Re: [gentoo-user] What doesnt work with 2.6 ?

2004-02-04 Thread Troy Dack
On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 15:00, HvR wrote: > apparently LVM doesnt work under 2.6 or did i miss some config > setting? > It's now EVMS and you need "Device Mapper Support" and the evms tools. EVMS can handle lvm without any problems. Visit evms.sf.net for the g

Re: [gentoo-user] Progress bars??

2004-02-01 Thread Troy Dack
eveloped with > gentoo-like solution in mind. The compilation system was around long before Gentoo. Since Gentoo is primarily a "from source" distribution then seeing how a package is built is part of the process. If you don't like it, pick another distro, use the GRP packag

Re: [gentoo-user] Progress bars??

2004-01-31 Thread Troy Dack
and provide patches to give people an alternative, say baselayout-systemv. It's a little more than a "gentoo hack" and I feel that it is a decent startup script, I no longer have to try and fit things in between other services, renumber them to get the order right, and all that ha

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome apps under kde

2004-01-31 Thread Troy Dack
; > Tried doing the same with a freshly created user, same problem, so it is > not user related. > > I have several Gentoo boxes, on some of them I have this problem, on > others not. > > Any ideas? In ~/.kde/Autostart create a shortcut to run gnome-settings-daemon .. this

Re: [gentoo-user] SCO gets personal!

2003-09-17 Thread Troy Dack
don't exist and ignore their noise. > > This makes me feel like learning how to set up DDOS attacks myself! > Next time you want to practice your DDOS techniques please don't do it on public mailing lists with an auto responder! -- Troy Dack Gentoo moves pretty

Re: [gentoo-user] Finding Files in packages

2003-09-08 Thread Troy Dack
cause not everyone will have (or want) all the GRP packages available to them. -- Troy Dack Gentoo moves pretty fast; if you don't stop and [EMAIL PROTECTED] look around once and awhile, you could miss out. Public Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.0-test2 results

2003-08-02 Thread Troy Dack
you are running a 2.5/2.6 kernel when you do the emerge -- Troy Dack"Yes, yes, I know that, Sydney ... Everybody knows that! [EMAIL PROTECTED]... But look: Four wrongs squared, minus two wrongs to the fourth power, divided by this formula, do make a

Re: [gentoo-user] cd-burning

2003-06-14 Thread Troy Dack
grub.conf: hdX=ide-scsi where X is your CD-RW, K3B and it's setup program should configure everything for you. -- Troy Dack http://linux.tkdack.com <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://webportage.sf.net Public Key: http://pgp.

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF Server

2003-03-27 Thread Troy Dack
but haven't been able to get all the bits into the right places (particularly the automagic driver download for Windows clients). Please feel free to drop me a line off list if you don't want to make it public. Thanks -- Troy Dack http://linux.tkd

Re: [gentoo-user] Building a "single purpose" machine

2003-03-13 Thread Troy Dack
les in ~/.kde/Autostart that will be run as kde starts. Additionally you can hide the kicker (bar at the bottom). -- Troy Dack http://linux.tkdack.com <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://webportage.sf.net Public Key: http://pgp.mit.

Re: [gentoo-user] restart Apache on ip change

2003-03-12 Thread Troy Dack
e ip > has changed. Try /etc/ppp/ip-up.local and ip-down.local I remember digging those out of the rp-pppoe scripts somewhere and they work for me -- Troy Dack http://linux.tkdack.com <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://webportage.sf.

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia - starting from scatch

2003-03-12 Thread Troy Dack
an i find more info on the portage and emerge/ebuild. > man ebuild man 5 ebuild man emerge emerge --help http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/docs.xml -- Troy Dack http://linux.tkdack.com <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://webportage.sf.

Re: [gentoo-user] installing Ati frl... drivers for 8500

2003-03-10 Thread Troy Dack
foo.rpm) 2. Get the .src.rpm, use rpm2targz to convert the rpm to a .tar.gz file, extract the sources and make your own ebuild to install it. -- Troy Dack http://linux.tkdack.com <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://webportage.sf.net

Re: [gentoo-user] Open Office packages

2003-03-08 Thread Troy Dack
y package available from openoffice.org -- Troy Dack http://linux.tkdack.com <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://webportage.sf.net Public Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x4D90BE3C Key fingerprint = 1F3D 6C15 16AA 0

Re: [gentoo-user]

2003-03-08 Thread Troy Dack
On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 08:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Any graceful way to recover from, uhhh, accidentally whacking > "/etc/init.d"?? emerge baselayout -- Troy Dack http://linux.tkdack.com <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [gentoo-user] Yellow star.

2003-03-03 Thread Troy Dack
at the mail list archives. > > So anyone knows what is wrong. > > > > This is a bug in portage, the system logging code does not work with empty > strings. For now pressing ^D at each star works > > Paul Edit /etc/init.d/functions.sh and look for the logger line. R

Re: [gentoo-user] Ext3 LVM

2003-03-01 Thread Troy Dack
-L+2G /deb/vg/home > umount /home > umount /home > resize2fs /dev/vg/usr > mount /home > > IS there something like resize_reiserfs equivalent to ext3 filesystems..?? > Try parted. emerge parted -- Troy Dack http://linux.tkdack.c

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-devel/libperl-5.8.0 problems

2003-03-01 Thread Troy Dack
in/logger -p ${pri} -t ${tag} -- $* to: /usr/bin/logger -p ${pri} -t ${tag} -- "$*" 3. save functions.sh You should now be good to go -- Troy Dack http://linux.tkdack.com <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http:

[gentoo-user] Gentoo releases and what they mean to you!

2003-02-27 Thread Troy Dack
ne may have the same problem) -- Troy Dack http://linux.tkdack.com <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://webportage.sf.net Public Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x4D90BE3C Key fingerprint = 1F3D 6C15 16AA 09D5

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade

2003-02-27 Thread Troy Dack
1.4-rc3 release once > all the mirrors catch up, or will I have to do another emerge command? See the seperate email that I'm posting here shortly. -- Troy Dack http://linux.tkdack.com <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://

Re: [gentoo-user] AGP Fast Writes

2003-02-25 Thread Troy Dack
*not goodt*, what if a card/board doesn't support them, then things don't work and people get shitty. -- Troy Dack http://linux.tkdack.com <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://webportage.sf.net Public Key: http://pgp.mit.

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia: 3123 or 4191 drivers?

2003-02-20 Thread Troy Dack
y adding this to the Device section for your video card in XF86Config: Option "RenderAccel" "true" By default Render Acceleration is turned off. For more information on the options you can tweak see: /usr/share/doc/nvidia-glx-1.0.4191-r1/README.gz -- Troy Dack

Re: [gentoo-user] IMAP USE flag

2003-02-20 Thread Troy Dack
emerge unmerge uw-imap php emerge courier-imap emerge --nodeps php and PHP failed to build. -- Troy Dack http://linux.tkdack.com <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://webportage.sf.net Public Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia 3D Problems Solved (was 3D Woes & Writing a How-to)

2003-02-16 Thread Troy Dack
modules.autoload. Additionally the file /etc/modules.d/aliases probably needs to have the following changed: alias char-major-195 NVdriver to: alias char-major-195 nvidia If you move the module to the correct location then everything works. Note: the above paths are from memory, when I get back

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync mirror

2003-02-15 Thread Troy Dack
level (rc-update add portmap boot; rc-update add nfs boot) Now when you rsync from *any* machine the portage tree will be update. When you emerge a package from *any* machine the source files will be saved in distfiles and be available to all machines. -- Troy Dack

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I sort mail easily?

2003-01-31 Thread Troy Dack
e. I have also experienced the "everything stopping" whilst Sylpheed checks for new mail/news. -- Troy Dack http://linux.tkdack.com http://webportage.sf.net -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I sort mail easily?

2003-01-30 Thread Troy Dack
ult KDE MUA - similar features to all the others - doesn't do nntp (use KNode) Balsa - Never used this one but I think it is Gnome/gtk based For IMAP use I've found sylpheed to be rather unkind on my slow old IMAP server, but that is just my experience. -- Troy Dack http://linux.tkdack.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list