Re: [gentoo-user] how to allow dialin via isdn?

2003-08-29 Thread Timothy Grant
On Friday 29 August 2003 07:29 am, a_k_b wrote: > is there a way to allow a user to dialin via isdn, so he is part of my lan? > with windows i did this to play lan games over a "wan" connection, such as > vpn. but i cant really use vpn, since the other user is restricted to > direct dialin instead

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Sound

2003-08-29 Thread Makurin Roman
USE="oss" emerge alsa-driver > Hello. > > I have a problem with sounds and KDE. > > I have ALSA compiled in as per instructions, and sound works perfectly > from XMMS and ogg123... However, on KDE startup, I get the following > message: > > --

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world conflicts

2003-08-29 Thread Collins Richey
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 16:36:49 -0600 Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 00:13:00 +0200 > Spider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > begin quote > > On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 13:24:42 -0600 > > Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I've tried emerge -c libelf, but

[gentoo-user] Re: net-mail/evolution-1.4.4

2003-08-29 Thread Ash Varma
On Aug 29 22:19, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: > > There is a topic in the forums about that: > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=79159 > No solution yet afaik. > Solved... Re-sync. Ash -- Ash Varma [EMAIL PROTECTED] Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It i

[gentoo-user] KDE Sound

2003-08-29 Thread Ash Varma
Hello. I have a problem with sounds and KDE. I have ALSA compiled in as per instructions, and sound works perfectly from XMMS and ogg123... However, on KDE startup, I get the following message: Sound server informational message: Error

Re: [gentoo-user] protest?

2003-08-29 Thread Norberto BENSA
Jorge Almeida wrote: > On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, bob bob wrote: > > How long is this protest going to go on for? its really irritating for > > those of us not in europe that want to find information on the web... > > How is one supposed to know what you're talking about? Telepathy? Go around. Check sl

Re: [gentoo-user] protest?

2003-08-29 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Friday 29 August 2003 23:50, Mark Knecht wrote: > I guess I need to go do some reading, because I don't understand the > protest. It always seems, to me anyway, like the have not's trying to use > what the have's have for free. It always comes off, to me, like it's a > requirement for companies

[gentoo-user] Build of ghostscript 7.05.6-r3 fails on gentoo 1.2

2003-08-29 Thread Konstantinos Agouros
Hi, I tried to upgrade to the latest ghostscript version and got the following: ./src/gdevmjc.c:1753: invalid lvalue in assignment ./src/gdevmjc.c:1754: invalid lvalue in assignment ./src/gdevmjc.c:1755: `k7' undeclared (first use in this function) ./src/gdevmjc.c:1755: (Each undeclared identifie

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world conflicts

2003-08-29 Thread Collins Richey
On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 00:13:00 +0200 Spider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > begin quote > On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 13:24:42 -0600 > Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've tried emerge -c libelf, but the package is marked as portected, > > so nothing happens. > > you want -C not -c, differen

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world conflicts

2003-08-29 Thread Spider
begin quote On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 13:24:42 -0600 Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've tried emerge -c libelf, but the package is marked as portected, > so nothing happens. you want -C not -c, difference there. (see man emerge for details.) //Spider -- begin .signature This is a .si

Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia Riva TNT32 x OpenGL

2003-08-29 Thread Nicolas STURMEL
Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: > > Hello, > yes, you are right, that's needed :-) I think, this was meant by > "...i run opengl config i change to nvidia gl...", but I could be wrong about > that. Good point you mentioned this. > Look at your XF86Config, you probably didn't enable the glx exten

RE: [gentoo-user] protest?

2003-08-29 Thread Mark Knecht
> El Viernes Agosto 29 2003 00:13, bob bob escribió: > > How long is this protest going to go on for? its really irritating for > > those of us not in europe that want to find information on the web... > I hope that it is as long as needed... and I'm not european, not > even living > there, but it

[gentoo-user] S3 Savage and OpenGL?

2003-08-29 Thread Nathaniel McCallum
Is there a way to get opengl to work with a S3 Savage? Thanks! -- Nathaniel McCallum [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://glis.sourceforge.net -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia Riva TNT32 x OpenGL

2003-08-29 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Am Freitag, 29. August 2003 23:26 schrieb Pupeno: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > El Viernes Agosto 29 2003 18:09, Michael Schreckenbauer escribió: > > Am Freitag, 29. August 2003 22:45 schrieb Andrew Farmer: > > > At 29 August, 2003 Fellipe Weno wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Procmail and mail "notification" (not SOLVED)

2003-08-29 Thread Spider
begin quote On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 23:25:03 +0900 Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 29 August 2003 22:50, Jason Stubbs wrote: > > However, *any* mail that goes through it comes out blank! Whether it > > is spam or not! The script works fine from the shell so it's got to > > be some

Re: [gentoo-user] Procmail and mail "notification" (not SOLVED)

2003-08-29 Thread Spider
begin quote On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 23:25:03 +0900 Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To add some further information, I've found the following in > /var/log/mail/current: > > Aug 29 23:20:30 [procmail] Suspicious rcfile "/home/jason/.procmailrc" > > > My /etc/procmailrc, btw, is as follow

Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia Riva TNT32 x OpenGL

2003-08-29 Thread Pupeno
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 El Viernes Agosto 29 2003 18:09, Michael Schreckenbauer escribió: > Am Freitag, 29. August 2003 22:45 schrieb Andrew Farmer: > > At 29 August, 2003 Fellipe Weno wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I want configure my XFree to use glx support but it dont w

Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia Riva TNT32 x OpenGL

2003-08-29 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Am Freitag, 29. August 2003 22:45 schrieb Andrew Farmer: > At 29 August, 2003 Fellipe Weno wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I want configure my XFree to use glx support but it dont work i install > > nvidia-kernel and gl support but its dont work i run opengl config i > > change to nvidia gl and if a try

[gentoo-user] Tungsten T and Gentoo

2003-08-29 Thread dsoper
Hi all, Has anyone gotten the Palm Tungsten T to work with Gentoo? I've tried the following: 1) Replaced visor.c and visor.h in the gentoo sources with the respective files in 2.4.22-vanilla. 2) Compiled in all the kernel modules and inserted them as instructed in the various howtos. 3) Tried

Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia Riva TNT32 x OpenGL

2003-08-29 Thread Andrew Farmer
At 29 August, 2003 Fellipe Weno wrote: > Hi all, > > I want configure my XFree to use glx support but it dont work i install > nvidia-kernel and gl support but its dont work > i run opengl config i change to nvidia gl and if a try run xfree its dont start. > any idea is appreciated. Did you inst

[gentoo-user] NVidia Riva TNT32 x OpenGL

2003-08-29 Thread Fellipe Weno
Hi all,   I want configure my XFree to use glx support but it dont work i install nvidia-kernel and gl support but its dont work i run opengl config i change to nvidia gl and if a try run xfree its dont start. any idea is appreciated.   banza

Re: [gentoo-user] net-mail/evolution-1.4.4

2003-08-29 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Am Freitag, 29. August 2003 21:42 schrieb Mark Knecht: > Hi, >This has been going on for a few hours this morning. Has anyone else > seen this? > > Thanks, > Mark > > > > >>> Updating Portage cache... ...done! > > Wizard root # emerge --deep --update -p world > > These are the packages that I

[gentoo-user] net-mail/evolution-1.4.4

2003-08-29 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, This has been going on for a few hours this morning. Has anyone else seen this? Thanks, Mark >>> Updating Portage cache... ...done! Wizard root # emerge --deep --update -p world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies / emerge: there are no

[gentoo-user] emerge world conflicts

2003-08-29 Thread Collins Richey
How is one supposed to resolve a conflict like this one? [blocks B] dev-libs/libelf (from pkg sys-devel/prelink-20030811) [blocks B] dev-libs/libelf (from pkg dev-libs/elfutils-0.84) [ebuildU ] dev-libs/elfutils-0.84 [0.76-r1] [ebuildU ] sys-devel/prelink-20030811 [20030217] I'v

Re: [gentoo-user] iptables help

2003-08-29 Thread nmeyers
On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 08:52:42PM +0200, Peter Eis wrote: > Why hazzle with iptables? > I'd rather recommend using shorewall (emerge shorewall). It's much > easier to configure and has as lot features you'll probably want. I'll second that. Shorewall works at a higher level of abstraction - lett

Re: [gentoo-user] iptables help

2003-08-29 Thread Peter Eis
Why hazzle with iptables? I'd rather recommend using shorewall (emerge shorewall). It's much easier to configure and has as lot features you'll probably want. Peter Andrew Gaffney wrote: I'm trying to create a firewall using iptables. I want it to drop incoming packets except to ports 22, 25,

Re: [gentoo-user] protest?

2003-08-29 Thread Pupeno
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 El Viernes Agosto 29 2003 00:13, bob bob escribió: > How long is this protest going to go on for? its really irritating for > those of us not in europe that want to find information on the web... I hope that it is as long as needed... and I'm not europ

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-x86] [gentoo-user] iptables help

2003-08-29 Thread Alex
In all this mess remember to accept packets to "lo" from your box as well as posibly icmp errors $iptables -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT #Established related will take care of the return packets $iptables -A INPUT -p ICMP --icmp-type 0 -j ACCEPT echo "Accepting ECHO REPLYS" $iptables -A INPUT -

Re: [gentoo-user] iptables help

2003-08-29 Thread gabriel
On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 11:47, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > I'm trying to create a firewall using iptables. I want it to drop > incoming packets except to ports 22, 25, and 80 unless the source > address is 192.168.254.x. I'm asking before I do this because I'm > accessing the computer remotely right n

Re: [gentoo-user] HD back up

2003-08-29 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Friday 29 Aug 2003 18:08, Ernie Schroder wrote: > On Friday 29 August 2003 06:21 am, Peter Ruskin wrote: > > Hi Stephen, > > > > I obviously didn't make myself clear enough. > Peter, > Your script looks like it might do the trick for me. I do have a > couple of questions though. How would

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to emerge ffmpeg

2003-08-29 Thread Mike McGranahan
Hi, Thank you for your reply. Andrew wrote: > At 27 August, 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I am trying to emerge ffmpeg as a dependency to the transcode package. >> However I run into this error: >> >> [snip] > >> ffplay.o(.text+0x5dd): In function `main': >> /var/tmp/portage/ffmpeg-0.4.7_pre2

Re: [gentoo-user] Procmail and mail "notification" (SOVLED)

2003-08-29 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Jason Stubbs wrote: > #!/bin/sh > > TMP1=`mktemp /tmp/mailcheck.XX` > TMP2=`mktemp /tmp/mailcheck.XX` > > cat /dev/stdin > $TMP1 > grep Date: $TMP1 | head -n 1 > $TMP2 > grep From: $TMP1 | head -n 1 >> $TMP2 > grep Subject: $TMP1 | head -n 1 >> $TMP2 > cat $TMP2 | mail

Re: [gentoo-user] iptables help

2003-08-29 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Rudmer van Dijk wrote: On Friday 29 August 2003 19:21, Andrew Gaffney wrote: Andrew Gaffney wrote: iptables -A INPUT -s 192.168.254.0/24 -p all -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 22 -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 25 -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT iptab

Re: [gentoo-user] iptables help

2003-08-29 Thread Rudmer van Dijk
On Friday 29 August 2003 19:21, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > Andrew Gaffney wrote: > > iptables -A INPUT -s 192.168.254.0/24 -p all -j ACCEPT > > iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 22 -j ACCEPT > > iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 25 -j ACCEPT > > iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT > > iptables

Re: [gentoo-user] iptables help

2003-08-29 Thread Rudmer van Dijk
On Friday 29 August 2003 18:41, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > Andrew Dacey wrote: > > - Original Message - > >>I'm trying to create a firewall using iptables. I want it to drop > >>incoming packets except to ports 22, 25, and 80 unless the source > >>address is 192.168.254.x. I'm asking before I

Re: [gentoo-user] HD back up

2003-08-29 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Friday 29 August 2003 06:21 am, Peter Ruskin wrote: > Hi Stephen, > > I obviously didn't make myself clear enough. > > I have one disk dedicated to backups. > > This is the backup script my-rsync, which I put in /usr/local/bin: > #=

Re: [gentoo-user] iptables help

2003-08-29 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Andrew Gaffney wrote: Andrew Dacey wrote: - Original Message - From: "Andrew Gaffney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gentoo User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 12:47 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] iptables help I'm trying to create a firewall using iptables. I want it to drop

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo on RAID box question

2003-08-29 Thread Kai Lindenberg
Hi Stephen, Am Freitag, 29. August 2003 04:24 schrieb Stephen Liu: [...] > Can gentoo see a single hard drive and Win2K partition as well, > not 2 hard drives? yes, that's the right to exist for the ataraid drivers besides md. Kai -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow boot with Serial ATA Harddisk

2003-08-29 Thread Arlo
Thanks for the tips. I added teh hdg=none to my grub.conf and it worked like a charm. However I'm not sure what you mean by disable multi-mode I ran make menuconfig and under [IDE ATA and ATAPI Block Devices] []"Use Multi mode by devault" is already disabled. Should I turn it on? or is there a

Re: [gentoo-user] iptables help

2003-08-29 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Andrew Dacey wrote: - Original Message - From: "Andrew Gaffney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gentoo User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 12:47 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] iptables help I'm trying to create a firewall using iptables. I want it to drop incoming packets except

Re: [gentoo-user] iptables help

2003-08-29 Thread Andrew Dacey
- Original Message - From: "Andrew Gaffney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gentoo User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 12:47 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] iptables help > I'm trying to create a firewall using iptables. I want it to drop > incoming packets except to ports 22, 25,

Re: [gentoo-user] iptables help

2003-08-29 Thread Andrew Farmer
At 29 August, 2003 Andrew Gaffney wrote: > I'm trying to create a firewall using iptables. I want it to drop > incoming packets except to ports 22, 25, and 80 unless the source > address is 192.168.254.x. I'm asking before I do this because I'm > accessing the computer remotely right now and I d

Re: [gentoo-user] iptables help

2003-08-29 Thread Andrew Gaffney
So I should do: iptables -A INPUT -s 192.168.254.0/24 -p all -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 22 -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 25 -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT iptables -P INPUT DROP The first line would accept anything from any IP in the 192.168.25

Re: [gentoo-user] iptables help

2003-08-29 Thread Jason Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'd suggest the second option, but be sure to change the policy to DROP _after_ you've set up rules to allow you access. - -Jason Martin On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > I'm trying to create a firewall using iptables. I want it to drop

[gentoo-user] iptables help

2003-08-29 Thread Andrew Gaffney
I'm trying to create a firewall using iptables. I want it to drop incoming packets except to ports 22, 25, and 80 unless the source address is 192.168.254.x. I'm asking before I do this because I'm accessing the computer remotely right now and I don't want to cut myself off from it. I'm thinkin

[gentoo-user] glibc 2.3 won't compile

2003-08-29 Thread downtime null
okay. i did kindof a stupid thing. i downloaded the binary version of kmud and attempted to install it to /usr/local by copying the in the lib, bin and share dirs in the package directory to their respective locations in /usr/local. well, i didn't backup any of those directories in /usr/local and i

Re: [gentoo-user] basic Gentoo CD doesn't boot

2003-08-29 Thread Christopher Fisk
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Andrew Gaffney wrote: >Nick Van Vlaenderen wrote: > > "You Might Be A Programmer If ... Before you move into a new house or >> apartment, the most important thing to you is the type and amount of >> wiring with which it is equipped." > >That's me! :) My most important thing

[gentoo-user] Number pad?

2003-08-29 Thread Ernie Schroder
I have a pretty much standard 104 key keyboard. The number keys don't work in X. It makes no difference whether or not the Num Lock LED is on or off it just won't work. It works just fine in a virtual terminal. My 2nd machine (running Windowmaker in stead of KDE doesn't have the

Re: [gentoo-user] Procmail and mail "notification"

2003-08-29 Thread Christopher Fisk
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Jason Stubbs wrote: >My guess is that it is not directly possible with procmail. I'm guessing that >I'd have to use some sort of script to pipe each e-mail message through. Any >suggestions on how I could write such a script? I've answered this on the forums at http://foru

Re: [gentoo-user] basic Gentoo CD doesn't boot

2003-08-29 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Nick Van Vlaenderen wrote: > "You Might Be A Programmer If ... Before you move into a new house or apartment, the most important thing to you is the type and amount of wiring with which it is equipped." That's me! :) -- Andrew Gaffney -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Newbie : list of files and packages ?

2003-08-29 Thread Mark Knecht
Title: Message emerge -S latex possibly? -Original Message-From: Stéphane Peron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 6:18 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [gentoo-user] Newbie : list of files and packages ? Hi all !   I have found a file containi

[gentoo-user] how to allow dialin via isdn?

2003-08-29 Thread a_k_b
is there a way to allow a user to dialin via isdn, so he is part of my lan? with windows i did this to play lan games over a "wan" connection, such as vpn. but i cant really use vpn, since the other user is restricted to direct dialin instead of using the internet (its faster and doesnt cost any

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie : list of files and packages ?

2003-08-29 Thread Panard
man qpkg man etcat Le Vendredi 29 Août 2003 15:17, Stéphane Peron a écrit : > Hi all ! > > I have found a file containing all packages available in /usr/portage. > > Is there such a file that give in which package I can find a binary. > For example, I would like to install latex How c

Re: [gentoo-user] Procmail and mail "notification" (not SOLVED)

2003-08-29 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Friday 29 August 2003 22:50, Jason Stubbs wrote: > However, *any* mail that goes through it comes out blank! Whether it is > spam or not! The script works fine from the shell so it's got to be > something wrong with how I'm using procmail. I can't see where the error is > though. I checked the $

[gentoo-user] promise ultra33 pci card and cdrom

2003-08-29 Thread William Kenworthy
I am using a promise ultra33 pci card to handle my ide cdwriter as the two MB ideports each have a raid0 disk on them. The promise card has a cd only, no hard disks. I am getting errors on the scsi emulation, but find I cant turn dma on using hdparm as there is no /dev/hde, though /dev/cdroms/cdr

[gentoo-user] Newbie : list of files and packages ?

2003-08-29 Thread Stéphane Peron
Title: Message Hi all !   I have found a file containing all packages available in /usr/portage.   Is there such a file that give in which package I can find a binary. For example, I would like to install latex  How can I find the package containing latex ?   Thanks for your help

Re: [gentoo-user] * error scanning /etc

2003-08-29 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Friday 29 August 2003 04:46 am, Simon Mushi wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Has anyone experienced this error message : > > * error scanning /etc > > right after emerging any package...cos that is what I have been > getting for the last week and a half andi don't know why it started. > > Best > > Simo

Re: [gentoo-user] dual-head setup

2003-08-29 Thread Christopher Fisk
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Frank R Callaghan wrote: >I have been trying to get a Matrox 450 to run two ViewSonic 17 >on my new gentoo system with no luck :( the card gets detected correctly >the framebuffers allocated fb0, fb1 I have edited XF86Config as >per instructions found on the web but initially

[gentoo-user] emerge plustek-parallel

2003-08-29 Thread Ernie Schroder
I have this old plustek parallel port scanner that I can get to work "sometimes" It currently isn't being seen.(probably a version# problem but it's been too much of a bother to futz around with it. So, I was looking for the driver directory and did $ locate plustek I was surpriz

Re: [gentoo-user] Procmail and mail "notification" (SOVLED)

2003-08-29 Thread Jason Stubbs
Hmmm I've called the script notify and changed it as follows: #!/bin/sh TMP1=`mktemp /tmp/mailcheck.XX` TMP2=`mktemp /tmp/mailcheck.XX` cat /dev/stdin > $TMP1 grep Date: $TMP1 | head -n 1 > $TMP2 grep From: $TMP1 | head -n 1 >> $TMP2 grep Subject: $TMP1 | head -n 1 >> $TMP2 cat $TMP

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Audigy2 configuration

2003-08-29 Thread Daniel Robbins
On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 02:45, Leonid Podolny wrote: > Hi, > This issue is not strictly gentoo-related, but I hope someone has > encountered it in the past and can help me. > I've recently bought an audigy2 card. I had no idea that it could be > unsupported -- after all, the creative production is

Re: [gentoo-user] Procmail and mail "notification" (SOVLED)

2003-08-29 Thread Jason Stubbs
Okay! Done it. Here's the script if anyone else is interested: #!/bin/sh MAILADDR="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" TMP1=`mktemp /tmp/mailcheck.XX` TMP2=`mktemp /tmp/mailcheck.XX` cat /dev/stdin > $TMP1 grep Date: $TMP1 | head -n 1 > $TMP2 grep From: $TMP1 | head -n 1 >> $TMP2 grep Subject: $TMP1 | he

Re: [gentoo-user] Procmail and mail "notification" (Half-SOVLED)

2003-08-29 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Friday 29 August 2003 21:13, Marshal Newrock wrote: > On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Jason Stubbs wrote: > > Me and my girlfriend have one computer - a laptop. I want to use it 24/7, > > she wants to use it just to check mail every so often. So, what I want to > > do is have procmail send details of any n

[gentoo-user] * error scanning /etc

2003-08-29 Thread Simon Mushi
Hi everyone, Has anyone experienced this error message : * error scanning /etc right after emerging any package...cos that is what I have been getting for the last week and a half andi don't know why it started. Best Simon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] basic Gentoo CD doesn't boot

2003-08-29 Thread Ernie Schroder
You didn't mention your motherboard but my nforce2 based board wouldn't boot without the "nonet" option. (It has an onboard nic) Ernie On Friday 29 August 2003 04:21 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Try booting with the 'nousb' option. (Unless you need USB support > during the installation.) > >

[gentoo-user] How to get joystick support.

2003-08-29 Thread Sigurd Stordal
When I try to get my joystick to work using the joy2key ebuild, it complain about no /dev/js0 file, and sure enough I don't have any /dev/js. I suppose there some sort of line to be added in the /etc/devfsd.conf file, but I have no idea what to add. Can anyone help me with that. -- Sigurd Stord

Re: [gentoo-user] Procmail and mail "notification"

2003-08-29 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Jason Stubbs wrote: > Me and my girlfriend have one computer - a laptop. I want to use it 24/7, she > wants to use it just to check mail every so often. So, what I want to do is > have procmail send details of any new messages that aren't spam to my > girlfriend's mobile. That

[gentoo-user] perl-tk and ExtUtils-MakeMaker can't coexist?

2003-08-29 Thread Klavs Klavsen
Hi guys, I posted this at gentoo-dev too - but I don't know where it actually goes. a dev made this restriction - so this makes it belong on dev I think. But on the other hand - I'm a user who wants to use it - not an official dev (only got a few ebuilds in the tree :) I'm getting this when I t

Re: [gentoo-user] basic Gentoo CD doesn't boot

2003-08-29 Thread Ing. Martin Gauklitz
you can try to turn every automatic detection off on the boot prompt... press F2 (and/or F3) at the boot prompt to see what options you can give & use as much "no..."-options as you can... Zitat von Nick Van Vlaenderen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Jason Stubbs wro

Re: [gentoo-user] basic Gentoo CD doesn't boot

2003-08-29 Thread Joel Wright
Instead of just hitting enter at the boot prompt, use nofb. I had the same problem using an ati 9700. The nofb kernel should be fine. Joel. On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 08:31, Nick Van Vlaenderen wrote: > Hello, > > I was going to install Gentoo on an AMD Duron 1000, but when I start > booting, the bo

RE: [gentoo-user] basic Gentoo CD doesn't boot

2003-08-29 Thread Gwendolyn van der Linden
> I also had strange issues with my Toshiba Satellite 2430 > (P4-Notebook) with > several kernels from Gentoo 1.4 or Knoppix 3.2. My > self-made kernels were > only working if "Local APIC support on uniprocessors" > (CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC) > was completely deactivated in the kernel config. Same here.

Re: [gentoo-user] HD back up

2003-08-29 Thread Peter Ruskin
Hi Stephen, I obviously didn't make myself clear enough. I have one disk dedicated to backups. This is the backup script my-rsync, which I put in /usr/local/bin: #== #! /bin/bash # /usr/local/bin/my-rsync ###

Re: [gentoo-user] basic Gentoo CD doesn't boot

2003-08-29 Thread Christian Banik
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Freitag, 29. August 2003 10:16 schrieb Nick Van Vlaenderen: > I am just booting from the CD so I don't even have a base system, and I > just need to boot from the kernel on the CD to start the installation... Maybe you should add "noapic" to the bo

Re: [gentoo-user] protest?

2003-08-29 Thread bob bob
Heh.. sorry.. I aussumed you'd know.. almost everyone else does.. try this link: http://dev.gentoo.org/~spider/ "Imagine a school with children that can read and write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live."   - Peter Cochrane From: Jo

Re: [gentoo-user] basic Gentoo CD doesn't boot

2003-08-29 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Friday 29 August 2003 17:58, Nick Van Vlaenderen wrote: > On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Jason Stubbs wrote: > > Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 17:45:02 +0900 > > From: Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] basic Gentoo CD doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] protest?

2003-08-29 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, bob bob wrote: > How long is this protest going to go on for? its really irritating for those > of us not in europe that want to find information on the web... > > > > "Imagine a school with children that can read and write, but with teachers > who cannot, and you have a

Re: [gentoo-user] basic Gentoo CD doesn't boot

2003-08-29 Thread Nick Van Vlaenderen
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Jason Stubbs wrote: > Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 17:45:02 +0900 > From: Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] basic Gentoo CD doesn't boot > > On Friday 29 August 2003 16:31, Nick Van Vlaenderen wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] basic Gentoo CD doesn't boot

2003-08-29 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Friday 29 August 2003 16:31, Nick Van Vlaenderen wrote: > I was going to install Gentoo on an AMD Duron 1000, but when I start > booting, the boot prompt comes up... I hit enter and it starts loading. A > few seconds later, a black screen appears. I tried the other kernel (smp) > as well, but no

Re: [gentoo-user] basic Gentoo CD doesn't boot

2003-08-29 Thread Nick Van Vlaenderen
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 10:21:06 +0200 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] basic Gentoo CD doesn't boot > > > > > > Try booting with the 'nousb' option. (Unless you need US

Re: [gentoo-user] basic Gentoo CD doesn't boot

2003-08-29 Thread Gustav_Schaffter
Try booting with the 'nousb' option. (Unless you need USB support during the installation.) Gus Nick Van Vlaenderen

Re: [gentoo-user] basic Gentoo CD doesn't boot

2003-08-29 Thread Nick Van Vlaenderen
I am just booting from the CD so I don't even have a base system, and I just need to boot from the kernel on the CD to start the installation... "You Might Be A Programmer If ... Before you move into a new house or apartment, the most important thing to you is the type and amount of wiring with

Re: [gentoo-user] QT-3.2 ebuild waiting for KDE 3.2 ?

2003-08-29 Thread Chris van der Pennen
I'm surprised this ebuild hasn't been masked, myself.  It's annoying having to remask it every sync when I go to update. Chris On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 22:57, Frank Hellmuth wrote: Hi, I just want to know if I understand the following output of emerge -Dup world correctly: [blocks B ]

Re: [gentoo-user] basic Gentoo CD doesn't boot

2003-08-29 Thread martin
what kernel-sources are you using? did you make your kernel with 'genkernel'? i had once also a problem, that the kernel i did with 'genkernel' caused a 'kernel panic' during boot and hung. but i don't know why. then i build the kernel manually and everything went well... so, if you used

[gentoo-user] basic Gentoo CD doesn't boot

2003-08-29 Thread Nick Van Vlaenderen
Hello, I was going to install Gentoo on an AMD Duron 1000, but when I start booting, the boot prompt comes up... I hit enter and it starts loading. A few seconds later, a black screen appears. I tried the other kernel (smp) as well, but nothing happened. Can someone tell me what's wrong, or did

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting kernel on pld pentium

2003-08-29 Thread Dave Henry
On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 04:01, Jan Meier wrote: > Hello, > i installed gentoo on my old pentium computer to function as a gateway. But > there is a problem when i am booting the kernel. After some moments it stops > booting. The last output is: Freeing unued kernel memory 124k freed. And > after t

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow X startup

2003-08-29 Thread Chris I
On 2003.08.28 20:48, Andrew Farmer wrote: Lately, I've noticed that X seems to take entirely too long to come up. After starting xdm, the machine takes as much as perhaps 25 to 35 seconds to display the login screen -- it used to take just one or two -- and switching to the X virtual terminal from

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Poll #6

2003-08-29 Thread Stephen Clowater
> The question is: > > Where do you do for Gentoo support? > a) personal acquaintance > b) gentoo-user mailing list > c) gentoo-dev mailing list > d) gentoo bugzilla > e) gentoo forums > f) gentoo channel on irc > g) google > h) other (specify) The answerfirst G, then A then H, (reading the co

[gentoo-user] do I need mplaier?

2003-08-29 Thread Alberto Bert
Hi all, as I know, I need to install mplayer in order to listen the music in some sites, but do I really need it? I already have xmms and I don't want to fill my box with programs that I'll (almost) never use. Furthermore mplayer brings a lot of other stuff in emerging. Can I use xmms with some se

[gentoo-user] Procmail and mail "notification"

2003-08-29 Thread Jason Stubbs
Hello all, I'm not too familiar with procmail, so I don't know if what I want to do is possible. I've only just started using it and thanks to Spider's guide have Spam-Assassin working with it correctly. Here's the current situation: Me and my girlfriend have one computer - a laptop. I want to

Re: [gentoo-user] protest?

2003-08-29 Thread bob bob
ohh I know all about that.. our gov (australian) will bend over backwards for those tricks as well :-( "Imagine a school with children that can read and write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live."   - Peter Cochrane From: Azhdeen <[

Re: [gentoo-user] HD back up

2003-08-29 Thread Nick Van Vlaenderen
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Stephen Liu wrote: > Date: 29 Aug 2003 11:57:47 +0800 > From: Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] HD back up > > Hi Andrew > > On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 11:35, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > - snip - > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] protest?

2003-08-29 Thread Azhdeen
On Friday 29 August 2003 05:13, bob bob wrote: > How long is this protest going to go on for? its really irritating for > those of us not in europe that want to find information on the web... > Imagine what it is for us europeans, who all year long get bothered with US niceties such as DRM, Patrio

Re: [gentoo-user] HD back up

2003-08-29 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Andrew On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 11:35, Andrew Gaffney wrote: - snip - > > > > $ locate rsync-exclude > > could not find this file > > Create this file yourself and populate it. What will be the standard content of "rsync-exclude" other than adding following MAILTO=root # do rsync backup nigh

Re: [gentoo-user] HD back up

2003-08-29 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Andrew, Thanks for your advice. On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 10:21, Andrew Farmer wrote: > > > > $ cat /etc/crontab > > SHELL=/bin/bash > > PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin > > MAILTO=root > > HOME=/ > > > > # run-parts > > 01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly > > 02 4 * * * root run-parts

Re: [gentoo-user] HD back up

2003-08-29 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Stephen Liu wrote: Hi Pupeno, On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 10:25, Pupeno wrote: Remember to have /usr/local/bin/rsync-exclude with the list of files/directories to exclude. $ ls /usr/local/bin/ cdrwtool mkudffs scalc simpress spadmin tkfax installwatch pktsetup sdraw smath swriter

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow boot with Serial ATA Harddisk

2003-08-29 Thread Bryce
On Thursday 28 August 2003 10:17 am, Arlo wrote: > is there a way to get the driver not to look at "hdg" or to fail more > quickly? in the kernel params, put "hdg=none" > I also get a message waring that my harddisk is not running in DMA mode and > that fsck with run very slowly in this state (P

[gentoo-user] protest?

2003-08-29 Thread bob bob
How long is this protest going to go on for? its really irritating for those of us not in europe that want to find information on the web... "Imagine a school with children that can read and write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live."

Re: [gentoo-user] HD back up

2003-08-29 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Pupeno, On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 10:25, Pupeno wrote: > Remember to have /usr/local/bin/rsync-exclude with the list of > files/directories to exclude. $ ls /usr/local/bin/ cdrwtool mkudffs scalc simpress spadmin tkfax installwatch pktsetup sdraw smath swriter tkscan scalc, si

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo on RAID box question

2003-08-29 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Stephen Liu wrote: What is "IIRC"? "If I remember correctly"...Don't you speak internet? ;) -- Andrew Gaffney -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] HD back up

2003-08-29 Thread Pupeno
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Remember to have /usr/local/bin/rsync-exclude with the list of files/directories to exclude. El Jueves Agosto 28 2003 22:45, Stephen Liu escribió: > Hi Peter, > > Thanks for your advice. > > $ cat /etc/crontab > SHELL=/bin/bash > PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr

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