Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Badges

2005-08-04 Thread George Roberts
Craig Zeigler wrote: Chris Cox wrote: On Thursday 04 August 2005 08:50 am, Ryan Viljoen wrote: Yeah so you just skipped n00b status? You never asked a stupid question? No I thought not. Thats the spirit lets keep Gentoo to ourselves so it can grow... *sigh* I was of course just

Re: [gentoo-user] GDM restarts citing lderror: missing pam_console.so after running et

2005-07-27 Thread George Roberts
Chris this may help with the problem: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-350736-highlight-gdm+pam.html Chris Fairles wrote: Oddly enough, if I run et like this et et.log 21 it runs fine and gdm does not restart itself. heres a snip from the log at least where I *think* it was failing

[gentoo-user] I thought /etc/X11/xorg.conf was set in stone

2005-07-26 Thread George Roberts
I have noticed in the last couple days that rolling the wheel on my mouse is not scrolling through webpages or email. I checked my /etc/X11/xorg.conf and it had not been changed. Just to be sure it is not a broken mouse I booted into Mandrake and tested it there, mouse scrolled like a charm.

Re: [gentoo-user] I thought /etc/X11/xorg.conf was set in stone

2005-07-26 Thread George Roberts
Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Check man xorg.conf and it will give you the locations searched for xorg.conf. On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, George Roberts wrote: I have noticed in the last couple days that rolling the wheel on my mouse is Snip I was under the impression that the folder /etc/X11is

Re: [gentoo-user] I thought /etc/X11/xorg.conf was set in stone

2005-07-26 Thread George Roberts
. The sudden switch from my /etc/X11/xorg.conf to /xorg.conf is what triggered my confusion. Brett I. Holcomb wrote: My understanding is that X searches the path given in xorg.conf irregardless of who starts it but I may be wrong. I use xdm, not gdm. On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, George Roberts wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] I thought /etc/X11/xorg.conf was set in stone

2005-07-26 Thread George Roberts
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Wednesday 27 July 2005 01:54, George Roberts wrote: I have noticed in the last couple days that rolling the wheel on my mouse is not scrolling through webpages or email. I checked my /etc/X11/xorg.conf and it had not been changed. Just to be sure

[gentoo-user] recreating my user accout woes

2005-07-25 Thread George Roberts
As many of you are aware I have been fighting an issue with gdm, currently I am at the point where I could not login to gdm using my normal user account, but I can login using the root account. I found the same issue in the forums http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-358052-highlight-gdm.html. I

Re: [gentoo-user] recreating my user accout woes

2005-07-25 Thread George Roberts
On 7/25/05, Dave Nebinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home $ ls -l george total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 george users 48 Jul 25 12:12 Desktop [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home $ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home $ ls -l geo total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 geo users 48 Jul 25 11:38 Desktop [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] lost /lib/security/pam_console.so

2005-07-24 Thread George Roberts
Richard Fish wrote: George Roberts wrote: Richard Fish wrote: Peter Gordon wrote: Try setting the pam_console USE flag and re-emerging pam: # echo sys-libs/pam pam_console /etc/portage/package.use # emerge sys-libs/pam Although, it's rather odd that you are unable to login. I do

Re: [gentoo-user] lost /lib/security/pam_console.so

2005-07-23 Thread George Roberts
Peter Gordon wrote: Try setting the pam_console USE flag and re-emerging pam: # echo sys-libs/pam pam_console /etc/portage/package.use # emerge sys-libs/pam Although, it's rather odd that you are unable to login. I do not have pam_console either but I can still login through gdm just fine

Re: [gentoo-user] lost /lib/security/pam_console.so

2005-07-23 Thread George Roberts
Richard Fish wrote: Peter Gordon wrote: Try setting the pam_console USE flag and re-emerging pam: # echo sys-libs/pam pam_console /etc/portage/package.use # emerge sys-libs/pam Although, it's rather odd that you are unable to login. I do not have pam_console either but I can still login

[gentoo-user] lost /lib/security/pam_console.so

2005-07-22 Thread George Roberts
I have been unable to login using gdm even though it is in my /etc/rc.conf: UNICODE=no EDITOR=/bin/nano DISPLAYMANAGER=gdm XSESSION=Gnome Today I checked my system logs and I found these entries: Date : July 22 15:32:42 Process : gdm[7072] Message : PAM unable to

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge block prob with gnome-core and gnome-desktop

2005-07-21 Thread George Roberts
Chris Bare wrote: I'm trying to update a system that's been sitting idle for a while. I got the following blocks initially: # emerge -uD world [blocks B ] perl-core/File-Spec-0.87 (is blocking dev-lang/perl-5.8.6-r5) [blocks B ] =x11-themes/gnome-themes-2.8.2 (is blocking

Re: [gentoo-user] Xwindows stopped working. No errors in Xorg log file.

2005-07-20 Thread George Roberts
Daevid Vincent wrote: I tried to switch my window manager to Gnome and also XFCE (both worked fine before too) and that didn't solve the problem, so I don't think it's a KDE thing. But I have had KDE problems before as you suggest with other nvidia drivers. -Original Message-

Re: [gentoo-user] GDM not bringing up log in screen

2005-07-16 Thread George Roberts
Pawel Nadolski wrote: George Roberts wrote: Edward Catmur wrote: On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 23:05 -0600, George Roberts wrote: About a month or so ago I lost the ability to use my GDM to log in. I can log in using XDM which has to be called from the command line. When my system

Re: [gentoo-user] GDM not bringing up log in screen

2005-07-16 Thread George Roberts
Zac Medico wrote: George Roberts wrote: Technically both are started at the end of the boot sequence. However if I use /etc/init.d/xdm zap and then /etc/init.d/xdm start I am now getting a message Setting up gdm ... followed by ERROR: could not open the Display Manager

Re: [gentoo-user] GDM not bringing up log in screen

2005-07-16 Thread George Roberts
Zac Medico wrote: George Roberts wrote: Technically both are started at the end of the boot sequence. However if I use /etc/init.d/xdm zap and then /etc/init.d/xdm start I am now getting a message Setting up gdm ... followed by ERROR: could not open the Display Manager

Re: [gentoo-user] GDM not bringing up log in screen

2005-07-16 Thread George Roberts
Zac Medico wrote: Willie Wong wrote: Now my /var/log/xdm.log is now showing: _XSERVTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for inet6 _XSERVTransOpen: transport open failed for inet6/George:0 _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to open listener for inet6 The above

[gentoo-user] how do I change to /etc/conf.d/hostname

2005-07-15 Thread George Roberts
I have a day off work and it is too hot to play outside, so I got the bright idea to clean up some minor warnings I have been getting. When I am booting my computer, I get warnings to change from using /etc/hostname to /etc/conf.d/hostname. Also the same with my /etc/domainname. My first though

Re: [gentoo-user] how do I change to /etc/conf.d/hostname

2005-07-15 Thread George Roberts
Robert Crawford wrote: On Friday 15 July 2005 06:31 pm, George Roberts wrote: I have a day off work and it is too hot to play outside, so I got the bright idea to clean up some minor warnings I have been getting. When I am booting my computer, I get warnings to change from using /etc

Re: [gentoo-user] how do I change to /etc/conf.d/hostname

2005-07-15 Thread George Roberts
David Busby wrote: I did this: rm /etc/hostname nano -w /etc/conf.d/hostname [ edit properly ] env-update reboot No problems... /djb Removing the files did the job. Sounds like another evil plot to force me to clean up unused files. :-) Thanks! George Roberts wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] Can not reach log in screen in X

2005-07-01 Thread George Roberts
Daniel da Veiga wrote: Your xorg.conf would be better... What are you using to run the X? /etc/init.d/xdm or startx? Did you try ALT + F7? for the logs it seems your X is running... Could you post the result of ps af | grep xdm ? Thanks Daniel. Typing xdm got me back into Gentoo. The only

[gentoo-user] memory used

2005-04-22 Thread George Roberts
I started using Linux again a couple of months ago. After I installed Mandrake /noticed that if my computer sat idle over night the memory usage went up from 100 megs to 2-300 megs ( I have 1 gig of ram, so no biggie). I switched to Gentoo and have noticed the samething. After watching this

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer compile error

2005-04-22 Thread George Roberts
H.J. Jung wrote: HI, all When I try to compile Mplayer 1.0pre7 I get following errors: Detected operating system: Linux Detected host architecture: i386 Checking for cc version ... 3.3.5-20050130, bad Checking for gcc version ... 3.3.5-20050130, bad Checking for gcc-3.4 version ... not