Re: [gentoo-user] Recommended amd64 box for Gentoo

2006-03-18 Thread Walter Dnes
What remaining software issues are there with 32-bit stuff on a 64-bit machine? Last time I was thinking about going 64-bit on my machine, I was scared off by the docs on the Gentoo website. I now understand that they were out-of-date about some problems that have now been solved. BTW, I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: QT 4

2006-03-18 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 17 March 2006 18:48, James wrote: Hello Uwe, So when will we see KDE-4? My personal opinion? At the earliest end of this year - but honestly, I doubt it. More probably, there will be a a developer alpha or some such by the end of 2006. One with a stabilised API but not necessarily

[gentoo-user] Re: bash_history

2006-03-18 Thread Tim Kruse
* On 07.03.2006 Harry Putnam wrote: Tim Kruse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I love zsh ;-) ,- | % setopt | grep -i append.*history | incappendhistory | % man zshoptions | col -b | grep -A 4 APPEND_HISTORY | APPEND_HISTORY D | If this is set, zsh sessions will append their

[gentoo-user] Re: bash_history

2006-03-18 Thread Tim Kruse
* On 07.03.2006 Harry Putnam wrote: I'd love it more if they bothered to tell you how to set this stuff. A second notice to that. 'man zshoptions' says it all. You even haven't to scroll down as it is all mentioned on the first page ... So long, tkr -- MSDOS didn't get as bad as it is

Re: [gentoo-user] dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso

2006-03-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 17 March 2006 23:13, Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso': program k9copy didn't work for me and k3b stopped after copying 850Mb dmesg showing a lot of errors: hdc: media error (bad sector) status=0x51 SeekComplete Error hdc: media

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Channel

2006-03-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 17 March 2006 23:52, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Wireless Channel': Does anyone know of a tool for Linux or Windows that will see what is the best channel to use? You should always use the same channel as the AP you are connecting to. That seems to cover your

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Channel

2006-03-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sat, 2006-03-18 at 05:37 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Friday 17 March 2006 23:52, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Wireless Channel': Does anyone know of a tool for Linux or Windows that will see what is the best channel to use? You should always use the

[gentoo-user] Re: Google-Talk

2006-03-18 Thread Sven Köhler
At present, you may try to use WINE. Thanks Sven, I've tried WINE but can't even connect to use IM, let alone VoIP. :-( Well, i've heard Google is working on using Wine to bring their apps to Linux - well, they could have developed cross-platform-apps right from the start, but they didn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommended amd64 box for Gentoo

2006-03-18 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sat, 18 Mar 2006 03:06:42 -0500 Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My main worries would be proprietary stuff like RealPlayer and the win32codecs portion of mplayer. Both work for me within reason. The win32codecs I use with mplayer-bin. And Realplayer works. But if you are one that

[gentoo-user] A mater of style in gentoo booting proccess...

2006-03-18 Thread apix kernel
Hello there ! Does anyone know how does gentoo botting proccess displays the neat output when the daemons start. For example: * Starting vsftpd . DONE how does it knows how big is the line in order to print the DONE part just before the end of line. That's

[gentoo-user] Re: Multi-DVD backup

2006-03-18 Thread Remy Blank
JimD wrote: Does anyone know of an app/script for doing a multi-DVD backup of my ~/? My ~/ is 10GB so I will need something that could do a little compression and create as many DVD iso images as needed. sync2cd Doesn't do compression, but stores your files as-is, spanning multiple DVDs.

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Channel

2006-03-18 Thread JimD
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Friday 17 March 2006 23:52, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Wireless Channel': Does anyone know of a tool for Linux or Windows that will see what is the best channel to use? You should always use the same channel as the AP you are

[gentoo-user] Re: A mater of style in gentoo booting proccess...

2006-03-18 Thread Remy Blank
apix kernel wrote: how does it knows how big is the line in order to print the DONE part just before the end of line. There are two ways I know of: - If you use bash (I don't know about other shells), look at the COLUMNS environment variable: echo $COLUMNS - Use the TIOCGWINSZ ioctl on

Re: [gentoo-user] A mater of style in gentoo booting proccess...

2006-03-18 Thread Rafael Bugajewski
Am 18.03.2006 um 16:47 schrieb apix kernel: Does anyone know how does gentoo botting proccess displays the neat output when the daemons start. For example: * Starting vsftpd . DONE how does it knows how big is the line in order to print the DONE part just

[gentoo-user] emerge --sync and iptables

2006-03-18 Thread Dan Sheffner
I'm notsurewhat I have been doing wrong. I have a local sync server located at 10.1.10.37 and I'm running iptables on a web server. What port do I need to open when I run emerge --sync? I have tried port 873 like below and still no luck. I do not have a firewall running on the sync server.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A mater of style in gentoo booting proccess...

2006-03-18 Thread apix kernel
Thanks, that was i was looking for.. :) On 3/18/06, Remy Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: apix kernel wrote: how does it knows how big is the line in order to print the DONE part just before the end of line. There are two ways I know of: - If you use bash (I don't know about other

[gentoo-user] My continuing USB problems; mostly solved

2006-03-18 Thread Walter Dnes
My older computer (1999 Dell PIII) was strictly USB 1.1. ehci_ocd would die when I tried loading it, and only ohci_ocd would work. All my USB devices ran (crawled might be more accurate) according to spec. Even mount -t auto worked OK for USB filesystems (SD card and external hard drive).

[gentoo-user] problems with Rp-pppoe 3.7

2006-03-18 Thread Philip Webb
I just updated to Rp-pppoe 3.7 encountered 2 problems. (1) /etc/init.d/rp-pppoe was not altered, so ADSL didn't start, even though the start/stop scripts have been renamed ('pppoe' for 'adsl'). I edited rp-pppoe to use the new script names this corrected the problem, so that my Internet

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A mater of style in gentoo booting proccess...

2006-03-18 Thread Bo Andresen
On 3/18/06, Remy Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: echo $COLUMNS On Saturday 18 March 2006 18:28, apix kernel wrote: Thanks, that was i was looking for.. :) Also have a look at # man console_codes And just an example (one line): echo -e '\x1B[01;32m * \x1B[0m Starting xdm ...\x1B[' `echo

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with Rp-pppoe 3.7 : solved

2006-03-18 Thread Philip Webb
060318 Philip Webb wrote: I just updated to Rp-pppoe 3.7 encountered 2 problems. -- snip -- (2) The system is trying to set the clock from NTP before ADSL starts: Setting clock via NTP client 'ntpdate' ... can't find ... pool.ntp.org; of course, it can't find it, as there is not Internet at

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync and iptables

2006-03-18 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Dan Sheffner wrote: iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp -d $ip --dport 443 -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp -s 10.1.10.0/24 -d $ip --dport 22 -j ACCEPT These two are incoming, so --dport is correct. iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp -s 10.1.10.37 -d $ip --dport 873 -j ACCEPT Rsync

[gentoo-user] mpg123: Can't open /dev/dsp!

2006-03-18 Thread Walter Dnes
xmms works OK, but mpg123 complains about not being able to open /dev/dsp. /dev/dsp is a symlink to /dev/sound/dsp [m3000][waltdnes][~] ll /dev/dsp lrwxrwxrwx 1 root audio 9 Mar 18 01:09 /dev/dsp - sound/dsp [m3000][waltdnes][~] ll /dev/sound/dsp crw-rw 1 root audio 14, 3 Mar 18 01:02

Re: [gentoo-user] 2006.0 minimal install howto[RESOLVED]

2006-03-18 Thread maxim wexler
--- John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 17, 2006, at 3:23 PM, maxim wexler wrote: --- Jeremy Olexa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: maxim wexler wrote: Hello everybody, Can someone give me a tip(s) on how to proceed with this minimal install? I note on the CD big

Re: [gentoo-user] mpg123: Can't open /dev/dsp!

2006-03-18 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 05:05:12PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote xmms works OK, but mpg123 complains about not being able to open /dev/dsp. /dev/dsp is a symlink to /dev/sound/dsp Additional info... - re-emerging mpg123 does not help - however, mpg321 works fine -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: bash_history

2006-03-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 18 Mar 2006 10:17:19 +0100, Tim Kruse wrote: Like you set all options in zsh ... setopt INC_APPEND_HISTORY # incrementally append history to $HISTFILE Not that different from Bash then? :-) shopt -s histappend -- Neil Bothwick WinErr 018: Unrecoverable error - System has been

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync and iptables

2006-03-18 Thread Dan Sheffner
so port 873 is going out? my default policy for OUTPUT is accept with no rules. wich port should I accept as the INPUT? On 3/18/06, Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan Sheffner wrote: iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp -d $ip --dport 443 -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp -s

[gentoo-user] emerge smpeg

2006-03-18 Thread Colleen Beamer
Hi all, I've come a long way since the first time I posted to this list. However, today I'm stumped by something. I tried looking in the forums but didn't find anything that I could make sense of (or perhaps it's my capacity to understand what I'm reading) and I tried doing a google search, but

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge smpeg

2006-03-18 Thread Ted Ozolins
Colleen Beamer wrote: Hi all, I've come a long way since the first time I posted to this list. However, today I'm stumped by something. I tried looking in the forums but didn't find anything that I could make sense of (or perhaps it's my capacity to understand what I'm reading) and I tried

[gentoo-user] Problems with domainname

2006-03-18 Thread Felipe Ribeiro
Hi, I've already set my domain name (pixelsolutions.com.br) on /etc/hosts, /etc/conf.d/domainname and /etc/resolv.conf, but i still get the: This is mustang.(none) (Linux x86_64 2.6.15-gentoo-r7) when i start the system. What should i do? Regards, Felipe -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

[gentoo-user] Problems with cedilla

2006-03-18 Thread Felipe Ribeiro
Hi, I've set my us_intl keyboard, and the accentuation is working ok, but i`ve got a problem with cedilla, when i type ' and c, it appears a ć (accentuated C) instead of cedilla, what should i do? Cheers, Felipe -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with cedilla

2006-03-18 Thread Ryan Tandy
Felipe Ribeiro wrote: Hi, I've set my us_intl keyboard, and the accentuation is working ok, but i`ve got a problem with cedilla, when i type ' and c, it appears a ć (accentuated C) instead of cedilla, what should i do? Cheers, Felipe Use the comma ( ',' ) for a cedilla, I think. ' is for

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge smpeg

2006-03-18 Thread Colleen Beamer
Ted Ozolins wrote: Colleen Beamer wrote: After an emerge --sync, two of the packages that were in my world list for updating were smpeg and sdl-mixer. The first to update was smpeg and it bombed. The last line before the emerge bombed was:

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with cedilla

2006-03-18 Thread Felipe Ribeiro
Are you sure? At Windles i use ' + C, and comma isnt a dead key. On 3/19/06, Ryan Tandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Felipe Ribeiro wrote: Hi, I've set my us_intl keyboard, and the accentuation is working ok, but i`ve got a problem with cedilla, when i type ' and c, it appears a ć

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge smpeg

2006-03-18 Thread Rumen Yotov
On Sunday 19 March 2006 06:50, Colleen Beamer wrote: Ted Ozolins wrote: Colleen Beamer wrote: After an emerge --sync, two of the packages that were in my world list for updating were smpeg and sdl-mixer. The first to update was smpeg and it bombed. The last line before the emerge bombed

Re: [gentoo-user] Bind Problem

2006-03-18 Thread Hiren Dave
Hi, Thanks for the solution. Now I can see MX entry in dig command. Now the command telnet server1.guru.com 25 or telnet 192.168.0.2 25 is not working. The error is coming that the is connection refused. But the command telnet 127.0.0.1 25 is working correctly. Why is this happening? Thanks,

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with domainname

2006-03-18 Thread scwang
On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 01:16:51AM -0300, Felipe Ribeiro wrote: Hi, I've already set my domain name (pixelsolutions.com.br) on /etc/hosts, /etc/conf.d/domainname and /etc/resolv.conf, but i still get the: This is mustang.(none) (Linux x86_64 2.6.15-gentoo-r7) when i start the system.

[gentoo-user] Wireless woes after upgrading kernel from kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r1 to kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.13-gent

2006-03-18 Thread Richard Watson
Hi - my original kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r1 runs wireless fine with ipw2200 and ipw2200-firmware. After upgrading to kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.13-gentoo-r5 I was experiencing conflicts as in order to continue using these tools I had to disable the IEEE802.11 subsystem and rebuild my

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge smpeg

2006-03-18 Thread Colleen Beamer
Rumen Yotov wrote: On Sunday 19 March 2006 06:50, Colleen Beamer wrote: Ted Ozolins wrote: Colleen Beamer wrote: After an emerge --sync, two of the packages that were in my world list for updating were smpeg and sdl-mixer. The first to update was smpeg and it bombed. The last