[gentoo-user] Emerge Amarok

2005-06-29 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
I recently switched to the KDE 3.4 split ebuilds but when I tried to emerge Amarok, it wnated to pull in several 3.3 packages: == These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] Configuring Engage

2005-06-29 Thread Bertrand Jacquin
Hi, Have a look to : http://get-e.org/User_Guide/English/pages/4.2.html ++ Beber On 6/29/05, Ian K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > Two things: > > 1. Is there another GNOME suitable parabolic zooming dock, like kxdocker > but for gnome? > If you can only think of Engage, please mov

Re: [gentoo-user] Configuring Engage

2005-06-29 Thread Ian K
Bertrand Jacquin wrote: >Hi, > >Have a look to : http://get-e.org/User_Guide/English/pages/4.2.html > >++ >Beber > >On 6/29/05, Ian K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Hi there, >>Two things: >> >>1. Is there another GNOME suitable parabolic zooming dock, like kxdocker >>but for gnome? >>If y

Re: [gentoo-user] Configuring Engage

2005-06-29 Thread Ian K
Ian K wrote: >Bertrand Jacquin wrote: > > > >>Hi, >> >>Have a look to : http://get-e.org/User_Guide/English/pages/4.2.html >> >>++ >>Beber >> >>On 6/29/05, Ian K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> >> >>>Hi there, >>>Two things: >>> >>>1. Is there another GNOME suitable parabolic zooming do

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk Backup From One Machine To Another

2005-06-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, June 29, 2005 5:08 am, Ow Mun Heng said: >> I do, however, intend to test rdiff-backup later. ;) > > Well.. there is more than one way to skin the cat eh. > > I still think you should take a look at rsync. rdiff-backup uses librsync, so it only transfers the minimum necessary. Unlike rsy

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk Backup From One Machine To Another

2005-06-29 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 09:24 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, June 29, 2005 5:08 am, Ow Mun Heng said: > > >> I do, however, intend to test rdiff-backup later. ;) > > > > Well.. there is more than one way to skin the cat eh. > > > > I still think you should take a look at rsync. > > rdiff-bac

D600 Was [Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Dell Latitude D610]

2005-06-29 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 02:52 -0400, Willie Wong wrote: > I have Gentoo 2004.3 running on a D600, with ipw2200 maturing over > the past year and several packages becoming available in the portage > tree (broadcom's bcm5700 for one), it has only gotten easier. > Do you have TVout working on yours?

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 http://www.ge

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk Backup From One Machine To Another

2005-06-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 16:43:44 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > Unlike rsync, it allows you to easily roll back to an older version of > > file. Very useful when you realise you have screwed your configs just > > after a backup run. > > BTW, librsync = rsync protocol/algo? Same thing? > > Please expl

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk Backup From One Machine To Another

2005-06-29 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 10:16 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 16:43:44 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > > > Unlike rsync, it allows you to easily roll back to an older version of > > > file. Very useful when you realise you have screwed your configs just > > > after a backup run. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] xdirectfb on 2005 - no binary after compilation - any tips to get xdirectfb working

2005-06-29 Thread Steve B
On 6/29/05, anthony hornby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I have a Matrox G550 dual head graphics card and I want to have DirectFB > running on one head for VDR output http://www.cadsoft.de/vdr/ using > softdevice, and the other head running XDirectFB so I have a local > graphical desktop. > >

[gentoo-user] vsftp .vs. ftpbase WTF??

2005-06-29 Thread Stoian Ivanov
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # emerge -auD world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [blocks B ]

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge Amarok

2005-06-29 Thread Zac Medico
Anthony E. Caudel wrote: > I recently switched to the KDE 3.4 split ebuilds but when I tried to > emerge Amarok, it wnated to pull in several 3.3 packages: > > == > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > Cal

Re: [gentoo-user] vsftp .vs. ftpbase WTF??

2005-06-29 Thread Zac Medico
Stoian Ivanov wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # emerge -auD world > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > Calculating world dependencies ...done! > [blocks B ] [ebuild N] net-ftp/ftpbase-0.00 > [ebuild U ] net-ftp/vsftpd-2.0.3-r1 [2.0.3] > > !!! Error: The above p

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk Backup From One Machine To Another

2005-06-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 17:45:52 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > rdiff-backup --restore-as-of 1D12h /backup/path/to/file > > > > will restore file to the version you used 36 hours ago. > > Wow.. That does seem interesting. (I presume this is if you do a backup > every 12 hours?) You can do the backup

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice2.0 Install [not solved :( ]

2005-06-29 Thread Holly Bostick
Ian K schreef: > Zac Medico wrote: > > >>Ian K wrote: >> >> >> >>>Hey Everyone, >>>I really want the OO.org 2.0 beta, but its not in portage >> >>http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=app-office;name=openoffice-bin >> >>The latest beta is in the portage tree but it's keyword masked. >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk Backup From One Machine To Another

2005-06-29 Thread Bill Roberts
I used to use rdiff-backup, I found it very satisfactory. But at one point I had a hard drive melt down, tried to do restore, mucked it up, ended up doing a full rebuild, pulling in configuration info from the backup files. There has to an easier way. Any suggestions on using rdiff-backup for a c

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge Amarok

2005-06-29 Thread Holly Bostick
Anthony E. Caudel schreef: > I recently switched to the KDE 3.4 split ebuilds but when I tried to > emerge Amarok, it wnated to pull in several 3.3 packages: > > == > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > C

Re: [gentoo-user] vsftp .vs. ftpbase WTF??

2005-06-29 Thread Holly Bostick
Stoian Ivanov schreef: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # emerge -auD world > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > Calculating world dependencies ...done! > [blocks B ] [ebuild N] net-ftp/ftpbase-0.00 > [ebuild U ] net-ftp/vsftpd-2.0.3-r1 [2.0.3] > > !!! Error: The above

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk Backup From One Machine To Another

2005-06-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 07:34:16 -0400, Bill Roberts wrote: > I used to use rdiff-backup, I found it very satisfactory. But at one > point I had a hard drive melt down, tried to do restore, mucked it up, > ended up doing a full rebuild, pulling in configuration info from the > backup files. There has

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice2.0 Install [not solved :( ]

2005-06-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 23:24:46 +, Ian K wrote: > Im getting a problem though.. After I enter in your command, > I did an emerge search to get the size of the download, but it > says the latest version is still 1.1.4, and I just did an emerge sync > a few hours ago... Any ideas? OOo 2.0 is packa

[gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild questions...

2005-06-29 Thread Dave Nebinger
I updated world yesterday which gave me a new com_err release. Saw the notice about running revdep-rebuild fly by when I did it but ignored it because I've never really needed to do this before. Soon thereafter I could not ssh to the box because of the missing libcom_err.so.3 file and realized th

Re: [gentoo-user] kde path is missing

2005-06-29 Thread Jan Callewaert
Op dinsdag 28 juni 2005 23:45, schreef Zac Medico: > > Do you guys have USE="-arts" by any chance? > > $ equery belongs /etc/env.d/46kdepaths-3.4 > kde-base/arts-3.4.1-r2 > > $ cat /etc/env.d/46kdepaths-3.4 > PATH=/usr/kde/3.4/bin > ROOTPATH=/usr/kde/3.4/sbin:/usr/kde/3.4/bin > LDPATH=/usr/kde/3.4

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Portable Music Player

2005-06-29 Thread Matthias Schweinoch
Hi Boyd, > > negative: NO SUPPORT FOR OGG!!! > > > Well, doesn't help me (see above) but hopefully someone else reading the > thread can use your review / recommendation. I just bought myself an HD 300 from MPIO. You can check out the device at www.mpio.com. It's recognized as an external usb

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild questions...

2005-06-29 Thread Rafael Fernández López
El Miércoles 29 Junio 2005 14:32, Dave Nebinger escribió: > I updated world yesterday which gave me a new com_err release. Saw the > notice about running revdep-rebuild fly by when I did it but ignored it > because I've never really needed to do this before. > > Soon thereafter I could not ssh to

Re: [gentoo-user] No Sound!!!

2005-06-29 Thread Holly Bostick
Michael Sullivan schreef: > I'm still working to get my recently reinstalled Gentoo system up to its > former glory. I cannot get my sound to work though. I'm following (or > rather trying to) the Gentoo Alsa Guide > (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml) . It says to run lspci to > find

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild questions...

2005-06-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 08:32:14 -0400, Dave Nebinger wrote: > I'm thinking about building a cron script to run early in the morning > and, if a recent emerge has taken place, run revdep-rebuild > automatically. Does this sound like a good idea or not? I'd be a little wary about running it automatic

Re: [gentoo-user] xdirectfb on 2005 - no binary after compilation - any tips to get xdirectfb working

2005-06-29 Thread Matthew Cline
> On 6/29/05, anthony hornby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anyone have any tips on getting XdirectFB working on gentoo 2005? There's also a lengthy post in the forums about it: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-34174-highlight-xdirectfb.html One post mentions that this might be a gcc-3.4 iss

Re: [gentoo-user] vsftp .vs. ftpbase WTF??

2005-06-29 Thread Ron Bickers
On Wed June 29 2005 05:58 am, Stoian Ivanov wrote: > Calculating world dependencies ...done! > [blocks B ] net-ftp/ftpbase-0.00) [ebuild N] net-ftp/ftpbase-0.00 > [ebuild U ] net-ftp/vsftpd-2.0.3-r1 [2.0.3] > So the answer is "Den't emerge until things are sorted out (ftpbase-0.01 >

[gentoo-user] Another question on mailing cron-job output

2005-06-29 Thread Holly Bostick
Hey, list, You may remember me asking previously about how to get cron to mail me the output of esync, which is working fine so fine, in fact, that I think I'll take Neil's recent suggestion of putting revdep-rebuild -p in cron.weekly and having that output mailed to me as well. So atm, my cr

[gentoo-user] Preventing installation of evolution and others

2005-06-29 Thread Bruno Lustosa
How can I make sure that when I upgrade, packages like evolution and epiphany (along with mozilla) won't get installed? Is there a (clean) way to prevent them from being installed? They seem to be tied to gnome, but as I don't use them, I have no need to waste time compiling any of them. -- Bruno

Re: [gentoo-user] Another question on mailing cron-job output

2005-06-29 Thread z3rosix
hello, On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 03:42:08PM +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > Hey, list, > Alternatively, since the output cron jobs are being mailed via a mail -s > command in the scripts themselves, can I/should I just put a dummy user > in cron's 'normal' mailto slot, so that the "other" mail essen

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing installation of evolution and others

2005-06-29 Thread z3rosix
hello, On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 10:54:24AM -0300, Bruno Lustosa wrote: > How can I make sure that when I upgrade, packages like evolution and > epiphany (along with mozilla) won't get installed? Is there a (clean) > way to prevent them from being installed? > They seem to be tied to gnome, but as I

[gentoo-user] Re: Preventing installation of evolution and others

2005-06-29 Thread Bruno Lustosa
On 6/29/05, Bruno Lustosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can I make sure that when I upgrade, packages like evolution and > epiphany (along with mozilla) won't get installed? Is there a (clean) > way to prevent them from being installed? > They seem to be tied to gnome, but as I don't use them, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing installation of evolution and others

2005-06-29 Thread Bruno Lustosa
On 6/29/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > have a look at -> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Use_Portage_Correctly > under "Maintaining Packages" they describe how to unmask a package using > /etc/portage/package.unmask > the same is possible with /etc/portage/package.mask where u can

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing installation of evolution and others

2005-06-29 Thread Holly Bostick
Bruno Lustosa schreef: > How can I make sure that when I upgrade, packages like evolution and > epiphany (along with mozilla) won't get installed? Is there a (clean) > way to prevent them from being installed? > They seem to be tied to gnome, but as I don't use them, I have no need > to waste time

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing installation of evolution and others

2005-06-29 Thread Bruno Lustosa
On 6/29/05, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I take it you emerged the gnome meta-package (emerge gnome), which > requires evo, epiphany and mozilla (among others), rather than > gnome-light, which does not. Yes, I have done that. Portage won't install them now. Unmerged totem and its gs

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing installation of evolution and others

2005-06-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 11:29:58 -0300, Bruno Lustosa wrote: > Yes, I know about that. What I want is a way to ignore dependencies > the same way I ignore updates using package.mask and package.unmask. > For example, the gnome meta-package depends on evolution and epiphany, > though none of them are a

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke--update

2005-06-29 Thread maxim wexler
--- "A. Khattri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, maxim wexler wrote: > > > So there must be a problem w/ > > the Asus K8N-E(Sempron box) BIOS. I updated it > using > > the tool that came w/ the support CD but it only > made > > matters worse: > > Did you download the latest B

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing installation of evolution and others

2005-06-29 Thread Tero Grundström
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: That's it. The only major applications that I can think of that are installed by gnome and not by gnome-light which would remain on the system as orphans are Totem (and it's gstreamer or xine dependencies), and possibly beagle, if that's installed. If y

Re: [gentoo-user] Another question on mailing cron-job output

2005-06-29 Thread Holly Bostick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: > hello, > > On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 03:42:08PM +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > >>Hey, list, > > > >>Alternatively, since the output cron jobs are being mailed via a mail -s >>command in the scripts themselves, can I/should I just put a dummy user >>in cron's 'normal'

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild questions...

2005-06-29 Thread Paul Varner
On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 08:32 -0400, Dave Nebinger wrote: > So revdep-rebuild is currently running on the box but I'm wondering how > often the revdep-rebuild needs to be run... > > Any suggestions from you folks out there in gentoo land? > > I'm thinking about building a cron script to run early i

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing installation of evolution and others

2005-06-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 18:27:21 +0300 (EEST), Tero Grundström wrote: > > If you want to keep them, you can re-emerge them alone, so they will > > be put in your world file, and thus normally updateable. > > Faster way: > > echo category/package >> /var/lib/portage/world or emerge -n package --

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing installation of evolution and others

2005-06-29 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/29/05, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 18:27:21 +0300 (EEST), Tero Grundström wrote: > > > > If you want to keep them, you can re-emerge them alone, so they will > > > be put in your world file, and thus normally updateable. > > > > Faster way: > > > > echo cate

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing installation of evolution and others

2005-06-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 08:52:49 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > -n is cool but I think the interestign question is whether there would > be value in emerge being able to do something like "emerge gnome but > leave out Evolution". To get what I wanted here I've emerged > gnome-light and then added about 5

[gentoo-user] Alsa stops working after 'emerge -uD world'

2005-06-29 Thread cothrige
I just finished running 'emerge -uD world' and everything seemed to go okay. At least in the end it seemed to. I did have some troubles with spamassassin and a couple of other strange dependencies which were not dealt with automatically, but google and archives of such lists as this helped in tho

Re: [gentoo-user] Another question on mailing cron-job output

2005-06-29 Thread Myk Taylor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This sounds perfectly reasonable. cron mails you and output the command sends to stdout, so yes, redirecting its output to a file would also prevent cron's email. the crontab lines would look something like: 0 * * * * command > /dev/null && echo "co

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild questions...

2005-06-29 Thread Eugene Rosenzweig
Paul Varner wrote: On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 08:32 -0400, Dave Nebinger wrote: So revdep-rebuild is currently running on the box but I'm wondering how often the revdep-rebuild needs to be run... Any suggestions from you folks out there in gentoo land? I'm thinking about building a cron script

[gentoo-user] Simple question DVD

2005-06-29 Thread B.S
Ok so here is my Problem. I install my gentoo box with a stage3. Installing system with a "CDburner/dvdreader" drive. Down the road i decide to put in a DVD-Burner. Swaping the physical drives out with out changing any thing. My question is can i change the entry in the fstab and symbolic links

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing installation of evolution and others

2005-06-29 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/29/05, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 08:52:49 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > -n is cool but I think the interestign question is whether there would > > be value in emerge being able to do something like "emerge gnome but > > leave out Evolution". To get what

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing installation of evolution and others

2005-06-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 09:50:24 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > Copy the gnome ebuild to something like mygnome and remove the > > unwanted dependencies. > Right. I've resisted that option as I don't want to be an ebuild > maintainer of any sort. It's not really an ebuild, a meta ebuild is just a li

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing installation of evolution and others

2005-06-29 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/29/05, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 09:50:24 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > Being a user type I think it's better for me to > > just use gnome-light and add what I want when I think I need it. > > The question was how to avoid doing that. A custom meta ebu

[gentoo-user] PCI-PCI bridge /proc/bus/pci data question

2005-06-29 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, What puts data into /proc/bus/pci? We're looking at a little issue this morning with my PVR devices in a Gentoo machine. In this machine we see that the PCI config space is correctly setup following a cold boot, but is set up incorrectly after a warm boot. Note that these devices are be

Re: [gentoo-user] Connect to a remote server with a modem

2005-06-29 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Patrick Marquetecken wrote: > Hi, > > I going to maintain a Gentoo server in another country, normal i'm going > to connect with the internet, but if something is wrong i'm thinking to > connect a modem to the machine. > What do i need of software so i can connect with a another machine to this >

Re: [gentoo-user] Connect to a remote server with a modem

2005-06-29 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Norbert Kamenicky wrote: > next notify "init" process about changes: > # init q Or: # telinit q -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] KDE font size

2005-06-29 Thread Martins Steinbergs
hi i'm curious, every other time i boot, GDM and KDE are with bigger fonts. what part is responsible for it? Xorg.0.log has only this: Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/, removing from list! SetClientVersion: 0 8 Martins -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke--update

2005-06-29 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, maxim wexler wrote: > > I imagine any CD included with a motherboard is old > > before it hits the > > shelves... > > So what? The "tool" will still work. Kindly read what > I wrote! I *did* read what you wrote. My point was if there was an update on the CD it would be old.

Re: [gentoo-user] konsole font

2005-06-29 Thread q-parser
Philip Webb wrote: 050628 q-parser wrote: I've emerged kde-3.4.1 recently & the font in Konsole is different. How do I set it back to normal ? First try the Konsole 'settings' menu -> 'font' -> 'custom', then try selecting 'Fixed (gnu) regular 13'. That might help. Yes, that's i

[gentoo-user] Re: OpenOffice2.0 Install

2005-06-29 Thread James
Rumen Yotov dir.bg> writes: > openoffice-bin-1.9.109 is in portage only being in testing (~x86). > To emerge it do: #echo "app-office/openoffice-bin ~x86" >> > /etc/portage/package.keywords. > Then 'emerge openoffice-bin -av' to emerge it. Haven't checked if it's > in rpm-format. I have: app-of

Re: [gentoo-user] Alsa stops working after 'emerge -uD world'

2005-06-29 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
cothrige wrote: > I just finished running 'emerge -uD world' and everything seemed to go > okay. At least in the end it seemed to. I did have some troubles > with spamassassin and a couple of other strange dependencies which > were not dealt with automatically, but google and archives of such > l

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple question DVD

2005-06-29 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
B.S wrote: > Ok so here is my Problem. I install my gentoo box with a stage3. > Installing system with a "CDburner/dvdreader" drive. Down the road i > decide to put in a DVD-Burner. Swaping the physical drives out with out > changing any thing. My question is can i change the entry in the fstab

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke--update

2005-06-29 Thread Richard Fish
maxim wexler wrote: >>Maxim, if you want the system to boot from the hard >>disk, I really think >>you have no choice but to repartition and re-install >>the system, with >>boot as the first partition. >> >> > >On the Sempron there are two HDs, the 120G, pri-mast >and a 3.5G(fat32) as a pri-

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke--update

2005-06-29 Thread maxim wexler
> that before jumping on people trying to help. > Smart Alec! "Help" my eye! __ Yahoo! Mail Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour: http://tour.mail.yahoo.com/mailtour.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Ati Linux Proprietary Driver

2005-06-29 Thread ««Omega21»»
--- Benjamin Fritzsche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 28 January 2005 03:19, Rui Silva wrote: > > hello ppl > > > > i'm thinking on buying a new notebook computer. > > > > the model i'm interested has a ATI 9700 128Mb > graphic card. R300 based > > > > How are the drivers for this graphic

Re: [gentoo-user] Ati Linux Proprietary Driver

2005-06-29 Thread Rafael Fernández López
El Jueves 30 Junio 2005 00:20, XXOmega21XX escribió: > --- Benjamin Fritzsche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday 28 January 2005 03:19, Rui Silva wrote: > > > hello ppl > > > > > > i'm thinking on buying a new notebook computer. > > > > > > the model i'm interested has a ATI 9700 128Mb > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OpenOffice2.0 Install

2005-06-29 Thread Zac Medico
James wrote: > I have: > > app-office/openoffice > Latest version available: 1.1.4-r1 > Latest version installed: 1.1.4-r1 > > So if I do this will I have both 1.1.4 (which is currently installed) and > 1.9.109 or just the later? > > What I'm concerned with is that I may need both. I

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE font size

2005-06-29 Thread Zac Medico
Martins Steinbergs wrote: > hi > > i'm curious, every other time i boot, GDM and KDE are with bigger fonts. what > part is responsible for it? Xorg.0.log has only this: > Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/, removing > from list! > SetClientVersion: 0 8 > > > Marti

Re: [gentoo-user] No Sound!!!

2005-06-29 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
Michael Sullivan wrote: On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 21:04 -0700, Peter Gordon wrote: Did you remember to add ALSA_CARDS="ens1371" to your /etc/make.conf and emerge alsa-driver? (You'll need to make sure that your /usr/src/linux symlink is correct.) I attempted (several times) to emerge alsa-driver

[gentoo-user] emerge -auDv world question

2005-06-29 Thread John J. Foster
Good evening, This evening I ran across something I have have not seen in my long experience with Gentoo (about 2 months now). I just did an # emerge --sync # emerge -auDv world which returned Calculating world dependencies - !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=sys-devel/libperl-5.8.6" have b

Re: [gentoo-user] Would zapping USE in make.defaults hurt anything?

2005-06-29 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 02:29:38PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote > Then put USE="-* a b c" in make.conf. Does that do what it looks like? Thanks very much for that info. It appears to be *EXACTLY* what I want. I'll try to sit down and organize a bugzilla entry and ask that the documentation be

[gentoo-user] Re: OpenOffice2.0 Install

2005-06-29 Thread James
Zac Medico gmail.com> writes: > > So if I do this will I have both 1.1.4 (which is currently installed) and > > 1.9.109 or just the later? > > What I'm concerned with is that I may need both. I can also put the 1.9.109 > > on another machine until it becomes more stable. I went to quite a lot o

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge Amarok

2005-06-29 Thread Paul Nolan
I would /really/ recommend switching to the amarok-svn ebuild (it's not an official package and I can't remember where I got it - try google). I'm not usually one for running CVS/SVN software (some programs segfault enough when they're supposedly stable), but I made an exception for this and was

Re: [gentoo-user] Copy portage tree

2005-06-29 Thread Sean Higgins
On Tuesday 28 June 2005 05:49 pm, Anthony E. Caudel wrote: > I have one computer that currently does not have internet access. Can I > copy a freshly sync'ed portage tree (/usr/portage/*) from another > computer to this one? Or does the tree have some sort of per-computer > dependencies (use-flag

[gentoo-user] telnet into embedded devices

2005-06-29 Thread James
Hello, I often use telnet to connect to (embedded) devices on a local network, devices which do not support ssh. On both Debian and Gentoo systems I just delete the default route out and set a second (sub)interface on the ethernet port like this: The default setting is obtained from the /etc/co

Re: [gentoo-user] telnet into embedded devices

2005-06-29 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 00:59:17 + (UTC) James wrote: > Hello, > > I often use telnet to connect to (embedded) devices on a local network, > devices which do not support ssh. On both Debian and Gentoo systems I > just delete the default route out and set a second (sub)interface on > the ethern

Re: [gentoo-user] telnet into embedded devices

2005-06-29 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 00:59 +, James wrote: > Hello, > > I often use telnet to connect to (embedded) devices on a local network, > devices which do not support ssh. On both Debian and Gentoo systems I > just delete the default route out and set a second (sub)interface on > the ethernet port

[gentoo-user] bootsplash problems

2005-06-29 Thread Nick Smith
First off, I appoligise for writing this from outlook, and thus, I don’t know if HTML email is turned off or on, but im having a problem I was hoping one of you could help me with. I have followed the HOWTO Framebuffer:Bootsplash:Grubsplash at http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Framebuffer:Boots

[gentoo-user] Failed Cache Update

2005-06-29 Thread Justin Hart
I get "Failed Cache Update" when I run emerge sync. What is this error? How does one go about correcting it? -- Justin W. Hart -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Alsa stops working after 'emerge -uD world'

2005-06-29 Thread cothrige
* Norbert Kamenicky ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > cothrige wrote: > > I just finished running 'emerge -uD world' and everything seemed to go > > okay. At least in the end it seemed to. I did have some troubles > > with spamassassin and a couple of other strange dependencies which > > were not deal

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -auDv world question

2005-06-29 Thread Paul Varner
On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 20:05 -0400, John J. Foster wrote: > Calculating world dependencies - > !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=sys-devel/libperl-5.8.6" have been > masked. > !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your > request: > - sys-devel/libperl-5.8.6 (masked by:

Re: [gentoo-user] telnet into embedded devices

2005-06-29 Thread Paul Varner
On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 13:39 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 00:59:17 + (UTC) > James wrote: > > 1. If this is not what's happening, what is to cause telnet to react so > > slowly? > > probably dns - most servers do a reverse dns lookup when a client > connects, and if the lookup

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild questions...

2005-06-29 Thread W.Kenworthy
revdep-rebuild sometimes tries to rebuild older packages (this is on older long running systems) that dont exist in portage which requires manual intervention. Always run with -p, and run it without manually so you can intervene when necessary. BillK On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 02:42 +1000, Eugene Ros

Re: [gentoo-user] bootsplash problems

2005-06-29 Thread Zac Medico
Nick Smith wrote: > First off, I appoligise for writing this from outlook, and thus, I don’t > know if HTML email is turned off or on, but im having a problem I was > hoping one of you could help me with. > > > *I have followed the HOWTO Framebuffer:Bootsplash:Grubsplash at > http://gentoo-wi

Re: [gentoo-user] (A bit OT) Gentoo on a Dell OptiPlex G1

2005-06-29 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 05:20:42PM -0400, Colin wrote > Taking a guess here: > CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" > CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fstack-protector" From my PIII's /etc/make.conf CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx -msse -mfpmath=sse" CHOST

Re: [gentoo-user] Alsa stops working after 'emerge -uD world'

2005-06-29 Thread Bob Sanders
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 21:24:18 -0500 cothrige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It would seem that knowing that my files would be saved > to the archive folder I had gotten a little bold when running > dispatch-conf. But, I copied the old file back from the archive and ran > alsaconf again. This time it

[gentoo-user] OT - imap and thunderbird

2005-06-29 Thread Antoine
Hi, I can't work out how to tell thunderbird to look in all of the folders on an imap server (for a single account) and retrieve at least the fact that there is a new message. It is rather annoying that one has to click on the folder for it to check - with 20+ folders this becomes unmanageable... A

[gentoo-user] Lilo "L 80" Boot Error

2005-06-29 Thread Richard Watson
I've been struggling for days now to get my genkernel image to boot. Lilo is reporting an error of "L 80" which is a disk timeout message. After reading the documentation I thought the problem was solveable with: disk = /dev/hdb bios = 0x80 It's not ... I still get "L 80". Detailed below is my /

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - imap and thunderbird

2005-06-29 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Antoine wrote: > Hi, > I can't work out how to tell thunderbird to look in all of the folders > on an imap server (for a single account) and retrieve at least the > fact that there is a new message. It is rather annoying that one has > to click on the folder for it to check - with 20+ folders this

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - imap and thunderbird

2005-06-29 Thread Ron Nelson
Antoine wrote: >Hi, >I can't work out how to tell thunderbird to look in all of the folders >on an imap server (for a single account) and retrieve at least the >fact that there is a new message. It is rather annoying that one has >to click on the folder for it to check - with 20+ folders this beco