Re: [gentoo-user] Detecting when a USB device is attached

2006-02-06 Thread Iain Buchanan
r "just works". Due to dbus / udev / whatever updates, the ~x86 version doesn't do anything for some users (myself included)... -- Iain Buchanan His honour rooted in dishonour stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true. -Alfred Lord Tennyson -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] gnome-volume-manager

2006-02-06 Thread Iain Buchanan
pheus FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive! Feb 7 10:31:08 orpheus Unable to load NLS charset utf8 Feb 7 10:31:08 orpheus FAT: IO charset utf8 not found hmmm, why can't it find utf8? thanks, -- Iain Buchanan Parting is such sw

[gentoo-user] firefox locks up when looking at flash

2006-02-06 Thread Iain Buchanan
ad no effect. I did once upon a time have this working... any suggestions? thanks, -- Iain Buchanan Misfortunes arrive on wings and leave on foot. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] really weird way to install

2006-02-07 Thread Iain Buchanan
> is there a way i can use cygwin to install the sytem? it's probably > impossible but i just want to make sure. you can't chroot to the new install from your existing gentoo install? (That's what I did) then swap out the HD when you're done... -- Iain Buchanan Forec

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] DIY Small Footprint NAS (low Power)

2006-02-07 Thread Iain Buchanan
sks) [snip] > Much like this project - http://www.freenas.org/ much like freenas, but not like freenas? Why not freenas?!! -- Iain Buchanan "You can't survive by sucking the juice from a wet mitten." -- Charles Schulz, "Things I've Had to Learn Over a

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox locks up when looking at flash

2006-02-07 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 10:27 +, Tim Igoe wrote: > Quoting Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hi, > > > > I can't seem to access any pages with firefox that have flash on them. > > I have mozilla-firefox-1.5-r9. The little spinning "load&

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-volume-manager

2006-02-07 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 17:26 -0800, Ryan Tandy wrote: > Also under File Systems, you can change the > default code page and IO charset for vfat filesystems, which should > remove the warning. any suggestions for these last two? I don't really have much of an idea... th

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-volume-manager

2006-02-07 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 21:59 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 17:26 -0800, Ryan Tandy wrote: > > > Also under File Systems, you can change the > > default code page and IO charset for vfat filesystems, which should > > remove the warning. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-volume-manager

2006-02-07 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 17:33 -0800, Ryan Tandy wrote: > Iain Buchanan wrote: [snip] > > I left them as is, and compiled nsl_utf8 as a module (so I don't have to > > restart). When I load the module and plug in the > > drive, /var/log/messages now shows: > > > >

[gentoo-user] [OT] openoffice calc "split" printing

2006-02-07 Thread Iain Buchanan
nning. If I select the first column, and then the desired columns (by holding down ctrl), each selection box gets printed on its own page!! Is there a way that I can print, say, column A, with columns X, Y, Z, and have it all on the one page, lined up as if column B to W didn't exist? th

Re: [gentoo-user] Yipes I lost the ability to smb:// browse

2006-02-08 Thread Iain Buchanan
col not supported'. Just yesterday I tried to do the same in gnome - and guess what? It doesn't work either. (I used to use it all the time). I don't know if it's related, but its annoying!! -- Iain Buchanan The average individual's position in any hierarchy is a lot

Re: [gentoo-user] 4/8 CPU Gentoo server

2006-02-08 Thread Iain Buchanan
(unless its already built) and making sure linux has modules for the particular hardware you want. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan I *like* the chicken -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox locks up when looking at flash

2006-02-08 Thread Iain Buchanan
If you're having flash / firefox problems, upgrade firefox to 1.5.0.1! On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 20:28 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 10:27 +, Tim Igoe wrote: > > Quoting Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > I can't seem to

Re: [gentoo-user] Yipes I lost the ability to smb:// browse

2006-02-08 Thread Iain Buchanan
shares but smb://host/share just gets that message > > in konq. > > > > Where should I start looking to fix this? > The first thing should be to check that the samba USE > flag is set. aha, that did it for me, now I can browse smb:// shares again! However there are ot

[gentoo-user] can't browse x-directory/smb-share (smb shares)

2006-02-08 Thread Iain Buchanan
n't I do it from the "netowrk:///" location? I am using ~x86, with the samba and smb use flags. nautilus-2.12.2 and gnome-vfs-2.12.2 thanks, -- Iain Buchanan Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. -- Henry Adams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-volume-manager

2006-02-08 Thread Iain Buchanan
but gnome-volume-manager can't... thanks for any comments! -- Iain Buchanan "I gained nothing at all from Supreme Enlightenment, and for that very reason it is called Supreme Enlightenment." -- Gotama Buddha -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] nautilus locks up when "previewing" audio files

2006-02-08 Thread Iain Buchanan
preview in preferences, then nautilus doesn't lock up anymore. what does nautilus use to play audio? any suggestions? Many thanks, -- Iain Buchanan Perl itself is usually pretty good about telling you what you shouldn't do. :-) -- Larry Wall in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Yipes I lost the ability to smb:// browse

2006-02-08 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 23:59 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > aha, that did it for me, now I can browse smb:// shares again! However > > there are other problems with it (new thread...) > > What did you do? > I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-volume-manager

2006-02-08 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 13:55 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 15:08 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > OK, I finally got some more time to spend on this, and I'll give all > > info again, just in case anyone can help. > > > > gnome-volume-manager kin

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Yipes I lost the ability to smb:// browse

2006-02-09 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 05:33 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> > aha, that did it for me, now I can browse smb:// shares again! However > >> > there are other problems with it (new thread...) > >> > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Yipes I lost the ability to smb:// browse

2006-02-09 Thread Iain Buchanan
t; Any one intrested in it? sure, post it to the list if it's not too long, or upload it somewhere - I'd be interested in having a look. -- Iain Buchanan well there ya go. say something stupid in irc and have it immortalised forever in someone's .sig file -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gnome-volume-manager

2006-02-09 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 20:52 +0100, Harm Geerts wrote: > On Thursday 09 February 2006 06:38, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > This doesn't seem to be the right way to go, as I can mount the drive > > _without_ nls_utf8, but gnome-volume-manager can't... > I *think* gvm use

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Yipes I lost the ability to smb:// browse

2006-02-09 Thread Iain Buchanan
t because you don't see any dependencies doesn't mean you won't get the new behaviour. It is strange though that a `emerge --newuse -p world` didn't show anything to be remerged... -- Iain Buchanan Money isn't everything -- but it's a long way ahead of what comes next. -- Sir Edmond Stockdale -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Connecting to a WEP Airport router

2006-02-09 Thread Iain Buchanan
62 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated or if you see something other than "Not-Associated". You

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: So O.K.

2006-02-09 Thread Iain Buchanan
(in case you wanted further confirmation!) I once set up a gentoo firewall / inet access / router / dhcp box for a non-profit org a few years ago. I went back in recently, and there it is in the corner, still running on the old 486. I checked the uptime and syslogs - it runs until there is a blac

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gnome-volume-manager

2006-02-09 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 02:45 +0100, Harm Geerts wrote: > On Friday 10 February 2006 00:59, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 20:52 +0100, Harm Geerts wrote: > > > On Thursday 09 February 2006 06:38, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > > This doesn't seem

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-volume-manager

2006-02-09 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 13:55 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 15:08 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > OK, I finally got some more time to spend on this, and I'll give all > > info again, just in case anyone can help. > > > > gnome-volume-manager kin

Re: [gentoo-user] How to determine if a partition is formated

2006-02-10 Thread Iain Buchanan
to help you, like disktype: * sys-block/disktype Latest version available: 8 Latest version installed: 8 Size of downloaded files: 39 kB Homepage:http://disktype.sourceforge.net/ Description: Detect the content format of a disk or disk image. License: BSD HTH, --

Re: [gentoo-user] How to determine if a partition is formated

2006-02-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sat, 2006-02-11 at 07:26 -0600, John Jolet wrote: > Iain Buchanan wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 14:03 -0800, Mike Owen wrote: > >> On 2/10/06, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > Fdisk -l > > > > no!!! > > > >> Eve

Re: [gentoo-user] How to determine if a partition is formated

2006-02-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 09:53 +, Rohit Sharma wrote: > Iain Buchanan wrote: > > >You can't just "mount the puppy" either (and let mount do the work) > > > > > Are you sure? > While using Gentoo's installation disks, I have successfully mounte

[gentoo-user] [OT] taste's like love, feels like a TIVO?

2006-02-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
Is it just me, or does that recent Magic Dirt release sound like "Tastes like love, feels like a TIVO"? Every time I listen, that's what I hear! Maybe I should write to TIVO and tell them to use the song on their ads... Maybe I should get off the computer on a Sunday night... --

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenGL X desktop

2006-02-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
card and HD's. I wonder why he didn't have a cpu load taskbar applet running? Probably because we're not supposed to see the 100% spikes! -- Iain Buchanan Some people around here wouldn't recognize subtlety if it hit them on the head. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Display displacement

2006-02-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
r "Monitor0"). Now look for the monitor Section with Identifier "Monitor0", and you've found where to put your modeline! The names in "" could be different for you, for example, you might have Identifier "Screen1" Monitor "17inLCD" or whatever. HTH, if you need more info, just post back! -- Iain Buchanan I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either. -- Jack Benny -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Can bash do comments on files?

2006-02-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
st to ls. A bit of fiddling, but that's what linux is about - if it doesn't work the way you want it: make it work the way you want it!! Let me know if you want to know more about this method. -- Iain Buchanan Obviously your filters are throwing away mail from Randal. :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Can bash do comments on files?

2006-02-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 18:21 -0600, John Jolet wrote: > On 2/12/06 6:10 PM, "Iain Buchanan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 09:47 +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote: > >> On 2/13/06, Gerhard Hoogterp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Can bash do comments on files?

2006-02-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 14:02 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > just for fun, I wrote this leedle script I should have explained it a bit more - the script looks for a .comment file, and matches the first word in that file. Anything after this word is a "comment" for the file. so if yo

Re: [gentoo-user] Display displacement

2006-02-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
nel that is out of whack, or the new nvidia driver that is different. In either case, someone else with more knowledge about such things will have to help! -- Iain Buchanan I am not a politician and my other habits are also good. -- A. Ward -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI X300 problem

2006-02-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
the module the > xorg works correctly but if I change to text mode I can not return to > graphic mode if I try the system got stalled. what kernel are you using, and what version of ati-drivers? I had similar issues, which are now gone with 2.6.15 and ati-drivers-8.22.5 HTH, -- Iain Buchan

[gentoo-user] trying KDE (again)

2006-02-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
works every time -0-0 bottom rightdoesn't work what's going on?!! But apart from this, I love some of the new features (ok there are probably lots that I haven't found yet). TIA, -- Iain Buchanan There goes the good time that was had by all. -- Bette

Re: [gentoo-user] SMP not working?

2006-02-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
at the "official" word is, but this list is more a general usage list, rather than gentoo specific issues. -- Iain Buchanan How come financial advisors never seem to be as wealthy as they claim they'll make you? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI X300 problem

2006-02-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
sr/src/linux/.config | egrep -v '^#' -- Iain Buchanan And that's the way it is... -- Walter Cronkite -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] trying KDE (again)

2006-02-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 00:54 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > On Tuesday 14 February 2006 00:35, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > Welcome to my post, and remember to leave your flamewars at the door :) > > > > I've just installed KDE for the first time in a couple of years.

[gentoo-user] trying KDE (cvs repositories)

2006-02-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
to use cvs actions (checkin, update, etc) from konqueror. Googling is useless in this case, as all the results for cvs just point me to cvs versions of kde apps... thanks, -- Iain Buchanan If this were Ada, I suppose we'd just constant fold 1/0 into die "Illegal division by zero"

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: trying KDE (again)

2006-02-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 07:40 +0100, Harm Geerts wrote: > On Tuesday 14 February 2006 06:34, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 00:54 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > > On Tuesday 14 February 2006 00:35, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > > > > tur

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: trying KDE (again)

2006-02-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
t;RenderAccel" "true" Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true" (I have an ati) but I still get the control centre message about translucency not available... (of course, I restarted X :) Also, is there supposed to be a command called kompmgr? I can't locate

Re: [gentoo-user] trying KDE (cvs repositories)

2006-02-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
> 2006/2/14, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi all KDE lovers, > > Is there a way to use some sort of graphical CVS plugin for > konqueror? > Or any program other than tkcvs? > On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 09:07 +0100

Re: [gentoo-user] Display displacement

2006-02-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
e monitor. (OK not a very good explanation, but this is how I understand it :) If you have a crt, then is it a focus issue? Is your crt dying? Is the refresh rate right? I'm kind of scraping the bottom of the barrel here. Perhaps someone who knows more about monitors can help... -- Ia

Re: [gentoo-user] trying KDE (again)

2006-02-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 16:06 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > On Tuesday 14 February 2006 06:34, Iain Buchanan wrote: [snip] > > > > konsole --geometry -0-0 [snip] > > I tried - instead of -- and the results are the same: -0-0 is not > > implemented properly...

Re: [gentoo-user] trying KDE (again)

2006-02-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
That did it! Now I have a semi-transparent konsole, which always appears at the bottom right - thanks!! -- Iain Buchanan Alas, I am dying beyond my means. -- Oscar Wilde [as he sipped champagne on his deathbed] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: trying KDE (again)

2006-02-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
e long after it's really disappeared) web browsing shows lines of text over the top of each other - is this what everyone else sees with translucency? oh well, I'm happy with the semi-transparency of konsole for now! thanks, -- Iain Buchanan Oh, get ahold of yourself. Nobody'

[gentoo-user] kde panel hiding behind something...

2006-02-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
Now I can't get to the main panel, because it's hiding, and the blank panel can't be moved or deleted (by any means I can tell) There's no right-click menu on it, no dragging, it just sits there blankly... how can I get rid of it? many thanks, -- Iain Buchanan I loathe peop

Re: [gentoo-user] kde panel hiding behind something...

2006-02-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 13:22 +, Jorge Almeida wrote: > On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > > > I pressed the main panel "hide" button, and it slid behind this new > > blank panel. Now I can't get to the main panel, because it's hidin

Re: [gentoo-user] kde panel hiding behind something... (solved)

2006-02-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 00:37 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 08:13:02 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > I can't get to the control center because I can't get to any menu's with > > the application launchers and settings. All I can do is right-cli

[gentoo-user] klaptop appears in weird spot!

2006-02-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
is to right-click > quit, and then start it again from the menu. Should I do anything about this? Is it worth a bug report? thanks, -- Iain Buchanan Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging. -- Martin Luther -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

[gentoo-user] trying kde "no support for hal"??

2006-02-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
have definately compiled kdebase with the hal use flag - is there something else I need to recompile? USE="hal" emerge -p --newuse world doesn't give me anything kde related. I can't find much help on this, so any tips would be appreciated. thanks, -- Iain Buchanan Pascal i

Re: [gentoo-user] trying kde "no support for hal"??

2006-02-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 09:07 +0200, Rumen Yotov wrote: > On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 16:21 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > Hi again, > > > > The kde tryout is progressing well. However, I just tried to plug in my > > usb storage drive. Nothing happened. > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] trying kde "no support for hal"??

2006-02-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
re started. yep, they are. thanks, -- Iain Buchanan I will always love the false image I had of you. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] trying kde "no support for hal"??

2006-02-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 14:12 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > On Sunday 19 February 2006 10:29, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 17:52:08 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > > As there's a close relation between kernel version & dbus,hal,ivman > >

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox java plugin

2006-02-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 14:02 +1300, Glenn Enright wrote: > the blakcdown version is a little dated now, but should still work with most > sites. what jre would you recommend? -- Iain Buchanan What one fool can do, another can. -- Ancient Simian Proverb -- gento

Re: [gentoo-user] trying kde "no support for hal"??

2006-02-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 08:18 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the combined idea of hal, dbus, udev > > and "auto mounting" that you don't need entries in fstab? > > Yes, you're ri

Re: [gentoo-user] trying kde "no support for hal"??

2006-02-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 15:04 -0800, Manuel A. McLure wrote: > On Monday 20 February 2006 02:57 pm, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > I still get the message "no support for HAL on this system" in the > > peripherals > storage media setup. > > A stupid question - do

Re: [gentoo-user] trying KDE (konsole placement)

2006-02-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
quot; now, I see that the coords have changed!! Why? I didn't tell it to?!?!? Is this the intended behaviour? I'd appreciate any comments. Thanks, -- Iain Buchanan /* And you'll never guess what the dog had */ /* in its mouth... */ -- Larry Wall in stab.c from the perl source code -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] trying KDE (konsole placement)

2006-02-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 02:11 +0200, Martins Steinbergs wrote: > On Tuesday 21 February 2006 01:48, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > > 1. open konsole and position it where I want it. > > 2. select "special window settings" from window > advanced menu. > > 3. se

[gentoo-user] etc/host.conf: line 24: bad command `mdns off'

2006-02-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
booted, but the behaviour is still there. Any ideas? thanks, -- Iain Buchanan I don't have any solution but I certainly admire the problem. -- Ashleigh Brilliant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem emerging engage

2006-02-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
've posted isn't the actual error, just emerge saying that it didn't build :) -- Iain Buchanan The major difference between bonds and bond traders is that the bonds will eventually mature. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] etc/host.conf: line 24: bad command `mdns off'

2006-02-21 Thread Iain Buchanan
re people worried when it hits x86. cya, -- Iain Buchanan ... though his invention worked superbly -- his theory was a crock of sewage from beginning to end. -- Vernor Vinge, "The Peace War" -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] tcltk weird behaviour

2006-02-22 Thread Iain Buchanan
it's meant for :) > Note the mercury isnt' installed with portage if that would matter ahh, maybe you should recompile it. I'm kindof stabbing in the dark, but HTH anyway! -- Iain Buchanan Steal this tagline. I did. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Why does wordpress require xterm?

2006-02-22 Thread Iain Buchanan
wants to pull in xterm and all of that other stuff. absolutely. Leaving out -D isn't a fix, just a workaround... > Looking at the wordpress ebuild file, I do not see any reason for it to > have a dependency on xterm. I'm probably missing something simple, but > I just don&#

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend2 issues

2006-02-23 Thread Iain Buchanan
override_swsusp to set your "suspend type" and then: $ echo disk > /sys/power/state would use the hibernate script. I don't know if this is implemented yet. Also, some kde person may tell you that klaptop can support whatever method of suspend you want - I don't know.

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend2 issues

2006-02-23 Thread Iain Buchanan
es for hibernate so you don't have to enter a password... aaahhh, Linux! -- Iain Buchanan A transistor protected by a fast-acting fuse will protect the fuse by blowing first. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Video streaming solution

2006-02-24 Thread Iain Buchanan
s). They can configure which stream to show on which > client and also disable the streams. It sounds like you're going to have to integrate a few packages yourself, to do just what you want. I don't know of anything that will do the whole lot for you. -- Iain Buchanan 10.0 times

Re: [gentoo-user] BS dependencies?

2006-02-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
IMHO, I'd try and find and fix the reason that it's not keeping time, rather than patch it with ntpdate. Unless you know the reason already, and it can't be fixed, then I'll just shut up :) -- Iain Buchanan It is Fortune, not Wisdom, that rules man's life. -- gento

Re: [gentoo-user] system boot

2006-02-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
> How does the system boot? ? ? you need to mount /boot. Before you do that, delete (or move) the files that you put in (the unmounted) /boot! /boot isn't mounted by default. Once you've mounted /boot, you should see lots of stuff in there. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan If it happens once, it&

Re: [gentoo-user] accelerate emerge

2006-02-28 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 17:27 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: > > I have a different interpretation. I assume you know about FEATURES="parallel-fetch"? -- Iain Buchanan "Elves and Dragons!" I says to him. "Cabbages and potatoes are better for you and me."

[gentoo-user] kde screenshot shortcut doesn't work?!

2006-02-28 Thread Iain Buchanan
d out why? Is there any way of logging when a shortcut is pressed and what kde is trying to do? Many thanks, -- Iain Buchanan It is difficult to soar with the eagles when you work with turkeys. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] accelerate emerge

2006-02-28 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 15:25 -0800, Mike Owen wrote: > On 2/28/06, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 17:27 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: > > > > > > I have a different interpretation. > > > > I assume you know about FEAT

Re: [gentoo-user] GOCR and Tif

2006-03-05 Thread Iain Buchanan
dia-gfx/imagemagick) to convert them to the required format. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan It's not so hard to lift yourself by your bootstraps once you're off the ground. -- Daniel B. Luten -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] samba help

2006-03-06 Thread Iain Buchanan
y the kernel for the list of all active interfaces and use any interfaces except 127.0.0.1 that are broadcast capable." For me, samba listens on all my interfaces and aliases by default. I use iptables to block some interfaces. Let us know how it goes, -- Iain Buchanan He asked me if I

[gentoo-user] firefox java plugin wierdness

2006-03-06 Thread Iain Buchanan
/i386/mozilla/libjavaplugin_oji.so Now my java plugin is working, but everytime there should be a space, I see a square box, then the space, then another square box. This makes it look ugly, because the text isn't aligned properly. Anyone know what's going on? thanks, -- Iain Bucha

Re: [gentoo-user] Monitor goes off on boot

2006-03-07 Thread Iain Buchanan
ow it started gnome. Did I miss some important part of this thread? -- Iain Buchanan Star Trek Lives! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE refuses to be compiled!!!

2006-03-09 Thread Iain Buchanan
x27; or doing the md5sums by hand. Sorry if this is a bit rushed, post back with whatever step you get up to and I can give you more help from there. cya, -- Iain Buchanan There's small choice in rotten apples. -- William Shakespeare, "The Taming of the Shrew" -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
t go HT. It's not worth the effort. -- Iain Buchanan Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song? -- Steven Wright -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 01:59 -0500, JimD wrote: > Iain Buchanan wrote: > > Whatever you do, don't go HT. It's not worth the effort. > > By HT do you mean AMD 64 Hyper-Transport or Pentium Hyper-Threading? don't bother with Hyper threading. Hyper transport

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
I've noticed massive slowdowns with turning HT depending on whether I turn it off in the bios or just play with the kernel. there may even be some intentional slowdown when you do a bios / chip based disable -- Iain Buchanan Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does th

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
t of time, because process time gets equally allocated... Or did you mean 4 threads running together finish in the same amount of time as 1 thread running by itself? cya, -- Iain Buchanan You can't cheat the phone company. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] ANDREW homepage is down!

2006-03-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi, someone posted about ANDREW, the dvd ripper, but the website is down - probably because of all you gentoo-ers going there to check it out :) Has someone already downloaded http://tobemem.memebot.com/download/andrew-1.2.tar.bz2 that they can mirror for me? thanks, -- Iain Buchanan Mater

Re: [gentoo-user] ANDREW homepage is down!

2006-03-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 21:12 -0600, Zac Slade wrote: > On Monday 13 March 2006 19:21, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > Has someone already downloaded > > http://tobemem.memebot.com/download/andrew-1.2.tar.bz2 > > that they can mirror for me? > > I can mirror it not for terribl

Re: [gentoo-user] Stop and continue emerge -e world

2006-03-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
ible somehow to use a feature like "keepwork" that deltes /var/tmp/portage after a successful emerge, but not after an interrupt? (Which is how I assume it works now?) thanks, -- Iain Buchanan A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats. -- B

Re: [gentoo-user] dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso

2006-03-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
gs me that I can not make a backup > to an ISO file using command line. Have you considered this?: dd doesn't do any sort of error checking or retrying, therefore the first hiccup it runs into may make it stop, and that's that. You could mount it and use mkisofs from the command line

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my postfix being used as a relay?

2006-03-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
also get a few bounce messages "from me" about emails I never wrote - once your email address is out there, spammers use it as their from address, even if they're not using your mail server for a relay. sucks. -- Iain Buchanan A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Channel

2006-03-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
ist wlan0 frequency if you haven't discovered iwlist, it is great. I use this all the time when travelling: iwlist wlan0 scan -- Iain Buchanan The descent to Hades is the same from every place. -- Anaxagoras -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] kghostview pdf aspect distorted!

2006-03-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
great though! Any ideas? Thanks! -- Iain Buchanan Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly. -- William Shakespeare, "The Rape of Lucrece" -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: kghostview pdf aspect distorted!

2006-03-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
oops, should have said: $ kghostview --version Qt: 3.3.6 KDE: 3.5.1 KGhostView: 0.20 -- Iain Buchanan There's no such thing as a free lunch. -- Milton Friendman -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kghostview pdf aspect distorted!

2006-03-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
of my own pdfs - no difference. The font is still weird and the aspect is stretched. any more ideas? thanks, -- Iain Buchanan Finagle's Creed: Science is true. Don't be misled by facts. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Using Gentoo for Sound Recording

2006-03-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
that you do have a CD created for each service, but you can use CDRW's, and then rip them to a PC if you want. Just another option to think of. -- Iain Buchanan I have an existential map. It has "You are here" written all over it. -- Steven Wright -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Using Gentoo for Sound Recording

2006-03-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
cups or if you don't want it at all, put -cups in /etc/make.conf then try the emerge line again HTH, -- Iain Buchanan The good oxymoron, to define it by a self-illustration, must be a planned inadvertency. -Wilson Follett -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: samba 3.0.21b issue

2006-03-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
ndd > root 7838 7835 0 Feb15 ?00:00:02 /usr/sbin/winbindd > root 11479 11472 0 16:18 pts/000:00:00 grep winbind file a bug, so others can solve it too :) -- Iain Buchanan Fortune finishes the great quotations, #9 A word to the wise is often enough to star

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: System time drift problem

2005-04-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
drift (which was about 30 minutes a day, but hw clock was ok). I know adjtime is used to correct inaccurate hwclocks, but it can get stuffed. post your /etc/adjtime and see what it says... HTH, -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] A binary choice for a DVD burner... URGENT!

2005-04-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
re referring to LG as being "not so good", then how about this: a friend of mine bought a sony cd burner, only to find it was just a rebadged lg burner, just like the one he already owned. The LG firmware even worked on it, which gave him an extra colour in the status LED... -- Iain Buc

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo installation on an old notebook with a little help from my desktop pc

2005-05-03 Thread Iain Buchanan
p. (also look at MAKEOPTS="-j3", and FEATURES="distcc" I think in make.conf). This may be slower than your first suggestion, as ./configure scripts and so on will still run locally. Depends on your network, etc. There are pointer to distcc in the gentoo install guide. H

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