[gentoo-user] Re: Old kernel versions
"Beau E. Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now I notice in eix that all my old kernels are marked as > 'installed'. I normally keep only the previous kernel in > /boot. Can I safely 'emerge -C' the older kernels w/o > upsetting my apple cart? Yes: unlike most packages these are the kernel *sources* not the kernel install (which you have done manually). (So you could do emerge gentoo sources, config, make, install etc, and immediately remove the kernel sources.) -- Simon Kellett,| Gentoo Linux, Fvwm, Firefox Darmstadt, Germany| Xemacs, Vm, Gnus -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Multiple Firefox v1.5 Instances
Richard Ruth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now that I am using FireFox V1.5 (Deer Park), if > FireFox is already running, /usr/bin/firefox > -ProfileManager does not start the profile manager, > instead a new FireFox window of the already running > FireFox is started. > > How do I start a second instance of FireFox V1.5? Does export MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1; firefox ; firefox -ProfileManager help ? -- Simon Kellett,| Gentoo Linux, Fvwm, Firefox Darmstadt, Germany| Xemacs, Vm, Gnus -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: which video card for dell2005fpw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I'm looking for recommendations for a new video card. Obviously > something that works well with Linux in general and Gentoo in > particular. > > Any suggestions? Depends a bit on what you want: basic stuff or 3d-gaming ! > Should I prefer a digital interface over the analog? I think yes: why convert to an analog signal when the source and receiver are both digital ? Also now problems with alignment. However, when I looked anyway, you could not save any money by only have DVI - you have to buy a card that supports both !! -- Simon Kellett,| Gentoo Linux, Fvwm, Firefox Darmstadt, Germany| Xemacs, Vm, Gnus -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: which video card for dell2005fpw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> Depends a bit on what you want: basic stuff or 3d-gaming ! > > Basic stuff. Not into games, and I don't watch movies on my computer > either. Same as me then: I just bought the cheapest card with an nVidia chip, AGP8 and DVI out at my local computer shop: ASUS V9400-X/TD / NVIDIA (GeForce4) MX 4000 / 64Mb (but I only use 1280x1024). 39 Euros now. Works for me :-) (I forgot to mention that you may wish to choose a card that is *passively* cooled if you do not like fan noise !!) -- Simon Kellett,| Gentoo Linux, Fvwm, Firefox Darmstadt, Germany| Xemacs, Vm, Gnus -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Are multiple emerges safe?
Andrei Slavoiu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A very useful application for this is to do something > like this: in one console start `emerge -f kde` and in > another `emerge kde`. The first will just download the > files needed and the second will compile them. Or just add parallel-fetch to FEATURES in /etc/make.conf (This feature is new and does not seem to be well documented, I read it on a Forum and have not had chance to use is yet !) -- Simon Kellett,| Gentoo Linux, Fvwm, Firefox Darmstadt, Germany| Xemacs, Vm, Gnus -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: X USE flag - what does it do?
Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > build R ] media-video/vlc-0.8.4a USE="alsa arts cdda dvd esd ffmpeg > matroska mp3 mpeg nls nsplugin ogg real vlm vorbis win32codecs wxwindows > xml2 xv -3dfx -X -a52 -aac -aalib -avahi -bidi -corba -daap -debug -dts -dvb > -fbcon -flac -ggi -gnutls -hal -httpd -joystick -libcaca -lirc -live -mod > -ncurses -opengl -oss -png -samba -screen -sdl -shout -skins -speex -stream > -svg -svga -theora -truetype -v4l -vcd -xinerama -xosd" 0 kB > > As you can see, I built vlc with USE=-X. What am I > now missing? When I startup vlc, I still have a X > GUI. Sorry: I can not answer your question, but there is an error in your reasoning (I think). I assume the output above is from emerge -pv ? If so then I think it is NOT showing you the flags that *were* used to emerge the package, but the flags that *will* be used if you do a new (re)emerge. This will be different, for example, if you changed something in /etc/portage, or set flags on the command line for the previous emerge. -- Simon Kellett,| Gentoo Linux, Fvwm, Firefox Darmstadt, Germany| Xemacs, Vm, Gnus -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Are multiple emerges safe?
> My guess would be adds the ability to grab packages at the same time > you're compiling; so, grab packages needed to emerge one ebuild, then > while that one is compiling grab the next sources in the background. That is also my understanding: after the first download, the process forks: 1 for downloading, the other to compile. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-297712-highlight-parallelfetch.html -- Simon Kellett,| Gentoo Linux, Fvwm, Firefox Darmstadt, Germany| Xemacs, Vm, Gnus -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: X USE flag - what does it do?
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Any changed flags will have a * after them. I thought that meant that the option was "auto-selected" for you (eg if the default for this ebuild is -perl, but you have perl installed it will change the default to +perl and put a * by it to warn you. Unfortunately man emerge does not help !! -- Simon Kellett,| Gentoo Linux, Fvwm, Firefox Darmstadt, Germany| Xemacs, Vm, Gnus -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: X USE flag - what does it do?
Harm Geerts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > man emerge (sys-apps/portage-2.1_pre4-r1) > > build U ] sys-devel/distcc-2.16 [2.13-r1] USE="ipv6* -gtk -qt%" > Here we see that the make.conf variable USE affects how this package is > built. In this example, ipv6 optional support is enabled and both gtk and qt > support are disabled. The asterisk... Yep: I stand corrected. I missed this paragraph when I searched for it last night !! I can see it now ! -- Simon Kellett,| Gentoo Linux, Fvwm, Firefox Darmstadt, Germany| Xemacs, Vm, Gnus -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox
Chan Min Wai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Why The [Account Setting] And [Preference] is Under the [Edit] Menu > Where on the windows build it is under the [Tools] Menu. > > Any Idea? It is the difference between what someone considers "standard" for Windows vs. Unix. (And it annoys me as I use Windows at work, and Linux at home.) -- Simon Kellett,| Gentoo Linux, Fvwm, Firefox Darmstadt, Germany| Xemacs, Vm, Gnus -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: fbsplash starting after local and not during boot
Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.14-gentoo-r5-fb root=/dev/ram0 init=linuxrc > ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda3 quiet video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr,[EMAIL > PROTECTED] > splash=silent,fadein,theme:emergence quiet CONSOLE=/dev/tty1 As a side issue: for kernel versions from 2.6.13 onwards you must specify the mtrr mode: eg "mtrr:2". IIRC the default is off !! -- Simon Kellett,| Gentoo Linux, Fvwm, Firefox Darmstadt, Germany| Xemacs, Vm, Gnus -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: install windows after gentoo on two different physical drives
"Marco Calviani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >i have a machine with two SATA hard disk. I would like to know if > there are some possibilties to install windows (XP in particular) on > the second hard drive AFTER gentoo has been installed on the first > one, and, if yes, how to perform this task. IIRC Windows likes (or used) to be installed on the first drive *only*. I would take no chances and physically *remove* your Linux disc, make your windows-to-be disk the first drive, install Windows, put your linux disk back in, install Grub and correct /etc/fstab if required. -- Simon Kellett,| Gentoo Linux, Fvwm, Firefox Darmstadt, Germany| Xemacs, Vm, Gnus -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: bash_history
Goran Maksimoviæ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, but is there someway that when i press ctrl-alt-del that before Linux > goes > in the process of reboot he previously log outs and then he goes in the > process > of reboot? I have not tried it but, for example my /etc/inittab has a line: ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -h now I am guessing that you could replace the shutdown command with a script of your own that does whatever you want, and then finally calls shutdown ? -- Simon Kellett,| Gentoo Linux, Fvwm, Firefox Darmstadt, Germany| Xemacs, Vm, Gnus -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: mpg123: Can't open /dev/dsp!
"Walter Dnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ... mpg123 complains about not being able to open /dev/dsp ... Does "mpg123 -a /dev/sound/dsp" work ? -- Simon Kellett,| Gentoo Linux, Fvwm, Firefox Darmstadt, Germany| Xemacs, Vm, Gnus -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: send mail to gentoo-user locally
"Mingfeng Yang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Postfix is installed in my local machine to deliver mails locally > (mainly for sending me the system logs). Now my problem is: the mail > sent out by postfix (sendmail) is always get rejected by the mailing > lists, though I set "my_hdr From: mfyang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" in > muttrc. Do you send outgoing mail via a "smart host" ? If not then is there somewhere like [EMAIL PROTECTED] that will authenticate you and the pass your email on ? Otherwise you will get blocked because you could be anyone, with any faked headers, especially if you are on dial-up. -- Simon Kellett,| Gentoo Linux, Fvwm, Firefox Darmstadt, Germany| Xemacs, Vm, Gnus -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Newbie question : specific software version no more available
sebastien Pastor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When i got all those scripts stabilized, i really wanted to keep > exactly same version of binaries. After installing a new server, i got > the surprise not being able to use ecasound-2.3.3, the only version > available is the 2.4.3. This is one of the (few) things I do not like about Gentoo - sort of *forced* upgrades. There are manual workarounds, but I think it would be very friendly if I could flag packages as not-to-upgrade: the ebuild (and dependencies) would always be kept. -- Simon Kellett,| Gentoo Linux, Fvwm, Firefox Darmstadt, Germany| Xemacs, Vm, Gnus -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: How to tar?
"Michael Kintzios" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have move my /usr onto a different machine as part of a migration > exercise, but the partition in question will barely contain it. Is > there a way of running tar ... Why do you need to tar it up ? Is there a network connect between the 2 machines: if yes than can you just use rsync to push the files across directly ? -- Simon Kellett,| Gentoo Linux, Fvwm, Firefox Darmstadt, Germany| Xemacs, Vm, Gnus -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: screen flickers/static
JimD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I first installed Gentoo I was using the vesa driver until I > downloaded the NVidia driver. With the vesa driver I too had > flickers. However once I installed the Nvidia driver the problem went > away. If you do have NVidia then the Xorg "nv" driver may be good enough for you (I am happy with it!), and is less hassle than the full NVidia driver. Either way, try to use the correct video driver. -- Simon Kellett,| Gentoo Linux, Fvwm, Firefox Darmstadt, Germany| Xemacs, Vm, Gnus -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Newbie question : specific software version no more available
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You can, by adding ">cate-gory/package-version" to > /etc/portage/package.mask. As long as the package is installed, a copy > of the ebuild will stay in /var/db/pkg. Portage never forces you to > upgrade anything. OK: thanks I did not know this. (I have never tried anything like emerge world yet, I just update the packages as I need (either bug fixing or for new functionality): I just noticed the older ebuilds go missing from /usr/portage). -- Simon Kellett,| Gentoo Linux, Fvwm, Firefox Darmstadt, Germany| Xemacs, Vm, Gnus -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: wget -c strange behaviour
Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So the question is: why does wget try to download it from the > beginning? wget shouldn't do this even if the server can't resume, > wget should just die. man wget :-) "Note that -c only works with FTP servers and with HTTP servers that support the "Range" header." I am guessing his does not ! -- Simon Kellett,| Gentoo Linux, Fvwm, Firefox Darmstadt, Germany| Xemacs, Vm, Gnus -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: where is /dev/ttyS* ?
maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > #pon > /usr/sbin/pppd: In file /etc/peers/hd: unrecognized > option '/dev/ttyS0' Sorry if it sounds obvious, but do you have serial port built into the kernel ? Is it recognised at boot up ? Was the old softlink created by the kernel or udev ? -- Simon Kellett,| Gentoo Linux, Fvwm, Firefox Darmstadt, Germany| Xemacs, Vm, Gnus -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: trouble running X clients as root
Tamas Sarga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I tried to reproduce it, but can't. But I dicovered, that `sux` and > `sux -` is not the same. The help doesn't say anything about - > parameter, but if I give `env` after `sux` and `sux -` then I found > some differences. Maybe `sux -` worth a try for you. BTW I can start > xterm without any error or warning with or without -. I do not know what sux it, but it is related to su then the - determines, IIRC whether or not to inherent the current shells environment or to setup the new users environment. Eg from bash su - will cause /root/.profile and .bashrc (IIRC!). -- Simon Kellett,| Gentoo Linux, Fvwm, Firefox Darmstadt, Germany| Xemacs, Vm, Gnus -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: cd record does not record!
Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am not surprised . . . how can a CD clean a lens unless it has a > little brush and a vacuum cleaner/degreaser attached to it? :-)) Well: yes they do have little brushes mounted into the plastic disk ! (but no vacuum or de-greaser): you way get lucky and knock an offending fleck of dust off the lens ! -- Simon Kellett,| Gentoo Linux, Fvwm, Firefox Darmstadt, Germany| Xemacs, Vm, Gnus -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Windows <->Linux Video Chat App
Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Would like to know if there's any app available which can do that. > Gaim-VV seems to have stopped devel. Ekiga doesn't work on windows. > Skype works.. but it's only audio on Linux. Netmeeting on Windows should be able to talk to Gnomemeeting on Linux (the app does not *have* to be the same, just the protocols and codecs etc.) -- Simon Kellett,| Gentoo Linux, Fvwm, Firefox Darmstadt, Germany| Xemacs, Vm, Gnus -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?
"b.n." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Neil Bothwick wrote: >... > At home I use rxvt. Simple, very fast on startup. > > At work I use konsole. I like the "session" thing it has and the tabs, > since I use a lot of interactive shell apps like python-ipython-octave > at work they often comes quite handy. If you like rxvt and tabs, then try mrxvt: I tried various terminals a year or so ago and I am still very happy with mrxvt: and it is developing fast. I like: - tabs, with k/b shortcuts to change quickly - lightweight (run-time and compile time (only X libs)) - works on Linux (at home) and Solaris (at work) - can easily configure colours, incl. tabs. (I am not sure what the "session" thing you like is, but with mrxvt you can pre-define commands in the config file to run in each different tab when mrxvt is started; but you can not save a session from an existing mrxvt.) -- Simon Kellett,| Gentoo Linux, Fvwm, Firefox Darmstadt, Germany| Xemacs, Vm, Gnus -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
