[gentoo-user] Re: Getting rid of gnome-vfs

Richard Fish wrote: [...] "Equery depends" is a little brain damaged here. It lists _possible_ dependancies, not real ones. Good to know. Is there any more reliable replacement for "equery d"? See if gnome-vfs show up in "emerge --depclean --pretend". No, it didn't come up. But I could u

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is qpkg in latest portage

Am Donnerstag, 8. Dezember 2005 19:13 schrieb ext Harry Putnam: > I'm in the process of installing from scratch and noticed that qpkg is > missing from gentoolkit. A few portage updates back it was still > there but installed onder /opt I think it was. emerge portage-utils, then try qlist. HTH.

Re: [gentoo-user] lightweight webcam server for embedded gentoo?

tv quality - even a jpeg every second or so will be fine. Trouble is, all the software I've found so far assumes X and many other heavy libraries. All I want is to capture jpeg images - I could write the TCP/IP server part myself. This *might* be close to what you're looking for. It's lightwei

Re: [gentoo-user] sata drive on abit fatal1ty an8-sli

Well it looks like either Linux or Gentoo's live cd don't support the 3gb/sec SATA yet. It does load the sata_nv driver, but it doesn't seem to do anything with it since it's an older version. I guess I'll have to wait until I have a monitor and can run Partition Magic or something (though I do pla

Re: [gentoo-user] lightweight webcam server for embedded gentoo?

Thanks Hans, Although not exactly what I was looking for, your reply got me on the right path. I found a number: camE, camsource, gqcam, etc. camE seems the best for me, especially since it can operate as a true server with no X, which all the others seem to require (correct me if I'm wrong). A

Re: [gentoo-user] sata drive on abit fatal1ty an8-sli

Steven Susbauer wrote: Yes I'm aware of that, what I don't know is what drive to partition, format and mount. In an IDE it is /dev/hda, /dev/hdb, etc. In this I have no clue... On 12/8/05, * maxim wexler* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: Livecd found the drive but y

Re: [gentoo-user] sata drive on abit fatal1ty an8-sli

Yes I'm aware of that, what I don't know is what drive to partition, format and mount. In an IDE it is /dev/hda, /dev/hdb, etc. In this I have no clue...On 12/8/05, maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Livecd found the drive but you have to format/mountit.--- Steven Susbauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox/java_vm

On 12/8/05, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/8/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 12/8/05, Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thursday 08 December 2005 10:05, a tiny voice compelled Mark Knecht to > > > write: > > > > The problem I see periodically is t

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleanup kde-3.4

Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 6 Dec 2005 18:19:27 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: I've just completed an upgrade to kde-meta-3.5 from kde-meta-3.4 -- what's the beast way to clean up all the old kde 3.4 packages. As posted yesterday: qpkg -I -nc -g kde-base | xargs emerge --prun

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Ethernet on installation

Felipe Ribeiro wrote: Hi all, I'm a Slackware user, but i decided to give Gentoo a try! :-) Gentoo instalation uses kernel 2.6.12, and it doesn't have my ethernet card module. It is the sis190, that have been added on 2.6.14, do i have to put another card while installing or is there another s

[gentoo-user] Re: Framebuffer and kenerl options

"Brett I. Holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's under device drivers->graphic support. You select Support for > framebuffer. Select it and you get a VESA VGA graphics support > option in the list which has a sub item with VESA driver type > Hit enter there and you can select vesa or v

Re: [gentoo-user] Arrghh,,, X.org and NVidia

Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 18:36:08 +0100, Kristian Poul Herkild wrote: Yeah, it's quite old. An old GF2 MX400 :p ... it's almost blasphemy to call it a graphics card. I'll see what I can find then ;) i put these lines in /etc/portage/package.mask to keep the NVidia drivers

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox/java_vm

Is it your opinion that this would help my situation with the multiple instances? If so I will give it a try tomorrow. On Thursday 08 December 2005 19:02, a tiny voice compelled Richard Fish to write: > On 12/8/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 12/8/05, Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PRO

Re: [gentoo-user] Framebuffer and kenerl options

It's under device drivers->graphic support. You select Support for framebuffer. Select it and you get a VESA VGA graphics support option in the list which has a sub item with VESA driver type Hit enter there and you can select vesa or vesafb-tng. On Thursday 08 December 2005 21:45, Har

Re: [gentoo-user] Arrghh,,, X.org and NVidia

Neil Bothwick wrote: > i put these lines in /etc/portage/package.mask to keep the NVidia drivers > working with a TNT2. > > >=media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.7664 > >=media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.7664 Does it work with 7174?? -- Norberto Bensa 4544-9692 Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina -- gentoo-u

Re: [gentoo-user] sata drive on abit fatal1ty an8-sli

Livecd found the drive but you have to format/mount it. --- Steven Susbauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey, I just got my first amd system in a long time. > It has a 250gb sata > drive and the Gentoo live cd has some dmesg messages > about nvsata or > similar, but it doesn't say anything about

[gentoo-user] Framebuffer and kenerl options

Installing from scratch and getting confused about where the kernel framebuffer stuff is. Quoting from the handbook here: --- First of all you need to know what type of framebuffer device you're using. If you use a Gentoo patched kernel tree (such as gentoo-sources) you will have had the possibil

[gentoo-user] Problems with Ethernet on installation

Hi all, I'm a Slackware user, but i decided to give Gentoo a try! :-) Gentoo instalation uses kernel 2.6.12, and it doesn't have my ethernet card module. It is the sis190, that have been added on 2.6.14, do i have to put another card while installing or is there another solution? Thanks in ad

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin NumLock issue

that no longer exists.at least that's what I was told when I was trying to install...they said use vanilla sources and patch.On Dec 8, 2005, at 7:33 PM, Tom Smith wrote:I'm running Win4Lin Terminal Server 3... They may have fixed the problem in your version.   How do I go about getting a "win4lin

Re: [gentoo-user] New printer setup - having trouble with CUPS

Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi Norberto, >The printer is an Epson Stylus C62. Try C42UX (ijs) IIRC it's in the gimp-print package, but I'm not sure. -- Norberto Bensa 4544-9692 Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: network problem :: new install

"pat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I have a new notebook and trying to setup my Gentoo. I've followed the Gentoo > handbook and setup the network as DHCP. > > But during the boot I have error like this: > eth0 does not exist > > I have to missed something but I have no idea :-( > > Could

Re: [gentoo-user] LiveCD customizations

Tom Smith wrote: I need to make some slight customization to the Live CDs for installations at remote offices--things like configuring a root password, enabling SSH by default, and so on. I looked at the Gentoo docs at the web site but wasn't able to locate anything specific. Can anyone off

[gentoo-user] USE flag order confusion

I want to use a global USE flag of -sasl in make.conf. However when I use it there it has no effect on emerges of things that it should effect: I don't have actual output from the commands below because I'm in the throws of an install from scratch and have only ftp for remote access so far. cat

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin NumLock issue

I'm running Win4Lin Terminal Server 3... They may have fixed the problem in your version.   How do I go about getting a "win4lin-sources" kernel? I was unable to one anywhere. Maybe I would have better luck with that.Ron Bickers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu December 8 2005 16:47, Tom Smith

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome/gdm logout problem

What driver are you using ?? If it is fglrx, there is a bug I think. Bye, Rafael Fernández López. El Viernes, 9 de Diciembre de 2005 01:35, Ryan Sims escribió: > Having an odd problem with gnome (or perhaps gdm). Whenever a user > logs out, instead of going back to the greeter, I get an > (unres

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Where is qpkg in latest portage

On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 17:23:27 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > This is what I was talking about not being there. Gentookit is > installed but that path is not there. Deprecated does not exist under > > /usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-0.2.0-r3 > > Note different version, but this is a portage that was jus

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is qpkg in latest portage

On Thu, 8 Dec 2005 19:04:44 -0500, Robert Crawford wrote: > > /usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-0.2.1_rc3/deprecated/qpkg > > > > Move it to /usr/bin and it won't be removed on the next gentoolkit > > update. > > Do you mean move the entire qpkg directory to /usr/bin, or the > individual qpkg shell scrip

[gentoo-user] gnome/gdm logout problem

Having an odd problem with gnome (or perhaps gdm). Whenever a user logs out, instead of going back to the greeter, I get an (unresponsive) grey screen with a white rectangle where the username input box goes. It seems to be only the themed greeter that has this problem. The box is still responsi

[gentoo-user] xine - Station Agent - libdvdcss

Hi, I'm cross posting this to both gnetoo-user and gentoo-amd64. For the first time with a movie from Netflix I am unable to watch it on my AMD64 machine. The movie is "The Station Agent" circa 2003. It's been out on DVD for a while I believe, and it plays fine on my Mac Mini. When I try

[gentoo-user] sata drive on abit fatal1ty an8-sli

Hey, I just got my first amd system in a long time. It has a 250gb sata drive and the Gentoo live cd has some dmesg messages about nvsata or similar, but it doesn't say anything about where it's stuck in the dev tree. Does the Gentoo live cd support nvidia nforce4 sata interfaces? Do I have to do a

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox/java_vm

On 12/8/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/8/05, Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 08 December 2005 10:05, a tiny voice compelled Mark Knecht to > > write: > > > The problem I see periodically is that at time the java_vm will go to > > > 100% CPU and I have t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Getting rid of gnome-vfs

On 12/8/05, Edwin Kapauni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But equery says: > > ~#equery d gnome-vfs > mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-1.0.7 > www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.5 "Equery depends" is a little brain damaged here. It lists _possible_ dependancies, not real ones. See if gnome-vfs show up in

[gentoo-user] LiveCD customizations

I need to make some slight customization to the Live CDs for installations at remote offices--things like configuring a root password, enabling SSH by default, and so on.   I looked at the Gentoo docs at the web site but wasn't able to locate anything specific.   Can anyone offer any pointers t

Re: [gentoo-user] K3b and CD copy

Tony Davison wrote: > >Have you got hal in your use flags, if so put -hal in package.use for k3b, >which will stop it trying to downgrade hal and dbus all the time. > >Hal builds against the dreaded kernel symlink, so if you haven't yet compiled >the new kernel you'll need to switch the symlink

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is qpkg in latest portage

On Thu December 8 2005 5:46 pm, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 12:13:47 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > > I'm in the process of installing from scratch and noticed that qpkg is > > missing from gentoolkit. A few portage updates back it was still > > there but installed onder /opt I think

[gentoo-user] Re: Where is qpkg in latest portage

Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Check these two places: > >> /usr/lib/gentoolkit/bin/qpkg >> /usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-0.2.0-r3/qpkg Yup, /usr/lib/gentoolkit/bin/qpkg I missed it in the `equery files gentoolkit' output -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] X.org and Matrox DRI

Hi all, I am trying to get DRI working on my matrox G450 in single-head mode, but with no avail. The best I can manage is software rendering without DRI, which is too slow for gaming (I want to try out some linux games). I have the mga driver compiled (kernel 2.6.14) as a module and it loads

[gentoo-user] Re: Where is qpkg in latest portage

Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 12:13:47 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> I'm in the process of installing from scratch and noticed that qpkg is >> missing from gentoolkit. A few portage updates back it was still >> there but installed onder /opt I think it was. > >

[gentoo-user] network problem :: new install

Hi, I have a new notebook and trying to setup my Gentoo. I've followed the Gentoo handbook and setup the network as DHCP. But during the boot I have error like this: eth0 does not exist I have to missed something but I have no idea :-( Could someone push me ??? Thanks a lot. Pat -- gent

Re: [gentoo-user] New printer setup - having trouble with CUPS

Hi Norberto, The printer is an Epson Stylus C62. The driver we tried to use was the Epson driver within CUPS. (Where you say what printer type and can choose Epson, HP and 2-3 others.) It did not allow us to choose the specific printer model. - Mark On 12/8/05, Norberto Bensa <[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: New Gentoo Laptop

> > Timothy A. Holmes mcaschool.net> writes: > > > > Here's a random list of ideas that may ease the pain of conversion. > > > > > > 1. backup the existing system > > > > > > 2. Run lspci -vv, lshw, and discover to document the hardware > > > under ubuntu before beginnning the conversion. USBv

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is qpkg in latest portage

On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 12:13:47 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > I'm in the process of installing from scratch and noticed that qpkg is > missing from gentoolkit. A few portage updates back it was still > there but installed onder /opt I think it was. /usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-0.2.1_rc3/deprecated/qpkg

Re: [gentoo-user] Arrghh,,, X.org and NVidia

On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 18:36:08 +0100, Kristian Poul Herkild wrote: > Yeah, it's quite old. An old GF2 MX400 :p ... it's almost blasphemy to > call it a graphics card. > > I'll see what I can find then ;) i put these lines in /etc/portage/package.mask to keep the NVidia drivers working with a TNT2

[gentoo-user] Re: New Gentoo Laptop

Timothy A. Holmes mcaschool.net> writes: > > Here's a random list of ideas that may ease the pain of conversion. > > > > 1. backup the existing system > > > > 2. Run lspci -vv, lshw, and discover to document the hardware > > under ubuntu before beginnning the conversion. USBview can be valuab

Re: [gentoo-user] K3b and CD copy

On Thursday 08 December 2005 21:13, Dale wrote: > Right now, I am trying to install KDE 3.5 and it is making a mess.  K3b > won't open anymore so I may have to wait until it finishes I guess.  It > borked on hal so I am trying to fix it right now.  New kernel it says. > That means I have to reboot.

[gentoo-user] Re: Getting rid of gnome-vfs

Holly Bostick wrote: And what are your USE flags for those packages? emerge -pv mozilla-firefox mozilla-thunderbird These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.5 -canvas -debug *+gnome* -ipv6 +java -mozde

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin NumLock issue

Sorry, my brain's mush... I'm just a whole lot of tired! The problem is that the Num Lock keypad doesn't work.   I reported this issue to Netraverse back in January and they apparently still don't have it fixed. It's definately something with their software but I saw some references to creating X

Re: [gentoo-user] New printer setup - having trouble with CUPS

Hi Mark, Can you please give more details? - Printer model - Driver cups is using Thanks, Norberto Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >My wife picked up a new printer on the cheap. It's an Epson and > pretty much identical to one on my son's old Fedora system so I am > sure it should work. However s

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is qpkg in latest portage

Harry Putnam wrote: >I'm in the process of installing from scratch and noticed that qpkg is >missing from gentoolkit. A few portage updates back it was still >there but installed onder /opt I think it was. > >gentoolkit still shows the manpage but not the tool. > >Lacking qpkg, I'm using equery l

Re: [gentoo-user] K3b and CD copy

Holly Bostick wrote: >Ideas (since I don't happen to copy CDs using K3b, or anything else, for >that matter) > >1. Do you have K3b set to make an image first (as opposed to direct >copying, since you only have one drive)? > > I dunno. It just worked before. I haven't changed anything since t

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: New Gentoo Laptop

> -Original Message- > From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James > Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 1:50 PM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: New Gentoo Laptop > > Timothy A. Holmes mcaschool.net> writes: > > > I am planning to begin a proje

Re: [gentoo-user] K3b and CD copy

On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 07:17, Holly Bostick wrote: > > Dale schreef: > > I want to make a copy of my Gentoo install CD. I open K3b, with the > > Gentoo install CD in the drive, and go to tools and select "copy CD". > > The box pops up but "start" is grayed out so I can not copy the CD. > > > > I onl

[gentoo-user] Win4Lin NumLock issue

Earlier this year, I worked with Netraverse on trying to solve this issue... I was able to get a Mandrake 9 server working (NumLock included) but couldn't get the same results when I tried to migrate to Mandrake 10. MDK 9 was working so I left the issue alone.   Now I'm trying to get Gentoo 2005.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE & Gentoo Watcher

On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 12:31 -0500, Craig Duncan wrote: > During an upgrade of KDE the applet Gentoo Watcher was installed. > Although the information may be useful, I find this applet really > annoying and I have not found a way to remove it permanently. Could > someone point me to the correct c

[gentoo-user] Re: krecipes fails due to gcc library problem

Mick wrote: > > What's going on here? Is my gcc-3.4 migration borked? Can I fix it > without re-emerging absolutely everything again? Yep, something is amiss. I tried to re-emerge gcc and it ran aground: gcc -DEFAULT_RELRO -DEFAULT_BIND_NOW -g -DIN_GCC -W -Wall -Wwrit

Re: [gentoo-user] Arrghh,,, X.org and NVidia - SOLVED

Damn... That was weird... I uninstalled the kernel from nvidia's .pkg.run file and added the same nvidia-kernel to package.keywords with the corresponding nvidia-glx versions. And then emerged them again... And guess what? It *censured* works! :D Thanks to all of you who helped out here an

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is qpkg in latest portage

On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 12:13:47PM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > I'm in the process of installing from scratch and noticed that qpkg is > missing from gentoolkit. A few portage updates back it was still > there but installed onder /opt I think it was. > /usr/lib/gentoolkit/bin/qpkg > gentoolkit

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE & Gentoo Watcher

quoth the Craig Duncan: > During an upgrade of KDE the applet Gentoo Watcher was installed. > Although the information may be useful, I find this applet really > annoying and I have not found a way to remove it permanently. Could > someone point me to the correct config file or Control panel page t

[gentoo-user] New printer setup - having trouble with CUPS

Hi, My wife picked up a new printer on the cheap. It's an Epson and pretty much identical to one on my son's old Fedora system so I am sure it should work. However so far I cannot get CUPS to make it print. 1) I've plugged it in to a USB port. It's visible using usbview. 2) I tried configuring

Re: [gentoo-user] Arrghh,,, X.org and NVidia (partly solved)

Double-answering ;) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try to execute the command # NVmakedevices.sh before starting X it works for me,cause the ebuild did not make the files in /dev. Bert Berrevoets Woot :p ... I did that and it worked partly. Now I'm getting this instead: glxgears: error while loadi

Re: [gentoo-user] World file problems (more)

Michael W. Holdeman wrote: OK since there are world file experts out there.. A while back I was playing around with cvs and svn versions of kde, long story short they are there anymore, and as far as I can tell the files are gone, but portage thinks they are still there which really screws up

Re: [gentoo-user] Arrghh,,, X.org and NVidia (partly solved)

> > # This loads the GLX module > Load "glx" > > and it's within the "Module" section. All it took was to uncomment the > line. But it's not bad. I got the nvidia kernel to work and that's a > major step forward. > > However, AGPGART was not compiled as a module but compiled direct

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting rid of gnome-vfs

Edwin Kapauni schreef: > Why do mozilla-firefox and mozilla-thunderbird depend on > gnome-base/gnome-vfs, even when they have > > --disable-gnomevfs --disable-gnomeui > > in their Configure arguments (about:buildconfig)? > > Shouldn't it be possible to really remove that dependency by > config

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: krecipes fails due to gcc library problem

Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 8. Dezember 2005 07:59 schrieb ext Mick: > >> I've tried it, but can't find 'fix_libtools_files.sh' on my machine! >> What do I need to emerge to get this script? > > There's a small typo, should be 'fix_libtool_files.sh'. Thank you all, (I'm replying to t

Re: [gentoo-user] Arrghh,,, X.org and NVidia (partly solved)

Steven Susbauer wrote: I've always had agp compiled into the kernel and never had a problem with the nvidia driver. I don't know how much you've done, but have you made sure that the system is set for nvidia opengl? I think if it weren't it might explain why it's not saying no screens found w

Re: [gentoo-user] Arrghh,,, X.org and NVidia (partly solved)

Try to execute the command # NVmakedevices.sh before starting X it works for me,cause the ebuild did not make the files in /dev. Bert Berrevoets > I've always had agp compiled into the kernel and never had a problem with > the nvidia driver. > > I don't know how much you've done, but have you mad

[gentoo-user] Re: New Gentoo Laptop

Timothy A. Holmes mcaschool.net> writes: > I am planning to begin a project to convert my laptop to a gentoo linux > laptop. Here's a random list of ideas that may ease the pain of conversion. 1. backup the existing system 2. Run lspci -vv, lshw, and discover to document the hardware unde

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo Laptop

Hi, I've never tried but maybe this can help you: http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/ Jean-Jacques On 12/8/05, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 8, 2005, at 12:12 PM, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: > > > Hi folks: > > > > I think I have become a total Gentoo addict in just under a week: > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Arrghh,,, X.org and NVidia (partly solved)

I've always had agp compiled into the kernel and never had a problem with the nvidia driver.I don't know how much you've done, but have you made sure that the system is set for nvidia opengl? I think if it weren't it might explain why it's not saying no screens found with the nvidia driver, but glx

Re: [gentoo-user] 64 bit or not

Opera is closed source, I believe. Therefore it'd be using the same binary that everyone else is using.On 12/8/05, Mrugesh Karnik < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:On Thursday 08 December 2005 15:25, Martins Steinbergs wrote: > how about Opera? what is proper way to determin is it 32 or 64 app? there> isn

Re: [gentoo-user] Arrghh,,, X.org and NVidia (partly solved)

Luis Ortiz wrote: Kristian Poul Herkild wrote: [more...] _glxgears returns following:_ Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". glxgears: Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual. _nvidia-settings (under menuitem OpenGL/GLX information) return following:_ The OpenGL extensio

[gentoo-user] Getting rid of gnome-vfs

Why do mozilla-firefox and mozilla-thunderbird depend on gnome-base/gnome-vfs, even when they have --disable-gnomevfs --disable-gnomeui in their Configure arguments (about:buildconfig)? Shouldn't it be possible to really remove that dependency by configuration? We never use Gnome nor KDE an

Re: [gentoo-user] Arrghh,,, X.org and NVidia (partly solved)

Kristian Poul Herkild wrote: [more...] > _glxgears returns following:_ > Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". > glxgears: Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual. > > _nvidia-settings (under menuitem OpenGL/GLX information) return following:_ > The OpenGL extension 'GLX' is

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo Laptop

On Dec 8, 2005, at 12:12 PM, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: Hi folks: I think I have become a total Gentoo addict in just under a week: I am planning to begin a project to convert my laptop to a gentoo linux laptop. It's a gateway model M1675 laptop It has fairly standard hardware, all of which

[gentoo-user] Where is qpkg in latest portage

I'm in the process of installing from scratch and noticed that qpkg is missing from gentoolkit. A few portage updates back it was still there but installed onder /opt I think it was. gentoolkit still shows the manpage but not the tool. Lacking qpkg, I'm using equery like: equery -C list -i It

Re: [gentoo-user] Arrghh,,, X.org and NVidia (partly solved)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kristian Poul Herkild wrote: > I downloaded NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7174-pkg1.run from nvidia.com and it > works now as far as X.org it self. At least I have Gnome running. And > got that flashy logo too. Gotta turn that one off ;) Have you added glx to

Re: [gentoo-user] K3b and CD copy

Dale schreef: > Hi, > > I want to make a copy of my Gentoo install CD. I open K3b, with the > Gentoo install CD in the drive, and go to tools and select "copy CD". > The box pops up but "start" is grayed out so I can not copy the CD. > > I only have one CD drive but it usually copies it to the

[gentoo-user] New Gentoo Laptop

Hi folks: I think I have become a total Gentoo addict in just under a week: I am planning to begin a project to convert my laptop to a gentoo linux laptop. It's a gateway model M1675 laptop It has fairly standard hardware, all of which works nicely under Ubuntu Breezy except the wireless card,

Re: [gentoo-user] Arrghh,,, X.org and NVidia (partly solved)

Michael 'entropie' Trommer wrote: from gentoo-user-de: media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629-r4 media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.6629-r6 kernel: 2.6.12.5 xorg: 6.8.2-r6 Those were the nvidia versions I was using, and xorg too. The kernel however is 2.6.14-r4. Partly solved: I downloaded NVIDIA-Li

Re: [gentoo-user] disable disk write caching?[SOLVED]

solved On 12/8/05, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > El Nino wrote: > > >Dear friends, > > > >how to disable disk write caching on scsi & ide harddisks? > > > >-- > >... > >"The future lies ahead." > > ___ > >< Have you mooed today? > > > ---

Re: [gentoo-user] Arrghh,,, X.org and NVidia

* Kristian Poul Herkild ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Aaahhh... that's why. > > Yeah, it's quite old. An old GF2 MX400 :p ... it's almost blasphemy to > call it a graphics card. > > I'll see what I can find then ;) from gentoo-user-de: media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629-r4 media-video/nvidia-gl

[gentoo-user] KDE & Gentoo Watcher

During an upgrade of KDE the applet Gentoo Watcher was installed. Although the information may be useful, I find this applet really annoying and I have not found a way to remove it permanently. Could someone point me to the correct config file or Control panel page to stop this aplet from start

Re: [gentoo-user] Let's make a map of Gentoo users

Rob Lytle wrote: >On Wed, 7 Dec 2005 22:59:21 +0900 >pclouds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>If you are still interested in frappr.com, please give one more point >>to http://www.frappr.com/linuxusers :) >>-- >>Bi Cờ Lao >> >>-- >>gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list >> >> >> > >There ma

Re: [gentoo-user] Arrghh,,, X.org and NVidia

Michael 'entropie' Trommer wrote: * Kristian Poul Herkild ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: first, thats _not_ an xorg problem. I'm trying to get X.org to work with the drivers from NVidia instead of the nv driver, so I can play bzflag and so on. But when I'm trying to load X.org with the nvidia k

Re: [gentoo-user] Arrghh,,, X.org and NVidia

* Kristian Poul Herkild ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: first, thats _not_ an xorg problem. > I'm trying to get X.org to work with the drivers from NVidia instead of > the nv driver, so I can play bzflag and so on. > > But when I'm trying to load X.org with the nvidia kernel it freaks out > complai

Re: [gentoo-user] Let's make a map of Gentoo users

On Wed, 7 Dec 2005 22:59:21 +0900 pclouds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you are still interested in frappr.com, please give one more point > to http://www.frappr.com/linuxusers :) > -- > Bi Cờ Lao > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > There may be a bug in the message listing. Or

[gentoo-user] Arrghh,,, X.org and NVidia

I'm trying to get X.org to work with the drivers from NVidia instead of the nv driver, so I can play bzflag and so on. But when I'm trying to load X.org with the nvidia kernel it freaks out complaining about no screens. It looks like this: (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kern

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox/java_vm

On 12/8/05, Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Certain pages opened in Firefox start java_vm processes that will not allow > mplayer to work until I do a killall java_vm. When I do that, any and all > firefox windows will close as well. Closing all instances of firefox also > kills all jav

Re: [gentoo-user] 64 bit or not

On Thursday 08 December 2005 15:25, Martins Steinbergs wrote: > how about Opera? what is proper way to determin is it 32 or 64 app? there > isn't such thing as opera-bin in portage however it must be 32 bit. i keep > it'cause works with netscape-flash. > > martins I'm also using Opera on the same

Re: [gentoo-user] disable disk write caching?

El Nino wrote: >Dear friends, > >how to disable disk write caching on scsi & ide harddisks? > >-- >... >"The future lies ahead." > ___ >< Have you mooed today? > > >\^__^ > \ (oo) \___ > (__) \

Re: [gentoo-user] disable disk write caching?

hum smartctrl or hdparm will be your friend On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 10:41:08PM +0600, El Nino wrote: > Dear friends, > > how to disable disk write caching on scsi & ide harddisks? > > -- > ... > "The future lies ahead." > ___ > < Have you mooed today? > > -

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox/java_vm

On 12/8/05, Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 08 December 2005 10:05, a tiny voice compelled Mark Knecht to > write: > > The problem I see periodically is that at time the java_vm will go to > > 100% CPU and I have to kill it by hand. > > > But you only show one instance of ja

Re: [gentoo-user] disable disk write caching?

El Nino wrote: how to disable disk write caching on scsi & ide harddisks? $ man hdparm -W Disable/enable the IDE drive's write-caching feature (default state is unde- terminable; manufacturer/model specific). I'm not sure on the scsi drives. I think it's vendor spe

[gentoo-user] disable disk write caching?

Dear friends, how to disable disk write caching on scsi & ide harddisks? -- ... "The future lies ahead." ___ < Have you mooed today? > \^__^ \ (oo) \___ (__) \ )\/\

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 64 bit or not

surely this would not be slower maybe equal to actually or faster ^^ On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 07:04:25AM -0800, Rob Lytle wrote: > On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 08:00:24 +0100 > Ralph Slooten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Harry Putnam wrote: > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] system audit

J.A.H. wrote: sent to gentoo-user instead. Why have more than one mail list period??? If we are all users don't we all belong here... I personally enjoy g-server and g-amd64, I know that those lists pretty much stay on topic, where as g-user runs all over the place topic wise. I'm not really

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox/java_vm

On Thursday 08 December 2005 10:05, a tiny voice compelled Mark Knecht to write: > The problem I see periodically is that at time the java_vm will go to > 100% CPU and I have to kill it by hand. After playing a couple hands of Omaha at pogo: ps ax | grep java 30537 ?S 0:01 java_vm

[gentoo-user] OT: ooffice2 does not save toolbars

Hello, I'm not sure what's up, but, I spend time setting up the toolbars, particularly those visable above the document, and every time I switch documents, nothing is saved. I have to rebuild the visable toolbars each time. Something drastic has changed. I cannot seem to find documentation about

Re: [gentoo-user] K3b and CD copy

On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 09:16:14 -0600, Dale wrote: > I want to make a copy of my Gentoo install CD. I open K3b, with the > Gentoo install CD in the drive, and go to tools and select "copy CD". > The box pops up but "start" is grayed out so I can not copy the CD. > > I only have one CD drive but i

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox/java_vm

On Thursday 08 December 2005 10:05, a tiny voice compelled Mark Knecht to write: > The problem I see periodically is that at time the java_vm will go to > 100% CPU and I have to kill it by hand. But you only show one instance of java_vm, right? -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free

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