[gentoo-user] Packages from overlays

2007-01-12 Thread Willie Wong
Hi list, Is there a way of finding out whether I have packages installed on my system from a given overlay? I am asking because I noticed that some of the packages I've installed (such as GoogleEarth) from overlays had been incorporated into the official portage. I would like to 'unsubs

[gentoo-user] xkbd and libxcb

2007-01-12 Thread Willie Wong
I am having trouble building x11-misc/xkbd It dies with i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -Os -march=pentium-m -ftracer -pipe -DUSE_XFT -I/usr/include/freetype2 -DUSE_XPM -DDEFAULTCONFIG=\"/usr/share/xkbd/en_GB.qwerty.xkbd\" -c button.c i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG

Re: [gentoo-user] Packages from overlays

2007-01-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 05:22:27AM +0100, Penguin Lover Bo ?rsted Andresen squawked: > Portage currently does not store any information about where a package was > installed from. Therefore the best you can do is manually inspect the output > of `eix --installed-overlay`. It will show all packag

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] xkbd and libxcb

2007-01-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 11:55:35PM -0500, Penguin Lover Willie Wong squawked: > I am having trouble building x11-misc/xkbd > Oh, don't you hate it when a stroke of genius strikes right after you asked a silly question? Anyway, it occured to me that even though libX11 is no longer lin

Re: [gentoo-user] Packages from overlays

2007-01-13 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 12:31:33PM +, Penguin Lover Neil Bothwick squawked: > I use the attached script to look for packages installed from overlay > where the same version is available in portage. Run it with the -v option > to see a diff between the two ebuilds, otherwise it just reports name

Re: [gentoo-user] naim asks for password then nothing

2007-01-23 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 11:38:18PM -0500, Penguin Lover Randy Barlow squawked: > Howdy all, > > I'm trying to get naim to work, but am having no success so far. When > I type /connect S/N, it asks me to type my password and then hit enter. > I type the password, hit enter, and then nothing

Re: [gentoo-user] naim asks for password then nothing

2007-01-23 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 03:52:03PM -0500, Penguin Lover Randy Barlow squawked: > It seems to be a versioning problem. The stable version of naim in > portage is quite outdated (from 2004) and the newest version was > released in October 2006. There is a bug report[1] for the version > bump, and t

[gentoo-user] Bash programmable completion

2005-12-29 Thread Willie Wong
I am trying out programmable completion following the tab completion TIP at gentoo-wiki: http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_TAB-completion Things mostly work as expected. I also turned on programmable completion for bash using shopt -s progcomp My question: how does the tab completion determine "sui

Re: [gentoo-user] Environment variables don't export from within scripts

2006-01-02 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 04:30:09PM -0600, Penguin Lover Kris Kerwin squawked: > Thanks to all for helping. > > The source command did the trick, Alex. > > ?# echo "export VARIABLE='test'" >> test_script > # chmod 754 test_script > # ./test_script > # echo $VARIABLE >

Re: [gentoo-user] JPG attachments - Macintosh BinHex-encoded file

2006-01-05 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 07:18:39AM -0800, Penguin Lover Mark Knecht squawked: > Hi, >I'm in Gnome and received what appear to be some JPG files from a > friend. When I try to open them I get the following message: > > > The filename "DSCN2448.JPG" indicates that this file is of type "JPEG > i

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem doing an emerge -uD world on AMD64

2006-01-05 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 07:33:05AM +1300, Penguin Lover Jamie squawked: > I did an emerge pam but am still getting this error: > configure: error: *** libpam missing > > !!! Please attach the config.log to your bug report: > !!! /var/tmp/portage/openssh-4.2_p1/work/openssh-4.2p1/config.log > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problem doing an emerge -uD world on AMD64

2006-01-05 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 05:49:34PM +1300, Penguin Lover Jamie squawked: > I have since tried to unmerge openssh in the hope that this will allow > me to at least get my system up to date but I get the following issue: > > Gir ~ # emerge --unmerge openssh > > > !!! 'net-misc/openssh' is part of y

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

2006-01-07 Thread Willie Wong
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 ls will display the year only for files older than a year old. Quite clever,

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

2006-01-07 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 08:37:12PM +0100, Penguin Lover Sergio Polini squawked: > May be, you could add a command-line option ;-) > And don't forget to open a bug and send in a patch! =) W -- Ugh! It's 1/2 C U ^2, saved by the bell, we've ran out of time. ~Prof. Kirk T. McDonald, DeathEM

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

2006-01-07 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 08:01:25PM +0100, Penguin Lover Holly Bostick squawked: > Rather than go off on a rant, I will ask mildly: is there any way to > change the default behaviour to more reflect my expected behaviour? Not > so much asking you to tell me how to do it as asking if those of you who

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

2006-01-07 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 09:56:59PM +0100, Penguin Lover Mariusz P?kala squawked: > info ls, section * Formatting file timestamps:: > " A timestamp is considered to be "recent" if it is less than six > months old, and is not dated in the future." > > and further: > " For example, `--time-style="+%Y

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

2006-01-07 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 02:41:35AM +0100, Penguin Lover Holly Bostick squawked: > A-HA The 'Info' command, which I also always forget, not least > because I don't know how to navigate info files. > > But this caused me to take another whack at it, and I got along well > enough to find a mostly

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - MythTV recording - file size

2006-01-08 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 12:00:47AM -0600, Penguin Lover Michael Sullivan squawked: > I recorded a two-hour movie off telivision this evening. I watched it > and it looks fine, but the file size is really big: 4.3GB. Is this > normal? As I said, the file was recorded by mythtv; it has a .nuv >

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] A New Linux Way

2006-01-10 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 05:42:48PM +, Penguin Lover Neil Bothwick squawked: > I'm glad you didn't write humor-impaired, because then we'd have had a > long discussion on whether the longer "humour" stands out and > represents a great community better than the "traditional" (albeit more > recent

Re: [gentoo-user] How to play Musepack files in MPlayer?

2006-01-10 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 01:54:15AM +0530, Penguin Lover Abhay Kedia squawked: > Hello Everyone, > > I am trying to play mpc files in mplayer but get the following error while > doing so > > == > Requested audio codec family

Re: [gentoo-user] How to play Musepack files in MPlayer?

2006-01-10 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 04:48:12PM -0500, Penguin Lover Willie Wong squawked: > Now, there are two things you can do: > 1) If you really want mplayer to support musepack, do some web > searches, make sure the codec really is supported, and then you go > and file a bug at b.

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU opinions...

2006-01-10 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 03:01:58PM -0700, Penguin Lover Tom Smith squawked: > QEMU appears to have functionality similar to VMWare (I haven't tried it > yet). I'm curious to here other Gentoo users' experience with this > software. I will be using in a production environment so stability and > upti

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU opinions...

2006-01-11 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 08:19:58AM -0700, Penguin Lover Tom Smith squawked: > One other question... With Win4Lin, for example, one can start the > Windows session in lieu of an X session--so all the user sees is > Windows. My users will be accessing the server via VNC so this feature > of Win4Lin w

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU opinions...

2006-01-11 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 12:23:19PM +0100, Penguin Lover Alexander Skwar squawked: > >From time to time, I also tried to get qemu running. The > big hurdle for me was, that I never got networking running > in the guest OS. > > Could somebody please post some basic guidelines - or maybe > even a st

Re: [gentoo-user] How to play Musepack files in MPlayer?

2006-01-11 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 03:39:09PM +0530, Penguin Lover Abhay Kedia squawked: > Actually I did try that but it doesn't work. If you see I do have xmms use > flag enabled and xmms-musepack installed as well but same error. Musepack > forums mention that mplayer is natively playing musepack files i

Re: [gentoo-user] RESEND: [OT - Manually entering a new mail account into Evolution]

2006-01-11 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 02:40:13PM -0800, Penguin Lover James Ausmus squawked: > > > > I'm trying to emerge that version of evolution, but it won't let me. > > Observe: > > > > camille evolution # cat /etc/portage/package.keywords | grep 'evolution' > > mail-client/evolution-2.4.2.1 ~x86 > > > Th

Re: [gentoo-user] Strangeness with KDE 3.4

2006-01-11 Thread Willie Wong
Can't help with all your problems, but I do what I can: On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 09:49:34PM -0500, Penguin Lover Shawn Singh squawked: > Hey all, > > I recently rebuilt my Gentoo box, but have had a few problems that > I've not been able to figure out: > > 1. The sound doesn't work > i.e. I c

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

2006-01-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 07:32:49AM +1000, Penguin Lover Alan E. Davis squawked: > Here's from genlop. (Many of these were merged after the problem showed up): > > # genlop --list --date two days ago >  * app-shells/bash > >  Thu Jan 12 01:36:12 2006 >>> app-shells/bash-3.1_

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

2006-01-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 03:54:24PM -0600, Penguin Lover Dale Kirkley squawked: > " An error occurred while sending mail. The mail server responded: 5.7.1 > Relaying denied. Please > verify that your email address is correct in your Mail preferences and try > again." > > That's it. It don't se

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags: mmx sse sse2

2006-01-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 03:09:40PM -0700, Penguin Lover Tom Smith squawked: > Are these flags mutually exclusive? > > I know, for example, that if I have a Pentium II that the MMX flag > should apply while the sse and sse2 flags would not. > > But what if I have a Pentium III or IV? Would I only

Re: [gentoo-user] Source Code?

2006-01-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 11:40:30PM -0600, Penguin Lover Raj Swaminathan squawked: > Hi, > > Can anybody tell me where i can obtain open source code for gentoo. Im > particularly looking for code for programs in /bin and /sbin. > I am on a project to find out how different distros implement a few

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need help diagnosing scanning problem with new DSL service

2006-01-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 12:32:43AM -0600, Penguin Lover Michael Sullivan squawked: > Now I have a new ISP. I thought I'd try things again. My router is set > to reroute all requests to port 22 (FTP) to internal address 192.168.1.2 > (which is my server box). However, when I try to run nmap on >

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

2006-01-13 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 12:04:26PM -0600, Penguin Lover Dale squawked: > I also use that konsole as root because it will allow root to kill a process > that little old dale can't. Some of those Mozilla processes that were > running were running as root, not sure why. It never did that before. >

Re: [gentoo-user] dying hard drive?

2006-01-13 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 03:39:46PM -0600, Penguin Lover [EMAIL PROTECTED] squawked: > > I keep getting hard drive errors in my kernel log/dmesg that have me > worried. From /var/log/kernel/current: > > Jan 13 11:42:31 [kernel] hda: dma_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete > DataRequest

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

2006-01-13 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 04:42:33PM -0600, Penguin Lover Dale squawked: > Well, I did a windoze thing and rebooted. It got worse. That was when > Mozilla stopped working at all. My rig has always been named smoker, since > the install anyway. > > I have a new install on the way on another hard

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

2006-01-13 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 02:09:16AM +0100, Penguin Lover Holly Bostick squawked: > Dale schreef: > > On Friday 13 January 2006 17:38, Willie Wong wrote: > > > >> >From what you sent me, it doesn't look like mozilla even finished > >> > >> loading

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

2006-01-13 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 08:00:15PM -0700, Penguin Lover Richard Fish squawked: > On 1/13/06, Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From what you sent me, it doesn't look like mozilla even finished > > loading all the libraries. Can you post emerge --info and > &

Re: [gentoo-user] Sphinx-2, voice command and dictation

2006-01-14 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 09:26:47AM -0800, Penguin Lover James Colannino squawked: > So who here has setup Sphinx voice recognition engine and actually used > it for something useful? It looks like an awesome application, but > unfortunately it does seem rather suited for developers, and of cours

Re: [gentoo-user] ipw2200 dmesg error

2006-01-15 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 04:45:29PM +0100, Penguin Lover Rafael Fern??ndez L??pez squawked: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Rafael Fern??ndez L??pez wrote: > > Marco Calviani wrote: > > > >>>Hi list, > >>> i'm running gentoo on a laptop with a ipw2200 wireless card. I'm > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ipw2200 dmesg error

2006-01-15 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 08:20:35PM +0100, Penguin Lover Sven K?hler squawked: > > ipw2200: Firmware error detected. Restarting. > > ipw2200: Sysfs 'error' log already exists. > > > > Is this a known issue of these drivers? > > I have the same errors. I use ipw2200-1.0.10 with kernel 2.6.15. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound plays in double speed.

2006-01-15 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 01:06:58PM +0200, Penguin Lover David Harel squawked: > Hi there, > > > I don't know how I got this: When playing a wma file I here the audio in > fast speed (seems double speed) and anything else from that moment is > played in double speed. I don't know where to start

Re: [gentoo-user] usb1 performance out of usb2 external HD

2006-01-15 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 04:08:58PM +0930, Penguin Lover Iain Buchanan squawked: > I noticed I had uhci-hcd loaded (the usb 1 module?) so I unloaded it, > and my keyboard stopped working!!! So using the laptop keyboard, I > replugged the HD (now without uhci-hcd) and it still goes slow... > uhci-

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

2006-01-16 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 02:49:10AM -0600, Penguin Lover Dale squawked: > I have started a fresh install. I have tried everything I can think of and > it > still won't work. Mozilla will not open at all. Even the binary version > stopped working. > > I'm doing my install on another drive.

Re: [gentoo-user] conf.d/net config syntax

2006-01-16 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 08:06:14PM +0100, Penguin Lover Jean Magnan de Bornier squawked: > Hi all, > I have a very simple conf.d/net file: > > . > iface_eth0="dhcp" > ifconfig_eth0=( "dhcp" ) > #ipaddr-eth0=( "dhcp" ) > dhcpcd_eth0="-t 30" > fallback_eth0=( "194.19

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound plays in double speed.

2006-01-16 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 12:48:38PM +0200, Penguin Lover David Harel squawked: > Willie Wong wrote: > > >More information? What program did you use to play the wma file? What > >do you mean by "anything else from that moment"? Do you mean anything > >else pla

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Selecting left/Right audio channel in Mplayer/Xine/Totem etc

2006-01-17 Thread Willie Wong
Look for the "-af" switch in man mplayer. In particular, assuming you have a stereo disc (2 channel output), mplayer -af channels=2:2:0:0:0:1 would play channel 0 (probably the left? assuming I have my speakers setup right...) mplayer -af channels=2:2:1:1:1:0 would play channel 1 For more

Re: [gentoo-user] how to read raw mouse events

2006-01-17 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 12:11:54AM -0800, Penguin Lover [EMAIL PROTECTED] squawked: > Hi, > > I have a headless embedded Gentoo system. I'm using an optical mouse to > detect rotation of a wheel. I don't need to know how fast or in what > direction, but I do need to know whether it is turning o

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound plays in double speed.

2006-01-17 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 01:54:56PM +0200, Penguin Lover David Harel squawked: > >Okay, a few more questions: > > 1) Is that behavior reproducible? > > a) If you reboot, does the sound play normally? > > > Yep, but I don't have to reboot, I killed the artswrapper the other time > (it logged me

Re: [gentoo-user] New install, I still can't send email. Same error too.

2006-01-18 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 01:45:22AM -0600, Penguin Lover Dale squawked: > I have the same setting I use for Kmail actually. server is > mail.exceedtech.net on port 25. It is set to use user name and password and > secure connection is set to no. I tried the others, it puked on me. > > Keep

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS -- fails better!

2006-01-30 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 02:00:32PM -0800, Penguin Lover maxim wexler squawked: > Oh, and changing debug level in cupsd.conf doesn't > have any effect. I saved the file; do I have to logout > and in again? you need to restart cupsd after changing the config. /etc/init.d/cupsd restart W -- The o

Re: [gentoo-user] Viewing SVG/SVGZ files.

2006-02-02 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 10:50:18AM +0530, Penguin Lover Abhay Kedia squawked: > SVG/SVGZ in konqueror, firefox or such programs, I get weird output. > > When I try to open SVGZ files in Konqueror, I get XML Parsing Error while > Firefox shows a pop-up to save the file some where. On using Kview,

Re: [gentoo-user] Viewing SVG/SVGZ files.

2006-02-03 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 12:52:25PM +0530, Penguin Lover Abhay Kedia squawked: > I am using eog-2.12.2. I did not have mime-types installed thus > no /etc/mime.types. Now, I have emerged it but have a different problem > in Firefox. When I try to open svgz files it shows the following error >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What trouble am I creating by commenting entries in [...]/packag.mask

2006-02-03 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 05:13:58PM -0600, Penguin Lover Harry Putnam squawked: > And a quite long string of package names follow including xvidtune > > I'm apparently using the wrong command to try to learn the > dependancies. > > root # equery depends x11-apps/xvidtune > [ Searching for pac

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with alt-key on Apple iBook

2006-02-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 02:44:54PM +, Penguin Lover Neil Bothwick squawked: > This is nothing to do with the iBook hardware, my AMD64 box does it too. > The Alt key works but Alt-n giving (arg: n) appears to be a feature of > bash, although there's no reference to the Alt key in the bash manpag

Re: [gentoo-user] apache permssions

2006-02-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 06:26:16PM +1300, Penguin Lover Nick Rout squawked: > > > > > > ExtendedStatus On > > > > > > SetHandler server-status > > > Order deny,allow > > > Deny from all > > > Allow from localhost > > > > > > > > > > > > Looks to me as

[gentoo-user] [OT] joystick in wine?

2006-02-08 Thread Willie Wong
Does anyway know if Wine can use a USB joystick that is recognized and working properly by the linux kernel? If so, how? The other thing is, I managed to once get the debug output from wine. But only once. I couldn't remember what I did to get the debug output on the commandline. I tried running

[gentoo-user] wine doesn't play well with gcc 3.4.5?

2006-02-08 Thread Willie Wong
I tried to emerge wine yesterday. If I tried using gcc3.4.5, the compilation proceeds fine but the resulting binary segfaults on loading. Then I tried gcc3.3.5, and the compile worked, and the binary works. I did a quick search of b.g.o and didn't see it mentioned. Is this a known issue (did

Re: [gentoo-user] Good program for ogg?

2006-02-13 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 11:39:13AM -0500, Penguin Lover Jeff squawked: > Hey all. > > Want to make ogg's out of my CD's, but don't want to have to download a > zillion GUI's/libraries ala KDE or GNOME. I love fluxbox, so something > that works in console would even be great! > > What's your fave?

Re: [gentoo-user] mime type experts / *.pps

2006-02-20 Thread Willie Wong
The 'file' command and mime types are different things. On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 07:20:07PM +0200, Penguin Lover Uwe Thiem squawked: > this is about Powerpoint Presentations and Gentoo and (almost) any other > linux > *.ppt do not cause any problems but *.pps do. If you do a "file > something.p

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging Beagle

2006-02-24 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 08:59:44PM +0100, Penguin Lover Christoph Eckert squawked: > Now it wants to pull in www-client/mozilla-1.7.12-r2. > > I'd like to avoid that. Anyone a hint if or even how this is possible? > You might consider filing a bug at b.g.o I took a look at Beagle-project.org,

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging Beagle

2006-02-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 07:40:53AM +0100, Penguin Lover Alexander Skwar squawked: > Christoph Eckert wrote: > > > Now it wants to pull in www-client/mozilla-1.7.12-r2. > > > > I'd like to avoid that. Anyone a hint if or even how this is possible? > > It's not possible. Upstream says to use it.

Re: [gentoo-user] Acroread 7.0.5-r1 very slow startup

2006-02-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 08:35:44PM -0300, Penguin Lover Urs Schuetz squawked: > Can anybody conirm this slow startup, or is it just me? Any hints > how to speed up acrobat reader 7.0.5-r1? > I can confirm. It took two and a half minutes now on my box (P4 2GHz, 512M ram). It does feel slower than t

Re: [gentoo-user] Acroread 7.0.5-r1 very slow startup

2006-02-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 08:35:44PM -0300, Penguin Lover Urs Schuetz squawked: > strace acroread > shows that acroread 7.0.5-r1 uses a very long time with fonts > and nonexistent directories like /usr/psres and > /usr/share/fonts/afms//usr/share/fonts/afms: > > ... > open("/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/issue information

2006-02-27 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 04:44:19PM +0100, Penguin Lover Marco Calviani squawked: > file i've observed that effectively the system shows the "welcome" string. > However i'm not seeing the effective system name, kernel etc but only > this: > > This is \n.\O (\s \m \r) \t > > Password: > > it

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/issue information

2006-02-27 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 12:45:58PM -0700, Penguin Lover Richard Fish squawked: > The current time will be difficult. But you could create a file (like > /etc/issue.ssh) with the rest of the information in it: > > echo "This is `hostname`.`hostname -d` ( `uname -s` `uname -m` `uname > -r` )" > /et

[gentoo-user] Import SSL Certificate Authority

2006-03-02 Thread Willie Wong
Hi all, I use fetchmail to retrieve mail from my university's IMAP server with SSL enabled. After an upgrade to the latest stable version, whenever I run fetchmail, I get the following output: [12:12 PM]wwong ~ $ fetchmail fetchmail: Server certificate verification error: unable to get local i

Re: [gentoo-user] Import SSL Certificate Authority [SOLVED]

2006-03-02 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 12:19:58PM -0500, Penguin Lover Willie Wong squawked: > [12:12 PM]wwong ~ $ fetchmail > fetchmail: Server certificate verification error: unable to get local issuer > certificate > fetchmail: Server certificate verification error: certificate not trusted

Re: [gentoo-user] USB, udev, and SCSI emulation

2006-03-02 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 10:44:10AM -0800, Penguin Lover Wes Gray squawked: > I've been researching getting my camera to work and I have a few questions. > I'm running udev and kernel 2.6.15.1. > > 1) For USB mass storage to work do I still need SCSI emulation or does udev > remove that requi

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-7: no console switching; can't exit gnome sanely.

2006-03-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 12:24:07AM -0800, Penguin Lover Robert Persson squawked: > I have just upgraded to xorg-7 and found that I can no longer use ctrl-alt-Fn > to switch out of the x server. I am using the same version of fglrx that I > was before I upgraded and this problem started happening.

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-7: no console switching; can't exit gnome sanely.

2006-03-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 02:13:04PM -0800, Penguin Lover Robert Persson squawked: > On Saturday 04 March 2006 02:33 Willie Wong was like: > > Option "DontVTSwitch" "Off" > > > > in the xorg.conf > > This doesn't appear to work. Although I don&

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird bash behavior

2006-03-05 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 09:50:36PM +0100, Penguin Lover Alexander Skwar squawked: > Franta wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/MyDB $ for AA in [0-9][0-9] ; do echo $AA; done > > [0-9][0-9] > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/MyDB $ > > > > Is this fixed somehow? > > [0-9][0-9] will do file name globbing, it

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to get a midi-editor working

2006-03-07 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 12:22:11AM -0500, Penguin Lover Walter Dnes squawked: > 1) I emerged "rosegarden" (and dependancies) successfully. But there > was no sound and no documentation. No "man rosegarden" and when I hit > {F1} or click on "Help", it complains about "kfmclient not found". I'm >

Re: [gentoo-user] Confused about latest gentoo-sources

2006-03-08 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 11:30:26AM -0800, Penguin Lover jerry squawked: > THanks for the quick reply. I did another emerge --sync and > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/jerry # emerge -s gentoo-sources > Searching... > [ Results for search key : gentoo-sources ] > [ Applications found : 1 ] > > * sys-

Re: [gentoo-user] [WAY OT] plural of virus (was antivirus)

2006-03-08 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 07:40:01PM +, Penguin Lover neil squawked: > This is one of my pet hates. There is no such word as "virii". The > correct plural of "virus" in the English language is "viruses". Whilst > the word virus comes from Latin, the common pluralisation by replacing > "us" wit

Re: [gentoo-user] Confused about latest gentoo-sources

2006-03-09 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 04:36:33PM +0100, Penguin Lover Holly Bostick squawked: > Jerry Turba schreef: > > Results of equery: backup:~ $ equery list -p gentoo-sources [ > > Searching for package 'gentoo-sources' in all categories among: ] * > > installed packages > > > > [I--] [ ] sys-kernel/ge

Re: [gentoo-user] www.wolfspakt.de/spiel.php?id=7358

2006-03-09 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 12:01:29AM +0100, Penguin Lover wieseltux23 squawked: > www.[censored].php?id=7358 Yes yes, we heard you the first time, and figured out it is a P.O.S. site inviting miscreants like you to SPAM. No, we won't click your silly link, you silly Swiss-person. [insert French so

Re: [gentoo-user] Confused about latest gentoo-sources

2006-03-09 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 03:52:08PM -0800, Penguin Lover jerry squawked: > Andrei Slavoiu wrote: > > >It looks like you are using a very old profile. Make > >sure /etc/make.profile points to a recent profile (for > >the x86 architecture that would be > >/usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.

Re: [gentoo-user] Confused about latest gentoo-sources

2006-03-09 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 03:24:16PM -0800, Penguin Lover jerry squawked: > I decided to go ahead and upgrade gcc-3.3.6 to 3.4.5. I am following the > gentoo linux gcc upgrade guide carefully. I have already completed the > emerge -e system, and will start emerge -e world. > > backup jerry # equer

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache security tips

2006-03-10 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 08:59:09PM -0500, Penguin Lover Jim squawked: > I was wondering if anyone has some easy to do tips for checking the > security of Apache. I am running Apache/2.0.55. Is apache good with > handling bad URL's? I remember with an IIS server I use to have I > needed to instal

Re: [gentoo-user] # users gives strange results

2006-03-20 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 04:51:31AM +0100, Matthias Langer wrote: > Recently i've got a power failure while one of my gentoo boxes was up > and running. Since then, the users command seems not to work correctly > anymore, as it claims for users to be logged in that almost certainly > aren't and don'

Re: [gentoo-user] system with no network needs updates

2005-04-07 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 05:09:13PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 10:46:53 -0700 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | cat links.txt | sort | uniq | xargs -n 1 -i{} sh -c 'for i in {}; do > | wget -c $i && break; done' > > Only if you want a "useless use of cat" award :) Just t

Re: [gentoo-user] CPU0: Temperature above threshold

2005-04-07 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 08:16:23PM +0200, Richard Fish wrote: > The best choice is a small desk fan to blow air over your laptop while > compiling. No, I'm not kidding. But it is not very portable. > > Another good choice is laptop-specific cooler that blows air on the > bottom of your laptop.

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI drivers

2005-04-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 08:03:56PM +, James wrote: > BACKGROUND: > On my portable I have this chipset: > ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 Lf [FireGL 9000], on a portable. > > emerge -s ati-drivers shows: > > OK, so the upgradde form 8.8.xxx to 8.12.10 has occurred. At the > end of the upgra

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ATI drivers

2005-04-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 10:08:02PM +, James wrote: > Well from my xorg.conf: > Driver "radeon" > VideoRam65536 > > Section "Screen" > Identifier "Screen 1" > Device "Radeon-9000-M9" > Monitor "LCDwxga" > DefaultDepth 24 > > So since I have a 250 on a 9000,

Re: [gentoo-user] ATAPI burning doesn't work

2005-04-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 10:16:11PM -0400, Phill MV wrote: > Doing cdrecord -tao --dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 /pkg.iso as root (0,0,0 being my > cdr/w drive) yields a few warnings like > my 2 cents: I usually use cdrecord -dao -v speed=24 fs=2m dev=/dev/cdrw driveropts=burnfree -data Kernel 2.6 and abo

Re: [gentoo-user] Don't read the boot CD

2005-04-19 Thread Willie Wong
I am not familiar with Windows CD burning software, but there should be an option for you to Open an ISO file. Sometimes it is called Open a disc Image, or something similar. What you have done is, instead of burning the iso as a raw data, making a CD of the iso. You want to think of the iso as a

Re: [gentoo-user] abit AI7 - acpi, ht

2005-04-20 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 09:37:19PM -0400, Cosmin Nicolaescu wrote: > On Wed, April 20, 2005 8:29 pm, Roy O. Wright said: > > On my GigaByte MB, HT is enabled via BIOS. You might want to poke > > around there... > > > > HTH, > > Roy > > > That's what I expected too, but there's no option and/or j

Re: [gentoo-user] abit AI7 - acpi, ht

2005-04-20 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 11:45:16PM -0400, Cosmin Nicolaescu wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > The system is about a year and a bit old. > > The motherboard is new though, I just bought it a few days ago. I updated > to the latest version of the bios for the motherboa

Re: [gentoo-user] abit AI7 - acpi, ht

2005-04-21 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 09:40:50AM -0400, Cosmin Nicolaescu wrote: > OK, i'll take a look closer at my proc, but i can't really think of a good > way of finding out _exactly_ what it is... > > So then what is the 'ht' flag? > > here's the output of lshw regarding the proc, maybe it will mean more

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vi is mising from the portage

2005-04-21 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 10:34:45PM +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote: > So.. what is the secret to stopying vim from displaying text in > in invisible colours? And how can I tell it to stop messing > with the colours at all... > > I can't find anything in the man page, '-C' doesn't inhibit > colourisation

Re: [gentoo-user] Don't read the boot CD

2005-04-21 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 08:08:30PM -0400, Robert G. Hays wrote: > 2) ... Unless you are using a new version of WhinedoZZZe (I forget what > you said you had) that claims to not need defragging ( I said 'claims', > if the new ones happen to make such a claim, and I'd keep my fingers > firmly cros

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with setting up home router

2005-04-23 Thread Willie Wong
Did you follow the gentoo home router guide? I suggest you start over... with the line that says iptables -F you have LOTS of duplicate rules in your chain, and some of them doesn't make sense: you don't want ACCEPT all -- anywhereanywhere to be on the top of your INPUT chain, sinc

Re: [gentoo-user] parallel emerge operations

2005-04-23 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 08:07:02AM -0400, Eric S. Johansson wrote: > last time I checked, one could not do two or more emerges at the same > time. Which raises the question would be OK to do an emerge fetch in > one process and a straight emerge on the same set of files on a second? > The rati

Re: [gentoo-user] WARNING: /etc removed from CONFIG_PROTECT portage-2.0.51.20

2005-04-23 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 12:22:41PM +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > > portage-2.0.51.20 is in ~x86, so my warning mainly applies to those who > > run a ~x86 system. > > strangely packages.gentoo.org reports that it is not available for any > systems. > I last synced about 5 hours ago, and I also see 2.

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc-4.0.0?

2005-04-23 Thread Willie Wong
last I checked, the gcc4 ebuild isn't even hard-masked yet... it exists, but that's about it. Don't know if the "gentoo-user" list is the best place to ask this question at this moment. OTOH, searching around on the gentoo forums, it seems that some people are adventurous enough. Some problems the

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with setting up home router

2005-04-24 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 11:52:14AM +0600, askar ... wrote: > > I suspect, since you are doing routing, that you have multiple > > interfaces. In that case, it would make much more sense to post > > > > iptables -L -v > > > > so we can see which interface the rules applies to. > > > I followed

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with setting up home router

2005-04-24 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 01:10:51PM +0600, askar ... wrote: > At present. my 2 PCs can talk to each others. > WinPC can resolve hostnames by nslookup, but can use internet. > > askar > seriously. post your iptables -L -v , not just iptables -L We need to see the interface information. DHCP is obv

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc-4.0.0?

2005-04-24 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 11:30:45AM -0400, Jerry McBride wrote: > Is gcc-3.4.3-20050110-r2 the favored release of 3.4.3? Don't know about "favored". It's the one I use =) So far it hasn't failed me... W -- * Address: 45 Spelman

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with setting up home router

2005-04-24 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 11:16:23PM +0600, askar ... wrote: > Here is my iptables -L -v result: > bash-2.05b# iptables -L -v > Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT 2798K packets, 4013M bytes) > pkts bytes target prot opt in out source > destination > 0 0 REJECT udp --

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with setting up home router

2005-04-24 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 11:16:23PM +0600, askar ... wrote: > Here is my iptables -L -v result: > bash-2.05b# iptables -L -v > Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT 2798K packets, 4013M bytes) > pkts bytes target prot opt in out source > destination > 0 0 REJECT udp --

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