AW: [gentoo-user] ERROR: x11-base/xorg-server-1.0.2-r7 failed.

2006-08-09 Thread Noack, Sebastian
On 8/8/06, Julia Fischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here everythin from the first compiler error: glxcmds.c: In function `__glXBindSwapBarrierSGIX': glxcmds.c:1749: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size glxcmds.c: In function `__glxQueryHyperpipeNetworkSGIX':

AW: [gentoo-user] OT - Best IRC client

2006-08-09 Thread Noack, Sebastian
Anthony E. Caudel wrote: So I'm wondering what the consensus is regarding what is the best irc client under Gentoo. Tony I have tried most of them and I prefer Xchat for a gtk app and IRSSI for the terminal but I am using Gaim right now for IRC because i like having all my text

Re: [gentoo-user] espxe masked by missing keyword

2006-08-09 Thread Daniel Iliev
Andrew Syrewicze wrote: I've been trying to emerge epsxe but it is masked by a missing keyword? how do i go about unmasking this package??? I'm new to gentoo and portage. thanks all -ando Have you synced your portage tree recently with emerge --sync ? My system lets me install this

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo disk space

2006-08-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/8/06, Sorav Bansal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The /usr directory on my gentoo box is taking up 6.8 gigs of disk space, 2.8 gigs of which is in /usr/portage. This does not seem right. Is it possible to reduce this disk usage? eclean distfiles eclean packages eclean is part of

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM: Pro and Contra ?

2006-08-09 Thread Richard Fish
Moving this back to gentoo-user...after I accidentally replied off-list... On 8/8/06, Meino Christian Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (hopefully) last questions on LVM: Here: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/lvm2.xml I read of the LVM-installation and usage. The text say: When you

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo disk space

2006-08-09 Thread Alexander Skwar
Sorav Bansal wrote: The /usr directory on my gentoo box is taking up 6.8 gigs of disk space, 2.8 gigs of which is in /usr/portage. This does not seem right. Is it possible to reduce this disk usage? Check out eclean. Alexander Skwar -- The truth is not free. It's that simple. If you

[gentoo-user] Throttling State won't change from command in Gentoo Power Management Guide

2006-08-09 Thread Richard Watson
Hi - I've been setting my laptop for power management by following the Power Management Guide and have successfully got cpufreqd running. However the CPU still gets hot on large compiles. I thought maybe changing the throttling state would cool things off but when I run the command from the

Re: [gentoo-user] espxe masked by missing keyword

2006-08-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 08 Aug 2006 19:57:18 +, Andrew Syrewicze wrote: I've been trying to emerge epsxe but it is masked by a missing keyword? how do i go about unmasking this package??? I'm new to gentoo and portage. When you receive an error message, please post the exact message with some context.

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo disk space

2006-08-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 00:35:49 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: You may also consider moving /usr/portage/distfiles and /usr/portage/packages to another filesystem where you have more room. Again, man make.conf, and look for the DISTDIR and PKGDIR options. On my system, the filesystem that contains

[gentoo-user] Re: copy xorg.conf from knoppix

2006-08-09 Thread THUFIR HAWAT
The wiki mentions knoppix in relation to xorg.conf, but I don't follow what's happening in the knoppix configuration. The xorg.conf on the hard drive, generated by gentoo, is being moved so that knoppix can use it? ' Configuring Video in X11 Code: Configuring x.org # Text configuration

Re: [gentoo-user] espxe masked by missing keyword

2006-08-09 Thread Andrew Syrewicze
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 08 Aug 2006 19:57:18 +, Andrew Syrewicze wrote: I've been trying to emerge epsxe but it is masked by a missing keyword? how do i go about unmasking this package??? I'm new to gentoo and portage. When you receive an error message,

Re: [gentoo-user] espxe masked by missing keyword

2006-08-09 Thread Andrew Syrewicze
Daniel Iliev wrote: Andrew Syrewicze wrote: I've been trying to emerge epsxe but it is masked by a missing keyword? how do i go about unmasking this package??? I'm new to gentoo and portage. thanks all -ando Have you synced your portage tree recently with

Re: [gentoo-user] espxe masked by missing keyword

2006-08-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 09 Aug 2006 06:54:41 +, Andrew Syrewicze wrote: Calculating dependencies !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy epsxe have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - games-emulation/epsxe-1.6.0-r3 (masked by: missing keyword) -

Re: [gentoo-user] espxe masked by missing keyword

2006-08-09 Thread Friedrich Göpel
On 8/9/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See the documentation mentioned above. In this case, both the ebuilds contain KEYWORDS=-* x86. this means they only run on x86 (the -* explicitly excludes everything else). You mentioned in your other post that you are using amd64, it appear

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Best IRC client

2006-08-09 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 10:09:50PM -0500, Anthony E. Caudel wrote: So I'm wondering what the consensus is regarding what is the best irc client under Gentoo. I prefer naim (http://naim.n.ml.org/about). It does AIM, ICQ, and IRC. I actually use it along with bitlbee to use Jabber as well. --

[gentoo-user] KDE fonts are squares

2006-08-09 Thread Adrian Vraciu
hi all yesterday i made a mistake. i have unmerged qt-3.3.6-r1. then i've reinstalled it back. but i had the surprise to see that the characters in KDE are small squares instead of letters. i've remerged all packages from KDE but no effect. any ideas? P.S. gtk applications are working fine.

Re: [gentoo-user] ERROR: x11-base/xorg-server-1.0.2-r7 failed.

2006-08-09 Thread Dale
Julia Fischer wrote: Opengl was already set to xorg-x11. I didn't try the emerge -e xorg-x11 because I needed a running system today. I installed kubuntu. Thanks anyway! grottenolm. I don't think that this is the problem, because of the driver in any case become linked against xorg and not

Re: [gentoo-user] espxe masked by missing keyword

2006-08-09 Thread Andrew Syrewicze
Thanks for the replies all. well instead of using the 64bit version of the program, is it possible to emerge the x86?? I know that there are 32bit compatability packages that allow you to run programs like this. (firefox-bin for example). is it possible to mix in packages for other architecture

AW: [gentoo-user] ERROR: x11-base/xorg-server-1.0.2-r7 failed.

2006-08-09 Thread Noack, Sebastian
Julia Fischer wrote: Opengl was already set to xorg-x11. I didn't try the emerge -e xorg-x11 because I needed a running system today. I installed kubuntu. Thanks anyway! grottenolm. I don't think that this is the problem, because of the driver in any case become linked against

[gentoo-user] Re: Mount and write ntfs (natively)

2006-08-09 Thread reader
Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes. It's called ntfs3g. There's an ebuild for it. Thanks for that tip, Alexander - it works well here. Peter or Alexander, can you give a few details of what you are able to do with it? Can I put that on a live CD and boot with the cd, then be able to

[gentoo-user] Message from emerge re transfig is ineffective

2006-08-09 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
A message from emerging the latest transfig reads: Please upgrade your package (transfig-3.2.4-r1) to use toolchain-funcs.eclass Why would it say that (rather than just doing it)? How would I comply (I truly have no clue)? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] espxe masked by missing keyword

2006-08-09 Thread Friedrich Göpel
On 8/9/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 10:36:39 -0400, Andrew Syrewicze wrote: well instead of using the 64bit version of the program, is it possible to emerge the x86?? I know that there are 32bit compatability packages that allow you to run programs like this.

[gentoo-user] Maillist+Forum+Newsgroup solution ?

2006-08-09 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, does anyone know an Maillist+Web-Forum+Newsgroup solution ? Users should be able to access the discussion groups via all three interfaces. thx. -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/

Re: [gentoo-user] espxe masked by missing keyword

2006-08-09 Thread Andrew Syrewicze
cool, thx for the help, I'll give it a try when I get home tonight. I figured something like that would work cause I used to do similar things on debian. of course i've long since left debian for gentoo. :-) I like gentoo MUCH better. thanks guys-AOn 8/9/06, Friedrich Göpel [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] espxe masked by missing keyword

2006-08-09 Thread Jesús Guerrero
El Miércoles, 9 de Agosto de 2006 08:59, Andrew Syrewicze escribió: Daniel Iliev wrote: Andrew Syrewicze wrote: I've been trying to emerge epsxe but it is masked by a missing keyword? how do i go about unmasking this package??? I'm new to gentoo and portage. thanks all -ando

Re: [gentoo-user] Message from emerge re transfig is ineffective

2006-08-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 08:37:05 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: A message from emerging the latest transfig reads: Please upgrade your package (transfig-3.2.4-r1) to use toolchain-funcs.eclass It's a QA message from portage to the developer of the ebuild, ignore it. -- Neil Bothwick Some day

Re: [gentoo-user] espxe masked by missing keyword

2006-08-09 Thread Friedrich Göpel
On 8/9/06, Jesús Guerrero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, epsxe, zsnes, and most emulators, have parts in assembler that will not compile or work as expected in any other arch than the one that they were made for. Epsxe is not keyworded for amd64, I suppose, cause it would not work in such

[gentoo-user] Re: copy xorg.conf from knoppix

2006-08-09 Thread THUFIR HAWAT
On 8/9/06, THUFIR HAWAT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I type in, for instance, this window (gmail in firefox) the screen flickers with each keystroke. Also, if I'm in the terminal window, for gnome, and type, same thing. [...] (IIRC the gentoo live CD didn't have this problem, but I might not

Re: [gentoo-user] How to see network activity?

2006-08-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/9/06, Boris Sobolev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, I would like to see the network activoity going in an out of my box. Any command to use for that? Do you mean a packet analyzer? Then you want wireshark. If you just want to see bandwidth, net-analyzer/nload, or any of the dozens

[gentoo-user] Re: copy xorg.conf from knoppix

2006-08-09 Thread THUFIR HAWAT
On 8/9/06, THUFIR HAWAT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] The knoppix CD seems to work fine, I'm in firefox, typing away at gmail, with no lines/static on the screen :) [...] Here's the knoppix xorg.config file, which seems to work: Script started on Wed Aug 9 17:53:23 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] How to see network activity?

2006-08-09 Thread Boris Sobolev
I' m not sure if I need packet analyzer or another tool. I can see network activity on my dsl modem led. Right before I switched to Gentoo, my windows box has died for a couple of days ( it had no firewall). It was bunch of viruses, worms and god knows what else. When I turned firewall, it blocked

[gentoo-user] KDE fonts are only squares

2006-08-09 Thread Adrian Vraciu
hi all yesterday i made a mistake. i have unmerged qt-3.3.6-r1. then i've reinstalled it back. but i had the surprise to see that the characters in KDE are small squares instead of letters. i've remerged all packages from KDE but no effect. any ideas? P.S. gtk applications are working fine.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Mount and write ntfs (natively)

2006-08-09 Thread Alexander Skwar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes. It's called ntfs3g. There's an ebuild for it. Thanks for that tip, Alexander - it works well here. Peter or Alexander, can you give a few details of what you are able to do with it? I don't use it - I just read about

[gentoo-user] Re: copy xorg.conf from knoppix

2006-08-09 Thread THUFIR HAWAT
On 8/9/06, THUFIR HAWAT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] The knoppix CD seems to work fine, I'm in firefox, typing away at gmail, with no lines/static on the screen :) [...] Here's the knoppix xorg.config file, which seems to work: [...] here's the error message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/Desktop

[gentoo-user] OT: iptables mac filtering

2006-08-09 Thread James
Hello, Continuing my quest for iptables enlightenmentI have a question about 'mac address' syntax. All options for mac and arp have been compiled into a gentoo-hardened kernel. I'm using variations of this syntax in my script. # Rule to only allow ssh by MAC address iptables -A INPUT -i

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Best IRC client

2006-08-09 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Anthony E. Caudel wrote: So I'm wondering what the consensus is regarding what is the best irc client under Gentoo. Tony Thanks guys for all your input. Looks like I'll choose xchat. Tony -- Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: iptables mac filtering

2006-08-09 Thread Daniel Iliev
James wrote: Hello, Continuing my quest for iptables enlightenmentI have a question about 'mac address' syntax. All options for mac and arp have been compiled into a gentoo-hardened kernel. I'm using variations of this syntax in my script. # Rule to only allow ssh by MAC address

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: copy xorg.conf from knoppix

2006-08-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/9/06, THUFIR HAWAT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 5 X Window System Version 6.8.2 Hrm, I assumed you were using the current version of x.org. I am betting that Knoppix is using xorg 7.0 (aka, modular X), so no, you will not be able to use the configuration file directly without fixing

[gentoo-user] Re: copy xorg.conf from knoppix

2006-08-09 Thread THUFIR HAWAT
On 8/9/06, THUFIR HAWAT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did notice that Knoppix recognized a specific monitor, wheras the Gentoo live CD only recognized a generic monitor. Why would Knoppix recognize a specific monitor where gentoo doesn't? I would've assumed things like that are (nearly)

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Google Earth

2006-08-09 Thread Daniel Iliev
Jorge Almeida wrote: I tried Google Earth, liked it, tried again, and, sure enough, it froze my computer. By froze I mean no Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to kill the X-server, no Ctrl-Alt-F?, no Ctrl-Alt-Del to reboot. I had to reboot by pressing the button in the box. (The bottom of the window said

Re: [gentoo-user] Throttling State won't change from command in Gentoo Power Management Guide

2006-08-09 Thread Tobias Heinzen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Richard You can also throttle the speed of your CPU with the command $cpufreq-set -u 80 This will set the upper bound to 800MHz, meaning your CPU won't be going any faster than those 800MHz. This is the way I am doing it. Not very nice but

Re: [gentoo-user] Throttling State won't change from command in Gentoo Power Management Guide

2006-08-09 Thread Tobias Heinzen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Richard I assume you've got the cpufreq-utils installed and running. What you can do is (as root): $cpufreq-info This will give you some information about your CPU. It looks something like this: cpufrequtils 0.4: cpufreq-info (C) Dominik

Re: [gentoo-user] How to see network activity?

2006-08-09 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 22:03:55 +0400 Boris Sobolev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I' m not sure if I need packet analyzer or another tool. A packet analyzer would be fine, I think. Although me as a CLI-junkie would have suggested tcpdump instead of wireshark :-) Emerge tcpdump, and as root do $

Re: [gentoo-user] pam-login and shadow-4.0.15-r2

2006-08-09 Thread Stroller
On 19 Jul 2006, at 18:31, Matthias Guede wrote: Matthias Guede wrote: Kris Kerwin wrote: Hi all, I haven't emerged my system in a while because of this problem, and now it is getting back to me. pam-login reports that it is being blocked by =sys-apps/shadow-4.0.15-r2. ... Just unmerge

Re: [gentoo-user] pam-login and shadow-4.0.15-r2

2006-08-09 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Stroller wrote: However my question is this: don't I need pam-login anymore? No, its function is part of shadow again. On this particular system /etc/pam.d/imap calls pam_winbind.so to authenticate off a Windows domain. Will this still work? Yes, as long as pam itself is still installed.

[gentoo-user] samba + ldap + script php

2006-08-09 Thread Leandro Melo de Sales
Hi... I wrote a php script to add users on a LDAP directory. I setup samba to auth against this directory. If I use smbldap-useradd, samba authenticate the user, but if I use my script not! My script set all attributes exactly like smbldap-useradd. What I am missing? []s Leandro. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Mount and write ntfs (natively)

2006-08-09 Thread Gian Domeni Calgeer
Or does anyone know if any of the Live CDs `knoppix' style have this tool on board? ntfs3g is *VERY* *VERY* new. I don't think that a knoppix style CD already has it. But I *bet*, that they'll have it quite soon. Hi On

[gentoo-user] IP Masquerading hardware, crossover versus hub

2006-08-09 Thread THUFIR HAWAT
I want a setup such as at http://www.fs-security.com/docs/pics/complexnat.png and am reading http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO/index.html to that end. However, there are just two machines, the gateway and a secondary. There's also a diagram at

Re: [gentoo-user] IP Masquerading hardware, crossover versus hub

2006-08-09 Thread Lord Sauron
On 8/9/06, THUFIR HAWAT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want a setup such as at http://www.fs-security.com/docs/pics/complexnat.png and am reading http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO/index.html to that end. However, there are just two machines, the gateway and a secondary. There's also a

Re: [gentoo-user] weird dependencies

2006-08-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/9/06, Rodrigo Lazo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Something weird is happening to my system. I executed (for no good reason): [EMAIL PROTECTED] # emerge -pvu --deep gaim Add --tree. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How to see network activity?

2006-08-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/9/06, Boris Sobolev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suspect the same thing hapening now. Aside from I need a firewall ( and I deliberatly do not install one,) how can I track an activities that generate that traffic? If you just want to log TCP connection attempts and UDP packets sent to your

Re: [gentoo-user] How to see network activity?

2006-08-09 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 09 August 2006 18:15, Boris Sobolev wrote: Hi folks, I would like to see the network activoity going in an out of my box. Any command to use for that? If you use KDE anyway try ksysguard. Uwe -- Mark Twain: I rather decline two drinks than a German adjective. http://www.SysEx.com.na --

[gentoo-user] Re: Mount and write ntfs (natively)

2006-08-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Gian Domeni Calgeer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Or does anyone know if any of the Live CDs `knoppix' style have this tool on board? ntfs3g is *VERY* *VERY* new. I don't think that a knoppix style CD already has it. But I *bet*, that they'll have it quite soon. Hi On

Re: [gentoo-user] IP Masquerading hardware, crossover versus hub

2006-08-09 Thread THUFIR HAWAT
On 8/9/06, Lord Sauron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Yes, use a hub. Then when Caladan, Ix, Draconus_IV, Salusa_Secundus, and finally Tleiax enter your network, they too can be connected to the Spacing Guild as well. ; ) [...] Thanks for completing the picture :) arrakis connects wirelessly

[gentoo-user] Re: Mount and write ntfs (natively)

2006-08-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alexander, Do you know if the system described above is what ntfs-g3 does too? One could never determine something that basic from the man page supplied with it. After reading it, I still know nothing about how it works. With a disk mounted under this

Re: [gentoo-user] IP Masquerading hardware, crossover versus hub

2006-08-09 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 03:08 +0100, THUFIR HAWAT wrote: I like that of the two replies, one was hub and one was no hub :) Go not to gentoo-user for council, for they will say both hub and no hub. ;) -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Indifference will certainly be the downfall

Re: [gentoo-user] How to see network activity?

2006-08-09 Thread Norman Rieß
Boris Sobolev schrieb: Hi folks, I would like to see the network activoity going in an out of my box. Any command to use for that? Thanks. Boris iftop is nice to watch, what connetions are currently open an how many traffic they produce. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How to see network activity?

2006-08-09 Thread michael
this has been a fascinating conversation. thanks boris for starting it. i've tested almost everything that has been mentioned. i often have to monitor my computers over slow text-only ssh sessions, so my focus may be a bit different from others. tcpdump (and ethereal/wireshark) of course can