[gentoo-user] emerge problems

2004-02-13 Thread riki
I get a lot of downloading errors when using emerge. Usually it cannot find the necessary files on the mirror I'm using. I have to the google for the file, download it and place it in the /usr/portage/distfiles directory, then emerge again. The script to set the mirror did not seem to work from

[gentoo-user] XDMCP how to configure?

2004-02-13 Thread Gerhard W . Gruber
I'm using KDM and now I wanted to install Exceed on a windows client to see my X desktop from there. In my company we use Exceed to connect to HP-UX machines and everything works fine, but when I try to use it with my linux box Exeecd doesn't seem to be able to attach to the X server. What do I hav

[gentoo-user] Problem with KDM

2004-02-13 Thread Gerhard W . Gruber
I installed vmware a few days ago and ever since then I seem to have a problem with KDM. I'm not sure if it is really vmware, because I seem to have the problem also when I don't use it, but then again, there are these modules and maybe that's the cause. I don't recall having problems with KDM befo

Re: [gentoo-user] Copy and paste from nano

2004-02-13 Thread LoneStar
Alex Volkov wrote: Hi everyone, I just can't figure out how do I copy a portion or the whole file in nano and paste it into links or other program. I have a problem and would like to post a log file to a list. I have read man and help nano pages but found no info on the subject. Thanks. It hel

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: The beauty of 2.6 going back on topic, maybe....

2004-02-13 Thread Grendel
On Sat, 14 Feb 2004, William Kenworthy uttered the following immortal words, > (on things I do every day), wasnt too good on the desktop and had many > incompatibilities but as a fair bit of time has passed I am compiling it > again and will try it soon. As far as the 2.4 releases were concerned

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: The beauty of 2.6 going back on topic, maybe....

2004-02-13 Thread William Kenworthy
"emerge sources -s" will list all available sources. It should live alongside 2.4 fine (did in the past), but on complex kitchen sink machines like mine, I will have to see. I am about to try 2.6 mm and see how it goes. I did try an earlier 2.6 vanilla some months back and as others have found,

Re: [gentoo-user] Copy and paste from nano

2004-02-13 Thread felix zaslavskiy
On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 07:48:15 + Alex Volkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Felix, > > i managed to cut and paste only one line inside nano with your > suggestion. However what I intend to do is copy a portion of my Just keep pressing Ctl-K many times to cut multiple lines. > genkernel.lo

Re: [gentoo-user] Copy and paste from nano

2004-02-13 Thread Alex Volkov
Thanks Felix, i managed to cut and paste only one line inside nano with your suggestion. However what I intend to do is copy a portion of my genkernel.log in nano and paste it to Sylpheed ( the only working email client on my system). Also. I'm looking for a way to do so without X. Does anyone hav

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc-config

2004-02-13 Thread Mike
On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 04:30:20PM +0100, Arne Vogel wrote: > Mike wrote: > > >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 > >ex

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: The beauty of 2.6 going back on topic, maybe....

2004-02-13 Thread Chris
On Friday 13 February 2004 09:55 pm, Linux Gentoo wrote: > As a new user of Gentoo, may I ask a dumb question... How would one go > about trying this new kernel? > > I imagine I need to emege something, then run menuconfig and compile, > but are there instructions someplace on just what to do? An

Re: [gentoo-user] kong & cache

2004-02-13 Thread Chris
On Friday 13 February 2004 10:02 pm, Norberto Bensa wrote: > Chris wrote: > > On Friday 13 February 2004 09:16 am, Norberto Bensa wrote: > > > Don't cross post. > > > > wasnt trying to it went to the gentoo list cuz i entered the wrong email > > add the first time around > > It's ok. Just wait a fe

Re: [gentoo-user] GIMP 1.2 & fonts

2004-02-13 Thread Jens Mayer
* On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 21:07:02 -0700, Linux Gentoo wrote: > Can anyone tell me why the fonts in GIMP look like poop? Ok, that is > not a technical term. What I mean is they are not making smooth edges > on the rounded numbers/letters. Gimp 1.2 is based on gtk+-1.2.10, which is not capable o

Re: [gentoo-user] epiphany ebuild fails on configure

2004-02-13 Thread Collins Richey
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 21:57:31 -0600 Brendan Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > started emerging epiphany and got this error. updated intltools to .30 > like it asked what does this mean? please help! i love epiphany, > and I (idiot as i am) cleaned out 1.0.6 before i compiled 1.0.7 > > conf

[gentoo-user] GIMP 1.2 & fonts

2004-02-13 Thread Linux Gentoo
Can anyone tell me why the fonts in GIMP look like poop? Ok, that is not a technical term. What I mean is they are not making smooth edges on the rounded numbers/letters. Do I need to emerge with a certain flag enabled or disabled? Thank you. Adrian -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] kong & cache

2004-02-13 Thread Norberto Bensa
Chris wrote: > On Friday 13 February 2004 09:16 am, Norberto Bensa wrote: > > Don't cross post. > > > > wasnt trying to it went to the gentoo list cuz i entered the wrong email > add the first time around It's ok. Just wait a few days next time, and if you don't get any answers, then post to the

[gentoo-user] epiphany ebuild fails on configure

2004-02-13 Thread Brendan Sullivan
started emerging epiphany and got this error. updated intltools to .30 like it asked what does this mean? please help! i love epiphany, and I (idiot as i am) cleaned out 1.0.6 before i compiled 1.0.7 configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool !!! ERROR: net-www/epiphan

Re: [gentoo-user] Copy and paste from nano

2004-02-13 Thread felix zaslavskiy
> > Hi everyone, > > I just can't figure out how do I copy a portion or the whole file in > nano and paste it into links or other program. > I have a problem and would like to post a log file to a list. I have > read man and help nano pages but found no info on the subject. Thanks. > There is

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: The beauty of 2.6 going back on topic, maybe....

2004-02-13 Thread Linux Gentoo
As a new user of Gentoo, may I ask a dumb question... How would one go about trying this new kernel? I imagine I need to emege something, then run menuconfig and compile, but are there instructions someplace on just what to do? And will I be able to save all my 2.4 related files in case somethin

[gentoo-user] root partition mounting twice??

2004-02-13 Thread Kent Smith
Hi, Does anyone have any ideas why my / partition always shows as being mounted twice? It's weird. Here's the output of 'mount': [EMAIL PROTECTED] kent $ mount /dev/hda2 on / type jfs (rw,noatime) /dev/hda2 on / type jfs (rw,noatime) none on /proc type proc (rw) none on /sys type sysfs (rw) none

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

2004-02-13 Thread Grendel
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Arne Vogel uttered the following immortal words, > Well, I have a card (Terratec DMX 1024) that supports double stereo > (front and back), so it should be > possible to configure it for 4 channels. However, I didn't try this yet. > If you figure it out, could you share > you

Re: [gentoo-user] Making cdrecord work

2004-02-13 Thread Grendel
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Bob White uttered the following immortal words, > > I had to explicitly specify "hdc=ide-cd" and the the /dev/hdc link worked > > ok. > > I'm sure I don't understand! I tried lots of different combinations, > and the only thing that I could find that worked was to remove scs

[gentoo-user] Copy and paste from nano

2004-02-13 Thread Alex Volkov
Hi everyone, I just can't figure out how do I copy a portion or the whole file in nano and paste it into links or other program. I have a problem and would like to post a log file to a list. I have read man and help nano pages but found no info on the subject. Thanks. Alex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] RPM equivlents

2004-02-13 Thread Chris Aniszczyk (zx)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Drake wrote: Hi, You will need to install "gentoolkit" to use the qpkg command. Radu Filip wrote: Hi, on Gentoo, what are the equivalents of the following RPM options: rpm -qi installed_package (show info about an installed package) What kin

Re: [gentoo-user] More nVidia Stuff...

2004-02-13 Thread Grendel
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Brendan Sullivan uttered the following immortal words, > just to clarify, every time you switch kernel versions. if you just > recompile the same kernel version (ie. recompile 2.4.xx for FAT fs > support) you dont have to recompile the nvidia-kernel. > > I sometimes didn't ev

[gentoo-user] [gnump3d] Problem starting the daemon

2004-02-13 Thread Alexander Williams
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: After doing the most recent emerge update, I went to restart gnump3d, and received only an error message for my trouble: gundam init.d # start-stop-daemon --start --exec /usr/bin/gnump3d2 -- --background The plugin directory you've chosen '/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/gnump3d/pl

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

2004-02-13 Thread Grendel
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Arne Vogel uttered the following immortal words, > I have no need for a boot partition or initrd either, my sys is booting > right off a 75GB reiserfs partition, with > reiser support compiled into the kernel and just about everything else I > need as a module. Yes it works

Re: [gentoo-user] More nVidia Stuff...

2004-02-13 Thread Brendan Sullivan
just to clarify, every time you switch kernel versions. if you just recompile the same kernel version (ie. recompile 2.4.xx for FAT fs support) you dont have to recompile the nvidia-kernel. I sometimes didn't even have to recompile the nvidia-kernel for minor version changes (2.4.21 to 2.4.23). I'

Re: [gentoo-user] More nVidia Stuff...

2004-02-13 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Saturday 14 Feb 2004 01:08, Stroller wrote: > On Feb 13, 2004, at 11:46 pm, Alan wrote: > > emerge nvidia-kernel and load 'nvidia' module through your > > /etc/modules.autoload.d/kerne- file (or modprobe nvidia at > > the command line) Information from emerge of nvidia-kernel-1.0.533: If you ar

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

2004-02-13 Thread Grendel
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Matt Garman uttered the following immortal words, > > What scares me, truly, is that it only takes one bonehead to do a copy > and paste job from the MS code to a (previously) legitimate OSS > application. And, as you say, that gives Microsoft, with their vast > financial an

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop on wireless network cannot see other machine

2004-02-13 Thread Laurent Duperval
Norbert Kamenicky wrote: Are u sure u haven't set some proxy variables on the notebook? ( Check using "env | grep -i proxy" ) Positive. Are u sure u not made some monkey things with desktop? (Maybe u have IPs from the same network on eth and wlan ifaces or u have broken routing table or ...) I d

Re: [gentoo-user] More nVidia Stuff...

2004-02-13 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Saturday 14 Feb 2004 01:08, Stroller wrote: > Cool. TY. Would I be right in imagining that I might need to remerge > this when I recompile my kernel..? Yes, every time, but only the nvidia-kernel, not the -glx. Peter -- == Ge

Re: [gentoo-user] More nVidia Stuff...

2004-02-13 Thread Stroller
On Feb 13, 2004, at 11:46 pm, Alan wrote: emerge nvidia-kernel and load 'nvidia' module through your /etc/modules.autoload.d/kerne- file (or modprobe nvidia at the command line) Cool. TY. Would I be right in imagining that I might need to remerge this when I recompile my kernel..? emerge nvidia-g

Re: [gentoo-user] Opera-7.23 ebuild question

2004-02-13 Thread Øyvind Stegard
Alex Efros wrote: Hi! I's anybody knows why Opera require Openmotif? I've used different versions of Opera (including 7.23) a couple of years from 'opera*static*rpm' without any (Open|Less|...)tiff installed (on my LFS-based distro which I've used before hear about Gentoo). Perhaps it has somethin

Re: [gentoo-user] CPU Overload? IN KDE-3.2.0?

2004-02-13 Thread Jens Mayer
* On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 16:28:27 -0800, Jayson Garrell wrote: >> My setup exactly. Is this a kernel problem, something to do with my >> hardware (i810), or aRts? > I would say no on the hardware or kernel issue. I am running 2.4.24 w/ > sb-live card and I am seeing the same error. I'd second

Re: [gentoo-user] CPU Overload? IN KDE-3.2.0?

2004-02-13 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jens Mayer wrote: | | I encouter this CPU overload problem while running artsd with the | "Open Sound System" output chosen, as well as running artsd with | the "autodetect" setting turned on (which seems to use OSS, too). | | Switching to ALSA solves t

Re: [gentoo-user] what happened to my 'clean' font?

2004-02-13 Thread Andrew Cowie
On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 08:47, Matthew Baxa wrote: > Where actually is a good place to search the list? Some people use gmane.org http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user AfC -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] CPU Overload? IN KDE-3.2.0?

2004-02-13 Thread Jayson Garrell
On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 16:27, Ulrich Plate wrote: > My setup exactly. Is this a kernel problem, something to do with my > hardware (i810), or aRts? I would say no on the hardware or kernel issue. I am running 2.4.24 w/ sb-live card and I am seeing the same error. Jayson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ma

Re: [gentoo-user] CPU Overload? IN KDE-3.2.0?

2004-02-13 Thread Ulrich Plate
Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > Is anybody getting the CPU overload warning strange audio problems > with KDE 3.2.0? Yep. Moi. It's become quite irritating: artsd gets woken up by some minor event (even a beep upon tab-autocompletion in a shell is enough), races up to >95% CPU load and eventually t

Re: [gentoo-user] CPU Overload? IN KDE-3.2.0?

2004-02-13 Thread Jens Mayer
* On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 17:54:49 -0600, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > Is anybody getting the CPU overload warning strange audio problems with > KDE 3.2.0? I am finding it quite annoying. I don't seem to have any > problems with Gnome 2.4.2 and using esound. I have tried this with both > the la

Re: [gentoo-user] Catching Important Portage Messages

2004-02-13 Thread Matthew Kennedy
Dave Knopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hey All, > > How does one catch the important messages from portage at the end of > emerge operations -- withOUT all the build information messages? [...] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11359 -- Matthew Kennedy Gentoo Linux Developer Bugs go to

[gentoo-user] CPU Overload? IN KDE-3.2.0?

2004-02-13 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is anybody getting the CPU overload warning strange audio problems with KDE 3.2.0? I am finding it quite annoying. I don't seem to have any problems with Gnome 2.4.2 and using esound. I have tried this with both the latest Gentoo sources and ALSA and

Re: [gentoo-user] More nVidia Stuff...

2004-02-13 Thread Alan
On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 11:36:39PM +, Stroller wrote: > > On Feb 13, 2004, at 11:21 pm, Brendan Sullivan wrote: > >the nvidia README is rather helpful...it got me through setting the > >nvidia drivers up just fine when i started using linux. > > It did..?!??!? Yikes! You must be loads clevere

Re: [gentoo-user] More nVidia Stuff...

2004-02-13 Thread Stroller
On Feb 13, 2004, at 11:21 pm, Brendan Sullivan wrote: the nvidia README is rather helpful...it got me through setting the nvidia drivers up just fine when i started using linux. It did..?!??!? Yikes! You must be loads cleverer than me! Mind you, I think all the discussion on this list recently of t

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

2004-02-13 Thread Stroller
On Feb 13, 2004, at 9:49 pm, Tom Wesley wrote: On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 20:40, Stroller wrote: ... If I wish to install a different version of a package from the current stable I usually `locate pckagename | grep ebuild` - there is often an older or ~ARCH ebuild in the Portage tree. Stroller. You eve

Re: [gentoo-user] More nVidia Stuff...

2004-02-13 Thread Brendan Sullivan
the nvidia README is rather helpful...it got me through setting the nvidia drivers up just fine when i started using linux. two basic things you need to do is modify your /etc/X11/XF86Config and in the modules section add: Load "glx" and remove : Load "dri" Also, in the Device section that has

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

2004-02-13 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Friday 13 February 2004 03:05, TriKster Abacus wrote: [ Snipped ] Have you, who experience the 2.6.x problems, made sure that you haven't made your kernel with framepointers? That can make a difference under constant heavy load (This option is on by default in the kernel debugging menu). I

[gentoo-user] More nVidia Stuff...

2004-02-13 Thread Stroller
Hello, folks, Thanks for all the input on graphics cards last week can anyone now give me some pointers towards what I should be doing to get my nVidia GF3 running optimally..? I've already emerged KDE & (of course) Xfree last week (when I still had my Matrox card), however I haven't confi

Re: [gentoo-user] xine-lib-1_rc3 fails to build.

2004-02-13 Thread Todd Punderson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I posted a solution to this on bugs.gentoo.org, but here it is again for you. If you append -mno-sse2 to the flags, it will compile with -march=pentium4. I hand edited the gcc-version if statement to 3.3 instead of 3.2 and it compiled fine. In media

Re: [gentoo-user] kong & cache

2004-02-13 Thread Chris
On Friday 13 February 2004 09:16 am, Norberto Bensa wrote: > Chris wrote: > > where does konq cache eveything from the web? > > Don't cross post. > > Thanks, > Norberto wasnt trying to it went to the gentoo list cuz i entered the wrong email add the first time around -- Chris P. Carter <---

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

2004-02-13 Thread Chris
On Friday 13 February 2004 02:10 pm, Arne Vogel wrote: > 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. :(

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

2004-02-13 Thread Matt Garman
On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 02:02:54PM -0800, Eric Paynter wrote: > Matt Garman said: > > This would serve a huge purpose for OSS: accountability, and and > > easy means to verify source code (who made it, where it came from, > > etc, etc). The intent is to help OSS "prove" that it is > > legitimate, t

[gentoo-user] xine-lib-1_rc3 fails to build.

2004-02-13 Thread Thomas Sjolshagen
Hi, I'm trying to merge kde 3.2 and while merging one of the dependencies (xine-lib-1), the build stops with the following trace. I've tried to disable every USE flag I set (ie comment out the USE flag setting in /etc/make.conf, as well as reduced optimizations to 2 (-02)). Seems like a couple of

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop on wireless network cannot see other machine

2004-02-13 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Laurent Duperval wrote: Norbert Kamenicky wrote: Desktop rejects icmp_echo packets, which can be done in different ways ... 1. by writing to icmp_echo* files in /proc dir 2. by firewall rules (iptables) RIght. But I also cannot access the Web server on that machine, nor the ssh daemon. So it's mo

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

2004-02-13 Thread Arne Vogel
Grendel wrote: Thanks for the help, it is much appreciated. So currently the installation worked ok. It was hard to install it, but the end product is worth the sweat. ACK! Only a couple of more problems left, 1. The nvidia-kernel got compiled and installed but Xfree86 was unable to find

Re: [gentoo-user] RPM equivlents

2004-02-13 Thread Bryan Whitehead
emerge epm then instead of typing rpm, type epm. Radu Filip wrote: Hi, on Gentoo, what are the equivalents of the following RPM options: rpm -qi installed_package (show info about an installed package) rpm -qf file (show to what installed package a file belongs to) rpm -ql package (list all file

[gentoo-user] artsd won't go away! (kde 3.2)

2004-02-13 Thread Paul Vint
Occasionally I kill the artsd process when running certain things (I know, I can use artsdsp, but anyway ;), and since upgrading to kde 3.2 I've had a problem with it restarting itself. I have "Enable the sound system" unchecked in Control Center, but artsd keeps rearing it's ugly head. I *thin

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

2004-02-13 Thread Arne Vogel
Grendel wrote: Currently I got the 2.6 kernel installed, but genkernel asks me to pass the options "boot=/dev/ram0 real_boot=/dev/hda6", I tried but it dont work so I switched back to 2.4.20. Is there a way to get newer kernels ? I stick with www.kernel.org. Don't use genkernel, unless you c

Re: [gentoo-user] Catching Important Portage Messages

2004-02-13 Thread Ian Truelsen
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 23:02:22 +0100 Norbert Kamenicky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, it's true, but IMHO it's quite sufficient, because normally > u need to read it only in case of error, which is at the end AFAIK. > There are also configuration messages appended to the end of ebuilds, like mys

Re: [gentoo-user] Catching Important Portage Messages

2004-02-13 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Dave Knopp wrote: emerge pkg 2>&1 | tail -200 >logfile However, when doing something like: $ emerge -u --deep world Grabbing only the last few lines would only apply to the last package. Yes, it's true, but IMHO it's quite sufficient, because normally u need to read it only in case of error, wh

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

2004-02-13 Thread Tom Wesley
On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 21:46, Arne Vogel wrote: > Greg wrote: > > > Seriously the only real value I see in this is for someone to search > > for security holes by looking at the source. Otherwise I see no > > reason anyone should be interested in Mickey$oft code. > > > > Greg > > Doesn't "sheer c

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop on wireless network cannot see other machine

2004-02-13 Thread Laurent Duperval
Norbert Kamenicky wrote: Desktop rejects icmp_echo packets, which can be done in different ways ... 1. by writing to icmp_echo* files in /proc dir 2. by firewall rules (iptables) RIght. But I also cannot access the Web server on that machine, nor the ssh daemon. So it's more than an icmp issue.

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

2004-02-13 Thread Tom Wesley
On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 20:40, Stroller wrote: > On Feb 13, 2004, at 3:01 am, Grendel wrote: > > > > I will compile my own kernel from the source. my query was is there a > > way > > to ask emerge to get me the kernel-2.6.2 vanilla sources? emerge > > gentoo-dev-sources gives me 2.6.1-rc1 > > `em

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa fail on ./configure ?

2004-02-13 Thread raptor
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 20:06:04 + Daniel Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |Hi, | |raptor wrote: |> ~emerge alsa-driver |> |> |> driver-1.0.2c |> checking cross compile... |> checking for directory with kernel source... /usr/src/linux |> checking for kernel version... 2.4.20-gentoo-r7 |> check

Re: [gentoo-user] what happened to my 'clean' font?

2004-02-13 Thread Matthew Baxa
On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 15:36, Norbert Kamenicky wrote: > gabriel wrote: > > your question was given by Andrej Kacian and > answered alredy ... search the archive > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Where actually is a good place to search the list? gentoo.org doesn't maintain an archive. In

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

2004-02-13 Thread Arne Vogel
Greg wrote: Seriously the only real value I see in this is for someone to search for security holes by looking at the source. Otherwise I see no reason anyone should be interested in Mickey$oft code. Greg Doesn't "sheer curiosity" count as a reason then? Though I wouldn't want to risk a lawsuit j

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

2004-02-13 Thread Arne Vogel
Matt Garman wrote: On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 12:34:32AM +0100, Spider wrote: other technologies that can be seen as "infringing" on some of MS turf. Its an easy, blunt lega weapon to weild against whole projects, stating that all progress past this point is only because you copied MS sources, wei

Re: [gentoo-user] what happened to my 'clean' font?

2004-02-13 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
gabriel wrote: your question was given by Andrej Kacian and answered alredy ... search the archive -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Making cdrecord work

2004-02-13 Thread Bob White
Grendel, > On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Bob White uttered the following immortal words, > > The way I understood it the whole idea for the new cdrecord was to NOT use > ide-scsi module as it is not being maintained and it is buggy. If I am > mising something here please tell me. > > I had to explicitly sp

Re: [gentoo-user] Opera invocation very slow with KDE 3.2

2004-02-13 Thread Paul Oldham
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 19:47:53 +, Paul Oldham growled: > On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 18:20:19 +, Andrew Farmer growled: > >> On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 08:35:22 -0800, Paul Oldham muttered: >> >>> Since I've gone to KDE3.2 there's now a pause of about 10 seconds >>> between clicking the link and Opera sta

Re: [gentoo-user] Catching Important Portage Messages

2004-02-13 Thread Manuel McLure
Dave Knopp wrote: Thanks for the idea... Better than 'tee'ing everything. But would seem only to apply to emerging packages individually -- e.g. put this inside a loop over all packages. However, when doing something like: $ emerge -u --deep world Grabbing only the last few lines would only a

Re: [gentoo-user] Catching Important Portage Messages

2004-02-13 Thread Dave Knopp
Norbert Kamenicky wrote: Dave Knopp wrote: How does one catch the important messages from portage at the end of emerge operations -- withOUT all the build information messages? I saw this question the other day - but without a satisfactory answer. Try this: emerge pkg 2>&1 | tail -200 >logfile

[gentoo-user] Re: What doesnt work with 2.6 ?

2004-02-13 Thread Bryan Hundven
William Kenworthy iinet.net.au> writes: > There's lots of "use 2.6" messages here, but does anyone have a list of > what doesnt work/needs work list for general desktop machines before I > take the leap? > > e.g, is older hardware supported (PIIX - since they removed the tuning > option from 2.4

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

2004-02-13 Thread Greg
Seriously the only real value I see in this is for someone to search for security holes by looking at the source. Otherwise I see no reason anyone should be interested in Mickey$oft code. Greg "Wazne sa tylko te dni, ktorych jeszcze nie znamy." - Marek Grechuta Jakub Krajcovic wrote: Hi guys

[gentoo-user] Re: RPM equivlents

2004-02-13 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Radu Filip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, on Gentoo, what are the equivalents of the following RPM options: Does this mailing list have a FAQ? This should be added to it. -Eamon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Mail confirmation requests

2004-02-13 Thread Stroller
On Feb 13, 2004, at 2:12 am, Grendel wrote: If anyone else feels that I am not wellcome in the list then I will remove myself. If I ask you to calm down when you reply will you do so, please..? Otherwise I would like to exercise my voice now in stating that you aren't welcome, because I fear that

Re: [gentoo-user] cygwin terminal problem logging into gentoo

2004-02-13 Thread Eric Livingston
Ah, ok. I tried it your way, by directly sshing into my gentoo box from the initial cygwin console, and I also get the problem you describe. For me, however, it's not an issue, because the only thing I do on the console is type "startx" and minimize it :) From there on I'm in the X environment wit

[gentoo-user] what happened to my 'clean' font?

2004-02-13 Thread gabriel
ever since i upgraded X (at least, i think it was then. it might have been since i recompiled kdelibs) my favourite font: "clean" is missing. and i'm forced to use other fonts for my fixed-width font. might it still be on my machine? gibbled somehow by the new X install? how do i put it bac

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

2004-02-13 Thread Arne Vogel
Jakub Krajcovic wrote: 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 Old news, really. The Win2000 core source code has been on the net for years. -> http://www.databasejournal.com/features/mssql/artic

Re: [gentoo-user] RPM equivlents

2004-02-13 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Radu Filip wrote: Hi, on Gentoo, what are the equivalents of the following RPM options: > snip All your questions were answered in this ML before. Just shortly: emerge gentoolkit epm esearch RTFM for qpkg, epm and esearch noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Mail confirmation requests

2004-02-13 Thread Stroller
On Feb 13, 2004, at 3:41 am, Grendel wrote: ...it also analyses the replies to my posts and ranks a persons reply as hostile or friendly. I have been posting here a year now, and I don't think I have ever had a hostile reply to one of my posts. I find it curious that your system has identified 5

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

2004-02-13 Thread Stroller
On Feb 13, 2004, at 3:01 am, Grendel wrote: I will compile my own kernel from the source. my query was is there a way to ask emerge to get me the kernel-2.6.2 vanilla sources? emerge gentoo-dev-sources gives me 2.6.1-rc1 `emerge /usr/portage/sys-kernel/development-sources/development-sources

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to check root filesystem

2004-02-13 Thread Arne Vogel
Collins Richey wrote: On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 16:13:46 +0100 Christoph Gysin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: my system doesn't boot correctly. it keeps hanging because checkroot complains not being able to check the root fs. [ rest snipped ] This won't help, but your experience only comfirms my de

Re: [gentoo-user] RPM equivlents

2004-02-13 Thread Chris Aniszczyk (zx)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Radu Filip wrote: Hi, on Gentoo, what are the equivalents of the following RPM options: rpm -qi installed_package (show info about an installed package) rpm -qf file (show to what installed package a file belongs to) rpm -ql package (list all files th

Re: [gentoo-user] RPM equivlents

2004-02-13 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, You will need to install "gentoolkit" to use the qpkg command. Radu Filip wrote: Hi, on Gentoo, what are the equivalents of the following RPM options: rpm -qi installed_package (show info about an installed package) What kind of info? rpm -qf file (show to what installed package a file belo

Re: [gentoo-user] interesting... :")

2004-02-13 Thread Arne Vogel
raptor wrote: did u tried this : emerge -p info try it Yep, thanks! The -p option is superfluous, though. See 'man emerge': info This is a list of information to include in bug reports which aids the developers with fixing any problems you may report.

Re: [gentoo-user] interesting... :")

2004-02-13 Thread Ian Truelsen
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 23:52:51 +0200 raptor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > did u tried this : > > emerge -p info > > try it > I get the same output from both. Is that what you are getting? -- Ian Truelsen Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: ihtruelsen MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: iantruelsen Homepage

Re: [gentoo-user] Opera-7.23 ebuild question

2004-02-13 Thread Arne Vogel
Alex Efros wrote: Hi! I's anybody knows why Opera require Openmotif? I've used different versions of Opera (including 7.23) a couple of years from 'opera*static*rpm' without any (Open|Less|...)tiff installed (on my LFS-based distro which I've used before hear about Gentoo). That's strange... O

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

2004-02-13 Thread Ian Truelsen
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 11:23:15 -0500 (EST) Ric Messier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I beg to differ here. The 2.5 series was for making sure everything > worked. Once they renumbered to 2.6, it became production-ready. I > don't understand how commercial software gets sneering comments about > wait

[gentoo-user] RPM equivlents

2004-02-13 Thread Radu Filip
Hi, on Gentoo, what are the equivalents of the following RPM options: rpm -qi installed_package (show info about an installed package) rpm -qf file (show to what installed package a file belongs to) rpm -ql package (list all files that belongs to an installed package) rpm -qip package (show in

Re: [gentoo-user] I am stuck, please help

2004-02-13 Thread Radu Filip
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Joel Metelius wrote: > You can use > > ebuild path/to/package.ebuild compile > ebuild path/to/package.ebuild install > ebuild path/to/package.ebuild qmerge I resumed with "install" as you suggested and it worked! Thanks! (Thanks for other answers as well) Radu -- [EMAIL P

Re: [gentoo-user] cygwin terminal problem logging into gentoo

2004-02-13 Thread john lawler
Well, one difference is that I'm not using a window manager. I'm just launching the basic command window that gives you a Cygwin / UNIX environment under what appears to be just a Windows command prompt, really. That's where my problem is occuring. I'm running Windows XP Pro, too, but I doub

Re: [gentoo-user] I am stuck, please help

2004-02-13 Thread Arne Vogel
Radu Filip wrote: Hi, I am trying to install a Gentoo box from scratch and I cannot get over a large package (kdebase): [...] ./usr/share/pixmaps/kde2.xbm ./usr/share/pixmaps/splash2.png Done. extracting info extracting kdebase-3.2.0 tar: Skipping to next header tar: Archive contains o

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa cannot find /dev/snd/seq

2004-02-13 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, Tianran Chen wrote: i recently upgrade to kernel 2.6.1, thus started to use alsa instead of oss. alsa support and all sound device drivers are compile into the kernel. now the sound works find, i can hear good sound without tweak anything. but whenever the 'alsasound' service start, it com

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

2004-02-13 Thread Arne Vogel
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 #1 When I chose the sound drivers I did not select alsa and

Re: [gentoo-user] Catching Important Portage Messages

2004-02-13 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Dave Knopp wrote: > How does one catch the important messages from portage at the end of emerge operations -- withOUT all the build information messages? I saw this question the other day - but without a satisfactory answer. Try this: emerge pkg 2>&1 | tail -200 >logfile noro -- [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [gentoo-user] Alsa & 2.6.1

2004-02-13 Thread David Stevenson
Arne Vogel wrote: David Stevenson wrote: I started with 2.4.22, emerged alsa sound and it worked fine. Then I emerged 2.6.1-mm1 and lost alsa. I have now been through menuconfig adding alsa-oss modules, and redoing make modules modules_install and now it looks like it is working, but no music. T

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa fail on ./configure ?

2004-02-13 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, raptor wrote: ~emerge alsa-driver driver-1.0.2c checking cross compile... checking for directory with kernel source... /usr/src/linux checking for kernel version... 2.4.20-gentoo-r7 checking for GCC version... Kernel compiler: colortail: invalid option -- ? Try 'colortail --help' for more i

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

2004-02-13 Thread Jakub Krajcovic
This has also crossed my mind... I admit it really _does_ sound like conspiration theory, but then again i believe that micro$oft would not stop at _anything_ to get its way. Even if that means using such tactics. I just hope for the sake of Linux, all of its users, and in the long run "freedom of

Re: [gentoo-user] Alsa & 2.6.1

2004-02-13 Thread Arne Vogel
Grendel wrote: On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Arne Vogel uttered the following immortal words, Emerge alsa-oss, or emerge alsa-xmms and switch to the xmms alsa output plugin. I would recommend using alsa-oss anyway as a lot of audio utilities count on OSS support to be present. Yep. Apart fro

[gentoo-user] Error updating portage.

2004-02-13 Thread Stephane Brossier
Hi, I wanted to emerge some packages and got a message that i should update portage. So, i followed the recommendation but got an error: --- bash-2.05b# emerge -u system Calculating system dependencies ...done! !!! Error: the --- Any idea what's wrong? Tha

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