On my laptop, I am using silent mode of fbsplash during boot.
However, as I have wireless access in my office and wired access in my
home (both dhcp), there is always one of the network services, either
net.lan or net.wlan, will fail. This will take fbsplash into verbose
mode when the service fai
> dispatch-conf is just a more robust and
> full-featured system for
> updating config files. I read the first page of that
> discussion and it
> seems most of those who use etc-update haven't tried
> dispatch-conf.
> The rest feel they don't need the added features.
> IMHO dispatch-conf
> should b
You could install VMWare.
On 10/13/06, bijayant kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi to all,
I want to install MS outlook on the gentoo. Can it possible
to run MS outlook on gentoo-linux. If yes then how...??? Is any extra plugin
required to do the same. My main concern is that i
I use dispatch-conf all the time. I too have never looked back.
I use diff="vimdiff -R %s %s" in /etc/dispatch-conf.conf
NOT SURE WHAT '-R' IS now though. Perhaps it should not be there.
Then I add the following line to my .vimrc, which allows me to press
F2 to exit the vimdiff windows in one
The PORTAGE_BINHOST option is quit time consuming on emerges. But, if
you're only doing it once in awhile, in batched sets, it should be
just fine. The reason it takes so long is that it has to do an FTP
listing of the remote host, cache that info, and then finally it'll do
the merging.
I was d
Hi to all, I want to install MS outlook on the gentoo. Can it possible to run MS outlook on gentoo-linux. If yes then how...??? Is any extra plugin required to do the same. My main concern is that i have to provide calendar sharing with MS outlook on linux box to one of my client..Pl
On Saturday 14 October 2006 06:35, Meino Christian Cramer wrote:
[SNIP]
> So I did a
>
>emerge --pretend --verbose --update --deep world
>
> and it was reported, that
>
>dev-java/java-config
>
> is blocking
>
>dev-java/java-config-wrapper
>
> . I decided to remove java-config by
>
>
Hi,
I conjunction with
emerge --verbose --update --deep world
I got the message, that a package would block another one.
So I did a
emerge --pretend --verbose --update --deep world
and it was reported, that
dev-java/java-config
is blocking
dev-java/java-config-wrapper
.
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -l
> > -rwxrwxrwx 1 grant grant 386 Oct 12 22:24 getdvd
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ getdvd
> > -bash: getdvd: command not found
>
> Unless the current directory is in your path, you need to invoke it
> with ./getdvd.
>
> > I like the sound of your ~/bin setup. How can
I'll start by presenting some info about my system. You'll find the
actual problems (numbered) in the middle of this message.
I have my root file system on RAID 1
I use an initrd image to get my system going. The image was simply taken from:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2
On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 21:19:51 + (UTC), James wrote:
> Looking around I cannot seem to find any software for the amd64(turion)
> that allows me to interface, download pictures and manage them in
> some sort of digital gallery. I use KDE but a gtk_ish app is ok too.
Digikam or KPhotoalbum, both
On 10/11/06, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wednesday 11 October 2006 18:00, maxim wexler wrote:
> Hi group,
>
> One of my morning chores after booting linux is to su
> and enter #mknod /dev/ppp c 108 0 and #chmod a+rw
> /dev/parport0.
>
> Where can I park these commands to automate
I much prefer dispatch-conf. I just find it easier to use. I find
etc-update a touch crude in the way it takes input.
On 10/13/06, Remy Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
maxim wexler wrote:
> What does the group think?
I don't know about the group, but I use etc-update and keep all of /etc
in
On Oct 13, 3:00 am, "Trenton Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Guys,
Is there a policy for thesyncingof the mirrors, that would prevent
inconsistencies? I'm not talking about inconsistencies with the
masterserver(s), as that would be kind of difficult to have
atomicsyncingbetween all server
Hello,
Looking around I cannot seem to find any software for the amd64(turion)
that allows me to interface, download pictures and manage them in
some sort of digital gallery. I use KDE but a gtk_ish app is ok too.
Suggestions are most welcome. The camera is an Olympus Camedea
modelm D-40zoom.
J
On Friday 13 October 2006 08:13, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> On Friday 13 October 2006 09:05, Mick wrote:
> > # equery check x11-libs/gtk+
> > [ Checking x11-libs/gtk+-1.2.10-r12 ]
> > * 0 out of 0 files good
>
> Umm...?? I suggest you remerge that one..
>
> # equery check =gtk+-1.2.10-r12
> [ Che
maxim wexler wrote:
> What does the group think?
I don't know about the group, but I use etc-update and keep all of /etc
in a Subversion working copy. This allows quickly seeing any changes
made on updates and emerges, reverting changes if anything breaks, and
keeping track of the reasons for spec
On 10/13/06, Justin Patrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 10/13/06, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> On Friday 13 October 2006 11:56, maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote> about '[gentoo-user] etc-update vs dispatch-conf':> > Interesting discussion here:>> I didn't read it, but
On 10/13/06, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Friday 13 October 2006 11:56, maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
about '[gentoo-user] etc-update vs dispatch-conf':
> Interesting discussion here:
I didn't read it, but after I heard about dispatch-conf, I set it up to use
RCS
On Friday 13 October 2006 11:56, maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
about '[gentoo-user] etc-update vs dispatch-conf':
> Interesting discussion here:
I didn't read it, but after I heard about dispatch-conf, I set it up to use
RCS and turned on all the auto-merge options and never looked back
I am using gmail's SMTP server to send mail from my local machine
(mostly for portage and cron logs) and I discovered that if I send
mail using the `mail` command, rather than using my real name,
something just puts my email in the From field. To make it clear it
looks like this:
gmail's interfac
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
On Tuesday 10 October 2006 16:41, Fred Kastl wrote:
when i try to start quke3 i always get this error message: Quake3 Can't
load libGL.so.1 from /etc/ld.so.conf
although it exists and ld knows about it.
It also seems that the game can find it too, but don't load it.
[S
On 13 October 2006 00:36, Pawel Kraszewski wrote:
> Well, I might be wrong, but I think Windoze has a limit of 14 characters in
> passsword (two 7 character pieces to be exact). I didn't try, but it seems
> that pass might be truncated at 14th character... So try logging in with 14
> first characte
Hello group,
Interesting discussion here:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-478783.html
What does the group think?
-Maxim
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>> On Friday 13 October 2006 15:16, Timothy A. Holmes wrote:
> > I was reading the thread on the lightweight gentoo system.
> This to a
> > degree meshed with what a friend and I have been talking about.
> > Essentially setting up a standard image for all of my
> gentoo servers,
> > and stage
On 10/6/06, Gregory SACRE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello,I had a hard disk attached on an old RedHat PC formatted and mountedas ext3 filesystem.I removed the hard disk from the PC and plugged it in my Gentoo box. Itried to mount it as ext3 file system and got this error:
-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -l
> -rwxrwxrwx 1 grant grant 386 Oct 12 22:24 getdvd
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ getdvd
> -bash: getdvd: command not found
Unless the current directory is in your path, you need to invoke it
with ./getdvd.
> I like the sound of your ~/bin setup. How can I add that to my
What does $cat /proc/cpuinfo say on the "flags" line?
If they show up there I'd say add them. Because the
cpu is at the center of the system they ought to be
available for all of portage's tasks. My $.02.
--- "Matthew R. Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I need a bit of advice. I have these use
On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 08:22:04 -0700 (PDT), maxim wexler wrote:
> IIRC the last time I updated baselayout it overwrote
> some important files and my system was un-usable. In
> all the excitement I failed to note what they were.
That wasn't baselayout, it was you when running etc-update.
> Is there
>
> Ah, the old local.start hack
>
> Apparently we should never use it for things like
> this. But we all
> do :-)
>
> As a solution it's OK to do this, as long as you
> always remember that
> you put it there - future updates often end up doing
> strange things
> because of the contents of l
On Friday 13 October 2006 16:10, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 15:43:17 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > It's now set in /etc/conf.d/net
>
> And has been discussed at great length on this list over the last few
> weeks.
>
> > The process is fully documented in /etc/conf.d/net.example a
On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 07:52:57 -0700, Grant wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -l
> -rwxrwxrwx 1 grant grant 386 Oct 12 22:24 getdvd
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ getdvd
> -bash: getdvd: command not found
Unless the current directory is in your path, you need to invoke it
with ./getdvd.
> I like the sou
> I'm tweaking that script you wrote. Here's what I have:
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> echo Enter DVD filename:
> read FILENAME
> mount /dev/cdrom
> TITLE=$(vobcopy -I 2>&1 | awk '/DVD-name:/ {print $3}')
> vobcopy -m || exit
> mkisofs -dvd-video -V $TITLE -o $FILENAME $TITLE || exit
> rm -rf $TITLE
> umo
Hi,
I have the problem on one PC that I cannot mount my root partion. I
tried to define it with root= parameter in grub but no success.
The problem is now if the kernel panic happens I cannot scroll back to
see the possible problem.
Is there a possibility to scroll back the boot messages after t
On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 15:43:17 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> It's now set in /etc/conf.d/net
And has been discussed at great length on this list over the last few
weeks.
> The process is fully documented in /etc/conf.d/net.example and the old
> domainname file is deprecated (or is that obsoleted?
On Friday 13 October 2006 15:24, Timothy A. Holmes wrote:
> Hi folks;
>
> Must be my day for questions today :)
>
> Since the 2006.1 CD came out, I am finding that setting the domain
> name in the domainname file aparently does not work any more. What is
> the proper way to set this now? Im having
Hi folks;
Must be my day for questions today :)
Since the 2006.1 CD came out, I am finding that setting the domain name
in the domainname file aparently does not work any more. What is the
proper way to set this now? Im having difficulty tracking it down, and
im not seeing it in the net.example.
Hi folks:
I was reading the thread on the lightweight gentoo system. This to a
degree meshed with what a friend and I have been talking about.
Essentially setting up a standard image for all of my gentoo servers,
and stage 4ing (is that a word?) that image to the servers. Once they
are in produc
Thanks all for your thoughts.I have tried Windowmaker as one of the lightweight window managers meanwhile on my own laptop, it loads indeed extremely fast compared to my usual KDE, but at first sight I can't possibly imagine this into a desktop a kid would like to use. After all, the idea is to get
On Friday 13 October 2006 05:12, Troy Curtis Jr wrote:
> I say in the newsletter that the stabilization of Xorg 7.1 was being
> held up until there where updated drivers for Nvidia that added
> support for this version. So does this mean that you MUST use the
> latest Nvidia driver to use Xorg 7.1
Gregory SACRE wrote:
> Other question about my problem: is it possible that it would be
> a sector problem, and that those sectors would contain the
> journaling of ext3?
Yes, it looks like it. :(
> And that would be the reason why I can mount
> it as ext2 and not ext3?
No. An ext3 filesystem
--- Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It's quite common is bash scripts to define a
> function named die:
>
> die() {
> echo "$@"
> exit 1
> }
Or, with use of a specific return code:
die() {
RT=$1
shift
echo "$@"
exit $RT
}
and call it either with the error code of
On Friday 13 October 2006 07:55, Grant wrote:
> #!/bin/bash
[SNIP]
> vobcopy -m || exit
> mkisofs -dvd-video -V $TITLE -o $FILENAME $TITLE || exit
[SNIP]
>
> Can you tell me what purpose the "|| exit" portions serve?
It's quite common is bash scripts to define a function named die:
die() {
ec
On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 22:55:03 -0700, Grant wrote:
> I'm tweaking that script you wrote. Here's what I have:
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> echo Enter DVD filename:
> read FILENAME
> mount /dev/cdrom
> TITLE=$(vobcopy -I 2>&1 | awk '/DVD-name:/ {print $3}')
> vobcopy -m || exit
> mkisofs -dvd-video -V $TITL
On Friday 13 October 2006 09:05, Mick wrote:
> # equery check x11-libs/gtk+
> [ Checking x11-libs/gtk+-1.2.10-r12 ]
> * 0 out of 0 files good
Umm...?? I suggest you remerge that one..
# equery check =gtk+-1.2.10-r12
[ Checking x11-libs/gtk+-1.2.10-r12 ]
* 344 out of 344 files good
--
Bo Andre
On Thursday 12 October 2006 22:58, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> equery check x11-libs/gtk+
Thanks Bo, it seems that I have two of them?
# equery check x11-libs/gtk+
[ Checking x11-libs/gtk+-1.2.10-r12 ]
* 0 out of 0 files good
[ Checking x11-libs/gtk+-2.8.
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