Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone Know Why a New Kernel Would Kill Networking?

2005-05-19 Thread Michael Haan
On 5/19/05, Antonio Coralles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org wrote: > > > On 5/19/05, Antonio Coralles <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > wrote: > >> gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org wrote: > >> > >> > On 5/19/05, Antonio

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone Know Why a New Kernel Would Kill Networking?

2005-05-19 Thread Matan Peled
Michael Haan wrote: > I didn't change any networking options, but it looks like networking > it trying to use IPv6 after installing a new kernel. Why, and how do > I fix it? > Maybe you put in support for IPv6, which you didn't before? Why not take it out of the kernel? If you don't need it (ve

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

2005-05-19 Thread William Kenworthy
For a number of reasons, its quite incomplete and inaccurate - especially on older systems! BillK On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 09:09 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, May 19, 2005 2:12 am, Philip Webb said: > > > i don't even do the approved 'emerge world' in maintaining my system > > & i rely on a

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild.sh chown/chmod segmentation fault

2005-05-19 Thread glen martin
Benno Schulenberg wrote: >glen martin wrote: > > >>This is an EPIA PD6000, which like the ME6000 uses the Samuel 2 >>processor. So I used those CFLAGS with other tweaks mentioned on >>the same page. >> >>CFLAGS="-march=i586 -m3dnow -Os -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx" >> >> > >What happens

Re: [gentoo-user] mozsvg question...

2005-05-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 13:56 -0400, David D. Rea wrote: > Hi All- > > I'm trying to view some SVG files via mozilla-firefox. I have mozilla > and mozilla-firefox compiled with USE="mozsvg" I have USE="svg mozsvg". I don't know if this will help, but I seem to be able to view (some) svg's. Simple

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone Know Why a New Kernel Would Kill Networking?

2005-05-19 Thread Michael Haan
On 5/19/05, Matan Peled <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Haan wrote: > > I didn't change any networking options, but it looks like networking > > it trying to use IPv6 after installing a new kernel. Why, and how do > > I fix it? > > > > Maybe you put in support for IPv6, which you didn't befo

[gentoo-user] Fwd: Jarod - Here's Your Chance (AKA - Distro Cage Match)

2005-05-19 Thread Michael Haan
Thought I'd make sure the locals had a crack at this. -- Forwarded message -- From: Michael Haan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: May 19, 2005 9:48 PM Subject: Jarod - Here's Your Chance (AKA - Distro Cage Match) To: Discussion about mythtv I know you're a big FC fan. I've seen you qu

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone Know Why a New Kernel Would Kill Networking?

2005-05-19 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Did you make the modules - emerge nvidia when you're up and running on the new kernel? On Thu, 19 May 2005, Michael Haan wrote: On 5/19/05, Matan Peled <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Michael Haan wrote: I didn't change any networking options, but it looks like networking it trying to use IPv6 after i

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

2005-05-19 Thread Hareesh Nagarajan
On 5/18/05, Sad Jack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gentoo is different. Thats its strength as far as I can see. If I wanted > a 'my computer' icon on my desktop, indeed if I wanted to be forced to > use a desktop I could just take the easy way out and stay with windows. Or if you are a KDE user, ju

[gentoo-user] Questions about supported hardware for Gentoo.

2005-05-19 Thread Walter Dnes
As I await my income-tax refund, I'm drooling over a couple of machines on a website that allows you to build to your own specs. One is an Intel P4 CPU 505 2.66GHz/533FSB/1M and the other is an AMD Athlon 64 3000+/1600FSB/512K CPU. Spec'ed out otherwise identically, the AMD comes out slightly l

[gentoo-user] Forcing a downgrade of glibc on install

2005-05-19 Thread Andrew Hall
Hi,   I've recently moved across to using Gentoo and have been trying to get an install accomplished using glibc-2.3.2-r12 instead of the defacto 2.3.4 version that comes shipped with the latest buildCD(2005.0). After a lot of messing around I seem to be able to force a stage one build using

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone Know Why a New Kernel Would Kill Networking?

2005-05-19 Thread Michael Haan
On 5/19/05, Brett I. Holcomb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did you make the modules - emerge nvidia when you're up and running on the > new kernel? > > On Thu, 19 May 2005, Michael Haan wrote: > > > On 5/19/05, Matan Peled <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Michael Haan wrote: > >>> I didn't change a

[gentoo-user] Gentoo w/ raid support?

2005-05-19 Thread twirlz
I am going to be switching to gentoo, but before i do i want to make sure i have support for my raid card. I have a Creative I/O Ultra ATA IDE Raid Card. I will not be installing on this drive, will this cause an issue or will it help me worry less? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-tipsnt

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo w/ raid support?

2005-05-19 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 19 May 2005, twirlz wrote: > I am going to be switching to gentoo, but before i do i want to make > sure i have support for my raid card. I have a Creative I/O Ultra ATA > IDE Raid Card. I will not be installing on this drive, will this > cause an issue or will it help me worry less? > h

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about supported hardware for Gentoo.

2005-05-19 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 19 May 2005, Walter Dnes wrote: > As I await my income-tax refund, I'm drooling over a couple of > machines on a website that allows you to build to your own specs. One > is an Intel P4 CPU 505 2.66GHz/533FSB/1M and the other is an AMD Athlon > 64 3000+/1600FSB/512K CPU. Spec'ed out ot

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo User Groups

2005-05-19 Thread Derick Drumm
On Wednesday 18 May 2005 09:33 pm, Jonathan Nichols wrote: > The thread about discrimination is a good one.. it made me think about > local user groups, as people have mentioned install-fests. > > I did Google around for a bit but didn't really find a whole lot. I'm > right here in the Silicon Vall

Re: [gentoo-user] how to boot from floppy and install gentoo

2005-05-19 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 20 May 2005, askar ... wrote: > I'm trying to use HAL91 floppy distro. > Its tar also doesn't support '-j' option, but has bunzip. Exactly. So if you use gzip you can use the -z flag of tar instead... > So, 1st I bzunipped and the using tar. > I'm still in the process of trying to instal

[gentoo-user] emerge gnome-light

2005-05-19 Thread Gustavo Varela
When I do emerge gnome-light this error appears, any idea of a solution???   i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../../include -I../../../include/ -I../ -O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -c NotOSX/notosx_mdns_stub.c -MT notosx_mdns_stub.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/notos

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about supported hardware for Gentoo.

2005-05-19 Thread Bob Sanders
On Thu, 19 May 2005 22:15:55 -0400 Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As I await my income-tax refund, I'm drooling over a couple of > machines on a website that allows you to build to your own specs. One > is an Intel P4 CPU 505 2.66GHz/533FSB/1M and the other is an AMD Athlon > 64 3000+

Re: [gentoo-user] Managing meetings

2005-05-19 Thread ZeeGeek
On 5/19/05, Yuval Scharf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello,I'm looking for a software that helps managing meeting and tasks.I want it to be light and simple and have a version on both Linux and Windows.Can you recommend such a software.By the way, what is the right word for such a software, calender

Re: [gentoo-user] User not authorized to su root

2005-05-19 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 08:20:35AM +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote > Am Donnerstag, 19. Mai 2005 07:59 schrieb ext Walter Dnes: > > > On one of my machines, my regular userID can su. On the other > > machine, I can't. Before anyone asks... > > > > [...] > > > > - pam? We don't need no steenkin

Re: [gentoo-user] User not authorized to su root

2005-05-19 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 09:48:02AM -0400, Craig Duncan wrote > Walter Dnes wrote: > > > On one of my machines, my regular userID can su. On the other > >machine, I can't. Before anyone asks... > > > > - yes, the user (me, i.e. waltdnes) is a member of wheel > >[m1800][root][~]grep wheel /etc/g

Re: [gentoo-user] User not authorized to su root

2005-05-19 Thread Walter Dnes
Additional notes. I ran... USE="-pam -skey" emerge app-admin/sudo Here's /etc/suauth [m1800][root][~]cat /etc/suauth root:waltdnes:OWNPASS After logging off and back on, I still get... [m1800][waltdnes][~]su - You are not authorized to su root -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An i

Re: [gentoo-user] User not authorized to su root

2005-05-19 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 09:45:18AM -0400, A. Khattri wrote > On Thu, 19 May 2005, Walter Dnes wrote: > > > On one of my machines, my regular userID can su. On the other > > machine, I can't. Before anyone asks... > > What does /etc/securetty look like? [m1800][root][~]cat /etc/securetty # /e

Re: [gentoo-user] User not authorized to su root

2005-05-19 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 08:12:48AM -0700, Richard Fish wrote > Did you modify the /etc/group file manually, and if so, did you run > 'grpconv' afterwards? I used "gpasswd". -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An infinite number of monkeys pounding away on keyboards will eventually produce a re

Re: [gentoo-user] mini pci wireless recomendations

2005-05-19 Thread Stroller
On May 18, 2005, at 3:11 pm, Mauro Faccenda wrote: Stroller wrote: I have one of these, which I bought in error from my supplier to test with Linux ... I'd be interested to see if it would work in other laptops, but I don't have one suitable. If you'd be interested to try it & would be prepared to

[gentoo-user] RE: Random emerge failures

2005-05-19 Thread Robert G. Hays
[digest mode reply] Grant, This is known and well-discissed, and I applied the 'fix' and it works. Gentoo compiles beat the tarnation out of some cpu's -- slow your computer down by 25--33% when compiling, and maybe speed it back up when done. If you do not have a computer that permits on-the-fl

[gentoo-user] RE: ebuild.sh chown/chmod segmentation fault

2005-05-19 Thread Robert G. Hays
[digest mode reply] Glen This is known and well-discussed, and I applied the 'fix' and it works. Gentoo compiles beat the tarnation out of some cpu's -- slow your computer down by 25--33% when compiling, and maybe speed it back up when done. If you do not have a computer that permits on-the-fly

Re: [gentoo-user] User not authorized to su root

2005-05-19 Thread Richard Fish
Walter Dnes wrote: >On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 08:20:35AM +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote > > >>Am Donnerstag, 19. Mai 2005 07:59 schrieb ext Walter Dnes: >> >> >> >>> On one of my machines, my regular userID can su. On the other >>>machine, I can't. Before anyone asks... >>> >>>[...] >>> >>> -

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

2005-05-19 Thread Stroller
On May 19, 2005, at 2:54 pm, A. Khattri wrote: Gentoo is an excellent distro, with one of the most comprehensive repositories of packages of any Linux distribution. It is powerful and excellently constructed. But to say maintenance and upgrading is easy is like saying Windows is as suitable as Un

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about supported hardware for Gentoo.

2005-05-19 Thread Stroller
On May 20, 2005, at 3:15 am, Walter Dnes wrote: Is there any real advantage to be had with an Athlon 64? Does Gentoo do anything with the extra 64 bits? I'd think that 64-bits would be disproportionately more useful than none at all!! ;P Stroller. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] SNMP and Proliant Management Utilities...

2005-05-19 Thread Stroller
On May 18, 2005, at 4:10 pm, A. Khattri wrote: You could run "netstat -an --udp" and see if anything is listening on UDP port 161. If you dont have that software, maybe the net-snmp package would suffice? Right, thanks. That shows nothing. I've never seen anything like that. According to page 12 o

Re: [gentoo-user] User not authorized to su root

2005-05-19 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 20. Mai 2005 06:44 schrieb ext Walter Dnes: > Additional notes. I ran... > > USE="-pam -skey" emerge app-admin/sudo > > Here's /etc/suauth > Again: su is not sudo. sudo provides similar functionality, but in a slightly different way. If you want to use sudo, you'll have to edit

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about supported hardware for Gentoo.

2005-05-19 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 19 May 2005 22:15:55 -0400 Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Does Gentoo do anything with the extra 64 bits? 64 bit code is actually slower than 32 bit code for anything except certain dedicated applications. What you do gain is increased address space, which only makes a difference

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone Know Why a New Kernel Would Kill Networking?

2005-05-19 Thread Matan Peled
Michael Haan wrote: > Nope. As near as I can tell, everything nVidia goes to crap when you > install a new kernel. The list of things nVidia - previously working > - which no longer work: > > 1) Ethernet - forcedeth stops working, nvnet won't build > 2) X - 7174 gives some rm_init error > 3) sat

[gentoo-user] foomatic-configure problems

2005-05-19 Thread Richard Watson
I've been able to print to a Gentoo Samba server (running a HP510) for ages from Windows workstations (98 and XP), and still can from Windows. I have an old laptop that I recently installed Gentoo and Gnome on as a workstation. When I try and use foomatic-configure to set up cups to the same prin

[gentoo-user] System crashes with monitor off

2005-05-19 Thread Colin
Yeah, this is a weird one. I've noticed that if I leave my system (2.6.11-gentoo-r9) idle with the monitor off during an emerge, it will hang. However, if the monitor is on, then it won't hang and will keep emerging. Normally, leaving it idle for sixteen hours makes it crash, but I left the

Re: [gentoo-user] User not authorized to su root

2005-05-19 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 07:47:03AM +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote > Again: su is not sudo. sudo provides similar functionality, but in a > slightly different way. If you want to use sudo, you'll have to > edit /etc/sudoers. OK, my mistake. Learn something every day. > Did you install shadow wi

Re: [gentoo-user] User not authorized to su root

2005-05-19 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 10:27:10PM -0700, Richard Fish wrote > What does the "id" command show for your user login? [m1800][waltdnes][~]id uid=1000(waltdnes) gid=100(users) groups=5(tty),10(wheel),11(floppy),14(uucp),18(audio),19(cdrom),20(dialout),27(video),35(games),85(usb),100(users) -- Wa

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about supported hardware for Gentoo.

2005-05-19 Thread Peng
On 05/19/05 23:41, Bob Sanders wrote: On Thu, 19 May 2005 22:15:55 -0400 Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As I await my income-tax refund, I'm drooling over a couple of machines on a website that allows you to build to your own specs. One is an Intel P4 CPU 505 2.66GHz/533FSB/1M and the ot

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