Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo vs. the FHS

2003-09-24 Thread Sven Vermeulen
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 06:03:26PM -0600, Collins Richey wrote: No! I would say that almost the reverse is true! The group promulgating the FHS is a small clique attempting to enforce its narrow view of linux (based pretty much on Redhat) without caring for or solicting input from other

[gentoo-user] Replacement for MS index-server

2003-09-24 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Hi, I'm looking for a replacement for MS index server, i know about phpdig, but are there others ? It must index word .doc files and .pdf documents. TIA Patrick -- Insufficient facts always invite danger. -- Spock, Space Seed, stardate 3141.9 PGP Key:

RE: [gentoo-user] stage1,2,or 3 install

2003-09-24 Thread Roberto Padovani
I suggest you make a lot of use of quickpkg once that is done. Unless your a *real* masochist that is! ;-) Jason But I am. ;-) BTW, I made sure to put this baby on a UPS before starting. Just in case. (Does that make me a coward? :-) Biker how's it going with your

RE: [gentoo-user] stage1,2,or 3 install

2003-09-24 Thread Gustav_Schaffter
I suggest you make a lot of use of quickpkg once that is done. Unless your a *real* masochist that is! ;-) Jason But I am. ;-) BTW, I made sure to put this baby on a UPS before starting. Just in case. (Does that make me a coward? :-) Biker how's it going with your

[gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild

2003-09-24 Thread Norberto Bensa
Hello, I'm missing something? ${SUBJECT} is not installed by gentoolkit and I need to run /usr/portage/app-portage/gentoolkit/files/scripts/revdep-rebuild (Thanks God there's tab-completion :-) Regards, Norberto -- 05:00:10 up 11:29, 1 user, load average: 0.17, 0.21, 0.13

Re: [gentoo-user] Compiling from a stage one with Slackware dist on the drive...

2003-09-24 Thread Norberto Bensa
You don't know what a paragraph is, don't you? :-) Walther The Writer wrote: When I do df, Slackware doesn't seem to want to recognize it, I mean it actually doesn't see it. Did you made a FS on that partition? Did you mount it? Ok, what's the command to gibe Slackware to display all my

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up ../distfiles from make.conf

2003-09-24 Thread Christian Banik
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Mittwoch, den 24. September 2003 02:16 schrieb Collins Richey: What I really like to see is a possibility to remove the distfiles that are not connected to an ebuild anymore (outdated packages). These files would probably never be downloaded

[gentoo-user] creating software demos

2003-09-24 Thread Anupam Kapoor
hi all, for showing software demos, i would like to shoot movies of what i am doing on the screen, and later stream an edited version of the demo to a wider audience. m$ seem to have just the application (called camstudio) that creates avi files for a demo. is there a similar application on

[gentoo-user] why ohh why cant i unsubscribe ??

2003-09-24 Thread stuart stent
sigh -- ive tried unsubscribing by sending an email to gentoo-user-unsubscribe and it still sends me emails - gahhh -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild

2003-09-24 Thread Dennis Freise
# emerge gentoolkit will do it :) Greetings, Dennis. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Upgrade question..

2003-09-24 Thread Christian Herzyk
Joshua Banks wrote: --- David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 23 September 2003 04:16 am, Joshua Banks wrote: try genkernel --config and then make sure the cpu settings and modules you want are included. Would be nice if genkernel had a man page or a -h or --help option!

Re: [gentoo-user] EVMS2 on root partition

2003-09-24 Thread Gour
Chris van der Pennen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi! Here I'm again with my attempt to put / on evms2. Works fine for me, migrated from EVMS1. I can send you my initrd, if you want. Your linuxrc might be a bit wonky or something. I created my initrd and linuxrc by hand, from the

Re: [gentoo-user] EVMS2 on root partition

2003-09-24 Thread Gour
Dirk Heinrichs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Nice to see that one of my suggestions was correct :-) Definitely it was :-) OK, what errors are you getting, now? A short guess again: From your previous mails I know that you're using reiserfs, did you compile reiserfs support into your kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the CHOST/CFLAGS suggestion utility?

2003-09-24 Thread Dane Elwell
Attached you'll find a perl script that was originally found on the Gentoo forums. I didn't write this, so don't give me credit. Just run the script and it will show you what CFLAGS are safe. [EMAIL PROTECTED] omicron $ scripts/cflags -march=pentium4 -mfpmath=sse -msse2 -mmmx On Wed, 24 Sep

[gentoo-user] SSHD + PAM

2003-09-24 Thread Davide Brini
While all the other PAM-aware apps (ie, login, su etc.) log everything about user logins and logouts, I've noticed that sshd doesn't. It only logs something like password accepted for user xxyyzz, and that message also seem not to come from PAM. Furthermore, logouts from a remote ssh session

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the CHOST/CFLAGS suggestion utility?

2003-09-24 Thread Dane Elwell
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 11:04:13 +0100 Dane Elwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Attached you'll find a perl script that was originally found on the Gentoo forums. I didn't write this, so don't give me credit. Hell, I use Perl all the time and I can't tell the difference between a Perl script and a

Re: [gentoo-user] why ohh why cant i unsubscribe ??

2003-09-24 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting stuart stent -- sigh -- ive tried unsubscribing by sending an email to gentoo-user-unsubscribe and it still sends me emails - gahhh did you reply to the answer you got from the gentoo.org mailserver? -- Don't let Krusty's death get you down, boy. People die all the

Re: [gentoo-user] EVMS2 on root partition

2003-09-24 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 24. September 2003 12:11 schrieb ext Gour: I did manually all the steps according to INSTALL.initrd and copied linuxrc from evms-2.1.1 tarball, but still no success. EVMS devs now also provide an initrd, maybe you want to try that. Several mount points are not mounted (eg. /usr,

Re: [gentoo-user] dep-clean error message

2003-09-24 Thread Sigurd Stordal
On Wednesday 24 September 2003 01:50, Nicholas Brown wrote: Can anyone suggest the cause/solution to the below error message I'm seeing? I've got the same thing. It happens when you have installed some masked packages, and are running without the ~x86 keywords in make.conf. if you have a

[gentoo-user] Re: xfree86: Failed to load module radeon

2003-09-24 Thread Florian Konnertz
Mark Knecht wrote: On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 05:37, Mark Knecht wrote: On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 01:25, Florian Konnertz wrote: Just briefly the error again: From XFree86.log (EE) LoadModule: Module radeon does not have a radeonModuleData data object. (II) UnloadModule: radeon (II) Unloading

Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird

2003-09-24 Thread Janne Johansson
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 10:18, Alexander Plank wrote: Thunderbird doesnt open a browser when links are clicked. No it doesn't. I find this odd. It's not odd, it's not just implemented yet. Does anyone else have this problem? Everyone I suppose. From the Thunderbird ToDo-list: We need a

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up ../distfiles from make.conf

2003-09-24 Thread Stroller
On 23 Sep 2003, at 9:42 pm, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: systems - it only updates the local portage database fetches the updates you require. It would, I would think, be quite easy to unshare the NFS export before getting the files, and reshare it afterwards, as part of the cron job. If this

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up ../distfiles from make.conf

2003-09-24 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Am Mittwoch, 24. September 2003 14:51 schrieb Stroller: I think, this would work, but that's not what I really want to do: editing world files, copying them here over and there over, everytime I update a desktop and/or the server. Well, of course you don't need to copy the files

[gentoo-user] Problem with MythTV

2003-09-24 Thread Jeff Blair
I just upgraded qt. Now when I try to run the back end I get an error: Backend error: QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is being used QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is being used Starting up as the master server. Probed: /dev/video0 - Television Probed: /dev/video0 -

[gentoo-user] Newbie

2003-09-24 Thread Monah Baki
Hi all, I just installed my first gentoo server and I'm quite impressed, although I had to struggle a bit with my video card. I followed the instructions on the website and the machine boots up fine. However I noticed on my left side of the monitor there's a vertical line all the way from top

[gentoo-user] [OT] FS/OSS pthreads implementation?

2003-09-24 Thread Jason Cooper
All, I'm learning pthreads on a linux environment at work, and need a pointer or two. I've grepped through /usr/bin and /usr/sbin (both recursive), googled, and read a few books. What I'm looking for is a source package that demonstrates the use of pthreads in a solid manner. There appear to

Re: [gentoo-user] EVMS2 on root partition

2003-09-24 Thread Gour
Dirk Heinrichs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: EVMS devs now also provide an initrd, maybe you want to try that. You mean CVS version? I already have enough, so better to wait for a release :-) /sbin??? Anyway, it's not in your fstab, so I consider it a typo :-) Right, it's typo :-( That's

Re: [gentoo-user] EVMS2 on root partition

2003-09-24 Thread Chris van der Pennen
My initrd (bzip2 -9) is available at [sent privately] - it's only hosted on 56k, be nice :) Also, if you can get the kernel's output from when it fails to mount your root partition and post it to the list, it'd be of great assistance. Enabling CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE in your kernel and booting

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Upgrade question..

2003-09-24 Thread Joshua Banks
--- Christian Herzyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you can copy your old .config file to the new directory. If you run make oldconfig after that your are prompted for all new modules to say if you want to include them or not, so you don't have to check every page in menuconfig. Thanks for the

[gentoo-user] Console Resolution

2003-09-24 Thread grafft
I was wondering how or where it is possible to bump up the console resolution. Mine is currently stuck at 640x480 although all nessecary hardware support has been compiled into the kernel. Thanks, Jason Grafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie

2003-09-24 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Wednesday 24 September 2003 11:06 am, Monah Baki wrote: Hi all, I just installed my first gentoo server and I'm quite impressed, although I had to struggle a bit with my video card. I followed the instructions on the website and the machine boots up fine. However I noticed on my left side

Re: [gentoo-user] Console Resolution

2003-09-24 Thread Joshua Banks
I do this through the window manager that I use which is KDE. If there is another way to do this throught the command line I would like to know. What are you using Jason? JBanks --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering how or where it is possible to bump up the console resolution. Mine

Re: [gentoo-user] Console Resolution

2003-09-24 Thread Brian Downey
I was wondering how or where it is possible to bump up the console resolution. Mine is currently stuck at 640x480 although all nessecary hardware support has been compiled into the kernel. If you've got VESA Framebuffer stuff turned on (VGA Text Console in the kernel, I believe)... you pass

Re: [gentoo-user] Console Resolution

2003-09-24 Thread Dane Elwell
I think you're looking for Framebuffer support. Not got the balls to try this myself, but the results are impressive. Please direct yourself to this thread: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=49036 On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 11:09:17 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering how or where

Re: [gentoo-user] Console Resolution

2003-09-24 Thread Brian Downey
I was wondering how or where it is possible to bump up the console resolution. Mine is currently stuck at 640x480 although all nessecary hardware support has been compiled into the kernel. Here you go. Thank you, Google. # VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x64k vga = 791 # Normal

[gentoo-user] Removing nptl...

2003-09-24 Thread Jason Stubbs
Good evening all, I would like to remove nptl from my system for the time being so that I can run 2.4 kernels again. Doing a grep of all the ebuilds in portage, I only come up with: app-emulation/wine dev-java/sun-j2sdk media-sound/xmms sys-libs/glibc x11-libs/fltk Does this mean that if I

Re: [gentoo-user] Console Resolution

2003-09-24 Thread Joshua Banks
--- Brian Downey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering how or where it is possible to bump up the console resolution. Mine is currently stuck at 640x480 although all nessecary hardware support has been compiled into the kernel. If you've got VESA Framebuffer stuff turned on (VGA

Re: [gentoo-user] Console Resolution

2003-09-24 Thread Ian Tindale
On Wednesday 24 September 2003 4:22 pm, Dane Elwell wrote: I think you're looking for Framebuffer support. Not got the balls to try this myself, but the results are impressive. You might not have, but genkernel has. That's how I did mine. -- Ian Tindale -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] EVMS2 on root partition

2003-09-24 Thread Gour
Chris van der Pennen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Also, if you can get the kernel's output from when it fails to mount your root partition and post it to the list, it'd be of great assistance. Enabling CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE in your kernel and booting with console=ttyS0 will dump the startup

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-driver

2003-09-24 Thread Lim Swee Tat
Hi Mike, I think the file you should look at should be /usr/src/linux/include/asm/mach-default/irq_vector.h. Actually this brings me to an interesting question. If your /usr/include/asm does not have a mach-default directory, that sounds like either of the following possibilities: a. You are

Re: [gentoo-user] Console Resolution

2003-09-24 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering how or where it is possible to bump up the console resolution. Mine is currently stuck at 640x480 although all nessecary hardware support has been compiled into the kernel. Two options I can think of: There's a program called

[gentoo-user] Compiling on SMP machine?

2003-09-24 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
Got a dual athlon machine with a SMP kernel and have MAKEOPTS=-j 3 in my make.conf when I emerge something and the source is compiling I am only ever using 100% of a single CPU while the other sits idle. If I have the ksim CPU usage meters running while its cooking you can watch the load being

Re: [gentoo-user] Compiling on SMP machine?

2003-09-24 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Rick [Kitty5] wrote: Got a dual athlon machine with a SMP kernel and have MAKEOPTS=-j 3 in my make.conf Get rid of the space. Make is MAKEOPTS=-j3 -- Andrew Gaffney -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] 100% cpu to compile

2003-09-24 Thread Massi
Hi Rick.. for use 100%CPU to compiling you must insert in make.conf this line; PORTAGE_NICENESS=-20 Sorry for my bad english.. Massi Da: Rick [Kitty5] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rispondi-a: [EMAIL PROTECTED] A: List [gentoo-user] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] Compiling on SMP machine?

2003-09-24 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
Andrew Gaffney wrote: Rick [Kitty5] wrote: Got a dual athlon machine with a SMP kernel and have MAKEOPTS=-j 3 in my make.conf Get rid of the space. Make is MAKEOPTS=-j3 Thats how I had it before I noticed it wasnt using both CPU's at the same time, so I put a space in (to no effect) :|

Re: [gentoo-user] 100% cpu to compile

2003-09-24 Thread Patrick Börjesson
Hi Rick.. for use 100%CPU to compiling you must insert in make.conf this line; PORTAGE_NICENESS=-20 You crazy?! You won't be able to do a single thing while compiling something if you do that! Emerge will be the process with the highest priority on the entire system and as gcc allways will

Re: [gentoo-user] Compiling on SMP machine?

2003-09-24 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Rick [Kitty5] wrote: Andrew Gaffney wrote: Rick [Kitty5] wrote: Got a dual athlon machine with a SMP kernel and have MAKEOPTS=-j 3 in my make.conf Get rid of the space. Make is MAKEOPTS=-j3 Thats how I had it before I noticed it wasnt using both CPU's at the same time, so I put a space in (to

Re: [gentoo-user] Compiling on SMP machine?

2003-09-24 Thread Joe Stone
Hi ! I have a dual celeron and it works. Some packages will only compile on one CPU (then the -j3 is replaced by -j1 in the ebuild MAKEOPTS=${MAKEOPTS} -j1) I remember some kde-packages which do this: arts, kdelibs :-( and so on Do you have your 1-CPU problem with every package? I don't know

Re: [gentoo-user] nothing to do with gentoo, but a problem for me

2003-09-24 Thread Charlie
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 16:05:12 -0700 Anthony Floyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 23:54:54 +0200 Charlie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Salut, here you see my diskspace made with df -h , the problem is my /root it shows me only 18M available, but with 'du' it must be about 300 M, I

RE: [gentoo-user] alsa-driver

2003-09-24 Thread Mark Knecht
You should build it within the kernel not as a separate ebuild. In the sound section you can select alsa support. True enough, but my experience with the 2.6 alsa was not good. I have a card (es1371) that works just fine with the OSS modules, but it's DOA with 2.6 alsa support.

RE: [gentoo-user] alsa-driver

2003-09-24 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Mark Knecht wrote: For kicks I emerged the development-sources. I assume this is the 2.6 kernel you are talking about. I have no real intention of building this kernel, but I wanted to look around a bit. Alsa sound is an option when I run make xconfig, which is good,

RE: [gentoo-user] alsa-driver

2003-09-24 Thread Mark Knecht
-Original Message- From: Mark Knecht [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 11:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] alsa-driver So, where is Alsa in this kernel? Thanks, Mark Question to myself, is Alsa really *not* in the 2.6 kernel

[gentoo-user] Portage space

2003-09-24 Thread Stefano Carraro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi ! My /var/tmp/portage tree is 980MB size. This is a temporary folder (i think) where emerge compile the packages. Can i remove all the contents? - -- Gentoo Linux:

RE: [gentoo-user] Portage space

2003-09-24 Thread Jeffrey Smelser
Yes, as long as your not compiling anything at the time.. -Original Message- From: Stefano Carraro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 1:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] Portage space -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1

[gentoo-user] /var/spool/mqueue permissions/ownership

2003-09-24 Thread Owen Ford
I'm trying to get sendmail running but it can't write to the mqueue. I have tried several permissions and ownership settings with no success. Could someone with sendmail working post 'ls -l /var/spool/', please. -- Owen Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/spool/mqueue permissions/ownership

2003-09-24 Thread Prabhat Gupta
drwxr-xr-x2 root root 4096 Aug 24 2001 anacron drwx--3 daemon daemon 4096 Aug 24 2001 at drwx--2 root root 4096 Mar 8 2001 cron drwxr-xr-x2 root root 4096 Aug 30 2000 fax drwxr-xr-x3 root root 4096 Aug 24

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/spool/mqueue permissions/ownership

2003-09-24 Thread Owen Ford
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 13:17, Prabhat Gupta wrote: drwxr-xr-x2 root root 4096 Aug 24 2001 anacron drwx--3 daemon daemon 4096 Aug 24 2001 at drwx--2 root root 4096 Mar 8 2001 cron drwxr-xr-x2 root root 4096 Aug 30 2000 fax

RE: [gentoo-user] /var/spool/mqueue permissions/ownership

2003-09-24 Thread Jeffrey Smelser
What user/group you trying to run sendmail as? -Original Message- From: Owen Ford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 1:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /var/spool/mqueue permissions/ownership On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 13:17, Prabhat

RE: [gentoo-user] alsa-driver

2003-09-24 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Mark Knecht wrote: So, where is Alsa in this kernel? Thanks, Mark Question to myself, is Alsa really *not* in the 2.6 kernel until I emerge Alsa? If so, how do I emerge Alsa for this kernel tree without upsetting my other kernel trees? Just run emerge alsa-XXX

RE: [gentoo-user] /var/spool/mqueue permissions/ownership

2003-09-24 Thread Owen Ford
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 13:39, Jeffrey Smelser wrote: What user/group you trying to run sendmail as? -Original Message- From: Owen Ford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 1:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /var/spool/mqueue

[gentoo-user] Session management error: Could not open network socket: What does it mean?

2003-09-24 Thread Mystilleef
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello list, During compilation of packages, I get the following feedback/error message. Session management error: Could not open network socket Although, almost all the packages I seek compile and install are successfully,

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-driver

2003-09-24 Thread Michael Rasile
On Thu Sep 25, 2003 at 12:19:12AM +0800 or thereabouts, Lim Swee Tat wrote: Hi Mike, I think the file you should look at should be /usr/src/linux/include/asm/mach-default/irq_vector.h. Actually this brings me to an interesting question. If your /usr/include/asm does not have a

Re: [gentoo-user] Compiling on SMP machine?

2003-09-24 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
Joe Stone wrote: I have a dual celeron and it works. Some packages will only compile on one CPU (then the -j3 is replaced by -j1 in the ebuild MAKEOPTS=${MAKEOPTS} -j1) I remember some kde-packages which do this: arts, kdelibs :-( and so on well i only noticed it last night while installing

[gentoo-user] Gentoo PVR?

2003-09-24 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
Thinking about using gentoo to run a homebrew PVR (with mythtv), anyone with any experiences? Rick Kitty5 NewMedia http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News Resources http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - ICQ : 15776037 PGP Public Key

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo PVR?

2003-09-24 Thread Jayson Garrell
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 12:44, Rick [Kitty5] wrote: Thinking about using gentoo to run a homebrew PVR (with mythtv), anyone with any experiences? Rick Just follow the docs on http://mythtv.org and you will be fine. I have it running on my old dual 500piii with 2 160G maxtor drives. Runs pretty

Re: [gentoo-user] Compiling on SMP machine?

2003-09-24 Thread Tom Wesley
On Wednesday 24 September 2003 20:39, Rick [Kitty5] wrote: Joe Stone wrote: I have a dual celeron and it works. Some packages will only compile on one CPU (then the -j3 is replaced by -j1 in the ebuild MAKEOPTS=${MAKEOPTS} -j1) I remember some kde-packages which do this: arts, kdelibs :-(

Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird

2003-09-24 Thread Nate Duehr
Alexander Plank wrote: Thunderbird doesnt open a browser when links are clicked. I find this odd. Does anyone else have this problem? Right on their website it says it won't open URL's under Linux (yet). From: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/todolist.html We need a linux guru to

RE: [gentoo-user] alsa-driver

2003-09-24 Thread Mark Knecht
Alsa is part of the 2.6 kernel. You don't need alsa-driver anymore, although you do need alsa-utils for alsactl and alsamixer. Looking through portage, as of the most recent ebuild, alsa-utils-0.9.6-r1 (~x86), the init script is moved from alsa-driver to alsa-utils. -- Marshal,

[gentoo-user] grub-install on livecd

2003-09-24 Thread Nathaniel
I need to use the grub-install utility in the chroot environment of the liveCD. However, this doesn't work. I have copied over /etc/mtab to the new environment, however, grub still reports /dev/hda3 does not have any corresponding BIOS drive. What is wrong? Nathaniel -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-driver

2003-09-24 Thread Heschi Kreinick
If Alsa is truly 'part of the kernel' then my question was, and still is, where is the source code in the kernel tree? Out of morbid curiousity-- What's wrong with the drivers in linux-2.6.0-test*/sound? -Heschi -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] alsa-driver

2003-09-24 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Mark Knecht wrote: Alsa is part of the 2.6 kernel. You don't need alsa-driver anymore, although you do need alsa-utils for alsactl and alsamixer. Looking through portage, as of the most recent ebuild, alsa-utils-0.9.6-r1 (~x86), the init script is moved from

RE: [gentoo-user] alsa-driver

2003-09-24 Thread Mark Knecht
Simple enough. cd /usr/src/linux-beta/sound/ For some reason or other, sound is no longer in drivers. Thanks. That was what I was missing. I looked and looked at that directory and just didn't see it. Thanks! Now, this is then the directory I will patch with my hdsp updates under this

RE: [gentoo-user] alsa-driver

2003-09-24 Thread Mark Knecht
If Alsa is truly 'part of the kernel' then my question was, and still is, where is the source code in the kernel tree? Out of morbid curiousity-- What's wrong with the drivers in linux-2.6.0-test*/sound? -Heschi Nothing except they are out of date. I just didn't see the directory

[gentoo-user] remounting root as read/write

2003-09-24 Thread beharri
I almost have my system working, I got the scsi drives to work. But somehow I managed to damage my reiserfs root partition. I need to remount it as r/w to fix it, but I cant figure out how to do that. Pse help Best Regards, Bruce -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] hotplug scripts question

2003-09-24 Thread Azhdeen
Hi ! I'm looking for one small bit of information on hotplug : How do I find out what the device just created is ? (the /dev thing) otherwise, i'm stuck, i can only plug one thing at a time :( my /etc/hotplug/usb/usb-storage script is made of different entries like this one : if [

Re: [gentoo-user] Compiling on SMP machine?

2003-09-24 Thread Dan McCombs
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 16:13, Tom Wesley wrote: On Wednesday 24 September 2003 20:39, Rick [Kitty5] wrote: Thought about modding some XP's but didn't feel brave enough, metallic paint would make it tricky to RMA them should I need to. Very happy with it actually, makes for a kicking

Re: [gentoo-user] Compiling on SMP machine?

2003-09-24 Thread Scharf Yuval
What is metallic paint mod? Yuval Scharf On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Dan McCombs wrote: On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 16:13, Tom Wesley wrote: On Wednesday 24 September 2003 20:39, Rick [Kitty5] wrote: Thought about modding some XP's but didn't feel brave enough, metallic paint would make it tricky

Re: [gentoo-user] Compiling on SMP machine?

2003-09-24 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 01:55:11 +0300 (IDT) Scharf Yuval [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | What is metallic paint mod? http://www.hardwarezone.com/articles/articles.hwz?cid=2aid=393page=1 A great way to trash two CPUs in an attempt to save small amounts of money. But if you don't want stability or a

Re: [gentoo-user] number pad SOLVED

2003-09-24 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Monday 22 September 2003 04:45 pm, Ernie Schroder wrote: For some reason, in KDE, pressing the numlock on my keyboard has no effect. The LED does light up but, for instance pressing the 6 moves the cursor to the right. The number pad works normally in the terminal, but in no X

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo on a 4G drive?

2003-09-24 Thread Brett
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 11:13, Joshua Banks wrote: I ran into a problem when trying to install Gentoo on a 4gig drive. FYI I am running Gentoo + XFree86 + apps on a 4gig drive at the moment. Thats re-assuring. Not sure what happened last time but I'll be sure to let everyone know how it

[gentoo-user] nvidia use flag?

2003-09-24 Thread James Hanna Jr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is there anyway to get Gentoo to NOT install nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx when I emerge -upD world? I uninstalled them and it wants to reinstall them, which always results in an error since I'm running 2.6-test5. Thanks. -BEGIN PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] number pad SOLVED

2003-09-24 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Thursday 25 September 2003 02:00, Ernie Schroder wrote: On Monday 22 September 2003 04:45 pm, Ernie Schroder wrote: For some reason, in KDE, pressing the numlock on my keyboard has no effect. The LED does light up but, for instance pressing the 6 moves the cursor to the right. The

Re: [gentoo-user] hotplug scripts question [SOLVED ?]

2003-09-24 Thread Azhdeen
I think i've found something like an answer (OK, with a hint on #gentoofr) : why not getting it with a ls, taking the most recent device line ? On Thursday 25 September 2003 00:39, Azhdeen wrote: mount /dev/sda1 -t vfat -o umask=000 /mnt/usbkey I rewrote the line like this :

[gentoo-user] PDF Viewers?

2003-09-24 Thread Robert E. Raymond
Just Linux related, not Gentoo really, but: A class I'm taking requires that my PDF viewer be able to view comments that the instructor places inside the PDF file. Acrobat Reader 6 in Windows works just fine at viewing these comments (which appear usually as tooltips when I hover over them, or

[gentoo-user] Digital camera recommendations?

2003-09-24 Thread Carl Hudkins
Hi, all... Ok, an upcoming vacation and my seeming inability to completely shoot a roll of film and get it developed before it's so old that half the pictures look like they were shot from behind brown draperies have got me thinking about getting a digital camera. Since I live in a

Re: [gentoo-user] Digital camera recommendations?

2003-09-24 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Wednesday 24 September 2003 08:47 pm, Carl Hudkins wrote: Hi, all... Ok, an upcoming vacation and my seeming inability to completely shoot a roll of film and get it developed before it's so old that half the pictures look like they were shot from behind brown draperies have got me

Re: [gentoo-user] Digital camera recommendations?

2003-09-24 Thread Glen Trudgett
On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 11:10, Jason Cooper wrote: Ernie Schroder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: On Wednesday 24 September 2003 08:47 pm, Carl Hudkins wrote: Hi, all... Ok, an upcoming vacation and my seeming inability to completely shoot a roll of film and get it developed before

[gentoo-user] Fluxbox fails to install... is it my fault?

2003-09-24 Thread Carl Hudkins
Hi again... This time I must request a different sort of help. I'm trying to install fluxbox on an old laptop. chiana root # uname -a Linux chiana 2.4.20-gentoo-r7 #1 Sat Sep 20 21:06:09 EDT 2003 i586 Pentium 75 - 200 GenuineIntel GNU/Linux This is my setup: 1.2G root

Re: [gentoo-user] Digital camera recommendations?

2003-09-24 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Wednesday 24 September 2003 09:10 pm, Jason Cooper wrote: Ernie Schroder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: On Wednesday 24 September 2003 08:47 pm, Carl Hudkins wrote: Hi, all... Ok, an upcoming vacation and my seeming inability to completely shoot a roll of film and get it

Re: [gentoo-user] Digital camera recommendations?

2003-09-24 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Wednesday 24 September 2003 09:25 pm, Glen Trudgett wrote: On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 11:10, Jason Cooper wrote: Ernie Schroder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: On Wednesday 24 September 2003 08:47 pm, Carl Hudkins wrote: Hi, all... Ok, an upcoming vacation and my seeming

[gentoo-user] emerge wvdial problems

2003-09-24 Thread oom
While trying to emerge wvdial I get the following error while the dependancy wvstreams is compiling. == wvcrypto.cc:173: error: invalid conversion from `unsigned char**' to `const unsigned char**' make[2]: *** [wvcrypto.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [crypto] Error 2 make: *** [src] Error 2 !!!

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF Viewers?

2003-09-24 Thread Renat Golubchyk
Hi! On Thursday 25 September 2003 02:39, Robert E. Raymond wrote: Just Linux related, not Gentoo really, but: A class I'm taking requires that my PDF viewer be able to view comments that the instructor places inside the PDF file. Acrobat Reader 6 in Windows works just fine at viewing these

[gentoo-user] DynDNS Clients

2003-09-24 Thread Jeff Greene
Does anyone have any suggestions for a CLI program that can interface with dyndns.org and update my ip? I emerged dyndnsupdate a while ago and have been using that, but lately its been segfaulting and I don't care to find out why. I noticed that the ebuild for dyndnsupdate doesn't exist anymore,

[gentoo-user] File corruption issues

2003-09-24 Thread A. Craig West
I've been getting some strange file corruption issues using ext3 with vanilla-sources-2.4.22. The corruption is particularly noticeable during emerge where I get strange compilation errors, and examination of the files in /usr/tmp/portage shows that the files have been corrupted. The weird part

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF Viewers?

2003-09-24 Thread Robert E. Raymond
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 22:31, Renat Golubchyk wrote: Hi! On Thursday 25 September 2003 02:39, Robert E. Raymond wrote: Just Linux related, not Gentoo really, but: A class I'm taking requires that my PDF viewer be able to view comments that the instructor places inside the PDF file.

Re: [gentoo-user] Digital camera recommendations?

2003-09-24 Thread Glen Trudgett
On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 12:11, Ernie Schroder wrote: On Wednesday 24 September 2003 09:25 pm, Glen Trudgett wrote: On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 11:10, Jason Cooper wrote: Ernie Schroder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: On Wednesday 24 September 2003 08:47 pm, Carl Hudkins wrote: Hi, all...

Re: [gentoo-user] DynDNS Clients

2003-09-24 Thread Anthony Floyd
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 19:38:45 -0700 (PDT) Jeff Greene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have any suggestions for a CLI program that can interface with dyndns.org and update my ip? I ddclient A -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacement for MS index-server

2003-09-24 Thread Steven Elling
On Wednesday 24 September 2003 02:30, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a replacement for MS index server, i know about phpdig, but are there others ? It must index word .doc files and .pdf documents. TIA Patrick ht/dig -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless connection.

2003-09-24 Thread David Mallwitz
On Tuesday 23 September 2003 02:29 pm, Prabhat Gupta wrote: Dave, I did repatch the kernel and also build the driver. I didn't do make mrproper though. The wireless connection works but I have to stop it and then start again. /etc/init.d/net.eth1 stop /etc/init.d/net.eth1 start

Re: [gentoo-user] DynDNS Clients

2003-09-24 Thread Timothy Grant
On Wednesday 24 September 2003 08:35 pm, Anthony Floyd wrote: On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 19:38:45 -0700 (PDT) Jeff Greene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have any suggestions for a CLI program that can interface with dyndns.org and update my ip? I ddclient I second that. I've been using it

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