Re: [gentoo-user] system update

2005-07-15 Thread Mariusz Pękala
On 2005-07-15 00:46:45 +0100 (Fri, Jul), Edward Catmur wrote: On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 17:58 -0500, Qv6 wrote: I am currently running kde-3.3, and do not want to have both 3.3 and 3.4 on the box. How can I update kde or any other app and not have the old version still installed. Update

[gentoo-user] RealPlayer-not-fetching-when-wget

2005-07-15 Thread simply change
hi! i tried to fetch Realplayer new version using emerge tool (#emerge -f realplayer). but it was not possible. then i tried it download it by manually from https://helixcommunity.org/download.php/1343/RealPlayer-10.0.5.756-20050513.i586.rpm this worked for me. THIS IS ONLY F.Y.I-- ...The

[gentoo-user] vmware/xorg.conf issues

2005-07-15 Thread Bill Roberts
I am going NUTS trying to figure out how to make full-screen mode work properly in vmware-workstation 5. I can go into full-screen mode, but it looks like only half of the lines get drawn, so it's very ugly, impossible to read. I had beautiful screens in 4.5.2 which turned ugly at some point

[gentoo-user] ldconfig breaks my system

2005-07-15 Thread Alex Bennee
Hi, Applogies for the cross-post. I'm unsure if this is and amd64 specific problem or a more general b0rkage. I've posted about my failing glibc emerges before: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/114627 I think I've narrowed it down to ldconfig running during the emerge. In fact

[gentoo-user] Konqueror/KDE3.4.1/udev - media:/ won't browse removable usb devices

2005-07-15 Thread Robert S
I have just installed KDE 3.4.1. I've got udev and the latest 2.6.12 kernel on an amd64. I've got my udev rules configured so that my flash card is seen as a symlink named /dev/usbdrive. Works fine most of the time. If I go to media:/ in konq, it displays my usb drive as Removeable Device

Re: [gentoo-user] system update

2005-07-15 Thread Qv6
Thanks On Friday 15 July 2005 03:08 am, Mariusz Pękala wrote: On 2005-07-15 00:46:45 +0100 (Fri, Jul), Edward Catmur wrote: On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 17:58 -0500, Qv6 wrote: I am currently running kde-3.3, and do not want to have both 3.3 and 3.4 on the box. How can I update kde or any

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware/xorg.conf issues

2005-07-15 Thread Antonino Sabetta
Oh, one other oddity. The vmware modules vmmon and vmnet which should be loaded by /etc/init.d/vmware in default mode, don't get loaded. Can't figure out why. Make sure the kernel version in /usr/src/linux matches the version of the kernel currently running. What does the following command

[gentoo-user] Init script dependency creation?

2005-07-15 Thread Dave Nebinger
I've got a Sangoma ADSL card that needs wanpipe to run before starting rp-pppoe. Having seen the /etc/init.d files, dependencies can be declared within the scripts themselves to make sure a dependency is satisfied before the script starts. I want to create such a dependency in

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware/xorg.conf issues

2005-07-15 Thread Bill Roberts
On 09:41 Fri 15 Jul , Antonino Sabetta wrote: Oh, one other oddity. The vmware modules vmmon and vmnet which should be loaded by /etc/init.d/vmware in default mode, don't get loaded. Can't figure out why. Make sure the kernel version in /usr/src/linux matches the version of the kernel

[gentoo-user] CONFIG_PROTECT problem

2005-07-15 Thread Peter Campion-Bye
Hi, Apologies if I've misunderstood the use of CONFIG_PROTECT, but I think I've found a hole in it. As I have lots of stuff under /var/www/localhost/htdocs which contains configuration files mixed in with the code ( phpmyadmin, phpldapadmin, phpwiki, squirrelmail, gallery etc ) I have put the path

Re: [gentoo-user] Subversion 1.2

2005-07-15 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
Holly Bostick wrote: The thing is Portage doesn't *remember* ACCEPT_KEYWORDS, beyond the original compile in which it is used. So if you use it, and keep the package, as soon as you do an emerge -u world, Portage will try to downgrade the package to the last stable version, which is the

[gentoo-user] [OT?] Advice on hardware

2005-07-15 Thread Daniel da Veiga
Greetings list, After my mobo fried, I decided to upgrade and buy a new one, with a new processor, I would get an Asus last generation with an Athlon 64 as processor and the rest inherit from my previous machine (so, compatible as far as I know). I've seen posts regarding imcompatibility issues

[gentoo-user] Filesystem access to Gentoo from XP over SSH - suggestions?

2005-07-15 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
I was wondering if others have tackled this before me? I only have remote SSH access to my Gentoo box (everything else is fire walled) and I use this to map ports on my client machine to corresponding ports on my server machine - so, for example, I can access IMAP; SMTP, X applications etc.

Re: [gentoo-user] system update

2005-07-15 Thread Antonino Sabetta
qpkg -f /usr/kde/3.3/some-file emerge -va prune the-package-found-if-it-is-part-of-kde Thanks for this very useful hint! I have managed to free a lot of precious disk space!! I did it in a semi-automated way: # emerge -p prune prune-list.txt then I edited the file, leaving only the rows

Re: [gentoo-user] Subversion 1.2

2005-07-15 Thread Zac Medico
Steve [Gentoo] wrote: The only way in which I'm not yet as convinced as you are is with respect to dependencies. I'm comfortable with the idea that I browse the bugs to verify that none of the issues affect my install directly - then to accept an unstable version of a specific package...

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem access to Gentoo from XP over SSH - suggestions?

2005-07-15 Thread Matthew Cline
What would be the easiest way to somehow map a network drive on my Gentoo server from Windows given that I need to tunnel over SSH? Could you try something like WebDAV? It should be easy to forward the necessary port over ssh to a web server on your Gentoo box. Plus, XP has built-in support

[gentoo-user] Printing woes; firefox incompetent; cups printer disabled and cannot enable

2005-07-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Woe is me. First: Firefox 1.0.4 could not print. It seemed to go through all the motions,The printer command was some oddity involving ${MOZ_PRINTER} or some such, and I just changed it to 'lpr', and it still wouldn't work. I forget why, but I tried 'disable lp0' to see what it did to the

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem access to Gentoo from XP over SSH - suggestions?

2005-07-15 Thread Zac Medico
Steve [Gentoo] wrote: I was wondering if others have tackled this before me? I only have remote SSH access to my Gentoo box (everything else is fire walled) and I use this to map ports on my client machine to corresponding ports on my server machine - so, for example, I can access IMAP;

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem access to Gentoo from XP over SSH - suggestions?

2005-07-15 Thread Bill Roberts
On 16:08 Fri 15 Jul , Steve [Gentoo] wrote: I was wondering if others have tackled this before me? I only have remote SSH access to my Gentoo box (everything else is fire walled) and I use this to map ports on my client machine to corresponding ports on my server machine - so, for

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] Advice on hardware

2005-07-15 Thread Andreas Karlsson
On Friday 15 July 2005 17.06, Daniel da Veiga wrote: Any advice? I´ll give my 2 cents. Asus is to begin with a (in my experience) very good vendor. Even though you buy a AMD64 now, you are not forced to compile Gentoo for amd64 arcitecture. You could compile it for AthlonXP (x86). PS:

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] Advice on hardware

2005-07-15 Thread Zac Medico
Daniel da Veiga wrote: Greetings list, After my mobo fried, I decided to upgrade and buy a new one, with a new processor, I would get an Asus last generation with an Athlon 64 as processor and the rest inherit from my previous machine (so, compatible as far as I know). I've seen posts

[gentoo-user] shutdown -h on Power-button...

2005-07-15 Thread Jarry
Hi, I want to set up my computer so that it would do automatically shutdown -h after short pressing of power button. Is the only solution to emerge acpid (found on gentoo-forum)? Would not it be easier with apm? Because I remember once in the past having a comp with some other linux-distro,

[gentoo-user] glsa

2005-07-15 Thread Noah Roberts
How long between when a GLSA is distributed and glsa-check will pick it up? I just got a message from announce that has a GLSA I believe my server will be vulnerable to but glsa-check isn't picking it up. In fact I just did a 'glsa-check -l | grep 200507' and nothing showed up. Does the portage

Re: [gentoo-user] shutdown -h on Power-button...

2005-07-15 Thread Zac Medico
Jarry wrote: Hi, I want to set up my computer so that it would do automatically shutdown -h after short pressing of power button. Is the only solution to emerge acpid (found on gentoo-forum)? Would not it be easier with apm? Because I remember once in the past having a comp with some

Re: [gentoo-user] glsa

2005-07-15 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Saturday 16 July 2005 00:56, Noah Roberts wrote: How long between when a GLSA is distributed and glsa-check will pick it up? I just got a message from announce that has a GLSA I believe my server will be vulnerable to but glsa-check isn't picking it up. In fact I just did a 'glsa-check -l

Re: [gentoo-user] strange /init kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r5 boot problems

2005-07-15 Thread Chee Ong Loh
solution are simple. there is a new version of genkernel in portage. try: emerge --sync and emerge genkernel and finally rebuild the entire kernel and that should solve. At least I've solve mine. good luckzz On 7/15/05, Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Iain Buchanan wrote: On Thu,

Re: [gentoo-user] Seeking recommdations for multi-card reader.

2005-07-15 Thread John J. Foster
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 10:01:17PM -0400, Colin wrote: I've got an AFT PRO-9. It's a 9-in-1 connects via USB 2.0 internally/externally and has Secure Digital, Multimedia Card, SmartMedia, xDigital, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro, CompactFlash, MicroDrive and a 4-pin FireWire 400 port

[gentoo-user] VIDEO_CARDS setting for 3D Rage Pro

2005-07-15 Thread Mark Knecht
Converting my last FC machine to Gentoo since it didn't survive an FC2 to FC4 upgrade. Questions: 1) Is the VIDEO_CARDS= setting in /etc/make.conf still considered the right way to configure a new machine for a specific card? 2) If the answer to #1 is yes then what's the right setting for a 3D

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem access to Gentoo from XP over SSH - suggestions?

2005-07-15 Thread Chaz Andrews
On Fri, July 15, 2005 11:08 am, Steve [Gentoo] wrote: I was wondering if others have tackled this before me? If possible I would like to be able to edit (relatively small) configuration files remotely in a text editor running under windows. I use UltraEdit for this purpose on a daily

Re: [gentoo-user] VIDEO_CARDS setting for 3D Rage Pro

2005-07-15 Thread Zac Medico
Mark Knecht wrote: Converting my last FC machine to Gentoo since it didn't survive an FC2 to FC4 upgrade. Questions: 1) Is the VIDEO_CARDS= setting in /etc/make.conf still considered the right way to configure a new machine for a specific card? 2) If the answer to #1 is yes then what's the

Re: [gentoo-user] VIDEO_CARDS setting for 3D Rage Pro

2005-07-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On 7/15/05, Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: Converting my last FC machine to Gentoo since it didn't survive an FC2 to FC4 upgrade. Questions: 1) Is the VIDEO_CARDS= setting in /etc/make.conf still considered the right way to configure a new machine for a

Re: [gentoo-user] VIDEO_CARDS setting for 3D Rage Pro

2005-07-15 Thread Tero Grundström
Hello, I also have this video card. On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: Converting my last FC machine to Gentoo since it didn't survive an FC2 to FC4 upgrade. Questions: 1) Is the VIDEO_CARDS= setting in /etc/make.conf still considered the right way to configure a new machine for a

Re: [gentoo-user] VIDEO_CARDS setting for 3D Rage Pro

2005-07-15 Thread Mark Knecht
Thanks Tero. I think htis email has probably saved me hours and hours of research. cheers, Mark On 7/15/05, Tero Grundström [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I also have this video card. On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: Converting my last FC machine to Gentoo since it didn't

Re: [gentoo-user] ldconfig breaks my system

2005-07-15 Thread Richard Fish
Alex Bennee wrote: Hi, Applogies for the cross-post. I'm unsure if this is and amd64 specific problem or a more general b0rkage. I've posted about my failing glibc emerges before: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/114627 I think I've narrowed it down to ldconfig running during

Re: [gentoo-user] CONFIG_PROTECT problem

2005-07-15 Thread Richard Fish
Peter Campion-Bye wrote: Hi, Apologies if I've misunderstood the use of CONFIG_PROTECT, but I think I've found a hole in it. As I have lots of stuff under /var/www/localhost/htdocs which contains configuration files mixed in with the code ( phpmyadmin, phpldapadmin, phpwiki, squirrelmail,

[gentoo-user] QOS

2005-07-15 Thread Patrick
Hi, Are there people on the list who are using QOS, i need it to preserve 4MB for IP telephonie on a 100Mbit line. What are good site's / howto's for QOS. TIA Patrick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] shutdown -h on Power-button...

2005-07-15 Thread Richard Fish
Zac Medico wrote: Jarry wrote: Hi, I want to set up my computer so that it would do automatically shutdown -h after short pressing of power button. Is the only solution to emerge acpid (found on gentoo-forum)? Would not it be easier with apm? Because I remember once in the past having a

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware/xorg.conf issues

2005-07-15 Thread Richard Fish
Well, nothing obvious is popping out at me, but see my comments inline below... Bill Roberts wrote: I am going NUTS trying to figure out how to make full-screen mode work properly in vmware-workstation 5. I can go into full-screen mode, but it looks like only half of the lines get drawn, so

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] Advice on hardware

2005-07-15 Thread Zac Medico
Daniel da Veiga wrote: Well, I'm planning on using cedega for gaming, so, your mail kinda scared me (*LOL*), but anyway, there's always the choice to build a compatible mini-system at another partition or disc with the athlon-xp arch... If I ever plan on having a windows partition (I'm a gamer,

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem access to Gentoo from XP over SSH - suggestions?

2005-07-15 Thread David Busby
I use UltraEdit for this purpose on a daily basis. It is the best editor for all my Windows needs. It supports remote servers through sftp(ssh2). And has support for non *DOS* files. It's only drawback is that its Shareware(Costs $$$) but has a time limited demo. www.ultraedit.com I

Re: [gentoo-user] QOS

2005-07-15 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Patrick wrote: Are there people on the list who are using QOS, i need it to preserve 4MB for IP telephonie on a 100Mbit line. http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Packet_Shaping -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] glsa

2005-07-15 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Noah Roberts wrote: How long between when a GLSA is distributed and glsa-check will pick it up? I just got a message from announce that has a GLSA I believe my server will be vulnerable to but glsa-check isn't picking it up. In fact I just did a 'glsa-check -l | grep

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem access to Gentoo from XP over SSH - suggestions?

2005-07-15 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Chaz Andrews wrote: I use UltraEdit for this purpose on a daily basis. It is the best editor for all my Windows needs. There is only ONE editor: vim (it runs on everything incl. Windoze) Let the flames begin... ;-) -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] LDAP everywhere?

2005-07-15 Thread A. Khattri
After a recent --sync I see now that the update wants to emerge openldap because an ldap flag has been added to openssh and it seems to be the default. Anyone else seen this? What is the thinking behind making it a default flag? Makes no sense to me. I dont want or need openldap on my boxes...

Re: [gentoo-user] LDAP everywhere?

2005-07-15 Thread Zac Medico
A. Khattri wrote: After a recent --sync I see now that the update wants to emerge openldap because an ldap flag has been added to openssh and it seems to be the default. Anyone else seen this? What is the thinking behind making it a default flag? Makes no sense to me. I dont want or need

Re: [gentoo-user] LDAP everywhere?

2005-07-15 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Zac Medico wrote: Do you have openldap installed? The ldap flag is listed in /usr/portage/profiles/base/use.defaults so it should default to -ldap unless openldap is installed. You can always add -ldap to make.conf. Poking around it looks like ldap support was compiled

Re: [gentoo-user] LDAP everywhere?

2005-07-15 Thread Zac Medico
A. Khattri wrote: On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Zac Medico wrote: Do you have openldap installed? The ldap flag is listed in /usr/portage/profiles/base/use.defaults so it should default to -ldap unless openldap is installed. You can always add -ldap to make.conf. Poking around it looks like ldap

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware/xorg.conf issues

2005-07-15 Thread Bill Roberts
Richard I tried all of your suggestions, without success. See inline comments: Note device and monitor section of xorg.conf at end: I've had one further idea. I have a 4-port kvm switch (Cybex), it has never interferred with anything in the past four or five years. Wonder if. . . , maybe that

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware/xorg.conf issues

2005-07-15 Thread Richard Fish
Bill Roberts wrote: Richard I tried all of your suggestions, without success. See inline comments: Note device and monitor section of xorg.conf at end: I've had one further idea. I have a 4-port kvm switch (Cybex), it has never interferred with anything in the past four or five years. Wonder

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware/xorg.conf issues

2005-07-15 Thread Richard Fish
Bill Roberts wrote: Richard I tried all of your suggestions, without success. See inline comments: Note device and monitor section of xorg.conf at end: I've had one further idea. I have a 4-port kvm switch (Cybex), it has never interferred with anything in the past four or five years. Wonder

[gentoo-user] Samba crashes after upgrading system

2005-07-15 Thread Robert Cernansky
Hello, I just upgraded my system (emerge -u world) and after restart samba do not start. (Samba was not upgraded.) In the /var/log/messages I see: Jul 15 23:59:25 amit smbd[7829]: [2005/07/15 23:59:25, 0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(36) Jul 15 23:59:25 amit smbd[7829]:

[gentoo-user] how do I change to /etc/conf.d/hostname

2005-07-15 Thread George Roberts
I have a day off work and it is too hot to play outside, so I got the bright idea to clean up some minor warnings I have been getting. When I am booting my computer, I get warnings to change from using /etc/hostname to /etc/conf.d/hostname. Also the same with my /etc/domainname. My first though

Re: [gentoo-user] how do I change to /etc/conf.d/hostname

2005-07-15 Thread George Roberts
Robert Crawford wrote: On Friday 15 July 2005 06:31 pm, George Roberts wrote: I have a day off work and it is too hot to play outside, so I got the bright idea to clean up some minor warnings I have been getting. When I am booting my computer, I get warnings to change from using

Re: [gentoo-user] how do I change to /etc/conf.d/hostname

2005-07-15 Thread David Busby
I did this: rm /etc/hostname nano -w /etc/conf.d/hostname [ edit properly ] env-update reboot No problems... /djb George Roberts wrote: Robert Crawford wrote: On Friday 15 July 2005 06:31 pm, George Roberts wrote: I have a day off work and it is too hot to play outside, so I got

[gentoo-user] No sound or picture on saa7134 TV Tuner card

2005-07-15 Thread Jamie Dobbs
The module (saa7134) is loaded and has the correct board type and tuner but no matter what application I use (I have tried xawtv, kdetv and tvtime) I cannot get any picture or sound. I've tried the instructions found at http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_saa7134 but they haven't helped at all. The

Re: [gentoo-user] how do I change to /etc/conf.d/hostname

2005-07-15 Thread George Roberts
David Busby wrote: I did this: rm /etc/hostname nano -w /etc/conf.d/hostname [ edit properly ] env-update reboot No problems... /djb Removing the files did the job. Sounds like another evil plot to force me to clean up unused files. :-) Thanks! George Roberts wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] fdisk errors after repartitioning

2005-07-15 Thread Robert G. Siebeck
Hi Benno, 2005/7/15, Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Robert, /dev/hda52212 7971739063024 83 Linux /dev/hda6 1312211 1048792+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris cfdisk doesn't even start but stops with the following message:

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] Advice on hardware

2005-07-15 Thread Bob Sanders
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 12:06:52 -0300 Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any advice? Yes - Get a 939 pin processor. 754 pin socket is going away. Also, it's not just the motherboard. If you are a gamer - start with the Gfx card. If you are going for one of the high end cards, be aware

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem access to Gentoo from XP over SSH - suggestions?

2005-07-15 Thread William Kenworthy
I have tried shfs ( a kernel module allowing the reomote mount of filesystems over ssh) in the past but over less than perfect connections had file system corruption. Lately I am using WebDav (via davfs or cadaver), both running on my own server, and mounting other systems I have access to onto

Re: [gentoo-user] how do I change to /etc/conf.d/hostname

2005-07-15 Thread Robert Crawford
On Friday 15 July 2005 06:31 pm, George Roberts wrote: I have a day off work and it is too hot to play outside, so I got the bright idea to clean up some minor warnings I have been getting. When I am booting my computer, I get warnings to change from using /etc/hostname to