[ldap] openLDAp with postfix and courier-imap

2006-09-09 Thread bijayant kumar
Hi, I have installed openLDAP server and openLDAp client on different machines. And it is working fine. Now, i have to use openLDAP with postfix and courier-imap. I want to ask, what are the packages i will have to install on the server and clients. Which configuration files i have to configure. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: Linux killer app

2005-04-07 Thread Martoni
On Apr 7, 2005 5:17 AM, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:3. the friendliness and willingness of the users and this type ofmailing list.Not to disappoint you, but my experience is that the Gentoo community is above and beyond the rest (I know of, RH/Mandrake/Linux general ng's) in friendliness,

[gentoo-user] Re: no /dev/ttyUSB0 device

2005-04-07 Thread Tom Van Doorsselaere
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Gaffney wrote: Tom Van Doorsselaere wrote: Recently my girlfriend purchased a cable to connect her cell phone to the computer. After some reading on the internet I found out I had to load the modules usbserial and pl2303. According to my

Re: [gentoo-user] no /dev/ttyUSB0 device

2005-04-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 07 Apr 2005 06:58:45 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: /dev/tts/USB0 should be correct. You can modify this path by editing /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules. I never tried this, but I think you could also override the rules there by creating an additional .rules file in that directory with

Re: [gentoo-user] Roadmap

2005-04-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 21:51:10 -0700, timothy johnson wrote: I recently found what looks like a cool gps program called roadmap, anyone know of a ebuild for this? If an package isn't in portage, the first place to check is bugs.gentoo.org, that's where new ebuilds usually appear first. Roadmap is

Re: [gentoo-user] Shared ftp directory?

2005-04-07 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 14:23 -0700, timothy johnson wrote: I used the mount --bind cmd when making a dir that all my users could read to What about using ACLs? It should work too On Apr 6, 2005 1:16 PM, fire-eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm trying to come up with a way for two

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: reply prefix in evolution

2005-04-07 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 21:03 +0200, Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: -- quoting Matan Peled -- Possibly because e-mail clients that reply with AW: also break the headers in some strange way... ... but kmail has no problem sorting and threading those messages, so why can't

Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate posts from John Lowelljohnlowell@ameritech.net on the Digest

2005-04-06 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 22:45:21 -0700 Robert Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | But what's wrong with tools to make things easier if they don't impair | the performance of the system? Why not have a nice simple | X-configurator that does the job of the SuSE or mandrake equivalents? Get coding :)

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: Linux killer app

2005-04-06 Thread Richard Fish
Martoni wrote: What do you think is a Linux killer app (if there is such a beast at all)? This is too easy...gcc. Without that, nothing else, including the kernel, would exist. There is really only one app I couldn't live without whether I am running Windows or Linux, and that is VMWare.

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: Linux killer app

2005-04-06 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 06 Apr 2005 07:57:39 +0200 Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Martoni wrote: | What do you think is a Linux killer app (if there is such a beast at | all)? | | | This is too easy...gcc. Without that, nothing else, including the | kernel, would exist. egcs -- Ciaran McCreesh :

Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate posts from John Lowelljohnlowell@ameritech.net on the Digest

2005-04-06 Thread Philip Webb
050405 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: 050405 Eric S. Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: maybe one should stop blaming the user and consider that X11 is crying for a good UI for configuration. I hear Mandrake have quite a nice GUI configuration tool these days. IIRC when i installed Gentoo in my

Re: [gentoo-user] pernicious printer problem

2005-04-06 Thread Michael Ulm
Lucien Dunning wrote: I know in the CUPS guide it suggests to push data right to /dev/lp0 ( echo bla bla bla /dev/lp0), did u try this? I know my printer at one point would print what I echoed to it, but not through cups. However don't ask me how I fixed it, I don't remember, and I'm not sure

[gentoo-user] GUI X configuration (Was: Duplicate posts from ...)

2005-04-06 Thread Richard Fish
Robert Persson wrote: But what's wrong with tools to make things easier if they don't impair the performance of the system? Why not have a nice simple X-configurator that does the job of the SuSE or mandrake equivalents? You could even unmerge it To me this depends upon what level of X

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: Linux killer app

2005-04-06 Thread Alan
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 07:01:44AM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Wed, 06 Apr 2005 07:57:39 +0200 Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Martoni wrote: | What do you think is a Linux killer app (if there is such a beast at | all)? | | | This is too easy...gcc. Without that, nothing

Re: [gentoo-user] prevent postgresql from upgrading

2005-04-06 Thread Robert Persson
On April 5, 2005 05:56 pm, quoth Manuel McLure: Use dev-db/postgresql-7.4.7-r1 in /etc/portage/package.mask or something like dev-db/postgresql-7.5 if you want to allow bug and security fixes. -- Robert Persson No matter how much ye shake yer peg The last wee drap rins doon yer leg.

Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate posts from John Lowelljohnlowell@ameritech.net on the Digest

2005-04-06 Thread Robert Persson
On April 5, 2005 10:56 pm, quoth Ciaran McCreesh: On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 22:45:21 -0700 Robert Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | But what's wrong with tools to make things easier if they don't impair | the performance of the system? Why not have a nice simple | X-configurator that does the

[gentoo-user] KDM Update

2005-04-06 Thread Ian K
Hey everyone! I just upgraded KDE to 3.4 and am wondering how to replace KDM 3.2.2 with KDM 3.4? Thanks! begin:vcard fn:Ian K n:K;Ian email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] note;quoted-printable:Pentium 3=0D=0A= 500mHz=0D=0A= 256MB RAM=0D=0A= 80.0GB HDD=0D=0A= ATI Radeon 7000 Evil Wizard

RE: [gentoo-user] physical location monitoring with Gentoo

2005-04-06 Thread W.Kenworthy
Something I am confused about: is wpa/wpa-psk done in the driver or hardware? I tried setting up wpa-supplicant but its failing on my old orinoco card - do I persist or get a new card? BillK On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 20:27 -0400, Covington, Chris wrote: So, no, WPA is not _as_ vulnerable as WEP

[gentoo-user] per-user subversion repository

2005-04-06 Thread Qiangning Hong
I want to let normal users to svnadmin create their own repsoities in their home dir and can access the repositories via apache using http://myhost/~username/svn/repos1, etc... And also, the user can assign username/password pairs for accessing his reposities. --- Anyone has tried this? Most

Re: [gentoo-user] KDM Update

2005-04-06 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 6. April 2005 01:51 schrieb ext Ian K: I just upgraded KDE to 3.4 and am wondering how to replace KDM 3.2.2 with KDM 3.4? A simple /etc/init.d/xdm restart should do. HTH... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Don't buy from NETGEAR

2005-04-06 Thread W.Kenworthy
How else do we know about problem hardware and vendors with Linux - if it is fixable we get to know about it, if not we find out why and gain from that. Is this gentoo relevant? Yes and no - such publicity is what makes manufacturers sit up and take notice and gentoo as well as linux in general

Re: [gentoo-user] Annoying vim / keyboard behavior

2005-04-06 Thread steven pan
use A is right On Apr 5, 2005 10:29 PM, fire-eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My editor of choice is vim. I administer about 5 systems. On one of these, the following behavior happens. Before i decide to go into append or insert mode, I want to go to the end of a line. I hit the END key. The

[gentoo-user] hdparm question

2005-04-06 Thread Khan
hello, bash-2.05b# hdparm -tT /dev/sda /dev/sda: Timing cached reads: 3100 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1550.24 MB/sec HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(null) (wait for flush complete) failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device Timing buffered disk reads: 170 MB in 3.02 seconds = 56.28 MB/sec HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(null)

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Don't buy from NETGEAR

2005-04-06 Thread Martoni
On Apr 6, 2005 5:32 AM, Matthew Marlowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Netgear used to make decent network cards, but that stopped 3-4 years ago.To my knowledge, linksys and dlink never had a great reputation to beginwith. Usually our Netgear stuff works. What actually broke was DLink switches. We were

Re: [gentoo-user] Poll? What applications do you want to see?

2005-04-06 Thread Spider
On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 07:15 +0100, Andreas Lw wrote: Hi, cut And I apologize if I list any packages already in there, I have'nt bothered to check the list of what's already there. A few were (netcat, aterm, apache, mod_php, {open,black}box the mailers were decidedly not. A few chats with

[gentoo-user] ggi is low level library (lower then SDL)?

2005-04-06 Thread
Being dumb again. I really know nothing about graphic libraries. I noticed many packages can be compiled with ggi or sdl USE flag, and libsdl can be compiled with ggi USE flag, but libggi cannot be compiled with sdl USE flag. Then I come to guess, since SDL can use GGI for rendering, GGI should

Re: [gentoo-user] Two users, two soundcards. How ?

2005-04-06 Thread Ivan Yosifov
Well, I asked on ALSA-user and there is still no response. I will try linux-audio-user. Thanks. On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 00:10 +0200, Christoph Eckert wrote: Thanks for the info, but what are the files I need to chown/chmod ? I am using ALSA, no OSS emulation layer. phew, that's too much for

Re: [gentoo-user] hdparm question

2005-04-06 Thread Daniel Drake
Khan wrote: bash-2.05b# hdparm -tT /dev/sda /dev/sda: Timing cached reads: 3100 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1550.24 MB/sec HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(null) (wait for flush complete) failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device Timing buffered disk reads: 170 MB in 3.02 seconds = 56.28 MB/sec

Re: [gentoo-user] hdparm question

2005-04-06 Thread Henrik Andersson
Daniel Drake wrote: Upgrade to a newer kernel where those commands are permitted. You are looking for 2.6.12-rc2 or newer. It's nothing to worry about for now though. does that mean that kernel =2.6.12-rc2 will have better support for SATA? I guess that Khan had a sata-drive. Today,

[gentoo-user] Updating packages and running them at the same time

2005-04-06 Thread James
I was just wondering whether this is a good idea or not (I assume it's not, but I haven't seen anything to confirm this). For example is it OK to emerge update x11-base from x windows? Thanks, James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Two users, two soundcards. How ?

2005-04-06 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 12:56:05AM +, Ivan Yosifov wrote: Thanks for the info, but what are the files I need to chown/chmod ? I am using ALSA, no OSS emulation layer. To use the soundcard you have to be in the sound group in the default gentoo setup. The easiest would be to make a sound1

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: Linux killer app

2005-04-06 Thread Robert Persson
On April 5, 2005 09:27 pm, quoth Martoni: What do you think is a Linux killer app (if there is such a beast at all)? A unlikely candidate has surfaced here at home where the boys next door live in my study to play Battle for Wesnoth on *my* computer (rather than The Hobbit on my sons Windows

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: Linux killer app

2005-04-06 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 06:27:16AM +0200, Martoni wrote: What do you think is a Linux killer app (if there is such a beast at all)? A unlikely candidate has surfaced here at home where the boys next door live in my study to play Battle for Wesnoth on *my* computer (rather than The Hobbit

Re: [gentoo-user] what's the use of etcat use?

2005-04-06 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Wed, 06 Apr 2005 07:40:05 +0100 Russ Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ash Varma wrote: So try: $ equery uses package_name eg. I keep saying this but nobody seems to listen. 'equery uses' only works for packages that you already have installed, which makes it far less

Re: [gentoo-user] system with no network needs updates

2005-04-06 Thread Eugene Rosenzweig
Stroller wrote: On Apr 5, 2005, at 7:54 pm, Grant wrote: PS and I dont see how the line in the wiki could have worked well unless emerge -fp used to have different behavior. Thanks a lot Eugene, that second line worked great. Let me know if I should update the wiki:

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating packages and running them at the same time

2005-04-06 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
James wrote: I was just wondering whether this is a good idea or not (I assume it's not, but I haven't seen anything to confirm this). For example is it OK to emerge update x11-base from x windows? Thanks, James It's ok, only remember to restart your X server when finished :) -- No problem is so

[gentoo-user] Americas Army

2005-04-06 Thread Cumbers
Hey Americas Army within portage is trying to download from 3dgamers the 221 version of the game, which has been replaced with the 230 version. So the emerge tries to download a file that is not there, but the 230 download is. My question is how do I let someone within gentoo know that this is

Re: [gentoo-user] hdparm question

2005-04-06 Thread Daniel Drake
Henrik Andersson wrote: does that mean that kernel =2.6.12-rc2 will have better support for SATA? I guess that Khan had a sata-drive. As always, SATA support improves with every kernel release. Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: Linux killer app

2005-04-06 Thread Martoni
On Apr 6, 2005 11:10 AM, Bjoern Michaelsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 06:27:16AM +0200, Martoni wrote: What do you think is a Linux killer app (if there is such a beast at all)? A unlikely candidate has surfaced here at home where the boys next door live in my study to play

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating packages and running them at the same time

2005-04-06 Thread James
OK, Thanks guys :) James Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: James wrote: I was just wondering whether this is a good idea or not (I assume it's not, but I haven't seen anything to confirm this). For example is it OK to emerge update x11-base from x windows? Thanks, James It's ok, only

Re: [gentoo-user] Americas Army

2005-04-06 Thread Janne Johansson
On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 10:52 +, Cumbers wrote: My question is how do I let someone within gentoo know that this is the case, and get them to upgrade the portage to reflect this change of versions? File a bug if there isn't one: http://bugs.gentoo.org/ -- Janne -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] what's the use of etcat use?

2005-04-06 Thread Russ Brown
Renat Golubchyk wrote: On Wed, 06 Apr 2005 07:40:05 +0100 Russ Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ash Varma wrote: So try: $ equery uses package_name eg. I keep saying this but nobody seems to listen. 'equery uses' only works for packages that you already have installed, which makes it far

[gentoo-user] Gnome 2.10 gnome-keyboard-properties trouble

2005-04-06 Thread Ivan Yosifov
Hello, I'm having the following problem with Gnome 2.10: When I start gnome-keyboard-properties and change something in the Layouts or Layout options tabs I get two error windows. One of them is: Error activating XKB

Re: [gentoo-user] Americas Army

2005-04-06 Thread Daniel Drake
Cumbers wrote: My question is how do I let someone within gentoo know that this is the case, and get them to upgrade the portage to reflect this change of versions? http://bugs.gentoo.org Be sure to check that the new version isn't already available in the testing tree first. If it is, you

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Sending mail to a program

2005-04-06 Thread Michele Noberasco
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 17:41:44 +0200 Christian Parpart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The file sysexits.h defines lots of standard software error codes. Didn't know of this include... will have a look at it :-) while (getline(line, len, stdin) != -1) fprintf(out, %s, line); hmm...

Re: [gentoo-user] what's the use of etcat use?

2005-04-06 Thread Christoph Gysin
Russ Brown wrote: Excellent, good spot: especially considering that the option isn't mentioned anywhere in the man page... I also tried 'equery --help' but nothing there either. It hadn't occurred to me to just try running the command with no package argument. $ equery uses --help Display USE

Re: [gentoo-user] Americas Army

2005-04-06 Thread Christoph Gysin
Cumbers wrote: Americas Army within portage is trying to download from 3dgamers the 221 version of the game, which has been replaced with the 230 version. So the emerge tries to download a file that is not there, but the 230 download is. It's still in the testing branch. You can try packages from

Re: [gentoo-user] what's the use of etcat use?

2005-04-06 Thread Russ Brown
Christoph Gysin wrote: Russ Brown wrote: Excellent, good spot: especially considering that the option isn't mentioned anywhere in the man page... I also tried 'equery --help' but nothing there either. It hadn't occurred to me to just try running the command with no package argument. $

Re: [gentoo-user] 3Com Gigabit NIC's in Linux?

2005-04-06 Thread Timo Boettcher
Hi, * fire-eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tuesday, April 5, 2005, 9:49:30 PM: I can't really tell if these 3com gigabit NIC's work in linux, anybody happen to know? 3C996B-T 3C2000-T 3c996b-t works here, don't know about the other. Timo -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache RProxy setup

2005-04-06 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Eric S. Johansson wrote: Leo wrote: Eric: I am not familiar with pound... My reverse proxy is only for web requests :) This is how i do it in the apache conf: ProxyPass /exchange/ http://SPBmail/exchange/ ProxyPassReverse /exchange/ http://SPBmail/exchange/ the second part is toward

Re: [gentoo-user] KDM configuration...

2005-04-06 Thread Digby Tarvin
Thank you both for your comments. A little bit disappointing given that there is so much questionable configurability in the kdmrc file, yet something I actually used is taken away with no configuration option to put it back :-/ It may be that most users like to stick to the one WM, but how many

Re: [gentoo-user] KDM configuration...

2005-04-06 Thread James Hiscock
Anyway, at least I now know to stop looking. I guess I either change the source or roll back to an older version. Or does anyone know of any interesting alternatives to XDM and KDM that I should look at? gdm? entrance? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Stop The Duplicate Post Whining Please

2005-04-06 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Robert Persson wrote: On April 5, 2005 05:12 pm, quoth fire-eyes: I get home and more than half the posts are people complaining about the dupe posts. I know it must have looked a bit depressing at first sight, but if you read some of the later posts you would have found that the thread had

Re: [gentoo-user] 3Com Gigabit NIC's in Linux?

2005-04-06 Thread fire-eyes
On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 13:49 +0200, Timo Boettcher wrote: I can't really tell if these 3com gigabit NIC's work in linux, anybody happen to know? 3C996B-T 3C2000-T 3c996b-t works here, don't know about the other. Great to hear, thank you for the input. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

[gentoo-user] Bug in Gentoo udev guide?

2005-04-06 Thread David D. Rea
I noticed that the Gentoo udev Guide (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml) still refers to the 2.6 kernels as being proided by gentoo-dev-sources... udev is meant to be used in combination with a 2.6 kernel (like development-sources or gentoo-dev-sources). I thought for 2005.0 that was

Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate posts from John Lowelljohnlowell@ameritech.net on the Digest

2005-04-06 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 22:45:21 -0700 Robert Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | But what's wrong with tools to make things easier if they don't impair | the performance of the system? Why not have a nice simple | X-configurator that does the job of the SuSE or mandrake

[gentoo-user] think i killed my gentoo box

2005-04-06 Thread Nick Smith
sorry i havent been keeping up with the list as much as i should so i dont know if this has been addressed or not. i recently did an emerge -uD on my gentoo laptop, its been several months since this has been done, it said that sysvinit was blocking something from being installed, so i thought to

Re: [gentoo-user] GUI X configuration (Was: Duplicate posts from ...)

2005-04-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Hi, for me xf86cfg, xf86config were always able to set up a sane config file. I needed to clean it up and corrected some things to make it 'better' but the basic version always worked so, I am satisfied with the tools, xog/xf86 is delivering for that task -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] Performance problem (slow hard drive?)

2005-04-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 04:03, Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 17:35 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: I also experimented a little bit with swsusp (without much success), try suspend2 then.. 15 secs from running to hibernate thanks, swsusp also shut down my box in less than

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: Linux killer app

2005-04-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 06:27, Martoni wrote: What do you think is a Linux killer app (if there is such a beast at all)? the gimp, it kills harddisk space, cpu cycles, and the nerves of the person trying to use it. A real killer. If you mean 'killer app' in a positive sense, I would vote

Re: [gentoo-user] Bug in Gentoo udev guide?

2005-04-06 Thread Jason Cooper
David D. Rea ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: I noticed that the Gentoo udev Guide (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml) still refers to the 2.6 kernels as being proided by gentoo-dev-sources... udev is meant to be used in combination with a 2.6 kernel (like development-sources or

Re: [gentoo-user] ggi is low level library (lower then SDL)?

2005-04-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Hi, On Wednesday 06 April 2005 10:22, wrote: Being dumb again. I really know nothing about graphic libraries. I noticed many packages can be compiled with ggi or sdl USE flag, and libsdl can be compiled with ggi USE flag, but libggi cannot be compiled with sdl USE flag. Then I come to

Re: [gentoo-user] think i killed my gentoo box

2005-04-06 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Nick Smith wrote: sorry i havent been keeping up with the list as much as i should so i dont know if this has been addressed or not. i recently did an emerge -uD on my gentoo laptop, its been several months since this has been done, it said that sysvinit was blocking something from being

Re: [gentoo-user] think i killed my gentoo box

2005-04-06 Thread James Hiscock
you can try: #mount -oremount,ro / ummm... shouldn't that be rw, not ro? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate posts from John Lowelljohnlowell@ameritech.net on the Digest

2005-04-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 06 Apr 2005 09:03:03 -0400, Eric S. Johansson wrote: the first time you install gentoo, it is amazing, the second time you install gentoo, it is empowering, the third time you install gentoo, it is wearying There was mention of an automated installer in GWN some months back, followed

Re: [gentoo-user] think i killed my gentoo box

2005-04-06 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
James Hiscock wrote: you can try: #mount -oremount,ro / ummm... shouldn't that be rw, not ro? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list yes :P -- No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it. ~ Charles M. Schulz But sometimes run fast is better ~ Francesco R. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: Linux killer app

2005-04-06 Thread Covington, Chris
ps - and ut2004 ;) --- 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] ggi is low level library (lower then SDL)?

2005-04-06 Thread Aurélien Reynaud
Le mercredi 06 avril 2005 15:26 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann a crit : ggi is a lowlevel graphics system, to replace X or svgalib. SDL is an abstraction for ogl/X/svgalib/directX and a lot of other stuff. Not quite. GGI is an abstraction as well. You can run ggi apps over X, framebuffer,

Re: [gentoo-user] KDM configuration...

2005-04-06 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 08:33:59AM -0400, James Hiscock wrote: Anyway, at least I now know to stop looking. I guess I either change the source or roll back to an older version. Or does anyone know of any interesting alternatives to XDM and KDM that I should look at? gdm? entrance?

Re: [gentoo-user] KDM configuration...

2005-04-06 Thread James Hiscock
So all I want is 'login name' and 'password' entry boxes and the 'session type' menu that was taken away GDM's got just that - with a couple more options (configuration, shutdown menu) -- and it's heavily theme-able, so you can probably find something appropriate for you in the gdm-themes

[gentoo-user] changing permissions on a usb scanner device with 2.6 kernel

2005-04-06 Thread Claus Ladekjær Wilson
Only root can use my hp 5200 scanner. I don't use hotplug and I read about the usb-scanner script which I cannot find on my computer. Is there a command like chmod 666 usb-scanner-device? My kernel is 2.6.7 and my device is hp:libusb:001:003 -- Venlig hilsen / Greetings from Claus Ladekjær

Re: [gentoo-user] Horizontal lines

2005-04-06 Thread Bill Six
I think you're right. Thanks for your help. Bill --- Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ugh... you most likely have a hardware issue. Why? The screen capture you sent to the list displays perfectly, which means that X is rendering correctly. The problem is then most likely your video

Re: [gentoo-user] think i killed my gentoo box

2005-04-06 Thread John Myers
On Wed, April 6, 2005 7:07 am, Bastian Balthazar Bux said: James Hiscock wrote: you can try: #mount -oremount,ro / ummm... shouldn't that be rw, not ro? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list yes :P I don't think that (by itself) is going to help anything. The OP umerged sysvinit. That

Re: [gentoo-user] pernicious printer problem

2005-04-06 Thread Lucien Dunning
Think this is ur problem. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-301503.html On Apr 6, 2005 2:06 AM, Michael Ulm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lucien Dunning wrote: I know in the CUPS guide it suggests to push data right to /dev/lp0 ( echo bla bla bla /dev/lp0), did u try this? I know my

[gentoo-user] Java eats my memory [was: Performance problem (slow hard drive?)]

2005-04-06 Thread Jose Gonzalez Gomez
So it seems I have finally found the reason why my machine slows down... should I be worried of this? : PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SWAP SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND 17023 jgonzale 15 0 1522m 80m 1.4g 87m S 28.0 16.3 0:03.81 java 17022 jgonzale 15 0 1522m 80m 1.4g 87m S

Re: [gentoo-user] KDM configuration...

2005-04-06 Thread Digby Tarvin
GDM it is then. I have just emerge'd it - now to give it a try.. I certanly don't want to re-invent the wheel if an existing dm will do what I want.. Fingers crossed... Regards, DigbyT P.S. I forgot to mention - I quite like the analogue clock on the XDM greeter, so I am hoping GDM will have

Re: [gentoo-user] Java eats my memory [was: Performance problem (slow hard drive?)]

2005-04-06 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: So it seems I have finally found the reason why my machine slows down... should I be worried of this? : PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SWAP SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND 17023 jgonzale 15 0 1522m 80m 1.4g 87m S 28.0 16.3 0:03.81

Re: [gentoo-user] ggi is low level library (lower then SDL)?

2005-04-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 16:38, Aurlien Reynaud wrote: Le mercredi 06 avril 2005 15:26 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann a crit : ggi is a lowlevel graphics system, to replace X or svgalib. SDL is an abstraction for ogl/X/svgalib/directX and a lot of other stuff. Not quite. GGI is an

Re: [gentoo-user] Java eats my memory [was: Performance problem (slow hard drive?)]

2005-04-06 Thread Ivan Yosifov
Are you running the server vm ? On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 18:46 +0200, Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: So it seems I have finally found the reason why my machine slows down... should I be worried of this? : PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SWAP SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND 17023 jgonzale 15

[gentoo-user] emerge uD world : gtk+-2.6.4-r1 failed!

2005-04-06 Thread Bradley Serbu
When doing my first emerge uD world after a fresh 2005.0 install. I recived the following error, has anyone experieced the same, or know of a fix? FYI: I'm not using the ~x86 keyword on this box so this error is from the latest stable tree. - Brad make[4]: *** [libpixbufloader-tiff.la] Error

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge uD world : gtk+-2.6.4-r1 failed!

2005-04-06 Thread Jason Cooper
Bradley Serbu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: make[4]: *** [libpixbufloader-tiff.la] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gtk+-2.6.4-r1/work/gtk+-2.6.4/gdk-pixbuf' make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge uD world : gtk+-2.6.4-r1 failed!

2005-04-06 Thread Bradley Serbu
Ok, looks like the no such directory at the bottom, but I included a bunch more incase I'm missing something else... /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe -Wall -o libpixbufloader-xpm.la -rpath /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/loaders -avoid-version -module

[gentoo-user] IRQ problem with USB camera

2005-04-06 Thread Grant
I used to be able to connect my USB camera to my Gentoo system, but I haven't tried it in a while and now when I try it I get this from dmesg: ohci_hcd: Unlink after no IRQ? Controller is probably using the wrong IRQ. I've tried enabling all of the IRQ options in the kernel to no avail. Does

Re: [gentoo-user] system with no network needs updates

2005-04-06 Thread Grant
PS and I dont see how the line in the wiki could have worked well unless emerge -fp used to have different behavior. Thanks a lot Eugene, that second line worked great. Let me know if I should update the wiki: gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Gentoo_for_dialup_users Yes, you should.

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge uD world : gtk+-2.6.4-r1 failed!

2005-04-06 Thread Scott Jones
On Apr 6, 2005 12:40 PM, Bradley Serbu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Ok, looks like the no such directory at the bottom, but I included abunch more incase I'm missing something else.../bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc-O2 -mcpu=i686-pipe -Wall -o libpixbufloader-xpm.la

Re: [gentoo-user] Java eats my memory [was: Performance problem (slow hard drive?)]

2005-04-06 Thread Richard Fish
A. Khattri wrote: On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: It seems Java takes 1,5Gb of memory!!! Am I right? Seems to be right. Wow. Even VMWare running XP on my system only consumes 350MB of memory!! Isn't that virtual memory ? The resident size is 80Mb no? Virtual

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge uD world : gtk+-2.6.4-r1 failed!

2005-04-06 Thread Christoph Gysin
Bradley Serbu wrote: Ok, looks like the no such directory at the bottom, but I included a bunch more incase I'm missing something else... grep: //usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.5/libstdc++.la: No such file or directory /bin/sed: can't read

Re: [gentoo-user] Java eats my memory [was: Performance problem (slow hard drive?)]

2005-04-06 Thread Robert G. Hays
Also re swap-size: how big is your swap partition? rgh. Ivan Yosifov wrote: Are you running the server vm ? On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 18:46 +0200, Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: So it seems I have finally found the reason why my machine slows down... should I be worried of this? : PID USER PR NI

Re: [gentoo-user] changing permissions on a usb scanner device with 2.6 kernel

2005-04-06 Thread Richard Fish
Claus Ladekjær Wilson wrote: Only root can use my hp 5200 scanner. I don't use hotplug and I read about the usb-scanner script which I cannot find on my computer. Is there a command like chmod 666 usb-scanner-device? My kernel is 2.6.7 and my device is hp:libusb:001:003 Try adding other

[gentoo-user] Portage downgrading question

2005-04-06 Thread David D. Rea
Hi All- I needed to fill out a PDF form today, so I figured I'd try the new Adobe Acrobat Reader 7. I did the following: `ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge -pv acroread` And subsequently emerged the package without the -pv. All went well, and acroread seems to work happily enough on my box. I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage downgrading question

2005-04-06 Thread Scott Jones
On Apr 6, 2005 1:12 PM, David D. Rea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Hi All-I needed to fill out a PDF form today, so I figured I'd try the new AdobeAcrobat Reader 7. I did the following:`ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge -pv acroread`And subsequently emerged the package without the -pv. All went well,

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage downgrading question

2005-04-06 Thread Steingrim Dovland
* David D. Rea The only place I can find some semblance of a recommendation to prevent this behavior is here: http://users.dslextreme.com/~craig.lawson/linux_notes/gentoo_portage.html Read the section on Portage in the Gentoo Handbook and the portage man-page. The handbook section that deals

Re: [gentoo-user] Stop The Duplicate Post Whining Please

2005-04-06 Thread Robert G. Hays
blush Naaah,Robert fire-eyes are right, Eric, we shouldda changed the title in there somwhere /blush ( :| But you're probably right too!; it's just that the name-change was most likely the correct thing to do. *Sigh.* ) I'll jump right back outta this thread before it gets to be another

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge uD world : gtk+-2.6.4-r1 failed!

2005-04-06 Thread Bradley Serbu
Thanks Guys, I'm giving it a shot now... but when you say focus your search on a certain error message, where are you talking about searching. Google? The forums? List Archives (I don't have a site for this)? I've ran into ebuild problems before and just waited for a couple more releases or

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage downgrading question

2005-04-06 Thread Willie Wong
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3chap=3 or, simply # echo '=app-text/acroread-7.0 ~x86' /etc/package.keywords W On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 01:12:12PM -0500, David D. Rea wrote: Hi All- I needed to fill out a PDF form today, so I figured I'd try the new Adobe

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge uD world : gtk+-2.6.4-r1 failed!

2005-04-06 Thread Bradley Serbu
brads $ sudo fix_libtool_files.sh 3.3.5 * Scanning libtool files for hardcoded gcc library paths... Tried this and the command ran successfully, but didn't fix the error. - Brad Christoph Gysin wrote: Bradley Serbu wrote: Ok, looks like the no such directory at the bottom, but I included a

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge uD world : gtk+-2.6.4-r1 failed!

2005-04-06 Thread Scott Jones
On Apr 6, 2005 1:41 PM, Bradley Serbu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:brads $ sudo fix_libtool_files.sh 3.3.5 * Scanning libtool files for hardcoded gcc library paths...Tried this and the command ran successfully, but didn't fix the error.- BradChristoph Gysin wrote:Bradley Serbu wrote:Ok, looks like the

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge uD world : gtk+-2.6.4-r1 failed!

2005-04-06 Thread Bradley Serbu
Didn't work... Did you notice the //usr instead of /usr when search for the file/directory. Could this be the problem. I'm searching the bugzilla and not seeing any with //usr being fixed or reported. The fix_lib_tools.sh seems to just fix the version. - Brad Bradley Serbu wrote: Thanks Guys,

Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate posts from John Lowelljohnlowell@ameritech.net on the Digest

2005-04-06 Thread Robert G. Hays
OK, *thats* the focusing of the comment that I mentioned. Had that been there in the first place, I wouldn't'a jumped. Still no reason not to have nice tools though, for those making the transition... could even 'waste'(not!) time telling un Gentoo-virgins whatinhell is actually being done,

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage downgrading question

2005-04-06 Thread David D. Rea
On Wed, April 6, 2005 1:32 pm, Scott Jones said: Dave, I believe that echo =app-text/acroread-7.0 ~x86 /etc/portage/package.keywords will fix your problem. Basically you put programs you want to have masked ~x86 in the file package.keywords in the directory /etc/portage Scott Jones

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