Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Badges

2005-08-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 10:50:17AM -0400, Michael Crute wrote: At the expense of sounding like an Elitist Chowderhead I kind of agree with Chris. I'm fairly new to Gentoo (but not to Linux). I came from Fedora and must say that personally Gentoo makes way more sense and pisses me off far

Re: [gentoo-user] Which ghostscript to use?

2005-08-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 12:15:00AM +0800, Yuan MEI wrote: There are three versions of ghostscript inside the portage, they are `ghostscript', `ghostscript-gnu', `ghostscript-afpl'. In my opinion, afpl is used more widely, however, the latest version of afpl is not inside the portage. So,

Re: [gentoo-user] ?VIDEO_CARDS=matrox? in make.conf - which package?

2005-08-04 Thread Willie Wong
I am pretty sure that x11-drm uses that. The ati cards can also use rage128 and radeon in that spot depending on the card: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ati-faq.xml According to the ebuild for x11-drm-4.3.0-r7 IUSE_VIDEO_CARDS=3dfx gamma i810 i830 matrox rage128 radeon sis mach64 HTH W On Thu,

Re: [gentoo-user] Using Intel's icc to compile the whole system?

2005-08-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 08:19:00PM +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: Hi! Is it possible to compile the complete system with the icc from the Intel C++ Compiler? afaik, no. Too many things rely on gcc-specific extensions. BUT! if you add icc to your USEflags, portage will compile things with icc

Re: [gentoo-user] Using Intel's icc to compile the whole system?

2005-08-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 03:20:43PM -0400, Willie Wong wrote: On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 08:19:00PM +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: Hi! Is it possible to compile the complete system with the icc from the Intel C++ Compiler? afaik, no. Too many things rely on gcc-specific extensions

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Site-specific proxy

2005-08-03 Thread Willie Wong
nevermind that. Figured out eventually that Automatically configure proxy via the PAC files is what I wanted. W On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 12:42:16AM -0400, Willie Wong wrote: Hi all, I am wondering if it is possible to make it such that when accessing certain webpages, the connections

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with genlop

2005-08-03 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 01:49:15AM +0300, Yuval Scharf wrote: On Thursday 04 August 2005 01:29, A. Khattri wrote: On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Yuval Scharf wrote: Why when ever I execute cgext03 ~ # genlop --current I get... !!! Error: no working merge found. That would be

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with genlop

2005-08-03 Thread Willie Wong
Hum, because of your post, I began to believe it is not only my problem. And voila! A bug has been filed for it: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99823 It is caused by a change in behaviour in sandbox such that the file /tmp/sandboxpids.tmp, which genlop uses to determine if a emerge is

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing how secure a server is...

2005-08-02 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 09:43:17PM -0400, Colin wrote: Neither is what I was thinking of, but they're quite similar. LoginGraceTime means if nobody logged in within 10 minutes of the connection being opened, then it will be closed. I don't know exactly what MaxAuthTries does, but I

[gentoo-user] [OT] Site-specific proxy

2005-08-02 Thread Willie Wong
Hi all, I am wondering if it is possible to make it such that when accessing certain webpages, the connections goes through a proxy, and when accessing others, the connections goes out directly to the internet. In particular, since I am a graduate student living off campus, if I need

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing how secure a server is...

2005-08-02 Thread Willie Wong
with the SSH portion of the brute forcing problem, /. had an article about it a few weeks back. There were MANY IDS systems posted in the comments that specifically works with openssh. HTH, W 2005/8/3, Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 09:43:17PM -0400, Colin wrote

[gentoo-user] Init Reloading

2005-07-31 Thread Willie Wong
Under what conditions will init reload? I am a bit worried that in the past week or so I've seen two instances where it says that Init 2.8.6 is reloading. The second of which never came back: underneath the line that says Init 2.8.6 is reloading, a bunch of random characters were displayed and

Re: [gentoo-user] ffox compile fail

2005-07-31 Thread Willie Wong
run fix_libtool_files.sh 3.3.5 W On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 02:59:17PM -0700, maxim wexler wrote: Hello everyone, for an emerge of mozilla-firefox after 12 of 14 this: [...] ar cru .libs/libdns-sd.a dns-sd-method.o ranlib .libs/libdns-sd.a grep:

Re: [gentoo-user] Enlightenment segfaults?

2005-07-29 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 06:39:42PM -0700, Bob Sanders wrote: On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 16:10:30 -0400 Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some more observations to my problem: 1. If, after I started X, I leave it overnight in a vc, then nothing bad happens. It looks like

Re: [gentoo-user] flash animation not giviing sounds

2005-07-29 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 05:05:05PM +0600, simply change wrote: AybOwan! dear friends, when playing flash animations on mozilla firefox, its not giving the sound output. what will be de solution? close firefox. run, as root, these commands: echo firefox-bin 0 0 disable

Re: [gentoo-user] Enlightenment segfaults?

2005-07-28 Thread Willie Wong
it is enlightenment causing the segfault or not, since it appears that it happens after X has shutdown W On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 12:59:15PM -0400, Willie Wong wrote: I was away from my computer for one week, and so ran a massive update on sunday night. After the update, on Monday morning, I woke up

[gentoo-user] QEMU firewall (was: question about files as disks)

2005-07-28 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 02:48:04PM -0400, Eric S. Johansson wrote: I'm using qemu to run the firewall which in turn creates a self flash memory image of itself. Maybe you are right though I should look into the virtual machine as the framework from which I generate the flash image. I am

Re: [gentoo-user] Enlightenment segfaults?

2005-07-28 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 06:39:42PM -0700, Bob Sanders wrote: On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 16:10:30 -0400 Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some more observations to my problem: 1. If, after I started X, I leave it overnight in a vc, then nothing bad happens. It looks like

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with esound

2005-07-27 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 07:05:48PM +0200, Martin Larsson wrote: On 7/27/05, Matan Peled [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: try revdep-rebuild. Thanks, that gives: Warning: Failed to resolve package order. Will merge in random order! snip All prepared. Starting rebuild... emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie - Missing IPtables

2005-07-27 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 07:43:32PM +0100, Tim Igoe wrote: cd /usr/src/linux make menuconfig edit the kernel options to set up the iptables parts needed in the kernel (can't rememebr where they are - not just at my normal box atm) In 2.6.11, it is under Device Drivers - Networking

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with esound

2005-07-27 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 12:56:33AM +0200, Martin Larsson wrote: On 7/27/05, Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First emerge the new version of sdl-perl emerge --oneshot sdl-perl then remove the tempfiles created by revdep-rebuild and run revdep-rebuild again. Thanks that worked

[gentoo-user] Enlightenment segfaults?

2005-07-26 Thread Willie Wong
I was away from my computer for one week, and so ran a massive update on sunday night. After the update, on Monday morning, I woke up to find my xsession ended with a message on the console that said something to the effect that Enlightenment segfaulted, because some supporting library tries to

Re: [gentoo-user] Enlightenment segfaults?

2005-07-26 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 01:17:16PM -0400, Dave Nebinger wrote: So: what logs should I check and how should I find out what exactly is causing the problem? Did you try the revdep-rebuild -p to see if there are any broken dependencies? Did your files in /etc/conf.d get updated? Is your

Re: [gentoo-user] Enlightenment segfaults?

2005-07-26 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 08:22:04PM -0300, Urs Schuetz wrote: On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Willie Wong wrote: I was away from my computer for one week, and so ran a massive update on sunday night. After the update, on Monday morning, I woke up to find my xsession ended with a message

Re: [gentoo-user] Messages on boot

2005-07-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 06:33:21PM -0400, C.Beamer wrote: Hi All, The first time I did a hard drive boot into Gentoon, I noticed two messages as follows: One said the make sure that the host name in /etc was set to a valid host name. Well, in /etc, I have a file named hosts and when I

Re: [gentoo-user] Messages on boot

2005-07-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 08:16:10PM -0400, C.Beamer wrote: Willie Wong wrote: The message means for you to set the hostname in /etc/conf.d/hostname (or /etc/hostname if you are using a rather old baselayout). W I don't have a /etc/hostname file, I just have a hosts file. Did I

Re: [gentoo-user] Messages on boot

2005-07-25 Thread Willie Wong
Regarding your other problem (the one about cardmgr and PCMCIA) (sorry about this, I kind of lost your original email) look through your kernel configuration (it should be in /usr/src/linux/.config), look for the line CONFIG_PCCARD=y CONFIG_PCMCIA=y CONFIG_CARDBUS=y if it is set to n,

Re: [gentoo-user] GDM not bringing up log in screen

2005-07-16 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 09:18:05PM -0600, George Roberts wrote: Technically both are started at the end of the boot sequence. However if I use /etc/init.d/xdm zap and then /etc/init.d/xdm start I am now getting a message Setting up gdm ... followed by ERROR: could not open the Display

Re: [gentoo-user] WAY OT: quote

2005-07-08 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 02:13:11PM -0400, Jason Cooper wrote: Michael Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: On Friday 08 July 2005 17:32, Jason Cooper wrote: Michael Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: [snip] To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a

Re: [gentoo-user] bash_history missing

2005-07-06 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 02:06:50PM -0700, maxim wexler wrote: Then set the same environment variables in your current shell and they should stick. Nope, .bash_history completely empty after a bunch of ls's. At least it didn't tell me to become root :o Try exiting the session and log

Re: [gentoo-user] .MID plugin for mozilla

2005-07-05 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 01:38:28PM -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 13:51 -0400, Mark Shields wrote: Try playing a midi locally. On 7/4/05, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't seem to get my mozilla to play MIDI files embedded in web pages. I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Extra buttons on my keyboard

2005-07-05 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 04:37:19PM -0600, Hani Duwaik wrote: I use xbindkeys. Executing: xbindkeys -mk should allow you to see what key sequence the special keys are mapped to (and then use them in your '.xbindkeysrc' file to execute commands/apps). HTH, -Hani neat! thanks. I've

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Portable Music Player

2005-06-28 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 03:22:34PM -0400, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: I'm looking to buy a portable music player, but I'm not sure what to get, so I'm polling for recommendations. Ogg/Vorbis support is a *requirement*, as is a Linux interface to the device. I'd prefer to be able to

Re: [gentoo-user] mutt+vim text wrapping

2005-05-10 Thread Willie Wong
vim text wrapping is controled by setting textwidth. try issueing :help textwidth in vim. In general I think it is a good idea. I'd rather have text prematurely wrapped and wasting part of my 160x50 console display, than having badly wrapped text that is hard to read. W On Tue, May 10,

[gentoo-user] qpkg and etcat deprecated?

2005-05-09 Thread Willie Wong
There has long been talk of deprecating etcat and qpkg in favor of equery, has that been finalized? I updated to portage-2.0.51.21-r1 yesterday and can no longer find the etcat and qpkg commands. And what is it with the changelogs? Maybe I've looked in the wrong place, but I didn't see that

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems mounting CD-Rom device [solved]

2005-05-09 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 04:21:08PM -0400, Dave Nebinger wrote: You should ensure that you've got the little connector cable between the cdrom and the sound card. Personally my sound card doesn't have the capability to receive input from the cdrom drive, so I'm forced to use xmms with the

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-03 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 05:16:10AM -0400, fire-eyes wrote: On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 17:32 -0500, kashani wrote: Is there something especially complicated about going into your settings in Thunderbird and setting gentoo.org as a domain that prefers text emails? He doesn't want to, it's

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-03 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 04:40:52PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: 8) some people hear 'html mails' and think automatically of the worst outlook and aol users ... ;o) Beg to differ here, but most of the emails I got from my friends using AOL have properly used MIME-Multipart/Alternative so

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-03 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 03:00:34PM +, Calvin Spealman wrote: On 5/3/05, Travis Rousseau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not the sender's for now? Why not the recipient's for now? One could almost argue free speech for expressing one's self in HTML, but I won't go there. let's not let

Re: [gentoo-user] how to login with slogin?

2005-04-26 Thread Willie Wong
Do you have sshd running on the router or on a box inside the network? W On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 11:20:56PM +0600, askar ... wrote: I setup iptables according with http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/home-router-howto.xml. Now I want to login to my linux box from outside. In iptables setup

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to find every package with a USE flag

2005-04-26 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 08:31:57PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Nick, I may be wrong but this seems to return too much stuff for the flag 'aac' - a flag I have concerns about. Thanks, Mark On 4/26/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The subject says it all, is there a way other than

Re: [gentoo-user] shutdown now hangs on Saving random seed...

2005-04-26 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 01:22:25AM -0400, Colin wrote: But it just hangs on this one: * Saving random seed... I can Ctrl-C my way out of it and continue to work in Gentoo, but a software shutdown isn't possible. I just reboot, enter the BIOS and hold the switch. What can I do about this

Re: [gentoo-user] OT prefixing Line numbers in codes for printing

2005-04-25 Thread Willie Wong
The command nl It is part of coreutils `man nl' to see usage. W On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 02:17:17PM +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Hi, What's the best way to prefix lines of codes with line numbers for easier lookup and printing? eg: line 1 line 2 becomes 1: line 1 2: line 2

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia drivers and glx

2005-04-25 Thread Willie Wong
A really silly thought: did you try opengl-update nvidia ? W On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 02:17:32PM -0300, Bruno Lustosa wrote: On 4/25/05, Jason Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some packages use static library paths to libGL, libXm, etc. Try re-merging your screensaver app to pick up the

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with setting up home router

2005-04-25 Thread Willie Wong
Argh... I must be too tired from working on my thesis. see below On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 02:08:09PM -0400, Willie Wong wrote: Wait... something's wrong here (oh crap, after looking carefully at the mail I sent last, I noticed the following... According to the instructions, you would

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with setting up home router

2005-04-24 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 01:10:51PM +0600, askar ... wrote: At present. my 2 PCs can talk to each others. WinPC can resolve hostnames by nslookup, but can use internet. askar seriously. post your iptables -L -v , not just iptables -L We need to see the interface information. DHCP is

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc-4.0.0?

2005-04-24 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 11:30:45AM -0400, Jerry McBride wrote: Is gcc-3.4.3-20050110-r2 the favored release of 3.4.3? Don't know about favored. It's the one I use =) So far it hasn't failed me... W -- * Address: 45 Spelman

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with setting up home router

2005-04-24 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 11:16:23PM +0600, askar ... wrote: Here is my iptables -L -v result: bash-2.05b# iptables -L -v Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT 2798K packets, 4013M bytes) pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination 0 0 REJECT udp --

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc-4.0.0?

2005-04-24 Thread Willie Wong
April 2005 12:52 pm, Willie Wong wrote: On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 11:30:45AM -0400, Jerry McBride wrote: Is gcc-3.4.3-20050110-r2 the favored release of 3.4.3? Don't know about favored. It's the one I use =) So far it hasn't failed me... It hasn't failed you? You mean everything has

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with setting up home router

2005-04-24 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 12:08:25AM +0600, askar ... wrote: humour me and post `iptables -L -v -t nat' to show the nat routing table. The result is: Chain PREROUTING (policy ACCEPT 9193 packets, 593K bytes) pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination

Re: [gentoo-user] Synaptics (was Wacky Mouse)

2005-04-24 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 07:16:13PM -0400, David Corbin wrote: On Sunday 24 April 2005 07:36 am, Richard Fish wrote: David Corbin wrote: This problem continues. I've discovered the following: 1) The problem shows up with gpm, as well as X 2) I can plug in a USB mouse and it works fine.

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc-4.0.0?

2005-04-23 Thread Willie Wong
last I checked, the gcc4 ebuild isn't even hard-masked yet... it exists, but that's about it. Don't know if the gentoo-user list is the best place to ask this question at this moment. OTOH, searching around on the gentoo forums, it seems that some people are adventurous enough. Some problems they

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vi is mising from the portage

2005-04-21 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 10:34:45PM +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote: So.. what is the secret to stopying vim from displaying text in in invisible colours? And how can I tell it to stop messing with the colours at all... I can't find anything in the man page, '-C' doesn't inhibit colourisation, nor

Re: [gentoo-user] Don't read the boot CD

2005-04-21 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 08:08:30PM -0400, Robert G. Hays wrote: 2) ... Unless you are using a new version of WhinedoZZZe (I forget what you said you had) that claims to not need defragging ( I said 'claims', if the new ones happen to make such a claim, and I'd keep my fingers firmly crossed

Re: [gentoo-user] abit AI7 - acpi, ht

2005-04-20 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 09:37:19PM -0400, Cosmin Nicolaescu wrote: On Wed, April 20, 2005 8:29 pm, Roy O. Wright said: On my GigaByte MB, HT is enabled via BIOS. You might want to poke around there... HTH, Roy That's what I expected too, but there's no option and/or jumper.

Re: [gentoo-user] abit AI7 - acpi, ht

2005-04-20 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 11:45:16PM -0400, Cosmin Nicolaescu wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The system is about a year and a bit old. The motherboard is new though, I just bought it a few days ago. I updated to the latest version of the bios for the motherboard.

Re: [gentoo-user] CPU0: Temperature above threshold

2005-04-07 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 08:16:23PM +0200, Richard Fish wrote: The best choice is a small desk fan to blow air over your laptop while compiling. No, I'm not kidding. But it is not very portable. Another good choice is laptop-specific cooler that blows air on the bottom of your laptop. I'm

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