[gentoo-user] Re: Must all software be installed with Ebuilds?

2005-08-17 Thread Marek Więcek
Michael Swanson wrote: On a totally unrelated question, when I use Firefox in Xfce, I can't us Ctrl+F4 to close a tab. Does anyone know how I can avoid that? Thanks. You can use CTRL+W instead. -- msw -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot freeze

2005-08-17 Thread Tony Davison
On Wednesday 17 August 2005 23:28, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: > On Wednesday 17 August 2005 06:43 pm, Renat Golubchyk wrote: > > Hi! > > > > On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 16:10:51 -0400 "Michael W. Holdeman" > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wednesday 17 August 2005 03:53 pm, Michael W. Holdeman wr

Re: [gentoo-user] Automatic Network Stuff

2005-08-17 Thread Richard Fish
Ian K wrote: Hi there, I was having to use Windows the other day, and it got me into wondering if Linux is able to automatically set up a network connection when an ethernet cable is inserted, or more importantly, establish a connection to my wireless network when I switch my network card on. (Y

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Must all software be installed with Ebuilds?

2005-08-17 Thread Michael Crute
Everything you install on Gentoo is generally done with an ebuild because that lets portage track the dependencies and also keeps track of the versions so they are easily upgraded in the future. This is the best way to do things for most software. With something like Communigate however, you aren't

[gentoo-user] Re: [asking again] keyboard/mouse woes on 2.6 kernel

2005-08-17 Thread Moshe Kaminsky
Hi, I don't really know what's going on. Just wanted to suggest some things: 1. I don't think it has anything to do with the 'Unknown key' messages. This simply means that there are some funny keys on the keyboard that the kernel doesn't recognize. You can check it with the showkey(1)

[gentoo-user] Re: Must all software be installed with Ebuilds?

2005-08-17 Thread Michael Swanson
I'm setting up a home webserver on Gentoo Linux and was wondering about the above question. I've read on here many places about people writing their own ebuilds to install software. One of the pieces of software I run is Communigate Email, which is commercial software and gets installed by a

Re: [gentoo-user] [asking again] keyboard/mouse woes on 2.6 kernel

2005-08-17 Thread Chris Cox
On Wednesday 17 August 2005 10:10 pm, Ben Munat wrote: > > I recently did a fresh install of 2005.0 on a AMD thunderbird-based > machine. I wasn't in the mood for kernel configuring, so I just let > genkernel do it's thing, installing a 2.6 kernel. > There is your first mistake right there. >

[gentoo-user] Automatic Network Stuff

2005-08-17 Thread Ian K
Hi there, I was having to use Windows the other day, and it got me into wondering if Linux is able to automatically set up a network connection when an ethernet cable is inserted, or more importantly, establish a connection to my wireless network when I switch my network card on. (Yes it has a swit

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge xorg-6.8.2-r2 under Gentoo 2005.1

2005-08-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On 8/17/05, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Knecht schreef: > > On 8/17/05, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Mark Knecht schreef: > >> > >>>Yes, it does, but it still didn't tell me what profile I'm running: > >>> > >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls /etc/make.profile/ > >

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: Recovering partitions from an imaged drive

2005-08-17 Thread Tom Eastman
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > Tom Eastman wrote: > I'm not sure, but mounting the whole hda as loopback could work (seem > to remember a thread about this some time ago on the list, search the > archives). > In case it does not, try this. Since the real partitions usually start > at the second sector (th

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge xorg-6.8.2-r2 under Gentoo 2005.1

2005-08-17 Thread Holly Bostick
Mark Knecht schreef: > On 8/17/05, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Mark Knecht schreef: >> >>>Yes, it does, but it still didn't tell me what profile I'm running: >>> >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls /etc/make.profile/ >>>2.4 packages parent >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ >>> >>>where as >>> >

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow HD

2005-08-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On 8/17/05, Pupeno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 17 August 2005 23:52, Pupeno wrote: > > I have this as module and it seem to be loaded automatically because lsmod > > shows: > > piix9476 0 [permanent] > > > > Maybe it has to be compiled on the kernel (not as a modu

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge xorg-6.8.2-r2 under Gentoo 2005.1

2005-08-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On 8/17/05, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Knecht schreef: > > Yes, it does, but it still didn't tell me what profile I'm running: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls /etc/make.profile/ > > 2.4 packages parent > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ > > > > where as > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with madwifi

2005-08-17 Thread Pupeno
On Wednesday 17 August 2005 17:07, Jonathan Wright wrote: > In the > end I had to remove all the modules (rm -Rf /lib/modules) and reinstall > all the modules before rebuilding wireless-tools, madwifi-driver, > madwifi-tools in that order. Thanks, that worked! (I haven't rebuild madwifi-tools thoug

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow HD

2005-08-17 Thread Pupeno
On Wednesday 17 August 2005 23:52, Pupeno wrote: > I have this as module and it seem to be loaded automatically because lsmod > shows: > piix9476 0 [permanent] > > Maybe it has to be compiled on the kernel (not as a module) to work ? I compiled it in the kernel and now DMA is o

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow HD

2005-08-17 Thread Pupeno
On Wednesday 17 August 2005 23:04, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > flash linux #  hdparm /dev/hda > > > > /dev/hda: > >  multcount    = 16 (on) > >  IO_support   =  0 (default 16-bit) > >  unmaskirq    =  0 (off) > >  using_dma    =  1 (on) > >  keepsettings =  0 (off) > >  readonly     =  0 (off)

[gentoo-user] [asking again] keyboard/mouse woes on 2.6 kernel

2005-08-17 Thread Ben Munat
Really hoping someone has some idea on this... haven't found any solid answers on the web... b --- original message - Hello, I recently did a fresh install of 2005.0 on a AMD thunderbird-based machine. I wasn't in the mood for kernel configuring, so I just let genkern

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge xorg-6.8.2-r2 under Gentoo 2005.1

2005-08-17 Thread Holly Bostick
Mark Knecht schreef: > Yes, it does, but it still didn't tell me what profile I'm running: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls /etc/make.profile/ > 2.4 packages parent > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ > > where as > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /etc/make.profile/packages | grep profile > # $Header: > /var/

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow HD

2005-08-17 Thread Pupeno
On Wednesday 17 August 2005 23:30, Mark Knecht wrote: > I think the important ones are probably: > > <*> ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support > │ │ │ │ <*> Enhanced IDE/MFM/RLL disk/cdrom/tape/floppy support > │ │ > > │ │ [*] Use multi-mode

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow HD

2005-08-17 Thread Joe Menola
On Wednesday August 17 2005 9:02 pm, Pupeno wrote: > I have all as modules, maybe I am just missing to load it. Personally, I would compile them into kernel. You can get the module names from menuconfig/xconfig by selecting them and choosing help. Modprobe them, then hdparm /dev/hda. If dma is n

[gentoo-user] mount point with hal and kde

2005-08-17 Thread Pupeno
Hello, I have various computers running KDE and hald and I also have various USB mass storages, some of the HDs and some of them memories. When I plug them I get an icon on the desktop and the first one to be plugged gets monted on /media/usbdisk, the second on /media/usbdisk1, the third on /med

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge xorg-6.8.2-r2 under Gentoo 2005.1

2005-08-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On 8/17/05, Norberto Bensa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > Yes, it does, but it still didn't tell me what profile I'm running: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls /etc/make.profile/ > > 2.4 packages parent > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ > > > > where as > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow HD

2005-08-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On 8/17/05, Pupeno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 17 August 2005 22:15, Mark Knecht wrote: > > On 8/17/05, Pupeno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wednesday 17 August 2005 18:44, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > A quick test would be > > > > > > > > hdparm -tT /dev/hda > > > > > > I got thi

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow HD

2005-08-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Thursday 18 August 2005 03:15, Mark Knecht wrote: > On 8/17/05, Pupeno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday 17 August 2005 18:44, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > A quick test would be > > > > > > hdparm -tT /dev/hda > > > > I got this: > > /dev/hda: > > Timing cached reads: 1344 MB in 2.00 s

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow HD

2005-08-17 Thread Pupeno
On Wednesday 17 August 2005 22:15, Mark Knecht wrote: > On 8/17/05, Pupeno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday 17 August 2005 18:44, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > A quick test would be > > > > > > hdparm -tT /dev/hda > > > > I got this: > > /dev/hda: > > Timing cached reads: 1344 MB in 2.00

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow HD

2005-08-17 Thread Pupeno
On Wednesday 17 August 2005 22:17, Joe Menola wrote: > On Wednesday August 17 2005 7:56 pm, Pupeno wrote: > > On Wednesday 17 August 2005 18:44, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > A quick test would be > > > > > > hdparm > > > > I got this: > > /dev/hda: > > Timing cached reads: 1344 MB in 2.00 seconds =

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get mozilla-sunbird

2005-08-17 Thread Norberto Bensa
Holly Bostick wrote: > Norberto Bensa schreef: > > Nick Rout wrote: > >>ACCEPT_KEYWORDS has been deprecated for a very long time. > > > > But you can still use ACCEPT_KEYWORDS in /etc/make.conf if you want the > > whole system to be ~x86. Or is there a better/recommendable way? > > Yes, ACCEPT_KEYW

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge xorg-6.8.2-r2 under Gentoo 2005.1

2005-08-17 Thread Norberto Bensa
Mark Knecht wrote: > Thanks Neil. It seems that this specific command doesn't give me a lot > of information: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /etc/make.profile $ ls -l /etc/make.profile/ ^ delete this-

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge xorg-6.8.2-r2 under Gentoo 2005.1

2005-08-17 Thread Norberto Bensa
Mark Knecht wrote: > Yes, it does, but it still didn't tell me what profile I'm running: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls /etc/make.profile/ > 2.4 packages parent > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ > > where as > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /etc/make.profile/packages | grep profile G... Just do: ls -l /

Re: [gentoo-user] ethereal bug?

2005-08-17 Thread Richard Fish
James wrote: Hello, When I run ethereal as root (su -p) in a kde session, it dies off when I end the capture session. I do not use gnome, so I do not know if the problem exist there. If I comment out this line: gtk-alternative-button-order = 1 #gtk-alternative-button-order = 1 in the file: .k

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with ramdisk

2005-08-17 Thread Richard Fish
Is this an initrd or initramfs (aka, cpio.gz) image? If it is initrd, you should have a /linuxrc script to initialize the system. For grub, you will need: kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc initrd=/rootfs.gz Then your linuxrc script must *not* exit. It will probabl

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge xorg-6.8.2-r2 under Gentoo 2005.1

2005-08-17 Thread Jamie Dobbs
Given the responses so far I think I might have to try a fresh install, this time using 2005.0 as this bug may well be limited to 2005.1 > On 8/17/05, Norberto Bensa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Mark Knecht wrote: >> > Thanks Neil. It seems that this specific command doesn't give me a lot >> > of

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow HD

2005-08-17 Thread Joe Menola
On Wednesday August 17 2005 7:56 pm, Pupeno wrote: > On Wednesday 17 August 2005 18:44, Mark Knecht wrote: > > A quick test would be > > > > hdparm > > I got this: > /dev/hda: > Timing cached reads: 1344 MB in 2.00 seconds = 672.10 MB/sec > Timing buffered disk reads:8 MB in 3.51 seconds

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow HD

2005-08-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On 8/17/05, Pupeno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 17 August 2005 18:44, Mark Knecht wrote: > > A quick test would be > > > > hdparm -tT /dev/hda > I got this: > /dev/hda: > Timing cached reads: 1344 MB in 2.00 seconds = 672.10 MB/sec > Timing buffered disk reads:8 MB in 3.51 se

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge xorg-6.8.2-r2 under Gentoo 2005.1

2005-08-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On 8/17/05, Norberto Bensa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > Thanks Neil. It seems that this specific command doesn't give me a lot > > of information: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /etc/make.profile $ ls -l /etc/make.profile/ >

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc and gcc updated to 2.3.5

2005-08-17 Thread Grant
> > I remember reading about a package update after which it is beneficial > > to emerge emptytree. I thought it was the compiler stuff. Am I > > remembering that wrong? > > > > You're probably not remembering completely. The only time it is > *suggested* that you might want to do an emerge -e w

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow HD

2005-08-17 Thread Pupeno
On Wednesday 17 August 2005 18:44, Mark Knecht wrote: > A quick test would be > > hdparm -tT /dev/hda I got this: /dev/hda: Timing cached reads: 1344 MB in 2.00 seconds = 672.10 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads:8 MB in 3.51 seconds = 2.28 MB/sec > (or whatever drive you are concerned

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get ALSA OSS Emulation to work

2005-08-17 Thread Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales
Hi Chris Unfortunately, it didn't. And I also have to do it everytime it restarts. I'm thinking about doing a init script to do it for me... > Shouldn't the ebuild when it installs make those changes automaticly? > When I tried out q3demo last year the sound worked fine same with > Enemy Territor

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc and gcc updated to 2.3.5

2005-08-17 Thread Holly Bostick
Grant schreef: >>>I noticed my glibc and gcc were updated to 2.3.5 in my last big emerge >>>world. Should I run an emptytree emerge now? >>> >>>- Grant >> >>first, your gcc got not updated to 2.3.5 >> >>second: no. >>You do NOT NEED to do an emptytree. Never! >> >>glibc updates are nothing to worr

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc and gcc updated to 2.3.5

2005-08-17 Thread Grant
> > I noticed my glibc and gcc were updated to 2.3.5 in my last big emerge > > world. Should I run an emptytree emerge now? > > > > - Grant > > first, your gcc got not updated to 2.3.5 > > second: no. > You do NOT NEED to do an emptytree. Never! > > glibc updates are nothing to worry about, one

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc and gcc updated to 2.3.5

2005-08-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Thursday 18 August 2005 00:31, Grant wrote: > I noticed my glibc and gcc were updated to 2.3.5 in my last big emerge > world. Should I run an emptytree emerge now? > > - Grant first, your gcc got not updated to 2.3.5 second: no. You do NOT NEED to do an emptytree. Never! glibc updates are no

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot freeze

2005-08-17 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
On Wednesday 17 August 2005 06:43 pm, Renat Golubchyk wrote: > Hi! > > On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 16:10:51 -0400 "Michael W. Holdeman" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday 17 August 2005 03:53 pm, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: > > > My desktop suddenly won't boot. It stops at Starting distccd... >

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot freeze

2005-08-17 Thread Renat Golubchyk
Hi! On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 16:10:51 -0400 "Michael W. Holdeman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 17 August 2005 03:53 pm, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: > > My desktop suddenly won't boot. It stops at Starting distccd... > > [ok] and sits there for hours?? I can reboot with ctrl-alt-del. > > Ho

Re: [gentoo-user] One machine's terminals don't say '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' anymore

2005-08-17 Thread Mark Knecht
Wade, Thanks. I found it. The laptop was setting PS1 in .bashrc while the other machines were not. I removed it and things are working nicely now. Cheers, Mark On 8/17/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wade, >Thanks for the response. I think this will help me get it straightened

Re: [gentoo-user] One machine's terminals don't say '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' anymore

2005-08-17 Thread Mark Knecht
Wade, Thanks for the response. I think this will help me get it straightened out. So far I see no difference between the machines that work and the laptop which doesn't when doing the grep -r PS1 /etc/* command. However, when I echo $PS1 at the command line I do get different results: Lapto

[gentoo-user] glibc and gcc updated to 2.3.5

2005-08-17 Thread Grant
I noticed my glibc and gcc were updated to 2.3.5 in my last big emerge world. Should I run an emptytree emerge now? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Recovering partitions from an imaged drive

2005-08-17 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
Tom Eastman wrote: > How can I take this image of ('hda') and mount the filesystem > ('hda1') that's inside it? I'm not sure, but mounting the whole hda as loopback could work (seem to remember a thread about this some time ago on the list, search the archives). In case it does not, try this. S

[gentoo-user] OT: Recovering partitions from an imaged drive

2005-08-17 Thread Tom Eastman
Hey guys, this is a non-gentoo question but I figure someone on here will have the answer I seek :-) My father's laptop (running Windows XP) managed to detonate itself a few days back and I'm trying to recover information from it. Before we wiped the hard drive I loaded a LiveCD and imaged the en

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ktoon

2005-08-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 22:59:54 +0200, Daniel Vrcic wrote: > I'm going to lie you and tell you that I was refering to the vim's > substitution. ;-) For a such simple thing it doesn't need trailing > slash, although it can be there. OK, I won't argue about vim substitution, substituting vim with anyt

Re: [gentoo-user] Big emerge world killed networking

2005-08-17 Thread Grant
> > > Nice Dirk, but now I get: > > > > > > We require dhcpcd-1.3.22_p4-r10 > > > > > > and I have r11 which is the latest stable. r10 isn't even in the > > > tree. Would upgrading to ~x86 dhcpcd 2.0.0 possibly fix this? > > > > At least on my laptop I have dhcpcd 2.0.0 and I don't get this error

Re: [gentoo-user] One machine's terminals don't say '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' anymore

2005-08-17 Thread Wade Brown
The environment variable $PS1 controls what your prompt is, assuming you're using bash. This can be set in many many places, such as ~/.bashrc, /etc/profile (controlled by something along the lines of /etc/env.d/##bash), or even as a simple export. Try searching through your /etc on your differen

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow HD

2005-08-17 Thread Mark Knecht
A quick test would be hdparm -tT /dev/hda (or whatever drive you are concerned about.) Greater than 15MB/S is almost certainly DMA but good DMA from newer drives should be 25-50MB/S You can look at the drives parameters using hdparm and reading through the man page to understand what all the va

[gentoo-user] Slow HD

2005-08-17 Thread José Pable Ezequiel Fernández
Hello, I am not sure, but I think I am experiencing dramatic slow down on my computer when doing HD intensive (but not CPU intensive) tasks such as coping files (or rsyncing). Is it possible that I have disabled dma, or missing a kernel module for my IDE controler or something like that ? Any do

[gentoo-user] One machine's terminals don't say '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' anymore

2005-08-17 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, On my laptop only when I open a gnome-terminal I'm no longer greeted with a prompt that says: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ - it now it just says flash ~ $. What controls this? I thought it was .bashrc but comparing my non-working laptop with my 3 working desktop machines, which do say [EMAI

[gentoo-user] Re: Ktoon

2005-08-17 Thread Daniel Vrcic
* Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [05-08-17 18:39]: > On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 14:33:58 +0200, Daniel Vrcic wrote: > > s/etc-update/env-update > s/etc-update/env-update/ > if we're going to be picky about typos :) I'm going to lie you and tell you that I was refering to the vim's substitution. ;-) Fo

Re: [gentoo-user] Compression tools Compared

2005-08-17 Thread Jerry McBride
On Wednesday 17 August 2005 10:55 am, Kirk Strauser wrote: > On Friday 12 August 2005 23:58, Jerry McBride wrote: > > What you're seeing are the results of compressing /lib on my gentoo > > powered laptop. > > For comparison purposes, what compression levels did you specify for bz2 > and gz? > -- >

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

2005-08-17 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 17 August 2005 18:22, John Dangler wrote: > Uwe~ > Yes, please share! I'd be interested to see how this goes together Alright, it took me less time than I thought. ;-) Here it goes: 1. Cd to /etc/splash. Create a subdirectory with the name of your theme. That's "sysex" in my case because th

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot freeze

2005-08-17 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
On Wednesday 17 August 2005 03:53 pm, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: > My desktop suddenly won't boot. It stops at Starting distccd... > [ok] and sits there for hours?? I can reboot with ctrl-alt-del. > How can I get it to continue to determint what is wrong? I tried several > kernels and all do the s

[gentoo-user] Boot freeze

2005-08-17 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
My desktop suddenly won't boot. It stops at Starting distccd... [ok] and sits there for hours?? I can reboot with ctrl-alt-del. How can I get it to continue to determint what is wrong? I tried several kernels and all do the same thing... Mike -

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with madwifi

2005-08-17 Thread Jonathan Wright
Robert Crawford wrote: On Wednesday 17 August 2005 11:28 am, Grant wrote: Which updates are you talking about- madwifi, it was updated some days ago, to be exact, version 0.1_pre20050809 released on 2005/08/10 12:44:19, while previously I was using 0.1_pre20050420. If downgrading to 2005042

Re: [gentoo-user] unsuscribe

2005-08-17 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 03:57:05PM -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: > In fact, it is "-" not "+"... > And with all the sources around, they still can't find it. > I dont see a reason to change the way it works, what is left to change > is the mind of the "unsubscribers" that don't even read the welcom

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get ALSA OSS Emulation to work

2005-08-17 Thread Chris Cox
On 8/16/05, Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I feel really stupid. It wasn't the permission, but to get both quake > and enemy territory to play , they have to be given direct access to > the sound hardware. To do that, you must go to > /proc/asound/cardX/pcm0p/ an

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with madwifi

2005-08-17 Thread Robert Crawford
On Wednesday 17 August 2005 11:28 am, Grant wrote: > > > Which updates are you talking about- > > > > madwifi, it was updated some days ago, to be exact, version > > 0.1_pre20050809 released on 2005/08/10 12:44:19, while previously I was > > using > > 0.1_pre20050420. > > If downgrading to 20050420

Re: [gentoo-user] unsuscribe

2005-08-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 14:46:39 -0400, Michael Crute wrote: > Why dont we just change it so that unsubscribe in the subject line > unsubscribes you (like every other mailing list on the internet)? The mail doesn't have "unsubscribe" in the subject line. -- Neil Bothwick Planet 98% full! Delete

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

2005-08-17 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 17 August 2005 18:22, John Dangler wrote: > Uwe~ > Yes, please share! I'd be interested to see how this goes together Will do. Give me a day or two since I have to go through all the steps again my self to make sure there won't be typos or such. Uwe -- 95% of all programmers rate themselve

Re: [gentoo-user] unsuscribe

2005-08-17 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 14:46:39 -0400 Michael Crute <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Why dont we just change it so that unsubscribe in the subject line | unsubscribes you (like every other mailing list on the internet)? We did that already. Read the subject line more carefully. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Ge

Re: [gentoo-user] unsuscribe

2005-08-17 Thread Holly Bostick
Michael Crute schreef: > Why dont we just change it so that unsubscribe in the subject line > unsubscribes you (like every other mailing list on the internet)? > Interestingly enough, I just checked three of the several mailing lists to which I am subscribed, and none of them take unsubscription b

Re: [gentoo-user] unsuscribe

2005-08-17 Thread Daniel da Veiga
In fact, it is "-" not "+"... And with all the sources around, they still can't find it. I dont see a reason to change the way it works, what is left to change is the mind of the "unsubscribers" that don't even read the welcome message... On 8/17/05, Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed

Re: [gentoo-user] unsuscribe

2005-08-17 Thread Michael Crute
Why dont we just change it so that unsubscribe in the subject line unsubscribes you (like every other mailing list on the internet)? -MikeOn 8/17/05, Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 12:18:02PM +, Gyuri wrote:> Bayrouni wrote:>> >Hello all,> >How to unsuscribe fro

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: C++ code on Gentoo

2005-08-17 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 14:18:25 + (UTC) James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Bryce Verdier cs.pdx.edu> writes: | > Does the code compile and work on any other machine (that doesn't | > have nvwa compiled?)? | | It compiles and runs but it does not display video to the local | gentoo linux system.

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with ramdisk

2005-08-17 Thread Matthew Cline
On 8/17/05, Ognjen Bezanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Im building an x86 embedded distro using gentoo. Now i have been rather > successful. I have built the whole system and it works, while only > taking up 9mb (when gzipped). > > Now my question is how to get linux to load the gzip

Re: [gentoo-user] unsuscribe

2005-08-17 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 12:18:02PM +, Gyuri wrote: > Bayrouni wrote: > > >Hello all, > >How to unsuscribe from this list? > > > >Thank you > >Bayrouni > > It is written on the gentoo website. Gentoo.org -> Lists Actually, as was posted before, the gentoo.org way is incorrect. It specifies -u

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

2005-08-17 Thread John Dangler
Uwe~ Yes, please share! I'd be interested to see how this goes together John D -Original Message- From: Uwe Thiem [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 4:22 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash? On 16 August 2005 20:28,

[gentoo-user] Help with ramdisk

2005-08-17 Thread Ognjen Bezanov
Hi all, Im building an x86 embedded distro using gentoo. Now i have been rather successful. I have built the whole system and it works, while only taking up 9mb (when gzipped). Now my question is how to get linux to load the gzipped image file into a ramdisk and use it as a root filesystem. Runn

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge xorg-6.8.2-r2 under Gentoo 2005.1

2005-08-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 07:17:37 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > ls -l /etc/make.profile > > > Thanks Neil. It seems that this specific command doesn't give me a lot > of information: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /etc/make.profile $ ls -l /etc/make.profile/ "ls -l /etc/make.profile" not "ls -l /etc/make.pro

[gentoo-user] keyboard/mouse woes on 2.6 kernel

2005-08-17 Thread Ben Munat
Hello, I recently did a fresh install of 2005.0 on a AMD thunderbird-based machine. I wasn't in the mood for kernel configuring, so I just let genkernel do it's thing, installing a 2.6 kernel. Things mostly went fine, however my keyboard and/or mouse keep going berserk... they just stop work

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ktoon

2005-08-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 14:33:58 +0200, Daniel Vrcic wrote: > > System wide paths should be put in /etc/env.d, don't forget to run > > etc-update after doing so. > > s/etc-update/env-update s/etc-update/env-update/ if we're going to be picky about typos :) -- Neil Bothwick Modesty Becomes You.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ktoon

2005-08-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 20:07:52 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 08:50 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > System wide paths should be put in /etc/env.d, don't forget to run > > etc-update after doing so. > > not etc-update I don't think! env-update is what you were thinking of > surely?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: C++ code on Gentoo

2005-08-17 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 17 August 2005 15:18, James wrote: > Bryce Verdier cs.pdx.edu> writes: > > Does the code compile and work on any other machine (that doesn't have > > nvwa compiled?)? > > It compiles and runs but it does not display video to the local > gentoo linux system. The author claims it works on SUSE.

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

2005-08-17 Thread Abraham Marín Pérez
Well, after using Ethereal to see the parameters sent during the transaction, it does work, I can browse the LDAP database. The problem now is that LDAP access seems to be read only and I'd like to be able to add new contacts to the directory from Thunderbird, is this possible? and is this secu

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with madwifi

2005-08-17 Thread Grant
> > Which updates are you talking about- > madwifi, it was updated some days ago, to be exact, version 0.1_pre20050809 > released on 2005/08/10 12:44:19, while previously I was using > 0.1_pre20050420. If downgrading to 20050420 doesn't work, try upgrading to the latest baselayout. An older basel

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get mozilla-sunbird

2005-08-17 Thread Holly Bostick
Norberto Bensa schreef: > Nick Rout wrote: > >>ACCEPT_KEYWORDS has been deprecated for a very long time. > > > But you can still use ACCEPT_KEYWORDS in /etc/make.conf if you want the whole > system to be ~x86. Or is there a better/recommendable way? > Yes, ACCEPT_KEYWORDS is a valid variable

[gentoo-user] xfce4-panel trouble

2005-08-17 Thread Grant
The xfce4-panel won't open for me. When I try to run it at the command line I get: (xfce4-panel:15467): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme directory scalable/emblems of theme F lat-Blue has no size field (xfce4-panel:15467): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_container_remove: assertion `GTK_IS_WI DGET (widget)' failed ca

Re: [gentoo-user] Big emerge world killed networking

2005-08-17 Thread Grant
> > Nice Dirk, but now I get: > > > > We require dhcpcd-1.3.22_p4-r10 > > > > and I have r11 which is the latest stable. r10 isn't even in the > > tree. Would upgrading to ~x86 dhcpcd 2.0.0 possibly fix this? > > At least on my laptop I have dhcpcd 2.0.0 and I don't get this error, so > chances

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with madwifi

2005-08-17 Thread Grant
> > Which updates are you talking about- > madwifi, it was updated some days ago, to be exact, version 0.1_pre20050809 > released on 2005/08/10 12:44:19, while previously I was using > 0.1_pre20050420. Sync up man. You're supposed to downgrade to 20050420 now. I was having the same problem. - G

Re: [gentoo-user] Compression tools Compared

2005-08-17 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Friday 12 August 2005 23:58, Jerry McBride wrote: > What you're seeing are the results of compressing /lib on my gentoo > powered laptop. For comparison purposes, what compression levels did you specify for bz2 and gz? -- Kirk Strauser -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get mozilla-sunbird

2005-08-17 Thread Norberto Bensa
Nick Rout wrote: > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS has been deprecated for a very long time. But you can still use ACCEPT_KEYWORDS in /etc/make.conf if you want the whole system to be ~x86. Or is there a better/recommendable way? Thanks in advance, Norberto > > -- > Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Norberto

[gentoo-user] ethereal bug?

2005-08-17 Thread James
Hello, When I run ethereal as root (su -p) in a kde session, it dies off when I end the capture session. I do not use gnome, so I do not know if the problem exist there. If I comment out this line: gtk-alternative-button-order = 1 #gtk-alternative-button-order = 1 in the file: .kde3.4/share/conf

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with madwifi

2005-08-17 Thread Pupeno
On Wednesday 17 August 2005 10:05, Robert Crawford wrote: > On Tuesday 16 August 2005 11:52 pm, Pupeno wrote: > > Hello, > > I have an IBM wifi card that has an Atheros chipset that was working > > perfectly with the madwifi driver untill the update that happened > > recently, now it is a big mess.

[gentoo-user] Re: C++ code on Gentoo

2005-08-17 Thread James
Bryce Verdier cs.pdx.edu> writes: > Does the code compile and work on any other machine (that doesn't have > nvwa compiled?)? It compiles and runs but it does not display video to the local gentoo linux system. The author claims it works on SUSE. > Also, have you tried upgrade nvwa, i see fr

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge xorg-6.8.2-r2 under Gentoo 2005.1

2005-08-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On 8/17/05, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 19:01:23 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > >I don't know anymore how to tell what profile I'm running under > > ls -l /etc/make.profile > Thanks Neil. It seems that this specific command doesn't give me a lot of informati

Re: [gentoo-user] F4L

2005-08-17 Thread Tero Grundström
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Ian K wrote: It looks like a very promising project. Ian Ahh... Linux on desktop... What a mess! We have Gimp and Inkscape which are gtk2 apps. Then we have Nvu, which is xul/gtk2 app. And now we have F4L which uses qt... It would make more sense if this admittely prom

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: problem with Tomcat auto-deploying WAR files

2005-08-17 Thread Matthew Cline
On 8/17/05, Catalin Trifu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, > > Take a look here > http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.0-doc/config/server.html. Ok, I changed the "debug" attribute to 9 and restarted tomcat, but the log file still looks the same. Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with madwifi

2005-08-17 Thread Robert Crawford
On Tuesday 16 August 2005 11:52 pm, Pupeno wrote: > Hello, > I have an IBM wifi card that has an Atheros chipset that was working > perfectly with the madwifi driver untill the update that happened recently, > now it is a big mess. > When I plug it in or at boot if it is plugged in when coldpluggin

[gentoo-user] Re: Ktoon

2005-08-17 Thread Daniel Vrcic
* Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [05-08-17 09:59]: > On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 02:21:24 +0200, Daniel Vrcic wrote: > > For one-time use you can do the following: > > > > # export PATH=/usr/qt/3/bin:$PATH > > > > Then you can compile your program from the same terminal you typed the > > command above

Re: [gentoo-user] 2005.1 "el nino" simple user restricts

2005-08-17 Thread Aaron Walker
Gyuri wrote: Hi guys, I've just downloaded, and installed Gentoo 2005.1 El Nino. I have some experiences with former Gentoo releases. But there is a little "bug" (maybe?) in "el nino". A simple user cannot read the contets of the root ( / ) partition, she/he can only read and write in his/her

[gentoo-user] Re: C++ code on Gentoo

2005-08-17 Thread Andreas Fredriksson
On 8/16/05, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The code for nvwa-0.5 was added to try to get robust debugging > (memory) working, but, alas I'm certainly not strong on C++ code, > let alone some body else's C++ code. Try valgrind. It's an excellent memory instrumentation system which can trace ba

[gentoo-user] Re: Ebuild with scons and sandbox

2005-08-17 Thread Andreas Fredriksson
On 8/16/05, Nagatoro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > First off, I'm sorry if this is the wrong place to ask! > > I'm trying to write an ebuild for linuxdcpp (a gtk port of DC++). This > nice app uses scons and not make as the build tool. When I build it > manually it works just fine, but w

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Backup-software for small network

2005-08-17 Thread Fernando Meira
Hi Dan,I am currently developing a P2P backup-system. It allows you to distribute your backups through all clients with space-efficiency and error-correcting-codes. However, it doesn't cover all your requirements (at least the current version), but you may want to have a look in the future.. >>  T

[gentoo-user] Re: Static resolv.conf

2005-08-17 Thread Sarpy Sam
> > > > > Yes, but after a reboot (I daily boot and shut down my computer) the > file's content is refreshed by the DHCP server. (nameserver 192.168.0.1) > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > I fixed this problem by adding the following flags to /etc/conf.d/net on the dhcpcd_eth0=

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