Re: [gentoo-user] HP scanjet 2300c

2003-03-31 Thread Susie
On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 22:16:39 -0800 Ted Ozolins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: should there not be an entry in saned.conf usb 0x03f0 0x0901 Nope not from what I can tell. Saned is purely if I'm using my scanner on the network. However I don't want my son messing with my scanner and he's on windows

Re: [gentoo-user] nForce support

2003-03-31 Thread Chris van der Pennen
On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 16:42, Adam Mercer wrote: Hi I'm going to be building a new system soon and I am in the process of deciding what to go for. Currently I'm been hearing good things about the nForce 2 chipset, specifically the Abit NF7. Has anyone had experience with this board or the

Re: [gentoo-user] Soundkonfiguration via-82xx on Asus A7V8x

2003-03-31 Thread Alex Huth
Am Montag, 31. März 2003 12:31 schrieb Felix Kurth: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 kernel = 2.4.21-pre3 has native (oss) support for this device. Module: via82cxxx_audio This is not the driver for the via-8233/8255. For this hardware you have to use the alsa-driver!

RE: [gentoo-user] Soundkonfiguration via-82xx on Asus A7V8x

2003-03-31 Thread DE SMET Bram (BDSR)
env ALSA_CARDS='via82xx' emerge alsa-driver you will want to emerge alsa-utils too to unmute the card -Original Message- From: Alex Huth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: vrijdag 31 januari 2003 11:40 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Soundkonfiguration via-82xx on Asus

Re: [gentoo-user] Soundkonfiguration via-82xx on Asus A7V8x

2003-03-31 Thread Felix Kurth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 im sorry but on my a7v8x (kt400) i have lspci 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50) and this module works fine. - -- Felix Kurth pgp public key:

Re: [gentoo-user] usb or ps2?

2003-03-31 Thread Alex Combas
On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 04:48, gabor wrote: hi, i have a microsoft intellimouse. i can plug it into the usb or into the ps/2 mouse connector. question: which is better? or: do you use the usb connector to connect your mouse or the ps/2? and why? I would deffinitly recommend using USB.

Re: [gentoo-user] Soundkonfiguration via-82xx on Asus A7V8x

2003-03-31 Thread Alex Huth
Am Montag, 31. März 2003 12:46 schrieb Felix Kurth: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 im sorry but on my a7v8x (kt400) i have lspci 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50) and this module works fine. Hmmm, strange

RE: [gentoo-user] Soundkonfiguration via-82xx on Asus A7V8x

2003-03-31 Thread DE SMET Bram (BDSR)
same here, i need to use alsa for my via8233 card -Original Message- From: Alex Huth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: vrijdag 31 januari 2003 12:04 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Soundkonfiguration via-82xx on Asus A7V8x Am Montag, 31. März 2003 12:46 schrieb Felix

Re: [gentoo-user] /boot/grub problem

2003-03-31 Thread Alex Combas
On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 14:51, Ernie Schroder wrote: On Sunday 30 March 2003 05:40 pm, ds wrote: Problem solved, thank you Ernie!!! On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 16:34, Ernie Schroder wrote: On Sunday 30 March 2003 05:23 pm, ds wrote: Greetings, I seem to have lost my /boot/grub

Re: [gentoo-user] Soundkonfiguration via-82xx on Asus A7V8x

2003-03-31 Thread Felix Kurth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hmmm, strange because i have the same board and with this modul modprobe will not do it. With the alsa-driver it´s ok. Don´t know why! your kernel is =2.4.21-pre3 as i said ?!? see

Re: [gentoo-user] Soundkonfiguration via-82xx on Asus A7V8x

2003-03-31 Thread Felix Kurth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hmmm, strange because i have the same board and with this modul modprobe will not do it. With the alsa-driver it´s ok. Don´t know why! btw, may sou set your system clock to a correct value ? 31.01.2003 11:03 is a little bit outdated ? - -- Felix

Re: [gentoo-user] cdparanoia, cdrdao not using DMA?

2003-03-31 Thread Kai Lindenberg
Hi Matt, Am Samstag, 30. August 2003 22:23 schrieb Matt Garman: [...] However, using the tools cdparanoia and cdrdao cause the non-DMA behavior, i.e. CPU usage goes through the roof, the process takes forever, typing lags, the mouse is jumpy, etc. Also, when the process is done, hdparm

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome 2.2.1 Window Manager Choice

2003-03-31 Thread Spider
begin quote On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 18:17:56 +0100 (BST) Dhruba Bandopadhyay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, In /usr/portage/gnome-base/gnome/gnome-2.2.1.ebuild on line 22 it says: # Metacity was choosen as the default window manager because of # sawfish's long time of non-working state.

Re: [gentoo-user] frozen-bubble error... :-(

2003-03-31 Thread Christian Herzyk
Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 16:28, Bastux wrote: When I launch frozen bubble, this error occurs : [SDL Init] Segmentation fault What can I do? As root: opengl-update xfree As normal user: frozen-bubble When finished playing, as root: opengl-update nvidia Hi, I

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Log into remote X server via kdm

2003-03-31 Thread Toby Dickenson
On Saturday 29 March 2003 4:15 am, Mike Williams wrote: What I want to be able to do is, 1 big headless server running X and KDE (or may even Gnome, and others too), and multiple desktops boxes (3-4 to start with) able to login to it. So that I can use them (especially the laptop) away from

Re: [gentoo-user] autocleaning

2003-03-31 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Friday 28 Mar 2003 18:17, Matt Tucker wrote: -- Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thusly: Use this to emerge alsa-driver: --- # !/bin/bash echo Removing any installation records for alsa-driver from /var/db/pkg/ if [[ $(epm -qaG|grep

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM+EXT3+resize

2003-03-31 Thread Christian Herzyk
Carlos Molina (Net-Uno) wrote: On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 21:41:56 +0100 Cristiano Paris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks that reiser is more robust fs than ext3 when it works with LVM... I should think to migrate ext3 to reiser Reiser has the tools that do all the work for you on LVM.. Any

[gentoo-user] Samba

2003-03-31 Thread Robert Claeson
I just emerged Samba 2.2.8 and get funny error messages when I try to add users using smbpasswd: # smbpasswd -a xyz New SMB password: Retype new SMB password: fetch_ldap_pw: no ldap secret retrieved! ldap_connect_system: Failed to retrieve password for from secrets.tdb fetch_ldap_pw: no ldap

Re: [gentoo-user] xfree upgrade recommended?

2003-03-31 Thread Stephen Boulet
I've had issues with 4.3 and have gone back to 4.2.1. 1) winex won't work 2) some games like alpha centauri and tuxracer give me a frequency over range error from my monitor, despite the fact the the same config file works great with 4.2.1. -- Stephen From here to there

[gentoo-user] Anyone got lirc to work.

2003-03-31 Thread Sigurd Stordal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've tried lirc, but when I use irw it tries to connect to /dev/lirc, and complaining about it being a directory, which it is. How do I tell it to use /dev/lirc/0. Are there any ways to check that it works (it's a tv-card bundle type (PV951). - --

Re: [gentoo-user] /boot/grub problem

2003-03-31 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Monday 31 March 2003 05:03 am, Alex Combas wrote: On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 14:51, Ernie Schroder wrote: On Sunday 30 March 2003 05:40 pm, ds wrote: Problem solved, thank you Ernie!!! On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 16:34, Ernie Schroder wrote: On Sunday 30 March 2003 05:23 pm, ds wrote:

[gentoo-user] portage on Solaris?

2003-03-31 Thread Ervin Nmeth
Hello, How far fetched is the idea getting portage onto Solaris? We need a system so the installed sources could be traced: who was compiling it, how he was doing it, what packeges are installed now and so on. A package manager is perfect for this purpose. I'm currently inspecting rpm and

Re: [gentoo-user] Compiling ALSA segments..

2003-03-31 Thread brett holcomb
Sounds good. On 31 Mar 2003 16:25:22 + Peter Berkenbosch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No I don't have any other modules at hand. And my system only has one module of 512Mb. I think i will go to my retailer and let him fix it. (new memory or proc or Motherboard). On Sun, 2003-03-30 at

Re: [gentoo-user] nForce support

2003-03-31 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Monday 31 March 2003 04:17 am, Chris van der Pennen wrote: On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 16:42, Adam Mercer wrote: Hi I'm going to be building a new system soon and I am in the process of deciding what to go for. Currently I'm been hearing good things about the nForce 2 chipset, specifically

[gentoo-user] how can i enable debug symbols

2003-03-31 Thread gabor
hi, kmail is crashing for me so i want to send a bugroprt. with stacktrace. how can i emerge kdepim with debug enabled? thanks, gabor -- That's life for you, said McDunn. Someone always waiting for someone who never comes home. Always someone loving something more than that thing loves

[gentoo-user] updating scrollkeeper-does not validate

2003-03-31 Thread el lodger
Why do I keep getting this w/gnome updates? Updating Scrollkeeper OMF file [/usr/share/omf/control-center/control-center-C.omf] does not validate against ScrollKeeper-OMF DTD: /usr/share/xml/scrollkeeper/dtds/scrollkeeper-omf.dtd Unable to register

[gentoo-user] sudo not running a shell as a login shell

2003-03-31 Thread William Hubbs
Hi all, is there a way to get sudo to run a shell with the -s option as a login shell? I ask because when I give the command sudo -s and enter a password, I become root, but not with root's environment, so /sbin, /usr/sbin, etc, are not in the path. Thanks, William -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo not running a shell as a login shell

2003-03-31 Thread Ric Messier
that's what su is for Ric - Original Message - From: William Hubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gentoo Users [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 11:54 AM Subject: [gentoo-user] sudo not running a shell as a login shell Hi all, is there a way to get sudo to run a shell with the

Re: [gentoo-user] nForce support

2003-03-31 Thread Adam Mercer
Chris is correct in his assessment though instead of emerging the nforce-net package, I would recommend a manual install of nvidias nforce drivers. (NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0248.tar.gz) available from nvidia's site. This package includes sound drivers. You will want to install these

[gentoo-user] openoffice-bin-1.1_beta not working

2003-03-31 Thread Spundun Bhatt
Hi, I emerged the openoffice-bin's latest version 3 days back and its not working It used to work before This is the error I get. If I try to execute it as root then it works. Is there anything special that I need to do to get this one working? Thanx Spundun

Re: [gentoo-user] frozen-bubble error... :-(

2003-03-31 Thread Alex Combas
This has been discussed before, The fix is usually go do `opengl-update xfree` ..play the game.. and when done go `opengl-update nvidia` -- alex On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 03:18, Christian Herzyk wrote: Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 16:28, Bastux wrote: When I

Re: [gentoo-user] portage on Solaris?

2003-03-31 Thread Jonathan Nichols
How far fetched is the idea getting portage onto Solaris? We need a system so the installed sources could be traced: who was compiling it, how he was doing it, what packeges are installed now and so on. A package manager is perfect for this purpose. Not too far fetched at all. Check out

[gentoo-user] OT: Bash script help

2003-03-31 Thread Jason Giangrande
Does anyone know how to check if a directory is empty? I tried the following: if [ -d /dir/to/remove -a ! -s /dir/to/remove ]; then echo Removing /dir/to/remove directory. rmdir /dir/to/remove else echo Directory /dir/to/remove is not empty. fi Even if the directory (in

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Bash script help

2003-03-31 Thread Arnold Krille
On Monday 31 March 2003 20:40, Jason Giangrande wrote: Does anyone know how to check if a directory is empty? I tried the following: if [ -d /dir/to/remove -a ! -s /dir/to/remove ]; then echo Removing /dir/to/remove directory. rmdir /dir/to/remove else echo Directory

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Bash script help

2003-03-31 Thread Michael Jinks
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 01:40:18PM -0500, Jason Giangrande wrote: Does anyone know how to check if a directory is empty? I tried the following: if [ -d /dir/to/remove -a ! -s /dir/to/remove ]; then Directories always have size 0. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:mjinks$ mkdir foo [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Soundkonfiguration via-82xx on Asus A7V8x

2003-03-31 Thread Tom Wesley
On Monday 31 March 2003 10:44 am, DE SMET Bram (BDSR) wrote: env ALSA_CARDS='via82xx' emerge alsa-driver you will want to emerge alsa-utils too to unmute the card snip This worked for me too, I have a via82xx card, although not on a ASUS motherboard. Tom -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: sudo not setting the path (was sudo not running a shell as a login shell)

2003-03-31 Thread William Hubbs
Hi Rick and all, The problem appears to be that for some reason, sudo doesn't put the /usr/sbin and /sbin directories in the path. That means that if I do the following: sudo [command] where command is in /sbin or /usr/sbin, I get a message that says sudo: [command] not found I am using

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sudo not setting the path (was sudo not running a shell as a login shell)

2003-03-31 Thread Ric Messier
sudo wasn't designed to do that. your original post indicated that you wanted sudo to execute a shell, which is what su does. your problem is that you are attempting to execute something that isn't in your path. since you aren't actually running the command as root (ie, there is no login context),

[gentoo-user] ERROR: dev-php/php-4.3.1 failed

2003-03-31 Thread Seth Zirin
Forgive me if this is a known issue, but I'm a Gentoo newbie... On a system with a current sync of portage, I get the following error during an 'emerge php': checking whether to enable pcntl support... yes checking for fork... no configure: error: pcntl: fork() not

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice-bin-1.1_beta not working

2003-03-31 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Spundun Bhatt said: Hi, I emerged the openoffice-bin's latest version 3 days back and its not working It used to work before This is the error I get. If I try to execute it as root then it works. Is there anything special that I need to do to get this one working? Here are the steps

Re: [gentoo-user] xfree upgrade recommended?

2003-03-31 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Stephen Boulet said: On Sunday 30 March 2003 08:12 am, Christian Aust wrote: Hi, I'm running xfree 4.2.1 right now, it works pretty smooth besides from some issues with the graphic adapter (Radeon 7500 sometimes doesn't initialize, screen stays black) and the power management (ACPI isn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sudo not setting the path (was sudo notrunning a shell as a login shell)

2003-03-31 Thread C. Brewer
Also I believe it gets built with --disable-path and quite a few other security features, to help protect you from exploits:) Do sudo -V as root, and check the ebuild for the conf options. Please note that if you run commands outside the user path, you must execute the complete path, ie when I

[gentoo-user] OpenMotif compile promblem

2003-03-31 Thread Dmitry K . Suzdalev
Hello! I have a problem with openMotif compiling. At some stage it reports an error: $LANG is set to unknown locale or smth like that -- i don't remember exactly. At the time i was compiling it, my $LANG was set to ru_RU.KOI8-R. So, i tried to set it to with 'export LANG=' and remerge.

Re: [gentoo-user] portage on Solaris?

2003-03-31 Thread Spider
begin quote On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 21:00:03 +0200 Ervin Németh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jonathan Nichols wrote: Not too far fetched at all. Check out pkg-get on sunfreeware.com - it's quite handy :) Thank you the info but I knew this tool already. We don't need the automatism of adding

Re: [gentoo-user] how can i enable debug symbols

2003-03-31 Thread Spider
begin quote On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 17:06:09 +0200 gabor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, kmail is crashing for me so i want to send a bugroprt. with stacktrace. how can i emerge kdepim with debug enabled? thanks, gabor -- add inherit debug at the top of the ebuild that installs

Re: [gentoo-user] updating scrollkeeper-does not validate

2003-03-31 Thread Spider
begin quote On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 07:59:43 -0800 el lodger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why do I keep getting this w/gnome updates? Updating Scrollkeeper OMF file [/usr/share/omf/control-center/control-center-C.omf] does not validate against ScrollKeeper-OMF DTD:

RE: [gentoo-user] frozen-bubble error... :-(

2003-03-31 Thread Craig Williamson (ENZ)
Title: RE: [gentoo-user] frozen-bubble error... :-( Hi All, This seems weird but try this. I installed Gentoo using glibc 2.3.1 with the nvidia drivers. Frozen bubble did not work. I upgraded Gnome and it decided to upgrade glibc to 2.3.2. After this update frozen bubble now works using

Re: [gentoo-user] kmail question

2003-03-31 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Sunday 30 Mar 2003 15:22, Ernie Schroder wrote: OK here's a wierd question: I now have links in kmail opening in Phoenix but, instead of the URL in the phoenix window being that of the current page, it shows the local location of the temp file created in .kde. As an example, I'll use

[gentoo-user] ssh, how secure?

2003-03-31 Thread Tom Wesley
HI all, I have been using Linux since SuSE 5.2, so by now even a few of my internal organs are penguin shaped. As such, I have always used ssh to work remotely, using password protected private/public key stuff. Nothing special going on between the two. I was suggesting to my boss using

Re: [gentoo-user] ERROR: dev-php/php-4.3.1 failed

2003-03-31 Thread Bruno Lustosa
* Seth Zirin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [31-03-2003 16:59]: On a system with a current sync of portage, I get the following error during an 'emerge php': checking whether to enable pcntl support... yes checking for fork... no configure: error: pcntl: fork() not supported by this

Re: [gentoo-user] HP scanjet 2300c

2003-03-31 Thread Susie
On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 07:36:36 -0500 brett holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think /etc/sane.d/saned.conf is used for non-network also. I have an old Microtek that is attached directly to my Gentoo box and I have to put the entry in saned.conf or it doesn't work. Mine is a SCSI and I

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh, how secure?

2003-03-31 Thread Ric Messier
As always, the first question to ask is what am i protecting against before you can evaluate how secure something is. Security is a process, New Jersey is a state. Having said that, http://www.openssh.com/security.html since I assume you are using OpenSSH as opposed to SSH Communications SSH.

Re: [gentoo-user] HP scanjet 2300c

2003-03-31 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Well, it was worth a try. It made mine work! HP doesn't support much of anything! On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 07:36:36 -0500 brett holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think /etc/sane.d/saned.conf is used for non-network also. I have an old Microtek that is attached directly to my Gentoo box

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh, how secure?

2003-03-31 Thread Michael Jinks
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 10:32:12PM +0100, Tom Wesley wrote: I was suggesting to my boss using something similar to tunnel an unusual database client connection to a /very/ remote server. Althogh he was up for giving the idea a quick test run, he keeps asking Exactly how secure is this?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sudo not setting the path (was sudo not running a shell as a login shell)

2003-03-31 Thread James H. Cloos Jr.
The problem appears to be that for some reason, sudo doesn't put the /usr/sbin and /sbin directories in the path. | sudo wasn't designed to do that. That is not generally true. I have at least two boxen (with distribution-provided sudo installs) where sudo does result in a PATH that includes

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sudo not setting the path (was sudo not running a shell as a login shell)

2003-03-31 Thread Ric Messier
From an OpenBSD system: $ printenv PATH=/home/kilroy/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/loca l/sbin:/usr/games:. $ sudo printenv PATH=/home/kilroy/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/loca l/sbin:/usr/games:. Debian may be an abberation and I'm not convinced

[gentoo-user] KDE 3.1.1 problems - missing mime types and protocols

2003-03-31 Thread Peter Buechler
Hello folks - I've been using Gentoo pretty happily for a few months now. Every now and then I check to see what has been added to the stable packages and update ones that are out of date. I was happy to see KDE 3.1.1 was out so I emerged kde-3.1.1. DISASTER! It left me with four different

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.1.1 problems - missing mime types and protocols

2003-03-31 Thread K'fen
DISASTER! It left me with four different KDEs, 3.04, 3.0.5a, 3.1 and 3.1.1. 3.04 and 3.05a worked, but 3.1 and 3.1.1 did not. It seems as though a path is set up wrong, as it complains non-stop about not finding things: missing mime agents, not understanding protocols, and hollering that my

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.1.1 problems - missing mime types andprotocols

2003-03-31 Thread Rasmus Wiman
Peter Buechler [EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: DISASTER! It left me with four different KDEs, 3.04, 3.0.5a, 3.1 and 3.1.1. 3.04 and 3.05a worked, but 3.1 and 3.1.1 did not. It seems as though a path is set up wrong, as it complains non-stop about not finding things: missing mime agents, not

[gentoo-user] Mandrake's Galaxy theme..

2003-03-31 Thread Olson, Isaac
Anyone have any luck getting Mandrake's new Galaxy theme working? (especially in kde) I've gotten the window decoration to work, but not the style. Or, does anyone knows where to find the source for the theme in *.tar.gz or *.bz2 files? Actually, I wish there was an .ebuild for it. Looks much

[gentoo-user] april fools?

2003-03-31 Thread Mike Atamas
Is the GWN some sick twisted april fools joke? Are we really moving to rpms and if so who is smoking the crack. If you want rpms use redhat. Mike Atamas [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Anyone got an artec e+ firmware file? or

2003-03-31 Thread Susie
a 2300c scanjet one?(I have a usbscan.sys file but that doesn't work so far) With it I *might* be able to get the 2300c hp scanjet working as it did id it when I fed it the vender/id code but it requires the firmware *.usb file to work. -- Susie VE7 HFA [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] april fools?

2003-03-31 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Hadn't thought of that but I hope it's a joke - just like LSB is a joke. Is the GWN some sick twisted april fools joke? Are we really moving to rpms and if so who is smoking the crack. If you want rpms use redhat. Mike Atamas [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brett I. Holcomb AKA Grunt --

Re: [gentoo-user] april fools?

2003-03-31 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Tuesday 01 April 2003 03:19, Mike Atamas wrote: Is the GWN some sick twisted april fools joke? Are we really moving to rpms and if so who is smoking the crack. If you want rpms use redhat. the first 30 seconds I was really shocked.. but then I saw the watch..3am 1.April everything will be

Re: [gentoo-user] Ebuilds gone???

2003-03-31 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I hope it's April fools G! I notice in the newsletter that Gentoo will move to the RPM format due to the idiots at LSB. That raises some questions. 1. Is Gentoo essentially going to become another RPM distro where we are condemmed to using RPM to manage packages and fight all the

[gentoo-user] Re: Ebuilds gone???

2003-03-31 Thread Jehan
Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I notice in the newsletter that Gentoo will move to the RPM format due to the idiots at LSB. That raises some questions. [...] I guess I could always run apt-get! One date: April 1st But they posted it a little to early for people on the pacific coast :p Jehan --

Re: [gentoo-user] april fools?

2003-03-31 Thread Mike Atamas
well if it goes through debian or redhat might move back to my main machine. On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 20:18, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Tuesday 01 April 2003 03:19, Mike Atamas wrote: Is the GWN some sick twisted april fools joke? Are we really moving to rpms and if so who is smoking the

Re: [gentoo-user] april fools?

2003-03-31 Thread Luke Graham
On Tuesday 01 April 2003 11:19, Mike Atamas wrote: Is the GWN some sick twisted april fools joke? Are we really moving to rpms and if so who is smoking the crack. If you want rpms use redhat. clearly an april fools, but a good one nonetheless :) -- luke -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] april fools?

2003-03-31 Thread gregor battig
man, i was already getting seriously worried... thank god for april fools! have a fun day, greg --On 31.03.2003 20:28 -0500 Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think they got us G. well if it goes through debian or redhat might move back to my main machine. On Mon, 2003-03-31 at

Re: [gentoo-user] april fools?

2003-03-31 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Got a bunch of us. But it shows how much we like ebuilds and how good they are. Before I figured it out I was having cold chills and spasms just thinking about RPM - aggghH! On Tuesday 01 April 2003 11:19, Mike Atamas wrote: Is the GWN some sick twisted april fools joke? Are

Re: [gentoo-user] april fools?

2003-03-31 Thread Jon \GenKiller\
I nearly had a heart attack, until I saw the date. I love Gentoo so much (honestly). To think of all those changes, would be enough for me to crawl up in a fetal position and hope for death. If any GWN people are reading this, very well done :) -Jon On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 20:19, Mike Atamas

Re: [gentoo-user] april fools?

2003-03-31 Thread el lodger
On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 02:51:34 +0100 Alex Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm so glad you said that, I was about to go to bed and have nightmares of losing some of Gentoo's best features. I was completely taken in, but only for a couple of minutes... honest. I thought I would have heard

Re: [gentoo-user] april fools?

2003-03-31 Thread Tarsoly Andras
Alex Walker wrote: I'm so glad you said that, I was about to go to bed and have nightmares of losing some of Gentoo's best features. I was completely taken in, but only for a couple of minutes... honest. Really, this was a very good joke :) But guys, if you think about that a little .. why

Re: [gentoo-user] april fools?

2003-03-31 Thread Rasmus Wiman
Jon \GenKiller\ Gaudette [EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: I nearly had a heart attack, until I saw the date. I love Gentoo so much (honestly). To think of all those changes, would be enough for me to crawl up in a fetal position and hope for death. If any GWN people are reading this, very well

Re: [gentoo-user] april fools?

2003-03-31 Thread Norberto BENSA
On Monday 31 March 2003 10:27 pm, gregor battig wrote: man, i was already getting seriously worried... You're not the only one ;-) At first I said: WHAT!? RPM!? Regards, Norberto pgp0.pgp Description: signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Samba

2003-03-31 Thread Andrew B. Panphiloff
=Robert Claeson Samba on Gentoo obviously uses LDAP for authentication. Is there any way to stop if from doing that? export USE=-ldap emerge samba Or, alternatively, is there a good, short guide for setting up LDAP with pam authentication and Samba for Gentoo? You must read simple

[gentoo-user] emerge -c

2003-03-31 Thread ds
Just wanted to make sure that I have been removing apps correctly using this command? Example: Loaded gnucash, don't like it, so later I run emerge -c gnucash. Is this this the preferred way to successfully remove apps or is there another? Doc -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Ebuilds gone???

2003-03-31 Thread Robert Cole
Xfree part of the base? RPM's this sounds like a bunch of BS to me. Lack of USE features? This really sucks. I say to hell with LSB if it means getting rid of USE and making xfree part of the base. Sounds like were headed to dependancy hell. Robert On Monday 31 March 2003 05:18 pm, Brett I.

Re: [gentoo-user] Ebuilds gone???

2003-03-31 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
It's a April Fool Joke - got some of us! Xfree part of the base? RPM's this sounds like a bunch of BS to me. Lack of USE features? This really sucks. I say to hell with LSB if it means getting rid of USE and making xfree part of the base. Sounds like were headed to dependancy hell.

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -c

2003-03-31 Thread ds
Ahh ok -C then, thanks I just didn't want to be running that command and delete shared files or sumpin. Thx yall. Doc On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 21:12, Alec Berryman wrote: On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 21:01, ds wrote: Loaded gnucash, don't like it, so later I run emerge -c gnucash. Is this this

Re: [gentoo-user] april fools?

2003-03-31 Thread Richard Kilgore
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 06:14:27PM -0800, el lodger wrote: On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 02:51:34 +0100 Alex Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm so glad you said that, I was about to go to bed and have nightmares of losing some of Gentoo's best features. I was completely taken in, but only for a

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.1.1 problems - missing mime types and protocols

2003-03-31 Thread Peter Buechler
Thanks, I'll try it - this coming weekend. I don't have time to wait for the compile before then! On Monday 31 March 2003 05:05 pm, K'fen wrote: DISASTER! It left me with four different KDEs, 3.04, 3.0.5a, 3.1 and 3.1.1. 3.04 and 3.05a worked, but 3.1 and 3.1.1 did not. It seems as though

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.1.1 problems - missing mime types andprotocols

2003-03-31 Thread ds
If it helps ( i know i do mine and love it) do an emerge -f appname, then give it a sec or two then open new terminal window and run emerge samefilename, cuts compile down HUGE :) On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 21:49, Peter Buechler wrote: Thanks, I'll try it - this coming weekend. I don't have time to

[gentoo-user] mm-sources and modprobe

2003-03-31 Thread Alec Berryman
Hi - I'm using mm-sources-2.5.66-r1 (2.5.66-mm1) and am trying to get the nvidia kernel drivers working (nvidia-kernel-1.0.4191-r2). The nvidia-kernel compiles file, but I cannot modprobe: - melvin alec # modprobe nvidia modprobe: QM_MODULES: Function not implemented insmod:

Re: [gentoo-user] mm-sources and modprobe

2003-03-31 Thread Mark Saunders
I had trouble getting devfs working with the mm-sources kernel On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 13:55, Alec Berryman wrote: Hi - I'm using mm-sources-2.5.66-r1 (2.5.66-mm1) and am trying to get the nvidia kernel drivers working (nvidia-kernel-1.0.4191-r2). The nvidia-kernel compiles file, but I

Re: [gentoo-user] april fools?

2003-03-31 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Yes, but when you are suffering from lack of sleep G. On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 06:14:27PM -0800, el lodger wrote: On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 02:51:34 +0100 Have they been embellishing it or something? I fail to see how anyone could read it and not instantly know that it is a joke. Some of the

Re: [gentoo-user] april fools?

2003-03-31 Thread Jason Giangrande
Yeah, you need a machete to cut through the sarcasm. But then again I read the posts here before I read the newsletter, so I already had some idea that it was a joke before I read it. Jason On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 23:07, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Yes, but when you are suffering from lack of sleep

[gentoo-user] openbox-2.3.0

2003-03-31 Thread Susie
How do I get it to install it after I unmask it in keywords and not have it fetch the earlier stable version? I'd like to use this newer one instead of the older. Only reason I can see why it was masked(in the changelog) was that it required xft 2x which I have installed. In my world file I did

Re: [gentoo-user] april fools?

2003-03-31 Thread Alec Berryman
On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 19:19, Mike Atamas wrote: Is the GWN some sick twisted april fools joke? Are we really moving to rpms and if so who is smoking the crack. If you want rpms use redhat. Slashdot has picked it up now (http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/01/0234215). Good

[gentoo-user] Question on using selectwm

2003-03-31 Thread Susie
There are a bunch of apps I like to launch at startup many of thease will work in various window managers(wm dock apps... such as wmitime). But some wont like bbpager. I have openbox, xfce, and icewm installed. If I'm using selectwm to choose my window manager in .xinitrc is there some way that

Re: [gentoo-user] Question on using selectwm

2003-03-31 Thread Joshua J. Berry
If I'm using selectwm to choose my window manager in .xinitrc is there some way that I can get it to load various progs when it starts a specific one? ie load bbpager for only openbox but all the other dock apps for the other 2 window managers? I would suggest writing a script for each wm

[gentoo-user] New Nvidia Drivers (1.0.4349)

2003-03-31 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Hello, The following were released yesterday on the testing tree. Can I request that if you try them that you post your troubles and successes to the list? * media-video/nvidia-glx Latest version available: 1.0.4349 * media-video/nvidia-kernel Latest version available: 1.0.4349

Re: [gentoo-user] portage on Solaris?

2003-03-31 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 31. März 2003 22:53 schrieb ext Spider: otherways, have you looked at OpenPKG??That might also be something to look at, it was promising when I switched to Gentoo at least ;-) I also like the idea of having a source based equivalent to OpenPKG, which could be used on any Unix

Re: [gentoo-user] Soundkonfiguration via-82xx on Asus A7V8x

2003-03-31 Thread Alex Huth
Am Montag, 31. März 2003 13:10 schrieb Felix Kurth: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hmmm, strange because i have the same board and with this modul modprobe will not do it. With the alsa-driver it´s ok. Don´t know why! your kernel is =2.4.21-pre3 as i said ?!? see

Re: [gentoo-user] New Nvidia Drivers (1.0.4349)

2003-03-31 Thread Alex Combas
On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 21:39, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: Hello, The following were released yesterday on the testing tree. Can I request that if you try them that you post your troubles and successes to the list? * media-video/nvidia-glx Latest version available: 1.0.4349 *

Re: [gentoo-user] frozen-bubble error... :-(

2003-03-31 Thread Christian Herzyk
Alex Combas wrote: This has been discussed before, The fix is usually go do `opengl-update xfree` ..play the game.. and when done go `opengl-update nvidia` -- alex That is not totally true. It can be hunted down to 2 different problems. One is the nvidia thing. Though it works for some