[gentoo-user] skype masked because of eula?

2010-01-25 Thread Mick
stalled packages are masked: - net-im/skype-2.0.0.72 (masked by: skype-eula license(s)) A copy of the 'skype-eula' license is located at '/usr/portage/licenses/skype- eula'. Is portage telling me that I need to do something about the eula? eix does not show this ve

Re: [gentoo-user] skype masked because of eula?

2010-01-26 Thread Mick
2010/1/26 John H. Moe : > Mick wrote: >> This is confusing me ... >> >> I have skype-2.0.0.72 installed for some time now.  eix -l skype shows: >> >> [I] net-im/skype >>      Available versions: >>                         2.0.0.72!m!s "amd64 x86&qu

Re: [gentoo-user] [footnote] The purpose of pam

2010-01-27 Thread Mick
p. What would be the pam-way to only allow remote ssh logins using pubkeys and completely forbid ssh paswd? I used to remove allow pam from sshd_config. Is there a better pam-centric way of doing the same thing? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] Cannot print pdf documents from KDE4

2010-01-28 Thread Mick
As the title says. I can print text files and html, but I cannot print pdf. BTW I can print an html page from Konqueror to a pdf file, but then can't print that file. Have you come across this problem in KDE4? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed me

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot print pdf documents from KDE4

2010-01-28 Thread Mick
On Thursday 28 January 2010 22:33:52 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:55:02 +0000, Mick wrote: > > As the title says. I can print text files and html, but I cannot print > > pdf. BTW I can print an html page from Konqueror to a pdf file, but > > then can't

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot print pdf documents from KDE4

2010-01-29 Thread Mick
On Friday 29 January 2010 05:28:25 you wrote: > On Thursday 28 January 2010 22:33:52 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:55:02 +0000, Mick wrote: > > > As the title says. I can print text files and html, but I cannot print > > > pdf. BTW I can print an ht

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: I want to get excited, but I just *know* they're going to mess it up...

2010-01-29 Thread Mick
they can put massive CPU and storage > volumes at the other end of the network link for you to work with > (backups, web servers, etc) but it becomes very problematic when you use > a web browser to write an office document. I think they are thinking along the lines of Citrix XenApps and thin client (e.g. HP running Neoware-RHL) on the desktops. This is what is being tried out currently in a number of offices/buildings. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot print pdf documents from KDE4

2010-01-30 Thread Mick
On Friday 29 January 2010 22:04:44 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:19:46 +0000, Mick wrote: > > I checked another machine (of a similar build) which does not seem to > > have app-text/poppler emerged (only app-text/poppler-data, > > app-text/poppler-utils, dev-l

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot print pdf documents from KDE4

2010-02-02 Thread Mick
On Saturday 30 January 2010 12:01:57 you wrote: > On Friday 29 January 2010 22:04:44 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:19:46 +0000, Mick wrote: > > > I checked another machine (of a similar build) which does not seem to > > > have app-text/poppler emerged

Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Selecting shut down in the menu sometimes lands me back a gdm login screen.

2010-02-02 Thread Mick
toms with xdm/fluxbox lately, but it shuts down. Only the shut down processes happen behind the screen - on another tty. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] mysterious syslog message "."

2010-02-02 Thread Mick
destination(messages); }; > log { source(src); destination(console_all); }; > > filter f_networkmanager { program("NetworkManager"); }; Could it be that "NetworkManager" should be "networkmanager"? Also try it without " " and see if it fixes it. > destination df_networkmanager { file("/var/log/NetworkManager.log"); }; Have you already created this file? > any ideas? thanks, > -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] realtek 8197 wireless card setup

2007-12-20 Thread Mick
. PS. I haven't managed to make wpa_supplicant work with my device rt2570usb for more than a year now, but haven't tried recently. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] smartd Prefailure messages

2007-12-20 Thread Mick
anged from 100 to 105 Dec 19 16:07:01 lappy smartd[6268]: Device: /dev/hda, SMART Prefailure Attribute: 8 Seek_Time_Performance changed from 100 to 116 == -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] smartd Prefailure messages

2007-12-20 Thread Mick
On Thursday 20 December 2007, Dale wrote: > Mick wrote: > > This has been going on for some time, but nothing has yet gone bang! I > > can't understand what the errors mean. They seem to occur every other > > day. The machine is a laptop. Also I am not sure if these

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Ditch webmail?

2007-12-20 Thread Mick
ail client/news agent (because it's simple, lightweight and errm . . . it's just there). On the other hand, if you also use MS Windows, then Thunderbird brings familiarity because it exists on both OS'. HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting Question...

2007-12-20 Thread Mick
re going to grow use LVM instead, otherwise primaries and if you need more than 4 then (extended + logical). Just my 2c's. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] FS for laptop

2007-12-20 Thread Mick
iew well presented and very useful: > http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/388 Hmm, this article suggests that XFS is the best thing since sliced bread . . . especially for files greater than 500MB. Not sure I've got many of these. Has anyone got a particularly good experience with XFS vs e.g. Reiserfs? What about JFS? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] smartd Prefailure messages

2007-12-20 Thread Mick
On Thursday 20 December 2007, Dale wrote: > Mick wrote: > > On Thursday 20 December 2007, Dale wrote: > >> > >> I get those a lot too. I have a question, can you post the output of > >> hdparm -i /dev/hda . I have two Maxtor drives and both of mine gives a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FS for laptop

2007-12-21 Thread Mick
On Friday 21 December 2007, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > On Freitag, 21. Dezember 2007, Grant Edwards wrote: > > On 2007-12-20, Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 20 Dec 2007, at 21:34, Mick wrote: > > >> ... > > >> Hmm, this article

Re: [gentoo-user] realtek 8197 wireless card setup

2007-12-21 Thread Mick
ged to make the particular device work with this driver? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting Question...

2007-12-21 Thread Mick
On Friday 21 December 2007, Benjamen R. Meyer wrote: > Galevsky wrote: > > On Dec 20, 2007 10:31 PM, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Unlike commonly perceived wisdom I don't think that LVM is a panacea for > >> all ills, or a necessity as

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting Question...

2007-12-21 Thread Mick
rom /etc/fstab: > tmpfs /tmptmpfs nodev,nosuid,size=6g0 0 > > and this is from /etc/make.conf: > BUILD_PREFIX="/tmp/portage/build" > PKG_TMPDIR="/tmp" > PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/tmp" > PORTAGE_TMPFS="/dev/shm" > > The disks

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FS for laptop

2007-12-22 Thread Mick
On Friday 21 December 2007, Stroller wrote: > On 21 Dec 2007, at 02:43, Grant Edwards wrote: > > On 2007-12-20, Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 20 Dec 2007, at 21:34, Mick wrote: > >>> ... > >>> Hmm, this article suggests tha

Re: [gentoo-user] smartd Prefailure messages

2007-12-22 Thread Mick
On Thursday 20 December 2007, Dale wrote: > Mick wrote: > > > > > > Thanks, I'll browse through these. > > It makes me wonder if the drives are "sensitive" to something. This > seems to be common with Maxtor. Is Hitachi made by the same company

Re: [gentoo-user] Enabling mmx USE flag on a Pentium 4 HTT?

2007-12-22 Thread Mick
these configure options when building the package, > so (unlike using CFLAGS=-mmmx) are quite safe in most cases. Hmm, does this mean I should remove my mmmx CFLAGS? I must have been running this lot for at least 2.5 years now and cannot say that I have seen any problems with them:

Re: [gentoo-user] realtek 8197 wireless card setup

2007-12-22 Thread Mick
ess of elimination I would start with no encryption whatsoever at the router and if it works I would then gradually add WEP and finally WAP. PS. Assuming you get ndiswrapper going you can retry the in-kernel driver in future versions as it is likely that more and more devices will be added. HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo & GRUB help

2008-01-01 Thread Mick
ll your grub in that first device. There's nothing wrong with your Grub installation other than it is in the second (third?) device and it need to be either chainloaded or directly booted from the Grub installation in the first device that comes up on boot up. HTH -- Regards, Mick -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] xdm login problems after recent emerge

2008-01-01 Thread Mick
11 I don't have a problem login in at the console, so this must be xdm/Xorg related I guess. As this is the laptop that I take to work and my holidays end today all suggestions are welcomed! :) -- Regards, Mick -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] xdm login problems after recent emerge

2008-01-01 Thread Mick
On 01/01/2008, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-01-01 at 10:48 +, Mick wrote: > > Happy New Year to all! > > > > I find my self in a bit of a pickle after a recent emerge. When I > > enter my username+passwd at the xdm login sc

Re: [gentoo-user] xdm login problems after recent emerge

2008-01-01 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 01 January 2008, Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote: > Hello > > On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 10:48:52AM +, Mick wrote: > > Happy New Year to all! > > > > I find my self in a bit of a pickle after a recent emerge. When I > > enter my username+passwd

Re: [gentoo-user] xdm login problems after recent emerge

2008-01-02 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 01 January 2008, Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote: > Hello > > On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 03:29:25PM +, Mick wrote: > > I stopped/zapped xdm, ran startx and from an xterm I was able to run > > fluxbox which started OK. So, I am not sure if you are right that

Re: [gentoo-user] xdm login problems after recent emerge

2008-01-02 Thread Mick
bin/bash and the way this is treated for non-KDE WMs in /usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] xdm login problems after recent emerge

2008-01-03 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 02 January 2008, Mick wrote: > Searching further I noticed this in my .xsession-errors: > > /usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession: /home/michael/.xsession: /bin/csh: bad > interpreter: No such file or directory This was probably a red herring and a remnant of having csh installed at

Re: [gentoo-user] Extracting XP drivers from an .exe

2008-01-03 Thread Mick
thin: c:\Program Files\\ If you know what the name of the 64bit file is you can run search on c:\ while the installation executable is running. BTW, the unzip command should be run on Linux rather than MS Windows. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] depclean question

2008-01-04 Thread Mick
(!minimal&berkdb? >=sys-libs/db-4.2.52_p2-r1) sys-apps/iproute2-2.6.22.20070710 (!minimal & berkdb? sys-libs/db) sys-devel/libperl-5.8.8-r1 (berkdb? sys-libs/db) sys-libs/gdbm-1.8.3-r3 (berkdb? sys-libs/db) What would be safe to unmerge? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Possible needed lib missing?

2008-01-05 Thread Mick
in/bash, but /bin/. Changed this to good ol' bash and all these inconsistencies between my Gentoo and the remote box disappeared. HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] How long to unsubscribe?

2008-01-06 Thread Mick
On Saturday 05 January 2008, Richard Torres wrote: > It's usually immediate. Has been for me in the past anyway. Even when you 'top post' and use html messages in mailing lists?! -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS problem

2008-01-06 Thread Mick
ge something, the config > files remain in /etc unchanged. Assuming that you have set the correct device in the GUI for your printer, then the most likely error is that your have not provided the correct path for it. Show us what you have defined the path as in case we can help. -- Re

Re: [gentoo-user] My apache server dosn't work after update.

2008-01-06 Thread Mick
using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName > > I have read some post, but neither of them can help me. See if this helps: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/188460 > Sorry for my English, it isn't my native language... Don't worry, in this age of globalisation it isn't

Re: [gentoo-user] How long to unsubscribe?

2008-01-06 Thread Mick
On Sunday 06 January 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 06 January 2008, Mick wrote: > > On Saturday 05 January 2008, Richard Torres wrote: > > > It's usually immediate. Has been for me in the past anyway. > > > > Even when you 'top post' and use

Re: [gentoo-user] How to find USE flags of a tbz2?

2008-01-06 Thread Mick
in place from the resulting .tbz2? > > qtbz2 -xO your.tbz2 | qxpak -xO - USE WOW! The more I learn, the more I find out that there is s much I don't even know I don't know. Thanks HWH! -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ip_conntrack - is it missing

2008-01-08 Thread Mick
atest & greatest iptable modules updates and modprobe accordingly. If you know what you need in terms of iptables kernel options go with the built-in-kernel choice; if not, built-as-modules could be better - unless you prefer a fat kernel for no reason. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS problem

2008-01-08 Thread Mick
h (for network printers). However, I don't want to send you off scent here because I have not set up a USB printer before, so I am not sure what steps ought to be followed (if udev rules are desired and what not). I would have thought that guidance in this http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/printing-howto.xml#usb ought to help. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Incredibly slow disk access

2008-01-08 Thread Mick
1.01 ~ 1.02 Homepage:http://sg.torque.net/sg/sdparm.html Description: Utility to output and modify parameters on a SCSI device, like hdparm -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] FreeAgent extn. Drive setup ideas

2008-01-08 Thread Mick
t to check the Gentoo Documentation and Gentoo Wiki and this ML and the forums, for multiple suggestions and examples of setting up udev rules. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS problem

2008-01-09 Thread Mick
at your new Gentoo kernel is still having problems printing). You can even diff the two files to see if there are any significant differences in settings. HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] x11-drm fails to emerge

2008-01-11 Thread Mick
ot;Unable to build DRM modules." * The die message: * Unable to build DRM modules. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] HTML vs. Text messages (WAS: Is GWN dead?)

2008-01-12 Thread Mick
d Seamonkey, but vaguely remember something like this in the old Mozilla/Netscape features. HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] HTML vs. Text messages (WAS: Is GWN dead?)

2008-01-12 Thread Mick
On Saturday 12 January 2008, Dale wrote: > Mick wrote: > > Hmm, he may be waiting for you to do it, while you're explaining to all > > these moms out there why you may think that top-posting in this ML would > > be considered good netiquette? BTW, I'm not condoni

Re: [gentoo-user] Daniel Robbins' come back ?

2008-01-12 Thread Mick
he current Gentoo administration and management setup does not seem to be able to behave with the professionalism required to achieve that. This makes me anxious for the future of Gentoo. Just my 2c's. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] HTML vs. Text messages (WAS: Is GWN dead?)

2008-01-12 Thread Mick
On Saturday 12 January 2008, Dale wrote: > Mick wrote: > > . . . but you responded to a plain text message from the list, which as I > > recall you could always do. The problem I believe is when you start a > > new message. Email me off list with a new message and I will

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Forums Crashed

2008-01-12 Thread Mick
ing flaming amidst some good arguments. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Daniel Robbins' come back ?

2008-01-13 Thread Mick
ou use Gentoo > to make money, you are creating some form of evil. Quite the opposite > is true; IMHO. I don't think many people believe that using Gentoo to earn a living is evil. I believe the model of open software development is well proven and charging for offering a service is not in contrast to it. Let's hope that such proposals are discussed and developed adequately to secure Gentoo's survival and push it in a path of growth. What do we need to do next? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Daniel Robbins' come back ?

2008-01-14 Thread Mick
> background... I am happy to contribute to the governance and organisational design of a new Gentoo setup and as James suggested put this forward to the users, devs, trustees. What do you think? Is there mileage in this? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] Konqueror crashes with latest flash

2008-01-14 Thread Mick
failed. Trying to call gtk_init(0,0); KCrash: Application 'nspluginviewer' crashing... X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3 Major opcode: 25 Minor opcode: 0 Resource id: 0x266 Rebuilding flash, nspluginviewer and konqueror has not fixed this, neither has revdep-rebuild. A

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Daniel Robbins' come back ?

2008-01-15 Thread Mick
a legit way to recover from this position, without take overs, juntas, curfews and summary executions? Who needs to do what? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror crashes with latest flash

2008-01-15 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 15 January 2008, Alex Schuster wrote: > Mick writes: > > Rebuilding flash, nspluginviewer and konqueror has not fixed this, > > neither has revdep-rebuild. Any ideas? > > After upgrading to netscape-flash-9.0.115.0, I had similar problems, > although I did no

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Sudden XP death

2008-01-15 Thread Mick
irst drive is not recognisable/writeable by XP it will have a hissy fit and will bail out. The (easy) solution is to install it on the first drive and then use partimage to create an image of it, which thereafter can be unloaded in whichever partition/drive you desire. Use Grub to chainload i

Re: [gentoo-user] [konqueror] Can't invoke and editor when `view source'

2008-01-16 Thread Mick
to try selecting the "Run in terminal" or invoke it like so: xterm -e /usr/bin/emacs HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] DNAT not working

2008-01-16 Thread Mick
s one at a time and see what gives. HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Routing problem ?

2008-01-16 Thread Mick
y does not have anything to do with all this. I agree that this is not related to the ISP. What you probably need to do is set up RIP2 in your router 1, to be able to recognise other subdomains (192.168.2.XXX). Then it'll process packets coming from that subdomain. The router manual ought to help you out on setting this up. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] No kernel boot after inserting more ram

2008-01-18 Thread Mick
theme:emergence fbcon=scrollback:128K > console=/dev/tty1 combined_mode=libata > initrd /boot/fbsplash-emergence-1024x768 HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Net / dhcp (miss)behaviour

2008-01-18 Thread Mick
hines do not have any such problem. Even though they may end up with a APIPA address, they will in minute or so drop it and acquire a 10.10.10.XXX domain address from the router. dhcpcpd does not seem to have this flexibility. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] "loopback mount" hard-drive image created with dd?

2008-01-18 Thread Mick
k image, not one > > What I proposed will fail in that case, but will work with "just one" > partition in the image... > > It's a shame too. > > Cheers. I have mounted through loopback USB stick images that I dd onto my hard drive, but had no partition tabl

Re: [gentoo-user] q: how to make gentoo site sync for greek users

2008-01-18 Thread Mick
ay have already done what you are after. If you want to chat online go to irc.freenode.org in the channel #gentoo-el Hope this helps. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SANDBOX - state of the art?

2008-01-18 Thread Mick
1-drivers/nvidia-drivers-100.14.19. How strange . . . I thought that one has to disable userpriv, not sandbox for this purpose. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] simple web server with content negotiation feature

2008-01-26 Thread Mick
hing in their respective project websites and then reading their documentation for each package under /usr/portage/www-servers/. Alternative, emerge, try it out, unmerge and so on. BTW, I am not sure if some PHP scripting would offer this facility to simpler http servers, which do not support it natively like apache. HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] Time format in log files

2008-01-27 Thread Mick
ALERT: router.xxx [1200806891] HOST ALERT: router.xx [1200806891] Could you please tell me how to interpret/parse these so that they show time in hrs:min so that I can understand it? (anything I could feed to less would be grand). -- Regards,

Re: [gentoo-user] Time format in log files

2008-01-27 Thread Mick
; far as any command-line utility to convert them,I leave that to > Google. However, most programming languages provide functions to > convert between timestamp formats. Thanks Greg, It's amazing what one can dig out from Google: perl -pe 's/(\d+)/localtime($1)/e' /var/log/

Re: [gentoo-user] glxgears segfaults as user, works as root

2008-01-28 Thread Mick
en compile. You may have to try them all out in case there is a version that works. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -uD world dies: "Unable to build"

2008-01-28 Thread Mick
nning 'fix_libtool_files.sh' on the old > gcc versions. Read this guide carefully and follow it to the letter: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gcc-upgrading.xml -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] network setup

2008-01-28 Thread Mick
. 192.168.0.0). If you connect to different routers which have different LAN address (192.168.0.0, 192.168.2.0, 10.10.10.0, etc.) then I guess you'll need some sort of additional script? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -uD world dies: "Unable to build"

2008-01-29 Thread Mick
. (I am sure that the forums are full of suggestions for this problem). If you are certain that you have had the correct gcc installed and gcc-config shows that it has been selected, and you have finished with the steps suggested in the guide above, then run revdep-rebuild -X -p -v once more for good measure before you try to emerge anything else. HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Why does firefox always do DNS query for www.gentoo.org?

2008-01-29 Thread Mick
ace within FF, or one of its extensions and it loads, or prefetches the page in question. A search through its config might help. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: network setup

2008-01-30 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 29 January 2008, James wrote: > Mick gmail.com> writes: > > > > can I set up the network startup so that eth0 first tries to get > > > > address from a dhcp server, and if it doesn't get any, it sets up > > > > with a fixed addre

Re: [gentoo-user] upgraded video card from geforce 6600 to geforce 8600...

2008-02-01 Thread Mick
> > > Section "InputDevice" > > Identifier "Keyboard0" > > Driver "evdev" > > Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30" > > Option "XkbRules" "xorg" > > Option "XkbModel" "evdev" > > Option "XkbLayout" "de" > > Option "Device" "/dev/input/event2" > > EndSection > > > > Section "Monitor" > > Identifier "Monitor0" > > VendorName "Unknown" > > ModelName "Unknown" > > HorizSync 30.0 - 110.0 > > VertRefresh 50.0 - 150.0 > > Option "DPMS" > > EndSection > > > > Section "Device" > > Identifier "Device0" > > Driver "nvidia" > > VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" > > EndSection > > > > Section "Screen" > > Identifier "Screen0" > > Device "Device0" > > Monitor"Monitor0" > > DefaultDepth24 > > SubSection "Display" > > Depth 24 > > EndSubSection > > EndSection > > -- > > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > > Cannot get to the machine until this evening. > Will post the log and conf files tomorrow. > Thank you in advance. Also, earth yourself on the chassis, pull the card out and push it back in fully. It could just be a case of poor contact in the slot? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] [OT] VNC viewer in listening mode

2008-02-02 Thread Mick
a firewall. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] Portage behaviour with Masked packages - Gaim

2008-02-04 Thread Mick
etworkmanager) -prediction -qq -sasl -silc -tcl -tk -zephyr" 8,674 kB Total: 4 packages (4 new), Size of downloads: 9,117 kB == -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage behaviour with Masked packages - Gaim

2008-02-04 Thread Mick
chael Sullivan's comment shall I assume that you also did not see the portage warning about Gaim-over (pun intended) or perhaps you never had Gaim installed? Anyone else who can confirm that they have Gaim installed but not seen the portage warning? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Descriptio

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] VNC viewer in listening mode

2008-02-04 Thread Mick
have changed now. Hmm tried it with vncviewer -listen from a Knoppix 5.0 DVD and could not connect from the remote MSWindows machine. It could well be incompatible versions I guess. Thanks for pointing this out. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage behaviour with Masked packages - Gaim

2008-02-04 Thread Mick
rtage warn me about Gaim being hard masked? Is my portage borked, or is this behaviour no longer valid/expected? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage behaviour with Masked packages - Gaim

2008-02-04 Thread Mick
On Monday 04 February 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 04 February 2008, Mick wrote: > > On Monday 04 February 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > It was hard masked in portage very recently. Unfortunately for gaim > > > users, the upgrade consists of unmerge

Re: [gentoo-user] OO and slot 5500

2008-02-05 Thread Mick
, probably something to do with an image on the toolbar? Have you perhaps customised your OOo toolbar, then done away with the ~/.ooo-2.0 directory or files therein and it now complains about it? HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] More problems with Pidgin

2008-02-05 Thread Mick
/pidgin-2.2.1 USE="dbus gstreamer ncurses nls perl spell -bonjour -debug -doc -eds -gadu -gnutls -groupwise -gtk -meanwhile -networkmanager -prediction -qq -sasl -silc -tcl -tk -zephyr" 0 kB Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Descrip

Re: [gentoo-user] More problems with Pidgin

2008-02-05 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 05 February 2008, Greg Bowser wrote: > You need to get the gtk use flag to get the gtk GUI ;) Thanks Greg, I thought that it should be clever enough to enable gtk by default, just like gaim used to (I think). Remerging now . . . -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This

[gentoo-user] [OT] Gentoo-Wiki down too

2008-02-06 Thread Mick
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Horribly off-topic linux distro question...

2008-02-07 Thread Mick
do the job for you, after you set root and knoppix passwds? BTW, Konqueror will also work with many banking sites, but you may need to change the browser agent identification, treatment of cookies and so on. YMMV. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Horribly off-topic linux distro question...

2008-02-07 Thread Mick
On Thursday 07 February 2008, Håkon Alstadheim wrote: > Mick wrote: > > Basic web browsers do not have the javascript, Java (and soon enough > > flash?) functionality that the majority of banking sites require. > > Wouldn't Knoppix with its Firefox and equivalents do

[gentoo-user] drupal errors

2008-02-08 Thread Mick
s * Installing from /usr/share/webapps/drupal/5.2/hostroot/icons * Files and directories installed * Install completed - success Have you seen this before? Needless to say, the resulting drupal installation does not work (error 403 on the browser). -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] drupal errors

2008-02-08 Thread Mick
On Friday 08 February 2008, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > On Friday 8 February 2008, Mick wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Trying to run webapp-config to install drupal-5.2 in apache-2.2.6-r5. > > Although it ends with "success" it spits out many of these errors: &g

[gentoo-user] ACPI problem

2008-02-08 Thread Mick
THRM] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_GPE._L1C] (Node c17f33b0), AE_NOT_FOUND Any idea how I could fix this? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Interrogate network for devices

2008-02-10 Thread Mick
.org ) at 2008-02-10 12:53 GMT Host 192.168.0.1 appears to be up. Host 192.168.0.6 appears to be up. Nmap done: 256 IP addresses (2 hosts up) scanned in 14.301 seconds === In this example I have scanned all addresses within the subdomain 192.168.0.0 after I set statically m

[gentoo-user] Where's my Kmail message marks?!

2008-02-10 Thread Mick
Hi All, Just noticed that the messages that I had marked as "Important" in Kmail, are no more. How could this happen? Did I press something I shouldn't have? Was the update to 3.5.8 done away with them, or is it perhaps related to a crash . . . ? Can I get them back? --

[gentoo-user] [OT] Migrating Drupal websites

2008-02-10 Thread Mick
about this? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] Imagemagick and gnome packages

2008-02-11 Thread Mick
int/cups-1.2.12-r4 USE="X dbus jpeg ldap nls pam png ppds ssl tiff -php -samba -slp" [ebuild U ] app-text/libpaper-1.1.23 [1.1.21] 343 kB Total: 18 packages (12 upgrades, 5 new, 1 in new slot), Size of downloads: 45,936 kB = Other than setting -svg for imagemagick is there anything else I could do to keep these additional gnome packages out? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail does not import gpg keys automatically?

2008-02-11 Thread Mick
kipedia.org/wiki/Key_signing_party http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_of_trust HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail does not import gpg keys automatically?

2008-02-11 Thread Mick
you're on line, or bring back an error if a connection cannot be established (e.g. because you are off-line, the server does not accept connections, or the particular keys are not published on that server). Ditto if you run: $ gpg --refresh-keys HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Interrogate network for devices

2008-02-11 Thread Mick
fconfig. A mate of mine has a Comcast router (probably different to yours) I'll ask how he got in and let you know. > At any rate all is now well, and thanks to all for the tips and help. Glad it worked out for you. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Migrating Drupal websites

2008-02-11 Thread Mick
On Monday 11 February 2008, kashani wrote: > Mick wrote: > > I am not quite sure how best to setup a local Drupal development server. > > This is only for developing the websites, which when ready for publishing > > will be migrated to the hosting server. > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Interrogate network for devices

2008-02-12 Thread Mick
ince you have a different modem YMMV, unless Comcast ask all their hardware suppliers to configure the same LAN IP address. HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

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