> Her comes another dumb one. My folks want me to copy all of
> their 45's, 33's,
> 78's, 8 tracks and cassets to cd. My question is what
> programs do I need to
> to record these from linein or mic and store them in mp3
> format until I burn
> them. I know whats needed on windows but I am Trying t
> Do you also have
> /dev/agpgart (AGP Support) as module and
> Intel 440LX/BX/GX and
> I815/I820/I830M/I830MP/I840/I845/I850/I860 support
> in the kernel?
Yes, I believe so, except I have to use i810 support for my Asus
L3800S.
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> xfree-drm for the radeon, works with XFree86 4.3.0
Right. But the DRI modules in the kernel don't.
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> Maybe i did something wrong when copying the kernel modules
> to the xfree
> modules dir and vice versa as someone in the chat told me.
I don't recall doing that for my radeon based (7500) laptop. I set
radeon as a use flag, compiled the kernel without any special DRI
stuff, and emerged xfree-d
> How do I change the the font size for my console shells to
> default to a specific size.
>
> Right now they are super tiny and I have to manually change
> the size everytime I open up a new
> shell window.
Look at your .Xdefaults file. For example:
*XTerm*foreground: white
*XTerm*backgroun
> I have just purchased a Laptop HDD, and I am now in the
> market for a nice small caddy shack for it. I was after
> any recommendations for a caddy shack that has USB2.0 and
> is compatible with Linux. I seen an advertisements a while
> ago advertising laptop HDD caddy shack that was Linux
> co
Joshua Banks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Do I need to be a computer programmer now to figure out
> what files I can update safely and which
> ones I should ignore, keep, throw-out...ect.ect..
>
> Now I know I'm new to this, but this seems a little ridiculous.
I agree.
> The only files
brett holcomb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Well, if you use etc-update on files like /etc/fstab your
> system will break.
Exactly. I would vote for keeping /etc/fstab.example in portage, and
making the copying/editing part of the installation procedure (cp
/etc/fstab.example /etc/fstab; na
Mikhail P. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> So once user "user" logins via ssh, he supposed to have
> these limits (viewble
> via "ulimit -a"). However, it does not work - user still
> has 1024 in FD
> limit.
> Now if I "su user" from root, and type "ulimit -a", I see
> that FD is 4048!
>
> Any s
> QUESTION #1 - Is it a requirement that I need to rebuild
> xfree each time
> I build a new kernel? (Time consuming, but done.)
No, I don't think so. Just remerge xfree-drm if you use it, not the
whole xfree.
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> I managed to install gentoo on my acer travelmate 525te
> laptop with ATI
> rage mobility M1 AGP,but I am not able to get the X to run,
> when i run
> startx from command line i get a black-brown checked screen
> with mouse
> pointer(the normal linux cursor in the shape of "X"),i can
> move the
> I'm installing a new computer, but after running grub i
> can't find a grub.conf in my /boot/grub directory.
> I have run it several times now, but never is there a conf
> file created and also no errors occur.
I think you have to edit the file yourself. And I think the filename
is still menu.l
> the thing still is that he really has to know what hes doing
> and linux will hopefully never be a moron's operating system
Which 'Linux' do you mean? I'm perfectly comfortable with the
existence of click-and-go versions of Linux, as long as I still can
configure my stuff by hand in /etc. Give
> > (...) so there must be a file somewhere that holds
> > your inbox mail (/var/spool/...?).
>
> inbox = ~/Maildir/[cur,new,tmp]/
>
> http://www.qmail.org/qmail-manual-html/man5/maildir.html
Thanks for the reply. I don't use maildir /w courier-imap, hence my
confusion.
I'm planning to migrate m
> My problem is not with the volume, it's that the treble somehow gets
> distorted and it sound as if the speakers are broken or
> something. But
> as I've tried plugging in several different speaker-sets
> and the sound
> still have this distortion I've ruled out that it's the
> speakers fault.
P
> > I think you are referring to the fact that courier-imap does not
> > support directories hat also hold mail. A directory can hold mail
> > folders, but a mail folder cannot hold directories...
>
> I have a subdirectory of a mail directory with courier-imap.
>
> ~/.maildir= inbox
>
> On Wednesday 03 September 2003 00:02, Jason Stubbs wrote:
> > courier-imap doesn't support nested dirs.
>
> Well, according to Robert Kruus I am wrong. I guess my
> memory's going. Must be
> age... pushing 25 and that.
I think you are referring to the fact that courier-imap does not
support dire
> I am playing with many kernel version. And must emerge
> alsa-driver,nvidia-kernel for each kernel i install.
>
> My question is there is way when i emerge these two
> modules, to tell,
> with command line option to not unmerge the previous merged
> modules ?
>
> I know that when i do emerg
> the only answer i got was, it must be a client app for checkpoint.
That sounds like a proprietary solution. I guess you have to look at
their web-site, and order a Linux client... I don't know anything
about checkpoint, so I might be wrong here.
VPN is really a broad term. Running PPP over S
> i need to setup a VPN connection from to my work, what kind
> of program do i need to install, on my laptop.
> At work the network administrator (PC user, so can't help
> me) will setup all the rest.
That depends more on the network you want to connect to than your
laptop. What type of VPN will
> I also had strange issues with my Toshiba Satellite 2430
> (P4-Notebook) with
> several kernels from Gentoo 1.4 or Knoppix 3.2. My
> self-made kernels were
> only working if "Local APIC support on uniprocessors"
> (CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC)
> was completely deactivated in the kernel config.
Same here.
Hi,
> How do portage determines where a certain package has to be
> installed (eg, /,
> /usr, /usr/local, /opt or whatever)?
That's in the Makefile of the package, and in the ebuild. From the
user's viewpoint it's predefined.
> Another question: how can one find out what package a given
> file
> So if someone could bright me up a bit, I would be quite happy :)
Read the articles Daniel Robbins wrote on that (2. The gentoo.org
redesign: A site reborn):
http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/articles.xml
By the way: if you want to do dynamic XML based web stuff, I strongly
recommend Cocoon from t
> > Are you using a kernel config that you know should work for your
> > machine?
>
> i did no special kernel settings, just used genkernel with
> gentoo-sources...
I would double check the resulting kernel .config file (I am
unfamiliar with genkerner; I assume it generates a kernel config for
you
> what is the cause of this? just before the kernel panic usb
> was detected.
> but what in the process of usb detection causes the system
> to hang? i have
> nothing attached on my usb-ports, keyboard & mouse are on PS/2...
What kernel? What hardware?
Do you have ACPI or APM enabled? ACPI is k
>From some of what I've heard, most parts of Europe have
> their networks
> publicly owned still, so within a single country it should be fairly
> consistent. No idea on how well that would work travelling between
> countries, though.
Phone jacks and 220V plugs are typically different between
> Thanks Gwen. Do I have to remove all PCMCIA support from
> the kernel, or just PCMCIA
> network devices and their drivers? I recall that when I
> removed the PCMCIA options from
> kernel hotplug support as well, compilation of
> linux-wlan-ng failed because of no PCMCIA
> support in the kernel.
> What is the preferred way of getting the card to work?
> Kernel support?
> pcmcia-cs? Linux-wlan-ng? I'd appreciate if you could point me to a
> working howto somewhere or give me some assistance. Best regards,
I have a LinkSys WPC11 PCMCIA card up and running with kernel 2.4.21.
I have NO PCMCI
> As long as your modem detects okay, it's very easy. Just
> emerge ppp, edit
> /etc/conf.d/net.ppp0 and then either run
> /etc/init.d/net.ppp0 start or
> rc-update add net.ppp0 default to your liking.
I had a quick look at /etc/conf.d/net.ppp0, and it seems quite easy,
as you say. I'll try it ou
Hi all,
I want to use my analog modem (a combined Ethernet/modem PCMCIA card
from 3COM) to dial up to my ISP using a normal analog phone line, when
I'm on the road. Is there a document that describes somewhere how I
set that up? The installation guide only mentions ADSL.
Barring that, what pack
> Is there any particular optimal speed when burning Linux ISO
> images?
>
> - does that particular speed is influenced by the
> CD-RW drive, burning software, and CD-R media?
I'd say its the lowest number of all of the above. If you have a
decent computer then it's the minimum of the CDR media
> Chris I wrote:
> > As I said, framebuffer, at least for me, refuses to work
> no matter how
> > hard I try, wheras with 2.4 it worked with so little
> effort it was
> > eerie. This, I think, is due to the fact that the
> radeonfb is being
> > worked on (was forked) again, and something broke
>
> > I have the same problem with 2.5 / 2.6-test kernels with my 7500
> > mobility. In my case the framebuffer does not autodetect
> correctly (I
> > get a very distorted display), and only lower resolutions work
> > properly if I hand-pick them. The 2.4 series framebuffer
> works like a
> > ch
> What are your kernel parameters for 1400x1050? I'm using vga=0x318
> (1024x768) at the moment but anything higher like vga=0x31A|B
> (1280x1024) gives blurred fonts like you said.
No kernel parameters IIRC. I just enabled the radeon framebuffer in
the kernel.
It autodetects my LCD correctly, a
> Do you think that radeon FB support is generally broke in 2.6? That
> would be bad, because I've the very same situation as
> you've described:
> Laptop, Radeon plus TFT display running best @ 1400x1050.
That is interesting... I have an Asus L3800S, with a Radeon mobility
7500. I have tried a
> p.s.: Do you see an effect of your screen staying dark
> during boot every
> now and then, coming back to live if you switch the console back and
> forth?
No, I have not...
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Hi,
I am trying to update some packages, but am running into trouble. I
run a stable Gentoo, with a few hand picked exceptions of using masked
packages.
Now, when I want to upgrade tetex I get:
# emerge -pu tetex
!!!All ebuilds that could satisfy "tetex" have been masked.
I understand why t
> And last question ... How to select packages I want/don't
> want to be updated ?
You can use emerge -U to update to a newer version only.
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> Celerons are listed as pentium 2's in make conf: is that correct?
Which Celeron?
http://kernel.kernelnotes.de/linux-2.5.71/arch/i386/Kconfig :
- "Pentium-II" for the Intel Pentium II or pre-Coppermine Celeron.
- "Pentium-III" for the Intel Pentium III or Coppermine Celeron.
> which java
> /opt/blackdown-jre-1.4.1/bin/java
I don't know exactly why tomcat is rejecting you JAVA_HOME, but you'll
probably want your JAVA_HOME to reference a JDK, rather than a JRE.
Tomcat needs the java compiler for compiling JSPs and possibly other
dynamic files (Cocoon XSPs for example).
> I need to setup rsh.
As a server, or as a client? Do you want to use rsh as part of
another tool (rsync, cvs,...), or directly as a command-line tool?
> Has rsh anything to do with ssh?
They address similar needs. I'd go for ssh. It's more secure
alternative, and has more features. Ssh is
> > I read about autospeedstep, and installed it. It compiled well,
> > and runs well, and /var/log/speedstep indicates that it changes
> > betrwwn powersave and full power, but i don't quite trust it :
>
> speedstep has nothing to do with throttling. Speedstep changes the
> cpu clock rate between
> I just want to know if anyone has run into this problem in trying to
> config a cd burner on gentoo. I have an ide LG DVD/CDRW
> combo unit, and
> I have built all the neccessary modules : IDE/ATAPI CDROM
> support, SCSI
> emulation support, SCSI CDROm support, SCSI generic support.
Did you ad
> Hopefully this is just a interrupt, or I/O port issue
Are you using ACPI? Some laptops have trouble with that.
You can either get the latest acpi patch, or disable it altogether.
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> Can I update/patch acpi of gentoo-sources to some version
> more current?
I just upgraded to vanilla 2.4.21 + acpi patch (from sourceforge).
I didn't use emerge to get the kernel or patch, just remerged my
driver packages after building and rebooting the new kernel
(alsa-driver, xfree-drm, etc.
> Man I hope it's not the latter...although with your shifts
> it probably
> is...on a semi related note, does anyone have any information on
> clustering with Gentoo?
Clustering in what sense?
Gentoo has many packages that support clustering in some way or
another: cook, distcc, openldap (slapd/
> - my sound volume is very low when I try to listen some
> music by xmms,
> have you idea in how can fix that?
What are you using? Alsa? If so, run alsamixer (from alsa-utils), and
check the levels.
> - According to you, is there any advantage to use alsa versus oss?
> Could you list what s
> i'm having trouble to get ftp working with my iptable settings.
> I can connect login , but can't see files, then my
> connection is beeing closed. if i stop iptables then
> everything workfine.
See:
http://www.sns.ias.edu/~jns/security/iptables/iptables_conntrack.html
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> I'm trying to make working the sound on my notebook. A kind
> guy already
> explained to me that I need acpi support and that can work
> just using
> 2.4.19 kernel (wrong patches for 2.4.20 aparently.)
That one is new for me (that ACPI is required for sound). But, I do
have a new laptop running
> The minimal solution for me would be to take a Laptop with Gentoo
> Installed, merge/unmerge some packages, fine. But IMO the most
> distinguishing part of Gentoo is its install.
Definately. The thing to show would be emerge and qpkg. Emerge rsync
is a bit time-consuming, so I guess that
> anyone had this problem before? in my fstab i have this:
>
> //jaysdell/mp3 /mnt/jay smbfs user,rw,guest,uid=500 0 0
>
> but at boot time it won't mount... even though all my nfs
> shares work just
> fine.
>
> so as a regular user, i tried this:
>
> (~) $ mount /mnt/jay/
> INFO: Debug
> Has anyone ever heard why the JVMs out there always lose to their
> Windows counterparts in performance figures? The latest study at
> this site shows all the Linux JVMs failing the number of
> concurrent connections test miserably, except for the Blackdown
> 1.3.1 JVM which otherwise sucks in t
> Which java sdk should i use?
What do you want to use it for?
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> 1 DSL WLAN Router,
I would get a (cheap/old) PC with DSL on one end, and WAP at the other
end. That way you can use Linux firewalling, and not be restricted to
what a WAP/DSL box can do. I use a LinkSys WAP11 (ethernet / web
setup, OS independent).
> 1 PCMCIA WLAN card for a laptop (SuSE 8.2)
> > The box has booted up fine using the 1.4rc4
> > live. Only thing is It did not seem to detect
> > my scsi hard drives.
>
> All I can tell is that the default RedHat installation worked, but
> they might have patched the kernel. We're running the
> default RedHat
> kernel 2.4.9e.3smp.
Well, t
> I am beginning an install on a Power Edge 2650.
> Does anyone have any pointers or similar experiences
> to share?
We have a couple at my work, running RedHat Advanced Server 2.1.
> The box has booted up fine using the 1.4rc4
> live. Only thing is It did not seem to detect
> my scsi hard drive
> BTW, why are you using outlook express? Don't tell me, you
> are running it under wine :)
I'm running regular Outlook on w2k. Company policy... But, to my
defence, I run fetchmail/pine at home.
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> Purchace good java book, or better purchace good C++ book -
> java isn't good language at all.
That's quite a flame-starter...
I would recommend reading "Thinking in Java":
http://www.mindview.net/Books/TIJ/
It's pretty thorough.
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> I'm new to the whole java language. Anyway, i'm using
> kdevelop as my ide, and
> i have this simple java code:
>
> class Main{
>
> public static void main( String[] args ){
> System.out.println( "Hello, world!" );
> }
> }
>
>
> and when i try to compile it i get this error:
>
> E
Spider wrote:
>
> Okay, I'll take the bait... here
Thanks for your response. As far as I can tell I agree with you.
Gentoo is a 'do-it-yourself' distribution, and very good at it. The
(true) bugs people experience and report are inevitable when you take
into account the rate of change in the pa
> I was just window-shopping in the portage dev-utils
> directory, and came across aegis. Has anyone used this,
> and can they provide a nutshell-scoped list of pros & cons
> compared to CVS?
I haven't used it, only looked at it (window shopping like you). The
main difference I see is that it en
> /bin/install: cannot stat ./sk/scrollkeeper_cl.xml no such
> file or directory
> /bin/install: cannot stat ./zh_TW/scrollkeeper_cl.xml no
> such file or directory
> ... and so on with many more
It seems you hit some sort of install problem. I haven't seen this
one (anyone else?). Are the reque
> Hi all. I am just a newbie with gentoo. I try to emerge kde, but
> emerge fail. The packet scrollkeeper cannot compile, here is the
> error message :
>
> ERROR: app-text/scrollkeeper-0.3.11-r1 failed
> Function src_install, Line 56, Exitcode 2
This is not the real error. Please look a bit above
> > > hub.c: new USB device 00:02.0-2, assigned address 5
> > > usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
> > > usb.c: USB device not responding, giving up (error=-110)
> > > hub.c: new USB device 00:02.0-2, assigned address 6
> > > usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=6 (error=-110)
>
> IIRC you need t
> I need to reinstall my system but want to keep the
> downloaded files in the portage, so i don't have to
> donwload them again.
And your question is...?
If you're wanting to know what you need to back up, I'd say: backup
/usr/portage/distfiles/
The package list is also quite big, but doing a f
> hub.c: new USB device 00:02.0-2, assigned address 5
> usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
> usb.c: USB device not responding, giving up (error=-110)
> hub.c: new USB device 00:02.0-2, assigned address 6
> usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=6 (error=-110)
>
> Can someone give me a hand here?
I
> I have the pcmcia-cs installed for use with my orinoco
> wireless card. filled in the /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opt file
> for the base station
> created /etc/init.d/net.eth1 with depend pcmcia
> /etc/conf.d/net ad iface_eth1="dhcp"
> /etc/modules.autoload has pcmcia_core,i82365
> run rc-update add p
> I was thinking of installing Gentoo on my maching starting this
> afternoon. My machine in a PII400 with 512M RAM, ATI
> All-inWonder 128
> video, CD-RW, 48X CD, Iiyama 450. Would it be realistic if
> I started
> install (my first Gentoo install - currently dual-booting WinXP and
> Libranet 2.7
> Just finished setting up a wireless network at home but its
> much slower then
> the theoretical 11M. I have the two computers 25.4 cm (10
> inches) from each
> other and I get a rate of ~500K. The two computers are
> side-by-side and I am
> wondering if this might be a problem.
Are your sure th
> I'd like to ask the group a tentative and highly general
> fuzzy question about
> zeroconf and rendezvous. Not really a question, more of a
> 'what about this
> Rendezvous stuff, eh?':
Well, it seems neat. The main problem I see is an organisational one,
not a technological one. Jini is also q
> I was trying to setup my CDRW drive but I cannot. I had
> given to the kernel
> the needed SCSI support and installed cdrecord, mksifos and
> koncd. I was
> going to make my first cd compilation with koncd but the
> system doesn't
> recognise my CDRW, it says:
>
> Cannot open SCSI driver
>
> I have Mutt working (finally) with IMAP, but when changing
> to folders (my
> mailserver uses Postfix/Courier/procmail with Maildirs)
> messages only show
> for some folders... i.e.:
>
> root folder
> folder1
> (has messages)
> subfolder1
> (has messages)
> subfolder2
>
> But if I remove PCMCIA support, reboot (it doesn really
> matter, but still..),
> and build pcmcia-cs I get the pcmcia drivers but not the
> socket driver
> (yenta_socket) and can't load any of the pcmcia-cs drivers.
> I have checked
> that there is only a yenta.h header file in pcmcia-cs source
> Your kernel is configured with PCMCIA driver support. Therefore,
> 'make all' will compile the PCMCIA utilities but not the drivers.
>
> But if i don't build the kernel with General Setup -->
> PCMCIA/Cardbus Support:
> PCMCIA SUPPORT
> Cardbus support [*]
As far as I know
> I just finished rebuilding my machine and I repartitioned
> my box so that
> it looks like:
>
> /dev/hda1 = windows xp (ntfs)
> /dev/hda2 = linux swap
> /dev/hda3 = gentoo (ext3)
>
> no, I don't have a separate /boot partition. Anyway, I followed the
> installation instructions (excellent btw!)
> I am trying to install Genttoo (I am a gentoo virgin :-) on
> my laptop. WHen
> the livecd boots, I get the logo, but when the kernel
> starts loading, it gets
> just reboots the machine and dumps me back to the splash
> screen :-( Can
> anyone suggest a cure for my Gentoo bloos?
You can also us
> I am trying to install Genttoo (I am a gentoo virgin :-) on
> my laptop. WHen
> the livecd boots, I get the logo, but when the kernel
> starts loading, it gets
> just reboots the machine and dumps me back to the splash
> screen :-( Can
> anyone suggest a cure for my Gentoo bloos?
Before the kern
> I want to install Gentoo linux on my laptop but boot from
> livecd fails because my laptop dislike apic and it does'n
> work even if i pass 'noapic' to the kernel parms.
Try apic=off
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> I just checked the hardware time, and it is set just fine.
> So it is
> the software clock that is getting messed up. I tried a
> variation of
> what you said, only setting the system time from teh
> hardware clock then
> removing /etc/adjtime. Perhaps it might even be a window manager
> probl
> If you have a config file or two I can look at, that would be most
> helpful...
I will.
> right now I think I'm using my own net.wlan0
> script, because I
> have IPsec setup on my wireless network (which seems to
> work much better
> than WEP).
Most articles I read on wireless VPN suggest ssh+
Hi,
> You need to create yourself a net.wlan0 init script.
> Usually you can
> just copy net.eth0 and add "need pcmcia" to the depend() section.
I have a Linksys WPC11 up and running on my laptop. Unfortunately,
the laptop is at home, and I am at work... I removed all Wireless
support from the
> I've tried pretty much all of the boot parameters listing
> by pressing
> F2. I've tried nopcmcia, nousb, noapic, acpi=no, nonet, noscsi.
Isn't it acpi=off? I remember that the help text said acpi=no, but
that didn't work. (My Micron laptop does not like ACPI **at all**).
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> > I would of course prefer doing it the gentoo way.
>
> The LiveCD is just a means to an end. If Knoppix gets you
> to Step 6 in
> the install and the LiveCD doesn't, I say go with Knoppix.
I use the Gentoo 1.2 CD for those things. After it has booted your PC
you can remove it, unlike the 1.4
> I tried to update my nvidia-kernel and the whole thing
> bombed on tk.
> It built ok, but then I got this:
>
> strip:
> /var/tmp/portage/tk-8.3.4/image/usr/lib/libtk8.3.so
> /var/tmp/portage/tk-8.3.4/image/usr/bin/wish8.3
> >>> Completed installing into /var/tmp/portage/tk-8.3.4/image/
>
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