Re: [gentoo-user] New to Gentoo. 2.6 kernel question....

2003-11-15 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Saturday 15 November 2003 15:47, Robert Jewell wrote: I recently upgraded to 2.6.. i used the -mm sources, beta9-r2 or so. my nvidia works.. kde works.. the system is quick and responsive. no problems at all with 2.6 .. the mm sources have nvidia patches, i believe. The other way

Re: [gentoo-user] wget Address family not supported

2003-11-15 Thread Anupam Kapoor
i think you have ipv6 enabled. you need to turn it off. kind regards anupam Thomas T. Veldhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I did a recent sync and wget was updated to version 1.9. Now, when it tries to pull any source down from any location, I get the message Address family not supported

[gentoo-user] Kernel panic mounting root fs

2003-11-15 Thread KamaolaKid
I'm using grub-static as my boot loader. My boot partition is /dev/sda1 and grub is installed to the MBR. I get to the grub prompt fine, but when the kernel starts, the error kernel panic: could not read device /dev/sda1 followed by please append correct root= option and then VFS: could not

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panic mounting root fs

2003-11-15 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Sunday 16 November 2003 16:08, KamaolaKid wrote: I'm using grub-static as my boot loader. My boot partition is /dev/sda1 and grub is installed to the MBR. I get to the grub prompt fine, but when the kernel starts, the error kernel panic: could not read device /dev/sda1 followed by please

RE: [gentoo-user] Kernel panic mounting root fs

2003-11-15 Thread KamaolaKid
Firstly, you should put root=root device and not root=boot device. Valid point, however, in my case they are one in the same. Secondly, it sounds like the kernel cannot find your scsi device (assuming you do have scsi) so you probably don't have the correct driver compiled into the

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panic mounting root fs

2003-11-15 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Sunday 16 November 2003 16:36, KamaolaKid wrote: Secondly, it sounds like the kernel cannot find your scsi device (assuming you do have scsi) so you probably don't have the correct driver compiled into the kernel. The hard drive is a western digital SATA raptor with a VIA SATA chipset.

[gentoo-user] emerge: unwanted packages

2003-11-15 Thread Oliver Lange
Hello everyone, I decided not to use emacs, so i unmerged both emacs and openmotif from my box. Now when i enter 'emerge -p -u system', both are listed as new download (N), while 'qpkg -I -q emacs' returns absolutely nothing. 'make depclean' already executed. (I also removed them from

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge: unwanted packages

2003-11-15 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Saturday 15 November 2003 17:34, Oliver Lange wrote: Now when i enter 'emerge -p -u system', both are listed as new download (N), while 'qpkg -I -q emacs' returns absolutely nothing. 'make depclean' already executed. (I also removed them from /var/cache/edb/world, but updating the system

[gentoo-user] depgraph creation failed

2003-11-15 Thread Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos
Hi all, I've just emerged sync and then I did: euler root # emerge -up --deep world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies \ emerge: there are no masked or unmasked ebuilds to satisfy sys-apps/bzip2. !!! Problem with ebuild dev-php/mod_php-4.3.4

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM and mirroring

2003-11-15 Thread Guy Van Sanden
The upgrade is something we used to do on solaris boxes, it's about applying patches, or installing software. When we did that, we disconnected one side of the mirror, then did the upgrade/patch/install. If it went fine, we resynced the mirrors as normal, but on failure, we resynced from the

[gentoo-user] Portage Master Problems

2003-11-15 Thread Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos
Hi all, I've tried to run portage master but I had an exception: euler root # portagemaster Exception in thread main java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 100 at logic.Helper.getCategories(Unknown Source) at fsl.FileFilter.init(Unknown Source) at

[gentoo-user] Runnig an X Application without using the X-Server ?

2003-11-15 Thread humbaba
Hi I was wondering if it is possible to start an X program for instance xMule and then logout to let somebody else login and let him do his work, while xMule is still running. Thanx -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] depgraph creation failed

2003-11-15 Thread Jose Gonzalez Gomez
Paulo, This is caused when emerge needs a certain package to create the dependency graph for all packages in your world and that package is masked for whatever reason. The package may be masked for the version you need to build mod_php_4.3.4 (check /usr/portage/sys-apps/bzip2) or the

[gentoo-user] Urgent: Problem with ls and SELinux policy...

2003-11-15 Thread Tiago Lima
Hi, I've already posted earlier (and in other lists with no answer) with a problem using the ls program... $ cd / $ ls -la * snip Segmentation fault And sometimes it even blocks... So I investigated a little bit and I removed the initrd.gz from lilo, meaning removed the policy

[gentoo-user] Texpower emerge halts

2003-11-15 Thread Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos
Hi all, I've tried to emerge texpower but after: euler root # emerge texpower Calculating dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 1) dev-tex/texpower-0.0.9d to / md5 src_uri ;-) texpower-0.0.9d.tar.gz md5 src_uri ;-) texpower-doc-pdf-0.0.9d.tar.gz Unpacking source... Unpacking

Re: [gentoo-user] Runnig an X Application without using the X-Server ?

2003-11-15 Thread David A. Bandel
On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 12:59:45 +0100 humbaba [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I was wondering if it is possible to start an X program for instance xMule and then logout to let somebody else login and let him do his work, while xMule is still running. Yes. Go to a console screen (Ctrl+Alt+F2 for

Re: [gentoo-user] Runnig an X Application without using the X-Server ?

2003-11-15 Thread William Kenworthy
Run it in a vnc session. Multiple logins at the same time, remote or local, or via tunnel (ssh or zebedee), even over a modem. I run long term GUI jobs in a vnc session, then can log in from where ever and check on them. Screen works well for consoles, but vnc can be a lot more flexible. BillK

Re: [gentoo-user] Gaim/MSN problem

2003-11-15 Thread Joel Wright
I had this problem a few days back, tried everything to fix it and came up with nothing, but the problem mysteriously went away the next day. amsn never failed to work, sorry I can't help, but you're not going mad, good luck, Joel. On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 10:26, Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] phprojekt emerge problem

2003-11-15 Thread Redeeman
edit ebuild and change it to app-arch/bzip2 On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 07:24, Klaus Neumann wrote: Hi, trying to emerge phprojekt, I got this: bash-2.05b# emerge -pv phprojekt These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies \ emerge: there are no masked or

Re: [gentoo-user] Uh oh...AltCtrlBackspace not locked out with xscreensaver..

2003-11-15 Thread Michael Andreen
On Saturday 15 November 2003 06.12, Mark Knecht wrote: Anyway, the DontZap option seems to work fine, so it's my learning bug and not a real problem I guess... But, afaik, it will still be possible to ctrl+alt+f1 (or another f-key if you're logged into another vc) and ctrl+c or ctrl+z your

[gentoo-user] gdm failing to find liblinc.so.1

2003-11-15 Thread Heitzso
Could someone let me know how to get gdm to run? I just installed gentoo on a laptop a few days ago and gdm fails to start. It's reporting the error that it cannot find liblinc.so.1. I ran 'emerge sync' followed by 'emerge -u world' hoping to straighten it out but that didn't work. I'm not

[gentoo-user] after genkernel do I manually re-emerge module packages?

2003-11-15 Thread Heitzso
I ran 'emerge sync' and picked up a new kernel source package automatically. I noticed that it was upacked in /usr/src but not compiled. I'm running genkernel now to build the kernel image and modules. My question is ... all of the add on module packages ... are they auto-detected and built by

Re: [gentoo-user] IE on Linux

2003-11-15 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting keanu -- On Wednesday 29 October 2003 21:16, Ian Truelsen wrote: Has anyone managed to get Internet Exploder to install under Linux? I want to be able to test web pages without booting into Windows.

Re: [gentoo-user] gdm failing to find liblinc.so.1

2003-11-15 Thread Spider
begin quote On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 08:33:52 -0500 Heitzso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could someone let me know how to get gdm to run? I just installed gentoo on a laptop a few days ago and gdm fails to start. It's reporting the error that it cannot find liblinc.so.1. I ran 'emerge sync'

[gentoo-user] blocked packages

2003-11-15 Thread Ernie Schroder
Could someone please confirm what I think I'm seeing? Along with perhaps 20 other packages when I did: # emerge -UDp world I see this: [blocks B ] kde-base/kdelibs-3.1.4 (from pkg x11-libs/qt-3.2.2-r1) [ebuild U ] x11-libs/qt-3.2.2-r1 [3.1.2-r4] If I read this correctly, I need to

Re: [gentoo-user] depgraph creation failed

2003-11-15 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos wrote: Hi all, I've just emerged sync and then I did: euler root # emerge -up --deep world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies \ emerge: there are no masked or unmasked ebuilds to satisfy sys-apps/bzip2.

Re: [gentoo-user] blocked packages

2003-11-15 Thread Sigurd Stordal
[blocks B ] kde-base/kdelibs-3.1.4 (from pkg x11-libs/qt-3.2.2-r1) [ebuild U ] x11-libs/qt-3.2.2-r1 [3.1.2-r4] If I read this correctly, I need to unmerge kdelibs-3.1.4 before I can update qt to 3.2.2-r1 Is this correct? No, unfortunately this is a weird thing, anf it's brought

[gentoo-user] XFCE-4.0.1 Why I Love Gentoo

2003-11-15 Thread Bill Witherspoon
Hi all, I've been running Gentoo for about 6 months now, and am fabulously impressed by it. Case in point: I emerged the XFCE-4.0.1 bugfix release and restarted X. There was a long pause and XFCE informed me (something like) 'Your window manager doesn't support window hints. Some XFCE functions

[gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.0: Xserver crashes

2003-11-15 Thread Christian Fischer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi there. i've tried kernel 2.6.0-beta9-gentoo because of having an i875 chipset. i use a nvidia geforce 2 mx 400 card. i've tried out 2 ways of getting the correct nvidia-driver, as first downloading NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.tar.gz from

Re: [gentoo-user] gdm failing to find liblinc.so.1

2003-11-15 Thread Heitzso
I re-emerged gdm and it's now working. Thanks. Spider wrote: begin quote On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 08:33:52 -0500 Heitzso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could someone let me know how to get gdm to run? I just installed gentoo on a laptop a few days ago and gdm fails to start. It's reporting the error

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless keyboard and mouse system

2003-11-15 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I'm using a MS wireless mouse with Gentoo and Caldera. It works but the only issue I have with it is that sometimes when I click on something it doesn't see the click. I have to click harder or several more times. The receiver is within three feet of the mouse so I'm not sure what's going

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless keyboard and mouse system

2003-11-15 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 15 November 2003 17:25, Marcin Daczkowski wrote: hello my mouse i dieing. i've counted money and thought it would be quite good idea to but wireless mouse (and keyboard). I was thinking about creative one (i do not remeber full name,

Re: [gentoo-user] blocked packages

2003-11-15 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Saturday 15 November 2003 10:07 am, Sigurd Stordal wrote: [blocks B ] kde-base/kdelibs-3.1.4 (from pkg x11-libs/qt-3.2.2-r1) [ebuild U ] x11-libs/qt-3.2.2-r1 [3.1.2-r4] If I read this correctly, I need to unmerge kdelibs-3.1.4 before I can update qt to 3.2.2-r1 Is this

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless keyboard and mouse system

2003-11-15 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Sunday 16 November 2003 02:40, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I'm using a MS wireless mouse with Gentoo and Caldera. Hehhe, OT but... I wouldn't want to mention Caldera around here. Didn't you know Caldera is a subsidiary of SCO? ;-) Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] phprojekt emerge problem

2003-11-15 Thread Klaus Neumann
On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 00:41:11 -0600 Andrew Gaffney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Klaus Neumann wrote: Hi, trying to emerge phprojekt, I got this: bash-2.05b# emerge -pv phprojekt These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies \ emerge: there are no

Re: [gentoo-user] phprojekt emerge problem

2003-11-15 Thread Klaus Neumann
On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 14:13:40 +0100 Redeeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: edit ebuild and change it to app-arch/bzip2 Your instructions are a little brief. You mean I shall edit the file /usr/portage/app-office/phprojekt/phprojekt-4.0-r1.ebuild and change what to app-arch/bzip2? I don't see any

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel2.6, tigon3, sata via - crypto frust

2003-11-15 Thread Irmund Thum
Freitag, 14. November 2003 09:46 successfully booting the livecd 2.6.0-gss, Nov 5, - experimental/x86/livecd/livecd-2.6_11-05-2003.iso - I've seen working all the 3 most important items I wanted to have: - tigon3 network card support - sata via support - strong cryptography then I've

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless keyboard and mouse system

2003-11-15 Thread Marcin Daczkowski
On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 17:35:35 + Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 15 November 2003 17:25, Marcin Daczkowski wrote: hello my mouse i dieing. i've counted money and thought it would be quite good idea to but wireless

Re: [gentoo-user] IE on Linux

2003-11-15 Thread Redeeman
i thought about that too, but if he want, let him, use crossover office On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 19:24, SN wrote: Damn, why would you want IE?? I have banned IE even on windows. - Original Message - From: Matthias F. Brandstetter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc:

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless keyboard and mouse systemI

2003-11-15 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I bought it when they were Caldera G. Gee, maybe they'll want me to pay a license fee! The Caldera box was set up to be my working box back before we knew Caldera was going to stiff it's users. It is being replaced by a Gentoo box but unfortunately I'm not ready to make the switch yet. The

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.0: Xserver crashes

2003-11-15 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 10:48, Christian Fischer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi there. i've tried kernel 2.6.0-beta9-gentoo because of having an i875 chipset. i use a nvidia geforce 2 mx 400 card. i've tried out 2 ways of getting the correct nvidia-driver, as

[gentoo-user] GLIBC_2.0 problem

2003-11-15 Thread Claus Ladekjær Wilson
I get this error: sc3u: relocation error: sc3u: symbol _dl_global_scope, version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file ld-linux.so.2 with link time reference How do I correct? -- Venlig hilsen / Greetings from Claus L. Wilson, Linux gentoo1.4 Sdr. Boulevard 226, st.tv 5000 Odense C tlf. 66191050 /

Re: [gentoo-user]Multiple screens for 1 box

2003-11-15 Thread Bryce
On Thursday 13 November 2003 10:23 pm, Chris I wrote: On 2003.11.13 22:40, Bryce wrote: Hi All. I've been curious about this for a while, and was wondering if its possible. Is there a way to have 1 machine fascilitate 2 or more monitors, keyboards, mouse. Each Monitor having its own

[gentoo-user] Alsa Kdemultimedia

2003-11-15 Thread Kathy Wills
I just switched to gentoo a couple of weeks ago after using Slackware for several months. The explanation for not including alsa support in kdemultimedia with gentoo is bug reports #2324 and #39574. Bug report #39574 does not even exist. Alsa was working just fine for me with kde and

Re: [gentoo-user] Alsa Kdemultimedia

2003-11-15 Thread Kathy Wills
Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Is it an issue with Gentoo or KDE. Reading the bug it appears KDE didn't want to include support in their builds. That was last year so maybe it works now? On Saturday 15 November 2003 15:44, you wrote: I just switched to gentoo a couple of weeks ago after using

Re: [gentoo-user] Alsa Kdemultimedia

2003-11-15 Thread Kathy Wills
Dave Naylor wrote: URL: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml This was the guide that I used to set alsa up. So I knew about this guide and have it printed out. -- Kathy Wills + + Genealogy Web Site:

Re: [gentoo-user] Alsa Kdemultimedia

2003-11-15 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I'm not a KDE user anymore so I've exhausted all my resources. On Saturday 15 November 2003 16:08, you wrote: Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Is it an issue with Gentoo or KDE. Reading the bug it appears KDE didn't want to include support in their builds. That was last year so maybe it works now?

RE: [gentoo-user] Uh oh...AltCtrlBackspace not locked outwith xscreensaver..

2003-11-15 Thread Ric Messier
Bit of a red herring, actually. If I can walk up to your system, it won't matter whether I can hit Ctrl-Alt-Bksp to get into your account or not. If I have physical access to your box, I own it. Period. Ric -Original Message- From: Mark Knecht [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday,

Re: [gentoo-user] Alsa Kdemultimedia

2003-11-15 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 15 November 2003 21:43, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I'm not a KDE user anymore but looking at the ebuild there is a line below alsa not supported that is commented out (the # sign). Basically this does not allow alsa support to be built in

Re: [gentoo-user] Alsa Kdemultimedia

2003-11-15 Thread Kathy Wills
Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I'm not a KDE user anymore but looking at the ebuild there is a line below alsa not supported that is commented out (the # sign). Basically this does not allow alsa support to be built in no matter what your use flags. However, the comment at the end indicates you can

[gentoo-user] Re:[gentoo-user]OpenLDAPormySQL:howtochoose?

2003-11-15 Thread Miroslav Ris SA of iNet
i using both ldap and mysql. ldap as interface and mysql as backend. all setting totally stored in mysql db (need build ldap with mysql support). prefer using mysql 4.1. work very stable (alpha version!) for me and support utf8. many software direct using mysql (exim, courier-imap, maildrop

[gentoo-user] Re: Runnig an X Application without using the X-Server ?

2003-11-15 Thread Eamon Caddigan
David A. Bandel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --=.CT)Vc9(kosSjud Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 12:59:45 +0100 humbaba [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I was wondering if it is possible to start an X

Re: [gentoo-user] Alsa Kdemultimedia

2003-11-15 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Why not merge the multimedia and see what happens. In the system I have that has KDE 2.2.x it allows you to let it autodetect the sound service or you can select oss and something else. On Saturday 15 November 2003 16:47, you wrote: Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I'm not a KDE user anymore but

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Runnig an X Application without using the X-Server ?

2003-11-15 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 15 November 2003 22:11, Eamon Caddigan wrote: Go to a console screen (Ctrl+Alt+F2 for example), login and type: startx -- :1 note that you _must_ use two dashes. This tells X to start on a different screen. You can also tell it

Re: [gentoo-user] Alsa Kdemultimedia

2003-11-15 Thread Kathy Wills
Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Why not merge the multimedia and see what happens. In the system I have that has KDE 2.2.x it allows you to let it autodetect the sound service or you can select oss and something else. It has been merged that is how I found out that it disables alsa via a

Re: [gentoo-user] removing color

2003-11-15 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Erik S. Johansen wrote: On Friday 14 November 2003 16:38, Andrew Gaffney wrote: I'm really looking for something more generic. I just used emerge as an example. I want to be able to strip color out of *any* output. otoh, sed -r s:[^[][[][0-9]{1,2}[;]{0,1}[0-9]{0,2}[m]::g should filter out

Re: [gentoo-user] Alsa Kdemultimedia

2003-11-15 Thread Azhdeen
On Saturday 15 November 2003 23:22, Kathy Wills wrote: It has been merged that is how I found out that it disables alsa via a post-install message. Doing further research the bug #39574 it mentions is not a bug number with bugs.gentoo.org but is a bug number with bugs.kde.org. It seems the

[gentoo-user] spamass-milter

2003-11-15 Thread Tux the turtle
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi out there; trying to emerge spamass-milter I get a conflict between ssmtp and sendmail [blocks] net-mail/ssmtp (virtual/mta from pkg net-mail/sendmail-8.12.10) So how can I emerge spamass-milter? emerge -C ssmtp? Thanks in andvance tuthtu

[gentoo-user] Re: microsofts lit ebook format

2003-11-15 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
http://www.convertlit.com/ -- Rick Kitty5 NewMedia http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News Resources http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - ICQ : 15776037 PGP Public Key http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x231E1CEA Marcin Daczkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message

[gentoo-user] Nvidia module won't load during boot

2003-11-15 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
When my system boots one of the modules I have listed to autoload is nvidia. However, it tells me it fails. But I can do a modprobe after I login and the module loads fine. Is this because nvidia is a tainted module? If so how do I fix it. Thanks. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Runnig an X Application without using the X-Server ?

2003-11-15 Thread David A. Bandel
On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 22:59:09 + (UTC) Eamon Caddigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Proper fast user switch would be such a killer cool app, I hope you do it. I'd probably never do it alone. Instead: anyone else interested in this, please drop me an e-mail. If there's enough

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge: unwanted packages

2003-11-15 Thread Oliver Lange
Jason Stubbs wrote: Emacs is probably still listed in /var/cache/edb/virtuals. Yes, it is. What exactly is that file for ? There's not a single line of comment in the 'virtuals' file; what happens if i manually modify the file (add/remove something), and what happens with the file after an

Re: [gentoo-user] Uh oh...AltCtrlBackspace not locked outwith xscreensaver..

2003-11-15 Thread David A. Bandel
On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 16:39:56 -0500 Ric Messier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bit of a red herring, actually. If I can walk up to your system, it won't matter whether I can hit Ctrl-Alt-Bksp to get into your account or not. If I have physical access to your box, I own it. Period. Why server rooms

Re: [gentoo-user] Uh oh...AltCtrlBackspace not locked outwith xscreensaver..

2003-11-15 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Sunday 16 November 2003 06:39, Ric Messier wrote: Bit of a red herring, actually. If I can walk up to your system, it won't matter whether I can hit Ctrl-Alt-Bksp to get into your account or not. If I have physical access to your box, I own it. Period. True but there's a difference in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving /usr/portage

2003-11-15 Thread Danilo Piazzalunga
Alle 18:09, venerdì 14 novembre 2003, Jeffrey Smelser ha scritto: I am a big believer in not adding more partitions than necessary.. It just becomes a big headache.. I have two 40 gig drives here that are one big partitions, (except for extra swap partition) and I just mount to directories as

Re: [gentoo-user] spamass-milter

2003-11-15 Thread DB Wong
--- Tux the turtle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi out there; trying to emerge spamass-milter I get a conflict between ssmtp and sendmail [blocks] net-mail/ssmtp (virtual/mta from pkg net-mail/sendmail-8.12.10) So how can I emerge spamass-milter? emerge -C ssmtp? Thanks in andvance tuthtu

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge: unwanted packages

2003-11-15 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Sunday 16 November 2003 09:26, Oliver Lange wrote: Jason Stubbs wrote: Emacs is probably still listed in /var/cache/edb/virtuals. Yes, it is. What exactly is that file for ? There's not a single line of comment in the 'virtuals' file; what happens if i manually modify the file

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Runnig an X Application without using the X-Server ?

2003-11-15 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Sunday 16 November 2003 07:11, Eamon Caddigan wrote: I've long toyed with the idea of created a set of scripts that made it a little cleaner, or possibly integrating such features into xdm (we're not using any display manager atm), but like most of my projects, it would probably go

Re: [gentoo-user] Alsa Kdemultimedia

2003-11-15 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Sunday 16 November 2003 06:08, Kathy Wills wrote: Yes, I noticed that the bug reports were old. But, still alsa gets disabled in the ebuild for kdemultimedia-3.1.4r1. Since I'm so new to gentoo, I'm not sure just how to change the ebuild to see if it will build alsa support into

Re: [gentoo-user] Uh oh...AltCtrlBackspace not locked outwith xscreensaver..

2003-11-15 Thread Richard Kilgore
On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 04:39:56PM -0500, Ric Messier wrote: Bit of a red herring, actually. If I can walk up to your system, it won't matter whether I can hit Ctrl-Alt-Bksp to get into your account or not. If I have physical access to your box, I own it. Period. Ric -Original

[gentoo-user] kopete msn connectivity issues

2003-11-15 Thread gabriel
apparently msn screwed with their protocol again and the kopete team has had to play catch-up. they have, however developed a patch and it's available in cvs. from http://kopete.kde.org/ : As of today (Friday November 14th 2003), MSN made some changes to their servers that prevent

[gentoo-user] Re: Runnig an X Application without using the X-Server ?

2003-11-15 Thread Eamon Caddigan
David A. Bandel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 22:59:09 + (UTC) Eamon Caddigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Proper fast user switch would be such a killer cool app, I hope you do it. I'd probably never do it alone. Instead: anyone else interested in this, please drop me

Re: [gentoo-user] Alsa Kdemultimedia

2003-11-15 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Sunday 16 November 2003 11:07, Kathy Wills wrote: Jason Stubbs wrote: Don't know if it will compile or not. Might still get stuck on kmidi. I haven't tested it as I'm running kde3.2 and aren't using alsa anyway due to terrible sound quality. Let us how it goes if you decide to use it.

[gentoo-user] ? Recommended 802.11b pcmcia or usb ?

2003-11-15 Thread Heitzso
I've tried two pcmcia cards after doing some research and have problems with both. First was d-link 650 which used to be prism2 and supposed to work but newer ones are no longer prism require proprietary drivers. Took that back and picked up netgear but the newer netgear pcmcia 802.11b is also

[gentoo-user] moving to new partition

2003-11-15 Thread Oliver Lange
Hello everybody, I'd like to change the /home /var location to newly added harddisk partitions, so i need the correct cp command phrase which regards all and every link permission issue, like: cp -??? /mnt/gentoo/var /mnt/gentoo/newvar (booted from gentoo-basic without chroot) Sorry if this

RE: [gentoo-user] Uh oh...AltCtrlBackspace not locked outwith xscreensaver..

2003-11-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 13:39, Ric Messier wrote: Bit of a red herring, actually. If I can walk up to your system, it won't matter whether I can hit Ctrl-Alt-Bksp to get into your account or not. If I have physical access to your box, I own it. Period. Ric OK, I'll bite. How? My work box is

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge: unwanted packages

2003-11-15 Thread Oliver Lange
Jason Stubbs wrote: ... So to fix your problem, you can just remove the reference to app-editors/emacs from virtuals. ... Wow, that's what i call an answer. Thank you very much. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] moving to new partition

2003-11-15 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Sunday 16 November 2003 12:32, Oliver Lange wrote: I'd like to change the /home /var location to newly added harddisk partitions, so i need the correct cp command phrase which regards all and every link permission issue, like: cp -??? /mnt/gentoo/var /mnt/gentoo/newvar From the cp man

[gentoo-user] Re: Runnig an X Application without using the X-Server ?

2003-11-15 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Jason Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 16 November 2003 07:11, Eamon Caddigan wrote: I always thought this feature would be worked into Gnome or KDE... Doesn't gdm and gnome2 provide this functionality? :) Does it? A quick search didn't turn up anything. Looks like Xandros does

[gentoo-user] nvidia drivevers and 2.6

2003-11-15 Thread Makurin Roman
Does any one have working nvidia drivers with nptl USE flag ??? -- Makurin Roman [EMAIL PROTECTED] lostFPRL -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Uh oh...AltCtrlBackspace not locked outwith xscreensaver..

2003-11-15 Thread Richard Kilgore
On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 07:38:40PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 13:39, Ric Messier wrote: Bit of a red herring, actually. If I can walk up to your system, it won't matter whether I can hit Ctrl-Alt-Bksp to get into your account or not. If I have physical access to your

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia drivevers and 2.6

2003-11-15 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Sunday 16 November 2003 13:24, Makurin Roman wrote: Does any one have working nvidia drivers with nptl USE flag ??? I have had it working before without any trouble. There are numerous reports of it working on the forums as well. My guess is that message the ebuild gives is no longer valid.

[gentoo-user] Re: Texpower emerge halts

2003-11-15 Thread Mike Gardiner
Hi Paolo, Thanks for reporting this. It was due to the latex-package eclass being a bit too agressive with which .tex files it tried to remake for documentation. This has been fixed now in CVS, so please emerge sync and then emerge texpower again. Regards, Mike (Obz). -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[gentoo-user] scripts is where

2003-11-15 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I have a man page for scripts but nowhere on my system is script. A which script shows up nothing nor does an slocate. Emerge -s gives me no script. Is it part of another package? Thanks. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] moving to new partition

2003-11-15 Thread Oliver Lange
Jason Stubbs wrote: I did a test and it works fine. The command you'll want is: cp -a /mnt/gentoo/var/* /mnt/gentoo/newvar Be aware, however, that this will probably not copy .* files in the top-level directory, in this case /mnt/gentoo/var. That's it. Becomes a habit to thank you. :) -- [EMAIL

RE: [gentoo-user] moving to new partition

2003-11-15 Thread Paul Fraser
Does cp -a also preserve permissions? If not, you'll want to use -p as well. I can't try it since I'm not at a Linux box at the moment. Cheers, Paul J. Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Oliver Lange [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 16 November 2003 4:31 PM To:

Re: [gentoo-user] moving to new partition

2003-11-15 Thread Chad Martin
Paul Fraser wrote: Does cp -a also preserve permissions? If not, you'll want to use -p as well. I can't try it since I'm not at a Linux box at the moment. From man cp: -a, --archive same as -dpR Chad Martin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] moving to new partition

2003-11-15 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Sunday 16 November 2003 15:42, Paul Fraser wrote: Does cp -a also preserve permissions? If not, you'll want to use -p as well. I can't try it since I'm not at a Linux box at the moment. In my previous mail:        -a, --archive               Preserve as much as possible of the structure and

[gentoo-user] Firewire and USB Device Detection

2003-11-15 Thread Kent Jantz
Well I'm going to take another stab at this and see if I can find a solution to my problem. I'm running the 2.6.0 test9 mm-sources kernel. I have 2 external storage devices, a Maxtor 80GB Firewire Drive and a 32MB USB Pen Drive. I want to assign these to a specific scsi hosts sdc and sdd(sda