[gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Remy Blank
Alexander Skwar wrote: > My text color is black, as my background is white, which is, BTW, > the best to read for the majority of people (if you're not handicapped, > that is). That's so, because the contrast between the text and the > background cannot be higher than with black on white (or white

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Jorge Almeida
Konsole. Allows me to set a background. Nothing fancy, just a very light yellow wich I find appropriate for my eyesight. Also allows to customize text colors (directories, symlinks,etc). These two points are _really_ important--we're not talking eye candy here. I don't have much use for other fril

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Nagatoro
Neil Bothwick wrote: > I am writing a comparative review of a number of X terminals, so I > thought I'd draw on the collective wisdom of this list. which are your > most/least favourite X terminals, and why? Most: rxvt-unicode because it's the fastest I've used (and it has unicode support), one do

[gentoo-user] how to configure raid

2006-05-09 Thread El Nino
dear list friends, i'm new to raid. i have a netfinity5000 server with 5 scsi+raid, 256mb ram, p3 450mhz 1 processor. pl guide me to configure the raid from gentoo. note: i trid to configure it using de server guide but it faild saying 'need minimum 256mb ram. i don't know y, its already has 256

[gentoo-user] Emerge stalls

2006-05-09 Thread Alan E. Davis
My machine is on a Public School system network, behind a firewall. I wonder whether this is affecting the merging process. I'm not knowledgeable enough about networking to understand how the firewall works, what it affects. When emerging a package, often the process starts, runs for a short wh

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage tree hosed?

2006-05-09 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 5/9/06, Adrian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 8 May 2006 21:01:11 +0300 "Mantas Povilaitis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote the words: > On 5/8/06, Mantas Povilaitis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 5/7/06, Adrian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Everytime I try to sync it times out and I

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

2006-05-09 Thread Jim
Justin Findlay wrote: On 5/8/06, JimD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How would you recommend changing USE flags or making them better? You should post suggestions to the devs. I think they need some fixing as well. However, I haven't really thought much about it and so have no real useful sugges

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

2006-05-09 Thread Bob Sanders
On Tue, 9 May 2006 20:06:53 -0600 "Justin Findlay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not even the most dogged user is going to read through every flag and > decide if he wants it set or not. I do and set specific sets of flags for each machine I run. It does take about 30 min. and I do have to chec

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage tree hosed?

2006-05-09 Thread Adrian
On Mon, 8 May 2006 21:01:11 +0300 "Mantas Povilaitis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote the words: > On 5/8/06, Mantas Povilaitis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 5/7/06, Adrian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Everytime I try to sync it times out and I never finish. > > > > I'm on dial-up, so it's a

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage tree hosed?

2006-05-09 Thread Adrian
On Mon, 8 May 2006 10:50:59 -0300 "Daniel da Veiga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote the words: > On 5/7/06, Adrian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Greetings. I'm trying to set up a new Gentoo box. > > > > I downloaded the latest portage snapshot, untared it and ran > > > > emerge regen > > > > you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage tree hosed?

2006-05-09 Thread Adrian
On Mon, 08 May 2006 15:32:54 +0200 Sven Köhler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote the words: > > From doing a google, it looks like i need to run > > > > emerge sync > > > > in order to fix this. However, if I could sync then I wouldn't be > > doing this. Everytime I try to sync it times out and I neve

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

2006-05-09 Thread Justin Findlay
On 5/8/06, JimD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How would you recommend changing USE flags or making them better? You should post suggestions to the devs. I think they need some fixing as well. However, I haven't really thought much about it and so have no real useful suggestions, yet. OK, let's

[gentoo-user] Clue to enable DRI/GLX support on PCI Express card

2006-05-09 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
Hi List, I was wondering if someone could show me where to look information to enable DRI/GLX on a ATI X300 PCI Express video board. I was wanting to test some 3d games, but without enableing DRi is just impossible. Thanks, Allan -- An application asked: "Requeires Windows 9x, NT4 or better", s

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get minimal portage-logs

2006-05-09 Thread Matthew Cline
On 5/9/06, Daevid Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just want the juicy ones. The ones that tell me to take further action. Is there a setting to tailor this? I can think of two things off the top of my head: 1) In the unstable version of portage, there is a feature called elog that is su

Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?

2006-05-09 Thread John Jolet
On May 9, 2006, at 8:34 PM, Willie Wong wrote: On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 08:35:04PM -0400, Penguin Lover Walter Dnes squawked: - alsamixer CD unmuted and volume set to 77 - I am a member of audio and cdrom groups - the "cdplay" program sees the number of tracks and and their lengths o

Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?

2006-05-09 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 08:35:04PM -0400, Penguin Lover Walter Dnes squawked: > - alsamixer CD unmuted and volume set to 77 > - I am a member of audio and cdrom groups > - the "cdplay" program sees the number of tracks and and their > lengths on the cdrom. "cdplay -c -v" goes through the

[gentoo-user] How do I get minimal portage-logs

2006-05-09 Thread Daevid Vincent
In /etc/make.conf I have PORT_LOGDIR="/var/tmp/portage-logs" This is great in that I can then read through the billions of .log files to see if there are any post install manual tasks I have to do. However, a good majority of them are just compilation output. I really don't need or care to see th

Re: [gentoo-user] unison and the modular X

2006-05-09 Thread W.Kenworthy
Nope, installed it and rebuilt again unison as well The font wanted to pull in dnd and xemacs packages - dnd failed to build and I dont want xemacs (I already have one operating system :) so I did it -nodeps. Same error :) BillK On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 08:49 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue,

Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?

2006-05-09 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 05:52:07PM +0200, Harald Arnesen wrote > Stef?n Istv?n <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > h?tf? 08 m?jus 2006 11.32 d?tummal Walter Dnes ezt ?rta: > >> I've been so used to playing mp3 files that I'm lost with real live > >> audio CDs (not a data CD with mp3 files). The X

Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?

2006-05-09 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 05:34:57PM +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote > You don't need the audio-cable to hear music from a cd - just the right > application ;) > > like: > kscd > amarok My idea of "the right application" doesn't install 75% of KDE or GNOME... [m3000][root][~] emerge -pv k

Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?

2006-05-09 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 11:24:22PM +0100, Ognjen Bezanov wrote > Note that in both drivers, you need to state you want to use DAE > rather then the old analog method (this is due to the fact that not > all CD-ROM's have good DAE capabilities). Under "CD Audio Player", > you need to set "Play mode

Re: [gentoo-user] System.map not found - unable to check symbols

2006-05-09 Thread Glenn Enright
> > > > > System.map not found - unable to check symbols. > > > > > which doesn't seem to cause problems during/after booting (??). > > > > > > > > > > I did a manual kernel compilation > > > > > > > > To do this, I always do: > > > > > > > > make all modules_install install > > > > > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 09:26:30PM +0200, Penguin Lover Jure Varlec squawked: > I use yakuake. It's the the best drop-down terminal I've ever used, and I > believe I tried almost all of them (there really aren't many). Off the top of > my head, I recall yeahconsole and kuake. There's also tilda,

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread b.n.
Harald Arnesen wrote: And xterm is mostly compatible with a real VT100, which other terminal emulators usually aren't. As someone that has never, ever used a real VT100, what's the purpose of this full emulation (apart from historical/nostalgic value, of course: and I value this, really)?

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Neil Bothwick wrote: I am writing a comparative review of a number of X terminals, so I thought I'd draw on the collective wisdom of this list. which are your most/least favourite X terminals, and why? Let's hope this generates some interesting comment before degenerating into a subset of the ty

RE: [gentoo-user] System.map not found - unable to check symbols

2006-05-09 Thread de Almeida, Valmor F.
> -Original Message- > From: Bo Andresen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 1:04 PM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] System.map not found - unable to check symbols > > Reordered to make it more readable. > > On Tuesday 09 May 2006 15:56

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Samuel Baldwin
Alexander Skwar wrote:> Well - a terminal is something to work with. And this has to> be functional and not "provide a change of pace".Yeah. True. I like that thing though. Cause, since I use different backgrounds for each of my desktops, depending on what desktop I'm using, I'll get a different ba

RE: [gentoo-user] RE: [Gentoo-user] emerge problem. -- Solved

2006-05-09 Thread Wagoner, Darryl
> Portage uses md5sum to check the integrity of the file. This error > occur when you try to use a replicated copy of the distfile or > whenever you emerge something? Even downloading it from an official > mirror? Yes, I get the error when I do a emerge of some new package which is downloaded

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Harald Arnesen
Jeremy Olexa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Neil Bothwick wrote: >> I am writing a comparative review of a number of X terminals, so I >> thought I'd draw on the collective wisdom of this list. which are your >> most/least favourite X terminals, and why? >> >> Let's hope this generates some intere

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Alexander Skwar
Samuel Baldwin wrote: Alexander Skwar wrote: That's something I'll never understand - why make the text on a terminal harder to read, by using transparency? Granted, it'll look better, but that's it. IMO transparency is one of the most useless features. True, it's not that usefull, but it

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Alexander Skwar
Farhan Ahmed wrote: Alexander Skwar wrote: Jeremy Olexa wrote: >xterm and screen. Who needs tabs when you have screen? Me. What have tabs and screen to do with each other? It makes a lot of sense to use both. The use of one doesn't contradict the use of the other. In no way whatsoever. Can y

Re: [gentoo-user] ltsp woes - problem solved

2006-05-09 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 09 May 2006 19:15, John Blinka wrote: > The /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf file needed another line: > > next-server ip-address-of-server; > > with the upgrade to dhcp-3.0.3 (and maybe a version or > two earlier). With that addition, all is now well. Thanks for hitting this before me! ;-) Uwe -- Mar

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 5/9/06, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Justin Findlay wrote: > I find that one of the most attractive features of a terminal > application is transparency That's something I'll never understand - why make the text on a terminal harder to read, by using transparency? Granted, it'

Re: [gentoo-user] System.map not found - unable to check symbols

2006-05-09 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Mattias Merilai wrote: > I have tried both on different (but only) gentoo kernels and > still they complain about not finding it. That will happen when when your /boot is on a separate partition: it is not mounted (yet) when the kernel is looking for the System.map. > 1. Is this a vanilla or gen

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Samuel Baldwin
Alexander Skwar wrote:> That's something I'll never understand - why make the text on > a terminal harder to read, by using transparency?> Granted, it'll look better, but that's it. > IMO transparency is one of the most useless features. True, it's not that usefull, but it does look nice. It provid

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-09 Thread Farhan Ahmed
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > (snip) > > With wikipedia, everybody can go and edit what they want, when they want, > where they want. Agreed. But that's also a good thing about it. Anybody can *correct* what they want, when they want, where they want. Why do you think people will always try to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Justin Findlay
On 5/9/06, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That's something I'll never understand - why make the text on a terminal harder to read, by using transparency? It can be really annoying if you overdo it, and you have to find the right balance of opacity and colors (since lots of terminal

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Samuel Baldwin
b.n. wrote:> At work I use konsole. I like the "session" thing it has and the tabs, > since I use a lot of interactive shell apps like python-ipython-octave > at work they often comes quite handy.Completely agreed. I find the tabs to be extremely helpfull as I'm constantly running interactive shell

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache2 Error!

2006-05-09 Thread James Ausmus
On 5/9/06, Christopher E <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello All, I get this error: * Apache2 has detected a syntax error in your configuration files: /usr/sbin/apache2: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libaprutil-0.so.0: undefined symbol: gdbm_errno What does this mean and how can I fix it? It

Re: [gentoo-user] RE: [Gentoo-user] emerge problem.

2006-05-09 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 5/9/06, Wagoner, Darryl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Daniel, Right now mirroring is of secondary concern. Nothing I have done so far will allow me to install new packages. I always get the md5 verification error. I tried the FEATURES="-strict" but that didn't help. Does portage use md5sum t

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Neil Bothwick wrote: > I am writing a comparative review of a number of X terminals, so I > thought I'd draw on the collective wisdom of this list. which are your > most/least favourite X terminals, and why? > > Let's hope this generates some interesting comment before degenerating > into a subset

[gentoo-user] Apache2 Error!

2006-05-09 Thread Christopher E
Hello All, I get this error: * Apache2 has detected a syntax error in your configuration files: /usr/sbin/apache2: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libaprutil-0.so.0: undefined symbol: gdbm_errno What does this mean and how can I fix it? Sincerely, Christopher -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing l

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Farhan Ahmed
Alexander Skwar wrote: > Jeremy Olexa wrote: > > >xterm and screen. Who needs tabs when you have screen? > > Me. What have tabs and screen to do with each other? It makes > a lot of sense to use both. The use of one doesn't contradict > the use of the other. In no way whatsoever. Can you tell me

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Farhan Ahmed
Alexander Skwar wrote: > Justin Findlay wrote: > > >I find that one of the most attractive features of a terminal > >application is transparency > > That's something I'll never understand - why make the text on > a terminal harder to read, by using transparency? > > Granted, it'll look better,

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Alexander Skwar
Jeremy Olexa wrote: xterm and screen. Who needs tabs when you have screen? Me. What have tabs and screen to do with each other? It makes a lot of sense to use both. The use of one doesn't contradict the use of the other. In no way whatsoever. Alexander Skwar -- Bender: I get a good vibe fr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Alexander Skwar
Justin Findlay wrote: I find that one of the most attractive features of a terminal application is transparency That's something I'll never understand - why make the text on a terminal harder to read, by using transparency? Granted, it'll look better, but that's it. IMO transparency is one

[gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Remy Blank
Richard Fish wrote: > I use konsole, for no other reason than it is the default in my > favorite DE. My configuration is pretty minimalistic, no tab or menu > bars. Same here. I use no special terminal features at all, except the scrollback, which is pretty standard everywhere. I sometimes use s

Re: [gentoo-user] System.map not found - unable to check symbols

2006-05-09 Thread Farhan Ahmed
de Almeida, Valmor F. wrote: > > Hello list, > > Following closely the instrunctions on the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook, I > installed gentoo recently (info below) and just did the first reboot > before finalizing the installation. All worked except for this message > during boot > > System.map no

[gentoo-user] RE: [Gentoo-user] emerge problem.

2006-05-09 Thread Wagoner, Darryl
Daniel, Right now mirroring is of secondary concern. Nothing I have done so far will allow me to install new packages. I always get the md5 verification error. I tried the FEATURES="-strict" but that didn't help. Does portage use md5sum to compute the hash? Either the local md5sum has a bug,

Re: [gentoo-user] national keyboard in open office

2006-05-09 Thread Grzegorz Kubiak
Friday 05 May 2006 17:30 Pawel K wrote: > Hello > How to force open office to type national (Polish) > fonts. I can see them on the screen when opening the > document containing them but when I press the > combination "right alt-" it doesn't work. I've > installed open office as english(USA) versio

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/9/06, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am writing a comparative review of a number of X terminals, so I thought I'd draw on the collective wisdom of this list. which are your most/least favourite X terminals, and why? I use konsole, for no other reason than it is the default in m

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 5/9/06, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am writing a comparative review of a number of X terminals, so I thought I'd draw on the collective wisdom of this list. which are your most/least favourite X terminals, and why? Let's hope this generates some interesting comment before degen

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 07:33:51PM +0100, Penguin Lover Neil Bothwick squawked: > I am writing a comparative review of a number of X terminals, so I > thought I'd draw on the collective wisdom of this list. which are your > most/least favourite X terminals, and why? rxvt (desktop) and aterm (lapto

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Vladimir G. Ivanovic
On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 19:33 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > I am writing a comparative review of a number of X terminals, so I > thought I'd draw on the collective wisdom of this list. which are your > most/least favourite X terminals, and why? > I use gnome-terminal because it has tabs and color. I

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] gfortran libraries

2006-05-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/9/06, Marco Calviani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: checking for gfortran libraries... configure: error: could not determine how to set LDFLAGS for gfortran! What does it mean? Check the config.log output. That will tell you what the real problem is. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mail

Re: [gentoo-user] is gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org faulty? or is it just me? =(

2006-05-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/9/06, Ognjen Bezanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can anyone enlighten me? So I can finally fix this issue. Want a gmail invite? :-) -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Justin Findlay
On 5/9/06, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 09 May 2006 19:33:51 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: E-Term is pretty and extensible and thememable too. I like the kde terminal program also because of the tabs you can have on the bottom to open multiple, discreet sessions. It really comes down t

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Jeremy Olexa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Bothwick wrote: > I am writing a comparative review of a number of X terminals, so I > thought I'd draw on the collective wisdom of this list. which are your > most/least favourite X terminals, and why? > > Let's hope this generates some interest

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread b.n.
Neil Bothwick wrote: I am writing a comparative review of a number of X terminals, so I thought I'd draw on the collective wisdom of this list. which are your most/least favourite X terminals, and why? At home I use rxvt. Simple, very fast on startup. At work I use konsole. I like the "session

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge problem.

2006-05-09 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 5/9/06, Jeremy Olexa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wagoner, Darryl wrote: > Greetings, > > I am trying to get my team to switch to Gentoo from RH and I wanted to setup > a http-replicator to avoid pulling all the packages over and over again. > > Onc

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Jure Varlec
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 20:33, Neil Bothwick wrote: > I am writing a comparative review of a number of X terminals, so I > thought I'd draw on the collective wisdom of this list. which are your > most/least favourite X terminals, and why? I use yakuake. It's the the best drop-down terminal I've eve

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge problem.

2006-05-09 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 5/9/06, Jeremy Olexa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wagoner, Darryl wrote: > Greetings, > > I am trying to get my team to switch to Gentoo from RH and I wanted to setup > a http-replicator to avoid pulling all the packages over and over again. > > Onc

[gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Peter
On Tue, 09 May 2006 19:33:51 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > I am writing a comparative review of a number of X terminals, so I > thought I'd draw on the collective wisdom of this list. which are your > most/least favourite X terminals, and why? > > Let's hope this generates some interesting commen

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Alexander Skwar
Neil Bothwick wrote: which are your most/least favourite X terminals, and why? I use gnome-terminal, as I use gnome. It has all the features I want (most importantly: tabs) and has very fast startup times (in Gnome 2.14). So, that's my most favourite. I don't have a least favourite, as I only

[gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Moshe Kaminsky
* Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [09/05/06 21:45]: > I am writing a comparative review of a number of X terminals, so I > thought I'd draw on the collective wisdom of this list. which are your > most/least favourite X terminals, and why? > I mostly use xterm, since it's fast and has almost all

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge problem.

2006-05-09 Thread Jeremy Olexa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wagoner, Darryl wrote: > Greetings, > > I am trying to get my team to switch to Gentoo from RH and I wanted to setup > a http-replicator to avoid pulling all the packages over and over again. > > Once I did this then all of sudden emerge started to f

[gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
I am writing a comparative review of a number of X terminals, so I thought I'd draw on the collective wisdom of this list. which are your most/least favourite X terminals, and why? Let's hope this generates some interesting comment before degenerating into a subset of the typical KDE/GNOME flamefe

Re: [gentoo-user] national keyboard in open office

2006-05-09 Thread Dave Jones
Pawel K wrote on 09/05/06 17:28: >>Does composing the Polish characters work for you >>under applications such as Mozilla Thunderbird? >>What specific Polish characters are you missing, and >>how do normally compose them? It sounds as if you want to be able to produce accented characters such as

Re: [gentoo-user] A couple projects on my laptop

2006-05-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 9 May 2006 11:36:42 -0400, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: > when I go to shut down the laptop, the shutdown command will not work > from my regular user, I have to su to be able to shutdown -- I use > fluxbox, and I know this works properly in gnome/kde, I was just > wondering if there was a wa

[gentoo-user] emerge problem.

2006-05-09 Thread Wagoner, Darryl
Greetings, I am trying to get my team to switch to Gentoo from RH and I wanted to setup a http-replicator to avoid pulling all the packages over and over again. Once I did this then all of sudden emerge started to fail with: !!! Digest verification Failed: !!!/usr/portage/distfiles/ruby-1.8.

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM2 Problems

2006-05-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/9/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: vgchange -a y device-mapper: deps ioctl failed: Invalid argument _deps: task run failed for (254:0) Failed to add device (254:0) to dtree My guess is a conflict between the device-mapper version and your kernel. 2.6.7 is quite ancie

Re: [gentoo-user] ltsp woes - problem solved

2006-05-09 Thread John Blinka
The /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf file needed another line: next-server ip-address-of-server; with the upgrade to dhcp-3.0.3 (and maybe a version or two earlier). With that addition, all is now well. John Blinka -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A couple projects on my laptop

2006-05-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 09 May 2006 17:49:04 +0200, Remy Blank wrote: > > If you specify both the device and the mount point, mount will use > > those instead of fstab, so you need to be route. if you only specify > > one (...) > ^ > Good one, Neil ;-) $DEITY only knows

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM2 Problems

2006-05-09 Thread Jure Varlec
I've never seen this issue, so I may not be the right person to give advice here. But at a glance, it looks like lvm and device-mapper are incompatible or something similar. If I were in your place I would try differrent versions of lvm2, device-mapper and/or kernel. FYI, my configuration works

[gentoo-user] LVM2 problems

2006-05-09 Thread Barny M
Hi, I recently synced my Gentoo (2.6.7-gentoo-r13) and after emerging updated ebuilds, sure lvm2 was one of them and a reboot I lost my mounted fs. Fortunately I do not have / (root) under LVM however all efforts so far haven't brought my fs back: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. #

Re: [gentoo-user] mail to this list from home fails, but from home relayed through ISP works

2006-05-09 Thread glen martin
Uwe Thiem wrote: > On 09 May 2006 15:40, glen martin wrote: > >> This isn't the case of subscribing through work and sending from home or >> whatever. In both cases I sent from home, indeed from the same account >> in the same mail client. Only the path the message took to >> list.gentoo.org cha

Re: [gentoo-user] System.map not found - unable to check symbols

2006-05-09 Thread Mattias Merilai
Steven Gill wrote: Genkernel copies the file into /boot/ BUT names the System.map as System.map-genkernel-x86-2.6.xx-gentoo-rx so all you need to do is copy/rename this file as System.map (note the capital S) and everything should be fine. The kernel should be able to find System.map whether

Re: [gentoo-user] System.map not found - unable to check symbols

2006-05-09 Thread Bo Andresen
Reordered to make it more readable. On Tuesday 09 May 2006 15:56, de Almeida, Valmor F. wrote: > > > System.map not found - unable to check symbols. > > > which doesn't seem to cause problems during/after booting (??). > > > > > > I did a manual kernel compilation > > > > To do this, I always do:

Re: [gentoo-user] can gnome use prelink?

2006-05-09 Thread JimD
wu chuanwen wrote: I count the time when i startx my gnome,it takes me 23 or 24 seconds. The specs of my machine are as follow: Celeron(R)2.0G,Ram=512mb,disk=40Gb Do you think it's slow or not? Yes you should get much faster startup times of Gnome 2.14 than that. My laptop is a Pentium M 1.7

Re: [gentoo-user] System.map not found - unable to check symbols

2006-05-09 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 21:58, Steven Gill wrote: > Genkernel copies the file into /boot/ BUT names the System.map as > System.map-genkernel-x86-2.6.xx-gentoo-rx so all you need to do is > copy/rename this file as System.map (note the capital S) and > everything should be fine. > > I'm not sure what

Re: [gentoo-user] can gnome use prelink?

2006-05-09 Thread JimD
wu chuanwen wrote: 2006/5/7, JimD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: hdparm -Tt /dev/hda > Sorry!But i just don't know what you mean by this? I expect your reply! Thanks again! I meant I want you to run the command above and send the output. The last parameter /dev/hda refers to the drive where you ha

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutdown pauses partway with "Give root password"

2006-05-09 Thread glen martin
Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > Maybe you can cat your /proc/mounts > next time you're in that single-user mode? It might make things more > clear... > 3 power cycles later I duplicated the problem. Here is /proc/mounts, transcribed by hand. There is nothing obvious wrong here (to me) except that the

Re: [gentoo-user] national keyboard in open office

2006-05-09 Thread Bo Andresen
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 17:28, Pawel K wrote: > Unfortunately I can't type Polish charecters under > mozilla as well (tried both pl_PL and pl_PL.utf8). I > expect to use right ALT + e.g. right ALT + > o should result with "ó" and now it results with just > "o" both in Mozilla and OpenOffice. Left A

Re: [gentoo-user] System.map not found - unable to check symbols

2006-05-09 Thread Steven Gill
On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 21:19 +0530, Mrugesh Karnik wrote: > On Tuesday 09 May 2006 19:26, de Almeida, Valmor F. wrote: > > I tried the make all option and it added a /boot -> . > > Inside /boot. Also, a menu.lst file was created inside /boot/grub > > that points to grub.conf. Other than that there n

[gentoo-user] USB weirdness

2006-05-09 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
Is it my problem or is it a generic problem: My install of Gentoo (2006.0 profile with latest versions of gentoo-kernel etc.) doesn't recognize events happening on USB bus. i.e.: in order to use my multicard reader it has to be plugged in upon boot - otherwise it's not recognized. Furthermore

Re: [gentoo-user] System.map not found - unable to check symbols

2006-05-09 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 19:26, de Almeida, Valmor F. wrote: > I tried the make all option and it added a /boot -> . > Inside /boot. Also, a menu.lst file was created inside /boot/grub > that points to grub.conf. Other than that there no changes/additions > we made. > > I rebooted and had the same pr

Re: [gentoo-user] mail to this list from home fails, but from home relayed through ISP works

2006-05-09 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 09 May 2006 15:40, glen martin wrote: > This isn't the case of subscribing through work and sending from home or > whatever. In both cases I sent from home, indeed from the same account > in the same mail client. Only the path the message took to > list.gentoo.org changed. > > I hadn't posted to

[gentoo-user] Re: A couple projects on my laptop

2006-05-09 Thread Remy Blank
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 9 May 2006 08:47:00 -0400, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: >>You must be root to mount > > If you specify both the device and the mount point, mount will use those > instead of fstab, so you need to be route. if you only specify one (...)

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutdown pauses partway with "Give root password"

2006-05-09 Thread glen martin
Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 09 May 2006 07:20:57 -0700 glen martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> Resending ... anyone have a clue as to why the "Give root password for >> maintenance ..." prompt would come up occasionally at shutdown time? >> > That's "sulogin". Did you m

[gentoo-user] LVM2 Problems

2006-05-09 Thread bm2600
Hi, I recently synced my Gentoo (2.6.7-gentoo-r13) and after emerging updated ebuilds, sure lvm2 was one of them and a reboot I lost my mounted fs. Fortunately I do not have / (root) under LVM however all efforts so far haven't brought my fs back: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. #

RE: [gentoo-user] A couple projects on my laptop

2006-05-09 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
One Additional Question: when I go to shut down the laptop, the shutdown command will not work from my regular user, I have to su to be able to shutdown -- I use fluxbox, and I know this works properly in gnome/kde, I was just wondering if there was a way it could be made to work in fluxbox -- I

RE: [gentoo-user] A couple projects on my laptop

2006-05-09 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
> -Original Message- > From: Jure Varlec [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 11:20 AM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] A couple projects on my laptop > > On Monday 08 May 2006 20:48, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: > > I need to be able to use

Re: [gentoo-user] national keyboard in open office

2006-05-09 Thread Pawel K
> Does composing the Polish characters work for you > under applications > such as Mozilla Thunderbird? > > What specific Polish characters are you missing, and > how do normally > compose them? If you tell me how you expect to > compose them, I'll test > to see if it works here. Unfortunately I

Re: [gentoo-user] A couple projects on my laptop

2006-05-09 Thread Jure Varlec
On Monday 08 May 2006 20:48, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: > I need to be able to use a USB to Serial dongle to talk to my > switches -- the adapters that I have are Triplite ones and I do have the > driver disk for windows -- along with this, I need a good communications > program (equivalent to hyper

Re: [gentoo-user] can gnome use prelink?

2006-05-09 Thread wu chuanwen
I count the time when i startx my gnome,it takes me 23 or 24 seconds. The specs of my machine are as follow: Celeron(R)2.0G,Ram=512mb,disk=40Gb Do you think it's slow or not? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutdown pauses partway with "Give root password"

2006-05-09 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 09 May 2006 07:20:57 -0700 glen martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Resending ... anyone have a clue as to why the "Give root password for > maintenance ..." prompt would come up occasionally at shutdown time? That's "sulogin". Did you mess up your /etc/inittab (like uncommenting tha

Re: [gentoo-user] Bad mem, over heat and games

2006-05-09 Thread JimD
Jeremy Olexa wrote: Configure ACPI to run the proc at the lowest speed unless it is under a load. I leave my laptop on for days at a time..the longest uptime is 8 days so far. My proc speed is always set at 600mhz unless it is under a load and then it jumps to 1.7ghz, it works well.. OK. That

[gentoo-user] is gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org faulty? or is it just me? =(

2006-05-09 Thread Ognjen Bezanov
Ok I have been on this list for year(s), and I have yet to get it functioning properly. More of then then not, when I reply to a thread, my message does not get posted, and if it does, it can take from a few minutes to a week or two for the message to appear. Also posting new messages sometimes

[gentoo-user] Network UPS Tools (NUT)

2006-05-09 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, anybody using them? If so I have got a question. Except one thing, everything is handled fine by gentoo's start-up scripts. The exception is this: If NUT shuts the box down, a flag /etc/killpower is created. At the end of the shutdown process this flag determines whether the UPS itse

[gentoo-user] mail to this list from home fails, but from home relayed through ISP works

2006-05-09 Thread glen martin
This isn't the case of subscribing through work and sending from home or whatever. In both cases I sent from home, indeed from the same account in the same mail client. Only the path the message took to list.gentoo.org changed. I hadn't posted to this for quite a while until recently. When I did s

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