RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Using a SUN workstation monitor with a GENTOO linux PC?

2006-09-20 Thread Liebich, Wolfgang
Hi, From: Francesco Talamona [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tuesday 19 September 2006 11:13, Wolfgang Liebich wrote: Hi, I've setup a new gentoo system. I plan to use the monitor of a SUN workstation (a Sun 40x30cm RGB monitor - I don't know more) with it. The PC has an Intel 945G/GZ Express

[gentoo-user] Transition to Python-2.5 ?

2006-09-20 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I'm installing GenToo on several machines for the first time. I'd like to switch to Python-2.5 from the very beginning. Is there an upgrade roadmap to switch to Python-2.5 ? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056

Re: [gentoo-user] Can the new baselayout handle multiple networks seamlessly?

2006-09-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 09:48:11 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: If I set the NIC to DHCP as you advise, you are implying that gentoo will handle the various fixed IP's, subnets, gateways and differing vpn schemes automaticly? How can it do that? Only some of the networks (only three in fact) use

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: permissions for a common folder

2006-09-20 Thread Stefán István
kedd 19 szeptember 2006 14.15 dátummal Remy Blank ezt írta: Stefán István wrote: Is there any way to tell the Linux to automatically set the rights to 664 or 775 in this common directory (and only in this)? This is normally done by setting the umask to 002 instead of 022 for all users

[gentoo-user] Re: permissions for a common folder

2006-09-20 Thread Remy Blank
Stefán István wrote: Okay, I think I have to use acl. I've read its documentation, and set up the following acl's: setfacl -m d:u::rw /home/stefi/kepek/ setfacl -m d:g::rw /home/stefi/kepek/ setfacl -m d:o::r /home/stefi/kepek/ Now, if I create a file in this directory, it's permission

[gentoo-user] attr vs. gcc

2006-09-20 Thread Stefán István
Hello! I've tried to install attr-2.4.28-r1 package to a machine, but got the following error: g++: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.4/../../../crti.o: No such file or directory g++: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.4/crtbeginS.o: No such file or directory g++:

Re: [gentoo-user] attr vs. gcc

2006-09-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 11:32:18 +0200, Stefán István wrote: It's true, because I have 3.3.5 installed. But on another machine, where also gcc-3.3.5 is installed, the attr compiles succesfully. So, why does attr search for gcc 3.3.4 on this machine? Because files it needs were installed with

Re: [gentoo-user] attr vs. gcc

2006-09-20 Thread Friedrich Göpel
On 9/20/06, Stefán István [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's true, because I have 3.3.5 installed. But on another machine, where also gcc-3.3.5 is installed, the attr compiles succesfully. So, why does attr search for gcc 3.3.4 on this machine? Try gcc-config -l to see what version is active, that

[gentoo-user] Major problem with Xorg 7+

2006-09-20 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Everyone, I am new to this list, but not to Gentoo - I've been using it for months now. I will give a brief description of my problem (unfortunately I no longer have the pertinent logs) My machine: HP Pavilion with an Athlon 1 Ghz processor,

[gentoo-user] pcmcia confusion

2006-09-20 Thread karsten
hi list: I have troubles to understand what I should be using to get a RME HDSP Multiface working properly on my laptop. I just realised that the pcmcia-cs package is obsolete and I should use pcmciautils instead. I googled around for a bit to find a gentoo howto,

Re: [gentoo-user] attr vs. gcc

2006-09-20 Thread Stefán István
szerda 20 szeptember 2006 12.14 dátummal Neil Bothwick ezt írta: On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 11:32:18 +0200, Stefán István wrote: It's true, because I have 3.3.5 installed. But on another machine, where also gcc-3.3.5 is installed, the attr compiles succesfully. So, why does attr search for gcc

Re: [gentoo-user] attr vs. gcc

2006-09-20 Thread Stefán István
szerda 20 szeptember 2006 12.16 dátummal Friedrich Göpel ezt írta: On 9/20/06, Stefán István [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's true, because I have 3.3.5 installed. But on another machine, where also gcc-3.3.5 is installed, the attr compiles succesfully. So, why does attr search for gcc 3.3.4

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: permissions for a common folder

2006-09-20 Thread Stefán István
szerda 20 szeptember 2006 11.00 dátummal Remy Blank ezt írta: Stefán István wrote: Okay, I think I have to use acl. I've read its documentation, and set up the following acl's: setfacl -m d:u::rw /home/stefi/kepek/ setfacl -m d:g::rw /home/stefi/kepek/ setfacl -m d:o::r

Re: [gentoo-user] attr vs. gcc

2006-09-20 Thread Stefán István
szerda 20 szeptember 2006 11.32 dátummal Stefán István ezt írta: Hello! I've tried to install attr-2.4.28-r1 package to a machine, but got the following error: g++: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.4/../../../crti.o: No such file or directory g++:

Re: [gentoo-user] Can the new baselayout handle multiple networks seamlessly?

2006-09-20 Thread William Kenworthy
On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 08:45 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 09:48:11 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: ... No relief from the nightmare I am afraid ... Why is this nightmare anything to do with Gentoo? If you connect to networks that require manual configuration, you have to

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the preferred gentoo way to list all packages w/ multiple versions installed?

2006-09-20 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 19 September 2006 23:28, ellotheth rimmwen wrote: On 9/19/06, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm, why do I have two gnupg's, can I umerge the earliest of them? = [I--] [ ] app-crypt/gnupg-1.4.5 (0) [I--] [ ] app-crypt/gnupg-1.9.20-r3

[gentoo-user] Re: permissions for a common folder

2006-09-20 Thread Remy Blank
Use the following: setfacl -m d:u::rwx,d:g::rwx,d:o::rx /home/stefi/kepek/ i.e. also give it a default execute permission. Thanks, it works know, though I don't understand it. The default user, group and other ACLs of a directory are ANDed with the mask passed to the open() or mkdir()

[gentoo-user] eth0 link down

2006-09-20 Thread James
hello, I have a portable that has been working great. Now, the eth0 link does not stay up. If I watch the system boot, all looks fine. Looking at 'dmesg' the relevant entry are: eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0x2000, 00:90:f5:2b:cb:18, IRQ 11 eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/1839D' snip

Re: [gentoo-user] Can the new baselayout handle multiple networks seamlessly?

2006-09-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 20:21:25 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: The nightmare is that gentoo will only handle a small subset of the networks I need to connect to at any one time (i.e., I cant configure all the networks in the one set of config files - see my original post for the permutations).

Re: [gentoo-user] Can the new baselayout handle multiple networks seamlessly?

2006-09-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 14:35:09 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: I haven't tried using it for this, but I wonder if RC_USE_CONFIG_PROFILE would help. See /etc/conf.d/rc for details but basically you set up different configs for different runlevels, so you could have a different runlevel for each

[gentoo-user] {OT} Processors difference: help!

2006-09-20 Thread Cláudio Henrique
Hi, there, I'm looking for a new machine for me (desktop use), and I'm having some doubts regarding to the caracteristics of some processors. What is the basic difference between: Intel Pentium D Intel Pentium 4 Intel Pentium 4 HT Intel Xeon AMD Athlon 64 AMD Sempron 64 Thanks in advance.

[gentoo-user] About update question

2006-09-20 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi folks,Gentoo-amd64I need to update all running packages to their latest version, if available on Internet. Performed following steps;# emerge --sync# emerge --update worldPlease advise whether any further step is necessary thereafter.If I expect to clear all empty files on the box which will

[gentoo-user] update: Re: eth0 link down

2006-09-20 Thread James
James wireless at tampabay.rr.com writes: eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0x2000, 00:90:f5:2b:cb:18, IRQ 11 eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/1839D' snip 'eth0: link down' Well forget all of that other conjecture. I installed a pcmcia ethernet card manufacture = dynex. Since it uses a

Re: [gentoo-user] About update question

2006-09-20 Thread S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu)
emerege gentoolkitemerge -avuND worldemerge --depcleanrevdep-rebuild*emerege gentoolkit to get revdep-rebuldit will save lot's space by removing orphaned dependencies. src: handbookOn 9/20/06, Stephen Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks,Gentoo-amd64I need to update all running packages to

Re: [gentoo-user] About update question

2006-09-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 21:08:02 +0600, S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu) wrote: emerge -avuND world emerge --depclean --pretend emerge --depclean revdep-rebuild -- Neil Bothwick Error reading FAT record: Try the SKINNY one? (Y/N) signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Major problem with Xorg 7+

2006-09-20 Thread Jure Varlec
On Wednesday 20 September 2006 12:25, Chris Walters wrote: It works with xorg-x11-6.8.2-r8, which is now hard masked. Under xorg-x11-7.0-r1 it will not work, no matter what I've tried. I tried the proprietary ATI driver, the Radeon driver and even the VESA driver. The proprietary driver

Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 link down

2006-09-20 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/20/06, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 'eth0: link down' This line in dmesg means that your hardware saw the cable disconnect. You should be able to see this effect by running ethtool eth0 | grep Link. There is nothing that Gentoo can do to cause this...it is purely between the kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Major problem with Xorg 7+

2006-09-20 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/20/06, Chris Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will give a brief description of my problem (unfortunately I no longer have the pertinent logs) We really need to see /var/log/Xorg.0.log to have any good ideas here. That log will contain a lot of output from the drivers about what it

Re: [gentoo-user] update: Re: eth0 link down

2006-09-20 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/20/06, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [drm] Setting GART location based on new memory map BTW, this drm stuff is completely unrelated...it has to do with your graphics card. What's going on? We had another clevo portable running gentoo and this happened about (3) weeks ago. I just

[gentoo-user] Re: eth0 link down

2006-09-20 Thread James
Richard Fish bigfish at asmallpond.org writes: Assuming you have control over the switch, try different port. Or if you don't, insert a small desktop switch between you and the upstream one. Hello Richard, Well I changed a switch in the middle and it's all fine now. The switch must have

[gentoo-user] Whole lotta minimal

2006-09-20 Thread Grant
Can someone explain the great minimal breakout happening in portage or point me toward a link? Is USE=minimal in make.conf the kind of thing you should do if you don't have a specific reason not to, or the kind of thing you shouldn't do unless you have a specific reason to. - Grant --

[gentoo-user] upgrading question

2006-09-20 Thread James
Hello, Ordinarily, I'd just remove the blocking packages and away I'd go with the 'emerge -uDNv world' command. However, since glibc(2.4+) , gcc(4.1), xorg-x11 (7.0), /etc/make.profile and kde-mono to kde-meta have combined, lately, to whip the snot out of me, I thought I'd post and get

Re: [gentoo-user] Whole lotta minimal

2006-09-20 Thread Jarry
Jan-Hendrik Zab wrote: Can someone explain the great minimal breakout happening in portage ... so. The actual problem is that the flag has no 'real' global meaning, which means that it might turn off some 'unnecessary' features in one application and turn off one of the most useful in

[gentoo-user] Re: upgrading question

2006-09-20 Thread james
James Ausmus james.ausmus at gmail.com writes: Ordinarily, I'd just remove the blocking packages and away I'd go with the 'emerge -uDNv world' command. emerge -uDNvp world: blocks B ] media-video/nvidia-kernel (is blocking x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.8774) [blocks B ]

[gentoo-user] RE: Digest of gentoo-user@gentoo.org issue 925 (51428-51477)

2006-09-20 Thread Zimmerman, Nick MVN-Contractor
Nick Information Management Office - U.S. Army Corps of Engineers +1.504.862.1046 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 9:03 PM To: Zimmerman, Nick MVN-Contractor Subject: Digest of

[gentoo-user] chroot to gentoo amd64

2006-09-20 Thread S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu)
how can i chroot to gentoo amd64 from 32 bit Linux ??-- S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu)Home page: http://lavluda.tripod.comBlog: http://lavluda.tk Yahoo!! ID: lavluda MSN ID: lavluda Skype : lavluda

[gentoo-user] How-to AMD Sempron 3300+

2006-09-20 Thread Daniel Iliev
Hi, list! I just upgraded from Athlon xp 1700+ to Sempron 3300+ and of course I have some questions. ;-) I'm not sure which is the least problematic way to recompile my gentoo in way that the software would be able to utilize the 64bit extensions and the new instruction sets of the CPU. Will

[gentoo-user] Re: Whole lotta minimal

2006-09-20 Thread Harm Geerts
On Wednesday 20 September 2006 21:16, Jarry wrote: Jan-Hendrik Zab wrote: Can someone explain the great minimal breakout happening in portage ... so. The actual problem is that the flag has no 'real' global meaning, which means that it might turn off some 'unnecessary' features in one

[gentoo-user] glibc 2.4-r3 upgrade dies

2006-09-20 Thread James
Hello, Routinely upgrading an older Pentium Pro system, I get this glibc error: snip a - elf/framestate.os a - elf/unwind-pe.os : /var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.4-r3/work/build-default-i686-pc-linux-gnu-nptl/ libc_pic.a i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -nostdlib -nostartfiles -r -o

Fw: [gentoo-user] Whole lotta minimal

2006-09-20 Thread Jan-Hendrik Zab
On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 10:54:57 -0700 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone explain the great minimal breakout happening in portage or point me toward a link? Is USE=minimal in make.conf the kind of thing you should do if you don't have a specific reason not to, or the kind of thing you

[gentoo-user] modular X : Ctl-Alt-F7 fails

2006-09-20 Thread Philip Webb
I've just updated to modular X everything seems to be working, except that after Ctl-Alt-F2 I can't get back to X with Ctl-Alt-F7 . I can get back to the original raw terminal with Ctl-Alt-F1 , which shows 3 identical error messages. I tried remerging Xkeyboard-config (from a previous

Re: Fw: [gentoo-user] Whole lotta minimal

2006-09-20 Thread Grant
Can someone explain the great minimal breakout happening in portage or point me toward a link? Is USE=minimal in make.conf the kind of thing you should do if you don't have a specific reason not to, or the kind of thing you shouldn't do unless you have a specific reason to. - Grant The

Re: [gentoo-user] chroot to gentoo amd64

2006-09-20 Thread Neil Isaac
On 9/20/06, S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how can i chroot to gentoo amd64 from 32 bit Linux ?? You would be trying to run 64 bit programs on a 32 bit operation system? That doesn't sound like it will work too well ;) If you need to chroot, use a 64 bit live cd (unless you can

Re: [gentoo-user] chroot to gentoo amd64

2006-09-20 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 20 September 2006 22:07, S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu) wrote: how can i chroot to gentoo amd64 from 32 bit Linux ?? You need a 64 bit kernel with CONFIG_IA32_EMUL enabled. See [1] for more details... [1]

[gentoo-user] gnome autostart issue

2006-09-20 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! I'm really frustrated at gnome. I have this .desktop file I've installed in /usr/kde/3.5/share/autostart and it works just like expected: any user who logins, gets this app run automatically, and the icon appears in the traybar, just as if it

Re: Fw: [gentoo-user] Whole lotta minimal

2006-09-20 Thread Ryan Tandy
Grant wrote: Can someone explain the great minimal breakout happening in portage or point me toward a link? Is USE=minimal in make.conf the kind of thing you should do if you don't have a specific reason not to, or the kind of thing you shouldn't do unless you have a specific reason to. -

Re: Fw: [gentoo-user] Whole lotta minimal

2006-09-20 Thread Harm Geerts
On Wednesday 20 September 2006 23:58, Grant wrote: Can someone explain the great minimal breakout happening in portage or point me toward a link? Is USE=minimal in make.conf the kind of thing you should do if you don't have a specific reason not to, or the kind of thing you shouldn't

Re: [gentoo-user] chroot to gentoo amd64

2006-09-20 Thread Drew
You need a 64 bit kernel with CONFIG_IA32_EMUL enabled. Uh no. A 32bit chroot can be run on a 64bit kernel with IA32_EMUL enabled however a 64bit chroot can *NOT* be run from a 32bit kernel. -Drew -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] chroot to gentoo amd64

2006-09-20 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 21 September 2006 05:06, Drew wrote: You need a 64 bit kernel with CONFIG_IA32_EMUL enabled. Uh no. A 32bit chroot can be run on a 64bit kernel with IA32_EMUL enabled however a 64bit chroot can *NOT* be run from a 32bit kernel. Err..., which differs from what I stated exactly

[gentoo-user] mod_suphp

2006-09-20 Thread Michael Sullivan
Has anyone out there had any success with www-apache/mod_suphp? If so, I could use some help. I've never been able to make it execute .php files that aren't in /var/www/localhost/htdocs, and I can't even figure out why it allows those, unless it's because /var/www/localhost/htdocs is my

[gentoo-user] Re: mod_suphp

2006-09-20 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 22:34 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: Has anyone out there had any success with www-apache/mod_suphp? If so, I could use some help. I've never been able to make it execute .php files that aren't in /var/www/localhost/htdocs, and I can't even figure out why it allows

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Help, iptables logging to current console

2006-09-20 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 09:28:39AM +0200, Remy Blank wrote It's due to the baselayout update. There's a typo in /etc/conf.d/rc that was fixed a few days ago. Change the following line: RC_DMESG_LOGLEVEL=1 to RC_DMESG_LEVEL=1 Thanks. I got a brand new ADSL modem/router

[gentoo-user] touch .unpacked

2006-09-20 Thread S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu)
now i am trying to install gentoo from stage3 with kororaa64 (only for boot)but getting error on every package to emerge. IO error: touch .unpacked (something like this)what is wrong ? -- S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu)Home page: http://lavluda.tripod.comBlog: http://lavluda.tkYahoo!! ID: lavluda MSN ID:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mod_suphp

2006-09-20 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Michael Sullivan wrote: ;Path all scripts have to be in docroot=/ ; Security options allow_file_group_writeable=false allow_file_others_writeable=false allow_directory_group_writeable=false allow_directory_others_writeable=false ;Check wheter script is within DOCUMENT_ROOT

[gentoo-user] vnc weirdness as a user, works as root

2006-09-20 Thread William Kenworthy
I installed tightvnc on a relatively new system and find that mouse clicks are not being registered (both using the browser and vncviewer clients). Occurs with both the fluxbox and twm window managers. The mouse cursor moves over the screen ok, just no clicks are being recognised. The mouse

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mod_suphp

2006-09-20 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 16:41 +1200, Mark Kirkwood wrote: Michael Sullivan wrote: ;Path all scripts have to be in docroot=/ ; Security options allow_file_group_writeable=false allow_file_others_writeable=false allow_directory_group_writeable=false