[gentoo-user] Re: esound refuses to compile with docbook error even though -doc is specified

2007-12-02 Thread Hans de Graaff
On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 15:24:00 -0800, Justin Patrin wrote: > # emerge -auv esound > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > [ebuild N] media-sound/esound-0.2.38-r1 USE="alsa ipv6 tcpd -debug > -doc" 0 kB > > ... > > Making all in doc

Re: [gentoo-user] Orphan libraries in my system

2007-12-02 Thread Mick
On Saturday 01 December 2007, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > On Samstag, 1. Dezember 2007, Mick wrote: > > On Saturday 01 December 2007, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > > On Samstag, 1. Dezember 2007, Mick wrote: > > > > Hi All, > > > > > > > > I found these libraries hanging around. Should I be

Re: [gentoo-user] Orphan libraries in my system

2007-12-02 Thread Mick
On Sunday 02 December 2007, Mick wrote: > On Saturday 01 December 2007, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > sometimes the breakage is hidden and subtle - but for example stale > > libstdcc.la files are known to break compilation of c++ code (like qt, > > kde and other cool stuff). It is usually a goo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: esound refuses to compile with docbook error even though -doc is specified

2007-12-02 Thread Justin Patrin
On Dec 1, 2007 11:37 PM, Hans de Graaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 15:24:00 -0800, Justin Patrin wrote: > > > # emerge -auv esound > > > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > > > Calculating dependencies... done! > > [ebuild N] media-sound/esound-

Re: [gentoo-user] Use of gethostname() and getdomainname()

2007-12-02 Thread Mick
On Saturday 01 December 2007, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > On Saturday 1 December 2007, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > I've got my own domain and domain server. I've just run into a > > problem about the appropriate settings for hosts and domains, and it's > > messing up a few things in my postfix setup. > >

[gentoo-user] Cell phone as modem

2007-12-02 Thread Grant
Has anyone attached their cell phone to their Gentoo system to act as a modem? This would be great for traveling. I'm with Sprint (no contract) but I think I'll switch to T-Mobile because from what I understand they are the only cell phone provider in the US which uses the GSM band. That way I s

Re: [gentoo-user] Cell phone as modem

2007-12-02 Thread Mick
On Sunday 02 December 2007, Grant wrote: > Has anyone attached their cell phone to their Gentoo system to act as > a modem? This would be great for traveling. I'm with Sprint (no > contract) but I think I'll switch to T-Mobile because from what I > understand they are the only cell phone provider

Re: [gentoo-user] x86_64 apache problem

2007-12-02 Thread Mick
On Saturday 01 December 2007, David Relson wrote: > "/etc/init.d/apache2 start" runs without any output > > "/etc/init.d/apache2 status" then reports: > > * status: stopped > > Looking up localhost > Making HTTP connection to localhost > Alert!: Unable to connect to remote host. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Use of gethostname() and getdomainname()

2007-12-02 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Sunday 2 December 2007, Mick wrote: > > Try adding the following line to /etc/hosts: > > > > a.b.c.d hostname.your.domain hostname > > > > of course, replacing a.b.c.d with your correct ip address. > > > > I don't know whether this is related to your problem, but it usually > > solves the dom

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox shared folder anyone? [SOLVED]

2007-12-02 Thread Chuanwen Wu
Thank you! I use this way to solve the same problem in the x86_64 platform. I use virtualbox-1.5.2. On Apr 23, 2007 10:46 PM, Helmut Jarausch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The following steps were successful (for me) > > echo "app-emulation/virtualbox-bin additions dvitool" >> \ > /etc/porta

[gentoo-user] Re: Cell phone as modem

2007-12-02 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-12-02, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone attached their cell phone to their Gentoo system to > act as a modem? Yes. My Verizon LG VX4400 works fine as a modem. When plugged into a USB port, it shows up as /dev/ttyUSBn. You can dial up any landline modem you like using "AT" c

Re: [gentoo-user] x86_64 apache problem

2007-12-02 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 2 Dec 2007 15:12:33 + Mick wrote: > On Saturday 01 December 2007, David Relson wrote: > > "/etc/init.d/apache2 start" runs without any output > > > > "/etc/init.d/apache2 status" then reports: > > > > * status: stopped > > > > Looking up localhost > > Making HTTP connecti

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Cell phone as modem

2007-12-02 Thread Grant
> > Has anyone attached their cell phone to their Gentoo system to > > act as a modem? > > Yes. My Verizon LG VX4400 works fine as a modem. When plugged > into a USB port, it shows up as /dev/ttyUSBn. You can dial up > any landline modem you like using "AT" commands, or you can > dial up Verizon'

[gentoo-user] Re: Cell phone as modem

2007-12-02 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-12-02, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Yes. My Verizon LG VX4400 works fine as a modem. When plugged >> into a USB port, it shows up as /dev/ttyUSBn. You can dial up >> any landline modem you like using "AT" commands, or you can >> dial up Verizon's internal ISP number. The connecti

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox-bin won't start on amd64

2007-12-02 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 02 Dec 2007, Grant wrote: > /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher: line 460: /opt/firefox/firefox-bin: No > such file or directory On this box, $ which firefox-bin /usr/bin/firefox-bin -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox-bin won't start on amd64

2007-12-02 Thread Grant
> > /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher: line 460: /opt/firefox/firefox-bin: No > > such file or directory > > On this box, > > $ which firefox-bin > /usr/bin/firefox-bin Me too, I should have said that. $ which firefox-bin /usr/bin/firefox-bin Here's the whole error: $ firefox-bin /usr/libexec/mozil

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Cell phone as modem

2007-12-02 Thread Grant
> >> Yes. My Verizon LG VX4400 works fine as a modem. When plugged > >> into a USB port, it shows up as /dev/ttyUSBn. You can dial up > >> any landline modem you like using "AT" commands, or you can > >> dial up Verizon's internal ISP number. The connection looks > >> exactly like any other PPP

[gentoo-user] Re: Cell phone as modem

2007-12-02 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-12-02, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't think so. According to what information I could > gather, I don't think the other carriers provide data > connections to dial-up landline numbers without a data plan. I just googled across something saying that Sprint also provide

[gentoo-user] Re: Cell phone as modem

2007-12-02 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-12-02, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Nice, I'm very glad to hear it works so well. I guess >>> something like that would work even over an analog connection. >> >> On a true analog (800MHz AMPS service) cell phone, I've had >> pretty decent success using MNP5 modems up to about 240

Re: [gentoo-user] x86_64 apache problem - OK now

2007-12-02 Thread David Relson
After rebooting to 32-bit gentoo to verify the 32-bit apache setup was fine, I rebooted to 64-bit gentoo. All is working now. I just wish I knew exactly what the root cause of apache not running was and why it's fine now. > > lynx: Can't access startfile http://localhost/server-status > I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Cell phone as modem

2007-12-02 Thread Grant
> >>> Nice, I'm very glad to hear it works so well. I guess > >>> something like that would work even over an analog connection. > >> > >> On a true analog (800MHz AMPS service) cell phone, I've had > >> pretty decent success using MNP5 modems up to about 2400 baud. > >> The standard CCITT error d

[gentoo-user] Re: Cell phone as modem

2007-12-02 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-12-02, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I'm trying to determine is, if AT&T or T-Mobile have the > type of service you're describing: > > 1. will it work in both "analog" and "digital" service areas > 2. does the phone need to support anything in particular to use it AT&T and T-Mob

Re: [gentoo-user] PHP 5 masked notice (was: Gentoo on the server side)

2007-12-02 Thread Jil Larner
> I had to do the same thing with the mysql upgrade from 3.x to 4.x. My > apache upgrade, I just had to redo the configs by hand. php4 to php5 > might be a bit more tricky. Currently that's the reason I have php5 > masked... PHP 4 won't be maintained after 8/8/8 (August, 8 2008) and so should be

[gentoo-user] Vlc and no sound...

2007-12-02 Thread Danis Petkakis
hi there i have some files in .mkv and format and would like to to view them using vlc...the problem is that there is only the sound in the background...by that i mean that i can only hear for example the music that plays in the background and not the people talking in the movie...subtitles and vid

Re: [gentoo-user] Vlc and no sound...

2007-12-02 Thread Andrey Falko
On Dec 2, 2007 6:16 PM, Danis Petkakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi there i have some files in .mkv and format and would like to to view > them using vlc...the problem is that there is only the sound in the > background...by that i mean that i can only hear for example the music that > plays in

Re: [gentoo-user] Use of gethostname() and getdomainname()

2007-12-02 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I like keeping it to stuff that makes sense. I don't put in private network addresses unless I actually use them, which would just be the 192.168.x.x addresses provided by my DSL router, behind which I hide most of my systems. But for the present thread, I'm talking about the routable IP number f

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Cell phone as modem

2007-12-02 Thread Grant
> > What I'm trying to determine is, if AT&T or T-Mobile have the > > type of service you're describing: > > > > 1. will it work in both "analog" and "digital" service areas > > 2. does the phone need to support anything in particular to use it > > AT&T and T-Mobile are both GSM (digital) only. Th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Cell phone as modem

2007-12-02 Thread Grant
> What I do is use Verizon CDMA (far better coverage than any of > the GSM networks) in the US and I have a GSM phone that I use > internationally. You can get good used unlocked tri and > quad-band GSM phones for $20 and up. You can get brand new > ones for $30 and up. I got nearly new used Nok

Re: [gentoo-user] Vlc and no sound...

2007-12-02 Thread Danis Petkakis
well i don't have the latest version of vlc compiled as suggested from the link you gave me so i will add vlc in portage.keywords for now and then compile the latest unstable version of it...hope that should solve my problems...i will post back for results...thanks... On 03/12/2007, Andrey Falko <

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Cell phone as modem

2007-12-02 Thread Gabriel Rossetti
Grant wrote: > Nice, I'm very glad to hear it works so well. I guess > something like that would work even over an analog connection. > On a true analog (800MHz AMPS service) cell phone, I've had pretty decent success using MNP5 modems up to about 2400 baud. T

Re: [gentoo-user] Vlc and no sound...

2007-12-02 Thread Danis Petkakis
just compiled the latest unstable version but still the problem remains...any other suggestions?? On 03/12/2007, Danis Petkakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > well i don't have the latest version of vlc compiled as suggested from the > link you gave me so i will add vlc in portage.keywords for now

Re: [gentoo-user] Vlc and no sound...

2007-12-02 Thread Andrey Falko
You compiled with the following USE variables "by adding the line media-video/vlc dvd ffmpeg mpeg mad wxwindows aac dts a52 ogg flac theora oggvorbis matroska freetype bidi xv svga gnutls stream vlm httpd cdda vcd cdio live to the file *"/etc/portage/package.use"*. This will give you a fully func

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Cell phone as modem

2007-12-02 Thread Grant
> > If both Sprint and Verizon offer it, there > > is probably a good chance that AT&T and/or T-Mobile do too. > > > Neither Sprint nor Verizon offer GSM, they use CDMA, thus you can't > travel anywhere (that I know of) with those phones. If you are looking > for a "world phone", get a quad-band GS

[gentoo-user] Re: Cell phone as modem

2007-12-02 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-12-03, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I think that pretty much all GSM phones support data calls (I >> could be wrong). Whether or not the network will allow them >> without paying extra for a data plan is the question. > > Got it. Is this official data plan service something that >

[gentoo-user] Re: Cell phone as modem

2007-12-02 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-12-03, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> What I do is use Verizon CDMA (far better coverage than any of >> the GSM networks) in the US and I have a GSM phone that I use >> internationally. You can get good used unlocked tri and >> quad-band GSM phones for $20 and up. You can get brand n