Re: [gentoo-user] Lilo warning message

2003-11-09 Thread Stefano Carraro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 13:31, sabato 8 novembre 2003, Hall Stevenson ha scritto: Do you have 'lba32' specified in your /etc/lilo.conf file ?? Hall Yes, it is specified. Therefore, looking Andrew Gaffney replay it's logical. Thanks all. - --

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerg errors

2003-11-09 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Christopher Johnson wrote: While installing, my build will inevitably die while trying to make binutils. I've tried the 686 and Athlon cd's, changed the settings in make.conf and attempted to start from all three stages (it dies while trying to build X during stage 3). What exactly do you mean by

Re: [gentoo-user] share internet with dlink wifi device?

2003-11-09 Thread Tom Wesley
On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 01:12, Norbert Kamenicky wrote: Tom Wesley wrote: Hi all, Has anyone had any experience sharing internet access with a dlink card? The card is a DWL-510. No, but I used DLINK DWL900AP+ and can say I had a LOT of troubles with it ... i.e. it freezes totaly

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH permission question

2003-11-09 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Andrej, Stroller and others Finally I discover the cause of the problem but still there are some minor problems remained unsolved. PC1-RH9 box == Recently I am testing Shorewall 1.4.7 on this box so that there are 2 firewalls, Shorewall and Iptables, running on the same box but

[gentoo-user] Re: wine'ing some games

2003-11-09 Thread Björn Lindström
William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I dont regard this as a free speech issue, but about common decency. As do I. I might be annoyed by people using bad language, too, (not necessarily bad words, but when people don't bother to express their problems/opinions understandably), but I

Re: [gentoo-user] Help! Video4Linux / XawTV

2003-11-09 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
- snip - What does dmesg|grep bttv say? Nothing. hmmm ... it seems, your card is not recognized/missing ! - snip - Warning: Cannot convert string-*-ledfixed-medium-r-*--39-*-*-*-c-*-*-* to type FontStruct Segmentation Fault I made run xawtv for my friend (can't check it now), but

Re: [gentoo-user] which type of access to a webserver?

2003-11-09 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: Hi all, I have a question to all of you: What do you think, which would be the best, ie. most secure access to a webserver, so that users can update their sites? Use jail (chrooted environment) + ssh emerge jail openssh - snip - noro -- [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: which type of access to a webserver?

2003-11-09 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Björn Lindström wrote: Matthias F. Brandstetter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a question to all of you: What do you think, which would be the best, ie. most secure access to a webserver, so that users can update their sites? To be more specific: I can't allow ssh login for most of this

Re: [gentoo-user] japanese input

2003-11-09 Thread mathieu perrenoud
On Sunday 09 November 2003 03:08, Jeff Ames wrote: I've tried to launch kinput2 with different args I launch kinput2 as 'kinput2 -canna ' (make sure canna is running) (process:11009): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library. Using the fallback 'C' locale. Try 'locale

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting an ISO image problems

2003-11-09 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
- snip - Well, the problem is that you can only mount an image as a user if the image and mountpoint are specified in the fstab. I still don't know why mount (or the kernel or something) can't start allowing mounts of a file readable by a user over a directory the user owns... :-) :-) :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] japanese input

2003-11-09 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Sunday 09 November 2003 22:11, mathieu perrenoud wrote: On Sunday 09 November 2003 03:08, Jeff Ames wrote: I've tried to launch kinput2 with different args I launch kinput2 as 'kinput2 -canna ' (make sure canna is running) (process:11009): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C

[gentoo-user] Limiting search for hard drives

2003-11-09 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, Is there any simple way to instruct the kernel to limit its boot time search for hard drives to /dev/hda through /dev/hde? I end up with a long delay while it waits for no response on the second channel of the second controller. Thanks, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH permission question

2003-11-09 Thread Stroller
On Nov 9, 2003, at 12:28 am, Stephen Liu wrote: - snip - $ sudo grep -i Root /etc/ssh/sshd_config Password(enter satimis password) sendmail: Cannot open mail:25 satimis is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported. The sudo is for a regular user to have root permissions. The

Re: [gentoo-user] wine'ing some games

2003-11-09 Thread Stroller
On Nov 9, 2003, at 2:42 am, Ernie Schroder wrote: #3. I am nowhere near a language bigot, but I am a gentleman. The Jargon File has this to say about the label hacker http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/hacker.html: It is better to be described as a hacker by others than to describe oneself

[gentoo-user] Changing Apache htdocs DIR, why?

2003-11-09 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, i was wondering as i see that the config files now have a new htdocs DIR. No more in /home/httpd/htdocs, it moved to /var/www like debian. But, can anybody explaining me why? Beginning of differences between /etc/apache2/conf/apache2.conf and

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing Apache htdocs DIR, why?

2003-11-09 Thread Alberto Garcia Hierro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ServerRoot has moved in order to make things easier for people using vhosts ;-) El Domingo, 9 de Noviembre de 2003 15:48, Denny Schierz escribió: hi, i was wondering as i see that the config files now have a new htdocs DIR. No more in

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing Apache htdocs DIR, why?

2003-11-09 Thread MadMax
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 01:18, Denny Schierz wrote: hi, i was wondering as i see that the config files now have a new htdocs DIR. No more in /home/httpd/htdocs, it moved to /var/www like debian. But, can anybody explaining me why? GLEP 11 discusses this.

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing Apache htdocs DIR, why?

2003-11-09 Thread Redeeman
i dont understand why its easier with vhosts when the documentroot is /var/www, i would believe its the same with /home/httpd :) On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 15:56, Alberto Garcia Hierro wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ServerRoot has moved in order to make things easier for

Re: [gentoo-user] wine'ing some games

2003-11-09 Thread Redeeman
i started it, and now i stop it ### THE END ### On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 15:35, Redeeman wrote: hi, i am trying to wine pocket tanks, and it starts okay, but it sets lower resolution, but it doesent change resolution correct, because it does the same as ctrl + alt + '-' so that it still has

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing Apache htdocs DIR, why?

2003-11-09 Thread Azhdeen
On Sunday 09 November 2003 15:56, Redeeman wrote: i dont understand why its easier with vhosts when the documentroot is /var/www, i would believe its the same with /home/httpd :) the reasons are explained in the document link mentionned in a previous answer in this thread... Azhdeen --

Re: [gentoo-user] converting and editing mov's

2003-11-09 Thread David
On Saturday 08 November 2003 10:33 pm, gabriel wrote: On November 8, 2003 10:33 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got some mov files from a friend of my dog, but one is hugh, over 11MB. I would like to edit it to a smaller size and convert to mpeg. What software do you recommend? i've heard

Re: [gentoo-user] Solved: LILO Windows on 2 Harddisks

2003-11-09 Thread gabor
On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 04:11, Oliver Lange wrote: On Sat, 08 Nov 2003 21:35:00 +0100, Redeeman wrote: i know why. by some reason windoze fails, BUT there is a solution to f00l windoze ;D you gotta make some mappings to trick windows, and then it works (does for me) alltough i changed to grub

Re: [gentoo-user] Limiting search for hard drives

2003-11-09 Thread Spider
begin quote On Sun, 09 Nov 2003 05:59:12 -0800 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is there any simple way to instruct the kernel to limit its boot time search for hard drives to /dev/hda through /dev/hde? I end up with long delay while it waits for no response on the second

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH permission question

2003-11-09 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Stroller, Can you ssh into that machine as regular user..? Yes. I use it quite often $ ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: Permission denied, please try again. [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: Last login: Sun Nov 9 00:08:54 2003 from localhost.localdomain So clearly you

[gentoo-user] MozillaFirebird question

2003-11-09 Thread Ernie Schroder
This may be a dumb question, but can someone explain why one instance of MozillaFirebird with only one tab open starts 5 processes each using about 25 megs of ram? 10187 ernie 15 0 25064 24m 14m S 0.0 4.9 0:01.93 MozillaFirebird 10190 ernie 15 0 25064 24m 14m S 0.0 4.9

Re: [gentoo-user] qt3.2.2 upgrade issues?

2003-11-09 Thread purslow
031108 Andrej Kacian wrote: 8 Nov 2003 Alberto Garcia Hierro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: El Sábado, 8 de Noviembre de 2003 18:45, Chris Bare escribió: I just did an emerge -up world and see: qt-3.2.2-r1 [qt-3.1.2-r4] I was just curious if anyone has had any problems with this. I've just

[gentoo-user] Re: MozillaFirebird question

2003-11-09 Thread Michael Mauch
Ernie Schroder wrote: This may be a dumb question, but can someone explain why one instance of MozillaFirebird with only one tab open starts 5 processes each using about 25 megs of ram? These are probably not processes, but threads (light weight processes), and they are all taking the same

Re: [gentoo-user] Solved: LILO Windows on 2 Harddisks

2003-11-09 Thread Redeeman
i have: title=Microsnot Windoze 2003 Enterprise Server map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) rootnoverify (hd1,0) chainloader +1 makeactive i hope it can help On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 08:13, gabor wrote: On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 04:11, Oliver Lange wrote: On Sat, 08 Nov 2003 21:35:00 +0100, Redeeman

Re: [gentoo-user] Limiting search for hard drives

2003-11-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 07:33, Spider wrote: begin quote On Sun, 09 Nov 2003 05:59:12 -0800 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is there any simple way to instruct the kernel to limit its boot time search for hard drives to /dev/hda through /dev/hde? I end up with long

Re: [gentoo-user] Limiting search for hard drives

2003-11-09 Thread Andrew Dacey
I wonder if you could disable the un-used controllers in the BIOS for the motherboard or the card? Or possibly with jumpers if it's a card. Not sure if that would work or not. Andrew frugal Dacey [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tildefrugal.net/ - Original Message - From: Mark Knecht [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Limiting search for hard drives

2003-11-09 Thread William Kenworthy
Do have the driver for the controller compiled in? I am using a sil controller and found that without the driver it got ignored. The delay is the sil bios checking itself for drives, not the kernel (why it takes so long I dont know). I am ignoring an onboard promise controller the same way: not

RE: [gentoo-user] Emerg errors

2003-11-09 Thread Christopher Johnson
It segfaults, I can build on P4 workstation without any problems so I suspect that I have a damaged processor or bad memory in the AMD workstation. -Original Message- From: Andrew Gaffney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2003 1:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

[gentoo-user] Re: iptables

2003-11-09 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Brian Doob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, it's getting better, but it still doesn't work. Here's what happens: root # iptables -t nat -I POSTROUTING -j MASQUERAQDE -s 192.168.1.3/16 /lib/modules/2.4.22-ck1/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o: unresolved symbol nf_unregister_sockopt

Re: [gentoo-user] Limiting search for hard drives

2003-11-09 Thread Spider
begin quote On Sun, 09 Nov 2003 08:57:58 -0800 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 07:33, Spider wrote: begin quote On Sun, 09 Nov 2003 05:59:12 -0800 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is there any simple way to instruct the kernel to limit its

Re: [gentoo-user] Limiting search for hard drives

2003-11-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 09:38, Spider wrote: A long delay of about 30-45 seconds here, then: hdg: no response (status = 0xfe) then add hdg=ignore, as well. //Spider I did that much before I wrote back. It just doesn't seem to be working. title Gentoo Linux 2.4.22-aa1 root

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: iptables

2003-11-09 Thread Dennis Freise
On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 17:36:21 + (UTC) Eamon Caddigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: root # iptables -t nat -I POSTROUTING -j MASQUERAQDE -s 192.168.1.3/16 /lib/modules/2.4.22-ck1/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o: unresolved symbol nf_unregister_sockopt

Re: [gentoo-user] Limiting search for hard drives

2003-11-09 Thread Spider
begin quote On Sun, 09 Nov 2003 10:03:39 -0800 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 09:38, Spider wrote: A long delay of about 30-45 seconds here, then: hdg: no response (status = 0xfe) //Spider I did that much before I wrote back. It just doesn't seem

[gentoo-user] Re: iptables

2003-11-09 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Dennis Freise [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --Signature=_Sun__9_Nov_2003_19_20_11_+0100_KkMeCY42_=g+UfKT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 17:36:21 + (UTC) Eamon Caddigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: root

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: iptables

2003-11-09 Thread Dennis Freise
On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 18:30:08 + (UTC) Eamon Caddigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Had the same problem when I first tried to get ip_tables up and running. Some Googling revealed that ip_tables only works if CONFIG_MODVERSIONS isn't set. Weird, huh? I do have CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y set and

Re: [gentoo-user] Limiting search for hard drives

2003-11-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 10:27, Spider wrote: ahh, found it! /usr/src/linux/Documentation/ide.txt seems I was misremembering, its not ignore but none hdx= is recognized for all x from a to h, such as hdc. hdx=noprobe : drive may be present, but do not probe for it hdx=none

[gentoo-user] Add new user with a specif password in script

2003-11-09 Thread romildo
Hello. What command(s) should I use in order to add a new user to my system (from a bash script) and specify a default (not null) password for this user? I see that the command useradd does have the -p passwd option, but the passwd should be encrypted, as returned by crypt(3). Then how can I

[gentoo-user] openssl 0.9.7

2003-11-09 Thread miks
Halo i have a problem i updated openssl form 0.9.6 = 0.9.7 gnome crashed i found that # revdep-rebuild will help but when i run it there is problem with kde-base, that wants sun-jdk but i have blackdown-jdk. what to do? than ypu ! miks -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting an ISO image problems

2003-11-09 Thread Andrew Farmer
On Sun, 09 Nov 2003 06:29:35 -0800, Norbert Kamenicky muttered: - snip - Well, the problem is that you can only mount an image as a user if the image and mountpoint are specified in the fstab. I still don't know why mount (or the kernel or something) can't start allowing mounts of a file

Re: [gentoo-user] Add new user with a specif password in script

2003-11-09 Thread Andrew Farmer
On Sun, 09 Nov 2003 10:41:30 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] muttered: Hello. What command(s) should I use in order to add a new user to my system (from a bash script) and specify a default (not null) password for this user? I see that the command useradd does have the -p passwd option, but

[gentoo-user] vncserver + gnome setup problem

2003-11-09 Thread Shane Bouslough
Hi All, I'm using a GRP 1.4 install, and I did an emerge of tightvnc. When I start a vncserver session and then connect remotely via a vnc client, I always get the typical X gray background as if twm was started. My ~/.vnc/xstartup file just contains #!/bin/sh exec

Re: [gentoo-user] MozillaFirebird question

2003-11-09 Thread ben
Same process, different threads. The memory is shared across the threads so the figures for memory usage look worse than they actually are. It's not a dumb question, it's a dumb threading model, which is why it's been junked in favour of NPTL in the 2,6* kernels... Ben This may be a dumb

[gentoo-user] looking for gentoo for dummies

2003-11-09 Thread brian connolly
Greetings all, I've tried seven or more distros in the last week. The conclusion: I am really looking for the gentoo philosophy and sophistication. I want a platform that is optimized for best practices and best tools. However, I am a newbie. As hard as I try, I am not going to be able to

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for gentoo for dummies

2003-11-09 Thread Mark Knecht
However, I am a newbie. As hard as I try, I am not going to be able to install for the documentation provided. Brian, I think you don't give yourself enough credit. I'm not all that experienced in Linux, but the Gentoo install instructions really do work Give them a try. Follow them

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for gentoo for dummies

2003-11-09 Thread Azhdeen
if you tried seven distros in the last week, you're not a total beginner... if you follow the documentation, you should be OK, only don't try to go too fast, be patient while the stuff compiles, and avoid having several consoles chrooted in the gentoo install at the same time (believe me, it's

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for gentoo for dummies

2003-11-09 Thread Hall Stevenson
On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 16:07, brian connolly wrote: I've tried seven or more distros in the last week. The conclusion: I am really looking for the gentoo philosophy and sophistication. I want a platform that is optimized for best practices and best tools. However, I am a newbie. As hard as

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for gentoo for dummies

2003-11-09 Thread Hall Stevenson
On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 16:31, Azhdeen wrote: if you tried seven distros in the last week, you're not a total beginner... Nothing against the original poster, but if one tries (7) distros in one week, how much time can possibly be spent with each one ?? Hall -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for gentoo for dummies

2003-11-09 Thread Tom Wesley
On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 21:07, brian connolly wrote: Greetings all, I've tried seven or more distros in the last week. The conclusion: I am really looking for the gentoo philosophy and sophistication. I want a platform that is optimized for best practices and best tools. However, I am a

[gentoo-user] Re: Xscreensaver

2003-11-09 Thread Richard Revis
On Sat, 08 Nov 2003 21:52:27 +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: XScreensaver always accepts the root password regardless of who is logged in so that root can always access the machine. Take the case where VTSwitching and killing of the XServer are disabled, root can only gain access to the machine

RE: [gentoo-user] openssl 0.9.7

2003-11-09 Thread John Ross Hunt
Halo i have a problem i updated openssl form 0.9.6 = 0.9.7 gnome crashed i found that # revdep-rebuild will help but when i run it there is problem with kde-base, that wants sun-jdk but i have blackdown-jdk. what to do? than ypu ! miks Perhaps injecting sun-jdk will

[gentoo-user] GLIS for dummies

2003-11-09 Thread brian connolly
Tom, Ya think someone might write an IS-GLIS? This is how dumb I am... how do you install the Gentoo install script? Download the latest release... got it. Extract by typing the following: tar xvjpf glis*.tar.bz2 when, where? Run ./glis for directions what? Brian -Original Message-

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for gentoo for dummies

2003-11-09 Thread Azhdeen
On Sunday 09 November 2003 23:31, Tom Wesley wrote: As others have suggested, you should probably force yourself to learn, but you might like to take a look at the Gentoo Linux Install Script at http://glis.sf.net. i didn't know this script existed, but my choosing Gentoo was (partly) to

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for gentoo for dummies

2003-11-09 Thread Tom Wesley
On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 22:54, Azhdeen wrote: On Sunday 09 November 2003 23:31, Tom Wesley wrote: As others have suggested, you should probably force yourself to learn, but you might like to take a look at the Gentoo Linux Install Script at http://glis.sf.net. i didn't know this script

Re: [gentoo-user] GLIS for dummies

2003-11-09 Thread Phil Sexton
On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 17:47, brian connolly wrote: Tom, Ya think someone might write an IS-GLIS? This is how dumb I am... how do you install the Gentoo install script? Download the latest release... got it. Extract by typing the following: tar xvjpf glis*.tar.bz2 when, where? Run

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for gentoo for dummies

2003-11-09 Thread Azhdeen
On Sunday 09 November 2003 23:58, Tom Wesley wrote: Depends if you read and understand how the installer does what it does or not ;-) the idea with Gentoo is that I play the installer, no ? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for gentoo for dummies

2003-11-09 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 November 2003 23:05, Azhdeen wrote: the idea with Gentoo is that I play the installer, no ? Nope, the idea with Gentoo is a distribution which gives you the tools to do what you want. Attached is a posting from Daniel Robbins which

[gentoo-user] Querying the Portage database

2003-11-09 Thread Thomas Smith
I'm new to Gentoo (switching from RH9) and have become used to RPMs and their query tools. I've been looking for a way to query the Portage database to determine what's installed and get general info regarding the packages--I'm looking for something similar to rpm -qa. At the end of this

Re: [gentoo-user] Querying the Portage database

2003-11-09 Thread Tom Wesley
On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 23:23, Thomas Smith wrote: I'm new to Gentoo (switching from RH9) and have become used to RPMs and their query tools. I've been looking for a way to query the Portage database to determine what's installed and get general info regarding the packages--I'm looking for

Re: [gentoo-user] Querying the Portage database

2003-11-09 Thread Hall Stevenson
On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 18:23, Thomas Smith wrote: I'm new to Gentoo (switching from RH9) and have become used to RPMs and their query tools. I've been looking for a way to query the Portage database to determine what's installed and get general info regarding the packages--I'm looking for

RE: [gentoo-user] vncserver + gnome setup problem

2003-11-09 Thread John Ross Hunt
Hi All, I'm using a GRP 1.4 install, and I did an emerge of tightvnc. When I start a vncserver session and then connect remotely via a vnc client, I always get the typical X gray background as if twm was started. My ~/.vnc/xstartup file just contains #!/bin/sh exec

Re: [gentoo-user] Querying the Portage database

2003-11-09 Thread Henti Smith
Thomas Smith wrote: I'm new to Gentoo (switching from RH9) and have become used to RPMs and their query tools. I've been looking for a way to query the Portage database to determine what's installed and get general info regarding the packages--I'm looking for something similar to rpm -qa.

Re: [gentoo-user] Querying the Portage database

2003-11-09 Thread Jiim
Hall Stevenson wrote: The best you'll get is the 'qpkg' program. Running qpkg by itself is supposed to return installed packages, but it appears to list everything in the portage database. Packages you have installed are marked with an *. Problem is, my limited knowledge of 'grep' doesn't allow

[gentoo-user] RE: GLIS for dummies

2003-11-09 Thread brian connolly
Maybe a more basic question: I've got the latest live CD and GLIS... what do I do? Regards, Brian -Original Message- From: brian connolly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2003 4:47 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: GLIS for dummies Tom, Ya think someone might

Re: [gentoo-user] GLIS for dummies

2003-11-09 Thread Andrew Gaffney
GLIS was recently re-written to clean up the code and include a lot of bug fixes. Right now, I'm working on a GUI for GLIS, but it will be a while before its usable. At the moment, GLIS is more for people who have already installed Gentoo and know what they are doing, who just want to automate

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.2.0 beta and XMMS problems

2003-11-09 Thread SN
Did you recompile xmms after you emerged kde? I'd do it unless you run xmms with output plugin alsa. If xmms still doesn't work with arts output , after recompiling xmms, then I'd file a bugreport. - Original Message - From: Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] A hardware related question (does my laptop have AGP?)

2003-11-09 Thread Zarick Lau
Hi, Thanks for you all the kindly reply :) On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 01:36, Matt Chorman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 07 November 2003 01:28 am, Zarick Lau wrote: Hi, I have a question regarding my laptop, I'd try to config the DRI stuff on my lovely

Re: [gentoo-user] GLIS for dummies

2003-11-09 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Sounds about right to me. brian connolly wrote: In other words To summarize the heart of Gentoo, imagine a user sitting in front of a Linux system. What does he or she want do to? The Gentoo philosophy is to allow this user to do what he or she wants to do, without getting in the way.

Re: [gentoo-user] GLIS for dummies

2003-11-09 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I think if you look carefully you'll find that these fancy GUI installers and sysadmin tools really don't help you any. I've used them on some other distros and found that I didn't have to have any knowledge of what was happening - I just pointed and clicked and hoped it worked. When it

[gentoo-user] Netscape-Navigator - emerge or download

2003-11-09 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I'm trying to find a good multimedia setup for this PC I'm building for my dad. Alsa is installed and working fine, as is Mozilla, but there are a lot of data types that aren't getting played by Plugger-4.0. Fredrik's page says to check problems with Netscape first before reporting a bug,

[gentoo-user] [OT] JUNK! RE: [gentoo-user] GLIS for dummies

2003-11-09 Thread Przemysaw Macig
99% of Your emails consist the previous one(s). THIS IS JUNK!! If everything what You want to say is in the 3-4 lines of new text, for what do You need the rest?? It's unreadable for me! Though my english isn't perfect, I really understand what I need and/or want - except emails like this with

[gentoo-user] gdm login failure

2003-11-09 Thread Oliver Lange
Hello everyone, Due to some reason i can no longer login (X); the login manager says my session lasted no longer than 10 seconds, talking about missing logoff or system installation problem. Login doesn't work either with root or my user account, so my box is locked after running gdm and i need

[gentoo-user] problems with vga during boot

2003-11-09 Thread Oliver Lange
Hi everyone, Gotta problem with vga settings (LILO); after changing vga mode to 1024x768 or 800x600, LILO appears. After boot selection, the screen turns black, game over. Probably a kernel config issue ? System: AthlonXP on ASUS A7N8X-Deluxe Graphics: GeForce4 TI-4200 Kernel:

Re: [gentoo-user] gdm login failure

2003-11-09 Thread Matt Chorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 November 2003 06:54 pm, Oliver Lange wrote: Hello everyone, Due to some reason i can no longer login (X); the login manager says my session lasted no longer than 10 seconds, talking about missing logoff or system installation

RE: [gentoo-user] GLIS for dummies

2003-11-09 Thread brian connolly
Bottom line: Gentoo's reputation is good... but definitely hampered by what is generally regarded as a difficult install. You know that. Now rather than do something, per se, the typical OS dev will point to various reference material to learn. They'll talk about how that's a good thing.

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with vga during boot

2003-11-09 Thread Matt Chorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 November 2003 07:00 pm, Oliver Lange wrote: Hi everyone, Gotta problem with vga settings (LILO); after changing vga mode to 1024x768 or 800x600, LILO appears. After boot selection, the screen turns black, game over. Probably a

Re: [gentoo-user] GLIS for dummies

2003-11-09 Thread Nathaniel McCallum
On 11/9/03 10:08 PM, brian connolly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bottom line: Gentoo's reputation is good... but definitely hampered by what is generally regarded as a difficult install. You know that. Now rather than do something, per se, the typical OS dev will point to various reference

Re: [gentoo-user] Netscape-Navigator - emerge or download

2003-11-09 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I'm trying to find a good multimedia setup for this PC I'm building for my dad. Alsa is installed and working fine, as is Mozilla, but there are a lot of data types that aren't getting played by Plugger-4.0. Fredrik's page says to check problems with Netscape first before

Re: [gentoo-user] gdm login failure

2003-11-09 Thread Oliver Lange
On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 19:02:58 -0800, Matt Chorman wrote: If you can't login as root I doubt it's a configuration problem - then again, root probably isn't allowed to login to X (unless you configured it that way.) What DE are you trying to open? KDE, Gnome? Check the error logs... Gnome/gdm

Re: [gentoo-user] GLIS for dummies

2003-11-09 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Monday 10 November 2003 12:08, brian connolly wrote: Bottom line: Gentoo's reputation is good... but definitely hampered by what is generally regarded as a difficult install. You know that. Now rather than do something, per se, the typical OS dev will point to various reference material

RE: [gentoo-user] GLIS for dummies

2003-11-09 Thread brian connolly
Jason, From a business perspective... you've just set up 10 possible hurdles to lose users and patrons. If it were Vegas, that'd be that game no one played. Now let me clarify; I say business perspective, not to be confused necessarily with revenue, because in the end user relevance is

Re: [gentoo-user] GLIS for dummies

2003-11-09 Thread Chris
Gentoo was chosen for me and a few others I know because of the install choices and procedures and as a test. Now that I have been using Gentoo for a few months I can honestly say that I have not found a better OS tothis date. Personally I loved the install, it was fun, informative, interesting

Re: [gentoo-user] I broke my emerge somehow

2003-11-09 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Nov 8, 2003, at 12:54 AM, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: Hi All I seem to have broken my emerge. Anything I try and emerge gets a connection timeout and this happens on every host it tries, not just one. I can ssh out of my machine and I can ping the host it is trying to download

Re: [gentoo-user] GLIS for dummies

2003-11-09 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Actually, no I don't know that. I found the instructions good and usuable - I followed them and it worked. I use it, too as do most of us. I don't know what typical OS you used but on Windows, VMS, Unix, Linux I found books to read and asked about other sources of info to help me administer

[gentoo-user] Masked package when upgrading world

2003-11-09 Thread Eamon Caddigan
I have only two masked packages installed, but they're causing me trouble when updating world. I'm using Tcl and Tk 8.4.4, and the following happens: -- begin: emerge -pvUD world --upgradeonly implies --update... adding --update to options. These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for gentoo for dummies

2003-11-09 Thread Steve Withers
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 10:07, brian connolly wrote: As such, is there a gentoo version for dummies? Are there any plans for a more automated install script? Brian Connolly I know what you mean. Much of the documentation assumes you have a background in PCs and can understand what is being

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with vga during boot

2003-11-09 Thread Oliver Lange
On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 19:10:39 -0800, Matt Chorman wrote: What vga line (size) are you passing on to the kernel? Have you tried disabling acpi? Well ACPI is at least disabled in the kernel config. I've tried vga = 791 for 1024x768 - 16 and some other modes shown in the table in the install guide,

Re: [gentoo-user] GLIS for dummies

2003-11-09 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
The Gentoo is difficult thing has been a pet peeve of mine for a long time, so please excuse the lengthy reply... None of this is intended as flame, merely as an opposing viewpoint. On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 21:47:37 -0600 brian connolly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | From a business perspective... you've

Re: [gentoo-user] openssl 0.9.7

2003-11-09 Thread Matt Chorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 November 2003 12:38 pm, miks wrote: Halo i have a problem i updated openssl form 0.9.6 = 0.9.7 unmerge it and remerge openssl-0.9.6? The current ebuild fails to build the compatibility libraries. It is known and I think it will be

Re: [gentoo-user] GLIS for dummies

2003-11-09 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: But what if I didn't want a super-flexible install, and would prefer to hide behind a pretty front end? Well, thanks to the GLIS guys, that's also an option. You need only type in two commands (assuming you don't have a wierd network setup, but if GLIS makes it onto the

Re: [gentoo-user] gdm login failure

2003-11-09 Thread DB Wong
--- Oliver Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 Gnome/gdm Addendum: i can create a new user and login with that account, but not as root or using my standard user account. A relogin with the new dummy account was also successful. Any attempt to use root or my user accound

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with vga during boot

2003-11-09 Thread DB Wong
--- Oliver Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 19:10:39 -0800, Matt Chorman wrote: I've tried vga = 791 for 1024x768 - 16 and some other modes shown in the table in the install guide, but none worked. I tried vga = ask, the modes the kernel suggested worked, but the font

[gentoo-user] Re: Netscape-Navigator - emerge or download

2003-11-09 Thread dave willis
On Sun, 9 Nov 2003, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I'm trying to find a good multimedia setup for this PC I'm building for my dad. Alsa is installed and working fine, as is Mozilla, but there are a lot of data types that aren't getting played by Plugger-4.0. Fredrik's page says to check problems

Re: [gentoo-user] openssl 0.9.7

2003-11-09 Thread Bryce
While we're talking about openssl 0.9.7 failures, abiword no longer works after this upgrade as well. I've tried reemerging libgnome( that's the error that happens while rebuilding abiword) and i get no love. bryce On Sunday 09 November 2003 09:19 pm, Matt Chorman wrote: On Sunday 09

Re: [gentoo-user] gdm login failure

2003-11-09 Thread Oliver Lange
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 00:26:15 -0500 (EST), DB Wong wrote: session lasts less than 10 sek. errmsg. Have you tried deleting the file session under .gnome2 in the root/standard user account? If you do this, you'll start the original default session. Well i didn't know what this file exactly

Re: [gentoo-user] Querying the Portage database

2003-11-09 Thread Daniel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 08:53 am, Thomas Smith wrote: I'm new to Gentoo (switching from RH9) and have become used to RPMs and their query tools. Welcome to the Gentoo community. I've been looking for a way to query the Portage database to determine

[gentoo-user] KDE 3.2.0 beta and XMMS problems

2003-11-09 Thread Jerry McBride
Anyone else having problems running XMMS under the new KDE beta? It totally locks up the desktop here when trying to play mp3's through the arts plugin. Tried re-emerging all related components to o avail... MPG123 or MPG321 both still work, if only I could find a decent GUI/Frontend for

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