Re: [gentoo-user] limewire won't start

2006-03-29 Thread maxim wexler
--- Ryan Tandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: maxim wexler wrote: So we have to get Java back into your path... I've got Sun Java, so mine MASSIVE SNIPPAGE Have you run 'env-update source /etc/profile' recently? env-update rebuilds your environment (variables like PATH) based

Re: [gentoo-user] limewire won't start

2006-03-28 Thread maxim wexler
So we have to get Java back into your path... I've got Sun Java, so mine will be slightly different than yours, but in your /etc/env.d/ and /etc/env.d/java directory you should have a couple of files in there. First you will have something like /etc/env.d/java/20sun-jdk-1.4.2.10.

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with domainname

2006-03-27 Thread maxim wexler
--- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 02:05:13PM -0800, maxim wexler wrote I thought emerging ftpd would be my salvation but that doesn't work either. How do you start the bleeping thing. I even ran /usr/sbin/ftpd; it didn't gag but it didn't start

Re: [gentoo-user] limewire won't start

2006-03-27 Thread maxim wexler
--- Chad Feller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: methinks java is not in your path. if you type: which java does it return anything? that failing find out where it (java) is on your system. something like this should help: locate javac | grep bin (I chose javac instead of java as you

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with domainname

2006-03-26 Thread maxim wexler
--- Ryan Tandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: maxim wexler wrote: --- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: m doing things wrongg. - are you sure you're running ftpd on the target machine? Well top and ps list ftp without the 'd' on the end as running. And ftp starts

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with domainname

2006-03-26 Thread maxim wexler
Ouch; you're *NOT* going to connect the two machines while logged on via dialup, at least not without some fancy route statements. If anybody can give an example of how to do it, I'd appreciate seeing it. K6-2.6.15-- lumberton ~ # route -n

Re: [gentoo-user] In search of two applikations

2006-03-26 Thread maxim wexler
Second one: Is there any backup tool, which simply copies the contents of one partition, which is larger than one DVD, to DVDs as plain as possible -- means copies the contents that way, that I simply can mount DVD #n and can easily read and copy the contents? Backup? Sounds like

[gentoo-user] limewire won't start

2006-03-26 Thread maxim wexler
Hi everybody, Anybody have this happen: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ limewire /usr/bin/limewire: line 4: java: command not found Someone in a forum said do this: sarawak heathen # /usr/sbin/env-update source /etc/profile Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache... Didn't work. Someone else said do this:

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with domainname

2006-03-25 Thread maxim wexler
12 192.168.0.2 gravity.twi-31o2.org gravity [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ date Fri Mar 24 20:15:55 GMT 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ Sorry to intrude but I can't get a nibble on my post ftp connection refused. Just so happens I found the above gravity line in my hosts file after doing an

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with domainname

2006-03-25 Thread maxim wexler
--- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 02:11:01PM -0800, maxim wexler wrote So both PCs have that line in their /hosts file now. So I oughta be able to ftp gravity from one or the other and get connected, right? But it doesn't work :^( Does ftp work

[gentoo-user] ftp connection refused

2006-03-24 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everybody, I keep casting this fly, hoping for a strike ;0 For a crossover lan. Ping OK. route -n confirms net setup on *both* machines iftraf indicates activity on remote machine when ftp command issued. adding debug switch returns: servname not supported for ai_socktype. googling

[gentoo-user] ftp -- connection refused

2006-03-23 Thread maxim wexler
Hi everyone, Can't get this thing to work on a crossover LAN. Pings OK, route etc. I've edited the /etc/hosts file every which way. Currently it's 127.0.0.1 sarawak localhost 192.168.0.2 xlan yeti # IPV6 versions of localhost and co ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback fe00::0

Re: [gentoo-user] Several problems of a newbie

2006-03-23 Thread maxim wexler
--- Meino Christian Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, ...thanks a lot for all your helping answers to my previous questions! I opened a new thread, because I got some problems. In the meanwhile my gentoo system has grown fast. KDE is installed, X is installed and other nice

Re: [gentoo-user] ping!

2006-03-22 Thread maxim wexler
) On 3/21/06, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Franta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 11:43 -0800, maxim wexler wrote: Hi, Oops, lost the thread turning off dhcp end. Thanks

[gentoo-user] ping!

2006-03-21 Thread maxim wexler
Hi, Oops, lost the thread turning off dhcp end. Thanks to Neil. Both boxen can ping each other. Now to clear up a few loose ends: Why on the fresh(2.6.15) install does net.eth0 start automatically and the older(2.6.12) have to be started manually? Is this a bug or a feature? I note the

Re: [gentoo-user] ping!

2006-03-21 Thread maxim wexler
--- Franta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 11:43 -0800, maxim wexler wrote: Hi, Oops, lost the thread turning off dhcp end. Thanks to Neil. Both boxen can ping each other. Now to clear up a few loose ends: Why on the fresh(2.6.15) install does net.eth0

[gentoo-user] turning off dhcp

2006-03-20 Thread maxim wexler
Hi all, on a new install w/2.6.15 kernel on an i586(K6-2) box I get an ugly red message on boot: Cannot default to dhcp, no dhcp module loaded, no config for eth0...net mount was not started I use dialup, the ethernet card, a 3com59x will be used with a crossover cable and ftp to another box,

Re: [gentoo-user] turning off dhcp

2006-03-20 Thread maxim wexler
--- Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 12:03:30 -0800 (PST), maxim wexler wrote: I left the /etc/conf.d/(init.d?)net on both machines UN-edited but only get the error message on the new install on the i586. That file states that it will use DHCP unless you

Re: [gentoo-user] 2006.0 minimal install howto[RESOLVED]

2006-03-18 Thread maxim wexler
--- John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 17, 2006, at 3:23 PM, maxim wexler wrote: --- Jeremy Olexa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: maxim wexler wrote: Hello everybody, Can someone give me a tip(s) on how to proceed with this minimal install? I note on the CD big

[gentoo-user] livecd 586 boxen

2006-03-17 Thread maxim wexler
Hi everybody, For those who haven't noticed yet the 2006.0 LiveCD doesn't seem to work on K6's etc. A look at the docs confirms this: not all architectures supported. Guess that 686 in the filename should have warned me away. Sheesh! 75 hrs downloading for nothing! Trying the min-install...

[gentoo-user] 2006.0 minimal install howto

2006-03-17 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everybody, Can someone give me a tip(s) on how to proceed with this minimal install? I note on the CD big files such as image.squasfs and gentoo.igz but the little on-line about them is not very helpful. I think I can start ppp and prepare the harddrive but beyond that darkness looms :^(

Re: [gentoo-user] 2006.0 minimal install howto

2006-03-17 Thread maxim wexler
--- Jeremy Olexa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: maxim wexler wrote: Hello everybody, Can someone give me a tip(s) on how to proceed with this minimal install? I note on the CD big files such as image.squasfs and gentoo.igz but the little on-line about them is not very helpful. I

[gentoo-user] wget won't concatenate(?)

2006-03-13 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, I tried wget'ing this on dialup: ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/releases/x86/2006.0/livecd/livecd-i686-installer-2006.0.iso Then, because I needed to use the phone, after downloading 150Megs or so, I ctrl-C'd outta there thinking I could pick up where I left

Re: [gentoo-user] wget won't concatenate(?)

2006-03-13 Thread maxim wexler
--- Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 09:38:06 -0800 (PST) maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried wget'ing this on dialup: ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/releases/x86/2006.0/livecd/livecd-i686-installer-2006.0.iso

Re: [gentoo-user] Reg Gentoo 2006.0 Installer not working

2006-03-03 Thread maxim wexler
been a while since I had to do this, but isn't there a variety of options you can add to the command-line, like noscsi or noprobe IIRC, a sort of safe mode then look at dmesg(if it boots)to find the conflicts(if any) --- c.s.prakash [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, i downloaded the gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] got lprng?[SOLVED]

2006-03-01 Thread maxim wexler
an /etc/printcap entry like the following: lp:sd=/var/spool/lpd/%P :force_localhost :lp=/dev/lp0 :filter=/usr/lib/filters/lpf This didn't quite do it. But I followed the lprng link at linuxprinting.org and came across the sample printcap there which I adapted

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: using gnupic

2006-03-01 Thread maxim wexler
Are some of the pic chips more linux-worthy than others? This a joke? Only if you think I meant to put a linux kernel on a pic chip. I'm just starting out. As a first project I'd like to generate an audio sine wave at say, 1kHz. __ Do You

[gentoo-user] using gnupic

2006-02-27 Thread maxim wexler
Hello group, Like to learn from others their experiences using gnupic tools. What is the best programmer? DIY preferred. Serial or parallel. What sorts of pitfalls, tradeoffs? Are some of the pic chips more linux-worthy than others? I plan to use a K6 500MHz AMD as a dedicated pic development

[gentoo-user] got lprng?

2006-02-19 Thread maxim wexler
Then you're part of a dying breed evidently. I wasn't able to get cups to work so installed lprng. For more details on my problem go to the archives and search against my name and 'print' and 'cups' This is what I see in my log. It says at least two spoolers active but ps -A reveals only one.

[gentoo-user] apsfilter issue

2006-02-18 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, After struggling unsuccessfully with CUPS I installed lprng and apsfilter. I got as far as printing the test page in apsfilter-setup but any attempt to print fails. Here's a recent xterm session: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ lpq Printer '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' - cannot open connection - No such

RE: [gentoo-user] still can't print

2006-02-17 Thread maxim wexler
I can't remember, have you tried to get your printer working with the hpijs driver? Emerge -uDpv hpijs Yow! that's 32 megs. Had to be satisfied with simple emerge hpijs. Then it worked! Well, not quite. The test page printed OK but when I ran lpc reread as per the instructions at the

Re: [gentoo-user] still can't print

2006-02-15 Thread maxim wexler
--- Manuel McLure [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 12 February 2006 11:05, maxim wexler wrote: 127.0.0.1 localhost sarawak # IPV6 versions of localhost and co Try 127.0.0.1 sarawak localhost Nope. googling led me to emerge apsfilter -- another dud :^( From dmesg

[gentoo-user] still can't print

2006-02-12 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everybody, CUPS was a bust so I emerged lprng. No dice! F'rinstance, if I try to print from firefox a window opens saying Progress: Preparing... then after about 15s it disappears. Then silence, save for the weeping and wailing from yours truly. A look at File-Print-Printer

[gentoo-user] printing and localhost

2006-02-06 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everybody, When I try to print something using lprng I get: Sending job '[EMAIL PROTECTED] +689 to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cannot open connection to localhost - No such file or directory. Here's /etc/conf.d/hostname: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /etc/conf.d/hostname # /etc/conf.d/hostname #

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS -- fails better!

2006-02-03 Thread maxim wexler
--- Manuel McLure [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 02 February 2006 18:56, maxim wexler wrote: Did emerge -C cups and emerge lprng now every attempt at using lpr results in Get_local_host: hostname 'sarawak' bad What do they mean bad? When I run hostname, sarawak appears

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS -- fails better!

2006-02-02 Thread maxim wexler
Perhaps you should try lprng instead of CUPS as your print spooler - it may be a better option for what you're trying to do. Did emerge -C cups and emerge lprng now every attempt at using lpr results in Get_local_host: hostname 'sarawak' bad What do they mean bad? When I run hostname,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS -- fails better!

2006-02-01 Thread maxim wexler
got to start looking. I wouldn't be suprised if it's a permission problem like Mick says. No look closer, that is NOT what it says!! It says PID 5869 stopped with status 3! PID 5869 is foomatic-rip (see two lines above, not quoted above, but in maxim's message) Started filter

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS -- fails better!

2006-02-01 Thread maxim wexler
You could try running /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel from a console to see what happens (as the same user as cups is running under!) There's no parallel man page and parallel --help is very terse but I made the following stab(left the 'options' field blank): sarawak heathen #

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS -- fails better!

2006-01-30 Thread maxim wexler
--- Manuel McLure [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 29 January 2006 10:54, maxim wexler wrote: One option to solve this is to emerge unix2dos and use the following command line: unix2dos filetoprint.txt | lp -l After removing and re-installing cups and installing

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS -- fails better!

2006-01-29 Thread maxim wexler
--- Manuel A. McLure [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 23 January 2006 07:20 pm, maxim wexler wrote: This time the printer whirred to life printed the first line of text across the very top of the paper then quit with the orange error light blinking. BTW, this is a DeskJet 612C

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS -- fails better!

2006-01-29 Thread maxim wexler
Only thing that comes to mind is that when I did emerge -pv cups it said some file(can't recall which) was being blocked by xpdf which I don't use so I removed it and cups went in OK. Long shot. It was poppler. googling cups + poppler revealed this:

Re: [gentoo-user] cups -- more clues?

2006-01-24 Thread maxim wexler
Man, trying to print a test page is the first thing I tried! --- Abhay Kedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 23 January 2006 22:29, maxim wexler wrote: Yes Try printing a test page directly from CUPS Admin panel so that any problems with printer configuration is ruled out

Re: [gentoo-user] cups -- more clues?

2006-01-23 Thread maxim wexler
--- Abhay Kedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 23 January 2006 07:02, maxim wexler wrote: In the cups/error_log Did you set LogLevel to debug2 in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf? Yes sarawak heathen # tail -n 30 /var/log/cups/err* d [23/Jan/2006:09:54:37 -0700] ReadClient: httpGets

[gentoo-user] CUPS -- fails better!

2006-01-23 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everybody, As a follow up to my tales of not-printing woe... From a forum I read to use $lpr -l test ie-l Specifies that the print file is already formatted for the destination and should be sent without filtering. This option is equivalent to -oraw. This time the printer

Re: [gentoo-user] Easy? Software Products

2006-01-22 Thread maxim wexler
--- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Use the root password - it's looking for root's no workee __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] Easy? Software Products

2006-01-22 Thread maxim wexler
about this same problem. Can you post output of emerge -pv cups and emerge Thanks Abhay, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ emerge -pv cups These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] net-print/cups-1.1.23-r4 -cjk -gnutls -nls* +pam -samba

Re: [gentoo-user] Easy? Software Products

2006-01-22 Thread maxim wexler
Give root as username and root password. OK, now we're getting somewhere. Apologies to Brent Holcomb who suggested the same. I did try root earlier and it didn't work -- must have used wrong pw. So ran Administrative Tasks and added printer but now lpr does nothing; no print; no message. And

Re: [gentoo-user] ogle fails to read dvd[SOLVED]

2006-01-22 Thread maxim wexler
there. Another option is ogle --debug /dev/hdd which puts out more info. hmm, it wants to be run as root. don't need to be root to play CDs. #chown username:cdrom /dev/hdd that's what I like :) thanks! __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam?

[gentoo-user] cups -- more clues?

2006-01-22 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everybody, Time to log out; expecting a phone call. So far I re-emerged cups and emerged foomatic. Set up the printer again using localhost:631-Admin tasks-add printer. No complaints. Then I set cups debug level to stun in cupsd.conf, restarted cupsd tried lpr test.txt In the

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with CUPS

2006-01-21 Thread maxim wexler
Because you have the same interface to set up a printer on your, your neighbours' and your 10.000-km-away pen pal. so? Can you explain me the need to not use http for your own config and using it for external configs, while you can have a single configuration app? No I can't

[gentoo-user] Easy? Software Products

2006-01-21 Thread maxim wexler
Hi, Welcome to my leaner, stripped-to-the-basics, I-can't-setup-my-printer thread. Come in, make yourself at home. Much roomier here, as you can see. Ok, so you click on 'Do Administrative Tasks' at that place of mystery http://localhost:631/ and it asks you for your username and password and

[gentoo-user] trouble with CUPS

2006-01-20 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everybody, According to the Gentoo Printing Guide - Installing the Printer, I'm to go to http://localhost:631 and then click on Administration. Well, there's Do Administrative Tasks, so I clicked on that. The guide says to enter root login and password into the box but the box only asks

[gentoo-user] ogle fails to read dvd

2006-01-17 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everyone, Here's the error(same as from root prompt): [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ogle WARNING[dvd_gui]: add_keybinding(): No such action: 'SaveScreenshot' WARNING[dvd_gui]: add_keybinding(): No such action: 'SaveScreenshotWithSPU' libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.9 for DVD access

Re: [gentoo-user] ppp-2.4.3-r10.ebuild

2006-01-12 Thread maxim wexler
I've done this lots. I didn't have near the problems you seem to be having. If you can chroot to /bin/bash you shouldn't have a problem. But you need pppconfig in addition to ppp. According to my notes I had to USE=-unicode before I could emerge pppconfig. Don't recall where that came from; you

Re: [gentoo-user] Sata Controllers and drives

2006-01-09 Thread maxim wexler
2. Sata drives - what have you found to be reliable and work well. I've crossed Hitachi off my list because of my experience with the Ultrastores. Western Digital works OK for me. in my .config: CONFIG_SCSI_SATA=y CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_NV=y CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_SIL=y

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox -- too weird![FIXED]

2006-01-09 Thread maxim wexler
--- Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Abhay Kedia schreef: On Sunday 08 January 2006 00:05, maxim wexler wrote: I did this twice, so it's no mere fluke. I rushed over to Yahoo to post this and the window's still OK. So, thankfully it's not permanent ;) Anybody care

[gentoo-user] firefox -- too weird!

2006-01-07 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everybody, OK, so I'm surfin and go to www.thocp.net/index.htm having truncated the link out of curiosity from http://www.thocp.net/biographies/pickette_wayne_interview.htm The window opens way outside the boundaries of the screen and I can't drag the corner back. So I ctrl-w out of

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild defaults?

2006-01-05 Thread maxim wexler
It's in the documentation files in the tarball Licence All parts of the WORDS system, source code and data files, are made freely available to anyone who wishes to use them, for whatever purpose. Which makes it Freely Distributable, surely. OK, setting LICENSE=as-is. So I guess

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild defaults?

2006-01-04 Thread maxim wexler
--- Lares Moreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 09:25 -0800, maxim wexler wrote: Is there a default, eg for LICENSE, in an ebuild if the ebuild's author can't discover it? What package? We'll take a look. Well, you said that already, and I posted skel.ebuild but I

Re: [gentoo-user] help with ebuild

2006-01-01 Thread maxim wexler
--- Lares Moreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2005-12-31 at 11:22 -0800, maxim wexler wrote: Hello everybody, I'd like to write an ebuild for words-1.97, a nifty latin - english translator. In skel.ebuild for LICENSE= what do I put? Are the listings in /usr/portage

[gentoo-user] help with ebuild

2005-12-31 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everybody, I'd like to write an ebuild for words-1.97, a nifty latin - english translator. In skel.ebuild for LICENSE= what do I put? Are the listings in /usr/portage/licenses all possibilities? Which one do I pick? There doesn't seem to be any direction in the docs for the words program

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge realplayer - resolved

2005-12-31 Thread maxim wexler
FETCHCOMMAND and RESUMECOMMAND. i never was able to locate the file on the https://helixcommunity.org/project/showfiles.php?group_id=154 helixcommunity site. __ Yahoo! DSL – Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge realplayer

2005-12-29 Thread maxim wexler
--- larry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: trying to emerge realplayer, received following error msg: emerge (1 of 1) media-video/realplayer-10.0.6 to / Downloading https://helixcommunity.org/download.php/1589/RealPlayer-10.0.6.776-20050915.i586.rpm --21:17:33--

Re: [gentoo-user] What should be backed up?

2005-12-28 Thread maxim wexler
If you're like me and you connect to the web with a string and a tin can, you'll want to save the distfiles for sure. --- Martin S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Finally getting my reinstalled box the way I want it I thought about doing a backup. :) Short of doing an image of the whole

Re: [gentoo-user] can't resize firefox window vertically

2005-12-27 Thread maxim wexler
Well, you _have_ to use a window manager, because I spoke too soon. A look at xinitrc reveals I do have the default twm. __ Yahoo! for Good - Make a difference this year. http://brand.yahoo.com/cybergivingweek2005/ --

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox window sizing

2005-12-26 Thread maxim wexler
--- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 08:09:13AM -0800, maxim wexler wrote Hello everybody, I can no longer see the status bar in my firefox browser. I can't seem to alter the vertical size by dragging the upper right corner of the window down

[gentoo-user] firefox window sizing

2005-12-25 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everybody, I can no longer see the status bar in my firefox browser. I can't seem to alter the vertical size by dragging the upper right corner of the window down. Horizontal re-sizing works but not vertical. The 'resize' function(rt. mouse click) doesn't do it. X was installed w/o a

[gentoo-user] is this samsung i-pod-like thing kaput?

2005-12-25 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everybody, Have a Samsung YH-820, 5-gig USB iPod-like music player. It shows up in lsusb and dmesg. sfdisk lists four empty partitions. Each one starts at cylinder 0 but the last cylinder line just has three dashes '---'. The c,h,s part indicates 0 cyls, 64 sects, 32 secs/track. O cyls?

Re: [gentoo-user] ogg-vorbis tools and cups

2005-12-25 Thread maxim wexler
It was garbage like this that finally convinced me to put -* at the front of my USE variable, I've got CONFIG_PROTECT -* in my make.conf on a seperate line IIRC to spare me the tedium of accepting manually long lists of default settings when something is emerged. Does this have the same

[gentoo-user] can't resize firefox window vertically

2005-12-25 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everybody, My apologies if you've already seen this. I don't think I hit 'send' the first time. I can't see the status bar in my firefox window, it's out of sight below the bottom margin of the screen. Clicking the right upper corner and dragging the mouse only can alter the horizontal

[gentoo-user] PAP issue

2005-12-21 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everyone, I have two gentoo boxen w/ identical ppp config files. One connects to the web, the other doesn't: [snip] Dec 21 10:28:16 localhost pppd[5338]: sent [PAP AuthReq id=0x1 user=[EMAIL PROTECTED] password=hidden] Dec 21 10:28:16 localhost pppd[5338]: rcvd [PAP AuthNak id=0x1 Access

Re: [gentoo-user] son of can't mount vfat part.

2005-12-18 Thread maxim wexler
--- Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: maxim wexler wrote: I created a fat32, ID 'b' partition w/fdisk. Formatted w/ mkdosfs -F 32 Please show the output of cfdisk or parted. Using /dev/hda (parted) print Disk

Re: [gentoo-user] son of can't mount vfat part.

2005-12-18 Thread maxim wexler
--- Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: maxim wexler schreef: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ grep FAT /usr/src/linux/.config # CONFIG_X86_MCE_NONFATAL is not set # DOS/FAT/NT Filesystems CONFIG_FAT_FS=y CONFIG_VFAT_FS=y CONFIG_FAT_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE=437 CONFIG_FAT_DEFAULT_IOCHARSET

Re: [gentoo-user] son of can't mount vfat part.

2005-12-18 Thread maxim wexler
--- Mariusz Pêkala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2005-12-18 18:18:34 +0100 (Sun, Dec), Holly Bostick wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ grep FAT /usr/src/linux/.config # CONFIG_X86_MCE_NONFATAL is not set # DOS/FAT/NT Filesystems CONFIG_FAT_FS=y CONFIG_VFAT_FS=y

Re: [gentoo-user] son of can't mount vfat part[SOLVED].

2005-12-18 Thread maxim wexler
:) --- Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: maxim wexler schreef: --- Mariusz Pêkala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would not hurt to modprobe, anyway. ;-) FATAL: Module vfat not found. naturally Maybe it would be worthwhile to recompile your kernel with vfat *as* a module

Re: [gentoo-user] can't emerge realplayer

2005-12-17 Thread maxim wexler
Yeah, it stopped me from updating my system properly, until I put realplayer into /etc/portage/package.mask (i.e. prevent realplayer from ever being installed). Never found a proper solution to the problem though, so Im looking at this thread with interest. Turns out

Re: [gentoo-user] ogg-vorbis tools and cups

2005-12-16 Thread maxim wexler
--- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 16:18:16 -0800 (PST) maxim wexler wrote: Hello everybody, I notice emerge ogg-vorbis insists on taking cups along with it. emerge info reveals cups flag _is_ being used. But why use it then? What does printing have

[gentoo-user] can't emerge realplayer

2005-12-16 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everybody, Any others run into this problem? reflex pindar # emerge -v realplayer Calculating dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 1) media-video/realplayer-10.0.6 to / Downloading https://helixcommunity.org/download.php/1589/RealPlayer-10.0.6.776-20050915.i586.rpm --03:50:19--

[gentoo-user] son of can't mount vfat part.

2005-12-16 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everybody, I'm recycling this former subject hoping it'll catch the eye of some worthy gentoo afficianado. I created a fat32, ID 'b' partition w/fdisk. Formatted w/ mkdosfs -F 32 Partition is visible from windows: Properties - FAT32 But can't be mounted in gentoo: unknown filesytem type

Re: [gentoo-user] can't emerge realplayer

2005-12-16 Thread maxim wexler
Hi, Easier just to get the binary via a web-browser and put it in /usr/portage/distfiles. Or search for FETCH_COMMAND or similar where you point which download manager to use. Don't remember where this setting was. Check install docs IIRC. HTH.Rumen Thanks, realplayer is here

Re: [gentoo-user] links w/o benefit of X

2005-12-14 Thread maxim wexler
This is caused by the way links uses its cache, check the Setup - Cache option, change the Number of formatted documents to 0 and disable Agressive cache, it should now refresh the page correctly. I tested it with a PHP silent script with header redirection, it worked at the first try,

Re: [gentoo-user] links w/o benefit of X

2005-12-14 Thread maxim wexler
ctrl+a = move the cursor to the beginning of the line. I am surprised to hear that someone would assign that old combination to some 'select all'. Strange idea. Old? In firefox, v1.07, Edit-Select All Ctrl+A :-)) http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/chars/c0.html

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with vfat partition

2005-12-14 Thread maxim wexler
--- Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 15:23 -0800, maxim wexler wrote: Hello everybody, I have a spare partition formatted as FAT 32 on an IDE disk. vfat and ide-disk support was compiled into the kernel. as a module or built-in ? Dang

[gentoo-user] ogg-vorbis tools and cups

2005-12-14 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everybody, I notice emerge ogg-vorbis insists on taking cups along with it. emerge info reveals cups flag _is_ being used. But why use it then? What does printing have to do with playing ogg files. Why not go through the flags and install everything they point to? That would make as much

[gentoo-user] trouble with vfat partition

2005-12-13 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everybody, I have a spare partition formatted as FAT 32 on an IDE disk. vfat and ide-disk support was compiled into the kernel. Partition was created with fdisk and given ID: b W95 FAT32 and formatted using mkdosfs -F 32. The partition is visible in windows, properties FAT32. But #mount

Re: [gentoo-user] links w/o benefit of X

2005-12-13 Thread maxim wexler
I just tried to access YahooGroups with my account, and like you, after loggin in, it tells me that the refresh doesn't work, and bumps me to the front page. But if I hit ^R to reload the front page, it now shows me as logged in. I think the problem is that the websites are sending

Re: [gentoo-user] links w/o benefit of X

2005-12-12 Thread maxim wexler
--- Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 09:07:07PM -0800, Penguin Lover maxim wexler squawked: But I notice in yahoo when I try to read my mail after logging into my account I'm bumped to a window that says my browser is not setup to go to that URL, Perhaps

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown block(2,0)

2005-12-12 Thread maxim wexler
--- Felipe Ribeiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The /boot is on my root file Whatev. The kernel has to be able to read it without having to wait for a module. On 12/11/05, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Felipe Ribeiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I've just

Re: [gentoo-user] links w/o benefit of X

2005-12-10 Thread maxim wexler
I notice, also that Ctrl-A, X, V have no effect but I can move between pages using Alt and the arrow keys. Is there some way to activate those dead keys without having to install all the usual X stuff. As for the dead keys: links --help links [options] URL Options are:

[gentoo-user] (mostly) good news!

2005-12-09 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everybody, Imagine my relief and joy when the boot process sailed past the point of no return and dropped me into my new gentoo environment on a heretofore unreachable SATA partition. What I did was, after chrooting to it, I ran pon then emerge --sync emerge -Du system emerge -Du

Re: [gentoo-user] sata drive on abit fatal1ty an8-sli

2005-12-09 Thread maxim wexler
the dev tree? I didn't have anything like /dev/sda. Oops, sorry, I didn't see this part. If the SATA drivers are loaded when LiveCD boots it should see the drive. I'm currently having a tussle w/ a SATA drive myself(mostly resolved) from dmesg: ... [ 31.970006] nv_sata: Primary device

Re: [gentoo-user] (mostly) good news!

2005-12-09 Thread maxim wexler
Well, I don't know about everybody else but I compile my ppp stuff in my kernel. pon and poff works fine here. May be worth a shot. hehe. We're both wrong. I had overlooked CONFIG_PPP_ASYNC; after compiling it as a module and modprobing it I was able to reach the web.

[gentoo-user] links w/o benefit of X

2005-12-09 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everybody, On my new setup I'd like to be able to surf the web using links before I try configuring X and installing firefox etc. Because my modem is so beastly slow I dread having to download a bunch of stuff I don't really need. But I notice in yahoo when I try to read my mail after

Re: [gentoo-user] sata drive on abit fatal1ty an8-sli

2005-12-08 Thread maxim wexler
Livecd found the drive but you have to format/mount it. --- Steven Susbauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, I just got my first amd system in a long time. It has a 250gb sata drive and the Gentoo live cd has some dmesg messages about nvsata or similar, but it doesn't say anything about where

Re: [gentoo-user] what's up with kernelnewbies?

2005-12-06 Thread maxim wexler
--- kashani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: maxim wexler wrote: Hello everybody, I posted about my kernel panic problem to kernelnewbies(they seem a competent crew), w/ subject line: kernel panic fix sought. My post was ignored. Three days later somebody posted to the list under

[gentoo-user] what's up with kernelnewbies?

2005-12-05 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everybody, I posted about my kernel panic problem to kernelnewbies(they seem a competent crew), w/ subject line: kernel panic fix sought. My post was ignored. Three days later somebody posted to the list under the subject line: KERNEL PANIC FIX SOUGHT. He(Kumar is a male name isn't

[gentoo-user] drive found but still panics

2005-12-02 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everybody, For those of you who have been following my thread re: NV_SATA, thanks to Richard Fish, the drive is now seen but the kernel still panics after the last coherent message Using IPI shortcut mode. Seems it still can't mount the root fs although grub kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda6

Re: [gentoo-user] no more NV_SATA, etc support in kernel?

2005-12-01 Thread maxim wexler
I just checked both gnetoo-sources-2.6.14-r2 and vanilla-sources-2.6.14.2, and both have SIL and NV options. Both depend upon SCSI_SATA, PCI, and EXPERIMENTAL, which means you must select Code maturity level options-Prompt for development... -Richard Thanks, Richard, the drive is now

[gentoo-user] no more NV_SATA, etc support in kernel?

2005-11-30 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everybody, I note NV_SATA, SIL_SATA, CONFIG_FORCEDETH and whatever other options are no longer offered in make menuconfig for the stage3 tarballed kernel 2.6.12-r6 or for the latest 2.6.14-r2. These are precisely the options my board, Asus K8NE w/nVidia and Sil3114, requires for SATA drives

Re: [gentoo-user] grub on a SATA drive

2005-11-30 Thread maxim wexler
Also, don't forget SCSI disk support, CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y Well, I did forget it but it still doesn't work. Same panic, same place. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list __ Yahoo! Music Unlimited Access over 1 million

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