Re: [gentoo-user] ps2 / usb mice

2004-02-15 Thread LoneStar
Norbert Kamenicky wrote: LoneStar wrote: OK, let's see someone nail this one I built a Gentoo system using a ps/2 mouse. When I set the machine up where it's going to live, I connected a usb mouse to it. I reconfigured X and gpm to reflect the new mouse and all is well . EXCEPT

[gentoo-user] ps2 / usb mice

2004-02-14 Thread LoneStar
OK, let's see someone nail this one I built a Gentoo system using a ps/2 mouse. When I set the machine up where it's going to live, I connected a usb mouse to it. I reconfigured X and gpm to reflect the new mouse and all is well . EXCEPT .. When I remove the ps/2 mouse from

Re: [gentoo-user] Copy and paste from nano

2004-02-13 Thread LoneStar
Alex Volkov wrote: Hi everyone, I just can't figure out how do I copy a portion or the whole file in nano and paste it into links or other program. I have a problem and would like to post a log file to a list. I have read man and help nano pages but found no info on the subject. Thanks. It

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo female?

2004-02-11 Thread LoneStar
Norbert Kamenicky wrote: LoneStar wrote: I tried installing it on a PIII system from both the i686 and pentium3 live CDs and all I could get was seg faults when trying to untar the stages (I tried all 3). Check RAM with memtest86. The RAM that was in the PIII system is now in the Athlon

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo female?

2004-02-11 Thread LoneStar
Clay Culver wrote: On Tuesday 10 February 2004 11:11 pm, LoneStar wrote: I'm beginning to think gentoo is female. You sould get out more. =D I *DO* get out a lot. Out of money, out of time, out of patience, out of beer, ... :-) -- Johnny Sistumz injunear -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] HELP: Problem in rebooting after running 'emerge -u world'

2004-02-10 Thread LoneStar
Stephen Liu wrote: Hi Christoph, I can't imagine how this can happen without the use of etc-update... Please note that he is booting his system from a rescue floppy, therefore booting into single user mode. Boot into the live CD. Run e2fsck on your hda1 and hda2. Do the chroot routine. Edit

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel-2.6.2-gentoo boot problems

2004-02-10 Thread LoneStar
Chris wrote: I emerged kernel 2.6.2 dev-gentoo last night and proceeded to get it up and running this evening. When I tried to boot it I ended up with the following problems. Step 4: Determining root device Root block device unspecified or not detected. Please specify a device to boot, or

Re: [gentoo-user] can't send emails to hotmail.com and other accounts (qmail server)

2004-02-10 Thread LoneStar
Norbert Kamenicky wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I am Getting this errors. ¿whats wrong with my qmail server? i don't have problems with all domains. First Error Hi. This is the qmail-send program at localhost. I'm afraid

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't start gnome as normal user

2004-02-10 Thread LoneStar
Rumen Yotov wrote: Hi all, I've some strange problem. Can't start gnome as normal user but as root everything is OK. It must be something with the file/dir permissions or missing files/dirs don't know. Nothing unusual in the logs, just NVidia splash screen shows and the system goes back to text

[gentoo-user] Is Gentoo female?

2004-02-10 Thread LoneStar
I'm beginning to think gentoo is female. If she likes you, all is well and fine. If not, you may as well go find a Lady in Red(Hat). I've installed Gentoo from the i686 live CD on 3 Athalon systems without much trouble and am currently installing the 4th. I tried installing it on a PIII system

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo female?

2004-02-10 Thread LoneStar
Zarick Lau wrote: Hi, 2004-02-11 Wed 12:11 LoneStar ? I'm beginning to think gentoo is female. If she likes you, all is well and fine. If not, you may as well go find a Lady in Red(Hat). I've installed Gentoo from the i686 live CD on 3 Athalon systems without much trouble and am

Re: [gentoo-user] First install - Grub hard disk error

2004-02-09 Thread LoneStar
Assuming you're using one of the Genkernel 3.0 beta versions, I've had trouble with those also. There seems to be something in the creation of the initrd that gives errors. Comment out the initrd line in your grub config and try booting. Works for me (on three different systems I've built). Marc

Re: [gentoo-user] can't boot new system

2004-02-07 Thread LoneStar
Every kernel I've built using genkernel beta version has had problems with the initrd. I work around this by commenting out the initrd line in my boot loader (grub) and the kernel loads without problems. Moshe Kaminsky wrote: Hi, I'm trying to setup gentoo at home. I'm stuck with the kernel:

Re: [gentoo-user] A question about LILO (fwd)

2004-02-07 Thread LoneStar
This is an excerpt from the LUAU mailing list ... / If you try to setup dual boot, do NOT put grub or lilo into the // mbr as win2k has a sick problem with it (it will not boot). // // This was what I read, and decided to play it safe since I don't have much // slack to mess with this system

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome 2.4 starting at level 3

2004-01-27 Thread LoneStar
Kurt Guenther wrote: I did an: rc-update del xdm and removed it. How do I add it to runlevel 4? No man page. rc-updateenter seems to indicate that rc-update add runlevel4 might work, but it doesn't. --Kurt I use kdm and start it as the last thing by adding these lines to the

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo installation fails

2004-01-26 Thread LoneStar
Koala Gnu wrote: I was unable to send the whole build result. So I attach only the error message: snip ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /va/tmp/portage/texinfo-4.5/image/usr/share/man/man1/info.1 /bin/install: cannot create regular file

Re: [gentoo-user] emulating a sound card with software in Linux

2004-01-22 Thread LoneStar
Andrew Gaffney wrote: I am currently working on building my own Linux-driven Big Mouth Billy Bass according to the instructions at http://bigmouth.here-n-there.com/. In order to have the thing play the custom audio clips, I have to run patch cables from my audio out on my sound card to the

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel compiling error

2004-01-21 Thread LoneStar
_JusSx_ wrote: Hi i would like to compile and install a new kernel. When installed sourced i run $ make menuconfig and i got an error such as : can't find ncurses library. Notice that library is installed. so i tried to compile the kernel with $ make dep make clean and i got this error :

Re: [gentoo-user] kmenuedit

2004-01-19 Thread LoneStar
Peter Ruskin wrote: On Tuesday 20 Jan 2004 02:25, Greg Donald wrote: The apply button does indeed become active when I change an individual menu item. But then when I press it, there is no effect, the menus are not saved. Looks to me like it's working but you're not seeing the effect

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do when emerge cannot d/l a needed file?

2004-01-19 Thread LoneStar
Neal Lippman wrote: So, my questions are: 1) why isn't that file available? I can access it fine in my web browser, so I know the site is up and the file is there. Since the wget command (via ps) shows the --passive-ftp modifier to wget, made me assume wget is trying to retrieve the file via

Re: [gentoo-user] modem keeps hanging up

2004-01-19 Thread LoneStar
Linux Gentoo wrote: On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 22:46:24 +0100 Norbert Kamenicky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the words: :-) there is plenty of dirs u can look too, but the most proper on should be /var/log/ which is standard log dir Of course I though of that as soon as I sent the email. I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Partition size recommendations

2004-01-18 Thread LoneStar
Braden wrote: On Monday, January 19, 2004, at 03:52 AM, Jani-Matti Hätinen wrote: On Sunday 18 January 2004 19:56, Ben Munat wrote: [snip] Of course, if you mount /usr or / as read-only you have to reboot every time you install something or change a configuration file. For desktops this

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE update

2004-01-18 Thread LoneStar
Robert Szentmihalyi wrote: I already tried this, but it doesn't seem to help: bash-2.05b# emerge -p kdelibs These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N] media-libs/libid3tag-0.15.0b [ebuild N] media-libs/libmad-0.15.0b-r1 [ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel failures

2004-01-18 Thread LoneStar
Marianne Taylor wrote: On January 18, 2004 11:07, Kees de Bruin wrote: Hi, I've just downgraded genkernel to 1.9 again as the 3.0.1beta4/5 versions won't work. genkernel 3.0.1-beta4 works. You just have to add to the command line. genkernel all --menuconfig --mrproper --clean --install I

Re: [gentoo-user] Partition size recommendations

2004-01-18 Thread LoneStar
Braden wrote: Besides, what difference would this be from using a Win box? If you change the DNS entries in a 95/98/2k/ME box you have to reboot. XP ain't quite as bad, but not far from it. Johnny Sorry... I don't quite understand... I was saying that you do *not* need to reboot in order to

Re: [gentoo-user] Errors emerging kde

2004-01-16 Thread LoneStar
Persson wrote: During the compilation phase (so far I've seen this in kdelibs, kdemultimedia and kdenetwork), a message like this appears several times: trying to create local folder: Permission denied failed to create /root/.kde/share/config/ trying to create local folder: Permission denied

Re: [gentoo-user] kdemutimedia compile error

2004-01-16 Thread LoneStar
Chris wrote: 1. WANT_AUTOCONF=2.5 emerge -u kdemultimedia As I said, this didn't work. One post in the tread mentioned changing some compile time options directly in the ebuild (/usr/portage/kde-base/kdemultimedia/kdemultimedia-3.1.5.ebuild), which I did: 2. myconf=$myconf --disable-strict

[gentoo-user] corrupt or incomplete distfile

2004-01-15 Thread LoneStar
Hi all! I was just trying to emerge world and when it got to emerging kde, it halted with this error. Has anyone else ran across this? I get the same error whether I download it from distro.ibiblio.org or gentoo.oregonstate.edu. Johnny bash-2.05b# emerge -u arts Calculating dependencies

Re: [gentoo-user] corrupt or incomplete distfile

2004-01-15 Thread LoneStar
Daniel Drake wrote: Hi, LoneStar wrote: !!! File is corrupt or incomplete. (Digests do not match) our recorded digest: 53e9acbf1afde9e77c8c044133523036 your file's digest: 1d34348e805715559fcd0d978272f031 !!! File does not exist: /usr/portage/distfiles//arts-1.1.5.tar.bz2 Known bug, fixed