[gentoo-user] Apache 2.2: missing KEEPENV (with solution)

Hi, the recent Apache 2.2.6 ebuild brought an /etc/init.d/apache2 that doesn't honour the KEEPENV variable anymore. Formerly one could preserve some of the environment variables (while all others would be unset to keep Apache's environment tidy). To resurrect that KEEPENV variable, I put in /etc

[gentoo-user] Re: MSSQL command line Linux interface

Mauro Faccenda wrote: > I need to do some simple tasks in a MSSQL Server from a Linux that have no X > installed. I know I can tunnel a SSH connection and run any MSSQL in my own > box, but I think it's more practical to have a cli gui for MSSQL, but I > couldn't find one googling for it, so I'

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: auto rename konsole session tabs?

james wrote: > Well when I ssh into a remote system, bash detects this (hostname) > and displays the hostname in the prompt(command line) > automatically. So it is possible, another way to pose the question > is how to transfer this information 'automatically' from bash > to the kde-session-tab-n

[gentoo-user] Re: International locale

Remy Blank wrote: > Peter Ruskin wrote: > > On Tuesday 05 September 2006 13:17, Remy Blank wrote: > >> I couldn't find an > >> english locale that displays the date as dd.mm. (though I > >> didn't look for all too long). > > > > $ date > > Tue Sep 5 14:02:19 BST 2006 > > $ echo $LC_TIME > >

[gentoo-user] Re: soundcards inconsistent

wu chuanwen wrote: > I don't konw why you need two soundcard! I just think that maybe one is > enough.Once before I had two sound cards too,and at that time my gentoo can > not have any sound(maybe not because i had two soundcards but the init > script).Anyway, I just reset my bios,and mask my fi

[gentoo-user] Re: Udevinfo or /sys/ problem in Gentoo

Maarten wrote: > All is cleared up now. Sorry for bothering you. FWIW, you could also run "udevinfo -d" to see all your devices, and use the left side of its output for "udevinfo -a -p". I wonder why the -d switch is not documented neither in "udevinfo -h" nor in the man page. Regards...

[gentoo-user] Re: xine is in glsa-check but doesn't emerge

I wrote: > Hmm. What's up here? If I try to emerge ffmpeg, it happily re-emerges > ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20051216, but if I want to emerge xine-lib, it says that > ~media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20051120 is masked? I figured it out: there is a xine-lib-1.1.1-r3.ebuild in one of the overlays (gentoo.de), and

[gentoo-user] Re: How to activate PC speaker with kernel 2.6.14?

saf wrote: > I can't use my pc speaker, but I know the speaker works because when > booting my PC I hear the check "biip". :-) > > I installed the program beep (emerge beep), but I hear nothing! > I don't get errors. > > Does sombebody knows how to activate the pc speaker? > Is there a kern

[gentoo-user] xine is in glsa-check but doesn't emerge

Hi, xine-lib shows up in glsa-check -t all, so I try to emerge it: root> emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-libs/xine-lib-1.1.1-r3" >>> cfg-update-1.8.0-r3 : No new packages have been emerged, checksum index >>> OK... These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating depe

[gentoo-user] Re: ATI driver, tvout, blue video window

Alan E. Davis wrote: > I have installed gentoo on a gateway laptop, with an ATI mobility 9000 > radeon video adaptor. Once I have xorg installed, and ati-drivers > (proprietary), tvout was pretty easy to set up using ati's setup > utility, fglrxconfig and a couple of easy changes to > /etc/X11/xo

[gentoo-user] Re: mone on the KEYWORD USE front

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This makes you want to use ACCEPT_KEYWORDS on the command line, but > after seeing the reasons for not doing that in recent posts I decided > to follow the suggestions, and not do it. > > So either you must cycle thru enough `emerge -v kde' to find all > packages needin

[gentoo-user] Re: OT - More fun with convert

Michael Sullivan wrote: > I'm trying to turn the background of an image transparent. I issued > > covert image.gif -transparent white image.gif > > and it did convert the areas of the image that were pure white to > transparent, but the problem is that many areas of the background, > although n

[gentoo-user] Re: Wiki Howto: Xorg and Fonts, did I fatally screw up the directions?

Rob wrote: > The first thing I am not certain of is my recompilation of Xorg using > the suggested USE flags. I put the new USE flags in /etc/make.conf and > then issued the command: "emerge -N xorg-x11". Will that work, or do I > have to do the emerge with "emerge --newuse --enable bitmap-f

[gentoo-user] Re: Serial port console debugging

Mark Knecht wrote: >What's a really simple process for checking out whether this is set > up correctly? > > 1) I don't know that the null modem cable is good. I just bought it. You could use minicom to test the cable. Since your gigastudio has two serial ports, you can two minicoms on that m

[gentoo-user] Re: Finding other machines on the network

Uwe Thiem wrote: > On 30 August 2005 15:51, Andrew Lowe wrote: > > I have the situation where I've been loaned an old Sun SPARC box for > > some work. It has a static IP somewhere in the 192.168.0.* range, which > > my home network also is in. My question is, how can I find out the IP > > add

[gentoo-user] Re: Creating new named colors

Holly Bostick wrote: > OK, this is so bizarre, I hardly know how to ask it (which is why I > can't find anything in Google about it, either). > > This is more dock stuff. I'm trying to change the colors on those > dockapps that allow it. These dockapps that allow it are *supposed* to > take hex c

[gentoo-user] Re: Linux comm program

Daniel D Jones wrote: > When I say I need a GUI, I mean I need something with a scroll-back buffer. > I'm a Cisco tech and being able to look at back at output that's scrolled off > the screen is vital. A program like, say, Konsole, would be fine. Then use konsole and ssh/telnet/rlogin. Minic

[gentoo-user] Re: Safe Cflags for Celeron M340 on a FSC Amilo Pro V2010?

Alexander Skwar wrote: > In the coming days, I'll get a Fujitsu Siemens FSC Amilo > Pro v2010 notebook in which a Intel Celeron M340 1,5 GHz, > 400FSB CPU is built into. For this system, I'd like > to setup a "build host" following the > . Quite >

[gentoo-user] Re: PPP Issue

Jamie Dobbs wrote: > After any reboot, when I try to make a PPP connection to my workplace I > get the following error: > > /usr/sbin/pppd: pppd is unable to open the /dev/ppp device. > You need to create the /dev/ppp device node by > executing the following command as root: >mknod /dev/