Re: [gentoo-user] Most important packages to save buildpkg of

2007-01-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 21 January 2007 17:55, Dale wrote: > Hi, > > Every once in a blue moon I screw up something. I don't know why I > am telling you this. I come here mostly for help. LOL So you > already now that. I have buildpkg set in make.conf. It does tend to > consume some space though. What is

Re: [gentoo-user] Most important packages to save buildpkg of

2007-01-21 Thread Dale
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Sunday 21 January 2007 16:55, Dale wrote: > [SNIP] > >> I have buildpkg set in make.conf. It does tend to consume some >> space though. >> > > You are aware that you can use eclean from app-portage/gentoolkit to clean > binpkgs that you no longer have instal

Re: [gentoo-user] Most important packages to save buildpkg of

2007-01-21 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 14:25:21 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > >>> Also, what commands would a person have to use to make use of those >>> buildpkg's? So far, I have not needed one. < says prayer > That >>> assumes portage is what is screwed up to begin with. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Most important packages to save buildpkg of

2007-01-21 Thread Dale
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Sunday 21 January 2007 09:55, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > about '[gentoo-user] Most important packages to save buildpkg of': > >> Every once in a blue moon I screw up something. I don't know why I am >> telling you this. I come here mostly for help. LO

Re: [gentoo-user] Xgl and direct rendering or 'Would you like Xorg or Xgl, sir?'

2007-01-21 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/20/07, Jan Stępień <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (/lib/modules/2.6.18-gentoo-r4/kernel/drivers/char/drm/drm.ko): Cannot allocate memory Try searching dmesg for drm. My guess is either the radeonfb module is conflicting, or the fglrx module. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Most important packages to save buildpkg of

2007-01-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 14:25:21 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > Also, what commands would a person have to use to make use of those > > buildpkg's? So far, I have not needed one. < says prayer > That > > assumes portage is what is screwed up to begin with. > > All you need is tar. You

Re: [gentoo-user] package update quirck

2007-01-21 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Sunday 21 January 2007 23:08, Dorin Scutarasu wrote: > I just noticed that when I do 'emerge -avuDN world' not all packages get > > updated to the last stable version: > > $ emerge -pvuDN world [SNIP] > > Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 kB > > ...but than... > > > $ emerge -pv dbus [SNIP

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a home router

2007-01-21 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 23:01 +0100, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > > The only last thing I could suggest is running lsof to see what files > > are being accessed when you start the net.eth1 script. > > I tried lsof, but is there a possibility to run it constantly or for a > specified time to catch the c

[gentoo-user] Re: package update quirck

2007-01-21 Thread »Q«
Dorin Scutarasu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... so shouldn't portage prevent me from updating to dbus-1.0.2 since > there are ebuilds that depend on

Re: [gentoo-user] Do Debian's 2.6.18 problems exist in gentoo?

2007-01-21 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 15:09 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: > On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 17:27:28 -0500 > Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm in the process of installing gentoo now, good! [snip] > > What I was wondering was whether a similar misfortune has befallen > > gentoo's 2.6.18 kernel, or

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X configuration problem

2007-01-21 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 23:39 +0530, arnuld wrote: > > did you forget to add these to /etc/make.conf? > > > INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse synaptics" > > VIDEO_CARDS="ati radeon vesa fbdev fglrx" > > Iain, it seems likee you have not read my 1st post, here is the > relevent part of it: > > IN

Re: [gentoo-user] Most important packages to save buildpkg of

2007-01-21 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Sunday 21 January 2007 16:55, Dale wrote: [SNIP] > I have buildpkg set in make.conf. It does tend to consume some > space though. You are aware that you can use eclean from app-portage/gentoolkit to clean binpkgs that you no longer have installed? I tend to use it with the --destructive opti

[gentoo-user] X slowed down; is it KDE?

2007-01-21 Thread Vlad Dogaru
Hello, Since this morning, Fluxbox has been running very slowly. For instance, when I start Eterm, it takes about 3 to 5 seconds. Every single time. And conky shows X climbing up to 100% CPU usage until I get the terminal window. Could this be because of my failed attempt to compile KDE? Emerge

[gentoo-user] Re: single command line argument not working on boot

2007-01-21 Thread John covici
on Sunday 01/21/2007 »Q«([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > In , > John covici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I was under the impression that I could boot into a shell before > > the runlevel default started by adding single to my boot command > > line. > > Use softleve

[gentoo-user] package update quirck

2007-01-21 Thread Dorin Scutarasu
Hi, I just noticed that when I do 'emerge -avuDN world' not all packages get updated to the last stable version: > $ emerge -pvuDN world > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating world dependencies... done! > > Total: 0 packages, Size of downl

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: single command line argument not working on boot

2007-01-21 Thread Iván Pérez Domínguez
Harm Geerts wrote: > On Sunday 21 January 2007 22:10, John covici wrote: >> Hi. I was under the impression that I could boot into a shell before >> the runlevel default started by adding single to my boot command >> line. There is nothing in the single directory and right now when I >> say single

Re: [gentoo-user] Where to put policy routing

2007-01-21 Thread Graham Murray
Konstantinos Agouros writes: > I have a firewall setup where I do need policy routing since I have two > default routers (one for mail and one for websurfing). I could put the ip > rules commands in local.start but I guess the right place would be > conf.d/net. So what's the 'official' way of d

[gentoo-user] Re: single command line argument not working on boot

2007-01-21 Thread Harm Geerts
On Sunday 21 January 2007 22:10, John covici wrote: > Hi. I was under the impression that I could boot into a shell before > the runlevel default started by adding single to my boot command > line. There is nothing in the single directory and right now when I > say single it goes right to run lev

[gentoo-user] Re: single command line argument not working on boot

2007-01-21 Thread »Q«
In , John covici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was under the impression that I could boot into a shell before > the runlevel default started by adding single to my boot command > line. Use softlevel=single instead of just single . -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] single command line argument not working on boot

2007-01-21 Thread John covici
Hi. I was under the impression that I could boot into a shell before the runlevel default started by adding single to my boot command line. There is nothing in the single directory and right now when I say single it goes right to run level 3. Any assistance would be appreciated. -- Your life i

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless PCMCIA card issue with 2.6.18 linux kernel

2007-01-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 21 January 2007 14:32, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless PCMCIA card issue with 2.6.18 linux kernel': > On Sunday 21 January 2007 13:42, Timur Aydin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > Jan 21 21:32:17 bonsai pcmcia: request for exclusive IRQ

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless PCMCIA card issue with 2.6.18 linux kernel

2007-01-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 21 January 2007 13:42, Timur Aydin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] Wireless PCMCIA card issue with 2.6.18 linux kernel': > Jan 21 21:32:17 bonsai pcmcia: request for exclusive IRQ could not be > fulfilled. > Jan 21 21:32:17 bonsai pcmcia: the driver needs updating to > su

Re: [gentoo-user] Most important packages to save buildpkg of

2007-01-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 21 January 2007 09:55, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] Most important packages to save buildpkg of': > Every once in a blue moon I screw up something. I don't know why I am > telling you this. I come here mostly for help. LOL So you already now > that. I have bui

Re: [gentoo-user] About permissions, etc.

2007-01-21 Thread Norberto Bensa
Charles Trois wrote: > Hello! > > I am a bit confused about some matters related to permissions. > Here is a part of my fstab file: > > Sirrah ~ # cat /etc/fstab > ... > /dev/hda9 /mnt/giga hfs defaults,umask=0 0 0 > /dev/hda10 /mnt/Sigma hfsplus defaults

Re: [gentoo-user] Where to put policy routing

2007-01-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 21 January 2007 07:52, Konstantinos Agouros wrote about '[gentoo-user] Where to put policy routing': > I have a firewall setup where I do need policy routing since I have two > default routers (one for mail and one for websurfing). I could put the > ip rules commands in local.start but

[gentoo-user] Wireless PCMCIA card issue with 2.6.18 linux kernel

2007-01-21 Thread Timur Aydin
Hi, I have a Senao NL-2511CD PLUS EXT2 wireless PCMCIA card, which I am planning to use in my desktop PC through a Ricoh RL5c475 PCI-PCMCIA bridge. The relevant output from uname, lspci and lspcmcia is at the end of this message. The kernel configuration file and /etc/pcmcia/config.opts is attache

[gentoo-user] Wireless PCMCIA card issue with 2.6.18 linux kernel

2007-01-21 Thread Timur Aydin
Hi, I have a Senao NL-2511CD PLUS EXT2 wireless PCMCIA card, which I am planning to use in my desktop PC through a Ricoh RL5c475 PCI-PCMCIA bridge. The relevant output from uname, lspci and lspcmcia is at the end of this message. The kernel configuration file and /etc/pcmcia/config.opts is attache

Re: [gentoo-user] setting system's domain name

2007-01-21 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
sorry it should be 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.0.1 hostname.domain-name hostname Hostname and domain-name must have a full stop in between. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] error message concerning modules on boot

2007-01-21 Thread Benno Schulenberg
John covici wrote: > I am getting the following error when I boot -- is this something > all gentoo users get or am I doing something wrong? > > [...] > Jan 21 08:26:53 ccs kernel: Symbols match kernel version 2.6.18. > Jan 21 08:26:53 ccs kernel: Error querying loaded modules - > Function not impl

[gentoo-user] About permissions, etc.

2007-01-21 Thread Charles Trois
Hello! I am a bit confused about some matters related to permissions. Here is a part of my fstab file: Sirrah ~ # cat /etc/fstab ... /dev/hda9 /mnt/giga hfs defaults,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hda10 /mnt/Sigma hfsplus defaults 0 0 /dev/hda11 /mnt/SigmaX

Re: [gentoo-user] setting system's domain name

2007-01-21 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
maybe the dns_domain setting is wrong i have this in my config but iam not sure if this really sets the domainname you can also try setting this in /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.0.1 hostname,domain-name hostname -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] setting system's domain name

2007-01-21 Thread Andrey Gerasimenko
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 18:45:01 +0300, John covici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am having problems setting the domain name of a new gentoo installation. I looked at /etc/conf.d/net.examples and tried what seemed to me what they were looking for such as DNS_LO="" The host name works, although I

Re: [gentoo-user] setting system's domain name

2007-01-21 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Will this keep my /etc/resolv.conf in tact? On my system, yes, but backup /etc/resolv.conf and try it out with restarting /etc/init.d/net.eth0. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to get rid of errors related to glib

2007-01-21 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
> Bo Ørsted Andresen schrieb: >> Make sure that you have the latest portage (either latest stable or latest >> ~arch) i.e. run `emerge -u portage`. If that doesn't fix it I think you >> should file a bug against portage at bugs.gentoo.org. Submitted that bug right now: http://bugs.gentoo.org/s

Re: [gentoo-user] setting system's domain name

2007-01-21 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2007/1/21, John covici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I am having problems setting the domain name of a new gentoo installation. I looked at /etc/conf.d/net.examples and tried what seemed to me what they were looking for such as DNS_LO="" The host name works, although I would like to not have it wipe out

[gentoo-user] Most important packages to save buildpkg of

2007-01-21 Thread Dale
Hi, Every once in a blue moon I screw up something. I don't know why I am telling you this. I come here mostly for help. LOL So you already now that. I have buildpkg set in make.conf. It does tend to consume some space though. What is say the top ten or twelve programs that would be good to

[gentoo-user] setting system's domain name

2007-01-21 Thread John covici
I am having problems setting the domain name of a new gentoo installation. I looked at /etc/conf.d/net.examples and tried what seemed to me what they were looking for such as DNS_LO="" The host name works, although I would like to not have it wipe out my resolv.conf. I can set hostname to the fu

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia card swap

2007-01-21 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 21 January 2007 02:49, James wrote: > hello, > > I have a system using this card: > "NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400]" > > and I want to use this card: > "NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]" > > to hopefully get more perfomance on 3D applications. > > Can I just swap the hardware or do I have to edit > (

Re: [gentoo-user] x11 display as v4l device

2007-01-21 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > Probably not. Since V4L is a kernel interface, you would need a dummy > driver in the kernel. Probably the easiest way to archieve what you > want is to write a module that provides a v4l interface to a dummy > framebuffer. N

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: logrotate won't rotate portage logs

2007-01-21 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 16:46:36 + Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks HW, this is what logrotate -d shows re. portage logs: > > # logrotate -d /etc/logrotate.conf > [snip...] > rotating pattern: /var/log/portage/*.log > weekly (1 rotations) > [snip...]

Re: [gentoo-user] x11 display as v4l device

2007-01-21 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 22:18:20 -0300 "Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anybody know if there is some driver+tools that could present an > x11 display as a v4l device? Probably not. Since V4L is a kernel interface, you would need a dummy driver in the kernel. Probabl

[gentoo-user] Where to put policy routing

2007-01-21 Thread Konstantinos Agouros
Hello, I have a firewall setup where I do need policy routing since I have two default routers (one for mail and one for websurfing). I could put the ip rules commands in local.start but I guess the right place would be conf.d/net. So what's the 'official' way of doing this? Regards, Konstanti

[gentoo-user] Re: Do Debian's 2.6.18 problems exist in gentoo?

2007-01-21 Thread Mick
Nick Rout wrote: > On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 17:27:28 -0500 > Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'm in the process of installing gentoo now, in the hope of getting it to >> work more reliably (and more up-to-date) than Debian. Debian's 2.6.18-3 >> kernel includes backported msync-optimising

Re: [gentoo-user] php-5.1.6-r6 troubles

2007-01-21 Thread Daniel Iliev
James wrote: > Hello, > > Trying to run a routine upgrade I get this error: > > hecking for Informix support... no > checking for InterBase support... yes > checking for isc_detach_database in -lfbclient... no > checking for isc_detach_database in -lgds... no > checking for isc_detach_database in -