Re: [gentoo-user] Problem emerging avidemux

2003-10-21 Thread Petric Frank
Hello, answering my own post ... i tried to emerge avidemux. It failed with the following error: [...] I had instaled gtk+ 1.2.0. After ugrading to 2.2.1 all went well. I don't know why emerge did not trigger the upgrade himself (the requirement was in the *.emerge file of avidemux). This

Re: [gentoo-user] iTunes on linux?

2003-10-21 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Op di 21-10-2003, om 01:11 schreef Chris I: On 2003.10.20 17:03, Lotas T Smartman wrote: has anyone tired to get iTunes running on Linux yet? will wine or winex run it? any one tried yet? i have fallen in love with iTunes in just over 3 days and now im moving to linux tomorrow. i would

[gentoo-user] Permanently set parameters for eth0

2003-10-21 Thread Michael Gruetzner
Hi, I need to set my network device from 100MB/Fullduplex to 10MB/Halfduplex. I use ethtool to set the needed values but when I reboot, they are lost and my network card is on 100MB/FD again. Is there a way to store my preffered settings and autoload them when eth0 is comming up or do I have to

Re: [gentoo-user] Update question

2003-10-21 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Donnie, Thanks for your advice. _ snip_ 2) How to update ALL configuration files collectively/simultaneously afterwords? Run etc-update. Type the number of each file that shows up, and merge. If you _know_ you have never edited any of the files left on the list, you may choose to use

Re: [gentoo-user] Update question

2003-10-21 Thread sean m.
On 2003.10.21 02:17, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi Donnie, Thanks for your advice. _ snip_ 2) How to update ALL configuration files collectively/ simultaneously afterwords? Run etc-update. Type the number of each file that shows up, and merge. If you _know_ you have never edited any of the files left

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub setup fails

2003-10-21 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Op ma 20-10-2003, om 22:01 schreef Matt Garman: On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 09:10:13PM +0200, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: Is this the same for the grub.config ? Not the use of sda but only hda Yup. I discovered (by trial and error) that there are some subtleties to how grub sees disks. I

Re: [gentoo-user] iTunes on linux?

2003-10-21 Thread Lotas Smartman
so, this rythm box. this installed by emerge? ill check it out. does it do CD ripping? Thanks. Lotas Smartman, MCP www.lotas-smartman.net www.the-hairy-one.com www.lsn-blog.tk -Original Message- From: Patrick Marquetecken [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gentoo-user [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 21

[gentoo-user] Space left

2003-10-21 Thread Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos
Hi, How do I know how much space left I have in each partition? Best regards, -- Paulo J. Matos : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Instituto Superior Tecnico - Lisbon Computer and Software Eng. - A.I. - http://mega.ist.utl.pt/~pocm --- - God had a deadline... So, he wrote it all in

Re: [gentoo-user] cmedia 8738 + bt878, no sound

2003-10-21 Thread Michael Niethen
[Mon, 20 Oct 2003 19:58:17 -0500] Greg Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- : Here are my modules currently: lsmod Module Size Used byTainted: P floppy 47708 0 (autoclean) uhci 24624 0 (unused) ehci-hcd 14056 0 (unused)

Re: [gentoo-user] Space left

2003-10-21 Thread mathieu perrenoud
Hi, How do I know how much space left I have in each partition? df -- mathieu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Space left

2003-10-21 Thread Sven Kabelin
Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos wrote: Hi, How do I know how much space left I have in each partition? df -h cu Sven -- ### #\_O /\/ / \ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] iTunes on linux?

2003-10-21 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Op di 21-10-2003, om 09:35 schreef Lotas Smartman: so, this rythm box. this installed by emerge? ill check it out. does it do CD ripping? Thanks. Lotas Smartman, MCP www.lotas-smartman.net www.the-hairy-one.com www.lsn-blog.tk it does not do cdripping :-( and its in the portage, but it

Re: [gentoo-user] Space left

2003-10-21 Thread tobias.edler
Hi, How do I know how much space left I have in each partition? df Regards, Tobias -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Space left

2003-10-21 Thread Patrick
df -h for those of u who cant operate a calculator P - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 10:10 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Space left Hi, How do I know how much space left I have in each partition? df Regards, Tobias

Re: [gentoo-user] iTunes on linux?

2003-10-21 Thread Lotas Smartman
yea, i used grip before, and its quite cool, especially using gogo as the encoder. cant wait to get back to linux! :P anyway, pity rythmbox doesent support cd ripping. ill have to get used to using both! Lotas Smartman, MCP www.lotas-smartman.net www.the-hairy-one.com www.lsn-blog.tk

[gentoo-user] Converting video files

2003-10-21 Thread Paul Stear
Hi all, I have some mpeg2 files that I want to include into my DV film at the editing stage. Is this possible? The mpegs are 720x576 pal format Any advice will be welcome regards Paul -- This message was sent using gentoo linux and kmail -- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Update question

2003-10-21 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi seam Thanks for your advice. sean m. wrote: - snip - Run etc-update. Type the number of each file that shows up, and merge. If you _know_ you have never edited any of the files left on the list, you may choose to use the '-5' option. I am not very clear of what the advice indicated then

Re: [gentoo-user] Converting video files

2003-10-21 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 21 October 2003 09:55, Paul Stear wrote: Hi all, I have some mpeg2 files that I want to include into my DV film at the editing stage. Is this possible? The mpegs are 720x576 pal format Any advice will be welcome mencoder, as part of

Re: [gentoo-user] Space left

2003-10-21 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 21 October 2003 09:12, Patrick wrote: df -h for those of u who cant operate a calculator Or who are human, and want to see human readable values :) Then get extremely annoyed when using any non-GNU box (BSDs, Solaris, etc) :( - --

Re: [gentoo-user] Permanently set parameters for eth0

2003-10-21 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 21 October 2003 07:11, Michael Gruetzner wrote: I need to set my network device from 100MB/Fullduplex to 10MB/Halfduplex. I use ethtool to set the needed values but when I reboot, they are lost and my network card is on 100MB/FD again.

[gentoo-user] vhost apache2 config

2003-10-21 Thread Daniel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 fellow gentoo users, I've been struggling with this for a while and I'm sure its something small but I can't see it. Basic problem is that all the Named VirtualHosts that I have set up in the /etc/apache2/vhosts/vhosts.conf are served off the

Re: [gentoo-user] Space left

2003-10-21 Thread Patrick
Solaris 9 is a dh -h baby... ;) P - Original Message - From: Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 11:35 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Space left -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 21 October 2003 09:12, Patrick

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

2003-10-21 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Brett, In /etc/make.conf is a line for PORT_LOGDIR. Uncomment it and change it if you want the logs elsewhere. I could not discover PORT_LOGDIR there I found under Portage Directories == #PORTDIR=/usr/portage Can I add following line to /etc/make.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] Space left

2003-10-21 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 21 October 2003 10:38, Patrick wrote: Solaris 9 is a dh -h baby... ;) P Blimey, a unix in the real world, actually making an admins life easier, say it isn't so! :o) - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

[gentoo-user] xfree problem

2003-10-21 Thread xsebas
I am configuring Xfree I have a HP omnibook XE3L PIII 700, and I don't know vertical and horitzontal refresh to configure the monitor, does someone know this? what's the video card?? Thanks!! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] vhost apache2 config

2003-10-21 Thread Mike Arrison
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 07:11:29PM +0930, Daniel wrote: I've been struggling with this for a while and I'm sure its something small but I can't see it. I think I got it... not sure though... NameVirtualHost *:80 [snip] VirtualHost * [snip] VirtualHost * [snip] VirtualHost * I think the

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing /dev/sda* entries ???

2003-10-21 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Tuesday 21 Oct 2003 05:40, Stephane Brossier wrote: - one which says 'usb-uhci' instaed of 'uhci' (How can i know which one is good for me? uhci or usb-uhci?) I have 2 computers here. One has usb-uhci and the other has uhci and ohci. I just discovered that `lspci -vv | grep HCI` reports

Re: [gentoo-user] iTunes on linux?

2003-10-21 Thread gabriel
On October 21, 2003 03:35 am, Lotas Smartman wrote: so, this rythm box. this installed by emerge? ill check it out. does it do CD ripping? Thanks. if you want cd ripping and you're on a kde platform, k3b is pretty damn cool. if you're on a gnome platform, nothing beats grip. -- when the

Re: [gentoo-user] playing a VCD

2003-10-21 Thread Sigurd Stordal
bash-2.05b$ mplayer -vcd 1 Cache fill: 9.98% (836640 bytes)RAWDV file format detected. == Opening audio decoder: [libdv] Raw DV Audio Decoder Unknown/missing audio format - no sound Something is wrong with the cd, or

Re: [gentoo-user] iTunes on linux?

2003-10-21 Thread dave willis
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: it does not do cdripping :-( and its in the portage, but it needs a lot of Gnome For ripping i use grip. it *says* it does ripping. doesn't seem like itunes, though. with itunes i could download and buy all sorts of mainstream (and not so

Re: [gentoo-user] xfree problem

2003-10-21 Thread gabriel
On October 21, 2003 06:28 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am configuring Xfree I have a HP omnibook XE3L PIII 700, and I don't know vertical and horitzontal refresh to configure the monitor, does someone know this? what's the video card?? your best bet for something like that would be to

Re: [gentoo-user] MultiThreaded music rippers (was: iTunes on linux?)

2003-10-21 Thread Lotas Smartman
now theres a question. is there any app that i can use to rip 2 cds at once? i have 2 CD rom drives and 2 CPUs and enough memory (1gb) so i think its posible, but i dont know any apps that could do this. i tunes, although it seem both cds, wouldent rip both at once. see i have about 40 albums

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

2003-10-21 Thread brett holcomb
Not necessarily. However, I have /etc/make.conf on my list of those I manually update. If etc-update wants to update it I don't let it and then do a copy and paste from new to my exisiting. On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 13:08:28 +1000 Dennis Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 21 Oct 2003

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound problem

2003-10-21 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi mathieu, mathieu wrote: - snip - .config snip: # CONFIG_SOUND_EMU10K1 is not set media-sound/emu10k1 should also not be installed (but maybe it doesn't matter if it's installed anyway). Compile you kernel without emu10k1 support then run: ALSA_CARDS='emu10k1' emerge alsa-driver then add

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: How many of you are 100% Linux?

2003-10-21 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Op di 21-10-2003, om 13:47 schreef Eric Livingston: I'm curious regarding the penetration of linux as a comprehensive solution for all computing tasks in a normal day. i.e. what percentage of Linux users are 100% linux, or even 100% Gentoo for that matter. /snip One year ago i did the switch

Re: [gentoo-user] xfree problem

2003-10-21 Thread Stroller
On Oct 21, 2003, at 11:28 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a HP omnibook XE3L PIII 700, and I don't know vertical and horitzontal refresh to configure the monitor, does someone know this? what's the video card?? http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/hp.html A number of the authors linked to from

Re: [gentoo-user] MultiThreaded music rippers (was: iTunes on linux?)

2003-10-21 Thread Lotas Smartman
yea, that could work. ill try that. Thanks. Lotas Smartman, MCP www.lotas-smartman.net www.the-hairy-one.com www.lsn-blog.tk -Original Message- From: Sigurd Stordal [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 13:50:44 +0200 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] MultiThreaded

[gentoo-user] Recovering with reiserfs

2003-10-21 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Hello I think my filesystem/data is corrupted due to hangs and hard reset. I did a `reiserfsck --help` and tried a few options but it didn't work saying that the partition was mounted read/write so cannot perform option. My question is how can I recover with reiser without (1) reinstalling (2)

Re: [gentoo-user] xfree problem

2003-10-21 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Tuesday 21 October 2003 07:32 am, gabriel wrote: On October 21, 2003 06:28 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am configuring Xfree I have a HP omnibook XE3L PIII 700, and I don't know vertical and horitzontal refresh to configure the monitor, does someone know this? what's the video

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound problem

2003-10-21 Thread Sigurd Stordal
Now I have Gentoo 1.4 and KDE 3.1.4 running but without sound. emu10K1 has not been installed. # cd /usr/src/linux coming to # cp .config ~/ where is the correct path to the destination file I don't really understand it, I see no reason for doing this cp. you could do a cp .config

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering with reiserfs

2003-10-21 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 21 October 2003 13:21, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: Hello I think my filesystem/data is corrupted due to hangs and hard reset. I did a `reiserfsck --help` and tried a few options but it didn't work saying that the partition was mounted

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: How many of you are 100% Linux?

2003-10-21 Thread Gour
Eric Livingston ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm curious regarding the penetration of linux as a comprehensive solution for all computing tasks in a normal day. i.e. what percentage of Linux users are 100% linux, or even 100% Gentoo for that matter. From the beginning of '99 when I switched to

Re: [gentoo-user] Update question

2003-10-21 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 05:24 AM 10/21/2003, you wrote: I hesitate whether to proceed UPDATE as recommended if all config files will be rewritten. Not only adding extra work, but the difficulty to me is I am new to Gentoo only having it running for one (1) day. I am inexperienced to re-fix them back if Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Update question

2003-10-21 Thread Norm
Hall Stevenson wrote: Have you edited any files in /etc ?? The ones that will possibly get updated you probably haven't touched. It won't overwrite files like /etc/resolv.conf or /etc/hostname. It will often want to replace /etc/make.conf, for example. Again, when you run etc-update, it will

Re: [gentoo-user] vhost apache2 config

2003-10-21 Thread Daniel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I think I got it... not sure though... Yep you got it. I think the problem is that you have a mismatch between the binding of the virtual host *:80 and the individual named hosts *. I'd try either removing the port number from the

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: How many of you are 100% Linux?

2003-10-21 Thread Eric Livingston
I'm curious regarding the penetration of linux as a comprehensive solution for all computing tasks in a normal day. i.e. what percentage of Linux users are 100% linux, or even 100% Gentoo for that matter. From the beginning of '99 when I switched to Linux (1st SuSE) (from OS/2) I just

[gentoo-user] gtk2 and fonts

2003-10-21 Thread Andrew Kirilenko
Hello! I have got following problem. After some update (not gtk2 or xfree or other font-related) and rebooting I have got very small (something like 10pt instead of 12) fonts in all gtk2 apps (I don't have any other gui apps, so I can't tell nothing about them). After running fc-cache -f` and

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: How many of you are 100% Linux?

2003-10-21 Thread gabriel
On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 08:48, Eric Livingston wrote: Does that include work as well? I'm really curious about folks who have managed to convert to Linux not just at home (which is far easier) but also at work, so that 100% of their own computing time in both work and play is done in a linux

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: How many of you are 100% Linux?

2003-10-21 Thread Eric Marchionni
Eric Livingston wrote: I'm curious regarding the penetration of linux as a comprehensive solution for all computing tasks in a normal day. i.e. what percentage of Linux users are 100% linux, or even 100% Gentoo for that matter. Eric i'm 100% linux. i used to boot into w2k for gaming purposes.

Re: [gentoo-user] Update question

2003-10-21 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 07:42 AM 10/21/2003, you wrote: Hall Stevenson wrote: Have you edited any files in /etc ?? The ones that will possibly get updated you probably haven't touched. It won't overwrite files like /etc/resolv.conf or /etc/hostname. It will often want to replace /etc/make.conf, for example. Again,

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: How many of you are 100% Linux?

2003-10-21 Thread Redeeman
i do! :) On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 13:47, Eric Livingston wrote: I'm curious regarding the penetration of linux as a comprehensive solution for all computing tasks in a normal day. i.e. what percentage of Linux users are 100% linux, or even 100% Gentoo for that matter. I know a couple of folks

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: How many of you are 100% Linux?

2003-10-21 Thread Jeff MacDonald
I use Gentoo 99% of the time, but occasionaly have to startup vmware with XP for the occasional webpage that will only cooperate with IE. Oh, and I'm gonna get lynched for this, but I actually like a couple of the Microsoft games out there, like Rally Challenge or flight sim. So yes, there is an

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: How many of you are 100% Linux?

2003-10-21 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 08:48 AM 10/21/2003, you wrote: For example, an administrator who runs 100% linux at home, but works in both Linux and Windows server at work would not be 100% Linux by this definition. Nor would an admin that has 100% Linux servers, but also admins 10 Windows-based client machines in his

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: How many of you are 100% Linux?

2003-10-21 Thread Jeff MacDonald
Which radeon do you have ? I have a 7500 and quake 3 works just dandy in linux for me. JEff. On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 10:02, gabriel wrote: On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 08:48, Eric Livingston wrote: Does that include work as well? I'm really curious about folks who have managed to convert to Linux

RE: [gentoo-user] OT: How many of you are 100% Linux?

2003-10-21 Thread Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower)
I was 100% slackware, then 100% debian, and now 100% gentoo. I have to use NT at work though...blech. -Nathan -Original Message- From: Patrick Marquetecken Op di 21-10-2003, om 13:47 schreef Eric Livingston: I'm curious regarding the penetration of linux as a comprehensive solution

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: How many of you are 100% Linux?

2003-10-21 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 09:10 AM 10/21/2003, you wrote: Oh, and I'm gonna get lynched for this, but I actually like a couple of the Microsoft games out there, like Rally Challenge or flight sim. So yes, there is an XP partition on my drive. Only by the narrow (or is it close ?) minded :-) Hall -- [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: How many of you are 100% Linux?

2003-10-21 Thread gabriel
i'm using the ati all-in-wonder radeon. since i use the tv features of the card far more often than the 3d features, putting up with the cryptic instructions from the gatos folks to install drm just wasn't worth it. On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 09:10, Jeff MacDonald wrote: Which radeon do you have ?

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: How many of you are 100% Linux?

2003-10-21 Thread a park
at home, 100% linux. at work 100% windows (to my dismay). andrew _ Enjoy MSN 8 patented spam control and more with MSN 8 Dial-up Internet Service. Try it FREE for one month! http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/dialup -- [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: How many of you are 100% Linux?

2003-10-21 Thread Eric Livingston
For example, an administrator who runs 100% linux at home, but works in both Linux and Windows server at work would not be 100% Linux by this definition. Nor would an admin that has 100% Linux servers, but also admins 10 Windows-based client machines in his office. I have to disagree with

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: How many of you are 100% Linux?

2003-10-21 Thread Jeff MacDonald
Lol, I have the same card. So you're saying it's a pain to get the gatos stuff working with the DRM stuff ? That's a shame.. cause I got the DRM working, but haven't tried the gatos stuff yet. How do you find it ? Jeff. On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 10:27, gabriel wrote: i'm using the ati

RE: [gentoo-user] x86 installation problem

2003-10-21 Thread Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower)
Hello, You were right. My CD was bad. I burned a new one. Unfortunately it doesn't have the nice picture like the old one. :( The weird thing is I got the error again with the new CD once. And I've froze twice during the install. I think something might be flaky with my dvd drive. Despite the

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: How many of you are 100% Linux?

2003-10-21 Thread Vincent Schut
On 2003.10.21 13:47, Eric Livingston wrote: I'm curious regarding the penetration of linux as a comprehensive solution for all computing tasks in a normal day. i.e. what percentage of Linux users are 100% linux, or even 100% Gentoo for that matter. snip I'm 100% linux, not 100% Gentoo. Working in

Re: [gentoo-user] Update question

2003-10-21 Thread norm
You know, now that you mention is, I seem to recall that it wanted to replace mine once too. Luckily I caught it ! This is one thing where Gentoo's package system needs work. With RPM or APT, it always backs up your current file(s) and appends a meaningful name to it. I agree, If I had been a

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: How many of you are 100% Linux?

2003-10-21 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 04:47, Eric Livingston wrote: I'm curious regarding the penetration of linux as a comprehensive solution for all computing tasks in a normal day. i.e. what percentage of Linux users are 100% linux, or even 100% Gentoo for that matter. I am a hardware guy, so I'm not sure

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: How many of you are 100% Linux?

2003-10-21 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 09:31 AM 10/21/2003, you wrote: However, whether it's because of work pressure or whatnot, the fictitious admin in my example does not use linux 100% of the time - whether he likes it or not. I think I feel this way after subscribing to the debian-user mailing list for so many years. As you

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: How many of you are 100% Linux?

2003-10-21 Thread Frank R Callaghan
100% YES, 75% gentoo 25% RH ( I had a lot of trouble geting WinTV working so I'm a little worried about convering that system to gentoo) I have to maintain lots of windoze crud systems at work - but don't have to use one ;) linux servers (were NT4 - converted, no body ever noticed) life is good

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: How many of you are 100% Linux?

2003-10-21 Thread martin
Does that include work as well? I'm really curious about folks who have managed to convert to Linux not just at home (which is far easier) but also at work, so that 100% of their own computing time in both work and play is done in a linux environment. For example, an administrator

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: How many of you are 100% Linux?

2003-10-21 Thread Chris Bare
I'm really wondering how many folks out there are so fully converted to Linux in both work and play that they would literally be unfamiliar with XP, for instance, having never used it. There was a slashdot article a few weeks back that probably planted the seed for this question. It was a

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: How many of you are 100% Linux?

2003-10-21 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Hello, Am Dienstag, 21. Oktober 2003 13:47 schrieb Eric Livingston: I'm curious regarding the penetration of linux as a comprehensive solution for all computing tasks in a normal day. i.e. what percentage of Linux users are 100% linux, or even 100% Gentoo for that matter. I know a couple of

[gentoo-user] OT: power pc simulator and mac on linux

2003-10-21 Thread Lotas Smartman
right. i have a question about something. im always looking to try get a powerpc emulator, but never found one. now, there is a powerpc simulator. not 100% sure the difference of a simulator and a emulator, but anyway. the simulator will run linux power pc apps under linux on an i386. my

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: How many of you are 100% Linux?

2003-10-21 Thread Mads Kristensen
At home I'm 100% linux, at work we have 70% linux and 30% windows. -Mads On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 09:29:48 -0400 a park [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: at home, 100% linux. at work 100% windows (to my dismay). andrew _ Enjoy MSN 8

Re: [gentoo-user] Converting video files

2003-10-21 Thread Prabhat Gupta
try transcode emerge transcode http://www.theorie.physik.uni-goettingen.de/~ostreich/transcode/html/index.html Good luck Prabhat Paul Stear wrote: Hi all, I have some mpeg2 files that I want to include into my DV film at the editing stage. Is this possible? The mpegs are 720x576 pal format

Re: [gentoo-user] xfree problem

2003-10-21 Thread eric heller
On my laptop, I just ran XFree86 -configure as root. It places as config file in /root which you can copy over to /etc/X11. This worked for me without the need to enter the correct refresh rates. eric heller [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 10:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am

Re: [gentoo-user] gtk2 and fonts

2003-10-21 Thread eric heller
I had a similar problem, although my fonts were appearing about twice as large as they should have been. A couple of things: 1. in gnome, try gnome-font-properties. There's a setting for application font faces and sizes, as well as a font DPI setting (look under details). 2. after doing this I

Re: [gentoo-user] cmedia 8738 + bt878, no sound

2003-10-21 Thread Greg Donald
Don't see any sound module in this list. You could try to load it manually : # modprobe cmpci There's no difference with having it as a module or not, I've tried it that way already. -- Greg Donald http://destiney.com/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Update question

2003-10-21 Thread brett holcomb
Yes, you have to look at what it wants to update. If it's a file you edit then see what it wants to change. I have some on my list (make.conf, fstab) that I always do manually. You can't just tell etc-update to run and let it loose. On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 12:42:29 +0100 Norm [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound problem

2003-10-21 Thread Robert Crawford
On Tuesday 21 October 2003 8:25 am, Sigurd Stordal wrote: Now I have Gentoo 1.4 and KDE 3.1.4 running but without sound. emu10K1 has not been installed. # cd /usr/src/linux coming to # cp .config ~/ where is the correct path to the destination file I don't really understand it,

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: How many of you are 100% Linux?

2003-10-21 Thread Nate Duehr
Eric Livingston wrote: For example, an administrator who runs 100% linux at home, but works in both Linux and Windows server at work would not be 100% Linux by this definition. Nor would an admin that has 100% Linux servers, but also admins 10 Windows-based client machines in his office. I am

Re: [gentoo-user] MultiThreaded music rippers (was: iTunes on linux?)

2003-10-21 Thread Matt Garman
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 01:50:44PM +0200, Sigurd Stordal wrote: now theres a question. is there any app that i can use to rip 2 cds at once? i have 2 CD rom drives and 2 CPUs and enough memory (1gb) so i think Well you could use two instances of grip, and set the cdrom device in the

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: How many of you are 100% Linux?

2003-10-21 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Nathan, I was Windows + Mandrake then Windows + Redhat and am now turning to Gentoo. I never run Debian before. I am interested to know what is the difference between Gentoo and Debian. Thanks B.R. Stephen Liu Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower) wrote: I was 100% slackware, then 100%

[gentoo-user] YOU HAVE A BROKEN PYTHON/GLIBC. ~?

2003-10-21 Thread raptor
Why I still get this, when I have recompiled python with -mno-sse2 !!! == # emerge halflife-adminmod Calculating dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 2) games-server/halflife-adminmod-2.50.56a to / !!! YOU HAVE A BROKEN PYTHON/GLIBC. !!! You are most likely on a pentium4 box and

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: How many of you are 100% Linux?

2003-10-21 Thread Nate Duehr
Stephen Liu wrote: I was Windows + Mandrake then Windows + Redhat and am now turning to Gentoo. I never run Debian before. I am interested to know what is the difference between Gentoo and Debian. Debian - mainly a binary distribution with source packages available for rebuild of anything

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: How many of you are 100% Linux?

2003-10-21 Thread David Gethings
On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 14:44, Frank R Callaghan wrote: 100% YES, 75% gentoo 25% RH ( I had a lot of trouble geting WinTV working so I'm a little worried about convering that system to gentoo) I have to maintain lots of windoze crud systems at work - but don't have to use one ;) linux

Re: [gentoo-user] Update question

2003-10-21 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 10:42 AM 10/21/2003, you wrote: Yes, you have to look at what it wants to update. If it's a file you edit then see what it wants to change. I have some on my list (make.conf, fstab) that I always do manually. You can't just tell etc-update to run and let it loose. There's a few files,

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: How many of you are 100% Linux?

2003-10-21 Thread dave willis
On Tuesday 21 October 2003 11:47 am, Eric Livingston wrote: I'm curious regarding the penetration of linux as a comprehensive solution for all computing tasks in a normal day. i.e. what percentage of Linux users are 100% linux, or even 100% Gentoo for that matter. 00:06:01 up 8 days, 6:16,

Re: [gentoo-user] Update question

2003-10-21 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Hall - snip - I hesitate whether to proceed UPDATE as recommended if all config files will be rewritten. Not only adding extra work, but the difficulty to me is I am new to Gentoo only having it running for one (1) day. I am inexperienced to re-fix them back if Gentoo can't run properly

Re: [gentoo-user] iTunes on linux?

2003-10-21 Thread Eric Marchionni
gabriel wrote: if you want cd ripping and you're on a kde platform, k3b is pretty damn cool. how do you rip an audio cd (to mp3 or wav) with k3b? i don't see the option... anyway, what's the best app to rip cd's to mp3s? thx eric -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] iTunes on linux?

2003-10-21 Thread Jens Mayer
* On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 17:35:38 +0200, Eric Marchionni wrote: anyway, what's the best app to rip cd's to mp3s? Take a look at grip: http://nostatic.org/grip/ It's available in portage, of course. ;) Regards, Jens -- Are you having fun yet? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] openoffice-ximian icons directory

2003-10-21 Thread Collins Richey
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 14:29:16 -0500 John Ross Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's compiling now, as I type, using the Ximian ebuild for OpenOffice as suggested here: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=92757highlight=openoffice If you're wondering what's different with the Ximian

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: How many of you are 100% Linux?

2003-10-21 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Nate, Thanks for your information. I will have a test on Debian if times allows B.R. Stephen Nate Duehr wrote: Stephen Liu wrote: I was Windows + Mandrake then Windows + Redhat and am now turning to Gentoo. I never run Debian before. I am interested to know what is the difference

Re: [gentoo-user] iTunes on linux?

2003-10-21 Thread gabriel
On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 11:35, Eric Marchionni wrote: gabriel wrote: if you want cd ripping and you're on a kde platform, k3b is pretty damn cool. how do you rip an audio cd (to mp3 or wav) with k3b? i don't see the option... anyway, what's the best app to rip cd's to mp3s? in k3b-0.10,

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: How many of you are 100% Linux?

2003-10-21 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 11:18 AM 10/21/2003, you wrote: The downside is Debian is VERY slow to release stuff into their stable branch As an example, Debian's stable branch includes KDE v2.2. kdebase-3.1.3 made into unstable on July 30th. When did KDE release v3.1.3 ?? Debian (stable) is shipping Gnome 1.4; unstable

Re: [gentoo-user] Update question

2003-10-21 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 11:29 AM 10/21/2003, you wrote: Again, when you run etc-update, it will *LIST* all of the files it wants to update. You could probably 'cat' that list to a file too. Can I deselect some of the files LISTED? Follow the prompts... Hall -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I setup a cluster?

2003-10-21 Thread Collins Richey
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 06:12:19 +0800 William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In evolution control-t will turn threading on/off Threading sucks anyway, not least because it promotes dissention intollerance. WTF is dissention intolerance? -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your

Re: [gentoo-user] Broken kdm, more clues

2003-10-21 Thread Fred Wade
Logging in to user account in console mode and typing startx starts kde automatically. Logging into root in console and typing xdm gives a non kdm login screen, and logging in to the user account starts kde. Is there a good place I can put some debug statements to see what is happening? Fred

Re: [gentoo-user] cmedia 8738 + bt878, no sound

2003-10-21 Thread Michael Niethen
[Tue, 21 Oct 2003 09:40:47 -0500] Greg Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- : There's no difference with having it as a module or not, I've tried it that way already. This is the output i have : # lsmod ... cmpci 25428 0 (autoclean) soundcore 4388 2 (autoclean)

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: How many of you are 100% Linux?

2003-10-21 Thread Gour
Eric Livingston ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Does that include work as well? I'm really curious about folks who have managed to convert to Linux not just at home (which is far easier) but also at work, so that 100% of their own computing time in both work and play is done in a linux

Re: [gentoo-user] iTunes on linux?

2003-10-21 Thread Jeff MacDonald
I use kaudiocreator, it's simple does ogg and cddb. That's all I really need. Jeff. On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 12:59, gabriel wrote: On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 11:35, Eric Marchionni wrote: gabriel wrote: if you want cd ripping and you're on a kde platform, k3b is pretty damn cool. how do you

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering with reiserfs

2003-10-21 Thread Andrew Heberle
Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: Hello I think my filesystem/data is corrupted due to hangs and hard reset. I did a `reiserfsck --help` and tried a few options but it didn't work saying that the partition was mounted read/write so cannot perform option. My question is how can I recover with reiser

Re: [gentoo-user] fonts problem

2003-10-21 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Bryce wrote: I came across an interesting problem. Both Abiword and OO can recognize and display New Times Roman fonts without issue. However, i can't find the fonts in the font pulldown or menus. Something must be misconfigured somewhere, any ideas where? First run xlsfonts | grep nimbus and

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