Re: [gentoo-user] evms

2006-04-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 19 April 2006 00:40, Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] evms': So it's just a matter of personal taste, right? At the end of the day, yes. -- If there's one thing we've established over the years, it's that the vast majority of our users don't have

[gentoo-user] test: please ignore

2006-04-19 Thread Philip Webb
This is a test following setting Fetchmail up as a cron job: ignore. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT

Re: [gentoo-user] network scripts miscellaneous questions

2006-04-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 15:55:40 +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote: 1. When I load the module for a network interface, the init scripts are automatically running. So when I run net.X scripts, I find out they have already been loaded. This is inconvenient because I have various configurations that I

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need grub help

2006-04-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 00:37:23 +, Michael Sullivan wrote: Is there a way to find out which hard drive grub considers to be (hd0) and so on? find /boot/grub/stage1 from the GRUB shell will show you which device has GRUB installed. You can use find with any filename, as long as you use an

Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs update an kmail

2006-04-19 Thread Norberto Bensa
NOTE: resent with correct sender email address. Martins wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ kmail kmail: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6/libstdc++.so.6: version `CXXABI_1.3.1' not found (required by /usr/kde/3.5/lib64/libkhtml.so.4) I've ran into this one myself. You'll note that kdelibs

RE: [gentoo-user] udev/initramfs problem

2006-04-19 Thread Johnson, Maurice E CTR NSWCDL-K74
Hi, When I say that the driver structure (modular build) has changed, I mean to say that in previous encarnations only two modules were loaded (mptbase, mptscsih). Now, the transport portion is also loaded as, in this case, mptspi. Genkernel creates the initramfs. unfortunately, I am not as

[gentoo-user] [OT] tv tunner

2006-04-19 Thread Catalin Trifu
Hi, I would like to get a TV Tunner installed on my gentoo linux box. Could you please share some of your experience with setting up a TV Tunner and which cards/software you used. Thanks you, Catalin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/sda1 with Klingston usb disk. Wrong lsusb output.

2006-04-19 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le mercredi 19 avril 2006 à 10:41 +0800, David a écrit : On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 10:59:00PM +0800, Fr?d?ric Grosshans wrote: I'll try when I'm back home (in may) If you are in Beijing, it is easy to do the test using an external usb hub with it's own power supply for free. Because Beijing

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] tv tunner

2006-04-19 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 16:37:37 +0300 Catalin Trifu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to get a TV Tunner installed on my gentoo linux box. Could you please share some of your experience with setting up a TV Tunner and which cards/software you used. I'm currently running a DVB

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] tv tunner

2006-04-19 Thread James Ausmus
On 4/19/06, Catalin Trifu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I would like to get a TV Tunner installed on my gentoo linux box. Could you please share some of your experience with setting up a TV Tunner and which cards/software you used. I've had good louck with the Hauppauge

[gentoo-user] Questions about TightVNC

2006-04-19 Thread Kris Kerwin
Hi all, I'm using TightVNC v 1.2.9-r1 from the Gentoo Portage tree. I have two questions about running it. 1) I would like my local machine to share the same display as is exported to remote machines via VNC. The easiest way to do this would simply be to run a VNC server on the local

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] tv tunner

2006-04-19 Thread Catalin Trifu
Hi, Thanks for the reply! Unfortunately, where I live (Romania), the Hauppage products are not sold, so I can not use it. The solution seems to be a Leadtek WinFast DV2000 which is built around a Conexant CX23881. How did you configure the card with mythtv ? Thanks, Catalin

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] tv tunner

2006-04-19 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Wednesday 19 April 2006 15:37, Catalin Trifu wrote: Hi, I would like to get a TV Tunner installed on my gentoo linux box. Could you please share some of your experience with setting up a TV Tunner and which cards/software you used. xdtv simple, can do everything needed

[gentoo-user] Upgrade/Downgrade loop for gst-plugins

2006-04-19 Thread John J. Foster
Good afternoon, For about the past 10 days I've been having problems with gst-plugins. I'm in a constant upgrade/downgrade loop, and am not really sure what brought me to this state. The only _major_ changes have been adding ~x86 for kde and amarok. //garbanzo/home/festus emerge -puvDNt

[gentoo-user] soundcards inconsistent

2006-04-19 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Dear gentoo-users, yesterday I recognized a strange problem with my soundcards. I have two soundcards in my system. A Soundblaster, ens1371 based, and a Terratec DMX6Fire, which uses an ice1712 chip. The Soundblaster is used as the primary soundcard, recording from tape or vinyl and stereo

[gentoo-user] Is cups crap?

2006-04-19 Thread Thierry de Coulon
Hello all, I am trying to configure a small network (two desktops and a notebook) to share printers. Desktop 1 runs Gentoo and has a B/W Laserjet on LPT1 Desktop 2 runs OpenSuSE 10.0 and has a color Laserjet on LPT1 The Notebook is a Thinkpad runing OpenSuSE 10.0 nad has no printer attached.

[gentoo-user] aRts sound server on KDE 3.5.2?

2006-04-19 Thread Michael B. Trausch
I am wondering if anybody here has run into a problem using aRts 3.5.2 with KDE 3.5.2 on ~x86. I know that ~x86 is technically unsupported, so I'm just looking to see if anybody else might be experencing problems with this setup or would know how to go about attempting to troubleshoot it. It

Re: [gentoo-user] Is cups crap?

2006-04-19 Thread Jeff
1) CUPS is kaka. :-) J/K!!! 2) Modify your /etc/cupsd.conf, and allow machines on your network to print via CUPS http/ipp: http://www.cups.org/doc-1.1/sam.html#Allow HTH!!! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Is cups crap?

2006-04-19 Thread Joseph
Shouldn't be that difficult. For example to print from Desktop2 to printer on Desktop1 go to your Print Manager on Desktop2 and add printer: Printer Type: IPP Printer URI: ipp://IP_address_of_desktop1:631/printers/Your_printer_name_on_desktop1 That should be it I think. -- #Joseph On Wed,

[gentoo-user] OT - Question about net.eth0 and the handbook

2006-04-19 Thread Michael Sullivan
The guy I'm helping to install Gentoo says that he can get to his Linux installation and log in, but that he has no network unless he boots with the LiveCD. I've tried every trick I know. At this point he's booted with the LiveCD and entered his chroot install environment. Out of desperation

Re: [gentoo-user] aRts sound server on KDE 3.5.2?

2006-04-19 Thread Glenn Enright
On Thursday 20 April 2006 8:12 am, Michael B. Trausch wrote: I got this all the time with ac97 chipset with older versions of arts. Maybee you are running a similar chipset? or an old driver or something? what kernel version do you run? From google with search on 'arts cpu overload'

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Question about net.eth0 and the handbook

2006-04-19 Thread Maxime Robert-Schreyers
Michael Sullivan wrote: The guy I'm helping to install Gentoo says that he can get to his Linux installation and log in, but that he has no network unless he boots with the LiveCD. I've tried every trick I know. At this point he's booted with the LiveCD and entered his chroot install

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Question about net.eth0 and the handbook

2006-04-19 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 4/19/06, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The guy I'm helping to install Gentoo says that he can get to his Linux installation and log in, but that he has no network unless he boots with the LiveCD. I've tried every trick I know. At this point he's booted with the LiveCD and

Re: [gentoo-user] fish as default shell

2006-04-19 Thread Maxime Robert-Schreyers
Bryce Verdier wrote: Hey all, i would like to turn Fish into my default shell (just trying something different). But not all of the environment variables used in gentoo for bash seem to be crossing over. Does anyone know where to find all of the shell variables when bash gets initialized?

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Question about net.eth0 and the handbook [partially solved]

2006-04-19 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 22:50 +0200, Maxime Robert-Schreyers wrote: Michael Sullivan wrote: The guy I'm helping to install Gentoo says that he can get to his Linux installation and log in, but that he has no network unless he boots with the LiveCD. I've tried every trick I know. At this

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Question about net.eth0 and the handbook [partially solved]

2006-04-19 Thread Andrew Frink
On 4/19/06, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 22:50 +0200, Maxime Robert-Schreyers wrote: Michael Sullivan wrote: The guy I'm helping to install Gentoo says that he can get to his Linux installation and log in, but that he has no network unless he boots with the

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Question about net.eth0 and the handbook [partially solved]

2006-04-19 Thread Maxime Robert-Schreyers
Michael Sullivan wrote: On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 22:50 +0200, Maxime Robert-Schreyers wrote: Michael Sullivan wrote: The guy I'm helping to install Gentoo says that he can get to his Linux installation and log in, but that he has no network unless he boots with the LiveCD. I've tried

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Question about net.eth0 and the handbook [partially solved]

2006-04-19 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/19/06, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We did it in the correct order. He's rebooted into Linux (sans LiveCD) and says he has network. I'd still like to know how if /etc/init.d/net.eth1 is pointing to /etc/init.d/net.eth0, how does AFAIK both net.eth0 and net.eth1 should be

Re: [gentoo-user] Is cups crap?

2006-04-19 Thread Mick
On 19/04/06, Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shouldn't be that difficult. For example to print from Desktop2 to printer on Desktop1 go to your Print Manager on Desktop2 and add printer: Printer Type: IPP Printer URI: ipp://IP_address_of_desktop1:631/printers/Your_printer_name_on_desktop1

Re: [gentoo-user] Is cups crap?

2006-04-19 Thread Thierry de Coulon
On Wednesday 19 April 2006 23.29, Mick wrote: On 19/04/06, Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shouldn't be that difficult. For example to print from Desktop2 to printer on Desktop1 go to your Print Manager on Desktop2 and add printer: Printer Type: IPP Printer URI:

Re: [gentoo-user] fish as default shell

2006-04-19 Thread Jeremy Olexa
Maxime Robert-Schreyers wrote: Bryce Verdier wrote: Hey all, i would like to turn Fish into my default shell (just trying something different). But not all of the environment variables used in gentoo for bash seem to be crossing over. Does anyone know where to find all of the shell

Re: [gentoo-user] drupal / php

2006-04-19 Thread henkg
On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 05:25:57PM +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote: anybody running drupal here? If so, which USE flags did you switch on for PHP? I can't remember setting anything special, mysql or postgesql support in php is required to get anything useful. I didn't use the drupal package from

Re: [gentoo-user] Is cups crap?

2006-04-19 Thread Joseph
On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 23:57 +0200, Thierry de Coulon wrote: On Wednesday 19 April 2006 23.29, Mick wrote: On 19/04/06, Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shouldn't be that difficult. For example to print from Desktop2 to printer on Desktop1 go to your Print Manager on Desktop2 and add

Re: [gentoo-user] drupal / php

2006-04-19 Thread Manuel McLure
On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 05:25:57PM +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote: I can't remember setting anything special, mysql or postgesql support in php is required to get anything useful. I didn't use the drupal package from gentoo, because it doesn't match the latest bug-fixed version of drupal. Although

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about TightVNC

2006-04-19 Thread Kris Kerwin
Richard, Thanks. x11vnc did the trick just like I needed. Kris On Wednesday 19 April 2006 12:24, Richard Fish wrote: On 4/19/06, Kris Kerwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm using TightVNC v 1.2.9-r1 from the Gentoo Portage tree. I have two questions about running it. 1) I

Re: [gentoo-user] Is cups crap?

2006-04-19 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 21:58:29 +0200 Thierry de Coulon wrote: [Is cups crap?] Someone thinks so: http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cups-horror.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Question about net.eth0 and the handbook [partially solved]

2006-04-19 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
If you look at the script it uses the .ethx part to figure out what to start. On Wednesday April 19 2006 17:00, Michael Sullivan wrote: On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 22:50 +0200, Maxime Robert-Schreyers wrote: Michael Sullivan wrote: The guy I'm helping to install Gentoo says that he can get to his

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Question about net.eth0 and the handbook [partially solved]

2006-04-19 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 19:59 -0400, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: If you look at the script it uses the .ethx part to figure out what to start. The script made no sense to me. I'm not that good at shell scripting anyway. On Wednesday April 19 2006 17:00, Michael Sullivan wrote: On Wed, 2006-04-19

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Question about net.eth0 and the handbook [partially solved]

2006-04-19 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Sorry, I wrote that too fast. I did not mean that you should look at it! A better wording would have been that the script looks at the name and uses the .ethx part to figure out what to do. On Wednesday April 19 2006 20:34, Michael Sullivan wrote: On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 19:59 -0400, Brett I.

[gentoo-user] partitioning for multimedia performance and dual-booting linux/windex

2006-04-19 Thread Robert Persson
I have just acquired a nice big PATA disk and am now faced with the job of deciding how to partition it. I actually have two questions and I would be grateful for any thoughts. The current disk is a 40GB 133MHz one with 1MB cache. The new one is 250GB, 133MHz with 8MB cache. The reason for the

[gentoo-user] Help! New install and New User to linux - Gentoo!

2006-04-19 Thread Christopher E
Sorry if your geting this two times as I posted it also to amd64 list hello All, I have been for the last couple of days (4) days trying to get this system up and running and I am having a number of probs and below is a list of them I get all these errors when booting up: !! The root block

Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/sda1 with Klingston usb disk. Wrong lsusb output.

2006-04-19 Thread David
On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 09:56:51PM +0800, Fr?d?ric Grosshans wrote: Le mercredi 19 avril 2006 ? 10:41 +0800, David a ?crit : On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 10:59:00PM +0800, Fr?d?ric Grosshans wrote: I'll try when I'm back home (in may) If you are in Beijing, it is easy to do the test using an