Re: [gentoo-user] cups is broken

2006-02-26 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Sunday 26 February 2006 07:20, a tiny voice compelled John Blinka to write: > Ernie Schroder wrote: > >Very strange Have you looked at the logs? /var/log/cups/access_log > >and /var/log/cups/error_log look at a tail of them and compare to the > > working machines. >

Re: [gentoo-user] cups is broken

2006-02-26 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Sunday 26 February 2006 09:40, a tiny voice compelled John Blinka to write: > Ernie Schroder wrote: > >The only thing I can figure is that cups was compiled with some odd USE > > flag. Do you have an entry for cups in /etc/portage/package.use? > > No, don't even have t

[gentoo-user] kdelibs-3.4.1-r1 build fails

2005-11-22 Thread Ernie Schroder
OK I haven't updated this box in 10 months and finally decided to spend some time on maintainance. I successfully ran emerge -u system last night and have updated my profile and gotten Xorg running. Now it's time to move on to "world" and kdelibs-3.4.2-r1 fails like so. I'm way rusty at this and

[gentoo-user] Re: kdelibs-3.4.1-r1 build fails

2005-11-22 Thread Ernie Schroder
fix_libtool_files.sh is in the root path so it ran by doing: # fix_libtool_files.sh 3.3.4 I have resumed the build and only time will tell. I should know in about a half hour. On a wierd note, I am set up to receive list posts to a folder in Kmail. Since posting my original question, I have gott

[gentoo-user] Re: kdelibs-3.4.1-r1 build fails

2005-11-22 Thread Ernie Schroder
Thanks guys! it worked -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free 14:24:38 up 20:16, 3 users, load average: 1.77, 2.35, 2.56 Linux 2.6.5-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] media-libs/svgalib-1.9.21-r1 failed.

2005-11-23 Thread Ernie Schroder
Pardon my ignorance, but I can't seem to get past this. Any ideas? Preparing svgalib_helper module make -C /usr/src/linux SUBDIRS=/var/tmp/portage/svgalib-1.9.21-r1/work/svgalib-1.9.21/kernel/svgalib_helper CLASS_CFLAGS=-DCLASS_SIMPLE=1 modules make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.5-

[gentoo-user] ERROR: media-libs/smpeg-0.4.4-r6 failed

2005-11-24 Thread Ernie Schroder
I've figured out most of my 11 month updates, but this one is driving me mad. I would appreciate some advice here. I still have a few apps to update that fail like this: checking for SDL - version >= 1.2.0... no *** Could not run SDL test program, checking why... *** The test program failed to c

Re: [gentoo-user] ERROR: media-libs/smpeg-0.4.4-r6 failed

2005-11-24 Thread Ernie Schroder
OK so I re-merged libsdl for the 3rd time and smpeg built successfully. Darned if I know what caused this. On Thursday 24 November 2005 09:51 am, a tiny voice compelled Ernie Schroder to write: > I've figured out most of my 11 month updates, but this one is driving me > mad. I would

[gentoo-user] Pam merge error

2005-11-27 Thread Ernie Schroder
My KDE got seriously broken and I'm trying to rebuild it as in: # emerge --emptytree kde 214 files to merge WOW. Anyway, when building pam, I get the above error. What do I need to do here? * ERROR: pam_cracklib have dependencies in /usr. Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Pam merge error

2005-11-27 Thread Ernie Schroder
/usr. On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 22:37 -0500, Ernie Schroder wrote: > My KDE got seriously broken and I'm trying to rebuild it as in: > # emerge --emptytree kde > 214 files to merge WOW. Anyway, when building pam, I get the above > error. What do I need to do here? > * ERROR: pam_crac

[gentoo-user] mouse won't scroll anymore

2005-11-28 Thread Ernie Schroder
I've just moved from XFree86 to xorg and updated my KDE and now my wheel mouse doesn't scroll anymore. I'm using the same mouse lines in xorg.conf that I used in Xfree86.conf, but I can't get it to work. It must be something I just don't see. Any ideas? Logitek Track man Wheel (USB) I've tried ch

Re: [gentoo-user] Pam merge error

2005-11-28 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Monday 28 November 2005 03:49 am, a tiny voice compelled andy to write: > try to emerge cracklib first. cracklib and gnupg did it. Thanks -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free 13:43:48 up 2:13, 6 users, load average: 0.18, 0.15, 0.13 Linux 2.6.5-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP

Re: [gentoo-user] mouse won't scroll anymore

2005-11-28 Thread Ernie Schroder
Nothing new in the man pages. This is driving me nuts On Monday 28 November 2005 03:13 pm, a tiny voice compelled Billy Holmes to write: > Willie Wong wrote: > > [02:51 PM]wwong man4 $ man 4x mouse > > No entry for mouse in section 4x of the manual > > just do: > >man 4 mouse -- Regards, Er

Re: [gentoo-user] mouse won't scroll anymore

2005-11-29 Thread Ernie Schroder
I guess I'm glad that I'm not alone Christoph. Like you, xev shows no activity for the wheel. As far as it's being a hardware related thing, unless 3 mice have died of the same dreaded disease, it's not hardware. Of the 3 I've tried 2 are logitech trackballs (USB) and the 3rd is a no-name intell

Re: [gentoo-user] mouse won't scroll anymore

2005-11-29 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Tuesday 29 November 2005 04:29 pm, a tiny voice compelled Richard Fish to write: > On 11/29/05, Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I guess I'm glad that I'm not alone Christoph. Like you, xev shows no > > activity for the wheel. > > As far a

Re: [gentoo-user] mouse won't scroll anymore

2005-11-29 Thread Ernie Schroder
Sure. Section "InputDevice" # Identifier and driver Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" # Option "Protocol""auto" Option "Protocol""ExplorerPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" # Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" # When usi

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice 2.0 - compiling or binary

2005-11-30 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 03:00 am, a tiny voice compelled Uwe Klosa to write: > I have used both versions. The compiled version seems to be more stable on > my system. I've installed OO both ways in the past and stability hasn't been an issue. The only thing I noticed is that the compiled v

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice 2.0 - compiling or binary

2005-11-30 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 08:49 am, a tiny voice compelled Dale to write: > Ernie Schroder wrote: > >On Wednesday 30 November 2005 03:00 am, a tiny voice compelled Uwe Klosa > > to > > > >write: > >>I have used both versions. The compiled version seems

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice 2.0 - compiling or binary

2005-11-30 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 09:18 am, a tiny voice compelled Neil Bothwick to write: > Except that you don't sit and watch it compile (unless you are > exceptionally sad You mean you don't have to keep watch over long compiles? I guess I have no life. Actually Neil, you're right, the 8 hours

[gentoo-user] kdeutils-3.5.0

2005-12-05 Thread Ernie Schroder
I've been thinking of udating to KDE-3.5 and I notice that superkaramba blocks kdeutils. I'm assuming that superkaramba or something similar is now in the kdeutils package. I have a few karamba themes that I run on the desktop and am wondering what kind of problems I'll have with them after I up

Re: [gentoo-user] kdeutils-3.5.0

2005-12-05 Thread Ernie Schroder
tuff > functionality." > > enjoy :-) > > On 12/5/05, Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've been thinking of udating to KDE-3.5 and I notice that superkaramba > > blocks kdeutils. I'm assuming that superkaramba or something similar is &g

[gentoo-user] emerge svgalib-1.9.23 dies

2005-12-06 Thread Ernie Schroder
cc1: Permission denied: opening dependency file scripts/basic/.fixdep.d make[2]: *** [scripts/basic/fixdep] Error 1 make[1]: *** [scripts_basic] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.5-gentoo-r1' make: *** [default] Error 2 OK so there's a fixdep and a fixdep.c, but no fixdep.d

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge svgalib-1.9.23 dies

2005-12-06 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Tuesday 06 December 2005 08:50 am, a tiny voice compelled Ernie Schroder to write: > cc1: Permission denied: opening dependency file scripts/basic/.fixdep.d > make[2]: *** [scripts/basic/fixdep] Error 1 > make[1]: *** [scripts_basic] Error 2 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src

[gentoo-user] problems in world file?

2005-12-06 Thread Ernie Schroder
Calculating world dependencies !!! Problems have been detected with your world file !!! Please run emaint --check world I checked for updates to world while I was updating KDE to 3.5 and got the above message. Should I worry yet? -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free 13:34:57 up 1 da

Re: [gentoo-user] problems in world file?

2005-12-06 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Tuesday 06 December 2005 02:10 pm, a tiny voice compelled Willie Wong to write: > On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 01:36:47PM -0500, Ernie Schroder wrote: > > Calculating world dependencies > > !!! Problems have been detected with your world file > > !!! Please run emaint --

Re: [gentoo-user] problems in world file?

2005-12-06 Thread Ernie Schroder
for the discussion. On Tuesday 06 December 2005 05:22 pm, a tiny voice compelled Ernie Schroder to write: > On Tuesday 06 December 2005 02:10 pm, a tiny voice compelled Willie Wong to > > write: > > On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 01:36:47PM -0500, Ernie Schroder wrote: > >

[gentoo-user] package.keywords/kde

2005-12-06 Thread Ernie Schroder
After updating to kde-3.5.0, an emerge -up world, as expected wants to downgrade a whole lot of apps. So, I decided it was time to get /etc/portage/package.keywords up to date. I did (in my home directory) # equery list | grep kde-base | grep 3.5 >> package.keywords and added the ~x86 after the

Re: [gentoo-user] Unmasking KDE-3.5

2005-12-07 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Wednesday 07 December 2005 06:51 am, a tiny voice compelled Neil Bothwick to write: > One command to produce this is > > qpkg -nc -g kde-base | sed 's/$/ ~x86/' I'm still baffled by this. I ran Neil's suggested command above and wrote it to /etc/portage/package.keywords and an # emerge -up

Re: [gentoo-user] Yikes, what have I done 3 1 seconds beeps on boot

2005-12-07 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Tuesday 06 December 2005 09:33 pm, a tiny voice compelled Harry Putnam to write: > I've been tinkering around with installing a new hdd for the last 1/2 hr > or so, suddenly on shutdown I hear 3 beeps come from the computer I'm > working on. Attempts to reboot bring 3 1 second beeps now too.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Yikes, what have I done 3 1 seconds beeps on boot

2005-12-07 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Wednesday 07 December 2005 14:38, a tiny voice compelled Jarry to write: > Harry Putnam wrote: > Date: 7.1.2005 20:11 <= ! > > And I wonder, why your mail is always deep back in my mail folder... > > :-) > > Jarry It looks like his email app thinks it's 1/7/05 -- Regards, Ernie 100% Micros

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Yikes, what have I done 3 1 seconds beeps on boot

2005-12-07 Thread Ernie Schroder
It's fixed if you're still on the windblows box. It wasn't a problem for me because kmail threads pretty well but it might have been tough for others. On Wednesday 07 December 2005 19:33, a tiny voice compelled Harry Putnam to write: > Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

[gentoo-user] firefox/java_vm

2005-12-08 Thread Ernie Schroder
Certain pages opened in Firefox start java_vm processes that will not allow mplayer to work until I do a killall java_vm. When I do that, any and all firefox windows will close as well. Closing all instances of firefox also kills all java_vm processes. At times I might have 15 or 20 instances of

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox/java_vm

2005-12-08 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Thursday 08 December 2005 10:05, a tiny voice compelled Mark Knecht to write: > The problem I see periodically is that at time the java_vm will go to > 100% CPU and I have to kill it by hand. But you only show one instance of java_vm, right? -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox/java_vm

2005-12-08 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Thursday 08 December 2005 10:05, a tiny voice compelled Mark Knecht to write: > The problem I see periodically is that at time the java_vm will go to > 100% CPU and I have to kill it by hand. After playing a couple hands of Omaha at pogo: ps ax | grep java 30537 ?S 0:01 java_vm

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox/java_vm

2005-12-08 Thread Ernie Schroder
Is it your opinion that this would help my situation with the multiple instances? If so I will give it a try tomorrow. On Thursday 08 December 2005 19:02, a tiny voice compelled Richard Fish to write: > On 12/8/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 12/8/05, Ernie S

Re: [gentoo-user] What provides emaint?

2005-12-09 Thread Ernie Schroder
It's in the latest, masked portage, I believe. yup qpkg -f -i /usr/lib/portage/bin/emaint sys-apps/portage-2.0.53 * The Portage Package Management System. The primary package management and distribution system for Gentoo. [ http://www.gentoo.org/ ] On Friday 09 December 2005 08:45, a

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox/java_vm

2005-12-09 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Thursday 08 December 2005 19:02, a tiny voice compelled Richard Fish to write: > On 12/8/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 12/8/05, Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thursday 08 December 2005 10:05, a tiny voice compelled Mark Kne

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox/java_vm

2005-12-09 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Friday 09 December 2005 14:56, a tiny voice compelled Richard Fish to write: > On 12/9/05, Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > looks like I have to build a new kernel > > > > > 09:37:26 up 1 day, 16:10, 3 users, load average: 0.18, 0.20, 0.44

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox/java_vm

2005-12-09 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Friday 09 December 2005 15:45, a tiny voice compelled Richard Fish to write: > On 12/9/05, Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > is NPTL a selectable kernel option? I can't seem to locate it. > > Nope, it is a core kernel function..not configurable. > >

[gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.14-gentoo-r4/nvidia

2005-12-09 Thread Ernie Schroder
While trying to eliminate another problem, I built a new kernel, booted to it and unmerged and emerged nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx. I then started X. So far, so good. I tried to open a konsole and got pty permission errors. I rebooted to my 2.6.5 kernel, did some research and emerged udev (/us

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.14-gentoo-r4/nvidia

2005-12-09 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Friday 09 December 2005 19:30, a tiny voice compelled Matthew Cline to write: > I think you are having the same problem that I did: > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112976 > > > HTH, > > Matt Thanks for the info. you saved me a lot of time and energy. I don't know why I thought cre

Re: [gentoo-user] X.org can't get up

2005-12-09 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Friday 09 December 2005 19:29, a tiny voice compelled Rafael Fernández López to write: > Hi, > > I've done an "emerge -vuD world", and udev was updated to 077-r3. Now my > computer can't get up X.org, and cannot recognize devices. > > Is this a bug ?? Everything worked perfectly until I reboote

Re: [gentoo-user] package.keywords/kde

2005-12-10 Thread Ernie Schroder
Bump On Tuesday 06 December 2005 21:33, a tiny voice compelled Ernie Schroder to write: > After updating to kde-3.5.0, an emerge -up world, as expected wants to > downgrade a whole lot of apps. So, I decided it was time to > get /etc/portage/package.keywords up to date. I did (i

Re: [gentoo-user] package.keywords/kde

2005-12-11 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Saturday 10 December 2005 23:07, a tiny voice compelled Brett I. Holcomb to write: > You say you did it in your home directory but portage looks at /etc/portage > for the files such as package.keywords. Did you move it to /etc/portage? > > On Saturday 10 December 2005 22:02, Er

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox/java_vm SOLVED

2005-12-11 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Friday 09 December 2005 15:48, a tiny voice compelled Ernie Schroder to write: > On Friday 09 December 2005 15:45, a tiny voice compelled Richard Fish to > > write: > > On 12/9/05, Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > is NPTL a selectable kernel opt

Re: [gentoo-user] package.keywords/kde

2005-12-11 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Sunday 11 December 2005 14:49, a tiny voice compelled Brett I. Holcomb to write: > Okay - I figured you did but wasn't sure. > > If you have a space before the asterisk it's a problem and it appears you > do - at least in the email. > > On Sunday 11 December 2005

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: package.keywords/kde

2005-12-12 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Monday 12 December 2005 09:12, a tiny voice compelled Marc Christiansen to write: > Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [ebuild UD] sys-devel/m4-1.4.3 [1.4.4] > > [ebuild UD] sys-devel/autoconf-wrapper-3-r1 [3.2] > > [nomerge ]

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: package.keywords/kde

2005-12-12 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Monday 12 December 2005 10:11, a tiny voice compelled Holly Bostick to write: > Ernie Schroder schreef: > > On Monday 12 December 2005 09:12, a tiny voice compelled Marc > > > > Christiansen to write: > >> Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >&

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: package.keywords/kde

2005-12-12 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Monday 12 December 2005 10:35, a tiny voice compelled Neil Bothwick to write: > On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 09:50:17 -0500, Ernie Schroder wrote: > > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge kde > > > > All of these ~x86 packages were brought in at that time > > T

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: package.keywords/kde

2005-12-12 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Monday 12 December 2005 11:13, a tiny voice compelled Neil Bothwick to write: > On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 10:59:20 -0500, Ernie Schroder wrote: > > > This is exactly why you should not use ACCEPT_KEYWORDS on the command > > > line. It applies to the whole emerge process, so

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: package.keywords/kde

2005-12-12 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Monday 12 December 2005 12:28, a tiny voice compelled Holly Bostick to write: > In any case, some time must have passed and you logged off, shut down, > or in some other way you must have closed the current login session in > the term and begun another, which used the 'regular' settings read fr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: package.keywords/kde

2005-12-13 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Monday 12 December 2005 11:23, a tiny voice compelled Ernie Schroder to write: > On Monday 12 December 2005 11:13, a tiny voice compelled Neil Bothwick to > > write: > > On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 10:59:20 -0500, Ernie Schroder wrote: > > > > This is exactly why you should

[gentoo-user] USB error #'s? mass storage

2005-12-14 Thread Ernie Schroder
Does anyone have a link to USB errors? I've been having some problems getting my USB card reader wotking. It works on the wife's XP machine and worked under kernel 2.6.5 until a few months ago. (kernel went unchanged) I've recently built 2.6.14 and included the same parameters SCSI SCSI disk, U

[gentoo-user] udevstart at boot?

2005-12-17 Thread Ernie Schroder
I'm obviously looking in the wrong places, but I can't find documentation on getting udev to start at boot. Sound and a few other things you don't notice right away fail to work until I do: # udevstart /dev/dsp is created with correct permissions and I'm good to go. The question is: How to I get

Re: [gentoo-user] udevstart at boot?

2005-12-17 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Saturday 17 December 2005 21:55, a tiny voice compelled Richard Fish to write: > On 12/17/05, Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm obviously looking in the wrong places, but I can't find documentation > > on getting udev to start at boot. Sound a

Re: [gentoo-user] udevstart at boot?

2005-12-17 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Saturday 17 December 2005 22:48, a tiny voice compelled Richard Fish to write: > On 12/17/05, Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Saturday 17 December 2005 21:55, a tiny voice compelled Richard Fish > > to > > > > write: > > > Having RC_DE

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting to kde 3.5

2005-12-17 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Saturday 17 December 2005 22:57, a tiny voice compelled Richard Fish to write: > On 12/17/05, LostSon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Saturday 17 December 2005 21:17, Nick Rout wrote: > > > I see a lot of people seem to have upgraded to kde 3.5. > > > > > > I am currently running kde 3.4.1 (i

Re: [gentoo-user] udevstart at boot?

2005-12-18 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Sunday 18 December 2005 00:42, a tiny voice compelled Richard Fish to write: > On 12/17/05, Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is /dev/dsp actually missing on startup, or just created with the > > > wrong permissions? > > > > Apparently it ha

Re: [gentoo-user] udevstart at boot?

2005-12-18 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Sunday 18 December 2005 08:35, a tiny voice compelled Ernie Schroder to write: > On Sunday 18 December 2005 00:42, a tiny voice compelled Richard Fish to > > write: > > On 12/17/05, Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Is /dev/dsp actually missing

Re: [gentoo-user] udevstart at boot?

2005-12-18 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Sunday 18 December 2005 10:13, a tiny voice compelled Ernie Schroder to write: > On Sunday 18 December 2005 08:35, a tiny voice compelled Ernie Schroder to > > write: > > On Sunday 18 December 2005 00:42, a tiny voice compelled Richard Fish to > > > > write:

Re: [gentoo-user] udevstart at boot?

2005-12-18 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Sunday 18 December 2005 14:01, a tiny voice compelled Tony Davison to write: > On Sunday 18 December 2005 15:30, Ernie Schroder wrote: > > On Sunday 18 December 2005 10:13, a tiny voice compelled Ernie Schroder > > to > > > > write: > > > On Sunday

Re: [gentoo-user] udevstart at boot?

2005-12-18 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Sunday 18 December 2005 14:14, a tiny voice compelled Daniel Drake to write: > Ernie Schroder wrote: > > I'm obviously looking in the wrong places, but I can't find documentation > > on getting udev to start at boot. Sound and a few other things you don't >

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting to kde 3.5

2005-12-18 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Sunday 18 December 2005 12:13, a tiny voice compelled LostSon to write: > > > Wait til Holly sees this > > I made that comment because I had used ACCEPT_KEYWORDS on the command line as you did and I got the same stern lecture that I expected Holly would give you. I went on to say that unless

Re: [gentoo-user] udevstart at boot?

2005-12-18 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Sunday 18 December 2005 18:54, a tiny voice compelled Richard Fish to write: > On 12/18/05, Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > What are the permissions that it is being created with? (Do "ls -l > > > > /dev/dsp" from a con

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting to kde 3.5

2005-12-18 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Sunday 18 December 2005 21:20, a tiny voice compelled Holly Bostick to write: > That's how Portage works. Sorry you don't like it, but claiming that > correct instructions on the working of the distribution's tools is just > our "blinkered opinion" about "how one is supposed to do it & everyon

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a net-setup equivalent in portage?

2005-12-22 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Thursday 22 December 2005 11:46, a tiny voice compelled Peter to write: > I recently had to reconfigure my network. I did it by hand, no big deal. > But I really wanted to use the net-setup program that is on the install > and livecd disks. Is this app ONLY in the livecd-tools package? Do I need

Re: [gentoo-user] BASH 3.1 - DON't UPGRADE

2005-12-22 Thread Ernie Schroder
Just for fun, why would one want to emerge an unstable bash? Is there some feature that I "have to have"? On Thursday 22 December 2005 16:18, a tiny voice compelled Ryan Viljoen to write: > > > bash-3.1-r1 isn't hard masked anymore. Is it now safe to upgrade > > > to bash v3.1? > > > > It seems

Re: [gentoo-user] BASH 3.1 - DON't UPGRADE

2005-12-22 Thread Ernie Schroder
few "~x86" apps but I don't really know enough to go all the way. On Thursday 22 December 2005 17:58, a tiny voice compelled Neil Bothwick to write: > On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 16:32:43 -0500, Ernie Schroder wrote: > > Just for fun, why would one want to emerge an unstable bash

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome won't start

2005-12-23 Thread Ernie Schroder
Check /var/log/gdm/:0.log. It should give you some useful info. On Friday 23 December 2005 10:02, a tiny voice compelled Kurt Guenther to write: > I can run Xinit and XDM to get into a window manager, but when I run GDM > I get a login screen, I login, and then it hangs. Nothing in > /var/log/me

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Merry Christmas!

2005-12-24 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Friday 23 December 2005 23:59, a tiny voice compelled Dan Meltzer to write: > On Friday 23 December 2005 23:53, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > On Friday 23 December 2005 10:05 pm, Glenn Enright wrote: > > > Hope you all enjoy your day tomorrow. Merry Christmas! > > > > Thanks! > > > > Blessed

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Merry Christmas!

2005-12-24 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Saturday 24 December 2005 07:48, a tiny voice compelled Holly Bostick to write: > > It's really kinda nice that /everybody/ has a holiday around now, > regardless of religion or culture. > > It would be nicer if we all could appreciate that as a kind of common > ground across religions and cul

Re: [gentoo-user] This is weird. upgrade and downgrade at the same time. ???

2005-12-24 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Saturday 24 December 2005 09:59, a tiny voice compelled Uwe Thiem to write: > On 24 December 2005 15:49, Dale wrote: > > Holly Bostick wrote: > > >Dale schreef: > > > > Who is this schreef guy? I'm just Dale. > > That's Dutch for "wrote". ;-) > Ahh but what would that read in Namibian? -- Reg

Re: [gentoo-user] This is weird. upgrade and downgrade at the same time. ???

2005-12-25 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Sunday 25 December 2005 02:45, a tiny voice compelled Uwe Thiem to write: > On 24 December 2005 18:20, Ernie Schroder wrote: > > Ahh but what would that read in Namibian? > > There is no language "Namibian". We speak over 10 languages here, among > them: Os

Re: [gentoo-user] VT Navigation

2005-12-26 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Monday 26 December 2005 14:13, a tiny voice compelled Peter Ruskin to write: > I used to be able to change to the prior|next VT by pressing > Alt-left|right arrow. I don't know what stopped this from working. > Does anyone know how to enable this behaviour? > > -- > Peter > ===

[gentoo-user] What's bringing in Mozzilla?

2006-03-26 Thread Ernie Schroder
$ sudo emerge -auvD world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild N] app-admin/eselect-1.0 -bash-completion -doc 142 kB [ebuild N] app-admin/eselect-opengl-1.0.3 3 kB [ebuild U ] x11-base/opengl-update-3.0.0 [2.2.4] 0 kB

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux design software recommendations

2006-03-26 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Sunday 26 March 2006 11:57, a tiny voice compelled Álvaro Castro to write: > Hello!! > > Well, I'm an architecture student who has wasted tons > of time trying to get gentoo runing all kind of > necessary software for my studies. > > Maybe if I tell you what software I use, it will help > you: >

Re: [gentoo-user] What's bringing in Mozzilla?

2006-03-26 Thread Ernie Schroder
.mask to: > > "www-client/mozilla" > > without the quotes of course Can't see anything in my USE flage that would bring it in, but after changing the package.mask line as you suggested, portage wants to bring in mozilla-firefox-1.0.7-r4. I have mozilla-firefox-bin-1

Re: [gentoo-user] What's bringing in Mozzilla?

2006-03-26 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Sunday 26 March 2006 13:13, a tiny voice compelled Neil Bothwick to write: > On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 12:14:42 -0500, Ernie Schroder wrote: > > $ sudo emerge -auvD world > > Add --tree to the options. $ sudo emerge -auvDt world These are the packages that I would merge, i

Re: [gentoo-user] What's bringing in Mozzilla?

2006-03-26 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Sunday 26 March 2006 13:34, a tiny voice compelled Rumen Yotov to write: > On Sun, 2006-03-26 at 13:22 -0500, Ernie Schroder wrote: > > On Sunday 26 March 2006 13:13, a tiny voice compelled Neil Bothwick to write: > > > On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 12:14:42 -0500, Ernie Schroder wro

Re: [gentoo-user] What's bringing in Mozzilla?

2006-03-26 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Sunday 26 March 2006 13:50, a tiny voice compelled Alexander Skwar to write: > Ernie Schroder wrote: > > [ebuild U ] net-www/mplayerplug-in-3.21 [2.80] -gecko-sdk +gtk 204 kB > > [ebuild N] www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.0.7-r4 -debug -gnome +ipv6 > > +java -mo

Re: [gentoo-user] What's bringing in Mozzilla?

2006-03-26 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Sunday 26 March 2006 14:16, a tiny voice compelled Manuel McLure to write: > echo "net-www/mplayerplug-in   gecko-sdk" >>/etc/portage/package.use > > This will make mplayerplug-in pull in net-libs/gecko-sdk instead > (gecko-sdk is the minimal portion of the Mozilla libraries required to > build

Re: SOLVED [gentoo-user] What's bringing in Mozzilla?

2006-03-26 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Sunday 26 March 2006 14:41, a tiny voice compelled Ernie Schroder to write: > On Sunday 26 March 2006 14:16, a tiny voice compelled Manuel McLure to write: > > echo "net-www/mplayerplug-in   gecko-sdk" >>/etc/portage/package.use > > > > This will make mpla

Re: [gentoo-user] What's bringing in Mozzilla?

2006-03-26 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Sunday 26 March 2006 14:48, a tiny voice compelled Bo Andresen to write: > On Sunday 26 March 2006 21:16, Manuel McLure wrote: > > As other have said, mplayer-plugin wants to pull in mozilla-firefox. The > > reason for this is that it needs the Mozilla source libraries to build > > against. One

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