Re: [gentoo-user] eclipse and memory

2005-03-01 Thread Matt Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Qian Qiao wrote: | Hi, I am wondering whether it is worth trying to install eclipse | with 256meg of RAM. I have tried netbeans and it was a complete | dog. Has anyone got any experience with this? Cheers Antoine | | The problem isn't how many megs you

Re: [gentoo-user] big problems on boot

2005-02-15 Thread Matt Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Luke Albers wrote: | Im not sure if this happened after doing an emerge -uD world, or emerge | openoffice, but things arent working right anymore. On boot I get all | kinds of messages, shortly after udevd starts. Some of them say | something about

Re: [gentoo-user] Perl IDE and good tutorials?

2005-02-10 Thread Matt Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joel Merrick wrote: | Hi guys, can anyone recommend a good one that's in Portage.. or will the | answer be gVim? :D No, vim! :) Seriously, all I ever used when learning (and all I ever use now) is vim. Once you've learnt some of the basics you'll love

Re: [gentoo-user] quota check

2005-01-18 Thread Matt Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Thompson wrote: | I run quota for all my network users, and as far as I understand it, | quota checks the usage on startup. | | My server does not often get rebooted, so do I need to periodicly run | | Code: | | /etc/init.d/quota stop |

[gentoo-user] SOCOM II USB headset?

2005-01-15 Thread Matt Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey all, I've recently acquired a SOCOM II USB headset (for the PS2) and wondered if anybody had any ideas about how I might get it working with Linux? I've tried various modules but none of them worked 'out of the box', either that or I needed

Re: [gentoo-user] SOCOM II USB headset?

2005-01-15 Thread Matt Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matt Wilson wrote: | | | Christoph Eckert wrote: | |Anyway, if anybody has any suggestions then I'm happy to | |try them out! | | | | Perhaps you'll have luck with ALSA modules: | | | | modprobe snd-usb-audio | | I've merged alsa-driver (-debug -doc

Re: [gentoo-user] find + ls + grep + cp + CLI + Bash madness

2005-01-14 Thread Matt Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: | On Friday 14 January 2005 07:00 am, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] | wrote: | |I was using | |find . -type f -maxdepth 1 -iname *gentoo* | |and that didn't work. How come?? (it lists everything!) | | | *gentoo* was being

Re: [gentoo-user] find + ls + grep + cp + CLI + Bash madness

2005-01-14 Thread Matt Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 daniel wrote: | On January 14, 2005 01:19 pm, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: | |On Friday 14 January 2005 07:00 am, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |wrote: | |I was using | |find . -type f -maxdepth 1 -iname *gentoo* | |and that didn't work. How come??

[gentoo-user] Printing options?

2004-03-03 Thread Matt Wilson
Hey all, I've got a networked printer on my LAN and am currently using CUPS on my machine to handle my printing. My printer has an IPP server on it (along with various others such as NetBIOS) so I'm sure I should be able to print to it directly via `lpr` but haven't figured out how exactly ...

Re: [gentoo-user] connection sharing problem

2004-02-26 Thread Matt Wilson
Did you; $ echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward ? IIRC you have to do that (thought admittedly it has been a while since I configured my router). On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 01:20, Meka[ni] wrote: I have iptables -A POSTROUTING -t nat -o ppp0 -j MASQUERADE command running and forwarding

Re: [gentoo-user] build failure: gnuplot / png

2004-02-05 Thread Matt Wilson
I've got exactly the same problem, line for line :P The code around line #255 of pngconf.h is a block of macros; 249: # ifdef __linux__ 250: #ifdef _BSD_SOURCE 251: # define PNG_SAVE_BSD_SOURCE 252: # undef _BSD_SOURCE 253: #endif 254: #ifdef _SETJMP_H 255: __png.h__

[gentoo-user] JFlex?

2004-02-04 Thread Matt Wilson
Hey folks, Just wondering if anybody knew if JFlex was available in portage? (And if so, where?) Matt -- http://www.mattsscripts.co.uk/ - A great source for free CGI and stuff Nuke the unborn gay female whales for Jesus. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] JFlex?

2004-02-04 Thread Matt Wilson
Whenever you need to search for a package, just do 'emerge -s regex' or 'emerge -S regex' to search package descriptions also. I did search, but wasn't sure if it was hidden away somewhere :P Though I didn't know of -S, I presumed 'emerge search term' automatically searched package

Re: [gentoo-user] p800 and net.ppp

2004-02-04 Thread Matt Wilson
On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 19:59, Henti Smith wrote: I'm trying to connect to my p800 phone using net.ppp and my knowledge of pp is very lacking. Don't think I can help you, but is that the NEC 800? (or is it 808?)... I've been looking for a way to connect to that and wondered if this was it :) --

[gentoo-user] Strange vcron/vixie-cron stuffs...

2004-02-04 Thread Matt Wilson
Hey, I've been using vcron for ... well, ever and just recently moved to ~x86 (which is running fine 'cept those nVidia drivers!). Anyway, every time I merge anything or update I get this message; * Caching service dependencies... * Service 'vixie-cron' already provide 'cron'!; * Not adding

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange vcron/vixie-cron stuffs...

2004-02-04 Thread Matt Wilson
but didn't think of just deleting vcron :) Cheers On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 19:26, Matt Wilson wrote: Hey, I've been using vcron for ... well, ever and just recently moved to ~x86 (which is running fine 'cept those nVidia drivers!). Anyway, every time I merge anything or update I get

Re: [gentoo-user] Time planner?

2004-02-03 Thread Matt Wilson
On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 00:09, Chris Bare wrote: Just wondered if anyone could recommend a good 'time planner' in portage? By which I mean something I can log what I've worked on for specific periods of time[*] ... if that makes any sense. I haven't used it, but this looks like what

Re: [gentoo-user] Using 2.6.* headers?

2004-02-02 Thread Matt Wilson
Hmmm Since upgrading to nptl which calls for an up todate glibc, linux headera 2.6.x and kernel 2.6.x I haven't had any of the issues you mentioned. However, mysql won't compile unless you jigger the .config file from the package, then it will compile ok. Go on, give us a clue,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Good Games Suggestions

2004-02-02 Thread Matt Wilson
On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 15:10, Javier Gostling wrote: On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 10:25:42PM +0100, LJN wrote: On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 22:11, Andrej Kacian wrote: bah! nethack!!! Hmm... Just last night I emerged moria. Ahh! The good'ol times!!! You just can't beat z?angband :D --

[gentoo-user] Time planner?

2004-02-02 Thread Matt Wilson
Hey folks, Just wondered if anyone could recommend a good 'time planner' in portage? By which I mean something I can log what I've worked on for specific periods of time[*] ... if that makes any sense. Matt [*] ie. I click start on project X then it times how long before I click stop work

[gentoo-user] Using 2.6.* headers?

2004-02-01 Thread Matt Wilson
I've noticed that whenever I try compile things up that some headers from the kernel, they fail unless I have linux-headers-2.4.* merged (when merging something from portage they automatically try merge that as well). So I was wondering if there's anyway I can use 2.6.* headers for compilation

Re: [gentoo-user] Using 2.6.* headers?

2004-02-01 Thread Matt Wilson
On Sun, 2004-02-01 at 12:48, Jakub Krajcovic wrote: make the following symlink # ln -s /usr/src/linux-2.6.1 /usr/src/linux That makes little difference, as (generally) packages that need the kernel headers look in /usr/include/{linux,scsi,asm} and not

Re: [gentoo-user] Using 2.6.* headers?

2004-02-01 Thread Matt Wilson
On Sun, 2004-02-01 at 15:59, Jerry McBride wrote: On Sunday 01 February 2004 08:16 am, Matt Wilson wrote: Last I heard a number of packages, maybe including glibc, wouldn't compile cleanly with the 2.6 headers. You certainly can fiddle around with the ebuilds and start using the 2.6

[gentoo-user] Your current profile is deprecated...?

2004-02-01 Thread Matt Wilson
I just started to move my system over to ~x86 (just for kicks) and after updating portage was presented with this message; !!! Your current profile is deprecated and not supported anymore. !!! Please upgrade to the following profile if possible: hardened-x86-2004.0 Which has completely

Re: [gentoo-user] My grub is dead

2004-01-31 Thread Matt Wilson
On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 17:45, rh wrote: Hello. Don't really know what has caused this but my Gentoo box will not properly re-boot...it stops in the grub shell. From the shell, I can execute root, setup, kernel, configfile and boot commands and they all seem to work fine. So as far as I

Re: [gentoo-user] Good Games Suggestions

2004-01-31 Thread Matt Wilson
On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 21:25, LJN wrote: On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 22:11, Andrej Kacian wrote: On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 23:08:58 +0200 Wayne Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All Can anybody suggest anything from portage ??? I am not a shoot 'em up fan... Tuxracer :)

Re: [gentoo-user] office (or at least excel)

2004-01-30 Thread Matt Wilson
On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 18:20, Meka[ni] wrote: Is there some kind of office that is not so huge like Open Office? I actually need Excel, but if there is an office that is small enough (source not above 20mb) I would like to test it. Please anyone. I need it for some test on the

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -pv mod_php - strange things

2004-01-28 Thread Matt Wilson
On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 08:24, Aleksandr wrote: Hello, When I try to do 'emerge -pv mod_php' I always get mod_php AND php are going to be emerged. Why? Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I'd presume that mod_php needs php as the php package will contain the necessary libraries for mysql,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: how drives are mapped to files

2004-01-27 Thread Matt Wilson
On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 10:16, Drake Wyrm wrote: On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 11:23:56AM +0200, in [EMAIL PROTECTED], Moshe Kaminsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, it does, thanks. Is it correct, therefore, that if I want to test the system with the _current_ configuration, I need to arrange

[gentoo-user] wxGTK failing on 'GL/gl.h'

2004-01-26 Thread Matt Wilson
OK, so I need to re-emerge wxGTK in order to merge something further down the line. No problem I think, I'll just do it, heck it worked last time, what'll have changed now? ... Then I get; checking for GL/gl.h... no configure: error: OpenGL libraries not available !!! ERROR:

Re: [gentoo-user] staring multiply gnome-terminals .....

2004-01-26 Thread Matt Wilson
On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 13:34, raptor wrote: gnome-terminal -e 'ssh machine1' gnome-terminal --tab -e 'ssh machine1' this doesnt work either !!:( I think you probably meant; gnome-terminal -e 'ssh m1' gnome-terminal --tab -e 'ssh m2' |hi, | |How can I start gnome-terminal with several

Re: [gentoo-user] SCSI emulation under Gentoo - MOSTLY SOLVED!

2004-01-21 Thread Matt Wilson
On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 16:52, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Wednesday 21 Jan 2004 15:07, Collins Richey wrote: Final thought. With support in 2.6 (and later 2.4) kernels for CD writer without SCSI emulation (ATAPI devices can be used), why not say good-bye to the SCSI emulation support and related

Re: [gentoo-user] mysql php ?

2004-01-21 Thread Matt Wilson
On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 22:19, Jon Lawrence wrote: Hi, I've already got apache (it was a dependancy for something else). Now it's time to get php mysql installed. If I 'emerge mysql' followed by 'emerge mod_php' will mod_php be built with mysql support ? Whislt I'm at it is there anyway to

Re: [gentoo-user] Forwarded mail....

2004-01-21 Thread Matt Wilson
when mounting a cd that contains both udf and iso9660, I get r-xr-xr-x permissions if mounting as iso but r--r--r-- if mounting as udf. So, I cannot read it's directories when mounted as udf (only root can). I think you want; $ mount -o umask=0755 ... To set the umask to 0755 (suprisingly

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge a list of packages?

2004-01-21 Thread Matt Wilson
On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 22:41, Fredrik Wikstrm wrote: Hi, This may be a stupid question and perhaps nothing that's recommended to do but: Is it possible to make emerge take a file list as argument? I've been searching gentoo forums and the internet but I haven't found any solution. What I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SCSI emulation under Gentoo

2004-01-20 Thread Matt Wilson
Apologies if I've missed the point of this discussion or if I'm making a point somebody already made, I've just joined the list (hi folks!). Because for 2.6 kernels, all you have to do is load the module ide-scsi at startup and give lilo (grub in your case) the hdx=ide-scsi option, but for 2.4

Re: [gentoo-user] vga=ext

2004-01-20 Thread Matt Wilson
The rc file that plays with you font is /etc/rc.conf - you need to edit the CONSOLEFONT variable (defaults to default8x16) to change your font. Either that or you can remove 'consolefont' from your default runlevel (rc-update remove consolefont default). Matt On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 15:55, larryB