Re: [gentoo-user] Compile Problems

2003-09-18 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 20:11, Fred Clausen wrote: > > > >>Hey all - > >> > >>I am having a couple of issues with things that I am trying to compile > >>and I am at a wits end trying to figure out what to do. > >> > >>All of these issues revolve around nmemonics. If I try to compile any > >>2.4.xx

Re: [gentoo-user] Compile Problems

2003-09-18 Thread Mark Knecht
Which version of gcc, glibc, etc are you running? emerge info is a good place to get everything quickly. - Mark On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 19:35, Fred Clausen wrote: > Hey all - > > I am having a couple of issues with things that I am trying to compile > and I am at a wits end trying to figure out

[gentoo-user] researching older package revisions

2003-09-16 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, What command can I use to find out what revisions of a package exist out there in portage? My machine runs with ~x86 as standard. Lucky or unlucky a while back I ended up with gcc33 emerged. Actually it hasn't been too bad, but there have been a few problems. One happened today with an u

RE: [gentoo-user] SDL not built with joystick support

2003-09-16 Thread Mark Knecht
(B> On Tuesday 16 September 2003 21:17, Mark Knecht wrote: (B> >There is a game on my Gentoo machine that my son plays sometimes. I (B> > built a new kernel a few days ago and apparently (I guess) I forgot to (B> > choose something to get this to work. What is SD

[gentoo-user] SDL not built with joystick support

2003-09-16 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, There is a game on my Gentoo machine that my son plays sometimes. I built a new kernel a few days ago and apparently (I guess) I forgot to choose something to get this to work. What is SDL (or than Simple DirectMedia Layer) and where would I make a change to get this to work again? I Goo

Re: [gentoo-user] What creates System.map, config and vmlinuz?

2003-09-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 19:26, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > Gentoo kernels create /proc/config which is the contents of the config file > used to generate the kernel. Even if you wipe out your kernel tree you can > just copy /proc/config to .config in a new kernel tree and you can reproduce > the runni

Re: [gentoo-user] /boot/grub and grub.conf are gone???

2003-09-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 19:29, Joshua Banks wrote: > > What the hell did I do??? > mount /boot Gentoo doesn't run with the boot partition mounted. I guess it mounts at boot time and is then unmounted for safety. If you copied things there, you'll need to move them somewhere else so that the dir

Re: [gentoo-user] What creates System.map, config and vmlinuz?

2003-09-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 19:06, Brett I.Holcomb wrote: > You haven't made a mistake. Brett & Collins. You say mistake. I say 'mistake'. I did understand, especially after Lindsay's explanation about the 'convention' being to change the name, that it's just a 'mistake' and not a mistake. ;-) But

Re: [gentoo-user] What creates System.map, config and vmlinuz?

2003-09-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 15:40, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > bzImage doesn't contain the system symbol map, but the symbol map is > frequently used to translate numeric locations in bzImage into symbol names > for debugging purposes. System.map isn't required. > > The file /usr/src/linux/arch/xxx/boot/

[gentoo-user] What creates System.map, config and vmlinuz?

2003-09-15 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I've never received an answer for these question in the Redhat reflectors, and never asked here. Please excuse my ignorance on this subject. I just did a kernel build of gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r7 by hand (make dep clean bzImage modules modules_install & then copy bzImage to /boot by hand)

RE: [gentoo-user] Lost lm-sensors modules on gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r6 to -r7 upgrade...

2003-09-15 Thread Mark Knecht
> I just built a new kernel from gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r7 according to the > installation instruction on gentoo.org (i.e. make dep && make > clean bzImage > modules modules_install). I then reemerged nvidia-kernel and > lm-sensors. For > some reason lm-sensors installed its modules under > /lib/mod

RE: [gentoo-user] RE: Re: vanilla-sources (2.4.22) No Athlon XPchoice?

2003-09-15 Thread Mark Knecht
> > Have a look at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-kernel.xml, the very > useful kernel guide. > > BillK > Bill, This was a great link. Thanks! Cheers, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] RE: Re: vanilla-sources (2.4.22) No Athlon XP choice?

2003-09-13 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 20:16, dave! wrote: > The person who said the patch was only in gentoo-sources was right, > vanilla sources wont be patched for it, enhancement requests for vanilla > sources wont get a moments thought. If you really want it built with for > athlon-xp choose Athlon/Duron/K7 i

Re: [gentoo-user] root's history file

2003-09-13 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 09:05, Mikhail P. wrote: > In bash it is variable $HISTSIZE > > e.g. "export HISTSIZE=150" > will limit it to 150 lines. > > regards, Mikhail, Yes, thanks. I had seen the HISTSIZE & HISTFILESIZE valiables in the sert command, but I was wondering where those are set for r

[gentoo-user] root's history file

2003-09-13 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, A simple question, I hope. Where does the size limit on root's history file get set? Thanks, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] portage/emerge for multiple kernels

2003-09-12 Thread Mark Knecht
> On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 09:23:58AM -0700, Mark Knecht muttered: > > Hi, > >Does my local emerge and/or portage keep separate databases for each > > kernel with different patch levels? I know it doesn't for minor > changes like > > 2.4.20-r6 vs. 2.4.20-r7,

RE: [gentoo-user] what device is my sound card using?

2003-09-12 Thread Mark Knecht
Arlo, Take a look at the /proc/asound directory. It should tell you the cards it has installed. If you only have a single device called out, it will be easy. If you have 3, like me, it's a bit more difficult. ;-) If things are set up correctly, and you are using Alsa 0.9.6, then you do not n

[gentoo-user] portage/emerge for multiple kernels

2003-09-12 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, Does my local emerge and/or portage keep separate databases for each kernel with different patch levels? I know it doesn't for minor changes like 2.4.20-r6 vs. 2.4.20-r7, but what about 2.4.20 vs. 2.4.22 or 2.6.x? I don't want to start fixing problems on my new 2.4.22 kernel, only to dis

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: vanilla-sources (2.4.22) No Athlon XP choice?

2003-09-12 Thread Mark Knecht
> On Friday 12 September 2003 13:32, dave ! wrote: (B> > On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 20:29:21 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: (B> > >I'm in make xconfig and do not see the same Athlon choices I had under (B> > >2.4.20. Is this correct (maybe they renamed it) or a bug? (B>

[gentoo-user] vanilla-sources (2.4.22) No Athlon XP choice?

2003-09-11 Thread Mark Knecht
I'm in make xconfig and do not see the same Athlon choices I had under 2.4.20. Is this correct (maybe they renamed it) or a bug? Thanks, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: radeon 7500 - module prob - radeonModuleData

2003-09-11 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 13:04, Florian Konnertz wrote: > I haven't seen it! Thanks for the hint! :) > So i'm just following the steps and here's a question: > ### from the page: > > 2. Install XFree86 and configure your kernel > > ... > > Make sure the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) is off. The >

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: radeon 7500 - module prob - radeonModuleData

2003-09-11 Thread Mark Knecht
> > I did everything, here are the results: > > 1,2,4,5: see http://openspirit.de/noowiki/flok/Groovesurfer > > 3 the readeon module loads > 6: Ok, enabled glx and dri; the rest was already fine > 7: Section DRI was fine > > I put the XF86Config also on the site, should have done that earlier. > >

RE: [gentoo-user] /lib/modules for multiple kernels question

2003-09-11 Thread Mark Knecht
> > You can simply modify the version string in the kernel's root Makefile. > Thanks Shawn. So this would be line #1 or #4? Line 4 seems more likely to me. VERSION = 2 PATCHLEVEL = 4 SUBLEVEL = 20 EXTRAVERSION = -gentoo-r5 Changing the EXTRAVERSION part would make lots of sense if it also creat

[gentoo-user] /lib/modules for multiple kernels question

2003-09-11 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, If there's a page somewhere that explains this issue, please direct me there before you write a lot of stuff down. I just cannot find the answer in Google. I am quite unclear in the Linux kernel build process how to keep multiple versions of the same kernel on the system when they requir

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: radeon 7500 - module prob - radeonModuleData

2003-09-11 Thread Mark Knecht
> > Thanks for your support Mark! I hope i can manage it with your help. > I did the above, the result is similar, still the > (EE) LoadModule: Module radeon does not have a radeonModuleData > data object. > problem. I guess it's not the guilt of the XF86Config. No idea > what to do :( > But i will

RE: [gentoo-user] emerge -u system going haywire...

2003-09-10 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 15:17, HvR wrote: > doing this indeed solved the problem: > > As root: > - Run java-config --set-system-vm=blackdown-jdk-1.4.1. > - Do source /etc/profile > - emerge db > > Thanks to all. Very glad it worked. It did for me, and it points out the value of Bugzilla where

RE: [gentoo-user] emerge -u system going haywire...

2003-09-10 Thread Mark Knecht
If possible, please don't sent HTML to lists like this. Comment embedded below. - Mark -Original Message- From: HvR [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 12:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] emerge -u system going haywire... here it is: che

RE: [gentoo-user] radeon 7500 - module prob - radeonModuleData

2003-09-10 Thread Mark Knecht
> Hi, > > My radeon drivers wont load: > > (EE) LoadModule: Module radeon does not have a radeonModuleData > data object. > (II) UnloadModule: "radeon" > (II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/radeon.o > (EE) Failed to load module "radeon" (invalid module, 0) > > XFree86 Version 4.3.0 > Linu

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] - a couple of mknod questions

2003-09-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 15:13, Marshal Newrock wrote: > > > > Or do I need to add the c option since it says make a 'character' special > > file? > > > > mknod /dev/rtc c 10 135 > > You have the command written correctly the second time. However, as > Gentoo defaults to using devfs, you shouldn't h

RE: [gentoo-user] upgrade

2003-09-09 Thread Mark Knecht
> > Hallo, I'm a new gentoo user, I like this distro, but I've a question, I > have not an adsl, so I use the cdcache option for the boot, but now I > want to upgrade few software to the newest version, how can I tell to > portage to search over internet? For example, I wanted to upgrade > evoluti

[gentoo-user] [OT] - a couple of mknod questions

2003-09-09 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I'm looking at a very small problem on my new Gentoo kernel where I get the message while booting modprobe: can't locate module /dev/rtc From googling around it appears that the recommended solution to this (comment if you disagree) is to compile enhanced rtc support into my kernel (it'

Re: [gentoo-user] new gcc version - how much do I need to rebuild?

2003-09-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 19:57, Jason Stubbs wrote: > On Tuesday 09 September 2003 11:48, Mark Knecht wrote: > >emerge --deep --update world gave me a new gcc version tonight. Just > > checking - how much do I need to rebuild since this happened? The kernel > > and pretty m

Re: [gentoo-user] continued depmod problems - SOLVED

2003-09-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 16:42, Mike Williams wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Saturday 06 September 2003 19:43, Mark Knecht wrote: > > >At this point all the drivers that I seem to need are running without > > errors. However, depm

[gentoo-user] new gcc version - how much do I need to rebuild?

2003-09-08 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi emerge --deep --update world gave me a new gcc version tonight. Just checking - how much do I need to rebuild since this happened? The kernel and pretty much everything except xfree-drm is 3.2.3, but drm is 3.3.1. Is this anything I should be concerned about? Also, since I need to ree

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r2 vs. r6

2003-09-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 15:00, Tom Wesley wrote: > On Monday 08 September 2003 22:57, Chris I wrote: > > > > etcat -c packagename > > > > This is a fairly new way to do things as well, kinda nice. > > > > But it seems this only shows the most recent additions, so wouldn't show the > r2 to r6 change

RE: [gentoo-user] Future of linux...

2003-09-08 Thread Mark Knecht
> > > > Many? Really? Name 20? Heck, just name 2! > > Ernie Ball: http://news.com.com/2008-1082-5065859.html > City of Munich: http://news.com.com/2100-1016-1010740.html > > I'm sure Googling would turn up other Linux success stories on the > desktop... Both of those are great examples and exciti

RE: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r2 vs. r6

2003-09-08 Thread Mark Knecht
> > The file > /usr/portage/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources/ChangeLog > > should have enough information for you. > > -- > Tom Wesley Thanks Tom. I'll check it out. Cheers, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r2 vs. r6

2003-09-08 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, Where can I find out what was changed from rev to rev on gentoo-sources? I'd like to understand what's different in the sources between the 2.4.20-r2 I had been running and the 2.4.20-r6 that I switched to today. The online package database doesn't say much at this level, and points only

Re: [gentoo-user] Unsuccessful first attempt but a great learning experience

2003-09-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 16:47, Kevin Miller, Jr. wrote: > Okay, I attempted to install Gentoo 1.4 today. I managed to get the > partitions okay. I had several problems that arose: > > 1. I could not automatically configure the Network connection with > net-setup eth0. I think this is Comcast's f

RE: [gentoo-user] continued depmod problems

2003-09-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 12:09, Wayne Oliver wrote: > > > > gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r2 > > gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r5 > > gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r6 > > > When you have multiple sources installed you > need to manage the symlink yourself. i.e Or just continue using the one that the current simlink poi

[gentoo-user] continued depmod problems

2003-09-06 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I've not had this sort of problems in the 2-3 years of using Linux, all of it before this being Redhat. Don't get me wrong, I'm sticking with Gentoo, but I don't understand what went wrong. At this point all the drivers that I seem to need are running without errors. However, depmod is n

Re: [gentoo-user] Future of linux...

2003-09-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 11:02, Collins Richey wrote: > > > > I still have the Star Office box on my shelf. A pity. > > > > Not being a business user, I may not know what I am talking about, but > the only approach that works with open/closed software is the following: > > 1. Note the documents th

Re: [gentoo-user] Future of linux...

2003-09-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 09:45, Adam Dunstan wrote: > "TELSTRA, Australia's largest technology company, has nailed its colours > firmly to the mast of open source software, creating a potential nightmare > for Microsoft and sending shivers through a range of traditional platform > providers." > > htt

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer - (Digests do not match)

2003-09-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 09:14, Sami Näätänen wrote: > On Saturday 06 September 2003 19:09, Mark Knecht wrote: > > Hi, > >This started last night for me. Has anyone else seen this? I found > > an older thread in the forums about this, from last May, so I assume > > it

[gentoo-user] mplayer - (Digests do not match)

2003-09-06 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, This started last night for me. Has anyone else seen this? I found an older thread in the forums about this, from last May, so I assume it must have gotten fixed and then broken again. I don't know what mplayer is. Do I need it? I run fluxbox + Alsa and then Alsa based tools, so I'm wond

Re: [gentoo-user] alsamixer / alsamixergui failure

2003-09-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 19:38, Harlan wrote: > Hello everyone, > I am trying to increase the default volume of my laptop, am IBM Thinkpad > T21. I had a previous unit which was louder that this current one; I > previous one had to be returned to manufacturer due to a massive failure > after onl

Re: [gentoo-user] Future of linux...

2003-09-05 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 17:40, Collins Richey wrote: > On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 16:55:07 -0700 > Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > All that work to eliminate a $200 Windows XP license? Maybe it's just > > not worth it? I think it is, but possibly not... &

Re: [gentoo-user] Future of linux...

2003-09-05 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 15:44, Rick [Kitty5] wrote: > Norbert Kamenicky wrote: > > "How is it possible, that governments and state apparatus > > of most countries in all over the world are spending billions $ for > > totaly unreliable and unsecure M$ software?" > > I am quite sure that in the US MS'

Re: [gentoo-user] Firewire 800 (aka 1394b)

2003-09-05 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 14:55, No Free Lunch wrote: > Anyone know anything about support for the new generation of firewire > in the linux kernel? > > Thanks > > Charles The standard drivers today will work with 1394b OHCI controllers. There have been a few tests up to 800Mb/S, but honestly not m

RE: [gentoo-user] How to list all installed packages?

2003-09-05 Thread Mark Knecht
> > Whats the command to list all installed packages? > A command I like is epm -qa | sort - Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] new kernel - depmod problems

2003-09-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 20:42, Doug Weimer wrote: > Is the new kernel the same version as your old one? I ask because if > both kernels are version 2.4.20-gentoo-r2 then there may be modules > lying around /lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r2 that you did not configure > into the new kernel. If you are rec

Re: [gentoo-user] USB Support in kernel for UPS's?

2003-09-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 19:06, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > Make sure you also have hotplug enabled in your kernel or you won't get > > the USB hotplug events and thus you really can't use the USB devices. >Where do I configure for hotplug support in make xconfig

[gentoo-user] new kernel - depmod problems

2003-09-04 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I hope I can explain this well enough to get some help. Poor guitar player is a bit lost. This is a bit long and involved. Sorry. I am on a quest to get my new USB UPS working. My previous kernel did not have USB built in, so I built a new kernel tonight. The kernel is up and running.

Re: [gentoo-user] USB Support in kernel for UPS's?

2003-09-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 18:19, Sami Näätänen wrote: > > > > So I think this comes back to my original question. What USB options > > do I need to enable when I compile my kernel to get enough USB > > support to make this work? No /proc/bus/usb sounds pretty > > fundamental. > > Make sure you also ha

RE: [gentoo-user] binutils upgrade problems

2003-09-04 Thread Mark Knecht
> Then it gets all recursive on me. It complains about the > makefiles timestamp, then starts all over. Does anyone have any > ideas on this. should i change the date on my system to get > this to intall? > > Thanks, > > luke I had some problems like this last week. I opted for installi

Re: [gentoo-user] USB Support in kernel for UPS's?

2003-09-04 Thread Mark Knecht
Bryan, Thanks for the response! This is helping. On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 00:11, Bryan Feir wrote: > I have an A7V8X myself, and have > plugged both types of devices in; in usbview, the one 2.0 device I had > installed (an external disc box) showed up under the 2.0 driver no > matter what port it

Re: [gentoo-user] USB Support in kernel for UPS's?

2003-09-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 20:58, Owen Ford wrote: > > lspci -v should give you the info you want. > > 00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 1a) (prog-if 00 > [UHCI]) <=== > Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. (Wrong ID) USB Controller > Flags: bus master, medium devsel, l

[gentoo-user] USB Support in kernel for UPS's?

2003-09-03 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, Can someone who is using a USB-based UPS offer up information on what needs to be built at the kernel level in terms of USB support? When I try to start apcupsd it's failing: Wizard linux # /etc/init.d/apcupsd start * Starting APC UPS daemon... apcupsd FATAL ERROR in linux-usb.c at line 61

RE: [gentoo-user] mozilla mplayer plugin

2003-09-03 Thread Mark Knecht
> > An example is http://www.cpr.org/listen/live_classical.asx > I thought the asx pages were supposed to do this? Does the same thing under Windows. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] The $100 Linux UPS Challenge

2003-09-03 Thread Mark Knecht
> > APC-SmartUPS 700 go for $65 (used) on ebay, with a set of new batteries > you would be near $100. They work with nut (network-ups-tools, in > portage). > > > Timo Timo, I'll keep ebay in mind. I was sort of avoiding APC serial based units. My project studio PCs are all dual boot (for insta

RE: [gentoo-user] The $100 Linux UPS Challenge

2003-09-03 Thread Mark Knecht
> > What's wrong with using the APC USB UPS under Linux? My little BackUPS > works just fine with apcupsd (I'm pretty sure it's in portage) > Chip, Do you have a model number for your USB APC? Is it by chance a BackUPS CS-500 ($110) or CS-350? ($74) Thanks, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

RE: [gentoo-user] The $100 Linux UPS Challenge

2003-09-03 Thread Mark Knecht
> -Original Message- > From: Patrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 7:51 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] The $100 Linux UPS Challenge > > > Might be a bit out of that price range but mge ups's come with some nifty > toys. > > P MG

RE: [gentoo-user] The $100 Linux UPS Challenge

2003-09-03 Thread Mark Knecht
> > What's wrong with using the APC USB UPS under Linux? My little BackUPS > works just fine with apcupsd (I'm pretty sure it's in portage) > Chip, I'll check into it. My Windows box uses a little BackUPS CS-350. APC supplies some Linux drivers online at their site, but the last time I looked t

RE: [gentoo-user] http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1236319,00.asp

2003-09-03 Thread Mark Knecht
> > Your missing the point, its not about point & click moron proof Linux, its > about adding those all important finishing touches. > > If Linux software was for sale like the majority of windows software, the > authors would be under pressure to deliver a polished product, instead of > being prep

[gentoo-user] The $100 Linux UPS Challenge

2003-09-03 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, This has been an ongoing problem for me. Can anyone recommend a UPS for a Linux desktop type machine that can do an automated shutdown and runs in the neighborhood of $100? I have no trouble with this in Windows, doing it with $60 USB versions from APC, but I haven't found anything similar f

RE: [gentoo-user] Using an unreleased ebuild

2003-09-02 Thread Mark Knecht
Martin & Jason, Thanks for your responses. I'll keep copies in my home directory to ensure nothign gets lost. How long before this sort of thing ends up in emerge sync naturally? Cheers, MArk > -Original Message- > From: Martin Klaffenboeck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday

RE: [gentoo-user] Using an unreleased ebuild

2003-09-02 Thread Mark Knecht
> Hi, >There is a small app I wanted to try. I found an ebuild has been done > recently and is in Bugailla: > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27390 > > I've downloaded the two files but don't know how to use them > correctly. I'm > guessing that I need to move it to somewhere under /us

[gentoo-user] Using an unreleased ebuild

2003-09-02 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, There is a small app I wanted to try. I found an ebuild has been done recently and is in Bugailla: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27390 I've downloaded the two files but don't know how to use them correctly. I'm guessing that I need to move it to somewhere under /usr/portage, but I

RE: [gentoo-user] multiple snd cards

2003-09-02 Thread Mark Knecht
> -Original Message- > From: Simon Mushi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, September 01, 2003 6:58 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] multiple snd cards > > > Michael, > > I re-compiled alsa-driver with the ens-1370 and then loaded the module > succesfully...i

Re: [gentoo-user] JFS Performance.

2003-08-31 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, 2003-08-31 at 08:27, Spider wrote: > begin quote > On 01 Sep 2003 06:18:00 +1000 > McIntyres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Just as a matter of intrest, I'm considering using JFS on my next > > Gentoo setup I was wondering if anyone has any idea about its > > performance compared to say

RE: [gentoo-user] protest?

2003-08-29 Thread Mark Knecht
> El Viernes Agosto 29 2003 00:13, bob bob escribió: > > How long is this protest going to go on for? its really irritating for > > those of us not in europe that want to find information on the web... > I hope that it is as long as needed... and I'm not european, not > even living > there, but it

[gentoo-user] net-mail/evolution-1.4.4

2003-08-29 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, This has been going on for a few hours this morning. Has anyone else seen this? Thanks, Mark >>> Updating Portage cache... ...done! Wizard root # emerge --deep --update -p world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies / emerge: there are no

RE: [gentoo-user] Newbie : list of files and packages ?

2003-08-29 Thread Mark Knecht
Title: Message emerge -S latex possibly? -Original Message-From: Stéphane Peron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 6:18 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [gentoo-user] Newbie : list of files and packages ? Hi all !   I have found a file containi

RE: [gentoo-user] qpkg -q - am I interpreting it correctly?

2003-08-28 Thread Mark Knecht
> Hello Mark, > I don't know how to handle this with qpkg, I prefer etcat (in > app-portage/gentoolkit). > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ etcat -d kdemultimedia | grep rosegarden > * media-sound/rosegarden-4.0.9 > * media-sound/rosegarden-4.0.8.5 > > So rosegarden seems to depend on kdemultimedia. > > HTH

RE: [gentoo-user] qpkg -q - am I interpreting it correctly?

2003-08-28 Thread Mark Knecht
:18 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] qpkg -q - am I interpreting it correctly? > > > I believe you need the -I option to limit it to installed > packages. > > On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 13:14:15 -0700 > "Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

[gentoo-user] qpkg -q - am I interpreting it correctly?

2003-08-28 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, Isn't qpkg -q supposed to show me the installed packages that depend on the package I list in the command? I think I must be misunderstanding the man page, but that's what I read. I emerged Rosegarden last night on one of my studio machines. The emerge went fine and the program is runnin

[gentoo-user] SOLVED: [gentoo-user] (snd_seq_hw_open) open /dev/snd/seq failed:No such file or directory

2003-08-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 18:02, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >I'm running the HDP9652 driver. It's working for audio, and MIDI also > with one program that writes to /dev/midi00. > >It appears that there is no /dev/snd/seq directory. Should there be? > >T

[gentoo-user] (snd_seq_hw_open) open /dev/snd/seq failed: No such file ordirectory

2003-08-28 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I'm running the HDP9652 driver. It's working for audio, and MIDI also with one program that writes to /dev/midi00. It appears that there is no /dev/snd/seq directory. Should there be? This is a Gentoo box, so Alsa is installed via emerge. Is this a Gentoo problem, an Alsa problem, or

RE: [gentoo-user] weird clock skew

2003-08-27 Thread Mark Knecht
> > I have the oddest clock skew issue. Whenever I set the time, within a > day, it jumps forward about 11 minutes, all at once as far as I can > tell. I don't have anything like ntpd running or anything else to set > the time. What's going on? > I don't know. I have Gentoo on 3 machines. One doe

Re: [gentoo-user] lilo triple boot

2003-08-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 16:11, Ron wrote: > I can see your approach solving the problem I had. running /sbin/lilo > only gave me error messages, hdax is not bootable or could not find hdax > in fstab. hdax should be replaced with something like hda7 or hda9. Using fdisk you can find the partitio

RE: [gentoo-user] emerge option for dependencies?

2003-08-26 Thread Mark Knecht
Thanks Mike. I should have remembered that. I've used qpkg a couple of times, but not much. All due respects to Tolkien. Cheers, Mark > You won't find it in emerge, but qpkg part of gentoolkit. > > legolas root # qpkg -I -q gnupg > app-crypt/gnupg-1.2.2-r1 * > DEPENDED ON BY: > app-arch

[gentoo-user] emerge option for dependencies?

2003-08-26 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I'm looking through man emerge but not finding an option to let me determine which packages on my system would be effected by removing a package that is currently installed. emerge -Cp gnupg says it would just uninstall that package. Can I be sure that no other packages will break if I do th

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternatives to ftp, or easy but secure ftpservers?

2003-08-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 19:59, gabriel wrote: > > for file transfers within the studio, samba will do nicely, but if you're even > remotely security concious, samba isn't viable over the internet. for that i > can see only 2 options: (a) ftp, or (b) ssh/sftp > > ftp is easy for everyone and int

[gentoo-user] Alternatives to ftp, or easy but secure ftp servers?

2003-08-26 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I work with some friends using Windows based environments doing music. We need to do studio to studio data file transfers. In a prior life I had an IT guy that managed an off-site ftp server and he was nice enough to give me a couple of accounts, but now I need to do this myself, and the onl

Re: [gentoo-user] lilo triple boot

2003-08-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 17:59, Ron wrote: > I am about to install Gentoo, and would like to know how to write > lilo.conf to allow a choice between winxp, Mandrake and Gentoo. I would > like to be able to keep using Mandrake at least until I have Gentoo > installed and working! I am a newbie and am

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Linux 1.4 General Install Questions

2003-08-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 15:51, Kevin Miller, Jr. wrote: > I just purchased a copy of Gentoo Linux 1.4 to replace Red Hat 9.0. I have > been using Linux off and on for a year now but the Red Hat distro could not > convince me to switch over to Linux full time. Thus, I ran Windows and I > used SSH se

Re: [gentoo-user] determining length of MPEG video

2003-08-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 15:13, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > I used dvd::rip to rip a DVD. It split it into the audio and video > streams. When it used transcode to combine them, the audio was out of > sync with the video. I opened the audio stream (.mpa) in xmms. It said > it was 149:23. How can I dete

Re: [gentoo-user] audacity problem

2003-08-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 13:59, Jorge Almeida wrote: > Thank you, Mark. I just found out that audacity doesn't like aRts. It is in > http://audacity.sourceforge.net/unix.php at the end of the page (don't know how I > didn't see it before...). Still no help system, though. Jorge, If you'd like to

Re: [gentoo-user] audacity problem

2003-08-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 05:42, Jorge Almeida wrote: > Has anyone managed to get audacity-1.1.3 working? I emerged it with > USE="-gtk2" and it compiles, but it spills out error messages on opening. > I searched the foruns and someone had the same problem > (http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t

Re: [gentoo-user] Which ATI Radeon Drivers?

2003-08-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 18:29, Patrick Yager wrote: > I have purchased the Gentoo cds from their online store for my system. In the > printed instructions that came with the cds there are two different drivers listed > for my ATI 8500DV video card: ati-drivers and xfree-drm. Which one of these i

RE: [gentoo-user] using Alt-F? to switch between consoles

2003-08-19 Thread Mark Knecht
> > > I don't remember if it was this way with RedHat or Slackware, but with > Gentoo, I can only use the left Alt key when switching between consoles. > How do I make it so I can use either the left or the right Alt key? > For me it's the same under Redhat 9. Both CTRL keys work, but only the lef

RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo poll #4 results

2003-08-19 Thread Mark Knecht
> > No, you're right. > > Personally, I've built from both; Stage 3 means you're up and running > much faster. Over time your system will rebuild (especially the next > time you run emerge rsync && emerge --deep --update world). > > Given that your system *will* be rebuilt eventually with all your

RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo poll #4 results

2003-08-18 Thread Mark Knecht
> > Perhaps those who install from stage 1 aren't quite as lazy as us stage > 3 people, and they are the only ones that took the time to respond to > the poll ;-) > LOL!! Such sarcasm Jon! ;-) You could be exactly right! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo poll #4 results

2003-08-18 Thread Mark Knecht
> i think, by using the system, i wouldn't notice better speed > between stage 1 > and stage 2. > my two servers at home have gentoo linux installed with stage 2. (i was > relatively new to linux and new to gentoo and thought, stage 1 would be to > hard. ;) > > why do 80%+ a stage 1 install? i thin

RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo poll #4 results

2003-08-18 Thread Mark Knecht
> > > Stage 1 tarball installs enough to get things rolling so a > system can be built. Then it builds the system optimized > for your computer. It takes a while but works well. > Sure, I get that much, but if 80+ % are doing it this way, what's the advantage? I'm sure there must be one, but I d

RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo poll #4 results

2003-08-18 Thread Mark Knecht
> Votes Percent Reason > 47 82% Install from stage 1 >1 2% Install from stage 2 >916% Install from stage 3 > Wow! I'm totally surprised! Do most people really do a stage 1 install? I still haven't done one yet. (Chicken) Can someone fill me in on what

Re: [gentoo-user] Why does Mozilla stall?

2003-08-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 22:04, james toy wrote: > sorry i came late whats the real problem?? > -tweek > Hi, Out of order emails. I sent the solution a while ago. My new firewall firmware from LinkSys hosed my whole network. Downgrading the firmware fixed everything. Thanks, Mark -- [EMAIL PRO

Re: [gentoo-user] Why does Mozilla stall?

2003-08-16 Thread Mark Knecht
Nathan, Thanks very much for the continued help. This is becoming one of the most bizarre networking issues I've ever run into. On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 18:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The next thing I would do if I were dealing with this is to run a > network analyzer. The "ethereal" tool,

Re: [gentoo-user] Why does Mozilla stall? - SOLVED

2003-08-16 Thread Mark Knecht
Nathan, So, I'm tired, but am running correctly now. Downgrading the firmware in the LinkSys firewall has solved this whole rash of problems. I guess I should write LinkSys and point out the problems, but why should we accept Linux networking as being any different from Windows networking? (

Re: [gentoo-user] Why does Mozilla stall?

2003-08-16 Thread Mark Knecht
Thanks for responding Nathan. Still having the problem big time. On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 16:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > No explanations jump to mind, but here are a couple of things I'd try > if I were facing this behavior: > > - Run /sbin/ifconfig - are you seeing high counts of errors, dropped

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