Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 and gnome

2006-01-08 Thread Jamie
I'm still having the same error and cannot work out any way to fix it without removing gnome - which I do not want to do if I can avoid it. Can anyone suggest any remedies for this error or should I just give up and remove gnome, then do the upgrade then try and re-emerge gnome? Could it be that be

Re: [gentoo-user] Asking dhcp for a static address

2006-01-08 Thread Matthew Cline
On 1/6/06, Sergio Polini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can't understand how to ask dhcp for a static address. > I've read /etc/conf.d/net.example, but using > Any hints? > I know that you can do this with udhcpc using the "-r" option: " -r ADDRESS, --request=ADDRESS Request IP addr

Re: [gentoo-user] eix - What's eix, then?

2006-01-08 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 01:22 +, Stroller wrote: > On 9 Jan 2006, at 00:30, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 20:54 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 20:33:51 +, Stroller wrote: > >> > >>> I'm using esearch at the moment - should I change? > >> > >> I did. ei

[gentoo-user] Sata Controllers and drives

2006-01-08 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I have a system I need to upgrade from SCSI with an Adaptec 3210S RAID (I'm using HItachi nee IBM SCSI Ultrastor drives which aren't holding up too well) and am looking at going with SATA. Some input from the those with recommendations or experiences would be appreciated. 1. SATA Controllers

[gentoo-user] Mailing list problems

2006-01-08 Thread Jamie Dobbs
Are there issues with the mailing lists at the moment? I have made a few posts in the last 2-3 hours that have yet to show up on the lists. I've also noticed considerably less traffic on the lists in recent days, could this be due to a general email slow down due to an increase in spam email traffi

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list problems

2006-01-08 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
It's working here. On Sunday 08 January 2006 20:52, Jamie Dobbs wrote: > Are there issues with the mailing lists at the moment? I have made a few > posts in the last 2-3 hours that have yet to show up on the lists. > I've also noticed considerably less traffic on the lists in recent days, > could

Re: [gentoo-user] eix - What's eix, then?

2006-01-08 Thread John Myers
On Sunday 08 January 2006 17:49, Iain Buchanan wrote: > can eix do the following (taken from esearch --help) Yep! -- # # electronerd, the electronerdian from electronerdia # pgp0Vwl6JMMo0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Sata Controllers and drives

2006-01-08 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi Brett On 1/8/06, Brett I. Holcomb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a system I need to upgrade from SCSI with an Adaptec 3210S RAID (I'm > using HItachi nee IBM SCSI Ultrastor drives which aren't holding up too well) > and am looking at going with SATA. Some input from the those with > recom

Re: [gentoo-user] Sata Controllers and drives

2006-01-08 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Thanks, Mark, for the info. Sounds like I need to avoid ATI . I'm in a position where I have a motherboard that doesn't support SATA so I can either go IDE or SATA and going SATA appears to be the future way. That means I have to add a card. Wat the Promise used on a Linux system? Sounds li

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade + gcc dilemma

2006-01-08 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/8/06, Bob Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Simply put you can't. The base system - emerge -e system, has to be done > once and that > gets everything in the system profile built with gcc 3.4. However, both gcc > and glibc need to > be rebuilt again after the first pass, and anything us

[gentoo-user] Video recording

2006-01-08 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I have some VHS tapes I want to record to DVD. I have an Nvidia GeForce3 - TI500 card with Composite Input. For those who have done this what software do you recommend to record the VHS, edit the recording, and then write it to DVD. Thanks. -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org m

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list problems

2006-01-08 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 21:02 -0500, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > On Sunday 08 January 2006 20:52, Jamie Dobbs wrote: > > > > Are there issues with the mailing lists at the moment? I have made a few > > posts in the last 2-3 hours that have yet to show up on the lists. > > I've also noticed considerabl

[gentoo-user] Issues trying to get emerge -uD world to work

2006-01-08 Thread Jamie Dobbs
Please excuse the messy cut and paste but I've been having problems with the mailing list from one of my email accounts and had to move back to this one). I'm still having the same error and cannot work out any way to fix it without removing gnome - which I do not want to do if I can avoid it. Can

Re: [gentoo-user] eix - What's eix, then?

2006-01-08 Thread Benjamin Fritzsche
While were on the subject: is there something like esync for eix? (show me the differences after a emerge sync/eix-update?) I've grown used to this and its currently making me stick with esearch. On Monday 09 January 2006 03:03, John Myers wrote: > On Sunday 08 January 2006 17:49, Iain Buchana

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev Permissions

2006-01-08 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/8/06, Alex Bennee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been having trouble getting udev to create stuff with the right > permissions. The latest is with my phone which has a USB Mass Storrage > Interface. I've added this line to my 10-local.rules: > > # My Phone > BUS="usb", SYSFS{interface}="Son

Re: [gentoo-user] Sata Controllers and drives

2006-01-08 Thread kashani
Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I have a system I need to upgrade from SCSI with an Adaptec 3210S RAID (I'm using HItachi nee IBM SCSI Ultrastor drives which aren't holding up too well) and am looking at going with SATA. Some input from the those with recommendations or experiences would be appreciate

Re: [gentoo-user] eix - What's eix, then?

2006-01-08 Thread John Myers
On Sunday 08 January 2006 18:50, Benjamin Fritzsche wrote: > While were on the subject: > > is there something like esync for eix? > (show me the differences after a emerge sync/eix-update?) eix-sync -- # # electronerd, the electronerdian from electronerdia # pgpSfs72pn0qp.pgp Description: PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] Sata Controllers and drives

2006-01-08 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I'd love to keep this card (it has 256MB of ram, too) but the problem is that it's running six IBM/Hitachi Ultrastore drives - all of which are useless. They keep going bad and even though they are under warranty and get replaced I can't build a system that keeps working for any period of time.

Re: [gentoo-user] USB scanner (Canon LiDE 25) only recognized as root

2006-01-08 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/8/06, Christian Floeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ scanimage -L > > No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different, > check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the > sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the d

Re: [gentoo-user] USB scanner (Canon LiDE 25) only recognized as root

2006-01-08 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/8/06, Christian Floeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Abhay Kedia wrote: > > On Monday 09 January 2006 02:05, Christian Floeter wrote: > > > >>my Canon LiDE 25 scanner is only recognized by scanimage when logged in > >>as root. > >> > > > > A shot in the dark. Could this be the solution? > > ht

Re: [gentoo-user] how to remove gnome complete

2006-01-08 Thread Dale
Rumen Yotov wrote: On (08/01/06 15:22), Daniel Pielmeier wrote: hello all, i want to test some other windowmanagers and if i find one that satisfies me i want to switch from the gnome-desktop to this windowmanager. So how can i remove all gnome packages. Is it save to remove all gnome-base

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade + gcc dilemma

2006-01-08 Thread Bryce Verdier
I have a problem (which i'm getting around by using a link). But if i could really fix, i'd be a lot happier. One thing that's preventing me from doing this though is that for some reason i don't have revdep-rebuild like is recommended below. What package do i install to get it? thanks in adv

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade + gcc dilemma

2006-01-08 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/8/06, Bryce Verdier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a problem (which i'm getting around by using a link). But if i > could really fix, i'd be a lot happier. One thing that's preventing me > from doing this though is that for some reason i don't have > revdep-rebuild like is recommended bel

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list problems

2006-01-08 Thread Dale
Iain Buchanan wrote: you mean I'm not the only one who is suddenly receiving 100x more spam about watches and other crap lately? Nope, you are not alone. I started getting those a little while ago two. Funny thing is, the only watch I have is a cheap Wal-Mart one and I don't wear it

Re: [gentoo-user] eix - What's eix, then?

2006-01-08 Thread Stroller
On 9 Jan 2006, at 01:49, Iain Buchanan wrote: aaahhh, the wait for eupdatedb, yes it does take a while (certainly not 90 minutes, more like 5 minutes for me) but then I run it from cron at lunch, so I don't notice... much :) I think you meant to say: aaahhh, the wait for eupdatedb, yes i

[gentoo-user] Maildir permissions, shared folders & postfix

2006-01-08 Thread Stroller
Hi there, It's my understanding that shared folders can be implemented in the Dovecot IMAP server by simply symlinking one maildir to another, eg: $ ls -lan /home/DOMAIN/ned/.maildir/ total 40 drwx-- 9 10012 1 440 Jan 9 04:23 . drwxr-xr-x 3 10012 1

[gentoo-user] OT - MythTV recording - file size

2006-01-08 Thread Michael Sullivan
I recorded a two-hour movie off telivision this evening. I watched it and it looks fine, but the file size is really big: 4.3GB. Is this normal? As I said, the file was recorded by mythtv; it has a .nuv extension. I didn't recognize that extension, so I looked at its properties in nautilus. P

Re: [gentoo-user] package conflict on update

2006-01-08 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Monday 09 January 2006 02:28, Trenton Adams wrote: > > Who says they know they have a fear of computers? You can be doing > something that you don't even know you're afraid of. Obviously if it > was total fear, they would know about it. > LOL!!! Unknown fear? I have heard about "Fear of unknow

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - MythTV recording - file size

2006-01-08 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 12:00:47AM -0600, Penguin Lover Michael Sullivan squawked: > I recorded a two-hour movie off telivision this evening. I watched it > and it looks fine, but the file size is really big: 4.3GB. Is this > normal? As I said, the file was recorded by mythtv; it has a .nuv >

Re: [gentoo-user] Issues trying to get emerge -uD world to work

2006-01-08 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Monday 09 January 2006 08:17, Jamie Dobbs wrote: > Please excuse the messy cut and paste but I've been having problems with > the mailing list from one of my email accounts and had to move back to > this one). > Sync and re-emerge. Known bug, now resolved. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=

Re: [gentoo-user] Issues trying to get emerge -uD world to work

2006-01-08 Thread Jamie Dobbs
Abhay Kedia wrote: On Monday 09 January 2006 08:17, Jamie Dobbs wrote: Please excuse the messy cut and paste but I've been having problems with the mailing list from one of my email accounts and had to move back to this one). Sync and re-emerge. Known bug, now resolved. http://bugs.ge

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