Re: [gentoo-user] chroot

2006-03-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 27 March 2006 20:43, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] chroot': On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 19:56:22 -0600 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, that's an option to, although with more than ~768K of ram it's not ideal. Why is that? I thought 32-bit

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia 6629? was: modular Xorg made it to ~x86

2006-03-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 27 March 2006 22:55, Norberto Bensa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] nvidia 6629? was: modular Xorg made it to ~x86': Iain Buchanan wrote: I need a functional X on this box, but I'm happy to put up with a few quirks. What are the gotcha's? Has anyone tried Xorg7

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing linux's internet connection with an iMac?

2006-03-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 27 March 2006 01:07, Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Sharing linux's internet connection with an iMac?': I have a Linux laptop, and an iMac. This linux laptop uses a wifi connection to a router for network/internet access. While its connected to the network, can I

Re: [gentoo-user] Sendmail virtusertable

2006-03-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 25 March 2006 06:50, Hiren Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Sendmail virtusertable': Here I have used yahoo.com domain but it can be any domain lets say domain.com. My network is not connected to Internet. Still do you think that the following will not work if

nForce chipsets (was: Re: [gentoo-user] VIA K8M890/K8M880 (VT8251) supported?)

2006-03-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 25 March 2006 15:59, Jarry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] VIA K8M890/K8M880 (VT8251) supported?': Norberto Bensa wrote: I did. Bought nForce4-based board. Got stuck with sata-II drives (lock-ups, crushes, out-of-sync, both in linux and in windows). It is a buggy

Re: [gentoo-user] net-misc/rinetd

2006-03-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 25 March 2006 17:37, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] net-misc/rinetd': When I first installed rinetd, I noticed that amd64 was not in the KEYWORDS. I added amd64 to the KEYWORDS in the ebuild and it has been working fine. That was your first mistake.

Re: [gentoo-user] net-misc/rinetd

2006-03-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 25 March 2006 18:54, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] net-misc/rinetd': On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 17:49:53 -0600 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2 options: 1) Add a /valid/ keyword to your package.keywords like '~x86' or 'x86'. 2) Use a portage

Re: [gentoo-user] net-misc/rinetd

2006-03-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 25 March 2006 19:53, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] net-misc/rinetd': On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 19:43:14 -0600 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know where your ~* came from. I don't remember where I got it from, though I know I didn't

Re: [gentoo-user] net-misc/rinetd

2006-03-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 25 March 2006 20:33, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] net-misc/rinetd': I just found ~* in man portage: package.keywords Per-package KEYWORDS. Useful for mixing unstable packages in with a normally stable machine or vice versa. This will allow you

Re: [gentoo-user] My Gentoo is too secure ... ;)

2006-03-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 24 March 2006 07:13, John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] My Gentoo is too secure ... ;)': On Mar 23, 2006, at 11:31 PM, Gabriel Dain wrote: If the problem is you log straight into KDE, you could boot from the Gentoo CD, and chroot to your system or get

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: awk scripting

2006-03-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 24 March 2006 07:34, Sascha Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] OT: awk scripting': I want the awk analogon for cut -f2-, which prints fields #2 to #n. Is this possible? I think: awk '{shift; shift; print $0}' -- If there's one thing we've established over the

Re: [gentoo-user] How to tar?

2006-03-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 24 March 2006 05:53, Michael Kintzios [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'RE: [gentoo-user] How to tar?': -Original Message- From: Benno Schulenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Michael Kintzios wrote: what I think is needed here is untarring of the archive, while untarred

Re: [gentoo-user] Hosted server as distcc machine

2006-03-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 24 March 2006 13:25, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Hosted server as distcc machine': It's probably better to use distcc over ssh, using an ssh-agent and PKI authentication. How would ssh and PKI be set up in the workflow? It isn't mentioned here:

Re: [gentoo-user] Hosted server as distcc machine

2006-03-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 22 March 2006 17:10, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Hosted server as distcc machine': Is there anything wrong with making a remote machine [a] distcc system? Not really, but you do need to realize that distcc doesn't guarantee that jobs will be

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE version

2006-03-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 23 March 2006 11:22, Christopher O'Neill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Re: KDE version': I've been using 3.5.1 for a while also, imo it should stay in unstable for now. There are a few bugs with the desktop, Konqueror and Kaffeine also has a habit of seg-faulting.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to tar?

2006-03-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 23 March 2006 16:31, Bo Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] How to tar?': Perhaps that link wasn't as useful to you as I thought when I transmitted it. Here are a couple of other examples. I think it requires GNU tar. This compacts data recursively from

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo

2006-03-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 23 March 2006 16:33, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo': If you type something like the following: /tmp/myfile.foo It will truncate the file. I use it when I want to clear out logs real quick. I can sudo su and then just type (without the

Re: [gentoo-user] My Gentoo is too secure ... ;)

2006-03-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 23 March 2006 17:08, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] My Gentoo is too secure ... ;)': On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 23:16:54 +0100 Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: Not necessarily: if you use kde, konsole has a root shell feature. Which I suspect only works if you can use

Re: [gentoo-user] Flag USE

2006-03-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 21 March 2006 06:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Flag USE': 1 - Is it mandatory to set the Flag USE? No; you do not have to specify any USE flags (by defining the USE variable) in your make.conf. Your profile provides some defaults. Using the defaults means you

IPv6 (was: Re: [gentoo-user] ping!)

2006-03-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 21 March 2006 18:18, Luiz Carlos Guidolin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] ping!': IPV6 requires a specific hardware to run. Blatantly and completely false. Any hardware that can transport ipv4 traffic can transport ipv6 traffic [1]. Routing tables may be larger

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE version

2006-03-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 21 March 2006 16:40, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] KDE version': On Tuesday 21 March 2006 22:12, Thierry de Coulon wrote: On Tuesday 21 March 2006 21.13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To-day I installed kdebase using emerge kdebase. But the

Re: [gentoo-user] Sun Java SDK and SCSL

2006-03-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 21 March 2006 19:38, THUFIR HAWAT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Sun Java SDK and SCSL': I notice that, with an account, it's possible to, apparently, download the source code from Sun for Java. IIRC, it's not all the source, just some of it. Does that, or could

Re: [gentoo-user] make -j 4 recoverable ?

2006-03-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 21 March 2006 20:43, Meino Christian Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] make -j 4 recoverable ?': I am going to install Gentoo on my AMD64 X2 3800+ (Dual Core) based system (x86 not x64!). Ugh. Do you use Solaris? I think Sun is the only company in the world

Re: [gentoo-user] Hosted server as distcc machine

2006-03-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 20 March 2006 22:25, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Hosted server as distcc machine': Is there anything wrong with making a remote machine [a] distcc system? Not really, but you do need to realize that distcc doesn't guarantee that jobs will be sent to the remote

Re: [gentoo-user] amd64 Installer LiveCD?

2006-03-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 19 March 2006 15:27, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] amd64 Installer LiveCD?': Is there a liveCD for amd64? I don't know where it is on the mirrors, but the bittorrent tracker has livecd-amd64-installer-2006.0; I'm seeding right now. -- If there's one thing we've

Re: [gentoo-user] amd64 Installer LiveCD?

2006-03-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 19 March 2006 18:49, Bo Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] amd64 Installer LiveCD?': On Monday 20 March 2006 01:32, JimD wrote: Bo Andresen wrote: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/2006.0/handbook-amd64.xml?part =1ch ap=2#doc_chap3 Is that the same

Re: [gentoo-user] dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso

2006-03-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 17 March 2006 23:13, Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso': program k9copy didn't work for me and k3b stopped after copying 850Mb dmesg showing a lot of errors: hdc: media error (bad sector) status=0x51 SeekComplete Error hdc: media

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Channel

2006-03-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 17 March 2006 23:52, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Wireless Channel': Does anyone know of a tool for Linux or Windows that will see what is the best channel to use? You should always use the same channel as the AP you are connecting to. That seems to cover your

Re: [gentoo-user] dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso

2006-03-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 17 March 2006 11:39, Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso': On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 21:52 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Thursday 16 March 2006 12:11, Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] dd if=/dev/dvd

Re: [gentoo-user] overnetclc: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open

2006-03-16 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 16 March 2006 03:45, Bo Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] overnetclc: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open': If anyone can direct me towards some proper documentation of how multilib is supposed to work I would appreciate that.

Re: [gentoo-user] overnetclc: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open

2006-03-16 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 16 March 2006 03:45, Bo Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] overnetclc: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open': Also, you might need one (or more) of the packages from app-emulation/emul-x86-*. # eix -s emul -S libstdc++ *

Re: [gentoo-user] overnetclc: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open [SOLVED]

2006-03-16 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 16 March 2006 08:39, Bo Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] overnetclc: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open [SOLVED]': But it does not state anything about multilib being required for those emul-linux-x86 packages to work. And if

Re: [gentoo-user] dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso

2006-03-16 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 16 March 2006 12:11, Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso': The strange part is that when I mount the same DVD in amd64-machine all directory and files are listed in small letters (and I know they should be all CAPS). Though, I

Re: [gentoo-user] overnetclc: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open

2006-03-15 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 15 March 2006 08:29, Bo Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] overnetclc: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open': I am having a problem with overnet on an amd64 computer. For some reason it connat load libstdc++.so.5. $ overnetclc

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - I've built my cross-compilation environment; now what?

2006-03-15 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 15 March 2006 12:48, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] OT - I've built my cross-compilation environment; now what?': I've succeeded in building a cross-compilation environment for an i586 on an i686 via crossdev, but I'm unsure how to use it. Can

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 13 March 2006 02:12, Ash Varma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination': On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 01:51 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Monday 13 March 2006 00:59, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

Re: [gentoo-user] Another reason to begin USE with -*

2006-03-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 13 March 2006 03:21, Roy Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Another reason to begin USE with -*': I'm more interested in discovering brand new use flags. Say some package, foo, creates a new use flag, bar, then I'd like to see something like: New Use Flags:

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 13 March 2006 04:44, Glenn Enright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination': On Monday 13 March 2006 21:47, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Hyper-Transport is a way for CPUs to exchange data directly rather than going through a memory controller, thus

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 13 March 2006 12:31, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination': Did you do AMD64 for gentoo or just x86? I just finished getting everything compiled and setup where I like it. I won't mind doing it again if running gentoo in 64-bit on an AMD64

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 13 March 2006 14:10, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination': My recommendations are: 1G RAM : 32-bit kernel and userland 4G RAM : 64-bit kernel and 32-bit userland else : 64-bit kernel and 64-bit (multilib) userland

Re: [gentoo-user] Updated gentoo systems and fresh installs

2006-03-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 13 March 2006 14:54, Trenton Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Updated gentoo systems and fresh installs': Is there a difference between the two? I have 2005.1 installed. As I've always understood it, my system will now always be up-to-date, as long as I keep

Re: [gentoo-user] Another reason to begin USE with -*

2006-03-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 13 March 2006 15:13, Roy Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Another reason to begin USE with -*': Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: The -pv output of emerge shows this. A flag that was not available in your current version but it available in the one you

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 13 March 2006 15:09, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination': On 164593240 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Better memory architecture and microcode, larger caches, etc.; you might even get a Hz bump; in the near future, you'll get

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 13 March 2006 16:01, Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination': On Monday 13 March 2006 21:09, Jim wrote: Is there a how-to on going 64-bit with Gentoo?  Anything special to do with/for the kernel to go 64-bit? Reinstall. You need a

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 13 March 2006 19:14, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination': On 152923032 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip (I haven't validated this, but it *shouldn't* break your system. If you are using LVM and have a little extra space

Re: [gentoo-user] ANDREW homepage is down!

2006-03-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 13 March 2006 19:21, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] ANDREW homepage is down!': andrew-1.2.tar.bz2 Hit http://csce.uark.edu/~bss03/andrew-1.2.tar.bz2 but not too hard. -- If there's one thing we've established over the years, it's that the vast majority of

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving to xorg-x11-7.0 (Modular X)

2006-03-12 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 12 March 2006 01:45, Rumen Yotov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Moving to xorg-x11-7.0 (Modular X)': Another thing (issue) is with virtual/x11. Had to put virtual/x11-6.8 in package.provided to be able to emerge again. Rumen That's a work around for the

Re: [gentoo-user] dvdrip help

2006-03-12 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 12 March 2006 02:43, Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] dvdrip help': A couple of options. - dvdbackup, dvd9to5 and lxdvdrip seem to work nicely enough I'm a big fan of ANDREW from the FSF. There should be an ebuild in bugzilla; but it's trivial to install.

Re: [gentoo-user] Another reason to begin USE with -*

2006-03-12 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 12 March 2006 11:51, Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Another reason to begin USE with -*': On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 19:20:31 -0500 Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Why in (diety's) name does the the average user need apache2? Or | emboss

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-12 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 13 March 2006 00:59, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination': Whatever you do, don't go HT. It's not worth the effort. By HT do you mean AMD 64 Hyper-Transport or Pentium Hyper-Threading? Hyper-Transport = the shit [1] Hyper-Threading = just

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving to xorg-x11-7.0 (Modular X)

2006-03-11 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 11 March 2006 04:19, Martins Steinbergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Moving to xorg-x11-7.0 (Modular X)': xorg.conf generated with 'X -configure' as root is bad if I'm change driver to fglrx, cant say yet what's wrong, xserver loads but monitor turns off

Re: [gentoo-user] eth1:1 alais help

2006-03-10 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 10 March 2006 04:54, Mattias Merilai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] eth1:1 alais help': Michael W. Holdeman wrote: I have a wireless card in my laptop, setup on all my ap's it is assigned 192.168.14.102. My vm-ware is setup to use samba to share the drives on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Back in the soup [circular mask problem]

2006-03-10 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 10 March 2006 18:22, Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Re: Back in the soup [circular mask problem]': Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: equery files xorg-x11 | grep -i mesa Yes of course, what I need is I guess the developer set with include

Re: [gentoo-user] Printer Sharing with Samba

2006-03-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 09 March 2006 11:56, Eric Bliss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Printer Sharing with Samba': On Wednesday 08 March 2006 18:28, Kris Kerwin wrote: Currently, in order to share our printer, we simply unplug it from one another's computers. However, we would like to

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving to xorg-x11-7.0 (Modular X)

2006-03-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 09 March 2006 03:28, Bo Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Moving to xorg-x11-7.0 (Modular X)': On Thursday 09 March 2006 07:49, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: emerge -pvt is giving confusing results; basically saying that virtual-x11 is coming in because

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving to xorg-x11-7.0 (Modular X)

2006-03-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 09 March 2006 14:28, Cláudio Henrique [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Moving to xorg-x11-7.0 (Modular X)': have you check this tutorial: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Modular_Xorg ? No, I was working from the Official Gentoo documentation linked from a Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags

2006-03-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 09 March 2006 10:29, Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags': On 3/9/06, Goran Maksimoviæ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I saw that there was a discussion about USE flags and I would seek your advice on that matter. Well, when I installed Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] how to implement net bandwidth quota

2006-03-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 07 March 2006 23:52, Bobber Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] how to implement net bandwidth quota': I'd like to implement net bandwidth quota. E.g. I like give normal use 1M/s at max, give superuse 10M/s at max, give server user like apache 50M. Any suggestion?

Re: [gentoo-user] equery, make.conf USE flag mismatch on amd64

2006-03-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 08 March 2006 21:20, Kumar Golap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] equery, make.conf USE flag mismatch on amd64': Thanks all for your help...and I know why now mmx flag was getting masked. Its in the use.mask as suggested by Martins. Attached is the use.mask file

Re: [gentoo-user] equery, make.conf USE flag mismatch on amd64

2006-03-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 08 March 2006 21:45, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] equery, make.conf USE flag mismatch on amd64': On 3/8/06, Kumar Golap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks all for your help...and I know why now mmx flag was getting masked. Its in the use.mask as

[gentoo-user] Moving to xorg-x11-7.0 (Modular X)

2006-03-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
I am trying to move my system over to modular X, but I'm having a few troubles. There are 4 packages that don't seem like they should be bringing in virtual/x11-6.8, but they are. Also, it's really confusing trying to figure out /why/ they are bringing in virtual-x11. emerge -pvt is giving

Re: [gentoo-user] lost partition table

2006-03-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 09 March 2006 00:52, Ghaith Hachem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] lost partition table': help, it seems the gentoo installer deleted my home partition For some reason, I doubt that, unless you told it to. fdisk don't show it what can i do? is there a way to restore

[gentoo-user] QoS/tc under gentoo

2006-03-06 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
I've recently gotten interested in using tc to manage my upstream bandwidth. Is there a gentoo package that provides an init script to start tc rules ala iptables-save/restore? Also, if anyone knows of a good front-end to tc, it would be nice to try out, esp. now that I'm comfortable messing

[gentoo-user] Problems emerge --sync'ing

2006-03-06 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
This is a really weird error that's just started affecting me recently. rsync processes (such as emerge --sync) will be mysteriously killed during a short period of time after they after received the file list for transfers. This happens with both emerge --sync, emerge-webrsync, and a manual

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: modules built post kernel install (on the fly)

2006-03-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 04 March 2006 10:07, Masood Ahmed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Re: modules built post kernel install (on the fly)': Harry Putnam wrote: Masood Ahmed [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks Masood, for the pointers.. I have a question about your sig. Do you get

Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus

2006-03-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 06 March 2006 00:10, Masood Ahmed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus': I dont think linux can get infected by windows viruses. Yes, but files accessible from a windows box, but stored on a linux box can become carriers. If they aren't cleaned, they could

Re: [gentoo-user] nfs sharing: same user name, but different user id.

2006-03-03 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 03 March 2006 02:35, Robert Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] nfs sharing: same user name, but different user id.': Is there any facility within nfs to map users to other userids (beyond that needed for root-squashing)? There's all_squash, along with a way to

Re: [gentoo-user] Which profile for EM64T setup?

2006-03-03 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 02 March 2006 22:13, Statux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Which profile for EM64T setup?': I currently have a generic i686 setup on my P4 with HT and EM64T. I've come to realize that I could be doing better so I've started considering switching over to use EM64T

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question

2006-02-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 27 February 2006 23:01, Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question': On Monday 27 February 2006 00:48, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Wrong. Switch to runlevel 1 (using telinit 1), which is for maintenance. In RL 1, no user processes are running

Re: [gentoo-user] After upgrading to the latest Baselayout...

2006-02-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 27 February 2006 10:39, Seo Boon, NG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] After upgrading to the latest Baselayout...': I have the following error upon booting up after the latest baselayout upgrade. * No loaded modules provide 127.0.0.1/8 (127.0.0.1/8_start) [ !! ]

Re: [gentoo-user] accelerate emerge

2006-02-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 28 February 2006 16:27, Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] accelerate emerge': #!/bin/bash emerge --deep --update --world --fetchonly emerge --deep --update --world ...but I'd like to get an emerge going on the 1st package as soon as it's finished

Re: [gentoo-user] accelerate emerge

2006-02-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 28 February 2006 17:25, Mike Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] accelerate emerge': On 2/28/06, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 17:27 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: I have a different interpretation. I assume you know about

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA: All modules loaded, mixer unmuted, still no sound

2006-02-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 27 February 2006 03:17, Ducky Z. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA: All modules loaded, mixer unmuted, still no sound': I've removed kernel support for ALSA and using alsa-driver instead. Still no luck and same error. And I still don't have /etc/asound.conf or

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA: All modules loaded, mixer unmuted, still no sound

2006-02-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
-machine 2.6.15-nitro3 #3 PREEMPT Sun Feb 26 13:23:00 MMT 2006 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.60GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux What's -nitro? Is that your own kernel version string or is that like ck-sources? -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] BS dependencies?

2006-02-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
to update the system time. Just use rdate then. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] What happens with masked packages?

2006-02-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 26 February 2006 11:06, Bo Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] What happens with masked packages?': On Sunday 26 February 2006 06:16, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Again, hard to do automatically. Wheras, if I could just set ACCEPT_UPSTREAM=BETA I'd get all

Re: [gentoo-user] cups is broken

2006-02-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 26 February 2006 13:26, John Blinka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] cups is broken': Success at last! Here's what I did on the affected box: 1) emerge -C cups. After removing cups, I noted that the /etc/cups directory still existed with all of its

Re: [gentoo-user] BS dependencies?

2006-02-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 26 February 2006 16:20, gentuxx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] BS dependencies?': rdate doesn't give me the functionality that I'm looking for as it expects to connect to the (x)?inetd 'time' subdaemon, instead of an ntpd server. But, removing some of the heavier

Re: [gentoo-user] system boot

2006-02-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 26 February 2006 17:51, Pete [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] system boot': This is what I don't understand -- yababa root # ls -l /boot/ total 1272 -rw-r--r--1 root root 483904 Feb 26 04:56 System.map-2.4.19r10AR lrwxrwxrwx1 root

Re: [gentoo-user] What happens with masked packages?

2006-02-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 26 February 2006 18:15, Bo Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] What happens with masked packages?': On Sunday 26 February 2006 21:40, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: How exactly is is you want this to work. My proposal at this point, would

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA: All modules loaded, mixer unmuted, still no sound

2006-02-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 26 February 2006 22:46, Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA: All modules loaded, mixer unmuted, still no sound': On Sunday 26 February 2006 22:17, Ducky Z. wrote: I'm using the modules provided by the kernel, which is 2.6.15. alsa-lib is 1.0.10. This

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question

2006-02-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
-line). It seems I have to revaluate results of that voting... I think your main problem was not using a Condorcet Method (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_method), there are a lot of problems, pointed out by Arrow, with simple methods like parity or IRV. ;) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr

Re: [gentoo-user] What happens with masked packages?

2006-02-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 25 February 2006 12:57, Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] What happens with masked packages?': On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 14:57:43 -0600 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | ~arch means a package is a candidate for going into arch after

Re: [gentoo-user] What happens with masked packages?

2006-02-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 25 February 2006 17:47, Mariusz Pękala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] What happens with masked packages?': On 2006-02-25 13:34:28 -0600 (Sat, Feb), Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: So, betas shouldn't ever be ~arch? Or is your definition of stable broad enough

Re: [gentoo-user] re-scanning for devices

2006-02-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
scsi hotplugging you can do before needed to reboot. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy [1] and [2]: All of this comes from my experience with SATA drives, but they are going through a hw raid controller that may be simply exposing SCSI devices, not SATA

Re: [gentoo-user] re-scanning for devices

2006-02-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
to map either to a device name (despite the package that provides it, it does successfully find my reiser filesystems on LVM by either). -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] What happens with masked packages?

2006-02-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
too critically [1]. I do see an unclean separation of upstream-stable vs. ebuild-stable in the portage system and I'd like to see it fixed, but everyday I appreciate how much work goes in to maintaining the portage tree and improving the gentoo experience. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] chroot: cannot run command `bin/bash': Exec format error [SOLVED]

2006-02-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
. This all did solve the problems. The resulting kernel does indeed boot and it does make it possible to chroot into a 64 bit environment. :D Thanks a lot. This has been very educating. Very good! I'm glad we solved your problem. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Motherboards

2006-02-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
this will be for a Windows system but I'd like feedback on what is good and bad. I like my Tyan dual-opteron, dual-16x-pci-e, dual-gb-ethernet board. Four sata ports, and firmware raid (nvraid). Even if you don't want or need all that, I still recommend Tyan. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: puzzled over why xrdb process hangs

2006-02-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
] x11-apps/xrdb (): X.Org xrdb application Found 2 matches -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] amd64/x86

2006-02-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
to living in the free world. ;) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy [1] I'd like be be able to 'ARCH=x86 emerge firefox' (or similar) and get a 32-bit version (compiled with my CFLAGS etc.) installed in parallel with my 64-bit version, without undue hardship

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing Keyword

2006-02-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
it on b.g.o. (Actually, even if it doesn't, you should probably report it, because then the -ARCH keyword can be added which means tested and does not work.) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question

2006-02-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
the filesystem to use that new space. What filesystem are you using? Also, in the future, I believe EVMS can do this all with one command and there is a nice ncurses interface. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing Keyword

2006-02-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
developers here know for sure? -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question

2006-02-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
filesystem, like reiserfs. /troll ;) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] chroot: cannot run command `bin/bash': Exec format error

2006-02-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 23 February 2006 15:31, Bo Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] chroot: cannot run command `bin/bash': Exec format error': On Thursday 23 February 2006 00:42, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: livecd gentoo # chroot /mnt/gentoo bin/bash chroot: cannot run

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox PDF integration

2006-02-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 23 February 2006 15:27, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Firefox PDF integration': Incidentally, which PDF viewer do you like best out of those in portage? kpdf :) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] chroot: cannot run command `bin/bash': Exec format error

2006-02-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
, do this: make ARCH=hppa CROSS_COMPILE=hppa2.0-unknown-linux-gnu- So, you may want to configure, make, and install your kernel like: make ARCH=x86_64 menuconfig make ARCH=x86_64 make ARCH=x86_64 install (You don't need a CROSS_COMPILE prefix since gcc should work fine.) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr

Re: [gentoo-user] chroot: cannot run command `bin/bash': Exec format error

2006-02-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 23 February 2006 18:16, Bo Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] chroot: cannot run command `bin/bash': Exec format error': On Friday 24 February 2006 01:12, Bo Andresen wrote: On Friday 24 February 2006 00:52, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: When you 'make

Re: [gentoo-user] chroot: cannot run command `bin/bash': Exec format error

2006-02-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 23 February 2006 18:32, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] chroot: cannot run command `bin/bash': Exec format error': Try: make ARCH=x86_64 CFLAGS=-m64 Nah, don't. It won't help, the kernel's Makefile doesn't pay attention to CFLAGS, it sets

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