Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about supported hardware for Gentoo.

On 05/19/05 23:41, Bob Sanders wrote: On Thu, 19 May 2005 22:15:55 -0400 Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As I await my income-tax refund, I'm drooling over a couple of machines on a website that allows you to build to your own specs. One is an Intel P4 CPU 505 2.66GHz/533FSB/1M and the ot

Re: [gentoo-user] User not authorized to su root

On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 10:27:10PM -0700, Richard Fish wrote > What does the "id" command show for your user login? [m1800][waltdnes][~]id uid=1000(waltdnes) gid=100(users) groups=5(tty),10(wheel),11(floppy),14(uucp),18(audio),19(cdrom),20(dialout),27(video),35(games),85(usb),100(users) -- Wa

Re: [gentoo-user] User not authorized to su root

On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 07:47:03AM +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote > Again: su is not sudo. sudo provides similar functionality, but in a > slightly different way. If you want to use sudo, you'll have to > edit /etc/sudoers. OK, my mistake. Learn something every day. > Did you install shadow wi

[gentoo-user] System crashes with monitor off

Yeah, this is a weird one. I've noticed that if I leave my system (2.6.11-gentoo-r9) idle with the monitor off during an emerge, it will hang. However, if the monitor is on, then it won't hang and will keep emerging. Normally, leaving it idle for sixteen hours makes it crash, but I left the

[gentoo-user] foomatic-configure problems

I've been able to print to a Gentoo Samba server (running a HP510) for ages from Windows workstations (98 and XP), and still can from Windows. I have an old laptop that I recently installed Gentoo and Gnome on as a workstation. When I try and use foomatic-configure to set up cups to the same prin

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone Know Why a New Kernel Would Kill Networking?

Michael Haan wrote: > Nope. As near as I can tell, everything nVidia goes to crap when you > install a new kernel. The list of things nVidia - previously working > - which no longer work: > > 1) Ethernet - forcedeth stops working, nvnet won't build > 2) X - 7174 gives some rm_init error > 3) sat

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about supported hardware for Gentoo.

On Thu, 19 May 2005 22:15:55 -0400 Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Does Gentoo do anything with the extra 64 bits? 64 bit code is actually slower than 32 bit code for anything except certain dedicated applications. What you do gain is increased address space, which only makes a difference

Re: [gentoo-user] User not authorized to su root

Am Freitag, 20. Mai 2005 06:44 schrieb ext Walter Dnes: > Additional notes. I ran... > > USE="-pam -skey" emerge app-admin/sudo > > Here's /etc/suauth > Again: su is not sudo. sudo provides similar functionality, but in a slightly different way. If you want to use sudo, you'll have to edit

Re: [gentoo-user] SNMP and Proliant Management Utilities...

On May 18, 2005, at 4:10 pm, A. Khattri wrote: You could run "netstat -an --udp" and see if anything is listening on UDP port 161. If you dont have that software, maybe the net-snmp package would suffice? Right, thanks. That shows nothing. I've never seen anything like that. According to page 12 o

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about supported hardware for Gentoo.

On May 20, 2005, at 3:15 am, Walter Dnes wrote: Is there any real advantage to be had with an Athlon 64? Does Gentoo do anything with the extra 64 bits? I'd think that 64-bits would be disproportionately more useful than none at all!! ;P Stroller. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

On May 19, 2005, at 2:54 pm, A. Khattri wrote: Gentoo is an excellent distro, with one of the most comprehensive repositories of packages of any Linux distribution. It is powerful and excellently constructed. But to say maintenance and upgrading is easy is like saying Windows is as suitable as Un

Re: [gentoo-user] User not authorized to su root

Walter Dnes wrote: >On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 08:20:35AM +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote > > >>Am Donnerstag, 19. Mai 2005 07:59 schrieb ext Walter Dnes: >> >> >> >>> On one of my machines, my regular userID can su. On the other >>>machine, I can't. Before anyone asks... >>> >>>[...] >>> >>> -

[gentoo-user] RE: ebuild.sh chown/chmod segmentation fault

[digest mode reply] Glen This is known and well-discussed, and I applied the 'fix' and it works. Gentoo compiles beat the tarnation out of some cpu's -- slow your computer down by 25--33% when compiling, and maybe speed it back up when done. If you do not have a computer that permits on-the-fly

[gentoo-user] RE: Random emerge failures

[digest mode reply] Grant, This is known and well-discissed, and I applied the 'fix' and it works. Gentoo compiles beat the tarnation out of some cpu's -- slow your computer down by 25--33% when compiling, and maybe speed it back up when done. If you do not have a computer that permits on-the-fl

Re: [gentoo-user] mini pci wireless recomendations

On May 18, 2005, at 3:11 pm, Mauro Faccenda wrote: Stroller wrote: I have one of these, which I bought in error from my supplier to test with Linux ... I'd be interested to see if it would work in other laptops, but I don't have one suitable. If you'd be interested to try it & would be prepared to

Re: [gentoo-user] User not authorized to su root

On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 08:12:48AM -0700, Richard Fish wrote > Did you modify the /etc/group file manually, and if so, did you run > 'grpconv' afterwards? I used "gpasswd". -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An infinite number of monkeys pounding away on keyboards will eventually produce a re

Re: [gentoo-user] User not authorized to su root

On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 09:45:18AM -0400, A. Khattri wrote > On Thu, 19 May 2005, Walter Dnes wrote: > > > On one of my machines, my regular userID can su. On the other > > machine, I can't. Before anyone asks... > > What does /etc/securetty look like? [m1800][root][~]cat /etc/securetty # /e

Re: [gentoo-user] User not authorized to su root

Additional notes. I ran... USE="-pam -skey" emerge app-admin/sudo Here's /etc/suauth [m1800][root][~]cat /etc/suauth root:waltdnes:OWNPASS After logging off and back on, I still get... [m1800][waltdnes][~]su - You are not authorized to su root -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An i

Re: [gentoo-user] User not authorized to su root

On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 09:48:02AM -0400, Craig Duncan wrote > Walter Dnes wrote: > > > On one of my machines, my regular userID can su. On the other > >machine, I can't. Before anyone asks... > > > > - yes, the user (me, i.e. waltdnes) is a member of wheel > >[m1800][root][~]grep wheel /etc/g

Re: [gentoo-user] User not authorized to su root

On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 08:20:35AM +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote > Am Donnerstag, 19. Mai 2005 07:59 schrieb ext Walter Dnes: > > > On one of my machines, my regular userID can su. On the other > > machine, I can't. Before anyone asks... > > > > [...] > > > > - pam? We don't need no steenkin

Re: [gentoo-user] Managing meetings

On 5/19/05, Yuval Scharf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello,I'm looking for a software that helps managing meeting and tasks.I want it to be light and simple and have a version on both Linux and Windows.Can you recommend such a software.By the way, what is the right word for such a software, calender

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about supported hardware for Gentoo.

On Thu, 19 May 2005 22:15:55 -0400 Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As I await my income-tax refund, I'm drooling over a couple of > machines on a website that allows you to build to your own specs. One > is an Intel P4 CPU 505 2.66GHz/533FSB/1M and the other is an AMD Athlon > 64 3000+

[gentoo-user] emerge gnome-light

When I do emerge gnome-light this error appears, any idea of a solution???   i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../../include -I../../../include/ -I../ -O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -c NotOSX/notosx_mdns_stub.c -MT notosx_mdns_stub.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/notos

Re: [gentoo-user] how to boot from floppy and install gentoo

On Fri, 20 May 2005, askar ... wrote: > I'm trying to use HAL91 floppy distro. > Its tar also doesn't support '-j' option, but has bunzip. Exactly. So if you use gzip you can use the -z flag of tar instead... > So, 1st I bzunipped and the using tar. > I'm still in the process of trying to instal

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo User Groups

On Wednesday 18 May 2005 09:33 pm, Jonathan Nichols wrote: > The thread about discrimination is a good one.. it made me think about > local user groups, as people have mentioned install-fests. > > I did Google around for a bit but didn't really find a whole lot. I'm > right here in the Silicon Vall

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about supported hardware for Gentoo.

On Thu, 19 May 2005, Walter Dnes wrote: > As I await my income-tax refund, I'm drooling over a couple of > machines on a website that allows you to build to your own specs. One > is an Intel P4 CPU 505 2.66GHz/533FSB/1M and the other is an AMD Athlon > 64 3000+/1600FSB/512K CPU. Spec'ed out ot

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo w/ raid support?

On Thu, 19 May 2005, twirlz wrote: > I am going to be switching to gentoo, but before i do i want to make > sure i have support for my raid card. I have a Creative I/O Ultra ATA > IDE Raid Card. I will not be installing on this drive, will this > cause an issue or will it help me worry less? > h

[gentoo-user] Gentoo w/ raid support?

I am going to be switching to gentoo, but before i do i want to make sure i have support for my raid card. I have a Creative I/O Ultra ATA IDE Raid Card. I will not be installing on this drive, will this cause an issue or will it help me worry less? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-tipsnt

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone Know Why a New Kernel Would Kill Networking?

On 5/19/05, Brett I. Holcomb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did you make the modules - emerge nvidia when you're up and running on the > new kernel? > > On Thu, 19 May 2005, Michael Haan wrote: > > > On 5/19/05, Matan Peled <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Michael Haan wrote: > >>> I didn't change a

[gentoo-user] Forcing a downgrade of glibc on install

Hi,   I've recently moved across to using Gentoo and have been trying to get an install accomplished using glibc-2.3.2-r12 instead of the defacto 2.3.4 version that comes shipped with the latest buildCD(2005.0). After a lot of messing around I seem to be able to force a stage one build using

[gentoo-user] Questions about supported hardware for Gentoo.

As I await my income-tax refund, I'm drooling over a couple of machines on a website that allows you to build to your own specs. One is an Intel P4 CPU 505 2.66GHz/533FSB/1M and the other is an AMD Athlon 64 3000+/1600FSB/512K CPU. Spec'ed out otherwise identically, the AMD comes out slightly l

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

On 5/18/05, Sad Jack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gentoo is different. Thats its strength as far as I can see. If I wanted > a 'my computer' icon on my desktop, indeed if I wanted to be forced to > use a desktop I could just take the easy way out and stay with windows. Or if you are a KDE user, ju

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone Know Why a New Kernel Would Kill Networking?

Did you make the modules - emerge nvidia when you're up and running on the new kernel? On Thu, 19 May 2005, Michael Haan wrote: On 5/19/05, Matan Peled <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Michael Haan wrote: I didn't change any networking options, but it looks like networking it trying to use IPv6 after i

[gentoo-user] Fwd: Jarod - Here's Your Chance (AKA - Distro Cage Match)

Thought I'd make sure the locals had a crack at this. -- Forwarded message -- From: Michael Haan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: May 19, 2005 9:48 PM Subject: Jarod - Here's Your Chance (AKA - Distro Cage Match) To: Discussion about mythtv I know you're a big FC fan. I've seen you qu

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone Know Why a New Kernel Would Kill Networking?

On 5/19/05, Matan Peled <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Haan wrote: > > I didn't change any networking options, but it looks like networking > > it trying to use IPv6 after installing a new kernel. Why, and how do > > I fix it? > > > > Maybe you put in support for IPv6, which you didn't befo

Re: [gentoo-user] mozsvg question...

On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 13:56 -0400, David D. Rea wrote: > Hi All- > > I'm trying to view some SVG files via mozilla-firefox. I have mozilla > and mozilla-firefox compiled with USE="mozsvg" I have USE="svg mozsvg". I don't know if this will help, but I seem to be able to view (some) svg's. Simple

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild.sh chown/chmod segmentation fault

Benno Schulenberg wrote: >glen martin wrote: > > >>This is an EPIA PD6000, which like the ME6000 uses the Samuel 2 >>processor. So I used those CFLAGS with other tweaks mentioned on >>the same page. >> >>CFLAGS="-march=i586 -m3dnow -Os -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx" >> >> > >What happens

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

For a number of reasons, its quite incomplete and inaccurate - especially on older systems! BillK On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 09:09 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, May 19, 2005 2:12 am, Philip Webb said: > > > i don't even do the approved 'emerge world' in maintaining my system > > & i rely on a

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone Know Why a New Kernel Would Kill Networking?

Michael Haan wrote: > I didn't change any networking options, but it looks like networking > it trying to use IPv6 after installing a new kernel. Why, and how do > I fix it? > Maybe you put in support for IPv6, which you didn't before? Why not take it out of the kernel? If you don't need it (ve

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone Know Why a New Kernel Would Kill Networking?

On 5/19/05, Antonio Coralles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org wrote: > > > On 5/19/05, Antonio Coralles <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > wrote: > >> gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org wrote: > >> > >> > On 5/19/05, Antonio

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone Know Why a New Kernel Would Kill Networking?

gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org wrote: > On 5/19/05, Antonio Coralles <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: >> gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org wrote: >> >> > On 5/19/05, Antonio Coralles <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge/build problem

> try #env-update and check "/etc/ld.so.conf" > it should be there, if not try to add it manually, run #ldconfig and > reemerge "sys-apps/baselayout". > Also I've heared of problems with this last one lately try to check the > forum ;) Nope, no sigar.. Actually the ldconfig checks the /lib and /u

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone Know Why a New Kernel Would Kill Networking?

On 5/19/05, Antonio Coralles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org wrote: > > > On 5/19/05, Antonio Coralles <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > wrote: > >> gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org wrote: > >> > >> > I didn't change any

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone Know Why a New Kernel Would Kill Networking?

On 5/19/05, Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 03:41:26PM -0400, Michael Haan wrote: > > I didn't change any networking options, but it looks like networking > > it trying to use IPv6 after installing a new kernel. Why, and how do > > I fix it? > > Sounds like something to

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone Know Why a New Kernel Would Kill Networking?

gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org wrote: > On 5/19/05, Antonio Coralles <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: >> gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org wrote: >> >> > I didn't change any networking options, but it looks like networking >> > it trying to use

[gentoo-user] font parth reference

When starting X I get: Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/local/, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/CID/, removing from list! Why do I get this error message, is it because there are no fonts in those direc

Re: [gentoo-user] Clock going crazy

gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org wrote: > perhaps if you continue to have problems you could give a more thorough > explanation of the symptoms. > > Like, is the clock racing ahead or behind? Is it just set to the wrong > time on boot, but goes fine after it is set? > > On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 11:03 -07

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone Know Why a New Kernel Would Kill Networking?

On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 03:41:26PM -0400, Michael Haan wrote: > I didn't change any networking options, but it looks like networking > it trying to use IPv6 after installing a new kernel. Why, and how do > I fix it? Sounds like something to do more with baselayout than with the kernel. The big qu

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone Know Why a New Kernel Would Kill Networking?

On 5/19/05, Antonio Coralles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org wrote: > > > I didn't change any networking options, but it looks like networking > > it trying to use IPv6 after installing a new kernel. Why, and how do > > I fix it? > > > > > Say you switched from kernel A

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone Know Why a New Kernel Would Kill Networking?

gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org wrote: > I didn't change any networking options, but it looks like networking > it trying to use IPv6 after installing a new kernel. Why, and how do > I fix it? > > Say you switched from kernel A to kernel B: What exactly is A and what B ? antonio -- gentoo-user@gen

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge after kernel upgrade

--- Dan Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > After I've done an upgrade of my kernel I have to > re-emerge some kernelmodules > (madwifi-driver among other). BUT when I do this > emerge removes the module > from the /lib/modules/... from the old kernel > version. Is there a way to ma

Re: [gentoo-user] Clock going crazy

perhaps if you continue to have problems you could give a more thorough explanation of the symptoms. Like, is the clock racing ahead or behind? Is it just set to the wrong time on boot, but goes fine after it is set? On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 11:03 -0700, rob3 wrote: > David D. Rea wrote: > > >On Th

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone Know Why a New Kernel Would Kill Networking?

On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 15:41 -0400, Michael Haan wrote: > I didn't change any networking options, but it looks like networking > it trying to use IPv6 after installing a new kernel. Why, and how do > I fix it? > try /etc/rc.conf it is well commented. -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gento

Re: [gentoo-user] nautilus, file types and icons

gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org wrote: > On Tue, 17 May 2005, Antonio Coralles wrote: > >> > Well, this is more a repost than an answer ... >> > antonio >> > >> By the way, i'm using gnome-2.8.3 ... > > OK, Ill bite ;-) > > Google really is your friend. > > Apparently, /usr/share/mime-info/gnome-vfs.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

On Thu, 19 May 2005 13:51:49 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > BTW the response "if you do 'emerge -blah world' everything's hunky- > dory" ignores the fact that some -- most ? -- users don't want to > update 'world', which can take hours, eg if OpenOffice is one of the > pkgs in 'world' (currently ther

Re: [gentoo-user] Console background images and colored ls output

quoth the Philip Webb: > 050519 darren kirby wrote: > > $ echo "alias ls='ls --color=auto'" > ~/.bashrc > > ? > shouldn't that be '>>' ... ? > > -- > ,, > SUPPORT ___//___, Philip

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

> > I've only done the discriminating based on other people's non use of > Gentoo. :-) My brother's father-in-law has just retired and spends all his time in front of his computer. I have tried to get him onto linux but am a little too far away to do it effectively. His son has a mate that i

Re: [gentoo-user] fallback dns servers

Hi A., on Thursday, 2005-05-19 at 13:59:38, you wrote: > > I know I can use quickswitch for that but I want something really > > automatic, [...] > > iface_eth0="dhcp" > > ifconfig_eth0=( "dhcp" "194.199.136.151" ) > > [...] > # esearch quickswitch Yeah, I guess he knew that ;-) I'm just wondering

Re: [gentoo-user] thunderbird can't open web links on KDE

Claudinei Matos wrote: >Hi guys, > >I have some users using Thunderbird in KDE instead of KMAIl. Well, the >problem is that Thunderbird doesn't open any link that comes in the >mail message. I've tryed to setup KDE default programs for browser and >mail respectively to thunderbird and firefox but

[gentoo-user] Anyone Know Why a New Kernel Would Kill Networking?

I didn't change any networking options, but it looks like networking it trying to use IPv6 after installing a new kernel. Why, and how do I fix it? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] emerge after kernel upgrade

Hi, After I've done an upgrade of my kernel I have to re-emerge some kernelmodules (madwifi-driver among other). BUT when I do this emerge removes the module from the /lib/modules/... from the old kernel version. Is there a way to make emerge keep the old version as well so I can boot the old k

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing user's Java VM

On Thursday 19 May 2005 20:32, Holly Bostick wrote: > $ java-config -s sun-jre-bin-1.5.0.03 > Env files in /home/motub/.gentoo updated. Source these in your > shell's profile. > > Am I the only one who doesn't know quite what to do at this point? > I did figure it out, but I don't find this messa

[gentoo-user] thunderbird can't open web links on KDE

Hi guys, I have some users using Thunderbird in KDE instead of KMAIl. Well, the problem is that Thunderbird doesn't open any link that comes in the mail message. I've tryed to setup KDE default programs for browser and mail respectively to thunderbird and firefox but even with that changes (I did

[gentoo-user] Changing user's Java VM

Hey, ho-- So I used java-config to switch the user's (my) Java VM from blackdown to Sun (blackdown is only 1.4.2 but Azureus prefers 1.5). I don't want to change the whole system VM (because I'm a big chicken). But anyway, when I switch VMs with java-config, I get this message: $ java-config -s

[gentoo-user] Managing meetings

Hello, I'm looking for a software that helps managing meeting and tasks. I want it to be light and simple and have a version on both Linux and Windows. Can you recommend such a software. By the way, what is the right word for such a software, calender? organizer? Thanks, Yuval -- gentoo-user@ge

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

On Thu, 19 May 2005, Philip Webb wrote: > > I'd also like to see portage keeping it in alphapetical order. > > At the moment it is a mess because of that *too*. > > yes, that's a 2nd issue with the current state of things. Not that it matters much unless you spend great amounts of time looking at

Re: [gentoo-user] Clock going crazy

David D. Rea wrote: >On Thu, May 19, 2005 10:15 am, rob3 said: > > >>I am not certain if this is a Gentoo problem, a bios problem, a mobo >>problem, or what. I just want to know if anyone else has seen it or >>has it now. >> >>I can't keep the clock on the right time. This Dell 8600 Laptop h

Re: [gentoo-user] fallback dns servers

On Tue, 17 May 2005, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: > Hello all, > I am setting up a way to have my laptop automatically get a correct ip > address. > > When I am at my office, I have a fixed ip; at home (on a > private network) I use dhcp. > I know I can use quickswitch for that but I want somethi

Re: [gentoo-user] how to boot from floppy and install gentoo

I'm trying to use HAL91 floppy distro. Its tar also doesn't support '-j' option, but has bunzip. So, 1st I bzunipped and the using tar. I'm still in the process of trying to install gentoo... askar On 5/19/05, A. Khattri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 19 May 2005, Iain Buchanan wrote: > >

[gentoo-user] mozsvg question...

Hi All- I'm trying to view some SVG files via mozilla-firefox. I have mozilla and mozilla-firefox compiled with USE="mozsvg" and have verified this using `equery uses mozilla-firefox`: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ddr4179 # equery uses mozilla-firefox > [ Searching for packages matching mozilla-firefox...

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

050519 Tero Grundstr?m wrote: > On Thu, 19 May 2005, Philip Webb wrote: >> i don't even do the approved 'emerge world' in maintaining my system -- various snips -- > I'd also like to see portage keeping it in alphapetical order. > At the moment it is a mess because of that *too*. yes, that's a 2

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

On 5/19/05, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, May 19, 2005 3:37 pm, Philip Webb said: > > 050519 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > >> What is the world file > >> if not a home made list of the packages you have installed? > > > > it's not home-made, it's system-made: > > It is home mad

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

On Thu, May 19, 2005 3:37 pm, Philip Webb said: > 050519 Neil Bothwick wrote: >> What is the world file >> if not a home made list of the packages you have installed? > > it's not home-made, it's system-made: It is home made in that only files I specify to be included in it, by emerging them dir

Re: [gentoo-user] Quicktime movies

Hi, Or use/emerge mplayer with 'real' USE-flag. HTH. Rumen Myk Taylor wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >is media-libs/win32codecs-20050216 emerged with the 'quicktime' use flag >set? > >Ian K wrote: > > >>Hi. >>I have a movie "something.mov" which I really want to view un

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

Jonathan Nichols wrote: to a LUG. I will admit that this particular LUG was populated by some serious dyed in the wool longhair-ed hippie types complete with oddball PhD's in dead languages. Having had a haircut that month it was apparently impossible that I actually already used Linux so I was

[gentoo-user] Need help with subtitles in dvd-slideshow

I would like to use dvd-slideshow to make a short presentation of some digital pictures from a recent trip. Now, dvd--slideshow, itself, does work on my gentoo box. Where I am having trouble is in adding subtitles to some of the images. I am hoping that someone on this list can help me find

Re: [gentoo-user] how to boot from floppy and install gentoo

On Thu, 19 May 2005, Iain Buchanan wrote: > does bzip2 exist? you could do something like > > bzip2 -cd | tar -f "-" > > or something... Why not just bunzip2 it and then gzip the stage file instead? -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Elite not discrimination

On Thu, 19 May 2005, Julien Cayzac wrote: > I regard sys admins running RedHat with great respect, since this > distro is mush more difficult to maintain than Gentoo :-) They must be > some king of gurus :p Most of the time they are very tired. Then one day they decide to install Gentoo... --

Re: [gentoo-user] 1st class documentation & user community

On Wed, 18 May 2005, John J. Foster wrote: > although > Debian did cross my mind Debian is great, as long as you dont mind waiting eons for updates or running the unstable branch instead... -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] +confunsub-4f6e380c30eb7d61

If you had the full headers switched on you would see this: List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.or

Re: [gentoo-user] Applying other patches.

You might want to look into using the epatch function from the eutils eclass. -- () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email, /\ vCards, and proprietary formats. --- Peter A. Gordon (codergeek42) E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Public Key ID: 0x

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

On Thu, 19 May 2005, Tero Grundström wrote: > You can tell them that while a Gentoo user may have to wait some hours for > a new version of KDE to compile, it may be available to Gentoo users > days/weeks/months earlier than to those using other distros. Indeed. You certainly dont see this level

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Elite not discrimination

On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 16:00 -0700, rob3 wrote: > We are a special breed. Much like FreeBSD, but on Torvalds side of the > fence. May peace and a wonderfull feeling of elitism fill your heart. > > Sincerely, Rob. Certainly applies here. I rule. No, WE rule. Us gentooers love our linux brethern/

Re: [gentoo-user] Applying other patches.

On Thu, 19 May 2005, Jose Angel Rodriguez Leyva wrote: > Sometimes I need to apply my own patches for a specific package but > still using portage advantages, so I have to change package ebuild for > that. So everytime I'm going to emerge any of those after an emerge > sync, I have to change it ag

Re: [gentoo-user] remote server access?

On Thursday 19 May 2005 05:04 am, Joost Roeleveld wrote: > On May 19, 2005 11:10 PM, Michael W. Holdeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mike, > > > I need advice, > > And I hope my advice is usefull :) > > > I have been using Gentoo on 4 machines, anf FreeBSD server for a long > > time > > now. Now

Re: [gentoo-user] nxserver-freenx setup

> > but could you tell me how to see what is in my path and how to add to > > it? > > > To see what your current PATH is: > > echo $PATH > > To add to the PATH for the current session: > > export PATH="/additional/path:$PATH" (I think; make sure that's right-- > ok, it is right, but maybe witho

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination OOPS

Sorry list, was sending the thread to a friend who uses linux and is a bit frustrated with his current gentoo install - hit reply instead for forward . . Keith -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

to a LUG. I will admit that this particular LUG was populated by some serious dyed in the wool longhair-ed hippie types complete with oddball PhD's in dead languages. Having had a haircut that month it was apparently impossible that I actually already used Linux so I was Us long haired Linux

[gentoo-user] /dev/ataraid under 2.6 kernel and udev

Hi I have been running a 2.4 kernel for my backend java processing box and have a promise raid controller that uses the ataraid device under devfs. It is set to boot off of it and the lilo boot command is something like boot=/dev/ataraid/disc0/part1 This works fine. I have no compiled a 2.

Re: [gentoo-user] User not authorized to su root

On Thu, 19 May 2005, A. Khattri wrote: Did you modify the /etc/group file manually, and if so, did you run 'grpconv' afterwards? Normally, one would use "vigr" to edit /etc/group. Or gpasswd. eg, "gpasswd -a $user wheel" -- That which does not kill me makes me stranger () The ASCII Ribbon Campaig

[gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

Check out the prejudice in this one. . . . This guy kashani has a remarkable understanding of linux and networking aside from the current thread. On May 18, 2005, at 6:58 PM, kashani wrote: Grant wrote: Out of curiosity, who here would say they have experienced any type of emotional discriminatio

[gentoo-user] Applying other patches.

Hi, Sometimes I need to apply my own patches for a specific package but still using portage advantages, so I have to change package ebuild for that. So everytime I'm going to emerge any of those after an emerge sync, I have to change it again by hand. I'm wondering if there is some better way for

Re: [gentoo-user] nxserver-freenx setup

Grant schreef: > but could you tell me how to see what is in my path and how to add to > it? > To see what your current PATH is: echo $PATH To add to the PATH for the current session: export PATH="/additional/path:$PATH" (I think; make sure that's right-- ok, it is right, but maybe without the

Re: [gentoo-user] Plone

On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 17:31 +0200, Patrick wrote: > On Thu, 19 May 2005 07:36:37 -0400 > Kirk Lowery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Patrick wrote: > > > > > I can't get plone working, i have installed zope 2.6 and i install > > > plone activate it and restart the zope deamon it won't start the

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

> Depends what yardstick you are comparing against - if you've never had to > maintain RH boxes for instance you wouldn't know how much easier Gentoo > really is. Amen to that. That goes double for old hardware. Creighton -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: acpi vs apm

A. Khattri bway.net> writes: > > I was just builging a kernel for an intell PIII processor. I > > initially selected 'ACPI' and not 'APM'. The kernel build failed > > with this message: > Just curious: what makes you think APM has anything to do with this? It was a wrong guess. It was the Co

Re: [gentoo-user] User not authorized to su root

On Thu, 19 May 2005, Richard Fish wrote: > Did you modify the /etc/group file manually, and if so, did you run > 'grpconv' afterwards? Normally, one would use "vigr" to edit /etc/group. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Plone

On Thu, 19 May 2005 07:36:37 -0400 Kirk Lowery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Patrick wrote: > > > I can't get plone working, i have installed zope 2.6 and i install > > plone activate it and restart the zope deamon it won't start there > > are no errors in my logs > > Your message is not clear:

Re: [gentoo-user] Clock going crazy

On Thu, May 19, 2005 10:15 am, rob3 said: > I am not certain if this is a Gentoo problem, a bios problem, a mobo > problem, or what. I just want to know if anyone else has seen it or > has it now. > > I can't keep the clock on the right time. This Dell 8600 Laptop has a > brand new mobo in it.

Re: [gentoo-user] nxserver-freenx setup

> > I've finally been able to emerge nxclient thanks to the latest > > hardened-sources update. Can anyone give me any pointers on setting > > up nxserver-freenx? nxclient looks pretty easy, but I can't find any > > instructions on the server and there doesn't seem to be anything > > relevant in

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