Re: [gentoo-user] Re: oder of files opened by a process

2010-10-01 Thread Darren Kirby
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Al wrote: >> I understand that Al, but you must keep context in mind here. This >> mailing list, while perhaps not called the 'gentoo linux users list' >> is intended for support for Gentoo Linux. When you post here asking a > > A am a wanderer betwenn the worlds. W

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: oder of files opened by a process

2010-10-01 Thread Darren Kirby
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Al wrote: >> >> There are projects to port portage and other system tools to all sorts >> of other kernels: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentoo/Alt >> >> That said, it is quite inaccurate of the OP to claim Gentoo is but a >> 'build system', and not a Linux. It's pr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: oder of files opened by a process

2010-10-01 Thread Darren Kirby
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2010-10-01, Dale wrote: >> Al wrote: You're running Gentoo Windows? >>> Yes I do. >>> >>> >> >> Someone is confused.  I'm not sure who tho.  :/ > > I certainly feel a bit confused.  I was aware of Gentoo/BSD... > > > -- > Gr

Re: [gentoo-user] oder of files opened by a process

2010-10-01 Thread Darren Kirby
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Dale wrote: > Al wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I want to find out by which file and line the */temp/environment >> script is run or sourced. >> >> As a am always interested in a general way to solve something, I ask >> if there is a tool, that displays me the order in

Re: [gentoo-user] NetworkManager OK? kNetworkManager broken? Wireless setup very confusing...

2010-09-30 Thread Darren Kirby
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:22 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Dump NetworkManager. > Use wicd. > All these issues just GoAway(tm) with wicd Thanks Alan, I've just realized that. Wish I could get the last 10 hours back though :) D -- -- Support the mob or mysteriously disappear... I'm on flickr: http

[gentoo-user] [SOLVED]Re: NetworkManager OK? kNetworkManager broken? Wireless setup very confusing...

2010-09-30 Thread Darren Kirby
Right, so I uninstalled nm-applet, NetworkManager and all that, emerged wicd, and bam...everything Just Worked. Going to stick with wicd for now. Thanks for the replys all... D -- Support the mob or mysteriously disappear... I'm on flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/badcomputer/

Re: [gentoo-user] NetworkManager OK? kNetworkManager broken? Wireless setup very confusing...

2010-09-30 Thread Darren Kirby
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 8:16 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 7:37 PM, Darren Kirby wrote: > [...] >> I am wondering if I should just uninstall KNetworkManager, and try >> nm-applet? Will that even work on a KDE desktop? Will it require >> insta

Re: [gentoo-user] NetworkManager OK? kNetworkManager broken? Wireless setup very confusing...

2010-09-30 Thread Darren Kirby
Hey Bill, On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 7:13 PM, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > Gentoo networking is a bit on the wild side - it doesnt seem to work > nicely with third party tools without a lot of work. > > My fix was to manually configure each location (and a couple of general > ones such as wifi hotspot, a

[gentoo-user] NetworkManager OK? kNetworkManager broken? Wireless setup very confusing...

2010-09-30 Thread Darren Kirby
Hello all, Getting very frustrated here. Trying to put the finishing touches on a new laptop install. I have verified using the CLI that both wired and wireless networking works fine when I configure manually. As with most laptops, I would imagine, I will be switching locations often, and switchin

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ridiculously wide handbook pages

2010-09-30 Thread Darren Kirby
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> Do you have some custom css stylesheets that override the default or >> something? > > Nope.  Not that I know of.  I presume I'd have to do something I'd > likely remember? > Yes, you would definitely remember if you did it... Anyway, I

Re: [gentoo-user] ridiculously wide handbook pages

2010-09-30 Thread Darren Kirby
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Grant Edwards > wrote: >> I've noticed recently that the Gentoo handbook web pages are >> ridiculously wide. (It seems to me that they didn't used to be, but I >> wouldn't swear to that). >> >> For example, l

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ridiculously wide handbook pages

2010-09-30 Thread Darren Kirby
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > > I'm using firefox, and the text doesn't reformat for me.  I just end > up with a change in the size of the horizontal scrollbar.  Are you > sure you're looking at the same pages I was talking about? > >  http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handb

Re: [gentoo-user] ridiculously wide handbook pages

2010-09-30 Thread Darren Kirby
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > > I can understand that things like example code blocks or sample > command input/output blocks might need to be wide enough to require > horizontal scrolling of a browser window, but normal text paragraphs > with 160 characters per line?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: net-wireless/rtl8192se compile failure

2010-09-28 Thread Darren Kirby
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 7:17 AM, walt wrote: > On 09/27/2010 11:41 PM, Darren Kirby wrote: > >> error: 'struct net_device' has no member named 'wireless_handlers' > > struct net_device is defined in include/linux/netdevice.h, which includes > t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: net-wireless/rtl8192se compile failure

2010-09-28 Thread Darren Kirby
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 7:17 AM, walt wrote: > On 09/27/2010 11:41 PM, Darren Kirby wrote: > >> error: 'struct net_device' has no member named 'wireless_handlers' > > struct net_device is defined in include/linux/netdevice.h, which includes > t

[gentoo-user] net-wireless/rtl8192se compile failure

2010-09-27 Thread Darren Kirby
Hello all, Trying to put the finishing touches on a new install, and compiling the wireless driver is failing. Machine is a Toshiba Satellite L450, uname: 2.6.34-gentoo-r6 #2 SMP Mon Sep 27 05:48:15 MDT 2010 x86_64 Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU T4400 @ 2.20GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux lspci reports th

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoos community communication rant

2010-09-07 Thread Darren Kirby
>>  Only YOU can go file the bug report and ask for it. > > It's not done by filing a bug. It's not a bug anyway. > > Al > Except that if you had the slightest bit of familiarity with the Gentoo community you would know that all wish-list items, infrastructure issues, and other such non-software b

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout slot issue, portage wants to downgrade everything

2009-04-20 Thread darren kirby
a bit ahead of the rest of the system, probably because of recent > baselayout masking, and I bet there should be a good reason to mask > something like that. I guess I had a preconceived notion that downgrading all those packages was somehow a 'bad' thing. Thanks for the help, a

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout slot issue, portage wants to downgrade everything

2009-04-20 Thread darren kirby
installed baselayout but 'system' wants an older one. -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972

[gentoo-user] baselayout slot issue, portage wants to downgrade everything

2009-04-19 Thread darren kirby
system uses a NFS mounted portage tree, as do all my Gentoo systems, none other are showing this behaviour. I had a search through bugzy, but cannot find anything relevent. What have I done wrong here? I can give more info if you want. Not sure what you need. I do keep the system fairly up to date (emerge -uD world at least every month). -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972

Re: [gentoo-user] I don't like xorg-server 1.5.3

2009-04-13 Thread darren kirby
ed the upgrade guide, and it worked without a hitch. -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972

[gentoo-user] [OT] Tellico: custom fields

2009-03-31 Thread darren kirby
which I find much more useful. However, even after affecting this change, the field name correctly says 'Wikipedia Link" however the link text still says "Buy from Amazon.com". I have scoured the settings but cannot find a way to change this default link text. Does someone kn

Re: [gentoo-user] cleaning disfiles

2009-03-24 Thread darren kirby
quoth the laurent: >I looked in make.conf but did not see any 'DISTFILES_PATH'. What should >I add? > Thanks ;) > Laurent DISTDIR=/where/you/want/them see 'man make.conf' for explanation and more... -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http:

Re: [gentoo-user] error while loading shared libraries: libcrypto.so.0.9.8

2009-03-17 Thread darren kirby
gt; > > > re-emerge wget (and/or do revdep-revbuild) > > sh-3.2# re-emerge wget > sh: re-emerge: command not found > sh-3.2# revdep-revbuild > sh: revdep-revbuild: command not found > > Hmm, I have not this commands... By 're-emerge' he means to merge it again ie:

Re: [gentoo-user] Kpdf crashes with large documents.

2008-12-31 Thread darren kirby
gt; #9 0x in ?? () > >> > >> I snipped out the repeating stuff. Thoughts? > >> > >> Thanks. > >> > >> Dale > >> > >> :-) :-) > >> > >> P.S. I bought the phone really cheap. I just "feel" li

Re: [gentoo-user] Audacious annoyance (special chars)

2008-12-04 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Dave Jones: > darren kirby wrote on 04/12/08 23:32: > > I've just noticed that my audacious will not play songs with special > > characters in the filename (ie: acute and grave accents, umlauts, > > cedillas etc) no matter how I try. Needless to say, this is ver

[gentoo-user] Audacious annoyance (special chars)

2008-12-04 Thread darren kirby
an audacious be coerced into playing these songs? I should perhaps note that konqueror and even konsole display the characters just fine. The problem appears to be solely with audacious. Version is 1.5.1-r1, USE flags are: 'chardet nls session sse2' Thanks in advance -d -- da

Re: [gentoo-user] FLAC to mp3 converters?

2008-11-05 Thread darren kirby
/badcomputer.org/unix/code/sneetchalizer/ Something like: $ sneetchalizer -r -D /my/mp3s/ --in=flac --out=mp3 /my/flacs/ will do everything you specified above with one command. Ruby powered ;) > Thanks, > Mark HTH, -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcom

Re: [gentoo-user] gimp doc

2008-10-23 Thread darren kirby
either of these > packages. I would have expected it to have required at least one of > them. Should this be raised as a bug on the bugzilla? > I was under the understanding that 'doc' USE flag pulls in API/developer docs, not user docs. Could be wrong > Dan -d -- d

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} An old iBook G3 as server

2008-10-23 Thread darren kirby
personal website/server so it wasn't a big deal. If your server is any sort of important you may want to look at finding an old x86 box. 2cents, -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972

Re: [gentoo-user] Two apps can't find Java VM

2008-08-25 Thread darren kirby
ges, my java-vm is being detected just fine. Thanks a lot for the good advice, -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972

[gentoo-user] Two apps can't find Java VM

2008-08-25 Thread darren kirby
e no idea what these two packages even do. I am just trying to do a 'emerge -uD world' and portage seems to want to update both of them Thanks for consideration, -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...the number of UNIX installations has g

Re: [gentoo-user] htaccess file

2008-06-16 Thread darren kirby
F] matches any query strings with ":/" in them, and returns a 403 forbidden error. Though, I am not sure ":/" is interpreted literally or not. Doesn't look like any PCRE i've seen... > -- > Iain Buchanan > > Nothing can be done in one trip. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems mounting Nikon D40 Camera, vfat FS issue?

2008-06-09 Thread darren kirby
quot; selected in the problem machine. > > Thanks for consideration, > > -d > > -Hal Thanks, -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." - Dennis Ritchie and

Re: [gentoo-amd64] ...you have been bouncing

2008-06-09 Thread darren kirby
t; sorry if my 'bounces' have been annoying the list. > > -d The bounces don't show up on the list, so, no annoyance. Interestingly, I got this same exact message. Mailing list issue? Another -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org &

[gentoo-user] Problems mounting Nikon D40 Camera, vfat FS issue?

2008-06-09 Thread darren kirby
is missing codepage... Just to note: It is a stable amd64 Gentoo system, and I do have vfat module loaded when I attempt to mount. Any other ideas? Thanks for consideration, -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...the number of UNIX installations has gr

Re: [gentoo-amd64] k3b and FLAC images

2008-04-29 Thread darren kirby
automagically work. When you choose 'Burn Audio CD' then any supported files that are drag and dropped into the tracklist are automatically converted to wavs, which in turn are burned in redbook format for audio CDs. When burning as data, no such conversion is performed, the flacs are b

Re: [gentoo-amd64] k3b and FLAC images

2008-04-29 Thread darren kirby
iles aren't right, but I'm not sure how I would verify that. CUE is in a seperate file? Perhaps you need to use 'metaflac' to embed them in the flac before k3b will take them... $ metaflac --import-cuesheet-from='CUEFILE' foobar.flac In any event, running 'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Batch audio converter?

2008-04-27 Thread darren kirby
ut I am author of sneetchalizer. Will do what you need plus preserve the meta-tags: http://badcomputer.org/unix/code/sneetchalizer/ -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected...&qu

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Rootkit Hunter release 1.3.2

2008-04-26 Thread darren kirby
ere...' or somesuch. > I'll post some version-bump notices that I've been holding back on, and > see if they "take". (If they don't, I'll come back here and ping you :-) ) > > Thanks. -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://

Re: [gentoo-user] Would emerge --sync remove old profiles?

2008-04-26 Thread darren kirby
point 'make.profile' to a profile directory that is outside of PORTDIR. Grab old ebuilds you need from the attic. Again, ask some devs if you like, but I do feel you will be left on your own with this one... > Anyway, enough of this. thanks! > > - Mark -d -- darren kirby ::

Re: Even more documentation?

2008-04-25 Thread darren kirby
ey available from O'Reilley (and for download from the author's site) but I haven't (yet!) read it so I cannot say much about it... Also, also, I seem to recall a 'further reading' section in the back of the FreeBSD handbook which had more suggestions. > Sincerely, &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub heartbreaker

2008-04-24 Thread darren kirby
oot=/dev/sda2 udev > and some more specific to me. I am using something close to the > original gentoo configs, so it uses an initrd parameter also which you > need separately in grub. That would only apply if in fact the OP is using an initrd, which does not appear to be the case, though, the OP may have simply omitted this info. Rather, as Alan mentioned, it seems the problem is that the kernel doesn't agree that /dev/sda3 is the '/' filesystem. I have never used vmware, perhaps it fudges device paths in some way? > Hope this helps. > > -- > Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: > How do > you spend it? > > John Covici > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: nfs & firewall, hard vs soft mount

2008-04-24 Thread darren kirby
a config to set these, or if you have to add the '-p n' to the startup scripts directly. Also, On Linux you must set the lockd port at boot time. Perhaps there is a sysctl for this on FreeBSD? HTH -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...th

Re: Build a single kernel module?

2008-04-24 Thread darren kirby
gt; cd /usr/src/sys/modules/whatyouwant > make > Thanks, I will remember this for the future. -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more

[solved] Re: Build a single kernel module?

2008-04-23 Thread darren kirby
quoth the darren kirby: Please disregard. I have realized the module is called if_sk.ko, not sk.ko, so it is in fact built... -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..."

Build a single kernel module?

2008-04-23 Thread darren kirby
t if there are some docs that speak more clearly to this issue a pointer would be great. Thanks for consideration, -d [0] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-building.html -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...the

Re: [gentoo-user] Qmail and Spamassassin won't integrate

2008-04-21 Thread darren kirby
/usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver to: |spamc |/var/qmail/bin/preline -f /usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver ...and everything seems to be cherry now. All incoming mail now has X-Spam headers added. -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Qmail and Spamassassin won't integrate

2008-04-21 Thread darren kirby
Does anyone on this list have spamassassin integrated with qmail at the MTA level? I would be very interested in which method you used, and your configs. Is there something else I am missing? Any other info you need please just ask. [0] http://www.magma.com.ni/~jorge/spamassassin.html [1] ht

Re: Filesystem full......

2008-04-21 Thread darren kirby
quoth the darren kirby: > quoth the Martin Tournoij: > > On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 05:44:43PM +0200, Leslie Jensen wrote: > > > During "make installkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC" I get > > > > > > /: write failed, filesystem is full > > > install: /bo

Re: Filesystem full......

2008-04-21 Thread darren kirby
me has nothing but .cshrc et al so if you want a backup kernel you may need more than 256M. Did the install yesterday so there is no cruft yet... > You probably have some "junk" on the root filesystem, you may want to > check /boot/kernel.old and /root > > You can use d

Re: Changing Console Video Modes

2008-04-20 Thread darren kirby
the same for text? Can't speak to this issue technically, but it essentially allows you to use much smaller, yet readable fonts in the console. > Thanks! > > Sincerely, > > -- Ned Ruggeri -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "

Re: [gentoo-user] OT Best font selection?

2008-04-17 Thread darren kirby
Damn good IMHO! > > -- > Gustavo Campos > > Ciência da Computação / Computer Science - UFMG -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT Best font selection?

2008-04-17 Thread darren kirby
ee'. I was simply stating what I use because I think it looks good. -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT Best font selection?

2008-04-17 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Liviu Andronic: > > So, what font do you use for the User Interface? > Happy with Bitstream Vera Sans myself. Clean, clear, and looks good. For fixed I use Courier 10-pitch. -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...the

Re: [gentoo-user] Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-04-02 Thread darren kirby
y to do E or I over an SSH connection. It kills the SSH > daemon and you can't reboot the box. You can guess how I learned that > one :( Ha. Hopefully the machine wasn't too far away physically. -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...t

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror Go menu - missing items

2008-04-02 Thread darren kirby
think... Anyway, hopefully this will get you started until someone can give you a real answer ;) > > -- > Alan McKinnon > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...the number of UNIX installations has gr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia drivers

2008-04-01 Thread darren kirby
t; learn which nvidia cards are supported by which version of the > nvidia-drivers? > > > James http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html Each driver has its own page with a "supported products" link on the left side. -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 2008.0 install media

2008-04-01 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Dan Farrell: > net benefit of 2008.0: none. The benefit is that the beta gets tested, and we all move that much closer to a stable 2008.0 release. > net drawback of 2008.0: hassle (beta) -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "..

Re: [gentoo-user] 2008.0 install media

2008-04-01 Thread darren kirby
ames http://www.gentoo.org/news/20080401-release-beta1.xml -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: rhythmbox plays silently

2008-03-31 Thread darren kirby
. Now intead of one useless message to this thread we have 30. Good work buddy! > PS: Does anyone know if Gmane features a troll filter? Dunno, but my kmail now has a Michael Schmarck filter. -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...the numbe

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome 2.22

2008-03-28 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Stéphane ANCELOT: > I have tried to find it , but by the way how to enable gnome 2.22 in > gentoo ?? http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/remi/2008/03/28/the_road_to_gnome_2_22_part_2 -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...th

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux & Motherboard

2008-03-25 Thread darren kirby
t the Xorg folks wrote the nv driver? -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Non-portage nVidia driver install.

2008-03-17 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Neil Bothwick: > On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:40:11 -0600, darren kirby wrote: > > I just built myself a brand new AMD64 system with an EVGA Geforce > > 9600GT. This vid card requires a newer version of nvidia drivers > > (171.06) than is available from portage, so I wi

[gentoo-user] Non-portage nVidia driver install.

2008-03-17 Thread darren kirby
installing it, as in, do I need to unmerge the current unsupported drivers? Should I use package provided? Will 'eselect opengl set nvidia' still work? Shall I just shut up and install it ;) Thanks for replies, -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.o

Re: [gentoo-user] Make krusader default file manager

2008-03-06 Thread darren kirby
e you were successful making krusader the default. It also seems that krusader is broken. I suggest trying to start `krusader` directly from a terminal (konsole or whatever) to see if there is something useful in an error message. Perhaps you need to run revdep-rebuild... Or just `emerge kr

Re: [gentoo-user] eselect fouled

2008-03-02 Thread darren kirby
libGLw.so.1.0 > > Suggestions for how to fix this please. > -- > David Corbin Just a guess: ensure '/usr/lib/libGL' is in /etc/ld.so.conf and then run 'ldconfig'... I suggest this because I use nVidia GL, and I have '/usr/lib/opengl/nvidia/lib' listed

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for a rails application

2007-11-30 Thread darren kirby
.. > > thanks, > > Thufir -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Kiosk server

2007-09-27 Thread darren kirby
, with mouse driven options only. > > Maybe there's something cool coming in kde4 ? Haver you looked at KDE's Kiosk mode? http://developer.kde.org/documentation/tutorials/kiosk/index.html > > > James -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.

Re: [gentoo-user] [gentoo]Block certain websites

2007-09-15 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Balaviswanathan Vaidyanathan: > Hi all, > > This is to know how to block certain websites as I intend to set up a > browsing centre based on Gentoo OS > > Thanks and Regards > > Bala Try Dans's Guardian...or just Squid (proxy server) will work as well.

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] KDE completely broken

2007-09-13 Thread darren kirby
s and kdebase as Michael suggested, with FEATURES="nostrip" and now everything seems to work again. So? Overaggressive optimization from gcc? Overaggressive strip? Who knows. Just thought I would send this in to give the thread some closure. Thanks everyone, -d -- darren kirby ::

[gentoo-user] Some ebuilds not picking up VIDEO_CARDS [Solved]

2007-09-11 Thread darren kirby
> VIDEO_CARDS="nv nvdia" Yeah, ok well. You can stare at something for hours and only see the spelling mistake 10 seconds after you send the help email to the list... Sorry for the noise, -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...

Re: passing command line arguments

2007-09-07 Thread darren kirby
%s \ > (sys.argv[0], string.join(sys.argv[1:])) You don't want the 's' on the last format operator. Try: print 'The arguments of %s are "%s"' % \ (sys.argv[0], string.join(sys.argv[1:])) > any help would be greatly appreciated > >

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] KDE completely broken

2007-08-30 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Michael Hanselmann: > Hi > > On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 09:12:43PM -0600, darren kirby wrote: > > It certainly doesn't like the fact my binaries are stripped. Here's > > what I could come up with: > > You need to recompile it with FEATURES="nostrip

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] KDE completely broken

2007-08-29 Thread darren kirby
uildsycoca running... DCOP Cleaning up dead connections. Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x in ?? () I will have a further play with gdb and post back if I learn something. I guess I will poke around upstream (KDE's) bugzilla and see if there is anything there as well. Thanks, -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-ppc-user] KDE completely broken

2007-08-29 Thread darren kirby
of any commands that may help... System is a Powermac G5, Kernel 2.6.20-gentoo-r5, 64 bit userland. Thanks for consideration, -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." - Den

Re: My 'time' module is broken, unsure of cause

2007-08-23 Thread darren kirby
hon 2.4.3 (#2, Oct 6 2006, 07:52:30) > [GCC 4.0.3 (Ubuntu 4.0.3-1ubuntu5)] on linux2 > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > > >>> import time > >>> time.time() > >

My 'time' module is broken, unsure of cause

2007-08-23 Thread darren kirby
this? Any hints for me to track this issue down? Any further information I could provide? Thanks for consideration, -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: [gentoo-user] Update World situation (again)

2007-08-09 Thread darren kirby
have forgotten to shut down the X server the nVidia installer detects it running and refuses to continue... -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." - Dennis Ritchie

Re: Can a low-level programmer learn OOP?

2007-07-14 Thread darren kirby
g--- Mel? Is that you? http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/mel.html -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972 -- http://mail.python

Re: [gentoo-dev] ML changes

2007-07-13 Thread darren kirby
on in one sentence: This is a very bad move which will do little but severely reduce the amount of goodwill from the user-contributors, and make it de facto more difficult, time consuming, and painful to contribute to Gentoo. -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcom

Re: Where software meets hardware..

2007-06-23 Thread darren kirby
f processor design. > > Do you have any recommendations? "Computer Organization and Design" by Patterson and Hennessy ISBN 1-55860-604-1 ...is one I'm working through right now. Reasonably priced at ~$50 for 620 pages and about half as many more on the CDROM. As an added

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-user dropping mails again?

2007-06-18 Thread darren kirby
e skype thread yesterday. It never made its way back to my inbox, but I have not checked gmane or any other archives to see if it is there. -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected

[gentoo-user] [OT] Freeciv tourney? (Was: Linux Installers for Blizzard Products)

2007-06-15 Thread darren kirby
quoth the b.n.: > My luck is that all I want from gaming is freeciv. And freeciv runs on > Linux. Do you ever play networked games? We should organize an online game/tourney for interested freeciv fans in Gentooland... Any interest? -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem sinc

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Kdevelop users

2007-06-10 Thread darren kirby
f course you can spend all your time clicking buttons and viewing all the options rather than writing code ;) -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." - Dennis Ritchie an

Re: [gentoo-user] alternatives to audacious?

2007-06-04 Thread darren kirby
udis. So: I still use xmms, but it will be a version frozen in time for all eternity. Sigh. -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Using another System

2007-06-04 Thread darren kirby
uires CPU specific choices you remember to select for your target, not the host. This may have a side-effect of not booting whilst in the host, only when you move the HDD to the target machine. Good luck! -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...th

Re: [gentoo-user] how do i know my SMP is working and setup right?

2007-06-01 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Daevid Vincent: > So why doesn't KDE show it in the little CPU applet? What does: cat /proc/cpuinfo tell you? -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..."

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: which syslog?

2007-05-30 Thread darren kirby
quoth the kashani: > darren kirby wrote: > > quoth the Sven Köhler: > >>> It does not read /etc/syslog.conf, it > >>> reads /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf for it's configuration. Chances are > >>> the default is to send most everything to message

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: which syslog?

2007-05-30 Thread darren kirby
;t want to configure all my machines. I would prefer > a more suitable default config. You're using the wrong OS then ;) Is it really too hard to copy and paste the config from the quickstart guide that Galevsky posted a link to? -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since

Re: PHP5 programmer learning Python

2007-05-27 Thread darren kirby
ienced you will probably want to check out "Dive into Python. [2] Have fun, -d [1] http://pleac.sourceforge.net/ [2] http://diveintopython.org/toc/index.html -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...the number of UNIX installations has grown t

Re: Reading (and writing?) audio file tags

2007-05-24 Thread darren kirby
ad me: "Mutagen works on Python 2.3+ and has no dependencies outside the CPython standard library" so it should work on Windows I think. It is just pure Python so there you go... > In the absence of something suitable, I'll probably go back to dumping > the tags via a

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] emerge -puD world block strangeness

2007-05-23 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Draeven Eriu: > I've experienced the same thing on x86. Try rebuilding poppler-bindings > this way: > > #emerge -1 poppler-bindings Well, what the fig? It worked. Thanks for the hint... > I've had success with that. > > --Draeven. -d -- darren kirby ::

[gentoo-ppc-user] emerge -puD world block strangeness

2007-05-23 Thread darren kirby
lve it? The system is a G5 with 64 bit userland. Thanks for consideration, -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Missing modules after kernel upgrade

2007-05-21 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Michael Hanselmann: > Hi > > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 09:23:36PM -0600, darren kirby wrote: > > So I have my answer. It raises another question though: Am I the only one > > who has modules go AWOL when doing "make vmlinux && make > > modules_in

Re: help - python can't find file

2007-05-21 Thread darren kirby
d like RTFM but I do think that you could use some reading on Linux CLI usage. You say you have some Linux books? I say this as my reading of your message indicates your problems lie with misunderstanding the shell/paths etc, not with Python itself... -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Missing modules after kernel upgrade

2007-05-21 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Wernfried Haas: > Hi, > > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 09:23:36PM -0600, darren kirby wrote: > > So I have my answer. It raises another question though: Am I the only one > > who has modules go AWOL when doing "make vmlinux && make > > modules_install&

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Missing modules after kernel upgrade

2007-05-20 Thread darren kirby
have my answer. It raises another question though: Am I the only one who has modules go AWOL when doing "make vmlinux && make modules_install". If so, why? If not, should I be filing a bug against the docs? What's up with that? -d PS: I'm blaming my stupidity on t

[gentoo-ppc-user] Missing modules after kernel upgrade

2007-05-20 Thread darren kirby
a Powermac G5, 64-bit userland, what else do you need to know? Just ask... Thanks for consideration, -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] convert rpm to ebuild

2007-05-10 Thread darren kirby
RPM for. Have you checked bugzilla, and all the various overlays yet to see if there *is* a user-contributed ebuild for it? -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." - De

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