Re: [gentoo-user] Alsa Badness

2005-12-29 Thread Christoph Eckert
I am using alsa-driver-1.0.10 You don't need the alsa-driver package, except you own very recent hardware and teh kernel-built-in drivers don't support it yet. What card do you want to drive? Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ADSL confusion after update

2005-12-29 Thread Christoph Eckert
Hi Walter, My machine automatically connects during boot, and this works great. When I shutdown the machine, I get an error that adsl doesn't seem to run.   I have a combined ADSL modem/router that logs on and coverts ADSL into ethernet.  The only difference from ordinary LANs is that I

Re: [gentoo-user] ADSL confusion after update

2005-12-29 Thread Dale
Christoph Eckert wrote: thanks for the hint, but my ethernet card is directly connected to the ADSL modem. Furthermore it worked perfectly until I did some emerge --update world. I guess I haven't been carefully enough when running etc-update :( . Anyone some further hints? Best

Re: [gentoo-user] No X interface...

2005-12-29 Thread Cláudio Henrique
Yersterday I tried another video card, and everything went just fine. It was really the card... Regards! On 12/28/05, Michael Kintzios [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Cláudio Henrique [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 December 2005 11:10 To:

[gentoo-user] Re: x11-drm and r300-r350

2005-12-29 Thread Marco Calviani
2005/12/28, Marco Calviani [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi list, i would like to know if the x11-drm ebuild, as of now (x11-drm-20051223), supports the r300 and r350 ATI video cards. In particular what is the best open source configuration for such a card and xorg (6.8.2)? Best regards, MC As

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: mount: unknown filesystem type 'ext2'

2005-12-29 Thread Peter
On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 15:48:05 -0800, Grant wrote: Hello, I'm trying to upgrade my server to the latest hardened-sources kernel. I'm trying to mount my /dev/hda1 partition to /boot but I'm getting the error: mount: unknown filesystem type 'ext2' It's true that I don't have ext2

[gentoo-user] [OT] Filename modification with suffix

2005-12-29 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi list, maybe this question is a little bit related since it regards non Gentoo-specific topics. I would like to add a specific suffix to a list of files. For example i have files of the type: duck1.jpg duck2.jpg duck3.jpg and i would like them to become: donald_duck1.jpg donald_duck2.jpg

Re: [gentoo-user] Alsa Badness

2005-12-29 Thread fire-eyes
fire-eyes wrote: I drop[snip] Okay this has been resolved. I have been using alsa kernel drivers, and something along the way pulled in alsa-driver. Odd though, I can't figure out what, equery d alsa-driver shows nothing.. Reinstalling the kernel did the trick. Thanks for the reads and

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Filename modification with suffix

2005-12-29 Thread David Morgan
On 14:24 Thu 29 Dec , Marco Calviani wrote: i have files of the type: duck1.jpg duck2.jpg duck3.jpg and i would like them to become: donald_duck1.jpg donald_duck2.jpg donald_duck3.jpg for i in duck*.jpg ; do mv ${i} donald_${i} ; done -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Filename modification with suffix

2005-12-29 Thread Christoph Eckert
i have files of the type: duck1.jpg duck2.jpg duck3.jpg and i would like them to become: donald_duck1.jpg donald_duck2.jpg donald_duck3.jpg Does somebody knows a simple way to do this via shell? for i in $(ls *.jpg); do mv $i donald_$i; done Best regards ce --

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Filename modification with suffix

2005-12-29 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 14:24:31 +0100 Marco Calviani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | duck1.jpg | duck2.jpg | duck3.jpg | | and i would like them to become: | | donald_duck1.jpg | donald_duck2.jpg | donald_duck3.jpg | | Does somebody knows a simple way to do this via shell? rename '' 'donald_'

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge realplayer

2005-12-29 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 09:22:58PM -0800, larry wrote trying to emerge realplayer, received following error msg: [...deletia...] Unable to establish SSL connection. Let me guess, you've emerged wget without ssl. wget is used by emerge to get files. If the URL begins with https (note the

[gentoo-user] help

2005-12-29 Thread gentoo user mail list
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Re: [gentoo-user] help

2005-12-29 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 29, 2005, at 9:14 AM, gentoo user mail list wrote: okay... we're good, but we need a BIT more information than that. :) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] A few (gentoo-newbie) questions (mainly about binary packages)

2005-12-29 Thread Richard Neill
Dear All, I am a newbie here, and I wonder if I might ask you a few questions about Gentoo. I've looked on the Gentoo website, but can't see answers to all of these. Basically, I've now used Mandrake/Mandriva for the last 4 years, and become fairly proficient with it, but am considering that it

Re: [gentoo-user] help

2005-12-29 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 23:14:41 +0800 gentoo user mail list [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Cut the blue wire first, then the green wire within the next five seconds. Whatever you do, don't touch the red wire! -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (King of all Londinium) Mail: ciaranm at

Re: [gentoo-user] help

2005-12-29 Thread Martins Steinbergs
On Thursday 29 December 2005 17:36, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 23:14:41 +0800 gentoo user mail list [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cut the blue wire first, then the green wire within the next five seconds. Whatever you do, don't touch the red wire! sometimes they fool with

Re: [gentoo-user] A few (gentoo-newbie) questions (mainly about binary packages)

2005-12-29 Thread Bob Sanders
On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 15:24:58 + Richard Neill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1)My main machine is a laptop, so it doesn't really have either the disk space for sources or CPU power to compile everything kernel,X,kde,openoffice ...). Is there a way to do a binary install that will get me a fully

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge realplayer

2005-12-29 Thread Lares Moreau
On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 21:22 -0800, larry wrote: i tried using the suggested option: `--no-check-certificate' emerge didn't like it. anyone run into this? thanks- In /etc/make.conf ~line 187 look at FETCHCOMMAND, and RESUMECOMMAND. Uncomment them and add --no-check-certificate in

Re: [gentoo-user] A few (gentoo-newbie) questions (mainly about binary packages)

2005-12-29 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 29 December 2005 17:24, Richard Neill wrote: 1)My main machine is a laptop, so it doesn't really have either the disk space for sources or CPU power to compile everything kernel,X,kde,openoffice ...). Is there a way to do a binary install that will get me a fully working system within a

Re: [gentoo-user] help

2005-12-29 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 29 December 2005 17:15, John Jolet wrote: On Dec 29, 2005, at 9:14 AM, gentoo user mail list wrote: okay... we're good, but we need a BIT more information than that. :) Reminds me on something Matthias Ettrich once said when kwm was still KDE's window manager: Alright, folks, next I will

Re: [gentoo-user] A few (gentoo-newbie) questions (mainly about binary packages)

2005-12-29 Thread John Jolet
You cannot really stay current on binaries but you can gradually convert your binary installation to a self-compiled one. You said above that your *main* machine was a laptop with insufficient harddisk space and CPU power. That implies you do have at least one other box. You could keep the

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Setting up an IMAP server to serve mail fetched from pop mailboxes.

2005-12-29 Thread Anthony Roy
Thanks for the input. For reference if anyone stumbles across this thread looking for the same information, I found the following extremely helpful: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=56633 Cheers, -- Ant... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Regular user can't offload usb camera`

2005-12-29 Thread Michael Sullivan
My personal account (michael) cannot offload pictures from my usb digital camera - only root can do it. michael is in the usb group. There used to be a file called /etc/security/console.perms which allowed the michael user to offload pictures, but it's gone now. How can I make it where I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Setting up an IMAP server to serve mail fetched from pop mailboxes.

2005-12-29 Thread Alexander Skwar
Anthony Roy schrieb: Hi all, The short question (for those of you who can't be bothered to read the detail!): What is a good IMAP server to set up on Gentoo? Any. I like dovecot. Easy to install and full of features. How can I automatically move email from several pop servers into an

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Filename modification with suffix

2005-12-29 Thread Christoph Eckert
$(ls *.jpg) ick! (incidentally, http://www.ruhr.de/home/smallo/award.html#ls) I forgot to clarify that the CPU of my notebook usually is bored and waits until I move my mouse, so some ls processes can make it a bit busy :) . Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Regular user can't offload usb camera`

2005-12-29 Thread Christoph Eckert
Hi Michael, My personal account (michael) cannot offload pictures from my usb digital camera - only root can do it.  michael is in the usb group. There used to be a file called /etc/security/console.perms which allowed the michael user to offload pictures, but it's gone now.  How can I make

Re: [gentoo-user] Reaching my network over the internet

2005-12-29 Thread Grant
Hello, I'd like to ssh into my network over the internet. Do I need to set up VPN for that? Can anyone point me in the right direction? - Grant no, you just type: ssh my.network.com Depending on your setup you will probably need to set your firewall/router to forward port 22 to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: mount: unknown filesystem type 'ext2'

2005-12-29 Thread Grant
Hello, I'm trying to upgrade my server to the latest hardened-sources kernel. I'm trying to mount my /dev/hda1 partition to /boot but I'm getting the error: mount: unknown filesystem type 'ext2' It's true that I don't have ext2 support compiled into my kernel, but I never

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Filename modification with suffix

2005-12-29 Thread Marco Calviani
2005/12/29, David Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: for i in duck*.jpg ; do mv ${i} donald_${i} ; done Well! Thank you very much David. That solved my problem! Best regards, MC -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Regular user can't offload usb camera`

2005-12-29 Thread Gerhard Hoogterp
On Thursday 29 December 2005 18:28, Christoph Eckert wrote: Hi Michael, My personal account (michael) cannot offload pictures from my usb digital camera - only root can do it.  michael is in the usb group. There used to be a file called /etc/security/console.perms which allowed the

[gentoo-user] OT - Need MythTV setup help (resend)

2005-12-29 Thread Michael Sullivan
It's been over an hour since I sent this in to the list and my log files say that it was sent, but I haven't gotten it back from the list yet. I'm sending it again... Forwarded Message From: Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gentoo-user gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject:

Re: [gentoo-user] help

2005-12-29 Thread Lares Moreau
On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 23:14 +0800, gentoo user mail list wrote: I need somebody, HELP, not just anybody, Help. When I was younger so much younger then today... -- Lares Moreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] | LRU: 400755 http://counter.li.org lares/irc.freenode.net | Gentoo x86 Arch Tester

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: mount: unknown filesystem type 'ext2'

2005-12-29 Thread Peter
On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 09:37:49 -0800, Grant wrote: # mount /dev/hda1 /boot mount: unknown filesystem type 'ext2' OK. I see now. By specifying the device and mount point, you bypass fstab. Default will be what mount THINKS it is, which is like doing mount -t auto... If you just did mount

[gentoo-user] What wants to pull in busybox?

2005-12-29 Thread Michael Kjorling
Earlier today, I did an emerge --sync and proceeded to update world, including portage (now 2.0.53). I have an amd64 system running mostly stable, with a bunch of ~amd64 packages listed in my package.keywords and a small portage tree overlay that is not of relevance here. Now. For some reason,

Re: [gentoo-user] help

2005-12-29 Thread John J. Foster
On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 10:58:11AM -0700, Lares Moreau wrote: On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 23:14 +0800, gentoo user mail list wrote: I need somebody, HELP, not just anybody, Help. When I was younger so much younger then today... I never needed anybody's help in any way... pgp1k89Olw7ex.pgp

[gentoo-user] Multi-user Console Viewing

2005-12-29 Thread Delca
somebody knows a program that let me see what others are doing on their consoles? i.e.: I'm root and with 'w' command i see that 'foo' user is running 'vi index.php' but i need to see what is he typing so i can have control of what is he doing. Thanks in advance, Santiago del Castillo --

[gentoo-user] XFCE user taking KDE for a spin

2005-12-29 Thread Grant
I've only used xfce4 on my Gentoo system and I've decided to give kde a try. I love the minimalist approach of xfce, but it would be nice to have more features. We'll see. I use -* in make.conf and I've carefully added only the local and global flags I know I'll use for the packages about to be

[gentoo-user] Re: XFCE user taking KDE for a spin

2005-12-29 Thread Grant
I've only used xfce4 on my Gentoo system and I've decided to give kde a try. I love the minimalist approach of xfce, but it would be nice to have more features. We'll see. I use -* in make.conf and I've carefully added only the local and global flags I know I'll use for the packages about

[gentoo-user] emerge kdeaddons fails

2005-12-29 Thread schroder
My kmail is broken and remerging kdepim hasn't fixed it, so I figured that I should rebuild arts kdelibs, kdeaddond and then kdepim. (I arrived at this from reading messages while kdepim was running.) At this point, I'm stuck on kdeaddons which fails with the message below. I've remerged acl and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: mount: unknown filesystem type 'ext2'

2005-12-29 Thread Grant
# mount /dev/hda1 /boot mount: unknown filesystem type 'ext2' OK. I see now. By specifying the device and mount point, you bypass fstab. Default will be what mount THINKS it is, which is like doing mount -t auto... If you just did mount /boot it would be fine. OK, so mount only refers

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: XFCE user taking KDE for a spin

2005-12-29 Thread Grant
I've only used xfce4 on my Gentoo system and I've decided to give kde a try. I love the minimalist approach of xfce, but it would be nice to have more features. We'll see. I use -* in make.conf and I've carefully added only the local and global flags I know I'll use for the packages

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-drm and r300-r350

2005-12-29 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/28/05, Marco Calviani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, i would like to know if the x11-drm ebuild, as of now (x11-drm-20051223), supports the r300 and r350 ATI video cards. I tried to get the r300 driver working on my system a few weeks ago. Unfortunately my PCIe Mobility X600 is

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge kdeaddons fails

2005-12-29 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/29/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My kmail is broken and remerging kdepim hasn't fixed it, so I figured that I should rebuild arts kdelibs, kdeaddond and then kdepim. (I arrived at this from reading messages while kdepim was running.) At this point, I'm stuck on

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: XFCE user taking KDE for a spin

2005-12-29 Thread Peter
On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 11:19:26 -0800, Grant wrote: Why not just run it from livecd? Save yourself the hassle. Why on earth do you use -* in make.conf? for KEYWORDS? don;t do that! Why not use -* for KEYWORDS? I always do a pretend emerge before a real one and I research each new USE flag I

Re: [gentoo-user] What wants to pull in busybox?

2005-12-29 Thread Petteri Räty
Michael Kjorling wrote: Now. For some reason, even after updating everything else, emerge -auDv world still wants to pull in sys-apps/busybox-1.00-r4. I have had sys-apps/busybox in my package.mask file ever since it getting pulled in as a dependency to something severely crippled my system,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: mount: unknown filesystem type 'ext2'

2005-12-29 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/29/05, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, so mount only refers to fstab for fs info if the device isn't specified. What is the logic behind that? If that behavior was recently implemented, it would explain why I'm only now getting the error. I've always mounted as above. From the

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-drm and r300-r350

2005-12-29 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi Richard, first of all for your reply. 1. Run lspci to identify the slot of your adapter: 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Tech... 2. Run lspci -n -s slot to get the vendor and card ID: carcharias rjf # lspci -n -s 03:00.0 03:00.0 0300: 1002:3150 From the above, the vendor

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: mount: unknown filesystem type 'ext2'

2005-12-29 Thread Peter
On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 11:05:00 -0800, Grant wrote: # mount /dev/hda1 /boot mount: unknown filesystem type 'ext2' OK. I see now. By specifying the device and mount point, you bypass fstab. Default will be what mount THINKS it is, which is like doing mount -t auto... If you just did

Re: [gentoo-user] Reaching my network over the internet

2005-12-29 Thread Stroller
On 29 Dec 2005, at 17:28, Grant wrote: ... you just type: ssh my.network.com Depending on your setup you will probably need to set your firewall/router to forward port 22 to the machine you want to log into. Also make sure your ssh server is set up securely. I really don't have any idea

Re: [gentoo-user] What wants to pull in busybox?

2005-12-29 Thread Michael Kjorling
On 2005-12-29 21:05 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $ grep busybox /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/packages *sys-apps/busybox Since I don't need this (if my system breaks, I have several live-CDs available that are much more likely to be bootable to begin with), and had so much trouble with

Re: [gentoo-user] xpdf + KDE + emerge whackiness...

2005-12-29 Thread Alexander Skwar
Jeff schrieb: app-text/poppler-0.4.3-r1 is already installed, so why would xpdf come out to be a blocker as well as try to install 2 instances of itself, emerge -C poppler xpdf ; emerge -vat poppler Alexander Skwar -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] xpdf + KDE + emerge whackiness...

2005-12-29 Thread Jeff
Ok... emerge -uDNp world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] app-text/xpdf-3.01-r4 (is blocking app-text/poppler-0.4.3-r1) [ebuild N] x11-libs/motif-config-0.9 [ebuild N] x11-libs/openmotif-2.2.3-r8 [ebuild N

Re: [gentoo-user] Multi-user Console Viewing

2005-12-29 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Thursday 29 December 2005 19:39, Delca wrote: somebody knows a program that let me see what others are doing on their consoles? i.e.: I'm root and with 'w' command i see that 'foo' user is running 'vi index.php' but i need to see what is he typing so i can have control of what is he

Re: [gentoo-user] Multi-user Console Viewing

2005-12-29 Thread Ryan Tandy
Delca wrote: somebody knows a program that let me see what others are doing on their consoles? i.e.: I'm root and with 'w' command i see that 'foo' user is running 'vi index.php' but i need to see what is he typing so i can have control of what is he doing. Thanks in advance, Santiago del

Re: [gentoo-user] Multi-user Console Viewing

2005-12-29 Thread John Jolet
one called poke and peekworks on all unixes i've found so far. pretty inexpensive, but not free. peek allows you to watch, and the poke part lets you take over. or you can use vnc with a particular argument to share the :0 display. On Dec 29, 2005, at 2:57 PM, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Reaching my network over the internet

2005-12-29 Thread Robin
If you are looking to reach your gentoo computer, consider sshd. You can search the gentoo wiki for help docs for setup and usuage. http://www.gentoo-wiki.com On 12/29/05, Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29 Dec 2005, at 17:28, Grant wrote: ... you just type: ssh my.network.com

Re: [gentoo-user] xpdf + KDE + emerge whackiness...

2005-12-29 Thread Daniel Heemann
On Thursday 29 December 2005 21:04, Jeff wrote: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] app-text/xpdf-3.01-r4 (is blocking app-text/poppler-0.4.3-r1) [ebuild N] app-text/xpdf-3.01-r3 app-text/poppler-0.4.3-r1 is already installed, so why would xpdf come out to be a

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge kdeaddons fails

2005-12-29 Thread schroder
Ran that yesterday and after some remerging and unmerging, got it to run successfully. I was still having kmail problems, so I tried remerging kdepim. It built without error. Still unable to send from kmail. (setup unchanged) I did an # emerge -uDvt world, and emerge --depclean --pretend checked

[gentoo-user] Duplicate symbol __glXSingleTable in /usr/.../libglx.a:glxmodule.o

2005-12-29 Thread Trenton Adams
I get the following error in my Xorg log when trying to start X. I can't figure out what is happening. Duplicate symbol __glXSingleTable in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a:glxmodule.o I've searched the internet for this problem, to no avail. I've installed the ati-drivers, and I

[gentoo-user] De-compiling shockwave flash files.

2005-12-29 Thread Stroller
I want to extract some video from a Shockwave Flash (.SWF) file a little Googling reveals they're containers and that lots of other content can be stored within them. I see loads loads of demo or shareware decompilers for windows which will allow the video c to be extracted from a

Re: [gentoo-user] Reaching my network over the internet

2005-12-29 Thread Grant
... you just type: ssh my.network.com Depending on your setup you will probably need to set your firewall/router to forward port 22 to the machine you want to log into. Also make sure your ssh server is set up securely. I really don't have any idea where to start here. Does

Re: [gentoo-user] Reaching my network over the internet

2005-12-29 Thread Stroller
On 29 Dec 2005, at 22:30, Grant wrote: How is your network connected to the internet? http://www.google.com/search?ie=utf8oe=utf8q=port+forwarding The first link looks fairly useful. Stroller. That helped a lot. I have a high-number port on the router forwarding to one of my systems.

Re: [gentoo-user] Reaching my network over the internet

2005-12-29 Thread Grant
How is your network connected to the internet? http://www.google.com/search?ie=utf8oe=utf8q=port+forwarding The first link looks fairly useful. Stroller. That helped a lot. I have a high-number port on the router forwarding to one of my systems. How can I access the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reaching my network over the internet

2005-12-29 Thread Ryan Viljoen
KISS - keep it short and simple. Doesnt that also stand for keep it simple stupid!? You can also use port knocking for additional security for SSH. I dont know anything about VPN so I wont comment. -- Ryan Viljoen Bsc(Eng) (Electrical) When you say I wrote a program that crashed Windows,

Re: [gentoo-user] Reaching my network over the internet

2005-12-29 Thread Grant
How is your network connected to the internet? http://www.google.com/search?ie=utf8oe=utf8q=port+forwarding The first link looks fairly useful. Stroller. That helped a lot. I have a high-number port on the router forwarding to one of my systems. How can I access the

Re: [gentoo-user] De-compiling shockwave flash files.

2005-12-29 Thread Martins Steinbergs
On Friday 30 December 2005 00:14, Stroller wrote: I want to extract some video from a Shockwave Flash (.SWF) file a little Googling reveals they're containers and that lots of other content can be stored within them. I see loads loads of demo or shareware decompilers for windows which

[gentoo-user] Rx Errors on NIC

2005-12-29 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I have a AMD Athlon 2800+ processor running on a Asus A7N8X Deluxe motherboard. This motherboard uses the Nvidia NForce2 chipset. It has both an Nvidia and a 3Com 100 mbps network adapter integrated. Initially I used the Nvidia network adapter but noticed a lot of Rx errors. The errors and

Re: [gentoo-user] Reaching my network over the internet

2005-12-29 Thread Ryan Viljoen
You can get a hostname which will resolve to your dynamic IP at http://dyndns.com - there are some free utilities which you can run to do the updating. There is also no-ip.com both no-ip and dyndns update clients are in the portage tree so now worries there. Sorry for the repetitive mail. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Multi-user Console Viewing

2005-12-29 Thread John J. Foster
On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 03:20:48PM -0600, John Jolet wrote: one called poke and peekworks on all unixes I've found so far. pretty inexpensive, but not free. peek allows you to watch, and the poke part lets you take over. or you can use vnc with a particular argument to share the

Re: [gentoo-user] xpdf + KDE + emerge whackiness... [SOLVED]

2005-12-29 Thread Jeff
Worked as planned guys. Thanks much. How I did it: # emerge -C poppler xpdf ; emerge -vat poppler Then, add app-text/xpdf to /etc/portage/package.keywords Thanks much. :-) Daniel Heemann wrote: On Thursday 29 December 2005 21:04, Jeff wrote: Calculating world dependencies ...done!

Re: [gentoo-user] Regular user can't offload usb camera`

2005-12-29 Thread Glenn Enright
On Friday 30 December 2005 06:43, Gerhard Hoogterp wrote: I had something alike and found that the hotplug script was looking for /var/run/console/console.lock to see who owned the console (and to use this info to chown the usbfile) You can easily check if you have the same problem:

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge realplayer

2005-12-29 Thread maxim wexler
--- larry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: trying to emerge realplayer, received following error msg: emerge (1 of 1) media-video/realplayer-10.0.6 to / Downloading https://helixcommunity.org/download.php/1589/RealPlayer-10.0.6.776-20050915.i586.rpm --21:17:33--

Re: [gentoo-user] Reaching my network over the internet

2005-12-29 Thread Stroller
On 29 Dec 2005, at 23:18, Grant wrote: Also, what should I do about securing ssh? I'm using a high port number. Is there other special configuration I should be using? I'm using the standard sshd_config except for the high port number specification. Using a high port number isn't terribly

Re: [gentoo-user] A few (gentoo-newbie) questions (mainly about binary packages)

2005-12-29 Thread C. Beamer
Hi, Most of your questions have been answered by more knowledgeable people on the list than I. However, I do I one comment: Richard Neill wrote: 4)Does anyone know of a good resource for ex-mandriva users? I can't say enough good things about Gentoo documentation:

[gentoo-user] Bash programmable completion

2005-12-29 Thread Willie Wong
I am trying out programmable completion following the tab completion TIP at gentoo-wiki: http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_TAB-completion Things mostly work as expected. I also turned on programmable completion for bash using shopt -s progcomp My question: how does the tab completion determine

[gentoo-user] ndiswrapper, broadcom 4320 and 802.11b

2005-12-29 Thread Jerry McBride
Anyone here an ndiswrapper expert? I would most welcome some setup help... I'm working with a COMPAQ R3320US which sports an internal wifi setup using the broadcom BCM4306 chipset. Installing the ndiswrapper and the correct windows drivers, the setup process seems to go without a hitch.

[gentoo-user] Duplicate symbol __glXSingleTable in libglx.a

2005-12-29 Thread Trenton Adams
Here I go again. This never got to the list, which I assume is because it had an attachment. So, this time it doesn't, I've inlined the xorg log. I get the following error in my Xorg log when trying to start X. I can't figure out what is happening. Duplicate symbol __glXSingleTable in

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Filename modification with suffix

2005-12-29 Thread Jerry McBride
On Thursday 29 December 2005 08:24, Marco Calviani wrote: Hi list, maybe this question is a little bit related since it regards non Gentoo-specific topics. I would like to add a specific suffix to a list of files. For example i have files of the type: duck1.jpg duck2.jpg duck3.jpg

[gentoo-user] Re: OT - Need MythTV setup help (resend)

2005-12-29 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 11:53 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: It's been over an hour since I sent this in to the list and my log files say that it was sent, but I haven't gotten it back from the list yet. I'm sending it again... Forwarded Message From: Michael Sullivan [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge realplayer - resolved

2005-12-29 Thread larry
On Wednesday 28 December 2005 09:22 pm, larry wrote: trying to emerge realplayer, received following error msg: emerge (1 of 1) media-video/realplayer-10.0.6 to / Downloading https://helixcommunity.org/download.php/1589/RealPlayer-10.0.6.776-20050915 .i586.rpm --21:17:33--

Re: [gentoo-user] Regular user can't offload usb camera`

2005-12-29 Thread Glenn Enright
On Friday 30 December 2005 06:43, Gerhard Hoogterp wrote: Interesting I can get it to work the first time it is connected. But after disconnetcting or turning off the camera (a Kodak cx7330) it doesnt work anymore. Neither as root or as user. It looks liek every time I reconnect a usb device

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Filename modification with suffix

2005-12-29 Thread Lithion
Such a question shows the power of bash programming. Method1 : ls -1 *.jpg | while read file; do mv $file \ donald_$file; done Method2 : ls -1 *.jpg | awk '{ print mv $1 donald_$1; } | \ /bin/bash Method3 : find -name *.jpg -exec mv {} donald_{} ';' On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 11:57 am, Jerry

Re: [gentoo-user] Regular user can't offload usb camera`

2005-12-29 Thread Glenn Enright
On Friday 30 December 2005 16:09, Glenn Enright wrote: On Friday 30 December 2005 06:43, Gerhard Hoogterp wrote: Interesting I can get it to work the first time it is connected. But after disconnetcting or turning off the camera (a Kodak cx7330) it doesnt work anymore. Neither as root or as

[gentoo-user] either emerge or portage is completely broken

2005-12-29 Thread Robert Persson
I ran emerge sync earlier this evening and I got the following at the end of the output: Performing Global Updates: /usr/portage/profiles/updates/4Q-2005 (Could take a couple of minutes if you have a lot of binary packages.) .='update pass' *='binary update' @='/var/db move' s='/var/db

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: XFCE user taking KDE for a spin

2005-12-29 Thread Grant
-* are masked for all archs. This is experimental beyond ~*. Furthermore, you should at least specify your particular arch, like x86, amd64, ppc. Many applications don't even use a -* arch so you will be missing a whole bunch of stuff. A better way to handle this is to use the

Re: [gentoo-user] either emerge or portage is completely broken

2005-12-29 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Friday 30 December 2005 14:27, Robert Persson wrote: I ran emerge sync earlier this evening and I got the following at the end of the output: Performing Global Updates: /usr/portage/profiles/updates/4Q-2005 (Could take a couple of minutes if you have a lot of binary packages.) .='update

[gentoo-user] Re: Duplicate symbol __glXSingleTable in libglx.a

2005-12-29 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Friday 30 December 2005 01:47, Trenton Adams wrote: Here I go again. This never got to the list, which I assume is because it had an attachment. So, this time it doesn't, I've inlined the xorg log. It did, but gmail has the nasty habit to hide your posts AFAIK... (II) LoadModule:

Re: [gentoo-user] either emerge or portage is completely broken

2005-12-29 Thread Robert Persson
On December 29, 2005 10:31 pm Jason Stubbs was like: One of your /etc/portage/package.* files contains an invalid atom. By the look of the traceback, you have a line with just a * perhaps? Jason Stubbs That was it! Thanks! I had a line reading * media-video/mpeg4ip in