Re: [gentoo-user] X server - no screens found

2003-11-11 Thread downtime null
first of all, please use text only. many of us use MUAs that don't support HTML formatted emails. i've been having the same problem. i don't remember when exactly it started happening tho. i just remember rebooting one time and not being able to get back into X. my temporary fix was to add a

Re: [gentoo-user] X server - no screens found

2003-11-11 Thread downtime null
ah. i assumed incorrectly! ha! i've been having trouble getting the drivers from nvidia to work, so i thought his problem was specific to the driver not working correctly. oh well. so, i've been having trouble getting the 'nvidia' driver to work. X returns '(EE) No screens found' (or something

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X server - no screens found

2003-11-11 Thread downtime null
: downtime null [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i've been having trouble getting the drivers from nvidia to work, so i thought his problem was specific to the driver not working correctly. oh well. so, i've been having trouble getting the 'nvidia' driver to work. X returns '(EE

[gentoo-user] can't start X after hard reboot

2003-10-14 Thread downtime null
I was just running 'emerge -U world' on my system and the system locked part way thru the update. I hard reset my system and now I can't start X. I normally use KDM, but plain old 'startx' doesn't work either. The error message that I get when I try 'startx' is : XFree86 Version 4.3.0 Release

Re: [gentoo-user] can't start X after hard reboot

2003-10-14 Thread downtime null
i didn't notice what was being updated when i had to force reboot as i wasn't expecting any problems. here's the log file : XFree86 Version 4.3.0 Release Date: 27 February 2003 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6 Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.21 i686 [ELF] Build Date: 14 October

Re: [gentoo-user] can't start X after hard reboot

2003-10-14 Thread downtime null
-0500, downtime null wrote: as near as i can tell, gnome-vfs was compiling when the system froze and i had to reboot. i don't think that would affect KDE, X or KDM though. On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 06:52:21PM -0400, Ernie Schroder wrote: On Tuesday 14 October 2003 06:38 pm, downtime null wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] please help! [was: glibc 2.3 won't compile]

2003-09-02 Thread downtime null
:12:00AM -0300, Norberto BENSA wrote: Content-Description: signed data downtime null wrote: does any one have any ideas on how i can fix this without reinstallation. i also tried running ldconfig and recompiling. same error. Hmmm... I would 'emerge -b glibc' on a spare box and them 'emerge

[gentoo-user] please help! [was: glibc 2.3 won't compile]

2003-08-31 Thread downtime null
? On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 10:27:12AM -0500, downtime null wrote: okay. i did kindof a stupid thing. i downloaded the binary version of kmud and attempted to install it to /usr/local by copying the in the lib, bin and share dirs in the package directory to their respective locations in /usr/local

[gentoo-user] iptables 1.2.8 problem

2003-08-19 Thread downtime null
apparently iptables was upgraded in my last 'emerge -u world' or something. anyway, something has changed and a command that used to work doesn't now. the command was : # iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -j SNAT -o eth0 --to 10.1.0.27 now it says iptables: Invalid argument so i discovered that

Re: [gentoo-user] iptables 1.2.8 problem

2003-08-19 Thread downtime null
i emerged iptables again ('emerge -p iptabes' showed that it was't installed), mv the new init script over and restarted it. i'm still getting the same error. then, on kind of a fluke, i added the path to the executable on the command line, and it accepts the command. go figure. I read this

[gentoo-user] itcl and itkwish

2003-08-14 Thread downtime null
i'm trying to get a MUD client that requires itcl/itk to compile. i merged itcl (which includes itk), but itkwish is nowhere to be found. the program (SMM++) needs itkwish. why isn't it being compiled and installed with itcl? i can't find a configure switch or anything to get it installed. it

Re: [gentoo-user] mysql 4.x

2003-08-14 Thread downtime null
, gabriel wrote: On August 6, 2003 11:20 pm, downtime null wrote: when i recently ran 'emerge -U world', mysql was upgraded to 4.0 which i'm happy about. the only problem is that it won't start and it won't stop. when i run '/etc/init.d/mysql start' it says that it's already running, but when

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge php not working

2003-08-14 Thread downtime null
17:59:34 -0500 downtime null [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i'm trying to upgrade php and get a compile error when i try. libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-pc-linux-gnu/3.2.2/libstdc++.la' make: *** [sapi/cli/php] Error 1 !!! ERROR: dev-php/php

[gentoo-user] mysql 4.x

2003-08-07 Thread downtime null
when i recently ran 'emerge -U world', mysql was upgraded to 4.0 which i'm happy about. the only problem is that it won't start and it won't stop. when i run '/etc/init.d/mysql start' it says that it's already running, but when i run '/etc/init.d/mysql stop' it says '[!!]'. and there is never any

[gentoo-user] patching source

2003-08-05 Thread downtime null
is it possible to download an ebuild package, patch the source, then build the package? what i'm wanting to do is add the sidebar patch for mutt... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] emerge php not working

2003-08-04 Thread downtime null
i'm trying to upgrade php and get a compile error when i try. libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-pc-linux-gnu/3.2.2/libstdc++.la' make: *** [sapi/cli/php] Error 1 !!! ERROR: dev-php/php-4.3.2-r2 failed. !!! Function php_src_compile, Line 390, Exitcode 2 !!! compile

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge php not working

2003-08-04 Thread downtime null
... [ ok ] On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 17:59:34 -0500 downtime null [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i'm trying to upgrade php and get a compile error when i try. libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-pc-linux-gnu/3.2.2/libstdc++.la' make: *** [sapi/cli/php] Error 1

[gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.0-test1 and NVidia

2003-07-22 Thread downtime null
i'm trying to get the 2.6.0-test1 kernel running on my box (which compiles, installs and boots), but i can't get the NVidia drivers to install. it gives a lot of errors then quits. i also tried installing with ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 and i made sure that /usr/src/linux points to

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer stalling after a second

2003-07-15 Thread downtime null
do you have XMMS running? On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 01:33:23PM +0200, Henti Smith wrote: hi all I have a problem with maplayer lately. It used to work fine, but now when I try to play a file it playes for a second then stops. I can forward and reverse fine and it playes for a second then

Re: [gentoo-user] gd and php

2003-07-11 Thread downtime null
-0500, downtime null wrote: how do i enable GD in PHP 4.3.2? i tried '--with-gd' in the myconf var in the ebuild file. as it turns out, it's not even a valid option. only '--without-gd' is valid! so i tried putting 'gd' in the USE variable. still doesn't show up in phpinfo(). ACCEPT_KEYWORDS

Re: [gentoo-user] gd and php

2003-07-11 Thread downtime null
+jpeg -ldap -mcal +mysql +nls -oci8 -odbc +pam +pdflib -memlimit +png -postgres +qt -snmp +spell +ssl +tiff +truetype +xml2 +readline On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 11:41:59AM -0500, downtime null wrote: okay. now when i try to load a php document in my web browser it asks if i would like to save

Re: [gentoo-user] gd and php

2003-07-11 Thread downtime null
that mod_php is not processing the page, check that you have -D PHP4 in your /etc/conf.d/apache[2] file. It could also be that he's NOT loading the file through the webserver. Downtime Null: You have to load it through the webserver, otherwise the php stuff won't be parse and evaluated. So

[gentoo-user] configure options and emerge

2003-07-10 Thread downtime null
is there a way to pass specific 'configure' options to a compile with emerge? for instance './configure --with-gd' for php. editing a file would be an acceptable solution, i just don't know which file i would need to edit. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] gd and php

2003-07-10 Thread downtime null
how do i enable GD in PHP 4.3.2? i tried '--with-gd' in the myconf var in the ebuild file. as it turns out, it's not even a valid option. only '--without-gd' is valid! so i tried putting 'gd' in the USE variable. still doesn't show up in phpinfo(). any ideas? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] BLANK screen while BOOTING but KDE works FINE with NO mouse !!!!

2003-07-08 Thread downtime null
no. because 791 is the decimal mode number. 0x317 would be the hex equivalent. take a look at /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 02:55:53PM -0400, Prabhat Gupta wrote: I think I have the first two in my kernel config. Also in have vga=791 in my

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.5.x Mini-Kernel-Howto [was: kerenl 2.5.74 fails to boot]

2003-07-08 Thread downtime null
i'm having trouble getting iptables to merge. i have all the ipv4 stuff compiled and installed as modules. do i need to load some modules before trying to merge? it gives me the error : make: *** [extensions/libipt_physdev_sh.o] Error 1 !!! ERROR: net-firewall/iptables-1.2.8-r1 failed. !!!

Re: [gentoo-user] BLANK screen while BOOTING but KDE works FINE with NO mouse !!!!

2003-07-08 Thread downtime null
i have all 3 of those in my .config and i still get a black screen when i pass 'vga=791' to the kernel. i can use 'vga=ask' and pick one and that works fine (but no little tux :( ). i know that these are really to different modes, but i can't understand why one works and the other doesn't. i

[gentoo-user] emerged xchat and gkrellm

2003-06-26 Thread downtime null
i emerged a couple of apps that i really liked from when i was using redhat, but now i can't find them. the only 'xchat' anything that i can find is xchat-text-2. this is supposed to be a GUI IRC client, but xchat-text-2 is some weird perl script. and after i installed gkrellm, the only gkrellm i

Re: [gentoo-user] emerged xchat and gkrellm

2003-06-26 Thread downtime null
26, 2003 at 09:22:49PM -0500, Andrew J wrote: downtime null wrote: i emerged a couple of apps that i really liked from when i was using redhat, but now i can't find them. the only 'xchat' anything that i can find is xchat-text-2. this is supposed to be a GUI IRC client, but xchat-text-2

Re: [gentoo-user] emerged xchat and gkrellm

2003-06-26 Thread downtime null
okay. i just reinstalled with USE=, and they both work. On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 11:19:03PM -0400, Chris I wrote: On 2003.06.26 22:39, downtime null wrote: so is +gtk required in the USE variable to get the GUI client? and what about gkrellm. i have the 2.1.10 version installed

Re: [gentoo-user] truetype fonts and X

2003-06-22 Thread downtime null
this has worked very well for me. http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/TT-XFree86.html On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 07:33:03PM -0700, G?zim Hoxha wrote: Hi again, I was gonna do a simple wallpaper in THE GIMP, but then I realized I needed some fonts--truetype of course. I had some in my ~ so I

[gentoo-user] Zope initial login

2003-06-20 Thread downtime null
i just emerged Zope and it's not allowing me to login. i tried the generated first login and i changed it with zpasswd.py, neither worked. has anyone else had this problem or know why it might be doing this? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Approach to Massive Download (NWN Linux Client)

2003-06-20 Thread downtime null
i wonder why ravage took the 3rd party installer that he wrote down... it just extracted everything from the cds. On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 08:26:01AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: G'day list, I was just looking into what's needed to run the complete Linux Neverwinter Nights client, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Approach to Massive Download (NWN Linux Client)

2003-06-20 Thread downtime null
that. Bioware had an explaination on their site not too long ago. On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 10:47:02AM +, downtime null wrote: i wonder why ravage took the 3rd party installer that he wrote down... it just extracted everything from the cds. On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 08:26:01AM -0700, [EMAIL

[gentoo-user] timezone offset

2003-06-20 Thread downtime null
some of you may have noticed that my emails keep coming from the past... i'm sorry. i don't mean to do it, but i can't figure out how to set the timezone offset (i'm GMT -6:00). my timestamps are showing GMT 0:00. can someone tell me how to set this? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] timezone offset

2003-06-20 Thread downtime null
i guess i missed that step. oh well. it's done now. On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 09:45:14PM +0200, Maciej Wachowiec wrote: On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 02:29:55PM +, downtime null wrote: some of you may have noticed that my emails keep coming from the past... i'm sorry. i don't mean to do

Re: [gentoo-user] timezone offset

2003-06-20 Thread downtime null
okay... _now_ it's fixed. On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 05:22:29PM +, downtime null wrote: i guess i missed that step. oh well. it's done now. On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 09:45:14PM +0200, Maciej Wachowiec wrote: On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 02:29:55PM +, downtime null wrote: some of you may

[gentoo-user] Apache and PHP

2003-06-19 Thread downtime null
i'm having trouble getting Apache working with PHP. a can start Apache and connect just fine as long as PHP is not loaded. if i then do : # export APACHE_OPTS='-D PHP4' /etc/init.d/apache restart apache doesn't bind to port 80. it doesn't appear to bind to anything, and it doesn't appear to even