Re: [gentoo-user] Installing KDE and Xfree problem

2003-10-15 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Jason, Thanks for your advice. Kindly advise whether there are no precompile KDE and X-free available on Gentoo and its mirror sites. As far as I know (which is not very far) the only precompiled KDE and xfree packages are stored within the livecd isos. You can always ftp to oregonstate

Re: [gentoo-user] Cancelling eth0 start

2003-10-15 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Hi, Now the long answer. I'm using a extra service (in boot) in witch you can choose with grub and i thin lilo also witch kind of network you will start, with thoose scripts you can change everything you can image. Internal network, wireless, no netwerk and so on even the firwall settings. How

Re: [gentoo-user] Cancelling eth0 start

2003-10-15 Thread Kai Lindenberg
Hi Blue, Am Dienstag, 14. Oktober 2003 22:19 schrieb BlueRibbon: I usually have my laptop connected to some network that gives the ip dinamically (dhcp), but sometimes I use it on a no-network environment. In the latter situation, while booting, I have to wait some minutes while the system

Re: [gentoo-user] NPTL

2003-10-15 Thread Peter Lord
Jason Stubbs wrote, On 10/15/2003 04:09 AM There are several glibc versions that are hard-masked but the latest straight ~x86 version contains working nptl. I believe the hard-masked contains later versions of nptl that have been shown to have serious bugs. The latest ~x86 version of glibc

[gentoo-user] how to record a wav-file?

2003-10-15 Thread Claus Ladekjær Wilson
I tried arecord (with arguments): arecord -v -f cd -d 20 -D hw:0,1 blabla.wav The file is stopped by Ctrl-c, of size 10 or something and doesn't play anything when used with aplay. Only complaints given by arecord is that it records a mono sound of 8000 Khz in stead of requested cd sound

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing KDE and Xfree problem

2003-10-15 Thread paul cooke
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 7:33 am, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi Jason, Thanks for your advice. Kindly advise whether there are no precompile KDE and X-free available on Gentoo and its mirror sites. As far as I know (which is not very far) the only precompiled KDE and xfree packages are

[gentoo-user] Why are masked ebuilds masked?

2003-10-15 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
Silly question, Where can I find out why an ebuild is masked, for example abcde 2.0.3 is the latest unmasked version, ebuilds up to 2.1.6 exist, what's wrong with them? Rick Kitty5 NewMedia http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News Resources http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - ICQ : 15776037

[gentoo-user] man emerge problem

2003-10-15 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
Any ideas? it does this with a few other things (but not everything) - I ran 'emerge man-pages' and it continued to do the following. if I view the man page as root it works fine thereafter. [EMAIL PROTECTED] sigma $ man emerge rm: remove write-protected regular empty file

Re: [gentoo-user] Why are masked ebuilds masked?

2003-10-15 Thread Roger Miliker
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 11:03, Rick [Kitty5] wrote: Silly question, Where can I find out why an ebuild is masked, for example abcde 2.0.3 is the latest unmasked version, ebuilds up to 2.1.6 exist, what's wrong with them? Rick I'd say they are ~x86 which means 'testing'.

Re: [gentoo-user] Update of Transcode

2003-10-15 Thread Paul Stear
On Tue 14 October 2003 18:47, Paul Varner wrote: I had the same issue. Upon looking into it further it is a problem with the mmx code not being configured correctly during the configure process. I don't know enough to determine if it is in the ebuild or the actual transcode code. But the

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge wants X on server

2003-10-15 Thread Spider
begin quote On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 13:15:48 +0200 Timo Boettcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, When trying to update my router, I was a bit shocked to see it wants to install xfree86, whereas it didn't do so in older updates and even though I have -X in my USE-Flags. qpkg -q doesn't list X as

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge wants X on server

2003-10-15 Thread Jeff Ames
When trying to update my router, I was a bit shocked to see it wants to install xfree86, whereas it didn't do so in older updates and even though I have -X in my USE-Flags. qpkg -q doesn't list X as dependency for anything, so why is it being istalled? Just a guess, but do you have tcltk in

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing KDE and Xfree problem

2003-10-15 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Paul, Thanks for your advice. - snip - I have kde-3.1.2.tbz2 kde-env-3-r2.tbz2 kdeaddons-3.1.2.tbz2 .. etc. on CD2 (I have 2 Gentoo-1.4 CD version) I have no idea how to install them simultaneously. Nor whether they have to be installed separately. Kindly advise.

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge wants X on server

2003-10-15 Thread Timo Boettcher
Hi Spider, Nachricht vom Mittwoch, 15. Oktober 2003, 13:50:45: Timo Boettcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, When trying to update my router, I was a bit shocked to see it wants to install xfree86, whereas it didn't do so in older updates and even though I have -X in my USE-Flags. qpkg -q

[gentoo-user] Fluxbox

2003-10-15 Thread Dennis Robertson
So far I am 1 week into the gentoo install process. Emerging fluxbox concludes with: Fatal error: can't create or write to /root/.fluxbox/menu. I can't find any help in bugzilla. Can anyone assist, please? TIA. -- Dennis Robertson 2/2 Sylvia Street Noosaville QLD 4566 Australia

[gentoo-user] strange install situation

2003-10-15 Thread Matt Garman
Hello: I used the Athlon XP v1.4 (dated 9/11) Live CD disk 1 to do a Stage 3 install of Gentoo. Everything *seemed* to go okay, until reboot, when Grub couldn't find the kernel. I used the Live CD as a rescue disk, looked at my install drive, and, sure enough, no kernel was installed! Also,

[gentoo-user] New gentoo user

2003-10-15 Thread Chase Jeffery D
Title: New gentoo user Hi everyone! I'm compiling my own kernel and am using gentoo-sources. Does anyone have a recommended list of options to choose in genkernel --config. I'm trying to get netfilter/iptables to compile correctly and its not working. Basically I want a Fast kernel that will

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing KDE and Xfree problem

2003-10-15 Thread Stroller
On 15 Oct 2003, at 10:37 am, paul cooke wrote: I have kde-3.1.2.tbz2 kde-env-3-r2.tbz2 kdeaddons-3.1.2.tbz2 .. etc. on CD2 (I have 2 Gentoo-1.4 CD version) I have no idea how to install them simultaneously. Nor whether they have to be installed separately. Kindly advise.

Re: [gentoo-user] strange install situation

2003-10-15 Thread Jon Dye
Matt Garman wrote: Hello: I used the Athlon XP v1.4 (dated 9/11) Live CD disk 1 to do a Stage 3 install of Gentoo. Everything *seemed* to go okay, until reboot, when Grub couldn't find the kernel. I used the Live CD as a rescue disk, looked at my install drive, and, sure enough, no kernel was

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge wants X on server

2003-10-15 Thread Stroller
On 15 Oct 2003, at 12:15 pm, Timo Boettcher wrote: When trying to update my router, I was a bit shocked to see it wants to install xfree86, whereas it didn't do so in older updates and even though I have -X in my USE-Flags. qpkg -q doesn't list X as dependency for anything, so why is it being

Re: [gentoo-user] possible to routing ssh connection to a different shell?

2003-10-15 Thread MAL
Andrew Farmer wrote: On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 08:25:33 -0700, Christian Schäfer muttered: hi Andrew, You do know about ssh -t host command? no, I don't think so. tell me. ;-) Try 'ssh -t host /bin/sh'. It'll give you a login shell (with /bin/sh) even if your $SHELL is set to something like

Re: [gentoo-user] strange install situation

2003-10-15 Thread Matt Garman
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 02:19:11PM +0100, Jon Dye wrote: Did you create a seperate /boot partition? If so did you look in there for your kernel rather than the / partition (which would of had an empty /boot in that case). You also need to tell grub to look in your /root partition rather than

Re: [gentoo-user] strange install situation

2003-10-15 Thread Dennis Robertson
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 11:19 pm, Jon Dye wrote: Matt Garman wrote: Hello: I used the Athlon XP v1.4 (dated 9/11) Live CD disk 1 to do a Stage 3 install of Gentoo. Everything *seemed* to go okay, until reboot, when Grub couldn't find the kernel. I used the Live CD as a rescue disk,

[gentoo-user] What's with Re: [gentoo-user] is there a good XF86config creator

2003-10-15 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Tuesday 14 October 2003 04:54 pm, Sean Higgins wrote: On October 8, 2003 06:26 pm, HvR wrote: one thing i dislike about gentoo is that the support for creating a proper XF86config file is missing. the equivalent tool from redhat is much smarter. so what i do these days is install redhat

[gentoo-user] emerge mod_php error

2003-10-15 Thread Z
I am unable to emerge mod_php due to a failure in emerging the pdflib dependency - the full output and error message is below. This is the only package I have not been able to install due to an error, can anyone offer suggestions on how to get past this? thanks -- z emerge -v mod_php

Re: [gentoo-user] What's with Re: [gentoo-user] is there a good XF86config creator

2003-10-15 Thread Gustav_Schaffter
Not me. Biker snip What about running xf86cfg? It is much better than xf86config and seemed to detect my hardware just fine... Sean I've gotten 4 copies of this message, all aparently sent at the same time but with different time stamps in the headers. Is this on

Re: [gentoo-user] Fluxbox

2003-10-15 Thread Jacob Smullyan
I've recently gotten errors of this kind (sandbox violations) when emerging with sudo rather than as root, but I don't know exactly where the bug is. Jacob Smullyan On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 11:04:01PM +1000, Dennis Robertson wrote: So far I am 1 week into the gentoo install process. Emerging

Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo user

2003-10-15 Thread Yee Chie Tu
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 15:11, Chase Jeffery D wrote: Hi everyone! I'm compiling my own kernel and am using gentoo-sources. Does anyone have a recommended list of options to choose in genkernel --config. I'm trying to get netfilter/iptables to compile correctly and its not working. Basically

Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo user

2003-10-15 Thread Yee Chie Tu
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 15:11, Chase Jeffery D wrote: Hi everyone! I'm compiling my own kernel and am using gentoo-sources. Does anyone have a recommended list of options to choose in genkernel --config. I'm trying to get netfilter/iptables to compile correctly and its not working. Basically

Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo user

2003-10-15 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 10:14 AM 10/15/2003, you wrote: If you want to compile your own kernel, whatever that exactly means, then why are you using genkernel? Genkernel isn´t perfect. I tried genkernel too to configure a 2.4.x kernel but didn´t work for me either. Best way is to manually configure the kernel. Go to

Re: [gentoo-user] Update of Transcode

2003-10-15 Thread Eric Marchionni
Paul Stear wrote: I had the same issue. Upon looking into it further it is a problem with the mmx code not being configured correctly during the configure process. I don't know enough to determine if it is in the ebuild or the actual transcode code. But the workaround that I found was to do

RE: [gentoo-user] New gentoo user

2003-10-15 Thread Chase Jeffery D
Sorry, email's in rich text format, I'll switch it to plain text I tried using makemenuconfig also with same results In fact that's how I found out I was getting compile errors. Genkernel Doesn't give you an error message The only thing that I can think of is that I must not be

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge wants X on server

2003-10-15 Thread Timo Boettcher
Hi Stroller, Nachricht vom Mittwoch, 15. Oktober 2003, 15:20:40: On 15 Oct 2003, at 12:15 pm, Timo Boettcher wrote: When trying to update my router, I was a bit shocked to see it wants to install xfree86, whereas it didn't do so in older updates and even though I have -X in my USE-Flags.

Re: [gentoo-user] What's with Re: [gentoo-user] is there a good XF86config creator

2003-10-15 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Wednesday 15 Oct 2003 14:40, Ernie Schroder wrote: I've gotten 4 copies of this message, all aparently sent at the same time but with different time stamps in the headers. Is this on my side or is someone else receiving these too? same here Ernie. Peter --

Re: [gentoo-user] What's with Re: [gentoo-user] is there a good XF86config creator

2003-10-15 Thread Stroller
On 15 Oct 2003, at 2:40 pm, Ernie Schroder wrote: On Tuesday 14 October 2003 04:54 pm, Sean Higgins wrote: What about running xf86cfg? It is much better than xf86config and seemed to detect my hardware just fine... Sean I've gotten 4 copies of this message, all aparently

Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo user

2003-10-15 Thread Stroller
On 15 Oct 2003, at 3:35 pm, Chase Jeffery D wrote: Sorry, email's in rich text format, I'll switch it to plain text I tried using makemenuconfig also with same results In fact that's how I found out I was getting compile errors... Hihi, Could you post the last 100 lines or so of these

[gentoo-user] question re creating meta-ebuild for application distribution

2003-10-15 Thread Jacob Smullyan
A question about using Gentoo's meta-distribution aspect: I'm about to use a local meta-ebuild to deploy a set of applications across a group of servers. I'd rather not add this ebuild to an existing package directory -- I'd rather use app-$mycompanyname -- but when I do so, I see that portage

Re: [gentoo-user] Qmail-ldap

2003-10-15 Thread Gregory Staggel
On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 21:12, Aiko Barz wrote: On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 07:00:25PM +0300, Gregory Staggel wrote: Hello, Is it possible to emerge qmail-ldap package ? Just do a: emerge /usr/portage/net-mail/qmail-ldap/qmail-ldap-1.03-r1.ebuild Some packages need RDEPEND=net-mail/qmail

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge mod_php error

2003-10-15 Thread Stroller
On 15 Oct 2003, at 2:44 pm, Z wrote: I am unable to emerge mod_php due to a failure in emerging the pdflib dependency - the full output and error message is below. This is the only package I have not been able to install due to an error, can anyone offer suggestions on how to get past this?

Re: [gentoo-user] What's with Re: [gentoo-user] is there a good XF86config creator

2003-10-15 Thread Stroller
On 15 Oct 2003, at 3:57 pm, Stroller wrote: On 15 Oct 2003, at 2:40 pm, Ernie Schroder wrote: On Tuesday 14 October 2003 04:54 pm, Sean Higgins wrote: What about running xf86cfg? It is much better than xf86config and seemed to detect my hardware just fine... Sean I've

Re: [gentoo-user] strange install situation

2003-10-15 Thread Chris I
On 2003.10.15 09:11, Matt Garman wrote: Hello: I used the Athlon XP v1.4 (dated 9/11) Live CD disk 1 to do a Stage 3 install of Gentoo. Everything *seemed* to go okay, until reboot, when Grub couldn't find the kernel. I used the Live CD as a rescue disk, looked at my install drive, and, sure

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge mod_php error

2003-10-15 Thread Collins Richey
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 09:44:16 -0400 Z [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am unable to emerge mod_php due to a failure in emerging the pdflib dependency - the full output and error message is below. This is the only package I have not been able to install due to an error, can anyone offer

Re: [gentoo-user] question re creating meta-ebuild for application distribution

2003-10-15 Thread Jacob Smullyan
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 11:20, Sigurd Stordal wrote: directory so that portage fully knows about it? Can I do so in such a way that an emerge rsync won't lose that information? And if not, I PORTDIR_OVERLAY. You set it in the make.conf file, and make every new app dir there, will not be

[gentoo-user] Re: question re creating meta-ebuild for application distribution

2003-10-15 Thread sf
Jacob Smullyan wrote: ... I am using PORTDIR_OVERLAY. But simply creating a new package directory within it doesn't solve the problem. ... You can add categories in file /etc/portage/categories (system categories are in ${PORTDIR}/profiles/categories). Regards, Stephan -- [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] strange install situation

2003-10-15 Thread Matt Garman
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 11:17:28AM -0400, Chris I wrote: In file included from nv.c:14: nv-linux.h:24:31: linux/modversions.h: No such file or directory nv.c: In function `cleanup_module': nv.c:861: warning: unused variable `i' make: *** [nv.o] Error 1 And it's true, I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] strange install situation

2003-10-15 Thread Jon Dye
Matt Garman wrote: [snip] xmms also fails: emerge (40 of 54) media-sound/xmms-1.2.7-r20 to / md5 src_uri ;-) xmms-1.2.7.tar.gz Unpacking source... Unpacking xmms-1.2.7.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/xmms-1.2.7-r20/work * Applying xmms-jump.patch... [ ok ] * Applying xmms-sigterm.patch... [ ok ]

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: question re creating meta-ebuild for application distribution

2003-10-15 Thread Jacob Smullyan
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 06:11:42PM +0200, sf wrote: Jacob Smullyan wrote: ... I am using PORTDIR_OVERLAY. But simply creating a new package directory within it doesn't solve the problem. ... You can add categories in file /etc/portage/categories (system categories are in

[gentoo-user] Re: question re creating meta-ebuild for application distribution

2003-10-15 Thread sf
Jacob Smullyan wrote: ... You can add categories in file /etc/portage/categories (system categories are in ${PORTDIR}/profiles/categories). Thanks, that seems to do the trick! Unfortunately I can't find documentation for it anywhere :(. ... Gentoo, especially portage, is not well documented.

[gentoo-user] Linuxant DriverLoader

2003-10-15 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
Hi all, don't know if this is very new for you, but it is at least for me. I found this [1] article on lwn.net and it seems to be ... yeah, wow! ;) Has anyone some experience with that? Is this as much wow as I think? Greetings and thx for *all* info, Matthias footnote: [1]

[gentoo-user] 3rd party ebuilds

2003-10-15 Thread Lindsay Haisley
I have a couple of questions regarding installation of ebuilds. I recently had to install a patched ebuild from a standalone ebuild supplied by a gentoo developer. Although the man page for ebuild documents the use of a standalone external file as a source for an ebuild, following the directions

Re: [gentoo-user] 3rd party ebuilds

2003-10-15 Thread Jose Gonzalez Gomez
Take a look at PORTDIR_OVERLAY in /etc/make.conf Lindsay Haisley wrote: I have a couple of questions regarding installation of ebuilds. I recently had to install a patched ebuild from a standalone ebuild supplied by a gentoo developer. Although the man page for ebuild documents the use of a

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing KDE and Xfree problem

2003-10-15 Thread paul cooke
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 2:17 pm, Stroller wrote: On 15 Oct 2003, at 10:37 am, paul cooke wrote: I have kde-3.1.2.tbz2 kde-env-3-r2.tbz2 kdeaddons-3.1.2.tbz2 .. etc. on CD2 (I have 2 Gentoo-1.4 CD version) I have no idea how to install them simultaneously. Nor

Re: [gentoo-user] Package installation question

2003-10-15 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Jon, If you know the name of the package, have a look in /usr/portage with find, e.g. cd /usr/portage find . -name 'rolo' -maxdepth 2 find . -name 'openoffice*' -maxdepth 2 Alternatively, have a trawl through the online package listing on the gentoo website. Or try emerge search name e.g.

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing KDE and Xfree problem

2003-10-15 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 12:42 PM 10/15/2003, you wrote: When you boot up CD1 of the 2 CD set it shows right there on the welcome screen after completely booting up, instructions for loading in the installation document into the text based browser. Those instructions are almost the same as the ones on the website...

Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo user

2003-10-15 Thread Øyvind Stegard
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 15:11, Chase Jeffery D wrote: Hi everyone! I'm compiling my own kernel and am using gentoo-sources. Does anyone have a recommended list of options to choose in genkernel --config. I'm trying to get netfilter/iptables to compile correctly and its not working

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing KDE and Xfree problem

2003-10-15 Thread paul cooke
SNIP At time of installation from CD1, I completed Code listing 25.2 but failed to complete 25.1 and 25.3 # emerge - xfree and # emerge -k kde running without end. Finally I force-rebooted the PC. did you actually reboot (with CD1 removed) to get your system started up correctly??? cos

RE: [gentoo-user] Package installation question

2003-10-15 Thread Jeffrey Smelser
If you have mysql, you can add portagesql.. I wouldn't advise using it for everyday use, however, I searching is awesome.. emergesql -s kde - takes about 2 seconds to come back.. :) Just to bad the portage guys don't see the value in a sql backend. -Original Message- From: Stephen

Re: [gentoo-user] Package installation question

2003-10-15 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 12:54 PM 10/15/2003, you wrote: Just installed gentoo and from the base install it took about a day to compile and install kde (including all it's dependencies like XFree86). This is on an Athlon 1.3 Noted with thanks I did my first emerge world -uv (this updates *all* installed packages,

[gentoo-user] (mozilla) firbird 0.7 released

2003-10-15 Thread Collins Richey
Well the latest firebird is out, but the download site seems to be pegged; I can't get there yet. What looks slicker-n-snot is the ability to bookmark a set of open tabs and reopen all automatically later. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing KDE and Xfree problem

2003-10-15 Thread Stroller
On Oct 15, 2003, at 5:52 pm, Hall Stevenson wrote: I had issues with the instructions myself and I'd like to think I'm not a linux newbie... It took me (3) tries with Gentoo. After attempt # 2, I gave up ... for about three days. :) I then printed out the instructions from the website and

RE: [gentoo-user] Installing KDE and Xfree problem

2003-10-15 Thread Jeffrey Smelser
I have never followed the web page Step by step before.. After looking at it, its pretty straight forward to me.. Starting from stage 1 Would be a indication that if I am running from stage 2, to skip this step to Starting from Stage two, continuing from 1... I don't see how the confusion

Re: [gentoo-user] Package installation question

2003-10-15 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Al, Thanks for your advice # find . -name 'openoffice*' -maxdepth 2 ./app-office/openoffice-bin ./app-office/openoffice Then what command shall I issue to install them 1) emerge -k openoffice or 2) ./openoffice-bin I'd imagine it would be emerge -k openoffice... have a look on the

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem on booting after installation.

2003-10-15 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Kevin, Kevin Bucknum wrote: The PC used for testing is a slow machine PII500 256MB RAM. To overcome the difficulty can I make use of the 2nd CD. If YES, then HOW. I already have all packages on the 2nd CD copied to Gentoo 1.4 Not sure what's on the second cd - back when I installed

Re: [gentoo-user] 3rd party ebuilds

2003-10-15 Thread Lindsay Haisley
Yes, I have PORTDIR_OVERLAY defined, but this doesn't really address my question. In particular, I had some difficulty installing the patch from a gentoo maintainer: # ebuild gnome-panel-2.4.0-r2.ebuild unpack !!! aux_get(): ebuild for '/gnome-panel-2.4.0-r2' does not exist at: !!!

Re: [gentoo-user] 3rd party ebuilds

2003-10-15 Thread brett holcomb
The ebuild needs to be in the regular portage or PORTDIR_OVERLAY directories. From what you said the patch ebuild was in root - that won't work. On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 12:43:26 -0500 Lindsay Haisley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I have PORTDIR_OVERLAY defined, but this doesn't really address my

RE: [gentoo-user] A7V600 SATA - Is this supported by a Gentoo kernel?

2003-10-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 01:28, Andreas Roedl wrote: Hello! Am Dienstag, 14. Oktober 2003 20:16 schrieb Mark Knecht: I think someone must be using this board? Have you had good results? Easy or difficult to install Gentoo? I just bought an Asus A7V600 SATA board where the

[gentoo-user] Re: (mozilla) firbird 0.7 released

2003-10-15 Thread Björn Lindström
Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well the latest firebird is out, but the download site seems to be pegged; I can't get there yet. What looks slicker-n-snot is the ability to bookmark a set of open tabs and reopen all automatically later. You can do that already in 0.6.1. It's

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem on booting after installation.

2003-10-15 Thread Roger Miliker
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 19:45, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi Kevin, Kevin Bucknum wrote: The PC used for testing is a slow machine PII500 256MB RAM. To overcome the difficulty can I make use of the 2nd CD. If YES, then HOW. I already have all packages on the 2nd CD copied to Gentoo 1.4

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem on booting after installation.

2003-10-15 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 01:45 PM 10/15/2003, you wrote: /usr/portage/packages/ # echo $PKGDIR empty return You have to define $PKGDIR first. You do that by export $PKGDIR=/path/to/your/package/dir Hall -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge mod_php error - fixed

2003-10-15 Thread Z
On Wednesday October 15 2003 11:32 am, Collins Richey wrote: On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 09:44:16 -0400 Z [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am unable to emerge mod_php due to a failure in emerging the pdflib dependency - the full output and error message is below. This is the only package I have not been

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: (mozilla) firbird 0.7 released

2003-10-15 Thread Brian Downey
Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well the latest firebird is out, but the download site seems to be pegged; I can't get there yet. What looks slicker-n-snot is the ability to bookmark a set of open tabs and reopen all automatically later. You can do that already in 0.6.1. It's

RE: [gentoo-user] Installing KDE and Xfree problem

2003-10-15 Thread Chase Jeffery D
I'm new to gentoo and I had no problems following the install doc Except for when I went and tried to compile iptables/netfilter into the gentoo-sources kernel... Yeah that's not working so well!!! :0) -Original Message- From: Jeffrey Smelser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

RE: [gentoo-user] New gentoo user

2003-10-15 Thread Chase Jeffery D
Thanks Øyvind!! At least I'm not the only person that has had this problem!!! -Original Message- From: Øyvind Stegard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 12:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo user On Wednesday 15 October 2003

Re: [gentoo-user] Update of Transcode

2003-10-15 Thread Paul Varner
Eric Marchionni wrote: Paul Stear wrote: I had the same issue. Upon looking into it further it is a problem with the mmx code not being configured correctly during the configure process. I don't know enough to determine if it is in the ebuild or the actual transcode code. But the

Re: [gentoo-user] A7V600 SATA - Is this supported by a Gentoo kernel?

2003-10-15 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Wednesday 15 Oct 2003 18:50, Mark Knecht wrote: Peter - as I understand the numbering, the VT8237 is the South Bridge on this motherboard which contains the SATA controller. Do the patches you indicate are now in the gs-sources kernel specifically include SATA patches? Or were you just

Re: [gentoo-user] COUNTER file

2003-10-15 Thread SMS WebMaster
No I don't have gnome 2.2 (I am sure) Steven Elling wrote: On Tuesday 14 October 2003 05:32, Sloan Poe wrote: On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 04:52, Mike Williams wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 14 October 2003 09:49, SMS WebMaster wrote: After upgrading to gnome 2.4 now

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge wants X on server

2003-10-15 Thread Spider
begin quote On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 14:43:01 +0200 Timo Boettcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Router root # emerge info | grep USE USE=crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif gtk imlib jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis pdflib png qt quicktime spell svga truetype xml2 xmms

Re: [gentoo-user] Distcc on LiveCD..?

2003-10-15 Thread Stroller
On Oct 14, 2003, at 1:13 am, Stroller wrote: On 14 Oct 2003, at 12:52 am, William Kenworthy wrote: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/experimental/ x86/livecd/ the one I used was different, this was a month ago though, and gcc was one 3.2 value less (both 3.2.n cant remember

Re: [gentoo-user] Cancelling eth0 start

2003-10-15 Thread BlueRibbon
Thanks, that was a great help! Patrick Marquetecken wrote: Hi, Now the long answer. I'm using a extra service (in boot) in witch you can choose with grub and i thin lilo also witch kind of network you will start, with thoose scripts you can change everything you can image. Internal network,

[gentoo-user] Remove user permission for graphical login - kdm

2003-10-15 Thread Eduardo Silva
Hello, Hope the subject isn't too confusing. Basically, when I emerged proftd, a user proftp was created. All this is fine and dandy, but the issue is that when I start kdm, the users that can login to the box are root, proftp and myself. Proftp is a user I do not want to even have in the kdm

[gentoo-user] make oldconfig does not care about me?

2003-10-15 Thread [jacob]
Hi all, I want to compile my new kernel like this: # cd /usr/src # cp linux/.config linux-new/ # cd linux-new/ # make oldconfig but everytime i have tried to make oldconfig it just starts flying through the options/answers (Y/n/m) all by itself. it's as if i was holding down the [enter]

Re: [gentoo-user] make oldconfig does not care about me?

2003-10-15 Thread Brian Downey
Hi all, I want to compile my new kernel like this: # cd /usr/src # cp linux/.config linux-new/ # cd linux-new/ # make oldconfig but everytime i have tried to make oldconfig it just starts flying through the options/answers (Y/n/m) all by itself. it's as if i was holding down the

RE: [gentoo-user] make oldconfig does not care about me?

2003-10-15 Thread Jeffrey Smelser
Make oldconfig automatically answers the questions that you have answered in the past with that response. if there are no new options, you won't do anything but watch crap fly on the screen.. :) -Original Message- From: [jacob] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 15,

Re: [gentoo-user] make oldconfig does not care about me?

2003-10-15 Thread Alan
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 02:35:45PM -0500, [jacob] wrote: Hi all, I want to compile my new kernel like this: # cd /usr/src # cp linux/.config linux-new/ # cd linux-new/ # make oldconfig but everytime i have tried to make oldconfig it just starts flying through the options/answers

RE: [gentoo-user] A7V600 SATA - Is this supported by a Gentoo kernel?

2003-10-15 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi Mark, I have a Gigabyte GA-7VT600 1394 board that also has the VIA KT600 chipset. I'm not using the builtin VT8237 but the patch Mathieu posted is identical to the driver included in at least the last three versions of gs-sources, so there's no need to patch gs-sources. Peter Peter,

Re: [gentoo-user] Linuxant DriverLoader

2003-10-15 Thread dickie
Hi Matthias I stumbled across it yesterday - I think it's very new (10th October ?) Having just bought a Belkin 54g wireless pci card this seemed like the only answer to getting it working with Linux (thanks Belkin tech support - you were a great help..not) It did everything it said it

Re: [gentoo-user] make oldconfig does not care about me?

2003-10-15 Thread [jacob]
On Wed Oct 15, 2003 at 01:14:55PM -0700, Alan wrote: That's what make oldconfig does, it takes your previous answers to options and applies then and continues on. It will only stop if there is an option in the new kernel that wasn't in the old kernel. If this didn't happen in the past

Re: [gentoo-user] make oldconfig does not care about me?

2003-10-15 Thread [jacob]
On Wed Oct 15, 2003 at 02:06:10PM -0700, Alan wrote: Just as a side note, from what I know you can remove the extra make in there and just do make dep bzImage modules modules_install and if any fail the entire process will stop. Doesn't really affect anything though, just some extra

[gentoo-user] Install stage-1 from the disk

2003-10-15 Thread Denis
Hello I would like to install Gentoo tuned for my hardware (Thinkpad 240) I don't have a bootable CD drive, is it possible to just untar the stage-1 archive on a partition and install there? I have a partition with Mandrake 9, a partition with my home folder and a partition for Gentoo.

RE: [gentoo-user] Install stage-1 from the disk

2003-10-15 Thread Jeffrey Smelser
short answer yes.. Long answer, technically, you can build it on just about any machine and transfer it over.. the machine your building on just must be able to support the pc your putting it on.. This is how I install all of mine, I have never used that live cd BS.. Hello I would like to

[gentoo-user] slow name resolution

2003-10-15 Thread Barry Marler
I read the thread at: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=91507highlight=resolving+host but, frankly, it sounds like a load to me. Name resolution on my two Gentoo boxes (one at work, on a Gig-E network, static; the other, at home, behind a Linksys router connected to a cable modem, dhcp)

[gentoo-user] Keyboard Layout Gnome 2.4

2003-10-15 Thread SMS WebMaster
Hi After I upgrade to Gnome 2.4 no I can't change my Keyboard layout with my keyboard (e.g. Shift+Alt) I am using Keyboard Layout Switcher 2.4.0 and I had change the Keyboard shortcuts option in the program preferences to Alt-Shift_L Anyone had the same problem ? -- http://www.4-SMS.Com

[gentoo-user] up2date files

2003-10-15 Thread mathieu perrenoud
mozilla family's new releases are out. I've always taunted my friends about being top of the edge with gentoo. Most of them are using mandrake and since you've to wait eons for new releaes, they're used to downlload/compile new things themselves. And now I'm stuck with an older version. Well...

Re: [gentoo-user] What's with Re: [gentoo-user] is there a good XF86config creator

2003-10-15 Thread Ron
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 09:40, Ernie Schroder wrote: I've gotten 4 copies of this message, all aparently sent at the same time but with different time stamps in the headers. Is this on my side or is someone else receiving these too? Same thing here. -- Ron [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] A7V600 SATA - Is this supported by a Gentoo kernel?

2003-10-15 Thread mathieu perrenoud
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 19:50, Mark Knecht wrote: Mattieu - can you confirm if you are using a SATA hard drive? Or are you using an EDIE drive on the more traditional parallel ATA interface that this motherboard offers? maTHieu please ;-) I'm using pure IDE, sorry. sata cables are still

Re: [gentoo-user] slow name resolution

2003-10-15 Thread Patrick M Geahan
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Barry Marler wrote: but, frankly, it sounds like a load to me. Name resolution on my two Gentoo boxes (one at work, on a Gig-E network, static; the other, at home, behind a Linksys router connected to a cable modem, dhcp) is ridiculously slow. At home, Mutt and

Re: [gentoo-user] Why are masked ebuilds masked?

2003-10-15 Thread Azhdeen
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 23:52, Roger Miliker wrote: I hope I answered your question err... yes peace, oops. i gotta stop to think before clicking Send... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Remove user permission for graphical login - kdm

2003-10-15 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Wednesday 15 Oct 2003 20:54, Eduardo Silva wrote: Hello, Hope the subject isn't too confusing. Basically, when I emerged proftd, a user proftp was created. All this is fine and dandy, but the issue is that when I start kdm, the users that can login to the box are root, proftp and myself.

Re: [gentoo-user] A7V600 SATA - Is this supported by a Gentoo kernel?

2003-10-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 16:07, mathieu perrenoud wrote: On Wednesday 15 October 2003 19:50, Mark Knecht wrote: Mattieu - can you confirm if you are using a SATA hard drive? Or are you using an EDIE drive on the more traditional parallel ATA interface that this motherboard offers? maTHieu

Re: [gentoo-user] A7V600 SATA - Is this supported by a Gentoo kernel?

2003-10-15 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Wednesday 15 Oct 2003 21:21, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi Mark, I have a Gigabyte GA-7VT600 1394 board that also has the VIA KT600 chipset. I'm not using the builtin VT8237 but the patch Mathieu posted is identical to the driver included in at least the last three versions of gs-sources, so

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