[gentoo-ppc-user] usb network card

2006-05-08 Thread stephan ulbing
hi there, i have to convert a mac mini into a linux router/firewall. so i am looking for a usb network card which is supported by linux. maybe somebody has experience with that stuff... lg steph. pgpfgsHq5I3tl.pgp Description: PGP signature

RE: [gentoo-ppc-user] Mac on Linux?

2006-05-08 Thread Mark M. Hart
Thanks! Mark M. Hart -Original Message- From: Joseph Jezak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2006 1:47 PM To: gentoo-ppc-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Mac on Linux? -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark M. Hart wrote: Here's after

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Mac on Linux?

2006-05-08 Thread Joseph Jezak
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 OK, fine, in the kernel. I did a genconfig --menuconfig and couldn't find these options in the menus. So, do I need to specify them on the genconfig command line? And if so, what is the proper way? I did a genconfig --help but got little

[gentoo-user] OT : Recommendation for Bluetooth USB adapter

2006-05-08 Thread Ow Mun Heng
Hi, Can anyone here recommend a Bluetooth USB dongle which will work under Linux? Hopefully, it's something cheap and which can be purchased from Fry's -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 22:59:13 up 1 day, 9:29, 4 users,

Re: [gentoo-user] can't configure java

2006-05-08 Thread Robert Persson
On Sunday 07 May 2006 22:14 Robert Persson was like: When I try to use java-config, the following happens: THIS SYSTEM VM IS NOT SUFFICIENT, REQUIRED BINARIES WERE NOT FOUND System Virtual Machine set You may want to update your enviroment by running: /usr/sbin/env-update source

Re: [gentoo-user] OT : Recommendation for Bluetooth USB adapter

2006-05-08 Thread Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
On Monday, May 8 2006 15:30, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Hi, Can anyone here recommend a Bluetooth USB dongle which will work under Linux? Hopefully, it's something cheap and which can be purchased from Fry's AFAIK they pretty much all work using the generic HCI USB driver included with the

[gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?

2006-05-08 Thread Walter Dnes
I've been so used to playing mp3 files that I'm lost with real live audio CDs (not a data CD with mp3 files). The XMMS docs aren't really helpful. Do I need an additional plug-in? mplayer is worse. mplayer /dev/cdrom tries to play a file by that name. I emerged cdplay and cdplay -c -v gets

Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?

2006-05-08 Thread Stefán István
hétfő 08 május 2006 11.32 dátummal Walter Dnes ezt írta: I've been so used to playing mp3 files that I'm lost with real live audio CDs (not a data CD with mp3 files). The XMMS docs aren't really helpful. Do I need an additional plug-in? mplayer is worse. mplayer /dev/cdrom tries to play a

Re: [gentoo-user] Tv out stopped working!

2006-05-08 Thread Rohit Sharma
Daniel, I have a successful config at home with nvidia GeForce4 FS 5200 card. I use it in clone configuration so this screen would be shown exactly as it is on my TV. Both my TV and LCD monitor have the same resolution. I get TV Out as composite video at 1024x768 and use it to watch movies with

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 7.0 or 6.8. What of then is better ?

2006-05-08 Thread Ptitjack
JimD a gentiment tapote: However, I do like being able to customize my system and Gentoo gives me a very nice way to do that. The only current issue I with Gentoo that I want to address is a recovery option. I will probably post a thread on that topic soon. I have about 1GB in

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI and Linux

2006-05-08 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Monday 08 May 2006 05:18, JimD wrote: Jerônimo Backes wrote: NO! (expand the fontsize to 100 pt or something to get the meaning) ATI support for linux is the crapiest thing on earth! I guess it is safe to assume you don't like ATI : ) nobody who had to deal with their crappy drivers

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage tree hosed?

2006-05-08 Thread Adrian
On Mon, 08 May 2006 02:18:11 -0500 Teresa and Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the words: If you are using the default mirrors, change them. I ran into timeout errors all the time with the default mirrors. I think I used this one: http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ I

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade Portage 2004.0 to 2005.x fails

2006-05-08 Thread Teresa and Dale
Denny Schierz wrote: hi, i have two very old gentoo boxes and i can't upgrade them. After a sync, the default profile 2004.0 was deleted and know i can't do anything with portage: router x86 # emerge -n '=sys-apps/portage-2.0.51' !!! 'str' object has no attribute 'insert' !!! 'rm -Rf

Re: [gentoo-user] can't configure java

2006-05-08 Thread Devon Miller
Setting the system JVM is different from setting the user JVM. The system JVM defines what emerge will use to compile *.java source files. As such, the system vm must be a JDK, not a JRE.You really don't want to set 1.5 as your system JVM unless you're trying to fix ebuilds to work with 1.5. Jave

[gentoo-user] Re: Portage tree hosed?

2006-05-08 Thread Sven Köhler
From doing a google, it looks like i need to run emerge sync in order to fix this. However, if I could sync then I wouldn't be doing this. Everytime I try to sync it times out and I never finish. I'm on dial-up, so it's a bit slow. I am trying to install emerge-delta-webrsync and try

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage tree hosed?

2006-05-08 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 5/7/06, Adrian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings. I'm trying to set up a new Gentoo box. I downloaded the latest portage snapshot, untared it and ran emerge regen you mean emerge --metadata don't you?! because that's all you need after a snapshot update. now everything I try to

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade Portage 2004.0 to 2005.x fails

2006-05-08 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, Am Montag, den 08.05.2006, 08:20 -0500 schrieb Teresa and Dale: You may want to try emerge portage. I think I ran into this once before and that fixed it. There is also a portage rescue tarbal somewhere that you can put on to rescue it. I did that once before too but I can't recall

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade Portage 2004.0 to 2005.x fails

2006-05-08 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 5/8/06, Denny Schierz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, i have two very old gentoo boxes and i can't upgrade them. After a sync, the default profile 2004.0 was deleted and know i can't do anything with portage: router x86 # emerge -n '=sys-apps/portage-2.0.51' !!! 'str' object has no attribute

Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?

2006-05-08 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 5/8/06, Stefán István [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hétfő 08 május 2006 11.32 dátummal Walter Dnes ezt írta: I've been so used to playing mp3 files that I'm lost with real live audio CDs (not a data CD with mp3 files). The XMMS docs aren't really helpful. Do I need an additional plug-in?

Re: [gentoo-user] i can't boot gentoo (regarding to something corrupted or deleted (?))

2006-05-08 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 5/7/06, nacho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, i have this big big problem: i tried to emerge openoffice(bin) and i have left without space in the root partition (openoffice installs in /opt which is in the / partition in my case) so emerge stops with an error. Then i rebooted a cupple of

Re: [gentoo-user] i can't boot gentoo (regarding to something corrupted or deleted (?))

2006-05-08 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, are you sure, that there is at least some space in /, /tmp and /var? Because without at least some mb free, some data can not be written - and the box refuses to boot... had that problem some years ago, when gimp went on a rampage... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI and Linux

2006-05-08 Thread Jerônimo Backes
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Monday 08 May 2006 05:18, JimD wrote: Jerônimo Backes wrote: NO! (expand the fontsize to 100 pt or something to get the meaning) ATI support for linux is the crapiest thing on earth! I guess it is safe to assume you don't like ATI : )

RE: [gentoo-user] Upgrade Portage 2004.0 to 2005.x fails

2006-05-08 Thread Johnson, Maurice E CTR NSWCDL-K74
There are significant changes between 2004.0 and 2006.0 . My first recomendation would be to upgrade the compiler as follows: You don't necessarily need esearch if you don't already have it, but just get the information needed here. (modify as needed) #!/bin/bash OLD_VER=`esearch --nocolor -o

Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?

2006-05-08 Thread Jeremy Olexa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mattias Merilai wrote: Daniel da Veiga wrote: Stéfan is right, you need an analog audio cable connecting your CD drive to your soundcard (or, if your soundcard support it, a digital one). Else the drive can't send audio to your speakers. The

Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?

2006-05-08 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
It's strange question ;-) XMMS does it (just activate cdda plugin). XMMS clones does it. Amarok does it too (at least SVN version - I don't use Amarok's official releases). === On Monday 08 May 2006 18:17, Mattias Merilai wrote: === Daniel da Veiga wrote: Stéfan is right, you need an

RE: [gentoo-user] Upgrade Portage 2004.0 to 2005.x fails

2006-05-08 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, Am Montag, den 08.05.2006, 09:33 -0500 schrieb Johnson, Maurice E CTR NSWCDL-K74: There are significant changes between 2004.0 and 2006.0 . My first recomendation would be to upgrade the compiler as follows: You don't necessarily need esearch if you don't already have it, but just get

Re: [SPAM] - Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD? - Bayesian Filter detected spam

2006-05-08 Thread Harald Arnesen
Mattias Merilai [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Daniel da Veiga wrote: Stéfan is right, you need an analog audio cable connecting your CD drive to your soundcard (or, if your soundcard support it, a digital one). Else the drive can't send audio to your speakers. The other o/s can send audio to

Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?

2006-05-08 Thread Harald Arnesen
Stefán István [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hétfő 08 május 2006 11.32 dátummal Walter Dnes ezt írta: I've been so used to playing mp3 files that I'm lost with real live audio CDs (not a data CD with mp3 files). The XMMS docs aren't really helpful. Do I need an additional plug-in? mplayer is

Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?

2006-05-08 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 5/8/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 08 May 2006 16:04, Daniel da Veiga wrote: On 5/8/06, Stefán István [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hétfő 08 május 2006 11.32 dátummal Walter Dnes ezt írta: I've been so used to playing mp3 files that I'm lost with real live

Re: [gentoo-user] national keyboard in open office

2006-05-08 Thread Pawel K
What is the output of # locale and # locale -a Thanx all of You for help but it didn't help. I've selected both pl_PL and pl_PL.utf8 (locale -a shows that values): LANG=pl_PL LC_CTYPE=pl_PL LC_NUMERIC=pl_PL LC_TIME=pl_PL LC_COLLATE=pl_PL LC_MONETARY=pl_PL LC_MESSAGES=pl_PL LC_PAPER=pl_PL

Re: [gentoo-user] Tv out stopped working!

2006-05-08 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Hi Rohit, I use a Nvidia Geforce 3 Ti200, so i can't use Clone-Mode. But if you send me your config file i will try to adjust it to fit my needs! Thank you, Daniel Rohit Sharma schrieb: Daniel, I have a successful config at home with nvidia GeForce4 FS 5200 card. I use it in clone

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI and Linux

2006-05-08 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 5/8/06, Jerônimo Backes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Monday 08 May 2006 05:18, JimD wrote: Jerônimo Backes wrote: NO! (expand the fontsize to 100 pt or something to get the meaning) ATI support for linux is the crapiest thing on earth! I guess it is safe

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI and Linux

2006-05-08 Thread Bruce Burden
On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 03:36:18PM +1200, Mark Kirkwood wrote: By way of contrast, I've been running Tyan and Supermicro boards with ATI radeon 9000 and 9200 cards for years without any issues on FreeBSD 4.8, 4.9, 5.3, 5.4 and now 6.0. I just use the supplied drivers that come with Xorg

Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?

2006-05-08 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 08 May 2006 16:34, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Monday 08 May 2006 16:04, Daniel da Veiga wrote: Stéfan is right, you need an analog audio cable connecting your CD drive to your soundcard (or, if your soundcard support it, a digital one). Else the drive can't send audio to your

Re: [gentoo-user] OT : Recommendation for Bluetooth USB adapter

2006-05-08 Thread Luigi Pinna
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 08:00, lunedì 8 maggio 2006, Ow Mun Heng ha scritto: Hi, Can anyone here recommend a Bluetooth USB dongle which will work under Linux? Hopefully, it's something cheap and which can be purchased from Fry's I have a MSI usb bluetooth

Re: [gentoo-user] national keyboard in open office

2006-05-08 Thread Rumen Yotov
Pawel K wrote: What is the output of # locale and # locale -a Thanx all of You for help but it didn't help. I've selected both pl_PL and pl_PL.utf8 (locale -a shows that values): LANG=pl_PL LC_CTYPE=pl_PL LC_NUMERIC=pl_PL LC_TIME=pl_PL LC_COLLATE=pl_PL LC_MONETARY=pl_PL

Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?

2006-05-08 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
=== On Monday 08 May 2006 20:19, Uwe Thiem wrote: === On 08 May 2006 16:34, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: Yeah but then your CPU is doing a lot of work. A cable for 10c seems cheaper than lots of CPU cycles. Uwe === I didn't noticed any

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage tree hosed?

2006-05-08 Thread Mantas Povilaitis
On 5/7/06, Adrian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Everytime I try to sync it times out and I never finish. I'm on dial-up, so it's a bit slow. I am trying to install emerge-delta-webrsync and try from there, but of course, I can't emerge anything . . . You can try adding RSYNC_TIMEOUT=500 or

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage tree hosed?

2006-05-08 Thread Mantas Povilaitis
On 5/8/06, Mantas Povilaitis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/7/06, Adrian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Everytime I try to sync it times out and I never finish. I'm on dial-up, so it's a bit slow. I am trying to install emerge-delta-webrsync and try from there, but of course, I can't emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] ltsp woes

2006-05-08 Thread John Blinka
Uwe Thiem wrote: Try to correct the broadcast above. Maybe that will solve the problem already, although it's hard to understand how you fat clients can work with it. I corrected the broadcast address, but it didn't help. If the broadcast doesn't solve it, please post your

Re: [gentoo-user] national keyboard in open office

2006-05-08 Thread Dave Jones
Pawel K wrote on 08/05/06 17:57: Thanx all of You for help but it didn't help. I've selected both pl_PL and pl_PL.utf8 maybe there is something wrong with my following option in xorg.conf: Option XkbOptions grp:switch It is very important for me writing national characters. If You

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 7.0 or 6.8. What of then is better ?

2006-05-08 Thread JimD
Ptitjack wrote: Hi, I backup and restore my Gentoo system with Partimage and the SysRescueCd live CD. It is very easy to use and it takes about 30 minutes to restore my system (/ , usr/, boot and home). http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page Regards --- Ptitjack -- Thanks. I will check

[gentoo-user] A couple projects on my laptop

2006-05-08 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
Hi folks I have a couple of issues on my laptop that I would like to get wrapped up in the easiest method possible 1. Flashcards / memory sticks - Right now -- in order to mount my camera cards / thumb drives -- I have to become root -- its easy, but an annoyance - I have looked at

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade Portage 2004.0 to 2005.x fails

2006-05-08 Thread Teresa and Dale
Denny Schierz wrote: hi, i tested a lot of things, but nothing works, so i did the hardway and replaced portage by hand, its seems, portage is working again. i saw, that 2006.x is out ;-) so i using the newest profile. cu denny I'm still on 2005.1 I think. I need to chagne mine to I

Re: [gentoo-user] A couple projects on my laptop

2006-05-08 Thread b.n.
Timothy A. Holmes wrote: FAR more problems than im willing to go through (the shortest set of instructions ive seen so far for automount is like 3 pages) + IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher = LOL. After this, I find quite odd you have to be root to mount a USB stick.

Re: [gentoo-user] partitioning for multimedia performance and dual-booting linux/windex

2006-05-08 Thread Robert Persson
On Sunday 23 April 2006 03:00 Neil Bothwick was like: On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 23:05:37 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: Howsabout using FAT32 (aka vfat) for the data partitions that need to be accessed by both Windows and Linux? Both Windows and Linux can read and write easily to vfat. FAT has a

[gentoo-user] Sun Java SEGV in libapr

2006-05-08 Thread Kurt Guenther
I've gotten this error before running eclipse, but it was usually a random thing. Now, it's reproducible. # # An unexpected error has been detected by HotSpot Virtual Machine: # # SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x98a5f94f, pid=21805, tid=442385 # # Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM

[gentoo-user] PXE boot to linux

2006-05-08 Thread K. Mike Bradley
I am a little green with Linux but here is a poser for the list I am trying to set up a PXE boot to Linux for diskless workstations. I have PXELinux up and running no problem. What I need help on is how to make a kernel and initramfs to plug into PXE Linux. I know how to

Re: [gentoo-user] PXE boot to linux

2006-05-08 Thread Farhan Ahmed
K. Mike Bradley wrote: I am a little green with Linux but here is a poser for the list . I am trying to set up a PXE boot to Linux for diskless workstations. I have PXELinux up and running no problem. What I need help on is how to make a kernel and initramfs to

Re: [gentoo-user] ltsp woes

2006-05-08 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 08 May 2006 19:12, John Blinka wrote: Uwe Thiem wrote: Try to correct the broadcast above. Maybe that will solve the problem already, although it's hard to understand how you fat clients can work with it. I corrected the broadcast address, but it didn't help. If the broadcast doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] PXE boot to linux

2006-05-08 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 08 May 2006 20:32, K. Mike Bradley wrote: I am a little green with Linux but here is a poser for the list . I am trying to set up a PXE boot to Linux for diskless workstations. I have PXELinux up and running no problem. Why don't you just try LTSP? Uwe -- Why do consumers keep buying

[gentoo-user] ltmodem - is there one installed?

2006-05-08 Thread Mick
Hi All, I am trying to get this Compaq Evo N600c to dialup (having failed miserably to get its IrDA or bluetooth working) and I don't seem to be able to connect to the modem. :-( wvdialconfig fails to find anything: == # wvdialconf Editing `/etc/wvdial.conf'. Scanning

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-x11 7.0 or 6.8. What of then is better ?

2006-05-08 Thread Matthew Cline
On 5/7/06, Robert Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Meanwhile the portage xorg maintainers have decided that they are not going to reinstate 1.0.2-r3, not even hard masked, which means that, unless 1.0.2-r4 decides to work for me second time round, I'm stuffed. I think that you should be

Re: [gentoo-user] A couple projects on my laptop

2006-05-08 Thread Mick
On 08/05/06, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My /etc/fstab says: /dev/sdb1 /mnt/removable vfat noauto,async,user,exec 0 0 and I can mount it as a user just by clicking on its icon on Konqueror, for example. I think what you really need, however, is not automount but maybe HAL. Check in the

Re: [gentoo-user] national keyboard in open office

2006-05-08 Thread Martins Steinbergs
On Monday 08 May 2006 18:57, Pawel K wrote: maybe there is something wrong with my following option in xorg.conf: Option XkbOptions grp:switch It is very important for me writing national characters. If You have any other ideas let me know PLEASE. mine xorg.conf has this for

Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?

2006-05-08 Thread Ognjen Bezanov
On Monday 08 May 2006 15:38, Jeremy Olexa wrote: Mattias Merilai wrote: Daniel da Veiga wrote: Stéfan is right, you need an analog audio cable connecting your CD drive to your soundcard (or, if your soundcard support it, a digital one). Else the drive can't send audio to your speakers.

Re: [gentoo-user] Bad mem, over heat and games

2006-05-08 Thread lordsauronthegreat
On Friday 05 May 2006 09:06 pm, JimD wrote: Ok, this is a three part question. I am on vacation and I am using my wife's laptop that used to have winxp and now has Gentoo. Starting today I started to get garbled video output followed by a lock-up. I have been using the laptop as my dev

Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?

2006-05-08 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/8/06, Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah but then your CPU is doing a lot of work. A cable for 10c seems cheaper than lots of CPU cycles. I wouldnt' say a _lot_ of CPU cycles. CDDA is just uncompressed 16-bit 44khz 2-channel audio samples. All the app has to do is configure an alsa

Re: [gentoo-user] A couple projects on my laptop

2006-05-08 Thread JimD
Timothy A. Holmes wrote: Hi folks I have a couple of issues on my laptop that I would like to get wrapped up in the easiest method possible 1. Flashcards / memory sticks - Right now -- in order to mount my camera cards / thumb drives -- I have to become root -- its easy, but an

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI and Linux

2006-05-08 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/7/06, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you tried editing /etc/hibernate/hibernate.conf and make the nvidia driver module unload when you hibernate and reload it when it comes up? Well, I had done this previously without good results. But I just tried it again in response to your

Re: [gentoo-user] ltmodem - is there one installed?

2006-05-08 Thread JimD
Mick wrote: The logs don't show anything. lshw and lspci don't list a modem. Yet the laptop comes with a built in winmodem, I just have no proof that Right there is your answer. The *win* in winmodem should give you a hint ;) Some will work,

Re: [gentoo-user] Bad mem, over heat and games

2006-05-08 Thread JimD
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Laptops are NOT meant to run 24/7. They don't have the cooling to survive for more than a few hours. Get some fans or something to save it before you fry something. Oh, great! Now you tell me ; ) For the last week I have been running it from about 9:00 AM until

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI and Linux

2006-05-08 Thread JimD
Richard Fish wrote: Well, I had done this previously without good results. But I just tried it again in response to your question, fully expecting to post back yep, it craps out at But it actually seems to be working now...I've been through a half-dozen suspend-resume cycles without a

Re: [gentoo-user] ltmodem - is there one installed?

2006-05-08 Thread Joe Menola
On Monday 08 May 2006 6:43 pm, JimD wrote: Do you know what winmodem it is?  lspci -v should show something.  How about in the product specs?  Once you have the specific winmodem, post it here.  Maybe someone has experience with the same winmodem as you. Best bet is...

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg downgrade problems

2006-05-08 Thread Luigi Pinna
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Try to find all ~arch x.org packages you have installed and remove them. If you leave some xorg 7.0 stuff lying around, portage can get confused about whether it should be using the 7.0 or 6.8 version to satisfy dependancies. # cd /var/db/pkg

RE: [gentoo-user] A couple projects on my laptop

2006-05-08 Thread Sieb, Glenn E (Glenn)
[N] net-misc/vpnc (): Free client for Cisco VPN routing software I have to say, I used vpnc on FreeBSD at my last FT gig, and it worked like a charm.. was pretty simple to set up and run, and it Just Worked. Best, --Glenn -- Glenn E. Sieb, MTS Bell Laboratories [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 732 949

[gentoo-user] System.map not found - unable to check symbols

2006-05-08 Thread de Almeida, Valmor F.
Hello list, Following closely the instrunctions on the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook, I installed gentoo recently (info below) and just did the first reboot before finalizing the installation. All worked except for this message during boot System.map not found - unable to check symbols. which

[gentoo-user] Network is not working after emerge world

2006-05-08 Thread Goran Dubajic
Hi guys, I am running Gentoo on Toshiba M45-S369 laptop, with unstable x1. When I did emerge world and carelessly etc-update (most of the cfg files were for x11) and try to boot my laptop today, I got message that eth1 is not found (eth0 is wireless) Today I tried to recompile the kernel

[gentoo-user] Glibc-2.4 and Gcc-4.0.3??

2006-05-08 Thread Jerry McBride
Anyone here running a ~x86 box and have the latest glibc and a 4.0.3 gcc running on it? Any hurdles to leap? Thanks in advance, Jerry -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] MySQL DATADIR - ???

2006-05-08 Thread Mark Knecht
I saw this message scroll by when doing an update to MYSQL this evening. * MySQL DATADIR is /var/lib/mysql * Previous datadir found, it's YOUR job to change * ownership and take care of it What is my job? Really? What previous datadir did it find? Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

[gentoo-user] New USE flags???

2006-05-08 Thread Jerry McBride
Would someone know what the following two USE flags do? latin and aio It seems latin1 relates to mysql and aio relates to slocate... But what do they do? Thank you, in advance, Jerry -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Network is not working after emerge world

2006-05-08 Thread Justin Patrin
On 5/8/06, Goran Dubajic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, I am running Gentoo on Toshiba M45-S369 laptop, with unstable x1. When I did emerge world Why did you emerge world? You should be updating, not recompiling everything. and carelessly etc-update (most of the cfg files were for x11)

Re: [gentoo-user] New USE flags???

2006-05-08 Thread Justin Findlay
On 5/8/06, Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would someone know what the following two USE flags do? latin and aio It seems latin1 relates to mysql and aio relates to slocate... But what do they do? There's a neat little utility called equery (from gentoolkit) that will give you

Re: [gentoo-user] Glibc-2.4 and Gcc-4.0.3??

2006-05-08 Thread Norberto Bensa
Jerry McBride wrote: Anyone here running a ~x86 box and have the latest glibc and a 4.0.3 gcc running on it? I think you are better running gcc 4.1. It _seems_ more compatible and stable than 4.0.x venkman nbensa # emerge --info Portage 2.1_pre10-r4 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-4.1.0,

Re: [gentoo-user] New USE flags???

2006-05-08 Thread Jerry McBride
On Monday 08 May 2006 22:43, Justin Findlay wrote: On 5/8/06, Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would someone know what the following two USE flags do? latin and aio It seems latin1 relates to mysql and aio relates to slocate... But what do they do? There's a neat little utility

Re: [gentoo-user] New USE flags???

2006-05-08 Thread Justin Findlay
On 5/8/06, Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The suggested equery wasn't much help, but grep-ing use.local.desc was a gold mine. Thanks! I had already looked into use.desc and I stopped there and posted my request for help. Why is it, that use.desc contains less information about the use

[gentoo-user] unison and the modular X

2006-05-08 Thread W.Kenworthy
Is anyone confirm that modular xorg (7.0-r1) works with the unison file syncroniser? I am getting an error both from stable, and ~x86 unison as well as a pre-built binary from the developer. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ unison work Uncaught exception Gpointer.Null Killed by signal 1. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] unison and the modular X

2006-05-08 Thread Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
On Tuesday, May 9 2006 12:48, W.Kenworthy wrote: Is anyone confirm that modular xorg (7.0-r1) works with the unison file syncroniser? I am getting an error both from stable, and ~x86 unison as well as a pre-built binary from the developer. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ unison work Uncaught

Re: [gentoo-user] Network is not working after emerge world

2006-05-08 Thread JimD
Goran Dubajic wrote: Hi guys, I am running Gentoo on Toshiba M45-S369 laptop, with unstable x1. When I did emerge world and carelessly etc-update (most of the cfg files were for x11) and try to boot my laptop today, I got message that eth1 is not found (eth0 is wireless) Today I tried to

Re: [gentoo-user] OT : Recommendation for Bluetooth USB adapter

2006-05-08 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 18:46 +0200, Luigi Pinna wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 08:00, luned?? 8 maggio 2006, Ow Mun Heng ha scritto: Hi, Can anyone here recommend a Bluetooth USB dongle which will work under Linux? Hopefully, it's something cheap and

Re: [gentoo-user] System.map not found - unable to check symbols

2006-05-08 Thread Alexander Skwar
de Almeida, Valmor F. wrote: System.map not found - unable to check symbols. which doesn't seem to cause problems during/after booting (??). I did a manual kernel compilation To do this, I always do: make all modules_install install This will do all the necessary steps. Alexander

Re: [gentoo-user] New USE flags???

2006-05-08 Thread JimD
Justin Findlay wrote: Honestly, I think USE flags, as powerful as they are, are the cruftiest part of Gentoo and could be so much more powerful and ought to be so much less clumsy. Justin How would you recommend changing USE flags or making them better? You should post suggestions to the

Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL DATADIR - ???

2006-05-08 Thread kashani
Mark Knecht wrote: I saw this message scroll by when doing an update to MYSQL this evening. * MySQL DATADIR is /var/lib/mysql * Previous datadir found, it's YOUR job to change * ownership and take care of it What is my job? Really? What previous datadir did it find? I believe that's a

Re: [gentoo-user] unison and the modular X

2006-05-08 Thread W.Kenworthy
Thanks, looks like its emerge world -ep time - was trying to put it off, but as I dont know what else is broken I had better get it over with! revdep-rebuild seems almost useless these days so there is little alternative! BillK On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 12:54 +0930, Raymond Lewis Rebbeck wrote: On