[gentoo-user] shutdown

2005-05-22 Thread John Dangler
During shutdown, I get 2 errors - ERROR: problems stopping dependent services. "bootmisc" is still up. ERROR: problems stopping dependent services. "clock" is still up. Further down, I get a message saying "saving random seed", and nothing happens after that. I need to power the box off and ba

[gentoo-user] multiple kernels in grub

2005-08-11 Thread John Dangler
I manually configured a kernel during the install and went back afterward and added a genkernel version since I was having a few problems during boot (resolution, network, etc).   In /boot, I have both linux-2.6.12-gentoo-r6 and kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r6. In /boot/grub/grub.c

[gentoo-user] conf.d/domainname

2005-08-14 Thread John Dangler
I am setting up Gentoo (2.6.12-r6) on a standalone laptop with DHCP and was trying to find some input as to the OVERRIDE setting in the conf.d/domainname file.  it says if I want to override DHCP, set it to 1 (default).  Does this indicate if I _want_ DHCP that I should set it to something

RE: [gentoo-user] conf.d/domainname

2005-08-14 Thread John Dangler
] conf.d/domainname   No, that does not mean if you want or not DHCP. Just if you want your domain name overridden when dhcp provides you one. Fernando On 8/14/05, John Dangler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am setting up Gentoo (2.6.12-r6) on a standalone laptop with DHCP and was trying t

[gentoo-user] Install pcmcia-cs (during install)

2005-08-14 Thread John Dangler
The handbook instructs ‘USE=”-X” emerge pcmcia-cs’   emerge returns: ‘emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy “pcmcia-cs”   Anyone know why this is returned?   John D  

[gentoo-user] 2005.1 basic install - restart

2005-08-14 Thread John Dangler
2005.1 / 2.6.12-r6 reboot after basic install, I get a message that says mount: wrong fstype, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda3 or too many mounted filesystems * error mounting local filesystems   in fstab – /dev/hda3 /tmp reiserfs noatime,notail   0 0

[gentoo-user] where's the splash?

2005-08-14 Thread John Dangler
I setup my grub.conf so that I could see the splash screen on startup – but it doesn’t show.  Did I miss something? grub.conf has “… vga=0x318 video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,[EMAIL PROTECTED] splash=silent”   was there something else I needed to do in order for this to work? John D  

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

2005-08-14 Thread John Dangler
TED] Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2005 9:28 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash? the vga= line contradicts the video= line. Try dropping the vga= argument. On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 21:03 -0400, John Dangler wrote: > I setup my grub.conf so that I co

RE: [gentoo-user] 2005.1 basic install - restart

2005-08-14 Thread John Dangler
is it possible that this error is due to the fact that I named the partition /tmp ?     -Original Message- From: John Dangler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2005 8:24 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] 2005.1 basic install - restart

RE: [gentoo-user] 2005.1 basic install - restart

2005-08-14 Thread John Dangler
strange… I let the system boot, and then manually mounted /tmp like :   mount /dev/hda3 /tmp   it worked!   why won’t this mount at boot ???     -Original Message- From: John Dangler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2005 9:49 PM To: gentoo-user

[RESOLVED]RE: [gentoo-user] 2005.1 basic install - restart

2005-08-14 Thread John Dangler
DOH! – options in fstab… noaatime! corrected the spelling and all is well.     -Original Message- From: John Dangler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2005 10:18 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] 2005.1 basic install - restart

[gentoo-user] kernel panic - help!

2005-08-14 Thread John Dangler
  I just tried to add fbspash to my grub.conf file and got a kernel panic on startup.  I rebooted with the livecd but don’t know how to get back into my gentoo environment.  chroot doesn’t work (can’t find /bin/bash).  Help…    

[RESOLVED] RE: [gentoo-user] kernel panic - help!

2005-08-14 Thread John Dangler
Whew! I was able to recreate the initrd correctly by editing the grub lines and got it back up… I’ll need to re-read the fbsplash setup and try again…   -Original Message- From: John Dangler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2005 11:37 PM To: gentoo-user

[gentoo-user] splash and kerne panic

2005-08-14 Thread John Dangler
After emerging splashutils and doing - splash_geninitramfs -v -g /boot/fbsplash-livecd-2005.1-1024x768 -r 1024x768 livecd-2005.1 && rc-update add splash default   a reboot of the system produces – Kernel panic – not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(1,0)   Any i

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

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

[gentoo-user] multiple kernel configs

2005-08-19 Thread John Dangler
I changed some options to the menuconfig (trying to get that splash to work), and saved the changes to an alternate config file. I'd like to make a kernel with _that_ config file and keep it separate from my default 2.6-r12 kernel, since, when the splash causes the panic, I have some way to get bac

[gentoo-user] USE flags

2005-08-19 Thread John Dangler
I have just installed a basic 2005.1 system (2.6.12-r6) on my laptop. I'm trying to get my arms around the USE flags. I found a set of 'default' settings (I think) under /usr/portage/profiles/base/use.defaults . From what I've read in the gentoo documentation, this seems to be a list of default

[gentoo-user] updates

2005-08-19 Thread John Dangler
I just finished the base install of the 2005.1 system (2.6.12-r6). When I run emerge -sync, and then emerge -uDvp system, I get a short list updates that portage wants to emerge, but there aren't any kernel updates. However, if I run emerge -uDvp world, there is a new version of the gentoo-source

[gentoo-user] updates with B

2005-08-19 Thread John Dangler
looking at the list of updates after a fresh install of 2005.1 (2.6.12-r6) on my laptop which has both wired and wireless networking, I see an entry which says… [blocks B] <=net-wireless/ipw2100-1.1.0 (is blocking net-wireless/ieee80211-1.0.3) . . . [ebuild N] net-wireless/ieee80211-1.

RE: [gentoo-user] updates with B

2005-08-19 Thread John Dangler
ailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2005 9:22 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] updates with B John Dangler wrote: >looking at the list of updates after a fresh install of 2005.1 (2.6.12-r6) >on my laptop which has both wired and wireless networkin

RE: [gentoo-user] updates

2005-08-19 Thread John Dangler
es [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 10:02 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] updates John Dangler wrote: > I just finished the base install of the 2005.1 system (2.6.12-r6). When I > run emerge -sync, and then emerge -uDvp system, I get a sh

RE: [gentoo-user] USE flags

2005-08-19 Thread John Dangler
appreciate the feedback!!! John D -Original Message- From: Marco Matthies [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 9:51 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags John Dangler wrote: > I have just installed a basic 2005.1 system (2.6.12-r6)

RE: [gentoo-user] multiple kernel configs

2005-08-19 Thread John Dangler
PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 9:46 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] multiple kernel configs John Dangler wrote: > I changed some options to the menuconfig (trying to get that splash to > work), and saved the changes to an alternate config file. > I'd

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

2005-08-19 Thread John Dangler
ailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 5:21 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash? Uwe Thiem schreef: > On 17 August 2005 18:22, John Dangler wrote: > >>Uwe~ >>Yes, please share! I'd be interested to see how t

RE: [gentoo-user] updates with B

2005-08-19 Thread John Dangler
Would John Dangler GenoFit 800-505-4078 (Corporate) 386-767-3730 (Direct) www.genofit.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: John Dangler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 9:31 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] updates with B

[RESOLVED] RE: [gentoo-user] USE flags

2005-08-19 Thread John Dangler
And how I hate to miss out on anything! :) Thanks, again Marco. John D -Original Message- From: Marco Matthies [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 10:37 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags John Dangler wrote: > The list

[gentoo-user] wireless update [was update with B]

2005-08-19 Thread John Dangler
running emerge -uDvp world, I got a block between ipw2100 and ieee-80211. I ran emerge -C ipw2100, and the block cleared, although ieee80211 was no longer in the update list either. Since it was recommended to have both of these on the system in order for the wireless to work correctly, is that a b

[gentoo-user] use flags (once more)

2005-08-19 Thread John Dangler
If I add a USE="whatever" to my make.conf file, does that get added to the flags already in the default profile, or does make.conf override what's in the defaults file? Thanks as always for any input. John D -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] alsa config

2005-08-20 Thread John Dangler
I have alsa configured into the kernel, but I think I goofed reading through the alsa configuration. when I run alsaconf, it recognizes the card in the system (intel8x0), but after I select it, I get a dialog that says: Configuring snd-*** Do you want to modify err? Configuring [lib/liblow.c(329)]:

RE: [gentoo-user] alsa config

2005-08-20 Thread John Dangler
I've tried modifying the conf file for this by putting in snd-intel8x0, but the system isn't reading it for some reason. do I need to unmerge alsa-driver and start again ? Thanks for the assistance. John D -Original Message----- From: John Dangler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

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

2005-08-20 Thread John Dangler
D -Original Message- From: Holly Bostick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2005 7:46 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash? John Dangler schreef: > Holly~ > Maybe you can get this to work with this page... &g

RE: [gentoo-user] alsa config - help

2005-08-20 Thread John Dangler
my /etc/modules.d/alsa file contained this (after alsaconf) alias snd-card-0 snd-*** err [lib/liblow.c(329)]: alias sound-slot-0 snd-*** err [lib/liblow.c(329)]: I changed it to alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0 alias sound-slot-0 snd-intel8x0 I saved the file and ran /etc/init.d/alsasound restart an

RE: RE: [gentoo-user] alsa config - help

2005-08-20 Thread John Dangler
My .config has - CONFIG_SND_INTEL8X0=m John D -Original Message- From: Michael Kintzios [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2005 4:00 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: RE: [gentoo-user] alsa config - help > From:: "John Dangler" <[EMAIL

RE: [gentoo-user] alsa config

2005-08-20 Thread John Dangler
So, is the solution to unmerge the alsa-driver ? Thanks for the response John D -Original Message- From: Christoph Eckert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2005 4:32 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] alsa config > As I've understood it y

RE: [gentoo-user] alsa config

2005-08-20 Thread John Dangler
@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] alsa config John Dangler wrote: > I've tried modifying the conf file for this by putting in snd-intel8x0, but > the system isn't reading it for some reason. do I need to unmerge > alsa-driver and start again ? [...] > -Original Mes

RE: [gentoo-user] alsa config - help

2005-08-20 Thread John Dangler
o.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] alsa config - help On Saturday August 20 2005 2:42 pm, John Dangler wrote: > my /etc/modules.d/alsa file contained this (after alsaconf) > alias snd-card-0 snd-*** err [lib/liblow.c(329)]: > alias sound-slot-0 snd-*** err [lib/liblow.c(329)]: > > I chan

RE: [gentoo-user] alsa config - help

2005-08-20 Thread John Dangler
Joe~ That's what my .config has now (CONFIG_SND_INTEL8X0=m) John Dangler GenoFit 800-505-4078 (Corporate) 386-767-3730 (Direct) www.genofit.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Joe Menola [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2005 5:40 PM To: gentoo

RE: [gentoo-user] alsa config - help

2005-08-20 Thread John Dangler
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] alsa config - help On Saturday August 20 2005 5:02 pm, John Dangler wrote: > Joe~ > That's what my .config has now (CONFIG_SND_INTEL8X0=m) Just peeked at my config, looks like alsa also has to be modular, as well. # Advanced Linux Sound A

RE: RE: RE: [gentoo-user] alsa config - help

2005-08-20 Thread John Dangler
: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: RE: RE: [gentoo-user] alsa config - help > From:: "John Dangler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: RE: RE: [gentoo-user] alsa config - help > Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 16:59:46 -0400 > My .config has

RE: RE: [gentoo-user] alsa config - help

2005-08-20 Thread John Dangler
6:59 -0400, John Dangler wrote: > My .config has - > CONFIG_SND_INTEL8X0=m > > John D but does the modules exist? search under /lib/modules`uname-r` or zgrep /proc/config.gz > > -Original Message- > From: Michael Kintzios [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Satu

[gentoo-user] RESOLVED alsa config

2005-08-20 Thread John Dangler
Uereka! it's okay. I unmerged the alsa-driver, re-compiled the kernel, reset the sound emulation, and all is well. Thanks for all the help!!! Now, maybe I can attack the splash hiccup... John D -Original Message- From: John Jolet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 20, 200

[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'

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

2005-08-21 Thread John Dangler
verse dependency problems) Thanks for the input, I appreciate it! John D -Original Message- From: Joe Menola [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 1:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] what's next On Sunday August 21 2005 11:24 am, John Dangler wrote: &g

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

2005-08-21 Thread John Dangler
s: RE: [gentoo-user] what's next) 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

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

2005-08-21 Thread John Dangler
system - it was unrecoverable. be warned. On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 19:00:10 -0400 John Dangler wrote: > 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 documen

[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

RE: [gentoo-user] Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-22 Thread John Dangler
Just my .02 worth - anything for *nix with the word basic in it makes me shudder... the only other package I know of that used .pb extensions was powerbuilder. at one time, it had a lot of promising features, but after being bought twice and totally commercialized, it turned into another Symantec a

[gentoo-user] network driver

2005-08-25 Thread John Dangler
With the laptop base build running, I took my old file server (P3 running old m$) and decided to convert this to a test server for web dev. I just went with a stage 3 and genkernel (never tried this before), and the basics went fine. I'm up to chap 7.e (looking for .ko), and I need to make sure th

RE: [gentoo-user] network driver

2005-08-25 Thread John Dangler
-Original Message- From: A. Khattri [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 11:26 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] network driver On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, John Dangler wrote: > With the laptop base build running, I took my old file server (P3 running

RE: [gentoo-user] network driver

2005-08-25 Thread John Dangler
rsday, August 25, 2005 11:45 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] network driver John Dangler wrote: >With the laptop base build running, I took my old file server (P3 running >old m$) and decided to convert this to a test server for web dev. I just >went with

RE: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread John Dangler
Grant~ I had the same thing happen to me on one of our dedi servers. I called the isp and they had a way of recovering the password, although it cost me $75 to get it done. Basically, they told me that it's a sophisticated 'hack' into the machine to get it back. If there's another way, I'd also

[gentoo-user] [RESOLVED] network driver

2005-08-25 Thread John Dangler
ohn D -Original Message- From: John Dangler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 11:57 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] network driver I didn't want to just 'try it', since, as I said, I've been wrong before. I'm not r

[gentoo-user] sudo

2005-08-25 Thread John Dangler
I’m looking into setting up sudo on my latest test box (stage3/genkernel 2.6.12—r9) In portage, sudo says “Allows users or groups to run commands as other users”.  The latest stable shows 1.6.8_p9 (although the one before is it unstable, and the one before that is stable) hmm… Anyway, the

RE: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread John Dangler
yeah - and someone using a rootkit was able to successfully login to our old dedicated server and wreak havoc on it, too. That led to a complete rebuild of the server (which now runs seLinux... (Understandably, there may have been steps we could/should have taken to prevent it, but this was setup

RE: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread John Dangler
Wow! That was decent of them. Is it a dedicated server or a colo ? John D -Original Message- From: Grant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 4:57 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system > Grant~ > I

RE: [gentoo-user] sudo

2005-08-25 Thread John Dangler
: Thursday, August 25, 2005 3:11 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] sudo John Dangler wrote: > The connecting page is a Solaris page that doesn't exist. I'm trying to > find out exactly what this means, since it's a recommended piece from > the Ge

RE: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread John Dangler
Hmm - Maybe I need to look into a different service ? John -Original Message- From: Grant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 5:52 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system > Wow! That was decent of t

[gentoo-user] emerge output

2005-08-25 Thread John Dangler
way to view that output after the fact? I didn’t see it in either dmesg or any of the /var/log files…   Thanks for the input.   Regards,   John Dangler GenoFit 800-505-4078 (Corporate) 386-767-3730 (Direct) 866-273-0408 (Fax) www.genofit.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]  

RE: [gentoo-user] sudo

2005-08-25 Thread John Dangler
to get it setup... Thanks for the reply. John D -Original Message- From: Holly Bostick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 6:14 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] sudo C.Beamer schreef: > John Dangler wrote: > > >>I

RE: [gentoo-user] sudo

2005-08-25 Thread John Dangler
t Lieber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 7:26 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] sudo On 8/25/05, John Dangler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to find out exactly what this means, since it's a recommended piece from t

[gentoo-user] iptables

2005-08-25 Thread John Dangler
I'm reading through the wiki doc on setting up iptables. There is a section there that sets up a file called firewall.sh i've emerged iptables, but I don't have a file by that name on the system, and it seems that running "/etc/init.d/iptables save" writes this file as /var/lib/iptables/rules-save

RESOLVED: [gentoo-user] emerge output

2005-08-26 Thread John Dangler
Neil, Mariusz~ Thanks for the input. Just setting up PORT_LOGDIR has gone a long way to providing exactly what I'm looking for. It's a shame that this isn't setup by default, but I can think of a few reasons why it isn't. John D -Original Message- From: Mariusz Pêkala [mailto:[EMAIL P

[gentoo-user] xserver

2005-08-26 Thread John Dangler
I emerged xorg-x11 and got the xorg.conf.new file copied over. twm (I think) is what's showing up. When I exit the server, there is a message that I think relates to the video. "Symbol drmGetClient from module /usr/lib/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.o is unresolved!" I've been told that a lot of these

[gentoo-user] browser,news,mail

2005-08-27 Thread John Dangler
I've just completed setting up x server and gnome (why gnome - I'm a relic of *nix and Motif and gnome sort of reminds me of the older look and feel). gnome installs mozilla by default, which has browsing, news, and mail. How does this stack up against Firefox? I've seen a lot of press about usin

RE: [gentoo-user] browser,news,mail

2005-08-27 Thread John Dangler
ge Mozilla and emerge Firefox and Thunderbird? Or do they need to see Mozilla libs somewhere, since they're offered by the same org? Thanks for the input. John D -Original Message----- From: John Dangler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2005 1:33 PM To: gentoo-user@l

RE: [gentoo-user] browser,news,mail

2005-08-27 Thread John Dangler
me it depends on what you want/need/like. I don't like Mozilla because it has everything in one package. I like to be able to use Firefox as the browser and other programs for news and mail. On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, John Dangler wrote: > I've just completed setting up x server and gnome

RE: [gentoo-user] browser,news,mail

2005-08-27 Thread John Dangler
45 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] browser,news,mail John Dangler schreef: > I just found some docs on this that say "Large organizations that require an > integrated suite (past Netscape Communicator users) should consider moving > towards Mozilla 1.7. A

RE: [gentoo-user] browser,news,mail

2005-08-27 Thread John Dangler
ce. For now, you can download enigmail from" ewarn "http://enigmail.mozdev.org"; --myk John Dangler wrote: > Brett~ > Thanks for the reply. I did find some additional information about these > that tells me I should be using Firefox and Thunderbird... > The USE fl

RE: [gentoo-user] browser,news,mail

2005-08-27 Thread John Dangler
a and Netscape. If you use a nightly, third-party or own build Enigmail may not always work and may even crash the application!" maybe sticking with Mozilla suite until this gets figured out isn't so bad... John D -Original Message----- From: John Dangler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [gentoo-user] browser,news,mail

2005-08-27 Thread John Dangler
on Gentoo? Thanks for the input John D -Original Message- From: John Dangler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2005 4:01 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] browser,news,mail Ouch! I just came across this in the release notes for enigmail...

[gentoo-user] gaim emerge error

2005-08-27 Thread John Dangler
I just tried emerging gaim and got this error: configure: WARNING: Could not find Tcl which is needed for the kadm5 tests configure: error: Could not find Tcl !!! Please attach the config.log to your bug report: !!! /var/tmp/portage/mit-krb5-1.4.1-r2/work/krb5-1.4.1/src/config.log !!! ERROR: app-

[gentoo-user] openofficeq

2005-08-27 Thread John Dangler
I know this isn't really the Gentoo (read - Linux) way, but, since I'm using this for business apps, I need to take the end users point of view for a moment. Open Office or the "Ximianized" Open Office. I read that Ximian was bought by Novell, so I'm wondering which of these two portage packages

[gentoo-user] gpg

2005-08-27 Thread John Dangler
I setup gpg and also set up enigmail to use my key and signature. when I send an email message I get the following: Error - bad passphrase /usr/bin/gpg -charset utf8 -batch -no-tty -status-fd 2 -clearsign -digest-algo sha1 -u [EMAIL PROTECTED] -passphrase-fd 0 -no-use-agent gpg: skipped "<[EMAIL P

RE: [gentoo-user] gpg

2005-08-27 Thread John Dangler
agent for passphrase management", but that borks. Anyone tried this successfully? As an OT question, I saw where you can upload your keys to a keyserver. Is that the preferred method of validating/trusting others ? John D -Original Message- From: John Dangler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[gentoo-user] ftp

2005-08-27 Thread John Dangler
Can someone here recommend a good ftp app that I can use in gnome? Thanks. John D -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] ftp

2005-08-27 Thread John Dangler
-user] ftp I like gftp...works in kde, too. On Saturday 27 August 2005 21:05, John Dangler wrote: > Can someone here recommend a good ftp app that I can use in gnome? > > Thanks. > > John D -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTEC

[gentoo-user] [OT] Open Office USE flags

2005-08-27 Thread John Dangler
Anyone know why Open Office would require USE=”hardened” ? Or is this here to show that it can be installed in a hardened Gentoo environment? I noticed some postings based on people installing it with -hardened (and having problems), but I don't have a hardened Gentoo install and don't want this

RE: [gentoo-user] [OT] Open Office USE flags

2005-08-27 Thread John Dangler
defaults that are already there... John D -Original Message- From: Willie Wong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2005 2:07 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Open Office USE flags On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 11:07:52PM -0400, John Dangler wrot

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

2005-08-28 Thread John Dangler
I had that same problem with a stage 1 build on my laptop. My laptop also has 2 mouse inputs (glidepoint and the ibm button). I noticed the same behavior, and modprobing evdev did solve it – sort of. The random jumping only showed up once in a great while and was only a minor annoyance at that po

RE: [gentoo-user] [OT] Open Office USE flags

2005-08-28 Thread John Dangler
ibraries LINKFLAGSSHLGUI= -shared you'll have to work out for yourself what this actually does. the Changelog file might have a clue, or bugs.gentoo.org On Sun, 2005-08-28 at 02:42 -0400, John Dangler wrote: > Wilie~ > Thanks for the reply. I did leave it out. I kept reading and cou

RE: [gentoo-user] many packages are available in gentoo?

2005-08-28 Thread John Dangler
Maybe it's me - I don't get it. www.gentoo-portage.com front page ... 19884 ebuilds, 9986 Packages, Last Updated At 18:07:35 GMT John D esearch | grep for the particular arch seems to retrieve an accurate number of packages for that arch, as the OP said previously... -Original Message-

[gentoo-user] desktop settings

2005-08-29 Thread John Dangler
On my gnome desktop in the default panel I currently have gaim and an xterm. I tried to open a mozilla browser at an empty page (default), but when I close and save settings, I get a message telling me that it cannot save mozilla and closes it. Is there a way to have mozilla available when I login

[gentoo-user] firestarter [Personal Linux Firewall]

2005-08-29 Thread John Dangler
I read through a few firewall products for my workstation and settled on firestarter. In reading through their docs, they say to enable 'every option under iptables'. there are 36 possible choices here! (counting the sub-choices under Full NAT Packet Filtering). Is it necessary to build all of th

[gentoo-user] iptables

2005-08-29 Thread John Dangler
I emerged firestarter (during which I got iptables), and forgot that I didn't have iptables emerged prior. I went into the kernel and selected (as the doc I found suggests) all of the options as modules under iptables. (The doc also says that if they are compiled as modules, I didn't need to reboo

RE: [gentoo-user] iptables

2005-08-29 Thread John Dangler
hat it's not me just getting in a hurry to install a package... John Dangler GenoFit 800-505-4078 (Corporate) 386-767-3730 (Direct) 866-273-0408 (Fax) www.genofit.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Holly Bostick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 9:3

RE: [gentoo-user] iptables

2005-08-29 Thread John Dangler
ery symbol in the ieee80211_crypt_wep module)... It appears that the version of ipw2100 and/or ieee80211 in portage (stable) clashes with the version of iptables in portage (stable). So, either I can have wireless or security... John D -Original Message----- From: John Dangler [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [gentoo-user] iptables

2005-08-29 Thread John Dangler
ssage- From: John Dangler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 11:36 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] iptables ok. I got a clean kernel and removed iptables and firestarter. I then went into the kernel config and _only_ turned on iptable support

[gentoo-user] glunarclock

2005-08-29 Thread John Dangler
Anyone emerged this and got it to load?  I emerged it, but I can’t find a way to have it start in gnome. (it’s an applet)   John D  

RE: [gentoo-user] glunarclock

2005-08-30 Thread John Dangler
Holly~ Way Cool! Are there more of these outside of the ones that are listed in gnome? John D -Original Message- From: Holly Bostick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 5:20 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] glunarclock John Dangler

RE: [gentoo-user] iptables

2005-08-30 Thread John Dangler
Nick~ Would your consensus also agree with Hans-Werner's on this? The problem was (posted earlier) that having ipw2100/ieee80211 compiled in and then adding iptables to the kernel caused the wireless to go south on a reboot. >> That incorporation of netfilter into the kernel changes some internal

[gentoo-user] ACPI

2005-08-30 Thread John Dangler
I have ACPI support compiled as modules. When I start gnome, I get an error that says "Can't access ACPI events in /var/run/acpid.socket! Make sure the ACPI subsystem is working and the acpid daemon is running." I tried modprobe acpi (which didn't complain). But when I restarted gnome, I got an

RE: [gentoo-user] ACPI

2005-08-30 Thread John Dangler
30, 2005 6:45 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ACPI John Dangler schreef: > Make sure > the acpid daemon is running. > rc-update show => acpid | default alsasound | default alsasound~ | a

RE: [gentoo-user] ACPI

2005-08-30 Thread John Dangler
ime on the user list (?) or is it a simple fix? John D -Original Message- From: Holly Bostick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 7:47 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ACPI John Dangler schreef: > weird - rc-update show doesn't sho

[gentoo-user] acpid

2005-08-30 Thread John Dangler
I got acpid emerged, started, and added to run level, but when I go into gnome and mouse over the battery (the default applet) it says: System is running on battery power 0 minutes (0%) remain the laptop is plugged into the AC. John D emerged with +acpi -apm ... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org ma

[gentoo-user] power management on laptop

2005-08-31 Thread John Dangler
How do I tell whether my laptop supports acpi or apm? I'm sorry to keep throwing this up right now, but lack of experience begs more questions. I've found a lot of information about this box (dell inspiron 8600) from googling, forums, etc., but they seem to be split on whether this box uses acpi

RESOLVED: RE: [gentoo-user] power management on laptop

2005-08-31 Thread John Dangler
o you and Holly for the patient replies on this. John D -Original Message- From: Renat Golubchyk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 11:19 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] power management on laptop On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:40:46 -040

RE: RESOLVED: RE: [gentoo-user] power management on laptop

2005-08-31 Thread John Dangler
ginal Message- From: Nick Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 1:21 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: RESOLVED: RE: [gentoo-user] power management on laptop On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 12:03 -0400, John Dangler wrote: > I looked around a little more a

[gentoo-user] nfs setup

2005-08-31 Thread John Dangler
I'm trying to get nfs setup between my gentoo boxes (both local) on the server, grep NFS /usr/src/linux/.config (on the server) returns: CONFIG_NFS_FS=m CONFIG_NFS_V3=y CONFIG_NFS_V4 is not set CONFIG_NFS_DIRECTIO is not set CONFIG_NFSD=m CONFIG_NFSD_V4 is not set CONFIG_NFSD_TCP=y Are these setti

RE: [gentoo-user] nfs setup

2005-08-31 Thread John Dangler
rg Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] nfs setup On 8/31/05, John Dangler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm trying to get nfs setup between my gentoo boxes (both local) on the server, grep NFS /usr/src/linux/.config (on the server) returns: CONFIG_NFS_FS=m CONFIG_NFS_V3=y CONFIG_NFS_V4 is not set C

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