[gentoo-user] test. please ignore

2005-10-28 Thread Jason Cooper
dyndns.org changed their setup, or my dynamic dns service expired. At any rate, checking to see if mails are making it around ok since I fixed the dyndns.org acct and pings are moving okay. jason. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with eth0 on new computer

2005-10-15 Thread Jason Cooper
Martins Steinbergs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: i would say there no support for ya net cart built into kernel/module On Thursday 13 October 2005 17:51, Michael Sullivan wrote: I got a new computer yesterday. As I was installing Gentoo on it, I ran into a problem. I've got the basic

Re: [gentoo-user] Fumblefingers corrupts an ebuild, plea for help

2005-10-15 Thread Jason Cooper
Kevin O'Gorman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: I thought I was just looking, but after closing the editor my emerges are complaining about a corrupted ebuild of xchat. Specifically, emerge sync :) hth, jason. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] struggling with dri

2005-10-10 Thread Jason Cooper
Fernando Meira ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: Yes, they were not 0666 but instead 0660. I changed them, rebooted, and they're back to 0660 :( cd into /etc/udev/rules.d/ and make a file called 10-local.rules . Add the 'dri' lines from 50-udev.rules. Append to the end of each line MODE=0666

Re: [gentoo-user] struggling with dri

2005-10-10 Thread Jason Cooper
Kevin Hanson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: I've got a radeon mobility 9200 in my laptop and have compiled CONFIG_AGP=m, CONFIG_AGP_INTEL=m, CONFIG_DRM=m, and CONFIG_DRM_RADEON=m. Interestingly enough, agpgart module loads at boot but intel_agp doesn't. Modprobe of intel_agp produces no

Re: [gentoo-user] struggling with dri

2005-10-10 Thread Jason Cooper
Fernando Meira ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: I think I have radeon driver built-in the kernel.. does that mean that it is loaded before agpgart? agpgart and intel_agp are both modules... should I them recompile my kernel and leave radeon as module? yes. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple command line stuff

2005-10-09 Thread Jason Cooper
Mark Knecht ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: Hi, I don't have a single book on Linux. (Amazing...) Can someone recommend a simple book on command line stuff, or better yet a good web site on this topic? Sorry, I picked up most of it from fiddling around, but on to your problem... For

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple command line stuff

2005-10-09 Thread Jason Cooper
Daniel Lynch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: If you want THE book on command line stuff, I would highly recommend the book UNIX Power Tools published by O'Reilly. It basically goes over every common UNIX command line tool and covers the common/useful tasks you might want to do with it. It's a

Re: [gentoo-user] A simple explanation on how to get wireless working on my laptop ...

2005-10-07 Thread Jason Cooper
Richard Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: # iwconfig eth1 says wireless extensions not found what is the output of # lspci you may need to # emerge sys-apps/pciutils to get lspci. jason -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] A simple explanation on how to get wireless working on my laptop ...

2005-10-07 Thread Jason Cooper
Richard Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: :02:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter (rev 04) Subsystem: Intel Corporation MIM2000/Centrino Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 128, IRQ 11 Memory at 9000 (32-bit,

Re: [gentoo-user] Install issue, I need a solution quickly..

2005-09-01 Thread Jason Cooper
Ian K ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: When I run chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash, I get: chroot: cannot run command `/bin/bash': Exec format error Does the arch of the stage tarball you installed match the arch of the processor? cooper. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How to shred without deleting /dev/*

2005-08-29 Thread Jason Cooper
Michael Kintzios ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: I was blanking a floppy but when I ran: $ shred -u -v /dev/fd0 /dev/fd0 was dully deleted after the shred operation finished. Rebooting the machine relaunched udev which recreated fd0 (is there

Re: [gentoo-user] newbie install - emerge: command not found

2005-08-23 Thread Jason Cooper
Assaf Urieli ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: Nagatoro wrote: Assaf Urieli wrote: But when I try to run the emerge command, I get: emerge: command not found (no surprise, it's not in /bin). [2000] $ whereis emerge emerge: /usr/bin/emerge /usr/X11R6/bin/emerge /usr/bin/X11/emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] How to enable core dumps?

2005-08-18 Thread Jason Cooper
Antonio Souto ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: Does any one knows how to enable core dumps? It seems like they are disabled by default. # ulimit -c unlimited hth, cooper. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] OT: quote

2005-07-08 Thread Jason Cooper
Michael Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: [snip] -- Mike To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour. This one bugged me for a week till I remembered a moment ago where I heard it. Tomb

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: quote

2005-07-08 Thread Jason Cooper
Michael Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: On Friday 08 July 2005 17:32, Jason Cooper wrote: Michael Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: [snip] To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Travelling in Greece, need advice

2005-07-05 Thread Jason Cooper
Grant ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: Hello! I am travelling and am currently on the Greek island of Corfu. It is great! I have my laptop but I'm finding it totally impossible to find a place that will let me plug into their network for Internet access. I can't use public systems because of

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Travelling in Greece, need advice

2005-07-05 Thread Jason Cooper
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: On Jul 5, 2005, at 7:11 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Wednesday 06 July 2005 02:07, Jason Cooper wrote: Grant ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: [snip] after a lot of thinking, I think my best option is to get my modem working

Re: [gentoo-user] pptpclient: Wants MPPE In Kernel, I can't Find it

2005-05-24 Thread Jason Cooper
fire-eyes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: I'm trying to use pptpclient-1.6.0. On its home page it says I need MPPE support in the kernel and PPPD. For PPPD it was easy, a nice little USE flag. As far as MPPE support, it says that if I modprobe ppp-compress-18 and that works, I should be all

Re: [gentoo-user] pcHDTV300 - Almost there, I *think*

2005-05-22 Thread Jason Cooper
Michael Haan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: Ok, finally, the card loads: cx2388x dvb driver version 0.0.4 loaded cx88[0]: subsystem: 7063:3000, board: pcHDTV HD3000 HDTV [card=22,autodetected] saa7115: starting probe for adapter cx88[0] (0x1001b) tuner 1-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (cx88[0])

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with media-libs/libsdl-1.2.8-r1

2005-04-30 Thread Jason Cooper
darren kirby ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: quoth the Vittorio: snip I modified the ebuild file as suggested in the bug report but when I bash-2.05b# emerge -uDn world Calculating world dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 14) media-libs/libsdl-1.2.8-r1 to / md5 files ;-)

Re: [gentoo-user] script to recursively unmask a package

2005-04-29 Thread Jason Cooper
Christoph Gysin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: Jason Cooper wrote: Why should he have to rewrite it in python? eix is C++, and genlop is Perl. Admittedly, they are not part of gentoolkit, but everyone uses them and I don't think anyone thinks any lesser of them. :) Don't get me wrong, I

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]Which TV recorder

2005-04-28 Thread Jason Cooper
Tamas Sarga ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: I read about Mythtv, but I don't want to install Mysql if it isn't absolutely required. BTW why Mythtv depends on Mysql? It can not work without it? What Mythtv use it for? mythtv uses mysql to keep track of *everything*. Including, but not limited

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT:HDTV and PVR

2005-04-28 Thread Jason Cooper
James ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: Jason Cooper gentoo at lakedaemon.net writes: James (wireless at tampabay.rr.com) scribbled: Where brand/make of hdtv-receiver-card did you use for your PC? http://www.pchdtv.com It's *only* over-the-air though. That's OK, I

Re: [gentoo-user] script to recursively unmask a package

2005-04-28 Thread Jason Cooper
Roy O. Wright ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: Howdy, I was wanting to install just kdebase-3.4.0 without unmasking all of kde-3.4.0. The HOWTO Update KDE 3.3 to KDE 3.4 (http://www.gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Update_KDE_3.3_to_KDE_3.4) suggested running emerge kdebase -p, find a package that

Re: [gentoo-user] shutdown now hangs on Saving random seed...

2005-04-27 Thread Jason Cooper
Colin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: Whenever I type in shutdown now, the kernel enters runlevel 1 and starts to shut down. All of these [ ok ] just fine: * Stopping local... * Stopping fcron... * Unmounting network filesystems... * Stopping syslog-ng... * Syncing hardware clock to

Re: [gentoo-user] shutdown now hangs on Saving random seed...

2005-04-27 Thread Jason Cooper
The Disguised Jedi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: On 4/27/05, Jason Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Colin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: Whenever I type in shutdown now, the kernel enters runlevel 1 and starts to shut down. All of these [ ok ] just fine: * Stopping local

Re: [gentoo-user] What can I safely delete from /tmp?

2005-04-26 Thread Jason Cooper
Richard Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: I'm starting to get low on disk space and was wondering what I can safely delete from the /tmp directory. How about everything? You should check to see that nothing has a file open first. 'lsof' is good for this, however, if /tmp is a separate

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge ideas

2005-04-25 Thread Jason Cooper
Devraj Mukherjee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: 1. Emerge with a time delay, so that one can specify big emerge tasks for say midnight for proper bandwidth usage etc. I know you can do this with a combination of utilites (such as cron) but it would be neat to have it as part of emerge.

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge ideas

2005-04-25 Thread Jason Cooper
Neil Bothwick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 08:47:22 -0400, Jason Cooper wrote: emerge -fuD world sleep 5 emerge -uDav world But that's somewhat hackish. I like the idea, though. Unfortunately, implementation isn't going to be that easy, unless

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge ideas

2005-04-25 Thread Jason Cooper
Dave Nebinger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: 2. Background downloading, of packages while emerge compiles other packages. For example when I am compiling something huge like GNome, while a package like GTK is being compiled, emerge should be clever and download the next package and save

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge ideas

2005-04-25 Thread Jason Cooper
Neil Bothwick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 11:15:12 -0400, Jason Cooper wrote: Since I have multiple gentoo systems, I use http-replicator as the http proxy for portage; all of the systems hit the proxy for package files so I only have to perform the download from

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia drivers and glx

2005-04-25 Thread Jason Cooper
Bruno Lustosa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: Hello. After some update, the GLX extensions stopped working. I noticed it because opengl xscreensavers would just segfault. After I quit X and tried to restart it, I would get a segfault when trying to load the glx extension. The xorg.conf hasn't

Re: [gentoo-user] MythTv Ebuild Fails on Gentoo

2005-04-24 Thread Jason Cooper
Michael Haan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: On 4/24/05, Jason Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Haan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: I get the following error trying to build Mythfrontend 0.18 from the Gentoo ebuild: Unpacking source... Unpacking mythtv-0.18.tar.bz2

Re: [gentoo-user] MythTv Ebuild Fails on Gentoo

2005-04-24 Thread Jason Cooper
Michael Haan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: On 4/24/05, Michael Haan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/24/05, Jason Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Haan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: I get the following error trying to build Mythfrontend 0.18 from the Gentoo ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6 kernel and wlan-ng

2005-04-18 Thread Jason Cooper
Chris Bare ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: I recently upgraded my laptop to the 2.6.11 kernel and am trying to get my wifi working again. It worked under 2.4 with the linux-wlan-ng package. I followed the instructions in the bug and built it for 2.6 by turning off the sandbox. It appears to

Re: [gentoo-user] intercept browser traffic

2005-04-12 Thread Jason Cooper
Antoine ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: I am looking for a way to intercept a stream before it gets to my browser, so I can see everything that is being sent to me, and that I send back. Does anyone know know of a tool that will do this for me? ethereal? squid proxy? hth, Cooper. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge needs a --nocolor option

2005-04-12 Thread Jason Cooper
A. Khattri ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: There really ought to be a --nocolor option for emerge, alongside the --nospinner option. (I know I could add it to FEATURES in make.conf but I dont want to do that). I run emerge --sync from cron on my servers - the email from cron contains a lot of

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge needs a --nocolor option

2005-04-12 Thread Jason Cooper
Jason Stubbs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: On Tuesday 12 April 2005 20:49, A. Khattri wrote: There really ought to be a --nocolor option for emerge, alongside the --nospinner option. (I know I could add it to FEATURES in make.conf but I dont want to do that). I run emerge --sync from cron

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge needs a --nocolor option

2005-04-12 Thread Jason Cooper
Jason Stubbs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: On Tuesday 12 April 2005 23:24, Jason Cooper wrote: Jason Stubbs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: On Tuesday 12 April 2005 20:49, A. Khattri wrote: There really ought to be a --nocolor option for emerge, alongside the --nospinner option. (I