Re: [gentoo-user] Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-21 Thread Matan Peled
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Nick Rout wrote:
> what language is it written in?

Good question. I downloaded the source in attempt to figure it out... The files
all have the extension of ".pb", all comments start with ";", and a block of
code looks something like this:

; Aktive Zauber loeschen
For j = 1 To #ANZ_SPIELER
   For i = 1 To 15
  aktive (i,j) \nr = 0
  aktive (i,j) \dauer = 0
   Next
Next

I don't recognize this language at all...

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Re: [gentoo-user] cdrom /dev/cdroms/cdrom to /dev/hdc?

2005-08-21 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 19. August 2005 18:01 schrieb ext Michael W. Holdeman:
> What did I miss, my cdrom is no longer /dev/cdroms/cdrom, but now
> /dev/hdc??

It's a bug in udev 067, which is fixed in 068. However, it will 
be /dev/cdrom, then (which I also don't like, but you can still write your 
own rules to fix this).

HTH...

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Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare?

2005-08-21 Thread Richard Fish

Neil Bothwick wrote:


On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 00:46:20 -0300, Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales
wrote:

 


I agree with John. It is better to have a robust system (Gentoo) and
run the bad one (Windows) on user space (via VMWare) so it can't do
much damage.
   



That's how I do it and it works well. I very rarely use VMWare for
Windows, mainly for testing on different Linux distros. It runs virtually
as fast as native hardware, apart from a slight reduction in disk speed
from the virtual disks.

VMWare 5 is very nice, and runs much better on amd64 than the 4.x series.

 



I've done this both ways with Workstation 4.5.  Using Windows as the 
host OS is a good choice if you want every single piece of hardware to 
"just work".  I never had a problem with speed (only with the clock, as 
someone else mentioned), except for compiling.  The virtual machine 
memory bandwidth seems to be significantly reduced compared to native, 
by maybe as much as 50%, which made compiling take quite a bit longer.  
Maybe this is improved in WS5, although I can't really say, because now 
I run the "right way" (TM).


One possibility is to setup the system as a dual-boot system, and give 
yourself the choice of running Gentoo from within VMWare or natively.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-21 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 07:06 +0200, Markus Döbele wrote:
> I also created a rpm version of the game. I have no idea yet what I
> have to do 
> to make it easy to install for gentoo users.
> 
> Maybe you like to include our game in your distribution? 
> Its only 4.4 MB big.
> Its a game like the old Roque and for Windows we have a lot of fans
> already.
> I would love it if we had a lot of Linux gamers too!

Basically gentoo users will want to download it and compile it. Someone
will need to create an "ebuild" for it.

So:

what language is it written in?
what libraries are needed to compile it?
what libraries are needed to run it?
is there anything tricky about compiling and running it?


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[gentoo-user] Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-21 Thread Markus Döbele
Hallo Gentoo,

I like your distribution a lot!

A few days ago we finally released the first final version of our game "Lost
Labyrinth" for Linux.
The newest version at the moment is 1.0.1.

I also created a rpm version of the game. I have no idea yet what I have to do 
to make it easy to install for gentoo users.

Maybe you like to include our game in your distribution? 
Its only 4.4 MB big.
Its a game like the old Roque and for Windows we have a lot of fans already.
I would love it if we had a lot of Linux gamers too!

If you like have a look here:

http://laby.toybox.de

Thanx,
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[gentoo-user] security issues

2005-08-21 Thread John Dangler
With the basic install of gentoo 2.6.12-r9 behind me (forget splash - it's
not worth the headaches right now, and I need more research to find a good
backup solution), I read through the gentoo security doc.  There's a world
of stuff here!
I have a laptop that I'm intending to use for web development (the geek
side) and also for business tasks (the end user side).
I'm wondering how much / how little of the security measures mentioned in
the gentoo security doc I really need?
Or, should I move on to the desktop environment first, and then come back
and tighten down the system?

Thanks for the input - as always, greatly appreciated.

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[gentoo-user] No keyboard module

2005-08-21 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
I had been looking for a way to have KDE turn on numlock when it starts
up but I just noticed I do not have a keyboard module under
"Peripherals" in KDE's (3.4) Control Center.  I re-emerged it but no
go.  Anybody else seen this behavior?

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RE: WARNING - reiser and PartImage and SystemRescueCd (Was: RE: [gentoo-user] what's next)

2005-08-21 Thread John Dangler
Thanks for the warning Nick.  I've also looked into mondo, but that app has
never worked for me (tried to get it running twice over about a month's
time, with no success).

John D

-Original Message-
From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 11:39 PM
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Subject: Re: WARNING - reiser and PartImage and SystemRescueCd (Was: RE:
[gentoo-user] what's next)

I helped a bloke install gentoo a few months ago. We downsized his
reiser filesystemed suse install beforehand using the system rescue cd.
It screwed the filesystem - it was unrecoverable. be warned.


On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 19:00:10 -0400
John Dangler wrote:

> Joe~
> Thanks for the reply.  I was reading the information on the system rescue
> site (from your last reply), and I think this could work fine.  I'm
reading
> through the rest of the documentation to see how to use this to perform
> backups.  I did notice that SystemRescueCd is currently using a 2.4
kernel.
> Have you seen any hiccups using this with a much more current kernel
> release? (Mine is 2.6.12-r9)
> 
> John D
> 
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Joe Menola [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 5:59 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: PartImage and SystemRescueCd (Was: RE: [gentoo-user] what's
> next)
> 
> On Sunday August 21 2005 4:36 pm, John Dangler wrote:
> > I noticed that partimage (0.6.4-r3) is available on portage, but
> > SystemRescueCd (SystemRescueCd-x86-0.2.15) isn't.
> > a) Have you had any problems getting these up and running?
> > b) Have you noticed any collisions with adding packages to your gentoo
> > install after these? (dependency / reverse dependency problems)
> >
> > Thanks for the input, I appreciate it!
> 
> There's really not much use for installing partimage on Gentoo since
> partimage 
> cannot backup or restore mounted file systems. Unless you want to setup a 
> partimage server for other pc's to use, or backup partitions from other 
> operating systems while running Gentoo.
> 
> SystemRescueCd is an iso file, you use it to burn a bootable cd to perform

> misc tasks on your pc.  Basically, for partimage use... you boot from the
> cd, 
> mount a partition to write the backup images to and run partimage. 
> 
> Highly recommended: http://www.partimage.org/doc/index.html
> 
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Re: [gentoo-user] Help needed for installing KDE

2005-08-21 Thread Michael Crute
When you boot the livecd at the kernel prompt (where you normally type
gentoo) you should type memtest86 to start memtest. I'm pretty sure
thats how I did it last time I needed it but I'm not gonna reboot to
find out :)

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i am not able to locate memtest86 ... can u pls guide me with
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Re: [gentoo-user] trying to install faad2-2.0-r7 on my amd64 system

2005-08-21 Thread Marianne Taylor

Tony Davison wrote:


On Sunday 21 August 2005 20:53, Marianne Taylor wrote:
 


I am getting the following error when I try to upgrade to
faad2-2.0-r7. I need the patch for amd64 to use aac files.

Here is the error message:

Problem in media-libs/faad2-2.0-r7 dependencies.
"Specific key requires an operator (media-libs/faad2-2.0-r7) (try
adding an '=')" exceptions

How can I get around this?
   


As root
Echo media-libs/faad2 ~am64 >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
emerge faad2
This will (should) pick up the latest testing ebuild from portage.
assuming you have synced recently.
HTH
 


Thanks that worked.  I thought I had tried that, but now it works.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Help needed for installing KDE

2005-08-21 Thread Rajat Gujral
hi,
 
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Re: WARNING - reiser and PartImage and SystemRescueCd (Was: RE: [gentoo-user] what's next)

2005-08-21 Thread Nick Rout
I helped a bloke install gentoo a few months ago. We downsized his
reiser filesystemed suse install beforehand using the system rescue cd.
It screwed the filesystem - it was unrecoverable. be warned.


On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 19:00:10 -0400
John Dangler wrote:

> Joe~
> Thanks for the reply.  I was reading the information on the system rescue
> site (from your last reply), and I think this could work fine.  I'm reading
> through the rest of the documentation to see how to use this to perform
> backups.  I did notice that SystemRescueCd is currently using a 2.4 kernel.
> Have you seen any hiccups using this with a much more current kernel
> release? (Mine is 2.6.12-r9)
> 
> John D
> 
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Joe Menola [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 5:59 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: PartImage and SystemRescueCd (Was: RE: [gentoo-user] what's
> next)
> 
> On Sunday August 21 2005 4:36 pm, John Dangler wrote:
> > I noticed that partimage (0.6.4-r3) is available on portage, but
> > SystemRescueCd (SystemRescueCd-x86-0.2.15) isn't.
> > a) Have you had any problems getting these up and running?
> > b) Have you noticed any collisions with adding packages to your gentoo
> > install after these? (dependency / reverse dependency problems)
> >
> > Thanks for the input, I appreciate it!
> 
> There's really not much use for installing partimage on Gentoo since
> partimage 
> cannot backup or restore mounted file systems. Unless you want to setup a 
> partimage server for other pc's to use, or backup partitions from other 
> operating systems while running Gentoo.
> 
> SystemRescueCd is an iso file, you use it to burn a bootable cd to perform 
> misc tasks on your pc.  Basically, for partimage use... you boot from the
> cd, 
> mount a partition to write the backup images to and run partimage. 
> 
> Highly recommended: http://www.partimage.org/doc/index.html
> 
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo equivalent to "yum provides"

2005-08-21 Thread Nick Rout
neither equery nor any other program can predict what will be installed
in a package, because that varies with architecture and USE flags.

So there is no direct equivalent.

You either have to work it out for yuorself, ggogle or ask here.

This topic has been covered many times on this list. 

If you have a list of binary packages you can make a catalogue of
filenames that appear in those binary packages. (rpm, deb etc)

If you have a list of source files, and more than one way of compiling
them (USE flags, gentoo) then you cannot make such a catalogue.


On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 11:07:00 +0800
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[gentoo-user] Something wrong with udev: cdrom dev-file does not appear!

2005-08-21 Thread Cadaver
udevd doesn't create's device file, but when i manualy copy it from static dev 
tree my cdrom works fine, and sometimes udevd even creates symlinks on it 
(i.e. cdrom and cdrw), but this is not restore's after reboot. What's going 
wrong with it? I'm running 2.6.12 kernel whith udev version 068.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo equivalent to "yum provides"

2005-08-21 Thread W.Kenworthy
I tried it and it didnt work - though the package I tried it on was a
masked one.

On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 21:26 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
... 
> One piece of man page may indicate otherwise:
> 
>list  pkgspec
>   This command lists packages matching pkgspec in a user-specified
>   combination  of  installed  packages,  packages  which  are  not
>   installed, the portage tree, and the portage overlay tree.
> 
>must include not include only -I; if -I is used, -p
>   and/or -o must be also.  By default, only installed packages are
>   searched.   -o  searches  only  the  overlay  tree [and possibly
>   installed packages], not the main portage tree.
> 
>   -i, --installed search installed packages (default)
>   -I, --exclude-installed do not search installed packages
>   -p, --portage-tree also search in portage tree (/usr/portage)
>   -o,--overlay-treealsosearchinoverlaytree
>   (/usr/local/portage)
> 
> However, I couldn't piece together what `pkgspec' might mean.
> 
> Can anyone here show some example commands using above with pkgspec
> explained a bit more?
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[gentoo-user] gensplash oddity

2005-08-21 Thread John Dangler
Ok - I went back through the wiki article on using gensplash with genkernel.
I used - genkernel --menuconfig --gensplash=livecd-2005.1 all
(I usually --udev on the end, but every time I get told that -udev is
deprecated since it is the default behavior)
At the end of the process, I checked /var/log/genkernel.log .  The last
lines there look like this - 
>> Installing gensplash [ using the livecd-2005.1 theme ].
Merging
initramfs-base-layout.cpio.gz
initramfs-aux.cpio.gz
initramfs-busybox-1.00-rt-mdstart.plasmaroo.cpio.gz
initramfs-insmod-0.9.15-pre4.cpio.gz
initramfs-udev-054.cpio.gz
initramfs-modules-2.6.12-gentoo-r9.cpio.gz
initramfs-splash-2.6.12-gentoo-r9.cpio.gz
Gentoo Linux Genkernel: Version 3.3.5
Running with options ; genkernel --menuconfig --gensplash=livecd-2005.1 all

ERROR: Could not copy the initramfs to /boot

(yes, /boot is mounted)

Then, I look at the long list in /boot . (ls -l)

I compiled this today 8/21/05) at around 9pm (2100)

1603780 Aug 21 21:07 kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r9
10928128Aug 21 21:20 initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r9

I set up an additional grub entry for the splash options on the kernel line,
and rebooted to see what the effect was.
After the initial information at bootup, all I got was a black screen [This
is on a Dell Inspiron 8600 laptop. I may have the wrong settings
([EMAIL PROTECTED]), so if anyone knows how to correctly identify this I'd
appreciate it].  I had to power off and on again to get video returned.
I then tried the default r9 kernel boot without the splash - KERNEL PANIC .
vfs out of sync.

I rebooted into the old (r6 kernel), and re-ran 'genkernel --menuconfig
--udev all' (no splash) to rebuild the r9 kernel, rebooted to the r9 kernel,
and all is well.

Anyone offering any assistance with this, please do.  I've gotten everything
in the base system running well except this issue, and I'm about to throw in
the towel on splash.  

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Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo equivalent to "yum provides"

2005-08-21 Thread Brett I. Holcomb

Try equery.

On Sun, 21 Aug 2005, Rennie deGraaf wrote:


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What command does one use to find what package(s) provide a particular
file, given that that particular file is not present on my system? For
example, I need a program called "foobar", but don't know what package
provides it. Under Fedora, I'd use "yum provides foobar"; what command
should I use under Gentoo?

Something like "esearch foobar" searches package titles, not contents.
So, if I was searching for "vi", I'd get all sorts of stuff that has
nothing to do with the editor "vi", but happens to have the substring
"vi" in its name.  And if I was searching for "libfoobar.so", then I
might not find any matches, since that file might be in a package called
"foobar".  In other words, "esearch foobar" doesn't do what I want.

Thanks,

Rennie
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Re: PartImage and SystemRescueCd (Was: RE: [gentoo-user] what's next)

2005-08-21 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
SystemRescueCD is an iso you download and burn a CD.  It is gentoo based 
and you boot it like a live CD.  You boot the CD on a system and then run 
partimage to backup to a partimage server.  Some things I found that were 
a hassle.


I run partimage server on a Gentoo system and back up other boxes such as 
my Windows boxes to the Gentoo system.


The RescueCD offers partimage and partimagessl for the programs.  I had to 
run partimagessh -L on the system I was backing up and I had to compile 
the Gentoo partimage to NOT use passwords.  I wanted to use passwords but 
evidently the RescueCD is compiled to not use them so I had to change my 
Gentoo compile to not use passwords.  I tried to get the users file 
working and partimage still would not authenticate.


If you are backing up NTFS filesystems use the default size for the images 
or it won't produce a readable image.


I filed a bug on this but evidently it's an upstream problem and I need to 
bug it there, too.


 On Sun, 21 Aug 2005, John Dangler wrote:


I noticed that partimage (0.6.4-r3) is available on portage, but
SystemRescueCd (SystemRescueCd-x86-0.2.15) isn't.
a) Have you had any problems getting these up and running?
b) Have you noticed any collisions with adding packages to your gentoo
install after these? (dependency / reverse dependency problems)

Thanks for the input, I appreciate it!

John D

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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] what's next

On Sunday August 21 2005 11:24 am, John Dangler wrote:

I'd like a good backup solution w/boot capability, but mondo is right out!
It's too flaky at the moment.
I'd like to get a backup of the system at this stage before adding a
desktop environment, so that I have somewhere to go back to in case of a
bork (either from software or operator error)


Personally, I prefer to backup at the partition level. Partimage works quite

well for me.
http://www.partimage.org/

I boot with  SystemRescueCd (has partimage built in) to backup and/or
restore
my partions.
http://www.sysresccd.org/

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[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo equivalent to "yum provides"

2005-08-21 Thread Harry Putnam
Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Rennie deGraaf schreef:
>> What command does one use to find what package(s) provide a particular
>> file, given that that particular file is not present on my system? For
>> example, I need a program called "foobar", but don't know what package
>> provides it. Under Fedora, I'd use "yum provides foobar"; what command
>> should I use under Gentoo?
>> 
>> Something like "esearch foobar" searches package titles, not contents.
>> So, if I was searching for "vi", I'd get all sorts of stuff that has
>> nothing to do with the editor "vi", but happens to have the substring
>> "vi" in its name.  And if I was searching for "libfoobar.so", then I
>> might not find any matches, since that file might be in a package called
>> "foobar".  In other words, "esearch foobar" doesn't do what I want.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Rennie
>
>
> equery belongs equery
> [ Searching for file(s) equery in *... ]
> app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.1_pre5 (/usr/bin/equery)
> app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.1_pre5
> (/usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-0.2.1_pre5/equery)

This is new to me... thanks Holly


"W.Kenworthy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> man equery doesnt specifically say, but I suspect that along with other
> tools that do this like qpkg, they only work on the installed packages.
> I dont think gentoo can do this for packages not installed on the
> system.  I usually end up googling ...

One piece of man page may indicate otherwise:

   list  pkgspec
  This command lists packages matching pkgspec in a user-specified
  combination  of  installed  packages,  packages  which  are  not
  installed, the portage tree, and the portage overlay tree.

   must include not include only -I; if -I is used, -p
  and/or -o must be also.  By default, only installed packages are
  searched.   -o  searches  only  the  overlay  tree [and possibly
  installed packages], not the main portage tree.

  -i, --installed search installed packages (default)
  -I, --exclude-installed do not search installed packages
  -p, --portage-tree also search in portage tree (/usr/portage)
  -o,--overlay-treealsosearchinoverlaytree
  (/usr/local/portage)

However, I couldn't piece together what `pkgspec' might mean.

Can anyone here show some example commands using above with pkgspec
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Re: [gentoo-user] where to put mknod?

2005-08-21 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 17:27:25 -0700 (PDT) maxim wexler
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| > | Where does one put this command? I didn't see any
| > | likely candidates in /etc/conf.d, /etc/init.d.
| > 
| > Don't do that. Instead, fix your udev rules.
| 
| I did(put it in local.start) and it works fine! Please
| esplain.

/dev is a managed filesystem. You shouldn't be tinkering with it
manually.

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[gentoo-user] gnome-control-center-1.4.0.5 in gnome 2.10

2005-08-21 Thread Antonio Coralles
I'm just wondering why gnome-control-center-1.x gets installed with 
gnome-2.10 and reinstalled if i remove it ...

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Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo equivalent to "yum provides"

2005-08-21 Thread W.Kenworthy
man equery doesnt specifically say, but I suspect that along with other
tools that do this like qpkg, they only work on the installed packages.
I dont think gentoo can do this for packages not installed on the
system.  I usually end up googling ...

BillK


On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 02:12 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote:
> Rennie deGraaf schreef:
> > What command does one use to find what package(s) provide a particular
> > file, given that that particular file is not present on my system? For
...
> 
> equery belongs equery
> [ Searching for file(s) equery in *... ]
> app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.1_pre5 (/usr/bin/equery)
> app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.1_pre5
> (/usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-0.2.1_pre5/equery)
> 
> :-)
> 
> HTH,
> Holly

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Re: [gentoo-user] where to put mknod?

2005-08-21 Thread maxim wexler


--- Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 07:39:05 -0700 (PDT) maxim
> wexler
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> | Another post-emerge -u world wrinkle: before I can
> | /usr/sbin/pon must now
> | 
> | mknod /dev/ppp c 108 0.
> | 
> | Where does one put this command? I didn't see any
> | likely candidates in /etc/conf.d, /etc/init.d.
> 
> Don't do that. Instead, fix your udev rules.

I did(put it in local.start) and it works fine! Please
esplain.

> 
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Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo equivalent to "yum provides"

2005-08-21 Thread Holly Bostick
Rennie deGraaf schreef:
> What command does one use to find what package(s) provide a particular
> file, given that that particular file is not present on my system? For
> example, I need a program called "foobar", but don't know what package
> provides it. Under Fedora, I'd use "yum provides foobar"; what command
> should I use under Gentoo?
> 
> Something like "esearch foobar" searches package titles, not contents.
> So, if I was searching for "vi", I'd get all sorts of stuff that has
> nothing to do with the editor "vi", but happens to have the substring
> "vi" in its name.  And if I was searching for "libfoobar.so", then I
> might not find any matches, since that file might be in a package called
> "foobar".  In other words, "esearch foobar" doesn't do what I want.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rennie


equery belongs equery
[ Searching for file(s) equery in *... ]
app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.1_pre5 (/usr/bin/equery)
app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.1_pre5
(/usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-0.2.1_pre5/equery)

:-)

HTH,
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[gentoo-user] Gentoo equivalent to "yum provides"

2005-08-21 Thread Rennie deGraaf
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What command does one use to find what package(s) provide a particular
file, given that that particular file is not present on my system? For
example, I need a program called "foobar", but don't know what package
provides it. Under Fedora, I'd use "yum provides foobar"; what command
should I use under Gentoo?

Something like "esearch foobar" searches package titles, not contents.
So, if I was searching for "vi", I'd get all sorts of stuff that has
nothing to do with the editor "vi", but happens to have the substring
"vi" in its name.  And if I was searching for "libfoobar.so", then I
might not find any matches, since that file might be in a package called
"foobar".  In other words, "esearch foobar" doesn't do what I want.

Thanks,

Rennie
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Re: PartImage and SystemRescueCd (Was: RE: [gentoo-user] what's next)

2005-08-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 16:58:32 -0500, Joe Menola wrote:

> There's really not much use for installing partimage on Gentoo since
> partimage cannot backup or restore mounted file systems. Unless you
> want to setup a partimage server for other pc's to use, or backup
> partitions from other operating systems while running Gentoo.

Or backup any partition other than /, or build a Live CD from your Gentoo
system.


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RE: PartImage and SystemRescueCd (Was: RE: [gentoo-user] what's next)

2005-08-21 Thread John Dangler
Joe~
Thanks for the reply.  I was reading the information on the system rescue
site (from your last reply), and I think this could work fine.  I'm reading
through the rest of the documentation to see how to use this to perform
backups.  I did notice that SystemRescueCd is currently using a 2.4 kernel.
Have you seen any hiccups using this with a much more current kernel
release? (Mine is 2.6.12-r9)

John D


-Original Message-
From: Joe Menola [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 5:59 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: PartImage and SystemRescueCd (Was: RE: [gentoo-user] what's
next)

On Sunday August 21 2005 4:36 pm, John Dangler wrote:
> I noticed that partimage (0.6.4-r3) is available on portage, but
> SystemRescueCd (SystemRescueCd-x86-0.2.15) isn't.
> a) Have you had any problems getting these up and running?
> b) Have you noticed any collisions with adding packages to your gentoo
> install after these? (dependency / reverse dependency problems)
>
> Thanks for the input, I appreciate it!

There's really not much use for installing partimage on Gentoo since
partimage 
cannot backup or restore mounted file systems. Unless you want to setup a 
partimage server for other pc's to use, or backup partitions from other 
operating systems while running Gentoo.

SystemRescueCd is an iso file, you use it to burn a bootable cd to perform 
misc tasks on your pc.  Basically, for partimage use... you boot from the
cd, 
mount a partition to write the backup images to and run partimage. 

Highly recommended: http://www.partimage.org/doc/index.html

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Re: PartImage and SystemRescueCd (Was: RE: [gentoo-user] what's next)

2005-08-21 Thread Joe Menola
On Sunday August 21 2005 4:36 pm, John Dangler wrote:
> I noticed that partimage (0.6.4-r3) is available on portage, but
> SystemRescueCd (SystemRescueCd-x86-0.2.15) isn't.
> a) Have you had any problems getting these up and running?
> b) Have you noticed any collisions with adding packages to your gentoo
> install after these? (dependency / reverse dependency problems)
>
> Thanks for the input, I appreciate it!

There's really not much use for installing partimage on Gentoo since partimage 
cannot backup or restore mounted file systems. Unless you want to setup a 
partimage server for other pc's to use, or backup partitions from other 
operating systems while running Gentoo.

SystemRescueCd is an iso file, you use it to burn a bootable cd to perform 
misc tasks on your pc.  Basically, for partimage use... you boot from the cd, 
mount a partition to write the backup images to and run partimage. 

Highly recommended: http://www.partimage.org/doc/index.html

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PartImage and SystemRescueCd (Was: RE: [gentoo-user] what's next)

2005-08-21 Thread John Dangler
I noticed that partimage (0.6.4-r3) is available on portage, but
SystemRescueCd (SystemRescueCd-x86-0.2.15) isn't.
a) Have you had any problems getting these up and running? 
b) Have you noticed any collisions with adding packages to your gentoo
install after these? (dependency / reverse dependency problems)

Thanks for the input, I appreciate it!

John D

-Original Message-
From: Joe Menola [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 1:34 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] what's next

On Sunday August 21 2005 11:24 am, John Dangler wrote:
> I'd like a good backup solution w/boot capability, but mondo is right out!
> It's too flaky at the moment.
> I'd like to get a backup of the system at this stage before adding a
> desktop environment, so that I have somewhere to go back to in case of a
> bork (either from software or operator error)

Personally, I prefer to backup at the partition level. Partimage works quite

well for me.
http://www.partimage.org/

I boot with  SystemRescueCd (has partimage built in) to backup and/or
restore 
my partions.  
http://www.sysresccd.org/

-jm

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Re: [gentoo-user] initrd and raid

2005-08-21 Thread Mike Williams
On Sunday 21 August 2005 20:29, David Busby wrote:
> List,
>I've got a Super Micro P4SCT+ that uses the Marvell SATA controller that
> Linux doesn't know out-of-the-box.  There was the mv_sata module provided
> by ABit that I found, and it compiles and loads into my 2.6.12 kernel.  I
> can see the drives and have made a raid out of them no problem.  I'm
> currently booting off the Intel SATA in the machine from /dev/sda  The
> other drives are /dev/sdb,c,d.  OK, so what I want to do is this:  Remove
> the current /dev/sda and bump the /dev/sdb,c,d each up by one and then boot
> of them.  /dev/sdb1,c1,d1 are set as RAID0+hotspare and configured/grub-ed
> etc.  What I can't do is get the initrd to work.  I've added the module and
> can see when it boots that it finds those devices but then it looks like it
> cannot see my devices.  I get a Kernel Panic not init found, then it says
> to try passing init= to the kernel.  I don't understand that, what must I
> do?  I'm using udev so perhaps when the kernel is booting it cannot see my
> devices in /dev ?

I've got one of those controllers, on a Supermicro PCI card.
I boot from other drives, so don't have any initrd stuff. I do still have a 
problem with it though.
That problem is that once the module is loaded, it takes several seconds to 
actually find, and register those drives, before they are available for use. 
So long in fact that if I load it, then 3 raid modules automatically during 
start up, by the time mdadm gets run the drives still aren't there!
I simple modified the modules init script to put a 1 second pause between each 
modprobe.
Perhaps a similar pause after loading the module in your initrd would help.

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Re: [gentoo-user] trying to install faad2-2.0-r7 on my amd64 system

2005-08-21 Thread Holly Bostick
Marianne Taylor schreef:
> I am getting the following error when I try to upgrade to faad2-2.0-r7. 
> I need the patch for amd64 to use aac files.
> 
> Here is the error message:
> 
> Problem in media-libs/faad2-2.0-r7 dependencies.
> "Specific key requires an operator (media-libs/faad2-2.0-r7) (try adding
> an '=')" exceptions
> 
> How can I get around this?
> 
> 

What is the command you're using to emerge the package?

The error you're getting suggests that you tried something like

emerge fadd2-2.0-r7

which is incorrect syntax (as the error says).

If you, for some reason, need to emerge a specific version of a package,
the correct syntax is

emerge =cate-gory/package.name-and.revision

In this case, it would be

emerge =media-libs/faad2-2.0-r7

but normally you shouldn't need to do this. Is the package masked for
your arch? or marked unstable for your arch, and you're running stable?

Unmask the unstable version in /etc/portage/package.keywords, or unmask
a masked version in /etc/portage/package.unmask (and possibly
/etc/portage/package.keywords as well, if it's both hard masked and soft
masked/unstable).

The only time one usually needs to specify a particular version is if
your arch has a later version that you for some reason can't use, and
really need the earlier version (i.e., unmasking unstable was to give
you 2.0.1, and you really had to have 2.0-r7, because that's the only
version that some other program you need faad for would accept).

HTH,
Holly
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Re: [gentoo-user] trying to install faad2-2.0-r7 on my amd64 system

2005-08-21 Thread Tony Davison
On Sunday 21 August 2005 20:53, Marianne Taylor wrote:
> I am getting the following error when I try to upgrade to
> faad2-2.0-r7. I need the patch for amd64 to use aac files.
>
> Here is the error message:
>
> Problem in media-libs/faad2-2.0-r7 dependencies.
> "Specific key requires an operator (media-libs/faad2-2.0-r7) (try
> adding an '=')" exceptions
>
> How can I get around this?
As root
Echo media-libs/faad2 ~am64 >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
emerge faad2
This will (should) pick up the latest testing ebuild from portage.
assuming you have synced recently.
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Re: [gentoo-user] alsa config

2005-08-21 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Neil Bothwick wrote:

>On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 11:48:14 +0200, Christoph Eckert wrote:
>
>  
>
>>>So holly, is arts absolutely necessary to get KDE system sounds?  I
>>>installed KDE 3.4 without arts.  Alsa does fine as does amarok, gaim,
>>>and several others _except_ KDE.  I guess arts is the reason, huh?
>>>  
>>>
>>Yep. As long as a KDE application doesn't have an audio interface of
>>its own, it uses arts for audio output. If arts isn't available, it
>>will not be able to output sound.
>>
>>
>
>You can also configure KDE to use an external player for system sounds
>
>Control Centre -> Sound & Multimedia -> System Notifications -> Player Options
>  
>

This didn't work for me.  Tried both aplay and alsaplayer.  Neither helped.

>
>  
>

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[gentoo-user] trying to install faad2-2.0-r7 on my amd64 system

2005-08-21 Thread Marianne Taylor
I am getting the following error when I try to upgrade to faad2-2.0-r7.  
I need the patch for amd64 to use aac files.


Here is the error message:

Problem in media-libs/faad2-2.0-r7 dependencies.
"Specific key requires an operator (media-libs/faad2-2.0-r7) (try adding 
an '=')" exceptions


How can I get around this?


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Re: [gentoo-user] unmerge emacs

2005-08-21 Thread Michael Crute
In the future, if you have gentoolkit emerge you can run an `equery d
` to see what depends upon the package. I find that
the easiest way to do things.

-MikeOn 8/21/05, Anthony E. Caudel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Holly Bostick wrote:>Anthony E. Caudel schreef:Ah, the "profile" threw me. I was thinking profiles and not the emerge>>system I had done originally.>>
>>I use nano so I guess I can unmerge it safely.  But I'm still at a loss>>why the warning should come up.  Emacs is not listed in base/packages>>nor linux-default/packages nor x86/packages and finally not in
>>2005.0/packages.  I am correct in thinking these constitute "system,">>right.  It also is not in my make.conf nor is it pulled in by any other>>package (emerge info does not list it as a USE flag).
Tony>>Did you check /etc/portage/package.use? Afaik, USE flags listed there>are not listed by emerge info, and that's the only other thing I can>think of; emacs must have been installed as a explicit dependency of a
>particular system package (or sub-dependency of such).>>Nope, nothing relevant in package.use.  Oh well, unmerged it andrevdep-rebuild didn't complain so THWI.>You could also explicitly set "-emacs" in /etc/make.conf and see what
>changes in an emerge -uaDNtv world (or system), which would not only>tell you why emacs is involved in this (I, for example, don't have it at>all, and I suppose our systems are basically similar), as well as
>orphaning the dependency, so you could clean it out safely with a>depclean (or normally, without the warning).>>HTH,>Holly>>--Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD recorder recommendations

2005-08-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sunday 21 August 2005 20:54, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> On 8/21/05, Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
> > On Sunday 21 August 2005 16:35, Thomas Kirchner wrote:
> > > * On Aug 21 15:37, Volker Armin Hemmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> >
> > wrote:
> > > > it has to, because all tests I read said, that Plextor burns a lot of
> > > > errors onto the dvds... so they have to have a good error-correction,
> > > > or they would not be able to read their own stuff.
> > >
> > > Not sure I buy that.  I've used my Plextor-burned discs in plenty of
> > > other computers and they haven't had any trouble reading them, either.
> > > They didn't earn their reputation for quality by making coasters.
> > > Tom
> >
> > I do not own a plextor, but I trust the c't magazine which did a lot of
> > dvd-burner tests and Plextor is one of the burners which like to write
> > fast, but with a lot of errors.
> >
> > Only because the dvdr does not make problems now, it does not mean, that
> > it will not make problems in the future, when some scratches are
> > accumulated.
> >
> > But... LG was much worse.. ;)
>
> Hmmm.  While warnings about particular brands might be of some help, I
> would much prefer to see the make/model of comparably priced items that
> were rated good.  I'm trying to buy, after all, not discard existing stuff.
>
> Nevertheless, this is helpful (I think) because I was starting to lean
> towards a Plextor PX-740A-BP OEM drive.  Now I'll wait to see what others
> say.

to be honest, none of the tested writers were perfect.
Some had problems with -r, some with +r, some burned good at low speeds but 
badly on higher ones - and most of these tried to burn as fast as possible, 
resulting in high error counts.

You should visit some websites dedicated to dvd(rw) tests, and/or read some 
good magazine - not ones, who are giving 'best products' awards and say '
good results on matsabanony (to make up a totally random name)' but don't say, 
that you cannot buy this blanks in 95% of the world and totally not say that 
this device sucks with every other brand, but magazines, that test about a 
wide range of blanks, and explain every bit about their testing, how they 
detect&count the errors, differences between the errors, how many errors are 
allowed to be within the specs, geometric errors of the blanks etc pp.

Don't look at awards, look at the important fact: does this writer does it job 
well with the blanks you can buy around the corner? Does it a good job at the 
sppeds I want to use? Does it burn the type dvd-'standard', I want to use(-r, 
+r, -rw,+rw,dl,-ram)? How much do you want to pay?
Friends are not always a good source.. only because they haven't discovered 
the hidden traps of accumulated errors, does not mean, that you won't, so 
read tests and decide for yourself - oh, and firmware updates are important 
too. Luckily there are almost always dostools availabe, not always from the 
vendor, but...

After that, you'll find the perfect burner for you.
It may not the perfect burner for someone else, but that is ok - everybody has 
his own needs. -ram people are pretty stuck to LG and are able to deal with 
it ;)



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Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare?

2005-08-21 Thread Michael Crute
Well you can still run Photoshop. :-D

-MikeOn 8/21/05, Greg Shikhman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The only issue with running WinXP inside a virtual environment is it
becomes useless for gaming (making windows COMPLETELY useless) because
VMWare doesn't have support for DirectX.
On 8/21/05, Sandy McGuffog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
I too run VMWare 5 on XP (as well as a dual boot installation) and canconfirm it runs at near native speeds.
Be aware however that there is an issue with the clock on 2.4 serieskernels - due to the changes made to run at 1000Hz, you will find thatGentoo's clock no longer keeps perfect time. This problem can be

improved, but not completely solved, by (a) recompiling the kernel torun at a lower clock and (b) running the VMWare toolkit, which has aclock "helper"On 8/21/05, Neil Bothwick <

[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 00:46:20 -0300, Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales> wrote:>> > I agree with John. It is better to have a robust system (Gentoo) and

> > run the bad one (Windows) on user space (via VMWare) so it can't do> > much damage.>> That's how I do it and it works well. I very rarely use VMWare for> Windows, mainly for testing on different Linux distros. It runs virtually
> as fast as native hardware, apart from a slight reduction in disk speed> from the virtual disks.>> VMWare 5 is very nice, and runs much better on amd64 than the 4.x series.>> > As for comments on VMWare, it isn't free software and you need a
> > licence key. Some purists don't like the fact that it isn't free.>> That's hardly an issue if he's going to run Windows with it :-O>>> --> Neil Bothwick>
> A friend of mine sent me a postcard with a satellite photo of the
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Re: [gentoo-user] unmerge emacs

2005-08-21 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Holly Bostick wrote:

>Anthony E. Caudel schreef:
>  
>
>>Ah, the "profile" threw me. I was thinking profiles and not the emerge
>>system I had done originally.
>>
>>I use nano so I guess I can unmerge it safely.  But I'm still at a loss
>>why the warning should come up.  Emacs is not listed in base/packages
>>nor linux-default/packages nor x86/packages and finally not in
>>2005.0/packages.  I am correct in thinking these constitute "system,"
>>right.  It also is not in my make.conf nor is it pulled in by any other
>>package (emerge info does not list it as a USE flag).
>>
>>Tony
>>
>>
>
>Did you check /etc/portage/package.use? Afaik, USE flags listed there
>are not listed by emerge info, and that's the only other thing I can
>think of; emacs must have been installed as a explicit dependency of a
>particular system package (or sub-dependency of such).
>  
>
Nope, nothing relevant in package.use.  Oh well, unmerged it and
revdep-rebuild didn't complain so THWI.

>You could also explicitly set "-emacs" in /etc/make.conf and see what
>changes in an emerge -uaDNtv world (or system), which would not only
>tell you why emacs is involved in this (I, for example, don't have it at
>all, and I suppose our systems are basically similar), as well as
>orphaning the dependency, so you could clean it out safely with a
>depclean (or normally, without the warning).
>
>HTH,
>Holly
>  
>

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Re: [gentoo-user] what's next

2005-08-21 Thread Fernando Meira
On 8/21/05, John Dangler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have the basic system installed and updated on my laptop.Aside from the problem of the splash, everything seems to be well.I'm wondering what direction to go next?
You're the boss... just lead the way.. I hope that's why you installed gentoo!! :) 
I'd like a good backup solution w/boot capability, but mondo is right out!
It's too flaky at the moment.I'd like to get a backup of the system at this stage before adding a desktopenvironment, so that I have somewhere to go back to in case of a bork(either from software or operator error)

Try SystemRescueCd. Is bootable and has tools that allows you to backup
partitions. You can place you current partition in other place of you
disk or even on a cd. 
I'm also thinking that some security would be in order here (anti-virus atleast, but I've also read about others like port sentry, iptables, etc).

Well.. I'd advise you iptables. And that's all you need. You won't need
anti-virus, though you can use it. I've used BitDefender some time ago..

Fernando.


[gentoo-user] initrd and raid

2005-08-21 Thread David Busby

List,
  I've got a Super Micro P4SCT+ that uses the Marvell SATA controller that Linux doesn't know out-of-the-box.  There 
was the mv_sata module provided by ABit that I found, and it compiles and loads into my 2.6.12 kernel.  I can see the 
drives and have made a raid out of them no problem.  I'm currently booting off the Intel SATA in the machine from 
/dev/sda  The other drives are /dev/sdb,c,d.  OK, so what I want to do is this:  Remove the current /dev/sda and bump 
the /dev/sdb,c,d each up by one and then boot of them.  /dev/sdb1,c1,d1 are set as RAID0+hotspare and configured/grub-ed 
etc.  What I can't do is get the initrd to work.  I've added the module and can see when it boots that it finds those 
devices but then it looks like it cannot see my devices.  I get a Kernel Panic not init found, then it says to try 
passing init= to the kernel.  I don't understand that, what must I do?  I'm using udev so perhaps when the kernel is 
booting it cannot see my devices in /dev ?  Other google searches show that might be the case.  One set of google 
results pointing to gentoo-user about udev and initrd said "don't use initrd, build the module into the kernel".  I 
can't do that with a 3rd party module can I?


Here's the story about my install so far (incomplete)
  http://www.edoceo.com/liber/marvell-sata.php

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD recorder recommendations

2005-08-21 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 8/21/05, Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sunday 21 August 2005 16:35, Thomas Kirchner wrote:
> > * On Aug 21 15:37, Volker Armin Hemmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> wrote:
> > > it has to, because all tests I read said, that Plextor burns a lot of
> > > errors onto the dvds... so they have to have a good error-correction,
> > > or they would not be able to read their own stuff.
> >
> > Not sure I buy that.  I've used my Plextor-burned discs in plenty of
> > other computers and they haven't had any trouble reading them, either.
> > They didn't earn their reputation for quality by making coasters.
> > Tom
> 
> I do not own a plextor, but I trust the c't magazine which did a lot of
> dvd-burner tests and Plextor is one of the burners which like to write fast,
> but with a lot of errors.
> 
> Only because the dvdr does not make problems now, it does not mean, that it
> will not make problems in the future, when some scratches are accumulated.
> 
> But... LG was much worse.. ;)

Hmmm.  While warnings about particular brands might be of some help, I would
much prefer to see the make/model of comparably priced items that were rated
good.  I'm trying to buy, after all, not discard existing stuff.

Nevertheless, this is helpful (I think) because I was starting to lean towards a
Plextor PX-740A-BP OEM drive.  Now I'll wait to see what others say. 

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Re: [gentoo-user] what's next

2005-08-21 Thread Joe Menola
On Sunday August 21 2005 11:24 am, John Dangler wrote:
> I'd like a good backup solution w/boot capability, but mondo is right out!
> It's too flaky at the moment.
> I'd like to get a backup of the system at this stage before adding a
> desktop environment, so that I have somewhere to go back to in case of a
> bork (either from software or operator error)

Personally, I prefer to backup at the partition level. Partimage works quite 
well for me.
http://www.partimage.org/

I boot with  SystemRescueCd (has partimage built in) to backup and/or restore 
my partions.  
http://www.sysresccd.org/

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[gentoo-user] what's next

2005-08-21 Thread John Dangler
So far, I have a stage 2 install with 2.6.12-r9, wireless (ipw2100), intel
modem (compiled in) and alsa (compiled in) on a dell inspiron 8600.  All is
functioning well.

I have the basic system installed and updated on my laptop.
Aside from the problem of the splash, everything seems to be well.
I'm wondering what direction to go next?

I'd like a good backup solution w/boot capability, but mondo is right out!
It's too flaky at the moment.
I'd like to get a backup of the system at this stage before adding a desktop
environment, so that I have somewhere to go back to in case of a bork
(either from software or operator error)

I'm also thinking that some security would be in order here (anti-virus at
least, but I've also read about others like port sentry, iptables, etc).

As always, any input is greatly appreciated.

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Re: [gentoo-user] sysctl.conf settings

2005-08-21 Thread Matan Peled
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> Also, when one logs spoofed packets, etc. using 
> 'net/ipv4/conf/all/log_martians=1' where will these get logged?  Will I 
> need to create a new entry in syslog-ng?  A new file in /var/log?
> 
> Regards,

It will go out with the rest of the kernel messages. syslog-ng is usually
configured to send those to /var/log/messages, but in some cases (such as the
hardened profile), will send those to /var/log/kern.log.

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Re: [gentoo-user] where to put mknod?

2005-08-21 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 07:39:05 -0700 (PDT) maxim wexler
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| Another post-emerge -u world wrinkle: before I can
| /usr/sbin/pon must now
| 
| mknod /dev/ppp c 108 0.
| 
| Where does one put this command? I didn't see any
| likely candidates in /etc/conf.d, /etc/init.d.

Don't do that. Instead, fix your udev rules.

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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge glibc

2005-08-21 Thread Matan Peled
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Rumen Yotov wrote:
> Hi,
> First thing IMHO QA-notices are for devs, rarely for users so ignore it
> if no error so far.
> The CFLAGS you *may* put on the command-line are added to those in
> /etc/make.conf, so no need to repeat all.
> Think the using "-03" in your USE-flags isn't a good idea (use -02
> instead) remember that with -03 any reports to Bugzilla are like INVALID
> (devs will suggest you use a more sane flags first).
> HTH. Rumen

- -O3 isn't that insane... I don't think that reports using -O3 are marked 
invalid
 (someone correct me?)

Anyway, -O2 is sometime actually /better/ than -O3, too. I like -Os the best, at
least on x86 (Its definitly not for amd64).


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Re: [gentoo-user] Permission problem, emerge jpeg-mmx-0.1.6-r1 as root

2005-08-21 Thread Tony Davison
On Sunday 21 August 2005 16:30, Rumen Yotov wrote:
> Chris Fairles wrote:
> > Unpacks and compiles fine. When it comes time to install,
> > src_install runs "make install-headers", from the Makefile this
> > entails,
> >
> > install-headers: jconfig.h
> > $(INSTALL_DATA) jconfig.h $(includedir)/jconfig.h
> > $(INSTALL_DATA) $(srcdir)/jpeglib.h $(includedir)/jpeglib.h
> > $(INSTALL_DATA) $(srcdir)/jmorecfg.h $(includedir)/jmorecfg.h
> > $(INSTALL_DATA) $(srcdir)/jerror.h $(includedir)/jerror.h
> > $(INSTALL_DATA) $(srcdir)/jinclude.h $(includedir)/jinclude.h
> >
> > where includedir = /usr/include/jpeg-mmx
> >
> > However, as root, I run emerge and i get this:
> >
> > /bin/install -c -m 644 jconfig.h /usr/include/jpeg-mmx/jconfig.h
> > ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/include/jpeg-mmx/jconfig.h
> > /bin/install: cannot create regular file
> > `/usr/include/jpeg-mmx/jconfig.h': Permission denied
> >
> > However, as root I can certainly copy all the files manually to
> > where they need to be.
> >
> > /usr
> > drwxr-xr-x 179 root root 12816 Aug 21 08:09 include
> >
> > /var/tmp/portage/jpeg-mmx-0.1.6-r1/work/jpeg-mmx
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1258 Aug 21 08:21 jconfig.h
>
> Hi,
> Look at BUG-103210 (b.g.o) this issue/problem is solved.
> Rumen

Where is the new ebuild then, I thought bugs weren't fixed until the new 
ebuild was in the tree?
i think we need some QA around this ebuild, it seems to be always badly 
written.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Permission problem, emerge jpeg-mmx-0.1.6-r1 as root

2005-08-21 Thread Rumen Yotov
Chris Fairles wrote:

> Unpacks and compiles fine. When it comes time to install,
> src_install runs "make install-headers", from the Makefile this
> entails,
>
> install-headers: jconfig.h
> $(INSTALL_DATA) jconfig.h $(includedir)/jconfig.h
> $(INSTALL_DATA) $(srcdir)/jpeglib.h $(includedir)/jpeglib.h
> $(INSTALL_DATA) $(srcdir)/jmorecfg.h $(includedir)/jmorecfg.h
> $(INSTALL_DATA) $(srcdir)/jerror.h $(includedir)/jerror.h
> $(INSTALL_DATA) $(srcdir)/jinclude.h $(includedir)/jinclude.h
>
> where includedir = /usr/include/jpeg-mmx
>
> However, as root, I run emerge and i get this:
>
> /bin/install -c -m 644 jconfig.h /usr/include/jpeg-mmx/jconfig.h
> ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/include/jpeg-mmx/jconfig.h
> /bin/install: cannot create regular file
> `/usr/include/jpeg-mmx/jconfig.h': Permission denied
>
> However, as root I can certainly copy all the files manually to
> where they need to be.
>
> /usr
> drwxr-xr-x 179 root root 12816 Aug 21 08:09 include
>
> /var/tmp/portage/jpeg-mmx-0.1.6-r1/work/jpeg-mmx
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1258 Aug 21 08:21 jconfig.h
>
Hi,
Look at BUG-103210 (b.g.o) this issue/problem is solved.
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Re: [gentoo-user] where to put mknod?

2005-08-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 07:39:05 -0700 (PDT), maxim wexler wrote:

> Another post-emerge -u world wrinkle: before I can
> /usr/sbin/pon must now
> 
> mknod /dev/ppp c 108 0.
> 
> Where does one put this command? I didn't see any
> likely candidates in /etc/conf.d, /etc/init.d.

/etc/conf.d/local.start


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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge glibc

2005-08-21 Thread Rumen Yotov
Thomas Naujokas wrote:

>Last night I did an:
>
>  emerge --update --deep world
>
>Reviewing logs this morning I find in 3125-glibc-2.3.5-r1.log the
>following:
>
>  QA Notice: /usr/lib/misc/glibc/pt_chown is setXid, dynamically  
>linked and using lazy bindings.
>  This combination is generally discouraged. Try:
>CFLAGS='-Wl,-z,now' emerge glibc
>
>I can see a couple of problems with this:
>
>1.) Wouldn't that compile glibc without any optimization settings? So
>what I would rather do is merge the suggestion with my default
>CFLAGS. Resulting in:
>
>  CFLAGS='-O3 -march=athlon-xp -Wl,-z,now' emerge glibc
>
>Does this seem reasonable?
>
>2.) My impression of how portage works is that the next time glibc is
>updated it will compile with the default again. Is there some place
>to set this on a permanent basis?
>
>Tom Naujokas
>
>  
>
Hi,
First thing IMHO QA-notices are for devs, rarely for users so ignore it
if no error so far.
The CFLAGS you *may* put on the command-line are added to those in
/etc/make.conf, so no need to repeat all.
Think the using "-03" in your USE-flags isn't a good idea (use -02
instead) remember that with -03 any reports to Bugzilla are like INVALID
(devs will suggest you use a more sane flags first).
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD recorder recommendations

2005-08-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sunday 21 August 2005 16:35, Thomas Kirchner wrote:
> * On Aug 21 15:37, Volker Armin Hemmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
wrote:
> > it has to, because all tests I read said, that Plextor burns a lot of
> > errors onto the dvds... so they have to have a good error-correction,
> > or they would not be able to read their own stuff.
>
> Not sure I buy that.  I've used my Plextor-burned discs in plenty of
> other computers and they haven't had any trouble reading them, either.
> They didn't earn their reputation for quality by making coasters.
> Tom

I do not own a plextor, but I trust the c't magazine which did a lot of 
dvd-burner tests and Plextor is one of the burners which like to write fast, 
but with a lot of errors.

Only because the dvdr does not make problems now, it does not mean, that it 
will not make problems in the future, when some scratches are accumulated.

But... LG was much worse.. ;)
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Re: [gentoo-user] About firefox

2005-08-21 Thread Luigi Pinna
Alle 15:03, domenica 21 agosto 2005, Holly Bostick ha scritto:
> > I found the italian package and I installed it as root, but firefox
> > doesn't ask me if I want a global installation :-(

I installed it as root too, but it doesn't ask me a global 
installation...
I want to do a pair trying about it, it say it tomorrow, ok?

>[...]
> > But the question is yet here: why don't they do a link near to the
> > localized installer to language package?
>
> No idea. It is strange to have to trawl the Internet this way to find
> said language packs.

Look it:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/l10n/mlp_otherproj.html

Only few language have a language pack avaible (but they have all a 
localized installer...)
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Re: [gentoo-user] where to put mknod?

2005-08-21 Thread Alex
On Sunday 21 August 2005 14:39, maxim wexler wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> Another post-emerge -u world wrinkle: before I can
> /usr/sbin/pon must now
>
> mknod /dev/ppp c 108 0.
>
> Where does one put this command? I didn't see any
> likely candidates in /etc/conf.d, /etc/init.d.

at the end of /etc/conf.d/local.start and then do
$ rc-update add local default

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[gentoo-user] Re: Permission problem, emerge jpeg-mmx-0.1.6-r1 as root

2005-08-21 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 21 August 2005 14:26, Chris Fairles wrote:
> Unpacks and compiles fine. When it comes time to install, src_install
> runs "make install-headers", from the Makefile this entails,
>
> install-headers: jconfig.h
> $(INSTALL_DATA) jconfig.h $(includedir)/jconfig.h
> $(INSTALL_DATA) $(srcdir)/jpeglib.h $(includedir)/jpeglib.h
> $(INSTALL_DATA) $(srcdir)/jmorecfg.h $(includedir)/jmorecfg.h
> $(INSTALL_DATA) $(srcdir)/jerror.h $(includedir)/jerror.h
> $(INSTALL_DATA) $(srcdir)/jinclude.h $(includedir)/jinclude.h
>
> where includedir = /usr/include/jpeg-mmx
>
> However, as root, I run emerge and i get this:
>
> /bin/install -c -m 644 jconfig.h /usr/include/jpeg-mmx/jconfig.h
> ACCESS DENIED  open_wr:   /usr/include/jpeg-mmx/jconfig.h
> /bin/install: cannot create regular file
> `/usr/include/jpeg-mmx/jconfig.h': Permission denied
>
> However, as root I can certainly copy all the files manually to where
> they need to be.
>
> /usr
> drwxr-xr-x  179 root root  12816 Aug 21 08:09 include
>
> /var/tmp/portage/jpeg-mmx-0.1.6-r1/work/jpeg-mmx
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  1258 Aug 21 08:21 jconfig.h

See http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103210

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Re: [gentoo-user] somebody said "Headphones"?

2005-08-21 Thread Holly Bostick
maxim wexler schreef:
> 
> --- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>>unmuting "master" is always needed if you want any
>>sound to come out!
> 
> 
> Makes sense but it worked before update world with
> only PCM unmuted.
> 
> 

Some sound servers/mixers allow you to set master to use the PCM setting
(by default they are separate, afaik). I think I've seen this in the
XMMS settings and possibly elsewhere (either the KDE or GNOME sound
server settings).

So maybe that's the reason why you could have sound when only unmuting
PCM (because PCM was being used for the master setting, so unmuting one
 effectively unmuted both). But in the default settings (where PCM and
Master are two different settings), you would have to unmute Master for
anything else to emit sound.

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Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare?

2005-08-21 Thread Greg Shikhman
The only issue with running WinXP inside a virtual environment is it becomes useless for gaming (making windows COMPLETELY useless) because VMWare doesn't have support for DirectX.
On 8/21/05, Sandy McGuffog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I too run VMWare 5 on XP (as well as a dual boot installation) and canconfirm it runs at near native speeds.
Be aware however that there is an issue with the clock on 2.4 serieskernels - due to the changes made to run at 1000Hz, you will find thatGentoo's clock no longer keeps perfect time. This problem can be
improved, but not completely solved, by (a) recompiling the kernel torun at a lower clock and (b) running the VMWare toolkit, which has aclock "helper"On 8/21/05, Neil Bothwick <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 00:46:20 -0300, Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales> wrote:>> > I agree with John. It is better to have a robust system (Gentoo) and
> > run the bad one (Windows) on user space (via VMWare) so it can't do> > much damage.>> That's how I do it and it works well. I very rarely use VMWare for> Windows, mainly for testing on different Linux distros. It runs virtually
> as fast as native hardware, apart from a slight reduction in disk speed> from the virtual disks.>> VMWare 5 is very nice, and runs much better on amd64 than the 4.x series.>> > As for comments on VMWare, it isn't free software and you need a
> > licence key. Some purists don't like the fact that it isn't free.>> That's hardly an issue if he's going to run Windows with it :-O>>> --> Neil Bothwick>> A friend of mine sent me a postcard with a satellite photo of the
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[gentoo-user] where to put mknod?

2005-08-21 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everyone,

Another post-emerge -u world wrinkle: before I can
/usr/sbin/pon must now

mknod /dev/ppp c 108 0.

Where does one put this command? I didn't see any
likely candidates in /etc/conf.d, /etc/init.d.

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[gentoo-user] Re: DVD recorder recommendations

2005-08-21 Thread Thomas Kirchner
* On Aug 21 15:37, Volker Armin Hemmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> it has to, because all tests I read said, that Plextor burns a lot of 
> errors onto the dvds... so they have to have a good error-correction, 
> or they would not be able to read their own stuff.

Not sure I buy that.  I've used my Plextor-burned discs in plenty of 
other computers and they haven't had any trouble reading them, either.  
They didn't earn their reputation for quality by making coasters.
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Re: [gentoo-user] somebody said "Headphones"?

2005-08-21 Thread maxim wexler


--- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> unmuting "master" is always needed if you want any
> sound to come out!

Makes sense but it worked before update world with
only PCM unmuted.

> 
> 
> On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 18:09:19 -0700 (PDT)
> maxim wexler wrote:
> 
> > Hello everybody,
> > 
> > On account of my silent sound card Willie left a
> msg
> > to unmute 'Headphones'.
> > 
> > I'm wondering: is that hdware or software specific
> > because I have no such option and I'm assuming
> this is
> > the latest version having just updated everything.
> > 
> > BTW when I unmuted 'Master' the problem went away
> :)
> > 
> > -mw
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Re: [gentoo-user] ccache not working

2005-08-21 Thread Michael Kintzios
> From:: Chris Fairles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [gentoo-user] ccache not working
> Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 08:51:00 -0400

> I'm emerged it, and added it to FEATURES.
> 
> emerge --info | grep FEATURES
> FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"

You also need to:
==
# cd /var/tmp
# chown portage:portage ccache
# chmod 775 ccache
# echo "CCACHE_DIR=\"/var/tmp/ccache\"" >> /etc/env.d/99local
# env-update && source /etc/profile
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Re: [gentoo-user] DVD recorder recommendations

2005-08-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Friday 19 August 2005 21:42, Sean Johnson wrote:
> I'm pretty stuck on Plextor drives. I've found them to all be very
> reliable, and will tend to read damaged disks that other drives choke
> on.


it has to, because all tests I read said, that Plextor burns a lot of errors 
onto the dvds... so they have to have a good error-correction, or they would 
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Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare?

2005-08-21 Thread Sandy McGuffog
I too run VMWare 5 on XP (as well as a dual boot installation) and can
confirm it runs at near native speeds.

Be aware however that there is an issue with the clock on 2.4 series
kernels - due to the changes made to run at 1000Hz, you will find that
Gentoo's clock no longer keeps perfect time. This problem can be
improved, but not completely solved, by (a) recompiling the kernel to
run at a lower clock and (b) running the VMWare toolkit, which has a
clock "helper"

On 8/21/05, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 00:46:20 -0300, Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales
> wrote:
> 
> > I agree with John. It is better to have a robust system (Gentoo) and
> > run the bad one (Windows) on user space (via VMWare) so it can't do
> > much damage.
> 
> That's how I do it and it works well. I very rarely use VMWare for
> Windows, mainly for testing on different Linux distros. It runs virtually
> as fast as native hardware, apart from a slight reduction in disk speed
> from the virtual disks.
> 
> VMWare 5 is very nice, and runs much better on amd64 than the 4.x series.
> 
> > As for comments on VMWare, it isn't free software and you need a
> > licence key. Some purists don't like the fact that it isn't free.
> 
> That's hardly an issue if he's going to run Windows with it :-O
> 
> 
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> 
> A friend of mine sent me a postcard with a satellite photo of the
> entire planet on it, and on the back he wrote, "Wish you were here."
> 
> 
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Re: [gentoo-user] About firefox

2005-08-21 Thread Holly Bostick
Luigi Pinna schreef:
> Alle 03:07, domenica 21 agosto 2005, Holly Bostick ha scritto:
> 
>>They're .xpi files, yes? The language pack should be. However, all
>>the sites for the languages you're looking for don't seem to have
>>language packs, just full installers although I can't read most
>>of these languages well enough to be sure. But I couldn't find any
>>such pack on the German localization site, for example. I did find
>>one of the sp_SP page, though. I am aware that you weren't looking
>>for Spain Spanish, but I had a hope of reading that, since the Lating
>>American Spanish page had a MySQL error and I couldn't view the
>>downloads.
> 
> [...]
> 
>>If it doesn't, then you need to do the exact same thing, but after
>>running Firefox as root. Most extensions install to
>>~/.mozilla/firefox/wherever (so the user may install them), but some
>>install to /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox (so only root can install them),
>>and atm I don't remember which kind the language pack is. Of course,
>>you could just do what I do and have root change the permissions of
>>the main application plugins folder, so that a user may write to it,
>>because otherwise it's a PITA, but that's just me.
> 
> [...]
> 
>>Holly
> 
> 
> I found the italian package and I installed it as root, but firefox 
> doesn't ask me if I want a global installation :-( 

Extensions that *must* be installed by root are, afaik, global
installations by default. But this may not have been one of them. Did
you try installing it as a user and get an error saying that the
extension couldn't be written to /usr/lib/wherever? If you get such an
error, the extension must be installed by root (and is therefore
global), because only root can write to /usr/lib/anywhere. If the
extension installs as a user, then it's local, but it's quite possible
that if you install it as root it will be global (since Firefox almost
certainly searches /usr/lib/whatever/plugins for global plugins like
flash and other media, prior to then searching
~/.mozilla/firefox/profile/plugins for local plugins).

> that means that every user must install  a language package; that's 
> strange!

I don't think that's the case, did you actually check, or are you just
assuming? Does the user (or root) have the locale installed? Did you
install the locale switcher extension? Does it offer you to switch to
the new locale from the 'Extras' menu?

> But the question is yet here: why don't they do a link near to the 
> localized installer to language package? 

No idea. It is strange to have to trawl the Internet this way to find
said language packs.
> Thanks a lot, 
> Luigi

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[gentoo-user] ccache not working

2005-08-21 Thread Chris Fairles

I'm emerged it, and added it to FEATURES.

emerge --info | grep FEATURES
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"

Also added the 2G cache size.

but no matter how many things I emerge,

ccache -s
cache hit  0
cache miss 0
files in cache 0
cache size 0 Kbytes
max cache size   2.0 Gbytes

as root or user (user has smaller max cache size, but 0's all around).

/var/tmp
drwxrwsr-x   18 rootportage 2528 Aug 21 08:46 ccache

I saw a web page that said change owner to portage:portage but on emerge 
as root,

* Adjusting permissions on ccache in /var/tmp/ccache
which puts it back to above.

also, root is not part or portage group, should it be?
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Re: [gentoo-user] About firefox

2005-08-21 Thread Luigi Pinna
Alle 03:07, domenica 21 agosto 2005, Holly Bostick ha scritto:
>
> They're .xpi files, yes? The language pack should be. However, all
> the sites for the languages you're looking for don't seem to have
> language packs, just full installers although I can't read most
> of these languages well enough to be sure. But I couldn't find any
> such pack on the German localization site, for example. I did find
> one of the sp_SP page, though. I am aware that you weren't looking
> for Spain Spanish, but I had a hope of reading that, since the Lating
> American Spanish page had a MySQL error and I couldn't view the
> downloads.
[...]
> If it doesn't, then you need to do the exact same thing, but after
> running Firefox as root. Most extensions install to
> ~/.mozilla/firefox/wherever (so the user may install them), but some
> install to /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox (so only root can install them),
> and atm I don't remember which kind the language pack is. Of course,
> you could just do what I do and have root change the permissions of
> the main application plugins folder, so that a user may write to it,
> because otherwise it's a PITA, but that's just me.
[...]
> Holly

I found the italian package and I installed it as root, but firefox 
doesn't ask me if I want a global installation :-( 
that means that every user must install  a language package; that's 
strange!
But the question is yet here: why don't they do a link near to the 
localized installer to language package? 
Thanks a lot, 
Luigi
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[gentoo-user] Permission problem, emerge jpeg-mmx-0.1.6-r1 as root

2005-08-21 Thread Chris Fairles
Unpacks and compiles fine. When it comes time to install, src_install 
runs "make install-headers", from the Makefile this entails,


install-headers: jconfig.h
   $(INSTALL_DATA) jconfig.h $(includedir)/jconfig.h
   $(INSTALL_DATA) $(srcdir)/jpeglib.h $(includedir)/jpeglib.h
   $(INSTALL_DATA) $(srcdir)/jmorecfg.h $(includedir)/jmorecfg.h
   $(INSTALL_DATA) $(srcdir)/jerror.h $(includedir)/jerror.h
   $(INSTALL_DATA) $(srcdir)/jinclude.h $(includedir)/jinclude.h

where includedir = /usr/include/jpeg-mmx

However, as root, I run emerge and i get this:

/bin/install -c -m 644 jconfig.h /usr/include/jpeg-mmx/jconfig.h
ACCESS DENIED  open_wr:   /usr/include/jpeg-mmx/jconfig.h
/bin/install: cannot create regular file 
`/usr/include/jpeg-mmx/jconfig.h': Permission denied


However, as root I can certainly copy all the files manually to where 
they need to be.


/usr
drwxr-xr-x  179 root root  12816 Aug 21 08:09 include

/var/tmp/portage/jpeg-mmx-0.1.6-r1/work/jpeg-mmx
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  1258 Aug 21 08:21 jconfig.h

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Re: [gentoo-user] unmerge emacs

2005-08-21 Thread Holly Bostick
Anthony E. Caudel schreef:
> Ah, the "profile" threw me. I was thinking profiles and not the emerge
> system I had done originally.
> 
> I use nano so I guess I can unmerge it safely.  But I'm still at a loss
> why the warning should come up.  Emacs is not listed in base/packages
> nor linux-default/packages nor x86/packages and finally not in
> 2005.0/packages.  I am correct in thinking these constitute "system,"
> right.  It also is not in my make.conf nor is it pulled in by any other
> package (emerge info does not list it as a USE flag).
> 
> Tony

Did you check /etc/portage/package.use? Afaik, USE flags listed there
are not listed by emerge info, and that's the only other thing I can
think of; emacs must have been installed as a explicit dependency of a
particular system package (or sub-dependency of such).

You could also explicitly set "-emacs" in /etc/make.conf and see what
changes in an emerge -uaDNtv world (or system), which would not only
tell you why emacs is involved in this (I, for example, don't have it at
all, and I suppose our systems are basically similar), as well as
orphaning the dependency, so you could clean it out safely with a
depclean (or normally, without the warning).

HTH,
Holly
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[gentoo-user] Re: DVD recorder recommendations

2005-08-21 Thread Thomas Kirchner
* On Aug 19 15:42, Sean Johnson (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
> I'm pretty stuck on Plextor drives. I've found them to all be very
> reliable, and will tend to read damaged disks that other drives choke
> on.

Another strong recommendation for Plextor here.  I've had my PX-712A for 
a while now and it's been fantastic - never a single problem with any 
type of disc.  Definitely consider them.  You can usually find them for 
around the same price as the others on newegg.com.
Tom


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[gentoo-user] emerge glibc

2005-08-21 Thread Thomas Naujokas
Last night I did an:

  emerge --update --deep world

Reviewing logs this morning I find in 3125-glibc-2.3.5-r1.log the
following:

  QA Notice: /usr/lib/misc/glibc/pt_chown is setXid, dynamically  
linked and using lazy bindings.
  This combination is generally discouraged. Try:
CFLAGS='-Wl,-z,now' emerge glibc

I can see a couple of problems with this:

1.) Wouldn't that compile glibc without any optimization settings? So
what I would rather do is merge the suggestion with my default
CFLAGS. Resulting in:

  CFLAGS='-O3 -march=athlon-xp -Wl,-z,now' emerge glibc

Does this seem reasonable?

2.) My impression of how portage works is that the next time glibc is
updated it will compile with the default again. Is there some place
to set this on a permanent basis?

Tom Naujokas

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Re: [gentoo-user] alsa config

2005-08-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 11:48:14 +0200, Christoph Eckert wrote:

> > So holly, is arts absolutely necessary to get KDE system sounds?  I
> > installed KDE 3.4 without arts.  Alsa does fine as does amarok, gaim,
> > and several others _except_ KDE.  I guess arts is the reason, huh?
> 
> Yep. As long as a KDE application doesn't have an audio interface of
> its own, it uses arts for audio output. If arts isn't available, it
> will not be able to output sound.

You can also configure KDE to use an external player for system sounds

Control Centre -> Sound & Multimedia -> System Notifications -> Player Options


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[gentoo-user] sysctl.conf settings

2005-08-21 Thread Michael Kintzios

Hi All,

I am going through some of the sysctl.conf packet settings and managed to  
confuse myself.  In particular when we have the following two settings:

=
net.ipv4.conf.all.secure_redirects = 0
#net.ipv4.conf.default.secure_redirects = 0
=
What's the difference betweeen them and which one takes precedence?  All,  
or default, when both are set?


Also, when one logs spoofed packets, etc. using  
'net/ipv4/conf/all/log_martians=1' where will these get logged?  Will I  
need to create a new entry in syslog-ng?  A new file in /var/log?


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Re: [gentoo-user] alsa config

2005-08-21 Thread Christoph Eckert

> So holly, is arts absolutely necessary to get KDE system sounds?  I
> installed KDE 3.4 without arts.  Alsa does fine as does amarok, gaim,
> and several others _except_ KDE.  I guess arts is the reason, huh?

Yep. As long as a KDE application doesn't have an audio interface of its 
own, it uses arts for audio output. If arts isn't available, it will 
not be able to output sound.


Best regards


ce


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Re: [gentoo-user] alsa config

2005-08-21 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
So holly, is arts absolutely necessary to get KDE system sounds?  I
installed KDE 3.4 without arts.  Alsa does fine as does amarok, gaim,
and several others _except_ KDE.  I guess arts is the reason, huh?

Tony

Holly Bostick wrote:

>John Jolet schreef:
>  
>
>>On Saturday 20 August 2005 14:31, Christoph Eckert wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>Use alsamixer in a console window to adjust the settings. Ensure master
>>>is open and PCM is unmuted and open.
>>>
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>I have a question about that...using the in-kernel alsa drivers and I get 
>>sound fine with xmms under kde, but the system notification sounds are 
>>silent.  I'm kinda mystified.
>>
>>
>
>If xmms plays, then your sound is obviously working. If KDE system
>sounds are not playing, there could be 3 reasons that I can think of:
>
>1) arts (the kde sound server) is not enabled. You can check this in
>kcontrol=>Sound and Multimedia=>Sound System; is the checkbox for
>'enable sound system' checked? Is the correct sound system selected in
>the 'Hardware' tab? It's not much use to tell KDE to pipe aRTs through
>ESD if you don't have ESD running)
>
>2) system sounds are turned off. You can check this in kcontrol=>Sound
>and Multimedia=>System Notifications. Is the checkbox and drop-down menu
>to turn all sounds off perhaps enabled? Secondarily, try selecting an
>event that has a sound attached. Does the 'Play sound' checkbox become
>checked? If you test the sound using the little 'Play' button next to
>the filename, can you hear it?
>
>3) KMix is set to override alsamixer settings on login, and it (KMix) is
>muted (KMix does not use or refer to the alsamixer settings, but rather
>its own. It's very annoying, and why I avoided it during my brief time
>using KDE). This can be fixed by running KMix and either unmuting the
>appropriate channels if muted, or setting KMix not to override the ALSA
>mixer settings on startup, or by setting KMix not to start at all at login.
>
>Hope this helps,
>Holly
>  
>

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Re: [gentoo-user] Scroll Wheel

2005-08-21 Thread Nick Rout
http://www.justfuckinggoogleit.com/search.pl?query=xorg.conf+scroll
+mouse



On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 00:40 +, Ian K wrote:
> Hi There,
> I had to regenerate an X.org config, and I forgot what to add in order
> for it to take
> advantage of my Logitech optical mouse's scroll wheel. As I remember, I
> just had to add
> something to it in order for it to work. Any one know what I mean?
> Thanks!
> Ian
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Re: [gentoo-user] unmerge emacs

2005-08-21 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Ah, the "profile" threw me. I was thinking profiles and not the emerge
system I had done originally.

I use nano so I guess I can unmerge it safely.  But I'm still at a loss
why the warning should come up.  Emacs is not listed in base/packages
nor linux-default/packages nor x86/packages and finally not in
2005.0/packages.  I am correct in thinking these constitute "system,"
right.  It also is not in my make.conf nor is it pulled in by any other
package (emerge info does not list it as a USE flag).

Tony

Willie Wong wrote:

>emacs provides virtual/editor
>
>The system profile is a set of programs that is necessary for your
>computer to boot and build other programs. One of this things you need
>to do to boot a computer is to edit the configuration files in /etc,
>for that you need an editor. The system profile (you can see what it
>brings in by "emerge --emptytree --pretend system") requires something
>that satisfies virtual/editor, and by default I think gentoo uses
>nano. If you have another editor, like nano, or vim, or pico, then you
>should be fine to unmerge emacs. 
>
>W
>
>On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 04:50:50PM -0500, Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
>  
>
>>I was going to unmerge emacs ( I don't use it ) but was warned:
>>
>>!!! Trying to unmerge package(s) in system profile. 'app-editors/emacs'
>>!!! This could be damaging to your system.
>>
>>What is my system profile?  Is it my default profile:
>>
>>/usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.0?
>>
>>and why would emacs be in there.  I looked in the files in there and did
>>not find anything significant.
>>
>>Tony
>>  
>>   
>>
>>
>>-- 
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>>Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
>>   -- Benjamin Franklin
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>

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Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare?

2005-08-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 00:46:20 -0300, Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales
wrote:

> I agree with John. It is better to have a robust system (Gentoo) and
> run the bad one (Windows) on user space (via VMWare) so it can't do
> much damage.

That's how I do it and it works well. I very rarely use VMWare for
Windows, mainly for testing on different Linux distros. It runs virtually
as fast as native hardware, apart from a slight reduction in disk speed
from the virtual disks.

VMWare 5 is very nice, and runs much better on amd64 than the 4.x series.

> As for comments on VMWare, it isn't free software and you need a
> licence key. Some purists don't like the fact that it isn't free.

That's hardly an issue if he's going to run Windows with it :-O


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