Re: [gentoo-user] fallback dns servers

2005-05-21 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
Le 22 mai à 06:57:59 Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit notamment: > On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 12:35:45PM +0200, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote > >> I want to execute "ln -sf /etc/resolv.conf.fac /etc/resolv.conf" *before* >> /etc/init.d/net.eth0, so that if I am at the "fac" (my office) location

Re: [gentoo-user] fallback dns servers

2005-05-21 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 12:35:45PM +0200, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote > I want to execute "ln -sf /etc/resolv.conf.fac /etc/resolv.conf" *before* > /etc/init.d/net.eth0, so that if I am at the "fac" (my office) location I > have these dns set up, but if I am home with dhcp the resolv.conf > file

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome problem

2005-05-21 Thread Antonio Coralles
gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org wrote: > On Sat, 2005-05-21 at 17:33 -0700, Bill Six wrote: >> Hi, >> >> My computer was accidently shut down uncleanly while >> running Gnome. When it was restarted, the icons on >> the desktop won't show, when you right click on the >> desktop no options are present

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding Menus in KDE

2005-05-21 Thread Zac Medico
--- cfk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have my Gentoo system booting and running KDE, > than you very much. Now is > the time to understand how menus are added to the > task bar. > > I wonder how new programs, such as kdevelop, just > emerged are added to the > menu. I know how to create a task

Re: [gentoo-user] world file clean-up - glibc & linux-headers??

2005-05-21 Thread A. Khattri
On Sat, 21 May 2005, Stroller wrote: > > On May 18, 2005, at 3:11 am, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > >As per some conversations last week I've been doing a lot of clean > > up of my world files. I've moved from a high of 235 files down to my > > low today of onl 112. > > On a related note, today I t

Re: [gentoo-user] No floppy drives found by 2005.0 install CD

2005-05-21 Thread A. Khattri
On Sat, 21 May 2005, Walter Dnes wrote: > I saw this on one machine, and thought maybe the machine was flakey. > Now I see it on another machine. The 2005.0 install CD comes up with a > gazillion devices in /dev but there is no floppy drive!!! Is this a > reportable bug? Is there a way to for

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding Menus in KDE

2005-05-21 Thread Martin S
Right-click the K-menu button, select Menu Editor. Then you can add an item manually. Cheers, Martin S

Re: [gentoo-user] Traffic monitor

2005-05-21 Thread A. Khattri
On Sun, 22 May 2005, q-parser wrote: > So I installed ntop, ran it and now what? If you read the docs, you'll probably see you need to connect to the machine from a web browser on a specific port. BTW, if you need to graph bandwidth, I highly recommend cacti. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mail

Re: [gentoo-user] Traffic monitor

2005-05-21 Thread Jerry McBride
On Saturday 21 May 2005 09:13 pm, q-parser wrote: > Jerry McBride wrote: > >On Saturday 21 May 2005 06:56 pm, Joseph Drake wrote: > >>Does anyone know any good traffic monitor? I want to how much data is > >>transported when my machine's up. I emerged traffic-vis, but I don't > >>know how it works.

[gentoo-user] Adding Menus in KDE

2005-05-21 Thread cfk
I have my Gentoo system booting and running KDE, than you very much. Now is the time to understand how menus are added to the task bar. I wonder how new programs, such as kdevelop, just emerged are added to the menu. I know how to create a task bar button from a menu item, but I dont know how t

Re: [gentoo-user] Switch from devfs to udev?

2005-05-21 Thread Mark Knecht
Thanks to all for your answers. Everything except Video4Linux seems to be working. I'm sure v4l is some oversight on my part. cheers, Mark On 5/21/05, Max <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Because no one mentioned it. There is also a Gentoo udev Guide: > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome problem

2005-05-21 Thread Edward Catmur
On Sat, 2005-05-21 at 17:33 -0700, Bill Six wrote: > Hi, > > My computer was accidently shut down uncleanly while > running Gnome. When it was restarted, the icons on > the desktop won't show, when you right click on the > desktop no options are presented, and the background > image doesn't show.

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-21 Thread David Stanek
On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 07:52:59PM -0400, Peng wrote: > On 05/21/05 16:26, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > >On Monday 02 May 2005 04:33 pm, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>On Mon, 02 May 2005 21:00:30 +, Alex A. Smith MCP wrote: > >>>Time straped as it is, I'll type in what ever my

Re: [gentoo-user] Soundcard not detected

2005-05-21 Thread A. R.
Hello, There is a Gentoo Linux ALSA guide at: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml With regards to your card, the kernel that you are using (Which happens to be the same I use) Has the module for your card under: -> Device Drivers -> Sound -> Advanced Linux Sound A

Re: [gentoo-user] Traffic monitor

2005-05-21 Thread q-parser
Jerry McBride wrote: On Saturday 21 May 2005 06:56 pm, Joseph Drake wrote: Does anyone know any good traffic monitor? I want to how much data is transported when my machine's up. I emerged traffic-vis, but I don't know how it works. Thanks for any advice. I have a numbe

[gentoo-user] Soundcard not detected

2005-05-21 Thread Colin
I'm trying to get my soundcard working. It isn't detected by lspci under my kernel, but the LiveCD's lspci finds it and detects it on the line ":00:11.0 Multimedia audio controller: Aureal Semiconductor Vortex 1 (rev 02)." The LiveCD coldplugs it as driver=unknown, but that shouldn't sto

Re: [gentoo-user] Switch from devfs to udev?

2005-05-21 Thread Max
Because no one mentioned it. There is also a Gentoo udev Guide: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml max -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2005-05-21 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 00:25 -0700, darren kirby wrote: > quoth the Colin: > > Is it possible to get a background image for the console like it is on > > the LiveCD? Also, how do you make the output of ls colored? > > > > -- > > Colin > > You're looking for bootsplash. Check this out: > http://for

Re: [gentoo-user] Switch from devfs to udev?

2005-05-21 Thread Christoph Eckert
Sorry, > Writing udev rules here it is: http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Traffic monitor

2005-05-21 Thread q-parser
Jerry McBride wrote: On Saturday 21 May 2005 06:56 pm, Joseph Drake wrote: Does anyone know any good traffic monitor? I want to how much data is transported when my machine's up. I emerged traffic-vis, but I don't know how it works. Thanks for any advice. I have a numbe

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome problem

2005-05-21 Thread rodrigo
El 22/05/05 00:33:09, Bill Six escribió: Hi, My computer was accidently shut down uncleanly while running Gnome. When it was restarted, the icons on the desktop won't show, when you right click on the desktop no options are presented, and the background image doesn't show. Any ideas as to why?

[gentoo-user] Gnome problem

2005-05-21 Thread Bill Six
Hi, My computer was accidently shut down uncleanly while running Gnome. When it was restarted, the icons on the desktop won't show, when you right click on the desktop no options are presented, and the background image doesn't show. Any ideas as to why? Bill ___

Re: [gentoo-user] Traffic monitor

2005-05-21 Thread Jerry McBride
On Saturday 21 May 2005 06:56 pm, Joseph Drake wrote: > Does anyone know any good traffic monitor? I want to how much data is > transported when my machine's up. I emerged traffic-vis, but I don't > know how it works. Thanks for any advice. > I have a number of "text mode only" servers running ipt

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-21 Thread Peng
On 05/21/05 16:26, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Monday 02 May 2005 04:33 pm, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 02 May 2005 21:00:30 +, Alex A. Smith MCP wrote: Time straped as it is, I'll type in what ever my Default Email prog wants me to, asking people to turn it off

[gentoo-user] rivatv

2005-05-21 Thread Antonio Souto
Hi I am trying do emerge rivatv module and it fails with: ... make[1]: *** No rule to make target `/usr/src/linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r6/arch/x86/Makefile'.  Stop. ... Here is the entire the output emerge rivatv Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) media-tv/rivatv

Re: [gentoo-user] Switch from devfs to udev?

2005-05-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sunday 22 May 2005 00:47, Tim Igoe wrote: > Install udev as in portage. Then edit the kernel to remove devfs - > recompile and reboot. last time I tried that, I got a unusable box. That was, when I decided to stay with devfs... it does not hurt me... and doesn't do udev slow down the booting?

Re: [gentoo-user] Traffic monitor

2005-05-21 Thread Patrick Daniel Gress
try iptraf or ntop. The last one offers some detailed information via web-based interface. On Sun, 2005-05-22 at 00:56 +0200, Joseph Drake wrote: > Does anyone know any good traffic monitor? I want to how much data is > transported when my machine's up. I emerged traffic-vis, but I don't > kn

Re: [gentoo-user] startx kde

2005-05-21 Thread Nick Rout
On Sat, 2005-05-21 at 06:55 -0700, cfk wrote: > On Friday 20 May 2005 22:55, Nick Rout wrote: > > Read the Fine Manual > > Which "Fine Manual" are we talking about here for kde and where might it be > found? > > > set the DISPLAYMANAGER=kdm line in /etc/rc.conf > > > > then > > > > rc-update add

Re: [gentoo-user] Traffic monitor

2005-05-21 Thread Patrick Daniel Gress
try iptraf or ntop. The last one offers some detailed information via web-based interface. On Sun, 2005-05-22 at 00:56 +0200, Joseph Drake wrote: > Does anyone know any good traffic monitor? I want to how much data is > transported when my machine's up. I emerged traffic-vis, but I don't > kn

Re: [gentoo-user] Switch from devfs to udev?

2005-05-21 Thread Mike Williams
On Saturday 21 May 2005 23:57, Felix Tiede wrote: > Tell it to use udev by adding "gentoo=nodevfs" to your kernel-commandline. > > Other way: Remove support for "/dev filesystem" (DEVFS) from your kernel. Or, just install udev. The init scripts will work the rest out. -- Mike Williams pgp58cD

Re: [gentoo-user] Switch from devfs to udev?

2005-05-21 Thread Christoph Eckert
> Install udev as in portage. Then edit the kernel to remove > devfs - recompile and reboot. Additionally, the guide to writing udev rules by Daniel Drake (thanks a lot) has been updated: Writing udev rules Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Switch from devfs to udev?

2005-05-21 Thread Mark Knecht
Tim, Yes, basically correct. I didn't remove devfs, but I did change the opton to tell it not to mount at boot time. That was enough to get rid of some messages that said error calling unlink in "GLOBAL" I still had one more problem. gdm wouldn't start since my xorg.conf file said /dev/mouse

Re: [gentoo-user] Switch from devfs to udev?

2005-05-21 Thread Felix Tiede
Mark Knecht wrote: > Are there any instructions about on how to take an older machine (18 > months) and switch it to udev from devfs? I see that udev is in > portage so I can emerge that, but how do I tell the machine which to > use? Is it automatic upon reboot? > > The machine has been updated to

[gentoo-user] Traffic monitor

2005-05-21 Thread Joseph Drake
Does anyone know any good traffic monitor? I want to how much data is transported when my machine's up. I emerged traffic-vis, but I don't know how it works. Thanks for any advice. q-parser -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Switch from devfs to udev?

2005-05-21 Thread Tim Igoe
Install udev as in portage. Then edit the kernel to remove devfs - recompile and reboot. Job done, it should say using udev at bootup. Tim Mark Knecht wrote: > Are there any instructions about on how to take an older machine (18 > months) and switch it to udev from devfs? I see that udev is in >

[gentoo-user] Switch from devfs to udev?

2005-05-21 Thread Mark Knecht
Are there any instructions about on how to take an older machine (18 months) and switch it to udev from devfs? I see that udev is in portage so I can emerge that, but how do I tell the machine which to use? Is it automatic upon reboot? The machine has been updated to a new gentoo-sources. (2.6.11-

Re: [gentoo-user] next step X

2005-05-21 Thread Mark Knecht
On 5/21/05, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 13 May 2005 11:06 am, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My world file is 235 lines long. How screwed up is that really? How > > long it yours? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # wc -l /var/lib/portage/world > 67 /var/lib/por

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Help with partitioning

2005-05-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 26 April 2005 08:51 am, Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > my logical volumes (even / and swap) I prefer not an a lvm partition. But, that's because I use loop-aes underneath lvm (my PVs are loopback devices), but want to use random keys for and not encrypt twice. > No,

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Help with partitioning

2005-05-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 26 April 2005 08:34 am, "Dave Nebinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm planning on using LVM2. I'll be installing most of KDE 3.4. No > > Gnome. I'll have a webserver and a mailserver running, but I've > > already accounted the space required for them (as of right now) as 1GB > > in

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice now works for me

2005-05-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 09 May 2005 06:46 am, rob3 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Genoo mailing lists are great. They are on par with the FreeBSD and > OpenBSD general mailing lists, except with OpenBSD getting chewed out by > Theo is your initiation, haha. So here, instead of Theo, is it Ciaran or Neil? ;)

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 02 May 2005 04:33 pm, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 02 May 2005 21:00:30 +, Alex A. Smith MCP wrote: > > Time straped as it is, I'll type in what ever my Default Email prog > > wants me to, asking people to turn it off wont work much, better to > > make a better a

Re: [gentoo-user] next step X

2005-05-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 13 May 2005 11:06 am, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My world file is 235 lines long. How screwed up is that really? How > long it yours? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # wc -l /var/lib/portage/world 67 /var/lib/portage/world -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AI

Re: [gentoo-user] last problem OpenOffice not working from user acct.

2005-05-21 Thread Zac Medico
--- rob3 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Root or su can start OO easily with ooffice > command. But it doesn't > work as a user. I keeps sending the error message > that the "setup is > aborted". Who knows what this means, but its > irritating, having to go > back in to user directory and chownin

Re: [gentoo-user] last problem OpenOffice not working from user acct.

2005-05-21 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
After you installed OO as root did you then log in as user and run the setup in the OO programs directory (/opt/openoffice../programs)? On Sat, 21 May 2005, rob3 wrote: Root or su can start OO easily with ooffice command. But it doesn't work as a user. I keeps sending the error message that

Re: [gentoo-user] Applying other patches.

2005-05-21 Thread Jose Angel Rodriguez Leyva
Thanks to all. I was unable to reply before. Tom Wesley wrote: > > I would create an overlay directory and copy to ebuilds there, that way > you can version bump your overlay as the main portage tree gets updated. I was replying that it is a good idea but it has a disadvantage when I realized I

[gentoo-user] last problem OpenOffice not working from user acct.

2005-05-21 Thread rob3
Root or su can start OO easily with ooffice command. But it doesn't work as a user. I keeps sending the error message that the "setup is aborted". Who knows what this means, but its irritating, having to go back in to user directory and chowning and chgrpin files. Rob. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.o

Re: [gentoo-user] Clock going crazy

2005-05-21 Thread rob3
A. Khattri wrote: >On Sat, 21 May 2005, Rob wrote: > > > >>Thanks for response. Acutually it was adding a line to rc.conf that >>solved the problem CLOCK="local". This does not appear in the Gentoo >>manual, but is only needed for BIOS's which use local time. I submitted >>a doc bug report, s

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing on Firewire drive?

2005-05-21 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, Is mac-fdisk a mount command or is it a way to used fdisk under Yellow Dog on a Mac? Generally speaking you mount *partitions* so it would be mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/firewire-1 Under normal linux you could do fdisk -l /dev/sdb and get a listing of partitions on sdb. You might try to

Re: [gentoo-user] startx kde

2005-05-21 Thread cfk
On Saturday 21 May 2005 10:27, ZeeGeek wrote: > On 5/21/05, cfk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday 20 May 2005 22:55, Nick Rout wrote: > > > Read the Fine Manual > > > > Which "Fine Manual" are we talking about here for kde and where might it > > be > > found? > > > > > set the DISPLAYMANAGER

Re: [gentoo-user] adding files to an iso image

2005-05-21 Thread Sad Jack
Zac Medico wrote: > --- Sad Jack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>I have been able to mount the iso on /mnt/loop and >>copy the files. I >>have added my file and created a new iso. >> >>My difficulty now is to make it bootable. I have >>followed the link >>posted by Bill but the end bit about creati

Re: [gentoo-user] adding files to an iso image

2005-05-21 Thread Zac Medico
--- Sad Jack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been able to mount the iso on /mnt/loop and > copy the files. I > have added my file and created a new iso. > > My difficulty now is to make it bootable. I have > followed the link > posted by Bill but the end bit about creating a > bootable cd doe

Re: [gentoo-user] startx kde

2005-05-21 Thread ZeeGeek
On 5/21/05, cfk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Friday 20 May 2005 22:55, Nick Rout wrote:> Read the Fine ManualWhich "Fine Manual" are we talking about here for kde and where might it befound?> set the DISPLAYMANAGER=kdm line in /etc/rc.conf >> then>> rc-update add xdm boot>> /etc/init.d/xdm start>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: driver CardBus bridge Texas Instruments PCI1211 SOLVED

2005-05-21 Thread askar ...
Thanks for info! askar On 5/22/05, Hans-Werner Hilse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, 21 May 2005 22:31:28 +0600 > "askar ..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Even now, pcmcia card works, there is no info in lspci. > > Then it's not cardbus but 16 bit. cardctl can tell, i think. O

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: driver CardBus bridge Texas Instruments PCI1211 SOLVED

2005-05-21 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 21 May 2005 22:31:28 +0600 "askar ..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Even now, pcmcia card works, there is no info in lspci. Then it's not cardbus but 16 bit. cardctl can tell, i think. Only cardbus is usually transparently mapped onto the PCI bus. HWH -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mail

Re: [gentoo-user] adding files to an iso image

2005-05-21 Thread Sad Jack
Bill Roberts wrote: > On 20:07 Fri 20 May , Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > >>Wouldn't that be nice! Oh, well till then we copy, modify, make new iso. >> >>On Fri, 20 May 2005, Zac Medico wrote: >> >> >>>Nice bluff though. I was hoping sombody added rw >>>support to the iso9660 driver ;-) >>> >>>-

[gentoo-user] kopete kde3.4 raise window doesn't work anymore

2005-05-21 Thread Francisco Figueiredo Jr.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, after updating kde to 3.4 I noticed that kopete doesn't raise windows anymore :( It only raise windows if I have a kopete configuration window open. Are you also seeing that? Is there any workaround I could use? I remember that Gaim suf

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: driver CardBus bridge Texas Instruments PCI1211 SOLVED

2005-05-21 Thread askar ...
> > > Searching for "Planex ENW-3503-TX linux" gave a list of card types and > > > what chipsets they contain on the first result. > > > > Thanks. But when I searched with the above keyword, the search results in 2 > > pages, and all sites in japanese... > > I noticed that. I figured you'd probabl

Re: [gentoo-user] Clock going crazy

2005-05-21 Thread A. Khattri
On Sat, 21 May 2005, Rob wrote: > Thanks for response. Acutually it was adding a line to rc.conf that > solved the problem CLOCK="local". This does not appear in the Gentoo > manual, but is only needed for BIOS's which use local time. I submitted > a doc bug report, so that no one else gets bit

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: driver CardBus bridge Texas Instruments PCI1211

2005-05-21 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Sunday 22 May 2005 00:54, askar ... wrote: > On 5/21/05, Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Saturday 21 May 2005 17:36, askar ... wrote: > > > In the kernel I enables option for 'CardBus yenta-compatible' - this > > > seems the one I was looking for. After recompilation the kernel I

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge after kernel upgrade

2005-05-21 Thread Dan Johansson
On Saturday 21 May 2005 15.46, Jason Stubbs wrote: > On Saturday 21 May 2005 22:08, Dan Johansson wrote: > > On Saturday 21 May 2005 14.55, Jason Stubbs wrote: > > > What portage version are using? > > > > My portage version is sys-apps/portage-2.0.51.19 on x86. > > There's been a hack in portage a

Re: [gentoo-user] -fvisibility=hidden

2005-05-21 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Sunday 22 May 2005 00:43, Julien Cayzac wrote: > On 5/21/05, Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You miss the point. Adding that flag to CFLAGS (or CXXFLAGS) is faulty in > > and of itself. It is not a general optimization flag. It is something > > that each package's codebase needs to b

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: driver CardBus bridge Texas Instruments PCI1211

2005-05-21 Thread askar ...
On 5/21/05, Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> On Saturday 21 May 2005 17:36, askar ... wrote:> > In the kernel I enables option for 'CardBus yenta-compatible' - this > > seems the one I was looking for. After recompilation the kernel I> > rebooted the system.> > 3 lamps of the PCMCIA card wa

Re: [gentoo-user] -fvisibility=hidden

2005-05-21 Thread Julien Cayzac
On 5/21/05, Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You miss the point. Adding that flag to CFLAGS (or CXXFLAGS) is faulty in and > of itself. It is not a general optimization flag. It is something that each > package's codebase needs to be updated to support. When upstream updates > their packag

[gentoo-user] Installing on Firewire drive?

2005-05-21 Thread Charles Trois
The disk on my G4 iMac contains an installation of Yellow Dog Linux 4.0.1 and two Apple partitions housing Macos 9 and 10 respectively. I also have an external Firewire disk, which I had reformatted, leaving a large unallocated space at the top (with a vague idea of putting another Linux there).

Re: [gentoo-user] -fvisibility=hidden

2005-05-21 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Sunday 22 May 2005 00:05, Julien Cayzac wrote: > On 5/21/05, David Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It does cause problems with kde stuff, and with wxGTK stuff though > > Thanks for the answer, I won't put it in my make.conf yet... > Have some bugreports been raised for the problems you des

[gentoo-user] No floppy drives found by 2005.0 install CD

2005-05-21 Thread Walter Dnes
I saw this on one machine, and thought maybe the machine was flakey. Now I see it on another machine. The 2005.0 install CD comes up with a gazillion devices in /dev but there is no floppy drive!!! Is this a reportable bug? Is there a way to force it make the appropriate device? -- Walter Dn

Re: [gentoo-user] -fvisibility=hidden

2005-05-21 Thread Tom Wesley
On Sat, 2005-05-21 at 15:05 +, Julien Cayzac wrote: > On 5/21/05, David Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It does cause problems with kde stuff, and with wxGTK stuff though > > Thanks for the answer, I won't put it in my make.conf yet... > Have some bugreports been raised for the problems

Re: [gentoo-user] startx kde

2005-05-21 Thread cfk
On Friday 20 May 2005 22:55, Nick Rout wrote: > Read the Fine Manual Which "Fine Manual" are we talking about here for kde and where might it be found? > set the DISPLAYMANAGER=kdm line in /etc/rc.conf > > then > > rc-update add xdm boot > > /etc/init.d/xdm start > > On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 19:09

Re: [gentoo-user] -fvisibility=hidden

2005-05-21 Thread Julien Cayzac
On 5/21/05, David Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It does cause problems with kde stuff, and with wxGTK stuff though Thanks for the answer, I won't put it in my make.conf yet... Have some bugreports been raised for the problems you described yet? If not, it might be worth it to add them to Bug

Re: [gentoo-user] -fvisibility=hidden

2005-05-21 Thread David Morgan
On 14:11 Sat 21 May , Julien Cayzac wrote: > Is anyone here running Gentoo with "-fvisibility=hidden" in his CFLAGS ? > Never experienced any problem? > > Thanks, > Julien > iirc it does't make sense to have it in your CLFAGS, since it only affects c++ stuff (so it'd go in CXXFLAGS) It does

Re: [gentoo-user] Dynamic DNS

2005-05-21 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Thanks. I'll look at it. On Sat, 21 May 2005, Felix Tiede wrote: Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I want to use dhcp on my home network to assign IP addresses which means I'll need a dynamic DNS. I know I can go to dyndns.org and set up something with them but can I setup my own name server (BIND or

[gentoo-user] usb scanner permissions

2005-05-21 Thread luis jure
hello list, first i must say that i'm new to gentoo, to kernel 2.6 AND to udev, so be warned... i started installation from stage1 a few days ago and by now i have just about everything installed and working. but i've hit just a couple of bent nails, here's one: - device: agfa snapscan e20 usb s

[gentoo-user] -fvisibility=hidden

2005-05-21 Thread Julien Cayzac
Is anyone here running Gentoo with "-fvisibility=hidden" in his CFLAGS ? Never experienced any problem? Thanks, Julien -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Marvell Yukon kernel drivers deprecated?

2005-05-21 Thread Qian Qiao
On 21/05/05, Luigi Pinna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alle 14:43, sabato 21 maggio 2005, Qian Qiao ha scritto: > > Hi, > > > > I was upgrading my kernel to 2.6.11-r9 today on a amd64, and I > > noticed that the Marvell Yukon gigabit ethernet driver is now marked > > deprecated? Any1 know why? Hard

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge after kernel upgrade

2005-05-21 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Saturday 21 May 2005 22:08, Dan Johansson wrote: > On Saturday 21 May 2005 14.55, Jason Stubbs wrote: > > What portage version are using? > > My portage version is sys-apps/portage-2.0.51.19 on x86. There's been a hack in portage all the way through 2.0.51 and I'm pretty sure 2.0.50 as well th

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Marvell Yukon kernel drivers deprecated?

2005-05-21 Thread Luigi Pinna
Alle 14:43, sabato 21 maggio 2005, Qian Qiao ha scritto: > Hi, > > I was upgrading my kernel to 2.6.11-r9 today on a amd64, and I > noticed that the Marvell Yukon gigabit ethernet driver is now marked > deprecated? Any1 know why? Hardware too old? Replacement has been > written? Or licensing/polic

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge after kernel upgrade

2005-05-21 Thread Dan Johansson
On Saturday 21 May 2005 14.55, Jason Stubbs wrote: > On Saturday 21 May 2005 21:48, Dan Johansson wrote: > > On Thursday 19 May 2005 22.27, Zachary Medico wrote: > > > --- Dan Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > After I've done an upgrade of my kernel I have to > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge after kernel upgrade

2005-05-21 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Saturday 21 May 2005 21:48, Dan Johansson wrote: > On Thursday 19 May 2005 22.27, Zachary Medico wrote: > > --- 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).

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge after kernel upgrade

2005-05-21 Thread Dan Johansson
On Thursday 19 May 2005 22.27, Zachary Medico wrote: > --- 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

[gentoo-user] [OT] Marvell Yukon kernel drivers deprecated?

2005-05-21 Thread Qian Qiao
Hi, I was upgrading my kernel to 2.6.11-r9 today on a amd64, and I noticed that the Marvell Yukon gigabit ethernet driver is now marked deprecated? Any1 know why? Hardware too old? Replacement has been written? Or licensing/policy issue? TIA. -- Joe -- Money can't buy everything. Sometimes mo

Re: [gentoo-user] Clock going crazy

2005-05-21 Thread Rob
Nick Rout wrote: delete the contents of /etc/adjtime this file contains data that the kernel uses to keep track of time, it compensates for a slow/fast system clock tick. If this file gets stuffed up then the kernel over compensates for what it perceives to be a way out clock, and all hell

Re: [gentoo-user] Dynamic DNS

2005-05-21 Thread Rob
Rob wrote: Brett I. Holcomb wrote: A static dynamic DNS . Thanks. I'll look at that. On Fri, 20 May 2005, Michael Semcheski wrote: Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I want to use dhcp on my home network to assign IP addresses which means I'll need a dynamic DNS. I know I can go to dyndns.org and

Re: [gentoo-user] fallback dns servers

2005-05-21 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
Le 17 mai à 15:01:49 Jean Magnan de Bornier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit notamment: > 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 quick

[gentoo-user] Bootsplash and Kernel 2.6.11-r3

2005-05-21 Thread smoke3
Hi all, I need some support to get bootsplash on my gentoo start-up! I tried following gentoo-HOWTO, but I'm probably missing something important: that is I did patch and recompile my kernel, but when I looked for Bootsplash configuration ---> [*] Bootup splash screen I didn't manage to

Re: [gentoo-user] adding files to an iso image

2005-05-21 Thread Nick Rout
On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 16:34 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > Nice bluff though. I was hoping sombody added rw > support to the iso9660 driver ;-) iso9660 is a read only file system, so that seems unlikely! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] adding files to an iso image

2005-05-21 Thread Bill Roberts
On 20:07 Fri 20 May , Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > Wouldn't that be nice! Oh, well till then we copy, modify, make new iso. > > On Fri, 20 May 2005, Zac Medico wrote: > > >Nice bluff though. I was hoping sombody added rw > >support to the iso9660 driver ;-) > > > >--- "Brett I. Holcomb" <[EMAI

Re: [gentoo-user] Clock going crazy

2005-05-21 Thread Nick Rout
delete the contents of /etc/adjtime this file contains data that the kernel uses to keep track of time, it compensates for a slow/fast system clock tick. If this file gets stuffed up then the kernel over compensates for what it perceives to be a way out clock, and all hell breaks loose. So try

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: driver CardBus bridge Texas Instruments PCI1211

2005-05-21 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Saturday 21 May 2005 17:36, askar ... wrote: > In the kernel I enables option for 'CardBus yenta-compatible' - this > seems the one I was looking for. After recompilation the kernel I > rebooted the system. > 3 lamps of the PCMCIA card was on: 1) Power 2) Act and 2) Link > The pcmcia card I use

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo User Groups

2005-05-21 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 21:33 -0700, 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 V

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: driver CardBus bridge Texas Instruments PCI1211

2005-05-21 Thread Nick Rout
what does dmesg or the kernel logs tell you about the card? is the pcmcia service started? what does ifconfig -a tell you? have you googled for what driver works with that card? is the driver that google tells you compiled as a module with your kernel? On Sat, 2005-05-21 at 14:36 +0600, askar

Re: [gentoo-user] 答复: [?? Probable Spam] [gentoo-user] 答复: [gentoo-user] how to activate the network

2005-05-21 Thread Rumen Yotov
jerry wrote: ...SKIP... >>>Despite I ran “modprobe e100”, the “ifconfig eth0 “ reports no such >>>device found. >>> >>>Then what should I do to setup my eth0 device? >>> >>>BTW, following is the output of “dmesg|grep e100”: >>> >>>Intel(r) PRO/100 Network Driver 3.3.6-k2-NAPI >>> >>>Copyright (c)

[gentoo-user] Re: driver CardBus bridge Texas Instruments PCI1211

2005-05-21 Thread askar ...
In the kernel I enables option for 'CardBus yenta-compatible' - this seems the one I was looking for. After recompilation the kernel I rebooted the system. 3 lamps of the PCMCIA card was on: 1) Power 2) Act and 2) Link The pcmcia card I use is Planex ENW-3503-TX. This is the 10Base-T card. The card

Re: [gentoo-user] Dynamic DNS

2005-05-21 Thread Felix Tiede
Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > I want to use dhcp on my home network to assign IP addresses which means > I'll need a dynamic DNS. I know I can go to dyndns.org and set up > something with them but can I setup my own name server (BIND or > whatever) and some program that will work with that to keep the

[gentoo-user] driver CardBus bridge Texas Instruments PCI1211

2005-05-21 Thread askar ...
I want to enable/install driver in the kernel for the cardbus bridge for Texas Instruments PCI1211 for my laptop. In the kernel I don't see its driver. I use gentoo 2005.0. askar -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Dynamic DNS

2005-05-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 20 May 2005 21:00:35 -0700, Rob wrote: > My LinkSys Router has a DynDNS update service already in the software. So does mine, and I got a mail from dyndns saying my account had been suspended because I was updating it with an unchanged IP address too often :( I run ddclient now. -- N