Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to make emerge skirt a package built from tar.gz

2005-12-14 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
/profile/package.provided From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OO.o 2?

2005-12-21 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
to emerge OO.o 2. It is ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 in /etc/make.conf isn't it? Regards, Martin S -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE without aRts?

2005-12-31 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
then will running JACK suffice? I have been reading a lot about JACK lately but don't know how it is faring on single user desktop systems. I will be highly thankful for any insights. TIA Regards, Abhay -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about Portage Update

2006-01-01 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
can help update the package? Is there documentation for updating packages? And where would I find the 0.13.1 package source so that I have a base to work with? And then how wou submit the new package to the central repository? Thanks, Bill -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] need help with kmail

2006-01-03 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
made. What MTA are you using? I've seen in my searches something written about MDA's but can't find out what, if any MDA I should be running or what an MDA does. snip -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Sata Controllers and drives

2006-01-08 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
- I see a bunch listed in menuconfig but what have you found to work? Is Promise any good? What are some good brands 2. Sata drives - what have you found to be reliable and work well. I've crossed Hitachi off my list because of my experience with the Ultrastores. Thank you. -- Brett I

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list problems

2006-01-08 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
this be due to a general email slow down due to an increase in spam email traffic? -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Sata Controllers and drives

2006-01-08 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
like I'll pass on Seagate - we used to say the made IDE and DOA drives G. Thanks. On Sunday 08 January 2006 21:07, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi Brett On 1/8/06, Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a system I need to upgrade from SCSI with an Adaptec 3210S RAID (I'm using HItachi nee

[gentoo-user] Video recording

2006-01-08 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I have some VHS tapes I want to record to DVD. I have an Nvidia GeForce3 - TI500 card with Composite Input. For those who have done this what software do you recommend to record the VHS, edit the recording, and then write it to DVD. Thanks. -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Sata Controllers and drives

2006-01-08 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
processing since they're doing it in the driver. I've had good luck with 3ware cards and whatever OEM Adaptec AAC RAID card Dell includes in their machines these days. kashani -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Video recording

2006-01-09 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Thanks. I'll look it up. On Monday 09 January 2006 13:26, James wrote: Brett I. Holcomb brettholcomb at bellsouth.net writes: For those who have done this what software do you recommend to record the VHS, edit the recording, and then write it to DVD. The linux Journal had an article

Re: [gentoo-user] Sata Controllers and drives

2006-01-09 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I have a system I need to upgrade from SCSI with an Adaptec 3210S RAID (I'm using HItachi nee IBM SCSI Ultrastor drives which aren't holding up too well) and am looking at going with SATA. Some input from the those with recommendations or experiences would

Re: [gentoo-user] Sata Controllers and drives

2006-01-09 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
. Western Digital works OK for me. in my .config: CONFIG_SCSI_SATA=y CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_NV=y CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_SIL=y __ Yahoo! DSL – Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware workstation daemon problem

2006-01-14 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
in vmware as i post this =) all with a very big smile to know that windows will no longer die when i dont want it to -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/vmware-workstation-daemon-problem-t720417.html#a23866 92 Sent from the gentoo-user forum at Nabble.com. -- Brett I

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware workstation daemon problem

2006-01-15 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
at Nabble.com. -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware workstation daemon problem

2006-01-15 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
IP address that is allowed through to the outside so I have to use the address of the host. Where do I find docs that go into all of this? Thank you for the explanation. On Sunday January 15 2006 20:05, Richard Fish wrote: On 1/15/06, Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you explain

[gentoo-user] SATA Hardware vs Software RAID

2006-01-19 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I'm moving from SCSI to SATA and was wondering if anyone has any experience with the speed of software RAID vs hardware RAID. I'm currently using hardware RAID. Thanks. -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA Hardware vs Software RAID

2006-01-19 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
the extra horsepower needed, unless your workload is heavily CPU bound. -- Mike Williams -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Packages list

2006-01-19 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Check out man equery. On Thursday January 19 2006 19:25, Felipe Ribeiro wrote: Where do I find the list with all installed packages? Cheers, Felipe -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Easy? Software Products

2006-01-21 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
! Now what do you do? -mw __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't browse WinXP shares from gentoo

2006-01-21 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
my local home LAN), so I don't have anything else to use as a comparison or reference. shrug Matt -- Matt Garman email at: http://raw-sewage.net/index.php?file=email -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Konqueror and scripts

2006-01-29 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
on what it might be. Thanks. -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Sata Controllers and drives

2006-02-01 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
, depending on the sata drives you buy. Works well with the following kernel settings. CONFIG_SCSI=y CONFIG_SCSI_SATA=y CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_VIA=y CONFIG_SCSI_QLA2XXX=y Good luck. Bill Roberts On 20:50 Sun 08 Jan , Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I have a system I need to upgrade from SCSI

Re: [gentoo-user] Sata Controllers and drives

2006-02-01 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
:53, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Well, I have this controller - it arrived today. Did you have to do anything to get I've booted the LiveCD and the controller is listed in lspci. However, EVMS doesn't show any volumes nor does anything show up under scsi in /dev/ I haven't found anything

[gentoo-user] Getting at archives on tapes

2006-02-05 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
get beyond that. I've tried skipping to the next file, records, set mark using mt with no luck. Any tips on how to do this? Thanks. -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting at archives on tapes

2006-02-05 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
it? What I have is this when I do tar -tvf /dev/tape0n. -rw-rw 0/01994 2004-11-20 20:56:25 /tmp/fs_95.lbl Thanks. On Sunday February 5 2006 23:36, Richard Fish wrote: On 2/5/06, Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a scsi tape library and a backup program that creates

Re: [gentoo-user] help on install Gentoo on SATA disks

2006-02-07 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
tried load gentoo doscsi, still didn't work, can somebody help me out? Thanks in advance! -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting at archives on tapes

2006-02-07 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
, Richard Fish wrote: On 2/5/06, Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a scsi tape library and a backup program that creates datasets of tar files on the tapes. I gather each dataset is a tar file. I would like to be able to access each of these tar files

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting at archives on tapes

2006-02-07 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
into tar, dd, and the tape. On Tuesday February 7 2006 10:20, Richard Fish wrote: On 2/5/06, Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, I think I figured out what they are doing. They have a bunch of files for the labels. If I move forward using asf n where n is a number from 1-n I

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware issues, probably overheating, help?

2006-02-18 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
already given - you get what you pay - so go for a good quality PSU with adequate rating for your system's needs. -- Regards, Mick -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hardware issues, probably overheating, help?

2006-02-19 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
- lock up or quit for unexplained reasons. motherboard monitor? Is that an application? -- Regards, Mick -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Motherboards

2006-02-24 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I need to purchase a motherboard that supports SATA and am looking for recommendations. I used to use ASUS but their support is non-existent and totally stupid. Unfortunately this will be for a Windows system but I'd like feedback on what is good and bad. Thanks. -- Brett I. Holcomb

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Motherboards

2006-02-24 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I have a Tyan Tiger and love it. However, it may be out of my price range at this time but they are first on my list, too! On Friday February 24 2006 20:50, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Friday 24 February 2006 19:27, Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] Motherboards

2006-02-24 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Thanks. I believe Tom's Hardware liked ASRock, too. I'll add them to my list. On Friday February 24 2006 21:02, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Saturday 25 February 2006 02:27, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I need to purchase a motherboard that supports SATA and am looking for recommendations

Re: [gentoo-user] Motherboards

2006-02-25 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
That's interesting. On Saturday February 25 2006 01:55, Jarry wrote: Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Thanks. I believe Tom's Hardware liked ASRock, too. I'll add them to my list. I need to purchase a motherboard that supports SATA and am looking for recommendations. I used to use ASUS

Re: [gentoo-user] Motherboards

2006-02-25 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
: Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Thanks. I believe Tom's Hardware liked ASRock, too. I'll add them to my list. AFAIK, ASRock is nothing else, then just daughter-company of ASUS, and its primary business-area are low-end (cheap) products which ASUS did not want to sell under name ASUS. But I do

Re: [gentoo-user] Teaching Linux to remember USB

2006-02-26 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
. Is this even possible? I just want my normal user to always be able to mount my flash drive without having to su to root to edit fstab first. Auto mounting would be cool as well but isn't necessary. I'm just trying to avoid hassle. Ideas? Suggestions? -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] system boot

2006-02-26 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
? ? ? Of course if I run /sbin/lilo, the system complains yababa root # /sbin/lilo Fatal: open /boot/bzImage: No such file or directory yababa root # Any pointers will be greatly appreciated ! Regards Pete -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Where do these use flags come from?

2006-02-26 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
: Enable features for web developers (e.g. Venkman) - - xinerama : Add support for the xinerama X11 extension, which allows you to stretch your display across multiple monitors + + xprint : Support for xprint, http://www.mozilla.org/projects/xprint/ -- Bo Andresen -- Brett I. Holcomb

Re: [gentoo-user] Where do these use flags come from?

2006-02-26 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
If you look at the ebuild there is an IUSE entry. You can also use equery uses package name to see what it uses. On Sunday February 26 2006 21:40, Ryan Tandy wrote: Brett I. Holcomb wrote: They come from /etc/make.conf or /etc/portage/package.use. The profile you are using has defaults

Re: [gentoo-user] Where do these use flags come from?

2006-02-26 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Evidently I didn't understand what you were asking the first time - sorry it didn't meet your needs. I learned something, too - that the eclasses can pass their flags on. On Sunday February 26 2006 22:03, Bo Andresen wrote: On Monday 27 February 2006 03:49, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: If you

Re: [gentoo-user] Sata Controllers and drives

2006-02-26 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
=y CONFIG_SCSI_SATA=y CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_VIA=y CONFIG_SCSI_QLA2XXX=y Good luck. Bill Roberts On 20:50 Sun 08 Jan , Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I have a system I need to upgrade from SCSI with an Adaptec 3210S RAID (I'm using HItachi nee IBM SCSI Ultrastor drives which aren't holding up

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: modules built post kernel install (on the fly)

2006-03-04 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
the kernel (reboot). Ok, this is confusing to me... What do you mean by `built in'. I'm thinking the very nature of a module is that it isn't built in. Or do you just mean I'd chose `*' instead of `m' and move bzImage into place in /boot? -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Wacky Mouse... (fwd)

2005-04-18 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
-- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 21:39:10 -0400 From: David Corbin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet Card Init order?

2005-04-20 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Check the Gentoo udev docs which have links to a couple of good sites that are helpful. From: Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/04/20 Wed PM 02:55:07 EDT To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet Card Init order? Neil Bothwick wrote: Alternatively,

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] rdesktop

2005-04-25 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Frank, do you have info (documentation, etc) on how you got this working. Thanks. From: Adi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/04/25 Mon PM 05:55:50 EDT To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] rdesktop Luni 25 Aprilie 2005 12:37, Dirk Raeder a scris: Frank Schafer wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage still seeing non-existant version 5's of packages

2005-04-29 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Do you have a portage overlay? From: Calvin Spealman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/04/29 Fri PM 02:45:49 EDT To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Portage still seeing non-existant version 5's of packages For a few packages, currently k3b and koffice, portage is seeing

[gentoo-user] EVMS for /boot, /

2005-05-01 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I understand that you can put /boot and / on an LVM but it's not recommended. What about making / and /boot EVMS compatible volumes - will that work? Thanks. -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] EVMS for /boot, /

2005-05-02 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
schrieb ext Brett I. Holcomb: I understand that you can put /boot and / on an LVM but it's not recommended. What about making / and /boot EVMS compatible volumes - will that work? / yes, you'll have to boot with an initrd. /boot depends on the bootloader. AFAIK there is a patch for lilo to make

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] EVMS for /boot, /

2005-05-02 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] EVMS for /boot, / Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I understand that you can put /boot and / on an LVM but it's not recommended. What about making / and /boot EVMS compatible volumes - will that work? I'm not sure what you mean by making 'compatible

Re: [gentoo-user] recommendation for/against USB and PS/2 KVM switch to work with gentoo

2005-05-02 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
/2 keyboard). Does anyone have any recommendations, for or against, KVM switches that play well with gentoo? Thanks, Michael -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2005-05-02 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
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RE: [gentoo-user] can't mount CD

2005-05-04 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
to, whether you're using the legacy devfs or udev, etc. /dev/hdc will always map to the ide device where /dev/cdrom might be incorrectly configured (i.e. via udev) to not map to the correct device. Dave -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] libsdl emerge dies

2005-05-07 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
? I don't care whether it's a matter of doing a new checksum or bypassing verification. I just want the damn thing to build. I have never fiddled around with an ebuild before, so I need specific instructions if I have to generate a new checksum. This would be my first time. -- Brett I. Holcomb

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Config - How to Enable Advansys SCSI Support?

2005-05-07 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
6:42 PM Brett I. Holcomb wrote: For me it shows up in menuconfig Device Drivers-SCSI Device Support-SCSI Low level Drivers and then selcet the Advansys option either as a module or in the kernel. If you're booting off of it make sure it's in the kernel. Not there for me. I'm using gentoo-source I

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Config - How to Enable Advansys SCSI Support? -- SOLVED!!!

2005-05-07 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
You're welcome. On Sat, 7 May 2005, Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 5/7/2005 7:19 PM Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I now run 2.6.11-r5 and have -r6 (gentoo-sources) installed. It's in both. I have prompt for experimental checked in the menuconfig (first item). If I uncheck it then Advansys goes away

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Config - How to Enable Advansys SCSI Support?

2005-05-07 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Thanks. On Sat, 7 May 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: Good work Brett! On 5/7/05, Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I now run 2.6.11-r5 and have -r6 (gentoo-sources) installed. It's in both. I have prompt for experimental checked in the menuconfig (first item). If I uncheck it then Advansys

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2005-05-07 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
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[gentoo-user] MTU for DSL

2005-05-08 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
/conf.d/local.start but I'm wondering if there is a better place. Thanks. -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How do you get OpenOffice to run?

2005-05-08 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
openoffice.org window what error messages do you get? ...Ric I got it working with the ooffice command, but only as root. Doesn't seem to work when as a regular user. Rob. -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] First Install - Help Setting Root Password

2005-05-08 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
not permitted bash-2.05b$ I repeated to two scenarios above with several different passwords. All attempts failed. So I have a bright shiny new system that I'd just love to be able to get in to. :) Any suggestions? Thanks, Drew -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nfs export/remote mount problem

2005-05-10 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
should check on please let me know. I'm completely puzzled here. The machine serves as a MythTV backend server as well as a day to day desktop for my wife. It's a great machine in every other respect. I just cannot figure this one out. Thanks, Mark -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nfs export/remote mount problem

2005-05-11 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
. Thanks! - Mark On 5/10/05, Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's my hosts.deny and allow set up per the How-To. [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc # cat hosts.allow portmap: 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 lockd: 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 mountd: 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 rquotad: 192.168.1.0

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.0

2005-05-11 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
say for sure. Sigi Hi, I'm still trying to figure out why my install doesn't execute for normal users. So OO only works for root. Upon the ooffice command a normal user gets a message regarding setup or something like that, then it aborts. Rob. -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] links in Thunderbird

2005-05-14 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Its the equivalent of the windows format c: G. On Sat, 14 May 2005, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 14 May 2005 12:01:46 -0400 (EDT), Brett I. Holcomb wrote: You might also check cfdisk - it presents, to me anyway, a better layout of what I have and what I'm doing and I can work in megs, kb, etc

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone Know Why a New Kernel Would Kill Networking?

2005-05-19 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
rm_init error 3) sata_nv - hangs indefinitely This is pretty fun. -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] adding files to an iso image

2005-05-20 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
files to an iso image Does anyone know of a linux based prog to add files to an iso image? There are windows based ones but thats a route I'd rather not go down. Thanks in advance -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Great idea. I'll give it a go. Thanks everyone -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] adding files to an iso image

2005-05-20 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Wouldn't that be nice! Oh, well till then we copy, modify, make new iso. On Fri, 20 May 2005, Zac Medico wrote: Nice bluff though. I was hoping sombody added rw support to the iso9660 driver ;-) --- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay - it was a good idea in theory. However, he can

Re: [gentoo-user] keeping source

2005-05-20 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
* as I was looking in /var/tmp/portage and /usr/portage and didnt find them. How do I go about keeping the source for later reference of the various packages that I emerge with gentoo. Charles -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] Dynamic DNS

2005-05-20 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
A static dynamic DNS G. Thanks. I'll look at that. On Fri, 20 May 2005, Michael Semcheski wrote: Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I want to use dhcp on my home network to assign IP addresses which means I'll need a dynamic DNS. I know I can go to dyndns.org and set up something with them but can I

Re: [gentoo-user] Dynamic DNS

2005-05-20 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
So does mine but you need to sign up for an external service. I'd like to try it without that. On Fri, 20 May 2005, Rob wrote: Brett I. Holcomb wrote: A static dynamic DNS G. Thanks. I'll look at that. On Fri, 20 May 2005, Michael Semcheski wrote: Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I want

Re: [gentoo-user] Dynamic DNS

2005-05-21 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Thanks. I'll look at it. On Sat, 21 May 2005, Felix Tiede wrote: Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I want to use dhcp on my home network to assign IP addresses which means I'll need a dynamic DNS. I know I can go to dyndns.org and set up something with them but can I setup my own name server (BIND

Re: [gentoo-user] last problem OpenOffice not working from user acct.

2005-05-21 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
that the setup is aborted. Who knows what this means, but its irritating, having to go back in to user directory and chowning and chgrpin files. Rob. -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] no /dev/v4l devices after switching to udev? (possibly)

2005-05-22 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
linux # I've checked that both have v4l support enabled in the kernel. What am I missing on this new machine? I'm sure there must just be some other thign required to get this turned on? I don't seem to be able to configure MythTV without this. Thanks, Mark -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] no /dev/v4l devices after switching to udev? (possibly)

2005-05-22 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Okay. That's not it. Here's what I have in /etc/conf.d/rc that pertains to udev/devfs. I assume you have RC_DEVFSD_STARTUP set to no but what about the tarball? # Set to yes if you want to save /dev to a tarball on shutdown # and restore it on startup. This is useful if you have a lot of #

Re: [gentoo-user] no /dev/v4l devices after switching to udev? (possibly)

2005-05-22 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Try the tarball no. It may be using the old devfs tarball. On Sun, 22 May 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: On 5/22/05, Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay. That's not it. Here's what I have in /etc/conf.d/rc that pertains to udev/devfs. I assume you have RC_DEVFSD_STARTUP set

Re: [gentoo-user] portage v. yum with regards to java

2005-05-22 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
My 2 cents worth. I used RPM for a long time, went to Gentoo about three years ago. This year I had to start using FC2 and FC3. I've been trying to use apt-get and looked at yum. Both of those made me appreciate how good portage is and how many packages we have available. Frankly both

Re: [gentoo-user] wine

2005-05-23 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Who's doing the porting and where do we get them. Some time ago I wanted to get some of the games and all the links pointed to Loki who was no more. On Tue, 24 May 2005, Johannes Weiner wrote: Games don't run well in emulation, especially Doom III and Half-Life 2, due to the heavy use of

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel building tools

2005-05-25 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
oldconfig usually works for minor version changes - just don't use it to go from say a 2.4 to 2.6. xconfig needs qt installed - I get an error about qt when I try to run it. * * Unable to find the QT installation. Please make sure that the * QT development package is correctly installed and

[gentoo-user] Clamav out of date

2005-05-28 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
, f-level: 5, builder: ccordes) WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED - please update immediately! WARNING: Current functionality level = 4, required = 5 -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Clamav out of date

2005-05-28 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
improved and the pid and socket files have been moved to a much more logical place. Expect to do a small amount of fiddling. If your life doesn't depend on it, you'd be OK using the latest. I think that you need the latest version to catch all the viri. -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] Clamav out of date

2005-05-29 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
guess I'll wait until 0.85 is unmasked. Hi, Had this problem too, even more clamav (x86) wasn't working with qmail-scanner at all. Went to ~x86 and it works. Maybe 0.85.1 should be made stable, not just as a warning ;) HTH. Rumen -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User

Re: [gentoo-user] Clamav out of date

2005-05-29 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I forgot about the thirty day wait. I'll keyword it. On Sun, 29 May 2005, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 28 May 2005 20:08:53 -0400 (EDT), Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Yes, I saw that - but it's masked for some reason and I hesitate to install it until it's unmasked as I assume it's masked

Re: [gentoo-user] Printer setup tool

2005-05-30 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
CUPS, restart CUPS, reopen the web interface and reinstall the printer. I can't, cupsd dies quickly. Well, that's a problem. At what point does it die (what are you doing when it dies), and what does it say with its dying breath (error message)? Holly -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL

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

2005-06-17 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
consoles. I am grateful that my current configs weren't overwritten, but I would still like to know what hit me. -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2005-06-18 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
:10PM -0400, Brett I. Holcomb wrote It was a baselayout change. If you'd checked all the changes you would have seen much of the stuff has moved to /etc/conf.d files. For example, rc.conf is stripped down but the items that were there are now in files in /etc/conf.d. m450 root # man rc.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] too many devs in /dev since udev

2005-06-19 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
start my gentoo with an empty /dev directory which is re-populated by udev? Thx Sven -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternatives to xdm/gdm?

2005-06-20 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
seems so sparce and doesn't allow shutdown. Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternatives to xdm/gdm?

2005-06-20 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Can you just set .xinitrc to loop back (go to) the exec command so if myth is exited it executes it again? On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: On 6/20/05, Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you've executed mythfrontend from .xinitrc what happens if you put an exit as the last

[gentoo-user] SATA and RAID

2005-09-21 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
using software RAID and LVM hurt me? 3. Anything else I should know? Thanks. -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to execute i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc

2005-10-01 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Thank you. I finally did an emerge system and it all worked without problem. I may do what you say and see what happens. On Sat, 1 Oct 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 1.10.2005 schrieb Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm installing from a stage 1 on 2005.0 LiveCD. I did the boot

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to execute i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc

2005-10-01 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
PROTECTED] wrote: Am 1.10.2005 schrieb Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm installing from a stage 1 on 2005.0 LiveCD. I did the boot strap and a now am doing the emerge --emptytree system stage. However, I keep getting this error on python-fchksum AND files. unable to execute i386-pc-linux-gnu

[gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers and console black screen

2005-10-02 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
ideas would be appreciated. -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to execute i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc

2005-10-03 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I. Holcomb wrote: Well, I did an emerge --emptytree system today and it all of them worked - no errors. I guess the emerge system put whatever was needed in place -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Working for now - Nvidia drivers and console black screen

2005-10-03 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
in newer versions. A search for udev+nvidia turned up others with the trouble. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-375466.html On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I've searched bugzilla, the forums, google and I can't find anything that helps although I've tried several things. I have

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel tuning

2005-10-03 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
HTHToo -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel tuning

2005-10-03 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Thank you for the explanation. I missed that servers is what the OP is really interested in. I'll look at the scheduler options again. On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Out of curiosity and so I can learn. Why did you suggest CONFIG_HZ be set to 100

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT shell scripting] how to wait a few seconds

2005-10-03 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
, sit, bla etc. and the number is number of seconds to wait. Trying both set and sit here I get an error from sit and no pause from set. (Using ksh) -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing an ebuild

2005-10-03 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
kB [...] Running bogofilter --version does show the 0.95 installed: bogofilter --version bogofilter version 0.95.2 Is this normal or what? -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Order for Packages?

2005-10-05 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
, should x11-xorg be installed before kde? Thanks, -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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