Re: [gentoo-user] nfs install

2004-01-03 Thread Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
Christian Schäfer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hi gentoo-user, I have a box with scsi-hardware-raid but little performance. I'd like to install gentoo on it using the power of my desktop pc and therefor seek for a possibility to mount those disks over network. is this possible? and how? any

[gentoo-user] OpenPGP plugin

2004-01-03 Thread Steve B.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Were can I find or what plugin should I use with OpenPGP and Kmail? I keep getting messages that look like Message was signed with unknown key. The validity of the signature cannot be verified. Problem: OpenPGP plug-in was not specified. Use the

Re: [gentoo-user] MozillaFirebird

2004-01-03 Thread Robert G . Waycott
From: Tom Stoddard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/01/02 Fri PM 09:50:08 EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] MozillaFirebird Maybe its just me. I find the constant beeping during the MozillaFirebird emerge annoying. Anyone

[gentoo-user] samba filesharing problems

2004-01-03 Thread Brendan Sullivan
Hello everyoneHere's another fun problem i can't pin down... When I try to pull/put files from my samba shares on my linux box from my XP box, sometimes it will pull a partial file, or a few files, and then a partial...and then stalls and gives me an error. Trying to move the same files to

[gentoo-user] Gentoo users of DJBDNS

2004-01-03 Thread Joshua Banks
Hello, Curiousity question concerning svscanboot and svscan. I'm running tinydns and dnscache internally: sys-apps/daemontools-0.76-r3 net-dns/djbdns-1.05-r8 Was the /service directory automatically created upon emerging daemontools for you?? I'm having a hard time tracking down what the

Re: [gentoo-user] on to printing...

2004-01-03 Thread Andrew Cowie
On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 14:22, Ben Munat wrote: I have a little four port router I use to share my internet connection with my boxes and it has a print server on it. What's the easiest app to use to send my print jobs to it? Personally, I use CUPS. With that being the case, you can quite

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo users of DJBDNS

2004-01-03 Thread Andrew Cowie
On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 18:42, Joshua Banks wrote: I'm running tinydns and dnscache internally: sys-apps/daemontools-0.76-r3 net-dns/djbdns-1.05-r8 I personally like daemontools supervised things symlinked from /service to /var/local/supervise; I hacked on the qmail-1.03 ebuild a tiny touch to

Re: [gentoo-user] MozillaFirebird

2004-01-03 Thread Gerhard W . Gruber
On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 21:50:08 -0500, Tom Stoddard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe its just me. I find the constant beeping during the MozillaFirebird emerge annoying. Anyone else? I don' t know if Mozilla and MozillaFirebird are different. I did emerge mozilla and I don' t recall any beeps while

[gentoo-user] Radeon 9800XT with 3D acceleration

2004-01-03 Thread Gerhard W . Gruber
Anybody here has an Radeon 9800XT running with 3D? I' m not talking about the PRO version or any other type of Radeon card, but specifically the XT model? It seems that the driver works with PRO but not with XT, so I was wondering if anybody has such a beast and managed to get it run. -- Gerhard

Re: [gentoo-user] how long does it take to commit a patch to portage

2004-01-03 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 21:43:27 -0500 Lincoln A. Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 17:56, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | No , sorry, should have stated that explicitly. | | Ok that enabled me to find: | http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/metastructure/herds/herds.xml | | Which has some

Re: [gentoo-user] Terminal

2004-01-03 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 15:12:11 + Steve B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | As far as your suggestions .. what wm are you using? I'm running KDE. | Every change I make is system wide. I don't want that. I just want the | windows for my terminal changed. I dunno about kde, but I'd imagine that if a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GUI install

2004-01-03 Thread Redeeman
On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 21:11, Tom Hosiawa wrote: I still think they would be useful for power users, some of the stuff in the install is just repetitive after doing numerous installs (eg. extracting stage's, mounting proc, etc). It was fun doing it for the first time and learning a little bit

Re: [gentoo-user] Dynamic partition resize?

2004-01-03 Thread Vanh Phom
On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 15:51, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard wrote: If you aren't using LVM (and thus can't do what Matthew Kennedy suggested), the easiest thing would probably be to put Debian on the new hard drive, get it working, and then use Debian to tar your gentoo partitions into a file on one

Re: [gentoo-user] Terminal

2004-01-03 Thread Steve B.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ya know, I have heard a lot about fluxbox. The reason I use KDE is simple.. orginaly I used gnome, because that is what came with my first distro.. RHL.. then I tried to use Kdevelop and it didn't work.. so I switched to mandrake and used KDE.. so

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo users of DJBDNS

2004-01-03 Thread Steve B.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Since we are on the topic of DJBDNS, I have a few questions maybe some of you can answer. I am (was) just about ready to attempt to setup bind. Let me explain what I want to do. 1. I have a static IP address (well let's assume I do) 2. I want to

Re: [gentoo-user] MozillaFirebird

2004-01-03 Thread JurLan
On Saturday 03 January 2004 03:50, Tom Stoddard wrote: Maybe its just me. I find the constant beeping during the MozillaFirebird emerge annoying. Anyone else? Yes the beeps are here too .. Don't know why exactly but what I do know is that they occur when copilation enters a new directory

Re: [gentoo-user] sun java plugin with mozilla firebird 0.7

2004-01-03 Thread Janne Johansson
On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 06:31, Gregory P. Smith wrote: anyone have this working? Yes. No problems whatsoever. about:plugins works in the browser, but the browser process just dies as soon as it tries to load an actual applet. No problems. Actually I also seemd to have link: javaplugin_oji.so

Re: [gentoo-user] Terminal

2004-01-03 Thread Stefan Vunckx
Fluxbox is a window manager, as KWin is one. But fluxbox is a leightweight one, and doesn't come with an entire desktop environment as KDE. It is possible to run KDE apps in fluxbox, there is even support for a slot section for docked apps. The only downside is that when you start KDE apps

Re: [gentoo-user] Terminal

2004-01-03 Thread Rudmer van Dijk
On Saturday 03 January 2004 20:19, Steve B. wrote: Ya know, I have heard a lot about fluxbox. The reason I use KDE is simple.. orginaly I used gnome, because that is what came with my first distro.. RHL.. then I tried to use Kdevelop and it didn't work.. so I switched to mandrake and used

Re: [gentoo-user] Terminal

2004-01-03 Thread Rudmer van Dijk
On Saturday 03 January 2004 11:44, Stefan Vunckx wrote: It is possible to run KDE apps in fluxbox, there is even support for a slot section for docked apps. The only downside is that when you start KDE apps DCOP has to be started as well (where it would be already started in KDE I believe) and

[gentoo-user] install problem: realtek gigabit ethernet, no transmission

2004-01-03 Thread Soos Istvan
Hi! I tried to install gentoo 1.4-p4 on my new notebook (Clevo D400V). It has hardware detection problems, so I used the boot kernel: gentoo noapm nodetect nohotplug noraid nousb :) (tried acpi=no too) It works fine, it boots, and I've the shell prompt. Next step is to bring up ethernet

[gentoo-user] setting up fluxbox (was Terminal)

2004-01-03 Thread Steve B.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 So how would I go about setting it up? should I unemerge KDE then emerge fluxbox? Any while I'm thinking about it (sorry for a zillion questions) is there a way to use spamassasin or something of that sorts with a pop3 account and kmail? since I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GUI install

2004-01-03 Thread Greg Bolshaw
On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 19:42, Ben Munat wrote: I absolutely agree. I never would have gotten Gentoo installed without my windows box sitting right next to it with multiple browser tabs open to the various gentoo docs. Switch to vc/2 and point lynx to the Gentoo installation pages. If you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GUI install

2004-01-03 Thread Steve B.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I agree. I setup gentoo windows free. I just switched to back and forth to different terminals for the docs. The second time I installed gentoo I even cheated. I setup the framebuffer and svgalib first and used the -g option of links to see the

Re: [gentoo-user] setting up fluxbox (was Terminal)

2004-01-03 Thread Uwe Weber
Steve B. wrote: Any while I'm thinking about it (sorry for a zillion questions) is there a way to use spamassasin or something of that sorts with a pop3 account and kmail? since I subscribed to gentoo lists I get a ton of spam daily now. You could use spamassasin in conjunction with disspam.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo users of DJBDNS

2004-01-03 Thread Greg Bolshaw
On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 19:22, Steve B. wrote: I heard that bind is horrible at security, and my goal is to create a secure enviorment. Agreed, BIND doesn't have a very good history when it comes to security. So.. are there any detailed HOWTO's for setting up DJBDNS on gentoo? I have looked

Re: [gentoo-user] smb mount

2004-01-03 Thread Greg Bolshaw
me too! (sorry, could resist...) On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 05:57, Ben Munat wrote: lol... Jerry McBride wrote: On Friday 02 January 2004 08:59 pm, Ben Munat wrote: Well, Jerry's suggestion is a bit over my head. I put this into local.start: smbmount //MyWindowsBox/mydir

Re: [gentoo-user] unsubscribing

2004-01-03 Thread W. Blaine Dowler
On Friday 02 January 2004 21:24, Michael Balamuth wrote: I'm sorry, I lost several emails this holiday, but I remember one that was asking about unsubscribing and I noted the each reference did not include the syntax that ezmlm sends with each subscription welcome: to unsubscribe: [EMAIL

[gentoo-user] Arts - connecting as another user

2004-01-03 Thread Guy Van Sanden
Hello How can I connect to an arts server started by another (local) user? I want to let xmms run under another user-id than the one logged in to the desktop (which started arts). xmms's interface will be on a remote X display (over ssh). When I try this, it says: Can't connect to sound server

[gentoo-user] Quick emerge -u world questions

2004-01-03 Thread Robertt G. Waycott
Gentooers: For some reason or another--either of which are unbeknownst to me--while running 'emerge -u world,' gcc-3.3.2-r5 just will not compile. I've done a little bit of messing with CFLAGS, to no avail. So, I'm using the handy dandy --skipfirst option with emerge to *hopefully* plow

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenPGP plugin

2004-01-03 Thread Brian Wallis
On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 03:05 am, Steve B. wrote: Were can I find or what plugin should I use with OpenPGP and Kmail? I keep getting messages that look like Message was signed with unknown key. The validity of the signature cannot be verified. Problem: OpenPGP plug-in was not specified. Use the

[gentoo-user] DJBDNS setup

2004-01-03 Thread Steve B.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ok... first problem. Let me walk you through what I have completed so far 1. I emerged djbdns 2. I ran the dnscache and tinydns-setup config scripts 3. I ran 'rc-update add svscan default 4. rebooted after dealing with some permission errors (I

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo users of DJBDNS

2004-01-03 Thread Steve B.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 also on a note to the orginal posting of this, the emerge of daemontools created the /service directory (at least for me). On Saturday 03 January 2004 11:52, Greg Bolshaw wrote: On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 19:22, Steve B. wrote: I heard that bind is

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenPGP plugin

2004-01-03 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Steve B. wrote: Were can I find or what plugin should I use with OpenPGP and Kmail? I would say gnupg is the ebuild u're looking for. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] motherboard

2004-01-03 Thread Redeeman
hi, i am going to buy a new motherboard REALLY soon, i looked at a few, 2 asus's, and 2 epox's, i am not a OC'er. i want a STABLE system, even if it costs me performance asus a7v600: http://www.asus.com/prog/spec.asp?m=A7V600langs=01 a7n8x deluxe:

Re: [gentoo-user] Quick emerge -u world questions

2004-01-03 Thread Robert G. Waycott
On Saturday 03 January 2004 08:37 am, Robertt G. Waycott wrote: Gentooers: For some reason or another--either of which are unbeknownst to me--while running 'emerge -u world,' gcc-3.3.2-r5 just will not compile. I've done a little bit of messing with CFLAGS, to no avail. So, I'm using the

Re: [gentoo-user] motherboard

2004-01-03 Thread Steve B.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I would go with the asus a7n8x dlx On Saturday 03 January 2004 13:48, Redeeman wrote: hi, i am going to buy a new motherboard REALLY soon, i looked at a few, 2 asus's, and 2 epox's, i am not a OC'er. i want a STABLE system, even if it costs me

[gentoo-user] xfs font server + gimp

2004-01-03 Thread JurLan
Hi all .. I am using xfs (which is recommended?) I changed FontPath in /etc/X11/XF86Config to: FontPathunix/:-1 When I launch gimp, all fonts are available but when I use e.g. Blippo (which comes with the freefonts package), changing the font size doesn't show any difference. (it stays

Re: [gentoo-user] To upgrade or Not/to upgrade the kernel??

2004-01-03 Thread Sean Johnson
In your grub.conf make sure you have a -old entry. When you build your new kernel, rename your current one to something like bzImage.old (making sure you are consistent with your naming scheme in grub.conf). If the new kernel doesn't work for you, reboot, and select the -old kernel from the grub

Re: [gentoo-user] DJBDNS setup

2004-01-03 Thread Peter Wu
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 10:32:21PM +, Steve B. wrote: Ok... first problem. Let me walk you through what I have completed so far 1. I emerged djbdns 2. I ran the dnscache and tinydns-setup config scripts 3. I ran 'rc-update add svscan default 4. rebooted after dealing with some

[gentoo-user] wich growisofs parameters for system backup on DVD?

2004-01-03 Thread Gerhard W . Gruber
I was wondering which parameters I should pass to growisofs in order to get a systembackup. My entire system doesn't fit on a single DVD anyway, so I need to do it in multiple passes. I was trying (as a test) to backup the /home directory and used this parameters: growisofs -Z /dev/cdrecorder -R

Re: [gentoo-user] wich growisofs parameters for system backup on DVD?

2004-01-03 Thread Tom Wesley
On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 14:58, Gerhard W.Gruber wrote: I was wondering which parameters I should pass to growisofs in order to get a systembackup. My entire system doesn't fit on a single DVD anyway, so I need to do it in multiple passes. I was trying (as a test) to backup the /home directory

[gentoo-user] About apache + php

2004-01-03 Thread s970501
Hi, I've emerged apache and php together. I did like this : #emerge apache php Emerge worked fine. But it seems like they don't work together. I put test.php file like this... test.php --- ?php phpinfo(); ? --- And then I can only see the source of this file. What

Re: [gentoo-user] DJBDNS setup

2004-01-03 Thread Steve B.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have tried both.. neither seem to work. Below is my config #define the authoritative nameserver .mydomain.net::ns1.mydomain.net #mail exchanger @mydomain.net::mail.mydomain.net #Machine IP's =hostname.mydomain.net:my.static.ip #Machine aliases

Re: [gentoo-user] About apache + php

2004-01-03 Thread Barry Marler
On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 21:04:32 -0500 (EST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've emerged apache and php together. I did like this : #emerge apache php Emerge worked fine. But it seems like they don't work together. I put test.php file like this... test.php --- ?php phpinfo();

Re: [gentoo-user] About apache + php

2004-01-03 Thread Patrick Börjesson
I've emerged apache and php together. I did like this : #emerge apache php Emerge worked fine. But it seems like they don't work together. I put test.php file like this... test.php --- ?php phpinfo(); ? --- And then I can only see the source of this file.

Re: [gentoo-user] About apache + php (It's working now. thanks :) )

2004-01-03 Thread s970501
On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 21:04:32 -0500 (EST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've emerged apache and php together. I did like this : #emerge apache php Emerge worked fine. But it seems like they don't work together. I put test.php file like this... test.php --- ?php phpinfo();

Re: [gentoo-user] wich growisofs parameters for system backup on DVD?

2004-01-03 Thread Gerhard W . Gruber
On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 15:09:57 +, Tom Wesley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use partimage (in portage) to create a single file for each partition, then $ growisofs -R -J -Z root.000 /dev/sr1 partimage can also split the image at a certain size, for multiple dvd's and there is a copy of it on

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo users of DJBDNS

2004-01-03 Thread Joshua Banks
--- Steve B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 also on a note to the orginal posting of this, the emerge of daemontools created the /service directory (at least for me). Thanks Steve. JBanks __ Do you Yahoo!? New

Re: [gentoo-user] motherboard

2004-01-03 Thread Janne Johansson
On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 00:45, Steve B. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I would go with the asus a7n8x dlx I have gone with the asus a7n8x deluxe and have no regrets. It is fast and stable. Not a single problem in my setup. -- Janne So act that your principle of action

Re: [gentoo-user] wich growisofs parameters for system backup on DVD?

2004-01-03 Thread Tom Wesley
On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 15:29, Gerhard W.Gruber wrote: On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 15:09:57 +, Tom Wesley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use partimage (in portage) to create a single file for each partition, then $ growisofs -R -J -Z root.000 /dev/sr1 partimage can also split the image at a

Re: [gentoo-user] DJBDNS setup

2004-01-03 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 04 January 2004 00:03, Steve B. wrote: Here is the output from nslookup nslookup mydomain.net Server: 210.117.65.1 Address: 210.117.65.1#53 ** server can't find mydomain.net: NXDOMAIN What is 210.117.65.1 ?

Re: [gentoo-user] DJBDNS setup

2004-01-03 Thread Sean Johnson
Here's a snippet from the data file I use on my webserver: #gutenpress.org Zgutenpress.org:ns1.gutenpress.org:sean.gutenpress.org gutenpress.org:12.44.218.240:ns1.gutenpress.org @gutenpress.org::ns1.gutenpress.org:0 .243.218.44.12.in-addr-arpa::ns1.gutenpress.org +gutenpress.org:12.44.218.240

Re: [gentoo-user] motherboard

2004-01-03 Thread Redeeman
ah okay nice, is both lan cards working? and how about sound? do you use alsa? On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 16:32, Janne Johansson wrote: On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 00:45, Steve B. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I would go with the asus a7n8x dlx I have gone with the asus

Re: [gentoo-user] DJBDNS setup

2004-01-03 Thread Steve B.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 well, now I am really confused. This is the output of the host command Using domain server: Name: 211.238.230.137 Address: 211.238.230.137#53 Aliases: ns1.secure-dt.net has address 211.238.230.137 and all the diag tools that come with djbdns seem to

Re: [gentoo-user] Quick emerge -u world questions

2004-01-03 Thread Spider
begin quote On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 08:37:58 -0500 Robert G. Waycott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A] Are there certain CFLAGS that should NEVER be used with gcc? Anything above -O2 , basically. This is done in the ebuild already (strip-flags ) 2] Am I actually going to run into any problems with

Re: [gentoo-user] DJBDNS setup

2004-01-03 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 04 January 2004 00:43, Steve B. wrote: well, now I am really confused. This is the output of the host command Using domain server: Name: 211.238.230.137 Address: 211.238.230.137#53 Aliases: ns1.secure-dt.net has address

Re: [gentoo-user] DJBDNS setup

2004-01-03 Thread Steve B.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 perhaps that is the problem.. just registered the domain today.. maybe it takes some time. On Saturday 03 January 2004 16:12, Mike Williams wrote: On Sunday 04 January 2004 00:43, Steve B. wrote: well, now I am really confused. This is the output

Re: [gentoo-user] smb mount

2004-01-03 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 03 January 2004 01:59, Ben Munat wrote: Well, Jerry's suggestion is a bit over my head. I put this into local.start: smbmount //MyWindowsBox/mydir /mnt/mywinshare -o username=uname,password=mypasswrd and it works. Anything wrong

Re: [gentoo-user] DJBDNS setup

2004-01-03 Thread Joshua Banks
--- Steve B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ok... first problem. Let me walk you through what I have completed so far You didn't really give us a good picture of your setup. Which will help me (us) help you further. I.E. Are you running a firewall

[gentoo-user] bluetooth

2004-01-03 Thread Ernie Schroder
Has anyone had any luck getting an Ambicom BT2000C-usb bluetooth dongle to work? Bluez just will not work. Documentation indicates that it should work with the bt950_cs, but after building the module, there seens to be som PCMCIA modules that I can't locate that are needed. So, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Quick emerge -u world questions

2004-01-03 Thread KamaolaKid
On another note, I think the Gentoo Devs are doing a damn spiffy job. I'd like to figure out how to run my car on Gentoo. Anyone care to maintain? I *am* running my car on gentoo. Well, my car PC not my car... It has a 7 touch screen in the dash and a dual P3 1GHz system mounted in a

Re: [gentoo-user] setting up fluxbox (was Terminal)

2004-01-03 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
Le 01/03/04 Steve B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit notamment: So how would I go about setting it up? should I unemerge KDE then emerge fluxbox? [...] No, don't unmerge kde, unless you want to get rid rid of many useful apps! just emerge fluxbox, then if you use kdm fluxbox should appear in it and

Re: [gentoo-user] setting up fluxbox (was Terminal)

2004-01-03 Thread Steve B.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 and if I don't use kdm? On Saturday 03 January 2004 16:51, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: Le 01/03/04 Steve B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit notamment: So how would I go about setting it up? should I unemerge KDE then emerge fluxbox? [...] No,

Re: [gentoo-user] About apache + php (It's working now. thanks :) )

2004-01-03 Thread Barry Marler
On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 21:23:19 -0500 (EST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 21:04:32 -0500 (EST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've emerged apache and php together. I did like this : #emerge apache php Emerge worked fine. But it seems like they don't work together. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Vanilla install problems

2004-01-03 Thread Loyd Goodbar
What speed/RAM is your laptop? I have an 8GB partition for Gentoo on a dual PII-300 with 512MB, and openoffice from source took about 45 hours (yes!) to compile, and pushed my disk usage to about 75%. Makes mozilla or KDE downright quick! :) Loyd On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 16:00:31 -0500, Ullrich

Re: [gentoo-user] Radeon 9800XT with 3D acceleration

2004-01-03 Thread Manuel McLure
Gerhard W.Gruber wrote: Anybody here has an Radeon 9800XT running with 3D? I' m not talking about the PRO version or any other type of Radeon card, but specifically the XT model? It seems that the driver works with PRO but not with XT, so I was wondering if anybody has such a beast and managed to

Re: [gentoo-user] Proc devices permissions

2004-01-03 Thread Paul Stear
Thanks Jeff, this is just what I am looking for I will try and set it up tomorrow. Don't you just love gentoo? regards Paul On Thu 1 January 2004 22:57, Jeff de Ruyter wrote: On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 07:01, Paul Stear wrote: On Thu 1 January 2004 17:26, Mike Williams wrote: Thanks for the

Re: [gentoo-user] setting up fluxbox

2004-01-03 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
Le 01/04/04 Steve B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit notamment: and if I don't use kdm? Edit in your /etc/rc.conf : (last entry for me:) XSESSION On Saturday 03 January 2004 16:51, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: Le 01/03/04 Steve B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit notamment: So how would I go about

[gentoo-user] [beep]ing MozillaFirebird

2004-01-03 Thread Drake Wyrm
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 02:17:58AM -0500, in [EMAIL PROTECTED], Robert G.Waycott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe I need to emerge it again. I have no recollection of beeps. Doesn't sound very cute at all to me. I recall the beeps. I started 'emerge MozillaFirebird' right before I went to bed.

[gentoo-user] Zapping/rte

2004-01-03 Thread Karl Huysmans
Hi all Trying to emerge zapping, which needs rte, and rte simply refuses to compile (complains about divx4linux). Tried tis on several Gentoo boxes, same everywhere. Ideas anyone? THX -- Karl Huysmans [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Dependency weirdness

2004-01-03 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Petric Frank wrote: Why the hell (sorry) i have to install the xfree stuff for a simple boot manager. USE=-* emerge lilo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Zapping/rte

2004-01-03 Thread Ian Truelsen
On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 19:24:09 +0100 Karl Huysmans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all Trying to emerge zapping, which needs rte, and rte simply refuses to compile (complains about divx4linux). Tried tis on several Gentoo boxes, same everywhere. Ideas anyone? Could you please include the

Re: [gentoo-user] DJBDNS setup

2004-01-03 Thread Peter Wu
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 01:08:06AM +, Steve B. wrote: perhaps that is the problem.. just registered the domain today.. maybe it takes some time. It usually takes 24 hours to sync up the DNS servers. -- Peter Wu Powered by Gentoo Linux 2.4.22 This message is provided AS IS with no

[gentoo-user] weird problem with HTML::Mason

2004-01-03 Thread Andrew Gaffney
I have the file footer.html that contains: table border=0 width=100% height=5% tr td colspan=7hr/td /tr tr tdp align=leftfont size=1font colspan=3emstrongC2002 /font/strong/em/fontfont color=#FF size=1emstrongFlightlogics, LLC/strong/em/fontfont size=1emstrong- A Division of

Re: [gentoo-user] About apache + php

2004-01-03 Thread Ted Ozolins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And then I can only see the source of this file. What should I do? Give me some help ~ :) Once you emerged mod_php at the end of the emerge it gave you instructions to add -D PHP in your /etc/conf.d/apache2, APACHE2_OPTS=-D SSL -D PHP4 Did you do this? -- Ted

Re: [gentoo-user] car computer [was: Quick emerge...]

2004-01-03 Thread Ben Munat
pls do... sounds cool KamaolaKid wrote: On another note, I think the Gentoo Devs are doing a damn spiffy job. I'd like to figure out how to run my car on Gentoo. Anyone care to maintain? I *am* running my car on gentoo. Well, my car PC not my car... It has a 7 touch screen in the

[gentoo-user] emerge --answers

2004-01-03 Thread Drake Wyrm
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 08:37:58AM -0500, in [EMAIL PROTECTED], Robertt G. Waycott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: D] Why is gcc-3.3.2-r5 at the top of the list for 'emerge -u world' but 'emerge -u gcc' says it must update pam, pam-login, hashalot, util-linux, baselayout, and glibc first--all of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GUI install

2004-01-03 Thread Ben Munat
Good point... although I have a separate monitor for my windows box and can run multiple browser tabs so I can jump around to all the various useful docs. That and it's nice to have some tunes while I'm working. :-) b Greg Bolshaw wrote: On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 19:42, Ben Munat wrote: I

Re: [gentoo-user] Radeon 9800XT with 3D acceleration

2004-01-03 Thread Gerhard W . Gruber
On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 11:39:13 -0600, Manuel McLure [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Add the line ChipID 0x4e48 to your Device section in the XF86Config-4 file. This forces the driver to think it's a 9800PRO and it will work fine. Without this, any and all gl programs fail to run. THANK YOU!

Re: [gentoo-user] Terminal

2004-01-03 Thread Ben Munat
I'm using fluxbox... liking it so far. Thought I could get away without kde or gnome, but more and more of their stuff is creeping onto my machine with each emerge ;-) So, I emerged kdevelop last night and it tells me this dcop thingy isn't running. Are you saying that running kdeinit on boot

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

2004-01-03 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Chris I wrote: 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 grin and didn't realise that they are copy protected but list that they can be

[gentoo-user] failure to compile gcc-3.2.3-r3

2004-01-03 Thread Sascha Cunz
hi folks, after doing an emerge sync and emerge system on a freshly installed gentoo, compiling gcc fails with this error: /var/tmp/portage/gcc-3.2.3-r3/work/build/gcc/xgcc -B/var/tmp/portage/gcc-3.2.3-r3/work/build/gcc/ -B/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ -B/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/lib/ -isystem

[gentoo-user] x problem

2004-01-03 Thread Ben Munat
I keep getting this error when I try to start gui apps in fluxbox: Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified In fact, I just got it when I tried to open eclipse, which I did this morning without any problem! thnks, b -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] x problem

2004-01-03 Thread Tom Wesley
On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 21:49, Ben Munat wrote: I keep getting this error when I try to start gui apps in fluxbox: Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified In fact, I just got it when I tried to open eclipse, which I did this morning without any problem!

[gentoo-user] two questions about qmail-ldap

2004-01-03 Thread Andrew B. Panphiloff
Hi All. I use qmail-ldap, and so all mailusers are virtual. But some of users want get access to .qmail files. I think that good idea is setup ftp daemon, which will grant access to homeDirectory, how setup this ? Due to thing, that all mailusers are virtual, all messages are stored at one user,

[gentoo-user] Weird System Behavior after Overclocking

2004-01-03 Thread Tom Richards
Hi, I recently got a new machine, as some of you may remember from my FS post before xmas. The CPU I have is an AMD Athlon 2000+ and I'm running an Abit KD7A mobo. I can get the system to overclock no problem; I've had it as high as 1.8 Ghz(Stock speed is 1.67Ghz), but the system starts

[gentoo-user] K3B v0.10 with DVD support

2004-01-03 Thread Gerhard W . Gruber
I was looking for some decent burning software and emerged k3b. Since I wanted to burn DVDs I was not really glad to see that k3b doesn't support this. Now I looked if it is possible to do this anyway and I found a mail from 14th October saying that k3b v0.10 is available which supports DVDs via

Re: [gentoo-user] Quick emerge -u world questions

2004-01-03 Thread Robert G. Waycott
On Saturday 03 January 2004 11:03 am, Spider wrote: Now, whats the exact error when compiling gcc? Not just the ERROR: foo/bar-baz at line... put some 30-50 lines more than that so we get a context. //Spider I'll give it a shot here. I'm still trying to learn just what is relevant/how

[gentoo-user] emerging new system vs complete reinstall

2004-01-03 Thread Michael Balamuth
Hi All, I'm trying to understand the underlying specifics of installing Gentoo versus changing it on the fly. Since optimization and tailoring is the goal of the philosophy behind the install of Gentoo, would the same thing be accomplished on a running system by setting new USE flags and doing:

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --answers

2004-01-03 Thread Robert G. Waycott
On Saturday 03 January 2004 02:43 pm, Drake Wyrm wrote: On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 08:37:58AM -0500, in [EMAIL PROTECTED], Robertt G. Waycott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: D] Why is gcc-3.3.2-r5 at the top of the list for 'emerge -u world' but 'emerge -u gcc' says it must update pam, pam-login,

[gentoo-user] sdl issues

2004-01-03 Thread Redeeman
i just upgraded sdl, and now it says: Error: I could not initialize video! The Simple DirectMedia error that occured was: No available video device how to solve? thanks! -- Regards, Redeeman () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\- against microsoft

[gentoo-user] Enemy Territory not working?

2004-01-03 Thread Gerhard W . Gruber
Since I finally managed to get OpenGL with 3D acceleration working I wanted to play enemy territory. I emerged it and it seems to be fine, but when I try to run it the last line is the sound initialization and then a black screen. I looked into help files provided, but that doesn' t even mention

Re: [gentoo-user] K3B v0.10 with DVD support

2004-01-03 Thread Jens Mayer
* On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 23:39:16 +0100, Gerhard W. Gruber wrote: [k3b v0.10] Now I wouldd like to know if and when it is planned to get this into portage? , [ ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge -s k3b ] | Searching... | [ Results for search key : k3b ] | [ Applications found : 1 ] | | *

Re: [gentoo-user] K3B v0.10 with DVD support

2004-01-03 Thread Sean Johnson
Looking at the RDEPEND of k3b-0.10.3-r2.ebuild: RDEPEND=${RDEPEND} sys-apps/eject =app-cdr/cdrtools-1.11 =app-cdr/cdrdao-1.1.7-r3 media-sound/normalize dvdr? ( app-cdr/dvd+rw-tools ) dvd? ( media-video/transcode media-libs/xvid ) it looks like it does

Re: [gentoo-user] K3B v0.10 with DVD support

2004-01-03 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, It's already in portage. The default ebuild (k3b-5) will download the source from CVS and compile it - that will get you the very latest source as written by the developers. If you specifically want 0.10 : emerge /usr/portage/app-cdr/k3b/k3b-0.10.ebuild However, it looks like 0.10.3-r2 is

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging new system vs complete reinstall

2004-01-03 Thread Daniel Drake
Michael Balamuth wrote: I'm trying to understand the underlying specifics of installing Gentoo versus changing it on the fly. Since optimization and tailoring is the goal of the philosophy behind the install of Gentoo, would the same thing be accomplished on a running system by setting new USE

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird System Behavior after Overclocking

2004-01-03 Thread Spider
begin quote On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 15:42:21 + Tom Richards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently got a new machine, as some of you may remember from my FS post before xmas. The CPU I have is an AMD Athlon 2000+ and I'm running an Abit KD7A mobo. I can get the system to overclock no

Re: [gentoo-user] Quick emerge -u world questions

2004-01-03 Thread Spider
begin quote On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 17:40:19 -0500 Robert G. Waycott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 03 January 2004 11:03 am, Spider wrote: Now, whats the exact error when compiling gcc? Not just the ERROR: foo/bar-baz at line... put some 30-50 lines more than that so we get a

Re: [gentoo-user] Enemy Territory not working?

2004-01-03 Thread Spider
begin quote On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 23:59:22 +0100 Gerhard W. Gruber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since I finally managed to get OpenGL with 3D acceleration working I wanted to play enemy territory. I emerged it and it seems to be fine, but when I try to run it the last line is the sound

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