Re: [gentoo-user] Critical warning: Do not update GLIBC!

2004-01-20 Thread Goran Kavrecic
I'm setting up a new machine from stage1. I would get this anyway, wouldn't I? Can I avoid it somehow? Regards, Goran Na 1074581945, 2004-01-20 ob 07:59, je Jens Mayer napisal(a): * On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 07:43:35 +0100, Spider wrote: fun thing is, nptl will -not- work on x86 only on

Re: [gentoo-user] Critical warning: Do not update GLIBC!

2004-01-20 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
- Original Message - From: Jens Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 6:36 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Critical warning: Do not update GLIBC! | * On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 20:38:53 -0500, Jerry McBride wrote: | | It seems odd that a few people

[gentoo-user] migration instead of installation

2004-01-20 Thread jhoninck
There is a lot of documentation on installation but can anybody provide me some info on migration. The scenario I am thinking of is the following. 1. Start from a redhat 7.2 server. There are lots of those out there so I should not be the only one facing this problem 2. Recompile a kernel and

[gentoo-user] Weird Thunderbird Problem....

2004-01-20 Thread KLJ
I'm using Firebird and Thunderbird in KDE 3.2 beta2. Whenever I try to open a hyperlink in Thunderbird it always opens up www.tmp.com. http://www.tmp.com. This happens with every link no matter the website it's supposed to go to. I tried both the regular ebuild and the cvs ebuild. I tried

[gentoo-user] emulating a sound card with software in Linux

2004-01-20 Thread Andrew Gaffney
I am currently working on building my own Linux-driven Big Mouth Billy Bass according to the instructions at http://bigmouth.here-n-there.com/. In order to have the thing play the custom audio clips, I have to run patch cables from my audio out on my sound card to the speaker on the bass. When

Re: [gentoo-user] su issues

2004-01-20 Thread Kim Ingemann
On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 07:35, Dan Egli wrote: Is there some trick to using Gentoo's su command? In the past on any unix system I've used I could su to root with su -. Then when I enter the root password I become root. But on my gentoo box every time I run su I get: su: Permission denied

[gentoo-user] possible BUG in gentoo

2004-01-20 Thread Koala Gnu
Hi all, I tried to install 4 times gentoo on my workstation having Mandrake 9.0. My computer is a Pentium 4 IBM Netvista. I used a 2 Gb partition for gentoo and I followed all the steps of the italian gentoo guide at www.gentoo.it. I run /scripts/bootstrap.sh and I got the following error. I

Re: [gentoo-user] possible BUG in gentoo

2004-01-20 Thread Bruce Munro
On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 09:59, Koala Gnu wrote: Hi all, I tried to install 4 times gentoo on my workstation having Mandrake 9.0. My computer is a Pentium 4 IBM Netvista. I used a 2 Gb partition for gentoo and I followed all the steps of the italian gentoo guide at www.gentoo.it. I run

Re: [gentoo-user] possible BUG in gentoo

2004-01-20 Thread Koala Gnu
I forgot to mention that the first three installation had pentium4 as cpu arch, but the error was the same. So I do not think this is the solution. Bruce Munro wrote: On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 09:59, Koala Gnu wrote: Hi all, I tried to install 4 times gentoo on my workstation having Mandrake

Re: [gentoo-user] Critical warning: Do not update GLIBC!

2004-01-20 Thread Ian Truelsen
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 11:21:18 - Dhruba Bandopadhyay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My pleasure. I can't quite believe that I've lost the entire system to a routine package update on the stable tree. As soon as I realised I mailed the list. Strangely, AMD systems seem to be unaffected judging

[gentoo-user] kde 3.1.5 requires xft?

2004-01-20 Thread Guy Van Sanden
Upgrading to kde fails because it seems to rely on xft being installed. The thing is that there already is an XFT implementation in Xfree 4.3.0, so xft can't be installed any more (makes no sense either) emerge -U kde fails on xft not being thre, emerge -UDp kde lists it as a blocked requirement:

Re: [gentoo-user] possible BUG in gentoo

2004-01-20 Thread Michael Gruetzner
Hello, what are your C/CXX-Flags. I have experienced that kind of errors when the optimization was too hard. Hth Michael On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 12:32:10 +0100, Koala Gnu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I forgot to mention that the first three installation had pentium4 as cpu arch, but the error was the

Re: [gentoo-user] possible BUG in gentoo

2004-01-20 Thread Koala Gnu
Hi Michael, thanks for your reply. In attachment there is my make.conf file. There you can find my C/CXX - Flags Michael Gruetzner wrote: Hello, what are your C/CXX-Flags. I have experienced that kind of errors when the optimization was too hard. Hth Michael On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 12:32:10

Re: [gentoo-user] possible BUG in gentoo

2004-01-20 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
This works on P4 excellent: CFLAGS=-march=pentium4 -O2 -mfpmath=sse -msse2 -mmmx -pipe CXXFLAGS=${CFLAGS} noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] GPRS

2004-01-20 Thread Mauro Arnoldi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 19 January 2004 21:07, _JusSx_ wrote: On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 05:36:47PM +0100, Mauro Arnoldi wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! Has someone an active GPRS connection with Linux Gentoo? I can't manage to

Re: [gentoo-user] kde 3.1.5 requires xft?

2004-01-20 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Tuesday 20 Jan 2004 12:28, Guy Van Sanden wrote: emerge -U kde fails on xft not being thre, emerge -UDp kde lists it as a blocked requirement: Why not just `emerge kde`? Peter -- == Gentoo Linux: Portage 2.0.49-r20

Re: [gentoo-user] Critical warning: Do not update GLIBC!

2004-01-20 Thread Redeeman
works here... On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 22:43, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: Hello This is just to stop others sharing the misfortune that occurred to me. I updated glibc to 2.3.2-r9 on stable x86 tree and it broke python, portage and also most applications. Do NOT perform this update until

Re: [gentoo-user] su issues

2004-01-20 Thread brettholcomb
Is your user part of the wheel group? From: Dan Egli [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/01/20 Tue AM 06:35:33 GMT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] su issues Is there some trick to using Gentoo's su command? In the past on any unix system I've used I could su to root with su -.

Re: [gentoo-user] possible BUG in gentoo

2004-01-20 Thread Koala Gnu
To restart the build process, should I some directories or I can give directly the scripts/bootstrap.sh command? Thanks for you comments. Bye Norbert Kamenicky wrote: This works on P4 excellent: CFLAGS=-march=pentium4 -O2 -mfpmath=sse -msse2 -mmmx -pipe CXXFLAGS=${CFLAGS} noro -- [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] possible BUG in gentoo

2004-01-20 Thread Koala Gnu
sorry for my english To restart the build process, should I clean some directories or I can give directly the scripts/bootstrap.sh command? Koala Gnu wrote: To restart the build process, should I some directories or I can give directly the scripts/bootstrap.sh command? Thanks for you

Re: [gentoo-user] arts-1.1.5 emerge failure

2004-01-20 Thread Kurt Bechstein
There has already been a bug posted on this: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38634. Basically the resolution is first re-merge gcc and then continue with the arts install. Worked for me. On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 00:10, Matt Garman wrote: I don't know if this warrants a bug report or

[gentoo-user] AMD64 or Dual Athlon or Other? Motherboard suggestions?

2004-01-20 Thread Brenden Walker
I'm thinking about building a new system, and can't decide if I want to go with AMD64 or dual Athlons (or something else)? Current system is an Athlon 1200+ I think, 512MB RAM, 2gigs of swap, plenty of HD space Current Usage: Apache (hosting 3 PHPNuke sites, running behind cable modem..so

Re: [gentoo-user] possible BUG in gentoo

2004-01-20 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Koala Gnu wrote: sorry for my english To restart the build process, should I clean some directories or I can give directly the scripts/bootstrap.sh command? just restaring it should be enough noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] kde 3.1.5 requires xft?

2004-01-20 Thread Guy Van Sanden
-U makes sure that nothing gets downgraded (I ran with a masked version of automake for a while). emerge kde gives the same problem On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 14:08, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Tuesday 20 Jan 2004 12:28, Guy Van Sanden wrote: emerge -U kde fails on xft not being thre, emerge -UDp kde

Re: [gentoo-user] possible BUG in gentoo

2004-01-20 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Koala Gnu wrote: sorry for my english To restart the build process, should I clean some directories or I can give directly the scripts/bootstrap.sh command? Restart from what point? Is this a fully installed machine that you are just trying to rebuild? If yes, then emerge -UuDep

Re: [gentoo-user] GPRS

2004-01-20 Thread Mauro Arnoldi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I can't find the right module to compile in order to make this usb-gprs link work... Does anyone has an idea? Thanks Mauro On Monday 19 January 2004 18:21, Jani-Matti Hätinen wrote: On Monday 19 January 2004 18:36, Mauro Arnoldi wrote: Has

Re: [gentoo-user] problem in kde-3.2.0_rc1

2004-01-20 Thread Manuel Pérez López
Well, the problem have been solved with re-emerge the doxygen package. El Martes, 20 de Enero de 2004 00:17, Manuel Pérez López escribió: Hello everyone: When I compile kdelibs-3.2.0_rc1, this is a frecuently error: Error: Problems running dot. Check your installation! How can I solved

[gentoo-user] another problem with kde-3.2.0_rc1

2004-01-20 Thread Manuel Pérez López
Hello again: This is another problem I have. Well, I can do an ebuild, but... what 's and why this problem? Do I proced to ebuild the bz2 file? bash-2.05b# LINGUAS='es' ACCEPT_KEYWORDS='~x86' emerge -b kde-i18n kde Calculating dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 14) kde-base/kde-i18n-3.2.0_rc1

Re: [gentoo-user] possible BUG in gentoo

2004-01-20 Thread Koala Gnu
Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: Koala Gnu wrote: sorry for my english To restart the build process, should I clean some directories or I can give directly the scripts/bootstrap.sh command? Restart from what point? Is this a fully installed machine that you are just trying to rebuild?

Re: [gentoo-user] Fun with WinTV-PVR250

2004-01-20 Thread Cal Evans
Join the ivtv mailing list. There's a guy on it that has an ebuild for ivtv. FWIW, I've got a 350. I started with vanilla sources because I couldn't get gentoo-sources to work. I applied the v4l2 patch, compile and then compiled ivtv against it. (I'm compressing about a weeks worth of work

[gentoo-user] Switching from gentoo-sources to vanilla-sources

2004-01-20 Thread Goran Kavrecic
I started a new installation with gentoo-sources, but genkernel failed. Then (dur some info in the forum) emerged vanilla-sources, made a new /usr/src/linux link and started genkernel. It passed ok, but now modprobe is searching in /lib/modules/2.4.21-gss instead of 2.4.24. Where can I persuade

Re: [gentoo-user] GPRS

2004-01-20 Thread Jani-Matti Hätinen
On Tuesday 20 January 2004 16:18, Mauro Arnoldi wrote: I can't find the right module to compile in order to make this usb-gprs link work... Does anyone has an idea? I'm almost certain that the correct module is USB Serial Converter Support. On 2.6 kernels it can be found under the USB Support

Re: [gentoo-user] regenerating messages from emerge

2004-01-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 22:20, Renat Golubchyk wrote: Set PORT_LOGDIR=/var/log/portage in make.conf (or some other directory). Be sure to clean it up some time because the logs of big packages tend get really large, e.g. the openoffice log is 25MB. I have a daily cron job running to bzip2 all

Re: [gentoo-user] possible BUG in gentoo

2004-01-20 Thread Koala Gnu
Again the problem is present. I changed the C/CXX flags according to Norbert suggestions, but it does not work. It seems that the -j2 compilation flag has problem with -C option (see the following line in the output gcc: cannot specify -o with -c or -S and multiple compilations ) Any

Re: [gentoo-user] Critical warning: Do not update GLIBC!

2004-01-20 Thread Brendan Sullivan
Can't you recompile an old version of glibc if you boot from the liveCD? you might even have to recompile some of the basic stuff like util-linux, etc, but at least it's better than wiping the puter clean... BTW, i'm running a p4 1.3Ghz and everything is just fine after the update to -r9 Brendan

Re: [gentoo-user] Critical warning: Do not update GLIBC!

2004-01-20 Thread Andrew Cowie
On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 22:21, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: I can't quite believe that I've lost the entire system to a routine package update on the stable tree. Well, in fairness, one should never upgrade a core library, especially glibc, except as part of a major planned system upgrade. We get

Re: [gentoo-user] Critical warning: Do not update GLIBC!

2004-01-20 Thread Kurt Bechstein
I was able to upgrade to this version of glibc with no problems as of yet. On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 10:16, Andrew Cowie wrote: On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 22:21, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: I can't quite believe that I've lost the entire system to a routine package update on the stable tree.

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 or Dual Athlon or Other? Motherboard suggestions?

2004-01-20 Thread Brendan Sullivan
I'd go multi-CPU. The Athlon 64 is a good processor, but with the multitude of things you have going on all at once, I would think being able to handle multiple processes at once would be more what you need. the 64 can still only handle one process at a time. I have a 2800 w/ 512Mb of ddr400, and

Re: [gentoo-user] possible BUG in gentoo

2004-01-20 Thread Michael Gruetzner
Hi again, your cflags look fine I don't belive that they are causing the error. MfG Michael On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 13:44:31 +0100, Koala Gnu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Michael, thanks for your reply. In attachment there is my make.conf file. There you can find my C/CXX - Flags [...] -- [EMAIL

[gentoo-user] CFLAGS

2004-01-20 Thread Sergey Berezka
I have Athlon XP+ 1800 CPU. I type flags : -march=athlon-xp -03 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer in the make.conf. Now, when i compile any program , all the time line : unrecognized option '-03' shows up. What is the problem ?

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS

2004-01-20 Thread Fabien Fivaz
It's -O3 not zero-3 !!! Sergey Berezka wrote: I have Athlon XP+ 1800 CPU. I type flags : -march=athlon-xp -03 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer in the make.conf. Now, when i compile any program , all the time line : unrecognized option '-03' shows up. What is the problem ? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS

2004-01-20 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
I think you want -O3, not -03. Is an O letter, not a 0 number. On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 09:33, Sergey Berezka wrote: I have Athlon XP+ 1800 CPU. I type flags : -march=athlon-xp -03 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer in the make.conf. Now, when i compile any program , all the time line : unrecognized

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS

2004-01-20 Thread KamaolaKid
Sergey Berezka wrote: I have Athlon XP+ 1800 CPU. I type flags : -march=athlon-xp -03 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer in the make.conf. Now, when i compile any program , all the time line : unrecognized option '-03' shows up. What is the problem ? Make sure it is 'O' as in the letter O, not 0 as in

Re: [gentoo-user] possible BUG in gentoo

2004-01-20 Thread Koala Gnu
I wak taking about MAKEOPTS=-j2 looking at the message error seems that -j2 and -C generate problems when used together. Michael Gruetzner wrote: Hi again, your cflags look fine I don't belive that they are causing the error. MfG Michael On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 13:44:31 +0100, Koala Gnu [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] kmenuedit

2004-01-20 Thread Jani-Matti Hätinen
On Tuesday 20 January 2004 05:45, Greg Donald wrote: Yes, after much trickery with getting the apply button to appear, pushing it, and repeating.. followed by logging out and back in I was finally able to remove the duplicate entry oofice placed in my menu. That's was a total pain in the ass.

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS

2004-01-20 Thread Manuel Pérez López
Change 0 (zero) for O (vowel) El Martes, 20 de Enero de 2004 16:33, Sergey Berezka escribió: I have Athlon XP+ 1800 CPU. I type flags : -march=athlon-xp -03 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer in the make.conf. Now, when i compile any program , all the time line : unrecognized option '-03' shows up.

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 or Dual Athlon or Other? Motherboard suggestions?

2004-01-20 Thread Thomas Achtemichuk
On 01/20/04 08:56:04, Brenden Walker wrote: I'm thinking about building a new system, and can't decide if I want to go with AMD64 or dual Athlons (or something else)? Current system is an Athlon 1200+ I think, 512MB RAM, 2gigs of swap, plenty of HD space You'll be blown away at how silky

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS

2004-01-20 Thread Sergey Berezka
This is really '-0(zero)3' not '-O3' - Original Message - From: KamaolaKid [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 5:37 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS Sergey Berezka wrote: I have Athlon XP+ 1800 CPU. I type flags : -march=athlon-xp -03 -pipe

[gentoo-user] 2.4 to 2.6 migration

2004-01-20 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
Hi; I've some issues with the latests gentoo-sources (including several freezes with heavy processor/IO load), and by searching in the mailing lists and in the forums (and the bug database), it seems that the better solution is to make the move to 2.6.x. I'm currently using

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 or Dual Athlon or Other? Motherboard suggestions?

2004-01-20 Thread Daniel Drake
Bear in mind that you cant (or shouldnt) use dual-athlon-XP's in a SMP board. You should use AMD's MP chips. Unfortunately these don't go as fast as the XP chips (as in, XP's go up to 3000 and MP's go upto 2400 or something), and the board support is also a limiting factor. I built 5

Re: [gentoo-user] migration instead of installation

2004-01-20 Thread Richard Kilgore
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 08:52:22AM +0100, jhoninck wrote: There is a lot of documentation on installation but can anybody provide me some info on migration. The scenario I am thinking of is the following. 1. Start from a redhat 7.2 server. There are lots of those out there so I should

RE: [gentoo-user] AMD64 or Dual Athlon or Other? Motherboard sug gestions?

2004-01-20 Thread Brenden Walker
Thanks for all the thoughts, I guess I wanted an AMD64 simply for the cool factor ;-).. Sounds like dualies is the way to go.. I'll poke around some... -Original Message- From: Thomas Achtemichuk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 10:44 AM To: [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird Thunderbird Problem....

2004-01-20 Thread brettholcomb
You have to set up Thunderbird to use Firebird as the browser. The Thunderbird FAQ/help pages have the exact sequence but you add a line to the user preferences file. I'm not at the machine now. From: KLJ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/01/20 Tue AM 08:27:59 GMT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] possible BUG in gentoo

2004-01-20 Thread Koala Gnu
I tried commenting -j2 but still not work. At this point I try the Live CD approach. Koala Gnu wrote: I wak taking about MAKEOPTS=-j2 looking at the message error seems that -j2 and -C generate problems when used together. Michael Gruetzner wrote: Hi again, your cflags look fine I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa and kernel 2.6 question

2004-01-20 Thread Matthew Kennedy
Ian Truelsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: With the alsa modules now built into 2.6, should I load the snd_* modules with the alsasound init script or via the modules.autoload? You may as well compile them in. Matt -- Matthew Kennedy Gentoo Linux Developer Bugs go to http://bugs.gentoo.org!

Re: [gentoo-user] kde 3.1.5 requires xft?

2004-01-20 Thread Jason Stubbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 20 January 2004 21:28, Guy Van Sanden wrote: Upgrading to kde fails because it seems to rely on xft being installed. The thing is that there already is an XFT implementation in Xfree 4.3.0, so xft can't be installed any more (makes no

Re: [gentoo-user] another problem with kde-3.2.0_rc1

2004-01-20 Thread Jason Stubbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 20 January 2004 23:25, Manuel Pérez López wrote: bash-2.05b# LINGUAS='es' ACCEPT_KEYWORDS='~x86' emerge -b kde-i18n kde Calculating dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 14) kde-base/kde-i18n-3.2.0_rc1 to / !!! No message digest entry

[gentoo-user] So, glibc....

2004-01-20 Thread Jonathan Nichols
.. this glibc problem is only affecting Intel boxes right now? Is there a fix coming soon? :) I only have 1 Intel box, but it's many miles away .. and I updated glibc on it. :P -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Install questions

2004-01-20 Thread Adnan
I had the same problem...What i did was selected the mirror manually and not let gentoo select it automatically.. Hope that helps Adnan gabriel wrote: On January 19, 2004 05:49 pm, Roger Sherman wrote: # chroot /mnt/gentoo /bash/bin well if that's not a typo, then there's your

Re: [gentoo-user] another problem with kde-3.2.0_rc1

2004-01-20 Thread Norberto Bensa
Manuel Pérez López wrote: !!! No message digest entry found for file kde-i18n-es-3.1.94.tar.bz2. Don't bother. 3.1.94 doesn't compile. There's a bug in the ebuild. You need to change MY_PV to 3.1.95. Then do: # LINGUAS=es /usr/sbin/ebuild

[gentoo-user] error compiling kdelibs-3.1.4

2004-01-20 Thread Mark S Parrish
I am trying to compile kdelibs-3.1.4 and I get the following error(s). $emerge kdelibs snip ... . /usr/qt/3/bin/uic: relocation error: /usr/qt/3/bin/uic: undefined symbol: _ZTI11QTextStream make[4]: *** [keygenwizard.h] Error 127 make[4]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs

Re: [gentoo-user] kde 3.1.5 requires xft?

2004-01-20 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Tuesday 20 Jan 2004 16:00, Jason Stubbs wrote: On Tuesday 20 January 2004 21:28, Guy Van Sanden wrote: Upgrading to kde fails because it seems to rely on xft being installed. The thing is that there already is an XFT implementation in Xfree 4.3.0, so xft can't be installed any more

Re: [gentoo-user] Critical warning: Do not update GLIBC!

2004-01-20 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: - Original Message - From: Jens Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 6:36 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Critical warning: Do not update GLIBC! | * On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 20:38:53 -0500, Jerry McBride wrote: | | It

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 or Dual Athlon or Other? Motherboard suggestions?

2004-01-20 Thread Andrew Gaffney
There is a way to turn XP's into MP's by shorting some pins or contacts on the processor. So you could technically have a dual MP 3000 system ;) Daniel Drake wrote: Bear in mind that you cant (or shouldnt) use dual-athlon-XP's in a SMP board. You should use AMD's MP chips. Unfortunately these

Re: [gentoo-user] GPRS

2004-01-20 Thread Mauro Arnoldi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 20 January 2004 15:44, Jani-Matti Hätinen wrote: On Tuesday 20 January 2004 16:18, Mauro Arnoldi wrote: I can't find the right module to compile in order to make this usb-gprs link work... Does anyone has an idea? I'm almost

Re: [gentoo-user] Critical warning: Do not update GLIBC!

2004-01-20 Thread Eric Paynter
Andrew Gaffney said: Why can't you ask someone to provide you with a binary package of a *good* glibc? Because it's more dramatic to drop the W word. :-| -Eric -- arctic bears - email and name services 25 email [EMAIL PROTECTED] CA$11.95/month DNS starting at CA$3.49/month - domains from

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 or Dual Athlon or Other? Motherboard suggestions?

2004-01-20 Thread Jimmy Rosen
Last time I checked and compared, in november, the price/performace was still in favor of the dual athlon mp setup. I still use that kind of setup for my customer's clustered workstations. The smoothness of a dual system is way better than a single, really. I expect the opteron

[gentoo-user] problem displaying man pages

2004-01-20 Thread Anupam Kapoor
hi all, i am having a strange problem displaying man page. when i try a man page e.g. 'man ld' here is the output i get : , | parth% man ld | fgets: No such file or directory | Error reading man page /usr/share/man/man1/ld.1.gz | No manual entry for ld | parth% ` while other man

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.4 to 2.6 migration

2004-01-20 Thread Alan
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 10:09:09AM -0600, Canek Pel?ez Vald?s wrote: Hi; I've some issues with the latests gentoo-sources (including several freezes with heavy processor/IO load), and by searching in the mailing lists and in the forums (and the bug database), it seems that the better solution

[gentoo-user] SCSI emulation under Gentoo

2004-01-20 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, If I use a grub boot option like hdc=ide-scsi, then what /dev device do I mount in fstab to use the device? Do I need to make any changes at all in /etc/devfsd.conf to make this work? I've been trying it out and also Googling around but haven't found the right info yet. Thanks,

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS

2004-01-20 Thread Alan
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 05:33:09PM +0200, Sergey Berezka wrote: I have Athlon XP+ 1800 CPU. I type flags : -march=athlon-xp -03 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer in the make.conf. Now, when i compile any program , all the time line : unrecognized option '-03' shows up. What is the problem ? As

[gentoo-user] Re: SCSI emulation under Gentoo

2004-01-20 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, If I use a grub boot option like hdc=ide-scsi, then what /dev device do I mount in fstab to use the device? Do I need to make any changes at all in /etc/devfsd.conf to make this work? IIRC, the default devfsd.conf will create a symlink to hdc

Re: [gentoo-user] SCSI emulation under Gentoo

2004-01-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 10:12, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, If I use a grub boot option like hdc=ide-scsi, then what /dev device do I mount in fstab to use the device? Do I need to make any changes at all in /etc/devfsd.conf to make this work? I've been trying it out and also Googling

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: SCSI emulation under Gentoo

2004-01-20 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, If I use a grub boot option like hdc=ide-scsi, then what /dev device do I mount in fstab to use the device? Do I need to make any changes at all in /etc/devfsd.conf to make this work? IIRC, the default devfsd.conf will create a symlink to hdc at /dev/cdrom. You can use

[gentoo-user] gentoo on a CD?

2004-01-20 Thread Ian Truelsen
I have been thinking about having my firewall box boot and run from a CD so that there are no writable filesystems and there should be no need to even have a HD. Can this be done with Gentoo or do I have to look at one of the smaller distros? Also, does this seem like a good idea? -- Ian

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on a CD?

2004-01-20 Thread Thomas Schneider
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 10:34:31 -0800 Ian Truelsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been thinking about having my firewall box boot and run from a CD so that there are no writable filesystems and there should be no need to even have a HD. Can this be done with Gentoo or do I have to look at one

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on a CD?

2004-01-20 Thread gabriel
On January 20, 2004 01:34 pm, Ian Truelsen wrote: I have been thinking about having my firewall box boot and run from a CD so that there are no writable filesystems and there should be no need to even have a HD. Can this be done with Gentoo or do I have to look at one of the smaller distros?

Re: [gentoo-user] problem displaying man pages

2004-01-20 Thread Richard Kilgore
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 10:02:13AM -0800, Anupam Kapoor wrote: hi all, i am having a strange problem displaying man page. when i try a man page e.g. 'man ld' here is the output i get : , | parth% man ld | fgets: No such file or directory | Error reading man page

RE: [gentoo-user] AMD64 or Dual Athlon or Other? Motherboard suggestions?

2004-01-20 Thread Brenden Walker
Hmm, time to check the overclockers/HardOCP website ;-) -Original Message- From: Andrew Gaffney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 12:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 or Dual Athlon or Other? Motherboard suggestions? There is

Re: [gentoo-user] problem displaying man pages

2004-01-20 Thread Anupam Kapoor
Richard Kilgore [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 10:02:13AM -0800, Anupam Kapoor wrote: hi all, i am having a strange problem displaying man page. when i try a man page e.g. 'man ld' here is the output i get : , | parth% man ld | fgets: No such file or directory

[gentoo-user] bootup keymap error

2004-01-20 Thread Ian Truelsen
When I boot up, I get the following error: * Loading key mappings input in flex scanner failed * Error loading key mappings And I don't get my dvorak keyboard layout. It took me forever to log in :) Anyone have any ideas what this error means? About the only thing that has changed since the

[gentoo-user] STL for KDE

2004-01-20 Thread Dan Egli
I am trying to emerge KDE. But everytime I do it starts compiling arts which then dies in the conifg script saying unknown STL type. 'configure: error: no known STL type found - did you forget to install libstdc++-devel ?' I searched on the net and found on a mailinglist archive that you need

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS

2004-01-20 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
I saw that somewhere too. Can't find it either! Mike On Tuesday 20 January 2004 01:13 pm, Alan wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 05:33:09PM +0200, Sergey Berezka wrote: I have Athlon XP+ 1800 CPU. I type flags : -march=athlon-xp -03 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer in the make.conf. Now, when i

Re: [gentoo-user] STL for KDE

2004-01-20 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Dan Egli wrote: I am trying to emerge KDE. But everytime I do it starts compiling arts which then dies in the conifg script saying unknown STL type. 'configure: error: no known STL type found - did you forget to install libstdc++-devel ?' I searched on the net and found on a mailinglist

Re: [gentoo-user] STL for KDE

2004-01-20 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Eric Paynter wrote: Dan Egli said: I am trying to emerge KDE. But everytime I do it starts compiling arts which then dies in the conifg script saying unknown STL type. 'configure: error: no known STL type found - did you forget to install libstdc++-devel ?' There is an open bug (I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS

2004-01-20 Thread Brendan Sullivan
I can't help you find that info...but i do know (at least in laymans terms) what the basic differences of -O2 and -O3 are. The -O2 option when compiling, puts references to header files in the locations where they are called. The -O3 option, actually pulls the sections out of the header files,

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on a CD?

2004-01-20 Thread Alan
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 10:34:31AM -0800, Ian Truelsen wrote: I have been thinking about having my firewall box boot and run from a CD so that there are no writable filesystems and there should be no need to even have a HD. Can this be done with Gentoo or do I have to look at one of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SCSI emulation under Gentoo

2004-01-20 Thread Jens Hoffrichter
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 10:29:09AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: If I use a grub boot option like hdc=ide-scsi, then what /dev device do I mount in fstab to use the device? Do I need to make any changes at all in /etc/devfsd.conf to make this work? IIRC, the default

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SCSI emulation under Gentoo

2004-01-20 Thread Jakub Krajcovic
Hi, and what kernel version are you running? Because for 2.6 kernels, all you have to do is load the module ide-scsi at startup and give lilo (grub in your case) the hdx=ide-scsi option, but for 2.4 kernels there is a lot of /etc/modules editing to do... You metnioned that /dev/cdrom devices

Re: [gentoo-user] STL for KDE

2004-01-20 Thread Dan Egli
Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: Dan Egli wrote: I am trying to emerge KDE. But everytime I do it starts compiling arts which then dies in the conifg script saying unknown STL type. 'configure: error: no known STL type found - did you forget to install libstdc++-devel ?' I searched on the net and

Re: [gentoo-user] STL for KDE

2004-01-20 Thread Eric Paynter
Thomas T. Veldhouse said: Any chance you are running ~arch rather than arch? The default stable gentoo tree seems to create the libraries (which contain STL) and the headers correctly. Not running ~ right now, but it could have been the last time gcc was built. If so, then recompiling gcc

Re: [gentoo-user] SCSI emulation under Gentoo

2004-01-20 Thread Jani-Matti Hätinen
On Tuesday 20 January 2004 20:12, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, If I use a grub boot option like hdc=ide-scsi, then what /dev device do I mount in fstab to use the device? It'll be the first device on the scsi bus. (Assuming that you don't have other scsi devices) It'll be somewhere in

Re: [gentoo-user] arts-1.1.5 broken?

2004-01-20 Thread Brock Campbell
I ran into the same thing I might be a fool, but I just copied the MD5 sum into the arts1.1.5 digest file in place of the old one. and it seems to work all right, still recompiling kde though On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 02:42, Davide Brini wrote: Emerging arts-1.1.5 stops with this error: !!! File

[gentoo-user] kde 3.1.5 compile fails

2004-01-20 Thread Guy Van Sanden
Both kdegraphics and kdenetwork fail with similar errors, yet kdebase, kdeadmin etc compile. /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.2.3/include/stdio.h:428: than previous declaration `int fputc_unlocked(int, FILE*) throw ()' /usr/include/bits/stdio.h: In function `int putc_unlocked(int, FILE*)':

Re: [gentoo-user] Critical warning: Do not update GLIBC!

2004-01-20 Thread Collin Starkweather
On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 14:43, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: Hello This is just to stop others sharing the misfortune that occurred to me. I updated glibc to 2.3.2-r9 on stable x86 tree and it broke python, portage and also most applications. Do NOT perform this update until bug 38619 [1] has

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SCSI emulation under Gentoo

2004-01-20 Thread Azhdeen
On Tuesday 20 January 2004 21:13, Jakub Krajcovic wrote: If that's the case, than that's good and you should have a device called /dev/sr0. If you do, than that's your scsi-smulated cdrom... same subject, another part : after I get sr0, is there a way to hide hdc ? (hdc is a DVD drive) I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SCSI emulation under Gentoo

2004-01-20 Thread Matt Wilson
Apologies if I've missed the point of this discussion or if I'm making a point somebody already made, I've just joined the list (hi folks!). Because for 2.6 kernels, all you have to do is load the module ide-scsi at startup and give lilo (grub in your case) the hdx=ide-scsi option, but for 2.4

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS

2004-01-20 Thread Stijn Vander Maelen
On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 16:33, Sergey Berezka wrote: I have Athlon XP+ 1800 CPU. I type flags : -march=athlon-xp -03 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer in the make.conf. you typed a zero in -03, it should -O3 (with the o as in option) Now, when i compile any program , all the time line : unrecognized

Re: [gentoo-user] STL for KDE

2004-01-20 Thread Krikket
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Eric Paynter wrote: Dan Egli said: I am trying to emerge KDE. But everytime I do it starts compiling arts which then dies in the conifg script saying unknown STL type. 'configure: error: no known STL type found - did you forget to install libstdc++-devel ?'

Re: [gentoo-user] Install questions

2004-01-20 Thread Roger Sherman
On Monday 19 January 2004 06:11 pm, Greg Donald wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roger Sherman wrote: | Ok, tried to install about three times so far...all unmitigated disasters. I | run into the same problem every time, following the same routing. I follow | the

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