[gentoo-user] requested to report: emerge bug

Got this at ~11:25 PM EST/USA 3/28/06 from an "emerge --sync"... " >>> Updating Portage cache: 89%!!! Cannot resolve a virtual package name to an ebuild. !!! This is a bug, please report it. (virtual/libintl-0). " Also, updating the Portage cache gets --real-- slow around 50% through

[Fwd: Re: [gentoo-user] esd or arts, sound daemon howto]

ly not do over one or two general updates a year, and not too many selected updates; if it works so that I can work & play, leave it alone! (in computers for last ~~22 years). Thank you for your time reading this! Thank you in advance for any reply! Robert G. Hays. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] What's with all the config file updates???

[digest-mode reply] ON Sat, 18 Jun 2005 13:26:37 -0400 fire-eyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, 2005-06-18 at 13:18 -0400, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I don't know about there being a manual but one way is to have etc-update show you the differences - that shows what's being taken out and what'

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

[digest-mode reply] Richard Fish schreef: maxim wexler wrote: But it's a dead console. The caps lock key and the num lock key turn the leds on and off but typing letters does nothing. I've been trying to come up with a reasonable explanation for this behavior. OK, it

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.4.1 released

[digest-mode reply] <... my PC is next to my boyfriend's. ...> Holly, do you have any idea how many hearts (just about including mine, at this point!) you just broke with that statement? rgh. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CFLAGS CPU optimization question.

[digest-mode reply] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CFLAGS CPU optimization question. From: Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 15:08:30 -0300 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sorry for taking this long to answer. I suggest any unprivileged port that

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] tips on my 1st try at iptables?

[digest-mode reply] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] tips on my 1st try at iptables? From: "A. Khattri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 23:06:36 -0400 (EDT) To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org On Mon, 30 May 2005, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Frankly, I've stopped trying to grok iptables but r

Re: [gentoo-user] Back up again

[digest-mode reply] Subject: [gentoo-user] Back up again From: Pupeno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 19:25:06 -0300 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org After a lot of testing and testing of different methods to make backups I reached a conclution of what I need, but I don't know if i

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge x.org

P.S.: I was just told of one fail-to-fix; not certain of the cpu involved, but I figured the fail needed to be noted here, for completeness. rgh Robert G. Hays wrote: [digest mode reply] PREVIOUSLY Subject: [gentoo-user] emerge x.org From: Hendré Claassen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: T

[gentoo-user] RE: ebuild.sh chown/chmod segmentation fault

[digest mode reply] Glen This is known and well-discussed, and I applied the 'fix' and it works. Gentoo compiles beat the tarnation out of some cpu's -- slow your computer down by 25--33% when compiling, and maybe speed it back up when done. If you do not have a computer that permits on-the-fly

[gentoo-user] RE: Random emerge failures

[digest mode reply] Grant, This is known and well-discissed, and I applied the 'fix' and it works. Gentoo compiles beat the tarnation out of some cpu's -- slow your computer down by 25--33% when compiling, and maybe speed it back up when done. If you do not have a computer that permits on-the-fl

Re: [gentoo-user] installing to VFAT partition THUFIR HAWAT

[digest-mode reply] Thufir, For good or ill, or maybe both good *and* ill!, Gentoo is basically an experts-only distro. (And STOP RIGHT THERE, flame-writers -- read the rest first.) Gentoo gives absolutely *awesome* power, but *This* *Thing* *Is* *Dangerous* -- it is a loaded *and* *cocked* pisto

Re: [gentoo-user]

N. Owen Gunden wrote: On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 11:07:13AM +0300, Matan Peled wrote: Because it takes a really long time, and involves remerging packages you have not mentioned on the command line (which you might not want remerged automatically). It doesn't take that long, especially with th

Re: [gentoo-user] E-mail quote protocol -- WAS: Re: No HTML in posts?

Holly Bostick wrote: Calvin Spealman schreef: On 5/9/05, Dave Nebinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You're looking at years worth of standards that have been built up and saying after all of that time they need to be changed. Yeah, things change. Two words: the wheel. Holly Holly, Aga

Re: [gentoo-user] This email best viewed with IE 6.5 at 800X600 resolution

Holly Bostick wrote: Thank you, Holly... Pretty well written, vigorously as such should have been, and the point*S* are all correct & we all need to understand & *remember*; its called civilized behaviour. I enjoyed reading that. It's going to be saved in my local folders. The final item is t

Re: [gentoo-user] rlogin ebuild

Shaw Vrana wrote: On Friday 06 May 2005 03:31 pm, Robert G. Hays wrote: A. Khattri wrote: Security. BELIEVE THIS !! -- sorry for shouting, but I for one wonder whyinhell Gentoo of all distros would even bother with rlogin... ("About Choice", of course. This is called 

Re: [gentoo-user] The 2005.0 LiveCD hates me! :'(

Sami Samhuri wrote: [Heh, I almost brought up a quote from Ciaran and used it here but remembering all the fuss last time I thought better of it. Something about SUVs and shotguns... :) ] gmane refuses to find 'shotgun' and 'SUV' -- Ciaran sometimes seriously infuriates me, and at other times I

Re: [gentoo-user] rlogin ebuild

A. Khattri wrote: On Fri, 6 May 2005, Shaw Vrana wrote: is there an ebuild available for rlogin? I haven't been able to find one using emerge --search or equery. What am I missing? Security. BELIEVE THIS !! -- sorry for shouting, but I for one wonder whyinhell Gentoo of all distros would eve

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

s would be especially useful for very large messages and replying to multiple messages at once. Always there is room to move forward, so find the door that need's unlocked and break it down. On 5/5/05, Robert G. Hays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Calvin Spealman wrote: it isn&#x

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: (OT) WARNING: /etc removed from CONFIG_PROTECT portage-2.0.51.20

Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 01 May 2005 18:30:40 -0400, Robert G. Hays wrote: nd most of the 'rest of the w-w-world' are usually in the bottom ten percent by funniest (is that a word? // It is now!), and I asked that same question recently, and Neil said that he has been using som

Re: (OT) Re: [gentoo-user] emerge gnome looking for automake-1.7

Spider wrote: On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 14:37 -0400, Robert G. Hays wrote: "BOFH"? Please? Probably need to knoe this one, too, methinks Thanks, rgh. - Scott Taylor - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> BOFH Excuse #253: We've run out of licenses *tappeti tap* *click clicketi click* there

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

Travis Rousseau wrote: On 5/3/05, Calvin Spealman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5/3/05, Travis Rousseau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Why not the sender's for now? Why not the recipient's for now? If the sender disables HTML, no one gets it. If the recipient disables HTML, then ev

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

Calvin Spealman wrote: it isn't like the bandwidth is anything at all compared to the bloated headers and redundant repeating of messages in every reply. -- is a good way to control redundancy factor And sometimes someone skips the original(s), and the later msgs become interesting, and "some

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

Kris wrote: Exactly ... but it's still has some amusement value Kristopher W. Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Cliff Rowley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 10:37 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts? Trey Grue

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

Because a lot of Linux users use a text-only mail package, and the html stuff makes it *hard* to read. (I use graphical...) --Because this is what thy're used to &/or they have limited memory -AND/OR- becase this is the Safe! way to do email. -- -- (Just look at all those *loverly* security alert

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo and XP on hda without causing World War III -- impossible? (help)

And JIC you need this, parts 1 through 4 are the primaries, 5 and up *will* be logicals, *if* one of 1 through 4 was designated as an extended partition. Only one primary per disk can be extended. jic!, rgh. The Disguised Jedi wrote: Windows REFUSES to be installed on a logical partition. It p

Re: [gentoo-user] USB Power

Ognjen Bezanov wrote: Hi all I have gentoo install and a USB 2.0 Hard disk that required 500mA of power Now under Windows XP the drive worked perfectly, but under gentoo it wouldnt work (it have symptoms of not enough power). Now from what i remember about the USB specification 250mA is the max cur

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge gnome looking for automake-1.7

"BOFH"? Please? Probably need to knoe this one, too, methinks Thanks, rgh. Scott Taylor wrote: On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 01:15 +1000, Richard Watson wrote: emerge sys-dev/automake-1.7 Calculating dependencies !!! Problem in sys-dev/automake-1.7 dependencies. !!! "Specific key requires an operator

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) Re: Re: "equery which" gives wrong version?

Reference (dated but good, especially for noobs) Linux Press :: The Linux Cookbook (Noobs NEED this book!) (also freely downloadable, forgot url -- advantages to each [paper | bytes] Thanks again!, rgh. Nick Rout wrote: On Sun, 2005-05-01 at 18:36 -0400, Robert G. Hays wrote: Python :: (noun)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: "equery which" gives wrong version?

Python :: (noun) :: A computer programing language that has adopted (swallowed!) every programming construct from every other known programming language. (And I have red a list somewhere listing the multiplicity of languages from which python got things -- it is literally about half of the la

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: (OT) WARNING: /etc removed from CONFIG_PROTECT portage-2.0.51.20

Remy Blank wrote: Robert G. Hays wrote: (Shall I tell you just _how_ many of your sig/tags I have captured? Keep 'em coming! :D ) (I'm sharing them with others (with attribution), and they are geting quite a kick out of them!) I agree. I can't help noticing Neil's s

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) WARNING: /etc removed from CONFIG_PROTECT portage-2.0.51.20

Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 02:56:36 -0400, Robert G. Hays wrote: ah, glsa's makes a pretty good reason -- what I was referring to was the part about the portage stuff getting whanged; wasn't *even* referring to compile-time! Fair point. But if no one runs the ble

Re: [gentoo-user] rc-update net.wlan0?

assign # defaults for that interface. # #broadcast_eth0="192.168.0.255 192.168.0.255" #netmask_eth0="255.255.255.0 255.255.255.0" # For setting the default gateway # #gateway="eth0/192.168.0.1" gateway="eth0/192.168.1.254" Mark Knecht wrote: On 4/29/05, Robert G. Ha

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) WARNING: /etc removed from CONFIG_PROTECT portage-2.0.51.20

Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 01:20:37 -0400, Robert G. Hays wrote: 'll put it on the laptop when OOo finally finishes compiling, although r20 will probably be put by then... I'll say it again, *this* is why I only update when there is a *good* reason to. Are tw

Re: [gentoo-user] USB mouse stalls under X after some time of inactivity

Thomas Drueke wrote: Argghhh ! And the winner is of course Jerry (don't ask about Tom, though). Here comes the solution: When ever doing kernel configuration read the . Sometimes it really s GRRR :-) Snapshot from the help of "USB Human Interface Device (full HID) support" CONFIG_USB_HI

Re: [gentoo-user] USB mouse stalls under X after some time of inactivity

Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: information is now obvious. Now even the "cat /dev/input/mice" does not bring back my mouse. GRRR. :-) this seems to be a Tom & Jerry story :) *G*R*O*A*N*!! rgh. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get IPV6 working?

PS: sender may also be [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! Walter Dnes wrote: On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 11:57:34AM +0200, Nicolas Litchinko wrote [1]: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ipv6.xml [2]: https://tb.ipv6.btexact.com/ Thanks. RTFM is easy. It seems that the hardest part of linux is FTFM, i.e. Find

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get IPV6 working?

Look for messages from me here and on LinuxQuestions.org -- I was having similar problems & finally made it work, and I posted to one or both of these -- wait; maybe it was on Win4Lin.com ? Really behind whole table full of 8-balls right now, so please forgive my not finding, attaching, etc. r

Re: [gentoo-user] USB Mass Storage Device with Gentoo Kernel 2.6.11

I have a similar problem. Somewhee in the next few weeks I intend to make a ew small changes in the usb-storge modules to do things like periodic-by-volume SYNCs, and maybe rail the throughput in other ways, probably with some way to specify for what devices, especially after connects; this woul

Re: [gentoo-user] openmotif vs motif-config dependancy blockers

<... Neil Bothwick Any given program will expand to fill available memory. ...> *I* remenber that one! Under WhinedoZZZs, and on any processor with less than 32KB memory -- more than that, and us mcu-specialists can probably have somethin left! (Yes, I said 32 KILO-bytes.) rgh. -- gentoo-user@ge

Re: [gentoo-user] rc-update net.wlan0?

gh. Mark Knecht wrote: On 4/20/05, Robert G. Hays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thought: what about setting the address, gateway, etc, to be the same as when the box runs FC? Not hard, and should guarantee connection since the nic & the router managed before. I'm sure some of us

Re: [gentoo-user] WARNING: /etc removed from CONFIG_PROTECT portage-2.0.51.20

Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 13:24:40 -0400, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: s -r5 ok? Seems so. I've put it on three computers and no gotchas so far. I'll put it on the laptop when OOo finally finishes compiling, although r20 will probably be put by then... I'll say it again, *this* i

Re: [gentoo-user] memory used

Maybe someone else knows, but my guess, from the numbers I see at the top of the screen when running :: top suggest that this is cached stuff, maybe from cron et al, or files or screensaver. Somebody please enlighten us both! rgh. George Roberts wrote: I started using Linux again a couple of

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) Re: vi is mising from the portage

(That was a death-scream... Now the question is was it the user's of the computer's when it went flying out the 10th-story Window? ) rgh. Walter Dnes wrote: On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 09:06:35PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 18:16:41 + (UTC) Eamon Cad

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo realtime-preempt kernel?

James, I don't have the answers that you are looking for myself, but I have a couple of thoughts about 'proceedurals' that you *might* not have thought of; please forgive my presumption if you *have* already thought of 'em... Have you put together a good precis of all the info from these messag

gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

P.S.: the / on the 30G was hda11, the / on the 120G is hda15, JIC this matters; both had several whinedoZZZe parts; I need them this way. rgh. Robert G. Hays wrote: -- and yes I have done that many so far.. grrr... And *still* cannot boot Gentoo Linux on my real, *working*, drive. I have a 30GB

gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

-- and yes I have done that many so far.. grrr... And *still* cannot boot Gentoo Linux on my real, *working*, drive. I have a 30GB Maxtor that I used as a test/victim drive to install Gentoo to, including dual-monitor ATI and Win4Lin5_for_win9x. *Finally* got it all together with a little help fr

Re: [gentoo-user] error emerging vlc

Please do not hijack threads -- bad manners & bad luck getting answers. Also, we need a *LOT* more data to be able to help, most likely. rgh. Qv6 wrote: Folks: Please! Need help emerging vlc. Get this error when I try: "*configure: error: Cannot fine libxvidcore library...*" Any clues will be ap

Re: [gentoo-user] 100% disk full again

Nick Rout wrote: On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 20:40:46 -0500 Kirk Schneider wrote: orrected script, suggest using with >portage-2.0.51. Here's a script I have to handle running the updates. If the portage hasn't been synced that day, it will clean out the ccache files why do you clean ccache, doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Don't read the boot CD

back. Cheers, Pubudu. -Original Message- From: Robert G. Hays [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 22 April 2005 10:09 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Don't read the boot CD Pubudu, one last thought... before you alter the partitions on your drive to

Re: [gentoo-user] Don't read the boot CD

Willie Wong wrote: On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 08:08:30PM -0400, Robert G. Hays wrote: 2) ... Unless you are using a new version of WhinedoZZZe (I forget what you said you had) that claims to not need defragging ( I said 'claims', if the new ones happen to make such a claim, and I

Re: [gentoo-user] rc-update net.wlan0?

ark Knecht wrote: -- Forwarded message ------ From: Robert G. Hays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Apr 21, 2005 5:15 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] rc-update net.wlan0? To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mark, been busy, & I'm in WhinedoZZZe again right now, but I'll check w

Re: [gentoo-user] A binary choice for a DVD burner... URGENT!

Thanks for the extra info! rgh. Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Friday 22 April 2005 01:53, Robert G. Hays wrote: 'One Last Word (!)' I forgot to mention, and nobody else has either -- certain writers (& readers!) work best with media-brand-X & poorly or not at all with me

Re: [gentoo-user] rc-update net.wlan0?

Mark, been busy, & I'm in WhinedoZZZe again right now, but I'll check what I got when I next get into Linux & post it back to you. rgh. Mark Knecht wrote: On 4/20/05, Robert G. Hays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thought: what about setting the address, gateway, etc, to

Re: [gentoo-user] Don't read the boot CD

t, rgh. Mrugesh Karnik wrote: Robert G. Hays wrote: At Bottom. Andreas Fredriksson wrote: On 4/20/05, Mrugesh Karnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Otherwise, another solution (I personally have never used it, but is possible) is to use WinRAR to extract all the contents of the ISO file to

Re: [gentoo-user] A binary choice for a DVD burner... URGENT!

'One Last Word (!)' I forgot to mention, and nobody else has either -- certain writers (& readers!) work best with media-brand-X & poorly or not at all with media-brand-Y; AFAIK, this applies to all brands, although it is not *quite* as bad as it was a few years ago, so that fact probably accoun

Re: [gentoo-user] rc-update net.wlan0?

Thought: what about setting the address, gateway, etc, to be the same as when the box runs FC? Not hard, and should guarantee connection since the nic & the router managed before. I'm sure some of us out hee could step you through this if you are willing & need help (I don't remember if you

Re: [gentoo-user] Don't read the boot CD

At Bottom. Andreas Fredriksson wrote: On 4/20/05, Mrugesh Karnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Otherwise, another solution (I personally have never used it, but is possible) is to use WinRAR to extract all the contents of the ISO file to a folder and burn the contents of the folder. Note that y

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) Don't read the boot CD

Neil Bothwick wrote: Why do we park in driveways and drive on parkways? Sayth Gallagher! (wherein he prooveth that he *can* be funny without potty-mouthing ! :) ) rgh. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) Don't read the boot CD

Re one of your rotating sigs : Neil Bothwick, on Gentoo.Org: Ethernet (n): something used to catch the etherbunny You bait the ethernet with ethereggs... (From my friend David) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] A binary choice for a DVD burner... URGENT!

My $0.01 plus tax... Two inexpensive brands of hardware that I have always found to do everything they say (but nothing more) and to last a long time: SIIG I/O Magic I/O Magic does make dvd's, cd's, etc. Have one now. Fine usb-unit, all o/s's. LG I don't know, so I can't say. Sony is always

Re: [gentoo-user] Fax & answerphone/voicemail server...

Stroller wrote: I'm migrating to Asterisk Real Soon Now (tm), but it certainly won't support any of your current hardware - it's more appropriate if you want to do VoIP, probably involving routing all your telephone calls through it. If you have to ask, you probably don't want to use Asterisk

Re: [gentoo-user] netselect

What I had to do was :: mirrorselect -i -o > (the '-i' in there makes an interactive screen where you get to select servers yourself) choose the servers I wanted, and then find all the IPv6 stuff and remove it, mostly by seeing something about ipv6 somewhere in the names themselves. Then I

Re: [gentoo-user] file permission setting problem

Genius. rgh. YoYo Siska wrote: Qiangning Hong wrote: I have a file with special permission requirement. I want user1 and user2 can read/write this file, user3 can read only and others can not access it. How to set the permission bits? No ACL support. undoable with standard acces rights i

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) unmerging kde-3.3

< Neil Bothwick Does someone know the cheats for WindowsXP? > ( Yes, but they don't work, it has too many bugs! ;) ) rgh. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Is gentoo-laptop list still working?

Hi There! -- It got here. ( ;) ) rgh. Rob wrote: I haven't gotten any posts in a long time. Trying to post myself doesn't seem to work either. But I get no error messages. Rob. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo security guide question

'S'all right, we all do it sometimes. ;) rgh. James Hiscock wrote: 'Scuse me, this must be the English class -- I thought I was in the Computer Science / Political Science Building... Sorry. Enough already please, everybody? ...sorry... showing my BA here... I get a little picky about silly

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly Complex Hard Drive Question

lowed down a little bit by this, but for me, I still get better throughput this way. YMMV! SO: to answer your question about moving things, I doubt it; I *could* be wrong, but I doubt the move is worth-while. Without the interface-specs on the dvd, that's really the best anyone can say. Be

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about kernel-equivalence

à 15:17 -0400, Trey Gruel a écrit : On 4/14/05, Robert G. Hays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ok, is: kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r4 the same as: kernel-2.6.11.4 plus/minus the Gentoo-specific patches? possibly not. the gentoo-sources package has its own revision numbers (

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about kernel-equivalence

gh. Nick Rout wrote: On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 18:36:50 -0400 Robert G. Hays wrote: <...derivations...> That is, which kernel.org kernel-w.x.y.z did which gentoo kernel-w.x.y-gentoo-rz come from, then get patched, and with which patches. Oh and by the way if you just want the sourc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly Complex Hard Drive Question

as it gets (ref two recent messages about the two channels and optical drives). Swapping won't make the channel/drives any faster, you're correct. (1/20th of one percent faster -- I doubt it, those days should be long gone.) rgh. On 4/14/05, Robert G. Hays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly Complex Hard Drive Question

He has a very good point. The other thought is do you have a CD or DVD in one of the channels? If so, you need to check that the cd/dvd is as fast as your hdisk, because a channel can only talk as fastas the slowest drive on it; to talk aste would be to confuse the slow device & maybe cause it to

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about kernel-equivalence

Nick Rout wrote: ok, now that i've rebooted windoze again and email is -maybe- working again, i'll finish that email. doe anybody know where i might find the kernel-derivations and maybe patches? What do you mean derivations? The patches for any gentoo kernel set are usually genpatches-${K

Re: [gentoo-user] mount

Oh, and then you have to copy /usr/src//arch//boot/bzImage to /boot, and add the new kernel to your grub or lilo. If using an Intel or AMD (etc) cpu, and if you have your source-dir set as it should be, this is exactly: cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot and add the new kerne

Re: [gentoo-user] mount

All Three. rgh. Al Bayrouni wrote: Magnus Varmfors wrote: Hi there! I think it'd be CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP, yes. But if you set it to "y", it's compiled into kernel and isn't a module. If you want it to be a module, set it to "m". In menuconfig, it's Device Drivers -> Block Devices -> Loopback device

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly Complex Hard Drive Question

Tom Moyer wrote: I would like to swap hda and hdb. I don't want to swap any data across the drives I just want to have Gentoo be the only OS installed. Linux, including Gentoo, can run from any drive in the system. If Gentoo is not already your default boot from Grub, you can easily make it so; as

Re: [gentoo-user] boot with serial console

If the computer has a USB port, maybe you can find & enable 'legacy' (keyboard & mouse) on USB; obviousy this needs a usb-capable keyboard begged, borrowed, or bought if you don't already have one Just a thought. rgh. Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: Eric S. Johansson wrote: I have a system w

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about kernel-equivalence

ok, now that i've rebooted windoze again and email is -maybe- working again, i'll finish that email. doe anybody know where i might find the kernel-derivations and maybe patches? thanks, rgh. Robert G. Hays wrote: Trey Thank You. That didn't make things easier, but at least I

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about kernel-equivalence

Trey Thank You. That didn't make things easier, but at least I know so I don't step off a cliff (and i ain't no cartoon-character neither) by making a bad assumption about the kernel. There are one or two obvious things I can do, although they do take serious time. Sigh. I gotta think about

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly complex Hard Drive Qeustion

Tom Moyer wrote: I may just not be seeing an easy way to do this, so I figured I would ask if any one had any ideas. I currently have 3 hard drives in my computer: hda - Windows XP - 40 Gig hdb - Gentoo - 120 Gig hdc - nothing (I think it might be dead) - 30 Gig I got Windows running in qemu and no

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about kernel-equivalence

Post-script:& if I do go to the kernel.org kernel, what is going to change, and what will I have to do about it/them, and what, if anything, is just going to --stay-- broke/different? Thanks again!, rgh. Robert G. Hays wrote: Ok, is: kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r4 the same as: ke

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo security guide question

James Hiscock wrote: You might also say equivalent or counterpart ... ...hmmm... Dictionary.com says something else entirely: pen·dant1 also pen·dent( P ) Pronunciation Key (pndnt) n. 1. Something suspended from something else, especially an ornament or piece of jewelry attached to a n

Re: (OT) [gentoo-user] LVM2 during installation

Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 13:01:02 -0400, Robert G. Hays wrote: *LIKE* you rolling-sig -- are these from 'noseguy,' by any chance? Where-the-futz do you get all these anyway? No one source. I have collected them over the last twelve years. Some are very out of d

[gentoo-user] Question about kernel-equivalence

y!, the 14 don't like, and it's a clone anyway, which is absolutely useless to me. If anybody has any clues on this, great & Thank You, but for now, the question is, so I can decide about using a kernel.org kernel, are the two above equivalent as I asked. Thanks Much!, Robert G. Hays -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: (OT) [gentoo-user] LVM2 during installation

- are these from 'noseguy,' by any chance? Where-the-futz do you get all these anyway? I love 'em!... Thanks! (and keep 'em coming!), robert g hays. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: Pentium M is actually quite good. (Was: Re: Laptop_Mode was[Re: [OT] Ext3 Speed Issues? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] file system corrupted)])

Travis Rousseau wrote: Ha I was told it would cost extra to get a computer without windows. (somethin like $80) Yes, *WHY* does it cost more without WindoZZZe? (Answer: Because MonopolSoft threatens vendors into doing this.) I suggest NOT buying from vendors that do this. If Linux ever reeally

Re: [gentoo-user] Personal Video Recorders

Yuo know, I just *LOVE* the idea of Xboxs running Linux -- remember who they came from? Payback's a [deleted]. <*very* evil grin!> rgh. Mark Knecht wrote: 2) In parallel look at whether to do a dedicated recorder (vs. using an existing machine) and look at how to do remote playback. Remot

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a Mail Auto-Responder for Web via Email

A. Khattri wrote: Sounds like a great way to send spam. Or worse. Why is this needed? rgh. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Password based printing

You'll get better responce if you *start* a thread rather than burying your request in another thread which some people are already squelching. It is also impolite, and manners do count. Lastly, it makes your message easier to find & recognize. rgh. Omar wrote: Hi list, I need to build a printser

Re: Browsers and emailers [Was Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?]

And this message has just exactly *what* to do with the thread you posted it in? Not only is this very impolite, but even from your point of view it is bad :: 1) some people will skip anything in a given thread that they are no longer reading, so *your* post maybe gets missed by the very peopl

Re: Browsers and emailers [Was Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?]

Walter, Thank you. (and BTW I like your sig!) Walter Dnes wrote: Can Mozilla SHARE the Win/Netscape bookmarks, history, eddress-book, **and** local accumulated-mail folders with my Win/Netscape ? Feel free to jump in and educate me, Nick, folks! Well, since you asked... - Netscape up

Re: [gentoo-user] kmail-3.4.0 dependencies

ok's] True Completeness Shall Remain Unsullied, or something like that. !! I dunnow! strange... rgh. mfyang wrote: >Guilheme Cirne wrote: > > > >>On Wednesday 13 April 2005 11:06, Robert G. Hays wrote: >> >> >> >> >>>below... >&g

Re: [gentoo-user] Are my posts getting through?

ack posts that you write (it's intelligent, or annoying, whatever your viewpoint). This stands for users using POP/SMTP for Gmail as well (like myself). Robert G. Hays wrote: Um, 1) your got here. 2) I get mine back. hth, rgh. The Disguised Jedi wrote: you don't get your own posts back, as far

Re: [gentoo-user] ATAPI burning doesn't work

You got (mildly!) lucky. Congratulations! I mean that. Most people get away with that. Some don't, some releases don't. May you never have problems with it. rgh. Graham Murray wrote: William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sorry if I sound a bit bitter, but this is a real pain for the

Re: [gentoo-user] Are my posts getting through?

Um, 1) your got here. 2) I get mine back. hth, rgh. The Disguised Jedi wrote: you don't get your own posts back, as far as i know. Of course, I'm using Gmail, which may not show them anyway This post got throughthat's for sure On 4/13/05, fire-eyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] 3Com 3C996B-T: Software shows 1000Mbps, get 100Mbps or less speeds

fire-eyes wrote: Ok, this is free advice and may or may not be worth any more than that -- I'm new here, but since nobody answered Is your kernel configured for 1Gb as-such under the networking? (In win now to do mail; not set up undel linux yet, so I can't check exactly what/where.) Also may

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) ATAPI burning doesn't work

Unfortunately this is not only true, but it is also true for others parts of linux as well. And some of us (not me) wonder why MonopolSoft still rules the world unchallenged. (Why? They understand this kind of thing. Mind you, I am not a fan of theirs anymore, and their execution -- appropri

Re: [gentoo-user] 3Com 3C996B-T: Software shows 1000Mbps, get 100Mbps or less speeds

bottom... fire-eyes wrote: Sorry if this is a repost, it seems to have disappeared into the bit bucket. I put a 3Com 3C996B-T 1000Mbps NIC in my system. It uses the tg3 (broadcom) driver, which I have compiled in. The kernel messages show the link at 1000. The light on the NIC shows this. The light

Re: [gentoo-user] kmail-3.4.0 dependencies

below... Guilherme Cirne wrote: On Tuesday 12 April 2005 17:58, Robert G. Hays wrote: Quick guess -- kcontact keeps the eddreses for kmail. rgh. Guilheme Cirne wrote: Hi, Does anybody know why kmail-3.4.0 depends on kontact-3.4.0? TIA, I believe kaddressbook holds the addresses for

Re: [gentoo-user] Misconceptions about Mac\Apple?

Right! rgh. Mark Knecht wrote: On Apr 12, 2005 1:44 PM, Robert G. Hays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Repeating what has already been said here, the OS X kernel is (based on?) BSD, which, technically, is not "Linux'. That said, yes, *some* linux-aps will run there... rgh. Li

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