Re: [gentoo-user] BTTV Mini-HOWTO -- how do I use multiple inputs?

2005-11-28 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 23:17:37 +1300 Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes, you probably have one bttv device with a number of inputs. you need to switch inputs. they are usually called TV, Composite, S-Video etc. If there is more than one composite they might be called Composite-1,

Re: [gentoo-user] wvdial: dialup for users

2005-11-28 Thread Alan E. Davis
I've been plunking around with this. I tried what may be a brute force method: change the permissions of /dev/ttyS14. But /dev/ttyS14 is a link to /dev/tts/14. I now see that is a devfs rendering? I thought I do not have support for devfs, and I am trying to use something else. Anyway, is it

Re: [gentoo-user] wvdial: dialup for users

2005-11-28 Thread Alan E. Davis
Ok: success! After changing the permissions a a BUNCH of files, and ownerships, and even generating new groups (ppp), finally, when I changed the ownership of /etc/wvdial to root:dialout, the setup works! Isn't that always the way? When I finally have posted and given up, a new option occurs to

[gentoo-user] Re: BTTV Mini-HOWTO -- how do I use multiple inputs?

2005-11-28 Thread James
Nick Rout nick at rout.co.nz writes: By the way which package does v4lctl come in? ok it is part of xawtv. just refreshing myself, you can see a list of available parameters with v4lctl -c /dev/video0 list What about 'media-video/came' although it's masked it says: Description: rewrite

[gentoo-user] Video capture card recommendations

2005-11-28 Thread Budd, Tracy
I just need a bare-bones card to make backups of my VCR tapes and DVDs. Not even interested in a TV-tuner though I guess they all include that. Gentoo support is a must. TIA -tracy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: How does Portage prioritze emerges in emerge world?

2005-11-28 Thread James
Holly Bostick motub at planet.nl writes: I said that the situation of upgrading a kernel with the 'symlink' USE flag active occurring at the same time as a (particular) program needing to compile against a configured kernel was not likely to occur all that often, but I was wrong. It's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How does Portage prioritze emerges in emerge world?

2005-11-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 16:26:56 + (UTC), James wrote: I have several kernel-sources later than 'linux-2.6.13-gentoo-r5' some vanilla some gentoo. How would portage know which one to compile against if not the symlink set in /usr/src? uname -r returns the currently running kernel version.

[gentoo-user] Problems upgrading gcc

2005-11-28 Thread Thiago Lüttig
Hi, i have an gentoo with gcc 3.4.4, and I´ve executed the tcupdate script to upgrade the gcc(after executed an emerge sync), well, the tcupdate doesnt did nothing, and when i try tu run an emerge gcc, the las version of gcc appears as 3.4.4.-- __Atenciosamente,Thiago

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How does Portage prioritze emerges in emerge world?

2005-11-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 18:20:28 +0100, Francesco R. wrote: disclaimer: _not_ followed the whole thread and _not_ checked the source. But how can be created packages that work on different machines if it use uname -r ? This thread is all about compiling kernel modules, which must be specific

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How does Portage prioritze emerges in emerge world?

2005-11-28 Thread Scott Stoddard
Neil Bothwick wrote: This thread is all about compiling kernel modules, which must be specific to either the running kernel or the intended kernel. Most packages take the latter option, using the symlink, which causes problems if the symlink is updated during an emerge -u world. IMO exactly

[gentoo-user] mouse won't scroll anymore

2005-11-28 Thread Ernie Schroder
I've just moved from XFree86 to xorg and updated my KDE and now my wheel mouse doesn't scroll anymore. I'm using the same mouse lines in xorg.conf that I used in Xfree86.conf, but I can't get it to work. It must be something I just don't see. Any ideas? Logitek Track man Wheel (USB) I've tried

Re: [gentoo-user] Pam merge error

2005-11-28 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Monday 28 November 2005 03:49 am, a tiny voice compelled andy to write: try to emerge cracklib first. cracklib and gnupg did it. Thanks -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free 13:43:48 up 2:13, 6 users, load average: 0.18, 0.15, 0.13 Linux 2.6.5-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How does Portage prioritze emerges in emerge world?

2005-11-28 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/28/05, Scott Stoddard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: This thread is all about compiling kernel modules, which must be specific to either the running kernel or the intended kernel. Most packages take the latter option, using the symlink, which causes problems if the

Re: [gentoo-user] mouse won't scroll anymore

2005-11-28 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/28/05, Ernie Schroder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just moved from XFree86 to xorg and updated my KDE and now my wheel mouse doesn't scroll anymore. I'm using the same mouse lines in xorg.conf that I used in Xfree86.conf, but I can't get it to work. It must be something I just don't

Re: [gentoo-user][SOLVED] Where are the suspend2 options in suspend2-sources-2.6.14-r1-3

2005-11-28 Thread Uwe Klosa
I have also a P4 + HT and I want to use it to. Have you tried the CONFIG_SUSPEND_SMP parameter. I will try it this evening. Cheers Uwe Robin Atwood wrote: On Monday 28 November 2005 17:36, Uwe Klosa wrote: No they did not. I've got a compile error. But I have a solution for my problem. In

[gentoo-user] Re: PHP

2005-11-28 Thread Jeff Grossman
ellotheth rimmwen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/26/05, Jeff Grossman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is the dev-lang/php pretty stable? Is there anything I should know before I make the switch? I'm running 5.0.5. It's lovely. Just follow the upgrade guide

[gentoo-user] usb key question

2005-11-28 Thread Antoine
Hi, I get this from dmesg usb 1-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2 scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices usb-storage: device found at 2 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning Vendor: Model: USB Flash Memory Rev: 1.04 Type:

[gentoo-user] cdrtools and 2.6.13-r3 kernel

2005-11-28 Thread Rob
Does anyone know if cdrtools 2.01-r3 works at all with the gentoo 2.6.13-r3 kernel? I saw cdrecord giving a warning about later kernels. Xcdroast just doesn't seem to do anything when I've tried it. Thanks, Rob -- -- Rob Lytle Home Page A Seti search for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: BTTV Mini-HOWTO -- how do I use multiple inputs?

2005-11-28 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 15:00:14 + (UTC) James wrote: Nick Rout nick at rout.co.nz writes: By the way which package does v4lctl come in? ok it is part of xawtv. just refreshing myself, you can see a list of available parameters with v4lctl -c /dev/video0 list What about

[gentoo-user] completely removing a program

2005-11-28 Thread Nick Smith
sorry for the simple question. how can i completely remove a program and have it get rid of the conf files and any other temp files it leaves around? i want to start from scratch with some programs and dont want to have to manually search and remove those files. TIA Nick

Re: [gentoo-user] cdrtools and 2.6.13-r3 kernel

2005-11-28 Thread Alexander Kirillov
Does anyone know if cdrtools 2.01-r3 works at all with the gentoo 2.6.13-r3 kernel? I saw cdrecord giving a warning about later kernels. Xcdroast just doesn't seem to do anything when I've tried it. Works for me with 2.6.14-gentoo-r2 since I disabled dma on /dev/cdrw HTH, Sasha --

Re: [gentoo-user] Video capture card recommendations

2005-11-28 Thread Bryce Verdier
I have 2 Hauppauge PVR-250's in a mythtv box And i couldn't be happier with the cards. the IVTV driver is in portage, and works great. And i've owned for of those 250's for over 2 years now. bryce Budd, Tracy wrote: I just need a bare-bones card to make backups of my VCR tapes and

Re: [gentoo-user] completely removing a program

2005-11-28 Thread Petteri Räty
Nick Smith wrote: sorry for the simple question. how can i completely remove a program and have it get rid of the conf files and any other temp files it leaves around? i want to start from scratch with some programs and dont want to have to manually search and remove those files. TIA Nick

[gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out?

2005-11-28 Thread Michael Sullivan
Our cable internet service goes out frequently (and probably even more frequently now that winter has come to OKlahoma.) When it goes out, pretty much everything on my Gentoo system slows down. It's gotten to where just to get an application (like gnumeric) to open I have to su - to root and

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out?

2005-11-28 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 14:54:29 -0600 Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Our cable internet service goes out frequently (and probably even more | frequently now that winter has come to OKlahoma.) When it goes out, | pretty much everything on my Gentoo system slows down. It's gotten to |

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out?

2005-11-28 Thread Danyelle Gragsone
to me.. linux in general has always ran slow if the net connection goes out. It might be constantly trying to access the internet. Kinda like the a cell phones battery dies alot faster when it cant connect to a tower. It just keeps trying til it gets something or the phone dies.On 11/28/05,

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out?

2005-11-28 Thread Alexander Kirillov
Our cable internet service goes out frequently (and probably even more frequently now that winter has come to OKlahoma.) When it goes out, pretty much everything on my Gentoo system slows down. It's gotten to where just to get an application (like gnumeric) to open I have to su - to root and

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out?

2005-11-28 Thread andy
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 16:06:44 -0500 Danyelle Gragsone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i think there are running files that you dont need without a net-device, try to find these processes/services with ps -aux and rc-update -s and stop/kill them greets to me.. linux in general has always ran slow if

Re: [gentoo-user] cdrtools and 2.6.13-r3 kernel

2005-11-28 Thread AJ Spagnoletti
On 11/28/05, Alexander Kirillov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know if cdrtools 2.01-r3 works at all with the gentoo 2.6.13-r3 kernel? I saw cdrecord giving a warning about later kernels.Xcdroast just doesn't seem to do anything when I've tried it. I have had no trouble with cdrecord and I

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out?

2005-11-28 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 00:21 +0300, Alexander Kirillov wrote: Our cable internet service goes out frequently (and probably even more frequently now that winter has come to OKlahoma.) When it goes out, pretty much everything on my Gentoo system slows down. It's gotten to where just to get

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out?

2005-11-28 Thread Rob
Michael Sullivan wrote: Our cable internet service goes out frequently (and probably even more frequently now that winter has come to OKlahoma.) When it goes out, pretty much everything on my Gentoo system slows down. It's gotten to where just to get an application (like gnumeric) to open I

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out?

2005-11-28 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Sullivan wrote: I don't have a full DNS server for my domain. Each computer on my network has a copy of the same /etc/hosts file. Is there some way I can make it use that for DNS lookups locally? Edit /etc/host.conf - it's well

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out?

2005-11-28 Thread Alexander Kirillov
Our cable internet service goes out frequently (and probably even more frequently now that winter has come to OKlahoma.) When it goes out, pretty much everything on my Gentoo system slows down. It's gotten to where just to get an application (like gnumeric) to open I have to su - to root and

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out?

2005-11-28 Thread Dale
Danyelle Gragsone wrote: to me.. linux in general has always ran slow if the net connection goes out. It might be constantly trying to access the internet. Kinda like the a cell phones battery dies alot faster when it cant connect to a tower. It just keeps trying til it gets something or

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out?

2005-11-28 Thread Alexander Kirillov
Our cable internet service goes out frequently (and probably even more frequently now that winter has come to OKlahoma.) When it goes out, pretty much everything on my Gentoo system slows down. It's gotten to where just to get an application (like gnumeric) to open I have to su - to root and

[gentoo-user] Kuroo portage with cdb module

2005-11-28 Thread Peper
Hello, Is there any way to get kuroo working with portage with cdb module? -- Best Regards, Peper -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out? + question

2005-11-28 Thread Ognjen Bezanov
Dale wrote: Danyelle Gragsone wrote: to me.. linux in general has always ran slow if the net connection goes out. It might be constantly trying to access the internet. Kinda like the a cell phones battery dies alot faster when it cant connect to a tower. It just keeps trying til it

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out?

2005-11-28 Thread Alexander Kirillov
The local resolver lib will use either /etc/hosts file or dns queries in the order defined in your /etc/host.conf You mean /etc/nsswitch.conf? I probably do. Is /etc/host.conf still of any use? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out?

2005-11-28 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 18:40 -0300, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Sullivan wrote: I don't have a full DNS server for my domain. Each computer on my network has a copy of the same /etc/hosts file. Is there some way I can make it

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out? + question

2005-11-28 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 22:43:01 + Ognjen Bezanov wrote: I have a gentoo system (Actually I have four of them) and they dont experience a slowdown when my internet connection goes down (which it invariably does because my ISP reboots its servers every 28 days as a policy, thereby

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out? + question

2005-11-28 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 12:24 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 22:43:01 + Ognjen Bezanov wrote: I have a gentoo system (Actually I have four of them) and they dont experience a slowdown when my internet connection goes down (which it invariably does because my ISP

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out? + question

2005-11-28 Thread Dale
Ognjen Bezanov wrote: I dont want to have to come home and ssh in to restart everytime my ISP reboots its M$ Servers. It's funny that you say that. One of the first things I asked my ISP when I was looking for one, what OS do you use? If they didn't use *nix, I was going to keep looking.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out?

2005-11-28 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/28/05, Alexander Kirillov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The local resolver lib will use either /etc/hosts file or dns queries in the order defined in your /etc/host.conf You mean /etc/nsswitch.conf? I probably do. Is /etc/host.conf still of any use? Actually, I'm not sure. I've always

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out? + question

2005-11-28 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 18:11 -0600, Dale wrote: Ognjen Bezanov wrote: I dont want to have to come home and ssh in to restart everytime my ISP reboots its M$ Servers. It's funny that you say that. One of the first things I asked my ISP when I was looking for one, what OS do you use? If

Re: [gentoo-user] man mouse problems

2005-11-28 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 03:13:38PM -0500, Billy Holmes wrote: Willie Wong wrote: [02:51 PM]wwong man4 $ man 4x mouse No entry for mouse in section 4x of the manual just do: man 4 mouse The problem is, there's another entry for mouse under section 4: --snip of man 4 mouse

Re: [gentoo-user] mouse won't scroll anymore

2005-11-28 Thread Ernie Schroder
Nothing new in the man pages. This is driving me nuts On Monday 28 November 2005 03:13 pm, a tiny voice compelled Billy Holmes to write: Willie Wong wrote: [02:51 PM]wwong man4 $ man 4x mouse No entry for mouse in section 4x of the manual just do: man 4 mouse -- Regards, Ernie 100%

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out? + question

2005-11-28 Thread John Jolet
On Monday 28 November 2005 17:58, Michael Sullivan wrote: On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 12:24 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 22:43:01 + Ognjen Bezanov wrote: I have a gentoo system (Actually I have four of them) and they dont experience a slowdown when my internet connection

Re: [gentoo-user] Video capture card recommendations

2005-11-28 Thread Bob Sanders
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 10:32:11 -0500 Budd, Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just need a bare-bones card to make backups of my VCR tapes and DVDs. Not even interested in a TV-tuner though I guess they all include that. Gentoo support is a must. I have both a PVR-350 Hauppauge and an HD-3000

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out? + question

2005-11-28 Thread Dale
Michael Sullivan wrote: On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 18:11 -0600, Dale wrote: My wife says that we can try SBC DSL after the new year starts (when we can afford it.) I just hope that I can get everything converted over to PPP I !think! they use windoze too. Aren't they the same as Bell

[gentoo-user] Succinct compilation of system info...

2005-11-28 Thread Harry Putnam
What is the standard or common way to compile a detailed yet succinct listing of system info. Are there tools that do this? Or maybe one of those 16 inch cmdlines with 2 dozen pipes... :) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Succinct compilation of system info...

2005-11-28 Thread Scott Stoddard
Harry Putnam wrote: What is the standard or common way to compile a detailed yet succinct listing of system info. Are there tools that do this? Or maybe one of those 16 inch cmdlines with 2 dozen pipes... :) Well, if you're talking about all hardware then I tend to prefer sys-apps/lshw

[gentoo-user] Re: Succinct compilation of system info...

2005-11-28 Thread Harry Putnam
Scott Stoddard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Harry Putnam wrote: What is the standard or common way to compile a detailed yet succinct listing of system info. Are there tools that do this? Or maybe one of those 16 inch cmdlines with 2 dozen pipes... :) Well, if you're talking about all

[gentoo-user] unkillable processes

2005-11-28 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, My wife ran into a problem this evening that required I do a reboot. She runs Gnome. Sometimes something about her setup goes haywire and she loses all her desktop icons and her wallpaper. In the past I've found that if we log her out and then in the console kill all processes left running

[gentoo-user] PHP5 and Squirrelmail

2005-11-28 Thread Jeff Grossman
I just upgraded from dev-php/php-4.4.0 to dev-lan/php-5.0.5 and have one problem. Squirrelmail no longer seems to work. Does anybody know if there is a fix yet? The error is: Fatal error: Only variables can be passed by reference in

[gentoo-user] usb2 hard drive

2005-11-28 Thread Brian Henning
Greeting, I am trying to get my USB2 external 200 gig ext2fs formated hard drive to mount in Gentoo. Below is my configuration: Linux yodo 2.6.11-gentoo-r3 #1 Sat Oct 1 17:38:42 CDT 2005 i686 AMD Duron(tm) Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux mount /dev/hda3 on / type ext2 (rw,noatime) none on

[gentoo-user] Re: PHP

2005-11-28 Thread Jeff Grossman
ellotheth rimmwen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/26/05, Jeff Grossman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is the dev-lang/php pretty stable? Is there anything I should know before I make the switch? I'm running 5.0.5. It's lovely. Just follow the upgrade guide

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Succinct compilation of system info...

2005-11-28 Thread Bob Sanders
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 22:31:28 -0600 Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want straight command line so redirect is possible, but a thorough summary. Not just hdw or pci or usb. I want that but also what filesystems, df -h cat /etc/fstab which users, cat

Re: [gentoo-user] PHP5 and Squirrelmail

2005-11-28 Thread Norberto Bensa
Jeff Grossman wrote: Fatal error: Only variables can be passed by reference in /var/www/localhost/htdocs/squirrelmail/functions/imap_messages.php on line 480 Yup. You need to upgrade squirrelmail -- Norberto Bensa 4544-9692 Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out?

2005-11-28 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/28/05, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/28/05, Alexander Kirillov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The local resolver lib will use either /etc/hosts file or dns queries in the order defined in your /etc/host.conf You mean /etc/nsswitch.conf? I probably do. Is /etc/host.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] usb2 hard drive

2005-11-28 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/28/05, Brian Henning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greeting, I am trying to get my USB2 external 200 gig ext2fs formated hard drive to mount in Gentoo. I have tried emerging coldplug and rebooting and i am able to successfully mount the drive as /dev/sda1, but the coldplug causes my

Re: [gentoo-user] unkillable processes

2005-11-28 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, My wife ran into a problem this evening that required I do a reboot. She runs Gnome. Sometimes something about her setup goes haywire and she loses all her desktop icons and her wallpaper. In the past I've found that if we log

Re: [gentoo-user] unkillable processes

2005-11-28 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/28/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: kill -15 PID kill -9 PID killall -9 process_name but none worked. To make forward progress I just rebooted. Is there some other way I could have tried killing this process? Nope. Usually this means something went terribly wrong in

Re: [gentoo-user] grub on a SATA drive

2005-11-28 Thread maxim wexler
--- Petr Kocmid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 24 of November 2005 17:31, maxim wexler wrote: But what do I call it? hd0 and hd1 are taken. It may well depend on your chipset configuration, number of actually connected drives and bios boot settings. On my board, there are 2

Re: [gentoo-user] grub on a SATA drive

2005-11-28 Thread Heinz Sporn
Am Montag, den 28.11.2005, 22:34 -0800 schrieb maxim wexler: --- Petr Kocmid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 24 of November 2005 17:31, maxim wexler wrote: But what do I call it? hd0 and hd1 are taken. It may well depend on your chipset configuration, number of actually

RE: [gentoo-user] BTTV Mini-HOWTO -- how do I use multiple inputs?

2005-11-28 Thread Daevid Vincent
If I try to take a picture: /usr/bin/v4lctl -c /dev/video0 snap jpeg 320x240 /home/dae51d/public_html/nokia_cam.jpg /usr/bin/v4lctl -c /dev/video1 snap jpeg 320x240 /home/dae51d/public_html/ittybitty_cam.jpg Then the first one works fine, but the second one is failing with: