Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie install.

2004-01-13 Thread Steve Withers
but it's (relative) difficulty is part of the funand you learn a *LOT* along the way - especially if you stop at each main item and investigate the how and why of it. -- Steve Withers -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie install.

2004-01-13 Thread Steve Withers
On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 10:21, Hoyt Bailey wrote: Checked the instructions and didnt find anything about cd image. What am I supposed to tell the system? It's there. Maybe you didn't understand it. As far as I can tell everything that I was concerned about was detected and I should be ok

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing from Debian without wiping disks?

2003-12-31 Thread Steve Withers
have an ADSL at my fingertips and a local cache of the gentoo stuff at the other end of it (local on my ISP, I mean, so its not byte-charged to use it). Is it possible? Probablybut CD-R drives are under $100.maybe cheaper than the data volume you will likely use. -- Steve Withers

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.4.20-gentoo-r9 has issues (?)

2003-12-09 Thread Steve Withers
' on the kernel statement in grub. No good. I powered off the scanner.No good. I removed the HD and put my old drive back in with it's existing system. I'll try again tomorrow. -- Steve Withers [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Gentoo - How to install DeCSS?

2003-11-20 Thread Steve Withers
I tried 'emerge decss' and it doesn't exist. Have I got the package name wrong? -- Steve Withers [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo - How to install DeCSS?

2003-11-20 Thread Steve Withers
it probably doesn't matter Right? :-) -- Steve Withers [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] What messed with my make.conf?

2003-11-20 Thread Steve Withers
I've been steadily adding value to my USE= list..and was surprised today to find that it now has only dvd gtk2...and all the rest are gone. Is this a sign of a badly composed package? I wish I had a backup of my make.conf.. Now I know better. -- Steve Withers [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] What messed with my make.conf?

2003-11-20 Thread Steve Withers
On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 18:28, Ernie Schroder wrote: On Thursday 20 November 2003 08:35 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Withers wrote: I've been steadily adding value to my USE= list..and was surprised today to find that it now has only dvd gtk2...and all the rest are gone

[gentoo-user] /dev/dvd on Gentoo?

2003-11-19 Thread Steve Withers
into that and make a mess of things. I was thinking of installing autofs...Good idea? -- Steve Withers [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Gentoo SLOW with Seti@home

2003-11-17 Thread Steve Withers
, I found a root session was running nano - at 50% CPU - continuously. This session would have survived at least 3 reboots. This system is behind my firewall and I have no reason to think it has been hacked.and why would nano be using 50% of the CPU anyway? -- Steve Withers [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo SLOW with Seti@home

2003-11-17 Thread Steve Withers
it. But when cycled through the various terminals, I was not connected to any login session.whatever it was, was running in the background. Do I have a clue how? Nope, not one. Does it show up in a ps after a reboot? Or if you check periodically? I will. :-) -- Steve Withers [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] Is some script automatical run nano? [was Gentoo SLOW with Seti@home]

2003-11-17 Thread Steve Withers
It may have been my own faultI'm not sure. But I did not understand why this root session running nano was no longer connected to a console. I did kill it and it has not come back in 24 hours. -- Steve Withers [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] fluxbox (was: sluggish system)

2003-11-17 Thread Steve Withers
other older systems to fluxbox. -- Steve Withers [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] emerge SUNK!!!

2003-11-11 Thread Steve Withers
the latter. -- Steve Withers [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Crossover Plugin was: Netscape-Navigator - emerge or download

2003-11-10 Thread Steve Withers
and I leave it alone. -- Steve Withers [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Netscape-Navigator - emerge or download

2003-11-10 Thread Steve Withers
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 07:33, Manuel McLure wrote: Is there a specific media type you're interested in? I find the gxine plugin to work great for almost all media... I don't really find a need for plugger anymore. How about Quicktime? *.mov -- Steve Withers [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for gentoo for dummies

2003-11-09 Thread Steve Withers
that philosophy by learning a little more every day - or weekand slowly getting to place where I know a lot. I try to be like the drops of water eventually wearing away the stone So whichever way you go, stick with itand remember Rome wasn't built in a day. -- Steve Withers [EMAIL PROTECTED

[gentoo-user] Help! Video4Linux / XawTV

2003-11-08 Thread Steve Withers
my TV Card. so it's sorta irrelevant. :-( -- Steve Withers [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Help! Video4Linux / XawTV

2003-11-08 Thread Steve Withers
On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 15:12, Florian Schneider wrote: Am Sonntag, 09. November 2003 02:13 schrieb Steve Withers: I'm getting a bit frustrated here. Gentoo 1.4 and kernel-2.4.20-gentoo-r8 I've re-compiled the kernel with Video4Linux and I2C supportincluding the Bt848 driver

Re: [gentoo-user] boot: eth0 init failure

2003-11-08 Thread Steve Withers
an emerge of nforce-net after the kernel gen. It worked even though I was not connected (for obvious reasons). -- Steve Withers [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] wine warcraft 3

2003-11-06 Thread Steve Withers
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Re: [gentoo-user] Recompiled kernel - How do i get nvidia eth0 support back?

2003-11-05 Thread Steve Withers
sophisticated than a directory listing? I'll check the docs. -- Steve Withers [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] KDE and Gnome

2003-11-05 Thread Steve Withers
Can I install both of these without messing my system up? I already have KDE installed. But I would also like to be able to run Gnome applicationsbut keep KDE as my main window manager. Gentoo is the first distro where I've had to even think about it. :-) -- Steve Withers [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and Gnome

2003-11-05 Thread Steve Withers
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 00:48, Mike Williams wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 05 November 2003 11:47, Steve Withers wrote: Can I install both of these without messing my system up? I already have KDE installed. But I would also like to be able to run

[gentoo-user] Kernel 2.4.20-gentoo-r8 - Where is bttv?

2003-11-05 Thread Steve Withers
(it was turned off before)..but still no bttv.anywhere. Where is it? I'm almost to the point where I'm going to go download a tarball. :-) kernel is 2.4.20-gentoo-r8 -- Steve Withers [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.4.20-gentoo-r8 - Where is bttv?

2003-11-05 Thread Steve Withers
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 14:02, Jayson Garrell wrote: On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 05:57, Steve Withers wrote: I can't get my tv card (Askey-based CPH03x card) going. I've run 'make menuconfig' and looked under multimedia - Video4Linux and there is no bttv reference there as suggested

[gentoo-user] Video 4 Linux in kernel?

2003-11-04 Thread Steve Withers
all assume a specific starting point - which I'm not at - and I'm having trouble working out exactly where I am and which way to go. Mythtv installed perfectly and runs great - except for the lack of a video capture device defined on the system to point it at. :-) -- Steve Withers [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Video 4 Linux in kernel?

2003-11-04 Thread Steve Withers
-building now. Fingers crossed. -- Steve Withers [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Recompiled kernel - How do i get nvidia eth0 support back?

2003-11-04 Thread Steve Withers
if you're well rested and time is not a problem. -- Steve Withers [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list