Re: [gentoo-user] eclipse portage package

2009-11-28 Thread Chuck Robey
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 25 November 2009 19:20:43 Chuck Robey wrote: >> I need to get an up-to-date version of eclipse working on my gentoo >> box. First question is, is there a Galileo (3.5+) version of eclipse >> available as a portage package? I can

Re: [gentoo-user] eclipse portage package

2009-11-25 Thread Chuck Robey
Mark Knecht wrote: > On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Chuck Robey wrote: >> I was checking to see what version of eclipse seems to have a portage >> package, >> and I was kinda shocked that the package seems a bit outdated. 3.4 is the >> current portage package, but

[gentoo-user] eclipse portage package

2009-11-24 Thread Chuck Robey
I was checking to see what version of eclipse seems to have a portage package, and I was kinda shocked that the package seems a bit outdated. 3.4 is the current portage package, but eclipse has been at 3.5 for a good while now. Seeing as the eclipse website has a linux binary 3.5+ package, unless

Re: [gentoo-user] Domain name registration

2009-04-25 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James wrote: > Hello, > > I'm looking for suggestions to use for DNS registrars. > > But first a few key points. > > 1. "I" own the domain name exclusively. This means if I want to > change (move) registrars, it's not an issue, except for expenses.

Re: [gentoo-user] telephony

2009-04-25 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Simon wrote: >> You seem to want to know the difference, FXO vs FXS. If I got this wrong, >> just >> delete it. FXS is meant to interface to a telephone set, so it gives talk >> battery and (as needed) ringing current. FXO is meant to interface to

Re: [gentoo-user] eselect usage

2009-04-24 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Freitag 24 April 2009, Chuck Robey wrote: >> I have a machine which I hadn't used in about 3 months, so yesterday I >> began with an "emerge --sync" and then updated system. I got a messa

[gentoo-user] eselect usage

2009-04-24 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a machine which I hadn't used in about 3 months, so yesterday I began with an "emerge --sync" and then updated system. I got a message tellimg me I had to read an eselect message from "gentoo", but no matter how I play with it, I can't get esel

Re: [gentoo-user] telephony

2009-04-24 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stroller wrote: > > On 24 Apr 2009, at 19:38, Michael Higgins wrote: > >> On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:08:48 +0100 >> Stroller wrote: >> >> [...] >>> If you want Asterisk to answer your conventional POTS phone line >>> then you can use an X100P card which

[gentoo-user] trying to run firefox

2008-08-24 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just did a emerge --update of firefox, and while that seemed to emerge with no errors, when I tried to run it, it tells me it can't load the XRE functions. This doesn't mean anything to me; does anyone know what that refers to, and how I might clear

[gentoo-user] building kde-meta

2008-08-21 Thread Chuck Robey
This email comments on something dealing with an emerge package issue; if this is the wrong list to put that into, let me know, I'll try again. I'm trying to emerge kde-base/kde-meta. As I ordinarily do with things I know will have lots of dependencies, I ran "emerge --pretend" on it to see if I

Re: [gentoo-user] [extremly, wildly, obscenely OT] Is there a Linux system without GNU userlands?

2008-08-10 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 b.n. wrote: > Chuck Robey ha scritto: >> You might possibly be missing one of the most basic (in organization) >> differences between any BSD and any Linux is that BSD's are all built and >> packaged with a set of userla

Re: [gentoo-user] [extremly, wildly, obscenely OT] Is there a Linux system without GNU userlands?

2008-08-10 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 b.n. wrote: > Hi, > > I ask it here because I really don't know where to ask it. > > Is there a Linux system somewhere with a *non-GNU* userland? > > I wonder in particular if: > - there are Linux systems using the BSD userlands > - there are Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] upgraded video card, nvidia drivers no longer work

2008-07-26 Thread Chuck Robey
ing to do is to examine the Xorg.0.log file in /var/log. Be careful, for posting that, because it can get large. BUT at this point, it's really the best resource you have, for trooubleshooting. You'll see if you give it a very careful examination. > > > -Original Message

Re: [gentoo-user] upgraded video card, nvidia drivers no longer work

2008-07-26 Thread Chuck Robey
.so. You do not use modprobe to load the X11 driver. Looking at your included xorg.conf, you have nv loaded in X11, not nvidia. Wrong item. > > > -Original Message----- > From: Chuck Robey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sat 7/26/2008 3:03 PM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gen

Re: [gentoo-user] upgraded video card, nvidia drivers no longer work

2008-07-26 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Budd, Tracy wrote: > xorg.conf below. Note that driver changed to nv in order to run X. > If I try to use "nvidia" I get a blank screen and the machine locks. > I checked the Xorg.0.log file and the machine seems to have died before > it wrote anything

Re: [gentoo-user] help!

2008-05-11 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Iliev wrote: > On Sun, 11 May 2008 16:39:25 -0400 > Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> On many other lists, I've already done it be >> identifying one person who could access the lists in questio

Re: [gentoo-user] help!

2008-05-11 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 16:39 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> I used to get my domain frpm OpenSRS until they put a knife in my back, which &g

Re: [gentoo-user] help!

2008-05-11 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 16:39 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> I used to get my domain frpm OpenSRS until they put a knife in my back, which &g

[gentoo-user] help!

2008-05-11 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I used to get my domain frpm OpenSRS until they put a knife in my back, which has resulted in two things: My being completely separated from "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", and instead using "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" (thank you, GoDaddy!). I'm going to see if the BBB

[gentoo-user] epson printers using avasys drivers. anyone?

2008-05-05 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I need a test report from folks running Gentoo (as I do). I was wondering if anyone had tried with any success whatever, the PIPS drivers from http://avasys.jp/hp/menu00900/hpg00859.htm ?? I've been trying (with no success excepting this long

Re: [gentoo-user] format for eix-sync

2008-03-17 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Emil Beinroth wrote: > On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 04:31:11PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: >> I was reading in the eix man page about eix-sync, and it gave about a >> million options, but nowhere did I see if give a useable format for

Re: [gentoo-user] format for eix-sync

2008-03-17 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 17 March 2008, Chuck Robey wrote: >> I was reading in the eix man page about eix-sync, and it gave about a >> million options, but nowhere did I see if give a useable format for >> the options

[gentoo-user] format for eix-sync

2008-03-17 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I was reading in the eix man page about eix-sync, and it gave about a million options, but nowhere did I see if give a useable format for the options, I wanted to have a option line setting but I couldn't tell if it was like PRINT_SLOTS=yes

[gentoo-user] sandbox problems

2008-03-17 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am trying to udate kde-meta (actually, I think it never completely installed, but I'm doing an update now) and it won't get past the very first part, that of kde-base/libkpimidentities-3.5.8, because it gets this error: libsandbox: Can't resolve ge

Re: [gentoo-user] portage problem

2008-03-16 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Saturday 15 March 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 12:13:05 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: >>> I haven't been able to find any syntax to actually use slots, >> In general, you don

Re: [gentoo-user] portage problem

2008-03-16 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:54:52 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: > >> I wasn't even aware of the ask option, > > It is explained in the emerge man page. > >> I think I realize now, that even thou

Re: [gentoo-user] portage problem

2008-03-15 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chuck Robey wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 12:13:05 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: > >>> I haven't been able to find any syntax to actually use slots, >> In general, you don't. Slots are

Re: [gentoo-user] portage problem

2008-03-15 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 12:13:05 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: > >> I haven't been able to find any syntax to actually use slots, > > In general, you don't. Slots are mainly used for libraries and similar

Re: [gentoo-user] portage problem

2008-03-15 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dale wrote: > Chuck Robey wrote: >> Neil Bothwick wrote: >> > On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:58:55 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: >> >> >> * The die message: >> >> * Please reemerge =x11-libs/qt-3* with USE=&q

Re: [gentoo-user] portage problem

2008-03-15 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:58:55 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: > >> * The die message: >> * Please reemerge =x11-libs/qt-3* with USE="opengl". >> >> asks me to rebuild something that doesn&#

Re: [gentoo-user] portage problem

2008-03-15 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:58:55 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: > >> * The die message: >> * Please reemerge =x11-libs/qt-3* with USE="opengl". >> >> asks me to rebuild something that doesn&#

Re: [gentoo-user] portage problem

2008-03-15 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Friday 14 March 2008, Chuck Robey wrote: >> Vladimir Rusinov wrote: > >>> Just add opengl to your use flags and `emerge -v1 =x11-libs/qt-3*` >>> Then, you'll probably need `emerge --updat

Re: [gentoo-user] portage problem

2008-03-14 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vladimir Rusinov wrote: > > > On 3/14/08, *Chuck Robey* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> > wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I am trying to inst

[gentoo-user] portage problem

2008-03-14 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am trying to install kde-meta. I have been fixing my USE variables as I find mistakes, and apprently, from this error I got (while building kde-base/kopete-3.5.8) I was missing the opengl variable while I built a lot of stuff, and it wants me to rebu