Re: [gentoo-user] usermode-sources versus versus gentoo-dev-sources

2005-01-06 Thread Peter Gordon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: | It's possible to use gentoo-dev-sources or mm-sources (2.6.10) as user | mode kernel? | There are patches not already included in mainline kernel? Yes, it's entirely possible. Just pass an ARCH=um to your make statements,

Re: [gentoo-user] battery applet/monitors in Fluxbox

2005-01-06 Thread Peter Gordon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hareesh Nagarajan wrote: | I am currently using Gkrellm to display the life of my battery in | Fluxbox. Gkrellmshows 100% battery even when I havent plugged in the | power cord. Is there any other tool/applet that I can use? I have ACPI | support compli

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Filesystem Benchmarks

2005-01-06 Thread Peter Gordon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Harald Arnesen wrote: | I then converted to ext3, and haven't lost a file since. And never on | any machine that runs ext3. I think the repair utility for ext2/3 is | ways ahead of the one for reiser. This is probably due to the fact that the tools for

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge anything

2005-01-06 Thread Peter Gordon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Make sure to run `env-update && source /etc/profile` after running gcc-config. Also, are your CFLAGS ok? - -- () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email, /\ vCards, and proprietary formats. - ---

Re: [gentoo-user] filesystem error

2005-01-07 Thread Peter Gordon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Colonna wrote: | I am getting this error when booting | | The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 | filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 | filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else

Re: [gentoo-user] Hot Babe and Debian (GENTOO :-)

2005-01-07 Thread Peter Gordon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joseph wrote: | Anybody and an ebuild; I'm sure our community would grow much faster and | we would upgrade more often :-) They already have an ebuild tarball on their site: http://dindinx.net/hotbabe/download.php (It's down near the bottom) - -- () Th

Re: [gentoo-user] tar xzf to different folder

2005-01-09 Thread Peter Gordon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joseph wrote: | Is there a way to untar content of a file to a different folder? | Try using the '-C ' option: $ tar -xzf /path/to/archive.tar.gz -C /where/to/unpack Hope that helps! - -- () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email, /\ vCards, a

Re: [gentoo-user] GUI Archives browser for gnome?

2005-01-10 Thread Peter Gordon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 michael higgins wrote: | I've been wishing I had a filebrowser for archived files. What do I emerge that contains such a beast? I've been using the gnome-light package... I quite like file-roller, for what it's worth... # emerge app-arch/file-roller | O

Re: [gentoo-user] xterm and bash

2005-01-14 Thread Peter Gordon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 HK wrote: | When I try to type a long line in xterm, running bash under xfce4, it | wraps to the column that was valid before resizing the window with | +F7 (maximum width).. | | If I resize the window with the mouse everything is fine. | | Is anyone el

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.10-gentoo-r4n??

2005-01-15 Thread Peter Gordon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ed Jabbour wrote: | I just emerged gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.10-r4. Upon compiling, I see that it's | described as 2.6.10-r4n. What does that "n" mean? Thanks. There's a new option (as of 2.6.9 if I remember correctly) called CONFIG_LOCALVERSION, which

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

2005-01-15 Thread Peter Gordon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ovidiu Bivolaru wrote: | Is anybody seeing this ? | | creating auto-host.h | * Compiling gcc ... | * Setting make jobs to "-j2" to ensure successful merge ... | x86 | /var/tmp/portage/gcc-3.3.5-r1/work/build | /var/tmp/portage/gcc-3.3.5-r1/work/build |

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: freetype vs. m$

2005-01-25 Thread Peter Gordon
George Garvey wrote: Using VMware the other day I noticed something. I was running a program I develop on both Linux and in VMware with 2000 Pro. The font rendering is noticeably better on Linux. It is darker, and less blurry. Same here, dude... =) -- () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against H

Re: [gentoo-user] to fetch rtsp medias

2005-01-31 Thread Peter Gordon
Quoting Zhang Weiwu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello. Is it possible to poll down a live media and save it as .mov? > Like in this URI: > > rtsp://real.sony.global.speedera.net/real.sony.global/qt/Jmov > > I tried to use wget but this protocol rtsp is not recognized. Can mplayer do it? $ mplayer

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.11 install

2005-02-02 Thread Peter Gordon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have to install the 2.6.11-rcX kernel because it seems I cannot get hibernation work on my thinkpad A30 laptop, but gentoo does not offer this new kernel. Is it still possible to install this version of the kernel, and if yes, how? It's still masked as testing, so you

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.11 install

2005-02-02 Thread Peter Gordon
Peter Gordon wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have to install the 2.6.11-rcX kernel because it seems I cannot get hibernation work on my thinkpad A30 laptop, but gentoo does not offer this new kernel. Is it still possible to install this version of the kernel, and if yes, how? It's

[gentoo-user] Testing Enigmail...

2005-02-02 Thread Peter Gordon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sorry about this, everyone, but Enigmail/GnuPG have been misbehaving it looks like. I need to check the signature on this email. It may be something not working right with PGP/MIME, since inlined signatures seem to be ok. Thanks. - -- () The ASCII Rib

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing Enigmail...

2005-02-02 Thread Peter Gordon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ok, so it looks like it's PGP/MIME that's doing that. Dang... - -- () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email, /\ vCards, and proprietary formats. - --- Peter A. Gordon (codergeek42) E-Mail: [EMAI

Re: [gentoo-user] suggest users enable and read (some of) PORT_LOGDIR

2005-02-05 Thread Peter Gordon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Several times on this list we have been told how to enable portage log | files, but I don't think enough has been said of how useful they are, | even when nothing is visibly wrong. | | Emerge output is rather lengthy and the "

Re: [gentoo-user] Bug with SVGALib?

2005-02-08 Thread Peter Gordon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Flippin wrote: | I couldn't find anything on this on Google, so I thought I'd post it | here in case anyone wanted to look at it and see if it's really a bug. Google wouldn't have it, I think. You may want to check Gentoo's Bugzilla: http://bugs.ge

[gentoo-user] [Very OT] Test Message (Please Ignore)

2005-02-27 Thread Peter Gordon
Sorry all. Thunderbird and my mail server have both been acting very strange. This is just a test. Thanks. -- () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email, /\ vCards, and proprietary formats. --- Peter A. Gordon (codergeek42) E-Mail: [EMAIL P

Re: [gentoo-user] [Very OT] Test Message (Please Ignore)

2005-02-27 Thread Peter Gordon
Peter Gordon wrote: Sorry all. Thunderbird and my mail server have both been acting very strange. This is just a test. Thanks. Yay! It went through! ^_^ *cries tears of happiness* Thanks again, all; and sorry for the seemingly pointless message. =D -- () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Schematic Drawing software

2005-02-28 Thread Peter Gordon
James wrote: Hello all, I'm looking for a drawing program, that has lots of symbols such as networking and electrical symbols, build in. Something like RFflow (http://www.rff.com/) for the pc. I'd be nice if the output files could be loaded directly into OpenOffice. Any suggestions? Dia maybe? # em

Re: [gentoo-user] Do not get an ATi (Was: Newbie Hardware Advice)

2005-02-28 Thread Peter Gordon
Keith Gable wrote: From personal experience, I can say this: DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE GET AN ATI CARD. Just to satiate my curiosity, why do you say this? I'm planning on purchasing a Sapphire Radeon 9250 that I found on NewEgg because of the Free Software driver support (X.org and DRI). Were

Re: [gentoo-user] Do not get an ATi (Was: Newbie Hardware Advice)

2005-03-01 Thread Peter Gordon
Keith Gable wrote: My problems were with the ATI binary driver. It is the biggest piece of crap on the planet. Excellent. I was just curious. As I have no plans to use ATi's proprietary drivers (F/OSS driver support is the primary reason I'm purchasing this card), I don't think I'll have any major

Re: [gentoo-user] linux-2.6.11 is out

2005-03-02 Thread Peter Gordon
Adis Beglerovic wrote: Using ~x86 packages of nvidia made possible to compile it with vanilla 2.6.11. So fix is ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge nvidia-kernel nvidia-glx Waah! ='( Bad Gentooer! No cookie for you! If you are not using a full ~arch system but want certain packages from ~arch, you should

Re: [gentoo-user] linux-2.6.11 is out

2005-03-03 Thread Peter Gordon
Chris Cox wrote: Put the following in your /etc/portage/package.mask (create the file if it doesn't exist) : >=media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629 >=media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.6629 Then emerge nvidia-kernel nvidia-glx and try this version of the nvidia driver. All versions above nvidia-kernel-1.0.

Re: [gentoo-user] configuration nvidia TNT2 m64

2005-03-03 Thread Peter Gordon
I have the same card. It's a Riva TNT2 M64, 2x AGP. 32 MB (ELSA ERAZOR III LT). I can send you my xorg.conf if you'd like. -- () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email, /\ vCards, and proprietary formats. --- Peter A. Gordon (codergeek42) E-

Re: [gentoo-user] encrypted email

2005-03-04 Thread Peter Gordon
Nick Smith wrote: is there a way to send encrypted email? so that if the person on the revieving end of the email doesnt have the key they cant view the email? GPG maybe? -- () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email, /\ vCards, and proprietary formats.

Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird crashes when sending signed or encrypted mails

2005-03-04 Thread Peter Gordon
ZeeGeek wrote: Thunderbird crashes when I try to send a signed or encrypted mail, the error I get is "/usr/bin/thunderbird: line 392: 12794 Segmentation fault $mozbin "$@"", other things are alright. Does it work if you send plaintext (unencrypted and unsigned) messages? Wait..nevermind... >_<

Re: [gentoo-user] encrypted email

2005-03-04 Thread Peter Gordon
Nick Smith wrote: i did notice that, but if they are encrypted how come i can see them? ive never needed encryption before and asked since i have a need now. It's not encrypted. It's merely a message digest and digital signature. It is merely a means to show that the message itself was not altered

Re: [gentoo-user] unsubscribe

2005-03-04 Thread Peter Gordon
Calvin Garrison wrote: [...nothing...] You're leaving us? ='( -- () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email, /\ vCards, and proprietary formats. --- Peter A. Gordon (codergeek42) E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Public Key ID: 0x109DBECE GPG Ke

Re: [gentoo-user] encrypted email

2005-03-05 Thread Peter Gordon
Ralph Slooten wrote: No, it works fine on Windows aswell (gnupg and enigmail with thunderbird). I use them both from work where I have to use Windows2000 without a problem. Also it's 100% compatible with Linux (haven't had any issues yet). Cool! ^_^ You learn something new everyday... -- () The AS

Re: [gentoo-user] encrypted email

2005-03-05 Thread Peter Gordon
Dion Sole wrote: One would hope though, that being on Linux, he wouldn't be using Outlook :P His message headers say he's using Novell Evolution. =P X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.2 -- () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email, /\ vCards, and proprietary formats. ---

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck

2005-03-05 Thread Peter Gordon
Julien Cayzac wrote: But reiserfs keeps telling me it can't replay the journal because it's read-only... Use a more mature filesystem? ^_^ *runs and hides* -- () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email, /\ vCards, and proprietary formats. ---

Re: [gentoo-user] encrypted email

2005-03-05 Thread Peter Gordon
Uwe Thiem wrote: What he meant was: If you send out encrypted messages you want your counterpart to be able to decrypt them. It's a fair assumption that some of the receivers of your email are using outlook unless you are one of those who simply refuse to communicate with MS users. ;-) Ha ha. Oops.

Re: [gentoo-user] format floppy to 1.8mb

2005-03-05 Thread Peter Gordon
Joseph wrote: Is it possible to format floppy to 1.8mb under linux with vfat? fdformat only goes to 1.4mb Have you tried specifying /dev/fd0H1840 as the floppy device rather than /dev/fd0? For more info you may want to read the manual page: $ man fd -- () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML E

Re: [gentoo-user] Re-emerge / Re-build GCC

2005-03-07 Thread Peter Gordon
Michael Haan wrote: At the end of install, oh... I don't know, 6?, and it appears I may need to recompile gcc with an additional USE flag, and a FEATURES flag. Only thing is, I'm not sure how to do that. Anyone? You should only need to change your FEATURES or USE settings in your /etc/make.co

Re: [gentoo-user] spontaneous reboot?

2005-03-07 Thread Peter Gordon
Are you sure it's not bad memory somewhere important (such as where the kernel image is stored, etc.)? Perhaps you should try running MemTest for a day or two straight if you have the time (and if it's x86) and see if that gives you any strange errors or warnings. It's on the newer Gentoo LiveCDs (

Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST setting for a pentium m

2005-03-24 Thread Peter Gordon
Marc Schlienger wrote: I'm installing Gentoo on my laptop which has a pentium m (dothan) processor 2.0GHz. I have set CFLAGS="... -march=pentium3 ..." and I wonder if it would be better to use CHOST="i586-pc-linux-gnu" or CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"? I'm quite certain that installing Gentoo on a Pe

Re: [gentoo-user] xfmedia Segmentation fault

2005-03-24 Thread Peter Gordon
Make sure you have the D-BUS daemon running: # emerge sys-apps/dbus # /etc/init.d/dbus start See if that helps. -- () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email, /\ vCards, and proprietary formats. --- Peter A. Gordon (codergeek42) E-Mail: [EMAI

Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla HTML composer for Firefox

2005-03-24 Thread Peter Gordon
Joseph wrote: Is Mozilla Composer available as a separate download? I'm using Firefox but I like Mozilla Composre unless somebody can recommend better WYSIWYG editor. Nvu perhaps? -- () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email, /\ vCards, and proprietary formats. ---

Re: [gentoo-user] not install php

2005-03-24 Thread Peter Gordon
Walter Willis wrote: is good help jajajajaja Huh? O_o Are you ok? :D -- () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email, /\ vCards, and proprietary formats. --- Peter A. Gordon (codergeek42) E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Public Key ID: 0x109D

Re: [gentoo-user] Restrict usiage of "wget" on my webpage

2005-03-25 Thread Peter Gordon
Joseph wrote: How to restrict outsider to use "wget" on my web-page? Wget by default sends a User-Agent string of "Wget/" so you could, for example, configure Apache to send a "HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found" error (or something else) for a specific page if the user agent is Wget. Or you could alternativ

Re: [gentoo-user] Restrict usiage of "wget" on my webpage

2005-03-25 Thread Peter Gordon
Peter Gordon wrote: Wget (as far as I know) is very well-behaved in that it will follow any restirctions imposed by a webserver's robots.txt file. Sorry. I meant "restrictions". I hate it when I forget to use spell-check >_< -- () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML E

Re: [gentoo-user] Restrict usiage of "wget" on my webpage

2005-03-25 Thread Peter Gordon
Joseph wrote: How about the -U option "--user-agent=" in "wget" to change "wget user agent"; could it be used to defeat this purpose? Ah monkey. I forgot about that. >_< I'd think it would still follow the robots.txt's restrictions though... -- () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email,

Re: [gentoo-user] Which FEATURES do you use?

2005-03-28 Thread Peter Gordon
Grant wrote: Most of the FEATURES listed in make.conf.example sound good. Which ones do you guys actually use? `emerge --info` says: FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms" Most of those are defaults... -- () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email,

Re: [gentoo-user] Any posters getting bounce messages?

2005-03-28 Thread Peter Gordon
Dave Nebinger wrote: I'm getting bounces from [EMAIL PROTECTED] I thought the mailing list was set up to auto-unregister folks when the bounce messages are returned? I'm getting these too. Perhaps one of the ML admins could manually remove his address from the list? -- () The ASCII Ribbon Campai

Re: [gentoo-user] Which FEATURES do you use?

2005-03-28 Thread Peter Gordon
Grant wrote: autoconfig and parallel-fetch sound interesting. What are those? I have no idea what autoconfig does. I'm pretty sure Portage just put that in there by default. 'parallel-fetch' seems to remedy the download->compile->download->compile problem by backgrounding the next download while

Re: [gentoo-user] suggestions: buying a new computer

2005-03-29 Thread Peter Gordon
A. Khattri wrote: I have to agree: SCSI disks just blow away IDE drives in terms of performance under heavy load. From experiences with SCSI RAID setups on the servers where I work, SCSI disks also blow away IDE drivers in terms of noise too ;-) -- () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email

Re: [gentoo-user] suggestions: buying a new computer

2005-03-29 Thread Peter Gordon
Well, as to the CPU...since you want it to last you a long time your best bet is probably to just jump in the deep end and go buy a well-priced AMD64. That will run Gentoo just fine and quite speedy from what I have read. For the graphics card...Hmm. Well if you don't mind proprietary driver suppor

Re: [gentoo-user] Restricted instant messaging

2005-03-29 Thread Peter Gordon
Grant wrote: Does anyone know of an instant messaging client that can be set up to allow communication with only one other specific account? Hmm. Perhaps you could hack Gaim/Jabber to automagically connect to a single server (and not let the user choose otherwise) and have that server only allow

Re: [gentoo-user] Any posters getting bounce messages?

2005-03-29 Thread Peter Gordon
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Should have been done by now. I asked infra, took a while because of timezone issues. Thanks, Ciaran. :-) -- () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email, /\ vCards, and proprietary formats. --- Peter A. Gordon (codergeek

Re: [gentoo-user] suggestions: buying a new computer

2005-03-29 Thread Peter Gordon
Stroller wrote: From experiences with SCSI RAID setups on the servers where I work, SCSI disks also blow away IDE drivers in terms of noise too ;-) PARDON? They're loud. Perhaps it's all the fans and air conditioning and what-not in the server room, but it gets really noisy in there at times. -- ()

Re: [gentoo-user] suggestions: buying a new computer

2005-03-29 Thread Peter Gordon
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Hrm, the 15krpm Seagate drives are pretty quiet... It's probably just the air-conditioning and all the fans and what-not, then. *shrug*. -- () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email, /\ vCards, and proprietary formats. ---

Re: [gentoo-user] suggestions: buying a new computer

2005-03-29 Thread Peter Gordon
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 20:03:02 -0800 Peter Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | For the graphics card...Hmm. Well if you don't mind proprietary driver | support Well, if the thing's to last five years, I'd say that proprietary drivers are pretty much out o

Re: [gentoo-user] suggestions: buying a new computer

2005-03-29 Thread Peter Gordon
Nicolas Bailey wrote: PARDON? They're loud. Perhaps it's all the fans and air conditioning and what-not in the server room, but it gets really noisy in there at times. I think you missed the point. It's loud, loss of hearing, thus the "pardon?" Honestly, I have to thank you, though--jokes are al

Re: [gentoo-user] suggestions: buying a new computer

2005-03-29 Thread Peter Gordon
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: WHAT DID YOU SAY? Ha ha ha! :-D -- () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email, /\ vCards, and proprietary formats. --- Peter A. Gordon (codergeek42) E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Public Key ID: 0x109DBECE GPG Key Finger

Re: [gentoo-user] suggestions: buying a new computer

2005-03-30 Thread Peter Gordon
A. Khattri wrote: Tyan have a quad-Opteron board Ive been drooling over but the price tag is 4 figures :-) Yea. I've been drooling over that same board I think. I so want one of those. :-D -- () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email, /\ vCards, and proprietary formats. -

Re: [gentoo-user] Going to X.org

2005-04-02 Thread Peter Gordon
Ian K wrote: Hey! Yes, its hard to believe, but Im sadly still on XFree. Can someone tell me in simple terms how to convert? It's fairly simply really. You should just need to unmerge XFree86, then install X.org X11. If you want to, you can make a backup tarball of your current XFree86 installtion

Re: [gentoo-user] Going to X.org

2005-04-02 Thread Peter Gordon
mfyang wrote: Do you need to add any patch or install other things to enable the composite support? Thanks! None that I know of. You will need compositing support in your window manager. I know Xfce's WM (xfwm4) already has it as of the 4.2 release candidates. I'm not certain aboug GNOME (Metacity

Re: [gentoo-user] unsubscribe

2005-04-03 Thread Peter Gordon
Patrick Clery wrote: unsubscribe -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list In order to unsubscribe from this list (if you're still subscribed) you'll need to send an empty email to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". -- () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email, /\ vCards, and proprietary formats.

Re: [gentoo-user] Going to X.org

2005-04-03 Thread Peter Gordon
Sami Samhuri wrote: If you run an Nvidia card I highly recommend the RenderAccel option as well. (It enables hardware rendering acceleration which greatly speeds your translucent X up) Here's the device section from my xorg.conf: For what it's worth,t het RenderAccel option is also valid with X.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Going to X.org

2005-04-03 Thread Peter Gordon
Peter Gordon wrote: For what it's worth,t het RenderAccel option is also valid with X.org's I meant to say "For what it's worth, the RenderAccel option is also valid ..." I apologize for my apparent lack of caffeine ;-) -- () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HT

Re: [gentoo-user] suggestions: buying a new computer

2005-03-30 Thread Peter Gordon
daniel wrote: is this to say that chipsets after 9250 will *never* be supported by Free drivers? or that they just aren't supported right now? The 9200 and 9250 the strongest chips supported by the DRI project at this time. There is a project[1] which (from what I understand) attempts to make use