Re: [gentoo-user] how do you avoid petty upgrades?

On Sun, 03 Apr 2005 23:27:16 -0700 Robert Persson wrote: > > but if I *-r bumps do sometimes include security patches then blocking them > arbitrarily would probably not be such a good idea after all. don't forget a security patch can be as small as changing the default configuration or startu

Re: [gentoo-user] how do you avoid petty upgrades?

On April 3, 2005 09:24 pm, quoth Dion Sole: > Robert Persson wrote: > > It is my understanding - and please tell me if I'm wrong - that the "r" > > suffixes on the ends of ebuild versions represent fixes to the ebuild, > > rather than to the package itself. If that is so, would that mean that > >

Re: [gentoo-user] user can't mount

Am Samstag, 2. April 2005 19:06 schrieb ext maxim wexler: > > > Wrong! So I deleted nosuid from fstab and ran > > > etc-update. > > > > Why etc-update? > > /etc/fstab changed etc-update is for updating config files after emerge, when there are new config files for the packages you have updated. I

Re: [gentoo-user] register to know certain event?

On Mon, 4 Apr 2005 13:43:17 +0800 ?? ? wrote: > I hope I am not the only one who have this requirement: I am a normal Gentoo > user, I wish to: > > 1) if there is a new version of xorg-x11 gets stable on sparc (that is, > keyword masked by 'sparc') I get email notification of that; > 2) if there

Re: [gentoo-user] register to know certain event?

On Mon, 4 Apr 2005 13:43:17 +0800 ?? ? wrote: > I hope I am not the only one who have this requirement: I am a normal Gentoo > user, I wish to: > > 1) if there is a new version of xorg-x11 gets stable on sparc (that is, > keyword masked by 'sparc') I get email notification of that; > 2) if there

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: reply prefix in evolution

On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 01:15 +0200, Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: > Hi all, > > is it possible to configure evoultion to recognize other prefixes then > "Re:" as a reply? I get many emails with other prefixes like "AW:", but > evolution does create a new thread then in threaded-view :( > Evol

[gentoo-user] Re-Compile With Non-Default Options

I'm not sure what the default gentoo e-builds for mytht include, but I just dropped the dime on an HDTV and may want to include the firewire support. My best guess is that means a manual re/compile. Is that true? How do I do that? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual-boot Windows with Gentoo? (say it ain't so)

On Sun, 3 Apr 2005, Richard Fish wrote: > It just occurred to me that don't really use Gentoo's networking, I have > something a bit more custom for mobility reasons. The biggest problem > with dhcpcd is that it doesn't do anything with the WINS servers options > provided by the dhcp server. WIN

[gentoo-user] register to know certain event?

I hope I am not the only one who have this requirement: I am a normal Gentoo user, I wish to: 1) if there is a new version of xorg-x11 gets stable on sparc (that is, keyword masked by 'sparc') I get email notification of that; 2) if there is a new version of gnome (in my case, gnome-2.10) gets sta

[gentoo-user] Re: xmms problem playing streaming mp3

On Monday 04 April 2005 05:40, Chris Bare wrote: > I don't know when this stopped working, because I don't use the > feature that often, but I'm no longer able to play mp3 streams over > the net with xmms. When I try to play a location absolutely nothing > happens. It doesn't say connecting, I don'

Re: [gentoo-user] how do you avoid petty upgrades?

On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 21:06:31 -0700 Robert Persson wrote: > It is my understanding - and please tell me if I'm wrong - that the "r" > suffixes on the ends of ebuild versions represent fixes to the ebuild, rather > than to the package itself. If that is so, would that mean that > category/thing-

Re: [gentoo-user] how do you avoid petty upgrades?

On Sun, 2005-03-04 at 21:06 -0700, Robert Persson wrote: > It is my understanding - and please tell me if I'm wrong - that the "r" > suffixes on the ends of ebuild versions represent fixes to the ebuild, rather > than to the package itself. If that is so, would that mean that > category/thing-x

Re: [gentoo-user] Please search mailing list archives (was: Can't build media-libs/flac-1.1.0-r2)

Walter the problem is not isolated to flac. Don't search on flac, search on the library that is "missing" On Mon, 4 Apr 2005 00:42:37 -0400 Walter Dnes wrote: > FYI, I did search for all occurences of the string "flac" since March > 1st (4500+ messages) in my Gentoo inbox. I got multiple hit

Re: [gentoo-user] Please search mailing list archives (was: Can't build media-libs/flac-1.1.0-r2)

On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 08:04:56PM -0700, John Myers wrote > On Sunday 03 April 2005 19:28, Walter Dnes wrote: > > > grep: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.4/libstdc++.la: No such file > > > or directory > > Obviously, you have not done even the bare minimum of trying to help > yourself.

Re: [gentoo-user] how do you avoid petty upgrades?

Robert Persson wrote: > It is my understanding - and please tell me if I'm wrong - that the "r" > suffixes on the ends of ebuild versions represent fixes to the ebuild, rather > than to the package itself. If that is so, would that mean that > category/thing-x.y.z-r2 won't contain anything impo

[gentoo-user] how do you avoid petty upgrades?

It is my understanding - and please tell me if I'm wrong - that the "r" suffixes on the ends of ebuild versions represent fixes to the ebuild, rather than to the package itself. If that is so, would that mean that category/thing-x.y.z-r2 won't contain anything important (such as security fixes

[gentoo-user] xmms problem playing streaming mp3

I don't know when this stopped working, because I don't use the feature that often, but I'm no longer able to play mp3 streams over the net with xmms. When I try to play a location absolutely nothing happens. It doesn't say connecting, I don't see any packets on ethereal. I know xmms was recently s

Re: [gentoo-user] Please search mailing list archives (was: Can't build media-libs/flac-1.1.0-r2)

On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 20:04:56 -0700 John Myers wrote: > On Sunday 03 April 2005 19:28, Walter Dnes wrote: > > > grep: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.4/libstdc++.la: No such file > > > or directory > > Obviously, you have not done even the bare minimum of trying to help > yourself. > This

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't build media-libs/flac-1.1.0-r2

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Re: [gentoo-user] Please search mailing list archives (was: Can't build media-libs/flac-1.1.0-r2)

On Sunday 03 April 2005 19:28, Walter Dnes wrote: > > grep: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.4/libstdc++.la: No such file > > or directory Obviously, you have not done even the bare minimum of trying to help yourself. This has been discussed so many times on this list, I can't even keep tra

Re: [gentoo-user] system with no network needs updates

On Apr 4, 2005, at 1:25 am, Grant wrote: Looking a little closer at the output of 'wget -i links.txt' : --17:14:20-- http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/sysvinit-2.86.tar.gz%20http:/ distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/distfiles/sysvinit -2.86.tar.gz%20ftp:/ftp.cistron.nl/pub/p

[gentoo-user] Can't build media-libs/flac-1.1.0-r2

> libs -L/usr/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lgtk -lgdk -rdynamic -lgmodule -lglib -ldl > -lXi -lXext -lX11 -lm -lxmms -L/usr/lib -lid3 -lz -lstdc++ -lstdc++ -lz > mkdir .libs > > *** Warning: Linking the shared library libxmms-flac.la against the > *** static library ../../src/plugin_common/libplugin_com

Re: [gentoo-user] Revdep-rebuild always rebuilds opera; fixpackages doesn't

On Sunday 03 April 2005 17:45, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > Funny you should mention that. My archives show that on 2005-02-20, it was > me thatI posted about this problem and got exactly 0 responses. That's my > archive on gmail -- maybe I missed a bunch of traffic. I'll look for > the official > ar

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-volume-control dies [SOLVED]

On Sunday 03 April 2005 09:09 pm, Antonio Coralles wrote: > gentoo-user@gentoo.org wrote: > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org wrote: > >> I don't know what exactly is respnsible for that, but i guess it had > >> something to do with my latest world update. According to genlop

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-volume-control dies [SOLVED]

gentoo-user@gentoo.org wrote: > gentoo-user@gentoo.org wrote: > >> I don't know what exactly is respnsible for that, but i guess it had >> something to do with my latest world update. According to genlop and my >> memory [i've merged a lot of other thing since then]

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo for the Windows NT Kernel

On April 1, 2005 08:33 am, quoth Ted Ozolins: > Dave Nebinger wrote: > >> http://gentooexperimental.org/nt/ > >> > >>Nah! > > > >It's got to be an april fool's joke... > > Has to be. Why else would it use "NT" and "comercial-grade" in the same > paragraph? I'm not sure it is a joke. Windows

Re: [gentoo-user] Revdep-rebuild always rebuilds opera; fixpackages doesn't

Funny you should mention that. My archives show that on 2005-02-20, it was me thatI posted about this problem and got exactly 0 responses. That's my archive on gmail -- maybe I missed a bunch of traffic. I'll look for the official archives. I posted again because I was hoping somebody else woul

Re: [gentoo-user] system with no network needs updates

> > When using -f (--fetchonly) and -p (--pretend) together emerge dumps all > > possible download urls for each package it knows about. I think this is > > documented somewhere. Have you synced the portage tree though? It would > > not be wise to freshen up just one subdirectory on /usr/portage tr

Re: [gentoo-user] sometimes internet works only after /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restar

gentoo-user@gentoo.org wrote: > Antonio Coralles wrote: >> gentoo-user@gentoo.org wrote: >> >> >>>gentoo-user@gentoo.org > wrote: >>> >>> Antonio Coralles wrote: >gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] sometimes internet works only after /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restar

Antonio Coralles wrote: gentoo-user@gentoo.org wrote: gentoo-user@gentoo.org wrote: Antonio Coralles wrote: gentoo-user@gentoo.org wrote: Sometimes [about 1 in 3 times] my internet connection does not

Re: [gentoo-user] E-Builds for DVD Software

On Apr 2, 2005 12:26 PM, Ralph Slooten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > I've used 'lxdvdrip' to make backup copies of various DVD's. lxdvdrip > ... > > However, I have noticed some irregularities with it. > > Have you tried the way I described (f

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-volume-control dies

gentoo-user@gentoo.org wrote: > gentoo-user@gentoo.org wrote: > >> >>> Well: I've tried oss and alsa because I don't have any >>> other sound systems activated. Both work, but mplayer -ao >>> alsa some_file.avi imediatly kills the gnome-volume-control >>> ... >> >>

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-volume-control dies

> But it is > possible that this has something to do with an upgrade of > alsa-lib which i made in connection with a world update. I'm no ALSA professional, but AFAIK alsa-lib is the API for audio applications as well as for mixers (maybe I'm wrong). So, it may be possible that GVC is incompati

[gentoo-user] OT: reply prefix in evolution

Hi all, is it possible to configure evoultion to recognize other prefixes then "Re:" as a reply? I get many emails with other prefixes like "AW:", but evolution does create a new thread then in threaded-view :( Any ideas? Greetings, Matthias -- Oh, Lisa, you and your stories. `Bart is a vamp

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-volume-control dies

gentoo-user@gentoo.org wrote: > >> Well: I've tried oss and alsa because I don't have any >> other sound systems activated. Both work, but mplayer -ao >> alsa some_file.avi imediatly kills the gnome-volume-control >> ... > > I'm not familiar with Gnome in common or gnome-volume-control > in detail

Re: [gentoo-user] system with no network needs updates

> >>>...I think what I need to do is fetch a few packages on > >>>another system, burn them to a CD, and copy them from the CD to the > >>>appropriate places on the network-less system. For baselayout, would > >>>I want to get and put /usr/portage/sys-apps/baselayout/* ? > >>> > >>> > >>To copy ov

Re: [gentoo-user] sometimes internet works only after /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restar

gentoo-user@gentoo.org wrote: > gentoo-user@gentoo.org wrote: > >> Antonio Coralles wrote: >>> gentoo-user@gentoo.org > wrote: >>> >>> Sometimes [about 1 in 3 times] my internet connection does not

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-volume-control dies

> Well: I've tried oss and alsa because I don't have any > other sound systems activated. Both work, but mplayer -ao > alsa some_file.avi imediatly kills the gnome-volume-control > ... I'm not familiar with Gnome in common or gnome-volume-control in detail, but maybe GVC is buggy or there have b

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-volume-control dies

gentoo-user@gentoo.org wrote: > >> Maybe i exagerated a bit: >> beep-media-player dies immediatley when playing a file. And >> while I can listen to music in xine, xine dies when trying >> to play a avi file with 'xiTK received SIGSEGV signal, >> RIP.' Playing movies using mplayer works ... > > Tr

[gentoo-user] help! xorg doesn't recognise my pci-express card!

So i finally went out and got a shiny new computer: AMD64 3500+ MSI K8N Neo4 ATI Radeon X800XL (PCIe) ...and while Gentoo installed just fine, X won't start. It keeps failing with: (EE) No devices detected I've tried using the Xorg "radeon" drivers as well as installing ati-drivers a

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-volume-control dies

> Maybe i exagerated a bit: > beep-media-player dies immediatley when playing a file. And > while I can listen to music in xine, xine dies when trying > to play a avi file with 'xiTK received SIGSEGV signal, > RIP.' Playing movies using mplayer works ... Try mplayer -ao help to see a list of avai

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-volume-control dies

gentoo-user@gentoo.org wrote: > I don't know what exactly is respnsible for that, but i guess it had > something to do with my latest world update. According to genlop and my > memory [i've merged a lot of other thing since then] this update looked > like this: > > Sat Mar 26 12:52:45 2005 >>

Re: [gentoo-user] x-forwarding or vnc or ?

Hi, On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 09:57:56 -0700 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. Start an X session that is running on that computer but is > controlled on this computer. > > 2. Share an X session that is running on that computer between it and > this computer. That would mean the two people at the

Re: [gentoo-user] x-forwarding or vnc or ?

On Sunday 03 April 2005 22:07, Grant wrote: > Thanks Brett I did find some good stuff. I want to be able to do > something in the style of vnc. It sounds like I should set up > realvnc, tightvnc, or use NX. Do these each have ups and downs I > should figure out before choosing one, or is one ge

Re: [gentoo-user] x-forwarding or vnc or ?

You're welcome. Each has it's pros and cons so I'd suggest looking at them and checking past posts for some discussions. To be honest, I've just started looking at this myself but got sidetracked on other issues I have to solve on my system. I know Mark Knecht has been working on this - one of

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I stop mod_php-4.3 being installed?

On Sun, 3 Apr 2005, Robert Persson wrote: > When I do "emerge -pvu world" portage tells me that it wants to install > mod_php-4.3 even though I am running php-5 and already have mod_php-5 > installed. I had thought that putting " in /etc/portage/package.mask would stop portage trying to install p

Re: [gentoo-user] Going to X.org

Peter Gordon wrote: For what it's worth,t het RenderAccel option is also valid with X.org's I meant to say "For what it's worth, the RenderAccel option is also valid ..." I apologize for my apparent lack of caffeine ;-) -- () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email, /\ vCards, and propriet

Re: [gentoo-user] x-forwarding or vnc or ?

> There have been some extensive discussion on this list recently so that > would be a good place to start as well as the forum archives. Thanks Brett I did find some good stuff. I want to be able to do something in the style of vnc. It sounds like I should set up realvnc, tightvnc, or use NX.

[gentoo-user] gnome-volume-control dies

I don't know what exactly is respnsible for that, but i guess it had something to do with my latest world update. According to genlop and my memory [i've merged a lot of other thing since then] this update looked like this: Sat Mar 26 12:52:45 2005 >>> dev-java/blackdown-jdk-1.4.1-r1 Sat

Re: [gentoo-user] sometimes internet works only after /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restar

gentoo-user@gentoo.org wrote: > Antonio Coralles wrote: >> gentoo-user@gentoo.org wrote: >> >> >>>Sometimes [about 1 in 3 times] my internet connection does not work >>>directly after booting. After restarting the net.eth0 script all is >>>fine. As this behavour is

Re: [gentoo-user] Going to X.org

Sami Samhuri wrote: If you run an Nvidia card I highly recommend the RenderAccel option as well. (It enables hardware rendering acceleration which greatly speeds your translucent X up) Here's the device section from my xorg.conf: For what it's worth,t het RenderAccel option is also valid with X.org

Re: [gentoo-user] unsubscribe

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Re: [gentoo-user] Going to X.org

On Sunday 03 April 2005 03:25, Mike Williams wrote: > On Sunday 03 April 2005 09:24, Sami Samhuri wrote: > > You will most likely have problems with transparency since it is still a > > new extension and is _not_ stable, yet. You may experience lock ups, but > > the worst effects for me are mplayer

Re: [gentoo-user] Revdep-rebuild always rebuilds opera; fixpackages doesn't

On Sunday 03 April 2005 09:12, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I've noticed that every time I run revdep-rebuild, it rebuilds opera. Please check the archives of this list. There is a big thread on this problem starting on 2005-02-20 pgpdD1nShN3XW.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-3.4.0 has lost "New session"

On Sunday 03 April 2005 03:49, Peter Ruskin wrote: > After upgrading to 3.4.0 I miss the "Start New Session" from the K That's because it's in a different place. look in K->Switch User->Start New Session. It's enabled by default now. pgpBCXJ7NSoah.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Revdep-rebuild always rebuilds opera; fixpackages doesn't

Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >I've noticed that every time I run revdep-rebuild, it rebuilds opera. > >Moreover, my emerge sync says it's skipping packages and that >I should run 'fixpackages', but when I do it doesn't fix anything. > >What other information should I be looking at to figure out what >is

[gentoo-user] Video capture using Dazzle Digital Vidio Creator 120

Hi, Has anyone done this? Can you recommend some apps that will make video capture and relatively simple movie editing easy for my 12 year old? He's capturing XBox tricks and makes me boot my Gentoo laptop back into Win XP so that he can do the capture. The DVC120 is visible to things like u

Re: [gentoo-user] unsubscribe

On Sun, 03 Apr 2005 22:50:42 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > If unsubscribing from this list is too hard for you, then so is gentoo! Maybe that's why he wants to unsubscribe ;-) -- Neil Bothwick Sussh. Be vewwy quiet, I'm hunting tagwines. hahahahah. pgp1jO8UUIa7x.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Error trying to get nvidia-glx for AMD64

On Sat, 2 Apr 2005 20:12:07 -0500, Michael Haan wrote: > tibeaux root # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64" emerge -p nvidia-glx > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > Calculating dependencies ...done! > [blocks B ] app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-nvidia (is blocking > media-video/nv

Re: [gentoo-user] system with no network needs updates

Grant wrote: ...I think what I need to do is fetch a few packages on another system, burn them to a CD, and copy them from the CD to the appropriate places on the network-less system. For baselayout, would I want to get and put /usr/portage/sys-apps/baselayout/* ? To copy over only /usr/por

Re: [gentoo-user] x-forwarding or vnc or ?

There have been some extensive discussion on this list recently so that would be a good place to start as well as the forum archives. On Sun, 3 Apr 2005, Grant wrote: Ever since I got started with Linux I thought the whole x-forwarding/vnc thing was really cool. I finally have a reliable wireles

Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate posts from "John Lowell" on the Digest

Tom Wesley wrote: >Why people use "Reply to all" on a list such as this I have no idea... > > For me, it is habit. I always use "Reply to all" for personal and work email, and well, I forget sometimes that reply-to-all causes a problem on Gentoo-user. I filed a bug report on thunderbird for t

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-3.4.0 has lost "New session"

Never used this particular feature, but I did try to start my xserver with "-br", and it seems the Xservers file went away in KDE 3.4. Take a look in /usr/kde/3.4/share/config/kdm/kdmrc, particularly the setting for "ReserveServers", this seems to be what you are after. -Richard Peter Ruskin wro

Re: [gentoo-user] Error trying to get nvidia-glx for AMD64

On Apr 3, 2005 2:04 AM, John Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 02 April 2005 17:12, Michael Haan wrote: > > I'm getting the following: > > > > tibeaux root # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64" emerge -p nvidia-glx > > > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > > > Calculating d

Re: [gentoo-user] sometimes internet works only after /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart

Antonio Coralles wrote: gentoo-user@gentoo.org wrote: Sometimes [about 1 in 3 times] my internet connection does not work directly after booting. After restarting the net.eth0 script all is fine. As this behavour is rather new to me, and this is a bit annyoing [particullary for people without root

[gentoo-user] x-forwarding or vnc or ?

Ever since I got started with Linux I thought the whole x-forwarding/vnc thing was really cool. I finally have a reliable wireless Gentoo network, and I'd love to set some of that up. I'd like to be able to do 2 things: 1. Start an X session that is running on that computer but is controlled on

Re: [gentoo-user] Change Resolution

Shawn Singh wrote: >I've made some changes, but this time I got a different error message. > The message told me that no screens were found... > >Here is a copy of my Xorg.conf: > > >Section "Screen" >Identifier "Screen0" >Device "Card0" >Monitor"Monitor0" >

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer and streaming wma

_media player_ flamefests? Never had one of those before, only vi/emacs, ie/ff, windows/linux and gentoo/other linux. Do tell; with the exception of the lack of the real codecs (for some reason it's masked in portage), mplayer plays most of the video and all of the streaming audio I've thrown at

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual-boot Windows with Gentoo? (say it ain't so)

Grant wrote: >>Well, I share this worry. I haven't yet run into anyplace wired or >>wireless that Gentoo couldn't handle >> >> > >What kind of configurations have you had to use? Does dhcp always >take care of it with a blank /etc/conf.d/net ? > It just occurred to me that don't really use

Re: [gentoo-user] sometimes internet works only after /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart

gentoo-user@gentoo.org wrote: > Sometimes [about 1 in 3 times] my internet connection does not work > directly after booting. After restarting the net.eth0 script all is > fine. As this behavour is rather new to me, and this is a bit annyoing > [particullary for people without root access] i would

Re: [gentoo-user] system with no network needs updates

> > ...I think what I need to do is fetch a few packages on > > another system, burn them to a CD, and copy them from the CD to the > > appropriate places on the network-less system. For baselayout, would > > I want to get and put /usr/portage/sys-apps/baselayout/* ? > > To copy over only /usr/po

[gentoo-user] Migrating Win4Lin

I have and old Win4Lin on an ancient RedHat 7.1 box, and want to retire that machine. I want to keep running Win4Lin, though, and I'm looking to migrate it to my Gentoo system with the Win4Lin kernel. Is there anything special I have to look out for? It's been running so long I've forgotten everyt

[gentoo-user] Revdep-rebuild always rebuilds opera; fixpackages doesn't

I've noticed that every time I run revdep-rebuild, it rebuilds opera. Moreover, my emerge sync says it's skipping packages and that I should run 'fixpackages', but when I do it doesn't fix anything. What other information should I be looking at to figure out what is going on? I don't know what I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Raid 1 howto

Hi, * Remy Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Friday, April 1, 2005, 3:54:10 PM: > It is a bit tricky, but works very well. I wrote a rough HOWTO in this > message: > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/118475 Very Cool, especially as this is using mdadm. But this might be a problem, if you

Re: [gentoo-user] Time Zone Confusion

On Sunday 03 April 2005 07:53, David Busby wrote: > List, >I some how have my time settings in all messed up state. > > I want to keep my hardware clock in UTC but have my Server in > America/Los_Angles > > So Here's what I have > > hydrogen root # grep -R CLOCK /etc/* > /etc/init.d/clock:

Re: [gentoo-user] MADWIFI driver...

Hi Steve, * Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Saturday, April 2, 2005, 6:21:18 PM: > I realised that the madwifi-driver package is masked and that this > indicates that I may experience problems, but I suspect I'm more > problems than others - considering that loads of people appear to have > the mad

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild always emerges the same package

On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 14:26 -0800, Grant wrote: > > Related to hacking the script, you can download the revdep-rebuild from > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62644 which is a little bit > > smarter and a lot more configurable. Make sure to read through the bug > > to see the new features

Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate posts from "John Lowell" on the Digest

On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 10:22 -0400, Charles Marcus wrote: > Am I the only one seeing these? > > > Charles Many people are using the "Reply to all" function of their mail clients to reply to the list. This causes a mail to be sent to gentoo-user@gentoo.org and [EMAIL PROTECTED], so two end up on

Re: [gentoo-user] adding to the wiki

On Apr 3, 2005, at 4:39 am, Grant wrote: I tried your code with similar strange results. I can not figure that thing out. Any chance you can post te URL to the article you're writing, so I can see? Stroller. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate posts from "John Lowell" on the Digest

On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 10:22 -0400, Charles Marcus wrote: > Am I the only one seeing these? Nope. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Duplicate posts from "John Lowell" on the Digest

Am I the only one seeing these? Charles -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] checking user messages from emerge

On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 07:41 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: > How can I view the user messages from an emerge done in the past? In > this case I emerged a new gcc on an old system last night and I just > realised I need to check that the libpath is correctly set, and I think > the path is mentione

[gentoo-user] How do I stop mod_php-4.3 being installed?

When I do "emerge -pvu world" portage tells me that it wants to install mod_php-4.3 even though I am running php-5 and already have mod_php-5 installed. I had thought that putting "

Re: [gentoo-user] Time Zone Confusion

David Busby wrote: > Right now I don't have clock started, see: > > hydrogen root # rc-update -s |grep clock > clock | Ah, but it still gets run, as it's considered a critical service (somewhere in /sbin/rc). If you really don't want to run it, remove it from there too, and edit

Re: [gentoo-user] adding to the wiki

On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 18:06 -0800, Grant wrote: > I can't figure this out. I tried to add this to the wiki: > > " > == Burning ISO images with cdrecord == > Here is a pretty self-explanatory line for burning an ISO image to a > CD with cdrecord: > {{Box_Code|Burn the ISO image:| > # cdrecord -dev

Re: [gentoo-user] Time Zone Confusion

David Busby wrote: > hydrogen root # cat /etc/adjtime > -88918.485321 1112535620 0.00 Your drift is enormous, that can't be right. Edit the file and set the first number to 0.0. Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] unsubscribe

If unsubscribing from this list is too hard for you, then so is gentoo! On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 02:43 -0700, Patrick Clery wrote: > unsubscribe > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] anyone else having trouble with akgregator in kde 3.4?

On April 1, 2005 10:22 am, quoth Robert Persson: > On April 1, 2005 09:43 am, quoth Jeff Smelser: > > On Thursday 31 March 2005 04:29 pm, Robert Persson wrote: > > > When I left-click on a link a new tab opens in akgregator, but the page > > > doesn't load there and the page-loading progress bar ha

Re: [gentoo-user] Going to X.org

On Sunday 03 April 2005 09:24, Sami Samhuri wrote: > You will most likely have problems with transparency since it is still a > new extension and is _not_ stable, yet. You may experience lock ups, but > the worst effects for me are mplayer troubles (-vo x11 won't let me go > full screen, boo) and w

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[gentoo-user] RE: Gentoo for the Windows NT Kernel

I must admit that I wasn't sure (except for the date of the release). After all, it appears that NetBSD do it (see Interix): http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/software/packages.html#platforms (that didn't come out on April 1) Presumably it would be possible to do a similar thing with gentoo.

Re: [gentoo-user] Host, Schmost!

Jason Stubbs wrote: >> On Sunday 03 April 2005 03:10, John Lowell wrote: >>> # For setting the default gateway >>> # >>> gateway="192.168.1.1" >> > On Sunday 03 April 2005 11:34, Mike Williams wrote: >> # For setting the default gateway >> # >> #gateway="eth0/192.168.0.1" >> #gateway="eth0/192.168.

Re: [gentoo-user] Going to X.org

* On Sat Apr-02-2005 at 09:35:50 PM +0100, Mike Williams said: > On Saturday 02 April 2005 14:07, Ian K wrote: > > Yes, its hard to believe, but Im sadly still on XFree. > > Can someone tell me in simple terms how to convert? > > KDE 3.4 has the genuine transparency thing, right? [snip] > I then ad