Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question re: /usr

2006-04-26 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 25. April 2006 18:00 schrieb ext K. Mike Bradley: Thanks for the URL, but I had this question after reading this very document. It doesn't explain the history or the reason there are two /bin, /sbin. It's from the very beginning of Unix. Harddisks where small (or they even used

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question re: /usr

2006-04-26 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 25. April 2006 20:11 schrieb ext Herman Grootaers: The division is not so strange as it seems. In */sbin the binaries placed are used by the systemuser root, that means the binaries can be used by anyone. in */bin the binaries are under user-control that is they are owned by the

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question re: /usr

2006-04-26 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 26. April 2006 02:39 schrieb ext K. Mike Bradley: I am used to Windows people and if I bottom post they wonder why there is a reply with no message. Try to explain it to them. http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html should help. Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs

[gentoo-user] email netiquette

2006-04-26 Thread Justin Findlay
On 4/26/06, Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Mittwoch, 26. April 2006 02:39 schrieb ext K. Mike Bradley: I am used to Windows people and if I bottom post they wonder why there is a reply with no message. Try to explain it to them. http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternative to netkit-telnetd

2006-04-26 Thread Alexander Skwar
Dan Johansson wrote: On Tuesday 25 April 2006 07:33, Alexander Skwar wrote: Dan Johansson wrote: On Monday 24 April 2006 20:04, Michael Sullivan wrote: On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 19:58 +0200, Dan Johansson wrote: I only need a telnet client and not the whole server part. Any [...] I think the

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternative to netkit-telnetd

2006-04-26 Thread Alexander Skwar
Nick Rout wrote: Piping to telnet worked with netkit-telnetd's client but not telnet-bsd's Then the software is really broken... Standard behaviour of telnet is to NOT read from stdin. That's, why there is netcat. Alexander Skwar -- Book: They'll come at you sideways. It's how they think:

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question re: /usr

2006-04-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 20:39:25 -0400, K. Mike Bradley wrote: I am used to Windows people and if I bottom post they wonder why there is a reply with no message. Either they are using small screens/large fonts or you need to trim your quotes. It shouldn't usually be necessary to quote so much

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with changing virtual terminals

2006-04-26 Thread Goran Maksimovic
Hi! I will try that but where if I haven't got this should I put it? Thanx for you help :). Bye Goran -Original message- From: Teresa and Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 03:33:07 +0200 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] problem with changing

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with changing virtual terminals

2006-04-26 Thread Jannis Achstetter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! I will try that but where if I haven't got this should I put it? Thanx for you help :). Bye Goran No, if it's uncommented, comment it. It's just like the comment beneath says: #Option NoTrapSignals # Uncomment this to disable the

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with changing virtual terminals

2006-04-26 Thread Teresa and Dale
Goran Maksimovic wrote: Hi! I will try that but where if I haven't got this should I put it? Thanx for you help :). Bye Goran Check the xorg.conf file and look for this. Mine works and this is what mine looks like, yours should be the same. #Option NoTrapSignals # Uncomment

[gentoo-user] Re: pppd and adsl

2006-04-26 Thread Sven Köhler
Ummm, could you please explain those settings? Or could you please point me the appropriate documentation where they're explained? which settings? well, man pppd should show you all the funny pppd options. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Best Modem for Gentoo

2006-04-26 Thread Michael Crute
I am trying to setup a fax server using Gentoo, I tried using an Intel 536ep chipset card with little success. After looking around the general consensus seems to be go with US Robotics. Can anyone provide the model and manufacture of a fax modem that is known to work with both Gentoo any Hylafax?

[gentoo-user] Issure with emerge stoping!!!

2006-04-26 Thread Christopher E
Hello All, Ok to begining with I have NO other issues any more!!! Ok my motherboard is a K8V Deluxe with the latest bios being 1.0.12 it IS the last bios being made by ASUS as my motherboard is discontinualed!! OK here is my prob: I am emergeing say X11, or ALSA or etc and when this is

Re: [gentoo-user] Best Modem for Gentoo

2006-04-26 Thread Harald Arnesen
Michael Crute [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to setup a fax server using Gentoo, I tried using an Intel 536ep chipset card with little success. After looking around the general consensus seems to be go with US Robotics. Can anyone provide the model and manufacture of a fax modem that

[gentoo-user] Fwd: FontForge needs conversion from ISO-8859-1 to UCS2 - iconv (glibc-2.3.5-r2) does not support it on amd64

2006-04-26 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
This started when I found out that FontForge (FF) does not want to run with Gentoo's iconv: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124998 The FF developer told me: According to the $ iconv --list you sent (http://plouj.sh.nu/iconvlist) both UCS2 and ISO-8859-1 are supported by your iconv. Yet

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: pppd and adsl

2006-04-26 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
On Wednesday 26 April 2006 18:40, Sven Köhler wrote: Ummm, could you please explain those settings? Or could you please point me the appropriate documentation where they're explained? which settings? well, man pppd should show you all the funny pppd options. Okies, thanks :) --

Re: [gentoo-user] Issure with emerge stoping!!!

2006-04-26 Thread Jannis Achstetter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello All, Ok to begining with I have NO other issues any more!!! Ok my motherboard is a K8V Deluxe with the latest bios being 1.0.12 it IS the last bios being made by ASUS as my motherboard is discontinualed!! OK here is my prob: I am

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternative to netkit-telnetd

2006-04-26 Thread Dan Johansson
On Wednesday 26 April 2006 09:42, Alexander Skwar wrote: Dan Johansson wrote: On Tuesday 25 April 2006 07:33, Alexander Skwar wrote: Dan Johansson wrote: On Monday 24 April 2006 20:04, Michael Sullivan wrote: On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 19:58 +0200, Dan Johansson wrote: I only need a

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: FontForge needs conversion from ISO-8859-1 to UCS2 - iconv (glibc-2.3.5-r2) does not support it on amd64

2006-04-26 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 11:43:09 -0400 Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Although FF seems to work now if compiled --without-iconv, I would like to know why this conversion is not working on my system. Here is what happens if I type: [...] Hm. Works for me. And this

[gentoo-user] PC freeze with ati-drivers and gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3

2006-04-26 Thread Ptitjack
Hi all, I have some problem with gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3 and ati-drivers. Everything works fine when logging in, but my pc freezes without any error message when logging out. Do you get that same trouble on your own ? I really don't know what to do except downgrading to gentoo-sources-2.6.15.

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: FontForge needs conversion from ISO-8859-1 to UCS2 - iconv (glibc-2.3.5-r2) does not support it on amd64

2006-04-26 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
This is how my glibc is currently installed: sys-libs/glibc-2.3.5-r2 -build -erandom -glibc-compat20 -glibc-omitfp -hardened -linuxthreads-tls (-multilib) +nls +nptl +nptlonly -pic -profile (-selinux) +userlocales Did you say that those conversions work for you on amd64? On 4/26/06, Hans-Werner

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: FontForge needs conversion from ISO-8859-1 to UCS2 - iconv (glibc-2.3.5-r2) does not support it on amd64

2006-04-26 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:42:09 -0400 Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you say that those conversions work for you on amd64? Ah, I'm seeing it now in the subject. No, I was quietly assuming you're talking about x86. I don't have an amd64 machine at hand, so I can't help

Re: [gentoo-user] Best Modem for Gentoo

2006-04-26 Thread Mohamed Hazem
On Wednesday 26 April 2006 16:35, Michael Crute wrote: I am trying to setup a fax server using Gentoo, I tried using an Intel 536ep chipset card with little success. After looking around the general consensus seems to be go with US Robotics. Can anyone provide the model and manufacture of a

Re: [gentoo-user] PC freeze with ati-drivers and gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3

2006-04-26 Thread Ghislain Bourgeois
On 4/26/06, Ptitjack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Everything works fine when logging in, but my pc freezes without anyerror message when logging out.I have the exact same problem, with an AMD Athlon XP 1800+ and Radeon 9000 pro. -- Ghislain Bourgeois --- Linux System administrator

Re: [gentoo-user] PC freeze with ati-drivers and gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3

2006-04-26 Thread Dennis
I've had almost the exact same problem. I have the same card. I tried multiple ati drivers and different login managers with no success. I recently upgraded to Modular X and for some reason, it all started working normally again. If you don't want to upgrade, perhaps re-compiling X will

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: FontForge needs conversion from ISO-8859-1 to UCS2 - iconv (glibc-2.3.5-r2) does not support it on amd64

2006-04-26 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
Here is the strace output: http://plouj.sh.nu/straceiconv By looking at /usr/lib{64,32}/gconv/gconv-modules (wich are identical) it looks like there really isn't any conversion specified from ISO-8859-1 to any other code. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] soundcards inconsistent

2006-04-26 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Am Samstag, 22. April 2006 01:24 schrieb Michael Schreckenbauer: Hi again, Am Mittwoch, 19. April 2006 21:12 schrieb Michael Schreckenbauer: Dear gentoo-users, yesterday I recognized a strange problem with my soundcards. I have two soundcards in my system. A Soundblaster, ens1371 based,

Re: [gentoo-user] PC freeze with ati-drivers and gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3

2006-04-26 Thread fire-eyes
On Wednesday 26 April 2006 12:29, Ptitjack wrote: I have some problem with gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3 and ati-drivers. Everything works fine when logging in, but my pc freezes without any error message when logging out. Do you get that same trouble on your own ? I really don't know what to do

Re: [gentoo-user] PC freeze with ati-drivers and gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3

2006-04-26 Thread Jacques Montier
fire-eyes a gentiment tapote: On Wednesday 26 April 2006 12:29, Ptitjack wrote: I have some problem with gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3 and ati-drivers. Everything works fine when logging in, but my pc freezes without any error message when logging out. Do you get that same trouble on your own

Re: [gentoo-user] email netiquette

2006-04-26 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, Richard Fish wrote: Guys, I think most of this advice is going to be wasted on Windows users. Outlook makes it damn near impossible to properly quote and trim a message when replying. Be thankful if you never have to use that piece of . Yeah, but we're not going

Re: [gentoo-user] Best Modem for Gentoo

2006-04-26 Thread Teresa and Dale
Harald Arnesen wrote: Michael Crute [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to setup a fax server using Gentoo, I tried using an Intel 536ep chipset card with little success. After looking around the general consensus seems to be go with US Robotics. Can anyone provide the model and

Re: [gentoo-user] PC freeze with ati-drivers and gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3

2006-04-26 Thread Jannis Achstetter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 4/26/06, *Ptitjack* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Everything works fine when logging in, but my pc freezes without any error message when logging out. I have the exact same problem, with an AMD Athlon XP 1800+

Re: [gentoo-user] Best Modem for Gentoo

2006-04-26 Thread John Jolet
On 4/26/06 1:55 PM, Teresa and Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Harald Arnesen wrote: Michael Crute [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to setup a fax server using Gentoo, I tried using an Intel 536ep chipset card with little success. After looking around the general consensus

Re: [gentoo-user] PC freeze with ati-drivers and gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3

2006-04-26 Thread Ghislain Bourgeois
On 4/26/06, Jannis Achstetter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, I got an AMD Athlon XP 2000+ and a Radeon 9000 Pro, so nearly thesame specs. And why do you use the ati-drivers?It is actually the only way to play games like UT2004 that need ST3C (patented algorithm crap). I had exactly the same

Re: [gentoo-user] PC freeze with ati-drivers and gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3

2006-04-26 Thread Jannis Achstetter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It is actually the only way to play games like UT2004 that need ST3C (patented algorithm crap). Well, I play UT2K4 here and it works. It ain't super-blazing (1,6GHz, 512MB RAM, 128MB-Graphics-RAM so can't be too good for such hungry games) but

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: FontForge needs conversion from ISO-8859-1 to UCS2 - iconv (glibc-2.3.5-r2) does not support it on amd64

2006-04-26 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 14:09:18 -0400 Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is the strace output: http://plouj.sh.nu/straceiconv from that output: ---snip open(/usr/lib32/gconv/UNICODE.so, O_RDONLY) = 4 read(4, \177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0 \5\0\000...,

RE: [gentoo-user] email netiquette

2006-04-26 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, Richard Fish wrote: Guys, I think most of this advice is going to be wasted on Windows users. Outlook makes it damn near impossible to properly quote and trim a message when replying. Be thankful if you never have to use that piece of . Yeah, but we're

Re: [gentoo-user] email netiquette

2006-04-26 Thread Alexander Skwar
Richard Fish wrote: On 4/25/06, Justin Findlay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/26/06, Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Mittwoch, 26. April 2006 02:39 schrieb ext K. Mike Bradley: Try to explain it to them. http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html should help. Or even

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: FontForge needs conversion from ISO-8859-1 to UCS2 - iconv (glibc-2.3.5-r2) does not support it on amd64

2006-04-26 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
After doing: # mv lib32{,-bak} # ln -s lib64 lib32 I saw the following results: $ iconv --from-code ISO-8859-1 --to-code UCS2 /dev/null $ iconv --from-code ISO-8859-1 --to-code UCS-2 /dev/null $ iconv --from-code ISO-8859-1 --to-code UCS-2-INTERNAL /dev/null iconv: conversion to `UCS-2-INTERNAL'

[gentoo-user] DRI, GLX, Savage and Xorg7

2006-04-26 Thread Ognjen Bezanov
Well, I upgraded to Xorg 7 using the modular Xorg howto on the gentoo-wiki forums becuase I was told that this version would have support for DRI and GLX on the savage chipset (for my thinkpad). Well, installed and everything seems to work except GLX/DRI. if I run glxinfo, i get: name of

RE: [gentoo-user] email netiquette

2006-04-26 Thread K. Mike Bradley
I agree with the concept of netiquette but I also fear Microsoft has poisoned the well and taught many a newbie (myself included) bad habits. Case in point ... I subscribed to a newsletter on one particular site. The mail server was accidentally turned into conversation mode one day. People

[gentoo-user] devices not being created at boot time

2006-04-26 Thread Maurice E Johnson
I am trying to upgrade to kernel 2.6.15-r1 from 2.6.12-r4. Now that we are in the brave new world of udev, My Fusion MPT 1030 scsi controller has suddenly become invisible to the kernel - read no devices being created. Platform - AMD Opteron Dual Processor 270 Tyan MoBo My favorite, LSIs

Re: [gentoo-user] email netiquette

2006-04-26 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/26/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard Fish wrote: Outlook makes it damn near impossible to properly quote and trim a message when replying. Actually, it does *NOT* - at least not, when you're composing text/plain mails, as you should. Which version of outlook are