Re: [gentoo-user] Disabling anti-aliasing in Evolution?

2003-08-14 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Spider wrote: begin quote On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 22:17:31 +0100 Dhruba Bandopadhyay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello No matter how much one preaches about the merits of anti-aliasing of fonts and xft in GUI I'm afraid I just can't be convinced. I must be rid of this blurred text and GUI once and f

[gentoo-user] OT: Way off topic: Networked computers interfere with each other.

2003-08-14 Thread rh
HI. OK. This is weird, I think. I have two computers (one Win98, one Gentoo) plugged into a DSL router to share the internet. It is fine when only one is being used but if both are being used, one 'interferes' with the other. For example, moving the mouse on both at the same time usually result

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage: Updating all installed packages = CLOSED

2003-08-14 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Heschi Kreinick wrote: I would appreciate it if you went back and reread what I wrote, because I thought I addressed the problem fairly completely. -Heschi After a discussion on #gentoo with a developer I've asked for this bug to be closed which has been done. It was decided, as you may have men

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Way off topic: Networked computersinterfere with each other.

2003-08-14 Thread brett holcomb
Did you check the network settings to make sure there aren't address conflicts and everything is setup properly? On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 16:09:21 -0400 rh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: HI. OK. This is weird, I think. I have two computers (one Win98, one Gentoo) plugged into a DSL router to share the

[gentoo-user] Well, my RAID array is screwed (was df != fdisk)

2003-08-14 Thread Eric Livingston
It turns out that for some reason mkreiserfs only allocated 60G on my 120G Raid array. I rebooted on my 1.4 LiveCD and attempted to debug_reiserfs my array, but wound up getting a screen full of I/O errors on one of my drives (the first one of the array). I suspect it's not actually the drive, but

RE: [gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/checkroot cannot remount root fs

2003-08-14 Thread Shawn
Ok, good. I will look when I have a spare 0.5 hours or something as well. Mostly I wanted to know I had not pulled a thinko. On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 13:46, Rex Young wrote: > >I have baselayout-1.8.6.10, kernel 2.6.0-test3-mm1, and > >util-linux-2.12. > >Upon installing util-linux-2.12, I was no l

Re: [gentoo-user] Disabling anti-aliasing in Evolution?

2003-08-14 Thread Alan
> Sorry, I should probably have explained in further detail what I meant > about "wrap evolution in a script";-) Or I should have completely read your reply first, instead of glancing over it and getting the "general gist" :) -- Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://arcterex.net ---

Re: [gentoo-user] thin bcast?

2003-08-14 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > That's the version I have. The source is cached at: > > /usr/portage/distfiles/bcast-2000c-src.tar.gz > > and has a length of 5402399 and an MD5SUM of > 1648ade202eadfca9522d5371c003820. FWIW, my metadata cache says I obtained > it from: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] anyone using quakeforge?

2003-08-14 Thread Chris I
On 2003.08.13 12:25, Norberto BENSA wrote: Chris I wrote: > On 2003.08.12 18:34, Norberto BENSA wrote: > > Hello, > > > > for me, 0.5.4 is seriously broken. Menu doesn't appear, 640x480 > > doesn't render > > correctly. Anyone with the same problems? > > > > 0.5.2 was ok, but "someone" deleted it f

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] "Distro Day (Measuring the benefits of the Gentoo approach)"

2003-08-14 Thread Alan
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 11:20:54AM -0500, Christopher Egner wrote: > On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 11:17, Alan wrote: > > Maybe prelink should be used all the time on gentoo? Make it part of > > the "default" so that it's always there and able to make things even > > faster. > How does one enable prelink

Re: [gentoo-user] thin bcast?

2003-08-14 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I've occasionally seen ebuilds fail to install most or all of their files > - with no failure message. I'd recommend trying again. You also might > consider deleting your cached ebuild and changing mirrors, in case you > happened to get a corrupt co

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage: Updating all installed packages

2003-08-14 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Erik Ordway wrote: I think that there is a significant difference between "Updating all installed packages" and "... all packages and all dependencies that need to be updated.." I may be wrong but the first says update and rebuild any thing on the system that can be updated and the second says

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Card

2003-08-14 Thread Chip Marshall
On August 12, 2003, Octavio Ruiz (Ta^3) sent me the following: > On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 04:00:17PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I would like to buy a new Wireless Card, can you tell me a > > compatible one with Gentoo which I could find easy information on > > the web (for installation, con

[gentoo-user] nfs mount of portage

2003-08-14 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Hi, I'm placing this moment my /usr/portage on my "home server" I have unmount my local /usr/portage, and dit a nfs mount as root. valinor:/export/home/portage/usr/portage nfsnoauto,user,rw Now after my first emerge sync, i see permission errors, like: failed to set permissions on

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?]:xmms under Gentoo

2003-08-14 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Mine did that, too. You may be connected fine but XMMS will read the tracks but the audio comes through the connection between the CD and the sound card. You may be fine - I was throwing out something that worked for me. I don't use the OSS plugin - I merged the Alsa plugin for XMMS and use

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage: Updating all installed packages

2003-08-14 Thread William Hubbs
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 06:20:25PM +0100, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: > William Hubbs wrote: > >Here is an addition to this. > > > >I just ran your commands, and the only packages that were omitted by > >--deep were net-ftp/ftp and sys-apps/netkit-base. > > > >As I recall, these were part of the sy

[gentoo-user] gimp-print-cups

2003-08-14 Thread Kurt V. Hindenburg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What happened to this ebuild? Looks like it disappeared in the last few weeks. Did it get combined with gimp-print? Argh... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])-(00:20)-(~)> qpkg -I -nc | grep gimp media-gfx/gimp media-gfx/gimp-print-cups ([EMAIL PROTECTED])-(00:

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with SCSI

2003-08-14 Thread Ewald Geschwinde
Brian Richardson wrote: On August 12, 2003 02:51 pm, Ewald Geschwinde wrote: Now I'm stuck with that: Beginning storage detection detected aic7xxx hardware scanning for aic7xxx_old ... and this runs for about 7 minutes does this takes so long or am i facing a bigger problem?? starting with: ge

[gentoo-user] Problem with user mode linux

2003-08-14 Thread Christopher Egner
I finally got my uml running (after realizing I didn't have support for the type of executable /sbin/init was). However I was wondering if there was a way to control the number of virtual consoles. Right now I'm seeing seven of them. Which is cool and all, but. Anyhoo. Any ideas? -- Christop

Re: [gentoo-user] Converting mail

2003-08-14 Thread Spider
begin quote On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 03:28:54 +0200 "Meka[ni]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a program for converting kmail's mails to > sylpheed-claws? Thanx > procmail can do this (probably ;) since I don't know how kmail stores email (and I'm not fond of trying to find out),

[gentoo-user] Sometimes she boots, sometimes she doesnt.

2003-08-14 Thread Leonard Bernstein
Hello listi have had a strange problem regarding booting ..sometimes it will lock up at*starting local... [ok]  (local is the last thing to startand stay there... now sshd starts before local, so i can ssh to the box, however; many cads are not available..ps auxnetand trying to start ser

Re: [gentoo-user] MD5SUM missmatch in LiveCDs ¿can any body check it?

2003-08-14 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Octavio Ruiz (Ta^3) wrote: I downloaded both (Athlon) LiveCD's twice and i have the same error. I downloaded x86, pentium3, base and of course athlon-xp. The first 3 (4 isos, i'm still downloading the 2nd CD of x86) LiveCD's are ok, and have correct md5checksum's. But with Athlon-XP i'm having

RE: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources

2003-08-14 Thread Gwendolyn van der Linden
> > > I have the same problem with 2.5 / 2.6-test kernels with my 7500 > > mobility. In my case the framebuffer does not autodetect > correctly (I > > get a very distorted display), and only lower resolutions work > > properly if I hand-pick them. The 2.4 series framebuffer > works like a > > ch

[gentoo-user] [OT?]:xmms under Gentoo

2003-08-14 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, Sorry - this is far more an application question than a Gentoo question. (I think) Does the Gentoo version of xmms install the OSS Output plugin? If so, how do I select it? I'm trying to run xmms to play a CD and it has complained out my possibly not having the right output plugin in

Re: [gentoo-user] bash prompt?

2003-08-14 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Friday 08 Aug 2003 17:22, Ernie Schroder wrote: > I have 2 Gentoo boxes here and #2 has an annoying habbit I can't find > a solution for. On box #1 an xterm gives me a prompt like so: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] current_directory $ > Box # 2 shows this same format for a root xterm, but a user xterm > sh

Re: [gentoo-user] Sometimes she boots, sometimes she doesnt. Orsometimes she dies..

2003-08-14 Thread Tom Wesley
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Leonard Bernstein wrote: > this box does not run X .. it seems to have just started.. its been running > fine .. > > the problem just seems to have appeared.. i can boot to a prompt, but i must > try multiple times before i get lucky .. > > dmesg shows nothing .. > > i am us

Re: [gentoo-user] Failing to boot gentoo 1.4 on new install

2003-08-14 Thread Vincent van de Camp
Ah... the Asus A7V... :) I've had it too, I needed to turn off as many options as possible to get the livecd to boot: noscsi; nodhcp; nousb; no-what-have-you (don't have a cd here to check what the options are). If all else fails, you may also want to reset the bios to factory settings to make

[gentoo-user] sound in wmaker?

2003-08-14 Thread Klaus D. Neumann
Hi, How can I add sound to wmaker? Is there something like wmsound for Gentoo? TIA! -- Best regards, Klaus - Gentoo-Linux = the better choice! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel conundrum

2003-08-14 Thread Nick Fisher
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 03:52:34PM -0400, Nick Fisher wrote: >> I have a machine that I cannot compile a stable 2.4.20 kernel for, yet >> the >> one off of the 1.4_rc2 liveCD works fine. I'm guessing there is an >> option >> or a patch that is/isn't set/applyed. Apart from good old trial and >> e

Re: [gentoo-user] how to swap on a file

2003-08-14 Thread zbs2qvv02
Adam Dunstan list-at-urban.net.au |Gentoo mailing list(s)| wrote: nope, but same problem if i put it in /home, i was woundering what would happeren if it tryed to page over the network man swapon(8) says "Swap over NFS may not work", which leaves some room to doubt. man swapon(2) says "EINVAL is

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] audio cassette -> digital

2003-08-14 Thread Tony Rein
There's a good article in the latest Linux Journal about converting phonograph records to digital format. You might want to check their website - some of that might be applicable. --Tony On Tuesday 12 August 2003 07:08 am, Mueller, Andreas wrote: > i would suggest to use a audio cassette drive

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] "Distro Day (Measuring thebenefits of the Gentoo approach)"

2003-08-14 Thread Spider
begin quote On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 15:56:28 -0700 Riyad Kalla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can get a gist of this (not necessarily benchmarks, but stability > results) in the CFLags central thread. It took me the better part of 3 Well, I have the gist of it, more or less ;-) > > As regar

[gentoo-user] vim 6.2 :help does not work

2003-08-14 Thread Martin Gramatke
When I enter :help i get this error message: Sorry, help file "/usr/share/vim/vim62/doc/help.txt.gz" not found I worked around this by gzipping help.txt in that directory, but I wonder why :se helpfile points to the gzipped file instead of help.txt. Is this a bug or a feature? mg -- [EMAIL PROT

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?]:xmms under Gentoo

2003-08-14 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
For Alsa check the Alsa site and follow the instructions for your card. Did you unmute the channels? I am assuming sound doesn't work anywhere on the system? > On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 16:24, Brian Richardson wrote: > > Left click on the upper left corner of the GUI, select > > Options->Preferen

RE: [gentoo-user] [OT] audio cassette -> digital

2003-08-14 Thread Jorge Almeida
Thanks to all the guys who answered. Assuming that I can get the hardware to work, what software to use to receive the signal from the sound card? I would need a hint about this before proceeding to read TFM :) -- Jorge Almeida -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Sometimes she boots, sometimes she doesnt. Or sometimes she dies..

2003-08-14 Thread Leonard Bernstein
Sometimes she boots, sometimes she doesn't. Or sometimes she dies.. Hello listi have had a strange problem regarding booting ..sometimes it will lock up at*starting local... [ok]  (local is the last thing to startand stay there... now sshd starts before local, so i can ssh to the box,

[gentoo-user] Apache2 with mod_ssl but without apache1

2003-08-14 Thread Wolfram Umlauf
Hi, i started "emerge -up world" and found a new version of mod_ssl. The emerge wanted to downgrade my Apache2 to Apache1. I know, it's not a real downgrade but an install into another slot but I dont like unused software fill up my harddisks. So I tried to cheat with "emerge insert net-www/apach

Re: [gentoo-user] Ebuild description

2003-08-14 Thread brett holcomb
I filled a bug on it quite awhile ago but never heard back on it. I don't have the bug number but a query will give it. You might add to it. On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 13:41:35 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just noticed that this ebuild description doesn't look right: * sys-apps/acl Latest

Re: [gentoo-user] conf.d/local.start doesn't run automatically

2003-08-14 Thread Michael Gruetzner
Hello, try to add /etc/init.d/local to your default runlevel. 'rc-update add local default' should do this. Hth Michael On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 08:31:17PM +0800, ?? ?? wrote: > Hi, > > I just discovered that my /etc/conf.d/local.start script doest not run > automatically when boot up, I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage: Updating all installed packages

2003-08-14 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
William Hubbs wrote: Here is an addition to this. I just ran your commands, and the only packages that were omitted by --deep were net-ftp/ftp and sys-apps/netkit-base. As I recall, these were part of the system profile at one time, but they have been removed. Is it possible that the qpkg -I -nc

Re: [gentoo-user] 1.4 grp, emerge problems

2003-08-14 Thread D.J. Bolderman
On wo, 06 aug 2003, Bjorn Sodergren wrote: For some reason, I missed that one... ;) Thanks, it's working now ! > Have you mounted / copied the contents of /packages/All to > /usr/portage/packages/All ?? > I've just downloaded the first 1.4 live-cd to install on my laptop. I > don't have an inter

[gentoo-user] postfix (w/ virtual domains) + autoresponder

2003-08-14 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
Hi all, I have set up and running Postfix (w/ virtual domains, MySQL auth., etc. like in virtual mail system guide from Gentoo.org docs). Now I want to add a vacation autoresponder to this system (maybe with the programm "vacation", but this is not a must). I only found answers on google for n

RE: [gentoo-user] [OT] audio cassette -> digital

2003-08-14 Thread Mueller, Andreas
i would suggest to use a audio cassette drive to play-back the cassette. connect this drive to a line- input of your soundcard. then you should be able to record with your favorite audio- recorder -Original Message- From: Jorge Almeida [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 20

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with SCSI

2003-08-14 Thread brett holcomb
Did you install the driver for the 2940 either as a module or as a built-in to the kernel. On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 16:49:05 +0200 Ewald Geschwinde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a problem with my SCSI cdrom I have an adaptec controller 2940. My problem is: kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -

[gentoo-user] Orphaned packages

2003-08-14 Thread Craig Main
Lo all, I am running out of diskspace on my laptop. How can I remove packaged that no longer are depended on? Or at least find out which packages are not needed by any other ones and are therefore safe to unmerge. TIA Craig -- Craig Main RHCE ST Solutions Cell: 082-323-4670 Home Tel: 011-760-190

Re: [gentoo-user] posting a useful bug to bugzilla

2003-08-14 Thread Bryan Feir
On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 04:14:23PM -0700, Pat Kerwan wrote: > On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 06:42:35PM -0400, gabriel wrote: > > you mentioned that this feature can enlarge a binary... does this mean i'll > > take a performance hit? i only ask 'cause if this is not the case, i'll > > recompile everyth

Re: [gentoo-user] sound in wmaker?

2003-08-14 Thread yLothar
## DATA >>> lunedì 11 agosto 2003 ## ORA >>> 21:04 [>] Klaus [<] Hi, [>] Klaus [<] How can I add sound to wmaker? Is there something like wmsound for Gentoo? No, there is not. For wmaker there are wmsound and wsoundserver. I've post to bugzilla this problem but developers told me that those pa

Re: [gentoo-user] Failing to boot gentoo 1.4 on new install

2003-08-14 Thread Ben Kennedy
On 11 8 2003 at 6:06 pm -0400, Vincent van de Camp wrote: >Ah... the Asus A7V... :) I've had it too, I needed to turn off as many >options as possible to get the livecd to boot: noscsi; nodhcp; nousb; >no-what-have-you (don't have a cd here to check what the options are). >If all else fails, yo

[gentoo-user] Re: Apache2 with mod_ssl but without apache1

2003-08-14 Thread Wolfram Umlauf
On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 17:38:50 +0200 Timo Boettcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Wolfram, > > Nachricht vom Sonntag, 10. August 2003, 17:26:00: > > > > How can I emerge mod_ssl WITHOUT emerging apache-1.x as well? > http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/en/new_features_2_0.html#module lists > mod_s

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo poll #4

2003-08-14 Thread Norberto BENSA
Fred Van Andel wrote: > > Please respond by emailing your reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > Please do NOT reply within the mailing list !!! pgp0.pgp Description: signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Translated OpenOffice

2003-08-14 Thread Adam Scriven
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 04:17:37PM +0200, Sven Vermeulen wrote: > On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 04:06:02PM +, Andrea Bergia wrote: > > - How can I get a translated version of OpenOffice? In fact, I want > > OpenOffice in Italian. > > Yes, this is possible. Run > ~# export LANGUAGE="05" emerge

RE: [gentoo-user] Normal applications under OpenMosix?

2003-08-14 Thread Jeffrey Smelser
what was your cluster made up of?? What was your -j option in make.conf? -Original Message- From: Spider [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 1:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Normal applications under OpenMosix? begin quote On Mon, 11 Aug 2003

Re: [gentoo-user] Free, or at least cheap AntiVirus

2003-08-14 Thread Phil Sexton
On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 14:29, Jeffrey Smelser wrote: > Is there free/cheap version of Kasper for Home users? If not, what else has linux > support.. A Daemon, I think, would be a great solution if one of the other vendors > have that.. You will find several with a search for "antivirus" on these

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Card

2003-08-14 Thread Octavio Ruiz (Ta^3)
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 04:00:17PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi! > > I would like to buy a new Wireless Card, can you tell me a compatible one with > Gentoo which I could find easy information on the web (for installation, > configuration). I want a G one, does 3Com a good one to choose?

Re: [gentoo-user] Well, my RAID array is screwed (was df != fdisk)

2003-08-14 Thread Ross Jordan
> > > Note that the TX4 "RAID" card, is essentially a *software* raid card > > (i.e. glorified IDE controller). There is very few true IDE raid card > > with support under linux. 3ware and ARCO DupliDisk are the only ones. > > http://www.linux-ide.org/chipsets.html > > > > -Ross > > Do you mean b

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] "Distro Day (Measuring thebenefits of the Gentoo approach)"

2003-08-14 Thread Spider
I'm wiping this whole message since I'm not about to go and dwell on the finer points of delivery here. :) Now, I for one would be -VERY- interested in seeing same system comparsion between the flags: -Os -O2 and -O3 (on the same -march= ) for a single system. i realize this takes a lot o

Re: [gentoo-user] Bootstrapping a Heterogeneous compile farm?

2003-08-14 Thread Stroller
On 8/8/03 3:02 am, "Adam Scriven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, I'm kinda wondering about distcc and ccache. I've got both running now > over the cluster, but I'm wondering if that's overkill, or if they will > interfere with the cluster's functioning. Well, I thought that distcc was unnec

Re: [gentoo-user] nfs mount of portage

2003-08-14 Thread Panard
you had to add no_root_squash option to /etc/exports at the line corresponding. Le Mercredi 13 Août 2003 20:41, Patrick Marquetecken a écrit : > Hi, > > > I'm placing this moment my /usr/portage on my "home server" > I have unmount my local /usr/portage, and dit a nfs mount as root. > valinor

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to configure xdm to accept connectionsfrom other boxes?

2003-08-14 Thread Jussi Sirpoma
On 8.8.2003 21:49 Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Jussi Sirpoma (2003-08-08 17:39 +0200) Hi, I'm trying to configure xdm to accept connections from other machines in the network. I've done it once to a Mandrake box but I do not have those conig files available and I'm not getting very far with the defa

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel conundrum

2003-08-14 Thread nmeyers
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 12:25:37PM -0400, Nick Fisher wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 03:52:34PM -0400, Nick Fisher wrote: > >> I have a machine that I cannot compile a stable 2.4.20 kernel for, yet > >> the > >> one off of the 1.4_rc2 liveCD works fine. I'm guessing there is an > >> option > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge, and read-only source directories.

2003-08-14 Thread Andrew Farmer
At 11 August, 2003 Adam Scriven wrote: > What I'd like to have happen is, emerge downloads and unpacks the source > as usual, but it then treats that source as if it were in a read-only > heirarchy. > Therefore, it would put all the files it creates for my system (config files, > object files, fina

Re: [gentoo-user] Making portage

2003-08-14 Thread Alec Berryman
What you want to make is an ebuild - if you look in your /usr/portage directory, you'll find quite a few examples :) There are some dev docs on gentoo.org. On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 21:06, Meka[ni] wrote: > How can I make (and post) portage? There is a package I would like to have as > a porta

Re: [gentoo-user] how to swap on a file

2003-08-14 Thread Roel Schroeven
Adam Dunstan list-at-urban.net.au |Gentoo mailing list(s)| wrote: so im trying to use swapon to make use of a swap file i made with # dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=1024 count=65536 then mkswap /mnt/sammy/swapfile then swapon /mnt/sammy/swapfile but i get swapon: swapfile: Invalid argument

[gentoo-user] thin bcast?

2003-08-14 Thread Jorge Almeida
I just emerged bcast, which is supposed to have a GUI. Well, it seems that only /usr/lib/bcast is installed. No binary nor anything else. Moreover, the homepage http://heroines.sourceforge.net seems to ignore it completelly. Anyone knows what gives? -- Jorge Almeida -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail

Re: [gentoo-user] anyone using quakeforge?

2003-08-14 Thread Norberto BENSA
Chris I wrote: > On 2003.08.12 18:34, Norberto BENSA wrote: > > Hello, > > > > for me, 0.5.4 is seriously broken. Menu doesn't appear, 640x480 > > doesn't render > > correctly. Anyone with the same problems? > > > > 0.5.2 was ok, but "someone" deleted it from portage :-/ > > I cannot even get it to

Re: [gentoo-user] Disabling anti-aliasing in Evolution?

2003-08-14 Thread Spider
begin quote On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 22:17:31 +0100 Dhruba Bandopadhyay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > No matter how much one preaches about the merits of anti-aliasing of > fonts and xft in GUI I'm afraid I just can't be convinced. I must be > rid of this blurred text and GUI once and for a

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage: Updating all installed packages

2003-08-14 Thread William Hubbs
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 05:26:07PM +0100, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: > William Hubbs wrote: > >From emerge --help, I got the following: > > > > > > --deep (-D short option) > > When used in conjunction with --update, this flag forces > > emerge > > to c

Re: [gentoo-user] thin bcast?

2003-08-14 Thread nmeyers
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 11:05:25PM +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: > I just emerged bcast, which is supposed to have a GUI. Well, it seems that > only /usr/lib/bcast is installed. No binary nor anything else. Moreover, > the homepage http://heroines.sourceforge.net seems to ignore it > completelly.

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with SCSI

2003-08-14 Thread Ewald Geschwinde
Brian Richardson wrote: On August 12, 2003 08:49 am, Ewald Geschwinde wrote: I have a problem with my SCSI cdrom I have an adaptec controller 2940. My problem is: kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2 and then CD not found Does the following line exis

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge downgraded glibc and now I can't emerge.

2003-08-14 Thread spiff.devotion
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 02:22:48PM +0100, Frederic Soulier wrote: > On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 14:14, Ming-Che Lee wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Hi! > > > > On Tuesday, 5. August 2003 12:05 spiff.devotion wrote: > > > > > Well, emerge installed glibc-2.3.1-r4 an

[gentoo-user] [OT] audio cassette -> digital

2003-08-14 Thread Jorge Almeida
I would like to convert the contents of an audio cassette to a digital format. This is not gentoo specific, but I don't know anything about this matters. Any tips/links-to-doc/pointing-to-the-right-direction would be appreciated! My sound card is an Ensoniq 5880. -- Jorge Almeida -- [EMAIL P

Re: [gentoo-user] Free, or at least cheap AntiVirus

2003-08-14 Thread Mark Fisher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 12 August 2003 6:47 pm, Robert Kruus wrote: > I use clamav. > http://clamav.elektrapro.com/ Ooh, the last time I looked into AV for my linux mailserver, I was saddened that the Clam site had not been updated for 3 or 4 months. I think ill

[gentoo-user] Problem with SCSI

2003-08-14 Thread Ewald Geschwinde
I have a problem with my SCSI cdrom I have an adaptec controller 2940. My problem is: kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2 and then CD not found Can anybody help me I have tried the gentoo 1.4 x86 and the 1.4 basic version. (live cd's) Regards Ewald Geschwin

[gentoo-user] More problems with uml

2003-08-14 Thread Christopher Egner
You would think this wouldn't be so hard. Ok, I understand how reroute all those darned xterms. The problem however is that I can't seem to get things working right. First problem, when I issue: linux con=pts con0=fd:0,fd:1 That works great, xterms are gone, the console gets routed whatever I ha

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: etc-update and fstab...

2003-08-14 Thread Marius Mauch
On 08/10/03 Wolfram Umlauf wrote: > On 10 Aug 2003 05:49:24 -0700 > Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 01:44, Wolfram Umlauf wrote: > > > > > > > maybe zoinks from http://zoinks.mikelockwood.com/ is the solution > > > for you. Works perfecly for me. > > > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc questions

2003-08-14 Thread Jens Mayer
* On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 12:00:16 +0200, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > Logically, I'd say you need ccache on the host piloting the build: ccache > caches the results of preprocessing (or rather a hash thereof) and distcc > requires the preprocessing to be done on the host piloting the build

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help configuring a HP DeskJet 940c

2003-08-14 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Sunday 10 Aug 2003 20:54, Peter Ruskin wrote: > On Sunday 10 Aug 2003 12:49, Ralph F. De Witt wrote: Sorry, you said 940, I did 948... $ ll /usr/share/ppd/HP/HP-DeskJet_940C-hpijs.ppd.gz -rw-rw-r--1 root root 4022 Jul 31 23:32 /usr/share/ppd/HP/HP-DeskJet_940C-hpijs.ppd.gz $

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot print to a printserver with CUPS

2003-08-14 Thread Martin Monsorno
Theofilos Intzoglou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Did you try to setup the printer from the web interface? You just have > to point your web browser to http://localhost:631. Some times it works > better than setting the printer configuration yourself. Hope that helps! that's the way i configured

Re: [gentoo-user] x-chat buttons missing

2003-08-14 Thread Spider
begin quote On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 04:19:03 +0200 Marius Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, although I don't need the buttons I got interested in the matter > and checked the config file as there seem no option in the GUI for it. Right click on a channel, a set of three checkboxes down in the

Re: [gentoo-user] portage logs

2003-08-14 Thread Theofilos Intzoglou
Hi Renat! This was exactly what I was looking for! logrotate cannot handle the logs that emerge creates unfortunately so I had to use a custom script. I had almost forgot the script that cleans up /tmp. So I created two cron jobs, one in cron.weekly to bzip2 the newly created files with find /v

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?]:xmms under Gentoo

2003-08-14 Thread Jorge Almeida
On 12 Aug 2003, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >Sorry - this is far more an application question than a Gentoo > question. (I think) > >Does the Gentoo version of xmms install the OSS Output plugin? If so, > how do I select it? > >I'm trying to run xmms to play a CD and it has complained o

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa config files

2003-08-14 Thread Jayson Garrell
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 15:41, Jayson Garrell wrote: > Hello everyone; > > I'm trying to install alsa on my desktop and I am running into a > problem. Following the document @ > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml > > I got some new hard drives and decided that I was just going to > r

[gentoo-user] Portage: Updating all installed packages

2003-08-14 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Hello Given that this issue arises quite frequently I have filed a bug about it. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26540 Please read it and provide feedback either on the bug or on this list. Basically, the issue at hand is the difference between [1] and [2] and how portage should handle t

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?]:xmms under Gentoo

2003-08-14 Thread Brian Richardson
On August 12, 2003 06:10 pm, Mark Knecht wrote: >Thanks. That gets me closer. It was set for OSS. I've switched to > trying Alsa. Still no sound though, and unfortunately the xmms site > documentation page doesn't have any info on configuring for Alsa. > >Should all of the other settings th

Re: [gentoo-user] X forwarding

2003-08-14 Thread drewbian
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 07:48, Pupeno wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello Gentoo users > I'm ssh from my computer (A) to another computer (B) and I want to run an X > application on B be displayed on A. I enabled X Forwarding but when I run the > application I get th

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/checkroot cannot remount root fs

2003-08-14 Thread Steven Elling
On Wednesday 13 August 2003 14:09, Rex Young wrote: > I'm not sure that it makes much difference, but are you also using > Reiserfs on your root partition? Yes. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with user mode linux

2003-08-14 Thread Christopher Egner
I'm wondering if there isn't some sort of kernel option to control vc's or maybe a kernel compile option (although I haven't seen one). They aren't static, so I'm a bit lost. -- Christopher In 1968 it took the computing power of 2 C-64's to fly a rocket to the moon. Now, in 1998 it takes the Powe

Re: [gentoo-user] kde problems with dcopserver...

2003-08-14 Thread Al Raq
--- Al Raq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I tried with all possible solutions (google and irc) > to have kde3 starts but in vain. > > Every time I try to start kde using kdm or gdm I > have > a message saying: > > could not read network connection list. > /home/me/.DCOPserver_localhost

Re: [gentoo-user] Disabling anti-aliasing in Evolution?

2003-08-14 Thread Spider
begin quote On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 09:50:17 +0200 Lars Strojny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is untested but I think it should work: > mv /usr/bin/evolution /usr/bin/evolution-noxft > > touch /usr/bin/evolution > echo "#!/bin/bash" > /usr/bin/evolution > echo "GDK_USE_XFT=0" > /usr/bin/evolut

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo poll #4

2003-08-14 Thread Yannick Le Saint
> What is your favorite way of installing gentoo? >a) From stage1 >b) From stage2 >c) From stage3 From stage 3. >Do you use binary (GRP) packages? (Y/N) No. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] posting a useful bug to bugzilla

2003-08-14 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Monday 11 August 2003 13:54, gabriel wrote: > the new version of kopete (0.7) while full of really cool features, doesn't > work at all on my machine and continues to crash. so i filled out a bug > report on bugs.kde.org. > > the problem is, i wasn't able to offer much information, even though

Re: [gentoo-user] Making portage

2003-08-14 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Tuesday 12 August 2003 10:40 pm, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > Do you mean you want to add an ebuild for a package? If so check out > the developer docs on ebuilds on the Gentoo website, then read man > 1,5 ebuild and look at some ebuilds. > > > How can I make (and post) portage? There is a package

[gentoo-user] posting a useful bug to bugzilla

2003-08-14 Thread gabriel
the new version of kopete (0.7) while full of really cool features, doesn't work at all on my machine and continues to crash. so i filled out a bug report on bugs.kde.org. the problem is, i wasn't able to offer much information, even though i have gdb installed, the only messages i get are a l

Re: [gentoo-user] Failing to boot gentoo 1.4 on new install

2003-08-14 Thread Vincent van de Camp
Oops, since I had difficulties booting from the livecd, I assumed you had those too... sorry:) All my gentoo boxes are running 2.6.0-test3, with as many items as possible built as modules. The A7V runs 2.6 too, without a problem. I'm not at home at this moment, but if you still have problems, j

Re: [gentoo-user] Disabling anti-aliasing in Evolution?

2003-08-14 Thread Spider
begin quote On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 15:09:32 -0700 Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >or simply wrap evolution in a script, > Or to set it for just evolution you can create a little shell script > or alias that does basically: > > export GDK_USE_XFT evolution > > Which should only turn off AA

Re: [gentoo-user] email system for the home network

2003-08-14 Thread Christopher Fisk
On Sun, 10 Aug 2003, rh wrote: >Fetchmail / Procmail is working. But where exactly does fetchmail put >your email before it passes it to procmail? Fetchamil normally will pass the message to your local MTA. be it sendmail/postfix/qmail/etc. Your MTA will then process the mail and pass it to

Re: [gentoo-user] x eats my mem and cpu

2003-08-14 Thread Mark Fisher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 14 Aug 2003 6:20 pm, a_k_b wrote: > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND > 7523 root 15 0 637m 222m 6120 S 3.0 44.2 922:50.18 X > > as you can see X uses about 44% of my memory at the moment (cpu ti

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/checkroot cannot remount root fs

2003-08-14 Thread Steven Elling
On Wednesday 13 August 2003 16:52, Rex Young wrote: > >With one of the 2.4 series kernels, I noticed that I could not > >issue 'mount > >-o remount,rw /'. I had to issue the full command. > > Same thing here. If it isn't the full command, it won't work. I've used the command as listed above in t

[gentoo-user] Kernel conundrum

2003-08-14 Thread Nick Fisher
I have a machine that I cannot compile a stable 2.4.20 kernel for, yet the one off of the 1.4_rc2 liveCD works fine. I'm guessing there is an option or a patch that is/isn't set/applyed. Apart from good old trial and error how the heck do I work out what is giving me the problem? Every kernel I ha

[gentoo-user] Very bad performance

2003-08-14 Thread Michael Gruetzner
Hi, whenever I cause a lot of IDE traffic(copying a large file from cd to disk, write a cd or copying a large file into another directory) my system becomes awfully slow. I cannot even play mp3's or move the mouse pointer without interruption. Also the drawing of a new window is very very slow. I

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