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Re: [gentoo-user] mplayerplug-in not working
Arnau Bria wrote: Hi, I'd like to view some videos hosted in a gallery. So, when I go to the web I see I need x-msvideo, so I install mplayerplugin-in, and I make a link: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/.mozilla/plugins $ pwd /home/arnau/.mozilla/plugins [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/.mozilla/plugins $ ln -s /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins/mplayerplug-in.so ./ But after restarting firefox, I cannot see videos... any clue? Have you installed the essential codecs? http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html -- Phil Sexton: http://www.myspace.com/philsexton Praise Whistlers Abroad: http://praisewhistlers.org/ Naomi's Fancy: http://www.naomisfancy.net/ Naomi's Fancy myspace: http://www.myspace.com/naomisfancy/ The Old Bush: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy/ Crossing Borders: http://cdbaby.com/cd/naomisfancy2 Naomi's Fancy Free tunes: http://www.naomisfancy.net/modules.php?name=Downloads -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Very OT - gnome-panel notification area applet
Michael Sullivan wrote: I have a notification applet on my panel in gnome. I upgraded a package yesterday and used the new version for the first time time. The new version places a very large gaudy icon in my notification area applet. The icon is non-interactive (I tried), and it just takes up space. I want that applet there for applications like gaim that have small-nonvisually-obtrusive icons. I would like to go into the code of the gtk app and remove the part that places the icon in the notification area, but unfortunately I don't know what to look for and have had little to no success so far on google. Any hints would be appreciated... -Michael Sullivan- Perhaps this will install an app to do what you want? emerge x11-misc/alacarte -- Phil Sexton Naomi's Fancy: http://www.naomisfancy.net/ Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to set domainname
Alexander Skwar wrote: Mark schrieb: On 16/08/06, Anthony E. Caudel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As of baselayout-1.12.4, the domainname init script is no longer used and the Gentoo Handbook no longer tells how to set the domainname. domainname now returns (none) /etc/conf.d/net.example talks about setting up dns_domain but if this is used, it overwrites /etc/resolv.conf. Adding this to /etc/conf.d/net will stop dhcpcd from overwriting /etc/resolv.conf dhcpcd_eth0=-R /etc/conf.d/domainname .. for domain name.. as always ? This file is obsolete. So, it's not as always. So, where is it set then? The /etc/conf.d/domainname is in my system. Why isn't it removed if it is obsolete? -- Phil Sexton My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info/ Free tunes: ftp://fancypiper.info/ Naomi's Fancy: http://www.naomisfancy.net/ Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to set domainname
Alexander Skwar wrote: Phil Sexton schrieb: Here is another guess: How about /etc/conf.d/domainname? Yep, should be configured as well. But as you can see there, it doesn't set the domainname of the system: # DNSDOMAIN merely sets the domain entry in /etc/resolv.conf, see # the resolv.conf(5) manpage for more info. Alexander Skwar I saw that there was a /bin/domainname and /bin/dnsdomainname that both are linked to /bin/hostname. I just used the command: # domainname uilleann and now the command: # domainname returns uilleann My /etc/resolv.conf remained unchanged. Perhaps this is current usage? -- Phil Sexton My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info/ Free tunes: ftp://fancypiper.info/ Naomi's Fancy: http://www.naomisfancy.net/ Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to set domainname
Alexander Skwar wrote: Phil Sexton schrieb: I just used the command: # domainname uilleann That's not a domainname, as there are no dots (.). Granted, a domain doesn't have to have dots, but it's very unusual to have a TLD. I am thouroughly confused now. I previously had uilleann.fancypiper.info and that wasnt' a domainname because it had dots. Now I have been told the opposite. Both were written by you, so you have me in a fog of confusion. Should I believe you since you have told me that nothing is correct for a domainname? From an earlier post Here is my /etc/conf.d/hostname: # Set to the hostname of this machine HOSTNAME=uilleann.fancypiper.info That's not a hostname. A hostname has no dots (.). Alexander Skwar end earlier e-mail Also, I understood you so, that your hostname is uilleann. and now the command: # domainname returns uilleann Yep. My /etc/resolv.conf remained unchanged. Of course. Why should resolv.conf be changed? I have no idea, but there is the /etc/conf.d/net.example which talks about setting up dns_domain but if this is used, it overwrites /etc/resolv.conf. Someone was wondering how to set the domain name without changing resolv.conf, so I pointed that out. Perhaps this is current usage? No. Strange. Why is the script there? Why does it set the domain name. It doesn't break my system, but I don't have my other boxen built and the OSs installed yet. I can't test networking until I get those made. Alexander Skwar -- Phil Sexton My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info/ Free tunes: ftp://fancypiper.info/ Naomi's Fancy: http://www.naomisfancy.net/ Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to set domainname
Pardon my thick skull. Alexander Skwar, I appoligise for my last post. Darn this morphine I have to take for my pain. I am confusing hostname and domain name. I still don't understand why the script isn't supposed to be used to set hostnane/domainname though. -- Phil Sexton My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info/ Free tunes: ftp://fancypiper.info/ Naomi's Fancy: http://www.naomisfancy.net/ Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to set domainname
Alexander Skwar wrote: Strange. Why is the script there? What script? The script I mentioned before: /bin/hostname and the symlinks that point to it, /bin/domainname and /bin/dnsdomainname -- Phil Sexton My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info/ Free tunes: ftp://fancypiper.info/ Naomi's Fancy: http://www.naomisfancy.net/ Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to set domainname
Neil Bothwick wrote: Because your domain name may change while your hostname stays the same, or vice versa. Think of a laptop connected at various locations. Locking the two together in one config file works against this. Aha! I don't have anything mobile, just my home box and the ones under construction. I use a portable usb drive for my mobile data needs. -- Phil Sexton My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info/ Free tunes: ftp://fancypiper.info/ Naomi's Fancy: http://www.naomisfancy.net/ Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to set domainname
Alexander Skwar wrote: Phil Sexton schrieb: I didn't think you had to run it manually unless you want to. Can't you call if from /etc/conf.d/local.start Sure, but why do that? Why not use the mechanisms, that Gentoo forsees for this? I thought that was the purpose of that file, to run stuff you want to on bootup. That's not how I see the file. For me, the file is there to do stuff, for which there's no proper way. Gentoo is the only distribution I have seen use that particular file, so I consider it one of the proper ways to do things I can't figure out otherwise. There is usually more than one way to skin a cat in Linux. -- Phil Sexton My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info/ Free tunes: ftp://fancypiper.info/ Naomi's Fancy: http://www.naomisfancy.net/ Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to set domainname
Alexander Skwar wrote: Phil Sexton schrieb: snip /etc/conf.d/local.start snip Gentoo is the only distribution I have seen use that particular file, What file? /etc/conf.d/net? No, the file I was speaking of, /etc/conf.d/local.start -- Phil Sexton My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info/ Free tunes: ftp://fancypiper.info/ Naomi's Fancy: http://www.naomisfancy.net/ Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to set domainname
Anthony E Caudel wrote: Mike wrote: Anthony E. Caudel wrote: As of baselayout-1.12.4, the domainname init script is no longer used and the Gentoo Handbook no longer tells how to set the domainname. domainname now returns (none) /etc/conf.d/net.example talks about setting up dns_domain but if this is used, it overwrites /etc/resolv.conf. So how is the domainname now set? Tony /etc/hosts ? Well, perhaps. It is in my /etc/hosts. But domainname still returns (none) Tony You should stop using /etc/hostname and use /etc/conf.d/hostname -- Phil Sexton My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info/ Free tunes: ftp://fancypiper.info/ Naomi's Fancy: http://www.naomisfancy.net/ Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to set domainname
Anthony E Caudel wrote: Phil Sexton wrote: Anthony E Caudel wrote: Mike wrote: Anthony E. Caudel wrote: As of baselayout-1.12.4, the domainname init script is no longer used and the Gentoo Handbook no longer tells how to set the domainname. domainname now returns (none) /etc/conf.d/net.example talks about setting up dns_domain but if this is used, it overwrites /etc/resolv.conf. So how is the domainname now set? Tony /etc/hosts ? Well, perhaps. It is in my /etc/hosts. But domainname still returns (none) Tony You should stop using /etc/hostname and use /etc/conf.d/hostname I don't use /etc/hostname and I DO use /etc/conf.d/hostname. What has this to do with the domainname? Are they both set there? Tony I thought domainname was set in /etc/hosts. I put the whole kaboodle in it and it seems to work OK. Here is my /etc/conf.d/hostname: # Set to the hostname of this machine HOSTNAME=uilleann.fancypiper.info And my /etc/hosts: # /etc/hosts: This file describes a number of hostname-to-address # mappings for the TCP/IP subsystem. It is mostly # used at boot time, when no name servers are running. # On small systems, this file can be used instead of a # named name server. Just add the names, addresses # and any aliases to this file... # $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-src/rc-scripts/etc/hosts,v 1.8 2003/08/04 20:12:25 azarah Exp $ # 127.0.0.1 localhost local.domain 192.168.0.1 dsl modem 192.168.0.2 gravity.twi-31o2.orggravity 192.168.0.3 bones.fancypiper.info bones 192.168.0.4 tinwhistle.fancypiper.info tinwhistle 192.168.0.5 uilleann.fancypiper.infouilleann #192.168.0.6Windows_XP_Pro.fancypiper.info windowsxppro And resopnse to hostname command: # uilleann / # hostname uilleann.fancypiper.info shrug I'm no expert, but that was what I gleaned when I read the docs and the emerge e-mails. -- Phil Sexton My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info/ Free tunes: ftp://fancypiper.info/ Naomi's Fancy: http://www.naomisfancy.net/ Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to set domainname
Alexander Skwar wrote: Phil Sexton schrieb: I thought domainname was set in /etc/hosts. No, it's not. NIS doesn't use /etc/hosts for these things. Here is my /etc/conf.d/hostname: # Set to the hostname of this machine HOSTNAME=uilleann.fancypiper.info That's not a hostname. A hostname has no dots (.). What is NIS? So I should just have uilleann, tinwhistle and bones for the hostnames of my boxen, correct? What exactly does /etc/hosts do, then? -- Phil Sexton My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info/ Free tunes: ftp://fancypiper.info/ Naomi's Fancy: http://www.naomisfancy.net/ Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to set domainname
Alexander Skwar wrote: Phil Sexton schrieb: Anthony E Caudel wrote: Phil Sexton wrote: Anthony E Caudel wrote: Mike wrote: Anthony E. Caudel wrote: As of baselayout-1.12.4, the domainname init script is no longer used and the Gentoo Handbook no longer tells how to set the domainname. domainname now returns (none) /etc/conf.d/net.example talks about setting up dns_domain but if this is used, it overwrites /etc/resolv.conf. So how is the domainname now set? Tony /etc/hosts ? Here is another guess: How about /etc/conf.d/domainname? -- Phil Sexton My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info/ Free tunes: ftp://fancypiper.info/ Naomi's Fancy: http://www.naomisfancy.net/ Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge messages (baselayout)...
Dale wrote: Jarry wrote: Hi, I just did emerge --deep --update --newuse world, and after updating baselayout I have noticed something like ...baselayout does not use /etc/init.d/domainname (or /etc/conf.d/domainname?), look in... But that message scrolled up, and I can not find it. What was there? Is there any way of seeing those messages after finishing emerge, or are they lost? Why portage does not save those messages somewhere? In /var/log/emerge.log there are is only info about packages being merged/unmerged... Jarry I ran into this a while back. Just move /etc/hostname to /etc/conf.d/hostname and it should be fine. Mine doesn't save those messages either that I can find. Maybe someone else will come along with help on that part. Perhaps enotice would do that for you. http://www.fmp.com/enotice/ -- Phil Sexton My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info/ Free tunes: ftp://fancypiper.info/ Naomi's Fancy: http://www.naomisfancy.net/ Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge messages (baselayout)...
Gian Domeni Calgeer wrote: You can tell portage where to log these messages with the PORTAGE_ELOG_* Variables. Have a look at /etc/make.conf.example. Gian Boy, am I behind the times. Thanks, that works much better than the script I found. -- Phil Sexton My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info/ Free tunes: ftp://fancypiper.info/ Naomi's Fancy: http://www.naomisfancy.net/ Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Grub stanza for Windows on /dev/sda1
Hi Listees, What would be the drive numbers that I would need to replace this: rootnoverify (hd0,0) if I have Windows installed on /dev/sda1 rather than /dev/hda1? I can't find it in the docs I have read. TIA -- Phil Sexton My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info/ Free tunes: ftp://fancypiper.info/ Naomi's Fancy: http://www.naomisfancy.net/ Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] ALSA_CARDS in /etc/make.conf for two sound cards
Hey again, listees, I need more hand holding. From lspci: snip stuff not applicable 00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies Inc. ICE1712 [Envy24] PCI Multi-Channel I/O Controller (rev 02)00:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 05) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV36.2 [GeForce FX 5700] ( rev a1) I put this in my /etc/make.conf file # Set video and sound card(s) VIDEO_CARDS=nv nvidia vesa ALSA_CARDS=emu10k1 ICE1712 Is that correct for my M-Audio Delta 1010 sound card? -- Phil Sexton My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info/ Free tunes: ftp://fancypiper.info/ Naomi's Fancy: http://www.naomisfancy.net/ Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA_CARDS in /etc/make.conf for two sound cards
Jason Weisberger wrote: Phil, That's correct, although you don't need the caps. It's just ice1712. Not sure if that will affect it or not. In the future, you will want to look at the ALSA wiki article, which contains directions on where to find the names of your sound card modules. http://www.gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ALSA_Complete_%28includes_dmix%29 Thanks for the linky. I answered my own question about an hour after I posted it. I dug through the docs until I found: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml. I'm re-compiling my kernel just now. -- Phil Sexton My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info/ Free tunes: ftp://fancypiper.info/ Naomi's Fancy: http://www.naomisfancy.net/ Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Sound and video card variables
Hi list, Here is the result of lspci: Tue Jul 18 10:11 PM [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 746 Host (rev 10) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SG86C202 00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS963 [MuTIOL Media IO] (rev 25) 00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] 00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f) 00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f) 00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller 00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet (rev 90) 00:07.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82x UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 61) 00:07.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82x UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 61) 00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 63) 00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies Inc. ICE1712 [Envy24] PCI Multi-Channel I/O Controller (rev 02)00:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 05) 00:0b.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port (rev 05) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV36.2 [GeForce FX 5700] (rev a1) Are these the stanzas I need in my /etc/make.conf file so that I only compile the right modules? VIDEO_CARD=GeForce FX 5700 SOUND_CARD=EMU10k1 If this isn't correct, what should I put and where? -- Phil Sexton My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info/ Free tunes: ftp://fancypiper.info/ Naomi's Fancy: http://www.naomisfancy.net/ Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Sound and video card variables
Richard Fish wrote: Is there some document somewhere that led you to these settings? If so, we need to get that fixed... No, haven't seen it mentioned in the docs. I have been following some of the threads and something similar was mentioned a while back. If those stanzas are mentioned, in which doc is it? For the video (notice the S in CARDS): VIDEO_CARDS=nv nvidia vesa (leave out the nvidia if you don't want to mess with proprietary drivers) I want to try some games, so I am using your suggestion, including the proprietary drivers. For sound, SOUND_CARD is not a valid option. You can set ALSA_CARDS to have alsa-drivers only build specific drivers, but that is optional, and only applies to the alsa-drivers package. If you use the sound drivers from the kernel, this has no effect. The correct setting for ALSA_CARDS would probably be: ALSA_CARDS=emu10k1 Thanks!. BTW, I am trying to build myself a gaming/audio recording box (which will be slightly more powerful than this one, which I have named tinwhistle). This is my current workstation/playstation/recording station box, running Fedora Core 4, DuMuDi, Gentoo and Windows XP pro multiboot box. So far, so good. Is anyone on this list using Ardour on Gentoo yet? I am compiling that now. I had to partition my drives 5 times before I got the sizes I needed to compile America's army and I think I finally got it right. I may give this box to a friend of mine after I get my new box (uilleann) built. I dread installing Windows XP Pro yet again. -- Phil Sexton My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info/ Free tunes: ftp://fancypiper.info/ Naomi's Fancy: http://www.naomisfancy.net/ Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Anyone recommend a good puzzle app?
Philip Webb wrote: 060506 Michael Sullivan wrote: My wife likes to do puzzles. Are there were any puzzle-type apps available in portage that would allow her to use her own images? Look in /usr/portage/games-puzzle/ for a list of apps, then use 'eix puzzle-name' to see what they do an URL for further info. I like: esearch --fullname --verbose games-puzzle | less -- Phil My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy: http://www.naomisfancy.net/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] When to reboot after updates to the system
Kevin wrote: Hi All- I've read the portage documentation at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/index.xml?catid=gentoo and I've searched and browsed the gentoo-user mailing list archive, but I have a question that I don't see answered anywhere. It seems to me that it must be true that sometimes, after a system upgrade done with: emerge -uD system or emerge -uD world I must reboot the computer for the changes to take effect. I reboot if I need to install or change hardware. As far as updates go, you may have to reboot after compiling a new kernel. I think that I may have read somewhere how to change kernels without rebooting, so you may not even need to reboot for any software. -- Phil My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info/ Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy/ Naomi's Fancy: http://www.naomisfancy.net/ Free tunes: ftp://http://fancypiper.info/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] When to reboot after updates to the system
Hemmann Volker Armin wrote: Only, and really only after a kernel update you need to reboot. Perhaps not even then. http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-adfly.html -- Phil My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy: http://www.naomisfancy.net/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Space opera
Mick wrote: On 08/04/06, Phil Sexton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cd /mnt/source tar cf - . | (cd /mnt/destination tar xBfp -) What does B do? I can't understand the manual! :-( -- Regards, Mick I'm not 100 percent sure that I understand it, but I use it since the O'Reilly article suggested it. From the man page: -B, --read-full-blocks reblock as we read (for reading 4.2BSD pipes) I think that the --read-full-blocks means to read a full block of the hard disk drive and if needed, re-block if reading from a 4.2BSD filesystem. It may not even be needed if you don't have any BSD filesystems. Does anyone know more about tar than I do? };-} Sure, they do! -- Phil My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy: http://www.naomisfancy.net/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Space opera
Meino Christian Cramer wrote: Hi, my harddisk begins to sound a little strange...I fear I have to buy a new (bigger) one. When I have to copy my current / to another harddisk, which has a different physical layout of partitions and another overall size -- how would I do this best (conserving as much of the information of the old root as possible) Is cp -a sufficient ? In this case is conservation of information more worth than performance for me. Thank you very much for any help in advance ! gen2! :) mcc Here is my favorite way, I tar them over cd /mnt/source tar cf - . | (cd /mnt/destination tar xBfp -) See man tar for the flags. http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/lpt/18_16.html -- Phil My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy: http://www.naomisfancy.net/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Card games in portage
Teresa and Dale wrote: Hi folks, My girlfriends mom comes over sometimes and she likes to play card games on the computer. Anybody have a list of the games in portage that are card games? You know, like Solitaire or something like that. I have the ones that come with KDE and Pysol too. Just looking for some more for her. She's used to windoze by the way. Also, is there a place to go to find out which ones compare to what ever that is on windoze? I know they have to change the names sonce they may be copyrighted or something. Perhaps one of these links will help. Linux Gamers' FAQ http://icculus.org/lgfaq/ The Linux Game List http://www.icculus.org/lgfaq/gamelist.php The Linux Game Tome http://www.happypenguin.org/ -- Phil My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy: http://www.naomisfancy.net/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gcc version used for build?
Ernie Schroder wrote: I used to know this but I can't find info today. How do I tell which version of gcc was used to compile my kernel? This should do it: gcc -v -- Phil My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances: http://naomisfancy.virtualave.net/schedule.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gcc version used for build?
Ernie Schroder wrote: On Friday 27 January 2006 10:41, a tiny voice compelled Phil Sexton to write: Ernie Schroder wrote: I used to know this but I can't find info today. How do I tell which version of gcc was used to compile my kernel? This should do it: gcc -v Maybe I wasn't clear enough Phil, I suspected that my kernel was built with an old gcc and my nvidia modules with my current version (gcc-3.4.4-r1). Andres' suggestion (cat /proc/version) was what I needed. $ cat /proc/version snip (gcc version 3.3.6 (Gentoo 3.3.6, ssp-3.3.6-1.0, pie-8.7.8)) #1 Fri Dec 9 15:39:27 EST 2005 I most likely don't fully understand the difference between the two/three commands and I was going by a vague memory from a couple of years back. Could someone expound on these 3 commands? I don't really understand the man and info pages on these. gcc -v gcc --version (I thought the previous two were the same.) cat /proc/version Does one or more show the currently being used gcc and another show a previous version used for some other earlier compile(s)? TIA -- Phil My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances: http://naomisfancy.virtualave.net/schedule.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: XP laptop crashes Linsys router.
Ernie Schroder wrote: Is there no way of restarting the network on XP? From the dos prompt, command: ipconfig /renew (I think) -- Phil My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances: http://naomisfancy.virtualave.net/schedule.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Packages list
Dimitar Toshev wrote: On Friday 20 January 2006 19:44, Phil Sexton wrote: Michael A Smith wrote: Phil Sexton wrote: Felipe Ribeiro wrote: Where do I find the list with all installed packages? Cheers, Felipe The ones you emerged are listed in the file: /var/lib/portage/world Want it in alphabetical order? cat /var/lib/portage/world|less Isn't that a superfluous use of cat? Why not less /var/lib/portage/world -Mike Oops! I was actually thinking: sort /var/lib/portage/world|less This gives the listing in alphabetical order, what I previously posted doesn't alphabetize it. -- Phil My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances: http://naomisfancy.virtualave.net/schedule.html No, no. You have gotten it all wrong. /var/lib/portage/world lists only manually installed packages. e.g.: If you do not have X installed and do emerge gnome X will be pulled in as a dependency, along with a whole lot of other stuff, but only gnome will be written in world, because that is the package you manually emerged. This is why in order upgrade your whole system you have to do emerge -u -D world. -D makes emerge check for the given packages' dependencies as well. Though this means, that if you have a package installed, that is not listed in world, nor is a dependency of anything in world, it will never get picked up by portage. It has been stated, that the devs will probably implement an all keyword in portage, at some point, so that one can more efficiently check for updates to all packages, instead of only those in world and their dependencies. To answer the original question: Portage keeps information about all emerged pacakges in /var/db/pkg . nit-pickDon't you mean all compiled packages rather than emerged packages?/nit-pick As I understand it, all emerged packages are listed in the world file, and all packages that are installed and compiled dependencies are listed in the /var/db/pkg file. It wasn't completely clear to me which was meant by installed and I took it as the packages installed by emerging them. -- Phil My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances: http://naomisfancy.virtualave.net/schedule.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Packages list
Michael A Smith wrote: Phil Sexton wrote: Felipe Ribeiro wrote: Where do I find the list with all installed packages? Cheers, Felipe The ones you emerged are listed in the file: /var/lib/portage/world Want it in alphabetical order? cat /var/lib/portage/world|less Isn't that a superfluous use of cat? Why not less /var/lib/portage/world -Mike Oops! I was actually thinking: sort /var/lib/portage/world|less This gives the listing in alphabetical order, what I previously posted doesn't alphabetize it. -- Phil My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances: http://naomisfancy.virtualave.net/schedule.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Packages list
Felipe Ribeiro wrote: Where do I find the list with all installed packages? Cheers, Felipe The ones you emerged are listed in the file: /var/lib/portage/world Want it in alphabetical order? cat /var/lib/portage/world|less -- Phil My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances: http://naomisfancy.virtualave.net/schedule.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Generic 2 monitor/2 keyboard question
Matthias Bethke wrote: I got a Linux box for my mum as well after her Mac died, so I know it's near impossible to teach some people about folder structures :) I have taught a few computer classes and that is one of the things I emphasized, no matter what the operating system. I have a small 2 drawer filing cabinet with the folders labeled like the operating system lays them out (Windows is much harder to explain as the file browser is so weirdly layed out). Lots of apps don't use My Documents (or whatever Microsoft/Mac use now) as the default save folder. It seems to be a fairly hard concept for middle aged and above, unless they have previous experience in filing stuff in a file cabinet. They seem to ignore the prompts on where to save the file or have never bothered to configure the application for setting a default, but I have mostly managed to get the concept across. sidetrackI have a Windows user that continually calls me for advise about buying computer stuff and he is scared stiff of Linux. He is upgrading his wife's computer (and ignored my advise, he ended up with a Gateway and only one IDE slot available for upgrading and all the video/audio built into the MOBO) and wanting to sell her old box. Since he has an ISDN connection and room on his router/modem, I suggested he keep it and build a Linux file server for both of them. Since he doesn't want to do that, I was thinking of trying to talk him down to a real low price (Pentium II, 330 Mhz 8.5 GB hard drive) and building me one!/sidetrack I have a cousin who is 82, and I think I have the concept across to him, but I think he has a harder time than seeing than I do (I have cataracts in both eyes) so has difficulty in seeing the prompts. I try to get them both to save the stuff they want to keep to a different drive/partition since re-installation of Windows is sometimes the only repair I have found that actually works. Neither one ever seems to remember what name it is or that they gave it, so the search feature isn't very good for them either. Naming files to a meaningful name and saving them where you know you can find them is pretty important IMHO, but Microsoft actually makes that pretty hard, especially with their e-mail client as it doesn't save it in a standard format and stores it in the operating system area as well as the default location. That is usually one of the things they wish to save as well. I attempt to solve this by getting them to create a My E-mail folder below the My Documents folder, or a folder on the other drive/partition if they have one. I am slowly getting one person used to Linux after they bought a Compaq and when it crashed and I couldn't recover anything with the CDs that came with it. They didn't want to call them as it was out of warranty and were unwilling to buy an OEM Windows install CD, so I installed Fedora Core 4 on it. It does everything (if I send them click by click instructions) except for a couple of web sites and run the Windows programs CDs they keep buying. (roll eyes emoticon here) Still, they continue to buy CDs that will only run in Windows/Mac for their young daughter. I guess I need to install wine on my box and see if they will run on that. I don't see how some folks can be more dense than I am as I have to take prednisone and morphine, two of the worst mind altering drugs I know of (and prednisone is the worst, the morphine just makes me drunk and clumsy). HTH -- Phil My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances: http://naomisfancy.virtualave.net/schedule.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Generic 2 monitor/2 keyboard question
Phil Sexton wrote: Some stuff that wasn't grammatically correct... I hope that made a little sense, especially the non native English speakers. I see my pain med must be kicking in... -- Phil My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances: http://naomisfancy.virtualave.net/schedule.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Generic 2 monitor/2 keyboard question
Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, My dad had raised the question recently about getting my mom, now 76,using Linux. We went down the path of looking for a new machine but decided to put it off until after Christmas. I recently started wondering about using a single computer for two separate people. Can X do this? Can you get an older computer to use as a thin client? This link is to a distribution for a school to use one pretty good computer and a bunch of dumb terminals. You might be able to adapt the description of what it does to gentoo rather than the distro(s) it is based upon. http://www.k12ltsp.org/ -- Phil My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances: http://naomisfancy.virtualave.net/schedule.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Generic 2 monitor/2 keyboard question
Mark Knecht wrote: I'm sure that's possible. I could even use her current Win ME box in some sort of dual boot config I suppose. However the reason I didn't start with that idea is that I am not there to hand hold her. If she's running Gnome how do I ensure that everything is saved on the main machine and not the thin client. I fear that this whole path, while certainly possible, might cause me too much work. Please remember this is a 75 year old lady who has never used Linux. ;-) I haven't actually set anything up like this, but I was talking to the local person at the computer lab and suggested it, but they decided to stay with the dark side and all it's problems. I understand that all the info is saved on the big computer as (IIRC) the thin clients were diskless, I believe. It has been a few years since I first investigated this project. Sorry I can't help more. -- Phil My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances: http://naomisfancy.virtualave.net/schedule.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] What provides emaint?
Hi Gentoo folk, I can't find the package that provides the emaint command. I browsed through esearch --fullname --verbose app-admin|less, but found nothing that looked promising. Any hints/tips? -- Phil My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances: http://naomisfancy.virtualave.net/schedule.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Yikes, what have I done 3 1 seconds beeps on boot
Jerry Turba wrote: I seem to remember vaguely that 3 beeps indicates ram or video card problem. Video card problems is a morse code B, 3 short beeps and a long beep on all the boxen I have ever seen. -- Phil My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances: http://naomisfancy.virtualave.net/schedule.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Yikes, what have I done 3 1 seconds beeps on boot
Phil Sexton wrote: Jerry Turba wrote: I seem to remember vaguely that 3 beeps indicates ram or video card problem. bad grey matter memory Video card problems is a morse code B, 3 short beeps and a long beep on all the boxen I have ever seen. /bad grey matter memory That should be one long beep followed by 3 short ones. blush -- Phil My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances: http://naomisfancy.virtualave.net/schedule.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how to regain control of mouse
Willie Wong wrote: On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 11:45:01PM -0500, Phil Sexton wrote: Willie Wong wrote: Or is there some way of getting the mouse back in a situation like this? This should work as root: /etc/conf.d/gpm restart' uh... shouldn't that be /etc/init.d/? and gpm is the console mouse manager no? I lost my mouse in X. It was fine in console. W Yes, you are correct, it's /etc/init.d/gpm restart [oopsie]. I was working in another distro and mounted gentoo to get the path. That works in the distro, but when the mouse in that distro messes up in X, it makes the cursor go crazy in the virtual consoles as well. I haven't had that problem in gentoo, however. It wouldn''t hurt anything to try, however (he said confidently). ;-} -- Phil My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances: http://naomisfancy.virtualave.net/schedule.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice 2.0 - compiling or binary
Ernie Schroder wrote: I've recently done 11 months worth of updates on this box and have about 40 hours of build time on it in the last 10 days. I want to use it, not watch more text fly by on the console. Try compiling it at a lower priority. I just put this in my /etc/make.conf file: PORTAGE_NICENESS=19 Compiling a new proggie slows the system down a little bit, but I can still run anything I want and use my system while building something else to play with. -- Phil My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances: http://naomisfancy.virtualave.net/schedule.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] alsa driver problem
Arnau Bria Ramírez wrote: I compiled the driver into the kernel (not as module): SND_AC97_CODEC There is your problem. See the install guide. Sound is supposed to be compiled as a module if you use alsa. -- Phil My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances: http://naomisfancy.virtualave.net/schedule.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] CDRW trouble: can't read superblock
On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 15:40, Grant wrote: system4 ~ # mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc, or too many mounted file systems But on 1 of them it mounts fine even if I don't specifiy -t. That disc only has one file on it. The discs that won't mount do play in a CD player just fine. Any ideas? - Grant Audio CDs contain CDDA (Compact Disk Digital Audio) files, not data files, therefore they can't be mounted, only played. See these: # Managing drives LNAG - Accessing my drives http://linux-newbie.sunsite.dk/html/lnag.html#5.2.Accessing%20my%20drives|outline Rute - Device Mounting http://www.icon.co.za/~psheer/book/node22.html.gz#SECTION00224 Automatic Mounts: fstab http://www.icon.co.za/~psheer/book/node22.html.gz#SECTION00227 Burn an audio CD (2.4 kernel) cdrecord driveropts=burnfree -v -audio -pad speed=8 dev=0,0,0 /home/fancy/naomisfancy/1st_cd/*.wav;eject -- Phil Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances: http://naomisfancy.virtualave.net/schedule.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Does a stage 2 or 3 install eventually catch up with stage 1?
On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 18:00, Walter Dnes wrote: After a few long+slow stage 1 installs, I want to give up the macho act and do a stage 2 or 3 next time. Am I correct to assume that I can set up CFLAGS and USE, and start emerge --system and emerge --world later on when I'm going away for the weekendg? Also, I notice that CHOST is not supposed to be changed from i386 for a stage 2 or 3 install. Does that affect things later? Personally, I do a stage 3 install, then edit /etc/make.conf, then run emerge sync After I have the new portage tree, I then emerge --update --deep --newuse world I think I have essentially a stage 1 install without having to re-compile working stuff that needs no changes. -- Phil Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances: http://naomisfancy.virtualave.net/schedule.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Does a stage 2 or 3 install eventually catch up with stage 1?
On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 20:20, Mark Shields wrote: That's an interesting idea, Phil. Perhaps a livecd that works like Knoppix, where you can choose to install it to your system? Actually, I did use a Knoppix CD to install both Gentoo and Debian SID on my 5 boot box (Windows XP Pro, Fedora Core 1 3, Debian SID and Gentoo), as I have DSL. I can install within X if I wish and use my /home partition if I need to turn off the box for some reason. -- Phil Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances: http://naomisfancy.virtualave.net/schedule.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome Wave Cleaner question
On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 01:43, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: As for overall installation, more common practice is to disable OSS/ALSA in a kernel and install alsa-[drivers|lib|utils|oss...] and so on. I have tried the gwc few months ago, and it has now alsa support too (you may use oss also, as alsa has oss simulation). Thanks. Here goes another kernel compile! I have downloaded bplay-0.992.tar.gz gwc-0.19-10.tgz gwc-0.20-10b.tgz gwc-lib-0.05.tgz track_rec-0.03.tgz wavlist.tgz Which version are you running? gwc-0.19-10 or gwc-0.20-10b? -- Phil Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances: http://naomisfancy.virtualave.net/schedule.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome Wave Cleaner question
On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 04:44, Nick Rout wrote: what is wrong with alsa's oss emulation? My poor memory, perhaps? :) -- Phil Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances: http://naomisfancy.virtualave.net/schedule.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how to delete messages from server in Kmail
On Sun, 2005-05-29 at 01:46, askar wrote: Do you mean I can use both Kmail and fetchmail. And fetchmail will do that feature I want? I have my fetchmail to delete the mail after it delivers the mail to my mail spool as my ISP offers so little storage space, but I believe so. See: http://www.catb.org/~esr/fetchmail/ and http://www.hserus.net/pop_smtp.html -- Phil Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances: http://naomisfancy.virtualave.net/schedule.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Gnome Wave Cleaner question
Hi list, I just ran across the Gnome Wave Cleaner project: http://gwc.sourceforge.net/ However, it isn't in portage AFAIK. uilleann / # esearch gwc [ Results for search key : gwc ] [ Applications found : 1 ] * app-admin/gwcc Latest version available: 0.9.6-r2 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 179 kB Homepage:http://gwcc.sourceforge.net/ Description: GNOME Workstation Command Center License: GPL-2 Is anyone on the list using it and any problems/hints if so? It requires the OSS drivers and I get problems if I compile my kernel with OSS enabled in the kernel. I haven't tried the drivers as a module. Could that be worked around using a module? BTW, I haven't been able to download the tarball for it yet to even attempt to get it going. TIA -- Phil Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances: http://naomisfancy.virtualave.net/schedule.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how to delete messages from server in Kmail
On Sat, 2005-05-28 at 23:26, askar wrote: Hello! Does anybody know how to delete messages from server when the messages deleted in Kmail ? It is possible to so in Outlook express and MS Outlook. askar I don't use Kmail, but does it have a local delivery option? If so, I suggest using fetchmail. It's highly configurable. I run the Evolution mail client (and mutt if I have X broken at the moment) and set Evolution to use /var/spool/mail/username to get the mail. I really need to get around to configuring procmail to sort and deliver it to the Evolution/mutt mail directories. -- Phil Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances: http://naomisfancy.virtualave.net/schedule.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting CD as a user
On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 15:04, Vittorio wrote: I would like to be able to mount the CD-DVD of my laptop clicking an icon in kde a a non-root user. 1) Is that possible? 2) Where can I find intructions to do the job? Try running the command: usermount If it is installed, just make a launcher for it. LNAG accessing drives: http://linux-newbie.sunsite.dk/html/lnag.html#5.2.Accessing%20my%20drives|outline Rute Guide - Device Mounting: http://www.icon.co.za/~psheer/book/node22.html.gz#SECTION00224 Rute Guide - Automatic Mounts: fstab http://www.icon.co.za/~psheer/book/node22.html.gz#SECTION00227 -- Phil Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances: http://naomisfancy.virtualave.net/schedule.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] installing to VFAT partition
On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 21:26, THUFIR HAWAT wrote: On 5/13/05, Phil Sexton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..] By commands, actually. You can even install Gentoo from your running Fedora installation, or from a Linux Live CD such as Knoppix. [..] I was hoping for a screen shot to compare against anaconda. Here is my screen shot :) Sat May 14 12:52 PM [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # Again, it uses bash commands, so I would have to show you what an x terminal or a virtual terminal looks like with some typing in it. Perhaps these will help: Directory of Linux Bash Commands: http://www.onlamp.com/linux/cmd/ Gentoo install instructions: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml The Gentoo Installation CDs are bootable CDs which contain a self-sustained Gentoo environment. They allow you to boot Linux from the CD. During the boot process your hardware is detected and the appropriate drivers are loaded. They are maintained by Gentoo developers. -the handbook, 2c I'm somewhat familiar with knoppix. when the handbook says self-sustained do they mean live, like knoppix? Yes, they are what I call live CDs, since they both run from CD and RAM. The only difference is, with Knoppix, you can install Gentoo (or Debian SID) from an x environment. With the Gentoo install, you are limited to 6 virtual terminals to work with in the chroot environment. In Knoppix, you have 3 spare virtual terminals and one x session in which you can open as many x terminals as you wish. I'm not sure about the Gentoo install CD (I built mine either under a running Fedora Core 1 or using Knoppix. I pre-partitioned my disk first with the fdisk utility, then I installed WindowsXP, then my other distros (I quad boot Windows XP, Fedora Cores 1 and 3, and Debian Sid) and used grub for the bootloader. Here is how I started, and this all takes root privileges: # Make mountpoints and format partitions. mkdir /mnt/gentoo mkreiserfs /dev/hdb3 mount /dev/hdb3 /mnt/gentoo mkdir /mnt/gentoo/boot mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/gentoo/boot mkswap /dev/hdb2 swapon mkdir /mnt/gentoo/usr mkreiserfs /dev/hdb5 mount /dev/hdb5 /mnt/gentoo/usr mkdir /mnt/gentoo/opt mkreiserfs /dev/hdb6 mount /dev/hdb6 /mnt/gentoo/opt mkdir /mnt/gentoo/var mkreiserfs /dev/hdb7 mount /dev/hdb7 /mnt/gentoo/var mkdir /mnt/gentoo/home mount /dev/hdb11 /mnt/gentoo/home mkdir /mnt/gentoo/pub mount /dev/hdb11 /mnt/gentoo/pub cd /mnt/gentoo tar -xvjpf /pub/downloads/tars/gentoo/stage3-i686-2005.0.tar.bz2 mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash env-update source /etc/profile # First emerges emerge system emerge app-portage/gentoolkit emerge app-portage/esearch eupdatedb Then, emerge (i.e download, compile and install, a Gentoo bash command most other distros lack) the other stuff you want. -- Phil Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances: http://naomisfancy.virtualave.net/schedule.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] installing to VFAT partition
On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 02:40, THUFIR HAWAT wrote: when you say that Gentoo installs on the partition of my choice, how does that happen: with a gui, drop-down menu or what? I don't mind formating the fat32/vfat partition to ext3 (or whatever gentoo uses). My primary concern is losing data on the fedora partition, secondary concern being some sort of snafu with grub or similar, although that's a fairly minor fix. By commands, actually. You can even install Gentoo from your running Fedora installation, or from a Linux Live CD such as Knoppix. See this: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml -- Phil Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances: http://naomisfancy.virtualave.net/schedule.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] installing to VFAT partition
On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 23:23, Mark Knecht wrote: Thanks Peter. While I know that VFAT permissions are far fewer it hadn't occurred to me that you actually couldn't do an install to VFAT due to those differences. (Not that I'd ever try, but it's good to know.) There were some distros that would install on vfat, but as you would suspect, they aren't highly recommended and some actually cost money. I notice pfat linux (was that it's name) has disappeared and didn't Linspire install on vfat? Don't expect good results with any of these, though as I seldom saw any good reviews. -- Phil Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances: http://naomisfancy.virtualave.net/schedule.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Howl build error
On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 06:39, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: cool, thanks, but, how I got to unmask a package ? Create and edit /etc/portage/package.keywords and add package arch to it. Or, from the root command line, command something like this if I want mozplugger on my AMD 950 processor box: echo net-www/mozplugger ~x86 /etc/portage/package.keywords You can also use the usual symbols such as =net-www/mozplugger-version wished ~x86 -- Phil Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances: http://naomisfancy.virtualave.net/schedule.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: scripts that send emails
On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 10:08, Botykai Zsolt wrote: Monday 02 May 2005 11.27-n, Nick Rout ezt írta: On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 10:50 +0200, Spider wrote: On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 10:35 +0200, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: I'm looking for a smtp mail-client that can send emails from a script, from different from addresses and can use text files as body text, at this time i just looked at pine, but i don't thik thats possible. What are othe posibilities ? * mail-client/mailx Latest version available: 8.1.2.20040524-r1 Latest version installed: 8.1.2.20040524-r1 Size of downloaded files: 126 kB Homepage:http://www.debian.org Description: The /bin/mail program, which is used to send mail via shell scripts. its the classical one to do. otherwise you can use /usr/sbin/sendmail directly. yep and then you can do stuff like: cat silly_text_file|mail -s this is from the command line gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org (thats all one line of course) end with 'nail' you can add attachments too to your mail - emerge nail. Oops! Apparently you can't use nail with mailx. What MTA do you use? Sendmail? uilleann / # emerge -p nail These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] mail-client/mailx (is blocking mail-client/nail-11.20) [ebuild N] mail-client/nail-11.20 -- Phil Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances: http://naomisfancy.virtualave.net/schedule.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] memory used
On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 17:34, George Roberts wrote: It is not causeing any issues with my computer. I just puzzles the snot out of me why this is happening. Thanks. Perhaps these will help enlighten you. # Memory and swap information cat /proc/meminfo free An article, Tips for Optimizing Linux Memory: http://www.home.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=2770 -- Phil Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances: http://naomisfancy.virtualave.net/schedule.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
