Re: [gentoo-user] Packages CD for x86 with 2006.0

2006-03-15 Thread Steven S.
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, Nick Rout wrote: Is there a set of binary packages available on CD for 32 bit x86 of any description. The list on the release page seems to be. amd64 ppc (ppc) ppc (g4) ppc (64 bit - 32bit userland) ppc (64 bit - 64bit userland) sparc64 same on the torrents page. Do

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen settings

2006-02-22 Thread Steven S.
On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Rajat Gujral wrote: Have you tried adding the option DefaultDepth? Since you have the Modes 1024x768 for 24, it should come out looking like: Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device Card0 MonitorMonitor0 DefaultDepth 24

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo kixtstart/jumpstart equivalent

2006-02-17 Thread Steven S.
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, gentuxx wrote: Read through http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml#doc_chap6 You can install from a distro's boot floppies... I have done it sucessfully using Slackware 9.1 floppies. You need a binary of bzip, you can download one from where I stuck mine at

Re: [gentoo-user] is kde 3.5 stable enough?

2006-02-14 Thread Steven S.
On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, b.n. wrote: Hi, I still can't see KDE 3.5 in the stable x86. Since I'd like to try it, but I also don't like to rely on unstable (i.e. crashing, misworking) apps very much, I have a couple of questions for you... 1)What is the timeline for having 3.5 stable? If I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet Module (3c59x) not recognized

2006-02-13 Thread Steven S.
On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Gilberto Martins wrote: Hi all. Now I have only one problem: the ethernet module. During the initiatio, I have the following message: Failed to load 3c59x. Of course I had no network for this. I tried lsmod and saw that no modules were loaded. What shoud I do to configure

Re: [gentoo-user] KDM and portage

2006-02-08 Thread Steven S.
On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Daniel D Jones wrote: Can someone either explain or give me a pointer to an explanation for the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/ # emerge --pretend kdm These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [blocks B ]

Re: [gentoo-user] Faxing in Gentoo with Digital Phone Line

2006-02-08 Thread Steven S.
On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, John Jolet wrote: On Feb 8, 2006, at 2:11 PM, C. Beamer wrote: Hi Guys: I'm a little fuzzy here, so I'm asking for help. I recently subscribed to my local cable company's digital phone service. Now, I would like to send a fax from my computer. Is rp-ppoe what I need

Re: [gentoo-user] really weird way to install

2006-02-07 Thread Steven S.
On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Ghaith Hachem wrote: hello i was trying to reinstall gentoo after i changed harddrives but i have a little time problem i cant' keep my system unusable for more then an hour i have windows XP and i have write support to my ext3 partitions is there a way i can use cygwin to

Re: [gentoo-user] really weird way to install

2006-02-07 Thread Steven S.
On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Ghaith Hachem wrote: well there was a miracle today i got 3 free hours to manage to install the system up to the bootloader but what i really need is X since this is the family pc :-P the vmware idea is nice.. but i don't know about it can i load a hole drive as my virtual

Re: [gentoo-user] A new experience an account on gentoo without root priv

2006-02-06 Thread Steven S.
On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Harry Putnam wrote: I have an account on a gentoo machine but no root privs. Is there some allowance using emerge to install software in ~/ Not that I know of. I believe you have to be root to use emerge. You should be able to cat the ebuild and download the tarball

[gentoo-user] kdm 3.5.1, broken ebuild?

2006-02-06 Thread Steven S.
Hey list. I'm not sure if this is truly a broken ebuild issue or something weird on my system. I seem to remember my system running fine with the old version of KDM, and upgrading just fine, which is why I'm confused. This is a new install of Gentoo, and kdm refuses to build, which is causing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kdm 3.5.1, broken ebuild?

2006-02-06 Thread Steven S.
Ah-hah! Thank you for pointing that out. I had -fomit-frame-pointers, I'm surprised nothing died before kdm. Ah well, guess I can do an -e to get it the way I really wanted to (and it will work now!). On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Harm Geerts wrote: On Monday 06 February 2006 21:43, Steven S. wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kdm 3.5.1, broken ebuild?

2006-02-06 Thread Steven S.
On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Andrei Slavoiu wrote: --- Steven S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah-hah! Thank you for pointing that out. I had -fomit-frame-pointers, I'm surprised nothing died before kdm. That's strange, there shouldn't be any way that -fomit-frame-pointers could break compilation. I've

Re: [gentoo-user]

2006-02-05 Thread Steven S.
On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Sunday 05 February 2006 23:45, Rafael Fernández López wrote: Well my signature is there because I want it to be there. But I don't want a comment from the list how I HAVE TO UNSUBSCRIBE. One thing is the signature, and another thing is the