Re: [gentoo-user] Update question

2003-10-23 Thread Michael Rasile
On Thu Oct 23, 2003 at 06:55:11PM -0400 or thereabouts, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > Where do you find this cfg-update? > > Thanks. > > On Tuesday 21 October 2003 23:27, you wrote: > > > IMO etc-update should make a backup copy of all files replaced > > > > > > Rick > > > > > > Kitty5 NewMedia http:

Re: [gentoo-user] Update question

2003-10-21 Thread Michael Rasile
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 14:33:59 +0100, norm wrote: > >>You know, now that you mention is, I seem to recall that it wanted >>to >>replace mine once too. Luckily I caught it ! This is one thing >>where >>Gentoo's package system needs work. With RPM or APT, it always >>backs up >>your current file(s) and

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound problem

2003-10-14 Thread Michael Rasile
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 20:42:36 +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: >Hi Mike, > >>- snip - >> >>emu10k1 is a sound driver which must be compiled into the kernel or >>compiled as a module. Have you done that? If not, you need to and >>then be sure the module is loaded at boot time otherwise you will >>not >>have

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound problem

2003-10-13 Thread Michael Rasile
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 23:31:26 +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: >Hi all folks, > >Gentoo 1.4, 2CD version >== > >I have Creative Sound Blaster Live card installed on my PC. During >installing the OS I ran > ># emerge emu10k1 > >The download time was short but the total installation time too

Re: [gentoo-user] Video card performance

2003-09-30 Thread Michael Rasile
On Tue Sep 30, 2003 at 04:20:00PM -0400 or thereabouts, Ernie Schroder wrote: > On Tuesday 30 September 2003 11:34 am, Bruce E. Harris wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I finally got Gentoo up and running--its great. I have my video > > card working, but how can I test it to see if its working in > > accelera

Re: [gentoo-user] Spam getting tru

2003-09-28 Thread Michael Rasile
On Sun Sep 28, 2003 at 09:29:09PM -0400 or thereabouts, Chris I wrote: > On 2003.09.28 03:39, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: > >Hi, > > > >Sometimes i find spam mail in my inbox. I pipe mail that not belong > >to > >a > >mailinglist with procmail true spamc. > >If i save that mail as file and run fo

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-driver

2003-09-24 Thread Michael Rasile
On Thu Sep 25, 2003 at 12:19:12AM +0800 or thereabouts, Lim Swee Tat wrote: > Hi Mike, > I think the file you should look at should be > /usr/src/linux/include/asm/mach-default/irq_vector.h. > > Actually this brings me to an interesting question. If your > /usr/include/asm does not have a mach-

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-driver

2003-09-23 Thread Michael Rasile
On Tue Sep 23, 2003 at 03:10:52PM -0600 or thereabouts, Collins Richey wrote: > On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 23:37:48 +0300 (IDT) > Scharf Yuval <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If you run 2.6 why do you want to build alsa-driver? > > > > Agreed, alsa-driver is only for 2.4 kernels. 2.5/2.6 have alsa dri

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-driver

2003-09-23 Thread Michael Rasile
sr/include/ asm but not a mach-default. Am I misunderstanding this? Is mach-default a directory in which irq_vector.h is? Forgive my ignorance. I can't symlink what I don't have. Thanks for your reply. Any more suggestions will be appreciated. Mike > On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 03:51, Michael Ras

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-driver

2003-09-23 Thread Michael Rasile
On Tue Sep 23, 2003 at 03:10:32PM -0400 or thereabouts, Ernie Schroder wrote: > On Tuesday 23 September 2003 03:51 pm, Michael Rasile wrote: > > On Tue Sep 23, 2003 at 02:20:36PM -0400 or thereabouts, Ernie > Schroder wrote: > > > On Tuesday 23 September 2003 03:00 pm,

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-driver

2003-09-23 Thread Michael Rasile
On Tue Sep 23, 2003 at 02:20:36PM -0400 or thereabouts, Ernie Schroder wrote: > On Tuesday 23 September 2003 03:00 pm, Michael Rasile wrote: > > Parallel Make Failed > > A semi-educated guess: Go to your /etc/make.conf and look for the > line: MAKEOPTS="-j2". Try cha

[gentoo-user] alsa-driver

2003-09-23 Thread Michael Rasile
I have been trying to emerge the alsa-driver, but the emerge fails. The error message is this: ERROR: media-sound/alsa-driver-0.9.2 failed. Function src_compile, Line 59, Exitcode 2 Parallel Make Failed. Just wondering how I can correct this. I followed the alsa-driver howto on the gentoo site, b

Re: [gentoo-user] Connecting With BitchX

2003-09-01 Thread Michael Rasile
On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 22:11:27 +, Chris Spencer wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >Hello, > >I have been trying in vain to get BitchX to work but for the life of >me I >can't get it to connect to a server. > >No matter how I configure it, when I run BitchX it tries to conne

Re: [gentoo-user] vim 6.2 :help does not work

2003-08-14 Thread Michael Rasile
On Sun Aug 10, 2003 at 06:28:46PM +0200 or thereabouts, Martin Gramatke wrote: > When I enter :help i get this error message: > Sorry, help file "/usr/share/vim/vim62/doc/help.txt.gz" not found > > I worked around this by gzipping help.txt in that directory, but I wonder > why :se helpfile points

Re: [gentoo-user] South Florida Gentoo Users?

2003-08-07 Thread Michael Rasile
On Tue Aug 05, 2003 at 03:01:36PM -0400 or thereabouts, Ernie Schroder wrote: > Hi All, > Are there any folks on the list in South Florida? The FLUX users group > (Florida Linux Users eXchange) is in the middle of a discussion of > Gentoo. The posts are generally negative. I think I've been

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -up system - Blocking packages with recent perl upgrade

2003-07-28 Thread Michael Rasile
On Mon Jul 28, 2003 at 08:48:18PM +0200 or thereabouts, ?yvind Stegard wrote: > Hello, > > After a recent "emerge sync" portage reports the following, when trying to > upgrade the system: > $ emerge -up system > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > Calculating system dependenc

Re: [gentoo-user] Xargs error on boot new installation.

2003-07-24 Thread Michael Rasile
On Thu Jul 24, 2003 at 12:39:33PM +0100 or thereabouts, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: > Kevin Hayes wrote: > >Have just installed G2 using stage1-x86-20030717.tar.bz2 and get > >the following during boot, can anyone shed some light on the > >xargs: error message, > > > > * Configuring kernel param

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.0-test1 and NVidia

2003-07-22 Thread Michael Rasile
Greetings! I had the same problem. You need nvidia-kernel-1.0.4363-r3. The r3 is the new ebuild which fixes the problem with 2.6 and nvidia. So, if you do ACCEPT_KEYWORDS-"~x86" emerge nvidia-kernel, it should fix the problem. Hope this helps. Mike On Tue Jul 22, 2003 at 01:30:53PM -0500 or there

Re: [gentoo-user] Just cannot procmail filter gentoo-user!

2003-07-04 Thread Michael Rasile
On Fri Jul 04, 2003 at 07:00:51PM +0200 or thereabouts, Bluesman wrote: > On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 17:57:19 +0100 (BST) > "Dhruba Bandopadhyay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Here's what I use: > > :0 > * ^List-Id:.*gentoo-user\.gentoo\.org > .Gentoo.User/ > > That would put the mail in INBOX/Gentoo/U

Re: [gentoo-user] User defined xinit

2003-06-17 Thread Michael Rasile
On Tue Jun 17, 2003 at 05:24:21PM +0200 or thereabouts, Jens Hoffrichter wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Can someone tell me how to use a user defined .xinit/.xsession when > using gdm? > > I'm trying fluxbox at the moment, and it depends on xinit/xsession to > start additional programs. > > So how ca

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia kernel major problems

2003-06-12 Thread Michael Rasile
On Thu Jun 12, 2003 at 10:39:33PM +0200 or thereabouts, Martin Larsson wrote: > Hello > > I'm trying to get nvidia drivers to work cause i wanted to test Americas > army ;) > altough, I must have done something terribly wrong somewhere :S > ive tried most of the versions from portage + the latest

Re: [gentoo-user] gdm isn't starting

2003-06-07 Thread Michael Rasile
On Sun Jun 08, 2003 at 12:47:49AM +0100 or thereabouts, Paulo J. Matos wrote: > Hi all, > > I think I'm missing something simple but I don't know what it is. > I have configured in rc.conf to start gdm along with gnome but it is not > starting gdm when I reboot. It goes to the terminal prompt wher

Re: [gentoo-user] USB scanner

2003-06-04 Thread Michael Rasile
On Tue Jun 03, 2003 at 10:53:02PM -0400 or thereabouts, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > Hmm, what does scanimage -L do? I know you said but I've forgotten. If > scanimage -L doesn't find it then xsane won't either. In my case scanimage > -L found it and so did xsane. Xsane is essentially a GUI equi

Re: [gentoo-user] USB scanner

2003-06-04 Thread Michael Rasile
On Tue Jun 03, 2003 at 09:41:36PM -0400 or thereabouts, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > Did you check man sane-usb? I have a scsi scanner but had to set up some > config files. > > > On Wed Jun 04, 2003 at 02:46:42AM +0200 or thereabouts, Norbert Kamenicky > wrote: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] USB scanner

2003-06-04 Thread Michael Rasile
On Wed Jun 04, 2003 at 02:46:42AM +0200 or thereabouts, Norbert Kamenicky wrote: > Michael Rasile wrote: > > >On Wed Jun 04, 2003 at 01:56:25AM +0200 or thereabouts, Norbert Kamenicky > >wrote: > > > > > >>Michael Rasile wrote: > >> > >&g

Re: [gentoo-user] USB scanner

2003-06-04 Thread Michael Rasile
On Wed Jun 04, 2003 at 01:56:25AM +0200 or thereabouts, Norbert Kamenicky wrote: > Michael Rasile wrote: > > >Greetings! > >I was wondering if anyone has successfully set up a Canon Lide30 USB > >scanner under gentoo. This has become very frustrating. Everything t

[gentoo-user] USB scanner

2003-06-04 Thread Michael Rasile
Greetings! I was wondering if anyone has successfully set up a Canon Lide30 USB scanner under gentoo. This has become very frustrating. Everything that I know is set up correctly, usb in the kernel and all, sane-find-scanner finds the device, but xsane absolutely will not find the scanner. I eve

Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia Drivers

2003-06-04 Thread Michael Rasile
On Tue Jun 03, 2003 at 05:35:13PM +1200 or thereabouts, Jamie Dobbs wrote: > On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 15:22, Jamie Dobbs wrote: > > > > > > Are you using the driver from Nvidia site? It's one file and needs to be made > > > executable. After doing this, from a console (can't install this driver whi

Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia Drivers

2003-06-03 Thread Michael Rasile
On Tue Jun 03, 2003 at 03:22:07PM +1200 or thereabouts, Jamie Dobbs wrote: > > > > Are you using the driver from Nvidia site? It's one file and needs to be made > > executable. After doing this, from a console (can't install this driver while in > > X) you simply type ./Name of driver and every

Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia Drivers

2003-06-03 Thread Michael Rasile
On Tue Jun 03, 2003 at 02:28:38PM +1200 or thereabouts, Jamie Dobbs wrote: > On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 10:19, Michael Rasile wrote: > > On Mon Jun 02, 2003 at 09:38:18PM + or thereabouts, --[ UxBoD ]-- wrote: > > > Why didn't you use the one in portage? what chang

Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia Drivers

2003-06-03 Thread Michael Rasile
On Mon Jun 02, 2003 at 09:38:18PM + or thereabouts, --[ UxBoD ]-- wrote: > Why didn't you use the one in portage? what changes did you make in your > XF86Config file? > -- > > --[ UxBoD ]-- > GPGKID [402E340E] [182C F930 C7E4 CA70 A202 9A82 82AC B1EA 402E 340E] > gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp

Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia Drivers

2003-06-03 Thread Michael Rasile
On Mon Jun 02, 2003 at 08:46:51PM + or thereabouts, --[ UxBoD ]-- wrote: > Has anybody upgraded to 4363-r2 drivers? I am running a Ti4600 and > wondered if any problems had been encounted - performance > degregation/gains? > -- > > --[ UxBoD ]-- > GPGKID [402E340E] [182C F930 C7E4 CA70 A202

Re: [gentoo-user] CanonScan Lide30

2003-06-02 Thread Michael Rasile
On Sun Jun 01, 2003 at 08:37:49PM -0400 or thereabouts, Ernie Schroder wrote: > On Sunday 01 June 2003 04:25 pm, Michael Rasile wrote: > > Just wondering if anyone has had success setting up a CanonScan > > Lide30 scanner under gentoo. I have tried everything. The modules are >

[gentoo-user] CanonScan Lide30

2003-06-02 Thread Michael Rasile
Just wondering if anyone has had success setting up a CanonScan Lide30 scanner under gentoo. I have tried everything. The modules are being inserted correctly and sane-find-scanner finds my usb scanner, but xsane will simply not work. I suspect that the drivers are old. Previously, I was using M