Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia drivers and a Geforce FX-5200 card.

2009-04-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 02 April 2009 06:16:37 Mike Kazantsev wrote: > On Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:43:21 -0500 > > Dale wrote: > > > KH konstantinhansen.de> writes: > > >> Q: Why is top-posting evil? > > >> A: .backwards read don't humans because > > > > OK. Everyone that hates top posting please reply with a +1

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge options question

2009-04-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 01 April 2009 21:44:30 Andrew Syrewicze wrote: > Hello all, > > I followed the gentoo instructions to properly update to the new version > of GCC. I read from other posts that it isn't truly nessecary to > re-emerge any packages for this particular upgrade, but i'm still fairly > new t

Re: [gentoo-user] installing gentoo using systemrescuecd and wifi

2009-04-01 Thread Sebastian Günther
* maxim wexler (bliss...@yahoo.com) [02.04.09 01:04]: > > > > > > > Can anybody help? I hate Xandros, it reminds me of > > Win98! > > > > Well: use Xandros to install gentoo. > > Xandros has already used up *all* of the HD on one partition. I can't > format the drive without destroying the OS

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia drivers and a Geforce FX-5200 card.

2009-04-01 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:43:21 -0500 Dale wrote: > > KH konstantinhansen.de> writes: > > > >> Q: Why is top-posting evil? > >> A: .backwards read don't humans because > > OK. Everyone that hates top posting please reply with a +1. I'll start. > > +1 No top posting please. I think that who

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia drivers and a Geforce FX-5200 card.

2009-04-01 Thread Dale
James wrote: > KH konstantinhansen.de> writes: > > > > >> Q: Why is top-posting evil? >> A: .backwards read don't humans because >> > > Well, about 98% of linux folks like the > ease of reading and following the thread > down the posting. It's also just a standard > convention, not often

Re: [gentoo-user] umask 002 in /etc/profile

2009-04-01 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:03 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 01 April 2009 16:55:31 Mark David Dumlao wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Steven Lembark wrote: >> > That was the idea, RH did it that way a dozen >> > years ago for exactly the reason you mention: >> > dir mods of 027

[gentoo-user] Re: Emerge options question

2009-04-01 Thread ABCD
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Syrewicze wrote: > I ran emerge -eav system followed by emerge -eav world. Needless to say > this produced several packages that needed to be rebuilt. 168 for system > and 630 for world. > > My main question is what exactly does the -e option

[gentoo-user] Emerge options question

2009-04-01 Thread Andrew Syrewicze
Hello all, I followed the gentoo instructions to properly update to the new version of GCC. I read from other posts that it isn't truly nessecary to re-emerge any packages for this particular upgrade, but i'm still fairly new to Gentoo so i figured i'd do it just for the practice. so anyway, I r

Re: [gentoo-user] installing gentoo using systemrescuecd and wifi

2009-04-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 2 Apr 2009 00:12:03 +0200, Sebastian Günther wrote: > Well: use Xandros to install gentoo. No gcc, no chroot, no good. I used eeXbuntu to install mine. -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 33: American history signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] installing gentoo using systemrescuecd and wifi

2009-04-01 Thread maxim wexler
> > > > Can anybody help? I hate Xandros, it reminds me of > Win98! > > Well: use Xandros to install gentoo. Xandros has already used up *all* of the HD on one partition. I can't format the drive without destroying the OS which is installing it. There isn't even enough room to download the sn

Re: [gentoo-user] installing gentoo using systemrescuecd and wifi

2009-04-01 Thread Sebastian Günther
* maxim wexler (bliss...@yahoo.com) [01.04.09 23:44]: > > Hi group, > > > Can anybody help? I hate Xandros, it reminds me of Win98! Well: use Xandros to install gentoo. -- " Religion ist das Opium des Volkes. " Karl Marx s...@sti@N GÜNTHER mailto:sam...@guenther-roetgen.de p

[gentoo-user] installing gentoo using systemrescuecd and wifi

2009-04-01 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, I posted the following at the sysrescuecd forum but I despair of ever getting a worthwhile answer: I've got a tripleE 900A with 4G SSHD running Xandros and I want to use the sysrescueCD to install gentoo. But I have to be able to use the wifi driver(ATH5K). There's no problem connec

Re: [gentoo-user] nepomukservices

2009-04-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 01 April 2009, james wrote: > Reading what I can find about it, I'm not > sure it is necessary? > no > > If so, can I renice it or only let it run once and a while, > it's a drag on system resources > > > ideas? system-settings, advanced, 'desktop search' deactivate 'enable nepo

[gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia drivers and a Geforce FX-5200 card.

2009-04-01 Thread James
KH konstantinhansen.de> writes: > Q: Why is top-posting evil? > A: .backwards read don't humans because Well, about 98% of linux folks like the ease of reading and following the thread down the posting. It's also just a standard convention, not often follow in the windoz world. Top postin

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Printing text with lpr

2009-04-01 Thread Grant
> ... > Ah, postscript works! > ... > > Thanks a lot for the info and I'll > get to work on a postscript script. > > Looks like text2ps might be worth a look. > http://pwet.fr/man/linux/commandes/text2ps > I can't find the Gentoo package, but `eix -S postscript` finds a number of > similar-looking

[gentoo-user] nepomukservices

2009-04-01 Thread james
Reading what I can find about it, I'm not sure it is necessary? If so, can I renice it or only let it run once and a while, it's a drag on system resources ideas? James

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Printing text with lpr

2009-04-01 Thread Stroller
On 1 Apr 2009, at 17:52, Grant wrote: ... Ah, postscript works! ... Thanks a lot for the info and I'll get to work on a postscript script. Looks like text2ps might be worth a look. http://pwet.fr/man/linux/commandes/text2ps I can't find the Gentoo package, but `eix -S postscript` finds a n

Re: [gentoo-user] Compatibility with Kernel 2.6.9

2009-04-01 Thread Florian Philipp
Florian Philipp schrieb: > Hi list! > > A quick question: > > If i install Gentoo on a system with a kernel version 2.6.9 (don't ask > ...), are there issues I should be aware of? > > Do I have to mask newer glibc-versions, newer kernel headers or some use > flags? What about the nptl use flag?

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Printing text with lpr

2009-04-01 Thread Grant
>>> I have a Brother QL-570 label printer printing on 29x90mm labels.  My >>> goal is to have 6 characters printed across the center of the label. >>> It prints like this: >>> >>> $ echo 123456 | lpr >>> >>> but the text is in the upper corner of the label, it has the wrong >>> orientation, and the

Re: [gentoo-user] full shutdown

2009-04-01 Thread Simon
I was only able to test briefly and got it working, but only when i did it manually. Seems adding a rmmod line in local.stop doesnt help, I've been trying to add other lines before like killall -9 mplayer (which is the main prog using the sound device usually). I'll be able to work my way! Thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] umask 002 in /etc/profile

2009-04-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 01 April 2009 17:01:15 Mark David Dumlao wrote: > On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Steven Lembark wrote: > > The scheme works rather nicely in nearly > > every situation (POSIX ACL's play hell with > > the scheme, but, then, they are supposed to). > > That being said, is there anyone

Re: [gentoo-user] umask 002 in /etc/profile

2009-04-01 Thread Joerg Schilling
Mark David Dumlao wrote: > On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Steven Lembark wrote: > > The scheme works rather nicely in nearly > > every situation (POSIX ACL's play hell with > > the scheme, but, then, they are supposed to). > That being said, is there anyone who swears by ACLs here? I've never

Re: [gentoo-user] umask 002 in /etc/profile

2009-04-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 23:01:15 +0800, Mark David Dumlao wrote: > That being said, is there anyone who swears by ACLs here? I've never > tried them on (except in a couple of "classroom exercises" years ago), > so I don't know if they're any joy. Would they allow me to force all > files under a directo

Re: [gentoo-user] umask 002 in /etc/profile

2009-04-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 01 April 2009 16:55:31 Mark David Dumlao wrote: > On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Steven Lembark wrote: > > That was the idea, RH did it that way a dozen > > years ago for exactly the reason you mention: > > dir mods of 02770 make it easy to share files > > but require 002 umask. Fix

Re: [gentoo-user] umask 002 in /etc/profile

2009-04-01 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Steven Lembark wrote: > The scheme works rather nicely in nearly > every situation (POSIX ACL's play hell with > the scheme, but, then, they are supposed to). That being said, is there anyone who swears by ACLs here? I've never tried them on (except in a couple of

Re: [gentoo-user] umask 002 in /etc/profile

2009-04-01 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Steven Lembark wrote: > That was the idea, RH did it that way a dozen > years ago for exactly the reason you mention: > dir mods of 02770 make it easy to share files > but require 002 umask. Fix was to set the > per-user group, allowing private dir's (largely > $HO

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-2.6.29 won't recognize my IDE chipset, at all.

2009-04-01 Thread Dale
Hung Dang wrote: > Dale wrote: > >> Helmut Jarausch wrote: >> >> >>> On 1 Apr, Dale wrote: >>> >>> >>> Hi, I been trying to upgrade my kernel and I seem to have ran into a huge mountain. I finally got it to compile but when I try to boot it doesn't >>

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-2.6.29 won't recognize my IDE chipset, at all.

2009-04-01 Thread Dale
Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 1 Apr, Dale wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I been trying to upgrade my kernel and I seem to have ran into a huge >> mountain. I finally got it to compile but when I try to boot it doesn't >> recognize my IDE chipset at all. It only sees my CD and DVD but nothing >> else. >>

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-2.6.29 won't recognize my IDE chipset, at all.

2009-04-01 Thread Hung Dang
Dale wrote: > Helmut Jarausch wrote: > >> On 1 Apr, Dale wrote: >> >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I been trying to upgrade my kernel and I seem to have ran into a huge >>> mountain. I finally got it to compile but when I try to boot it doesn't >>> recognize my IDE chipset at all. It only sees my

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-2.6.29 won't recognize my IDE chipset, at all.

2009-04-01 Thread Dale
Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 1 Apr, Dale wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I been trying to upgrade my kernel and I seem to have ran into a huge >> mountain. I finally got it to compile but when I try to boot it doesn't >> recognize my IDE chipset at all. It only sees my CD and DVD but nothing >> else. >>

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild syntax question

2009-04-01 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2009/4/1 Helmut Jarausch : > Hi, > > dev-util/eclipse-sdk-3.4.1.ebuild from layman/java-overlay > > contains > > CDEPEND=". >         >=dev-java/tomcat-servlet-api-5.5.25-r1:2.4 > > What does that mean? > I have > dev-java/tomcat-servlet-api-6.0.18 > installed in the 2.5 slot. > But portage wan

[gentoo-user] ebuild syntax question

2009-04-01 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, dev-util/eclipse-sdk-3.4.1.ebuild from layman/java-overlay contains CDEPEND=". >=dev-java/tomcat-servlet-api-5.5.25-r1:2.4 What does that mean? I have dev-java/tomcat-servlet-api-6.0.18 installed in the 2.5 slot. But portage wants to emerge tomcat-servlet-api-5.5.27 which is m

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-2.6.29 won't recognize my IDE chipset, at all.

2009-04-01 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 1 Apr, Dale wrote: > Hi, > > I been trying to upgrade my kernel and I seem to have ran into a huge > mountain. I finally got it to compile but when I try to boot it doesn't > recognize my IDE chipset at all. It only sees my CD and DVD but nothing > else. > > Here is some info: From lspci:

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers and a Geforce FX-5200 card.

2009-04-01 Thread zhen
Maximilian Bräutigam wrote: > hi, > > are you sure that you have configured your kernel correctly according to > the Gentoo Linux nVidia Guide? > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml > > kind regards, > der Max > Thank you for the reference! I've read the guide and now my combinatio

[gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-2.6.29 won't recognize my IDE chipset, at all.

2009-04-01 Thread Dale
Hi, I been trying to upgrade my kernel and I seem to have ran into a huge mountain. I finally got it to compile but when I try to boot it doesn't recognize my IDE chipset at all. It only sees my CD and DVD but nothing else. Here is some info: From lspci: 00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporat

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers and a Geforce FX-5200 card.

2009-04-01 Thread Dale
rt, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. * A complete build log is located at '/var/log/portage/elog/x11-drivers:nvidia-drivers-173.14.09:20090401-120715.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.09/te

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers and a Geforce FX-5200 card.

2009-04-01 Thread KH
Maximilian Bräutigam schrieb: > hi, > > are you sure that you have configured your kernel correctly according to > the Gentoo Linux nVidia Guide? > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml > > kind regards, > der Max > > Am Mittwoch, den 01.04.2009, 05:34 -0500 schrieb Dale: > >> Maximili

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers and a Geforce FX-5200 card.

2009-04-01 Thread KH
zhen schrieb: > Hi, > 5200 is also my card and I have recently tested it with latest nvidia > driver - it doesn't work with latest stable kernel 2.6.27-r8. I've had > to roll back to my old nv driver. > > Best regards, > Evgeniy B. > > Dale wrote: > >> Hi folks, >> >> I'm trying to upgrade to th

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers and a Geforce FX-5200 card.

2009-04-01 Thread Dale
Maximilian Bräutigam wrote: > hi, > > are you sure that you have configured your kernel correctly according to > the Gentoo Linux nVidia Guide? > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml > > kind regards, > der Max > > Well, I copied my old config over and ran make oldconfig. I did try

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers and a Geforce FX-5200 card.

2009-04-01 Thread Maximilian Bräutigam
etBUILD_CC)" > CROSS_COMPILE=${CHOST}- LDFLAGS="$(get_abi_LDFLAGS)" ${BUILD_FIXES} > ${BUILD_PARAMS} ${BUILD_TARGETS}"; > * The die message: > * Unable to emake HOSTCC=i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc > CROSS_COMPILE=i686-pc-linux-gnu- LDFLAGS= IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH=yes V=1 > S

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers and a Geforce FX-5200 card.

2009-04-01 Thread Dale
pc-linux-gnu-gcc CROSS_COMPILE=i686-pc-linux-gnu- LDFLAGS= IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH=yes V=1 SYSSRC=/usr/src/linux SYSOUT=/usr/src/linux HOST_CC=i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc clean module * * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. * A complete build

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers and a Geforce FX-5200 card.

2009-04-01 Thread zhen
Hi, 5200 is also my card and I have recently tested it with latest nvidia driver - it doesn't work with latest stable kernel 2.6.27-r8. I've had to roll back to my old nv driver. Best regards, Evgeniy B. Dale wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm trying to upgrade to the newer kernel, namely > gentoo-sourc

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers and a Geforce FX-5200 card.

2009-04-01 Thread Dale
zhen wrote: > Hi, > 5200 is also my card and I have recently tested it with latest nvidia > driver - it doesn't work with latest stable kernel 2.6.27-r8. I've had > to roll back to my old nv driver. > > Best regards, > Evgeniy B. > > Do you, or anyone, know if this is a kernel thing or is this

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers and a Geforce FX-5200 card.

2009-04-01 Thread zhen
Dale wrote: > zhen wrote: >> Hi, >> 5200 is also my card and I have recently tested it with latest nvidia >> driver - it doesn't work with latest stable kernel 2.6.27-r8. I've had >> to roll back to my old nv driver. >> >> Best regards, >> Evgeniy B. >> >> > > Do you, or anyone, know if this is