Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu structure lost by using gnome

2007-05-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 30 April 2007, Roy Wright wrote: > Also I don't understand how or where the menu structure is defined on > disk.  Any good references? You will probably get a good reply long before you read this (tomorrow is a public holiday in my country and I won't be online) but here goes: KDE and

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting installation directories globally

2007-05-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 02 May 2007, Paul Sebastian Ziegler wrote: > > Whats the purpose of this? > > To create a very clear directory structure for a small binary Linux > distribution I am planning to build using Gentoo and Portage. > You mean as in compile a bunch of stuff on a Gentoo host, write the bi

Re: [gentoo-user] Netboot questions

2007-05-02 Thread Jan Seeger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Concerning Number 2: You need to have gensplash enabled in the Kernel (which it is), and have emerged the splashutils packages. Also, you need to modify your grub.conf to use a framebuffer. Furthermore, you need to create an initial ramdisk to load the

Re: [gentoo-user] "emerge -uDN world" minus one package

2007-05-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 01 May 2007, Jesse Adelman wrote: > Any suggestions? When faced with a similar problem in the distant > past, I've grabbed the old ebuild from CVS for mythtv (and plugins) > and put it in an overlay, but that seems so inelegant... I'm not > without a remedy, I just hope to find out a les

Re: [gentoo-user] Useless error messages from iptables-restore

2007-05-02 Thread Benno Schulenberg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >The final remaining problem is with the 3 statements scattered > through the rules... > > -A ICMP_IN -p icmp -m state --state NEW -j UNSOLICITED > -A TCP_IN -p tcp -m state --state NEW -m tcp -j UNSOLICITED > -A UDP_IN -p udp -m state --state NEW -j UNSOLICITED The "-

Re: [gentoo-user] Useless error messages from iptables-restore

2007-05-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 1 May 2007 22:38:27 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >The final remaining problem is with the 3 statements scattered > through the rules... > > -A ICMP_IN -p icmp -m state --state NEW -j UNSOLICITED > -A TCP_IN -p tcp -m state --state NEW -m tcp -j UNSOLICITED > -A UDP_IN -p udp -m

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Dell Inspiron M1710

2007-05-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 02 May 2007 00:47:21 -0400 Colleen Beamer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm having a heck of a time with the nvidia-drivers on my new Dell > Inspiron M1710. I can install the driver, but when the laptop is > booting, the font doesn't resize - something do do with the > framebuffer, bu

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting installation directories globally

2007-05-02 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 02 May 2007 04:03:23 Paul Sebastian Ziegler wrote: > > Whats the purpose of this? > > To create a very clear directory structure for a small binary Linux > distribution I am planning to build using Gentoo and Portage. This reminds me very much of [1]. Basically it's a lot harder to su

[gentoo-user] udev net persistent rules

2007-05-02 Thread Graham Murray
When updating udev from a version without persistent rules to one which has them, how do I force the system to create 60-persistent-net.rules with the current ethn assignments *before* rebooting the system? I am updating remote systems using ssh, and had a problem whereby one system had reversed et

[gentoo-user] udev net persistent rules

2007-05-02 Thread John covici
on Wednesday 05/02/2007 Graham Murray([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > When updating udev from a version without persistent rules to one which > has them, how do I force the system to create 60-persistent-net.rules > with the current ethn assignments *before* rebooting the system? I am > updating rem

Re: [gentoo-user] Netboot questions

2007-05-02 Thread Dave Oxley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jan Seeger wrote: > Concerning Number 2: > You need to have gensplash enabled in the Kernel (which it is), and have > emerged the splashutils packages. Also, you need to modify your grub.conf > to use a framebuffer. Furthermore, you need to create an i

[gentoo-user] Unable to compile postgresql-8.2.4

2007-05-02 Thread Marko Kocić
After today's sync I tried to upgrade postgresql to 8.2.4 I'm getting the following error: checking thread safety of required library functions... no configure: error: thread test program failed This platform is not thread-safe. Check the file 'config.log'for the exact reason. You can use the

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to compile postgresql-8.2.4

2007-05-02 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 02 May 2007 12:58:01 Marko Kocić wrote: > After today's sync I tried to upgrade postgresql to 8.2.4 > I'm getting the following error: > > > checking thread safety of required library functions... no > configure: error: thread test program failed > This platform is not thread-safe. C

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 minimal CD boot problem

2007-05-02 Thread Thomas Kear
On Wed, 02 May 2007, Roger Mason wrote: > David Snider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Roger Mason wrote: > I'm trying to install gentoo on a Dell Dimension C521, which has an > AMD Sempron 3400+ CPU. > > I downloaded and buned the AMD64 2006.1 minimal install disk, but when > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Dell Inspiron M1710

2007-05-02 Thread Colleen Beamer
Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 02 May 2007 00:47:21 -0400 Colleen Beamer > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'm having a heck of a time with the nvidia-drivers on my new Dell >> Inspiron M1710. I can install the driver, but when the laptop is >> booting, the font doesn't resize - some

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 minimal CD boot problem

2007-05-02 Thread Roger Mason
Thomas Kear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > I had the exact same issue last month with some new hardware, booting >> > with noacpi or noapci (can't really remember) did the trick... Once I >> > was installed and had a 2.6.20 kernel, I had no other issues. >> > > For what it's worth, in 99.9% of c

Re: [gentoo-user] Netboot questions

2007-05-02 Thread Jan Seeger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ah yes sorry there. Then I cannot help you, since I have no experience using netboot/pxe. Sorry Greetings Jan Seeger -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGOIatMmLQdC6jvocRArVUAKCi7A3I7FZo4X3BHLV+eJ6dgS0XegCZAVVG ZI3BR

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting installation directories globally

2007-05-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 02 May 2007 04:03:23 +0200 Paul Sebastian Ziegler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Whats the purpose of this? > > To create a very clear directory structure for a small binary Linux > distribution I am planning to build using Gentoo and Portage. This doesn't make sense to me. ROOT is

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Dell Inspiron M1710

2007-05-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 02 May 2007 08:14:03 -0400 Colleen Beamer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What does "the font doesn't resize" mean exactly and how's that > > looking errorneous to you? > > It's not that it's erroneous. I'm just being a bit anal. In all my > other Gentoo installations, when the comp

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting installation directories globally

2007-05-02 Thread Paul Sebastian Ziegler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi, thank you all for your very clear and thus helpful statements. I am going to reconsider my plans. Maybe there are better structures. Or maybe I'll simply keep the gentoo-style structures and place some folders with symlinks under root. Anyways

Re: [gentoo-user] file sorting in nautilus

2007-05-02 Thread Crayon
On Thursday 26 April 2007 14:15, Iain Buchanan wrote: > Anyway, the great feature is it records on a 40Gb hard disk, but the > annoying thing is the video files are named in hex: > MOV001 > MOV002 At least its more logical than the totally braindead naming scheme on Nokia phones: 26042007.jpg 2

[gentoo-user] [OT] amarok and mp3 file rename

2007-05-02 Thread Francesco Talamona
After xmms was phased out, I chose to use Amarok. Now that I have listened and rated some thousands of mp3 I would like to be able to rename/move files without loosing rating and scoring information. I'm under the impression that once I did it inside Amarok, but now I can't find anything useful

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] amarok and mp3 file rename

2007-05-02 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 02 May 2007 19:08:54 Francesco Talamona wrote: > After xmms was phased out, I chose to use Amarok. Now that I have > listened and rated some thousands of mp3 I would like to be able to > rename/move files without loosing rating and scoring information. > > I'm under the impression that

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] amarok and mp3 file rename

2007-05-02 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Wednesday 02 May 2007, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Wednesday 02 May 2007 19:08:54 Francesco Talamona wrote: > > After xmms was phased out, I chose to use Amarok. Now that I have > > listened and rated some thousands of mp3 I would like to be able to > > rename/move files without loosing ratin

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] amarok and mp3 file rename

2007-05-02 Thread Mauro Faccenda
On Wednesday 02 May 2007 15:02, Francesco Talamona wrote: > Thanks, man we are getting closer! > > I hadn't that option because I never defined a collection, having added > files from time to time. > > Still there's something wrong: the option "Edit Tag 'Filename'" is > always shaded. > > Furthermo

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] amarok and mp3 file rename

2007-05-02 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Wednesday 02 May 2007, Mauro Faccenda wrote: > On Wednesday 02 May 2007 15:02, Francesco Talamona wrote: > > Thanks, man we are getting closer! > > > > I hadn't that option because I never defined a collection, having > > added files from time to time. > > > > Still there's something wrong: the

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] amarok and mp3 file rename

2007-05-02 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Wednesday 02 May 2007, Francesco Talamona wrote: > On Wednesday 02 May 2007, Mauro Faccenda wrote: > > On Wednesday 02 May 2007 15:02, Francesco Talamona wrote: > If it's the only way, I'll be more flexible than the program, but I > wished I had more control over the reordering criterion... Rep

[gentoo-user] aiglx USE flag and xorg 7.2: confusion with emerge -pv output about USE flags

2007-05-02 Thread b.n.
Hi, I'm currently using xorg 7.1 with AIGLX enabled and Beryl. Yesterday night I did an emerge --sync && emerge -pv world and that's what I found (among others): [ebuild U ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.2.0-r3 [1.1.1-r5] USE="dri ipv6 nptl sdl xorg -3dfx -debug -dmx -kdrive -minimal -xprint (-a

Re: [gentoo-user] aiglx USE flag and xorg 7.2: confusion with emerge -pv output about USE flags

2007-05-02 Thread Joshua Doll
b.n. wrote: Hi, I'm currently using xorg 7.1 with AIGLX enabled and Beryl. Yesterday night I did an emerge --sync && emerge -pv world and that's what I found (among others): [ebuild U ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.2.0-r3 [1.1.1-r5] USE="dri ipv6 nptl sdl xorg -3dfx -debug -dmx -kdrive -minima

Re: [gentoo-user] aiglx USE flag and xorg 7.2: confusion with emerge -pv output about USE flags

2007-05-02 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 02 May 2007 23:28:57 b.n. wrote: > I'm currently using xorg 7.1 with AIGLX enabled and Beryl. > > Yesterday night I did an emerge --sync && emerge -pv world and that's > what I found (among others): > > [ebuild U ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.2.0-r3 [1.1.1-r5] USE="dri ipv6 > nptl sdl x

Re: [gentoo-user] aiglx USE flag and xorg 7.2: confusion with emerge -pv output about USE flags

2007-05-02 Thread b.n.
Bo Ørsted Andresen ha scritto: From `man emerge`: - prefix = not enabled (either disabled or removed) * suffix = transition to or from the enabled state % suffix = newly added or removed () circumfix = forced, masked, or removed So it means that the aiglx use flag us

Re: [gentoo-user] Useless error messages [solved]

2007-05-02 Thread waltdnes
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 10:43:44AM +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >The final remaining problem is with the 3 statements scattered > > through the rules... > > > > -A ICMP_IN -p icmp -m state --state NEW -j UNSOLICITED > > -A TCP_IN -p tcp -m state --state NEW -m tcp

Re: [gentoo-user] aiglx USE flag and xorg 7.2: confusion with emerge -pv output about USE flags

2007-05-02 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 03 May 2007 02:26:36 b.n. wrote: > However, on a sidenote, I must say I find the current emerge syntax > quite confusing. Using the % for both newly added and removed and () for > either forced, masked and removed is not the best of ideas, imho. > > If % means "newly", there should at l

[gentoo-user] Xserver on Dell Inspiron M1710

2007-05-02 Thread Colleen Beamer
Hi all, I'm having a heck of a time. I've tried so many things, that I'm totally confused. After installing xorg-x11, I ran Xorg -configure. It gives me a file with no horizontal or vertical sync. I tried using the ddcxinfo-knoppix tool, but when I did ddxcinfo-knoppix -hsync, it returned 0 0.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Dell Inspiron M1710

2007-05-02 Thread Colleen Beamer
Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 02 May 2007 08:14:03 -0400 Colleen Beamer > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> What does "the font doesn't resize" mean exactly and how's that >>> looking errorneous to you? >> It's not that it's erroneous. I'm just being a bit anal. In all my >> other G

Re: [gentoo-user] file sorting in nautilus

2007-05-02 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 00:27 +0800, Crayon wrote: > On Thursday 26 April 2007 14:15, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > (There's always `emerge -C gnome; emerge kde` but I don't know if that > > will fix everything ;) > > Yeah, good old konq just does the right thing :) just to confirm that konqueror sorts

Re: [gentoo-user] Xserver on Dell Inspiron M1710

2007-05-02 Thread C Lee Davis
Colleen Beamer wrote: > Does anyone have a Dell Inspiron M1710 and will let me take a look at > their xorg.conf file? > This is from my XPS M1710; I'm not sure how similar they are, but I hope it helps. Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "X.org Configured" Screen 0 "Scre

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Dell Inspiron M1710

2007-05-02 Thread C Lee Davis
Colleen Beamer wrote: > I use genkernel and there is a screen resolution of something that says > 1024x768 and I can't edit it. I also don't know what my horizontal and > vertical sync are because it's not in my documentation and when I used > ddxcinfo-knoppix -hsync, it returns 0 0 and ddcxinfo-k

[gentoo-user] MAJOR udev problem, PLEASE help

2007-05-02 Thread Trenton Adams
I have an ethernet controller that worked until I updated my udev to the latest version. 00:14.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Ethernet Controller (rev a1) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 8141 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Ste

Re: [gentoo-user] file sorting in nautilus

2007-05-02 Thread Crayon
On Thursday 03 May 2007 09:55, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > Yeah, good old konq just does the right thing :) > > just to confirm that konqueror sorts the "right" way, I had tested konq before making the above claim :) > could you run this little one-liner script? And then tell me how it > looks in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Wireless network seems ok, but higher level stuff fails

2007-05-02 Thread Trenton Adams
I've been having the same problem with my ethernet device. I found on the net that a link status of *UNSPEC* likely means the usermode program does not match the running kernel. So, I figured it was probably that I needed to upgrade my kernel, seeing that udev was upgraded. Unfortunately, the l

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Wireless network seems ok, but higher level stuff fails

2007-05-02 Thread Trenton Adams
Actually, go back to Feb 12 with a message called "[gentoo-user] Network problem", it worked for me. udev may have changed your ethernet interface name. using "ifconfig -a" to check. On 5/2/07, Trenton Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've been having the same problem with my ethernet device.

Re: [gentoo-user] MAJOR udev problem, PLEASE help

2007-05-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 2 May 2007 21:43:13 -0600, Trenton Adams wrote: > I have an ethernet controller that worked until I updated my udev to > the latest version. > It shows up as follows from ifconfig > eth0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr > 00-11-D8-00-00-7D-66-26-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 > inet add

Re: [gentoo-user] MAJOR udev problem, PLEASE help

2007-05-02 Thread Peter Alfredsen
On Thursday 03 May 2007, Trenton Adams wrote: > I have an ethernet controller that worked until I updated my udev to > the latest version. > > 00:14.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Ethernet Controller (rev a1) > Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 8141 > Control: I/O+