Re: [gentoo-user] troubles with ati-drivers-8.25.18

2006-06-14 Thread Mauro Arnoldi
Alle 21:51, martedì 13 giugno 2006, Ryan Tandy ha scritto: Mauro Arnoldi wrote: My ati drivers doesn't want to compile: #emerge -pv ati-drivers These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-server-1.0.99 (is

Re: [gentoo-user] Typesetting systems

2006-06-14 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 14 June 2006 05:25, Justin R Findlay wrote: On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 03:14:57AM +, b.n. wrote: JimD wrote: I was hoping there were tools/editors for PDF/PS. What the heck do book writers use? I hope not a word processor. I am only working with small books and it is a pain to

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system crumbling, reports of gcc death

2006-06-14 Thread Daniel Drake
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler (gcc -O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mfpmath=sse -msse2 -mmmx -fPIC -Wl,-O1 -ldl-Wl,-O1) works... no configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot create executables.

[gentoo-user] a star-map wallpaper?

2006-06-14 Thread 张 韡武
Hello. Sorry for my English if there is a more correct way of saying Star map. By Star Map I mean something that shows the position of starts, as well as brightness. The more like photo, the better. Star moves in the sky all the time: 1) the star map in 20:00 is different from 21:00 2) the star

Re: [gentoo-user] sound problem

2006-06-14 Thread Strake
alsa-driver is compiled into kernel, and emerge alsa-driver complains because of it and exits.On 6/11/06, Yun Xupeng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:maybe you didn't compile drivers thatyour soundcard uses. try emerge alsa-drivers again... 2006/6/12, Strake [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -- I like Python Linux.

Re: [gentoo-user] sound problem

2006-06-14 Thread recordus
when I compiled my kernel, I only selected Sound card support,but didn't select any module that is supported by the kernel(Alas or oss), then I emerge alsa-driver, and it works well. ps:my english is poor,sorry :) Strake wrote: alsa-driver is compiled into kernel, and emerge alsa-driver

[gentoo-user] Calculating world dependencies taking forever first time

2006-06-14 Thread Walter Dnes
I did an emerge --sync on my main machine, followed by emerge --ask --deep --update --world --fetchonly. It spent several minutes at Calculating world dependencies, with the spinner very slowly moving. Eventually it ran. Subsequent calls to emerge ran at the usual speed I'm accustomed to. My

Re: [gentoo-user] Calculating world dependencies taking forever first time

2006-06-14 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Walter Dnes wrote: I did an emerge --sync on my main machine, followed by emerge --ask --deep --update --world --fetchonly. It spent several minutes at Calculating world dependencies, with the spinner very slowly moving. Eventually it ran. Subsequent calls to emerge ran at the usual

[gentoo-user] broken libraries but library-linking is consistent ;-)

2006-06-14 Thread Norman Rieß
Hi according to revdep-rebuild, quite a few libraries on my system are broken. But at the end of revdep-rebuild, it tells me, my system was consistent. I think some libraries are really broken, because the sound of my vlc player stutters sometimes lately. I had some problems with the arts-daemon

Re: [gentoo-user] a star-map wallpaper?

2006-06-14 Thread Devon Miller
KStars (http://edu.kde.org/kstars/) has a command line mode for image generation. It should not be difficult to script that to generate an image, then set it as the background. dcm On 6/14/06, 张 �|武 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. Sorry for my English if there is a more correct way of saying

[gentoo-user] Re: broken libraries but library-linking is consistent ;-)

2006-06-14 Thread Caster
according to revdep-rebuild, quite a few libraries on my system are broken. But at the end of revdep-rebuild, it tells me, my system was consistent.This means the broken libraries don't belong to any package. Something touched/altered them (probably fix libtool script when updating gcc) so they

Re: [gentoo-user] broken libraries but library-linking is consistent ;-)

2006-06-14 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Norman Rieß wrote: broken /usr/kde/3.4/lib/kde3/kfileaudiopreview.la (requires /usr/kde/3.4/lib/libqtmcop.la) You have upgraded to KDE-3.5.* ? Then 'rm -r /usr/kde/3.4'. broken /usr/lib/avifile-0.7/ac3pass.la (requires /usr/lib/libaviplayavformat.la) The avi stuff is obsolete. Remove

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: broken libraries but library-linking is consistent ;-)

2006-06-14 Thread Norman Rieß
according to revdep-rebuild, quite a few libraries on my system are broken. But at the end of revdep-rebuild, it tells me, my system was consistent. This means the broken libraries don't belong to any package. Something touched/altered them (probably fix libtool script when updating gcc) so

Re: [gentoo-user] broken libraries but library-linking is consistent ;-)

2006-06-14 Thread Norman Rieß
Norman Rieß wrote: broken /usr/kde/3.4/lib/kde3/kfileaudiopreview.la (requires /usr/kde/3.4/lib/libqtmcop.la) You have upgraded to KDE-3.5.* ? Then 'rm -r /usr/kde/3.4'. broken /usr/lib/avifile-0.7/ac3pass.la (requires /usr/lib/libaviplayavformat.la) The avi stuff is obsolete.

Re: [gentoo-user] Keys not getting detected

2006-06-14 Thread louis brazeau
On 6/13/06, anand kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I recently changed to Gentoo. I have a keyboard from hp with all the new multimedia keys on it. I tried configuring them but showkey doesnt recognise some of the keys. Is there any way to resolve this. Previously these keys were getting

[gentoo-user] how does a pipe work? Which process wait for which one, or they don't actually wait each other?

2006-06-14 Thread 张韡武
Hello. This might be OT but I am pretty interested in this and being unlucky not able to find a real in-depth explanation of pipe on the Internet. How does pipe actually work? I mean, when there is a pipe like this: $ appA | appB What happen if appA produced output when appB is still busy

Re: [gentoo-user] broken libraries but library-linking is consistent ;-)

2006-06-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 14:51:59 +0200 (CEST), Norman Rieß wrote: But why wasn´t this deleted by a emerge --depclean world or the unmerge in the update-process of that packages. Because the files' datestamps and/or checksums had changed since they were installed. Portage won't remove a file that

[gentoo-user] Re: how does a pipe work? Which process wait for which one, or they don't actually wait each other?

2006-06-14 Thread Caster
张�|武 wrote: Hello. This might be OT but I am pretty interested in this and being unlucky not able to find a real in-depth explanation of pipe on the Internet. I think man 7 pipe gives quite precise explanation for this. How does pipe actually work? I mean, when there is a pipe like this: $ appA |

Re: [gentoo-user] Use and removal of binary packages

2006-06-14 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/13/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/13/06, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Something about this is just not clicking with me.I restored my backup to an empty directory, chrooted to that directory, ran quickpkg on some of the packages I've been trying to re-emerge, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system crumbling, reports of gcc death

2006-06-14 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/14/06, Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote: checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler (gcc -O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mfpmath=sse -msse2 -mmmx -fPIC -Wl,-O1 -ldl-Wl,-O1) works... no configure: error: installation or

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system crumbling, reports of gcc death

2006-06-14 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/13/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/13/06, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Start digging. It completed just fine. Ok, do this and send me the result. # emerge --debug =dev-libs/glib-1.2.10-r5 ~/glib-merge.txt 21 -Richard PS. Please post further replies in

Re: [gentoo-user] broken libraries but library-linking is consistent ;-)

2006-06-14 Thread Norman Rieß
Neil Bothwick schrieb: These files are owned by nothing and used by nothing. all they do is take up a small amount of disk space. They won't start to think for themselves unless you have skynet in your USE flags. No, but my flags contain USE=hive-mind. Any problems with that? --

Re: [gentoo-user] broken libraries but library-linking is consistent ;-)

2006-06-14 Thread Rumen Yotov
Norman Rieß wrote: Hi according to revdep-rebuild, quite a few libraries on my system are broken. But at the end of revdep-rebuild, it tells me, my system was consistent. I think some libraries are really broken, because the sound of my vlc player stutters sometimes lately. I had some

Re: [gentoo-user] gamin

2006-06-14 Thread Arnau Bria
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 22:26:44 +0200 Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Arnau Bria wrote: That's it! kdelibs! I can't figure why equery does not show it... It appears to have been fixed in gentoolkit-0.2.2. After a sync and an upgrade: $ equery depends fam [ Searching for

Re: [gentoo-user] how does a pipe work? Which process wait for which one, or they don't actually wait each other?

2006-06-14 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 14 June 2006 14:12, 张韡武 wrote: Hello. This might be OT but I am pretty interested in this and being unlucky not able to find a real in-depth explanation of pipe on the Internet. How does pipe actually work? I mean, when there is a pipe like this: $ appA | appB What happen if appA

Re: [gentoo-user] Use and removal of binary packages

2006-06-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 07:42:43 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: treat dev-libs # emerge -avk =glib-1.2.10-r5 These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies - emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy virtual/glibc. (dependency required by

Re: [gentoo-user] broken libraries but library-linking is consistent ;-)

2006-06-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 17:25:11 +0200, Norman Rieß wrote: No, but my flags contain USE=hive-mind. Any problems with that? Not if you're a Windows user ;-) -- Neil Bothwick I will always cherish the initial misconceptions I had about you. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] Re: gamin

2006-06-14 Thread Caster
This morning I noticed that gam_server was eating 80 90% of cpu... I'm trying to find who installed gamin in my system, the dependency, but I found nothing... ('equery depends gamin' shows nothing, with -a, equery breaks)Got inotify enabled in your kernel? See

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system crumbling, reports of gcc death

2006-06-14 Thread Richard Fish
On 6/14/06, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Done. Results attached. Sorry about the HTML. I hadn't noticed it was turned on. And I generally oppose HTML mail. Hmm, the problem first shows up here: + append-ldflags -ldl + [[ -z -ldl ]] + export 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O1 -ldl' +

Re: [gentoo-user] Use and removal of binary packages

2006-06-14 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/14/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 07:42:43 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: treat dev-libs # emerge -avk =glib-1.2.10-r5 These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies - emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy

Re: [gentoo-user] how does a pipe work? Which process wait for which one, or they don't actually wait each other?

2006-06-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 14 June 2006 08:12, 张韡武 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] how does a pipe work? Which process wait for which one, or they don't actually wait each other?': How does pipe actually work? I mean, when there is a pipe like this: $ appA | appB What happen if appA produced

Re: [gentoo-user] broken libraries but library-linking is consistent ;-)

2006-06-14 Thread Richard Fish
On 6/14/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: up a small amount of disk space. They won't start to think for themselves unless you have skynet in your USE flags. Damn, and I was _so_ hoping that was really a valid USE flag! :- That would have to be the coolest flag ever...we must find an

Re: [gentoo-user] a star-map wallpaper?

2006-06-14 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le mercredi 14 juin 2006 à 17:30 +0800, 张 韡武 a écrit : Hello. Sorry for my English if there is a more correct way of saying Star map. By Star Map I mean something that shows the position of starts, as well as brightness. The more like photo, the better. I think the keyword to google at is

Re: [gentoo-user] broken libraries but library-linking is consistent ;-)

2006-06-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 09:39:51 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: Damn, and I was _so_ hoping that was really a valid USE flag! :- That would have to be the coolest flag ever... Nah! The coolest, froopiest ever would be USE=towel :) -- Neil Bothwick I'd prefer the non-smoking lifeboat, please.

Re: [gentoo-user] a star-map wallpaper?

2006-06-14 Thread Roy Wright
Devon Miller wrote: KStars (http://edu.kde.org/kstars/) has a command line mode for image generation. It should not be difficult to script that to generate an image, then set it as the background. dcm You can do the scripting using DCOP to change the background. Here's an intro:

Re: [gentoo-user] a star-map wallpaper?

2006-06-14 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 05:30:04PM +0800, Penguin Lover ??? ?? squawked: Hello. Sorry for my English if there is a more correct way of saying Star map. By Star Map I mean something that shows the position of starts, as well as brightness. The more like photo, the better. The word you are

Re: [gentoo-user] a star-map wallpaper?

2006-06-14 Thread b.n.
Devon Miller wrote: KStars (http://edu.kde.org/kstars/) has a command line mode for image generation. It should not be difficult to script that to generate an image, then set it as the background. I always hoped for Celestia to have this functionality. It would be wonderful to follow, let's

[gentoo-user] webcam problem

2006-06-14 Thread Biru Ionut
I use for my webcam the latest spca5xx driver. everything work well until i want to test my webcam. When i try this thing mplayer tv:// -tv driver=v4l:width=352:height=288:outfmt=rgb24:device=/dev/video0:noaudio -flip 91 audio 208 video codecs Playing tv://. Selected driver: v4l name:

[gentoo-user] Re: a star-map wallpaper?

2006-06-14 Thread Mick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roy Wright wrote: Devon Miller wrote: KStars (http://edu.kde.org/kstars/) has a command line mode for image generation. It should not be difficult to script that to generate an image, then set it as the background. dcm You can do the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gamin

2006-06-14 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Caster wrote: [and snipped an attribution] Equery should detect that gamin provides a virtual, and then check for the dependents of that. Are you any good at Python? :) You don't need. [...] Seems there is a bug... but kinda dead - http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101420 Sure.

[gentoo-user] google earth 4- beta

2006-06-14 Thread Matthew R. Lee
I've just tried to install google earth and got the following: Calculating dependencies ... done! Emerging (1 of 1) x11-misc/googleearth-4_beta to / checking ebuild checksums ;-) checking auxfile checksums ;-) checking miscfile checksums ;-) checking GoogleEarthLinux.bin ;-) Unpacking

[gentoo-user] gcc upgrade and Portage questions

2006-06-14 Thread Jesse Hannah
1. Has anyone noticed if programs compiled with the latest gcc (4.1.1, I believe) are any faster than those compiled with 3.4.6-r1? Also, is there any difference in the required time to compile? Any other issues I should know about with upgrading from 3.4.6-r1 to 4.1.1? (I use a pre-Prescott P4

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Gentoo Sweatshirts

2006-06-14 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 20:37 -0500, Teresa and Dale wrote: Ow Mun Heng wrote: Hi guys, Am here in the US. Would like to purchase a Gentoo Branded sweatshirt. There's one I found on Cafepress @29.99 which is hooded. Anyone knows of one which does not have a hood? Preferably

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc upgrade and Portage questions

2006-06-14 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 6/14/06, Jesse Hannah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Has anyone noticed if programs compiled with the latest gcc (4.1.1, I believe) are any faster than those compiled with 3.4.6-r1? Also, is there any difference in the required time to compile? Any other issues I should know about with upgrading

[gentoo-user] splitdebug

2006-06-14 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
If I want to take full advantage of the new splitdebug feature. Should I then emerge -e world? I don't think the backtraces doc [1] answers that. [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/backtraces.xml -- Bo Andresen pgpvq828oGjCZ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] splitdebug

2006-06-14 Thread Richard Fish
On 6/14/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I want to take full advantage of the new splitdebug feature. Should I then emerge -e world? I don't think the backtraces doc [1] answers that. For full advantage, yes, you would need to emerge -e world, since otherwise the debugging

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc upgrade and Portage questions

2006-06-14 Thread Richard Fish
On 6/14/06, Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/14/06, Jesse Hannah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. If I want to upgrade and rebuild my entire system (using a new gcc), is: emerge -u gcc emerge -e world the right thing to do? Am I missing anything there?

Re: [gentoo-user] splitdebug

2006-06-14 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 14 June 2006 23:28, Richard Fish wrote: For full advantage, yes, you would need to emerge -e world, since otherwise the debugging information will only be generated for new merges.  And of course, any binary packages won't get debug symbols in any case. Thanks. Good to know.

Re: [gentoo-user] really annoying boxes in firefox and evolution

2006-06-14 Thread Mick
On 14/06/06, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the suggestion, unfortunately different encodings didn't make much difference. However, I did notice this when I started firefox from the command line: $ firefox No running windows found Warning: Cannot convert string

Re: [gentoo-user] grub + pxeboot

2006-06-14 Thread Mike Huber
Awesome tidbit, I'll be sure to file that one away. Also, if you're configuring for a netboot, the definitive place to look is in the kernel tree itself. I would especially recommend Documentation/initrd.txt, which is great for netbooting something that's not going to be a diskless thinclient.

[gentoo-user] no prompt for password

2006-06-14 Thread Sean
Just built a system and all was going great, first time I have tried Linux in a very long time. After finishing up the build all worked fine till I was trying to get sound in place, followed the instructions for alsa in the handbook. Anyway, finished up, restarted the system, and now the

[gentoo-user] mounting cdrom during boot

2006-06-14 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
Everytime I boot my system I see this message: == /dev/cdrom: open failed: No medium found == Everytime I shut down my system I see these (those two lines were repeated 23 times during last shutdown):

Re: [gentoo-user] no prompt for password

2006-06-14 Thread James Ausmus
On 6/14/06, Sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just built a system and all was going great, first time I have tried Linux in a very long time. After finishing up the build all worked fine till I was trying to get sound in place, followed the instructions for alsa in the handbook. Anyway, finished

Re: [gentoo-user] mounting cdrom during boot

2006-06-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 01:18:34 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: /dev/cdrom: open failed: No medium found Attempt to close device: '/dev/cdrom' which is not open. /dev/cdrom: open failed: No medium found Attempt to close device: '/dev/cdrom' which is not open. Are you using LVM? -- Neil

Re: [gentoo-user] mounting cdrom during boot

2006-06-14 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 15 June 2006 01:31, Neil Bothwick wrote: Are you using LVM? Sure. So it's because of this? # grep ^\ *filter /etc/lvm/lvm.conf filter = [ a/.*/ ] Thanks for the pointer. I forgot to change that when I reinstalled after my old

Re: [gentoo-user] no prompt for password

2006-06-14 Thread Sean
James Ausmus wrote: On 6/14/06, Sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just built a system and all was going great, first time I have tried Linux in a very long time. After finishing up the build all worked fine till I was trying to get sound in place, followed the instructions for alsa in the handbook.

Re: [gentoo-user] splitdebug

2006-06-14 Thread Richard Fish
On 6/14/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Like this: # emerge -ep kontact kmail knode akregator | awk '$1~/ebuild/{print $4}' | \ sed -e 's/\-[0-9][A-Za-z0-9._-]*$//' | grep lib | xargs emerge -vp This will merge all of system. I was thinking more like: ldd `which

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system crumbling, reports of gcc death

2006-06-14 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/14/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/14/06, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Done. Results attached. Sorry about the HTML. I hadn't noticed it was turned on. And I generally oppose HTML mail. Hmm, the problem first shows up here: + append-ldflags -ldl + [[ -z

Re: [gentoo-user] no prompt for password

2006-06-14 Thread James Ausmus
No problem- May have just been a /etc/pam.d/* file that hadn't updated properly in the first emerge of shadow. Enjoy your new system (and Welcome to Gentoo, it sounds like!) :) -James On 6/14/06, Sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James Ausmus wrote: On 6/14/06, Sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] splitdebug

2006-06-14 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 15 June 2006 02:01, Richard Fish wrote: I was thinking more like: ldd `which kontact kmail knode akregator` | grep '=' | awk '{print $3}' \     | sort | uniq | xargs equery belongs | grep '/' | sort | uniq \     | xargs printf =%s\n | xargs emerge -p --oneshot (Ok people, have

Re: [gentoo-user] splitdebug

2006-06-14 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
Just in case others are interested I ended out with this script: === #/bin/bash for arg in $@; do if [[ ${arg} =~ ^\- ]]; then EMERGE_ARGS=${EMERGE_ARGS} ${arg} else BINARIES=${BINARIES} ${arg} fi

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system crumbling, reports of gcc death

2006-06-14 Thread Richard Fish
On 6/14/06, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would guess you're out of ideas then, except in desperation, I tried looking for just part of that: -W1 and came up with some stuff I hope will further inspire you: Nope, all of that is normal... But before you go breaking a braincell on

Re: [gentoo-user] splitdebug

2006-06-14 Thread Richard Fish
On 6/14/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just in case others are interested I ended out with this script: Very nice! -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] nvidia and kernel support

2006-06-14 Thread Sean
Trying to setup my system to support my nvidia vid card. Per instructions I am supposed to enable agpgart in the kernel, which is under device drivers--- character devices--- --- /dev/agpgart (agp support) As you can see above my system does not allow anything to be done for

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia and kernel support

2006-06-14 Thread Sean
Sean wrote: Trying to setup my system to support my nvidia vid card. Per instructions I am supposed to enable agpgart in the kernel, which is under device drivers--- character devices--- --- /dev/agpgart (agp support) As you can see above my system does not allow anything to be done

Re: [gentoo-user] no prompt for password

2006-06-14 Thread Sean
James Ausmus wrote: No problem- May have just been a /etc/pam.d/* file that hadn't updated properly in the first emerge of shadow. Enjoy your new system (and Welcome to Gentoo, it sounds like!) :) -James Thanks, looking forward to trying it out. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia and kernel support

2006-06-14 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 15 June 2006 04:24, Sean wrote: Trying to setup my system to support my nvidia vid card. Per instructions I am supposed to enable agpgart in the kernel, which is under device drivers--- character devices--- --- /dev/agpgart (agp support) As you can see above my

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia and kernel support

2006-06-14 Thread Sean
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Thursday 15 June 2006 04:24, Sean wrote: Trying to setup my system to support my nvidia vid card. Per instructions I am supposed to enable agpgart in the kernel, which is under device drivers--- character devices--- --- /dev/agpgart (agp support)

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia and kernel support

2006-06-14 Thread Norberto Bensa
Sean wrote: How do I enable this in the kernel towards getting my nvidia card working? --- means it's enabled (another part of your kernel wants it built-in) Additional, when I run the glxinfo | grep direct, the reponse I get is Error: unable to open display (null) You need to run

Re: [gentoo-user] mounting cdrom during boot

2006-06-14 Thread Norberto Bensa
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Thursday 15 June 2006 01:31, Neil Bothwick wrote: Are you using LVM? Sure. So it's because of this? Yup. Remove the cdrom and then: # lvchange -a y -- Norberto Bensa Cel: 011-5654-9539 Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina pgpISnWleCM4m.pgp Description: PGP

[gentoo-user] Error on login: *** glibc detected *** double free or corruption...

2006-06-14 Thread Rennie deGraaf
A few minutes ago, I discovered that I can't log into my firewall If I try SSH from inside, it gives me my login banner and immediately disconnects, without prompting for a password. This suggested to me that when trying to clean up the mess left by upgrading the shadow package yesterday (and

Re: [gentoo-user] really annoying boxes in firefox and evolution

2006-06-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 22:21 +, Mick wrote: On 14/06/06, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the suggestion, unfortunately different encodings didn't make much difference. However, I did notice this when I started firefox from the command line: $ firefox No running

Re: [gentoo-user] Typesetting systems

2006-06-14 Thread Vladimir G. Ivanovic
On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 22:25 -0600, Justin R Findlay wrote: LaTeX is awesome if you're not going to be diverging from the builtin document layout styles too much. If you are then you're likely going to be editing raw TeX to get things done, I don't agree. The LaTeX Companion[1] documents

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia and kernel support

2006-06-14 Thread Daniel Iliev
As Mr. Norberto Bensa wrote: --- means it's enabled (another part of your kernel wants it built-in) Additionally the help about this feature reads: #9474; Symbol: AGP [=n] #9474; Prompt: /dev/agpgart (AGP Support) #9474; Defined at drivers/char/agp/Kconfig:1 #9474; Depends on:

[gentoo-user] Explore2fs and Gentoo

2006-06-14 Thread Leandro Melo de Sales
Hi, in my laptop I use linux and windows. Sometimes when I'm using windows I need to access data from my linux ext3 partition. So I tried to use Explore2fs application. It detects my two ext3 (hda3 and hda4) partitions, but when I click to explore the hda3 partition (root partition) I got the