Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) WARNING: /etc removed from CONFIG_PROTECT portage-2.0.51.20

2005-04-30 Thread Robert G. Hays
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 01:20:37 -0400, Robert G. Hays wrote: 'll put it on the laptop when OOo finally finishes compiling, although r20 will probably be put by then... I'll say it again, *this* is why I only update when there is a *good* reason to. Are two GLSAs on t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: glibc

2005-04-30 Thread Pavel
NO , I meant  that  POSIX and C locales must be in /etc/locales.build not in /etc/env.d/02locale ;)  You should add your_locale to /etc/env.d/02locale Then you will have something similar to this [ ~ ] pavel $ locale LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="ru_RU.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="ru_RU.UTF-8" LC_TIME="r

[gentoo-user] Re: (OT) WARNING: /etc removed from CONFIG_PROTECT portage-2.0.51.20

2005-04-30 Thread Remy Blank
Robert G. Hays wrote: > (Shall I tell you just _how_ many of your sig/tags I have captured? > Keep 'em coming! :D ) (I'm sharing them with others (with attribution), > and they are geting quite a kick out of them!) I agree. I can't help noticing Neil's sigs are much funnier than any other I have

[gentoo-user] unsubscribe

2005-04-30 Thread Christof Binder
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Re: [gentoo-user] displaying only installed packages

2005-04-30 Thread Nick Rout
qpkg -I On Sat, 2005-04-30 at 08:28 +0200, Al Bayrouni wrote: > HELLO all, > > How can I output only packages that are installed on my system. > and not those that aren't. > > example: emerge search kde output really all packages containing the > word kde. It is very hard to read all this just

Re: [gentoo-user] The LiveCD as the workstation

2005-04-30 Thread Nick Rout
On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 17:04 -0700, Grant wrote: > > Keyboard loggers on > > > public computers freak me out, and lugging my laptop around and hoping > > > Internet cafes will let me plug in doesn't sound too great. I may end > > > up doing that though. No big deal. > > > > If keyboard loggers

[gentoo-user] Dell 8100 Buttons???

2005-04-30 Thread timothy johnson
I have been running Gentoo on a Dell 8100 for a while now. I have my volume buttons working, but a couple of updates ago they quit working, wondering if anyone might know about how to fix this? and also one of two updates ago I lost control of my volume from Gnome. yet gkrellm2 and xmms both still

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) WARNING: /etc removed from CONFIG_PROTECT portage-2.0.51.20

2005-04-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 02:56:36 -0400, Robert G. Hays wrote: > Yah, glsa's makes a pretty good reason -- what I was referring to was > the part about the portage stuff getting whanged; wasn't *even* > referring to compile-time! Fair point. But if no one runs the bleeding edge stuff, it will never

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: (OT) WARNING: /etc removed from CONFIG_PROTECT portage-2.0.51.20

2005-04-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 09:24:27 +0200, Remy Blank wrote: > Neil, are you making them up yourself, or do you have a good source? I've spent the last ten years studiously stealing them :) -- Neil Bothwick BASIC: Bill's Attempt to Seize Industry Control pgp4hapRUUvQh.pgp Description: PGP signatur

Re: [gentoo-user] Cups + Samba weird message

2005-04-30 Thread Nick Rout
On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 16:23 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > On 4/29/05, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 15:35 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 07:04:51 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > > > > > Actually, it means that samba depends on cups, and cups d

Re: [gentoo-user] unsubscribe

2005-04-30 Thread Nick Rout
I suggest that you RTFM firstly the unsub instructions are in the headers of every list message. secondly if you cannot do that, go to http://www.gentoo.org, find the "Mailing Lists" page and follow the easy to read instructions! <> On Sat, 2005-04-30 at 09:33 +0200, Christof Binder wrote: > u

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gdm power management

2005-04-30 Thread Sami Samhuri
* On Sat Apr-30-2005 at 02:35:10 AM +, James said: > Mark Knecht gmail.com> writes: [...] > > where do you make a config setting change to get this to work? [...] > > I've got some older Viewsonic E790 19" CRT based monitors. Here's the > relevant section of an xorg file that you could use as

Re: [gentoo-user] displaying only installed packages

2005-04-30 Thread Karsten Baumgarten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Since qpkg is somewhat deprecated and might disappear in the future I'd recommend to use equery (emerge gentoolkit if you don't have that command, gpkg is also (still) part of this package). Usage: equery l In your case this would be something like: eq

[gentoo-user] emerge sync - portage: Update type "slotmove" not recognized. - !!! No profile directory; system mode unavailable.

2005-04-30 Thread Richard Watson
I just tried to emerge sync an install I did off a stage 3 LiveCD I bought during 2004. I'm getting some strange results. Can anyone tell me what the output below is telling me. I tried running fixpackages but that did not fix it. Now when I try and emerge any package portage keeps trying to sync

Re: [gentoo-user] displaying only installed packages

2005-04-30 Thread Al Bayrouni
thank you very much for your answers Bayrouni. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sync - portage: Update type "slotmove" not recognized. - !!! No profile directory; system mode unavailable.

2005-04-30 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Saturday 30 April 2005 17:40, Richard Watson wrote: > I just tried to emerge sync an install I did off a stage 3 LiveCD I bought > during 2004. I'm getting some strange results. Can anyone tell me what the > output below is telling me. I tried running fixpackages but that did not > fix it. Now

[gentoo-user] i8k

2005-04-30 Thread timothy johnson
when I run /etc/init.d/i8k start this is what I get * The i8k driver is not installed -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] resolution from command line

2005-04-30 Thread Panos Laganakos
Tom Martin wrote: Try 'resize' with no arguments. Hope that helps, Tom Martin, i tried 'resize' with no arguments, but what i get is the number of columns and rows. What i'm looking for is something that can tell me that the 'video=vesafb:ypan,[EMAIL PROTECTED]' argument i pass to grub's 'kernel

[gentoo-user] fetchmail+procmail+mutt and gentoo maillists

2005-04-30 Thread Pavel
Hello, I`ve subscribed to gentoo mailists , but can only read through Gmail Web Interface . I followed Offical Gentoo Mail guide , but no luck Here is my .fetchmailrc set logfile /var/log/fetchmail poll pop.gmail.com  proto pop3 port 995 user xxx with pass xxx to pavel here ssl When I try to

Re: [gentoo-user] resolution from command line

2005-04-30 Thread slarti
On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 12:07:57PM +0300, Panos Laganakos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What i'm looking for is something that can tell me that the > 'video=vesafb:ypan,[EMAIL PROTECTED]' argument i pass to grub's 'kernel' > command, is actually applied (from what i see, it ain't, i just wanna >

Re: [gentoo-user] fetchmail+procmail+mutt and gentoo maillists

2005-04-30 Thread slarti
It seems as though one extremely large mail is causing you to run into bug 85339. Solution: use getmail instead :) Regards, Tom -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, recruiters, vim Gentoo Linux pgpKODneiO7pk.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] NTFS data recovery wit liveCD?

2005-04-30 Thread Stuart Howard
I have a machine with some critical data on it that I need to recover from a winXP installation that has gone bad. Can someone suggest a procedure I could use to acheive this using a Gentoo liveCD? Machine to recover from :- WinXP 1 partition NTFS with a network card [nb. SATA HDD] Machine's I ne

RE: [gentoo-user] emerge sync - portage: Update type "slotmove" not recognized. - !!! No profile directory; system mode unavailable.

2005-04-30 Thread Richard Watson
In either case, relink /etc/make.profile to /usr/portage/profiles/default-x86-2004.2. Then ignore the deprecation notice and above slotmove error until you've upgraded portage to 2.0.51. Regards, Jason Stubbs Hi Jason - thanks. I did what you suggested and it sort of fixed the problem. However

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sync - portage: Update type "slotmove" not recognized. - !!! No profile directory; system mode unavailable.

2005-04-30 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Saturday 30 April 2005 22:18, Richard Watson wrote: > Failed to write to mtimedb: 'module' object has no attribute > 'HIGHEST_PROTOCOL' That would be due to running python-2.2. Although, the portage-2.0.51.19 ebuild is meant to detect the use of python-2.2 and patch accordingly. Perhaps you h

Re: [gentoo-user] The LiveCD as the workstation

2005-04-30 Thread Grant
> > > Keyboard loggers on > > > > public computers freak me out, and lugging my laptop around and hoping > > > > Internet cafes will let me plug in doesn't sound too great. I may end > > > > up doing that though. No big deal. > > > > > > If keyboard loggers are your only problem, google for usa

[gentoo-user] Replacements

2005-04-30 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Hi, I'm looking for replacements for: mailx/mail; for a machine without a MTA and that can send mail with attachments via a smpt server on the network. gaim; for a machine without gnome/kde only fluxbox. TIA Patrick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacements

2005-04-30 Thread slarti
On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 04:46:17PM +0200, Patrick Marquetecken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for replacements for: > mailx/mail; for a machine without a MTA and that can send mail with > attachments via a smpt server on the network. Use mailx/mail/nail with msmtp. It will eith

Re: [gentoo-user] Dell 8100 Buttons???

2005-04-30 Thread Kiawud
On 4/30/05, timothy johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been running Gentoo on a Dell 8100 for a while now. I have my > volume buttons working, but a couple of updates ago they quit working, > wondering if anyone might know about how to fix this? and also one of > two updates ago I lost con

Re: [gentoo-user] what's the deal with use flags in (brackets)?

2005-04-30 Thread Kiawud
On 4/29/05, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 16:54:57 + Calvin Spealman > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | i dont understand whats going on here. I thought those flags enabled > | the use of extended sets of the x86 instruction set, and amd64 chips > | are in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome 2.10 & bluetooth

2005-04-30 Thread Jonathan Wright
regatta wrote: Hi I have just installed Gnome 2.10 (in Gentoo box) and before that I was using Gnome 2.8 and I was able to right click in any file and send it via bluetooth , but now I don't see the item "send via bluetooth" anymore is this a problem in my installation or it's not exist any more in

Re: [gentoo-user] rc-update net.wlan0?

2005-04-30 Thread Mark Knecht
On 4/29/05, Robert G. Hays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark, > > Sorry long delay -- slighly busy lately! > > Since I was only kinda-halfway watching this thread, and have forgotten > several details, if you still need this help, could you please briefly > summarize your before setting & results

[gentoo-user] Is there an app/lib can do voice comparation?

2005-04-30 Thread Qiangning Hong
Is there an existing software (perhaps an education software) can do the following function? The student reads aloud a piece of text to the microphone. The software records the voice and compare it to the wave file pre-recorded by the teacher, and gives out a score to indicate the similarity betw

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage still seeing non-existant version 5's of packages

2005-04-30 Thread Calvin Spealman
I have one, but I only use it on specific occasions, when I want to install something that isn't in portage already. The enviroment variable is never set except explicitly per emerge when I need it.On 4/29/05, Brett I. Holcomb <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:Do you have a portage overlay?>> From: Calvin

Re: [gentoo-user] what's the deal with use flags in (brackets)?

2005-04-30 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 10:27:15 -0600 Kiawud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I thought that if you 'cat /proc/cpuinfo' it'll show you the flags | that are compatible with your cpu. Is that not accurate for the amd64 | chip? Uh huh, but those flags don't correspond to the USE flags. -- Ciaran McCreesh

Re: [gentoo-user] what's the deal with use flags in (brackets)?

2005-04-30 Thread Keith Gable
What they're saying is that SSE/SSE2/MMX and so on are automatically applied without the flags. The flags are only there because not every x86 chip supports SSE, SSE2, and so on. On AMD64, the flags are ignored and it's compiled with any of those processor optimizations that it knowingly supports.

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome config

2005-04-30 Thread Adi
Vineri 29 Aprilie 2005 02:28, Spider a scris: > On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 02:25 +0300, Adi wrote: > > Hi. > > Well I decided to try the new gnome 2.10, after previous dissapointments > > and uninstallations so I painfully unmasked and unkeyworded (?) each > > dependancy by hand just to find out when st

[gentoo-user] gnome woes

2005-04-30 Thread Adi
Hi. Installing gnome reminds me of trying to get my ati video card to work right: 1) I installed gnome and got it working, but when I tried to go back into KDE I noticed it really messed up the KDE menu. Not only did it add the gnome entries (good), it also moved some entries around (bad) and rem

[gentoo-user] software prototype

2005-04-30 Thread José Moreira
Hello, i've been thinking about a new software and i would like the opinion from the community about it's viability. It's not directly related to Gentoo but OSS in general. The name i believe would describe it the best is 'helpforge' the sameway it exists 'howtoforge' and 'sourceforge'. The

Re: [gentoo-user] resolution from command line

2005-04-30 Thread Richard Fish
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 12:07:57PM +0300, Panos Laganakos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: > > >>What i'm looking for is something that can tell me that the >>'video=vesafb:ypan,[EMAIL PROTECTED]' argument i pass to grub's 'kernel' >>command, is actually applied (from w

[gentoo-user] compaq 2500 no /dev/dsp

2005-04-30 Thread Antoine
Hi, Can anyone give me any hints on what to do to get sound going on this thing? I have no idea what module to look for but have seen some mention of conexant... It ran out of the box when i installed suse... Any help much appreciated Antoine -- G System, The Evolving GUniverse - http://www.g-sys

Re: [gentoo-user] what's the deal with use flags in (brackets)?

2005-04-30 Thread Calvin Spealman
I hate to drag this out, but I'm still missing something and I hate to not understand something. Are the things that are automatically enabled for compilation different than the things the USE flags enable? If these things are automatic, then why have the flags at all?On 4/30/05, Keith Gable <[EMA

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with media-libs/libsdl-1.2.8-r1

2005-04-30 Thread Vittorio
Alle 17:23, venerdì 29 aprile 2005, darren kirby ha scritto: > quoth the Vittorio: > > Alle 22:02, giovedì 28 aprile 2005, darren kirby ha scritto: > > > quoth the Vittorio: > > > > > > > > > > What should I do? > > > > > > > > Vittorio > > > > > > Turn off distcc and try again. I have found that

Re: [gentoo-user] resolution from command line

2005-04-30 Thread Sami Samhuri
* On Sat Apr-30-2005 at 12:03:37 PM -0700, Richard Fish said: [...] > The command you are looking for is "fbresolution". Which package provides this program? I cannot find it on my system. :( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ % fbresolution zsh: command not found: fbresolution -127- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ % which

[gentoo-user] cx88xx error

2005-04-30 Thread Al Bayrouni
Hello all, I compiled the kernel-2.6.11-r6 with videoforlinux support and conexant 2388xx support. When I modprobe cx88xx I have this error: FATAL: Error inserting cx88xx (/lib/modules/2.6.11-gentoo-r6/kernel/drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88xx.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see d

Re: [gentoo-user] what's the deal with use flags in (brackets)?

2005-04-30 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 19:29:36 + Calvin Spealman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Are the things that are automatically enabled for compilation | different than the things the USE flags enable? | If these things are automatic, then why have the flags at all? The flags are relevant for x86. They are

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with media-libs/libsdl-1.2.8-r1

2005-04-30 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Vittorio: > I modified the ebuild file as suggested in the bug report but when I > > bash-2.05b# emerge -uDn world > Calculating world dependencies ...done! > > >>> emerge (1 of 14) media-libs/libsdl-1.2.8-r1 to / > >>> md5 files ;-) libsdl-1.2.6-r3.ebuild > > !!! Digest verification F

Re: [gentoo-user] compaq 2500 no /dev/dsp

2005-04-30 Thread Phil Sexton
On Sat, 2005-04-30 at 15:07, Antoine wrote: > Hi, > Can anyone give me any hints on what to do to get sound going on this > thing? I have no idea what module to look for but have seen some > mention of conexant... It ran out of the box when i installed suse... > Any help much appreciated > Antoine

[gentoo-user] Partition recovery software

2005-04-30 Thread e150
Hi all: I've lost one of my ext3 partitions. ¿is there a good partition recovery software available for gentoo? Thanks in advance. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] NTFS data recovery wit liveCD?

2005-04-30 Thread Adi
Sîmbătă 30 Aprilie 2005 14:19, Stuart Howard a scris: > I have a machine with some critical data on it that I need to recover > from a winXP installation that has gone bad. Can someone suggest a > procedure I could use to acheive this using a Gentoo liveCD? > > Machine to recover from :- > WinXP 1

[gentoo-user] Firewire success - SA 3250

2005-04-30 Thread Michael Haan
I've been trying to capture HD over firewire from my SA 3250 using test-mpeg2 for a few days now. Looks like it's finally working!! Now I'd like to take the next step. My specs: AMD64, Gentoo(2.6.9-r14), nVidia 6600GT a) I want to try changing channels with 6200ch. Unfortunately I didn't have

[gentoo-user] Re: [mythtv-users] Firewire success - SA 3250

2005-04-30 Thread Mark Knecht
On 4/30/05, Michael Haan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > c) I subscribe to HBO, but HBO doesn't seem to come over 1394. Is > that in accordance with the FCC, or does Comcast owe me that via 1394 > as well? Legally I think it will depend on whether the 1394 client correctly follows the 5C Digital En

[gentoo-user] Re: [mythtv-users] Firewire success - SA 3250

2005-04-30 Thread Michael Haan
On 4/30/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/30/05, Michael Haan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > c) I subscribe to HBO, but HBO doesn't seem to come over 1394. Is > > that in accordance with the FCC, or does Comcast owe me that via 1394 > > as well? > > Legally I think it will depe

[gentoo-user] libgnome wants to install sound

2005-04-30 Thread Philip Webb
does anyone know why Libgnome-2.8.1 lists as dependencies media-libs/audiofile-0.2.6-r1 media-sound/alsa-headers-1.0.8 media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.8 media-sound/esound-0.2.34 the USE flags for Libgnome were '-debug -doc'. i emerged it successfully with '--nodeps'. i have no sound card & no

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with media-libs/libsdl-1.2.8-r1

2005-04-30 Thread Jason Cooper
darren kirby ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > quoth the Vittorio: > > > I modified the ebuild file as suggested in the bug report but when I > > > > bash-2.05b# emerge -uDn world > > Calculating world dependencies ...done! > > > > >>> emerge (1 of 14) media-libs/libsdl-1.2.8-r1 to / > > >>> md5 fi

Re: [gentoo-user] resolution from command line

2005-04-30 Thread Greg Donald
On 4/30/05, Sami Samhuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The command you are looking for is "fbresolution". > > Which package provides this program? I cannot find it on my system. :( Google makes me think it's in bootsplash. -- Greg Donald Zend Certified Engineer http://destiney.com/ -- gento

Re: [gentoo-user] rc-update net.wlan0?

2005-04-30 Thread Scott Jones
On 4/30/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 4/29/05, Robert G. Hays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> Mark,>> Sorry long delay -- slighly busy lately!>> Since I was only kinda-halfway watching this thread, and have forgotten > several details, if you still need this help, could you please brief

[gentoo-user] Alsa doesn't see Yamaha 724-F sound card

2005-04-30 Thread Walter Dnes
Having used Gentoo for a few months, I decided to reformat my "hot-backup" machine and start from scratch, enable IPV6, etc. The kernel banners as "(Linux i686 2.6.11-gentoo-r6)" at the login prompt. lspci does see my sound card... :02:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Yamaha Corporation YM

[gentoo-user] No sound: ALSA and software suspend2

2005-04-30 Thread Gabriel M. Beddingfield
I recently upgraded my kernel from 2.6.9-gentoo-r13 to 2.6.11-suspend2. I wanted to get software suspend v2 working. (I'm using a laptop, and boot / shutdown is just taking forever.) I seem to have most everything worked out except this: When I boot, I can't get the soundcard to make any noise

[gentoo-user] "equery which" gives wrong version?

2005-04-30 Thread Nick Rout
equery which packagename is meant to give you the full path and name of the ebuild file for the version of packagename that portage would install. however on my system it gives the latest unstable version, at least of mythtv. viz: [EMAIL PROTECTED] nick $ eix ^mythtv$ * media-tv/mythtv Avai

[gentoo-user] "error exiting GDM" on system halt

2005-04-30 Thread Richard Watson
Hi - I get "error exiting GDM" when shutting down my computer. I have xdm running at default level with the display manager set to gdm. Anyone any ideas. It's not a serious matter but it would be nice to know. Regards, Richard -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Vi

RE: [gentoo-user] emerge sync - portage: Update type "slotmove" not recognized. - !!! No profile directory; system mode unavailable.

2005-04-30 Thread Richard Watson
On Saturday 30 April 2005 22:18, Richard Watson wrote: > Failed to write to mtimedb: 'module' object has no attribute > 'HIGHEST_PROTOCOL' That would be due to running python-2.2. Although, the portage-2.0.51.19 ebuild is meant to detect the use of python-2.2 and patch accordingly. Perhaps you h