Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Is there No documentation for K3B ????

2003-12-24 Thread Joshua Banks
--- lodger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All I could find was > k3b --help Yup. I checked that. Sorry, forgot to mention that. Does anyone have any suggestions for a CD/DVD ripping linux program that is Very intuitive and has lots of documentation for a newb that is used to using Windows Nero.

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with new system

2003-12-24 Thread Ben Calvert
On Wednesday 24 December 2003 22:49, Collins wrote: > On Wednesday 24 December 2003 13:12, Thomas Richards wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I was thinking of maybe a 10 GB /root partition on ext3 > > to store important files. Has anyone compared JFS to ext3? I tried jfs on a recent install and had lots

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with new system

2003-12-24 Thread Collins
On Wednesday 24 December 2003 13:12, Thomas Richards wrote: > Hello, > > I was thinking of maybe a 10 GB /root partition on ext3 > to store important files. Has anyone compared JFS to ext3? Can't help you with JFS, but I'm an EXT3 fan. Many of my correspondents on the linux-users list prefer

[gentoo-user] Weird kppp error annoyance

2003-12-24 Thread Robert Crawford
About one-third of the time when I try to connect with kppp (randomly), I get the error box 1-2 times where it says "The pppd daemon died unexpectedly! Exit status 19. I then click "details," and it gives this message. Cannot open any of the following logfiles: /var/log/syslog.ppp /var/log/sysl

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Is there No documentation for K3B ????

2003-12-24 Thread lodger
On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 18:44:52 -0800 (PST) Joshua Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I must be blind. I don't see any man pages nor is there any type of > tutorial or Help manual that I can find for K3B ver. 0.9. > > Under the drop down "Help" menu, "K3B Handbook is greyed out". > > I'm not compla

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with new system

2003-12-24 Thread Thomas Richards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hmm yea, come to think of it your suggestions make more sense. I still think I'm going to try out LVM. I'm just leary of setting limits on the partitions(paranoid thinking in the future nut). I will take yer suggestion and create a /home and a / par

Re: [gentoo-user] ReiserFSCK woes

2003-12-24 Thread Scott Jackson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 (laughs) I suppose I had it coming. Luckily nothing quite volatile was on the disk when it happened, in fact, it probably needed a good formatting, considering the number of times and the magnitude at which I screwed up the install. (note to self: s

Re: [gentoo-user] K3B on 2.6.0

2003-12-24 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Thursday 25 December 2003 04:18, Vanh Phom wrote: (B> On Wed, 2003-12-24 at 14:19, Cybercar wrote: (B> > Hi everyone, firt of all Merry Xmas (B> > (B> > Well, Now I was going to try to copy a CD on K3B and I want to know (B> > first if I have to Add the scsi-emulation on the kernel, or

Re: [gentoo-user] HOWTO: Installation on Dell Inspiron 8500 Laptop

2003-12-24 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Chris Nitkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > I just finished writing a first draft of an installation HOWTO on my > Inspiron 8500 laptop... check it out at > http://www.chrisnitkin.com/wordpress/static_gentoo_guide.php! Please be > gentle (with both my server and your criticisms)! Thanks!

[gentoo-user] setting default terminal font

2003-12-24 Thread Ian Truelsen
How can I set the default for the console and the terminal in X (Eterm should it matter)? I have tried using setfont with fonts from /usr/share/consolefont, but I get the two error: putfont: PIO_FONT: Invalid argument -- Ian Truelsen Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: ihtruelsen Homepage: http://www

Re: [gentoo-user] Package question?

2003-12-24 Thread Vanh Phom
On Wed, 2003-12-24 at 15:58, Robert G.Waycott wrote: > > > Vanh, you can easily type all the packages you want to emerge on one line before > pressing enter key. Such as: > > # emerge xfce4-package1 xfce4-pkg2 etc etc etc etc > > Tha

Re: [gentoo-user] K3B on 2.6.0

2003-12-24 Thread Vanh Phom
On Wed, 2003-12-24 at 14:19, Cybercar wrote: > Hi everyone, firt of all Merry Xmas > > Well, Now I was going to try to copy a CD on K3B and I want to know > first if I have to Add the scsi-emulation on the kernel, or there's > other new way to do it on 2.6.0 kernel. > > Thank's all In 2.6.0

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with new system

2003-12-24 Thread Spider
begin quote On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 21:12:34 + Thomas Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > /boot ext2 10 MB you have 120 gb, use at least 32 mb here. or you'll regret it when you want to try out things (oh, new bootloader with some cute games in it? perhaps initrd with a mini-safe system on i

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.0 on gentoo with nvidia

2003-12-24 Thread Cybercar
I've fixed the problem. Just to put the nvidia as a module in the autoload file, and it works fine. Merry Xmas El jue, 25-12-2003 a las 04:08, Jason Stubbs escribió: > On Saturday 20 December 2003 00:01, Cybercar wrote: > > My XF86Config is a bit full of shit ( so many comments # ) > > You're XF

Re: [gentoo-user] Package question?

2003-12-24 Thread Vanh Phom
On Wed, 2003-12-24 at 13:42, Oliver Lange wrote: > You normally don't need to do that.. if you enter 'emerge xyz', you'll get > the package inclusing all dependencies. I guess you're using a dial-up > connection and want to download everything in one go before installation ? > > Then use 'emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.0 on gentoo with nvidia

2003-12-24 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Saturday 20 December 2003 00:01, Cybercar wrote: (B> My XF86Config is a bit full of shit ( so many comments # ) (B (BYou're XF86Config looks fine as well. I just checked your kernel .config again (Band found: (B (BCONFIG_AGP=y (BCONFIG_AGP_INTEL=y (BCONFIG_AGP_NVIDIA=y (BCONFIG_DRM=y 

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with new system

2003-12-24 Thread Thomas Richards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I didnt know about LVM before, it looks very interesting. I think I'm going to try it out. Tom Just Modeste wrote: | On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 21:12:34 + Thomas Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | wrote: | |> I recently decided to build a new gentoo system

[gentoo-user] OT: Is there No documentation for K3B ????

2003-12-24 Thread Joshua Banks
I must be blind. I don't see any man pages nor is there any type of tutorial or Help manual that I can find for K3B ver. 0.9. Under the drop down "Help" menu, "K3B Handbook is greyed out". I'm not complaining, because I found it very intuitive to use. The problem that I'm going to have is that I

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with new system

2003-12-24 Thread Just Modeste
On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 21:12:34 + Thomas Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I recently decided to build a new gentoo system for xmas. With this > new system, I will be getting a 120GB hard drive. I was contimplating > a partition scheme and I would like some advice. > Currently, I have this

[gentoo-user] Help with new system

2003-12-24 Thread Thomas Richards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I recently decided to build a new gentoo system for xmas. With this new system, I will be getting a 120GB hard drive. I was contimplating a partition scheme and I would like some advice. Currently, I have this worked out: /boot ext2 10 MB /var

[gentoo-user] No sound with bttv from kernel 2.6

2003-12-24 Thread romildo
Hello. I have a PixelView PlayTV Pro PV-BT878P+ Rev. 8E installed in my system, which runs the kernel gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.0. The soundcard is a C-Media CM8738, driven by Alsa. The TV card works perfectly, but without sound. With the kernel gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r8 it does have no problems wit

[gentoo-user] gnomad2 error

2003-12-24 Thread Stephen Turner
> usb_bulk_write: No such file or directory > send_njb3_command: I/O failure on USB data pipe hey guys the above is an error i get while running gnomad2 for my zen xtra i cant get it to work and would rather not use windoze, any suggestions? this error comes from the command prompt immediately aft

Re: [gentoo-user] x86+scsi problem

2003-12-24 Thread George Hernandez
On 12/24/03 3:01 AM, "Peter Ruskin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks peter... I think I had forgotten pts support.. So I recompiled the kernel right now.. Hopefully it will work.. So far I did have /proc as you showed me and /dev/shm Lets see what happes > On Wednesday 24 Dec 2003 04:07, Georg

Re: [gentoo-user] 'system' packages list; svscan & inittab

2003-12-24 Thread Spider
begin quote On Thu, 25 Dec 2003 03:20:11 +0200 Alex Efros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > without prob, but all software with optional XFree support will be > compiled without it. > Ohh, sorry!!! I've just rechecked /etc/make.profile/packages and > noticed > what there is no 'star' at line '>=x

Re: [gentoo-user] 'system' packages list; svscan & inittab

2003-12-24 Thread Alex Efros
Hi! On Thu, Dec 25, 2003 at 01:29:16AM +0100, Spider wrote: > > Some other software which may be removed from 'system' is: > > 1) gawk - there is a lot of different 'awk' realizations which user > > may want instead of gawk (I prefer 'mawk') > This may not be direct in system, check virtuals/ sup

Re: [gentoo-user] mounting winxp-vfat

2003-12-24 Thread Chris
On Wed December 24 2003 5:00:pm, Chris I wrote: > On Wed, 2003-12-24 at 16:38, Chris wrote: > > On Wed December 24 2003 7:33:am, Norberto Bensa wrote: > > > Harald Arnesen wrote: > > > > Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > >> On Tuesday 23 December 2003 02:38 pm, Chris wrote: > > > > >> just

Re: [gentoo-user] 'system' packages list; svscan & inittab

2003-12-24 Thread Spider
begin quote On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 20:26:13 +0200 Alex Efros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Some other software which may be removed from 'system' is: > 1) gawk - there is a lot of different 'awk' realizations which user > may want instead of gawk (I prefer 'mawk') This may not be direct in system, c

[gentoo-user] kde beta ( was re: dvd+rw gui interface)

2003-12-24 Thread Ben Calvert
> > the only caveat is that i had to turn off autofs, which kept trying to > > mount the disk while i was burning it. no data seems to be damaged. > > Ah I could live with that... As I'm off to bed I think I'm going to > emerge the kde beta overnight, can always set depclean on it in the > morni

Re: [gentoo-user] dvd+rw gui interface

2003-12-24 Thread Tom Wesley
On Wed, 2003-12-24 at 22:59, Ben Calvert wrote: > On Wednesday 24 December 2003 13:31, Tom Wesley wrote: > > > > I haven't tried nautalus, but strongly recommend k3b for burning. it's > > > not too heavy on kde dependencies, and has the most natural interface > > > i've found for burning anything

Re: [gentoo-user] mounting winxp-vfat

2003-12-24 Thread Chris I
On Wed, 2003-12-24 at 16:38, Chris wrote: > On Wed December 24 2003 7:33:am, Norberto Bensa wrote: > > Harald Arnesen wrote: > > > Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> On Tuesday 23 December 2003 02:38 pm, Chris wrote: > > > >> just do a "mkdir /mnt/c" as root then try it > > > > > > > > had

Re: [gentoo-user] dvd+rw gui interface

2003-12-24 Thread Ben Calvert
On Wednesday 24 December 2003 13:31, Tom Wesley wrote: > > I haven't tried nautalus, but strongly recommend k3b for burning. it's > > not too heavy on kde dependencies, and has the most natural interface > > i've found for burning anything. > > > > burning a dvd is as easy as selecting 'dvd-data

Re: [gentoo-user] CD's and MP3's

2003-12-24 Thread Chris I
On Wed, 2003-12-24 at 06:51, mathieu perrenoud wrote: > On Wednesday 24 December 2003 11.34, Paul Stear wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > A very merry xmas to all. > > > > I bought my wife a couple of Cd's that I would like and didn't > > realise that they are copy protected but list that they can be pla

Re: [gentoo-user] partition resizing inside of Gentoo

2003-12-24 Thread Oliver Lange
Simon Kellett wrote: If this *is* a problem then checkout "paud" (try freshmeat). It is a mini-distro that fits on a single floppy and includes parted (you download the 1.44Mb image under a working OS, make a floppy, boot it and re-part you disks as required (I used it a few weeks ago to sort out m

Re: [gentoo-user] custom ebuilds`

2003-12-24 Thread Andrew Cowie
On Wed, 2003-12-24 at 07:07, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > See the 'B' part? That's pretty appropriate. They break things. They > break things badly. It's certainly Buyer Beware. I would like to point out at least one exception (which probably proves the rule), which was the openoffice-ximian ebuild;

Re: [gentoo-user] ReiserFSCK woes

2003-12-24 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 15:38:07 -0600 Scott Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I reiserfsck three different ways until I figure | out I need to --rebuild-tree. SHOOP | entire filesystem goes into /lost+found. What is a boy to do? You're probably best going with a more stable filesystem if you don't

[gentoo-user] ReiserFSCK woes

2003-12-24 Thread Scott Jackson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Well, I'm writing this email from my older machine right now, which has a Pentium II 333MHz processor, 60 GB hard drive, etc. The scheme of my partitioning is quite simple: /dev/hda1 = boot (ext3) /dev/hda2 = swap /dev/hda3 = root (reiserFS) My bra

Re: [gentoo-user] mounting winxp-vfat

2003-12-24 Thread Chris
On Wed December 24 2003 7:33:am, Norberto Bensa wrote: > Harald Arnesen wrote: > > Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> On Tuesday 23 December 2003 02:38 pm, Chris wrote: > > >> just do a "mkdir /mnt/c" as root then try it > > > > > > had to reboot but it worked thanks > > > > It was not necces

Re: [gentoo-user] Merry Christmas

2003-12-24 Thread Chris
On Wed December 24 2003 9:30:am, Collins wrote: > On Wednesday 24 December 2003 05:38, Oliver Lange wrote: > > Merry Christmas to all of you ! > > > > Have a good time, and thanks to all for your gracious > > help and patience with off-topic questions. > > > > Now put your keyboard away and have a

Re: [gentoo-user] dvd+rw gui interface

2003-12-24 Thread Tom Wesley
On Wed, 2003-12-24 at 21:25, Ben Calvert wrote: > On Wednesday 24 December 2003 13:20, Tom Wesley wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I've just bought myself a new DVD-/+RW drive, fitted it and done some > > reading up on the software to control the device. It all works > > perfectly if I use the command l

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoouser] [gentoo] sudo-like behaviour

2003-12-24 Thread Ben Calvert
On Wednesday 24 December 2003 13:17, Patrick Audley wrote: > raptor> hi, Is there a way to run enable some user to run remotely > raptor> via ssh some commands, but forbid him shell access at > raptor> all.. I mean I want to eneble him only : > > Yes, this is very doable. If you m

Re: [gentoo-user] dvd+rw gui interface

2003-12-24 Thread Ben Calvert
On Wednesday 24 December 2003 13:20, Tom Wesley wrote: > Hi all, > > I've just bought myself a new DVD-/+RW drive, fitted it and done some > reading up on the software to control the device. It all works > perfectly if I use the command line tool growisofs (part of > app-cdr/dvd+rw-tools), but [1]

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoouser] [gentoo] sudo-like behaviour

2003-12-24 Thread Patrick Audley
raptor> hi, Is there a way to run enable some user to run remotely raptor> via ssh some commands, but forbid him shell access at raptor> all.. I mean I want to eneble him only : Yes, this is very doable. If you man sshd and look for the section on "AUTHORIZED_KEYS FILE FORMAT" y

[gentoo-user] dvd+rw gui interface

2003-12-24 Thread Tom Wesley
Hi all, I've just bought myself a new DVD-/+RW drive, fitted it and done some reading up on the software to control the device. It all works perfectly if I use the command line tool growisofs (part of app-cdr/dvd+rw-tools), but [1] mentions that it should also work with nautilus-cd-burner and k3b

Re: [gentoo-user] the smallest smtp server ?

2003-12-24 Thread Richard Kilgore
On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 09:25:33PM +0100, Simon Kellett wrote: > On 14 Dec 2003 at 01:56, SMS Webmaster wrote: > > > I want to install the most easy and small smtp server in to my laptop > > (localhost) JUST to use it to send my emails > > > > What is the best one ? ( I hope it is in the portage

RE: [gentoo-user] How to force reinstallation

2003-12-24 Thread Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower)
>-Original Message- >From: Gerhard W.Gruber > >On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 08:35:33 -0600, "Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower)" ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>You shouldn't have to build and install Mesa. The program "opengl-update" >>just changes some links from "/usr/lib" to another directory. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Xmas

2003-12-24 Thread Brendan Sullivan
*w00t* Merry Christmas to all. Hey, anyone made a Xmas gentoo wallpaper? I'm not that good w/ Gimp, but i know there are people out there who are ;) On Wed, 2003-12-24 at 13:12, Jernej Zidar wrote: > Merry Christmas to all Gentoo users! > > JZIdar > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Br

Re: [gentoo-user] partition resizing inside of Gentoo

2003-12-24 Thread Simon Kellett
On 16 Dec 2003 at 02:07, N. Owen Gunden wrote: > On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 10:15:43PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > > reading yet, but was wondering if there are tools that can both resize > > and move existing partitions while they are potentially in use? > > GNU Parted is a pretty amazing partition

Re: [gentoo-user] the smallest smtp server ?

2003-12-24 Thread Simon Kellett
On 14 Dec 2003 at 01:56, SMS Webmaster wrote: > I want to install the most easy and small smtp server in to my laptop > (localhost) JUST to use it to send my emails > > What is the best one ? ( I hope it is in the portage ) I have used masqmail for some time now SUSE 7.1. It is v. small and sim

Re: [gentoo-user] netstat

2003-12-24 Thread Simon Kellett
On 18 Dec 2003 at 15:37, Spider wrote: > state would mean that it doesn't let the program terminate > properly, Nearly. IIRC a process is classed as a zombie when it *has* terminated but no other process has collected the return code. All resources used are freed up, except for a small entry in

Re: [gentoo-user] using gentoo to see partions

2003-12-24 Thread Lincoln A. Baxter
On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 13:57, Chris wrote: [snip] > i guess i'll just keep trying dif combos until this thing finally mounts > winxp-vfat Are you aware that the default XP partition is and NTFS file system? vfat will never do it unless you have explicitly created the partition as FAT. Lincoln

Re: [gentoo-user] Xmas

2003-12-24 Thread Stefan Harrington-Palmer
You too :) And everyone on the list. Stefan - Original Message - From: "Jernej Zidar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gentoo User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2003 7:12 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] Xmas > Merry Christmas to all Gentoo users! > > JZIdar > > -- > [EMAIL PRO

[gentoo-user] Xmas

2003-12-24 Thread Jernej Zidar
Merry Christmas to all Gentoo users! JZIdar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Unsubscribe errors

2003-12-24 Thread Collins
On Wednesday 24 December 2003 08:17, W. Blaine Dowler wrote: > Hi all, > > I unsubscribed from this list last week, including responding to the > unsubscribe confirmation. For about five days, I didn't receive a single > message. Then, overnight, I seem to have been somehow resubscribed. I > sen

Re: [gentoo-user] 'system' packages list; svscan & inittab

2003-12-24 Thread Alex Efros
Hi! On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 05:59:01PM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 17:11:40 +0200 Alex Efros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > | 1. Why there is so many packages in 'system' list? Why not make > | 'system' > |list much smaller (like in LinuxFromScratch)? Is there exists >

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge: Invalid db entry

2003-12-24 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
- Original Message - From: "Robert G.Waycott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2003 9:53 AM Subject: Re: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge: Invalid db entry > > I, too, have this problem, although I have /dev support built into my kernel. What, then? > > B

Re: [gentoo-user] Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/*sys-fs/devfsd ... in x86 stable!

2003-12-24 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
It doesn't justify not committing the fix to stable either. Certainly, it is not clear to anybody starting out that it is a cosmetic bug. My point is that it wasn't tested and it is not stable (although it is functional). Tom Veldhouse - Original Message - From: "Ciaran McCreesh" <[EMA

Re: [gentoo-user] Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/*sys-fs/devfsd ... in x86 stable!

2003-12-24 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 11:32:26 -0600 "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Nothing has worked. However, what I need to know is if there is an | actual process to fix this. If not, the patch needs to be commited to | "stable"(x86) ASAP or the current version of portage in stable needs |

Re: [gentoo-user] 'system' packages list; svscan & inittab

2003-12-24 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 17:11:40 +0200 Alex Efros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | 1. Why there is so many packages in 'system' list? Why not make | 'system' |list much smaller (like in LinuxFromScratch)? Is there exists |documentation which describe reason to include all these packages |in'sys

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge: Invalid db entry

2003-12-24 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 07:24:28 -0800 Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Speaking of which, when will this ever be fixed? Every newbie who | comes along encounters this. I even got it when reinstalling from | Stage1 on a new machine. Even with the instructions in bugzilla, it | took several attem

[gentoo-user] slocate doesn't release memory

2003-12-24 Thread purslow
when i run 'slocate' as a cron job or via CLI, it raises net memory usage from c 60 MB to c 200 MB & leaves it there (ie 'used +/- buffers/cache' in 'free'). exiting X makes no difference, but rebooting (naturally) restores the memory figure to the previous level. i've checked the forum (searc

[gentoo-user] Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/*sys-fs/devfsd ... in x86 stable!

2003-12-24 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Hello all ... to the list .. welcome back after the unexplained hiatus. Often, after an emerge of a particular package, I see this error: Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/*sys-fs/devfsd I have followed all the directions according to the link below ... EXCEPT for manually patching portage. http://

Re: [gentoo-user] thunderbird and gtk-theme

2003-12-24 Thread Mental Patient
Eric Marchionni wrote: hi, after emerging the latest mozilla-thunderbird ebuild (v0.4) the appearance of my email client is totally different: it shows up in a aqua gtk-theme. So how'd you emerge it? When I try to emerge it, it fails as a masked package. I'm running a current, stable system.

Re: [gentoo-user] Unsubscribe errors

2003-12-24 Thread Dennis Freise
On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 09:17:23 -0700 "W. Blaine Dowler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I unsubscribed from this list last week, including responding to the > unsubscribe confirmation. For about five days, I didn't receive a single > message. Then, overnight, I seem to have been somehow resubscribe

Re: [gentoo-user] Unsubscribe errors

2003-12-24 Thread Tom Wesley
On Wed, 2003-12-24 at 16:17, W. Blaine Dowler wrote: > Hi all, > > I unsubscribed from this list last week, including responding to the > unsubscribe confirmation. For about five days, I didn't receive a single > message. Then, overnight, I seem to have been somehow resubscribed. I sent > th

Re: [gentoo-user] mounting winxp-vfat

2003-12-24 Thread Norberto Bensa
Harald Arnesen wrote: > Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On Tuesday 23 December 2003 02:38 pm, Chris wrote: > >> just do a "mkdir /mnt/c" as root then try it > > > > had to reboot but it worked thanks > > It was not neccesary to reboot because of that. Heh, he has been using Windows for so m

Re: [gentoo-user] install confusion

2003-12-24 Thread Linux Gentoo
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 22:38:37 -0800 Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote the words: > Did you configure (usually automatic when the livecd boots) your > network/gateway and did you do an emerge sync or emerge rsync. If you > did then it will be looking for a newer version than you have on the > cd, the

[gentoo-user] Unsubscribe errors

2003-12-24 Thread W. Blaine Dowler
Hi all, I unsubscribed from this list last week, including responding to the unsubscribe confirmation. For about five days, I didn't receive a single message. Then, overnight, I seem to have been somehow resubscribed. I sent the unsubscribe message once again, but didn't get asked to confir

[gentoo-user] question about alsa-sound and aplay

2003-12-24 Thread Alex Koval
Hi I am using alsa-sound and I have no idea how to mix sounds? I read all manual on aplay, alsa-sound, searched google, and nothing helps, so I am asking community.. Problem: I set 'sound' into my IM as 'aplay soundfile'. When I listen to music via XMMS, XMMS blocks the audio device. As resul

Re: [gentoo-user] K3B on 2.6.0

2003-12-24 Thread Robert G . Waycott
From: Cybercar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 2003/12/24 Wed AM 09:19:56 EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] K3B on 2.6.0 Hi everyone, firt of all Merry Xmas Well, Now I was going to try to copy a CD on K3B and I want to kn

Re: [gentoo-user] Package question?

2003-12-24 Thread Robert G . Waycott
From: Vanh Phom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 2003/12/24 Wed AM 12:25:03 EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] Package question? Hi All, I'm a gentoo newbie. Recently I have emerges lots of packages including xfce4. Is there a si

Re: [gentoo-user] K3B on 2.6.0

2003-12-24 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Wednesday 24 Dec 2003 14:31, Redeeman wrote: > the cdrom scsi emulation layer is broken in 2.6, but in advance, 2.6 > supports atapi burning It works fine here Peter -- == Gentoo Linux: Portage 2.0.49-r18 (default-x86-1.4,

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6 autoload

2003-12-24 Thread Robert G . Waycott
From: Cybercar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 2003/12/24 Wed AM 07:16:16 EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6 autoload Have you done the rc-update net.eth0 default ? Merry Xmas El mié, 24-12-2003 a las 13:02, Ale

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge: Invalid db entry

2003-12-24 Thread Robert G . Waycott
From: Cybercar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 2003/12/24 Wed AM 06:56:35 EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge: Invalid db entry Which kernel are you using? If you're using the 2.6.0 kernel add to it the devfs support.

Re: [gentoo-user] mounting winxp-vfat

2003-12-24 Thread mathieu perrenoud
Le Mercredi, 24 Décembre 2003 16.43, Robert G. Waycott a écrit : > > From: Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2003/12/23 Tue PM 02:38:27 EST > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [gentoo-user] mounting winxp-vfat > > I need to move some thing

Re: [gentoo-user] K3B on 2.6.0

2003-12-24 Thread mathieu perrenoud
Le Mercredi, 24 Décembre 2003 16.34, Collins a écrit : > It's not necessary on the 2.6 kernels (even 2.4 at some point). Just use > 'cdrecord --scanbus dev=ATAPI:' - then use 'dev=ATAPI:x,y.z' depending on > what you got back from scanbus. you can even use the /dev device: cdrecord -dev=/dev/cdro

Re: [gentoo-user] mounting winxp-vfat

2003-12-24 Thread Robert G . Waycott
From: Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 2003/12/23 Tue PM 02:38:27 EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] mounting winxp-vfat I need to move some things from winxp-vfat-hda1-C to gentoo-hdb3 so I looked in the forums http://for

[gentoo-user] 'system' packages list; svscan & inittab

2003-12-24 Thread Alex Efros
Hi! I've used for about 2.5 years my own linux distribution based on ideas from LinuxFromScratch, so I'm not a newbie in this area. At this time I'm interested in Gentoo because I've no more time to support my own distribution. I want to compile and configure Gentoo in the way I use for my distri

Re: [gentoo-user] x86+scsi problem

2003-12-24 Thread George Hernandez
On 12/23/03 8:07 PM, "George Hernandez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My Hello all.. Hopefully you guys can help me. for some reason my box stalls at /proc.. I am running 2.4.23 kernel.. Here is my grub.conf file... [grub.conf] > > > default 0 > timeout 30 > splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm

[gentoo-user] sudo-like behaviour

2003-12-24 Thread raptor
hi, Is there a way to run enable some user to run remotely via ssh some commands, but forbid him shell access at all.. I mean I want to eneble him only : ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] cmd1 ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] cmd2 ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] cmd3 i may enable sudo, but sudo is active after I give the us

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6 autoload

2003-12-24 Thread Alexander Epifanov
Why kernel 2.4 does't need eepro100 in this files ? On 15:21 Wed 24 Dec , Cybercar wrote: > So, you have to add the module which you want to load on boot in the > file 2.4 if you have 2.4 or in the 2.6 if you Sorry, its my bad > english > > Byez > El mi?, 24-12-2003 a las 15:13, Alexander

Re: [gentoo-user] K3B on 2.6.0

2003-12-24 Thread Collins
On Wednesday 24 December 2003 06:19, Cybercar wrote: > Hi everyone, firt of all Merry Xmas > > Well, Now I was going to try to copy a CD on K3B and I want to know > first if I have to Add the scsi-emulation on the kernel, or there's > other new way to do it on 2.6.0 kernel. > It's not necessar

Re: [gentoo-user] K3B on 2.6.0

2003-12-24 Thread Redeeman
the cdrom scsi emulation layer is broken in 2.6, but in advance, 2.6 supports atapi burning On Wed, 2003-12-24 at 15:19, Cybercar wrote: > Hi everyone, firt of all Merry Xmas > > Well, Now I was going to try to copy a CD on K3B and I want to know > first if I have to Add the scsi-emulation o

Re: [gentoo-user] Merry Christmas

2003-12-24 Thread Collins
On Wednesday 24 December 2003 05:38, Oliver Lange wrote: > Merry Christmas to all of you ! > > Have a good time, and thanks to all for your gracious > help and patience with off-topic questions. > > Now put your keyboard away and have a good glass of whine (or whatever). > We have a good glass of

Re: [gentoo-user] CD's and MP3's

2003-12-24 Thread Redeeman
i have never had any problems ripping those cd's, but i found a way to do it on a friends machine ;D dd if=/dev/cdrom of=musiccd.iso then you have the image of the cd, and then create entry in fstab, and use the cdrom plugin for xmms and point to the iso mount point, and then use the xmms wavout

[gentoo-user] thunderbird and gtk-theme

2003-12-24 Thread Eric Marchionni
hi, after emerging the latest mozilla-thunderbird ebuild (v0.4) the appearance of my email client is totally different: it shows up in a aqua gtk-theme. though i have switched to this theme with switch2 (gtk-theme-switch) befor, thunderbird didn't change it's appearance (that was absolut ok wit

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6 autoload

2003-12-24 Thread Cybercar
So, you have to add the module which you want to load on boot in the file 2.4 if you have 2.4 or in the 2.6 if you Sorry, its my bad english Byez El mié, 24-12-2003 a las 15:13, Alexander Epifanov escribió: > files /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.4 and .../kernel-2.6 are empty. > > On 14:28

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge: Invalid db entry

2003-12-24 Thread Collins
On Wednesday 24 December 2003 04:11, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 12:55:25 +0100 Guy Van Sanden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > | I now get this message when doing anything with emerge: > | >>> Auto-cleaning packages ... > | > | !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/*sys-fs/devfsd!!! I

[gentoo-user] K3B on 2.6.0

2003-12-24 Thread Cybercar
Hi everyone, firt of all Merry Xmas Well, Now I was going to try to copy a CD on K3B and I want to know first if I have to Add the scsi-emulation on the kernel, or there's other new way to do it on 2.6.0 kernel. Thank's all -- - = Human knowledge belongs to the world = -

Re: [gentoo-user] Merry Christmas

2003-12-24 Thread Redeeman
merry christmas!!! On Wed, 2003-12-24 at 14:38, Oliver Lange wrote: > Merry Christmas to all of you ! > > Have a good time, and thanks to all for your gracious > help and patience with off-topic questions. > > Now put your keyboard away and have a good glass of whine (or whatever). > > Cheers..

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6 autoload

2003-12-24 Thread Alexander Epifanov
files /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.4 and .../kernel-2.6 are empty. On 14:28 Wed 24 Dec , Torsten Veller wrote: > * Alexander Epifanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > In kernel 2.4 eepro100 was compiled as module and /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start > > worked perfectly. > > But in 2.6 kernel eepro100

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6 autoload

2003-12-24 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Alexander Epifanov wrote: Hello, In kernel 2.4 eepro100 was compiled as module and /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start worked perfectly. But in 2.6 kernel eepro100 as module don't load automatically. why ? PS: gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.0 run "grep eepro /etc/modules.conf "if u don't see alia

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6 autoload

2003-12-24 Thread Torsten Veller
* Alexander Epifanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > In kernel 2.4 eepro100 was compiled as module and /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start worked > perfectly. > But in 2.6 kernel eepro100 as module don't load automatically. why ? Maybe you didn't add it to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 ? -- .: Regards Tors

Re: [gentoo-user] Merry Christmas

2003-12-24 Thread Jeff MacDonald
Happy holidays to all, including those that observe holidays besides XMas. Yes even the other athiests and agnostics :) Jeff. On Wed, 2003-12-24 at 09:38, Oliver Lange wrote: > Merry Christmas to all of you ! > > Have a good time, and thanks to all for your gracious > help and patience with off

Re: [gentoo-user] CD's and MP3's

2003-12-24 Thread Øyvind Stegard
Paul Stear wrote: Hi all, A very merry xmas to all. I bought my wife a couple of Cd's that I would like and didn't realise that they are copy protected but list that they can be played on a windows machine. I convert all my Cd's into MP3 using grip and listen to them on my linux box. Has an

Re: [gentoo-user] Merry Christmas

2003-12-24 Thread Kurt Bechstein
Here here. On Wed, 2003-12-24 at 08:38, Oliver Lange wrote: > Merry Christmas to all of you ! > > Have a good time, and thanks to all for your gracious > help and patience with off-topic questions. > > Now put your keyboard away and have a good glass of whine (or whatever). > > Cheers.. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Package question?

2003-12-24 Thread Oliver Lange
Vanh Phom wrote: Hi All, I'm a gentoo newbie. Recently I have emerges lots of packages including xfce4. Is there a single package that contain all the related packages for xfce4 (or any other package) so I don't have to sit in front of the monitor and emerge every single one of them? You normally d

[gentoo-user] Merry Christmas

2003-12-24 Thread Oliver Lange
Merry Christmas to all of you ! Have a good time, and thanks to all for your gracious help and patience with off-topic questions. Now put your keyboard away and have a good glass of whine (or whatever). Cheers.. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Package question?

2003-12-24 Thread Spider
begin quote On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 05:25:03 + Vanh Phom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > I'm a gentoo newbie. Recently I have emerges lots of packages > including > xfce4. Is there a single package that contain all the related packages > for xfce4 (or any other package) so I don't have to

Re: [gentoo-user] custom ebuilds`

2003-12-24 Thread Spider
begin quote On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 12:42:49 +0100 mathieu perrenoud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 24 December 2003 04.20, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 18:59:02 -0800 (PST) Stephen Turner > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > | hey guys i was curious where and how to sa

[gentoo-user] gentoo-sources 2.4.22-r2: distcc trouble

2003-12-24 Thread Oliver Lange
Hello everyone, After installing 2.4.22-gentoo-r2 on two machines (which are configured as distcc servers), I couldn't compile anything with distcc anymore. When I used -j5 with make, *masses* of errors appeared, e.g. like this: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.2.3/include/stddef.h:1:40: inval

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