Re: [gentoo-user] Another reason to begin USE with -*

2006-03-13 Thread Rick van Hattem
On Monday 13 March 2006 05:53, Roy Wright wrote: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Plus, it's /completely/ trivial to add -* to your USE or (using the great euse tool) euse -D useflag. Or, for those type A personalities out there, tweak your /etc/portage/package.use. Another tool is ufed (use

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Ash Varma
On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 01:51 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Monday 13 March 2006 00:59, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination': Whatever you do, don't go HT. It's not worth the effort. By HT do you mean AMD 64 Hyper-Transport or Pentium

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 13 March 2006 02:12, Ash Varma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination': On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 01:51 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Monday 13 March 2006 00:59, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination':

Re: [gentoo-user] dvdrip help

2006-03-13 Thread Zac Slade
On Sunday 12 March 2006 22:55, Roy Wright wrote: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: I'm a big fan of ANDREW from the FSF. There should be an ebuild in bugzilla; but it's trivial to install. It's not a X application, but it /is/, despite the name, a wizard that does all of the heavy lifting for

Re: [gentoo-user] Another reason to begin USE with -*

2006-03-13 Thread Roy Wright
Michael Stewart (vericgar) wrote: Roy Wright wrote: This has me wondering if there is a utility to help manage the use flags. I'd like to know: * Which use flags I have set that are not used by anything I have installed. * Which use flags are deprecated. * Which use flags are new.

[gentoo-user] Tuning SCSI disks-App like hdparm available?

2006-03-13 Thread Ow Mun Heng
Hi All, I recently got a bunch of (old) scsi disks and would like to get the most out of them. They are 7200 18GB scsi disks which hdparm reports up to 18MB/s of transfer rate. (vs 30MB/s on my 5400 80GB laptop drive and 24MB/s on a 7200 200GB IDE Drive) I'm wondering if there are

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Glenn Enright
On Monday 13 March 2006 21:47, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Hyper-Transport is a way for CPUs to exchange data directly rather than going through a memory controller, thus allowing limited resources (L1/2/3 cache) to be used more effectively. In particular, process migration causes fewer

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Mike Williams
On Monday 13 March 2006 04:23, JimD wrote: AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice 800MHz HT Socket 754 or Intel Pentium D 805 Smithfield 533MHz FSB 2 x 1MB L2 Cache LGA 775 Dual Core,EM64T Processor I'm very surprised Intel can knock out dual core processors for under $150! I would go for the AMD though,

Re: [gentoo-user] Tuning SCSI disks-App like hdparm available?

2006-03-13 Thread Rasmus Andersen
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 06:24:38PM +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: I'm wondering if there are applications which can be used to tune the disks for better performance? There is a hdparm for SCSI, sdparm. Never tried it though. Cheers, Rasmus -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 01:59 -0500, JimD wrote: Iain Buchanan wrote: Whatever you do, don't go HT. It's not worth the effort. By HT do you mean AMD 64 Hyper-Transport or Pentium Hyper-Threading? don't bother with Hyper threading. Hyper transport I know nothing about. -- Iain Buchanan

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 23:44 +1300, Glenn Enright wrote: I can certainly tell you that compiling (as an example) *wihtout* HT enabled on my P4 is a bad idea, takes nearly 4 times as long. I would hesitate to say, the reason for this is more likely to do with the way HT is turned off. I've

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Glenn Enright
On Tuesday 14 March 2006 00:53, Iain Buchanan wrote: conspiracy theory there may even be some intentional slowdown when you do a bios / chip based disable /conspiracy theory lol -- All my life I wanted to be someone; I guess I should have been more specific. -- Jane Wagner --

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving to xorg-x11-7.0 (Modular X)

2006-03-13 Thread Martins Steinbergs
On Sunday 12 March 2006 06:51, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Saturday 11 March 2006 04:19, Martins Steinbergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about and most annoying change is with KDE settings, new way that every new window starts in background doesnt suit me very much, can somebody point me

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Denis
Iain, So are you saying that a P4 is actually faster with HT disabled, or simply that you don't have much to gain by using HT? I've had a dual-Xeon machine with 4 logical processors running Gentoo for a couple years now, and I like being able to run 4 threads of simulations at the same time.

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 3/13/06, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey group, My trusty old computer died tonight :( I am stuck with my winders laptop for a few days until I can get in a new mobo and processor. I am looking at getting something like an AMD 64 or a Pentium D dual core. I can get one of the two

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Jerry McBride
On Monday 13 March 2006 07:37, Denis wrote: Iain, So are you saying that a P4 is actually faster with HT disabled, or simply that you don't have much to gain by using HT? I have a laptop and a desktop the sport p4's with HT. I don't see any difference whether HT is turned on or turned off.

Re: [gentoo-user] dvdrip help

2006-03-13 Thread Chris Frederick
Mike Myers wrote: Hi everybody! I'm having trouble with the dvdrip program. Whenever I run it, it just gives me: [filterlist] (re)scanning transcode's module path /usr/lib/transcode... but doesn't actually do anything. I don't get a gui or anything. Is there anything I can do to fix this?

[gentoo-user] Re: Google-Talk

2006-03-13 Thread Sven Köhler
Is there way of setting up a VoIP talk session with another person who is using Google Talk? He is running the Google Talk Windoze application. http://code.google.com/apis/talk/index.html Well, there will be, i guess. Someday in the future, GAIM will include GoogleTalk/libjingle support, i

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Denis
processing unit. If the thread on one input wants all the cpu power, it gets it and the other input stalls and starves. It's easy to see by running top on a busy P4 with HT computer. Never seen my dual Xeon machine starve :) And that's with 4 Monte Carlo codes running at the same time and me

Re: [gentoo-user] dvdrip help

2006-03-13 Thread Alexander Skwar
Chris Frederick wrote: This is a transcode problem. There's a couple filters for transcode that are bad. For me, the ImageMagick filters weren't good. When I do USE=-imagemagick, everything's fine. Alexander Skwar -- MCSE == Mentally Challenged Slave of the Empire. -- Gareth Barnard --

Re: [gentoo-user] Tuning SCSI disks-App like hdparm available?

2006-03-13 Thread Richard Fish
On 3/13/06, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently got a bunch of (old) scsi disks and would like to get the most out of them. They are 7200 18GB scsi disks which hdparm reports up to 18MB/s of transfer rate. (vs 30MB/s on my 5400 80GB laptop drive and 24MB/s on a 7200 200GB

Re: [gentoo-user] Memory speed/type

2006-03-13 Thread Jim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 162934872 Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there any programs for Gentoo that can show what speed memory I have, i.e. PC2700? I plan on ordering some memory but I cannot remember what speed I put in and I want to be lazy and not unhook

[gentoo-user] Gnome menu editing

2006-03-13 Thread Jim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is there a gnome menu editing app that I can emerge in gentoo? There was a menu editor for Gnome in the latest version of ubuntu, though I can not remember the name of it. Thanks, Jim -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2

[gentoo-user] Cannot compile anything: libc.so: file format not recognized; treating as linker script - glibc 2.4 upgrade related?

2006-03-13 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hello! On one machine, I upgraded to glibc 2.4, and since that time, I cannot compile anything anymore :( I always get errors like this: checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create

[gentoo-user] cpufreqd and Pentium 4

2006-03-13 Thread Daniel da Veiga
Hello list, I followed the Gentoo Power Management Guide on: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/power-management-guide.xml And installed cpufreqd, edited the config file and tested some configurations. I noticed it changes the frequencies all the time. Is there any side-effects on my CPU for this

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot compile anything: libc.so: file format not recognized; treating as linker script - glibc 2.4 upgrade related?

2006-03-13 Thread Richard Fish
On 3/13/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.5/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld:/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.5/../../../libc.so: file format not recognized; treating as linker script

Re: [gentoo-user] cpufreqd and Pentium 4

2006-03-13 Thread Richard Fish
On 3/13/06, Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And installed cpufreqd, edited the config file and tested some configurations. I noticed it changes the frequencies all the time. Is there any side-effects on my CPU for this frequency changes? Will it reduce the CPU lifetime or anything

[gentoo-user] Mount permissions

2006-03-13 Thread Paul Stear
The root of all my rsync/network problems is a permissions problem The /mnt/network is drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 4096 Mar 13 13:24 test After I mount using mount -t smbfs -o username=paul,password=pass //LKG7DDD5F/gentoobackup /mnt/network the /mnt/network permissions have change to drwxr-xr-x

Re: [gentoo-user] Another reason to begin USE with -*

2006-03-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 13 March 2006 03:21, Roy Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Another reason to begin USE with -*': I'm more interested in discovering brand new use flags. Say some package, foo, creates a new use flag, bar, then I'd like to see something like: New Use Flags:

[gentoo-user] Re: Another reason to begin USE with -*

2006-03-13 Thread Harry Putnam
Rick van Hattem [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Instead of ufed I'd recommend profuse, it has the same options as ufed and more. Really a great tool, very easy to use and gives you a clear list of what use flags you have enabled (I do prefer the ncurses profuse -n command above gtk) Wow, it

[gentoo-user] wget won't concatenate(?)

2006-03-13 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, I tried wget'ing this on dialup: ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/releases/x86/2006.0/livecd/livecd-i686-installer-2006.0.iso Then, because I needed to use the phone, after downloading 150Megs or so, I ctrl-C'd outta there thinking I could pick up where I left

Re: [gentoo-user] Mount permissions

2006-03-13 Thread Jim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 163718720 Paul Stear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The root of all my rsync/network problems is a permissions problem The /mnt/network is drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 4096 Mar 13 13:24 test After I mount using mount -t smbfs -o

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 13 March 2006 04:44, Glenn Enright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination': On Monday 13 March 2006 21:47, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Hyper-Transport is a way for CPUs to exchange data directly rather than going through a memory controller, thus

Re: [gentoo-user] wget won't concatenate(?)

2006-03-13 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 09:38:06 -0800 (PST) maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried wget'ing this on dialup: ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/releases/x86/2006.0/livecd/livecd-i686-installer-2006.0.iso Then, because I needed to use the phone, after

Re: [gentoo-user] wget won't concatenate(?)

2006-03-13 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 09:38:06 -0800 (PST) maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried wget'ing this on dialup: ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/releases/x86/2006.0/livecd/livecd-i686-installer-2006.0.iso Then, because I needed to use the phone, after downloading

Re: [gentoo-user] wget won't concatenate(?)

2006-03-13 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 3/13/06, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then, because I needed to use the phone, after downloading 150Megs or so, I ctrl-C'd outta there thinking I could pick up where I left off. Wrong! wget wants to start from the beginning. I gave it the -nc option and it reports 'already there,

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Monday 13 March 2006 05:23, JimD wrote: Hey group, My trusty old computer died tonight :( I am stuck with my winders laptop for a few days until I can get in a new mobo and processor. I am looking at getting something like an AMD 64 or a Pentium D dual core. I can get one of the two

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Jim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 163692080 Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip There is no good reason to buy intel today. But... emm... I bought a Venive S939, 3200+ 1000MHZ HT for less than 130¤ or so just 5Month ago. so you should get a much better CPU

[gentoo-user] Re: wget won't concatenate(?)

2006-03-13 Thread Marc Christiansen
maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then, because I needed to use the phone, after downloading 150Megs or so, I ctrl-C'd outta there thinking I could pick up where I left off. Wrong! wget wants to start from the beginning. I gave it the -nc option and it reports 'already there, not

Re: [gentoo-user] -nls

2006-03-13 Thread kashani
Jim wrote: Has anyone gotten burned by turning off Native Language Support? The only thing I've ever run into on the server side that wanted it was the Horde framework requiring PHP to have NLS... however I didn't look real hard for a workaround so that might not have been a hard

[gentoo-user] -nls

2006-03-13 Thread Jim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Does turning off nls break anything? I did the livecd install and everything in the base install was compiled with +nls. Once I started compiling my own stuff like X, Gnome etc, I change to -nls in my USE flags. I only speak English so I don't need

Re: [gentoo-user] wget won't concatenate(?)

2006-03-13 Thread Christoph Eckert
wget -c http://www.microsoft.com/linux-kernel.iso you can even start a download with the -c option. Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot compile anything: libc.so: file format not recognized; treating as linker script - glibc 2.4 upgrade related?

2006-03-13 Thread Thomas Andrè Skarsvåg
Alexander Skwar wrote: Hello! On one machine, I upgraded to glibc 2.4, and since that time, I cannot compile anything anymore :( I always get errors like this: checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C

Re: [gentoo-user] wget won't concatenate(?)

2006-03-13 Thread Jim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 163609048 maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi group, I tried wget'ing this on dialup: ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/releases/x86/2006.0/livecd/livecd-i686-installer-2006.0.iso Then, because I needed to use

Re: [gentoo-user] -nls

2006-03-13 Thread Jim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 163381024 kashani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim wrote: Has anyone gotten burned by turning off Native Language Support? The only thing I've ever run into on the server side that wanted it was the Horde framework requiring PHP to have NLS...

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 13 March 2006 12:31, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination': Did you do AMD64 for gentoo or just x86? I just finished getting everything compiled and setup where I like it. I won't mind doing it again if running gentoo in 64-bit on an AMD64

[gentoo-user] OT - Need help getting MythTV to work with new(er) kernel

2006-03-13 Thread Michael Sullivan
I had MythTV working perfectly with linux-2.6.14-gentoo-r5. I've tried to upgrade to linux-2.6.15-gentoo-r1 using genkernel and basing the newer kernel's configuration off of the older one. I've booted with the new kernel, remerged ivtv and rebooted again with the new kernel, but still I cannot

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Monday 13 March 2006 19:31, Jim wrote: On 163692080 Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip There is no good reason to buy intel today. But... emm... I bought a Venive S939, 3200+ 1000MHZ HT for less than 130¤ or so just 5Month ago. so you should get a much better CPU

[gentoo-user] portage problem

2006-03-13 Thread Martin Gysel
hi i have following problem emerging packages: gorilla ~ # emerge portage Calculating dependencies... done! Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/emerge, line 3263, in ? if resume in portage.mtimedb and \ KeyError: 'mergelist' can someone please help me regards martin --

[gentoo-user] [OT] Passing env variable to ssh?

2006-03-13 Thread Jorge Almeida
Anyone knows a way to pass an environment variable to a openssh command? I doubt there is a way, but who knows... I want something like this: myvar=whatever ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] ./bin/mycommand $myvar This would execute a command with argument whatever. The problem is that I want to authenticate

[gentoo-user] Updated gentoo systems and fresh installs

2006-03-13 Thread Trenton Adams
Hi guys, Is there a difference between the two? I have 2005.1 installed. As I've always understood it, my system will now always be up-to-date, as long as I keep updating it. Is 2006.0 any different than 2005.1 after the system has been installed? I'm just curious, because I have to install

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 13 March 2006 14:10, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination': My recommendations are: 1G RAM : 32-bit kernel and userland 4G RAM : 64-bit kernel and 32-bit userland else : 64-bit kernel and 64-bit (multilib) userland

[gentoo-user] Re: Google-Talk

2006-03-13 Thread Mick
Sven Köhler wrote: Is there way of setting up a VoIP talk session with another person who is using Google Talk? He is running the Google Talk Windoze application. http://code.google.com/apis/talk/index.html Well, there will be, i guess. Someday in the future, GAIM will include

Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus

2006-03-13 Thread Justin Krejci
Could try norman AV. www.norman.com On Monday 06 March 2006 12:26 pm, Jarry wrote: i have avast updated daily i dono how this virus got in i must try AVG Why not just use A/V when you run Windoze? AVG is still free and quite excellent. Both AVG and Avast sux hard! I used both of them,

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Jim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 164593240 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Better memory architecture and microcode, larger caches, etc.; you might even get a Hz bump; in the near future, you'll get hw virtualization. There are lot of reasons to choose a

Re: [gentoo-user] Updated gentoo systems and fresh installs

2006-03-13 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Monday 13 March 2006 21:54, Trenton Adams wrote: Hi guys, Is there a difference between the two? I have 2005.1 installed. As I've always understood it, my system will now always be up-to-date, as long as I keep updating it. Is 2006.0 any different than 2005.1 after the system has been

Re: [gentoo-user] Another reason to begin USE with -*

2006-03-13 Thread Roy Wright
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: The -pv output of emerge shows this. A flag that was not available in your current version but it available in the one you are installing, will be colored yellow and postfixed with '%'. Great. So something like the following in my

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Passing env variable to ssh?

2006-03-13 Thread Mariusz Pękala
On 2006-03-13 20:14:33 + (Mon, Mar), Jorge Almeida wrote: Anyone knows a way to pass an environment variable to a openssh command? I doubt there is a way, but who knows... I want something like this: myvar=whatever ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] ./bin/mycommand $myvar This would execute a command

Re: [gentoo-user] Updated gentoo systems and fresh installs

2006-03-13 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 3/13/06, Trenton Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, Is there a difference between the two? I have 2005.1 installed. As I've always understood it, my system will now always be up-to-date, as long as I keep updating it. Is 2006.0 any different than 2005.1 after the system has been

Re: [gentoo-user] Updated gentoo systems and fresh installs

2006-03-13 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Trenton Adams wrote: Hi guys, Is there a difference between the two? I have 2005.1 installed. As I've always understood it, my system will now always be up-to-date, as long as I keep updating it. Is 2006.0 any different than 2005.1 after the system

Re: [gentoo-user] Updated gentoo systems and fresh installs

2006-03-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 13 March 2006 14:54, Trenton Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Updated gentoo systems and fresh installs': Is there a difference between the two? I have 2005.1 installed. As I've always understood it, my system will now always be up-to-date, as long as I keep

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Passing env variable to ssh?

2006-03-13 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 20:14:33 + (WET) Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want something like this: myvar=whatever ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] ./bin/mycommand $myvar [...] This does not work, because remotebox doesn't know about $myvar. Of course, if I could pass a variable to

Re: [gentoo-user] portage problem

2006-03-13 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Gysel wrote: hi i have following problem emerging packages: gorilla ~ # emerge portage Calculating dependencies... done! Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/emerge, line 3263, in ? if resume in portage.mtimedb and \

[gentoo-user] xorg.conf

2006-03-13 Thread Goran Maksimović
Hi! I have laptop HP nx9105 which has screen 15.4 resolution of 1280x800 and graphics card nVidia GeForce 4 Go 32M and I am looking for some assistance in configuration of xorg.conf J. So, can somebody help me? Bye Goran

Re: [gentoo-user] Another reason to begin USE with -*

2006-03-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 13 March 2006 15:13, Roy Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Another reason to begin USE with -*': Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: The -pv output of emerge shows this. A flag that was not available in your current version but it available in the one you are

Re: [gentoo-user] Google-Talk

2006-03-13 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Monday 13 March 2006 01:07, Mick wrote: Is there way of setting up a VoIP talk session with another person who is using Google Talk? He is running the Google Talk Windoze application. -- If you don't mind using beta stuff then I just saw this on gentoo forums

Re: [gentoo-user] -nls

2006-03-13 Thread kashani
Jim wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 163381024 kashani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim wrote: Has anyone gotten burned by turning off Native Language Support? The only thing I've ever run into on the server side that wanted it was the Horde framework requiring PHP to

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf

2006-03-13 Thread Dave Moore
I have laptop HP nx9105 which has screen 15.4 resolution of 1280x800 and graphics card nVidia GeForce 4 Go 32M and I am looking for some assistance in configuration of xorg.conf J. So, can somebody help me? Try Xorg -configure see http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml Dave --

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Mike Williams
On Monday 13 March 2006 21:09, Jim wrote: Is there a how-to on going 64-bit with Gentoo?  Anything special to do with/for the kernel to go 64-bit? Reinstall. You need a 64bit toolchain to compile a 64bit kernel, and getting a 64bit toolchain is no mean feat. Just reinstall. Do it in a chroot

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 13 March 2006 15:09, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination': On 164593240 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Better memory architecture and microcode, larger caches, etc.; you might even get a Hz bump; in the near future, you'll get

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 13 March 2006 16:01, Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination': On Monday 13 March 2006 21:09, Jim wrote: Is there a how-to on going 64-bit with Gentoo?  Anything special to do with/for the kernel to go 64-bit? Reinstall. You need a

RE: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf

2006-03-13 Thread Goran Maksimović
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Re: [gentoo-user] Another reason to begin USE with -*

2006-03-13 Thread Roy Wright
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: The last line will delete the .old files you just created when it syncs /usr/portage/profiles. Nice catch! Thank you. Changed the directory for the old files to /var/portage/profiles. That should be safe. echo Save old use.desc mkdir -p

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf

2006-03-13 Thread Keats
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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Passing env variable to ssh?

2006-03-13 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hi, On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 20:14:33 + (WET) Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want something like this: myvar=whatever ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] ./bin/mycommand $myvar [...] This does not work, because remotebox doesn't know about $myvar. Of

Re: [gentoo-user] wget won't concatenate(?)

2006-03-13 Thread maxim wexler
--- Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 09:38:06 -0800 (PST) maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried wget'ing this on dialup: ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/releases/x86/2006.0/livecd/livecd-i686-installer-2006.0.iso

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Passing env variable to ssh?

2006-03-13 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006, Mariusz P?kala wrote: Stdin? echo $myvar | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] ./bin/mycommand ? Yup. Thanks! -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Google-Talk

2006-03-13 Thread Mick
Abhay Kedia wrote: On Monday 13 March 2006 01:07, Mick wrote: Is there way of setting up a VoIP talk session with another person who is using Google Talk? He is running the Google Talk Windoze application. -- If you don't mind using beta stuff then I just saw this on gentoo forums

[gentoo-user] adding unicode use flag?

2006-03-13 Thread b.n.
Hi, When I first installed Gentoo I missed the +unicode use flag, that I would have liked to have. I didn't worry for a long time, but I have been annoyed enough a bit here and there to consider adding it to my use flags. I'd do it straight, but I remember this old thread:

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 07:37 -0500, Denis wrote: Iain, So are you saying that a P4 is actually faster with HT disabled, or simply that you don't have much to gain by using HT? Well, I had read (in a previous HT thread on gentoo-user) that it did indeed degrade performance in many cases, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Jim
On 152923032 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip (I haven't validated this, but it *shouldn't* break your system. If you are using LVM and have a little extra space, it might just be better to do a chroot install, then boot into it and remove your old install [don't

[gentoo-user] ANDREW homepage is down!

2006-03-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi, someone posted about ANDREW, the dvd ripper, but the website is down - probably because of all you gentoo-ers going there to check it out :) Has someone already downloaded http://tobemem.memebot.com/download/andrew-1.2.tar.bz2 that they can mirror for me? thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iain at

Re: [gentoo-user] Updated gentoo systems and fresh installs

2006-03-13 Thread Trenton Adams
Thanks everyone. Just so you'll all have an extra tidbit of knowledge. A co-worker mentioned one other thing that could be a problem, that no one else mentioned. If you have not yet upgraded GCC on an old version, then use an up-to-date installation with a newer GCC, you will have binary

Re: [gentoo-user] Google-Talk

2006-03-13 Thread Jim
Abhay Kedia wrote: On Monday 13 March 2006 01:07, Mick wrote: Is there way of setting up a VoIP talk session with another person who is using Google Talk? He is running the Google Talk Windoze application. -- If you don't mind using beta stuff then I just saw this on gentoo forums

Re: [gentoo-user] ANDREW homepage is down!

2006-03-13 Thread Zac Slade
On Monday 13 March 2006 19:21, Iain Buchanan wrote: Has someone already downloaded http://tobemem.memebot.com/download/andrew-1.2.tar.bz2 that they can mirror for me? I can mirror it not for terribly long. I've set my server to maxclients of 3, the file is only 171K.

[gentoo-user] slots

2006-03-13 Thread Jim
Hey group, I have dev-db/mysql 5.0.18-r30 installed. After a sync I get the following when I run: emerge -avb dev-db/mysql-5.0.19 Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild NS ] dev-db/mysql-5.0.19 +berkdb -big-tables -cluster -debug -embedded -extraengine -max-idx-128 -minimal +perl

Re: [gentoo-user] ANDREW homepage is down!

2006-03-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 21:12 -0600, Zac Slade wrote: On Monday 13 March 2006 19:21, Iain Buchanan wrote: Has someone already downloaded http://tobemem.memebot.com/download/andrew-1.2.tar.bz2 that they can mirror for me? I can mirror it not for terribly long. I've set my server to

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 13 March 2006 19:14, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination': On 152923032 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip (I haven't validated this, but it *shouldn't* break your system. If you are using LVM and have a little extra

Re: [gentoo-user] ANDREW homepage is down!

2006-03-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 13 March 2006 19:21, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] ANDREW homepage is down!': andrew-1.2.tar.bz2 Hit http://csce.uark.edu/~bss03/andrew-1.2.tar.bz2 but not too hard. -- If there's one thing we've established over the years, it's that the vast majority of

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 11:44:56PM +1300, Glenn Enright wrote I apreciate that AMD certainly seem to have the memory bandwidth/throughput thing nailed, and their processors stand tall as a result. but I doubt that a p4 would perform near as well without a large part of the enginered

Re: [gentoo-user] ANDREW homepage is down!

2006-03-13 Thread Alan E. Davis
What's the secret to compiling ANDREW? Alan Davis -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ANDREW homepage is down!

2006-03-13 Thread Zac Slade
On Monday 13 March 2006 23:26, Alan E. Davis wrote: What's the secret to compiling ANDREW? http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124130 Get the ebuild there. There are a lot of dependencies. Also look at the latest note in the bug. You must build ogmtools with the dvd USE flag. Make sure

[gentoo-user] xml2 USE flag description should not have deprecated

2006-03-13 Thread Aniruddha Shankar
The xml2 use flag is described Check/Support flag for XML library (version 2) (deprecated, use xml) My systems used to run +xml +xml2 and I changed that to +xml -xml2, seeing the description. Oh, and I ran emerge -uvDN world as well, to update all packages that had +xml2. Until I realised