Re: [gentoo-user] qemu can't connect to internet

yes, I start run|winipcfg and the ip of win98 is 10.0.2.15 and the gateway is 10.0.2.2 but my ip is 192.168.1.102 and gateway is 192.168.1.1 did it right?2005/10/26, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: In windows did you enable the network functions?check the IP address withstart|run|winipcfg(thats in w

[gentoo-user] USB interface

I've been looking at the 'moto4lin' ebuild on my 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 system, and it seems to be looking for a file '/dev/usb/acm/0' which does not seem to exist on my system: 1.penemunde:mobile/moto4lin-0.3/moto_ui> ls -lR /dev/usb /dev/usb: total 0 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Jan 1 1970 hid

Re: [gentoo-user] partition sizes and home directories

On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 09:44 +, sean wrote: > I know this can be a tough call on how to partition a drive, but I am > looking for some input. > > My system will be used as for my own personal use, no server for > outside, though I may run a web server for private in home use, some > games, w

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages size

emerge logrotateit'll let you safely rotate various log files. On Tuesday 25 October 2005 15:12, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: > Hi All, I was looking for explanations about syslog-ng and got stucked > I was wondering why my /var/log/messages has 2.1 GB size and if I can > reduce this size or

[gentoo-user] Portage somwhat out of whack

An update to mysql last Thursday has caused quite a bit of grief, some other things are still broken. The update caused problems because it invalidated things like Postfix.  No email, because I have Postfix using mysql as a database, and it was linked with an older mysql library. Mail is now worki

[gentoo-user] help

[gentoo-user] a second and third network card: init.d/???

I am trying to install a dlink atheros based wireless card (dwl g510).  I am stuck at the point of creating initscripts in /etc/init.d/.  I already linked /etc/init.d/net.eth0 to /etc/init.d/net.lo.  I assume I need to do something different with net.ath0, and I don't understand how to create an

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages size

Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: Hi All, I was looking for explanations about syslog-ng and got stucked I was wondering why my /var/log/messages has 2.1 GB size and if I can reduce this size or config it better; I am using default syslog-ng config that was emerged by gentoo instalation. For s

[gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.0 + NFS = hang

Hi list, I have emerge OpenOffice 2.0 recently and noticed a strange problem, that whenever I try to access the file located on the nfs, the OO2 hangs. The rest of the applications are working fine with nfs, and such problem never happened with OpenOffice 1.x The problem happens on two gentoo boxe

Re: [gentoo-user] a second and third network card: init.d/???

Am Mittwoch, 26. Oktober 2005 09:28 schrieb ext Alan E. Davis: > I am trying to install a dlink atheros based wireless card (dwl g510). I > am stuck at the point of creating initscripts in /etc/init.d/. > > I already linked /etc/init.d/net.eth0 to /etc/init.d/net.lo. I assume I > need to do somethi

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu can't connect to internet

On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 08:12:34 +0800 赵光 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > yes, > I start run|winipcfg and the ip of win98 is 10.0.2.15 and > the gateway is 10.0.2.2 > but my ip is 192.168.1.102 and gateway is > 192.168.1.1 >

[gentoo-user] korganizer patch

I applied a patch to korganizer to fix kde bug http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113376   I then rearchive kdepim-3.4.92.tar.bz2 and run ebuild /usr/portage/kde-base/kdepim/kdepim-3.5.0_beta2.ebuild digest, which completes successfully but when attempting to emerge korganizer again I get !!

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage somwhat out of whack

On Wednesday 26 October 2005 01:37, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > =app-office/openoffice-bin-2.0.0 Binary package, nothing to compile, no way to fix broken binaries. > =dev-java/sun-jdk-1.5.0.05 Binary package. > =kde-base/kdelibs-3.3.2-r9 It's installed, but no longer in the tree. Therefor to fix a

Re: [gentoo-user] korganizer patch

Michael W. Holdeman wrote: I applied a patch to korganizer to fix kde bug http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113376 I then rearchive kdepim-3.4.92.tar.bz2 and run ebuild /usr/portage/kde-base/kdepim/kdepim-3.5.0_beta2.ebuild digest, which completes successfully but when attempting to eme

Re: [gentoo-user] korganizer patch

On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 20:51:14 -0400, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: > I then rearchive kdepim-3.4.92.tar.bz2 and run > ebuild /usr/portage/kde-base/kdepim/kdepim-3.5.0_beta2.ebuild digest, > which completes successfully but when attempting to emerge korganizer > again I get !!! Digest verification Fai

Re: [gentoo-user] korganizer patch

On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 20:51:14 -0400 "Michael W. Holdeman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I applied a patch to korganizer to fix kde bug > http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113376   > > I then rearchive kdepim-3.4.92.tar.bz2 and run > ebuild /usr/portage/kde-base/kdepim/kdepim-3.5.0_beta2.ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] korganizer patch

Michael W. Holdeman wrote: > I applied a patch to korganizer to fix kde bug > http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113376   > > I then rearchive kdepim-3.4.92.tar.bz2 Do not change tarballs. Instead, put the kdepim-3.5.0_beta2.ebuild in your overlay, add the patch to it with PATCHES="${FILESDIR}/

Re: [gentoo-user] korganizer patch

On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 11:27:49 +0100 Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 20:51:14 -0400, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: > > > I then rearchive kdepim-3.4.92.tar.bz2 and run > > ebuild /usr/portage/kde-base/kdepim/kdepim-3.5.0_beta2.ebuild digest, > > which completes successf

Re: [gentoo-user] USB interface

> Anyone know if the missing file is supposed to exist, or is this a > relic from an earlier instance of the USB driver software? It's actually one of the USB modules in the kernel that produces it... Device Drivers -> USB Support -> USB Modem (CDC ACM) Support -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] a second and third network card: init.d/???

On Wednesday 26 October 2005 07:28, Alan E. Davis wrote: > I am trying to install a dlink atheros based wireless card (dwl g510). I am > stuck at the point of creating initscripts in /etc/init.d/. > > I already linked /etc/init.d/net.eth0 to /etc/init.d/net.lo. I assume I > need to do something dif

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple SMTP queue for a laptop

On Oct 25, 2005, at 4:51 PM, Tom Eastman wrote: Hey guys, I know there must be a bunch of these out there, but there's always a problem with signal-to-noise for this kind of question. I have a laptop, from which I would like to be able to send mail whenever I feel like it. This laptop i

Re: [gentoo-user] USB mobile phone connection..

Hi, Thanks - I did home in on that one as it seems to be the only one that explicitly claims to support my model phone. I tried the other options first as moto4lin was masked. As per my recent post, the problem I am having seems to be a mismatch in the USB system on my gentoo and what moto4lin ex

Re: [gentoo-user] korganizer patch

On 26 October 2005 12:27, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 20:51:14 -0400, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: > > I then rearchive kdepim-3.4.92.tar.bz2 and run > > ebuild /usr/portage/kde-base/kdepim/kdepim-3.5.0_beta2.ebuild digest, > > which completes successfully but when attempting to emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] a second and third network card: init.d/???

On Oct 26, 2005, at 6:28 AM, Jerry McBride wrote: On Wednesday 26 October 2005 07:28, Alan E. Davis wrote: I am trying to install a dlink atheros based wireless card (dwl g510). I am stuck at the point of creating initscripts in /etc/init.d/. I already linked /etc/init.d/net.eth0 to /etc/i

Re: [gentoo-user] korganizer patch

Neil Bothwick schreef: > On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 20:51:14 -0400, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: > > >> I then rearchive kdepim-3.4.92.tar.bz2 and run ebuild >> /usr/portage/kde-base/kdepim/kdepim-3.5.0_beta2.ebuild digest, >> which completes successfully but when attempting to emerge >> korganizer again

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage somwhat out of whack

Mike Williams schreef: > On Wednesday 26 October 2005 01:37, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >> =app-office/openoffice-bin-2.0.0 > > > Binary package, nothing to compile, no way to fix broken binaries. > > >> =dev-java/sun-jdk-1.5.0.05 > > > Binary package. > > >> =kde-base/kdelibs-3.3.2-r9 > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage somwhat out of whack

On Wednesday 26 October 2005 12:44, Holly Bostick wrote: > It's worth considering creating such a setting yourself, adding the > directories of any additional -bin files you may use (firefox, > thunderbird, etc). I should read man pages more often, excellent tip Holly! -- Mike Williams -- gento

Re: [gentoo-user] korganizer patch

On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 23:37:05 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: > u read the original post again. It's hard to see at a glance as the > line of code is not separated, but he clearly says: > > "run ebuild /usr/portage/kde-base/kdepim/kdepim-3.5.0_beta2.ebuild > digest, which completes successfully" Err,

[gentoo-user] Xfce 4.2.2 taskbar button caption oddity

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Recently, I made some changes to my xfce-4.2.2 configuration. Everything seemed fine until a few days later (this morning) when I rebooted. Now the taskbar button captions overflow onto the next button (or even farther) if they don't fit, instead of be

Re: [gentoo-user] partition sizes and home directories

On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Iain Buchanan wrote: > I couldn't see a /boot in your `df -h` list, probably because it wasn't > mounted. I've never needed a /boot larger than 100Mb, and I'm > constantly recompiling kernels, with a few old versions lying around > in /boot just in case. Id make /boot 50Mb.

[gentoo-user] [OT] external conceptronic box

I'm thinking of purchasing a "Conceptronic External USB 2.0 Hard Disk Box 3.5 (CHD3U)", together with a IDE hd, to use mostly for backups. Anyone has any experience with this? The main question is: Should I worry about drivers? (Sorry for the OT'ness, but it _is_ to be used with gentoo :)) -- Jo

[gentoo-user] esp ghostscript?

Hello. I am using cups and later I installed ghostscript-afpl. And later, I bought a new printer and found later it's not working. By other people's suggestion, it seems that's because I should be using ghostscript-esp but I don't find this package on gentoo! I don't know why qpkg -f -I told me my

Re: [gentoo-user] help

On 10/26/05, Tamer Higazi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: With what?-Mike-- Michael E. CruteSoftware DeveloperSoftGroup Development CorporationLinux, because reboots are for installing hardware. "In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and ga

[gentoo-user] laptop

I need to have my company order me a new laptop, but obviously, i'll be putting gentoo on it. Does anyone have a recommendation for a very small 'n' light laptop known to be pretty much a slam dunk to get gentoo on (with sound and wireless, etc)? I'm currently using a dell inspiron 1100 and ge

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird problem

Yoandy Rodriguez Martinez schreef: > Hello everybuddy: I've just installed beagle and it just keeps > telling me that I don't have inotify in my kernel but /dev/inotify > it's there and /proc/config.gz says inotify is there... any hint? > Thanks in advance Beagle requires a very specific versio

Re: [gentoo-user] esp ghostscript?

Zhang Weiwu wrote: Hello. I am using cups and later I installed ghostscript-afpl. And later, I bought a new printer and found later it's not working. By other people's suggestion, it seems that's because I should be using ghostscript-esp but I don't find this package on gentoo! I don't know why

[gentoo-user] Re: Simple SMTP queue for a laptop

Tom Eastman cs.otago.ac.nz> writes: > So what I'm looking for is a program that acts like 'sendmail' (so that I can > send email from mutt), and when it gets mail to send it stores it in a queue. > When I'm connected to a network, I can then manually dump the queue onto the > smtp server *of

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] external conceptronic box

Jorge Almeida wrote: I'm thinking of purchasing a "Conceptronic External USB 2.0 Hard Disk Box 3.5 (CHD3U)", together with a IDE hd, to use mostly for backups. Anyone has any experience with this? The main question is: Should I worry about drivers? Every USB (2.0) disk/stick is covered by the U

[gentoo-user] Re: unattended installation

Eric Waguespack gmail.com> writes: > would help with mass deployments... I was going to try and come up > with a bash script but I figured I would ask before I tried to > reinvent the wheel. You may find some useful ideas and information here: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/catalyst/

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop

On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, John Jolet wrote: > I need to have my company order me a new laptop, but obviously, i'll be > putting gentoo on it. Does anyone have a recommendation for a very small 'n' > light laptop known to be pretty much a slam dunk to get gentoo on (with sound > and wireless, etc)? > >

Re: [gentoo-user] korganizer patch

On Wednesday 26 October 2005 06:39, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > Michael W. Holdeman wrote: > > I applied a patch to korganizer to fix kde bug > > http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113376   > > > > I then rearchive kdepim-3.4.92.tar.bz2 > > Do not change tarballs. > > Instead, put the kdepim-3.5.0_

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop

On Wednesday 26 October 2005 09:20, A. Khattri wrote: > On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, John Jolet wrote: > > I need to have my company order me a new laptop, but obviously, i'll be > > putting gentoo on it. Does anyone have a recommendation for a very small > > 'n' light laptop known to be pretty much a sla

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop

On Wednesday 26 October 2005 09:54, John Jolet wrote: > I need to have my company order me a new laptop, but obviously, i'll be > putting gentoo on it. Does anyone have a recommendation for a very small > 'n' light laptop known to be pretty much a slam dunk to get gentoo on (with > sound and wirel

[gentoo-user] Generate data dvd iso image with growisofs or other

I'm having trouble digging out of google and growisofs --help how to create a dvd data image. growisofs --help give very little to work with but the reference to mkisofs lead me to man mkisofs where I find out how to make a video dvd but still not clear what cmdline is required for data dvd. Anyo

[gentoo-user] glibc-2.3.5-r2 wont compile

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I've been trying to compile glibc but I always get this error GCONV_PATH=/var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.5-r2/work/build-default-i686-pc-linux-gnu-linuxthreads/iconvdata LC_ALL=C /var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.5-r2/work/build-default-i686-pc-linu

Re: [gentoo-user] Generate data dvd iso image with growisofs or other

Harry Putnam wrote: I'm having trouble digging out of google and growisofs --help how to create a dvd data image. growisofs --help give very little to work with... Maybe you should take a look at the man page? There is a nice EXAMPLE section... Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'<*>'|sed '

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop

On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 10:20:40 -0400 (EDT), A. Khattri wrote: > Seems to me, "very small 'n' light" is mutually exclusive with "grand or > under". > > Unless you're interested in running GentooPPC on an iBook? Works for me, but you'll need a USB wireless adaptor, there are no drivers for the built

Re: [gentoo-user] Generate data dvd iso image with growisofs or other

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2005-10-26 09:34 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm having trouble digging out of google and growisofs --help how to > create a dvd data image. growisofs --help give very little to work > with but the reference to mkisofs lead me to man mkisofs

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc-2.3.5-r2 wont compile

Rodrigo Lazo wrote: !!! ERROR: sys-libs/glibc-2.3.5-r2 failed. !!! Function toolchain-glibc_src_test, Line 246, Exitcode 2 Search bugzilla, and file a bug if it doesn't exist already. As a workaround, you could remove "maketest" from FEATURES. Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'<*>'|sed 's

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] external conceptronic box

On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Christoph Gysin wrote: > Jorge Almeida wrote: > > I'm thinking of purchasing a "Conceptronic External USB 2.0 Hard Disk > > Box 3.5 (CHD3U)", together with a IDE hd, to use mostly for backups. > > Anyone has any experience with this? The main question is: Should I > > worry ab

[gentoo-user] Re: laptop

John Jolet jolet.net> writes: > I need to have my company order me a new laptop, but obviously, i'll be > putting gentoo on it. Does anyone have a recommendation for a very small 'n' > light laptop known to be pretty much a slam dunk to get gentoo on (with sound > and wireless, etc)? It's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: laptop

On Wednesday 26 October 2005 10:04, James wrote: > John Jolet jolet.net> writes: > > I need to have my company order me a new laptop, but obviously, i'll be > > putting gentoo on it. Does anyone have a recommendation for a very small > > 'n' light laptop known to be pretty much a slam dunk to get

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage somwhat out of whack

Mike Williams wrote: On Wednesday 26 October 2005 01:37, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: =kde-base/kdelibs-3.3.2-r9 It's installed, but no longer in the tree. Therefor to fix any broken binaries you will have to upgrade. Also, KDE is (or at least was) slotted, so if you have already upgra

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system initialization scripts UDEV message

Budd, Tracy wrote: Ok. I removed the /dev/.devfsd and now UDEV works, but now I am getting an X windows error. "... Screens found but none have a usable configuration." I tried re-emerging nvidia-kernel, and loading nvidia with modprobe prior to startx, but that didn't solve the problem. Any ot

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop

On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Neil Bothwick wrote: > Works for me, but you'll need a USB wireless adaptor, there are no > drivers for the built in wireless. Im guessing this is with Airport Extreme rather than plain ole Airport? (I have a friend running Debian on his iBook quitw happily). -- -- gento

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop

Hi, I run Gentoo on an IBM ThinkPad T41p. This is a very nice laptop and very Linux-friendly. HTH, - AR On 10/26/05, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I need to have my company order me a new laptop, but obviously, i'll beputting gentoo on it.  Does anyone have a recommendation for a very s

Re: [gentoo-user] mii-tool on Dell 2850 with 10/100/1000 ports

Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote: Frank, You are not supposed to statically configure hubs and switches. I don't know what the problem is - however, please be sure that the hub/switch is set to auto-sense. If you cannot get a connection established that way, please try the cable etc. I would al

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] external conceptronic box

Jorge Almeida wrote: I'm thinking of purchasing a "Conceptronic External USB 2.0 Hard Disk Box 3.5 (CHD3U)", together with a IDE hd, to use mostly for backups. Anyone has any experience with this? The main question is: Should I worry about drivers? (Sorry for the OT'ness, but it _is_ to be used

[gentoo-user] Xorg Issues

Hi all, I’m new to Gentoo (and relatively new to Linux in general). I’m running it in VMWare as I evaluate systems to ultimately replace Windows. I really like the speed of Gentoo and think the portage system is excellent. Yesterday I emerged gnome-light and am able to startx as root, but not

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg Issues

Your problem is related to your mouse. Check /etc/X11/xorg.conf and make sure a mouse (usually /dev/psaux) is set. Also make sure your regular user can access it. The easiest way to test that is as your user run "cat /dev/" then move the mouse around. You should see stuff appearing on the scree

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg Issues

Michael Shaw wrote: Hi all, I’m new to Gentoo (and relatively new to Linux in general). I’m running it in VMWare as I evaluate systems to ultimately replace Windows. I really like the speed of Gentoo and think the portage system is excellent. Yesterday I emerged gnome-light and am able to

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] external conceptronic box

Jorge Almeida wrote: CONFIG_USB_EHCI_HCD (USB 2.0) CONFIG_USB_STORAGE (mass-storage) CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD (SCSI-disk) Does the latter mean that some scsi emulation is used? Well, yes, the USB mass-storge driver emulates a SCSI disk. But this is not the same as the SCSI emulation used for IDE dr

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg Issues

Richard Fish wrote: Michael Shaw wrote: Hi all, I’m new to Gentoo (and relatively new to Linux in general). I’m running it in VMWare as I evaluate systems to ultimately replace Windows. I really like the speed of Gentoo and think the portage system is excellent. Yesterday I emerged gnome

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop

As a gross first pass, my impression is that ThinkPads and Dells seem to do well with Linux. Do your collective experiences confirm or deny this? Michael On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, A. R. wrote: Hi, I run Gentoo on an IBM ThinkPad T41p. This is a very nice laptop and very Linux-friendly. HTH, -

Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL 4.1 upgrade questions

> > Hello, I'm upgrading my server from mysql 4.0 to 4.1 by following the > > instructions here: > > > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/mysql-upgrading.xml > > > > I noticed this piece of instruction: > > > > emerge --config =mysql-4.1. > > > > What does that do? From what I remember, I need to pass

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop

On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 08:26:53AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As a gross first pass, my impression is that ThinkPads and Dells seem to > do well with Linux. > > Do your collective experiences confirm or deny this? > > Michael > Thinkpads: my experience was good for linux. I had an X20, w

Re: [gentoo-user] help

Michael Crute wrote: On 10/26/05, *Tamer Higazi* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: With what? Probably he vanished before having time to tell us what was putting him in danger. Poor Mr.Higazi. We will miss him. m. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] PDF or PS format for daily use?

Zhang Weiwu wrote: Hello. I have got a lot (much more) ps files and PDF files since I start to use Linux. In the past there were mostly doc files but now I always prefer to have a PS or PDF copy to ease the compatibility pain. And looks linux people always prefer to send me a PS or PDF document.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system initialization scripts UDEV message

One word. mouse You probably need to change /dev/mouse to /dev/input/mice in xorg.conf. HTH, Roy Richard Fish wrote: Budd, Tracy wrote: Ok. I removed the /dev/.devfsd and now UDEV works, but now I am getting an X windows error. "... Screens found but none have a usable configuration." I tr

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.0 + NFS = hang

On 10/25/05, Konstantin V. Gavrilenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have emerge OpenOffice 2.0 recently and noticed a strange problem,that whenever I try to access the file located on the nfs, the OO2hangs. The rest of the applications are working fine with nfs, and suchproblem never happened with O

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] PDF or PS format for daily use?

On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 21:04:13 +0200 Antoine wrote: > > So the conclusion: for typical office workers, we can forget PS format. > > > > Now welcome for suggestions. > > I think the key to this whole story is the second to last line above. > "for typical office workers" says it all. I think you

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.0 + NFS = hang

On Oct 26, 2005, at 2:08 PM, Bruno Lustosa wrote:On 10/25/05, Konstantin V. Gavrilenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have emerge OpenOffice 2.0 recently and noticed a strange problem,that whenever I try to access the file located on the nfs, the OO2hangs. The rest of the applications are working fin

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple SMTP queue for a laptop

On Oct 26, 2005, at 12:27 pm, John Jolet wrote: ... So what I'm looking for is a program that acts like 'sendmail' (so that I can send email from mutt), and when it gets mail to send it stores it in a queue Some kind of command like: $ sudo dump_all_mail_to smtp.wherever.i.am.net

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple SMTP queue for a laptop

On Oct 26, 2005, at 3:22 PM, Stroller wrote: On Oct 26, 2005, at 12:27 pm, John Jolet wrote: ... So what I'm looking for is a program that acts like 'sendmail' (so that I can send email from mutt), and when it gets mail to send it stores it in a queue Some kind of command like:

Re: [gentoo-user] USB mobile phone connection..

> Do you have it working? Yes. > And if so, which kernel are you using? gentoo-sources-2.6.13-r3 (or some other -r? value - can't recall offhand) > Is it a Kernel V2.6 thing, or is there some configuration that I need > to do? As I said in my reply to your other post, make sure you have USB Mo

Re: [gentoo-user] korganizer patch

OK, So what is wrong with this patch: _ --- /kde-base/korganizer/komonthview.cpp #474283:474284  @ -960,7 +960,7  @       }    } else if ( event ) {        for ( QDateTime _date = date; -            _date < event->dtEnd(); _date = _d

Re: [gentoo-user] Generate data dvd iso image with growisofs or other

051026 Michael Kjorling wrote: > On 2005-10-26 09:34 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I'm having trouble digging out of google and growisofs --help >> how to create a dvd data image. > There is nothing special about a DVD ISO. -- useful advice snipped after archiving -- > see growisofs man page

[gentoo-user] having a real mta + virtual one (ie postfix & nbsmtp)

Hi all, I'd like to have both nbsmtp and postfix, so that I can run an MTA and use an MUA independently of each other. Although the two can co-exist peacefully, the combo seems to upset portage: videodrome ccovington # emerge -pvDu world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Cal

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] external conceptronic box

On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Christoph Gysin wrote: > Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > CONFIG_USB_EHCI_HCD (USB 2.0) > > > CONFIG_USB_STORAGE (mass-storage) > > > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD (SCSI-disk) > > > > Does the latter mean that some scsi emulation is used? > > Well, yes, the USB mass-storge driver emulates a S

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] external conceptronic box

On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Richard Fish wrote: > > One thing: you must be very careful of the power supply and requirements of > the HD. I have several models of external chassis that provide 12V 1.7A of > power, and this is insufficient for modern (and _large_) disks, and will > result in disk read a

[gentoo-user] advice for an ipod-like device?

Hello, I'd like to have an Ipod-like mp3 player, something with at least 4-8 Gbyte of storage. To avoid any compatibility issue, I'd like something that works just like most USB-pen mp3 players (mine included): I stick it in my PC, I download files on it, it plays the audio files I downloade

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.0 + NFS = hang

On 10/26/05, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: in my experience samba works better for that sort of thing anyway.  If a server serving an nfs share goes down, all the computers with that share mounted will go nuts, spending 100% cpu trying to get the share back.  Samba seems to fail more gracef

Re: [gentoo-user] korganizer patch

Michael W. Holdeman wrote: > OK, > So what is wrong with this patch: What is the error message? :) What I normally do is: unpack the affected tarball, copy the affected files to .orig versions, make the necessary changes, create a patch from above the topdir with 'diff -u' between the orig fi

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple SMTP queue for a laptop

Stroller wrote: On Oct 26, 2005, at 12:27 pm, John Jolet wrote: ... So what I'm looking for is a program that acts like 'sendmail' (so that I can send email from mutt), and when it gets mail to send it stores it in a queue Some kind of command like: $ sudo dump_all_mail_to smtp

Re: [gentoo-user] korganizer patch

On Wednesday 26 October 2005 17:27, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > Michael W. Holdeman wrote: > > OK, > > So what is wrong with this patch: > > What is the error message? :) > > What I normally do is: unpack the affected tarball, copy the > affected files to .orig versions, make the necessary changes,

Re: [gentoo-user] Generate data dvd iso image with growisofs or other

On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 17:01:08 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > (1) which package is 'growisofs' in ? app-cdr/dvd+rw-tools > (2) is the actual writing speed faster with DVD's than CD's ? > they hold a lot more data, but is writing-time proportional to > content ? Yes it is. 1X on a CD is 172KB/s,

Re: [gentoo-user] advice for an ipod-like device?

On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 23:36:00 +, b.n. wrote: > I'd like to have an Ipod-like mp3 player, something with at least 4-8 > Gbyte of storage. > > To avoid any compatibility issue, I'd like something that works just > like most USB-pen mp3 players (mine included): I stick it in my PC, I > downloa

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] external conceptronic box

Jorge Almeida wrote: On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Richard Fish wrote: One thing: you must be very careful of the power supply and requirements of the HD. I have several models of external chassis that provide 12V 1.7A of power, and this is insufficient for modern (and _large_) disks, and will resul

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop

On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 11:20:39 -0400 (EDT), A. Khattri wrote: > > Works for me, but you'll need a USB wireless adaptor, there are no > > drivers for the built in wireless. > > Im guessing this is with Airport Extreme rather than plain ole Airport? > (I have a friend running Debian on his iBook quit

Re: [gentoo-user] advice for an ipod-like device?

On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 11:36:00PM +, b.n. wrote: > Hello, > > I'd like to have an Ipod-like mp3 player, something with at least 4-8 > Gbyte of storage. > > To avoid any compatibility issue, I'd like something that works just > like most USB-pen mp3 players (mine included): I stick it in my

[gentoo-user] xorg-x11, why hath thou forsaken my 2nd screen?

In a haste to get the latest gnome-light packages, I ran ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -Duva world without thinking about the consequences and ended up running an 'unmasked' system. Now, this is okay. I'll just wait till said packages go into the stable depository or downgrade or something. In the

Re: [gentoo-user] inhouse email

John Jolet wrote: On Monday 24 October 2005 10:37, Michael Sullivan wrote: On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 11:29 -0400, Mark wrote: Can anyone who has done it comment on the downside (if any) of bringing email in-house, as opposed to continuing to pay a hosting provider? My plan is to have a sep

Re: [gentoo-user] USB mobile phone connection..

On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 04:43:23PM -0400, James Hiscock wrote: > > Do you have it working? > > Yes. That is encouraging. Which model phone to you have it working with? > > And if so, which kernel are you using? > > gentoo-sources-2.6.13-r3 (or some other -r? value - can't recall offhand) Ok, h

[gentoo-user] Re: Generate data dvd iso image with growisofs or other

Christoph Gysin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Harry Putnam wrote: >> I'm having trouble digging out of google and growisofs --help how to >> create a dvd data image. growisofs --help give very little to work >> with... > > Maybe you should take a look at the man page? There is a nice EXAMPLE > s

[gentoo-user] Re: Generate data dvd iso image with growisofs or other

Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 2 simple follow-up questions (I'm thinking of getting a DVD drive): > (1) which package is 'growisofs' in ? Its in /usr/portage/app-cdr/dvd+rw-tools -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Generate data dvd iso image with growisofs or other

051026 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 17:01:08 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: >> (1) which package is 'growisofs' in ? > app-cdr/dvd+rw-tools >> (2) is the actual writing speed faster with DVD's than CD's ? >> they hold a lot more data, but is writing-time proportional to content ? > Yes it

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop

On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 08:26:53 -0700 (PDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As a gross first pass, my impression is that ThinkPads and Dells seem to > do well with Linux. > > Do your collective experiences confirm or deny this? > Works fine on IBM X31 and T42. Bob - -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailin

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Generate data dvd iso image with growisofs or other

Note: mkisofs (in cdrtools) is what you create the ISO with, growisofs is what you use to write the iso to DVD with. Yeah, I think "growisofs" is a confusing name, too. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simple SMTP queue for a laptop

On Oct 26, 2005, at 2:51 pm, James wrote: So what I'm looking for is a program that acts like 'sendmail' ...I can then manually dump the queue onto the smtp server *of my choice*, since the server would very depending on where I'm plugged into. Some kind of command like: $ sudo

[gentoo-user] Re: Generate data dvd iso image with growisofs or other

Michael Kjorling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > There is nothing special about a DVD ISO. Just make an ISO > 9660-compatible image with whatever data you want (in fact, neither a > DVD nor CD needs to contain a ISO 9660 file system at all). I usually > do something very similar to: Well tha

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