Re: [gentoo-user] distcc questions

2003-08-14 Thread Jens Mayer
* On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 09:38:23 -0400, Nathaniel McCallum wrote: I'd like to vote that a distcc howto get some space in the official install documentation... Lots of people are using it, and there is a lot of confusion (and wrong information) on how to use it. Although there is a bit on

[gentoo-user] Invalid or unset record.....

2003-08-14 Thread Patrick Börjesson
When executing emerge I get these error-messages: Invalid or unset record 'packages' in mtimedb. Invalid or unset record 'eclass' in mtimedb. Anyone know why and how I can get rid of them? Patrick Börjesson -- Public key id: 4C5AB0BF Public key available at search.keyserver.net[:11371]

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help configuring a HP DeskJet 940c

2003-08-14 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Sunday 10 Aug 2003 12:49, Ralph F. De Witt wrote: Hi all: I have just done a fresh install of Gentoo. When I tried to configure my printer using Cups and the latest hpijs version 1.4.1, I came up with an error message telling me the file was corroupted or broken. When I looked in the

[gentoo-user] Multiple distdirs patch

2003-08-14 Thread Kurt V. Hindenburg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just a quick note : If you want to have mutlitple directories in your distfiles search, try my patch. There are still a number of things that don't work. Make sure you have the original portage.py as backup.

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't change X resolution

2003-08-14 Thread Rudmer van Dijk
On Saturday 09 August 2003 20:17, Eduardo Alaminos wrote: 1) I want to run XFree86 4.3.0r2, at: 1024 x 769 x 16 bpp 85 Hz, but X start at 1400 x 1050 x 8 bpp (from Info Center) I run kXconfig to change that, it put a ModeLine 1024x768/85Hz... in /etc/X11/XF86Config but nothing has changed.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome install

2003-08-14 Thread Chris I
On 2003.08.14 04:21, Terry Churchill wrote: Sorry if I sound a bit thick, but I've worked out that: USE=-gnome emerge xmms Would emerge it without the older gnome stuff. That is correct. Should I just set -gnome in make.conf to ensure other packages don't pull in older stuff? What do I stand

Re: [gentoo-user] Well, my RAID array is screwed (was df != fdisk )

2003-08-14 Thread Alan
I've had good luck with Linux software raid arrays. It's so durn easy, I don't see any reason to bother with the low end RAID cards. (The more expensive cards can offer advantages not otherwise available.) Agreed. I have three systems right now that are fully RAIDed, one a high use server,

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with SCSI

2003-08-14 Thread Julius Loman
any HW problems ? -- [ Julius Loman ][ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ][ http://lomo.kyberia.net ][ icq:35732873 ] The box said 'Requires Windows 95 or better', so I bought a Macintosh. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] Konqueror problem

2003-08-14 Thread Balaji Srinivasan
Hi Everyone I synched up to the latest KDE etc on my gentoo system. Now everytime i start konqueror (or most X apps), I get the following error. I searched the web, a lot of people have faced the same problem, but I could not find the solution to it. Anyone knows how to fix this? WARNING: KDE

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge - How do I get around a 'block'?

2003-08-14 Thread nmeyers
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 07:57:27PM +, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Wednesday 13 August 2003 17:43, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I'm having a problem understanding how to actually handle a blocked package in emerge and move forward. I've attached a portion of what I'm seeing in my

Re: [gentoo-user] 1.4_final CFLAGS Generation?

2003-08-14 Thread Riyad Kalla
You did a great job Robin. I think as it stands now the program really provides a nice set of best-case scenario flags (Which is what I prefer most). If in the future you extend it to include experimental more strict optimizations, great, but as it stands now I like it. Thanks for providing

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help configuring a HP DeskJet 940c

2003-08-14 Thread Ralph F. De Witt
On Sunday 10 August 2003 10:16 pm, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Sunday 10 Aug 2003 14:27, Ralph F. De Witt wrote: On Sunday 10 August 2003 08:00 pm, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Sunday 10 Aug 2003 20:54, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Sunday 10 Aug 2003 12:49, Ralph F. De Witt wrote: snip Sorry,

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with user mode linux

2003-08-14 Thread Christopher Egner
On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 10:54, Thomas Preissler wrote: Which startparameters for the uml-kernel do you use? Hey Tom. At the moment I don't use any. Which may in itself be a mistake, certain characters come out wrong []{} and a few others. I think that might be the xterm though. I'm not sure yet.

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel conundrum

2003-08-14 Thread Nick Fisher
How can I tell where scsi_free() comes from? I'm guessing that it's from the aic7xxx driver but how can I tell? When you find a suspect routine, grep the kernel sources for it. Duhhh... sorry, forgot to engage brain. The last time I used this technique, BTW, I identified some buggy SCSI

[gentoo-user] lmsensors

2003-08-14 Thread Pupeno
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is there any document that you would recomend to get lmsensors working on Gentoo with gentoo-sources ? (I have an Asus A7N8X Deluxe board). Thank you. - -- Pupeno: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kde.org - --- Help the hungry children of Argentina,

[gentoo-user] Re: Tools to monitor SMART status of harddrives

2003-08-14 Thread Michael Mauch
Renat Golubchyk wrote: I was going to install some kind of a SMART monitoring daemon. I found two packages in portage: app-admin/ide-smart and sys-apps/smartmontools. Is anybody using them? What's the difference? sys-apps/smartmontools come with more documentation, and they seem to be

[gentoo-user] serial console support?

2003-08-14 Thread adam morley
Hi, I'm trying to get serial console to work on gentoo. So far, I've got: BIOS/POST/ACPI/Boot ROMs Grub Kernel debug messages (as the kernel loads) agetty (for logins) all going to ttyS1 (the RJ45 serial port), but not the output of the runscripts! Does anybody have some pointers on how to

[gentoo-user] ati drivers

2003-08-14 Thread Kees Bergwerf
bash-2.05b# emerge -up world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] media-video/ati-drivers-3.2.4 [2.9.13-r1] so after emerge -u world ...trying a lot of mirrors.. !!! Couldn't download fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-3.2.4.i586.tar.gz.

Re: [gentoo-user] Well, my RAID array is screwed (was df != fdisk)

2003-08-14 Thread Ross Jordan
My only regret is that I'll no longer be using the RAID card to its full extent. However, I've also read some interesting opinions that talk about how a low-end RAID card (such as the tx4) can be a bottleneck on higher-end systems. Mine's a dual-mp 1.4Ghz (1600+) configuration. Such opinions

[gentoo-user] alsa config files

2003-08-14 Thread Jayson Garrell
Hello everyone; I'm trying to install alsa on my desktop and I am running into a problem. Following the document @ http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml I got some new hard drives and decided that I was just going to reinstall my whole system. I have had alsa installed and working

[gentoo-user] Problems with emerge gnome

2003-08-14 Thread Jamie Dobbs
I've got a fresh install of Gnome-1.4 (athlon-xp optimised) and am trying to install gnome. It just won't work and keep giving the following error when trying to install gnome-terminal, which is the first item it attempts to install. !!! ERROR: x11-terms/gnome-terminal-2.2.1 failed. !!! Function

Re: [gentoo-user] how to swap on a file

2003-08-14 Thread Adam Dunstan
swapon: /mnt/sammy/swapfile: Invalid argument i had put a space but, still no dice -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] how to swap on a file

2003-08-14 Thread Adam Dunstan
nope, but same problem if i put it in /home, i was woundering what would happeren if it tryed to page over the network -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage: Updating all installed packages

2003-08-14 Thread Heschi Kreinick
You're acting like this is a big deal. Unless I'm missing something, it's really not. I don't know how much people know about how Portage calculates its dep tree, so I'll start from scratch. When you emerge a package, two important (for our purposes) things happen. 1) a directory in /var/db/pkg is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] Distro Day (Measuring the benefitsof the Gentoo approach)

2003-08-14 Thread Riyad Kalla
Now, I for one would be -VERY- interested in seeing same system comparsion between the flags: -Os -O2 and -O3 (on the same -march= ) for a single system. You can get a gist of this (not necessarily benchmarks, but stability results) in the CFLags central thread. It took me the better part

Re: [gentoo-user] how to swap on a file

2003-08-14 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 13. August 2003 16:02 schrieb ext Adam Dunstan: swapon: /mnt/sammy/swapfile: Invalid argument i had put a space but, still no dice Another question: What did you mount on /mnt/sammy? I'd guess it won't work if it is an NFS mount. HTH... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs |

Re: [gentoo-user] --resume

2003-08-14 Thread Riyad Kalla
Matt: Just to give you something to run with before someone more suited answers: have you emerged gentoolkit and used the qpkg tool to figure out the deps on lirc, to maybe figure out what it is you are installing that wants it installed so bad? Also you can try doing a -* in your use flags

Re: [gentoo-user] --resume

2003-08-14 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 01:04:14PM -0700, Riyad Kalla wrote: Just to give you something to run with before someone more suited answers: have you emerged gentoolkit and used the qpkg tool to figure out the deps on lirc, to maybe figure out what it is you are installing that wants it

[gentoo-user] Further problems with glibc and emerge.

2003-08-14 Thread spiff.devotion
After having resolved the problem when emerge downgraded my glibc from 2.3.2-r1 2.3.1-r4, i did an emerge -u system which upgraded my glibc to 2.3.2-r1 again. Emerge continued to update packages, but choked on selinux-small-2003040709-r3. I then did an emerge -up system to see what packages

Re: [gentoo-user] Further problems with glibc and emerge.

2003-08-14 Thread spiff.devotion
Some additional information; I decided to try to do an emerge -U system rather than emerge -u system, being under the impression that emerge wouldn't downgrade my glibc to 2.3.1 again. Well, it tried to do that anyway. It feels like my emerge is broken. If anyone can explain to me what's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] Distro Day (Measuring thebenefits of the Gentoo approach)

2003-08-14 Thread Christopher Egner
Sorry about the double post. I think that was an example of evolution trying to be smart. So it swas going to email alan (changed that to gentoo-user) but I think it was also sending it to the list but not showing me -- Christopher In 1968 it took the computing power of 2 C-64's to fly a rocket

[gentoo-user] Intel 875P chipset (ICH5) support

2003-08-14 Thread Riyad Kalla
Is anyone running Gentoo on the new Intel 875P chipset (that includes intel's ICH5 impl. i.e. Asus's midline 875 board uses 3com lan and promise SATA controller, but their highend 875 board uses the ICH5 from intel). If you are, what Kernel are you using and what magic did you have to perform

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with emerge gnome

2003-08-14 Thread Spider
begin quote On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 10:22:34 +1200 (NZST) Jamie Dobbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: !!! ERROR: x11-terms/gnome-terminal-2.2.1 failed. !!! Function einstall, Line 343, Exitcode 2 !!! einstall failed I've searched through the forums and tried the suggestions I've found there

[gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/checkroot cannot remount root fs

2003-08-14 Thread Shawn
I have baselayout-1.8.6.10, kernel 2.6.0-test3-mm1, and util-linux-2.12. Upon installing util-linux-2.12, I was no longer able to remount my root filesystem for checkroot to work on boot. I really should be able to just mount -n -o remount,ro / or use /dev/root, or whatever is in /proc/mounts,

[gentoo-user] --resume

2003-08-14 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
I am in the process of trying to upgrade gcc from my old Gentoo 1.1 system. I am getting half way through my 501 packages and the build for app-misc/lirc-0.6.6-r1 borks with some crazy sandbox error. However, I don't even use lirc and have tried to remove it, however, it is still listed then I

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge - How do I get around a 'block'?

2003-08-14 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Wednesday 13 August 2003 17:43, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I'm having a problem understanding how to actually handle a blocked package in emerge and move forward. I've attached a portion of what I'm seeing in my xterm, along with the little bit of the man page on emerge that seems to apply,

Re: [gentoo-user] Very bad performance

2003-08-14 Thread Michael Gruetzner
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 03:05:39PM +0200, Arne Halenza wrote: Hi Michael, maybe your DMA mode is not activated? You can check and activate it using the hdparm command (check the man-page about the command, I don't know the details at the moment). I had a similar problem in the past. The

[gentoo-user] x eats my mem and cpu

2003-08-14 Thread a_k_b
hi there, for months now i got the problem that X eats my mem and cpu after running awhile. i dont know the problem, since other guys told me they got much less problems than me with this... does anyone know a problem that could cause this? i could imagine its got something to do with gtk,

Re: [gentoo-user] x eats my mem and cpu

2003-08-14 Thread a_k_b
Have you tested the memory to make sure you havent got a bad stick? Try emergeing memtest86, if there is a memory leak it should spot it. does an memory error cause programs to fill up memory? sounds bit weird... but if so, it explains many of my problems *lol* arne -- [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel conundrum

2003-08-14 Thread Nick Fisher
I have a machine that I cannot compile a stable 2.4.20 kernel for, yet the one off of the 1.4_rc2 liveCD works fine. I'm guessing there is an option or a patch that is/isn't set/applyed. Apart from good old trial and error how the heck do I work out what is giving me the problem?

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2003-08-14 Thread Frank Tegtmeyer
Karl Huysmans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2-disk/1-spare software RAID 1. This will not protect you against accidental file deletion or (???) viruses, but at least, you don' t even have to think about backups. At least in typical office environments backups are mostly used exactly for that

RE: [gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/checkroot cannot remount root fs

2003-08-14 Thread Rex Young
Ok, good. I will look when I have a spare 0.5 hours or something as well. Mostly I wanted to know I had not pulled a thinko. Since I know it's not just me now, I'll devote a little bit of time to it later tonight. Maybe between us we'll figure it out in short order. I'm not sure that it makes

RE: [gentoo-user] Firewall and syslogd

2003-08-14 Thread Jeffrey Smelser
Interesting.. I am still trying to figure this out.. (Gave me a good idea to do it myself.. ) I use sysklogd-sql.. Its very easy to get it out my database. :) But if I figure out how to do separate files, I will let you know.. Jeff -Original Message- From: Thomas T. Veldhouse

Re: [gentoo-user] x eats my mem and cpu

2003-08-14 Thread Spider
begin quote On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 19:20:46 +0200 a_k_b [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: as you can see X uses about 44% of my memory at the moment (cpu time ok atm). when i restart x its all okay for a few hours again... but then its just the same again :-( Ok , this soudnds rather aggrevating

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo and laptops (good one)

2003-08-14 Thread Peter Eis
Chris I wrote: On 2003.08.09 09:47, Peter Eis wrote: Chris I wrote: My usb mouse does this when I plug it in. No idea why yet, but I dont see how your solution would have any effect. Check for the correct mouse protocoll. Try IMPS/2 if it's a wheel mouse or just PS/2 if it's still not

[gentoo-user] df and fdisk differ on partition size ???

2003-08-14 Thread Eric Livingston
I'm using a Promise TX4 RAID card to create a four-disk array, made up of two pairs of striped, mirrored 60G drives. In other words, I take two 60G drives and stripe them together into a 120G partition for performance, then mirror that striped pair with another identical to it for data integrity.

[gentoo-user] Getting some kind of Automake error on KDEbase

2003-08-14 Thread Eric Livingston
I get the following error when trying to emerge kdebase: - Performing head fix on klipper/klipperrc.desktop cd . \ /bin/sh /var/tmp/portage/kdebase-3.1.3/work/kdebase-3.1.3/admin/missing --run automake-1.7 --foreign Makefile configure.in:39: version mismatch. This is

Re: [gentoo-user] xine GUIs that work with GNOME2?

2003-08-14 Thread brett holcomb
Are you refering to Gnome? as I don't see any downgrades marked (they have a D there). If it's because the UI needs that version of Gnome and will install it in a different slot so it coexists with your current version which appears to be 2.x. On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 11:47:50 -0400 (EDT) Jason

Re: [gentoo-user] gthumb issues

2003-08-14 Thread Jason A. Pfeil
Heh. Methinks my wife wouldn't like seeing that image viewer. Besides, it wants an older xine-lib than I need for totem so that one's out. Thanks anyway. :-) --Jason On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Scott Carmichael wrote: I also had nothing but trouble with gthumb, and terrible replyage from the

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with konqueror

2003-08-14 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Brave Cobra -- I've got the same problem and your answer doesn't seem to fix it. Any other suggestions? I already posted a solution to this problem in *THIS* thread! It works fine for Christopher, so maybe for you as well? Greets, Matthias -- Matthias F.

Re: [gentoo-user] .bashrc

2003-08-14 Thread Collins Richey
On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 01:41:30 -0500 Steven Elling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 07 August 2003 21:50, Collins Richey wrote: On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 21:13:05 -0500 Steven Elling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 07 August 2003 17:02, Dr. Robert M. Fuhrer wrote: At 03:55 PM

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage: Updating all installed packages

2003-08-14 Thread Heschi Kreinick
Your initial discussion did not relate to my bug at all. Yes, it did. It explained, in fact, exactly why this happens. It may have been too verbose or basic for you, but again, I have no idea how much you know about how Portage works, and you don't seem to have read it at all. It's possible that

Re: [gentoo-user] Wanted: GUI programmer (GLIS)

2003-08-14 Thread Nathaniel McCallum
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: correct me if this isnt the case with the new live cds (still using an rc1 disc myself), but there is no portage on the livecds either. There is portage and python in the stage balls, but that isnt on the install cd in a usable form. correct! Nathaniel -- [EMAIL

[gentoo-user] 2.4.21 and broadcom

2003-08-14 Thread Kees Bergwerf
I am looking in the menuconfig from the gentoo-sources 2.4.21 but I can't see any support for my broadcom network card anymore :-( Has it gone? It was supported in the 2.4.20-r5 kernel --Kees -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] patching source

2003-08-14 Thread Mark Knecht
this is a bit of overkill don't you think why not just : ebuild file.ebuild unpack cd /var/tmp/portage/packagedir/work/packagedir_unpacked patch source tree ebuild file.ebuild compile ebuild file.ebuild merge Henti, I thought I needed a qmerge at the end of this process to actually

[gentoo-user] 2.6 kernel - Cannot open Eterm

2003-08-14 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Hello I'm running 2.6.0_beta2 kernel. In enlightenment I can open Xterms but not Eterms. If I type Eterm in Xterm I get the following error message. bash-2.05b$ Eterm Eterm: Error: Can't open pseudo-tty -- No such file or directory Eterm: Error: Unable to run sub-command. I've addded Unix

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2003-08-14 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
It depends on the amount of data you have. Hard drives and tapes can backup a lot of data. However, for a home user you probably aren't backing up that much. For ease of ue take a look at using a CDR or CDRW. If you have more than fits on one CD then split you backups up to use more CDs.

Re: [gentoo-user] Idea

2003-08-14 Thread Zack Gilburd
On Thursday 07 August 2003 03:06 pm, Gentoo wrote: eList, Hi everybody.. Every time I use emerge -S to look for something I've got to wait an eternity for results to appear.. so I feed up with this and I was thinking to turn the whole portage system (the pseudo database I

[gentoo-user] making ebuilds ...

2003-08-14 Thread raptor
hi, Probably many of U building .ebuild are tired of SKELL-ing .ebuilds manualy.. i.e. create nececary directories, copy skel.ebuild to your portage-working dir, then delete all the coments edit the fileetc.. so was I :) even i dont do ebuild so often... and below is a script to simplify

Re: [gentoo-user] kvirc with SSL

2003-08-14 Thread Pupeno
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 11 August 2003 20:49, Spider wrote: begin quote On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 17:24:35 -0300 Pupeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Any other IRC client that supports SSL ? off the top of my head

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange error

2003-08-14 Thread Yeechie Tu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Calculating world dependencies / !!! all ebuilds that could satisfy =sys-libs/db-4.1 have been masked. !!!(dependency required by net-nds/openldap-2.1.22 [ebuild]) !!! Problem with ebuild app-arch/rpm-4.2_pre069 !!! Possibly a

[gentoo-user] emerge xalan fails

2003-08-14 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Hello Emerge xalan fails with the following error. Any suggestions? $ emerge xalan Calculating dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 1) dev-java/xalan-2.5.1 to / md5 src_uri ;-) xalan-j_2_5_1-src.tar.gz Unpacking source... Unpacking xalan-j_2_5_1-src.tar.gz to

Re: [gentoo-user] duplicate emails

2003-08-14 Thread David H. Askew
For what its worth, you are one of those people. Your post happened twice just now. On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 15:27, Tom Wesley wrote: On Wednesday 06 August 2003 21:18, David H. Askew wrote: I've noticed that I get duplicate emails on this list from several users. What might be causing this ?

[gentoo-user] alsa is mute again after every reboot

2003-08-14 Thread momesana
Hi everybody, I have compiled the alsadrivers, util etc. in order to use my soundcard and it works great but I have to run: $ amixer set Master 100 unmute $ amixer set PCM 100 unmute on every startup, otherwise no sound is emmited! Why can't amixer save the configuration of the soundcard??? If

Re: [gentoo-user] update all installed packages - emerge -uDpv world(don't work)

2003-08-14 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
CrPy wrote: Hi, there are a concern, I like to have cleared and dicussed. 1. Why does emerge -upv $(qpkg -I -nc) != emerge -uDpv world? The first try to update all packages. All installed package are updated. The second try to update all packages in world 'deep'. But the irst and the

Re: [gentoo-user] Error while emerging avifile - SOLVED

2003-08-14 Thread Jimmy Rosen
Yep, re-emerging gcc for CHOST i686 seems to do the trick. avifile is happily compiling along right now. ... Yep worked fine Harebrafolk Jimmy On Wednesday 06 August 2003 12.20, Jimmy Rosen wrote: Hi there, I'm getting the very same thing: checking for C++ compiler default output...

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with user mode linux

2003-08-14 Thread Thomas Preissler
Hello, * Christopher wrote on 08/11/03: On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 09:33, Andrej Kacian wrote: Have a peek in /etc/inittab. This helps, but there's still a problem. Commenting out those lines just disables the tty. I still get the windows (which are unclosable without shutting down the uml).

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.0 killed my touchpad...

2003-08-14 Thread Jerry McBride
On Wednesday 06 August 2003 10:10 pm, Chris I wrote: On 2003.08.06 21:21, Jerry McBride wrote: I tought I'd chime in here to touch base with anyone having problems with the new 2.6.0 test kernel and touchpads in laptops. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-userm=106020782729526w=2 I

Re: [gentoo-user] x-chat buttons missing

2003-08-14 Thread Kees Bergwerf
Op donderdag 7 augustus 2003 23:31, schreef Marius Mauch: [T][S][I][P][M][B][L] The buttons were there with xchat-2.0.0 and not with xchat-2.0.3, so Ok! Then I know that is not something that I did wrong :-) I need those buttons sometimes.. They will come back some day I hope :-) thanks

RE: [gentoo-user] fltk without xft support?

2003-08-14 Thread Mark Knecht
Never mind. Problem solved. cheers, Mark 1) Does the version of fltk installed on my system have xft support built in? Wizard root # emerge -p fltk -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Wanted: GUI programmer (GLIS)

2003-08-14 Thread Cal Evans
...and a mighty w00t! goes up from the crowd. This would be wonderful because it would allow me to have a firewall install script, a webserver, script, etc. When I go to install a machine, I just pull the correct script and come back the next morning. =C= * * Cal Evans *

Re: [gentoo-user] resiserfs

2003-08-14 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
The only thing I can think of (off the top of my head) is that you may have forgotten to compile reiserfs support into your kernel.. JAT rlc On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 09:33:16AM -0400, rh wrote: Just wondering if anyone else has had bad experience with reiserfs. I started using Gentoo a

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help configuring a HP DeskJet 940c

2003-08-14 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Sunday 10 Aug 2003 14:27, Ralph F. De Witt wrote: On Sunday 10 August 2003 08:00 pm, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Sunday 10 Aug 2003 20:54, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Sunday 10 Aug 2003 12:49, Ralph F. De Witt wrote: snip Sorry, you said 940, I did 948... $ ll

Re: [gentoo-user] AAH! No gnucash in german whatever I try... and..de translation help?

2003-08-14 Thread Henri Schomäcker
Hi again, many thanks for the tip with the symbolic link. I set it now, but I also tried it with just de and unfortunately none of both are used. Even not with the link set. All other programs work in german language. Any other suggestions? Many thanks in advance, yours Henri -- Henri

Re: [gentoo-user] xine GUIs that work with GNOME2?

2003-08-14 Thread Jason A. Pfeil
Hrm...What does the SLOT=1 in gnome-vfs-1.0.5-r3.ebuild mean? I'm still a little new to gentoo. I've only be using it for a few months now. Thanks! --Jason On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, brett holcomb wrote: Yes, they will coexist. To check for sure look at the ebuild for a SLOT= entry. It

RE: [gentoo-user] Install: chroot Illegal Instruction

2003-08-14 Thread Jeffrey Smelser
I just was gonna reply with the fact I got that when my /bin/bash was not right.. (or it would tell you file not found).. Glad you got it working.. -Original Message- From: Ariel Sandberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 10:04 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject:

[gentoo-user] Bootstrapping a Heterogeneous compile farm?

2003-08-14 Thread Adam Scriven
Ok... I'm starting a rather ambitious project, and perhaps it's too ambitious! I'm having a hard time putting it into non-confusing words, for some reason, I can picture it in my head, but describing it to a mailing list is harder than I thought! What I'd like to setup is a compile farm/cluster,

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge fails

2003-08-14 Thread Kurt V. Hindenburg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 08 August 2003 08:58 am, Bram De Smet wrote: | Calculating world dependencies \ | !!! all ebuilds that could satisfy virtual/glu have been masked. | !!!(dependency required by x11-libs/qt-3.1.2-r4 [ebuild]) | | !!! Problem with ebuild

[gentoo-user] mouse in console

2003-08-14 Thread Tom Hosiawa
How do I get the mouse to work in virtual console? Tom -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: portage logs

2003-08-14 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Theofilos Intzoglou (2003-08-10 13:54 +0200) This was exactly what I was looking for! logrotate cannot handle the logs that emerge creates unfortunately [...] What's so special about the emerge logs that logrotate can't handle?! T. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] dvips bad output

2003-08-14 Thread Alberto Bert
Hi all, I don't know why watching to a ps output of dvips by using gv I get orrible font. But when I try to print (using another computer, I have not printer) the ps file is ok. Should I install some fonts? thanks, alb -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] xine GUIs that work with GNOME2?

2003-08-14 Thread Jason A. Pfeil
So they would coexist? It looks like it thinks that it will be upgrading gconf from version 2.2.0 to 1.0.8-r5 which is clearly a downgrade to me. Similar with gnome-vfs (upgraded from 2.2.4 to 1.0.5-r3). It would only put a D if it thinks it's a downgrade. In this case, it thinks that

Re: [gentoo-user] Zope/Plone

2003-08-14 Thread Jean Jordaan
I can't log in to the admin account, no way - no how. I've tried the zpasswd.py command/script. This password should get you in at http://yourhost:zopeport/manage i.e. the root of the Zope server. Now you're logged in to Zope's management interface. This is quite seperate from Plone. In this

Re: [gentoo-user] Wanted: GUI programmer (GLIS)

2003-08-14 Thread Nathaniel McCallum
Karl-Heinz Zimmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I wonder if there might be an error on it: What is Thilosophy? It is the branch of epistemology that answers the questions: What is typing correctly and how do we know when we have done it? :) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror problem

2003-08-14 Thread Collins Richey
On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 14:35:25 -0700 Balaji Srinivasan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Everyone I synched up to the latest KDE etc on my gentoo system. Now everytime i start konqueror (or most X apps), I get the following error. WARNING: KDE detected X Error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window

Re: [gentoo-user] Please start new thread for new topic

2003-08-14 Thread Christian Aust
Am Don, 2003-08-07 um 11.21 schrieb Ole Langbehn: (snip) Please do not start a new thread by clicking on the Reply button of your mail program. Your mail will not show up properly when using threaded display, which is needed due to the high volume of messages to this list. Instead, compose a new

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] Distro Day (Measuring the benefits of the Gentooapproach)

2003-08-14 Thread William Kenworthy
I'll stick my hand up and say I was the person who installed gentoo for this test. For those who made the previous posts (mostly crap, and who dont seem to have read the article very well - though it could have been more informative), perhaps a few facts may help: 1. was fully bootstrapped and

[gentoo-user] cannot print to a printserver with CUPS

2003-08-14 Thread Martin Monsorno
Hi *, i have a problem while trying to print with CUPS from my gentoo machine. - i have installed net-print/cups. - the printer is connected to a printserver (an SMC router), which speaks the lpd protocoll, I can connect to this with telnet on port 515, and i can print from a windows

[gentoo-user] Re: Fetching updates with cron

2003-08-14 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Michael Schreckenbauer (2003-08-07 16:37 +0200) Am Donnerstag, 7. August 2003 16:15 schrieb Thorsten Kampe: I have a vcron job[1] that syncs the portage tree und afterward fetches available updates - at least that's how it is supposed to work. The sync works fine and the fetch, too, at least

[gentoo-user] Ebuild description

2003-08-14 Thread douggorley
Just noticed that this ebuild description doesn't look right: * sys-apps/acl Latest version available: 2.1.1-r1 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 121 kB Homepage:http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs Description: XFS dump/restore

Re: [gentoo-user] mouse in console

2003-08-14 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Ernie Schroder wrote: On Saturday 09 August 2003 04:27 am, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: Tom Hosiawa wrote: How do I get the mouse to work in virtual console? Tom -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list You need to enable the gpm use flag and then re-emerge the packages that use it. Also, you need to

[gentoo-user] cat cpuinfo /CFLAGS - is it realy an XP?

2003-08-14 Thread Robert Young
I was told this CPU was an XP by my vendor. Why does it not say in the model name that it is an XP see cat cpuinfo bellow. It is currently running redhat and I would like to install Gentoo on it but I am wondering which optimization flags I should use? I was hoping CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu

Re: [gentoo-user] nfs mount of portage

2003-08-14 Thread Steven Elling
On Wednesday 13 August 2003 13:41, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: Hi, I'm placing this moment my /usr/portage on my home server I have unmount my local /usr/portage, and dit a nfs mount as root. valinor:/export/home/portage/usr/portage nfsnoauto,user,rw Now after my first emerge

[gentoo-user] glibc, then what?

2003-08-14 Thread Jorge Almeida
This question may very well open the path to scorn and derison, but anyway: After upgrading glibc, should I recompile everything? (shudder) Nothing at all? Some special packages? And how to find out which ones? -- Jorge Almeida -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] xine GUIs that work with GNOME2?

2003-08-14 Thread Jason A. Pfeil
Hmmm...so it doesn't take the SLOT into account when it's determining if something is an upgrade or an install? I guess that's why it thinks it's upgrading from 2.2.0 to 1.0.5-r3 but it's really a new install. Hmmm...interesting. I'm going to try and do an install of one of the dependency

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Backups

2003-08-14 Thread William Kenworthy
Probably not, from a 1.1 (I think) installed system: Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.8p1 Same on an older version BillK On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 06:22, Chris I wrote: On 2003.08.10 15:44, Peter Ruskin wrote: Hmmm. Seems it's no longer supplied: $ qpkg -f /etc/gentoo-release [20:42

[gentoo-user] mozilla freezes the window sometime!

2003-08-14 Thread Alberto Bert
Hi, I can use mozilla in one network, but not in another one. In the new network mozilla freezes its window when I try too write in some fields (like the url one) and I need to kill the process. lynx and konquerror work in both networks,so I cannot undertand what is appening. any idea? alb

Re: [gentoo-user] which user i'm logged

2003-08-14 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Friday 08 Aug 2003 11:46, raptor wrote: how to see under which user i'm logged in... i mean when I do su user and I have no intication on the prompt is there way to see the user i'm logged... is this the correct one : #echo $USER whoami --

[gentoo-user] timezone

2003-08-14 Thread Tom Hosiawa
I'm having trouble properly setting the time zone on gentoo. I currently triple boot between WinXP, RH9 and Gentoo, the problem is my time on gentoo shows up 4 hours earlier than in WinXP and RH9 I've already linked /etc/localtime to /usr/share/zoneinfo/Canada/Eastern, and date on both Gentoo and

[gentoo-user] network help needed

2003-08-14 Thread Alberto Bert
Hi all, I'm using my laptop in two different networks, one use dhcp (dinamic auto IP) and the other normal static IP. Is there any way to set network parameters to select automaticaly the right network coinfiguration? Could you suggest a solution for this problem? I don't know so much in

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