prompt. I can't test it right now, but I'm pretty sure that error counter will climb like crazy given a link speed/duplex mismatch. "netstat -s" will also show error statistics for icmp, tcp and udp. -Original Message- From: J

RE: [gentoo-user] squid

2003-10-29 Thread Nicholas George
You'd get a better boost by running squid on your local machine. Doing this will cause less traffic over the dialup link because the local cache will likely be able to fill a decent portion of your requests. Running squid on the server you dial into will save traffic over the T1, but everything wi

[gentoo-user] Mailhost SQL dump file not downloadable

2003-09-09 Thread George Thiruvathukal
downloaded? George __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc fails to compile and xterms don't work FIxed

2003-06-02 Thread George Dowding
c-linux-gnu" > CFLAGS="-march=k6-2 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" > CXXFLAGS="-march=k6-2 -O2 -pipe > -fomit-frame-pointer" > > I think this must be usefull, but i can be in a > trouble. > > Greetings > >

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc fails to compile and xterms don't work

2003-06-01 Thread George Dowding
Brewer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 30 May 2003 14:06:48 -0700 (PDT) > George Dowding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have a new installation. I was unable to do a > level > > one installation because glibc failed to compile. > Now > > I hav

[gentoo-user] glibc fails to compile and xterms don't work

2003-05-31 Thread George Dowding
I have a new installation. I was unable to do a level one installation because glibc failed to compile. Now I have X running and the 2.59 linux kernel. When I try to open a terminal I get a message that there may be a problem with Unix98 ptys. I have tried all permutation relating to Unix98 pty

[gentoo-user] ada compiler

2003-03-07 Thread George Mathews
installed and possibly gnat or some other ada linker and builder? -- Thank You, George Mathews -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] LSB compliance

2003-03-03 Thread George
why not /gui George (running and ducking for cover) > > Whatever solution is adopted should ideally provide a *general* solution > > to this. Enlightenment, TheNextNewHugeProject, and any number of other > > things could benefit as well. Indeed, it would be nice if multip

[gentoo-user] Another install problem

2003-02-22 Thread George Mathews
o loop and couldn't see anything to edit. -- Thank You, George Mathews -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Challanging install problem

2003-02-21 Thread George Mathews
exxt2 partition, putting the iso on that and trying to mount that and then the iso. -- Thank You, George Mathews -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Iomega Zip 100 Drive ATAPI

2003-02-03 Thread George
I emerged hotplug, seemed to make things work, it shows up as a scsi device like my cdrw, I have added this to my fstab. /dev/sda4 /mnt/zipautonoauto,user 0 0 George On Monday 03 February 2003 08:24 am, Felix Rodriguez wrote: > At 01:18 PM 2/3/2003 +0