[gentoo-user] how to read raw mouse events

2006-01-17 Thread michael
Hi, I have a headless embedded Gentoo system. I'm using an optical mouse to detect rotation of a wheel. I don't need to know how fast or in what direction, but I do need to know whether it is turning or not. As it is headless, I have not bothered to install X. I'm diskless, so I don't have

Re: [gentoo-user] how to read raw mouse events

2006-01-17 Thread Bastiaan
On Tuesday 17 January 2006 09:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a headless embedded Gentoo system. I'm using an optical mouse to detect rotation of a wheel. I don't need to know how fast or in what direction, but I do need to know whether it is turning or not. As it is headless, I

Re: [gentoo-user] usb1 performance out of usb2 external HD

2006-01-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 20:06:50 -0700, Trenton Adams wrote: Actually, that's a good point. All that writing to the FAT would use those flash blocks a lot, which would indeed wear it out. I trashed a Crucial 1GB drive in a few weeks, until I found out about this change. Windows does sync by

Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla firefox 1.5 and gnome

2006-01-17 Thread Holly Bostick
Trenton Adams schreef: On 1/15/06, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trenton Adams schreef: On 1/14/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: gnome carcharias rjf # emerge -pv mozilla-firefox These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done!

[gentoo-user] DHCP Jammer

2006-01-17 Thread Chris Ong
Hi All, Is there anyway to stop unauthorized or unwanted DHCP server to broadcast within a network? Say, I have a DHCP server is distributing 172.30.10.0/24 IP range, but a joker simply plug in another DHCP server and distributing 192.168.12.0/24 IP. Is there anyway I can

Re: [gentoo-user] ipw2200 dmesg error [SOLVED]

2006-01-17 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi Bill, I had this error through several iterations of ipw2200 and gentoo-sources. It went away completely when I loaded genoo-sources-2.6.15. I am using net-wireless/ipw2200-1.0.8-r1, net-wireless/ipw2200-firmware-2.4, and net-wireless/ieee80211-1.1.6. I am not using the kernel modules.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Selecting left/Right audio channel in Mplayer/Xine/Totem etc

2006-01-17 Thread Willie Wong
Look for the -af switch in man mplayer. In particular, assuming you have a stereo disc (2 channel output), mplayer -af channels=2:2:0:0:0:1 source would play channel 0 (probably the left? assuming I have my speakers setup right...) mplayer -af channels=2:2:1:1:1:0 source would play channel

Re: [gentoo-user] how to read raw mouse events

2006-01-17 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 12:11:54AM -0800, Penguin Lover [EMAIL PROTECTED] squawked: Hi, I have a headless embedded Gentoo system. I'm using an optical mouse to detect rotation of a wheel. I don't need to know how fast or in what direction, but I do need to know whether it is turning or

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP and Problematic IP addreses

2006-01-17 Thread Mattias Merilai
Ow Mun Heng wrote: Googling with gentoo + dhclient.conf and dhcp + reject ip addreses doesn't give me any good leads. I have a problem in which the DHCP server assigns a Bad IP address to me. (miss pings, long delays etc..) I have tried various means to get a new IP but it's not giving it to

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP and Problematic IP addreses

2006-01-17 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 12:11 +, Mattias Merilai wrote: Ow Mun Heng wrote: Googling with gentoo + dhclient.conf and dhcp + reject ip addreses doesn't give me any good leads. I have a problem in which the DHCP server assigns a Bad IP address to me. (miss pings, long delays etc..) I have

RE: [gentoo-user] emerge world?

2006-01-17 Thread Michael Kintzios
-Original Message- From: Rumen Yotov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 14 January 2006 19:19 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world? [snip...] Generally speaking you first unmerge all blocking packages, then emerge poppler (which replaces

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP and Problematic IP addreses

2006-01-17 Thread Matthias Bethke
Hi Ow, on Tuesday, 2006-01-17 at 13:22:06, you wrote: I have a problem in which the DHCP server assigns a Bad IP address to me. (miss pings, long delays etc..) I have tried various means to get a new IP but it's not giving it to me since the DHCP has bonded it self to my PCMCIA NIC's MAC

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP Jammer

2006-01-17 Thread Matthias Bethke
Hi Chris, on Tuesday, 2006-01-17 at 17:50:01, you wrote: Say, I have a DHCP server is distributing 172.30.10.0/24 IP range, but a joker simply plug in another DHCP server and distributing 192.168.12.0/24 IP. Is there anyway I can stop the unwanted DHCP broadcast? That's a network

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-utils + gnome

2006-01-17 Thread Holly Bostick
habutre . schreef: Hi guys! My problem it's following: I've a AC97/I82801 sound device building as a built-in on my kernel. My sound work a fun, but I can't store the sound mixer's without a alsa-utils, then all time that i wanna hear a good music, i did should change my volume

Re: [gentoo-user] hello

2006-01-17 Thread jarry
Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The message contains Unicode characters and has been sent as a binary attachment. - Virus report (proxy4) Virus was found and quarantined in

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world?

2006-01-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 10:53:50 -, Michael Kintzios wrote: Generally speaking you first unmerge all blocking packages, then emerge poppler (which replaces xpdf). I had missed that! Are you saying that if poppler has been emerged there's no need to re-emerge xpdf? I didn't know that and

Re: [gentoo-user] hello

2006-01-17 Thread Owen Ford
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 12:52 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are those people really too stupid to realise that it is useless to send windows viruses to linux mailing list??? Are there still people so stupid that they reply to virus spam?!!11! 1eleventyone! -- Owen Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world?

2006-01-17 Thread Matthias Bethke
Hi Michael, on Tuesday, 2006-01-17 at 10:53:50, you wrote: I had missed that! Are you saying that if poppler has been emerged there's no need to re-emerge xpdf? I didn't know that and I re-emerged xpdf. I think you do, poppler is just the library. I have another problem with poppler now

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world?

2006-01-17 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 17 January 2006 14:48, Matthias Bethke wrote: Hi Michael, on Tuesday, 2006-01-17 at 10:53:50, you wrote: I had missed that! Are you saying that if poppler has been emerged there's no need to re-emerge xpdf? I didn't know that and I re-emerged xpdf. I think you do, poppler is just

Re: [gentoo-user] netscape-flash and sound predicament

2006-01-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/16/06, Abhay Kedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 16 January 2006 19:17, Michael Crute wrote: On the topic of sound servers. Being fairly ignorant about sound on linux (but willing to learn). Is there a good reason to use a sound server or am I better off to use ALSA directly? What

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world?

2006-01-17 Thread Matthias Bethke
Hi Uwe, on Tuesday, 2006-01-17 at 15:53:20, you wrote: If I understand the ebuild of portaltransforms correctly it wants either pdftohtml or lynx. Maybe you can get away by installing lynx? No, it wants both of them. I do have lynx but that's probably for HTML-text and the other, as the name

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world?

2006-01-17 Thread Michael A. Smith
Matthias Bethke wrote: Hi Uwe, on Tuesday, 2006-01-17 at 15:53:20, you wrote: If I understand the ebuild of portaltransforms correctly it wants either pdftohtml or lynx. Maybe you can get away by installing lynx? No, it wants both of them. I do have lynx but that's probably for HTML-text

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP and Problematic IP addreses

2006-01-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/16/06, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Googling with gentoo + dhclient.conf and dhcp + reject ip addreses doesn't give me any good leads. I have a problem in which the DHCP server assigns a Bad IP address to me. (miss pings, long delays etc..) I have tried various means to get a

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world?

2006-01-17 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 17 January 2006 16:47, Michael A. Smith wrote: Matthias Bethke wrote: Hi Uwe, on Tuesday, 2006-01-17 at 15:53:20, you wrote: If I understand the ebuild of portaltransforms correctly it wants either pdftohtml or lynx. Maybe you can get away by installing lynx? No, it wants both of

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world?

2006-01-17 Thread Michael A. Smith
Uwe Thiem wrote: *** begin snippet *** RDEPEND==net-zope/cmf-1.4.7 app-text/htmltidy app-text/wv dev-libs/libxslt app-text/xlhtml app-text/unrtf dev-python/docutils www-client/lynx || ( app-text/pdftohtml app-text/poppler ) ***

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world?

2006-01-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:54:45 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: *** begin snippet *** RDEPEND==net-zope/cmf-1.4.7 app-text/htmltidy app-text/wv dev-libs/libxslt app-text/xlhtml app-text/unrtf dev-python/docutils www-client/lynx || (

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world?

2006-01-17 Thread Nagatoro
Uwe Thiem wrote: RDEPEND==net-zope/cmf-1.4.7 app-text/htmltidy app-text/wv dev-libs/libxslt app-text/xlhtml app-text/unrtf dev-python/docutils www-client/lynx || ( app-text/pdftohtml app-text/poppler ) Isn't that || a logical OR?

[gentoo-user] *.bin and /dev/loop help

2006-01-17 Thread krgn
hello, I would like to be able to mount a *.bin image locally without burning it beforehand, but I don't understand atm how to create a /dev/loop device node and make it work so I can mount it. I don't think I need encryption for it. Which Kernel options are necessary (could not find anything

[gentoo-user] OT - Concerns (possible security threat?)

2006-01-17 Thread Michael Sullivan
I'm concerned. When I got out of the shower just now and came to check my email, I didn't have any. Concerned that sendmail might not be running, I ps'd for it: bullet mail # ps ax | grep 'sendmail' 9939 ?Ss 0:00 sendmail: Queue [EMAIL PROTECTED]:30:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Concerns (possible security threat?)

2006-01-17 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 17, 2006, at 11:14 AM, Michael Sullivan wrote: I'm concerned. When I got out of the shower just now and came to check my email, I didn't have any. Concerned that sendmail might not be running, I ps'd for it: bullet mail # ps ax | grep 'sendmail' 9939 ?Ss 0:00 sendmail:

Re: [gentoo-user] netscape-flash and sound predicament

2006-01-17 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Tuesday 17 January 2006 20:02, Richard Fish wrote: But since ALSA now has the dmix plugin that works pretty well for those cards that do not provide hardware mixing, the only reason to continue to use a sound server is if you have trouble configuring dmix. The use of dmix is not

Re: [gentoo-user] *.bin and /dev/loop help

2006-01-17 Thread David Morgan
On 17:13 Tue 17 Jan , krgn wrote: Which Kernel options are necessary (could not find anything about /dev/loop in ck-patched 2.6.15) and how is the procedure to mount this binary image? Symbol: BLK_DEV_LOOP [=y] Prompt: Loopback device support Defined at drivers/block/Kconfig:261

Re: [gentoo-user] how to read raw mouse events

2006-01-17 Thread michael
I would have thought that should be fine, but I tried that on my desktop, and it locked up my mouse so I thought there was something wrong with this approach. You are the second person to suggest this, though, so I'll try this again. Thanks, Michael On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Willie Wong wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Concerns (possible security threat?)

2006-01-17 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 11:20 -0600, John Jolet wrote: On Jan 17, 2006, at 11:14 AM, Michael Sullivan wrote: I'm concerned. When I got out of the shower just now and came to check my email, I didn't have any. Concerned that sendmail might not be running, I ps'd for it: bullet mail

[gentoo-user] How To set compile time options in emerge

2006-01-17 Thread Oumar Ndiaye
Hi, I installed php-4 via emerge but I am having problems getting php to work with mysql. After many research I have concluded that php-4 is not compiled with the with-mysql option. I need to recompile php-4 with the with-mysql option and reinstall it. How do I do that with emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Concerns (possible security threat?)

2006-01-17 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 17, 2006, at 11:35 AM, Michael Sullivan wrote: On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 11:20 -0600, John Jolet wrote: On Jan 17, 2006, at 11:14 AM, Michael Sullivan wrote: I'm concerned. When I got out of the shower just now and came to check my email, I didn't have any. Concerned that sendmail

[gentoo-user] ending the htaccess madness

2006-01-17 Thread kashani
I've been setting up a number of new webapps and have a dozen or so .htaccess/.htpasswd doodads floating around. It's not too terrible to manage, but I think there should be a better way. I'm imagining some sort of php interface that allows users to change their passwords and admins to

Re: [gentoo-user] How To set compile time options in emerge

2006-01-17 Thread Simon Prosser
On Wednesday 18 January 2006 12:36, Oumar Ndiaye wrote: Hi, I installed php-4 via emerge but I am having problems getting php to work with mysql. After many research I have concluded that php-4 is not compiled with the -with-mysql option. I need to recompile php-4 with the -with-mysql

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Concerns (possible security threat?)

2006-01-17 Thread kashani
Michael Sullivan wrote: camille ~ # telnet espersunited.com 25 Trying 64.149.52.102... Connected to espersunited.com. Escape character is '^]'. 220 bullet.espersunited.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.13.4/8.13.4; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 11:33:21 -0600 helo somedomain.com 250 bullet.espersunited.com Hello

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Concerns (possible security threat?)

2006-01-17 Thread Alec Shaner
Michael Sullivan wrote: I'm concerned. When I got out of the shower just now and came to check my email, I didn't have any. Concerned that sendmail might not be running, I ps'd for it: [snip] Is there a way to make sure that unauthorized people are not sending mail through my domain? I

Re: [gentoo-user] How To set compile time options in emerge

2006-01-17 Thread Tom Martin
On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 01:36:50 +1300 Oumar Ndiaye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed php-4 via emerge but I am having problems getting php to work with mysql. After many research I have concluded that php-4 is not compiled with the -with-mysql option. I need to recompile php-4 with the

Re: [gentoo-user] How To set compile time options in emerge

2006-01-17 Thread Holly Bostick
Simon Prosser schreef: On Wednesday 18 January 2006 12:36, Oumar Ndiaye wrote: Hi, I installed php-4 via emerge but I am having problems getting php to work with mysql. After many research I have concluded that php-4 is not compiled with the -with-mysql option. I need to

[gentoo-user] dev-lang/php blocking

2006-01-17 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all. Had a rather weird thing happen. I hadn't run an 'emerge world' in a few days, so when I did, there was a long grocery list of things to update. Most of them seem to be related to, or dependent upon, the recent perl and php updates. I had

Re: [gentoo-user] *.bin and /dev/loop help

2006-01-17 Thread krgn
Symbol: BLK_DEV_LOOP [=y] Prompt: Loopback device support Defined at drivers/block/Kconfig:261 Location: - Device Drivers - Block devices mount -o loop ok, installed it as module and its there... RockHead src # ls /dev/|grep loop loop loop0 loop1 loop2 loop3 loop4 loop5

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world?

2006-01-17 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 17 January 2006 17:12, Michael A. Smith wrote: Uwe Thiem wrote: *** begin snippet *** RDEPEND==net-zope/cmf-1.4.7 app-text/htmltidy app-text/wv dev-libs/libxslt app-text/xlhtml app-text/unrtf dev-python/docutils

Re: [gentoo-user] *.bin and /dev/loop help

2006-01-17 Thread Holly Bostick
krgn schreef: Symbol: BLK_DEV_LOOP [=y] Prompt: Loopback device support Defined at drivers/block/Kconfig:261 Location: - Device Drivers - Block devices mount -o loop ok, installed it as module and its there... snip but if I try to mount the iso image.. it outputs

Re: [gentoo-user] netscape-flash and sound predicament

2006-01-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/17/06, Abhay Kedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is, if you are using 1.0.9 ALSA. I did not do anything do setup dmix and it works fine. Ah, I see my knowledge of dmix is obsolete. Now I can purge it to make room for something else! :- -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] ogle fails to read dvd

2006-01-17 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everyone, Here's the error(same as from root prompt): [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ogle WARNING[dvd_gui]: add_keybinding(): No such action: 'SaveScreenshot' WARNING[dvd_gui]: add_keybinding(): No such action: 'SaveScreenshotWithSPU' libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.9 for DVD access

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound plays in double speed.

2006-01-17 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 01:54:56PM +0200, Penguin Lover David Harel squawked: Okay, a few more questions: 1) Is that behavior reproducible? a) If you reboot, does the sound play normally? Yep, but I don't have to reboot, I killed the artswrapper the other time (it logged me out) and

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Concerns (possible security threat?)

2006-01-17 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 10:02 -0800, kashani wrote: Michael Sullivan wrote: camille ~ # telnet espersunited.com 25 Trying 64.149.52.102... Connected to espersunited.com. Escape character is '^]'. 220 bullet.espersunited.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.13.4/8.13.4; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 11:33:21 -0600

Re: [gentoo-user] please ignore

2006-01-17 Thread Trenton Adams
I just can't. To ignore such a message would just irritate me to no end. :P On 1/17/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, please ignore this mail, it is just a test. And don't flame me for it, it is legit. See bugzilla. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list --

[gentoo-user] more problems emerging world

2006-01-17 Thread Antoine
Hi, I had put unicode in my make.conf, well, just cos unicode is a Good Thing. However, I now get audacity telling me that I must emerge wxGTK without unicode. Fine, I'll get rid of it I say to myself. Only I get ncurses telling me I will break my system if I emerge without unicode. Anyone

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Concerns (possible security threat?) [SOLVED]

2006-01-17 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 13:13 -0500, Alec Shaner wrote: Michael Sullivan wrote: I'm concerned. When I got out of the shower just now and came to check my email, I didn't have any. Concerned that sendmail might not be running, I ps'd for it: [snip] Is there a way to make sure that

Re: [gentoo-user] more problems emerging world

2006-01-17 Thread Holly Bostick
Antoine schreef: Hi, I had put unicode in my make.conf, well, just cos unicode is a Good Thing. However, I now get audacity telling me that I must emerge wxGTK without unicode. Fine, I'll get rid of it I say to myself. Only I get ncurses telling me I will break my system if I emerge without

Re: [gentoo-user] more problems emerging world

2006-01-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/17/06, Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I had put unicode in my make.conf, well, just cos unicode is a Good Thing. However, I now get audacity telling me that I must emerge wxGTK without unicode. Fine, I'll get rid of it I say to myself. Only I get ncurses telling me I will break my

Re: [gentoo-user] more problems emerging world

2006-01-17 Thread Antoine
David Morgan wrote: On 20:42 Tue 17 Jan , Antoine wrote: I had put unicode in my make.conf, well, just cos unicode is a Good Thing. However, I now get audacity telling me that I must emerge wxGTK without unicode. Fine, I'll get rid of it I say to myself. Only I get ncurses telling me I

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Concerns (possible security threat?)

2006-01-17 Thread kashani
Michael Sullivan wrote: That's a bit difficult, seeing as I don't have access to a computer that would have telnet installed and is outside my network... Doing tests from your own network is the equivalent of going into your bathroom and then trying to break into your house to figure out

[gentoo-user] email within a LAN?

2006-01-17 Thread matthew . garman
Does anyone know of a relatively easy way to send email within a private LAN (192.168.x.x), and at the same time know when to send the mail to an external router? I have three gentoo boxes and one OpenBSD box in my home LAN; I'd like to be able to send email internally (i.e. without going out to

Re: [gentoo-user] email within a LAN?

2006-01-17 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 17, 2006, at 2:37 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of a relatively easy way to send email within a private LAN (192.168.x.x), and at the same time know when to send the mail to an external router? I have three gentoo boxes and one OpenBSD box in my home LAN; I'd like to be

Re: [gentoo-user] How To set compile time options in emerge

2006-01-17 Thread Marton Gabor
Hi! Try the mysql use flag. Marton Gabor [EMAIL PROTECTED],ICQ UIN: 169394884,T: +36 30 447-2042 VE-MIK VeHoK informatikai megbizott informatika-l adminisztrator informatika-lev adminisztrator bsc-info adminisztrator gazdinfo adminisztrator Oumar Ndiaye wrote: Hi, I installed php-4 via

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Concerns (possible security threat?)

2006-01-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 13:33:54 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: That's a bit difficult, seeing as I don't have access to a computer that would have telnet installed and is outside my network... There are several places offering free shell accounts, which are perfect for just this sort of thing. I

[gentoo-user] UDEV permissions

2006-01-17 Thread Tom Smith
I'm working on a manual QEMU install (that is, I'm installing from source downloaded from their website). There's a reference in their kqemu documentation about setting UDEV permissions on /dev/kqemu. I initially disregarded this, but now it's become an issue. It was easily resolved by /manually/

Re: [gentoo-user] UDEV permissions

2006-01-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 14:50:08 -0700, Tom Smith wrote: What I'm having difficulty with is finding information on the illusive /etc/udev/permissions.d directory. According to the kqemu docs, I should edit the file /etc/udev/permissions.d/50-udev.permissions and add the following line to it:

Re: [gentoo-user] UDEV permissions

2006-01-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/17/06, Tom Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I'm having difficulty with is finding information on the illusive /etc/udev/permissions.d directory. According to the kqemu docs, I should edit the file /etc/udev/permissions.d/50-udev.permissions and add the following line to it:

Re: [gentoo-user] UDEV permissions

2006-01-17 Thread Tom Smith
Thank you. I am using the latest udev from Portage. The file I found in /etc/udev/rules.d is 50-dev.rules. Haven't tired it yet but will tomorrow. Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 14:50:08 -0700, Tom Smith wrote: What I'm having difficulty with is finding information on the illusive

Re: [gentoo-user] UDEV permissions

2006-01-17 Thread Tom Smith
Well, I didn't emerge the Gentoo qemu--it is a few versions behind the official so I opted for using the official release (0.8.0, I believe). Perhaps I'll try the Portage version of qemu before proceeding much further. :-? Richard Fish wrote: On 1/17/06, Tom Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I unsubscribe?

2006-01-17 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 21:34:17 +0100 Andrea Barisani wrote: Lists header are just fine, you can use [EMAIL PROTECTED] as well as [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can also try [EMAIL PROTECTED] or look up http://www.gentoo.org and the lists page (it's there, easy to find). So there's plenty of ways

Re: [gentoo-user] usb1 performance out of usb2 external HD

2006-01-17 Thread b.n.
Actually, that's a good point. All that writing to the FAT would use those flash blocks a lot, which would indeed wear it out. I trashed a Crucial 1GB drive in a few weeks, until I found out about this change. I think this problem should find its way in the official Gentoo docs (if it

Re: [gentoo-user] UDEV permissions

2006-01-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/17/06, Tom Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I didn't emerge the Gentoo qemu--it is a few versions behind the official so I opted for using the official release (0.8.0, I believe). Perhaps I'll try the Portage version of qemu before proceeding much further. :-? echo

Re: [gentoo-user] UDEV permissions

2006-01-17 Thread Holly Bostick
Tom Smith schreef: Well, I didn't emerge the Gentoo qemu--it is a few versions behind the official so I opted for using the official release (0.8.0, I believe). I don't know why you think this: motub - eix qemu * app-emulation/kqemu Available versions: 0.7.2 Installed:

Re: [gentoo-user] Source Code?

2006-01-17 Thread Nick Rout
On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 18:27:32 +0930 Iain Buchanan wrote: As far as I recall for Fedora (haven't used it in a while) what you download as a src.rpm is already patched the way Fedora has compiled it to make the rpm. I don't know about the others, but I assume all binary distro's would be

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world?

2006-01-17 Thread Matthias Bethke
Hi Michael, on Tuesday, 2006-01-17 at 09:47:44, you wrote: Matthias Bethke wrote: Hi Uwe, on Tuesday, 2006-01-17 at 15:53:20, you wrote: If I understand the ebuild of portaltransforms correctly it wants either pdftohtml or lynx. Maybe you can get away by installing lynx? No, it wants

Re: [gentoo-user] Source Code?

2006-01-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 12:27 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 18:27:32 +0930 Iain Buchanan wrote: As far as I recall for Fedora (haven't used it in a while) what you download as a src.rpm is already patched the way Fedora has compiled it to make the rpm. I don't know about the

Re: [gentoo-user] UDEV permissions

2006-01-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:37:13 -0700, Tom Smith wrote: Thank you. I am using the latest udev from Portage. The file I found in /etc/udev/rules.d is 50-dev.rules. Haven't tired it yet but will tomorrow. Don't use that file, that is for udev's own settings, so it will be updated when udev is. Use

Re: [gentoo-user] UDEV permissions

2006-01-17 Thread Dale
On Tuesday 17 January 2006 18:40, Neil Bothwick wrote: Don't use that file, that is for udev's own settings, so it will be updated when udev is. Use 10-udev.rules (create it if not present) which won't be affected by udev updates and takes precedence over the higher numbered file. So that's

Re: [gentoo-user] UDEV permissions

2006-01-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/17/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:37:13 -0700, Tom Smith wrote: Thank you. I am using the latest udev from Portage. The file I found in /etc/udev/rules.d is 50-dev.rules. Haven't tired it yet but will tomorrow. Don't use that file, that is for

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world?

2006-01-17 Thread Michael A. Smith
Matthias Bethke wrote: Hi Michael, on Tuesday, 2006-01-17 at 09:47:44, you wrote: Matthias Bethke wrote: Hi Uwe, on Tuesday, 2006-01-17 at 15:53:20, you wrote: If I understand the ebuild of portaltransforms correctly it wants either pdftohtml or lynx. Maybe you can get away by installing

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP and Problematic IP addreses

2006-01-17 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 07:53 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: On 1/16/06, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Googling with gentoo + dhclient.conf and dhcp + reject ip addreses doesn't give me any good leads. I have a problem in which the DHCP server assigns a Bad IP address to me. (miss

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP and Problematic IP addreses

2006-01-17 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 12:01 +0100, Matthias Bethke wrote: Hi Ow, on Tuesday, 2006-01-17 at 13:22:06, you wrote: I have a problem in which the DHCP server assigns a Bad IP address to me. (miss pings, long delays etc..) Short of waiting close 24 hours (and hoping that that address is

Re: [gentoo-user] Java and java.library.path

2006-01-17 Thread Trenton Adams
on the java command line put -Djava.library.path=/usr/lib I don't know if gentoo has a config for this or not, I didn't know ADDLDPATH existed. Who knows, perhaps editing the JRE version of that file would help? On 1/17/06, darren kirby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I am trying to get

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP and Problematic IP addreses

2006-01-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/17/06, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But the problems you describe sound like some other device on the network has the same address as your PC. I think it's more like too much broadcast or problematic Switch/hub etc?? I don't knwo If it was a switch problem, it should not be

Re: [gentoo-user] Source Code?

2006-01-17 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 09:50:51 +0930 Iain Buchanan wrote: The idea of source rpm's is that they contain the pristine sources from the upstream authors, along with a set of patches that get applied when you compile the src.rpm package. So you will likely get inside the src.rpm package:

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP and Problematic IP addreses

2006-01-17 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 19:01 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: On 1/17/06, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But the problems you describe sound like some other device on the network has the same address as your PC. I think it's more like too much broadcast or problematic Switch/hub etc??

[gentoo-user] New install, no modem devices found

2006-01-17 Thread Dale
Hi again, I have got my new install done up to the point that I can get into a GUI, even though the nvidia drivers won't load. Anyway, I want to connect to the net with my serial modem but there are no devices for it to connect with. Here's my first problem. I looked in my /dev folder and

[gentoo-user] gentoolkit-0.2.1 stable on x86

2006-01-17 Thread Paul Varner
All: As I type this gentoolkit-0.2.1 has been marked stable on x86 and I expect it to be marked stable on other architectures in the next few days. Here is a summary of the major changes between gentoolkit-0.2.0 and gentoolkit-0.2.1. A detailed listing of the changes are in

[gentoo-user] amd turion laptop with good linux support (but i run gentoo so good gentoo support is the point)

2006-01-17 Thread nick thompson
Hello all, I am in the near future looking to get a new laptop. I am wanting to get a laptop that has complete linux support as much as possible, ie even the email buttons etc. And one that has nvidia not ati would be wonderful. Anyway, the graphics aren't as important... anyone with any

Re: [gentoo-user][SOLVED] netscape-flash and sound predicament

2006-01-17 Thread Michael Crute
On 1/16/06, Abhay Kedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 16 January 2006 19:17, Michael Crute wrote: Thanks Abhay I will give that a try when I get home today. I assume aoss is part of alsa-utils? (I don't have portage handy to check this out at the moment) It comes from alsa-oss.

Re: [gentoo-user] New install, no modem devices found

2006-01-17 Thread Dale
On Tuesday 17 January 2006 20:23, Dale wrote: Hi again, I have got my new install done up to the point that I can get into a GUI, even though the nvidia drivers won't load. Anyway, I want to connect to the net with my serial modem but there are no devices for it to connect with. Here's my

[gentoo-user] New install, I still can't send email. Same error too.

2006-01-17 Thread Dale
Hi guys. The last thread seemed to have went off base due to more than one problem at a time. I just finished a new install on another hard drive. I now have a working Mozilla, it opens now anyway. I still get the same error when sending emails I used to have though. Here it is again:

Re: [gentoo-user] New install, I still can't send email. Same error too.

2006-01-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi, On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 22:17 -0600, Dale wrote: [snip] sorry I didn't read your original post, I didn't think I could help. I haven't read your original thread, so I don't know if someone has suggested this already. I get this problem when I try to send mail to, say, [EMAIL PROTECTED] from

Re: [gentoo-user] New install, I still can't send email. Same error too.

2006-01-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/17/06, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys. The last thread seemed to have went off base due to more than one problem at a time. I just finished a new install on another hard drive. I now have a working Mozilla, it opens now anyway. I still get the same error when sending emails I

Re: [gentoo-user] New install, I still can't send email. Same error too.

2006-01-17 Thread Dale
On Tuesday 17 January 2006 22:48, Iain Buchanan wrote: snip What you can try is: 1. Make sure you're actually on your isp.com network - get the ip address of their mail server, and get your ip address and see. 2. Enable passwords with your mail client - not just to check mail, but to send

Re: [gentoo-user] New install, I still can't send email. Same error too.

2006-01-17 Thread Dale
On Tuesday 17 January 2006 23:00, Richard Fish wrote: find ~/.mozilla -name prefs.js -exec grep mail.smtpserver {} \; This is on my old install. [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # find home/dale/.mozilla -name prefs.js -exec grep mail.smtpserver {} \; user_pref(mail.smtpserver.smtp1.auth_method, 1);

Re: [gentoo-user] New install, I still can't send email. Same error too.

2006-01-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 23:12 -0600, Dale wrote: On Tuesday 17 January 2006 22:48, Iain Buchanan wrote: What you can try is: 1. Make sure you're actually on your isp.com network - get the ip address of their mail server, and get your ip address and see. I do connect directly to my ISP.

Re: [gentoo-user] hello

2006-01-17 Thread Alexander Skwar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The message contains Unicode characters and has been sent as a binary attachment. - Virus report (proxy4) Virus was found and quarantined in Nice. I think it would be an excellent idea to ban

Re: [gentoo-user] how to read raw mouse events

2006-01-17 Thread michael
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Bastiaan wrote: On Tuesday 17 January 2006 09:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a headless embedded Gentoo system. I'm using an optical mouse to detect rotation of a wheel. I don't need to know how fast or in what direction, but I do need to know whether it is

Re: [gentoo-user] How To set compile time options in emerge

2006-01-17 Thread Alexander Skwar
Oumar Ndiaye wrote: I need to recompile php-4 with the –with-mysql option and reinstall it. How do I do that with emerge or some other ways? You set appropriate USE flags. Alexander Skwar -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] New install, I still can't send email. Same error too.

2006-01-17 Thread Dale
On Tuesday 17 January 2006 23:48, Iain Buchanan wrote: Get the mail server (that you entered in you mail preferences), eg mail.isp.com and type `dig mail.isp.com`. (dig is part of For your ip address, I'm interested in your real world ip, but don't post it here!! ifconfig will get it IFF

Re: [gentoo-user] New install, I still can't send email. Same error too.

2006-01-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi, In my haste to reply, I think I confused myself a bit (and you :) On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 00:05 -0600, Dale wrote: On Tuesday 17 January 2006 23:48, Iain Buchanan wrote: Get the mail server (that you entered in you mail preferences), eg mail.isp.com and type `dig mail.isp.com`. (dig

Re: [gentoo-user] How To set compile time options in emerge

2006-01-17 Thread Mattias Merilai
Oumar Ndiaye wrote: Hi, I installed php-4 via emerge but I am having problems getting php to work with mysql. After many research I have concluded that php-4 is not compiled with the –with-mysql option. I need to recompile php-4 with the –with-mysql option and reinstall it. How do I do

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