Re: [gentoo-user] Ati Linux Proprietary Driver

2005-07-04 Thread Benjamin Fritzsche
On Monday 04 July 2005 00:03, Bob Sanders wrote: On Sat, 02 Jul 2005 19:31:42 +0100 Tim Igoe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe if Linux becomes more mainstream or used in offices more then perhaps they might improve the efforts towards the Linux drivers. Here is why ATI won't become much

[gentoo-user] Having trouble installing VMWare

2005-07-04 Thread Shawn Singh
I emerged vmware; however, when trying to configure it, I'm seeing the following... Extracting the sources of the vmmon module. Building the vmmon module. Building for VMware Workstation 4.5.2 or VMware GSX Server 3.1.0. Using 2.6.x kernel build system. make: Entering directory

Re: [gentoo-user] Crontab best practices: ideas anyone?

2005-07-04 Thread Felix Tiede
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I have a small number of logins on my gentoo box that I use for automated chores. I would prefer that they never have passwords, since they are run solely by cron jobs. However, if the login is locked then cron will no longer run the jobs -- I presume (without knowing

Re: [gentoo-user] Ati Linux Proprietary Driver

2005-07-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 4 Jul 2005 00:13:14 +0200, Luigi Pinna wrote: Ok, in this case a question: which other cards support a good 3D? If I don't buy ATI or NVIDEA, but other one Can I use UT2004? I need 3D only to play... But I don't want to have a expensive card... And ATI and NVIDEA start to 50

Re: [gentoo-user] screen and Ctrl-S not working any more?

2005-07-04 Thread Bryan Whitehead
Fromt he screen man page: You can still send these characters to the current program, but you must use the appropriate two-character screen commands (typically C-a q (xon) and C-a s (xoff)). The xon/xoff commands are also useful for typing C-s and C-q past a terminal that intercepts these

[gentoo-user] [OT] MyOSS Magazine - Edition 3 Available Now!

2005-07-04 Thread Ow Mun Heng
Hi All, Just wanted to announce that MyOSS Magazine - Edition 3 (We're Edition 3!) is now officially hitting the street. This is a community driven project which aims to publish monthly. (Sorry if this is considered as spam). Securing your Network Connection using OpenSSL OpenSSL is a very

Re: [gentoo-user] screen and Ctrl-S not working any more?

2005-07-04 Thread Martin Carpella
Bryan Whitehead [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: man screen then search for C-s to get the scoop. ;) Hmm, thanks, did that, did'n notice that I changed anything in regard to this, maybe I accidently toggled the settings. Thanks for your help, Martin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: install fails

2005-07-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 03 Jul 2005 15:20:10 -0300, Juan wrote: Now it is working, I hope it will complete but it takes a long time because of the emptytree option. Use emerge --resume to pick up where you left off. -- Neil Bothwick Hickory Dickory Dock, The mice ran up the clock, The clock struck one,

Re: [gentoo-user] ~/.bash_profile not being sourced

2005-07-04 Thread Aaron Walker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Sullivan wrote: Nevermind. I found that I can put my alias command in ~/.bashrc and it works fine. Is this new? I could have sworn that in Gentoo 2004.3 aliases went in ~/.bash_profile... It makes no difference really. Both are files

Re: [gentoo-user] Different Slots for ebuilds

2005-07-04 Thread Aaron Walker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Philip Lawatsch wrote: Hi, another problem I've just run into: I'd like to have gcc 3.4.x, 4.0.1_pre* and 4.1.* installed at the same time. However all gcc-4.* versions do not seem to use different slots (eg one 4.0.* and one 4.1.* slot).

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] MyOSS Magazine - Edition 3 Available Now!

2005-07-04 Thread fire-eyes
On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 16:42 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Hi All, Just wanted to announce that MyOSS Magazine - Edition 3 (We're Edition 3!) is now officially hitting the street. This is a community driven project which aims to publish monthly. (Sorry if this is considered as spam). I have

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] MyOSS Magazine - Edition 3 Available Now!

2005-07-04 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 08:54 -0400, fire-eyes wrote: On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 16:42 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Hi All, Just wanted to announce that MyOSS Magazine - Edition 3 (We're Edition 3!) is now officially hitting the street. This is a community driven project which aims to publish

Re: [gentoo-user] Ati Linux Proprietary Driver

2005-07-04 Thread Bob Sanders
On Mon, 4 Jul 2005 08:46:43 +0200 Benjamin Fritzsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My Ati 9600 in my Inspiron works perfectly in 16:10 with the Ati-drivers. I doubt that. Maybe at 16x9 - 1600 x 900, but not 1600 x 1024. Or perahps Dell paid ATI to support that one model of display. Regardless

[gentoo-user] Re: Ati Linux Proprietary Driver

2005-07-04 Thread Remy Blank
Bob Sanders wrote: On Mon, 4 Jul 2005 08:46:43 +0200 Benjamin Fritzsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My Ati 9600 in my Inspiron works perfectly in 16:10 with the Ati-drivers. I doubt that. Maybe at 16x9 - 1600 x 900, but not 1600 x 1024. Or perahps Dell paid ATI to support that one model of

Re: [gentoo-user] Ati Linux Proprietary Driver

2005-07-04 Thread Benjamin Fritzsche
On Monday 04 July 2005 15:29, Bob Sanders wrote: On Mon, 4 Jul 2005 08:46:43 +0200 Benjamin Fritzsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My Ati 9600 in my Inspiron works perfectly in 16:10 with the Ati-drivers. I doubt that. Maybe at 16x9 - 1600 x 900, but not 1600 x 1024. Or perahps Dell paid ATI

[gentoo-user] Problem with routing decisions, and multihop

2005-07-04 Thread Lluis Batle
Hi! I have many problems getting this thing to work. There's a host with two network interfaces, where there are two routers to Internet in two separated networks. The host uses multihop routing for deciding to which router send the packets... but the routing decision is wrong made. Some packets

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] MyOSS Magazine - Edition 3 Available Now!

2005-07-04 Thread Ryan Viljoen
I like browsing through it and reading any topics that interest me. I am all for an email saying there is a new release. I dont mind since I chose which mail I chose to read and which I dont. On 7/4/05, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 08:54 -0400, fire-eyes wrote: On

[gentoo-user] Portage Distfile Cache

2005-07-04 Thread Kurt Guenther
I have serveral machines that all update from a mirror. Is there a portage cache that would allow a single machine to fetch updated packages and let itself and others use them? My connection is fast enough that it's not really an issue on my end. I'm just thinking that I'm being harder on the

[gentoo-user] X not starting anymore

2005-07-04 Thread Fernando Canizo
Hi all, i just upgrade my system yesterday and now i can't startx, here's what it says: Symbol __glXgetActiveScreen from module /usr/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a is unresolved! Symbol __glXgetActiveScreen from module /usr/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a is unresolved! I did: # equery belongs

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage Distfile Cache

2005-07-04 Thread Khan
Kurt Guenther wrote: I have serveral machines that all update from a mirror. Is there a portage cache that would allow a single machine to fetch updated packages and let itself and others use them? My connection is fast enough that it's not really an issue on my end. I'm just thinking

[gentoo-user] .MID plugin for mozilla

2005-07-04 Thread Michael Sullivan
I can't seem to get my mozilla to play MIDI files embedded in web pages. I don't understand why. Before my reinstall (about a week ago) mozilla knew how to play .mid files. Now it doesn't. I have a sound card with hardware MIDI support and support for it is compiled into the kernel I'm running,

Re: [gentoo-user] X not starting anymore

2005-07-04 Thread Yann Garnier
Hi, I don't know if it will help but did you try ranlib /usr/lib/modules/ extensions/libdri.a ??? It will (understand should) rebuild the symbol index . Hope this can help. Yann Garnier Le 4 juil. 05 à 20:21, Fernando Canizo a écrit : Hi all, i just upgrade my system yesterday and now i

Re: [gentoo-user] X not starting anymore

2005-07-04 Thread Craig Duncan
Fernando Canizo wrote: Hi all, i just upgrade my system yesterday and now i can't startx, here's what it says: Symbol __glXgetActiveScreen from module /usr/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a is unresolved! Symbol __glXgetActiveScreen from module /usr/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a is unresolved!

Re: [gentoo-user] Having trouble installing VMWare

2005-07-04 Thread Craig Duncan
Shawn Singh wrote: I emerged vmware; however, when trying to configure it, I'm seeing the following... Extracting the sources of the vmmon module. Building the vmmon module. Building for VMware Workstation 4.5.2 or VMware GSX Server 3.1.0. Using 2.6.x kernel build system. make: Entering

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --inject to build code from CVS?

2005-07-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 4 Jul 2005 12:54:22 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: 1) emerge -C lirc to remove what's on the system 2) emerge --inject lirc to fool portage into thinking that lirc is installed 3) Build and install lirc from CVS? --inject is deprecated. Use /etc/portage/profile/package.provided. See man

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone here running MythTV (frontend only?)

2005-07-04 Thread Justin Hart
Honestly, if you're not recording television, I would use vlc. Justin On 7/4/05, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a question on Myth. I want to try running mythtv but the catch is, I don't want the backend and the usage of MySQL and stuffs like that. I don't have a PVR card (yet)

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --inject to build code from CVS?

2005-07-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On 7/4/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 4 Jul 2005 12:54:22 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: 1) emerge -C lirc to remove what's on the system 2) emerge --inject lirc to fool portage into thinking that lirc is installed 3) Build and install lirc from CVS? --inject is

Re: [gentoo-user] X not starting anymore

2005-07-04 Thread Peng
On 7/4/05, Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/4/05, Fernando Canizo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, i just upgrade my system yesterday and now i can't startx, here's what it says: Symbol __glXgetActiveScreen from module /usr/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a is unresolved! Symbol

Re: [gentoo-user] X not starting anymore

2005-07-04 Thread Tero Grundström
On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, Fernando Canizo wrote: Hi all, i just upgrade my system yesterday and now i can't startx, here's what it says: [SNIP] x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.99.13 (/usr/lib/modules/libfb.a) ^ How can i get back to my old version of xorg-x11-6.8.0-r4 ? Hmm...

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone here running MythTV (frontend only?)

2005-07-04 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 16:21 -0400, Justin Hart wrote: Honestly, if you're not recording television, I would use vlc. Well, I want to use it as a set top box. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 10:10:49 up 13:58, 4 users, load

Re: [gentoo-user] GDM, Fluxbox and display 0

2005-07-04 Thread Justin Hart
Yeah, I have to echo that I rather dislike the config file system in portage. It would be nice if there was an alternative to etc-update, or something configurable to just copy in relevant sections, or cross reference them. Justin On 7/4/05, Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list,

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone here running MythTV (frontend only?)

2005-07-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On 7/4/05, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 16:21 -0400, Justin Hart wrote: Honestly, if you're not recording television, I would use vlc. Well, I want to use it as a set top box. -- Ow Mun Heng Hi Ow, I'm only guessing but I think it probably won't work

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone here running MythTV (frontend only?)

2005-07-04 Thread Colin
Mark Knecht wrote: On 7/4/05, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 16:21 -0400, Justin Hart wrote: Honestly, if you're not recording television, I would use vlc. Well, I want to use it as a set top box. -- Ow Mun Heng Hi Ow, I'm only guessing but

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone here running MythTV (frontend only?)

2005-07-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On 7/4/05, Colin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On 7/4/05, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 16:21 -0400, Justin Hart wrote: Honestly, if you're not recording television, I would use vlc. Well, I want to use it as a set top box. -- Ow

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone here running MythTV (frontend only?)

2005-07-04 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 22:39 -0400, Colin wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On 7/4/05, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 16:21 -0400, Justin Hart wrote: Honestly, if you're not recording television, I would use vlc. Well, I want to use it as a set top box. I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] GDM, Fluxbox and display 0

2005-07-04 Thread Zac Medico
Justin Hart wrote: On 7/4/05, Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list, I've been using gdm and fluxbox for a long time, last weekend I did a complete update of the system, and changed all my config files to the new ones (REALLY stupid). So, I'm in a slow and painful recover

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone here running MythTV (frontend only?)

2005-07-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On 7/4/05, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 22:39 -0400, Colin wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On 7/4/05, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 16:21 -0400, Justin Hart wrote: Honestly, if you're not recording television, I would use vlc.

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone here running MythTV (frontend only?)

2005-07-04 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 23:11 -0400, Colin wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On 7/4/05, Colin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not familiar with MythTV, but is it possible to put the server and frontend on the same machine? That sounds like it will work, at least in theory. Yes, that works but

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone here running MythTV (frontend only?)

2005-07-04 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 20:44 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: On 7/4/05, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And I did. :-) BTW, what's ppl here using for a frontend as a Media Player Box for a Home Ent. PC? I played with Freevo and quite OK with it, but myth has lots more features

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone here running MythTV (frontend only?)

2005-07-04 Thread Justin Hart
Oh, I see your question. I asked this myself a few months ago. Yes - it does assume thee's a backend somewhere on the network, but apparently you have to have MySQL on the frontend machine also to be able to send MySQL commands to the backend. All the 'frontendonly' USE flag does (I think -

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone here running MythTV (frontend only?)

2005-07-04 Thread Justin Hart
I haven't used it in a while, since I went on to graduate school and no longer really have time for television. That said, mythtv won't work straight out of the box just after running the ebuilds (or wouldn't before). There was a guide somewhere to get everything running right. Justin On