Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Turn of maildir

2005-04-04 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Turn of maildir

2005-04-04 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
l just learning the emerge/portage setup so not really sure how to redo that. Does one have to change basic USE flag setting somewhere or can they be set at emerge time? If so can you show a simple example? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] x-forwarding or vnc or ?

2005-04-03 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
erally better than another? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] x-forwarding or vnc or ?

2005-04-03 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
two people at the two computers would see the same thing, and either of them could take control of the inputs. What kind of stuff should I set up to handle this? I'd like to be able to do #1 and #2 within the local network and over the Internet. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] smartcl: probing individual drives in a 100% hardware raid array?

2005-03-30 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
ht I do this? If the system can only see the array, then you can't. Many (most?) hardware raid solutions will give you a way to monitor the health of the array, and drives making it. -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Config Files Update?

2005-03-29 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
f the emerge it said that 10 config files need to be updated. Is this something that has to be done manually or is there a command that will auto update them for me? I am still new to gentoo and linux so any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks. A.J. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- B

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is there an xfce4 user in the house?

2005-03-27 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
have changed between arch and ~arch recently. It doesn't really matter, if you run that emerge command it looks as though it will install all Xfce 4.2.0 packages. Try that out and report back... -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there an xfce4 user in the house?

2005-03-27 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
it have been copied there? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] No-ip.com Client

2005-03-26 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
add it to the default runlevel using rc-update. But, I have no knowledge of scripting and I'm wondering if the above script would work... Can anyone help me? Thank you. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] OT: Mbox vs maildir

2005-03-07 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
entoo list is the place to post questions whether they're truly related to gentoo issues or not. Nick is right that the mailserver thing is OT because it's not a specific gentoo issue. Some of the other issues you mentioned are typically more gentoo-related than the mailserver choice thing

Re: [gentoo-user] Control windows from Linx

2005-03-06 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
alculation... etc. I would like to move that windows computer to another room and control it from my Gentoo Linux via some sort of remote desktop for Linux and Windows. Does that software exists? TNX -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux Us

Re: [gentoo-user] Mbox vs maildir

2005-03-06 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
-03-06 at 12:43 +0800, ZeeGeek wrote: Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Is there any advantage to one over the other? What are the pros and cons of each. Thanks. I think maildir is better for handling small files, and maildir stores each mail in seperate files, while Mbox stores them in one, so if anything

Re: [gentoo-user] Procmail replacement

2005-03-06 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
écrit : | On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 19:37 -0700, Mike Melanson wrote: | | > Brett I. Holcomb wrote: | > | > > Some time ago someone on this list mentioned an alternative to procmail | > > but I can't find it in the archives. Does anyone know any alternatives | > > to pr

Re: [gentoo-user] Procmail replacement

2005-03-06 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Thank you. I'll check it out. On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Kurt V. Hindenburg wrote: On Saturday 05 March 2005 09:18 pm, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: | Some time ago someone on this list mentioned an alternative to procmail | but I can't find it in the archives. Does anyone know any alternatives to

[gentoo-user] Mbox vs maildir

2005-03-05 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Is there any advantage to one over the other? What are the pros and cons of each. Thanks. -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Procmail replacement

2005-03-05 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Thanks. I think that was it. I'll check it out. On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Kurt V. Hindenburg wrote: On Saturday 05 March 2005 09:18 pm, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: | Some time ago someone on this list mentioned an alternative to procmail | but I can't find it in the archives. Does anyon

[gentoo-user] Procmail replacement

2005-03-05 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Some time ago someone on this list mentioned an alternative to procmail but I can't find it in the archives. Does anyone know any alternatives to procmail. -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Partimage

2005-03-05 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
sda1 savedir/savefilename /etc/conf.d/Partimaged has the options -d /files/Images What am I doing wrong? Thanks. -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Multiple physical consoles

2005-03-05 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
aven't done the two monitor thing, I'll have to leave that for you. Bill Roberts -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] memtest results: need new ram?

2005-03-04 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
ing new ram, is there a way to try and figure out if it's the mainboard or the processor? Since I might be going the new route, are there recommendations for memory brands? I've been told that kingston or crucial are good, (I'm using kingston now, tho). Thanks again. -- Bre

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] memtest results: need new ram?

2005-03-04 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
e level of error? I've been assuming that the random crashes (usually only happens in Windows, but *sometimes* Gentoo will develop some tics) were heat problems or buggy software; but now I'm not so sure. Any help would be appreciated. -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice emerge fails finding jdk

2005-03-03 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
a and then run the java config? Check the Gentoo site for docs on setting up the java. Does OO *NEED* Java? And if so, why? -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Running multiple X logins

2005-02-27 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Do they use a diffrent syntax? Nothing on the web or man pages indicates anything about reserve. Any suggestions? On Sat, 26 Feb 2005, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Well, I got it kind of working and did so by the doing the following. I say sort of because it worked fine before reboot. I set up the

Re: [gentoo-user] grub-install Seg faults

2005-02-27 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
ne 448: 10316 Segmentation fault Has anyone ever seen this? Dunno about others, but when I see a segfault, the 1st I'll suggest you do is memtest. -- Joe -- Money can't buy everything. Sometimes money can't even buy a gun... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@

Re: [gentoo-user] Two emerge-related questions

2005-02-26 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
ge session) about config files, useless and rather annoying. I now execute rm `find /etc -iname '._cfg_*'` whenever such a message shows up. No problems... yet. Is it a good idea, or have I just been lucky? -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Running multiple X logins

2005-02-26 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
2.setup:/etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_2 DisplayManager._1.startup: /etc/X11/xdm/GiveConsole_2 DisplayManager._1.reset:/etc/X11/xdm/TakeConsole_2 4. Copied the _x files from the main one. For example cp TakeConsole TakeConsole_1 On Sat, 26 Feb 2005, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Some

Re: [gentoo-user] Running multiple X logins

2005-02-26 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
from local host Auth name: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 ID: -1 AUDIT: Sat Feb 26 17:02:48 2005: 9224 X: client 9 rejected from local host Auth name: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 ID: -1 On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: If I leave the :1 line uncommented and restart the machine I get the grey screen wi

Re: [gentoo-user] Running multiple X logins

2005-02-26 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Thanks. anyway. It gave me some ideas. I'm trying to remember from years ago . On Sat, 26 Feb 2005, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Saturday 26 February 2005 18:49, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Thank you.  I will try this.  I notice you have a name after "local" and and have the dispaly again

Re: [gentoo-user] Running multiple X logins

2005-02-26 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I notice that in /etc/X11/xdm there is an Xsetup_0 file which starts display 0 evidently. Do I have to modify /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config to include startup entries for displays 1 and 2? On Sat, 26 Feb 2005, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Saturday 26 February 2005 02:44, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Running multiple X logins

2005-02-26 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Thank you. I will try this. I notice you have a name after "local" and and have the dispaly again after the /usr/bin/X. On Sat, 26 Feb 2005, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Saturday 26 February 2005 02:44, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I have /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers setup as this: :0 local /usr/X11R

Re: [gentoo-user] Running multiple X logins

2005-02-25 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
5 Feb 2005 21:44:44 -0500 (EST), Brett I. Holcomb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I start up using xdm and get an login window on vt7 from which I can tried /etc/init.d/xdm restart and that simply gives me a grey X screen with a cursor instead of a login box. I don't know if this will h

Re: [gentoo-user] Running multiple X logins

2005-02-25 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
one system I had it start two or three xdm logins. I think there is something wrong on my system because if I uncomment the :1 line all I get is X with no login window. On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Perral1 wrote: Brett I. Holcomb wrote: If I leave the :1 line uncommented and restart the machine I get

Re: [gentoo-user] Running multiple X logins

2005-02-25 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
If I leave the :1 line uncommented and restart the machine I get the grey screen with no login box. I comment the line, then ctl-bkspc and I get a login box. Also, my Xserver file has no space between the : and the number 0 or 1. On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I start up using

[gentoo-user] Running multiple X logins

2005-02-25 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
ursor instead of a login box. Thanks. -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] System is too big

2005-02-22 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
t problems with computers are self-inflicted.. so I would welcome some suggestions on what's the best way to get udev and lvm working. --- eric -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list address - who's robin?

2005-02-21 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
o deal with this. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] FireFox strange display

2005-02-20 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
That seemed to have fixed it at least on that site. Thanks. On Sun, 20 Feb 2005, Mike Noble wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brett I. Holcomb wrote: | I'm running Firefox 1.0 and it has started behaving strangely. If I | Thanks. | Have you tried clearing the cache?

[gentoo-user] FireFox strange display

2005-02-20 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
nd letting firefox start all over. I hate to have to keep doing that if there is a better solution. Any ideas on what this might be and how to fix it? Thanks. -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] how can I recmompile everything from scratch?

2005-02-19 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
ls advice. Thanks, Amit _ The real power of teamwork. Experience it in real time. http://www.microsoft.com/india/office/experience/ Experience MS Office System. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging udev: is it sane?

2005-02-18 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
save to emerge it, or will it remove existing parts of my current system, or affect it in any way? Thanks for any hint. Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Wants to merge Openmotif

2005-02-17 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
emerge -uD world -p shows portage wants to merge openmotif. Both qpkg and equery d show nothing depends on openmotif so how do I find out what is trying to pull in openmotif? Thanks. -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FireFox Search Extentions don't work

2005-02-13 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
e command: wget http://mycroft.mozdev.org/plugins/wikipedia.{src,png}. 'wikipedia' is the first argument of the addEngine and the imagefile extension is the second argument of the addEngine. Restart Firefox and the added engines should be there. Tom Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I have firefox

Re: [gentoo-user] FireFox Search Extentions don't work

2005-02-13 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
n Sat, 12 Feb 2005 22:55:22 -0500 (EST), Brett I. Holcomb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have firefox 1.0 installed. When I go to the search bar and > tell it to > install other extensions it says it did it succesfully but they > never show > up. Any ideas. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] FireFox Search Extentions don't work

2005-02-13 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
root can't install it for you. Thanks. On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Collins Richey wrote: On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 22:55:22 -0500 (EST), Brett I. Holcomb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have firefox 1.0 installed. When I go to the search bar and tell it to install other extensions it says it did i

Re: [gentoo-user] monitoring net activity

2005-02-13 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I got the password prompt. It continued on and now I can connect to it. I'm not sure why I had to hit the return key to get the prompt. Thanks. On Sun, 13 Feb 2005, Richard Robson wrote: On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 00:34 +, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Saturday 12 February 2005 22:16, Brett

[gentoo-user] FireFox Search Extentions don't work

2005-02-12 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I have firefox 1.0 installed. When I go to the search bar and tell it to install other extensions it says it did it succesfully but they never show up. Any ideas. Thanks. -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] Hello

2005-02-12 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Nope . I hit the compose key while in the maillist but thinking I was in my mailbox. Maybe I need to just go to bed . On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Collins Richey wrote: On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 21:25:41 -0500 (EST), Brett I. Holcomb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Haven't heard from you for a while.

[gentoo-user] Hello

2005-02-12 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Haven't heard from you for a while. I hope all is well with you. -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] monitoring net activity

2005-02-12 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Did that - started ,then stopped. Still get connection refused. On Sun, 13 Feb 2005, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Sunday 13 February 2005 00:49, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: On Sun, 13 Feb 2005, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Saturday 12 February 2005 22:16, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: How does one get access to ntop&#

Re: [gentoo-user] monitoring net activity

2005-02-12 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Thanks. I've got something else wrong as that doesn't work. I get the connection refused whether I run firefox as root or myself. On Sun, 13 Feb 2005, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Saturday 12 February 2005 22:16, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: How does one get access to ntop's data? I us

Re: [gentoo-user] monitoring net activity

2005-02-12 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
,On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: How does one get access to ntop's data? I used firefox with http://host:3000 and keep being told the connection is refused. I tried hostname, ip address, localhost for host. Thanks. On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Richard Robson wrote: On Sat, 2005-02-

Re: [gentoo-user] monitoring net activity

2005-02-12 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
ility which allows one to monitor traffic through a device? that will tell you whats going through your net connection and how much etc ? My favorites are iftop for instant monitoring, ntop for constant monitoring, tcpdump/ethereal for packet capturing. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Br

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge wants to downgrade xfce4

2005-02-10 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
ype-1.0.0.1-r1 [0.91.0.3] +arts +esd -static 5,783 kB [ebuild U ] dev-libs/libpcre-5.0 [4.5] -debug 454 kB Total size of downloads: 44,244 kB -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - XFCE4 Startup?

2005-02-08 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
t the time when XFCE start up. What should I do? Thanks. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [normal] [gentoo-user] Mounting Dos disk

2005-02-07 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Yes, it was. CONFIG_PCI_BIOS=y Thanks. On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, [ISO-8859-1] Frédéric Grosshans wrote: Le dimanche 06 février 2005 à 12:17 -0500, Brett I. Holcomb a écrit : Tried them and they work - but I wonder what's wrong with my system in that it won't mount a dos floppy. Ext2 floppy

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting Dos disk

2005-02-07 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
codepages in kernel config is pretty small. You may try to enable more or all of them, rebuild kernel and then try to mount the floppy. -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerged world, now can't su

2005-02-06 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Any ideas? Thanks, Mike -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] More scripting help please...

2005-02-06 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
ripting - i would not mind learning more about this... All I ever needed to know about bash scripting I learned from "info bash". -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting Dos disk

2005-02-06 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
On my system I have DOS, VFAT as part of the kernel, not modules. On Sun, 6 Feb 2005, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Sunday 06 February 2005 16:58, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Thanks.  I tried that and it did not work. On Sun, 6 Feb 2005, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Sunday 06 February 2005 01:42, Brett I. Holcomb

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [normal] [gentoo-user] Mounting Dos disk

2005-02-06 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
ly use the package "sys-fs/mtools" brgds, Marc -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [normal] [gentoo-user] Mounting Dos disk

2005-02-06 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
t;sys-fs/mtools" brgds, Marc -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting Dos disk

2005-02-06 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Thanks. I tried that and it did not work. On Sun, 6 Feb 2005, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Sunday 06 February 2005 01:42, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I have a DOS floppy I try and mount but get the error: /dev/fd0 /mnt/fd0 vfat noauto,user,exec,nohide 0 0 Mine looks like this: /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting Dos disk

2005-02-05 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I'm not sure about the codepage. There is a default set in the kernel build. On Sun, 6 Feb 2005, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Sunday 06 February 2005 03:10, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: fat asks if I mean vfat so I used vfat. Both vfat and msdos give me the try the types as msdos or fat an

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting Dos disk

2005-02-05 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
fat asks if I mean vfat so I used vfat. Both vfat and msdos give me the same error. On Sun, 6 Feb 2005, Nick Rout wrote: On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 17:50 -0800, Ted Ozolins wrote: Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I have a DOS floppy I try and mount but get the error: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting Dos disk

2005-02-05 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Here it is drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 6 Jan 13 22:21 fd0 Thanks. On Sat, 5 Feb 2005, Ted Ozolins wrote: Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I have a DOS floppy I try and mount but get the error: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0, or too many mounted file systems I've sea

[gentoo-user] Mounting Dos disk

2005-02-05 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
the floppy. What am I doing wrong. MSDOS and Vfat are compiled into the kernel. Thanks. /etc/fstab entry is shown below. # # Floppy # /dev/fd0/mnt/fd0vfat noauto,user,exec,nohide 0 0 -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email

Re: [gentoo-user] newsgroup reader recommendations

2005-02-02 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
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Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia with Kernel-2.6.10-r6

2005-01-30 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
nternet a à offrir. http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=fr-ca&page=features/parental&ST=1&xAPID=1983&DI=2043 Commencez dès maintenant à profiter de tous les avantages de MSN Premium et obtenez les deux premiers mois GRATUITS*. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Xfce related websites

2005-01-29 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Will do . On Sat, 29 Jan 2005, Ralph Slooten wrote: Ralph Slooten wrote: `emerge xfce4` Sorry, missread ;-) morning blues I guess. Please ignore. Ralph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Xfce related websites

2005-01-29 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
wrote: `emerge xfce4` Brett I. Holcomb wrote: How does one install these in xfce under gentoo? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Xfce related websites

2005-01-29 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I did that - put these extra themes are not part of portage are they? On Sat, 29 Jan 2005, Ralph Slooten wrote: `emerge xfce4` Brett I. Holcomb wrote: How does one install these in xfce under gentoo? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] Xfce related websites

2005-01-28 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Jesus! What a difference!!! I must say that I'm beginning to prefer Xfce to Gnome. Does anyone have any good links to Xfce related sites? T.I.A. Joel -- Joel Merrick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to em

Re: [gentoo-user] exiting wm xfce4

2005-01-28 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
dded it: no problems. Hope it helps. h: Kristian [1] Most likely found on your local system as well, but an online version is available at, for instance, the following location: http://www.loculus.nl/xfce/documentation/docs-4.2/xfce4-session.html Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Nope. I added myuser loca

Re: [gentoo-user] exiting wm xfce4

2005-01-27 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
In the /etc/sudoers file, there are options for shutdown that are commented by default. Uncomment them and you will have access to the shutdown/reboot options from withing XFCE4. Aaron Kulbe a.k.a. SuperLag on FreeNode. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] exiting wm xfce4

2005-01-27 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
tions from withing XFCE4. Aaron Kulbe a.k.a. SuperLag on FreeNode. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] new ati-drivers

2005-01-24 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
hot in the dark, but maybe try - emerge -eat ati-drivers-extra Then reboot when all is done. Bob -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] xfce4-4.2 and xfce-base-4.0.6

2005-01-24 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
lopers have screwed up something, so I'm sure they would appreciate a hint. hmmm. I just upgraded today. I did a "emerge -C xfce4-base" beforehand and everythin went smoothly from there. Bill -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linu

Re: [gentoo-user] Configuring 2.6 kernels

2005-01-23 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
At this point I'd do the emerge -C whateversourcethisis, then reemerge it - after a sync. On Sun, 23 Jan 2005, A. Khattri wrote: On Sun, 23 Jan 2005, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: It should. Sounds like something is wrong with the file. I don't remember any { in .config. Maybe this is so

Re: [gentoo-user] Configuring 2.6 kernels

2005-01-23 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
It should. Sounds like something is wrong with the file. I don't remember any { in .config. On Sun, 23 Jan 2005, A. Khattri wrote: On Sun, 23 Jan 2005, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: No. If you have no .config file you just copy it from another kernel directory and then run make oldconfig. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Configuring 2.6 kernels

2005-01-23 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
No. If you have no .config file you just copy it from another kernel directory and then run make oldconfig. If you have one already you can back it up if you want otherwise it won't make a difference. On Sun, 23 Jan 2005, Francisco Ares wrote: > AFAIK, you have to rename your old ".config"

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge problem with e100

2005-01-23 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
On my system with an e100 I built it as a module during the kernel build and then load it at startup. Did you try that? On Sun, 23 Jan 2005, Richard Foltyn wrote: > On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 00:21 +0100, pat wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I've setup new system and compile the kernel (2.6.10-r1) and I wa

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo will never support vpn based on pptp. It's pity but it's fact.

2005-01-23 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Same here. I use a Cisco VPN client. It simply installs and runs. On Sun, 23 Jan 2005, Leif B. Kristensen wrote: > On Sunday 23 January 2005 12:06, Heinz Sporn wrote: >> Please let me note - for the members of our list that don't share the > > At work, I use the Cisco VPN client (net-misc/cisco

Re: [gentoo-user] Ulimate Gentoo Box

2005-01-22 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I use -O2. I would advise you to check the mail list for the extensive discussions about optimazations that has occured. In short you can do what you want but if you break your system - tough luck . Some optimizations can cause problems with various apps. I also have to wonder if some of the

[gentoo-user] ATI RAge XL

2005-01-19 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I have one system with an onboard ATI Rage XL. Is it even possible to get opengl working with this card? I've looked at the Gentoo hardware 3d docs and the ati-gatos but they don't explicitly mention this card. I've been using Nvidia so I'm not really sure what is what in the ATI line. Than

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: rpm problem

2005-01-19 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
If you've merged with portage and then added RPM the RPM program will not know what's in portage so it will think you have nothing. RPM has it's own database which at this point is empty. The only way to fill it is to use RPM to install stuff. But why do you want RPM when you have portage?

Re: [gentoo-user] 3D desktop / workplace switcher

2005-01-14 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Did you do anything special with the conf files? On Sat, 15 Jan 2005, Nick Rout wrote: > On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 22:21 -0500, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: >> On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, Jan Callewaert wrote: >> Has anyone used 3ddesktop with xfce4? If so what were the results? > > as a

Re: [gentoo-user] 3D desktop / workplace switcher

2005-01-14 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Thank you. I am going to try it. On Sat, 15 Jan 2005, Nick Rout wrote: > On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 22:21 -0500, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: >> On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, Jan Callewaert wrote: >> Has anyone used 3ddesktop with xfce4? If so what were the results? > > as a result of this t

Re: [gentoo-user] mail client

2005-01-13 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
It's whatever you prefer . I use Pine and like it. On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Maarten wrote: > On Friday 14 January 2005 02:57, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: >> Pine is a good one. > > Huh ? > Wasn't Pine [Pine Is Not Elm] renamed a while ago to Ping [Pine Is Not Good] ? > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] mail client

2005-01-13 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Pine is a good one. On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, John Dangler wrote: > Can someone recommend a mail client I can load for commandline access? I'm > having some problems with a baseline backup and don't want to load the X > environment until I get this baseline backed up. Thanks. Any input is > appreci

Re: [gentoo-user] 3D desktop / workplace switcher

2005-01-12 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, Jan Callewaert wrote: Has anyone used 3ddesktop with xfce4? If so what were the results? > * Ric de France <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-01-12 22:49:16 +1100]: > >> Hi Gentoo users, >> >> I usually use the Gnome desktop and the way I change workspaces / >> desktops / workplaces

Re: [gentoo-user] Tool to keep up the time?

2005-01-09 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
emerge ntp - the man ntp. On Sun, 9 Jan 2005, myang wrote: > Hello, > > Is there any package in the portage which can automatically connect to > certain server, > get the exact time and automatically adjust the time of my machine? It > seems my machine always behind the current time. Thanks! >

Re: [gentoo-user] portage problem / cups

2005-01-07 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Nope, didn't work. Maybe tomorrow there will be an updated ebuild. On Sat, 8 Jan 2005, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > There is a bug on this - the ebuild has a bad SRC_URI. I just did another > sync and the cups ebuild shows up as being downloaded. As soon as portage > stops udat

Re: [gentoo-user] portage problem / cups

2005-01-07 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
There is a bug on this - the ebuild has a bad SRC_URI. I just did another sync and the cups ebuild shows up as being downloaded. As soon as portage stops udating it's cache I'll see if that fixes the problem. On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Joseph wrote: > Yes, this is the case. > What puzzled me is t

Re: [gentoo-user] portage problem / cups

2005-01-07 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Maybe the package hasn't made it to the mirrors yet. The ebuild can exist but not the packages. Try again later. On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Joseph wrote: > When I try to "emerge -uDav world" it is trying to upgrade cups to newer > version that doesn't exist! > > Calculating world dependencies ...done

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up 2.6 system from scratch

2004-02-14 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Devfs will keep the old names. My /etc/devfsd.conf file has a setting that tells it to keep old names and it was on by default. Kathy Wills wrote: Collins Richey wrote: Cool. Does it do anything for you that devfs doesn't? I haven't noticed any difference other that it doesn't change (on m

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

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

Re: [gentoo-user] Pretty CUPS frontend

2004-02-11 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
You're welcome. Anthony Hoppe wrote: Thanks. On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 13:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a browswer http://localhost:631 and you'll get the cups admin tool. From: Anthony Hoppe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 2004/02/11 Wed PM 12:53:32 GMT To: Gentoo-User List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subjec

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage borked?

2004-02-08 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Try running ldconfig and see what happens. Simon Matthews wrote: Can anyone shed any light on this: # emerge -upD world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies -Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2513, in ? if not m

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge wants to downgrade Alsa.

2004-02-08 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Doesn't work either. Thanks, though. Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sunday 08 Feb 2004 21:39, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: How do I tell portage that I want to have these installed and I'm tired of hearing they should be downgraded. I tried adding the libs to /etc/portage/package.unmask but

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge wants to downgrade Alsa.

2004-02-08 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I thought about -i but would like to find another way - if there is one. Maybe portage-ng will fix a lot of this. Jerry McBride wrote: On Sunday 08 February 2004 05:25 pm, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I use the -D to keep dependencies updated. I'd use the -U if it worked. So my question re

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