[gentoo-user] kernel compile using gcc 3.4.3

2005-05-14 Thread Eugene Rosenzweig
I have a machine configured to use gcc 3.4.3 and thats fine but today I was wondering if it is possible to do away with gcc 3.3.5. I think it is still used when kernel is recompiled. Now I could swear recently I read something in a post about overriding gcc version used to compile the kernel an

[gentoo-user] encrypted dvds no longer correctly decrypted under gentoo

2005-05-14 Thread Antoine
Hi, I was most disgusted to find that to watch a dvd I rented last night I had to boot to doze. Luckily I just bought a new drive and had the OEM powerdvd, cos I haven't tried to do anything with a dvd in years under doze. I get the following error message from dvdrip 0.50.18: ... libdvdread: Usin

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel compile using gcc 3.4.3

2005-05-14 Thread Rumen Yotov
Eugene Rosenzweig wrote: > I have a machine configured to use gcc 3.4.3 and thats fine but today > I was wondering if it is possible to do away with gcc 3.3.5. I think > it is still used when kernel is recompiled. Now I could swear recently > I read something in a post about overriding gcc version

Re: [gentoo-user] hdparm "HDIO_SET_DMA failed"

2005-05-14 Thread Peter Karlsson
On Fri, 13 May 2005, Peter Gordon wrote: My understanding is that the kernel will automagically configure DMA as appropriate if you build support for the IDE controller statically, but hdparm is needed to initialize DMA stuff if you build your IDE controller's driver as a module. I'm not certain th

Re: [gentoo-user] / is full

2005-05-14 Thread Matan Peled
James wrote: > I had not emerged a gentoo system for a while now / is filled up. > > Looking for large files to remove, I found in /proc: > > -r 1 root root 1073672192 May 13 22:31 kcore > > > I guess this is not a good file to remove? > > Kernel images are only this big: > -rw-

[gentoo-user] Re: encrypted dvds no longer correctly decrypted under gentoo

2005-05-14 Thread Antoine
> I thought it might be a problem with the ugly state of my portage but I > get a slightly different problem on a recently installed laptop running > gentoo ~x86. On the laptop a dumpstream gets most of the way through and > then starts transferring bytes about 8 at a time - with about 30 seconds

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel compile using gcc 3.4.3

2005-05-14 Thread Eugene Rosenzweig
Rumen Yotov wrote: Eugene Rosenzweig wrote: I have a machine configured to use gcc 3.4.3 and thats fine but today I was wondering if it is possible to do away with gcc 3.3.5. I think it is still used when kernel is recompiled. Now I could swear recently I read something in a post about overridin

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: encrypted dvds no longer correctly decrypted under gentoo

2005-05-14 Thread Holly Bostick
Antoine schreef: >>I thought it might be a problem with the ugly state of my portage but I >>get a slightly different problem on a recently installed laptop running >>gentoo ~x86. On the laptop a dumpstream gets most of the way through and >>then starts transferring bytes about 8 at a time - with a

[gentoo-user] Cleaning out supposedly unmerged stuff

2005-05-14 Thread Walter Dnes
Alternate subject "The Ghost in the Machine". I unmerged vixie-cron and emerged dcron. Now, every time I emerge *ANY* package, I get... >>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache... * Caching service dependencies... * Service 'dcron' already provide 'cron'!; * Not adding service 'vixie-cron'...

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning out supposedly unmerged stuff

2005-05-14 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Walter Dnes wrote: > Alternate subject "The Ghost in the Machine". I unmerged > vixie-cron and emerged dcron. >[...] > vixie-cron | rm /etc/init.d/vixie-cron Unmerging vixie-cron didn't remove this script, as it falls under the /etc CONFIG_PROTECT. To avoid this, some people add

Re: [gentoo-user] / is full

2005-05-14 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
James wrote: > I had not emerged a gentoo system for a while now / is filled up. > > Looking for large files to remove, I found in /proc: > > -r 1 root root 1073672192 May 13 22:31 kcore > > > I guess this is not a good file to remove? > > Kernel images are only this big: > -rw-

Re: [gentoo-user] XMMS Stopped Playing

2005-05-14 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 04:59:57PM -0400, Kent Borg wrote > On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 10:50:14PM +0200, Christoph Eckert wrote: > > > > > Recently xmms stopped working. > > > [...] > > Does it simply not produce audio output (but show the loaded > > file and activity in the level meter), or does i

[gentoo-user] ntfs mounted partition

2005-05-14 Thread Panos Laganakos
Hello, I am mounting one of my ntfs partition from linux. The problem is though that it is mounted readonly. Is there some option i need to pass to fstab to make it write-able too? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] black screen (or freeze) at boot up after recompiling kernel

2005-05-14 Thread askar ...
Hello! I made a change (checked out the driver on net card) in kernel, recompiled, copied the bzImage and .config to /boot as usual and rebooted the system. But booting stops after: --- Loading gentoo... BIOS data check successful ---

Re: [gentoo-user] ntfs mounted partition

2005-05-14 Thread Tom Wesley
On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 15:06 +0300, Panos Laganakos wrote: > Hello, > > I am mounting one of my ntfs partition from linux. The problem is though > that it is mounted readonly. > > Is there some option i need to pass to fstab to make it write-able too? > Read/write support for ntfs is only partia

Re: [gentoo-user] ntfs mounted partition

2005-05-14 Thread Emmanuel Durin
NTFS writing support is limited to overwriting existing files without changing the file length. It seems that there is no solutions to have a decent NTFS writing support. If you really need a partition that will be readable under windows and linux, switch to FAT32. You can also install a ext2/ext3

Re: [gentoo-user] ntfs mounted partition

2005-05-14 Thread Tim Igoe
Writing to NTFS partitions is not recommended - what writing that is supported is very limited. Only over writing files and to exactly the same size iirc. If you need to share data between Win and Lin, a FAT32 partition (or network drive) is probably your best bet. -- Tim Igoe [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] Zoneminder

2005-05-14 Thread Tom Wesley
On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 12:11 +, James wrote: > Hello, > > Portage lists version 0.9.12. The Zoneminder web site says this version > was issued in Jun3 2003. Version 1.21.0 as being available since March 2003. > > Is it safe to assume that Zoneminder has been orphaned (i.e. no maintainer)? > Ho

Re: [gentoo-user] / is full

2005-05-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 14 May 2005 13:04:53 +0200, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: > another note: your kcore is very big (five times mine) ypu may want to > optimize what is compiled in modifying the kernelconfig before to build > it (and for this google is your friend ;) kcore is a snapshot of your physical memo

Re: [gentoo-user] encrypted dvds no longer correctly decrypted under gentoo

2005-05-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 14 May 2005 11:24:36 +0200, Antoine wrote: > I was most disgusted to find that to watch a dvd I rented last night I > had to boot to doze. Luckily I just bought a new drive and had the OEM > powerdvd, cos I haven't tried to do anything with a dvd in years under > doze. I get the following

[gentoo-user] Re: / is full

2005-05-14 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Saturday 14 May 2005 15:16, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 14 May 2005 13:04:53 +0200, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: > > another note: your kcore is very big (five times mine) ypu may want > > to optimize what is compiled in modifying the kernelconfig before > > to build it (and for this google i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: encrypted dvds no longer correctly decrypted under gentoo

2005-05-14 Thread Antoine
> 1) dirt (rented DVDs pass through a lot of hands) > cleaned with special stuff - if doze can get the data then linux should be able to too. > 2) new encryption that libdvdcss cannot handle. After all, that > regstered encoding copy-protection business that the media providers > have been push

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: / is full

2005-05-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, May 14, 2005 2:26 pm, Francesco Talamona said: > On Saturday 14 May 2005 15:16, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> kcore is a snapshot of your physical memory, its size is always equal >> to the amount of RAM in your computer. > > *always* > [15:24] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ ll /proc/kcore > -r

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Bugzilla ebuild request

2005-05-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 14 May 2005 03:34:00 + (UTC), James wrote: > Um, I think I'm better off watching... as the previous person suggested. What you should do is put the ebuild in your overlay directory and try to install it. You have asked for an ebuild and someone has been kind enough to write one. It wo

Re: [gentoo-user] next step X

2005-05-14 Thread Mark Knecht
On 5/13/05, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 13 May 2005 15:18:22 +0100, Russ Brown wrote: > > > Say I run emerge -pvD world, and ten packages pop out. > > > > I look at the list and decide that I want to emerge all but one of the > > things on the list. > > > > How do I go about

Re: [gentoo-user] next step X

2005-05-14 Thread A. Khattri
On Sat, 14 May 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: > dragonfly ~ # emerge -pv --oneshot --update --deep --newuse world > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > Calculating world dependencies ...done! > [ebuild U ] gnome-extra/libgtkhtml-2.6.3 [2.6.0] -accessibility > -debug 382 kB > [

Re: [gentoo-user] next step X

2005-05-14 Thread Edward Catmur
On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 07:24 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > dragonfly ~ # emerge -pv --oneshot --update --deep --newuse world > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > Calculating world dependencies ...done! > [ebuild U ] gnome-extra/libgtkhtml-2.6.3 [2.6.0] -accessibility > -d

Re: [gentoo-user] next step X

2005-05-14 Thread Mark Knecht
On 5/14/05, A. Khattri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 14 May 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > The first problem is that Mozilla is not in this system and it's not > > in the world file. Why is emerge trying to bring it in? > > Add the -t flag to print the dependency tree. > Thanks. I'm su

[gentoo-user] AMD64: "vanilla-sources" and the risk of using them

2005-05-14 Thread Michael Haan
I *think* I know what they are, what risk do I run by using them? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] black screen (or freeze) at boot up after recompiling kernel

2005-05-14 Thread A. Khattri
On Sat, 14 May 2005, askar ... wrote: > I made a change (checked out the driver on net card) in kernel, > recompiled, copied the bzImage and .config to /boot as usual and > rebooted the system. > But booting stops after: > --- > Loading gentoo...

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: encrypted dvds no longer correctly decrypted under gentoo

2005-05-14 Thread A. Khattri
On Sat, 14 May 2005, Antoine wrote: > possible, but highly unlikely. One of the dvds was quite old and I have > successfully played/ripped dvds of that vintage. Plus it would make > older dvd players no longer work. That's right - some of us may recall the early release of Celine Dion's copy-prot

Re: [gentoo-user] next step X

2005-05-14 Thread Tom Wesley
On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 07:48 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > On 5/14/05, A. Khattri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 14 May 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > > > > The first problem is that Mozilla is not in this system and it's not > > > in the world file. Why is emerge trying to bring it in? > >

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64: "vanilla-sources" and the risk of using them

2005-05-14 Thread Holly Bostick
Michael Haan schreef: > I *think* I know what they are, what risk do I run by using them? > If you think there's a risk, then I don't think you know what they are :-) . The "vanilla" sources are the same sources you would get on kernel.org. No extra patches (as you would find in gentoo-dev-sourc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: / is full

2005-05-14 Thread david stanek
On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 02:34:35PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, May 14, 2005 2:26 pm, Francesco Talamona said: > > On Saturday 14 May 2005 15:16, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > >> kcore is a snapshot of your physical memory, its size is always equal > >> to the amount of RAM in your computer. >

Re: [gentoo-user] hdparm "HDIO_SET_DMA failed"

2005-05-14 Thread Grant
> > My understanding is that the kernel will automagically configure DMA > > as appropriate if you build support for the IDE controller statically, > > but hdparm is needed to initialize DMA stuff if you build your IDE > > controller's driver as a module. I'm not certain though. I tend to build > >

Re: [gentoo-user] next step X

2005-05-14 Thread Holly Bostick
Mark Knecht schreef: > On 5/14/05, A. Khattri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>On Sat, 14 May 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: > > >>>The first problem is that Mozilla is not in this system and it's not >>>in the world file. Why is emerge trying to bring it in? >> >>Add the -t flag to print the dependency

[gentoo-user] Error with rc-update

2005-05-14 Thread Patrick
Hi, Everytime i run rc-update or do a /etc/init.d/xxx status i get this error ... I have no idea where to start for solving this. /sbin/runscript.sh: line 1: CLOCK: command not found PAtrick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] hdparm "HDIO_SET_DMA failed"

2005-05-14 Thread Peter Gordon
Peter Karlsson wrote: There's a whole lot more one can do with hdparm. What the kernel _can_ do is enable dma only. hdparm is used to set other performance enhancing options. My '/etc/conf.d/hdparm' contains 'hda_args="-d1A1m16u1a64"' which means: -d1 - enables dma for this drive (to ensure dma

[gentoo-user] Re: / is full

2005-05-14 Thread James
Neil Bothwick digimed.co.uk> writes: > > another note: your kcore is very big (five times mine) ypu may want to > > optimize what is compiled in modifying the kernelconfig before to build > > it (and for this google is your friend ;) > kcore is a snapshot of your physical memory, its size is alw

Re: [gentoo-user] black screen (or freeze) at boot up after recompiling kernel

2005-05-14 Thread askar ...
Thanks. I'm using lilo. Now I recompiled kernel again and did #lilo After that I'm able to boot the system. It means the clue was in lilo? askar On 5/14/05, A. Khattri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 14 May 2005, askar ... wrote: > > > I made a change (checked out the driver on net card) in

Re: [gentoo-user] / is full

2005-05-14 Thread Calvin Spealman
Along the lines others have suggested, with using du to what is taking up all of your space, another useful technique I found is to use the KFileSizeView in Konquerer. It gives you a very nice visual of what is taking up how much relative space on the harddrive. On 5/13/05, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED

[gentoo-user] Emerge World - lcms Fails

2005-05-14 Thread Drew Tomlinson
In an attempt to "clean up" my newly installed and get everything back to "default" as much as possible, I'm running 'emerge --emptytree world". The build failed on lcms-1.13. Here's the output: *** Gentoo sanity check failed! *** *** libtool.m4 and ltmain.sh have a version mismatch! *** *** (

Re: [gentoo-user] Which IMAP is happiest with gentoo?

2005-05-14 Thread Stroller
On May 13, 2005, at 6:45 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... I figured I'd have to move out of mbox sooner or later. I wonder if there are tools to convert mbox files to maildir format - I would guess yes. Udoubtedly so, but it's easiest just to add your new IMAP account to the email client on which

Re: [gentoo-user] next step X

2005-05-14 Thread Mark Knecht
Tom & Holly, thanks for the responses. On 5/14/05, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Thanks. I'm surprised that the Gnome ebuid depends on Mozilla. I have > > Firefox installed. I would have hoped that would be enough. > > The gnome metapackage includes epiphany, which does depe

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: / is full

2005-05-14 Thread Matan Peled
Peter Ruskin wrote: > $ free > total used free sharedbuffers > cached > Mem: 1036512 990012 46500 0 112992 > 559844 > -/+ buffers/cache: 317176 719336 > Swap: 2104432 1388281965604 > You guys are using HIG

Re: [gentoo-user] installing to VFAT partition

2005-05-14 Thread Stroller
On May 14, 2005, at 4:33 am, THUFIR HAWAT wrote: I hesitate to proceed before I understand how Gentoo handles partitions, however. will it bring up a list of partitions similar to: 1 FAT32 2 ext3 and then I enter "1" to format the first partition, and then similarly select

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge World - lcms Fails

2005-05-14 Thread Tim Igoe
Edit /usr/portage/media-libs/lcms/lcms-1.13.ebuild and change the line that says 'elibtoolize' to 'libtoolize --copy --force' and try again. That should fix it. A quick search of forums (http://forums.gentoo.org) and bugzilla (http://bugs.gentoo.org) would have given you the same answer. Tim Dre

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge World - lcms Fails

2005-05-14 Thread Mark Knecht
On 5/14/05, Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In an attempt to "clean up" my newly installed and get everything back > to "default" as much as possible, I'm running 'emerge --emptytree > world". The build failed on lcms-1.13. Here's the output: > > *** Gentoo sanity check failed! *** >

Re: [gentoo-user] Error with rc-update

2005-05-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, May 14, 2005 4:29 pm, Patrick said: > Everytime i run rc-update or do a /etc/init.d/xxx status i get this error > ... > I have no idea where to start for solving this. > > /sbin/runscript.sh: line 1: CLOCK: command not found grep -r CLOCK /etc One possible cause would be a stray space in

Re: [gentoo-user] links in Thunderbird

2005-05-14 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
You might also check cfdisk - it presents, to me anyway, a better layout of what I have and what I'm doing and I can work in megs, kb, etc. On Fri, 13 May 2005, david wrote: Go to /home/name/.thunderbird/9qflya66.default(yours may be different)prefs.js and add this; user_pref("network.protocol-ha

Re: [gentoo-user] hdparm "HDIO_SET_DMA failed"

2005-05-14 Thread Peter Karlsson
On Sat, 14 May 2005, Grant wrote: Thanks Peter. Is your "-u1" a typo? No. That option works fine, afaict, with my drive/chipset combination (maxtor/ich5). Best regards Peter K -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] links in Thunderbird

2005-05-14 Thread Matan Peled
Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > You might also check cfdisk - it presents, to me anyway, a better layout > of what I have and what I'm doing and I can work in megs, kb, etc. > > On Fri, 13 May 2005, david wrote: > >> Go to /home/name/.thunderbird/9qflya66.default(yours may be >> different)prefs.js and

Re: [gentoo-user] next step X

2005-05-14 Thread Edward Catmur
On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 17:15 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > Mark Knecht schreef: > > I'm looking at installing Gnome-light instead but I'm not clear if the > > emerge -C gnome step will uninstall everything and cause me to have to > > completely rebuild all parts of Gnome. > > No, it won't uninstall

Re: [gentoo-user] Terminal Client

2005-05-14 Thread Mike Noble
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 C R. Little wrote: > emerge -s rdesktop > > * net-misc/grdesktop > Latest version available: 0.22-r1 > Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] > Size of downloaded files: 418 kB > Homepage:http://www.nongnu.org/grdeskt

Re: [gentoo-user] / is full

2005-05-14 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 14 May 2005 13:04:53 +0200, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: > > >>another note: your kcore is very big (five times mine) ypu may want to >>optimize what is compiled in modifying the kernelconfig before to build >>it (and for this google is your friend ;) > > > kcore

Re: [gentoo-user] hdparm "HDIO_SET_DMA failed"

2005-05-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Saturday 14 May 2005 10:25, Peter Karlsson wrote: > On Fri, 13 May 2005, Peter Gordon wrote: > > My understanding is that the kernel will automagically configure DMA > > as appropriate if you build support for the IDE controller statically, > > but hdparm is needed to initialize DMA stuff if you

Re: [gentoo-user] installing to VFAT partition

2005-05-14 Thread Phil Sexton
On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 21:26, THUFIR HAWAT wrote: > On 5/13/05, Phil Sexton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [..] > > By commands, actually. You can even install Gentoo from your > > running Fedora installation, or from a Linux Live CD such as > > Knoppix. > [..] > > I was hoping for a screen shot t

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64: "vanilla-sources" and the risk of using them

2005-05-14 Thread Michael Haan
On 5/14/05, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Haan schreef: > > I *think* I know what they are, what risk do I run by using them? > > > > If you think there's a risk, then I don't think you know what they are :-) . > > The "vanilla" sources are the same sources you would get on k

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: / is full

2005-05-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 14 May 2005 18:56:11 +0300, Matan Peled wrote: > You guys are using HIGHMEM, aren't you? > > You must be in order to utilize that 1gb of RAM :) I was wondering the same. Both have the exact same size for kcore, even though they have different amounts of physical RAM. The figure for kcore

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: / is full

2005-05-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 14 May 2005 15:37:21 + (UTC), James wrote: > TMy problem is the /root/.ccache dir keeps filling up. I keep deleting > it. > > Not sure how to tame this demon.. Set CCACHE_DIR in make.conf. -- Neil Bothwick What's this script doing? unzip ; touch ; finger ; mount ; gasp ; yes

Re: [gentoo-user] links in Thunderbird

2005-05-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 14 May 2005 12:01:46 -0400 (EDT), Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > You might also check cfdisk - it presents, to me anyway, a better > layout of what I have and what I'm doing and I can work in megs, kb, > etc. While cfdisk can be used to reset your Thunderbird configuration to default, I'd reco

Re: [gentoo-user] installing to VFAT partition

2005-05-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 14 May 2005 12:53:31 -0400, Phil Sexton wrote: > With the Gentoo install, you are limited to > 6 virtual terminals to work with in the chroot environment. There is no such limit, because the Gentoo live CDs include screen. -- Neil Bothwick Manual Writer's Creed: Garbage in, gospel out

Re: [gentoo-user] installing to VFAT partition

2005-05-14 Thread Phil Sexton
On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 12:53, Phil Sexton wrote: > # Make mountpoints and format partitions. > mkdir /mnt/gentoo > mkreiserfs /dev/hdb3 > mount /dev/hdb3 /mnt/gentoo > mkdir /mnt/gentoo/boot > mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/gentoo/boot > mkswap /dev/hdb2 > swapon > mkdir /mnt/gentoo/usr > mkreiserfs /dev/hdb

Re: [gentoo-user] installing to VFAT partition

2005-05-14 Thread Phil Sexton
On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 12:53, Phil Sexton wrote: Another oopsi! > # First emerges emerge sync > emerge system -- Phil Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances: http://naomisfancy.virtualave.net/schedule.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] installing to VFAT partition

2005-05-14 Thread Phil Sexton
On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 13:05, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 14 May 2005 12:53:31 -0400, Phil Sexton wrote: > > > With the Gentoo install, you are limited to > > 6 virtual terminals to work with in the chroot environment. > > There is no such limit, because the Gentoo live CDs include screen. I d

[gentoo-user] ALSA on my PowerBookG4(6,2)...newbie needs help

2005-05-14 Thread Charles Read
Hey everybody! I just installed Gentoo on my PBG4, it is 1000MHz and about a year old. I used genkernel to make my kernel so according to the ALSA Howto on Gentoo.org I should have sound support. I have made sure that my USE variable contains 'alsa' but when I do a 'lspci | grep -i audio' nothin

[gentoo-user] ALSA on my PowerBookG4(6,2)...newbie needs help

2005-05-14 Thread Charles Read
Hey everybody! I just installed Gentoo on my PBG4, it is 1000MHz and about a year old. I used genkernel to make my kernel so according to the ALSA Howto on Gentoo.org I should have sound support. I have made sure that my USE variable contains 'alsa' but when I do a 'lspci | grep -i audio' nothin

[gentoo-user] Share serial port over network

2005-05-14 Thread Robert G. Siebeck
Hi, is there a possibility to share a serial port over network? Ideally I just want to access a file which is mapped on /dev/ttyS0 of another computer which is also running linux. Regards, Robert. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA on my PowerBookG4(6,2)...newbie needs help

2005-05-14 Thread Christoph Eckert
Hi, > I just installed Gentoo on my PBG4, it is 1000MHz and about > a year old. I'm not fmiliar with Linux on Powerbooks, but... > I used genkernel to make my kernel so > according to the ALSA Howto on Gentoo.org I should have > sound support. I have made sure that my USE variable > contains

Re: [gentoo-user] Which IMAP is happiest with gentoo?

2005-05-14 Thread THUFIR HAWAT
On 5/13/05, Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 12. Mai 2005 21:10 schrieb ext [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > [Something about IMAP in an unrelated thread] > > Please stop thread hijacking. ... The usenet archives, via google, intermingle this thread with some questions I had. T

Re: [gentoo-user] hdparm "HDIO_SET_DMA failed"

2005-05-14 Thread Matan Peled
Peter Karlsson wrote: > On Sat, 14 May 2005, Grant wrote: > >> Thanks Peter. Is your "-u1" a typo? > > > No. That option works fine, afaict, with my drive/chipset combination > (maxtor/ich5). > > Best regards > > Peter K Nice... Any idea how to pull this off with S/ATA? -- [Name ]

[gentoo-user] new virtuals setup confusion

2005-05-14 Thread Mark Knecht
Hello, What can I read to understand what files are being used to create the full virtuals picture on my x86 machines? There used to be /etc/portage/profiles/virtuals which I think we could fix up by hand if something needed to work a bit differently. However it now seems that this is gone and t

Re: [gentoo-user] next step X

2005-05-14 Thread cfk
Gentlemen: Here's what I have found over the last day or so in trying to get to X functionality. This is with a computer with more then one distribution, and the others all have X functionality. The computer is an Intel 810 motherboard with the i810 integrated graphics device. I can see ther

Re: [gentoo-user] next step X

2005-05-14 Thread Mark Knecht
On 5/14/05, cfk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I copied the known functional /etc/X11/xorg.conf from the known functional > Fedora X installation. > So that config is wrong for this distro. Try running the xorgconfig program and make your own config file for this distro. Good luck, Mark -- gen

Re: [gentoo-user] next step X

2005-05-14 Thread Holly Bostick
cfk schreef: > Gentlemen: > > Here's what I have found over the last day or so in trying to get to X > functionality. This is with a computer with more then one distribution, and > the others all have X functionality. The computer is an Intel 810 motherboard > with the i810 integrated graphics

Re: [gentoo-user] next step X

2005-05-14 Thread david
Are you using udev? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] next step X

2005-05-14 Thread cfk
On Saturday 14 May 2005 12:13, Mark Knecht wrote: > On 5/14/05, cfk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I copied the known functional /etc/X11/xorg.conf from the known > > functional Fedora X installation. > > So that config is wrong for this distro. Try running the xorgconfig > program and make your o

Re: [gentoo-user] Advansys SCSI Not Available on 2005.0 LiveCD

2005-05-14 Thread Richard Fish
Jonathan A. Kollasch wrote: >Apparently current kernel configurations (make menuconfig) don't have the >Linux equivalent of the *BSD adv(4) driver. > Try: Code maturity level options -> [*] Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers Device Drivers -> SCSI device support ->

Re: [gentoo-user] next step X

2005-05-14 Thread cfk
On Saturday 14 May 2005 12:26, Holly Bostick wrote: > cfk schreef: > > Gentlemen: > > > > Here's what I have found over the last day or so in trying to get to X > > functionality. This is with a computer with more then one distribution, > > and the others all have X functionality. The computer is

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64: "vanilla-sources" and the risk of using them

2005-05-14 Thread Ian Monroe
Yea, if I understand you right, your wrong. Vanilla-sources is optimized for your computer as well. On 5/14/05, Michael Haan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've always used gentoo-dev-sources (now gentoo-sources, correct?) > because I was under the impression that they were optimized for my > hardwa

Re: [gentoo-user] next step X

2005-05-14 Thread Mark Knecht
On 5/14/05, cfk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 14 May 2005 12:13, Mark Knecht wrote: > > On 5/14/05, cfk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I copied the known functional /etc/X11/xorg.conf from the known > > > functional Fedora X installation. > > > > So that config is wrong for this distr

Re: [gentoo-user] links in Thunderbird

2005-05-14 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Whoops - I didn't go back enough threads! On Sat, 14 May 2005, Matan Peled wrote: Brett I. Holcomb wrote: You might also check cfdisk - it presents, to me anyway, a better layout of what I have and what I'm doing and I can work in megs, kb, etc. On Fri, 13 May 2005, david wrote: Go to /home/name/.t

Re: [gentoo-user] links in Thunderbird

2005-05-14 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Its the equivalent of the windows format c: . On Sat, 14 May 2005, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 14 May 2005 12:01:46 -0400 (EDT), Brett I. Holcomb wrote: You might also check cfdisk - it presents, to me anyway, a better layout of what I have and what I'm doing and I can work in megs, kb, etc. While

[gentoo-user] getting the tvout to work with MSI nvidia geforce 4 mx 440

2005-05-14 Thread Antoine
Hi, I have been looking about and found a couple of good things - unfortunately they don't seem to work. I have the latest nvidia binary driver. I just want to watch movies on the bigger Tv, though I know that watching movies (something about overlay) might be a big ask. Just getting kde would be a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Advansys SCSI Not Available on 2005.0 LiveCD

2005-05-14 Thread Richard Fish
Drew Tomlinson wrote: > insmod: error inserting 'advansys.ko': -1 Invalid module format > > So is this because the module really won't work with Gentoo 2005.0? > Or does this have something to do with 'depmod'. I'm beginning to > think that what I'm trying to do isn't possible, short of installi

Re: [gentoo-user] new virtuals setup confusion

2005-05-14 Thread Edward Catmur
On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 11:43 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hello, >What can I read to understand what files are being used to create > the full virtuals picture on my x86 machines? There used to be > /etc/portage/profiles/virtuals which I think we could fix up by hand > if something needed to work

Re: [gentoo-user] Doubt about qt and kde flags

2005-05-14 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
This is real clear now Holy, thanks, Allan On 5/13/05, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A. R. schreef: > > On 5/13/05, Allan Spagnol Comar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Hi All, I am having a little doubt about qt and kde user flags, I am > >>using Gnome in my system but I like some

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: / is full

2005-05-14 Thread Sami Samhuri
* On Sat May-14-2005 at 06:01:54 PM +0100, Neil Bothwick said: > On Sat, 14 May 2005 15:37:21 + (UTC), James wrote: > > > TMy problem is the /root/.ccache dir keeps filling up. I keep deleting > > it. > > > > Not sure how to tame this demon.. > > Set CCACHE_DIR in make.conf. Also set CC

Re: [gentoo-user] vsftp not accepting anonymous users

2005-05-14 Thread Mark Shields
# cat vsftp.conf | grep anonymous_enable= Make sure there's only one entry there. It's possible that anonymous_enable=NO is set somewhere sequentially AFTER where you set anonymous_enable=YES, which would override your command. On 5/13/05, Calvin Spealman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have set

Re: [gentoo-user] next step X

2005-05-14 Thread Mark Knecht
> > So, that begs the question of where the module.ko file *might* be. Should > genkernel have created an agpgart module somewhere > under /lib/modules/kernel/2.6.11-gentoo-r8/drivers? If /dev/agpgart support was not configured to be modular then it won't exist anywhere. You must look in the ker

Re: [gentoo-user] next step X

2005-05-14 Thread Rumen Yotov
cfk wrote: ...SKIP... >On Saturday 14 May 2005 12:26, Holly Bostick wrote: > > >>cfk schreef: >> >> >Dear Holly: > What I did was to take the default 'genkernel' compilation for Gentoo a >couple of days ago. I'm not familiar enough with the distribution to go >further then that yet. > > So

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with xine

2005-05-14 Thread Richard Fish
Paul wrote: >Thanks for the help Richard but after trying your suggestions I still Have the >same problem. This is so frustrating, I'm sure it will turn out to be >something simple, but I just can't see it. >I still don't know what xiTK is and if it's relevent. >regards >Paul > > "xiTK" refe

Re: [gentoo-user] installing to VFAT partition THUFIR HAWAT

2005-05-14 Thread Robert G. Hays
[digest-mode reply] Thufir, For good or ill, or maybe both good *and* ill!, Gentoo is basically an experts-only distro. (And STOP RIGHT THERE, flame-writers -- read the rest first.) Gentoo gives absolutely *awesome* power, but *This* *Thing* *Is* *Dangerous* -- it is a loaded *and* *cocked* pisto

Re: [gentoo-user] new virtuals setup confusion

2005-05-14 Thread Mark Knecht
On 5/14/05, Edward Catmur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > /etc/portage/profile/virtuals > (/usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.0/virtuals does not exist) > /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/virtuals > /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/virtuals > /usr/portage/profiles/base/virtuals

[gentoo-user] newbie's problems with Gentoo (messages on startup, installing gnuplot, running KDE)

2005-05-14 Thread Marcin Balcerzak
Hello everyone, This 4 mails are citations from comp.os.linux.misc (I've been advised to ask some more Gentoo-experts). :-) I would appreciate any helpful answer. Hi, I've decide to send this post to: comp.os.linux.development.system, comp.os.linux.misc, comp.os.linux.setup, comp.os.linux.x just

[gentoo-user] newbie's problems with Gentoo (messages on startup, installing gnuplot, running KDE) - part 2

2005-05-14 Thread Marcin Balcerzak
First of all, I've got (newly installed) Gentoo (installed Stage2). During general emerging I've done also gcc and kernel (now it is 2.6.11-gentoo-r6). My linux bootloader is lilo. All version are latest - according to emerge (portage synchronized vie internet few days ago). My USE make variable is

[gentoo-user] newbie's problems with Gentoo (messages on startup, installing gnuplot, running KDE) - part 4

2005-05-14 Thread Marcin Balcerzak
THE THIRD PROBLEM concearns KDE. I've installed "everything" (according to emerge...) and it doesn't work. The only result of startkde is writing on STDERR: xsetroot: unable to open display '' xset: unable to open display "" xset: unable to open display "" xsetroot: unable to open display '' s

[gentoo-user] newbie's problems with Gentoo (messages on startup, installing gnuplot, running KDE) - part 3

2005-05-14 Thread Marcin Balcerzak
THE SECOND PROBLEM concerns installing gnuplot. As I've said, everything was installe by emerge and, according to emerge -tpuD gnuplot evarything needed is installed except with the gnuplot itself. What is given by emerge to STDOUT I shall not include here (about 45kB...) but on the first sight th

Re: [gentoo-user] newbie's problems with Gentoo (messages on startup, installing gnuplot, running KDE)

2005-05-14 Thread Bruno Lustosa
On 5/14/05, Marcin Balcerzak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > This 4 mails are citations from comp.os.linux.misc (I've been advised to ask > some more Gentoo-experts). :-) I would appreciate any helpful answer. Ok. > I'm sorry for kilobytes and any inconvenience (three sub-posts) -

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64: "vanilla-sources" and the risk of using them

2005-05-14 Thread Matan Peled
Michael Haan wrote: > On 5/14/05, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've always used gentoo-dev-sources (now gentoo-sources, correct?) > because I was under the impression that they were optimized for my > hardware (specifically, amd64). If that's true, then I guess the > "risk" I was ref

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