Re: [gentoo-user] Mplayer looks always blue

2005-04-20 Thread Steingrim Dovland
* Patrick Marquetecken > Whatever skin i uses the mplayer gui always looks bue. > Is this normal ? I had this problem a while ago (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6) and my "solution" was to emerge it with USE="mmx mmx2". However, that won't do it for the amd64-folks :/ It'd be interes

Re: [gentoo-user] XML parsing errors editing Mozilla prefs

2005-04-20 Thread Alin Dobre
Reinstall mozilla, but this time make sure that you don't have any existing mozilla processes running while installing the new version. On 4/18/05, Alexander Kirillov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a problem with recently emerged Mozilla (1.7.7) > Selecting Advanced or Scripts &

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

2005-04-20 Thread Peter Gordon
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 18:17:33 +0200 Jarry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Up to now I always used ext2, but now I want to try some | journaling fs for my 2x160GB ata-disks, fully in raid1 | (partitions: / /boot /var /tmp /usr /opt /home and swap). If you care about your data, use

Re: [gentoo-user] abit AI7 - acpi, ht

2005-04-20 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 11:45:16PM -0400, Cosmin Nicolaescu wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > The system is about a year and a bit old. > > The motherboard is new though, I just bought it a few days ago. I updated > to the latest version of the bios for the motherboa

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg 6.8.0 and Radeon Mobility

2005-04-20 Thread Richard Fish
Lucien D. wrote: >Section "Monitor" > >Identifier "MultiSync" >HorizSync 31.5 - 37.9 >VertRefresh 50-70 > >EndSection > > Um, are you sure about the HorizSync and VertRefresh settings. I can't say for certain, but I'm pretty sure for 1024x768 you need a HorizSync of something li

Re: [gentoo-user] NTP

2005-04-20 Thread Scott Jones
Make a cron job that runs this command once a day:  ntpdate time.datum.com.  Works really well for me.  I hope this helps. Scott JonesOn 4/20/05, Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Am Mittwoch, 20. April 2005 15:41 schrieb ext Ciaran McCreesh:> On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 14:49:32 +0200 Dirk Heinri

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg 6.8.0 and Radeon Mobility

2005-04-20 Thread Ryan Chow
In the resolutions settings (under Section Screen - Subsection Display) I usually remove all the one that I'll not use i.e 640x480 800x600 and just leave it at the maximum that I want in my case 1024x768 at 24bbp. Hope that helps. On 4/21/05, Lucien D. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a insp

Re: [gentoo-user] abit AI7 - acpi, ht

2005-04-20 Thread Cosmin Nicolaescu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, April 20, 2005 10:47 pm, Willie Wong said: > How old is the system? I use an intel board and some of the older > boards came with chips that is HT-capable but doesn't have the BIOS > option to turn it on. Updating the BIOS version helped with

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vi is mising from the portage

2005-04-20 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Eamon Caddigan wrote: > I know a few people who swear by elvis, but I'm a little disappointed > that portage lacks good ol' BSD vi (unless I'm missing it). Yes, Im regularly annoyed by vi on BSD boxes... vim rocks. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] abit AI7 - acpi, ht

2005-04-20 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 09:37:19PM -0400, Cosmin Nicolaescu wrote: > On Wed, April 20, 2005 8:29 pm, Roy O. Wright said: > > On my GigaByte MB, HT is enabled via BIOS. You might want to poke > > around there... > > > > HTH, > > Roy > > > That's what I expected too, but there's no option and/or j

Re: [gentoo-user] A binary choice for a DVD burner... URGENT!

2005-04-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 13:37 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 17:53:06 +0530, Mrugesh Karnik wrote: > > Having said that, I'd go with Sony. You know you are getting good > quality with them, really? but do you know that you're getting sony? If you're referring to LG as being "no

Re: [gentoo-user] abit AI7 - acpi, ht

2005-04-20 Thread Cosmin Nicolaescu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, April 20, 2005 8:29 pm, Roy O. Wright said: > On my GigaByte MB, HT is enabled via BIOS. You might want to poke > around there... > > HTH, > Roy That's what I expected too, but there's no option and/or jumper. Thanks tho! - -Cos - -- GPG

[gentoo-user] /etc/conf.d/hostname

2005-04-20 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, My older machines do not have this file. The new install does. What's the right way to use this file. Is this supposed to contain HOSTNAME="dragonfly" or HOSTNAME="localhost" I assume the former based on the comment in the file but etc-update is asking to set it back to localhost so I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] abit AI7 - acpi, ht

2005-04-20 Thread Roy O. Wright
On my GigaByte MB, HT is enabled via BIOS. You might want to poke around there... HTH, Roy Cosmin Nicolaescu wrote: 2 things I noticed: 1. CPU: Hyper-Threading is disabled (why? how do you enable HT?) 2. ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (20 C) (even from here it's always reporting 20 - aka 68F) Thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] portage: multiple versions of same package

2005-04-20 Thread ma53
Edward Catmur wrote: > On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 16:16 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>I am trying to build a package called sipXphone. It requires >>glib-2.4.2, but most of my current packages require glib-2.6.3 (the >>latest version). > > > "requires" glib-2.4.2 sounds unlikely. Presumabl

Re: [gentoo-user] abit AI7 - acpi, ht

2005-04-20 Thread Cosmin Nicolaescu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, April 20, 2005 4:32 pm, Richard Fish said: > Cosmin Nicolaescu wrote: > >>1. The motherboard, as well as the P4 processor are HT capable. I have >>configured SMP and HT capabilities in the kernel, yet I do not have HT. >>Why? >> >> > > Post yo

RE: [gentoo-user] Don't read the boot CD

2005-04-20 Thread Nanayakkara, Pubudu
HI all, Thanks so much who replied, I didn't expect to get such detailed response from you all. It was very very helpful. Cheers, Pubudu. -Original Message- From: Tres Melton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 20 April 2005 6:15 PM To: Gentoo List Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Do

Re: [gentoo-user] Mplayer looks always blue

2005-04-20 Thread Nick Rout
emerge mplayer should give you gmplayer, as well as mplayer, although there are so many USE flags for mplayer, and one or other of them may affect whether gmplayer is actually built. Maybe the gtk flag? emerge kmplayer for the kde front end. emerge xmmplayer OR xmms-xmmsmplayer for an mplayer plu

[gentoo-user] Re: vi is mising from the portage

2005-04-20 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 18:16:41 + (UTC) Eamon Caddigan ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >| Vim's great, but sometimes you just want vi.=20 > > That's a shame, because I removed (traditional) vi from the tree. Your > choices are Vim, nvi, elvis or fixing tra

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg 6.8.0 and Radeon Mobility

2005-04-20 Thread Lucien D.
> I have a inspiron 8600 with a radeon mobility 9600 and use > xorg-x11-6.8.2-r1 without corruption. It runs at 1920x1200. But there is > no 3D graphic. Here are the relevant parts of my xorg.conf: > Section "Module" # kdm does not start without this, even if empty > SubSection "extmod" #

Re: [gentoo-user] Mplayer looks always blue

2005-04-20 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Jamie Dobbs wrote: > I don't have that problem, but I only seem to have command line access to > mplayer and no gui - there something that I haven't emerged, or some USE > flag I haven't turned on that will give me a pretty gui? You have to emerge with the 'gtk' USE flag and call gmplayer instead

Re: [gentoo-user] Consolidating Gnome and KDE apps in menus

2005-04-20 Thread Thomas Heinrichsdobler
It is able to scan your portage tree for installed packages, and thus create a functional menu. Documentation is available on the website, you should find everything you're looking for. //Thomas -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Mplayer looks always blue

2005-04-20 Thread Jamie Dobbs
I don't have that problem, but I only seem to have command line access to mplayer and no gui - there something that I haven't emerged, or some USE flag I haven't turned on that will give me a pretty gui? > I have the same problem.. > But I don't know what to do... > > Is anybody can help us? > > O

Re: [gentoo-user] rc-update net.wlan0?

2005-04-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On 4/20/05, Robert G. Hays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thought: what about setting the address, gateway, etc, to be the same as > when the box runs FC? Not hard, and should guarantee connection since > the nic & the router managed before. I'm sure some of us out hee could > step you through thi

[gentoo-user] korganizer 3.4 and timezones

2005-04-20 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Hi I've just finished migrating my old PC (debian unstable) to my new gentoo. (almost) everything works great :) The only problem I have is with korganizer. I replaced the default "ics" file with my old one, but it doesn't take into account the timezone and daylight saving time, so I see all t

Re: [gentoo-user] Consolidating Gnome and KDE apps in menus

2005-04-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On 4/20/05, smoke3 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IT'S really what I was looking for! > > TNX > > Smoke3 > Is it? I emerged it and looked very quickly. It certainly looks like I could build menus nicely using it but I couldn't quickly figure out how to make it go find applications and build my

Re: [gentoo-user] Mplayer looks always blue

2005-04-20 Thread Seung Hyun Cho
I have the same problem.. But I don't know what to do... Is anybody can help us? On 4/21/05, Patrick Marquetecken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Whatever skin i uses the mplayer gui always looks bue. > Is this normal ? > http://users.pandora.be/delta_quadrant/Schermafdruk.png > > TIA > Pa

[gentoo-user] kde menus

2005-04-20 Thread jonawright
i had a similar problem when upgrading from FC2. i found that deleting all of the .kde associated directores and a .config directory from my home directory would fix the problem. on logging in after this deletion, all of the menus magicaly appeared. i don't know how to combine menus yet. haven'

Re: [gentoo-user] Consolidating Gnome and KDE apps in menus

2005-04-20 Thread smoke3
IT'S really what I was looking for! TNX Smoke3 -- You can't learn what you think you know. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Recommendations for Webcams

2005-04-20 Thread Nick Rout
option 1 take your laptop in and plug the camera in option 2 take a knoppix cd in, boot a computer in the shop and plug the camera in option 3 look for cameras then seek advice from this list or google about particular brands or models. On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 22:00:23 +0100 Jan Drugowitsch wrote: >

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg 6.8.0 and Radeon Mobility

2005-04-20 Thread Erik
Lucien D. wrote: >I have a inspiron 8200 with a radeon mobility 9000. I currently have >xorg 6.7.0-r3 installed. Last night I tried to upgrade to 6.8. >Because of blocking issues I had to unmerge xorg and remerge it. >Thank god for quickpkg. Once 6.8 was emerged I started x and things >were u

Re: [gentoo-user] rc-update net.wlan0?

2005-04-20 Thread Robert G. Hays
Thought: what about setting the address, gateway, etc, to be the same as when the box runs FC? Not hard, and should guarantee connection since the nic & the router managed before. I'm sure some of us out hee could step you through this if you are willing & need help (I don't remember if you

Re: [gentoo-user] portage: multiple versions of same package

2005-04-20 Thread Edward Catmur
On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 16:16 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am trying to build a package called sipXphone. It requires > glib-2.4.2, but most of my current packages require glib-2.6.3 (the > latest version). "requires" glib-2.4.2 sounds unlikely. Presumably you mean that it doesn't compil

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet Card Init order?

2005-04-20 Thread Richard Fish
Neil Bothwick wrote: >Probably not, because you could end up with both having the same name at >some point. Do you need those names, or just something consistent? Naming >them lan0 and wan0 would seem better. If nothing else, it would make your >config files and scripts more readable. > > Just

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Recommendations for Webcams

2005-04-20 Thread Jan Drugowitsch
On 4/20/05, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jan Drugowitsch gmail.com> writes: > > > I've been looking around online, but I haven't found any good summary > > and comparison page about the use of recently priced webcams for the > > use with linux (and in particular Gentoo). Could anyone recomm

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/portage

2005-04-20 Thread Rodolphe Rocca
James wrote: > Hello, > > Well a 'df' is quite ugly on my portable, as both /var and /usr > are each 10 G and are over 90%. > > on /var, I: > cd /var/tmp/portage > rm -r * > > Figuring that I can download everything anew. > > Disk usage Dropped to less than 5%...OK > > on /usr > > I wacked /u

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Recommendations for Webcams

2005-04-20 Thread James
Jan Drugowitsch gmail.com> writes: > I've been looking around online, but I haven't found any good summary > and comparison page about the use of recently priced webcams for the > use with linux (and in particular Gentoo). Could anyone recommend > webcams that are properly supported in linux and

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/portage

2005-04-20 Thread Edward Catmur
On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 20:02 +, James wrote: > However, if memory servers, folks have in the past recommended wacking > /usr/portage to some degree to get control over disk space. Here I'm > a > little more cautious. Almost all of /usr/portage is governed by emerge sync; the place to save spa

Re: [gentoo-user] abit AI7 - acpi, ht

2005-04-20 Thread Richard Fish
Cosmin Nicolaescu wrote: >1. The motherboard, as well as the P4 processor are HT capable. I have >configured SMP and HT capabilities in the kernel, yet I do not have HT. >Why? > > Post your dmesg output from immediately after booting, it will probably tell us what the problem is. Hopefully som

Re: [gentoo-user] ATAPI burning doesn't work

2005-04-20 Thread Richard Fish
Phill MV wrote: >>2. The IDE cable is not damaged (you might just want to replace it with >>a spare, if you have one). >> >> > >Replaced it. > > > >>4. If you have another device on the same channel, make sure it is >>configured as a slave. >> >> Well the only other simple thing I can t

[gentoo-user] Re: vi is mising from the portage

2005-04-20 Thread James
Eamon Caddigan uiuc.edu> writes: > I know a few people who swear by elvis, but I'm a little disappointed > that portage lacks good ol' BSD vi (unless I'm missing it). Yes, elvis is wonderful. Not taking anything away from Vim, but elvis is very nice. As an embedded hack, I use old vi sources

Re: [gentoo-user] Don't read the boot CD

2005-04-20 Thread Robert G. Hays
At Bottom. Andreas Fredriksson wrote: On 4/20/05, Mrugesh Karnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Otherwise, another solution (I personally have never used it, but is possible) is to use WinRAR to extract all the contents of the ISO file to a folder and burn the contents of the folder. Note that y

Re: [gentoo-user] portage: multiple versions of same package

2005-04-20 Thread ma53
Edward -- I am trying to build a package called sipXphone. It requires glib-2.4.2, but most of my current packages require glib-2.6.3 (the latest version). One would think that the versioning would be backwards compatible but this is not the case. The technique I described below doesn't wor

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet Card Init order?

2005-04-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:01:18 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: > >>Alternatively, you can use udev to give them whatever names you like. > Does it actually work for renaming eth0 to eth1 and eth1 to eth0, or > does it only work for renaming "eth0" to "lan0", for example? Probably not, because you could

[gentoo-user] /usr/portage

2005-04-20 Thread James
Hello, Well a 'df' is quite ugly on my portable, as both /var and /usr are each 10 G and are over 90%. on /var, I: cd /var/tmp/portage rm -r * Figuring that I can download everything anew. Disk usage Dropped to less than 5%...OK on /usr I wacked /usr/src except for the current kernel tree sav

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) Don't read the boot CD

2005-04-20 Thread Robert G. Hays
Neil Bothwick wrote: Why do we park in driveways and drive on parkways? Sayth Gallagher! (wherein he prooveth that he *can* be funny without potty-mouthing ! :) ) rgh. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vi is mising from the portage

2005-04-20 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 18:16:41 + (UTC) Eamon Caddigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Vim's great, but sometimes you just want vi. That's a shame, because I removed (traditional) vi from the tree. Your choices are Vim, nvi, elvis or fixing traditional vi to work with terminfo rather than termcap a

Re: [gentoo-user] K3B compilation error

2005-04-20 Thread Al Bayrouni
Christoph Gysin wrote: Al Bayrouni wrote: There is a bug while compiling media-video/mjpegtools. Yep. It is referenced in bugzilla.gentoo.org as NEW. AFAIR the problem has been solved. It just needs some dev who writes a proper solution back into cvs. k3b depends on mjpegtools so k3b emerge f

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) Don't read the boot CD

2005-04-20 Thread Robert G. Hays
Re one of your rotating sigs : Neil Bothwick, on Gentoo.Org: Ethernet (n): something used to catch the etherbunny You bait the ethernet with ethereggs... (From my friend David) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] vi is mising from the portage

2005-04-20 Thread kashani
Patrick Marquetecken wrote: Hi, I'm using a script for months now to install my gentoo servers, now after my last sync i have seen that there are some changes in the portage like there is no gentoo-dev-sources moved to gentoo-sources, but vi is also missing! Is this compleet gone? or also moved, ca

Re: [gentoo-user] A binary choice for a DVD burner... URGENT!

2005-04-20 Thread Robert G. Hays
My $0.01 plus tax... Two inexpensive brands of hardware that I have always found to do everything they say (but nothing more) and to last a long time: SIIG I/O Magic I/O Magic does make dvd's, cd's, etc. Have one now. Fine usb-unit, all o/s's. LG I don't know, so I can't say. Sony is always

Re: [gentoo-user] portage: multiple versions of same package

2005-04-20 Thread Edward Catmur
Generally if two versions of an ebuild have the same SLOT, then they will conflict in some way (normally by installing files with the same name) and so having one installed will break the other. Which packages are you trying to install? On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 14:20 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet Card Init order?

2005-04-20 Thread fire-eyes
On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 20:53 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: > It seems you are correct. According to > > http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/Ethernet-HOWTO-8.html#lilo > > And /usr/src/linux/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt, you should be > able to get away with just > > "netdev=eth1,eth0" > >

Re: [gentoo-user] USB wireless on laptop

2005-04-20 Thread LostSon
On Tuesday 12 April 2005 17:16, Nick Rout wrote: > On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 16:58:32 -0500 > > LostSon wrote: > > Well i have been at this for days and i have posted in the forums as well > > but to no avail. so here goes > > > > Im having troubles getting my USB wireless working. I have the kernel > >

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet Card Init order?

2005-04-20 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Check the Gentoo udev docs which have links to a couple of good sites that are helpful. > > From: Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/04/20 Wed PM 02:55:07 EDT > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet Card Init order? > > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > >Alte

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vi is mising from the portage

2005-04-20 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
> Dave Nebinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> emerge -pv vim >>> >>> It seems to respond to vi at the command line. I had the same question >>> a couple of days ago... >> >> It only seems the same. There was a vi package (don't remember the >> origins >> of it), but it was only a basic vi implem

[gentoo-user] Mplayer looks always blue

2005-04-20 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Hi, Whatever skin i uses the mplayer gui always looks bue. Is this normal ? http://users.pandora.be/delta_quadrant/Schermafdruk.png TIA Patrick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet Card Init order?

2005-04-20 Thread Richard Fish
Richard Fish wrote: >Neil Bothwick wrote: >>Alternatively, you can use udev to give them whatever names you like. >> >> > >Huh? How? > Sorry, never mind...I found it. Does it actually work for renaming eth0 to eth1 and eth1 to eth0, or does it only work for renaming "eth0" to "lan0", for examp

Re: [gentoo-user] Fax & answerphone/voicemail server...

2005-04-20 Thread James Hiscock
> This is a Class 1 faxmodem, which, AFAIR, doesn't work with m|vgetty. ...yeah... [vm]getty has no support for Class 1 fax, but it's (theoretically) still ok for voice... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet Card Init order?

2005-04-20 Thread Richard Fish
Neil Bothwick wrote: >Alternatively, you can use udev to give them whatever names you like. > > Huh? How? -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet Card Init order?

2005-04-20 Thread Richard Fish
fire-eyes wrote: >I betchya there's a kernel paramater that you can shove into the >bootloader to have passed on, just not sure what it is :) > > > It seems you are correct. According to http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/Ethernet-HOWTO-8.html#lilo And /usr/src/linux/Documentation/kernel-p

[gentoo-user] webapp-config oddisey

2005-04-20 Thread Pupeno
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm having lots of problems with webapp-config, I think I don't yet understand how it works. I try to install phpmyadmin so I run # webapp-config -I -V phpmyadmin 2.6.2_rc1 and I've got in reply * All config file checks successfully passed * Runnin

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

2005-04-20 Thread Richard Fish
Mark Knecht wrote: >On my 3 1394 drives I get about 18MB/S, 24MB/S and 24MB/S. The 18MB/S >drive is the oldest (and smallest at 40GB) of the three. > > Cool, thanks for the info. I just realized that the only sensible configuration is to move my 3.5" backup drives to the 1394, because my lapto

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet Card Init order?

2005-04-20 Thread fire-eyes
On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 12:05 -0600, Tres Melton wrote: > This is my lilo (grub has the same thing) > > append="ether=5,0xe400,eth0 ether=10,0x300,eth1" > > and it ensures that eth0 is the one on irq5 and eth1 on irq10 I'm trying to figure out the I/O addresses. For one of the cards we have this,

[gentoo-user] Re: vi is mising from the portage

2005-04-20 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Dave Nebinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> emerge -pv vim >> >> It seems to respond to vi at the command line. I had the same question >> a couple of days ago... > > It only seems the same. There was a vi package (don't remember the origins > of it), but it was only a basic vi implementation. >

[gentoo-user] portage: multiple versions of same package

2005-04-20 Thread ma53
Hi, I am trying to install two different versions of the same package. I think the SLOTS mechanism of portage can handle this, but I get the feeling that this feature is only exposed to developers, and not to a user. I tried following the advice given here: http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Installing_S

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet Card Init order?

2005-04-20 Thread fire-eyes
On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 12:05 -0600, Tres Melton wrote: > This is my lilo (grub has the same thing) > > append="ether=5,0xe400,eth0 ether=10,0x300,eth1" > > and it ensures that eth0 is the one on irq5 and eth1 on irq10 That's what I was looking for, I'll have to give that a shot. Thanks! -- gent

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet Card Init order?

2005-04-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 19:53:52 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: > If they use the same driver, probably not. If they use separate > drivers, you just need to build the drivers as modules, and load them in > the order you want. Alternatively, you can use udev to give them whatever names you like. -- N

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet Card Init order?

2005-04-20 Thread fire-eyes
On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 19:53 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: > fire-eyes wrote: > > >I have two NIC's in a server. One always comes up as eth0, the other > >always eth1. One is on-board, the other is an add-on. > > > >I'd like to swap them around, that is to say, have the NIC that is > >currently eth0 b

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet Card Init order?

2005-04-20 Thread Tres Melton
This is my lilo (grub has the same thing) append="ether=5,0xe400,eth0 ether=10,0x300,eth1" and it ensures that eth0 is the one on irq5 and eth1 on irq10 On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 13:43 -0400, fire-eyes wrote: > I have two NIC's in a server. One always comes up as eth0, the other > always eth1. One i

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet Card Init order?

2005-04-20 Thread Richard Fish
fire-eyes wrote: >I have two NIC's in a server. One always comes up as eth0, the other >always eth1. One is on-board, the other is an add-on. > >I'd like to swap them around, that is to say, have the NIC that is >currently eth0 become eth1, and the NIC which is eth1 become eth0. > > If they use

Re: [gentoo-user] vi is mising from the portage

2005-04-20 Thread Michael Sullivan
VIM is still there. Could you use that? On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 19:34 +0200, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using a script for months now to install my gentoo servers, now after > my last sync i have seen that there are some changes in the portage like > there is no gentoo-dev-sources m

RE: [gentoo-user] vi is mising from the portage

2005-04-20 Thread Dave Nebinger
> emerge -pv vim > > It seems to respond to vi at the command line. I had the same question > a couple of days ago... It only seems the same. There was a vi package (don't remember the origins of it), but it was only a basic vi implementation. Vim is Vi-iMproved and includes all the nice featur

[gentoo-user] Ethernet Card Init order?

2005-04-20 Thread fire-eyes
I have two NIC's in a server. One always comes up as eth0, the other always eth1. One is on-board, the other is an add-on. I'd like to swap them around, that is to say, have the NIC that is currently eth0 become eth1, and the NIC which is eth1 become eth0. Is this possible? -- gentoo-user@gento

RE: [gentoo-user] vi is mising from the portage

2005-04-20 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I love the good old vi Now referred to as 'vim'. Change your script to emerge vim and everything will be back on track. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] vi is mising from the portage

2005-04-20 Thread Mark Knecht
emerge -pv vim It seems to respond to vi at the command line. I had the same question a couple of days ago... On 4/20/05, Patrick Marquetecken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using a script for months now to install my gentoo servers, now after > my last sync i have seen that there are

[gentoo-user] vi is mising from the portage

2005-04-20 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Hi, I'm using a script for months now to install my gentoo servers, now after my last sync i have seen that there are some changes in the portage like there is no gentoo-dev-sources moved to gentoo-sources, but vi is also missing! Is this compleet gone? or also moved, can someone point me in the g

[gentoo-user] [OT] Recommendations for Webcams

2005-04-20 Thread Jan Drugowitsch
Hi Gentoo users, I've been looking around online, but I haven't found any good summary and comparison page about the use of recently priced webcams for the use with linux (and in particular Gentoo). Could anyone recommend webcams that are properly supported in linux and are not too expensive but h

Re: [gentoo-user] rc-update net.wlan0?

2005-04-20 Thread Mark Knecht
Hello, This is a follow-up after using our system for a couple of days. The system was converted from FC2 to Gentoo. Mostly things went well. One thing I had not done much of was reboot. I've been trying this today. Unfortunately it seems that the Gentoo network init scripts are not treating me as

Re: [gentoo-user] Fax & answerphone/voicemail server...

2005-04-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 17:19:36 +0100, Steve [Gentoo] wrote: > I've a Pace 56Voice External one (RS232 interface) which (as far as I > remember) worked well with Talkworks under NT4 several years ago... and > until recently performed robustly for dialup. This is a Class 1 faxmodem, which, AFAIR, d

[gentoo-user] Re: OpenMosix, 2.6 & Gentoo

2005-04-20 Thread James
Tim Igoe igoe.me.uk> writes: > There is an openmosix 2.6 ebuild - i came across it the other day > http://www.gentoo-portage.com/sys-kernel/openmosix-sources > Its hard masked at the moment, so you'd have to unmask it to use it So I guess I'll wait until is not masked. Thanks for the information

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mysql for MythTV - fails to set password

2005-04-20 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: > I should > probably be looking for a real HOWTO on running MythTV under Gentoo. Plenty of those around ;-) http://tinyurl.com/bur7l -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Xorg 6.8.0 and Radeon Mobility

2005-04-20 Thread Lucien D.
I have a inspiron 8200 with a radeon mobility 9000. I currently have xorg 6.7.0-r3 installed. Last night I tried to upgrade to 6.8. Because of blocking issues I had to unmerge xorg and remerge it. Thank god for quickpkg. Once 6.8 was emerged I started x and things were ugly. All sorts of corr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mysql for MythTV - fails to set password

2005-04-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On 4/20/05, Arran Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OK, one time it allowed me to set a password. However no form of this > > command seems to work for me so far. Is it the Using password: No > > telling me to not use a password? > > So you noticed that now the error isn't "lost connection" an

Re: [gentoo-user] Fax & answerphone/voicemail server...

2005-04-20 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
James Hiscock wrote: You might want to check out vocp (http://vocpsystem.com/) as an alternative - there's a (horribly experimental - read: partially completed) ebuild for it on bugs.gentoo.org... I'm still trying to tweak stuff to get it working, but it's pretty straight-forward. That looks lik

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware Raid: using smartctl on individual drives

2005-04-20 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, fire-eyes wrote: > I'm using 100% hardware raid. I have a raid1 as well as a raid5. I can > use smartctl on each array, but I can't seem to figure out how to aim it > at one physical disk. I think you will need to find out if there's any software that allows you to query and

Re: [gentoo-user] Consolidating Gnome and KDE apps in menus

2005-04-20 Thread Thomas Heinrichsdobler
You might want to try denu: from http://freshmeat.net/projects/denu/ Denu is a portage-based menu generator/editor for Fluxbox, Openbox, GNOME, IceWM, KDE, XFCE4, and Waimea. Its main feature is Web-based updates, and it also has some customization features. It even is portage-aware, so most (i

[gentoo-user] abit AI7 - acpi, ht

2005-04-20 Thread Cosmin Nicolaescu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, I just purchased a new motherboard, an Abit AI7. The specs look really good, I've read about the 'wonders' it can do with sensors that have little to no support in Linux, and with a couple of exceptions it works fine. Perhaps someone else h

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenMosix, 2.6 & Gentoo

2005-04-20 Thread Tim Igoe
There is an openmosix 2.6 ebuild - i came across it the other day http://www.gentoo-portage.com/sys-kernel/openmosix-sources Its hard masked at the moment, so you'd have to unmask it to use it -- Tim Igoe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tim.igoe.me.uk - Personal Site http://tv.igoe.me.uk - UK TV Guid

Re: [gentoo-user] A binary choice for a DVD burner... URGENT!

2005-04-20 Thread Tim Igoe
Hi, I have 2 LG drives here (one CDRW and one DVDRW) - both are working perfectly for me, better than windows even! This DVD is one of the dual layer 16x all format ones (can't remember teh model number) Can't comment about Sony ones, never had any problems from LG - so if it ain't broke... i a

[gentoo-user] OpenMosix, 2.6 & Gentoo

2005-04-20 Thread James
Hello Openmosix has been available on Gentoo, in the 2.4 kernel series: sys-kernel/openmosix-sources Latest version available: 2.4.28-r5 Now OpenMosix, is available for 2.6 kernels via CVS: http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=460497 Will OpenMosix appear as a kernel build opti

[gentoo-user] Hardware Raid: using smartctl on individual drives

2005-04-20 Thread fire-eyes
I'm using 100% hardware raid. I have a raid1 as well as a raid5. I can use smartctl on each array, but I can't seem to figure out how to aim it at one physical disk. Any ideas? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Don't read the boot CD

2005-04-20 Thread Andreas Fredriksson
On 4/20/05, Mrugesh Karnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Otherwise, another solution (I personally have never used it, but is > possible) is to use WinRAR to extract all the contents of the ISO file > to a folder and burn the contents of the folder. Note that you're not to > burn the folder itself,

Re: [gentoo-user] NTP

2005-04-20 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 20. April 2005 15:41 schrieb ext Ciaran McCreesh: > On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 14:49:32 +0200 Dirk Heinrichs > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | Am Mittwoch, 20. April 2005 14:29 schrieb ext Ciaran McCreesh: > | > rdate -s ntp.foo.com > | > | Sorry, but no. rdate != ntp. > > Actually, yes. The

[gentoo-user] Consolidating Gnome and KDE apps in menus

2005-04-20 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I did this conversion of my wife's FC2 machine to Gentoo. the conversion went well (mostly) although I'm now into the process of making the user experience what she wants. The first issue I need to deal with is the differences in what's percieved to be a lack in Gentoo to her as a user.

Re: [gentoo-user] A binary choice for a DVD burner... URGENT!

2005-04-20 Thread MODN
I've been using several LG DVD writers in the past, none of which caused any trouble. The Quality isn't as poor as some people might suppose, I have never wrecked a blank DVD with it, nor hab trouble reading DVDs. The models I used were LG-GSA4082B (8x writer) and LG-GSA-4163B (16x DL writer) Tho

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mysql for MythTV - fails to set password

2005-04-20 Thread Arran Fraser
OK, one time it allowed me to set a password. However no form of this command seems to work for me so far. Is it the Using password: No telling me to not use a password? So you noticed that now the error isn't "lost connection" any more, which means your first problem (with "-h dragonfly") is fixe

Re: [gentoo-user] A binary choice for a DVD burner... URGENT!

2005-04-20 Thread Henrik Andersson
Mrugesh Karnik wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm sure this has been asked a lot of times previously, but I need to > buy a DVD burner in a couple of days. The choice is between LG and Sony. > I'm just wondering which drive would be better with Gentoo. (I've heard > about problems with Mandrake and LG dr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mysql for MythTV - fails to set password

2005-04-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On 4/20/05, Arran Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > dragonfly ~ # /usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root -h dragonfly password xyz > > /usr/bin/mysqladmin: connect to server at 'dragonfly' failed > > error: 'Lost connection to MySQL server during query' > > Unless you intend to run MySQL on a different b

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Sending local mail to my server box

2005-04-20 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
Le 04/20/05 avril Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit notamment: > The computer I use mainly is called baby.espersunited.com My server box > is called bullet.espersunited.com. I don't have any kind of local DNS > for my network, just /etc/host files (each computer has a copy of the > sa

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