Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread b.n.
Harald Arnesen wrote: And xterm is mostly compatible with a real VT100, which other terminal emulators usually aren't. As someone that has never, ever used a real VT100, what's the purpose of this full emulation (apart from historical/nostalgic value, of course: and I value this, really)?

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 09:26:30PM +0200, Penguin Lover Jure Varlec squawked: > I use yakuake. It's the the best drop-down terminal I've ever used, and I > believe I tried almost all of them (there really aren't many). Off the top of > my head, I recall yeahconsole and kuake. There's also tilda,

Re: [gentoo-user] System.map not found - unable to check symbols

2006-05-09 Thread Glenn Enright
> > > > > System.map not found - unable to check symbols. > > > > > which doesn't seem to cause problems during/after booting (??). > > > > > > > > > > I did a manual kernel compilation > > > > > > > > To do this, I always do: > > > > > > > > make all modules_install install > > > > > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?

2006-05-09 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 11:24:22PM +0100, Ognjen Bezanov wrote > Note that in both drivers, you need to state you want to use DAE > rather then the old analog method (this is due to the fact that not > all CD-ROM's have good DAE capabilities). Under "CD Audio Player", > you need to set "Play mode

Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?

2006-05-09 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 05:34:57PM +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote > You don't need the audio-cable to hear music from a cd - just the right > application ;) > > like: > kscd > amarok My idea of "the right application" doesn't install 75% of KDE or GNOME... [m3000][root][~] emerge -pv k

Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?

2006-05-09 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 05:52:07PM +0200, Harald Arnesen wrote > Stef?n Istv?n <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > h?tf? 08 m?jus 2006 11.32 d?tummal Walter Dnes ezt ?rta: > >> I've been so used to playing mp3 files that I'm lost with real live > >> audio CDs (not a data CD with mp3 files). The X

Re: [gentoo-user] unison and the modular X

2006-05-09 Thread W.Kenworthy
Nope, installed it and rebuilt again unison as well The font wanted to pull in dnd and xemacs packages - dnd failed to build and I dont want xemacs (I already have one operating system :) so I did it -nodeps. Same error :) BillK On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 08:49 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue,

[gentoo-user] How do I get minimal portage-logs

2006-05-09 Thread Daevid Vincent
In /etc/make.conf I have PORT_LOGDIR="/var/tmp/portage-logs" This is great in that I can then read through the billions of .log files to see if there are any post install manual tasks I have to do. However, a good majority of them are just compilation output. I really don't need or care to see th

Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?

2006-05-09 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 08:35:04PM -0400, Penguin Lover Walter Dnes squawked: > - alsamixer CD unmuted and volume set to 77 > - I am a member of audio and cdrom groups > - the "cdplay" program sees the number of tracks and and their > lengths on the cdrom. "cdplay -c -v" goes through the

Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?

2006-05-09 Thread John Jolet
On May 9, 2006, at 8:34 PM, Willie Wong wrote: On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 08:35:04PM -0400, Penguin Lover Walter Dnes squawked: - alsamixer CD unmuted and volume set to 77 - I am a member of audio and cdrom groups - the "cdplay" program sees the number of tracks and and their lengths o

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get minimal portage-logs

2006-05-09 Thread Matthew Cline
On 5/9/06, Daevid Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just want the juicy ones. The ones that tell me to take further action. Is there a setting to tailor this? I can think of two things off the top of my head: 1) In the unstable version of portage, there is a feature called elog that is su

[gentoo-user] Clue to enable DRI/GLX support on PCI Express card

2006-05-09 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
Hi List, I was wondering if someone could show me where to look information to enable DRI/GLX on a ATI X300 PCI Express video board. I was wanting to test some 3d games, but without enableing DRi is just impossible. Thanks, Allan -- An application asked: "Requeires Windows 9x, NT4 or better", s

Re: [gentoo-user] New USE flags???

2006-05-09 Thread Justin Findlay
On 5/8/06, JimD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How would you recommend changing USE flags or making them better? You should post suggestions to the devs. I think they need some fixing as well. However, I haven't really thought much about it and so have no real useful suggestions, yet. OK, let's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage tree hosed?

2006-05-09 Thread Adrian
On Mon, 08 May 2006 15:32:54 +0200 Sven Köhler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote the words: > > From doing a google, it looks like i need to run > > > > emerge sync > > > > in order to fix this. However, if I could sync then I wouldn't be > > doing this. Everytime I try to sync it times out and I neve

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage tree hosed?

2006-05-09 Thread Adrian
On Mon, 8 May 2006 10:50:59 -0300 "Daniel da Veiga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote the words: > On 5/7/06, Adrian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Greetings. I'm trying to set up a new Gentoo box. > > > > I downloaded the latest portage snapshot, untared it and ran > > > > emerge regen > > > > you

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage tree hosed?

2006-05-09 Thread Adrian
On Mon, 8 May 2006 21:01:11 +0300 "Mantas Povilaitis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote the words: > On 5/8/06, Mantas Povilaitis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 5/7/06, Adrian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Everytime I try to sync it times out and I never finish. > > > > I'm on dial-up, so it's a

Re: [gentoo-user] New USE flags???

2006-05-09 Thread Bob Sanders
On Tue, 9 May 2006 20:06:53 -0600 "Justin Findlay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not even the most dogged user is going to read through every flag and > decide if he wants it set or not. I do and set specific sets of flags for each machine I run. It does take about 30 min. and I do have to chec

Re: [gentoo-user] New USE flags???

2006-05-09 Thread Jim
Justin Findlay wrote: On 5/8/06, JimD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How would you recommend changing USE flags or making them better? You should post suggestions to the devs. I think they need some fixing as well. However, I haven't really thought much about it and so have no real useful sugges

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage tree hosed?

2006-05-09 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 5/9/06, Adrian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 8 May 2006 21:01:11 +0300 "Mantas Povilaitis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote the words: > On 5/8/06, Mantas Povilaitis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 5/7/06, Adrian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Everytime I try to sync it times out and I

[gentoo-user] Emerge stalls

2006-05-09 Thread Alan E. Davis
My machine is on a Public School system network, behind a firewall. I wonder whether this is affecting the merging process. I'm not knowledgeable enough about networking to understand how the firewall works, what it affects. When emerging a package, often the process starts, runs for a short wh

[gentoo-user] how to configure raid

2006-05-09 Thread El Nino
dear list friends, i'm new to raid. i have a netfinity5000 server with 5 scsi+raid, 256mb ram, p3 450mhz 1 processor. pl guide me to configure the raid from gentoo. note: i trid to configure it using de server guide but it faild saying 'need minimum 256mb ram. i don't know y, its already has 256

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Nagatoro
Neil Bothwick wrote: > I am writing a comparative review of a number of X terminals, so I > thought I'd draw on the collective wisdom of this list. which are your > most/least favourite X terminals, and why? Most: rxvt-unicode because it's the fastest I've used (and it has unicode support), one do

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Jorge Almeida
Konsole. Allows me to set a background. Nothing fancy, just a very light yellow wich I find appropriate for my eyesight. Also allows to customize text colors (directories, symlinks,etc). These two points are _really_ important--we're not talking eye candy here. I don't have much use for other fril

[gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Remy Blank
Alexander Skwar wrote: > My text color is black, as my background is white, which is, BTW, > the best to read for the majority of people (if you're not handicapped, > that is). That's so, because the contrast between the text and the > background cannot be higher than with black on white (or white

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