Re: [gentoo-user] Time issues

2005-04-05 Thread Jamie Dobbs
Greetings, My system seems to reset the system time to UTC each times I reboot. Is there anyway to fix this? Thanks. Philippe. I had the same issue and resolved it by editing /etc/conf.d/clock and ensuring that the lines CLOCK = local and CLOCK_SYSTOHC=yes are present. This ensures

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot get Parallel Port to work *RESOLVED*

2005-04-01 Thread Jamie Dobbs
After emerging kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r4 and compiling the parallel port now works and I can print successfully. Still having some issues getting some things I had working under the old kernel working under the new one (lmsensors), but I should get that sorted out shortly. Jamie Dobbs wrote: I've

Re: [gentoo-user] a closet server

2005-03-28 Thread Jamie Dobbs
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 19:21:33 -0800 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Where do you guys go when you want a barebones server for the closet? | I've built machines before but it seems like it might make more sense | to buy one these days. Pick up an old Sun workstation off ebay. An ultra2

Re: [gentoo-user] System Freeze

2005-02-09 Thread Jamie Dobbs
HI After About 10 min after Xscreensaver is launched my system freezes. Does anybody had this before? Yes, re-remerge xscreensaver and make sure you are running the correct opengl (if your card supports opengl). -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] What can I use to connect to a Microsoft VPN?

2005-01-20 Thread Jamie Dobbs
Work have the facility to VPN in to our LAN and I can do this from Windows, but have not yet been able to find an application to do this under Gentoo... can anyone help me out? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] How to list packages installed of a certain group?

2005-01-14 Thread Jamie Dobbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A couple of weeks ago I installed a whole heap of game packages and wrote down what I'd installed (as they didn't all seem to go into the X menu). I've since lost the piece of paper and can't remember what I installed. Is there a simple way to find

[gentoo-user] RDP Client for Gentoo?

2005-01-14 Thread Jamie Dobbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is there an RDP client for Gentoo that I can use to remote access a couple of Windows boxes? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

[gentoo-user] Need software to convert .wmv to MPEG

2005-01-08 Thread Jamie Dobbs
Is anyone aware of any software for Gentoo to allow the conversion of .wmv files to MPEG? Basically what I'd really like is something like the virtualdub (www.virtualdub.com) software available for Windows so that I can convert between various video formats. Cheers Jamie --

[gentoo-user] The only things keeping me using Windows

2005-01-08 Thread Jamie Dobbs
he only software keeping me using Windows is: DreamWeaver - I just love its ease of use and power. All the stuff from www.popcap.com as I love fun, quirky little games. Yes I guess I could play the flash versions of the games - is there any way these can be 'downloaded' so I don't have to be

[gentoo-user] Problems doing an 'emerge kde'

2004-01-22 Thread Jamie Dobbs
When trying to do an 'emerge kde' I get the following error when the package 'arts-1.1.5' tried to compile: snip checking for snprintf... yes checking if Qt compiles without flags... no checking if STL implementation is SGI like... no checking if STL implementation is HP like... no configure:

[gentoo-user] Problems with emerge gnome

2003-08-14 Thread Jamie Dobbs
I've got a fresh install of Gnome-1.4 (athlon-xp optimised) and am trying to install gnome. It just won't work and keep giving the following error when trying to install gnome-terminal, which is the first item it attempts to install. !!! ERROR: x11-terms/gnome-terminal-2.2.1 failed. !!! Function

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with emerge gnome

2003-08-14 Thread Jamie Dobbs
Thanks, I've filed a bug report (26591) , hopefully I've included enough information and there might be a fix one day soon. Yep, File a bug: http://bugs.gentoo.org/ Make sure to include -FAR- more of the compilation log than this. The error you reported only says that gnome-terminal

[gentoo-user] Problems installing Gentoo on Toshiba TE2100 Laptop

2003-06-27 Thread Jamie Dobbs
The install starts off well but sits at the 'CDIMAGE' bar for over 15 minutes before I give up hope and reboot the laptop. Is it worth me waiting longer or is there some trick to getting Gentoo 1.4rc4 to install on a laptop reliably? I should note that the install find the laptops NIC fine and

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems installing Gentoo on Toshiba TE2100Laptop

2003-06-27 Thread Jamie Dobbs
- From: Jamie Dobbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 6:12 AM Subject: [gentoo-user] Problems installing Gentoo on Toshiba TE2100 Laptop The install starts off well but sits at the 'CDIMAGE' bar for over 15 minutes before I give up hope and reboot

[gentoo-user] Problems installing grub on Toshiba TE2100

2003-06-27 Thread Jamie Dobbs
I am trying to install grub on this laptop and upon entering the command grub (after emerging it), I get the following errors: Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time. Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 6e695f6f printing eip: c0138d43 *pde =

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems installing grub on Toshiba TE2100

2003-06-27 Thread Jamie Dobbs
I ended up 'biting the bullet' and installing LILO - this time it worked like a charm, and I am currently emerging everything else to get this beastie up and running. Hopefully I'll have the laptop online within the next 12 hours or so. On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 16:04, Jamie Dobbs wrote: I am

Re: [gentoo-user] kde/gnome won't start with xfree 4.3.0-r3

2003-06-25 Thread Jamie Dobbs
In your home directory ( cd ~) execute the command: echo startkde .xinitrc (this will make X start KDE by default) Then startx and you should have KDE up and running ... assuming that it is installed. On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 06:10, Kees Bergwerf wrote: Try to start kde without the kdm or xdm,

[gentoo-user] Setting up a DHCP Server

2003-06-24 Thread Jamie Dobbs
I've been trying to set up one of my Gentoo boxes as a DHCP server, but I am not having a lot of success. It just doesn't want to give out addresses. Is there an easy step-by-step guide out there geared towards setting up a DHCP server using Gentoo? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a DHCP Server

2003-06-24 Thread Jamie Dobbs
On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 20:52, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: You could install Webmin its easy for configuration programs. Thanks, I have tried that but I am still no closer to getting the DHCP server to work. On 24 Jun 2003 20:35:57 +1200 Jamie Dobbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a DHCP Server

2003-06-24 Thread Jamie Dobbs
errors (but that could be because I don't know where to look!) but the machine just doesn't seem to want to give out addresses at all. Its almost as though the machine is blocking the DHCP requests before they get to the DHCP server daemon. On 24 Jun 2003 20:35:57 +1200 Jamie Dobbs [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a DHCP Server

2003-06-24 Thread Jamie Dobbs
:22 +1200 Jamie Dobbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 20:52, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: You could install Webmin its easy for configuration programs. I have tried Webmin, and manged to configure the server but it just doesn't seem to want to run. Installed DHCP via

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Setting up a DHCP Server

2003-06-24 Thread Jamie Dobbs
On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 21:17, Einar S. Idsø wrote: On 24 Jun 2003 21:05:22 +1200 Jamie Dobbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: doesn't seem to want to run. Installed DHCP via. emerge dhcp followed by an emerge dhcpd. Perhaps a stupid question, but you did do '/etc/init.d/dhcp start'? Yes, I did

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems getting Neverwinter Nights to run

2003-06-21 Thread Jamie Dobbs
Wenk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 20 June 2003 03:43 pm, Jamie Dobbs wrote: Have downloaded the Linux binaries, copied over the relevant windows files and when try to run nwn I get this error: ./nwn mcop warning: user defined signal handler found for SIG_PIPE, overriding

[gentoo-user] Resizing partitions

2003-06-21 Thread Jamie Dobbs
I have a slight problem in that I'd really like to be able to resize my / partition. The problem is that it is formatted as reiserfs so ParitionMagic won't handle it (unless there is a newer version that the one I have). At the moment I have got around the issue by creating /var /usr and /home

[gentoo-user] Problems getting Neverwinter Nights to run

2003-06-20 Thread Jamie Dobbs
Have downloaded the Linux binaries, copied over the relevant windows files and when try to run nwn I get this error: ./nwn mcop warning: user defined signal handler found for SIG_PIPE, overriding mcop warning: user defined signal handler found for SIG_PIPE, overriding Fatal signal: Segmentation

Re: [gentoo-user] fstab and win partiton

2003-06-20 Thread Jamie Dobbs
I had this exact problem and spent a long time searching out an answer, I eventually found to add a line like this: /dev/hda1 /mnt vfat rw,user,umask=000 The important thing here is the umask=000 which makes the mounted volume world writeable. HTH Jamie On Sat,

[gentoo-user] How can I automatically save attachments

2003-06-13 Thread Jamie Dobbs
I'm pretty sure that I have asked this before and been referred to the perfect script to handle it, but I can't find the original reply. I want to be able to have all attachments that come in to a certain email address be saved automatically (called via. procmail most likely) to a directory of my

Re: [gentoo-user] Samba

2003-06-07 Thread Jamie Dobbs
On Sat, 2003-06-07 at 09:34, Jamie Dobbs wrote: I have a bit of an odd Samba problem. I've got a Gentoo 1.4_rc4 box running CUPS and Samba sharing a printer on the network. I can print to it perfectly from my Gentoo box but Windows PCs (running W2K) cannot print to the printer in question

[gentoo-user] How to change Login prompt

2003-06-07 Thread Jamie Dobbs
How can I change my login prompt to display the 'terminal' (tty?) number in the prompt after the hostname? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Samba

2003-06-06 Thread Jamie Dobbs
I have a bit of an odd Samba problem. I've got a Gentoo 1.4_rc4 box running CUPS and Samba sharing a printer on the network. I can print to it perfectly from my Gentoo box but Windows PCs (running W2K) cannot print to the printer in question. The Windows boxes can get to a shared directory on the

Re: [gentoo-user] qpopper (again)

2003-06-05 Thread Jamie Dobbs
I got that sorted out - just had to add a '-p 2' to the runline for 'popper' to tell it to accept passwords in a secure format or cleartext. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Clear Screen

2003-06-05 Thread Jamie Dobbs
How can I make it so that whenever I log out of a console and return the the login prompt the screen clears ie. the login prompt is always at the top of a 'clear' screen. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] How to set up a mail server

2003-06-05 Thread Jamie Dobbs
Hi have several POP accounts that I want to check/fetch using getmail (which I believe to be more reliable than fetchmail), then be able to check those accounts by POPing into the server that I have downloaded them to. I have managed to get getmail installed and working (putting retrieved emails

Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia Drivers

2003-06-03 Thread Jamie Dobbs
On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 10:19, Michael Rasile wrote: On Mon Jun 02, 2003 at 09:38:18PM + or thereabouts, --[ UxBoD ]-- wrote: Why didn't you use the one in portage? what changes did you make in your XF86Config file? -- --[ UxBoD ]-- GPGKID [402E340E] [182C F930 C7E4 CA70 A202

Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia Drivers

2003-06-03 Thread Jamie Dobbs
Are you using the driver from Nvidia site? It's one file and needs to be made executable. After doing this, from a console (can't install this driver while in X) you simply type ./Name of driver and everything should be taken care of. It will not find a module in the kernel for this

Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia Drivers

2003-06-03 Thread Jamie Dobbs
On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 11:33, Michael Rasile wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list HMMM...Well, if you are using Gentoo (:-)) then you have the kernel source and the header files. What flavor of kernel are you using. This should not make a difference, though. I'm using gentoo-sources and I

Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia Drivers

2003-06-03 Thread Jamie Dobbs
On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 15:22, Jamie Dobbs wrote: Are you using the driver from Nvidia site? It's one file and needs to be made executable. After doing this, from a console (can't install this driver while in X) you simply type ./Name of driver and everything should be taken care