[gentoo-user] Sharing Printer only among Gentoo systems

2003-11-03 Thread Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos
Hi all, I'm in a network of Gentoo systems. I'd like to know the best way to share a printer. I imagine that if I was in a mixed network (win/linux) the best was to use Samba but since the systems are only Gentoo, are there other options (more efficient, better options)? Best regards, -- Paulo

Re: [gentoo-user] LiveCD and Mtools

2003-11-03 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 23:35, Brent L Johnson wrote: The mtools (like mcopy, etc) do not come with the default install. They come with the mtools package in app-admin/tools and are included with CD2 of the LiveCD set. How can I install these? I copied all the CD2 packages to

[gentoo-user] problems with handspring and kpilot

2003-11-03 Thread daniel
i finally managed to get my handspring to sync with my linux box using kpilot. (whoever said it earlier, they were right, sadly, it IS all about timing). i have a new problem though. while my address book will sync, my memopad and calendar files don't. so i ran kpilot from konsole and got A

Re: [gentoo-user] Data Recovery NEEDED, very important

2003-11-03 Thread Timo Boettcher
Hi Redeeman, Nachricht vom Sonntag, 2. November 2003, 13:20:49: something happend, and i lost all files in a dir, i think i know what happend: i had made a link to the directory in a dir, so that i could share it on ftp, but when i removed the link, the dirs content got deleted too, its

[gentoo-user] Making .ebuild

2003-11-03 Thread raptor
tring to make an .ebuild for tcng but in the make install stage I'm getting errors i.e. tcng install script tries to write outside the sandbox.. This is the problematic part of the Makefile : - install-tcc:tcc check-install-dir scripts/localize.sh

Re: [gentoo-user] Installtion Help: Co-existing with WinXP

2003-11-03 Thread Paul Stear
Please only send text mails to this list On Sun 2 November 2003 19:40, Belinus wrote: I have a stage 1 install on my Celeron laptop. I followed the instructions on the install guide and I cannot get the installation to boot. The layout of the drive is as follows: /dev/hda1 - NTFS /dev/hda2

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE en_gb sttings

2003-11-03 Thread Paul Stear
Please only send text mails to this list On Sun 2 November 2003 20:14, Simon Windsor wrote: Hi How do I install the English settings for kde. I have triied emerge -p kde-i18-en_GB emerge -p kde-base/kde-i18n/en_GB Any ideas would be appreciated! Many thanks SImon Simon Windsor

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie - Can't start Gnome

2003-11-03 Thread Paul Stear
Please only send text mails to this list On Mon 3 November 2003 00:30, Alan Watson wrote: Probably a dumb question but I can't get Gnome to start after running emerge gnome. Can anyone humour me and tell me... Thanks, Alan -- -- This message was sent using gentoo linux and kmail --

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie - Can't start Gnome

2003-11-03 Thread Paul Stear
Please only send text mails to this list On Mon 3 November 2003 00:31, Brent L Johnson wrote: I'm new to Gentoo.. but try running startx and see if that does the trick? - Brent -Original Message- From: Alan Watson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2003 7:31 PM

Re: [gentoo-user] Samba encrypted passwords will not work with Gentoo

2003-11-03 Thread Paul Stear
Please only send text mails to this list On Mon 3 November 2003 00:35, Alan Watson wrote: I am having problems getting Samba to use encrypted passwords on Gentoo. I have tried all the normal resources (read samba mailing lists) with no success. I'm not completely new to the programme having

Re: [gentoo-user] kde - where did my panel go ?

2003-11-03 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 03 November 2003 01:43, Jeff MacDonald wrote: I ran kicker while in Gnome.. I got this, kicker: relocation error: /usr/kde/3.1/lib/libkonq.so.4: undefined symbol: _ZN9Q GroupBox10setEnabledEb I also tried to run licq, which i have

Re: [gentoo-user] secure live cd?

2003-11-03 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 31 October 2003 16:04, Christian Schäfer wrote: hi gentoo-user, what will I have to do to make sure only I have remote access over ssh to a box running on the live cd? I have a box with a static ip running on live cd and want to login

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing Printer only among Gentoo systems

2003-11-03 Thread Mike Arrison
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 07:19:23AM +, Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos wrote: I'm in a network of Gentoo systems. I'd like to know the best way to share a printer. I imagine that if I was in a mixed network (win/linux) the best was to use Samba but since the systems are only

Re: [gentoo-user] kde - where did my panel go ?

2003-11-03 Thread Jeff MacDonald
Well, i got it to work. Basically I think I upgraded a part of KDE right out from under my self. So i found the component parts of the kde meta port and just emerged all of them. I'm back to normal now. Jef. On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 07:10, Mike Williams wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-

Re: [gentoo-user] A7V600 SATA - Is this supported by a Gentoo kernel?

2003-11-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 20:33, Max wrote: Its no problem at all to use the A7V600 without SATA drives. Check /usr/src/linux/drivers/ide/raid to be sure. Andi I'd like to see your hdparm -tT results please? I'm attempting to build a SATA machine this week. I'll post back some

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups?

2003-11-03 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Spider wrote: begin quote On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 19:22:09 -0600 Andrew Gaffney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do 'tar -cjf /tmp/backup.tar.bz2 /home ... ... ...; tar -cf /dev/tape /tmp/backup.tar.bz2'. I really need to backup critical data off of the box, also. Do note that for tape issues its

[gentoo-user] Bus error

2003-11-03 Thread Jernej Zidar
I'm trying to get the program Charmm to work. On a debian install it works flawlessly if you provide some lib files. If I do the same on Gentoo I get: Bus Error. I tried changing the kernel configuration (I enabled Unix86pty and stuff), copying the various debian libs to Gentoo but to no

Re: [gentoo-user] Data Recovery NEEDED, very important

2003-11-03 Thread Gareth Jones
Hi Redeeman, Nachricht vom Sonntag, 2. November 2003, 13:20:49: PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE help i will apreciate ANYTHING, and i am willing to pay if some of you can help If this is *really* important, then you should shutdown the machine in question, and call a professional data recovery

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie - Can't start Gnome

2003-11-03 Thread Oscar Martín
Try running gdm or kdm from the console... then choose gnome from the options. cheers, Oscar. Alan Watson wrote: Probably a dumb question but I can't get Gnome to start after running emerge gnome. Can anyone humour me and tell me... Thanks, Alan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Newbie - Can't start Gnome

2003-11-03 Thread Brent L Johnson
I am only sending text mails to this list. But if someone else sends a NON text email to this list and I reply to it I am FORCED to send it in non-text format. As far as I know there's no way around that in Outlook. - Brent -Original Message- From: Paul Stear [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [gentoo-user] Booting Cdrom from floppy?

2003-11-03 Thread Jeffrey Smelser
see man grub / info grub Actually, I found a boot manager that boots anything.. Works much better than grub.. Thanks anyways -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] LiveCD and Mtools

2003-11-03 Thread Brent L Johnson
Hmmm - I copied them as it said under section 25 of the installation document: cp -a /mnt/cdrom/packages/* /usr/portage/packages/ I don't see an mtools package located in the packages/All directory. The only one I find is in: /usr/portage/app-admin/mtools Should I be pulling the mtools from

RE: [gentoo-user] Booting Cdrom from floppy?

2003-11-03 Thread Matthew Baxa
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 09:18, Jeffrey Smelser wrote: see man grub / info grub Actually, I found a boot manager that boots anything.. Works much better than grub.. Thanks anyways -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list And this boot manager would be...? -- Matthew Baxa [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[gentoo-user] /tmp not empty at boot time

2003-11-03 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Hi, At boot time I see a message that /tmp en /vat/tmp are being cleared, but I still find files from months ago in there. Is this normal?, I would say no, but how do i fix this? Patrick -- The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. Captain Spock in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

RE: [gentoo-user] Newbie - Can't start Gnome

2003-11-03 Thread Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower)
In the format menu, just click plain text. It will convert an html email to plain text. As far as I know, there isn't an option that forces outlook to always use plain text. So I have to use the menu every time. -Original Message- From: Brent L Johnson I am only sending text mails to

RE: [gentoo-user] /tmp not empty at boot time

2003-11-03 Thread Jeffrey Smelser
I don't know what anyone else does here, but I use tmpwatch to clear that stuff.. its in portage... I set /var /var/tmp /usr/distfiles. None of those directories on my system ever get out of hand. Hi, At boot time I see a message that /tmp en /vat/tmp are being cleared, but I still find

RE: [gentoo-user] Newbie - Can't start Gnome

2003-11-03 Thread Brent L Johnson
Ahh - in the compose window! That little feature of Outlook has always annoyed me. They need Evolution for Windows :) (or I need to find out how to install mtools off the liveCD so I can get my wireless card working!) Thanks for the tip, - Brent -Original Message- From: Van Eps,

RE: [gentoo-user] /tmp not empty at boot time

2003-11-03 Thread Redeeman
sometimes i just delete everything in /tmp, no problems with that :-) On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 16:48, Jeffrey Smelser wrote: I don't know what anyone else does here, but I use tmpwatch to clear that stuff.. its in portage... I set /var /var/tmp /usr/distfiles. None of those directories on my

[gentoo-user] Ultra10 + 2.6.0-test9 + keyboard (type-6)

2003-11-03 Thread Eric Tichansky
Seems keyboard support is a known issue on Sparc64 with 2.6.0-x kernels... Has anyone successfully gotten it to work? (Specifically Type-5/6) The kernel boots into a login prompt, but that is about it. I do have shell access to it via ssh, so if debug info is in order, I can provide it. ~emtty

RE: [gentoo-user] bad gentoo performance

2003-11-03 Thread Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower)
Small correction: Another list member pointed out to me that fomit-frame-pointer isn't enable for any of the O settings for x86 (according to the documentation). I wanted to make sure, so I emailed gcc-help email address. Someone emailed me the following procedure to determine exactly what flags

[gentoo-user] nvidia problems

2003-11-03 Thread Michel Bellemare
Hi, I followed carefully the instructions given in the doc to enable my video card to work in gentoo. But when i start the X server, i've got this error message NV:could not open control device /dev/nvidiactl (no such file or directory) (EE)NVIDIA (o): failed to initialized NVIDIA kernel module

Re: [gentoo-user] Vanilla behaviour in Gentoo Linux (long email)

2003-11-03 Thread Matt Chorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 02 November 2003 05:33 pm, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: ** Initially, sent to gentoo-dev but later sent also to gentoo-user for feedback. ** It seems like you got a good idea, and decided to come up with a ton of ideas that are

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia problems

2003-11-03 Thread David Gethings
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 16:15, Michel Bellemare wrote: Hi, I followed carefully the instructions given in the doc to enable my video card to work in gentoo. But when i start the X server, i've got this error message NV:could not open control device /dev/nvidiactl (no such file or directory)

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia problems

2003-11-03 Thread Matt Chorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 03 November 2003 08:15 am, Michel Bellemare wrote: Hi, I followed carefully the instructions given in the doc to enable my video card to work in gentoo. But when i start the X server, i've got this error message NV:could not open

Re: [gentoo-user] Using new kernel versions

2003-11-03 Thread Andrew Farmer
On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 16:02:50 -0800, Jordan Elver muttered: snip, in regard to 2.6.x Do I need to re-emerge ati-drivers? I thought it would use the same modules as th other kernel as listed in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6? Yes -- 2.6 uses a different module format than 2.4. I don't know

Re: [gentoo-user] armyopps190

2003-11-03 Thread Matt Chorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Was it? It is still listed in portage... On Sunday 02 November 2003 06:30 pm, Chris wrote: does anyone know why armyopps190 was taken off the servers? - -- Matt http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x7D81740A -BEGIN PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing Printer only among Gentoo systems

2003-11-03 Thread Matt Chorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 02 November 2003 11:19 pm, Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos wrote: Hi all, I'm in a network of Gentoo systems. I'd like to know the best way to share a printer. I imagine that if I was in a mixed network (win/linux) the best

[gentoo-user] PCMCIA with new Kernel

2003-11-03 Thread Brent L Johnson
I compiled PCMCIA support into a new kernel and when I reboot I get no lights on my linksys wpc11 v4 wireless pc card.. as though PCMCIA support isnt working. Any ideas why this is happening? Im recompiling the kernel now and specifying PCMCIA support as a module instead of compiled directly

[gentoo-user] Re: [Ardour-users] Ardour won't run on Gentoo

2003-11-03 Thread brett holcomb
Thanks. I'll check that out. On Mon, 3 Nov 2003 07:59:15 -0600 (CST) David Snopek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brett I. Holcomb said: I'm running the current release of Gentoo Linux and am having trouble getting Ardour to run at all. [ snip ] Ardour/GTK 0.412.0 running with libardour 0.698.0

[gentoo-user] configure apache2

2003-11-03 Thread xsebas
Hi, someone can help me to configure apache2. I installed apache on gentoo linux and I don't know wich files I have to modify to configure it. I modified /etc/apache2/conf/apache2/conf/apache2.conf when I want to start it I type: #apache2ctl start The pc wait some seconds and it don't show

[gentoo-user] gcc compile errors

2003-11-03 Thread Jon Ellis
I am trying to compile gcc-3.3.2-r2 and I keep getting this error. Any idea whats going on? TIA. gcc -c -O -DIN_GCC -W -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wtraditional -pedantic -Wno-long-long -DHAVE_CONFIG_H-I. -I.

Re: [gentoo-user] configure apache2

2003-11-03 Thread Redeeman
just type: /etc/init.d/apache2 start that will start it the config files is in /etc/apache2 - dont mess with them unless you have special needs, but open /etc/conf.d/apache2 and add -D PHP4 if you want php support, have fun! On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 18:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, someone can

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc compile errors

2003-11-03 Thread Redeeman
happend for me too, i just used my old stage tarball (a week older) and it worked perfect On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 18:29, Jon Ellis wrote: I am trying to compile gcc-3.3.2-r2 and I keep getting this error. Any idea whats going on? TIA. gcc -c -O -DIN_GCC -W -Wall -Wwrite-strings

Re: [gentoo-user] configure apache2

2003-11-03 Thread daniel
On November 3, 2003 12:29 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, someone can help me to configure apache2. I installed apache on gentoo linux and I don't know wich files I have to modify to configure it. I modified  /etc/apache2/conf/apache2/conf/apache2.conf when I want to start it I type:

Re: [gentoo-user] bad gentoo performance

2003-11-03 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Monday 03 Nov 2003 16:12, Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower) wrote: snip. I wanted to make sure, so I emailed gcc-help email address. Someone emailed me the following procedure to determine exactly what flags are getting set for the different O settings. To figure out what the differences

RE: Re: [gentoo-user] configure apache2

2003-11-03 Thread xsebas
- Mensaje Original -Remitente: Redeeman [EMAIL PROTECTED]Destinatario: Gentoo Maillinglist [EMAIL PROTECTED]Fecha: Lunes, Noviembre 3, 2003 6:33pmAsunto: Re: [gentoo-user] configure apache2just type:/etc/init.d/apache2 startthat will start itthe config files is in /etc/apache2 - dont

RE: Re: [gentoo-user] configure apache2

2003-11-03 Thread Redeeman
something is wrong then, maybe your hostname or something, check configs in /etc/apache2/conf and try again On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 18:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Mensaje Original - Remitente: Redeeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Destinatario: Gentoo Maillinglist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fecha:

Re: [gentoo-user] configure apache2

2003-11-03 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Monday 03 Nov 2003 17:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pnbsp;/P Pnbsp;/P Pnbsp;/P Pnbsp;/P Pnbsp;/P WTF is all this crap? Your html is not exactly welcome here. Can you tell? Peter -- == Portage 2.0.49-r15

Re: [gentoo-user] bad gentoo performance

2003-11-03 Thread Martin LORANG
Le Lundi 3 Novembre 2003 00:26, SN a écrit : -fomit-frame-pointer Don't keep the frame pointer in a register for functions that don't need one. This avoids the instructions to save, set up and restore frame pointers; it also makes an extra register available in many functions. It also makes

[gentoo-user] cvs update for kde

2003-11-03 Thread Steven Cain
I'm trying to do a kde update (complete) through cvs. How do I make sure I have all the dependencies, update the dependencies, and then compile my updates without starting everything over and over and over again. I keep trying to do it but it stops saying I need this version of this then

Re: [gentoo-user] configure apache2

2003-11-03 Thread David Gethings
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 17:49, Peter Ruskin wrote: WTF is all this crap? Now hang on! That's a bit strong! Your html is not exactly welcome here. Can you tell? And nor is that attitude! This user has made 2 previous posts. Neither previous post mentioned that this user should not use HTML

[gentoo-user] KDE - Konqueror history bar empty

2003-11-03 Thread Simon Windsor
Hi I have just build KDE and everything is going well, with a few very minor glitches. The most annoying one at the moment is the Konqueror History bar. It only ever has the current URL in it. Does anyone know how I can set it to save the last 20 (+) web sites I have visited? Finally, I

[gentoo-user] LiveCD 1.4 boot splash screen

2003-11-03 Thread Paul K. Dickson
Can someone tell me what the program is that provides that sweet boot screen and console 'window'? Thanks! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] LiveCD 1.4 boot splash screen

2003-11-03 Thread Fabien Fivaz
Paul K. Dickson wrote: Can someone tell me what the program is that provides that sweet boot screen and console 'window'? Thanks! Here is a howto in Italian : http://www.gentoo.it/tips/FramebufferAndBoot.html I couldn't find a english translation. Maybe try with google...! Best wishes,

[gentoo-user] how to make own version of LiveCD?

2003-11-03 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
Hi all, would it be possible to make an ISO of the Gentoo LiveCD, mount this ISO in some way, add some contents to it and burn it to a CD, so that it is still bootable and I can install from it, plus have all my added tools on this CD, so that I can copy them to the new system after

Re: [gentoo-user] LiveCD 1.4 boot splash screen

2003-11-03 Thread Redeeman
the gentoo forum has alot nice info, there is a tutorial, and it works, i did it myself :-) On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 19:44, Fabien Fivaz wrote: Paul K. Dickson wrote: Can someone tell me what the program is that provides that sweet boot screen and console 'window'? Thanks! Here is

Re: [gentoo-user] LiveCD 1.4 boot splash screen

2003-11-03 Thread Stefan Harrington-Palmer
is it http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=49036 your after? :) Stefan - Original Message - From: Paul K. Dickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 6:34 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] LiveCD 1.4 boot splash screen Can someone tell me what the

RE: [gentoo-user] how to make own version of LiveCD?

2003-11-03 Thread Jeffrey Smelser
Let me know how ya do it when you figure it out. I wouldn't mind being able to add some things myself.. I would think you could, I just have not actually done it since I found a different cd off freshmeat... You don't have to use the gentoo cd to install gentoo, it doesn't matter what cd you

RE: [gentoo-user] LiveCD 1.4 boot splash screen

2003-11-03 Thread Luke Davison
Paul, Here is a link to the Gentoo Framebuffer, Bootsplash Grubsplash How-to: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=49036 This might also be useful if you were looking for the bootsplash with progress bar found on the 1.4 LiveCD: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=100620 Regards,

Re: [gentoo-user] bad gentoo performance

2003-11-03 Thread Stroller
On Nov 2, 2003, at 10:13 pm, William Kenworthy wrote: There was actually a lot of misinformation and pure rubbish spread on this list about that ... I was present and can say what was done. In that case, debian and Mandrake WERE faster than gentoo - the figures are there in black and white.

RE: [gentoo-user] how to make own version of LiveCD?

2003-11-03 Thread Luke Davison
Matthias, Have you checked out this article on hacking the LiveCD? http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=21327 Regards, Luke -Original Message- From: Matthias F. Brandstetter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 10:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

[gentoo-user] Stage 1 install /w Lucent Winmodem

2003-11-03 Thread Joey Davis
I use a Lucent Winmodem, and have a tarball of the source code for the drivers. I can get the modem to work most of the time. What I need to be able to do is compile modules and install them using 'insmod' before I can use the modem. Is this possible to do in a Stage 1 install? Will it let

Re: [gentoo-user] Using new kernel versions

2003-11-03 Thread Jordan Elver
On Monday 03 November 2003 16:49, Andrew Farmer wrote: On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 16:02:50 -0800, Jordan Elver muttered: snip, in regard to 2.6.x Do I need to re-emerge ati-drivers? I thought it would use the same modules as th other kernel as listed in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6? Yes

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie - Can't start Gnome

2003-11-03 Thread Stroller
On Nov 3, 2003, at 3:32 pm, Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower) wrote: In the format menu, just click plain text. It will convert an html email to plain text. As far as I know, there isn't an option that forces outlook to always use plain text... I'm pretty sure there is, in preferences, but I

RE: [gentoo-user] Newbie - Can't start Gnome

2003-11-03 Thread Luke Davison
Outlook 2000: Tools - Options - Mail Format tab, select Plain text from the Send in this message format: dropdown. -Original Message- From: Stroller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 11:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie - Can't

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE - Konqueror history bar empty

2003-11-03 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Monday 03 Nov 2003 18:33, Simon Windsor wrote: Hi I have just build KDE and everything is going well, with a few very minor glitches. The most annoying one at the moment is the Konqueror History bar. It only ever has the current URL in it. Does anyone know how I can set it to save the

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups? abetter way?

2003-11-03 Thread HvR
Here is what i use from crontab once a day: it makes a space efficient copy of every file, and every version so i can retrieve any previous version, best to put the target snapshot directory on a different drive. adapted from: http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/ #!/bin/sh

RE: [gentoo-user] PCMCIA with new Kernel

2003-11-03 Thread Brent L Johnson
OK I'm getting close to giving up and loading redhat again I think. I changed my kernel configuration to load PCMCIA support as a module and ran genkernel again. Now at bootup time I get the following errors (repeatedly): /lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r6/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/ds.o: init_module:

RE: [gentoo-user] LiveCD 1.4 boot splash screen

2003-11-03 Thread Brent L Johnson
Wow I never knew it really did anything. Running the install on my laptop gives me a display error so I either have to use the nofb kernel or hit the spacebar to continue after the error in normal mode. - Brent -Original Message- From: Luke Davison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

RE: [gentoo-user] Newbie - Can't start Gnome

2003-11-03 Thread Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower)
Yes, but if you are replying to an email with HTML in it, it won't use plain text. -Original Message- From: Luke Davison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 1:19 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Newbie - Can't start Gnome Outlook 2000:

RE: [gentoo-user] Newbie - Can't start Gnome

2003-11-03 Thread Mark Knecht
Actually, if you tell it to convert (yes, by hand) Outlook 2000 will just warn you that you'll lose formatting when you convert html to text. It works fine. I have to do it about 50 times per week on all these lists. I haven't tried it, but there is an option in Outlooks contact sections where,

RE: [gentoo-user] LiveCD 1.4 boot splash screen

2003-11-03 Thread Luke Davison
Brent, Which kernel are you currently using? You will need FrameBuffer support compiled into your kernel in order to take advantage of the boot splash feature. Did you go through the how-to in the first link? Regards, Luke -Original Message- From: Brent L Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL

[gentoo-user] Ebuild for Netjuke.....

2003-11-03 Thread Steve
Does anyone know of an ebuild for Netjuke? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] LiveCD 1.4 boot splash screen

2003-11-03 Thread Brent L Johnson
Sorry - it didnt work off the LiveCD during installation. Not that I needed it really.. but it failed and then gave me some splash error. No biggie.. Im more concerned with my PCMCIA woes.. I'm about ready to throw my laptop out the window into the front yard. If I can get that working I'll move

RE: [gentoo-user] Newbie - Can't start Gnome

2003-11-03 Thread Brent L Johnson
Yes but this setting gets overridden.. as you can see Im sending plain text now. Its overridden if you're replying to someone who didnt use plain text. You have to do like someone suggested earlier and once you hit reply go to Format - Plain Text. - Brent -Original Message- From:

RE: [gentoo-user] IBS AS 400 eSeries

2003-11-03 Thread Kevin Bucknum
Greetings, Has anyone been able to build Gentoo, or any Linux distro, for IBM AS 400? http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/RedbookAbstracts/sg246232.html? Open Ibm's redbox is a good place to start. I had a box I could play with for a while that was going to load SuSE on, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Ebuild for Netjuke.....

2003-11-03 Thread Matt Chorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 03 November 2003 12:51 pm, Steve wrote: Does anyone know of an ebuild for Netjuke? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list It looks as if an ebuild was submitted back in April - but it does not look like it was ever entered into the portage

RE: [gentoo-user] PCMCIA with new Kernel

2003-11-03 Thread Luke Davison
Brent, If you are still compiling PCMCIA as a module, are you loading the pcmcia_core module prior to loading the ds module? BTW, when I have needed PCMCIA in the past, I have always compiled it statically. Regards, Luke -Original Message- From: Brent L Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL

[gentoo-user] Cuecat barcode reader

2003-11-03 Thread A. Craig West
Is anybody successfully using a cuecat barcode reader under gentoo? I applied the 2.4.21 patch to vanilla-sources-2.4.22, but it doesn't seem to be working properly. It is possible that there are changes from 2.4.21 to 2.4.22 that require modifications to the patch, but it applied quite cleanly...

RE: [gentoo-user] PCMCIA with new Kernel

2003-11-03 Thread Brent L Johnson
I got past it I think (thankfully.. I just read that Redhat is dumping their free Linux dist and will no longer be going past RH9). First when it failed I had it compiled in.. along with some of the drivers listed (even though I really didnt need them). It didnt work.. so I went to having it as

[gentoo-user] Rebuilding kernel module ebuilds

2003-11-03 Thread A. Craig West
Some time ago, somebody posted a script to re-emerge any ebuilds for kernel modules after recompiling the kernel. alsa-driver and pcmcia-cs come to mind as likely candidate ebuilds. I have been trying to find this script both in the list archives and on the forums but have had no luck. Does this

Re: [gentoo-user] PCMCIA with new Kernel

2003-11-03 Thread Kevin Miller, Jr.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Brent: I think you are looking for this thread: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=26716highlight=pcmcia+nic Good luck. Kevin On Monday 03 November 2003 1:29 pm, Brent L Johnson wrote: I got past it I think (thankfully.. I just read

Re: [gentoo-user] Rebuilding kernel module ebuilds

2003-11-03 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Monday 03 Nov 2003 21:32, A. Craig West wrote: Some time ago, somebody posted a script to re-emerge any ebuilds for kernel modules after recompiling the kernel. alsa-driver and pcmcia-cs come to mind as likely candidate ebuilds. I have been trying to find this script both in the list

[gentoo-user] GCC error

2003-11-03 Thread Pietro Leone
Hallo, I tried to emerge gnugo, but during the compilation gcc give me this error: cc1: error: unrecognized option `-lang-c89' I know that c89 is the first standard for c, I searched for this option into the gcc man, but I found nothing, how can I correct this? Thanks, Pietro -- I will

Re: [gentoo-user] LiveCD 1.4 boot splash screen

2003-11-03 Thread Guy Van Sanden
Here's a howto http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=49036 On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 19:34, Paul K. Dickson wrote: Can someone tell me what the program is that provides that sweet boot screen and console 'window'? Thanks! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list --

Re: [gentoo-user] how to make own version of LiveCD?

2003-11-03 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Luke Davison -- Matthias, Have you checked out this article on hacking the LiveCD? http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=21327 no, not yet, but I will check it out! Thanks alot for this tip! Greets, Matthias -- Look, Marge, I'm sorry I haven't been a better

[gentoo-user] cervisia

2003-11-03 Thread Guy Van Sanden
Does anyone know why cervisia disappeared from the portage tree? It was in a couple of months back (I can check back on the Internet), but it is out now... -- __ Guy Van Sanden http://unixmafia.port5.com Registered Linux

RE: [gentoo-user] cervisia

2003-11-03 Thread Luke Davison
Guy, Cervisia is part of the code KDE distribution (as of KDE 3). You should be able to get it from kde-base/kdesdk. Regards, Luke -Original Message- From: Guy Van Sanden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 2:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user]

Re: [gentoo-user] Making .ebuild

2003-11-03 Thread Doug Weimer
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 02:53, raptor wrote: tring to make an .ebuild for tcng but in the make install stage I'm getting errors i.e. tcng install script tries to write outside the sandbox.. This is the problematic part of the Makefile : - install-tcc:tcc

Re: [gentoo-user] Stage 1 install /w Lucent Winmodem

2003-11-03 Thread Jernej Zidar
no, you must first isntall the kernel, reboot and later on compile the Lucent Winmodem drivers. The best way to load it is to use modprobe. Zee - Original Message - From: Joey Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 8:02 PM Subject: [gentoo-user]

RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo box hung - how to debug?

2003-11-03 Thread Mark Knecht
-Original Message- From: Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 1:56 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo box hung - how to debug? He should try a memory test, if he doesn't think his recent merges (or

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups?

2003-11-03 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Monday 03 November 2003 02:05, Rick [Kitty5] wrote: What do people do / recommend for backing up? a scsi tape drive from ebay, some quality tapes, tar ;o) -- Conclusions In a straight-up fight, the Empire squashes the Federation like a bug. Even with its numerical advantage removed, the

Re: [gentoo-user] bad gentoo performance

2003-11-03 Thread William Kenworthy
Fact: take 3 distros, install to the reccomended settings (as far as is practical) and see which is faster. Gentoo was slowest. At the time (is it still the case?) -O3 was being reccomended for gentoo in general, celerons in particular (was a few months back now!) This flag has a rather drastic

Re: [gentoo-user] /tmp not empty at boot time

2003-11-03 Thread Bryan Whitehead
Patrick Marquetecken wrote: Hi, At boot time I see a message that /tmp en /vat/tmp are being cleared, but I still find files from months ago in there. Is this normal?, I would say no, but how do i fix this? Patrick This is fine according to LSB/FHS. /var/tmp should *not* be cleared after reboot:

Re: [gentoo-user] downloading Yahoo! mail

2003-11-03 Thread Steven Elling
On Saturday 01 November 2003 12:59, HvR wrote: On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 15:20, Steven Elling wrote: On Wednesday 29 October 2003 23:09, Andrew Gaffney wrote: I want to be able to download my Yahoo! mail into Mozilla. I see that in portage there are 2 programs for this: yosucker and

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie - Can't start Gnome

2003-11-03 Thread Stroller
I *think* that's because you've got an option checked to reply in the same format as the message you're replying to. Certainly, earlier versions of Outlook Outlook Distress had that option. Stroller. On Nov 3, 2003, at 7:46 pm, Brent L Johnson wrote: Yes but this setting gets overridden.. as

[gentoo-user] problem with qmail an vpopmail...

2003-11-03 Thread Johannes Findeisen
hello all, can some please send me the /service/qmail-smtpd/run file? it must be configured for use with vpopmail... i' sitting here since some hours now and don't know what i'm doing wrong. i want to use smtp after pop or smtp authentication and i have destroyed my run file... i have read all

[gentoo-user] Re: damned usb mouse again

2003-11-03 Thread Michael Mauch
Hall Stevenson wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 13:57, Roberto Padovani wrote: mine is exactly the same, though i think that the problem is somewhat above X, since # cat /dev/input/mice doesn't show any understanig of my mouse movements. You're correct. If the kernel doesn't know

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups?

2003-11-03 Thread Ernie Schroder
Good point Bill. I do have ADSL and can d'load at roughly 165k/sec Distfiles, though becomes so large that it would soon overwhelm my 20 gig drive that I back up to. Perhaps it would be smart to copy some files from distfiles to ~/home where they would be backed up and I could later

[gentoo-user] Ati Dual-Head XVideo Extension

2003-11-03 Thread Paul Kimberley
Hi I don't know where to ask this (is there an ATI forum ?) but since i'm using gentoo I thought I'd ask here. I am using a Radeon 9500 pro and ati-drivers-3.2.8, I used fglrxconfig to create a XF86Config-4 using Dual-Head. The problem is that when I use the Dual head it seems that XVideo

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