[gentoo-ppc-user] newbie help with emerge --update --deep --newuse world

2006-08-02 Thread Daryl P. Williams
dear gentoo people, i am trying to migrate to gentoo ppc64 from osx tiger. unfortunately i have run myself into some problems, probably due to my own newbiness and unfamiliarity's with gentoo. i was trying to do a: emerge --update --deep --newuse world as described in the gentoo handbook.

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] newbie help with emerge --update --deep --newuse world

2006-08-02 Thread David B?langer
Hi Daryl, The builds fail. Could be a bug in Gentoo, a misconfiguration, etc. I do not have the answer of what is going on wrong in this case, maybe someone else will know. I will do the following suggestions though. 1) Remove ~ppc64 from your keywords or try the glibc marked stable (ppc64).

[gentoo-user] Re: Start printer automatically

2006-08-02 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Tuesday 01 August 2006 19:24, Grant wrote: How can I keep from having to manually start my printer in CUPS every so often? Does the printer silently go offline? Sometimes a document contains an error and CUPS set the printer off-line. Raise CUPS log level and check the logs. Maybe there's

[gentoo-user] gentoo linux in hp proliant DL 360

2006-08-02 Thread Shain Lee
hi , I have a hp proliant DL 360 server. actually i tried to install RedHat linux 9 and fedora core 5 . Those Os's are giving me major problems . But RedHat linux 9 , some extend it's good . I could manage to install . Actually , i would like to ask you guys , whether gentoo linux can we instal

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo linux in hp proliant DL 360

2006-08-02 Thread kashani
Shain Lee wrote: hi , I have a hp proliant DL 360 server. actually i tried to install RedHat linux 9 and fedora core 5 . Those Os's are giving me major problems . But RedHat linux 9 , some extend it's good . I could manage to install . Actually , i would like to ask you guys , whether gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo linux in hp proliant DL 360

2006-08-02 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 02 August 2006 08:16, Shain Lee wrote: hi , I have a hp proliant DL 360 server. actually i tried to install RedHat linux 9 and fedora core 5 . Those Os's are giving me major problems . But RedHat linux 9 , some extend it's good . I could manage to install . Actually , i would like to

[gentoo-user] memory leak with gtk+-2.8.20-r1

2006-08-02 Thread gwe
Hello, I use gtk+ for my soft's graphic interface. But valgrind make an log file containing approximately 22700 lines for an simple source code like : #include gtk/gtk.h int main(int argc, char **argv) { gtk_init(argc, argv); GtkWidget *win= gtk_window_new(GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL);

[gentoo-user] memory leak with gtk+-2.8.20-r1

2006-08-02 Thread gwe
Hello, I use gtk+ for my soft's graphic interface. But valgrind make an log file containing approximately 22700 lines for an simple source code like : #include gtk/gtk.h int main(int argc, char **argv) { gtk_init(argc, argv); GtkWidget *win= gtk_window_new(GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL);

Re: [gentoo-user] memory leak with gtk+-2.8.20-r1

2006-08-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 12:58:33 +0200 gwe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Someone has the same problem or an solution to solve this leak of memory? Thank you very much. You should at least describe the problem you have. You're just describing the things you've tried to nail it down, but what are

Re: [gentoo-user] memory leak with gtk+-2.8.20-r1

2006-08-02 Thread gwe
Le Wed, 02 Aug 2006 13:20:07 +0200, Hans-Werner Hilse a écrit : Hi, On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 12:58:33 +0200 gwe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Someone has the same problem or an solution to solve this leak of memory? Thank you very much. You should at least describe the problem you have. You're

[gentoo-user] driver for wireless pcmcia card ?

2006-08-02 Thread Ptitjack
Hi all, I have just one question : Do you know a driver for the Dexlan 54 Mbps 802.11G wireless pcmcia card ? After a lot of Googling, I have not found anything :-( My config AMD Athlon 1.2 MHz 512Mo gentoo-sources-2.6.17-r4 Thanks a lot for your help. Cheers, Ptitjack --

[gentoo-user] print to PDF within Firefox

2006-08-02 Thread Cláudio Henrique
I can't remember wich, but an old version of firefox allowed me to print to PDF. how do I do this in this new one (1.5)? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] print to PDF within Firefox

2006-08-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 2 Aug 2006 09:54:42 -0300 Cláudio Henrique [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't remember wich, but an old version of firefox allowed me to print to PDF. how do I do this in this new one (1.5)? Firefox was probably compiled with XPrint support. The USE flag xprint should do this. At

Re: [gentoo-user] print to PDF within Firefox

2006-08-02 Thread Boris Fersing
2006/8/2, Cláudio Henrique [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I can't remember wich, but an old version of firefox allowed me to print to PDF. how do I do this in this new one (1.5)? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Print what you want in a file (Postscript) and convert it with ps2pdf ... I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] driver for wireless pcmcia card ?

2006-08-02 Thread Uwe Klosa
Did you try the madwifi-ng driver. There are a lot of cards which are based on the Atheros chipset. What does does lspci -v show? Cheers Uwe Ptitjack wrote: Hi all, I have just one question : Do you know a driver for the Dexlan 54 Mbps 802.11G wireless pcmcia card ? After a lot of

Re: [gentoo-user] memory leak with gtk+-2.8.20-r1

2006-08-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 13:49:04 +0200 gwe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sorry I post only the end of log file of valgrind (the entire file is very big ~22500 lines). This is the result of execute the source code : ==13767== LEAK SUMMARY: ==13767==definitely lost: 36 bytes in 1 blocks.

[gentoo-user] A couple questions

2006-08-02 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
Hi Folks: I have a couple things that I am working on and I could use some help: 1. VPN I have a VPN set up on my pix firewall, its using the MS-CHAPP protocol (it's a PIX501) I need to set up a good (easy to use) VPN Client for my gentoo laptop 2. Backup I have Backup Exec 10 from Veritas,

Re: [gentoo-user] memory leak with gtk+-2.8.20-r1

2006-08-02 Thread Randy Barlow
gwe wrote: Hello, I use gtk+ for my soft's graphic interface. But valgrind make an log file containing approximately 22700 lines for an simple source code like : #include gtk/gtk.h int main(int argc, char **argv) { gtk_init(argc, argv); GtkWidget *win=

Re: [gentoo-user] memory leak with gtk+-2.8.20-r1

2006-08-02 Thread Randy Barlow
Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hi, On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 13:49:04 +0200 gwe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sorry I post only the end of log file of valgrind (the entire file is very big ~22500 lines). This is the result of execute the source code : ==13767== LEAK SUMMARY: ==13767==definitely lost:

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers and revdep-rebuild problems

2006-08-02 Thread billyd
On Monday 24 July 2006 00:41, Philip Webb wrote: 060723 billydw wrote: I am pretty much a Gentoo newbie, but less so with linux. I have successfully installed Gentoo 2006.0 from the Universal Install CD (amd64 arch). I have Xorg-x11 7.0 emerged and I think configured correctly -

[gentoo-user] How to determine what ethernet is doing

2006-08-02 Thread reader
How to learn what ethernet connections are passing and how they are setup? I haven't had to do something like this for quite a while and have forgotten how to go about it. I have two ethernet adaptors but using only one, a gigabit ethernet card. I want to determine if it is actually passing a

Re: [gentoo-user] memory leak with gtk+-2.8.20-r1

2006-08-02 Thread gwe
Le Wed, 02 Aug 2006 17:30:10 +0200, Randy Barlow a écrit : Ah yes, I wasn't aware that there was a function for this. You should definitely use this in place of the delete statement because it will do deeper cleaning. the GTK Api said gtk_exit is deprecated and should not be used. In

Re: [gentoo-user] How to determine what ethernet is doing

2006-08-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 10:51:32 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How to learn what ethernet connections are passing and how they are setup? bmon shows throughput, ethtool show negotiated speed, full/half duplex etc. Both are in portage -- Neil Bothwick What if there were no hypothetical

Re: [gentoo-user] memory leak with gtk+-2.8.20-r1

2006-08-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 18:14:02 +0200 gwe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah yes, I wasn't aware that there was a function for this. You should definitely use this in place of the delete statement because it will do deeper cleaning. the GTK Api said gtk_exit is deprecated and should not be

Re: [gentoo-user] A couple questions

2006-08-02 Thread Michael Crute
On 8/2/06, Timothy A. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a couple things that I am working on and I could use some help: 1. VPN http://gentoo-portage.com/Search?search=vpn 2. Backup http://gentoo-portage.com/app-backup 3. Work Log

RE: [gentoo-user] A couple questions

2006-08-02 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
On 8/2/06, Timothy A. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a couple things that I am working on and I could use some help: 1. VPN http://gentoo-portage.com/Search?search=vpn 2. Backup http://gentoo-portage.com/app-backup 3. Work Log

Re: [gentoo-user] A couple questions

2006-08-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 2 Aug 2006 13:27:47 -0400, Michael Crute wrote: Google and Gentoo-Portage are your friend... please use them! Personal recommendation is better. When someone asks for a good program to do XYZ, searching google/freshmeat/portage only tells them what is available, not whether it is worth

[gentoo-user] Authentication Issues

2006-08-02 Thread Kris Kerwin
Hi all, I just performed a new Gentoo install, and am having a couple of issues regarding authentication. I think that the problem is something to do with PAM/Shadow. (No ... it's not the blocking issue between pam-login and shadow). I run a single user system with just users for myself

[gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild alternatives?

2006-08-02 Thread James
Hello, What are the sanctioned and experimental alternatives to revdep-rebuild. tia, James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild alternatives?

2006-08-02 Thread Paul Varner
On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 18:18 +, James wrote: What are the sanctioned and experimental alternatives to revdep-rebuild. There are no sanctioned alternatives. An experimental alternative that you can look at is udept written by Ed Catmur. You can download an ebuild for use in your overlay at

[gentoo-user] Re: How to determine what ethernet is doing

2006-08-02 Thread James
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: How to learn what ethernet connections are passing and how they are setup? /etc/conf.d/net shows configurations are using /etc/conf/net.examples shows the possibilities. netstat -nr shows your routing cat /proc/net/ip_conntrack to see

[gentoo-user] Re: revdep-rebuild alternatives?

2006-08-02 Thread James
Paul Varner fuzzyray at gentoo.org writes: What are the sanctioned and experimental alternatives to revdep-rebuild. There are no sanctioned alternatives. An experimental alternative that you can look at is udept written by Ed Catmur. You can download an ebuild for use in your overlay

[gentoo-user] Re: How to become root on 2006.0

2006-08-02 Thread james
frank sdoma at karneval.cz writes: How to become root on 2006.0 sudo su 2006.1 should be released any day now: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/release/2006.1/2006.1.xml hth, James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] launching iptables

2006-08-02 Thread James
Hello, I've got my own iptables script to launch a customized firewall, located in /usr/local/bin. I'm aware of /etc/init.d/iptables the 'runscipt'. I do not wish to edit this scipt as 'gentoo' updates nuke my edits therein. Where is the gentoo place of preference to launch my scipt after the

Re: [gentoo-user] launching iptables

2006-08-02 Thread Alexander Kirillov
I've got my own iptables script to launch a customized firewall, located in /usr/local/bin. I'm aware of /etc/init.d/iptables the 'runscipt'. I do not wish to edit this scipt as 'gentoo' updates nuke my edits therein. Where is the gentoo place of preference to launch my scipt after the gentoo

[gentoo-user] Re: launching iptables

2006-08-02 Thread James
Alexander Kirillov nevis2us at infoline.su writes: Is their a way to get 'rc-update add my_firewall default' to launch my_firewall without putting it in the /etc/init.d/ dir and using the runscipt template for my script? thoughts, suggestions and examples are most welcome. Keep your

Re: [gentoo-user] launching iptables

2006-08-02 Thread Jerry McBride
On Wednesday 02 August 2006 16:41, James wrote: Hello, I've got my own iptables script to launch a customized firewall, located in /usr/local/bin. I'm aware of /etc/init.d/iptables the 'runscipt'. I do not wish to edit this scipt as 'gentoo' updates nuke my edits therein. Where is the

Re: [gentoo-user] launching iptables

2006-08-02 Thread Donnie Berkholz
James wrote: I'm aware of /etc/init.d/iptables the 'runscipt'. I do not wish to edit this scipt as 'gentoo' updates nuke my edits therein. Where is the gentoo place of preference to launch my scipt after the gentoo runscipt '/etc/init.d/iptables' is finished running? Is their a way to get

Re: [gentoo-user] Xawtv/Scantv refuses cooperation

2006-08-02 Thread Bertram Scharpf
Hi, Am Mittwoch, 02. Aug 2006, 00:04:52 +0200 schrieb Hemmann, Volker Armin: On Monday 31 July 2006 21:07, Bertram Scharpf wrote: # scantv [...] vbi: open failed [/dev/vbi] open /dev/vbi: Invalid argument # # dd if=/dev/vbi bs=8 count=1 | od -x 1+0 records in

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the release date for 2006.1?

2006-08-02 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/2/06, Jerônimo Backes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think everybody is clueless, like me... What is the release date for 2006.1? When it's ready, of course! I would also like to know what are the new features. Can someone point me a link? (I googled for that information and found

Re: [gentoo-user] launching iptables

2006-08-02 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/2/06, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've got my own iptables script to launch a customized firewall, located in /usr/local/bin. I'm aware of /etc/init.d/iptables the 'runscipt'. I do not wish to edit this scipt as 'gentoo' updates nuke my edits therein. Where is the gentoo place

Re: [gentoo-user] launching iptables

2006-08-02 Thread dg
On Thursday 03 August 2006 00:41, James wrote: Hello, I've got my own iptables script to launch a customized firewall, located in /usr/local/bin. I'm aware of /etc/init.d/iptables the 'runscipt'. I do not wish to edit this scipt as 'gentoo' updates nuke my edits therein. Where is the

Re: [gentoo-user] LiveCD 2006

2006-08-02 Thread Stephen
On Wednesday 02 August 2006 16:28, frank wrote: Booting from the Gentoo liveCD 2006 puts my clock back for 2 hours. Did you set the date? You need to set that with the date command. As mentioned in the handbook. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1chap=5#doc_chap1

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: launching iptables

2006-08-02 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 21:13 +, James wrote: Alexander Kirillov nevis2us at infoline.su writes: Is their a way to get 'rc-update add my_firewall default' to launch my_firewall without putting it in the /etc/init.d/ dir and using the runscipt template for my script?

Re: [gentoo-user] Xawtv/Scantv refuses cooperation

2006-08-02 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Wednesday 02 August 2006 23:37, Bertram Scharpf wrote: Hi, Am Mittwoch, 02. Aug 2006, 00:04:52 +0200 schrieb Hemmann, Volker Armin: On Monday 31 July 2006 21:07, Bertram Scharpf wrote: # scantv [...] vbi: open failed [/dev/vbi] open /dev/vbi: Invalid argument #

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the release date for 2006.1?

2006-08-02 Thread Justin R Findlay
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 02:38:49PM -0700, Richard Fish wrote: You can check the official project page for current status and goals of the release: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/release/2006.1/2006.1.xml So why should I bother manually changing the /etc/make.profile symlink? Does this

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the release date for 2006.1?

2006-08-02 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/2/06, Justin R Findlay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So why should I bother manually changing the /etc/make.profile symlink? Well the main reason is because profiles will disappear from portage after a certain amount of time, and you can't really run without a profile!! The main effects

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the release date for 2006.1?

2006-08-02 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/2/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does this link get moved when the release is ready? Changing the profile can sometimes cause a lot of updates, changes to use flags, features, etc, so no, it is not done automatically. Generally after changing the make.profile link, you will

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

2006-08-02 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi, I managed to get rid of the evolution font boxes, by specifying courier 10 pitch in the gnome font dialog, instead of courier new, for fixed-width fonts. However, courier 10-pitch looks a bit ugly... What's wrong with courier new, and why does it show boxes for spaces? the firefox font box

Re: [gentoo-user] xscreensaver new-login button

2006-08-02 Thread Grant
I've been reading that there is supposed to be a new-login button that appears on a locked screen if xscreensaver is compiled with +new-login. I've tried xscreensaver 4.24 and 5.00 both with +new-login, but neither displays a new-login button on the locked screen. This Debian bug describes

[gentoo-user] Firefox and Java

2006-08-02 Thread Grant
How can I get Java applets working in Firefox? I have java in make.conf. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2006-08-02 Thread Iain Buchanan
I just discovered something else: when I click in a text box in java in firefox, I get this message on the terminal: Warning: Name: textfield Class: XmTextField Character '\61' not supported in font. Discarded. what does that mean? is it related? thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at

[gentoo-user] Re: How to determine what ethernet is doing

2006-08-02 Thread reader
James [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: cat /proc/net/ip_conntrack to see connections I must need something installed: cat: /proc/net/ip_conntrack: No such file or director -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: launching iptables

2006-08-02 Thread James
dg dg at kaboom.spb.ru writes: Just run your script once, then do /etc/init.d/iptables save /etc/init.d/iptables start rc-update add iptables default ... and it will load your rules and start firewall automatically. Wow, lots of responses. I got the script launching

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to determine what ethernet is doing

2006-08-02 Thread Ryan Tandy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: cat /proc/net/ip_conntrack to see connections I must need something installed: cat: /proc/net/ip_conntrack: No such file or director CONFIG_IP_NF_CONNTRACK -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: launching iptables

2006-08-02 Thread Dale
James wrote: dg dg at kaboom.spb.ru writes: Just run your script once, then do /etc/init.d/iptables save /etc/init.d/iptables start rc-update add iptables default ... and it will load your rules and start firewall automatically. Wow, lots

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox and Java

2006-08-02 Thread Andrew
The Java+Firefox wiki page should help get you started, have you tried that yet?On 8/2/06, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:How can I get Java applets working in Firefox?I have java in make.conf.- Grant--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the release date for 2006.1?

2006-08-02 Thread Justin R Findlay
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 05:40:17PM -0700, Richard Fish wrote: Well the main reason is because profiles will disappear from portage after a certain amount of time, and you can't really run without a profile!! Right, but I still don't understand why it doesn't auto update when it's ready,