Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Screensaver to slideshow photos?

2008-07-17 Thread Roy Wright
James wrote: > Grant gmail.com> writes: > How about using the internet as a >> source for the photos? > > It's easy, if you run kde (3.5.9) > > --> control center > --> screen saver > --> Banners & Pictures > --> Slide show I'm close to getting a first release out for an app that can easily f

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Screensaver to slideshow photos?

2008-07-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:25:40 -0700, Grant wrote: > Does anyone know of a screensaver app in portage (xscreensaver?) that > will slideshow through photos? How about using the internet as a > source for the photos? KDE's screensaver will run a slideshow. I don't know if it will accept a URL for th

Re: [gentoo-user] Evolution Doesn't Filter Incoming Mail

2008-07-17 Thread Gordon Schulz
On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:27, Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use Evolution as my mail client. I receive Gentoo mailing list email > at my GMail address, and access this email in Evolution over IMAP. > > I want Gentoo mailing list messages to go into a Gentoo mailing list > folder in Evolutio

Re: [gentoo-user] Good Library Management software

2008-07-17 Thread Dirk Uys
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 9:49 PM, Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The screenshots of this look really nice, however to me this seems like a > really odd motivation for writing a program: > > I started developing it when I couldn't find a personal database > program for KDE which didn't usi

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to mount root dir, Segmentation failure with mount

2008-07-17 Thread pge07beb
thaks, this one helped me: I followed those steps, and where able to recover my system. On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 02:34:42AM +0100, Duane Griffin wrote: > Google says someone else hit it once upon a time, but it doesn't seem > to be listed on the kernel bugzilla. Your journal is corrupted and the >

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to mount root dir, Segmentation failure with mount

2008-07-17 Thread Duane Griffin
2008/7/17 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I followed those steps, and where able to recover my system. Excellent, I'm pleased to hear that! > I'd like to help, so that this problem can be fixed, if you got anything > ready, just send it to me, and I'll giv it a try on that corrupted image. Thanks, I'll

Re: [gentoo-user] Vmware install

2008-07-17 Thread Paul Healy
On Jul 16, 4:20 pm, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > I have a gentoo install (currently amd64/2007.0) with all of the current > up to date packages. I have been trying to upgrade the kernel for quite > a while now. Assuming a gentoo client - I ran into something that sounds similar a couple of months

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and changing permissions

2008-07-17 Thread Joerg Schilling
"Daniel Pielmeier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > unknown locale mkisofs is complaining about a missing > > > $INS_BASE/lib/siconv folder. > > > > This is correct, your installation is incomplete. > > > > Mkisofs cannot work correctly in all cases if siconv data is missing. > > > > When I replac

Re: [gentoo-user] Good Library Management software

2008-07-17 Thread Eric Martin
Stroller wrote: On 14 Jul 2008, at 13:06, CJoeB wrote: Eric Martin wrote: Before I recreated the wheel, does anybody know of any good library management software (preferably in portage)? My wife and I are having a hard time keeping track of what books we have, and what books we are lending

Re: [gentoo-user] Good Library Management software

2008-07-17 Thread Eric Martin
Dirk Uys wrote: On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 9:49 PM, Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The screenshots of this look really nice, however to me this seems like a really odd motivation for writing a program: I started developing it when I couldn't find a personal database program for KDE which di

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Screensaver to slideshow photos?

2008-07-17 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 15:25 -0700, Grant wrote: > Does anyone know of a screensaver app in portage (xscreensaver?) that > will slideshow through photos? How about using the internet as a > source for the photos? xscreensaver has glslideshow and webcollage. -a -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org ma

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and changing permissions

2008-07-17 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2008/7/17, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > I have a bug open addressing this and a few other things. Do you > > remember the Announcement file, so I can add this information to the > > bug! If not i will delve through the files myself. > > Mmmm, don't you know "grep"? s/delve/grep/ :-

[gentoo-user] Mistaken gcc -unmerge with a twist

2008-07-17 Thread felix
I was in the final stages of installing gentoo when I unmerged the old gcc before installing the new. My next step was going to be an emerge system world and I'd hate to have to restart from scratch again. I do have another machine, similar (both ~x86), and wonder if I can package up the gcc on t

Re: [gentoo-user] Mistaken gcc -unmerge with a twist

2008-07-17 Thread Mark Shields
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:43 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was in the final stages of installing gentoo when I unmerged the old > gcc before installing the new. My next step was going to be an emerge > system world and I'd hate to have to restart from scratch again. I do > have another mac

Re: [gentoo-user] Mistaken gcc -unmerge with a twist

2008-07-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:49:35 -0400, Mark Shields wrote: > Don't do that; use quickpkg. info emerge for details. Then add buildsyspkg to features to make it more difficult to screw yourself in the future. -- Neil Bothwick To err is human, to forgive is beyond the scope of the operating system

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox is currently in offline mode and can't browse the Web

2008-07-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 16 July 2008, Miernik wrote: > I installed a new Gentoo installation, and now when I open Firefox I > get: > > > Firefox is currently in offline mode and can't browse the Web. This looks like a bug fixed in 3.0.1 - released just today -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail do

[gentoo-user] Unmerge python?

2008-07-17 Thread Grant
I'm getting the following from portage on a critical remote system:

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Screensaver to slideshow photos?

2008-07-17 Thread Grant
>> Does anyone know of a screensaver app in portage (xscreensaver?) that >> will slideshow through photos? How about using the internet as a >> source for the photos? > > xscreensaver has glslideshow and webcollage. > > -a I think glslideshow is what I'm after. Thanks a lot. - Grant -- gentoo-

Re: [gentoo-user] Unmerge python?

2008-07-17 Thread Justin
Grant schrieb: I'm getting the following from portage on a critical remote system: Perhaps you should update your python. Version 2.3 will be removed from portage and is currently hardmasked. That triggers the depency bump. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Unmerge python?

2008-07-17 Thread Grant
>> I'm getting the following from portage on a critical remote system: >> >> > app-admin/python-updater-0.2) >> >> Am I suppose to un-emerge python? >> >> - Grant >> > > Perhaps you should update your python. Version 2.3 will be removed from > portage and is currently hardmasked. That triggers the

Re: [gentoo-user] Unmerge python?

2008-07-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:04:17 -0700, Grant wrote: > I'm getting the following from portage on a critical remote system: > > app-admin/python-updater-0.2) > > Am I suppose to un-emerge python? Only if you already have python:2.4 installed. Either way, quickpkg python before you do anything rash.

Re: [gentoo-user] Unmerge python?

2008-07-17 Thread Dale
Grant wrote: I'm getting the following from portage on a critical remote system: Perhaps you should update your python. Version 2.3 will be removed from portage and is currently hardmasked. That triggers the depency bump. 'emerge -pv python' wants to install python-2.5.2-r5 in a n

Re: [gentoo-user] Unmerge python?

2008-07-17 Thread Justin
Grant schrieb: I'm getting the following from portage on a critical remote system: Perhaps you should update your python. Version 2.3 will be removed from portage and is currently hardmasked. That triggers the depency bump. 'emerge -pv python' wants to install python-2.5.2-r5 in a

Re: [gentoo-user] Unmerge python?

2008-07-17 Thread s3b4sm4gr1
2008/7/18 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> I'm getting the following from portage on a critical remote system: > >> > >> >> app-admin/python-updater-0.2) > >> > >> Am I suppose to un-emerge python? > >> > >> - Grant > >> > > > > Perhaps you should update your python. Version 2.3 will be removed fr

Re: [gentoo-user] Mistaken gcc -unmerge with a twist

2008-07-17 Thread felix
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:49:35AM -0400, Mark Shields wrote: > Don't do that; use quickpkg. info emerge for details. Thanks, works like a charm ... so far :-) emerge gcc system world will take a while longer, but at least I am back in operation. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___

Re: [gentoo-user] Mistaken gcc -unmerge with a twist

2008-07-17 Thread felix
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 04:13:17PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > Then add buildsyspkg to features to make it more difficult to screw > yourself in the future. That's handy, wish I'd known about it before. Been a while since I checked FEATURES. Are any of the others useful? Some like suid and st

Re: [gentoo-user] Unmerge python?

2008-07-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 17 July 2008, Grant wrote: > 'emerge -pv python' wants to install python-2.5.2-r5 in a new slot. > Should I unmerge python, emerge the new python, and run > python-updater? Will portage work once python has been unmerged? > I'm being cautious because this is a highly critical system

[gentoo-user] Video DVD Creation

2008-07-17 Thread sean
Following these steps http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/answers/Applications_GUI_Multimedia/AVI_to_DVD to create a DVD all went along great, including the Step 6 test. I burned the DVD as instructed in the second half of step 6 then tried the disc in my player. It did not play, the DVD playe

Re: [gentoo-user] Unmerge python?

2008-07-17 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 17. Juli 2008 schrieb Alan McKinnon: > Nooo! You can't have a gentoo system without python Yes, you can, as long as you don't use portage. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Unmerge python?

2008-07-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 17 July 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 17. Juli 2008 schrieb Alan McKinnon: > > Nooo! You can't have a gentoo system without python > > Yes, you can, as long as you don't use portage. That'll teach me to be less vague more specific :-) -- Alan McKinnon alan d

Re: [gentoo-user] Video DVD Creation

2008-07-17 Thread Joerg Schilling
sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Following these steps > http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/answers/Applications_GUI_Multimedia/AVI_to_DVD > to create a DVD all went along great, including the Step 6 test. > > I burned the DVD as instructed in the second half of step 6 then tried > the disc in

Re: [gentoo-user] Good Library Management software

2008-07-17 Thread Stroller
On 17 Jul 2008, at 08:59, Dirk Uys wrote: On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 9:49 PM, Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The screenshots of this look really nice, however to me this seems like a really odd motivation for writing a program: I started developing it when I couldn't find a personal dat

Re: [gentoo-user] xf86-video-ati-6.8.0-r1 problems

2008-07-17 Thread Mick
On Thursday 17 July 2008, Andrew Tchernoivanov wrote: > >modprobing either module fails . . . > > What is the error message? # modprobe -v radeon_drv FATAL: Module radeon_drv not found. # modprobe -v radeon FATAL: Module radeon not found. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a

Re: [gentoo-user] xf86-video-ati-6.8.0-r1 problems

2008-07-17 Thread Andrew Tchernoivanov
># modprobe -v radeon_drv >FATAL: Module radeon_drv not found. That's strange. But try one more thing - copy this radeon_drv from /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers to /lib/modules//kernel/drivers/video Because according to modprobe's man page, by default it will look driver in /lib/modules/... So try

Re: [gentoo-user] Video DVD Creation

2008-07-17 Thread sean
Joerg Schilling wrote: sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Following these steps http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/answers/Applications_GUI_Multimedia/AVI_to_DVD to create a DVD all went along great, including the Step 6 test. I burned the DVD as instructed in the second half of step 6 then tri

Re: [gentoo-user] Video DVD Creation

2008-07-17 Thread Joerg Schilling
sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I updated cdrkit, I was a bit behind. The DVD will now play properly on > the computer, but not the player. Perhaps my Phillips player does not > like DVD-R. A better idea is to update to cdrtools. cdrkit is still 3 years behind cdrtools and the bug you

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo from USB stick

2008-07-17 Thread jalves
Not hard! I forget exactly what I did, but it was pretty easy to do. (I don't remember all the steps, but I can tell you after I get home if you still need to know). -Jeremy On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 07:48:38PM -0600, Joseph wrote: > How hard is to install Gentoo from a USB stick? Is it official

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the gimmick to run tightvnc from windows to gentoo

2008-07-17 Thread David Blamire-Brown
I did this a while back and I got it working by tunnelling via SSH (using putty on windows). But I can't remember the exact details off the top of my head. It may be worth googling that set-up. I seem to remember thinking it felt like a kludge and I can't quite remember why I ended up doing it,

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo from USB stick

2008-07-17 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:19:45 -0700 jalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not hard! I forget exactly what I did, but it was pretty easy > to do. > > (I don't remember all the steps, but I can tell you after I get > home if you still need to know). > > On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 07:48:38PM -0600, Josep

Re: [gentoo-user] Video DVD Creation

2008-07-17 Thread sean
Joerg Schilling wrote: sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I updated cdrkit, I was a bit behind. The DVD will now play properly on the computer, but not the player. A better idea is to update to cdrtools. cdrkit is still 3 years behind cdrtools and the bug you mentioned has never been in the ori

Re: [gentoo-user] xf86-video-ati-6.8.0-r1 problems

2008-07-17 Thread Mick
On Thursday 17 July 2008, Andrew Tchernoivanov wrote: > ># modprobe -v radeon_drv > >FATAL: Module radeon_drv not found. > > That's strange. But try one more thing - copy this radeon_drv from > /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers to /lib/modules/ version>/kernel/drivers/video > Because according to modpr

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the gimmick to run tightvnc from windows to gentoo

2008-07-17 Thread Mick
On Thursday 17 July 2008, David Blamire-Brown wrote: > I did this a while back and I got it working by tunnelling via SSH (using > putty on windows). But I can't remember the exact details off the top of my > head. It may be worth googling that set-up. I seem to remember thinking it > felt like a k

Re: [gentoo-user] Video DVD Creation

2008-07-17 Thread sean
Jorg, Another update. I had made two attempts burning my movie to a no-brand DVD-R. Not wanting to waste another DVD-R I instead used a brand name DVD+RW for another test. It worked, the movie played. When I get the chance I will pick up a brand name DVD-R and try the burn again.

Re: [gentoo-user] Video DVD Creation

2008-07-17 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
sean schrieb: Jorg, Another update. I had made two attempts burning my movie to a no-brand DVD-R. Not wanting to waste another DVD-R I instead used a brand name DVD+RW for another test. It worked, the movie played. When I get the chance I will pick up a brand name DVD-R and try the burn

Re: [gentoo-user] xf86-video-ati-6.8.0-r1 problems

2008-07-17 Thread Andreas Niederl
Mick wrote: On Thursday 17 July 2008, Andrew Tchernoivanov wrote: # modprobe -v radeon_drv FATAL: Module radeon_drv not found. That's strange. But try one more thing - copy this radeon_drv from /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers to /lib/modules//kernel/drivers/video Because according to modprobe's m

Re: [gentoo-user] xf86-video-ati-6.8.0-r1 problems

2008-07-17 Thread Alexander Meinke
Hi, I think this problem is not *-ati (driver) related. Since the module needed for drm has the same name as the driver has, but resides in another directory. I would suggest you to check whether x11-base/x11-drm or to the kernel module is build for drm. Since I am using the package mentioned

[gentoo-user] light httpd

2008-07-17 Thread chloe K
Hi all what is the different between light httpd vs typical apache? how can i tun sysclt for httpd to increase performance thank you - Yahoo! Canada Toolbar : Search from anywhere on the web and bookmark your

[gentoo-user] Trouble tweaking KDE package "six"

2008-07-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I've never tried to hack a KDE appliction before, and I'm having a bunch of trouble just finding the right resources to RTF*. The package is six-0.5.3, and I have some tweaks I got from the original author back at release 0.3.3, but I cannot get them into the 0.5.3 source tree properly. It involv

Re: [gentoo-user] light httpd

2008-07-17 Thread fire-eyes
chloe K wrote: Hi all what is the different between light httpd vs typical apache? how can i tun sysclt for httpd to increase performance thank you - Yahoo! Canada Toolbar : Search from anywhere on the web a

Re: [gentoo-user] xf86-video-ati-6.8.0-r1 problems

2008-07-17 Thread Mick
On Friday 18 July 2008, Andreas Niederl wrote: > Mick wrote: > > On Thursday 17 July 2008, Andrew Tchernoivanov wrote: > >>> # modprobe -v radeon_drv > >>> FATAL: Module radeon_drv not found. > >> > >> That's strange. But try one more thing - copy this radeon_drv from > >> /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri