[gentoo-ppc-user] Soundcard disable nic?

2006-10-13 Thread darren kirby
Well, I had hoped to start using the G5 as my main desktop. Towards those ends I purchased an M-audio Revolution 5.1 soundcard, as it is listed as supported under both OS X and Linux, and the onboard sound cannot handle my 5.1 speaker system. I physically installed the card, fired up OS X,

[gentoo-ppc-user] Soundcard disable nic? [solved]

2006-10-13 Thread darren kirby
Sorry to reply to self so soon. I figured I'd swap PCI slots. What do you know, ethernet works. Not very happy though, as the sound card is about 2mm away from the heatsink of my AGP card now... Try to see what's up with sound now. Don't be surprised if I'm back in an hour about that issue ;)

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Soundcard disable nic? [solved]

2006-10-13 Thread Louis
On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 16:40 -0700, darren kirby wrote: Sorry to reply to self so soon. I figured I'd swap PCI slots. What do you know, ethernet works. Not very happy though, as the sound card is about 2mm away from the heatsink of my AGP card now... Try to see what's up with sound now.

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Soundcard disable nic? [solved]

2006-10-13 Thread Louis
On Sat, 2006-10-14 at 00:51 -0400, Joseph Jezak wrote: noise is good I have a G5 with out sound working when you get the fix send it Thanks Louis He's not trying to get the onboard sound working, which it sounds like you are. snd-aoa should work for all G5's so give that a whirl.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Problem with disk: cannot mount as ext3 but yes as ext2 ???

2006-10-13 Thread Gregory SACRE
On 10/13/06, Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 08:29:40AM +0200, Gregory SACRE wrote Is there anything wrong with my hardware? Is it a super-block problem? Is there a way to solve it? Thank you in advance! This is not intended as an insult, but let's start at

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Flac - emerge error

2006-10-13 Thread Mick
On Thursday 12 October 2006 22:58, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: equery check x11-libs/gtk+ Thanks Bo, it seems that I have two of them? # equery check x11-libs/gtk+ [ Checking x11-libs/gtk+-1.2.10-r12 ] * 0 out of 0 files good [ Checking

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Flac - emerge error

2006-10-13 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 13 October 2006 09:05, Mick wrote: # equery check x11-libs/gtk+ [ Checking x11-libs/gtk+-1.2.10-r12 ]  * 0 out of 0 files good Umm...?? I suggest you remerge that one.. # equery check =gtk+-1.2.10-r12 [ Checking x11-libs/gtk+-1.2.10-r12 ] * 344 out of 344 files good -- Bo

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} dvdrip permissions error, alternative?

2006-10-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 22:55:03 -0700, Grant wrote: I'm tweaking that script you wrote. Here's what I have: #!/bin/bash echo Enter DVD filename: read FILENAME mount /dev/cdrom TITLE=$(vobcopy -I 21 | awk '/DVD-name:/ {print $3}') vobcopy -m || exit mkisofs -dvd-video -V $TITLE -o

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} dvdrip permissions error, alternative?

2006-10-13 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 13 October 2006 07:55, Grant wrote: #!/bin/bash [SNIP] vobcopy -m || exit mkisofs -dvd-video -V $TITLE -o $FILENAME $TITLE || exit [SNIP] Can you tell me what purpose the || exit portions serve? It's quite common is bash scripts to define a function named die: die() { echo $@

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} dvdrip permissions error, alternative?

2006-10-13 Thread go moko
--- Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's quite common is bash scripts to define a function named die: die() { echo $@ exit 1 } Or, with use of a specific return code: die() { RT=$1 shift echo $@ exit $RT } and call it either with the error code of the

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Problem with disk: cannot mount as ext3 but yes as ext2 ???

2006-10-13 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Gregory SACRE wrote: Other question about my problem: is it possible that it would be a sector problem, and that those sectors would contain the journaling of ext3? Yes, it looks like it. :( And that would be the reason why I can mount it as ext2 and not ext3? No. An ext3 filesystem can

[gentoo-user] Re: Xorg 7.1 and Legacy Nvidia Drivers

2006-10-13 Thread Harm Geerts
On Friday 13 October 2006 05:12, Troy Curtis Jr wrote: I say in the newsletter that the stabilization of Xorg 7.1 was being held up until there where updated drivers for Nvidia that added support for this version. So does this mean that you MUST use the latest Nvidia driver to use Xorg 7.1?

Re: [gentoo-user] Lightwheight Gentoo System

2006-10-13 Thread Karl Huysmans
Thanks all for your thoughts.I have tried Windowmaker as one of the lightweight window managers meanwhile on my own laptop, it loads indeed extremely fast compared to my usual KDE, but at first sight I can't possibly imagine this into a desktop a kid would like to use. After all, the idea is to

[gentoo-user] Compiling binaries on a different server

2006-10-13 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
Hi folks: I was reading the thread on the lightweight gentoo system. This to a degree meshed with what a friend and I have been talking about. Essentially setting up a standard image for all of my gentoo servers, and stage 4ing (is that a word?) that image to the servers. Once they are in

[gentoo-user] Domainname

2006-10-13 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
Hi folks; Must be my day for questions today :) Since the 2006.1 CD came out, I am finding that setting the domain name in the domainname file aparently does not work any more. What is the proper way to set this now? Im having difficulty tracking it down, and im not seeing it in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Domainname

2006-10-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 13 October 2006 15:24, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: Hi folks; Must be my day for questions today :) Since the 2006.1 CD came out, I am finding that setting the domain name in the domainname file aparently does not work any more. What is the proper way to set this now? Im having

Re: [gentoo-user] Domainname

2006-10-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 15:43:17 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: It's now set in /etc/conf.d/net And has been discussed at great length on this list over the last few weeks. The process is fully documented in /etc/conf.d/net.example and the old domainname file is deprecated (or is that obsoleted?)

[gentoo-user] Scrollback the bootmessages

2006-10-13 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi, I have the problem on one PC that I cannot mount my root partion. I tried to define it with root= parameter in grub but no success. The problem is now if the kernel panic happens I cannot scroll back to see the possible problem. Is there a possibility to scroll back the boot messages after

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} dvdrip permissions error, alternative?

2006-10-13 Thread Grant
I'm tweaking that script you wrote. Here's what I have: #!/bin/bash echo Enter DVD filename: read FILENAME mount /dev/cdrom TITLE=$(vobcopy -I 21 | awk '/DVD-name:/ {print $3}') vobcopy -m || exit mkisofs -dvd-video -V $TITLE -o $FILENAME $TITLE || exit rm -rf $TITLE umount

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} dvdrip permissions error, alternative?

2006-10-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 07:52:57 -0700, Grant wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -l -rwxrwxrwx 1 grant grant 386 Oct 12 22:24 getdvd [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ getdvd -bash: getdvd: command not found Unless the current directory is in your path, you need to invoke it with ./getdvd. I like the sound

Re: [gentoo-user] Domainname

2006-10-13 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Friday 13 October 2006 16:10, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 15:43:17 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: It's now set in /etc/conf.d/net And has been discussed at great length on this list over the last few weeks. The process is fully documented in /etc/conf.d/net.example and the

Re: [gentoo-user] where to put mknod chmod

2006-10-13 Thread maxim wexler
Ah, the old local.start hack Apparently we should never use it for things like this. But we all do :-) As a solution it's OK to do this, as long as you always remember that you put it there - future updates often end up doing strange things because of the contents of local.start,

Re: [gentoo-user] where to put mknod chmod

2006-10-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 08:22:04 -0700 (PDT), maxim wexler wrote: IIRC the last time I updated baselayout it overwrote some important files and my system was un-usable. In all the excitement I failed to note what they were. That wasn't baselayout, it was you when running etc-update. Is there a

Re: [gentoo-user] mmx sse sse2 use flags

2006-10-13 Thread maxim wexler
What does $cat /proc/cpuinfo say on the flags line? If they show up there I'd say add them. Because the cpu is at the center of the system they ought to be available for all of portage's tasks. My $.02. --- Matthew R. Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need a bit of advice. I have these use flags

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} dvdrip permissions error, alternative?

2006-10-13 Thread Grant
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -l -rwxrwxrwx 1 grant grant 386 Oct 12 22:24 getdvd [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ getdvd -bash: getdvd: command not found Unless the current directory is in your path, you need to invoke it with ./getdvd. I like the sound of your ~/bin setup. How can I add that to my

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Problem with disk: cannot mount as ext3 but yes as ext2 ???

2006-10-13 Thread Mark Shields
On 10/6/06, Gregory SACRE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello,I had a hard disk attached on an old RedHat PC formatted and mountedas ext3 filesystem.I removed the hard disk from the PC and plugged it in my Gentoo box. Itried to mount it as ext3 file system and got this error:

RE: [gentoo-user] Compiling binaries on a different server

2006-10-13 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
On Friday 13 October 2006 15:16, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: I was reading the thread on the lightweight gentoo system. This to a degree meshed with what a friend and I have been talking about. Essentially setting up a standard image for all of my gentoo servers, and stage 4ing (is

[gentoo-user] etc-update vs dispatch-conf

2006-10-13 Thread maxim wexler
Hello group, Interesting discussion here: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-478783.html What does the group think? -Maxim __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --

Re: [gentoo-user] Can smbmount handle long passwords?

2006-10-13 Thread Maxim Eremeev
On 13 October 2006 00:36, Pawel Kraszewski wrote: Well, I might be wrong, but I think Windoze has a limit of 14 characters in passsword (two 7 character pieces to be exact). I didn't try, but it seems that pass might be truncated at 14th character... So try logging in with 14 first characters

Re: [gentoo-user] Quake3 Can't load libGL.so.1 from /etc/ld.so.conf

2006-10-13 Thread Fred Kastl
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Tuesday 10 October 2006 16:41, Fred Kastl wrote: when i try to start quke3 i always get this error message: Quake3 Can't load libGL.so.1 from /etc/ld.so.conf although it exists and ld knows about it. It also seems that the game can find it too, but don't load it.

[gentoo-user] OT - format ssmtp's from field + gmail SMTP

2006-10-13 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
I am using gmail's SMTP server to send mail from my local machine (mostly for portage and cron logs) and I discovered that if I send mail using the `mail` command, rather than using my real name, something just puts my email in the From field. To make it clear it looks like this: gmail's

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update vs dispatch-conf

2006-10-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 13 October 2006 11:56, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] etc-update vs dispatch-conf': Interesting discussion here: I didn't read it, but after I heard about dispatch-conf, I set it up to use RCS and turned on all the auto-merge options and never looked back.

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update vs dispatch-conf

2006-10-13 Thread Justin Patrin
On 10/13/06, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 13 October 2006 11:56, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] etc-update vs dispatch-conf': Interesting discussion here: I didn't read it, but after I heard about dispatch-conf, I set it up to use RCS and

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update vs dispatch-conf

2006-10-13 Thread Mark Shields
On 10/13/06, Justin Patrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/13/06, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 13 October 2006 11:56, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] etc-update vs dispatch-conf': Interesting discussion here: I didn't read it, but after I

[gentoo-user] Re: etc-update vs dispatch-conf

2006-10-13 Thread Remy Blank
maxim wexler wrote: What does the group think? I don't know about the group, but I use etc-update and keep all of /etc in a Subversion working copy. This allows quickly seeing any changes made on updates and emerges, reverting changes if anything breaks, and keeping track of the reasons for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Flac - emerge error

2006-10-13 Thread Mick
On Friday 13 October 2006 08:13, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Friday 13 October 2006 09:05, Mick wrote: # equery check x11-libs/gtk+ [ Checking x11-libs/gtk+-1.2.10-r12 ]  * 0 out of 0 files good Umm...?? I suggest you remerge that one.. # equery check =gtk+-1.2.10-r12 [ Checking

[gentoo-user] camera software for amd64?

2006-10-13 Thread James
Hello, Looking around I cannot seem to find any software for the amd64(turion) that allows me to interface, download pictures and manage them in some sort of digital gallery. I use KDE but a gtk_ish app is ok too. Suggestions are most welcome. The camera is an Olympus Camedea modelm D-40zoom.

[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo mirro rsync policy

2006-10-13 Thread Régis Décamps
On Oct 13, 3:00 am, Trenton Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Guys, Is there a policy for thesyncingof the mirrors, that would prevent inconsistencies? I'm not talking about inconsistencies with the masterserver(s), as that would be kind of difficult to have atomicsyncingbetween all servers

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: etc-update vs dispatch-conf

2006-10-13 Thread Erik
I much prefer dispatch-conf. I just find it easier to use. I find etc-update a touch crude in the way it takes input. On 10/13/06, Remy Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: maxim wexler wrote: What does the group think? I don't know about the group, but I use etc-update and keep all of /etc in a

Re: [gentoo-user] where to put mknod chmod

2006-10-13 Thread Drew
On 10/11/06, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 11 October 2006 18:00, maxim wexler wrote: Hi group, One of my morning chores after booting linux is to su and enter #mknod /dev/ppp c 108 0 and #chmod a+rw /dev/parport0. Where can I park these commands to automate the

Re: [gentoo-user] camera software for amd64?

2006-10-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 21:19:51 + (UTC), James wrote: Looking around I cannot seem to find any software for the amd64(turion) that allows me to interface, download pictures and manage them in some sort of digital gallery. I use KDE but a gtk_ish app is ok too. Digikam or KPhotoalbum, both

[gentoo-user] root on EVMS, evms_activate, checkroot, rw/ro mount, gah

2006-10-13 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
I'll start by presenting some info about my system. You'll find the actual problems (numbered) in the middle of this message. I have my root file system on RAID 1 I use an initrd image to get my system going. The image was simply taken from:

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} dvdrip permissions error, alternative?

2006-10-13 Thread Grant
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -l -rwxrwxrwx 1 grant grant 386 Oct 12 22:24 getdvd [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ getdvd -bash: getdvd: command not found Unless the current directory is in your path, you need to invoke it with ./getdvd. I like the sound of your ~/bin setup. How can I add that to

[gentoo-user] Blocking package cannot be removed...

2006-10-13 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
Hi, I conjunction with emerge --verbose --update --deep world I got the message, that a package would block another one. So I did a emerge --pretend --verbose --update --deep world and it was reported, that dev-java/java-config is blocking dev-java/java-config-wrapper

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocking package cannot be removed...

2006-10-13 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Saturday 14 October 2006 06:35, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: [SNIP] So I did a emerge --pretend --verbose --update --deep world and it was reported, that dev-java/java-config is blocking dev-java/java-config-wrapper . I decided to remove java-config by emerge -C

[gentoo-user] Calendar sharing with MS outlook on gentoo

2006-10-13 Thread bijayant kumar
Hi to all, I want to install MS outlook on the gentoo. Can it possible to run MS outlook on gentoo-linux. If yes then how...??? Is any extra plugin required to do the same. My main concern is that i have to provide calendar sharing with MS outlook on linux box to one of my client..Please help

Re: [gentoo-user] Compiling binaries on a different server

2006-10-13 Thread Trenton Adams
The PORTAGE_BINHOST option is quit time consuming on emerges. But, if you're only doing it once in awhile, in batched sets, it should be just fine. The reason it takes so long is that it has to do an FTP listing of the remote host, cache that info, and then finally it'll do the merging. I was

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: etc-update vs dispatch-conf

2006-10-13 Thread Trenton Adams
I use dispatch-conf all the time. I too have never looked back. I use diff=vimdiff -R %s %s in /etc/dispatch-conf.conf NOT SURE WHAT '-R' IS now though. Perhaps it should not be there. Then I add the following line to my .vimrc, which allows me to press F2 to exit the vimdiff windows in one

Re: [gentoo-user] Calendar sharing with MS outlook on gentoo

2006-10-13 Thread Trenton Adams
You could install VMWare. On 10/13/06, bijayant kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi to all, I want to install MS outlook on the gentoo. Can it possible to run MS outlook on gentoo-linux. If yes then how...??? Is any extra plugin required to do the same. My main concern is that i

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update vs dispatch-conf

2006-10-13 Thread maxim wexler
dispatch-conf is just a more robust and full-featured system for updating config files. I read the first page of that discussion and it seems most of those who use etc-update haven't tried dispatch-conf. The rest feel they don't need the added features. IMHO dispatch-conf should be the