Re: [gentoo-user] Re: no ebuild what to do?

2005-10-01 Thread Nick Rout
On Sat, 2005-10-01 at 13:54 -0700, maxim wexler wrote: > > --- Greg Yasko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Greg Yasko cox.net> writes: > > > > > > > Login as root and do a "mkdir -p > > /usr/local/portage/app-cdr/dekagen" > > > > > > Then cd to the dekagen directory you just created. > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/db/pkg deleted

2005-10-01 Thread Dave Nebinger
Note the date the message was sent: On Thursday 15 July 2004 09:10 pm, Javier Uribe wrote: > El Sáb 01 Oct 2005 21:06, Yoandy Rodriguez escribió: > > Try this http://gentooexperimental.org/script/repo/show/28 > > Thanks > > solved :D Now that you have that fixed, Javier, you might want to tak

[gentoo-user] Re: Scanner Trouble - Solved (I think)

2005-10-01 Thread C. Beamer
Hi all, I honestly don't know what I did. I was playing around checking different settings and now xsane works fine. Sorry for the bother. Regards, Colleen C. Beamer wrote: >Hi, > >When I first installed Gentoo on my main machine about a month ago, my >scanner was working just fine. I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Scanner Trouble

2005-10-01 Thread Nick Rout
On Sat, 2005-10-01 at 22:45 -0400, C. Beamer wrote: > Hi, > > When I first installed Gentoo on my main machine about a month ago, my > scanner was working just fine. I don't use it that much, but today when > I went to use it (using xsane), I got a message that no devices were found. > > I check

Re: [gentoo-user] error while loading shared libraries: libdc1394_control.so.9

2005-10-01 Thread Zac Medico
Richard Watson wrote: > I'm trying to run a script to convert avi files to vob. I'm getting an > error I can't track down. I know the script works as I have another > Gentoo box that runs it fine. The error is: > > "ffmpeg: error while loading shared libraries: libdc1394_control.so.9: > cannot ope

[gentoo-user] error while loading shared libraries: libdc1394_control.so.9

2005-10-01 Thread Richard Watson
I'm trying to run a script to convert avi files to vob. I'm getting an error I can't track down. I know the script works as I have another Gentoo box that runs it fine. The error is: "ffmpeg: error while loading shared libraries: libdc1394_control.so.9: cannot open shared object file: No such file

[gentoo-user] Scanner Trouble

2005-10-01 Thread C. Beamer
Hi, When I first installed Gentoo on my main machine about a month ago, my scanner was working just fine. I don't use it that much, but today when I went to use it (using xsane), I got a message that no devices were found. I checked dmesg and as far as I can tell, there doesn't seem to be anythi

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/db/pkg deleted

2005-10-01 Thread Brian Parish
On Friday 16 July 2004 11:10, Javier Uribe wrote: > El S?b 01 Oct 2005 21:06, Yoandy Rodriguez escribi?: > > Try this http://gentooexperimental.org/script/repo/show/28 > > Thanks > > solved :D > > -- > Javier Uribe > Puerto Montt - Chile > juribe at linuxchile dot cl > Great - now all you have

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/db/pkg deleted

2005-10-01 Thread Javier Uribe
El Sáb 01 Oct 2005 21:06, Yoandy Rodriguez escribió: > Try this http://gentooexperimental.org/script/repo/show/28 Thanks solved :D -- Javier Uribe Puerto Montt - Chile juribe at linuxchile dot cl "Old at heart but I'm only 28 And I'm much too young To let love break my heart..." -- gento

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/db/pkg deleted

2005-10-01 Thread Yoandy Rodriguez
Try this http://gentooexperimental.org/script/repo/show/28 On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 20:25 -0400, Javier Uribe wrote: > hi people > I have a problem, i have deleted db of packages installed (/var/db/pkg) > and I need to know if it is possible to recuper it with a command. > > best regards. > > --

[gentoo-user] /var/db/pkg deleted

2005-10-01 Thread Javier Uribe
hi people I have a problem, i have deleted db of packages installed (/var/db/pkg) and I need to know if it is possible to recuper it with a command. best regards. -- Javier Uribe Puerto Montt - Chile juribe at linuxchile dot cl "Old at heart but I'm only 28 And I'm much too young To let lov

Re: [gentoo-user] download first and compile later?

2005-10-01 Thread Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales
It is also very useful on a office enviroment. Normally, on offices, at least on my personal experiences, the entire staff is consuming bandwidth during commercial hours. So you can use a cron job to --fetchonly the packages you want from hours 21:00 to 06:00. Then on the next day, all you have to

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage, network less install and Apache, MySQL, PHP

2005-10-01 Thread Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales
Answer to 1: Yes, if you download a portage-.tar.bz2 file and uncompress it on /usr/portage, it has the same effect as emerge --sync. Actually, to be more precise, the same effect as emerge-webrsync. Unforunately, this consumes more bandwidth, since it downloads ebuilds you don't need to update as

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to execute i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc

2005-10-01 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Well, I did an emerge --emptytree system today and it all of them worked - no errors. I guess the emerge system put whatever was needed in place although I do not have an i386 directory. I was already to try your fix! I'll file it for future reference. On Sat, 1 Oct 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED

[gentoo-user] ddd not working right

2005-10-01 Thread Rodrigo Lazo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, today I recompiled my ddd and now I'm getting this messages a lot [tcsetpgrp failed in terminal_inferior: Inappropriate ioctl for device] the only important thing that I have change in my system since last time I builded ddd is that I now have

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: no ebuild what to do?

2005-10-01 Thread maxim wexler
--- Greg Yasko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greg Yasko cox.net> writes: > > > > Login as root and do a "mkdir -p > /usr/local/portage/app-cdr/dekagen" > > > > Then cd to the dekagen directory you just created. > > > > Copy the ebuild, which is at gentoo bugzilla under > app-cdr/dekagen to

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel tuning

2005-10-01 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Shields wrote: > Sane defaults? Sounds a bit redundant to me. You will have to > tweak the kernel sources since your not using genkernel (my > experience with Redhat is minimal, I assume they use a type of > generic kernel?). There's no way aroun

Re: [gentoo-user] xrandr rotation

2005-10-01 Thread Richard Fish
wOmbad wrote: Hi Rotatin my desktop orientation via the xrandr command (p.e. xrandr -o left) works perfectly from a konsol within the running kde-3.4.2! Unfortunately the equivalent command - xrandr -display :0.0 -o left - from a virtual terminal strikes with the following output message: Xlib

Re: [gentoo-user] sk98lin

2005-10-01 Thread Mark Shields
IIRC, sk98lin is deprecated; use skge instead (I have one Marvell Yukon Gigabit NIC on my home PC).On 10/1/05, Joseph < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Try:modprobe sk98lin--#Joseph On Sat, 2005-10-01 at 13:43 +0200, Martin Ullrich wrote:> Hi!>> I recently wanted to Install gentoo on my desktop computer (

Re: [gentoo-user] sk98lin

2005-10-01 Thread Joseph
Try: modprobe sk98lin -- #Joseph On Sat, 2005-10-01 at 13:43 +0200, Martin Ullrich wrote: > Hi! > > I recently wanted to Install gentoo on my desktop computer (Acer > 1804WSMi Laptop works fine with Gentoo!), but none of my two ethernet > cards was working when I booted the universal installati

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: no ebuild what to do?

2005-10-01 Thread maxim wexler
> > There is now an ebuild in Gentoo's bugzilla, so you > could use Portdir_Overlay > and provide some much needed testing. Well, I found it: http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=New&product=Gentoo+Linux&long_desc_type=allwordssubstr&long_desc=&bug_file_l

Re: [gentoo-user] Multi-services box

2005-10-01 Thread Mark Shields
Ah well, I stand corrected.  I at least had never heard or seen a UDMA44 standard in a BIOS setting or otherwise.  This hard drive, btw, sustained physical damage (dropped while on).  Long story on that one.On 9/30/05, Christoph Gysin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mark Shields wrote:> reports the spee

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: no ebuild what to do?

2005-10-01 Thread maxim wexler
--- Greg Yasko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > maxim wexler yahoo.com> writes: > > > > > Hello everybody, > > > > I'm sure this has been covered before but can't > seem > > to google for it. > > > > I'd like to install dekagen but there are no > ebuilds > > for it. I suppose I could just unpac

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel tuning

2005-10-01 Thread Mark Shields
Sane defaults?  Sounds a bit redundant to me.  You will have to tweak the kernel sources since your not using genkernel (my experience with Redhat is minimal, I assume they use a type of generic kernel?).  There's no way around it.  Short story, if you want "sane defaults", stick with the genkernel

Re: [gentoo-user] xrandr rotation

2005-10-01 Thread wOmbad
Norman Golisz wrote: I think it's a problem with my xserver config but sadly i haven't found a solution on the internet. Don't guess, tell us the facts. This implies an attached configuration file of X. Norman oh yes - you're right...here it comes Thanks Section "ServerLayout"

Re: [gentoo-user] xrandr rotation

2005-10-01 Thread Norman Golisz
> I think it's a problem with my xserver config but sadly i haven't found > a solution on the internet. Don't guess, tell us the facts. This implies an attached configuration file of X. Norman -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] ATI 9700: how to configure tv out ?

2005-10-01 Thread shad
Hi, I have an ATI radeon 9700 and i want to configure my tv out used with SVIDEO link. Actually i use fglrx driver. I want just a clone of my screen but it doesn't work. I tried atitvout but the tv is not detected when xorg started. Do i must configure a second screen in my xorg.conf to have a

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for Lost Labyrinth

2005-10-01 Thread Markus Döbele
Hy Gentoo, I just uploaded Version 1.4.0 of Lost Labyrinth. This a very good release I think. We got a lot of new Stuff. The Windows Programmer did a Windows Version of it, because the new Linux Version is getting better than the Original I did a calculation and now I invested more than 413

[gentoo-user] xrandr rotation

2005-10-01 Thread wOmbad
Hi Rotatin my desktop orientation via the xrandr command (p.e. xrandr -o left) works perfectly from a konsol within the running kde-3.4.2! Unfortunately the equivalent command - xrandr -display :0.0 -o left - from a virtual terminal strikes with the following output message: Xlib: connection to

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to execute i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc

2005-10-01 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Thank you. I finally did an emerge system and it all worked without problem. I may do what you say and see what happens. On Sat, 1 Oct 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 1.10.2005 schrieb "Brett I. Holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I'm installing from a stage 1 on 2005.0 LiveCD. I did the b

[gentoo-user] kernel tuning

2005-10-01 Thread John Jolet
I've got a farm of 32-bit redhat 7 web servers that we're about to start migrating to gentoo on amd64 servers. One question my boss had that I can't seem to answer is this. Redhat kernels are supposedly tuned for "sane defaults" and I've done no "tuning" at all on the gentoo boxes. Using gent

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux installed from 2005.1 disk does not start

2005-10-01 Thread Norman Golisz
> returning 0x0140 from prom_init Maybe this discussion helps: http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-ppc-user@lists.gentoo.org/msg00215.html Norman -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Good command for wiping a hard drive?

2005-10-01 Thread Alexander Skwar
Jonathan Wright schrieb: > Alexander Skwar wrote: >>>A good option for more speed would be to use aespipe to encrypt >>>/dev/zero and write that output to the disk. >> >> Why do that? Overwritten data is already pretty much >> irrecoverable. Or do you know of ONE instance, where >> those rescue c

[gentoo-user] sk98lin

2005-10-01 Thread Martin Ullrich
Hi! I recently wanted to Install gentoo on my desktop computer (Acer 1804WSMi Laptop works fine with Gentoo!), but none of my two ethernet cards was working when I booted the universal installation CD. This is the composition of my system: Asus P5AD2 Deluxe Mainboard (Socket 775) Intel P4 3.4 Ghz

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to execute i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc

2005-10-01 Thread heinz.sporn
Am 1.10.2005 schrieb "Brett I. Holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >I'm installing from a stage 1 on 2005.0 LiveCD. I did the boot strap and >a now am doing the emerge --emptytree system stage. However, I keep >getting this error on python-fchksum AND files. > >unable to execute i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc

Re: [gentoo-user] Right recipe for gentoo-user procmail

2005-10-01 Thread Nick Rout
On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 19:54 -0400, Dave Nebinger wrote: > Just set up the following recipe for postfix/courier-imapd/procmail: > > :0 > * ^(From|Cc|To).*gentoo-user > $HOME/.maildir/.Gentoo.User/new/ do not drop it in the "new" subdir, procmail will look after that. Also search on the right hea

[gentoo-user] Linux installed from 2005.1 disk does not start

2005-10-01 Thread Charles Trois
Hello! I am posting this to both gentoo-user and gentoo-ppc-user lists. My problem concerns the installation of Gentoo Linux on my G4 iMac, using the 2005.1 universal ppc disk. I should first mention that I have done this before, using the 2005.0 disk, and there was no trouble whatsoever. N

[gentoo-user] k3b fails on cdrdao when making audio cd from mp3's

2005-10-01 Thread Nick Rout
k3b writes iso's and random ecollections of files, ie data cd's fine. I am now trying to use k3b to take a sleection of mp3's amd make them into an audio cd (ie one my wife's old car stereo will play, not just a collection of mp3's on a cd). The conversion to .wav files goes well, but then I get

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Good command for wiping a hard drive?

2005-10-01 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 30 September 2005 22:50, Remy Blank wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > >Sold my laptop on Ebay. It was dual boot Gentoo/XP Pro and had > > financial data on it. I'd like to pretty securely wipe the drive > > before shipping. I've already deleted all 10 partitions and written > > new partitions on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Good command for wiping a hard drive?

2005-10-01 Thread Jonathan Wright
Alexander Skwar wrote: A good option for more speed would be to use aespipe to encrypt /dev/zero and write that output to the disk. Why do that? Overwritten data is already pretty much irrecoverable. Or do you know of ONE instance, where those rescue companies restored an OVERWRITTEN (ie. not s

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge K3B -- SOLVEDAGAIN

2005-10-01 Thread Dan
Dan wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Saturday 01 October 2005 15:36, Dan wrote: This is indeed a wonderful list. "Everything is going extremely well". -HAL K3B is running well, looks good but it has no DVD Video copying option that I can find. On windows I had clone DVD. Source