Re: [gentoo-user] kde kwifimanager blocked by kdenetwork

2005-05-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 4 May 2005 16:47:10 -0700, Daevid Vincent wrote: I think many moons ago, when I first installed Gentoo via the online docs, I installed kde v3.2 via some emerge kde-base/kde or something like that. If I do an esearch kde, I notice a whole lot of packages I don't have?! :( I

[gentoo-user] alternative arch?

2005-05-05 Thread
Hello? Just wish to know if there is alternative arch hardware product (non-x86 computer) that Gentoo Linux runs fine on it, also this product need to be as speedy as a typical 1GHz Pentium III, and it must not be secondhand/used product. I can find dozes of UltraSparc box that has similar

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: No sound: ALSA and software suspend2

2005-05-05 Thread YoYo Siska
Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote: YoYo Siska wrote: Try saving the mixer state when the sound is working alsactl store then start up kde, (i presume you sound stops working now), and then try alsactl restore and see whether the sound works... If this is the problem disable the mixer settings

Re: [gentoo-user] Backing up remote partitions

2005-05-05 Thread YoYo Siska
Can someone help me with this, how can I use dd over the network? eg: something like pseudo code dd if=/dev/hda | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] of=/ something like that... is it possible? it is possible, if you dont give dd on of/if argument it uses stdin/stdout (just see the man page

[gentoo-user] Why won't X work anymore

2005-05-05 Thread Richard Watson
Hi - I've just done a emerge -Dup world after emerge sync(ing) a LiveCD I bought last year. X is now complaining it won't work plus xf86cfg, XF86Setup return file not found. Presumably I'm running a different version of X (maybe..). Can anyone point me in the right direction to get this going.

[gentoo-user] Hickups in X...

2005-05-05 Thread Peter Karlsson
Hi! I'm having an annoying problem. Running X(org-6.8.2-r1) and xscreensaver(-4.21 - this also happen with previous versions). When the screen blanks the computer freezes for a brief moment (1 second) and then continues as nothing happened (how do I detect this? Xmms stops playing during

[gentoo-user] Why won't X work anymore

2005-05-05 Thread Richard Watson
Hi - I've just done a emerge -Dup world after emerge sync(ing) a LiveCD I bought last year. X is now complaining it won't work plus xf86cfg, XF86Setup return file not found. Presumably I'm running a different version of X (maybe..). Can anyone point me in the right direction to get this going.

[gentoo-user] Poor graphic support with gnome

2005-05-05 Thread Chee Ong Loh
Hi, My gnome, lastest from emerge --sync emerge gnome have poor support on art works. Themes aren't working properly. Picture content in mozilla especially png format are very awful. Thankyou -- Regards, Chee Ong -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2005-05-05 Thread YoYo Siska
Ezequiel Tolnay wrote: Hi, I have a decent desktop with gentoo, and an old and slow Pentium-266Mhz notebook, where I would like to install Gentoo. Can anyone suggest me how to use my fast processor to do the installation, perhaps mounting a drive using NFS and doing a chroot, so the

[gentoo-user] Bugday reminder

2005-05-05 Thread Bryan Oestergaard
Hi all. Just a quick reminder that saturday holds the monthly Bugday event. Interested people should join the #gentoo-bugs channel on irc.freenode.net and might also wish to take a peek at http://bugday.gentoo.org :) Regards, Bryan stergaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

[gentoo-user] Want suggestions for hardware and software for control of hydraulic system

2005-05-05 Thread Erik
Hello, I have an idea to control a hydraulic system with software. Now I would like some suggestions for hardware and software. Sorry for my bad english, but I barely know what these things mean in swedish yet. I have never done anything like this before. This is what I have: A device that can be

Re: [gentoo-user] Using the Cryptographic File System as your home directory

2005-05-05 Thread rob3
Nick Rout wrote: There clearly is interest. May I suggest the gentoo wiki as the place for this? On Wed, 04 May 2005 15:28:29 -0700 rob3 wrote: Hi all, If there is sufficient interest, I can write up detailed instructions for setting up an encrypted home directory. Unlike Windoze, since

Re: [gentoo-user] Using the Cryptographic File System as your home directory

2005-05-05 Thread marcin
Hello, I think that interesting alternative to CFS can be EncFs which is faster then CFS. Comparison between other encrypted filesystems and EncFs you can find here: http://arg0.net/users/vgough/encfs.html Of course CFS maybe more reliable (EncFs is fairly new), but I've been using EncFs for some

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-05 Thread Robert G. Hays
Kris wrote: Exactly ... but it's still has some amusement value Kristopher W. Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Cliff Rowley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 10:37 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts? Trey

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-05 Thread Robert G. Hays
Travis Rousseau wrote: On 5/3/05, Calvin Spealman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/3/05, Travis Rousseau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snipWhy not the sender's for now? Why not the recipient's for now? If the sender disables HTML, no one gets it. If the recipient disables HTML, then

Re: (OT) Re: [gentoo-user] emerge gnome looking for automake-1.7

2005-05-05 Thread Robert G. Hays
Spider wrote: On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 14:37 -0400, Robert G. Hays wrote: BOFH? Please? Probably need to knoe this one, too, methinks Thanks, rgh. - Scott Taylor - [EMAIL PROTECTED] BOFH Excuse #253: We've run out of licenses *tappeti tap* *click clicketi click* there is some documentation

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

2005-05-05 Thread Robert G. Hays
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 01 May 2005 18:30:40 -0400, Robert G. Hays wrote: nd most of the 'rest of the w-w-world' are usually in the bottom ten percent by funniest (is that a word? // It is now!), and I asked that same question recently, and Neil said that he has been using some kind of

Re: [gentoo-user] encrypt/decrypt a file(s)

2005-05-05 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Regatta wrote: Hi Is there any program that I can just right click in a file or folder in gnome and just encrypt it with password or decrypt the file or the folder ? emerge gnupg RTFM gnupg prepare scripts for tasks u like bind scripts to mouse/keyboard events in gnome HTH noro --

Re: [gentoo-user] installing big qmail server ... where to start?

2005-05-05 Thread kashani
Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: Hi all, I have to plan and setup a mail solution for about 50.000 users, here are some key features requested by our customer: - self coded webfrontend w/ webmail and administration (filter, alias etc) - 100MB quota per user - autoresponder - about 50.000 user

Re: [gentoo-user] Want suggestions for hardware and software for control of hydraulic system

2005-05-05 Thread michael
Disclosure: I work for this company: www.makingthings.com USB to wide range of digital and analog inputs and outputs. High current outputs can directly drive solenoid valves. (You don't need to, but you can use the inputs for things like limit switches, various sensors e.g. temperature, pressure,

[gentoo-user] emerging x11-libs/gtk+-2.6.4-r1 had failed.

2005-05-05 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
Hi, I am having this problem. I Already try to use fix_libtool.sh 3.3.5 and I am still having the problem ... does any one knows what I can do next ? grep: //usr/lib/gcc-lib/pentium3-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.5/libstdc++.la: No such file or directory /bin/sed: can't read

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] - BIOS after Gentoo is up

2005-05-05 Thread James
Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com writes: 2) If my machines are depending on system BIOS is there a way for me to tell what calls are being made to system BIOS, or at least understanding what parts of system BIOS Linux is using? Hello Mark, First post did not seem to make it. Here's a

[gentoo-user] HOWTO Encrypt Your Home Directory Using CFS

2005-05-05 Thread rob3
OK, I think I have an accessable draft copy of the doc at www.gentoo-wiki.com/User:Roblytle. It seems to be available anonymously, and editable. I am no wiki expert so its likely something is screwed up. I'd like it to end up in the HOWTO Security and Anonymity category, but I have no idea how

[gentoo-user] Re: emerging x11-libs/gtk+-2.6.4-r1 had failed.

2005-05-05 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Thursday 05 May 2005 20:01, Francesco Talamona wrote: On Thursday 05 May 2005 19:09, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: Hi, I am having this problem. I Already try to use fix_libtool.sh 3.3.5 and I am still having the problem ... does any one knows what I can do next ? grep:

Re: [gentoo-user] encrypt/decrypt a file(s)

2005-05-05 Thread Tom Martin
On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 05:19:22PM +0200, Norbert Kamenicky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Regatta wrote: Hi Is there any program that I can just right click in a file or folder in gnome and just encrypt it with password or decrypt the file or the folder ? emerge gnupg RTFM gnupg

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo: /usr/include/linux

2005-05-05 Thread Jan Han Xie
On Friday 06 May 2005 02:44, Kurt Guenther wrote: Does anybody know what package these headers come in? I'm having a problem emerging gnome-base. It errors out on these include files? --Kurt sys-kernel/linux-headers -- Computer Science Engineering Department, College of Computer Science,

RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo: /usr/include/linux

2005-05-05 Thread Dave Nebinger
Does anybody know what package these headers come in? I'm having a problem emerging gnome-base. It errors out on these include files? Linux-headers. Was installed when you did the initial gentoo install. You're probably having an issue with 2.4 headers vs 2.6 headers. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo: /usr/include/linux

2005-05-05 Thread Adi
Joi 05 Mai 2005 21:44, Kurt Guenther a scris: Does anybody know what package these headers come in? I'm having a problem emerging gnome-base. It errors out on these include files? --Kurt thor ~ # equery belongs /usr/include/linux [ Searching for file(s) /usr/include/linux in *... ]

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo: /usr/include/linux

2005-05-05 Thread Kurt Guenther
I've only had 2.6 installed on this system. Here's my current headers: sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.8.1-r2 (/usr/include/linux) Here's the error for emerging gnome-base: rm -f .libs/posix_interface.lo i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../../include -I../../../include/

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] - BIOS after Gentoo is up

2005-05-05 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Mark Knecht wrote: -snip- 1) After my machines are running Gentoo is system BIOS still being used in ANY way? Please assume P4/Athlon XP level machines. 2) If my machines are depending on system BIOS is there a way for me to tell what calls are being made to system BIOS, or at least

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] - BIOS after Gentoo is up

2005-05-05 Thread Mark Knecht
On 5/5/05, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Norbert Kamenicky noro at xmedia.sk writes: The purpose of BIOS is not to provide complete and excellent HW maintenance in multitasking environment, but system boot up only. Maybe there are some exceptions, but generaly if kernel is alive, u can

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] - BIOS after Gentoo is up

2005-05-05 Thread Nick Rout
I am sure there must be xbox-linux mailing lists of forums out there somewhere... However I don't know why you would need to put a different bios in. On Thu, 5 May 2005 16:34:16 -0700 Mark Knecht wrote: My main interest in this area is one that most here won't probably have much experience

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] - BIOS after Gentoo is up

2005-05-05 Thread Mark Knecht
On 5/5/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am sure there must be xbox-linux mailing lists of forums out there somewhere... There are. They are mostly full of confused people with many different agendas. It's very hard to weed out the responses that make sense. 99% of the people inhabiting

Re: [gentoo-user] Using the Cryptographic File System as your home directory

2005-05-05 Thread Jerry McBride
On Thursday 05 May 2005 09:29 am, marcin wrote: Hello, I think that interesting alternative to CFS can be EncFs which is faster then CFS. Comparison between other encrypted filesystems and EncFs you can find here: http://arg0.net/users/vgough/encfs.html Absolutely FANTASTIC... has aes too!

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging x11-libs/gtk+-2.6.4-r1 had failed.

2005-05-05 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 19:16 -0300, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: Sorry to repost this message but I am still having this problem !!! I Already try to use fix_libtool.sh 3.3.5 you mean fix_libtool_files.sh 3.3.5 ??? Otherwise I don't know what fix_libtool.sh does... and I am still having the

[gentoo-user] Moving to Xorg problem.

2005-05-05 Thread Ian K
Im on XFree86 4.3.8 or something, and I really want Xorg. Because you guys in portage merged XFree and XOrg, I would just really need to update Xorg-x11. The only problem is when I attempt so, Mozilla FireFox and Thunderbird are blocking the mandatory freetype package. What can I do?? Ian

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] - BIOS after Gentoo is up

2005-05-05 Thread Roy O. Wright
Howdy, Just did a search linux xbox bios and hit http://xbox-linux.org which sounds like exactly what you are looking for. HTH, Roy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] - BIOS after Gentoo is up

2005-05-05 Thread Mark Knecht
Been there, done that. Lots of info but none on this question. thanks, Mark On 5/5/05, Roy O. Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy, Just did a search linux xbox bios and hit http://xbox-linux.org which sounds like exactly what you are looking for. HTH, Roy --