Re: [gentoo-user] CPU0: Temperature above threshold

2005-04-07 Thread Hareesh Nagarajan
On Apr 7, 2005 1:16 PM, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I'm new to gentoo. I installed gentoo on my laptop computer. During > >the time I emerged xorg-x11 I got the following messages: > > > >CPU0: Temperature above threshold > >CPU0: Running in modulated clock mode > >CPU1: Temperatur

[gentoo-user] Wireless switches off when I run laptop on the battery

2005-04-07 Thread Hareesh Nagarajan
Hi, I followed the Gentoo Power Management guide to power down my wireless card when I disconnect the power source. Link: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/power-management-guide.xml Now, I do not like this behaviour so I did this: # rc-update delete pm.wlan0 battery But it doesn't seem to work. My w

Re: [gentoo-user] install grub

2005-04-07 Thread kitti jaisong
follow this line default 0 timeout 30 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.11-r3 root (hd0,0) kernel /kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda3 udev initrd /initrd-2.6.11-gentoo-r5 I use AMD cpu and Graphics use chisp set VIA tec

Re: [gentoo-user] Re:USE flags unimportant?

2005-04-07 Thread Richard Fish
Mark Knecht wrote: >However, look at it a different way, if you would. Just choose a >really basic set of USE flags. Something safe. Enable things that are >known to be quite stable. Stay away from everything else. (Heck - >isn't that pretty much what's in the install documents anyway?) Give >that

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo source kernels

2005-04-07 Thread W.Kenworthy
Had this on 3 systems this morning: change the /etc/make.profile link to point to 2005.0 Note that 2005.0 has a 2.4 subdirectory that locks you into the 2.4 stuff if make.profile symlinks to it instead of one level up. BillK On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 22:34 +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: > Ed Jabbour wr

Re: [gentoo-user] More acroread weirdness

2005-04-07 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 10:52 -0500, David D. Rea wrote: > Hi All- > > I'm evidently experiencing a bug in the (masked) acroread-7.0 package. I'd > like to help out and find a solution, but I'm not sure where to start... > > The bug is with acroread's interaction with mozilla-firefox. Before > inst

[gentoo-user] Help with Asterisk PABX

2005-04-07 Thread Ow Mun Heng
Hi All, I'm trying to play around with asterisk and I just emerged version 1.07 and on startup I get these errors. $ sudo asterisk -vvc [res_features.so]Warning, flexible rate not heavily tested! loader.c:258 ast_load_resource: /usr/lib/asterisk/modules/res_features.so

[gentoo-user] bind and verisign

2005-04-07 Thread W.Kenworthy
Just upgraded bind and see that it reccomends adding some lines to named.conf to avoid the A wildcard * zone com IN { type delegation-only; }; * zone net IN { type delegation-only; }; I have named.conf set to forward to the upstream DNS only (ISP, University DNS etc): e.g., forwarder

[gentoo-user] building mousedev as module

2005-04-07 Thread Tom Hosiawa
I need to compile mousedev as a module in the 2.6 kernel to get my wacom usb intuos3 tablet to work. Right now, the wacom driver is not getting control, so I need to use the hid modules included in the linuxwacom package http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net/index.php/howto/buildhid6 I'm having troub

Re: [gentoo-user] CPU0: Temperature above threshold

2005-04-07 Thread Andreas Vinsander
Kiawud wrote: > > In any case, check and make sure that the 'fan' module (and possilby > the 'thermal' module) is loaded and working. Maybe it will help to know that those modules can be found in the ACPI section of the kernel config. I even consider it better to compile them into the kernel inst

[gentoo-user] Re:USE flags unimportant?

2005-04-07 Thread Mark Knecht
OK - I changed the subject. On Apr 7, 2005 2:15 PM, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > > I have one difference of opinion from many Gentoo developers about > >the value of Gentoo. I don't think USE flags and individual > >configuration is all that important to

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

2005-04-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 07 Apr 2005 16:03:53 -0400, Eric S. Johansson wrote: > Seriously, I have a half a dozen machines running here and the fact that > I have to spend hours every couple of weeks to update Why does it take hours to type "emerge world -uavD", review the results and press Enter? Gentoo is a prim

Re: [gentoo-user] Two users, two soundcards. How ?

2005-04-07 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 12:56:05AM +, Ivan Yosifov wrote > Thanks for the info, but what are the files I need to chown/chmod ? > I am using ALSA, no OSS emulation layer. PAM only gets in the way with sound and multiple users. I ended up having to disable PAM's control over sound, and other

Re: [gentoo-user] Time one hour off every time I start

2005-04-07 Thread Caleb Jacobs
Well daylight savings did occur so check for that On Apr 7, 2005 4:27 PM, A. Khattri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Antoine wrote: > > > Could you expand ever so slightly on "baselayout version"? > > He means that depending on what version of baselayout you are using you > may

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

2005-04-07 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 13:46:38 -0700 Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |I have one difference of opinion from many Gentoo developers about | the value of Gentoo. I don't think USE flags and individual | configuration is all that important to me. I want the box to work, and | work flawlessly.

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

2005-04-07 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: >I have one difference of opinion from many Gentoo developers about > the value of Gentoo. I don't think USE flags and individual > configuration is all that important to me. Of course, you can get along quite fine without knowing anything about USE flag

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

2005-04-07 Thread Stroller
On Apr 6, 2005, at 6:46 pm, Grant wrote: Should I update the wiki to include this whole line: cat links.txt | sort | uniq | xargs -n 1 -i{} sh -c 'for i in {}; do wget -c $i && break; done' Is the unique-sorting really necessary? I haven't been paying that much attention, but I thought the origina

Re: [gentoo-user] think i killed my gentoo box

2005-04-07 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Richard Fish wrote: > Ok, how about: > > cd /dev > /sbin/MAKEDEV generic Or how about /bin/MAKEDEV console -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Time one hour off every time I start

2005-04-07 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Antoine wrote: > Could you expand ever so slightly on "baselayout version"? He means that depending on what version of baselayout you are using you may have to either edit /etc/conf.d/clock or /etc/rc.conf - the exact one is left as an exercise to the reader :-) (Did you loo

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo source kernels

2005-04-07 Thread Daniel Drake
Ed Jabbour wrote: > I am running gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.11-r4. As announced, gentoo-dev-sources > has disappeared from sys/kernel leaving gentoo-sources. However, the Online > Database lists 2.4.28-r8 as the latest stable build. I just ran emerge uDvp > world and I am offered "NS ] sys-ker

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags unimportant? (Was: Duplicate posts from "John Lowell" on the Digest)

2005-04-07 Thread Richard Fish
Mark Knecht wrote: > I have one difference of opinion from many Gentoo developers about >the value of Gentoo. I don't think USE flags and individual >configuration is all that important to me. I want the box to work, and > > Ah, but the USE flags are very integral to making the box work flawl

[gentoo-user] Gentoo source kernels

2005-04-07 Thread Ed Jabbour
I am running gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.11-r4. As announced, gentoo-dev-sources has disappeared from sys/kernel leaving gentoo-sources. However, the Online Database lists 2.4.28-r8 as the latest stable build. I just ran emerge uDvp world and I am offered "NS ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.11-

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

2005-04-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Apr 7, 2005 1:03 PM, Eric S. Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > no, sensibility. gentoo is in a big part a do it yourself distri, way to > > overwhelming for a poor newbie. The first real error will freak him out and > > if he had not some quality time with ge

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

2005-04-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
amd how would a sax2-like tool make your life better? If you want more automation, you can do it easily for yourself, like install once, cp everything around, etc pp usw usf -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] CPU0: Temperature above threshold

2005-04-07 Thread Kiawud
On Apr 7, 2005 11:26 AM, Zander Z365 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm new to gentoo. I installed gentoo on my laptop computer. During > the time I emerged xorg-x11 I got the following messages: > > CPU0: Temperature above threshold > CPU0: Running in modulated clock mode > CPU1: Temp

Re: [gentoo-user] install grub

2005-04-07 Thread Shawn Singh
What does your grub.conf look like? On Apr 7, 2005 11:13 AM, kitti jaisong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm install grub config and reboot.and hang at line > vesafb: scrolling: redraw > > please help me > > ti > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] CPU0: Temperature above threshold

2005-04-07 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 08:16:23PM +0200, Richard Fish wrote: > The best choice is a small desk fan to blow air over your laptop while > compiling. No, I'm not kidding. But it is not very portable. > > Another good choice is laptop-specific cooler that blows air on the > bottom of your laptop.

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

2005-04-07 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 05:09:13PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 10:46:53 -0700 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | cat links.txt | sort | uniq | xargs -n 1 -i{} sh -c 'for i in {}; do > | wget -c $i && break; done' > > Only if you want a "useless use of cat" award :) Just t

Re: [gentoo-user] Time one hour off every time I start

2005-04-07 Thread Antoine
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 05 Apr 2005 12:44:37 -0400, Robert G. Hays wrote: Only problem with UTC in bios is for those of us who (have to!) keep MonopolSoft's wunnerful(Hic!) system on the same computer. No problem, Gentoo is smart enough to know about such things. Set your BIOS clock to loca

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

2005-04-07 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: no, sensibility. gentoo is in a big part a do it yourself distri, way to overwhelming for a poor newbie. The first real error will freak him out and if he had not some quality time with gentoo before by doing some basic stuff, he will even not be able to disinguish a

Re: [gentoo-user] MSN

2005-04-07 Thread Christoph Eckert
> Does anyone know of messaging client for linux that have > support for  : -- MSN application sharing and white board > --- Maybe there's a plugin for kopete; if not, give the code ;-) . Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2005-04-07 Thread Leo
Eric S. Johansson wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Gentoo is not for newbies, nor for people who want to hide everything, that is why I send asking newbies to SuSE (which is IMHO the only reason gentoo is not for newbies is ego and hubris. Maybe only a very small part of the reason is "ego a

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

2005-04-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Thursday 07 April 2005 20:52, Eric S. Johansson wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > Gentoo is not for newbies, nor for people who want to hide everything, > > that is why I send asking newbies to SuSE (which is IMHO a nice base to > > start from), or people, who just want something lean to

[gentoo-user] MSN

2005-04-07 Thread raptor
Does anyone know of messaging client for linux that have support for : -- MSN application sharing and white board --- tia -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache vulnerability warning

2005-04-07 Thread Uwe Klosa
Have you installed mod_proxy on your server? If so you may be vulnerable. But I do not know how to reconfigure the proxy. You should scan your web logs after connect attempts. If they return HTTP 400, there is no problem you have to care about. But there might be other opinions on that issue. :) /

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

2005-04-07 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Gentoo is not for newbies, nor for people who want to hide everything, that is why I send asking newbies to SuSE (which is IMHO a nice base to start from), or people, who just want something lean to slackware, and 'please don't bother me with technicallities like - w

Re: [gentoo-user] CPU0: Temperature above threshold

2005-04-07 Thread Richard Fish
Zander Z365 wrote: >This is a laptop that I just purchased 3 months ago. It also runs >Windows XP with no problems. > > Are you running a program that will actually notify you when throttling occurs on XP? XP can be pretty silent even when it notices that things are going critically wrong in

Re: [gentoo-user] CPU0: Temperature above threshold

2005-04-07 Thread Jason Cooper
top-posting to maintain established flow, don't shoot me. :) I've heard some recent make/model laptops will burn up under linux if not installed properly. This is because Windows handles temp monitoring and fan speed. Thus, linux must as well. If you don't have your kernel configured properly,

Re: [gentoo-user] CPU0: Temperature above threshold

2005-04-07 Thread Richard Fish
-Richard Zander Z365 wrote: >Hello, > >I'm new to gentoo. I installed gentoo on my laptop computer. During >the time I emerged xorg-x11 I got the following messages: > >CPU0: Temperature above threshold >CPU0: Running in modulated clock mode >CPU1: Temperature above threshold >CPU1: Running i

Re: [gentoo-user] CPU0: Temperature above threshold

2005-04-07 Thread Ivan Yosifov
It will also run Linux with no problem, if by "running" you mean browsing, working, etc. Compiling is way more CPU intensive than XP any normal desktop session can get. IMO, this is a cooling issue. I am seeing the same thing on my P4 desktop. On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 13:50 -0400, Zander Z365 wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] CPU0: Temperature above threshold

2005-04-07 Thread Shawn Singh
That's interesting b/c the first time I installed Gentoo on a 1.3 Ghz P4 I didn't see any such messages, but recently (after goofing up my install...I won't say how) when reinstalling Gentoo I got similar messages... I figured that my fan must have died or something (my box is about 3 or 4 years o

Re: [gentoo-user] think i killed my gentoo box

2005-04-07 Thread Richard Fish
Nick Smith wrote: >im not running udev and the mounting proc didnt help, its still >complaining about /dev/console, and that file is there. is there >a way to mount /dev if you arent running udev? or is it another >problem? > > Ok, how about: cd /dev /sbin/MAKEDEV generic And if THAT doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] CPU0: Temperature above threshold

2005-04-07 Thread Zander Z365
This is a laptop that I just purchased 3 months ago. It also runs Windows XP with no problems. On Apr 7, 2005 1:43 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Thursday 07 April 2005 19:26, Zander Z365 wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm new to gentoo. I installed gentoo on my lap

Re: [gentoo-user] Java eats my memory [was: Performance problem (slow hard drive?)]

2005-04-07 Thread Richard Fish
Hmm, I may have another explanation, and A. Khattri, I owe you an apology. I just noticed something interesting in my top output: Swap: 2097144k total,28192k used, 2068952k free, 687764k cached PID USER PR NI %MEM VIRT RES CODE DATA SWAP SHR S %CPU TIME+ COMMAND 3619 rjf

Re: [gentoo-user] CPU0: Temperature above threshold

2005-04-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Hi, On Thursday 07 April 2005 19:26, Zander Z365 wrote: > Hello, > > I'm new to gentoo. I installed gentoo on my laptop computer. During > the time I emerged xorg-x11 I got the following messages: > > CPU0: Temperature above threshold > CPU0: Running in modulated clock mode > CPU1: Temperature a

[gentoo-user] CPU0: Temperature above threshold

2005-04-07 Thread Zander Z365
Hello, I'm new to gentoo. I installed gentoo on my laptop computer. During the time I emerged xorg-x11 I got the following messages: CPU0: Temperature above threshold CPU0: Running in modulated clock mode CPU1: Temperature above threshold CPU1: Running in modulated clock mode I am getting this

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

2005-04-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Hi, On Wednesday 06 April 2005 21:01, Robert G. Hays wrote: > OK, *thats* the focusing of the comment that I mentioned. Had that been > there in the first place, I wouldn't'a jumped. > > Still no reason not to have nice tools though, for those making the > transition... could even 'waste'(not!) t

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

2005-04-07 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 10:46:53 -0700 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Should I update the wiki to include this whole line: | | cat links.txt | sort | uniq | xargs -n 1 -i{} sh -c 'for i in {}; do | wget -c $i && break; done' | | instead of the current one: | | wget -i links.txt | | It seems like

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

2005-04-07 Thread Eugene Rosenzweig
Grant wrote: PS and I dont see how the line in the wiki could have worked well unless emerge -fp used to have different behavior. Thanks a lot Eugene, that second line worked great. Let me know if I should update the wiki: gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Gentoo_for_dialup_users Yes, you sh

[gentoo-user] More acroread weirdness

2005-04-07 Thread David D. Rea
Hi All- I'm evidently experiencing a bug in the (masked) acroread-7.0 package. I'd like to help out and find a solution, but I'm not sure where to start... The bug is with acroread's interaction with mozilla-firefox. Before installing acroread, Firefox would download and view (in gpdf) any PDF fi

[gentoo-user] Bug: emerge -e system errors after upgrading to gcc-3.43

2005-04-07 Thread Bradley Serbu
Reciently I installed the 2005.0 version with the GRP software releases without the ~x86 Keyword. I have had trouble upgrading my system and the fix_lib_tool.sh hasn't been able to fix. I wanted to upgrade to the 3.4 development (~x86) version of the gcc to see if that would fix my problems.

[gentoo-user] QT designer seg faults

2005-04-07 Thread Tami King
Hello, When I run QT designer it always seg faults if I add certain KDE widgets or try to open a file that contains those widgets. This doesn't happen on another computer thast is running FC3 with the same versions of QT and KDE installed so I don't think it is QT or KDE, but how it is built

[gentoo-user] install grub

2005-04-07 Thread kitti jaisong
I'm install grub config and reboot.and hang at line vesafb: scrolling: redraw please help me ti -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] learning to write ebuilds, failed to login anonymously into cvs server

2005-04-07 Thread Mike Turcotte
Maybe it's a type and he means C.V.S.'s Michael Turcotte Information Systems City of North Bay 200 McIntyre St. E PO Box 360 North Bay, Ontario P1B 8H8 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cityofnorthbay.ca > -Original Message- > From: Magnus Varmfors [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday

[gentoo-user] Apache vulnerability warning

2005-04-07 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Hi, After a security scan of some machines i got this vulnerability warning on our apache 2.5x. I seem not to find the solution/ THREAT: The HTTP server or the HTTP proxy server accepts the "CONNECT" method. IMPACT: By exploiting this vulnerability, unauthorized Internet users may be able to con

Re: [gentoo-user] learning to write ebuilds, failed to login anonymously into cvs server

2005-04-07 Thread Magnus Varmfors
I'm guessing V.C.S in this case refers to "Version Control System", which cvs is an example of. /Magnus On Apr 7, 2005 4:19 AM, Zhang Weiwu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Robert G. Hays wrote: > > > Note if you're not used to V.C.S.'s :: you can get tings without > > *officially* checking them out

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] no /dev/ttyUSB0 device

2005-04-07 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
It does matter from the standpoint that the -50 is subject to replacement when updates occure. The -10 file will be left alone so any site or host customizations do not get lost. > > From: Jason Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/04/07 Thu AM 07:48:13 EDT > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject:

Re: [gentoo-user] think i killed my gentoo box

2005-04-07 Thread Nick Smith
> Mike Owen wrote: > >>On Apr 6, 2005 5:27 PM, Nick Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >> >>>what is the exact command i need to use to mount both dev and >>> proc? >>> >>> >> >>You can mount proc with: >>"mount none -t proc /proc" >> >>If you are using devfs you can mount dev with: >>"mount n

Re: [gentoo-user] Java eats my memory [was: Performance problem (slow hard drive?)]

2005-04-07 Thread Matan Peled
Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: > So it seems I have finally found the reason why my machine slows > down... should I be worried of this? : > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SWAP SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND > 17023 jgonzale 15 0 1522m 80m 1.4g 87m S 28.0 16.3 0:03.81 java > 17022 jgon

Re: [gentoo-user] learning to write ebuilds, failed to login anonymously into cvs server

2005-04-07 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 06 Apr 2005 15:24:57 -0400 "Robert G. Hays" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Note if you're not used to V.C.S.'s :: you can get tings without | *officially* checking them out. There are instructions for the Gentoo | version of this somewhere, I suppose. emerge sync -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gen

Re: [gentoo-user] learning to write ebuilds, failed to login anonymously into cvs server

2005-04-07 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 23:18:17 -0600 Kiawud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Not sure if this will help at all, but I came across this article | today. Towards the end, it briefly discusses how to create ebuilds | for Gentoo: | | http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7438 Even more mistakes in that than

Re: [gentoo-user] no /dev/ttyUSB0 device

2005-04-07 Thread Jason Cooper
Neil Bothwick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > On Thu, 07 Apr 2005 06:58:45 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: > > > /dev/tts/USB0 should be correct. You can modify this path by editing > > /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules. I never tried this, but I think you > > could also override the rules there by cr

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Don't buy from NETGEAR

2005-04-07 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 05:56 pm, Grant wrote: > Very long story short, they will not replace my bad card because I > can't try it in Windows. So, buy the exact same card at Wal-Mart and return it a day later with the old card inside. Wal-Mart doesn't eat the cost of the return - Netgear does.

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

2005-04-07 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
A. Khattri wrote: On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: yes if the user was using windoze only as telnet client (from a dos session) to a unix machine. Otherwise your switching time assumption are a bit too optimistic. Not really: http://software.itmanagersjournal.com/article.pl?sid=05

Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf and binary files borkage

2005-04-07 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Kathy Wills wrote: Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: [snip] 2) Has anyone idea on how to solve this ? I prefere dispatch-conf to etc-update and if it's possible have it usable ... That is the reason I don't use dispatch-conf. This extra that it would add to my /etc/init.d files would prevent the init fi

Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf and binary files borkage

2005-04-07 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 07 Apr 2005 00:56:51 +0200, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: After an "emerge -e" runned as usually dispatch-conf , but keyboard in xorg stopped working. discovered that this happen because dispatch-conf ( rcs ) doesn't handle very well binary files. There's a patch to di

Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf and binary files borkage

2005-04-07 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Edward Catmur wrote: After an "emerge -e" runned as usually dispatch-conf , but keyboard in xorg stopped working. discovered that this happen because dispatch-conf ( rcs ) doesn't handle very well binary files. First, in /etc/dispatch-conf.conf make sure this line does NOT have "-a" in it. # Diff

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome desktop integration questions

2005-04-07 Thread Edward Catmur
> How can I activate some of the Gnome Desktop Integration features. > Particularly in 'Clock'. I would like to turn on the Quickalarm (like > in Ximian Desktop 2) and to turn on the evolution-data-server > integration to see upcoming appointments. Quickalarm: what's that? e-d-s integration: merg