Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Linux installed from 2005.1 disk does not start

2005-10-02 Thread Joseph Jezak
Charles Trois wrote: Joseph Jezak a écrit : You need a framebuffer device in your kernel, Linux doesn't work on PPC without an FB. You should use the OpenFirmwareFB with an nVidia chipset. Thanks. I followed your advice, but it did not help: the problem remains. I take the liberty to

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Linux installed from 2005.1 disk does not start

2005-10-02 Thread Nicholas S-A
you need to enable support for IDE/ATA controller from apple under Device Drivers- ATA. there should be options based on Macintosh or Apple: IDE/ATA Disk support IDE/ATA Driver Mac Partition Support nick On Oct 2, 2005, at 11:45 AM, Charles Trois wrote: Mickael Royer a écrit : I see you have

[gentoo-user] OT worth upgrading hardware ?

2005-10-02 Thread Dave S
Hi all, I have a PIII 700Mhz, 256MB RAM, Finances are somewhat tight (read that as very tight) but I could do with some more speed when playing with python scripts + KDE can be a tad sluggish. The processor is going to have to be either a ... Intel Celeron 2.4GHz 128K 400MHz Socket 478 CPU

Re: [gentoo-user] OT worth upgrading hardware ?

2005-10-02 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 02 October 2005 09:12, Dave S wrote: Hi all, I have a PIII 700Mhz, 256MB RAM, Finances are somewhat tight (read that as very tight) but I could do with some more speed when playing with python scripts + KDE can be a tad sluggish. The processor is going to have to be either a ...

Re: [gentoo-user] OT worth upgrading hardware ?

2005-10-02 Thread Folken
On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 08:12:56AM +0100, Dave S wrote: The GHz sound impressive but I know neither chip is a very powerful, I believe they 'water down' the internals !. I cant find anywhere a comparison between my PIII these two possibilitys. I found a comparision between (almost) your

[gentoo-user] Fluxbox Desktop Icons

2005-10-02 Thread Ryan Viljoen
I am currently setting up some linux pc's for my old high school. I am running fluxbox and have a default user account which fluxbox loads from so no configs are saved to the home directories. This also prevents the users from changing menu options, backgrounds and such permently. What I am

[gentoo-user] deltup server

2005-10-02 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, the deltup server ddeltup.rthwlr.net always gives the error: 404 Not found. Isn't it supposed to create the dtu in that case? Anybody in the know what is going on with that box? Uwe -- 95% of all programmers rate themselves among the top 5% of all software developers. - Linus

Re: [gentoo-user] OT worth upgrading hardware ?

2005-10-02 Thread Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales
Perhaps you can get a Semprom with a smaller clock but a higher FSB. I have an AMD Semprom 2400+ with 400 Mhz FSB, 1 GB of Ram and I'm very happy with it. It plays all the games I want and I can work in it very smoothly. I recently upgrade to 1 GB of Ram, used to be 512 Mb and the difference is

Re: [gentoo-user] OT worth upgrading hardware ?

2005-10-02 Thread Dave S
Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales wrote: Perhaps you can get a Semprom with a smaller clock but a higher FSB. I have an AMD Semprom 2400+ with 400 Mhz FSB, 1 GB of Ram and I'm very happy with it. It plays all the games I want and I can work in it very smoothly. I recently upgrade to 1 GB of

Re: [gentoo-user] error while loading shared libraries: libdc1394_control.so.9

2005-10-02 Thread Richard Watson
You should run revdep-rebuild after updates. It's also a good idea to run emerge -a depclean before revdep-rebuild and add depclean packages to /var/lib/portage/world if you want to keep them. Zac Thanks ... good advice. I reinstalled ffmpeg and the problem dissapeared so your advice is

Re: [gentoo-user] OT worth upgrading hardware ?

2005-10-02 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 08:12:56AM +0100, Dave S wrote Hi all, I have a PIII 700Mhz, 256MB RAM, Finances are somewhat tight (read that as very tight) but I could do with some more speed when playing with python scripts + KDE can be a tad sluggish. Running a fat bloated resource-hogging

[gentoo-user] simple mta for local delivery

2005-10-02 Thread tiesman
Hey, I'm looking for a simple mta, which also can do local delivery. I'm using nbsmtp now, to get mail off the system to the smtp server of my isp. But I'd like to have local delivery for cronjobs (or anything similar), but I really don't want to emerge sendmail or postfix, if I don't have to.

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage, network less install and Apache, MySQL, PHP

2005-10-02 Thread Daniel da Veiga
Thank you, will try that on monday and see how it goes... On 10/1/05, Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Answer to 1: Yes, if you download a portage-timestamp.tar.bz2 file and uncompress it on /usr/portage, it has the same effect as emerge --sync. Actually, to be

Re: [gentoo-user] simple mta for local delivery

2005-10-02 Thread Mark Shields
qmail! I use it on my home server and I love it. [ Results for search key : ^qmail$ ] [ Applications found : 1 ] * mail-mta/qmail Latest version available: 1.03-r15 Latest version installed: 1.03-r15 Size of downloaded files: 383 kB Homepage: http://www.qmail.org/

Re: [gentoo-user] Right recipe for gentoo-user procmail

2005-10-02 Thread Nick Rout
On Sun, 02 Oct 2005 08:39:52 -0700 Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 10/1/2005 1:50 AM Nick Rout wrote: On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 19:54 -0400, Dave Nebinger wrote: Just set up the following recipe for postfix/courier-imapd/procmail: :0 * ^(From|Cc|To).*gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel tuning

2005-10-02 Thread John Jolet
On Saturday 01 October 2005 14:59, gentuxx wrote: - Mark Shields IIRC, RedHat kernels are relatively generic in that they have almost everything turned on, and/or build the modules so that they can maximize the hardware compatibility. So it is likely that there will be tones of stuff that

[gentoo-user] Why would portage not update a package?

2005-10-02 Thread Dave Nebinger
Okay, I finished an emerge --update --deep world this morning. Everything was cool. This afternoon, however, I decide I want to install eclipse to migrate a windows java development effort to my gentoo box. Did an emerge --pretend dev-util/eclipse-sdk to see what I was going to get. I was

Re: [gentoo-user] Why would portage not update a package?

2005-10-02 Thread Zac Medico
Dave Nebinger wrote: Okay, I finished an emerge --update --deep world this morning. Everything was cool. This afternoon, however, I decide I want to install eclipse to migrate a windows java development effort to my gentoo box. Did an emerge --pretend dev-util/eclipse-sdk to see what I

Re: [gentoo-user] Why would portage not update a package?

2005-10-02 Thread Dave Nebinger
On Sunday 02 October 2005 07:03 pm, Zac Medico wrote: The likely explanation is that ant-core is not a dependency (direct or deep) of your world list. Ah, but if it is installed it must have been a dependency somewhere or in place as a result of a direct emerge. Eix and emerge both knew it

Re: [gentoo-user] Why would portage not update a package?

2005-10-02 Thread Nick Rout
On Sun, 02 Oct 2005 19:49:23 -0400 Dave Nebinger wrote: On Sunday 02 October 2005 07:03 pm, Zac Medico wrote: The likely explanation is that ant-core is not a dependency (direct or deep) of your world list. Ah, but if it is installed it must have been a dependency somewhere or in place

Re: [gentoo-user] Why would portage not update a package?

2005-10-02 Thread Dave Nebinger
On Sunday 02 October 2005 08:25 pm, Mike Williams wrote: On Monday 03 October 2005 00:49, Dave Nebinger wrote: The likely explanation is that ant-core is not a dependency (direct or deep) of your world list. Ah, but if it is installed it must have been a dependency somewhere or in

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge K3B -- SOLVEDAGAIN

2005-10-02 Thread Dan
Dan wrote: SNIP 9to5 looks like the tool for the job! Thanks for your help! Except of course that I get no support for DVD reading configured - exit I've emerged libdvdread and transcode, forcing the dvd flag on but I still get the same result. mplayer has no trouble playing DVDs.

[gentoo-user] Is my video card or motherboard going?

2005-10-02 Thread Joseph
All of a sudden I've noticed strange green color around all the letters and icons on desktop, some object have vertical green stripes. Would it be an indication that motherboard or video is going? This bos has ASUS A7V8X Motherboard and GeForce4 MX 440 AGP Video card. -- #Joseph --

[gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers and console black screen

2005-10-02 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I've searched bugzilla, the forums, google and I can't find anything that helps although I've tried several things. I have installed a system from stage 1 and have it running. I emerged the nvidia-kernel and glx drivers and set up xorg.conf. Xorg.conf works with the nv driver and works with