Re: [gentoo-user] Good code editor (with colors) for X (no GTK or QT)

2003-07-23 Thread MIKE MacMartin
On July 21, 2003 10:31 pm, Carlos wrote: I use emacs. (I know, I know, I can hear all of you vi people out there snickering) I'm that loud? Hey, I vim too. it's, in my opinion, the fastest editor for coding. MIKE -- Beware the JabberOrk -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] mudding?

2003-07-19 Thread MIKE MacMartin
Anyone here mud? If so, do you have a favourite client for Linux? Is it in portage? I'm kinda leaning toward papaya, but I don't think it's in Portage - I suppose I could always write an ebuild. I also really like mudtelnet, except for its lack of aliases. MIKE -- Beware the JabberOrk --

Re: [gentoo-user] mudding?

2003-07-19 Thread MIKE MacMartin
I really like TinyFugue, listed in portage as tf (also the executable), more info at http://tf.tcp.com/~hawkeye/tf/ I just tried out gMUDix ... it's got everything I want except for ANSI background support (anyone know how easy this is to do?) Anyway, tried it out and its for command doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: odd problem

2003-07-18 Thread MIKE MacMartin
On July 18, 2003 08:42 am, Kevin Bucknum wrote: $ cat -e /etc/hostname wolverine$ there is this dollar sign, is it normal? M.B Yes. The -e option tells cat to print a $ for end of line, and also show unprintable characters. That looks like a correct hostname file to me. I'll

Re: [gentoo-user] HOTOW: Windows Keys in Consoles

2003-07-18 Thread MIKE MacMartin
To modify the windowskeys functions, on Gentoo the file is /usr/share/keymaps/i386/include/windowskeys.inc MIKE Me again, MIKE -- Beware the JabberOrk -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Windows keys in vterms?

2003-07-17 Thread MIKE MacMartin
On July 16, 2003 10:07 pm, Bryce wrote: On Thursday 17 July 2003 07:31 am, Nick Rout wrote: windowskeys is a nice feature huh? I just noticed it a week or so ago. Have you noticed the other windowskey, the one that emulates the right click menu in windows switches between the last two

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Windows keys in vterms?

2003-07-17 Thread MIKE MacMartin
EXTENDED_KEYMAP=windowskeys grepping /etc for where this takes effect shows that /etc/init.d/keymaps includes a line that effectively seems to run windowskeys as a parameter to loadkeys. I guess you will have to get that into the knopix/debian init scripts somewhere, assuming it loads

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Windows keys in vterms?

2003-07-17 Thread MIKE MacMartin
Any more insight given by grep and find? Found it with a quick google. On an extended Microsoft keyboard, we have the additional keys as follows (models vary, this is from the Keyboard-and-Console HOWTO, page 14, as mirrored on ibiblio.org): Left Windows: e05b Right Windows: e05c Menu:

[gentoo-user] HOTOW: Windows Keys in Consoles

2003-07-17 Thread MIKE MacMartin
Standard sysvinit setup. That is, there's an rc.local file that you want to add to. -=-=-=-=-=-|/etc/rc.d/rc.local|-=-=-=-=-=-=-= #... setkeycodes e05b 125 setkeycodes e05c 126 setkeycodes e05d 127 loadkeys /etc/windowskeys #... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Set up a

[gentoo-user] Postfix?

2003-07-16 Thread MIKE MacMartin
I installed postfix, and it's sending client returns the following error: fatal: gethostbyname: no such file or directory ... what's the fix for that? I've also had the problem where I can't start the receiving client (due to the initscript not being able to calculate dependencies) MIKE --

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix?

2003-07-16 Thread MIKE MacMartin
I installed postfix, and it's sending client returns the following error: fatal: gethostbyname: no such file or directory check your logs *or* sudo /usr/sbin/postfix start. Hopefully, postfix will tell you which file (or directory) is missing. Still nothing: the only thing in main.cf

[gentoo-user] Windows keys in vterms?

2003-07-16 Thread MIKE MacMartin
I'll ask this again, as I didn't get any response before. I have a Knoppix HD-install machine that I'd like to use the windows keys on the keyboard to go left and right one vterm (which I'm using to mean Ctrl-Alt-F# terminal). This is the default way they work on both Gentoos I've installed.

Re: [gentoo-user] Local mail

2003-07-15 Thread MIKE MacMartin
Definitely. One popular choice (my own favorite) is postfix. The default configuration requires just a few small edits to one configuration file - very easy to setup and use. emerge postfix edit /etc/postfix/main.cf /etc/init.d/postfix start Error: could not get dependency info for postfix

Re: [gentoo-user] Local mail

2003-07-15 Thread MIKE MacMartin
On July 15, 2003 05:22 pm, Bryan D. Stine wrote: I have the same error starting up through new init scripts started by packages, but they start up anyway for me. Are you sure postfix isn't running? It won't let me stop it. I just checked and it is not started MIKE -- Beware the JabberOrk

Re: [gentoo-user] Silly question: Skipping stuff that emerge suggests

2003-07-13 Thread MIKE MacMartin
On July 13, 2003 06:00 am, Tom Wesley wrote: Problem with that is that when 2.0.47-r1 etc come along they also get suggested for emerge... How about modifying /var/cache/edb/world to include the line apache-2.0 or something like that MIKE -- Beware the JabberOrk -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[gentoo-user] lm-sensors

2003-07-12 Thread MIKE MacMartin
Question: how does one get this working? What do I need in kernel? It's complaining about my i2c being too old - but I don't even remember compiling it into the kernel. MIKE -- Beware the JabberOrk -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] lm-sensors

2003-07-12 Thread MIKE MacMartin
On July 12, 2003 07:45 pm, Norberto BENSA wrote: MIKE MacMartin wrote: Question: how does one get this working? What do I need in kernel? It's complaining about my i2c being too old - but I don't even remember compiling it into the kernel. MIKE # emerge i2c ? :-) perhaps it should

Re: [gentoo-user] snapshots

2003-07-06 Thread MIKE MacMartin
I am not sure what I was using when I found this out, maybe red hat or mandrake. But it was an app for taking screenshots, what was special about it was that, it had a feature to click drag on a window and it would take that part of the windows and save it. Anyone know which app this is?

[gentoo-user] vim-6.2?

2003-07-04 Thread MIKE MacMartin
I get an error merging vim-6.2 No rule to make target auto/configure Any fixes? MIKE -- Beware the JabberOrk -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] c++ template question

2003-07-03 Thread MIKE MacMartin
b.h === template class t class b { public: b(); ~b(); }; b.cpp = #include b.h template class t bt::b() {} template class t bt::~b() {} Try b.cpp looking like this: b.cpp == #include b.h templatetypename t b::b() {} templatetypename t b::~b() {} I used

Re: [gentoo-user] c++ template question

2003-07-03 Thread MIKE MacMartin
To instantiate a template, the compiler has to have the source available. You hid the definitions of the constructor and destructor from it by putting it in b.cpp, so while it got the class definition when you included the .h, it did not have the function definitions. You got the error at the

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice emerge problem's version 1.0.3-r1

2003-07-02 Thread MIKE MacMartin
Is this a problem with my config or should I bug this problem? * This ebuild has only been tested with the blackdown port of * java. If you use another java implementation, it could fail * horribly, so please merge the blackdown-jdk and set it as * system VM before proceeding:

Re: [gentoo-user] File Sharing between Linuxes

2003-07-02 Thread MIKE MacMartin
#shfs mount [EMAIL PROTECTED] /mnt/sidshfsdefaults 0 0 To mount this, I issue a: mount /mnt/sid What if I want to mount [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ as other ssh programs know it? MIKE -- Beware the JabberOrk -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] bittorrent?

2003-07-01 Thread MIKE MacMartin
You said you only tried it a couple times--maybe the problem is with the particular torrent(s) you tried? Might be. I managed to get one downloaded fine. But the 2 Animatrix ones I tried seem to hang at connecting to peers. I am behind a MASQ router - it looks like there's an option to

Re: [gentoo-user] Windows to linux... What was that app?

2003-07-01 Thread MIKE MacMartin
and when you're 65 like me you think twice before wanting to slap the crap out of anyone ;-) Hey, I'm still 15 inside my head. And then you realize that you missed out when you were 19: that you're still young enough to think you know all there is while realizing there's more to learn still

Re: [gentoo-user] how to change the monitor resolution?

2003-06-30 Thread MIKE MacMartin
now I can understand... I've a notebook without numberpad :-( I solved that issue by buying a numberpad that acts as a 2 port USB hub as well. A further issue may be that you have an LCD screen and, to my knowledge, X doesn't like changing resolutions on an LCD - Unreal Tournament, q3 etc all

Re: [gentoo-user] how to change the monitor resolution?

2003-06-30 Thread MIKE MacMartin
So, how did you do it? What video driver do you use, and did you need to make any special changes to XF86Config? X just decided that that was the resolution it was going to display at. Like I said, it's LCD - it's also on a laptop. I guess it told X it only wanted 1400x1050? MIKE --

Re: [gentoo-user] how to change the monitor resolution?

2003-06-30 Thread MIKE MacMartin
Would you be so kind as to post your XF86Config file so that I could see if a similar setup would work for me? Here it is: /usr/X11/XF86Config-4 --- Section Module # This loads the DBE extension module. Load

Re: [gentoo-user] New user trying to get SSH running

2003-06-30 Thread MIKE MacMartin
Any help would be greatly appreciated. /etc/init.d/sshd start should take care of that ... 'least it did on my box Sean Bossinger MIKE -- Beware the JabberOrk -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] New user trying to get SSH running

2003-06-30 Thread MIKE MacMartin
On June 30, 2003 10:33 pm, Sean Bossinger wrote: Worked like a charm! Thanks Don't forget to etc-update add sshd default MIKE -- Beware the JabberOrk -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] New user trying to get SSH running

2003-06-30 Thread MIKE MacMartin
On June 30, 2003 10:44 pm, Sean Bossinger wrote: etc-update or env-update? oops... damn. Um... that's the wrong command ... rc-update add sshd default Sorry for any confusion MIKE -- Beware the JabberOrk -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] x doesn't work!

2003-06-29 Thread MIKE MacMartin
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module! (EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting *** (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. Fatal server error: no screens found Generally, I've found this error to be when you've told the Screen section to use a mode that

[gentoo-user] bittorrent?

2003-06-29 Thread MIKE MacMartin
I emerged the (masked) bittorrent... and I've tried it twice. It seems to hang on connecting to peers. This may be because it's slow on dialup or because at the other place I tried, the firewall didn't allow port 6667? or is it a buggy client? MIKE -- Beware the JabberOrk -- [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] bittorrent?

2003-06-29 Thread MIKE MacMartin
On June 29, 2003 11:43 pm, MIKE MacMartin wrote: I emerged the (masked) bittorrent... and I've tried it twice. It seems to hang on connecting to peers. This may be because it's slow on dialup or because at the other place I tried, the firewall didn't allow port 6667? or is it a buggy client

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Setting up a DHCP Server

2003-06-24 Thread MIKE MacMartin
doesn't seem to want to run. Installed DHCP via. emerge dhcp followed by an emerge dhcpd. Perhaps a stupid question, but you did do '/etc/init.d/dhcp start'? The advice I'd give (look, see, I'm giving it!) is to go to http://www.tldp.org and find their DHCPD howto. The Linux Documentation

[gentoo-user] Windows Keys?

2003-06-17 Thread MIKE MacMartin
In Gentoo Linux, in the vterms (the F# terminals), you are able to press the left windows key to go left one console, the right one to go right and the menu to flip the last two. My question is: how did they do that? I've got a Knoppix install on a server (right, so it's really Debian), and I

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple stupid question

2003-06-17 Thread MIKE MacMartin
I know this is probably mentioned somewhere, but I don't know where. Whenever I boot I need to enter: dhcpcd eth0 before my ethernet will come up and recognize the network. Simply starting the dhcp daemon? But where would I put this to automate it? Look at /etc/conf.d/net ...

Re: [gentoo-user] Curiosity - DirectFB

2003-06-15 Thread MIKE MacMartin
so i did an `emerge -s directfb' and got the obvious results: `dev-libs/DirectFB', `dev-libs/DirectFB-extra' and 'x11-base/xdirectfb' but neither of these will work if i go for the `emerge -puD directfb' all i get is the following message: I wrestle with this a log ... emerge -s is

[gentoo-user] Cursor :(

2003-06-06 Thread MIKE MacMartin
I just upgraded to xfree-4.3.0-r2, and my redglass cursors are gone! I can't even install another theme, such as tuxcursors (http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=5359 ). I've got a /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/icons/defaults/index.theme that has an inherits=tuxcursor there, but no go. I've

Re: [gentoo-user] Cursor :(

2003-06-06 Thread MIKE MacMartin
You've tried editing your ~/.Xdefaults and added these lines?: # Begin .Xdefaults Xcursor.size: 24 # Edit to your preference. Xcursor.theme: whiteglass # Or redglass if that's what you want. # End .Xdefaults I've got Xcursor.theme: tuxcursor here ... like I said, the whiteglass/redglass

Re: [gentoo-user] Cursor :(

2003-06-06 Thread MIKE MacMartin
On June 5, 2003 04:01 pm, Patrick Börjesson wrote: I've got Xcursor.theme: tuxcursor here ... like I said, the whiteglass/redglass cursorthemes don't exist anymore on this system. You know that the cursors changed location at some version-change in xfree? Currently they reside in

Re: [gentoo-user] X 4.3 DRM new issue

2003-06-06 Thread MIKE MacMartin
KDM and GDM both display the system freeze issue, but using startx from the prompt does not. Upgrading to xfree-4.3.0-r2 fixed this ... either that, or the kernel for 2.4.20-r5 is more stable than r2. Either way, problem's gone. I think I'll keep my multiheading for now... MIKE --

Re: [gentoo-user] iptables error

2003-06-06 Thread MIKE MacMartin
One last question for today: How can I make the comands: echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE permanent, meaning executed at boot time? Copy one of the /etc/init.d scripts and make it your own. For example (here's a quick example):

Re: [gentoo-user] Radeon Mobility and X 4.3

2003-06-05 Thread MIKE MacMartin
dri-4.3.0 (or whichever one goes with that version of X). Sorry, that's xfree-drm-4.3.0. MIKE -- Beware the JabberOrk -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Radeon Mobility and X 4.3 **SOLVED**

2003-06-05 Thread MIKE MacMartin
On June 4, 2003 03:35 pm, MIKE MacMartin wrote: dri-4.3.0 (or whichever one goes with that version of X). Sorry, that's xfree-drm-4.3.0. I just had to get rid of the radeon driver compiled into the kernel and now it works. MIKE -- Beware the JabberOrk -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Which laptop vendors officially supports linux?

2003-06-05 Thread MIKE MacMartin
I was wondering if there was any laptop vendors that officially supports linux? Eurocom. I know linux can work, with more or less tweakings, on most laptops, but which brand actually have enough guts to officially say that linux works well on some or all of their laptops?

Re: [gentoo-user] USB permissions

2003-06-04 Thread MIKE MacMartin
I've put my normal user into the USB group and I was wondering what else I need to do to access my camera and USB port(s). Anyone run across this problem before? I'm running gentoo 1.4rc4 fully updated. Somewhere on the 'net, I found an app called usb_perms. I can't remember where I found

Re: [gentoo-user] NetHack?

2003-03-05 Thread MIKE MacMartin
On March 5, 2003 09:46 pm, MIKE MacMartin wrote: I've attempted multiple times to get nethack-3.4.1 to build - it always fails. According to emerge -vp nethack, the only USE flags it uses are +X +qt +gtk. err +gnome... sorry. Anyone have a fix? MIKE MIKE -- Beware the JabberOrk -- [EMAIL

[gentoo-user] World file?

2003-03-04 Thread MIKE MacMartin
I have a question about the world file. How do I specify the versions? I emerged X 4.3 yesterday, and now it wants to get rid of it, even though I put =x11-base/xfree-4.3 in my world file. Another possible extention, that I've mentioned before, but not seen any discussion about the possibility