Re: [gentoo-user] grub is acting wierd...

2003-03-09 Thread Voicu Liviu
On Sunday 09 March 2003 10:53, Ben Sparks wrote: Voicu Liviu wrote: |On Sunday 09 March 2003 10:38, Ben Sparks wrote: |I know the bootloader question has been beat to death and I have looked |every where that I know of to find an answer, but no dice...yet. |Anyway, I'm stuck using a boot

Re: [gentoo-user] grub is acting wierd...

2003-03-09 Thread samarar
with setup (hd1), the first 512 of your second ide drive should have what windows needs to boot gentoo. ~rushan samarar wrote: You might want to try root (hd1,0) setup (hd1) to install grub to the mbr of your second ide drive. ~rushan Ben Sparks wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-

[gentoo-user] forcing emerge of all installed packages...

2003-03-09 Thread Mailling Lists
I recently updated my USE variable in /etc/make.conf. I know that this can affect what options are configured into packages. This will work fine for anything new I might emerge, but what about all the packages I have already installed? is there anyway to force emerge to remerge all previously

Re: [gentoo-user] forcing emerge of all installed packages...

2003-03-09 Thread Voicu Liviu
On Sunday 09 March 2003 15:00, Mailling Lists wrote: I recently updated my USE variable in /etc/make.conf. I know that this can affect what options are configured into packages. This will work fine for anything new I might emerge, but what about all the packages I have already installed? is

[gentoo-user] How to activate colorgcc?

2003-03-09 Thread Thomas Preissler
Hello, how do I activate colorgcc? I emerged it, re-ermerged gcc-config, put a FEATURES wrappers in /etc/make.conf. I executed the export PATH as written at the end of the ebuild, but it does not work, when I emerge e.g. mc. How do I activate it exactly? TIA, Tom -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

[gentoo-user] Re: Newbie - first install

2003-03-09 Thread Richard Revis
Patrick Marquetecken wrote: 1. USB i have enabled usb in the kernel, but when inserting a USB mass device nothing happens. If i run dmesg is there nothing. How do i get this to work. Did you build in usb-storage (module or otherwise)? Since you got no message (saying could not find driver),

Re: [gentoo-user] Import modconf

2003-03-09 Thread Martin Schlemmer
On 09 Mar 2003 16:24:07 +0100 Denny Schierz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, i think, the tool from debian modconf is very helpfull, to modprobe modules into the system. So, my question, can we import the tool? What features does it have that you need/want ? -- Martin Schlemmer Gentoo

[gentoo-user] How to update snort database to db version min. 106?

2003-03-09 Thread Thomas Preissler
Hello folks, I just updated snort, but - how can I update the underlying snort database? I did not find anything on snort specific sites, neither on gentoo.org. How do I upgrade the database? Actually I use snort db version 105, starting snort says, that it requires a minimum version of 106.

Re: [gentoo-user] System borked after upgrade

2003-03-09 Thread M. Robert Martin
I'm trying to install a new Gentoo system right now (it's like my tenth or so) and there are definitely some related problems here. I've got the same python error after emerge portage. In fact, just executing python will generate the libstdc++.so.5 error. None of my other systems have GCC-3.2.2

Re: [gentoo-user] forcing emerge of all installed packages...

2003-03-09 Thread Susie
On Sun, 09 Mar 2003 15:05:40 +0200 Voicu Liviu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes, do: # emerge -e world ( if this failes somewhere, do again: # emerge -e --resume world ) Actually if it fails do regenworld emerge -e --resume world There is a -e bug that will delete things listed in the world

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie - first install

2003-03-09 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
3. NVidia, i have installed the drivers emerge nvidia-glx, but when i restart at boot time the error appears, coult not load NVidia. You'll also need to emerge nvidia-kernel. The correct name of the module is NVdriver not NVidia. Add NVdriver to you /etc/modules.autoload and things

Re: [gentoo-user] 1.4rc3 can't mount livecd - help?

2003-03-09 Thread Bob Johnson
Theres a experimental livecd at www.gentoo.org/~livewire. I had a bp6 but cant remember bios options. try to turn off apic and acpi in the bios, also try switching mp 1.1 1.4 or vice-versa The only thing i remember about my bp6 was how finicky it was. On Sunday 09 March 2003 10:38 am, M. Robert

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie - first install

2003-03-09 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Did you set up XF86Config? This is what i have done: emerge nvidia-glx emerge nvidia-kernel echo NVdriver /etc/modules.autoload modprobe NVdriver gives this: Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r1/video/NVdriver will taint the kernel: non-GPL license - NVIDIA See

[gentoo-user] AUTOCLEAN weardness

2003-03-09 Thread Dominik Westner
Hi all, I am experiencing strange problems with portage's autoclean feature with some packages. Somehow autoclean wants to clean the newly installed package instead of the old one. Here is an example: loki root # emerge -up expat [ebuildU ] dev-libs/expat-1.95.6 [1.95.5-r1] loki root #

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Newbie - first install

2003-03-09 Thread Arturo di Gioia
On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 18:13, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: Patrick Marquetecken wrote: 1. USB i have enabled usb in the kernel, but when inserting a USB mass device nothing happens. If i run dmesg is there nothing. How do i get this to work. Did you build in usb-storage (module or

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is my computer using swap?

2003-03-09 Thread Daniel Carrera
I don't know why, but I know that this is normal behaviour. What you will notice is that Linux will use a small ammount of swap from the beginning, but it won't use much until actually you run out of RAM. Perhaps someone else knows the rationale behind this. Daniel. On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at

[gentoo-user] ext3 acls [take 2]

2003-03-09 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Hello, I want to use ext3 acls and I was wondering, how are they supported by gentoo ? I was reading that I need a modified version of fileutils and fsck support ? Are they already in gentoo or do I have to install something else ? Also, is there an ebuild for acl utils ? Thanks... -- [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is my computer using swap?

2003-03-09 Thread Ben Sparks
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 How much RAM do you have. I just don't mount swap unless I know I'll be doing something that requires a ton a memory. I have 512mb and don't use the swap unless I need it. Daniel Carrera wrote: |I don't know why, but I know that this is normal

Re: [gentoo-user] System borked after upgrade

2003-03-09 Thread Martin Schlemmer
On Sun, 9 Mar 2003 15:02:31 -0600 (CST) M. Robert Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check if you have the updated gcc-3.2.2.ebuild that I talked about in the other mail ... it could/should fix the problem for fresh installs and upgrades. Here's an update on my install: The box I'm trying to

Re: [gentoo-user] System borked after upgrade

2003-03-09 Thread M. Robert Martin
I may have missed something. I have an ebuild for gcc-3.2.2-r3 - is that the most recent? When would the updated one have come out - is it possible it was like between 10 AM and noon today (CST)? If so maybe one got it and the other didn't. I'm mostly just curious. I'm overconfident that what

Re: [gentoo-user] usb / hotplug / digital camera problem

2003-03-09 Thread Michael Gruenberger
Just for the record as answer to my problem: I had to install the ehci-hcd usb module and then everything worked fine. Cheers, Michael. On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 00:04, Louis C. Candell wrote: Michael Gruenberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello all, after trying for 2 days to get my USB

[gentoo-user] raid problem

2003-03-09 Thread richard pijnenburg
Dear Gentoo users, I'm trying to install gentoo on my server. I've got a Promise Fastrack TX100 raid controller. When I do 'modprobe ataraid' I don't get any error messages. But when I do 'modprobe pdcraid' I get the following: cdimage ataraid # modprobe pdcraid

Re: [gentoo-user] System borked after upgrade

2003-03-09 Thread Martin Schlemmer
On Sun, 9 Mar 2003 15:50:57 -0600 (CST) M. Robert Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I may have missed something. I have an ebuild for gcc-3.2.2-r3 - is that the most recent? When would the updated one have come out - is it possible it was like between 10 AM and noon today (CST)? If so maybe

[gentoo-user] OT: Linux remote control question

2003-03-09 Thread Kevin J. Anderson
I have an interesting problem, and was wondering if there is a reasonably easy solution: I need to be able to run commands on multiple machines at once, IE stopping and starting processes, etc. Is there a way to script commands to multiple machines? I think of scp, where you can push or pull

RE: [gentoo-user] OT: Linux remote control question

2003-03-09 Thread Kevin J. Anderson
--Original Message- -From: Kevin J. Anderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 5:11 PM -To: Gentoo-User -Subject: [gentoo-user] OT: Linux remote control question - - -I have an interesting problem, and was wondering if there is a reasonably -easy solution: - -I need

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Linux remote control question

2003-03-09 Thread William Kenworthy
check out ssh with the -f option. If you use the ssh agent, you dont even have to login if the keys are set up correctly. There are a number of howto's for this on the net. Multiple hosts could be done with a small helper script to issue the commands on your behalf. BillK On Mon, 2003-03-10

[gentoo-user] new XFree 4.3

2003-03-09 Thread Ernie Schroder
Those of you having problems with xfree-4.3, there is a new build (4.3-r1) I'm building it now. I couldn't get my GeForce4 running on 4.3 -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] RE: OT: Linux remote control question

2003-03-09 Thread Richard Revis
Kevin J. Anderson wrote: Crap, serves me right for asking then researching... turns out you can do this w/ ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] command then it asks for the password. Anyway to provide the password in a shell script? ;/ You can use key pairs to do it, look up trusted keys and

Re: [gentoo-user] new XFree 4.3

2003-03-09 Thread Sean
For what it's worth, 4.3-r1 is working fine w/ my Geforce 4 Ti4600 ... of course 4.3 worked equally well. On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 17:39, Ernie Schroder wrote: Those of you having problems with xfree-4.3, there is a new build (4.3-r1) I'm building it now. I couldn't get my GeForce4 running on 4.3

Re: [gentoo-user] RE: OT: Linux remote control question

2003-03-09 Thread William Kenworthy
or expect to automate an interactive session. BillK On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 06:32, Richard Revis wrote: Kevin J. Anderson wrote: Crap, serves me right for asking then researching... turns out you can do this w/ ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] command then it asks for the password. Anyway to

Re: [gentoo-user] usb problems

2003-03-09 Thread Jason Giangrande
I managed to solve my problem. I was using the UHCI usb driver when I should have been using the OHCI one. Regards, Jason On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 13:31, Jason Giangrande wrote: I have two usb devices connected to my system (which uses the AMD MP chipset) and neither /proc/bus/usb/devices nor

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is my computer using swap?

2003-03-09 Thread Doug Gorley
I've got 768MB of RAM (1x256 + 1x512), and from the top output below, it looks like only 447MB is being used. On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 12:33, Ben Sparks wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 How much RAM do you have. I just don't mount swap unless I know I'll be doing

Re: [gentoo-user] new XFree 4.3

2003-03-09 Thread Kirtis Bakalarczyk
On Sun, 09 Mar 2003 17:50:49 -0500 Sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For what it's worth, 4.3-r1 is working fine w/ my Geforce 4 Ti4600 ... of course 4.3 worked equally well. On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 17:39, Ernie Schroder wrote: Those of you having problems with xfree-4.3, there is a new build

[gentoo-user] Orinoco Gold wireless card

2003-03-09 Thread herzog
Anyone have one of these cards? I'm pulling my hair out trying to get this thing working under linux[gentoo]. -- Larry Herzog Jr.Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain ZRXOA #1029 conceit, but in humility consider others [EMAIL PROTECTED] better than

Re: [gentoo-user] Orinoco Gold wireless card

2003-03-09 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 05:30:22PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone have one of these cards? I'm pulling my hair out trying to get this thing working under linux[gentoo]. I have one and it works great. I have yet, however, to get WEP working... -- :wq! Matthew Daubenspeck

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is my computer using swap?

2003-03-09 Thread Jesse Jacobs
Sorry I hit reply not reply 2 all. J. Jesse Jacobs said: Hello Doug, I've noticed this as well. After normal system use(i.e. no X), Swap isn't used. If, like stated earlier u use a HUGE app(i.e. gdm/kdm and all the frills) most of the jobs remain in memory but the infrequently used jobs

Re: [gentoo-user] Orinoco Gold wireless card

2003-03-09 Thread herzog
For those of you that are using this card successfully, can you give me the low down on which kernel parameters you use, what modifications you make to /etc/pcmcia/config, etc. And do you all use modules? (I've typically compiled my drivers for other pcmcia cards into the kernel and didn't use

Re: [gentoo-user] Orinoco Gold wireless card

2003-03-09 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 05:54:12PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For those of you that are using this card successfully, can you give me the low down on which kernel parameters you use, what modifications you make to /etc/pcmcia/config, etc. And do you all use modules? (I've typically

[gentoo-user] dvdrip creating wrong file size

2003-03-09 Thread bryce verdier
Has anyone had any issues w/ dvdrip splitting up movies beyond the set range... eg, splitting a movie gives to files, first file 702MB and second file 548; with the set being to not create a file over 700MB? thanks in advance, b. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] JUnit

2003-03-09 Thread Jan Winhuysen
Hello! Can somebody help me to install the JUnit package? I only get the following error message: inflating: junit/ui/TestRunner.java Source unpacked. Buildfile: build.xml does not exist! Build failed !!! ERROR: dev-java/junit-3.7-r1 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 1, Exitcode 1 !!!

Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla and java

2003-03-09 Thread Jesse Jacobs
Ben, Add java to you're use flags then re: emerge mozilla Hope this helps, Jesse. Ben Sparks said: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What is te best way to get java for mozilla, I have a website that is pretty important that I can't becuase I don't have the java plugin for

Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla and java

2003-03-09 Thread Ben Sparks
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Java is in my USE flags so is mozsvg, but I don't think would have anything to with do you? Here are my USe flag settings USE=X gtk -gnome alsa 3dnow apm arts mozsvg avi pnp acpi cdr crypt cups dvd gif java jpeg kde mmx mozilla mpeg opengl png scanner

[gentoo-user] Re: PPP line sharing

2003-03-09 Thread Björn Lindström
Björn Lindström [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20030308 20:32]: I recently got a lodger who wish to share my modem ISP connection. Since I pay per minute I wish to do the following: a) Have my Gentoo box act as a gateway to the net for his Windows box. (This I can handle myself, I guess). b) Track

Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla and java

2003-03-09 Thread Nicolas Laplante
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ben Sparks wrote: | What is te best way to get java for mozilla, I have a website that is | pretty important that I can't becuase I don't have the java plugin for | mozilla. I've been to java.sun.com but I couldn't find what I was | looking for.

[gentoo-user] Kernel Panic on first boot

2003-03-09 Thread Brian Doob
I'm installing Gentoo 1.4rc2 on an Athlon 1800+ with 256MB RAM and a 40GB disk. I'm using stage3 and the Gentoo Reference Platform (from gentoo-grp-athlon-xp-1.4_rc2.iso). The system is installed, and I boot (for the first time) with GRUB, and I get a kernel panic. This is the message:

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is my computer using swap?

2003-03-09 Thread Chris Carlin
Doug Gorley wrote: So, my question is, if I've got 191MB of inactive memory, why is my computer using 7MB of swap space? Thanks, Well, you know, just because you're using a little swap doesn't mean you're having any actual slowdown. Do you see any performance difference between having your

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Linux remote control question

2003-03-09 Thread Norberto BENSA
On Sunday 09 March 2003 07:22 pm, Kevin J. Anderson wrote: Crap, serves me right for asking then researching... turns out you can do this w/ ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] command then it asks for the password. Anyway to provide the password in a shell script? ;/ If you setup the keys, you don't have

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Panic on first boot

2003-03-09 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Isn't there something about using notail with Reiser in some setups? I'm installing Gentoo 1.4rc2 on an Athlon 1800+ with 256MB RAM and a 40GB disk. I'm using stage3 and the Gentoo Reference Platform (from gentoo-grp-athlon-xp-1.4_rc2.iso). The system is installed, and I boot (for the first

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Panic on first boot

2003-03-09 Thread Joshua J. Berry
On Sunday 09 March 2003 18:26, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Isn't there something about using notail with Reiser in some setups? Yes, you must use 'notail' for all your boot/root partitions. I don't know if changing the option will fix the problem all by itself, though...you may need to remake the

[gentoo-user] error while emerge rsync - can't access rsync.gentoo.org

2003-03-09 Thread Arun Bhanu
I get the following error while I do emerge rsync rsync: getaddrinfo: rsync.gentoo.org 873: No address associated with hostname rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(83) To resolve it I changed the SYNC variable in make.conf to

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Panic on first boot

2003-03-09 Thread Doug Gorley
On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 18:32, Joshua J. Berry wrote: Yes, you must use 'notail' for all your boot/root partitions. I don't know if changing the option will fix the problem all by itself, though...you may need to remake the partition, possibly with some special options to mkreiserfs. I

Re: [gentoo-user] grub is acting wierd...

2003-03-09 Thread gnomer
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 03:38:17AM -0500, Ben Sparks wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I know the bootloader question has been beat to death and I have looked every where that I know of to find an answer, but no dice...yet. Anyway, I'm stuck using a boot disk to load

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Panic on first boot

2003-03-09 Thread Joshua J. Berry
Perhaps...I'm just going based on the Gentoo installation instructions, and my own (basic) understanding of ReiserFS. (see http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml#doc_chap6) I haven't actually done any research into why this may or may not be needed, but IIRC Reiser packs the tails

[gentoo-user] Re: Why is my computer using swap?

2003-03-09 Thread Tyler Trafford
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 02:39:06PM -0500, Doug Gorley wrote: G'day list. Here's the header output from top: snip So, my question is, if I've got 191MB of inactive memory, why is my computer using 7MB of swap space? Because the OS hasn't needed that stuff in swap since it was swapped out.

[gentoo-user] gcc-3.2.2-r1/mysql

2003-03-09 Thread Ernie Schroder
I'm building another Gentoo box and needed nvidia's lates drivers. Along with them came gcc-3.2.2-r1. Now I can't build mysql. I see some past trafic on the subject and a bug filed but no fix. Has anyone found a fix? For now I have -mysql in my USE variables but might need it in the future. --

[gentoo-user] Setting up distcc

2003-03-09 Thread Stephen Boulet
There is a distcc in Gentoo HOWTO at: http://cvs.gentoo.org/~hanno/distcc.html It recommends: Add the following lines to the /etc/make.conf on the machine you want to use for compilation: export DISTCC_HOSTS=localhost pc1_hostname pc2_hostname pc3_hostname export

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up distcc

2003-03-09 Thread Stephen Boulet
Whoops, I see that there was a very timely article on it in this week's newsletter. I'll dig into that a bit. On Monday 10 March 2003 12:14 am, Stephen Boulet wrote: There is a distcc in Gentoo HOWTO at: http://cvs.gentoo.org/~hanno/distcc.html It recommends: Add the following

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why is my computer using swap?

2003-03-09 Thread Doug Gorley
G'day list. Here's the header output from top: snip So, my question is, if I've got 191MB of inactive memory, why is my computer using 7MB of swap space? Thanks to everyone for the replies. I wasn't really concerned, since I'm already seeing a huge performance boost since installing the

[gentoo-user] Where'd my fonts go?

2003-03-09 Thread Doug Gorley
Hello again list, I'm trying to determine why I don't have access to a particular font on my system. I'm trying to find a font called Roostheavy that I've used before, though I can't say for certain it was on this current install of Gentoo. Anyway, my /etc/X11/XF86Config has this section:

Re: [gentoo-user] grub is acting wierd...

2003-03-09 Thread Ben Sparks
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jackpot! I missed that in the instructions, it says that (hd1,0) is realative to the boot partition. All I needed was to take out /boot. Your on my favorite person of the week list. Appreciate the help. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |On Sun, Mar 09,

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow gigabit...

2003-03-09 Thread A.G.
Pär Wedin wrote: Hi all! I recently upgraded my LAN to gigabit, but so far it's been a disappointment. It really isn't much faster than it used to be... If I fetch a large file from my proftpd server I get about 11 MB/s, and the same file from apache about 15 MB/s. I was hoping for at least