Re: [gentoo-user] Getting PCMCIA to work

2005-05-31 Thread Richard Fish
>Unless it is a cardbus slot and PCcard, in which case neither pcmcia >cardmgr nor "/etc/init.d/pcmcia start" is necessary. In modern laptops, >you do not even need to emerge pcmcia-cs unless you need to use some >ancient PCMCIA card > > > Sorry, never mind. I went back and read the OP ag

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting PCMCIA to work

2005-05-31 Thread Richard Fish
Nick Rout wrote: >On Wed, 1 Jun 2005 00:58:16 +0100 >Digby Tarvin wrote: > > >>But when I try to run /etc/init.d/pcmcia start on gentoo I get >> PCMCIA support detected. >> Starting pcmcia... >> cardmgr failed to start. Make sure that you have PCMCIA >> modules built or supp

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Getting PCMCIA to work

2005-05-31 Thread Richard Fish
Digby Tarvin wrote: >Hi, > > I have two, all of which work with the old system but not yet under > gentoo. They are > 3Com 3C562D/3C563D EtherLinkIII > Xircom Realport RBEM56G > > The latter seems to use the xircom_tulip driver. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: When a dependancy built by hand

2005-05-31 Thread Rumen Yotov
Harry Putnam wrote: >Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >>Is /etc/portage/profile/package.provided the correct address for >>this? >> >>In `man portage' I see reference to: >> /etc/make.profile/package.provided >> >> > >Gack I see its a symlink ... but now I'm even more confuse

Re: [gentoo-user] CFS Howto

2005-05-31 Thread rob3
Holly Bostick wrote: >Shawn Singh schreef: > > >>Hey all, >> >>I was attempting to encrypt my home directory using the CFS Howto as >>my guide, but I am not getting far at all... >> >>When trying to emerge cfs, I'm getting the following message: >> >>convert usr # emerge app-crypt/cfs-1.4.1.14 >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Building and using binary packages with emerge/portage

2005-05-31 Thread Graham Murray
Paul Varner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > With the exception of openoffice-bin, when revdep-rebuild indicates > that it wants to rebuild a -bin package it means that the ebuild is > potentially missing dependencies. Also, I believe, opera. This has dependencies on a number of different version of

Re: [gentoo-user] ctorrent abort

2005-05-31 Thread Ralph Slooten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matt Garman wrote: > zsh: abort ctorrent ../ubuntu-5.04-dvd-i386.iso.torrent Maybe it's just Gentoo's way of killing "competition" ;-) I think I see the error ~ no large-file-support it seems in ctorrent. Piece length: 1048576 ubuntu-5.04-

[gentoo-user] Re: When a dependancy built by hand

2005-05-31 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is /etc/portage/profile/package.provided the correct address for > this? > > In `man portage' I see reference to: > /etc/make.profile/package.provided Gack I see its a symlink ... but now I'm even more confused. The symlink points to: /usr/portage/pr

[gentoo-user] Re: When a dependancy built by hand

2005-05-31 Thread Harry Putnam
Paul Varner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > man portage > > Specifically for the package.provided file it wants the package and > version that you have installed outside of portage. For example: If you > have downloaded and installed your own kernel from kernel.org, placing > > sys-kernel/vanilla-

[gentoo-user] Re: When a dependancy built by hand

2005-05-31 Thread Harry Putnam
Paul Varner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > /etc/portage/profile/package.provided >> > >> >> Where to look to learn about the required syntax? >> > > man portage > > Specifically for the package.provided file it wants the package and > version that you have installed outside of portage. For ex

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: When a dependancy built by hand

2005-05-31 Thread Nick Rout
On Tue, 31 May 2005 23:34:36 -0500 Harry Putnam wrote: > Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Tue, 31 May 2005 22:22:29 -0500 > > Harry Putnam wrote: > > > >> An > >> example might be that if emacs isn't installed at /usr/local its > >> already outside the standard emacs install. > > >

[gentoo-user] Re: When a dependancy built by hand

2005-05-31 Thread Harry Putnam
Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > > /etc/portage/profile/package.provided > > Regards, > Jason Stubbs Paul Varner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > man portage > > Specifically for the package.provided file it wants the package and > version that you have installed outside o

[gentoo-user] Re: When a dependancy built by hand

2005-05-31 Thread Harry Putnam
Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > /etc/portage/profile/package.provided And if no `profile' directory exists, is that something one creates or is it put there by some package? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: When a dependancy built by hand

2005-05-31 Thread Harry Putnam
Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 31 May 2005 22:22:29 -0500 > Harry Putnam wrote: > >> An >> example might be that if emacs isn't installed at /usr/local its >> already outside the standard emacs install. > > and you have moved outside the standard gentoo install i suspect :) Not s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: When a dependancy built by hand

2005-05-31 Thread Nick Rout
On Tue, 31 May 2005 22:25:42 -0500 Harry Putnam wrote: > > While it would mean re-installing emacs, you could use the emacs-cvs > > ebuild which builds emacs from cvs head. To keep up-to-date you just > > have to re-emerge and you will build with the latest changes. > > How can I get a look at w

Re: [gentoo-user] Tablet PC's and Gentoo

2005-05-31 Thread Colin
Nick Rout wrote: wide question, what features are you trying to support? and what make and model? Well, I was thinking just in general, but one model that caught my eye was from the Averatec C3500 Series. I was mainly referring to handwriting recognition. Would that be supported under X/G

[gentoo-user] Re: When a dependancy built by hand

2005-05-31 Thread Harry Putnam
Graham Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > While it would mean re-installing emacs, you could use the emacs-cvs > ebuild which builds emacs from cvs head. To keep up-to-date you just > have to re-emerge and you will build with the latest changes. Sorry to hammer on this so much... I haven't been

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: When a dependancy built by hand

2005-05-31 Thread Nick Rout
On Tue, 31 May 2005 22:22:29 -0500 Harry Putnam wrote: > An > example might be that if emacs isn't installed at /usr/local its > already outside the standard emacs install. and you have moved outside the standard gentoo install i suspect :) -- Nick Rout -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing li

[gentoo-user] Re: When a dependancy built by hand

2005-05-31 Thread Harry Putnam
Graham Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > While it would mean re-installing emacs, you could use the emacs-cvs > ebuild which builds emacs from cvs head. To keep up-to-date you just > have to re-emerge and you will build with the latest changes. How can I get a look at what and how stuff gets i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xscreensaver

2005-05-31 Thread Qv6
On Tuesday 31 May 2005 10:07 pm, Neil Bothwick wrote: . > > Right-click on the desktop, select Configure Desktop and go to the > Screensaver section. Select Slide Show under Banners & Pictures and > click Setup to pick the directory. thank you -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Tablet PC's and Gentoo

2005-05-31 Thread Nick Rout
wide question, what features are you trying to support? and what make and model? On Tue, 31 May 2005 22:27:35 -0400 Colin wrote: > Does Gentoo have any features that would allow it to work with a tablet > PC? I'm assuming just installing touchscreen support into the kernel > would work. > > -

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: When a dependancy built by hand

2005-05-31 Thread Paul Varner
On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 22:15 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > /etc/portage/profile/package.provided > > > > Where to look to learn about the required syntax? > man portage Specifically for the package.provided file it wants the package and version

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: When a dependancy built by hand

2005-05-31 Thread Holly Bostick
Harry Putnam schreef: > Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>/etc/portage/profile/package.provided >> > > > Where to look to learn about the required syntax? > man portage :) Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: When a dependancy built by hand

2005-05-31 Thread Harry Putnam
Graham Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I want to install emacs-w3m. I have already built an emacs install by >> hand from cvs emacs tar ball. I always build emacs myself. > [snip] >> Emerge wants to install another emacs. How can I tell it I al

Re: [gentoo-user] CFS Howto

2005-05-31 Thread Antonino Sabetta
Shawn Singh wrote: Calculating dependencies !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "=app-crypt/cfs-1.4.1.14" have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - app-crypt/cfs-1.4.1.14 (masked by: ~x86 keyword) For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES s

[gentoo-user] Re: When a dependancy built by hand

2005-05-31 Thread Harry Putnam
Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > /etc/portage/profile/package.provided > Where to look to learn about the required syntax? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] CFS Howto

2005-05-31 Thread Shawn Singh
That works like a champ. Thank you. Shawn On 5/31/05, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Shawn Singh schreef: > > Hey all, > > > > I was attempting to encrypt my home directory using the CFS Howto as > > my guide, but I am not getting far at all... > > > > When trying to emerge cfs, I'm g

Re: [gentoo-user] CFS Howto

2005-05-31 Thread Holly Bostick
Shawn Singh schreef: > Hey all, > > I was attempting to encrypt my home directory using the CFS Howto as > my guide, but I am not getting far at all... > > When trying to emerge cfs, I'm getting the following message: > > convert usr # emerge app-crypt/cfs-1.4.1.14 > Calculating dependencies >

[gentoo-user] CFS Howto

2005-05-31 Thread Shawn Singh
Hey all, I was attempting to encrypt my home directory using the CFS Howto as my guide, but I am not getting far at all... When trying to emerge cfs, I'm getting the following message: convert usr # emerge app-crypt/cfs-1.4.1.14 Calculating dependencies !!! Problem in app-crypt/cfs-1.4.1.14 dep

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting PCMCIA to work

2005-05-31 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 1 Jun 2005 00:58:16 +0100 Digby Tarvin wrote: > But when I try to run /etc/init.d/pcmcia start on gentoo I get > PCMCIA support detected. > Starting pcmcia... > cardmgr failed to start. Make sure that you have PCMCIA > modules built or support compiled into the ke

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Getting PCMCIA to work

2005-05-31 Thread Digby Tarvin
Hi, I have two, all of which work with the old system but not yet under gentoo. They are 3Com 3C562D/3C563D EtherLinkIII Xircom Realport RBEM56G The latter seems to use the xircom_tulip driver. Here is the content o

[gentoo-user] Tablet PC's and Gentoo

2005-05-31 Thread Colin
Does Gentoo have any features that would allow it to work with a tablet PC? I'm assuming just installing touchscreen support into the kernel would work. -- Colin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] ctorrent abort

2005-05-31 Thread Matt Garman
When trying to run ctorrent, I get the following error: ctorrent ubuntu-5.04-dvd-i386.iso.torrent META INFO Announce: http://torrent.ubuntu.com:6969/announce Created On: Fri Apr 8 08:50:28 2005 Piece length: 1048576 FILES INFO <1> ubuntu-5.04-dvd-i386.iso [2147483647] Total: 2047 MB *** glib

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-05-31 Thread Scott Jones
Maxim, I just had to chroot iinto my system from livecd and I got a similar error message from Grub (referring to your 3rd post) anyways try this command it let me use Grub from inside chroot: mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev I got it from this thread on forums: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewt

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-05-31 Thread Holly Bostick
maxim wexler schreef: >>And which OS are you choosing from the menu again, >>maxim (assuming you >>get to a menu)? Or does this affect all OSes in your >>menu? > > > no choice. After grub-install I get the > > Grub loading stage1.5 > Grub loading, please wait... > > message(white text,black bg

[gentoo-user] Re: Getting PCMCIA to work

2005-05-31 Thread Gabriel M. Beddingfield
Digby Tarvin wrote: > Base system is now coming up fine, but my PCMCIA lan card is not > being recognised. What is the make/model of the NIC you are trying to use? Please post the output from either command: 'lspci' or 'cat /proc/pci' There's about 3 typical PCMCIA drivers, and then many more o

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-05-31 Thread maxim wexler
> And which OS are you choosing from the menu again, > maxim (assuming you > get to a menu)? Or does this affect all OSes in your > menu? no choice. After grub-install I get the Grub loading stage1.5 Grub loading, please wait... message(white text,black bg). To get back to Macroshaft I boot int

Re: [gentoo-user] bandwidthd alternative

2005-05-31 Thread Mark Shields
ntop, iptraf. Both good programs. ntop is curses-based, iptraf is web-based. There was a thread a few weeks ago. See: http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org/msg04463.html where I originally saw these programs mentioned. On 5/31/05, Miguel Miranda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-05-31 Thread maxim wexler
> > Ok, quick comparison to my results... > > grub> root (hd0,0) > Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 > > grub> setup (hd0) > Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no > Checking if "/grub/stage1" exists... yes > Checking if "/grub/stage2" exists... yes > Checking if "/grub/e

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Can't load GNOME as user

2005-05-31 Thread Holly Bostick
Chris Woods schreef: > Holly Bostick wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>I can't stand it anymore, so I thought I'd fish here for ideas. >> >>The long and the short of it is that I cannot load the GNOME desktop as >>a user (works fine as root). > > > [...] > > I had this problem pretty persistently for a long

[gentoo-user] MyOSS Magazine - Edition 2 Available Now

2005-05-31 Thread Ow Mun Heng
Hi All, Just wanted to announce that MyOSS Magazine - Edition 2 (Oh My Gosh! It's Edition 2) is now officially hitting the street. This is a community driven project which aims to publish monthly. (Sorry if this is considered as spam). Open Source Power Management Power management is sort of l

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-05-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 01 Jun 2005 00:55:39 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > > Yes, it is optional, and worth disabling if you have problems. GRUB > > will bail out with no error message if you set an incorrect path for > > splashimage. > You're right, of course, Neil, but from the original post I believe we > a

[gentoo-user] Getting PCMCIA to work

2005-05-31 Thread Digby Tarvin
Hi all, I am in the process of trying to upgrade my trusty Libretto 110CT from SuSE Linux 7.3 (2.4.10 kernel) to the latest gentoo. Base system is now coming up fine, but my PCMCIA lan card is not being recognised. Any suggestions on where I should look? I did a manual config of the kernel, ena

Re: [gentoo-user] error "}." trying to migrate from r6 to r9 kernel

2005-05-31 Thread Ryan Viljoen
Hey Rob Did you use "make oldconfig" when compiling the r9 once you copied the .config over from r6? Also I gather you changed /usr/src/linux to point to r9's directory? If not: ** cd /usr/src rm linux ln -s ./ ./linux ***

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-05-31 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: > On Tue, 31 May 2005 14:51:49 -0700 (PDT), maxim wexler wrote: > > >>Whoa! IIRC splashimage is optional. Can somebody weigh >>in here? > > > Yes, it is optional, and worth disabling if you have problems. GRUB will > bail out with no error message if you set an incorrect

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Building and using binary packages with emerge/portage

2005-05-31 Thread Paul Varner
On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 21:35 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > On 5/30/05, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 10:13 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > On 5/30/05, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think those bi

[gentoo-user] Error when emerging ruby

2005-05-31 Thread Michael =?iso-8859-1?q?M=FCller?=
Hi! I have the following problem when I try to emerge ruby. The build fails with: - i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -shared -Wl,-soname,libruby18.so.1.8 array.o bignum.o class.o compar.o dir.o dln.o enum.o error.o eval.o file.o gc.o hash.o inits.o io.o marshal.o math.o numeric.o ob

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating RAID devices

2005-05-31 Thread Scott Storck
Emanuele Morozzi schrieb: Me: Hallo, I recently passed to udev, so now I cannot use my Raid. Gentoo si installed in /dev/hda. The Raid is a striping raid composed of /dev/sda /dev/sdb and consists of 4 partitions. I created it installing windows (work reason). The SATA cont

[gentoo-user] bandwidthd alternative

2005-05-31 Thread Miguel Miranda
Hi, im looking for a bandwidth monitor aplication, im using mrtg, but it only shows total values, i need a more granular option, that show me on a per ip basis, what ports, total bandwidth by ip, etc, i found banwidthd (http://bandwidthd.sourceforge.net/) Do you know any other alternative? --

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-05-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 31 May 2005 14:51:49 -0700 (PDT), maxim wexler wrote: > Whoa! IIRC splashimage is optional. Can somebody weigh > in here? Yes, it is optional, and worth disabling if you have problems. GRUB will bail out with no error message if you set an incorrect path for splashimage. -- Neil Bothw

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xscreensaver

2005-05-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 31 May 2005 10:16:55 +, Qv6 wrote: > Thanks, but I was referring to the screensaver that's built into kde. Then why did you put xscreensaver in the Subject? Just to confuse people? ;-/ > Emerge shows that I do not have kscreensaver or xscreensaver installed. If you use the monolithi

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-05-31 Thread maxim wexler
> choosing menu, then you'll need splashimage set in Whoa! IIRC splashimage is optional. Can somebody weigh in here? __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new Resources site http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ -- gentoo-user@g

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.4.1 released

2005-05-31 Thread Christoph Eckert
> Well, there is one reason...VMWare still doesn't support > ALSA, and the vmwaredsp wrapper library only works with esd > or artsd, so I have to keep one of them around. DMIX does not make the soundservers unnecessary. Why? A program which needs esound or arts or gstreamer or JACK cannot outpu

Re: [gentoo-user] Wi-Fi in a hostel

2005-05-31 Thread Sean Higgins
Grant, The latest version of wpa_supplicant can connect to unencrypted access points. You have to set ssid="". I am running version 0.4.1 and it is working for me. Sean On Friday 20 May 2005 10:04 pm, Grant wrote: > Hello, I'm going to stay in a hostel in San Fra

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox sage

2005-05-31 Thread maxim wexler
> How long did your sync today take, and does an I aborted after about 2hrs > emerge -up world or > emerge -ua world seem to indicate that it was > successful (that packages haven't done that one yet but a list of the portage tree(if that's what /usr/portage is supposed to be) indicated that mos

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Can't load GNOME as user

2005-05-31 Thread Chris Woods
Holly Bostick wrote: > Hi, > > I can't stand it anymore, so I thought I'd fish here for ideas. > > The long and the short of it is that I cannot load the GNOME desktop as > a user (works fine as root). [...] I had this problem pretty persistently for a long time. I believe what finally fixed it

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.4.1 released

2005-05-31 Thread Richard Fish
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >Hi, > >since all sound daemons suck, and setting up dmix is simple (exspecially with >latest alsa, where dmix is default), there is no reason to use a sound daemon >or not to use dmix. > > Well, there is one reason...VMWare still doesn't support ALSA, and the vmwa

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.4.1 released

2005-05-31 Thread Richard Fish
Andreas Karlsson wrote: >I actually don´t know. But all I use for sound is amaroK with gstreamer >outputting via alsa. Don´t see any need for arts there. As for the rest, I >do what I allways do - make make it up along the way. :) But reading this >thread further I might give dmix a try. > >

[gentoo-user] Re: modules-update - modprobe.conf/modules.conf broken

2005-05-31 Thread Mark Knecht
On 5/31/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > gandalf modules.d # cat /etc/modules.d/ivtv > alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c > alias char-major-81 videodev > alias char-major-81-0 ivtv > > modprobe tveeprom > modprobe ivtv ivtv_debug=1 tuner=57,57,57,57 > gandalf modules.d # OK, I find this

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.4.1 released

2005-05-31 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Hi, since all sound daemons suck, and setting up dmix is simple (exspecially with latest alsa, where dmix is default), there is no reason to use a sound daemon or not to use dmix. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Can't load GNOME as user

2005-05-31 Thread Edward A Mihalow Jr
Holly Bostick wrote: Hi, I can't stand it anymore, so I thought I'd fish here for ideas. The long and the short of it is that I cannot load the GNOME desktop as a user (works fine as root). The splash screen comes up, but only 2 icons show in the progress bar before the splash disappears-- Ses

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: subversion broken

2005-05-31 Thread Rumen Yotov
Greg Donald wrote: >On 5/31/05, Remy Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>This won't help you recover your repositories, but once you have done so >>(and I hope somebody can jump in and help you with it), migrate them to >>fsfs. No recovery ever needed, and it has never failed here. Easier to

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.4.1 released

2005-05-31 Thread Andreas Karlsson
On Tuesday 31 May 2005 20.36, Antonino Sabetta wrote: > Andreas Karlsson wrote: > > On Tuesday 31 May 2005 17.45, Antonino Sabetta wrote: > >>Andreas, > >>I do not see the relation between dumping Artsd and the -alsa switch. > >> Since I'm having big troubles trying to make things work with > >> al

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: subversion broken

2005-05-31 Thread Greg Donald
On 5/31/05, Remy Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This won't help you recover your repositories, but once you have done so > (and I hope somebody can jump in and help you with it), migrate them to > fsfs. No recovery ever needed, and it has never failed here. Easier to > backup, to. I have daily

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2005-05-31 Thread rob3
Hi all, I need some help migrating from the r6 to the r9 kernel. I copied my .config file into the r9 directory and tried to make menuconfig, but I just get the error message saying something to the effect that "}." is missing. What am I missing? Many Thanks, Rob -- gentoo-user@gentoo.or

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.4.1 released

2005-05-31 Thread Christoph Eckert
Hi, > Personally, I use dmix, every Distro should preconfigure DMIX now, it's the right thing. > although it can be a pain (lots of > trial and error) to get setup and working correctly. That's true :) . > I > also use artsd for KDE applications (except for amarok, > which works best with

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.4.1 released

2005-05-31 Thread Holly Bostick
Antonino Sabetta schreef: > Andreas Karlsson wrote: > >> On Tuesday 31 May 2005 17.45, Antonino Sabetta wrote: >> >>> Andreas, >>> I do not see the relation between dumping Artsd and the -alsa switch. >>> Since >>> I'm having big troubles trying to make things work with >>> alsa+dmix+arts, can >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.4.1 released

2005-05-31 Thread Richard Fish
Antonino Sabetta wrote: > Andreas Karlsson wrote: > >> On Tuesday 31 May 2005 17.45, Antonino Sabetta wrote: >> >>> Andreas, >>> I do not see the relation between dumping Artsd and the -alsa >>> switch. Since >>> I'm having big troubles trying to make things work with >>> alsa+dmix+arts, can >>> y

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.4.1 released

2005-05-31 Thread Rumen Yotov
Antonino Sabetta wrote: > Andreas Karlsson wrote: > >> On Tuesday 31 May 2005 17.45, Antonino Sabetta wrote: >> >>> Andreas, >>> I do not see the relation between dumping Artsd and the -alsa >>> switch. Since >>> I'm having big troubles trying to make things work with >>> alsa+dmix+arts, can >>> y

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-05-31 Thread Richard Fish
maxim wexler wrote: >>maybe you can try this, >>root (hd0,1) >>setup (hd0) >> >> > >That's better. But it still doesn't work. Staring at a >console right now telling me to please wait. > >grub> root (hd0,1) > Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 > >grub> setup (hd0) > Checking if "/b

Re: [gentoo-user] Good diagram app

2005-05-31 Thread Zac Medico
--- Bruno Lustosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello. > > I am in need of an application like Visio. I tried > messing with dia, > but it's still far from what I need, for it lacks > lots of useful > features. > What program do the list recommend? > Hi Bruno, Don't miss the Grumpy Editor's gui

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2005-05-31 Thread rob3
Thank you Red!! and the others who replied. I didn't know NSA Linux was now called SELinux, so that is where I goofed. I only recently have had some interest in this. I do understand the compartmentalized security model that they use, and that is what I am interested in. Many thanks again.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.4.1 released

2005-05-31 Thread Antonino Sabetta
Andreas Karlsson wrote: On Tuesday 31 May 2005 17.45, Antonino Sabetta wrote: Andreas, I do not see the relation between dumping Artsd and the -alsa switch. Since I'm having big troubles trying to make things work with alsa+dmix+arts, can you explain how do you intend to configure your sound sy

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Can't load GNOME as user

2005-05-31 Thread Daniel da Veiga
I faced a problem like this few weeks ago, it was a permission problem, some files and directories used by Gnome (at the user's home) had wrong permissions, all I had to do were some recursive chown and chgrp and it all worked fine, dunno if its your problem, but you should check it. On 5/31/05, H

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CFLAGS CPU optimization question.

2005-05-31 Thread Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales
Sorry for taking this long to answer. I suggest any unprivileged port that has no other service attached to it (I use 8022 on some machines). Script Kiddies won't event know it is there, or will try to hammer it with a wrong protocol, which will be useless. Of course, I might be wrong. If so, feel

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Can't load GNOME as user

2005-05-31 Thread =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fr=E9d=E9ric?= Grosshans
Le mardi 31 mai 2005 à 19:58 +0200, Holly Bostick a écrit : > Hi, > > I can't stand it anymore, so I thought I'd fish here for ideas. > > The long and the short of it is that I cannot load the GNOME desktop as > a user (works fine as root). I had the same problem yesterday, after having played wi

Re: [gentoo-user] Good diagram app

2005-05-31 Thread Luca Penasa
Bruno Lustosa wrote: Take a look at Inkscape. Many very nice features, some overlap with dia, some quite different. I emerged inkscape, but it's not quite what I need. Need something to draw flowcharts and diagrams. KOffice has just expanded with a new diagram tool called kivio . It

[gentoo-user] [OT] Can't load GNOME as user

2005-05-31 Thread Holly Bostick
Hi, I can't stand it anymore, so I thought I'd fish here for ideas. The long and the short of it is that I cannot load the GNOME desktop as a user (works fine as root). The splash screen comes up, but only 2 icons show in the progress bar before the splash disappears-- Sessions, and Window manag

[gentoo-user] modules-update - modprobe.conf/modules.conf broken

2005-05-31 Thread Mark Knecht
Hello, Darn I'm having a hard time lately. Thanks in advance. Something is very broken. I created a file called /etc/modules.d/ivtv. I have the following lines in it: gandalf modules.d # cat /etc/modules.d/ivtv alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c alias char-major-81 videodev alias char-major-81-0 ivtv

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-05-31 Thread ZeeGeek
On 6/1/05, maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > maybe you can try this, > > root (hd0,1) > > setup (hd0) > > That's better. But it still doesn't work. Staring at a > console right now telling me to please wait. > that's right, isn't it? it's working if you see the console giving you

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox sage

2005-05-31 Thread Holly Bostick
maxim wexler schreef: >>But isn't >> >>emerge --sync >> >>a different command from the more traditional >> >>emerge sync >> >>? > > > In An Intro to Portage it's emerge --sync and if that > fails, emerge-websync but that failed too. > > >>1) What is the speed of your Internet connection? > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Good diagram app

2005-05-31 Thread Bruno Lustosa
> Take a look at Inkscape. Many very nice features, some overlap with dia, > some quite different. I emerged inkscape, but it's not quite what I need. Need something to draw flowcharts and diagrams. > KOffice has just expanded with a new diagram tool called kivio . > It looked pretty good, almost

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-05-31 Thread maxim wexler
> > > maybe you can try this, > root (hd0,1) > setup (hd0) That's better. But it still doesn't work. Staring at a console right now telling me to please wait. grub> root (hd0,1) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 grub> setup (hd0) Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no Chec

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox sage

2005-05-31 Thread maxim wexler
> But isn't > > emerge --sync > > a different command from the more traditional > > emerge sync > > ? In An Intro to Portage it's emerge --sync and if that fails, emerge-websync but that failed too. > 1) What is the speed of your Internet connection? Slightly faster than I can type ;( > 2)

Re: [gentoo-user] Good diagram app

2005-05-31 Thread Holly Bostick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: > > > On Tue, 31 May 2005, Bruno Lustosa wrote: > >> Hello. >> >> I am in need of an application like Visio. I tried messing with dia, >> but it's still far from what I need, for it lacks lots of useful >> features. >> What program do the list recommend? > > > Take a

Re: [gentoo-user] Good diagram app

2005-05-31 Thread michael
On Tue, 31 May 2005, Bruno Lustosa wrote: Hello. I am in need of an application like Visio. I tried messing with dia, but it's still far from what I need, for it lacks lots of useful features. What program do the list recommend? Take a look at Inkscape. Many very nice features, some overlap

[gentoo-user] konqueror-su cant start kedit

2005-05-31 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
Konqueror as su has now lost the ability to start any editor. Anyone know how ot fix this? Mike -- Michael W. Holdeman Powered by Gentoo Linux www.gentoo.org | Kernel 2.6.11-ck8 | Win4Lin 5-1-20 netraverse.com | Win4Li

Re: [gentoo-user] Collision trouble with mailbase

2005-05-31 Thread Grant
> > Hello, I'm getting the following potential file collisions when trying > > to emerge the new mailbase on my server: > > > > * Checking for possible file collisions... > > * //etc/pam.d/pop3 exists and wasn't provided by mailbase > > * //etc/pam.d/imap exists and wasn't provided by mailbase >

Re: [gentoo-user] raid messages at boot time

2005-05-31 Thread Richard Fish
Christoph Gysin wrote: >Richard Fish wrote: > > >>I think a far better option would be to filter them in >>/etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf. Then you do not have to re-patch your >>kernel with every upgrade. >> >> > >This affects only output via syslog. During the md autorun, the kernel hasn't

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.4.1 released

2005-05-31 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
Some KDE releases ago I have tried to use -arts flag and met some difficulties (do not remeber exactly). Now, I use these rules: - do not use '-arts' flag anywhere - turn arts ("Sound Server") off in KDE Control Centre - ignore ALSA in a kernel source tree - use alsa-[kernel,lib,utils,oss,...] ins

[gentoo-user] Good diagram app

2005-05-31 Thread Bruno Lustosa
Hello. I am in need of an application like Visio. I tried messing with dia, but it's still far from what I need, for it lacks lots of useful features. What program do the list recommend? -- Bruno Lustosa, aka Lofofora | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Administrator/Web Programmer | ICQ

Re: [gentoo-user] Reiser4, encryption

2005-05-31 Thread Richard Fish
Colin wrote: > When will Reiser4 be added to the Gentoo kernel? I can emerge > reiser4progs, but I can't mount the volumes nor use them in /etc/fstab. > > Also, are there any good, journaled and encrypting filesystems for > Linux? I thought Reiser4 would have an encryption plugin; did I read >

Re: [gentoo-user] Clarification on iso downloads

2005-05-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 31 May 2005 11:55:57 -0400, Phil Sexton wrote: > > Thanks for the heads up on that. I am going to find out where I can > > get it and keep an eye out. I think that this would be the easiest > > way to go for sure. > > Check out: > http://www.edmunds-enterprises.com/linux/cart.php/ba/pls

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.4.1 released

2005-05-31 Thread Andreas Karlsson
On Tuesday 31 May 2005 18.18, Holly Bostick wrote: > Do you mean -alsa, or -arts? If the latter (which makes more sense, > given your first sentence), I hope not, as I am about to do the exact > same thing. I ment -arts +alsa. Thinking about one thing, typing another. :) > At least, I hope so, or

Re: [gentoo-user] Reiser4, encryption

2005-05-31 Thread Richard Fish
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: >Am Dienstag, 31. Mai 2005 07:56 schrieb ext Rumen Yotov: > > > >>Could also use loop-aes instead of dm-crypt, it's a kernel module. >> >> > >So is dm-crypt. And since it's based on device-mapper this should be the way >to go. And, it is fully supported on Gentoo. >

Re: Insulting People or Projects On The List [Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Reiser4, encryption]

2005-05-31 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 31 May 2005 11:26:31 -0400 fire-eyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Could we consider not insulting people or projects which people work | very hard on? Does that extend to Windows ME, or only to projects which have a fan-base? -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxb

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.4.1 released

2005-05-31 Thread Andreas Karlsson
On Tuesday 31 May 2005 17.45, Antonino Sabetta wrote: > Andreas, > I do not see the relation between dumping Artsd and the -alsa switch. Since > I'm having big troubles trying to make things work with alsa+dmix+arts, can > you explain how do you intend to configure your sound system? > Thanks, >

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.4.1 released

2005-05-31 Thread Holly Bostick
Andreas Karlsson schreef: > Hi, > > KDE 3.4.1 was released today: > > http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-3.4.1.php > > I am compiling it right now. Just a little question regarding aRTS. I > compiled > into 3.4.0 but now I have decided to dump it. Could there be any problem > compiling

Re: [gentoo-user] It's baaaaack...! (Python 2.4.1)

2005-05-31 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: > On Tue, 31 May 2005 17:06:55 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > > >>The short version is that, after my previous thread about removing an >>extra version of Python (2.4.1 when I already had 2.3.5 installed), >>Portage now wants to re-emerge Python 2.4.1, and I can't seem to pr

Re: [gentoo-user] Clarification on iso downloads

2005-05-31 Thread Phil Sexton
On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 11:44, cothrige wrote: > Thanks for the heads up on that. I am going to find out where I can > get it and keep an eye out. I think that this would be the easiest > way to go for sure. Check out: http://www.edmunds-enterprises.com/linux/cart.php/ba/plst/category/18 -- Phi

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