Re: [gentoo-user] OpenGL problem: wxGTK-2.4.2-r4 doesn't compile

2005-12-05 Thread Luigi Pinna
Alle 08:48, lunedì 05 dicembre 2005, Richard Fish ha scritto: > Looks like you need to run opengl-select to make links to your chosen > GL implementation (I'm guessing you'll want the ATI implementation) > in /usr/lib. > > -Richard I had the ati drivers... Now I use the xorgs... And if I run esel

Re: [gentoo-user] straggling with paper size

2005-12-05 Thread Glenn Enright
look in /var/log/portage if you have it enabled higer log files will br for more recent emerges -- Don't worry so loud, your roommate can't think. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] mathml problems with firefox 1.5

2005-12-05 Thread Moshe Kaminsky
Hi, It appears that firefox 1.5 doesn't render mathml correctly. The previous version (1.07) did it right. Anyone else can see this? A test page is at: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/mathml/demo/texvsmml.xhtml Thanks, Moshe -- I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they f

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge history

2005-12-05 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 05 December 2005 09:29, Joseph wrote: > Is there a way to tell which packages got upgraded in the past week? > I have /etc/config-archive/ but if the configuration did not change it > will not help me. find /usr/portage/distfiles -mtime -7 -print Uwe -- Unix is sexy: who | grep -i blonde | d

[gentoo-user] subdirectory disappears in /usr/portage

2005-12-05 Thread Alan E. Davis
I cleverly created a directory : /usr/portage/downloads, where I schemed to have wget download files for my home (dialup) machine, so I could then burn them to a CD and carry them home.  However, on Monday I arrived to find that while "locate downloads" found this directory, it isn't there anymor

Re: [gentoo-user] straggling with paper size

2005-12-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 05 Dec 2005 00:35:19 -0700, Joseph wrote: > Is there a way to tell which packages were upgraded in the last week or > two? > Something like emerge history? genlop --list --date last Monday emerge genlop if you don't already have it. -- Neil Bothwick Learn from your parents' mistakes

Re: [gentoo-user] subdirectory disappears in /usr/portage

2005-12-05 Thread Andres Becerra Sandoval
On 12/5/05, Alan E. Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I cleverly created a directory : /usr/portage/downloads, where I schemed to have wget download files for my home (dialup) machine, so I could then burn them to a CD and carry them home.  However, on Monday I arrived to find that while "locate d

Re: [gentoo-user] bash and keeping history

2005-12-05 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 01:08:52AM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: > I read your post, and slapped together the following, which goes into > ~/.bashrc. Warning... some backtick expansion included here. Is there > a simpler way to find out which tty or pts you're running in? > try the 'tty' command f

Re: [gentoo-user] subdirectory disappears in /usr/portage

2005-12-05 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 5. Dezember 2005 09:09 schrieb ext Alan E. Davis: > I cleverly created a directory : /usr/portage/downloads, where I schemed > to have wget download files for my home (dialup) machine, so I could then > burn them to a CD and carry them home. Bad Idea. "emerge sync" will delete everythi

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge history

2005-12-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 05 Dec 2005 00:29:39 -0700, Joseph wrote: > Is there a way to tell which packages got upgraded in the past week? I've just answered this in the "straggling..." thread. genlop is the command you need genlop --list --date last week > I have /etc/config-archive/ but if the configuration di

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge history

2005-12-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 10:04:51 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > Is there a way to tell which packages got upgraded in the past week? > > I have /etc/config-archive/ but if the configuration did not change it > > will not help me. > > find /usr/portage/distfiles -mtime -7 -print That won't help if a pack

Re: [gentoo-user] mathml problems with firefox 1.5

2005-12-05 Thread Chris Fairles
i have mathematical and texcm-ttf fonts installed and firefox 1.5 does not render them correctly as well. haven't found a work-around for it yet Chris Moshe Kaminsky wrote: Hi, It appears that firefox 1.5 doesn't render mathml correctly. The previous version (1.07) did it right. Anyone el

Re: [gentoo-user] subdirectory disappears in /usr/portage

2005-12-05 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, December 5, 2005 9:21 pm, Andres Becerra Sandoval said: > On 12/5/05, Alan E. Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I cleverly created a directory : /usr/portage/downloads, where I schemed >> to have wget download files for my home (dialup) machine, so I could >> then >> burn them to a CD

Re: [gentoo-user] mathml problems with firefox 1.5

2005-12-05 Thread Dale
Chris Fairles wrote: > i have mathematical and texcm-ttf fonts installed and firefox 1.5 does > not render them correctly as well. > > haven't found a work-around for it yet > > Chris > > > Moshe Kaminsky wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> It appears that firefox 1.5 doesn't render mathml correctly. The >> pre

Re: [gentoo-user] IMAP Server - authenticating off a Windows Domain?

2005-12-05 Thread Jose Gonzalez Gomez
2005/12/5, Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi there,Does anyone have any experience of this, please? I have a number ofusers with roaming profiles on a Windows Domain Controller (SBS 2003).I don't want to use Exchange as a mailserver but instead an IMAP sever such as Courier (which I'm familiar with)

Re: [gentoo-user] subdirectory disappears in /usr/portage

2005-12-05 Thread Dale
Andres Becerra Sandoval wrote: > > > On 12/5/05, *Alan E. Davis* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > I cleverly created a directory : /usr/portage/downloads, where I > schemed to have wget download files for my home (dialup) machine, > so I could then burn them

Re: [gentoo-user] problems emergeing (through winxp shared connection)

2005-12-05 Thread Holly Bostick
Nacho schreef: > Hi, I'm trying to emerge kde-meta, but i get stuck here (the "error" > reproduces with "emerge kde-meta"): > > -- > gentoo ~ # emerge kde-meta Calculat

Re: [gentoo-user] subdirectory disappears in /usr/portage

2005-12-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 05 Dec 2005 03:01:16 -0600, Dale wrote: > > I cleverly created a directory : /usr/portage/downloads, where I > > schemed to have wget download files for my home (dialup) machine, > > so I could then burn them to a CD and carry them home. > > > > However, on Monday I arrive

Re: [gentoo-user] straggling with paper size

2005-12-05 Thread Holly Bostick
Joseph schreef: Please excuse me for interrupting when I know nothing about this issue at all, but: I keep noticing that latex seems to supercede divps > Sql-Ledger is using latex forms to generate invoices. So to > my understanding the program will be using "dvips" to convert > lat

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge -P kde-3.4.3

2005-12-05 Thread Tony Davison
On Monday 05 December 2005 00:01, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 4 Dec 2005 23:45:13 +, Tony Davison wrote: > > A couple of days ago someone posted a magic incantation to prune > > kde-3.4.3 from its slot. > > This one? > > qpkg -I -nc -g kde-base | xargs emerge -P Thats the one. Thanks Neil.

[gentoo-user] Not able to log into KDE via KDM after improper shutdown!

2005-12-05 Thread Hareesh Nagarajan
Hi, I am no longer able to log into KDE 3.4 via KDM after an improper shutdown (laptop overheated, and shutdown!). I am able to log in via agetty (Ctrl-Alt-F1), though. Incidentally, while inside KDE (as another user ofcourse) I am unable to SU into superuser as well. My password is rejected. KD

Re: [gentoo-user] Not able to log into KDE via KDM after improper shutdown!

2005-12-05 Thread Dale
Hareesh Nagarajan wrote: >Hi, > >I am no longer able to log into KDE 3.4 via KDM after an improper >shutdown (laptop overheated, and shutdown!). I am able to log in via >agetty (Ctrl-Alt-F1), though. > >Incidentally, while inside KDE (as another user ofcourse) I am unable >to SU into superuser as

Re: [gentoo-user] subdirectory disappears in /usr/portage

2005-12-05 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: >On Mon, 05 Dec 2005 03:01:16 -0600, Dale wrote: > > > >>Especially since it should not be there. That is for portage you know. >>/home// would be a better spot. >> >> > >What's wrong with /usr/portage/distfiles? > > > Well, I'm not sure I get what you are asking. I

Re: [gentoo-user] subdirectory disappears in /usr/portage

2005-12-05 Thread Alan E. Davis
This is a relief. I should not have set up a directory in /usr/portage. It would have made more sense in /usr/local/something. To clarify: I have an x86 machine at home, with dialup connection to the internet. It's taken some kind of long time to get the system squared away. To save several ni

Re: [gentoo-user] IMAP Server - authenticating off a Windows Domain?

2005-12-05 Thread Sean Johnson
On 12/5/05, Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > > Does anyone have any experience of this, please? I have a number of > users with roaming profiles on a Windows Domain Controller (SBS 2003). > I don't want to use Exchange as a mailserver but instead an IMAP sever > such as Courier (wh

Re: [gentoo-user] subdirectory disappears in /usr/portage

2005-12-05 Thread Dale
Alan E. Davis wrote: >This is a relief. I should not have set up a directory in >/usr/portage. It would have made more sense in /usr/local/something. > >To clarify: I have an x86 machine at home, with dialup connection to >the internet. It's taken some kind of long time to get the system >squar

Re: [gentoo-user] subdirectory disappears in /usr/portage

2005-12-05 Thread Alan E. Davis
On 12/5/05, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you have several Gentoo rigs, you can also set up a rsync server. > You actually already have it but it is not turned on. Search for rsyncd > on the forums in the Documentation, Tips & Tricks I have three machines w/ Gentoo: at work, one machine

[gentoo-user] Re: straggling with paper size

2005-12-05 Thread James
Holly Bostick planet.nl> writes: > > Joseph schreef: > So it seems to me that rather than adjusting the configuration of divps, > "we" (meaning you, of course) should at least *look* at the > configuration of latex-- what paper size is /it/ set to?? And if this does not solve the problem, loo

Re: [gentoo-user] straggling with paper size

2005-12-05 Thread Joseph
On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 10:21 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: > Joseph schreef: > > Please excuse me for interrupting when I know nothing about this issue > at all, but: > > I keep noticing that latex seems to supercede divps [snip] Huh! No wonder the changes I made to dIvps don't work. The must be so

Re: [gentoo-user] straggling with paper size

2005-12-05 Thread Joseph
On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 08:22 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 05 Dec 2005 00:35:19 -0700, Joseph wrote: > > > Is there a way to tell which packages were upgraded in the last week or > > two? > > Something like emerge history? > > genlop --list --date last Monday > > emerge genlop if you don'

[gentoo-user] handheld support ?

2005-12-05 Thread Robin
Hi All, I finally convinced my office to build all our new servers on Gentoo (without regret), but I looking to move a few desktops to Gentoo as well. My main obstacle right now is PocketPC and syncing them. Calendar applications etc are not important, but retrieve files etc is important. I hav

Re: [gentoo-user] straggling with paper size

2005-12-05 Thread Alan E. Davis
I may be barking up the wrong tree, but have you run the command # texconfig ? Alan On 12/5/05, Joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 10:21 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: > > Joseph schreef: > > > > Please excuse me for interrupting when I know nothing about this issue > > at al

Re: [gentoo-user] subdirectory disappears in /usr/portage

2005-12-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 05 Dec 2005 04:59:55 -0600, Dale wrote: > >What's wrong with /usr/portage/distfiles? > Well, I'm not sure I get what you are asking. I don't think putting the > latest CD that was converted to mp3 should be stored in the distfiles > directory though. They do have this thing called a Doc

Re: [gentoo-user] subdirectory disappears in /usr/portage

2005-12-05 Thread Dale
Alan E. Davis wrote: > >I'm not certain what an rsync server is, but I am guessing it >would be a cache of files that could be picked up by other machines. > > When you do a emerge sync, it connects to a rsync server. When I do that on one of my secondary rigs, it gets the portage files off my

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: straggling with paper size

2005-12-05 Thread Joseph
On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 13:19 +, James wrote: > Holly Bostick planet.nl> writes: > > > > > Joseph schreef: > > > So it seems to me that rather than adjusting the configuration of divps, > > "we" (meaning you, of course) should at least *look* at the > > configuration of latex-- what paper siz

Re: [gentoo-user] subdirectory disappears in /usr/portage

2005-12-05 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: >On Mon, 05 Dec 2005 04:59:55 -0600, Dale wrote: > > > >>>What's wrong with /usr/portage/distfiles? >>> >>> > > > >>Well, I'm not sure I get what you are asking. I don't think putting the >>latest CD that was converted to mp3 should be stored in the distfiles >>dire

Re: [gentoo-user] straggling with paper size

2005-12-05 Thread Joseph
On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 23:51 +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote: > I may be barking up the wrong tree, but have you run the command > # texconfig > ? > > Alan Many, many time (all Saturday and Sunday). It doesn't help. It helps when it comes to controlling paper size and margin with on tetex --> pdf file

Re: [gentoo-user] courier

2005-12-05 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stroller wrote: > You're in luck! Yeah, wimmen! > I've just started a new thread "IMAP Server - authenticating off a > Windows Domain?" > Perhaps you can help? I'll see what I can do. - -- Arturo "Buanzo" Busleiman - www.buanzo.com.ar Consultor e

Re: [gentoo-user] courier

2005-12-05 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nick Smith wrote: > do you know of any good how-to's using just courier-mta? Actually, I usually untar the contents of the courier-mta tar file and check what's there. It usually sufices. Of course, depending on what kind of backend you will/want to

Re: [gentoo-user] IMAP Server - authenticating off a Windows Domain?

2005-12-05 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stroller wrote: > to authenticate against the domain controller everytime the user logs on > to their email? You have many approaches, each of them with specific complications: 1) Samba+Winbind+PAM = You really want samba on a mail server? 2) Kerbero

Re: [gentoo-user] straggling with paper size

2005-12-05 Thread Alan E. Davis
When you ran texconfig did you configure "GLOBAL SETTINGS" under dvips? Alan On 12/6/05, Joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 23:51 +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote: > > I may be barking up the wrong tree, but have you run the command > > # texconfig > > ? > > > > Alan > > Many, m

[gentoo-user] glsa-check cron question

2005-12-05 Thread Andres Becerra Sandoval
Hi, I use often the great tool glsa-check in this way: /usr/bin/glsa-check -l new > /tmp/`date +%F`.glsa To produce a file which I could read or mail, to check for vulnerabilities in a machine. What I want to do is to generate this file everyday with a crontab entry like this: 45 6 * * * /usr

Re: [gentoo-user] subdirectory disappears in /usr/portage

2005-12-05 Thread Alan E. Davis
Thanks for all the ideas. I like the Tips page, it gives me a way to (1) get a list of ALL the files needed to upgrade (including patches), into a file and a python script that downloads all those files into a temp directory, then make a CD and move it to the other machine at home and "emerge -uDv

Re: [gentoo-user] handheld support ?

2005-12-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 09:51:49 -0400, Robin wrote: > Hi All, > > I finally convinced my office to build all our new servers on Gentoo > (without regret), but I looking to move a few desktops to Gentoo as > well. My main obstacle right now is PocketPC and syncing them. > Calendar applications etc a

Re: [gentoo-user] subdirectory disappears in /usr/portage

2005-12-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 05 Dec 2005 08:15:44 -0600, Dale wrote: > If he had put it in the distfiles > directory, he would have been OK. Isn't that what I said several posts ago? ;-) -- Neil Bothwick If God had intended man to smoke, He would have set him on fire. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] error emerging gnome-vfs on athlon-xp machine

2005-12-05 Thread Alan E. Davis
This was an awesome explanation.  Useful. However, now I have another issue with kdelibs, also involving an *.la file: libartskde.la, that I cannot find on my machine.  I'll start another topic, I guess. Thank you.  AlanOn 12/4/05, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: On 12/3/05, Alan E. Da

Re: [gentoo-user] [Not specifically Gentoo] Forcing a new IP address with DHCP

2005-12-05 Thread John J. Foster
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 05:07:22PM -0800, Ryan Tandy wrote: > >I have a Linksys WRT54GS router running openWRT firmware that gets its > >IP via DHCP from my ISP. That's all working fine. I also have an account > >with dyndns.org that is supposed to get updated when my IP changes. This > >is where I

Re: [gentoo-user] glsa-check cron question

2005-12-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 15:39:00 +0100, Andres Becerra Sandoval wrote: > What I want to do is to generate this file everyday with a crontab > entry like this: > > 45 6 * * * /usr/bin/glsa-check -l new > /tmp/`date +%F`.glsa > > The problem is that this is not working, it works in the shell, but it >

Re: [gentoo-user] subdirectory disappears in /usr/portage

2005-12-05 Thread Dale
Alan E. Davis wrote: >Thanks for all the ideas. I like the Tips page, it gives me a way to >(1) get a list of ALL the files needed to upgrade (including patches), >into a file and a python script that downloads all those files into a >temp directory, then make a CD and move it to the other machin

Re: [gentoo-user] subdirectory disappears in /usr/portage

2005-12-05 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: >On Mon, 05 Dec 2005 08:15:44 -0600, Dale wrote: > > > >> If he had put it in the distfiles >>directory, he would have been OK. >> >> > >Isn't that what I said several posts ago? ;-) > > > Maybe we crossed. I notice that it takes a long time to even get the email I se

Re: [gentoo-user] subdirectory disappears in /usr/portage

2005-12-05 Thread Alan E. Davis
On 12/6/05, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm on dial-up too. It sucks. I only get 26K here. I think I'll go > have a good cry now. :( It took me a few nights, and days, to get Open > Office, better known as OOo. Looks like a three eyed monster to me. LOL Thanks for the advice. 26K

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: straggling with paper size

2005-12-05 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 05 December 2005 16:07, Joseph wrote: > Anyhow, the after conversion the printer to ps (postscript) the file is > sent to printer via command : lpr -P printer_name and this is the time > it ask me for A4 paper size. Have you tried "lpr -l -P printer_name"? "-l" tells lpr not to reformat the f

[gentoo-user] New User to Gentoo - Specialized Application

2005-12-05 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
Good Morning Everyone: I am preparing to install Gentoo for a very specialized application -- I have an older P3/400 box that I want to use to run AUDACITY to use it as a digital recording deck on our church sound system. I am planning to use fluxbox, and configure gentoo for a very lightweight a

Re: [gentoo-user] glsa-check cron question

2005-12-05 Thread Andres Becerra Sandoval
On 12/5/05, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 15:39:00 +0100, Andres Becerra Sandoval wrote: > > > What I want to do is to generate this file everyday with a crontab > > entry like this: > > > > 45 6 * * * /usr/bin/glsa-check -l new > /tmp/`date +%F`.glsa > > > > The pro

Re: [gentoo-user] New User to Gentoo - Specialized Application

2005-12-05 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Timothy A. Holmes wrote: > Good Morning Everyone: > > I am preparing to install Gentoo for a very specialized application -- > I have an older P3/400 box that I want to use to run AUDACITY to use it > as a digital recording deck on our church sound sy

Re: [gentoo-user] glsa-check cron question

2005-12-05 Thread Kurt V. Hindenburg
On Monday 05 December 2005 09:39, Andres Becerra Sandoval wrote: | 45 6 * * * /usr/bin/glsa-check -l new > /tmp/`date +%F`.glsa | | The problem is that this is not working, it works in the shell, but it | doesn't works from cron. If anybody can enlight me, I would appreciate | it. Most of the time,

Re: [gentoo-user] New User to Gentoo - Specialized Application

2005-12-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 10:20:26 -0500, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: > Can anyone provide hints / pointers / gotchas that I ought to be aware > of -- I have the installer manual etc, so I am more looking for hints > and tips that I ought to be aware of in trying this. Follow the handbook faithfully. No ma

Re: [gentoo-user] straggling with paper size

2005-12-05 Thread Roger Mason
Joseph, Joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I know that Latex is set by default to A4 paper size and margins are > located in different file. > But what file? > > -- > #Joseph Have you looked in the latex source file? The page size and margins could be getting set there. It should be in the

Re: [gentoo-user] glsa-check cron question

2005-12-05 Thread Andres Becerra Sandoval
On 12/5/05, Kurt V. Hindenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 05 December 2005 09:39, Andres Becerra Sandoval wrote: > | 45 6 * * * /usr/bin/glsa-check -l new > /tmp/`date +%F`.glsa > | > | The problem is that this is not working, it works in the shell, but it > | doesn't works from cron. I

RE: [gentoo-user] New User to Gentoo - Specialized Application

2005-12-05 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
Arturo: Sorry about that -- -- the sound card is the on the board unit that came with the computer -- the board is an INTEL D850MD http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/d850md/ Tim Timothy A. Holmes IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher Medina Christian A

[gentoo-user] etc-update after 'emerge -e world'

2005-12-05 Thread Grant
I 'emerge sync' and 'emerge -DuN world' daily so why did 'emerge -e system' and 'emerge -e world' (for the GCC upgrade) each come up with a bunch of etc files to be updated via etc-update? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: straggling with paper size

2005-12-05 Thread Joseph
On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 17:11 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: > On 05 December 2005 16:07, Joseph wrote: > > > Anyhow, the after conversion the printer to ps (postscript) the file is > > sent to printer via command : lpr -P printer_name and this is the time > > it ask me for A4 paper size. > > Have you tri

Re: [gentoo-user] C++ missing

2005-12-05 Thread Mike Kenny
Steven Susbauer wrote: stage 3 is the suggested way of doing it nowadays anyway. If you're a sp33d d3m0n you can always run the bootstrap and emerge -e system, emerge -e world after you've installed everything. It will take a long while, but since it's still up and running while it does this, t

Re: [gentoo-user] New User to Gentoo - Specialized Application

2005-12-05 Thread Michael Crute
On 12/5/05, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Timothy A. Holmes wrote: > > Good Morning Everyone: > > > > I am preparing to install Gentoo for a very specialized application -- > > I have an older P3/400 box that I want to use to run AUDACITY to use it > > as a digital recordin

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update after 'emerge -e world'

2005-12-05 Thread Chris Fairles
Grant wrote: I 'emerge sync' and 'emerge -DuN world' daily so why did 'emerge -e system' and 'emerge -e world' (for the GCC upgrade) each come up with a bunch of etc files to be updated via etc-update? - Grant Missed a few last time around? If you made your own changes it might be trying t

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update after 'emerge -e world'

2005-12-05 Thread Michael Crute
On 12/5/05, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I 'emerge sync' and 'emerge -DuN world' daily so why did 'emerge -e > system' and 'emerge -e world' (for the GCC upgrade) each come up with > a bunch of etc files to be updated via etc-update? > > - Grant Because emerge -e re-installs every package on

Re: [gentoo-user] straggling with paper size

2005-12-05 Thread Joseph
On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 00:38 +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote: > When you ran texconfig did you configure "GLOBAL SETTINGS" under dvips? > > Alan Yes, I have tried adjust via global setting, all it is doing is adjusting this file (I think): /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/config.ps to: @ letterSize

Re: [gentoo-user] straggling with paper size

2005-12-05 Thread Joseph
On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 12:14 -0330, Roger Mason wrote: > Joseph, > > Joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I know that Latex is set by default to A4 paper size and margins are > > located in different file. > > But what file? > > > > -- > > #Joseph > > Have you looked in the latex source file

Re: [gentoo-user] straggling with paper size

2005-12-05 Thread Joseph
On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 00:38 +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote: > When you ran texconfig did you configure "GLOBAL SETTINGS" under dvips? > > Alan Does the latex database needs to be refresh? I run on this in google: Refresh the filename database, by running at a command interpreter window: inite

Re: [gentoo-user] creating local copies of web pages

2005-12-05 Thread Billy Holmes
Robert Persson wrote: The trouble is that I have a bookmark file with several hundred entries. wget is supposed to be fairly good at extracting urls from text files, but it couldn't handle this particular file. Try this: emerge HTML-Tree then as a normal user, run this script like so (where

Re: [gentoo-user] creating local copies of web pages

2005-12-05 Thread Billy Holmes
Robert Persson wrote: The trouble is that I have a bookmark file with several hundred entries. wget is supposed to be fairly good at extracting urls from text files, but it couldn't handle this particular file. my previous message assumes that your bookmark file is in reality a HTML file. --

Re: [gentoo-user] straggling with paper size

2005-12-05 Thread Roger Mason
Hi Joseph, Joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 00:38 +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote: >> When you ran texconfig did you configure "GLOBAL SETTINGS" under dvips? >> >> Alan > > Does the latex database needs to be refresh? > I run on this in google: > > Refresh the filename

[gentoo-user] what's up with kernelnewbies?

2005-12-05 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everybody, I posted about my kernel panic problem to kernelnewbies(they seem a competent crew), w/ subject line: kernel panic fix sought. My post was ignored. Three days later somebody posted to the list under the subject line: KERNEL PANIC FIX SOUGHT. He(Kumar is a male name isn't it?)star

Re: [gentoo-user] straggling with paper size

2005-12-05 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Joseph, Joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 12:14 -0330, Roger Mason wrote: >> >> Have you looked in the latex source file? The page size and margins >> could be getting set there. It should be in the document preamble, >> i.e. before the \begin{document} command.

[gentoo-user] kdeutils-3.5.0

2005-12-05 Thread Ernie Schroder
I've been thinking of udating to KDE-3.5 and I notice that superkaramba blocks kdeutils. I'm assuming that superkaramba or something similar is now in the kdeutils package. I have a few karamba themes that I run on the desktop and am wondering what kind of problems I'll have with them after I up

Re: [gentoo-user] kdeutils-3.5.0

2005-12-05 Thread Jean-Jacques FABRE
Hi, According to http://www.kde.org/announcements/visualguide-3.5.php : "SuperKaramba, a tool that allows you to easily create interactive eye-candy on the desktop, is now included in KDE. Using SuperKaramba you can quickly add functionality such as weather and news updates, system monitors and a

Re: [gentoo-user] straggling with paper size

2005-12-05 Thread Joseph
On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 14:17 -0330, Roger Mason wrote: > Hello Joseph, > > Joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 12:14 -0330, Roger Mason wrote: > >> > >> Have you looked in the latex source file? The page size and margins > >> could be getting set there. It should be i

Re: [gentoo-user] kdeutils-3.5.0

2005-12-05 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/5/05, Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been thinking of udating to KDE-3.5 and I notice that superkaramba blocks > kdeutils. I'm assuming that superkaramba or something similar is now in the > kdeutils package. I have a few karamba themes that I run on the desktop and > am won

Re: [gentoo-user] kdeutils-3.5.0

2005-12-05 Thread Ernie Schroder
Thanks! I looked around and never found that info. E On Monday 05 December 2005 12:55 pm, a tiny voice compelled Jean-Jacques FABRE to write: > Hi, > > According to http://www.kde.org/announcements/visualguide-3.5.php : > > "SuperKaramba, a tool that allows you to easily create interactive > eye

Re: [gentoo-user] New User to Gentoo - Specialized Application

2005-12-05 Thread Christoph Eckert
> Can anyone provide hints / pointers / gotchas that I ought to be > aware of -- I have the installer manual etc, so I am more looking for > hints and tips that I ought to be aware of in trying this.  I will > also be compiling my own kernel for this -- (That will be a first > too) For multitrack

[gentoo-user] Xine-lib and arts-3.5.. Doesn't get compiled

2005-12-05 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
Hello, I upgraded to KDE 3.5 and removed the slotted KDE 3.4. xine-lib was compiled with +arts back in the KDE 3.4 days. Yesterday, I installed imagemagick and now wanted to compile xine-lib with +imagemagick which was - previously. The trouble is, that xine-lib doesn't want to get compiled wit

Re: [gentoo-user] Seeking USB help

2005-12-05 Thread Christoph Eckert
> What am I missing to get USB working on my laptop? Any suggestions? Is hotplug running? It should handle all module loading stuff for you. Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] kdeutils-3.5.0

2005-12-05 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
* kde-base/superkaramba Latest version available: 3.5.0 Latest version installed: 3.5.0 Size of downloaded files: 2,888 kB Homepage:http://www.kde.org/ Description: A tool to create interactive applets for the KDE desktop. License: GPL-2 * x11-misc/sup

[gentoo-user] Win4Lin TS support?

2005-12-05 Thread Tom Smith
Hi all,   I've got an MDK 9 server running Win4Lin Terminal Server. I'm trying to migrate this server AWAY from Mandrake to Gentoo.   There are referrences everywhere that indicates there's a win4lin-sources kernel but I have yet to find it anywhere.   Does Gentoo still support Win4Lin "out o

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin TS support?

2005-12-05 Thread John Jolet
you have to use the vanilla sources and patch with the kernel patch on the win4lin site. they have a patch for 2.6.12, and 2.6.14, though the latest vanilla kernel I saw was 2.6.13... :) I"m running 2.6.12 right now. On Dec 5, 2005, at 12:33 PM, Tom Smith wrote: Hi all, I've got an MDK

Re: [gentoo-user] Seeking USB help

2005-12-05 Thread michael
On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, Christoph Eckert wrote: What am I missing to get USB working on my laptop? Any suggestions? Is hotplug running? It should handle all module loading stuff for you. This is what /etc/init.d/hotplug says: # nothing here anymore. Please use the coldplug package if you re

Re: [gentoo-user] Seeking USB help

2005-12-05 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
On Tuesday 06 December 2005 02:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This is what /etc/init.d/hotplug says: > > # nothing here anymore. Please use the coldplug package if you really > # want to > # load modules for devices that are discovered by your kernel before > # init runs. > # > # However, please r

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: straggling with paper size

2005-12-05 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 05 December 2005 18:31, Joseph wrote: > On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 17:11 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > On 05 December 2005 16:07, Joseph wrote: > > > Anyhow, the after conversion the printer to ps (postscript) the file is > > > sent to printer via command : lpr -P printer_name and this is the time > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin TS support?

2005-12-05 Thread Tom Smith
Well, I'm using the gentoo-sources (2.6.13) and was able to get the patch to apply. The problem is that I don't have the Netraverse option in menuconfig after patching the kernel.   Is there a trick for getting this to work?John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: you have to use the vanilla source

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: straggling with paper size

2005-12-05 Thread Joseph
On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 20:07 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: > On 05 December 2005 18:31, Joseph wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 17:11 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > > On 05 December 2005 16:07, Joseph wrote: > > > > Anyhow, the after conversion the printer to ps (postscript) the file is > > > > sent to print

Re: [SOLVED] [gentoo-user] Not able to log into KDE via KDM after improper shutdown!

2005-12-05 Thread Hareesh Nagarajan
> Hareesh Nagarajan wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >I am no longer able to log into KDE 3.4 via KDM after an improper > >shutdown (laptop overheated, and shutdown!). I am able to log in via > >agetty (Ctrl-Alt-F1), though. Thanks for the reply Dale. It turns out, that I had added an invalid line to my ~/h

[gentoo-user] system stopped booting

2005-12-05 Thread Michael George
I'm having a strange problem with a system that we're putting together to be an LDAP-based PDC. I had it all configured and it was working fine. I had to put the project aside for a couple weeks as I had other things to work on and then I came back to it. Since it had been a while, I updated the

Re: [gentoo-user] system stopped booting

2005-12-05 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael George wrote: > If anyone has any suggestions, I'd like to find a way out of this other > than reinstalling the system. Such a thing might happen again in the > future to a non-development system and I'd like to know the way to get it > workin

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin TS support?

2005-12-05 Thread John Jolet
um, then the patch didn't apply.On Dec 5, 2005, at 1:33 PM, Tom Smith wrote:Well, I'm using the gentoo-sources (2.6.13) and was able to get the patch to apply. The problem is that I don't have the Netraverse option in menuconfig after patching the kernel.   Is there a trick for getting this to wo

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin TS support?

2005-12-05 Thread Tom Smith
Hm... I guess all I can say is that the log file indicated that everything patched correctly--that is, it listed the file names it was patching and there were no errors.   When I tried to reapply the patch, it recognized that it had already been applied and asked if I wanted to reverse it or appl

Re: [gentoo-user] subdirectory disappears in /usr/portage

2005-12-05 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 09:26:45 +0100 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Bad Idea. "emerge sync" will delete everything from the local portage tree > that is not part of the official portage tree (the only exception > is /usr/portage/distfiles). and /usr/portage/packages -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -

Re: [gentoo-user] system stopped booting

2005-12-05 Thread b.n.
Have you checked the mobo? Memtest will report errors if the mobo is bad. m. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] straggling with paper size

2005-12-05 Thread Nick Rout
Why not try the sql-ledger mailing list. No doubt there are people there who know their way around their software. On Mon, 05 Dec 2005 11:01:13 -0700 Joseph wrote: > On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 14:17 -0330, Roger Mason wrote: > > Hello Joseph, > > > > Joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > On

Re: [gentoo-user] Optical mouse lights off on kernel 2.6.14 but works on kernel 2.4.30

2005-12-05 Thread Tamas Sarga
Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales wrote: Hi there, I got a new VCOM optical mouse, model C235-PS2-V. And I'm having problems with it. On Windows XP or with the Linux kernel 2.4.30 (OpenMosix) it works fine. But on linux kernel 2.6.14-r2 (Gentoo Sources), it lights off and stays off unless

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC-3.4 update: python error...

2005-12-05 Thread Jarry
Petteri Räty wrote: > Pongracz Istvan wrote: >>As I can remember, the livecd has a binary. You can copy that library to >>your /usr/lib and use it to fix your problem. >>Or: >>You can make a symlink to the newer libstdc++, maybe can work. > > I have successfully used a symlink in the past but your

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