Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: USB pen drives?

2003-06-24 Thread Alan
Glad you got it working... Mine just broke. It has worked fine since install SCSI disk is compiled in usb-storage is a module. Usb-storage loads without complaint but: # mount /mnt/flash returns: mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist # fdisk -l /dev/s scsisg0 shm

[gentoo-user] Error executing tpconfig

2003-06-24 Thread Paulo da Silva
I emerged tpconfig (in the hope to make the right side of the touchpad to scroll) but I got the following message: Timed out waiting to read from device (is pc_keyb.c kernel patch installed?) I am using k 2.4.20 gentoo-sources. Should I use another kernel? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Threaded email client for gentoo-user?

2003-06-24 Thread William Kenworthy
Bottom posting that are not very severely trimmed /dev/null Please understand that bottom posting in many email readers is severely painful, just as the same as top posting can be in others - there's a reason why top posting is so popular! This comes up regularly, and if memory serves me

Re: [gentoo-user] stage3 boot problem

2003-06-24 Thread Bjarke Bruun
On Monday 23 June 2003 02:39 am, Meka[ni] wrote: On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 02:09:48 +0200 Bjarke Bruun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've installed Gentoo with from stage3 and followed the online installation documentation from point to point (leaving out software that I don't need). CUT That

[gentoo-user] nvidia - mozilla

2003-06-24 Thread Ben Anderson
Hello, I've been running gentoo fine for about 7 months now. about a week ago I did: emerge -u world at which time KDE started acting up. I use KMail so I decided to switch to Mozilla mail becuase I didn't want to be tied to KDE in my plans to switch to fluxbox. Then, the next time I booted, X

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: USB pen drives?

2003-06-24 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Tuesday 24 June 2003 06:43 pm, Alan wrote: Glad you got it working... Mine just broke. It has worked fine since install SCSI disk is compiled in usb-storage is a module. Usb-storage loads without complaint but: # mount /mnt/flash returns: mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia - mozilla

2003-06-24 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Tuesday 24 June 2003 07:57 pm, Ben Anderson wrote: Hello, I've been running gentoo fine for about 7 months now. about a week ago I did: emerge -u world at which time KDE started acting up. I use KMail so I decided to switch to Mozilla mail becuase I didn't want to be tied to KDE in my

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA-RAID

2003-06-24 Thread Zack Gilburd
On Tuesday 24 June 2003 05:41, Ian Delahorne wrote: Zack Gilburd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Monday 23 June 2003 13:01, Zack Gilburd wrote: On Monday 23 June 2003 12:17, Ian Delahorne wrote: Zack Gilburd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Replying to myselfwoohoo... I found my `lspci

[gentoo-user] OT: tabs in vi[m]

2003-06-24 Thread Mike Principito
This is a bit off topic, but I'm curious if anyone knows how to set up a tab to be 3 spaces instead of a tab character in vim. I'm assuming I'd have to add something to my .vimrc, but I don't know what. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Mike -- And don't tell me there isn't one bit of

Re: [gentoo-user] top-posting -vs- bottom posting (was: Threaded...)

2003-06-24 Thread rw
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 07:28:16AM +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: This comes up regularly, and if memory serves me correctly, top posting is actually the more correct method by history, but not by much Dunno about your memory, but bottom posting has been netiquette since DARPAnet and UUCP

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: tabs in vi[m]

2003-06-24 Thread rw
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 09:07:32PM -0400, Mike Principito wrote: This is a bit off topic, but I'm curious if anyone knows how to set up a tab to be 3 spaces instead of a tab character in vim. I'm assuming I'd have to add something to my .vimrc, but I don't know what. Any help would be

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: tabs in vi[m]

2003-06-24 Thread Lincoln A. Baxter
You can also:set expandtab or :set et Which replaces tabs with spaces at whatever ts (tabstop) distance you prefer. Note that whenever you set ts you also want to set sw. (shiftwidth). If you use et, you never have to worry about what someone else has his ts set to, the file

[gentoo-user] spell checker for Mozilla mail?

2003-06-24 Thread Klaus D. Neumann
Hi, Is there a spell checker for mozilla mail (1.3)? -- Best regards, Klaus -- Gentoo Linux = the better choice! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: tabs in vi[m]

2003-06-24 Thread Mike Principito
Thanks a lot! That is what I needed. ~Mike -- And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly how much difference there is. :-) --Larry Wall in [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Lincoln A. Baxter wrote: You can also :set expandtab or

[gentoo-user] OT: shouldn't this work?

2003-06-24 Thread Christopher Egner
#include stdio.h #include stdlib.h int main () { char b[] = 300; long a; char *c; c = b; c++; printf(String being used as tail: %s\n, c); a = strtol(b, c, 16); printf(\nDigit: %d\nChar: %c\n, a, a); return 0; } -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: shouldn't this work?

2003-06-24 Thread Christopher Egner
Okay I caught my error. However, I'm still trying to come up with a way to do this. I basically need to pluck it out from the middle of the string. But I can't be gaurenteed the next value after the two I need are going to be non-asii. I could just copy the two chars to a buff to do my work, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Setting up a DHCP Server

2003-06-24 Thread MIKE MacMartin
doesn't seem to want to run. Installed DHCP via. emerge dhcp followed by an emerge dhcpd. Perhaps a stupid question, but you did do '/etc/init.d/dhcp start'? The advice I'd give (look, see, I'm giving it!) is to go to http://www.tldp.org and find their DHCPD howto. The Linux Documentation

[gentoo-user] Spamassassin 2.55-r1 question

2003-06-24 Thread Steven Ringwald
I recently upgraded from version 2.55 to 2.55-r1 of spamassassin. Everything was working fine previously, but after the upgrade, my per-user configuration files are no longer being read, and the bayes_* files no longer updated or consulted. Configuration files are in ~{user}/.spamassassin, and

[gentoo-user] Networking with ADSL?

2003-06-24 Thread Ohad Lutzky
I'm a total networking noob, but I'd like to set up a home network. My current PC (running Linux) is connected over ADSL using rp-pppoe. It has a printer as well, running on CUPS. My other PC, an old Packard Bell (bleh) P133 running (walking, rather) Win98. How would I set this up? The only home

Re: [gentoo-user] cd-burning

2003-06-24 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
Le mardi 24 juin à 20 h. 33, Peter Ruskin a écrit notamment: On Tuesday 24 Jun 2003 16:48, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: Well I tried exactly that (hdd=ide-scsi in grub.conf) with ide-scsi as module, but k3b says it finds no cd-rw device; and besides I cannot read any cd anymore?? I know

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