Re: [gentoo-user] I finally have sound!....but now stop the madness.

2003-03-15 Thread Arnold Krille
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sorry, had to answer: On Saturday 15 March 2003 04:11, Nicholas Hockey wrote: oh and all of you can flame me if you like but i will never like that bloated, non-standard, annoying, breaks at random for no apparent reason, ugly (if i wanted a

Re: [gentoo-user] I finally have sound!....but now stop the madness.

2003-03-15 Thread Arnold Krille
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Two fast solutions (I know its too late): Control Center - Sound Multimedia - System Notifications - More Options - - Check Apply to all applications - Turn off all Sounds. Even faster (assuming you have the special menu Preferences inside your

Re: [gentoo-user] Maildrop problem :(

2003-03-15 Thread Helder Miguel Rodrigues
xpto cur # cat 1047722943.770_260680.xpto.frew.org:2, | maildrop -V9 -d [EMAIL PROTECTED] (..) Matched 18 characters. .mailfilter(4): Search of ^To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] = 1 .mailfilter(4): IF evaluated, result=1 maildrop: Delivering to Maildir/.teste/ maildrop: Unable to create a dot-lock.

[gentoo-user] Error emerging gvim

2003-03-15 Thread romildo
Hello. I am having errors when emerging gvim: # emerge --buildpkg --usepkg -uv gvim Calculating dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 1) app-editors/gvim-6.1-r7 to / [...] gcc -L/usr/X11R6/lib -rdynamic -L/usr/local/lib -o gvim objects/buffer.o objects/charset.o objects/diff.o

[gentoo-user] queue overflow

2003-03-15 Thread Peter Ruskin
Anyone know why I keep seeing this in /var/log/kern.log? Mar 14 12:49:20 penguin kernel: w: dropping a message Mar 14 12:49:20 penguin kernel: _M_str_putnext: queue overflow: dropping a message Mar 14 12:49:20 penguin last message repeated 74 times Often when I issue the `dmesg` command its

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo as a firewall/router

2003-03-15 Thread Matt Tucker
-- Andrew Gaffney [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thusly: Matt Tucker wrote: as far as I can tell, emerge doesn't give the option to build a package without installing it. -B Nice. Thanks. Perhaps it should be added to the documentation. From emerge --help: snip Ah, I see. [502]

Re: [gentoo-user] can't locate module /dev/ttyp0

2003-03-15 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Saturday 15 Mar 2003 03:55, Martin Schlemmer wrote: On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 14:50:08 +0100 Tim Ruehsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I got this message while booting and don't know how to solve it: ... * Cleaning /tmp directory ... [ok] modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module

Re: [gentoo-user] I finally have sound!....but now stop themadness.

2003-03-15 Thread Alexander Futasz
On Sat, 15 Mar 2003 01:44:21 -0300, Norberto BENSA wrote: [kde] well, my solution would be, remove that bloated annoying piece of crap. and install a simple window manager =) Bah, just remove the stupid window manager!! Who needs one? X is bloated. Real *nix admins do not use WMs ;-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo as a firewall/router

2003-03-15 Thread Alexander Futasz
On Sat, 15 Mar 2003 04:09:22 -0800, Matt Tucker wrote: When I want to know about command-line options, I generally check --help and then read the man page if I can't find what I want. With emerge, however, I've never really bothered with --help because the output is so damned long. Isn't that

Re: [gentoo-user] Mirrorselect gone batty?

2003-03-15 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Saturday 15 March 2003 06:46 am, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I started with stage 1, emerged through stage 3 and then merged mirrorselect. I did mirrorselect -i and got errors about regular expression and then found my make.conf had Gentomirrors= followed by a bunch of ascii codes that are used

[gentoo-user] Portage question

2003-03-15 Thread Renat Golubchyk
Hi! Since English is not my native language I was wondering how do you pronounce Portage. With two stresses like two different words port age or with one stress like in sausage? Just curious ;-) Maybe we need an audio version from Daniel Robbins with Hello, I'm Daniel Robbins and I pronounce

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage question

2003-03-15 Thread Don Smith
Renat Golubchyk wrote: Hi! Since English is not my native language I was wondering how do you pronounce Portage. With two stresses like two different words port age or with one stress like in sausage? Just curious ;-) Maybe we need an audio version from Daniel Robbins with Hello, I'm Daniel

Re: [gentoo-user] Mirrorselect gone batty?

2003-03-15 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 06:46, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I started with stage 1, emerged through stage 3 and then merged mirrorselect. I did mirrorselect -i and got errors about regular expression and then found my make.conf had Gentomirrors= followed by a bunch of ascii codes that are used to

Re: [gentoo-user] can't locate module /dev/ttyp0

2003-03-15 Thread Martin Schlemmer
On Sat, 15 Mar 2003 01:48:40 -0300 Norberto BENSA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 15 March 2003 12:55 am, Martin Schlemmer wrote: Just comment the last bit in /etc/init.d/bootmisc about /dev/ttyp0. It is already fixed in later versions. Ok, and what about the logs in

Re: [gentoo-user] imlib not compiling...!??!

2003-03-15 Thread raptor
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 22:38:24 +0100 Paul de Vrieze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |On Friday 14 March 2003 20:14, raptor wrote: | | thanx alot in advance ... | PS. I don't know about you but I'm doing new instalation and there is many | packges that are broken... If I have to do it again soon, i will

Re: [gentoo-user] I finally have sound!....but now stop the madness.

2003-03-15 Thread Sundance
Just to play. :) I heard Nicholas Hockey said: oh and all of you can flame me if you like but i will never like that bloated, True, but not as much as people who didn't actually look into it will tell you, thanks to its very modular design. non-standard, Untrue.

Re: [gentoo-user] ide-scsi

2003-03-15 Thread dahlqvist
fredagen den 14 mars 2003 14.02 skrev Bastux: :: Hello, :: :: I recently compil a kernel gentoo-source (before It was running on a :: kernel found at www.kernel.org) in order to have the acpi module. :: :: Since that, I have no ide cdroms as scsi with the module ide-scsi :: I didn't change any

[gentoo-user] cdrecord -scanbus problems

2003-03-15 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Hello, When I run as root cdrecord -scanbus I get the following error message. Cdrecord 2.0 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/pg*'. Cannot open SCSI driver. cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord

Re: [gentoo-user] queue overflow

2003-03-15 Thread Sundance
I heard Peter Ruskin said: Mar 14 12:49:20 penguin kernel: _M_str_putnext: queue overflow: dropping a message [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/src/linux % grep -r putnext * [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/src/linux % Did you compile anything specific into your kernel? Something related to XFS maybe, since it

Re: [gentoo-user] cdrecord -scanbus problems

2003-03-15 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Saturday 15 March 2003 02:18 pm, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: Hello, When I run as root cdrecord -scanbus I get the following error message. Cdrecord 2.0 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/pg*'. Cannot

[gentoo-user] Preventing removing needed packages

2003-03-15 Thread romildo
Hello. Being new to gentoo linux and a seasoned Red Hat Linux user, I did not get the idea of how to preventing removing a package that is required by another installed package yet. For instance, if I have vim installed, which requires sys-libs/libtermcap-compat, emerge does not complain when

Re: [gentoo-user] cdrecord -scanbus problems

2003-03-15 Thread Andrew Gaffney
You can have them both compiled into the kernel as long as you have a 'hdx=ide-scsi' line in your bootloader config. I've built scsi-cdrom support and scsi emulation into the kernel (gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r1) and don't know what else I could do. This was working with a previous gentoo install

[gentoo-user] cdrecord and problems burning 800+ cdr.

2003-03-15 Thread Sigurd Stordal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a problem, when I try to burn a 800Mb+ cdr, using the ignsize and overburn options it stops when it comes to about 700 Mb and give a scsi error. First I thought it might be the cdr, or the drive, but it's happened with more than one, and

Re: [gentoo-user] cdrecord and problems burning 800+ cdr.

2003-03-15 Thread Yeechie Tu
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[gentoo-user] gnomeicu.0.99

2003-03-15 Thread raptor
hi, for those of u who still use gnomeicu 0.98, just copy the ebuild to .99, make a digest and emerge... The new version is much better (98 is gtk1.4 afaik, 99 is gnome2.2 aware).. i.e : cp /usr/portage/net-im/gnomeicu-0.98.x.ebuild /usr/portage/net-im/gnomeicu-0.99.ebuild ebuild

[gentoo-user] How to admin a multiple Gentoo Installation (and keep your sanity)

2003-03-15 Thread Andrea Barisani
Hi to all! After having migrated from RedHat Linux to Gentoo on my network (35 hosts + 4 servers, approx 300 users) I would like to share and discuss my experiences in handling multiple Gentoo systems installations. This is nothing special for all the sysadmin out there, however I hope to

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing removing needed packages

2003-03-15 Thread gabriel
gentoo is less hand holding than redhat. so when you go to remove something that something else depends on it, portage just assumes that you know what you're doing. if you're looking to remove no longer required packages, try out: # emerge --pretend --depclean world this will blow away any

Re: [gentoo-user] Mirrorselect gone batty?

2003-03-15 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I did a query on mirrorselect and found a discussion on issues with net select. There wasn't anything on the issue of messing up the make.conf file. On Saturday 15 March 2003 03:49 pm, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Thanks. It's not just me then who's having problems with mirrorselect. I

Re: [gentoo-user] cdrecord -scanbus problems

2003-03-15 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Saturday 15 March 2003 03:09 pm, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 14:55, Andrew Gaffney wrote: You can have them both compiled into the kernel as long as you have a 'hdx=ide-scsi' line in your bootloader config. I have hdd=ide-scsi in my grub.conf but it still gives those

Re: [gentoo-user] cdrecord -scanbus problems

2003-03-15 Thread David Olsen
On 2003-03-15-10:09:07, Dhruba Bandopadhyay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have hdd=ide-scsi in my grub.conf but it still gives those error messages. This is evident from the dmesg extract below. They've changed things around. The new kernel append is hdd=scsi and just compile ide cd-rom

Re: [gentoo-user] imlib not compiling...!??!

2003-03-15 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Saturday 15 March 2003 16:48, raptor wrote: On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 22:38:24 +0100 Paul de Vrieze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |On Friday 14 March 2003 20:14, raptor wrote: | thanx alot in advance ... | PS. I don't know about you but I'm doing new instalation and there is | many packges that are

Re: [gentoo-user] Evolution 1.3.1 ebuild

2003-03-15 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 16:14, Don Smith wrote: I wanted to try this out, used this: #ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge -u evolution and it returns no packages. So then I tried going right in /usr/portage/net-mail/evolution and try #ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge -p evolution-1.3.1.ebuild it

Re: [gentoo-user] Two Realtek NICs In One Machine (8139too)

2003-03-15 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Saturday 15 March 2003 03:45, Stroller (Gentoo Lists) wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] stroller # cat /proc/pci PCI devices found: snippage Bus 0, device 9, function 0: Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8029(AS) (rev 0). IRQ 11. I/O at 0x9400

Re: [gentoo-user] Evolution 1.3.1 ebuild

2003-03-15 Thread Don Smith
Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 16:14, Don Smith wrote: I wanted to try this out, used this: #ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge -u evolution and it returns no packages. So then I tried going right in /usr/portage/net-mail/evolution and try #ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge -p

Re: [gentoo-user] cdrecord -scanbus problems

2003-03-15 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 16:40, David Olsen wrote: On 2003-03-15-10:09:07, Dhruba Bandopadhyay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have hdd=ide-scsi in my grub.conf but it still gives those error messages. This is evident from the dmesg extract below. They've changed things around. The new kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing removing needed packages

2003-03-15 Thread romildo
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 10:57:33AM -0500, gabriel wrote: gentoo is less hand holding than redhat. so when you go to remove something that something else depends on it, portage just assumes that you know what you're doing. And how does one find out what packages depend on some specific

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing removing needed packages

2003-03-15 Thread Norberto BENSA
On Saturday 15 March 2003 02:52 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 10:57:33AM -0500, gabriel wrote: gentoo is less hand holding than redhat. so when you go to remove something that something else depends on it, portage just assumes that you know what you're doing. And

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing removing needed packages

2003-03-15 Thread gabriel
On March 15, 2003 12:52 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 10:57:33AM -0500, gabriel wrote: gentoo is less hand holding than redhat. so when you go to remove something that something else depends on it, portage just assumes that you know what you're doing. And how does

Re: [gentoo-user] Error emerging gvim

2003-03-15 Thread Spundun Bhatt
I built it yesterday without any problem(just that the patch were corrupted and I had to redownload them... but that error occured when source unpacking) whats the CFLAGS you using? how many times have you tried to emerge this? hate to say but some times it works the second time :) may be your

Re: [gentoo-user] gnomeicu.0.99

2003-03-15 Thread Spider
begin quote On Sat, 15 Mar 2003 19:36:16 +0200 raptor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, for those of u who still use gnomeicu 0.98, just copy the ebuild to Cut from `head -n 15 /usr/portage/net-im/gnomeicu/ChangeLog` *gnomeicu-0.99 (11 mar 2003) 11 mar 2003; [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] I finally have sound!....but now stop themadness.

2003-03-15 Thread Spundun Bhatt
This is incredible!!! why would you want to go for kde or gnome instead of ms-windows? well the answer is so obvious and soo long that I dont want to go about that. And I will be damned if somebody cant figureout how to install gnome or kde on gnetoo! I mean its SO easy that a perticular kind

Re: [gentoo-user] How to admin a multiple Gentoo Installation (and keep your sanity)

2003-03-15 Thread jim
That's great. It's exactly the problem I was going to be tackling shortly. Thanks a bunch for saving me an immense amount of time. Jim On Saturday 15 March 2003 09:55 am, Andrea Barisani wrote: Hi to all! After having migrated from RedHat Linux to Gentoo on my network (35 hosts + 4

Re: [gentoo-user] cdrecord -scanbus problems

2003-03-15 Thread David Olsen
On 2003-03-15-12:40:51, Dhruba Bandopadhyay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: writer. Strange but true. Something must have changed with the new version of cdrtools. By the way, has anyone tried ATAPI burning? Does it work well even though it is experimental? Newer kernels changed things around

Re: [gentoo-user] Error emerging gvim

2003-03-15 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 18:07, Spundun Bhatt wrote: I built it yesterday without any problem(just that the patch were corrupted and I had to redownload them... but that error occured when source unpacking) whats the CFLAGS you using? how many times have you tried to emerge this? hate to say but

Re: [gentoo-user] Error emerging gvim

2003-03-15 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 18:07, Spundun Bhatt wrote: I built it yesterday without any problem(just that the patch were corrupted and I had to redownload them... but that error occured when source unpacking) whats the CFLAGS you using? how many times have you tried to emerge this? hate to say but

Re: [gentoo-user] How to admin a multiple Gentoo Installation (and keep your sanity)

2003-03-15 Thread Louis C. Candell
Why dont you change this to XML format and submit it to Gentoo Documentation or ask them if this would be OK to submit to the Docs section? Andrea Barisani [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi to all! After having migrated from RedHat Linux to Gentoo on my network (35 hosts + 4 servers, approx 300

Re: [gentoo-user] cdrecord -scanbus problems

2003-03-15 Thread Nicholas Hockey
try the atapi drivers, scsi emulation is no longer required, just prefered to probe the avaliabe atapi devices: cdrecord -dev=ATAPI -scanbus and to specify a device: cdrecord -dev=ATAPI:1,0,0 -scanbus (replace the 1,0,0 with whatever it scans yer cdrw as) On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 09:18, Dhruba

Re: [gentoo-user] cflag gcc optimisation questions

2003-03-15 Thread Jason Giangrande
From what I've read and heard from people -fomit-frame-pointer doesn't really add much as far as performance is concerned. So you could probably leave that out without noticing any difference in performance. No need to recompile either way, though, as long as your system is currently working

Re: [gentoo-user] Logitech i-Touch keyboards

2003-03-15 Thread Susie
On Sat, 15 Mar 2003 09:36:48 +0100 Anarconda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can try lineakd, works ok with my logitech desktop optical. Thanks I just tried that one and it was even better than hotkeys having my exact keyboard in their list(logitech internet navigator keyboard). I've got

Re: [gentoo-user] I finally have sound!....but now stop themadness.

2003-03-15 Thread Collins Richey
On 15 Mar 2003 10:31:58 -0800 Spundun Bhatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is incredible!!! why would you want to go for kde or gnome instead of ms-windows? well the answer is so obvious and soo long that I dont want to go about that. And I will be damned if somebody cant figureout how to

Re: [gentoo-user] cdrecord and problems burning 800+ cdr.

2003-03-15 Thread burzmali
i had diffilculty burning large cd's for awhile, also. when i added burnfree to the options for cdrecord (driveropts=burnfree), the problem went away. in k3b and arson, ther is a place where you can specify manual options to the different programs used, add the driveropts=burnfree line there.

[gentoo-user] keeping system up to date

2003-03-15 Thread Ulf Kister
Hi there, after playing around with gentoo linux and having come to like it I seriosly consider migrating a pool of servers to gentoo at work. Production requirements are given, downtime is a no-go. I would love to use FreeBSD for it's stability and performance, but in the list of systems

Re: [gentoo-user] Error emerging gvim

2003-03-15 Thread Spundun Bhatt
On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 11:08, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 18:07, Spundun Bhatt wrote: I built it yesterday without any problem(just that the patch were corrupted and I had to redownload them... but that error occured when source unpacking) whats the CFLAGS you using?

Re: [gentoo-user] keeping system up to date

2003-03-15 Thread Collins Richey
[ snips ] On 15 Mar 2003 21:17:38 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ulf Kister) wrote: 3. Recently the shiny and new gentoo 1.4 rc3 version was released. From FreeBSD I'm used to decently ignore any announcements like this, because frequntly syncing the source tree and rebuilding/installing

Re: [gentoo-user] Error emerging gvim

2003-03-15 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Well, vim is broken, too. I tried the masked and unmasked releases and it breaks on the gtk2 patch. I hope it's fixed soon! On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 11:08, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 18:07, Spundun Bhatt wrote: I built it yesterday without any problem(just that the

Re: [gentoo-user] keeping system up to date

2003-03-15 Thread Dave Klipec
Ulf Kister wrote: Only some three things make me hesitate: 1. I have not yet understood how some - definitely important - config files are kept in sync. Look at /etc/make.profile/packages. qpkg seems not to find a port which claims ownership to this file, nonetheless it *is* important -

Re: [gentoo-user] sblive + alsa help needed

2003-03-15 Thread Norberto BENSA
On Thursday 13 March 2003 10:24 am, gabor wrote: hi, is there anyone using alsa with sblive? I tried them. I hate them. I removed them (alsa I mean.) 'USE=-alsa' is one of my best friends :-) and, what about the other controls in alsamixer ( bass, treble etc. ) do they work? IMHO alsa

Re: [gentoo-user] I finally have sound!....but now stop themadness.

2003-03-15 Thread Spundun Bhatt
On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 12:07, Collins Richey wrote: On 15 Mar 2003 10:31:58 -0800 Spundun Bhatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is incredible!!! why would you want to go for kde or gnome instead of ms-windows? well the answer is so obvious and soo long that I dont want to go about that.

Re: [gentoo-user] Mirrorselect gone batty?

2003-03-15 Thread Stroller
Brett I. Holcomb said: I did a query on mirrorselect and found a discussion on issues with net select. There wasn't anything on the issue of messing up the make.conf file. *cough* mumble. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16535 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16865 Also, any

Re: [gentoo-user] Two Realtek NICs In One Machine (8139too)

2003-03-15 Thread Stroller
Paul de Vrieze said: On Saturday 15 March 2003 03:45, Stroller (Gentoo Lists) wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] stroller # cat /proc/pci PCI devices found: snippage Bus 0, device 9, function 0: Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8029(AS) (rev 0). IRQ 11.

[gentoo-user] smb and nautilus

2003-03-15 Thread Spundun Bhatt
Hi Nautilus is supposed to work with smb protocol...(I remember it worked on redhat) When I type smb: in nautilus address bar... its supposed to show the network neighbor hood. This is not happening right now... Any idea how to configure that? right now its giving me the error smb:/// is not a

Re: [gentoo-user] sblive + alsa help needed

2003-03-15 Thread Evan Powers
On Thursday 13 March 2003 08:24 am, gabor wrote: i can't manage to find the necessary volume controls in alsamixer. ... but which volume controls should i use in alsa? I'm using the alsa drivers with sblive. Yeah, the relationships between the different sliders in alsamixer is pretty

[gentoo-user] Seg faults compiling gcc - bad memory?

2003-03-15 Thread Doug Gorley
Hello list, I'm trying to upgrade to gcc 3.2 on my fiance's computer, but I get seg faults every time I try. Ditto for compiling the kernel. I thought it might be a memory issue (I recently added a new 512MB stick), so I'm running memtest86 right now. It found 23190 errors so far. Is this

Re: [gentoo-user] smb and nautilus

2003-03-15 Thread Alan
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 03:13:19PM -0800, Spundun Bhatt wrote: Hi Nautilus is supposed to work with smb protocol...(I remember it worked on redhat) When I type smb: in nautilus address bar... its supposed to show the network neighbor hood. This is not happening right now... Any idea how to

Re: [gentoo-user] Seg faults compiling gcc - bad memory?

2003-03-15 Thread Alec Berryman
On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 18:12, Doug Gorley wrote: I'm trying to upgrade to gcc 3.2 on my fiance's computer, but I get seg faults every time I try. Ditto for compiling the kernel. I thought it might be a memory issue (I recently added a new 512MB stick), so I'm running memtest86 right now. It

[gentoo-user] New user questions

2003-03-15 Thread Kwan Lowe
Hello All: I'm a brand new Gentoo user (6 days). I've recently completed a build up to KDE3.1 with minor errors. Gentoo is impressive enough that I would like to try it on an identical machine, but the build time is a problem. A few questions: 1) How do I recover from a failed build without

Re: [gentoo-user] keeping system up to date

2003-03-15 Thread Ulf Kister
Dave Klipec [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ulf Kister wrote: [...maintenance of /etc/make.profile/*...] This answers kinda both questions 1 and 3: ls -l /etc/make.profile /etc/make.profile - /usr/portage/profiles/default-x86-1.4/ Yes. Simple as that. Overlooked it though.

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage question

2003-03-15 Thread A. Craig West
On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, Don Smith wrote: Renat Golubchyk wrote: Hi! Since English is not my native language I was wondering how do you pronounce Portage. With two stresses like two different words port age or with one stress like in sausage? The pronunciation is normally the French

[gentoo-user] courier-imap problems

2003-03-15 Thread Josh Zeckser
Hello all, I've been going through the gentoo virtual mail howto and can't seem to get past the courier-imap section. I can recieve mail directly through my maildir directory, but when I try the pop or imap setups, I keep getting login failed errors. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. I put in my

[gentoo-user] sblive! + hotplug + emuk101

2003-03-15 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Hello, To get the SBLive! 5.1 digital working I made sound items in the kernel into modules, emerged emu10k1 and hotplug and added hotplug to the default run level. Now although the sound works I get error messages during boot time saying modprobe emu10k1 failed, insmod usbcore failed and insmod

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge xfree 4.3.0-r1 fails

2003-03-15 Thread dbm7w
Well, now it's working. I tried the emerge a third time and it worked. Don't know why. The ispell mentioned in the error message below is apparently not the ispell package (neither app-text, nor gnu-xemacs), but something internal to XFree. I'm now running XFree 4.3.0 on three of my systems --

[Fwd: FW: [gentoo-user] CDRW problem]

2003-03-15 Thread Josh Zeckser
I am having a problem with my CD-ROM and CD-RW drives. With previous Linux distributions, they have always been /dev/hdc and /dev/hdd. I'd use hdc and hdd are the device nodes if you use the idecd driver. If you use ide-scsi, those drives shouldn't work. hdd=ide-scsi with grub/lilo and

[gentoo-user] emerge gnome problem

2003-03-15 Thread Scott Palmer
This is what I see on my screen: rm -f -r ./exports/lib rm -f -r ./exports/bin rm -f *.CKP *.ln *.BAK *.bak *.o core errs ,* *~ *.a .emacs_* tags TAGS make.log MakeOut #* cleaning in ./include... make[2]: Entering directory

Re: [gentoo-user] Opinions on Gentoo

2003-03-15 Thread pi
Daniel Carrera wrote: 5) Is Gentoo really that much faster? Will it make a greater difference on an old computer (think P133) or on a new computer (think Athlon XP/MP)? Gentoo makes a big difference on my p133, unfortunately it's much slower than debian is. pi. -- -- [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Maildrop problem :(

2003-03-15 Thread Helder Miguel Rodrigues
# pwd /home/vmail/frew.org/crash/.maildir # ls -al .teste/ total 20K drwx-- 5 vmail vmail 4.0K Mar 16 04:12 ./ drwxrwx--- 10 vmail vmail 4.0K Mar 16 04:12 ../ drwx-- 2 vmail vmail 4.0K Mar 16 04:12 cur/ -rwx-- 1 vmail vmail 0 Mar 16 04:12 maildirfolder* drwx-- 2 vmail vmail

[gentoo-user] ?pgaccess for gentoo

2003-03-15 Thread richard terry
Being used to Mandrake, this came included in one of the postgres rpms. Does it exist for gentoo? Thanks Richard -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] ide-scsi issues

2003-03-15 Thread Aaron Matteson
I am having a problem, maybe someone can shed some light on this for me. Here is the situation. I am trying to get ide-scsi emulation going, i have done this on numerous occasions. Here is what i have kernel-wise: 1. v2.4.20-gaming-r1 kernel sources 2. M SCSI emulation support 3. * SCSI

Re: [gentoo-user] win4lin + nvida

2003-03-15 Thread Andrew
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 01:14:37 +1100 richard terry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I think I've succeeded in building the win4lin Kernel (I use win4lin in Mandrake and have a licence, so I wanted to try it in Gentoo). However when I boot, the nvidia drivers, which I installed as per

Re: [gentoo-user] ide-scsi issues

2003-03-15 Thread Aaron Matteson
On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 21:10, Aaron Matteson wrote: I am having a problem, maybe someone can shed some light on this for me. Here is the situation. I am trying to get ide-scsi emulation going, i have done this on numerous occasions. Here is what i have kernel-wise: 1. v2.4.20-gaming-r1

Re: [gentoo-user] ide-scsi issues

2003-03-15 Thread Jason Giangrande
Aaron, Are you trying scanbus as root? If so have you tried running dmesg to see if your cd-r is detected at boot? Jason On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 00:10, Aaron Matteson wrote: I am having a problem, maybe someone can shed some light on this for me. Here is the situation. I am trying to get

[gentoo-user] Music CDs wont play

2003-03-15 Thread Bryan Cassidy
Hello. Just installed Gentoo 1.4_rc3 and set somethings up. I just got done setting up sound support. I can play wav files with aplay name.wav and I can also play them in xmms. I just can't play my music cds. Anyone have any idea on how to fix this? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ide-scsi issues

2003-03-15 Thread Aaron Matteson
Yes, i am using cdrecord -scanbus as root and the drives are detected at boot and are accessible from their /dev/hdx homes and /dev/scsi/ is empty and no trace of anything scsi in /dev/sdaX Output from dmesg: hdb: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 hdc:

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2003-03-15 Thread Voicu Liviu
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Re: [gentoo-user] ide-scsi issues

2003-03-15 Thread Jason Giangrande
That's all your output for ATAPI devices from dmesg? Do you have anything about scsi host emulation? Yes, i am using cdrecord -scanbus as root and the drives are detected at boot and are accessible from their /dev/hdx homes and /dev/scsi/ is empty and no trace of anything scsi in /dev/sdaX

Re: [gentoo-user] ide-scsi issues

2003-03-15 Thread Aaron Matteson
snip Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx SIS5513: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 15 SIS5513: chipset revision 208 SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later SiS5513 ide0: BM-DMA at

Re: [gentoo-user] ide-scsi issues

2003-03-15 Thread Abhishek Amit
On 21:10 Sat 15 Mar , Aaron Matteson wrote: I am having a problem, maybe someone can shed some light on this for me. Here is the situation. I am trying to get ide-scsi emulation going, i have done this on numerous occasions. Here is what i have kernel-wise: 1. v2.4.20-gaming-r1 kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage question

2003-03-15 Thread Evan Powers
On Saturday 15 March 2003 08:26 am, Don Smith wrote: It is por tauge so yes, like in sausage. I am Canadian and Americans may say it different. They say we have a accent but I do not know what that it aboot, eh? :) I am an American, and I also pronounce it roughly the same way as sausage.

Re: [gentoo-user] Music CDs wont play

2003-03-15 Thread Evan Powers
On Saturday 15 March 2003 07:47 pm, Bryan Cassidy wrote: OK I did what you said and edited my /etc/fstab menu but still no go with playing audio cds. You might have to tell your audio drivers to unmute a mixer channel and/or select the CD as a recording source. If you're using ALSA the program

Re: [gentoo-user] Music CDs wont play

2003-03-15 Thread Bryan Cassidy
Well, I'm using the same card. a Sound Blaster Live (PCI). Could u possible tell me what u had to do exactly to get the cds to play? it plays sound *files* fine just not cds. On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 01:57:41 -0500 Evan Powers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 15 March 2003 07:47 pm, Bryan

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage question

2003-03-15 Thread Doug Gorley
It is por tauge so yes, like in sausage. I am Canadian and Americans may say it different. They say we have a accent but I do not know what that it aboot, eh? :) I'll second that; I only know the word from reading it on Gentoo (ie. never heard anyone say it that I didn't tell first), but

[gentoo-user] Re: failure notice

2003-03-15 Thread A. Craig West
On Sun, 16 Mar 2003, Evan Powers wrote: I am an American, and I also pronounce it roughly the same way as sausage. I've never heard it pronounced by anyone who wasn't introduced to Gentoo by me, though, so take that with a grain of salt. If I were to think about it, my chosen