Re: [gentoo-user] besides package.use where to store info needed at emerge

2008-01-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:42:09 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know about /etc/portage/package.use but where would I keep something like and extra configure flag, that I always want applied. mkdir -p /etc/portage/env/cat/ echo EXTRA_ECONF='whatever' /etc/portage/env/cat/pkg -- Neil

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get my overlay into layman ?

2008-01-03 Thread Justin
If you just want a simple solution for your own, do a file with the overlay stuff in it: e.g. layman overlay type=rsync src=rsync://example.net/private-portage-overlay contact=[EMAIL PROTECTED] name=private-overlay link http://example.net/Private Portage Overlay /link

[gentoo-user] Firefox update results in Yahoo request for newer version

2008-01-03 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, On my wife's 32-bit Gentoo machine we did a large Gnome update today which ended up doing Firefox-2.0.0.11 at the same time. On her machine I happen to use Yahoo as my home page and now I see a very boring home page with Yahoo giving me this message: Why miss out? To see all the new Yahoo!

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox update results in Yahoo request for newer version

2008-01-03 Thread Justin
Mark Knecht schrieb: Hi, On my wife's 32-bit Gentoo machine we did a large Gnome update today which ended up doing Firefox-2.0.0.11 at the same time. On her machine I happen to use Yahoo as my home page and now I see a very boring home page with Yahoo giving me this message: Why miss

Re: [gentoo-user] xdm login problems after recent emerge

2008-01-03 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 02 January 2008, Mick wrote: Searching further I noticed this in my .xsession-errors: /usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession: /home/michael/.xsession: /bin/csh: bad interpreter: No such file or directory This was probably a red herring and a remnant of having csh installed at some stage. I

RE: [gentoo-user] xdm login problems after recent emerge

2008-01-03 Thread Sjakie
-Original Message- From: Michal 'vorner' Vaner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: dinsdag 1 januari 2008 13:38 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xdm login problems after recent emerge Hello On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 10:48:52AM +, Mick wrote: Happy New Year to all!

RE: [gentoo-user] xdm login problems after recent emerge

2008-01-03 Thread Sjakie
-Original Message- From: Michal 'vorner' Vaner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: dinsdag 1 januari 2008 13:38 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xdm login problems after recent emerge Hello On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 10:48:52AM +, Mick wrote: Happy New Year to all!

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox update results in Yahoo request for newer version

2008-01-03 Thread Brian Marshall
On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 03:32:47 -0800 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On my wife's 32-bit Gentoo machine we did a large Gnome update today which ended up doing Firefox-2.0.0.11 at the same time. On her machine I happen to use Yahoo as my home page and now I see a very boring home

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox update results in Yahoo request for newer version

2008-01-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Jan 3, 2008 5:17 AM, Brian Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 03:32:47 -0800 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On my wife's 32-bit Gentoo machine we did a large Gnome update today which ended up doing Firefox-2.0.0.11 at the same time. On her machine I

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox update results in Yahoo request for newer version

2008-01-03 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 05:17 -0800, Brian Marshall wrote: On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 03:32:47 -0800 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On my wife's 32-bit Gentoo machine we did a large Gnome update today which ended up doing Firefox-2.0.0.11 at the same time. On her machine I happen

Re: [gentoo-user] Card reader only works if booted with card in

2008-01-03 Thread Grant
My card reader works if an SD card is inserted when the system is booted. If the card is inserted after the system is already booted, /dev/mmcblk0 never appears. Is there any way to get the running system to check for a card in the slot? - Grant and you have compiled in 'Probe all

Re: [gentoo-user] Card reader only works if booted with card in

2008-01-03 Thread Erik
Hemmann, Volker Armin skrev: On Donnerstag, 3. Januar 2008, Grant wrote: My card reader works if an SD card is inserted when the system is booted. If the card is inserted after the system is already booted, /dev/mmcblk0 never appears. Is there any way to get the running system to check

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB Wireless Network Adapter?

2008-01-03 Thread Grant
I'm using ASUS WL-167g USB WLAN (rt73usb) and work well with or without WPA_SUPPLICANT. driver is already integrated in sys-kernel/vanilla-sources (2.6.24-rc5) Where do you see that driver? I'm giving vanilla-sources-2.6.24-rc6 a try and I don't see it. - Grant AJ Spagnoletti a écrit :

[gentoo-user] Re: besides package.use where to store info needed at emerge

2008-01-03 Thread reader
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:42:09 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know about /etc/portage/package.use but where would I keep something like and extra configure flag, that I always want applied. mkdir -p /etc/portage/env/cat/ echo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: besides package.use where to store info needed at emerge

2008-01-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 03 Jan 2008 10:44:14 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At the `pkg' part of /etc/portage/env/cat/pkg Do I need to include the full address somehow like: dev-util/cvs or just `/etc/portage/env/cat/cvs' cat = category pkg = package Use /etc/portage/env/dev-util/cvs -- Neil Bothwick

[gentoo-user] Re: besides package.use where to store info needed at emerge

2008-01-03 Thread reader
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 03 Jan 2008 10:44:14 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At the `pkg' part of /etc/portage/env/cat/pkg Do I need to include the full address somehow like: dev-util/cvs or just `/etc/portage/env/cat/cvs' cat = category pkg = package Egad I had

[gentoo-user] Re: besides package.use where to store info needed at emerge

2008-01-03 Thread reader
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 03 Jan 2008 10:44:14 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At the `pkg' part of /etc/portage/env/cat/pkg Do I need to include the full address somehow like: dev-util/cvs or just `/etc/portage/env/cat/cvs' cat = category pkg = package Use

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: besides package.use where to store info needed at emerge

2008-01-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:01:07 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry to keep nagging with this but I must still not have it right. I do not see that compile flag being set during emerge: It looks like the cvs ebuild doesn't use EXTRA_ECONF. You could file a bug report about this. -- Neil

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox update results in Yahoo request for newer version

2008-01-03 Thread Randy Barlow
Mark Knecht wrote: On my wife's 32-bit Gentoo machine we did a large Gnome update today which ended up doing Firefox-2.0.0.11 at the same time. On her machine I happen to use Yahoo as my home page and now I see a very boring home page with Yahoo giving me this message: Why miss out? To

[gentoo-user] Extracting XP drivers from an .exe

2008-01-03 Thread Grant
Can anyone think of a way to extract the XP 64-bit drivers I know are in an .exe file from that file? I've run the executable inside of vmware running 32-bit XP but I'm sure the installed drivers are 32-bit. - Grant -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Extracting XP drivers from an .exe

2008-01-03 Thread Grant
Can anyone think of a way to extract the XP 64-bit drivers I know are in an .exe file from that file? I've run the executable inside of vmware running 32-bit XP but I'm sure the installed drivers are 32-bit. If you are lucky and the file is an exe archive it might be possible to unrar

Re: [gentoo-user] Extracting XP drivers from an .exe

2008-01-03 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 11:20:14 -0800 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone think of a way to extract the XP 64-bit drivers I know are in an .exe file from that file? I've run the executable inside of vmware running 32-bit XP but I'm sure the installed drivers are 32-bit. If you are lucky

[gentoo-user] Re: besides package.use where to store info needed at emerge

2008-01-03 Thread reader
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:01:07 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry to keep nagging with this but I must still not have it right. I do not see that compile flag being set during emerge: It looks like the cvs ebuild doesn't use EXTRA_ECONF. You could

Re: [gentoo-user] Extracting XP drivers from an .exe

2008-01-03 Thread Grant
Can anyone think of a way to extract the XP 64-bit drivers I know are in an .exe file from that file? I've run the executable inside of vmware running 32-bit XP but I'm sure the installed drivers are 32-bit. From man cabextract: cabextract - program to extract files from Microsoft

Re: [gentoo-user] Extracting XP drivers from an .exe

2008-01-03 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 12:30:08 -0800 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone think of a way to extract the XP 64-bit drivers I know are in an .exe file from that file? I've run the executable inside of vmware running 32-bit XP but I'm sure the installed drivers are 32-bit. From

[gentoo-user] Advanced routing

2008-01-03 Thread Vernon A. Fort
We switched from a cisco router to using a gentoo box with mutiple nics - all appears to be working very well. However, i ran into a major problem when one of my PC's went nuts. It flooded the network with unknown protocol which I saw from tcpdump. Basically, I am trying to find a way to

[gentoo-user] How to update portage offline with minimal impact?

2008-01-03 Thread BRM
I have a couple Sparc systems. One has been running Gentoo for a long time - installed using Gentoo 2006, not updated since due to the issue I'm about the discuss - and the other is a near identical system that might get Gentoo 2007 installed. Both are on two separate networks and have no

Re: [gentoo-user] Extracting XP drivers from an .exe

2008-01-03 Thread Grant
Can anyone think of a way to extract the XP 64-bit drivers I know are in an .exe file from that file? I've run the executable inside of vmware running 32-bit XP but I'm sure the installed drivers are 32-bit. From man cabextract: cabextract - program to extract files

Re: [gentoo-user] Advanced routing

2008-01-03 Thread Sascha Hlusiak
Am Donnerstag 03 Januar 2008 21:59:59 schrieb Vernon A. Fort: We switched from a cisco router to using a gentoo box with mutiple nics - all appears to be working very well. However, i ran into a major problem when one of my PC's went nuts. It flooded the network with unknown protocol which

Re: [gentoo-user] Extracting XP drivers from an .exe

2008-01-03 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 13:24:34 -0800 James Ausmus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some installation programs will completely decompress all contained files prioer to running the actual setup/install application - you might try running the executable, then, while it is running, but without actually

Re: [gentoo-user] Extracting XP drivers from an .exe

2008-01-03 Thread Grant
Can anyone think of a way to extract the XP 64-bit drivers I know are in an .exe file from that file? I've run the executable inside of vmware running 32-bit XP but I'm sure the installed drivers are 32-bit. snip When I execute the .exe file on 32-bit windows it

Re: [gentoo-user] Advanced routing

2008-01-03 Thread Vernon A. Fort
Sascha Hlusiak wrote: Am Donnerstag 03 Januar 2008 21:59:59 schrieb Vernon A. Fort: We switched from a cisco router to using a gentoo box with mutiple nics - all appears to be working very well. However, i ran into a major problem when one of my PC's went nuts. It flooded the network with

[gentoo-user] 2.6.24 config options

2008-01-03 Thread Grant
Is anyone who is running 2.6.24 have a CONFIG_MAC80211 option in .config? I'm trying to figure out why vanilla-sources-2.6.24-rc6 does not include the rt2x00 drivers and the dev here apparently has very different .config options than I do:

[gentoo-user] Re: 2.6.24 config options

2008-01-03 Thread Grant
Is anyone who is running 2.6.24 have a CONFIG_MAC80211 option in .config? I'm trying to figure out why vanilla-sources-2.6.24-rc6 does not include the rt2x00 drivers and the dev here apparently has very different .config options than I do:

[gentoo-user] walk thru new ._cfg000 - a rough perl script

2008-01-03 Thread reader
I've been working on something to aid handling incoming ._cfg* files that occur during emerges at times. I know we have at least a couple of tools already for this, but I wanted something much closer to manual handling but still doing most of the drudgery. I used the term `rough' in the

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.24 config options

2008-01-03 Thread maxim wexler
--- Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone who is running 2.6.24 have a Where does this x.x.24 kernel come from? I did a recent emerge sync and when I do emerge -pv gentoo-sources portage comes up with x.x.22-r9. -mw

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 2.6.24 config options

2008-01-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 14:31:08 -0800, Grant wrote: My mistake. Enabling CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL generated a lot more config options. I thought all possible config options would exist in .config, even if they weren't enabled. Use the search facility in make menuconfig to find options, it also tells

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.24 config options

2008-01-03 Thread Kenneth Prugh
On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 14:45:32 -0800 (PST) maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone who is running 2.6.24 have a Where does this x.x.24 kernel come from? I did a recent emerge sync and when I do emerge -pv gentoo-sources portage comes up with

Re: [gentoo-user] Extracting XP drivers from an .exe

2008-01-03 Thread Mick
On Thursday 03 January 2008, Jesús Guerrero wrote: On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 13:24:34 -0800 James Ausmus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some installation programs will completely decompress all contained files prioer to running the actual setup/install application - you might try running the

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.24 config options

2008-01-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 14:45:32 -0800 (PST), maxim wexler wrote: Where does this x.x.24 kernel come from? I did a recent emerge sync and when I do emerge -pv gentoo-sources portage comes up with x.x.22-r9. But Grant is trying to use vanilla-sources. -- Neil Bothwick Can vegetarians eat animal

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.24 config options

2008-01-03 Thread Grant
Where does this x.x.24 kernel come from? I did a recent emerge sync and when I do emerge -pv gentoo-sources portage comes up with x.x.22-r9. But Grant is trying to use vanilla-sources. Exactly. Last I checked vanilla, git, and mm have 2.6.24 available in portage. Looking forward to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: besides package.use where to store info needed at emerge

2008-01-03 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 03 January 2008 19:12:50 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:01:07 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry to keep nagging with this but I must still not have it right. I do not see that compile flag being set during emerge: It looks like the cvs ebuild doesn't use

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB Wireless Network Adapter?

2008-01-03 Thread Grant
I'm using ASUS WL-167g USB WLAN (rt73usb) and work well with or without WPA_SUPPLICANT. driver is already integrated in sys-kernel/vanilla-sources (2.6.24-rc5) Where do you see that driver? I'm giving vanilla-sources-2.6.24-rc6 a try and I don't see it. - Grant AJ Spagnoletti a

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.24 config options

2008-01-03 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Freitag, 4. Januar 2008, Grant wrote: Where does this x.x.24 kernel come from? I did a recent emerge sync and when I do emerge -pv gentoo-sources portage comes up with x.x.22-r9. But Grant is trying to use vanilla-sources. Exactly. Last I checked vanilla, git, and mm have 2.6.24

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.24 config options

2008-01-03 Thread Grant
Where does this x.x.24 kernel come from? I did a recent emerge sync and when I do emerge -pv gentoo-sources portage comes up with x.x.22-r9. But Grant is trying to use vanilla-sources. Exactly. Last I checked vanilla, git, and mm have 2.6.24 available in portage. Looking

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox update results in Yahoo request for newer version

2008-01-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Jan 3, 2008 2:57 PM, Brian Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 06:47:42 -0800 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 3, 2008 5:17 AM, Brian Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 03:32:47 -0800 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi,

[gentoo-user] Can't compile modules on vanilla-sources-2.6.24-rc6

2008-01-03 Thread Grant
I'm having trouble compiling modules since I moved to vanilla-sources-2.6.24-rc6 from hardened-sources-2.6.23-r4. My /usr/src/linux link is correct but alsa-driver, vmware-modules, acer_acpi, and madwifi-ng all fail. I can't seem to find a common denominator between the errors: 1. Preparing

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox update results in Yahoo request for newer version

2008-01-03 Thread Randy Barlow
Mark Knecht wrote: Logically so far I do think it's a Gentoo problem. If it was specific to some Yahoo server that my house is pointed at it would have been at least consistent on my wife's son's machines, or so I think. I already posted this, but I am using the same version of Firefox (and

[gentoo-user] Re: besides package.use where to store info needed at emerge

2008-01-03 Thread reader
Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It looks like the cvs ebuild doesn't use EXTRA_ECONF. You could file a bug report about this. It uses econf. econf uses EXTRA_ECONF. On Thursday 03 January 2008 19:01:07 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cat /etc/portage/env/dev-utils/cvs

[gentoo-user] Re: walk thru new ._cfg000 - a rough perl script

2008-01-03 Thread reader
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've included the bare script in line at the OOps maybe not.. === ./updetc.pl #!/usr/bin/perl ## find /etc -iname '._cfg_*' use strict; use warnings; use File::Find; my $myscript; ($myscript = $0) =~ s/^.*\///; # Variable to create

[gentoo-user] Need ebuild no longer in Portage

2008-01-03 Thread Grant
The current version of nvidia-drivers I have installed is pretty old but it's the last one I've found that will display the resolution of my monitor correctly at 1366x768. The later versions insist on 1280x768 I think. I need to re-compile the nvidia module since I'm upgrading the kernel, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Need ebuild no longer in Portage

2008-01-03 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 4. Januar 2008 schrieb ext Grant: The current version of nvidia-drivers I have installed is pretty old but it's the last one I've found that will display the resolution of my monitor correctly at 1366x768.  The later versions insist on 1280x768 I think.  I need to re-compile the

Re: [gentoo-user] Need ebuild no longer in Portage

2008-01-03 Thread William Kenworthy
Also, gentoo has an attic where all older ebuilds are archived. You can grab the ebuild and any related files and use your local overlay to keep it around for as long as you need. http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/x11-drivers/ There are nvidia-drivers and a legacy branch for even