Re: [gentoo-user] Intel Core Duo Processor - Anyone?

2006-03-29 Thread Richard Fish
On 3/29/06, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone has one of these Core Duo Processors? How do they perform? Benchmarks I've seen on the web _does_ show that they perform better then a 2G Pentium-M. Excellent. The benchmarks are not lying, and when it comes to something like compiling,

Re: [gentoo-user] requested to report: emerge bug

2006-03-29 Thread Richard Fish
On 3/28/06, Robert G. Hays [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The symlink is there, pointing to: /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2004.3 This profile was obsolete long ago. It is now removed. You can upgrade to the current profile with: rm /etc/make.profile ln -s

Re: [gentoo-user] USB issue

2006-03-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 21:04:12 -0700, Ian wrote: cp: writing '/mnt/ipod/file': Input/Output error cp: cannot create regular file '/mnt/ipod/file2': Input/Output error What do you have in /etc/fstab for this? What is the output from ls -ld /mnt/ipod before and after mounting? Does cp work as

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc upgrade, should it upgrade?

2006-03-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 20:41:14 -0800, Ryan Tandy wrote: Assuming it's the gcc-3.4.5-r1 update you're considering postponing, you could just: # echo 'sys-devel/gcc-3.4.5' /etc/portage/package.mask and just remove that line when you're ready to upgrade. It's a *far* better idea than

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc upgrade, should it upgrade?

2006-03-29 Thread Nagatoro
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 20:41:14 -0800, Ryan Tandy wrote: Assuming it's the gcc-3.4.5-r1 update you're considering postponing, you could just: # echo 'sys-devel/gcc-3.4.5' /etc/portage/package.mask and just remove that line when you're ready to upgrade. It's a *far*

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc upgrade, should it upgrade?

2006-03-29 Thread Keats
Le mardi 28 mars 2006 à 20:41 -0800, Ryan Tandy a écrit : Teresa and Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:50:28 -0600, Teresa and Dale wrote: Thanks to both. I looked in my world file and I think I upgraded as a oneshot so why is it upgradeing? I

[gentoo-user] Re: cron fetchnews

2006-03-29 Thread Marco Costa
THUFIR HAWAT wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat -n /etc/cron.hourly/fetchnews 1 #!/bin/sh 2 # 3 # Uncomment the following if you want to regularly 4 # fetch new messages from your news server. 5 # 6 # 7 # This is part of the leafnode package. 8 #

[gentoo-user] trouble installing blender

2006-03-29 Thread Glenn Enright
below is a smaple of the results from my attempts to install blender. Anyone able to help with why the config portion is bailing? The ebuild doesnt fail, but the only things installed are some scripts and the desktop icon, nothing seems to be getting actually built. This applies to the 2.40

[gentoo-user] emerge only pkg not dependdencies...

2006-03-29 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
Hi, I looked through the manpage of emerge to find an option to tell emerge just to install a certain package and to skip all dependencies. I only find the opposite of this: Skip the package and install all dependencies. Is there a way to install just the package and forghet all

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge only pkg not dependdencies...

2006-03-29 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Wednesday 29 March 2006 21:39, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: Hi, I looked through the manpage of emerge to find an option to tell emerge just to install a certain package and to skip all dependencies. --nodeps I only find the opposite of this: Skip the package and install all

Re: [gentoo-user] automatically adding a new user to cdrom group? [Solved]

2006-03-29 Thread Schleimer, Ben
Thanks for the hint. This seems like the best solution. I'll implement this as soon as possible. Cheers, Ben --- Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/28/06, Schleimer, Ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would it be reasonable to request that useradd automatically adds a new user to the

Re: [gentoo-user] requested to report: emerge bug

2006-03-29 Thread Jeremy Olexa
Robert G. Hays wrote: Got this at ~11:25 PM EST/USA 3/28/06 from an emerge --sync... Updating Portage cache: 89%!!! Cannot resolve a virtual package name to an ebuild. !!! This is a bug, please report it. (virtual/libintl-0). Yup, its a bug, but it is also a KNOWN bug. All you

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge only pkg not dependdencies...

2006-03-29 Thread Jeremy Olexa
Meino Christian Cramer wrote: Hi, I looked through the manpage of emerge to find an option to tell emerge just to install a certain package and to skip all dependencies. I only find the opposite of this: Skip the package and install all dependencies. Is there a way to install just the

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge only pkg not dependdencies...

2006-03-29 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
From: Jason Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge only pkg not dependdencies... Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 21:59:35 +0900 Ha! Now I know it, why I didn't recognized it !!! It is way too simple ! ;O)) Thanks a lot to point me to these options ! :) Keep hacking! mcc On

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc upgrade, should it upgrade?

2006-03-29 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Wednesday 29 March 2006 07:10, Teresa and Dale wrote: I was just going to mask it or upgrade by hand till I had time to mess with it. I got me a new girlfriend and she has two kids. I go from nobody to worry about but me to me and three other people to worry about. Just don't have as

Re: [gentoo-user] chroot

2006-03-29 Thread Arnau Bria Ramírez
El Wed, 29 Mar 2006 01:55:43 -0500 Walter Dnes dijo: Hi! That's not necessary. I regularly... - start off with a basic text-console-only install - and then I fire up emerge gimp before heading off to work By the time I get home from work, Portage has pulled in and built the

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and OpenLDAP

2006-03-29 Thread Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales
That won't be necessary, I've already solved it. 2006/3/27, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 16:19:55 -0300 Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A little bit OT, a very noobish of me. I'm having trouble with LDAP filters. I'm still trying to get the

[gentoo-user] Re: iptables question

2006-03-29 Thread James
Hiren Dave hiren2k4 at gmail.com writes: ALSO IS THERE ANY BOOKS OR ONLINE DOCUMENTS FOR PRACTICALLY LEARNING OF IPTABLES? The only current book I could find, that is centric around the 2.6 linux kernel, and contains relevant, current examples is: Linux Firewalls Third Edition authors:

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel Core Duo Processor - Anyone?

2006-03-29 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 00:55 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: On 3/29/06, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone has one of these Core Duo Processors? How do they perform? Benchmarks I've seen on the web _does_ show that they perform better then a 2G Pentium-M. Excellent. The benchmarks

[gentoo-user] Eagle-usb kernel 2.6.16

2006-03-29 Thread Luca Bortolotti
Hi. I just wanted to know if the eagle-usb module (now apparently called ueagle-atm) is integrated into the kernel and how to use itThanksLuca

Re: [gentoo-user] limewire won't start

2006-03-29 Thread maxim wexler
http://mail.yahoo.com The problem here is that you don't want to hard code it into your .bash_profile as that is only local (to that specific user). I'm OK with that. you could do it in /etc/profile, but that would only work until the next java upgrade... it looks like you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE version

2006-03-29 Thread Schleimer, Ben
Isn't the solution to have 3 levels: 'testing', 'probation' 'stable' ? 'Testing' would be literally that, asking for feedback from users; 'probation' wb already tested for a defined period -- say 30 days -- How about a crazier idea: Each package has a stability rating from 0-99 per

[gentoo-user] file .ogg

2006-03-29 Thread contiemilio
Hi everybody. I think gentoo is driving me crazy. Since I found out the I can listen .wav file but not .ogg file, to-day I installed libvorbis, mpeg123 and vorbis-tools. But the result is the same . . . I cannot listen .ogg file. Bye emilio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] limewire won't start

2006-03-29 Thread maxim wexler
--- Ryan Tandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: maxim wexler wrote: So we have to get Java back into your path... I've got Sun Java, so mine MASSIVE SNIPPAGE Have you run 'env-update source /etc/profile' recently? env-update rebuilds your environment (variables like PATH) based on

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc upgrade, should it upgrade?

2006-03-29 Thread Teresa and Dale
Nagatoro wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 20:41:14 -0800, Ryan Tandy wrote: Assuming it's the gcc-3.4.5-r1 update you're considering postponing, you could just: # echo 'sys-devel/gcc-3.4.5' /etc/portage/package.mask and just remove that line when you're ready to

Re: [gentoo-user] file .ogg

2006-03-29 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Wednesday 29 March 2006 20:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody. I think gentoo is driving me crazy. Since I found out the I can listen .wav file but not .ogg file, to-day I installed libvorbis, mpeg123 and vorbis-tools. But the result is the same . . . I cannot listen .ogg file.

[gentoo-user] GorillaTrades Tutorial

2006-03-29 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I wonder if anyone else has this problem. The tutorial at this page starts and I get audio, but I don't get any video or slides. Config problem here or Linux multimedia issue? http://www.gorillatrades.com/tutorial/# Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] file .ogg

2006-03-29 Thread Holly Bostick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: Hi everybody. I think gentoo is driving me crazy. Since I found out the I can listen .wav file but not .ogg file, to-day I installed libvorbis, mpeg123 and vorbis-tools. But the result is the same . . . I cannot listen .ogg file. Hi, Emilio, What program

[gentoo-user] NVI and word wrap?

2006-03-29 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Does anybody know how to get NVI to word wrap in a similar manner to VIM? With VIM, I could use: vim -f '+set tw=78' and it would wrap at 78 characters at a word boundry (great for emails and posts to USENET). Thanks in advance, Tom Veldhouse -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] file .ogg

2006-03-29 Thread Devon Miller
It's not enough to just have the libraries, the program that you're using to play the file must know about the file type.Eg: for mplayer you need the vorbis use flag.dcm On 3/29/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody.I think gentoo is driving me crazy.Since I found out the I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE version

2006-03-29 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 29 March 2006 18:12, Schleimer, Ben wrote: Isn't the solution to have 3 levels: 'testing', 'probation' 'stable' ? 'Testing' would be literally that, asking for feedback from users; 'probation' wb already tested for a defined period -- say 30 days -- How about a crazier idea:

Re: [gentoo-user] file .ogg

2006-03-29 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 29 March 2006 20:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody. I think gentoo is driving me crazy. Since I found out the I can listen .wav file but not .ogg file, to-day I installed libvorbis, mpeg123 and vorbis-tools. But the result is the same . . . I cannot listen .ogg file. Did you

Re: [gentoo-user] Telephony software

2006-03-29 Thread Christoph Eckert
somebody knows any telephony software for Linux? I do not refer to Skype and likes, but any software that can me to call a contact using the 56K modem and headphone-microphone. there are many, like linphone, IHU, KPhone, WengoPhone and Ekiga. Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

[OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Intel Core Duo Processor - Anyone?

2006-03-29 Thread Richard Fish
On 3/29/06, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm.. seems to me, you do like your laptops big and heavy and bulky. :-) IIRC, you had a P4 chip in your last laptop? (was that you?) Yep, except that 'luggable' incurred severe lid cracking last summer and I had to replace it. So I purchased a

Re: [gentoo-user] chroot

2006-03-29 Thread JimD
On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 01:55:43 -0500 Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's not necessary. I regularly... - start off with a basic text-console-only install - and then I fire up emerge gimp before heading off to work I need those apps installed so I can get mail and serve my

[gentoo-user] What program produces message like these?

2006-03-29 Thread Vladimir G. Ivanovic
CLASS: registering class device: ID = 'vcs7' class_uevent - name = vcs7 class_device_create_uevent called for vcs7 CLASS: registering class device: ID = 'vcsa7' class_uevent - name = vcsa7 class_device_create_uevent called for vcsa7 And,

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and OpenLDAP

2006-03-29 Thread Leandro Melo de Sales
Are you the kinf of person that hold the information just for you? Your problem/solution can help other people. Leandro. On 3/29/06, Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That won't be necessary, I've already solved it. 2006/3/27, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, 27

[gentoo-user] Aborting due to QA concerns

2006-03-29 Thread JimD
I did an emerge -vb gnome and I am almost finished. However I am now getting this weird error from gnome-netstatus: What makes portage issue an Aborting due to QA concerns ' Completed installing gnome-netstatus-2.12.0 ' into /var/tmp/portage/gnome-netstatus-2.12.0/image/ man: strip:

Re: [gentoo-user] GorillaTrades Tutorial

2006-03-29 Thread JimD
On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 08:26:39 -0800 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I wonder if anyone else has this problem. The tutorial at this page starts and I get audio, but I don't get any video or slides. Config problem here or Linux multimedia issue?

Re: [gentoo-user] What program produces message like these?

2006-03-29 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: CLASS: registering class device: ID = 'vcs7' class_uevent - name = vcs7 class_device_create_uevent called for vcs7 CLASS: registering class device: ID = 'vcsa7' class_uevent - name = vcsa7 class_device_create_uevent

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc upgrade, should it upgrade?

2006-03-29 Thread Holly Bostick
Teresa and Dale schreef Nagatoro wrote: Why don't upgrade? As far as I know upgrading gcc isn't a big deal. It was just the 3.3.x - 3.4.x that was due to that the api for c++ had changed. Oh, I thought it was a big deal. That's why I was wanting to wait. Funny thing is, it don't want

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE version

2006-03-29 Thread b.n.
How about a crazier idea: Each package has a stability rating from 0-99 per architecture. 0 means totally untested/unstable and 99 means rock solid/no bugs. (0-33~unstable, 34-66~testing, 67-99~stable) Each new package starts at 50. Whenever a user uses the package, he can then vote on it by

Re: [gentoo-user] Telephony software

2006-03-29 Thread Gianluca Gargiulo
thank you for help, but i don't refer to VOIP software, but simple software that drive modem to compose number and use the Audio Card or Audio Modem as Phone 2006/3/29, Christoph Eckert [EMAIL PROTECTED]: somebody knows any telephony software for Linux? I do not refer to Skype and

[gentoo-user] Re: Further probs/phenomena

2006-03-29 Thread James
Meino Christian Cramer Meino.Cramer at gmx.de writes: As I am right at the beginning with my understanding and knowledge about the gentoo system, I would like to know, what this ~86 in /etc/portage/package.keywords does. Well, I'm not the quintessential gentoo user, but, I'll give you

Re: [gentoo-user] What program produces message like these?

2006-03-29 Thread Richard Fish
On 3/29/06, Vladimir G. Ivanovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CLASS: registering class device: ID = 'vcs7' class_uevent - name = vcs7 class_device_create_uevent called for vcs7 CLASS: registering class device: ID = 'vcsa7' class_uevent - name = vcsa7

Re: [gentoo-user] GorillaTrades Tutorial

2006-03-29 Thread Mark Knecht
Thanks Jim - I'll look at my config on this end. What do you have for Firefox flags? I presume that by Shockwave Flash you mean netscape-flash as an emerge? Thanks, Mark On 3/29/06, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 08:26:39 -0800 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi,

Re: [gentoo-user] chroot

2006-03-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 12:05:35 -0500, JimD wrote: I like that idea. Though it doesn't always work. For example, last night I did an emerge -vb gnome and woke up to find that it died only 30 minutes into the build. I was expecting to have a full gnome desktop today, but I am still building

Re: [gentoo-user] limewire won't start

2006-03-29 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 29 March 2006 18:16, maxim wexler wrote: See my reply to Ryan. Somehow overnight my complete path statement returned. I don't remember the last time I ran env-update etc. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it run automatically after completion of emerge some package. Perhaps this is

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcp problems

2006-03-29 Thread Nick Smith
On 3/16/06, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 10:21:17 -0500 Nick Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have a new laptop that is giving me fits when i try to get any distro of linux installed. i was actually able to install gentoo and got it to boot (this is my first amd64

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Intel Core Duo Processor - Anyone?

2006-03-29 Thread Lord Sauron
On 3/29/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/29/06, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm.. seems to me, you do like your laptops big and heavy and bulky. :-) IIRC, you had a P4 chip in your last laptop? (was that you?) Yep, except that 'luggable' incurred severe lid cracking

[gentoo-user] [OT] Which GhostScript to use?

2006-03-29 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
I have found (at least) three alternatives in the portage: app-text/ghostscript-gnu app-text/ghostscript-esp app-text/ghostscript-afpl Now, I have 'esp' installed. The problem is, some 'ps' files causes errors like Error: /configurationerror in --setpagedevice-- Additional information:

Re: [gentoo-user] NVI and word wrap?

2006-03-29 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: Does anybody know how to get NVI to word wrap in a similar manner to VIM? With VIM, I could use: vim -f '+set tw=78' and it would wrap at 78 characters at a word boundry (great for emails and posts to USENET). Well, it seems nobody was able to help me out, but I

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Intel Core Duo Processor - Anyone?

2006-03-29 Thread Lord Sauron
http://www-131.ibm.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?productId=4611686018425155337storeId=1001langId=-1categoryId=2059153dualCurrId=173catalogId=-840 That's the cheapest X60 with Core Duo. HOWEVER: I'd still highly recommend a AMD Turion. Well... I'd even more strongly

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc upgrade, should it upgrade?

2006-03-29 Thread Teresa and Dale
Holly Bostick wrote: (other) Funny thing is, last I heard, you were planning to mask the upgrade versions of GCC. If you did that, of /course/ you are no longer offered upgrades, since that's the point of masking (to mark a package as unavailable to be installed on this computer). gcc-3.4.5-r1

Re: [gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel

2006-03-29 Thread Lord Sauron
Okay, here's where I've isolated the problem to. This might be a rather lengthy explanation, so make sure you have about 15 minutes on your hands before diving in. However, the explanation shouldn't take long - I've never actually compiled/installed/used a kernel before. Okay, enough

[gentoo-user] Re: NVI and word wrap?

2006-03-29 Thread James
Thomas T. Veldhouse veldy at veldy.net writes: Does anybody know how to get NVI to word wrap in a similar manner to VIM? With VIM, I could use: vim -f '+set tw=78' and it would wrap at 78 characters at a word boundry (great for emails and posts to USENET). Well, it seems nobody

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: NVI and word wrap?

2006-03-29 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
James wrote: I appreciate your sharing this tidbit. I looked at: http://www.bostic.com/vi/ and saw what they said are advantages. What do you believe are the advantages of Nvi? just curious, BTW .. I used the following which fixed the wordwrap to 78 in an 80 column field.

[gentoo-user] Re: What program produces message like these?

2006-03-29 Thread James
Vladimir G. Ivanovic vgivanovic at comcast.net writes: And, more importantly, how do I get rid of them? They fill up my kernel ring buffer, and I can't see boot-time messages from the kernel. Here's a trick I use in root's /root/.bashrc just for such issues: alias dmesg='dmesg -s 264000 |

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Intel Core Duo Processor - Anyone?

2006-03-29 Thread Richard Fish
On 3/29/06, Lord Sauron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You have no idea what portable is. One month on a 3.7lb. 12.1 inch X40 and you'll never go back - even if you wanted to! Well, everybody has different needs/tastes. Frankly, I wouldn't even want to _touch_ something with a 12.1in screen. ;-

Re: [gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel

2006-03-29 Thread Holly Bostick
Lord Sauron schreef: Okay, here's where I've isolated the problem to. snip . I know that it correctly compiles the kernel. I put a new name for the new kernel (test1) to try and ID it snip # make install Sticks it into /boot. /boot now reads System.map

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Which GhostScript to use?

2006-03-29 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
Joseph, Do you use generic GDI driver with 'ghostscript-gnu'? You see, a rendering isn't the only goal. I'd like my printer to work too :-) Andrew === On Thursday 30 March 2006 01:03, Joseph wrote: === I had problem with esp as well, but ghostscript-gnu works OK -- #Joseph --

Re: [gentoo-user] GorillaTrades Tutorial

2006-03-29 Thread Holly Bostick
Mark Knecht schreef: Hi, I wonder if anyone else has this problem. The tutorial at this page starts and I get audio, but I don't get any video or slides. Config problem here or Linux multimedia issue? http://www.gorillatrades.com/tutorial/# Thanks, Mark Like JimD, I also was able to

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Which GhostScript to use?

2006-03-29 Thread Joseph
On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 01:16 +0400, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: Joseph, Do you use generic GDI driver with 'ghostscript-gnu'? You see, a rendering isn't the only goal. I'd like my printer to work too :-) Andrew How, do I find out? I've experience very ugly fonts when I saved PFD file from

Re: [gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel

2006-03-29 Thread Bo Andresen
On Wednesday 29 March 2006 21:58, Lord Sauron wrote: Okay, here's where I've isolated the problem to. This might be a rather lengthy explanation, so make sure you have about 15 minutes on your hands before diving in. However, the explanation shouldn't take long - I've never actually

[gentoo-user] Modular Xorg 7 won't start with nVidia GeForce4 440 Go

2006-03-29 Thread Daevid Vincent
I went to do an 'emerge -Davu world' yesterday, and it forced me to upgrade to modular xorg7. I followed the directions here, But now X doesn't start. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-howto.xml - I'm using this video

Re: [gentoo-user] What program produces message like these?

2006-03-29 Thread Vladimir G. Ivanovic
Many thanks for the hints. It looks like I (accidentally) had driver debugging turned on. I'm recompiling my kernel to see if that fixes my problem. --- Vladimir On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 10:34 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: On 3/29/06, Vladimir G. Ivanovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CLASS:

[gentoo-user] Why is portage trying to pull in xorg when I don't use it...

2006-03-29 Thread Daevid Vincent
I have a VMWare that I use for LAMP development. I have never put Xorg on it, nor do I ever want X windows on it. Recently, when I do an 'emerge -Davut world', I see this: - vmware ~ # emerge -Davtu world These are the

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Intel Core Duo Processor - Anyone?

2006-03-29 Thread Mike Myers
Are you sure that it was a Pentium M and not a Pentium4-M or just the p4s? There is a signicant difference. With all the benchmarks I've seen, the Pentium Ms beat all the other processors in terms of power consumption and heat and in a lot of cases, performance. it even outdoes the P4s and

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Intel Core Duo Processor - Anyone?

2006-03-29 Thread michael
Always interesting discussions on this list. I have two questions for everyone (not just the person I'm responding to): How soon do you think we'll see laptops with the Dual Core Turion64? Elsewhere (perhaps on this list on a different topic) someone recommended not buying anything except for

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is portage trying to pull in xorg when I don't use it...

2006-03-29 Thread Philip Webb
060329 Daevid Vincent wrote: I have a VMWare that I use for LAMP development. I have never put Xorg on it nor do I ever want X windows on it. Recently, when I do an 'emerge -Davut world', I see this: -- snip -- [ebuild U ] www-client/links-2.1_pre20 [2.1_pre19] -X -directfb -fbcon +gpm

Re: [gentoo-user] Aborting due to QA concerns

2006-03-29 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Thursday 30 March 2006 02:17, JimD wrote: I did an emerge -vb gnome and I am almost finished. However I am now getting this weird error from gnome-netstatus: What makes portage issue an Aborting due to QA concerns 103 files installed in

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Intel Core Duo Processor - Anyone?

2006-03-29 Thread Lord Sauron
On 3/29/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/29/06, Lord Sauron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You have no idea what portable is. One month on a 3.7lb. 12.1 inch X40 and you'll never go back - even if you wanted to! Well, everybody has different needs/tastes. Frankly, I wouldn't even

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Intel Core Duo Processor - Anyone?

2006-03-29 Thread Lord Sauron
On 3/29/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Always interesting discussions on this list. I have two questions for everyone (not just the person I'm responding to): How soon do you think we'll see laptops with the Dual Core Turion64? AMD says the release will be within 4 months or

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Intel Core Duo Processor - Anyone?

2006-03-29 Thread Lord Sauron
On 3/29/06, Mike Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you sure that it was a Pentium M and not a Pentium4-M or just the It's ID is a Pentium-M Ultra-Low Voltage 1.0GHz Processor. It's basically whatever you'll find in the IBM X40 type 2386-1CU. My serial # is KV-AC277. Proud owner of a IBM.

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is portage trying to pull in xorg when I don't use it...

2006-03-29 Thread Bo Andresen
On Thursday 30 March 2006 00:09, Daevid Vincent wrote: I have a VMWare that I use for LAMP development. I have never put Xorg on it, nor do I ever want X windows on it. Recently, when I do an 'emerge -Davut world', I see this:

Re: [gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel

2006-03-29 Thread Lord Sauron
On 3/29/06, Bo Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 29 March 2006 21:58, Lord Sauron wrote: Okay, here's where I've isolated the problem to. This might be a rather lengthy explanation, so make sure you have about 15 minutes on your hands before diving in. However, the

RE: [gentoo-user] Why is portage trying to pull in xorg when I don't use it...

2006-03-29 Thread Daevid Vincent
-Original Message- From: Philip Webb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 3:07 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Why is portage trying to pull in xorg when I don't use it... 060329 Daevid Vincent wrote: I have a VMWare that I

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Intel Core Duo Processor - Anyone?

2006-03-29 Thread Richard Fish
On 3/29/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How soon do you think we'll see laptops with the Dual Core Turion64? Summer. Got to have them out in time for back-to-school purchasing, right? Elsewhere (perhaps on this list on a different topic) someone recommended not buying

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Intel Core Duo Processor - Anyone?

2006-03-29 Thread Lord Sauron
On 3/29/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/29/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How soon do you think we'll see laptops with the Dual Core Turion64? Summer. Got to have them out in time for back-to-school purchasing, right? Elsewhere (perhaps on this list on a

Re: [gentoo-user] limewire won't start

2006-03-29 Thread Ryan Tandy
Uwe Thiem wrote: You really have to watch etc-update and decide what it should overwrite and what you prefer to edit yourself. Not etc-update, env-update. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Intel Core Duo Processor - Anyone?

2006-03-29 Thread Richard Fish
On 3/29/06, Lord Sauron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Great for you. However, if you got a laptop for non-work use (personal, communications, mobile DVD viewing, c) would you rather get the massive 9 pound thing you use at work, or a nice small 14 portable? Even this is a tough decision for

Re: [gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel

2006-03-29 Thread Lord Sauron
SOLVED!!! I did as you suggested. localhost ~ # cat /boot/grub/menu.lst default 0 timeout 7 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Current Kernel root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 title Old Kernel root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz.old root=/dev/hda3

Re: [gentoo-user] Modular Xorg 7 won't start with nVidia GeForce4 440 Go

2006-03-29 Thread Richard Fish
On 3/29/06, Daevid Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Xorg is not able to detect your mouse. Edit the file and correct the Device. This will usually cause a fatal server error. I suggesting editing xorg.conf and pointing the mouse a /dev/input/mice. If that doesn't help, the contents of

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Intel Core Duo Processor - Anyone?

2006-03-29 Thread Lord Sauron
On 3/29/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/29/06, Lord Sauron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Great for you. However, if you got a laptop for non-work use (personal, communications, mobile DVD viewing, c) would you rather get the massive 9 pound thing you use at work, or a nice small

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is portage trying to pull in xorg when I don't use it...

2006-03-29 Thread Ryan Tandy
Daevid Vincent wrote: -Original Message- From: Philip Webb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 3:07 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Why is portage trying to pull in xorg when I don't use it... 060329 Daevid Vincent wrote: I

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Intel Core Duo Processor - Anyone?

2006-03-29 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 11:36 -0800, Lord Sauron wrote: On 3/29/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You have no idea what portable is. One month on a 3.7lb. 12.1 inch X40 and you'll never go back - even if you wanted to! It depends actually. Like Richard, I like/love the high res on my

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Intel Core Duo Processor - Anyone?

2006-03-29 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 11:47 -0800, Lord Sauron wrote: http://www-131.ibm.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?productId=4611686018425155337storeId=1001langId=-1categoryId=2059153dualCurrId=173catalogId=-840 That's the cheapest X60 with Core Duo. HOWEVER: Hmm.. you obviously

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Intel Core Duo Processor - Anyone?

2006-03-29 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 13:35 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: /me goes to get 3rd mortgage to pay for more gadgets... /me surprised that 'whom must be obeyed' actually OK'ed the idea. Hehe.. /me have to go work out a budget report and write up a 200page brief for getting funds from the Ministry of

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Intel Core Duo Processor - Anyone?

2006-03-29 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 17:34 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: On 3/29/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How soon do you think we'll see laptops with the Dual Core Turion64? Summer. Got to have them out in time for back-to-school purchasing, right? Elsewhere (perhaps on this list

Re: [gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel

2006-03-29 Thread Teresa and Dale
Lord Sauron wrote: Okay. So there are two ways of making kernels, and one of them is with Genkernel and I'm not using that so I don't need to worry, right? Just like most things in Linux, there are several ways to do it. Yours isn't the way I do it but if it works for ya, go for it.

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Intel Core Duo Processor - Anyone?

2006-03-29 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 15:42 -0800, Lord Sauron wrote: On 3/29/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, however, I see all these people buy a cheap laptop from Dell and expect it to run stuff like Doom 3. Soon, they'll have to but it from Alienware which dell just bought recently.

RE: [gentoo-user] Modular Xorg 7 won't start with nVidia GeForce4 440 Go

2006-03-29 Thread Daevid Vincent
On 3/29/06, Daevid Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Xorg is not able to detect your mouse. Edit the file and correct the Device. This will usually cause a fatal server error. I suggesting editing xorg.conf and pointing the mouse a /dev/input/mice. That error is bogus as that had to do

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Intel Core Duo Processor - Anyone?

2006-03-29 Thread Lord Sauron
On 3/29/06, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 15:42 -0800, Lord Sauron wrote: On 3/29/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, however, I see all these people buy a cheap laptop from Dell and expect it to run stuff like Doom 3. Soon, they'll have to but it

Re: [gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel

2006-03-29 Thread Bo Andresen
On Thursday 30 March 2006 02:53, Lord Sauron wrote: Later I hope to reinsert my Live CD and get the pretty stuff off of it to beautify my Gentoo. For what kind of beautifying do you need the Live CD? If you are referring to the splash theme that it uses then it is in portage.

[gentoo-user] bash-3.1 - Not honouring /etc/inputrc

2006-03-29 Thread Ow Mun Heng
I run bash 3.0, I have this in my /etc/inputrc \M-[A: history-search-backward \M-[B: history-search-forward which makes things like $lup-arrow $ls -l /tmp up-arrow $ls -laR /tmp when I upgraded to 3.1 this morning (emerge world), I lost this behaviour. Between 3.0 and 3.1, there wasn't any

Re: [gentoo-user] chroot

2006-03-29 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 03:44:02PM +0200, Arnau Bria Ram??rez wrote Maybe I don't understand the benefits of your action, but what advantages do you get doing so? I always do a emerge -uD world, so package and its dependency... I do not care if dependency it's in world or not... Please,

[gentoo-user] apache2 without DNS?

2006-03-29 Thread James
Hello, I run a minimalistic, closed, (not connected to the internet), network for machines. This network does not run any DNS, and it works beautifully, very low in bandwidth, all static IPs. I do not wish to argue about the merits of not running DNS on a network, it's a given, out of my control!

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Intel Core Duo Processor - Anyone?

2006-03-29 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 17:41 -0800, Lord Sauron wrote: On 3/29/06, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, however, I see all these people buy a cheap laptop from Dell and expect it to run stuff like Doom 3. /me hates those built-in graphics. Makes things slow. Seriously does make a

Re: [gentoo-user] Aborting due to QA concerns

2006-03-29 Thread JimD
On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 08:34:50 +0900 Jason Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you look at that path /var/tmp/portage/gnome-netstatus-2.12.0/image/ is duplicated which means the final directory that portage would install to would be the directory it's installing from. This is a bug that needs

Re: [gentoo-user] USB issue

2006-03-29 Thread Ian
On 3/29/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 21:04:12 -0700, Ian wrote:cp: writing '/mnt/ipod/file': Input/Output error cp: cannot create regular file '/mnt/ipod/file2': Input/Output errorWhat do you have in /etc/fstab for this? Basically the standard. /dev/sda2 [tab]

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