Re: [gentoo-user] resuming emerge

2005-04-14 Thread mudrii
Mrugesh Karnik wrote: mudrii wrote: Eugene Rosenzweig wrote: Pupeno wrote: Is there any way to resume emerging ? I have a workstation which spent about 5 hours compiling OpenOffice and I had to turn it off, I'd like to continue building it (that's the idea behind make and incremental building,

Re: [gentoo-user] how to subscribe but get no mail

2005-04-14 Thread Andrea Barisani
On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 12:09:29PM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > Sorry to post this here but I've already contacted the listserver with > the info address and faq address. Neither of those sources have any > info about this. What address have you used? > > I want to subscribe here but get no mes

Re: [gentoo-user] IBM Thinkpad with Belkin Wireless

2005-04-14 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 16:10:11 +1000 "Richard Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I'm contemplating installing Gentoo on a 4 year old IBM Thinkpad with | a Belkin Wireless card in the PCMCIA Card slot. I'm sick of it | crashing on Windows 98 ... | | Does anyone have any tips that I should consider

Re: [gentoo-user] why my screen on book computer is too small?

2005-04-14 Thread "åå:->äåé"
Kiawud wrote: >I have the HP Omnibook 500 ... I can post/send you my grub and >xorg.conf files if you think it would help. If I remember, I'm using >'vesafb' for the initial boot and then set xorg.conf to use the >'radeon' driver. > >-Hani > >-- >gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] resuming emerge

2005-04-14 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
mudrii wrote: Eugene Rosenzweig wrote: Pupeno wrote: Is there any way to resume emerging ? I have a workstation which spent about 5 hours compiling OpenOffice and I had to turn it off, I'd like to continue building it (that's the idea behind make and incremental building, isn't it?). Is it pos

[gentoo-user] IBM Thinkpad with Belkin Wireless

2005-04-14 Thread Richard Watson
I'm contemplating installing Gentoo on a 4 year old IBM Thinkpad with a Belkin Wireless card in the PCMCIA Card slot. I'm sick of it crashing on Windows 98 ... Does anyone have any tips that I should consider that are not in the Gentoo Install instructions. I've run up a few servers with Gentoo in

Re: [gentoo-user] why my screen on book computer is too small?

2005-04-14 Thread steven pan
http://www.linux-laptop.net/ to find your laptop model On 4/14/05, "帅哥:->代小飞" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > HI; > I use the HP omin book to install the gentoo linux; > when I use the console in the system, the console's only the 600*480; > I want the change the console to the whool screen(1024*768

Re: [gentoo-user] boot with serial console

2005-04-14 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 15. April 2005 01:13 schrieb ext Eric S. Johansson: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > What arch? It's supported on sparc, mips, hppa and arm at least and > > should work automatically. > > sorry, x86 Just boot the CD with 2.6 kernel and check with zcat /proc/config.gz|grep CONFIG_SERIAL_C

Re: [gentoo-user] X random freeze but mouse still moves

2005-04-14 Thread Jon Le Miere
MalachiX wrote: > I have been battling an ongoing problem for a while. When I am on > Linux, X will just randomly freezes/hangs. I can not control alt > backspace. The mouse still moves though, it is only the screen that > freezes. > > The problem has been on Gentoo forum for a few months now:

Re: [gentoo-user] resuming emerge

2005-04-14 Thread mudrii
Eugene Rosenzweig wrote: Pupeno wrote: Is there any way to resume emerging ? I have a workstation which spent about 5 hours compiling OpenOffice and I had to turn it off, I'd like to continue building it (that's the idea behind make and incremental building, isn't it?). Is it possible ? If no,

Re: [gentoo-user] resuming emerge

2005-04-14 Thread Eugene Rosenzweig
Pupeno wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is there any way to resume emerging ? I have a workstation which spent about 5 hours compiling OpenOffice and I had to turn it off, I'd like to continue building it (that's the idea behind make and incremental building, isn't it?). Is i

Re: [gentoo-user] resuming emerge

2005-04-14 Thread Jan Han Xie
On Friday 15 April 2005 09:43, Pupeno wrote: > Is there any way to resume emerging ? I have a workstation which spent > about 5 hours compiling OpenOffice and I had to turn it off, I'd like to > continue building it (that's the idea behind make and incremental building, > isn't it?). > Is it possib

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a Mail Auto-Responder for Web via Email

2005-04-14 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 21:18:32 -0400 (EDT) A. Khattri wrote: > On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Nick Rout wrote: > > > Thirdly you could use it to do something like home control > > > > To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject:Warm up > > > > TURNON AIR_CONDITIONING 22C > > Scary. > > > Plus some authentication!! >

Re: [gentoo-user] Killing two birds....

2005-04-14 Thread Jerry McBride
I said I'd come back with some results Here we go... Test bed was an old Compaq 700us, my personal war machine. It sports an amd Athlon 4, 1600 with 512meg and a 20gig hard drive. No scsi on this machine, just plain old eide... I mad a number of runs with portage, only had time to work on

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a Mail Auto-Responder for Web via Email

2005-04-14 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 21:18 -0400, A. Khattri wrote: > On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Nick Rout wrote: > > > Thirdly you could use it to do something like home control > > > > To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject:Warm up > > > > TURNON AIR_CONDITIONING 22C > > Scary. if implemented Well, that could be a possi

Re: [gentoo-user] mount

2005-04-14 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 18:29:35 -0400 Robert G. Hays wrote: > If using an Intel or AMD (etc) cpu, and if you have your source-dir set > as it should be, this is exactly: > cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot > and add the new kernel to your grub or lilo. > rgh If you are using

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a Mail Auto-Responder for Web via Email

2005-04-14 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Nick Rout wrote: > Thirdly you could use it to do something like home control > > To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject:Warm up > > TURNON AIR_CONDITIONING 22C Scary. > Plus some authentication!! Yes, some VERY GOOD form of authentication would have to be employed... -- -- gen

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a Mail Auto-Responder for Web via Email

2005-04-14 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 12:30 -0400, Robert G. Hays wrote: > A. Khattri wrote: > > >Sounds like a great way to send spam. > > > Or worse. Why is this needed? > rgh. Good for ppl that don't have access to I-Net. (me) -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neur

Re: [gentoo-user] X random freeze but mouse still moves

2005-04-14 Thread Daniel Hackney
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I had this problem as well. If you are using composite, try turning that off, as that is what did it for me. Actually, I think I could have done some combination of leaving composite on and fiddling with AllowCompositeWithGLX. MalachiX wrote: >I hav

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse pads

2005-04-14 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: > Does anyone else have trouble finding cool mouse pads? Does anyone > else think that if they Gentoo store sold Gentoo mouse pads that they > would buy 3 or 4 of them. I do. > > I don't know where to vote for these things but if others agree and if > store

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo security guide question

2005-04-14 Thread James Hiscock
> 'Scuse me, this must be the English class -- I thought I was in the > Computer Science / Political Science Building... Sorry. > > Enough already please, everybody? ...sorry... showing my BA here... I get a little picky about silly things like that... ;) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing lis

Re: [gentoo-user] X random freeze but mouse still moves

2005-04-14 Thread Peter De Zutter
On 4/15/05, MalachiX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote:> > MalachiX wrote:> >> >>I have been battling an ongoing problem for a while.  When I am on> >>Linux, X will just randomly freezes/hangs.  I can not control alt > >>backspace.  The mouse still moves though, it is only th

[gentoo-user] resuming emerge

2005-04-14 Thread Pupeno
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is there any way to resume emerging ? I have a workstation which spent about 5 hours compiling OpenOffice and I had to turn it off, I'd like to continue building it (that's the idea behind make and incremental building, isn't it?). Is it possible ?

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse pads

2005-04-14 Thread Peter De Zutter
On 4/15/05, Ethan Zonca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: totallyOn 4/14/05, Mark Knecht < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does anyone else have trouble finding cool mouse pads? Does anyoneelse think that if they Gentoo store sold Gentoo mouse pads that theywould buy 3 or 4 of them. I do.I don't know where to v

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse pads

2005-04-14 Thread Ethan Zonca
totallyOn 4/14/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does anyone else have trouble finding cool mouse pads? Does anyoneelse think that if they Gentoo store sold Gentoo mouse pads that theywould buy 3 or 4 of them. I do.I don't know where to vote for these things but if others agree and if stor

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH printing to remote printer

2005-04-14 Thread Nick Rout
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/5462 On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 18:22:36 -0600 Joseph wrote: > Here is my setup; > my gentoo box1 <-> internet <-> remote firewall/print server <-> remote > gentoo box2 >| >V >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly Complex Hard Drive Question

2005-04-14 Thread William Kenworthy
drives on separate channels: ide busses que commands serially, and wait for responses tying up the channel. The workaround is to put your high throughput devices on separate channels, keep generally slower cdroms away from faster devices, and keep cd burners on their own channel. Yes, rather di

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a Mail Auto-Responder for Web via Email

2005-04-14 Thread Nick Rout
I knew a guy once who worked in a call centre, he did not have web access, but had email access. If he wanted to view a web page he sent an email to some external provider with the url in the body of the email, and a short time later he would get the web page back as an attachment. OK so he was ge

[gentoo-user] SSH printing to remote printer

2005-04-14 Thread Joseph
Here is my setup; my gentoo box1 <-> internet <-> remote firewall/print server <-> remote gentoo box2 | V printer I want to print a "document" from my "gentoo box1" to a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly Complex Hard Drive Question

2005-04-14 Thread Tom Moyer
my dvd drive is only like 2 monthes old. It is a Memorex Dual Layer DVD+/- RW I think it is fairly fast. I guess now I'm just wondering would it be worth my time to make my gentoo drive my primary master, a second hard drive the primary slave, the last hard drive the secondary slave, and the dvd

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly Complex Hard Drive Question

2005-04-14 Thread Robert G. Hays
inlining... Tom Moyer wrote: yeah but i don't think i will right away i thought I could get qemu to run Windows XP but it seems there is a bug in it that prevents it from booting correctly so I'll wait to do this for now. I figured that the system would be more organized if i moved the promary driv

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly Complex Hard Drive Question

2005-04-14 Thread Robert G. Hays
He has a very good point. The other thought is do you have a CD or DVD in one of the channels? If so, you need to check that the cd/dvd is as fast as your hdisk, because a channel can only talk as fastas the slowest drive on it; to talk aste would be to confuse the slow device & maybe cause it to

Re: [gentoo-user] X random freeze but mouse still moves

2005-04-14 Thread MalachiX
> Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: > > MalachiX wrote: > > > >>I have been battling an ongoing problem for a while. When I am on > >>Linux, X will just randomly freezes/hangs. I can not control alt > >>backspace. The mouse still moves though, it is only the screen that > >>freezes. > >> > >>The p

[gentoo-user] Mouse pads

2005-04-14 Thread Mark Knecht
Does anyone else have trouble finding cool mouse pads? Does anyone else think that if they Gentoo store sold Gentoo mouse pads that they would buy 3 or 4 of them. I do. I don't know where to vote for these things but if others agree and if store type people are here make a few mouse pads. I'd pay

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about kernel-equivalence

2005-04-14 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 18:36:50 -0400 Robert G. Hays wrote: > > > > <...derivations...> That is, which > kernel.org kernel-w.x.y.z > did which > gentoo kernel-w.x.y-gentoo-rz > come from, then get patched, and with which patches. Oh and by the way if you just want the sources that Linu

Re: [gentoo-user] screen is blinking with nvidia

2005-04-14 Thread Tim Beck
Thanks! I double checked my xorg.conf with the specifications of my monitor and lowered the range of the horizontal refresh rate. This seems to have fixed the issue. On 4/14/05, Al Bayrouni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tim Beck wrote: > > >Just curious...is it a very very faint blinking, or is i

Re: [gentoo-user] boot with serial console

2005-04-14 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 15:50:30 -0400 "Eric S. Johansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I have a system with an apparently dead keyboard interface. is there | any chance I could use the standard (or near standard) minimal boot CD | and install everything via serial console? Wh

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly Complex Hard Drive Question

2005-04-14 Thread Tom Moyer
yeah but i don't think i will right away i thought I could get qemu to run Windows XP but it seems there is a bug in it that prevents it from booting correctly so I'll wait to do this for now. I figured that the system would be more organized if i moved the promary drive(120 Gig with Gentoo) to pri

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly Complex Hard Drive Question

2005-04-14 Thread Kashani
Tom Moyer wrote: Also from one response: "Put the drives on separate channels." Why? I want to use all three for Gentoo if possible. My mentioning it was more of a pointer for you to think about which drives you were going to be using most often rather than /dev/hd? ascetics. If you have the two

[gentoo-user] Autoloading scsi scanner kernel modules

2005-04-14 Thread Toby Cubitt
I have an old HP scanner that works fine with one of the drivers included in the kernel. I compiled the driver as a module since I don't use the scanner all that often. However, this means the scanner doesn't work unless it's switched on before booting. Up till now, I've just su-ed to root, and re

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about kernel-equivalence

2005-04-14 Thread Robert G. Hays
Nick Rout wrote: ok, now that i've rebooted windoze again and email is -maybe- working again, i'll finish that email. doe anybody know where i might find the kernel-derivations and maybe patches? What do you mean derivations? The patches for any gentoo kernel set are usually genpatches-${K

[gentoo-user] Unslotted duplicates

2005-04-14 Thread George Garvey
I'm getting a lot of duplicates that are not slotted installed. I use pye almost always, instead of emerge. Has something changed that broke pye? Has the way that emerge -u works changed? Cleaning this up is a hassle. I'd like to stop it from happening. It looks like it started a couple of we

Re: [gentoo-user] mount

2005-04-14 Thread Robert G. Hays
Oh, and then you have to copy /usr/src//arch//boot/bzImage to /boot, and add the new kernel to your grub or lilo. If using an Intel or AMD (etc) cpu, and if you have your source-dir set as it should be, this is exactly: cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot and add the new kerne

Re: [gentoo-user] mount

2005-04-14 Thread Robert G. Hays
All Three. rgh. Al Bayrouni wrote: Magnus Varmfors wrote: Hi there! I think it'd be CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP, yes. But if you set it to "y", it's compiled into kernel and isn't a module. If you want it to be a module, set it to "m". In menuconfig, it's Device Drivers -> Block Devices -> Loopback device

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly Complex Hard Drive Question

2005-04-14 Thread Robert G. Hays
Tom Moyer wrote: I would like to swap hda and hdb. I don't want to swap any data across the drives I just want to have Gentoo be the only OS installed. Linux, including Gentoo, can run from any drive in the system. If Gentoo is not already your default boot from Grub, you can easily make it so; as

Re: [gentoo-user] boot with serial console

2005-04-14 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 15:50:30 -0400 "Eric S. Johansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I have a system with an apparently dead keyboard interface. is there | any chance I could use the standard (or near standard) minimal boot CD | and install everything via serial console? What arch? It's supported

Re: [gentoo-user] X random freeze but mouse still moves

2005-04-14 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: > MalachiX wrote: > >>I have been battling an ongoing problem for a while. When I am on >>Linux, X will just randomly freezes/hangs. I can not control alt >>backspace. The mouse still moves though, it is only the screen that >>freezes. >> >>The problem has been on G

Re: [gentoo-user] screen is blinking with nvidia

2005-04-14 Thread Al Bayrouni
Tim Beck wrote: Just curious...is it a very very faint blinking, or is it a more dramatic blackening effect? I noticed the same thing with my workstation (which also has an nvidia card) and just thought I was nuts. But it doesn't seem to do it in windows, so... On 4/14/05, Al Bayrouni <[EMAIL PROT

[gentoo-user] poedit build failing

2005-04-14 Thread Chris Bare
poedit used to work for me, but some dependency upgrade seems to have broken my current install, so I tried rebuilding it. Now it won't build. There is a bug (#88619) that suggests rebuilding wxGTK without the gtk USE-flag. This is apparently out of date, as the current wxGTK build has these flags:

Re: [gentoo-user] X random freeze but mouse still moves

2005-04-14 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
MalachiX wrote: > I have been battling an ongoing problem for a while. When I am on > Linux, X will just randomly freezes/hangs. I can not control alt > backspace. The mouse still moves though, it is only the screen that > freezes. > > The problem has been on Gentoo forum for a few months now:

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about kernel-equivalence

2005-04-14 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 16:06:46 -0400 Robert G. Hays wrote: > ok, now that i've rebooted windoze again and email is -maybe- working > again, i'll finish that email. doe anybody know where i might find the > kernel-derivations and maybe patches? > > thanks, > rgh What do you mean derivations? T

Re: [gentoo-user] screen is blinking with nvidia

2005-04-14 Thread Tim Beck
Just curious...is it a very very faint blinking, or is it a more dramatic blackening effect? I noticed the same thing with my workstation (which also has an nvidia card) and just thought I was nuts. But it doesn't seem to do it in windows, so... On 4/14/05, Al Bayrouni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] how to subscribe but get no mail

2005-04-14 Thread Stroller
On Apr 14, 2005, at 6:09 pm, Harry Putnam wrote: I want to subscribe here but get no messages delivered. The subscription would be so as to enable posting thru news.gmane.org's mail to news gateway. Is there some way to set such a parameter? On Apr 14, 2005, at 10:29 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[gentoo-user] X random freeze but mouse still moves

2005-04-14 Thread MalachiX
I have been battling an ongoing problem for a while. When I am on Linux, X will just randomly freezes/hangs. I can not control alt backspace. The mouse still moves though, it is only the screen that freezes. The problem has been on Gentoo forum for a few months now: http://forums.gentoo.org/vie

Re: [gentoo-user] dvdrip (udev?) question

2005-04-14 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi Richard, Thanks for the response. Yes, xine works fine. I just start xine and then choose DVD from the gui. Up pops the movie's menu and off I go. No problems at all. On the other hand dvdrip is struggling a bit. I may be usign it incorrectly for all I know. I'm just hittign buttons and h

[gentoo-user] Re: Slightly Complex Hard Drive Question

2005-04-14 Thread Tom Moyer
Alright it seems like there was some confusion. hda (40 Gig) has only Windows XP with Grub installed to it's MBR hdb (120 Gig) has only Gentoo (all partitions including /boot) hdc(30 Gig) currently unused I would like to swap hda and hdb. >From what I could gather all this would involve is physic

Re: [gentoo-user] mount

2005-04-14 Thread Al Bayrouni
Magnus Varmfors wrote: Hi there! I think it'd be CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP, yes. But if you set it to "y", it's compiled into kernel and isn't a module. If you want it to be a module, set it to "m". In menuconfig, it's Device Drivers -> Block Devices -> Loopback device support. At least in 6.11.x. Regard

Re: [gentoo-user] mount

2005-04-14 Thread Magnus Varmfors
Hi there! I think it'd be CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP, yes. But if you set it to "y", it's compiled into kernel and isn't a module. If you want it to be a module, set it to "m". In menuconfig, it's Device Drivers -> Block Devices -> Loopback device support. At least in 6.11.x. Regards, /M On 4/14/05

Re: [gentoo-user] mount

2005-04-14 Thread Richard Fish
Al Bayrouni wrote: > No. > I just added this in /usr/src/linux: > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=y > > Is this module that is needed to mount loop devices? Thats it. =y means it will be built into the kernel (you could also use =m to build it as a loadable module). Now you just need to recompile and inst

Re: [gentoo-user] mount

2005-04-14 Thread Al Bayrouni
Magnus Varmfors wrote: Hi! Try not using the /dev/loop0. If I remember correctly, the default for loop is to look up a free loop-device. So, try... mount -t iso9660 /mnt/packages-x86-2005.0.iso /mnt/iso -o loop From the man-page: "If no explicit loop device is mentioned (but just an option `-o lo

Re: [gentoo-user] mount

2005-04-14 Thread Al Bayrouni
Richard Fish wrote: Al Bayrouni wrote: Hello all, I want to mount an iso file ont /mnt/iso directorie. I have this message when I run this command: mount /mnt/packages-x86-2005.0.iso /mnt/iso -o loop=/dev/loop0, /dev/loop0: no such file or directorie Do you have the 'loop' block device mod

Re: [gentoo-user] mount

2005-04-14 Thread Magnus Varmfors
Hi! Try not using the /dev/loop0. If I remember correctly, the default for loop is to look up a free loop-device. So, try... mount -t iso9660 /mnt/packages-x86-2005.0.iso /mnt/iso -o loop >From the man-page: "If no explicit loop device is mentioned (but just an option `-o loop' is given), the

[gentoo-user] Re: mount

2005-04-14 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Thursday 14 April 2005 22:12, Al Bayrouni wrote: > Hello all, > > I want to mount an iso file ont /mnt/iso directorie. > I have this message when I run this command: > > > mount /mnt/packages-x86-2005.0.iso /mnt/iso -o loop=/dev/loop0, > > /dev/loop0: no such file or directorie mount -o loop /

Re: [gentoo-user] mount

2005-04-14 Thread Richard Fish
Al Bayrouni wrote: > Hello all, > > I want to mount an iso file ont /mnt/iso directorie. > I have this message when I run this command: > > > mount /mnt/packages-x86-2005.0.iso /mnt/iso -o loop=/dev/loop0, > > /dev/loop0: no such file or directorie > Do you have the 'loop' block device module lo

Re: [gentoo-user] boot with serial console with a side order of vacation programs

2005-04-14 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: Eric S. Johansson wrote: people has used the ps2 mouse attach too ;) some crazy boy that wanted to attach 3 monitors and keyboard to one pc. twisted man, twisted. ohh wait that is another system.. ;-) No idea on how to change default input in a boot cd. was afraid of t

[gentoo-user] mount

2005-04-14 Thread Al Bayrouni
Hello all, I want to mount an iso file ont /mnt/iso directorie. I have this message when I run this command: mount /mnt/packages-x86-2005.0.iso /mnt/iso -o loop=/dev/loop0, /dev/loop0: no such file or directorie ls -l /dev/loop* I have this in /dev:brw-rw 1 root disk 7, 0 mar 10 18:47 /dev/lo

Re: [gentoo-user] boot with serial console

2005-04-14 Thread Robert G. Hays
If the computer has a USB port, maybe you can find & enable 'legacy' (keyboard & mouse) on USB; obviousy this needs a usb-capable keyboard begged, borrowed, or bought if you don't already have one Just a thought. rgh. Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: Eric S. Johansson wrote: I have a system w

Re: [gentoo-user] stage1 install

2005-04-14 Thread John J. Foster
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 02:59:49PM -0400, John J. Foster wrote: > Good afternoon, > > I feel that it is time to move to Gentoo. After a few years of RH, > Fedora and Suse, I want better and more precise control over my system. > My problem, maybe, is that I only have a 28.8 modem connection to the

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM2 during installation

2005-04-14 Thread Kiawud
On 4/14/05, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am using lvm2 2.0.33-r1, dynamically linked, but all of the dependent > libraries are installed in /lib, not /usr/lib. > > carcharias linux # ldd /sbin/lvm > linux-gate.so.1 => (0xe000) > libdevmapper.so.1.00 => /lib/libd

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about kernel-equivalence

2005-04-14 Thread Robert G. Hays
ok, now that i've rebooted windoze again and email is -maybe- working again, i'll finish that email. doe anybody know where i might find the kernel-derivations and maybe patches? thanks, rgh. Robert G. Hays wrote: Trey Thank You. That didn't make things easier, but at least I know so I don't s

Re: [gentoo-user] boot with serial console

2005-04-14 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Eric S. Johansson wrote: > I have a system with an apparently dead keyboard interface. is there > any chance I could use the standard (or near standard) minimal boot CD > and install everything via serial console? > > thanks, > ---eric > > people has used the ps2 mouse attach too ;) some crazy

Re: [gentoo-user] dvdrip (udev?) question

2005-04-14 Thread Richard Fish
Mark Knecht wrote: >Hi, > This may be a dvdrip item but I thought I'd try here first as I'm >not that sure about udev. my laptop is running ck-sources. I have a > > Strange...I've ripped DVDs using udev, so I doubt it is a udev issue. Unfortunately, I am 8,000 miles from home right now, with

[gentoo-user] boot with serial console

2005-04-14 Thread Eric S. Johansson
I have a system with an apparently dead keyboard interface. is there any chance I could use the standard (or near standard) minimal boot CD and install everything via serial console? thanks, ---eric -- http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.03/view.html?pg=5 The result of the duopoly that curren

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM2 during installation

2005-04-14 Thread Richard Fish
Kiawud wrote: >I'm looking to create some LVM2 volumes during an installation of >2005.0. However, the gentoo instructions indicate that the LVM2 >application on the 2005.0 LiveCD is dynamic built against libraries in >/usr (which I intend to put on one of the LVM volumes). > >To get around this,

Re: [gentoo-user] why my screen on book computer is too small?

2005-04-14 Thread Richard Fish
帅哥:->代小飞 wrote: > Richard Fish wrote: > >>帅哥:->代小飞 wrote: >> >>>HI; >>>I use the HP omin book to install the gentoo linux; >>>when I use the console in the system, the console's only the 600*480; >>>I want the change the console to the whool screen(1024*768); >>>of course ,I can set params in t

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about kernel-equivalence

2005-04-14 Thread Robert G. Hays
Trey Thank You. That didn't make things easier, but at least I know so I don't step off a cliff (and i ain't no cartoon-character neither) by making a bad assumption about the kernel. There are one or two obvious things I can do, although they do take serious time. Sigh. I gotta think about

Re: [gentoo-user] Personal Video Recorders

2005-04-14 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 13:30 +0100, Ognjen Bezanov wrote: > > > > > from what i heard (an i have been a Mini-Itx Follower for over 5 years > now) is that Via had just a few days ago released all their drivers for > the Mini-ITX chipsets under open source licenses (including the graphics > accelera

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with libhistory.so.4 after update -- okay again

2005-04-14 Thread Marten Karl
Hello. > > > actual packages the starting message of apache says, that libphp5.so has > > > a problem to load libhistory.so.4. > > > > I had this problem a while back. re-emerge mod_php. > > I tried this: > emerge mod_php > This emerged mdo_php and two other packages. But mod_php runs into an e

[gentoo-user] Re: ATI drivers

2005-04-14 Thread James
Richard Fish asmallpond.org> writes: > > James wrote: > > > You certainly seem quite knowledgable on these issues. Do have time > > for to help me: > > I'll try. The real question is, can I do it without posting a 27-page > message to the list again,as I have been known to do! :-> > OK, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly complex Hard Drive Qeustion

2005-04-14 Thread Richard Fish
Tom Moyer wrote: >I may just not be seeing an easy way to do this, so I figured I would >ask if any one had any ideas. > >I currently have 3 hard drives in my computer: >hda - Windows XP - 40 Gig >hdb - Gentoo - 120 Gig >hdc - nothing (I think it might be dead) - 30 Gig > >I got Windows running in

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about kernel-equivalence

2005-04-14 Thread Trey Gruel
On 4/14/05, Robert G. Hays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, is: > kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r4 > the same as: > kernel-2.6.11.4 > plus/minus the Gentoo-specific patches? possibly not. the gentoo-sources package has its own revision numbers (the -r* bit). that's not saying that the ch

[gentoo-user] deltup cycling

2005-04-14 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
Hi, Sometimes I see such cycling: emerge -fDu xyz - get delta - pack new dist file - new dist file has wrong md5 (size?) - go to "get delta" for the same file Such cycling can eat musch more time/bytestream rather whole file downloading. What are the reasons of bad new archive? How to avoid th

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly complex Hard Drive Qeustion

2005-04-14 Thread Robert G. Hays
Tom Moyer wrote: I may just not be seeing an easy way to do this, so I figured I would ask if any one had any ideas. I currently have 3 hard drives in my computer: hda - Windows XP - 40 Gig hdb - Gentoo - 120 Gig hdc - nothing (I think it might be dead) - 30 Gig I got Windows running in qemu and no

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly complex Hard Drive Qeustion

2005-04-14 Thread Kashani
Tom Moyer wrote: I got Windows running in qemu and no longer have a use for my Windows installation on hda and would like to be able to make the setup like the following: hda - Gentoo - 120 Gig hdb - Gentoo - 40 Gig (holding /home) hdc - Gentoo - 30 Gig (holding qemu .img file for Windows) what wo

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about kernel-equivalence

2005-04-14 Thread Robert G. Hays
Post-script:& if I do go to the kernel.org kernel, what is going to change, and what will I have to do about it/them, and what, if anything, is just going to --stay-- broke/different? Thanks again!, rgh. Robert G. Hays wrote: Ok, is: kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r4 the same as: kernel-2.6

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo security guide question

2005-04-14 Thread Robert G. Hays
James Hiscock wrote: You might also say equivalent or counterpart ... ...hmmm... Dictionary.com says something else entirely: pen·dant1 also pen·dent( P ) Pronunciation Key (pndnt) n. 1. Something suspended from something else, especially an ornament or piece of jewelry attached to a n

[gentoo-user] Slightly complex Hard Drive Qeustion

2005-04-14 Thread Tom Moyer
I may just not be seeing an easy way to do this, so I figured I would ask if any one had any ideas. I currently have 3 hard drives in my computer: hda - Windows XP - 40 Gig hdb - Gentoo - 120 Gig hdc - nothing (I think it might be dead) - 30 Gig I got Windows running in qemu and no longer have a

Re: (OT) [gentoo-user] LVM2 during installation

2005-04-14 Thread Robert G. Hays
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 13:01:02 -0400, Robert G. Hays wrote: *LIKE* you rolling-sig -- are these from 'noseguy,' by any chance? Where-the-futz do you get all these anyway? No one source. I have collected them over the last twelve years. Some are very out of date now, I really

[gentoo-user] Question about kernel-equivalence

2005-04-14 Thread Robert G. Hays
Ok, is: kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r4 the same as: kernel-2.6.11.4 plus/minus the Gentoo-specific patches? I'm dying here fighting to get my ATI all-in-wonder agp8x Dual-Screen working under 'gento-r4 with Win4Lin. (will need 3D, so using ATI's drivers.) I got the ATI & Gentoo to play n

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo security guide question

2005-04-14 Thread James Hiscock
> You might also say equivalent or counterpart ... ...hmmm... Dictionary.com says something else entirely: pen·dant1 also pen·dent( P ) Pronunciation Key (pndnt) n. 1. Something suspended from something else, especially an ornament or piece of jewelry attached to a necklace or bracelet. 2

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo security guide question

2005-04-14 Thread Antonio Coralles
gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org wrote: > On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Antonio Coralles wrote: > >> Is there a pendant > > A pendant? > > You might also say equivalent or counterpart ... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] how to subscribe but get no mail

2005-04-14 Thread Mike Williams
On Thursday 14 April 2005 18:09, Harry Putnam wrote: > Sorry to post this here but I've already contacted the listserver with > the info address and faq address.  Neither of those sources have any > info about this. > > I want to subscribe here but get no messages delivered.  The > subscription wou

Re: (OT) [gentoo-user] LVM2 during installation

2005-04-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 13:01:02 -0400, Robert G. Hays wrote: > I *LIKE* you rolling-sig -- are these from 'noseguy,' by any chance? > Where-the-futz do you get all these anyway? No one source. I have collected them over the last twelve years. Some are very out of date now, I really ought to clean th

[gentoo-user] how to subscribe but get no mail

2005-04-14 Thread Harry Putnam
Sorry to post this here but I've already contacted the listserver with the info address and faq address. Neither of those sources have any info about this. I want to subscribe here but get no messages delivered. The subscription would be so as to enable posting thru news.gmane.org's mail to news

Re: (OT) [gentoo-user] LVM2 during installation

2005-04-14 Thread Robert G. Hays
Neil Bothwick wrote: [sig:] Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 9: Political science Wrong!! :: "Political Science" is the study of how/why things happens *in* politics... You know, like studying how an AIDS virus works? <**Very** evil grin!!> I *LIKE* you rolling-sig -- are these from 'noseg

[gentoo-user] Re: gaim doesn't compile - ld error finding "SM" library

2005-04-14 Thread Francis Barton
Daniel - thanks for your tip. I was busy finding out the same thing at the same time you posted. I got there in the end. Francisco - thank you for your suggestion, this indeed proved to be the problem. I just created a symlink in /usr/lib : libSM.so -> libSM.so.6.0 and everything was happy again

Re: Pentium M is actually quite good. (Was: Re: Laptop_Mode was[Re: [OT] Ext3 Speed Issues? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] file system corrupted)])

2005-04-14 Thread Robert G. Hays
Travis Rousseau wrote: Ha I was told it would cost extra to get a computer without windows. (somethin like $80) Yes, *WHY* does it cost more without WindoZZZe? (Answer: Because MonopolSoft threatens vendors into doing this.) I suggest NOT buying from vendors that do this. If Linux ever reeally

[gentoo-user] dvdrip (udev?) question

2005-04-14 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, This may be a dvdrip item but I thought I'd try here first as I'm not that sure about udev. my laptop is running ck-sources. I have a single CD-RW/DVD-RW drive in the machine. DVD rip asks for the /dev device for the dvd. Not knowing what to answer I gave it what I gave k3b which is /dev/cdr

Re: [gentoo-user] Personal Video Recorders

2005-04-14 Thread Robert G. Hays
Yuo know, I just *LOVE* the idea of Xboxs running Linux -- remember who they came from? Payback's a [deleted]. <*very* evil grin!> rgh. Mark Knecht wrote: 2) In parallel look at whether to do a dedicated recorder (vs. using an existing machine) and look at how to do remote playback. Remot

Re: Pentium M is actually quite good. (Was: Re: Laptop_Mode was[Re: [OT] Ext3 Speed Issues? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] file system corrupted)])

2005-04-14 Thread Travis Rousseau
On 4/12/05, Charles Pittman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/12/05, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 07:26:39 -0400 > > Charles Pittman wrote: > > > > > > Do all Pentium M processors have integrated wireless? I guess that > would > > > explain the wireless on/o

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