Re: [gentoo-user] SPAM reporting problem on server

2005-05-18 Thread Patrick
On Wed, 18 May 2005 08:01:13 +1200 Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 21:07 +0200, Patrick wrote: Hi, I have a problem with forwarding spam of different users to one mailbox. All users get there mail delivered with procmail and it has following rule #Spam

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with nautilus

2005-05-18 Thread Alex Bennee
On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 17:55 +0100, Ognjen Bezanov wrote: Alex Bennee wrote: If you run the command again with strace: strace -e trace=open nautilus --no-desktop --file-browser You will probably be able to see what the failing file is interleaved among the ** (nautilus:13834): WARNING **:

Re: [gentoo-user] Random emerge failures

2005-05-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 17 May 2005 12:24:57 -0700, Grant wrote: I have a hard time believing all four machines have bad hardware. Are they all on the same power supply? Maybe a UPS would help. -- Neil Bothwick WINDOWS: Will Install Needless Data On Whole System pgphIj82jbd8J.pgp Description: PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] No icons in window list

2005-05-18 Thread Stuart Howard
Hi I cannot answer your question directly but you could consider using root-tail instead of using Eterms http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=root-tail http://www.goof.com/pcg/marc/root-tail.html stu On 5/18/05, Nagatoro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a small but annoying issue

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout-1.11.12

2005-05-18 Thread Graham Murray
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There's a fix for the X problem at http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92921 or wait for baselayout-1.11.12-r1 to hit the mirrors. I have just emerged baselayout-1.11.12-r1 (replacing 1.11.12) and was a little concerned that it did not update

[gentoo-user] mod_clamav

2005-05-18 Thread Patrick
Hi, I was reading in Sys Admin a article about email content filtering and there was a configuration with mod_clamav for scanning of html contains. I'm unable to find mod_clamav in the portage (possible i din't look good) is it under a different name, or do i have to install it from source, or

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout-1.11.12

2005-05-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 18 May 2005 12:54:29 +0100, Graham Murray wrote: I have just emerged baselayout-1.11.12-r1 (replacing 1.11.12) and was a little concerned that it did not update anything in /etc. I ran etc-update after the emerge just in case, but it said there was nothing to do. Normally an upgrade

Re: [gentoo-user] No icons in window list

2005-05-18 Thread Nagatoro
Stuart Howard wrote: I cannot answer your question directly but you could consider using root-tail instead of using Eterms I haven't found a way to get root-tail to display files from a remote server (I use it to monitor my desktop machine). If any know how to do this or any other way, please

Re: [gentoo-user] No icons in window list

2005-05-18 Thread Nagatoro
Nagatoro wrote: I haven't found a way to get root-tail to display files from a remote server (I use it to monitor my desktop machine). If any know how to do this or any other way, please let me know. Found a somewhat hackish way: I put these two lines in my startup.sh ssh -f [EMAIL

RE: [gentoo-user] mod_clamav

2005-05-18 Thread C R. Little
I'm not sure if it's in portage but I know you can install it though cpan -Original Message- From: Patrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 7:16 AM To: Gentoo-user Subject: [gentoo-user] mod_clamav Hi, I was reading in Sys Admin a article about email content

Re: [gentoo-user] mini pci wireless recomendations

2005-05-18 Thread Mauro Faccenda
Stroller wrote: I have one of these, which I bought in error from my supplier to test with Linux - I didn't read the mini- in PCI when I ordered it, I was so pleased to find that Intel had open-sourced the driver. In the supplied paperwork it does indeed state clearly that it's only

Re: [gentoo-user] Random emerge failures

2005-05-18 Thread Grant
I have a hard time believing all four machines have bad hardware. Are they all on the same power supply? Maybe a UPS would help. I really don't think that's it. The P4 is actually hosted in another state. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] RE: check permissions of all my files!

2005-05-18 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 17 May 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like, if it's possible, some kind of report daily by email or in some log file with this information...? Tripwire do that? http://www.google.com/search?q=tripwiresourceid=firefoxstart=0start=0ie=utf-8oe=utf-8 -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Random emerge failures

2005-05-18 Thread Grant
| Is a hardware problem the only explanation? I'm seeing this kind of | thing across 4 different systems: | | P4-2.8 2GB | Celeron-2.4 512MB | P3-600 192MB | Celeron-? 128MB | | This time it was the P3. If it's random then we're probably talking hardware, yes. The other options are

[gentoo-user] ebuild.sh chown/chmod segmentation fault

2005-05-18 Thread glen martin
I'm not sure how things got this way (something to do with not watching emerge output closely so not knowing when the problem started precisely). And I'm somewhat newbie, by which I don't expect any particular allowances but you may wish to keep in mind in thinking about what stupid mistakes I may

Re: [gentoo-user] Share serial port over network

2005-05-18 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 16 May 2005, Robert G. Siebeck wrote: Actually ser2net comes close to what I was thinking about, but they recommend telnet as client. Could you possibly use netcat to read/write to ser2net??? -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] how to boot from floppy and install gentoo

2005-05-18 Thread askar ...
can you just boot from any bootable flopy (like toms root boot) and then mount the cdrom drive instead of trying to chain-boot the cdrom drive? Yes, I can boot from tomsrtbt floppy. Then at least you can un-pack the contents onto your harddrive, install grub and get going that way. I did the

Re: [gentoo-user] SNMP and Proliant Management Utilities...

2005-05-18 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 17 May 2005, Stroller wrote: I've never seen anything like that. According to page 12 of the HOWTO http://tinyurl.com/7h8dr the `cmaidad` agent collects data from cciss/cpqarray drivers, so surely that hadles everything for me? `cmaidad` is running, and I believe my SCSI array is of

RE: [gentoo-user] SATA Boot problem-please help

2005-05-18 Thread C R. Little
I recomplied all intel and promise modules into the kernel and it loads the drivers on boot. But to fix the problem completely. I changed root=/dev/ram0 to root=/dev/sda3 and removed real_root=/dev/sda3. what is is the root=/dev/ram0 for? Is it needed? -Original Message- From:

Re: [gentoo-user] vonage and wav files

2005-05-18 Thread Morgan Howe
James wrote: Hello, I just got vonage (Voip), and I'm reasonable happy. However, the voice mail messages are in .wav format. I can play cd's on the gentoo system, so I know audio works. What applications are good for playing wav files, particularly with vonage? Is there a better way? Download

[gentoo-user] Build failure when updating mplayer - header version problem?

2005-05-18 Thread Jim Hatfield
I did a 'emerge --update world' and the mplayer compile ended like this: cc -c -I../libvo -I../../libvo -I/usr/X11R6/include -fno-PIC -O2 -mcpu=pentium4 -pipe -frename-registers -fno-pie -fno-pie -D_REENTRANT -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/include/gtk-1.2

Re: [gentoo-user] Acrobat Reader 7

2005-05-18 Thread Antoine
However, I understand some PDF's are encrypted and can only be read with adobes own reader. xpdf (and offshoots) support decryption of at least some versions of pdf. Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] vonage and wav files

2005-05-18 Thread James Hiscock
I just got vonage (Voip), and I'm reasonable happy. However, the voice mail messages are in .wav format. I can play cd's on the gentoo system, so I know audio works. What applications are good for playing wav files, particularly with vonage? sox, maybe? It installs a 'play' command, and I

[gentoo-user] Lost Gnome volume control

2005-05-18 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, One of my machines lost the volume control on the bottom panel in Gnome. I can see from run ps auxfw on other machines here that the applet seems to be this one: /usr/libexec/mixer_applet2 --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_MixerApp but I cannot figure out how to get this running again.

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA Boot problem-please help

2005-05-18 Thread Richard Fish
C R. Little wrote: I recomplied all intel and promise modules into the kernel and it loads the drivers on boot. But to fix the problem completely. I changed root=/dev/ram0 to root=/dev/sda3 and removed real_root=/dev/sda3. what is is the root=/dev/ram0 for? Is it needed? The root= option

Re: [gentoo-user] how to boot from floppy and install gentoo

2005-05-18 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 18 May 2005, askar ... wrote: 11) tar -xvjpf /temp/stage3file.bz2 and here I had a error: tar: illegal option -j I have question: a) Does it mean tomsrtbt doesn't support '-j' option? Its possible some features were switched off to make the binaries small enough to fit on the

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with nautilus

2005-05-18 Thread Ognjen Bezanov
Alex Bennee wrote: On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 17:55 +0100, Ognjen Bezanov wrote: Alex Bennee wrote: If you run the command again with strace: strace -e trace=open nautilus --no-desktop --file-browser You will probably be able to see what the failing file is interleaved among the **

[gentoo-user] Re: vonage and wav files

2005-05-18 Thread James
Morgan Howe instanceofgw at gmail.com writes: I just got vonage (Voip), and I'm reasonable happy. However, the voice mail messages are in .wav format. I can play cd's on the gentoo system, so I know audio works. What applications are good for playing wav files, particularly with

[gentoo-user] console switching wierdness

2005-05-18 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everybody, Don't even know how to google for this one. Having giving up for now getting a Radeon9250 to work with gentoo. I replaced it with an ATI Rage128 AGP card and referenced the appropriate module, aty128fb, in modules.autoload. Now, even before configuring X something bizarre

[gentoo-user] why does emerge --update --deep world try to emerge stuff I never had installed in the first place?

2005-05-18 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
Hi In trying to update my system (server -- no X running) I looked in the docs and it said to % emerge --update --deep world This is trying to update a bunch of packages that I never had installed in the first place and is coming into errors since the kernel does not have things like sound

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild.sh chown/chmod segmentation fault

2005-05-18 Thread Benno Schulenberg
glen martin wrote: /usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild.sh: line 1882: 16369 Segmentation fault chown portage:portage ${T}/environment /dev/null /usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild.sh: line 1882: 10308 Segmentation fault chmod g+w ${T}/environment /dev/null FWIW, this is an x86-ish platform, EPIA mobo, Are

Re: [gentoo-user] nautilus, file types and icons

2005-05-18 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 17 May 2005, Antonio Coralles wrote: Well, this is more a repost than an answer ... antonio By the way, i'm using gnome-2.8.3 ... OK, Ill bite ;-) Google really is your friend. Apparently, /usr/share/mime-info/gnome-vfs.keys has the MIME type and icons in XML format (note: this

Re: [gentoo-user] why does emerge --update --deep world try to emerge stuff I never had installed in the first place?

2005-05-18 Thread Wade Brown
If you don't want to bother compiling any sound on your system, then add -alsa -arts -esd to your use flags. It's more than likely one of your packages found in the update --deep had the alsa tagged on itself by default, which requires an override described above either in /etc/make.conf or just

[gentoo-user] emerge/build problem

2005-05-18 Thread Gerhard Hoogterp
Hi, Since a few days, and after emerging a number of packages, emerge doesn't seem to be able to find libraries in the /usr/lib directory anymore. Or beter, as far as I can see it doesn't even look there. The problem shows while it looks for the openssl libraries. Already compiled programs

[gentoo-user] depclean

2005-05-18 Thread James
Hello, Cleaning up a system, I ran emerge -pv depclean. The list looked fine, so I preceeded. The only problem I seem to have is 'updatedb' has disapeared. Any ideas how to get it back? eupdatedb still works fine, although I'm not sure they are equivalent? thoughts? James --

Re: [gentoo-user] depclean

2005-05-18 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 18 May 2005 20:27:00 + (UTC) James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Cleaning up a system, I ran emerge -pv depclean. | The list looked fine, so I preceeded. | | The only problem I seem to have is 'updatedb' has disapeared. | Any ideas how to get it back? eupdatedb still works fine, |

Re: [gentoo-user] depclean

2005-05-18 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
James wrote: Hello, Cleaning up a system, I ran emerge -pv depclean. The list looked fine, so I preceeded. The only problem I seem to have is 'updatedb' has disapeared. Any ideas how to get it back? eupdatedb still works fine, although I'm not sure they are equivalent? thoughts?

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge/build problem

2005-05-18 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Gerhard Hoogterp wrote: Hi, Since a few days, and after emerging a number of packages, emerge doesn't seem to be able to find libraries in the /usr/lib directory anymore. Or beter, as far as I can see it doesn't even look there. The problem shows while it looks for the openssl

[gentoo-user] 1st class documentation user community

2005-05-18 Thread John J. Foster
Good afternoon all, During the last few days I've managed my first Gentoo install. I now have pretty much everything I need. Gentoo base fetchmail mutt ssh kde still working on courier ... One of the finest learning experiences I can remember. The decision to walk away from Suse was not easy,

[gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

2005-05-18 Thread Grant
Out of curiosity, who here would say they have experienced any type of emotional discrimination because they use Gentoo? I find this in correspondence with other Linux people sometimes. Is Gentoo far enough out there to warrant this type of attitude? It seems like these people are conservatives

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

2005-05-18 Thread Ryan Viljoen
Hahah I get batted by my friends regularly about using Gentoo and not Suse and such. Apparently it requires to much constructive work to keep it running or get it running for that matter but then they dont understand anything about keeping your system uptodate with and emerge --synce emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] why does emerge --update --deep world try to emerge stuff I never had installed in the first place?

2005-05-18 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On May 18, 2005, at 12:41 PM, Wade Brown wrote: If you don't want to bother compiling any sound on your system, then add -alsa -arts -esd to your use flags. It's more than likely one of your packages found in the update --deep had the alsa tagged on itself by default, which requires an override

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

2005-05-18 Thread Alan
On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 03:13:37PM -0700, Grant wrote: Out of curiosity, who here would say they have experienced any type of emotional discrimination because they use Gentoo? I find this in correspondence with other Linux people sometimes. Is Gentoo far enough out there to warrant this type

Re: [gentoo-user] Random emerge failures

2005-05-18 Thread Grant
| Is a hardware problem the only explanation? I'm seeing this kind of | thing across 4 different systems: | | P4-2.8 2GB | Celeron-2.4 512MB | P3-600 192MB | Celeron-? 128MB | | This time it was the P3. If it's random then we're probably talking hardware, yes. The other options are

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

2005-05-18 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 18 May 2005 15:27:25 -0700 Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I think anyone whose been to the site: http://funroll-loops.org/ | should be able to understand why. Gentoo has attracted a fair number | of people who think that they are linux gurus because they install | gentoo and are out

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with nautilus

2005-05-18 Thread Alex Bennee
On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 18:19 +0100, Ognjen Bezanov wrote: Alex Bennee wrote: On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 17:55 +0100, Ognjen Bezanov wrote: Alex Bennee wrote: If you run the command again with strace: strace -e trace=open nautilus --no-desktop --file-browser You will probably be

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

2005-05-18 Thread Grant
I cant say I have, then again I tower over everyone at my college, so few ever pass any negative comments my way. I have had respect, as gentoo is percieved as one of the harder distributions to use (actually some rate it the hardest except linux from scratch) from the IT department. There

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

2005-05-18 Thread dsoper
On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 03:13:37PM -0700, Grant wrote: Out of curiosity, who here would say they have experienced any type of emotional discrimination because they use Gentoo? I find this in correspondence with other Linux people sometimes. Is Gentoo far enough out there to warrant this

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

2005-05-18 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 19 May 2005 11:47:45 +1200 Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Most of it is pretty good natured though, and there are a good number | of converts. I think like all proselyting, it pays to be balanced in | your advocacy and then people will respect you. OTOH try and sell | gentoo, or any

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

2005-05-18 Thread Edward A Mihalow Jr
Grant wrote: Out of curiosity, who here would say they have experienced any type of emotional discrimination because they use Gentoo? I find this in correspondence with other Linux people sometimes. Is Gentoo far enough out there to warrant this type of attitude? It seems like these people are

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

2005-05-18 Thread Grant
A discussion about enterprise linux distros came up, and my old boss (who is a complete idiot) turned and looked at me and said And Gentoo will *never* be one of those distributions.. before going back to his conversation. Nice description. You make me want to punch that guy in the face. -

Re: [gentoo-user] how to boot from floppy and install gentoo

2005-05-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 21:04 +0600, askar ... wrote: 2) prepared partitions /dev/hda3 ext2 for /boot /dev/hda4 ext3 for root /dev/hda5for swap so long as you have an extended partition around there somewhere... 11) tar -xvjpf /temp/stage3file.bz2 and

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

2005-05-18 Thread Philip Webb
050518 Grant wrote: Out of curiosity, who here would say they have experienced any type of emotional discrimination because they use Gentoo? no, except occasionally on Gentoo mailing-lists (grin). I find this in correspondence with other Linux people sometimes. Is Gentoo far enough out there

[gentoo-user] nxserver-freenx setup

2005-05-18 Thread Grant
I've finally been able to emerge nxclient thanks to the latest hardened-sources update. Can anyone give me any pointers on setting up nxserver-freenx? nxclient looks pretty easy, but I can't find any instructions on the server and there doesn't seem to be anything relevant in /etc/init.d/ or the

[gentoo-user] Re: depclean

2005-05-18 Thread James
Bastian Balthazar Bux BastianBalthazarBux at pnpitalia.it writes: they are very different. To have updatedb again and with it locate command you need to emerge sys-apps/slocate Thanks for all (3) answers, which did converge! OK, but this begs another question. In general when you do not

[gentoo-user] remote server access?

2005-05-18 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
I need advice, I have been using Gentoo on 4 machines, anf FreeBSD server for a long time now. Now my laptop and I will be working from a remote location 10 days a month. We have broadband access on both ends. Is it possible to securely access the nfs sharea, and smb shares on the bsd

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

2005-05-18 Thread A. R.
At the place where I work, there are a couple of blokes that use linux too, when I told them that I use Gentoo and even that it is by far the best distro I have used IMHO, they immediately said something like this: What? you use Gentoo? Oh, so you use it just because you want to compile the

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

2005-05-18 Thread kashani
Grant wrote: Out of curiosity, who here would say they have experienced any type of emotional discrimination because they use Gentoo? I find this in correspondence with other Linux people sometimes. Is Gentoo far enough out there to warrant this type of attitude? It seems like these people are

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo discrimination

2005-05-18 Thread Gabriel M. Beddingfield
Ognjen Bezanov wrote: There was that whole Gentoo is for ricers website which generally mocked the gentoo community for their 'futile' quest to eck every last ounce of CPU power from their machines. The gentoo community generally Pretty funny website! Their URL is pretty fitting, too:

[gentoo-user] Unable to build anything - libtools error?

2005-05-18 Thread Chris Woods
Hello, I know I've seen this mentioned before, but I'm unable to find a reference to it with useful information. For the past several days, I've been unable to emerge anything at all. An attempt gives the following: checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

2005-05-18 Thread Colin
Grant wrote: Out of curiosity, who here would say they have experienced any type of emotional discrimination because they use Gentoo? I find this in correspondence with other Linux people sometimes. Is Gentoo far enough out there to warrant this type of attitude? It seems like these people are

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

2005-05-18 Thread James Hiscock
He said that once you copy your files to it, then it automatically synchs with iTunes, so you can't just use it like a hard drive and copy off the music due to the FairPlay DRM. My other iBook, iTunes and iPod-owning friend said he was right. Bollocks. I actually own an iPod (40GB, 4th gen,

[gentoo-user] acpi vs apm

2005-05-18 Thread James
Hello, I was just builging a kernel for an intell PIII processor. I initially selected 'ACPI' and not 'APM'. The kernel build failed with this message: UPD include/linux/compile.h CC init/version.o LD init/built-in.o LD .tmp_vmlinux1 drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x98216):

Re: [gentoo-user] remote server access?

2005-05-18 Thread James Hiscock
Is it possible to securely access the nfs sharea, and smb shares on the bsd machine, or the other linux desktops like I am on teh LAN. Both ends use dynamic IP's, so it also has to be compatible with dyndns or something like that to find them. Maybe setup a VPN using OpenVPN? Not sure how

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

2005-05-18 Thread S. Bergeron
On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 08:58:58PM -0500, kashani wrote: Grant wrote: I've only done the discriminating based on other people's non use of Gentoo. :-) I don't really care what people run, so long as it makes sense for their environment. I have machines running NeXTstep and GNU/Hurd,

Re: [gentoo-user] remote server access?

2005-05-18 Thread Qian Qiao
On 19/05/05, Michael W. Holdeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need advice, I have been using Gentoo on 4 machines, anf FreeBSD server for a long time now. Now my laptop and I will be working from a remote location 10 days a month. We have broadband access on both ends. Is it possible to

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

2005-05-18 Thread LostSon
I get bombed all the time in IRC and called your one of those gentoo users and usually kicked and banned just for saying i use gentoo. Doesnt matter to me I dont care what people use as long as it isnt windoze. Do and use what makes you happy as long as it isnt windows!! On Wed, 2005-05-18 at

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: depclean

2005-05-18 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 19 May 2005 01:51:23 + (UTC) James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | OK, but this begs another question. No, dammit! It does *not* beg another question. Sorry. Pet hate there. | In general when you do not know what package contains a tool you need, | how do you discover the package name

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo discrimination

2005-05-18 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 18 May 2005 21:02:57 -0500 Gabriel M. Beddingfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I like the website because some of the criticisms are quite valid. | (Some are just caricatures.) Like the optimizing thing: Their | (valid) point is that spending hours of tweaking to get 1% extra |

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to build anything - libtools error?

2005-05-18 Thread Edward Catmur
On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 22:06 -0400, Chris Woods wrote: configure:2385: i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer conftest.c 5 i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `as': No such file or directory Use gcc-config to set up the symlink to as. --

Re: [gentoo-user] acpi vs apm

2005-05-18 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 19 May 2005, James wrote: I was just builging a kernel for an intell PIII processor. I initially selected 'ACPI' and not 'APM'. The kernel build failed with this message: UPD include/linux/compile.h CC init/version.o LD init/built-in.o LD .tmp_vmlinux1

[gentoo-user] Console background images and colored ls output

2005-05-18 Thread Colin
Is it possible to get a background image for the console like it is on the LiveCD? Also, how do you make the output of ls colored? -- Colin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] +confunsub-4f6e380c30eb7d61

2005-05-18 Thread Arthur Cheung
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Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

2005-05-18 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 18 May 2005, Jonathan Nichols wrote: A discussion about enterprise linux distros came up, and my old boss (who is a complete idiot) turned and looked at me and said And Gentoo will *never* be one of those distributions.. before going back to his conversation. The Gentoo servers were

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

2005-05-18 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 18 May 2005, Colin wrote: Nah, my friend was talking about how iPods suck. (I disagree, BTW, plus he hates Macs. Even the new dual-G5 Power Macs.) He said that once you copy your files to it, then it automatically synchs with iTunes, so you can't just use it like a hard drive Sure

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

2005-05-18 Thread Colin
A. Khattri wrote: On Wed, 18 May 2005, Colin wrote: Nah, my friend was talking about how iPods suck. (I disagree, BTW, plus he hates Macs. Even the new dual-G5 Power Macs.) He said that once you copy your files to it, then it automatically synchs with iTunes, so you can't just use it like a

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

2005-05-18 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Grant wrote: A discussion about enterprise linux distros came up, and my old boss (who is a complete idiot) turned and looked at me and said And Gentoo will *never* be one of those distributions.. before going back to his conversation. Nice description. You make me want to punch that guy in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

2005-05-18 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Nah, my friend was talking about how iPods suck. (I disagree, BTW, plus he hates Macs. Even the new dual-G5 Power Macs.) He said that once you copy your files to it, then it automatically synchs with iTunes, so you can't just use it like a hard drive and copy off the music due to the

[gentoo-user] Gentoo User Groups

2005-05-18 Thread Jonathan Nichols
The thread about discrimination is a good one.. it made me think about local user groups, as people have mentioned install-fests. I did Google around for a bit but didn't really find a whole lot. I'm right here in the Silicon Valley and figured that there would be at least *one* floating

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

2005-05-18 Thread Pingveno
Bit of a pet peeve here: making things look easier than they really are. I do quite a bit of emerging of packages that aren't stable yet. I have an installation of PHP 5 that, if upgraded from its current version (mod_php-5.0.3-r1) would cause an update of Apache to an unstable version, which

Re: [gentoo-user] Console background images and colored ls output

2005-05-18 Thread Wade Brown
In response to the second portion, it varies from shell to shell. Assuming you're using bash, add the following line to your ~/.bashrc alias ls='ls --color' On 5/18/05, Colin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to get a background image for the console like it is on the LiveCD? Also, how

Re: [gentoo-user] console switching wierdness

2005-05-18 Thread Myk Taylor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Which framebuffer module are you using? I have an nVidia card, and found that using the nVidia framebuffer resulted in ~1 sec latency when switching between virtual consoles. Removing the nVidia framebuffer and using vesafb-tng was the solution for

[gentoo-user] Quicktime movies

2005-05-18 Thread Ian K
Hi. I have a movie something.mov which I really want to view under Linux. Xine wont play it, although it pretends to. Do you know of a program that will read .mov files? Thanks! begin:vcard fn:Ian K n:K;Ian email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] note;quoted-printable:Pentium 3=0D=0A= 500mHz=0D=0A=