Re: [gentoo-user] Another reason to begin USE with "-*"

2006-03-13 Thread Rick van Hattem
On Monday 13 March 2006 05:53, Roy Wright wrote: > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > >Plus, it's /completely/ trivial to add -* to your USE or (using the great > >euse tool) euse -D . Or, for those type A personalities out > >there, tweak your /etc/portage/package.use. > > Another tool is ufed (use

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Ash Varma
On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 01:51 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Monday 13 March 2006 00:59, "JimD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination': > > Whatever you do, don't go HT. It's not worth the effort. > > By HT do you mean AMD 64 Hyper-Transport or Pent

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 13 March 2006 02:12, Ash Varma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination': > On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 01:51 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > On Monday 13 March 2006 00:59, "JimD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote > > > > about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc

Re: [gentoo-user] dvdrip help

2006-03-13 Thread Zac Slade
On Sunday 12 March 2006 22:55, Roy Wright wrote: > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > >I'm a big fan of ANDREW from the FSF. There should be an ebuild in > >bugzilla; but it's trivial to install. It's not a X application, but > >it /is/, despite the name, a wizard that does all of the "heavy lifting

Re: [gentoo-user] Another reason to begin USE with "-*"

2006-03-13 Thread Roy Wright
Michael Stewart (vericgar) wrote: Roy Wright wrote: This has me wondering if there is a utility to help manage the use flags. I'd like to know: * Which use flags I have set that are not used by anything I have installed. * Which use flags are deprecated. * Which use flags are new. If

[gentoo-user] Tuning SCSI disks-App like hdparm available?

2006-03-13 Thread Ow Mun Heng
Hi All, I recently got a bunch of (old) scsi disks and would like to get the most out of them. They are 7200 18GB scsi disks which hdparm reports up to 18MB/s of transfer rate. (vs 30MB/s on my 5400 80GB laptop drive and 24MB/s on a 7200 200GB IDE Drive) I'm wondering if there are applica

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Glenn Enright
On Monday 13 March 2006 21:47, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > Hyper-Transport is a way for CPUs to exchange data directly rather than > going through a memory controller, thus allowing limited resources (L1/2/3 > cache) to be used more effectively. In particular, process migration > causes fewer

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Mike Williams
On Monday 13 March 2006 04:23, JimD wrote: > AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice 800MHz HT Socket 754 > or > Intel Pentium D 805 Smithfield 533MHz FSB 2 x 1MB L2 Cache LGA 775 Dual > Core,EM64T Processor I'm very surprised Intel can knock out dual core processors for under $150! I would go for the AMD thou

Re: [gentoo-user] Tuning SCSI disks-App like hdparm available?

2006-03-13 Thread Rasmus Andersen
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 06:24:38PM +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > I'm wondering if there are applications which can be used to tune the > disks for better performance? There is a hdparm for SCSI, sdparm. Never tried it though. Cheers, Rasmus -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 01:59 -0500, JimD wrote: > Iain Buchanan wrote: > > Whatever you do, don't go HT. It's not worth the effort. > > By HT do you mean AMD 64 Hyper-Transport or Pentium Hyper-Threading? don't bother with Hyper threading. Hyper transport I know nothing about. -- Iain Buchanan

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 23:44 +1300, Glenn Enright wrote: > I can certainly tell you that compiling (as an example) *wihtout* HT enabled > on my P4 is a bad idea, takes nearly 4 times as long. I would hesitate to say, the reason for this is more likely to do with the way HT is turned off. I've no

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Glenn Enright
On Tuesday 14 March 2006 00:53, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > there may even be some intentional slowdown when you do a bios / chip > based disable > lol -- "All my life I wanted to be someone; I guess I should have been more specific." -- Jane Wagner -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving to xorg-x11-7.0 (Modular X)

2006-03-13 Thread Martins Steinbergs
On Sunday 12 March 2006 06:51, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Saturday 11 March 2006 04:19, Martins Steinbergs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > about > > > and most annoying change is with KDE settings, > > new way that every new window starts in background doesnt suit > > me very much, can somebod

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Denis
Iain, So are you saying that a P4 is actually faster with HT disabled, or simply that you don't have much to gain by using HT? I've had a dual-Xeon machine with 4 logical processors running Gentoo for a couple years now, and I like being able to run 4 threads of simulations at the same time. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 3/13/06, JimD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey group, > > My trusty old computer died tonight :( I am stuck with my winders laptop > for a few days until I can get in a new mobo and processor. I am looking at > getting something like an AMD 64 or a Pentium D dual core. I can get one of > the

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Jerry McBride
On Monday 13 March 2006 07:37, Denis wrote: > Iain, > > So are you saying that a P4 is actually faster with HT disabled, or > simply that you don't have much to gain by using HT? I have a laptop and a desktop the sport p4's with HT. I don't see any difference whether HT is turned on or turned of

Re: [gentoo-user] dvdrip help

2006-03-13 Thread Chris Frederick
Mike Myers wrote: Hi everybody! I'm having trouble with the dvdrip program. Whenever I run it, it just gives me: [filterlist] (re)scanning transcode's module path /usr/lib/transcode... but doesn't actually do anything. I don't get a gui or anything. Is there anything I can do to fix this?

[gentoo-user] Re: Google-Talk

2006-03-13 Thread Sven Köhler
> Is there way of setting up a VoIP talk session with another person who is > using Google Talk? He is running the Google Talk Windoze application. http://code.google.com/apis/talk/index.html Well, there will be, i guess. Someday in the future, GAIM will include GoogleTalk/libjingle support, i g

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Denis
> processing unit. If the thread on one input wants all the cpu power, it gets > it and the other input stalls and starves. It's easy to see by running top on > a busy P4 with HT computer. Never seen my dual Xeon machine starve :) And that's with 4 Monte Carlo codes running at the same time and m

Re: [gentoo-user] dvdrip help

2006-03-13 Thread Alexander Skwar
Chris Frederick wrote: > This is a transcode problem. There's a couple filters for transcode > that are bad. For me, the ImageMagick filters weren't good. When I do USE=-imagemagick, everything's fine. Alexander Skwar -- MCSE == Mentally Challenged Slave of the Empire. -- Gareth Barnard -

Re: [gentoo-user] Tuning SCSI disks-App like hdparm available?

2006-03-13 Thread Richard Fish
On 3/13/06, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I recently got a bunch of (old) scsi disks and would like to get the > most out of them. They are 7200 18GB scsi disks which hdparm reports up > to 18MB/s of transfer rate. (vs 30MB/s on my 5400 80GB laptop drive and > 24MB/s on a 7200 20

Re: [gentoo-user] Memory speed/type

2006-03-13 Thread Jim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 162934872 Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are there any programs for Gentoo that can show what speed memory I > have, i.e. PC2700? I plan on ordering some memory but I cannot remember > what speed I put in and I want to be lazy and not unhook ever

[gentoo-user] Gnome menu editing

2006-03-13 Thread Jim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is there a gnome menu editing app that I can emerge in gentoo? There was a menu editor for Gnome in the latest version of ubuntu, though I can not remember the name of it. Thanks, Jim -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux)

[gentoo-user] Cannot compile anything: libc.so: file format not recognized; treating as linker script - glibc 2.4 upgrade related?

2006-03-13 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hello! On one machine, I upgraded to glibc 2.4, and since that time, I cannot compile anything anymore :( I always get errors like this: checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create exec

[gentoo-user] cpufreqd and Pentium 4

2006-03-13 Thread Daniel da Veiga
Hello list, I followed the Gentoo Power Management Guide on: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/power-management-guide.xml And installed cpufreqd, edited the config file and tested some configurations. I noticed it changes the frequencies all the time. Is there any side-effects on my CPU for this frequ

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot compile anything: libc.so: file format not recognized; treating as linker script - glibc 2.4 upgrade related?

2006-03-13 Thread Richard Fish
On 3/13/06, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.5/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld:/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.5/../../../libc.so: file format not recognized; treating as > linker script > /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.5/../../../../i686-pc-

Re: [gentoo-user] cpufreqd and Pentium 4

2006-03-13 Thread Richard Fish
On 3/13/06, Daniel da Veiga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And installed cpufreqd, edited the config file and tested some > configurations. I noticed it changes the frequencies all the time. Is > there any side-effects on my CPU for this frequency changes? Will it > reduce the CPU lifetime or anythin

[gentoo-user] Mount permissions

2006-03-13 Thread Paul Stear
The root of all my rsync/network problems is a permissions problem The /mnt/network is drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 4096 Mar 13 13:24 test After I mount using mount -t smbfs -o username=paul,password=pass //LKG7DDD5F/gentoobackup /mnt/network the /mnt/network permissions have change to drwxr-xr-x

Re: [gentoo-user] Another reason to begin USE with "-*"

2006-03-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 13 March 2006 03:21, Roy Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Another reason to begin USE with "-*"': > I'm more interested in discovering brand new use flags. Say some > package, foo, > creates a new use flag, bar, then I'd like to see something like: > > New Use

[gentoo-user] Re: Another reason to begin USE with "-*"

2006-03-13 Thread Harry Putnam
Rick van Hattem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Instead of ufed I'd recommend profuse, it has the same options as ufed and > more. Really a great tool, very easy to use and gives you a clear list of > what use flags you have enabled (I do prefer the ncurses "profuse -n" command > above gtk) Wow

[gentoo-user] wget won't concatenate(?)

2006-03-13 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, I tried wget'ing this on dialup: ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/releases/x86/2006.0/livecd/livecd-i686-installer-2006.0.iso Then, because I needed to use the phone, after downloading 150Megs or so, I ctrl-C'd outta there thinking I could pick up where I left of

Re: [gentoo-user] Mount permissions

2006-03-13 Thread Jim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 163718720 Paul Stear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The root of all my rsync/network problems is a permissions problem > The /mnt/network is > drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 4096 Mar 13 13:24 test > > After I mount using > mount -t smbfs -o > username=pau

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 13 March 2006 04:44, Glenn Enright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination': > On Monday 13 March 2006 21:47, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > Hyper-Transport is a way for CPUs to exchange data directly rather > > than going through a memory controller,

Re: [gentoo-user] wget won't concatenate(?)

2006-03-13 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 09:38:06 -0800 (PST) maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried wget'ing this on dialup: > ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/releases/x86/2006.0/livecd/livecd-i686-installer-2006.0.iso > > Then, because I needed to use the phone, after > down

Re: [gentoo-user] wget won't concatenate(?)

2006-03-13 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 09:38:06 -0800 (PST) maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried wget'ing this on dialup: > ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/releases/x86/2006.0/livecd/livecd-i686-installer-2006.0.iso > > Then, because I needed to use the phone, after > downloadin

Re: [gentoo-user] wget won't concatenate(?)

2006-03-13 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 3/13/06, maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Then, because I needed to use the phone, after > downloading 150Megs or so, I ctrl-C'd outta there > thinking I could pick up where I left off. Wrong! > > wget wants to start from the beginning. I gave it the > -nc option and it reports 'already

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Monday 13 March 2006 05:23, JimD wrote: > Hey group, > > My trusty old computer died tonight :( I am stuck with my winders laptop > for a few days until I can get in a new mobo and processor. I am looking > at getting something like an AMD 64 or a Pentium D dual core. I can get > one of the t

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Jim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 163692080 "Hemmann, Volker Armin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is no good reason to buy intel today. > > But... emm... I bought a Venive S939, 3200+ 1000MHZ HT for less than 130¤ or > so just 5Month ago. so you should get a much better CPU

[gentoo-user] Re: wget won't concatenate(?)

2006-03-13 Thread Marc Christiansen
maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Then, because I needed to use the phone, after > downloading 150Megs or so, I ctrl-C'd outta there > thinking I could pick up where I left off. Wrong! > > wget wants to start from the beginning. I gave it the > -nc option and it reports 'already there, not

Re: [gentoo-user] -nls

2006-03-13 Thread kashani
Jim wrote: Has anyone gotten burned by turning off Native Language Support? The only thing I've ever run into on the server side that wanted it was the Horde framework requiring PHP to have NLS... however I didn't look real hard for a workaround so that might not have been a hard requiremen

[gentoo-user] -nls

2006-03-13 Thread Jim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Does turning off nls break anything? I did the livecd install and everything in the base install was compiled with +nls. Once I started compiling my own stuff like X, Gnome etc, I change to -nls in my USE flags. I only speak English so I don't need

Re: [gentoo-user] wget won't concatenate(?)

2006-03-13 Thread Christoph Eckert
> wget -c http://www.microsoft.com/linux-kernel.iso you can even start a download with the -c option. Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot compile anything: libc.so: file format not recognized; treating as linker script - glibc 2.4 upgrade related?

2006-03-13 Thread Thomas Andrè Skarsvåg
Alexander Skwar wrote: Hello! On one machine, I upgraded to glibc 2.4, and since that time, I cannot compile anything anymore :( I always get errors like this: checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C co

Re: [gentoo-user] wget won't concatenate(?)

2006-03-13 Thread Jim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 163609048 maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi group, > > I tried wget'ing this on dialup: > ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/releases/x86/2006.0/livecd/livecd-i686-installer-2006.0.iso > > Then, because I needed to

Re: [gentoo-user] -nls

2006-03-13 Thread Jim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 163381024 kashani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim wrote: >> >> Has anyone gotten burned by turning off Native Language Support? >> > > The only thing I've ever run into on the server side that wanted it was > the Horde framework requiring PHP to h

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 13 March 2006 12:31, Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination': > Did you do AMD64 for gentoo or just x86? I just finished getting > everything compiled and setup where I like it. I won't mind doing it > again if running gentoo in 64-bit on an AMD64

[gentoo-user] OT - Need help getting MythTV to work with new(er) kernel

2006-03-13 Thread Michael Sullivan
I had MythTV working perfectly with linux-2.6.14-gentoo-r5. I've tried to upgrade to linux-2.6.15-gentoo-r1 using genkernel and basing the newer kernel's configuration off of the older one. I've booted with the new kernel, remerged ivtv and rebooted again with the new kernel, but still I cannot w

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Monday 13 March 2006 20:28, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Monday 13 March 2006 12:31, Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about > > 'Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination': > > Did you do AMD64 for gentoo or just x86? I just finished getting > > everything compiled and setup where I like it.

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Monday 13 March 2006 19:31, Jim wrote: > On 163692080 "Hemmann, Volker Armin" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > There is no good reason to buy intel today. > > > > But... emm... I bought a Venive S939, 3200+ 1000MHZ HT for less than 130¤ > > or so just 5Month ago. so you should get a much b

[gentoo-user] portage problem

2006-03-13 Thread Martin Gysel
hi i have following problem emerging packages: gorilla ~ # emerge portage Calculating dependencies... done! Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 3263, in ? if "resume" in portage.mtimedb and \ KeyError: 'mergelist' can someone please help me regards martin -- ge

[gentoo-user] [OT] Passing env variable to ssh?

2006-03-13 Thread Jorge Almeida
Anyone knows a way to pass an environment variable to a openssh command? I doubt there is a way, but who knows... I want something like this: myvar="whatever" ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] ./bin/mycommand $myvar This would execute a command with argument "whatever". The problem is that I want to authentic

[gentoo-user] Updated gentoo systems and fresh installs

2006-03-13 Thread Trenton Adams
Hi guys, Is there a difference between the two? I have 2005.1 installed. As I've always understood it, my system will now always be up-to-date, as long as I keep updating it. Is 2006.0 any different than 2005.1 after the system has been installed? I'm just curious, because I have to install ge

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 13 March 2006 14:10, "Hemmann, Volker Armin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination': > > My recommendations are: > > <1G RAM : 32-bit kernel and userland > > <4G RAM : 64-bit kernel and 32-bit userland > >else : 64-bit kernel and 64-bit (multilib)

[gentoo-user] Re: Google-Talk

2006-03-13 Thread Mick
Sven Köhler wrote: >> Is there way of setting up a VoIP talk session with another person who is >> using Google Talk? He is running the Google Talk Windoze application. > > http://code.google.com/apis/talk/index.html > > Well, there will be, i guess. Someday in the future, GAIM will include > G

Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus

2006-03-13 Thread Justin Krejci
Could try norman AV. www.norman.com On Monday 06 March 2006 12:26 pm, Jarry wrote: > >>i have avast updated daily i dono how this virus got in > >>i must try AVG > >> > >>>Why not just use A/V when you run Windoze? AVG is still free and quite > >>>excellent. > > Both AVG and Avast sux hard! I used

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Jim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 164593240 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Better memory architecture and microcode, larger caches, etc.; you might > even get a Hz bump; in the near future, you'll get hw virtualization. > There are lot of reasons to choo

Re: [gentoo-user] Updated gentoo systems and fresh installs

2006-03-13 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Monday 13 March 2006 21:54, Trenton Adams wrote: > Hi guys, > > Is there a difference between the two? I have 2005.1 installed. As > I've always understood it, my system will now always be up-to-date, as > long as I keep updating it. Is 2006.0 any different than 2005.1 after > the system has

Re: [gentoo-user] Another reason to begin USE with "-*"

2006-03-13 Thread Roy Wright
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: The -pv output of emerge shows this. A flag that was not available in your current version but it available in the one you are installing, will be colored yellow and postfixed with '%'. Great. So something like the following in my cron.daily/portage.update

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Passing env variable to ssh?

2006-03-13 Thread Mariusz Pękala
On 2006-03-13 20:14:33 + (Mon, Mar), Jorge Almeida wrote: > Anyone knows a way to pass an environment variable to a openssh command? > I doubt there is a way, but who knows... > I want something like this: > myvar="whatever" ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] ./bin/mycommand $myvar > This would execute a co

Re: [gentoo-user] Updated gentoo systems and fresh installs

2006-03-13 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 3/13/06, Trenton Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi guys, > > Is there a difference between the two? I have 2005.1 installed. As > I've always understood it, my system will now always be up-to-date, as > long as I keep updating it. Is 2006.0 any different than 2005.1 after > the system has

Re: [gentoo-user] Updated gentoo systems and fresh installs

2006-03-13 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Trenton Adams wrote: >Hi guys, > >Is there a difference between the two? I have 2005.1 installed. As >I've always understood it, my system will now always be up-to-date, as >long as I keep updating it. Is 2006.0 any different than 2005.1 after >the sy

Re: [gentoo-user] Updated gentoo systems and fresh installs

2006-03-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 13 March 2006 14:54, "Trenton Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] Updated gentoo systems and fresh installs': > Is there a difference between the two? I have 2005.1 installed. As > I've always understood it, my system will now always be up-to-date, as > long as I keep

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Passing env variable to ssh?

2006-03-13 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 20:14:33 + (WET) Jorge Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want something like this: > myvar="whatever" ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] ./bin/mycommand $myvar > [...] > This does not work, because remotebox doesn't know about $myvar. Of > course, if I could pass a variable to

Re: [gentoo-user] portage problem

2006-03-13 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Gysel wrote: > hi > i have following problem emerging packages: > > gorilla ~ # emerge portage > Calculating dependencies... done! > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 3263, in ? > if "resume" in portage.mti

[gentoo-user] xorg.conf

2006-03-13 Thread Goran Maksimović
Hi!   I have laptop HP nx9105 which has screen 15.4“ resolution of 1280x800 and graphics card nVidia GeForce 4 Go 32M and I am looking for some assistance in configuration of xorg.conf J. So, can somebody help me?   Bye   Goran

Re: [gentoo-user] Another reason to begin USE with "-*"

2006-03-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 13 March 2006 15:13, Roy Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Another reason to begin USE with "-*"': > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > >The -pv output of emerge shows this. A flag that was not available in > > your current version but it available in the one you ar

Re: [gentoo-user] Google-Talk

2006-03-13 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Monday 13 March 2006 01:07, Mick wrote: > > Is there way of setting up a VoIP talk session with another person who is > using Google Talk? He is running the Google Talk Windoze application. > -- If you don't mind using beta stuff then I just saw this on gentoo forums http://forums.gentoo.org/vi

Re: [gentoo-user] -nls

2006-03-13 Thread kashani
Jim wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 163381024 kashani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jim wrote: Has anyone gotten burned by turning off Native Language Support? The only thing I've ever run into on the server side that wanted it was the Horde framework requiring PHP to ha

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf

2006-03-13 Thread Dave Moore
> I have laptop HP nx9105 which has screen 15.4" resolution of 1280x800 and > graphics card nVidia GeForce 4 Go 32M and I am looking for some assistance > in configuration of xorg.conf J. So, can somebody help me? Try Xorg -configure see http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml Dave -- -

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Mike Williams
On Monday 13 March 2006 21:09, Jim wrote: > Is there a how-to on going 64-bit with Gentoo?  Anything special to do > with/for the kernel to go 64-bit? Reinstall. You need a 64bit toolchain to compile a 64bit kernel, and getting a 64bit toolchain is no mean feat. Just reinstall. Do it in a chroot

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 13 March 2006 15:09, Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination': > On 164593240 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Better memory architecture and microcode, larger caches, etc.; you > > might even get a Hz bump; in the near future,

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 13 March 2006 16:01, Mike Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination': > On Monday 13 March 2006 21:09, Jim wrote: > > Is there a how-to on going 64-bit with Gentoo?  Anything special to do > > with/for the kernel to go 64-bit? > > Reinstall. > You

RE: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf

2006-03-13 Thread Goran Maksimović
nfig.xml Dave -- -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GAT d-(+) s+: a24 C++ UBL++ P+>+++ L++ E--- W+++$ N+ o? K? w O? M-- V? !PS !PE Y PGP- t++ 5++ X+ R+++ tv+ b++ DI D++ G e+ h-- r++ y+ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list __ NOD32 1.1441 (2006

Re: [gentoo-user] Another reason to begin USE with "-*"

2006-03-13 Thread Roy Wright
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: The last line will delete the .old files you just created when it syncs /usr/portage/profiles. Nice catch! Thank you. Changed the directory for the old files to /var/portage/profiles. That should be safe. echo "Save old use.desc" mkdir -p /var/portage/pr

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf

2006-03-13 Thread Keats
xml > > Dave > > -- > -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- > Version: 3.12 > GAT d-(+) s+: a24 C++ UBL++ P+>+++ L++ E--- W+++$ N+ o? K? w O? M-- V? > !PS !PE Y PGP- t++ 5++ X+ R+++ tv+ b++ DI D++ G e+ h-- r++ y+ > --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- > > -- > gen

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Passing env variable to ssh?

2006-03-13 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hi, On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 20:14:33 + (WET) Jorge Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I want something like this: myvar="whatever" ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] ./bin/mycommand $myvar [...] This does not work, because remotebox doesn't know about $myvar.

Re: [gentoo-user] wget won't concatenate(?)

2006-03-13 Thread maxim wexler
--- Hans-Werner Hilse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 09:38:06 -0800 (PST) maxim > wexler > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I tried wget'ing this on dialup: > > > ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/releases/x86/2006.0/livecd/livecd-i686-installer

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Passing env variable to ssh?

2006-03-13 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006, Mariusz P?kala wrote: Stdin? echo "$myvar" | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] ./bin/mycommand ? Yup. Thanks! -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Google-Talk

2006-03-13 Thread Mick
Abhay Kedia wrote: > On Monday 13 March 2006 01:07, Mick wrote: >> >> Is there way of setting up a VoIP talk session with another person who is >> using Google Talk? He is running the Google Talk Windoze application. >> -- > If you don't mind using beta stuff then I just saw this on gentoo forums

[gentoo-user] adding unicode use flag?

2006-03-13 Thread b.n.
Hi, When I first installed Gentoo I missed the +unicode use flag, that I would have liked to have. I didn't worry for a long time, but I have been annoyed enough a bit here and there to consider adding it to my use flags. I'd do it straight, but I remember this old thread: http://forums.gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 07:37 -0500, Denis wrote: > Iain, > > So are you saying that a P4 is actually faster with HT disabled, or > simply that you don't have much to gain by using HT? Well, I had read (in a previous HT thread on gentoo-user) that it did indeed degrade performance in many cases, bu

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Jim
On 152923032 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (I haven't validated this, but it *shouldn't* break your system. If you > are using LVM and have a little extra space, it might just be better to do > a chroot install, then boot into it and remove your old install [don't > re

[gentoo-user] ANDREW homepage is down!

2006-03-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi, someone posted about ANDREW, the dvd ripper, but the website is down - probably because of all you gentoo-ers going there to check it out :) Has someone already downloaded http://tobemem.memebot.com/download/andrew-1.2.tar.bz2 that they can mirror for me? thanks, -- Iain Buchanan Mater ar

Re: [gentoo-user] Updated gentoo systems and fresh installs

2006-03-13 Thread Trenton Adams
Thanks everyone. Just so you'll all have an extra tidbit of knowledge. A co-worker mentioned one other thing that could be a problem, that no one else mentioned. If you have not yet upgraded GCC on an old version, then use an up-to-date installation with a newer GCC, you will have binary incompa

Re: [gentoo-user] Google-Talk

2006-03-13 Thread Jim
Abhay Kedia wrote: On Monday 13 March 2006 01:07, Mick wrote: Is there way of setting up a VoIP talk session with another person who is using Google Talk? He is running the Google Talk Windoze application. -- If you don't mind using beta stuff then I just saw this on gentoo forums http://forum

Re: [gentoo-user] ANDREW homepage is down!

2006-03-13 Thread Zac Slade
On Monday 13 March 2006 19:21, Iain Buchanan wrote: > Has someone already downloaded > http://tobemem.memebot.com/download/andrew-1.2.tar.bz2 > that they can mirror for me? I can mirror it not for terribly long. I've set my server to maxclients of 3, the file is only 171K. ftp://krakrjak.com/pub

[gentoo-user] slots

2006-03-13 Thread Jim
Hey group, I have dev-db/mysql 5.0.18-r30 installed. After a sync I get the following when I run: emerge -avb dev-db/mysql-5.0.19 Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild NS ] dev-db/mysql-5.0.19 +berkdb -big-tables -cluster -debug -embedded -extraengine -max-idx-128 -minimal +perl (-s

Re: [gentoo-user] ANDREW homepage is down!

2006-03-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 21:12 -0600, Zac Slade wrote: > On Monday 13 March 2006 19:21, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > Has someone already downloaded > > http://tobemem.memebot.com/download/andrew-1.2.tar.bz2 > > that they can mirror for me? > > I can mirror it not for terribly long. I've set my server to

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 13 March 2006 19:14, Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination': > On 152923032 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > (I haven't validated this, but it *shouldn't* break your system. If > > you are using LVM and have a little ext

Re: [gentoo-user] ANDREW homepage is down!

2006-03-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 13 March 2006 19:21, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] ANDREW homepage is down!': > andrew-1.2.tar.bz2 Hit http://csce.uark.edu/~bss03/andrew-1.2.tar.bz2 but not too hard. -- "If there's one thing we've established over the years, it's that the vast majority

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 11:44:56PM +1300, Glenn Enright wrote > I apreciate that AMD certainly seem to have the memory > bandwidth/throughput thing nailed, and their processors stand tall as > a result. but I doubt that a p4 would perform near as well without a > large part of the enginered parale

Re: [gentoo-user] ANDREW homepage is down!

2006-03-13 Thread Alan E. Davis
What's the secret to compiling ANDREW? Alan Davis -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ANDREW homepage is down!

2006-03-13 Thread Zac Slade
On Monday 13 March 2006 23:26, Alan E. Davis wrote: > What's the secret to compiling ANDREW? http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124130 Get the ebuild there. There are a lot of dependencies. Also look at the latest note in the bug. You must build ogmtools with the dvd USE flag. Make sure y

[gentoo-user] xml2 USE flag description should not have "deprecated"

2006-03-13 Thread Aniruddha Shankar
The xml2 use flag is described "Check/Support flag for XML library (version 2) (deprecated, use xml)" My systems used to run "+xml +xml2" and I changed that to "+xml -xml2", seeing the description. Oh, and I ran emerge -uvDN world as well, to update all packages that had +xml2. Until I reali