Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare?

2005-08-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 00:46:20 -0300, Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales wrote: > I agree with John. It is better to have a robust system (Gentoo) and > run the bad one (Windows) on user space (via VMWare) so it can't do > much damage. That's how I do it and it works well. I very rarely use VMWa

Re: [gentoo-user] unmerge emacs

2005-08-21 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Ah, the "profile" threw me. I was thinking profiles and not the emerge system I had done originally. I use nano so I guess I can unmerge it safely. But I'm still at a loss why the warning should come up. Emacs is not listed in base/packages nor linux-default/packages nor x86/packages and finally

Re: [gentoo-user] Scroll Wheel

2005-08-21 Thread Nick Rout
http://www.justfuckinggoogleit.com/search.pl?query=xorg.conf+scroll +mouse On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 00:40 +, Ian K wrote: > Hi There, > I had to regenerate an X.org config, and I forgot what to add in order > for it to take > advantage of my Logitech optical mouse's scroll wheel. As I remember,

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa config

2005-08-21 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
So holly, is arts absolutely necessary to get KDE system sounds? I installed KDE 3.4 without arts. Alsa does fine as does amarok, gaim, and several others _except_ KDE. I guess arts is the reason, huh? Tony Holly Bostick wrote: >John Jolet schreef: > > >>On Saturday 20 August 2005 14:31, Ch

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa config

2005-08-21 Thread Christoph Eckert
> So holly, is arts absolutely necessary to get KDE system sounds?  I > installed KDE 3.4 without arts.  Alsa does fine as does amarok, gaim, > and several others _except_ KDE.  I guess arts is the reason, huh? Yep. As long as a KDE application doesn't have an audio interface of its own, it uses

[gentoo-user] sysctl.conf settings

2005-08-21 Thread Michael Kintzios
Hi All, I am going through some of the sysctl.conf packet settings and managed to confuse myself. In particular when we have the following two settings: = net.ipv4.conf.all.secure_redirects = 0 #net.ipv4.conf.default.secure_redirects = 0 = What's the difference

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa config

2005-08-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 11:48:14 +0200, Christoph Eckert wrote: > > So holly, is arts absolutely necessary to get KDE system sounds?  I > > installed KDE 3.4 without arts.  Alsa does fine as does amarok, gaim, > > and several others _except_ KDE.  I guess arts is the reason, huh? > > Yep. As long as

[gentoo-user] emerge glibc

2005-08-21 Thread Thomas Naujokas
Last night I did an: emerge --update --deep world Reviewing logs this morning I find in 3125-glibc-2.3.5-r1.log the following: QA Notice: /usr/lib/misc/glibc/pt_chown is setXid, dynamically linked and using lazy bindings. This combination is generally discouraged. Try: CFLAGS='-W

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD recorder recommendations

2005-08-21 Thread Thomas Kirchner
* On Aug 19 15:42, Sean Johnson (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote: > I'm pretty stuck on Plextor drives. I've found them to all be very > reliable, and will tend to read damaged disks that other drives choke > on. Another strong recommendation for Plextor here. I've had my PX-712A for a while

Re: [gentoo-user] unmerge emacs

2005-08-21 Thread Holly Bostick
Anthony E. Caudel schreef: > Ah, the "profile" threw me. I was thinking profiles and not the emerge > system I had done originally. > > I use nano so I guess I can unmerge it safely. But I'm still at a loss > why the warning should come up. Emacs is not listed in base/packages > nor linux-defaul

[gentoo-user] Permission problem, emerge jpeg-mmx-0.1.6-r1 as root

2005-08-21 Thread Chris Fairles
Unpacks and compiles fine. When it comes time to install, src_install runs "make install-headers", from the Makefile this entails, install-headers: jconfig.h $(INSTALL_DATA) jconfig.h $(includedir)/jconfig.h $(INSTALL_DATA) $(srcdir)/jpeglib.h $(includedir)/jpeglib.h $(INSTA

Re: [gentoo-user] About firefox

2005-08-21 Thread Luigi Pinna
Alle 03:07, domenica 21 agosto 2005, Holly Bostick ha scritto: > > They're .xpi files, yes? The language pack should be. However, all > the sites for the languages you're looking for don't seem to have > language packs, just full installers although I can't read most > of these languages well e

[gentoo-user] ccache not working

2005-08-21 Thread Chris Fairles
I'm emerged it, and added it to FEATURES. emerge --info | grep FEATURES FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" Also added the 2G cache size. but no matter how many things I emerge, ccache -s cache hit 0 cache miss

Re: [gentoo-user] About firefox

2005-08-21 Thread Holly Bostick
Luigi Pinna schreef: > Alle 03:07, domenica 21 agosto 2005, Holly Bostick ha scritto: > >>They're .xpi files, yes? The language pack should be. However, all >>the sites for the languages you're looking for don't seem to have >>language packs, just full installers although I can't read most >>o

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare?

2005-08-21 Thread Sandy McGuffog
I too run VMWare 5 on XP (as well as a dual boot installation) and can confirm it runs at near native speeds. Be aware however that there is an issue with the clock on 2.4 series kernels - due to the changes made to run at 1000Hz, you will find that Gentoo's clock no longer keeps perfect time. Thi

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD recorder recommendations

2005-08-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Friday 19 August 2005 21:42, Sean Johnson wrote: > I'm pretty stuck on Plextor drives. I've found them to all be very > reliable, and will tend to read damaged disks that other drives choke > on. it has to, because all tests I read said, that Plextor burns a lot of errors onto the dvds... so

Re: [gentoo-user] ccache not working

2005-08-21 Thread Michael Kintzios
> From:: Chris Fairles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [gentoo-user] ccache not working > Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 08:51:00 -0400 > I'm emerged it, and added it to FEATURES. > > emerge --info | grep FEATURES > FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" You

Re: [gentoo-user] somebody said "Headphones"?

2005-08-21 Thread maxim wexler
--- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > unmuting "master" is always needed if you want any > sound to come out! Makes sense but it worked before update world with only PCM unmuted. > > > On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 18:09:19 -0700 (PDT) > maxim wexler wrote: > > > Hello everybody, > > > > On acco

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD recorder recommendations

2005-08-21 Thread Thomas Kirchner
* On Aug 21 15:37, Volker Armin Hemmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > it has to, because all tests I read said, that Plextor burns a lot of > errors onto the dvds... so they have to have a good error-correction, > or they would not be able to read their own stuff. Not sure I buy that. I've used

[gentoo-user] where to put mknod?

2005-08-21 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everyone, Another post-emerge -u world wrinkle: before I can /usr/sbin/pon must now mknod /dev/ppp c 108 0. Where does one put this command? I didn't see any likely candidates in /etc/conf.d, /etc/init.d. -mw Start yo

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare?

2005-08-21 Thread Greg Shikhman
The only issue with running WinXP inside a virtual environment is it becomes useless for gaming (making windows COMPLETELY useless) because VMWare doesn't have support for DirectX. On 8/21/05, Sandy McGuffog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I too run VMWare 5 on XP (as well as a dual boot installation) a

Re: [gentoo-user] somebody said "Headphones"?

2005-08-21 Thread Holly Bostick
maxim wexler schreef: > > --- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>unmuting "master" is always needed if you want any >>sound to come out! > > > Makes sense but it worked before update world with > only PCM unmuted. > > Some sound servers/mixers allow you to set master to use the PCM set

[gentoo-user] Re: Permission problem, emerge jpeg-mmx-0.1.6-r1 as root

2005-08-21 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 21 August 2005 14:26, Chris Fairles wrote: > Unpacks and compiles fine. When it comes time to install, src_install > runs "make install-headers", from the Makefile this entails, > > install-headers: jconfig.h > $(INSTALL_DATA) jconfig.h $(includedir)/jconfig.h > $(INSTALL_

Re: [gentoo-user] where to put mknod?

2005-08-21 Thread Alex
On Sunday 21 August 2005 14:39, maxim wexler wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Another post-emerge -u world wrinkle: before I can > /usr/sbin/pon must now > > mknod /dev/ppp c 108 0. > > Where does one put this command? I didn't see any > likely candidates in /etc/conf.d, /etc/init.d. at the end of /et

Re: [gentoo-user] About firefox

2005-08-21 Thread Luigi Pinna
Alle 15:03, domenica 21 agosto 2005, Holly Bostick ha scritto: > > I found the italian package and I installed it as root, but firefox > > doesn't ask me if I want a global installation :-( I installed it as root too, but it doesn't ask me a global installation... I want to do a pair trying about

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD recorder recommendations

2005-08-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sunday 21 August 2005 16:35, Thomas Kirchner wrote: > * On Aug 21 15:37, Volker Armin Hemmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > it has to, because all tests I read said, that Plextor burns a lot of > > errors onto the dvds... so they have to have a good error-correction, > > or they would not be a

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge glibc

2005-08-21 Thread Rumen Yotov
Thomas Naujokas wrote: >Last night I did an: > > emerge --update --deep world > >Reviewing logs this morning I find in 3125-glibc-2.3.5-r1.log the >following: > > QA Notice: /usr/lib/misc/glibc/pt_chown is setXid, dynamically >linked and using lazy bindings. > This combination is generall

Re: [gentoo-user] where to put mknod?

2005-08-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 07:39:05 -0700 (PDT), maxim wexler wrote: > Another post-emerge -u world wrinkle: before I can > /usr/sbin/pon must now > > mknod /dev/ppp c 108 0. > > Where does one put this command? I didn't see any > likely candidates in /etc/conf.d, /etc/init.d. /etc/conf.d/local.start

Re: [gentoo-user] Permission problem, emerge jpeg-mmx-0.1.6-r1 as root

2005-08-21 Thread Rumen Yotov
Chris Fairles wrote: > Unpacks and compiles fine. When it comes time to install, > src_install runs "make install-headers", from the Makefile this > entails, > > install-headers: jconfig.h > $(INSTALL_DATA) jconfig.h $(includedir)/jconfig.h > $(INSTALL_DATA) $(srcdir)/jpeglib.h $(includedir)/jpegl

Re: [gentoo-user] Permission problem, emerge jpeg-mmx-0.1.6-r1 as root

2005-08-21 Thread Tony Davison
On Sunday 21 August 2005 16:30, Rumen Yotov wrote: > Chris Fairles wrote: > > Unpacks and compiles fine. When it comes time to install, > > src_install runs "make install-headers", from the Makefile this > > entails, > > > > install-headers: jconfig.h > > $(INSTALL_DATA) jconfig.h $(includedir)/jco

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge glibc

2005-08-21 Thread Matan Peled
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rumen Yotov wrote: > Hi, > First thing IMHO QA-notices are for devs, rarely for users so ignore it > if no error so far. > The CFLAGS you *may* put on the command-line are added to those in > /etc/make.conf, so no need to repeat all. > Think the using

Re: [gentoo-user] where to put mknod?

2005-08-21 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 07:39:05 -0700 (PDT) maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Another post-emerge -u world wrinkle: before I can | /usr/sbin/pon must now | | mknod /dev/ppp c 108 0. | | Where does one put this command? I didn't see any | likely candidates in /etc/conf.d, /etc/init.d. Don't

Re: [gentoo-user] sysctl.conf settings

2005-08-21 Thread Matan Peled
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Kintzios wrote: > Also, when one logs spoofed packets, etc. using > 'net/ipv4/conf/all/log_martians=1' where will these get logged? Will I > need to create a new entry in syslog-ng? A new file in /var/log? > > Regards, It will go out with

[gentoo-user] what's next

2005-08-21 Thread John Dangler
So far, I have a stage 2 install with 2.6.12-r9, wireless (ipw2100), intel modem (compiled in) and alsa (compiled in) on a dell inspiron 8600. All is functioning well. I have the basic system installed and updated on my laptop. Aside from the problem of the splash, everything seems to be well. I'

Re: [gentoo-user] what's next

2005-08-21 Thread Joe Menola
On Sunday August 21 2005 11:24 am, John Dangler wrote: > I'd like a good backup solution w/boot capability, but mondo is right out! > It's too flaky at the moment. > I'd like to get a backup of the system at this stage before adding a > desktop environment, so that I have somewhere to go back to in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD recorder recommendations

2005-08-21 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 8/21/05, Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 21 August 2005 16:35, Thomas Kirchner wrote: > > * On Aug 21 15:37, Volker Armin Hemmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > > it has to, because all tests I read said, that Plextor burns a lot of > > > errors onto the dvds... so

[gentoo-user] initrd and raid

2005-08-21 Thread David Busby
List, I've got a Super Micro P4SCT+ that uses the Marvell SATA controller that Linux doesn't know out-of-the-box. There was the mv_sata module provided by ABit that I found, and it compiles and loads into my 2.6.12 kernel. I can see the drives and have made a raid out of them no problem. I'

Re: [gentoo-user] what's next

2005-08-21 Thread Fernando Meira
On 8/21/05, John Dangler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have the basic system installed and updated on my laptop.Aside from the problem of the splash, everything seems to be well.I'm wondering what direction to go next? You're the boss... just lead the way.. I hope that's why you installed gentoo!! :

Re: [gentoo-user] unmerge emacs

2005-08-21 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Holly Bostick wrote: >Anthony E. Caudel schreef: > > >>Ah, the "profile" threw me. I was thinking profiles and not the emerge >>system I had done originally. >> >>I use nano so I guess I can unmerge it safely. But I'm still at a loss >>why the warning should come up. Emacs is not listed in bas

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare?

2005-08-21 Thread Michael Crute
Well you can still run Photoshop. :-D -MikeOn 8/21/05, Greg Shikhman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The only issue with running WinXP inside a virtual environment is it becomes useless for gaming (making windows COMPLETELY useless) because VMWare doesn't have support for DirectX. On 8/21/05, Sandy McG

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD recorder recommendations

2005-08-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sunday 21 August 2005 20:54, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On 8/21/05, Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday 21 August 2005 16:35, Thomas Kirchner wrote: > > > * On Aug 21 15:37, Volker Armin Hemmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > > > wrote: > > > > it has to, because all tests I rea

Re: [gentoo-user] unmerge emacs

2005-08-21 Thread Michael Crute
In the future, if you have gentoolkit emerge you can run an `equery d ` to see what depends upon the package. I find that the easiest way to do things. -MikeOn 8/21/05, Anthony E. Caudel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Holly Bostick wrote:>Anthony E. Caudel schreef:Ah, the "profile" threw me. I was

[gentoo-user] trying to install faad2-2.0-r7 on my amd64 system

2005-08-21 Thread Marianne Taylor
I am getting the following error when I try to upgrade to faad2-2.0-r7. I need the patch for amd64 to use aac files. Here is the error message: Problem in media-libs/faad2-2.0-r7 dependencies. "Specific key requires an operator (media-libs/faad2-2.0-r7) (try adding an '=')" exceptions How c

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa config

2005-08-21 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Neil Bothwick wrote: >On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 11:48:14 +0200, Christoph Eckert wrote: > > > >>>So holly, is arts absolutely necessary to get KDE system sounds? I >>>installed KDE 3.4 without arts. Alsa does fine as does amarok, gaim, >>>and several others _except_ KDE. I guess arts is the reason,

Re: [gentoo-user] trying to install faad2-2.0-r7 on my amd64 system

2005-08-21 Thread Tony Davison
On Sunday 21 August 2005 20:53, Marianne Taylor wrote: > I am getting the following error when I try to upgrade to > faad2-2.0-r7. I need the patch for amd64 to use aac files. > > Here is the error message: > > Problem in media-libs/faad2-2.0-r7 dependencies. > "Specific key requires an operator (m

Re: [gentoo-user] trying to install faad2-2.0-r7 on my amd64 system

2005-08-21 Thread Holly Bostick
Marianne Taylor schreef: > I am getting the following error when I try to upgrade to faad2-2.0-r7. > I need the patch for amd64 to use aac files. > > Here is the error message: > > Problem in media-libs/faad2-2.0-r7 dependencies. > "Specific key requires an operator (media-libs/faad2-2.0-r7) (tr

Re: [gentoo-user] initrd and raid

2005-08-21 Thread Mike Williams
On Sunday 21 August 2005 20:29, David Busby wrote: > List, >I've got a Super Micro P4SCT+ that uses the Marvell SATA controller that > Linux doesn't know out-of-the-box. There was the mv_sata module provided > by ABit that I found, and it compiles and loads into my 2.6.12 kernel. I > can see

PartImage and SystemRescueCd (Was: RE: [gentoo-user] what's next)

2005-08-21 Thread John Dangler
I noticed that partimage (0.6.4-r3) is available on portage, but SystemRescueCd (SystemRescueCd-x86-0.2.15) isn't. a) Have you had any problems getting these up and running? b) Have you noticed any collisions with adding packages to your gentoo install after these? (dependency / reverse dependency

Re: PartImage and SystemRescueCd (Was: RE: [gentoo-user] what's next)

2005-08-21 Thread Joe Menola
On Sunday August 21 2005 4:36 pm, John Dangler wrote: > I noticed that partimage (0.6.4-r3) is available on portage, but > SystemRescueCd (SystemRescueCd-x86-0.2.15) isn't. > a) Have you had any problems getting these up and running? > b) Have you noticed any collisions with adding packages to your

RE: PartImage and SystemRescueCd (Was: RE: [gentoo-user] what's next)

2005-08-21 Thread John Dangler
Joe~ Thanks for the reply. I was reading the information on the system rescue site (from your last reply), and I think this could work fine. I'm reading through the rest of the documentation to see how to use this to perform backups. I did notice that SystemRescueCd is currently using a 2.4 kern

Re: PartImage and SystemRescueCd (Was: RE: [gentoo-user] what's next)

2005-08-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 16:58:32 -0500, Joe Menola wrote: > There's really not much use for installing partimage on Gentoo since > partimage cannot backup or restore mounted file systems. Unless you > want to setup a partimage server for other pc's to use, or backup > partitions from other operating s

[gentoo-user] Gentoo equivalent to "yum provides"

2005-08-21 Thread Rennie deGraaf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What command does one use to find what package(s) provide a particular file, given that that particular file is not present on my system? For example, I need a program called "foobar", but don't know what package provides it. Under Fedora, I'd use "yum

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo equivalent to "yum provides"

2005-08-21 Thread Holly Bostick
Rennie deGraaf schreef: > What command does one use to find what package(s) provide a particular > file, given that that particular file is not present on my system? For > example, I need a program called "foobar", but don't know what package > provides it. Under Fedora, I'd use "yum provides fooba

Re: [gentoo-user] where to put mknod?

2005-08-21 Thread maxim wexler
--- Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 07:39:05 -0700 (PDT) maxim > wexler > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | Another post-emerge -u world wrinkle: before I can > | /usr/sbin/pon must now > | > | mknod /dev/ppp c 108 0. > | > | Where does one put this command? I did

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo equivalent to "yum provides"

2005-08-21 Thread W.Kenworthy
man equery doesnt specifically say, but I suspect that along with other tools that do this like qpkg, they only work on the installed packages. I dont think gentoo can do this for packages not installed on the system. I usually end up googling ... BillK On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 02:12 +0200, Holly

[gentoo-user] gnome-control-center-1.4.0.5 in gnome 2.10

2005-08-21 Thread Antonio Coralles
I'm just wondering why gnome-control-center-1.x gets installed with gnome-2.10 and reinstalled if i remove it ... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] where to put mknod?

2005-08-21 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 17:27:25 -0700 (PDT) maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > | Where does one put this command? I didn't see any | > | likely candidates in /etc/conf.d, /etc/init.d. | > | > Don't do that. Instead, fix your udev rules. | | I did(put it in local.start) and it works fine! Pl

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo equivalent to "yum provides"

2005-08-21 Thread Harry Putnam
Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Rennie deGraaf schreef: >> What command does one use to find what package(s) provide a particular >> file, given that that particular file is not present on my system? For >> example, I need a program called "foobar", but don't know what package >> provi

Re: PartImage and SystemRescueCd (Was: RE: [gentoo-user] what's next)

2005-08-21 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
SystemRescueCD is an iso you download and burn a CD. It is gentoo based and you boot it like a live CD. You boot the CD on a system and then run partimage to backup to a partimage server. Some things I found that were a hassle. I run partimage server on a Gentoo system and back up other box

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo equivalent to "yum provides"

2005-08-21 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Try equery. On Sun, 21 Aug 2005, Rennie deGraaf wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What command does one use to find what package(s) provide a particular file, given that that particular file is not present on my system? For example, I need a program called "foobar", but don'

[gentoo-user] gensplash oddity

2005-08-21 Thread John Dangler
Ok - I went back through the wiki article on using gensplash with genkernel. I used - genkernel --menuconfig --gensplash=livecd-2005.1 all (I usually --udev on the end, but every time I get told that -udev is deprecated since it is the default behavior) At the end of the process, I checked /var/log

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo equivalent to "yum provides"

2005-08-21 Thread W.Kenworthy
I tried it and it didnt work - though the package I tried it on was a masked one. On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 21:26 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ... > One piece of man page may indicate otherwise: > >list pkgspec > This command lists

[gentoo-user] Something wrong with udev: cdrom dev-file does not appear!

2005-08-21 Thread Cadaver
udevd doesn't create's device file, but when i manualy copy it from static dev tree my cdrom works fine, and sometimes udevd even creates symlinks on it (i.e. cdrom and cdrw), but this is not restore's after reboot. What's going wrong with it? I'm running 2.6.12 kernel whith udev version 068. -

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo equivalent to "yum provides"

2005-08-21 Thread Nick Rout
neither equery nor any other program can predict what will be installed in a package, because that varies with architecture and USE flags. So there is no direct equivalent. You either have to work it out for yuorself, ggogle or ask here. This topic has been covered many times on this list. If

Re: WARNING - reiser and PartImage and SystemRescueCd (Was: RE: [gentoo-user] what's next)

2005-08-21 Thread Nick Rout
I helped a bloke install gentoo a few months ago. We downsized his reiser filesystemed suse install beforehand using the system rescue cd. It screwed the filesystem - it was unrecoverable. be warned. On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 19:00:10 -0400 John Dangler wrote: > Joe~ > Thanks for the reply. I was rea

Re: [gentoo-user] Help needed for installing KDE

2005-08-21 Thread Rajat Gujral
hi,   i am not able to locate memtest86 ... can u pls guide me with it .. I have changed my ide cable but the DMA_INTR are still coming ..   Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi,the first suspect when the box behaves abnormal, is to run memtest86 for a while - like 4h.If it finds some

Re: [gentoo-user] trying to install faad2-2.0-r7 on my amd64 system

2005-08-21 Thread Marianne Taylor
Tony Davison wrote: On Sunday 21 August 2005 20:53, Marianne Taylor wrote: I am getting the following error when I try to upgrade to faad2-2.0-r7. I need the patch for amd64 to use aac files. Here is the error message: Problem in media-libs/faad2-2.0-r7 dependencies. "Specific key requires

Re: [gentoo-user] Help needed for installing KDE

2005-08-21 Thread Michael Crute
When you boot the livecd at the kernel prompt (where you normally type gentoo) you should type memtest86 to start memtest. I'm pretty sure thats how I did it last time I needed it but I'm not gonna reboot to find out :) -MikeOn 8/21/05, Rajat Gujral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi,   i am not able t

RE: WARNING - reiser and PartImage and SystemRescueCd (Was: RE: [gentoo-user] what's next)

2005-08-21 Thread John Dangler
Thanks for the warning Nick. I've also looked into mondo, but that app has never worked for me (tried to get it running twice over about a month's time, with no success). John D -Original Message- From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 11:39 PM To: [EMAI

[gentoo-user] No keyboard module

2005-08-21 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
I had been looking for a way to have KDE turn on numlock when it starts up but I just noticed I do not have a keyboard module under "Peripherals" in KDE's (3.4) Control Center. I re-emerged it but no go. Anybody else seen this behavior? -- Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase

[gentoo-user] security issues

2005-08-21 Thread John Dangler
With the basic install of gentoo 2.6.12-r9 behind me (forget splash - it's not worth the headaches right now, and I need more research to find a good backup solution), I read through the gentoo security doc. There's a world of stuff here! I have a laptop that I'm intending to use for web developme

[gentoo-user] Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-21 Thread Markus Döbele
Hallo Gentoo, I like your distribution a lot! A few days ago we finally released the first final version of our game "Lost Labyrinth" for Linux. The newest version at the moment is 1.0.1. I also created a rpm version of the game. I have no idea yet what I have to do to make it easy to install f

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-21 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 07:06 +0200, Markus Döbele wrote: > I also created a rpm version of the game. I have no idea yet what I > have to do > to make it easy to install for gentoo users. > > Maybe you like to include our game in your distribution? > Its only 4.4 MB big. > Its a game like the old

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare?

2005-08-21 Thread Richard Fish
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 00:46:20 -0300, Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales wrote: I agree with John. It is better to have a robust system (Gentoo) and run the bad one (Windows) on user space (via VMWare) so it can't do much damage. That's how I do it and it works

Re: [gentoo-user] cdrom /dev/cdroms/cdrom to /dev/hdc?

2005-08-21 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 19. August 2005 18:01 schrieb ext Michael W. Holdeman: > What did I miss, my cdrom is no longer /dev/cdroms/cdrom, but now > /dev/hdc?? It's a bug in udev 067, which is fixed in 068. However, it will be /dev/cdrom, then (which I also don't like, but you can still write your own rules

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-21 Thread Matan Peled
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nick Rout wrote: > what language is it written in? Good question. I downloaded the source in attempt to figure it out... The files all have the extension of ".pb", all comments start with ";", and a block of code looks something like this: ; Aktive Z