Re: [gentoo-user] Disk usage?

2005-06-16 Thread Zac Medico
Mark Knecht wrote: That said I use openoffice-bin and revdep-rebuild always complains. With the latest version of revdep-rebuild (you need to unmask the latest gentoolkit) you can add SEARCH_DIRS_MASK=/opt/OpenOffice.org to make.conf and it won't complain anymore. But doesn't this just

Re: [gentoo-user] cloning drivers that are not the same size

2005-06-16 Thread Zac Medico
Ow Mun Heng wrote: Normally when I want to populate a new dir structure (which is empty to begin with) I do instead of issuing the command cp -a /some/area/mp3 /other/area/mp3-store use tar lcf - . | (cd /other/area/mp3-store; tar -xpvf - ) tar lcf - /path/to/file | (cd

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing output of cron jobs

2005-06-16 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: But your mention of bway.net reminds me of something I wanted to ask you-- are you in NYC? Yes I am - Im assuming you no longer are - where are you now ? I was a bway.net customer before I left New York, so it made me wonder. I found them a great

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome-config question

2005-06-16 Thread Zarick Lau
Hi, On 14/Jun/05, Tres Melton wrote: I'm trying to port plextor-tools.ebuild from ~x86 to ~amd64 and have encountered a problem. The Makefile sets CFLAGS=`gnome-config --cflags applets` $(SCFLAGS) but gnome-config --cflags applets returns Unknown library `applets' even though I

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing output of cron jobs

2005-06-16 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: Thanks to your help, and a slightly revised version of Neil's script (thanks, Neil!), it seems to be working. I would also like to thank the author (scottro?) or authors of the Quick-N-Dirty guides found at http://www.qnd-guides.net/ , whose Q-n-D

Re: [gentoo-user] Glsa-check and binutils-- how to stop the madness?

2005-06-16 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: I've been running a little scriptlet to test whether I could get mail sent to my ISP inbox. The full script runs esync and glsa-check, but naturally I didn't want to sync 700 times, so I just ran the glsa-check section. Is this script glcu ? ;-) --

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk usage?

2005-06-16 Thread Zac Medico
Mark Knecht wrote: My one wish, for the number of times I've done this, is that by definition the LiveCD kernel is good enough to boot the machine so I wish that kernel was installed and the Live CD was gone before I started worrying about choosing kernel options and booting the machine from my ow

[gentoo-user] Can not login via GDM

2005-06-16 Thread Nadav Horesh
I have several desktops installed -Gnome, KDE and xfce. Whaen I try to logon via GDM as a normal user, the Xsession script always gets the token visible-stats as a parameter instead of the requested session name. Configuration: 1. Dual P4 + 512M 2. Xorg 6.8.2 3. kernel: 2.6.11-gentoo-r11 4. GDM

[gentoo-user] ndiswrapper problems

2005-06-16 Thread Colin
Finally. I'm sending this email from a working Gentoo system. My wireless card (D-Link DWL-120+, ACX100 chipset) had trouble with acx100, so I unmerged that and gave ndiswrapper a shot. As you can see, it works, despite not being listed on ndiswrapper's compatibility page. (I should probably

Re: [gentoo-user] ooffice 2.0 and kde

2005-06-16 Thread Massimiliano Bellomo
Richard Fish wrote: Massimiliano Bellomo wrote: Hi all, do you know if it's possible to have KDE integration with OpenOffice 2.0 beta ? Depends on what you mean by integration. If you mean the 'quickstart' applet that sits in the system tray for OOo1.1.x, then no,

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk usage?

2005-06-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 19:58:04 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: The first step would be to mount /usr/portage on a separate machine using NFS. Setup an NFS server on that remote box, export the directory as rw, and then mount it as rw on your machine in fstab. At this point all the code that's

[gentoo-user] SB Audigy Platinum (emu10k1) mixers

2005-06-16 Thread Colin
There are so many of them, and the names don't correspond with what they do in Windows. I can figure out what most of them mean, but there are a few mixers that I just can't figure out. Maybe someone can help me complete this list? Master - Master Volume Tone - ? Bass Treble PCM - ? PCM Center

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk usage?

2005-06-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 22:34:51 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Please correct me if I'm wrong but if what revdep-rebuild does is important then I want to kow about any program on my system that doesn't have all it's dependencies met, right? Seems that OO-bin has this problem and, unless I find out

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk usage?

2005-06-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 10:52:49 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: A problem with the above is that its hard to remove all the fluff on built system, so the best effect is on a new install. Believe it or not, it is possible to put a fully usable desktop with office apps on a bootable 256M USB key with

[gentoo-user] Can't mount vfat partition

2005-06-16 Thread Colin
I just can't mount this FAT32 partition: /dev/hde5 /home/colin/Documents vfat uid=colin,umask=122 0 0 When I try to mount it, I get this error: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hde5, or too many mounted file systems I've tried every mount command I

[gentoo-user] Re: email sending problem

2005-06-16 Thread askar ...
Thank you for advice! askar On 6/16/05, A. Khattri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, askar ... wrote: --- Session Transcript --- Parsing Message C:\MDAEMON\REMOTEQ\pd5072158.msg From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: sdfadfad Message-ID: [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] cloning drivers that are not the same size

2005-06-16 Thread Zac Medico
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 16:07:35 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: The dd program knows nothing about partions but it will work with the associated device file. I would use fdisk, mke2fs, and rsync. I'd go with rsync too. It may well be slower than tar, but it can be

[gentoo-user] Scroll wheel doesn't scroll

2005-06-16 Thread Colin
Sorry for all the messages all at once. I've noticed recently that my mouse's scroll wheel isn't working. How do I turn on the wheel in X (since I'm guessing it's off)? -- Colin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't mount vfat partition

2005-06-16 Thread Zac Medico
Colin wrote: I just can't mount this FAT32 partition: /dev/hde5 /home/colin/Documents vfat uid=colin,umask=122 0 0 When I try to mount it, I get this error: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hde5, or too many mounted file systems I've tried

Re: [gentoo-user] cloning drivers that are not the same size

2005-06-16 Thread Ow Mun Heng
I've found that squashfs is an iteresting option for doing backups/cloning because the compressed filesystem can also be reused to make a livecd or livedvd. For normal cloning, I mount the squashfs and use rsync to copy the files into a fresh ext3 partition. This is interesting.. How is

Re: [gentoo-user] cloning drivers that are not the same size

2005-06-16 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 08:46 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 16:07:35 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: The dd program knows nothing about partions but it will work with the associated device file. I would use fdisk, mke2fs, and rsync. I'd go with rsync too. It may well be slower

Re: [gentoo-user] Scroll wheel doesn't scroll

2005-06-16 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 04:17 -0400, Colin wrote: Sorry for all the messages all at once. I've noticed recently that my mouse's scroll wheel isn't working. How do I turn on the wheel in X (since I'm guessing it's off)? grep -i 4 5 /etc/X11/xorg.conf Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 --

Re: [gentoo-user] Scroll wheel doesn't scroll

2005-06-16 Thread Zac Medico
Colin wrote: Sorry for all the messages all at once. I've noticed recently that my mouse's scroll wheel isn't working. How do I turn on the wheel in X (since I'm guessing it's off)? -- Colin It's the ZAxisMapping option. Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver

Re: [gentoo-user] Is the Gaim window dockable?

2005-06-16 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 03:38 -0400, Colin wrote: There was an option to make the window dockable in the Windows port. I really miss that feature, since windows would (or they were supposed to, most did) maximize around the window, so that the Buddy List was effectively a panel docked on the

[gentoo-user] Samba Machine based log problem

2005-06-16 Thread Chris Ong
Hi all, My samba server just doesn't create machine based log files. This is the details /var/log/samba/log.smbd [2005/06/16 16:28:56, 0] lib/debug.c:reopen_logs(589) Unable to open new log file /var/log/samba3/log.tasmanian: No such file or directory [2005/06/16 16:29:42, 0]

Re: [gentoo-user] cloning drivers that are not the same size

2005-06-16 Thread Zac Medico
Ow Mun Heng wrote: I've found that squashfs is an iteresting option for doing backups/cloning because the compressed filesystem can also be reused to make a livecd or livedvd. For normal cloning, I mount the squashfs and use rsync to copy the files into a fresh ext3 partition. This is

[gentoo-user] games, evolution and games unwanted.

2005-06-16 Thread Chris Ong
Hi all, I have added in /etc/portage/package.keywords to tell portage not to install evolution, epiphany and gnome-games. But by doing this cause dependency fail when emerge gnome. Anyway to get rid of those packages but portage will still install gnome for me ? -- Regards, C. K. Ong

Re: [gentoo-user] Scroll wheel doesn't scroll

2005-06-16 Thread Chris Ong
Zac Medico wrote: Colin wrote: Sorry for all the messages all at once. I've noticed recently that my mouse's scroll wheel isn't working. How do I turn on the wheel in X (since I'm guessing it's off)? -- Colin It's the ZAxisMapping option. Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't mount vfat partition

2005-06-16 Thread Christoph Gysin
Colin wrote: I just can't mount this FAT32 partition: /dev/hde5 /home/colin/Documents vfat uid=colin,umask=122 0 0 When I try to mount it, I get this error: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hde5, or too many mounted file systems I've tried

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't mount vfat partition

2005-06-16 Thread Colin
Zac Medico wrote: Colin wrote: I just can't mount this FAT32 partition: /dev/hde5 /home/colin/Documents vfat uid=colin,umask=122 0 0 When I try to mount it, I get this error: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hde5, or too many mounted file

Re: [gentoo-user] games, evolution and games unwanted.

2005-06-16 Thread Chris Ong
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: in worse case you can emerge gnome, then --unmerge unwanted packages I did this all the time. But when emerge -aDvut --newuse world or emerge --aDvut world to do overall package upgrade will re-install this 3.. making me sick.. Just wanted a permanent way to get rid of

Re: [gentoo-user] Is the Gaim window dockable?

2005-06-16 Thread Colin
Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 03:38 -0400, Colin wrote: There was an option to make the window dockable in the Windows port. I really miss that feature, since windows would (or they were supposed to, most did) maximize around the window, so that the Buddy List was effectively a

Re: [gentoo-user] cloning drivers that are not the same size

2005-06-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 16:29:10 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: You should also note that dd is by far the slowest way of doing this, partimage is a much better tool for cloning partitions. But one thing about partimage, I tried it once and going from a 10GB partition in partimage to 20GB

[gentoo-user] ...and now, blocked packages

2005-06-16 Thread Colin
I went to do an emerge -Duvn world (I changed my USE flags), and apparently, I've somehow installed conflicting packages... don't ask me how. [blocks B ] app-admin/gnome-system-tools-1.1.91 (is blocking app-admin/system-tools-backends-1.2.0) [blocks B ] =x11-themes/gnome-themes-2.8.2 (is

Re: [gentoo-user] cloning drivers that are not the same size

2005-06-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 01:12:30 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: Yeah, partimage is nice the way that it skips empty blocks. Can it clone directly from one partition to another or is an intermediate file required? It appears to want a file, but I imagine you could use /dev/stdin and / dev/stdout as the

Re: [gentoo-user] Samba Machine based log problem

2005-06-16 Thread Zac Medico
Chris Ong wrote: Hi all, My samba server just doesn't create machine based log files. This is the details /var/log/samba/log.smbd [2005/06/16 16:28:56, 0] lib/debug.c:reopen_logs(589) Unable to open new log file /var/log/samba3/log.tasmanian: No such file or directory Does the

Re: [gentoo-user] cloning drivers that are not the same size

2005-06-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 01:44:56 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: To do online backups of my desktop system I have a script that backs up my whole root filesystem with the exception of some files (especially some sensitive ones in /etc). I do separate backups of /etc. Occasionally I use my squashfs

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ALSA Drivers on A7V8X-X Motherboard

2005-06-16 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
James wrote: Probably not the case, since lspci detects the 8237 chip, but did you enable the audio chipset in the mobo BIOS? Un, no, how do you do that? Since windoz was never installed, I doubt this has been done... It is motherboard-specific, I can only tell you how I do it on my Asus

Re: [gentoo-user] Samba Machine based log problem

2005-06-16 Thread Chris Ong
Zac Medico wrote: Does the directory /var/log/samba3 exist? Argh... reado (typo perhaps) error. Thanks Zac. -- Regards, C. K. Ong (Chris) Linux System Engineer RHCT Cert No: 603004347692007 http://www.redhat.com/rhce/rhce603004347692007.html My Directory Sdn. Bhd. Your Open Source Partner.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ALSA Drivers on A7V8X-X Motherboard

2005-06-16 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
Holly Bostick wrote: James schreef: ## ALSA portion ## alias snd-card-0 snd-interwave ## alias snd-card-1 snd-ens1371 ## OSS/Free portion ## alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 ## alias sound-slot-1 snd-card-1 All these entries are commented out, and not replicated later in the file. This can't

Re: [gentoo-user] games, evolution and games unwanted.

2005-06-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 17:01:32 +0800, Chris Ong wrote: But when emerge -aDvut --newuse world or emerge --aDvut world to do overall package upgrade will re-install this 3.. making me sick.. gnome is a meta-package, containing a full GNOME environment. If you don't want this you shouldn't be

Re: [gentoo-user] Which emulators for DOS+Win3.1 games?

2005-06-16 Thread Sascha Hlusiak
Browsing through /usr/portage/app-emulation, I see dosemu and wine and a whole bunch of others. Are dosemu and wine the ones to use, or are some of the others (which I have no clue about) preferred? I made good experience using dosbox to run old dos games. I don't know, if Win 3.11 will run

[gentoo-user] Re: ALSA Drivers on A7V8X-X Motherboard

2005-06-16 Thread James
Raffaele BELARDI raffaele.belardi at st.com writes: It is motherboard-specific, I can only tell you how I do it on my Asus K8V: at power-up hit the DEL key to enter the BIOS setup, then go to the Onboard devices Configuration and set AC97 audio to enabled. OK, I check and both are selected

[gentoo-user] Re: ALSA Drivers on A7V8X-X Motherboard

2005-06-16 Thread James
Holly Bostick motub at planet.nl writes: James schreef: ## IMPORTANT: ## You need to customise this section for your specific sound card(s) ## and then run `update-modules' command. ## Read alsa-driver's INSTALL file in /usr/share/doc for more info. ## ## ALSA portion ## alias

Re: [gentoo-user] What's wrong with my locales?

2005-06-16 Thread Rafael Fernández López
Maybe you're missing /etc/env.d/02locale, where you must set your LANG, LANGUAGE and LC_ALL. Bye. El mi, 15-06-2005 a las 16:21 +0200, Holly Bostick escribi: I've been trying to get my locales straightened out. I want to use [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ISO8859-15) as my default encoding. I originally

Re: [gentoo-user] ...and now, blocked packages

2005-06-16 Thread Martins
been there too when gnome update 2.8 -- 2.10 I did --unmerge gnome-themes-2.8.2 gnome-system-tools-1.1.91 emerge gtk-engines-2.6.3 system-tools-backends-1.2.0 gnome-themes-2.10 martins On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 12:03:56 +0300, Colin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I went to do an emerge -Duvn world (I

Re: [gentoo-user] updating sysvinit coreutils and baselayout broke some locales/letters

2005-06-16 Thread sIbOk
downgrading to bash-2.05d-r11 solved the problem, but now supr doesn't work, so bash sucks. i hope i can have a stable version soon... anyway i'm happy now i can type anything except supr :P 2005/6/14, Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED]: sIbOk wrote: splashutils didn't solved the problem and come

Re: [gentoo-user] Java (Blackdown) and Konqueror

2005-06-16 Thread Martins
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 01:54:32 +0300, Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martins wrote: i did emerge kdebase, and i belive i put java flag. how to check was it aplied to konqueror part? I dont want to go back to kde-meta 'cause kdebase is very fast and stable In /var/db/pkg the USE files

[gentoo-user] emerge build error with app-text/docbook-sgml-utils-0.6.14

2005-06-16 Thread Anthony Philipp
Hello all, Hopefully someone can help me with this issue. I assume this is the correct place to ask questions. I was emerging app-text/docbook-sgml-utils from version 0.6.12 to version 0.6.14. I was doing this during an emerge -uDav world. Here is the build error I got.

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing KDE 3.4.1

2005-06-16 Thread Fernando Meira
Will this way prevent an emerge -uD world to downgrade the KDE version? Thanks, FernandoOn 6/15/05, Roy Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First unmask the top level package, example:echo kde-base/kdebase-meta ~x86 /etc/portage/package.keywordsThen just run this script, example:unmask.pl

Re: [gentoo-user] ndiswrapper problems

2005-06-16 Thread Craig Duncan
Colin wrote: Finally. I'm sending this email from a working Gentoo system. My wireless card (D-Link DWL-120+, ACX100 chipset) had trouble with acx100, so I unmerged that and gave ndiswrapper a shot. As you can see, it works, despite not being listed on ndiswrapper's compatibility page. (I

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk usage?

2005-06-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/16/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 19:58:04 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: The first step would be to mount /usr/portage on a separate machine using NFS. Setup an NFS server on that remote box, export the directory as rw, and then mount it as rw on your

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot emerge docbook-sgml-utils

2005-06-16 Thread Michael Sullivan
I'm sorry. Thank you for your advice... On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 16:55 +0100, Tim Igoe wrote: Michael Sullivan wrote: While doing last night's daily upgrade docbook-sgml-utils failed. The error was this: jade: error while loading shared libraries: libosp.so.3: cannot open shared

[gentoo-user] Re: ALSA Drivers on A7V8X-X Motherboard

2005-06-16 Thread James
Matthew Cline matthew.cline at gmail.com writes: If you want to use the drivers provided by the alsa-driver ebuild, you need to disable alsa support in the kernel: If you have compiled your kernel and want to use alsa-driver, please ensure the following before proceeding, else alsa-driver is

Re: [gentoo-user] OT-OO2.0 dbase problems

2005-06-16 Thread Antoine
Michael W. Holdeman wrote: Any users of oo2.0 and the dbase app of theirs? My problem is everytime I try to use the wizard to build a query or report when I am all finished it gives me an error SQL Status: 01000 Error code: 1000 The column does not support the property 'Name'. I

[gentoo-user] Upgrade/Downgrade cycles

2005-06-16 Thread Graham Murray
Sometimes a package will upgrade/downgrade alternately when running 'emerge -uD world'. One such that is happening to me right now is libtheora. media-lib/xine-lib has a 'straight' (no version) dependency on libtheora, which causes emerge to update to the latest version.

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade/Downgrade cycles

2005-06-16 Thread David Morgan
On 18:36 Thu 16 Jun , Graham Murray wrote: Sometimes a package will upgrade/downgrade alternately when running 'emerge -uD world'. One such that is happening to me right now is libtheora. media-lib/xine-lib has a 'straight' (no version) dependency on libtheora, which causes emerge to

Re: [gentoo-user] Which emulators for DOS+Win3.1 games?

2005-06-16 Thread Holly Bostick
Walter Dnes schreef: Going through some old backup CDs, I found a few obscure DOS games and Chessmaster 3000 (I still have the original install floppies!). I don't want to have to dual-boot or dedicate a machine to them. What are the recommended emulators to use under Gentoo? The DOS

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade/Downgrade cycles

2005-06-16 Thread Richard Fish
Graham Murray wrote: Sometimes a package will upgrade/downgrade alternately when running 'emerge -uD world'. One such that is happening to me right now is libtheora. media-lib/xine-lib has a 'straight' (no version) dependency on libtheora, which causes emerge to update to the latest version.

Re: [gentoo-user] ooffice 2.0 and kde

2005-06-16 Thread Richard Fish
Massimiliano Bellomo wrote: I mean the rendering of the KDE native widget, icons, file dialog (open, save as, ...); in 2 words the use of the kde look feel. Ah. Well, the colors are pretty easy...just turn on Apply colors to non-KDE applications. But as far as using (or emulating) the KDE

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk usage?

2005-06-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 08:10:12 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: A better approach may be to point DISTDIR to an NFS or Samba drive. That way you get the speed of a local portage tree with the distfiles held elsewhere. This cuts down on the network traffic as only the unpacking is done over the

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade/Downgrade cycles

2005-06-16 Thread Graham Murray
David Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Are you sure you don't have libtheora in your world file? I've only ever seen this happen when people have the package in question in their world file. Not sure whether or not it can happen if you don't (but I guess I'll find out if it's not in your

revdep-rebuild and -bin packages (was Re: [gentoo-user] Disk usage?)

2005-06-16 Thread Zac Medico
Mark Knecht wrote: On 6/16/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 22:34:51 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Please correct me if I'm wrong but if what revdep-rebuild does is important then I want to kow about any program on my system that doesn't have all it's dependencies

Re: revdep-rebuild and -bin packages (was Re: [gentoo-user] Disk usage?)

2005-06-16 Thread Zac Medico
Zac Medico wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On 6/16/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 22:34:51 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Please correct me if I'm wrong but if what revdep-rebuild does is important then I want to kow about any program on my system that doesn't have all

Re: revdep-rebuild and -bin packages (was Re: [gentoo-user] Disk usage?)

2005-06-16 Thread Wade Brown
Liar! Well, we forgive you, I think =). Actually the better (Gentoo suggested) way to squelch these packages is to exclude /opt from the search path in the revdep-rebuild script. Just do EDITOR `which revdep-rebuild` and take /opt out of the SEARCH_DIRS, most anything that goes in there should

Re: revdep-rebuild and -bin packages (was Re: [gentoo-user] Disk usage?)

2005-06-16 Thread Rumen Yotov
Hi, Maybe a better way is to emerge hard-masked gentoolkit-0.2.1_pre3 (cause it's only tested on x86). In it there is a new version on 'revdep-rebuild' which allows you to mask certain dirs, by using (mine): ... SEARCH_DIRS_MASK=/home /mnt /opt/sun-jdk /opt/vmware/lib /opt/OpenOffice ... For more

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI radeon drivers/config

2005-06-16 Thread Holly Bostick
Martins schreef: hi, did a lot of googling, read a lot of howtos, but still strugling to get ATI work perfect. could someone send me working conf files for xorg and kernel and /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 to row by row check thanx in advance Martins my pci: # lspci

[gentoo-user] python-ldap on amd64

2005-06-16 Thread Meinholz, Lloyd
Title: python-ldap on amd64 The python-ldap ebuild doesn't seem to have amd64 as an option. Is there a reason for this? Thanks, Lloyd

[gentoo-user] 802.1x Wireless Configuration

2005-06-16 Thread Sean Crandall
Hi All, I'm having a devil of a time getting my laptop on the school's wireless network. Here's what I've managed so far: I've got a Dell Inspiron 5160. I know the wireless card works with the network because it works in WinXP without a problem. I also know that the linux driver is working

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk usage?

2005-06-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/16/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 08:10:12 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: A better approach may be to point DISTDIR to an NFS or Samba drive. That way you get the speed of a local portage tree with the distfiles held elsewhere. This cuts down on the

Re: [gentoo-user] OT-OO2.0 dbase problems

2005-06-16 Thread Zac Medico
Antoine wrote: Michael W. Holdeman wrote: Any users of oo2.0 and the dbase app of theirs? My problem is everytime I try to use the wizard to build a query or report when I am all finished it gives me an error SQL Status: 01000 Error code: 1000 The column does not support the property

[gentoo-user] Gentoo on Alienware laptop

2005-06-16 Thread Michael Madden
Has anyone gotten Gentoo to work on a Alienware Area-51m 7700 or Sentia? I am leaning towards the Sentia since I still get performance and mobility without the bulk of the Area-51m 7700. Thanks in advance. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: revdep-rebuild and -bin packages (was Re: [gentoo-user] Disk usage?)

2005-06-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 12:55:09 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: It would be nice, I would think, to have some info somewhere on how the binary package was built - what flags, what gcc, etc., if only for reference. Binary packages are not compiled by Gentoo, so that information may not be easy to come

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc configuration

2005-06-16 Thread Zac Medico
michael higgins wrote: I have a couple of questions about using distcc. I have two machines. One is significantly faster than the other, both x86 (pentium 2 and amd athlon-xp). I've followed the http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/distcc.xml instructions for configuring portage to use distcc.

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade/Downgrade cycles

2005-06-16 Thread Christoph Gysin
Richard Fish wrote: It is a long-standing bug in portage, and apparently not easy to fix. reference to bugzilla, anyone? Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'*'|sed 's. ..'|tr * !#:2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Alienware laptop

2005-06-16 Thread Matthew Cline
On 6/16/05, Michael Madden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone gotten Gentoo to work on a Alienware Area-51m 7700 or Sentia? I am leaning towards the Sentia since I still get performance and mobility without the bulk of the Area-51m 7700. Have you seen this:

Re: revdep-rebuild and -bin packages (was Re: [gentoo-user] Disk usage?)

2005-06-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/16/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 12:55:09 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: It would be nice, I would think, to have some info somewhere on how the binary package was built - what flags, what gcc, etc., if only for reference. Binary packages are not

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc configuration

2005-06-16 Thread Catalin Trifu
Hi, In order for distcc to actually work there are a few steps to make: If you have one machine 192.168.0.1 second 192.168.0.2 and assuming 192.168.0.1 is the power These are the things you should do on the slow machine (there may be more, i've done it some time ago :)):

Re: [gentoo-user] installation failure (libgpg-error-1.0-r1 failed during emerge --emptytree)

2005-06-16 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 15 Jun 2005 22:14:37 -0700 Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allan Gottlieb wrote: I am installing 2005.0 onto an empty partition. The bootstrap from stage 1 to stage 2 went fine, but emerge --emptytree system failed as shown below. Thanks in advance for any help. allan

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade/Downgrade cycles

2005-06-16 Thread Richard Fish
Christoph Gysin wrote: Richard Fish wrote: It is a long-standing bug in portage, and apparently not easy to fix. reference to bugzilla, anyone? Christoph I've been trying to get a link, but bugs.gentoo.org seems to be...well...buggy right now. Sometimes it responds, sometimes

Re: [gentoo-user] installation failure (libgpg-error-1.0-r1 failed during emerge --emptytree)

2005-06-16 Thread Zac Medico
Allan Gottlieb wrote: /usr/bin/autoconf did not exist. Indeed as shown below a number of files need to be emerged. I have started the emerge and will then redo emerge --emptytree system My question now is what went wrong. That is, why didn't I have autoconf after the bootstrap or

Re: [gentoo-user] installation failure (libgpg-error-1.0-r1 failed during emerge --emptytree)

2005-06-16 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Thu, 16 Jun 2005 17:32:23 -0400 Allan Gottlieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Wed, 15 Jun 2005 22:14:37 -0700 Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allan Gottlieb wrote: I am installing 2005.0 onto an empty partition. The bootstrap from stage 1 to stage 2 went fine, but emerge --emptytree

Re: [gentoo-user] installation failure (libgpg-error-1.0-r1 failed during emerge --emptytree)

2005-06-16 Thread Zac Medico
Allan Gottlieb wrote: This failed as well. When trying to emerge automake, /usr/bin/autoconf is needed (see below). I could copy /usr/bin/autoconf from my current gentoo to this new one, but I would like to do a clean install. Should I get a new stage1 file and start over? I recommend a

Re: [gentoo-user] installation failure (libgpg-error-1.0-r1 failed during emerge --emptytree)

2005-06-16 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Thu, 16 Jun 2005 14:44:04 -0700 Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allan Gottlieb wrote: /usr/bin/autoconf did not exist. Indeed as shown below a number of files need to be emerged. I have started the emerge and will then redo emerge --emptytree system My question now is what

Re: [gentoo-user] installation failure (libgpg-error-1.0-r1 failed during emerge --emptytree)

2005-06-16 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Thu, 16 Jun 2005 14:59:30 -0700 Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allan Gottlieb wrote: This failed as well. When trying to emerge automake, /usr/bin/autoconf is needed (see below). I could copy /usr/bin/autoconf from my current gentoo to this new one, but I would like to do a clean

[gentoo-user] Major ndiswrapper problems - was Re: [gentoo-user] ndiswrapper problems

2005-06-16 Thread Colin
Craig Duncan wrote: Colin wrote: Finally. I'm sending this email from a working Gentoo system. My wireless card (D-Link DWL-120+, ACX100 chipset) had trouble with acx100, so I unmerged that and gave ndiswrapper a shot. As you can see, it works, despite not being listed on ndiswrapper's

[gentoo-user] stage1 vs. stage3 was Re: [gentoo-user] installation failure (libgpg-error-1.0-r1 failed during emerge --emptytree)

2005-06-16 Thread Zac Medico
Allan Gottlieb wrote: I recommend a stage3 install to everyone unless you can't get a stage3 for your CHOST. IMO the progression from stage1 to stage3 is best handled by catalyst. Perhaps this is sound pragmatic advice and, if I didn't have a fully functional gentoo on which to run, I

Re: revdep-rebuild and -bin packages (was Re: [gentoo-user] Disk usage?)

2005-06-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, June 16, 2005 10:20 pm, Mark Knecht said: Binary packages are not compiled by Gentoo, so that information may not be easy to come by. Oh!! I had no idea that was the case. I always assumed that this was done by you guys for a few specific packages. If they come from elsewhere then

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI radeon drivers/config

2005-06-16 Thread Rafael Fernández López
Maybe you have a previous version of the ati-drivers, and you have a 2.6.11 or like kernel. If you are not using the last ati-drivers, you need 2.6.10 in order to make them work succesfully. Bye. El jue, 16-06-2005 a las 18:38 +0300, Martins escribi: fglrx failing to load mar log # modprobe

Re: [gentoo-user] stage1 vs. stage3 was Re: [gentoo-user] installation failure (libgpg-error-1.0-r1 failed during emerge --emptytree)

2005-06-16 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Thu, 16 Jun 2005 15:32:00 -0700 Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allan Gottlieb wrote: The handbook suggests that with stage3, you can't tweak all the settings. Can you change CFLAGS and then bootstrap gcc and glibc? You can tweak all you want with a stage3 except for CHOST. An

Re: [gentoo-user] stage1 vs. stage3 was Re: [gentoo-user] installation failure (libgpg-error-1.0-r1 failed during emerge --emptytree)

2005-06-16 Thread Zac Medico
Allan Gottlieb wrote: At Thu, 16 Jun 2005 15:32:00 -0700 Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allan Gottlieb wrote: The handbook suggests that with stage3, you can't tweak all the settings. Can you change CFLAGS and then bootstrap gcc and glibc? You can tweak all you want with a stage3

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc configuration

2005-06-16 Thread William Kenworthy
There were some changes to the tool chain which means that distcc wont work across different x86 archs (e.g., athlon and pentium) and the devs wont change it (marked as WONT FIX on the bug). The workaround is to add CC-gcc and CXX=g++ to make .conf on the client, however this may break other

Re: [gentoo-user] cloning drivers that are not the same size

2005-06-16 Thread Bob Sanders
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 13:11:33 +0800 Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually I would use fdisk/mke2fs and tar rather than rsync since it's much faster that way. I'd suggest another option - use xfs and xfsdump and xfsrestore. At the bottom of the xfsdump man page there are examples of

Re: [gentoo-user] cloning drivers that are not the same size

2005-06-16 Thread Zac Medico
Bob Sanders wrote: On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 13:11:33 +0800 Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually I would use fdisk/mke2fs and tar rather than rsync since it's much faster that way. I'd suggest another option - use xfs and xfsdump and xfsrestore. At the bottom of the xfsdump

Re: [gentoo-user] Baselayout update blasted my wireless networking

2005-06-16 Thread Bill Rucker
Somewhere around Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 08:04:48PM +0200, a message from Richard Fish went like this: Jun 14 21:01:02 gt40 cardmgr[5320]: executing: './network start eth1 21' Jun 14 21:01:02 gt40 cardmgr[5320]: + /usr/sbin/iwconfig eth1 channel 8 Jun 14 21:01:02 gt40 cardmgr[5320]: + Error for

Re: [gentoo-user] stage1 vs. stage3 was Re: [gentoo-user] installation failure (libgpg-error-1.0-r1 failed during emerge --emptytree)

2005-06-16 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Thu, 16 Jun 2005 16:09:34 -0700 Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allan Gottlieb wrote: At Thu, 16 Jun 2005 15:32:00 -0700 Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allan Gottlieb wrote: The handbook suggests that with stage3, you can't tweak all the settings. Can you change CFLAGS and

Re: [gentoo-user] stage1 vs. stage3 was Re: [gentoo-user] installation failure (libgpg-error-1.0-r1 failed during emerge --emptytree)

2005-06-16 Thread Zac Medico
Allan Gottlieb wrote: It is the part where the differences between the stages are described. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1chap=2#doc_chap2 It is not wrong as it only mentions tweaking initial settings, but I would say that a normal reading is that stage

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade/Downgrade cycles

2005-06-16 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Friday 17 June 2005 06:11, Christoph Gysin wrote: Richard Fish wrote: It is a long-standing bug in portage, and apparently not easy to fix. reference to bugzilla, anyone? http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13632 pgpFmqilciZ1D.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] Best way to build a Minimal Gentoo

2005-06-16 Thread Ow Mun Heng
I'm talking about something stripped down. Perhaps not to a size of 8MB but something less than 100MB would be good. How does one do that? This will be a box which will not have portage included once everything is up. Most likely will be building with uclibc and the uclibc stage1. Any other

Re: [gentoo-user] stage1 vs. stage3 was Re: [gentoo-user] installation failure (libgpg-error-1.0-r1 failed during emerge --emptytree)

2005-06-16 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Thu, 16 Jun 2005 19:38:13 -0700 Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allan Gottlieb wrote: It is the part where the differences between the stages are described. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1chap=2#doc_chap2 It is not wrong as it only mentions tweaking

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