[gentoo-user] GLSA which affects KDE only

2005-03-03 Thread Ow Mun Heng
I just noticed that GLSA 200501-16 Konqueror: Java sandbox vulnerabilities affects my laptop. I want to know if it's advisable to _not_ upgrade to the newer kdelibs. Since this GLSA affects only Konqueror and I only have kdelibs for the few kde utils which I use such as KB3. Other than that, I

Re: [gentoo-user] linux-2.6.11 is out

2005-03-03 Thread Chris Cox
On Thursday 03 March 2005 12:02 am, Peter Gordon wrote: Dang it..this is one reason I hate proprietary drivers. The 1.0-6629 driver doesn't work for me (Riva TNT2 M64), and the compile fix isn't being backported to 1.0-6111 *sigh* Ah well. nv suits me fine until I get my shiny new R9250 from

Re: [gentoo-user] Install gentoo using livecd that boots from usb storage ?

2005-03-03 Thread Frank Schafer
Hi, I'd never ever understood where's the secret with this. If the BIOS supports booting from USB disk, put the plug in and install as if you'd install onto a SCSI disc. But I'd be curious about this: gentoo using livecd that boots from usb ... how do you put the CD into the stick? ;) Frank On

Re: [gentoo-user] linux-2.6.11 is out

2005-03-03 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Adis Beglerovic ha scritto: Hi all I've just downloaded 2.6.11 and compile it om my gentoo desktop box. Tried to add/compile nvidia-kernel but got error that says: -- make[3]: ***

[gentoo-user] Utility for reverse dependencies

2005-03-03 Thread Bertrand Jacquin
Hello :) Is someone know an utility the search reverse dependencies of an ebuild ? Or which could find ebuild that an not in world file and depend to any ebuild installed on the gentoo box ? I know emerge depclean -pv, but it show me some packages that are in my world file, and I've tried it ,

Re: [gentoo-user] GLSA which affects KDE only

2005-03-03 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 16:07 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: I just noticed that GLSA 200501-16 Konqueror: Java sandbox vulnerabilities affects my laptop. I want to know if it's advisable to _not_ upgrade to the newer kdelibs. Since this GLSA affects only Konqueror and I only have kdelibs for

Re: [gentoo-user] Utility for reverse dependencies

2005-03-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 10:29:17 +0100, Bertrand Jacquin wrote: Is someone know an utility the search reverse dependencies of an ebuild emerge gentoolkit qpkg -q somepackage equery depends somepackage qpkg is officially deprecated, but is *much* faster than equery for this particular task. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Utility for reverse dependencies

2005-03-03 Thread Bertrand Jacquin
Ok, but, it show me packages that depends on one package (just depend), and not packages that need the package I put in option. I explain : 'a' depend on 'b' 'b' depend on 'c' so it make the tree a \- b \- c If I do for exemple 'search-for-revdep c', it show me 'b' (and why not 'c')

[gentoo-user] vlc and USE-flags for gui

2005-03-03 Thread Henrik Andersson
I have some problems with vlc and enabling the gui. All I get when I start it is a prompt where I can issue some commands to start/stop/pause and so on. Which USE-flags should be enabled and/or disabled for the gui to work? The ones I use now is: [ebuild R ] media-video/vlc-0.8.1 -3dfx +X

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Dialin with mgetty via GSM

2005-03-03 Thread Robert G. Siebeck
Hi, thanks for your answer. On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 12:10:55 + (UTC), James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert G. Siebeck r.g.siebeck at gmail.com writes: I'm trying to dial into my Gentoo-box. As a modem I use my Siemens mobile phone and I want mgetty to answer the call. Well, I'd try to

[gentoo-user] Best way for init script?

2005-03-03 Thread Joel Merrick
Hi all I am using an iptables script called APF and I want to auto-start it (/etc/apf/apf -s) when the machine/service starts and when the service restarts (/etc/apf/apf -r) Please could someone point me in the right direction for theses initscripts.. So far I have this and I know it's wrong..

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way for init script?

2005-03-03 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Thursday 03 March 2005 12:18, Joel Merrick wrote: Hi all I am using an iptables script called APF and I want to auto-start it (/etc/apf/apf -s) when the machine/service starts and when the service restarts (/etc/apf/apf -r) I don't know your needs and so I'm probably missing something

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way for init script?

2005-03-03 Thread Joel Merrick
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 12:33 +0100, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: I don't know your needs and so I'm probably missing something here, but why can't you save your rules and then use the standard /etc/init.d/iptables {start|stop} scripts mechanism? Because there's a lot more features with the APF

Re: [gentoo-user] Experiences with PCI express and Gentoo Linux?

2005-03-03 Thread Damian Kolkowski
* Glenn Enright [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-03 07:45]: gandalf root # hdparm -t /dev/hde /dev/sdc /dev/hde: Timing buffered disk reads: 156 MB in 3.02 seconds = 51.73 MB/sec /dev/sdc: Timing buffered disk reads: 170 MB in 3.01 seconds = 56.41 MB/sec hdparm is for

Re: [gentoo-user] Utility for reverse dependencies

2005-03-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 11:27:50 +0100, Bertrand Jacquin wrote: If I do for exemple 'search-for-revdep c', it show me 'b' (and why not 'c') (search-for-revdep is the utility I need) So if I install 'a', and so in dependencie (that are not currently installed) 'b' 'c', but after use 'a', I want

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way for init script?

2005-03-03 Thread Christoph Gysin
Joel Merrick wrote: I am using an iptables script called APF and I want to auto-start it (/etc/apf/apf -s) when the machine/service starts and when the service restarts (/etc/apf/apf -r) From man start-stop-daemon: start-stop-daemon - start and stop system daemon programs I don't know apf but I

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way for init script?

2005-03-03 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Thursday 03 March 2005 12:39, Joel Merrick wrote: Because there's a lot more features with the APF script - like Anti DOS, realtime blackholing of networks, sysctl tuning etc.. http://www.rfxnetworks.com/apf.php Here's a run down; Then I guess you can put the initialization commands for

[gentoo-user] Naive question

2005-03-03 Thread Vittorio
Having updated gentoo frequently how can I know what version of gentoo I'm using (2004.4 or 2005.1?) Vittorio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way for init script?

2005-03-03 Thread Joel Merrick
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 13:05 +0100, Christoph Gysin wrote: /etc/apf/apf -s /dev/null Cool, thanks for that... -- Joel Merrick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-user] Naive question

2005-03-03 Thread Botykai Zsolt
-= Eredeti zenet (Original message) =- Dtum (Date): Thu, 3 Mar 2005 13:18:31 + Kld (From): Vittorio [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cmzett (To): [EMAIL PROTECTED] Trgy (Subject): [gentoo-user] Naive question Having updated gentoo frequently how can I know what version of gentoo I'm using (2004.4 or

Re: [gentoo-user] Naive question

2005-03-03 Thread Christoph Gysin
Botykai Zsolt wrote: Having updated gentoo frequently how can I know what version of gentoo I'm using (2004.4 or 2005.1?) There is no such thing as a gentoo version. 200x.y is simply the version of the install stages and the profile. After an emerge -u world, this doesn't mean anything (apart

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need sendmail help

2005-03-03 Thread Michael Sullivan
I actually asked the local public library to order that for me through inter-library loan last Sunday. They haven't gotten back to me yet on whether or not they can get it... On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 23:24 -0800, Mike Noble wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Sullivan

Re: [gentoo-user] Utility for reverse dependencies

2005-03-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 13:16:13 +0100, Bertrand Jacquin wrote: But I continue to think that revdep is a features miss in gentoo tool (not web front-end) like http://gentoo-portage.com/x11-libs/gtk+/rdep How is the information here different for the output of qpkg -q gtk+? Both show a list of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Utility for reverse dependencies

2005-03-03 Thread Bertrand Jacquin
But I continue to think that revdep is a features miss in gentoo tool (not web front-end) like http://gentoo-portage.com/x11-libs/gtk+/rdep How is the information here different for the output of qpkg -q gtk+? Both show a list of the packages that depend on gtk+. I made an error, equery is good

[gentoo-user] [OT] Securing files in a USB stick

2005-03-03 Thread Jose Gonzalez Gomez
Hi there, I would like to put some sensitive information in my USB stick, so I can take it with me (ssh private keys, certificates with private key, maybe some file with bank users and passwords). It's evident that losing that stick could cause me a lot of troubles, so is there any way I

[gentoo-user] Can not install kdm

2005-03-03 Thread Francisco Santiago Capel Torres
Hi, I have installed gentoo with kde and the version of kde installed is 3.2.2 I want to install kdm but I can't: !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy kdm have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - kde/base/kdm-3.4.0_beta2 (masked by:

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Securing files in a USB stick

2005-03-03 Thread Christopher Fisk
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: I would like to put some sensitive information in my USB stick, so I can take it with me (ssh private keys, certificates with private key, maybe some file with bank users and passwords). It's evident that losing that stick could cause me a lot of

RE: [gentoo-user] Sound Won't Work

2005-03-03 Thread Mike Turcotte
When I tried using my Audigy 2 in linux (emu10k1), I had to configure ARTS to use only ALSA support instead of auto, and yes the mixers were muted by default, I don't know why Michael Turcotte Information Systems City of North Bay 200 McIntyre St. E PO Box 360 North Bay, Ontario P1B 8H8 [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Can not install kdm

2005-03-03 Thread John Myers
On Thursday 03 March 2005 05:34, Francisco Santiago Capel Torres wrote: Hi, I have installed gentoo with kde and the version of kde installed is 3.2.2 I want to install kdm but I can't: [snip] Under /usr/kdm I only have the 3.4 release. Why? if I have kde-3.2. installed. in 3.2, kdm is

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need sendmail help

2005-03-03 Thread Christopher Fisk
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Michael Sullivan wrote: I set the MX record (correctly, I hope). Can you 9:10am ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) /home/chrisf (24) dig mx espersunited.com ; DiG 9.2.3 mx espersunited.com ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; -HEADER- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 16766 ;;

Re: [gentoo-user] Can not install kdm

2005-03-03 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 3. März 2005 14:34 schrieb ext Francisco Santiago Capel Torres: I have installed gentoo with kde and the version of kde installed is 3.2.2 I want to install kdm but I can't: It's part of kde 3.2.2, you should already have it in /usr/kde/3.2/bin. HTH... Dirk -- Dirk

Re: [gentoo-user] Can not install kdm

2005-03-03 Thread Mike Melanson
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Donnerstag, 3. März 2005 14:34 schrieb ext Francisco Santiago Capel Torres: I have installed gentoo with kde and the version of kde installed is 3.2.2 I want to install kdm but I can't: It's part of kde 3.2.2, you should already have it in /usr/kde/3.2/bin. Hmm, I do

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox 1.0.1 reload page problem

2005-03-03 Thread Peter Karlsson
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Joseph wrote: Did anybody experience this strange behavior? FYI: If you look a little closer the page is garbled and on the right side (you have to scroll). This happened with earlier mozilla-builds on kerneltrap. Don't know if it's a bug or not, but probably is... Best

[gentoo-user] Configure.help file gone from 2.6.x kernels

2005-03-03 Thread Kevin
Hey folks- I'm guessing this must be a faq, but I'll be darned if I see it answered anywhere. I found hints of the issue in a broken link to a geocrawler.org mail archive: http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/Linux/35/100/7642826/ The link itself (not the target) is at:

Re: [gentoo-user] Can not install kdm

2005-03-03 Thread Holly Bostick
Mike Melanson wrote: Hmm, I do have it in /usr/kde/3.3/bin/kdm . Now how do I make it work automatically at startup? I know for installing xdm, it was rc-update add xdm default. Substituting 'kdm' for 'xdm' did not do the trick. Perhaps you should read the previous replies (or the Handbook):

Re: [gentoo-user] Can not install kdm

2005-03-03 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 3. März 2005 15:33 schrieb ext Mike Melanson: Hmm, I do have it in /usr/kde/3.3/bin/kdm . Now how do I make it work automatically at startup? I know for installing xdm, it was rc-update add xdm default. Substituting 'kdm' for 'xdm' did not do the trick. See John's reply.

Re: [gentoo-user] kdeenablefinal

2005-03-03 Thread Botykai Zsolt
-= Eredeti zenet (Original message) =- Dtum (Date): Thu, 3 Mar 2005 09:25:47 -0500 Kld (From): Ed Jabbour [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cmzett (To): [EMAIL PROTECTED] Trgy (Subject): [gentoo-user] kdeenablefinal What is the function of the use flag kdeenablefinal ? Thanks. -= Eredeti zenet vge (End of

[gentoo-user] Install with Netgear FA311?

2005-03-03 Thread Alex Stagg
I have a universal live CD 2004.3. When I boot it detects my FA311 card and configures the natsemi driver for it, but when traffic is attempted I get lots of messages eth0: PCI error 0x80 and nothing gets through. The Netgear CD only has drivers for 2.2 and 2.4 kernels (a different driver than

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need sendmail help

2005-03-03 Thread Michael Sullivan
Mail is flowing here at espersunited.com, but SMTP connection is really slow. Takes over a minute to connect to the server box and send an email. I checked the FAQ and sendmail.org and it suggested something I could try. I tried it, and it spead smtp up by a few seconds, but not much more. The

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox 1.0.1 reload page problem

2005-03-03 Thread Keith Gable
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 15:34:33 +0100 (MET), Peter Karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Joseph wrote: Did anybody experience this strange behavior? FYI: If you look a little closer the page is garbled and on the right side (you have to scroll). This happened with earlier

Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME Volume Hotkeys (or how to set what my master volume control actually increases/decreases...)

2005-03-03 Thread Keith Gable
I don't have a solution for you unfortunately. I've been living with it like an on/off switch. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. (This is on a D600 laptop) Yeah, well, mute works. I noticed a key in gconf. It's something like /apps/panel/profiles/default/applet.4/preferences/channel (or

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Securing files in a USB stick

2005-03-03 Thread Covington, Chris
I would like to put some sensitive information in my USB stick, so I can take it with me (ssh private keys, Use GPG and encrypt the files. --- Chris Covington IT Plus One Health Management 75 Maiden Lane Suite 801 NY, NY 10038 646-312-6269 http://www.plusoneactive.com --

Re: [gentoo-user] gconf-editor: acme: use_pcm doesn't work

2005-03-03 Thread Keith Gable
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 14:58:13 +0930, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: following up my investigation into getting that-part-of-gnome-that-used-to-be-done-by-acme which makes your volume keys adjust the pcm mixer, instead of the master, I found: gconf-editor / apps acme use_pcm

Re: [gentoo-user] Utility for reverse dependencies

2005-03-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 14:36:15 +0100, Bertrand Jacquin wrote: How is the information here different for the output of qpkg -q gtk+? Both show a list of the packages that depend on gtk+. I made an error, equery is good :) But slow :( equery took more than thirty seconds to list packages

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need sendmail help

2005-03-03 Thread Christopher Fisk
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Michael Sullivan wrote: Mail is flowing here at espersunited.com, but SMTP connection is really slow. Takes over a minute to connect to the server box and send an email. I checked the FAQ and sendmail.org and it suggested something I could try. I tried it, and it spead smtp

Re: [gentoo-user] kdeenablefinal

2005-03-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 09:25:47 -0500, Ed Jabbour wrote: What is the function of the use flag kdeenablefinal ? Thanks. $ grep kdeenablefinal /usr/portage/profiles/use.*desc /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc:kdeenablefinal - Makes kde ebuilds use the enable-final flag, yielding big compilation

Re: [gentoo-user] Install with Netgear FA311?

2005-03-03 Thread Christopher Fisk
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Alex Stagg wrote: I have a universal live CD 2004.3. When I boot it detects my FA311 card and configures the natsemi driver for it, but when traffic is attempted I get lots of messages eth0: PCI error 0x80 and nothing gets through. The Netgear CD only has drivers for 2.2

Re: [gentoo-user] kdeenablefinal

2005-03-03 Thread Arran Fraser
What is the function of the use flag kdeenablefinal ? Thanks. $ grep kdeenablefinal /usr/portage/profiles/use.* /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc:kdeenablefinal - Makes kde ebuilds use the enable-final flag, yielding big compilation speedups at the cost of very heavy mem usage So is the heavy

Re: [gentoo-user] Can not install kdm

2005-03-03 Thread John Myers
On Thursday 03 March 2005 06:33, Mike Melanson wrote: Hmm, I do have it in /usr/kde/3.3/bin/kdm . Now how do I make it work automatically at startup? I know for installing xdm, it was rc-update add xdm default. Substituting 'kdm' for 'xdm' did not do the trick. edit (as root)

[gentoo-user] gentoo mirrors

2005-03-03 Thread Julien Cayzac
Hi, I'm using mirrorselect to update my make.conf and get faster downloads, but I've noticed that each mirror it selects gets unreachable after a while (usually one week or two). Are you experiencing such problems? I think I'm going to call mirrorselect in my cron.daily :-( Julien. --

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Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need sendmail help

2005-03-03 Thread Mike Noble
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[gentoo-user] OT: Lost VI colors...

2005-03-03 Thread Dave Nebinger
I'm not sure what I did, but I've lost color syntax in VI... I've got two gentoo systems, each sync'd last night, each running vi 6.3-r4, duplicate /etc/vim/vimrc and ~/.vimrc files. SSH into one and vi does the color syntax. SSH into the other and vi does not do the color syntax. Term is set

Re: [gentoo-user] linux-2.6.11 is out

2005-03-03 Thread Raphael Melo
When I tried to install it, there were problems with shared memory. But it was on 2.6.4 I guess. They probably fixed it. On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 15:13:18 +0100, Ulrich Anhalt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Raphael, what are your problems with oracle on kernel 2.6.x?. I'm running oracle on gentoo

RE: [gentoo-user] OT: Lost VI colors...

2005-03-03 Thread Dave Nebinger
Vim. Vim and vim core (for both) are 6.3-r4. -Original Message- From: Ciaran McCreesh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 10:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Lost VI colors... On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 10:26:16 -0500 Dave Nebinger [EMAIL

RE: [gentoo-user] Install with Netgear FA311?

2005-03-03 Thread Alex Stagg
I think the NIC is good - it is brand new. Sorry I forgot to mention that I have WinNT4 installed on another partition with the Netgear driver and I have no networking problems (no symptoms, also checked the event logs) when running that. I dunno if it sill applies these days but I also tried

Re: [gentoo-user] Can not install kdm

2005-03-03 Thread Mike Melanson
John Myers wrote: On Thursday 03 March 2005 06:33, Mike Melanson wrote: Hmm, I do have it in /usr/kde/3.3/bin/kdm . Now how do I make it work automatically at startup? I know for installing xdm, it was rc-update add xdm default. Substituting 'kdm' for 'xdm' did not do the trick. edit (as

RE: [gentoo-user] Install with Netgear FA311?

2005-03-03 Thread Christopher Fisk
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Alex Stagg wrote: I think the NIC is good - it is brand new. Sorry I forgot to mention that I have WinNT4 installed on another partition with the Netgear driver and I have no networking problems (no symptoms, also checked the event logs) when running that. I dunno if it sill

Re: [gentoo-user] Configure.help file gone from 2.6.x kernels

2005-03-03 Thread Kevin
From watching make menuconfig start up, and glancing at the file it calls on the command line, I think I've answered my own question. Looks like the answer to my question is this file: arch/i386/Kconfig -- -Kevin http://www.gnosys.us -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Firefox USE flags

2005-03-03 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I just emerged Firefox 1.0.1, and noticed a bunch of USE flags I don't recognize. How do I find out what they do? How would I change them if they're not in /etc/make.conf? The emerge said: [ebuild U ] net-www/mozilla-firefox-1.0.1 [1.0] -debug -gnome +java +ldap -mozdevelop -moznoxft

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox USE flags

2005-03-03 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Kevin O'Gorman ha scritto: I just emerged Firefox 1.0.1, and noticed a bunch of USE flags I don't recognize. How do I find out what they do? How would I change them if they're not in /etc/make.conf? The emerge said: [ebuild U ] net-www/mozilla-firefox-1.0.1 [1.0] -debug -gnome +java +ldap

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox USE flags

2005-03-03 Thread Holly Bostick
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I just emerged Firefox 1.0.1, and noticed a bunch of USE flags I don't recognize. How do I find out what they do? less /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc, search, read ;-) . How would I change them if they're not in /etc/make.conf? Add them to /etc/portage/package.use

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox USE flags

2005-03-03 Thread Jean-Francois Gagnon Laporte
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 08:07:45 -0800, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just emerged Firefox 1.0.1, and noticed a bunch of USE flags I don't recognize. How do I find out what they do? # grep firefox /usr/portage/profiles/use*desc How would I change them if they're not in

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox USE flags

2005-03-03 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Bastian Balthazar Bux ha scritto: Kevin O'Gorman ha scritto: I just emerged Firefox 1.0.1, and noticed a bunch of USE flags I don't recognize. How do I find out what they do? How would I change them if they're not in /etc/make.conf? The emerge said: [ebuild U ] net-www/mozilla-firefox-1.0.1

Re: [gentoo-user] System has UTC, where I want EST

2005-03-03 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Michael Haan ha scritto: I'm not sure why this is, but date is reporting time in UTC. I created the usual sym link to EDT5EST which has worked in the past, but not this time. This one has got to be easy. Anyone? you mean ../usr/share/zoneinfo/EST5EDT (inverted EDT EST)? generally I use

RE: [gentoo-user] Install with Netgear FA311?

2005-03-03 Thread Alex Stagg
Sorry, I also forgot to mention that although I've used RH and debian in the past, I'm a newbee to gentoo and I'm not sure how to use the tulip driver instead of the natsemi driver during the install. But I'll try to somehow deactivate the device, rmmod, insmod and reactivate it. - Alex

[gentoo-user] grub-install failure

2005-03-03 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everybody, I have a typical dual-boot system: /dev/hda contains WinXP, /dev/hdb, gentoo. I had to swap out my linux drive with another (NTFS) drive. Since nothing would boot(grub error 17) I used a Win98 CD to get to a prompt and entered fdisk /mbr, thinking to reboot linux later from the

Re: [gentoo-user] System has UTC, where I want EST

2005-03-03 Thread Michael Haan
Yeah, I guess I flipped it. For some reason, though, the sym link didn't take this time. On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 17:32:50 +0100, Bastian Balthazar Bux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Haan ha scritto: I'm not sure why this is, but date is reporting time in UTC. I created the usual sym link to

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Securing files in a USB stick

2005-03-03 Thread Jose Gonzalez Gomez
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 09:55:10 -0500, Covington, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to put some sensitive information in my USB stick, so I can take it with me (ssh private keys, Use GPG and encrypt the files. I've been reading a bit about GPG (I haven't used it before) and it seems

[gentoo-user] No signal or image from BT878-based video capture card

2005-03-03 Thread Kevin
Hi List- I'm new to video in linux, but I've read quite alot in getting up to speed and in trying to solve this problem myself. Among others, I have read Documentation/video4linux/bttv/* for clues to solving this problem. I'm trying to setup zoneminder in Gentoo (installed from 2004.3 liveCD

Re: [gentoo-user] grub-install failure

2005-03-03 Thread Michael Haan
I don't know about you, but on my machine /boot is where I mount the boot partition, which has a boot directory. I'd get this error as well if I specified --root-directory=/boot, have you tried dropping it? On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 08:43:19 -0800 (PST), maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello

RE: [gentoo-user] grub-install failure

2005-03-03 Thread Mike Turcotte
Because in Gentoo by default the /boot partition does not automatically mount, you need to mount that drive also as /boot. Do that, and try it again Good Luck! Michael Turcotte Information Systems City of North Bay 200 McIntyre St. E PO Box 360 North Bay, Ontario P1B 8H8 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] System has UTC, where I want EST

2005-03-03 Thread Michael Haan
I bet it has to do with this CLOCK=UTC, in rc.conf. On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 11:44:12 -0500, Michael Haan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, I guess I flipped it. For some reason, though, the sym link didn't take this time. On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 17:32:50 +0100, Bastian Balthazar Bux [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Securing files in a USB stick

2005-03-03 Thread Mauro Faccenda
Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 09:55:10 -0500, Covington, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to put some sensitive information in my USB stick, so I can take it with me (ssh private keys, Use GPG and encrypt the files. I've been reading a bit about GPG (I haven't used it

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox USE flags

2005-03-03 Thread Leiaz
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I just emerged Firefox 1.0.1, and noticed a bunch of USE flags I don't recognize. How do I find out what they do? How would I change them if they're not in /etc/make.conf? The emerge said: [ebuild U ] net-www/mozilla-firefox-1.0.1 [1.0] -debug -gnome +java +ldap

Re: [gentoo-user] System has UTC, where I want EST

2005-03-03 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Only if you share you machine with windows, that change the hardware clock, unix generally have the hw clock set to UTC. what does show #uname -a ? Michael Haan ha scritto: I bet it has to do with this CLOCK=UTC, in rc.conf. On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 11:44:12 -0500, Michael Haan [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] Naive question

2005-03-03 Thread Vittorio
Alle 12:53, giovedì 3 marzo 2005, Christoph Gysin ha scritto: Botykai Zsolt wrote: Having updated gentoo frequently how can I know what version of gentoo I'm using (2004.4 or 2005.1?) There is no such thing as a gentoo version. 200x.y is simply the version of the install stages and the

Re: [gentoo-user] System has UTC, where I want EST

2005-03-03 Thread Michael Haan
Linux tibeaux 2.6.9-gentoo-r14 #1 SMP Sat Feb 26 23:16:09 UTC 2005 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3800+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 18:28:28 +0100, Bastian Balthazar Bux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Only if you share you machine with windows, that change the hardware clock, unix

[gentoo-user] fsck

2005-03-03 Thread pepone pepone
Hello what is the correct way in gentoo for automatic check partitions that are not cleane unmounted -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] System has UTC, where I want EST

2005-03-03 Thread Bradley Serbu
Its probally a setting in you /etc/conf.d/clock file. Change CLOCK=UTC to CLOCK=local Let us know if this works. - Brad Serbu Michael Haan wrote: Linux tibeaux 2.6.9-gentoo-r14 #1 SMP Sat Feb 26 23:16:09 UTC 2005 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3800+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux On Thu, 03 Mar 2005

[gentoo-user] mod_jk ebuild?

2005-03-03 Thread Covington, Chris
Is there an ebuild for mod_jk now that mod_jk2 is unsupported? --- Chris Covington IT Plus One Health Management 75 Maiden Lane Suite 801 NY, NY 10038 646-312-6269 http://www.plusoneactive.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] System has UTC, where I want EST

2005-03-03 Thread Michael Haan
It didn't. On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 12:48:21 -0500, Bradley Serbu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Its probally a setting in you /etc/conf.d/clock file. Change CLOCK=UTC to CLOCK=local Let us know if this works. - Brad Serbu Michael Haan wrote: Linux tibeaux 2.6.9-gentoo-r14 #1 SMP Sat Feb

RE: [gentoo-user] Naive question

2005-03-03 Thread Dave Nebinger
Take a look at the contents of /etc/make.profile. There's really not much in there outside of (from what I can see) files containing use flags and package masks. If I had to venture a guess, I'd say it was the default values used to construct the base system from your initial install, whether

RE: [gentoo-user] [OT] Securing files in a USB stick

2005-03-03 Thread Covington, Chris
I guess in this case I should include the private key as a unencrypted file in my USB stick and protect it with a good password, as it will be used whenever I need to decrypt any file. Am I right? Yes, or even better keep the (well-passworded) private key in another location (on another

[gentoo-user] emerge x11-libs/gtk+-1.2.10-r11 fails with gdk undefined referenc es

2005-03-03 Thread Lewis, Taariq
Hi all: Ok, so I'm all about working on my own, reading instructions, and fixing my own mistakes but I think I finally got beat on this problem. I was merrily on my compiling KDE and emerge x11-libs/gtk+-1.2.10-r11 failed with the following error: gcc -O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer

RE: [gentoo-user] System has UTC, where I want EST

2005-03-03 Thread Dave Nebinger
What is /etc/localtime linked to? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] System has UTC, where I want EST

2005-03-03 Thread Bradley Serbu
Do you have the proper /etc/localtime sym link set up? Mine is: /etc/localtime - /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern - Brad Serbu Michael Haan wrote: It didn't. On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 12:48:21 -0500, Bradley Serbu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Its probally a setting in you /etc/conf.d/clock file. Change

Re: [gentoo-user] System has UTC, where I want EST

2005-03-03 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
if it's that you'll probably will need # /etc/init.d/clock stop start then start again the services that depend from it, here they are : syslog-ng vixie-cron someone please confirm if it's right. Bradley Serbu ha scritto: Its probally a setting in you /etc/conf.d/clock file. Change CLOCK=UTC to

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound Won't Work

2005-03-03 Thread John Myers
On Thursday 03 March 2005 06:00, Mike Turcotte wrote: When I tried using my Audigy 2 in linux (emu10k1), I had to configure ARTS to use only ALSA support instead of auto, and yes the mixers were muted by default, I don't know why Perhaps so you don't blow out your speakers on first boot? --

Re: [gentoo-user] graphics under console?

2005-03-03 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Matthias F. Brandstetter -- My question now is: Are there any other possibilities to display graphics (simple images) under text console? thanks for your suggestions, I will try them... Greetings, Matthias -- Marge: I would love you if you weighed 1,000 pounds but

Re: [gentoo-user] System has UTC, where I want EST

2005-03-03 Thread Bradley Serbu
/etc/localtime should be linked to a file in /usr/share/zoneinfo that corresponds to your local time. Dave Nebinger wrote: What is /etc/localtime linked to? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] System has UTC, where I want EST

2005-03-03 Thread Michael Haan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] haanm $ ls -l /etc/localtime lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Feb 26 17:34 /etc/localtime - /usr/share/zoneifo/EST5EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] haanm $ ls -l /usr/share/zoneinfo/EST5EDT -rw-r--r-- 5 root root 1267 Feb 26 04:41 /usr/share/zoneinfo/EST5EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] haanm $ On Thu,

[gentoo-user] [OT] GnuPG - Some more questions

2005-03-03 Thread Jose Gonzalez Gomez
Ok, now I'm the proud owner of a new GnuPG key, and I'm able to encrypt files using it, but I guess it has a lot of other uses, like signing/encrypting mail. I guess I should now export my public key to a key server, shouldn't I? By the way, I have several mail addresses. I have added several

Re: [gentoo-user] Naive question

2005-03-03 Thread Steven Susbauer
I believe that they are the default settings even after customization, /etc/make.conf just overrides them. If you didn't have USE flags in there, than nothing would be declared, but there are default USE flags put into use, and you can do your customization based on them (disabling what Gentoo

RE: [gentoo-user] emerge x11-libs/gtk+-1.2.10-r11 fails with gdk undefined references

2005-03-03 Thread Daevid Vincent
Hello my friend... Run both of these: # fix_libtool_files.sh 3.3.4 (assuming you're running GCC v3.3.4) # /usr/portage/dev-lang/perl/files/perl-cleaner You updated GCC most likely and so things are a little out of synch. I don't know why the GCC ebuild doesn't run 'fix_libtool_files.sh

Re: [gentoo-user] System has UTC, where I want EST

2005-03-03 Thread Bradley Serbu
Micheal, Your file is definitly linked correctly to a file in zoneinfo; however I don't know if that is the same zone/setting as mine (/usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern). I'm also not sure of the difference. Have you rebooted your machine since making the CLOCK=local change? If you don't want

[gentoo-user] Keyboard Control Keys Stopped working.

2005-03-03 Thread Kurt Guenther
Twice today, my keyboard control keys (ctrl, shift, caps lock, etc.) quit working on both a keyboard and laptop. I've never seen this problem before. I emerged sys-apps/procps-3.2.4-r3 this morning, but I don't think that would do it. Any ideas? --Kurt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] System has UTC, where I want EST

2005-03-03 Thread Michael Haan
I have rebooted since I made the change. On a prior install of gentoo a month ago on this same hardware, that choice worked for my timezone. On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 14:16:04 -0500, Bradley Serbu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Micheal, Your file is definitly linked correctly to a file in zoneinfo;

Re: [gentoo-user] System has UTC, where I want EST

2005-03-03 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 11:58:21 -0500 Michael Haan wrote: I bet it has to do with this CLOCK=UTC, in rc.conf. that has nothing to do with what timezone is used to display the time when the date command is used! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] System has UTC, where I want EST

2005-03-03 Thread Nick Rout
what is TZ set to? echo $TZ this takes preference over the system wide preference set by /etc/localtime On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 13:27:34 -0500 Michael Haan wrote: -- Nick Rout Barrister Solicitor Christchurch http://www.rout.co.nz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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