Re: [gentoo-user] HELP installation

2003-06-27 Thread Jason Gouger
:) ) As far as I know, the xfs kernel should have devfs. Frank J. Mattia wrote: | Jason Gouger wrote: | | I've also forgotten to include devfs. | | | Ive been trying to get my stage1 install to boot but it keeps telling me | that i didnt enable devfs... i know what it is but ive checked | menuconfig

[gentoo-user] Latest ghostscript ebuild

2003-06-27 Thread Jason Giangrande
on this system, and now I can't install it without installing X. Even when I try USE=-X which is how I installed it before. Regards, Jason Giangrande -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Latest ghostscript ebuild

2003-06-27 Thread Jason Giangrande
When I use the -v option to emerge ghostscript says -X too, but it still says it's going to install Xfree along with about 40 or so other things that I don't want or need. Jason On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 18:14, Stroller wrote: On 27/6/03 9:03 pm, Jason Giangrande [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any

Re: [gentoo-user] Fork of Gentoo?

2003-06-26 Thread Jason Gouger
You really can't make any assumptions like that without hearing both sides of the story. The article posted on slashdot was rather one sided Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Fork of Gentoo?

2003-06-26 Thread Jason Gouger
If you check the big thread in the forums, there's a couple posts from the devs stating gentoo is going non-profit. Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: - Original Message - From: brett holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 3:09 PM

Re: [gentoo-user] Bootable after stage 3

2003-06-24 Thread Jason Nielsen
e-mail to the list and I'll try to help. Cheers, Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: initrd - how to build?

2003-06-17 Thread Jason Nielsen
the linuxrc etc. Then: 7) umount /mnt/floppy 8) gzip initrdnew 9) cp intrdnew.gz initrd Now you have your own personalized initrd that you can use with isolinux to boot up a machine the way you want. Cheerio, Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] wine where?

2003-06-17 Thread Jason Calabrese
/usr/lib/wine On Tuesday 17 June 2003 15:42, GXzim wrote: Hello again, I was following the wine config tutorial but I got lost when it said in the wine directory cd to tools! But the funny thing is that I donĀ“t even know where the wine directory is! Can anyone give me a quick hand here?

[gentoo-user] Re: updatedb

2003-06-16 Thread Jason Nielsen
related however as I am using the same kernel as I was previous to my update and I don't recall this behavior.. and I would definitely have noticed! Cheers, Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage question

2003-06-15 Thread Jason Nielsen
. I used to try to play around by pinning = the version in my world file but this didn't seem to work very well.. but it has been a long time since I tried, like back in 1.1 or earlier.. LOL! Cheers, Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] updatedb

2003-06-15 Thread Jason Nielsen
out on this one but I was wondering if anyone else has noticed this behavior or if it is something specific to my setup. Cheers, Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] updatedb

2003-06-15 Thread Jason Nielsen
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003, Kirtis Bakalarczyk wrote: On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 14:10:37 -0700 (PDT) Jason Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I updated recently and noticed that 'updatedb' runs periodically. I don't recall this happening before but I'm sure it did.. my main

Re: [gentoo-user] Can Linux web browsing be a complete experience?(fwd)

2003-06-15 Thread Jason Nielsen
and add: evolution mailto:%s; under e-mail client.. you will have to figure out where to put this line. It is of course slightly different for each browser. Cheers, Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Cisco 352 PCMCIA Drivers

2003-06-13 Thread Jason Tedesco
Thanks Jason that was a good tip. Pitty it didn't solve my problem, it still didn't find the files it was looking for. I have also noticed something else while starting pcmcia-cs with cisco cards. I have the following cards. The LMC352 card was ripped out of a cisco PCI card. When using

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Cisco 352 PCMCIA Drivers

2003-06-13 Thread Jason Nielsen
the high pitch, flat pitch then it could be a MAC problem if your wireless network uses MAC filtering and you haven't gotten the admin to add your card to the accepted file... or do it yourself if you are running MAC filtering on your router ;-)! Good luck. Cheers, Jason On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Jason

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP Setup

2003-06-10 Thread Jason Nielsen
for this guy will tell you that the proper module is eepro100 under linux (actually I use the intel e100 driver but you get the point). Now rebuild your kernel with this guy build in or as a module if you prefer and you will be good to go. Cheers, Jason On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED

[gentoo-user] Cisco 352 PCMCIA Drivers

2003-06-10 Thread Jason Tedesco
Hi Guys, Just wondering if anyone could give me any assistance in configuring my Cisco arionet 352 PCMCIA card. There are a few approaches you can take to install these drivers. The ones I have found are, 1. Cisco ACU Drivers 2. Airolinux Drivers from SourceForge 3. Enable the

[gentoo-user] reiserfsprogs problem

2003-06-08 Thread Jason Giangrande
or anything like that. My boot partition itself is ext3. It's my root partition that's reiser. Anyone have a similar problem? Anyone know how I can try to reinstall the old version of reiserfsprogs to see if that fixes things? Thanks. Jason Giangrande -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] reiserfsprogs problem

2003-06-08 Thread Jason Giangrande
Going back to version 3.6.4-r1 of reiserfsprogs has gotten rid of the kernel panic, but has anyone else had a problem with the latest stable version of reiserfsprogs? Could this be a bug? Jason Giangrande Jason Giangrande wrote: Has anyone had problems with the new stable ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] lightweight C IDE

2003-06-07 Thread Jason Nielsen
and run a M-x compile. Also remember, C-h m this is your friend as it will give you a list of all the key-bindings for the particular mode you are in... i.e. C mode, gud mode etc. Cheers, Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop + Gentoo

2003-06-05 Thread Jason Nielsen
that stops all apps running sound and shuts down esd/arts then runs a '/etc/init.d/alsasound stop' and in /etc/app/resume.d you would '/etc/init.d/alsasound start' and restart esd/arts and all sound apps you like to have running and all should work nice. Cheers, Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

RE: [gentoo-user] NVidia Drivers

2003-06-04 Thread Jason Tedesco
My question is a little OT here. I have installed the NVIDIA drivers for a geforce3 ti 200 res in x is set at 1280x1024. At the moment I am using nvidia-kernel-1.0.4349-r2. In X-Windows, my colors don't look very sharp. This is mainly seen when I play UT2003. The Red's are pink and the

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo system really slowing down and using swap file more thanever!

2003-06-04 Thread Jason Nielsen
up RAM. Also, after you perform this experiment you might want to reboot the machine and try it again. Good luck. Cheers, Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2003-06-01 Thread Jason Calabrese
This is what I use. I have a cron setup to run this script every night. I've had it running for several months and it already saved me once. Let me know if you have ant questions or suggestions. Jason #! /bin/bash ### # Backup Script ### mount /boot

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2003-06-01 Thread Jason Calabrese
and all incrimentals since. I'd like to have something like that setup, but I haven't had time to play with it. Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Using distcc for cross-compiling

2003-05-31 Thread Jason Nielsen
On Fri, 30 May 2003, Andrew Gaffney wrote: Jason Nielsen wrote: Just to follow up on my own e-mail. If it is a big hassle to build x86-PPC cross compilers on all machines you could just use the fast Athlon machine with the cross-compiler to build a complete system for the PPC (much

Re: [gentoo-user] Using distcc for cross-compiling

2003-05-30 Thread Jason Nielsen
-compilers. the last line is the catcher and unless I'm reading it wrong it adds credence to my theory ;-)! Hope this helps. Cheers, Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Using distcc for cross-compiling

2003-05-30 Thread Jason Nielsen
On Thu, 29 May 2003, Jason Nielsen wrote: On Wed, 28 May 2003, Andrew Gaffney wrote: Andrew Gaffney wrote: I have Gentoo on 3 of my machines, so far. Two are Athlon machines, the other is a PPC. The PPC box is only 120 MHz, so I want to use distcc. Has anyone set up distcc cross

RE: [gentoo-user] [OT] Case recomendations

2003-05-30 Thread Jason Tedesco
-Original Message- From: Adam Mercer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 30 May 2003 09:00 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Case recomendations On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 08:48:44AM +1000, Jason Tedesco wrote: My ThermalTake Xaser III comes in tomorrow

[gentoo-user] OT: Bash script help

2003-03-31 Thread Jason Giangrande
(in this example remove) is empty (has no other files or folders) the else statement runs, which means the directory does not get removed. Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Thanks, Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] april fools?

2003-03-31 Thread Jason Giangrande
Yeah, you need a machete to cut through the sarcasm. But then again I read the posts here before I read the newsletter, so I already had some idea that it was a joke before I read it. Jason On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 23:07, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Yes, but when you are suffering from lack of sleep

[gentoo-user] Re: replacing kernel on install CD

2003-03-29 Thread Jason Nielsen
you are looking for. Cheers, Jason On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, Mitchell Smith wrote: Hi list, I have some fairly specific kernel requirements during installation. Does anyone know how I can use a custom kernel to install the Gentoo system? Any advise on this subject would greatly

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel compile problems

2003-03-25 Thread Jason Nielsen
the default $PATH but hey, 'su -' works without any effort. Thanks, Jason On 25 Mar 2003, John H wrote: I had the exact same problem recently. I assume you are using the su command to get root privileges to do the compile. Instead use the command su - This should work. As to why

RE: [gentoo-user] Question about emerge

2003-03-24 Thread McFarland, Jason L CTO2 NCTF-CND N5
Actually emerge sync wipesout the entire portage tree and rewrites the whole thing, hence the reason it takes so much longer, whereas emerge rsync compares your portage tree with the current one and only updates it. -Original Message- From: Seth Chandler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: [gentoo-user] SCSI emulation with gentoo-source kernel?

2003-03-24 Thread Jason Giangrande
I've added hdd=ide-scsi to my grub.conf and scsi emulation works fine for me with gentoo-sources. I also add the ide-scsi module to modules.autoload, of course. Jason On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 14:57, Klaus-J. Wolf wrote: Hi, I guess my question is nothing more than a dupe, but I found no answer

[gentoo-user] Kernel compile problems

2003-03-24 Thread Jason Nielsen
] Error 2 Hmmm.. gcc command not found again! A 'make config' works so if worse comes to worse ;-)! Any input? TIA. Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Quanta crash

2003-03-20 Thread Jason Nielsen
Hi all, I recently emerged quanta-3.1 without a hitch. However, when I try to run the program it crashes with the attached error output. I don't use KDE so I emerged kdelibs and kdebase then re-emerged quanta but it gives the same error. Anyone have any ideas TIA. Jason Error

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE spell checker

2003-03-19 Thread Jason Giangrande
ASpell Default is my dictionary. US-ASCII is the encoding. And Aspell is the client. Sorry should have mentioned these in my original email. Jason On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 18:54, Ernie Schroder wrote: On Wednesday 19 March 2003 06:33 pm, Jason Giangrande wrote: I have aspell installed and set

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE spell checker

2003-03-19 Thread Jason Giangrande
Sorry, I really didn't have a usable dictionary. I just assumed if aspell was installed a dictionary got installed too. I just emerged aspell-en and spell checking works fine now. Thanks for the help, Ernie. Jason On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 19:03, Jason Giangrande wrote: ASpell Default is my

[gentoo-user] sse USE flag with AMD cpu

2003-03-18 Thread Jason Giangrande
if it would be worth recompiling everything for just that one flag? Thanks, Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] X windows question [ut2003]

2003-03-16 Thread Jason Giangrande
installed the game as root but I get this same error message whether I run the updater as root or as my regular user. Anyone know what might be going on here? Jason On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 17:46, Nicholas Hockey wrote: x only allows the current user to connect to the running session of X , not even

Re: [gentoo-user] X windows question [ut2003]

2003-03-16 Thread Jason Giangrande
Yes, and I am using sudo when I try to run the updater. I get the error that error that was in my last email. Jason On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 18:02, Nicholas Hockey wrote: did you use sudo to install it, if so you have to use sudo to run the updater, atleast loki's were that way (god i miss loki

Re: [gentoo-user] X windows question [ut2003]

2003-03-16 Thread Jason Giangrande
Just thought I'd let everyone know that I got the ut2003 updater to work. The updater apparently didn't know where I installed the game. This is what I had to run: ./loki_update --path /path/to/ut2003 Thanks to all those who helped. Jason On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 18:52, Nicholas Hockey wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] X windows question [ut2003]

2003-03-16 Thread Jason Giangrande
not run the install script from your mounted CD directory because you will need to change CDs so doing that would cause you problems. As far as I know multiplayer does work. I just haven't tried it yet. Jason On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 19:42, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 00:33

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I setup X?

2003-03-16 Thread Jason Giangrande
Check here: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/desktop.xml Jason On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 00:33, Matthew Tedder wrote: I finally got Gentoo installed and working but cannot find any instructions on setting up X in Gentoo. It's clearly not in the documentation or the FAQ and no startx script exists

Re: [gentoo-user] cflag gcc optimisation questions

2003-03-15 Thread Jason Giangrande
unstable. Jason On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 10:41, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: Hello, Here is my cflag variable. CFLAGS=-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer (1) According to the CFlags Central thread on forums and the gcc manual optimisations page (link [1]) the -O3 flag includes

Re: [gentoo-user] ide-scsi issues

2003-03-15 Thread Jason Giangrande
Aaron, Are you trying scanbus as root? If so have you tried running dmesg to see if your cd-r is detected at boot? Jason On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 00:10, Aaron Matteson wrote: I am having a problem, maybe someone can shed some light on this for me. Here is the situation. I am trying to get ide

Re: [gentoo-user] ide-scsi issues

2003-03-15 Thread Jason Giangrande
In your /dev/cdroms directory what does cdrom1 (or whichever your cd rewriter drive) point to? Also, what does the vga=791 do that's in your grub.conf? Jason On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 00:36, Aaron Matteson wrote: Yes, i am using cdrecord -scanbus as root and the drives are detected at boot

[gentoo-user] Apache and SSL

2003-03-12 Thread Jason Giangrande
to set this up. I'm using Apache with mod_ssl. Thanks, Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache and SSL

2003-03-12 Thread Jason Giangrande
Where would I put the RewriteRule line? Jason On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 17:40, John Ziniti wrote: Use mod_rewrite and add a RewriteRule: RewriteRule http://www.example.com/(.*) https://www.example.com/$1 [R] mod_rewrite docuemtation is here: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod

[gentoo-user] Error emerging MySQL

2003-03-11 Thread Jason Giangrande
Nvidia drivers, but I don't remember now. Thanks, Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Orinoco Gold wireless card

2003-03-10 Thread Jason Nielsen
are ready, just stick you Orinoco Gold in the slot and you should get a blissful double beep. Enjoy the wireless. Jason On Sun, 9 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For those of you that are using this card successfully, can you give me the low down on which kernel parameters you use, what

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound Card issuses

2003-03-10 Thread Jason Giangrande
with whatever is cheaper. Jason On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 16:59, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: Ben Sparks said: I have a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz and I've heard that ALSA support for the card is not any better than what is available in the kernel. I'm about to recompile mykernel with support for my

Re: [gentoo-user] usb problems

2003-03-09 Thread Jason Giangrande
I managed to solve my problem. I was using the UHCI usb driver when I should have been using the OHCI one. Regards, Jason On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 13:31, Jason Giangrande wrote: I have two usb devices connected to my system (which uses the AMD MP chipset) and neither /proc/bus/usb/devices nor

[gentoo-user] configuring cdbakeoven crashes

2003-03-08 Thread Jason Giangrande
it? cdbakeoven crashes like this as both root and a regular user. Thanks, Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] configuring cdbakeoven crashes

2003-03-08 Thread Jason Giangrande
Upgrading to the masked version of cdbakeoven seems to have done the trick. Thanks for your help. Jason On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 19:35, Rich Smith wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have found cdbakeoven to be a very unstable package (and not just on Gentoo but Debian

Re: [gentoo-user] Open Office packages

2003-03-08 Thread Jason Giangrande
Thanks, I think I'll install the 10 minute one then. Jason On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 00:15, Troy Dack wrote: On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 16:14, Jason Giangrande wrote: Does anyone know the differences between the openoffice package and the openoffice-bin package? OpenOffice - takes about 2 days

Re: [gentoo-user] Install dilemma need some advice

2003-03-07 Thread Jason Giangrande
the master boot record. But be warned, if you have data on the hard drive more than likely it will be inaccessible after you do this. Jason Ernie Schroder wrote: I've got the new machine built. Leadtek nForce2 based mobo, AthlonXP2100 512megs DDR2700... I couldn't get the onboard nic or a pci slot

[gentoo-user] etc-update

2003-03-06 Thread Jason Giangrande
Is there a way to use etc-update to update all config files at once, either merge or replace? The manpage didn't have anything and doing them one at a time is a huge pain. Thanks, -- -Jason Giangrande giangrande.org - http://www.giangrande.org http://www.giangrande.org/ Dog's I View - http

[gentoo-user] Installing unstable/testing packages

2003-03-06 Thread Jason Giangrande
instead of 2.0.44) if I normally use the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 option when installing packages? Thanks, -- -Jason Giangrande giangrande.org - http://www.giangrande.org http://www.giangrande.org/ Dog's I View - http://www.dogsiview.com http://www.dogsiview.com/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing unstable/testing packages

2003-03-06 Thread Jason Giangrande
What's the difference between the two? Jason Louis C. Candell wrote: Jason Giangrande [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If I install some ebuilds from the unstable/testing group using ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 can I then go back and remove the accept_keywords setting and install the stable package

[gentoo-user] Problem starting X

2003-03-05 Thread Jason Giangrande
When I type startx I get the following on a few lines: /usr/X11R6/bin/startx: line 133: xauth: command not found And this once: /usr/X11R6/bin/startx: line 140: xinit: command not found Anyone know what those mean? Thanks, -- -Jason Giangrande giangrande.org - http://www.giangrande.org http

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem starting X Nvidia driver

2003-03-05 Thread Jason Giangrande
driver, but I get this error message and X won't load. (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to allocate DMA push buffer Anyone know how I can fix this? Is the Geforce 4 4400 supported by this driver? Jason Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Did you merge xfree? When I type startx I get the following on a few lines

[gentoo-user] chost, cflags, and cxxflags examples

2003-03-04 Thread Jason Giangrande
Anyone have any examples of the CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS settings for a dual Athlon system or know of any links that explain these settings more? Thanks. -- -Jason Giangrande giangrande.org - http://www.giangrande.org http://www.giangrande.org/ Dog's I View - http://www.dogsiview.com http

Re: [gentoo-user] chost, cflags, and cxxflags examples

2003-03-04 Thread Jason Giangrande
Thanks for the link. Do you know what -fomit-frame-pointer does? It's one of the recommend flags for pretty much every processor. Jason Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: Jason Giangrande said: Anyone have any examples of the CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS settings for a dual Athlon system or know of any

Re: [gentoo-user] chost, cflags, and cxxflags examples

2003-03-04 Thread Jason Giangrande
I don't believe there are any other differecnces between the XP and MP and some early XP's didn't have the smp capability disabled, so, I would imagine, they are exactly like MP's. Jason Ted Goodridge, Jr wrote: -Physically, I believe, the CPUs are the same. i.e. you can do SMP with 2 -XP's

Re: [gentoo-user] chost, cflags, and cxxflags examples

2003-03-04 Thread Jason Giangrande
It say's not to use Athlon-4. I'm not even sure what that is, but the make.conf file has an example with athlon-xp so I would assume it's ok. Jason Ted Ozolins wrote: Mike Williams wrote: On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 20:44, Jason Giangrande wrote: Anyone have any examples of the CFLAGS

[gentoo-user] Gentoo-patched Kernel on Athlon T-Bird

2003-03-02 Thread Jason McCormick
as well. Is this a known bug? -- Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] mobile question - pretty general

2003-02-21 Thread Jason Nielsen
ATI powerbooks. Cheers, Jason On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, sean.d wrote: i was giving thought to getting a new powerbook actually... one of those pretty 17inchers :) yes, even the laptops made for linux have issues.. i have a tuxtop obsidian with a winmodem - the modem works fine... the only

[gentoo-user] Re: Unmounting livecd during installation?

2003-02-18 Thread Jason Nielsen
the new iso do disk. I do this to add some personalizations to my CD such as adding kernel source and other precompiled binaries that I have built on a much faster machine for instance I've done this for a while... concept similar to the new GRP idea. Well good luck. Jason On Tue, 18 Mar

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