Re: [gentoo-user] Mirrorselect gone batty?

2003-03-14 Thread Stroller
On Saturday, March 15, 2003, at 06:46 am, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > I started with stage 1, emerged through stage 3 and then merged > mirrorselect. > I did mirrorselect -i and got errors about regular expression and > then found > my make.conf had Gentomirrors= followed by a bunch of ascii codes

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SBLive! 5.1 Digital Configuration

2003-03-14 Thread Ralph F. De Witt
On Friday 14 March 2003 06:05 pm, Collins Richey wrote: > On 14 Mar 2003 10:20:31 -0700 > > Jon Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 22:15, Ralph F. De Witt wrote: > > > I have a KT3ULTRA2 motherboard with builtin sound also. I have not been > > > able to get it running and wa

Re: [gentoo-user] Logitech i-Touch keyboards

2003-03-14 Thread Norberto BENSA
On Saturday 15 March 2003 12:32 am, Susie wrote: > Norberto BENSA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday 14 March 2003 07:41 pm, Susie wrote: > > > I have a Net Navigator keyboard. I see there is an xmms-itouch > > > plugin > > > > Doens't work for me. I just crash xmms as soon as I enable the p

[gentoo-user] Mirrorselect gone batty?

2003-03-14 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I started with stage 1, emerged through stage 3 and then merged mirrorselect. I did mirrorselect -i and got errors about regular expression and then found my make.conf had Gentomirrors= followed by a bunch of ascii codes that are used to control the console colors, etc. There was no mirrors li

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo as a firewall/router

2003-03-14 Thread Andrew Gaffney
From emerge --help: --buildpkg (-b short option) tell emerge to build binary packages for all ebuilds processed (in addition to actually merging the packages. Useful for maintainers or if you administrate multiple Gentoo Linux systems (build once, eme

[gentoo-user] Failed Bootstrap

2003-03-14 Thread Matt Neimeyer
Hey All, Newest problem... I restarted from scratch and after I see a message stating "Switching to i586-pc-linux-gnu-3.2.2 compiler" it failed... saying "!!! Couldn't download patch-2.5.4.tar.gz. Aborting." So how do I resume my bootstrap? Am I hosed? Do I need to start again? Thanks! Matt

Re: [gentoo-user] Maildrop problem :(

2003-03-14 Thread Nate B. Childers
Add a trailing slash to that folder and you'll get the results you expect! { to "Maildir/.test/" } ... I do this almost everytime I add to my .mailfilter file! good luck! * Helder Miguel Rodrigues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030313 20:14]: > Hello, I have implemented the same mail syste

Re: [gentoo-user] can't locate module /dev/ttyp0

2003-03-14 Thread Norberto BENSA
On Saturday 15 March 2003 12:55 am, Martin Schlemmer wrote: > Just comment the last bit in /etc/init.d/bootmisc about /dev/ttyp0. > It is already fixed in later versions. Ok, and what about the logs in /var/log/everything? Mar 11 03:32:04 [kernel] FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 Mar 11 03:32:04 [modpr

Re: [gentoo-user] I finally have sound!....but now stop the madness.

2003-03-14 Thread Norberto BENSA
On Saturday 15 March 2003 12:11 am, Nicholas Hockey wrote: > well, my solution would be, remove that bloated annoying piece of crap. > and install a simple window manager =) > Bah, just remove the stupid window manager!! Who needs one? X is bloated. Real *nix admins do not use WMs ;-) Regards, N

Re: [gentoo-user] Open ports question

2003-03-14 Thread Norberto BENSA
On Saturday 15 March 2003 12:30 am, Corey Melanson wrote: > I'm also have sympatico and run a mail server. What they have done as far > as I know is blocked all outgoing smtp unless it's going through their > servers. Nope. Fibertel blocked INCOMING connections. Bah. I don't care much about'em n

Re: [gentoo-user] I finally have sound!....but now stop the madness.

2003-03-14 Thread Norberto BENSA
On Friday 14 March 2003 06:53 pm, Ben Sparks wrote: > and now I > almost wish that I never fixed my sound card problem in the first place. Hahahah! The same happen to me! KDE's default sound scheme is... so... ANNOYING! > ~ I mean are you kidding me it is sooo annoying. Does anyone knwo

Re: [gentoo-user] can't locate module /dev/ttyp0

2003-03-14 Thread Martin Schlemmer
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 14:50:08 +0100 Tim Ruehsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I got this message while booting and don't know how to solve it: > > ... > * Cleaning /tmp directory ... [ok] > modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module /dev/ttyp0 > * Initialising ALSA [ok] Just comment the

Re: [gentoo-user] Open ports question

2003-03-14 Thread Nicholas Hockey
try this as root: lsof | grep -i listen then yell have the names of the processes opening certain ports On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 09:40, Pius Lee wrote: > Hi, I recently used nmap to portscan my machine from another pc and > found that i've got the following ports open: > > 22 (ssh) > 25 (smtp)

Re: [gentoo-user] Dosemu

2003-03-14 Thread Manuel Lora
I'm using the gentoo sources kernel and it does not work no matter what I try. On Friday 14 March 2003 09:38 pm, Alex Schuster wrote: > Manuel writes: > > Has anyone had problems with Dosemu locking up as soon as it starts? It > > seems to be a kernel issue and I've yet to figure out what gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] I finally have sound!....but now stop the madness.

2003-03-14 Thread Ben Sparks
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dude, you seriously don't know how much that helps. I was pulling my hair out every time I ran a program. Again thanks! Timothy Grant wrote: | Control Center->Sound & Multimedia->System Notifications | | Then change the drop down at the top to read "T

Re: [gentoo-user] Dosemu

2003-03-14 Thread Alex Schuster
Manuel writes: > Has anyone had problems with Dosemu locking up as soon as it starts? It > seems to be a kernel issue and I've yet to figure out what gentoo patch > is causing it to freeze. It seems to work ok a vanilla kernel. I am experiencing a strange problem with Dosemu. I need it for my tex

Re: [gentoo-user] I finally have sound!....but now stop the madness.

2003-03-14 Thread Timothy Grant
Control Center->Sound & Multimedia->System Notifications Then change the drop down at the top to read "The KDE Window Manager" You should see all your sounds. On Friday 14 March 2003 07:29 pm, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > In KDE 2.2.x it's under Sound->System Notifications->The KDE Window manager >

Re: [gentoo-user] Open ports question

2003-03-14 Thread Corey Melanson
I'm also have sympatico and run a mail server. What they have done as far as I know is blocked all outgoing smtp unless it's going through their servers. What you can do to cope with this is to set your mail server to relay through the smtp server they assigned you, smtp1.sympatico.ca for me. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Logitech i-Touch keyboards

2003-03-14 Thread Susie
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 23:54:43 + Joel Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hotkeys allows you to map extra keys to useful actions, and has a > number of presets for special keyboards. I know the iTouch is > supported (I use it myself), not sure about others. Much thanks. I tried the xmms plugin

Re: [gentoo-user] I finally have sound!....but now stop the madness.

2003-03-14 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
In KDE 2.2.x it's under Sound->System Notifications->The KDE Window manager but who knows what they did in KDE 3.x - I sure don't. You might poke around various Control Center headings and see what you find. I'm using KDE 2.2.x until I get Gentoo up and running for good and then it's xfce for

Re: [gentoo-user] Nautilus themes

2003-03-14 Thread Andrew
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 21:09:57 -0600 Manuel Lora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I've been able to install metacity and gtk2 themes, but can't seem to > figure out how to do the same for Nautilus themes. I untarred them in > ~/.nautilus/themes. > > ml > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing l

Re: [gentoo-user] I finally have sound!....but now stop the madness.

2003-03-14 Thread Ben Sparks
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I did checke out the control center under system notifications, it doesn't say anything about "minimize window, maximize window, open program, or close programs" these are the most annoying sounds. I'm using KDE 3.1 if that makes a difference. Brett I.

[gentoo-user] Dosemu

2003-03-14 Thread Manuel Lora
Hi. Has anyone had problems with Dosemu locking up as soon as it starts? It seems to be a kernel issue and I've yet to figure out what gentoo patch is causing it to freeze. It seems to work ok a vanilla kernel. ml -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] I finally have sound!....but now stop themadness.

2003-03-14 Thread Nicholas Hockey
well, my solution would be, remove that bloated annoying piece of crap. and install a simple window manager =) oh and all of you can flame me if you like but i will never like that bloated, non-standard, annoying, breaks at random for no apparent reason, ugly (if i wanted a windows interface i wou

[gentoo-user] Nautilus themes

2003-03-14 Thread Manuel Lora
Hello, I've been able to install metacity and gtk2 themes, but can't seem to figure out how to do the same for Nautilus themes. I untarred them in ~/.nautilus/themes. ml -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] I finally have sound!....but now stop the madness.

2003-03-14 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Check the KDE control center and see what they have there. In KDE 2 it's under sound->System Notifications. > Ok, as the subject states I have gotten my sound card working, I'm using > KDE and everything is great...right? Well, apparently KDE has a very > annoying sound scheme that I could not

[gentoo-user] I finally have sound!....but now stop the madness.

2003-03-14 Thread Ben Sparks
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ok, as the subject states I have gotten my sound card working, I'm using KDE and everything is great...right? Well, apparently KDE has a very annoying sound scheme that I could not hear before (no sound), and now I almost wish that I never fixed my sou

[gentoo-user] Two Realtek NICs In One Machine (8139too)

2003-03-14 Thread Stroller (Gentoo Lists)
Folks, I'm hoping someone can advise me & improve my understanding of how modules are / can be loaded by the kernel. I have a RealTek 8139 which has been installed in my Gentoo box for some time. It has always been the only network card in that machine, and it is loaded by the entry `8139too` in

Re: [gentoo-user] galeon font-size weirdness

2003-03-14 Thread Norberto BENSA
On Friday 14 March 2003 04:48 pm, Ernie Schroder wrote: > you can also do "startx -- -dpi 96" (no quotes, of course) Oh, much better solution :-) Regards, Norberto pgp0.pgp Description: signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo as a firewall/router

2003-03-14 Thread Matt Tucker
-- Norberto BENSA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thusly: > On Friday 14 March 2003 03:01 pm, Matt Tucker wrote: >> as far as I can tell, emerge doesn't give the option to >> build a package without installing it. > > -B Nice. Thanks. Perhaps it should be added to the documentation. -- [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SBLive! 5.1 Digital Configuration

2003-03-14 Thread Collins Richey
On 14 Mar 2003 10:20:31 -0700 Jon Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 22:15, Ralph F. De Witt wrote: > > I have a KT3ULTRA2 motherboard with builtin sound also. I have not been able > > to get it running and was thinking of disableing in and using a SB live card. > > Have yo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: exclude packages on emerge -u world?

2003-03-14 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Thursday 13 March 2003 11:49 pm, Henry Fleischmann wrote: > On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 23:51:39 + > > Peter Ruskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 13 Mar 2003 22:55, Henry Fleischmann wrote: > > > I am using an old version of nvidia-kernel and I don't plan to > > > upgrade. Is there a wa

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge xfree 4.3.0-r1 fails

2003-03-14 Thread Nicholas Hockey
you might want to try re-emerging ispell, or remove it from your use flags and try and it it later, i would attempt the second option only as a last resort, unless spell correction is not an important thing to you, (it is for me i am a horrible speller) On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 12:18, [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [gentoo-user] galeon font-size weirdness

2003-03-14 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Friday 14 March 2003 11:54 pm, Norberto BENSA wrote: > On Friday 14 March 2003 06:01 pm, Shane Hickey wrote: > > To fix it, I just went into > > Settings->Preferences->Rendering->Fonts/Colors and changed the Min. > > Size from 14 (or so) to 29. That made everything look normal. > > Yep. First s

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge xfree 4.3.0-r1 fails

2003-03-14 Thread Norberto BENSA
On Friday 14 March 2003 02:18 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > gcc -m32 -o xedit -mno-mmx -ansi -pedantic -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Wundef > -L. ./../exports/lib xedit.o commands.o util.o realpath.o ispell.o > options.o hook.o lisp.o -Llisp -llisp -Llisp/mp -lmp -Llisp/re -lre -lXaw > -lXmu -lXt

Re: [gentoo-user] Logitech i-Touch keyboards

2003-03-14 Thread Norberto BENSA
On Friday 14 March 2003 07:41 pm, Susie wrote: > I have a Net Navigator keyboard. I see there is an xmms-itouch plugin Doens't work for me. I just crash xmms as soon as I enable the plugin :-( Regards, Norberto pgp0.pgp Description: signature

Re: [gentoo-user] galeon font-size weirdness

2003-03-14 Thread Norberto BENSA
On Friday 14 March 2003 06:01 pm, Shane Hickey wrote: > To fix it, I just went into > Settings->Preferences->Rendering->Fonts/Colors and changed the Min. Size > from 14 (or so) to 29. That made everything look normal. Yep. First step to fix something broken... But then you found it didn't work.

Re: [gentoo-user] Logitech i-Touch keyboards

2003-03-14 Thread Ian Truelsen
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 14:41:10 -0800 Susie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a Net Navigator keyboard. I see there is an xmms-itouch plugin > that makes use of my multimedia keys. I don't see anything in > packages.mask or the ebuild to indicate why it's masked. I'm > considering unmasking it(I

Re: [gentoo-user] Logitech i-Touch keyboards

2003-03-14 Thread Joel Wright
Hotkeys allows you to map extra keys to useful actions, and has a number of presets for special keyboards. I know the iTouch is supported (I use it myself), not sure about others. you can use the 'xev' program to identify keycodes to make your own hotkeys config file if there isn't one for your

[gentoo-user] Re: exclude packages on emerge -u world?

2003-03-14 Thread Henry Fleischmann
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 23:51:39 + Peter Ruskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 13 Mar 2003 22:55, Henry Fleischmann wrote: > > I am using an old version of nvidia-kernel and I don't plan to upgrade. > > Is there a way to exclude it on "emerge -u world"? > > > Yes. > $ grep nvidia-kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] exclude packages on emerge -u world?

2003-03-14 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Thursday 13 Mar 2003 22:55, Henry Fleischmann wrote: > I am using an old version of nvidia-kernel and I don't plan to upgrade. > Is there a way to exclude it on "emerge -u world"? > Yes. $ grep nvidia-kernel /var/cache/edb/world media-video/nvidia-kernel ...so edit the file /var/cache/edb/world

[gentoo-user] qtopiadesktop still won't start

2003-03-14 Thread Steven
After searching the forums with the keyword 'qtopia', I came upon some information to which I applied in the following steps: 1) Downloaded the rpm (qtopia-desktop-1.6.0-1.i386.rpm) from the trolltech website 2) Ran rpm2targz on it 3) untar'd it to /opt 4) ran test from command-line: /opt/Qtopia/b

Re: [gentoo-user] a "duh" kde question

2003-03-14 Thread latin hypercube
As well as kmailrc you need to copy across the files from .kde/share/apps/kmail This will give you all of your folders, network settings, accounts an so on. I've done this successfully several times and without problems > So far, I've copied the kmailrc file to the new box. I can send

[gentoo-user] exclude packages on emerge -u world?

2003-03-14 Thread Henry Fleischmann
I am using an old version of nvidia-kernel and I don't plan to upgrade. Is there a way to exclude it on "emerge -u world"? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: modprobe: Can't locate module /dev/ttyp0

2003-03-14 Thread Norberto BENSA
On Thursday 13 March 2003 06:20 pm, Henry Fleischmann wrote: > On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 16:26:35 +0100 > > Arnold Krille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Before doing anything else: downgrade to devfsd-1.3.25: emerge =devfsd-1.3.25 and you're done. The problem is that stupid shutup patch in r1 and

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] ISC-Bind inconsistancy

2003-03-14 Thread Norberto BENSA
On Friday 14 March 2003 05:58 pm, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > Right before my email to the list I synced. The reason I asked about two > packages is that the binaries are so small, it is not worth not installing > named just to get the tools only IMHO. Now a compile is required twice to > do wha

[gentoo-user] Logitech i-Touch keyboards

2003-03-14 Thread Susie
I have a Net Navigator keyboard. I see there is an xmms-itouch plugin that makes use of my multimedia keys. I don't see anything in packages.mask or the ebuild to indicate why it's masked. I'm considering unmasking it(I did such with docker and it works just fine) but I'm wondering if anyone els

Re: [gentoo-user] Ximian Evolution keys/encrypted e-mail

2003-03-14 Thread Nicholas Hockey
very sorry about that, x crashed while it was sending and when i started up evolution it send it again. On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 17:38, Nicholas Hockey wrote: > i have been using ximian evolution for a long long time, and i have > always hoped this question would come up but it hasn't as of yet. > my

[gentoo-user] Ximian Evolution keys/encrypted e-mail

2003-03-14 Thread Nicholas Hockey
i have been using ximian evolution for a long long time, and i have always hoped this question would come up but it hasn't as of yet. my lil annoyence is the fact that encrypted e-mail and signatures from netscape users comes up as inline, instead of the using the proper method (RFC 3156). i was ei

[gentoo-user] Ximian Evolution keys/encrypted e-mail

2003-03-14 Thread Nicholas Hockey
i have been using ximian evolution for a long long time, and i have always hoped this question would come up but it hasn't as of yet. my lil annoyence is the fact that encrypted e-mail and signatures from netscape users comes up as inline, instead of the using the proper method (RFC 3156). i was ei

Re: [gentoo-user] evolution conduit?

2003-03-14 Thread M. Robert Martin
um, USE "+pda" emerge evolution would work... On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, M. Robert Martin wrote: > > Hi, > > I've got evolution 1.2.2 emerged on my system, with gnome-pilot etc, but I > don't end up with any of the evolution conduits for synchronizing my PDA. > I couldn't find any other portage

[gentoo-user] evolution conduit?

2003-03-14 Thread M. Robert Martin
Hi, I've got evolution 1.2.2 emerged on my system, with gnome-pilot etc, but I don't end up with any of the evolution conduits for synchronizing my PDA. I couldn't find any other portage listing for evolution conduits. Has anyone else gone through this and figured out how to get sync'd? Thanks!!

[gentoo-user] Re: modprobe: Can't locate module /dev/ttyp0

2003-03-14 Thread Henry Fleischmann
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 16:26:35 +0100 Arnold Krille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tuesday 11 March 2003 07:43, Norberto BENSA wrote: > > Mar 11 03:32:04 [kernel] FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 > > Mar 11 03:32:04 [modprobe] modprobe: Can't locate mod

Re: [gentoo-user] imlib not compiling...!??!

2003-03-14 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Friday 14 March 2003 20:14, raptor wrote: > > thanx alot in advance ... > PS. I don't know about you but I'm doing new instalation and there is many > packges that are broken... If I have to do it again soon, i will not do > "emerge sync" :"( > That suggest you either have a broken base package

Re: [gentoo-user] this is only a test please ignore me

2003-03-14 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Friday 14 March 2003 11:19, MAL wrote: > Nicholas Hockey wrote: > > seems to be working, thanks for tolerating the spam now if somebody else > > could reply to this to show me that i not only can see mine it would be > > great > > Please don't use html email. > And for testing make a separate m

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage doesn't no whether to update or not to update?

2003-03-14 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Friday 14 March 2003 13:26, Alex Walker wrote: > On Friday 14 March 2003 12:05, Lloyd H. Meinholz wrote: > > I have the same issue, I'm just ignoring the upgrade portage message for > > now, but it's disconcerting. I'm very good about keeping my config files > > updated... > > I think this was a

Re: [gentoo-user] Promise SX4000 ATA Raid!!!!!!!

2003-03-14 Thread Jimmy Rosen
I have had problems with this card before, because I need to use both openmosix kernel and mpx motherboards. If you have no such requirements it should work fine with the pti_st driver you can download from promise web pages, and vanilla kernel 2.4.19 or 2.4.20. Try checking out the link below

Re: [gentoo-user] Open ports question

2003-03-14 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Friday 14 March 2003 01:24, leeweiqi wrote: > Yup, starting portmap opens port 111/tcp. should i block this port using > iptables? Yes, you should. In general there is no reason to support remote access to the portmapper. (That is unless you really wish to offer nis/yp or nfs to the outside w

[gentoo-user] galeon font-size weirdness

2003-03-14 Thread Shane Hickey
Well, I finally decided to post this problem (even though it makes it sound like I'm crazy). Here's the deal. A few weeks/months ago after doing loads of emerges, I noticed that when I started galeon that all web pages had wicked tiny text. To fix it, I just went into Settings->Preferences->Rend

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo as a firewall/router

2003-03-14 Thread A. Craig West
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Adrian Head wrote: > I've been looking at replacing it with a Gentoo machine for quite a while; > however, whats stopping me is the fact that to keep things up-to-date you > either have to have gcc on the firewall! or go the precompiled binary package > route. ... > My nex

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge xfree 4.3.0-r1 fails

2003-03-14 Thread dbm7w
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 12:45:11PM -0500, Kurt Bechstein wrote: > What does your CFLAGS looke like in /etc/make.conf? CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" > On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 12:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I'm having trouble getting xfree-4.3.0-r1 to build on my PIII l

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacement for Evolution/Gaim

2003-03-14 Thread gabor
On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 16:07, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: > Hi, > > > i'm using evolution for a while now and its a great product, but using > fluxbox now i get a lot of gnome installed, is there another mailprogram > than can use my Palm data? i don't know... try sylpheed or balsa, they're gtk ap

[gentoo-user] USB Printer

2003-03-14 Thread Alberto Romero
Hello, I have an HP-DeskJet920C and I was trying to configure it under gentoo. The problem is that I have everything configured (I "emerged" cups, foomatic and pnm2ppa) and generatedthe PPD file for my printer, put it in /usr/share/cups/model/ and started cupsd. So, when I connected to my port

RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo livecd suggestion/question

2003-03-14 Thread Kevin J. Anderson
->-Original Message- ->From: Johan Van den Neste [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ->Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 9:27 AM ->To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ->Subject: [gentoo-user] Gentoo livecd suggestion/question -> -> -> -> ->I just installed distcc yesterday, and I am delighted by the ->benefit I get

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo as a firewall/router

2003-03-14 Thread Norberto BENSA
On Friday 14 March 2003 03:01 pm, Matt Tucker wrote: > as far as I can tell, emerge doesn't give the option to > build a package without installing it. -B :-) Regards, Norberto pgp0.pgp Description: signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo as a firewall/router

2003-03-14 Thread Norberto BENSA
On Friday 14 March 2003 03:01 pm, Matt Tucker wrote: > Perhaps it would work to simply > nfs-mount (using nosquashroot, which probably isn't a big deal if that > option's only available to a single IP) the entire router's filesystem > and emerge using that root from the server. Oh, that's what I w

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacement for Evolution/Gaim

2003-03-14 Thread Susie
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 14:57:37 + (GMT) Dhruba Bandopadhyay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sylpheed uses the pda use flag but am not sure if it works with palm. > It's a good email client. Evolution's functionality is going to be > hard to beat though especially with the release of 1.3.1 beta an

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting to mutch packages with emerge

2003-03-14 Thread Susie
I forgot to mention in my last post to you on this topic. You might want to try "UFed" as it's a handy tool for setting USE flags. :) -- Susie VE7 HFA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://arienadean.tripod.com/ --- "Who dares to teach mu

Re: [gentoo-user] gkrellm issues

2003-03-14 Thread Susie
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 03:45:10 -0800 (PST) Stephen Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hey i used to have gkrellm working on my system but after a recompile > of the system... well it wont work anymore, ive checked my make.conf, > played with the +gtk -gtk issues tried everything i could think of >

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting to mutch packages with emerge

2003-03-14 Thread Susie
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 13:07:11 + Patrick Marquetecken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm using Fluxbox a window manager, does this mean that i kan place > -kde-gnome in /etc/make.conf. > but some programs need kde of gnome support? I'm using openbox which is related to fluxbox, blackbox and waime

RE: [gentoo-user] [Fwd: gentoo-pentium3-1.4-rc3] "acpi=off"

2003-03-14 Thread Kevin Gordon
Thanks Kev I searched Google and found many emails re ACPI and sym53c8xx and smp but too much for me to understand. Thought acpismp=force might have fixed it but no. Tried pci=noacpi but this did not work. Whether acpi is included in the kernel or not did not make a difference. Now using acpi=off a

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Linux remote control question

2003-03-14 Thread Matt Tucker
-- Norberto BENSA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thusly: > On Sunday 09 March 2003 07:22 pm, Kevin J. Anderson wrote: >> Crap, serves me right for asking then researching... turns out you >> can do this w/ "ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] command" then it asks for the >> password. Anyway to provide the passwor

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo as a firewall/router

2003-03-14 Thread MAL
Matt Tucker wrote: Another option would be to build packages using another system in an alternate root and then install them on the router. The trouble with this is that as far as I can tell, emerge doesn't give the option to build a package without installing it. ebuild package Perhaps it wou

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo livecd suggestion/question

2003-03-14 Thread Karl Haines
That really would be cool! Karl Haines On Friday 14 March 2003 02:26 pm, Johan Van den Neste wrote: > I just installed distcc yesterday, and I am delighted by the benefit I get > from it. Now the thing is, there's a couple of high-performance pc's on my > lan who aren't used all the time (flatmat

Re: [gentoo-user] Keyboard problems after upgrading to xfree 4.3

2003-03-14 Thread Norberto BENSA
On Thursday 06 March 2003 06:01 am, John Nilsson wrote: > I take it you didn't get all the files in /etc/X11/xkb upgraded properly. > In that case you really should reemerge. There was some extensive changes > to the keyboard layouts and buttons for XF4.3 In my case 'reemerge' didn't work. Files i

[gentoo-user] XFree86 "Killed"

2003-03-14 Thread Martin Conolly
Hi, When running X -configure, I get the following output: XFree86 Version 4.2.1 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600) Release Date: 3 September 2002 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo as a firewall/router

2003-03-14 Thread Matt Tucker
-- Adrian Head <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thusly: > I currently have a very old - but hardened RedHat machine as my > firewall/NAT/proxy/VPN machine. > > I've been looking at replacing it with a Gentoo machine for quite a > while; however, whats stopping me is the fact that to keep things > up

[gentoo-user] imlib not compiling...!??!

2003-03-14 Thread raptor
hi, I cant emerge imlib 1.9.4! and i can't use my techinique to compile lower version 'cause there is no such version... The compilation stops in ./configure process, something with inability to find some jpeg-headers (don't have the machine in front to tell u the exact message).. I also can't m

[gentoo-user] Installing gdm

2003-03-14 Thread Marcelo Jesus Coelho
When i try to emerge gdm, i have to install docbook-utils-0.6.11.tar.gz as a dependency, but when it starts compiling i have an error message, something like Maximum error number reached:200 errors and the output (when compiling) consists on undeclared variables. What can i do? -- [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge xfree 4.3.0-r1 fails

2003-03-14 Thread Kurt Bechstein
What does your CFLAGS looke like in /etc/make.conf? On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 12:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm having trouble getting xfree-4.3.0-r1 to build on my PIII laptop. > It goes along for awhile then seems to die trying to build xedit. > Here's the error: > > gcc -m32 -o xedit -mno-mm

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacement for Evolution/Gaim

2003-03-14 Thread admin
Hi, 1 - Do you mean that zaurus can sync with sylpheed-claws ? can you tell us more about it ? 2 - how do you plug your Z ? using the craddle I suppose, but how did you configure it ? Actually, my problem is that 'ifconfig usb0' returns me an error (usb0 doesn't seem to exist...) ? Thanks.

[gentoo-user] emerge xfree 4.3.0-r1 fails

2003-03-14 Thread dbm7w
I'm having trouble getting xfree-4.3.0-r1 to build on my PIII laptop. It goes along for awhile then seems to die trying to build xedit. Here's the error: gcc -m32 -o xedit -mno-mmx -ansi -pedantic -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Wundef -L. ./../exports/lib xedit.o commands.o util.o realpath.o ispell

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SBLive! 5.1 Digital Configuration

2003-03-14 Thread Jon Ellis
On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 22:15, Ralph F. De Witt wrote: > I have a KT3ULTRA2 motherboard with builtin sound also. I have not been able > to get it running and was thinking of disableing in and using a SB live card. > Have you gotten the on board sound to work. What is the secret. I have this same m

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacement for Evolution/Gaim

2003-03-14 Thread Matthew Graybosch
On 14 Mar 2003 15:07:51 + Patrick Marquetecken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > > i'm using evolution for a while now and its a great product, but using > fluxbox now i get a lot of gnome installed, is there another > mailprogram than can use my Palm data? I think that Sylpheed-claws ca

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacement for Evolution/Gaim

2003-03-14 Thread Louis C. Candell
Patrick Marquetecken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i'm using evolution for a while now and its a great product, but using > fluxbox now i get a lot of gnome installed, is there another mailprogram > than can use my Palm data? > Thesame for gaim I cant really help you with the PDA stuff, as I've n

[gentoo-user] broken /etc/mailcap?

2003-03-14 Thread Peter Gantner
Hi! I just found a typo in /etc/mailcap: # The following displays Japanese text at sites where # the "kterm" program is installed: #text/plain; kterm -geometry +0+0 -e more %s /dev/null; \ test=test "`echo %{charset} | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'`" = iso-2022-jp there is a comment-hash missing, c

Re: [gentoo-user] Samba won't compile

2003-03-14 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Friday 14 March 2003 04:42 am, Alec Berryman wrote: > On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 16:26, Ernie Schroder wrote: > > using gcc-3.2.2-r1 Any ideas? should I file a bug? > > Like this one (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16321)? :) > > I think this forum thread > (http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopi

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacement for Evolution/Gaim

2003-03-14 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Patrick Marquetecken said: > Hi, > > > i'm using evolution for a while now and its a great product, but using > fluxbox now i get a lot of gnome installed, is there another mailprogram > than can use my Palm data? > Thesame for gaim Sylpheed uses the pda use flag but am not sure if it works with p

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting to mutch packages with emerge

2003-03-14 Thread brett holcomb
You're welcome. This is what I understand from digging through the docs and asking questions. Hopefully, an incorrect information will be corrected by someone . On 14 Mar 2003 15:11:48 + Patrick Marquetecken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks, Makes some things more clear. On Fri, 2003-

[gentoo-user] Gentoo livecd suggestion/question

2003-03-14 Thread Johan Van den Neste
I just installed distcc yesterday, and I am delighted by the benefit I get from it. Now the thing is, there's a couple of high-performance pc's on my lan who aren't used all the time (flatmates), but don't have gentoo. So my question is: would it be possible to put gcc and distcc on the livec

[gentoo-user] Replacement for Evolution/Gaim

2003-03-14 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Hi, i'm using evolution for a while now and its a great product, but using fluxbox now i get a lot of gnome installed, is there another mailprogram than can use my Palm data? Thesame for gaim TIA Patrick -- Knowledge in a databank,is like food which is in a deepfreeze. Nothing comes out better

[gentoo-user] can't locate module /dev/ttyp0

2003-03-14 Thread Tim Ruehsen
Hi, I got this message while booting and don't know how to solve it: ... * Cleaning /tmp directory ... [ok] modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module /dev/ttyp0 * Initialising ALSA [ok] I thought this has something to do with parallel port, so I enabled support in the kernel and recompiled ev

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting to mutch packages with emerge

2003-03-14 Thread brett holcomb
It is confusing. As I understand it if an ebuild needs things (such as gnome) it will compile with it anyway - despite what the USE variable says. The USE variable comes into play when you're building things that don't necessarily need something but you want to have it enabled it when built

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo live cd root password issue.

2003-03-14 Thread brett holcomb
When you first start the LiveCd and get to the prompt simply type passwd, then enter whatever you want. After that you can use it in any terminal session. On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 04:48:21 -0500 "Kevin J. Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Its really annoying now that I can't seem to switch term

Re: [gentoo-user] ide-scsi

2003-03-14 Thread jardous
Hello Bastux, Friday, March 14, 2003, 2:02:34 PM, you wrote: B> Hello, B> I recently compil a kernel gentoo-source (before It was running on a B> kernel found at www.kernel.org) in order to have the acpi module. B> Since that, I have no ide cdroms as scsi with the module ide-scsi B> I didn't ch

Re: [gentoo-user] ide-scsi

2003-03-14 Thread Louis C. Candell
This has been discussed in detail the last few days YO! You should look through the last 7 days posts as you might find your answer there. Bastux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > I recently compil a kernel gentoo-source (before It was running on a > kernel found at www.kernel.org) in or

[gentoo-user] ide-scsi

2003-03-14 Thread Bastux
Hello, I recently compil a kernel gentoo-source (before It was running on a kernel found at www.kernel.org) in order to have the acpi module. Since that, I have no ide cdroms as scsi with the module ide-scsi I didn't change any configuration, the modules ide-scsi and co are present, and my lilo.c

[gentoo-user] Error emerging kde

2003-03-14 Thread Domas Savickas
Hello, After succesfully installing gentoo 1.4r3 I tried to install kde by typing 'emerge kde', but the emerge process fails while compiling package 'x11-libs/qt-3.1.0-r3' -> qt-x11-free-3.1.0.tar.bz2: ... function src_compile line 106, Exitcode 2 [.obj/release-shared-mt-qtitlebar.o] my make fl

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage doesn't no whether to update or not to update?

2003-03-14 Thread Alex Walker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 14 March 2003 12:05, Lloyd H. Meinholz wrote: > I have the same issue, I'm just ignoring the upgrade portage message for > now, but it's disconcerting. I'm very good about keeping my config files > updated... I think this was a bug in portag

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo as a firewall/router

2003-03-14 Thread Adrian Head
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 08:27, Norberto BENSA wrote: > Hello, > > I need some info to setup a Gentoo box as a firewall/router. I'm currently > running Win95+Winroute here, but I'd like to replace that machine. I currently have a very old - but hardened RedHat machine as my firewall/NAT/proxy/VPN mach

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