[gentoo-user] MIDI and Gentoo?

2005-02-02 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Hello all. I had asked about MIDI on Gentoo a while back and got some good advice. I've since tried to set up a *really* old MIDI device with horrific results. Bummer. I'm wondering if anything uses Gentoo and MIDI together at all? If so, could you please send me some details about

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting a Network Drive

2005-01-25 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Thanks Mike. I changed around a few things, but still am unable to get a response out of 'exportfs'. Here is my /etc/export (changed slightly to match yours): /export01 linna(rw,sync,no_root_squash) Here is the output of 'rc-udpate -s' (to point out where nfs and portmap are):

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting a Network Drive

2005-01-25 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Chris Boot wrote: Oops! Sorry! Didn't completely read your message! I see you've started portmap and nfs, I'll shut up now. :-P That's okay... something else you said in there fixed the problem. I'm just going to hang my head in shame and back into the corner because it is the absolute

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting a Network Drive

2005-01-25 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Mike Noble wrote: Ok what did you do, I'm sure we would all like to know, this way we will think of it for others. It was... um... well... I had created /etc/export and had been modifying that. I had been hitting auto-complete since then so I just kept editing the same file instead of actually

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting a Network Drive

2005-01-23 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Mike Noble wrote: Just a thought, do you have tcpd added to your USE flags? No. It is not. If you have not done so you need to enable NFS support in the kernel. I have both NFS file system support and NFS server support selected in both kernels. Make sure that you have portmap and nfs

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting a Network Drive

2005-01-22 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Thanks Mike, I ran through the list of commands you sent, on both the client and server, and added the following to /etc/export: /export01 * (rw,sync) Then I hop back onto the client and run the following command, and get the following error: linna nick # mount -t nfs sylia:/export01

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting a Network Drive

2005-01-22 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Chris Boot wrote: If I'm not mistaken you don't want a space between the * and (: Thanks Chris, gave that a shot and reran 'exportfs -a' (just to be sure). No joy. :( I still get the Permission denied error. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Mounting a Network Drive

2005-01-21 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Hello all. I'm trying to set up my first network drive mount. I am using the following mount string, and receiving the error below it: mount -t nfs sylia:/export01 /mnt/export01 mount: RPC: Remote system error - Connection refused What do I need to emerge on my client and server,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SpamAssassin failing after update!

2005-01-20 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Francesco Talamona wrote: On Wednesday 19 January 2005 19:48, Nicholas Pappas wrote: Thanks Nick. I checked out the site and ran a few of the fixes it talks about, but they didn't seem to work. I even want as far as to delete my entire '.spamassassin' directory to make sure I had no out of date

Re: [gentoo-user] SpamAssassin failing after update!

2005-01-19 Thread Nicholas Pappas
(no errors) but that night at midnight my cron spit out the same error. :( Does anyone know what I might be missing here? Thanks for any help! Nick Rout wrote: take a look here: http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/BayesUpgradeError On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 10:46 -0500, Nicholas Pappas wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] Binary Package Repository?

2005-01-16 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Gregory P. Smith wrote: For people who want binary packages on an up to date distro i highly recommend Ubuntu. I actually just got done re-installing Gentoo after trying to get Ubuntu installed. The current 4.10 release installer locks up when it tries to load the SATA 'sd_mod' modules, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing /dev files (bug 40987) question.

2005-01-16 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Tom Wesley wrote: If it's not causing you any problems then you should probably ignore it for now. Thanks Tom! I haven't seen any issues thus far, so I think I'll let it be for now. :) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] New Install Trouble w/ Boot and GCC Update

2005-01-15 Thread Nicholas Pappas
I just got done installing Gentoo on my main box after looking at a different distro (which couldn't pick up my SATA drive). So I installed everything last night, but have run into two problems with the new install. The first problem (or issue) is when I boot the system, I do not see the

Re: [gentoo-user] New Install Trouble w/ Boot and GCC Update

2005-01-15 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Peng wrote: On 01/15/05 15:55, Nicholas Pappas wrote: I just got done installing Gentoo on my main box after looking at a different distro (which couldn't pick up my SATA drive). Just curious... What distro was it? Ubuntu. Heard some good things about it, so I thought I would give

Re: [gentoo-user] New Install Trouble w/ Boot and GCC Update

2005-01-15 Thread Nicholas Pappas
It is not just the OKs that are missing -- it is the entire line that would normally display the OKs. I'm using the same monitor (it is LCD) as I was using in my past install, but always received those lines in the past. When booting, I see that weird warning towards the end. Here are the

Re: [gentoo-user] New Install Trouble w/ Boot and GCC Update

2005-01-15 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Jadex wrote: That Warning: unable to open initial console seems awfully fishy to Seems to me that somethings wrong with your inittab... Okay -- someplace to start looking. I'm in the middle of an '--update world' on the box in question, so I will have to wait to look at it. Is there anything

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc-3.3.5-r1 compile error

2005-01-15 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Yup. I just put a fresh install of Gentoo on my main box and got this when I did an update world. I fixed it by added ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 into the mix -- I have other packages that require this as well, so I got out the easy way. :) Ovidiu Bivolaru wrote: Is anybody seeing this ? creating

[gentoo-user] Why is Gnome emerging QT and KDE?

2005-01-15 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Hello all. I'm waiting for the Gnome emerge to complete on a new install, and noticed that the emerge is currently compiling QT -- and hade KDE-BASE and ARTS in the wings. I have -kde -qt in the USE varaible. Why is portage wanting to install these for Gnome? Nick --

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is Gnome emerging QT and KDE?

2005-01-15 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Thanks Holly. -arts fixed it. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Nautilus Compile Error

2005-01-15 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Hello all. Still moving forward on a new install here. Ran into another error while compiling Nautilus. nautilus-printers.c:857: error: too few arguments to function 'gnome_cups_ui_init' make[3]: *** [nautilus-printers.lo] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory '/var/tmp/portage... blah,

Re: [gentoo-user] Nautilus Compile Error

2005-01-15 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Jadex wrote: which nautilus nautilus-2.8.2 I temporarily fixed it by running 'USE=-cups emerge gnome' -- things are moving forward. However, I need to get cups support back into the mix of things so I can print to my networked printers. Thanks for the help! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] AC97 Onboard Audio Driver?

2005-01-14 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Thanks for the help all! I've got sound again -- woo-hoo! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] AC97 Onboard Audio Driver?

2005-01-14 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Thanks Christoph. I understand the basics of how the sound system works, and I did see that video before (very well done) when I was working to get MIDI working w/ my old card. My trouble is that I didn't alter anything beyond the driver being used in the kernel (at least, to my

Re: [gentoo-user] Binary Package Repository?

2005-01-13 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Martoni wrote: I am sorry - but these threads almost get me into flame war mode. What you are saying is I like Gentoo - but I don't like Gentoo. It makes no sense what so ever. Since I never said that, I'm not sure why you are having trouble with flame war mode. I said I liked Gentoo. I said,

[gentoo-user] [OT] Microsoft Anti-Spyware Program

2005-01-13 Thread Nicholas Pappas
I found this on the Ubuntu forum, thought it was most amusing: http://www.rightstep.org/images/antispywareresultsdetai1.gif -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] AC97 Onboard Audio Driver?

2005-01-13 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Hello all. I just removed my PCI sound card, deciding to give my onboard sound card a try. I look through the kernel setup though and can't seem to find anything mentioning AC97 (which is what the bios indicates the chipset is). What can I use in the kernel to use this onboard card?

[gentoo-user] SpamAssassin failing after update!

2005-01-12 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Ack! Please help! SpamAssassin, on my mail server, seems to no longer be working and the spam is starting to break through! The pain! After a recent 'emerge --update world' I start receiving this message every night after my 'sa-learn' cron entry runs: bayes: bayes db version 0

[gentoo-user] Binary Package Repository?

2005-01-12 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Hello all. I'm having a crisis of conscious at the moment. I've been using Gentoo for a while and I really like it, but the simple truth is I don't need the granularity that compiling the source for each update provides. That, and I don't fool myself into pretending I know enough to

[gentoo-user] PERL CPAN Modules and Emerge

2003-09-04 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Hi all. I am trying to install a few CPAN modules for PERL. I found one, Time::HiRes, in the portage source tree, but I need to install another that I can't find in the tree -- C::DynaLib. Am I just overlooking this, or should I just install this outside of portage. Thanks! -- [EMAIL

[gentoo-user] Perl C::DynaLib Question

2003-09-04 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Has anyone worked with the C::DynaLib module in PERL, on Gentoo? If so, how did you install it? I've tried emerage (but not in the portage tree), the cpan install program, and a manual install too. On the last two I get a compile error. Anyone able to get this compile correctly? -- [EMAIL

[gentoo-user] Add a window manager to KDM

2003-09-02 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Can anyone point me to a site (or go over the steps) showing how to add a new window manager to the KDE login manager? Specifically, I am looking to add WindowMaker. I found a brief writeup on the KDE site, but it gave a few example and I wasn't sure which one to use with Gentoo. Any help

[gentoo-user] X11 Aspect Ratios

2003-09-02 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Hello all. This is certainly much more of a X11 question then it is a Gentoo question, so appologies for the off topic, but I figured somewhere here would probably know. I have Gentoo installed on a laptop. I have a monitor with 2 inputs, which would allow me to hook

[gentoo-user] Where is sshd?

2003-09-01 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Hello all. At the risk of show off my extreme newbie status -- where can I locate sshd on Gentoo? I can ssh out of my system, but I need to get it too! :) Thank you! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Improper Shutdown - Newbie Question

2003-08-28 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Hi all. So... I *finally* get my first Gentoo build working, get XFree86 installed (after 8+ hours of compiling) and *BAM* my laptop dies. So now I get errors when I boot my computer. Coming from the world of RedHat, where it handles these things and lets you repair them during boot, I am

[gentoo-user] Install Help - Gentoo Load Fails at modules.conf.

2003-08-27 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Hello all. I've felt my way through the install process for Gentoo for my first time and everything seemed to work out... but I seem to have missed something, somewhere. :( When the OS attempts to load, I get an error when trying to mount the filesystem. The system can not find

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Help - Gentoo Load Fails at modules.conf.

2003-08-27 Thread Nicholas Pappas
HA! Thanks Christopher. d'oh I believe is the proper response to this. Changed everything else in fstab, but not that. :) Mike, thank you also for the help! Christopher Egner wrote: On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 09:33, Nicholas Pappas wrote: Warning... fsck.reiserfs for device /dev/ROOT

[gentoo-user] First Gentoo Install - Z505 Laptop

2003-08-26 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Hello all. Just started working with Gentoo today and already screwed up once. Meh -- no biggy, I'll just be sure to check everything twice next time around. But this has given me a chance to pause and see if anyone has installed Gentoo on a Sony Z505RX laptop before. For the most part,

[gentoo-user] Step 10. Setting Gentoo optimizations (make.conf) - Install Help

2003-08-26 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Hi all. This is my first attempt at installing Gentoo, and I've run into a problem during the install. The problem is that I'm just not sure how to go forward when told to modify the USE flags in make.conf. I'm coming from the world of RedHat here, so I'm used to having my hand held all