Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo install problem / grub

2005-01-31 Thread Douglas James Dunn
. Laetitia I believe that is strange but it works! Thanks! I guess i've made something wrong or the manual should be updated -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Douglas James Dunn cell: (724) 316-8266 Researcher Indiana University of Pennsylvania () The ASCII Ribbon

Re: [gentoo-user] E-Mailing the result of emerge -upv world

2005-01-31 Thread James Hiscock
Nothing. But note that cron will mail the output to the job owner automatically, so there's no need to pipe the output to mail or sendmail unless your system isn't set up to get email to the job owner to your email address. (E.g., if you run it as root, you ought to have root aliased to

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Project Idea

2005-01-31 Thread James Colannino
John Myers wrote: [...]I do, however, really wish that I could find out how far in this build I am.[...] I would absolutely LOVE that ;) James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] SpamAssassin failing after update!

2005-01-31 Thread James Colannino
: bayes db version 0 is not able to be used, aborting! at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/Mail/SpamAssassin/BayesStore/DBM.pm line 160. Were you ever able to figure this out? I don't want to update from 2.64 to 3 until I know of a fix that will work. Thanks in advance :) James -- gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: have 2 video cards, can I have 2 consoles (non-x)?

2005-01-28 Thread Douglas James Dunn
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Re: [gentoo-user] OT: have 2 video cards, can I have 2 consoles (non-x)?

2005-01-28 Thread Douglas James Dunn
wrote: Douglas James Dunn wrote: I'm interested in this also but i have a dualhead card, one would think you could assign the VTs to the different devices, i just dont know if its possible, you would also just alt f* and it would move the keyboard to the appropriate terminal any

[gentoo-user] OT: Frame Grabber boards with udev?

2005-01-27 Thread James
Hello, Any body have any recommendations for a 4 input (ntsc/pal) frame grabber board? Preferably one that works well with a 100% udev system? Gentoo on a Via chip based system with a working framegrabber board, 100% udev, would be of keen interest to me James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

[gentoo-user] Re: hosting plan? [OT]

2005-01-27 Thread James
, and code about 3 times as fast as males. I know, I have 3 kids with one such lady cheers! James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT collapse and expand all threads in evolution?

2005-01-27 Thread Douglas James Dunn
or expand all threads in evolution? In a mailing list like this it would be handy to collapse all threads and then scan the subject lines for threads of interest to me. -- Douglas James Dunn cell: (724) 316-8266 Researcher Indiana University of Pennsylvania () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against

Re: [gentoo-user] 2005.0

2005-01-26 Thread Douglas James Dunn
Is there a 2.7 yet? On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 17:52 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 19:16:50 +0200 Matan Peled [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Gentoo can choose to stay with devfs... Not when 2.7.x comes along we can't... -- I. Douglas James Dunn cell: (724) 316-8266

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Smallest Linux Install for :-

2005-01-26 Thread Douglas James Dunn
, consider that a jre will comsume 80 MB to 90 MB just for the runtime environment, plus whatever additional for the actual app. Bob -- Douglas James Dunn cell: (724) 316-8266 Researcher Indiana University of Pennsylvania () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email, /\ vCards

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: How many posts do you have saved for this mailing list?

2005-01-26 Thread James Colannino
Ian K wrote: Im sorry if this is a violation of edicuite here, if so please tell me, and I wont do it again. If its ok though, how many messages do you have from this list? I have about 132MB of gentoo-user mail archived (not sure what the number of messages is...) James -- gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Smallest Linux Install for :-

2005-01-26 Thread Douglas James Dunn
you can never have enough memory. On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 00:23 +0100, Leif B. Kristensen wrote: On Thursday 27 January 2005 00:17, Douglas James Dunn wrote: anymore I find 1 gig of memory is necessary anything less is not enough... 640K ought to be enough for everybody! -- Douglas James

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Smallest Linux Install for :-

2005-01-26 Thread Douglas James Dunn
a pair of 512 MB DIMMs - dual channel memory controller in the AMD64s and Intel P4s/Ms. Bob -- Douglas James Dunn cell: (724) 316-8266 Researcher Indiana University of Pennsylvania () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email, /\ vCards, and proprietary formats

Re: [gentoo-user] new ati-drivers

2005-01-25 Thread James Hiscock
The thing that fascinates me with this ATI driver business is although I can't get it to work, it doesn't seem to cock anything up either. I've cut bits out of xorg.conf, put bits in, changed this, changed that, I even completely changed xorg.conf for one someone on here sent me probably from

Re: [gentoo-user] new ati-drivers

2005-01-25 Thread James Hiscock
What directory are you looking in? If /etc/X11, look in /etc, if in /etc, look in /etc/X11. Or look in the log file to see what config file it is using. But there must be one somewhere, as X does not load on air, as it were. ... or you can check in /var/log/Xorg.*.log for a line that looks

Re: [gentoo-user] first boot freezing...

2005-01-25 Thread Douglas James Dunn
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RE: [gentoo-user] Two sound cards with ALSA

2005-01-25 Thread Douglas James Dunn
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Re: [gentoo-user] new ati-drivers

2005-01-25 Thread James Hiscock
(==) Using config file: //xorg.conf Welp, that definitely proves that all of those changes you made to /etc/X11/xorg.conf were useless, since they were being overridden by the xorg.conf in /. sigh So it looks like you'll probably want to get rid of /xorg.conf, and put one of the suggested ones

Re: [gentoo-user] Custom ebuilds and ebuild path not specified

2005-01-24 Thread James Hiscock
| !!! aux_get(): ebuild path for 'games-roguelike/nethack-3.4.3-custom' not specified: | !!!None The problem's more than likely being caused by the '-custom' at the end of your ebuild name. Try changing it to nethack-custom-3.4.3.ebuild, instead, and see if that clears up your

[gentoo-user] alsa and surround sound

2005-01-24 Thread Douglas James Dunn
to do it. Which would be executed by one command. Maybe another Mixer which has nice surround sound support? -- Douglas James Dunn cell: (724) 316-8266 Secretary Phi Mu Delta Mu Theta chapter Indiana University of Pennsylvania () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email, /\ vCards

Re: [gentoo-user] Any way to kill frozen X/KDE?

2005-01-24 Thread Douglas James Dunn
not tried Douglas's most recent suggestions. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Douglas James Dunn cell: (724) 316-8266 Secretary Phi Mu Delta Mu Theta chapter Indiana University of Pennsylvania () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email, /\ vCards, and proprietary formats

Re: [gentoo-user] Any way to kill frozen X/KDE?

2005-01-23 Thread Douglas James Dunn
um you go into X and load xterm and type glxgears On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 02:31 +, Peng wrote: On 01/22/05 19:16, Douglas James Dunn wrote: so far you have it completly disabled by having it set to 0 in xorg.conf. my guess it would either disable it or change it to one x. what I would

Re: [gentoo-user] whos got the time?

2005-01-22 Thread James Hiscock
i dont have that in my rc.conf file anymore, if i remember correctly it got changed to something in /etc/conf.d with my last emerge world and It's in /etc/conf.d/clock -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Disabling bootup info

2005-01-22 Thread James Hiscock
| That's what the F2 key is for if you want to see the text messages | during any particular boot, because you suspect there might be some | problem, F2 switches from silent mode to verbose mode, revealing the | messages. ...or, even better, change BOOTSPLASH_STOP_ON_ERROR=no to

Re: [gentoo-user] rewriting kde menus (WAS: where to look for rss-glx screen savers)

2005-01-22 Thread James Hiscock
man, i almost switched from flux and this program made me keep it, its that good. i can have my menu's the way i want them now and i dont have to write anything! thanks again for tell about it. Glad to be of service -- and it _does_ sometimes pay to read the GWN... ;) --

Re: [gentoo-user] Intalling Color Samsung CLP-500 printer driver

2005-01-22 Thread James Hiscock
It seems to me it fails on x86/glibc-2.1 I'm using sys-libs/glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1 I think this assumption is wrong (although it may be -me- who's wrong... shrug), but I have a feeling it's 'cuz you're trying to run this as a normal user, or you don't have X running. Try running it under X,

Re: [gentoo-user] Any way to kill frozen X/KDE?

2005-01-22 Thread Douglas James Dunn
it in the bios On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 03:43 +, Peng wrote: On 01/20/05 17:57, Peng wrote: On 01/20/05 14:12, Douglas James Dunn wrote: you try going into your bios and lowering the AGP settings to 4x or 2x? It worked for me when AGP crashed my box No, I didn't. Forgot to. I'll try

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: AMD64 vs P4 w/HT

2005-01-22 Thread Douglas James Dunn
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[gentoo-user] Re: System Recovery

2005-01-22 Thread James
with booting off your install cd? Good point nick, I'm going to try the install cd to recover the system. I did not know if there was something slick out there to recover a forked_up gentoo system thanks James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] hey

2005-01-22 Thread Douglas James Dunn
, 2005-01-22 at 19:58 -0800, Janith Seneviratne wrote: is'st is gud if u ppl make an installation program 4 gentoo like DarkX, anaconda, __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search presents - Jib Jab's 'Second Term' -- Douglas James Dunn

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge metalog failed...

2005-01-20 Thread Mark James Talbot
jlynch80 wrote: hello, i'm fairly new to linux, and decided to try out gentoo. i am having a problem emerging metalog. i keep getting 404 Not Found. How can i fix this? Thanks. P.S. - I also get a lot of Network Unreachable errors when it starts looking through the mirrors to find a

Re: [gentoo-user] Any way to kill frozen X/KDE?

2005-01-20 Thread Douglas James Dunn
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Re: [gentoo-user] Any way to kill frozen X/KDE?

2005-01-20 Thread Douglas James Dunn
to compile... Would using version 3.3.1 of that and 3.3.2 of everything else work? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Douglas James Dunn cell: (724) 316-8266 Secretary Phi Mu Delta Mu Theta chapter Indiana University of Pennsylvania () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML

Re: [gentoo-user] ISP blocking smtp

2005-01-20 Thread James Hiscock
i don't think just changing the ports could work. ...and, based on what you say next, this wouldn't help anyway: the way we had it set up before was that the smtp address was just relaying through smtp.comcast.net, that is what they are blocking, they can receive mail fine but anything they

Re: [gentoo-user] rewriting kde menus (WAS: where to look for rss-glx screen savers)

2005-01-20 Thread James Hiscock
guess ill have to look into the forums when i have more time... http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20050110-newsletter.xml http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=83365highlight=denu I _knew_ I'd seen it somewhere... ;) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Cron Jobs.

2005-01-20 Thread James Hiscock
Yes, it does but!!! It downloads 433,809 bytes but when I view the file it contains zero bytes. I deleted the original file and the new one reappears but zero bytes. ...which isn't surprising, since you're only redirecting the output of wget to your file, and not saving the image properly

Re: [gentoo-user] Binary Package Repository?

2005-01-20 Thread Douglas James Dunn
to do anything he or she might want to do. So Nicholas' demand semmes to be an official objective of the Gentoo community, and he doesn't deserve to be flamed at all ! -- Douglas James Dunn cell: (724) 316-8266 Secretary Phi Mu Delta Mu Theta chapter Indiana University

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-driver and FB_RADEON causes lockup when switching to text console

2005-01-18 Thread Douglas James Dunn
anyone suggest any hints? I've tried various vesafb options from grub, and so on, but to no avail... MTIA, -- Douglas James Dunn cell: (724) 316-8266 Secretary Phi Mu Delta Mu Theta chapter Indiana University of Pennsylvania () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email, /\ vCards

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel does not menuconfig after boot

2005-01-18 Thread Douglas James Dunn
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Re: [gentoo-user] new ati-drivers

2005-01-18 Thread Douglas James Dunn
/ support in Linux. I wonder if these drivers have better games-fps performance. Chris -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Douglas James Dunn cell: (724) 316-8266 Secretary Phi Mu Delta Mu Theta chapter Indiana University of Pennsylvania () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-driver and FB_RADEON causes lockup when switching to text console

2005-01-18 Thread Douglas James Dunn
VesaFB On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 09:11 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 12:39 +, Douglas James Dunn wrote: FB Radeon and fglrx used together is a known problem its best not to use the radeon FB driver. I was hoping the ati-drivers would fix this... Is there anything else

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: BT848 driver.

2005-01-17 Thread James Hiscock
And you normally can't have two graphic cards in one box. There might be some weird way though to have both an AGP card and a PCI one installed but I wouldn't bet on that. This is horribly inaccurate: I currently have 4 in my desktop at home. One built-in video card on the motherboard (AGP,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: BT848 driver.

2005-01-17 Thread James Hiscock
an ATI AIW-Radeon 9200 64MB AGP (that I haven't bothered trying to get working in Linux); ...whoops... that should've been that I haven't even bothered trying to get the fancy TV stuff working in Linux, but everything else works great... sigh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How to use formatted CDs in rw mode?

2005-01-17 Thread James Hiscock
Could someone tell me what I would have to do to get the read-write access to my UDF formatted CDs? You need an additional patch for the kernel to get R/W UDF support... It's referred to as packet writing... try this out for more info: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Packet_Writing_on_CD-RW --

Re: [gentoo-user] How to use formatted CDs in rw mode?

2005-01-17 Thread James Hiscock
does anyone know if this is capatible with the directCD's made with Adaptec's windows software? Yes. I've used discs formatted using Roxio DirectCD, as well as Nero InCD and one other program whose name escapes me at the moment... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to use formatted CDs in rw mode?

2005-01-17 Thread Douglas James Dunn
? probably that the device filename is wrong look at the dmesg output to see if it perhaps made a slightly different device file, like /dev/pktcdvd/0 or whatever... also look around in /dev and see what you find. -- Douglas James Dunn cell: (724) 316-8266 Secretary Phi Mu Delta Mu

Re: [gentoo-user] Any way to kill frozen X/KDE?

2005-01-16 Thread Douglas James Dunn
doing so would fix this? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Douglas James Dunn cell: (724) 316-8266 Secretary Phi Mu Delta Mu Theta chapter Indiana University of Pennsylvania () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email, /\ vCards, and proprietary formats

[gentoo-user] Out of Disk Space while Emerging

2005-01-16 Thread James Harrison
So, anyone give me the quick rundown of what I need to do? Thanks, James begin:vcard fn:James Harrison n:Harrison;James email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] note:Morph x-mozilla-html:TRUE version:2.1 end:vcard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Any way to kill frozen X/KDE?

2005-01-16 Thread Douglas James Dunn
you can always change back till you get it to work On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 12:30 +, Peng wrote: On 01/16/05 17:23, Douglas James Dunn wrote: I would really suggest trying to switch eventually though it should work on 2.6.9 but there is a lot of bug fixes on 2.6.10. It shouldnt work too

Re: [gentoo-user] Out of Disk Space while Emerging

2005-01-16 Thread Douglas James Dunn
you choose to set them up. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1chap=4 On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 17:35 +, James Harrison wrote: Hi, I've just been leaving KDE to compile. Just ran out of disk space, only a 4GB drive :( I have a 20GB drive that's coming soon but i'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Any way to kill frozen X/KDE?

2005-01-16 Thread Douglas James Dunn
first um you have to make sure you delete the linux link in /usr/src then create a new link from the new kernel source to linux. Ill look for what you need. On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 12:44 +, Peng wrote: On 01/16/05 17:36, Douglas James Dunn wrote: you can always change back till you get

Re: [gentoo-user] Any way to kill frozen X/KDE?

2005-01-16 Thread Douglas James Dunn
you need to know what kind of sound device you use and go look in device drivers/sound/advanced linux sound architecture you choose the type of device you use and compile it as a module On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 12:44 +, Peng wrote: On 01/16/05 17:36, Douglas James Dunn wrote: you can always

Re: [gentoo-user] Any way to kill frozen X/KDE?

2005-01-16 Thread Douglas James Dunn
im not sure it does. I would still go in and check everything you need to add to make sure its right. On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 12:54 +, Peng wrote: On 01/16/05 17:50, Douglas James Dunn wrote: first um you have to make sure you delete the linux link in /usr/src then create a new link from

Re: [gentoo-user] Any way to kill frozen X/KDE?

2005-01-16 Thread Douglas James Dunn
im really not sure about onboard audio i always personally stay away from onboard audio/video/nic, you could try making all the modules in there and seeing which coldplug uses then you know what works On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 13:32 +, Peng wrote: On 01/16/05 17:57, Douglas James Dunn wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] New Install Trouble w/ Boot and GCC Update

2005-01-15 Thread Douglas James Dunn
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Re: [gentoo-user] New Install

2005-01-15 Thread Douglas James Dunn
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Re: [gentoo-user] New Install Trouble w/ Boot and GCC Update

2005-01-15 Thread Douglas James Dunn
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Re: [gentoo-user] Onboard audio has dissapeared after installing Audigy

2005-01-15 Thread Douglas James Dunn
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Re: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages permission problem

2005-01-15 Thread James Hiscock
I use syslog-ng on my Gentoo box. It works well except one problem: Every time I reboot I found the /var/log/messgaes file's permission was set to 0600. Since I want all users in root group can read it, I have to chmod g+r /var/log/messages again and again. So how can I make its

Re: [gentoo-user] Onboard audio has dissapeared after installing Audigy

2005-01-15 Thread Douglas James Dunn
i865. I am pretty sure the kernel is ok too - it used to work on the very same kernel ( before installing Audigy ) , and even if the modules were missing shouldn't it show up on lspci ? Any other ideas ? On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 18:05 +, Douglas James Dunn wrote: the only other thing i could

[gentoo-user] can't emerge --clean

2005-01-15 Thread James Colannino
, NOT this status message. !!! FAILED prerm: 1 I've been using Gentoo for a while, but for the life of me, I can't figure out what's wrong here or how to fix it. Any ideas? :) James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Any way to kill frozen X/KDE?

2005-01-15 Thread Douglas James Dunn
. Hey... That gives me an idea. Think it could be that just video output is forzen, so I could hit Ctrl-Alt-F2 and log in as root and reboot or something? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Douglas James Dunn cell: (724) 316-8266 Secretary Phi Mu Delta Mu Theta chapter Indiana

Re: [gentoo-user] New Install Trouble w/ Boot and GCC Update

2005-01-15 Thread Douglas James Dunn
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Re: [gentoo-user] can't emerge --clean

2005-01-15 Thread James Hiscock
Try copying /usr/portage/gnome-base/gconf/gconf-1.0.8-r5.ebuild to /var/db/pkg/gnome-base/gconf-1.0.8-r5 and retrying the clean operation. ...or just open /var/db/pkg/gnome-base/gconf-1.0.8-r5 in a text editor (like nano), and see what's wrong on line 27... that might easier/safer. shrug --

Re: [gentoo-user] can't emerge --clean

2005-01-15 Thread James Colannino
? ( sys-devel/gettext )' I'm betting on the old Ctrl-A bug, but it could certainly be something else. Try copying /usr/portage/gnome-base/gconf/gconf-1.0.8-r5.ebuild to /var/db/pkg/gnome-base/gconf-1.0.8-r5 and retrying the clean operation. Hmm...looks like that worked :) James -- gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] Any way to kill frozen X/KDE?

2005-01-15 Thread Douglas James Dunn
my first suggestion is to make sure that you have the correct chipset and drivers installed for video video card, being the correct kernel module for the chipset and the correct driver via emerge. On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 19:23 +, Peng wrote: On 01/15/05 23:23, Douglas James Dunn wrote: First

Re: [gentoo-user] Any way to kill frozen X/KDE?

2005-01-15 Thread Douglas James Dunn
it would also help if you could look in your X log for any error messages it might display. and post them. On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 01:16 +, Douglas James Dunn wrote: my first suggestion is to make sure that you have the correct chipset and drivers installed for video video card, being

Re: [gentoo-user] Any way to kill frozen X/KDE?

2005-01-15 Thread Douglas James Dunn
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Re: [gentoo-user] qc-usb-messenger driver

2005-01-14 Thread James Hiscock
The website that had the drivers for my quickcam messenger has gone offline. I am stuck now with a camera i know works in linux but has no drivers. You can imagine my pain as I type this and it just sits on my monitor mocking me daily. If someone has the drivers from this guy/gals

Re: [gentoo-user] qc-usb-messenger driver

2005-01-14 Thread James Hiscock
http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/showproduct.php?product=2036 lists some drivers for it qc-usb is not the same as qc-usb-messenger: qc-usb is for the Logitech QuickCam Web (and similar models, like the Lego webcam that you get with the VisionCommand expansion for the Robotics Invention

[gentoo-user] which cvs frontend to use?

2005-01-14 Thread James
/viewcvs dev-util/lincvs dev-util/gcvs dev-util/cvsweb Which are easy to use? Which have good documentation? Any favorites? Any other cvs packages worth trying? James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: which cvs frontend to use?

2005-01-14 Thread James
Dave Nebinger dnebinger at joat.com writes: Thanks everyone. It looks like it's cvs from the command line. thanks guys... James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Weird Mail Server Bounces

2005-01-14 Thread James Colannino
along with amavisd-new (which also calls ClamAV and SpamAssassin) and procmail to actually deliver the mail. James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa problem

2005-01-12 Thread James St. Clair
Hello everyone, I'm new here, just installed gentoo (after 10 attemps over the last year and a half) and had this problem on my last install, so I didn't select alsa when compiling the kernel, and emerged alsa-driver after reboot. And make sure your sound card is set in make.conf as

[gentoo-user] Gnome Emerge fails

2005-01-11 Thread James \Morpheous\ Harrison
, Exitcode 2 !!! Parallel Make Failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. Any ideas? James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome Emerge fails

2005-01-11 Thread James Harrison
no idea what alsa is ^_^ except the basics that is, but i'm gonna try manually emerging it, and if that fails i'll try some of the other workarounds suggested. Thanks to all on this problem... James begin:vcard fn:James Harrison n:Harrison;James email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] note:Morph x-mozilla

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome Emerge fails

2005-01-11 Thread James Harrison
Dave Nebinger wrote: James do you have alsa in your USE flags? To be completely honest, I have no idea what alsa is ^_^ except the basics that is, but i'm gonna try manually emerging it, and if that fails i'll try some of the other workarounds suggested. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: GMAIL accounts

2005-01-11 Thread James Harrison
folder. Easy as dead :) Mind you, not very spammy. Try using Hotmail for a day, now there's spam :p James begin:vcard fn:James Harrison n:Harrison;James email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] note:Morph x-mozilla-html:TRUE version:2.1 end:vcard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] init script problems

2005-01-11 Thread James Hiscock
/sbin/runscript.sh: line 7: Set: command not found There's probably an incorrectly capitalized 'S' in this file, on the line specified...? (probably should be 'set', not 'Set') ...or it might be in /var/lib/init.d/depcache...? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome Emerge fails

2005-01-11 Thread James Harrison
. There are reasons, and that was the point I wanted to make. James probably should unmerge alsa, and use the version in the 2.6 kernel. Before knowing his reason for using the ebuild, it's not really fair to question it. This has gotten off topic, and I apologize and hope James uses

Re: [gentoo-user] ps ax stuck process, help :)

2005-01-09 Thread James Hiscock
I remember someting about terminal ctrl codes freezing output in one of my linux books but cannot find it again. I could be wrong but I suspect I just have to ctrl - something to unlock it. If you did hit CTRL+S, then hit CTRL+Q to unlock it. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox or Xorg font rendering?

2005-01-09 Thread James Hiscock
I like artwiz-fonts but apart from that I'm using them because they are the only fonts which seem good renderered to me, the point about firefox that seems strange to me is that even the menu' and toolbars fonts (which are not configurable) are bad-rendered, maybe it's really a problem of gtk

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox or Xorg font rendering?

2005-01-09 Thread James Hiscock
What do u mean, James... that as long as I don't have any gnome package installed I can't make my fonts better? Not quite -- it's just a whole heck of a lot easier to deal with if you've got bits of Gnome installed so you can easily configure your GTK apps to look prettier than they do

Re: [gentoo-user] 1GB or 896MB, who tells the true ?

2004-02-11 Thread James Jones
raptor wrote: why kernel is saying that it will use only 896 MB RAM, when I have 1GB ?!?! (see below) I bet you have a motherboard with on-board graphics, and it's taking 1024 - 896 = 128 MB of RAM off the top for its use. James Jones -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.2 + Latest nVidia driver= Unable to initialize kernel module - a solution

2004-02-10 Thread Mitchell James
machine. I finally realized that the only major difference between the two kernels was that I had not enabled /devfs in 2.6.2 because it is obsolete. I recompiled with it enabled and it worked as well as with the 2.4.23 kernel. -- Enable /devfs for 2.6.2 kernels and nvidia. Mitchell James

[gentoo-user] mozilla broken after emerge

2004-02-01 Thread James Hughes
, but no mozilla window. Is there a way to make mozilla spew some more verbose startup messages? (I tried '-v', no luck). thanks for any suggestions, James -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Samba with Active Directory

2004-02-01 Thread James G Hanna Jr
Hello all, I'm trying to get samba working with my Win2k3 Domain controller. I've followed the directions in the Documentation Tips and Tricks part of the gentoo forums, but no matter what I do I always get prompted for my password when I try to browse my linux machine from my domain

Re: [gentoo-user] Samba with Active Directory

2004-02-01 Thread James G Hanna Jr
James G Hanna Jr wrote: Hello all, I'm trying to get samba working with my Win2k3 Domain controller. I've followed the directions in the Documentation Tips and Tricks part of the gentoo forums, but no matter what I do I always get prompted for my password when I try to browse my linux

Re: [gentoo-user] No sound with MythTV

2004-01-31 Thread James Lee
On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 13:40 -0500, Alec Berryman wrote: can view the cable stream with MythTV, but cannot hear any sound. I've Any suggestions? Don't you have to connect the audio output of the tv tuner to the line in of your sound card? I know that I do. -- James Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] modules autoload question

2004-01-30 Thread James Lee
users want to have both kernels and they need different modules loaded for each kernel version. -- James Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jlee.no-ip.com:8000/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Virtual/Mailhost Howto - Postfix

2004-01-30 Thread Mitchell James
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Re: [gentoo-user] Virtual/Mailhost Howto - Postfix

2004-01-30 Thread Mitchell James
Found it. I had put a "-w" instead of a "-v". A bifocal problem. Mitch Andrey Kartashov wrote: On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 06:17:49PM -0600, Mitchell James wrote: hi, I am trying to follow the *Virtual/Mailhost Howto http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/virt-mail-how

Re: [gentoo-user] GnuPG and missing public keys on keyservers

2004-01-28 Thread James Lee
On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 16:46 +0100, lukas wrote: On Wednesday 28 January 2004 06:52, James Lee wrote: I tried getting some people's public keys, but with every keyserver I try to connect to it times out (I can still ping it, though). I have a good firewall, but certainly don't block

Re: [gentoo-user] audio streaming with kernel 2.6 vs 2.4

2004-01-28 Thread James Lee
On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 11:53 -0500, mikep wrote: Is anyone streaming audio and browsing the web with kernel 2.6 with no performance issues? So you have Adelphia too... I have been having no problems listening to di.fm while surfing the web with my mm-series kernel. -- James Lee [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] audio streaming with kernel 2.6 vs 2.4

2004-01-28 Thread James Lee
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Re: [gentoo-user] recommended 2.6 emerge for first time user

2004-01-27 Thread James Lee
should be placed in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel- 2.6 when you want them to automatically load at startup. Also, to compile the kernel, you only have to type make bzImage modules modules_install. Other than that, though, its a very easy transition. Good luck with it. James On Tue, 2004-01-27

Re: [gentoo-user] GnuPG and missing public keys on keyservers

2004-01-27 Thread James Lee
--- CRYPTONOMICON.mit.edu ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2001ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 32.547/32.918/33.553/0.474 ms -- James Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jlee.no-ip.com:8000/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

RE: [gentoo-user] su: Permission denied!

2004-01-12 Thread Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower)
-Original Message- From: JurLan Sterling Chavis wrote: Please correct me if I'm wrong but I believe I read that you need to be a member of the wheel group before you can use su. You're right :) That wasn't what happened in my case. I could use su, it just wouldn't let me su to

RE: [gentoo-user] Virus's

2004-01-07 Thread Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower)
I get them all the time. I figure it is because I responded to one of those cheesy "you won the lotto" spams (or maybe it was a Nigerian spammer). I just wanted to see what response I would get. -Original Message-From: Nicholas Hockey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Tuesday,

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