[gentoo-user] Managing Distributed Gentoo Boxes

2003-12-08 Thread Celestial Wizard
By boxes I mean both servers and SOE desktops. Basically our rules are standard installs for roles. IE - Firewalls, File and Print (not many), Web Application, Database, SOE Desktops etc... On these boxes we also dont install compilers or other development tools (unless of course its a

Re: [gentoo-user] xscreensaver GLX issue

2003-12-08 Thread Helgi Örn Helgason
On 2003-12-06, Redeeman wrote: do you have glx enabled? maybe some screensavers doesent use it, try type glxinfo in a console, and check XF86Config if it has Load glx in it No I didn't have glx enabled but now it is and the screensavers work as they should. Thanx! Cheers, /HÖ -- /// Helgi

Re: [gentoo-user] ripping music cd to mp3

2003-12-08 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, Glenn English wrote: OK, this is a fun thread. So what plays the .ogg abcde just made for me? Ah. xmms. Or on command line, ogg123 is the basic player. mp3blaster will also play oggs. -- CAUTION: Product will be hot after heating -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] xscreensaver GLX issue

2003-12-08 Thread Helgi Örn Helgason
On 2003-12-06, Jeff Smelser wrote: I have found in /etc/X11/XF86Config a line that load the glx extension( witch first was commented ) Yes, that was the case on this box too. Which I find rather strange, by default it has always been enabled for this card (ATI Rage 128). Cheers, /HÖ --

Re: [gentoo-user] ripping music cd to mp3

2003-12-08 Thread Alan
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 02:16:47AM -0500, Marshal Newrock wrote: On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, Glenn English wrote: OK, this is a fun thread. So what plays the .ogg abcde just made for me? Ah. xmms. Or on command line, ogg123 is the basic player. mp3blaster will also play oggs. Rhythmbox and

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenSSL errors with mutt

2003-12-08 Thread Adam Mercer
On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 05:41:09PM +, Adam Mercer wrote: Hi I'm using mutt 1.5.4 and everything now and again I get the following error Invoking OpenSSL... Error: unable to create OpenSSL subprocess! no certfile S/MIME certificate owner does not match sender Any ideas whats going

[gentoo-user] genkernel and USB failure

2003-12-08 Thread Guy Van Sanden
I have USB crashing on me after upgrading to gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r9. I vaguely remember having similar problems from r7 to r8, which were then solved by multiple runs of Genkernel (I think it was with the same settings file. I'm at a loss about what is happening --

[gentoo-user] Docs on Kerberos with LDAP or NIS

2003-12-08 Thread Guy Van Sanden
Hello I have been looking for some documentation about setting up authentication using kerberos with LDAP or NIS, but I haven't found anything usefull yet. Does anyone have some links or a site that can help? Thanks Guy --

[gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 and Matrox fb

2003-12-08 Thread Michael Gruetzner
Hi, I just emerged development-sources and compiled a kernel. Unfortunetly the Matroxfb does not work. All I have left on my screen(after switching tthe video mode) are some lines and pixels. Did anyone experience similar problems and/or knows how to get it working? Thanks in advance Michael --

[gentoo-user] Just want a Point in the right direction.

2003-12-08 Thread FX
I saw this on a post a while ago. But i haven't found much in the archive. What i am looking for is how to test a new kernel But leaving the one i have in place. So if it does get hosed i am not S.O.L a link to an archive will do great. Thanks -- FX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't find /proc in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab

2003-12-08 Thread Paul Grenyer
Hi Try proc /proc procdefaults 0 0 This is what my /etc/fstab has in it. I will when I get home this evening. Thanks! Regards Paul Please note the change of email address! Paul Grenyer Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.paulgrenyer.co.uk -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] vim-core not compiling

2003-12-08 Thread Christian Herzyk
Hi all, my emerge -u system wants to update vim-core to 6.2-r5. The compile stops immediately after patching with this error: * Done with patching Source unpacked. eutils vim-doc vim make: Entering directory `/data/dvdrip/portage/vim-core-6.2-r5/work/vim62/src' if test ! -f configure.save;

Re: [gentoo-user] vipul's razor won't install

2003-12-08 Thread Helgi Örn Helgason
On 2003-12-07, Jeff Smelser wrote: Well, I use spamassasin, why would you install both? Does razor detect something spamassin doesn't. In a way it does, this is from http://eu.spamassassin.org/index.html: quote * Razor: Vipul's Razor is a collaborative spam-tracking database, which works

[gentoo-user] direct access and atsar.ebuild

2003-12-08 Thread raptor
hi, I'm tring to make atsar.ebuild but as u see below there is alot of direct dir/file accesses, do u have some solution so that I can correct it in one well swoop. Is there a standard gentoo way to modify Makefiles on the fly ?! ==Makefile excerpt=

Re: [gentoo-user] ripping music cd to mp3

2003-12-08 Thread Redeeman
now we talk about this, what encoder for mp3 supports 320kbps variable bitrate joint sterio ? that is the thing that generates best sound for the disk cost, but now i want to test ogg too, (and maybe stop use mp3). i did this with audio catalyst in windoze can ogg/vorbis do the same? in case,

Re: [gentoo-user] vipul's razor won't install

2003-12-08 Thread Redeeman
On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 09:49, Helgi Örn Helgason wrote: On 2003-12-07, Jeff Smelser wrote: Well, I use spamassasin, why would you install both? Does razor detect something spamassin doesn't. In a way it does, this is from http://eu.spamassassin.org/index.html: quote * Razor:

Re: [gentoo-user] ripping music cd to mp3

2003-12-08 Thread Jonas Widarsson
Thomas Achtemichuk wrote: If you'd like a nice, full-featured gtk+ app, give media-sound/grip a shot. Grip 3.1.3 in ~arch is gtk+2 if that's your thing. Also media-sound/sound- juicer is a nice, simple gnome2 app for CD ripping. Grip is very nice indeed. I use to install bladeenc to create

Re: [gentoo-user] Just want a Point in the right direction.

2003-12-08 Thread Helgi Örn Helgason
On 2003-12-08, FX wrote: I saw this on a post a while ago. But i haven't found much in the archive. You didn't find this?: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-kernel.xml What i am looking for is how to test a new kernel But leaving the one i have in place. So if it does get hosed

Re: [gentoo-user] Just want a Point in the right direction.

2003-12-08 Thread Frank Schäfer
Hi, Helgi said it (nearly) all. You should add something to the EXTRAVERSIONvariable in the main makefile for the kernel to save the modules of your old one. Regards Frank On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 11:01, Helgi Örn Helgason wrote: On 2003-12-08, FX wrote: I saw this on a post a while ago.

[gentoo-user] Installation of snort

2003-12-08 Thread Frank Schäfer
Hi all, I had installed snort some weeks ago without any problem. Yesterday I renoved the thing to emerge it oncemore. I'm ending up with: (I'm unmerging/emerging libnet AND snort using the last portage tree) checking for libnet.h... no ERROR! Libnet header not found, go get it from

Re: [gentoo-user] direct access and atsar.ebuild

2003-12-08 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Monday 08 December 2003 17:58, raptor wrote: hi, I'm tring to make atsar.ebuild but as u see below there is alot of direct dir/file accesses, do u have some solution so that I can correct it in one well swoop. Is there a standard gentoo way to modify Makefiles on the fly ?! It doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] vipul's razor won't install

2003-12-08 Thread Helgi Örn Helgason
On 2003-12-08, Redeeman wrote: On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 09:49, Helgi Örn Helgason wrote: [...] With razor I can report a spam message which passed spamassassin to the db, I can do this with a keycombination from within mutt...:-) will it then automagically add it to a db on the internet? I

Re: [gentoo-user] ripping music cd to mp3

2003-12-08 Thread Spider
begin quote On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 10:31:18 +0100 Redeeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: now we talk about this, what encoder for mp3 supports 320kbps variable bitrate joint sterio ? that is the thing that generates best sound for the disk cost, but now i want to test ogg too, (and maybe stop use

Re: [gentoo-user] Just want a Point in the right direction.

2003-12-08 Thread Spider
begin quote On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 00:10:12 -0800 FX [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What i am looking for is how to test a new kernel But leaving the one i have in place. So if it does get hosed i am not S.O.L Don't recall the link to the archives I'm afraid (got it locally ;) But add an

Re: [gentoo-user] vipul's razor won't install

2003-12-08 Thread Helgi Örn Helgason
On 2003-12-07, rd wrote: OK, so I am going to answer my own posting. 1) Isn't *anybody* using spamassassin and razor??? huh??? I am using spamassassin and I used to use razor too, but I've had the same problem as you installing it on Gentoo. 2) Here is the problem fix. a)

Re: [gentoo-user] ripping music cd to mp3

2003-12-08 Thread Redeeman
so, to produce the best quality mp3 with variable bitrate joint sterio 320kbps i shall do: lame -m j -q 0 -v -b 32 -B 320 -V 0 i guess 0 is best in -V too? for ogg to get 320kbps joint sterio and variable bitrate i dont understand? does it do that automatically? On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 11:30,

Re: [gentoo-user] ripping music cd to mp3

2003-12-08 Thread Spider
begin quote On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 11:56:46 +0100 Redeeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so, to produce the best quality mp3 with variable bitrate joint sterio 320kbps i shall do: Here's from the quite good Lame Manual : Joint-stereo is the default mode for stereo files with VBR when -V

Re: [gentoo-user] ripping music cd to mp3

2003-12-08 Thread Redeeman
On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 12:10, Spider wrote: begin quote On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 11:56:46 +0100 Redeeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so, to produce the best quality mp3 with variable bitrate joint sterio 320kbps i shall do: Here's from the quite good Lame Manual : Joint-stereo is

[gentoo-user] Linksys pcmcia cards

2003-12-08 Thread Douglas Ferguson
Hi, I'm currently trying to install Gentoo Linux on a Toshiba notebook using a Linksys Etherfast PCMPC100 PCMCIA card. The computer currently has Mandrake Linux (9.2) on it the card works using the axnet_cs driver. Networking fails with Gentoo since this is missing from the Gentoo CD. I did

[gentoo-user] HIGHLY interrestion sound tests, on various formats

2003-12-08 Thread Redeeman
due to the last 2 threads about ogg and mp3, i decided to make some test, and they shows some extremely interresting things. i have used the following tools: tar, bz2, lame, oggenc [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ~/sound_test$ ls -lh total 90.4M -rw-r--r--1 redeeman redeeman 8.3M Dec 8 12:43

Re: [gentoo-user] HIGHLY interrestion sound tests, on various formats

2003-12-08 Thread Robert Cernansky
On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 12:57:32 +0100 Redeeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: R due to the last 2 threads about ogg and mp3, i decided to make some R test, and they shows some extremely interresting things. R R i have used the following tools: tar, bz2, lame, oggenc R R [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ~/sound_test$

Re: [gentoo-user] ripping music cd to mp3

2003-12-08 Thread Spider
begin quote On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 12:20:42 +0100 Redeeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i want 320kbps maximum, so that it takes what the track really is, some places on a track it might be 96kbps, where other places might be 320kbps, then i want it to save the mp3 like that, so in the middle of

Re: [gentoo-user] HIGHLY interrestion sound tests, on various formats

2003-12-08 Thread Spider
begin quote On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 12:57:32 +0100 Redeeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this even shows that its better to bz2 them than to compress with varible bitrate, joint sterio 320kbps mp3. the compressions time was even smaller on the bz2, so i wonder if there is going to be a bz2 plugin

Re: [gentoo-user] HIGHLY interrestion sound tests, on various formats

2003-12-08 Thread Jonas Widarsson
Redeeman wrote: due to the last 2 threads about ogg and mp3, i decided to make some test, and they shows some extremely interresting things. i have used the following tools: tar, bz2, lame, oggenc [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ~/sound_test$ ls -lh total 90.4M -rw-r--r--1 redeeman redeeman 8.3M Dec

Re: [gentoo-user] HIGHLY interrestion sound tests, on various formats

2003-12-08 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Monday 08 December 2003 13:57, Redeeman wrote: due to the last 2 threads about ogg and mp3, i decided to make some test, and they shows some extremely interresting things. i have used the following tools: tar, bz2, lame, oggenc [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ~/sound_test$ ls -lh total 90.4M

Re: [gentoo-user] HIGHLY interrestion sound tests, on various formats

2003-12-08 Thread Øyvind Stegard
Redeeman wrote: due to the last 2 threads about ogg and mp3, i decided to make some test, and they shows some extremely interresting things. i have used the following tools: tar, bz2, lame, oggenc [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ~/sound_test$ ls -lh total 90.4M -rw-r--r--1 redeeman redeeman 8.3M Dec

Re: [gentoo-user] vim-core not compiling

2003-12-08 Thread William Kenworthy
vim wants a newer autoconf: export WANT_AUTOCONF_2_5=1 emerge -u vim autoconf support is a mess - I have one system where I keep having to switch back and forward between versions all the time, but another mostly, but not always wants 2.5. One day it will annoy me enough o try and find out

Re: [gentoo-user] HIGHLY interrestion sound tests, on various formats

2003-12-08 Thread Redeeman
sorry, about the ogg file. i forgot i putted that in another dir. -rw-r--r--1 redeeman redeeman 3.1M Dec 8 13:49 the_hero.ogg -- made with oggenc the_hero.wav, so its standard options, now for the best possible ogg: -rw-r--r--1 redeeman redeeman 14M Dec 8 13:51 the_hero.ogg made

Re: [gentoo-user] HIGHLY interrestion sound tests, on various formats

2003-12-08 Thread Redeeman
On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 13:25, Jonas Widarsson wrote: Redeeman wrote: due to the last 2 threads about ogg and mp3, i decided to make some test, and they shows some extremely interresting things. i have used the following tools: tar, bz2, lame, oggenc [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ~/sound_test$ ls

Re: [gentoo-user] HIGHLY interrestion sound tests, on various formats

2003-12-08 Thread Spider
begin quote On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 12:57:32 +0100 Redeeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: due to the last 2 threads about ogg and mp3, i decided to make some test, and they shows some extremely interresting things. hmm, redoing this myself disproves your idea : 64306076 Depeche Mode - Sister of

Re: [gentoo-user] HIGHLY interrestion sound tests, on various formats

2003-12-08 Thread Redeeman
HMM, i just tested this again, but with another track, and it seems it depends extremely much on what track it is On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 14:03, Spider wrote: begin quote On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 12:57:32 +0100 Redeeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: due to the last 2 threads about ogg and mp3, i

Re: [gentoo-user] HIGHLY interrestion sound tests, on various formats

2003-12-08 Thread Christian Aust
Redeeman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) schrieb am 08.12.2003 14:12 Uhr: HMM, i just tested this again, but with another track, and it seems it depends extremely much on what track it is I've tried it on a 16 Minutes Audio file (176MB of 98 per cent funk [does anybody know the song? :-)]), the tar.bz2

[gentoo-user] Re: PHP emerge error - can not run test program while cross compiling

2003-12-08 Thread Christian Rubbert
On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 17:50:28 +1300 Kevin Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: configure: error: can not run test program while cross compiling !!! ERROR: dev-php/mod_php-4.3.3-r3 failed. !!! Function econf, Line 338, Exitcode 1 !!! econf failed emerge rsync emerge libwww revdep-rebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] vim-core not compiling

2003-12-08 Thread Christian Herzyk
William Kenworthy wrote: vim wants a newer autoconf: export WANT_AUTOCONF_2_5=1 emerge -u vim autoconf support is a mess - I have one system where I keep having to switch back and forward between versions all the time, but another mostly, but not always wants 2.5. One day it will annoy me

Re: [gentoo-user] Managing Distributed Gentoo Boxes

2003-12-08 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 08 December 2003 07:01, Celestial Wizard wrote: By boxes I mean both servers and SOE desktops. Basically our rules are standard installs for roles. IE - Firewalls, File and Print (not many), Web Application, Database, SOE Desktops

[gentoo-user] LiveCD boot freeze on my P4P800 motherboard?

2003-12-08 Thread Frans Meijer
Hi, I'm trying to install Gentoo on my new MoBo: ASUS P4P800DeLuxe containing an Intel 865PE chipset with SATA, RAID, GB Ethernet and what not. Problem is that the LiveCD freezes during boot-up. The even nicer Gentoo start-up screen (with the thermometer) shows up and stays there till Eternity.

[gentoo-user] kernel upgrade

2003-12-08 Thread Helgi Örn Helgason
I want to upgrade my kernel from 2.4.20-gentoo-r8 to 2.4.20-gentoo-r9 as recommended. I used genkernel when I installed the kernel the first time. Should I use genkernel also when I upgrade? Cheers, /HÖ -- /// Helgi Örn Helgason, Registered GNU/Linux User: #189958 \\\ \\\ ~~ Gentoo 1.4 * Kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel upgrade

2003-12-08 Thread David Gethings
On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 15:30, Helgi Örn Helgason wrote: I want to upgrade my kernel from 2.4.20-gentoo-r8 to 2.4.20-gentoo-r9 as recommended. I used genkernel when I installed the kernel the first time. Should I use genkernel also when I upgrade? You certainly can. If you do then you will need

[gentoo-user] ATI TV out

2003-12-08 Thread Helder Rossa
hi, I have my acer tm800 working with 2.6 kernel. All runs very good. but I cant put TV out working. It gives me an black white garble image. Maybe some refresh settings are wrong. what are the right configurations in XF86Config-4 to work in a PAL tv?? thanx -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel upgrade

2003-12-08 Thread David Gethings
On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 15:37, David Gethings wrote: If you wish to change the kernel config use 'genkernel --config'. If not then just run 'genkernel'. Sorry, forgot to mention. If you do not run genkernel with --config then it does a 'make oldconfig'. AFAIK this is just basic config that comes

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI TV out

2003-12-08 Thread Richard Kilgore
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 03:41:38PM +, Helder Rossa wrote: hi, I have my acer tm800 working with 2.6 kernel. All runs very good. but I cant put TV out working. It gives me an black white garble image. Maybe some refresh settings are wrong. what are the right configurations in

[gentoo-user] kdelibs-qt conflict?

2003-12-08 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
I tried to run -u world this morning on a machine that is usually update every 2-3 weeks or so. In the upgrade of kde it says that kdelibs-3.1.4 is blocked because of qt-3.2.3? I have kde 3.1.2 currently running. I thought qt and kde lived together, qt is needed for kde? Mike -- Michael W.

Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs-qt conflict?

2003-12-08 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Tuesday 09 December 2003 00:33, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: I tried to run -u world this morning on a machine that is usually update every 2-3 weeks or so. In the upgrade of kde it says that kdelibs-3.1.4 is blocked because of qt-3.2.3? I have kde 3.1.2 currently running. I thought qt and

Re: [gentoo-user] HIGHLY interrestion sound tests, on various formats

2003-12-08 Thread yvind Stegard
Redeeman wrote: and as an answer to Øyvind Stegard's question: its not a joke, and if i uncompress the tarball it works 100% and i get the same md5sum of the file before and after. and yes, this was ripped from a original cd, using grip, which i used cdparanoia within. Pardon me, then. I guess

[gentoo-user] HiZ PpL

2003-12-08 Thread Black Hand
Hi i am a amigan (Amithlon box) for years and now a GNU/Linux/Debian user from some months. i go to Debian because i dislike RedHat Windows-Like style to do the things and because the Debian distro is very estimated for some ex-amigan users that now use GNU/Linux. I like Debian too, i upgrade

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel upgrade

2003-12-08 Thread Guy Van Sanden
I copied the config file in /etc/kernels/... Genkernel uses that file if it exists. Everything went fine, execpt that USB seems broken in gentoo-r9 (at least on my system). On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 16:49, David Gethings wrote: On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 15:37, David Gethings wrote: If you wish to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo for production servers.

2003-12-08 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Tom Wesley wrote: I think that there is a high degree of probability that portage-ng(-ng(-ng)) ;) will include some form of tree selection. I personally would like to see something like this. Either pointing to a completely different rsync server set, or having a extended set of

Re: [gentoo-user] ripping music cd to mp3

2003-12-08 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Josh Helmer wrote: On Sunday 07 December 2003 09:35 pm, Tom Hosiawa wrote: After doing some googling, I know I can't mount a music cd. So if I want to rip the songs of the cd to mp3's with a program like lame, how do I tell it where the input wav file is? Or is there some better way to

Re: [gentoo-user] ripping music cd to mp3

2003-12-08 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Redeeman wrote: now we talk about this, what encoder for mp3 supports 320kbps variable bitrate joint sterio ? that is the thing that generates best sound for the disk cost, but now i want to test ogg too, (and maybe stop use mp3). i did this with audio catalyst in windoze can ogg/vorbis do

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel upgrade

2003-12-08 Thread Barry Marler
On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 17:17:15 +0100 Guy Van Sanden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I copied the config file in /etc/kernels/... Genkernel uses that file if it exists. Everything went fine, execpt that USB seems broken in gentoo-r9 (at least on my system). snip If you wished to preserve the

Re: [gentoo-user] ripping music cd to mp3

2003-12-08 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Redeeman wrote: so, to produce the best quality mp3 with variable bitrate joint sterio 320kbps i shall do: lame -m j -q 0 -v -b 32 -B 320 -V 0 i guess 0 is best in -V too? for ogg to get 320kbps joint sterio and variable bitrate i dont understand? does it do that automatically? I have

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel upgrade

2003-12-08 Thread Helgi Örn Helgason
On 2003-12-08, David Gethings wrote: On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 15:37, David Gethings wrote: If you wish to change the kernel config use 'genkernel --config'. If not then just run 'genkernel'. Sorry, forgot to mention. If you do not run genkernel with --config then it does a 'make oldconfig'.

Re: [gentoo-user] ripping music cd to mp3

2003-12-08 Thread HvR
emerge grip On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 20:35, Tom Hosiawa wrote: After doing some googling, I know I can't mount a music cd. So if I want to rip the songs of the cd to mp3's with a program like lame, how do I tell it where the input wav file is? Or is there some better way to ripping music cd's?

[gentoo-user] Stuck on dialup

2003-12-08 Thread Larry W . Irwin Sr .
Hi, I am very interested in using Gentoo compile from source. However, I only have a dialup connection to the net. Reading the docs told me that I must install the stage 3 tarball to be able to use ppp. It also says that using the stage 3 tarball requires a 686 processor. I am running an AMD

Re: [gentoo-user] Stuck on dialup

2003-12-08 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Larry W.Irwin Sr. wrote: Hi, I am very interested in using Gentoo compile from source. However, I only have a dialup connection to the net. Reading the docs told me that I must install the stage 3 tarball to be able to use ppp. It also I'm pretty sure that the LiveCD has support for ppp.

Re: [gentoo-user] HIGHLY interrestion sound tests, on various formats

2003-12-08 Thread Alan
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 02:28:45PM +0100, Christian Aust wrote: Redeeman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) schrieb am 08.12.2003 14:12 Uhr: HMM, i just tested this again, but with another track, and it seems it depends extremely much on what track it is I've tried it on a 16 Minutes Audio file (176MB

Re: [gentoo-user] HiZ PpL

2003-12-08 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Tuesday 09 December 2003 01:14, Black Hand wrote: AMD Duron 900 Mhz, 512MB RAM, 20GB HD (10GB are going to try Gentoo if i like to do) i have in my hoem network an AthlonXP 2400+ machine with 512MB DDR RAM with WinXP installed (brother machine) and i like to try and test if i can use

Re: [gentoo-user] HIGHLY interrestion sound tests, on various formats

2003-12-08 Thread Redeeman
On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 17:01, Øyvind Stegard wrote: Redeeman wrote: and as an answer to Øyvind Stegard's question: its not a joke, and if i uncompress the tarball it works 100% and i get the same md5sum of the file before and after. and yes, this was ripped from a original cd, using

Re: [gentoo-user] HiZ PpL

2003-12-08 Thread Sigurd Stordal
On Monday 08 December 2003 17:14, Black Hand wrote: - exist precompiled binaries for gnome2.4 and openoffice? and if i use Precompiled binaries can i recompile the same versions, for example i install precompiled binaries for gnome and openoffice, and after i reinstall the same packages, now

Re: [gentoo-user] Stuck on dialup

2003-12-08 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Tuesday 09 December 2003 01:50, Andrew Gaffney wrote: Larry W.Irwin Sr. wrote: Hi, I am very interested in using Gentoo compile from source. However, I only have a dialup connection to the net. Reading the docs told me that I must install the stage 3 tarball to be able to use

Re: [gentoo-user] qms 815mr

2003-12-08 Thread Sigurd Stordal
anyone to have an idea how can I print with QMS-815MR printer ?! from the linuxprinting.org home page, there seems not to be any info about this printer. That would suggest that it's not supported. But it is supported by the commercial esp pro driver. go to www.easysw.com/printpro searching

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel upgrade

2003-12-08 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 08 December 2003 16:37, Helgi Örn Helgason wrote: I don't know if you are totally wrong, but this is what i dug out; if you take a look at the /usr/sbin/genkernel script then you can see that it is supposed to search for a file called

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild installing old package

2003-12-08 Thread Chris Bare
You may have multiple versions of galeon installed, check etcat versions '^galeon$' Remove your old galeon versions and revdep-rebuild again. * net-www/galeon : [ ] net-www/galeon-1.2.10a (0) [ ] net-www/galeon-1.2.11 (0) [ ] net-www/galeon-1.2.12 (0)

Re: [gentoo-user] HiZ PpL

2003-12-08 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Tuesday 09 December 2003 02:12, Sigurd Stordal wrote: Well, I have just helped a friend of mine installing on an old slot a athlon 750. compiling base took some hour, but we where at stage 3 after about one day. Then took about 24 hour to compile kde, gnome and openoffice. But then this

Re: [gentoo-user] HiZ PpL

2003-12-08 Thread Dennis Freise
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 02:07:33 +0900 Jason Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have never tried distcc with cygwin but I think it would probably be more trouble than it is worth. distcc is not recommended with different gcc versions and cygwin almost definately uses an older version than (one of

[gentoo-user] Re: vipul's razor won't install

2003-12-08 Thread Christian Rubbert
On Sun, 07 Dec 2003 19:52:32 +0100 Redeeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: still doesent work: Appending installation info to /var/tmp/portage/razor-2.36-r1/image//usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/perllocal.pod blib/script/razor-client Can't locate Razor2/Preproc/deHTMLxs.pm in @INC (@INC contains:

Re: [gentoo-user] Stuck on dialup

2003-12-08 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Larry W.Irwin Sr. wrote: Hi, I am very interested in using Gentoo compile from source. However, I only have a dialup connection to the net. Reading the docs told me that I must install the stage 3 tarball to be able to use ppp. It also says that using the stage 3 tarball requires a 686

Re: [gentoo-user] Package info (Was: HiZ PpL)

2003-12-08 Thread Helgi Örn Helgason
On 2003-12-09, Jason Stubbs wrote: [...] but it's still very easy to find out and to configure them all. Essentially, all the things that apt-get does portage does too - the only differences are reverse dependencies (which will come to portage very soon) and USE flags (which automate the

RE: [gentoo-user] HiZ PpL

2003-12-08 Thread Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower)
Just to confirm the bug, I have that same problem as well. I haven't looked into it yet. -Original Message- From: Jason Stubbs On Tuesday 09 December 2003 01:14, Black Hand wrote: - i have a strange problem with gxine in debian. some times fail (segment fault) when i try to put gxine

Re: [gentoo-user] HIGHLY interrestion sound tests, on various formats

2003-12-08 Thread yvind Stegard
Redeeman wrote: the one i got compressed alot was from a cd with soundtrack from a game, so no voice from a singing person, maybe that has something to say Perhaps very repetative, with each repetition containing exactly the same samples .. Like, for instance, a MOD/tracker-like file converted to

[gentoo-user] HIGHLY interrestion sound tests, on various formats

2003-12-08 Thread Achilles Limbouris
I agree with Robert Xyvind, that can't be real music ;) The .bz2 compression ratio (vs. the wav) was 1 : 5.781 I tried bzipping some Chopin (bzip2 version 1.02, no cmdline options) and I got a measley 1 : 1.24 Personally though, (with my speakers at least), I can't tell the difference between 1.4

Re: [gentoo-user] Package info (Was: HiZ PpL)

2003-12-08 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Tuesday 09 December 2003 02:43, Helgi Örn Helgason wrote: On 2003-12-09, Jason Stubbs wrote: [...] but it's still very easy to find out and to configure them all. Essentially, all the things that apt-get does portage does too - the only differences are reverse dependencies (which will

Re: [gentoo-user] Stuck on dialup

2003-12-08 Thread Larry W . Irwin Sr .
On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 10:50:49 -0600 Andrew Gaffney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm pretty sure that the LiveCD has support for ppp. Also, if you have another Linux distro already installed, you can connect to the internet from there, and install from there. I read about using another distro

Re: [gentoo-user] Stuck on dialup

2003-12-08 Thread Larry W . Irwin Sr .
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 02:14:18 +0900 Jason Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A warning though: the initial installation (that is getting a bootable system) will take you about 4 days combined downloading and compiling time judging from your CPU. X11 and your favourite WM will then take you a day

Re: [gentoo-user] HIGHLY interrestion sound tests, on various formats

2003-12-08 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Achilles Limbouris wrote: I agree with Robert Xyvind, that can't be real music ;) The .bz2 compression ratio (vs. the wav) was 1 : 5.781 I tried bzipping some Chopin (bzip2 version 1.02, no cmdline options) and I got a measley 1 : 1.24 Personally though, (with my speakers at least), I can't tell

Re: [gentoo-user] Stuck on dialup

2003-12-08 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Larry W.Irwin Sr. wrote: On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 10:50:49 -0600 Andrew Gaffney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm pretty sure that the LiveCD has support for ppp. Also, if you have another Linux distro already installed, you can connect to the internet from there, and install from there. I read about

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernels 2.4.20 don't work with reiserfs

2003-12-08 Thread Wes Gray
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 11:37:13AM -0800, Wes Gray wrote: I ran into this problem a while back upgrading from 2.4.20 to 21 or 22 where when it booted up the new kernel it would fail mounting my / partition which is running reiserfs. I posted, and while no solution was found, others mentioned

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernels 2.4.20 don't work with reiserfs

2003-12-08 Thread Andrew Farmer
On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 10:58:55 -0800, Wes Gray muttered: On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 11:37:13AM -0800, Wes Gray wrote: I ran into this problem a while back upgrading from 2.4.20 to 21 or 22 where when it booted up the new kernel it would fail mounting my / partition which is running reiserfs. I

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel upgrade

2003-12-08 Thread Helgi Örn Helgason
On 2003-12-08, Mike Williams wrote: genkernel creates an /etc/kernels/config-version per kernel version. When I change kernel, but want to keep the old config (as best is possible) I copy the config-version to the new version and genkernel away. Ok, that's interesting. What if you want to

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't find /proc in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab

2003-12-08 Thread Paul Grenyer
On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 21:57, rd wrote: Hi Try proc /proc procdefaults 0 0 This is what my /etc/fstab has in it. That worked, thanks! -- Regards Paul Paul Grenyer Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.paulgrenyer.co.uk Please note my change of email address. -- [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel upgrade

2003-12-08 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 08 December 2003 19:30, Helgi Örn Helgason wrote: On 2003-12-08, Mike Williams wrote: genkernel creates an /etc/kernels/config-version per kernel version. When I change kernel, but want to keep the old config (as best is possible) I

[gentoo-user] open office build: app-office/openoffice-1.1.0-r2

2003-12-08 Thread nealbirch
I was getting a error while trying to build openoffice: open_wr: /opt/OpenOffice.org1.0.3/foo.tmp unlink:/opt/OpenOffice.org1.0.3/delme One of the bugzilla reports said to rm .sversionrc, which did the trick. I had changed my CFLAGS to: CFLAGS=-march=athlon-xp -Os -pipe -mfpmath=sse -msse

Re: [gentoo-user] open office build: app-office/openoffice-1.1.0-r2

2003-12-08 Thread Klaus Neumann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was getting a error while trying to build openoffice: open_wr: /opt/OpenOffice.org1.0.3/foo.tmp unlink:/opt/OpenOffice.org1.0.3/delme One of the bugzilla reports said to rm .sversionrc, which did the trick. I had changed my CFLAGS to: CFLAGS=-march=athlon-xp -Os

[gentoo-user] Re: LiveCD boot freeze on my P4P800 motherboard?

2003-12-08 Thread Eelco den Heijer
ubject: LiveCD boot freeze on my P4P800 motherboard? From: Frans Meijer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 16:10:06 +0100 (CET) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I'm trying to install Gentoo on my new MoBo: ASUS P4P800DeLuxe containing an Intel 865PE chipset with SATA, RAID, GB Ethernet and what

[gentoo-user] A problem with MozillaFirebird

2003-12-08 Thread Scharf Yuval
Hello, I installed MozillaFirebird and it works fine with English websites. But, when I go to a Hebrew website instead of Hebrew letters I get those funny squares each includes 4 characters. How do I tell the browser to use Hebrew fonts? What is that funny font that Firbird is using? Thanks,

Re: [gentoo-user] ripping music cd to mp3

2003-12-08 Thread Matthew Kennedy
Tom Hosiawa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After doing some googling, I know I can't mount a music cd. So if I want to rip the songs of the cd to mp3's with a program like lame, how do I tell it where the input wav file is? Or is there some better way to ripping music cd's? [...] I'm sure

[gentoo-user] lm_sensors, or rather /etc/conf.d/sensors

2003-12-08 Thread Leon Fitinghoff
Dear Frodo, thanks for providing the lm_sensors ebuild in Gentoo. Sometimes a module needs a parameter, such as the it87 for Asus A7V600 board, eg to define sensor types. However, nowhere is it stated how to include a parameter. After advice from Peter Ruskin on the gentoo-user list, I tried

Re: [gentoo-user] A problem with MozillaFirebird

2003-12-08 Thread Andrew Farmer
On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 12:51:54 -0800, Scharf Yuval muttered: Hello, I installed MozillaFirebird and it works fine with English websites. But, when I go to a Hebrew website instead of Hebrew letters I get those funny squares each includes 4 characters. How do I tell the browser to use Hebrew

Re: [gentoo-user] A problem with MozillaFirebird

2003-12-08 Thread Scharf Yuval
On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Andrew Farmer wrote: On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 12:51:54 -0800, Scharf Yuval muttered: Hello, I installed MozillaFirebird and it works fine with English websites. But, when I go to a Hebrew website instead of Hebrew letters I get those funny squares each includes 4

Re: [gentoo-user] Package info (Was: HiZ PpL)

2003-12-08 Thread Helgi Örn Helgason
On 2003-12-09, Jason Stubbs wrote: On Tuesday 09 December 2003 02:43, Helgi Örn Helgason wrote: One thing I miss in emerge is something similar to *apt-get show [package]* which lists a rather (often) detailed description of the package in question, similar to *rpm -qi [package]*.

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