[gentoo-user] Is there really no way to search http://packages.gentoo.org ?!

2008-03-03 Thread Daevid Vincent
Am I completely retarded or is this broken? http://packages.gentoo.org/ There USED to be a way to search packages. I don't see such a feature anymore? I tried it in both IE6 and FF2 just in case. :( -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Upgraded kernel from .17 to .23 and all sorts of broken things... (nvidia, splash, iptables)

2008-03-03 Thread Daevid Vincent
I had to upgrade my kernel from linux-2.6.17-gentoo-r8 to linux-2.6.23-gentoo-r9 Now all sorts of things are broken. First and foremost, I used to use: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.8776-r1 But I can't re-emerge that now -- it's gone!? WTF!? [I] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers Available

RE: [gentoo-user] [Probably off-topic] How do I find out what is consuming the bandwidth?

2008-03-04 Thread Daevid Vincent
Drew Tomlinson. One bug that I notice though, is that I run several vhosts, and when I hit some of the web sites, they all show up as the same domain name. For example, I go to hit http://daevid.com and it shows up in the list as http://anotherdomain.com :-| Daevid Vincent Lockdown Networks: Real

[gentoo-user] How do I get the x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.8776-r1 back?

2008-03-04 Thread Daevid Vincent
-Original Message- From: Daevid Vincent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 8:23 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Upgraded kernel from .17 to .23 and all sorts of broken things... (nvidia, splash, iptables) I had to upgrade my kernel

RE: [gentoo-user] How do I get the x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.8776-r1 back?

2008-03-04 Thread Daevid Vincent
Lover Daevid Vincent squawked: So this page finally loaded today: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Video_Card_Support_Under_XGL#nVidia And it says: Please do as you are told and read the OFFICIAL gentoo website? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml Which clearly states

RE: [gentoo-user] How do I get the x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.8776-r1 back?

2008-03-04 Thread Daevid Vincent
I emerge again, and it gives me 96.43.05. Now when I start X, I have a blank/black screen. This driver is NOT working with my card. Okay I followed the Wiki as instructed to the letter. Same EXACT problem. It all seems to go fine, but I get a black screen when X starts. Not like a

RE: [gentoo-user] How do I get the x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.8776-r1 back? [SOLVED]

2008-03-06 Thread Daevid Vincent
back? Hi, On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 4:05 AM, Daevid Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I emerge again, and it gives me 96.43.05. Now when I start X, I have a blank/black screen. This driver is NOT working with my card. Okay I followed the Wiki as instructed to the letter

[gentoo-user] The device-mapper init script is written for baselayout-2

2008-03-06 Thread Daevid Vincent
I've noticed this for quite some time and I'm finally getting around to fixing it, if it even needs to be fixed... When I startup my notebook, I see this message: * The device-mapper init script is written for baselayout-2 * Please do not use it with baselayout-1 locutus ~ # eix baselayout

RE: [gentoo-user] [OT vmware] Networking Gentoo as guest on vista

2008-05-02 Thread Daevid Vincent
-Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2008 7:12 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] [OT vmware] Networking Gentoo as guest on vista I'm hoping some of you here have run gentoo on a

[gentoo-user] engineyard.com loves Gentoo

2007-08-03 Thread Daevid Vincent
My good friend Evan Phoenix -- famous for inventing http://rubini.us -- started working for this company http://www.engineyard.com. I noticed this little movie on their front page: http://qualityhumans.com/images/tom_ezra_gentoo.mov I guess all the slices they give to customers are Gentoo

[gentoo-user] apache won't start due to libexpat

2007-08-20 Thread Daevid Vincent
I've been struggling for a few hours with this... daevid ~ # /etc/init.d/apache2 start * Apache2 has detected a syntax error in your configuration files: /usr/sbin/apache2: error while loading shared libraries: libexpat.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I've done

RE: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

2007-09-13 Thread Daevid Vincent
-Original Message- From: Mark Knecht [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 4:37 PM I've been messing with a standard x86, middle of the road Gentoo machine for over two days now. There must be 20 or 30 packages that won't build. Frustrating. Most of the

[gentoo-user] root can't login on console, but can ssh...

2007-09-13 Thread Daevid Vincent
: Daevid Vincent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 3:47 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] root can't login on console, but can ssh... I have a LAMP development VMWare setup so that I can login as root sans password. This was working fine until something

RE: [gentoo-user] root can't login on console, but can ssh...

2007-09-14 Thread Daevid Vincent
_ From: Mark Shields [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 10:07 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] root can't login on console, but can ssh... On 9/13/07, Daevid Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've posted this about two months

[gentoo-user] hostapd stopped working after reboot

2007-09-19 Thread Daevid Vincent
hostapd (0.4.9) stopped working today on my Gentoo server... daevid ~ # /etc/init.d/hostapd restart * Starting hostapd ... Configuration file: /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf ioctl(SIOCGIFINDEX): No such device hostap driver initialization failed. rmdir[ctrl_interface]: No such file or directory This

[gentoo-user] apache2 2.2.x fails to start due to mod_dav_svn.so

2007-09-19 Thread Daevid Vincent
Apache was working fine in 2.0.58, then an emerge world forced an update of apache2 to 2.2.4, now after a reboot, apache won't start! What's the point of running a 'stable' Gentoo system if it just keeps breaking things??! *sigh* It fails on 2.2.4 so I tried 2.2.6 (as it's marked stable too,

RE: [gentoo-user] apache2 2.2.x fails to start due to mod_dav_svn.so

2007-09-19 Thread Daevid Vincent
- From: Daevid Vincent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 1:35 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] apache2 2.2.x fails to start due to mod_dav_svn.so Apache was working fine in 2.0.58, then an emerge world forced an update of apache2

RE: [gentoo-user] apache2 2.2.x fails to start due to mod_dav_svn.so

2007-09-20 Thread Daevid Vincent
forever for a package to actually be marked as such, you'd think it was worth the wait... ...now to figure out why hostapd is taking a crap on my face, ... Oh and why KDE is broken ... *sigh* -Original Message- From: Daevid Vincent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 19

RE: [gentoo-user] apache2 2.2.x fails to start due to mod_dav_svn.so

2007-09-20 Thread Daevid Vincent
, September 19, 2007 11:41 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] apache2 2.2.x fails to start due to mod_dav_svn.so On Thursday 20 September 2007 03:52:59 Daevid Vincent wrote: Seriously? Not a single other person has this issue but me? [Ignored] [...] Oh, so I

RE: [gentoo-user] continue emerge on failure

2007-09-20 Thread Daevid Vincent
mGlOmqARA9F3LM7gqNywopY= =SGKH -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list ---End Message--- ---BeginMessage--- On Wednesday 17 May 2006 20:47, Daevid Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'RE: [gentoo-user] New Portage browser': It should

RE: [gentoo-user] OT: howto setup vsftpd and virtual hosts by NAME not by IP

2007-09-26 Thread Daevid Vincent
-Original Message- From: Jarry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 12:24 PM Crayon Shin Chan wrote: You can't do virtual hosting using domain names in ftp I think wu-ftpd does support virtual ftp-hosting using domain-names. The only limitation

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Remerge the system with gcc-4.1?

2007-10-09 Thread Daevid Vincent
I've held off on doing this gcc update as I'm on an old P4 2Ghz notebook with 1G RAM (Dell i8200). Things are generally working okay (as well as any linux/gentoo system can be I guess). What is the compelling reason to update if any? I've masked out this new GCC for many months and have had no

[gentoo-user] OT: how do I kick a MAC address off my hostapd WiFi network?

2007-10-10 Thread Daevid Vincent
I have my WiFi network on a hostapd controlled 10.10.10.* range and my wired LAN on a 192.168.1.* range. I try to be a nice guy and leave the WiFi 'open' (no WEP) as it's segregated and I use some proper shorewall rules to route things nicely for my various privileged devices. Also, some WiFi

RE: [gentoo-user] OT: how do I kick a MAC address off my hostapd WiFi network?

2007-10-10 Thread Daevid Vincent
-Original Message- I was wondering what would happen if someone downloaded some music illegally or some child porn? How would you prove it was them and not you? Being a good neighbor is nice but you need to be careful for sure. Dunno. I suppose I'd show some logs from the DHCPd

[gentoo-user] OT: need text viewer with delete and multiple files

2005-12-12 Thread Daevid Vincent
After doing an emerge world (for example), I have a gazillion /var/log/portage-logs to wade through to see if I need to follow any further instructions (*sigh*) Is there any recommended text viewer/editor whereby I can easily step through the files (previous/next file), read .gz files, jump to

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Is there and Alternative to compiling kde?

2005-12-13 Thread Daevid Vincent
He should have been here when I installed Gentoo on a 200Mhz machine. He should have watched me compiling Apache, PHP, MySQL and a lot of other packages on my Pentium 100 with 48MB of RAM, what other distro could turn that machine on a useful server other than Gentoo. Keep the Yeah yeah

RE: [gentoo-user] OT: need text viewer with delete and multiple files

2005-12-13 Thread Daevid Vincent
Is there any recommended text viewer/editor whereby I can easily step through the files (previous/next file), read .gz files, jump to the end of a file, and most importantly, delete the current file? sys-apps/most started with +d. This looks interesting. A couple issues I notice..

RE: [gentoo-user] [OT] Recommended MySQL frontends

2005-12-13 Thread Daevid Vincent
If you have PHP/Apache installed, you might try phpMyAdmin. It's quite slick for a web GUI, and I often find it more convenient to load into a tab in my browser than yet another program. It's surprisingly simple and has most of the features I use and many that the dedicated apps are missing.

[gentoo-user] phpmyadmin user/password?

2005-12-15 Thread Daevid Vincent
I emerged phpmyadmin 2.7 and when I go to the URL, it prompts for a user/password. What exactly is this user/pw it's looking for? The one stored in mysql.users? My actual account? Both in this case have no password set. I've used this program for years, and I've just installed it from their

RE: [gentoo-user] phpmyadmin user/password? [solved]

2005-12-15 Thread Daevid Vincent
) -Original Message- From: Qv6 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 4:18 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] phpmyadmin user/password? On Thursday 15 December 2005 05:24 pm, Daevid Vincent wrote: I emerged phpmyadmin 2.7 and when I go

[gentoo-user] Emerge files sometimes just abort without error

2006-01-19 Thread Daevid Vincent
I've noticed lately that when I do an emerge -Davu world (for example), that some of the ebuilds just abort part way through compilation. No error. No anything. I'm just sitting there at a command prompt like nothing happened. What gives? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Linux Animated Video for Advocacy

2006-01-23 Thread Daevid Vincent
http://www.ubergeek.tv/article.php?pid=54 -Original Message- From: Michael Louie Loria [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 9:42 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Linux Animated Video for Advocacy -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-

RE: [gentoo-user] Mysterious dev-lang/php 'n' junk 'n' stuff....

2006-01-27 Thread Daevid Vincent
Well, this is what I would like to do. ( I thought this would be obvious.) But I can't continue with the `emerge world` unless I'm able to resolve the blocks. The command/process dies almost immediately complaining about the blocked packages. I had the same problem and was quite annoyed

[gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild never seems to work

2006-01-27 Thread Daevid Vincent
I've been running gentoo on my server, my notebook and a few VMWares. I always run the revdep-rebuild when I do some 'emerge world' operations. I can't think of a single time I've seen this thing actually complete, when there were packages to be rebuilt. EVERY time it pukes on something not

RE: [gentoo-user] ... fails to open device '/dev/hda2' after update

2006-01-29 Thread Daevid Vincent
I had the same thing happen on Friday on a VMWare I use for LAMP development. Just Control D to continue. Your drives should mount as normal. If you have a stock system, /dev/hda3 is where your goods are. Hda1 is just /boot and hda2 is swap, so don't worry about the error. Follow these

[gentoo-user] Switched to UDEV and now I have lost wlan0 and hostapd won't work...

2006-02-05 Thread Daevid Vincent
After the essentially forced upgrade, I'm now running kernel 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 (udev) from 2.6.9 (devfs). I have a Senao Engenius 200 mW PCMCIA card in a PCMCIA/PCI adapter in my server -- this card is then the wireless AP for my network. I can't get my wlan0 to show up like it used to,

RE: [gentoo-user] Switched to UDEV and now I have lost wlan0 and hostapd won't work...

2006-02-05 Thread Daevid Vincent
So after dicking with this some more, I'm noticing this: daevid ~ # ls /sys/class/net/ eth0 eth1 lo shouldn't there be something else in there for my wifi card? And would it show up here or not? -Original Message- From: Daevid Vincent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday

[gentoo-user] OpenGL X desktop

2006-02-10 Thread Daevid Vincent
Whoa. Check out this demo of a new OpenGL X desktop. IMHO it blows away the Mac OS/X http://www.freedesktop.org/~davidr/xgl-demo1.xvid.avi Anyone have any other info on when this will be available? How does it work? It looks like they're just using Gnome. Will it work with KDE too? I want it

RE: [gentoo-user] OpenGL X desktop

2006-02-11 Thread Daevid Vincent
11, 2006 1:59 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OpenGL X desktop On Saturday 11 February 2006 03:06, Daevid Vincent wrote: Whoa. Check out this demo of a new OpenGL X desktop. IMHO it blows away the Mac OS/X http://www.freedesktop.org/~davidr/xgl-demo1

[gentoo-user] RE: Switched to UDEV and now I have lost wlan0 and hostapd won't work...

2006-02-24 Thread Daevid Vincent
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 8:14 PM To: Daevid Vincent Daevid Vincent wrote: After the essentially forced upgrade, I'm now running kernel 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 (udev) from 2.6.9 (devfs). I have a Senao

[gentoo-user] Can't turn off effects in KDE 3.4

2005-04-13 Thread Daevid Vincent
I can't seem to figure out how to turn OFF the effects in KDE. I mean, I've tried to enable/disable, restart, turn off each individual effect, etc. NOTHING seems to actualy take hold. It's obnoxious b/c windows dim when they're not in focus. I have transparency and I don't want it. I have to

RE: [gentoo-user] What can I safely delete from /tmp?

2005-04-27 Thread Daevid Vincent
cd /tmp rm -rf * (be VERRY BLOODY CAREFUL which dir you are in when you type this!) Wouldn't it be wiser to type rm -rf /tmp/* ;-) Or if really paranoid, rm -rfvi /tmp/* (-i for interactive, -v for verbose) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] cfg-update broken or etc-update?

2005-04-27 Thread Daevid Vincent
Did you mean etc-update?? daevid rbc # cfg-update -/bin/bash: cfg-update: command not found daevid rbc # locate cfg-update daevid rbc # daevid rbc # esearch cfg-update [ Results for search key : cfg-update ] [ Applications found : 0 ] -Original Message- From: Michael W. Holdeman

RE: [gentoo-user] kde kwifimanager blocked by kdenetwork

2005-05-03 Thread Daevid Vincent
locutus ~ # emerge -Dav kwifimanager These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdenetwork-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kwifimanager-3.4.0) [ebuild N] kde-base/kwifimanager-3.4.0 +arts -debug -kdeenablefinal -kdexdeltas

RE: [gentoo-user] kde kwifimanager blocked by kdenetwork

2005-05-04 Thread Daevid Vincent
PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 11:18 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] kde kwifimanager blocked by kdenetwork On Tue, 3 May 2005 17:11:00 -0700, Daevid Vincent wrote: locutus ~ # emerge -Dav kwifimanager These are the packages that I would merge

[gentoo-user] SMTPS not working after upgrade 4.43 to 4.50

2005-06-14 Thread Daevid Vincent
Please help. I run Gentoo and try to use only the stable x86 packages for my server. I upgraded from 4.43-r2 to 4.50-r1 as per portage's suggestion and now I can't SEND mail from Outlook through my server to anywhere using SMTPS. This worked fine earlier today before the upgrade. I don't see any

RE: [gentoo-user] SMTPS not working after upgrade 4.43 to 4.50

2005-06-14 Thread Daevid Vincent
i don't see any messages in the log file ?! Which log file? tail -f /var/log/mail/current You might want to try tail'ing the log file and then sending through OutLook and seeing what is reported in the logs. That's exactly what I'm doing (and 'not seeing')... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

RE: [gentoo-user] app-pda/orange-0.2-r1 fails to compile

2005-06-17 Thread Daevid Vincent
-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] app-pda/orange-0.2-r1 fails to compile Daevid Vincent wrote: I'm trying to follow the directions here: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Synchronize_PocketPC_and_Evolution but app-pda/orange-0.2-r1 fails to compile nothing found here

RE: [gentoo-user] app-pda/orange-0.2-r1 fails to compile

2005-06-17 Thread Daevid Vincent
-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] app-pda/orange-0.2-r1 fails to compile Daevid Vincent wrote: I'm trying to follow the directions here: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Synchronize_PocketPC_and_Evolution but app-pda/orange-0.2-r1 fails to compile nothing found here that I see

RE: [gentoo-user] mailman stopped working after upgrade

2005-09-23 Thread Daevid Vincent
- From: Daevid Vincent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 1:46 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] mailman stopped working after upgrade Okay. Last night I ripped out every 'mailman' directory and file I could find. Unmerged mailman

[gentoo-user] apache2 logs not rotating, is that metalog's job or logrotate?

2005-09-28 Thread Daevid Vincent
I notice my /var/log/apache2 dir has some very large files, hence I don't think they are being rotated. I looked at /etc/metalog/metalog.conf and don't see anything related to apache in there -- should there be? Or am I supposed to install app-admin/logrotate to handle this? --

RE: [gentoo-user] Shell through the web

2005-10-12 Thread Daevid Vincent
i used to run a java ssh client. do a google search for "java ssh" and see some. mindterm was the one i think i used. D.Vin From: James Colby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 9:22 PMTo: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.orgSubject: [gentoo-user] Shell through

[gentoo-user] How do I use 2.6.14 and remove udev and go back to devfs

2005-11-16 Thread Daevid Vincent
I've been running 2.6.10 for some time. Then I started reading some stuff that I should update my Dell Inspiron 8200 notebook to UDEV. So I followed the gentoo wiki page and used kernel 2.6.13. This caused (known) issues with my nvidia driver and I couldn't get the USB mouse to work (yet the alps

[gentoo-user] Vixiecron not working all the sudden

2005-11-16 Thread Daevid Vincent
Recently, around October 23rd, I've noticed that my cron.daily stuff isn't running. I've tried to 'restart' vixiecron and it complains that it's already started (duh). So I'll killall cron, rm the pid, etc. and then start it again and it works for a while then dies again. I made a simple script

RE: [gentoo-user] Vixiecron not working all the sudden

2005-11-16 Thread Daevid Vincent
-Original Message- From: Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 5:14 AM Daevid Vincent wrote: But I don't think that will slove it, as the date of the file his Aug 11th... So that means it was running fine for several months

RE: [gentoo-user] Vixiecron not working all the sudden

2005-11-18 Thread Daevid Vincent
) -Original Message- From: Daevid Vincent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 12:18 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Vixiecron not working all the sudden -Original Message- From: Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman [mailto:[EMAIL

[gentoo-user] BTTV Mini-HOWTO -- how do I use multiple inputs?

2005-11-27 Thread Daevid Vincent
Followed the howto here: http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/BTTV.html (which by the way is 5 years old) I have an old hauppauge bt878 card with 4 inputs on it. I have the video1 working fine, but how do I enable the other inputs? They're all the same RCA kind. I ran the MAKEDEV script, but it

RE: [gentoo-user] BTTV Mini-HOWTO -- how do I use multiple inputs?

2005-11-28 Thread Daevid Vincent
If I try to take a picture: /usr/bin/v4lctl -c /dev/video0 snap jpeg 320x240 /home/dae51d/public_html/nokia_cam.jpg /usr/bin/v4lctl -c /dev/video1 snap jpeg 320x240 /home/dae51d/public_html/ittybitty_cam.jpg Then the first one works fine, but the second one is failing with:

[gentoo-user] fbsplash and console issues after udev

2005-12-05 Thread Daevid Vincent
I have updated to udev and got most things kinda working (as is the case of any linux system where it's never 100%)... The loading screen with the progress bar works fine. If I hit F2 to see the stuff going on, here's where it has issues.. There is no background image (as there used to be prior

RE: [gentoo-user] Optical mouse lights off on kernel 2.6.14 but works on kernel 2.4.30

2005-12-05 Thread Daevid Vincent
I had this same issue after updating to udev... Turned out I had to: make modules modules_install As I wasn't compiling and installing the UHCI (usb) stuff and installing the modules. I would have thought that modules_install would compile the modules first! Ugh. Hope this helps. You had me

[gentoo-user] How do I force an unmerge?

2005-12-05 Thread Daevid Vincent
I was in the middle of emerging KDE 3.5 and it's 8 million dependencies, and read the post about needing to unmerge superkaramba. So, in another shell I did just that. Life was fine. I needed to reboot my notebook for another reason, and when I started the emerge again, it complains that

RE: [gentoo-user] How do I force an unmerge?

2005-12-05 Thread Daevid Vincent
or emerge --depclean --pretend On 12/5/05, Daevid Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was in the middle of emerging KDE 3.5 and it's 8 million dependencies, and read the post about needing to unmerge superkaramba. So, in another shell I did just that. Life was fine. I needed to reboot my

RE: [gentoo-user] How do I force an unmerge?

2005-12-05 Thread Daevid Vincent
Um... Okay. That master plan of mine didn't work. Now what do I do?! -Original Message- From: Daevid Vincent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Neither of those worked... :( I'm just trying to re-emerge it, then I'll unmerge. Lame. Where is that list of stuff stored? Why can't I just

RE: [gentoo-user] How do I force an unmerge? [SOLVED]

2005-12-05 Thread Daevid Vincent
-Original Message- From: Daevid Vincent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Neither of those worked... :( I'm just trying to re-emerge it, then I'll unmerge. Lame. Where is that list of stuff stored? Why can't I just go manually edit some file and delete it from

RE: [gentoo-user] Optical mouse lights off on kernel 2.6.14 but works on kernel 2.4.30

2005-12-06 Thread Daevid Vincent
Dude. I'm telling you. I had the same problem. This isn't a X or device issue. You don't have USB compiled into the kernel or running as a module. Just make sure you have all the UHCI stuff checked and do a make clean all modules module_install install (or something to that effect). Then reboot.

[gentoo-user] OT: kmix starts when KDE starts for some reason?

2005-12-07 Thread Daevid Vincent
Somewhere along the line, I set something somewhere or added some line to an 'auto-load' type file for the sound mixer. Now, for the past year or so, kmix starts (in all it's slider and mixer glory) everytime I start KDE. Does anyone know what I did? Or where to look to remove it. It's become

RE: [gentoo-user] kdeutils-3.5.0 and superkaramba

2005-12-07 Thread Daevid Vincent
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Fish Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 10:06 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] kdeutils-3.5.0 On 12/5/05, Ernie Schroder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been

RE: [gentoo-user] OT: kmix starts when KDE starts for some reason?

2005-12-07 Thread Daevid Vincent
-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: kmix starts when KDE starts for some reason? On Thursday 08 December 2005 04:31, Daevid Vincent wrote: Somewhere along the line, I set something somewhere or added some line to an 'auto-load' type file for the sound mixer. Now

[gentoo-user] Gentoo VMWare image works on Intel but not AMD. Are they not interchangeable?

2007-02-05 Thread Daevid Vincent
I have a VMWare Workstation image of Gentoo Linux that I transfer between my desktop and my notebook (for LAMP/Ruby development) and it works fantastic on both. Both are running WindowsXP as the host VMWare. Both are Pentium4. Recently, I tried to share the image with a co-worker and it pukes out

RE: [gentoo-user] Wireless PCMCIA card issue with 2.6.18 linux kernel

2007-02-05 Thread Daevid Vincent
Use the 'hostap' driver in the kernel instead of the orinoco one. DÆVID -Original Message- From: Timur Aydin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a Senao NL-2511CD PLUS EXT2 wireless PCMCIA card, which I am The problem I am seeing is that the wlan0 interface is not created by the

[gentoo-user] Can someone please explain to me why these bugs are duplicates?

2007-02-07 Thread Daevid Vincent
Honestly, I really don't see how they're even remotely related. So either I'm just dense, or the maintainer is not understanding my request... It's extremely frustrating. [Bug 165709] When viewing emerge -avu world show which packages are stable (or ~x86)

RE: [gentoo-user] Can someone please explain to me why these bugs are duplicates?

2007-02-07 Thread Daevid Vincent
On Wednesday 07 February 2007 23:19:53 Daevid Vincent wrote: Honestly, I really don't see how they're even remotely related. So either I'm just dense, or the maintainer is not understanding my request... It's extremely frustrating. [Bug 165709] When viewing emerge -avu world show

RE: [gentoo-user] Can someone please explain to me why these bugs are duplicates?

2007-02-07 Thread Daevid Vincent
Yes, but then I have to manually, one at a time search eix and compare to the output of 'emerge world'. I use eix. That's actually why I suspect that the feature could be implemented fairly easily. Portage has all the info it needs. You do know that eix is not related to portage in

[gentoo-user] What's with the timezone data...

2007-02-08 Thread Daevid Vincent
* sys-libs/timezone-data Available versions: 2006g 2006p ~2007a Homepage:ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/ Description: Timezone data (/usr/share/zoneinfo) and utilities (tzselect/zic/zdump) How come the 2007 is still masked. The new DST for the USA and Australia

RE: [gentoo-user] What's the deal with no gnome 2.18 in portage?

2007-03-21 Thread Daevid Vincent
I would check overlay setup and also try `emerge =exact-group/exact-package-2.18.whatever` i.e. specify the specific ebuild you wish to emerge? I have used overlays before for xgl and for init-ng but both were a few months ago so please feel free to correct me if I am missing something.

[gentoo-user] Gnome / problem registering the panel with bonobo-activation-server / error code 3

2007-03-21 Thread Daevid Vincent
Okay. My gnome is broken and has been for some time and I can't seem to fix it or find any solutions on the web. I was hoping eventually some emerge would fix it magically for me. When I start it (even as root), it gets to the third icon (like a desktop looking one), then gives me some Nautilus

[gentoo-user] How can I force net.ath0 to use a certain channel?

2007-03-29 Thread Daevid Vincent
I have an atheros (mad-wifi) internal mini-pci 802.11 a/b/g card in my Dell i8200 notebook running Gentoo. I also have an Engenius hostap 802.11b card/antenna in my Gentoo server. What is frustrating, is that it's a crap-shoot when my ath0 will (or won't) start properly. I have no control over

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I force net.ath0 to use a certain channel?

2007-03-30 Thread Daevid Vincent
On Friday 30 March 2007 1:11 am, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 22:20:21 -0700, Daevid Vincent wrote: Please tell me there is some way to tweak my /etc/conf.d/wireless (or anything for that matter), so that I can tell it, hey, when connecting to 'MATRIX', always use 802.11b

RE: [gentoo-user] How can I force net.ath0 to use a certain channel?

2007-03-30 Thread Daevid Vincent
On Friday 30 March 2007 1:11 am, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 22:20:21 -0700, Daevid Vincent wrote: Please tell me there is some way to tweak my /etc/conf.d/wireless (or anything for that matter), so that I can tell it, hey, when connecting to 'MATRIX', always use 802.11b

RE: [gentoo-user] How can I force net.ath0 to use a certain channel?

2007-03-30 Thread Daevid Vincent
Am I the dick? http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172766 -Original Message- From: Daevid Vincent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 10:20 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] How can I force net.ath0 to use a certain channel? I

[gentoo-user] Can I share my /boot and swap partitions with other Linux installs?

2007-04-01 Thread Daevid Vincent
Currently I dual-boot my notebook with XP and Gentoo. I'm curious to try out all this beryl stuff and see what all the rage is with Ubuntu and the kids these days. Can I install Ubuntu in yet another partition and have it share the /boot and swap ones I already have, or do I need dedicated ones

[gentoo-user] How to prevent www-client/mozilla-firefox when I have www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin

2007-04-02 Thread Daevid Vincent
I keep noticing this kind of thing. locutus ~ # emerge -at bittorrent mplayerplug-in xine-ui These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] media-video/xine-ui-0.99.5_pre20060716 [0.99.4-r5] USE=-debug% [ebuild U ]

RE: [gentoo-user] How to prevent www-client/mozilla-firefox when I have www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin

2007-04-02 Thread Daevid Vincent
-Original Message- From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 12:45 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent www-client/mozilla-firefox when I have www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin Hello Daevid Vincent

RE: [gentoo-user] How to prevent www-client/mozilla-firefox when I have www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin

2007-04-02 Thread Daevid Vincent
Hello Daevid Vincent, But I have the -bin version installed... Some packages require the firefox or seamonkey source, to build against. I also have this in /etc/make.conf The mplayer-plug-in ebuild contains DEPEND=... || ( www-client/mozilla

[gentoo-user] How's that for dedication ... A Gentoo tatoo...

2007-04-16 Thread Daevid Vincent
http://gallery.shinmashii.net/main.php?g2_itemId=4179 (BTW, that's not ME, that's an ex-coworker) ÐÆ5ÏÐ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] I copied a Gentoo VM and now networking doesn't work.

2007-05-09 Thread Daevid Vincent
I have a Gentoo VM that I've used for years (XP Host. Workstation 5.5.3). Works great. I copied the .vmdk and .vmx files to a new directory called LAMP. I edited the .vmx file changing the appropriate paths. Now when I start the new VM, my networking fails. (I changed nothing inside the linux

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: I copied a Gentoo VM and now networking doesn't work.

2007-05-14 Thread Daevid Vincent
. Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wednesday 09 May 2007 02:55:42 Daevid Vincent wrote: I have a Gentoo VM that I've used for years (XP Host. Workstation 5.5.3). Works great. I copied the .vmdk and .vmx files to a new directory called LAMP. I edited the .vmx

RE: [gentoo-user] Gnome / problem registering the panel with bonobo-activation-server / error code 3

2007-05-14 Thread Daevid Vincent
?! -Original Message- From: Daevid Vincent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 10:32 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Gnome / problem registering the panel with bonobo-activation-server / error code 3 Okay. My gnome is broken

RE: [gentoo-user] Gnome / problem registering the panel with bonobo-activation-server / error code 3

2007-05-15 Thread Daevid Vincent
-Original Message- From: Alex Schuster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 4:16 AM Daevid Vincent writes: So now I'm out of ideas. Is there a 'debug' mode or something I can see what or why whatever is crashing? How can I be the *only* one having

[gentoo-user] OT: Recommend a good PCI or PCMCIA b/g wifi card

2007-05-21 Thread Daevid Vincent
I've been using a Senao Engenius NL2511 (200mW) card for several years in my Gentoo Linux server as my AP. I use the host_ap drivers in the kernel and life is good. However, 802.11b is starting to show it's age at 11Mbps. Sooo I would love to upgrade this as painlessly as possible to one

[gentoo-user] OT: Linux (Ubuntu) on a USB drive doesn't save

2007-05-22 Thread Daevid Vincent
I have an ancient Gateway 200ARC sans notebook hard drive (amongst other things). I don't have the stupid little ribbon cable so I can't install one either. And they charge like $50 for one. The notebook was free, and a 1GB USB stick is only $20. a 2GB is like $40. I wanted to install Linux on it

[gentoo-user] how do i know my SMP is working and setup right?

2007-05-26 Thread Daevid Vincent
I just upgraded my Gentoo server from an old Celeron 1Ghz to a Pentium4 3Ghz (hyperthreaded). In /etc/make.conf I have: CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu CFLAGS=-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mfpmath=sse -mmmx -msse MAKEOPTS=-j3 I compiled the new kernel and added some SMP stuff I saw:

RE: [gentoo-user] how do i know my SMP is working and setup right?

2007-05-26 Thread Daevid Vincent
-Original Message- From: Denis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2007 3:47 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] how do i know my SMP is working and setup right? Having done this several times now, you have to select the following in the

[gentoo-user] mail-mta/exim (is blocking mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2)

2007-05-29 Thread Daevid Vincent
I haven't done an emerge on my server in quite a while, but now that I've upgraded the CPU/RAM, I figure it's about time. There are a few packages I'm a bit apprehensive about upgrading. exim being one. I hate that MTA. It was a nightmare to setup and get working properly, and now I don't want to

[gentoo-user] FW: mail-mta/exim (is blocking mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2) (more info added)

2007-05-29 Thread Daevid Vincent
I haven't done an emerge on my server in quite a while, but now that I've upgraded the CPU/RAM, I figure it's about time. There are a few packages I'm a bit apprehensive about upgrading. exim being one. I hate that MTA. It was a nightmare to setup and get working properly, and now I don't want to

[gentoo-user] Ebuilds for the following packages are either all masked or don't exist

2007-05-29 Thread Daevid Vincent
Calculating world dependencies - !!! Ebuilds for the following packages are either all masked or don't exist: net-analyzer/ntop net-www/gentoo-webroot-default media-fonts/font-bitstream-75dpi net-analyzer/bwm-ng virtual/x11 media-video/came media-fonts/font-adobe-utopia-100dpi

[gentoo-user] Why doesn't esearch find exact packages? [Bug: 180307]

2007-05-29 Thread Daevid Vincent
Is this a known issue with a fix coming or is this by design (which seems shockingly short-sighted). I searched bugs.gentoo.org for quite a while and didn't see anything like this amongst the bajillion other portage bugs, so I added a new one: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=180307 Why

[gentoo-user] dev-ruby/rake-0.7.3 seems to hang?

2007-06-20 Thread Daevid Vincent
I keep running into this issue with dev-ruby/rake-0.7.3 where it just seems to hang. The HD light is solid and CPU just skyrockets. I have nothing really else to show other than this, as I hit CTRL+C after a while. I don't see a single bug for 'rake' in bugs.gentoo.org. Should I file a bug

RE: [gentoo-user] Prism2 PC Card

2007-06-21 Thread Daevid Vincent
I used to use the linux-wlan-ng stuff, then after it was depricated, I switched to the in-kernel hostapd. Works like a champ. My Engenius 2511 (?) with 8dbi Omni antenna is my WAP and on the 10.10.10.* network, and my LAN is the 192.168.* network. I use Shorewall to allow certain WiFi clients

[gentoo-user] root can't login on console, but can ssh...

2007-07-17 Thread Daevid Vincent
I have a LAMP development VMWare setup so that I can login as root sans password. This was working fine until something recently changed that. It doesn't even prompt for the password, it just timesout after 60 seconds. Oddly I can ssh in as root (without the password as expected). I have my

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