Re: [gentoo-user] USB mice in Xfree -still not working

2003-03-21 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Friday 21 Mar 2003 07:05, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: I hope to find a solution quick because my finger hurts by using the touchpad ;-) I have follosd your solutions and the documentaion , but still no external mouse !! Here's my dmesg and XF86Config hub.c: new USB device 00:03.0-1,

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow Gentoo again

2003-03-21 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, hmm, all entries are correct, the /etc/hosts, /etc/resolv.conf Xfree Driver. it is more than strange :-( On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 23:30, Alan wrote: IIRC the last time I saw this in reference to KDE it was to do with missing a localhost 127.0.0.1 entry in /etc/hosts -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] USB mice in Xfree -still not working

2003-03-21 Thread keanu
None of the above helpt :-/ is there a way to see if /dev/input/mice anything does ? i'm sure if this is what you mean but you can cat /dev/input/mice and then when you move the mouse you should see some wierd chars apearing -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] dvdrip cant open /dev/dvd

2003-03-21 Thread jens
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 09:16:52PM -0800, Spundun Bhatt wrote: Hi, I dont know what more info to provide but when I open a new project with dvd rip and click on Read DVD Table of contents, this is the error I get in a diaog box. I am able to play dvds in xine. Has anyone got this problem? any

[gentoo-user] mplayer black screen with radeon using xv for video output

2003-03-21 Thread Christophe Desoutter
Hello, I emerge xfree 4.2.1 (Direct Rendering enabled) and mplayer ( 0.90rc5-3.2.2) can't show video anymore with option -vo vx (default for me) . I'have a black screen instead. Everything is fine with -vo x11 but video output is very small if I don't enable -vm option to change display mode.

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel compiles fail

2003-03-21 Thread Martin Schultz
Hi Again I have tried following the points you gave me about my kernel compiling woes (fx. Enableing the framebuffer support and disabling DRI). I now get a new error: depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r1/kernel/drivers/n et/dummy.o depmod:

[gentoo-user] ALSA vs ESound ESD

2003-03-21 Thread Marc Tessier
Hi all I have a small problem with ALSA driver and using ESD in Gnome. ESD freeze when I am trying to play sound in gnome but sound is very good in a shell using aplay anyone knows what could be my esd problem? Thanks Marc -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow Gentoo again

2003-03-21 Thread Hamilton Coutinho
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 11:26:20PM +0100, Denny Schierz wrote: now it is time again. A Gentoo System (1.4) compiled on a Celeron 1100Mhz is with KDE slow again (slow konqueror, mouse moving etc.) (the user don't use gnome, icewm or whatever). I wrote times ago (Supject P3 feels like an p300).

Re: [gentoo-user] Fixed Width Fonts Very have too much space

2003-03-21 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Friday 21 March 2003 14:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just emerged KDE 3.1 to see what it was about and I'm having a problem with my fixed-width fonts. The letters have a lot of space between them (l i k e t h i s). It looks ugly and unusable and I was wondering if anyone has

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow Gentoo again

2003-03-21 Thread lefred
Hello, I'm using Gnome and I have the same problem with the same gentoo kernel... I'll try the 2.4.20 this week-end and let you know something better happens. fred. hi, no nothing is running in the background and he uses the gentoo 2.4.19-rx kernel. The Disk/CPU/RAM ist without any high

Re: [gentoo-user] USB mice in Xfree -still not working

2003-03-21 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Sorry nothing ... On Fri, 21 Mar 2003 14:22:02 + MAL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Patrick Marquetecken wrote: Well nothing happend. I opend a xterm and dit as su cat /dev/input/mice, but with the working touchpad /dev/mouse also nothing happend ? Do: cat /dev/misc/psaux And

Re: [gentoo-user] devfsd and scsi cdwriters

2003-03-21 Thread chad kellerman
If anyone was wondering about this one. I still haven't figured it out. But I have pinpointed the isse. /etc/devsfd.conf I am missing entries (at least it appears) for the cdrw. THe more I looked at it I also am missing entries for a ZIP drive I have installed also. THe zip should be

Re: [gentoo-user] USB mice in Xfree -still not working

2003-03-21 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
/dev/misc/psaux thanks for keeping up On Fri, 21 Mar 2003 14:35:42 + MAL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Patrick Marquetecken wrote: Sorry nothing ... And yet your touchpad works in X? What does your /dev/mouse point to? (it is a symbolic link) MAL -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] No Ethernet on 1.4rc2

2003-03-21 Thread Ernie Schroder
just for kicks, have you tried booting to the live CD, setting up net with net-setup ( I think that's a valid command) then doing lsmod to see what module the cd kernel is using? On Thursday 20 March 2003 09:48 pm, Brian Doob wrote: I'm attaching the output of cat /proc/pci to this

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA vs ESound ESD

2003-03-21 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 13:14, Marc Tessier wrote: Hi all I have a small problem with ALSA driver and using ESD in Gnome. ESD freeze when I am trying to play sound in gnome but sound is very good in a shell using aplay anyone knows what could be my esd problem? Why not just stop using ESD?

RE: [gentoo-user] ALSA vs ESound ESD

2003-03-21 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 14:47, Marc Tessier wrote: Because gnome still want to use it. It still part of gnome and we can`t live without until they changed their mind and choose another sound daemon :o( This is what I read on the internet. I've never heard such a thing. ESD is the enlightenment

RE: [gentoo-user] ALSA vs ESound ESD

2003-03-21 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 14:47, Marc Tessier wrote: Because gnome still want to use it. It still part of gnome and we can`t live without until they changed their mind and choose another sound daemon :o( This is what I read on the internet. I've had a lot of problems with ESD like it blocking

[gentoo-user] Do I need to join to roll my own tarballs?

2003-03-21 Thread Jesse Jacobs
Good morning all, I've been trying to build a few stage-2/3 tar balls. But it appears that I need access to gentoo-src CVS. If anyone could please direct me, it would be greatly appreciated. TIA, Jesse. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Fixed Width Fonts Very have too much space

2003-03-21 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Friday 21 March 2003 15:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I emerged the new freetype-2.1.3. I restarted X and the results are the same (bad fixed-width fonts). Am I supposed to recompile KDE to get results? No, it is a QT/Xft/fontconfig/freetype issue. Which versions of fontconfig and Xft are

Re: [gentoo-user] USB mice in Xfree -still not working

2003-03-21 Thread Lai Liu-yuan
my XF86Config: Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse1 Driver mouse Option Protocol IMPS/2 Option Device/dev/input/mice Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 Option SendCoreEvents !!maybe you're missing this line? EndSection Section ServerLayout

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer black screen with radeon using xv for video output

2003-03-21 Thread Christophe Desoutter
Just emerge xfree-drm 4.3.0 with ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 and all run fine now. bye and have a good WE -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Realistic Install timeframe

2003-03-21 Thread Trey Sizemore
I was thinking of installing Gentoo on my maching starting this afternoon. My machine in a PII400 with 512M RAM, ATI All-inWonder 128 video, CD-RW, 48X CD, Iiyama 450. Would it be realistic if I started install (my first Gentoo install - currently dual-booting WinXP and Libranet 2.7) at

RE: [gentoo-user] Realistic Install timeframe

2003-03-21 Thread Gwendolyn van der Linden
I was thinking of installing Gentoo on my maching starting this afternoon. My machine in a PII400 with 512M RAM, ATI All-inWonder 128 video, CD-RW, 48X CD, Iiyama 450. Would it be realistic if I started install (my first Gentoo install - currently dual-booting WinXP and Libranet 2.7) at

Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need to join to roll my own tarballs?

2003-03-21 Thread Kurt Lieber
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 10:07:27AM -0500 or thereabouts, Jesse Jacobs wrote: I've been trying to build a few stage-2/3 tar balls. But it appears that I need access to gentoo-src CVS. If anyone could please direct me, it would be greatly appreciated. We don't offer anonymous access to CVS. We

Re: [gentoo-user] Fixed Width Fonts Very have too much space

2003-03-21 Thread gabriel
On March 21, 2003 10:11 am, Paul de Vrieze wrote: No, it is a QT/Xft/fontconfig/freetype issue. Which versions of fontconfig and Xft are installed? i'm having the same issue: * media-libs/fontconfig Latest version available: 2.1 Latest version installed: 2.1 Size of

Re: [gentoo-user] Realistic Install timeframe

2003-03-21 Thread Arturo di Gioia
On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 16:26, Trey Sizemore wrote: I was thinking of installing Gentoo on my maching starting this afternoon. My machine in a PII400 with 512M RAM, ATI All-inWonder 128 video, CD-RW, 48X CD, Iiyama 450. Would it be realistic if I started install (my first Gentoo install -

[gentoo-user] How to change the keybindings in KDE3?

2003-03-21 Thread Andy Arbon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I don't use KDE as a desktop, because I prefer a more lightweight window manager, but I have found that recently the KDE applications (esp. the KOffice suite) are starting to get *really* good, and I'd like to make better use of them. The only

Re: [gentoo-user] Realistic Install timeframe

2003-03-21 Thread douggorley
I was thinking of installing Gentoo on my maching starting this afternoon. My machine in a PII400 with 512M RAM, ATI All-inWonder 128 video, CD-RW, 48X CD, Iiyama 450. Would it be realistic if I started install (my first Gentoo install - currently dual-booting WinXP and Libranet

Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need to join to roll my own tarballs?

2003-03-21 Thread Jesse Jacobs
Hello Kert, Thanks for your prompt reply. I'm just a basement Linux user. But would like to help any way I can. How could I assist and(to cut to the chase) gain access to these sources? Thanks for any time devoted to this matter, Jesse. Kurt Lieber said: On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 10:07:27AM -0500

Re: [gentoo-user] Antiquated (te)TeX?

2003-03-21 Thread Theofilos Intzoglou
As far as I can tell the latest stable version is 2.0.2 from the link that you gave to the list. There could be a version 3.2 in the teTeX-beta site but I couldn't connect there to see that. However those are beta versions and probably unstable. On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 13:17:08 +0100 Magnus Lie

Re: [gentoo-user] is there a working wine with glibc2.3.2?

2003-03-21 Thread Theofilos Intzoglou
I have winex-cvs working here with ~x86 and glibc2.3.2 however it was compiled before the update of glibc. Try it and if it does compile cleanly check bugs.gentoo.org for some options that you must avoid and everything should work ok. On 17 Mar 2003 18:42:59 +0100 gabor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Memory full

2003-03-21 Thread Theofilos Intzoglou
This is no bug. This is the way the memory allocation works in linux. A large part of your system memory is used to cache things until that part is needed from the system to load an application. This cached part grows and shrinks automatically so you don't need to worry about it. On Wed, 19

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -s errors

2003-03-21 Thread Theofilos Intzoglou
The user has to be in the portage group to be able to use the emerge. I had the same problem and putting my user in the portage group made these error messages disappear. On Wed, 19 Mar 2003 14:27:03 -0500 Ernie Schroder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: aux_get(): (3) Error in media-video/ogle-0.8.4

Re: [gentoo-user] devfsd and scsi cdwriters

2003-03-21 Thread Theofilos Intzoglou
IIRC all scsi cdrom devices appear as /dev/sr* devices (Unfortunately my cdwriter is not present on my system this present time). On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 07:26:51 -0500 chad kellerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone, Got a little issue. I have a scsi cdwriter. I can burn iso

Re: [gentoo-user] Realistic Install timeframe

2003-03-21 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 10:26, Trey Sizemore wrote: I was thinking of installing Gentoo on my maching starting this afternoon. My machine in a PII400 with 512M RAM, ATI All-inWonder 128 video, CD-RW, 48X CD, Iiyama 450. Would it be realistic if I started install (my first Gentoo install -

Re: [gentoo-user] USB mice in Xfree -still not working

2003-03-21 Thread Lai Liu-yuan
my XF86Config: Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse1 Driver mouse Option Protocol IMPS/2 Option Device/dev/input/mice Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 Option SendCoreEvents !!maybe you're missing this line? EndSection Section ServerLayout

Re: [gentoo-user] Fixed Width Fonts Very have too much space

2003-03-21 Thread Whackity
I have fontconfig-2.1-r1 and xft-2.0.1-r1. I checked out Bug #13472 at bugs.gentoo.org to get some insight and following some advice I tried remerging fontconfig and now my fixed fonts have turned into squares. I have xfree-4.2.0-r12. Do you think emerging the latest xfree would help? On

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -s errors

2003-03-21 Thread Douglas Peter Sculley
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 02:27:03PM -0500, Ernie Schroder wrote: aux_get(): (3) Error in media-video/ogle-0.8.4 ebuild. Check for syntax error or corruption in the ebuild. (--debug) anybody else getting a bunch of similar errors when doing an emerge -s [somepackage]? Yes, I

Re: [gentoo-user] How to change the keybindings in KDE3?

2003-03-21 Thread Jani-Matti Hätinen
Andy Arbon wrote: The only problem is that I am in a very firm rut of using lots of old Unix/Emacs keybindings and I can't get used to them not working in KWord etc.. Is there any way to make KDE let me use these bindings? Check Settings/Configure Shortcuts in KWord (and all other KDE

Re: [gentoo-user] dvdrip cant open /dev/dvd

2003-03-21 Thread Spundun Bhatt
On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 03:00, jens wrote: hmm.. and do you have a /dev/dvd device? if not then maybe this link could be of help -- http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=40041highlight=dvd+playersid=390bb157684a837eb0dc0add8fb34024 It sure did for me. I do have a symlink from /dev/dvd to

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -s errors

2003-03-21 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Friday 21 March 2003 12:22 pm, Douglas Peter Sculley wrote: On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 02:27:03PM -0500, Ernie Schroder wrote: aux_get(): (3) Error in media-video/ogle-0.8.4 ebuild. Check for syntax error or corruption in the ebuild. (--debug) anybody else getting a bunch

[gentoo-user] Can't compile gcc, evolution

2003-03-21 Thread M. Robert Martin
Hi, I'm having trouble compiling gcc-3.2.2-anything and evolution 1.2.2. When I try either of these packages, my computer (a dual Athlon on a Tiger MP) locks up within 10 - 20 minutes, requiring a hard reset. I have been leaving 'top' up on the terminal so I can see what things are like at

Re: [gentoo-user] Antiquated (te)TeX?

2003-03-21 Thread Jani-Matti Hätinen
Magnus Lie Hetland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, when I query Portage, I find that the latest version of teTeX available (which is also the one I've got installed) is 1.0.7-r12. But the newest version available from the teTeX site (btw: The home page is http://www.tug.org/teTeX, not

RE: [gentoo-user] emerge/distcc problems

2003-03-21 Thread Chris Platt
I was having this hangup problem. I took the userpriv and usersandbox settings out of /etc/make.conf and the problem went away. Chris -Original Message- From: Mark Saunders [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 3:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

Re: [gentoo-user] Realistic Install timeframe

2003-03-21 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Friday 21 March 2003 10:26 am, Trey Sizemore wrote: I was thinking of installing Gentoo on my maching starting this afternoon. My machine in a PII400 with 512M RAM, ATI All-inWonder 128 video, CD-RW, 48X CD, Iiyama 450. Would it be realistic if I started install (my first Gentoo install -

Re: [gentoo-user] USB mice in Xfree -still not working

2003-03-21 Thread Aaron Matteson
Actually it looks like your problem is that your second mouse(you ave two declarations, is fine) is not identified in the server layout, here is what you should look like: Section ServerLayout Identifier XFree86 Configured Screen 0 Screen0 0 0 InputDeviceMouse0

RE: [gentoo-user] Realistic Install timeframe

2003-03-21 Thread Graham, Steve
Using the GRP CD images and starting from a stage3 tarball the individual package downloads, updates, and compiling the kernel on an AthlonXP 2100 with a Gig of ram and a 640k DSL line take 5-7 hours. Actually, don't quote me on the time... I go to bed and its done when I wake up. ;0)

Re: [gentoo-user] ext3 acls

2003-03-21 Thread Andrei Ivanov
I've finaly set some acls on a directory and file, but ls doesn't show anything different for these... If I understand correctly, it should put a + sign after the permission info for files with acls. getfacl m # file: m # owner: shadow # group: webdev user::rwx user:apache:rwx group::---

RE: [gentoo-user] Realistic Install timeframe

2003-03-21 Thread Aaron Matteson
On a p2 400, i would realisticly count on 2+ days for a fully functional KDE, mainly XFree86 and mozilla are the culprets for most of the time needed. On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 10:11, Graham, Steve wrote: Using the GRP CD images and starting from a stage3 tarball the individual package downloads,

Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need to join to roll my own tarballs?

2003-03-21 Thread Kurt Lieber
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 11:13:34AM -0500 or thereabouts, Jesse Jacobs wrote: Thanks for your prompt reply. I'm just a basement Linux user. But would like to help any way I can. How could I assist and(to cut to the chase) gain access to these sources? Well, right now to have access to cvs, you

Re: [gentoo-user] Realistic Install timeframe

2003-03-21 Thread Cal Evans
Trey Sizemore wrote: I was thinking of installing Gentoo on my maching starting this afternoon. My machine in a PII400 with 512M RAM, ATI All-inWonder 128 video, CD-RW, 48X CD, Iiyama 450. Would it be realistic if I started install (my first Gentoo install - currently dual-booting WinXP and

Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need to join to roll my own tarballs?

2003-03-21 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Friday 21 March 2003 19:33, Kurt Lieber wrote: On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 11:13:34AM -0500 or thereabouts, Jesse Jacobs wrote: Thanks for your prompt reply. I'm just a basement Linux user. But would like to help any way I can. How could I assist and(to cut to the chase) gain access to

Re: [gentoo-user] Realistic Install timeframe

2003-03-21 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Friday 21 March 2003 18:52, Ernie Schroder wrote: You COULD install from the GRP CD images. That should get you up and running in the time frame you're talking about. The disadvantage is that you will be loosing a lot of the individual optomizations that make Gentoo special. With the GRP

[gentoo-user] Re: Trying xfree-4.3.0

2003-03-21 Thread Ohad Lutzky
Kurt V. Hindenburg wrote: I would like to try the new xfree. Is the best way still to ... %mv /usr/X11R6 /usr/X11R6-4.2 % ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge xfree ??? XFree 4.3.0 works just fine over here, using only the second command you specified. The first would be wise as a backup though, in

Re: [gentoo-user] Fixed Width Fonts Very have too much space

2003-03-21 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Friday 21 March 2003 18:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have fontconfig-2.1-r1 and xft-2.0.1-r1. I checked out Bug #13472 at bugs.gentoo.org to get some insight and following some advice I tried remerging fontconfig and now my fixed fonts have turned into squares. I have xfree-4.2.0-r12. Do

Re: [gentoo-user] Realistic Install timeframe

2003-03-21 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Friday 21 March 2003 21:08, Matthew Kennedy wrote: I always install from stage1 and I never wait for it to compile. Consider building everything you need from which ever stage in a chroot'ed environment on your existing GNU/Linux distribution. This way you can still be productive while

Re: [gentoo-user] Fixed Width Fonts Very have too much space

2003-03-21 Thread Norberto BENSA
On Friday 21 March 2003 12:49 pm, gabriel wrote: On March 21, 2003 10:11 am, Paul de Vrieze wrote: No, it is a QT/Xft/fontconfig/freetype issue. Which versions of fontconfig and Xft are installed? i'm having the same issue: Go to Control Panel/System Administration/Font Installer. Enable

[gentoo-user] bad uid -uid in virtual maps.

2003-03-21 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Hey all! I posted this to the forums as http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=42722 I cannot find a resolution for this anywhere on the web, so I thought I'd ask you guys. Here's the text of the post: After following every direction I could find in the document

Re: [gentoo-user] Realistic Install timeframe

2003-03-21 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 15:38, Robert Claeson wrote: Kwan Lowe wrote: I've done a recent install on an AMD K6-2/500/384M with 30G 7200RPM drive. From a Stage 1 tarball to a complete KDE3.1 desktop took almost four days of continuous running (5 days wallclock). Does starting from stage 1

[gentoo-user] Re: Realistic Install timeframe

2003-03-21 Thread Tyler Trafford
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 03:20:55PM -0500, Paul de Vrieze wrote: Content-Description: signed data On Friday 21 March 2003 21:08, Matthew Kennedy wrote: I always install from stage1 and I never wait for it to compile. Consider building everything you need from which ever stage in a chroot'ed

Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need to join to roll my own tarballs?

2003-03-21 Thread Jesse Jacobs
Hello Paul, Thanks, I found the stager scripts and printed them to give me an idea of how to approach this. Hopefully, I'll be making available tonight a i686, athlon and athlon-xp stage 2 tarball. (fingers are crossed :) ) Paul de Vrieze said: On Friday 21 March 2003 19:33, Kurt Lieber wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Realistic Install timeframe

2003-03-21 Thread Paul de Vrieze
I know of the stage 1-3 tarballs that can be used, but what is GRP? This sounds faster, but I'm not sure what it is. GRP stands for Gentoo Reference Platform. It is a set of prebuild packages that optionally comes with the 1.4_rc2 liveCD. One can just use emerge -K kde to install the whole

[gentoo-user] neverwinter nights beta test!

2003-03-21 Thread nealbirch
Bioware has released their promised linux client for neverwinter nights. Any thought of work has now vanished. It's in Beta: http://nwn.bioware.com/downloads/linuxclient.html You have to purchase the game and copy files from a windows install that has been updated to v-1.29 at this point. Since I

[gentoo-user] Re: Realistic Install timeframe

2003-03-21 Thread Richard Revis
Tyler Trafford wrote: A Knoppix CD could help. That's what I use it for. Seconded - it's one of the most useful things known to man. Just drop in the Knoppix CD, do your Gentoo install, complete with OO and the rest to keep you working, and let it get on with it. heresy It's even more useful

[gentoo-user] !!! ERROR: dev-lang/gforth-0.5.0 failed.

2003-03-21 Thread Ian Tindale
I thought I might try my hand at programming, in order to get a job, lots of money and eventual fame and recognition. So, I tried to emerge gForth: ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/gforth.el /bin/install: cannot create regular file `/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/gforth.el':

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Realistic Install timeframe

2003-03-21 Thread Robert Claeson
Richard Revis wrote: Tyler Trafford wrote: A Knoppix CD could help. That's what I use it for. Seconded - it's one of the most useful things known to man. Just drop in the Knoppix CD, do your Gentoo install, complete with OO and the rest to keep you working, and let it get on with it. heresy

Re: [gentoo-user] !!! ERROR: dev-lang/gforth-0.5.0 failed.

2003-03-21 Thread Robert Claeson
Ian Tindale wrote: I thought I might try my hand at programming, in order to get a job, lots of money and eventual fame and recognition. So, I tried to emerge gForth: ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/gforth.el /bin/install: cannot create regular file

Re: [gentoo-user] Fixed Width Fonts Very have too much space

2003-03-21 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Friday 21 Mar 2003 17:57, Norberto BENSA wrote: On Friday 21 March 2003 12:49 pm, gabriel wrote: On March 21, 2003 10:11 am, Paul de Vrieze wrote: No, it is a QT/Xft/fontconfig/freetype issue. Which versions of fontconfig and Xft are installed? i'm having the same issue: Go to

Re: [gentoo-user] !!! ERROR: dev-lang/gforth-0.5.0 failed.

2003-03-21 Thread Ian Tindale
On Friday 21 March 2003 10:58 pm, Robert Claeson wrote: Do you have emacs installed? gforth should obviously emerge that as a dependency, but perhaps you've stumbled onto a missing dependency. That's interesting - yes, emacs is installed (21.2-r2), but I'd forgotten all about it. I must've

[gentoo-user] emerge xfree -- ERROR

2003-03-21 Thread Matthew Tedder
Trying to emerge xfree, I got the following error: !!! ERROR x11-base/xfree-4.2.1-r2 !!! Function src_compile, Line 330, Exitcode 2 !!! (no error message) Can anyone tell me what might be the problem? -- Matthew C. Tedder SimpFlex Technologies, Inc. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Command line interface tools

2003-03-21 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Hello I wanted to get an expert and informed consensus on what command line interface tools are well suited to each of the following purposes which may well mean what you use. My current choices have been entered but please feel free to add your own with a comma in between. Also, if you feel

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge xfree -- ERROR

2003-03-21 Thread Alan
Were there any error messages from the compile preceeding this message? Maybe send in the last 20 lines or so to give us something to work with. Thanks! alan On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 04:22:29PM -0800, Matthew Tedder wrote: Trying to emerge xfree, I got the following error: !!! ERROR

Re: [gentoo-user] Cant start vcron

2003-03-21 Thread adi
Thanks , thats worked! On Friday 21 March 2003 15:49, Theofilos Intzoglou wrote: You should probably want to run 'rc-update del syslog-ng' and 'rc-update del msyslog' if you have removed this packages from your system. This should also solve your problem. On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 10:21:25 +

[gentoo-user] KDE installation

2003-03-21 Thread Renat Golubchyk
Hi! After emerging kde I started kdm (as stated in the Desktop Configuration Guide). I logged on as normal user and spent some time playing around with it. I also added xdm to the default runlevel with 'DISPLAYMANAGER=kdm' in /etc/rc.conf . Then I wanted to see how it boots, so I rebooted the

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE installation

2003-03-21 Thread Renat Golubchyk
Hi! Forgot to mention that I can still start kde when I type 'startkde' when in failsafe window manager. Regards, Renat -- Southern DOS: Y'all reckon? (Yep/Nope) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] OT: Minimizing resource usage of Apache/Mysql

2003-03-21 Thread Pius Lee
Hi all, I'm currently running apache+mysql on my machine, for development purposes. Since I'm the one and only user connecting to these daemons, what can I do to minimize the resource usage of the two processes on my machine? Any tips are greatly appreciated!:) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge fontconfig won't finish forever

2003-03-21 Thread Joshua J. Berry
While emerge fontconfig it hang on almost finishing: *snip* * Creating font cache... cpu utilization is 100%. And it has been like this for 336 minutes. I use ctrl-c to stop the process, and do a emerge -p fontconfig, it is already the newest version. I try another emerge fontconfig, the

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Minimizing resource usage of Apache/Mysql

2003-03-21 Thread Alec Berryman
On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 20:41, Pius Lee wrote: Hi all, I'm currently running apache+mysql on my machine, for development purposes. Since I'm the one and only user connecting to these daemons, what can I do to minimize the resource usage of the two processes on my machine? Any tips are

[gentoo-user] which kernel is that?

2003-03-21 Thread William Kenworthy
Can anyone explain this: [ebuildU-] sys-kernel/pfeifer-sources-2.4.20.1_pre1 [2.4.20.2_pre4] My current kernel is lolo-sources so I presume its trying to convert 2.4.20.2_pre4 to 2.4.20.1_pre1 whick looks both a downgrade and highly dubious? On examining the ebuild, it might be that lolo

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge xfree -- ERROR

2003-03-21 Thread Matthew Tedder
I've attached the errors in a text file..derrived from the following command: emerge xfree 2error Any help would be appreciated.. Matthew On Friday 21 March 2003 16:52, Alan wrote: Were there any error messages from the compile preceeding this message? Maybe send in the last 20 lines

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA vs ESound ESD

2003-03-21 Thread James Michael Fultz
* Marc Tessier [EMAIL PROTECTED] [21 Mar 2003 20:55]: I have emerge gnome completely without having the esound in my USE flag and installed it by itself as a dependency. I read on the gnome page that esd is the sound daemon for gnome. but I may be crazy or I don`t understand english at all

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge xfree -- ERROR

2003-03-21 Thread Martin Schlemmer
On Fri, 21 Mar 2003 21:41:28 -0800 Matthew Tedder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've attached the errors in a text file..derrived from the following command: emerge xfree 2error Any help would be appreciated.. Remove any MAKE_OPTS settings from your /etc/make.conf. Note the '_'. Then