Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage

2005-07-19 Thread Rumen Yotov
Holly Bostick wrote: James schreef: Holly Bostick planet.nl> writes: Possibly your .wav file is in fact 'inappropriately encoded'? Does it burn if you use -data instead of -audio? Hello Holly, If you read the threads, I start out trying to k3b working. I have not used cdrecord, so it

Re: [gentoo-user] Xwindows stopped working. No errors in Xorg log file.

2005-07-19 Thread Richard Fish
Daevid Vincent wrote: I run a pretty stable system. I do however run ~x86 for KDE and Gnome. Something changed recently in an "emerge -Davu world" or "system" that causes X to not start anymore? The Xorg log below doesn't have any errors or warnings or anything. There are no unresolved symbols a

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash problems

2005-07-19 Thread Richard Fish
LostSon wrote: On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 23:31 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: Christoph Eckert schreef: I checked this per your instructions as well and no it hasnt cut it off its all on one line. Still no luck im still just getting the cant open config file on /etc/splash error and fd0 crap,

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3

2005-07-19 Thread Richard Fish
James Hiscock wrote: i think the line Filesystem features: has_journal resize_inode filetype needs_recovery can help me, but i dont know how... any idea about wich feature i can desable ? I think you're right, but as I said, I'm kinda out of my depth, now. ...but, you may want to pa

Re: [gentoo-user] Xwindows stopped working. No errors in Xorg log file.

2005-07-19 Thread Bob Sanders
On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 14:57:47 -0700 "Daevid Vincent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I run a pretty stable system. I do however run ~x86 for KDE and Gnome. > Something changed recently in an "emerge -Davu world" or "system" that > causes X to not start anymore? If you are not doing the script updates

Re: [gentoo-user] P4P800 - Intel ICH5R - data recovery?

2005-07-19 Thread Patrick Rutkowski
On Tuesday 19 July 2005 19:37, José Pedro Saraiva wrote: > Thanks for the reply Colin =) > > > If you remember your stripe size, then you should be able to plug > > your drives into any ICH5R-based motherboard and get your data back. > > Theoretically, you could plug your drives into any RAID whose

Re: [gentoo-user] P4P800 - Intel ICH5R - data recovery?

2005-07-19 Thread Colin
On Jul 19, 2005, at 7:37 PM, José Pedro Saraiva wrote: Thanks for the reply Colin =) If you remember your stripe size, then you should be able to plug your drives into any ICH5R-based motherboard and get your data back. Theoretically, you could plug your drives into any RAID whose BIOS does

Re: [gentoo-user] P4P800 - Intel ICH5R - data recovery?

2005-07-19 Thread José Pedro Saraiva
Thanks for the reply Colin =) > If you remember your stripe size, then you should be able to plug > your drives into any ICH5R-based motherboard and get your data back. > Theoretically, you could plug your drives into any RAID whose BIOS > does not write to the disks when creating an array and the

Re: [gentoo-user] Ybind problems - doesn't like YP server

2005-07-19 Thread Antonio Souto
Hopes it helps: I use at my clients: labo20 ~ # cat /etc/yp.conf domain pipca server 10.13.10.235 labo20 ~ # cat /etc/nisdomainname pipca labo20 ~ # cat /etc/nsswitch.conf passwd: files nisplus nis shadow: files nisplus nis group:  files nisplus nis hosts:  files nisplus nis dn

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash problems

2005-07-19 Thread Christoph Eckert
Thanks Richard, > So, this means you have the framebuffer device and fbsplash > working...just not at kernel boot time.  This probably > means you do not have the right kernel options for initrd > loading, or a bad grub configuration.  Could you post your > dmesg output...specifically looking for

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash problems

2005-07-19 Thread Holly Bostick
LostSon schreef: On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 23:31 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: Christoph Eckert schreef: I checked this per your instructions as well and no it hasnt cut it off its all on one line. Still no luck im still just getting the cant open config file on /etc/splash error and fd0 crap,

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash problems

2005-07-19 Thread LostSon
On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 23:31 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > Christoph Eckert schreef: > >> I checked this per your instructions as well and no it > >>hasnt cut it off its all on one line. Still no luck im > >>still just getting the cant open config file on /etc/splash > >>error and fd0 crap, heh > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging gentoo-kernel 2.4.20-gentoo-r31

2005-07-19 Thread Thomas Drueke
Hi all, thanks all for the help. BR Thomas Am Montag, den 18.07.2005, 22:44 +0200 schrieb Benno Schulenberg: > Thomas Drueke wrote: > > I want to emerge gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r31 but it has been > > deleted from the rsync repository. > > > > Is there a way to get the corresponding ebuild-file ba

[gentoo-user] Xwindows stopped working. No errors in Xorg log file.

2005-07-19 Thread Daevid Vincent
I run a pretty stable system. I do however run ~x86 for KDE and Gnome. Something changed recently in an "emerge -Davu world" or "system" that causes X to not start anymore? The Xorg log below doesn't have any errors or warnings or anything. There are no unresolved symbols as the message says. I did

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash problems

2005-07-19 Thread Richard Fish
Christoph Eckert wrote: I checked this per your instructions as well and no it hasnt cut it off its all on one line. Still no luck im still just getting the cant open config file on /etc/splash error and fd0 crap, heh same for me. I've been playing the whole evening eith different settin

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3

2005-07-19 Thread James Hiscock
> i think the line > Filesystem features: has_journal resize_inode filetype needs_recovery > can help me, but i dont know how... any idea about wich feature i can > desable ? I think you're right, but as I said, I'm kinda out of my depth, now. ...but, you may want to pay attention to that "n

Re: [gentoo-user] Digest verification Failed

2005-07-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 10:48:10 -0700, Daevid Vincent wrote: > I would use --skipfirst, but that doesn't work with "emerge -Davu > world"... *sigh*. --skipfirst only works in conjunction with --resume emerge -avuD world something fails emerge --resume --skipfirst -- Neil Bothwick Another casual

Re: [gentoo-user] P4P800 - Intel ICH5R - data recovery?

2005-07-19 Thread Colin
On Jul 19, 2005, at 5:16 PM, José Pedro Saraiva wrote: Hi, I know this isn't a gentoo related question so forgive me, but I trust on the gentoo mailing list to give me a hand... I have a Asus P4P800 motherboard that recently became useless (plain broken, don't know why, no boot, no BIOS, noth

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash problems

2005-07-19 Thread Holly Bostick
Christoph Eckert schreef: I checked this per your instructions as well and no it hasnt cut it off its all on one line. Still no luck im still just getting the cant open config file on /etc/splash error and fd0 crap, heh Umm... pardon me for asking, but you've said at least twice that an error

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash problems

2005-07-19 Thread Christoph Eckert
>  Yeah its been 3 days here building kernels with different > options and the like im about to give up on it. I have my > terminal set at 1024x768 anyway which looks nice by itself, > i just thought this would be interesting to try and see > what it looks like, but im starting to think it isnt wo

[gentoo-user] P4P800 - Intel ICH5R - data recovery?

2005-07-19 Thread José Pedro Saraiva
Hi, I know this isn't a gentoo related question so forgive me, but I trust on the gentoo mailing list to give me a hand... I have a Asus P4P800 motherboard that recently became useless (plain broken, don't know why, no boot, no BIOS, nothing). I had 2x120 GB SATA hard drives connected with RAID 0

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash problems

2005-07-19 Thread LostSon
On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 23:10 +0200, Christoph Eckert wrote: > > I checked this per your instructions as well and no it > > hasnt cut it off its all on one line. Still no luck im > > still just getting the cant open config file on /etc/splash > > error and fd0 crap, heh > > same for me. I've been p

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto speed up compilations

2005-07-19 Thread Zac Medico
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Speeding_up_portage That's a portage optimization rather than a compilation optimization. If you're doing portage optimization then you might also want to put /var/cache/edb/dep on a special filesystem. In fact, portage supports depcache

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash problems

2005-07-19 Thread Christoph Eckert
>  I checked this per your instructions as well and no it > hasnt cut it off its all on one line. Still no luck im > still just getting the cant open config file on /etc/splash > error and fd0 crap, heh same for me. I've been playing the whole evening eith different settings but no result. Inte

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash problems

2005-07-19 Thread LostSon
On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 21:45 +0100, Tony Davison wrote: > On Tuesday 19 July 2005 21:27, charly ghislain wrote: > > On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 22:12:38 +0200, Richard Fish > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > wrote: > > > LostSon wrote: > > >> On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 20:44 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: > > >>> LostS

Re: [gentoo-user] safe devfs -> udev migration

2005-07-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 19 July 2005 19:10, Richard P. Groenewegen wrote: > All, > > During the gentoo installation I had very nasty error messages after > the first reboot. The partition table of my harddisk was unreadable > and the file system could not be mounted. > > Installation of devfs solved it, but, a

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash problems

2005-07-19 Thread Tony Davison
On Tuesday 19 July 2005 21:27, charly ghislain wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 22:12:38 +0200, Richard Fish > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > LostSon wrote: > >> On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 20:44 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: > >>> LostSon wrote: > Hello I am trying to get fbsplash to work and am stuck

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage

2005-07-19 Thread Holly Bostick
James schreef: Holly Bostick planet.nl> writes: Possibly your .wav file is in fact 'inappropriately encoded'? Does it burn if you use -data instead of -audio? Hello Holly, If you read the threads, I start out trying to k3b working. I have not used cdrecord, so it's quite possible (stat

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Determining the current runlevel

2005-07-19 Thread michael
On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, YoYo Siska wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:21:25 +0200, Remy Blank wrote: # cat /var/lib/init.d/softlevel default That's it! Many thanks. I usualy do: source /etc/conf.d/rc rl=`cat "$svcdir/softlevel"` just to be sure... ;) or directly source /

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash problems

2005-07-19 Thread charly ghislain
On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 22:12:38 +0200, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: LostSon wrote: On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 20:44 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: LostSon wrote: Hello I am trying to get fbsplash to work and am stuck. I have followed the directions on the gentoo-wiki site but still no

Re: [gentoo-user] python / porthole thing

2005-07-19 Thread Martins Steinbergs
thank you, just needed to be shure, 'cause i like porthole to maintain updates and such on my box. Martins > > > > > > Martins > > Generally, when something is deprecated, it's no cause for immediate > concern. It only means that the feature/api may not be supported sometime > in the future. T

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash problems

2005-07-19 Thread Richard Fish
LostSon wrote: On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 20:44 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: LostSon wrote: Hello I am trying to get fbsplash to work and am stuck. I have followed the directions on the gentoo-wiki site but still no luck. Im using vesafb with a 2.6.12-r6 kernel. my grub.conf looks like this

Re: [gentoo-user] After attempting fb'ing with nvidia, xfce fonts are tiny.

2005-07-19 Thread Richard Fish
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I started out compiling 2.6.12-r6 with frame buffer support adding in vesafb. Tried various grub lines at various res's, got nothing but distorted console fonts (started 1/3 way over on screen w/ wrap around plus a duplication on the line at the start, only the very t

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash problems

2005-07-19 Thread LostSon
On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 20:44 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: > > LostSon wrote: > > > Hello > > I am trying to get fbsplash to work and am stuck. I have followed the > >directions on the gentoo-wiki site but still no luck. Im using vesafb > >with a 2.6.12-r6 kernel. my grub.conf looks like this > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] After attempting fb'ing with nvidia, xfce fonts are tiny.

2005-07-19 Thread Richard Fish
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Others have suggested expliciting setting the dpi in xorg.conf but again, I never had to do that before so why now? Right now its 75x75 dpi. I have no idea what it was before this font issue. And does this work for you? Or do you still have issues with fonts? FYI,

Re: [gentoo-user] After attempting fb'ing with nvidia, xfce fonts are tiny.

2005-07-19 Thread Tero Grundström
On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My question is, you know in gnome-terminal you can select whether to use "system terminal font", what font is this? it seems to be the issue. I *could* simply increase the font size in all affected apps but I shouldnt have to do that. It is your Te

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage

2005-07-19 Thread James
Holly Bostick planet.nl> writes: > Possibly your .wav file is in fact 'inappropriately encoded'? Does it > burn if you use -data instead of -audio? Hello Holly, If you read the threads, I start out trying to k3b working. I have not used cdrecord, so it's quite possible (statistically probabl

Re: [gentoo-user] python / porthole thing

2005-07-19 Thread Zac Medico
Martins Steinbergs wrote: hi starting porthole I get these warnings # porthole /usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gnome/vfs.py:4: DeprecationWarning: Module gnome.vfs is deprecated; please import gnomevfs instead DeprecationWarning) /usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/porthole/summar

[gentoo-user] python / porthole thing

2005-07-19 Thread Martins Steinbergs
hi starting porthole I get these warnings # porthole /usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gnome/vfs.py:4: DeprecationWarning: Module gnome.vfs is deprecated; please import gnomevfs instead DeprecationWarning) /usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/porthole/summary.py:37: GtkDeprecationWarni

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: keys that don't create keycodes

2005-07-19 Thread Patrick Börjesson
On 05/07/19 17:31, Petr Kocmid wrote: > On Tuesday 19 of July 2005 08:56, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > It seems that every multimedia keyboard out there (especially the usb > > ones) have some or all "extra" keys that just aren't visible outside of > > Winblows. > > > > I have a couple of them! I've t

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get new XP into Samba domain

2005-07-19 Thread Patrick
Op di, 19-07-2005 te 20:44 +0200, schreef Patrick: > Hi, > > I have a Samba domain with two XP Prof machines into it. With a new > Windows XP Prof sp2 machine, i get this message if the user wants to > logon: > > The system cannnot log you on due to the following error: > A device attached to the

Re: [gentoo-user] safe devfs -> udev migration

2005-07-19 Thread brettholcomb
I used the steps on the Gentoo docs. They also link to some udev site. Essentially 1. Set up kernel not to autostart devfs (when everything is okay you can remove devfs from the kernel) 2. emerge udev 3. I modified /etc/conf.d/rc (I think it was) to have a devfs and a udev version. The udev

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3

2005-07-19 Thread Bruno Gola
James Hiscock wrote: >>It stills in trouble (with -C it does not work, so i tryied man tune2fs >>and i found out that it should be -O)... any idea ? >> >> > >My guess? I wrote down the wrong option. Wouldn't really >surprise me - I tend to reply to these things first thing in the >morning, an

[gentoo-user] After attempting fb'ing with nvidia, xfce fonts are tiny.

2005-07-19 Thread cafairle
So I started out compiling 2.6.12-r6 with frame buffer support adding in vesafb. Tried various grub lines at various res's, got nothing but distorted console fonts (started 1/3 way over on screen w/ wrap around plus a duplication on the line at the start, only the very top line of the screen displ

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash problems

2005-07-19 Thread Richard Fish
Ramón Gutiérrez wrote: I think the Fbsplash isnt working in 2.6-rx dont know why but i cant get it to work neither. WFM with the emergence theme and 2.6.12-gentoo-r5 (r2-r4 were also ok). I have a Radeon mobility 9600 and am using the radeonfb driver. Unfortunately my initrd is highly cust

[gentoo-user] Can't get new XP into Samba domain

2005-07-19 Thread Patrick
Hi, I have a Samba domain with two XP Prof machines into it. With a new Windows XP Prof sp2 machine, i get this message if the user wants to logon: The system cannnot log you on due to the following error: A device attached to the system is not functioning. This is also if i want to use a existi

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash problems

2005-07-19 Thread Richard Fish
LostSon wrote: Hello I am trying to get fbsplash to work and am stuck. I have followed the directions on the gentoo-wiki site but still no luck. Im using vesafb with a 2.6.12-r6 kernel. my grub.conf looks like this title=Gentoo-2.6.12-r6-fbsplash root (hd0,0) kernel (hd0,0)/boot/bzImage.ne

[gentoo-user] whither booting into single user mode

2005-07-19 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Previously I could boot into single user mode with the following line in grub kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.8-gentoo-r3 root=/dev/hdc7 single After a recent emerge sync and update of world, the above is just a normal multiuser boot. I can use kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.8-gentoo-r3 root=/

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash problems

2005-07-19 Thread Christoph Eckert
> So after spending a day messing with and research fb'ing, i > gots nothing but messed up fonts in xfce which i'm STILL > trying to fix and actaully, i might send a email to the > list about it please do so, I have the same troubles :( . Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailin

RE: [gentoo-user] Digest verification Failed

2005-07-19 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Anyone know why the digests are failing so frequently? Are they packaged > poorly? Is it the mirror I'm getting them from? But then that begs the > question, aren't the mirrors synchronized and MD5 verified with each > other? > Shouldn't TCP/IP be safe in that it retries a packet until it gets it

[gentoo-user] Digest verification Failed

2005-07-19 Thread Daevid Vincent
It seems lately (within the past few months), I am seeing a lot more of these: !!! Digest verification Failed: !!!/usr/portage/distfiles/foo-1.2.3.tar.gz !!! Reason: Failed on MD5 verification The problem (aside from the obvious) is that portage just shits the bed and doesn't try to re-get th

[gentoo-user] safe devfs -> udev migration

2005-07-19 Thread Richard P. Groenewegen
All, During the gentoo installation I had very nasty error messages after the first reboot. The partition table of my harddisk was unreadable and the file system could not be mounted. Installation of devfs solved it, but, as I can tell from the mailing list devfs is obsolete. **What is a sa

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash problems

2005-07-19 Thread cafairle
If you use the nvidia driver, you might have problems. I tried using fbsplash with 2.6.12-r6 and -r4 using vidia 7667 drivers, but no luck with rivafb, vesafb or nvidiafb. I then searched nvidia forums and read their readme and apparently their driver deosnt support framebuffering very well. So af

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash problems

2005-07-19 Thread LostSon
On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 17:50 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > LostSon schreef: > > Hello > > I am trying to get fbsplash to work and am stuck. I have followed the > > directions on the gentoo-wiki site but still no luck. Im using vesafb > > with a 2.6.12-r6 kernel. my grub.conf looks like this > >

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash problems

2005-07-19 Thread Holly Bostick
LostSon schreef: Hello I am trying to get fbsplash to work and am stuck. I have followed the directions on the gentoo-wiki site but still no luck. Im using vesafb with a 2.6.12-r6 kernel. my grub.conf looks like this title=Gentoo-2.6.12-r6-fbsplash root (hd0,0) kernel (hd0,0)/boot/bzImage.n

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash problems

2005-07-19 Thread Ramón Gutiérrez
I think the Fbsplash isnt working in 2.6-rx dont know why but i cant get it to work neither. On 7/19/05, LostSon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: HelloI am trying to get fbsplash to work and am stuck. I have followed thedirections on the gentoo-wiki site but still no luck. Im using vesafb with a 2.6.12-r

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: keys that don't create keycodes

2005-07-19 Thread Petr Kocmid
On Tuesday 19 of July 2005 08:56, Iain Buchanan wrote: > It seems that every multimedia keyboard out there (especially the usb > ones) have some or all "extra" keys that just aren't visible outside of > Winblows. > > I have a couple of them! I've tried all the usual ways of detecting > them - xev

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Installation

2005-07-19 Thread Holly Bostick
Rumen Yotov schreef: Hi, Beside this official Gentoo installer, there's another distro based on Gentoo, which uses "anaconda" as graphical installer, current version seems to be 1.1 - it's called VidaLinux google for the site. Never tried it, so no experience. But it was paid for a Pro/Full

Re: [gentoo-user] howto install gentoo without a cd-rom

2005-07-19 Thread Patrick Rutkowski
On Tuesday 19 July 2005 03:47, simply change wrote: > hi! > > dear friends, > > i have an old pentium2 laptop without a cdrom. it has a 1 LAN port(I HAVE A > ADSL LINE) + floppy driver. now i need to install gentoo to my lap. so can > any body to help me to do this? You could always try booting th

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Installation

2005-07-19 Thread Patrick Rutkowski
On Tuesday 19 July 2005 03:31, Mark Humphrey wrote: > Does Gentoo have any sort of GUI for installation? I've followed the > Gentoo Handbook, but a GUI would obviously be nicer. > > > > Email Disclaimer > http://www.aplitec.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm Suffer through the terminal only install a few t

[gentoo-user] fbsplash problems

2005-07-19 Thread LostSon
Hello I am trying to get fbsplash to work and am stuck. I have followed the directions on the gentoo-wiki site but still no luck. Im using vesafb with a 2.6.12-r6 kernel. my grub.conf looks like this title=Gentoo-2.6.12-r6-fbsplash root (hd0,0) kernel (hd0,0)/boot/bzImage.new25 root=/dev/hda3

Re: [gentoo-user] howto install gentoo without a cd-rom

2005-07-19 Thread Petr Kocmid
On Tuesday 19 of July 2005 09:47, simply change wrote: > i have an old pentium2 laptop without a cdrom. it has a 1 LAN port(I HAVE A > ADSL LINE) + floppy driver. now i need to install gentoo to my lap. so can > any body to help me to do this? Last week I did it on ancient p/mmx omnibook 800 which

[gentoo-user] Unicode error in bugzilla

2005-07-19 Thread Bruno Lustosa
Hello, I emerged bugzilla yesterday, using postgresql as database. However, I can't enter any accented characters anywhere (bugs description, name, subject, etc). It will give me the following error: Software error: DBD::Pg::st execute failed: ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UNICODE":

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Installation

2005-07-19 Thread Rumen Yotov
Mark Humphrey wrote: Zac Medico wrote: Mark Humphrey wrote: Does Gentoo have any sort of GUI for installation? I've followed the Gentoo Handbook, but a GUI would obviously be nicer. Yes, it's the "Gentoo Installer" project: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/installer/ Ac

[gentoo-user] Ybind problems - doesn't like YP server

2005-07-19 Thread Jim Hatfield
We have a Solaris based YP server. On a fresh install I set /etc/yp.conf to: domain insignia broadcast and set NISDOMAIN to "insignia" in /etc/conf.d/domainname. If I run "ypbind -debug" I get: >speyburn ~ # ypbind -debug >parsing config file >Trying entry: domain insignia broadcast >parsed dom

Re: [gentoo-user] Determining the current runlevel

2005-07-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:30:47 +0100, Richard Brown wrote: > rc-status -nc | head -n 1 | cut -c11- OK, that's the third way of doing it so far, any more? ;-) -- Neil Bothwick I only shoot IBM's to put them out of their misery. pgpmGC2dIsbBz.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3

2005-07-19 Thread James Hiscock
> It stills in trouble (with -C it does not work, so i tryied man tune2fs > and i found out that it should be -O)... any idea ? My guess? I wrote down the wrong option. Wouldn't really surprise me - I tend to reply to these things first thing in the morning, and I'm rarely entirely awake. ;) > n

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Determining the current runlevel

2005-07-19 Thread YoYo Siska
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:21:25 +0200, Remy Blank wrote: > > >># cat /var/lib/init.d/softlevel >>default > > > That's it! Many thanks. I usualy do: source /etc/conf.d/rc rl=`cat "$svcdir/softlevel"` just to be sure... ;) or directly source /sbin/functions.sh rl=`cat "$sv

Re: [gentoo-user] gzip segmentation fault

2005-07-19 Thread Glenn Enright
On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 16:56, Zac Medico wrote: > Glenn Enright wrote: > > gzip seg faults when uncompressing. Man and info pages work fine as do > > emerges, and after recompiling zlib, glibc and some other stuff, I still > > have no clue what the problem is. > > > > Before you ask I'm not running yp

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc (was: howto install gentoo without a cd-rom)

2005-07-19 Thread Christoph Gysin
John Blinka wrote: > I've almost got this laptop functioning under gentoo, but the compile > times are horrendously long. Hence this question: Can I use distcc > to speed it up? I have 3 other machines already using distcc, but they > are more modern; their /etc/make.conf contains: > > CFLAGS="

Re: [gentoo-user] howto install gentoo without a cd-rom

2005-07-19 Thread John Blinka
Nick Rout wrote: basically you need a floppy that will allow you to: 1. boot with networking going 2. create and mount your filesystems 3. download a stage file 4. unzip it (specifically bzip2, although if the floppy only has gzip ot zip you an repack your stage file) 5. chroot into the new fil

Re: [gentoo-user] Determining the current runlevel

2005-07-19 Thread Richard Brown
On 19/07/05, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 18:03:53 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > > > I'm sure I've seen this mentioned before, but can't find it. I need a > > > way to find the current Gentoo runlevel (not the numeric one) in a > > > script. I can check the level

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Determining the current runlevel

2005-07-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:21:25 +0200, Remy Blank wrote: > # cat /var/lib/init.d/softlevel > default That's it! Many thanks. -- Neil Bothwick EMail - garbage at the speed of light. pgpUynG4gFfXb.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Determining the current runlevel

2005-07-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 18:03:53 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > I'm sure I've seen this mentioned before, but can't find it. I need a > > way to find the current Gentoo runlevel (not the numeric one) in a > > script. I can check the level booted by grepping /proc/cmdline, but > > that fails if the runl

Re: [gentoo-user] Daily dumb question... chron.

2005-07-19 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
Bob Sanders wrote: Are thse system tasks supposed to be fired automatically by fcron? Yes. In the ebuild it says - einfo "To activate /etc/cron.{hourly|daily|weekly|montly} please run: " einfo "crontab /etc/crontab" I hadn't seen that message - but then again, when I inst

[gentoo-user] Re: Determining the current runlevel

2005-07-19 Thread Remy Blank
Neil Bothwick wrote: > I'm sure I've seen this mentioned before, but can't find it. I need a way > to find the current Gentoo runlevel (not the numeric one) in a script. I > can check the level booted by grepping /proc/cmdline, but that fails if > the runlevel was subsequently changed with rc. # c

Re: [gentoo-user] Determining the current runlevel

2005-07-19 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 10:32 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > I'm sure I've seen this mentioned before, but can't find it. I need a way > to find the current Gentoo runlevel (not the numeric one) in a script. I > can check the level booted by grepping /proc/cmdline, but that fails if > the runlevel was

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto speed up compilations

2005-07-19 Thread Rafer
On Monday 18 July 2005 19:07, John J. Foster wrote: > Good afternoon all, > > A few weeks ago I read in one of the newgroups a way to greatly decrease > compilation times. The author noted that this was particularly noticable > when working with something like OO. The general jist of it was to > cr

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Installation

2005-07-19 Thread Mark Humphrey
Zac Medico wrote: > Mark Humphrey wrote: > >> Does Gentoo have any sort of GUI for installation? I've followed the >> Gentoo Handbook, but a GUI would obviously be nicer. >> > > Yes, it's the "Gentoo Installer" project: > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/installer/ > > According to their roa

[gentoo-user] Determining the current runlevel

2005-07-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
I'm sure I've seen this mentioned before, but can't find it. I need a way to find the current Gentoo runlevel (not the numeric one) in a script. I can check the level booted by grepping /proc/cmdline, but that fails if the runlevel was subsequently changed with rc. -- Neil Bothwick Don't forget

Re: [gentoo-user] howto install gentoo without a cd-rom

2005-07-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 13:47:03 +0600, simply change wrote: > i have an old pentium2 laptop without a cdrom. it has a 1 LAN port(I > HAVE A ADSL LINE) + floppy driver. now i need to install gentoo to my > lap. so can any body to help me to do this? Considering how long compilation would take on thi

[gentoo-user] cannot emerge iptraf

2005-07-19 Thread Javier Uribe
Hi, yes, cannot install iptraf in my system the code error is: >>> md5 files ;-) iptraf-2.7.0-r1.ebuild >>> md5 files ;-) files/digest-iptraf-2.7.0-r1 >>> md5 files ;-) files/iptraf-2.7.0-atheros.patch >>> md5 src_uri ;-) iptraf-2.7.0.tar.gz >>> md5 src_uri ;-) iptraf-2.7.0-ipv6-alpha11.d

[gentoo-user] gdm/gnome auto logout (sorry for possible repetition)

2005-07-19 Thread Nick Rout
Someone posted to my lug recently about a problem with gnome or gdm seeming to automatically log them out after a period of time. I vaguely recall this being discussed here a few months ago. I have searched my own email folder and the archives, but cannot find the right thread or a solution. Anyon

Re: [gentoo-user] howto install gentoo without a cd-rom

2005-07-19 Thread Nick Rout
On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 13:47 +0600, simply change wrote: > hi! > > dear friends, > > i have an old pentium2 laptop without a cdrom. it has a 1 LAN port(I > HAVE A ADSL LINE) + floppy driver. now i need to install gentoo to my > lap. so can any body to help me to do this? There is a howto on t

Re: [gentoo-user] howto install gentoo without a cd-rom

2005-07-19 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 19. Juli 2005 09:47 schrieb ext simply change: > i have an old pentium2 laptop without a cdrom. it has a 1 LAN port(I HAVE > A ADSL LINE) + floppy driver. now i need to install gentoo to my lap. so > can any body to help me to do this? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml shou

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Installation

2005-07-19 Thread Zac Medico
Mark Humphrey wrote: Does Gentoo have any sort of GUI for installation? I've followed the Gentoo Handbook, but a GUI would obviously be nicer. Yes, it's the "Gentoo Installer" project: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/installer/ According to their roadmap they have already completed a fu

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Installation

2005-07-19 Thread Nick Rout
On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 09:31 +0200, Mark Humphrey wrote: > Does Gentoo have any sort of GUI for installation? I've followed the > Gentoo Handbook, but a GUI would obviously be nicer. There is a project, the name of which escapes me, which does makes a gui installer, using the redhat installer as a

[gentoo-user] howto install gentoo without a cd-rom

2005-07-19 Thread simply change
hi! dear friends, i have an old pentium2 laptop without a cdrom. it has a 1 LAN port(I HAVE A ADSL LINE) + floppy driver.  now i need to install gentoo to my lap. so can any body to help me to do this? -- ..."The future lies ahead." ___< Have you mooed today? > ---

[gentoo-user] Gentoo Installation

2005-07-19 Thread Mark Humphrey
Does Gentoo have any sort of GUI for installation? I've followed the Gentoo Handbook, but a GUI would obviously be nicer. Email Disclaimer http://www.aplitec.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] slow redrawing in KDE

2005-07-19 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Richard Fish wrote: You might take a walk through the KDE option menus and disable anything that says "drop shadows", "transparency", or most other eye-candy. I had done that already. But I like eye-candy, or I might as well use a minimalistic wm... (I didn't get shadow

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot get TV Card to work

2005-07-19 Thread W.Kenworthy
Is the user a member of the video group, does it work as root? BillK On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 17:54 +1200, Jamie Dobbs wrote: > Nick Rout wrote: > > >Jamie. we seem to be following each other around the mailing lists. CLUG, > >mythtv, now here. > > > >You seem to have all the modules loaded, what

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot get TV Card to work

2005-07-19 Thread W.Kenworthy
Hi Jaimie, its obviously talking to the tuner ok, so the problems further on (maybe). Did you try and set the setnorm, setinput and setfreqtab values? I have found that some apps (such as gnomemeeting) dont always select the input you want until it eventually dawns on you that its set to somethin

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge libdvdcss - ACCESS DENIED Error

2005-07-19 Thread Emanuele Morozzi
Try USE="-doc" emerge libdvdcss Michael W. Holdeman wrote: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98854 On Monday 18 July 2005 01:53 pm, Kurt Guenther wrote: I've been getting this starting last week Thursday (?). Any ideas? --Kurt (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/t1enc.def)) Writing ind

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot get TV Card to work

2005-07-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 17:54 +1200, Jamie Dobbs wrote: > Output of xawtv -c /dev/video0 [snip] > v4l: open /dev/video0: Permission denied are you in the video group? $ grep video /etc/group and make sure it looks something like video::27:root,jamie you can edit /etc/group with any editor, but b