[gentoo-user] how can i safely install masked package?

2004-01-03 Thread Tianran Chen
I'm sorry if this is a stupid question. I am just tring to install gdesklets, which is a masked package. Is there a safe way to install such packages without make damage to the dependency tree? Thanks for any help. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] gimp and gif files

2004-01-03 Thread Collins
I don't see any way to get gimp to create a gif file. The option is there but greyed out. I've tried emerging gimp with USE="gif" but that does no good. Looking at the ebuilds, I don't even see gif in the IUSE list. Any ideas. -- Collins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] System Load Monitor

2004-01-03 Thread Jason Cooper
Steve B. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I would like to graphicaly be able to monitor various aspects of my gentoo > system. For example, cpu load, mem load, eth load. Are there any sys load > monitors one would recommended (preferably one t

Re: [gentoo-user] System Load Monitor

2004-01-03 Thread KamaolaKid
gkrellm -- Kyle S. Steve B. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I would like to graphicaly be able to monitor various aspects of my gentoo system. For example, cpu load, mem load, eth load. Are there any sys load monitors one would recommended (preferably one that will work w

[gentoo-user] Odd emerge activity

2004-01-03 Thread Tom Richards
Since I was so attacked in my previous post...hopefully this one goes better(and no, my machine is correctly clocked while this is happening...) This has only happened with a couple packages that I have installed, but this one is the most recent. On all the ones it has happened, the programs h

[gentoo-user] dm-crypt

2004-01-03 Thread Jerry McBride
Anybody else using it with their gentoo? It's going to be the replacement (most likely) for the current crypto-loop solution. -- ** Registered Linux User Number 185956 http://groups.goog

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Dynamic partition resize?

2004-01-03 Thread Vanh Phom
On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 20:37, Simon Kellett wrote: > "parted" does enough of this for free !! One thing it can not do is > extend ext2 downwards, but you can work around this by creating a new > partition below, moving the files down, deleting the upper partition > and then extending the lower part

[gentoo-user] problem with portage and alsa-lib

2004-01-03 Thread Glenn Johnson
I am maintaining an "~x86" system and have alsa-lib-1.0.0_rc2 installed. When doing an 'emerge -Dup world', portage wants to downgrade alsa-lib to 0.9.8. What is strange is that it seems that alsa-lib itself is causing this. I did an 'emerge -C alsa-lib' to remove alsa-lib-1.0.0_rc2. Then upon d

Re: [gentoo-user] RE: motherboard

2004-01-03 Thread Steve B.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I read somewhere how to setup the sound in linux (well KDE anyways) I will try and track them down. On Sunday 04 January 2004 05:57, Ashay Humane wrote: > I have an A7N8X Dlx and a Biostar MNCD Pro. > Having run Gentoo on both with Barton's 2500+ wi

[gentoo-user] RE: motherboard

2004-01-03 Thread Ashay Humane
I have an A7N8X Dlx and a Biostar MNCD Pro. Having run Gentoo on both with Barton's 2500+ with 512MB PC3200, I would say there's no difference in performance/stability between these two. Asus soundstorm features are inaccessible in Linux anyways (afaik). So if you don't care for onboard SATA, th

[gentoo-user] System Load Monitor

2004-01-03 Thread Steve B.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I would like to graphicaly be able to monitor various aspects of my gentoo system. For example, cpu load, mem load, eth load. Are there any sys load monitors one would recommended (preferably one that will work with fluxbox). Thanks, Steve - -- P

Re: [gentoo-user] Quick emerge -u world questions

2004-01-03 Thread Spider
begin quote On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 21:46:45 -0500 Robert G. Waycott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Spider, I > don't follow your suggestion to 'check the RAM fex.' What's 'fex.'? "fex", short for "for example" in this case, sig11 is a common error on compilations for systems where there are hardwa

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird System Behavior after Overclocking

2004-01-03 Thread Andrew Cowie
On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 07:26, Tom Richards wrote: > Oh, sorry bout that. And please don't include the entire body of someone else's email just to have a one line response. Take the time to quote the relevant section and reply to that. I don't need to see the whole previous message - It's ok - I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] env.d

2004-01-03 Thread Ben Munat
thank you very much... extremely helpful Phil Barnett wrote: On Saturday 03 January 2004 8:54 pm, Ben Munat wrote: Yeah, I read through that doc, but it didn't seem to have anything about root vs. regular user. However, I have (sort of) solved my problem... discovered that su-ing to my regular

[gentoo-user] Bootmenu for selecting a GUI to start

2004-01-03 Thread Thorsten Kampe
Hello, I'm looking for a solution to "hook" somekind of a boot menu into the boot process. Something like '"Do you want to start the GUI (kdm)? [Y]es [N]o' If I select "Yes" within five seconds "/etc/init.d/xdm start" is executed - otherwise not. What's the best way to do this without changing o

Re: [gentoo-user] env.d

2004-01-03 Thread Phil Barnett
On Saturday 03 January 2004 8:54 pm, Ben Munat wrote: > Yeah, I read through that doc, but it didn't seem to have anything about > root vs. regular user. However, I have (sort of) solved my problem... > discovered that su-ing to my regular user from root is not the same as > logging in as that u

Re: [gentoo-user] env.d

2004-01-03 Thread Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
Ben Munat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yeah, I read through that doc, but it didn't seem to have anything about root > vs. regular user. However, I have (sort of) solved my problem... discovered that > su-ing to my regular user from root is not the same as logging in as that > user... certain log

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing /usr/portage across machines?

2004-01-03 Thread Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
Tom Fredrik Blenning Klaussen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 04:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I nfs-share /usr/portage. It works fine for me. > When talking about sharing /usr/portage I do it at home, but I get a > huge performance hit when it comes to dependency calculati

[gentoo-user] DirectFB and screen

2004-01-03 Thread Bill Roberts
Is there anyway of using DirectFB with screen? I use DirectFB with links -g to get a graphical browser from the command line. Works great, except when I try to use it with screen. My workaround is to open a second virtual terminal, but that is a kludge. Any suggestions. -- Bill Roberts -- [

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing /usr/portage across machines?

2004-01-03 Thread Tom Fredrik Blenning Klaussen
On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 04:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I nfs-share /usr/portage. It works fine for me. When talking about sharing /usr/portage I do it at home, but I get a huge performance hit when it comes to dependency calculation. Is there any network filesystem very well suited for this kin

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Quick emerge -u world questions

2004-01-03 Thread Robert G . Waycott
From: Spider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 2004/01/03 Sat PM 07:36:39 EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Quick emerge -u world questions lots of weird segfault /ice.. Are you overclocking? If so this could be a show of me

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird System Behavior after Overclocking

2004-01-03 Thread Tom Richards
Oh, sorry bout that. begin quote On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 15:42:21 + Tom Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I recently got a new machine, as some of you may remember from my FS post before xmas. The CPU I have is an AMD Athlon 2000+ and I'm running an Abit KD7A mobo. I can get the system to

Re: [gentoo-user] env.d

2004-01-03 Thread Ben Munat
Yeah, I read through that doc, but it didn't seem to have anything about root vs. regular user. However, I have (sort of) solved my problem... discovered that su-ing to my regular user from root is not the same as logging in as that user... certain login files aren't read, I would imagine. So,

Re: [gentoo-user] env.d

2004-01-03 Thread Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
Ben Munat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So, how can I have my regular user take advantage of env.d? My path just has the > two or three obvious entries. I can add other stuff manually, but c'mon, this is > gentoo... gotta be a configuration somewhere... Add a file to /etc/env.d/. There is docume

[gentoo-user] env.d

2004-01-03 Thread Ben Munat
So, how can I have my regular user take advantage of env.d? My path just has the two or three obvious entries. I can add other stuff manually, but c'mon, this is gentoo... gotta be a configuration somewhere... b -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Enemy Territory not working?

2004-01-03 Thread Simon Prosser
At 00:41 04/01/2004, you wrote: I've seen reports about problems like this with the latest nvidia drivers, try reverting to the 44xx series if you run the 5x ones now. its not a driver issue ..read the forums there is a problem with /dev/dsp and arts/esd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging new system vs complete reinstall

2004-01-03 Thread William Kenworthy
emerge -e world will pick up nearly all packages emerge --resume to pick where a package fails. It works fine on a small, simple systems but fails more often than not on complex desktops because there always seem to be a few packages that need some work before they will build. I usually trap the

Re: [gentoo-user] Enemy Territory not working?

2004-01-03 Thread Spider
begin quote On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 23:59:22 +0100 Gerhard W. Gruber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since I finally managed to get OpenGL with 3D acceleration working I > wanted to play enemy territory. I emerged it and it seems to be fine, > but when I try to run it the last line is the sound initiali

Re: [gentoo-user] Quick emerge -u world questions

2004-01-03 Thread Spider
begin quote On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 17:40:19 -0500 "Robert G. Waycott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 03 January 2004 11:03 am, Spider wrote: > > > Now, whats the exact error when compiling gcc? Not just the ERROR: > > foo/bar-baz at line... put some 30-50 lines more than that so we > > g

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird System Behavior after Overclocking

2004-01-03 Thread Spider
begin quote On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 15:42:21 + Tom Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I recently got a new machine, as some of you may remember from my FS > post before xmas. The CPU I have is an AMD Athlon 2000+ and I'm > running an Abit KD7A mobo. I can get the system to overclock no >

Re: [gentoo-user] About apache + php

2004-01-03 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've emerged apache and php together. I did like this : #emerge apache php Emerge worked fine. But it seems like they don't work together. try emerge mod_php -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging new system vs complete reinstall

2004-01-03 Thread Daniel Drake
Michael Balamuth wrote: I'm trying to understand the underlying specifics of installing Gentoo versus changing it on the fly. Since optimization and tailoring is the goal of the philosophy behind the install of Gentoo, would the same thing be accomplished on a running system by setting new USE fla

Re: [gentoo-user] K3B v0.10 with DVD support

2004-01-03 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, It's already in portage. The default ebuild (k3b-5) will download the source from CVS and compile it - that will get you the very latest source as written by the developers. If you specifically want 0.10 : emerge /usr/portage/app-cdr/k3b/k3b-0.10.ebuild However, it looks like 0.10.3-r2 is

Re: [gentoo-user] K3B v0.10 with DVD support

2004-01-03 Thread Sean Johnson
Looking at the RDEPEND of k3b-0.10.3-r2.ebuild: RDEPEND="${RDEPEND} sys-apps/eject >=app-cdr/cdrtools-1.11 >=app-cdr/cdrdao-1.1.7-r3 media-sound/normalize dvdr? ( app-cdr/dvd+rw-tools ) dvd? ( media-video/transcode media-libs/xvid )" it looks like it do

Re: [gentoo-user] K3B v0.10 with DVD support

2004-01-03 Thread Jens Mayer
* On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 23:39:16 +0100, Gerhard W. Gruber wrote: [k3b v0.10] > Now I wouldd like to know if and when it is planned to get this into portage? , [ ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -s k3b ] | Searching... | [ Results for search key : k3b ] | [ Applications found : 1 ] | | * app-c

[gentoo-user] Enemy Territory not working?

2004-01-03 Thread Gerhard W . Gruber
Since I finally managed to get OpenGL with 3D acceleration working I wanted to play enemy territory. I emerged it and it seems to be fine, but when I try to run it the last line is the sound initialization and then a black screen. I looked into help files provided, but that doesn' t even mention L

[gentoo-user] sdl issues

2004-01-03 Thread Redeeman
i just upgraded sdl, and now it says: Error: I could not initialize video! The Simple DirectMedia error that occured was: No available video device how to solve? thanks! -- Regards, Redeeman () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\- against microsoft attachment

Re: [gentoo-user]next problem [was: x problem]

2004-01-03 Thread Ben Munat
thanks... hmmm... however, each problem seems to raise another. How do I copy the env vars that I had as root to my everyday user? (eclipse can't find the jdk when I'm not root.) Shouldn't regular users be tied in with /etc/env.d? b Tom Wesley wrote: On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 21:49, Ben Munat wro

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --answers

2004-01-03 Thread Robert G. Waycott
On Saturday 03 January 2004 02:43 pm, Drake Wyrm wrote: > On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 08:37:58AM -0500, in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Robertt G. Waycott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > D] Why is gcc-3.3.2-r5 at the top of the list for 'emerge -u world' > > but 'emerge -u gcc' says it must update pam, pam-

[gentoo-user] emerging new system vs complete reinstall

2004-01-03 Thread Michael Balamuth
Hi All, I'm trying to understand the underlying specifics of installing Gentoo versus changing it on the fly. Since optimization and tailoring is the goal of the philosophy behind the install of Gentoo, would the same thing be accomplished on a running system by setting new USE flags and doing:

Re: [gentoo-user] Quick emerge -u world questions

2004-01-03 Thread Robert G. Waycott
On Saturday 03 January 2004 11:03 am, Spider wrote: > Now, whats the exact error when compiling gcc? Not just the ERROR: > foo/bar-baz at line... put some 30-50 lines more than that so we get > a context. > > > //Spider I'll give it a shot here. I'm still trying to learn just what is relevant/

[gentoo-user] K3B v0.10 with DVD support

2004-01-03 Thread Gerhard W . Gruber
I was looking for some decent burning software and emerged k3b. Since I wanted to burn DVDs I was not really glad to see that k3b doesn't support this. Now I looked if it is possible to do this anyway and I found a mail from 14th October saying that k3b v0.10 is available which supports DVDs via dv

[gentoo-user] Weird System Behavior after Overclocking

2004-01-03 Thread Tom Richards
Hi, I recently got a new machine, as some of you may remember from my FS post before xmas. The CPU I have is an AMD Athlon 2000+ and I'm running an Abit KD7A mobo. I can get the system to overclock no problem; I've had it as high as 1.8 Ghz(Stock speed is 1.67Ghz), but the system starts beha

[gentoo-user] two questions about qmail-ldap

2004-01-03 Thread Andrew B. Panphiloff
Hi All. I use qmail-ldap, and so all mailusers are virtual. But some of users want get access to .qmail files. I think that good idea is setup ftp daemon, which will grant access to homeDirectory, how setup this ? Due to thing, that all mailusers are virtual, all messages are stored at one user, f

Re: [gentoo-user] x problem

2004-01-03 Thread Tom Wesley
On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 21:49, Ben Munat wrote: > I keep getting this error when I try to start gui apps in fluxbox: > > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: No protocol specified > > In fact, I just got it when I tried to open eclipse, which I did this > morning without any proble

[gentoo-user] x problem

2004-01-03 Thread Ben Munat
I keep getting this error when I try to start gui apps in fluxbox: Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified In fact, I just got it when I tried to open eclipse, which I did this morning without any problem! thnks, b -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] failure to compile gcc-3.2.3-r3

2004-01-03 Thread Sascha Cunz
hi folks, after doing an emerge sync and emerge system on a freshly installed gentoo, compiling gcc fails with this error: /var/tmp/portage/gcc-3.2.3-r3/work/build/gcc/xgcc -B/var/tmp/portage/gcc-3.2.3-r3/work/build/gcc/ -B/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ -B/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/lib/ -isystem /usr

[gentoo-user] Re: Dynamic partition resize?

2004-01-03 Thread Simon Kellett
On 31 Dec 2003 at 14:57, Peter Ruskin wrote: > Acronis PartitionExpert is the only disk partitioning software that > allows you to automatically or manually resize, copy, and move > partitions without losing data. "parted" does enough of this for free !! One thing it can not do is extend ext2 dow

Re: [gentoo-user] CD's and MP3's

2004-01-03 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Chris I wrote: On Wed, 2003-12-24 at 06:51, mathieu perrenoud wrote: On Wednesday 24 December 2003 11.34, Paul Stear wrote: Hi all, A very merry xmas to all. I bought my wife a couple of Cd's that I would like and didn't realise that they are copy protected but list that they can be played on

Re: [gentoo-user] Terminal

2004-01-03 Thread Ben Munat
I'm using fluxbox... liking it so far. Thought I could get away without kde or gnome, but more and more of their stuff is creeping onto my machine with each emerge ;-) So, I emerged kdevelop last night and it tells me this dcop thingy isn't running. Are you saying that running kdeinit on boot w

Re: [gentoo-user] Radeon 9800XT with 3D acceleration

2004-01-03 Thread Gerhard W . Gruber
On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 11:39:13 -0600, Manuel McLure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Add the line > > ChipID 0x4e48 > >to your "Device" section in the XF86Config-4 file. This forces the >driver to think it's a 9800PRO and it will work fine. Without this, any >and all gl programs fail to run. THANK

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GUI install

2004-01-03 Thread Ben Munat
Good point... although I have a separate monitor for my windows box and can run multiple browser tabs so I can jump around to all the various useful docs. That and it's nice to have some tunes while I'm working. :-) b Greg Bolshaw wrote: On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 19:42, Ben Munat wrote: I absolut

[gentoo-user] emerge --answers

2004-01-03 Thread Drake Wyrm
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 08:37:58AM -0500, in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Robertt G. Waycott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > D] Why is gcc-3.3.2-r5 at the top of the list for 'emerge -u world' but > 'emerge -u gcc' says it must update pam, pam-login, hashalot, > util-linux, baselayout, and glibc first--a

Re: [gentoo-user] car computer [was: Quick emerge...]

2004-01-03 Thread Ben Munat
pls do... sounds cool KamaolaKid wrote: On another note, I think the Gentoo Devs are doing a damn spiffy job. I'd like to figure out how to run my car on Gentoo. Anyone care to maintain? I *am* running my car on gentoo. Well, my car PC not my car... It has a 7" touch screen in the das

Re: [gentoo-user] About apache + php

2004-01-03 Thread Ted Ozolins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And then I can only see the source of this file. What should I do? Give me some help ~ :) Once you emerged mod_php at the end of the emerge it gave you instructions to add -D PHP in your /etc/conf.d/apache2, APACHE2_OPTS="-D SSL -D PHP4" Did you do this? -- Ted Ozo

[gentoo-user] weird problem with HTML::Mason

2004-01-03 Thread Andrew Gaffney
I have the file footer.html that contains: C2002 Flightlogics, LLC- A Division of Skyline Aeronautics- St. Louis, MO - All Rights Reserved and the file aboutus.htm that contains: <--snip--> <& footer.html &> When I try to

Re: [gentoo-user] DJBDNS setup

2004-01-03 Thread Peter Wu
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 01:08:06AM +, Steve B. wrote: > perhaps that is the problem.. just registered the domain today.. maybe it > takes some time. It usually takes 24 hours to sync up the DNS servers. -- Peter Wu Powered by Gentoo Linux 2.4.22 This message is provided "AS IS" with no wa

Re: [gentoo-user] motherboard

2004-01-03 Thread Alan
As long as the kernel supports it (ie: 2.4.22+) you're fine. Both nics work, one uses the 3c59x driver, the other you do an emerge nforce-net for it to work (not under 2.6 though AFAIK). Sound works fine, you can use the nforce-audio package, use alsa, or compile the module in the kernel already

Re: [gentoo-user] Zapping/rte

2004-01-03 Thread Ian Truelsen
On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 19:24:09 +0100 Karl Huysmans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all > > Trying to emerge zapping, which needs rte, and rte simply refuses to > compile (complains about divx4linux). > > Tried tis on several Gentoo boxes, same everywhere. > > Ideas anyone? > Could you please inc

Re: [gentoo-user] Dependency weirdness

2004-01-03 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Petric Frank wrote: Why the hell (sorry) i have to install the xfree stuff for a simple boot manager. USE="-*" emerge lilo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Zapping/rte

2004-01-03 Thread Karl Huysmans
Hi all Trying to emerge zapping, which needs rte, and rte simply refuses to compile (complains about divx4linux). Tried tis on several Gentoo boxes, same everywhere. Ideas anyone? THX -- Karl Huysmans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] [beep]ing MozillaFirebird

2004-01-03 Thread Drake Wyrm
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 02:17:58AM -0500, in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Robert G.Waycott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe I need to emerge it again. I have no recollection of beeps. Doesn't sound very > cute at all to me. I recall the beeps. I started 'emerge MozillaFirebird' right before I went to

Re: [gentoo-user] setting up fluxbox

2004-01-03 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
Le 01/04/04 "Steve B." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit notamment: > and if I don't use kdm? Edit in your /etc/rc.conf : (last entry for me:) XSESSION > > On Saturday 03 January 2004 16:51, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: >> Le 01/03/04 "Steve B." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit notamment: >> > So how woul

Re: [gentoo-user] Proc devices permissions

2004-01-03 Thread Paul Stear
Thanks Jeff, this is just what I am looking for I will try and set it up tomorrow. Don't you just love gentoo? regards Paul On Thu 1 January 2004 22:57, Jeff de Ruyter wrote: > On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 07:01, Paul Stear wrote: > > On Thu 1 January 2004 17:26, Mike Williams wrote: > > > > > > Thanks fo

Re: [gentoo-user] Radeon 9800XT with 3D acceleration

2004-01-03 Thread Manuel McLure
Gerhard W.Gruber wrote: Anybody here has an Radeon 9800XT running with 3D? I' m not talking about the PRO version or any other type of Radeon card, but specifically the XT model? It seems that the driver works with PRO but not with XT, so I was wondering if anybody has such a beast and managed to g

Re: [gentoo-user] Vanilla install problems

2004-01-03 Thread Loyd Goodbar
What speed/RAM is your laptop? I have an 8GB partition for Gentoo on a dual PII-300 with 512MB, and openoffice from source took about 45 hours (yes!) to compile, and pushed my disk usage to about 75%. Makes mozilla or KDE downright quick! :) Loyd On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 16:00:31 -0500, Ullrich Fisc

Re: [gentoo-user] About apache + php (It's working now. thanks :) )

2004-01-03 Thread Barry Marler
On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 21:23:19 -0500 (EST) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 21:04:32 -0500 (EST) > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> I've emerged apache and php together. > >> I did like this : #emerge apache php > >> Emerge worked fine. > >> But it seems like they

Re: [gentoo-user] setting up fluxbox (was Terminal)

2004-01-03 Thread Steve B.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 and if I don't use kdm? On Saturday 03 January 2004 16:51, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: > Le 01/03/04 "Steve B." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit notamment: > > So how would I go about setting it up? should I unemerge KDE then emerge > > fluxbox? > > [...

Re: [gentoo-user] setting up fluxbox (was Terminal)

2004-01-03 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
Le 01/03/04 "Steve B." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit notamment: > So how would I go about setting it up? should I unemerge KDE then emerge > fluxbox? [...] No, don't unmerge kde, unless you want to get rid rid of many useful apps! just emerge fluxbox, then if you use kdm fluxbox should appear in i

Re: [gentoo-user] Quick emerge -u world questions

2004-01-03 Thread KamaolaKid
On another note, I think the Gentoo Devs are doing a damn spiffy job. I'd like to figure out how to run my car on Gentoo. Anyone care to maintain? I *am* running my car on gentoo. Well, my car PC not my car... It has a 7" touch screen in the dash and a dual P3 1GHz system mounted in a

[gentoo-user] bluetooth

2004-01-03 Thread Ernie Schroder
Has anyone had any luck getting an Ambicom BT2000C-usb bluetooth dongle to work? Bluez just will not work. Documentation indicates that it should work with the bt950_cs, but after building the module, there seens to be som PCMCIA modules that I can't locate that are needed. So, I remove

Re: [gentoo-user] DJBDNS setup

2004-01-03 Thread Joshua Banks
--- "Steve B." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Ok... first problem. Let me walk you through what I have completed > so far You didn't really give us a good picture of your setup. Which will help me (us) help you further. I.E. Are you running a fi

Re: [gentoo-user] smb mount

2004-01-03 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 03 January 2004 01:59, Ben Munat wrote: > Well, Jerry's suggestion is a bit over my head. I put this into > local.start: > > smbmount "//MyWindowsBox/mydir" /mnt/mywinshare -o > username=uname,password=mypasswrd > > and it works. Anything w

Re: [gentoo-user] DJBDNS setup

2004-01-03 Thread Steve B.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 perhaps that is the problem.. just registered the domain today.. maybe it takes some time. On Saturday 03 January 2004 16:12, Mike Williams wrote: > On Sunday 04 January 2004 00:43, Steve B. wrote: > > well, now I am really confused. This is the outp

Re: [gentoo-user] DJBDNS setup

2004-01-03 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 04 January 2004 00:43, Steve B. wrote: > well, now I am really confused. This is the output of the host command > Using domain server: > Name: 211.238.230.137 > Address: 211.238.230.137#53 > Aliases: > > ns1.secure-dt.net has address 211.238.

Re: [gentoo-user] Quick emerge -u world questions

2004-01-03 Thread Spider
begin quote On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 08:37:58 -0500 "Robert G. Waycott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A] Are there certain CFLAGS that should NEVER be used with gcc? Anything above -O2 , basically. This is done in the ebuild already ("strip-flags" ) > 2] Am I actually going to run into any proble

Re: [gentoo-user] DJBDNS setup

2004-01-03 Thread Steve B.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 well, now I am really confused. This is the output of the host command Using domain server: Name: 211.238.230.137 Address: 211.238.230.137#53 Aliases: ns1.secure-dt.net has address 211.238.230.137 and all the diag tools that come with djbdns seem to

Re: [gentoo-user] motherboard

2004-01-03 Thread Redeeman
ah okay nice, is both lan cards working? and how about sound? do you use alsa? On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 16:32, Janne Johansson wrote: > On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 00:45, Steve B. wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > I would go with the asus a7n8x dlx > > I have gone with

Re: [gentoo-user] DJBDNS setup

2004-01-03 Thread Sean Johnson
Here's a snippet from the data file I use on my webserver: #gutenpress.org Zgutenpress.org:ns1.gutenpress.org:sean.gutenpress.org &gutenpress.org:12.44.218.240:ns1.gutenpress.org @gutenpress.org::ns1.gutenpress.org:0 .243.218.44.12.in-addr-arpa::ns1.gutenpress.org +gutenpress.org:12.44.218.240 +ww

Re: [gentoo-user] DJBDNS setup

2004-01-03 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 04 January 2004 00:03, Steve B. wrote: > Here is the output from nslookup > > nslookup > > > mydomain.net > > Server: 210.117.65.1 > Address: 210.117.65.1#53 > > ** server can't find mydomain.net: NXDOMAIN What is 210.117

Re: [gentoo-user] wich growisofs parameters for system backup on DVD?

2004-01-03 Thread Tom Wesley
On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 15:29, Gerhard W.Gruber wrote: > On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 15:09:57 +, Tom Wesley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >I use partimage (in portage) to create a single file for each partition, > >then > > > > $ growisofs -R -J -Z root.000 /dev/sr1 > > > >partimage can also split th

Re: [gentoo-user] motherboard

2004-01-03 Thread Janne Johansson
On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 00:45, Steve B. wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I would go with the asus a7n8x dlx I have gone with the asus a7n8x deluxe and have no regrets. It is fast and stable. Not a single problem in my setup. -- Janne "So act that your principle of act

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo users of DJBDNS

2004-01-03 Thread Joshua Banks
--- "Steve B." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > also on a note to the orginal posting of this, the emerge of > daemontools > created the /service directory (at least for me). Thanks Steve. JBanks __ Do you Yahoo!

Re: [gentoo-user] wich growisofs parameters for system backup on DVD?

2004-01-03 Thread Gerhard W . Gruber
On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 15:09:57 +, Tom Wesley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I use partimage (in portage) to create a single file for each partition, >then > > $ growisofs -R -J -Z root.000 /dev/sr1 > >partimage can also split the image at a certain size, for multiple dvd's >and there is a copy of i

Re: [gentoo-user] About apache + php (It's working now. thanks :) )

2004-01-03 Thread s970501
> On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 21:04:32 -0500 (EST) > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I've emerged apache and php together. >> I did like this : #emerge apache php >> Emerge worked fine. >> But it seems like they don't work together. >> I put test.php file like this... >> >> test.php >> ---

Re: [gentoo-user] About apache + php

2004-01-03 Thread Patrick Börjesson
> I've emerged apache and php together. > I did like this : #emerge apache php > Emerge worked fine. > But it seems like they don't work together. > I put test.php file like this... > > test.php > --- >phpinfo(); > ?> > --- > > And then I can only see the source of thi

Re: [gentoo-user] About apache + php

2004-01-03 Thread Barry Marler
On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 21:04:32 -0500 (EST) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've emerged apache and php together. > I did like this : #emerge apache php > Emerge worked fine. > But it seems like they don't work together. > I put test.php file like this... > > test.php > --- >php

Re: [gentoo-user] DJBDNS setup

2004-01-03 Thread Steve B.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have tried both.. neither seem to work. Below is my config #define the authoritative nameserver .mydomain.net::ns1.mydomain.net #mail exchanger @mydomain.net::mail.mydomain.net #Machine IP's =hostname.mydomain.net:my.static.ip #Machine aliases +n

[gentoo-user] About apache + php

2004-01-03 Thread s970501
Hi, I've emerged apache and php together. I did like this : #emerge apache php Emerge worked fine. But it seems like they don't work together. I put test.php file like this... test.php --- --- And then I can only see the source of this file. What should I do? Give me so

Re: [gentoo-user] wich growisofs parameters for system backup on DVD?

2004-01-03 Thread Tom Wesley
On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 14:58, Gerhard W.Gruber wrote: > I was wondering which parameters I should pass to growisofs in order to get a > systembackup. > My entire system doesn't fit on a single DVD anyway, so I need to do it in > multiple passes. I was trying (as a test) to backup the /home directory

[gentoo-user] wich growisofs parameters for system backup on DVD?

2004-01-03 Thread Gerhard W . Gruber
I was wondering which parameters I should pass to growisofs in order to get a systembackup. My entire system doesn't fit on a single DVD anyway, so I need to do it in multiple passes. I was trying (as a test) to backup the /home directory and used this parameters: growisofs -Z /dev/cdrecorder -R -J

Re: [gentoo-user] DJBDNS setup

2004-01-03 Thread Peter Wu
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 10:32:21PM +, Steve B. wrote: > Ok... first problem. Let me walk you through what I have completed so far > > 1. I emerged djbdns > 2. I ran the dnscache and tinydns-setup config scripts > 3. I ran 'rc-update add svscan default > 4. rebooted > > after dealing with so

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing /usr/portage across machines?

2004-01-03 Thread Sean Johnson
Not at all. Duplicating the distfiles directory defeats the whole purpose of having it be an nfs mount. On the main machine (master if you wish) my rsyncd.conf has this line: exclude = distfiles to make sure that distfiles isn't updated during an emerge sync from the "slave" machines. And the rea

Re: [gentoo-user] To upgrade or Not/to upgrade the kernel??

2004-01-03 Thread Sean Johnson
In your grub.conf make sure you have a -old entry. When you build your new kernel, rename your current one to something like bzImage.old (making sure you are consistent with your naming scheme in grub.conf). If the new kernel doesn't work for you, reboot, and select the -old kernel from the grub l

[gentoo-user] xfs font server + gimp

2004-01-03 Thread JurLan
Hi all .. I am using xfs (which is recommended?) I changed FontPath in /etc/X11/XF86Config to: FontPath"unix/:-1" When I launch gimp, all fonts are available but when I use e.g. Blippo (which comes with the freefonts package), changing the font size doesn't show any difference. (it stays

Re: [gentoo-user] motherboard

2004-01-03 Thread Steve B.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I would go with the asus a7n8x dlx On Saturday 03 January 2004 13:48, Redeeman wrote: > hi, i am going to buy a new motherboard REALLY soon, i looked at a few, > 2 asus's, and 2 epox's, i am not a OC'er. i want a STABLE system, even > if it costs me

Re: [gentoo-user] Quick emerge -u world questions

2004-01-03 Thread Robert G. Waycott
On Saturday 03 January 2004 08:37 am, Robertt G. Waycott wrote: > Gentooers: > > For some reason or another--either of which are unbeknownst to > me--while running 'emerge -u world,' gcc-3.3.2-r5 just will not > compile. I've done a little bit of messing with CFLAGS, to no avail. > So, I'm using

[gentoo-user] motherboard

2004-01-03 Thread Redeeman
hi, i am going to buy a new motherboard REALLY soon, i looked at a few, 2 asus's, and 2 epox's, i am not a OC'er. i want a STABLE system, even if it costs me performance asus a7v600: http://www.asus.com/prog/spec.asp?m=A7V600&langs=01 a7n8x deluxe: http://www.asus.com/prog/spec.asp?m=A7N8X%20Delux

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenPGP plugin

2004-01-03 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Steve B. wrote: Were can I find or what plugin should I use with OpenPGP and Kmail? I would say gnupg is the ebuild u're looking for. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo users of DJBDNS

2004-01-03 Thread Steve B.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 also on a note to the orginal posting of this, the emerge of daemontools created the /service directory (at least for me). On Saturday 03 January 2004 11:52, Greg Bolshaw wrote: > On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 19:22, Steve B. wrote: > > I heard that bind is

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