[gentoo-user] MIDI and Gentoo?

2005-02-02 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Hello all. I had asked about MIDI on Gentoo a while back and got some good advice. I've since tried to set up a *really* old MIDI device with horrific results. Bummer. I'm wondering if anything uses Gentoo and MIDI together at all? If so, could you please send me some details about

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting a Network Drive

2005-01-25 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Thanks Mike. I changed around a few things, but still am unable to get a response out of 'exportfs'. Here is my /etc/export (changed slightly to match yours): /export01 linna(rw,sync,no_root_squash) Here is the output of 'rc-udpate -s' (to point out where nfs and portmap are):

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting a Network Drive

2005-01-25 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Chris Boot wrote: Oops! Sorry! Didn't completely read your message! I see you've started portmap and nfs, I'll shut up now. :-P That's okay... something else you said in there fixed the problem. I'm just going to hang my head in shame and back into the corner because it is the absolute

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting a Network Drive

2005-01-25 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Mike Noble wrote: Ok what did you do, I'm sure we would all like to know, this way we will think of it for others. It was... um... well... I had created /etc/export and had been modifying that. I had been hitting auto-complete since then so I just kept editing the same file instead of actually

[gentoo-user] build error with ttmkfdir

2005-01-23 Thread Nicholas Paul Johnson
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Re: [gentoo-user] build error with ttmkfdir

2005-01-23 Thread Nicholas Paul Johnson
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Re: [gentoo-user] build error with ttmkfdir

2005-01-23 Thread Nicholas Paul Johnson
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[gentoo-user] Build xorg without xfs?

2005-01-23 Thread Nicholas Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I was wondering if anyone could quickly sum up the effects of building xorg-x11 without the x font server? Thanks, =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Nicholas Paul Johnson o nickjohnson \at\ virginia \dot\ edu o 3ebf10a7

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting a Network Drive

2005-01-23 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Mike Noble wrote: Just a thought, do you have tcpd added to your USE flags? No. It is not. If you have not done so you need to enable NFS support in the kernel. I have both NFS file system support and NFS server support selected in both kernels. Make sure that you have portmap and nfs

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting a Network Drive

2005-01-22 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Thanks Mike, I ran through the list of commands you sent, on both the client and server, and added the following to /etc/export: /export01 * (rw,sync) Then I hop back onto the client and run the following command, and get the following error: linna nick # mount -t nfs sylia:/export01

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting a Network Drive

2005-01-22 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Chris Boot wrote: If I'm not mistaken you don't want a space between the * and (: Thanks Chris, gave that a shot and reran 'exportfs -a' (just to be sure). No joy. :( I still get the Permission denied error. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Mounting a Network Drive

2005-01-21 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Hello all. I'm trying to set up my first network drive mount. I am using the following mount string, and receiving the error below it: mount -t nfs sylia:/export01 /mnt/export01 mount: RPC: Remote system error - Connection refused What do I need to emerge on my client and server,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SpamAssassin failing after update!

2005-01-20 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Francesco Talamona wrote: On Wednesday 19 January 2005 19:48, Nicholas Pappas wrote: Thanks Nick. I checked out the site and ran a few of the fixes it talks about, but they didn't seem to work. I even want as far as to delete my entire '.spamassassin' directory to make sure I had no out of date

Re: [gentoo-user] SpamAssassin failing after update!

2005-01-19 Thread Nicholas Pappas
(no errors) but that night at midnight my cron spit out the same error. :( Does anyone know what I might be missing here? Thanks for any help! Nick Rout wrote: take a look here: http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/BayesUpgradeError On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 10:46 -0500, Nicholas Pappas wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] Binary Package Repository?

2005-01-16 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Gregory P. Smith wrote: For people who want binary packages on an up to date distro i highly recommend Ubuntu. I actually just got done re-installing Gentoo after trying to get Ubuntu installed. The current 4.10 release installer locks up when it tries to load the SATA 'sd_mod' modules, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing /dev files (bug 40987) question.

2005-01-16 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Tom Wesley wrote: If it's not causing you any problems then you should probably ignore it for now. Thanks Tom! I haven't seen any issues thus far, so I think I'll let it be for now. :) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] New Install Trouble w/ Boot and GCC Update

2005-01-15 Thread Nicholas Pappas
I just got done installing Gentoo on my main box after looking at a different distro (which couldn't pick up my SATA drive). So I installed everything last night, but have run into two problems with the new install. The first problem (or issue) is when I boot the system, I do not see the

Re: [gentoo-user] New Install Trouble w/ Boot and GCC Update

2005-01-15 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Peng wrote: On 01/15/05 15:55, Nicholas Pappas wrote: I just got done installing Gentoo on my main box after looking at a different distro (which couldn't pick up my SATA drive). Just curious... What distro was it? Ubuntu. Heard some good things about it, so I thought I would give

Re: [gentoo-user] New Install Trouble w/ Boot and GCC Update

2005-01-15 Thread Nicholas Pappas
It is not just the OKs that are missing -- it is the entire line that would normally display the OKs. I'm using the same monitor (it is LCD) as I was using in my past install, but always received those lines in the past. When booting, I see that weird warning towards the end. Here are the

Re: [gentoo-user] New Install Trouble w/ Boot and GCC Update

2005-01-15 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Jadex wrote: That Warning: unable to open initial console seems awfully fishy to Seems to me that somethings wrong with your inittab... Okay -- someplace to start looking. I'm in the middle of an '--update world' on the box in question, so I will have to wait to look at it. Is there anything

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc-3.3.5-r1 compile error

2005-01-15 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Yup. I just put a fresh install of Gentoo on my main box and got this when I did an update world. I fixed it by added ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 into the mix -- I have other packages that require this as well, so I got out the easy way. :) Ovidiu Bivolaru wrote: Is anybody seeing this ? creating

[gentoo-user] Why is Gnome emerging QT and KDE?

2005-01-15 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Hello all. I'm waiting for the Gnome emerge to complete on a new install, and noticed that the emerge is currently compiling QT -- and hade KDE-BASE and ARTS in the wings. I have -kde -qt in the USE varaible. Why is portage wanting to install these for Gnome? Nick --

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is Gnome emerging QT and KDE?

2005-01-15 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Thanks Holly. -arts fixed it. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Nautilus Compile Error

2005-01-15 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Hello all. Still moving forward on a new install here. Ran into another error while compiling Nautilus. nautilus-printers.c:857: error: too few arguments to function 'gnome_cups_ui_init' make[3]: *** [nautilus-printers.lo] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory '/var/tmp/portage... blah,

Re: [gentoo-user] Nautilus Compile Error

2005-01-15 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Jadex wrote: which nautilus nautilus-2.8.2 I temporarily fixed it by running 'USE=-cups emerge gnome' -- things are moving forward. However, I need to get cups support back into the mix of things so I can print to my networked printers. Thanks for the help! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] AC97 Onboard Audio Driver?

2005-01-14 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Thanks for the help all! I've got sound again -- woo-hoo! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] AC97 Onboard Audio Driver?

2005-01-14 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Thanks Christoph. I understand the basics of how the sound system works, and I did see that video before (very well done) when I was working to get MIDI working w/ my old card. My trouble is that I didn't alter anything beyond the driver being used in the kernel (at least, to my

Re: [gentoo-user] Binary Package Repository?

2005-01-13 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Martoni wrote: I am sorry - but these threads almost get me into flame war mode. What you are saying is I like Gentoo - but I don't like Gentoo. It makes no sense what so ever. Since I never said that, I'm not sure why you are having trouble with flame war mode. I said I liked Gentoo. I said,

[gentoo-user] [OT] Microsoft Anti-Spyware Program

2005-01-13 Thread Nicholas Pappas
I found this on the Ubuntu forum, thought it was most amusing: http://www.rightstep.org/images/antispywareresultsdetai1.gif -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] AC97 Onboard Audio Driver?

2005-01-13 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Hello all. I just removed my PCI sound card, deciding to give my onboard sound card a try. I look through the kernel setup though and can't seem to find anything mentioning AC97 (which is what the bios indicates the chipset is). What can I use in the kernel to use this onboard card?

[gentoo-user] SpamAssassin failing after update!

2005-01-12 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Ack! Please help! SpamAssassin, on my mail server, seems to no longer be working and the spam is starting to break through! The pain! After a recent 'emerge --update world' I start receiving this message every night after my 'sa-learn' cron entry runs: bayes: bayes db version 0

[gentoo-user] Binary Package Repository?

2005-01-12 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Hello all. I'm having a crisis of conscious at the moment. I've been using Gentoo for a while and I really like it, but the simple truth is I don't need the granularity that compiling the source for each update provides. That, and I don't fool myself into pretending I know enough to

Re: [gentoo-user] Local Start-Up Slow

2005-01-05 Thread Nicholas Jones
what might account for an inordinantly slow transistion in the boot sequence between Starting local and the login prompt. Would you by chance have things in /etc/conf.d/local.start ? --NJ pgpuAABqJTgdM.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Disable SCSI in 2.6

2004-02-03 Thread Nicholas Hockey
be compiled build-in or compiled as a module. Anyone run into this problem? Vanh -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Since we cannot hope for order, let us withdraw with style from the chaos. -- Tom Stoppard -- Nicholas Hockey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Encrypted E-Mail preferred

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

2004-01-28 Thread Nicholas
On Tuesday 27 Jan 2004 7:21 am, Moshe Kaminsky wrote: Hi I'm currently in the following situation: I have two hard drives, the old one contains Mandrake linux and windows, and on the new one I'm install gentoo. They are connected to the motherboard with the same cable, the old one first, so

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] GnuPG and missing public keys on keyservers

2004-01-28 Thread Nicholas Hockey
a guard outside. -- Eddie Cochran, Come On Everybody -- Nicholas Hockey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Encrypted E-Mail preferred signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-user] Command Line Mail Clients?

2004-01-28 Thread Nicholas Hockey
mutt. it pwnez -- I want to marry a girl just like the girl that married dear old dad. -- Freud -- Nicholas Hockey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Encrypted E-Mail preferred signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-user] Virus protection for Evolution users

2004-01-28 Thread Nicholas Hockey
do so). Then it is maybe possible to pipe the mail through amavis (but I've never tested this). cu lukas -- MEMO: An interoffice communication too often written more for the benefit of the person who sends it than the person who receives it. -- Nicholas Hockey ([EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] GnuPG and missing public keys on keyservers

2004-01-28 Thread Nicholas Hockey
On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 22:52, Phil Barnett wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 28 January 2004 9:58 pm, Nicholas Hockey wrote: btw, congrats on getting your licence, i just passed my tech licence last weekend, and am still awaiting my call sign, maby i'll run

Re: [gentoo-user] QT Compile Failure... A Plea...

2004-01-28 Thread Nicholas Hockey
ventelated. -- Q: What is green and lives in the ocean? A: Moby Pickle. -- Nicholas Hockey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Encrypted E-Mail preferred signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-user] Flummoxed by fluxbox fonts?

2004-01-24 Thread Nicholas
On Friday 23 Jan 2004 2:30 am, Pascal Brax wrote: i got EXACTLY the same problem 1 year ago in Enlightenment.16 But there was a theme bug, i switched theme and all worked as usual. checklist - sure u didn't delete some fonts? - fontpaths are ok? - xfs is still working or has gone holiday?

Re: [gentoo-user] Flummoxed by fluxbox fonts?

2004-01-24 Thread Nicholas
On Saturday 24 Jan 2004 4:06 pm, Wayne Oliver wrote: disable anti aliasing ... cheers Wayne Thanks, that's it! Sorry it took me so long to find your answer. -- Nick -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo

2004-01-23 Thread Nicholas
On Friday 23 Jan 2004 2:51 pm, Bob White wrote: what did you have CHOST set for in your /etc/make.conf? The default of: CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu does not work with any of the K6 processors. You have to use: CHOST=i586-pc-linux-gnu I'm fairly confident it's set to i586, but will

Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts

2004-01-23 Thread Nicholas
On Tuesday 09 Dec 2003 1:03 pm, Norbert Kamenicky wrote: I didn't find a way howto adjust metrics (proper spacing between pair of characters). Does anybody know how to do it ? I think you're refering to kerning, which uses a table of adjustments to the spacing of character pairs, such as XO,

[gentoo-user] Flummoxed by fluxbox fonts?

2004-01-22 Thread Nicholas
Help! Can anyone tell me what I've done to my fluxbox? My fluxbox desktop is devoid of any visible text. The desktop menu is smaller than the cursor, but still manages to cascade as expected. It started when I investigated what 'xfontsel' would do, and I also installed a Hollywood Plus MPEG

Re: [gentoo-user] I killed my xp boot sector with grub

2004-01-08 Thread Nicholas Hockey
as a speaker. Try to keep things straight. -- Strunk and White, The Elements of Style -- Nicholas Hockey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Encrypted E-Mail preferred signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-user] Virus's

2004-01-07 Thread Nicholas Hockey
pecker, and then He would shoot through his rear Which made him dear Of the girls, and the envy of men. -- Nicholas Hockey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Encrypted E-Mail preferred signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-user] command line tool for burning a music cd

2004-01-07 Thread Nicholas Hockey
read-cd --read-raw --datafile mymusic.bin --device 0,0,0 --driver generic-mmc-raw mymusic.toc -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Hear about... The fellow who chased his girlfriend up a tree and kissed her between the limbs? -- Nicholas Hockey ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] Memory Usage

2004-01-07 Thread Nicholas Hockey
-- kasha, n: Kasha is always defined as buckwheat groats. There's only one problem with this definition: what the fuck are buckwheat groats? I know what they are -- they're kasha. But that doesn't help you much. -- Arthur Naiman, Every Goy's Guide to Yiddish -- Nicholas Hockey ([EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Memory recognition

2004-01-07 Thread Nicholas Hockey
-- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- We call our dog Egypt, because in every room he leaves a pyramid. -- Nicholas Hockey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Encrypted E-Mail preferred signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-user] Shell scripting question

2004-01-06 Thread Nicholas Hockey
are for people to live in. (2) Gardens are for plants to live in. (3) There is no such thing as a houseplant. -- Nicholas Hockey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-user] procmailrc

2004-01-06 Thread Nicholas Hockey
! -- Nicholas Hockey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Encrypted E-Mail preferred LINEBUF=4096 VERBOSE=off MAILDIR=$HOME/mail PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:$HOME/bin PMDIR=$HOME/.procmail LOGFILE=$PMDIR/log :0e { EXITCODE=$? } :0: * ^X-Spam-Status: Yes spam :0: * ^List-Id:.*gentoo-user.gentoo.org

[gentoo-user] Virus's

2004-01-06 Thread Nicholas Hockey
going on a maiden voyage with a woman finds out later that it was just a shake-down cruise. -- Nicholas Hockey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Encrypted E-Mail preferred signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-user] Shell scripting question

2004-01-06 Thread Nicholas Hockey
use quotes. -Rich On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 21:21:01 -0500 Nicholas Hockey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: \$ORIGIN the \ is the secret, also encasing it in might work if using an escape is not possable On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 21:15, Jonathan Nichols wrote: Evening, all! Got a quick shell scripting

Re: [gentoo-user] Virus's

2004-01-06 Thread Nicholas Hockey
i am also, gentoo-* is the only really high traffic one tho (valve is a close second and i'm going to post there too) there extremely annoying, soon i'm going to set up a filter in procmail i think. On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 22:56, Ian Truelsen wrote: On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 22:14:47 -0500 Nicholas

Re: [gentoo-user] Virus's

2004-01-06 Thread Nicholas Hockey
annoying. On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 23:32, Dennis Freise wrote: On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 22:14:47 -0500 Nicholas Hockey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: does anybody else on this mailing list get slammed by the Microsoft Update virus going around, i'm trying to figure out why i get nailed by it all the time, and i

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa and jack-sensing ?!

2003-12-13 Thread Nicholas Hockey
i assume there is probably no such animal for anything but windows as of yet, read up on how it's done maby you can make a simple program to do these things, doesn''t sound like it's would be a hard thing to do, if i had yer setup i would probably try and do something, and maby send it to the good

[gentoo-user] Netiquette

2003-12-02 Thread Nicholas
On Tuesday 02 Dec 2003 7:52 pm, Jeffrey Smelser wrote: that word, Guidelines. Thats not a law, just something that should happen based on what the article wrote up ... based on what your reader expects, so that they can concentrate on what you're saying, rather than wondering which bit you're

[gentoo-user] Re: CHOST=i?86-pc-linux-gnu

2003-12-02 Thread Nicholas
On Tuesday 02 Dec 2003 12:20 pm, sf wrote: i586-pc-linux-gnu and -march=k6-3 are correct. -march=i686 is incorrect and should be -march=i586. Thanks for clarifying that. Is that a bug in xine-lib ebuild then (changing -march=k6-3 to i686 ) ? Does anyone know roughly what effect -march=i686

[gentoo-user] Re: top posting (Was: spam after subscribing to gentoo-user)

2003-12-02 Thread Nicholas
Sorry, this needs html. Nick A: Top posting. No! this isn't any better is it! On Tuesday 02 Dec 2003 8:07 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > A: Top posting. > > On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 11:01:14 -0600 "Jeffrey Smelser" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | Well, I am curious, where can I find this proper

[gentoo-user] CHOST=i?86-pc-linux-gnu

2003-12-01 Thread Nicholas
Hi, I'm trying to install Gentoo on an AMD K6-III system -- successfully -- until I noticed that the ebuild for xine-lib-0.9.13-r3 had changed my -march=k6-3 to i686 and libpng changed it to i586. I understand why this is done, but I thought that a k6-III was equivalent to i586, and built my

RE: [gentoo-user] Offtopic: Network switch driving me crazy.

2003-11-05 Thread Nicholas George
On the windows box try running netstat -e from the command prompt. I can't test it right now, but I'm pretty sure that error counter will climb like crazy given a link speed/duplex mismatch. netstat -s will also show error statistics for icmp, tcp and udp. -Original Message- From:

RE: [gentoo-user] squid

2003-10-29 Thread Nicholas George
You'd get a better boost by running squid on your local machine. Doing this will cause less traffic over the dialup link because the local cache will likely be able to fill a decent portion of your requests. Running squid on the server you dial into will save traffic over the T1, but everything

[gentoo-user] bootsplash

2003-10-16 Thread Nicholas Potter
I have seen in the forums a ton of info on installing bootsplash for a 2.4 kernel, but what about for the 2.6 kernels? I don't think they need to be patched, but can I just install bootsplash and the rest? If anyone has experience or can help that would be great. Thanks Nick -- [EMAIL

[gentoo-user] trouble compiling with gcc 3.2.3

2003-10-08 Thread Nicholas Potter
I have been having trouble compiling with gcc 3.2.2. Since upgrading everything after emerge syncing, I get compile errors on many packages, including lynx, mplayer, nmap, and others. I have switched my flag to pentium3 instead of pentium4, but it hasn't made a difference. I think I

[gentoo-user] 2.6.0-test5 input/net troubles

2003-09-27 Thread Nicholas Meyer
I've installed the 2.6.0-test5 kernel using development-sources and genkernel; it boots just fine, but there are two things: My ethernet doesn't load (the boot sequence mentions something about being unable to start a netmount service). I made sure the module is included in

[gentoo-user] RE: A problem with sound card

2003-09-09 Thread Nicholas Potter
I have the same card on a laptop (i810), and it seems to be loaded in the kernel, but I will be damned if I can get the sound to work at all. The driver is compiled into the kernel, and dmesg gives that it is loading properly, but I can't get any sound. Suggestions anyone? thanks nick --

[gentoo-user] PERL CPAN Modules and Emerge

2003-09-04 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Hi all. I am trying to install a few CPAN modules for PERL. I found one, Time::HiRes, in the portage source tree, but I need to install another that I can't find in the tree -- C::DynaLib. Am I just overlooking this, or should I just install this outside of portage. Thanks! -- [EMAIL

[gentoo-user] Perl C::DynaLib Question

2003-09-04 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Has anyone worked with the C::DynaLib module in PERL, on Gentoo? If so, how did you install it? I've tried emerage (but not in the portage tree), the cpan install program, and a manual install too. On the last two I get a compile error. Anyone able to get this compile correctly? -- [EMAIL

[gentoo-user] kernel panic on intell 855M

2003-09-03 Thread Nicholas Potter
I installed gentoo last night on my new laptop, but upon rebooting got a kernel panic. I have an intell pentium4 with an 855M motherboard, and a number of other things. The only thing I can think of that I did differently is I forgot the -k during emerge of vcron. I don't think that

[gentoo-user] Add a window manager to KDM

2003-09-02 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Can anyone point me to a site (or go over the steps) showing how to add a new window manager to the KDE login manager? Specifically, I am looking to add WindowMaker. I found a brief writeup on the KDE site, but it gave a few example and I wasn't sure which one to use with Gentoo. Any help

[gentoo-user] X11 Aspect Ratios

2003-09-02 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Hello all. This is certainly much more of a X11 question then it is a Gentoo question, so appologies for the off topic, but I figured somewhere here would probably know. I have Gentoo installed on a laptop. I have a monitor with 2 inputs, which would allow me to hook

[gentoo-user] Where is sshd?

2003-09-01 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Hello all. At the risk of show off my extreme newbie status -- where can I locate sshd on Gentoo? I can ssh out of my system, but I need to get it too! :) Thank you! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Improper Shutdown - Newbie Question

2003-08-28 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Hi all. So... I *finally* get my first Gentoo build working, get XFree86 installed (after 8+ hours of compiling) and *BAM* my laptop dies. So now I get errors when I boot my computer. Coming from the world of RedHat, where it handles these things and lets you repair them during boot, I am

Re: [gentoo-user] X terminal

2003-08-28 Thread Nicholas
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 09:43:08AM -0500, Andrew Gaffney wrote: Is there an X terminal that matches gnome-terminal for functionality? Xterm doesn't even come close and Eterm isn't much better. I like the right-click popup menu, copying and pasting from other X windows, and open links

[gentoo-user] Install Help - Gentoo Load Fails at modules.conf.

2003-08-27 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Hello all. I've felt my way through the install process for Gentoo for my first time and everything seemed to work out... but I seem to have missed something, somewhere. :( When the OS attempts to load, I get an error when trying to mount the filesystem. The system can not find

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Help - Gentoo Load Fails at modules.conf.

2003-08-27 Thread Nicholas Pappas
HA! Thanks Christopher. d'oh I believe is the proper response to this. Changed everything else in fstab, but not that. :) Mike, thank you also for the help! Christopher Egner wrote: On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 09:33, Nicholas Pappas wrote: Warning... fsck.reiserfs for device /dev/ROOT

[gentoo-user] First Gentoo Install - Z505 Laptop

2003-08-26 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Hello all. Just started working with Gentoo today and already screwed up once. Meh -- no biggy, I'll just be sure to check everything twice next time around. But this has given me a chance to pause and see if anyone has installed Gentoo on a Sony Z505RX laptop before. For the most part,

[gentoo-user] Step 10. Setting Gentoo optimizations (make.conf) - Install Help

2003-08-26 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Hi all. This is my first attempt at installing Gentoo, and I've run into a problem during the install. The problem is that I'm just not sure how to go forward when told to modify the USE flags in make.conf. I'm coming from the world of RedHat here, so I'm used to having my hand held all

Re: [gentoo-user] Threaded email client for gentoo-user?

2003-06-24 Thread Nicholas Hockey
with my wife; And the muscular strength which it gave to my jaw, Has lasted the rest of my life. -- Lewis Carroll -- Nicholas Hockey ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome2 Truetype Fonts

2003-06-07 Thread Nicholas Hockey
have you added the ttf module to your X config ? should be somthing like this Section Module [snip]... Load speedo Load type1 Load freetype ...[end snip] EndSection On Sat, 2003-06-07 at 10:17, Yusuf Nagree wrote: when I log into gdm using root, truetype fonts are

RE: [gentoo-user] Disadvantage to using SCSI and IDE?

2003-05-31 Thread Nicholas Hockey
On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 07:00, Aurelien Reynaud wrote: Hi all, I've been thinking of upgrading my root partition and moving it from the current IDE to a SCSI disc. I would buy a small-ish SCSI drive for the root and keep my /home on the existing IDE drive. Are there any

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

2003-05-30 Thread Nicholas Orr
Hello, PSU - Antec Truepower series are great, I got a 480w TrueBlue 1 (it has 2 blue LED's in it, matches my 2 tri-blue LED case fans :P) Cases - don't get an Aopen HQ08, I got one and I don't like it, not enough room to move is my main problem with it, not much air flow either. Can you afford

[gentoo-user] mod_php and blackdown

2003-03-17 Thread Nicholas Hockey
support configure:36570: checking for InterBase support configure:36969: checking for IRCG support configure:37447: checking for Java support configure:37500: checking Java Jar location blackhole acid # -- Nicholas Hockey (Tilt) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unix Administrator Encrypted E-Mail is preferred

Re: [gentoo-user] mod_php and blackdown

2003-03-17 Thread Nicholas Hockey
well it compiled ok, but now nothing will come up on my webserver, i relly would like to use java on it however, i'll try it without java support, tho i hope this is fixed soon beacuse i would like to use java on my site, tho i'm not sure if i'm going to use php wit it -- Nicholas Hockey

Re: [gentoo-user] mod_php locking up after mod_php compile

2003-03-17 Thread Nicholas Hockey
] [noti..., 92) = 92 open(/dev/random, O_RDONLY) = 8 read(8, end maby it's my entropy pool being low but i dunno, i'll let it sit here for another few mins but this is baffeling me On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 13:28, Nicholas Hockey wrote: well it compiled ok, but now nothing will come up on my

[gentoo-user] emerge problem

2003-03-16 Thread Nicholas Hockey
been masked. !!! (dependency required by net-misc/gyach-0.9.2 [ebuild]) !!! Problem with ebuild net-misc/gyach-0.9.2 !!! Possibly a DEPEND/*DEPEND problem. !!! Depgraph creation failed. [EMAIL PROTECTED](pts/4) [~] what is this and why is it happening ? -- Nicholas Hockey (Tilt) [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] X windows question

2003-03-16 Thread Nicholas Hockey
: :0.0 (or) Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Anyone seen this before? Is there a setting somewhere that could fix this? Or does it have to do with my grsecurity settings, which are set to medium? Anyone have any ideas? Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Nicholas Hockey

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

2003-03-16 Thread Nicholas Hockey
. 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 root has access unless allowed, you can xhost +localhost to add everybody local to the machine to access X

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge problem

2003-03-16 Thread Nicholas Hockey
thank you very much that worked On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 17:29, Michael Atamas wrote: A simple emerge regen did it for me. If not try killing /usr/portage/* and doing emerge sync (that also did it for me). -- Nicholas Hockey (Tilt) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unix Administrator Encrypted E-Mail

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

2003-03-16 Thread Nicholas Hockey
reinstall ut2k3 and imediatly after try the updater is all i can think of On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 18:34, Jason Giangrande wrote: Nicholas, Do you mean actually logging in as root and running the updater? I did try that and I get the same error. I also tried removing the .loki folder and I

Re: [gentoo-user] cdrecord -scanbus problems

2003-03-15 Thread Nicholas Hockey
Cache, UDMA(33) I'd very much like to burn some cds and as such any help would be much appreciated. Many thanks. Dhruba Bandopadhyay. -- Nicholas Hockey (Tilt) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unix Administrator Encrypted E-Mail is preferred

[gentoo-user] this is only a test please ignore me

2003-03-14 Thread Nicholas Hockey
testing procmail and spam assassin sorry, but i wanted to make sure it worked right before spamassassin starts dumping you all to /dev/null -- Nicholas Hockey (Tilt) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unix Administrator Encrypted E-Mail is preferred

Re: [gentoo-user] this is only a test please ignore me

2003-03-14 Thread Nicholas Hockey
seems to be working, thanks for tolerating the spam now if somebody else could reply to this to show me that i not only can see mine it would be great -- Nicholas Hockey (Tilt) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unix Administrator Encrypted E-Mail is preferred

[gentoo-user] Ximian Evolution keys/encrypted e-mail

2003-03-14 Thread Nicholas Hockey
; format=text; \ -A X-Procmail: corrected old-style PGP keys end snip maby i'm not doing something right, if yah see soemthing wrong could you please advise, and yes i have checked all the simple things llike paths, and am generaly very good at regex. -- Nicholas Hockey (Tilt) [EMAIL

[gentoo-user] Ximian Evolution keys/encrypted e-mail

2003-03-14 Thread Nicholas Hockey
; format=text; \ -A X-Procmail: corrected old-style PGP keys end snip maby i'm not doing something right, if yah see soemthing wrong could you please advise, and yes i have checked all the simple things llike paths, and am generaly very good at regex. -- Nicholas Hockey (Tilt) [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Ximian Evolution keys/encrypted e-mail

2003-03-14 Thread Nicholas Hockey
very sorry about that, x crashed while it was sending and when i started up evolution it send it again. On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 17:38, Nicholas Hockey wrote: i have been using ximian evolution for a long long time, and i have always hoped this question would come up but it hasn't as of yet. my

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge xfree 4.3.0-r1 fails

2003-03-14 Thread Nicholas Hockey
what's causing this? I've built it sucessfully on my P4. -- Nicholas Hockey (Tilt) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unix Administrator Encrypted E-Mail is preferred.. GnuPG KeyID 4EDE2B84 Key fingerprint = B916 6032 BE3D 490D 2A08 F1BC 948A

Re: [gentoo-user] Open ports question

2003-03-14 Thread Nicholas Hockey
should I go about doing it then? Thanks for all comments and feedback! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Nicholas Hockey (Tilt) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unix Administrator Encrypted E-Mail is preferred.. GnuPG KeyID 4EDE2B84

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice for installing windowmanager

2003-03-12 Thread Nicholas Hockey
waste a few precious moments of your short life. http://www.necrophile.net/tilt-ss.png -- Nicholas Hockey (Tilt) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unix Administrator Encrypted E-Mail is preferred.. GnuPG KeyID 4EDE2B84 Key fingerprint = B916

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