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

2006-01-09 Thread Christian Floeter
Richard Fish wrote: No similar problem here (LIDE35, genesys backend). Take a look at (or post) the output of strace -e open sane-find-scanner -q [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ strace -e open sane-find-scanner -q open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3 open("/usr/lib/libusb-0.1.so.4", O_RDONLY) =

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] openoffice calc custom "accountancy" number format

2006-01-09 Thread Philip Webb
060109 Iain Buchanan wrote: > you may know that M$Excel has a number format called "accounting" IIRC, > that lines up the currency sign: > $10.00 > $ 100.00 > $ 1000.00 > $ -123.45 > Openoffice, as far as I've know it from 1.x to the current 2.x > doesn't have such an option. The f

[gentoo-user] How to control permissions on / ?

2006-01-09 Thread Jose Gonzalez Gomez
Hi there,Can you control permissions on /? If so, how? I've found that I have the following in two different machines:proxy ~ # ls -ld /d-wxrt  19 root root 472 Nov 15 17:41 /protos ~ # ls -ld / drwxr-xr-x  19 root root 440 mar 10  2005 /I've been having a permission related problem in the firs

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list problems

2006-01-09 Thread Holly Bostick
Jamie Dobbs schreef: > 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade + gcc dilemma

2006-01-09 Thread Holly Bostick
Bryce Verdier schreef: > 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

Re: [gentoo-user] How to control permissions on / ?

2006-01-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 9 Jan 2006 11:22:41 +0100, Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: > Can you control permissions on /? If so, how? I've found that I have the > following in two different machines: > > proxy ~ # ls -ld / > d-wxrt 19 root root 472 Nov 15 17:41 / > protos ~ # ls -ld / > drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 440

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo installer suggestions

2006-01-09 Thread Holly Bostick
Tom Martin schreef: > On Sun, 8 Jan 2006 02:09:14 -0700 > Trenton Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>For those developing the graphical gentoo installer... >> >>Might I suggest a "search" box at the bottom of the extra packages >>screen, to be able to search for packages? >> > > > Probably

Re: [gentoo-user] How to control permissions on / ?

2006-01-09 Thread Alexander Skwar
Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: > Can you control permissions on /? Sure. > If so, how? Just like with every other directory - chown & chmod. Alexander Skwar -- Men of quality are not afraid of women for equality. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2006-01-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 09 Jan 2006 00:00:47 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: > 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? Certainly. The size depends on the quality at which it has been recorded, and this

[gentoo-user] gstreamer mms plugin missing

2006-01-09 Thread Massimiliano Bellomo
Hi, i'm in trouble to reproduce an mms audio stream because of missing plugin in gstreamer (totem is using this backend). I've tried also installing the new version 0.10 but this plugin is always missing, maybe it's in the gst-plugins-bad package, but this is not include in portage. Any

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - Permissions on mounted Windowspartition

2006-01-09 Thread Michael Kintzios
> -Original Message- > From: Michael Sullivan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 08 January 2006 02:07 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - Permissions on mounted > Windowspartition > > > > > Yep, I asked this a couple of days ago, but the title > c

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

2006-01-09 Thread Mike Williams
On Monday 09 January 2006 04:37, Stroller 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 f

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 and gnome (long, thinking out loud)

2006-01-09 Thread Holly Bostick
David Meyer schreef: > Has anyone been able to emerge both of these? If I emerge xorg-x11 > then gnome, the gnome emerge dies with an error compiling pango: > > /usr/include/pango-1.0/pango/pangoxft-render.h:95: error: parse error > before "XftGlyphSpec" keyboard-drawing.c: In function > `xkb_s

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

2006-01-09 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Monday 09 January 2006 17:48, Mike Williams wrote: > > You know, you could all just use: > http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_speed_up_portage_with_cdb > ...and if we face any problems we will be flamed by purist Gentooers? Reading that wiki entry made me remember the people who use --oh-so-fast CFLAGS

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

2006-01-09 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Saturday 07 January 2006 00:11, David Meyer wrote: > > /usr/include/pango-1.0/pango/pangoxft-render.h:95: error: parse error > before "XftGlyphSpec" keyboard-drawing.c: In function > `xkb_state_notify_event_filter': > I somehow missed this post. Replied to a similar post b Jamie. Anyways, sync

[gentoo-user] su stopped working

2006-01-09 Thread Beau E. Cox
Hi - Very strange... 'su' ( and 'sudo' ) stopped working for my normal users. I get the "su: Permission denied, Sorry." message. I have tried: 1) changed the root password; no joy 2) created a new user and tried 'su'; ditto 3) tried in X( kde ) and non-X; nope 4) rebooted; nada I can't seem to f

Re: [gentoo-user] su stopped working

2006-01-09 Thread John Jolet
what are the permissions on the su binary? On Jan 9, 2006, at 8:18 AM, Beau E. Cox wrote: Hi - Very strange... 'su' ( and 'sudo' ) stopped working for my normal users. I get the "su: Permission denied, Sorry." message. I have tried: 1) changed the root password; no joy 2) created a new user a

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - Permissions on mounted Windowspartition

2006-01-09 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 12:16 +, Michael Kintzios wrote: > > > -Original Message- > > From: Michael Sullivan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: 08 January 2006 02:07 > > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - Permissions on mounted > > Windowspartitio

Re: [gentoo-user] su stopped working

2006-01-09 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 04:18 -1000, Beau E. Cox wrote: > Hi - > > Very strange... 'su' ( and 'sudo' ) stopped working for my > normal users. I get the "su: Permission denied, Sorry." message. > > I have tried: > 1) changed the root password; no joy > 2) created a new user and tried 'su'; ditto > 3

[gentoo-user] reiserfs 'no journal replay'

2006-01-09 Thread James
Hello, When I boot up a gentoo portable, I get this message: file system is mounted read only no journal replay dmesg contains this line "VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly." What up with these? Do I have something configured wrong in /etc/fstab? elsewhere? ignore these messages

Re: [gentoo-user] su stopped working

2006-01-09 Thread Arnau Bria Ramírez
El Mon, 9 Jan 2006 04:18:32 -1000 Beau E. Cox dijo: > Hi - > > Very strange... 'su' ( and 'sudo' ) stopped working for my > normal users. I get the "su: Permission denied, Sorry." message. is your user still in the wheel group? Cheers! -- Arnau Bria -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2006-01-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/9/06, Christian Floeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Richard Fish wrote: > > > No similar problem here (LIDE35, genesys backend). Take a look at (or > > post) the output of > > > > strace -e open sane-find-scanner -q > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ strace -e open sane-find-scanner -q > open("/proc/

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

2006-01-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/9/06, Mike Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You know, you could all just use: > http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_speed_up_portage_with_cdb > > Then get ultra fast metadata updates (no 50-51% hang*), quick searches (not as > quick as eix or esearch but *way* quicker than portage standard), and n

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

2006-01-09 Thread Octavio Ruiz (Ta^3)
Richard Fish, who happens to be smarter than you, thinks: > On 1/9/06, Christian Floeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Richard Fish wrote: > > > No similar problem here (LIDE35, genesys backend). Take a look at (or > > > post) the output of > > > strace -e open sane-find-scanner -q > > [EMAIL PRO

Re: [gentoo-user] reiserfs 'no journal replay'

2006-01-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/9/06, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > When I boot up a gentoo portable, I get this message: > > file system is mounted read only no journal replay > > dmesg contains this line > "VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly." > > What up with these? Do I have something conf

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

2006-01-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 9 Jan 2006 07:45:21 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > Except that this will break with portage 2.1: > > ewarn "This series contains a completely rewritten caching > framework." ewarn "If you are using any cache modules (such as the CDB > cache" ewarn "module) portage will not work unti

Re: [gentoo-user] su stopped working [SOLVED]

2006-01-09 Thread Beau E. Cox
On Monday 09 January 2006 04:27 am, Michael Sullivan wrote: > On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 04:18 -1000, Beau E. Cox wrote: > > Hi - > > > > Very strange... 'su' ( and 'sudo' ) stopped working for my > > normal users. I get the "su: Permission denied, Sorry." message. > > > > I have tried: > > 1) changed t

Re: [gentoo-user] Sata Controllers and drives

2006-01-09 Thread Bill Roberts
I just bought this sata controller: SYBA SY-VIA-150 PCI SATA /IDE Combo Controller Card, Non Raid Cost was $11.60 at Newegg. Gives you two satas, one ide. Only has one sata cable with it, and you will need sata power-adapters, depending on the sata drives you buy. Works well with the following ke

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo installer suggestions

2006-01-09 Thread Trenton Adams
Thanks Holly, I actually did already read a review. I think it was the link you sent. Not sure now. I'll check it out. On 1/9/06, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tom Martin schreef: > > On Sun, 8 Jan 2006 02:09:14 -0700 > > Trenton Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>For tho

Re: [gentoo-user] Sata Controllers and drives

2006-01-09 Thread Bill Roberts
Sata drives I am thrilled with are: Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 ST3300831AS 300GB 7200 RPM At $131, seems to be good value for money. Quiet, good reputation. Western Digital Raptor WD740GD 74GB 10,000 RPM I have two of these set up in software RAID0. Lightening fast, quiet given the speed. Expens

[gentoo-user] Re: Mailing list problems

2006-01-09 Thread Robin
Of course. Blame gmail. Typical. LOL That is probably what it is... If you check the gentoo-user archives it should appear there. On 1/9/06, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jamie Dobbs schreef: > > Are there issues with the mailing lists at the moment? I have made a few > > posts in

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

2006-01-09 Thread Christian Floeter
Richard Fish wrote: On 1/9/06, Christian Floeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Richard Fish wrote: No similar problem here (LIDE35, genesys backend). Take a look at (or post) the output of strace -e open sane-find-scanner -q [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ strace -e open sane-find-scanner -q open("/p

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

2006-01-09 Thread Christian Floeter
Octavio Ruiz (Ta^3) wrote: # emerge sys-apps/coldplug # rc-update add coldplug default # /etc/init.d/coldplug $ sane-find-scanner -q sakura cf # rc-update show alsasound | aumix | bootmisc | boot checkfs | boot checkroot | boot

Re: [gentoo-user] No xterms after kernel upgrade. [solved]

2006-01-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 8 Jan 2006 14:49:28 -0800, darren kirby wrote: > Thank you. This is the invocation I was looking for. Hard to start an > app from the CLI when you can't get a CLI ;) Pressing alt-F2 in KDE may work. -- Neil Bothwick One of the nice things about standards is that there are so many of t

Re: [gentoo-user] Sata Controllers and drives

2006-01-09 Thread maxim wexler
> > 2. Sata drives - what have you found to be reliable > and work well. I've > crossed Hitachi off my list because of my experience > with the Ultrastores. Western Digital works OK for me. in my .config: CONFIG_SCSI_SATA=y CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_NV=y CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_SIL=y

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox -- too weird![FIXED]

2006-01-09 Thread maxim wexler
--- Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Abhay Kedia schreef: > > On Sunday 08 January 2006 00:05, maxim wexler > wrote: > > > >> I did this twice, so it's no mere fluke. I rushed > over to Yahoo to > >> post this and the window's still OK. So, > thankfully it's not > >> permanent ;) > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] How to control permissions on / ?

2006-01-09 Thread kashani
Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: Hi there, Can you control permissions on /? If so, how? I've found that I have the following in two different machines: proxy ~ # ls -ld / d-wxrt 19 root root 472 Nov 15 17:41 / protos ~ # ls -ld / drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 440 mar 10 2005 / I installed a mac

[gentoo-user] LUKS

2006-01-09 Thread Cláudio Henrique
has anybody here used LUKS? If I used on any of my HDs, will I be able to update them? What if the data of some file gets corrupted, will I loose the whole HD? thanks in advance, claudio. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2006-01-09 Thread Preston Hagar
Another link for you reference is:http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Speed_up_searches_in_portageIt describes both eix and esearch with the basic info (updating the database, output, etc.) PrestonOn 1/9/06, Mike Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You know, you could all just use:http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP

Re: [gentoo-user] LUKS

2006-01-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/9/06, Cláudio Henrique <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > has anybody here used LUKS? I'm using it on my AMD system. > If I used on any of my HDs, will I be able to update them? What do you mean? If you mean changing the password, yes. > What if the > data of some file gets corrupted, will I lo

Re: [gentoo-user] LUKS

2006-01-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 09 January 2006 10:57, Cláudio Henrique <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] LUKS': > has anybody here used LUKS? I haven't, but when I next create an encrypted pv/lv, I will be. > If I used on any of my HDs, will I be able to update them? What do you mean by update? LUKS

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade + gcc dilemma

2006-01-09 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Richard Fish wrote: > # emerge -uav gcc > # gcc-config i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4 > # source /etc/profile > # emerge --oneshot -av libtool > # revdep-rebuild --library libstdc++.so.5 > # emerge -Duv world > > Watch out for a portage or python update though...and don't forget the > python-updater if

[gentoo-user] Re: reiserfs 'no journal replay'

2006-01-09 Thread James
Richard Fish asmallpond.org> writes: > > When I boot up a gentoo portable, I get this message: > > > > file system is mounted read only no journal replay > > > > dmesg contains this line > > "VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly." > > > > What up with these? Do I have something con

[gentoo-user] Re: Video recording

2006-01-09 Thread James
Brett I. Holcomb bellsouth.net> writes: > For those who have done this what software do you recommend to record the > VHS, > edit the recording, and then write it to DVD. The linux Journal had an article on 'kino' some time ago you might find useful. hth, James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org m

[gentoo-user] ntp won't synchronize

2006-01-09 Thread matthew . garman
I've been struggling with ntp for some time now. I've followed the gentoo wiki HOWTO for ntp: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Setup_MythTV#NTP As well as many other sources over the months. Basically, ntpq shows that I am not synchronized to any peers: # ntpq -p remote refid

[gentoo-user] PORTDIR_OVERLAY

2006-01-09 Thread Beau E. Cox
Hi - I'm working on a series of ebuilds for the more esoteric CPAN modules that I use. In the Gentoo Developer Handbook there is a statement about PORTDIR_OVERLAY: "In that directory, you must use the same structure (and categories) as in /usr/portage." OK. But I really want to make a new catego

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTDIR_OVERLAY

2006-01-09 Thread Holly Bostick
Beau E. Cox schreef: > Hi - > > I'm working on a series of ebuilds for the more esoteric CPAN modules > that I use. In the Gentoo Developer Handbook there is a statement > about PORTDIR_OVERLAY: > > "In that directory, you must use the same structure (and categories) > as in /usr/portage." > > O

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTDIR_OVERLAY

2006-01-09 Thread Beau E. Cox
On Monday 09 January 2006 11:15 am, Holly Bostick wrote: > Beau E. Cox schreef: > > Hi - > > > > I'm working on a series of ebuilds for the more esoteric CPAN modules > > that I use. In the Gentoo Developer Handbook there is a statement > > about PORTDIR_OVERLAY: > > > > "In that directory, you mus

[gentoo-user] character buffered pipes (not line buffered) help!

2006-01-09 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi all, This one has turned out to be a bit of a tough nut to crack! Essentially, here's what I want to do: $ rsync --progress ./ | awk '$0~/ /{sub(/%/,"");print $2;fflush()}' | zenity --progress essentially what this does, is pipe the rsync output to awk, which strips off the '$' and prints o

Re: [gentoo-user] package conflict on update

2006-01-09 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Monday 09 January 2006 02:07, a tiny voice compelled Abhay Kedia to write: > 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,

[gentoo-user] A New Linux Way

2006-01-09 Thread Mark Stewart
Hello fellow Linux Users! We here at SaviourLinux.com desire to create a united universal way. Please visit the website for more information, but here is the purpose: Saviour Linux is an easy and universal Linux distribution that pays community programmers. Saviour Linux is not just another di

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Video recording

2006-01-09 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Thanks. I'll look it up. On Monday 09 January 2006 13:26, James wrote: > Brett I. Holcomb bellsouth.net> writes: > > For those who have done this what software do you recommend to record the > > VHS, edit the recording, and then write it to DVD. > > The linux Journal had an article on 'kino' som

Re: [gentoo-user] Sata Controllers and drives

2006-01-09 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
That is very nice to know. I like the price . Thank you for this and the drive info. On Monday 09 January 2006 10:35, Bill Roberts wrote: > I just bought this sata controller: > > SYBA SY-VIA-150 PCI SATA /IDE Combo Controller Card, Non Raid > > Cost was $11.60 at Newegg. Gives you two satas,

Re: [gentoo-user] Sata Controllers and drives

2006-01-09 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Thanks. I'll look at them. Anyone want any used IBM 36 Gig SCSI Ultra 3 drives . On Monday 09 January 2006 11:38, maxim wexler wrote: > > 2. Sata drives - what have you found to be reliable > > and work well. I've > > crossed Hitachi off my list because of my experience > > with the Ultrastor

[gentoo-user] PPTP + MPPE + pptpconfig + Kernel 2.6.15 + ndiswrapper -> unstable connectivity

2006-01-09 Thread Justin Hart
Hi, I recently upgraded my kernel to 2.6.15, enabling MPPE so I could connect to my campus network's VPN. I'm using pptpconfig to set up the connection. It's plain-vanilla, name of the server and such with the require_mppe box checked. I'm connecting via 802.11g, using ndiswrapper to by Broadco

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

2006-01-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/9/06, Christian Floeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BTW, sane-find-scanner always finds my scanner, it's scanimage that doesn't. Ok, sounds like a sane configuration or installation issue, not really a system problem. Let's try something with scanimage: strace -f -e open scanimage -L 2>&1