Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird ">"

2005-07-09 Thread Holly Bostick
Benno Schulenberg schreef: > Holly Bostick wrote: > >>What I meant to say was: >> >>>">sys-kernel-2.4.28-r9" >> >>there should be a 'greater-than" sign in fron of the package name, > > > There was a greater-than for me, in K

Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird ">"

2005-07-09 Thread Holly Bostick
Peng schreef: >>I'll check MozillaZine and Google >>later Mozdev seems to like to hide this stuff. If you've ever tried >>to find the list of command-line switches for Netscape/Moz/Firefox on >>the Internet, you'll know exactly what I mean. >> >>Holly > > > What do you mean about the command

Re: [gentoo-user] cant emerge kdelibs

2005-07-10 Thread Holly Bostick
Dave S schreef: > Hi all, > > I cannot emerge kdelibs on my 3000+ AMD, I have tried re-emerging qt > first (found this on the forum), I have edited /etc/make.conf and > removed my -O? flag, usually set to -O3 and tried repeatedly to > re-emerge kdelibs without success. This has nothing to do with

Re: [gentoo-user] cant emerge kdelibs

2005-07-10 Thread Holly Bostick
Holly Bostick schreef: Oops, sorry, forgot part of the command: > The way to fix that is: > > # sh fix_libtool_files.sh > should be sh fix_libtool_files.sh 3.3.4 Sorry. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is GNOME_MixerAapplet

2005-07-10 Thread Holly Bostick
Allan Gottlieb schreef: > Mark Knecht suggests just telling gnome to delete the mixer from my > panel config and install in manually, which I may well do (thanks > mark). I think that's how I fixed it too-- although the gnome mixer isn't all that useful as a mixer (compared to alsamixer, or gami

Re: [gentoo-user] what's new with all those new packages?

2005-07-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Roy Wright schreef: > emerge --pretend --changelog > > will display the change log(s). I usually do > emerge -uDNv world -pl > then if I like it, just delete the -pl to do the merge. > > Have fun, > Roy > Well that's all very well and good, but a great deal of the time the changelog only says

Re: [gentoo-user] where is the functionality of etcat

2005-07-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Rudmer van Dijk schreef: > etcat is deprecated in favor of equery but equery does not have a > functionality like `etcat -v ` (listing all available versions of a > package). I used it quite often and have been struggling with equery ever > since etcat is deprecated... Are there plans to build t

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is GNOME_MixerAapplet

2005-07-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Allan Gottlieb schreef: > The key seems to be having gstreamer in the USE variable. > > At Mon, 11 Jul 2005 15:58:02 -0500 LostSon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> I had this problem as well and i re-emerged gnome-panel and it went >>away. >> >> >>On Sun, 2005-07-10 at 14:16 -0400, Allan Gottli

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE/KDM problems

2005-07-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Alexander Kirillov schreef: > What sort of a problem with /dev/dsp? > You can't use /dev/dsp when arts (KDE sound daemon) is active. > Either try artsdsp [-m] or wait till arts is suspended. > Sasha > > Doesn't that situation call for the use of artswrapper? I don't use arts very much, so I forg

Re: [gentoo-user] I think I messed up USE flag by using -alsa as Gnome has no sound

2005-07-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Richard Watson schreef: > Hi - I've just finished compiling Gnome and have no sound whatsoever. > Looking at my USE flags I noticed I had inadvertently set -alsa as a flag. > > At this stage I've changed the flag to alsa and re-run genkernel. But still > no sound. Do I have to recompile everything

Re: [gentoo-user] I think I messed up USE flag by using -alsa as Gnome has no sound

2005-07-12 Thread Holly Bostick
Richard Watson schreef: >>>Have you loaded the newly-compiled alsa driver modules for your sound >>>card, run alsaconf and unmuted the mixer via alsamixer? >>>Holly > > > Hi again - I tried > # emerge -s alsa > and got loads of output. Would you know what the correct emerge command is > for the

Re: [gentoo-user] where is the functionality of etcat

2005-07-12 Thread Holly Bostick
Rudmer van Dijk schreef: > > Holly: eix is probably not it, since it looks like it does not show the > availability of the package (masked+keyword), but thanks for the suggestion! > > Rudmer Actually, it most certainly does; keyworded packages are shown in brown with a ~ in front, masked

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: where is the functionality of etcat

2005-07-12 Thread Holly Bostick
James schreef: > Holly Bostick planet.nl> writes: > > > >>>Holly: eix is probably not it, since it looks like it does not show the >>>availability of the package (masked+keyword), but thanks for the suggestion! > > >>Actually, it most certainl

Re: [gentoo-user] Does (-win32codecs) mean Slots?

2005-07-13 Thread Holly Bostick
David Morgan schreef: > You could remove win32codecs from base/use.mask, try and use it and see > if it works since it shouldn't break anything. But each time you did > emerge sync it'd get written over. Which is why the proper way to unmask a hard-masked package is to enter it into /etc/portage/

Re: [gentoo-user] Does (-win32codecs) mean Slots?

2005-07-13 Thread Holly Bostick
David Morgan schreef: > On 12:06 Wed 13 Jul , Holly Bostick wrote: > >>Which is why the proper way to unmask a hard-masked package is to enter >>it into /etc/portage/package.unmask (and often thereafter also into >>/etc/portage/package.keywords, as many hard-masked pac

Re: [gentoo-user] Does (-win32codecs) mean Slots?

2005-07-13 Thread Holly Bostick
David Morgan schreef: > On 12:39 Wed 13 Jul , Holly Bostick wrote: >>Obviously -- or at least it seems obvious to me, but that doesn't say >>much-- that if the package is hard-masked, the USE flag that is >>associated with it will be disabled (because the package th

Re: [gentoo-user] Does (-win32codecs) mean Slots?

2005-07-13 Thread Holly Bostick
David Morgan schreef: > (top posting because I can't be bothered to sort all the irrelevant > stuff you posted) > > The person in question is using /usr/portage/profiles/uclibc/x86 > > If you look in /usr/portage/profiles/uclibc/x86/parent you'll see that > t's parent profile is /usr/portage/pr

Re: [gentoo-user] Subversion 1.2

2005-07-14 Thread Holly Bostick
Steve [Gentoo] schreef: > when I use ACCEPT_KEYWORDS in place of USE it now behaves just how I had > previously expected it should have done. > > # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -uD subversion > > This does what I'd originally intended to try... (and doesn't force me > to remember how to spell

Re: [gentoo-user] most of /usr/portage gone--why? and what now}

2005-07-16 Thread Holly Bostick
William Kenworthy schreef: > If files have gone missing first step is fsck the disk just in case. > Next emerge sync if it works. (dont use the fancy options until its > working again.) Whats "esync" ?? I wouldnt trust it until you know > what happened. Esync is a part of gentoolkit-- it runs e

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutdown Issues

2005-07-17 Thread Holly Bostick
E. Pereira schreef: > During the shutdown Gentoo brings down my eth0 > connection, but my computer is connected to a router > that uses xDSL for connection, so my questions is: > Can I remove this, this way I won't have to reconnect > my xDSL connection? Or this shouldn't interfer in my > connecti

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash problem !!!

2005-07-17 Thread Holly Bostick
Allan Spagnol Comar schreef: > Hi all, Ie been looking at thee gentoo wiki and internet to find out > what my problem is but can't find it any where. > > I installed splash_utils and make the right kernel options and when I > try to run splash_util -c on I got this error message > FBIOSPLASH_SETST

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-driver emerge error

2005-07-18 Thread Holly Bostick
Stuart Howard schreef: > thx for the response > > I think we missed each other with the point though, currently my sound > works just fine and I am happy with it as it is [ie. built in] I am > not sure where the alsa driver in "world" came from unless it is a > hangover from my initial genkernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging gentoo-kernel 2.4.20-gentoo-r31

2005-07-18 Thread Holly Bostick
Thomas Drueke schreef: > Hi, > > I want to emerge gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r31 but it has been deleted from > the rsync repository. > > Is there a way to get the corresponding ebuild-file back to get it > emerged ? > > BR > Thomas > Go to www.gentoo.org, click the "view our CVS" link on the sideb

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage

2005-07-18 Thread Holly Bostick
James schreef: > Nick Rout rout.co.nz> writes: > > > >>OK time to play "spot the obvious error" - your command line > > has ATAPI:1,1,0, > whereas the device is at ATAPI:0,0,0 > >>try the command line again with the correct device > > > > OK, I've tried a variesty of wav files, including

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Installation

2005-07-19 Thread Holly Bostick
Rumen Yotov schreef: Hi, Beside this official Gentoo installer, there's another distro based on Gentoo, which uses "anaconda" as graphical installer, current version seems to be 1.1 - it's called VidaLinux google for the site. Never tried it, so no experience. But it was paid for a Pro/Full

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash problems

2005-07-19 Thread Holly Bostick
LostSon schreef: Hello I am trying to get fbsplash to work and am stuck. I have followed the directions on the gentoo-wiki site but still no luck. Im using vesafb with a 2.6.12-r6 kernel. my grub.conf looks like this title=Gentoo-2.6.12-r6-fbsplash root (hd0,0) kernel (hd0,0)/boot/bzImage.n

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage

2005-07-19 Thread Holly Bostick
James schreef: Holly Bostick planet.nl> writes: Possibly your .wav file is in fact 'inappropriately encoded'? Does it burn if you use -data instead of -audio? Hello Holly, If you read the threads, I start out trying to k3b working. I have not used cdrecord, so it

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash problems

2005-07-19 Thread Holly Bostick
Christoph Eckert schreef: I checked this per your instructions as well and no it hasnt cut it off its all on one line. Still no luck im still just getting the cant open config file on /etc/splash error and fd0 crap, heh Umm... pardon me for asking, but you've said at least twice that an error

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash problems

2005-07-19 Thread Holly Bostick
LostSon schreef: On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 23:31 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: Christoph Eckert schreef: >>>>I checked this per your instructions as well and no it hasnt cut it off its all on one line. Still no luck im still just getting the cant open config file on /etc/splash error

Re: [gentoo-user] error in gconf ebuild?

2005-07-20 Thread Holly Bostick
Mike Williams schreef: On Wednesday 20 July 2005 14:24, Jorge Almeida wrote: /usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild.sh: /var/db/pkg/gnome-base/gconf-1.0.8-r3/gconf-1.0.8-r3.ebuild: line 34: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"' /usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuil

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage

2005-07-21 Thread Holly Bostick
James schreef: > Success? > > cdrecord -dao dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 -eject speed=2 -pad -data -v README > > > > Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jrg > Schilling > on-the-fly encryption (version 1.0-rc1) built-in, (C) 2004,2005 Maximilian > Decker > > NOTE: this version

Re: [gentoo-user] thunderbird/firefox conflict

2005-07-23 Thread Holly Bostick
Zac Medico schreef: > Patrick Rutkowski wrote: > >> On Friday 22 July 2005 23:31, Ryan Sims wrote: >> >>> I just upgraded to mozilla-thunderbird-bin-1.0.6-r1 and >>> mozilla-firefox-bin-1.0.6-r1, and they seem to be conflicting with >>> each other, i.e. when I install firefox, running thunderbird

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r2

2005-07-23 Thread Holly Bostick
Jules Colding schreef: > Hi, > > "emerge --sync && emerge -vauDN" today gave me the following error. > > adding: skin/modern/communicator/cookie/taskbar-cookie.gif (stored 0%) > adding: skin/modern/communicator/cookie/status-cookie.gif (stored 0%) > +++ making chrome /var/tmp/portage/homedir

[gentoo-user] Double Firefox folders in /usr/lib?

2005-07-23 Thread Holly Bostick
Hi, As you may have heard, I've upgraded Firefox twice in the last two days (could have been three times, but I skipped one update). I'm compiling it, not using the bins. Well, somewhere between 1.0.5 (where I started) and 1.0.6-r2 (where I ended up) the folder in /usr/lib changed from MozillaFi

Re: [gentoo-user] thunderbird/firefox conflict

2005-07-23 Thread Holly Bostick
Tero Grundström schreef: > >> In any case, I'm not having any problems with firefox or tbird 1.0.6-r1 > > > That's the real paradox here. I don't remember when was the last time I > had a problem with ff (actually I use only Galeon these days, compiled > against ff) so it feels so stupid to comp

Re: [gentoo-user] thunderbird/firefox conflict

2005-07-23 Thread Holly Bostick
Benno Schulenberg schreef: > Holly Bostick wrote: > >>I understand heavy development, but three >>upgrades in three days is a bit much even for me > > > Come on, Holly, when you're running unstable (~x86), you've got to > be ready to take frequent update

Re: [gentoo-user] thunderbird/firefox conflict

2005-07-23 Thread Holly Bostick
Tero Grundström schreef: > On Sat, 23 Jul 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: > >> >> In this case, syncing less often wasn't an issue-- the reason I had to >> upgrade to 1.0.6 was due to a GLSA. > > > > > I don't find any GLSA on firefox-1.0.6. Even the

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r2

2005-07-24 Thread Holly Bostick
Patrick Börjesson schreef: > On 05/07/23 18:37, Richard Fish wrote: > And it seems to me that if there is a bug, it might be a *documentation* bug (because the other person who mentioned using march=k8 said that that was the recommendation of the docs, but that seems to no longer be >>

Re: [gentoo-user] "6x13" font for gnome-terminal

2005-07-26 Thread Holly Bostick
Oscar Carlsson schreef: > Saturday 23 July 2005 00.24 skrev Allan Gottlieb: > >>All my screens are 1600x1200 pixels. >> >>Several are reasonably large (~20 inch) lcds and I use what emacs >>calls a 6x13 font. Its real name is >>-Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-SemiCondensed--13-120-75-75-C-60-ISO8859-1 >> >>

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-desktop blocking gnome-core

2005-07-28 Thread Holly Bostick
Chris Bare schreef: > I'm still getting this after doing an emerge -u (without the -D) > > rygel ~ # emerge -puD world -t > > These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order: > > Calculating world dependencies ...done! > [blocks B ] gnome-base/gnome-desktop (is blocking > gn

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternative Window Managers

2005-12-30 Thread Holly Bostick
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. schreef: > I'm wanting to experiment with some alternative window managers. > I've already emerged them, but I'd like to have them available as > separate sessions when I log in, and possibly migrate to one of them > as default (or only) session available. FWIW, I started ou

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge going weird

2005-12-31 Thread Holly Bostick
Kevin O'Gorman schreef: > On 12/30/05, Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Saturday 31 December 2005 13:58, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> >>> Or should I say portage as a whole. Anyway, my latest emerge >>> world failed because of sun-jdk-1.4.2.10 (!!!). The current one >>> is 1.5 someth

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with USE options.

2005-12-31 Thread Holly Bostick
Dale schreef: > Hi again, > > I read a thread that was talking about the global USE pulling some > things a user may not want installed. I am going to do a reinstall > and mostly copy some things over from my current install but I do > want to change my USE line. I am a bit worried about usin

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge going weird

2005-12-31 Thread Holly Bostick
Jason Stubbs schreef: > On Saturday 31 December 2005 21:57, Holly Bostick wrote: > >> If you look at the output >> >> >>> [nomerge ] sys-libs/db-4.2.52_p2-r1 -bootstrap +doc >>> +java -nocxx +tcltk >> >> the reason db is callin

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird GNOME problem

2005-12-31 Thread Holly Bostick
Michael Sullivan schreef: > On Sat, December 31, 2005 4:44 am, Rumen Yotov wrote: > >> On (31/12/05 01:49), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> Earlier tonight I changed the setting in /etc/conf.d/rc for the >>> RC_DEVICE_TARBALL from "yes" to "no" and rebooted. Now I can't >>> get into GNOME. For

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge going weird

2005-12-31 Thread Holly Bostick
Kevin O'Gorman schreef: > Synopsis: I do have java 1.5 unmasked. I need it for the classes I > teach. So why doesn't db use java 1.5? > > On 12/31/05, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Jason Stubbs schreef: >> >>> On

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is dbus-0.60 conflicting with totem?

2006-01-03 Thread Holly Bostick
Alexander Skwar schreef: > Hi! > > I tried to update world and failed: > > Calculating world dependencies . . .^H^H ...done! > [blocks B ] >=sys-apps/dbus-0.60 (is blocking media-video/totem-1.2.0-r2) > > That is because of the following new line in totem-1.2.0-r2.ebuild: > > n

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b access rights

2006-01-03 Thread Holly Bostick
Michael Kintzios schreef: > . . or at least this is what I suspect being wrong: > == IDE DVD-ROM x16 /dev/hdb 660 root.cdrom > 666.root.cdrom PHILIPS DVD8421/dev/hda 660 root.cdrom 666 > root.cdrom == > > == cdrdao 1

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b access rights

2006-01-03 Thread Holly Bostick
Michael Kintzios schreef: >> Second, for general use (video viewing, game playing, etc) what you >> most likely want is the "users" (note the "s" at the end) option, >> which allows any user to mount/unmount the drive, as opposed to >> just one: >> >> from man mount: >> >> user Allow an o

Re: [gentoo-user] package conflict on update

2006-01-05 Thread Holly Bostick
Trenton Adams schreef: > On 1/5/06, Tom Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 00:29:57 -0700 Trenton Adams >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>> Ok, so I get the output below when trying to merge after a sync >>> today. My guess is that the openmotif package was made into t

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Help setting up eix!

2006-01-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Michael Sullivan schreef: > I've been reading about eix, and as using emerge Ss takes forever, I > decided to try eix. I emerged it and ran update-eix and tried to search > for kde. Here's my output: > > camille ~ # update-eix > Reading Portage settings .. > Building database (/var/cache/eix) fr

Re: [gentoo-user] package conflict on update

2006-01-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Trenton Adams schreef: > On 1/5/06, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 16:32:20 -0700, Trenton Adams wrote: >> >> something like if_blocked_by('openmotif') ewarn "You must unmerge openmotif before proceeding" >>> >>>Yes, or as follows... >>> >>

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Help setting up eix!

2006-01-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Rumen Yotov schreef: > On (06/01/06 23:51), Lares Moreau wrote: > >> On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 20:01 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: >> >>> Yes. Here was the output: >>> >>> camille ~ # update-eix Reading Portage settings .. Building >>> database (/var/cache/eix) from scratch .. [0] /usr/portage/ >>

Re: [gentoo-user] package conflict on update

2006-01-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Trenton Adams schreef: > Oops, forgot to reply to everything. > > On 1/6/06, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Trenton Adams schreef: >> >>> On 1/5/06, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>&g

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers can work with 2.6.15!

2006-01-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Iain Buchanan schreef: > Hi all, > > Instead of a question this time, I have an answer! > > If you're trying to get ati-drivers (fglrx) to load with linux-2.6.15 > its simple! (Given the error you get is "undefined symbol: pm_register" > or something similar). > > The solution is to simply: wh

[gentoo-user] Bizarre etc/cfg-update problem

2006-01-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Hey ho, all-- (I think that) Ever since I downgraded Xorg from 6.8.99 back to 6.8.2-r6 a couple of days ago, I've had reports from both etc-update and cfg-update that there are 30 files needing to be updated (etc-update reports them as being in /usr/lib/X11/xkb sometimes, but not always). The pro

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers can work with 2.6.15!

2006-01-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Rafael Fernández López schreef: > Iain Buchanan wrote: > >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Instead of a question this time, I have an answer! >>> >>> If you're trying to get ati-drivers (fglrx) to load with ernet >>> parche de Microsoft linux-2.6.15 its simple! (Given the error >>> you get is "undefined symb

[gentoo-user] Irritating problem #2-- colordiff

2006-01-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Here's the kind of output I get from etc-update, for example: Showing differences between /etc/conf.d/rc and /etc/conf.d/._cfg_rc ESC[1;31m--- /etc/conf.d/rc 2005-12-22 10:42:50.0 +0100ESC[0;0m ESC[1;34m+++ /etc/conf.d/._cfg_rc 2006-01-07 05:56:06.0 +0100ESC[0;0m ESC[

Re: [gentoo-user] Bizarre etc/cfg-update problem

2006-01-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Eugene Rosenzweig schreef: > Holly Bostick wrote: > >> Hey ho, all-- >> >> (I think that) Ever since I downgraded Xorg from 6.8.99 back to 6.8.2-r6 >> a couple of days ago, I've had reports from both etc-update and >> cfg-update that there are 30 files nee

Re: [gentoo-user] Bizarre etc/cfg-update problem

2006-01-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Abhay Kedia schreef: > On Saturday 07 January 2006 20:47, Holly Bostick wrote: > >> So from this I deduce that >> >> 1) xorg 6.8.99 was *really* broken/incomplete or did something >> radically different that etc-update and cfg-update cannot deal >> with, sin

Re: [gentoo-user] Bizarre etc/cfg-update problem

2006-01-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Abhay Kedia schreef: > You are not facing any problem because you are most probably not > using xkb or in other words the keyboard layouts. If you've never > used different keyboard layouts then you can comfortably delete the > new-cfg files and expect to face nil problems. Not sure if I made a mi

Re: [gentoo-user] Irritating problem #2-- colordiff

2006-01-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Mariusz Pękala schreef: > On 2006-01-07 15:53:39 +0100 (Sat, Jan), Holly Bostick wrote: > >> Here's the kind of output I get from etc-update, for example: > > [...] > >> ESC[1;34m+RC_VERBOSE="no"ESC[0;0m > > [...] > >> Clearly it'

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ls date was: Bizarre etc/cfg-update problem

2006-01-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Willie Wong schreef: > On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 04:17:11PM +0100, Penguin Lover Holly Bostick > squawked: > >> (how do you get ls to also include the @#$%#$ *year*??) > > > Sorry, couldn't help with the rest of your problem, but I think it is > assumed that l

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox -- too weird!

2006-01-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Abhay Kedia schreef: > On Sunday 08 January 2006 00:05, maxim wexler wrote: > >> I did this twice, so it's no mere fluke. I rushed over to Yahoo to >> post this and the window's still OK. So, thankfully it's not >> permanent ;) >> >> Anybody care to hazard a guess as to what's happening here. Can

Re: [gentoo-user] K3B - cdrado without root privileges

2006-01-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Daniel Pielmeier schreef: > Hello, > > i recently installed K3B. > > When i start the application a window pops up and says something like > "cdrdao will run without root privileges, use k3b-setup to solve > this problem". > > The problem is on my system there is no such setup-tool. > > I have

Re: [gentoo-user] package conflict on update

2006-01-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Trenton Adams schreef: > Interesting points, but > > On 1/7/06, Abhay Kedia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Saturday 07 January 2006 22:00, Trenton Adams wrote: >> >>> I like both that my car just works, and I don't have to know how >>> the pistons go up and down, but that I can also look un

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ls date was: Bizarre etc/cfg-update problem [Date issue SOLVED]

2006-01-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Mariusz Pękala schreef: > On 2006-01-07 20:01:25 +0100 (Sat, Jan), Holly Bostick wrote: > >> Willie Wong schreef: >> >>> On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 04:17:11PM +0100, Penguin Lover Holly >>> Bostick squawked: >>> >>>> (how do you get ls to a

Re: [gentoo-user] Bizarre etc/cfg-update problem [SOLVED]

2006-01-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Abhay Kedia schreef: > On Saturday 07 January 2006 23:24, Holly Bostick wrote: > >> What might that be.? Does something need to be re-initialized? >> Some cache updated? I'm getting a bit confused here. >> > > afaik etc-update does not reinitialize any

Re: [gentoo-user] Irritating problem #2-- colordiff [Probably SOLVED]

2006-01-07 Thread Holly Bostick
John Myers schreef: > On Saturday 07 January 2006 10:37, Holly Bostick wrote: > >> No. I don't actually use colordiff standalone, so no reason. I did, >> however, have an (unnecessary) alias around etc-update, which I >> have now removed, allowing it to rely

Re: [gentoo-user] Bizarre etc/cfg-update problem [SOLVED]

2006-01-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Holly Bostick schreef: > Abhay Kedia schreef: > >>afaik etc-update does not reinitialize anything. All it looks for are >>files that have been named in a specific way. It diffs the original >>file with its update and then asks you whether to overwrite or not. >>You

Re: [gentoo-user] Irritating problem #2-- colordiff [SOLVED confirmed]

2006-01-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Holly Bostick schreef: > John Myers schreef: >> >>Try changing your 'pager' variable in etc-update.conf from 'less' to >>'less -R'. > > I adjusted my pager command to include it and think that it's > likely to work properly n

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ls date was: Bizarre etc/cfg-update problem [Date issue SOLVED]

2006-01-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Richard Fish schreef: > On 1/7/06, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Don't think I really need the inodes (if that's what they are, I > > > That is "link count". For a regular file, it tells how many hard > links exist to the fil

Re: [gentoo-user] kde3.4.3 with arts on amd64

2006-01-08 Thread Holly Bostick
Marc Schlienger schreef: > Hi, I've installed kde3.4.3 with arts on my amd64 machine. Alsa is > working fine. But arts works only partially. All notification sound > doesn't work. Also I don't get sound when logging in. But, for > example, amarok works with the arts driver. Is this a known bug?

Re: [gentoo-user] kde3.4.3 with arts on amd64

2006-01-08 Thread Holly Bostick
Marc Schlienger schreef: > Am Sonntag, 8. Januar 2006 13:53 schrieb Holly Bostick: > >> Marc Schlienger schreef: >> >>> Hi, I've installed kde3.4.3 with arts on my amd64 machine. Alsa >>> is working fine. But arts works only partially. All notification

Re: [gentoo-user] libGL.la error + ATI's libGL.la empty (rss-glx compile error)

2006-01-08 Thread Holly Bostick
Marco Calviani schreef: > During compiling i'm getting an libGL.la error: > > libtool: link: `/usr/lib/libGL.la' is not a valid libtool archive > *Normally*, I would say that *whenever* you see the error " is not a valid libtool archive", the first thing to do is run # fix_libtool_files.sh (loc

Re: [gentoo-user] how to remove gnome complete

2006-01-08 Thread Holly Bostick
Daniel Pielmeier schreef: > hello all, > > i want to test some other windowmanagers and if i find one that > satisfies me i want to switch from the gnome-desktop to this > windowmanager. So how can i remove all gnome packages. Is it save to > remove all gnome-base and gnome-extra packages and r

Re: [gentoo-user] change the fonts of gtk application

2006-01-08 Thread Holly Bostick
Marco Calviani schreef: > Hi list, >i'm using the KDE desktop environment without gnome support. > However i'm using gtk application as, for example, firefox. > How is it possible to change the font types and maybe the sizes of gtk > applications? > > Best regards, > MC > Yes; you can either:

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Tray

2006-01-08 Thread Holly Bostick
Mike Yarmish schreef: > Hi all, I'm using KDE but with some gtk applications like stardict > and liferea. Is it possible to change their tray' icons to works like > icons of a native KDE applications? For example, now I'm using > tranparent taskbar and all native icons are transparent but gtk icons

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list problems

2006-01-09 Thread Holly Bostick
Jamie Dobbs schreef: > Are there issues with the mailing lists at the moment? I have made a few > posts in the last 2-3 hours that have yet to show up on the lists. > I've also noticed considerably less traffic on the lists in recent days, > could this be due to a general email slow down due to an

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade + gcc dilemma

2006-01-09 Thread Holly Bostick
Bryce Verdier schreef: > I have a problem (which i'm getting around by using a link). But if i > could really fix, i'd be a lot happier. One thing that's preventing me > from doing this though is that for some reason i don't have > revdep-rebuild like is recommended below. What package do i install

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo installer suggestions

2006-01-09 Thread Holly Bostick
Tom Martin schreef: > On Sun, 8 Jan 2006 02:09:14 -0700 > Trenton Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>For those developing the graphical gentoo installer... >> >>Might I suggest a "search" box at the bottom of the extra packages >>screen, to be able to search for packages? >> > > > Probably

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 and gnome (long, thinking out loud)

2006-01-09 Thread Holly Bostick
David Meyer schreef: > Has anyone been able to emerge both of these? If I emerge xorg-x11 > then gnome, the gnome emerge dies with an error compiling pango: > > /usr/include/pango-1.0/pango/pangoxft-render.h:95: error: parse error > before "XftGlyphSpec" keyboard-drawing.c: In function > `xkb_s

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTDIR_OVERLAY

2006-01-09 Thread Holly Bostick
Beau E. Cox schreef: > Hi - > > I'm working on a series of ebuilds for the more esoteric CPAN modules > that I use. In the Gentoo Developer Handbook there is a statement > about PORTDIR_OVERLAY: > > "In that directory, you must use the same structure (and categories) > as in /usr/portage." > > O

Re: [gentoo-user] strange updates conflicts

2006-01-10 Thread Holly Bostick
Catalin Trifu schreef: > Hi, > > emerge -pvDu shows this: > > Calculating world dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] > dev-php/PEAR-Archive_Tar (is blocking dev-php/PEAR-PEAR-1.3.6-r2) > [blocks B ] dev-php/PEAR-Console_Getopt (is blocking > dev-php/PEAR-PEAR-1.3.6-r2) [blocks B ] dev

Re: [gentoo-user] A New Linux Way

2006-01-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: > On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 22:21:23 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > >>I think once we've got to the stage of UK (and AU) vs US spelling, I can >>invoke "Godwin's Law"[1] hereby ending the discussion completely and >>immediately ;) >> >>[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_l

Re: [gentoo-user] remove suse, install gentoo

2006-01-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Anthony Roy schreef: > I replaced SUSE with Gentoo on my server a few months back. I > installed Gentoo from Suse, so that the server stayed up and running > whilst I installed and configured everything. I did the install on a > separate partition, and once everything was configured and any data

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating DVD-menus from pictures

2006-01-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Daniel Pielmeier schreef: > Thank you for your suggestions, > > i know the article and so i know qdvdauthor. > > I don't know if qdvdauthor is capable of creating a animated menu > from a series of pictures. My picture source is a image i downscaled > to the size of 720x1000. I have manually extr

Re: [gentoo-user] PowerPC - cannot boot from CD.

2006-01-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Anthony Roy schreef: > Hi MT, > > >>1) Insert the CD and wait for it to mount it (an icon will >> appear on >>the desktop). > > > Done, and can browse CD in the Finder just fine. > > >>2) Click on your little apple icon (top left of the screen), >> select >>'System

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - ipkungfu

2006-01-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Michael Sullivan schreef: > I'm trying to install ipkungfoo on my server box. I followed the > instructions in the README file. When I went to start it, it gave me > a string of errors, that I'm not sure how to fix: > > bullet ipkungfu # ipkungfu Checking configuration... FATAL: Module > ip_t

Re: [gentoo-user] BOINC and https

2006-01-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Statux schreef: > Unmerge the BOINC from portage and download/manually install it from > the site. The version in portage is very old and for some reason, it > hasn't been updated. I've been wondering about this issue myself-- my bf runs BOINC (and in fact is a tester thereof) under Windows, and h

Re: [gentoo-user] BOINC and https

2006-01-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Paul Varner schreef: > On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 23:26 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: > >> Statux schreef: >> >>> Unmerge the BOINC from portage and download/manually install it >>> from the site. The version in portage is very old and for some >>> reason,

Re: [gentoo-user] slow boot after kernel upgrade

2006-01-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Richard Fish schreef: > On 1/11/06, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 14:27 +0100, Uwe Klosa wrote: >> >>>Or you can try 2.6.15-suspend2. >> >>? >> >>What exactly do you mean? Is there a suspend2-sources version up to >>2.6.15? > > > Only if you emerge --sync.

Re: [gentoo-user] Strangeness with KDE 3.4

2006-01-12 Thread Holly Bostick
Shawn Singh schreef: > Hey all, > > I recently rebuilt my Gentoo box, but have had a few problems that > I've not been able to figure out: > > 2. Only 1 user shows up in KDE, even though I have 2 users for the > system. > What does this mean? Are you saying that one of your users doesn't show

Re: [gentoo-user] after update, eth0 won't work

2006-01-12 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: > Some idea as to what you updated would be helpful. What does "genlop > --date tuesday" show? (emerge genlop if not present) If unfamiliar with genlop, the correct format for the command Neil probably intends is genlop --list --date 01/10/2006 (at least that's the only w

Re: [gentoo-user] Strangeness with KDE 3.4

2006-01-12 Thread Holly Bostick
e other user can login from the console) she'll be > able to do likewise > > I guess the correct question to have asked is why won't my user's show up in > the list of users? > Have you looked in > On 1/12/06, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't send email anymore. O_O

2006-01-13 Thread Holly Bostick
Dale wrote: Well, I can't even get Mozilla to open any more. I even created a new user from scratch and it still will not start. I downloaded a new snapshot and am about to start a new install. I've never seen someone so eager to reinstall for so little. Honestly Mozilla won't start, s

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't send email anymore. O_O

2006-01-13 Thread Holly Bostick
Dale wrote: On Friday 13 January 2006 05:58, Holly Bostick wrote: Kill those, and Mozilla may well start. Whether your problem will be solved is another question, but we'll come to that, if not. HTH, Holly That would make sense. I killed the processes that were running and stil

Re: [gentoo-user] kde new user login icons missing

2006-01-13 Thread Holly Bostick
Shawn Singh schreef: > I note that on my system the range for UIDs that won't show up is UID > < 1000 and UID > 65000. If your users had a UID inside of that range > it might show up... > > I'm not sure b/c on my system they are w/i that range and I don't see > an icon for them, but they can key i

Re: [gentoo-user] Source Code?

2006-01-13 Thread Holly Bostick
Raj Swaminathan schreef: > Hi, > > thanks Iain, Winston and Willie for all your help. I was looking > specifically for the coreutils package and did not know where to find it. > > Iain, i run gentoo so i do have the patched versions of what i need, thanks. > > > But from you've said Im just cur

Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla firefox 1.5 and gnome

2006-01-13 Thread Holly Bostick
Trenton Adams schreef: > Hi everyone, > > I'm just curious about something. I installed mozilla-firefox-bin, > and I got what I *thought* was the gnome open/save dialog. And I > absolutely I can't stand that thing. So, I decided to compile > mozilla-firefox for myself, as I have "-gnome" in

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