Re: [gentoo-user] Re: lots of swapping

2004-02-21 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Saturday 21 Feb 2004 06:00, Javier Marcet wrote: * Spider [EMAIL PROTECTED] [040221 02:55]: I have 1GB RAM and 2GB swap but when I'm using Pan on a large newsgroup like alt.binaries.dvd, all the RAM and three-quarters of swap get used up and the desktop grinds to a halt. Sounds like

Re: [gentoo-user] UT2004

2004-02-15 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Sunday 15 Feb 2004 21:49, Brendan Sullivan wrote: For any gamers out there, UT2004 demo is out for linux. www.unrealtournament.com My linux box is too slow for gaming so unfortunately i can only test it for windows, but the tar.bz2 is available. Hopefully they'll realease the linux

Re: [gentoo-user] APM settings

2004-02-13 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Friday 13 Feb 2004 07:24, Anthony Hoppe wrote: How do I set APM settings like HDD powerdown and display powerdown? For HDD powerdown you can use hdparm: /sbin/hdparm -y /dev/hd? Peter -- == Gentoo Linux: Portage 2.0.50-r1.

Re: [gentoo-user] More nVidia Stuff...

2004-02-13 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Saturday 14 Feb 2004 01:08, Stroller wrote: Cool. TY. Would I be right in imagining that I might need to remerge this when I recompile my kernel..? Yes, every time, but only the nvidia-kernel, not the -glx. Peter -- ==

Re: [gentoo-user] More nVidia Stuff...

2004-02-13 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Saturday 14 Feb 2004 01:08, Stroller wrote: On Feb 13, 2004, at 11:46 pm, Alan wrote: emerge nvidia-kernel and load 'nvidia' module through your /etc/modules.autoload.d/kerne-version file (or modprobe nvidia at the command line) Information from emerge of nvidia-kernel-1.0.533: If you

Re: [gentoo-user] kstart and gkrellm2

2004-02-12 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Thursday 12 Feb 2004 04:58, Timothy Grant wrote: Another KDE 3.2 question... under the 3.[01] series, I was able to do kstart --alldesktops --skiptaskbar gkrellm To get gkrellm started on all desktops. I tried to use some of the SuperKaramba themes with 3.2, but have not enjoyed

Re: [gentoo-user] Mail confirmation requests

2004-02-12 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Friday 13 Feb 2004 1:45 am, Grendel wrote: You have pushed this once too often and are showing your utter immaturity noro, so I am adding you to my killfilter. and you, grendel, have been added to mine. I think this list would be better without you and your nasty comments -- [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Kde 3.2 - how to remove 3.1?

2004-02-11 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Wednesday 11 Feb 2004 19:07, Persson wrote: I succesfully emerged kde 3.2, but seems to me that the 3.1.x stuff is still there (eg, the /usr/kde/3.1 directory). Is it safe to do an emerge umnerge kde-3.1.5 or could that command accidentally delete something that may cause 3.2 to stop

Re: [gentoo-user] Kde 3.2 - how to remove 3.1?

2004-02-11 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Wednesday 11 Feb 2004 20:24, Peter Ruskin wrote: I'm hanging on to 3.1.5 - 3.2.0 is pretty buggy.  I've filed one bug at kde on knotify and commented on an existing bug with ksysguard. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38702 Sorry, the one above should read: http://bugs.gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Kde 3.2 - how to remove 3.1?

2004-02-11 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Wednesday 11 Feb 2004 20:27, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Wednesday 11 Feb 2004 20:24, Peter Ruskin wrote: I'm hanging on to 3.1.5 - 3.2.0 is pretty buggy.  I've filed one bug at kde on knotify and commented on an existing bug with ksysguard. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38702

Re: [gentoo-user] Solved: LILO Windows on 2 Harddisks

2004-02-10 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Thursday 29 Apr 2004 07:13, gabor wrote: any ideas how to set this in grub? Your clock says 29 Apr 2004. It's 10 Feb 2004 here. Peter -- == Gentoo Linux: Portage 2.0.50. kernel-2.6.2. gcc(GCC): 3.3.2. i686 AMD

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6 and nvidia 5336

2004-02-09 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Monday 09 Feb 2004 04:03, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: somebody should put a message into the ebuild that FB and NVIDA is a NONO. This will never work. Of course it works, as long as you use the VESA framebuffer. It's the Riva framebuffer that causes problems with Nvidia. And it has been

Re: [gentoo-user] More Graphics Cards Recommendations..? Was: Re: kernel 2.6 and nvidia 5336

2004-02-09 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Monday 09 Feb 2004 10:32, Grendel wrote: No, it means that if you use a frame buffer, then you will have to use linux's agp driver instead of nvidias agp driver. reall there isnt much difference but the nvidia agp driver seems stabler than linux's agp driver. But there is very little

Re: [gentoo-user] More Graphics Cards Recommendations..? Was: Re: kernel 2.6 and nvidia 5336

2004-02-09 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Monday 09 Feb 2004 13:35, Grendel wrote: On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Peter Ruskin commented thusly, On Monday 09 Feb 2004 10:32, Grendel wrote: No, it means that if you use a frame buffer, then you will have to use linux's agp driver instead of nvidias agp driver. reall there isnt much

Re: [gentoo-user] Using Xine to play backed up DVD's

2004-02-08 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Sunday 08 Feb 2004 02:45, lukas wrote: On Sunday 08 February 2004 03:35, lukas wrote: xine dvd:/full/path/to/DVD/VIDEO_TS/ Better: xine dvd://full_path_to_DVD_VIDEO_TS You forgot the trailing slash :-) xine dvd://full_path_to_DVD_VIDEO_TS/ Peter --

Re: [gentoo-user] Another gcc/portage problem.

2004-02-08 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Sunday 08 Feb 2004 13:39, William Kenworthy wrote: env-update uses python so dies without the symlink. The paths are hard coded in the binary according to ldd, so the environment isnt the problem. I think I need a minimum of correctly linked binaries to kick off a system rebuild. BillK

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge wants to downgrade Alsa.

2004-02-08 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Sunday 08 Feb 2004 21:39, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I am running 1.0.x versions of alsa drivers, libs, utils, and tools.  I did the merge with ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge packagename. However, everytime I do an emerge -uD world -p portage want's to downgrade the alsa libs as shown here

Re: [gentoo-user] Sensors and 2.6 kernels

2004-02-06 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Friday 06 Feb 2004 23:21, Ernie Schroder wrote: Peter, I don't seem to have a /sysfs Is this a kernel option? If so where?I do see a seemingly unrelated SYSV_FS It's called /sys. I think that got installed with the 2.6 kernels. If you have gkrellm2 that should find the sensors as well.

Re: [gentoo-user] Sensors and 2.6 kernels

2004-02-06 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Saturday 07 Feb 2004 00:03, Grendel wrote: Well, the 2.6 kernels includes all the latest i2c modules, so you will need only the i2c userspace tools. This is generic instructions. Download lm_sensors-2.8.3.tar.gz and extract it, cd into the directory, type make user make

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia-kernel 5336-r1

2004-02-03 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Tuesday 03 Feb 2004 03:39, Collins Richey wrote: Therein lies the difference.  Nvidia has not bothered/succeeded (don't know which) to learn how to program AGP interaction with the VIA chipset. Well, in a previous post in this thread I said that the KT600 gart support in linux is not good,

Re: [gentoo-user] debug script

2004-02-03 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Tuesday 03 Feb 2004 13:21, Paul Stear wrote: Hi all, I am working on a backup script but have some problems. How can I step through a script? I do this by opening the script in kwrite and copy lines one-by-one and paste them into konsole. F12 toggles line-wrap in kwrite. Peter --

Re: [gentoo-user] Possibly copy protected CDs?

2004-02-03 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Wednesday 04 Feb 2004 02:27, Mark Knecht wrote: That's really interesting. Can you explain 'mounting on loopback'? What is that? I only have one Linux book (Linux in a Nutshell) and it doesn't have loopback in the index. mount iso-file /mnt/tmp -t iso9660 -o loop Peter --

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia-kernel 5336-r1

2004-02-02 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Monday 02 Feb 2004 12:41, Jakub Krajcovic wrote: I'd like to make an update to the original question about speed: I just tested the 4496 driver and the 5336-r1 driver, and the 5336 is a LOT faster. (Tested with wine and half life, warcraft 3, on a 2.6.1) The lockups: I have a via

Re: [gentoo-user] save dmsg output across reboot?

2004-02-02 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Tuesday 03 Feb 2004 01:12, Alan wrote: I have a server with the kernel append line having panic=30 which reboots the box 30 seconds after a kernel panic. However, once it reboots I have no way to see what the problem was. Is there any place that stores the output of this so that it can be

Re: [gentoo-user] viruses

2004-01-31 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Saturday 31 Jan 2004 07:57, jkw wrote: the only mailing list i am subscribed to at this address is gentoo-user. i have never posted this address on the internet anywhere. i *NEVER* received spam before signing up on gentoo-user, and now i receive about *1 MB* of spam/viruses each day.

Re: [gentoo-user] Good Games Suggestions

2004-01-31 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Saturday 31 Jan 2004 21:08, Wayne Oliver wrote: Hi All Can anybody suggest anything from portage ??? I am not a shoot 'em up fan... lbreakout2 circuslinux emilia-pinball frozen-bubble xmahjongg flightgear cannonsmash Peter --

Re: [gentoo-user] recommended 2.6 emerge for first time user

2004-01-29 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Wednesday 28 Jan 2004 05:10, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 02:41:10 + Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Despite what Ciaran said, if you try to emerge sparc-dev-sources on | an x86 arch you'll come up against a nasty block. Only if you have the version of pciutils

Re: [gentoo-user] Solved: Please confirm Re: [gentoo-user] Linux not booting

2004-01-28 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Wednesday 28 Jan 2004 08:09, Christian Herzyk wrote: Can someone running coreutils 5.0-r5 confirm that /bin/install is a link to /usr/bin/install? I have coreutils-5.0.91-r4, but... $ ll /bin/install lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jan 18 11:21 /bin/install - ../usr/bin/install Peter --

Re: [gentoo-user] Solved: Please confirm Re: [gentoo-user] Linux not booting

2004-01-28 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Wednesday 28 Jan 2004 11:07, Christian Herzyk wrote: This is the  version I have, esearch seems to be out of date. Make a daily cron job that does: /usr/sbin/eupdatedb -n Peter -- == Gentoo Linux: Portage 2.0.49-r20

Re: [gentoo-user] Virus protection for Evolution users

2004-01-28 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Wednesday 28 Jan 2004 13:20, David Gethings wrote: To answers the posters original question: I am personally not aware of any AV software for Linux. I would presume there are none for the above reasons. clamav. It's in portage. Peter --

Re: [gentoo-user] recommended 2.6 emerge for first time user

2004-01-27 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Wednesday 28 Jan 2004 02:12, Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 15:29, Collins Richey wrote: SNIP Note that Ciaran has recommended using sparc-dev-sources-2.6.2_rc2. In spite of the title, aparently it will work for x86 as well, and apparently it has some additional patches that

Re: [gentoo-user] best way to backup

2004-01-24 Thread Peter Ruskin
this: #== #! /bin/bash # /usr/local/bin/backup ### # Backup Script ### # Jason Calabrese [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Modified by Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] 25-Sep-03 # This script uses tar to back up

Re: [gentoo-user] SCSI emulation under Gentoo - MOSTLY SOLVED!

2004-01-22 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Thursday 22 Jan 2004 04:05, Mark Knecht wrote: QUESTION: how do I test these devices (cdrw and dvdr drives) to ensure DMA is still enabled? I cannot figure out yet what parameters to give hdparm -I /dev/WHAT? Wizard root # hdparm -I /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 not supported by

Re: [gentoo-user] SCSI emulation under Gentoo - MOSTLY SOLVED!

2004-01-22 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Thursday 22 Jan 2004 13:26, Mark Knecht wrote: On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 04:39, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Thursday 22 Jan 2004 04:05, Mark Knecht wrote: QUESTION: how do I test these devices (cdrw and dvdr drives) to ensure DMA is still enabled? I cannot figure out yet what parameters

Re: [gentoo-user] problem mounting NFS share

2004-01-22 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Thursday 22 Jan 2004 18:37, Tux the turtle wrote: Am Donnerstag, 22. Januar 2004 18:46 schrieb Aaron Walker: Stefan Vunckx wrote: Check if your server is properly setup, meaning he'll have to grant your pc access (see if your IP is in the allowed setup and such). Bonx Yes,

Re: [gentoo-user] SCSI emulation under Gentoo - MOSTLY SOLVED!

2004-01-21 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Wednesday 21 Jan 2004 15:07, Collins Richey wrote: Final thought.  With support in 2.6 (and later 2.4) kernels for CD writer without SCSI emulation (ATAPI devices can be used), why not say good-bye to the SCSI emulation support and related problems once and for all? Because he's using

Re: [gentoo-user] SCSI emulation under Gentoo - MOSTLY SOLVED!

2004-01-21 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Wednesday 21 Jan 2004 16:54, Matt Wilson wrote: On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 16:52, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Wednesday 21 Jan 2004 15:07, Collins Richey wrote: Final thought. With support in 2.6 (and later 2.4) kernels for CD writer without SCSI emulation (ATAPI devices can be used), why

Re: [gentoo-user] SCSI emulation under Gentoo - MOSTLY SOLVED!

2004-01-21 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Wednesday 21 Jan 2004 18:10, Roel Schroeven wrote: I'm running 2.4.20 and I can burn CD's using an ATAPI device with cdrecord. I can't use disc-at-once though, since AFAIK cdrdao doesn't accept ATAP devices. Oh yes, now I remember that's why I was using ide-scsi. However, googling brought

Re: [gentoo-user] Turn off colors in gentoo tools

2004-01-21 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Wednesday 21 Jan 2004 19:00, Karl Eklund wrote: Is there a general interface to turn off all colors in the output of the gentoo tools? As it is now, for example, running genlop -l in a default setup gnome terminal (black on white) writes stuff like Wed Jan 21 00:51:04 2004 sfs-0.7.2

Re: [gentoo-user] kde 3.1.5 requires xft?

2004-01-20 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Tuesday 20 Jan 2004 12:28, Guy Van Sanden wrote: emerge -U kde fails on xft not being thre, emerge -UDp kde lists it as a blocked requirement: Why not just `emerge kde`? Peter -- == Gentoo Linux: Portage 2.0.49-r20

Re: [gentoo-user] kde 3.1.5 requires xft?

2004-01-20 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Tuesday 20 Jan 2004 16:00, Jason Stubbs wrote: On Tuesday 20 January 2004 21:28, Guy Van Sanden wrote: Upgrading to kde fails because it seems to rely on xft being installed. The thing is that there already is an XFT implementation in Xfree 4.3.0, so xft can't be installed any more

Re: [gentoo-user] SCSI emulation under Gentoo - MOSTLY SOLVED!

2004-01-20 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Tuesday 20 Jan 2004 23:08, Mark Knecht wrote: The only problem I still have to solve is the drives are not recognized at boot time. I have to su, do cdrecord -scanbus, and then I can use them. Any ideas about how to solve this? Try adding sg to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-ver Peter --

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot Problems, new install, Part 4

2004-01-19 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Monday 19 Jan 2004 03:52, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, 2004-01-18 at 19:47, Krikket wrote: For /dev/SWAP/ /dev/ROOT/ and /dev/BOOT/ I'm getting the error message, Can't locate module. You must replace the words SWAP BOOT and ROOT with real partition devices, such as /dev/hda3 for swap.

Re: [gentoo-user] How much space to install GENTOO

2004-01-19 Thread Peter Ruskin
Just for information, here are my details: # /dev/hde hd0 WINDOWS GENTOO Maxtor 6Y200P0 ATA133 200 GB /dev/hde1 /mnt/win/c vfat rw,umask=0 0 0 C win98 # (hd0,0) 4.0GB /dev/hde2 /gentoo/boot ext3 noauto,noatime,users 0 2 # (hd0,1) 47.0MB /dev/hde3 /mnt/win/p vfat rw,umask=0

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot Problems, new install, Part 4

2004-01-19 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Monday 19 Jan 2004 15:09, Jani-Matti Hätinen wrote:   I also previously used it in /etc/fstab for the same reason, but now (in a new installation due to a hard drive failure). I just have /dev/hda3 and it doesn't show up twice in KwikDisk or KDiskFree. Could've been fixed in an update or

Re: [gentoo-user] kmenuedit

2004-01-19 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Monday 19 Jan 2004 21:45, Greg Donald wrote: I can't seem to edit my KDE menu with kmenuedit. If I run kmenuedit as my normal user, I can edit items but cannot find a way to save my edits. The 'apply' button is grayed out. So I assume I must run it as root? All my attempts are

Re: [gentoo-user] kmenuedit

2004-01-19 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Tuesday 20 Jan 2004 01:37, Greg Donald wrote: Peter Ruskin wrote: | You only run it as root to edit root's menus.  It works fine here: | | $ ll `which kmenuedit` | -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3796 Jan 15 19:38 /usr/kde/3.1/bin/kmenuedit Yes, I said that.  Do you know how to edit the menu

Re: [gentoo-user] Critical warning: Do not update GLIBC!

2004-01-19 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Tuesday 20 Jan 2004 01:53, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Works here too on dual AMD 1.9 system. And here, on two KT600 boxes with Athlon XPs, one of which has rebooted without problems. -- == Gentoo Linux: Portage 2.0.49-r20

Re: [gentoo-user] kmenuedit

2004-01-19 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Tuesday 20 Jan 2004 02:25, Greg Donald wrote: What is a duff?  You mean broken? Yes (as in Duff's beer if you watch The Simpsons). The apply button does indeed become active when I change an individual menu item.  But then when I press it, there is no effect, the menus are not saved.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE urls and fonts

2004-01-18 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Sunday 18 Jan 2004 19:38, Greg Donald wrote: Sorry if I'm just missing the obvious setting somewhere.. but how do I make KMail open urls in Mozilla instead of Konquerer when I click them? Control Centre - KDE Components - File Associations - text-html - choose Mozilla. Peter --

Re: [gentoo-user] USB printer setup

2004-01-18 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Monday 19 Jan 2004 01:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ---snip--- # find /dev -name lp* -ls 8690 crw-rw 1 root root Dec 31 1969 /dev/usb/lp0 9720 lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 10 Jan 18 22:32 /dev/lp0 - printers/0 $ find /dev -name lp* -ls

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge K3B

2004-01-17 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Saturday 17 Jan 2004 14:27, Robert Crawford wrote: All my 2.6 kernels have worked great, except for cdburning. I've read everything I can find, followed all the instructions, and nothing has worked for k3b. At least on my system, cdburning is not solved for 2.6 kernels. Works fine here.

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading KDE

2004-01-15 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Thursday 15 Jan 2004 19:46, gabriel wrote: On January 15, 2004 04:06 pm, Aleksandr wrote: As KDE 3.1.5 was released and appeared in stable, i want to upgrade my 3.1.4 KDE. But I want to be able to use my computer's GUI during upgrade process. I've already fetched all the required

Re: [gentoo-user] running modprobe for quickcam

2004-01-13 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Tuesday 13 Jan 2004 09:13, Chris wrote: how do i run modprobe quickcam whenever i boot so i wont have to run it manually when i need the cam? Add quickcam to /etc/modules.autoload.d/your kernel-ver Peter -- == Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Virus's

2004-01-13 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Wednesday 07 Jan 2004 15:15, Jonathan Nichols wrote: Dennis Freise wrote: On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 22:14:47 -0500 Nicholas Hockey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: does anybody else on this mailing list get slammed by the Microsoft Update virus going around, i'm trying to figure out why i get

Re: [gentoo-user] Virus's

2004-01-13 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Tuesday 13 Jan 2004 20:30, Manuel Pérez López wrote: me too. El Martes, 13 de Enero de 2004 20:14, Jan escribió: I received multiple virus mails today (many of microsoft ;) ) If you're using postfix, take a look at http://www.securitysage.com. I created the /etc/postfix/maps directory

Re: [gentoo-user] Xmodmap xev and wheel mouse

2004-01-12 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Tuesday 13 Jan 2004 01:53, David Stevenson wrote: Hi I have just started with Gentoo, and Gnome, and so far it is all very good 8-) One problem is getting my 5 buttons plus 2 wheels mouse to wheel. I was using it with SuSE and KDE by setting XF86Config up for 9 buttons and ZAxisMapping

Re: [gentoo-user] joystick and AC97

2004-01-11 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Sunday 11 Jan 2004 04:48, Andrew Gaffney wrote: I was able to do this. I stuck my Creative Ensoniq back in. I put 'ns558' in my modules.autoload file. I put alsasound back in with 'rc-update add alsasound boot'. I restarted my system. Voila! The sound with my Ensoniq works and the joystick

Re: [gentoo-user] joystick and Linux games

2004-01-11 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Sunday 11 Jan 2004 13:46, Andrew Gaffney wrote: Now that I've finally got my joystick working, I can't remember what game I wanted it for from about 6 months ago when I originally tried to get it working. So now, in order to justify the time I spent getting the joystick to work, I'm looking

Re: [gentoo-user] where are the file system icons stored

2004-01-11 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Sunday 11 Jan 2004 23:54, Chris wrote: i checked /usr/share/icons and /.kde/share/icons and they weren't in either so where else might they be? Try /usr/kde/3.1/share/icons Peter -- == Gentoo Linux: Portage 2.0.49-r20

Re: [gentoo-user] atkbd.c

2004-01-10 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Saturday 10 Jan 2004 17:34, Marc Redmann wrote: Hi list, I just upgraded to gentoo-dev-sources 2.6.1, everything works just fine, except that I now see the following lines in dmesg output: atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0x7a on isa0060/serio0). atkbd.c: Unknown

Re: [gentoo-user] joystick and AC97

2004-01-10 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Sunday 11 Jan 2004 03:32, Andrew Gaffney wrote: I had been having problems getting my joystick to work with my SB Ensoniq 1371. I couldn't I used to use one of those. When you modprobe es1371 you have to give option joystick=true (something like that anyway). Peter --

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA and SMP support

2004-01-09 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Friday 09 Jan 2004 08:57, Fred Labrosse wrote: All, Trying (and now succeeding) to power off my computer, I turned off SMP support in the kernel. However, since then, I get loads of messages similar to the one below when insmod'ing snd.o:

Re: [gentoo-user] naming an xterm

2004-01-09 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Friday 09 Jan 2004 14:13, Andrew Gaffney wrote: I routinely have atleast 3 xterm's at any one time. I need a way to easily distinguish between them. Is there a command I can run from the xterm to change its title to something I specify? There's a bash-prompt HOWTO that describes how to do

Re: [gentoo-user] AutoConf = 2.50

2004-01-08 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Thursday 08 Jan 2004 04:16, Collins wrote: This sounds like a complete crock.  Is this a gentooism that no one else in the linux universe would be aware of? Mandrake do it too. In fact our autoconf perl script is written by Mandrake's Guillaume Cottenceaux. Peter --

Re: [gentoo-user] K3B v0.10 with DVD support

2004-01-06 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Tuesday 06 Jan 2004 22:49, Wes Gray wrote: On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 05:25:56PM +0100, Gerhard W. Gruber wrote: On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 23:48:45 +, Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, it looks like 0.10.3-r2 is the newest regular ebuild in portage. You can emerge that in a

Re: [gentoo-user] Beware, gs-sources -r2 installs over the top of current version

2004-01-06 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Tuesday 06 Jan 2004 23:23, William Kenworthy wrote: Just upgraded gs-sources and found it installs over the top of the current 2.4.23_pre8 version instead of being -r2. crap! It shouldn't do that. Whenever I emerge kernels I always add something to the EXTRAVERSION string in the Makefile

Re: [gentoo-user] To upgrade or Not/to upgrade the kernel??

2004-01-05 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Monday 05 Jan 2004 15:24, Joshua Banks wrote: How do I know which packages contain kernel modules??? Is there a way for me to check before loading the new Kernel sources so I know what needs to be remerged again? qpkg -I -nc -f /lib/modules Peter --

Re: [gentoo-user] Stand Alone English-Language Dictionary

2004-01-05 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Tuesday 06 Jan 2004 00:52, Richard R wrote: Anyone know of a stand-alone English-language dictionary application that works under Gentoo? (I know there are some sites and networked apps. but my internet connection is not always up.) Before I switched to Gentoo I used AHD (American

[gentoo-user] Sensors and 2.6 kernels

2004-01-05 Thread Peter Ruskin
As you may have found out, you can't emerge i2c or lm_sensors if you're running a 2.6 kernel. This is my experience of hardware monitoring with 2.6. I hope it may be of some help. From http://lwn.net/Articles/56146/ Improved system monitoring. ~~~ - lm_sensors. -

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating Gentoo

2004-01-04 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Sunday 04 Jan 2004 16:14, Thomas Degris wrote: /etc/cron.daily and modify the line 0 3 * * * rootrm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.daily for 0 * * * * rootrm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.daily because I would like to update my system every 24h and not every 3h Then

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I share the soundcard?

2004-01-04 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Sunday 04 Jan 2004 18:35, Gerhard W.Gruber wrote: I had this problem with enemy-territory and now I know what the problem was. artsd was blocking the soundcard so et couldn't procceed. When I killed it, et started fine. Now the obvious question is - How do I share the soundcard in a way

Re: [gentoo-user] Spam from gentoo-lists

2004-01-04 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Monday 05 Jan 2004 02:03, Collins wrote: I've been subscribed for years, and other than the once or twice a year thing, I've seen no spam. Hey Collins, you must be either very lucky or clever. What are you using to avoid gentoo-spam? Peter --

Re: [gentoo-user] worm games

2004-01-02 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Friday 02 Jan 2004 11:07, William Kenworthy wrote: Thanks, this worked a treat - so well in fact I only just got the machine back off the youngster to check the email :) Used rpm -ivh --nodeps /home/rpm/nil-000516-19mdk.i586.rpm after checking I already had the needed deps. You're welcome

Re: [gentoo-user] GUI install / Portage-browser

2004-01-02 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Friday 02 Jan 2004 19:45, Mickey Mullin wrote: Drake Wyrm wrote: Even power-users could get some use out of a GUI. It would be a great way to browse through all the metadata stored in the Portage tree and Portage-related databases. Take a look at kportage.

Re: [gentoo-user] worm games

2004-01-01 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Thursday 01 Jan 2004 12:03, William Kenworthy wrote: Nah, totally different animal. This one has worms that shoot each other (from guns to nuclear bombs!). Sorta arcade style - something like the atomic tanks game on steroids! BillK On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 19:38, Leif B. Kristensen

Re: [gentoo-user] worm games

2004-01-01 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Thursday 01 Jan 2004 13:09, William Kenworthy wrote: Can emerge install a rpm (how???) or should I extract the tarball from it and build manually? Searching seems to imply its a manual install, but you never know ... BillK On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 20:27, Peter Ruskin wrote: Does

Re: [gentoo-user] cd busy

2004-01-01 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Thursday 01 Jan 2004 15:14, Goran Kavrecic wrote: It happens from time to time, that I mount the CD, use it, close all related programs and when trying to unmoun tit returns that the device is busy. The latest was a CD when I openned an html file with mozzila. You could try `umount -l

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Daily job running

2004-01-01 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Friday 02 Jan 2004 00:40, Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Gerhard W. Gruber (2003-12-29 10:21 +0100) I want to have job that runs once a day when I power on my machine. With cron I have the problem that this has to be at a fixed time, yes? Since I switch my machine off when I don' t use it it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [normal] [gentoo-user] APM howto

2003-12-31 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Wednesday 31 Dec 2003 12:57, Marc Redmann wrote: Hi Fabian, CONFIG_PM=y CONFIG_APM=m # CONFIG_APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND is not set CONFIG_APM_DO_ENABLE=y # CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE is not set # CONFIG_APM_DISPLAY_BLANK is not set # CONFIG_APM_RTC_IS_GMT is not set #

Re: [gentoo-user] Dynamic partition resize?

2003-12-31 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Wednesday 31 Dec 2003 06:42, Vanh Phom wrote: Hi folk, Happy new year to all. I recently get a hold of a 40G drive. So I'm planing to move Debian out to the new (new to me) drive. Debian currently occupied 2 partitions (1,2) while Gentoo takes 3,4. I want Gentoo to own current drive. Is

Re: [gentoo-user] I20/MegaRAID... what's I20?

2003-12-31 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Wednesday 31 Dec 2003 15:34, Brian Downey wrote: So... I have a MegaRAID 466 controller, and have been using the MegaRAID driver in the kernel. No big deal. Out of curiousity today, I ran lspci on the system and it came back with this: 00:0b.1 I2O: Intel Corp. 80960RP [i960RP

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird kernel problem ...

2003-12-31 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Wednesday 31 Dec 2003 10:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Tuesday 30 Dec 2003 22:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have experience in various other distro's so I know the usual procedure ... BUT this time things don't work. Modules won't load

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing from Debian without wiping disks?

2003-12-31 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Thursday 01 Jan 2004 02:38, Ricky Buchanan wrote: Is it possible to install GenToo on a computer that's previously had Debian on it *without* any install media except an ADSL connection? I really don't want to dick around trying to buy or get written some CDs (don't have a CD burner) when

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird kernel problem ...

2003-12-30 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Tuesday 30 Dec 2003 22:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have experience in various other distro's so I know the usual procedure ... BUT this time things don't work. Modules won't load, insmod module gives me a series of unresolved symbols. Note that I have done depmod -a, System.map is

Re: [gentoo-user] Daily job running

2003-12-29 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Monday 29 Dec 2003 22:01, Gerhard W.Gruber wrote: On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 19:54:03 +0100, Alberto Garcia Hierro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sys-apps/anacron is what you need Thanks. Currently I have vixie-cron installed. Do I have to unmerge this? Are these two completely seperate beasts

Re: [gentoo-user] RPM and gentoo

2003-12-29 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Monday 29 Dec 2003 23:07, Gerhard W.Gruber wrote: I josticed got a notification that a new driver for my videocard is available at www.ati.com. Since I can't activate 3D acceleration I hope that this new driver will fix this. Of course there is no emerge yet, because the ati-driver package

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dvdwriter package

2003-12-28 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Sunday 28 Dec 2003 19:38, Eamon Caddigan wrote: Hey, good timing. I suppose I'm not the only one who got a DVD-burner for Christmas (g) -- does anyone have a preference between the above packages? What about burning DVD movies? I happily use cdrecord-ProDVD, which isn't in portage. You can

Re: [gentoo-user] floppy access

2003-12-28 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Sunday 28 Dec 2003 22:04, Bruce E. Harris wrote: ok, this one have me at a loss. I am trying to access my floppy via Gentoo and having no luck. I tried to create a floppyfw and coyote floppy and it could not access /dev/fd0. Looking in at /dev I see fd/ but not fd0. I added /dev/fd0 to my

Re: [gentoo-user] rc-update hotplug - boot or default?

2003-12-27 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Sunday 28 Dec 2003 00:37, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I've had this question about a number of daemons in the past, and it's come up today with hotplug. Should this daemon be started at boot or default? How would I know? I didn't see anything in the README that was obvious (It's Redhat

Re: [gentoo-user] i2c Problem on 2.6.0

2003-12-26 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Friday 26 Dec 2003 12:05, Reinhard Brandstädter wrote: Reinhard Brandstädter wrote: I also found a script to check these values on the console but I can't find the link where I got it from right now. Here it is: http://www.xs4all.nl/~thospel/ASIS/bin/psensors I couldn't get that to

Re: [gentoo-user] no libstdc++

2003-12-25 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Thursday 25 Dec 2003 20:25, Moshe Kaminsky wrote: Hi, I have installed gcc-3.3.2-r4, and now I no longer have libstdc++.so.5 anywhere. It broke many of the programs. When I try to run g++ or c++ I get the message Can't locate/run g++ (I don't know who emits this message; I don't think it

Re: [gentoo-user] x86+scsi problem

2003-12-24 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Wednesday 24 Dec 2003 04:07, George Hernandez wrote: Hello all.. Hopefully you guys can help me. Here is my grub.conf file... [grub.conf] default 0 timeout 30 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title=Gentoo Linux root (hd0,0) kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-2.4.23 root=/dev/sda3 [end]

Re: [gentoo-user] K3B on 2.6.0

2003-12-24 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Wednesday 24 Dec 2003 14:31, Redeeman wrote: the cdrom scsi emulation layer is broken in 2.6, but in advance, 2.6 supports atapi burning It works fine here Peter -- == Gentoo Linux: Portage 2.0.49-r18 (default-x86-1.4,

Re: [gentoo-user] Font Issue

2003-12-23 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Tuesday 23 Dec 2003 23:18, Steve B wrote: Also how do you temp disable arts from the command line? killall artsdsp Peter -- == Gentoo Linux: Portage 2.0.49-r18 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r3,

Re: [gentoo-user] Font Issue

2003-12-23 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Wednesday 24 Dec 2003 02:03, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Tuesday 23 Dec 2003 23:18, Steve B wrote: Also how do you temp disable arts from the command line? killall artsdsp Sorry, that should be killall artsd Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing a Cd burner..

2003-12-19 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Friday 19 Dec 2003 21:14, Primero.Franz wrote: Maybe it's a little bit Off-Topic but this is my best resource of information ... so , i'm sorry :-))) I've a Gentoo desktop that i use as Firewall and File sharer for my little LAN , some desktop and a Laptop i Use for all my Activities. I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Normal user read/write to hard disk.

2003-12-18 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Friday 19 December 2003 02:04, Dane Elwell wrote: Anyway, can someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong? The line: /dev/hdb1       /mnt/storage    ext3    noatime,rw,user,owner  0 2 try /dev/hdb1 /mnt/storage ext3 noatime,users 0 0 Peter --

[gentoo-user] Sensors with 2.6.0-test11 kernel

2003-12-17 Thread Peter Ruskin
Just in case anyone is wondering how to display hardware sensor values without using gkrellm and using the 2.6.0-test11 kernel, I've knocked up a short bash script that does just that. All the info comes from that new-fangled /sys directory.

Re: [gentoo-user] webmin

2003-12-14 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Sunday 14 Dec 2003 16:22, James D. Tyler wrote: Is there a current webmin startup script? #!/bin/sh # [[ '$(ps x|grep webmin/miniserv.pl)' == '' ]] \ /etc/init.d/webmin start mozilla http://localhost:1 Peter --

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