[gentoo-user] Reinstall and keep portage files

2003-03-26 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Hi, I need to reinstall my system but want to keep the downloaded files in the portage, so i don't have to donwload them again. Patrick -- Knowledge in a databank,is like food which is in a deepfreeze. Nothing comes out better than what is initially put in. PGP Key: http://users.pandora.b

[gentoo-user] How to remove Quantum Drive Overlay?

2003-03-26 Thread Mike Diehl
Hi again, Well, I just finished installing Gentoo on an older machine. I go to reboot as the final step and discover that the drive had Quantum's Dynamic Drive Overlay installed and that grub didn't overwrite it. So, is there a way to remove the overlay without destroying my Gentoo install? M

Re: [gentoo-user] How to activate mod_perl in apache?

2003-03-26 Thread Ted Ozolins
On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 17:38, Ted Ozolins wrote: > > > Include conf/mod_perl.conf > > I thought that if you do not have a mod_perl.conf then you should append httpd.conf with lines similar to these: LoadModule perl_module modules/libperl.so -- Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO) Westbank, B.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: RAID

2003-03-26 Thread Robert Arroyo i Andreu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 El Jueves, 27 de Marzo de 2003 07:49, Mark Saunders escribió: > I have an ASUS A7V8X motherboard with an onboard Promise PDC20376 > controller. > > I've setup a mirrored array with the RAID BIOS setup tool... > > But the BIOS setup on this system does

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: RAID

2003-03-26 Thread Mark Saunders
I have an ASUS A7V8X motherboard with an onboard Promise PDC20376 controller. I've setup a mirrored array with the RAID BIOS setup tool... But the BIOS setup on this system does not mention RAID at all. There is a "RAID Controller" option mentioned in the motherboard user guide that just doesn't

[gentoo-user] RE: Evolution freezes

2003-03-26 Thread Martin Polley
Thanks to all those who replied. I guess the next time I need to recompile my kernel, I'll try a stock Gentoo one... Thanks, Martin Polley Technical Communicator Live Linx Extensible Solutions Ltd. Tel +972-4-8651507 Mobile +972-53-864280

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: RAID

2003-03-26 Thread Robert Arroyo i Andreu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 El Jueves, 27 de Marzo de 2003 02:03, Brett I. Holcomb escribió: > Which driver are you using? I have an Adaptec 3210S and I use the dpt_i2o > driver. There is another dpt driver but that doesn't work with this board > per Adaptec. I am using now a

Re: [gentoo-user] Font Question

2003-03-26 Thread Susie
Ok all my fonts when making logos etc look ick. I take it it is from openbox not being compiled with xft. I read the ebuild for the latest stable version and found the comment curious: *openbox-2.2.3 (02 Jan 2003) 02 Jan 2003; Matt Keadle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> openbox-2.2.3.ebuild files/diges

Re: [gentoo-user] lcms-1.09.tar.gz is corrupt or incomplete - emergekde

2003-03-26 Thread Robert Claeson
Carl Mecum wrote: I am working on my first Gentoo install and am at the point of installing KDE. After about 10 seconds I get the messages “lcms-1.09.tar.gz is corrupt or incomplete”. See below for the emerge transcript. I installed Gnome tonight and had exactly the same problem. I deleted the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-desktop] odd problem

2003-03-26 Thread Robert Cole
It's using a SiS 650 chipset built into the motherboard. It's a Microtel machine from wal-mart.com. :) Robert On Sunday 23 March 2003 01:16 am, Theofilos Intzoglou wrote: > What is the video card on that system? > > > On Sat, 22 Mar 2003 10:48:23 -0800 > > Robert Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

[gentoo-user] Font Question

2003-03-26 Thread Susie
I've installed some fonts. Artwiz and a few others I found in portage. When I run gimp it doesn't see anything other than the default fonts. I was wondering how I change that? Also I tried to run "xftlsfonts" but it claims openbox wasn't compiled with xft. How do I turn that on? Thanks I'm us

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: RAID

2003-03-26 Thread Bryan Feir
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 01:05:50PM +1100, Mark Saunders wrote: > its definitely IDE because it has two serial ATA IDE > drives plugged into it. > it's an onboard controller on an ASUS motherboard. Okay, what precise chip is it? You can usually get this from /proc/pci, which will list a RAID co

Re: [gentoo-user] jargon question...

2003-03-26 Thread Anupam Kapoor
Spundun Bhatt wrote : borken is broken. > What does bork mean on this mailing list? > where does it come from? > whats its literal meaning? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How to activate mod_perl in apache?

2003-03-26 Thread Mike Diehl
On Wednesday 26 March 2003 9:44 pm, Tarsoly András wrote: > On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 04:37, Mike Diehl wrote: > > My system doesn't have a mod_perl.conf file anywhere on the filesystem. > > The problems is that I don't know how to get the module loaded in the > > first place. Until the module is loa

Re: [gentoo-user] How to activate mod_perl in apache?

2003-03-26 Thread Mike Diehl
On Wednesday 26 March 2003 8:43 pm, Marc Tessier wrote: > edit the file /etc/conf.d/apache and add to the following line > > APACHE_OPTS='-D PERL' > > You may have other -D option like for PHP4 and SSL so you append your -D to > the line. When it comes time to get SSL working, after I emerge opens

Re: [gentoo-user] ypbind big big bug

2003-03-26 Thread Norberto BENSA
On Wednesday 26 March 2003 10:14 pm, Thomas Schweikle wrote: > Looking for my configuration, I'll found "/etc/yp.conf" overwritten: > domain fqhn broadcast > > this shouldn't happen! Check your dhcp config... I have a similar problem with ntp.conf, and a dhcpcd option fixed that. -Y P

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub question: why do I have to enterparameters manually at boot?

2003-03-26 Thread Brian Dunnette
On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 16:36:43 -0500 Tyler Trafford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 03:51:18AM -0500, Brian Dunnette wrote: > > Quick question: > > I think I've set up my menu.lst file correctly (got bzImage in > > /hda2/boot/bzImage, etc), but for some reason I'm having to ente

RE: [gentoo-user] How to activate mod_perl in apache?

2003-03-26 Thread Marc Tessier
edit the file /etc/conf.d/apache and add to the following line APACHE_OPTS='-D PERL' You may have other -D option like for PHP4 and SSL so you append your -D to the line. -Message d'origine- De : Mike Diehl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : 26 mars 2003 22:38 À : [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Ted

Re: [gentoo-user] lcms-1.09.tar.gz is corrupt or incomplete - emergekde

2003-03-26 Thread Carl Mecum
I tried that as well and it worked.   My emerge kde is still running but I am well past where I encountered the problem. Thanks! Susie wrote: On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 00:05:04 -0300 Marcos Hiroshi Umino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Try downloading the file via FTP (instead of letti

Re: [gentoo-user] How to activate mod_perl in apache?

2003-03-26 Thread Tarsoly András
On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 04:37, Mike Diehl wrote: > My system doesn't have a mod_perl.conf file anywhere on the filesystem. The > problems is that I don't know how to get the module loaded in the first > place. Until the module is loaded, IfModule will always evaluate false. > > I need to know h

Re: [gentoo-user] MD RAID install

2003-03-26 Thread Tarsoly András
On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 05:17, Tarsoly András wrote: > -- put the the disks onto the ide raid buses sorry, i forgot : before this step, edit your /etc/fstab and use the appropriate device names (/dev/ataraid/foo) instead of /dev/hd* i didn't tried it in this way, so, let me know how did you handle

Re: [gentoo-user] How to activate mod_perl in apache?

2003-03-26 Thread Mike Diehl
On Wednesday 26 March 2003 6:38 pm, Ted Ozolins wrote: > On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 14:52, Mike Diehl wrote: > > I just finished emerge'ing mod_perl and apache. Now I'm trying to get > > apache to load mod_perl when it starts. What do I have to add to the > > apache.conf file? > > Within your httpd.co

[gentoo-user] Thinkpad and tpctl

2003-03-26 Thread Timothy Grant
Wow, two questions in approximately two minutes I'm running Gentoo 1.4rc3 on a Thinkpad R31, so I decided to try and build the special Thinkpad support tools. I emerged thinkpad completely successfully, but when I try and emerge tpctl I get the following... cc -Wall -Wcast-align -Wstrict-p

[gentoo-user] Strange hdparm output...

2003-03-26 Thread Timothy Grant
Hi all, I was just monkeying about with no specific purpose in mind and ran hdparm. I get the following somewhat bizarre results, and they continue to be weird no matter what I do... ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) sudo hdparm -t -T /dev/hda Password: /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: -2804 MB in 0

Re: [gentoo-user] lcms-1.09.tar.gz is corrupt or incomplete - emergekde

2003-03-26 Thread Susie
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 00:05:04 -0300 Marcos Hiroshi Umino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try downloading the file via FTP (instead of letting wget or prozilla > download it) them check the sfv (or simply try emerging povray at this > point). Thanks that worked. I found the ftp from inside the ebuil

Re: [gentoo-user] MD RAID install

2003-03-26 Thread Tarsoly András
On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 01:02, Mark Saunders wrote: > Ive installed gentoo before but never with a raid setup. Maybe this is a solution for your problem : -- install gentoo as a single drive setup on a normal ide dev (like /dev/hda) -- compile a kernel with proper support for the promise controlle

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: RAID

2003-03-26 Thread Mark Saunders
Is there anyway to boot the live cd with the auto raid detection/setup turned off? it's making it impossible to install gentoo on my system On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 13:29, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > Okay. Someone in this thread mentioned that they had a 2100S which according > to Adaptec is a SCSI

Re: [gentoo-user] lcms-1.09.tar.gz is corrupt or incomplete - emerge kde

2003-03-26 Thread Marcos Hiroshi Umino
> I did but I got the same error pretty much for the upgrade of povray. I > tried deleting and remerging and just fetching(then looked at what it > said the file size should be doing an emerge -s povray). The file sizes > don't match. So either their is an error in the build or someone has to >

Re: [gentoo-user] lcms-1.09.tar.gz is corrupt or incomplete - emergekde

2003-03-26 Thread Susie
On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 18:40:58 -0800 Doug Gorley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did you follow the instructions from the error message? > > >>> Please delete /usr/portage/distfiles/lcms-1.09.tar.gz and refetch. > > That had ought to do it. I did but I got the same error pretty much for the upgrade

Re: [gentoo-user] lcms-1.09.tar.gz is corrupt or incomplete - emergekde

2003-03-26 Thread Susie
I think some files aren't in the system that should be or somethings wrong with the builds. I'm getting pretty much the same error on trying to update povray. I have deleted the file from /usr/portage/distfiles and tried again (several times repeating this because if anything else wants to upgra

Re: [gentoo-user] lcms-1.09.tar.gz is corrupt or incomplete - emergekde

2003-03-26 Thread Doug Gorley
On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 18:39, Carl Mecum wrote: > Greetings all. > > I am working on my first Gentoo install and am at the point of > installing KDE. After about 10 seconds I get the messages > “lcms-1.09.tar.gz is corrupt or incomplete”. See below for the emerge > transcript. > > I have tried:

[gentoo-user] lcms-1.09.tar.gz is corrupt or incomplete - emerge kde

2003-03-26 Thread Carl Mecum
Greetings all. I am working on my first Gentoo install and am at the point of installing KDE. After about 10 seconds I get the messages “lcms-1.09.tar.gz is corrupt or incomplete”. See below for the emerge transcript. I have tried: emerge –u system; emerge rsync and retried KDE with the same

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: RAID

2003-03-26 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Okay. Someone in this thread mentioned that they had a 2100S which according to Adaptec is a SCSI controller. I guess I thought you had the 2100S. Did you check out www.linux.doc for a How-To on IDE Raid? > its definitely IDE because it has two serial ATA IDE > drives plugged into it. > it's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: RAID

2003-03-26 Thread Mark Saunders
its definitely IDE because it has two serial ATA IDE drives plugged into it. it's an onboard controller on an ASUS motherboard. On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 13:11, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > Which controller do you have - if it's the 2100S that is a SCSI controller, > not IDE. > > To answer your questio

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: RAID

2003-03-26 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Which controller do you have - if it's the 2100S that is a SCSI controller, not IDE. To answer your question - yes. You set the array up in hardware and the system sees it as a drive. For example, my 3210S has 5 drives in the RAID and a hot spare and this is the only disks on the system. On

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF Server

2003-03-26 Thread Sean Higgins
Joshua, > Why not set it up to email the PDF to the user as an attachment? That way > if they have to create a private/confidential document of some sort in PDF > format, they don't have to worry so much about it being stuck on a public > share. Good idea, just be careful with the size of the PD

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: RAID

2003-03-26 Thread Mark Saunders
if the array is all setup in hardware shouldn't linux see the array as just a normal ide drive? i can't see it at all.. i think the MD raid stuff is screwing it up, but i can't stop the live cd from loading it. On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 12:41, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > Then you don't have the 2100S?

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge output

2003-03-26 Thread Seth Cleveland
On Wednesday 26 March 2003 7:18 am, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: > Hello > > Why do I get the following kind of output from wget when downloading for > emerge processes instead of the more traditional kind of progress bar? > > Actual: >0K .. .. .. .. 10% 59.5K 0

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: RAID

2003-03-26 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Then you don't have the 2100S? That's a SCSI RAID according to Adaptec's website. > It's an ATA driver, the raid controller is an onboard IDE raid > controller. > I've got a mirrored array setup in the hardware but i can't for the life > of me figure out how to access it from linux > > the prom

Re: [gentoo-user] How to activate mod_perl in apache?

2003-03-26 Thread Ted Ozolins
On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 14:52, Mike Diehl wrote: > Hi all. > > I just finished emerge'ing mod_perl and apache. Now I'm trying to get apache > to load mod_perl when it starts. What do I have to add to the apache.conf > file? > Within your httpd.conf file you should put these lines so that apache

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: RAID

2003-03-26 Thread Mark Saunders
It's an ATA driver, the raid controller is an onboard IDE raid controller. I've got a mirrored array setup in the hardware but i can't for the life of me figure out how to access it from linux the promise pdcraid driver looks to be broken? or do i need to specify addresses or icqs? On Thu, 2003-0

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: RAID

2003-03-26 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Is that a SCSI driver? Does the Adaptec site give any hints. On some adaptec cards I check out thier driver download section as it might give a clue as to what the linux driver is. > I'm trying to use the pdcraid driver but it can't find the array > > On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 12:03, Brett I. Hol

[gentoo-user] ypbind big big bug

2003-03-26 Thread Thomas Schweikle
Hi! I have configured ypbind this way: /etc/conf.d/ypbind: # Config file for /etc/init.d/ypbind # NIS domain (not necessary the same as DNS domain) YP_DOMAIN=NLM /etc/yp.conf: ypserver 10.2.107.208 ypserver 10.2.107.209 if I start ypbind now: /etc/init.d/ypbind start ... no nis servers found L

Re: [gentoo-user] still using redmond for this

2003-03-26 Thread Gentoo
Well, I'm biased towards this game, but I'd recommend Tribes2. If you've never played it, you should. It's simply the best team-based online multiplayer game I've ever seen. The windows versions are selling for approx $15, but the Linux port is still original price I think $39(?). I actually bo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: RAID

2003-03-26 Thread Mark Saunders
I'm trying to use the pdcraid driver but it can't find the array On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 12:03, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > Which driver are you using? I have an Adaptec 3210S and I use the dpt_i2o > driver. There is another dpt driver but that doesn't work with this board > per Adaptec. > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: RAID

2003-03-26 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Which driver are you using? I have an Adaptec 3210S and I use the dpt_i2o driver. There is another dpt driver but that doesn't work with this board per Adaptec. > On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 16:46, Francois Meehan wrote: > > Hi Robert, > > > > Did you have any luck? > > > > I am having the same pro

RE: [gentoo-user] MD RAID install

2003-03-26 Thread Mark Saunders
modprobe ataraid goes ok.. modprobe pdcraid fails On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 11:47, Kevin J. Anderson wrote: > ->-Original Message- > ->From: Mark Saunders [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ->Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 7:23 PM > ->To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ->Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] MD RAID inst

Re: [gentoo-user] can i restrict the usable video modes in X?

2003-03-26 Thread gabor
On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 00:37, Sami Näätänen wrote: > > now if i switch between modes in xvidtune i get only the ones i like. > > > > bad news: > > but frozen bubble or nwn still uses 60Hz :( > > Frozen Bubble use SDL and if you have xfree 4.3 I know what the problem > is. The problem is that X ha

RE: [gentoo-user] MD RAID install

2003-03-26 Thread Kevin J. Anderson
->-Original Message- ->From: Mark Saunders [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ->Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 7:23 PM ->To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ->Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] MD RAID install -> -> ->The pdcraid module fails on loading. ->The livecd loads the MD modules (this is software raid?). ->

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: RAID

2003-03-26 Thread Mike Williams
On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 16:46, Francois Meehan wrote: > Hi Robert, > > Did you have any luck? > > I am having the same problem, my raid controller is a 2100s Raid > controller, certified for RH and suse, obviously not for Gentoo... I hate that, there should be no such thing as "certified for RedH

Re: [gentoo-user] MD RAID install

2003-03-26 Thread Robert Claeson
Mark Saunders wrote: I'm trying to install gentoo on a system with an onboard promise raid controller and two ide harddrives running as a mirrored array. Booting the live cd, the MD raid modules get loaded ok.. but where do i point fdisk to partition the array? Ive installed gentoo before but ne

Re: [gentoo-user] MD RAID install

2003-03-26 Thread Mark Saunders
The pdcraid module fails on loading. The livecd loads the MD modules (this is software raid?). On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 11:32, Mike Williams wrote: > On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 00:23, Alan wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 11:02:06AM +1100, Mark Saunders wrote: > > > I'm trying to install gentoo on a sys

Re: [gentoo-user] MD RAID install

2003-03-26 Thread Mike Williams
On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 00:23, Alan wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 11:02:06AM +1100, Mark Saunders wrote: > > I'm trying to install gentoo on a system with an onboard promise raid > > controller and two ide > > harddrives running as a mirrored array. > > > > Booting the live cd, the MD raid module

Re: [gentoo-user] MD RAID install

2003-03-26 Thread Mark Saunders
I've looked all through dmesg, and I'm not getting a /dev/md0. I've got a /dev/md/ and a /dev/rd/. There are a whole series of files in these directories. I can fdisk /dev/rd/1 etc but fdisk reports the size as 8 megabytes? should i be using the MD driver or the promise driver? I've also tried lo

Re: [gentoo-user] MD RAID install

2003-03-26 Thread Alan
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 11:02:06AM +1100, Mark Saunders wrote: > I'm trying to install gentoo on a system with an onboard promise raid > controller and two ide > harddrives running as a mirrored array. > > Booting the live cd, the MD raid modules get loaded ok.. but where do i > point fdisk to par

[gentoo-user] MD RAID install

2003-03-26 Thread Mark Saunders
I'm trying to install gentoo on a system with an onboard promise raid controller and two ide harddrives running as a mirrored array. Booting the live cd, the MD raid modules get loaded ok.. but where do i point fdisk to partition the array? Ive installed gentoo before but never with a raid setup

[gentoo-user] any success stories with newer sis boards?

2003-03-26 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, I have to buy a new mainboard (the old one eats harddrives.. ) and think about an Asrock K7S8X. This beast has a SiS746 chipset with a 963 southbridge. Has anybody this or an other board with this southbridge? Are there any linux related problems? Glück Auf, Volker -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] jargon question...

2003-03-26 Thread Ric Messier
Intentional typos tend to be intentional for a reason (ie, there was something else it was meant to convey). Otherwise, they tend not to be intentional but instead they are unintentional typos that have come into common usage for a particular reason. For example, pr[o0]n was a way to get porn throu

Re: [gentoo-user] can i restrict the usable video modes in X?

2003-03-26 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Wednesday 26 March 2003 15:56, gabor wrote: > On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 09:37, Sebastian Hungerecker wrote: > > On 25 Mar 2003 23:24:36 +0100 > > > > gabor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > is there a way to restrict the usable video modes? > > > > The avaible video modes are defined in XF86Config.

Re: [gentoo-user] vixie cron problem

2003-03-26 Thread Helder Miguel Rodrigues
I just forgot  to chmod +s the file! Thanks a lot, Matt and Brett for the help! Matt Tucker wrote: -- Helder Miguel Rodrigues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thusly: I started with /etc/init.d/vcron start and it starts sucefully. I add a logrotate.cron file into /etc/cron.daily and

[gentoo-user] How to activate mod_perl in apache?

2003-03-26 Thread Mike Diehl
Hi all. I just finished emerge'ing mod_perl and apache. Now I'm trying to get apache to load mod_perl when it starts. What do I have to add to the apache.conf file? Also, if perl was in my /etc/make.conf file, why wasn't mod_perl emerged as a prequisite for apache? Thanx in advance, Mike Di

Re: [gentoo-user] Errors at boot time /var related

2003-03-26 Thread Joe Stone
hi > [19:54] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ man cp |grep -C 4 "\-a" |tail -5 >-a, --archive > Preserve as much as possible of the structure and > attributes of > the original files in the copy (but do not preserve > directory > structure). Equivalent to

Re: [gentoo-user] jargon question...

2003-03-26 Thread Michael Jinks
True, but (a) ESR is usually pretty good about tracing etymologies and (b) the "intentional typo" is a simpler explanation and common elsewhere (cf. "pr[o0]n", others that I can't remember off hand). My bet is that the Swedish chef resemblance is a coincidence. Well that was diverting. We now re

Re: [gentoo-user] install question

2003-03-26 Thread Sven Blumenstein
On 26 Mar 2003 14:08:17 -0800 Chris Graves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > during the installation, how can I check what hardware was > autodetected? > These commands give some good info: # cat /proc/pci # cat /proc/cpuinfo -- [mail] [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Behind every great [web

[gentoo-user] CD-RW Troubles Revisited, Help Needed

2003-03-26 Thread Ralph F. De Witt
Hi All: I am revisiting this subject because it is the last major hardware problem I have with this install and I just have run out of knowledge and ideas as to what might be wrong and what needs to be fixed. In previous threads and messages I have seen individuals state that both idecd and idsc

[gentoo-user] install question

2003-03-26 Thread Chris Graves
during the installation, how can I check what hardware was autodetected? thanks, -c -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] jargon question...

2003-03-26 Thread Ric Messier
Doesn't mean that the mangling wasn't originally inspired by the Swedish Chef. :-) > > I think this is coincidental. My authoritive source on these matters is > the Jargon File; main site appears to be unreachable right now (I get a > redirect to EFF's home page, for some reason) but here from a

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.5.65 problems mounting

2003-03-26 Thread Norberto BENSA
On Wednesday 26 March 2003 03:33 pm, Kurt V. Hindenburg wrote: > All I get at boot time is /. However, when I enter > %/etc/init.d/localmount restart then all the partitions are mounted. > And yes, localmount is in my rc-update default. Hmmm... I'm not using 2.5.x but, shouldn't localmount be in

Re: [gentoo-user] listening to streaming audio?

2003-03-26 Thread Lee Fickenscher
I am currently listening to NPR as an MP3 stream from WUNC on XMMS just by doing a "play location" (crtl-L) and entering the correct address ( http://152.2.63.108:8000/ ). Sound is usually great. I don't have any extra plugins for XMMS. Your local NPR may or may not support streaming MP3. I'm sure

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub question: why do I have to enter parameters manually at boot?

2003-03-26 Thread Tyler Trafford
On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 03:51:18AM -0500, Brian Dunnette wrote: > Quick question: > I think I've set up my menu.lst file correctly (got bzImage in > /hda2/boot/bzImage, etc), but for some reason I'm having to enter > "kernel /boot/bzImage" manually at boot. Any idea why this would be? > I'm runnin

RE: [gentoo-user] Untar problems SOLVED

2003-03-26 Thread Condon Thomas A KPWA
pegasux wrote: > I had the same problem. 1.4_rc3 was unable to boot. > So i also used the 1.2 but only until the "bootmenu" (where you can > add params) appeared. > Then I changed the cd to 1.4_rc3 and it worked fine. > (if you hit F2 (before and after changing) you will see that the > helptext cha

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome fonts under KDE

2003-03-26 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, that file don't exist, so i touched it and put the lines into it. the only files which i have: .gtkrc .gtkrc-1.2-gnome2 .gtkrc-kde .gtkrc.mine all files has a include for the .gtkrc.mine, so i put the lines also in this file and into the .gtkrc-kde. But i have no succe

Re: [gentoo-user] vixie cron problem

2003-03-26 Thread Matt Tucker
-- Helder Miguel Rodrigues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thusly: > I started with /etc/init.d/vcron start and it starts sucefully. I add > a logrotate.cron file into /etc/cron.daily and it doesnt run! So i > think that was logrotate problem and I add a lol.cron to cron.hourly > to see wahat happens, a

Re: [gentoo-user] vixie cron problem

2003-03-26 Thread brett holcomb
Does it work now? On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 20:01:05 + Helder Miguel Rodrigues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just have restarted the system, and that file is the default file that comes with vixie! I never edited it! brett holcomb wrote: Did you do this or has the system been restarted since you

Re: [gentoo-user] vixie cron problem

2003-03-26 Thread Helder Miguel Rodrigues
I just have restarted the system, and that file is the default file that comes with vixie! I never edited it! brett holcomb wrote: Did you do this or has the system been restarted since you made the changes? # remember to give cron a sighup when updating this file On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 19:44:14

Re: [gentoo-user] vixie cron problem

2003-03-26 Thread brett holcomb
Did you do this or has the system been restarted since you made the changes? # remember to give cron a sighup when updating this file On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 19:44:14 + Helder Miguel Rodrigues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Im trying to use vixie crontab. I started with /etc/init.d/vcron start and

[gentoo-user] vixie cron problem

2003-03-26 Thread Helder Miguel Rodrigues
Im trying to use vixie crontab. I started with /etc/init.d/vcron start and it starts sucefully. I add a logrotate.cron file into /etc/cron.daily and it doesnt run! So i think that was logrotate problem and I add a lol.cron to cron.hourly to see wahat happens, and doesn´t happen anything! Any t

RE: [gentoo-user] jargon question...

2003-03-26 Thread Rex Young
> -Original Message- > From: Ric Messier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 11:36 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] jargon question... > > > I would suspect it has some origins in the Swedish Chef as > well (funny to > mangle broken into b

Re: [gentoo-user] jargon question...

2003-03-26 Thread Michael Jinks
On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 02:36:12PM -0500, Ric Messier wrote: > I would suspect it has some origins in the Swedish Chef as well (funny to > mangle broken into borken because of bork bork bork). I think this is coincidental. My authoritive source on these matters is the Jargon File; main site appea

Re: [gentoo-user] jargon question...

2003-03-26 Thread Johan Van den Neste
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 26 March 2003 20:17, Andrei Ivanov wrote: > I think borken = broken, thus bork = broke or something like that... It wouldn't accidently have anything to do with the Swedish Chef from the muppets, would it? - -- nessie GnuPG key at h

Re: [gentoo-user] jargon question...

2003-03-26 Thread Ric Messier
I would suspect it has some origins in the Swedish Chef as well (funny to mangle broken into borken because of bork bork bork). Ric - Original Message - From: "brett holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 2:21 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] jar

Re: [gentoo-user] jargon question...

2003-03-26 Thread Alan
The jargon file shows all: http://everything2.com/index.pl?node=borken --- borken adj. (also `borked') Common deliberate typo for `broken'. --- On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 09:17:29PM +0200, Andrei Ivanov wrote: > > I think borken = broken, thus bork = broke or something like that... > > On Wed, 26

Re: [gentoo-user] jargon question...

2003-03-26 Thread brett holcomb
It means messed up. Where it comes from - who knows. Maybe an inversion of broke! On 26 Mar 2003 11:09:57 -0800 Spundun Bhatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What does bork mean on this mailing list? where does it come from? whats its literal meaning? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PR

Re: [gentoo-user] Probs with interrupted install

2003-03-26 Thread Theofilos Intzoglou
lol! You forgot one of the most basic steps of the installation! I hope you didn't install any other packages on step 16 (although it should have done an emerge system at that point). I think that you should be able to do that step now but be sure to check every other step until 22 to see if any fi

[gentoo-user] Quanta Won't Start

2003-03-26 Thread dsoper
Hi all, I'm having a problem with Quanta with the relevant error statements as follows. Interestingly, I have a pretty much identically configured machine at home and quanta works great on it. The machine does *not* have kde installed. Anyone have an idea of what I need to do to get quanta back

Re: [gentoo-user] jargon question...

2003-03-26 Thread Andrei Ivanov
I think borken = broken, thus bork = broke or something like that... On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Spundun Bhatt wrote: > What does bork mean on this mailing list? > where does it come from? > whats its literal meaning? > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] jargon question...

2003-03-26 Thread Spundun Bhatt
What does bork mean on this mailing list? where does it come from? whats its literal meaning? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Errors at boot time /var related

2003-03-26 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Wednesday 26 March 2003 19:23, Joe Stone wrote: > On Wednesday 26 March 2003 16:58, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have moved /var to another partition in single user mode with cp > > -a. Now at boot time there are errors with permissions, but i can't > > find the errors in /var/l

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.5.x kernels

2003-03-26 Thread Jason Nielsen
I actually tried the 2.5.x kernel a few months ago... I can't remember what rev. Everything worked on my IBM A30 Laptop except for pcmcia which was totally borked. I couldn't get pcmcia-cs to compile and the straight kernel route was a no go as well. I later found out that others were having the

Re: [gentoo-user] Fw: help! wmaker

2003-03-26 Thread Theofilos Intzoglou
I cannot remember if WPrefs shows an icon when it is run. If it does you just have to drag it to your dock bar. If it doesn't then you have to do some file tweaking. The file that has to be restored is WMState. There are two ways to do that. One is to logout from wmaker, login from the console and

[gentoo-user] kernel 2.5.65 problems mounting

2003-03-26 Thread Kurt V. Hindenburg
When booting 2.5.65 kernel, it will not mount all my partitions. 2.4.19 works fine. % cat /etc/fstab # NOTE: If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to opts. /dev/discs/disc0/part2 / xfs noatime 0 0 /dev/discs/disc0/part1 noneswap sw

Re: [gentoo-user] Errors at boot time /var related

2003-03-26 Thread Joe Stone
On Wednesday 26 March 2003 16:58, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: > Hi, > > I have moved /var to another partition in single user mode with cp -a. > Now at boot time there are errors with permissions, but i can't find the > errors in /var/log/messages, /var/log/syslog ... if you want to copy with pres

Re: [gentoo-user] cool games (lots of links)

2003-03-26 Thread Theofilos Intzoglou
Check again your configuration of the monitor. If it is correct then you can always give the details for the various screen resolutions using the Modeline option in XF86Config. Another thing you can try is to lower a bit the numbers for the maximun Vertical Refresh and/or the Horizontal Sync in XF8

Re: [gentoo-user] Errors at boot time /var related

2003-03-26 Thread Joe Stone
On Wednesday 26 March 2003 16:58, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: > Hi, > > I have moved /var to another partition in single user mode with cp -a. > Now at boot time there are errors with permissions, but i can't find the > errors in /var/log/messages, /var/log/syslog ... > > and the script rc-updateen

RE: [gentoo-user] how to disable PAM

2003-03-26 Thread Rex Young
try emerge -up --emptytree world (emerge -eup world accomplishes exactly the same thing) Why do you want to disable PAM? -rex > -Original Message- > From: Tim Ruehsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 7:48 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [gentoo-user] how

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: RAID

2003-03-26 Thread Robert Arroyo i Andreu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 El Miércoles, 26 de Marzo de 2003 17:46, Francois Meehan escribió: > Hi Robert, > > Did you have any luck? > > I am having the same problem, my raid controller is a 2100s Raid > controller, certified for RH and suse, obviously not for Gentoo... No real

Re[3]: [gentoo-user] emerge output

2003-03-26 Thread Renat Golubchyk
Hi! >>> Emerge is passing the "--progress=dot" option to wget. >>> FIX: Edit your /etc/make.conf download command so that it doesn't use >>> the progress option DB>> How many kinds of progress options are there and what are they called? RG> There are only two options, I think: "--progress=bar" a

Re[2]: [gentoo-user] emerge output

2003-03-26 Thread Renat Golubchyk
Hi Dhruba, >> Emerge is passing the "--progress=dot" option to wget. >> FIX: Edit your /etc/make.conf download command so that it doesn't use >> the progress option DB> How many kinds of progress options are there and what are they called? There are only two options, I think: "--progress=bar" an

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge output

2003-03-26 Thread Andrew Gaffney
wget automatically switches to the dot progress indicator when it detects that its output is being piped into another process or file. From 'man wget': --progress=type Select the type of the progress indicator you wish to use. Legal indicators are ``dot'' and ``bar''.

[gentoo-user] troubles with openldap

2003-03-26 Thread Andrew B. Panphiloff
I installed openldap (2.0.27 ) on my machine. Also I intalled pam_ldap and nss_ldap. I get nsswitch.conf from nss_ldap package and /etc/pam.d is from pam_ldap package. And I added service slapd in default runlevel, on system startup I get following error: file bootmisc: chown root.root /tmp/ --- se

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