Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome calendar - Start on Sunday instead of Saturday?

2006-01-25 Thread Holly Bostick
Mark Knecht schreef: > Hi, Title says it. My wife wants to configure this item and I cannot > find the control of it in the preferences page. Anyone know how to > make it start on Sunday instead? > > Thanks, Mark > I'm sorry not to be more precise, but I suspect that I may not have the calendar

Re: [gentoo-user] Mysterious dev-lang/php 'n' junk 'n' stuff....

2006-01-25 Thread Holly Bostick
gentuxx schreef: > Hi all, > > I went to do an `emerge -Duatv world` tonight, and I get dev-php/php > and dev-php/mod_php blocking. So I uninstalled them, and thought > that I would re-install later (if necessary). When I run it again, I > get dev-lang/php blocking dev-php/php-4.4.0-r4 (which

Re: [gentoo-user] [POLL] portage-2.1 USE flag ordering

2006-01-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 21:47:29 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: > >> I have the above URL showing the Forum topic on Konqueror 3.5 > >> & there is no choice to click nor any submit button: yes, I logged > >> in. > > Strange. Well, you should be able to find it > > near the top of the "Portage & Programming

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual Boot System Setup

2006-01-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 00:23:51 -0600, Dale wrote: > If grub gets hosed, you can boot a Win 98 CD or a boot floppy and run > fdisk /mbr on it. I recently took a hard drive of mine out of a friends > computer that was dual booting and that was what I did. Now windoze XP > boots up like Linux was nev

RE: [gentoo-user] Dual Boot System Setup

2006-01-25 Thread Michael Kintzios
> -Original Message- > From: Dale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 25 January 2006 06:24 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Dual Boot System Setup > > > If grub gets hosed, you can boot a Win 98 CD or a boot floppy and run > fdisk /mbr on it. I recently t

RE: [gentoo-user] composing fancy html in kmail

2006-01-25 Thread Michael Kintzios
> -Original Message- > From: Robert Persson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 25 January 2006 00:46 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: [gentoo-user] composing fancy html in kmail > > > I want to send an email with both embedded thumbnail images > and external > hyperlinks.

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual Boot System Setup

2006-01-25 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: >On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 00:23:51 -0600, Dale wrote: > > > >>If grub gets hosed, you can boot a Win 98 CD or a boot floppy and run >>fdisk /mbr on it. I recently took a hard drive of mine out of a friends >>computer that was dual booting and that was what I did. Now windoze XP

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome calendar - Start on Sunday instead of Saturday?

2006-01-25 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le mercredi 25 janvier 2006 à 09:39 +0100, Holly Bostick a écrit : > I'm sorry not to be more precise, but I suspect that I may not have the > calendar application you are using. But here is what I found: I guess he speaks of the calendar which appears when you left-click on the clock-applet. >

Re: [gentoo-user] usb wacom tablet

2006-01-25 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Robert, Robert Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 12:38 -0330, Roger Mason wrote: >> Hello, >> [snip] >> Can anyone suggest what may be wrong? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Roger Mason > > It doen't look like you have USB HID turned on in your kernel. > Here is what I have

[gentoo-user] cfengine any one?

2006-01-25 Thread Jean Blignaut
I saw cfengine mentioned here: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/infrastructure/server-standards.xml   But my searching thru the forums and cfengines website aren’t yielding the kind of result I’d expect: What are its features Screenshots? How to configure/setup (if its what

[gentoo-user] meld dependencies

2006-01-25 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
Hi I am a KDE 3.5 user and do not want GNOME since i don't use it. The best diff application that I know of is Meld (I have tried kdiff3, kompare, gtkdiff, tkdiff and of course diff). Meld is a GNOME and Python application and depends on among others gnome-python and gnome-python-extras. Hence

Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

2006-01-25 Thread Tom Smith
Uwe Thiem wrote: >On 25 January 2006 06:46, Tom Smith wrote: > > > >>I read something some time ago that suggested if you transfer a >>compressed file over a compressed SFTP connection, for example, that it >>would take longer to transfer the data versus if only the data or the >>connection was

Re: [gentoo-user] Mysterious dev-lang/php 'n' junk 'n' stuff....

2006-01-25 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 25 January 2006 09:50, gentuxx wrote: > I went to do an `emerge -Duatv world` tonight, and I get dev-php/php > and dev-php/mod_php blocking. So I uninstalled them, and thought that > I would re-install later (if necessary). When I run it again, I get > dev-lang/php blocking dev-php/php-4.4.0-

Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

2006-01-25 Thread Alexander Skwar
Trenton Adams wrote: >> Not possible > on a windows machine. :P Wrong. Alexander Skwar -- printk(KERN_WARNING "Warning: defective CD-ROM (volume sequence number). Enabling \"cruft\" mount option.\n"); linux-2.2.16/fs/isofs/inode.c -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

2006-01-25 Thread John Jolet
I read something some time ago that suggested if you transfer a compressed file over a compressed SFTP connection, for example, that it would take longer to transfer the data versus if only the data or the connection was compressed. The reason, as I recall, had to do with compressing already co

[gentoo-user] Module names???

2006-01-25 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, A simple question, where do I find out modules names? I've currently got menconfig loaded and trying to decide as to whether to go static or module. My problem is that I can't find the names of the modules for most of the options hence how do I know what to load if it is a module. For

[gentoo-user] modules PID

2006-01-25 Thread Cláudio Henrique
how do I find out the PID of a module? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Module names???

2006-01-25 Thread Holly Bostick
Andrew Lowe schreef: > Hi all, A simple question, where do I find out modules names? I've > currently got menconfig loaded and trying to decide as to whether to > go static or module. My problem is that I can't find the names of the > modules for most of the options hence how do I know what to load

Re: [gentoo-user] Module names???

2006-01-25 Thread Dale
Andrew Lowe wrote: > > If anyone can inform me where I can find these module names, it > would be greatly appreciated. I don't know why they aren't all placed > in the help in the first place. > > Regards, > Andrew > It does tell you. You even put it in your email. ;-) If you

Re: [gentoo-user] [POLL] portage-2.1 USE flag ordering

2006-01-25 Thread Philip Webb
060125 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 21:47:29 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: I have the above URL showing the Forum topic on Konqueror 3.5 & there is no choice to click nor submit button: yes, I logged in. >>> Strange. Well, you should be able to find it >>> near the top of the "P

Re: [gentoo-user] modules PID

2006-01-25 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/25/06, Cláudio Henrique <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > how do I find out the PID of a module? What kind of module? kernel modules have no process ID, because they are not a process. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

2006-01-25 Thread Jeff
It brings me great joy to know that my original post has spawned such madness. :-) John Jolet wrote: >> I read something some time ago that suggested if you transfer a >> compressed file over a compressed SFTP connection, for example, that it >> would take longer to transfer the data versus if o

Re: [gentoo-user] Building Kernel Modules with custom kernel trees

2006-01-25 Thread Harald Arnesen
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 00:00:01 +, Alex Bennee wrote: > >> There really is no need to force people to build as root under /usr/src >> so is it possible to educate portage to use the uname method to >> determine the root of the kernel tree for building k

Re: [gentoo-user] meld dependencies

2006-01-25 Thread Rumen Yotov
Hi, On (25/01/06 13:24), Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > Hi > > I am a KDE 3.5 user and do not want GNOME since i don't use it. The best diff > application that I know of is Meld (I have tried kdiff3, kompare, gtkdiff, > tkdiff and of course diff). Meld is a GNOME and Python application and > depe

Re: [gentoo-user] Error message on kde startup

2006-01-25 Thread Paul
On Tuesday 24 Jan 2006 17:45, Manuel McLure wrote: > Paul wrote: > > Hi all, > > Recently I had to update about 24 packages, all went well and any config > > files were updated. However, I now have a problem when kde starts, I get > > an error-kdesktop message saying "The KDE Mediamanager is not r

[gentoo-user] Duplicate mouse clicks??

2006-01-25 Thread Paul
Hi all, Recently I have been having a problem with my usb mouse actions. In kmail when deleting messages using the bin icon sometimes 2 messages will be deleted instead of 1. Sometimes when reading messages another instance will appear in a separate window. Sometimes I have to click a number of t

Re: [gentoo-user] modules PID

2006-01-25 Thread Cláudio Henrique
well, let me describe the problem. sometimes, when I try to synchronize my Palm, pilot-xfer throws a error, and the devices /dev/tts/USBn do not disappear. if it happens repeatedly... well, I guess the scene is painted. I thought it could solve it killing the module. I have tried "modprobe -rf vi

Re: [gentoo-user] Building Kernel Modules with custom kernel trees

2006-01-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:05:21 +0100, Harald Arnesen wrote: > > Portage doesn't build the modules in /usr/src, but it uses > > the /usr/src/linux symlink to determine the kernel for which you wish > > to build the modules; which may not be the same as returned by uname > > -r. > And that is a bug,

Re: [gentoo-user] modules PID

2006-01-25 Thread Matthias Bethke
Hi Cláudio, on Wednesday, 2006-01-25 at 13:47:21, you wrote: > I thought it could solve it killing the module. I have tried "modprobe > -rf visor" but visor do not want to die. > > any ideas? Do you have "forced module unloading" enabled in your kernel? If you do, it's probably a problem in the m

Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate mouse clicks??

2006-01-25 Thread Yann Garnier
Hi, Since hardware is involved, Did you check: 1 - With another USB mouse ? 2 - With your mouse on a different USB port ? I know it seems evident but it's just to be sure that your problem is a software one and not a hardware one. Le 25 janv. 06 à 16:38, Paul a écrit : Hi all, Recently

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: XP laptop crashes Linsys router.

2006-01-25 Thread Trenton Adams
upgrade the firmware on the router. On 1/25/06, Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My son has a toshiba laptop running XP. When ever he plugs in his network > cable, The router linksys goes down. I cannot ping it from my machine. > Rebooting the router allows all machines to reach interne

[gentoo-user] Problems with printer Canon LBP-800

2006-01-25 Thread Mikhail Yarmish
Hello guys, Has somebody setuped Canon LBP-800? Coud he explain how to do that? I've tried to do that like somebody sad at forums about LBP-810 but that haven't worked for me. Thanks in advance! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Dual Boot System Setup

2006-01-25 Thread James
Sean comcast.net> writes: > I have a laptop I want to setup to boot either Gentoo or Windows. > Looking around I am trying to find recommendations as to which is better > to install first, Gentoo or Windows. From what I found, either often > gets a recommendation. > Would anyone recommend whi

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: XP laptop crashes Linsys router.

2006-01-25 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Wednesday 25 January 2006 13:42, a tiny voice compelled [EMAIL PROTECTED] to write: > Recheck (I assume you've checked it already ) his network settings. He > may have a bad card. Can you setup a network trace/sniffer on your linux > box to see what happens? Also the Linksys will log some ev

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: XP laptop crashes Linsys router.

2006-01-25 Thread Trenton Adams
You can restart the network on XP by right clicking the network connection and clicking "repair" I believe. On 1/25/06, Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 25 January 2006 13:42, a tiny voice compelled > [EMAIL PROTECTED] to write: > > Recheck (I assume you've checked it alrea

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: XP laptop crashes Linsys router.

2006-01-25 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Wednesday 25 January 2006 14:39, a tiny voice compelled Trenton Adams to write: > You can restart the network on XP by right clicking the network > connection and clicking "repair" I believe. Hmm might work. ipconfig /release and then ipconfig /renew still seem to need a reboot, though ipconf

[gentoo-user] Re: php blocking

2006-01-25 Thread James
Uwe Thiem iway.na> writes: > Just "emerge --unmerge php" and "emerge dev-lang/php. You will have to fiddle > with the USE flags for php a bit. # emerge --unmerge php --- Couldn't find php to unmerge. unmerge: No packages selected for removal. That's the problem it does not see the php or pear

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: XP laptop crashes Linsys router.

2006-01-25 Thread Phil Sexton
Ernie Schroder wrote: Is there no way of restarting the network on XP? From the dos prompt, command: ipconfig /renew (I think) -- Phil My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances: http://naomisfancy.virtualave.net/schedule.ht

[gentoo-user] Using 'world' file to clone another machine

2006-01-25 Thread Jeff
I'm sure this one's been asked a million times too... Machine A, runs Gentoo/KDE and a handful of other apps I've collected over the year. I would like Machine B to have the same exact packages. How would I use Machine A's /var/lib/portage/world file to make my 'clone'? Thanks all. -- Darth V

Re: [gentoo-user] Using 'world' file to clone another machine

2006-01-25 Thread Michael A. Smith
Jeff wrote: I'm sure this one's been asked a million times too... Machine A, runs Gentoo/KDE and a handful of other apps I've collected over the year. I would like Machine B to have the same exact packages. How would I use Machine A's /var/lib/portage/world file to make my 'clone'? Thanks all

Re: [gentoo-user] Using 'world' file to clone another machine

2006-01-25 Thread Michael A. Smith
Michael A. Smith wrote: Jeff wrote: I'm sure this one's been asked a million times too... Machine A, runs Gentoo/KDE and a handful of other apps I've collected over the year. I would like Machine B to have the same exact packages. How would I use Machine A's /var/lib/portage/world file to ma

Re: [gentoo-user] Using 'world' file to clone another machine

2006-01-25 Thread Chris White
On Thursday 26 January 2006 06:03, Michael A. Smith wrote: > Correction. emerge --ask `cat /tmp/welcome_to_my_world.lst` Correction, Correction: `emerge --ask $(< /tmp/welcome_to_my_world.lst)` or heck: `emerge --ask < /tmp/welcome_to_my_world.lst` might even work > ;-D Chris White pgpB1vYu

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: XP laptop crashes Linsys router.

2006-01-25 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Wednesday 25 January 2006 14:52, a tiny voice compelled Phil Sexton to write: > Ernie Schroder wrote: > > Is there no way of restarting the network on > > XP? > > From the dos prompt, command: > > ipconfig /renew > > (I think) > I did a release and renew and got a valid IP from the router but

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: XP laptop crashes Linsys router.

2006-01-25 Thread Trenton Adams
Use ethereal, as it has a GUI. On 1/25/06, Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 25 January 2006 14:52, a tiny voice compelled Phil Sexton to > write: > > Ernie Schroder wrote: > > > Is there no way of restarting the network on > > > XP? > > > > From the dos prompt, command: >

Re: [gentoo-user] composing fancy html in kmail

2006-01-25 Thread Robert Persson
On Wednesday 25 January 2006 01:29 Michael Kintzios was like: > I can't remember if Thunderbird has a GUI for HTML editing (never used > it), but have you tried using applications like Quanta+ or even OOo as > an external editor to kmail? I did try using OOo. Unfortunately it could not manage to r

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: XP laptop crashes Linsys router.

2006-01-25 Thread brettholcomb
Isn't windows fun . Someone has a sense of humor. In my new assignment I am now the Administrator for Windows servers and SQL Servers! I asked it that was because a) no one else wanted windows (we're AIX/Linux/Netware) and b) I was low man on the totem pole. The answer was jokingly yes - plu

Re: [gentoo-user] Using 'world' file to clone another machine

2006-01-25 Thread Michael A. Smith
Chris White wrote: On Thursday 26 January 2006 06:03, Michael A. Smith wrote: Correction. emerge --ask `cat /tmp/welcome_to_my_world.lst` Correction, Correction: `emerge --ask $(< /tmp/welcome_to_my_world.lst)` Way to decrease entropy, Chris. Why don't you email the whole list and tell the

[gentoo-user] kernel config power-saving arcana; and getting acpi working.

2006-01-25 Thread Robert Persson
Some while back I was trying to get power saving working fully on my desktop box and I found people talking about swsusp (as opposed to swsusp2) being part of the official kernel sources. This puzzled me greatly because I have never come across this option when configuring a kernel. In the end I

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel config power-saving arcana; and getting acpi working.

2006-01-25 Thread Ian Kester-Haney
On 1/25/06, Robert Persson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Some while back I was trying to get power saving working fully on my desktop > box and I found people talking about swsusp (as opposed to swsusp2) being > part of the official kernel sources. This puzzled me greatly because I have > never come

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel config power-saving arcana; and getting acpi working.

2006-01-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:48:55 -0800, Robert Persson wrote: > Some while back I was trying to get power saving working fully on my > desktop box and I found people talking about swsusp (as opposed to > swsusp2) being part of the official kernel sources. This puzzled me > greatly because I have never

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel config power-saving arcana; and getting acpi working.

2006-01-25 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Wednesday 25 January 2006 19:27, a tiny voice compelled Neil Bothwick to write: > On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:48:55 -0800, Robert Persson wrote: > > Some while back I was trying to get power saving working fully on my > > desktop box and I found people talking about swsusp (as opposed to > > swsusp2

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: php blocking

2006-01-25 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/25/06, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # emerge --unmerge php > --- Couldn't find php to unmerge. > unmerge: No packages selected for removal. > > That's the problem it does not see the php or pear modules. > > emerge --unmerge pear > --- Couldn't find pear to unmerge. > unmerge: No package

[gentoo-user] Strangeness on a fresh install

2006-01-25 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
Hi all, I am having a real strange problem on a fresh install, I had used a stage3 tarball from internet and when I try to emerge syslog-ng I got this error checking for C compiler default output...configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables See config.log for more details. I had a look

Re: [gentoo-user] Strangeness on a fresh install

2006-01-25 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Thursday 26 January 2006 11:49, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: > Hi all, I am having a real strange problem on a fresh install, I had > used a stage3 tarball from internet and when I try to emerge syslog-ng > I got this error > checking for C compiler default output...configure: error: C compiler >

[gentoo-user] Re: php blocking

2006-01-25 Thread James
Richard Fish asmallpond.org> writes: > Try "PEAR-PEAR" (packages names are case-sensitive). # emerge --unmerge PEAR-PEAR --- Couldn't find PEAR-PEAR to unmerge. unmerge: No packages selected for removal. > > I even 'emerge --sync' again, today and still > > I have: > Add the --tree option to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: php blocking

2006-01-25 Thread Andreas Claesson
On 1/26/06, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Richard Fish asmallpond.org> writes: > > > Add the --tree option to see what is actually trying to bring in > > dev-php/mod_php and dev-php/php. > > # emerge --unmerge --tree PEAR-PEAR > --tree implies --pretend... adding --pretend to options. > The

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: php blocking

2006-01-25 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/25/06, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Richard Fish asmallpond.org> writes: > > Add the --tree option to see what is actually trying to bring in > > dev-php/mod_php and dev-php/php. > > # emerge --unmerge --tree PEAR-PEAR > --tree implies --pretend... adding --pretend to options. > These

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel config power-saving arcana; and getting acpi working.

2006-01-25 Thread Robert Persson
On Wednesday 25 January 2006 16:27 Neil Bothwick was like: > Type / followed by susp while in make menuconfig to find it. Just > browsing the options won't necessarily find what you want, because some > only appear when others are enabled, whereas the search function shows > all matching options, a

Re: [gentoo-user] Mysterious dev-lang/php 'n' junk 'n' stuff....

2006-01-25 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Holly Bostick wrote: >gentuxx schreef: > >>Hi all, >> > > >>I went to do an `emerge -Duatv world` tonight, and I get dev-php/php >>and dev-php/mod_php blocking. So I uninstalled them, and thought >>that I would re-install later (if necessary). When I

Re: [gentoo-user] amarok sound engine

2006-01-25 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/24/06, Martins Steinbergs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I emerged amarok, great gui to manage collection, but sound output is bumpy > with xine engine. gstreamer apears not to work at all. I tried to tweak > settings and xine config with no luck. However, playing adio directly in xine >

[gentoo-user] no trouble getting to sleep, but would rather die than wake up

2006-01-25 Thread Robert Persson
I have finally got some acpi sleep states working on my desktop box (thanks everyone!), but not all the way I would like. The box has an asus p4p800-se motherboard and a hyperthreading p4 processor. Hyperthreading is enabled in the kernel (which is why it was hard to find out how to get sleep e