[gentoo-user] Digests without attachments

2008-01-14 Thread Charles Trois
Starting with issue 1370, I receive gentoo-user digests without their attachments, like this: Topics (messages 73878 through 73927): That's all there is. What happens? Is my Thunderbird badly configured, or what? I should be grateful for hints. Charles -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org maili

[gentoo-user] About permissions, etc.

2007-01-21 Thread Charles Trois
Hello! I am a bit confused about some matters related to permissions. Here is a part of my fstab file: Sirrah ~ # cat /etc/fstab ... /dev/hda9 /mnt/giga hfs defaults,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hda10 /mnt/Sigma hfsplus defaults 0 0 /dev/hda11 /mnt/SigmaX

Re: [gentoo-user] Apple keyboards with Gentoo

2006-12-21 Thread Charles Trois
A. Khattri a écrit : Anyone using an Apple USB keyboard with Gentoo Linux? Specifically, Im running XFCE4 and want to figure out how to map some keys and get some missing functionality. How can I set these up with X11/XFCE? Also, I can't seem to switch between X11 and the console (I think I can'

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE login with non-us keyboard

2006-10-12 Thread Charles Trois
Neil Bothwick a écrit : On Sun, 08 Oct 2006 16:53:42 +0200, Charles Trois wrote: How could one make the system aware of French? It sounds like you don't have kde-i18n installed. Set LINGUAS in make.conf before you emerge it. That was it: I did as you advised and that fixed every

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE login with non-us keyboard

2006-10-08 Thread Charles Trois
Neil Bothwick a écrit : On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 12:11:50 +0200, Charles Trois wrote: I run KDE 3.4 under Gentoo on a G4 iMac. The keymap specified in xorg.conf is one designed for the extended Apple keyboard (109 keys) in the French language. It works quite well on the whole (in Konsole, Kate

[gentoo-user] KDE login with non-us keyboard

2006-10-06 Thread Charles Trois
Hello! I have searched the Web about this, but didn't find an appropriate reference. I run KDE 3.4 under Gentoo on a G4 iMac. The keymap specified in xorg.conf is one designed for the extended Apple keyboard (109 keys) in the French language. It works quite well on the whole (in Konsole, Kat

[gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo 2006.1 on an iMac

2006-09-10 Thread Charles Trois
Hello, I am having trouble while installing 2006.1 on my iMac. I have made other installations before, but never had this problem. I am using the Universal ppc disk, and I have followed strictly all the steps in the 2006.1 handbook. I have not made any modules, everything is in the kernel. W

[gentoo-user] ppp-2.4.3-r10.ebuild

2006-01-12 Thread Charles Trois
It's not easy to install things in Gentoo without Internet access, especially when it's about installing the Internet connexion itself. My ISP uses PPPoA, and I have a Speedtouch USB modem, the installation of which requires ppp-2.4.3. This is not provided by the distfiles, so I used a tarball

Re: [gentoo-user] system clock keeps getting reset to weird times

2005-11-23 Thread Charles Trois
Benno Schulenberg a écrit : Charles Trois wrote: The legal time, here in France and at this (winter) period, is GMT + 1, as shown correctly by the clock of my iMac, but "date" keeps returning GMT + 2. Sounds like your harware clock is running at local time. What does '

[gentoo-user] Console behaviour

2005-11-21 Thread Charles Trois
Hello! I believe that my console does not work as it ought to. There are two main troubles. First, the text does not move as it gets written. In order to read the result of a command that produces a substantial amount of text in response (such as reboot or ls /etc), I have to switch to another c

Re: [gentoo-user] system clock keeps getting reset to weird times

2005-11-21 Thread Charles Trois
Benno Schulenberg a écrit : Your hardware clock is supposed to be at UTC? Check with 'grep CLOCK= /etc/conf.d/clock'. Your time zone is correctly set? Check with 'ls -l /etc/localtime'. If those are okay, do: rm /etc/adjtime hwclock --set --utc --date="2005-11-18 21:34" # example time

Re: [gentoo-user] Config help texts

2005-11-06 Thread Charles Trois
Mike Williams a écrit : On Saturday 05 November 2005 08:34, Charles Trois wrote: In the 2.6 sources, that file does no longer exist. Yet the help is still there, and there is bound to be a data base somewhere. I have looked for it in the sources, but could not identify it. Does anybody know

[gentoo-user] Config help texts

2005-11-05 Thread Charles Trois
A little practical problem. In the 2.4 sources, there is a file called /Documentation/configure.help (I don't remember the exact name), which contains all the help texts that are available on request in menuconfig, so that they can be read at leisure. In the 2.6 sources, that file does no

[gentoo-user] Linux installed from 2005.1 disk does not start

2005-10-01 Thread Charles Trois
Hello! I am posting this to both gentoo-user and gentoo-ppc-user lists. My problem concerns the installation of Gentoo Linux on my G4 iMac, using the 2005.1 universal ppc disk. I should first mention that I have done this before, using the 2005.0 disk, and there was no trouble whatsoever. N

[gentoo-user] Bash prompt

2005-09-14 Thread Charles Trois
Hello! I am getting confused with profile, bashrc, etc. The prompt string I want to use is PS1="[EMAIL PROTECTED] \W]\$ " I therefore wrote it in /etc/profile (at two levels, root and non-root), ~/.bash_profile and ~/.bashrc. If I log in as a plain user (moi), I get this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not yet quite right on iMac

2005-06-29 Thread Charles Trois
Craig Duncan a écrit : Charles Trois wrote: Another fishy thing is that changing the default runlevel in /etc/inittab has no effect: I put it to 3 and the system booted at level 5 all the same. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-ppc64.xml?part=2&chap=4 or in French

[gentoo-user] Gentoo not yet quite right on iMac

2005-06-26 Thread Charles Trois
Hello, Gentoo is nearly operational on my G4 iMac, but there are one or two catches. --1-- KDE works and I have been able to install a proper French Macintosh keyboard, but some characters, such as the Euro symbol, are not printed. I understand that I have to choose another font (or charac

[gentoo-user] Re: Compile error

2005-06-15 Thread Charles Trois
Maybe you have old kernel stuff lying around? did you do a make clean first? you can try disabling the advanced tcpip kernel options till you can resync with a gentoo mirror and get newer/better sources? On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Zac Medico wrote: Charles Trois wrote: Hello! While installing

[gentoo-user] Compile error

2005-06-13 Thread Charles Trois
Hello! While installing Gentoo on my G4 iMac from the Universal 2005.0 disk, I was able to go as far as configuring the kernel. But, at the make step, I got this error (text copied by hand): net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_fw_compat.c: In function fw_in net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_fw_compat.c: 83: error: too

[gentoo-user] Re: Installing on Firewire drive?

2005-06-04 Thread Charles Trois
I had put my question on this list two or three weeks ago, and Mark Knecht was kind enough to take an interest in it. Now, I have made some progress and the problem is different. To summarize: on my G4 iMac, Yellow Dog Linux 4.0.1 is installed on the HD, and I want to install Gentoo on a FW dri

[gentoo-user] Re: Installing on Firewire drive?

2005-05-22 Thread Charles Trois
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[gentoo-user] Installing on Firewire drive?

2005-05-21 Thread Charles Trois
The disk on my G4 iMac contains an installation of Yellow Dog Linux 4.0.1 and two Apple partitions housing Macos 9 and 10 respectively. I also have an external Firewire disk, which I had reformatted, leaving a large unallocated space at the top (with a vague idea of putting another Linux there).