Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] No XFree86 w/ new license

2004-02-27 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Friday 27 February 2004 15:14, Grendel wrote: > On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Sami Näätänen uttered the following immortal > > On Friday 27 February 2004 08:21, Grendel wrote: > > > For example under mandrake mencoder takes the same time to rip a > > > dvd as under gent

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc-config

2004-02-14 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Saturday 14 February 2004 06:43, Mike wrote: > On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 04:30:20PM +0100, Arne Vogel wrote: > > Mike wrote: > > >I have three versions of gcc installed on my system: 2.95.3, > > > 3.2.3, and 3.3.2. I'm using gcc-config to select a version. > > > gcc-3.3.2 was recently installed.

Re: [gentoo-user] perfomance 2.6.3 <= 2.4 - A-FRIGGIN-Men!

2004-02-13 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Friday 13 February 2004 03:05, TriKster Abacus wrote: [ Snipped ] Have you, who experience the 2.6.x problems, made sure that you haven't made your kernel with framepointers? That can make a difference under constant heavy load (This option is on by default in the kernel debugging menu). I

Re: [gentoo-user] viruses

2004-02-03 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Saturday 31 January 2004 00:41, Collins Richey wrote: > On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 16:37:46 -0500 > > Peter Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As an etiquette on a public mailing list, can you please configure > > your mailer to set width of your posts? Not every user, esp. UNIX > > user, can read lines

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia-kernel 5336-r1

2004-02-03 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Tuesday 03 February 2004 05:39, Collins Richey wrote: > On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 15:43:46 -0600 > > Kathy Wills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Collins Richey wrote: > > >>Collins Richey wrote: > > > > > >But do you have a VIA chipset? > > > > No mine is not a VIA chipset. I have an AWARD bios. > > Th

Re: [gentoo-user] ACPI support in kernel?

2004-01-29 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Monday 26 January 2004 13:31, Jakub Krajcovic wrote: > dude, don't do that - if you configure your kernel, and then type > make mrprper, then it will DELETE your configuration file (.config) > and then proceed on compiling without a configuration - and who knows > what might happed. > > Repeat:

Re: [gentoo-user]

2004-01-29 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Thursday 29 January 2004 14:34, Rusinsky Stanislas Herman W. A. wrote: > > Sure, you just do emerge sync, copy the entire portage tree on to > > usb stick (I suggest in a tarball, because those memory sticks > > usually have FAT filesystem) and then you overwrite your offline > > portage tree.

Re: [gentoo-user] Xwindows

2004-01-19 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Tuesday 20 January 2004 01:21, Greg Donald wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Krikket wrote: > | Okay, I finally got to the point of installing Xwindows. > | > | I get to the point where I run the xFontServer and... > | I run "rc-update add xfs default", "/etc/init.d/xf

Re: [gentoo-user] installing gentoo on a laptop

2004-01-19 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Sunday 18 January 2004 17:02, Roy Kidder wrote: > I was able to get the wifi working. The laptop came with a 54g chip > onboard, but I bought an SMC card that I had found online cheap and > did a little research on. When I got the SMC card, I downloaded the > source (actually, the really interes

Re: [gentoo-user] Partition size recommendations

2004-01-19 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Monday 19 January 2004 05:44, Braden wrote: > On Monday, January 19, 2004, at 12:18 PM, LoneStar wrote: > > Braden wrote: > >> Actually, you can remount partitions without rebooting to change > >> the read only status to read-write. e.g. > >> > >> mount -o remount,rw /usr > >> > >> ...or what

Re: [gentoo-user] Hot to resolve USE package dependencies?

2004-01-16 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Saturday 17 January 2004 04:30, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 02:58:50 +0100 (CET) Pawel Maczewski > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | Is there a tool that would allow me to see, what does it means > | when package A can be build with/without use of package B? It would > | be very

Re: [gentoo-user] White noice in sound

2004-01-16 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Friday 16 January 2004 18:25, Ted Ozolins wrote: > Chris Johnson wrote: > > "After a while"? Is the box getting hot? Might be software > >but it sounds more like a hardware problem either with the card or > >box. > > I have the same sound chip on my new mb and it does the same here. I > mo

Re: [gentoo-user] IDE RAID 0 and 1

2004-01-13 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Tuesday 13 January 2004 21:20, Jimmy Rosen wrote: > I have some experience with the following: > 3ware > Promise > kernel SW raid > > Promise: > I once started with a promise 6000 card and after serious problems > with that card I decided to abandon that path. > Primarily the card is largely inc

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia and SBA

2004-01-10 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Saturday 10 January 2004 23:53, Matt MacAulay wrote: > Hi, > > I've been trying to improve the performance of my Nvidia FX5200 card, > with mixed results. After trying to enable Fast Writes and SBA (Side > Band Addressing) by uncommenting the line: > > options nvidia NVreg_EnableAGPSBA=1 NVreg_E

Re: [gentoo-user] SDL/GL issues...

2004-01-02 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Saturday 03 January 2004 01:20, Scott Jackson wrote: > okay, this was a problem of mine that was never answered: > "Error: X11 driver not configured with opengl" > the answer to this problem can be found here: > http://cloud.prohosting.com/patos/docs/pinball_on_hpux11.htm > I quote, "Important n

Re: [gentoo-user] xfs, ext3, jfs, reiserfs

2003-12-14 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Saturday 13 December 2003 16:55, Sigurd Stordal wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > reiserfs + ext3 newly created file system 51 GB > xfs 57 GB. > I had a partition with reiserfs before grow from 17 to 25 GB because > of filesystem inconsisty, but was ixable with reiserf

Re: [gentoo-user] HIGHLY interrestion sound tests, on various formats

2003-12-08 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Monday 08 December 2003 13:57, Redeeman wrote: > due to the last 2 threads about ogg and mp3, i decided to make some > test, and they shows some extremely interresting things. > > i have used the following tools: tar, bz2, lame, oggenc > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ~/sound_test$ ls -lh > total 90.4M >

Re: Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Ogg Vorbis very bad quality (compared to MP3)

2003-12-07 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Sunday 07 December 2003 21:46, Spider wrote: > begin quote > On Sun, 7 Dec 2003 21:34:14 +0200 > > Sami Näätänen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 04 December 2003 16:45, Robert Cernansky wrote: > > > On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 15:56:49 +0200 Sami Näätane

Re: Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Ogg Vorbis very bad quality (compared to MP3)

2003-12-07 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Thursday 04 December 2003 16:45, Robert Cernansky wrote: > On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 15:56:49 +0200 Sami Näätanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > SN> For higher bit rates ogg produces worse quality, but same goes > between > > Worse than what? Worse than ogg on lower bitrates or worse than mp3 > on sa

Re: [gentoo-user] PostgreSQL 7.4

2003-11-20 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Thursday 20 November 2003 18:44, Redeeman wrote: > ofcourse 7.4 isnt in mirrors, fetch it urself and rename the ebuild, > if it works, submit the ebuild at bugs.gentoo.org and it will come > into portage, after that, feel good because you contributed If the ebuild doesn't need any changes then

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo internal structure

2003-11-20 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Friday 21 November 2003 00:12, Heschi Kreinick wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > >On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 23:37:08 +0200 Wayne Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >| You can take an approach similar to debian simply put > >| them in a "non-free" folder in portage, possibly put a banner on > >| the ebui

Re: [gentoo-user] interesting article: optimizing GCC

2003-11-18 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Tuesday 18 November 2003 05:44, Jason Stubbs wrote: > On Tuesday 18 November 2003 09:57, Chris Graves wrote: > > interesting article about selecting gcc optimizations (found on > > OSNews.com). > > > > http://www.coyotegulch.com/acovea/index.html > > Quite a good article! Shame it doesn't apply

Re: [gentoo-user] [Long] Automatic CFLAGS benchmark

2003-11-14 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Friday 14 November 2003 23:19, Danilo Piazzalunga wrote: > Alle 00:13, venerdà 14 novembre 2003, William Kenworthy ha scritto: > > you might also look at -falign-functions=8/16/32 as well. On an > > athlon tbird 1.4, 4 had zero gain, 8 and 16 were slower than 4, but > > 32 was consistantly a li

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc optimizations

2003-10-29 Thread Sami Näätänen
t interfere with debugging. From the document you linked. > >-Original Message----- > > From: Sami Näätänen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 11:15 AM > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gcc optimizations > &

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc optimizations

2003-10-29 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Wednesday 29 October 2003 16:54, Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower) wrote: > Just as a FYI, "-fomit-frame-pointer" is included in "-O -O2 -O3 -Os" > according to: > "http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.3.2/gcc/Optimize-Options.html";. Only if it does not affect debugging. In x86 it does so it is

Re: [gentoo-user] nVidia or ATI

2003-10-17 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Friday 17 October 2003 14:07, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: > > > > On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 23:53:36 +0100 (BST) > > Done and done. > > > > I am using gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r7 > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ian $ glxgears > > 3856 frames in 5.0 seconds = 771.200 FPS > > 4194 frames in 5.0 seconds = 838.800

Re: [gentoo-user] multiple kernels & emerge nvidia-kernel?

2003-10-14 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 02:08, Peter Ruskin wrote: > On Tuesday 14 Oct 2003 14:15, Sami Näätänen wrote: > > If you really want to safe those modules add /lib/modules to your > > CONFIG_PROTECT and then all modules which would be deleted by an > > unmerge wont be deleted

Re: [gentoo-user] multiple kernels & emerge nvidia-kernel?

2003-10-14 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Tuesday 14 October 2003 14:32, Peter Ruskin wrote: > On Tuesday 14 Oct 2003 02:57, Chris I wrote: > > > > I seem to remember that back when I used an nvidia card, they put > > the kernel version in the slot number. Does portage not support > > this anymore? > > > > One could get around this in t

Re: [gentoo-user] Keyboard problem

2003-10-05 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Sunday 05 October 2003 23:41, Niklas Koponen wrote: > On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 11:11:10PM +0300, Niklas Koponen wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I just emerged my system yesterday. Now I got a problem with the > > keyboard. It's a finnish laptop keyboard. My X configuration that > > worked before the emerg

Re: [gentoo-user] opengl problem

2003-10-03 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Friday 03 October 2003 07:38, Adam Dunstan wrote: > i have a radeon 9000 pro, and i don't think its hardware acceleration > functions are getting used You are right. > this is the out put form glxinfo > direct rendering: No This gives the first hint > OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirec

Re: [gentoo-user] Idiots guide to NAT and DHCP

2003-09-27 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Saturday 27 September 2003 21:42, Adam Mercer wrote: > On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 01:24:18PM -0500, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > > How are you testing that it is working? Try 'ping 195.66.242.4' to > > test it out. If this works, then you either need to setup a DNS > > server on the NAT box, or have DHC

Re: [gentoo-user] number pad SOLVED

2003-09-24 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Thursday 25 September 2003 02:00, Ernie Schroder wrote: > On Monday 22 September 2003 04:45 pm, Ernie Schroder wrote: > > For some reason, in KDE, pressing the numlock on my keyboard has > > no effect. The LED does light up but, for instance pressing the "6" > > moves the cursor to the right

Re: [gentoo-user] Compile Problems

2003-09-20 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Saturday 20 September 2003 03:15, Fred Clausen wrote: > Fred Clausen wrote: > Ok, this is turing out to be one major problem. :-/ I ran memtest and > sure enough, one of my sticks of RAM was bad. Ok, no problem, I only > loose 512 mb(only *tear*), and I am down to 768. Oh well. Start the > ma

Re: [gentoo-user] What creates System.map, config and vmlinuz?

2003-09-15 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Tuesday 16 September 2003 05:26, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > > Gentoo kernels create /proc/config which is the contents of the > config file used to generate the kernel. Even if you wipe out your > kernel tree you can just copy /proc/config to .config in a new kernel > tree and you can reproduce t

Re: [gentoo-user] Can Gentoo install source file?

2003-09-07 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Sunday 07 September 2003 13:51, Joshua Banks wrote: > Good question.. :) > > I was kindof wondering the same thing. What if I want to install > something in tar.gz format that isn't in the portage tree? Will > gentoo still let us compile source manually via ./configure, make, > make install comm

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer - (Digests do not match)

2003-09-06 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Saturday 06 September 2003 19:47, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 09:14, Sami Näätänen wrote: > > On Saturday 06 September 2003 19:09, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > Hi, > > >This started last night for me. Has anyone else seen this? I > > > found

Re: [gentoo-user] Future of linux...

2003-09-06 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Sunday 07 September 2003 00:10, Jason wrote: > ... > > > The compatibility problems with both Open Office or Star Office and > > M$ Word go far deeper than that. Nearly all of the VBS stuff failed > > for us one way or another. I do understand that the more > > politically correct portion of Lin

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer - (Digests do not match)

2003-09-06 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Saturday 06 September 2003 19:09, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >This started last night for me. Has anyone else seen this? I found > an older thread in the forums about this, from last May, so I assume > it must have gotten fixed and then broken again. > >I don't know what mplayer is. Do I n

Re: [gentoo-user] Base install suggestion for net access..

2003-09-05 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Saturday 06 September 2003 04:12, Joshua Banks wrote: > > > #USE="bindist" emerge -k xfree (This was off CD1) > > > > > > After the reboot and login I did a > > > > > > #US="bindist" emerge -k kde (This was off CD2) > > > > > > CD2 has a ton of apps. > > Gentoo is very new to me. > > Coming fr

Re: [gentoo-user]http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1236319,00.asp

2003-09-04 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Friday 05 September 2003 05:42, Collins Richey wrote: > On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 22:15:55 -0400 > > Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > But not necessarily all the related hardware. I'm using the > > > nvidia drivers, but they crap out big time if I enable AGP, so I > > > have to run with

Re: [gentoo-user] USB Support in kernel for UPS's?

2003-09-04 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Thursday 04 September 2003 15:15, Mark Knecht wrote: > Bryan, >Thanks for the response! This is helping. > > On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 00:11, Bryan Feir wrote: > > I have an A7V8X myself, and have > > plugged both types of devices in; in usbview, the one 2.0 device I > > had installed (an extern

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge question

2003-09-02 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 16:44, Philippe Van Hecke wrote: > > I don't think that will solve your problem. Rebuilding a kernel > > already deletes existing modules, so emerge alsa-driver etc. is > > needed anyway. > > Not if this a new kernel version the old kernel modules will be keep > in /li

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a dir to perl's library path

2003-08-22 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Monday 18 August 2003 03:07, Mark Fisher wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sunday 17 August 2003 9:22 pm, Pat Kerwan wrote: > > > Is there a way of easily adding the dir to the @INC path that > > > doesnt invlolve re-compiling perl? > > > > You could set the PERLLIB

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update and fstab...

2003-08-02 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Saturday 02 August 2003 23:51, Kees Bergwerf wrote: > Op zaterdag 2 augustus 2003 22:23, schreef Stephane Brossier: > > I used the "-5" option which automaticall merge the files, > > and it seems it deleted some of my config files such > > as /etc/fstab. > > The result is that I cannot boot gent

Re: [gentoo-user] which java?

2003-07-26 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Saturday 26 July 2003 20:03, Janne Johansson wrote: > On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 19:46, Jason Calabrese wrote: > > I use the sun-jdk which I think is actually mislabeled in the > > Portage tree. The sun-jdk actualy installs Sun's java sdk not the > > jdk. > > As I see it sdk==jdk, sdk == software dev

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: .bashrc ?

2003-07-24 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Thursday 24 July 2003 17:21, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > * raptor (2003-07-24 15:43 +0200) > > > which are the packges that contain .bashrc/.bash_profile files ?! > > > > PS. etcat & qpkg cant find them !? > > O really, dear ? Maybe he meant that he can't find those tools, which

Re: [gentoo-user] qmail chokes on kmail...

2003-07-05 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Saturday 05 July 2003 22:20, Jorge Almeida wrote: > On 5 Jul 2003, Frank Tegtmeyer wrote: > > Jorge Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Moreover, top and ps aux show 4 supervise-related zombies, which > > > may or may not have something to do with this issue. > > > > What does the log say

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting back to the comand line

2003-07-05 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Saturday 05 July 2003 20:01, Miguel M. wrote: > Hey everyone > > I was trying to find out what NIC card I was using ( i > really know just wanted to make sure) for it can load > the module at boot time. Well something happened and > then instead of getting: > > cdimage linux # > > I get: > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] can't load modules

2003-07-05 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Saturday 05 July 2003 16:35, . wrote: > I have my system pretty well hosed now. None of my modules in > /etc/modules.autoload are loading at boot up, and modprobe-ing them > failes too. > > # modprobe ide-scsi > /lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r2/kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_mod.o: > unresolved symbol p

Re: [gentoo-user] 30 to 60GB hard drive migration

2003-07-05 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Saturday 05 July 2003 09:13, Zack Gilburd wrote: > On Friday 04 July 2003 04:14 pm, Chris Bare wrote: > > > `rsync -rlopg --progress --exclude=3D/dev > > > --exclude=3D/mnt/newdrve /=20 /mnt/newdrive` would be how I would > > > do it. That command will preserve=20 permissions. > > > > Thanks fo

Re: [gentoo-user] [Gentoo Newbie] Silraid and kernel versions

2003-07-04 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Friday 04 July 2003 07:11, Derek Clarkson wrote: > Thanks for the reply, > Can you point me at a list of the available sources and what each > one is ? emerge -s sources will give you a list. (There might be some other packages as well, but mostly these are kernel sources) The question

Re: [gentoo-user] The age old (CFLAGS) question..

2003-07-03 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Thursday 03 July 2003 06:50, drewbian wrote: > On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 18:28, Eric Ball wrote: > > On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 12:42 pm, drewbian wrote to gentoo-user: > > > > After looking through the huge array of optimizations people > > > > have posted on the discussion forum's I'm rather confused as t

Re: [gentoo-user] Windows to linux... What was that app?

2003-07-01 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Tuesday 01 July 2003 13:19, Dan Fairs wrote: > Hi, > > > I was visiting a (german) police station a few weeks ago. They use > > GNU/Linux with the windowmaker WM, I guess SuSE is their flavor. I > > asked the > > That's an interesting point. I keep reading that Europe is ahead of > the US in Lin

Re: [gentoo-user] Hdparm 5.4 boosts speed!

2003-06-29 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Sunday 29 June 2003 04:31, Zack Gilburd wrote: > On Saturday 28 June 2003 08:36 am, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Previously hdparm (-Tt) 5.3 gave me results of 752/41. Today I > > upgraded to hdparm 5.4 and I get the following results! > > > > $ hdparm -Tt /dev/hda > > > > /dev

Re: [gentoo-user] Why can't I emerge subversion?

2003-06-29 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Sunday 29 June 2003 08:05, Norberto BENSA wrote: > Doesn't make any sense: > > DEPEND="python? ( >=dev-lang/python-2.0 ) > > >=sys-apps/diffutils-2.7.7 > >=sys-devel/libtool-1.4.1-r1 > >=sys-devel/bison-1.28-r3 > > apache2? ( >=net-www/apache-2.0.45 ) > !a

Re: [gentoo-user] parallel port printer

2003-06-18 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Wednesday 18 June 2003 15:24, Gëzim\ wrote: > --- Ohad Lutzky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hmm, > $ ls /dev/parport? > ls: /dev/parport?: No such file or directory > $ > I also did > cd /usr/src/linux > make xconfig > Chose parallel port support and built pc-style in the > kernel, > saved > ma

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo/m68k

2003-06-16 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Monday 16 June 2003 09:49, Sebastian Bergmann wrote: > Lars Juel Nielsen wrote: > > Could be fun to install Gentoo on my A600 and A1200 :D > > Would this be possible? The Amiga 600 and 1200 did not have a MMU, > at least not out-of-the-box. And, IIRC, you need a MMU to run another > OS apart f

Re: [gentoo-user] strange upgrade?

2003-06-14 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Saturday 14 June 2003 22:32, Jorge Almeida wrote: > I was going to reemerge xfree+qt+kde, in a desperate attempt to get > truetype fonts working (it seems to be my fate not to make it). The > output of emerge -p seems to imply that replacing qt-3.1.2-r3 by > qt-2.3.2-r1 is an upgrade (it should

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC 3.3

2003-05-27 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 04:16, Brett Campbell wrote: > Hey thanks a lot for the reply. I'm currently building 3.2.3 as i > write this (gcc is huge!). I've also modified my cflags to be much > more aggressive. When i rebuild world, this will most likely break > things; do you comply/agree? Even

Re: [gentoo-user] depmod problems on kernel build

2003-05-27 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 21:38, Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote: > >> No, that's not the question. I understand that. The question was > >> how would anyone know that the root cause of the depmod problem > >> was having lm_sensors installed in the first place? The error > >> message didn't seem to say lm_

Re: [gentoo-user] depmod problems on kernel build

2003-05-27 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 22:30, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 11:38, Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote: > > >> No, that's not the question. I understand that. The question was > > >> how would anyone know that the root cause of the depmod problem > > >> was having lm_sensors installed in the fi

Re: [gentoo-user] depmod problems on kernel build

2003-05-27 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 16:57, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > emerge -C lm_sensors fixed it. I wasn't using lm_sensors. Someone > > > mentioned it here, so I downloaded it but it didn't work on my > > > system... > > > > Well it can't work if you don't have i2c support in your kernel. ;) > > No, that's no

Re: [gentoo-user] survey: gentoo corporate usage?

2003-04-05 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Saturday 05 April 2003 12:58, Spider wrote: > begin quote > On Sat, 5 Apr 2003 04:16:13 +0300 > > Sami Näätänen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And here is my comments on them. > > > > > *) simple configuration of alternate GRP address' (for internal

Re: [gentoo-user] survey: gentoo corporate usage?

2003-04-04 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Saturday 05 April 2003 03:15, Spider wrote: > Some things I'd like to see, see this again as personal ramblings > and perhaps more or less something that might be worth looking at, > but not an official Gentoo position, ok? And here is my comments on them. > *) improved "secure" portage, gpg

Re: [gentoo-user] autoconf version

2003-04-04 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Friday 04 April 2003 23:44, Ladanyi Akos wrote: > Hi! > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root # autoconf --version > Autoconf version 2.13 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root # qpkg -v autoconf > sys-devel/autoconf-2.57-r1 * > x11-misc/Xautoconfig-0.15 > sys-devel/autoconf-2.54-r1 > sys-devel/autoconf-2.57-r1 > sys-dev

Re: [gentoo-user] X flicker,flicker,flicker fine...

2003-04-04 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Friday 04 April 2003 17:14, Jesse Jacobs wrote: > Hello Sami, > Thanks for your reply. > I was unable to locate the EDID value within my monitor section. Is > this on by default? How would I disable this? Option "EDID" "0"? > Previously, I disabled dpms. > Thanks again, > Jesse. Checked and

Re: [gentoo-user] X flicker,flicker,flicker fine...

2003-04-03 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Thursday 03 April 2003 22:02, Jesse Jacobs wrote: > Hello Again, > Just to clarify, I've used xvidtune for the appropriate one line > values but this did not help. What I would like to find is a utility > for the horizontal and vertical timings at each resolution. > TIA, > Jesse. > > Jesse Jac

Re: [gentoo-user] Package management for non-ebuild software

2003-04-03 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Thursday 03 April 2003 23:39, Vano D wrote: > Probably we could add a feature to emerge so one would "emerge > --custom some_source" and Portage would untar into the work dir the > file /usr/portate/distfiles/some_source-2.9.tar.gz (or other > extensions etc..) and would carry out a simple skel.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to remove Quantum Drive Overlay?

2003-03-27 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Friday 28 March 2003 01:38, Mike Diehl wrote: > On Thursday 27 March 2003 2:08 pm, Collins Richey wrote: > > On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 08:17:42 -0600 > > > > MrPaulAR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > At 12:39 AM 03/27/2003 -0700, you wrote: > > > >So, is there a way to remove the overlay without destr

Re: [gentoo-user] can i restrict the usable video modes in X?

2003-03-26 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Wednesday 26 March 2003 15:56, gabor wrote: > On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 09:37, Sebastian Hungerecker wrote: > > On 25 Mar 2003 23:24:36 +0100 > > > > gabor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > is there a way to restrict the usable video modes? > > > > The avaible video modes are defined in XF86Config.

[gentoo-user] sis655

2003-03-18 Thread Sami Näätänen
Anybody using mobo with sis655 chip. Just wondering how good support those network and audio features have. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] WMV to MPG?

2003-03-18 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Tuesday 18 March 2003 04:56, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > >> Anyone know of a tool (or series of tools I guess) that could > >> convert WMV files to standard MPG? > > > >ffmpeg is the tool to use. It can convert between alot of different > >codecs, > >like Wmv7 and Mpeg. Take a look at the websi

Re: [gentoo-user] "emerge clean" confusion

2003-03-06 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Friday 07 March 2003 08:17, Sami Näätänen wrote: > On Thursday 06 March 2003 23:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > My guess would be Gentoo's support for multiple versions of gcc. > > That would make it very difficult to determine what is removable > > and what is not

Re: [gentoo-user] Fluxbox, Blackbox, and Openbox (was: Re: [gentoo-user] Opinion Poll: KDE Vs Gnome)

2003-03-05 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Thursday 06 March 2003 00:23, James Michael Fultz wrote: > * Alexander Futasz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [05 Mar 2003 20:29]: > > well, openbox can have bitmaps for all buttons that control the > > toolbar and windows. it uses xft to give you smooth anti-aliased > > fonts. and like in waimea you can mo

Re: [gentoo-user] X Configuration

2003-02-19 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Wednesday 19 February 2003 15:22, Kurt Bechstein wrote: > I think that program used to be called Xconfigurator but I'm not sure > how to get ahold of it. That's redhat program if I remember correctly. So you need to instal kudzu etc as well to get it work. I would say not worth it. -- [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] no X after building new kernel

2003-02-17 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Monday 17 February 2003 22:44, Markus Breitenberger wrote: > Hi, > > I had the same problem a while ago. I had to adjust the > /usr/src/linux symlink before reinstalling nvidia-kernel and then > everything worked fine. This needs to be done every time you build kernel modules, because the soft

Re: [gentoo-user] Writing an Nvidia 3D Support how to- Need some help

2003-02-15 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Sunday 16 February 2003 03:25, Daniel A. Segel wrote: > > > Step Four: Have NVdriver autoload at startup by > > > including it in /etc/modules.autoload. > > > >No. > >X is loading the nvidia modul itself. > >Do not(!) put it into modules.autoload, letting X do it is the > > cleaner way. In fac

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo how-to for ACL support in Gentoo-sources kernel?

2003-02-12 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 22:09, No Free Lunch wrote: > >> I need to be have a kernel with ACL support, but would rather use > >> the gentoo-sources kernel, so apparently my only choice is ext3 > >> with the bestbits patch? > >> > >> I have never patched a kernel before compiling before, so any

Re: [gentoo-user] No Region DVD Drive

2003-02-12 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 20:26, gabor wrote: > On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 19:09, Sami Näätänen wrote: > > On Wednesday 12 February 2003 19:16, gabor wrote: > > > On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 18:06, Susie wrote: > > > > > > > > > or ( and i recommend this s

Re: [gentoo-user] No Region DVD Drive

2003-02-12 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 16:00, Jonathan Wright wrote: > Hiya, > > I've just installed Gentoo 1.4rc2 and upgraded everything, including > kde-3.1. > > I'm trying to get my DVD player to work in Linux, but don't know how > to go about it. > > I've done 'emerge xine-ui'. it all installed fine an

Re: [gentoo-user] No Region DVD Drive

2003-02-12 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 19:16, gabor wrote: > On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 18:06, Susie wrote: > > I had a like problem. I fixed it by adding dvdnav... and in the > > config pannel if you scroll down where it asks for the dev and such > > it does list reigions. I'm in canada so I stuck in reigion

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -u question

2003-02-12 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 16:58, Carl Hudkins wrote: > On Wednesday 12 February 2003 09:45, Joshua Moore-Oliva wrote: > > -u means upgrade. > > More specifically, -u looks at all of the dependencies of the > specified package (or group) to see if any of them has an upgrade > available --

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge weirdness

2003-02-11 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Tuesday 11 February 2003 19:37, brett holcomb wrote: > Either the older one will be put in a different slot or > the newer one is masked. The ebuild file will tell you. In fact it's because one package doesn't want it to be newer than the version it want's to downgrade. Can't remember the pa

Re: [gentoo-user] mother board recommendations

2003-02-07 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Friday 07 February 2003 21:40, Ernie Schroder wrote: > On Friday 07 February 2003 13:46, Kent Jantz wrote: > > I have one of the new KT400 chipset motherboards from VIA and > > absolutely have had no problems with it. I'm using ALSA with it to > > and it found the sound chipset right away. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] frozen-bubble segfault

2003-02-02 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Sunday 02 February 2003 16:41, Voicu Liviu wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > FOUND THE SOLUTION > DO THIS ( IF U HAVE NVIDIA ) > $ sudo /usr/sbin/opengl-update xfree > $ frozen-bubble > $ sudo /usr/sbin/opengl-update nvidia I don't need to do that It works out of