Re: [gentoo-user] util-macros download error

2006-09-12 Thread Dale
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Tuesday 12 September 2006 05:28, Dale wrote: I copied it there because I did a rm -rfv /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage/distfiles/util-* first. /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage/distfiles == /usr/portage/distfiles ? Yea, I'm doing a install on another drive. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gcc upgrade from 3.x to 4.x, when should I run revdep-rebuild?

2006-09-12 Thread Dale
Ryan Tandy wrote: Dale wrote: Cheese, I'm learning something. I already knew that it would not delete files in /etc/ and now I know why. LOL I never put the two together before you said that. Well, the /etc thing is generally more due to CONFIG_PROTECT - it won't delete files from /etc

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentooism

2006-09-12 Thread Dale
Michael Sullivan wrote: On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 15:04 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: No offence or copyright infringement intended, but I found this funny: Let us pray... Our system, who art on raised tile, Hallowed be thy OS. Thy portage come, thy emerge be done, On servers, as it is on

[gentoo-user] Question about arts.

2006-09-12 Thread Dale
Hi, As some may already know, I'm doing a new install on another hard drive. I have a question about arts. I have this for a sound card: 01:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 0a) Do I need to compile KDE with arts support with this card? I never have

Re: [gentoo-user] Real CPU speed

2006-09-12 Thread Graham Murray
Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How can I determine my current CPU speed? I have a Celeron 700 that should be running at 1050 if I insulated one of its pins correctly. All of the information I can find on determining CPU speed is related to mobile speedstep processors and mine is a desktop

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about arts.

2006-09-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 08:22, Dale wrote: Hmmm, while I am at it, what's the difference between xorg-x11 and xorg-server?  I hope I didn't emerge the wrong one. xorg-server is a result of the new modular X. xorg-x11 depends on xorg-server, so you emerge xorg-x11, which then emerges the

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about arts.

2006-09-12 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 12 September 2006 08:22, Dale wrote: Hmmm, while I am at it, what's the difference between xorg-x11 and xorg-server? I hope I didn't emerge the wrong one. xorg-server is a result of the new modular X. xorg-x11 depends on xorg-server, so you emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox Keeps Hanging on some pages

2006-09-12 Thread Drew
New Make CFLAGS=-O2 -march=pentium-m -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer (Per the wiki) Flags are sane. :-) And related to these sites that firefox chokes on, are there any common elements they all share? Perhaps a plugin or something thats called? I'm not sure. I'm seeing this issue from

[gentoo-user] Re: Corrupt xD card with photos

2006-09-12 Thread Remy Blank
Sven Köhler wrote: First thing that i see is: where the hell is /dev/sda1? Yes, there should be a FAT partition on that xD card, but it's not there. So first step: Re-create a primary FAT partition without formatting it (for example use cfdisk) This is worth a try. However, I would first

Re: [gentoo-user] Real CPU speed

2006-09-12 Thread Grant
How can I determine my current CPU speed? I have a Celeron 700 that should be running at 1050 if I insulated one of its pins correctly. All of the information I can find on determining CPU speed is related to mobile speedstep processors and mine is a desktop CPU. Try 'cat

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about arts.

2006-09-12 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/11/06, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, As some may already know, I'm doing a new install on another hard drive. I have a question about arts. I have this for a sound card: 01:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 0a) Do I need to compile KDE with

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about arts.

2006-09-12 Thread Dale
Richard Fish wrote: On 9/11/06, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, As some may already know, I'm doing a new install on another hard drive. I have a question about arts. I have this for a sound card: 01:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 0a) Do I

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about arts.

2006-09-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 12 September 2006 08:22, Dale wrote: Hi, As some may already know, I'm doing a new install on another hard drive. I have a question about arts. I have this for a sound card: 01:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 0a) Do I need to compile KDE with

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about arts.

2006-09-12 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 09:37, Richard Fish wrote: That said, arts is still useful for KDE 3.5 if you want sound notifications for error popups, login/logout events, etc, as it makes notifications perform much much better IME. As in compiling kdelibs with the arts use flag and then

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Corrupt xD card with photos

2006-09-12 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 08:26, Remy Blank wrote: This is worth a try. However, I would first dump the whole card to a file, make a copy of the file, and try all recovery attempts on the copy. This way, you can always go back to the original and try something else. Blast! Too late now -

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem on installing Gnome (gnome-light) (gnome-light started)

2006-09-12 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Bo, Tke for your advice. To get equery you need to emerge app-portage/gentoolkit. # emerge app-portage/gentoolkit. # emerge app-portage/gentoolkit # equery check gnome-base/gnome-session gnome-session not found # equery check gdm gdm not found # emerge gnome-session and manually

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about arts.

2006-09-12 Thread Dale
Uwe Thiem wrote: On 12 September 2006 08:22, Dale wrote: Hi, As some may already know, I'm doing a new install on another hard drive. I have a question about arts. I have this for a sound card: 01:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 0a)

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about arts.

2006-09-12 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/12/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 12 September 2006 09:37, Richard Fish wrote: That said, arts is still useful for KDE 3.5 if you want sound notifications for error popups, login/logout events, etc, as it makes notifications perform much much better IME. As

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about arts.

2006-09-12 Thread Dale
Richard Fish wrote: On 9/12/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 12 September 2006 09:37, Richard Fish wrote: That said, arts is still useful for KDE 3.5 if you want sound notifications for error popups, login/logout events, etc, as it makes notifications perform much

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about arts.

2006-09-12 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 11:14, Richard Fish wrote: As in compiling kdelibs with the arts use flag and then disabling arts in kcontrol? Or as in actually enabling the arts use flag globally and using arts? :O The latter... I'll have to say I'm a bit curious about how you get to the

[gentoo-user] Installation (from live DVD) fails - please help

2006-09-12 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I'm a gentoo newbie (but have installed many Linux systems) Using the i686 livedvd I tried to install gentoo in expert mode. I even partitioned the harddisk before (using some rescue cd). The partition list (obtained when running the gentoo livedvd) is Disk /dev/sda: 251.0 GB, 251000193024

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about arts.

2006-09-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 01:50:01 -0500, Dale wrote: xorg-server is a result of the new modular X. xorg-x11 depends on xorg-server, so you emerge xorg-x11, which then emerges the X-server proper Uh oh. I hope I can go back and emerge xorg-x11 and it all works OK. Here we go. You

[gentoo-user] Purging Gnome from the system

2006-09-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
Hi, I decided to purge Gnome from my system as I seldom run it. A quick look in the gnome ebuild shows that it's a ginormous -meta package, meaning I have some work ahead of me. First I updated USE and removed gnome, gstreamer and other gnome-related flags. I left gtk in for the likes of gimp

Re: [gentoo-user] Purging Gnome from the system

2006-09-12 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 13:01, Alan McKinnon wrote: Imagine my surprise when remerging openoffice wants to pull in half of gnome again. I can understand it needs gtk, I do not understand why it wants evolution-data-server, gconf and gnome-panel. Not sure (I don't use gnome nor

Re: [gentoo-user] Purging Gnome from the system

2006-09-12 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 13:01, Alan McKinnon wrote: I decided to purge Gnome from my system as I seldom run it. A quick look in the gnome ebuild shows that it's a ginormous -meta package, meaning I have some work ahead of me. First I updated USE and removed gnome, gstreamer and other

Re: [gentoo-user] Purging Gnome from the system

2006-09-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 13:01:10 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: First I updated USE and removed gnome, gstreamer and other gnome-related flags. I left gtk in for the likes of gimp which I do use. GTK is not option for Gimp, so it doesn't use the gtk USE flag. Imagine my surprise when remerging

Re: [gentoo-user] Purging Gnome from the system

2006-09-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 13:36, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Tuesday 12 September 2006 13:01, Alan McKinnon wrote: Imagine my surprise when remerging openoffice wants to pull in half of gnome again. I can understand it needs gtk, I do not understand why it wants evolution-data-server, gconf

Re: [gentoo-user] Purging Gnome from the system

2006-09-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 13:12, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: gimp doesn't require the gtk use flag globally. The only thing it needs to be compiled with the gtk use flag is app-text/poppler-bindings. The only packages that I have compiled with gtk are app-text/poppler-bindings,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerging gnome-light without X support

2006-09-12 Thread Rafael Fernández López
On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 05:12:18PM +0200, Harm Geerts wrote: On Monday 11 September 2006 16:23, Rafael Fernández López wrote: On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 02:26:59PM +0200, Harm Geerts wrote: If you're planning to use a remote X server you, you should compile xorg-server with USE=minimal. Then

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentooism

2006-09-12 Thread Rafael Fernández López
On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 01:05:38AM -0500, Dale wrote: Don't forget the AMEN too. LOL The AMEN is Gentoo. xD Bye, Rafael Fernández López. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Purging Gnome from the system

2006-09-12 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 13:50, Philip Webb wrote: I also get equery depends evolution-data-server [ Searching for packages depending on evolution-data-server... ] app-office/openoffice-2.0.3 So it looks as if OO may have its own reasons for demanding e-d-s . No, it just looks

Re: [gentoo-user] Purging Gnome from the system

2006-09-12 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: Hi, I decided to purge Gnome from my system as I seldom run it. A quick look in the gnome ebuild shows that it's a ginormous -meta package, meaning I have some work ahead of me. First I updated USE and removed gnome, gstreamer and other gnome-related flags. I left

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerging gnome-light without X support

2006-09-12 Thread Jeff Rollin
On 12/09/06, Rafael Fernández López [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 05:12:18PM +0200, Harm Geerts wrote: On Monday 11 September 2006 16:23, Rafael Fernández López wrote: On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 02:26:59PM +0200, Harm Geerts wrote: If you're planning to use a remote X server

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentooism

2006-09-12 Thread Dale
Rafael Fernández López wrote: On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 01:05:38AM -0500, Dale wrote: Don't forget the AMEN too. LOL The AMEN is Gentoo. xD Bye, Rafael Fernández López. Sounded more like a sneeze to me. LOL Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Real CPU speed

2006-09-12 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 20:31:00 -0700 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I determine my current CPU speed? I have a Celeron 700 that should be running at 1050 if I insulated one of its pins correctly. All of the information I can find on determining CPU speed is related to

[gentoo-user] emerge wireshark fails

2006-09-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
Hi, wireshark won't compile, saying that perl is built with the minimal use flag. Only, it isn't. The wireshark failure: !!! ERROR: net-analyzer/wireshark-0.99.3 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1562: Called dyn_setup ebuild.sh, line 665: Called pkg_setup

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge wireshark fails

2006-09-12 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 14:48, Alan McKinnon wrote: wireshark won't compile, saying that perl is built with the minimal use flag. Only, it isn't. The wireshark failure: !!! ERROR: net-analyzer/wireshark-0.99.3 failed. Call stack:   ebuild.sh, line 1562:   Called dyn_setup  

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge wireshark fails

2006-09-12 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 14:48, Alan McKinnon wrote: pkg_setup() { # bug 119208 if built_with_use dev-lang/perl minimal ; then Anyone seen this before? Am I being stupid (again) or is it a bug? And if so, where might the bug be - perl, wireshark, or the portage scripts?

[gentoo-user] Portage and ati-drivers

2006-09-12 Thread Colleen Beamer
Hi, Why would portage want to install ati-drivers when it is not on my system, not in my package.keywords file and not in my world file? Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage and ati-drivers

2006-09-12 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 15:09, Colleen Beamer wrote: Why would portage want to install ati-drivers when it is not on my system, not in my package.keywords file and not in my world file? Because VIDEO_CARDS in /etc/make.conf includes fglrx? If you are still confused please post the output

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge wireshark fails

2006-09-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 15:00, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: Anyone seen this before? Am I being stupid (again) or is it a bug? And if so, where might the bug be - perl, wireshark, or the portage scripts? It's a bug in the wireshark ebuild. It hasn't been noticed until now because it was

Re: [gentoo-user] Purging Gnome from the system

2006-09-12 Thread Philip Webb
060912 Bo ?rsted Andresen wrote: On Tuesday 12 September 2006 13:50, Philip Webb wrote: I also get equery depends evolution-data-server [ Searching for packages depending on evolution-data-server... ] app-office/openoffice-2.0.3 So it looks as if OO may have its own reasons for

[gentoo-user] Simplified apache2

2006-09-12 Thread James
Hello, I used 2006.1 livecd to install a pII machine. It's going to becomme a (minimalistic) apache2 server. I just let the installation set the flags for the install so I have these flags currently: CURRENT USE= X alsa arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cairo cdr cli crypt cups dbus dlloader dri

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage and ati-drivers

2006-09-12 Thread Colleen Beamer
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Tuesday 12 September 2006 15:09, Colleen Beamer wrote: Why would portage want to install ati-drivers when it is not on my system, not in my package.keywords file and not in my world file? Because VIDEO_CARDS in /etc/make.conf includes fglrx? If you are still

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge wireshark fails

2006-09-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 15:28, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Tuesday 12 September 2006 14:48, Alan McKinnon wrote: pkg_setup() { # bug 119208 if built_with_use dev-lang/perl minimal ; then Anyone seen this before? Am I being stupid (again) or is it a bug? And if so,

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage and ati-drivers

2006-09-12 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 15:41, Colleen Beamer wrote: Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Tuesday 12 September 2006 15:09, Colleen Beamer wrote: Why would portage want to install ati-drivers when it is not on my system, not in my package.keywords file and not in my world file? Because

Re: [gentoo-user] Purging Gnome from the system

2006-09-12 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 15:37, Philip Webb wrote: No, it just looks like equery is broken. It doesn't care about your use flags... Equery is broken ?? Have you filed a bug ... (raises eyebrows) ? No, I usually don't file duplicates on purpose. Is it really so hard to search bugzilla?

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage and ati-drivers

2006-09-12 Thread Mark Knecht
On 9/12/06, Colleen Beamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Tuesday 12 September 2006 15:09, Colleen Beamer wrote: Why would portage want to install ati-drivers when it is not on my system, not in my package.keywords file and not in my world file? Because VIDEO_CARDS in

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage and ati-drivers

2006-09-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 15:41, Colleen Beamer wrote: Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Tuesday 12 September 2006 15:09, Colleen Beamer wrote: Why would portage want to install ati-drivers when it is not on my system, not in my package.keywords file and not in my world file? Because

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge wireshark fails

2006-09-12 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 15:34, Alan McKinnon wrote: Anyone seen this before? Am I being stupid (again) or is it a bug? And if so, where might the bug be - perl, wireshark, or the portage scripts? It's a bug in the wireshark ebuild. It hasn't been noticed until now because it

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage and ati-drivers

2006-09-12 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 16:12, Alan McKinnon wrote: Nope, not the reason either. :-) VIDEO_CARDS in make.conf set to radeon only. Perhaps you have google-earth installed, or some other app that requires hardware 3D. That's what happened to me: gentoo ~ # equery depends ati-drivers

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge wireshark fails

2006-09-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 15:42, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: Please read more carefully. Whether it is set or not is irrelevant. The problem is that your version doesn't have minimal use flag at all yet the wireshark tests whether it's set... OK, now this is starting to make more sense. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Simplified apache2

2006-09-12 Thread Michael Crute
On 9/12/06, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used 2006.1 livecd to install a pII machine. It's going to become a (minimalistic) apache2 server. I just let the installation set the flags for the install so I have these flags currently: snip Those look a bit excessive for a minimalist

[gentoo-user] Re: Simplified apache2

2006-09-12 Thread James
Michael Crute mcrute at gmail.com writes: Those look a bit excessive for a minimalist machine. I would start over You probably want to set your machine up with a similar USE= string in make.conf USE=-* hardened pic ncurses ssl crypt berkdb tcpd pam perl python readline net-www/apache

[gentoo-user] Help Configuring MoinMoin Wiki

2006-09-12 Thread Shawn Singh
Has anyone configured moinmon? I'm emerged it but when I try to access the site I'm getting the following error:Not FoundThe requested URL /moinmoin/moin.cgi was not found on this server.Apache Server at localhost Port 80 I can see the default page for apache at http://locahost, so I'm sure the

Re: [gentoo-user] Real CPU speed

2006-09-12 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
From: Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Real CPU speed Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 20:31:00 -0700 How can I determine my current CPU speed? I have a Celeron 700 that should be running at 1050 if I insulated one of its pins correctly. All of the information I can find on

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Gnome admin browsers, and more!

2006-09-12 Thread Neil Isaac
On 9/12/06, A. R. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have finished a new Gentoo installation with Gnome as the desktop environment. It is working okay, except for a couple of issues: 1. The admin browsers (Services, Shares etc) do not work properly. When I try to open services-admin for example, as

[gentoo-user] How to mount a reiserfs partition with write permissions to all users?

2006-09-12 Thread Jerônimo Backes
I googled a lot but wasn't able to find any answer on how to do this. umask=000 doesn't work with reiserfs. Thanks in advance. ___ Você quer respostas para suas perguntas? Ou você sabe muito e quer

Re: [gentoo-user] How to mount a reiserfs partition with write permissions to all users?

2006-09-12 Thread Boris Fersing
2006/9/12, Jerônimo Backes [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I googled a lot but wasn't able to find any answer on how to do this. umask=000 doesn't work with reiserfs. Thanks in advance. Hi, reiserfs handles *nix permissions, just chmod 777 -R /your/mountpoint/ while your partition is mounted HTH.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to mount a reiserfs partition with write permissions to all users?

2006-09-12 Thread Mark
On 12/09/06, Jerônimo Backes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I googled a lot but wasn't able to find any answer on how to do this. umask=000 doesn't work with reiserfs. Thanks in advance. Hi, Simply use chmod on the mounted partition. chmod 777 /path/to/something It will be retained on the next

Re: [gentoo-user] How to mount a reiserfs partition with write permissions to all users?

2006-09-12 Thread karsten
I think personally the best is to use the pmount package, but I am not sure how secure that is, for *public* machines. You would only have to enter the drive in fstab, and the pmount.allow file, and mount the partition with pmount /dev/$DEV greets, k On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 14:27 -0300, Jerônimo

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage and ati-drivers

2006-09-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 04:12:36PM +0200, Penguin Lover Alan McKinnon squawked: Perhaps you have google-earth installed, or some other app that requires hardware 3D. That's what happened to me: GoogleEarth runs fine with the x11 radeon driver on my laptop, FWIW. So I doubt this would be a

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting ELOG to sent to an smtp server with ssl

2006-09-12 Thread David Grant
On 9/1/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 01 September 2006 00:31, David Grant wrote: Anyone know how to get elog to send mail to an smtp server with ssl on port 465? I know it does starttls if you use 100465 as the port, but this server at work just does ssl with login

Re: [gentoo-user] How to mount a reiserfs partition with write permissions to all users?

2006-09-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 19:33:56 +0200, Boris Fersing wrote: reiserfs handles *nix permissions, just chmod 777 -R /your/mountpoint/ Don't use -R, that will alter permissions on every file in the filesystem. -- Neil Bothwick ALZHEIMER.COM found . . . Out of . . . something . . signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] How to mount a reiserfs partition with write permissions to all users?

2006-09-12 Thread Jerônimo Backes
Simply use chmod on the mounted partition. chmod 777 /path/to/something Thanks a lot, it worked as you said. It will be retained on the next mount. I thought this wouldn't happen, so I made this noob question. Thanks again.

[gentoo-user] installing an amd k6

2006-09-12 Thread James
Hello, After trying every both minimal and liveCD for 2006.1 with a K6 machine and the various options, such as gentoo-nofb acpi=off nox and nosmp. NOTHING worked. So I tried a mininal x86 CD from 2005 with these options: gentoo-nofb acpi=off nox and all it booted to a root promt I

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage complaining when trying to install PHPMyAdmin

2006-09-12 Thread Shawn Singh
thanks Richard. I added unicode to USE, re-emerged PHP and Apache, then was able to emerge PHPMyAdmin and MediaWiki.On 9/8/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:On 9/8/06, Shawn Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:I was trying to install PHP and a couple other packages when I got the following

Re: [gentoo-user] How to mount a reiserfs partition with write permissions to all users?

2006-09-12 Thread Boris Fersing
2006/9/12, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 19:33:56 +0200, Boris Fersing wrote: reiserfs handles *nix permissions, just chmod 777 -R /your/mountpoint/ Don't use -R, that will alter permissions on every file in the filesystem. Isn't that exactly what he wants ?

Re: [gentoo-user] How to mount a reiserfs partition with write permissions to all users?

2006-09-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 21:47:51 +0200, Boris Fersing wrote: reiserfs handles *nix permissions, just chmod 777 -R /your/mountpoint/ Don't use -R, that will alter permissions on every file in the filesystem. Isn't that exactly what he wants ? (something like umask=000) I thought he

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Gnome admin browsers, and more!

2006-09-12 Thread Hervé
Hi, 1\ have you install sys-libs/pam. 2\ have you the flag pam inside the USE variable. Regards, Hervé Le mardi 12 septembre 2006 à 11:05 -0400, A. R. a écrit : Hi, I have finished a new Gentoo installation with Gnome as the desktop environment. It is working okay, except for a couple of

[gentoo-user] Re: installing an amd k6

2006-09-12 Thread James
Daniel da Veiga danieldaveiga at gmail.com writes: So I tried a mininal x86 CD from 2005 with these options: gentoo-nofb acpi=off nox and all it booted to a root promt http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml Yes this is OK, but, I was hoping to find the corresponding

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Gnome admin browsers, and more!

2006-09-12 Thread A. R.
Hi, 1\ have you install sys-libs/pam. 2\ have you the flag pam inside the USE variable. Hi, I have considered this, but I am hesitant because I remember reading something in this group about pam not playing nice with gentoo: something about permissions on devices. My system has been built with

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: installing an amd k6

2006-09-12 Thread Steve McGrath
Yes this is OK, but, I was hoping to find the corresponding version for 2005.0. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/2005.0/handbook-x86.xml HTH, Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Purging Gnome from the system

2006-09-12 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 13:02, Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: Hi, I decided to purge Gnome from my system as I seldom run it. A quick look in the gnome ebuild shows that it's a ginormous -meta package, meaning I have some work ahead of me. First I updated USE and removed

[gentoo-user] Re: installing an amd k6

2006-09-12 Thread James
Daniel da Veiga danieldaveiga at gmail.com writes: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml Well this doc does not cover the 'k6' arch. Should I change make.conf #CFLAGS=-O2 -march=i686 -pipe to CFLAGS=-O2 -march=k6 -pipe Also, I was going to use these USE flags: USE= -*

Re: [gentoo-user] Simplified apache2

2006-09-12 Thread Ryan Tandy
Michael Crute wrote: USE=-* hardened pic ncurses ssl crypt berkdb tcpd pam perl python readline Even this is a bit more bloated than it needs to be. I have never used 'tcpd' or 'berkdb' on any system I run, and 'perl' and 'python' are *much* more useful (IMO) as local flags (in package.use)

[gentoo-user] borked gcc

2006-09-12 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Salutations -- I seem to have munged something pretty spectacularly. A system that updates itself every couple of weeks, using a current portage tree, recently began emitting this error when running 'emerge -uD system': !!! ERROR:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: installing an amd k6

2006-09-12 Thread darren kirby
quoth the James: Note I used stage3-i686-2006.1.tar.bz2 and portage-latest.tar.bz2 Sound reasonable for a K6-200MHz machine that is only going to be used as a dns secondary server. Is the K6 a 686 though? I used to have an old K6 233 and seem to recall not being able to install Arch

Re: [gentoo-user] borked gcc

2006-09-12 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/12/06, David Talkington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Obediently, albeit with trepidation, I added nptl and nptlonly to my USE flags and restarted the emerge. The immediate result was a complaint that CHOST was incorrect, and that = i686 was required. Indeed, I found that

Re: [gentoo-user] borked gcc

2006-09-12 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/12/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/169677 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/169844 Bah, 169844 is not the one I wanted to link to. I wanted this one: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/169894

Re: [gentoo-user] Outputing 15.9kHz?

2006-09-12 Thread Grant
The guy there says it won't work because a computer outputs a non-interlaced signal and a standard TV uses interlaced. Basically, exactly what you said. From your link, it looks like an interlaced signal can be specifiec in xorg.conf which should solve that problem. Is that right? There

[gentoo-user] Flashing the BIOS

2006-09-12 Thread Grant
How do you guys flash your BIOS to a new version? Are you all digging up floppy drives? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: borked gcc

2006-09-12 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Richard Fish wrote: On 9/12/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http: //article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/169677 http: //article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/169844 Bah, 169844 is not the one I wanted to link to. I wanted

Re: [gentoo-user] Flashing the BIOS

2006-09-12 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Wednesday 13 September 2006 03:23, Grant wrote: How do you guys flash your BIOS to a new version? Are you all digging up floppy drives? - Grant no I turn my swap-partition into a dos-partition, but all the bios stuff onto it, boot from a freedos cd and flash the bios/firmware. If I

[gentoo-user] Re: installing an amd k6

2006-09-12 Thread james
darren kirby bulliver at badcomputer.org writes: Note I used stage3-i686-2006.1.tar.bz2 and portage-latest.tar.bz2 Is the K6 a 686 though? I used to have an old K6 233 and seem to recall not being able to install Arch Linux on it because it was a 686 optimized distro... Is there a

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem on installing Gnome (gnome-light) (SOLVED with gnome-light running)

2006-09-12 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Bo, Further to my late posting, I have Gnome-light up running with further 2 steps:- - ran revdep-rebuild - ran emerge gnome-light - update conf files - rebooted PC - login as user - gnome-light 2.14 started (a warning popup: The panel encountered a problem while loading

Re: [gentoo-user] changing CHOST

2006-09-12 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Richard Fish: BTW, Darren's answer on this thread seems incorrect to me. Changing CHOST is a pretty significant thing to tweak, certainly as significant as changing gcc versions, and you really should re-merge *everything* to make sure your something doesn't wind up broken. Hi

[gentoo-user] Compile failure: libdv-102

2006-09-12 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
Hi, there are a few package, which do not compile after I did the step to gcc-4.1.1. The third of those packages is: libdv-0.102 With -j3 set the output is: if /bin/sh ../libtool --silent --mode=compile i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -g -O2 -Wall -MT YUY2.lo

[gentoo-user] Compile failure: xfractint 20.4.00

2006-09-12 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
Hi, there are a few package, which do not compile after I did the step to gcc-4.1.1. The sixth of those packages is: xfractint-20.4.00 With -j3 set the output is: Source unpacked. Compiling source in /home/mccramer/data/portagetmp/portage/xfractint-20.4.00/work/xfractint-20.04p00

[gentoo-user] Compile failures: my system

2006-09-12 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
Hi, to not include my system specifications in any of the compile failure mails I will summarize it in separate mail: RAM: 1GB 40GB hd space to be used by all compilations processes by gentoo CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ (not overclocked) gentoo updated daily and

Re: [gentoo-user] Compile failure: fox-1.2.6-r3

2006-09-12 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/12/06, Meino Christian Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, there are a few package, which do not compile after I did the step to gcc-4.1.1. The first of those packages is fox-1.2.6-r3. There are a number of packages that require the ~arch version to build with gcc-4.1. Most of

Re: [gentoo-user] Flashing the BIOS

2006-09-12 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Most BIOS programs save the existing BIOS so they need somewhere to write to. On Tuesday September 12 2006 22:52, Grant wrote: How do you guys flash your BIOS to a new version? Are you all digging up floppy drives? - Grant no I turn my swap-partition into a dos-partition, but all

Re: [gentoo-user] Purging Gnome from the system

2006-09-12 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: On Tuesday 12 September 2006 13:02, Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: Hi, I decided to purge Gnome from my system as I seldom run it. A quick look in the gnome ebuild shows that it's a ginormous -meta package, meaning I have some work ahead of me. First I updated USE