Re: [gentoo-user] how to determin CFLAGS used in a package emerge

Richard Broersma Jr wrote: I misread this little snippet from the apcupsd manual and thought I was looking for CFLAGS: Perhaps "LDFLAGS" were what I was actually looking for? CFLAGS="-g -O2" LDFLAGS="-g" ./configure \ --enable-usb \ --with-upstype=usb \ --with-upscab

Re: [gentoo-user] CD-ROM Isn't In fstab - don't know how to add it

Lord Sauron wrote: I could have guessed about the /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom parts, however, I'd have never figured out the auto noauto,user,ro part. man fstab ;) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Loading programs at X startup

Rafael Fernández López wrote: 1st question: I'd like to know how to run at X.org startup some apps, like (~/.bashrc) at bash login. I'd like to run, for example, xcompmgr -c at X.org startup always, or other programs, and I'd like to know if there is kind of file where the programs to be runned a

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems configuring VMWare

Martin Larsson wrote: What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include] The kernel defined by this directory of header files does not have the same address space size as your running kernel. # uname -r # ls -l /usr/src/linux

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA raptor failure - why?

CapSel wrote: May 24 23:31:43 foo ata1: command 0x35 timeout, stat 0xd1 host_stat 0x21 May 24 23:31:43 foo ata1: translated ATA stat/err 0xd1/00 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/47/00 May 24 23:31:43 foo ata1: status=0xd1 { Busy } May 24 23:31:43 foo sd 0:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x802 May 24

Re: [gentoo-user] unknown process filled up /tmp partition

Alan E. Davis wrote: /tmp/magick-XXzxp1lE*ppm ImageMagick? Don't know about its /tmp usage, having never used it, but that was the first thing that jumped into my mind... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

Lord Sauron wrote: On 5/25/06, Thomas Kirchner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * On May 25 11:45, Lord Sauron (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote: > I've found (after much exploration) that there is a archive: > /portage-20060123.tar.bz2 Much exploration? Forgive my amazement and please don't be *

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: So instead of emerge sync AND update-eix, you just run esync. eix-sync It's only three more keys... :P -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] net-nntp/klibido

JimD wrote: By the way, do you know if Gentoo considers an ebuild with an -rX on the end to be newer? For example which would emerge choose: sys-devel/gcc-3.4.6 or sys-devel/gcc-3.4.6-r1 s/Gentoo/portage ;) Yes, it does. Revision bumps are generally to correct a bug or typo in an ebuild, o

Re: [gentoo-user] net-nntp/klibido

JimD wrote: If the above is not doable, does anyone know of a good binary news reader for Linux? What's wrong with Thunderbird? GrabIt is simple, fast and stable. Though it is closed source and only runs on WinXP which doesn't help me now :-( Wine ;) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade problem with perl-cleaner

Colleen Beamer wrote: Hi, I really have very little problem with my Gentoo system, but today on an upgrade I received the following message related to perl-cleaner: !!! Digest verification Failed: !!! /usr/portage/distfiles/perl-cleaner-1.03.tar.gz !!! Readon: Filesize does not match recorded s

Re: [gentoo-user] Sorry!

Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: maybe he was drunk. If you look at his adress, he seems to be a teen - and who was not constantly drunk and did silly things as a teen? I'm 18 and I've never been drunk. Ever. Seriously. Thanks for your time. ;) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Email-based games

JimD wrote: Does anyone have any suggestions for some fun email based games? I have never played any before, I don't know if any exist. Call me old-fashioned, but I enjoy a good game of e-mail chess from time to time. :) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Sorry!

Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Tuesday 30 May 2006 03:27, AJ Spagnoletti wrote: On 5/29/06, Ryan Tandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: maybe he was drunk. If you look at his adress, he seems to be a teen - and who was not constantly drunk and did silly thing

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/shadow and sys-apps/pam-login in conflict (pam-login not needed?)

Jules Colding wrote: ## omc-2 ~ # emerge -va sys-apps/pam-login These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] >=sys-apps/shadow-4.0.14-r2 (is blocking sys-apps/pam-login-4.0.14) [ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] Reconstructing a Gentoo Installer Computer

Timothy A. Holmes wrote: I have read the wiki document about the USE flags, and I refer to that chart routinely as I am trying to construct these statements. http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/use-index.xml This is the document that I have been using, if there is a better one available on the web, I am

Re: [gentoo-user] Reconstructing a Gentoo Installer Computer

Timothy A. Holmes wrote: At this point then, I am going to actually build a second box for snort perhaps using the hardened sources (I am not in the least comfortable with running hardened on a production box). Wrong. The correct sentiment should be "I am not in the least comfortable with run

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/pam-login

William Meertens wrote: Second when removing one of the two, you could face the fact that you can't login into your system. Which would sound normal because both are more or less responsible for your login and therefor like you say part of your system. This happened to me last night. Fixed b

Re: [gentoo-user] Reconstructing a Gentoo Installer Computer

Timothy A. Holmes wrote: OOPS _- that should be RYAN -- SORRY -- I got fumble fingered Everyone does it the first time. :) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags question

Anthony E. Caudel wrote: Am I correct in thinking that USE flags in /etc/portage/profiles/use.desc are global flags and should be placed in /etc/make.conf whereas those in use.local.desc are only local flags and should only be placed in /etc/portage/package.use with the appropriate package?

Re: [gentoo-user] Domainname configuration

Leandro Melo de Sales wrote: Hi, I set DNSDOMAIN variable to my domain in /etc/conf.d/domainname file, but see it: embedded etc # domainname (none) Am I doing something wrong? Or missing something? The command you're looking for is `dnsdomainname`. `domainname` looks up your NIS/YP domai

Re: [gentoo-user] Libwww

Korthrun wrote: -- () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email, /\ vCards, and proprietary formats. OT, but it kind of made me giggle to see this at the bottom of an HTML email. And to the OP: try emerge -D libwww. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

Iain Buchanan wrote: On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 16:28 -0700, Lord Sauron wrote: My best idea has been to try and distcc with my desktop I assumed the presence of a separate desktop machine from this comment. His desktop is a Windows machine, running distcc under Cygwin. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo net work connection problem

Bob Bao wrote: Hi guys. I installed 2.6.16-gentoo-r7 on a x86 desk top computer. After reboot, I fond two problems. The net work connection lost. I run the /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start, get a eth0 does not exist error message. Is there any one can help me fix it. I need to download more tools

Re: [gentoo-user] System Suspend...kind of OT

James Colby wrote: The option that I choose in windows is stand-by. Is there another option that I can enable for hibernate. Would hibernate give me what I'm looking for. Yes. "Standby" in Windows is just sleep mode, aka suspend-to-RAM. You're looking for hibernate, aka suspend-to-disk. --

Re: [gentoo-user] System Suspend...kind of OT

James Colby wrote: Please return to your regularly scheduled Linux discussions :) vi vi vi!! :P -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xrdb woes

James wrote: Beats the hell out of me. I have previously posted on these deals some weeks ago but here it goes again: eix xrdb * app-emacs/xrdb-mode Available versions: 2.31 Installed: none * x11-apps/xrdb Available versions: ~1.0.1 ~1.0.2 Installed: n

Re: [gentoo-user] viewing consoles remotely

Iain Buchanan wrote: I am aware of screen, but AFAIK screen can't show the buffer locally on the console as well as remotely to a user, at the same time... thanks for the tips, # screen -x (name of screen) Multi-user mode. Only works as root, regardless of who started the screen. For your s

Re: [gentoo-user] Transfer OLD HD content to new HD

Joseph wrote: I could do disk image and transfer it over to a new HD but the disk image will not utilize the whole new HD space; the remaining space I could activate as a new drive I think. What else could I try? Do the image transfer, and then try using parted to resize the filesystem. -- gen

Re: [gentoo-user] installing a binary package without /usr/portage

Teresa and Dale wrote: Could you put /usr/portage on a dvd and just mount it there? Don't put the whole of /usr/portage on the DVD, since all the ebuilds etc you won't be using are a waste of space. Rather, just put packages/ on the DVD, and mount it there. You could also use a NFS to acc

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags question

Enrico Weigelt wrote: * Teresa and Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Learn something every day. So if I remove the doc USE flag that will not remove the man page? That would be cool. I wonder how much space that takes up? hmm, is there also an man useflag or some other option to kick of ma

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xrdb woes

James wrote: Ryan Tandy gmail.com> writes: I'll bet you're still using monolithic (<7.0) Xorg, aren't you? Yep eix xorg-x11 * x11-base/xorg-x11 Available versions: 6.8.2-r7 [M]6.9.0-r1 ~7.0-r1 [M]7.1 Installed: 6.8.2-r7 The ebuild, x11-apps/x

Re: [gentoo-user] viewing consoles remotely

Iain Buchanan wrote: 1. sudo chmod u+s /usr/bin/screen 2. sudo chmod 755 /var/run/screen 3. screen -r sessionowner/[[pid.]tty[.host]] I think the little part of me that's even slightly security-conscious just had a heart attack. It's interesting that screen -r has the desired effect, though;

Re: [gentoo-user] YTMND Site

Ian Kabeary wrote: Hi there, I notice that I can never hear sound on this site, (I can on others). After doing a little digging, I found that they seem to be using wav files to play the sounds/nonsense/music. Is there a way to get Firefox to play these? Cheers, Ian I've noticed that using Fir

Re: [gentoo-user] Arts compile failure

Tony Davison wrote: Attached are emerge info and the portage compile log of arts 3.5.3, 3.5.2 gives the same errors. Hi Tony, Please don't send such large messages to the list, as bandwidth does cost the server money and not everyone wishes to download and/or see it. A better idea would be

Re: [gentoo-user] FTP Server

Daniel wrote: dad:x:1001:1001::/home/dad:/usr/lib/misc/sftp-server That way, if his box gets compromised, the intruder doesn't have a shell on your machine, just the ability to delete your dad's website ;-) What's wrong with /bin/false? Then, if it's compromised, all he has is the ability

Re: [gentoo-user] checking local packages against portage

Joseph wrote: Recently I found out that I had an old package "avifile" installed on my system but it was no longer in portage. How to check packages that are installed on my system but are no longer available in portage (so I can remove them)? /usr/sbin/emaint --check -- gentoo-user@gentoo.

Re: [gentoo-user] checking local packages against portage

Teresa and Dale wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # emaint --check usage: emaint [options] all | world Currently emaint can only check and fix problems with one's world file. Future versions will integrate other portage check-and-fix tools and provide a single interface to system health checks. emain

Re: [gentoo-user] FTP Server

Neil Bothwick wrote: That's a security risk! Doing nothing unsuccessfully means doing something. You want him to do nothing successfully :) ...I'm not sure I follow your logic there. In any case, -ie 's/false/true' and continue? :) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] kalarm still broken -- revdep-rebuild fails; need mass unmerge of old KDE things

Kevin O'Gorman wrote: It reported a bunch of problems with KDE itself. Mostly with old versions, so I'd like to unmerge them. But I'm a bit unsure how to do that. Do I have to unmerge the component packages one by one, or is there some way to name all of the components of KDE 3.2, 3.3 and 3

Re: [gentoo-user] Module philosophy: Compile-in or Load

Anthony E. Caudel wrote: How? "make modules_install" or the whole thing: "make && make modules_install" then just modprobe the new module? # make modules modules_install # modprobe -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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

Mauro Arnoldi wrote: Alle 15:22, martedì 13 giugno 2006, Jacques Montier ha scritto: Did you enable via chipset support in Character Devices ( then modprobe via-agp) ? After compiling ati-drivers, did you run eselect opengl set ati ? eselect is ok: #eselect opengl list Available OpenGL implem

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

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 blocking x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.25.18) [ebuild R ] x11-drive

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge wxGTK with gtk2 in your USE

michael higgins wrote: Unfortunately, I don't see, simply, where that flag is available. What am I missing? I think the info is slightly out of date. Try remerging wxGTK with "X" in USE. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Speed up ATI Radeon X300 with google-earth?

Walter Dnes wrote: Can I set any tweaks for the open source ATI Radeon driver to speed things up? I do *NOT* want to go back to fglrx. It gave true Windows emulation... including hard lockups that required power-recycling to get out of... grrr. Check out http://r300.sourceforge.net and/or

Re: [gentoo-user] supported mp3 players (hardware)

Alan wrote: I don't have an ipod so I have no experience, but there is a 3rd party firmware hack that replaces the ipod firmware and supports flac/ogg/etc and adds nifty things. http://ipodlinux.sourceforge.net :D -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Accessing mailserver with ssh

Mick wrote: I don't know how I have managed without netcat all this time . . . it can do almost everything but take the dog out for a walk! :-)) Didn't you read the man page? > -W[dksa] > --walk=(dog,kid,spouse,away) $ sudo nc -Wd :P -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flag

Jeremy Olexa wrote: without gtk support (aka ncurses) then I would re-emerge profuse WITHOUT Er... maybe I misunderstood something, but gtk and ncurses are two COMPLETELY different things. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] xextproto download madness

file manually, I can't seem to make portage happy. Also tried turning off parallel-fetching, but that only got rid of the "sys.exitfunc" error. Help? -- Ryan W Sims () ascii ribbon /\ campaign - against html mail - against proprietary attachments -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] xextproto download madness [solved]

On 6/30/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Friday 30 June 2006 21:54, Ryan Sims wrote: > I find it strange that emerge can say "fully retrieved, nothing to do" > and "Couldn't download" in the same breath. I've tried a few things >

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flag

Jeremy Olexa wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ryan Tandy wrote: Jeremy Olexa wrote: without gtk support (aka ncurses) then I would re-emerge profuse WITHOUT Er... maybe I misunderstood something, but gtk and ncurses are two COMPLETELY different things. right. that is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Should KDE programs be shown in Ubuntu Gnome menu?

Alexander Skwar wrote: Alexander Skwar schrieb: [ nothing again... ] Please excuse me once more... I'm still looking for that darn cancel feature for e-mails. Did anyone spot it yet? :) Alexander Skwar ... Set yourself up a local SMTP server. Patch the source to apply a delay of 5 m

Re: [gentoo-user] xgl, masked packages, and me going crazy

Mauro Arnoldi wrote: [...] # sed -i '/libdrm/d' /etc/portage/package.keywords # echo 'x11-libs/libdrm -*' >> /etc/portage/package.keywords # emerge -uND world -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] package version notification (~/+)?

John J. Foster wrote: Excellent. Thanks Neil and Allan. You know, I just went back and re-read the man page for portage, and it made perfect sense. I'd read that page probably 10 times before and didn't get it. Not to rain on your parade, but please don't let your joy get in the way of your m

Re: [gentoo-user] Protecting my server against an individual

Grant wrote: It has come to my attention that a particular person I know may be intent on attacking my server/website in any way possible. He doesn't know much about Linux but does know Windows. What kind of things should I lock down to protect my remote hosted server? I don't have time to get

Re: [gentoo-user] Protecting my server against an individual

Alexander Skwar wrote: Ryan Tandy wrote: you're running a firewall of some kind (and you'd be crazy not to for any publically accessible box), Actually, I'd disagree. If only the necessary publicly accessible services are running on a box, what good should a "firewal&

Re: [gentoo-user] world favorites: pros and cons

Daniel Iliev wrote: 5) The best reason for manual removing individual packages from the world set is to prevent them from upgrading. I wouldn't call that a good reason. /etc/portage is there for that kind of thing. If you remove a package from world, and nothing depends on it, then it'll ge

Re: [gentoo-user] Protecting my server against an individual

Lord Sauron wrote: If you can, what I'd do is try and get the guy's MAC Address or something and then totally block that off. That's send him away right quickly. I don't know enough to know if that'd be totally possible, but if the guy isn't terribly intelligent, that'll send him packing. net

Re: [gentoo-user] Protecting my server against an individual

Steven Susbauer wrote: On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, Ryan Tandy wrote: Lord Sauron wrote: If you can, what I'd do is try and get the guy's MAC Address or something and then totally block that off. That's send him away right quickly. I don't know enough to know if that'd be

[gentoo-user] question about slotting

it seems like emerge --newuse ignored the lower slotted version. I poked through emerge/ebuild/portage man pages, as well as the developer handbook, couldn't find anything particularly enlightening. -- Ryan W Sims () ascii ribbon /\ campaign - against html mail - against proprietary a

Re: [gentoo-user] DRI? ATI X300 PCIe

fire-eyes wrote: Hi, I am interested in getting my ATI X300 (r300 or r370, conflicting info out there), which is a PCIe card, working with DRI with open source drivers. I am using xorg-x11-7.1 . r370 is the chipset on the card, r300 is the (experimental) DRI driver that would be supporting

Re: [gentoo-user] DRI? ATI X300 PCIe

Richard Fish wrote: How about googleearth? Have you tried it? -Richard Haven't, sorry. May do when I get a moment though. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

Daniel Iliev wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: EXTRA_ECONF="--disable-runtime-cpudetection" emerge --options mplayer This doesn't work with every ebuild, but it does with most of them. Correct. This doesn't work for mplayer. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ equery u mplayer [ Searching for packages matchi

Re: [gentoo-user] DRI? ATI X300 PCIe

fire-eyes wrote: On Friday 07 July 2006 21:51, Ryan Tandy wrote: Set VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" or USE="video_cards_radeon", and emerge -N xorg-x11. Worked for me (Radeon 9600 XT) as of the first X -configure run, with no additional messing about. The driver name is "

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing access to my laptop

Grant wrote: My girlfriend's laptop's internal wireless card doesn't seem to compatible with WPA and I don't want to use WEP on my Gentoo router. This leaves me with the options of either getting her to buy a new wireless card or sharing my laptop. She has a user account on my laptop and I use g

Re: [gentoo-user] Imagemagick fails

gentuxx wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 revdep-rebuild tells me that I need to remerge ImageMagick, but then fails during the remerge. This is the error I get: libxml2 -O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -Wall -pthread -MT coders/coders_png_la-png.lo -MD -MP -MF "cod

Re: [gentoo-user]MPlayer: CPU Detection? (was: [OT]Things that can be improved)

Daniel Iliev wrote: Quote: == Config files successfully generated by ./configure ! Install prefix: /usr Data directory: /usr/share/mplayer Config direct.: /usr/share/mplayer Byte order: little-endian Optimizing for: Runtime CPU-Detection enabled == Byte order: little-endian

Re: [gentoo-user] Imagemagick fails

if /bin/sh ./libtool --silent --tag=CC --mode=compile i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I./magick -I./wand -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libxml2 -O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -Wall -pthread -MT coders/coders_png_la-png.lo -MD -MP -MF "coders/.deps/coders_png_la-png.Tpo" -c -

Re: [gentoo-user]MPlayer: CPU Detection?

Daniel Iliev wrote: Blaah! It is all my fault. "bindist" was on. And I can't even remember why and when I have done this. Strange. Can't think why you would either. It's meant for when you're building GRP packages. You should probably turn it off if that isn't your intention. In any case,

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

Dale wrote: Careful with that -5 option. delta ~ # ( while true ; do echo -5\n ; done ) | etc-update *shifty eyes* -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] SVN stopped working after update of neon?

Daevid Vincent wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ svn update svn: Unrecognized URL scheme for 'https://trac.myserver.com/svn/projects/foo/trunk' # echo 'dev-util/subversion -nowebdav' >> /etc/portage/package.use # emerge -N dev-util/subversion -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] SVN stopped working after update of neon?

Daevid Vincent wrote: [ebuild R ] dev-util/subversion-1.3.2-r1 USE="apache2 bash-completion berkdb minimal nls perl python ruby* zlib -emacs -java -nowebdav" Er, whoops. Where's that darn cancel button when I need it? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Build error: gnumeric-1.4.3-r3

Meino Christian Cramer wrote: -O3 -m3dnow -march=athlon-xp -mtune=athlon64 -msse -msse2 -msse3 -m3dnow -mfpmath=sse -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -fforce-mem -fforce-addr -finline-functions -falign-functions=4 -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 Hmm... do you get a different result with, for exa

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia+Xorg not allowing DRI.

Korthrun wrote: # Load "dri" Uncomment that line, and restart X. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA - which config file is correct

pat wrote: Hi all, I have question about alsa configuration. I know how to configure the driver etc., bud during the configuration I've found that the condifuration is mentioned in 3 files: 1) /etc/modules.d/alsa 2) /etc/modules.conf 3) /etc/modprobe.conf The part I'm talking about is: alias /d

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia+Xorg not allowing DRI.

Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Saturday 15 July 2006 01:01, Ryan Tandy wrote: Korthrun wrote: # Load "dri" Uncomment that line, and restart X. no. That has to be commented - or removed. Read the docs. Read the nvidia readme. Oops, my bad - I've never had an nvi

Re: [gentoo-user] How to create my own linux distribution

David Corbin wrote: I've considered the idea of a custom distribution to do this. There is no doubt in my mind, that any such distribtuion would be based on an existing one, with tweaks that deal with where updates come from, and what packages are availble, etc. Gentoo or Debian are the two

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11-7.0 upgrade question

Mark Knecht wrote: I am having trouble updating these machines since neither the kernel or the ati-drivers ebuilds are available in portage any more and, unfortunately, nothing that is in portage seems to boot and work correctly. If they work for you and there's no security issues, then why upg

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11-7.0 upgrade question

c. To use your example: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/x11-base/xorg-x11/?hideattic=0 reveals your missing xorg-x11-6.8.2-r1.ebuild. The ebuild itself is at http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/gentoo-x86/x11-base/xorg-x11/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r1.ebuild Hope that helps.

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11, $VIDEO_CARDS & binary packages

Alexander Puchmayr wrote: Well, I think I got the conecpt behind meta packages. My question was why do I get a different content of the VIDEO_CARDS-variable when I specify "-k" in emerge or not??? You can't change the USE flags a binary package was built with. Binary packages are built with

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11, $VIDEO_CARDS & binary packages

Alexander Puchmayr wrote: Nope, doesn't work. Same problem. I emerged with --nodeps the xorg-x11 package, with exactly the video-cards I want. Then I've tried the -k as you suggested, and still *ALL* other video-drivers are shown in the list, and VIDEO_CARDS did not show the same content as wit

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11-7.0 upgrade question

Mark Knecht wrote: However, isn't that only part of the required file set? There are patches and other things generally needed to allow an ebuild actually install correctly. Where do I get those? Just direct ${BROWSER} to sources.gentoo.org, and look in the gentoo-x86 repository. Anything tha

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE message

Kevin O'Gorman wrote: WARN: prerm Please upgrade your package (libmpeg3-1.5.2) to use toolchain-funcs.eclass Needs to be fixed by the maintainer of the ebuild. If you feel like it, file a bug (check first to see that there isn't already one), or if you really feel like being obnoxious, e-

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to mount root fs on uknown - block (0,0)

Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Wednesday 26 July 2006 13:03, askar k wrote: It's interesting for me, what the other people do when they install Gentoo 2006.0??? they know how to built a working kernel. Really, if you don't know how to do it, maybe you should not try gentoo at all? That's

Re: [gentoo-user] recoverning from deleted gcc

James wrote: gcc-config error: Could not run/locate "gcc" *** The command 'gcc -o conftestconftest.c' failed. *** You must set the environment variable CC to a working compiler. Run 'gcc-config -l' (letter L, not number 1), and then run gcc-config again with the number of the first 3.4 com

Re: [gentoo-user] grub passwords - how do I limit OS selection?

Mark Knecht wrote: My son is a Windows user for playing games. I do not want him using Windows when he chooses since the gaming gets in the way of school, as it should for any healthy 14 year old boy. ;-) If you're using an NT-based version of windows (NT4, 2000, XP, or one of those fancy Vist

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

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: cat /proc/net/ip_conntrack 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] Guidance on encrypting my /home

John J. Foster wrote: Do you encrypt your home directory? Not on my desktop. On my laptop, however, everything except /boot is encrypted (/, /home, swap). What apps and/or combination of apps do you use, and why? sys-apps/util-linux with USE=crypt, and app-crypt/loop-aes. Which ciphers

Re: [gentoo-user] Guidance on encrypting my /home

ackup directory. I really should encrypt swap too. This thread piqued my interest; I found this: http://gentoo-wiki.com/SECURITY_System_Encryption_DM-Crypt_with_LUKS/loopback_devices Is that how you do your home dir? Where do you put the open/close commands? Is fstab smart enough to do this nativel

Re: [gentoo-user] UDP traffic?

Winston Messer wrote: You may need to enable IPX support or something, but I really don't know much about IPX on Linux. You need IPX support in your kernel (CONFIG_IPX) and net-misc/ipx-utils. UDP in Starcraft works fine for me, however, although this is with regular Wine rather than Cedega.

Re: [gentoo-user] howto update portage/packages without an internet connection

Jed R. Mallen wrote: hello, i've got a gentoo box with no internet connection at home. i have broadband at the office, but running WinXP. can i download the portage tree updates at the office, copy it to my gentoo box, install packages i want but make it output links of the needed packages inst

Re: [gentoo-user] ifplugd and netplug annoyance

Mike Williams wrote: But the interface is never actually brought down, and that's my problem, I *want* the interface brought *down*. in /etc/conf.d/ifplugd: AUTO="yes" man ifplugd for more details. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set domainname

Anthony E. Caudel wrote: Well, perhaps. It is in my /etc/hosts. But domainname still returns (none) By default, the 'domainname' command returns your NIS/YP domainname, which not many of us have. Try 'dnsdomainname' instead - it may have the result you're looking for. delta ~ # domainnam

Re: [gentoo-user] ifplugd and netplug annoyance

Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 16:05:33 -0700, Ryan Tandy wrote: But the interface is never actually brought down, and that's my problem, I *want* the interface brought *down*. in /etc/conf.d/ifplugd: AUTO="yes" The latest baselayout ebuild tells you to r

Re: [gentoo-user] Network connection repeatedly failing!

Samuel Baldwin wrote: On a more serious note: I get this when I try to run "route add default 10.0.0.1 ", as on the live CD (I thought I had already configured the network anyway, in /etc/conf.d/net . Have you run '/etc/init.d/net.eth0 start'? Alternatively, is net.eth0 in

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set domainname

Graham Murray wrote: Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: You should use /etc/conf.d/net to set the domainname. So why does /etc/conf.d.net.example state # For configuring system specifics such as domain, dns, ntp and nis servers # It's rare that you would need todo this, but you can

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for a terminal w/ url activation capability

Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, I'm looking for an X11 terminal emulator, which can detect URLs and allows the user to click on them to exeucute an command with them. I'm using mutt als MUA and often get mails links. When using mutt via an X11 terminal, I'd like to be able to click on them s

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set domainname

Graham Murray wrote: But this thread is about setting the domain name initially. This is something which desktop users want to do and the suggestion was that /etc/conf.d/net is the correct place to set (as well as change on a per-interface basis) this. Context is everything. ;) The post I was

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to set domainname

Alexander Skwar wrote: · Ryan Tandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: In any case, how do I go about setting my domain name in /etc/conf.d/net if I still want to get my DNS server from DHCP (and I can't be sure it won't change without warning)? Hm? Why should there be a problem?

Re: [gentoo-user] linux friendly consumer grade NAS

Bryce Verdier wrote: Anyone know anything about the above. My roommate and i are looking for something like that. But before i start doing blanket research, i was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction. Thanks in advance, bryce Pull your old PII 200 out of the closet and

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