[gentoo-ppc-user] Where to set console blanking timeout?

2005-05-31 Thread Chris L. Mason
Hi, I have gentoo working okay on my iMac G5 (ppc64), but I cannot figure out how to change the default screen blanking timeout. After 10 minutes the screen goes blank, and if I hit any key it comes back. Can someone please tell me where I need to change this setting? Is it an option I need to

Re: [gentoo-user] Reiser4, encryption

2005-05-31 Thread Rumen Yotov
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Dienstag, 31. Mai 2005 07:15 schrieb ext Colin: When will Reiser4 be added to the Gentoo kernel? I can emerge reiser4progs, but I can't mount the volumes nor use them in /etc/fstab. AFAIK there are kernel sources which have reiser4 patched in. Also, are

Re: [gentoo-user] Clarification on iso downloads

2005-05-31 Thread W.Kenworthy
emerge -fp system file on the system in question will list the critical files, and where to download them from. Its messy, but this can be edited into a clean list and fed to a downloader in some fashion. May make a considerable saving in download amount and time over a whole iso. Alt is there

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Building and using binary packages with emerge/portage

2005-05-31 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 21:17 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: --- Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sorry but I looked inside the content of a tbz2 file and didn't find that it has any references to the /var/db directory. The data not inside the tar archive. It's appended onto the end

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] tips on my 1st try at iptables?

2005-05-31 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 23:06 -0400, A. Khattri wrote: On Mon, 30 May 2005, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Frankly, I've stopped trying to grok iptables but rather I use a frontend like shorewall. It's much simpler than doing it all by yourself. I prefer just plain iptables myself ;-) One man's

Re: [gentoo-user] When a dependancy built by hand

2005-05-31 Thread Graham Murray
Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I want to install emacs-w3m. I have already built an emacs install by hand from cvs emacs tar ball. I always build emacs myself. [snip] Emerge wants to install another emacs. How can I tell it I already have emacs installed? While it would mean

Re: [gentoo-user] Reiser4, encryption

2005-05-31 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 31. Mai 2005 07:56 schrieb ext Rumen Yotov: Could also use loop-aes instead of dm-crypt, it's a kernel module. So is dm-crypt. And since it's based on device-mapper this should be the way to go. And, it is fully supported on Gentoo. Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs

Re: [gentoo-user] Clarification on iso downloads

2005-05-31 Thread Graham Murray
A. Khattri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: An install from source REQUIRES net access since the bootstrap script downloads and builds each package - so a binary-less install without net access is a contradiction in terms. That is not strictly true. It is possible to do a source install without

Re: [gentoo-user] Reiser4, encryption

2005-05-31 Thread Colin
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Dienstag, 31. Mai 2005 07:15 schrieb ext Colin: When will Reiser4 be added to the Gentoo kernel? I can emerge reiser4progs, but I can't mount the volumes nor use them in /etc/fstab. AFAIK there are kernel sources which have reiser4 patched in. I know.

Re: [gentoo-user] Reiser4, encryption

2005-05-31 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 31. Mai 2005 08:28 schrieb ext Colin: I know. I'm just not fond of patching kernels. Why not, what's the problem? Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Building and using binary packages with emerge/portage

2005-05-31 Thread Zac Medico
--- Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In This case, how would one determine what IUSE values were used for the package said package then? How can one use to view this data? #!/usr/bin/python import sys if len(sys.argv)!=2: print usage: %s tbz2 file % sys.argv[0]

Re: [gentoo-user] Reiser4, encryption

2005-05-31 Thread Colin
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Dienstag, 31. Mai 2005 08:28 schrieb ext Colin: I know. I'm just not fond of patching kernels. Why not, what's the problem? - I'd rather use gentoo-sources than vanilla-sources. I'll wait for 2.6.12-gentoo before using some potentially unstable patched

Re: [gentoo-user] OT- NSA Linux

2005-05-31 Thread Red
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Gaffney wrote: rob3 wrote: Where do you get this? I couldn't find it on the www.nsa.gov site. What am I missing? Do you mean selinux? Try http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/hardened/selinux/index.xml. i was at a linuxshow last week

Re: [gentoo-user] Clarification on iso downloads

2005-05-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 31 May 2005 07:14:49 +0100, Graham Murray wrote: That is not strictly true. It is possible to do a source install without direct network access. What you have to do is get (on CDs or DVD) a portage snapshot and all the source files required and put them in (the chrooted)

Re: [gentoo-user] Reiser4, encryption

2005-05-31 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 31. Mai 2005 09:08 schrieb ext Colin: - I'd rather use gentoo-sources than vanilla-sources. I'll wait for 2.6.12-gentoo before using some potentially unstable patched vanilla kernel. (Plus they might fix some bugs before then.) Hmm, what's the gentoo kernel? A vanilla kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Building and using binary packages with emerge/portage

2005-05-31 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 23:57 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: --- Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In This case, how would one determine what IUSE values were used for the package said package then? How can one use to view this data? #!/usr/bin/python import sys if len(sys.argv)!=2:

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating RAID devices

2005-05-31 Thread Emanuele Morozzi
Richard Fish wrote: Emanuele Morozzi wrote: Can anybody help me? Sorry, I think you have us stumped. If you run: dmraid ... dmsetup ls and dmsetup reports no devices, then my guess is that dmraid is misconfigured or broken. But I don't know enough about dmraid to help. I will in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Building and using binary packages with emerge/portage

2005-05-31 Thread Zac Medico
--- Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: answer the 2nd question I have regarding the + or - and whether the USE flag is in USE? This should do the trick: #!/usr/bin/python import sys if len(sys.argv)!=2: print usage: %s tbz2 file % sys.argv[0] sys.exit(1) sys.path =

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating RAID devices

2005-05-31 Thread Emanuele Morozzi
Me: Hallo, I recently passed to udev, so now I cannot use my Raid. Gentoo si installed in /dev/hda. The Raid is a striping raid composed of /dev/sda /dev/sdb and consists of 4 partitions. I created it installing windows (work reason). The SATA controller is a Silicon 3512. Before, with devfs,

Re: [gentoo-user] basic network

2005-05-31 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
Shouldn't he also setup a dhcp server like dnsmasq on the gentoo box? That's what I did, was it an overkill? raf Red wrote: luis jure wrote: hello list, i'm trying to setup my very first network at home. i have my desktop (gentoo linux) and a recently purchased laptop (still with windows

Re: [gentoo-user] raid messages at boot time

2005-05-31 Thread Christoph Gysin
Richard Fish wrote: I think a far better option would be to filter them in /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf. Then you do not have to re-patch your kernel with every upgrade. This affects only output via syslog. During the md autorun, the kernel hasn't even finished booting. The post was about

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Building and using binary packages with emerge/portage

2005-05-31 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 00:56 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: #!/usr/bin/python import sys if len(sys.argv)!=2: print usage: %s tbz2 file % sys.argv[0] sys.exit(1) sys.path = [/usr/lib/portage/pym]+sys.path import xpak mytbz2=xpak.tbz2(sys.argv[1]) myuse=mytbz2.getelements(USE)

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox sage

2005-05-31 Thread Christoph Gysin
maxim wexler wrote: Yes, thanks, emerge --sync is awesome! But must it run so long? I started more than an hour ago and it's still churning away. I noticed it started another server(went from Xeon to P4) and kept on going. Does it know enough to stop? Is it repeating itself? At some point

Re: [gentoo-user] basic network

2005-05-31 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 09:57 +0200, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: Shouldn't he also setup a dhcp server like dnsmasq on the gentoo box? That's what I did, was it an overkill? Well. a DHCP server would most likely be needed if you plan on automatically giving out IP addreses. But for a network of 2

Re: [gentoo-user] Back up again

2005-05-31 Thread Andreas Vinsander
Pupeno wrote: After a lot of testing and testing of different methods to make backups I reached a conclution of what I need, but I don't know if it's possible. I want to do an rsync of the server directories I want but locally, it should end up in a tared file (it doesn't need to be

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Building and using binary packages with emerge/portage

2005-05-31 Thread Zac Medico
--- Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So if I understand it correctly, what is being done is XPAK will take the USE flags from the system which compiled the binary and then sort of make a comparison with the USE flags for that particular package and work from there? Am I right?

Re: [gentoo-user] Reiser4, encryption

2005-05-31 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 31 May 2005 01:15:05 -0400 Colin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | When will Reiser4 be added to the Gentoo kernel? I can emerge | reiser4progs, but I can't mount the volumes nor use them in | /etc/fstab. ricer4 isn't supported on Gentoo systems and will likely not be supported for a very long

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Building and using binary packages with emerge/portage

2005-05-31 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 02:33 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: --- Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So if I understand it correctly, what is being done is XPAK will take the USE flags from the system which compiled the binary and then sort of make a comparison with the USE flags for that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Building and using binary packages with emerge/portage

2005-05-31 Thread Zac Medico
--- Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cool.. nice script by the way. I'm gonna include that in Edition 3 (July) of the MyOSS Magazine (http://mag.my-opensource.org) as Tips and Tricks. (crediting you of course) Oh it's really nothing. Glad I could help. ;-) Zac

[gentoo-user] subversion broken

2005-05-31 Thread Greg Donald
All of my subversion repositories are broken for the second time in less than a month. I haven't even used them in about a week or more. The machine hasn't crashed, nothing I can think of that would cause a problem has occured. svn update svn: Unable to open an ra_local session to URL svn:

[gentoo-user] Re: subversion broken

2005-05-31 Thread Remy Blank
Greg Donald wrote: All of my subversion repositories are broken for the second time in less than a month. I haven't even used them in about a week or more. The machine hasn't crashed, nothing I can think of that would cause a problem has occured. (snip) I already tried rebuilding apr,

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox sage

2005-05-31 Thread Holly Bostick
Christoph Gysin schreef: maxim wexler wrote: Yes, thanks, emerge --sync is awesome! But must it run so long? I started more than an hour ago and it's still churning away. I noticed it started another server(went from Xeon to P4) and kept on going. Does it know enough to stop? Is it repeating

Re: [gentoo-user] Clarification on iso downloads

2005-05-31 Thread cothrige
* Neil Bothwick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tue, 31 May 2005 07:14:49 +0100, Graham Murray wrote: That is not strictly true. It is possible to do a source install without direct network access. What you have to do is get (on CDs or DVD) a portage snapshot and all the source files

Re: [gentoo-user] Clarification on iso downloads

2005-05-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 30 May 2005 08:40:20 -0500, cothrige wrote: The new issue of Linux Format, out in the UK later this week, has Gentoo 2005.0 on the DVD with over 2GB of source files. Everything you need for a standard desktop setup on x86, amd64 or ppc. Hmmm. I like the sound of that. If that

[gentoo-user] xscreensaver

2005-05-31 Thread Qv6
Hello I am trying to customize xscreensaver to show personal photos in a random fashion.. What file do I need to mess with to get this done? TIA, -- Qv6 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: xscreensaver

2005-05-31 Thread Botykai Zsolt
Tuesday 31 May 2005 11.18-n, Qv6 ezt írta: I am trying to customize xscreensaver to show personal photos in a random fashion.. What file do I need to mess with to get this done? from command line start xscreensaver-demo, then click on the 'advanced' tab, and check 'Choose random image' and

[gentoo-user] Collision trouble with mailbase

2005-05-31 Thread Grant
Hello, I'm getting the following potential file collisions when trying to emerge the new mailbase on my server: * Checking for possible file collisions... * //etc/pam.d/pop3 exists and wasn't provided by mailbase * //etc/pam.d/imap exists and wasn't provided by mailbase * //etc/pam.d/imap4

Re: [gentoo-user] xscreensaver

2005-05-31 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
$HOME/.xscreensaver In particular, these two lines should do it: chooseRandomImages: True imageDirectory: ... Or run $ xscreensaver-demo despite the name it is an xscreensaver configuration GUI. raf Qv6 wrote: Hello I am trying to customize xscreensaver to show personal photos in a

[gentoo-user] glibc blocks libiconv?

2005-05-31 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
Today glibc blocks libiconv. libiconv and transcode are needeed by k3b? Mike -- Michael W. Holdeman Powered by Gentoo Linux www.gentoo.org | Kernel 2.6.11-ck8 | Win4Lin 5-1-20 netraverse.com | Win4LinPro 6.1.1-03

[gentoo-user] It's baaaaack...! (Python 2.4.1)

2005-05-31 Thread Holly Bostick
Hi all, I seem to have painted myself into a corner, and hope that someone can see a way out before I repeat my previous mistakes. The short version is that, after my previous thread about removing an extra version of Python (2.4.1 when I already had 2.3.5 installed), Portage now wants to

[gentoo-user] KDE 3.4.1 released

2005-05-31 Thread Andreas Karlsson
Hi, KDE 3.4.1 was released today: http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-3.4.1.php I am compiling it right now. Just a little question regarding aRTS. I compiled into 3.4.0 but now I have decided to dump it. Could there be any problem compiling with USE=-alsa for 3.4.1 (if there is, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xscreensaver

2005-05-31 Thread Qv6
On Tuesday 31 May 2005 02:34 pm, Botykai Zsolt wrote: Tuesday 31 May 2005 11.18-n, Qv6 ezt írta: I am trying to customize xscreensaver to show personal photos in a random fashion.. What file do I need to mess with to get this done? from command line start xscreensaver-demo, then click on

Re: [gentoo-user] It's baaaaack...! (Python 2.4.1)

2005-05-31 Thread Edward A Mihalow Jr
Holly Bostick wrote: Hi all, I seem to have painted myself into a corner, and hope that someone can see a way out before I repeat my previous mistakes. The short version is that, after my previous thread about removing an extra version of Python (2.4.1 when I already had 2.3.5 installed),

Re: [gentoo-user] It's baaaaack...! (Python 2.4.1)

2005-05-31 Thread Simon Maynard
I am probably wrong, but I thought that portage would only install a new slot if either it was required by a package or the package is in your world file? On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 00:18 +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: On Wednesday 01 June 2005 00:06, Holly Bostick wrote: The short version is that,

Re: [gentoo-user] determining who is using a device

2005-05-31 Thread ZeeGeek
On 5/30/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've got this problem in a mytht log file when we try to watch TV: error reading from: /dev/v4l/video0 read: Device or resource busy Is lsof the correct way to determine what or who is keeping this device busy? I get this result:

Re: [gentoo-user] Collision trouble with mailbase

2005-05-31 Thread Dirk Raeder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Grant wrote: Hello, I'm getting the following potential file collisions when trying to emerge the new mailbase on my server: * Checking for possible file collisions... * //etc/pam.d/pop3 exists and wasn't provided by mailbase *

Re: [gentoo-user] Clarification on iso downloads

2005-05-31 Thread cothrige
* Neil Bothwick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Mon, 30 May 2005 08:40:20 -0500, cothrige wrote: It will be a few weeks before it reaches US shops. There isn't a great deal on the second Slackware disc. Where supplying only one disc would reduce the effectiveness greatly, we generally put

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.4.1 released

2005-05-31 Thread Antonino Sabetta
I am compiling it right now. Just a little question regarding aRTS. I compiled into 3.4.0 but now I have decided to dump it. Could there be any problem compiling with USE=-alsa for 3.4.1 (if there is, I would probably have to recompile again, as I use that right now :) )? Andreas, I do not see

Re: [gentoo-user] It's baaaaack...! (Python 2.4.1)

2005-05-31 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Wednesday 01 June 2005 00:26, Simon Maynard wrote: I am probably wrong, but I thought that portage would only install a new slot if either it was required by a package or the package is in your world file? Or if it's in system or if you specify --deep or it is a shallow upgradable

Re: [gentoo-user] It's baaaaack...! (Python 2.4.1)

2005-05-31 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: On Tue, 31 May 2005 17:06:55 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: The short version is that, after my previous thread about removing an extra version of Python (2.4.1 when I already had 2.3.5 installed), Portage now wants to re-emerge Python 2.4.1, and I can't seem to prevent

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.4.1 released

2005-05-31 Thread Holly Bostick
Andreas Karlsson schreef: Hi, KDE 3.4.1 was released today: http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-3.4.1.php I am compiling it right now. Just a little question regarding aRTS. I compiled into 3.4.0 but now I have decided to dump it. Could there be any problem compiling with

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.4.1 released

2005-05-31 Thread Andreas Karlsson
On Tuesday 31 May 2005 17.45, Antonino Sabetta wrote: Andreas, I do not see the relation between dumping Artsd and the -alsa switch. Since I'm having big troubles trying to make things work with alsa+dmix+arts, can you explain how do you intend to configure your sound system? Thanks,

Re: Insulting People or Projects On The List [Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Reiser4, encryption]

2005-05-31 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 31 May 2005 11:26:31 -0400 fire-eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Could we consider not insulting people or projects which people work | very hard on? Does that extend to Windows ME, or only to projects which have a fan-base? -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools,

Re: [gentoo-user] Reiser4, encryption

2005-05-31 Thread Richard Fish
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Dienstag, 31. Mai 2005 07:56 schrieb ext Rumen Yotov: Could also use loop-aes instead of dm-crypt, it's a kernel module. So is dm-crypt. And since it's based on device-mapper this should be the way to go. And, it is fully supported on Gentoo. I would

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.4.1 released

2005-05-31 Thread Andreas Karlsson
On Tuesday 31 May 2005 18.18, Holly Bostick wrote: Do you mean -alsa, or -arts? If the latter (which makes more sense, given your first sentence), I hope not, as I am about to do the exact same thing. I ment -arts +alsa. Thinking about one thing, typing another. :) At least, I hope so, or

Re: [gentoo-user] Clarification on iso downloads

2005-05-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 31 May 2005 11:55:57 -0400, Phil Sexton wrote: Thanks for the heads up on that. I am going to find out where I can get it and keep an eye out. I think that this would be the easiest way to go for sure. Check out:

Re: [gentoo-user] Reiser4, encryption

2005-05-31 Thread Richard Fish
Colin wrote: When will Reiser4 be added to the Gentoo kernel? I can emerge reiser4progs, but I can't mount the volumes nor use them in /etc/fstab. Also, are there any good, journaled and encrypting filesystems for Linux? I thought Reiser4 would have an encryption plugin; did I read that

[gentoo-user] Good diagram app

2005-05-31 Thread Bruno Lustosa
Hello. I am in need of an application like Visio. I tried messing with dia, but it's still far from what I need, for it lacks lots of useful features. What program do the list recommend? -- Bruno Lustosa, aka Lofofora | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Administrator/Web Programmer |

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.4.1 released

2005-05-31 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
Some KDE releases ago I have tried to use -arts flag and met some difficulties (do not remeber exactly). Now, I use these rules: - do not use '-arts' flag anywhere - turn arts (Sound Server) off in KDE Control Centre - ignore ALSA in a kernel source tree - use alsa-[kernel,lib,utils,oss,...]

Re: [gentoo-user] raid messages at boot time

2005-05-31 Thread Richard Fish
Christoph Gysin wrote: Richard Fish wrote: I think a far better option would be to filter them in /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf. Then you do not have to re-patch your kernel with every upgrade. This affects only output via syslog. During the md autorun, the kernel hasn't even finished

Re: [gentoo-user] Collision trouble with mailbase

2005-05-31 Thread Grant
Hello, I'm getting the following potential file collisions when trying to emerge the new mailbase on my server: * Checking for possible file collisions... * //etc/pam.d/pop3 exists and wasn't provided by mailbase * //etc/pam.d/imap exists and wasn't provided by mailbase *

[gentoo-user] konqueror-su cant start kedit

2005-05-31 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
Konqueror as su has now lost the ability to start any editor. Anyone know how ot fix this? Mike -- Michael W. Holdeman Powered by Gentoo Linux www.gentoo.org | Kernel 2.6.11-ck8 | Win4Lin 5-1-20 netraverse.com |

Re: [gentoo-user] Good diagram app

2005-05-31 Thread michael
On Tue, 31 May 2005, Bruno Lustosa wrote: Hello. I am in need of an application like Visio. I tried messing with dia, but it's still far from what I need, for it lacks lots of useful features. What program do the list recommend? Take a look at Inkscape. Many very nice features, some

Re: [gentoo-user] Good diagram app

2005-05-31 Thread Holly Bostick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: On Tue, 31 May 2005, Bruno Lustosa wrote: Hello. I am in need of an application like Visio. I tried messing with dia, but it's still far from what I need, for it lacks lots of useful features. What program do the list recommend? Take a look at Inkscape.

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox sage

2005-05-31 Thread maxim wexler
But isn't emerge --sync a different command from the more traditional emerge sync ? In An Intro to Portage it's emerge --sync and if that fails, emerge-websync but that failed too. 1) What is the speed of your Internet connection? Slightly faster than I can type ;( 2) What is

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-05-31 Thread maxim wexler
maybe you can try this, root (hd0,1) setup (hd0) That's better. But it still doesn't work. Staring at a console right now telling me to please wait. grub root (hd0,1) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 grub setup (hd0) Checking if /boot/grub/stage1 exists... no Checking if

Re: [gentoo-user] Good diagram app

2005-05-31 Thread Bruno Lustosa
Take a look at Inkscape. Many very nice features, some overlap with dia, some quite different. I emerged inkscape, but it's not quite what I need. Need something to draw flowcharts and diagrams. KOffice has just expanded with a new diagram tool called kivio . It looked pretty good, almost

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox sage

2005-05-31 Thread Holly Bostick
maxim wexler schreef: But isn't emerge --sync a different command from the more traditional emerge sync ? In An Intro to Portage it's emerge --sync and if that fails, emerge-websync but that failed too. 1) What is the speed of your Internet connection? Slightly faster than I

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-05-31 Thread ZeeGeek
On 6/1/05, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: maybe you can try this, root (hd0,1) setup (hd0) That's better. But it still doesn't work. Staring at a console right now telling me to please wait. that's right, isn't it? it's working if you see the console giving you the list. if

[gentoo-user] [OT] Can't load GNOME as user

2005-05-31 Thread Holly Bostick
Hi, I can't stand it anymore, so I thought I'd fish here for ideas. The long and the short of it is that I cannot load the GNOME desktop as a user (works fine as root). The splash screen comes up, but only 2 icons show in the progress bar before the splash disappears-- Sessions, and Window

Re: [gentoo-user] Good diagram app

2005-05-31 Thread Luca Penasa
Bruno Lustosa wrote: Take a look at Inkscape. Many very nice features, some overlap with dia, some quite different. I emerged inkscape, but it's not quite what I need. Need something to draw flowcharts and diagrams. KOffice has just expanded with a new diagram tool called kivio . It

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Can't load GNOME as user

2005-05-31 Thread =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fr=E9d=E9ric?= Grosshans
Le mardi 31 mai 2005 19:58 +0200, Holly Bostick a crit : Hi, I can't stand it anymore, so I thought I'd fish here for ideas. The long and the short of it is that I cannot load the GNOME desktop as a user (works fine as root). I had the same problem yesterday, after having played with

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CFLAGS CPU optimization question.

2005-05-31 Thread Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales
Sorry for taking this long to answer. I suggest any unprivileged port that has no other service attached to it (I use 8022 on some machines). Script Kiddies won't event know it is there, or will try to hammer it with a wrong protocol, which will be useless. Of course, I might be wrong. If so,

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Can't load GNOME as user

2005-05-31 Thread Daniel da Veiga
I faced a problem like this few weeks ago, it was a permission problem, some files and directories used by Gnome (at the user's home) had wrong permissions, all I had to do were some recursive chown and chgrp and it all worked fine, dunno if its your problem, but you should check it. On 5/31/05,

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.4.1 released

2005-05-31 Thread Antonino Sabetta
Andreas Karlsson wrote: On Tuesday 31 May 2005 17.45, Antonino Sabetta wrote: Andreas, I do not see the relation between dumping Artsd and the -alsa switch. Since I'm having big troubles trying to make things work with alsa+dmix+arts, can you explain how do you intend to configure your sound

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2005-05-31 Thread rob3
Thank you Red!! and the others who replied. I didn't know NSA Linux was now called SELinux, so that is where I goofed. I only recently have had some interest in this. I do understand the compartmentalized security model that they use, and that is what I am interested in. Many thanks again.

Re: [gentoo-user] Good diagram app

2005-05-31 Thread Zac Medico
--- Bruno Lustosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I am in need of an application like Visio. I tried messing with dia, but it's still far from what I need, for it lacks lots of useful features. What program do the list recommend? Hi Bruno, Don't miss the Grumpy Editor's guide to

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-05-31 Thread Richard Fish
maxim wexler wrote: maybe you can try this, root (hd0,1) setup (hd0) That's better. But it still doesn't work. Staring at a console right now telling me to please wait. grub root (hd0,1) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 grub setup (hd0) Checking if /boot/grub/stage1

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.4.1 released

2005-05-31 Thread Rumen Yotov
Antonino Sabetta wrote: Andreas Karlsson wrote: On Tuesday 31 May 2005 17.45, Antonino Sabetta wrote: Andreas, I do not see the relation between dumping Artsd and the -alsa switch. Since I'm having big troubles trying to make things work with alsa+dmix+arts, can you explain how do you

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.4.1 released

2005-05-31 Thread Richard Fish
Antonino Sabetta wrote: Andreas Karlsson wrote: On Tuesday 31 May 2005 17.45, Antonino Sabetta wrote: Andreas, I do not see the relation between dumping Artsd and the -alsa switch. Since I'm having big troubles trying to make things work with alsa+dmix+arts, can you explain how do you

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.4.1 released

2005-05-31 Thread Holly Bostick
Antonino Sabetta schreef: Andreas Karlsson wrote: On Tuesday 31 May 2005 17.45, Antonino Sabetta wrote: Andreas, I do not see the relation between dumping Artsd and the -alsa switch. Since I'm having big troubles trying to make things work with alsa+dmix+arts, can you explain how do you

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.4.1 released

2005-05-31 Thread Christoph Eckert
Hi, Personally, I use dmix, every Distro should preconfigure DMIX now, it's the right thing. although it can be a pain (lots of trial and error) to get setup and working correctly. That's true :) . I also use artsd for KDE applications (except for amarok, which works best with the

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2005-05-31 Thread rob3
Hi all, I need some help migrating from the r6 to the r9 kernel. I copied my .config file into the r9 directory and tried to make menuconfig, but I just get the error message saying something to the effect that }. is missing. What am I missing? Many Thanks, Rob -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: subversion broken

2005-05-31 Thread Greg Donald
On 5/31/05, Remy Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This won't help you recover your repositories, but once you have done so (and I hope somebody can jump in and help you with it), migrate them to fsfs. No recovery ever needed, and it has never failed here. Easier to backup, to. I have daily

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.4.1 released

2005-05-31 Thread Andreas Karlsson
On Tuesday 31 May 2005 20.36, Antonino Sabetta wrote: Andreas Karlsson wrote: On Tuesday 31 May 2005 17.45, Antonino Sabetta wrote: Andreas, I do not see the relation between dumping Artsd and the -alsa switch. Since I'm having big troubles trying to make things work with alsa+dmix+arts,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: subversion broken

2005-05-31 Thread Rumen Yotov
Greg Donald wrote: On 5/31/05, Remy Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This won't help you recover your repositories, but once you have done so (and I hope somebody can jump in and help you with it), migrate them to fsfs. No recovery ever needed, and it has never failed here. Easier to backup,

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Can't load GNOME as user

2005-05-31 Thread Edward A Mihalow Jr
Holly Bostick wrote: Hi, I can't stand it anymore, so I thought I'd fish here for ideas. The long and the short of it is that I cannot load the GNOME desktop as a user (works fine as root). The splash screen comes up, but only 2 icons show in the progress bar before the splash disappears--

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.4.1 released

2005-05-31 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Hi, since all sound daemons suck, and setting up dmix is simple (exspecially with latest alsa, where dmix is default), there is no reason to use a sound daemon or not to use dmix. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: modules-update - modprobe.conf/modules.conf broken

2005-05-31 Thread Mark Knecht
On 5/31/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP gandalf modules.d # cat /etc/modules.d/ivtv alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c alias char-major-81 videodev alias char-major-81-0 ivtv modprobe tveeprom modprobe ivtv ivtv_debug=1 tuner=57,57,57,57 gandalf modules.d # SNIP OK, I find this

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.4.1 released

2005-05-31 Thread Richard Fish
Andreas Karlsson wrote: I actually don´t know. But all I use for sound is amaroK with gstreamer outputting via alsa. Don´t see any need for arts there. As for the rest, I do what I allways do - make make it up along the way. :) But reading this thread further I might give dmix a try.

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox sage

2005-05-31 Thread maxim wexler
How long did your sync today take, and does an I aborted after about 2hrs emerge -up world or emerge -ua world seem to indicate that it was successful (that packages haven't done that one yet but a list of the portage tree(if that's what /usr/portage is supposed to be) indicated that most

Re: [gentoo-user] Wi-Fi in a hostel

2005-05-31 Thread Sean Higgins
Grant, The latest version of wpa_supplicant can connect to unencrypted access points. You have to set ssid=. I am running version 0.4.1 and it is working for me. Sean On Friday 20 May 2005 10:04 pm, Grant wrote: Hello, I'm going to stay in a hostel in San

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.4.1 released

2005-05-31 Thread Christoph Eckert
Well, there is one reason...VMWare still doesn't support ALSA, and the vmwaredsp wrapper library only works with esd or artsd, so I have to keep one of them around. DMIX does not make the soundservers unnecessary. Why? A program which needs esound or arts or gstreamer or JACK cannot output

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-05-31 Thread maxim wexler
choosing menu, then you'll need splashimage set in Whoa! IIRC splashimage is optional. Can somebody weigh in here? __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new Resources site http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ --

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xscreensaver

2005-05-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 31 May 2005 10:16:55 +, Qv6 wrote: Thanks, but I was referring to the screensaver that's built into kde. Then why did you put xscreensaver in the Subject? Just to confuse people? ;-/ Emerge shows that I do not have kscreensaver or xscreensaver installed. If you use the monolithic

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-05-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 31 May 2005 14:51:49 -0700 (PDT), maxim wexler wrote: Whoa! IIRC splashimage is optional. Can somebody weigh in here? Yes, it is optional, and worth disabling if you have problems. GRUB will bail out with no error message if you set an incorrect path for splashimage. -- Neil

[gentoo-user] bandwidthd alternative

2005-05-31 Thread Miguel Miranda
Hi, im looking for a bandwidth monitor aplication, im using mrtg, but it only shows total values, i need a more granular option, that show me on a per ip basis, what ports, total bandwidth by ip, etc, i found banwidthd (http://bandwidthd.sourceforge.net/) Do you know any other alternative?

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating RAID devices

2005-05-31 Thread Scott Storck
Emanuele Morozzi schrieb: Me: Hallo, I recently passed to udev, so now I cannot use my Raid. Gentoo si installed in /dev/hda. The Raid is a striping raid composed of /dev/sda /dev/sdb and consists of 4 partitions. I created it installing windows (work reason). The SATA

[gentoo-user] Error when emerging ruby

2005-05-31 Thread Michael =?iso-8859-1?q?M=FCller?=
Hi! I have the following problem when I try to emerge ruby. The build fails with: - i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -shared -Wl,-soname,libruby18.so.1.8 array.o bignum.o class.o compar.o dir.o dln.o enum.o error.o eval.o file.o gc.o hash.o inits.o io.o marshal.o math.o numeric.o

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Building and using binary packages with emerge/portage

2005-05-31 Thread Paul Varner
On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 21:35 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: On 5/30/05, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 10:13 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: On 5/30/05, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think those binary packages

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