Jorge Almeida wrote:
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Richard Fish wrote:
If so, possibly an error with themes or alpha blending...
But why now?
Well, one of the things that has been happening in the xorg/qt/kde world
is a move towards more eye-candy with transparency, drop shadows, and so
on. My
On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 17:54 +1200, Jamie Dobbs wrote:
Output of xawtv -c /dev/video0
[snip]
v4l: open /dev/video0: Permission denied
are you in the video group?
$ grep video /etc/group
and make sure it looks something like
video::27:root,jamie
you can edit /etc/group with any editor, but be
Try USE=-doc emerge libdvdcss
Michael W. Holdeman wrote:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98854
On Monday 18 July 2005 01:53 pm, Kurt Guenther wrote:
I've been getting this starting last week Thursday (?). Any ideas?
--Kurt
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/t1enc.def))
Writing
Hi Jaimie, its obviously talking to the tuner ok, so the problems
further on (maybe). Did you try and set the setnorm, setinput and
setfreqtab values? I have found that some apps (such as gnomemeeting)
dont always select the input you want until it eventually dawns on you
that its set to
Is the user a member of the video group, does it work as root?
BillK
On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 17:54 +1200, Jamie Dobbs wrote:
Nick Rout wrote:
Jamie. we seem to be following each other around the mailing lists. CLUG,
mythtv, now here.
You seem to have all the modules loaded, what is not
On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Richard Fish wrote:
You might take a walk through the KDE option menus and disable anything that
says drop shadows, transparency, or most other eye-candy.
I had done that already. But I like eye-candy, or I might as well use a
minimalistic wm...
(I didn't get shadows
Does Gentoo have any sort of GUI for installation? I've followed the
Gentoo Handbook, but a GUI would obviously be nicer.
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hi!
dear friends,
i have an old pentium2 laptop without a cdrom. it has a 1 LAN port(I
HAVE A ADSL LINE) + floppy driver. now i need to install gentoo
to my lap. so can any body to help me to do this? -- ...The future lies ahead. ___ Have you mooed today?
Mark Humphrey wrote:
Does Gentoo have any sort of GUI for installation? I've followed the
Gentoo Handbook, but a GUI would obviously be nicer.
Yes, it's the Gentoo Installer project:
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/installer/
According to their roadmap they have already completed a
Am Dienstag, 19. Juli 2005 09:47 schrieb ext simply change:
i have an old pentium2 laptop without a cdrom. it has a 1 LAN port(I HAVE
A ADSL LINE) + floppy driver. now i need to install gentoo to my lap. so
can any body to help me to do this?
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml should
Someone posted to my lug recently about a problem with gnome or gdm
seeming to automatically log them out after a period of time. I vaguely
recall this being discussed here a few months ago. I have searched my
own email folder and the archives, but cannot find the right thread or a
solution.
Hi,
yes, cannot install iptraf in my system
the code error is:
md5 files ;-) iptraf-2.7.0-r1.ebuild
md5 files ;-) files/digest-iptraf-2.7.0-r1
md5 files ;-) files/iptraf-2.7.0-atheros.patch
md5 src_uri ;-) iptraf-2.7.0.tar.gz
md5 src_uri ;-) iptraf-2.7.0-ipv6-alpha11.diff
Unpacking
On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 13:47:03 +0600, simply change wrote:
i have an old pentium2 laptop without a cdrom. it has a 1 LAN port(I
HAVE A ADSL LINE) + floppy driver. now i need to install gentoo to my
lap. so can any body to help me to do this?
Considering how long compilation would take on this,
I'm sure I've seen this mentioned before, but can't find it. I need a way
to find the current Gentoo runlevel (not the numeric one) in a script. I
can check the level booted by grepping /proc/cmdline, but that fails if
the runlevel was subsequently changed with rc.
--
Neil Bothwick
Don't
Zac Medico wrote:
Mark Humphrey wrote:
Does Gentoo have any sort of GUI for installation? I've followed the
Gentoo Handbook, but a GUI would obviously be nicer.
Yes, it's the Gentoo Installer project:
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/installer/
According to their roadmap they have
On Monday 18 July 2005 19:07, John J. Foster wrote:
Good afternoon all,
A few weeks ago I read in one of the newgroups a way to greatly decrease
compilation times. The author noted that this was particularly noticable
when working with something like OO. The general jist of it was to
create
On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 10:32 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
I'm sure I've seen this mentioned before, but can't find it. I need a way
to find the current Gentoo runlevel (not the numeric one) in a script. I
can check the level booted by grepping /proc/cmdline, but that fails if
the runlevel was
Neil Bothwick wrote:
I'm sure I've seen this mentioned before, but can't find it. I need a way
to find the current Gentoo runlevel (not the numeric one) in a script. I
can check the level booted by grepping /proc/cmdline, but that fails if
the runlevel was subsequently changed with rc.
# cat
Bob Sanders wrote:
Are thse system tasks supposed to be fired automatically by fcron?
Yes. In the ebuild it says -
einfo To activate /etc/cron.{hourly|daily|weekly|montly} please run:
einfo crontab /etc/crontab
I hadn't seen that message - but then again, when I
On 19/07/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 18:03:53 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
I'm sure I've seen this mentioned before, but can't find it. I need a
way to find the current Gentoo runlevel (not the numeric one) in a
script. I can check the level booted by
Nick Rout wrote:
basically you need a floppy that will allow you to:
1. boot with networking going
2. create and mount your filesystems
3. download a stage file
4. unzip it (specifically bzip2, although if the floppy only has gzip ot
zip you an repack your stage file)
5. chroot into the new
John Blinka wrote:
I've almost got this laptop functioning under gentoo, but the compile
times are horrendously long. Hence this question: Can I use distcc
to speed it up? I have 3 other machines already using distcc, but they
are more modern; their /etc/make.conf contains:
CFLAGS=-O2
On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:30:47 +0100, Richard Brown wrote:
rc-status -nc | head -n 1 | cut -c11-
OK, that's the third way of doing it so far, any more? ;-)
--
Neil Bothwick
I only shoot IBM's to put them out of their misery.
pgpmGC2dIsbBz.pgp
Description: PGP signature
We have a Solaris based YP server.
On a fresh install I set /etc/yp.conf to:
domain insignia broadcast
and set NISDOMAIN to insignia in /etc/conf.d/domainname.
If I run ypbind -debug I get:
speyburn ~ # ypbind -debug
parsing config file
Trying entry: domain insignia broadcast
parsed domain
Mark Humphrey wrote:
Zac Medico wrote:
Mark Humphrey wrote:
Does Gentoo have any sort of GUI for installation? I've followed the
Gentoo Handbook, but a GUI would obviously be nicer.
Yes, it's the Gentoo Installer project:
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/installer/
Hello, I emerged bugzilla yesterday, using postgresql as database.
However, I can't enter any accented characters anywhere (bugs
description, name, subject, etc). It will give me the following error:
Software error:
DBD::Pg::st execute failed: ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding
UNICODE:
On Tuesday 19 of July 2005 09:47, simply change wrote:
i have an old pentium2 laptop without a cdrom. it has a 1 LAN port(I HAVE A
ADSL LINE) + floppy driver. now i need to install gentoo to my lap. so can
any body to help me to do this?
Last week I did it on ancient p/mmx omnibook 800 which
Hello
I am trying to get fbsplash to work and am stuck. I have followed the
directions on the gentoo-wiki site but still no luck. Im using vesafb
with a 2.6.12-r6 kernel. my grub.conf looks like this
title=Gentoo-2.6.12-r6-fbsplash
root (hd0,0)
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/bzImage.new25 root=/dev/hda3
On Tuesday 19 July 2005 03:31, Mark Humphrey wrote:
Does Gentoo have any sort of GUI for installation? I've followed the
Gentoo Handbook, but a GUI would obviously be nicer.
Email Disclaimer
http://www.aplitec.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm
Suffer through the terminal only install a few times;
On Tuesday 19 July 2005 03:47, simply change wrote:
hi!
dear friends,
i have an old pentium2 laptop without a cdrom. it has a 1 LAN port(I HAVE A
ADSL LINE) + floppy driver. now i need to install gentoo to my lap. so can
any body to help me to do this?
You could always try booting the
Rumen Yotov schreef:
Hi,
Beside this official Gentoo installer, there's another distro based on
Gentoo, which uses anaconda as graphical installer, current version
seems to be 1.1 - it's called VidaLinux google for the site. Never tried
it, so no experience.
But it was paid for a Pro/Full
On Tuesday 19 of July 2005 08:56, Iain Buchanan wrote:
It seems that every multimedia keyboard out there (especially the usb
ones) have some or all extra keys that just aren't visible outside of
Winblows.
I have a couple of them! I've tried all the usual ways of detecting
them - xev and
I think the Fbsplash isnt working in 2.6-rx dont know why but i cant get it to work neither.
On 7/19/05, LostSon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
HelloI am trying to get fbsplash to work and am stuck. I have followed thedirections on the gentoo-wiki site but still no luck. Im using vesafb
with a 2.6.12-r6
LostSon schreef:
Hello
I am trying to get fbsplash to work and am stuck. I have followed the
directions on the gentoo-wiki site but still no luck. Im using vesafb
with a 2.6.12-r6 kernel. my grub.conf looks like this
title=Gentoo-2.6.12-r6-fbsplash
root (hd0,0)
kernel
On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 17:50 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote:
LostSon schreef:
Hello
I am trying to get fbsplash to work and am stuck. I have followed the
directions on the gentoo-wiki site but still no luck. Im using vesafb
with a 2.6.12-r6 kernel. my grub.conf looks like this
All,
During the gentoo installation I had very nasty error messages after
the first reboot. The partition table of my harddisk was unreadable
and the file system could not be mounted.
Installation of devfs solved it, but, as I can tell from the mailing
list devfs is obsolete.
**What is a
It seems lately (within the past few months), I am seeing a lot more of
these:
!!! Digest verification Failed:
!!!/usr/portage/distfiles/foo-1.2.3.tar.gz
!!! Reason: Failed on MD5 verification
The problem (aside from the obvious) is that portage just shits the bed and
doesn't try to re-get
Anyone know why the digests are failing so frequently? Are they packaged
poorly? Is it the mirror I'm getting them from? But then that begs the
question, aren't the mirrors synchronized and MD5 verified with each
other?
Shouldn't TCP/IP be safe in that it retries a packet until it gets it --
So after spending a day messing with and research fb'ing, i
gots nothing but messed up fonts in xfce which i'm STILL
trying to fix and actaully, i might send a email to the
list about it
please do so, I have the same troubles :( .
Best regards
ce
--
gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing
Previously I could boot into single user mode with the following line
in grub
kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.8-gentoo-r3 root=/dev/hdc7 single
After a recent emerge sync and update of world, the above is just a
normal multiuser boot.
I can use
kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.8-gentoo-r3
LostSon wrote:
Hello
I am trying to get fbsplash to work and am stuck. I have followed the
directions on the gentoo-wiki site but still no luck. Im using vesafb
with a 2.6.12-r6 kernel. my grub.conf looks like this
title=Gentoo-2.6.12-r6-fbsplash
root (hd0,0)
kernel
Hi,
I have a Samba domain with two XP Prof machines into it. With a new
Windows XP Prof sp2 machine, i get this message if the user wants to
logon:
The system cannnot log you on due to the following error:
A device attached to the system is not functioning.
This is also if i want to use a
Ramón Gutiérrez wrote:
I think the Fbsplash isnt working in 2.6-rx dont know why but i cant
get it to work neither.
WFM with the emergence theme and 2.6.12-gentoo-r5 (r2-r4 were also ok).
I have a Radeon mobility 9600 and am using the radeonfb driver.
Unfortunately my initrd is highly
So I started out compiling 2.6.12-r6 with frame buffer support adding in vesafb.
Tried various grub lines at various res's, got nothing but distorted console
fonts (started 1/3 way over on screen w/ wrap around plus a duplication on the
line at the start, only the very top line of the screen
James Hiscock wrote:
It stills in trouble (with -C it does not work, so i tryied man tune2fs
and i found out that it should be -O)... any idea ?
My guess? I wrote down the wrong option. shrug Wouldn't really
surprise me - I tend to reply to these things first thing in the
morning, and I'm
I used the steps on the Gentoo docs. They also link to some udev site.
Essentially
1. Set up kernel not to autostart devfs (when everything is okay you can
remove devfs from the kernel)
2. emerge udev
3. I modified /etc/conf.d/rc (I think it was) to have a devfs and a udev
version. The
Op di, 19-07-2005 te 20:44 +0200, schreef Patrick:
Hi,
I have a Samba domain with two XP Prof machines into it. With a new
Windows XP Prof sp2 machine, i get this message if the user wants to
logon:
The system cannnot log you on due to the following error:
A device attached to the system
On 05/07/19 17:31, Petr Kocmid wrote:
On Tuesday 19 of July 2005 08:56, Iain Buchanan wrote:
It seems that every multimedia keyboard out there (especially the usb
ones) have some or all extra keys that just aren't visible outside of
Winblows.
I have a couple of them! I've tried all the
hi
starting porthole I get these warnings
# porthole
/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gnome/vfs.py:4: DeprecationWarning:
Module gnome.vfs is deprecated; please import gnomevfs instead
DeprecationWarning)
/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/porthole/summary.py:37:
Martins Steinbergs wrote:
hi
starting porthole I get these warnings
# porthole
/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gnome/vfs.py:4: DeprecationWarning:
Module gnome.vfs is deprecated; please import gnomevfs instead
DeprecationWarning)
Holly Bostick motub at planet.nl writes:
Possibly your .wav file is in fact 'inappropriately encoded'? Does it
burn if you use -data instead of -audio?
Hello Holly,
If you read the threads, I start out trying to k3b working. I have
not used
cdrecord, so it's quite possible (statistically
On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My question is, you know in gnome-terminal you can select whether to use system
terminal font, what font is this? it seems to be the issue. I *could* simply
increase the font size in all affected apps but I shouldnt have to do that.
It is your
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Others have suggested expliciting setting the dpi in xorg.conf but again, I
never had to do that before so why now? Right now its 75x75 dpi. I have no idea
what it was before this font issue.
And does this work for you? Or do you still have issues with fonts?
On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 20:44 +0200, Richard Fish wrote:
LostSon wrote:
Hello
I am trying to get fbsplash to work and am stuck. I have followed the
directions on the gentoo-wiki site but still no luck. Im using vesafb
with a 2.6.12-r6 kernel. my grub.conf looks like this
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So I started out compiling 2.6.12-r6 with frame buffer support adding in vesafb.
Tried various grub lines at various res's, got nothing but distorted console
fonts (started 1/3 way over on screen w/ wrap around plus a duplication on the
line at the start, only the very
LostSon wrote:
On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 20:44 +0200, Richard Fish wrote:
LostSon wrote:
Hello
I am trying to get fbsplash to work and am stuck. I have followed the
directions on the gentoo-wiki site but still no luck. Im using vesafb
with a 2.6.12-r6 kernel. my grub.conf looks like
thank you, just needed to be shure, 'cause i like porthole to maintain updates
and such on my box.
Martins
Martins
Generally, when something is deprecated, it's no cause for immediate
concern. It only means that the feature/api may not be supported sometime
in the future. The
On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 22:12:38 +0200, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
LostSon wrote:
On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 20:44 +0200, Richard Fish wrote:
LostSon wrote:
Hello I am trying to get fbsplash to work and am stuck. I have
followed the
directions on the gentoo-wiki site but still no
James schreef:
Holly Bostick motub at planet.nl writes:
Possibly your .wav file is in fact 'inappropriately encoded'? Does it
burn if you use -data instead of -audio?
Hello Holly,
If you read the threads, I start out trying to k3b working. I have
not used
cdrecord, so it's quite
On Tuesday 19 July 2005 21:27, charly ghislain wrote:
On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 22:12:38 +0200, Richard Fish
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
LostSon wrote:
On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 20:44 +0200, Richard Fish wrote:
LostSon wrote:
Hello I am trying to get fbsplash to work and am stuck. I have
followed
On Tuesday 19 July 2005 19:10, Richard P. Groenewegen wrote:
All,
During the gentoo installation I had very nasty error messages after
the first reboot. The partition table of my harddisk was unreadable
and the file system could not be mounted.
Installation of devfs solved it, but, as I
On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 21:45 +0100, Tony Davison wrote:
On Tuesday 19 July 2005 21:27, charly ghislain wrote:
On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 22:12:38 +0200, Richard Fish
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
LostSon wrote:
On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 20:44 +0200, Richard Fish wrote:
LostSon wrote:
Hello I
I checked this per your instructions as well and no it
hasnt cut it off its all on one line. Still no luck im
still just getting the cant open config file on /etc/splash
error and fd0 crap, heh
same for me. I've been playing the whole evening eith
different settings but no result.
On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 23:10 +0200, Christoph Eckert wrote:
I checked this per your instructions as well and no it
hasnt cut it off its all on one line. Still no luck im
still just getting the cant open config file on /etc/splash
error and fd0 crap, heh
same for me. I've been playing
Hi,
I know this isn't a gentoo related question so forgive me, but I trust
on the gentoo mailing list to give me a hand...
I have a Asus P4P800 motherboard that recently became useless (plain
broken, don't know why, no boot, no BIOS, nothing). I had 2x120 GB
SATA hard drives connected with RAID
Yeah its been 3 days here building kernels with different
options and the like im about to give up on it. I have my
terminal set at 1024x768 anyway which looks nice by itself,
i just thought this would be interesting to try and see
what it looks like, but im starting to think it isnt worth
Christoph Eckert schreef:
I checked this per your instructions as well and no it
hasnt cut it off its all on one line. Still no luck im
still just getting the cant open config file on /etc/splash
error and fd0 crap, heh
Umm... pardon me for asking, but you've said at least twice that an
error
On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 10:48:10 -0700, Daevid Vincent wrote:
I would use --skipfirst, but that doesn't work with emerge -Davu
world... *sigh*.
--skipfirst only works in conjunction with --resume
emerge -avuD world
something fails
emerge --resume --skipfirst
--
Neil Bothwick
Another casualty
i think the line
Filesystem features: has_journal resize_inode filetype needs_recovery
can help me, but i dont know how... any idea about wich feature i can
desable ?
I think you're right, but as I said, I'm kinda out of my depth, now.
...but, you may want to pay attention to that
Christoph Eckert wrote:
I checked this per your instructions as well and no it
hasnt cut it off its all on one line. Still no luck im
still just getting the cant open config file on /etc/splash
error and fd0 crap, heh
same for me. I've been playing the whole evening eith
different
I run a pretty stable system. I do however run ~x86 for KDE and Gnome.
Something changed recently in an emerge -Davu world or system that
causes X to not start anymore? The Xorg log below doesn't have any errors or
warnings or anything. There are no unresolved symbols as the message says. I
did
Hi all,
thanks all for the help.
BR
Thomas
Am Montag, den 18.07.2005, 22:44 +0200 schrieb Benno Schulenberg:
Thomas Drueke wrote:
I want to emerge gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r31 but it has been
deleted from the rsync repository.
Is there a way to get the corresponding ebuild-file back to
On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 23:31 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote:
Christoph Eckert schreef:
I checked this per your instructions as well and no it
hasnt cut it off its all on one line. Still no luck im
still just getting the cant open config file on /etc/splash
error and fd0 crap, heh
Umm... pardon
LostSon schreef:
On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 23:31 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote:
Christoph Eckert schreef:
I checked this per your instructions as well and no it
hasnt cut it off its all on one line. Still no luck im
still just getting the cant open config file on /etc/splash
error and fd0 crap,
Thanks Richard,
So, this means you have the framebuffer device and fbsplash
working...just not at kernel boot time. This probably
means you do not have the right kernel options for initrd
loading, or a bad grub configuration. Could you post your
dmesg output...specifically looking for a
Hopes it helps:
I use at my clients:
labo20 ~ # cat /etc/yp.conf
domain pipca server 10.13.10.235
labo20 ~ # cat /etc/nisdomainname
pipca
labo20 ~ # cat /etc/nsswitch.conf
passwd: files nisplus nis
shadow: files nisplus nis
group: files nisplus nis
hosts: files nisplus nis dns
bootparams:
Thanks for the reply Colin =)
If you remember your stripe size, then you should be able to plug
your drives into any ICH5R-based motherboard and get your data back.
Theoretically, you could plug your drives into any RAID whose BIOS
does not write to the disks when creating an array and then
On Tuesday 19 July 2005 19:37, José Pedro Saraiva wrote:
Thanks for the reply Colin =)
If you remember your stripe size, then you should be able to plug
your drives into any ICH5R-based motherboard and get your data back.
Theoretically, you could plug your drives into any RAID whose BIOS
On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 14:57:47 -0700
Daevid Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I run a pretty stable system. I do however run ~x86 for KDE and Gnome.
Something changed recently in an emerge -Davu world or system that
causes X to not start anymore?
If you are not doing the script updates, then you
James Hiscock wrote:
i think the line
Filesystem features: has_journal resize_inode filetype needs_recovery
can help me, but i dont know how... any idea about wich feature i can
desable ?
I think you're right, but as I said, I'm kinda out of my depth, now.
...but, you may want to
LostSon wrote:
On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 23:31 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote:
Christoph Eckert schreef:
I checked this per your instructions as well and no it
hasnt cut it off its all on one line. Still no luck im
still just getting the cant open config file on /etc/splash
error and fd0
Daevid Vincent wrote:
I run a pretty stable system. I do however run ~x86 for KDE and Gnome.
Something changed recently in an emerge -Davu world or system that
causes X to not start anymore? The Xorg log below doesn't have any errors or
warnings or anything. There are no unresolved symbols as
Holly Bostick wrote:
James schreef:
Holly Bostick motub at planet.nl writes:
Possibly your .wav file is in fact 'inappropriately encoded'? Does it
burn if you use -data instead of -audio?
Hello Holly,
If you read the threads, I start out trying to k3b working. I have
not used
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