Re: [gentoo-user] where is my /dev/cdrom using UDEV

2005-04-26 Thread Wenju Zhang
I have try this. but the problem remains.There is not /dev/hdc at all in my machine.thankszwjOn 4/26/05, Robert S < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Try this:Create a file called /etc/udev/rules.d/10- udev.rulesInsert the following in the fileBUS="pci", KERNEL="hdc", SYSFS{vendor}="0x10de", NAME="%k",SYMLI

Re: [gentoo-user] Finally! But a few issues...

2005-04-26 Thread Richard Fish
Colin wrote: >I found the Reiser4 emerge guide on the Gentoo forums, but that didn't >work for me. Is there any way to emerge Reiser4 support into my >kernel? > > You might have to download a kernel patch directly from www.namesys.com. If you do decide to try out reiser4, be sure to subscribe

Re: [gentoo-user] shutdown now hangs on "Saving random seed..."

2005-04-26 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 01:22:25AM -0400, Colin wrote: > But it just hangs on this one: > > * Saving random seed... > > I can Ctrl-C my way out of it and continue to work in Gentoo, but a > software shutdown isn't possible. I just reboot, enter the BIOS and > hold the switch. What can I do abou

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to find every package with a USE flag

2005-04-26 Thread W.Kenworthy
Right answers, but to the wrong question: I meant whats wrong with the aac flag if it just adds mpeg4 aac audio support? BillK On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 16:39 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 20:31:57 -0700 > Mark Knecht wrote: > > > Nick, > >I may be wrong but this seems to return

[gentoo-user] shutdown now hangs on "Saving random seed..."

2005-04-26 Thread Colin
Whenever I type in "shutdown now," the kernel enters runlevel 1 and starts to shut down. All of these [ ok ] just fine: * Stopping local... * Stopping fcron... * Unmounting network filesystems... * Stopping syslog-ng... * Syncing hardware clock to system clock [Local Time]... * Bringing eth0 down

Re: [gentoo-user] linux-headers-2.6.* "masked by: profile"

2005-04-26 Thread Robert Persson
On April 26, 2005 03:20 am, quoth Edward Catmur: > Switch profile to /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.0 or > similar. How do I do that? -- Robert Persson -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Finally! But a few issues...

2005-04-26 Thread Colin
Finally! I have a working install of Linux 2.6.11-gentoo-r6 on a Pentium II machine that I plan to use as a portable media center. (Think of it as an iPod on steroids.) But I've got a few issues, as the subject line says. Linux newbie here, though I have done many unsuccessful Gentoo installat

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to find every package with a USE flag

2005-04-26 Thread steven pan
emerge -Npv package_name is it right? On 4/27/05, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The subject says it all, is there a way other than > > grep USEFLAG /usr/portage/* -r > > ?? > -- > Nick Rout > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- StevenPan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to find every package with a USE flag

2005-04-26 Thread Nick Rout
this is clearly the right answer, I wasn't aware that equery could do this! but you are up too late, go to bed On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 00:04:00 -0400 Willie Wong wrote: > [12:02 AM]wwong ~ $ equery --help hasuse > List all packages with a particular USE flag > Syntax: > list useflag

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to find every package with a USE flag

2005-04-26 Thread Nick Rout
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 20:31:57 -0700 Mark Knecht wrote: > Nick, >I may be wrong but this seems to return too much stuff for the flag > 'aac' - a flag I have concerns about. well it was pretty rough and ready, because: 1. it will return stuff out of the metadata directory and other weird place

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to find every package with a USE flag

2005-04-26 Thread W.Kenworthy
why are you concerned? bunyip root # euse -i aac global use flags (searching: aac) [+ C ] aac - Enables support for MPEG-4 AAC Audio local use flags (searching: aac) no matc

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to find every package with a USE flag

2005-04-26 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 08:31:57PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > Nick, >I may be wrong but this seems to return too much stuff for the flag > 'aac' - a flag I have concerns about. > > Thanks, > Mark > > On 4/26/05, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The subject says it all, is there a way

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to find every package with a USE flag

2005-04-26 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 20:31 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > Nick, >I may be wrong but this seems to return too much stuff for the flag > 'aac' - a flag I have concerns about. U can try using ufed. or etcat uses or euse (When it did work) > Thanks, > Mark > > On 4/26/05, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PR

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to find every package with a USE flag

2005-04-26 Thread Mark Knecht
Nick, I may be wrong but this seems to return too much stuff for the flag 'aac' - a flag I have concerns about. Thanks, Mark On 4/26/05, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The subject says it all, is there a way other than > > grep USEFLAG /usr/portage/* -r > > ?? > -- > Nick Rout > > -

[gentoo-user] Is there a way to find every package with a USE flag

2005-04-26 Thread Nick Rout
The subject says it all, is there a way other than grep USEFLAG /usr/portage/* -r ?? -- Nick Rout -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about rebuilding glibc

2005-04-26 Thread Nick Rout
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 21:25:51 -0400 Walter Dnes wrote: > I'm slowly puttering along re-installing Gentoo on my second machine. > Having used Gentoo for a few months, I have some personal preferences > about how I want to do it. One of them is as few locales as possible > This machine is not goi

Re: [gentoo-user] how to login with slogin?

2005-04-26 Thread askar ...
On 4/27/05, Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you have sshd running on the router or on a box inside the network? Yes, I have sshd running on the router. askar -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop ati problems

2005-04-26 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Richard Fish wrote: Eric S. Johansson wrote: Richard Fish wrote: Eric S. Johansson wrote: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1109 nothing works. blech. time to load up w2k again and wait 6 months for this lappy. --- eric -- http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.03/view.html?pg=5 The

[gentoo-user] Questions about rebuilding glibc

2005-04-26 Thread Walter Dnes
I'm slowly puttering along re-installing Gentoo on my second machine. Having used Gentoo for a few months, I have some personal preferences about how I want to do it. One of them is as few locales as possible This machine is not going to be kiosk machine in the UN headquarters. This apparentl

Re: [gentoo-user] linux-headers-2.6.* "masked by: profile"

2005-04-26 Thread Nick Rout
as root cd /etc rm make.profile ln -s ../usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.0 make.profile On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 18:03:36 -0700 Robert Persson wrote: > On April 26, 2005 03:20 am, quoth Edward Catmur: > > > Switch profile to /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.0 or > > similar.

Re: [gentoo-user] What can I safely delete from /tmp?

2005-04-26 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 10:57:10 +1000 Richard Watson wrote: > I'm starting to get low on disk space and was wondering what I can safely > delete from the /tmp directory. How about everything? > > Thanks, Richard not while running as kde and other stuff stores temporary files there. I also notice

Re: [gentoo-user] What can I safely delete from /tmp?

2005-04-26 Thread Jason Cooper
Richard Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > I'm starting to get low on disk space and was wondering what I can safely > delete from the /tmp directory. How about everything? You should check to see that nothing has a file open first. 'lsof' is good for this, however, if /tmp is a separate pa

Re: [gentoo-user] linux-headers-2.6.* "masked by: profile"

2005-04-26 Thread Robert Persson
On April 26, 2005 03:20 am, quoth Edward Catmur: > Switch profile to /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.0 or > similar. How do I do that? -- Robert Persson -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] What can I safely delete from /tmp?

2005-04-26 Thread Richard Watson
I'm starting to get low on disk space and was wondering what I can safely delete from the /tmp directory. How about everything? Thanks, Richard -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.10.3 - Release Date: 25/04/2005 -- g

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Help with partitioning

2005-04-26 Thread William Kenworthy
On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 18:29 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Hi, > > the more partitions, the more wasted space. > > For example /var 2gb /vat is mostly enough, but sometimes, you need 4,6,8 GB, > but 6/8GB /var is just overkill. > Depends, compiling openoffice will dump 3-4Gbytes on top of

Re: [gentoo-user] modprobe error

2005-04-26 Thread Mark Knecht
You are very welcome Paul. Good luck in the future! cheers, Mark On 4/26/05, Paul Kain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark > > You are king > > I cant remember NOT running && make modules_install > > but it seemed to do the job > > thanks a million gazillion > > :) > > > On 4/26/05, Mark Kn

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage corrupted? Trying to install non-existant packages

2005-04-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 19:16:21 +, Calvin Spealman wrote: > A month + with no updates, leaves lots of > time at a terminal in my hands. There's nothing to stop you using a windowed environment while packages are compiling in the background. -- Neil Bothwick The cow is nothing but a machine

[gentoo-user] Re: Recommendation for online contact manager?

2005-04-26 Thread James
Travis Osterman gmail.com> writes: > > > Maybe one of the groupware packages like egroupware or phpgroupware? > > > > * www-apps/egroupware > > * www-apps/moregroupware [ Masked ] > > * www-apps/phpgroupware [ Masked ] > > Thanks for the recommendations. Phpgroupware looks very close to wh

FW: [gentoo-user] Kmail will not star KDInit Error

2005-04-26 Thread Richard Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ qpkg -fp libpcreposix.so.0 dev-libs/libpcre It looks like you need to (re)emerge libpcre emerge -1av dev-libs/libpcre -- Neil Bothwick Worked fine. Problem solved. Thanks, Richard -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 /

Re: [gentoo-user] modprobe error

2005-04-26 Thread Paul Kain
Mark You are king I cant remember NOT running && make modules_install but it seemed to do the job thanks a million gazillion :) On 4/26/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/26/05, Paul Kain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > #1) Does it exist? > > > > slocate modules.dep > > > > g

[gentoo-user] NETDEV WATCHDOG messages

2005-04-26 Thread Robert S
I recently switched my gentoo box on and was unable to access the network. I was unable to fix the problem until I rebooted. I discovered the following in my /var/log/messages. What does it mean? Apr 26 22:29:29 basement NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out Apr 26 22:29:29 basement eth0: T

[gentoo-user] gentoo.org.il

2005-04-26 Thread amit sides
We are some people from israel opened lately Gentoo.org.il which is the Israeli community for gentoo in israel. all the il people here are welcome to join the site. We have Hebrew forums,wiki,mailing list,news and much more. come visit http://www.gentoo.org.il -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing li

Re: [gentoo-user] modprobe error

2005-04-26 Thread Nick Rout
at what point do you get the error? are you running the modules initscript? if you have no modules it might give you problems. On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 22:15:54 +0200 Paul Kain wrote: > I did yes > > but I have no mudles specified in my modules.autoload and I didnt > spoecify a single module in my

Re: [gentoo-user] modprobe error

2005-04-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On 4/26/05, Paul Kain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > #1) Does it exist? > > slocate modules.dep > > gentoo root # slocate modules.dep > /usr/share/man/man5/modules.dep/5/gz > > #2) Can you create it? > > gentoo root # depmod -a slocate modules.dep > WARNING: couldn't open directory /lib/modules/2

Re: [gentoo-user] modprobe error

2005-04-26 Thread Paul Kain
#1) Does it exist? slocate modules.dep gentoo root # slocate modules.dep /usr/share/man/man5/modules.dep/5/gz #2) Can you create it? gentoo root # depmod -a slocate modules.dep WARNING: couldn't open directory /lib/modules/2.6.11-gentoo-r3: no such file or directory FATAL: could not open /lib/

Re: [gentoo-user] alsaconf doesn't recognize sound card, but kernel does

2005-04-26 Thread Christoph Eckert
> It may just be an oversite in alsaconf. Someone should post > a bug report a the Alsa bug site and let them know to look > into it. Meanwhile, perhaps something like alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0 in your /etc/modules.d/alsa can set up your card. Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gent

Re: [gentoo-user] modprobe error

2005-04-26 Thread Paul Kain
I did yes but I have no mudles specified in my modules.autoload and I didnt spoecify a single module in my kernal I am still getting this error On 4/26/05, A. Khattri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Paul Kain wrote: > > > nope no joy :( > > When you installed the current

Re: [gentoo-user] how to login with slogin?

2005-04-26 Thread Willie Wong
Do you have sshd running on the router or on a box inside the network? W On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 11:20:56PM +0600, askar ... wrote: > I setup iptables according with > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/home-router-howto.xml. > Now I want to login to my linux box from outside. > In iptables setup writ

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommendation for online contact manager?

2005-04-26 Thread Travis Osterman
> Maybe one of the groupware packages like egroupware or phpgroupware? > > * www-apps/egroupware > * www-apps/moregroupware [ Masked ] > * www-apps/phpgroupware [ Masked ] Thanks for the recommendations. Phpgroupware looks very close to what I was hoping for. The only thing it didn't have th

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage corrupted? Trying to install non-existant packages

2005-04-26 Thread Calvin Spealman
I did what Edward and Jason suggested, and now portage looks ready to do its job again. Now, I only have to wait for the 99 packages I need updated to download, compile, and install. A month + with no updates, leaves lots of time at a terminal in my hands. Thanks for all the help everybody!On 4/25/

Re: [gentoo-user] openmotif vs motif-config dependancy blockers

2005-04-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 14:26:12 -0400, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: > emerge -uvDa world yeilds blockers between motif-congif and openmotif > today.. > > Fix? unmerge openmotif and run emerge -uvDa world again. -- Neil Bothwick Any given program will expand to fill available memory. pgpkZxTAONe

Re: [gentoo-user] WARNING: /etc removed from CONFIG_PROTECT portage-2.0.51.20

2005-04-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 13:24:40 -0400, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: > is -r5 ok? Seems so. I've put it on three computers and no gotchas so far. I'll put it on the laptop when OOo finally finishes compiling, although r20 will probably be put by then... -- Neil Bothwick Windows Multitasking - scre

Re: [gentoo-user] modprobe error

2005-04-26 Thread Mark Knecht
> > > > > > > > modprobe: FATAL: Could not load > > > > /lib/modules/2.6.11-gentoo-r3/modules.dep no such file or directory > > > > > > have you tried running "modules-update" ??? > > > > > > -- > > > > > > -- > > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > baud /bawd/ n. >

Re: [gentoo-user] modprobe error

2005-04-26 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Paul Kain wrote: > nope no joy :( When you installed the current kernel, did you do "make modules_install" ??? > > > > On 4/25/05, A. Khattri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Paul Kain wrote: > > > > > Hi there > > > > > > I get this error at boot > > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommendation for online contact manager?

2005-04-26 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Travis Osterman wrote: > > Try Plaxo. Don't know about Linux compatibility but it should work with > > Wine... > > > > www.plaxo.com > > I was really hoping for more of a web application and I would rather > host it myself if possible. Maybe one of the groupware packages lik

Re: [gentoo-user] how to login with slogin?

2005-04-26 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, askar ... wrote: > I thought '# iptables -A INPUT -p TCP --dport ssh -i eth1 -j ACCEPT' let me > login from remote computer? > I understand that slogin and ssh are the same things. I dont think they are: http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/content/helpdesk/firewall/ssh/node4.html You al

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommendation for online contact manager?

2005-04-26 Thread Travis Osterman
> Try Plaxo. Don't know about Linux compatibility but it should work with > Wine... > > www.plaxo.com I was really hoping for more of a web application and I would rather host it myself if possible. -- Travis -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] openmotif vs motif-config dependancy blockers

2005-04-26 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
emerge -uvDa world yeilds blockers between motif-congif and openmotif today.. Fix? Mike -- Michael W. Holdeman Powered by Gentoo Linux www.gentoo.org | Kernel 2.6.9-ck3| Win4Lin 5-1-18c netraverse.com | __

Re: [gentoo-user] game savage

2005-04-26 Thread Jose Moreira
i have the same script (it comes distributed) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Savage $ pwd /opt/Savage [EMAIL PROTECTED] Savage $ cat savage #!/bin/sh # Needed to make symlinks/shortcuts work. # the binaries must run with correct working directory cd /opt/Savage LD_LIBRARY_PATH=libs:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH ./savage.bin

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommendation for online contact manager?

2005-04-26 Thread The Disguised Jedi
Try Plaxo.  Don't know about Linux compatibility but it should work with Wine...   www.plaxo.com  On 4/26/05, Travis Osterman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does anyone have a good recommendation for a contact informationmanagement system for a relatively small group of people (~200)?  I would prefer w

[gentoo-user] jpilot-syncmal problem

2005-04-26 Thread Dave S
I have a m505 pda syncing through jpilot. I am running jpilot-syncmal so I can download from the avantgo server. Having set up several channels all of which work perfectly, I cannot get the 'onlineweather.com' to update. If I remove & re-install the chanel it updates but not when I just sync. I

Re: [gentoo-user] WARNING: /etc removed from CONFIG_PROTECT portage-2.0.51.20

2005-04-26 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
On Tuesday 26 April 2005 04:19 am, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 00:02:36 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > Today it is calling for 2.0.51.20-r4, any problems here? > > > > not any more. It did stop emerge working altogether on two computers > > here, but resyncing and re-emerging it s

[gentoo-user] how to login with slogin?

2005-04-26 Thread askar ...
I setup iptables according with  http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/home-router-howto.xml.Now I want to login to my linux box from outside.In iptables setup written: (Optional) Allow access to our ssh server from the WAN# iptables -A INPUT -p TCP --dport ssh -i eth1 -j ACCEPTFrom remote computer I type '

Re: [gentoo-user] Pentium M and kernel module "processor.o"

2005-04-26 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
On Monday 25 April 2005 11:42 pm, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 22:46 +0200, Erik wrote: > > >Do any of you run kfani8k or teh i8k module? > > You've to load it with force=1 parameter > Yes I can get it to load, and run well. The problem seems to be that it borks kmilo, at least on In

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Network adapetors?

2005-04-26 Thread Toby Cubitt
On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 04:20:51PM +0100, Ognjen Bezanov wrote: > Toby Cubitt wrote: > > >I recently successfully set up my gentoo box as a wireless access point using > >a D-link DWL-G520, which is based on the Atheros chipset so is supported by > >the madwifi driver (in portage). It does 54Mbps,

[gentoo-user] Recommendation for online contact manager?

2005-04-26 Thread Travis Osterman
Does anyone have a good recommendation for a contact information management system for a relatively small group of people (~200)? I would prefer web-based and it should allow users to update their own information easily while allowing everyone easy access to searching and viewing the directory. T

Re: [gentoo-user] A binary choice for a DVD burner... URGENT!

2005-04-26 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
Thanks to all the people who replied. I finally bought the LG GSA-4163B. Interestingly, it must be the only component in my system that isn't made in China. This thing's made in Japan. Interesting! Well, I haven't had a chance to use it with Gentoo yet, but its working as expected on Windows (O

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Help with partitioning

2005-04-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Hi, the more partitions, the more wasted space. For example /var 2gb /vat is mostly enough, but sometimes, you need 4,6,8 GB, but 6/8GB /var is just overkill. /home should always be on its own partition, this way, you can reinstall everything without risking your user-data, or share /home betw

Re: [gentoo-user] alsaconf doesn't recognize sound card, but kernel does

2005-04-26 Thread Mark Knecht
It may just be an oversite in alsaconf. Someone should post a bug report a the Alsa bug site and let them know to look into it. On 4/26/05, Tres Melton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have the same issue on my machine. It's strange since my alsa sound > is working just fine. Gnome's alsa-mixer ca

[gentoo-user] Re: Digest of gentoo-user@robin.gentoo.org issue 28 (6578-6627)

2005-04-26 Thread Juha Kilpinen

[gentoo-user] default kickerrc

2005-04-26 Thread Botykai Zsolt
Hi 4 every1 Just got a simple question, can't figure out: where is the default (systemwide) 'kickerrc' of kde? locate tells me that I have one in my user directory, but it's not the default of course... Thx 4 any advice, idea, Zsoltik@ --

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with setting up home router [SOLVED]

2005-04-26 Thread askar ...
> Great! I'm glad we could help you work it out. > > To summarize, then, the setup of the iptables rules (especially regarding > the forwards and nat rules) should use ppp0 rather than the eth1 (which is > the actual lan interface card). > > By using ppp0 rather than eth1 the traffic is now prop

Re: [gentoo-user] alsaconf doesn't recognize sound card, but kernel does

2005-04-26 Thread Tres Melton
I have the same issue on my machine. It's strange since my alsa sound is working just fine. Gnome's alsa-mixer can adjust all of the inputs but alsaconf insists that there is no device found. I have an MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum and am using onboard sound. On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 11:24 +0100, Francisc

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA, XMMS & Integrated Sound

2005-04-26 Thread LostSon
On Tuesday 26 April 2005 09:52, Kurt Guenther wrote: > Christoph Gysin wrote: > > Kurt Guenther wrote: > >> It seems that my XMMS takes an exclusive lock on sound. Something like > >> GAIM can't chime when it wants to. Is there a way around this? > >> Different player? > > > > Did you select the

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA, XMMS & Integrated Sound

2005-04-26 Thread Kurt Guenther
Christoph Gysin wrote: > Kurt Guenther wrote: > >> It seems that my XMMS takes an exclusive lock on sound. Something like >> GAIM can't chime when it wants to. Is there a way around this? >> Different player? > > > Did you select the ALSA-output plugin? > For XMMS, yes. -- gentoo-user@gento

RE: [gentoo-user] OT - Help with partitioning

2005-04-26 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I use LVM, adding a second disk was easy - just grew the volume and > relevant partitions, expanded the reiserfs file systems and my problem > with lack of space was gone. Highly reccomended for future proofing on > any system - even single disk systems. I also find multiple partitions > very w

RE: [gentoo-user] OT - Help with partitioning

2005-04-26 Thread William Kenworthy
On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 09:56 -0400, Dave Nebinger wrote: > > Also, I don't think I'll be installing any binary packages. So, how much > > do I give for /opt? Or rather, how much space would Java take up? > > I've got blackdown, sun jdk, a few other apps installed in /opt. I > originally set my par

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Help with partitioning

2005-04-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 15:51:41 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > IMHO LVM2 is only valuable for creating partitions that need to cross > > disks (i.e. you have 2 100g disks but need a 200g partition). Using > > lvm2 simply to allow for future partition growth is overkill... No > > flames here pleas

Re: [gentoo-user] USB mouse stalls under X after some time of inactivity

2005-04-26 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
> information is now obvious. Now even the "cat /dev/input/mice" does not > bring back my mouse. GRRR. :-) this seems to be a Tom & Jerry story :) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Help with partitioning

2005-04-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 18:34:36 +0530, Mrugesh Karnik wrote: > Also, I don't think I'll be installing any binary packages. So, how > much do I give for /opt? Or rather, how much space would Java take up? I found using a separate partition for /opt was a pain, so I mounted /usr/ opt at /opt. It keeps

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Help with partitioning

2005-04-26 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 18:34 +0530, Mrugesh Karnik wrote: > Hello, > > This is a desktop system that I'm planning the partitioning scheme for. > > OK. I hadn't thought about software suspend. So 1.5 GB swap it is! Then you might be interested to read it up on the article on the myoss magazine -> h

RE: [gentoo-user] OT - Help with partitioning

2005-04-26 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Also, I don't think I'll be installing any binary packages. So, how much > do I give for /opt? Or rather, how much space would Java take up? I've got blackdown, sun jdk, a few other apps installed in /opt. I originally set my partition to 4g, but currently only use 495mb. So you should be fine

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Help with partitioning

2005-04-26 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 26. April 2005 15:34 schrieb ext Dave Nebinger: > > IMHO LVM2 is only valuable for creating partitions that need to cross > disks (i.e. you have 2 100g disks but need a 200g partition). Using lvm2 > simply to allow for future partition growth is overkill... No flames > here please, I

Re: [gentoo-user] USB mouse stalls under X after some time of inactivity

2005-04-26 Thread Richard Fish
Thomas Drueke wrote: >Okay. While writing it happens again and it seems that the previous >information is now obvious. Now even the "cat /dev/input/mice" does not >bring back my mouse. GRRR. :-) > >BR >Thomas > > Well, the only other thing I can think of is to switch to udev, since devfs is obs

RE: [gentoo-user] OT - Help with partitioning

2005-04-26 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
almost like mine > To that end, I usually have around 10 different partitions: > > 1. / - large enough to hold the basic root entities (/etc, /bin, /sbin, > and /lib). 1 GB > 2. /boot - 100M because I like to keep working kernels around for > awhile. 50MB just 2 kernels > 3. /usr - Large eno

RE: [gentoo-user] OT - Help with partitioning

2005-04-26 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I'm planning on using LVM2. I'll be installing most of KDE 3.4. No > Gnome. I'll have a webserver and a mailserver running, but I've already > accounted the space required for them (as of right now) as 1GB in /var, > which of course will need to be expanded in future... to how much, I > don't kno

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge ideas

2005-04-26 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Thanks Dave (and others) > For the responses and Ideas No problem, that's what we're here for. > If I run into trouble, I'll post a new thread... Or contact me directly as I'm using this setup already. I don't think you'll run into issues, though, because the two links are really descrip

[gentoo-user] Re: stripping down to base system

2005-04-26 Thread James
Christian Affolter stepping-stone.ch> writes: > What's the best way to strip a gentoo installation down to it's base > system? http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/index.xml Embedded system typically are very minimalistic, only containing what's needed on the minimal processor and memor

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Help with partitioning

2005-04-26 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
Hello, This is a desktop system that I'm planning the partitioning scheme for. OK. I hadn't thought about software suspend. So 1.5 GB swap it is! I had initially chosen 256MB because, not even the full 768 MB of RAM was used when running KDE 3.4, a movie in Kaffein and "update world" in the back

[gentoo-user] stripping down to base system

2005-04-26 Thread Christian Affolter
Hi, a week ago, I posted to the gentoo-server list with some questions regarding gentoo in an infrastructure. I've got still one specific question which I would like to ask to a bigger audience (sorry to those people also in gentoo-server). So, here's my question: What's the best way to strip a g

RE: [gentoo-user] Kmail will not star KDInit Error

2005-04-26 Thread Richard Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ qpkg -fp libpcreposix.so.0 dev-libs/libpcre It looks like you need to (re)emerge libpcre emerge -1av dev-libs/libpcre -- Neil Bothwick Hi Neil, Thanks for the suggestion. I'll give it a try. I always value your suggestions. Regards, Richard -- No virus found in thi

Re: [gentoo-user] OT prefixing Line numbers in codes for printing

2005-04-26 Thread Edward Catmur
On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 11:22 +0900, Steve B wrote: > On an even more off topic note.. anybody know how use some nifty CSS > or similar to take a block of text (code) and automaticly add line > numbers? I guess I could use PHP but was looking for a CSS type style. Nice idea, but I don't think the li

Re: [gentoo-user] Pentium M and kernel module "processor.o"

2005-04-26 Thread Nick Rout
threads starting here: http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/pipermail/linux-thinkpad/2005-January/023555.html http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/pipermail/linux-thinkpad/2005-February/024205.html http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/pipermail/linux-thinkpad/2005-April/025815.html http://mailman.linux-

[gentoo-user] alsaconf doesn't recognize sound card, but kernel does

2005-04-26 Thread Francisco Santiago Capel Torres
Hi, after upgrading my kernel to 2.6 successfully, I am doing the last steps regarding the sound configuration. But when I run alsaconf it says "No supported PnP or PCI card found" However, the sound car is working, this is the output of lspci: :00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Co

Re: [gentoo-user] linux-headers-2.6.* "masked by: profile"

2005-04-26 Thread Edward Catmur
On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 22:00 -0700, Robert Persson wrote: > !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6" have been > masked. > !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: > - sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.8.1-r2 (masked by: profile) > - sys-k

Re: [gentoo-user] Pentium M and kernel module "processor.o"

2005-04-26 Thread Nick Rout
I have heard of a similar problem before, but as I am not lucky enough to have a pentium-m system i didn't take it all in. I suggest you look at the "Linux Thinkpad" mailing list archives. I'm pretty sure thats where it was. If I find it in my own overfull mail system I will let you know. On Mon

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge ideas

2005-04-26 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 22:17 +1000, Devraj Mukherjee wrote: > I am not sure if this is the right forum to discuss ideas for emerge, > and for all I know this features may already exists in the current > versions of emerge but I thought I'd take a chance and write down my > idea anyway. > > 1. Em

[gentoo-user] Can i find Freecraft music file?

2005-04-26 Thread taurus
I dig google.com download.com altavista.com... freecfaft.org web site closed so I wonder if anyone has music-pack-030226.tar.gz file? Maybe on yours distfiles ? :) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Help with partitioning

2005-04-26 Thread Robert Persson
On April 26, 2005 12:20 am, quoth Mrugesh Karnik: > I have 768MB of RAM and so far I haven't seen it use any swap. So I'm > planning on a 256MB swap partition. Also, there will be a /boot which > would be about 50MB. Yes, I think it's wise to have some swap. I've got 512MB and I have found that

Re: [gentoo-user] where is my /dev/cdrom using UDEV

2005-04-26 Thread Robert S
Try this: Create a file called /etc/udev/rules.d/10-udev.rules Insert the following in the file BUS="pci", KERNEL="hdc", SYSFS{vendor}="0x10de", NAME="%k", SYMLINK="cdrom cdroms/cdrom%n" You'll need to change the SYSFS{vendor} statement and you'll probably need to reboot. There's a HOWTO in th

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Help with partitioning

2005-04-26 Thread W.Kenworthy
On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 12:50 +0530, Mrugesh Karnik wrote: > Hello folks, > ... > I have 768MB of RAM and so far I haven't seen it use any swap. So I'm > planning on a 256MB swap partition. Also, there will be a /boot which > would be about 50MB. > Traditionally swap was set to twice ram: I think

Re: [gentoo-user] WARNING: /etc removed from CONFIG_PROTECT portage-2.0.51.20

2005-04-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 00:02:36 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > Today it is calling for 2.0.51.20-r4, any problems here? > > not any more. It did stop emerge working altogether on two computers > here, but resyncing and re-emerging it seemed to fix the problem (I > noticed the USE flags for portage

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Help with partitioning

2005-04-26 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 12:50 +0530, Mrugesh Karnik wrote: > I have 768MB of RAM and so far I haven't seen it use any swap. So I'm > planning on a 256MB swap partition. Also, there will be a /boot which > would be about 50MB. Is this laptop or desktop?? Swap may still be needed if you're planning

Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail will not star KDInit Error

2005-04-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 12:55:28 +1000, Richard Watson wrote: > "kmail: error while loading shared libraries: libpcreposix.so.0: cannot > open shared object file: No such file or directory" [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ qpkg -fp libpcreposix.so.0 dev-libs/libpcre It looks like you need to (re)emerge libpcre

[gentoo-user] OT - Help with partitioning

2005-04-26 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
Hello folks, Now that my data has been backed up, I'm looking to covert one of my 80GB hard disks to Linux filesystems.. I'm planning on using LVM2. I'll be installing most of KDE 3.4. No Gnome. I'll have a webserver and a mailserver running, but I've already accounted the space required for th

[gentoo-user] A good daapd client

2005-04-26 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Hi, I'm looking for a good daapd client, i have tried tunesbrowser 1.6 and 2.0. 1.6 din't play anything and 2.0 plays some files but not all, and craches a lot. Does anyone on this list have experiance with a daapld client ? TIA Patrick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Nothing but trouble with Gnome-light

2005-04-26 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Hi, After i have installed Gnome-light 2.8.1 on a new computer i have only troubles, it started out with than new nenu items are not visible, but now if i rename a existing one it disapears also. On top of that Rhythmbox is as buggy as can be, removing or adding a single item causes a crash and Rh

Re: [gentoo-user] Pentium M and kernel module "processor.o"

2005-04-26 Thread Marc Schlienger
Am Montag, 25. April 2005 22:46 schrieb Erik: > Michael W. Holdeman wrote: > >On Monday 25 April 2005 12:41 pm, Erik wrote: > >>Marc Schlienger wrote: > >>>Hi, > >>> > >>>I've got a notebook with Intel Pentium M processor (Dell Latitude D800) > >>>and experienced the following problem: There is a s