Re: [gentoo-user] Beagle on Gentoo Reiserfs filesystem - Possible?

2005-08-14 Thread Paul Hoy
On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 08:00 +0300, Rumen Yotov wrote: > Paul Hoy Gmail wrote: > > >Hello, > > > >I'm confused about running Beagle on a Gentoo reiserfs filesystem. > > > >Gentoo provides a HOWTO Beagle (http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Beagle) > >and uses a reiserfs filesystem (included extended attr

Re: [gentoo-user] Beagle on Gentoo Reiserfs filesystem - Possible?

2005-08-14 Thread Paul Hoy
On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 06:54 +0200, Nagatoro wrote: > Paul Hoy Gmail wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm confused about running Beagle on a Gentoo reiserfs filesystem. > > > > Gentoo provides a HOWTO Beagle (http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Beagle) > > and uses a reiserfs filesystem (included extended attr

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-14 Thread Paul Hoy
On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 01:19 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > alls the few > packages you can't find in Gentoo, and putting them in /usr/local or > /opt. Heck, I was doing the... Hi Walter, Exactly what I've started to do. Problem is, I'm only beginning to learn how to let Portage know that my manual

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get larger fonts in X ?

2005-08-14 Thread Zac Medico
Walter Dnes wrote: I'm running Gentoo (of course) with Blackbox as my WM. I got a digital camera several weeks ago, and am now playing around with 2590 x 1920 sized images in Gimp. My monitor can't go quite *THAT* high, but 1600 x 1200 (for that matter 1560 x 1170) is large enough for Gimp to

Re: [gentoo-user] how to access mounted dir with non-root?

2005-08-14 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 12. August 2005 17:33 schrieb ext [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > i've found that i could not access the mounted > directory with non-root users. > 1. i "chown" directories under "/mnt" to the user, >but so long as i mount, the permission of the >specific dir will be changed to "drwx-

Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

2005-08-14 Thread Holly Bostick
Nagatoro schreef: > John Dangler wrote: > >> doesn't do it, either. what else could I be missing? > > > From my /boot/grub/grub.conf > --- > kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r6.4 root=/dev/hda2\ >video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr,[EMAIL PROTECTED] >splash=silent,theme:livecd-2005.0 CONSOLE=/de

Re: [gentoo-user] splash and kerne panic

2005-08-14 Thread Holly Bostick
John Dangler schreef: > > > After emerging splashutils and doing - > > splash_geninitramfs -v -g /boot/fbsplash-livecd-2005.1-1024x768 -r > 1024x768 livecd-2005.1 && rc-update add splash default > > > > a reboot of the system produces – > > Kernel panic – not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount r

[gentoo-user] How do I get larger fonts in X ?

2005-08-14 Thread Walter Dnes
I'm running Gentoo (of course) with Blackbox as my WM. I got a digital camera several weeks ago, and am now playing around with 2590 x 1920 sized images in Gimp. My monitor can't go quite *THAT* high, but 1600 x 1200 (for that matter 1560 x 1170) is large enough for Gimp to display its toolbox

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-14 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 03:42:19PM -0400, Paul Hoy wrote > This email isn't intended to troll, but to explore Linux variants > that share certain characteristics. > > I really like Gentoo and I like that fact that it does a pretty good > job at supporting Gnome, however, it's still behind oth

Re: [gentoo-user] Beagle on Gentoo Reiserfs filesystem - Possible?

2005-08-14 Thread Rumen Yotov
Paul Hoy Gmail wrote: >Hello, > >I'm confused about running Beagle on a Gentoo reiserfs filesystem. > >Gentoo provides a HOWTO Beagle (http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Beagle) >and uses a reiserfs filesystem (included extended attributues) as an >example throughout. However, the Beagle Web site state

Re: [gentoo-user] Beagle on Gentoo Reiserfs filesystem - Possible?

2005-08-14 Thread Nagatoro
Paul Hoy Gmail wrote: Hello, I'm confused about running Beagle on a Gentoo reiserfs filesystem. Gentoo provides a HOWTO Beagle (http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Beagle) and uses a reiserfs filesystem (included extended attributues) as an example throughout. However, the Beagle Web site states in

Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

2005-08-14 Thread Nagatoro
John Dangler wrote: doesn't do it, either. what else could I be missing? From my /boot/grub/grub.conf --- kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r6.4 root=/dev/hda2\ video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr,[EMAIL PROTECTED] splash=silent,theme:livecd-2005.0 CONSOLE=/dev/tty1 udev initrd (hd0,0)/splash ---

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-14 Thread Barry . SCHWARTZ
Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skribis: > On Sunday 14 August 2005 06:06 pm, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Sunday 21 August 2005 22:05, Jerry McBride wrote: > > > What and where EXACTLY is gentoo behind any other release? > > > > gcc4 > > > > since fedora switched to gcc4, all the version-n

[gentoo-user] splash and kerne panic

2005-08-14 Thread John Dangler
After emerging splashutils and doing - splash_geninitramfs -v -g /boot/fbsplash-livecd-2005.1-1024x768 -r 1024x768 livecd-2005.1 && rc-update add splash default   a reboot of the system produces – Kernel panic – not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(1,0)   Any i

[RESOLVED] RE: [gentoo-user] kernel panic - help!

2005-08-14 Thread John Dangler
Whew! I was able to recreate the initrd correctly by editing the grub lines and got it back up… I’ll need to re-read the fbsplash setup and try again…   -Original Message- From: John Dangler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2005 11:37 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.

[gentoo-user] Beagle on Gentoo Reiserfs filesystem - Possible?

2005-08-14 Thread Paul Hoy Gmail
Hello, I'm confused about running Beagle on a Gentoo reiserfs filesystem. Gentoo provides a HOWTO Beagle (http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Beagle) and uses a reiserfs filesystem (included extended attributues) as an example throughout. However, the Beagle Web site states in its FAQ (http://www.beagl

[gentoo-user] kernel panic - help!

2005-08-14 Thread John Dangler
  I just tried to add fbspash to my grub.conf file and got a kernel panic on startup.  I rebooted with the livecd but don’t know how to get back into my gentoo environment.  chroot doesn’t work (can’t find /bin/bash).  Help…    

[gentoo-user] USB KVM + udev

2005-08-14 Thread Robert Robinson
I'm having problems with the KVM that I have and switching back and forth between machines when in X. I've checked on the forums and all the solutions are based on devfs or on a ps2 device. I have no problems switching the machines back and forth with the keyboard, but when coming back into X, th

[RESOLVED]RE: [gentoo-user] 2005.1 basic install - restart

2005-08-14 Thread John Dangler
DOH! – options in fstab… noaatime! corrected the spelling and all is well.     -Original Message- From: John Dangler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2005 10:18 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] 2005.1 basic install - restart   s

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-14 Thread Paul Hoy
On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 20:55 -0500, Joe Menola wrote: > On Sunday August 14 2005 8:48 pm, Zac Medico wrote: > > You can export variables in the shell (not generally recommended) or put > > them directly on the command line. > > > > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -s foo > > > > It's best to use /etc/p

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-14 Thread Paul Hoy
On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 18:48 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > Paul Hoy wrote: > > > > On Aug 14, 2005, at 6:35 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > >> On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 09:38:28 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > >> > >> > >>> Unstable does not really cut it IMHO. I am a gentoo enthusiast through > >>> and through,

RE: [gentoo-user] 2005.1 basic install - restart

2005-08-14 Thread John Dangler
strange… I let the system boot, and then manually mounted /tmp like :   mount /dev/hda3 /tmp   it worked!   why won’t this mount at boot ???     -Original Message- From: John Dangler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2005 9:49 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gent

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-14 Thread Joe Menola
On Sunday August 14 2005 8:48 pm, Zac Medico wrote: > You can export variables in the shell (not generally recommended) or put > them directly on the command line. > > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -s foo > > It's best to use /etc/portage/package.keywords to keep your package > specific keywords (d

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-14 Thread Paul Hoy
On Aug 14, 2005, at 9:34 PM, Holly Bostick wrote: Paul Hoy schreef: See inline On Aug 14, 2005, at 5:51 PM, Holly Bostick wrote: Nick Rout schreef: On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 13:12:31 -0700 Zac Medico wrote: Hi Paul, Are we really far behind? That's difficult to believe. For what pac

RE: [gentoo-user] 2005.1 basic install - restart

2005-08-14 Thread John Dangler
is it possible that this error is due to the fact that I named the partition /tmp ?     -Original Message- From: John Dangler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2005 8:24 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] 2005.1 basic install - restart  

RE: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

2005-08-14 Thread John Dangler
Joshua~ removing the vga= statement only makes the font size much larger on startup, but doesn't produce the splash. I also tried removing the video= but that doesn't do it, either. what else could I be missing? -Original Message- From: Joshua Armstrong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-14 Thread Zac Medico
Paul Hoy wrote: On Aug 14, 2005, at 6:35 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 09:38:28 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: Unstable does not really cut it IMHO. I am a gentoo enthusiast through and through, but plonking something in portage with a ~ beside it does not constitute a release of a

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-14 Thread Paul Hoy
On Aug 14, 2005, at 8:58 PM, Holly Bostick wrote: Paul Hoy schreef: On Aug 14, 2005, at 5:24 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 15:42:19 -0400, Paul Hoy wrote: I really like Gentoo and I like that fact that it does a pretty good job at supporting Gnome, however, it's still

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-14 Thread Holly Bostick
Paul Hoy schreef: > See inline > > > On Aug 14, 2005, at 5:51 PM, Holly Bostick wrote: > >> Nick Rout schreef: >> >>> On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 13:12:31 -0700 >>> Zac Medico wrote: >>> >>> >>> Hi Paul, Are we really far behind? That's difficult to believe. For what packages spec

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-14 Thread Paul Hoy
On Aug 14, 2005, at 9:01 PM, Zac Medico wrote: Paul Hoy wrote: On Aug 14, 2005, at 5:24 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 15:42:19 -0400, Paul Hoy wrote: I really like Gentoo and I like that fact that it does a pretty good job at supporting Gnome, however, it's still behind

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-14 Thread Paul Hoy
On Aug 14, 2005, at 7:26 PM, Joe Menola wrote: On Sunday August 14 2005 5:43 pm, Paul Hoy wrote: On Aug 14, 2005, at 5:05 PM, Joe Menola wrote: On Sunday August 14 2005 2:42 pm, Paul Hoy wrote: Linux from Scratch looks very interesting: it appears to rapidly support the latest updates and

Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

2005-08-14 Thread Joshua Armstrong
the vga= line contradicts the video= line. Try dropping the vga= argument. On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 21:03 -0400, John Dangler wrote: > I setup my grub.conf so that I could see the splash screen on startup > – but it doesn’t show. Did I miss something? > > grub.conf has “… vga=0x318 video=vesafb:mt

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-14 Thread Paul Hoy
On Aug 14, 2005, at 6:35 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 09:38:28 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: Unstable does not really cut it IMHO. I am a gentoo enthusiast throughand through, but plonking something in portage with a ~ beside it doesnot constitute a release of a recent version IMHO. They'r

[gentoo-user] where's the splash?

2005-08-14 Thread John Dangler
I setup my grub.conf so that I could see the splash screen on startup – but it doesn’t show.  Did I miss something? grub.conf has “… vga=0x318 video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,[EMAIL PROTECTED] splash=silent”   was there something else I needed to do in order for this to work? John D  

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-14 Thread Holly Bostick
Paul Hoy schreef: > > On Aug 14, 2005, at 5:24 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 15:42:19 -0400, Paul Hoy wrote: >> >> >>> I really like Gentoo and I like that fact that it does a pretty good >>> job at supporting Gnome, however, it's still behind other releases, >>> such as F

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-14 Thread Paul Hoy
On Aug 14, 2005, at 6:06 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Sunday 21 August 2005 22:05, Jerry McBride wrote: What and where EXACTLY is gentoo behind any other release? gcc4 since fedora switched to gcc4, all the version-number-junkies got itchy. Is not too bad, if some of them go to

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-14 Thread Zac Medico
Paul Hoy wrote: On Aug 14, 2005, at 5:24 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 15:42:19 -0400, Paul Hoy wrote: I really like Gentoo and I like that fact that it does a pretty good job at supporting Gnome, however, it's still behind other releases, such as Fedora, in terms of when

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-14 Thread Paul Hoy
See inline On Aug 14, 2005, at 5:51 PM, Holly Bostick wrote: Nick Rout schreef: On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 13:12:31 -0700 Zac Medico wrote: Hi Paul, Are we really far behind? That's difficult to believe. For what packages specifically? Do you know how to unmask unstable packages (mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-14 Thread Paul Hoy
On Aug 14, 2005, at 5:38 PM, Nick Rout wrote: On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 13:12:31 -0700 Zac Medico wrote: Hi Paul, Are we really far behind? That's difficult to believe. For what packages specifically? Do you know how to unmask unstable packages (marked M or M~ at packages.gentoo.org)? U

Re: [gentoo-user] Logitech USB headset

2005-08-14 Thread Dan Anderson
On 8/14/05, Oscar Carlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Checked the output from dmesg? ("dmesg |tail") > And check your mixer levels :) > > > On 8/15/05, David H. Askew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > is the device muted? > > > > have you checked the volume levels ... ? This is my dmesg output

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-14 Thread Paul Hoy
On Aug 14, 2005, at 5:24 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 15:42:19 -0400, Paul Hoy wrote: I really like Gentoo and I like that fact that it does a pretty good  job at supporting Gnome, however, it's still behind other releases,  such as Fedora, in terms of when it releases updates, etc.

[gentoo-user] 2005.1 basic install - restart

2005-08-14 Thread John Dangler
2005.1 / 2.6.12-r6 reboot after basic install, I get a message that says mount: wrong fstype, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda3 or too many mounted filesystems * error mounting local filesystems   in fstab – /dev/hda3 /tmp reiserfs noatime,notail   0 0

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-14 Thread Paul Hoy
On Aug 21, 2005, at 4:05 PM, Jerry McBride wrote: On Sunday 14 August 2005 03:42 pm, Paul Hoy wrote: Hi all, This email isn't intended to troll, but to explore Linux variants that share certain characteristics. Nice way to introduce yourself on a distribution support maillist :')

[gentoo-user] K3B Woes

2005-08-14 Thread Kris Kerwin
Hey all, Was trying to burn a DVD+R using K3b today. Ran into some problems: :-( unable to PREVENT MEDIA REMOVAL: Operation not permitted Can't find anything about this in either # man growisofs or # man mkisofs (which growisofs is a front-end to). Tried to simulate the burn, but K3b wouldn't l

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-14 Thread Paul Hoy
On Aug 14, 2005, at 4:12 PM, Zac Medico wrote:Paul Hoy wrote: Hi all,This email isn't intended to troll, but to explore Linux variants that share certain characteristics. I really like Gentoo and I like that fact that it does a pretty good job at supporting Gnome, however, it's still behind other r

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-14 Thread Nick Rout
On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 17:13:14 -0500 Joe Menola wrote: > On Sunday August 14 2005 4:38 pm, Nick Rout wrote: > > Unstable does not really cut it IMHO. I am a gentoo enthusiast through > > and through, but plonking something in portage with a ~ beside it does > > not constitute a release of a recent

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-14 Thread Zac Medico
Nick Rout wrote: Holly Bostick wrote: What would be different in the Gentoo you envision? I'll bite too. ;-) On the gentoo-dev list I've heard talk of a QA feedback system so that users can report WORKSFORME on unstable packages. This will provide the data necessary to help know when pa

Re: [gentoo-user] Turning OFF font-hinting globally?

2005-08-14 Thread Oscar Carlsson
Take a look at this file: /etc/fonts/local.conf You can turn on / off the font hinting / whatever from there. There are a few nice font tutorials over at gentoo-wiki.com if you're intrested. I can't help you with the GDM-part, tho :(On 8/14/05, Chris Boot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all,Call me

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Monday 22 August 2005 00:36, Jerry McBride wrote: > On Sunday 14 August 2005 06:06 pm, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Sunday 21 August 2005 22:05, Jerry McBride wrote: > > > What and where EXACTLY is gentoo behind any other release? > > > > gcc4 > > > > since fedora switched to gcc4, all the

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-14 Thread Nick Rout
On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 15:48:22 -0700 Zac Medico wrote: > Holly Bostick wrote: > > > > What would be different in the Gentoo you envision? > > > > I'll bit too. ;-) On the gentoo-dev list I've heard talk of a QA feedback > system so that users can report WORKSFORME on unstable packages. This w

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-14 Thread Joe Menola
On Sunday August 14 2005 5:43 pm, Paul Hoy wrote: > On Aug 14, 2005, at 5:05 PM, Joe Menola wrote: > > On Sunday August 14 2005 2:42 pm, Paul Hoy wrote: > >> Linux from Scratch looks very interesting: it appears to rapidly > >> support > >> the latest updates and it has decent documentation. Does a

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-14 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 14 August 2005 06:06 pm, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Sunday 21 August 2005 22:05, Jerry McBride wrote: > > What and where EXACTLY is gentoo behind any other release? > > gcc4 > > since fedora switched to gcc4, all the version-number-junkies got itchy. > > Is not too bad, if some of t

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-14 Thread Paul Hoy
On Aug 14, 2005, at 5:33 PM, Joe Menola wrote: On Sunday August 14 2005 4:22 pm, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 16:05:22 -0500, Joe Menola wrote: I've built both Gentoo and LFS. A side by side comparison comes up pretty much equal. Except for documentation, where Gentoo wins hands

[gentoo-user] Re: New Install with 2005.1

2005-08-14 Thread james
A. Khattri bway.net> writes: > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/release/2005.1/ChangeLog Thanks for the list. James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Logitech USB headset

2005-08-14 Thread Oscar Carlsson
Checked the output from dmesg? ("dmesg |tail") And check your mixer levels :)On 8/15/05, David H. Askew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: is the device muted?have you checked the volume levels ... ?On 17:49 Sun 14 Aug , Dan Anderson wrote:> Has anyone had any luck with the Logitech USB headsets?>> I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-14 Thread Paul Hoy
On Aug 14, 2005, at 5:05 PM, Joe Menola wrote: On Sunday August 14 2005 2:42 pm, Paul Hoy wrote: Linux from Scratch looks very interesting: it appears to rapidly support the latest updates and it has decent documentation. Does any one have any perspectives on Linux from Scratch, from a Ge

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-14 Thread Zac Medico
Holly Bostick wrote: What would be different in the Gentoo you envision? I'll bit too. ;-) On the gentoo-dev list I've heard talk of a QA feedback system so that users can report WORKSFORME on unstable packages. This will provide the data necessary to help know when packages should be mar

Re: [gentoo-user] visualizar particion windows

2005-08-14 Thread Norberto Bensa
Fernando Meira wrote: > To see/access a windows partition, you should mount it. > > you can do something like this (assuming your windoz fs is ntfs): > $ mount -t ntfs /dev/hdaX /mnt/windows > where hdaX is the windoz partition. > Don't forget to make /mnt/windows beforehand ($ mkdir /mnt/windows)

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 09:38:28 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > Unstable does not really cut it IMHO. I am a gentoo enthusiast through > and through, but plonking something in portage with a ~ beside it does > not constitute a release of a recent version IMHO. They're not "unstable", they are "testing", a

Re: [gentoo-user] audacity and gtk not playing nice

2005-08-14 Thread Adrian
On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 13:36:53 -0400 Alvin A ONeal Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote the words: > I had that problem a while ago, the solution is also on the gentoo > wiki. > > In addition to the forums and bug reports, check gentoo-wiki.com > whenever you've got a problem. There's TONS of valueable inf

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-14 Thread Joe Menola
On Sunday August 14 2005 4:38 pm, Nick Rout wrote: > Unstable does not really cut it IMHO. I am a gentoo enthusiast through > and through, but plonking something in portage with a ~ beside it does > not constitute a release of a recent version IMHO. Can you name any version of Linux where version

Re: [gentoo-user] Logitech USB headset

2005-08-14 Thread David H. Askew
is the device muted? have you checked the volume levels ... ? On 17:49 Sun 14 Aug , Dan Anderson wrote: > Has anyone had any luck with the Logitech USB headsets? > > I'm running 2.6.12-r4 and have enabled USB audio support and the USB > devices in the Alsa section. I'm trying to get Skype to

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sunday 21 August 2005 22:05, Jerry McBride wrote: > What and where EXACTLY is gentoo behind any other release? gcc4 since fedora switched to gcc4, all the version-number-junkies got itchy. Is not too bad, if some of them go to fedora... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Install pcmcia-cs (during install)

2005-08-14 Thread Holly Bostick
John Dangler schreef: > > > The handbook instructs ‘USE=”-X” emerge pcmcia-cs’ > > > > emerge returns: ‘emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy “pcmcia-cs” > > > > Anyone know why this is returned? > > > > John D > > > Well, the package certainly exists: eix pcmcia * sys-apps/pc

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-14 Thread Joe Menola
On Sunday August 14 2005 4:37 pm, Nick Rout wrote: > On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 16:05:22 -0500 > > Joe Menola wrote: > > On Sunday August 14 2005 2:42 pm, Paul Hoy wrote: > > > Linux from Scratch looks very interesting: it appears to rapidly > > > support the latest updates and it has decent documentation

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-14 Thread Holly Bostick
Nick Rout schreef: > On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 13:12:31 -0700 > Zac Medico wrote: > > >>Hi Paul, >> >>Are we really far behind? That's difficult to believe. For what packages >>specifically? Do > > you know how to unmask unstable packages (marked M or M~ at > packages.gentoo.org)? > > Unstable do

[gentoo-user] Logitech USB headset

2005-08-14 Thread Dan Anderson
Has anyone had any luck with the Logitech USB headsets? I'm running 2.6.12-r4 and have enabled USB audio support and the USB devices in the Alsa section. I'm trying to get Skype to work and I've set the sound device to /dev/dsp2 (which is what appears when I plug the headset in), but I don't hear

[gentoo-user] Install pcmcia-cs (during install)

2005-08-14 Thread John Dangler
The handbook instructs ‘USE=”-X” emerge pcmcia-cs’   emerge returns: ‘emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy “pcmcia-cs”   Anyone know why this is returned?   John D  

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-14 Thread Nick Rout
On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 13:12:31 -0700 Zac Medico wrote: > Hi Paul, > > Are we really far behind? That's difficult to believe. For what packages > specifically? Do you know how to unmask unstable packages (marked M or M~ at packages.gentoo.org)? Unstable does not really cut it IMHO. I am a gent

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-14 Thread Nick Rout
On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 16:05:22 -0500 Joe Menola wrote: > On Sunday August 14 2005 2:42 pm, Paul Hoy wrote: > > Linux from Scratch looks very interesting: it appears to rapidly support > > the latest updates and it has decent documentation. Does any one have any > > perspectives on Linux from Scratc

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-14 Thread Joe Menola
On Sunday August 14 2005 4:22 pm, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 16:05:22 -0500, Joe Menola wrote: > > I've built both Gentoo and LFS. A side by side comparison comes up > > pretty much equal. Except for documentation, where Gentoo wins hands > > down. IMO > > What about package managem

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 15:42:19 -0400, Paul Hoy wrote: > I really like Gentoo and I like that fact that it does a pretty good > job at supporting Gnome, however, it's still behind other releases, > such as Fedora, in terms of when it releases updates, etc. Gentoo has rolling updates, so it is al

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 16:05:22 -0500, Joe Menola wrote: > I've built both Gentoo and LFS. A side by side comparison comes up > pretty much equal. Except for documentation, where Gentoo wins hands > down. IMO What about package management? -- Neil Bothwick "Bother," said Pooh, as the media expos

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-14 Thread Joe Menola
On Sunday August 14 2005 2:42 pm, Paul Hoy wrote: > Linux from Scratch looks very interesting: it appears to rapidly support > the latest updates and it has decent documentation. Does any one have any > perspectives on Linux from Scratch, from a Gentoo point-of-view? Does > anyone wish to share a c

[gentoo-user] i2c problems? (ivtv from source not loading under 2.6.12-gentoo-r6)

2005-08-14 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I hope someone is around on this fine Sunday to help me out. I only have today to do this update. Most everything seemed to be going OK but then I had trouble with some Gentoo based i2c changes. Previously, running 2.6.11-gentoo-r11 everything was fine. When I tried to update to 2.6.12-gento

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-14 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 14 August 2005 03:42 pm, Paul Hoy wrote: > Hi all, > > This email isn't intended to troll, but to explore Linux variants > that share certain characteristics. > Nice way to introduce yourself on a distribution support maillist :') > I really like Gentoo and I like that fact that it

Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird and local LDAP server

2005-08-14 Thread Brett Schroeder
The OpenLDAP client is *not* needed on the machine running T-bird - do something like the following to convince yourself that t-bird does *not* require the ldap client grep -i ldap /var/db/pkg/mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-1.0.6-r2/{,R,P}DEPEND All the work is in setting up the server. Thund

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-14 Thread Zac Medico
Paul Hoy wrote: Hi all, This email isn't intended to troll, but to explore Linux variants that share certain characteristics. I really like Gentoo and I like that fact that it does a pretty good job at supporting Gnome, however, it's still behind other releases, such as Fedora, in terms of

[gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-14 Thread Paul Hoy
Hi all,This email isn't intended to troll, but to explore Linux variants that share certain characteristics. I really like Gentoo and I like that fact that it does a pretty good job at supporting Gnome, however, it's still behind other releases, such as Fedora, in terms of when it releases updates,

RE: [gentoo-user] conf.d/domainname

2005-08-14 Thread John Dangler
Fernando~ Thanks for the reply.  Since I’m using DHCP, do I need to supply a DNSDOMAIN at all ?   John D     -Original Message- From: Fernando Meira [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2005 3:02 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] co

Re: [gentoo-user] conf.d/domainname

2005-08-14 Thread Fernando Meira
No, that does not mean if you want or not DHCP. Just if you want your domain name overridden when dhcp provides you one. FernandoOn 8/14/05, John Dangler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am setting up Gentoo (2.6.12-r6) on a standalone laptop with DHCP and was trying to find some input

Re: [gentoo-user] Way OT - date listed for a directory in ls -l

2005-08-14 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 18:09 +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote: > On 14 August 2005 16:51, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > Under what condition is the date of a directory (shown with ls -l) > > updated? Is it when the directory is created, or when a file somewhere > > below the directory is updated or some other

[gentoo-user] conf.d/domainname

2005-08-14 Thread John Dangler
I am setting up Gentoo (2.6.12-r6) on a standalone laptop with DHCP and was trying to find some input as to the OVERRIDE setting in the conf.d/domainname file.  it says if I want to override DHCP, set it to 1 (default).  Does this indicate if I _want_ DHCP that I should set it to something

[gentoo-user] IPN 2220 / AMD64 / ndiswrapper

2005-08-14 Thread Jose Gonzalez Gomez
Hi there, Is there anybody out there that has made this work and would share the magic incantations needed? Or at least anybody that possitively knows this is impossible so I wouldn't waste my time with it? Thanks in advance, best regards Jose -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] audacity and gtk not playing nice

2005-08-14 Thread Robert Crawford
On Sunday 14 August 2005 08:14 am, Adrian wrote: > On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 11:18:21 -0400 > > Robert Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote the words: > > Have you done a revdep-rebuild -p to see what's up? > > > > Did you upgrade gtk+ only, or was this done along with other stuff, > > like gcc? > > > > Ch

[gentoo-user] audacity and gtk not playing nice

2005-08-14 Thread Alvin A ONeal Jr
I had that problem a while ago, the solution is also on the gentoo wiki. In addition to the forums and bug reports, check gentoo-wiki.com whenever you've got a problem. There's TONS of valueable information there. There's a searchbar plugin for firefox. -- 8^) Laterz- ~Alvin http://CoolAJ86.Have

[gentoo-user] emerge -u world fails -- broke compiler?

2005-08-14 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everybody, This is another "C compiler cannot create executables error" :( There's a lot of stuff in the archive about it but nothing I've seen so far seems to suit my case. I ran emerge --sync successfully and then tried -uv world; it failed trying to compile sed-4.1.4 Sure enough, compil

Re: [gentoo-user] Locale definition for OpenOffice

2005-08-14 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 14 August 2005 12:52, Holly Bostick wrote: > Uwe Thiem schreef: > > Hi folks, > > > > I am in the process of writing the locale definition for Namibia for > > OpenOffice. Before I submit it, I'd like to test it locally. I thought of > > doing it this way: > > > > Untar OOo_1.1.4_source.tar.gz ma

Re: [gentoo-user] Way OT - date listed for a directory in ls -l

2005-08-14 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 14 August 2005 16:51, Michael Sullivan wrote: > Under what condition is the date of a directory (shown with ls -l) > updated? Is it when the directory is created, or when a file somewhere > below the directory is updated or some other time? I make weekly > backups of the user accounts on my se

Re: [gentoo-user] Way OT - date listed for a directory in ls -l

2005-08-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 10:51:41 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > Under what condition is the date of a directory (shown with ls -l) > updated? Is it when the directory is created, or when a file somewhere > below the directory is updated or some other time? I make weekly > backups of the user accou

[gentoo-user] Way OT - date listed for a directory in ls -l

2005-08-14 Thread Michael Sullivan
Under what condition is the date of a directory (shown with ls -l) updated? Is it when the directory is created, or when a file somewhere below the directory is updated or some other time? I make weekly backups of the user accounts on my server box. Because space and CD media are in limited supp

Re: [gentoo-user] Slotting same version?

2005-08-14 Thread Peter Karlsson
On Sun, 14 Aug 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: Necessary? Perhaps not. I just looked up scorched3d at gentoo-portage.com, and it does have an *optional* gtk2 USE flag... which suggests that the gtk2 support in the dependencies (such as wxGTK) is also optional (i.e., if you don't ask scorched3d to bu

Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird and local LDAP server

2005-08-14 Thread Ralph Slooten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Abraham, I have been looking at LDAP myself for ages now, but understand almost nothing of it ;-) Anyways, your (first) mail got me thinking to test it myself again. I hit the same brick wall you did. It seems that the current thunderbird does *

Re: [gentoo-user] Slotting same version?

2005-08-14 Thread Peter Karlsson
On Sun, 14 Aug 2005, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Impossible with the current way SLOTs are handled. Suspected as much. Thanks anyway! Best regards Peter K -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] bt878 + gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r6 = sound doesn't work (amd64)

2005-08-14 Thread Claudinei Matos
well, I did what you suggested.. commented out the options and tried coldplug, but in this way I can't even get the board output (for jack adapter) to work. Ignoring snd_trident and msp3400 I could use a jack 2 jack cable to link capture card output with sound card input but thats wasn't what I wan

Re: [gentoo-user] paths and rsync

2005-08-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 12:03:02 +0200, Christoph Gysin wrote: > > Anybody knows how to specify more than one path with rsync using the > > same first part (for the host) ? something like > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[/home|/var] > > You could use the bash for expansion of the paths: > > $ rsync [options]

Re: [gentoo-user] Slotting same version?

2005-08-14 Thread Holly Bostick
Peter Karlsson schreef: > Hi! > > Just wondering if there's anyone out there that has managed to install > two copies (with different compile-options) of the same version of a > library? If so how did you do it? The reason I'm asking is that I have > 'audacity' installed and it requires 'wxGTK 2.4

Re: [gentoo-user] Slotting same version?

2005-08-14 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 15:26:01 +0200 (MEST) Peter Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Just wondering if there's anyone out there that has managed to | install two copies (with different compile-options) of the same | version of a library? If so how did you do it? The reason I'm asking | is that I h

[gentoo-user] Slotting same version?

2005-08-14 Thread Peter Karlsson
Hi! Just wondering if there's anyone out there that has managed to install two copies (with different compile-options) of the same version of a library? If so how did you do it? The reason I'm asking is that I have 'audacity' installed and it requires 'wxGTK 2.4' built without the 'GTK2'-USE f

[gentoo-user] Turning OFF font-hinting globally?

2005-08-14 Thread Chris Boot
Hi all, Call me a heretic, but I want to turn OFF font hinting globally in X, most particularly I'd like it off in GDM. I've turned it off in my own Gnome prefs, but tht obviously doesn't touch GDM. As an added bonus, can I change the fonts GDM uses? Thanks, Chris -- Chris Boot [EMAIL PROTE

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