Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Java java java, I miss my java

2005-06-13 Thread Holly Bostick
Kevin O'Gorman schreef: > Thanks, I *did* miss that. Unfortunately, it doesn't fix the problem. > Below, I try an emerge, then dump the files again. > Maybe I missed two things? > Yes. You've unmasked (in /etc/portage/package.unmask) a specific version of the docs (1.4.99, because you used an =

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Java java java, I miss my java

2005-06-13 Thread Holly Bostick
Zac Medico schreef: > Holly Bostick wrote: > > >>Yes. You've unmasked (in /etc/portage/package.unmask) a specific version >>of the docs (1.4.99, because you used an = sign, and a version number). >> >>However, you're trying to install version 1.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Java java java, I miss my java

2005-06-14 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: > On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 15:52:44 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > >>1) I thought java 1.5 wasn't there because it was not found by >>emerge -s java >>emerge -s jre >>emerge -s blackdown > > > emerge -av eix > > Not only is eix much faster than emerge -s but it

[gentoo-user] Mailing output of cron jobs

2005-06-14 Thread Holly Bostick
> Neil Bothwick schreef: >> On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 13:21:33 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: >> >> >>Indeed it is as long as you remember to update-eix after an esync >>(or emerge sync). Gotta put that in as a cron job or something-- or is >>there a better way

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 1.0.4 certificate problem

2005-06-14 Thread Holly Bostick
Kevin O'Gorman schreef: > I'm having trouble with the Java Forums site, because Firefox cannot > deal with a certificate > it gets. Try the "login" link on >http://forum.java.sun.com/forum.jspa?forumID=57 > or any of the other fora. > > If somebody can point me to the place to report Firefox

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing output of cron jobs

2005-06-14 Thread Holly Bostick
A. Khattri schreef: > On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: > > >>I just want cron (generally) to mail any output to me via my regular >>ISP, rather than to root, via the local mailspool. > > > Forgot to mention: Im assuming you have ssmtp installed (as well

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing output of cron jobs

2005-06-14 Thread Holly Bostick
A. Khattri schreef: > On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: > > >>I just want cron (generally) to mail any output to me via my regular >>ISP, rather than to root, via the local mailspool. > > > Forgot to mention: Im assuming you have ssmtp installed (as well

[gentoo-user] Glsa-check and binutils-- how to stop the madness?

2005-06-14 Thread Holly Bostick
Hi, I've been running a little scriptlet to test whether I could get mail sent to my ISP inbox. The full script runs esync and glsa-check, but naturally I didn't want to sync 700 times, so I just ran the glsa-check section. To my surprise, I had an open GLSA (I just fixed everything a couple of d

Re: [gentoo-user] Glsa-check and binutils-- how to stop the madness?

2005-06-14 Thread Holly Bostick
Richard Fish schreef: >> Holly Bostick wrote: >> >> >>So my questions are: >> >>1) Am I supposed to have 4 versions of binutils in the first place? >> >> >> >> > Do you have USE 'multislot' or 'multitarget' fo

Re: [gentoo-user] Glsa-check and binutils-- how to stop the madness?

2005-06-14 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: > On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 00:16:20 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > > >>1) trim out a bunch of binutils slots that I may or may not need (and >>therefore whose loss may break unknown applications), so that glsa-check >>(which is apparently broken with r

[gentoo-user] What's wrong with my locales?

2005-06-15 Thread Holly Bostick
I've been trying to get my locales straightened out. I want to use [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ISO8859-15) as my default encoding. I originally followed the Gentoo Localization Guide and defined the following locales in /etc/locales/build: en_us/ISO-8859-1 en_US.ISO-8859-15/ISO-8859-15 en_US.UTF-8/UTF-8 nl

Re: [gentoo-user] Glsa-check and binutils-- how to stop the madness?

2005-06-15 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: > On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 01:52:37 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > > >>Checking GLSA 200506-01 >>The following updates will be performed for this GLSA: >> sys-devel/binutils-2.16-r1 (2.16.1) >> >>which it has already re-emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Glsa-check and binutils-- how to stop the madness?

2005-06-15 Thread Holly Bostick
Richard Fish schreef: > Holly Bostick wrote: > > >>OK, I'm following both of you so far. Yes, I do have 'multislot' for >>binutils. I admit it was just guesswork on my part; I read the USE flag >>description, thought about automake and autoconf, though

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ALSA Drivers on A7V8X-X Motherboard

2005-06-15 Thread Holly Bostick
James schreef: > ## IMPORTANT: > ## You need to customise this section for your specific sound card(s) > ## and then run `update-modules' command. > ## Read alsa-driver's INSTALL file in /usr/share/doc for more info. > ## > ## ALSA portion > ## alias snd-card-0 snd-interwave > ## alias snd-card-1

Re: [gentoo-user] What's wrong with my locales?

2005-06-15 Thread Holly Bostick
Zac Medico schreef: > Holly Bostick wrote: > >>I've been trying to get my locales straightened out. I want to use >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (ISO8859-15) as my default encoding. I originally followed >>the Gentoo Localization Guide and defined the following locales in >

Re: [gentoo-user] What's wrong with my locales?

2005-06-15 Thread Holly Bostick
set the encoding what you want in your .xinitrc file > > My mother language is not English, I hope you can understand what I said > Hope it helps > On 16:21 Wed 15 Jun, Holly Bostick wrote: > Thank you also, the only problem is that I don't actually have an ~/.xinitrc, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Which emulators for DOS+Win3.1 games?

2005-06-16 Thread Holly Bostick
Walter Dnes schreef: > Going through some old backup CDs, I found a few obscure DOS games and > Chessmaster 3000 (I still have the original install floppies!). I don't > want to have to dual-boot or dedicate a machine to them. What are the > recommended emulators to use under Gentoo? The DOS g

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI radeon drivers/config

2005-06-16 Thread Holly Bostick
Martins schreef: > hi, > > did a lot of googling, read a lot of howtos, but still strugling to get > ATI work perfect. could someone send me working conf files for xorg and > kernel and /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 to row by row check > > thanx in advance > > Martins > > my pci: > # ls

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Java java java, I miss my java

2005-06-17 Thread Holly Bostick
Bothwick wrote: >> >>>On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 13:21:33 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: >>> >>>>Indeed it is as long as you remember to update-eix after an >>>>esync (or emerge sync). Gotta put that in as a cron job or >>>>something-- or is

Re: [gentoo-user] portage keywords

2005-06-17 Thread Holly Bostick
Martins Steinbergs schreef: > hi, > > im wondering how to avoid packages from upgrade or downgrade, at last found > that ati-drivers-8.14.13 compile with kernel vanilla 2.6.11.11 and it would > be good that this pair stays as is while --update world. > > Martins Well, the ATI drivers won't be

Re: [gentoo-user] portage keywords

2005-06-17 Thread Holly Bostick
Martins Steinbergs schreef: >>ATI has a policy of not supporting -rc or >>unreleased/unstable kernels. > > > i tried with vanilla 2.6.12-rc6 - no luck. fglrx wont compile. Yes, that's what I said-- ATI does not support -rc kernels. But the 2.6.12 final release is now in Portage, and it might co

Re: [gentoo-user] portage keywords

2005-06-17 Thread Holly Bostick
Harald Arnesen schreef: > Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> But the >>2.6.12 final release is now in Portage > > > How can 2.6.12 be in portage when the latest versions on kernel.org > are 2.6.11.12 and 2.6.12-rc6 ? Sorry, my mistake --misr

Re: [gentoo-user] drm and dri problem

2005-06-18 Thread Holly Bostick
Luigi Pinna schreef: > Hello! > I installed the ati drivers and now I have a problem to use ut2004. > If I try as root it works, but if I use as a normal user I read that > from console: > ut2004 > WARNING: ALC_EXT_capture is subject to change! > FGLTexMgr: open of shared memory object failed (Per

Re: [gentoo-user] drm and dri problem

2005-06-18 Thread Holly Bostick
Luigi Pinna schreef: > Alle 15:10, sabato 18 giugno 2005, Holly Bostick ha scritto: > > >>"It works as root, but as a user I get a lot of errors that include >>the words 'Permission Denied'" pretty much guarantees that the >>problem is the owne

Re: [gentoo-user] drm and dri problem

2005-06-18 Thread Holly Bostick
Luigi Pinna schreef: > I have this too: > # ** > # DRI Section > # ** > Section "dri" > # Access to OpenGL ICD is allowed for all users: > Mode 0666 > # Acces

Re: [gentoo-user] when ldconfig should be run

2005-06-18 Thread Holly Bostick
Richard Fish schreef: > Moshe Kaminsky wrote: > > >>Hi, >> >>I've noticed that after merging every package, portage runs ldconfig >>(the 'Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache...' message). This takes a long >>time, and as far as I understand, for most packages is unnecessary. I > > So, I have a questio

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-06-18 Thread Holly Bostick
Richard Fish schreef: > maxim wexler wrote: >> >>But it's a dead console. The caps lock key and the num >>lock key turn the leds on and off but typing letters >>does nothing. > > > > I've been trying to come up with a reasonable explanation for this > behavior. OK, it may not be a reasonable

Re: [gentoo-user] drm and dri problem

2005-06-18 Thread Holly Bostick
Luigi Pinna schreef: > Alle 15:50, sabato 18 giugno 2005, Holly Bostick ha scritto: > > >>What is the output of fglrxinfo? Have you rebooted since installing >>the drivers? What version of the drivers? What kernel? >> >>Holly > > > Cinzia ~ # fgl

Re: [gentoo-user] Masked baselayout = no console colors

2005-06-18 Thread Holly Bostick
Grant schreef: >>>I updated to the masked baselayout and now there is no coloring >>>of "[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ #" in the console. Could this be a feature? >>> >> >>You probably upgraded bash at the same time. With the new >>baselayout those colours are set in /etc/bash/bashrc: >> >>if [[ -f /etc/DI

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive space low, buildpkg to blame?

2005-06-18 Thread Holly Bostick
Grant schreef: > vmware is telling me I'm low on space for /tmp. My hard drive must be > filling up and I suspect FEATURES="buildpkg" which has been on for a > while. What is the best way to find out if those packages are taking > up all of my space? Best one I've found is x11-misc/xdiskusage

Re: [gentoo-user] Masked baselayout = no console colors

2005-06-18 Thread Holly Bostick
Grant schreef: >>>The code in my bashrc that seems to correspond with the above code is >>>a bit different so I tried commenting it out and adding your's. I >>>then ran env-update and 'source /etc/profile' but still no colors. >>>Should I post my bashrc? Maybe it wasn't updated properly because m

Re: [gentoo-user] problem starting KDE

2005-06-19 Thread Holly Bostick
Fernando Meira schreef: > On 6/19/05, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>If so, you either need to set UseFBDev to Off, or build your kernel with >>the radeon frame-buffer driver into the kernel or as a module. > > > > The UseFBDev is commented.. does that means that is Off ? > No

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-panel

2005-06-19 Thread Holly Bostick
Janne Johansson schreef: > On su, 2005-06-19 at 20:24 +0200, Antonio Coralles wrote: Has anyone noticed quite a delay after starting gnome after the panel comes up and i go to click on the menu it takes about 10 seconds for the menu to come up. After the initial clicking its fine but t

Re: [gentoo-user] Which emulators for DOS+Win3.1 games?

2005-06-20 Thread Holly Bostick
Walter Dnes schreef: > > Finally got it running. Since SDL is hooked into svgalib (at least on > my system) I had to... > - modprobe svgalib_helper (which creates /dev/svga and /dev/svga1) > - chmod u+s /usr/games/bin/dosbox (with the usual security disclaimer) > - and remember that svgal

Re: [gentoo-user] Interface issue

2005-06-20 Thread Holly Bostick
Rafael Fernández López schreef: > I think that my father wouldn't like to know that there are X email > clients, and the features of each one. He only wants to click on "MY > EMAIL" and read his new email. That's the point. > And so your father can use SuSE, or Lindows, or one of the many other d

Re: [gentoo-user] problem starting KDE

2005-06-21 Thread Holly Bostick
Fernando Meira schreef: > Sorry.. I was not sure if the quoting was right.. gmail just got crazy!! > I repeat! > > On 6/19/05, *Holly Bostick* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> > wrote: > > Not necessarily, if the internal default for this settin

Re: [gentoo-user] Which emulators for DOS+Win3.1 games?

2005-06-21 Thread Holly Bostick
Walter Dnes schreef: > On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 12:20:05PM +0200, Holly Bostick wrote > >>What is your MIDI setup (is MIDI currently running on your machine >>without reference to dosbox)? I should have ALSA MIDI and Timidity set > > > What the bleep have they done t

Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: How to create document template?

2005-06-21 Thread Holly Bostick
Peter Gordon schreef: > Hi all. > > When I attempt to create a new file in Nautilus it gives me an inactive > "No templates installed" and a usable "Empty file" option underneath. > How would I go about creating a template that I could use here? Just a WAG: Is it possible to open that empty file

Re: [gentoo-user] Line numbers in nano

2005-06-21 Thread Holly Bostick
Ryan Viljoen schreef: > Is it possible to get nano to display line numbers? > Doesn't look like it, but with Meta-C (the Meta key is usually ALT, but you can change this, or your keyboard settings may do so), you get a constant cursor position display, which will tell you what line you are current

Re: [gentoo-user] Something strange with emerge...

2005-06-21 Thread Holly Bostick
Yann Garnier schreef: > Greetings everyone, > > Although I'm really satisfied with my gentoo laptop, there's is still > something I don't understand with emerge. > When I 'emerge -pvuD world' then portage "wants" to install many > things, here is an example of the output: > > These are the pack

Re: [gentoo-user] Something strange with emerge...

2005-06-21 Thread Holly Bostick
Yann Garnier schreef: > Andrew, Holly, everyone, > > I did an 'emerge --info' to check what USE flags were set, and I saw > that portage used the gnome flag. > > This gnome flag is not set in the make.conf > > I tried the -t switch ('emerge -pvuDt wold') and the output is just the > same ... d

Re: [gentoo-user] Line numbers in nano

2005-06-22 Thread Holly Bostick
;does "nano -c" help you? >>-- >>gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list >> Hey, didn't I say this (first, even)? > Holly Bostick schreef: >> Ryan Viljoen schreef: >> >>>Is it possible to get nano to display line numbers? >>> >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Line numbers in nano

2005-06-22 Thread Holly Bostick
AJ Spagnoletti schreef: > Holly just so you know for an answer to your question. On my end of it > all your post made the list fine. > > AJ > Thank you, AJ. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging mplayer with compile option --without-x

2005-06-23 Thread Holly Bostick
Stefano Guglia schreef: > hello! > > I need to emerge mplayer and mythtv without x, framebuffer only. How can I > pass --without-x and other options to ./configure during emerge process? > (-x in USE flag does not work: 'emerge mplayer' still needs xorg...) > > thanks.. > Stefano. Just to get t

Re: [gentoo-user] different times in postfix log

2005-06-23 Thread Holly Bostick
Jan Callewaert schreef: > I'm afraid that I replied too fast. I searched google just a little more. > qmgr > runs inside a chroot in /var/spool/postfix. So I copied my /etc/localtime > into the chroot (I had to create the /etc directory). I restarted postfix and > the log time was correct. Howe

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging mplayer with compile option --without-x

2005-06-23 Thread Holly Bostick
Stefano Guglia schreef: > Alle 11:56, giovedì 23 giugno 2005, azz ha scritto: > >>CMIIW, i think it's USE="-gtk" emerge -av mplayer > > > hereis the result on my side: > > - > > [ebuild N] media-video/realplayer-10.0.4 -mozilla 6,486 kB > [ebuild N] media-video/

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI Composte & DRI

2005-06-24 Thread Holly Bostick
Tim Igoe wrote: > > Neil Bothwick wrote: > >>On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 10:31:10 +0100, Tim Igoe wrote: >> >> >> >>>[signature.asc application/pgp-signature (189 bytes)] >> >> >>Tim, is your key on a public server anywhere? Because every time I read >>one of your mails, there's an annoying delay as my

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI Composte & DRI

2005-06-24 Thread Holly Bostick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 13:25:17 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > > >>FYI, I couldn't import the key from any of the default listed keyservers >>either, nor could I import it directly from the link prov

Re: [gentoo-user] Dell Optiplex, New HD, Won't Boot from HD after install

2005-06-24 Thread Holly Bostick
Michael Haan schreef: > I was able to boot the factory HD (and, I think, possibly the CD too) > with SuSE. But I took that drive when I built another Gentoo box, so > I replaced it with another drive I had laying around. > And what comes to my mind on hearing this is " jumpers?" The short

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI Composte & DRI

2005-06-24 Thread Holly Bostick
Tim Igoe schreef: > > Holly Bostick wrote: >>But this whole episode has at least gotten me to finally upload my own >>key, so I've (hopefully) signed this message. > > > hehe :D > >>Can you all get the key (since I know the list doesn't have it,

[gentoo-user] [OT] GPG keys, servers and signing (was, ATI Composte & DRI)

2005-06-24 Thread Holly Bostick
rently. OK, so Neil said: Neil Bothwick schreef: > On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 17:26:43 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > >>But this whole episode has at least gotten me to finally upload my own >>key, so I've (hopefully) signed this message. > > > Yes, but as an inline signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X woes after baselayout update.

2005-06-24 Thread Holly Bostick
Qian Qiao schreef: > On 24/06/05, Qian Qiao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>However, if I run udevstart before trying to start X, X fires up correctly. > More info, alsa woes too. alsasound cannot start correctly at boot > time, have to run a udevstart to start it too. Am I missing something, or

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke--update

2005-06-24 Thread Holly Bostick
seems to find it easier reading the > floppy than the hd. What d'ya think people? And what > *was* that mysterious error all about anyway? Here's > another: if /dev/hda2 *is* corrupt, how comes it that > it can be read and written to without error? > > Discuss :) > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Windows XP - Gentoo - Lilo Loader Question

2005-06-26 Thread Holly Bostick
Richard Watson schreef: > Hi - I have Windows XP installed on /dev/hda1. This drive is jumpered as the > master. I installed Gentoo on /dev/hdb (which is jumpered as slave) with the > standard partitioning scheme from the Gentoo Handbook. > > I'm using LILO. > > I tried loading /sbin/lilo to /dev

Re: [gentoo-user] grub failure or something bad about partitions

2005-06-26 Thread Holly Bostick
Martins Steinbergs schreef: > hi, > > i have dual boot box, and got this message booting win and all stops there: > > booting "Windows" > rootnoverify (hd0,0) > makeactive > chainloader +1 > > probably this is cause i recently updated bios, anyway this is my grub.conf > (v.0.9

Re: [gentoo-user] Kde Issue

2005-06-26 Thread Holly Bostick
Ian K schreef: > I didn't know about this kde-meta package.. > Will it get me 3.4.1? > Ian > http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=kde-meta kde-meta Description: kde - merge this to pull in all kde packages Releasesalpha amd64 arm hppaia64mipsppc ppc64 pp

Re: [gentoo-user] Where can I download the gentoo binary for Ximian Evolution 2?

2005-06-27 Thread Holly Bostick
Hareesh Nagarajan schreef: > On 6/22/05, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>learn some manners huh? > > > Pray, what made my reply desrespectful? > > Hareesh > IMO, Nick wasn't talking to you, Hareesh. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Would zapping USE in make.defaults hurt anything?

2005-06-27 Thread Holly Bostick
Walter Dnes schreef: > On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 09:39:15AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote > > >>Bit I think you're missing the point. These are DEFAULTS, if you >>really don't want any unnecessary GNOME packages installed, you >>should be specifically including -gnome in /etc/make.conf. > > > The

Re: [gentoo-user] Would zapping USE in make.defaults hurt anything?

2005-06-27 Thread Holly Bostick
Richard Fish schreef: > Holly Bostick wrote: > > >>Walter Dnes schreef: >> >>> The point which I'm trying to make, and everybody else seems to be >>>missing, is that *THE DEFAULTS ARE CONSTANTLY CHANGING UNDER OUR FEET*. >>>Several weeks ago,

Re: [gentoo-user] OT? Gnome no bzip2 utility

2005-06-27 Thread Holly Bostick
Dave S schreef: > I am starting to play with Gnome, > > I am trying to install some more icons, I drag my icon file to 'Theme > Preferences', it downloads then reports ... > > "Can not install theme. > The bzip2 utility is not installed" > > bash-2.05b$ emerge -p bzip2 > > These are the package

Re: [gentoo-user] OT? Gnome no bzip2 utility

2005-06-27 Thread Holly Bostick
Dave S schreef: > Holly Bostick wrote: > > cd to the directory > > bash-2.05b$ ls > 36x36 README index.theme makePngFromSvg.sh scalable > bash-2.05b$ cat README > This is a mostly complete svg icon set based on SGI's Indigo Magic Desktop. > >>Som

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.12* hoses ati and bcm4400

2005-06-28 Thread Holly Bostick
Iain Buchanan schreef: > Hi, > > I recently upgraded to 2.6.12, and on my recompile of all associated > parts, ati-drivers had some trouble, and bcm4400 plain didn't compile! > This process has worked almost flawlessly for me through many 2.6 > kernels. > > With 2.6.12 I managed to get ati-driver

Re: [gentoo-user] different times in postfix log

2005-06-28 Thread Holly Bostick
Jan Callewaert schreef: > Hi, > if I watch the logs of postfix, I have different times in it. > > Jun 18 19:17:43 [postfix/qmgr] 1E365EDCC3: from=, size=4398, nrcpt=1 > (queue active) > Jun 18 21:17:44 [postfix/local] 1E365EDCC3: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > orig_to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, relay=local

Re: [gentoo-user] different times in postfix log

2005-06-28 Thread Holly Bostick
Tim Igoe schreef: > > Holly Bostick wrote: > >>Jan Callewaert schreef: >> >> >>>Hi, >>>if I watch the logs of postfix, I have different times in it. >>>Regards, >>> >>>Jan Callewaert >> >> >>A perhaps

Re: [gentoo-user] different times in postfix log

2005-06-28 Thread Holly Bostick
Jan Callewaert schreef: > Op dinsdag 28 juni 2005 14:52, schreef Tim Igoe: > >>Holly Bostick wrote: >> >>>Tim Igoe schreef: >>> >>>>Holly Bostick wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>>A perhaps more importan

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice2.0 Install [not solved :( ]

2005-06-29 Thread Holly Bostick
Ian K schreef: > Zac Medico wrote: > > >>Ian K wrote: >> >> >> >>>Hey Everyone, >>>I really want the OO.org 2.0 beta, but its not in portage >> >>http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=app-office;name=openoffice-bin >> >>The latest beta is in the portage tree but it's keyword masked. >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge Amarok

2005-06-29 Thread Holly Bostick
Anthony E. Caudel schreef: > I recently switched to the KDE 3.4 split ebuilds but when I tried to > emerge Amarok, it wnated to pull in several 3.3 packages: > > == > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > C

Re: [gentoo-user] vsftp .vs. ftpbase WTF??

2005-06-29 Thread Holly Bostick
Stoian Ivanov schreef: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # emerge -auD world > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > Calculating world dependencies ...done! > [blocks B ] [ebuild N] net-ftp/ftpbase-0.00 > [ebuild U ] net-ftp/vsftpd-2.0.3-r1 [2.0.3] > > !!! Error: The above

Re: [gentoo-user] No Sound!!!

2005-06-29 Thread Holly Bostick
Michael Sullivan schreef: > I'm still working to get my recently reinstalled Gentoo system up to its > former glory. I cannot get my sound to work though. I'm following (or > rather trying to) the Gentoo Alsa Guide > (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml) . It says to run lspci to > find

[gentoo-user] Another question on mailing cron-job output

2005-06-29 Thread Holly Bostick
Hey, list, You may remember me asking previously about how to get cron to mail me the output of esync, which is working fine so fine, in fact, that I think I'll take Neil's recent suggestion of putting revdep-rebuild -p in cron.weekly and having that output mailed to me as well. So atm, my cr

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing installation of evolution and others

2005-06-29 Thread Holly Bostick
Bruno Lustosa schreef: > How can I make sure that when I upgrade, packages like evolution and > epiphany (along with mozilla) won't get installed? Is there a (clean) > way to prevent them from being installed? > They seem to be tied to gnome, but as I don't use them, I have no need > to waste time

Re: [gentoo-user] Another question on mailing cron-job output

2005-06-29 Thread Holly Bostick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: > hello, > > On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 03:42:08PM +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > >>Hey, list, > > > >>Alternatively, since the output cron jobs are being mailed via a mail -s >>command in the scripts themselves, can I/should I ju

Re: [gentoo-user] NeverWinter Nights Linux SDL Segmentation Fault

2005-06-30 Thread Holly Bostick
� schreef: > Hi there, > I have just emerged nwn and copied the files needed > from my windows partition. However when I run nwn, > i get the following error: > > # /opt/nwn/nwn > Fatal signal: Segmentation Fault (SDL Parachute > Deployed) > > > How do I fix this? > Here are the computer's specs

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem emerging man-1.6

2005-06-30 Thread Holly Bostick
Christian Herzyk schreef: > Hello, > > emerge -u world wants to upgrade man to version 1.6. > > I get the following errors: > Created Makefile and conf_script. Now do "make" and "make install". > manfile.c: In function `glob_for_file': > manfile.c:152: error: `CALLTRACE2' undeclared (first use i

Re: [gentoo-user] vsftp .vs. ftpbase WTF??

2005-06-30 Thread Holly Bostick
Stoian Ivanov schreef: > Here is what confuses me most: > Since I'm updating a package isn't it normal to assume that it will be > replaced after the process with a compatible one and because of that there is > no need to complain. Other source of confussion is "net-ftp/vsftpd-2.0.3-r

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem emerging man-1.6

2005-06-30 Thread Holly Bostick
Christian Herzyk schreef: > Replying to my own mail: > > I just found the solution on the forums (the idiot at this keyboard only > searched google and not the forums). > > The solution can be found here: > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-354675-highlight-man1+6.html > For the information

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating with emerge

2005-07-01 Thread Holly Bostick
Bruno Gola schreef: > >>Bruno Gola wrote: >> >>>I'm trying to update (emerge --update --deep world), but when it try to >>>update pyvorbis, it stops, so i tried to emerge pyvorbis: >>> > >>>Checking for Ogg ... success >>>Checking for Vorbis ... success >>>Wrote Setup file >>>You must have the Og

Re: [gentoo-user] Ati Linux Proprietary Driver

2005-07-05 Thread Holly Bostick
Bob Sanders schreef: > > Why should the driver disallow valid modes? Both ATI and Nvidia drivers do > so - > > ATI - won't do 1600x1024, monitor SGI FP1600SW > Nvidia - won't do 1280x768, monitor Viewsonic N1700W > This question made me wonder if it was the *video card* or the *monitor driver

Re: [gentoo-user] Ati Linux Proprietary Driver

2005-07-05 Thread Holly Bostick
Bob Sanders schreef: > On Tue, 05 Jul 2005 18:41:57 +0200 > Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Now, $DEITY forbid I should mix into this heated discussion (despite >>myself being an ATI user with a fair number of opinions on the subject). >>

Re: [gentoo-user] .MID plugin for mozilla

2005-07-05 Thread Holly Bostick
Michael Sullivan schreef: > I saved the .mid file to my hard drive and tried to open it with > mozilla. It gave me a dialog with this information: > > The file "#3" is of type "#2" (#1) and #4 does not know how to handle > this file > type. This file is located at: > > What should Mozilla do

Re: [gentoo-user] Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

2005-07-06 Thread Holly Bostick
W.Kenworthy schreef: > After an update (possibly pam related) a couple of weeks ago, I can no > longer run so X apps under sudo (starting apps from a root logged in via > su in an xterm work fine). > > In particular, I have some scripts using gtkdialog (which run as root) > to ask "which network

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.4 -> 2.6 wierdness

2005-07-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Jerry McBride schreef: > On Tuesday 05 July 2005 06:00 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>Trying to Migrate to 2.6. But when I reboot into my new genkerneled >>system, I cannot use X.org anymore, it complains about agpgart not >>working. Even If I modprobe the kernel mod or even compile it in dir

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.4 -> 2.6 wierdness

2005-07-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Martins Steinbergs schreef: >> On Wednesday 06 July 2005 12:55, Holly Bostick wrote: >> >>> >> >>To me, errors in agpgart first suggest that either support for your >>motherboard's agp chipset is not compiled into the kernel, or --if >>comp

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer codecs

2005-07-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Bruno Gola schreef: > Hello guys, > > I was trying to play some *.wmv files in mplayer, but it seems i dont > have the proper video codec (it complains about the video only), so, > where should i put the codecs files ? Because i've already downloaded > the codecs that i need... but i dont know whe

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer codecs

2005-07-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Bruno Gola schreef: > Holly Bostick wrote: > > >>Bruno Gola schreef: >> >> >> >>>Hello guys, >>> >>>I was trying to play some *.wmv files in mplayer, but it seems i dont >>>have the proper video codec (it complains about the v

[gentoo-user] sudo echo cannot write to /etc/ files ?

2005-07-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Hey, ho-- Here's (one of) today's non-critical problems that's getting on my nerves, so hopefully somebody can help. I've finally got around to setting up sudo. It works fine, except for one thing. I don't just give myself blanket permissions to sudo to all commands; I made a Cmd_Alias group whi

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo cannot write to /etc/ files ?

2005-07-06 Thread Holly Bostick
A. Khattri schreef: > On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: > > >>Echo is in the sudo-ed group, and echo isn't the problem-- the problem >>is that permission is refused to write to the file itself (which is an >>error *from* echo, so it would seem that echo it

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo cannot write to /etc/ files ?

2005-07-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Edward Catmur schreef: > On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 15:52 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > >>Echo is in the sudo-ed group, and echo isn't the problem-- the problem >>is that permission is refused to write to the file itself (which is an >>error *from* echo, so it would seem

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo cannot write to /etc/ files ?

2005-07-06 Thread Holly Bostick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: > Le Mercredi, 6 Juillet 2005 15.52, Holly Bostick a ecrit : > >>Hey, ho-- >> >>I've finally got around to setting up sudo. It works fine, except for >>one thing. >> >>I made a Cmd_Alias group which includes a lot of ut

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo cannot write to /etc/ files ?

2005-07-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Christoph Gysin schreef: > David Morgan wrote: > >>afaik you can only do it with su -c "echo foo >> bar", which stops bash >>from doing anything with the >> or the whitespace to begin with, but >>then passes everything inside the double quotes to another shell, which >>gets started by su -c >> >>I

Re: [gentoo-user] which package is kfm in?

2005-07-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Christoph Gysin schreef: > Could some KDE user out there run the following command for me: > > $ equery b $(which kfm) > > Thanks! > > Christoph Actually, none-- it's 'konqueror --profile filemanagement' now (this just bit me the other day when I tried one of my rare uses of Konq and went looki

Re: [gentoo-user] bash_history missing

2005-07-06 Thread Holly Bostick
maxim wexler schreef: >>Try to adjust those variables: >> >>HISTFILE=/home/your_account/.bash_history >>HISTFILESIZE=500 >>HISTSIZE=500 >> >> >>HTH, noro > > > Thanks noro. > > I had to run the above from root and sure enough, they > were written into my home dir .bash_history, along > with the

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo cannot write to /etc/ files ?

2005-07-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Richard Fish schreef: > BTW Holly, > > You should recognize that from a security standpoint allowing yourself > to execute bash is really giving yourself "blanket permissions to sudo > to all commands". You might as well make life easier on yourself and > just make your sudo settings "ALL=(ALL) N

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo cannot write to /etc/ files ?

2005-07-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Richard Fish schreef: > Holly Bostick wrote: > > >>Richard Fish schreef: >> >> >> >>>BTW Holly, >>> >>>You should recognize that from a security standpoint allowing yourself >>>to execute bash is really giving yourself &quo

Re: [gentoo-user] ffmpeg front-end recommendations?

2005-07-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Ryan schreef: > I am looking for an excellent ffmpeg front end/gui. It doesnt matter if > its a console or X based front end, as long as it supports as many > features of ffmpeg as possible for decoding/encoding processes. The > main purpose is to convert about 200 mp4's that I have into an SVCD/

Re: [gentoo-user] Help I have b0rked my system :(

2005-07-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Dave S schreef: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > >>Hi, >> >>you don't have composite activated, do you? >> >> > > > I have looked in xorg.conf but cannot find any reference to it, just in > case I swapped xorg.conf for an old copy, same problem :( > > Dave I've gotta say, composite was the

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.4 -> 2.6 wierdness

2005-07-06 Thread Holly Bostick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: > Okay, let's start over. I have only posted the first post of this thread, > but I would say that all off the noise may imply that I am not alone here. > > -I have a working setup in 2.4, less so now than before, but xorg does > still work. > > -in 2.6, xorg will brea

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging old kernel

2005-07-08 Thread Holly Bostick
Ian K schreef: > Hi there, > I need to get a 2.4 kernel onto a system, but > gentoo-sources now gives 2.6. I checked > gentoo-portage.com and it says that there is still a > 2.4 ebuild in the gentoo-sources package(?). As indeed there is: eix gentoo-sources * sys-kernel/gentoo-sources Avai

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging old kernel

2005-07-08 Thread Holly Bostick
What I meant to say was: > Don't forget to add > > > ">sys-kernel-2.4.28-r9" > > > to /etc/portage/package.mask. Stupid Thunderbird needs an escape character (or does it have one and I just don't know it?). Anyway, there should be a 'greater-than" sign in fron of the package name, to mask a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerging old kernel

2005-07-08 Thread Holly Bostick
Ian K schreef: > I get an error though: > There are no ebuilds to satisfy > "=sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.4.28-r9" > > Thanks Holly! > Ian > Hey, Ian-- Maybe you need to sync or something, because it certainly works for me: za 07/09/05 03:18 ~ root -> emerge -pv =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.4.

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