[gentoo-user] What must I do to take a snapshot of portage on my system?

2004-01-09 Thread Hareesh Nagarajan
Hi: First, let me thank this excellent list, because there is always someone here who seems to be inadvertently talking about my problems. :) Anyway my query goes like this: What do I have to do to take a backup/snapshot of Portage on my current Gentoo box? Because if I was to install Gentoo 1.4

[gentoo-user] what -march and -mcpu should I use?

2004-01-09 Thread Pawel Maczewski
Hi, I finally compiled my first gentoo system. right now, it's quite small, cause I was thinking about not to compiling anything that I won't need. But I'd like to get better performance, optimize some compiler flags... So, that's my question: what kind odf mcpu and march should I choose as I

Re: [gentoo-user] I killed my xp boot sector with grub

2004-01-09 Thread Stephen Clowater
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kevin Reichhart wrote: | dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdXX will write zeros to every byte in your | partition, effectively deleting everything there. yes, _never_ do this, dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hda is a much better way of accelerating preformance in

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-2.4.22-r3

2004-01-09 Thread Andrew Cowie
On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 04:56, Marius Mauch wrote: Both r2 and r3 were fixed yesterday, however to be sure use r3 (the patch was added to r2 after it was already deployed, so it's hard to say wether your installation has it). Sorry to prolong the thread, but isn't this not supposed to happen?

[gentoo-user] Newsgroups gateway

2004-01-09 Thread Gerhard W . Gruber
My newsserver carries linux.gentoo.dev/user. Since I prefer Newsgroups over Mailinglist, I tried to subscribe to them, but the problem is that I have to keep subscribed to the mailinglist as well. What's the point of having a newsgroup, when I can' t send postings to the newsgroup when

Re: [gentoo-user] I killed my xp boot sector with grub

2004-01-09 Thread jkw
On 2004/01/08, at 23:23, Stephen Clowater wrote: Oh come on, have a sense of humor. If you execute commands you read on a mailing list from someone whom you don't know without at least reading the first 3 lines of the man page, well, you needed to learn the hard way. learn what? in sixth grade

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo not powering off

2004-01-09 Thread Fred Labrosse
Øyvind Stegard writes: On Wednesday 07 January 2004 11:51, Fred Labrosse wrote: All, When I power off from gentoo, the computer is actually not powered off (Winblow does though).  I have APM compiled in the kernel, I have tried both possibilities for

[gentoo-user] ALSA and SMP support

2004-01-09 Thread Fred Labrosse
All, Trying (and now succeeding) to power off my computer, I turned off SMP support in the kernel. However, since then, I get loads of messages similar to the one below when insmod'ing snd.o: /lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r9/kernel/sound/acore/snd.o: unresolved symbol

[gentoo-user] DRI and mach64

2004-01-09 Thread Fred Labrosse
All, I'm trying to enable DRI with my ATI 3D Rage Pro graphics card. Finally discovering that this is a mach64, I emerged xfree-drm as said in the Hardware 3D accelaration guide: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge xfree-drm with VIDEO_CARDS set to mach64 in /etc/make.conf. This indeed produces a

Re: [gentoo-user] DRI and mach64

2004-01-09 Thread Robert G. Waycott
On Friday 09 January 2004 04:04 am, Fred Labrosse wrote: Doing an insmod mach64 works but does not solve the problem. Any ideas? Fred, have you added mach64 to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.x ?? That is where all modules which need to be automatically loaded at boot time should go.

Re: [gentoo-user] I killed my xp boot sector with grub

2004-01-09 Thread Harald Arnesen
Kevin Reichhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you want to use the windoze bootloader, do the following: Assuming that your windows partition is hda1, at the grub command line, type: rootnoverify (hd0,0) makeactive chainloader +1 boot This will boot into windows. Once in windows, open a

[gentoo-user] Adding a dir to ldcache

2004-01-09 Thread David Gethings
Hi, I'm using prelink. Everytime I update prelink I get a number of messages like the following: prelink: /usr/lib/MozillaFirebird/timebombgen: Could not parse `/usr/lib/MozillaFirebird/timebombgen: error while loading shared libraries: libxpcom.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file

Re: [gentoo-user] I killed my xp boot sector with grub

2004-01-09 Thread Thomas Buntrock
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 02:51:08PM -0600, Rainer Sigwald wrote: I don't have a winxp boot floppy, only a cdrom. Will a 98 disk do? Boot from XP CD, run 'recovery console', log in to the right windows installation. Then run 'fixboot' and 'fixmbr' . . . will obliterate GRUB, but should boot

Re: [gentoo-user] DRI and mach64

2004-01-09 Thread Fred Labrosse
Robert G. Waycott writes: On Friday 09 January 2004 04:04 am, Fred Labrosse wrote: Doing an insmod mach64 works but does not solve the problem. Any ideas? Fred, have you added mach64 to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.x ?? That is where all modules which need to be

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a dir to ldcache

2004-01-09 Thread Kim Ingemann
On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 10:57, David Gethings wrote: My question is how do I add this dir to the ldcache? You can add directories to ldcache by changing /etc/ld.so.conf and running ldconfig afterwards. -- Med venlig hilsen / Best regards, Kim Ingemann http://pingvinland.dk/ signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a dir to ldcache

2004-01-09 Thread David Gethings
On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 10:32, Kim Ingemann wrote: You can add directories to ldcache by changing /etc/ld.so.conf and running ldconfig afterwards. Well I checked /etc/ld.so.conf and it said: # ld.so.conf autogenerated by env-update; make all changes to # contents of /etc/env.d directory so I

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a dir to ldcache

2004-01-09 Thread Joshua Banks
--- Kim Ingemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 10:57, David Gethings wrote: My question is how do I add this dir to the ldcache? You can add directories to ldcache by changing /etc/ld.so.conf and running ldconfig afterwards. What does ldconfig do. Or whats its purpose

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Memory Usage

2004-01-09 Thread Aaron Walker
Pooh Sun Tzu wrote: Maybe it is just me, but I've never in my entire experience had swap touched. And that is at 400 megs of RAM, in gnome, XFCE4, and fluxbox. Cached, sure. But he is running into swap, and that isn't supposed to happen. When I started using Gentoo, I was using kernel version

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a dir to ldcache

2004-01-09 Thread Bill Roberts
On 09:57 Fri 09 Jan , David Gethings wrote: I'm using prelink. Everytime I update prelink I get a number of messages like the following: prelink: /usr/lib/MozillaFirebird/timebombgen: Could not parse `/usr/lib/MozillaFirebird/timebombgen: error while loading shared libraries:

Re: [gentoo-user] What must I do to take a snapshot of portage on my system?

2004-01-09 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 09 January 2004 07:19, Hareesh Nagarajan wrote: Hi: First, let me thank this excellent list, because there is always someone here who seems to be inadvertently talking about my problems. :) Anyway my query goes like this: What do I

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a dir to ldcache

2004-01-09 Thread Kim Ingemann
On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 11:36, David Gethings wrote: On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 10:32, Kim Ingemann wrote: You can add directories to ldcache by changing /etc/ld.so.conf and running ldconfig afterwards. Well I checked /etc/ld.so.conf and it said: # ld.so.conf autogenerated by env-update; make

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a dir to ldcache

2004-01-09 Thread David Gethings
On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 10:52, Bill Roberts wrote: MozillaFirebird and certain libraries will not prelink. Don't really know the issues involved. There is some info in http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/prelink-howto.xml I saw nothing specific about MozillaFirebird in that how-to. However it did remind

Re: [gentoo-user] Keyboard is not working

2004-01-09 Thread Sensei
Norbert Kamenicky wrote: I experienced this problem too ... if I start my gentoo and PS2 mouse is disconnected then keyboard freezes after starting of gpm. If I stop gpm (through ssh) keyboard alives again. (It must be a bug in gpm.) noro Unfortunately, I don't use gpm. -- Sensei

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA and SMP support

2004-01-09 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Friday 09 Jan 2004 08:57, Fred Labrosse wrote: All, Trying (and now succeeding) to power off my computer, I turned off SMP support in the kernel. However, since then, I get loads of messages similar to the one below when insmod'ing snd.o:

Re: [gentoo-user] Newsgroups gateway

2004-01-09 Thread Kurt Lieber
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 09:38:55AM +0100 or thereabouts, Gerhard W. Gruber wrote: Is there some way to get the newsgroup without the mailinglist, or can I stop getting mails on the mailinglist, while still being subscribed? No. Not at this time. --kurt pgp0.pgp Description: PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA and SMP support

2004-01-09 Thread Fred Labrosse
Peter Ruskin writes: Am I missing something? Anybody got any clue? My guess is that doing `make mrproper` before rebuilding the kernel would remove those redundant modules. I did (because the kernel wouldn't compile without ;-). I did make mrproper cp /boot/config .config make

[gentoo-user] How To Remerge: Recent Stage 2 tarballers

2004-01-09 Thread Joshua Banks
From a stage2 tarball, I've gotten through Fetching and compiling most all the system -u update packages. How can I make Gentoo remerge all of the system update packages again? I've done something wrong and I don't want to install the kernel with the state that the system is in currently. I

[gentoo-user] How to apply Genkernel 2.4.22-r4 Patch.

2004-01-09 Thread Joshua Banks
Hello, Im currently downloading gentoo-souces and I noticed an accompanying patch. Do I need to do anything special with the kernel patch or will the patch be applied when I configure genkernel?? Never applied a Kernel Patch before. Thanks, JBanks __ Do you

[gentoo-user] ALSA aRTs

2004-01-09 Thread Sensei
Hi. I can't make my PCs use indifferently Gnome audio and KDE audio systems. Students will log on and will use gnome as well as kde, but I'd like to have them use also the audio. It seems to me that alsa is incompatible with other audio systems... is it true? -- Sensei mailto:senseiwa:tin.it

Re: [gentoo-user] what -march and -mcpu should I use?

2004-01-09 Thread Spider
begin quote On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 09:09:17 +0100 (CET) Pawel Maczewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I finally compiled my first gentoo system. right now, it's quite small, cause I was thinking about not to compiling anything that I won't need. But I'd like to get better performance,

Re: [gentoo-user] How to apply Genkernel 2.4.22-r4 Patch.

2004-01-09 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 09 January 2004 12:07, Joshua Banks wrote: Hello, Im currently downloading gentoo-souces and I noticed an accompanying patch. Do I need to do anything special with the kernel patch or will the patch be applied when I configure

[gentoo-user] Re: [Off-list gento-user] Virus's

2004-01-09 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Hi Thomas, yes, maybe it sounds funny, but I am sure, that micro$hit will never start to produce serious secure systems. There are a lot of reasons for it, but here are the most of them: 1. They know stupid man mentality so they know how to manipulate with people ... therefore they are not

Re: [gentoo-user] How to apply Genkernel 2.4.22-r4 Patch.

2004-01-09 Thread Joshua Banks
--- Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: portage handles the patches it downloads, in all circumstances. Thanks Mike. JBanks __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the Signing Bonus Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus -- [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] How to apply Genkernel 2.4.22-r4 Patch.

2004-01-09 Thread Pawel Maczewski
portage handles the patches it downloads, in all circumstances. Does anyone know how to apply pp-scsi patch (for emulating parport devices [scanner] as scsi)? I didn't find anything about this patch and gentoo tia Pawel -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] what is adjust (NEVER MIND)

2004-01-09 Thread Gerhard W . Gruber
On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 13:30:47 +0100, Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in linux.gentoo.user with MID [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Jorge Almeida wrote: I just found out that I have a file /usr/adjust prw---1 root root0 Dec 7 15:08 adjust I have no idea

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [Off-list gento-user] Virus's

2004-01-09 Thread f . fiopa
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 01:18:53PM +0100, Norbert Kamenicky wrote: Hi Thomas, yes, maybe it sounds funny, but I am sure, that micro$hit will never start to produce serious secure systems. There are a lot of reasons for it, but here are the most of them: 1. They know stupid man mentality

Re: [gentoo-user] dmesg notifications

2004-01-09 Thread Dennis Robertson
On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 03:02 pm, Dennis Robertson wrote: Hello List, I have finally managed to get direct rendering to work with my asus A7N8X dlxe mobo and ati 9700pro graphics card using the 2.6.0-mm1 kernel. However, there seem to be problems with the installation. Alsa also works but doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] font availability in gvim

2004-01-09 Thread Matt Garman
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 11:54:22PM -0500, Chris Bare wrote: Whenever I start gvim, I have only one font available. Any thoughts? I had a problem when I built gvim with gtk2. Gtk2 uses the new anti-aliased font stuff and I was never able to configure it to use the good old-fashoned font

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA and SMP support

2004-01-09 Thread Øyvind Stegard
On Friday 09 January 2004 12:59, Fred Labrosse wrote: Peter Ruskin writes: Am I missing something? Anybody got any clue? My guess is that doing `make mrproper` before rebuilding the kernel would remove those redundant modules. I did (because the kernel wouldn't compile without

Re: [gentoo-user] I killed my xp boot sector with grub

2004-01-09 Thread Collins Richey
On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 11:01:16 +0100 Thomas Buntrock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looking at the rest of this thread, I wonder: What have I done... ;-) Thomas Not much other than ask a few pertinent questions, but there are always a few dorks lurking on any list, and the topic of Windows is

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA and SMP support

2004-01-09 Thread Fred Labrosse
Øyvind Stegard writes: On Friday 09 January 2004 12:59, Fred Labrosse wrote: Peter Ruskin writes: Am I missing something? Anybody got any clue? My guess is that doing `make mrproper` before rebuilding the kernel would remove those redundant modules. I did (because

Re: [gentoo-user] newbie: cant seem to emerge telnet - any ideas?

2004-01-09 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 18:11:12 -0500 Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Finally, I don't have to know about mailservers. I know enough to know that telnet and ssh can be used to see if a service is active. That appeared to be what you wanted. That's like using http://mailserver:25 in

Re: [gentoo-user] How To Remerge: Recent Stage 2 tarballers

2004-01-09 Thread Collins Richey
On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 04:02:22 -0800 (PST) Joshua Banks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From a stage2 tarball, I've gotten through Fetching and compiling most all the system -u update packages. How can I make Gentoo remerge all of the system update packages again? I've done something wrong and I

[gentoo-user] naming an xterm

2004-01-09 Thread Andrew Gaffney
I routinely have atleast 3 xterm's at any one time. I need a way to easily distinguish between them. Is there a command I can run from the xterm to change its title to something I specify? -- Andrew Gaffney System Administrator Skyline Aeronautics, LLC. 776 North Bell Avenue Chesterfield, MO

Re: [gentoo-user] I killed my xp boot sector with grub

2004-01-09 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Boot the XP disk. Let setup go until you can get a prompt (fixit). Then use the fixboot and fixmbr utility. After that, boot back to linux and setup grub correctly. Tom Veldhouse - Original Message - From: Thomas Buntrock [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January

Re: [gentoo-user] naming an xterm

2004-01-09 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Andrew Gaffney wrote: I routinely have atleast 3 xterm's at any one time. I need a way to easily distinguish between them. Is there a command I can run from the xterm to change its title to something I specify? Never mind, I have found the document http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Xterm-Title.html

Re: [gentoo-user] naming an xterm

2004-01-09 Thread Kurt Bechstein
xterm -T string should do this. On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 09:13, Andrew Gaffney wrote: I routinely have atleast 3 xterm's at any one time. I need a way to easily distinguish between them. Is there a command I can run from the xterm to change its title to something I specify? -- [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Memory Usage

2004-01-09 Thread Stephen Clowater
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Aaron Walker wrote: | Pooh Sun Tzu wrote: | | Maybe it is just me, but I've never in my entire experience had swap | touched. And that is at 400 megs of RAM, in gnome, XFCE4, and fluxbox. | Cached, sure. But he is running into swap, and that isn't

[gentoo-user] sylpheed-claws strange behavior

2004-01-09 Thread Collins Richey
I've been using sylpheed-claws-0.9.8 for some time, but something went astray bwetween shutdown last night and reboot this morning. sylpheed-claws simply would not run. I tried re-emerging and then emerging the next older version with the same results. Then I emerged 'strace' and discovered

Re: [gentoo-user] naming an xterm

2004-01-09 Thread Andrew Gaffney
I was thinking dynamically. I use a menu entry in Fluxbox to launch an xterm with the title of 'Shell'. Kurt Bechstein wrote: xterm -T string should do this. On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 09:13, Andrew Gaffney wrote: I routinely have atleast 3 xterm's at any one time. I need a way to easily

Re: [gentoo-user] naming an xterm

2004-01-09 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Friday 09 Jan 2004 14:13, Andrew Gaffney wrote: I routinely have atleast 3 xterm's at any one time. I need a way to easily distinguish between them. Is there a command I can run from the xterm to change its title to something I specify? There's a bash-prompt HOWTO that describes how to do

[gentoo-user] emerge K3B

2004-01-09 Thread Dave Chapman
I have a problem with emerge k3b more specificaly cdrdao-1.1.7-r3 These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] app-cdr/cdrdao-1.1.7-r3 [1.1.7-r1] [ebuild N] app-cdr/dvd+rw-tools-5.13.4.7.4 [ebuild U ] app-cdr/k3b-0.10.3-r2 [0.9]

[gentoo-user] su: Permission denied!

2004-01-09 Thread Roger
Hi, I am learning how to admin my gentoo box. Now I have a problem with 'su'. It is working some hours ago. But after I type 'etc-update',I quit, because I was a little confused. After that, when I type 'su', System reply su: Permission denied! Sorry what's wrong? PLS help me. Roger --

Re: [gentoo-user] su: Permission denied!

2004-01-09 Thread Peter Eis
Roger wrote: Hi, I am learning how to admin my gentoo box. Now I have a problem with 'su'. It is working some hours ago. But after I type 'etc-update',I quit, because I was a little confused. After that, when I type 'su', System reply su: Permission denied! Sorry what's wrong? you must be

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA aRTs

2004-01-09 Thread Redeeman
configure arts to use alsa! or install oss emulation with alsa On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 13:10, Sensei wrote: Hi. I can't make my PCs use indifferently Gnome audio and KDE audio systems. Students will log on and will use gnome as well as kde, but I'd like to have them use also the audio. It

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the typical way to unmount /boot after bootup?

2004-01-09 Thread Drake Wyrm
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 09:56:18AM +0530, in [EMAIL PROTECTED], Hareesh Nagarajan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running a Gentoo box for some time now. Due to frequent power cuts I have to fsck my /boot partition (type ext2) often. How do I unmount /boot immediately (or sometime later) after

Re: [gentoo-user] su: Permission denied!

2004-01-09 Thread Bill Roberts
On 23:39 Fri 09 Jan , Roger wrote: I am learning how to admin my gentoo box. Now I have a problem with 'su'. It is working some hours ago. But after I type 'etc-update',I quit, because I was a little confused. After that, when I type 'su', System reply su: Permission denied! Did your

Re: [gentoo-user] su: Permission denied!

2004-01-09 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Peter Eis wrote: Roger wrote: Hi, I am learning how to admin my gentoo box. Now I have a problem with 'su'. It is working some hours ago. But after I type 'etc-update',I quit, because I was a little confused. After that, when I type 'su', System reply su: Permission denied! Sorry

Re: [gentoo-user] what is adjust (NEVER MIND)

2004-01-09 Thread John Ziniti
Gerhard W. Gruber wrote: What is qpkg? /usr/bin/qpkg belongs to package app-portage/gentoolkit. You *must* get to know qpkg. Just emerge gentoolkit. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] no masked or unmasked ebuilds docs

2004-01-09 Thread Norberto Bensa
Hello list, On one of my boxes: $ emerge -pv imlib2 These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies \ emerge: there are no masked or unmasked ebuilds to satisfy docs. !!! Error calculating dependencies. Please correct.

Re: [gentoo-user] naming an xterm

2004-01-09 Thread Lindsay Haisley
Thus spake Peter Ruskin on Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 08:45:01AM CST On Friday 09 Jan 2004 14:13, Andrew Gaffney wrote: I routinely have atleast 3 xterm's at any one time. I need a way to easily distinguish between them. Is there a command I can run from the xterm to change its title to something

Re: [gentoo-user] what is adjust (NEVER MIND)

2004-01-09 Thread Lindsay Haisley
Thus spake John Ziniti on Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 10:21:03AM CST Gerhard W. Gruber wrote: What is qpkg? /usr/bin/qpkg belongs to package app-portage/gentoolkit. You *must* get to know qpkg. Just emerge gentoolkit. You'll also find epm to be very useful! (or at least I have) -- Lindsay

[gentoo-user] TOra plugins

2004-01-09 Thread Jan Hadrava
Hi, I've emerged TOra recently but portage doesn't seem to contain TOra plugins for any database although I've googled some package for SuSE named tora-oracle*.rpm probably containing TOra plugin for Oracle. The absence of plugins makes TOra unusable. Knows somebody why are they missing in

Re: [gentoo-user] su: Permission denied!

2004-01-09 Thread brettholcomb
What did you do with etc-update? If you updated things like /etc/group or /etc/passwd then you will have a problem. From: Roger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/01/09 Fri AM 10:39:11 EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] su: Permission denied! Hi, I am learning how to admin

Re: [gentoo-user] command line tool for burning a music cd

2004-01-09 Thread Anupam Kapoor
Norbert Kamenicky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mike Williams wrote: On Wednesday 07 January 2004 12:18, Anupam Kapoor wrote: hi all, sorry for the n00b question, but here goes: 'how do i create an exact replica of a music cd (for backup purposes :)' of course ! i can rip the .wav files and

RE: [gentoo-user] emerge K3B

2004-01-09 Thread Craig Ayers-Hale
For the latest builds using ACCEPT_KEWORDS=~x86, I found that I needed to emerge the very latest cdrtools before cdrdao. I built the packages individually in the following order and it worked on two separate installs: 1) cdrtools 2) cdrdao 3) dvd+rw-tools 4) k3b Hope that works for you!

Re: [gentoo-user] command line tool for burning a music cd

2004-01-09 Thread Anupam Kapoor
maybe what we _really_ need to make this work is: cddafs ? kind regards anupam Norbert Kamenicky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mike Williams wrote: On Wednesday 07 January 2004 12:18, Anupam Kapoor wrote: hi all, sorry for the n00b question, but here goes: 'how do i create an exact replica of

Re: [gentoo-user] what -march and -mcpu should I use?

2004-01-09 Thread Robert Crawford
On Friday 09 January 2004 7:11 am, Spider wrote: begin quote On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 09:09:17 +0100 (CET) Pawel Maczewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I finally compiled my first gentoo system. right now, it's quite small, cause I was thinking about not to compiling anything that I

Re: [gentoo-user] TOra plugins

2004-01-09 Thread Uwe Weber
Hi. Jan Hadrava schrieb: I've emerged TOra recently but portage doesn't seem to contain TOra plugins for any database although I've googled some package for SuSE named tora-oracle*.rpm probably containing TOra plugin for Oracle. Include oci8 in your useflags, emerge tora and oracle will show

[gentoo-user] ports used by nfs

2004-01-09 Thread Collins Richey
I've been using shorewall for some time, but I've only recently setup nfs for machines on my local lan. I keep discovering new udp ports used by nfs mounts and updating my shorewall rules when a mount fails. I've googled for information on this topic, but I've found mostly questions and no

[gentoo-user] BTTV driver in 2.6.?

2004-01-09 Thread Lotas T Smartman
is it me or has BTTV support being removed from the kernel? it was in 2.6.0-test11, but 2.6.0 and 2.6.1 dont have it. its a bit of a pain cause my tv card needs it and its currently the only thing i can play my PS2 on! Any ideas? -- Lotas T Smartman, MCP www.lotas-smartman.net

RE: [gentoo-user] emerge K3B

2004-01-09 Thread Nicolas Nilles
Yes, i try it and it work great for me.. thanks (but i don't compile dvd+rw-tools) -Mensaje original- De: Craig Ayers-Hale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: viernes, 09 de enero de 2004 14:51 Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: RE: [gentoo-user] emerge K3B For the latest builds using

Re: [gentoo-user] BTTV driver in 2.6.?

2004-01-09 Thread Gary Chisholm
Has to be you, the support is still there. Device Drivers --- Multimedia devices --- Video For Linux --- * BT848 Video For Linux On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 14:13, Lotas T Smartman wrote: is it me or has BTTV support being removed from the kernel? it was in 2.6.0-test11, but 2.6.0 and 2.6.1 dont

[gentoo-user] Alsa and kernel-2.6.x

2004-01-09 Thread Roberto Griso
I've found this problem with alsa and kernel-2.6.x when i try to restart tha alsa services : * WARNING: you are stopping a boot service. * Unloading ALSA... * Storing ALSA Mixer Levels * Unloading modules [ ok ] * Loading ALSA drivers...

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-2.4.22-r3

2004-01-09 Thread Aaron Walker
pb wrote: gentoo-sources-2.4.22-r3 (released yesterday) doesn't fix any latestst security problems. in fact, it is identical to 2.4.22-r2. i wonder why it has been released and marked as stable... pb -- Public Key: http://teleinfo.tu.kielce.pl/~pb/gpg.asc Glad I decided to wait to upgrade to r3,

Re: [gentoo-user] hello

2004-01-09 Thread Tom Eastman
On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 14:47, Renat Golubchyk wrote: On Wednesday 07 January 2004 02:21, Mark Fisher wrote: Shwmai ! ! Kia ora! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ports used by nfs

2004-01-09 Thread Juri Haberland
Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been using shorewall for some time, but I've only recently setup nfs for machines on my local lan. I keep discovering new udp ports used by nfs mounts and updating my shorewall rules when a mount fails. I've googled for information on this

Re: [gentoo-user] update wants to install lmsensors

2004-01-09 Thread Scott Jackson
I don't know if this is related, but I do an emerge -u -p world and it gives me the same things along the countless other updates, even though I have them installed (the latest masked versions, however, because I'm using nForce2 and a GeForceFX 5700 which the stable versions aren't compatible

Re: [gentoo-user] motherboard

2004-01-09 Thread Scott Jackson
note that if you want to use lm_sensors with an nForce2 chipset you need the MASKED versions of the lm_sensors and i2c packages; and if you want to use one of the newer GeForceFX chipsets, you need the MASKED nvidia drivers. and I've been getting segfaults on my built-in nForce2 soundcard's

[gentoo-user] Framebuffer issue in 2.6.1

2004-01-09 Thread Jernej Zidar
Hello everybody! I decided to give a try to the new 2.6.1 kernel. It was released as stable just a few days ago. As far as I have tried it so far it feels much more faster than the 2.4.22 I was using before, however there's an issue I'm not able to overcome. In 2.4.22 I used a framebuffer (I

Re: [gentoo-user] Alsa and kernel-2.6.x

2004-01-09 Thread Jernej Zidar
I think the system tried to load a module that was builtin the kernel already. Did you built the snd_intel8x0 as module or did you incorporate it in the kernel directly? JZidar - Original Message - From: Roberto Griso [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 09,

Re: [gentoo-user] Alsa and kernel-2.6.x

2004-01-09 Thread Andrew Farmer
On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 14:31:37 -0800, Jernej Zidar muttered: I think the system tried to load a module that was builtin the kernel already. Did you built the snd_intel8x0 as module or did you incorporate it in the kernel directly? JZidar - Original Message - From: Roberto Griso

RE: [gentoo-user] Framebuffer issue in 2.6.1

2004-01-09 Thread Mark Knecht
Hello everybody! I decided to give a try to the new 2.6.1 kernel. It was released as stable just a few days ago. emerge what-exactly? I was going to try this out this weekend. Thanks, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] command line tool for burning a music cd

2004-01-09 Thread Mental Patient
Norbert Kamenicky wrote: Mike Williams wrote: dd if=/dev/cdrom of=abitforbitcopy.iso this can hardly work with audio CD :-( For making backups/copying audio cd's, I use cdrdao. It will copy/preserve stuff like pregaps (great for live cd's where there's no gap between tracks). You may be

[gentoo-user] Re: nmap/iptables

2004-01-09 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Eamon Caddigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] (The 1597 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed) Port State Service 6/tcp filteredunknown 25/tcp filtered

Re: [gentoo-user] Framebuffer issue in 2.6.1

2004-01-09 Thread Bill Roberts
On 23:27 Fri 09 Jan , Jernej Zidar wrote: In 2.4.22 I used a framebuffer (I hope this is the right term) console (no X Co.) the size 1024*768 with 32 bpp colors. In 2.6.1 I'm not able to get it. I use this setting in lilo: vga=792. If I boot 2.6.1 with this options nothing shows on the

[gentoo-user] VPN solution

2004-01-09 Thread Andrew Gaffney
I'm looking to set up a VPN between 2 Gentoo boxes, one on a DSL and the other on a T1. What is the easiest way to do this? I just got my DSL. I had a dial-up server setup on the T1 Gentoo box which allowed me access to the LAN. Now, I can't get access to the LAN without potentially opening up

[gentoo-user] 2.6 kernel mouse issue

2004-01-09 Thread Alex Nelson
I have a GE (I know, cheap) 5 button optical mouse. It works just great under the 2.4 series of kernels using gpm and X. When I switch to the 2.6.x series the mouse jumps all over the place and is completely unusable. Any ideas or suggestions? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Alsa and kernel-2.6.x

2004-01-09 Thread .newmind
On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 20:45:30 +0100, Roberto Griso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've found this problem with alsa and kernel-2.6.x when i try to restart tha alsa services : * WARNING: you are stopping a boot service. * Unloading ALSA... * Storing ALSA Mixer Levels * Unloading modules

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Memory Usage

2004-01-09 Thread William Kenworthy
Must be you :) - gnumeric can use gbytes of swap at times (builds a humongous xml tree in memory before printing and some save operations). Using the GD library (from perl) to produce some plots can use a LOT of swap. Kept crashing around 1G ram and 4G swap before it would finish - I had 2 x 1G

Re: [gentoo-user] is there a program simular to gimp

2004-01-09 Thread Eric Paynter
Chris said: is there a program simular to gimp for kde? gimp. -Eric -- arctic bears - email and name services 25 email [EMAIL PROTECTED] CA$11.95/month DNS starting at CA$3.49/month - domains from CA$25.95/year for details contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://www.arcticbears.com --

[gentoo-user] quota question

2004-01-09 Thread Jeffrey R. Meyer
Is there a way to set quotas on individual directories and sub directories or I am just limited to filesystem mounts listed in /etc/fstab? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] is there a program simular to gimp

2004-01-09 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 16:20:04 -0800 (PST) Eric Paynter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Chris said: | is there a program simular to gimp for kde? | | gimp. gimp's nice enough, I suppose, but I've always considered gimp to be a better option. -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail:ciaranm at gentoo.org Web:

[gentoo-user] Re: Newsgroups gateway

2004-01-09 Thread Andrew Cowie
On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 09:38:55 +0100, Gerhard W. Gruber wrote: My newsserver carries linux.gentoo.dev/user. Since I prefer Newsgroups over Mailinglist, I tried to subscribe to them, but the problem is that I have to keep subscribed to the mailinglist as well. What's the point of having a

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6 kernel mouse issue

2004-01-09 Thread Robert Crawford
On Friday 09 January 2004 6:54 pm, Alex Nelson wrote: I have a GE (I know, cheap) 5 button optical mouse. It works just great under the 2.4 series of kernels using gpm and X. When I switch to the 2.6.x series the mouse jumps all over the place and is completely unusable. Any ideas or

Re: [gentoo-user] is there a program simular to gimp

2004-01-09 Thread Chris
On Friday 09 January 2004 06:40 pm, Ben Sparks wrote: Eric Paynter wrote: Chris said: is there a program simular to gimp for kde? gimp. -Eric gimp is independant of the window manager/desktop manager, it just requires gtk. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list i have no complaints

Re: [gentoo-user] Framebuffer issue in 2.6.1

2004-01-09 Thread Alan
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 02:39:01PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: Hello everybody! I decided to give a try to the new 2.6.1 kernel. It was released as stable just a few days ago. emerge what-exactly? I was going to try this out this weekend. Kernel 2.6.1 can probably be grabbed via

[gentoo-user] gaim problem with Yahoo!

2004-01-09 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Is anyone else getting an Incorrect password error when trying to connect to Yahoo! using Gaim? Yes, I have changed the server to scs.msg.yahoo.com. I have a friend using Slackware who says that Gaim is doing it to him, but the Web Messenger works just fine. Gaim's website gaim.sf.net says

[gentoo-user] ati (mobility) radeon 9600

2004-01-09 Thread Soos Istvan
Ever working? How? (with no kernel support the vesa driver is ok, but slow a little bit) Istvan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ports used by nfs

2004-01-09 Thread Collins Richey
On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 21:47:02 + (UTC) Juri Haberland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have a complete list of udp/tcp ports (or ranges) that may be used by nfs? the main problem is that most ports used by NFS are randomly allocated. In

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