Re: [gentoo-user] Ati Linux Proprietary Driver

2005-07-03 Thread Benjamin Fritzsche
On Monday 04 July 2005 00:03, Bob Sanders wrote: > On Sat, 02 Jul 2005 19:31:42 +0100 > > Tim Igoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Maybe if Linux becomes more mainstream or used in offices more then > > perhaps they might improve the efforts towards the Linux drivers. > > Here is why ATI won't becom

[gentoo-user] screen and Ctrl-S not working any more?

2005-07-03 Thread Martin Carpella
Hi! When connecting to one of my gentoo servers via SSH, I've got a strange problem: Ctrl+S is not sent to my screen sessions any more, instead handled directly by the shell, causing the sesssion to freeze. This is extremly annoying as many emacs shortcuts require Ctrl+S. Anyone got any idea what

[gentoo-user] Crontab best practices: ideas anyone?

2005-07-03 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I have a small number of logins on my gentoo box that I use for automated chores. I would prefer that they never have passwords, since they are run solely by cron jobs. However, if the login is locked then cron will no longer run the jobs -- I presume (without knowing for sure) that it's because of

Re: [gentoo-user] system won't stop....

2005-07-03 Thread Glenn Enright
> I logged in via ssh from another system and ran 'telinit 3' to try to > shutdown the X server. This had no effect - 'who -r' continued to > report runlevel 5. The default gentoo runlevel is 3. Unless youve changed that then doing telinit 3 is largely pointless. What runlevel was the system that

Re: [gentoo-user] kdedeltas

2005-07-03 Thread Peter Gordon
On Sun, 2005-07-03 at 20:09 -0700, Peter Gordon wrote: > On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 10:12 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: Sorry about that. Evolution quotes the original message and I forgot to delete that from my reply. (Note to self: Get some caffeine. :O ...) -- () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HT

Re: [gentoo-user] kdedeltas

2005-07-03 Thread Peter Gordon
On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 10:12 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: I'm not a KDE person; but if I'm not mistaken, that tells Portage to use binary diffs (xdeltas) against the source tarballs themselves. So, for example, you could have a source tarball for version 3.4.1 of a KDE program and installing version 3.

[gentoo-user] kdedeltas

2005-07-03 Thread W.Kenworthy
I just noticed a new (maybe?) USE flag for kde called kdedeltas The description says "[-] kdexdeltas - Makes kde ebuilds download binary diffs rather than entire new tarballs for every new release" Can someone expand on this: is it a diff against the final stage1 binary (I doubt it), is it a

Re: [gentoo-user] Something is seriously wrong with my hard drive partitions

2005-07-03 Thread Colin
Ian K wrote: A. Khattri wrote: On Sun, 3 Jul 2005, Ian K wrote: ReiserFS: hda4: Using rd5 hash to sort names VFS: Cannot open root device "hda4" or unknown-block(3,4) Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel Panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-blo

Re: [gentoo-user] Ati Linux Proprietary Driver

2005-07-03 Thread Justin Hart
Yeah, let me echo that. If you run Linux, and you want to play games, and you want a brand new video card, get an nVidia. It's that simple. Justin On 7/3/05, Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 04 July 2005 00:13, Luigi Pinna wrote: > > > > > Ok, in this case a question

Re: [gentoo-user] Ati Linux Proprietary Driver

2005-07-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Monday 04 July 2005 00:13, Luigi Pinna wrote: > > Ok, in this case a question: which other cards support a good 3D? > If I don't buy ATI or NVIDEA, but other one Can I use UT2004? I need > 3D only to play... But I don't want to have a expensive card... And ATI > and NVIDEA start to 50 €

Re: [gentoo-user] Something is seriously wrong with my hard drive partitions

2005-07-03 Thread Ian K
A. Khattri wrote: >On Sun, 3 Jul 2005, Ian K wrote: > > > >>ReiserFS: hda4: Using rd5 hash to sort names >>VFS: Cannot open root device "hda4" or unknown-block(3,4) >>Please append a correct "root=" boot option >>Kernel Panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on >>unknown-block(3,4) >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Extra buttons on my keyboard

2005-07-03 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 17:42 -0400, ««Omega21»» wrote: > Hi there. > I have a Toshiba A70 here, and it has some nice > media buttons on the left, and I really want them to > work on Linux. I have tried a lot. I have tried xev > with no success, and emerged linEAK and it wasn't able > to detect them.

Re: [gentoo-user] Something is seriously wrong with my hard drive partitions

2005-07-03 Thread A. Khattri
On Sun, 3 Jul 2005, Ian K wrote: > ReiserFS: hda4: Using rd5 hash to sort names > VFS: Cannot open root device "hda4" or unknown-block(3,4) > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > Kernel Panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on > unknown-block(3,4) > > So you know: > hda1 = NTF

[gentoo-user] Something is seriously wrong with my hard drive partitions

2005-07-03 Thread Ian K
Hi everyone, I really need some help. Here is the story: >I wanted to play NWN over my network. I had it on my XP partition, so I tried to boot it. Grub gives me error 13, I cant remember the exact message off hand.. >I boot into Linux, and try a number of different things, such as a ntfsfix. >I

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound question.

2005-07-03 Thread Christoph Eckert
> On the topic of sound, Audacity gives me an error when > loading, but only in KDE (not FluxBox). The error is: > > There was an error initializing the audio i/o layer. > You will not be able to play or record audio. > Error: Host error. > > Again, this doesn't happen in FluxBox, but as I prefer

Re: [gentoo-user] Ati Linux Proprietary Driver

2005-07-03 Thread Luigi Pinna
Alle 00:03, lunedì 04 luglio 2005, Bob Sanders ha scritto: >[...] > I really tried to not pre-judge them and tried various options using > their cards - Xorg, flgrx, and even went third party - Xig. Simply > put - I'll not be buying any more ATI cards. > > Bob Ok, in this case a question: which o

Re: [gentoo-user] Ati Linux Proprietary Driver

2005-07-03 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sat, 02 Jul 2005 19:31:42 +0100 Tim Igoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Maybe if Linux becomes more mainstream or used in offices more then > perhaps they might improve the efforts towards the Linux drivers. > Here is why ATI won't become much better over time - most of their developers d

[gentoo-user] kdeaddon-3.4.1 emerge fails

2005-07-03 Thread henkg
Hello, my emerge -u world wanted to compile the new kde 3.4.1, but it fails on kdeaddon-3.4.1 with the following text: kfile_cert.cpp: In function `KSSLCertificate* readCertFromFile(const QString&) ': kfile_cert.cpp:110: error: `ERR_clear_error' undeclared (first use this function) kfile_

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/net/tun doesn't exist

2005-07-03 Thread Peter Gordon
Do you have "Universal TUN/TAP device driver support" (CONFIG_TUN) enabled in your kernel configuration? It should be a network device in your kernel configuration: Device Drivers --> Networking support --> Network device support --> <*> Universal TUN/TAP device driver support You can

Re: [gentoo-user] Probably lost all conf files...

2005-07-03 Thread n00b_gentoo
- Start Original Message - From: Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Probably lost all conf files... Seems like a good idea, I'll try this one. Will it work if I rm /etc/fstab first? > If not... how do I remove useless lines before I

[gentoo-user] Sound question.

2005-07-03 Thread Ian K
Hello All, I notice that on my laptop, my KDE startup sound is quite garbled. (Only when starting up). Im guessing that this is due to heavy resource use. I was wondering though, how I could go about giving Arts or whatever it is, a higher priority at boot so it doesn't sound so bad. On the topic

[gentoo-user] /dev/net/tun doesn't exist

2005-07-03 Thread Alexander Kirillov
Hi all, I've been away from my gentoo box for a month and now after massive system upgrade usb adsl modem startup script complains about missing /dev/net/tun device. I can start it manually later so it seems to be a dependency issue probably related to recent udev upgrade. Suggestions appreciated.

Re: [gentoo-user] Omit certain parts of portage tree during sync

2005-07-03 Thread Patrick Börjesson
On 05/07/03(Sun) 10:48, Fred Moyer wrote: > I run a couple of gentoo boxes which are mostly servers. Is there a way > to omit certain portions of the portage tree from emerge sync so that the > sync will go faster? For example I would likely omit any X and games > based sections on my server sync

[gentoo-user] Re: install fails

2005-07-03 Thread Juan
Thanks Michael and Edward, emerge --sync; emerge -e system failed again. However it seems that it is working after I deleted the file /usr/portage/media-libs/libpng/files/digest-libpng-1.2.8 as suggested by Edward and running cd /usr/portage/media-libs/libpng/; ebuild libpng digest For what I saw

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange dmesg

2005-07-03 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
Le 02 juillet à 00:40:14 Bryan Whitehead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> écrit notamment: | Disable legacy USB support ? | | On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: | | > Hi all, | > I have a strange message at boot, appearing at various places; then typing | > dmesg, I get the same message many t

[gentoo-user] Omit certain parts of portage tree during sync

2005-07-03 Thread Fred Moyer
Hi, I run a couple of gentoo boxes which are mostly servers. Is there a way to omit certain portions of the portage tree from emerge sync so that the sync will go faster? For example I would likely omit any X and games based sections on my server syncs. Thanks, Fred -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] system won't stop....

2005-07-03 Thread Digby Tarvin
> Please, be more specific about the place where this happens. Do you > click shutdown from Gnome or KDE? Do you run shutdown -h now from from > console and so on. The last time this happened was after an unsuccessful attempt to switch the console from X to a text console with the CTL-ALT-F1 seque

Re: [gentoo-user] system won't stop....

2005-07-03 Thread Petteri Räty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Digby Tarvin wrote: > Anyone experienced any problems with their gentoo system refusing > to shutdown..?? Yes, with 2.6.12 gentoo-sources and inotify. The system freezes if you try to umount a ntfs partition after using it. > > My system, running on

Re: [gentoo-user] system won't stop....

2005-07-03 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Sunday 03 July 2005 14:27, Digby Tarvin wrote: > Anyone experienced any problems with their gentoo system refusing > to shutdown..?? Shuts down fine here. Uwe -- 95% of all programmers rate themselves among the top 5% of all software developers. - Linus Torvalds http://www.uwix.iway.na (la

Re: [gentoo-user] install fails

2005-07-03 Thread Michael Thompson
On Sunday 03 July 2005 16:08, Juan wrote: > Hi, I am trying to install gentoo following the instructions in the > manaul. When doing (progressing from stage2 to stage3): > > emerge --emptytree system > > I get an error that one file's size is different that recorded size and > stops. Message reads

Re: [gentoo-user] ~/.bash_profile not being sourced

2005-07-03 Thread Michael Sullivan
Nevermind. I found that I can put my alias command in ~/.bashrc and it works fine. Is this new? I could have sworn that in Gentoo 2004.3 aliases went in ~/.bash_profile... On Sun, 2005-07-03 at 09:56 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > I have three applications that open for when I log into gnome:

Re: [gentoo-user] install fails

2005-07-03 Thread Edward Catmur
On Sun, 2005-07-03 at 12:08 -0300, Juan wrote: > Hi, I am trying to install gentoo following the instructions in the > manaul. When doing (progressing from stage2 to stage3): > > emerge --emptytree system > > I get an error that one file's size is different that recorded size and > stops. Messag

Re: [gentoo-user] ~/.bash_profile not being sourced

2005-07-03 Thread Edward Catmur
On Sun, 2005-07-03 at 09:56 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > I have three applications that open for when I log into gnome: > evolution, nautilus and gnome-terminal. I use gnome-terminal a lot. In > my ~/.bash_profile I have "alias ls="ls --color" (It's what I got used > to using Red Hat before I

[gentoo-user] install fails

2005-07-03 Thread Juan
Hi, I am trying to install gentoo following the instructions in the manaul. When doing (progressing from stage2 to stage3): emerge --emptytree system I get an error that one file's size is different that recorded size and stops. Message reads: !!! Digest verification Failed !!! /usr/portage/di

[gentoo-user] ~/.bash_profile not being sourced

2005-07-03 Thread Michael Sullivan
I have three applications that open for when I log into gnome: evolution, nautilus and gnome-terminal. I use gnome-terminal a lot. In my ~/.bash_profile I have "alias ls="ls --color" (It's what I got used to using Red Hat before I moved to Gentoo.) I usually open two or three tabs in the termina

Re: [gentoo-user] Different Slots for ebuilds

2005-07-03 Thread sunmoon1997
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Edward Catmur wrote: > On Sun, 2005-07-03 at 15:19 +0200, Philip Lawatsch wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> another problem I've just run into: >> >> I'd like to have gcc 3.4.x, 4.0.1_pre* and 4.1.* installed at the >> same time. However all gcc-4.* versions do n

Re: [gentoo-user] Different Slots for ebuilds

2005-07-03 Thread Edward Catmur
On Sun, 2005-07-03 at 15:19 +0200, Philip Lawatsch wrote: > Hi, > > another problem I've just run into: > > I'd like to have gcc 3.4.x, 4.0.1_pre* and 4.1.* installed at the same > time. However all gcc-4.* versions do not seem to use different slots > (eg one 4.0.* and one 4.1.* slot). > > Is t

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge Amarok

2005-07-03 Thread Paul Nolan
On Saturday July 2 2005 4:44 pm, Paul Nolan wrote: > I knew as soon as I said that 'out loud' something would happen. Now it's > started segfaulting on startup. Bollocks. Update: works fine again (after I removed all config files and the database and re-emerged). I stand by my first comment (with

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem unmasking packages

2005-07-03 Thread Philip Lawatsch
Edward Catmur wrote: >>I'd like to unmask (-*) certain versions of a package (gcc). >> >>I'd like to keep the defaults for everything but I'd like to unmask >> >>gcc-4.0.1_pre* >> > > Try > > =sys-devel/gcc-4.0.1* -* > > or > > =sys-devel/gcc-4.0.1_pre* -* > > Remember that ~ only matches -r

[gentoo-user] system won't stop....

2005-07-03 Thread Digby Tarvin
Anyone experienced any problems with their gentoo system refusing to shutdown..?? My system, running on a Tyan motherboard with twin PIII processors and GeForce4 Ti 4200 display, seems to be unstoppable... I suspect it is the X server which is refusing to stop, but I am not sure what is getting i

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem unmasking packages

2005-07-03 Thread Edward Catmur
On Sun, 2005-07-03 at 15:13 +0200, Philip Lawatsch wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to unmask (-*) certain versions of a package (gcc). > > I'd like to keep the defaults for everything but I'd like to unmask > > gcc-4.0.1_pre* > > I've already tried to unmask > > ~sys-devel/gcc-4.0.1_pre20050616 -* >

[gentoo-user] Different Slots for ebuilds

2005-07-03 Thread Philip Lawatsch
Hi, another problem I've just run into: I'd like to have gcc 3.4.x, 4.0.1_pre* and 4.1.* installed at the same time. However all gcc-4.* versions do not seem to use different slots (eg one 4.0.* and one 4.1.* slot). Is there any way I can force slots without creating my own ebuilds in the overla

[gentoo-user] Problem unmasking packages

2005-07-03 Thread Philip Lawatsch
Hi, I'd like to unmask (-*) certain versions of a package (gcc). I'd like to keep the defaults for everything but I'd like to unmask gcc-4.0.1_pre* I've already tried to unmask ~sys-devel/gcc-4.0.1_pre20050616 -* and also ~sys-devel/gcc-4.0.1 -* but it didnt work. The first only only unmask

Re: [gentoo-user] kuser

2005-07-03 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Sunday 03 July 2005 13:20, Zac Medico wrote: > Uwe Thiem wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > kuser of KDE-3.4.1 is crashing on start-up. I looked around in KDE's ug > > db but didn't find it mentioned. So it doesn't seem to be a general > > problem. That leaves two possibilities: It's a Gentoo problem

Re: [gentoo-user] kuser

2005-07-03 Thread Zac Medico
Uwe Thiem wrote: > Hi folks, > > kuser of KDE-3.4.1 is crashing on start-up. I looked around in KDE's ug db > but > didn't find it mentioned. So it doesn't seem to be a general problem. That > leaves two possibilities: It's a Gentoo problem or my system is messed. > Anybody else experiencing t

[gentoo-user] kuser

2005-07-03 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, kuser of KDE-3.4.1 is crashing on start-up. I looked around in KDE's ug db but didn't find it mentioned. So it doesn't seem to be a general problem. That leaves two possibilities: It's a Gentoo problem or my system is messed. Anybody else experiencing the same thing? I am in the proc

Re: [gentoo-user] the eagle has landed!!!

2005-07-03 Thread Richard Fish
maxim wexler wrote: >Yee-hah! > >Finally, after about 6 weeks cursing and ripping out >my few remaining hairs, I got gentoo to boot off the >HD w/ NO errors! I'm s stoked! > Congratulations. So I nominate you to be our local grub expert! Cheers , -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org maili

Re: [gentoo-user] Can`t merge neon

2005-07-03 Thread Zac Medico
Makurin Roman wrote: > Hi All > I cant install neon, it gives me sandbox violation :-( > Is there any way to solve this ? > > 10nx FEATURES=-sandbox emerge neon Be warned that build scripts will have unsandboxed root privivileges. This bug is strange. Others have experienced it: http://bugs.

[gentoo-user] Can`t merge neon

2005-07-03 Thread Makurin Roman
Hi All I cant install neon, it gives me sandbox violation :-( Is there any way to solve this ? 10nx -- Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 105266647 6774-neon-0.24.7.log.bz2 Description: BZip2 compressed data pgpscZpz8QGjQ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Probably lost all conf files...

2005-07-03 Thread Richard Fish
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >- Start Original Message - >From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org >Subject: [gentoo-user] Probably lost all conf files... >Something more specific -- I have managed to view my /etc/fstab with built-in >shell (ash). As expected I have no va

Re: [gentoo-user] Probably lost all conf files...

2005-07-03 Thread n00b_gentoo
- Start Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Probably lost all conf files... Something more specific -- I have managed to view my /etc/fstab with built-in shell (ash). As expected I have no valid settings in /etc/fstab. All I

Re: [gentoo-user] acct: function not implemented

2005-07-03 Thread danielhf
On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 10:12:11PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i've been looking for a program that can audit > my system, it seems that "acct" just fit, however, > as i run > > accton /var/account/pacct > > it complains: "function not implemented", i searched > the web, and somebody says

Re: [gentoo-user] the eagle has landed!!!

2005-07-03 Thread t . drueke
Oh, and here is the link to the thread I copied the lines from (just for completeness). http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/334378 BR Thomas > Michael Sullivan wrote: > > On Sat, 2005-07-02 at 17:55 -0700, maxim wexler wrote: > > > >>Yee-hah! > >> > >>Finally, after about 6 weeks

Re: [gentoo-user] the eagle has landed!!!

2005-07-03 Thread t . drueke
Hi, googled a little bit around and found this one: title Windows XP Professionnal root (hd0,0) map (0x81) (0x80) map (0x80) (0x81) makeactive chainloader +1 This one will map the second drive (/dev/hdb) to the first drive (/dev/hda) and vice versa. I'm not using grub but lilo so I can't confirm

[gentoo-user] Probably lost all conf files...

2005-07-03 Thread n00b_gentoo
I have installed the system from Kanotix live-CD, however I can't access /dev/hda3 on my HD. Kernel boots just fine. Since I think I had to save conf files somewhere else, how can I copy, for instance, /etc/fstab in my newly installed Gentoo? I can't save it on my floppy too. Thanks in advance.