Re: [gentoo-user] cdrtools incomplete?

2007-05-07 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 7. Mai 2007 schrieb ext Leonhard Gruener: equery belongs /usr/bin/cdrecord [ Searching for file(s) /usr/bin/cdrecord in *... ] app-cdr/cdrkit-1.1.5.1 (/usr/bin/cdrecord - /usr/bin/wodim) So install cdrkit. Hope this helps # equery belongs /usr/bin/cdrecord [ Searching for file(s)

Re: [gentoo-user] upload problem in seamonkey

2007-05-07 Thread Randy Barlow
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 pat wrote: I have problem with uploading some sorts of the files by seamonkey (e.g. *.pdf, *.jpg, etc.) ... in 90%. What kinds of problems? R -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla -

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Intel D975X or NVidia 680i for stable, fast Linux box?

2007-05-07 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Denis schrieb: I'm looking into upgrading to Intel Core 2 Duo (or Quad) family - perhaps the E6600 Conroe. I'm trying to figure out which motherboard/chipset would suit my needs best. I'm planning to install Gentoo Linux on the system, and I need it to be, first and foremost, stable and

Re: [gentoo-user] Enable the mouse for the console

2007-05-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Richard Broersma Jr, Thanks everyone for the pointers! GROAN -- Neil Bothwick I cna ytpe 300 wrods pre mniuet!!! signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Intel D975X or NVidia 680i for stable, fast Linux box?

2007-05-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Stefan G. Weichinger, Why not use the 965P-chipset on a board like the Intel DP965LT? Should be a bit cheaper than the D975X and if you don't need the RAID-functionality, this is a very good board for working purposes IMO. Which board are you using? -- Neil Bothwick What's the

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Intel D975X or NVidia 680i for stable, fast Linux box?

2007-05-07 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Neil Bothwick schrieb: Hello Stefan G. Weichinger, Why not use the 965P-chipset on a board like the Intel DP965LT? Should be a bit cheaper than the D975X and if you don't need the RAID-functionality, this is a very good board for working purposes IMO. Which board are you using? As

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Intel D975X or NVidia 680i for stable, fast Linux box?

2007-05-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Stefan G. Weichinger, Why not use the 965P-chipset on a board like the Intel DP965LT? Should be a bit cheaper than the D975X and if you don't need the RAID-functionality, this is a very good board for working purposes IMO. Which board are you using? As mentioned above:

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Intel D975X or NVidia 680i for stable, fast Linux box?

2007-05-07 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Neil Bothwick schrieb: Hello Stefan G. Weichinger, Why not use the 965P-chipset on a board like the Intel DP965LT? Should be a bit cheaper than the D975X and if you don't need the RAID-functionality, this is a very good board for working purposes IMO. Which board are you using? As

[gentoo-user] Firefox generates zombies.

2007-05-07 Thread Marek Miller
When I run firefox 2.0.0.3 on my x86 laptop, the ps -eHF command produces following output: UIDPID PPID CSZ RSS PSR STIME TTY TIME CMD ... ... marek 5788 5765 12 50526 730880 09:02 ?00:13:42 /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox-bin marek 5869 5788

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about java, Seamonkey and random hangs.

2007-05-07 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: OK. I emerged the one you mentioned. I mostly did it because now when I go to the weather radar, Seamonkey starts to load the page then crashes completely. Even Konqueror doesn't work most of the time. What the heck is going on with this? I need my weather because we have

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Intel D975X or NVidia 680i for stable, fast Linux box?

2007-05-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 07 May 2007 10:31:06 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: I was looking at a Gigabyte board but I'll give this one a look too. A Gigabyte board with the P965-chipset? I have a comparison here with the Gigabyte 945P-DS3, somewhat cheaper than the Intel, no firewire, and a bit

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox generates zombies.

2007-05-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 07 May 2007, Marek Miller wrote: When I run firefox 2.0.0.3 on my x86 laptop, the ps -eHF command produces following output: UIDPID PPID CSZ RSS PSR STIME TTY TIME CMD ... ... marek 5788 5765 12 50526 730880 09:02 ?00:13:42

Re: [gentoo-user] eix way too verbose

2007-05-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 04 May 2007, Vaeth wrote: nazgul ~ # eix gimp-print [I] media-gfx/gimp-print Available versions: 4.2.7 (~)5.1.0 {cups foomaticdb gimp gtk nls ppds readline} Installed versions: 5.1.0(20:50:45 05/02/07)(cups foomaticdb gimp gtk -nls ppds readline) Homepage:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reducing disk usage

2007-05-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 05 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Surely you meant move the /tmp, /usr and /var to the / partition?   Let me rephrase myself...   - *PHYSICALLY* moving /tmp /usr and /var to the /home partition.   - bind mount (or symlink) these directories to the / partition OK, I see what

[gentoo-user] slocate's index

2007-05-07 Thread Florian Philipp
Hi! I would like to know if there is a package, daemon or whatever that automatically updates an index to seach the file system. I'm a bit tired of slocate -u [wait 5min] every time I emerge something. Thanks in advance Florian Philipp pgpwO3E2pMnjz.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox generates zombies.

2007-05-07 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Monday 7 May 2007 13:09, Marek Miller wrote: Firefox is a parent of defunct netstat process. Of course, when I close firefox, the zombie disappears too. Could someone explain me how to get rid of it? It's an ancient bug. See this bug report:

Re: [gentoo-user] slocate's index

2007-05-07 Thread Elias Probst
On Monday 07 May 2007 12:02:41 Florian Philipp wrote: Hi! I would like to know if there is a package, daemon or whatever that automatically updates an index to seach the file system. I'm a bit tired of slocate -u [wait 5min] every time I emerge something. Thanks in advance Florian Philipp

[gentoo-user] Re: slocate's index

2007-05-07 Thread Anno v. Heimburg
Florian Philipp wrote: I would like to know if there is a package, daemon or whatever that automatically updates an index to seach the file system. What about a cron script? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Enable the mouse for the console

2007-05-07 Thread Jesús Guerrero
El Sun, 6 May 2007 09:23:27 -0700 (PDT) Richard Broersma Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Can anyone point me to a howto link so that I can enable my mouse for the console? emerge gpm rc-update add gpm default /etc/init.d/gpm start -- Jesús Guerrero -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] slocate's index

2007-05-07 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 12:02 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: Hi! I would like to know if there is a package, daemon or whatever that automatically updates an index to seach the file system. I'm a bit tired of slocate -u [wait 5min] every time I emerge something. slocate already has such a

Re: [gentoo-user] slocate's index

2007-05-07 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Iain Buchanan wrote: /etc/cron.daily/slocate contains instructions for updating the database, using updatedb. Move it to /etc/cron.weekly or whatever if you want. Better copy it, and replace the body of the daily one with '## Placeholder, do not delete.' Otherwise a revision of the slocate

Re: [gentoo-user] slocate's index

2007-05-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 07 May 2007, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Iain Buchanan wrote: /etc/cron.daily/slocate contains instructions for updating the database, using updatedb. Move it to /etc/cron.weekly or whatever if you want. Better copy it, and replace the body of the daily one with '## Placeholder,

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-7.2 and ati-drivers-8.32.5

2007-05-07 Thread marco restelli
On 5/4/07, Remy Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have noticed xorg-7.2 just went stable. I am currently using 7.1 with the stable binary ATI drivers ati-drivers-8.32.5 and the kernel gentoo-sources-2.6.19-r5. Has anybody with the same configuration done the update? Does it work for you?

Re: [gentoo-user] slocate's index

2007-05-07 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 07 May 2007, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Better copy it, and replace the body of the daily one with '## Placeholder, do not delete.' Otherwise a revision of the slocate ebuild will put the script back into the daily dir without saying anything. Quite

[gentoo-user] remote ssh session does not reflect my keyboard inputs

2007-05-07 Thread Mick
Hi All, I am not sure how this works: When I ssh into a Ubuntu server certain keyboard actions (like pressing the Up or Left arrows) are not translated on the remote box, but give ASCII responses; e.g. pressing Left Arrow, gives $ ^[[D which is annoying as I have to delete part of the command

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-7.2 and ati-drivers-8.32.5

2007-05-07 Thread Francisco Rivas
Hi, I never couldn't get 8.32.5 ati-drivers working. Now I update to kernel 2.6.20-r6 and 8.36 ati-drivers and works fine for me. I guess update to 8.36ati-driver. I hope be a help. On 5/7/07, Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-05-07, marco restelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-7.2 and ati-drivers-8.32.5

2007-05-07 Thread Remy Blank
Thanks for the feedback. Grant Edwards wrote: I couldn't get 8.32.5 to build with 2.6.16, so I upgraded to 2.6.20. 8.32.5 wouldn't build with that kernel version so I tried the testing version of ati-drivers. Yes, b.g.o has quite a few bugs open for ati-drivers related to 2.6.20, that's one

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-7.2 and ati-drivers-8.32.5

2007-05-07 Thread Francisco Rivas
All right, well you can prove with kernel 2.6.19 and 8.36 ati-drivers if you want to keep that kernel. :D On 5/7/07, Remy Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the feedback. Grant Edwards wrote: I couldn't get 8.32.5 to build with 2.6.16, so I upgraded to 2.6.20. 8.32.5 wouldn't build

Re: [gentoo-user] remote ssh session does not reflect my keyboard inputs

2007-05-07 Thread Ryan Sims
On 5/7/07, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I ssh into a Ubuntu server certain keyboard actions (like pressing the Up or Left arrows) are not translated on the remote box, but give ASCII responses; e.g. pressing Left Arrow, gives $ ^[[D which is annoying as I have to delete part of the command

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-7.2 and ati-drivers-8.32.5

2007-05-07 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-05-07, Francisco Rivas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I never couldn't get 8.32.5 ati-drivers working. Now I update to kernel 2.6.20-r6 and 8.36 ati-drivers and works fine for me. I guess update to 8.36ati-driver. OK, I'll give 2.6.20 + 8.36.5 a try. Next time I'm in the market for a

Re: [gentoo-user] Mount NFS mounts as soon as possible

2007-05-07 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. schrieb: IIRC, you can modify specific initscripts (in /etc/init.d) to depend on nfsmount. i moved now the script netmount from default to boot and everything works fine. Bye Matthias -- Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-7.2 and ati-drivers-8.32.5

2007-05-07 Thread Francisco Rivas
Your comment is really funny because I think the same before my 8.36ati-drivers work. Honestly I think the same now, it's important keep that in mind. In my job I have an Nvidia Video Card and on the first time i installed the nvidia-drivers pufff.. works. Actually RMS said don't buy ati he

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-7.2 and ati-drivers-8.32.5

2007-05-07 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-05-07, Francisco Rivas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Next time I'm in the market for a loptop, I'm going to think long and hard before buying another model that has an ATI video chipset. I've never had a lick of trouble with NVidia drivers and have had constant headaches with ATI drivers

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-7.2 and ati-drivers-8.32.5

2007-05-07 Thread Francisco Rivas
yes you have reason, because when I bought my laptop (dell inspiron 6400 15.4) I ask to vendor (pretty good girl) if I can buy a laptop 15.4 with Nvidia, she say no because the size of the laptop is not appropriate.. On 5/7/07, Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-05-07, Francisco

[gentoo-user] xorg-server blocked by ati-drivers

2007-05-07 Thread James
Hello, I'm looking for some advice on an amd64 system. I have this video card: 01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 7269 Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 0d03 Which is actually this card: R580 [Radeon X1900 XT] (Secondary) according to this

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server blocked by ati-drivers

2007-05-07 Thread Remy Blank
James wrote: blocks B x11-drivers/ati-drivers (is blocking x11-base/xorg-server-1.3.0.0) That's because none of the current ati-drivers work with xorg-server-1.3. One thing that I as never really comfortable with is this make.conf entry that I ended up using shich I gleaned from

[gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from a floppy and then chroot to finish install on old PC

2007-05-07 Thread Richard Watson
Hi - I've got an old PC at home I want to use as a samba server. It doesn't have a CD drive and I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to create bootable gentoo floppy. I've been using Toms linux to wget and re-install the stage and portage files but the kernel is to old and fails on chroot.

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server blocked by ati-drivers

2007-05-07 Thread James
Remy Blank remy.blank at pobox.com writes: Stay away from xorg-server-1.3 and kernel-2.6.20 or later until ATI releases new versions that work with them. This is what I was looking for. I do not stay on top of these issues, and the system is working reasonable well right now. I just cannot

[gentoo-user] Packages that do not compile.

2007-05-07 Thread David Harel
As so many times before, openssl fails to compile. Top most error is: openssl.c:(.text+0x15c): undefined reference to `OPENSSL_add_all_algorithms_noconf'. Two other packages that give me trouble are: glibc and python. All attempts are after sync and to a stable (so I hope) version. GCC

Re: [gentoo-user] Packages that do not compile.

2007-05-07 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 7. Mai 2007, David Harel wrote: As so many times before, openssl fails to compile. Top most error is: openssl.c:(.text+0x15c): undefined reference to `OPENSSL_add_all_algorithms_noconf'. Two other packages that give me trouble are: glibc and python. All attempts are after sync and

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from a floppy and then chroot to finish install on old PC

2007-05-07 Thread Philipp Riegger
On 07.05.2007, at 23:13, Richard Watson wrote: Apart from the obvious comment to buy a CD drive ... Is there anyone out there that has Gentoo 2.6 kernel that will boot of a floppy and can tell me how to do it? The only other command I would need to perform would be chroot. I cannot tell

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server blocked by ati-drivers

2007-05-07 Thread Stuart Howard
This link to the forum though I realise it is nvidia based it may give some further information the posts refer to a bug which further refers to another bug which is the ATI issue but the general point is there. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-556528-highlight-nvidia+block.html On

Re: [gentoo-user] slocate's index

2007-05-07 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Graham Murray wrote: Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: /etc is in CONFIG_PROTECT by default. The point is, when a file doesn't exist yet, Portage will simply install it. The config protection mechanism works only for existing files. There's no way to tell Portage that I want

Re: [gentoo-user] remote ssh session does not reflect my keyboard inputs

2007-05-07 Thread Mick
On Monday 07 May 2007 16:55, Ryan Sims wrote: On 5/7/07, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I ssh into a Ubuntu server certain keyboard actions (like pressing the Up or Left arrows) are not translated on the remote box, but give ASCII responses; e.g. pressing Left Arrow, gives $ ^[[D which

[gentoo-user] kernel install fails, update-grub not found [solved]

2007-05-07 Thread Devon Miller
Ugh what a mess. I'm posting what happened and why in case anyone else stumbles into this. I sync'd portage on Saturday. Then on yesterday I tweaked a kernel config setting and grub.conf. When I tried to 'make install' I got an error that update-grub was not found and would I like to make a boot

Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage

2007-05-07 Thread Troy Curtis Jr
On 4/26/07, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've found myself with a full hard disk and no obvious choices for reducing usage. Are there any not-so-obvious ways to free up hard disk space? - Grant -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list I don't know if this is *obvious* or not, but you might

Re: [gentoo-user] remote ssh session does not reflect my keyboard inputs

2007-05-07 Thread Ryan Sims
On 5/7/07, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 07 May 2007 16:55, Ryan Sims wrote: On 5/7/07, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I ssh into a Ubuntu server certain keyboard actions (like pressing the Up or Left arrows) are not translated on the remote box, but give ASCII responses;

[gentoo-user] Re: slocate's index

2007-05-07 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Monday 07 May 2007, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Graham Murray wrote: Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: /etc is in CONFIG_PROTECT by default. The point is, when a file doesn't exist yet, Portage will simply install it. The config protection mechanism works only for existing