[gentoo-user] Re: Where the heck is Bitchx?

2003-10-10 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Jayson Garrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This morning I needed to get some info from irc so I decided to fireup bitchx. I cannot find it on my system. Portage thinks it is there... I've had a similar problem with other ebuilds, but this week's Gentoo Weekly Newsletter has the solution: qpkg.

[gentoo-user] Re: what is using all my processor?

2003-10-12 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Ernie Schroder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 8394 root 25 0 796 796 624 R 99.0 0.2 127:50.12 dialog I just noticed the box lagging a bit and from top I see the above I have no VT's opened and no root consoles running, WTF is going on? I have noticed that any Konsole I open dies after a

[gentoo-user] Re: what is using all my processor?

2003-10-12 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Eamon Caddigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ernie Schroder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 8394 root 25 0 796 796 624 R 99.0 0.2 127:50.12 dialog I just noticed the box lagging a bit and from top I see the above I have no VT's opened and no root consoles running, WTF is going on? I have

[gentoo-user] Re: playing a VCD

2003-10-18 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Bruce E. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am able to mount this VCD, and I can see four directories, but it wont play on anything. I tried gxine, and aKtion, yet neither can see the contents either. Where can I go from there? I like mplayer, which can play VCDs with 'mplayer -vcd track'

[gentoo-user] Re: animated gifs

2003-10-19 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Andrew Gaffney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a good program for Linux (preferably with an ebuild) that allows you to make animated GIFs. I'm interested in making 32x32 animated GIFs for buddy icons for AIM. ImageMagick's 'convert' tool can make animated GIFs. emerge imagemagick -Eamon

[gentoo-user] Re: animated gifs

2003-10-19 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Andrew Gaffney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eamon Caddigan wrote: Andrew Gaffney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a good program for Linux (preferably with an ebuild) that allows you to make animated GIFs. I'm interested in making 32x32 animated GIFs for buddy icons for AIM. ImageMagick's

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

2003-10-21 Thread Eamon Caddigan
dave willis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, tony Scharf wrote: I am NOT 100% linux, and I will tell you why: I am a musician. currently, there are NO apps that can even come close to comparing to the capability and features of their windows/mac counterparts. what apps do

[gentoo-user] Re: How to connect broadband automatically at booting

2003-10-22 Thread Eamon Caddigan
M-A Loyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stephen Liu wrote: Kindly advise how to configure the OS to have ISP/broadband connected automatically at booting. You can add a start-up script for your DSL in your init.d folder. It should look like this : ( /etc/init.d/net.adsl ) Just out of

[gentoo-user] Re: Command Prompt question

2003-10-25 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Dennis Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 20:00, Barry Marler wrote: I may as well add that you'll have to re-source .bashrc, a la: source ~/.bashrc (or simply . ~/.bashrc). On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 05:55, Barry Marler wrote: Append PS1='\[\033[01;31m\]\h

[gentoo-user] kernel bug on shutdown (umount segfault)

2003-11-01 Thread Eamon Caddigan
I'm getting the following error whenever I shutdown or restart: kernel BUG at inode.c:1105! invalid operand: CPU:0 EIP:0010:[c01e2388] Not tainted EFLAGS: 00010246 eax: cd03ca20 ebx: cd03ca20 ecx: cd03cb34 edx: cd03cb34 esi: cd160600 edi: ebp: d08fc3c0 esp:

[gentoo-user] Re: iptables

2003-11-09 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Brian Doob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, it's getting better, but it still doesn't work. Here's what happens: root # iptables -t nat -I POSTROUTING -j MASQUERAQDE -s 192.168.1.3/16 /lib/modules/2.4.22-ck1/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o: unresolved symbol nf_unregister_sockopt

[gentoo-user] Re: iptables

2003-11-09 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Dennis Freise [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --Signature=_Sun__9_Nov_2003_19_20_11_+0100_KkMeCY42_=g+UfKT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 17:36:21 + (UTC) Eamon Caddigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: root

[gentoo-user] Masked package when upgrading world

2003-11-09 Thread Eamon Caddigan
I have only two masked packages installed, but they're causing me trouble when updating world. I'm using Tcl and Tk 8.4.4, and the following happens: -- begin: emerge -pvUD world --upgradeonly implies --update... adding --update to options. These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

[gentoo-user] Re: Masked package when upgrading world

2003-11-10 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Hall Stevenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 23:14, Eamon Caddigan wrote: I have only two masked packages installed, but they're causing me trouble when updating world. I'm using Tcl and Tk 8.4.4, and the following happens: -- begin: emerge -pvUD world --upgradeonly

[gentoo-user] Re: Masked package when upgrading world

2003-11-10 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Hall Stevenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 09:47, Eamon Caddigan wrote: Hall Stevenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, I realize I wasn't very clear: Tcl and Tk are the only masked packages on my system. Trying: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge -pvu tcl tk Indicates that I

[gentoo-user] Re: assigning net.eth? to specific nethwork devices

2003-11-10 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Jeffrey Smelser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can autoload the module on boot in the order you want them to be. /etc/modules.autoload is a good start. Out of curiosity, what's the difference between /etc/modules.autoload and /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.X? It would make sense if you put

[gentoo-user] Re: Masked package when upgrading world

2003-11-11 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Eamon Caddigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right, but since I already have the latest (unstable) versions of Tcl/Tk, upgrading/updating them doesn't change anything. My problem is that emerge is returning errors when I try to update world with the upgradeonly flag. Well, as a temporary hack

[gentoo-user] Re: X server - no screens found

2003-11-11 Thread Eamon Caddigan
downtime null [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ah. i assumed incorrectly! ha! i've been having trouble getting the drivers from nvidia to work, so i thought his problem was specific to the driver not working correctly. oh well. so, i've been having trouble getting the 'nvidia' driver to work.

[gentoo-user] Re: Masked package when upgrading world

2003-11-11 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Doug Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 07:37, Eamon Caddigan wrote: Well, as a temporary hack, I went ahead and 'injected' the latest unmasked versions of Tcl/Tk (dev-lang/tcl-8.3.4 and dev-lang/tk-8.3.4-r1). Now, `emerge -pvuD world' doesn't try to downgrade Tcl/Tk

[gentoo-user] Re: Masked package when upgrading world

2003-11-11 Thread Eamon Caddigan
rd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If emerge -u world is trying to downgrade packages, you can use /etc/portage.mask and /etc/portage.umask to set your own permanent masks -- not trashed by an rsync. This seems like a cleaner solution (other than portage working right g), but I'm having trouble. I

[gentoo-user] Re: Masked package when upgrading world

2003-11-12 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Jason Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 12 November 2003 14:55, Eamon Caddigan wrote: rd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If emerge -u world is trying to downgrade packages, you can use /etc/portage.mask and /etc/portage.umask to set your own permanent masks -- not trashed by an rsync

[gentoo-user] Re: Runnig an X Application without using the X-Server ?

2003-11-15 Thread Eamon Caddigan
David A. Bandel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --=.CT)Vc9(kosSjud Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 12:59:45 +0100 humbaba [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I was wondering if it is possible to start an X

[gentoo-user] Re: Runnig an X Application without using the X-Server ?

2003-11-15 Thread Eamon Caddigan
David A. Bandel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 22:59:09 + (UTC) Eamon Caddigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Proper fast user switch would be such a killer cool app, I hope you do it. I'd probably never do it alone. Instead: anyone else interested in this, please drop me

[gentoo-user] Re: Runnig an X Application without using the X-Server ?

2003-11-15 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Jason Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 16 November 2003 07:11, Eamon Caddigan wrote: I always thought this feature would be worked into Gnome or KDE... Doesn't gdm and gnome2 provide this functionality? :) Does it? A quick search didn't turn up anything. Looks like Xandros does

[gentoo-user] Re: Masked package when upgrading world

2003-11-17 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Alexander Futasz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 15:46:57 + (UTC), Eamon Caddigan wrote: Currently when using a ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=arch system and mixing it with some ~arch ebuilds it will break 'emerge -UDvp world'. Leaving the -D (deep) out will fix this, but of course wont

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo internal structure

2003-11-20 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Sergey V. Spiridonov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hall Stevenson wrote: Outside of Debian, I think people consider software free if they can download it, use it, and NOT have to pay for it. I do at least. There are several meanings of the word 'free' in English. Here is the quotation from

[gentoo-user] Re: building openoffice

2003-11-20 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Chris Graves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a request then: Would someone with adequate diskspace (and time, etc) be willing to compile it for me (w/ my make.conf)? Somebody already has: emerge -pv openoffice-bin -Eamon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: nmap/iptables

2003-11-23 Thread Eamon Caddigan
SN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] (The 1597 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed) Port State Service 6/tcp filteredunknown 25/tcp filteredsmtp 80/tcp openhttp 135/tcp

[gentoo-user] Re: safe gnome/kde testing

2003-11-24 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Christian Schäfer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi gentoo-user, I want to test gnome and kde and maybe some other desktops. but as soon as I decided which one to use, I want to get rid of the others. can I safly unmerge kde and everything is fine? or are there traces of the install left on my

[gentoo-user] Re: update: c++ performance: gentoo, debian, window s

2003-11-24 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That is weird. A compiler should generate the same code whether it is optimized or unoptimized. It would be interesting to hear an explanation from the gcc folk as to what causes this. Plenty of programs break when compiled with

[gentoo-user] Re: update: c++ performance: gentoo, debian, wi ndow s

2003-11-24 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Eamon Caddigan Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That is weird. A compiler should generate the same code whether it is optimized or unoptimized. It would be interesting to hear an explanation from the gcc

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge failes

2003-11-26 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Michael Spohn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you able to run /bin/sh by itself? My hunch is a hard drive problem because everything else looks OK. No problem at all. Even a script hello #!/bin/sh echo Hello World produces Hello World Out of curiosity, is this working script on a

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-users] self-compiling external programs

2003-12-12 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Primero.Franz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm tryng to compile by myself the CVS version of mplayer. when i try the normal ./configure make make install i receive this error message : bash: ./configure: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied This error is usually the result of

[gentoo-user] Re: Iso : To be or not to be bootable ...

2003-12-15 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Ciortea Cristian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering if there is a way to check and see if a .iso is bootable .. Anybody has a clue ? Just a guess... od [-t x1] filename.iso | less I'm going from memory here -- so please excuse any innacuracies -- but the first several 2048-byte sectors

[gentoo-user] Re: File list from package?

2003-12-18 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Patrick Börjesson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AFAIK there's no way to see what files would be installed by an emerge before hand. Well, it's pretty convoluted, but the following method will tell you what files will be installed by a package if you NEED to know: ebuild ebuild path install cd

[gentoo-user] Re: dvdwriter package

2003-12-28 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Gerhard W Gruber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did an esearch and found the following two packages: * app-cdr/dvdrtools Latest version available: 0.1.4 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 1,407 kB Homepage:

[gentoo-user] Re: devfs problem

2004-01-01 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Call me OLD FASHION, but devfs is the first thing I dump after installing gentoo on a new box. The steps I take are; recompile the kernel without devfs support, add gentoo-nodevfs to the append line in lilo.conf, correct any defvs associations iin

[gentoo-user] Re: worm games

2004-01-01 Thread Eamon Caddigan
William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My youngster likes the worm type games on the console. He used to play with nil back in the bad old (mandrake) days, but it seems this game is very out of date (mid 2000) and the tarball doesnt want to compile under latest gentoo. Does anyone know

[gentoo-user] Re: GUI install

2004-01-02 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 02 January 2004 16:37, Mac Intyre, Steven wrote: Hi all, Is there possible a GUI install interface for Gentoo - similar to Mandrake. no, and I hope, that there will be never one. genflags/genkernel and the rest of this crap is

[gentoo-user] Re: how long does it take to commit a patch to portage

2004-01-02 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Gerhard W Gruber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 20:31:30 +, Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not really. Contributed ebuilds will generally be accepted pretty quickly so long as they meet the following criteria: * The package is maintained upstream What exactly

[gentoo-user] Re: System Load Monitor

2004-01-04 Thread Eamon Caddigan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 01:39:49 -0500 KamaolaKid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok, below is the message and reply is it possible your (and the other 3 people before you who replied) mail reader is broken? WHY QUOTE THE ENTIRE FREAKING MESSAGE???! Are

[gentoo-user] Re: Tip Winamp 2 Skins for XMMS

2004-01-04 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Norberto Bensa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SN wrote: you can use winamp 2 skins *.wsz with xmms XMMS must die. It's ugly. Hard to use. Stop using a WinAmp clone. If you're using KDE take a look at JuK. Or Rhythmbox if you're on Gnome. Start using an iTunes clone. -Eamon -- [EMAIL

[gentoo-user] Re: need help unsubscribing

2004-01-06 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Brian Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: P.S. I am trying to unsubscribe because I recently discovered there is a Usenet gateway for this list. How come the email addresses of posters to this list aren't obscured to prevent harvesting by bots? You should be aware that you can only post to the

[gentoo-user] Re: need help unsubscribing

2004-01-06 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Gerhard W Gruber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 19:31:13 + (UTC), Eamon Caddigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should be aware that you can only post to the group through gmane if you're subscribed to the list. Whats gmane? That's the mail-to-news gateway I'm using

[gentoo-user] Re: need help unsubscribing

2004-01-06 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Gerhard W Gruber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 20:53:59 + (UTC), Eamon Caddigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's the mail-to-news gateway I'm using to read this list (right now!). Yes, that's it. If you remain subscribed, you can read and post to the group through the news

[gentoo-user] Memory Usage

2004-01-07 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Sorry if this is a trivial question... But I recently upgraded my RAM (from 245 MB to 768 MB), and because of this, I've been paying close attention to my memory usage. I was pretty surprised to see that I'm still hitting swap after running a couple simple apps in X. ps shows that none of the

[gentoo-user] Re: Memory Usage

2004-01-07 Thread Eamon Caddigan
David Hollister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 21:29, Eamon Caddigan wrote: Sorry if this is a trivial question... But I recently upgraded my RAM (from 245 MB to 768 MB), and because of this, I've been paying close attention to my memory usage. I was pretty surprised to see

[gentoo-user] Re: Memory Usage

2004-01-08 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Pooh Sun Tzu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe it is just me, but I've never in my entire experience had swap touched. And that is at 400 megs of RAM, in gnome, XFCE4, and fluxbox. Cached, sure. But he is running into swap, and that isn't supposed to happen. Well, I wrote a script to check my

[gentoo-user] Re: nmap/iptables

2004-01-09 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Eamon Caddigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] (The 1597 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed) Port State Service 6/tcp filteredunknown 25/tcp filtered

[gentoo-user] Re: problem installing audacity

2004-01-10 Thread Eamon Caddigan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 04:36:34AM -0600, Chris wrote: md5 src_uri ;-) audacity-src-1.1.3.tgz Unpacking source... * * Audacity will not build with wxGTK compiled * against gtk2. Make sure you have set * -gtk2 in use for this program to

[gentoo-user] Re: server use-flags

2004-01-10 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Ben Munat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First, apologies for (sort of) re-sending a thread, but I realized that asking about the best packages to install for a web server was jumping the gun a bit. I need to set my USE flags and update my system first. So, is anyone on this list running a gentoo

[gentoo-user] Re: joystick and Linux games

2004-01-11 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Andrew Gaffney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that I've finally got my joystick working, I can't remember what game I wanted it for from about 6 months ago when I originally tried to get it working. So now, in order to justify the time I spent getting the joystick to work, I'm looking for a good

[gentoo-user] XFS won't work with port -1

2004-01-11 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Another XFS thread -- but I've been able to get it working. I just can't get it to work with the default port, -1. Before, in /etc/X11/XF86Config, I had: FontPath unix/:-1 and in /etc/conf.d/xfs, I had: XFS_PORT=-1 With this configuration, XFS would log the following error: xfs: cannot

[gentoo-user] Re: i need to wine to run...

2004-01-12 Thread Eamon Caddigan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the setup program is made with install shield you need to install dcom95.exe first into your fake_windows Hmm, where can this file be found? Microsoft has a page offering it (http://www.microsoft.com/com/dcom/dcom95/download.asp), but the link is

[gentoo-user] Re: i need to wine to run...

2004-01-12 Thread Eamon Caddigan
blade- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eamon Caddigan wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the setup program is made with install shield you need to install dcom95.exe first into your fake_windows Hmm, where can this file be found? Microsoft has a page offering it (http

[gentoo-user] Re: i need to wine to run...

2004-01-12 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Eamon Caddigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: blade- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eamon Caddigan wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the setup program is made with install shield you need to install dcom95.exe first into your fake_windows Hmm, where can this file be found? Microsoft has

[gentoo-user] Rsync Outage

2004-01-13 Thread Eamon Caddigan
As seen on gentoo.org: update: Service should be largely restored now, though traffic seems to be high on most mirrors because of the outage. The cause of the problem seems to be localized to some filesystem corruption on the root partition. Well?! Which filesystem was it running?

[gentoo-user] MozillaFirebird Font Issues

2004-01-19 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Hi, I'm having a couple issues with fonts in MozillaFirebird. First, I've never been able to use some of the truetype fonts with Mozilla. The fonts in '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype' are never presented in the list of available fonts in the configuration window, although TrueType fonts in

[gentoo-user] gtk2 (was Re: MozillaFirebird Font Issues)

2004-01-19 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Doug Gorley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eamon Caddigan wrote: Second, I just upgraded to 0.7-r1 from 0.6.1, and the font used for the menu bar and bookmarks has changed. I don't care for this serif font, and I can't figure out how to reset it in the options. I don't believe my GTK2 theme

[gentoo-user] Re: SCSI emulation under Gentoo

2004-01-20 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, If I use a grub boot option like hdc=ide-scsi, then what /dev device do I mount in fstab to use the device? Do I need to make any changes at all in /etc/devfsd.conf to make this work? IIRC, the default devfsd.conf will create a symlink to hdc

[gentoo-user] Lightweight httpd

2004-02-01 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Hey all, I'm thinking of setting up a small httpd on my desktop computer. Since I have a dynamic IP and no extra box to use as a server, I just want something really simple that will let me serve static files, e.g. torrents, images, and the occasional MP3. Some programs that look interesting

[gentoo-user] Re: RPM equivlents

2004-02-13 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Radu Filip [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, on Gentoo, what are the equivalents of the following RPM options: Does this mailing list have a FAQ? This should be added to it. -Eamon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list