Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 coming up

2003-11-14 Thread Prabhat Gupta
I think u are using DHCP for eht1. If you give it a static IP address you wouldn't see that problem. Prabhat Kurt Bechstein wrote: >I have an hp laptop with a National Semiconductor ethernet controller in >it which works perfectly. I'm also running the latest version of >mm-sources. Sometimes w

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc optimizations

2003-10-28 Thread Prabhat Gupta
http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/ Chris Graves wrote: OK, so some folks swear by "-O3" optimizations, but alot of what I've read suggests "-O2" produces "faster" binaries. I have a Pentium III (coppermine) @ 900MHz with 512M RAM and 1G swap. What CFLAGS do I want? (questionably unstable optimizat

Re: [gentoo-user] Reading emails from both Gentoo Linux and MS Win

2003-10-22 Thread Prabhat Gupta
I guess, you will need to create a fat32 partition for data exchange and use Mozilla email client. Keep your emails on the fat32 partition. I am assuming that LINUX and windows both can write on that partition. let me know, if it works. Prabhat Sami Salonen wrote: >I have a dual setup with Gen

Re: [gentoo-user] Converting video files

2003-10-21 Thread Prabhat Gupta
try transcode emerge transcode http://www.theorie.physik.uni-goettingen.de/~ostreich/transcode/html/index.html Good luck Prabhat Paul Stear wrote: >Hi all, >I have some mpeg2 files that I want to include into my DV film at the editing >stage. >Is this possible? The mpegs are 720x576 pal format

Re: [gentoo-user] Typematic rate

2003-10-20 Thread Prabhat Gupta
as root: kbdrate -r 30 -d 250 Petric Frank wrote: >Hello, > >how to change the typematic rate / delay of a keyboard ? > >Actually i have a repetition rate of about 1/sec. And there is no setting in >the BIOS (Phoenix). > >regards > Petric > > >-- >[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > > -- [EM

Re: [gentoo-user] connection sharing question.

2003-10-16 Thread Prabhat Gupta
It is possible. I was doing same thing for 3-4 months. except I had a Cable Modem :) U have to use netfilter/IPtables. Your gentoo box will act as a firewall. You can use "shorewall" to setup the router and also a firewall. compile netfilter into kernel then emerge iptables emerge shorewall read th

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc error

2003-10-07 Thread Prabhat Gupta
may be you should emerge gcc Michael W. Holdeman wrote: I am having a problem with a machine that I started out as a 1.2 machine, then a few months ago upgraded it to 1.4 using the instructions on teh web site. Everything had been working fine, then suddenly I am unable to emerge anything, I g

Re: [gentoo-user] Keyborad refresh rate annoyance

2003-10-07 Thread Prabhat Gupta
Thanks Brian I am sorry about the thread :( Prabhat Brian Richardson wrote: On October 6, 2003 01:49 pm, Prabhat Gupta wrote: Hi, I have following in my local.start kbdrate -r 30 -d 250 still, I have to give the same command (as root) everytime I boot into KDE ( I don't have GNOME).

[gentoo-user] Keyborad refresh rate annoyance

2003-10-06 Thread Prabhat Gupta
Hi, I have following in my local.start kbdrate -r 30 -d 250 still, I have to give the same command (as root) everytime I boot into KDE ( I don't have GNOME). What can I do to fix this. Thanks in advance! Prabhat -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] how can i add iptables to my gentoo-soruces kernel?

2003-10-06 Thread Prabhat Gupta
http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/pkgs/net-firewall/iptables.xml Prabhat Gupta wrote: emerge iptables HvR wrote: i wanted to set up shorewall firewall but noticed that i dont have the iptables module compiled in my gentoo-sources kernel, what do i turn on in the kernel config to make it compile

Re: [gentoo-user] how can i add iptables to my gentoo-soruces kernel?

2003-10-06 Thread Prabhat Gupta
emerge iptables HvR wrote: i wanted to set up shorewall firewall but noticed that i dont have the iptables module compiled in my gentoo-sources kernel, what do i turn on in the kernel config to make it compile it? i have tried a bunch of stuff but either it still doesnt compile or the com

[gentoo-user] deleeting files in /usr/portage/distfiles

2003-10-03 Thread Prabhat Gupta
Hi, Can I delete files in /usr/portage/distfiles to same some space?? Thanks Prabhat -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] printing multiple pages per sheet

2003-10-03 Thread Prabhat Gupta
try using enscript program. Brian Richardson wrote: Hello, I'm trying to print some text documents with multiple pages per sheet. However, these options on the printer's property sheet. Could anybody suggest what may be missing? My printer, a Lexmark Optra E+ supports PostScript. Thanks, Bria

Re: [gentoo-user] why does gentoo insist on emerging ck-sources ?

2003-10-03 Thread Prabhat Gupta
I think, open file /var/cache/./virtual and edit sys-kernel line ot only include installed kernels. oom wrote: greets to all who are wise and curious! something strange is going on, I can't see why gentoo wants to emerge the ck-sources, I am not using them (at least not now and ummerged t

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about ATA RAID controllers...

2003-10-02 Thread Prabhat Gupta
If you do a RAID 0 setup you will get a performance boost. It's a good idea. Walther The Writer wrote: I beleive I have hardware ATA RAID controller, becuase when I'm booting up with gentoo doataraid kernel option the setup says it is detected and when I do modprobe ataraid, no errors appear. Wh

Re: [gentoo-user] SuSE Kernel Sources

2003-10-02 Thread Prabhat Gupta
Great job! I will try that sometime. Prabhat Paul Varner wrote: All: Being a big fan of SuSE before coming to Gentoo, I was interested to note that gentoo had RedHat kernel sources, but not SuSE sources. Since I have always preferred the stability of the SuSE kernel over RedHat's [I know it's

Re: [gentoo-user] RE: [gentoo-dev] Migrating to a commercial PHP-based forums package for forums.gentoo.org

2003-09-29 Thread Prabhat Gupta
I agree Bjorn Sodergren wrote: Open Source/GPL , free meaning no $$ needed, or gotta-pay for it, it doesn't matter as long as the tool you're using is the right tool for the job. If you insist on using the wrong tools ONLY because you think it is un-ethical to use non-free software, you should re

Re: [gentoo-user] Happy am i

2003-09-26 Thread Prabhat Gupta
Jason Cooper wrote: Senectus - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: LOL.. sounds like a challenge.. :-) I know its OT.. But I couldn't help it.. after your like epilogue.. I remembered this : (Not written by me) Gospel of Tux unearthed (long) [Helluva snip] Now may you code in the power of

Re: [gentoo-user] Digital camera recommendations?

2003-09-25 Thread Prabhat Gupta
www.dpreview.com is also good for information. Prabhat Anthony Floyd wrote: On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 14:13:46 -0400 gabriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] a good place to look for quality comparisions is google. i found a site through there that compared any camera out there to any other cam

[gentoo-user] SUPER-FREESWAN binary packages

2003-09-25 Thread Prabhat Gupta
Hi, I recently upgraded the system: emerge -u system(~x86) Now I am getting touble, compiling super-freeswan with the newly upgraded gcc-3.3.1 Can some make a binay package for it and post it on the web? I have pentium 4 laptop. Can I downgrade the system using following: env USE='x86' em

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/spool/mqueue permissions/ownership

2003-09-24 Thread Prabhat Gupta
drwxr-xr-x2 root root 4096 Aug 24 2001 anacron drwx--3 daemon daemon 4096 Aug 24 2001 at drwx--2 root root 4096 Mar 8 2001 cron drwxr-xr-x2 root root 4096 Aug 30 2000 fax drwxr-xr-x3 root root 4096 Aug 24 2001

Re: [gentoo-user] IBM Thinkpad R40e

2003-09-23 Thread Prabhat Gupta
Trying hitting key board during boot up. This happens on my laptop, hp ze5158. The keyboard stops working when the kernel loads some USB modules. But if I keep pressing the key duing that module load, the keyboard works file. Prabhat Mike Williams wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Has

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless connection.

2003-09-23 Thread Prabhat Gupta
Dave, I did repatch the kernel and also build the driver. I didn't do make mrproper though. The wireless connection works but I have to stop it and then start again. /etc/init.d/net.eth1 stop /etc/init.d/net.eth1 start Prabhat David Mallwitz wrote: Prabhat Gupta wrote: I am using:

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless connection.

2003-09-23 Thread Prabhat Gupta
I am using: http://ruslug.rutgers.edu/~mcgrof/802.11g/ dirver for that PCMCIA card. There is a dependency in the /etc/init.d/net.eth1 for PCMCIA. I don't know what else to add there :( Prabhat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 02:38:09PM -0400, Prabhat Gupta wrote: H

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless connection. [CORRECTION]

2003-09-23 Thread Prabhat Gupta
I upgraded to GS-SOURCES Prabhat Gupta wrote: Hi, I installed a netgear 802.11g card on my laptop for wireless access. With latest vanilla-source (~x86) everything was working fine. Then, I changed the kernel to latest gentoo-sources (~x86). Now the wireless connection doesn't co

[gentoo-user] Wireless connection.

2003-09-23 Thread Prabhat Gupta
Hi, I installed a netgear 802.11g card on my laptop for wireless access. With latest vanilla-source (~x86) everything was working fine. Then, I changed the kernel to latest gentoo-sources (~x86). Now the wireless connection doesn't connect automatically after boot. I have added it to the defau

[gentoo-user] Freeswan installation and setup

2003-09-23 Thread Prabhat Gupta
Hi All, I am trying to install a VNP for last 3 night with no luck :) I am using latest gentoo-sources (~x86). I enabled the IPSec in kernel and emerged super-freeswan. I am getting alot of errors while starting the ipsec. I noticed that the freeswan version in the gentoo-sources is 1.97. Als

[gentoo-user] Best processor for Video Encoding type job

2003-07-28 Thread Prabhat Gupta
Hi, I am planning to buy a desktop for (home) video editing and off course I will do a lot of compiling, listening to music etc. What processor would be good: 1. Pentium 4 with Hyper Threading 2. Pentium 4 (plain vanilla) 3. Athlon XP I would like you hear your expereince with this. Best rega

Re: [gentoo-user] Minimal Gentoo install

2003-07-28 Thread Prabhat Gupta
What if I CAN'T boot from CD :( Regards Prabhat Pat Kerwan wrote: On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 11:58:21AM -0400, Prabhat Gupta wrote: Hi Vano, Can you give me little more detail on the procedure. Here is my understanding: 1. Untar the stagex in /xxx/slow/ on fast machine 2. chroot

Re: [gentoo-user] Minimal Gentoo install

2003-07-28 Thread Prabhat Gupta
-base 9. Go to slow machine 10. WHAT NEXT ?? The slow machine has a swap parition and a ROOT parition. I have not used rsync. How to boot the slow machine? Thanks for your help Prabhat Vano D wrote: On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 18:01, Prabhat Gupta wrote: You'll be lucky to get XFree an

Re: [gentoo-user] Minimal Gentoo install

2003-07-25 Thread Prabhat Gupta
Thanks Andrew. Regards PRabhat Andrew Gaffney wrote: Prabhat Gupta wrote: You should set: MAKEOPTS="-j2" DISTCC_HOSTS="fastmachine/2" FEATURES="ccache distcc" where fastmachine is the hostname or ip of the fastermachine. The '/2' means it can accept 2

Re: [gentoo-user] Minimal Gentoo install

2003-07-25 Thread Prabhat Gupta
[/SINP] You should set: MAKEOPTS="-j2" DISTCC_HOSTS="fastmachine/2" FEATURES="ccache distcc" where fastmachine is the hostname or ip of the fastermachine. The '/2' means it can accept 2 jobs at once. Should I install ccache also? Which one should I install first ccache or distcc? What set wi

Re: [gentoo-user] Minimal Gentoo install

2003-07-25 Thread Prabhat Gupta
Andrew Gaffney wrote: Prabhat Gupta wrote: wow!! Looks like I will get some improvement. I have a 2.4G HP laptop with gentoo installed. So what I will do now it to omit the localhost form DISTCC_HOSTS What should be my "-j" value for this senario? 2?? Typically its CPUs + 1,

Re: [gentoo-user] Minimal Gentoo install

2003-07-25 Thread Prabhat Gupta
7;m going to build my new firewall/router. I'll leverage all my fast boxes to build the system and leave it completely out of the DISTCC_HOSTS line...it's only a 200MHz and I've got 2.0, 2.4, 1.8, 1.6GHz to throw at the real work. -Rob On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 14:35:11 -0400, Pra

Re: [gentoo-user] Minimal Gentoo install

2003-07-25 Thread Prabhat Gupta
binuntils-2.14.(forgot) / distcc-2.8) which is the current stable build environment. -Rob On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 01:11:29 +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote On Saturday 26 July 2003 01:00, Prabhat Gupta wrote: Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Prabhat Gupta wrote: I am looking for ideas to red

Re: [gentoo-user] Minimal Gentoo install

2003-07-25 Thread Prabhat Gupta
Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote: Prabhat, Sometime it feels good to debug using DDD rather using plain gdb. I can see that. I'm running full SuSE 8.0 on a Thinkpad 770 at home, with the usual KDE, so the 760 should be able to handle it, too. I've got to admit, though, that I do most of my

Re: [gentoo-user] Minimal Gentoo install

2003-07-25 Thread Prabhat Gupta
Jason Stubbs wrote: On Saturday 26 July 2003 00:48, Prabhat Gupta wrote: Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote: Prabhat Gupta wrote: Hi All, I am trying to install a minimal gentoo on an IBM Thinkpad 760XL. The laptop has 1.6G free space on ROOT partition. Currently I am bootstrapping the

Re: [gentoo-user] Minimal Gentoo install

2003-07-25 Thread Prabhat Gupta
Douglas Russell wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 25 July 2003 4:48 pm, Prabhat Gupta wrote: Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote: Prabhat Gupta wrote: Hi All, I am trying to install a minimal gentoo on an IBM Thinkpad 760XL. The laptop has 1.6G free space on

Re: [gentoo-user] Minimal Gentoo install

2003-07-25 Thread Prabhat Gupta
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Prabhat Gupta wrote: I am looking for ideas to reduce the space requirment and also compile time. I have only 24 hrs left for this :( Consider using distcc to speed up compile time. I've never used it myself, but I've heard good things about it. Better y

Re: [gentoo-user] Minimal Gentoo install

2003-07-25 Thread Prabhat Gupta
Jason Stubbs wrote: On Saturday 26 July 2003 00:39, Håvard Wall wrote: Prabhat Gupta wrote: Hi All, I am trying to install a minimal gentoo on an IBM Thinkpad 760XL. The laptop has 1.6G free space on ROOT partition. Currently I am bootstrapping the system. I want a minimal system to

Re: [gentoo-user] Minimal Gentoo install

2003-07-25 Thread Prabhat Gupta
Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote: Prabhat Gupta wrote: Hi All, I am trying to install a minimal gentoo on an IBM Thinkpad 760XL. The laptop has 1.6G free space on ROOT partition. Currently I am bootstrapping the system. I want a minimal system to do some C++ development. I need GCC, make, CVS

Re: [gentoo-user] Minimal Gentoo install

2003-07-25 Thread Prabhat Gupta
Håvard Wall wrote: Prabhat Gupta wrote: Hi All, I am trying to install a minimal gentoo on an IBM Thinkpad 760XL. The laptop has 1.6G free space on ROOT partition. Currently I am bootstrapping the system. I want a minimal system to do some C++ development. I need GCC, make, CVS, shells

[gentoo-user] Minimal Gentoo install

2003-07-25 Thread Prabhat Gupta
Hi All, I am trying to install a minimal gentoo on an IBM Thinkpad 760XL. The laptop has 1.6G free space on ROOT partition. Currently I am bootstrapping the system. I want a minimal system to do some C++ development. I need GCC, make, CVS, shells. I also need minimal KDE. What should be my n

Re: [gentoo-user] Good code editor (with colors) for X (no GTK orQT)

2003-07-22 Thread Prabhat Gupta
Essien Ita Essien wrote: Ok i've tried to keep quiet but i cant anymore!! Why dont you want to use vim? You cant type? That's the only reason i can think of. Other than that... its power editing all the way. sory... i couldn't help myself :D Essien I AM WITH YOU ! Prabhat -Origi

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't login to webmin

2003-07-18 Thread Prabhat Gupta
type username root and hit ENTER Mike Diehl (Encrypted email prefer red) wrote: Hi all. I just installed Gentoo on a machine and emerge'd webmin. I only have one username on the machine, root, but I can't seem to get logged in. I've tried the password many times, so I know I'm typing it in

[gentoo-user] Keyborad refresh rate RESET by KDE

2003-07-16 Thread Prabhat Gupta
Hi All, I set the keyboard rate in "local.start" by following command kbdrate -r 30 -d 250 But the rate is reset by KDE and I have to give the command after I login. How can I solve this? Thanks Prabhat -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How to move the whole PORTAGE TREE?

2003-07-15 Thread Prabhat Gupta
That's cool :) Spider wrote: begin quote On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 10:02:51 -0400 Prabhat Gupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi All, It looks like my root partition is almost used. Is it possible to move the portage tree to some other location? Yep, there

[gentoo-user] Ebuild for CINEPAINT ..............

2003-07-15 Thread Prabhat Gupta
Hi All, Did anyone make an ebuild for "cinepaint" http://cinepaint.sourceforge.net/ -- P r a b h a t G u p t a /\/\* -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How to move the whole PORTAGE TREE?

2003-07-15 Thread Prabhat Gupta
That's helpful Thanks daniel wrote: On July 15, 2003 10:47 am, Prabhat Gupta wrote: thanks Daniel. Now the next question is how to download the sources in the "/mnt/share/copyleft/distfiles" when I update or install new packages? they'll go the

Re: [gentoo-user] How to move the whole PORTAGE TREE?

2003-07-15 Thread Prabhat Gupta
thanks Daniel. Now the next question is how to download the sources in the  "/mnt/share/copyleft/distfiles" when I update or install new packages? Thanks PRabhat daniel wrote: On July 15, 2003 10:02 am, Prabhat Gupta wrote: It looks like my root partition is almost u

[gentoo-user] How to move the whole PORTAGE TREE?

2003-07-15 Thread Prabhat Gupta
Hi All, It looks like my root partition is almost used. Is it possible to move the portage tree to some other location? Thanks Prabhat -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] transcode - divx problem

2003-07-14 Thread Prabhat Gupta
rebuild the dependencies for transcode Bryce wrote: Hey all, trying to use transcodw with DVD::RIP, and having an issue: Copied by hand cause dvd::rip doesn't deal with the clipboard :( : transcode v.0.6.8 (C) 2001-2003 Thomas Ostreich libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.7 for DVD access li

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Problems - Reboot on Load

2003-07-14 Thread Prabhat Gupta
put vga=ask in grub configuration. Loopingz wrote: I'm a newbie on Gentoo, i've made the installation from stage 1, compile everything and when i reboot the system, i see Grub then when i choose to load the linux, it seems to load the kernel, but the screen go black

Re: [gentoo-user] iptables trouble

2003-07-14 Thread Prabhat Gupta
I had the same problem. Did you emerged iptables?? Sebastian Bergmann wrote: I'm using the Linux 2.4.20-gentoo-r5 kernel and iptables 1.2.8-r1. When I use "iptables -L" I get bash-2.05b# iptables -L /lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r5/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o: unresolved symbol nf_u

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow performance...

2003-07-09 Thread Prabhat Gupta
put that command into /etc/conf.d/local.start     BTW what is -k1 option for? Sean Bossinger wrote: Thank you for your assistance... It is much appreciated. It was a rather duh moment for me. Another question... I've enabled this on my machine manually, but I want it enabled every ti

Re: [gentoo-user] BLANK screen while BOOTING but KDE works FINE withNO mouse !!!!

2003-07-08 Thread Prabhat Gupta
I will try vga=ask if my wife gives me some time today on the laptop. She is really angry on me for spending 24 hrs on computer :(( downtime null wrote: i have all 3 of those in my .config and i still get a black screen when i pass 'vga=791' to the kernel. i can use 'vga=ask' and pick one

Re: [gentoo-user] BLANK screen while BOOTING but KDE works FINE withNO mouse !!!!

2003-07-08 Thread Prabhat Gupta
urt to put them all in. On Tue, 08 Jul 2003 13:50:49 -0400, Prabhat Gupta wrote Hi All, I am trying to to install gentoo for last 2 weeks. Here is my latest problem. Last night I did a make mrproper. Now I get a blank screen while booting but I do get KDE up and running with NO

[gentoo-user] BLANK screen while BOOTING but KDE works FINE with NO mouse !!!!

2003-07-08 Thread Prabhat Gupta
Hi All, I am trying to to install gentoo for last 2 weeks. Here is my latest problem. Last night I did a make mrproper. Now I get a blank screen while booting but I do get KDE up and running with NO mouse. I use a USB wheel mouse. In the kernel settings, input devices HID keyboard > e

Re: [gentoo-user] Shorewall: ip_table.o some unresolved symbolswhile starting shorewall

2003-07-08 Thread Prabhat Gupta
"Prabhat" == Prabhat Gupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Prabhat> Hi All, I spend almost 2 weeks now compiling and recompiling Prabhat> gentoo. It'w working now but when I try to start Shorewall I Prabhat>

[gentoo-user] Shorewall: ip_table.o some unresolved symbols while starting shorewall

2003-07-07 Thread Prabhat Gupta
Hi All, I spend almost 2 weeks now compiling and recompiling gentoo. It'w working now but when I try to start Shorewall I get some unresolved symbols in ip_table.o I have compiled the ip_table as module in kernel and also enabled support for netfilter (replaces ipchains) Thanks -- P r a b h a t