Re: [gentoo-user] How to set Gtk2 themes/fonts

2004-02-12 Thread Zarick Lau
Hi, 在 2004-02-13 Fri 的 13:41, Brendan Sullivan 写道: > hmm, ok, i found the editor. please bear with me here as i really do not > understand the x font server very well. > > i see the 'font_name' key is set to "Sans 10"...what other values can i > set that too? does "Sans 8" work? i'd like to cut

Re: [gentoo-user] Distributed Gentoo Package management?

2004-02-12 Thread Andreas Vinsander
Konstantinos Agouros wrote: The distcc idea mentioned in the other answer also came to my mind. Is there btw a way, that an emerge -u that needs more than one package uses existing packages if they are in /usr/portage/packages? Take a look at emerge -k, 'man emerge' is your friend! We have a ce

Re: [gentoo-user] perfomance 2.6.3 <= 2.4

2004-02-12 Thread Guy Van Sanden
I tested the responsiveness of the GUI by starting the same DIVX rip on dvdrip under both kernels. In 2.4, I can still launch Mozilla and k3b, although it takes them a few seconds longer. (about 17-25 seconds to fully load) On 2.6, nothing on my desktop is visually responding to me. If I click a p

Re: [gentoo-user] perfomance 2.6.3 <= 2.4

2004-02-12 Thread Guy Van Sanden
Nope, I didn't touch it. On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 00:41, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > On Thursday 12 February 2004 23:07, Guy Van Sanden wrote: > > I'm testing using kernel 2.6.3 (mm-sources rc2). > > On my system, everything is a little slower under 2.6 then it used to be > > in 2.4. > > measurabl

Re: [gentoo-user] perfomance 2.6.3 <= 2.4 - A-FRIGGIN-Men!

2004-02-12 Thread Guy Van Sanden
I basicly agree with you, I didn't expect 2.6 to skyrocket at first, but lately, its speed has been bragged about on this and other lists, so it was a disappointment to see about everything slightly slower, but desktop response down a lot... I was just wondering if I missed a step in the process

[gentoo-user] Problem emerging musicbrainz

2004-02-12 Thread Phil Barnett
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Since I tried to emerge KDE 3.2, I've been sticking on this error. Anyone know how to get around this error? Thanks. creating cpp_example /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link gcc -O2 -mcpu=athlon-tbird -march=i686 - -fforce-addr -fomit-frame-pointer -f

[gentoo-user] APM settings

2004-02-12 Thread Anthony Hoppe
How do I set APM settings like HDD powerdown and display powerdown? signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-user] Unmerging group of packages

2004-02-12 Thread Andrew Gaffney
phil wrote: Andrew Gaffney wrote: EvgGad wrote: Sven Vermeulen wrote: On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 06:38:51PM +0200, EvgGad wrote: I've such a question, how can I unmerge some group of packages for example kde. Some time ago I merged kde and gnome, but I don't use them anymore. How can I unmerge

Re: [gentoo-user] two Q about kernel-2.6.3-rc3-gentoo

2004-02-12 Thread Chris
On Thursday 12 February 2004 02:16 pm, Chris wrote: > I finally figured out why I couldnt get kernel-2.6.X to work on my sys. It > was a typo on my part, I could have sworn that I had put notail for my / - > reiserfs partition when it was actually tail that I had put down. :( > Q #2 How do I get

[gentoo-user] portage||emerge problem

2004-02-12 Thread ZsoL
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! After emerging something, i get the following: * Processed 391 info files: 5 errors; run with emerge --verbose to view errors. Even though, everything works just fine. Anybody can help me how to get rid of this error? ZsoL - -- ICQ#: 66782170

Re: [gentoo-user] perfomance 2.6.3 <= 2.4 more

2004-02-12 Thread TriKster Abacus
I would be curious to know the memory size of the machines whose owners are singing the praises of, or conversely complaining about, 2.6. All my machines cept 1 are running on at least 512mb of ram ddr400 I think..? (dont usually watch exactly what I buy.. I just ask for the best atm). I have i

Re: [gentoo-user] Mail confirmation requests

2004-02-12 Thread Kevin Hanson
Grendel wrote: On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, The awesome and feared Peter Ruskin commented thusly, On Friday 13 Feb 2004 1:45 am, Grendel wrote: You have pushed this once too often and are showing your utter immaturity noro, so I am adding you to my killfilter. and you, grendel, have been a

Re: [gentoo-user] Mail confirmation requests

2004-02-12 Thread Kevin Hanson
Grendel wrote: On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Norbert Kamenicky howled, IMHO bigger problem are individuals which like to start new thread by reply of another one. noro You have pushed this once too often and are showing your utter immaturity noro, so I am adding you to my killfilter. Usually my

Re: [gentoo-user] Which kernel version to select?

2004-02-12 Thread Grendel
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered the following immortal words, > > I'm going to find something to torture test this thing with and see if I > can lock it next week. If I can nail the problems to something, fine, I > can fix that, otherwise I will end up sending the board back. It's

Re: [gentoo-user] Which kernel version to select?

2004-02-12 Thread nealbirch
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 06:47:39 +0600 (LKT) Grendel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, The awesome and feared [EMAIL PROTECTED] > commented... > > > > > well, I went back into the bios and took the drives off "auto" and > > put the settings in manually, and I haven't had a problem ye

Re: [gentoo-user] perfomance 2.6.3 <= 2.4 B.S.!!!!!

2004-02-12 Thread Collins Richey
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 23:51:43 -0500 Kurt Bechstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [ snips ] > Now having said that I'll throw out my $.02 here. The first thing > I've noticed is that there is quite a difference between the 2.4 > kernels depending on what you are using. < Keep in mind the > major i

Re: [gentoo-user] perfomance 2.6.3 <= 2.4 B.S.!!!!!

2004-02-12 Thread Kurt Bechstein
First off take a deap breath here everyone. No need for name calling or anything of that sort here. We are all here for the same reason and on the same side so to speak. You are totally entitled to your opinion and I have no problem with that at all, but calling kernel developers named and what

Re: [gentoo-user] Synaptics touchpad, kernel 2.6, XFree 3.3

2004-02-12 Thread Mathew L Alexander
I too am having problems, I'm able to use the mouse but I can't double tap the pad and the cursor select the item. I have to use the buttons :( Any ideas? signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-user] where to define shell aliases?

2004-02-12 Thread Brendan Sullivan
add it to .bashrc brendan On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 22:32, Sven Köhler wrote: > hi, > > till now i still write my aliases to /etc/portage, but shouldn't there > be a better way? > > i remember a distro where /etc/portage included some file like > /etc/aliases which containes the common aliases li

[gentoo-user] apologies

2004-02-12 Thread TriKster Abacus
Ok. For the past few days I have been doing some serious ranting about the 2.6.X series kernel. My intentions were not to start a "flame" war, but to draw attention to the fact that certain things did not work as "advertised" I made every attempt to show my situation, and to post results that

Re: [gentoo-user] where to define shell aliases?

2004-02-12 Thread Chris van der Pennen
Um, i hope you mean /etc/profile. Anyway, you can use ~/.bashrc if you're using bash.  Other shells, you'll have to read the man page to see where they keep their per-user profile. Chris On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 15:02, Sven Köhler wrote: hi, till now i still write my aliases to /etc/portage,

Re: [gentoo-user] where to define shell aliases?

2004-02-12 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I put my aliases, environment variables, etc. in /etc/bash.rc and I modified /etc/skel/.bash_profile to source this file. Thus users get whatever is in /etc/bash.rc. Sven Köhler wrote: hi, till now i still write my aliases to /etc/portage, but shouldn't there be a better way? i remember a di

Re: [gentoo-user] where to define shell aliases?

2004-02-12 Thread blade-
I put mine in my .bashrc Sven Köhler wrote: hi, till now i still write my aliases to /etc/portage, but shouldn't there be a better way? i remember a distro where /etc/portage included some file like /etc/aliases which containes the common aliases like alias ls=ls --color or such stuff. so

[gentoo-user] where to define shell aliases?

2004-02-12 Thread Sven Köhler
hi, till now i still write my aliases to /etc/portage, but shouldn't there be a better way? i remember a distro where /etc/portage included some file like /etc/aliases which containes the common aliases like alias ls=ls --color or such stuff. so what do you think? should this be improved? --

Re: [gentoo-user] Mail confirmation requests

2004-02-12 Thread Grendel
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, The awesome and feared Collins Richey commented thusly, > On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 09:41:37 +0600 (LKT) > Grendel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, The awesome and feared Glenn Johnson commented > > thusly, > > > > > > > So the killfilter which i use is a ba

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set Gtk2 themes/fonts

2004-02-12 Thread Brendan Sullivan
On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 21:24, Jens Mayer wrote: > * On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 21:11:46 -0600, Brendan Sullivan wrote: > > > Hey everyone, I've been running Enlightenment for a while now with gtk2 > > themes and system fonts set by running the 'gnome-settings-daemon' at > > startup. I'm pretty convinc

Re: [gentoo-user] Safe? Multiple simultaneous emerge package-x

2004-02-12 Thread Collins Richey
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 11:44:14 +0800 "senectus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just out of interest.. > Is it smart enough on a multi processor machine to dedicate one CPU > for each emerge/compile? > > Also would it do a similar trick for "hyper threaded" CPU's? > If by "it," you mean emerge, th

Re: [gentoo-user] Mail confirmation requests

2004-02-12 Thread Collins Richey
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 09:41:37 +0600 (LKT) Grendel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, The awesome and feared Glenn Johnson commented > thusly, > > > So the killfilter which i use is a bayesian filter, ie it has been > trained to recognise people in email lists who have a annoying >

Re: [gentoo-user] Mail confirmation requests

2004-02-12 Thread Grendel
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, The awesome and feared Glenn Johnson commented thusly, > On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 08:12:22AM +0600, Grendel wrote: > > > I didnt have to even bother to add you, with your last post you > > automatically triggered my killfilter. I really am considering > > releasing the source

RE: [gentoo-user] Safe? Multiple simultaneous emerge package-x

2004-02-12 Thread senectus
Just out of interest.. Is it smart enough on a multi processor machine to dedicate one CPU for each emerge/compile? Also would it do a similar trick for "hyper threaded" CPU's? -Original Message- From: Collins Richey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 13 February 2004 11:30 AM To:

Re: [gentoo-user] Safe? Multiple simultaneous emerge package-x

2004-02-12 Thread Collins Richey
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 21:24:12 -0500 Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it safe to do multiple emerge commands (emerge package1 and emerge > package2) simultaneously in different xterms or virtual consoles? Any > > exclusive locks on files or anything? > In general, it's ok; just be sure tha

[gentoo-user] kong & cache

2004-02-12 Thread Chris
where does konq cache eveything from the web? -- Chris P. Carter <---> The smallest and even the dumbest of questions can lead to enlightenment. True wisdom is knowing when to listen, when to speak, when act and when to but out. <--

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set Gtk2 themes/fonts

2004-02-12 Thread Jens Mayer
* On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 21:11:46 -0600, Brendan Sullivan wrote: > Hey everyone, I've been running Enlightenment for a while now with gtk2 > themes and system fonts set by running the 'gnome-settings-daemon' at > startup. I'm pretty convinced I like Enlightenment a lot more than > Gnome, and kind

Re: [gentoo-user] Mail confirmation requests

2004-02-12 Thread Glenn Johnson
On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 08:12:22AM +0600, Grendel wrote: > I didnt have to even bother to add you, with your last post you > automatically triggered my killfilter. I really am considering > releasing the source for this killfilter as it learns quite well, > as it would have studied your posts and

Re: [gentoo-user] perfomance 2.6.3 <= 2.4 - A-FRIGGIN-Men!

2004-02-12 Thread Collins Richey
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 18:18:16 -0800 Ian Truelsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 19:05:09 -0600 > TriKster Abacus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This just goes to prove that I am not the only one seeing this > > bullsh*ty "ooohooohhhh ... 2.6.X is so great!" crap > > > Excu

Re: [gentoo-user] Which kernel version to select?

2004-02-12 Thread blade-
It means that all the kernel versions above that have been masked. You can use: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge /usr/portage/sys-kernel/gentoo-dev-sources/ gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.2.ebuild I will compile my own kernel from the source. my query was is there a way to ask emerge to get me the kernel

[gentoo-user] How to set Gtk2 themes/fonts

2004-02-12 Thread Brendan Sullivan
Hey everyone, I've been running Enlightenment for a while now with gtk2 themes and system fonts set by running the 'gnome-settings-daemon' at startup. I'm pretty convinced I like Enlightenment a lot more than Gnome, and kindof need to clear out some space on my root partition (in the form of unmerg

Re: [gentoo-user] perfomance 2.6.3 <= 2.4 B.S.!!!!!

2004-02-12 Thread Collins Richey
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 20:10:50 -0600 TriKster Abacus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gentoo Lists wrote: > > I don't want to feed this but what it really comes down to is if > > your not happy use the 2.4 kernels or make friendly constructive > > comments on the Kernel mailing lists > Umm... that is c

Re: [gentoo-user] Safe? Multiple simultaneous emerge package-x

2004-02-12 Thread blade-
I remember reading on the forums that it can mess up the dependency tree or something, it may have chnaged since then but I would not until someone confirms its ok. Kevin wrote: Is it safe to do multiple emerge commands (emerge package1 and emerge package2) simultaneously in different xterms o

Re: [gentoo-user] Which kernel version to select?

2004-02-12 Thread Grendel
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, The awesome and feared Collins Richey commented thusly, > Got it in one. Gentoo was not designed for the unexperienced, but a lot > of unexperienced users have made the grade. yes, thats a tribute to the good support from this list more than anything else. If I didnt have

Re: [gentoo-user] Which kernel version to select?

2004-02-12 Thread Collins Richey
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 08:22:43 +0600 (LKT) Grendel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, The awesome and feared Collins Richey commented > thusly, > > Yes, but I dont know if I am missing something here, but still this > means that you need a lot of patience and a extremely high level

[gentoo-user] gcc-config

2004-02-12 Thread Mike
I have three versions of gcc installed on my system: 2.95.3, 3.2.3, and 3.3.2. I'm using gcc-config to select a version. gcc-3.3.2 was recently installed. But, I'm still using gcc-3.2.3 most of the time and experimenting with gcc-3.3.2. Now, after ever package emerge portage wants to unmerge gcc-3

RE: [gentoo-user] perfomance 2.6.3 <= 2.4 B.S.!!!!!

2004-02-12 Thread Gentoo Lists
No I am not going to have you banded because this is your own opinion. Your allowed to have one, I actually value that you have your own opinion cause if you didn't this would be a very bland and borring world. You talk about me getting off my high horse but you jump so quickly I wonder if you th

Re: [gentoo-user] Which kernel version to select?

2004-02-12 Thread Grendel
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, The awesome and feared Collins Richey commented thusly, > 1) There are one or more projects underway to automate the install > process. Search the archives or in forum. Most of us don't mind the > manual process because normally you only need to do it once, then update > fo

[gentoo-user] Safe? Multiple simultaneous emerge package-x

2004-02-12 Thread Kevin
Is it safe to do multiple emerge commands (emerge package1 and emerge package2) simultaneously in different xterms or virtual consoles? Any exclusive locks on files or anything? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] perfomance 2.6.3 <= 2.4 - A-FRIGGIN-Men!

2004-02-12 Thread Ian Truelsen
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 19:05:09 -0600 TriKster Abacus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This just goes to prove that I am not the only one seeing this > bullsh*ty "ooohooohhhh ... 2.6.X is so great!" crap > Excuse me for interrupting, but does it make a lot of sense to be benchmarking what is essenti

Re: [gentoo-user] perfomance 2.6.3 <= 2.4 B.S.!!!!!

2004-02-12 Thread Grendel
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, The awesome and feared TriKster Abacus commented thusly, My advice to everyone is to wait a bit till the kernel becomes at least 2.6.5 (preferably 2.6.10) as we then only assume that a kernel has become really stable. Till then stick with kernel 2.4.x Grendel -- Hi, I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] perfomance 2.6.3 <= 2.4 B.S.!!!!!

2004-02-12 Thread Collins Richey
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 19:19:21 -0600 TriKster Abacus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>From what I have read, the major performance gains are for MP > >machines. > > Ya, but the issue here is.. a desktop system, running basic programs.. > > I.E. X, xchat-2, mozilla, [your favorite email client h

Re: [gentoo-user] Mail confirmation requests

2004-02-12 Thread Grendel
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, The awesome and feared Peter Ruskin commented thusly, > On Friday 13 Feb 2004 1:45 am, Grendel wrote: > > You have pushed this once too often and are showing your utter > > immaturity noro, so I am adding you to my killfilter. > > and you, grendel, have been added to mine. I

RE: [gentoo-user] OT: Win NT & 2k

2004-02-12 Thread senectus
I didn't say that it IS a hoax.. I said I believe it's a hoax.. If you want a copy of the file list.. yell out.. I'm pretty confident that if you look at it you discount it as a load or carp.. (fishy ;-) For the record.. I don't have the source.. I'm not interested in obtaining the source.. and

Re: [gentoo-user] Making cdrecord work

2004-02-12 Thread Collins Richey
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 21:08:36 +0600 (LKT) Grendel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No the cvs version of cdrdao works fine with ATAPI drives. > cdrdao write --device /dev/hdd vice_city.toc > works fine. I burned a lot of .bin files using it and had no problem. > Good to know. I haven't used it.

Re: [gentoo-user] Mail confirmation requests

2004-02-12 Thread TriKster Abacus
Peter Ruskin wrote: On Friday 13 Feb 2004 1:45 am, Grendel wrote: You have pushed this once too often and are showing your utter immaturity noro, so I am adding you to my killfilter. and you, grendel, have been added to mine. I think this list would be better without you and your nasty comment

Re: [gentoo-user] Which kernel version to select?

2004-02-12 Thread Collins Richey
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 06:55:18 +0600 (LKT) Grendel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I managed to get gentoo running, the installation was the worst > experience i had since I installed debian. You know some of the things > I have to do are so common that why anyone cant write a intereactive > install s

Re: [gentoo-user] perfomance 2.6.3 <= 2.4 B.S.!!!!!

2004-02-12 Thread TriKster Abacus
Gentoo Lists wrote: I don't want to feed this but what it really comes down to is if your not happy use the 2.4 kernels or make friendly constructive comments on the Kernel mailing lists where a developer who has given many many hours to bring you this nice new kernel can answer and maybe resolve y

Re: [gentoo-user] 1394 modules under Gentoo

2004-02-12 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 17:44, Jose González Gómez wrote: > I think you should modify /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.x > instead. Good idea! Didn't think of that. Thanks! > Or emerge hotplug, rc-update add hotplug default. That I have done, but it doesn't get the modules loaded. You cannot

Re: [gentoo-user] Synaptics touchpad, kernel 2.6, XFree 3.3

2004-02-12 Thread Tom Syroid
Jose, --On Friday, February 13, 2004 01:32:59 +0100 Jose González Gómez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi there, Is there anybody out there with a laptop with kernel 2.6, XFree 3.3 and a working Synaptics touchpad? I've found the following links: I do. What, specifically, is it your looking

Re: [gentoo-user] Mail confirmation requests

2004-02-12 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Friday 13 Feb 2004 1:45 am, Grendel wrote: > You have pushed this once too often and are showing your utter > immaturity noro, so I am adding you to my killfilter. and you, grendel, have been added to mine. I think this list would be better without you and your nasty comments -- [EMAIL PROT

RE: [gentoo-user] perfomance 2.6.3 <= 2.4 B.S.!!!!!

2004-02-12 Thread Gentoo Lists
I don't want to feed this but what it really comes down to is if your not happy use the 2.4 kernels or make friendly constructive comments on the Kernel mailing lists where a developer who has given many many hours to bring you this nice new kernel can answer and maybe resolve your issues. Remember

Re: [gentoo-user] Mail confirmation requests

2004-02-12 Thread Grendel
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Norbert Kamenicky howled, > IMHO bigger problem are individuals which like to start > new thread by reply of another one. > > noro You have pushed this once too often and are showing your utter immaturity noro, so I am adding you to my killfilter. Usually my killfilters b

Re: [gentoo-user] 1394 modules under Gentoo

2004-02-12 Thread Jose González Gómez
I think you should modify /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.x instead. Or emerge hotplug, rc-update add hotplug default. Regards Jose Mark Knecht escribió: Hi, My home boxes use 1394 built into the kernel so I don't have this issue. Some new machines at work have 1394 built as modules.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Win NT & 2k

2004-02-12 Thread Michiel ten Hagen
How do you know its a hoax? Do you know what the real source looks like? I must admit it looks like an hoax but maybe its true. Just wait and well see. On Friday 13 February 2004 01:20, senectus wrote: > Pffft.. > I've got a copy of the "list of files" in .txt format (ie no source code.. > just

Re: [gentoo-user] net-wireless/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1_pre17-r1

2004-02-12 Thread Octavio Ruiz (Ta^3)
Let me guess, you are using Kernel series 2.6? Remove sandbox or usersandbox in your make.conf before merging linux-wlan-ng with 2.6 sources. Mauro Arnoldi, who happens to be smarter than you, thinks: > Hi! When I try to emerge this package I obtain this error: > > /var/tmp/portage/linux-wlan-n

Re: [gentoo-user] perfomance 2.6.3 <= 2.4 B.S.!!!!!

2004-02-12 Thread TriKster Abacus
From what I have read, the major performance gains are for MP machines. Check the recent IBM benchmarks that report a 5-1 gain in web pages served for a 24 hour test on an 8-processor machine! http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-web26/index.html?ca=dgr-lnxw02KernCompare Ya, but

RE: [gentoo-user] OT: Win NT & 2k

2004-02-12 Thread senectus
Pffft.. I've got a copy of the "list of files" in .txt format (ie no source code.. just a list of the names of the files they claim to be the source code..) and it looks completely bogus.. I'm kinda surprised that /. Even mentioned it.. especially with the quality of some of the comments on that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hey!

2004-02-12 Thread Grendel
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, The awesome and feared Spider commented thusly, > > Just dont think that you know the best and dont criticise others > > openly, learn a lesson for once in your miserable life and read about > > a bit before criticising other peoples comments and people themselves. > > *Sigh*

[gentoo-user] access violation during emerge pcmcia-cs

2004-02-12 Thread Roger
Emerge -uv pcmcia-cs is failing with this error: make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/pcmcia-cs-3.2.5-r1/work/pcmcia-cs-3.2.5/etc/cis' make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/pcmcia-cs-3.2.5-r1/work/pcmcia-cs-3.2.5/etc' ---

Re: [gentoo-user] perfomance 2.6.3 <= 2.4 - A-FRIGGIN-Men!

2004-02-12 Thread TriKster Abacus
Guy, ROFLMAO! You haven't been following my posts have you? I have been having the same issues.. and have been testing every kernel since 2.4.23 up to 2.6.3-rc2 including the mm-sources and love-sources. This just goes to prove that I am not the only one seeing this bullsh*ty "ooohooohhhh

Re: [gentoo-user] Which kernel version to select?

2004-02-12 Thread Grendel
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, The awesome and feared Norbert Kamenicky commented thusly, > Grendel, > > be so kind and do not start new topic in the middle of another one, please!!! > i.e. Do not start new thread by replaying another and changing header. Thank you for your words of wisdom. No the reason

Re: [gentoo-user] Which kernel version to select?

2004-02-12 Thread Grendel
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, The awesome and feared [EMAIL PROTECTED] commented... > > well, I went back into the bios and took the drives off "auto" and put > the settings in manually, and I haven't had a problem yet, but I haven't > been able to duplicate the damn thing at all up to this point. It's >

Re: [gentoo-user] my sound went away

2004-02-12 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 12 February 2004 03:27 pm, Nickolay Savchenko wrote: > You've misunderstood. Gnome sound works, but ocassionaly it becomes > muted. I think the problem is related to permissions. 5 minutes ago my > father logged out from his gnome session

[gentoo-user] Synaptics touchpad, kernel 2.6, XFree 3.3

2004-02-12 Thread Jose GonzÃlez GÃmez
Hi there, Is there anybody out there with a laptop with kernel 2.6, XFree 3.3 and a working Synaptics touchpad? I've found the following links: http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/index.html http://www.geocities.com/dt_or/gpm/gpm.html http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?

Re: [gentoo-user] New Install

2004-02-12 Thread Jose González Gómez
Rob, Maybe you could take a look at genkernel. Although it's a bit inmature, it's supposed to do all the dirty stuff for you, and you only have to edit the grub configuration file with the parameters provided by genkernel. About the kernel being corrupted, are you sure you are pointin

Re: [gentoo-user] Dell Inspiron 8500

2004-02-12 Thread Jose González Gómez
Rob, I don't know about those specific devices, but you could take a look at http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/dell.html or http://tuxmobil.org/dell.html, there are a few articles on Inspiron 8500. They're not for Gentoo, but you may learn a lot from them, and then apply to Gentoo. Anyway,

Re: [gentoo-user] still portage update problem

2004-02-12 Thread Marius Mauch
On 02/13/04 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > After some portage 2.0.50 problems I resolved my open_rw errors by > recreating sandbox. After that emerge went fine for a while, until it > emerged portage 2.0.50 again. Now I'm back to: > > -- start -- > Traceback (most recen

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo facing other source distros

2004-02-12 Thread nealbirch
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 23:45:16 +0100 Jérôme Bouat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le jeu 12/02/2004 à 23:28, Matthias F. Brandstetter a écrit : > > I would suggest you visit http://www.distrowatch.org/ > > I already saw it but could not see source based comparaison involving > Gentoo. > > I though I

Re: [gentoo-user] perfomance 2.6.3 <= 2.4

2004-02-12 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 12 February 2004 23:07, Guy Van Sanden wrote: > I'm testing using kernel 2.6.3 (mm-sources rc2). > On my system, everything is a little slower under 2.6 then it used to be > in 2.4. > measurable performance is only slightly worse (like dvdrip getting 2 fps > less, 20 fps less for glxgea

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Win NT & 2k

2004-02-12 Thread Spider
begin quote On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 00:10:16 +0100 Jakub Krajcovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi guys, i know this is totally OT, but if you don't mind, check out > slashdot concernig %subject > I hope that you all display enough common sense not to download it, even if you just want to gloat a

[gentoo-user] still portage update problem

2004-02-12 Thread henkg
Hello, After some portage 2.0.50 problems I resolved my open_rw errors by recreating sandbox. After that emerge went fine for a while, until it emerged portage 2.0.50 again. Now I'm back to: -- start -- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 14, in ?

[gentoo-user] So does 2.6 do sata ataraid yet

2004-02-12 Thread phil
if anyone has got 2.6 to work with sata ataraid can they let me know, i spent many days on the first release trying to get it to work but couldnt, my setup is , nf7-s v2 2x seagate 80gb disks on raid0 array TIA p.marples -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] perfomance 2.6.3 <= 2.4

2004-02-12 Thread Collins Richey
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 23:07:36 +0100 Wazow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Guy Van Sanden wrote: > > I'm testing using kernel 2.6.3 (mm-sources rc2). > > On my system, everything is a little slower under 2.6 then it used > > to be in 2.4. > > measurable performance is only slightly worse (like dv

[gentoo-user] OT: Win NT & 2k

2004-02-12 Thread Jakub Krajcovic
Hi guys, i know this is totally OT, but if you don't mind, check out slashdot concernig %subject GPG public keys available at pgp.mit.edu pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] udev & devfs - possible conflict?

2004-02-12 Thread Jakub Krajcovic
Well, i couldn't wait for your reply so i learned the hard way... After unmerging devfsd and merging udev, i could not connect using ppp (ISDN) - and whoa: *user* panic. and since i know nothing about udev config, i came back to devfs. On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 23:43:58 +0100 Arne Vogel <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [gentoo-user] Unmerging group of packages

2004-02-12 Thread phil
Andrew Gaffney wrote: EvgGad wrote: Sven Vermeulen wrote: On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 06:38:51PM +0200, EvgGad wrote: I've such a question, how can I unmerge some group of packages for example kde. Some time ago I merged kde and gnome, but I don't use them anymore. How can I unmerge all of the

Re: [gentoo-user] how to rebuild /etc/pam.d

2004-02-12 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Lloyd H. Meinholz wrote: Some files seem to have been damaged in my /etc/pam.d directory. How can I rebuild the files that are in here? Remerging pam and baselayout don't seem to do the trick. Thanks, Try this: emerge $(epm -qf /etc/pam.d) noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Alsa & 2.6.1

2004-02-12 Thread David Stevenson
Wazow wrote: Why do you emerge alsasound? I use the 2.6.1 native alsa drivers with alsa sound installed from previous kernel. I emerged alsa when I was on 2.4.22 and it worked fine. Now I am on 2.6.1 I use the kernel modules and have the problem. Andrzej David Stevenson wrote: I started with 2.4

Re: [gentoo-user] Mail confirmation requests

2004-02-12 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Ted Ozolins wrote: It would be really nice if those individuals requesting confirmations of mail receipts would stop. Why would anyone use that on a list? You are not conversing with a single end user,so why do you need confirmation??? This practice sucks!! I disabled confirmation in MUA by def

[gentoo-user] 1394 modules under Gentoo

2004-02-12 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, My home boxes use 1394 built into the kernel so I don't have this issue. Some new machines at work have 1394 built as modules. What's the right way to load these modules under Gentoo? Should I create some arbitrary file like /etc/modules.d/ohci , name them in there and then run modu

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo facing other source distros

2004-02-12 Thread Jérôme Bouat
Le jeu 12/02/2004 à 23:28, Matthias F. Brandstetter a écrit : > I would suggest you visit http://www.distrowatch.org/ I already saw it but could not see source based comparaison involving Gentoo. I though I could find former users of Source Mage, Sorcerer, Lunar or Onebase here. -- [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [gentoo-user] udev & devfs - possible conflict?

2004-02-12 Thread Arne Vogel
Jakub Krajcovic wrote: Ok, thanks a lot, that really helped. But now the question is: do i get udev wortking by just emergeing it, unmerging devfs and rebooting the computer? Well, from my experience, I would say no... important device nodes will be missing (e.g. on my system /dev/ppp, which a

Re: [gentoo-user] perfomance 2.6.3 <= 2.4

2004-02-12 Thread Brendan Sullivan
On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 16:07, Guy Van Sanden wrote: > I'm testing using kernel 2.6.3 (mm-sources rc2). > On my system, everything is a little slower under 2.6 then it used to be > in 2.4. > measurable performance is only slightly worse (like dvdrip getting 2 fps > less, 20 fps less for glxgears), bu

[gentoo-user] Re: Hey!

2004-02-12 Thread Spider
begin quote On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 02:09:33 +0600 (LKT) Grendel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey SpiderI am still waiting for your reply about my link showing > the benchmarks showing that XFS and reiserfs performed better than > ext2:-) Why do you wait? So far i didn't see anything in you

Re: [gentoo-user] dual booting problems

2004-02-12 Thread Mike Adolf
- Original Message - From: "Barry Marler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 12:08 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] dual booting problems > On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 11:35:46 -0800 > "Mike Adolf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Greetings, > > > > This

Re: [gentoo-user] Which kernel version to select?

2004-02-12 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Grendel, be so kind and do not start new topic in the middle of another one, please!!! i.e. Do not start new thread by replaying another and changing header. noro PS. This is the 2.nd time u does it today. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] install problem

2004-02-12 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Jérôme Bouat wrote: snip If any ethernet adapters were detected at boot, they should be auto-configured if DHCP is available on your network. Type "net-setup eth0" to specify eth0 IP address settings by hand. Maybe should, but I always have to put the relevant eth module into /etc/modules.d/my_e

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo facing other source distros

2004-02-12 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Jérôme Bouat -- > Up to now, I'm a Mandrake Linux user. I search for a more optimized > system (i.e. source based distros). I have heard many stuffs on Rock, > Socerer, Lunar, Source Mage, Onebase and Gentoo distro. > > Could you explain me which differences are between a

Re: [gentoo-user] broken gcc-config and suspicious linux-headers 2.4.21

2004-02-12 Thread Wazow
Now I have emerged kernel-headers-2.4.21. Indeed /usr/include/linux was downgraded from 2.6.1 to 2.4.21, also portage officially did not downgrade anything. This was a quite overwrite... In the end I see two interesting messages: * Kernel headers are usually only used when recompiling glibc, a

Re: [gentoo-user] Font problem after emerging QT3.3

2004-02-12 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Scharf Yuval -- > After emerging qt 3.3 non-latin letters appear on the screen as empty > squares. I have this problem at least with licq. Look at this bug for some information: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40887 -- It's wonderful, it's magical. Oh boy, he

Re: [gentoo-user] Which kernel version to select?

2004-02-12 Thread nealbirch
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 02:03:23 +0600 (LKT) Grendel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, The awesome and feared [EMAIL PROTECTED] > commented... > > > > Well, might it explain the lock-ups I get with this Asus a7n8x using > > 2.4.24? Guess I will have to bite the bullet and get the 2.6

Re: [gentoo-user] broken gcc-config and suspicious linux-headers 2.4.21

2004-02-12 Thread Marius Mauch
On 02/12/04 Wazow wrote: > Thanks. I give it a try, right now starting with emerge -uDv > kernel-headers. Gee, this package is huge. How come portage reports > that headers are 30MB? Because they are extracted from a normal kernel tarball. Marius -- Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gp

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.3 and Orinoco Patched Drivers

2004-02-12 Thread Jerry McBride
On Thursday 12 February 2004 03:21 am, Mark Huson wrote: > Hello, > I am running gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.3 but am looking to be able to get my > wireless card into promiscus mode. The only way to do this with an Orinoco > card is to use the patched drivers. I have search for a couple hours now

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