Re: [gentoo-user] New CPU, what needs to be done?

2007-08-10 Thread Zac
Why don't you want mulit-core scheduler support? On 8/10/07, Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Freitag, 10. August 2007, Grant wrote: > > I just upgraded from an AMD64 Sempron to an AMD64 Athlon X2. What do > > I need to do in software to accommodate the new CPU? Do I need to

Re: [gentoo-user] New CPU, what needs to be done?

2007-08-10 Thread Zac
ot;If unsure say no/yes" in the kernel was related to being unfamiliar with the hardware you where configuring the kernel for. That said, all I can really say is that it works for me. -Zac On 8/10/07, Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Freitag, 10. August 2007, Fl

Re: [gentoo-user] Distcc using a x86-hardened and a pentium4 host

2006-03-08 Thread Zac
Here is the gentoo distcc guild that says you should not run distcc on hardened host for a not hardened system. http://mirror.eacoss.org/documentation/gentoo/distcc.html However, I currently have an amd64 system that runs distccd that my celeron laptop and p3 media pc use with no issues. -Zac

Re: [gentoo-user] USB Keyboard

2005-05-20 Thread Zac Medico
BD=y or CONFIG_USB_KBD=m and if compliled as a module it will appear as this file: /lib/modules/$KV/kernel/drivers/usb/input/usbkbd.ko If that module exists you can make it autoload like this: echo usbkbd >> /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 Zac Yahoo! Mail Stay conn

Re: [gentoo-user] adding files to an iso image

2005-05-20 Thread Zac Medico
ui frontend will handle the nasty details for you. You can browse through the app-cdr category at packages.gentoo.org. k3b seems to be highly recommended. Zac __ Yahoo! Mail Mobile Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check email on your mobile p

Re: [gentoo-user] adding files to an iso image

2005-05-20 Thread Zac Medico
I was under the impression that the iso filesystem is read only. Of course, you could mount the iso on a loop and create a new iso from those files. If I create an iso with mkisofs -udf then I am able to mount -t udf -o loop,rw but there is no extra space on the filesystem to add files. I use mk

Re: [gentoo-user] adding files to an iso image

2005-05-20 Thread Zac Medico
Nice bluff though. I was hoping sombody added rw support to the iso9660 driver ;-) --- "Brett I. Holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay - it was a good idea in theory. However, he > can mount it, copy it > somewhere, modify it and then create an iso of the > changes. > > On Fri, 20 May 20

Re: [gentoo-user] keeping source

2005-05-20 Thread Zac Medico
/usr/portage and didnt find > them. > > How do I go about keeping the source for later > reference of the various > packages that I emerge with gentoo. > > Charles > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > Edit /etc/make.conf and add "keepwork"

Re: [gentoo-user] adding files to an iso image

2005-05-21 Thread Zac Medico
--- Sad Jack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been able to mount the iso on /mnt/loop and > copy the files. I > have added my file and created a new iso. > > My difficulty now is to make it bootable. I have > followed the link > posted by Bill but the end bit about creating a > bootable cd doe

Re: [gentoo-user] last problem OpenOffice not working from user acct.

2005-05-21 Thread Zac Medico
g to go > back in to user directory and chowning and chgrpin > files. Maybe it's choaking on some hidden config files in use user's home directory like .openoffice or .sversionrc or something. What version of openoffice? Zac __ Yahoo!

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding Menus in KDE

2005-05-21 Thread Zac Medico
You can also create a user overlay of the menu by adding desktop shortcuts inside ~/.kde/share/applnk Zac __ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware upgrade procedure question

2005-05-25 Thread Zac Medico
> Thank you for the help in advance. > > -tracy > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > If you want a 64 bit userland then you should start over with an AMD64 stage. Here are some relevant links: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ha

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware upgrade procedure question

2005-05-25 Thread Zac Medico
--- Antonino Sabetta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you want a 64 bit userland then you should > start > > over with an AMD64 stage. > > So you mean that whenever the hardware platform > changes are > so substantial (as in this case), one should install > the system > from scratch? > Please, b

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware upgrade procedure question

2005-05-25 Thread Zac Medico
By "new config (AMD64)" do you mean change CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu to CHOST=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu ? Sounds like a bad idea. --- Daniel da Veiga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you boot from the > livecd, chroot and > emerge the system using the new config (AMD64), > re

RE: [gentoo-user] Hardware upgrade procedure question

2005-05-25 Thread Zac Medico
got a little easier. Sure, why not? If you have enough disk space you could install x86_64 in a separate partition for testing purposes before you migrate. Like Emmanuel said, with multilib you can use 32 bit x86 binaries along side your x86_64 binaries. Zac ___

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware upgrade procedure question

2005-05-25 Thread Zac Medico
--- Emmanuel Durin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Athlon64 processors can execute 32 bits > instructions. But you can't > use 32 bits executables with 64 bits libraries (or > contrary), and this > will append while recompiling your system (when a > library used by > emerge or gcc will be recompiled

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware upgrade procedure question

2005-05-26 Thread Zac Medico
in handy if you want to run some 32 bit apps like Wine. Zac __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new Resources site http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual Core 64/Intel

2005-05-28 Thread Zac Medico
ject applies here. Zac __ Discover Yahoo! Find restaurants, movies, travel and more fun for the weekend. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/weekend.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual Core 64/Intel

2005-05-28 Thread Zac Medico
--- Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Jonathan Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The standard kernel should do fine. As far as the > > system is concerned > > Sure but what about 64 bits? CMIIW but new intel > processors with EM64T are su

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Building and using binary packages with emerge/portage

2005-05-30 Thread Zac Medico
erge any package that has broken dynamic links. This does not help a package such as openoffice-bin that is not built directly from sources. Zac __ Discover Yahoo! Stay in touch with email, IM, photo sharing and more. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/stayintouch.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Building and using binary packages with emerge/portage

2005-05-30 Thread Zac Medico
hey're not documented because normally they're only used internally by portage. Zac __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new Resources site http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Building and using binary packages with emerge/portage

2005-05-30 Thread Zac Medico
I see > this with openoffice-bin and thunderbird-bin. > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62644 Attached to this bug there is a new version of revdep-rebuild that allows you to add SEARCH_DIRS_MASK="/opt/openoffice /opt/thunderbird" to /e

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Building and using binary packages with emerge/portage

2005-05-31 Thread Zac Medico
ence? > I'm not sure I understand the question. You ant to know if the USE flags are different depending on which machine the package is compiled on? Can you use the above a variation of the above python script? Zac __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! S

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Building and using binary packages with emerge/portage

2005-05-31 Thread Zac Medico
--- Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > answer the 2nd question I have regarding the "+" or > "-" and whether the > USE flag is in USE? This should do the trick: #!/usr/bin/python import sys if len(sys.argv)!=2: print "usage: %s " % sys.argv[0] sys.exit(1) sys.path = ["/usr/

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Building and using binary packages with emerge/portage

2005-05-31 Thread Zac Medico
and > work from there? Am I right? > Yes, you have access to all the old /var/db data. The filelist() method lists all the files that are accessible via getfile() or getelements() methods. The USE flags are a collection of boolean variables. A particular flag is enabled when it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Building and using binary packages with emerge/portage

2005-05-31 Thread Zac Medico
--- Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Cool.. nice script by the way. I'm gonna include > that in Edition 3 > (July) of the MyOSS Magazine > (http://mag.my-opensource.org) as Tips and > Tricks. (crediting you of course) > Oh it's really

Re: [gentoo-user] Good diagram app

2005-05-31 Thread Zac Medico
Bruno, Don't miss the Grumpy Editor's guide to diagram editors: http://lwn.net/Articles/83163/ http://lwn.net/Articles/84238/ Zac __ Discover Yahoo! Have fun online with music videos, cool games, IM and more. Check it out! http:

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD drive not found on new AMD64 system

2005-06-03 Thread Zac Medico
e problem was the ata_piix driver. Did you compile the ata_piix driver? Zac __ Discover Yahoo! Stay in touch with email, IM, photo sharing and more. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/stayintouch.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] svgalib: Cannot open /dev/svga Is svgalib_helper module loaded?

2005-06-03 Thread Zac Medico
al. Hi Michael, Sounds like fun. I've heard that svga is going to be dropped from the default 2005.1 profile. I'm not sure how popuar it is these days. You may want to consider alternatives such as sdl or directfb. I'm not experienced with any of t

Re: [gentoo-user] symbolic link to var tmp

2005-06-03 Thread Zac Medico
ving me > permission errors. > Hi Ognjen, You can't use a symbolic link like that with sandbox. You need to set PORTAGE_TMPDIR in make.conf. Zac __ Discover Yahoo! Stay in touch with email, IM, photo sharing and more. Ch

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] deadkeys in OpenOffice

2005-06-04 Thread Zac Medico
27;s an anonymous comment about XkbOptions that may be useful. Zac __ Discover Yahoo! Find restaurants, movies, travel and more fun for the weekend. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/weekend.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Mac-like automounting?

2005-06-04 Thread Zac Medico
> links would be fine as well, thx) > > P.S please CC me, i am having trouble with the list Hi Ognjen, I hear that ivman works well for this: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ivman There is another similar packages called gnome-volume-manager: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=217412

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Installing on Firewire drive?

2005-06-04 Thread Zac Medico
ve plugged in, you may find this patch usefull which allows you to specify a label (created with e2label) instead of a specific device: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83771 Zac __ Discover Yahoo! Find restaurants, movies, travel and more

Re: [gentoo-user] Printer setup tool

2005-06-04 Thread Zac Medico
fore. In my case there were several drivers to choose from (I use the kde print wizard). I picked another driver and ghostscript was happy after that. Zac __ Discover Yahoo! Get on-the-go sports scores, stock quotes, news and more. Check it out!

Re: [gentoo-user] vfat or msdos on floppy

2005-06-04 Thread Zac Medico
--- Joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How to tell if floppy file system is vfat or msdos? Try to mount it and see if the driver complains? mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy I've always used the vfat driver and never noticed any

Re: [gentoo-user] difficulty installing gentoo on AMD sempron

2005-06-04 Thread Zac Medico
t properly configured. Try this: gcc-config i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.5-20050130 Zac __ Discover Yahoo! Find restaurants, movies, travel and more fun for the weekend. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/weekend.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Watch out folks!!! (Bug #95050 appears deadly!!!)

2005-06-04 Thread Zac Medico
ATURES=buildpkg then you might have a tbz2 in ${PKGDIR}/All. If you don't have a tbz2 you can use quickpkg from the gentookit package to generate tbz2 from a working gentoo system. Zac __ Discover Yahoo! Get on-the-go sports scores

Re: [gentoo-user] difficulty installing gentoo on AMD sempron

2005-06-04 Thread Zac Medico
--- Ted Ozolins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Zac, I was having the same problem and this > fixed it for me. It > makes me wonder why was this necessary? > The bootstrap script probably works fine with the 2005.0 portage snapshot. Apparenly there's a bug when

Re: [gentoo-user] Random crash

2005-06-04 Thread Zac Medico
(firefox // thunderbird // > gaim) > >After what seems to be a random time, it suddenly > closes. > Hi Omega21, Do you remember what you did just before this problem started? Run one of those apps from a terminal so you can see if there are any clues in stderr. Zac

Re: [gentoo-user] Random crash

2005-06-04 Thread Zac Medico
--- Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- ««Omega21»» <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi there. > > Right now, Im typing this in webmail because > > none of my Mozilla products are working right. > > And now that I think of it,

Re: [gentoo-user] Random crash

2005-06-04 Thread Zac Medico
e used gtk-qt-engine in the past with no problems. For KDE users, Mozillux has some really nice themes for firefox and thunderbird: http://www.polinux.upv.es/mozilla/temas.php?idioma=en Zac __ Discover Yahoo! Find restaurants, movies, travel a

Re: [gentoo-user] Where to find ebuild info?

2005-06-04 Thread Zac Medico
has some known issues (particually > critical > ones) and is awaiting the next version or is it > really just > waiting for enough people to bang on it? > If it's a keyword mask like ~x86 then it is just "waiting for enough people to bang on it". I use ACCEPT_KEYWORDS

Re: [gentoo-user] hostname

2005-06-05 Thread Zac Medico
--- smoke3 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi guys, > suppose you lost /bin/hostname... what could you do > in order to make > it available again? > You can use equery from the gentoolkit package: equery belongs /bin/hostname sy

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with emerg sawfish

2005-06-05 Thread Zac Medico
k-0.18 failed. > !!! function src_compile, line47, exitcode 2 > !!! (no error message) > !!! if you need support, ! post the ... Hi moonspollo, There are some patches attached to this bug: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70514 Zac _

Re: [gentoo-user] difficulty installing gentoo on AMD sempron

2005-06-05 Thread Zac Medico
--- Allan Gottlieb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At Sat, 04 Jun 2005 18:54:21 -0700 (PDT) Zac Medico > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- Ted Ozolins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Thanks Zac, I was having the same problem and > this >

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot recompile KDE programs

2005-06-05 Thread Zac Medico
exander, Looks like this one: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52533 Did you change CFLAGS or something? Zac __ Discover Yahoo! Stay in touch with email, IM, photo sharing and more. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/stayintouch.ht

Re: [gentoo-user] busybox/e2fsprogs compile error

2005-06-06 Thread Zac Medico
in the ebuild: if use savedconfig ; then [[ -r .config ]] && rm .config Zac __ Discover Yahoo! Use Yahoo! to plan a weekend, have fun online and more. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [NEWBIE] Repeating error updating Evolution

2005-06-06 Thread Zac Medico
however, just do: > > > > FEATURES="-sandbox" emerge evolution > > My make.global file contains "sandbox" in the > FEATURES line, so > shouldn't this be effective already? > Nope, the - operator disables sandbox which is what you want. Zac

Re: [gentoo-user] question about dropped incoming packets

2005-06-06 Thread Zac Medico
x27;t understand if these packets are the > reply to my request > from pc with 192.168.0.250 ip address or someone > trying to intrude my > system? > Hi askar, It is a reply to a request that originated from 192.168.0.250. Your iptables rules are not allowing the packet to be

Re: [gentoo-user] foomatic build(rebuild) broken

2005-06-06 Thread Zac Medico
--- Stoian Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # emerge -a foomatic-db-engine USE=-sandbox emerge foomatic-db-engine See http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91516 Zac __ Discover Yahoo! Find restaurant

Re: [gentoo-user] foomatic build(rebuild) broken

2005-06-06 Thread Zac Medico
--- Stoian Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # emerge -a foomatic-db-engine > Oops, thats FEATURES=-sandbox __ Discover Yahoo! Have fun online with music videos, cool games, IM and more. Check it out! http://discover.y

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /etc/shadow syntax

2005-06-06 Thread Zac Medico
; helped them solve problems > with freenx. Which implies that * and ! does not > mean the same. > > This is why I'd like to find some kind of more less > official documentation. > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > D

Re: [gentoo-user] photo management

2005-06-06 Thread Zac Medico
so I can use > gthumb now and then integrate it with gphoto2 when I > get my new > supported camera. Slick. > New camera? Are you sure the camera doesn't support usb mass storage. If not can remove the flash card and use it in a flash card reader? Zac _

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I set xorg.conf monitor scan rates for S-Video/TV output?

2005-06-06 Thread Zac Medico
olling. I tried all the > Alt-Ctrl-PageUp > settings but they all do this. > >I'm unclear how to choose my monitor scan rates > for a TV. Any and > all clues really welcomed. > > Thanks, > Mark > Maybe your resolution is not supported on the

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I set xorg.conf monitor scan rates for S-Video/TV output?

2005-06-06 Thread Zac Medico
h 16 > Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" > ViewPort0 0 > EndSubsection > Subsection "Display" > Depth 24 > Modes "640x480" > ViewPort0 0 >

Re: [gentoo-user] photo management

2005-06-06 Thread Zac Medico
rage dmesg | grep sd mount -t vfat /dev/sd? /mnt/camera Zac __ Discover Yahoo! Have fun online with music videos, cool games, IM and more. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/online.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] fix_libtool_files.sh failed

2005-06-06 Thread Zac Medico
libcdk.la] Error 1 > > !!! ERROR: dev-libs/cdk-4.9.11.20031210-r1 failed. > > But I haven't more that version of gcc! Now I have > gcc-3.4.4. > I tried: > fix_libtool_files.sh 3.4.4 > and to emerge another time but the error is the > same... > Did I forget

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: foomatic build(rebuild) broken

2005-06-06 Thread Zac Medico
oo much? > > outside X use > Alt-F1 , Alt-F2 ... Alt-Fn > > inside X > ctrl-alt-F1 ,... > In addition to virtual consoles I also find app-misc/screen quite useful. You can detach a session and then reattach from an xterm, ssh, etc... Zac _

Re: [gentoo-user] gthumb GTK error

2005-06-06 Thread Zac Medico
--- Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Huh, I logged out of root and I can run gthumb as a > normal user just > fine. Not as root though. Weird. That's normal. See the man page for xhost. Zac __ Discover Yahoo! Stay

Re: [gentoo-user] updated gnome packages to 2.10, missing menus

2005-06-06 Thread Zac Medico
e emerge -p gnome-common. It is supposed to merge the latest (unmasked) version. I gather that gnome-common is not in your world file. This is normal for packages that are pulled in as dependencies. Zac __ Discover Yahoo! Find restaurants, movie

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Open Office toolbar

2005-06-07 Thread Zac Medico
do, I can get it back into > the > header I'm not even sure what I did to move it > (the popup > of the object toolbar) from the header to a popup? > > Ideas or places to research this question are most > appreciated... > > Obvious dirty hack: rm -rf ~/.openoffic

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set up a dhcp client?

2005-06-07 Thread Zac Medico
y could > give an advice! > /sbin/dhcpcd is the client program. Maybe you can copy it from the other box just to see if there is a difference. Zac __ Discover Yahoo! Find restaurants, movies, travel and more fun for the weekend. Check it o

Re: [gentoo-user] Turn off monitor

2005-06-07 Thread Zac Medico
E --> Control Center --> Peripherals --> > Display > On the Power Control tab, set monitor to power off > after 10 minutes, or > whatever. This is the behavior I want from a vc. Not > just to blank. > Check the setterm manpage. Looks like you want the -powerdown option.

Re: [gentoo-user] xpdf bin does not exist

2005-06-07 Thread Zac Medico
; and xpdf in any number of combinations. The result > is the sameno xpdf bin file. > > Any other suggestions would be appreciated. > Hi reg, You need to run motif-config before you merge xpdf with USE=-nomotif. You can use either openmotif or lesstif and this is how you ch

Re: [gentoo-user] busybox

2005-06-07 Thread Zac Medico
Norberto Bensa wrote: > > What is not mentioned is the motivation to replace sash > with busybox. So my question is: why? I don't know about sash but busybox is very very cool. It's a complete userland in one executable! Check it out: http

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set up a dhcp client?

2005-06-07 Thread Zac Medico
sure doesn't lag > this much. > Agreed. ;-) The worst case scenario is that he couldn't use that binary and he'd have to get another. ldd /sbin/dhcpcd linux-gate.so.1 => (0xe000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb7e

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-06-07 Thread Zac Medico
ot-info-table > '.' > mkisofs: Uh oh, I cant find the boot image > 'cdboot/boot/grub/stage2_eltorito' ! > > livecd cdboot # mkisofs -o /tmp/cdboot.iso -R -b > cdboot/boot/grub/stage2_eltorit > o -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table > &

Re: [gentoo-user] LiveCD distcc

2005-06-07 Thread Zac Medico
e official installation cds are built). I prefer to build livecds by hand. For both my diskless node and livecds I use a genkernel initrd that is patched to use unionfs for copy on write functionality. Zac __ Discover Yahoo! Have fun online with

Re: [gentoo-user] LiveCD distcc/Live CD's are Wonderfull

2005-06-07 Thread Zac Medico
short term memory, so > whenever I lose something, I have to take on an > orthagonal persuit, haha. > > God Bless, > > Rob. Are you serious about not having short term memory? That must be difficult. Bless you too, Zac ___

Re: [gentoo-user] konqueror / devices

2005-06-08 Thread Zac Medico
+opengl +pam -samba > +ssl -xinerama 0 kB > > Uwe > In kDE 3.4 it's been replaced with media:/ and it works for me. It is not affected by USE flags. Zac __ Discover Yahoo! Have fun online with music videos, cool games, IM and more. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/online.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] plain-vanilla ethernet; do brands matter?

2005-06-08 Thread Zac Medico
e compatiblility database. AFAIK most work but some don't. If your local store doesn't know maybe they will let you test with a livecd before you buy. Zac __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] konqueror / devices

2005-06-08 Thread Zac Medico
--- Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 00:34:04 -0700 (PDT), Zac Medico > wrote: > > > In kDE 3.4 it's been replaced with media:/ and it > > works for me. It is not affected by USE flags. > > Although you will need the hal

Re: [gentoo-user] New stage1 install failed (groupadd not found)

2005-06-08 Thread Zac Medico
me portage script be fixed first? > That's strange. The /usr/sbin/groupadd program belongs to sys-apps/shadow. It's really not there? If not then emerge --oneshot sys-apps/shadow should fix it. Zac __ Discover Yahoo! Use Yahoo! to pl

Re: [gentoo-user] CDRW trouble: can't read superblock

2005-06-08 Thread Zac Medico
Audio cds are in cdda format. It's not a regular filesystem and there isn't a driver to mount them with.You can copy them with cdrdao, rip them with cdparanoia, play them with xmms-cdread, etc... Zac __ Yahoo! Mail Mobile Take

Re: -- dhcp: host name lookup failure-- or -- Re: [gentoo-user] How to set up a dhcp client?

2005-06-08 Thread Zac Medico
normally goes in /etc/conf.d/hostname. Zac __ Discover Yahoo! Find restaurants, movies, travel and more fun for the weekend. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/weekend.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: -- dhcp: host name lookup failure-- or -- Re: [gentoo-user] How to set up a dhcp client?

2005-06-08 Thread Zac Medico
--- Claus Ladekj�r Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - I have no such file - /etc/conf.d/hostname > > With older versions of baselayout it was /etc/hostname. Zac __ Discover Yahoo! Use Yahoo! to plan a weekend, h

Re: THE END --- Re: [gentoo-user] How to set up a dhcp client?

2005-06-08 Thread Zac Medico
e, I just don't know what did > the trick - maybe my > update of dhcpcd? > Normally you have a symlink from /etc/runlevels/default/net.eth0 to /etc/init/net.eth0. If eth0 is configured for dhcp in /etc/conf.d/net then the net.eth0 script will automatical

Re: [gentoo-user] iptables blocks ssh

2005-06-08 Thread Zac Medico
/log/messages. iptables -A INPUT -m limit --limit 30/min -j LOG --log-prefix "Input Dropping: " Zac __ Yahoo! Mail Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour: http://tour.mail.yahoo.com/mailtour.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] NetBeans/Eclipse & Java 1.5

2005-06-08 Thread Zac Medico
--- Justin Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey, > > Is it possible to compile NetBeans or Eclipse from > ebuilds using Java 1.5? > I haven't tried it but I bet it works just fine. Somebody would have filed a bug by now and the ebuild would notify you if the

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about Apache, PHP and where execution actually takes place

2005-06-08 Thread Zac Medico
lla (too much html or too many large images). Use wget to download the html and see what it looks like: wget http://192.168.1.2:/members/michael/camera/picindex.php Zac __ Discover Yahoo! Find restaurants, movies, travel and more fun for the

Re: [gentoo-user] NetBeans/Eclipse & Java 1.5

2005-06-08 Thread Zac Medico
f exporting keywords it's probably best to put a line in /etc/portage/package.keywords echo "dev-util/netbeans ~x86" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords Looks like you found a bug in beanshell. There is a new ebuild that is supposed to be 1.5 compatible: http://bugs.gentoo.org/s

Re: [gentoo-user] Customize - maximize a window in KDE or a general X application

2005-06-08 Thread Zac Medico
> Hi Hareesh, This is handled by the window manager and unfortunately I'm not aware of a window manager independent way to do what you want. You may want to have a look at the wm-spec: http://www.freedesktop.org/Standards/wm-spec Zac __

Re: [gentoo-user] libncursesw not build even with 'unicode' in USE

2005-06-08 Thread Zac Medico
do stage 3 installs myself (sometimes build my own stages with catalyst). Anyways, try "USE=-gpm emerge --oneshot ncurses" and that should work around the problem. Note that "emerge --info" shows USE=gpm in the profile so you need to disable it. Zac __ Discover Yahoo! Find restaurants, movies, travel and more fun for the weekend. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/weekend.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] libncursesw not build even with 'unicode' in USE

2005-06-08 Thread Zac Medico
a package without all it's dependecies (USE flags) in order to avoid circular dependencies. Portage takes some getting used to (and study) but it's definitely worth it. Zac __ Discover Yahoo! Find restaurants, movies, travel a

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge curiosity

2005-06-09 Thread Zac Medico
that I am obviously missing 2) determine > if there are any other updates that "emerge -Du > world" might be missing. "emerge -uD world" will upgrade all packages to the latest (unmasked) versions. Nothing will be missed. Like Wade said, the a, v, and N options are als

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge curiosity

2005-06-09 Thread Zac Medico
g else that no longer is on my system? > > How would I find other programs that may exist in a > similiar state? > emerge -a depclean You need to study your emerge manpage ;-) Zac __ Discover Yahoo! Stay in touch with email

Re: [gentoo-user] So how does one write a CD in 2.6?

2005-06-09 Thread Zac Medico
tead of using the scsibus address like -dev=0,0,0 or whatever you simply substitute -dev=/dev/hdc. Zac __ Discover Yahoo! Get on-the-go sports scores, stock quotes, news and more. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/mobile.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge curiosity

2005-06-09 Thread Zac Medico
package list comes from the profile linked from /etc/make.profile. Portage uses stacked or cascading profiles now so it uses all the "package" files of your profile and all the ones inherited from it's parents. In the emerge manpage it says that the system class is a sub

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge curiosity

2005-06-09 Thread Zac Medico
--- Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- reg hughson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The man page states that > > emerge generates a list of packages which it > expects > > to be installed by checking the system package > list >

Re: [gentoo-user] So how does one write a CD in 2.6?

2005-06-09 Thread Zac Medico
frontends are just that, frontends. They all use the same backend command line programs to handle the actual burning. These backend programs include cdrecord, growisofs, and cdrdao. This means that theoretically (maybe with a little troubleshooting),

Re: [gentoo-user] So how does one write a CD in 2.6?

2005-06-09 Thread Zac Medico
iveropts=burnfree > /wherever/the/file/is.iso > > for example. > > So the syntax is dev=ATAPI=#,#,# ,depending on what > scanbus told you > your device was. > Cool, I've beed using dev=/dev/hdc type syntax all this time. I just found out that I need &q

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge curiosity

2005-06-09 Thread Zac Medico
s like that. If you want any of those packages just add them to your world file where they belong. Zac __ Discover Yahoo! Use Yahoo! to plan a weekend, have fun online and more. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie problem with picture size

2005-06-09 Thread Zac Medico
ine. I believe the livcd uses vga=0x317. See /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt | 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 +- 256 | 0x3010x3030x3050x307 32k | 0x3100x3130x3160x319 64k | 0x311

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge error "Bad interpretor"

2005-06-09 Thread Zac Medico
exec option on that partition because of the way it is mounted. See the manpage for mount. Zac __ Discover Yahoo! Use Yahoo! to plan a weekend, have fun online and more. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Bad performance with external USB disk

2005-06-09 Thread Zac Medico
ichard is right on. If you run "free" before your start the copy and then again after the burst you should see that it simply ate up the available memory. You should do a real benchmark, possibly including hdparm. If there is really a problem then hopefully you will see some errors in dm

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge error "Bad interpretor"

2005-06-09 Thread Zac Medico
he user option implies noexec. You need to explicitly override it with the exec option. Also note that if you miss a message you can still read them in the archives: http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-user%40li

Re: [gentoo-user] tracking ebuilds

2005-06-09 Thread Zac Medico
build changelogs and bugs.gentoo.org. There's also program called herdstat that you can use to query information about package maintainers (I merged it but haven't tried it yet). Zac __ Discover Yahoo! Have fun online with mus

Re: [gentoo-user] problem booting from a USB flash drive

2005-06-09 Thread Zac Medico
nce you built in the drivers. This is the same exact kernel that you were using from the hard drive, right? What's your kernel command line? I assume that the error occurs when the kernel goes to mount the root filesystem. Exact details of that error may be helpful. Zac

Re: [gentoo-user] problem booting from a USB flash drive

2005-06-09 Thread Zac Medico
bably want to mount it read only since flash has limited write cycles. You say the kernel messages indicate that the flash disk was recognized as sda so I'm not sure why it's not mounting for you. I looked through linux/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt and saw a "rootdelay" parame

Re: [gentoo-user] A better USE flags documentation?

2005-06-09 Thread Zac Medico
Again, read the ebuild. When you merge packages I recommend the emerge -av options so you can see which flags are enabled and disabled before you continue with the emerge. Zac __ Discover Yahoo! Use Yahoo! to plan a weekend, have fun online and more. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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