Re: [gentoo-user] OpenGL problem: wxGTK-2.4.2-r4 doesn't compile
Alle 08:48, lunedì 05 dicembre 2005, Richard Fish ha scritto: Looks like you need to run opengl-select to make links to your chosen GL implementation (I'm guessing you'll want the ATI implementation) in /usr/lib. -Richard I had the ati drivers... Now I use the xorgs... And if I run eselect opengl list: # eselect opengl list Available OpenGL implementations: [1] ati [2] xorg-x11 * -- Public key GPG(0x073A0960) on http://keyserver.linux.it/ pgpy2QAVSQibm.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] straggling with paper size
snip look in /var/log/portage if you have it enabled higer log files will br for more recent emerges -- Don't worry so loud, your roommate can't think. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] mathml problems with firefox 1.5
Hi, It appears that firefox 1.5 doesn't render mathml correctly. The previous version (1.07) did it right. Anyone else can see this? A test page is at: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/mathml/demo/texvsmml.xhtml Thanks, Moshe -- I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. -- Douglas Adams Moshe Kaminsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home: 08-9456841 pgpo53pQGE0fH.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge history
On 05 December 2005 09:29, Joseph wrote: Is there a way to tell which packages got upgraded in the past week? I have /etc/config-archive/ but if the configuration did not change it will not help me. find /usr/portage/distfiles -mtime -7 -print Uwe -- Unix is sexy: who | grep -i blonde | date cd ~; unzip; touch; strip; finger mount; gasp; yes; uptime; umount sleep -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] subdirectory disappears in /usr/portage
I cleverly created a directory : /usr/portage/downloads, where I schemed to have wget download files for my home (dialup) machine, so I could then burn them to a CD and carry them home. However, on Monday I arrived to find that while locate downloads found this directory, it isn't there anymore! Does portage do something to check the configuration of /usr/portage? I emerged a new portage last friday also. These are SATA drives on an amd64 system, running as ~amd64. perplexedly, Alan Davis
Re: [gentoo-user] straggling with paper size
On Mon, 05 Dec 2005 00:35:19 -0700, Joseph wrote: Is there a way to tell which packages were upgraded in the last week or two? Something like emerge history? genlop --list --date last Monday emerge genlop if you don't already have it. -- Neil Bothwick Learn from your parents' mistakes - use birth control! signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] subdirectory disappears in /usr/portage
On 12/5/05, Alan E. Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I cleverly created a directory : /usr/portage/downloads, where I schemed to have wget download files for my home (dialup) machine, so I could then burn them to a CD and carry them home. However, on Monday I arrived to find that while locate downloads found this directory, it isn't there anymore! Does portage do something to check the configuration of /usr/portage? I emerged a new portage last friday also. These are SATA drives on an amd64 system, running as ~amd64. perplexedly, Alan Davis I guess its rsync, running from emerge sync who deleted your directory!-- Andres
Re: [gentoo-user] bash and keeping history
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 01:08:52AM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: I read your post, and slapped together the following, which goes into ~/.bashrc. Warning... some backtick expansion included here. Is there a simpler way to find out which tty or pts you're running in? try the 'tty' command from coreutils. from 'man tty' tty - print the file name of the terminal connected to standard input W -- Pintsize: I would be DELICIOUS. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 23 days, 34 min -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] subdirectory disappears in /usr/portage
Am Montag, 5. Dezember 2005 09:09 schrieb ext Alan E. Davis: I cleverly created a directory : /usr/portage/downloads, where I schemed to have wget download files for my home (dialup) machine, so I could then burn them to a CD and carry them home. Bad Idea. emerge sync will delete everything from the local portage tree that is not part of the official portage tree (the only exception is /usr/portage/distfiles). However, on Monday I arrived to find that while locate downloads found this directory, it isn't there anymore! locate doesn't search your disk, it has its own database, which need to be updated frequently (normally done via cron). HTH... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hambornerstraße 55 | Web: http://www.capgemini.com D-40472 Düsseldorf | ICQ#: 110037733 GPG Public Key C2E467BB | Keyserver: www.keyserver.net pgpXgRCyfFTPK.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge history
On Mon, 05 Dec 2005 00:29:39 -0700, Joseph wrote: Is there a way to tell which packages got upgraded in the past week? I've just answered this in the straggling... thread. genlop is the command you need genlop --list --date last week I have /etc/config-archive/ but if the configuration did not change it will not help me. One of the upgrades, has caused tetex sending wrong information during conversion to postscript and that is causing my my printer demanding A4 paper size. This does sound like a configuration change, so the previous setting should be in /etc/config-archive if you used dispatch-conf. genlop will give you an idea of where to look. -- Neil Bothwick You know the end of the world is near when the Spice Girls start reproducing. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge history
On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 10:04:51 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: Is there a way to tell which packages got upgraded in the past week? I have /etc/config-archive/ but if the configuration did not change it will not help me. find /usr/portage/distfiles -mtime -7 -print That won't help if a package was upgraded by an ebuild revision level, because you probably still have the tarball from the previous emerge. You need to use genlop, or read emerge.log directly. -- Neil Bothwick If man ruled the world: signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] mathml problems with firefox 1.5
i have mathematical and texcm-ttf fonts installed and firefox 1.5 does not render them correctly as well. haven't found a work-around for it yet Chris Moshe Kaminsky wrote: Hi, It appears that firefox 1.5 doesn't render mathml correctly. The previous version (1.07) did it right. Anyone else can see this? A test page is at: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/mathml/demo/texvsmml.xhtml Thanks, Moshe -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mathml problems with firefox 1.5
Chris Fairles wrote: i have mathematical and texcm-ttf fonts installed and firefox 1.5 does not render them correctly as well. haven't found a work-around for it yet Chris Moshe Kaminsky wrote: Hi, It appears that firefox 1.5 doesn't render mathml correctly. The previous version (1.07) did it right. Anyone else can see this? A test page is at: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/mathml/demo/texvsmml.xhtml Thanks, Moshe Well, just like always, I am trying to install the fonts to see if it works here. The page came up but said I needed those fonts. No other error though. Looks like we have a math geek on board. LOL Not that there is anything wrong with that. We need more math geeks. Dale :-) -- To err is human, I'm most certainly human. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] IMAP Server - authenticating off a Windows Domain?
2005/12/5, Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi there,Does anyone have any experience of this, please? I have a number ofusers with roaming profiles on a Windows Domain Controller (SBS 2003).I don't want to use Exchange as a mailserver but instead an IMAP sever such as Courier (which I'm familiar with).Each user will have to change their password on the domain every coupleof weeks and because I want to provide webmail access to their IMAPaccounts it's desirable that their IMAP username password be the same as their Windows one. I don't mind adding users by hand on theLinux-based IMAP server but I would prefer that passwords be changedautomatically - I guess the best way to do this is for the IMAP serverto authenticate against the domain controller everytime the user logs on to their email?Has anyone any experience of this, please? You should either go the Kerneros way for single sign on (I think SBS 2003 uses it), or use an IMAP server that is capable of handling user authentication against LDAP (if using Active Directory). HTH, best regards Jose
Re: [gentoo-user] problems emergeing (through winxp shared connection)
Nacho schreef: Hi, I'm trying to emerge kde-meta, but i get stuck here (the error reproduces with emerge kde-meta): -- gentoo ~ # emerge kde-meta Calculating dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 278) dev-libs/glib-2.6.3 to / Resuming download... Downloading http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/glib-2.6.3.tar.bz2 --12:15:45-- http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/glib-2.6.3.tar.bz2 = `/usr/portage/distfiles/glib-2.6.3.tar.bz2' Resolving distfiles.gentoo.org... 64.50.238.52, 64.50.236.52, 216.165.129.135, ... Connecting to distfiles.gentoo.org[64.50.238.52]:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found The file is already fully retrieved; nothing to do. Resuming download... Downloading http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/distfiles/glib-2.6.3.tar.bz2 --12:15:46-- http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/distfiles/glib-2.6.3.tar.bz2 = `/usr/portage/distfiles/glib-2.6.3.tar.bz2' Resolving distro.ibiblio.org... 152.2.210.109 Connecting to distro.ibiblio.org[152.2.210.109]:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found The file is already fully retrieved; nothing to do. Resuming download... Downloading ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.6/glib-2.6.3.tar.bz2 --12:15:47-- ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.6/glib-2.6.3.tar.bz2 = `/usr/portage/distfiles/glib-2.6.3.tar.bz2' Resolving ftp.gtk.org... 128.32.112.248 Connecting to ftp.gtk.org[128.32.112.248]:21... connected. Logging in as anonymous ... Exiting on signal 2 - (I abort manually because it hangs up) I'm acceding Inet through a winxp shared connection (w/nat) (NOT a proxy, so http_proxy is unset), but there wasn't any problem with other emergeings or apps. (for example, i can ping, navigate, and emerge other packages too) what can i do? When i look at /usr/portage/distfiles there is a glib-2.6.3.ebuild so, why is emerge trying to download it? Sorry I don't know why your download is all borked (try changing mirrors)-- but I can tell you that 1). Portage is not trying to download an ebuild when you're actually emerging a program; it's trying to download the source tarball for that program in order to compile it; 2) Any ebuild should not be found in /usr/portage/distfiles-- it should be found in /usr/portage/cag-egory/package_name. What you find in /usr/portage/distfiles are the tarballs containing the downloaded source code. So if you've put an ebuild in /usr/portage/distfiles, get rid of it. It has no business being in that particular folder. is there a manual way to install this package and in general any package that can`t be emerged traditionally? Yes, download the source code tarball manually (in this case, glib-2.6.3.tar.bz2), and place it in /usr/portage/distfiles. Portage won't try to download the tarball if it finds that its already been downloaded. Hope this helps somewhat, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] subdirectory disappears in /usr/portage
On Mon, 05 Dec 2005 03:01:16 -0600, Dale wrote: I cleverly created a directory : /usr/portage/downloads, where I schemed to have wget download files for my home (dialup) machine, so I could then burn them to a CD and carry them home. However, on Monday I arrived to find that while locate downloads found this directory, it isn't there anymore! I guess its rsync, running from emerge sync who deleted your directory! Especially since it should not be there. That is for portage you know. /home/user/ would be a better spot. What's wrong with /usr/portage/distfiles? -- Neil Bothwick Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] straggling with paper size
Joseph schreef: Please excuse me for interrupting when I know nothing about this issue at all, but: I keep noticing that latex seems to supercede divps Sql-Ledger is using latex forms to generate invoices. So to my understanding the program will be using dvips to convert latex to postscript and send it directly to printer, am I right? looking at the configuration file in sql-ledger it is looking for: latex, dvips or pdflatex, but making any changes to dvips makes no difference. if ($self-{format} eq 'postscript') { system(latex --interaction=nonstopmode $self-{tmpfile} $self-{tmpfile}.err); $self-error($self-cleanup) if ($?); $self-{tmpfile} =~ s/tex$/dvi/; system(dvips $self-{tmpfile} -o -q /dev/null); $self-error($self-cleanup.dvips : $!) if ($?); $self-{tmpfile} =~ s/dvi$/ps/; } if ($self-{format} eq 'pdf') { system(pdflatex --interaction=nonstopmode $self-{tmpfile} $self-{tmpfile}.err); $self-error($self-cleanup) if ($?); $self-{tmpfile} =~ s/tex$/pdf/; } So it seems to me that rather than adjusting the configuration of divps, we (meaning you, of course) should at least *look* at the configuration of latex-- what paper size is /it/ set to?? HTH, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge -P kde-3.4.3
On Monday 05 December 2005 00:01, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 4 Dec 2005 23:45:13 +, Tony Davison wrote: A couple of days ago someone posted a magic incantation to prune kde-3.4.3 from its slot. This one? qpkg -I -nc -g kde-base | xargs emerge -P Thats the one. Thanks Neil. I appear to have jumped in to the middle of a thread, apologies to all for that, dunno how it happened. -- Big Tone -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Not able to log into KDE via KDM after improper shutdown!
Hi, I am no longer able to log into KDE 3.4 via KDM after an improper shutdown (laptop overheated, and shutdown!). I am able to log in via agetty (Ctrl-Alt-F1), though. Incidentally, while inside KDE (as another user ofcourse) I am unable to SU into superuser as well. My password is rejected. KDM displays my username, but once I enter the password the screen goes blank and I'm presented with KDM once again. I am able to log in as another user. Is there some /home/user/.kde file I need to delete? Any ideas? Thanks, Hareesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Not able to log into KDE via KDM after improper shutdown!
Hareesh Nagarajan wrote: Hi, I am no longer able to log into KDE 3.4 via KDM after an improper shutdown (laptop overheated, and shutdown!). I am able to log in via agetty (Ctrl-Alt-F1), though. Incidentally, while inside KDE (as another user ofcourse) I am unable to SU into superuser as well. My password is rejected. Is that user in the wheel group? as root nano -w /etc/group or cat /etc/group | grep wheel should work too. Mine is like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # cat /etc/group | grep wheel wheel:x:10:root,dale,dale2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # Umm, I'm dale. :) dale2 is my backup in case I run into a problem like you are having now. KDM displays my username, but once I enter the password the screen goes blank and I'm presented with KDM once again. I am able to log in as another user. Is there some /home/user/.kde file I need to delete? No clue where but there may be a lock file somewhere. Maybe someone else will know. Dale pats his UPS and is grateful he has a desktop. Dale :-) -- To err is human, I'm most certainly human. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] subdirectory disappears in /usr/portage
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 05 Dec 2005 03:01:16 -0600, Dale wrote: Especially since it should not be there. That is for portage you know. /home/user/ would be a better spot. What's wrong with /usr/portage/distfiles? Well, I'm not sure I get what you are asking. I don't think putting the latest CD that was converted to mp3 should be stored in the distfiles directory though. They do have this thing called a Documents folder for that. LOL I don't think it deleted anything in distfiles but it did delete the directory he created to put non portage stuff in. Now if he can get the rsync servers to let him put his stuff on there and wanted to share with the rest of us, this may work. O_O I kind of doubt it though. That would be a good way to download Black Eyed Peas though. LOL Free to, if the RIAA doesn't find out. This is sort of funny really. Sounds like something I would do. LOL See sig below. Dale :-) -- To err is human, I'm most certainly human. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] subdirectory disappears in /usr/portage
This is a relief. I should not have set up a directory in /usr/portage. It would have made more sense in /usr/local/something. To clarify: I have an x86 machine at home, with dialup connection to the internet. It's taken some kind of long time to get the system squared away. To save several nights of letting emerge -uDv world download, I tried :TIP Downloading distfiles on another machine at the Gentoo Wiki (http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Downloading_distfiles_on_another_machine). This approach seems to have worked, at least in part; however, this importune choice of a directory to store the files downloaded by the script (distfile-grabber.py) led to ... you know what. That machine on the faster connection is an amd64 machine, and I was reluctant to mix the files, although there certainly many duplicates. It would have been excellent to be able to download to /usr/portage/distfiles on the amd64 machine, and modify the script to select the needed files from there,m to burn a CD and carry them home for the emerge -uDv update! Wow. I feel lucky. Time to google. Thank you for the excellent and timely responses. Alan Davis -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] IMAP Server - authenticating off a Windows Domain?
On 12/5/05, Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, Does anyone have any experience of this, please? I have a number of users with roaming profiles on a Windows Domain Controller (SBS 2003). I don't want to use Exchange as a mailserver but instead an IMAP sever such as Courier (which I'm familiar with). Each user will have to change their password on the domain every couple of weeks and because I want to provide webmail access to their IMAP accounts it's desirable that their IMAP username password be the same as their Windows one. I don't mind adding users by hand on the Linux-based IMAP server but I would prefer that passwords be changed automatically - I guess the best way to do this is for the IMAP server to authenticate against the domain controller everytime the user logs on to their email? Has anyone any experience of this, please? You might be able to use samba winbind for this, and modify the imap pam config to use system-auth-winbind. I haven't actually tried this, but it might be something worth playing with. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] subdirectory disappears in /usr/portage
Alan E. Davis wrote: This is a relief. I should not have set up a directory in /usr/portage. It would have made more sense in /usr/local/something. To clarify: I have an x86 machine at home, with dialup connection to the internet. It's taken some kind of long time to get the system squared away. To save several nights of letting emerge -uDv world download, I tried :TIP Downloading distfiles on another machine at the Gentoo Wiki (http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Downloading_distfiles_on_another_machine). This approach seems to have worked, at least in part; however, this importune choice of a directory to store the files downloaded by the script (distfile-grabber.py) led to ... you know what. That machine on the faster connection is an amd64 machine, and I was reluctant to mix the files, although there certainly many duplicates. It would have been excellent to be able to download to /usr/portage/distfiles on the amd64 machine, and modify the script to select the needed files from there,m to burn a CD and carry them home for the emerge -uDv update! Wow. I feel lucky. Time to google. Thank you for the excellent and timely responses. Alan Davis Hmmm. Let me ask you a question. What exactly are you trying to put in /usr/portage? If this is stuff you are getting for personal use, you should put them in your user directory, /home/user. Maybe I am missing something. If you want to have a system set up as a server for your distfiles, http-replicator works right nicely. I have been using it for a while now. It is pretty small and just sits there when not in use. I run it on my main rig and my three other rigs download from it. I'm on dial-up to and no need downloading big files 4 times. If you have several Gentoo rigs, you can also set up a rsync server. You actually already have it but it is not turned on. Search for rsyncd on the forums in the Documentation, Tips Tricks http://forums.gentoo.org/viewforum-f-12.html?sid=e41d96c167f9ac50c47f0f182a86c8a9 sectioon. Oops, that sort of tunred into a link didn't it. Sorry. May be handy for him though. o_O Let us know what you are trying to do. If you are off base, we can get you on track so you won't loose it again. Dale :-) -- To err is human, I'm most certainly human. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] subdirectory disappears in /usr/portage
On 12/5/05, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you have several Gentoo rigs, you can also set up a rsync server. You actually already have it but it is not turned on. Search for rsyncd on the forums in the Documentation, Tips Tricks I have three machines w/ Gentoo: at work, one machine is connected with a T1 or so that is fast after hours. A laptop has wireless working, not much storage. A desktop at home is connected only by dialup. I'm not certain what an rsync server is, but I am guessing it would be a cache of files that could be picked up by other machines. Perhaps the laptop could do this, and serve as a go-between. That's the main thing I am trying to do---move files off the machine at work (or conceivably the laptop) to the machine at home, for installing and updating. It's excruciatingly slow to emerge alot of large packages of 100MB and up by dialup. Glacial. I saw a Tip document today on how to use XDelta (deltaup?) to save time. Is this a workable solution? I am not averse to carrying a CD around, or using the laptop as a go-between. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewforum-f-12.html?sid=e41d96c167f9ac50c47f0f182a86c8a9 sectioon. Oops, that sort of tunred into a link didn't it. Sorry. May be handy for him though. o_O Let us know what you are trying to do. If you are off base, we can get you on track so you won't loose it again. I understand now about not using /usr/portage for personal work or off the wall administration. I actually think that I can pull off what I had in mind, and the machine is currently grinding away at the downloads, as I type, across town. The rsync server seems interesting, though. Alan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: straggling with paper size
Holly Bostick motub at planet.nl writes: Joseph schreef: So it seems to me that rather than adjusting the configuration of divps, we (meaning you, of course) should at least *look* at the configuration of latex-- what paper size is /it/ set to?? And if this does not solve the problem, look at modifying your CUPS settings. I believe some configurations allow settings that, in effect, will covernt all a4 paper sizes to letter if nothing else works HTH, James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] straggling with paper size
On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 10:21 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: Joseph schreef: Please excuse me for interrupting when I know nothing about this issue at all, but: I keep noticing that latex seems to supercede divps [snip] Huh! No wonder the changes I made to dIvps don't work. The must be some other package I pulled that caused this mess. So it seems to me that rather than adjusting the configuration of divps, we (meaning you, of course) should at least *look* at the configuration of latex-- what paper size is /it/ set to?? I know that Latex is set by default to A4 paper size and margins are located in different file. But what file? -- #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] straggling with paper size
On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 08:22 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 05 Dec 2005 00:35:19 -0700, Joseph wrote: Is there a way to tell which packages were upgraded in the last week or two? Something like emerge history? genlop --list --date last Monday emerge genlop if you don't already have it. Thanks that is nice. All I major change I did since last Monday, was unmerge -kde as one package and emerge kde-split-ebuild. Among them was kdvi, though I'm not sure if it has anything do do with paper size. -- #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] handheld support ?
Hi All, I finally convinced my office to build all our new servers on Gentoo (without regret), but I looking to move a few desktops to Gentoo as well. My main obstacle right now is PocketPC and syncing them. Calendar applications etc are not important, but retrieve files etc is important. I have not found any real support of any kind for handhelds. I know it is foolish to think that this will be simple since PocketPC runs Windows Mobile, so I am up for the challenge. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks :) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] straggling with paper size
I may be barking up the wrong tree, but have you run the command # texconfig ? Alan On 12/5/05, Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 10:21 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: Joseph schreef: Please excuse me for interrupting when I know nothing about this issue at all, but: I keep noticing that latex seems to supercede divps [snip] Huh! No wonder the changes I made to dIvps don't work. The must be some other package I pulled that caused this mess. So it seems to me that rather than adjusting the configuration of divps, we (meaning you, of course) should at least *look* at the configuration of latex-- what paper size is /it/ set to?? I know that Latex is set by default to A4 paper size and margins are located in different file. But what file? -- #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] subdirectory disappears in /usr/portage
Alan E. Davis wrote: I'm not certain what an rsync server is, but I am guessing it would be a cache of files that could be picked up by other machines. When you do a emerge sync, it connects to a rsync server. When I do that on one of my secondary rigs, it gets the portage files off my main rig. I don't even have to be connected to the net. Rsync can be used for other things though. Some use it to do back-ups with, from what I have read anyway. Perhaps the laptop could do this, and serve as a go-between. That's the main thing I am trying to do---move files off the machine at work (or conceivably the laptop) to the machine at home, for installing and updating. It's excruciatingly slow to emerge alot of large packages of 100MB and up by dialup. Glacial. If you have some of the bigger packages on your laptop, you can copy them over the network manually to /usr/portage/distfiles. I have done this before. Not as fancy but it works. I have done it with CDs before. I saw a Tip document today on how to use XDelta (deltaup?) to save time. Is this a workable solution? I am not averse to carrying a CD around, or using the laptop as a go-between. I'm not familiar with that. For my local stuff, which may/should work for you, I use rsyncd and http-replicator. I can do emerge sync's and download new packages locally when I install or upgrade one of my other three rigs. Basically they share everything from my main rig. I understand now about not using /usr/portage for personal work or off the wall administration. I actually think that I can pull off what I had in mind, and the machine is currently grinding away at the downloads, as I type, across town. The rsync server seems interesting, though. Alan For personnal stuff, you should really use /home/user/some-directory. I have two places for mine; /home/dale/Desktop/Documents and /mnt/data. The last one used to be on a seperate drive but is now on a seperate partition instead. And yes, I did move my Documents directory. I like mine on my desktop thank you, right next to the trash can. LOL One thing about Linux, there are tons of ways to do the exact same thing. Lots of options. Dale :-) -- To err is human, I'm most certainly human. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: straggling with paper size
On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 13:19 +, James wrote: Holly Bostick motub at planet.nl writes: Joseph schreef: So it seems to me that rather than adjusting the configuration of divps, we (meaning you, of course) should at least *look* at the configuration of latex-- what paper size is /it/ set to?? And if this does not solve the problem, look at modifying your CUPS settings. I believe some configurations allow settings that, in effect, will covernt all a4 paper sizes to letter if nothing else works HTH, James If I print to file, and next run that file through cups it prints OK. But if I run it directly to a printer from Latex converter *.tex to ps via divps if I'm not mistaken. But if as Holly mentioned: I keep noticing that latex seems to supercede divps How can it be possible, I was under impression that divps is part of Latex. Anyhow, the after conversion the printer to ps (postscript) the file is sent to printer via command : lpr -P printer_name and this is the time it ask me for A4 paper size. -- #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] subdirectory disappears in /usr/portage
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 05 Dec 2005 04:59:55 -0600, Dale wrote: What's wrong with /usr/portage/distfiles? Well, I'm not sure I get what you are asking. I don't think putting the latest CD that was converted to mp3 should be stored in the distfiles directory though. They do have this thing called a Documents folder for that. LOL He isn't downloading mp3s, he is downloading source tarballs to emerge on another machine. since some of those tarballs are probably already in /usr/portage/distfiles, it seems a reasonable place to put them all, then just put the ones he needs onto a CD. That was confusing me. I don't use wget. That said, source tarballs go in the distfiles directory, not the portage directory. Basically, he put something, doesn't really matter what, in the portage directory. When he did his emerge sync, it got deleted because it was not a directory on the rsync server. If he had put it in the distfiles directory, he would have been OK. The sync up would not have deleted it then. That is also why I made the comment about putting mp3s on the rsync server. The next time you or I done a sync, we would get them too. LOL Anyway, source tarballs in distfiles, snapshot in portage. Put the rest somewhere else. o_O Dale :-) -- To err is human, I'm most certainly human. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] straggling with paper size
On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 23:51 +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote: I may be barking up the wrong tree, but have you run the command # texconfig ? Alan Many, many time (all Saturday and Sunday). It doesn't help. It helps when it comes to controlling paper size and margin with on tetex -- pdf file printout via: pdftex/pdftex.cfg page_width 8.5 true in page_height 11 true in horigin 1 true in vorigin 0.3 true in this works. But I want to control tetex -- ps (postscript) -- #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] courier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stroller wrote: You're in luck! Yeah, wimmen! I've just started a new thread IMAP Server - authenticating off a Windows Domain? Perhaps you can help? quote author=Pulp I'll see what I can do. /quote - -- Arturo Buanzo Busleiman - www.buanzo.com.ar Consultor en Seguridad Informatica / Dominio Digital TV - Da FOSS man! KTP Consultores - info AT ktpconsultores.com.ar Romper un sistema de seguridad los acerca tanto a ser hackers como el encender autos puenteando los convierte en ingenieros automotrices. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDlE5KAlpOsGhXcE0RAojiAJ9bxD43qklyz4e3io0FW9zQlbUpwQCdGCXa KE7SU3IHsLj5gi84UwM9Wgk= =IvBc -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] courier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nick Smith wrote: do you know of any good how-to's using just courier-mta? Actually, I usually untar the contents of the courier-mta tar file and check what's there. It usually sufices. Of course, depending on what kind of backend you will/want to use, you'll need more or less additional experience out of the mta-subject. not just with courier-imap and a mix of other programs? and tips or tricks you care to share? any problems i should look out for? Read throughly all of courier's manual pages. There are many tricks in there related to how courier rejects malformed eMails, security aspects, and such. I'm in the courier-users mailing lists, and most questions are answered with rtfm, and in this case, I have to admit that the FM is excellent :) On the other hand, I'd recommend that you play with courier without using Maildrop for delivery, and switch to maildrop once you have the whole system running. Additionally, courierfilters are very pwoerful, and thus, tend to create some complications. Avoid them in your initial deployments. have a test lab for them. If you are a perl-guru, use the provided perlfilter for courierfilter. It's quite stable and has a great userbase. - -- Arturo Buanzo Busleiman - www.buanzo.com.ar Consultor en Seguridad Informatica / Dominio Digital TV - Da FOSS man! KTP Consultores - info AT ktpconsultores.com.ar Romper un sistema de seguridad los acerca tanto a ser hackers como el encender autos puenteando los convierte en ingenieros automotrices. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDlE8qAlpOsGhXcE0RArgOAJ98NlauA5oXc8vTIEETNaSKnpZViwCfaddv y5GV9kmjUpyc/CGwi9Wu7V0= =coh0 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] IMAP Server - authenticating off a Windows Domain?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stroller wrote: to authenticate against the domain controller everytime the user logs on to their email? You have many approaches, each of them with specific complications: 1) Samba+Winbind+PAM = You really want samba on a mail server? 2) Kerberos = I can't talk much about this one :) - Not enough experience. 3) PAM_LDAP and use courier with authpam: May probe useful. It certainly did a couple of years ago for me. 4) courier's authldap module - like (3), but with one layer less. never tried it. - -- Arturo Buanzo Busleiman - www.buanzo.com.ar Consultor en Seguridad Informatica / Dominio Digital TV - Da FOSS man! KTP Consultores - info AT ktpconsultores.com.ar Romper un sistema de seguridad los acerca tanto a ser hackers como el encender autos puenteando los convierte en ingenieros automotrices. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDlFAGAlpOsGhXcE0RAshTAJ0U8yd8dMASwHwp0FnlKv2rDMLwaQCdFEaq QV+cUttgowE9q1C99bCH7EA= =LMpT -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] straggling with paper size
When you ran texconfig did you configure GLOBAL SETTINGS under dvips? Alan On 12/6/05, Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 23:51 +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote: I may be barking up the wrong tree, but have you run the command # texconfig ? Alan Many, many time (all Saturday and Sunday). It doesn't help. It helps when it comes to controlling paper size and margin with on tetex -- pdf file printout via: pdftex/pdftex.cfg page_width 8.5 true in page_height 11 true in horigin 1 true in vorigin 0.3 true in this works. But I want to control tetex -- ps (postscript) -- #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] glsa-check cron question
Hi, I use often the great tool glsa-check in this way: /usr/bin/glsa-check -l new /tmp/`date +%F`.glsa To produce a file which I could read or mail, to check for vulnerabilities in a machine. What I want to do is to generate this file everyday with a crontab entry like this: 45 6 * * * /usr/bin/glsa-check -l new /tmp/`date +%F`.glsa The problem is that this is not working, it works in the shell, but it doesn't works from cron. If anybody can enlight me, I would appreciate it. -- Andres -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] handheld support ?
On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 09:51:49 -0400, Robin wrote: Hi All, I finally convinced my office to build all our new servers on Gentoo (without regret), but I looking to move a few desktops to Gentoo as well. My main obstacle right now is PocketPC and syncing them. Calendar applications etc are not important, but retrieve files etc is important. I have not found any real support of any kind for handhelds. Have you looked here? http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=app-pda There's also kitchensync, part of KDE now, that syncs with various PDAs. -- Neil Bothwick Bother, said Pooh, when he read his AIDS test results. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] error emerging gnome-vfs on athlon-xp machine
This was an awesome explanation. Useful. However, now I have another issue with kdelibs, also involving an *.la file: libartskde.la, that I cannot find on my machine. I'll start another topic, I guess. Thank you. AlanOn 12/4/05, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/3/05, Alan E. Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to understand how this works.Is there any documentation of all this?The full documentation is info libtool.Although it is targeted for application developers, it might be useful to browse.But I'll try togive a concise explanation here.What is the function of the xyz.la file?First, let me talk about the problem that libtool is intended to solve. When you write an application for Unix, you will usually use variouslibraries.For example, if you write a KDE application, you need touse (called linking) the KDE libraries to integrate with the environment.For example, /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkparts.so is a basicKDE library.Now, with gcc, you need to specify all libraries that your applicationwill link against, including dependencies.If you miss one, you will have unresolved functions, and the build will fail.But if you lookat the output of ldd /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkparts.so, you will seethat it depends upon more than one dozen other libraries (if you don't have KDE 3.5, it isn't hard to find a library with a similar issue).The problem however is that the list of required libraries can changefrom one system to the next.Differences in architecture,configurations, and optional dependency features result in an unmanageable list of dependant libraries.This can be partially managed by configure tricks.You will sometimessee configure scripts doing things like does -lX11 require-lXdmcp...yes and so on.While possible, this still requires a great deal of effort on the part of the developer to account for all of thedifferent possibilities, and the level of effort increasesexponentially with the number of possible dependencies...Contrast that with a libtool enabled build, the developer only has to link against those libraries the application actually uses (likelibkparts.so), and libtool will figure out all of the otherdependencies and the actual gcc arguments required to successfullylink the program. Sticking with my libkparts.so example, looking at my/usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkparts.la, we find the following two lines (alongwith others):dlname='libkparts.so.2'dependency_libs=' -R/usr/kde/3.5/lib -R/usr/qt/3/lib -R/usr/X11R6/lib /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkio.la -L/usr/kde/3.5/lib -L/usr/qt/3/lib-L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin-L/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/lib -L/usr/lib /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkdeui.la/usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkdesu.la /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkwalletclient.la /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkdecore.la /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libDCOP.la -lresolv-lutil /usr/lib/libart_lgpl_2.la /usr/lib/libidn.la/usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkdefx.la /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt- mt.la -lmng -ljpeg -lXi -lXrender -lXrandr -lXcursor -lXft -lfreetype -lfontconfig -lXext-lX11 -lSM -lICE /usr/lib/libmng.la /usr/lib/libjpeg.la/usr/lib/libjpeg.la /usr/lib/libXi.la /usr/lib/libXrandr.la/usr/lib/libXext.la /usr/lib/libXcursor.la /usr/lib/libXfixes.la /usr/lib/libXft.la /usr/lib/libfontconfig.la /usr/lib/libXrender.la/usr/lib/libfreetype.la /usr/lib/libfontconfig.la/usr/lib/libfreetype.la /usr/lib/libexpat.la -lpng /usr/lib/libXext.la/usr/lib/libX11.la /usr/lib/libSM.la /usr/lib/libICE.la /usr/lib/libICE.la -lpthread /usr/lib/libXrender.la /usr/lib/libX11.la/usr/lib/libXau.la /usr/lib/libXdmcp.la -ldl -lz /usr/lib/libfam.la-lrpcsvc /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.4/libstdc++.la'The dlname= parameter says that an application that links against libkparts will actually link against libkparts.so.2 (you can seethis in ldd program output).The second parameter is more interesting...it lists gcc flags (the -Rand -L entries), required dependant libraries (the -l options, mng, jpeg, Xi, Xrender, etc), and dependant libtool archives (libmng.la, libjpeg.la, libXi.la, ...).Those dependant archives are examinedin-turn to locate dlname= and dependancy_lib= settings, and eventually a very long gcc command line is built to accomplish the link. Are these changes likely to happen in the future as I do emerge -uDv world from time to time?Yes, as you update gcc versions, switch your system compiler to them (with gcc-config), and prune old versions of gcc.However, upgrades of gcc have to be carefully managed in any case,because if you remove the old version of gcc to early, you can breakpython, and thus portage, and then you are really screwed.See a recent thread about gcc-3.4 being stabilized for a link to the upgradeprocedure.In another posting, you have some .la files that reference.../3.3.6/libstdc++.la.One of those was /usr/lib/libdb_cxx- 4.2.la.So if you build something that wants to link against libdb_cxx-4.2, itwill link against the stdc++ included with gcc 3.3.6, instead of the3.4.4 version.But if you were to prune the old version of gcc, this libtool reference would be
Re: [gentoo-user] [Not specifically Gentoo] Forcing a new IP address with DHCP
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 05:07:22PM -0800, Ryan Tandy wrote: I have a Linksys WRT54GS router running openWRT firmware that gets its IP via DHCP from my ISP. That's all working fine. I also have an account with dyndns.org that is supposed to get updated when my IP changes. This is where I've screwed something up because it's wasn't. I think I have it configured properly now, but won't know until my IP changes again. In the configuration on the dyndns website, enter an IP for your entry that you know is wrong. Wait the interval you configured and see if it updates to the correct one. Also, there should be an option somewhere to force your dyndns client to update immediately, but I'd recommend waiting the interval just to make sure that works too. Maybe turn it down to 5 minutes or something to reduce the wait. ;) I've done this, and also had to change the IP in /tmp/ez-ipup, which holds the routers config for the last time IP was changed. After doing these changes, ipdown wan ipup wan recognized that the IP was different, and updated appropriately. Right now I have the following command being run hourly from crontab /usr/sbin/ez-ipupdate -c /etc/ez-ipupdate.conf and that doesn't work if wan hasn't been taken down and back up again, because the ez-ipdupdate script just compares the values in /tmp/ez-ipup file with dyndns, and doesn't account for the actual value shown with ifconfig vlan1. But what doesn't happen, and I think _should_, probably via udhcpc, is that if my satellite modem goes down or changes IP, the router should recognize this fact and automagically reconfigure wan via ipdown and ipup. I'm really confused here. Thanks, John pgpYeouQtA8BX.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] glsa-check cron question
On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 15:39:00 +0100, Andres Becerra Sandoval wrote: What I want to do is to generate this file everyday with a crontab entry like this: 45 6 * * * /usr/bin/glsa-check -l new /tmp/`date +%F`.glsa The problem is that this is not working, it works in the shell, but it doesn't works from cron. If anybody can enlight me, I would appreciate it. It is probably the redirection screwing things up, but you don't need it with cron. As long as you have cron configured to mail its output to you, you only need 45 6 * * * /usr/bin/glsa-check -l new or, as I prefer to only see the effects on installed packages 45 6 * * * /usr/bin/glsa-check -t all -- Neil Bothwick When there's a will, I want to be in it. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] subdirectory disappears in /usr/portage
Alan E. Davis wrote: Thanks for all the ideas. I like the Tips page, it gives me a way to (1) get a list of ALL the files needed to upgrade (including patches), into a file and a python script that downloads all those files into a temp directory, then make a CD and move it to the other machine at home and emerge -uDv world. There are probably more efficient ways. This is relatively elegant, and beats the hell out of three or four weeks of downloading and dodging family use of the phone. Cheers, Alan Davis One of these days some geek will come up with a program to do that with. I think I see what you are doing and I can't really think of a better way. It would depend on how much drive space your lappy has and if you can network them all up. I'm on dial-up too. It sucks. I only get 26K here. I think I'll go have a good cry now. :( It took me a few nights, and days, to get Open Office, better known as OOo. Looks like a three eyed monster to me. LOL Dale :-) -- To err is human, I'm most certainly human. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] subdirectory disappears in /usr/portage
On 12/6/05, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm on dial-up too. It sucks. I only get 26K here. I think I'll go have a good cry now. :( It took me a few nights, and days, to get Open Office, better known as OOo. Looks like a three eyed monster to me. LOL Thanks for the advice. 26K and OOo: you are indeed patient. Alan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: straggling with paper size
On 05 December 2005 16:07, Joseph wrote: Anyhow, the after conversion the printer to ps (postscript) the file is sent to printer via command : lpr -P printer_name and this is the time it ask me for A4 paper size. Have you tried lpr -l -P printer_name? -l tells lpr not to reformat the file. Uwe -- Unix is sexy: who | grep -i blonde | date cd ~; unzip; touch; strip; finger mount; gasp; yes; uptime; umount sleep -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] New User to Gentoo - Specialized Application
Good Morning Everyone: I am preparing to install Gentoo for a very specialized application -- I have an older P3/400 box that I want to use to run AUDACITY to use it as a digital recording deck on our church sound system. I am planning to use fluxbox, and configure gentoo for a very lightweight application (fluxbox because I have been told it is about the lightest weight gui). I have NEVER done anything with Gentoo, my experience is in FC3/4 and Ubuntu. Can anyone provide hints / pointers / gotchas that I ought to be aware of -- I have the installer manual etc, so I am more looking for hints and tips that I ought to be aware of in trying this. I will also be compiling my own kernel for this -- (That will be a first too) Thanks TIM Timothy A. Holmes IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher Medina Christian Academy A Higher Standard... Jeremiah 33:3 Jeremiah 29:11 Esther 4:14 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] glsa-check cron question
On 12/5/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 15:39:00 +0100, Andres Becerra Sandoval wrote: What I want to do is to generate this file everyday with a crontab entry like this: 45 6 * * * /usr/bin/glsa-check -l new /tmp/`date +%F`.glsa The problem is that this is not working, it works in the shell, but it doesn't works from cron. If anybody can enlight me, I would appreciate it. It is probably the redirection screwing things up, but you don't need it with cron. As long as you have cron configured to mail its output to you, you only need 45 6 * * * /usr/bin/glsa-check -l new or, as I prefer to only see the effects on installed packages 45 6 * * * /usr/bin/glsa-check -t all -- Neil Bothwick When there's a will, I want to be in it. Thank you, I will set cron to mail me the output. -- Andres -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] glsa-check cron question
On Monday 05 December 2005 09:39, Andres Becerra Sandoval wrote: | 45 6 * * * /usr/bin/glsa-check -l new /tmp/`date +%F`.glsa | | The problem is that this is not working, it works in the shell, but it | doesn't works from cron. If anybody can enlight me, I would appreciate | it. Most of the time, you must put the full path for executables in the crontab... 36 * * * * /usr/bin/glsa-check -l new /tmp/`/usr/bin/date +%F`.glsa works for me. Regards, Kurt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New User to Gentoo - Specialized Application
On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 10:20:26 -0500, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: Can anyone provide hints / pointers / gotchas that I ought to be aware of -- I have the installer manual etc, so I am more looking for hints and tips that I ought to be aware of in trying this. Follow the handbook faithfully. No matter how convinced you are that there is a better/quicker/easier way of doing something, believe the people that wrote the handbook until you have at least a couple of installs under your belt. -- Neil Bothwick Genius is 99% inspiration and 2% arithmetic signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] straggling with paper size
Joseph, Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know that Latex is set by default to A4 paper size and margins are located in different file. But what file? -- #Joseph Have you looked in the latex source file? The page size and margins could be getting set there. It should be in the document preamble, i.e. before the \begin{document} command. HTH, Roger -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] glsa-check cron question
On 12/5/05, Kurt V. Hindenburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 05 December 2005 09:39, Andres Becerra Sandoval wrote: | 45 6 * * * /usr/bin/glsa-check -l new /tmp/`date +%F`.glsa | | The problem is that this is not working, it works in the shell, but it | doesn't works from cron. If anybody can enlight me, I would appreciate | it. Most of the time, you must put the full path for executables in the crontab... 36 * * * * /usr/bin/glsa-check -l new /tmp/`/usr/bin/date +%F`.glsa works for me. Regards, Kurt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Thanks! -- Andres -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] New User to Gentoo - Specialized Application
Arturo: Sorry about that -- -- the sound card is the on the board unit that came with the computer -- the board is an INTEL D850MD http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/d850md/ Tim Timothy A. Holmes IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher Medina Christian Academy A Higher Standard... Jeremiah 33:3 Jeremiah 29:11 Esther 4:14 -Original Message- From: Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 10:31 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New User to Gentoo - Specialized Application -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Timothy A. Holmes wrote: Good Morning Everyone: I am preparing to install Gentoo for a very specialized application -- I have an older P3/400 box that I want to use to run AUDACITY to use it as a digital recording deck on our church sound system. I am planning to use fluxbox, and configure gentoo for a very lightweight application (fluxbox because I have been told it is about the lightest weight gui). You may wish to analyze different kernels for this matter. Get into the audacity mailing lists, too. I have NEVER done anything with Gentoo, my experience is in FC3/4 and Ubuntu. You will have no problems if you follow the alsa gentoo guide. and tips that I ought to be aware of in trying this. I will also be compiling my own kernel for this -- (That will be a first too) I repeat: check out specialized kernels for low-latency in audio applications. What recording hardware are you going to use? what mixers? mics? I can help off-list with that. I own a recording studio and use audacity, too. I even written a Cooledit Project import plugin for Audacity :) - -- Arturo Buanzo Busleiman - www.buanzo.com.ar Consultor en Seguridad Informatica / Dominio Digital TV - Da FOSS man! KTP Consultores - info AT ktpconsultores.com.ar Romper un sistema de seguridad los acerca tanto a ser hackers como el encender autos puenteando los convierte en ingenieros automotrices. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDlF0kAlpOsGhXcE0RAiD9AJsER6VatELbc/qMJpYZA4X8roZ8dwCfcbqG H7AUMx4SR24xQw+zB/lHb2o= =Vpxn -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] etc-update after 'emerge -e world'
I 'emerge sync' and 'emerge -DuN world' daily so why did 'emerge -e system' and 'emerge -e world' (for the GCC upgrade) each come up with a bunch of etc files to be updated via etc-update? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: straggling with paper size
On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 17:11 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: On 05 December 2005 16:07, Joseph wrote: Anyhow, the after conversion the printer to ps (postscript) the file is sent to printer via command : lpr -P printer_name and this is the time it ask me for A4 paper size. Have you tried lpr -l -P printer_name? -l tells lpr not to reformat the file. Uwe That is interesting. It sort of works, the printer is not asking me for A4 size paper, but the print-out is garbage, unreadable characters. -- #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] C++ missing
Steven Susbauer wrote: stage 3 is the suggested way of doing it nowadays anyway. If you're a sp33d d3m0n you can always run the bootstrap and emerge -e system, emerge -e world after you've installed everything. It will take a long while, but since it's still up and running while it does this, that's generally okay. On 12/4/05, *Mike Kenny* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dale wrote: You should have plenty of space then. You are not half way there yet. If you put a full KDE on there, it will be close. You may want to do a env-update then exit the chroot. Just type in env-update the exit to exit. Then go back and chroot in again following this: mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc cp -L /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/gentoo/etc/resolv.conf chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash env-update source /etc/profile It may tell you proc is already mounted. If it does, that's OK. Next step. Whatever you do, don't start over. Most anything can be fixed and it will save you from downloading all the stuff again. If you do start over, try to save /usr portage. That is where it puts the downloaded stuff. If chroot'ing in don't help, me clueless. Maybe a serious guru will come along and help. Dale :-) Thanks for the effort, but I have tried all this. So now, rather than start from scratch I am going to install from a stage3 and move on from there. This should work and as I am pushed now to get an openXchange configuration setup, this will do for now. Once I have it stable it should be possible to go back and re-install from source, I guess. -- mike kenny Linux Registered User #381724 LPI ID# 80080 Hell, there are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something Thomas Edison -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailto:gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Steven Susbauer Thanks, this is what I intend doing, at some stage. Right now I am up and running, next is to try and install openXchange -- mike kenny Linux Registered User #381724 LPI ID# 80080 Hell, there are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something Thomas Edison -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New User to Gentoo - Specialized Application
On 12/5/05, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Timothy A. Holmes wrote: Good Morning Everyone: I am preparing to install Gentoo for a very specialized application -- I have an older P3/400 box that I want to use to run AUDACITY to use it as a digital recording deck on our church sound system. I am planning to use fluxbox, and configure gentoo for a very lightweight application (fluxbox because I have been told it is about the lightest weight gui). You may wish to analyze different kernels for this matter. Get into the audacity mailing lists, too. I have NEVER done anything with Gentoo, my experience is in FC3/4 and Ubuntu. You will have no problems if you follow the alsa gentoo guide. and tips that I ought to be aware of in trying this. I will also be compiling my own kernel for this -- (That will be a first too) I repeat: check out specialized kernels for low-latency in audio applications. What recording hardware are you going to use? what mixers? mics? I can help off-list with that. I own a recording studio and use audacity, too. I even written a Cooledit Project import plugin for Audacity :) Tim, You might also pick through the archives of this list, I seem to remember some discussion on low-latency kernels and audio recording specifically a while back. -Mike -- Michael E. Crute Software Developer SoftGroup Development Corporation Linux takes junk and turns it into something useful. Windows takes something useful and turns it into junk. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update after 'emerge -e world'
Grant wrote: I 'emerge sync' and 'emerge -DuN world' daily so why did 'emerge -e system' and 'emerge -e world' (for the GCC upgrade) each come up with a bunch of etc files to be updated via etc-update? - Grant Missed a few last time around? If you made your own changes it might be trying to overwrite them back to the default. Chris. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update after 'emerge -e world'
On 12/5/05, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I 'emerge sync' and 'emerge -DuN world' daily so why did 'emerge -e system' and 'emerge -e world' (for the GCC upgrade) each come up with a bunch of etc files to be updated via etc-update? - Grant Because emerge -e re-installs every package on your system it also wants to re-install the config files. If you are fairly confident that you don't need these changes (as most of them will want to revert your config file back to the original) you can run etc-update letting it merge trivial changes and then tell it to keep all the files as is, discarding the updates. -Mike -- Michael E. Crute Software Developer SoftGroup Development Corporation Linux takes junk and turns it into something useful. Windows takes something useful and turns it into junk. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] straggling with paper size
On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 00:38 +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote: When you ran texconfig did you configure GLOBAL SETTINGS under dvips? Alan Yes, I have tried adjust via global setting, all it is doing is adjusting this file (I think): /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/config.ps to: @ letterSize 8.5in 11in @ letter 8.5in 11in @+ %%BeginPaperSize: Letter @+ letter @+ %%EndPaperSize This is the first setting it should be in dvips in order to make page size letter, there is another part that deals with the margins that might be overwriting the setting, that file is according to: http://physics.wm.edu/~norman/latexhints/pdf_papersize.html called: vmargins.sty Acording the the link above it should be: --quote -- % % DEFAULTS: % \setpapersize{A4} \setmarginsrb{35mm}{20mm}{25mm}{15mm}{12pt}{11mm}{0pt}{11mm} For example changing this to read: % % DEFAULTS: % \setpapersize{USletter} \setmarginsrb{1in}{1in}{1in}{1in}{0pt}{0mm}{0pt}{0mm} ---end quote-- Though it is not the case, the end of the file section that deals with margins looks like this: \setpapersize{A4} [EMAIL PROTECTED]@dflt{} [EMAIL PROTECTED] }{ \DeclareOption{shiftmargins}{\shiftmargins} \DeclareOption{portrait}{\Landscapefalse} \DeclareOption{landscape}{\Landscapetrue} [EMAIL PROTECTED]@dflt{y}} \DeclareOption*{\@@@setps{\CurrentOption}} \ProcessOptions\relax % process options in order of declaration! } \if [EMAIL PROTECTED]@dflt \setmargnohfrb{35mm}{20mm}{25mm}{15mm}% \else \setmarginsrb{35mm}{20mm}{25mm}{15mm}{12pt}{11mm}{0pt}{11mm}% \fi - I've tried to modify that section but it doesn't work, still asking for A4 paper. Though, I'm not so sure that the whole mess with paper size has anything to do with Latex and dvips. It all started when I un-merge KDE and convert it into kde-split-ebuild. -- #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] straggling with paper size
On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 12:14 -0330, Roger Mason wrote: Joseph, Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know that Latex is set by default to A4 paper size and margins are located in different file. But what file? -- #Joseph Have you looked in the latex source file? The page size and margins could be getting set there. It should be in the document preamble, i.e. before the \begin{document} command. HTH, Roger Yes, I can adjust the margins on in invoice.tex document, here is what I have: \documentclass[letterpaper]{scrartcl} \usepackage[frame]{xy} \usepackage{tabularx} \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} \setlength{\voffset}{0.5cm} \setlength{\hoffset}{-2.0cm} \setlength{\topmargin}{0cm} \setlength{\headheight}{0.5cm} \setlength{\headsep}{1cm} \setlength{\topskip}{0pt} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{1.4cm} \setlength{\evensidemargin}{1.4cm} \setlength{\textwidth}{18.2cm} \setlength{\textheight}{24.5cm} \setlength{\footskip}{1cm} \setlength{\parindent}{0pt} \renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{1} \begin{document} I can move \setlength{\voffset}{-1.5cm} and the margins will get adjusted. But that doesn't help me much as when I send the job to a printer it is still asking for A4 paper size. -- #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] straggling with paper size
On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 00:38 +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote: When you ran texconfig did you configure GLOBAL SETTINGS under dvips? Alan Does the latex database needs to be refresh? I run on this in google: Refresh the filename database, by running at a command interpreter window: initexmf -u I can not find initexmf -- #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] creating local copies of web pages
Robert Persson wrote: The trouble is that I have a bookmark file with several hundred entries. wget is supposed to be fairly good at extracting urls from text files, but it couldn't handle this particular file. Try this: emerge HTML-Tree then as a normal user, run this script like so (where $file is your bookmark file) $ perl listhref.pl $file list.txt [snip] #!/usr/bin/perl use HTML::Tree; print join(\n,(map { $_-attr('href') } HTML::TreeBuilder-new()-parse_file(shift)-look_down(_tag,A,sub { $_[0]-attr('href') ne }) )).\n; exit; [snip] Then you can process your urls like so: xargs wget -m list.txt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] creating local copies of web pages
Robert Persson wrote: The trouble is that I have a bookmark file with several hundred entries. wget is supposed to be fairly good at extracting urls from text files, but it couldn't handle this particular file. my previous message assumes that your bookmark file is in reality a HTML file. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] straggling with paper size
Hi Joseph, Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 00:38 +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote: When you ran texconfig did you configure GLOBAL SETTINGS under dvips? Alan Does the latex database needs to be refresh? I run on this in google: Refresh the filename database, by running at a command interpreter window: initexmf -u I can not find initexmf If you are using tetex I think the command is texhash or mktexlsr, but I don't know that it will fix your problem. Have you looked on CTAN? They have a mailing list and FAQ. Roger -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] what's up with kernelnewbies?
Hello everybody, I posted about my kernel panic problem to kernelnewbies(they seem a competent crew), w/ subject line: kernel panic fix sought. My post was ignored. Three days later somebody posted to the list under the subject line: KERNEL PANIC FIX SOUGHT. He(Kumar is a male name isn't it?)started getting replies right away. Kumar must have seen my mail. What are the chances he'd choose exactly the same words out of the millions out there within three days of my posting? And how is it that someone can be so lame and un-imaginative that they can't even think of four _different_ words to express their difficulty(out of the millions out there)and nobody calls him on it? Which leads me to suspect I've neglected some sort of protocol or other. Or, being a member of that list is not enough. Any thoughts? -mw __ Yahoo! DSL Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] straggling with paper size
Hello Joseph, Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 12:14 -0330, Roger Mason wrote: Have you looked in the latex source file? The page size and margins could be getting set there. It should be in the document preamble, i.e. before the \begin{document} command. HTH, Roger Yes, I can adjust the margins on in invoice.tex document, here is what I have: \documentclass[letterpaper]{scrartcl} \usepackage[frame]{xy} \usepackage{tabularx} \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} \setlength{\voffset}{0.5cm} \setlength{\hoffset}{-2.0cm} \setlength{\topmargin}{0cm} \setlength{\headheight}{0.5cm} \setlength{\headsep}{1cm} \setlength{\topskip}{0pt} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{1.4cm} \setlength{\evensidemargin}{1.4cm} \setlength{\textwidth}{18.2cm} \setlength{\textheight}{24.5cm} \setlength{\footskip}{1cm} \setlength{\parindent}{0pt} \renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{1} \begin{document} I can move \setlength{\voffset}{-1.5cm} and the margins will get adjusted. But that doesn't help me much as when I send the job to a printer it is still asking for A4 paper size. -- #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list The \documentclass scrartcl does not look like any of the standard latex classes. Does it define paper size or look in some specific configuration file for paper size? What happens if you replace scrartcl by a standard class like article? Roger -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] kdeutils-3.5.0
I've been thinking of udating to KDE-3.5 and I notice that superkaramba blocks kdeutils. I'm assuming that superkaramba or something similar is now in the kdeutils package. I have a few karamba themes that I run on the desktop and am wondering what kind of problems I'll have with them after I update. Any ideas? -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free 12:45:21 up 3:28, 5 users, load average: 0.01, 0.54, 0.99 Linux 2.6.5-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kdeutils-3.5.0
Hi, According to http://www.kde.org/announcements/visualguide-3.5.php : SuperKaramba, a tool that allows you to easily create interactive eye-candy on the desktop, is now included in KDE. Using SuperKaramba you can quickly add functionality such as weather and news updates, system monitors and alternatives to the existing functions of Kicker. New applets can be easily downloaded using the KHotNewStuff functionality. enjoy :-) On 12/5/05, Ernie Schroder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been thinking of udating to KDE-3.5 and I notice that superkaramba blocks kdeutils. I'm assuming that superkaramba or something similar is now in the kdeutils package. I have a few karamba themes that I run on the desktop and am wondering what kind of problems I'll have with them after I update. Any ideas? -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free 12:45:21 up 3:28, 5 users, load average: 0.01, 0.54, 0.99 Linux 2.6.5-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] straggling with paper size
On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 14:17 -0330, Roger Mason wrote: Hello Joseph, Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 12:14 -0330, Roger Mason wrote: Have you looked in the latex source file? The page size and margins could be getting set there. It should be in the document preamble, i.e. before the \begin{document} command. HTH, Roger Yes, I can adjust the margins on in invoice.tex document, here is what I have: \documentclass[letterpaper]{scrartcl} \usepackage[frame]{xy} \usepackage{tabularx} \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} \setlength{\voffset}{0.5cm} \setlength{\hoffset}{-2.0cm} \setlength{\topmargin}{0cm} \setlength{\headheight}{0.5cm} \setlength{\headsep}{1cm} \setlength{\topskip}{0pt} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{1.4cm} \setlength{\evensidemargin}{1.4cm} \setlength{\textwidth}{18.2cm} \setlength{\textheight}{24.5cm} \setlength{\footskip}{1cm} \setlength{\parindent}{0pt} \renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{1} \begin{document} I can move \setlength{\voffset}{-1.5cm} and the margins will get adjusted. But that doesn't help me much as when I send the job to a printer it is still asking for A4 paper size. -- #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list The \documentclass scrartcl does not look like any of the standard latex classes. Does it define paper size or look in some specific configuration file for paper size? What happens if you replace scrartcl by a standard class like article? Roger The original entry in the form was: \documentclass[twoside]{scrartcl} so I've hanged added: [letterpaper] but it didn't work. Changing scrartcl to article doesn't help either, printer is still asking for A4 paper size. -- #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kdeutils-3.5.0
On 12/5/05, Ernie Schroder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been thinking of udating to KDE-3.5 and I notice that superkaramba blocks kdeutils. I'm assuming that superkaramba or something similar is now in the kdeutils package. I have a few karamba themes that I run on the desktop and am wondering what kind of problems I'll have with them after I update. Any ideas? It moved from x11-misc to kde-base. Just unmerge x11-misc/superkaramba, upgrade to KDE 3.5, then merge kde-base/superkaramba. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kdeutils-3.5.0
Thanks! I looked around and never found that info. E On Monday 05 December 2005 12:55 pm, a tiny voice compelled Jean-Jacques FABRE to write: Hi, According to http://www.kde.org/announcements/visualguide-3.5.php : SuperKaramba, a tool that allows you to easily create interactive eye-candy on the desktop, is now included in KDE. Using SuperKaramba you can quickly add functionality such as weather and news updates, system monitors and alternatives to the existing functions of Kicker. New applets can be easily downloaded using the KHotNewStuff functionality. enjoy :-) On 12/5/05, Ernie Schroder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been thinking of udating to KDE-3.5 and I notice that superkaramba blocks kdeutils. I'm assuming that superkaramba or something similar is now in the kdeutils package. I have a few karamba themes that I run on the desktop and am wondering what kind of problems I'll have with them after I update. Any ideas? -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free 12:45:21 up 3:28, 5 users, load average: 0.01, 0.54, 0.99 Linux 2.6.5-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free 13:07:08 up 3:49, 5 users, load average: 0.13, 0.52, 0.54 Linux 2.6.5-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New User to Gentoo - Specialized Application
Can anyone provide hints / pointers / gotchas that I ought to be aware of -- I have the installer manual etc, so I am more looking for hints and tips that I ought to be aware of in trying this. I will also be compiling my own kernel for this -- (That will be a first too) For multitrack recordings you want to use ALSA/jackd/ardour/jamin on top of a low latency kernel. I even recommend the linux audio user list: http://www.linuxdj.com/audio/lad/subscribelau.php Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Xine-lib and arts-3.5.. Doesn't get compiled
Hello, I upgraded to KDE 3.5 and removed the slotted KDE 3.4. xine-lib was compiled with +arts back in the KDE 3.4 days. Yesterday, I installed imagemagick and now wanted to compile xine-lib with +imagemagick which was - previously. The trouble is, that xine-lib doesn't want to get compiled with +arts, because it looks for the libartsc.la from /usr/kde/3.4/blah.. The file doesn't exist anymore because I removed KDE 3.4. So, my question should be quite apparent by now. How do I get xine-lib to compile with +arts with arts-3.5? Thanks, Mrugesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Seeking USB help
What am I missing to get USB working on my laptop? Any suggestions? Is hotplug running? It should handle all module loading stuff for you. Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kdeutils-3.5.0
* kde-base/superkaramba Latest version available: 3.5.0 Latest version installed: 3.5.0 Size of downloaded files: 2,888 kB Homepage:http://www.kde.org/ Description: A tool to create interactive applets for the KDE desktop. License: GPL-2 * x11-misc/superkaramba Latest version available: 0.36 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 1,466 kB Homepage:http://netdragon.sourceforge.net/ Description: A tool to create interactive applets for the KDE desktop. License: GPL-2 With KDE 3.5, you'll be using the kde-base version. Regards, Mrugesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Win4Lin TS support?
Hi all,I've got an MDK 9 server running Win4Lin Terminal Server. I'm trying to migrate this server AWAY from Mandrake to Gentoo.There are referrences everywhere that indicates there's a win4lin-sources kernel but I have yet to find it anywhere.Does Gentoo still support Win4Lin "out of the box" as Netraverse claims? And what do I need to do in order to recomp the kernel with WTS support?Thanks in advance for your feedback! Have a wonderful day!~ Tom
Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin TS support?
you have to use the vanilla sources and patch with the kernel patch on the win4lin site. they have a patch for 2.6.12, and 2.6.14, though the latest vanilla kernel I saw was 2.6.13... :) Im running 2.6.12 right now. On Dec 5, 2005, at 12:33 PM, Tom Smith wrote: Hi all, I've got an MDK 9 server running Win4Lin Terminal Server. I'm trying to migrate this server AWAY from Mandrake to Gentoo. There are referrences everywhere that indicates there's a win4lin- sources kernel but I have yet to find it anywhere. Does Gentoo still support Win4Lin out of the box as Netraverse claims? And what do I need to do in order to recomp the kernel with WTS support? Thanks in advance for your feedback! Have a wonderful day! ~ Tom -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Seeking USB help
On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, Christoph Eckert wrote: What am I missing to get USB working on my laptop? Any suggestions? Is hotplug running? It should handle all module loading stuff for you. This is what /etc/init.d/hotplug says: # nothing here anymore. Please use the coldplug package if you really # want to # load modules for devices that are discovered by your kernel before # init runs. # # However, please realize that if you have any problems, the developers # recommend just using the modules.autoload functionality to handle this # in a # much simpler manner. # Is that true? No more hotplug? That doesn't seem right, especially given your comment. Is it possible I have an old version of the hotplug script? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Seeking USB help
On Tuesday 06 December 2005 02:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is what /etc/init.d/hotplug says: # nothing here anymore. Please use the coldplug package if you really # want to # load modules for devices that are discovered by your kernel before # init runs. # # However, please realize that if you have any problems, the developers # recommend just using the modules.autoload functionality to handle this # in a # much simpler manner. # Is that true? No more hotplug? That doesn't seem right, especially given your comment. Is it possible I have an old version of the hotplug script? Highlight: load modules for devices that are discovered by your kernel before init runs. Meaning, coldplug is for loading modules for devices that are attached before init was started. Hotplug still exists and is used for automatically loading modules for devices that are attached after the system is up. I think what that ebuild says comes from the fact that hotplug and coldplug used to be provided by the same package in the past. Now, we have two separate packages. HTH, Mrugesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: straggling with paper size
On 05 December 2005 18:31, Joseph wrote: On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 17:11 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: On 05 December 2005 16:07, Joseph wrote: Anyhow, the after conversion the printer to ps (postscript) the file is sent to printer via command : lpr -P printer_name and this is the time it ask me for A4 paper size. Have you tried lpr -l -P printer_name? -l tells lpr not to reformat the file. Uwe That is interesting. It sort of works, the printer is not asking me for A4 size paper, but the print-out is garbage, unreadable characters. Oh well, it was just a thought. As a side note: That makes me believe it isn't the printing system itself that fucks up but something higher-up. Uwe -- Unix is sexy: who | grep -i blonde | date cd ~; unzip; touch; strip; finger mount; gasp; yes; uptime; umount sleep -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin TS support?
Well, I'm using the gentoo-sources (2.6.13) and was able to get the patch to apply. The problem is that I don't have the Netraverse option in menuconfig after patching the kernel.Is there a trick for getting this to work?John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you have to use the vanilla sources and patch with the kernel patch on the win4lin site. they have a patch for 2.6.12, and 2.6.14, though the latest vanilla kernel I saw was 2.6.13... :) I"m running 2.6.12 right now.On Dec 5, 2005, at 12:33 PM, Tom Smith wrote: Hi all, I've got an MDK 9 server running Win4Lin Terminal Server. I'm trying to migrate this server AWAY from Mandrake to Gentoo. There are referrences everywhere that indicates there's a win4lin- sources kernel but ! I have yet to find it anywhere. Does Gentoo still support Win4Lin "out of the box" as Netraverse claims? And what do I need to do in order to recomp the kernel with WTS support? Thanks in advance for your feedback! Have a wonderful day! ~ Tom-- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: straggling with paper size
On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 20:07 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: On 05 December 2005 18:31, Joseph wrote: On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 17:11 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: On 05 December 2005 16:07, Joseph wrote: Anyhow, the after conversion the printer to ps (postscript) the file is sent to printer via command : lpr -P printer_name and this is the time it ask me for A4 paper size. Have you tried lpr -l -P printer_name? -l tells lpr not to reformat the file. Uwe That is interesting. It sort of works, the printer is not asking me for A4 size paper, but the print-out is garbage, unreadable characters. Oh well, it was just a thought. As a side note: That makes me believe it isn't the printing system itself that fucks up but something higher-up. Uwe I know it makes my blood boil. That Tetex is really a hostile package. I've waisted over two days and still didn't solve the problem. Something like this makes me thinks twice about Linux in business. -- #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [SOLVED] [gentoo-user] Not able to log into KDE via KDM after improper shutdown!
Hareesh Nagarajan wrote: Hi, I am no longer able to log into KDE 3.4 via KDM after an improper shutdown (laptop overheated, and shutdown!). I am able to log in via agetty (Ctrl-Alt-F1), though. Thanks for the reply Dale. It turns out, that I had added an invalid line to my ~/home/user/.bashrc savehist=100 and it was for this reason KDM was not letting me login. Wierd huh? Shouldn't it not fall back to /etc/bashrc? Thanks, Hareesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] system stopped booting
I'm having a strange problem with a system that we're putting together to be an LDAP-based PDC. I had it all configured and it was working fine. I had to put the project aside for a couple weeks as I had other things to work on and then I came back to it. Since it had been a while, I updated the whole system, updated the configs with etc-update, and I'm pretty sure I rebooted to make sure all was well. About a week later, I booted it and it wouldn't boot. It got stuck at configuring system to use udev and never gets okay. I just sits there for ever. I booted a gentoo live cd as a rescue and found that I could chroot into the broken system and work with it. I tried to rebuild the whole thing, but some emerges (one I remember is udev) would stall. They will only get so far as the initial emerge line and they will sit there for ever. The emerges that fail will always fail. The emerges that succeed will do so build after build. I ran memtest on the RAM and it failed some tests so I thought I'd found the problem. A couple weeks later, I have new RAM for it, but it behaves the same. I am not sure where to go with this one. I'm not sure why it won't build or boot. The system had been running just fine before the update and I *think* it booted after it. However, I realize I might have dorked some config file in /etc, but I am not sure which it might be... If anyone has any suggestions, I'd like to find a way out of this other than reinstalling the system. Such a thing might happen again in the future to a non-development system and I'd like to know the way to get it working again. Thank you. -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] system stopped booting
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael George wrote: If anyone has any suggestions, I'd like to find a way out of this other than reinstalling the system. Such a thing might happen again in the future to a non-development system and I'd like to know the way to get it working again. Any kernel messages or syslog entries during the chrooted work? - -- Arturo Buanzo Busleiman - www.buanzo.com.ar Consultor en Seguridad Informatica / Dominio Digital TV - Da FOSS man! KTP Consultores - info AT ktpconsultores.com.ar Romper un sistema de seguridad los acerca tanto a ser hackers como el encender autos puenteando los convierte en ingenieros automotrices. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDlKMfAlpOsGhXcE0RArDuAJ9/jYxi4X80VTV+mqz2y00F36J6VgCcDzY/ e6fbLkr8Q8gm1ytrnrX0epw= =0cNx -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin TS support?
um, then the patch didn't apply.On Dec 5, 2005, at 1:33 PM, Tom Smith wrote:Well, I'm using the gentoo-sources (2.6.13) and was able to get the patch to apply. The problem is that I don't have the Netraverse option in menuconfig after patching the kernel. Is there a trick for getting this to work?John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you have to use the vanilla sources and patch with the kernel patch on the win4lin site. they have a patch for 2.6.12, and 2.6.14, though the latest vanilla kernel I saw was 2.6.13... :) I"m running 2.6.12 right now.On Dec 5, 2005, at 12:33 PM, Tom Smith wrote: Hi all, I've got an MDK 9 server running Win4Lin Terminal Server. I'm trying to migrate this server AWAY from Mandrake to Gentoo. There are referrences everywhere that indicates there's a win4lin- sources kernel but ! I have yet to find it anywhere. Does Gentoo still support Win4Lin "out of the box" as Netraverse claims? And what do I need to do in order to recomp the kernel with WTS support? Thanks in advance for your feedback! Have a wonderful day! ~ Tom-- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin TS support?
Hm... I guess all I can say is that the log file indicated that everything patched correctly--that is, it listed the file names it was patching and there were no errors.When I tried to reapply the patch, it recognized that it had already been applied and asked if I wanted to reverse it or apply it again.This iswhat the problem is. Suggestions? John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: um, then the patch didn't apply. On Dec 5, 2005, at 1:33 PM, Tom Smith wrote:Well, I'm using the gentoo-sources (2.6.13) and was able to get the patch to apply. The problem is that I don't have the Netraverse option in menuconfig after patching the kernel.Is! there a trick for getting this to work?John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you have to use the vanilla sources and patch with the kernel patch on the win4lin site. they have a patch for 2.6.12, and 2.6.14, though the latest vanilla kernel I saw was 2.6.13... :) I"m running 2.6.12 right now.On Dec 5, 2005, at 12:33 PM, Tom Smith wrote: Hi all, I've got an MDK 9 server running Win4Lin Terminal Server. I'm trying to migrate this server AWAY from Mandrake to Gentoo. There are referrences everywhere that indicates there's a win4lin- sources kernel but ! I have yet to find it anywhere. Does Gentoo still support Win4Lin "out of the box" as Netraverse claims? And what do I need to do in order to recomp the kernel with WTS support? Thanks in advance for your feedback! Have a wonderful day! ~ Tom-- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] subdirectory disappears in /usr/portage
On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 09:26:45 +0100 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Bad Idea. emerge sync will delete everything from the local portage tree that is not part of the official portage tree (the only exception is /usr/portage/distfiles). and /usr/portage/packages -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] system stopped booting
Have you checked the mobo? Memtest will report errors if the mobo is bad. m. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] straggling with paper size
Why not try the sql-ledger mailing list. No doubt there are people there who know their way around their software. On Mon, 05 Dec 2005 11:01:13 -0700 Joseph wrote: On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 14:17 -0330, Roger Mason wrote: Hello Joseph, Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 12:14 -0330, Roger Mason wrote: Have you looked in the latex source file? The page size and margins could be getting set there. It should be in the document preamble, i.e. before the \begin{document} command. HTH, Roger Yes, I can adjust the margins on in invoice.tex document, here is what I have: \documentclass[letterpaper]{scrartcl} \usepackage[frame]{xy} \usepackage{tabularx} \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} \setlength{\voffset}{0.5cm} \setlength{\hoffset}{-2.0cm} \setlength{\topmargin}{0cm} \setlength{\headheight}{0.5cm} \setlength{\headsep}{1cm} \setlength{\topskip}{0pt} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{1.4cm} \setlength{\evensidemargin}{1.4cm} \setlength{\textwidth}{18.2cm} \setlength{\textheight}{24.5cm} \setlength{\footskip}{1cm} \setlength{\parindent}{0pt} \renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{1} \begin{document} I can move \setlength{\voffset}{-1.5cm} and the margins will get adjusted. But that doesn't help me much as when I send the job to a printer it is still asking for A4 paper size. -- #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list The \documentclass scrartcl does not look like any of the standard latex classes. Does it define paper size or look in some specific configuration file for paper size? What happens if you replace scrartcl by a standard class like article? Roger The original entry in the form was: \documentclass[twoside]{scrartcl} so I've hanged added: [letterpaper] but it didn't work. Changing scrartcl to article doesn't help either, printer is still asking for A4 paper size. -- #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Optical mouse lights off on kernel 2.6.14 but works on kernel 2.4.30
Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales wrote: Hi there, I got a new VCOM optical mouse, model C235-PS2-V. And I'm having problems with it. On Windows XP or with the Linux kernel 2.4.30 (OpenMosix) it works fine. But on linux kernel 2.6.14-r2 (Gentoo Sources), it lights off and stays off unless I halt the system. I believe this is related to udev for two reasons, one because the 2.4 kernel uses devfs unstead of udev, and also because the light goes off when udev is starting. On the dmesg log, there are two entries related to the mouse: mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice input: ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse on isa0060/serio1 The mouse buttons work, but when I press any of them, the cursor goes to the top-right corner of the screen and stays there. Does anybody has any idea of what might be wrong, or how to create a udev rule so the mouse device works as in devfs? Thanks for the attention, Raphael Hi, What Option Device parameter in xorg.conf? It should be /dev/input/mice in most of the cases. HTH. Cheers, Tamas Sarga Sárga Tamás -- Make the world confused!Zavard össze a világot! Smile on monday morning!Mosolyogj hétfő reggel! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] GCC-3.4 update: python error...
Petteri Räty wrote: Pongracz Istvan wrote: As I can remember, the livecd has a binary. You can copy that library to your /usr/lib and use it to fix your problem. Or: You can make a symlink to the newer libstdc++, maybe can work. I have successfully used a symlink in the past but your mileage may vary. You mean on linstallation cd? I have gentoo 2005.0 x86 install cd, but I can not find there any libstdc++. Where should it be? In portage snapshot or stage3-archive? Is there some other possibility to get precompiled libstdc++? Jarry -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] straggling with paper size
On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 09:45 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: Why not try the sql-ledger mailing list. No doubt there are people there who know their way around their software. I was automatically subscribe when I didn't pay my yearly support. So I'm not going back. -- #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] what's up with kernelnewbies?
Hi Maxim, On 12/5/05, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I posted about my kernel panic problem to kernelnewbies(they seem a competent crew), w/ subject line: kernel panic fix sought. My post was ignored. Three days later somebody posted to the list under the subject line: KERNEL PANIC FIX SOUGHT. He(Kumar is a male name isn't it?)started getting replies right away. I guess this was just a one off thing. Don't read too much into it. The folks at KN are pretty helpful. Cheers, ./h PS: For a similar post, much like yours, this was how I presented my case: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-October/msg03146.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] system stopped booting
About a week later, I booted it and it wouldn't boot. It got stuck at configuring system to use udev and never gets okay. I just sits there for ever. My system hangs at this point quite often. I have no idea why - it seems to be quite random but if I try again I usually get it to boot. I take it your system never gets past this line on boot? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] what's up with kernelnewbies?
maxim wexler wrote: Hello everybody, I posted about my kernel panic problem to kernelnewbies(they seem a competent crew), w/ subject line: kernel panic fix sought. My post was ignored. Three days later somebody posted to the list under the subject line: KERNEL PANIC FIX SOUGHT. He(Kumar is a male name isn't it?)started getting replies right away. http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/2005-12/ I'd say the problem was this. You asked a very specific question and noone knew the answer. Whereas the other dude asked something while not exactly general was much more general than your question and people responded. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: New User to Gentoo - Specialized Application
Timothy A. Holmes tholmes at mcaschool.net writes: Good Morning Everyone: I am preparing to install Gentoo for a very specialized application -- I have an older P3/400 box that I want to use to run AUDACITY to use it as a digital recording deck on our church sound system. There are many interesting articles for 3D audio and other forms of audio recording, editing and reproduction at the Linux Journal. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8277 The linuxjournal.com web site's search engine is pretty cool for searching their archives Most of the cool audio packages are available in portage. HTH, James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] straggling with paper size
Well, I have been reading your frustration in this thread. May I ask something? Have you tried this as another user, even if you have to add one, which may work best? If it works as the new user, then it is something specific to that user and may be a config in the /home/user directory. If it does the same then it is a system wide problem, something you did as root most likely. I'm not real sure what the heck you are doing but if it is not a really big install, I would be willing to install the program on my rig and see what it does here. If it works, I would email you my configs for you to try on yours. Let me know what you think. You would of course let me know what commands to type in right? You would be leading the blind on this end. Hey, I may need some help one day. I screw up something pretty regular now. O_O I can fix it sometimes too. I'm on dial-up so if it is big, it may take to long to download and install. Dale :-) -- To err is human, I'm most certainly human. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin TS support?
On Dec 5, 2005, at 2:38 PM, Tom Smith wrote: Hm... I guess all I can say is that the log file indicated that everything patched correctly--that is, it listed the file names it was patching and there were no errors. When I tried to reapply the patch, it recognized that it had already been applied and asked if I wanted to reverse it or apply it again. This is what the problem is. Suggestions? and what happens if you patch against vanilla-sources? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list