[gentoo-user] test. please ignore

2005-10-28 Thread Jason Cooper
dyndns.org changed their setup, or my dynamic dns service expired. At any rate, checking to see if mails are making it around ok since I fixed the dyndns.org acct and pings are moving okay. jason. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Fumblefingers corrupts an ebuild, plea for help

2005-10-15 Thread Jason Cooper
Kevin O'Gorman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > I thought I was just looking, but after closing the editor my emerges are > complaining about a corrupted ebuild of xchat. Specifically, emerge sync :) hth, jason. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with eth0 on new computer

2005-10-15 Thread Jason Cooper
Martins Steinbergs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > i would say there no support for ya net cart built into kernel/module > > On Thursday 13 October 2005 17:51, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > I got a new computer yesterday. As I was installing Gentoo on it, I ran > > into a problem. I've got the ba

Re: [gentoo-user] struggling with dri

2005-10-10 Thread Jason Cooper
Fernando Meira ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > I think I have radeon driver built-in the kernel.. does that mean that it is > loaded before agpgart? > agpgart and intel_agp are both modules... > > should I them recompile my kernel and leave radeon as module? yes. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org maili

Re: [gentoo-user] struggling with dri

2005-10-10 Thread Jason Cooper
Kevin Hanson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > I've got a radeon mobility 9200 in my laptop and have compiled > CONFIG_AGP=m, CONFIG_AGP_INTEL=m, CONFIG_DRM=m, and CONFIG_DRM_RADEON=m. > > Interestingly enough, agpgart module loads at boot but intel_agp > doesn't. Modprobe of intel_agp produces

Re: [gentoo-user] struggling with dri

2005-10-10 Thread Jason Cooper
Fernando Meira ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > Yes, they were not 0666 but instead 0660. I changed them, rebooted, and > they're back to 0660 :( cd into /etc/udev/rules.d/ and make a file called 10-local.rules . Add the 'dri' lines from 50-udev.rules. Append to the end of each line "MODE=0666"

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple command line stuff

2005-10-09 Thread Jason Cooper
Daniel Lynch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > If you want THE book on command line stuff, I would highly recommend the > book "UNIX Power Tools" published by O'Reilly. It basically goes over > every common UNIX command line tool and covers the common/useful tasks > you might want to do with it. It'

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple command line stuff

2005-10-09 Thread Jason Cooper
Mark Knecht ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > Hi, >I don't have a single book on Linux. (Amazing...) Can someone > recommend a simple book on command line stuff, or better yet a good > web site on this topic? Sorry, I picked up most of it from fiddling around, but on to your problem... >Fo

Re: [gentoo-user] A simple explanation on how to get wireless working on my laptop ...

2005-10-07 Thread Jason Cooper
Richard Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > :02:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B > Mini PCI Adapter (rev 04) > Subsystem: Intel Corporation MIM2000/Centrino > Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 128, IRQ 11 > Memory at 9000 (32-

Re: [gentoo-user] A simple explanation on how to get wireless working on my laptop ...

2005-10-07 Thread Jason Cooper
Richard Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > # iwconfig eth1 says wireless extensions not found what is the output of # lspci you may need to # emerge sys-apps/pciutils to get lspci. jason -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Install issue, I need a solution quickly..

2005-09-01 Thread Jason Cooper
Ian K ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > When I run chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash, > I get: > > chroot: cannot run command `/bin/bash': Exec format > error Does the arch of the stage tarball you installed match the arch of the processor? cooper. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How to shred without deleting /dev/*

2005-08-29 Thread Jason Cooper
Michael Kintzios ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > I was blanking a floppy but when I ran: > > $ shred -u -v /dev/fd0 > > /dev/fd0 was dully deleted after the shred operation finished. Rebooting the > machine relaunched udev which recreated fd0 (is there a

Re: [gentoo-user] newbie install - emerge: command not found

2005-08-23 Thread Jason Cooper
Assaf Urieli ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > Nagatoro wrote: > > Assaf Urieli wrote: > >> But when I try to run the emerge command, I get: > >> emerge: command not found (no surprise, it's not in /bin). > > > > [2000] $ whereis emerge > > emerge: /usr/bin/emerge /usr/X11R6/bin/emerge /usr/bin/X11/

Re: [gentoo-user] How to enable core dumps?

2005-08-18 Thread Jason Cooper
Antonio Souto ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > Does any one knows how to enable core dumps? > It seems like they are disabled by default. # ulimit -c unlimited hth, cooper. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: quote

2005-07-08 Thread Jason Cooper
Michael Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > On Friday 08 July 2005 17:32, Jason Cooper wrote: > > Michael Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > > [snip] > > > > > > To see the world in a grain of sand, > > > and to see heaven in a wild flowe

[gentoo-user] OT: quote

2005-07-08 Thread Jason Cooper
Michael Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: [snip] > -- > Mike > > To see the world in a grain of sand, > and to see heaven in a wild flower, > hold infinity in the palm of your hands, > and eternity in an hour. This one bugged me for a week till I remembered a moment ago where I heard it.

Re: [gentoo-user] Limewire

2005-07-07 Thread Jason Cooper
Bruno Gola ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > Does anyone knows what should I do correctly or just tell me a better > p2p software (i use pysoulseek and amule)? I've had good success with gtk-gnutella. # eix gtk-gnutella * net-p2p/gtk-gnutella Available versions: 0.93.3 0.94 ~0.95 ~0.95-r1 ~

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Travelling in Greece, need advice

2005-07-05 Thread Jason Cooper
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > On Jul 5, 2005, at 7:11 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >On Wednesday 06 July 2005 02:07, Jason Cooper wrote: > >>Grant ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: [snip] > >>>after a lot of thinking, I think my

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Travelling in Greece, need advice

2005-07-05 Thread Jason Cooper
Grant ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > Hello! I am travelling and am currently on the Greek island of Corfu. > It is great! I have my laptop but I'm finding it totally impossible > to find a place that will let me plug into their network for Internet > access. I can't use public systems because

Re: [gentoo-user] jade, libosp.so.3 not found, can't compile docbook-sgml-utils

2005-07-05 Thread Jason Cooper
Claudinei Matos ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > I'm trying to upgrade my installation but "emerge world -uD" crash > every time when emerging docbook-sgml-utils. > The error is that jade can't found libosp.so.3: > > "jade: error while loading shared libraries: libosp.so.3: cannot open > shared ob

Re: [gentoo-user] pptpclient: Wants MPPE In Kernel, I can't Find it

2005-05-24 Thread Jason Cooper
fire-eyes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > I'm trying to use pptpclient-1.6.0. > > On its home page it says I need MPPE support in the kernel and PPPD. For > PPPD it was easy, a nice little USE flag. As far as MPPE support, it > says that if I modprobe ppp-compress-18 and that works, I should be a

Re: [gentoo-user] pcHDTV300 - Almost there, I *think*

2005-05-22 Thread Jason Cooper
Michael Haan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > Ok, finally, the card loads: > > cx2388x dvb driver version 0.0.4 loaded cx88[0]: subsystem: 7063:3000, > board: pcHDTV HD3000 HDTV [card=22,autodetected] saa7115: starting > probe for adapter cx88[0] (0x1001b) tuner 1-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 > (cx88[0

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with media-libs/libsdl-1.2.8-r1

2005-04-30 Thread Jason Cooper
darren kirby ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > quoth the Vittorio: > > > I modified the ebuild file as suggested in the bug report but when I > > > > bash-2.05b# emerge -uDn world > > Calculating world dependencies ...done! > > > > >>> emerge (1 of 14) media-libs/libsdl-1.2.8-r1 to / > > >>> md5 fi

Re: [gentoo-user] script to recursively unmask a package

2005-04-29 Thread Jason Cooper
Christoph Gysin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > Jason Cooper wrote: > >Why should he have to rewrite it in python? eix is C++, and genlop is > >Perl. Admittedly, they are not part of gentoolkit, but everyone uses > >them and I don't think anyone thinks any lesser of

Re: [gentoo-user] script to recursively unmask a package

2005-04-29 Thread Jason Cooper
Christoph Gysin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > Adi wrote: > >I wish you posted this 2 days ago ... great work! :) > > I wish I read this two minutes ago! ;-) > > If you rewrite it in python, maybe we could include this feature in > {portage,gentoolkit} ? Why should he have to rewrite it in py

Re: [gentoo-user] script to recursively unmask a package

2005-04-28 Thread Jason Cooper
Roy O. Wright ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > Howdy, > > I was wanting to install just kdebase-3.4.0 without unmasking all of > kde-3.4.0. The "HOWTO > Update KDE 3.3 to KDE 3.4" > (http://www.gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Update_KDE_3.3_to_KDE_3.4) > suggested running emerge kdebase -p, find a packag

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT:HDTV and PVR

2005-04-28 Thread Jason Cooper
James ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > Jason Cooper lakedaemon.net> writes: > > > > > James (wireless tampabay.rr.com) scribbled: > > > Where brand/make of hdtv-receiver-card did you use > > > for your PC? > > > > http://www.pchdtv.com >

Re: [gentoo-user] OT:HDTV and PVR

2005-04-28 Thread Jason Cooper
James ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > Where brand/make of hdtv-receiver-card did you use > for your PC? http://www.pchdtv.com It's *only* over-the-air though. cooper. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]Which TV recorder

2005-04-28 Thread Jason Cooper
Tamas Sarga ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > I read about Mythtv, but I don't want to install Mysql if it isn't > absolutely required. BTW why Mythtv depends on Mysql? It can not work > without it? What Mythtv use it for? mythtv uses mysql to keep track of *everything*. Including, but not limited

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

2005-04-27 Thread Jason Cooper
The Disguised Jedi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > > On 4/27/05, Jason Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Colin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > > > > Whenever I type in "shutdown now," the kernel enters runlevel 1 and > > >

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

2005-04-27 Thread Jason Cooper
Colin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > 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

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] MythTV (or possibly mysql) stopped working after a kernel rebuild

2005-04-25 Thread Jason Cooper
Mark Knecht ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: [snip] > The place I'm a bit stalled at right now, and I'm sure it's a config > issue only, is that I need mysql to be bound to the network address of > the machine it's running on (dragonfly) so that I can access the > mythbackend from other parts of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Make emerge.log more readable?

2005-04-25 Thread Jason Cooper
Neil Bothwick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 13:28:20 -0400, Jason Cooper wrote: > > > > Btw, do you know of a package to make /var/log/emerge.log more > > > readable? Thank you! > > > > Well, you can > > > > # emerge -av cc

[gentoo-user] Make emerge.log more readable?

2005-04-25 Thread Jason Cooper
Bruno Lustosa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > Btw, do you know of a package to make /var/log/emerge.log more readable? > Thank you! Well, you can # emerge -av ccze # cat /var/log/emerge.log | ccze -A But that only colorizes it. I always wondered why they used elapsed seconds since epoch, as

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia drivers and glx

2005-04-25 Thread Jason Cooper
Bruno Lustosa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > Hello. > After some update, the GLX extensions stopped working. > I noticed it because opengl xscreensavers would just segfault. After I > quit X and tried to restart it, I would get a segfault when trying to > load the glx extension. > The xorg.conf h

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge ideas

2005-04-25 Thread Jason Cooper
Neil Bothwick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 11:15:12 -0400, Jason Cooper wrote: > > > > Since I have multiple gentoo systems, I use http-replicator as the > > > http proxy for portage; all of the systems hit the proxy for package > > > fi

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge ideas

2005-04-25 Thread Jason Cooper
Dave Nebinger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > > 2. Background downloading, of packages while emerge compiles other > > packages. For example when I am compiling something huge like GNome, > > while a package like GTK is being compiled, emerge should be clever and > > download the next package and

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge ideas

2005-04-25 Thread Jason Cooper
Neil Bothwick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 08:47:22 -0400, Jason Cooper wrote: > > emerge -fuD world & > > sleep 5 && > > emerge -uDav world > > > > But that's somewhat hackish. I like the idea, though. Unfortunate

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge ideas

2005-04-25 Thread Jason Cooper
Devraj Mukherjee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > 1. Emerge with a time delay, so that one can specify big emerge tasks > for say midnight for proper bandwidth usage etc. I know you can do this > with a combination of utilites (such as cron) but it would be neat to > have it as part of emerge.

Re: [gentoo-user] MythTv Ebuild Fails on Gentoo

2005-04-24 Thread Jason Cooper
Michael Haan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > On 4/24/05, Michael Haan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 4/24/05, Jason Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Michael Haan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > > > > I get the following error trying to build

Re: [gentoo-user] MythTv Ebuild Fails on Gentoo

2005-04-24 Thread Jason Cooper
Michael Haan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > On 4/24/05, Jason Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Michael Haan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > > > I get the following error trying to build Mythfrontend 0.18 from the > > > Gentoo ebuild: > > > > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] MythTv Ebuild Fails on Gentoo

2005-04-24 Thread Jason Cooper
Michael Haan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > I get the following error trying to build Mythfrontend 0.18 from the > Gentoo ebuild: > > >>> Unpacking source... > >>> Unpacking mythtv-0.18.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/mythfrontend-0.18/work > /usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild.sh: line 35: cd: > /var/tmp/p

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6 kernel and wlan-ng

2005-04-18 Thread Jason Cooper
Chris Bare ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > I recently upgraded my laptop to the 2.6.11 kernel and am trying to get my > wifi working again. It worked under 2.4 with the linux-wlan-ng package. I > followed the instructions in the bug and built it for 2.6 by turning off the > sandbox. It appears to

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless: dhcpcd starts too early

2005-04-17 Thread Jason Cooper
Ed Jabbour ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > At boot, when wlan0 starts up, I get a msg that dhcpcd is already running, so > - no connection. I have to start it manually after rm'ing the pid file. > I've run rc-update del on pcmcia, netmount. net.lo and hotplug. Anyone w/ a > notion what's sta

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge needs a --nocolor option

2005-04-12 Thread Jason Cooper
Neil Bothwick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 09:23:57 -0400, Jason Cooper wrote: > > > I'll bet I wasn't the only one who went running to 'man emerge' and > > 'emerge --help'. :) > > Try man make.conf :) touche. :) Cooper. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge needs a --nocolor option

2005-04-12 Thread Jason Cooper
Jason Stubbs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > On Tuesday 12 April 2005 23:24, Jason Cooper wrote: > > Jason Stubbs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > > > On Tuesday 12 April 2005 20:49, A. Khattri wrote: > > > > There really ought to be a --nocolor op

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge needs a --nocolor option

2005-04-12 Thread Jason Cooper
Jason Stubbs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > On Tuesday 12 April 2005 20:49, A. Khattri wrote: > > There really ought to be a --nocolor option for emerge, alongside the > > --nospinner option. (I know I could add it to FEATURES in make.conf but I > > dont want to do that). I run emerge --sync from

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge needs a --nocolor option

2005-04-12 Thread Jason Cooper
A. Khattri ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > There really ought to be a --nocolor option for emerge, alongside the > --nospinner option. (I know I could add it to FEATURES in make.conf but I > dont want to do that). I run emerge --sync from cron on my servers - the > email from cron contains a lot o

Re: [gentoo-user] intercept browser traffic

2005-04-12 Thread Jason Cooper
Antoine ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > I am looking for a way to intercept a stream before it gets to my > browser, so I can see everything that is being sent to me, and that I > send back. Does anyone know know of a tool that will do this for me? ethereal? squid proxy? hth, Cooper. -- gentoo-

Re: [gentoo-user] GIS: Grass 5.7 and Quantum ebuilds

2005-04-10 Thread Jason Cooper
Luca Penasa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > Hi everybody... its the first time i write in this mailing list... > > i'm looking for 2 ebuilds: > - grass: it's a GIS developed by ITC-IRST. in the portage tree there is > only the 5.0.3 version, it's now a old version, the last stable one is > the

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Docs & FAQ: Rules Suggestion

2005-04-08 Thread Jason Cooper
Shawn Singh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > I think using the word "rules" might have been a poor choice of words > (on my part) :)...I think more so what I was thinking of was > guidelines for posting...To that end I think Nick Rout made the best > suggestion...ESRs doc on how to ask a question ;

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Docs & FAQ: Rules Suggestion

2005-04-08 Thread Jason Cooper
Martoni ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > On Apr 8, 2005 1:07 PM, Jason Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Martoni ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > > > Yeah, rules might be fine. > > > Will everyone follow them I wonder. > > > The risk with introduci

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Docs & FAQ: Rules Suggestion

2005-04-08 Thread Jason Cooper
Martoni ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > Yeah, rules might be fine. > Will everyone follow them I wonder. > The risk with introducing strict rules for a discussion group (or list) is > that, IMHO, increases the risk of starting flamewars. > People not expecting one or more, more or less polite po

Re: [gentoo-user] CPU0: Temperature above threshold

2005-04-07 Thread Jason Cooper
top-posting to maintain established flow, don't shoot me. :) I've heard some recent make/model laptops will burn up under linux if not installed properly. This is because Windows handles temp monitoring and fan speed. Thus, linux must as well. If you don't have your kernel configured properly,

Re: [gentoo-user] no /dev/ttyUSB0 device

2005-04-07 Thread Jason Cooper
Neil Bothwick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > On Thu, 07 Apr 2005 06:58:45 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: > > > /dev/tts/USB0 should be correct. You can modify this path by editing > > /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules. I never tried this, but I think you > > could also override the rules there by cr