[gentoo-ppc-user] OT: thermal management diff 2.4 vs. 2.6

2005-06-28 Thread Alexander Meyer
Hi list, since i dont't know where else to ask this question i figured i might as well ask it here. i'm running gentoo on my tibook 550 (powerbook3,3 that is in kernelspeak) and noticed that with a 2.4 kernel as well as under macos the fan hardly ever kicks in, even when the computer gets quite

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] OT: thermal management diff 2.4 vs. 2.6

2005-06-28 Thread Stefan Bruda
At 19:27 +0200 on 2005-6-28 Colin Leroy wrote: As far as I know the fans are hardware controlled on these models, so the fans should not be affected by a kernel change... except that they do just that. Must be grmelins in there or something. echo 10

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] OT: thermal management diff 2.4 vs. 2.6

2005-06-28 Thread Stefan Bruda
At 21:03 +0200 on 2005-6-28 Colin Leroy wrote: These are Tibooks (as opposed to newer Alubooks) so they do not have software temperature control, no? mmh, I'm not sure right now. Try to load the therm_adt746x module. If it fails to load, you're right :) Oh, of course therm_adt746x

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] OT: thermal management diff 2.4 vs. 2.6

2005-06-28 Thread Carl Hudkins
On Tue June 28 2005 16:34, Stefan Bruda wrote: Oh, of course therm_adt746x won't load, sorry for not mentioning it. There is as far as I know no option in the kernel config for thermal management on these machines. I am clueless as to why is the fan behaving differently, it simply shouldn't.

[gentoo-user] 2.6.12* hoses ati and bcm4400

2005-06-28 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi, I recently upgraded to 2.6.12, and on my recompile of all associated parts, ati-drivers had some trouble, and bcm4400 plain didn't compile! This process has worked almost flawlessly for me through many 2.6 kernels. With 2.6.12 I managed to get ati-drivers working, but on boot, when loading

Re: [gentoo-user] compile probs in general (tightvnc in particular)

2005-06-28 Thread Colin
James Ferguson wrote: i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.5 * was already set as default. so I evn-update and source /etc/profile, still got the same error. am I right in assuming that i need to set my default profile to i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc ? gcc-config -l shows these options: [1]

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Portable Music Player

2005-06-28 Thread Benjamin Fritzsche
On Monday 27 June 2005 21:22, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: I'm looking to buy a portable music player, but I'm not sure what to get, so I'm polling for recommendations. Ogg/Vorbis support is a *requirement*, as is a Linux interface to the device. I'd prefer to be able to simply mount it as

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Portable Music Player

2005-06-28 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 03:22:34PM -0400, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: I'm looking to buy a portable music player, but I'm not sure what to get, so I'm polling for recommendations. Ogg/Vorbis support is a *requirement*, as is a Linux interface to the device. I'd prefer to be able to

Re: [gentoo-user] driver for 3Com 3c905 100BaseTX [Boomerang]????

2005-06-28 Thread askar ...
You don't have a module because you did CONFIG_VORTEX=y instead of CONFIG_VORTEX=m. If you had built the driver as a module then modprobe 3c59x would work. Now I recompiled kernel with CONFIG_VORTEX=m. Rebooted tge system and did modprobe 3c59x. It gave me no errors. Thought it goes

Re: [gentoo-user] driver for 3Com 3c905 100BaseTX [Boomerang]????

2005-06-28 Thread askar ...
On 6/28/05, askar ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You don't have a module because you did CONFIG_VORTEX=y instead of CONFIG_VORTEX=m. If you had built the driver as a module then modprobe 3c59x would work. Now I recompiled kernel with CONFIG_VORTEX=m. Rebooted tge system and did modprobe

Re: [gentoo-user] driver for 3Com 3c905 100BaseTX [Boomerang]????

2005-06-28 Thread askar ...
I was wrong . The updated messages file is: Jun 28 06:25:08 server 3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html Jun 28 06:25:08 server :02:09.0: 3Com PCI 3c905 Boomerang 100baseTx at 0xc400. Vers LK1.1.19 Jun 28 06:25:08 server eth1: Dropping NETIF_F_SG since no

RE: [gentoo-user] Windows XP - Gentoo - Lilo Loader Question

2005-06-28 Thread Richard Watson
Hi Holly, thanks for your reply Basically my question here is why exactly did you install the bootloader to hdb instead of hda? I installed to hdb as I only have 1 NTFS partition on /dev/hda and don't want to muck around with my XP install as my family will kill me if I muck it up ... Do

Re: [gentoo-user] Windows XP - Gentoo - Lilo Loader Question

2005-06-28 Thread Colin
Richard Watson wrote: So far I've tried to fix it by removing substituting lba32 / compact / linear from /etc/lilo.conf (yes I /sbin/lilo and recreate the linux.bin file for the XP bootloader). The drive is a 200MB Seagate. I'm not a LILO kinda guy, but a 200 MB drive was more than likely

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.12* hoses ati and bcm4400

2005-06-28 Thread Holly Bostick
Iain Buchanan schreef: Hi, I recently upgraded to 2.6.12, and on my recompile of all associated parts, ati-drivers had some trouble, and bcm4400 plain didn't compile! This process has worked almost flawlessly for me through many 2.6 kernels. With 2.6.12 I managed to get ati-drivers

Re: [gentoo-user] Where can I download the gentoo binary for Ximian Evolution 2?

2005-06-28 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 12:40 -0700, Hareesh Nagarajan wrote: On 6/27/05, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IMO, Nick wasn't talking to you, Hareesh. I thought he was! Follow the thread and you'll understand where it went wrong. Unfortunately Nick decided to top post and thus you

Re: [gentoo-user] compile probs in general (tightvnc in particular)

2005-06-28 Thread James Ferguson
Thanks for the response Colin, for now I'll just get around it by using vnc rather than tight vnc, and wait to see if this same error occurs again. On 6/28/05, Colin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James Ferguson wrote: i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.5 * was already set as default. so I evn-update and

[gentoo-user] amd64 gcc with multilib

2005-06-28 Thread Marc Schlienger
Hi, I need to build fvwm in 32 bit mode on an amd64 machine. The CFLAG -m32 seems to be ignored. What to do? Note: I have tried to compile fvwm manually (no portage, emerge) since I know that otherwise it may render my system, especially portage, unusable! Regards Marc --

Re: [gentoo-user] driver for 3Com 3c905 100BaseTX [Boomerang]????

2005-06-28 Thread askar ...
That 3Com Boomerang works under Win98. So I put it there. And the one 3Com Cyclone from Win98 pc works fine for gentoo. It works fine now. askar On 6/28/05, askar ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seemes it's a hardware problem. Going to change. askar On 6/28/05, askar ... [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Other XMMS issue - crash, when I add ogg files to the playlist :: try beep-media-player

2005-06-28 Thread István PONGRÁCZ
Hi, And how can I use the musepack plugin for example? :) It looks like the same :) I will check the official site of beep. Thanx, István Daevid Vincent wrote: You might consider beep-media-player, it's like xmms but better (and actively being developed). Uses xmms skins and plugins. Looks

Re: [gentoo-user] different times in postfix log

2005-06-28 Thread Holly Bostick
Jan Callewaert schreef: Hi, if I watch the logs of postfix, I have different times in it. Jun 18 19:17:43 [postfix/qmgr] 1E365EDCC3: from=bla, size=4398, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Jun 18 21:17:44 [postfix/local] 1E365EDCC3: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], orig_to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], relay=local,

Re: [gentoo-user] different times in postfix log

2005-06-28 Thread Tim Igoe
Holly Bostick wrote: Jan Callewaert schreef: Hi, if I watch the logs of postfix, I have different times in it. Jun 18 19:17:43 [postfix/qmgr] 1E365EDCC3: from=bla, size=4398, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Jun 18 21:17:44 [postfix/local] 1E365EDCC3: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], orig_to=[EMAIL PROTECTED],

Re: [gentoo-user] Would zapping USE in make.defaults hurt anything?

2005-06-28 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 11:18:43AM +0200, Holly Bostick wrote Perhaps so, but is building a minimal system the default behaviour that the profiles are targeted to? Apparently not. This default system is expected to likely meet the following criteria: [...snip big list...] Some people want

Re: [gentoo-user] Would zapping USE in make.defaults hurt anything?

2005-06-28 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 08:00:23PM -0700, Zac Medico wrote /etc/portage/profile/ site-specific overrides of /etc/make.profile/ So you want /etc/portage/use.mask. Thanks. That sounds like what I'm looking for. I've heard that USE=-* has broken some builds in the past but I'm not

[gentoo-user] Connect to a remote server with a modem

2005-06-28 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Hi, I going to maintain a Gentoo server in another country, normal i'm going to connect with the internet, but if something is wrong i'm thinking to connect a modem to the machine. What do i need of software so i can connect with a another machine to this machine over a telephone line? The

Re: [gentoo-user] Would zapping USE in make.defaults hurt anything?

2005-06-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 08:47:41 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: I won't be running with all USE flags wiped. In /etc/portage/use.mask I'll USE=-*, and add the ones I want/need in /etc/make.conf and/or /etc/portage/package.use. OK, so maybe I am a bit of a control freak. When I say USE=a b c,

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not yet quite right on iMac

2005-06-28 Thread Craig Duncan
Charles Trois wrote: Another fishy thing is that changing the default runlevel in /etc/inittab has no effect: I put it to 3 and the system booted at level 5 all the same. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-ppc64.xml?part=2chap=4 or in French

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Portable Music Player

2005-06-28 Thread David D. Rea
On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 15:22 -0400, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: I'm looking to buy a portable music player, but I'm not sure what to get, so I'm polling for recommendations. Ogg/Vorbis support is a *requirement*, as is a Linux interface to the device. I'd prefer to be able to simply

[gentoo-user] konsole font

2005-06-28 Thread q-parser
Hi. I've emerged kde-3.4.1 recently and I noticed that the font in Konsole is different. It no longer is so smooth and nice. I've tried to combine various combinations of fonts, sizes and it still isn't what it used to be. When I want to set font to Linux an error dialog appears that there's

RE: [gentoo-user] can't ping myself when iptables running

2005-06-28 Thread Dave Nebinger
I found out that when I run iptables rule below: [snip] ip address of the nic connected to the modem is not pinged. But I don't set any restriction for icmp??? Depends upon what your default policy is defined as. If the default policy is DENY then you must specifically include an ACCEPT rule

[gentoo-user] How to get GNOME back?

2005-06-28 Thread Michael Sullivan
I had to completely reinstall Gentoo the other day (partitioning problem). I got the base system up and emerged gnome. I've done this several times before, but this time when I run startx all I get is twm. DISPLAYMANAGER=gdm and XSESSION=Gnome in /etc/rc.conf . I'm out of ideas, but I want

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get GNOME back?

2005-06-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 04:47:35 -0500 (CDT), Michael Sullivan wrote: I had to completely reinstall Gentoo the other day (partitioning problem). I got the base system up and emerged gnome. I've done this several times before, but this time when I run startx all I get is twm. DISPLAYMANAGER=gdm

RE: [gentoo-user] How to get GNOME back?

2005-06-28 Thread Dave Nebinger
I had to completely reinstall Gentoo the other day (partitioning problem). I got the base system up and emerged gnome. I've done this several times before, but this time when I run startx all I get is twm. DISPLAYMANAGER=gdm and XSESSION=Gnome in /etc/rc.conf . I'm out of ideas, but I want

[gentoo-user] kde path is missing

2005-06-28 Thread Jan Callewaert
Hi, I was recompiling kde today, but now the path isn't set anymore. If I run env-update, the bin directory of kde isn't added to the path (of course after executing source /etc/profile). My kde-env looks like this: # cat /etc/env.d/99kde-env KDEDIRS=/usr CONFIG_PROTECT=/usr/share/config

Re: [gentoo-user] different times in postfix log

2005-06-28 Thread Jan Callewaert
Op dinsdag 28 juni 2005 14:52, schreef Tim Igoe: Holly Bostick wrote: Tim Igoe schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: Jan Callewaert schreef: Hi, if I watch the logs of postfix, I have different times in it. snip double-received message Regards, Jan Callewaert A perhaps more important

[gentoo-user] Koha on Gentoo

2005-06-28 Thread q-parser
Does anybody have any experience with Koha running on Gentoo? I'm trying to get it to work but I'm getting hopeless. The problem might be in setting virtual host on Apache but I think I have everything configured correctly. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get GNOME back?

2005-06-28 Thread michael
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 11:08:40AM -0400, Dave Nebinger wrote: I had to completely reinstall Gentoo the other day (partitioning problem). I got the base system up and emerged gnome. I've done this several times before, but this time when I run startx all I get is twm. DISPLAYMANAGER=gdm

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get GNOME back?

2005-06-28 Thread michael
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 04:00:10PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 04:47:35 -0500 (CDT), Michael Sullivan wrote: I had to completely reinstall Gentoo the other day (partitioning problem). I got the base system up and emerged gnome. I've done this several times before, but

Re: [gentoo-user] kde path is missing

2005-06-28 Thread Rafael Fernández López
Jan Callewaert wrote: Hi, I was recompiling kde today, but now the path isn't set anymore. If I run env-update, the bin directory of kde isn't added to the path (of course after executing source /etc/profile). My kde-env looks like this: # cat /etc/env.d/99kde-env KDEDIRS=/usr

Re: [gentoo-user] kde path is missing

2005-06-28 Thread Jan Callewaert
Op dinsdag 28 juni 2005 17:10, schreef Jan Callewaert: Hi, I was recompiling kde today, but now the path isn't set anymore. If I run env-update, the bin directory of kde isn't added to the path (of course after executing source /etc/profile). My kde-env looks like this: # cat

Re: [gentoo-user] kde path is missing

2005-06-28 Thread Jan Callewaert
Op dinsdag 28 juni 2005 17:42, schreef Rafael Fernández López: Jan Callewaert wrote: Hi, I was recompiling kde today, but now the path isn't set anymore. If I run env-update, the bin directory of kde isn't added to the path (of course after executing source /etc/profile). My kde-env

[gentoo-user] Motherboard for Dual-Core CPU - Linux firendly

2005-06-28 Thread Joseph
Looking for Linux friendly motherboard where everything will work from sound to graphics for Dual-Core CPU (AMD 4400) Any recommendations? Most-motherboard will do but there is always something that will not work, especially sound chips. When ask for a driver they point you to a linux org

Re: [gentoo-user] Connect to a remote server with a modem

2005-06-28 Thread Robert G. Siebeck
Hi, 2005/6/28, Patrick Marquetecken [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I going to maintain a Gentoo server in another country, normal i'm going to connect with the internet, but if something is wrong i'm thinking to connect a modem to the machine. What do i need of software so i can connect with a

Re: [gentoo-user] raw1394

2005-06-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/28/05, luis jure [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello list, trying to use kino to grab video from a digital camera, i realized that there's no /dev/raw1394 device. searching the web, all sources i found say that udev does not manage ieee1394 devices, and that you must create the nodes

Re: [gentoo-user] Motherboard for Dual-Core CPU - Linux firendly

2005-06-28 Thread Christoph Gysin
Joseph wrote: Looking for Linux friendly motherboard where everything will work from sound to graphics for Dual-Core CPU (AMD 4400) Any recommendations? I'd stick with Intel, they make pretty good Dual-Boards. The new Intel HD-Audio onboard soundcard, and the widely used Marvell/Yukon Gb-LAN

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get GNOME back?

2005-06-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 28 June 2005 12:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 11:08:40AM -0400, Dave Nebinger wrote: I had to completely reinstall Gentoo the other day (partitioning problem). I got the base system up and emerged gnome. I've done this several times before, but this

[gentoo-user] Apache2, mod_php 4.3.11 PEAR doesn't work anymore

2005-06-28 Thread Denny Schierz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi, since the last update from apache and mod_php-4.3.11, my pear doesn't work anymore :-( i tested nearly everything, i found on forums.gentoo.org and bugs.gentoo.org, but the most are for php5. mod_php says, --without-pear and later it checks for

Re: [gentoo-user] (A bit OT) Gentoo on a Dell OptiPlex G1

2005-06-28 Thread Bill Roberts
There is a problem with the power supply on Dell. At some point, they reversed the polarity, making it proprietary. If you put a non-Dell motherboard on one of those machines without changing out the powersupply, you'll fry it. The details are available at http://hardwareguys.com . Bill Roberts

Re: [gentoo-user] raw1394

2005-06-28 Thread Daniel Drake
luis jure wrote: searching the web, all sources i found say that udev does not manage ieee1394 devices, and that you must create the nodes manually with something like this: I suggest you upgrade to Linux 2.6.12. It will then be created and managed automatically. Daniel --

RE: [gentoo-user] can't ping myself when iptables running

2005-06-28 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Dave Nebinger wrote: Depends upon what your default policy is defined as. If the default policy is DENY then you must specifically include an ACCEPT rule for icmp traffic. You need some rules like this before the end of the INPUT ruleset: ACCEPT icmp -- 0.0.0.0/0

Re: [gentoo-user] raw1394

2005-06-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/28/05, Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: luis jure wrote: searching the web, all sources i found say that udev does not manage ieee1394 devices, and that you must create the nodes manually with something like this: I suggest you upgrade to Linux 2.6.12. It will then be created

Re: [gentoo-user] driver for 3Com 3c905 100BaseTX [Boomerang]????

2005-06-28 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, askar ... wrote: Thanks, but modprobe 3c59x gave me errror: FATAL: Module 3c59x not found. In kernel there is no option for 3c59x I am using this driver so I know it works... -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] driver for 3Com 3c905 100BaseTX [Boomerang]????

2005-06-28 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, askar ... wrote: In kernel there is no option for 3c59x There is - in menuconfig: Device Drivers - Networking support - Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit) - 3COM cards - 3c590/3c900 series (592/595/597) Vortex/Boomerang support -- Aj. --

Re: [gentoo-user] konsole font

2005-06-28 Thread Philip Webb
050628 q-parser wrote: I've emerged kde-3.4.1 recently the font in Konsole is different. How do I set it back to normal ? First try the Konsole 'settings' menu - 'font' - 'custom', then try selecting 'Fixed (gnu) regular 13'. That might help. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Broken sudo

2005-06-28 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Sean Higgins wrote: Did you run etc-update, or dispatch-conf, to merge configuration file changes? I ran into the same error on several systems, but once I fixed up the configuration files changes, everything was fine. Yeah but the point is, if you haven't changed

Re: [gentoo-user] raw1394

2005-06-28 Thread Daniel Drake
Mark Knecht wrote: Daniel, What sort of ATI support do we get inder 2.6.12 at this time? I've noticed other threads talking about acceleration problems, or possibly no TV out, etc. Both of these matter to me. I have no idea. Try it and find out :) Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke--update

2005-06-28 Thread A. Khattri
On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, maxim wexler wrote: So there must be a problem w/ the Asus K8N-E(Sempron box) BIOS. I updated it using the tool that came w/ the support CD but it only made matters worse: Did you download the latest BIOS from Asus's site and use that? I imagine any CD included with a

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke--update

2005-06-28 Thread A. Khattri
On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, maxim wexler wrote: Now, the Asus brd does have raid capability. Would that be a way out of this morass? Its probably software RAID - you're better off using Linux's own software RAID. How does raid work? http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html -- --

Re: [gentoo-user] blog software recommendation for gentoo?

2005-06-28 Thread Julien Cayzac
I like snipsnap. You configure it from itself and running it is just ( cd /opt/snipsnap ./run.sh ) On 6/22/05, Bill Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 18 Jun 2005, Dmitri Vassilenko wrote: On Friday June 17 2005 22:08, A. Khattri wrote: On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Dmitri Vassilenko wrote:

[gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.12 (was raw1394)

2005-06-28 Thread luis jure
el Tue, 28 Jun 2005 20:58:27 +0100 Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: luis jure wrote: searching the web, all sources i found say that udev does not manage ieee1394 devices, and that you must create the nodes manually with something like this: I suggest you upgrade to Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] kde path is missing

2005-06-28 Thread Zac Medico
Jan Callewaert wrote: Op dinsdag 28 juni 2005 17:42, schreef Rafael Fernández López: Jan Callewaert wrote: Hi, I was recompiling kde today, but now the path isn't set anymore. If I run env-update, the bin directory of kde isn't added to the path (of course after executing source

Re: [gentoo-user] Would zapping USE in make.defaults hurt anything?

2005-06-28 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Walter Dnes wrote: In another year or two, there may be a significant population of PCs that will be able to run Longhorn. And then they'll have to change the name to Longtooth. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Copy portage tree

2005-06-28 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
I have one computer that currently does not have internet access. Can I copy a freshly sync'ed portage tree (/usr/portage/*) from another computer to this one? Or does the tree have some sort of per-computer dependencies (use-flags, etc.)? Tony -- Those who would give up essential Liberty, to

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.12 (was raw1394)

2005-06-28 Thread Daniel Drake
luis jure wrote: thanks neil, mark and daniel for your comments, the different alternatives are much more clear to me now. re kernel 2.6.12, what's its current status? visiting www.kernel.org i found 2.6.12 (17-Jun-2005) and 2.6.12.1 (22-Jun-2005). i really don't get this 4 numbers thing

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.12 (was raw1394)

2005-06-28 Thread Mike Williams
On Tuesday 28 June 2005 22:25, luis jure wrote: re kernel 2.6.12, what's its current status? visiting www.kernel.org i found 2.6.12 (17-Jun-2005) and 2.6.12.1 (22-Jun-2005). i really don't get this 4 numbers thing in 2.6... X.Y.Z are Linus's releases, and unstable, somewhat akin to the old odd

Re: [gentoo-user] Copy portage tree

2005-06-28 Thread Mike Williams
On Tuesday 28 June 2005 22:49, Anthony E. Caudel wrote: I have one computer that currently does not have internet access.  Can I copy a freshly sync'ed portage tree (/usr/portage/*) from another computer to this one?  Or does the tree have some sort of per-computer dependencies (use-flags,

Re: [gentoo-user] Copy portage tree

2005-06-28 Thread Zac Medico
Anthony E. Caudel wrote: I have one computer that currently does not have internet access. Can I copy a freshly sync'ed portage tree (/usr/portage/*) from another computer to this one? Or does the tree have some sort of per-computer dependencies (use-flags, etc.)? Tony Just copy it

Re: [gentoo-user] Motherboard for Dual-Core CPU - Linux firendly

2005-06-28 Thread Joseph
On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 17:32 -0400, A. Khattri wrote: On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Joseph wrote: Looking for Linux friendly motherboard where everything will work from sound to graphics for Dual-Core CPU (AMD 4400) Any recommendations? Most-motherboard will do but there is always something

Re: [gentoo-user] compile probs in general (tightvnc in particular)

2005-06-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
James Ferguson wrote: gcc-config error: Could not run/locate i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc make[2]: *** [vncauth.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/tightvnc-1.3_alpha5/work/vnc_unixsrc/libvncauth' make[1]: *** [all] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory

[gentoo-user] OpenOffice2.0 Install

2005-06-28 Thread Ian K
Hey Everyone, I really want the OO.org 2.0 beta, but its not in portage, and the only source on their site is RPM's (that I can find, at least). How can I go about getting this version of OO? I dont want complete bleeding edge, I want something from about a month ago, that is quite stable. Any

Re: [gentoo-user] No Sound!!!

2005-06-28 Thread Daniel da Veiga
There's some problems with it in the kernel, you should use the alsadriver emerged instead, I believe all you need is compile the modules for it. The only way I could get it to work was strip it from the kernel and compile it as modules, along with alsadriver. Good luck, On 6/29/05, Michael

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk Backup From One Machine To Another

2005-06-28 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 02:39 +, Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales wrote: First of all, thanks for all who replied. It is the end of semester here, and I didn't have time (until now) to read all the posts. I have to admit, I made a newbie mistake when posting this message. I forgot

[gentoo-user] xdirectfb on 2005 - no binary after compilation - any tips to get xdirectfb working

2005-06-28 Thread anthony hornby
Hi, I have a Matrox G550 dual head graphics card and I want to have DirectFB running on one head for VDR output http://www.cadsoft.de/vdr/ using softdevice, and the other head running XDirectFB so I have a local graphical desktop. The latest ebuild for xdirectfb is broken the compile runs but

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice2.0 Install

2005-06-28 Thread Zac Medico
Ian K wrote: Hey Everyone, I really want the OO.org 2.0 beta, but its not in portage, and the only source on their site is RPM's (that I can find, at least). How can I go about getting this version of OO? I dont want complete bleeding edge, I want something from about a month ago, that is

Re: [gentoo-user] No Sound!!!

2005-06-28 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 21:04 -0700, Peter Gordon wrote: Did you remember to add ALSA_CARDS=ens1371 to your /etc/make.conf and emerge alsa-driver? (You'll need to make sure that your /usr/src/linux symlink is correct.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /etc/make.conf # These settings were set by the

Re: [gentoo-user] No Sound!!!

2005-06-28 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 21:04 -0700, Peter Gordon wrote: Did you remember to add ALSA_CARDS=ens1371 to your /etc/make.conf and emerge alsa-driver? (You'll need to make sure that your /usr/src/linux symlink is correct.) I attempted (several times) to emerge alsa-driver. The ouput is consistent:

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice2.0 Install [solved! thx!]

2005-06-28 Thread Ian K
Rumen Yotov wrote: Ian K wrote: Hey Everyone, I really want the OO.org 2.0 beta, but its not in portage, and the only source on their site is RPM's (that I can find, at least). How can I go about getting this version of OO? I dont want complete bleeding edge, I want something from

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice2.0 Install [not solved :( ]

2005-06-28 Thread Ian K
Zac Medico wrote: Ian K wrote: Hey Everyone, I really want the OO.org 2.0 beta, but its not in portage, and the only source on their site is RPM's (that I can find, at least). How can I go about getting this version of OO? I dont want complete bleeding edge, I want something from about a

[gentoo-user] Configuring Engage

2005-06-28 Thread Ian K
Hi there, Two things: 1. Is there another GNOME suitable parabolic zooming dock, like kxdocker but for gnome? If you can only think of Engage, please move to question 2. 2. :) How do you configure the thing? It gives me this on running: am a system tray :) :) engage: icon.c:182: