Re: [gentoo-user] Scanner Epson CX5400

2005-12-18 Thread smoke3
On 12/18/05, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/17/05, smoke3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I've got a CX5400 EPSON All-in-One printer/scanner. I tried to configure sane-backends in order to get it working on my 2.6.14-gentoo (amd 64), but I think I'm doing something wrong.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] own ~/.gtkrc-2.0 for given app

2005-12-18 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
Richard, It works! Big-wide-long thanks!! :-) Andrew === On Sunday 18 December 2005 06:07, Richard Fish wrote: === On 12/17/05, Andrew Gaydenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I'd like to use own ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file for some given app. In another words, I'd like to use differnet

Re: [gentoo-user] Annoying email from dcron

2005-12-18 Thread Jonathan Wright
Michael Sullivan wrote: I was having some problems with dcron randomly shutting down. I remerged dcron this afternoon and it's running just fine except that I get this annoying email every few minutes: unable to create /var/spool/cron/crontabs/michael.new: File exists The problem is that I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A Gentoo Enema

2005-12-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 06:29:41 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what I want to do is give my computer a complete clean-out. What I really CAN'T be bothered doing is a complete format and re-install! What you've described and what others have posted sounds more compiicated and time

[gentoo-user] individual LDFLAGS per package.

2005-12-18 Thread Paweł Madej
Hello, I got a question if there is possibility to force some packages to use other LDFLAGS that are set globally in /etc/make.conf My global LDFLAGS are -z combreloc -s and there is only one package which crashes with them. It is wine. It recognizes word combreloc in that flag as a

Re: [gentoo-user] individual LDFLAGS per package.

2005-12-18 Thread Rumen Yotov
On (18/12/05 12:31), Paweł Madej wrote: Hello, I got a question if there is possibility to force some packages to use other LDFLAGS that are set globally in /etc/make.conf My global LDFLAGS are -z combreloc -s and there is only one package which crashes with them. It is wine. It

[gentoo-user] mod_php5

2005-12-18 Thread Qv6
Folks: I'm in the process of installing awf-cms - http://awf-cms.org. The install, however, requires mod_php5 which I cannot find with emerge. Has anyone actually installed mod_php5 on a gentoo system? TIA -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] mod_php5

2005-12-18 Thread Martins Steinbergs
On Sunday 18 December 2005 14:18, Qv6 wrote: Folks: I'm in the process of installing awf-cms - http://awf-cms.org. The install, however, requires mod_php5 which I cannot find with emerge. Has anyone actually installed mod_php5 on a gentoo system? TIA if I'm not wrong, build php5 with apache

Re: [gentoo-user] udevstart at boot?

2005-12-18 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Sunday 18 December 2005 00:42, a tiny voice compelled Richard Fish to write: On 12/17/05, Ernie Schroder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is /dev/dsp actually missing on startup, or just created with the wrong permissions? Apparently it has the wrong permissions, or so says the message when

Re: [gentoo-user] Two boots?

2005-12-18 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: On Sat, 17 Dec 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the first boot attempt stops near the time the clock service is run. Then the machine reboots itself, and the boot process succeeds. The same happens to me, exactly at the same point. Could it be that the

Re: [gentoo-user] Minor Startup Issue

2005-12-18 Thread Benno Schulenberg
C. Beamer wrote: Today, I updated my desktop system and recompiled a new kernel. Afterwards I re-emerged alsa-driver and ati-drivers. The update solved an issue with not being able to turn off or reboot the computer when I selected either from the menu on KDE logout. Hmm... what things did

Re: [gentoo-user] individual LDFLAGS per package.

2005-12-18 Thread Rumen Yotov
Hi, a correction here On (18/12/05 14:12), Rumen Yotov wrote: On (18/12/05 12:31), Paweł Madej wrote: Hello, I got a question if there is possibility to force some packages to use other LDFLAGS that are set globally in /etc/make.conf My global LDFLAGS are -z combreloc -s and there

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A Gentoo Enema

2005-12-18 Thread Michael Crute
On 12/18/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 06:29:41 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what I want to do is give my computer a complete clean-out. What I really CAN'T be bothered doing is a complete format and re-install! There are some major advantages to

Re: [gentoo-user] mod_php5

2005-12-18 Thread Michael Crute
On 12/18/05, Martins Steinbergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if I'm not wrong, build php5 with apache use flag and it mast be there Thats is how I build my webserver. Emerge php5 with apache2 use flag. -Mike -- Michael E. Crute Software Developer SoftGroup

Re: [gentoo-user] udevstart at boot?

2005-12-18 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Sunday 18 December 2005 08:35, a tiny voice compelled Ernie Schroder to write: On Sunday 18 December 2005 00:42, a tiny voice compelled Richard Fish to write: On 12/17/05, Ernie Schroder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is /dev/dsp actually missing on startup, or just created with the

[gentoo-user] [OT] World Of Warcraft - Works like MAGIC on Gentoo

2005-12-18 Thread Jeff
Just to let you guys know, not that it means anything special, but WoW works like a DREAM on Gentoo. Now, the bad, I've been reading up on this 'mouse pointer' problem, and damn.. it's getting the best of me. I've been Google'ing all day for a patch/fix, but the mouse thingy still eludes me.

[gentoo-user] deptree...

2005-12-18 Thread Peter Karlsson
Hello! Recently (when I upgraded to gentoo-sources-2.6.14-r5) I've been having boot problems. I think I'm having the exact same problem as: http://www.usenetlinux.com/t-324913.html ... where the user gets his /var/lib/init.d/deptree duplicated (the dependencies gets repeated twice). My

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting to kde 3.5

2005-12-18 Thread Philip Webb
051218 Holly Bostick wrote: Do *not* use ACCEPT_KEYWORDS on the command line except for an explicit 'testing' situation. Either with --pretend, to see what packages are involved, or for a single/simple unstable package you are not sure you want to keep, for which Portage's automatic downgrade

Re: [gentoo-user] udevstart at boot?

2005-12-18 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Sunday 18 December 2005 10:13, a tiny voice compelled Ernie Schroder to write: On Sunday 18 December 2005 08:35, a tiny voice compelled Ernie Schroder to write: On Sunday 18 December 2005 00:42, a tiny voice compelled Richard Fish to write: Hmm, /dev/dsp is only necessary for

Re: [gentoo-user] son of can't mount vfat part.

2005-12-18 Thread maxim wexler
--- Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: maxim wexler wrote: I created a fat32, ID 'b' partition w/fdisk. Formatted w/ mkdosfs -F 32 Please show the output of cfdisk or parted. Using /dev/hda (parted) print Disk

[gentoo-user] Re: Java install question

2005-12-18 Thread Mark Knecht
Anyone? Thanks, Mark On 12/17/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is a Java JDK a necessity? I currently have none of the Blackdown stuff installed and am using sun-jre-bin as it solves a problem with some drop down menus. However, when I emerge sun-jre-bin I get a set of

Re: [gentoo-user] Java install question

2005-12-18 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 08:56 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, Is a Java JDK a necessity? I currently have none of the Blackdown stuff installed and am using sun-jre-bin as it solves a problem with some drop down menus. However, when I emerge sun-jre-bin I get a set of messages that aren't

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting to kde 3.5

2005-12-18 Thread LostSon
Wait til Holly sees this grin No, no, Ernie, you've covered the meat of any warning I would give with relation to LostSon's suggestion, but I'll say it again: Thank you all for blasting me about how i do things. Im sorry I dont do things the perfect gentoo way you think they should be

Re: [gentoo-user] son of can't mount vfat part.

2005-12-18 Thread Holly Bostick
maxim wexler schreef: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ grep FAT /usr/src/linux/.config # CONFIG_X86_MCE_NONFATAL is not set # DOS/FAT/NT Filesystems CONFIG_FAT_FS=y CONFIG_VFAT_FS=y CONFIG_FAT_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE=437 CONFIG_FAT_DEFAULT_IOCHARSET=iso8859-1 reflex pindar # mount -t fat32 /dev/hda2

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing Specific Kernel Sources

2005-12-18 Thread Mariusz Pękala
On 2005-12-17 19:58:36 -0600 (Sat, Dec), Samir Faci wrote: is there an advantage to doing that as opposed to rm -fr /usr/src/linux-2.6.12-r10 (or whatever the dir is called)? Just curious, I always just used the rm -fr As others said, you SHOULD unmerge the unused package. Just as a note

Re: [gentoo-user] Java install question

2005-12-18 Thread Mark Knecht
On 12/18/05, Haim Ashkenazi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 08:56 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, Is a Java JDK a necessity? I currently have none of the Blackdown stuff installed and am using sun-jre-bin as it solves a problem with some drop down menus. However, when I

[gentoo-user] java vs. javascript - what's the difference?

2005-12-18 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, There is a web site that my wife wanted to use. The web address is here: http://www.smithandnoble.com/sn/photoGalleryDetail.jsp?catID=-14150 On this page, on the right, there are pictures that you are supposed to click to see a larger version to the left. This works on Windows and it

Re: [gentoo-user] java vs. javascript - what's the difference?

2005-12-18 Thread John Blinka
Mark Knecht wrote: What's 'javascript' and how do I make this work? I don't know what the difference between java javascript is either, but the web page you cited works for me using an up-to-date gentoo system and firefox. Clicking on the pictures on the right hand side does pop up

Re: [gentoo-user] java vs. javascript - what's the difference?

2005-12-18 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 18, 2005, at 11:46 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, There is a web site that my wife wanted to use. The web address is here: http://www.smithandnoble.com/sn/photoGalleryDetail.jsp?catID=-14150 On this page, on the right, there are pictures that you are supposed to click to see a larger

Re: [gentoo-user] son of can't mount vfat part.

2005-12-18 Thread Mariusz Pękala
On 2005-12-18 18:18:34 +0100 (Sun, Dec), Holly Bostick wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ grep FAT /usr/src/linux/.config # CONFIG_X86_MCE_NONFATAL is not set # DOS/FAT/NT Filesystems CONFIG_FAT_FS=y CONFIG_VFAT_FS=y CONFIG_FAT_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE=437 CONFIG_FAT_DEFAULT_IOCHARSET=iso8859-1

Re: [gentoo-user] java vs. javascript - what's the difference?

2005-12-18 Thread RNuno
On 18-12-2005 17:46, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, There is a web site that my wife wanted to use. The web address is here: http://www.smithandnoble.com/sn/photoGalleryDetail.jsp?catID=-14150 On this page, on the right, there are pictures that you are supposed to click to see a larger version

Re: [gentoo-user] java vs. javascript - what's the difference?

2005-12-18 Thread Holly Bostick
Mark Knecht schreef: What's 'javascript' and how do I make this work? JavaScript From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jump to: navigation, search JavaScript is an object-based scripting programming language based on the concept of prototypes. The language is best known for its use in

Re: [gentoo-user] java vs. javascript - what's the difference?

2005-12-18 Thread Dale
John Blinka wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: What's 'javascript' and how do I make this work? I don't know what the difference between java javascript is either, but the web page you cited works for me using an up-to-date gentoo system and firefox. Clicking on the pictures on the right hand

Re: [gentoo-user] udevstart at boot?

2005-12-18 Thread Tony Davison
On Sunday 18 December 2005 15:30, Ernie Schroder wrote: On Sunday 18 December 2005 10:13, a tiny voice compelled Ernie Schroder to write: On Sunday 18 December 2005 08:35, a tiny voice compelled Ernie Schroder to write: On Sunday 18 December 2005 00:42, a tiny voice compelled Richard

Re: [gentoo-user] inotify missing with 2.6.14-gentoo-r2

2005-12-18 Thread Daniel Drake
Yoandy Rodriguez wrote: Hello, After moving to 2.6.14-gentoo-r2 inotify device got lost. I have CONFIG_INOTIFY set to yes and /proc/filesystems shows a inotifyfs (never heard of it). any hint about what might be happening?? Inotify is now system-call based, so no device node is created.

Re: [gentoo-user] udevstart at boot?

2005-12-18 Thread Daniel Drake
Ernie Schroder wrote: I'm obviously looking in the wrong places, but I can't find documentation on getting udev to start at boot. Sound and a few other things you don't notice right away fail to work until I do: # udevstart /dev/dsp is created with correct permissions and I'm good to go. The

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge starts slowly

2005-12-18 Thread Daniel Drake
Justin Krejci wrote: Yes, the second run and subsequent runs for a period of time all seem to be fairly quick, but I thought it odd that my AMD64 system is always quick. The initial slowdown is due to portage having to scan over the entire tree of installed packages, calculating virtuals.

Re: [gentoo-user] java vs. javascript - what's the difference?

2005-12-18 Thread Mark Knecht
On 12/18/05, John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 18, 2005, at 11:46 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, There is a web site that my wife wanted to use. The web address is here: http://www.smithandnoble.com/sn/photoGalleryDetail.jsp?catID=-14150 On this page, on the right, there

Re: [gentoo-user] udevstart at boot?

2005-12-18 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Sunday 18 December 2005 14:01, a tiny voice compelled Tony Davison to write: On Sunday 18 December 2005 15:30, Ernie Schroder wrote: On Sunday 18 December 2005 10:13, a tiny voice compelled Ernie Schroder to write: On Sunday 18 December 2005 08:35, a tiny voice compelled Ernie

Re: [gentoo-user] udevstart at boot?

2005-12-18 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Sunday 18 December 2005 14:14, a tiny voice compelled Daniel Drake to write: Ernie Schroder wrote: I'm obviously looking in the wrong places, but I can't find documentation on getting udev to start at boot. Sound and a few other things you don't notice right away fail to work until I

Re: [gentoo-user] udevstart at boot?

2005-12-18 Thread Lares Moreau
On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 21:36 -0500, Ernie Schroder wrote: I'm obviously looking in the wrong places, but I can't find documentation on getting udev to start at boot. Sound and a few other things you don't notice right away fail to work until I do: # udevstart /dev/dsp is created with correct

Re: [gentoo-user] java vs. javascript - what's the difference?

2005-12-18 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 12:02:53PM -0600, Penguin Lover John Jolet squawked: javascript is, in fact, not java. typically, in the context of web sites, java is run server-side and essentially returns html for your Not quite. Java applets are mostly run client side, with possibly a

[gentoo-user] Re: A Gentoo Enema

2005-12-18 Thread reader
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There are some major advantages to not re-installing. One is that all your settings remain untouched, whereas a reinstall requires you to reconfigure everything. Neil, You're going to have to slow down on all these usefull posts. I keep lots of stuff

Re: [gentoo-user] son of can't mount vfat part.

2005-12-18 Thread maxim wexler
--- Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: maxim wexler schreef: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ grep FAT /usr/src/linux/.config # CONFIG_X86_MCE_NONFATAL is not set # DOS/FAT/NT Filesystems CONFIG_FAT_FS=y CONFIG_VFAT_FS=y CONFIG_FAT_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE=437

Re: [gentoo-user] java vs. javascript - what's the difference?

2005-12-18 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: Thanks to all who responded. I appreciate the info about javascript and suggestions. 1) I do have javascript enabled in Firefox. 2) I'm running this stuff Firefox-1.0.7-r2. I'll try updating to 1.0.7-r4 and see if it makes a difference. 3) I've tried blackdown 1.4.2-02

Re: [gentoo-user] son of can't mount vfat part.

2005-12-18 Thread maxim wexler
--- Mariusz Pêkala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2005-12-18 18:18:34 +0100 (Sun, Dec), Holly Bostick wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ grep FAT /usr/src/linux/.config # CONFIG_X86_MCE_NONFATAL is not set # DOS/FAT/NT Filesystems CONFIG_FAT_FS=y CONFIG_VFAT_FS=y

Re: [gentoo-user] son of can't mount vfat part.

2005-12-18 Thread Dale
maxim wexler wrote: --- Mariusz Pêkala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2005-12-18 18:18:34 +0100 (Sun, Dec), Holly Bostick wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ grep FAT /usr/src/linux/.config # CONFIG_X86_MCE_NONFATAL is not set # DOS/FAT/NT Filesystems

Re: [gentoo-user] son of can't mount vfat part.

2005-12-18 Thread Holly Bostick
maxim wexler schreef: --- Mariusz Pêkala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would not hurt to modprobe, anyway. ;-) FATAL: Module vfat not found. naturally Maybe it would be worthwhile to recompile your kernel with vfat *as* a module, to see what the effect of modprobing and mounting

[gentoo-user] Cups/Sane and The Brother MFC-7420

2005-12-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
I recently bought a Brother MFC-7420 and I'm trying to get it to work with my gentoo linux system. Brother provides a lpr driver, a sane driver, and a cupswrapper driver, none of which I can get to work. I have successfully converted the provided .deb / .rpm packages to tar.gz and extracted

Re: [gentoo-user] son of can't mount vfat part[SOLVED].

2005-12-18 Thread maxim wexler
crow eaten Mariusz was on the right track when he asked if it was right kernel. Turns out I had copied the kernel to /boot as itself(bzImage) and not as vmlinuz as per usual. So the older one was still active /crow eaten A stupid mistake, but ironically, one that greatly increased my linux lore

Re: [gentoo-user] Java install question

2005-12-18 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 09:36 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: On 12/18/05, Haim Ashkenazi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 08:56 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, Is a Java JDK a necessity? I currently have none of the Blackdown stuff installed and am using sun-jre-bin as it

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting to kde 3.5

2005-12-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 10:27:50 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: I consider 'world' an unsatisfactory feature of Gentoo never use it except for 'emerge -Dup world' to get an ordering for updates before emerging some of them individually in a weekly session. No wonder you find world unsatisfactory.

Re: [gentoo-user] Cups/Sane and The Brother MFC-7420

2005-12-18 Thread Lares Moreau
Did you try emergeing foomatic-db w/ USE=ppds ? there are a bunch of Brother ppds in there. On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 16:08 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: I recently bought a Brother MFC-7420 and I'm trying to get it to work with my gentoo linux system. Brother provides a lpr driver, a

Re: [gentoo-user] java vs. javascript - what's the difference?

2005-12-18 Thread Maxime Robert-Schreyers
Willie Wong wrote: On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 12:02:53PM -0600, Penguin Lover John Jolet squawked: _javascript_ is, in fact, not java. typically, in the context of web sites, java is run server-side and essentially returns html for your Not quite. Java applets are

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting to kde 3.5

2005-12-18 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/18/05, LostSon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you all for blasting me about how i do things. It wasn't my intention to blast you, and I'm sorry if you took it that way. There is nothing wrong with the way you are doing things, but I doubt that most users here are so controlling about

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting to kde 3.5

2005-12-18 Thread Nick Rout
On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 11:13:54 -0600 LostSon wrote: Wait til Holly sees this grin No, no, Ernie, you've covered the meat of any warning I would give with relation to LostSon's suggestion, but I'll say it again: Thank you all for blasting me about how i do things. Im sorry I dont do

Re: [gentoo-user] udevstart at boot?

2005-12-18 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/18/05, Ernie Schroder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What are the permissions that it is being created with? (Do ls -l /dev/dsp from a console after startup without logging into KDE). (loged into kde but I have not done # udevstart as of yet): lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Dec 18 03:45

Re: [gentoo-user] Java install question

2005-12-18 Thread Petteri Räty
Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, Is a Java JDK a necessity? I currently have none of the Blackdown stuff installed and am using sun-jre-bin as it solves a problem with some drop down menus. However, when I emerge sun-jre-bin I get a set of messages that aren't comforting:

Re: [gentoo-user] Java install question

2005-12-18 Thread Mark Knecht
On 12/18/05, Petteri Räty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, Is a Java JDK a necessity? I currently have none of the Blackdown stuff installed and am using sun-jre-bin as it solves a problem with some drop down menus. However, when I emerge sun-jre-bin I get a set of

Re: [gentoo-user] udevstart at boot?

2005-12-18 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/18/05, Ernie Schroder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 18 December 2005 10:13, a tiny voice compelled Ernie Schroder to write: On Sunday 18 December 2005 08:35, a tiny voice compelled Ernie Schroder to write: On Sunday 18 December 2005 00:42, a tiny voice compelled Richard Fish

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing Specific Kernel Sources

2005-12-18 Thread Myk Taylor
Mariusz Pękala wrote: Additionally emerge unmerge leaves the remnants of compilation process, so you still have to do rm -r on the sources. I've always liked to keep /usr as read-only as possible. I set a few variables in /etc/make.conf that (I find) make everything a little more

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting to kde 3.5

2005-12-18 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Sunday 18 December 2005 12:13, a tiny voice compelled LostSon to write: Wait til Holly sees this grin I made that comment because I had used ACCEPT_KEYWORDS on the command line as you did and I got the same stern lecture that I expected Holly would give you. I went on to say that unless

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting to kde 3.5

2005-12-18 Thread Petteri Räty
Holly Bostick wrote: It's not like the world is going to end if you don't have KDE 3.5 /today/ as opposed to two weeks from today (probably sooner, since KDE is a high-demand package, and people will start to b**ch if it's not stable some specified time after the well-known upstream release

[gentoo-user] Remore control of current desktop

2005-12-18 Thread Daniel D Jones
Is there a utility that will allow you to take control of the current Linux desktop from a remote machine? This is the way VNC works in windows. Open VNC on a remote machine and you see the exact same thing you see on the local monitor, including any running programs. Under Linux, however,

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing Specific Kernel Sources

2005-12-18 Thread C. Beamer
Thanks, Myk Taylor wrote: emerge -C gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r10 or emerge -C =gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r10 -C is short for --unmerge This did what I wanted it to do. I had the command right, I was just using the wrong name - I used linux-sources. What can I say ... I'm still learning! :-)

[gentoo-user] Make changes to routing table permanent

2005-12-18 Thread Daniel D Jones
Every time I reboot my system, it comes up with the wrong default route. I use the route command to delete the old default route and add the new one. When I reboot, it comes back up with the wrong default route again. How do I make the change permanent? Or what could be cause it to reset?

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting to kde 3.5

2005-12-18 Thread Dale
Ernie Schroder wrote: Thank you all for blasting me about how i do things. Im sorry I dont do things the perfect gentoo way you think they should be done. however I feel when KDE releases a new version to the mirrors it is time to install it. I have had discussions about the whole Deep world

Re: [gentoo-user] Remore control of current desktop

2005-12-18 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/18/05, Daniel D Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need. Are there, perhaps, any VNC app which offers this feature under Linux? x11-misc/x11vnc should do what you want. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting to kde 3.5

2005-12-18 Thread Philip Webb
051218 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 10:27:50 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: I consider 'world' an unsatisfactory feature of Gentoo never use it except for 'emerge -Dup world' to get an ordering for updates before emerging some of them individually in a weekly session. No wonder you

Re: [gentoo-user] Minor Startup Issue

2005-12-18 Thread C. Beamer
Richard Fish wrote: On 12/17/05, C. Beamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Up until now, when the computer boots and goes through its startup routine, the screen will blip and then the text that is scrolling by on the screen prior to starting the gui interface, reduces in size. Now, the

Re: [gentoo-user] Make changes to routing table permanent

2005-12-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 18 December 2005 18:49, Daniel D Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Make changes to routing table permanent': Every time I reboot my system, it comes up with the wrong default route. I use the route command to delete the old default route and add the new one. When I

Re: [gentoo-user] Make changes to routing table permanent

2005-12-18 Thread Ben
On Monday 19 December 2005 00:49, Daniel D Jones wrote: Every time I reboot my system, it comes up with the wrong default route. I use the route command to delete the old default route and add the new one. When I reboot, it comes back up with the wrong default route again. How do I make the

Re: [gentoo-user] Make changes to routing table permanent

2005-12-18 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 19:49 -0500, Daniel D Jones wrote: Every time I reboot my system, it comes up with the wrong default route. I use the route command to delete the old default route and add the new one. When I reboot, it comes back up with the wrong default route again. How do I

Re: [gentoo-user] Remore control of current desktop

2005-12-18 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 19:46 -0500, Daniel D Jones wrote: Is there a utility that will allow you to take control of the current Linux desktop from a remote machine? This is the way VNC works in windows. Open VNC on a remote machine and you see the exact same thing you see on the local

Re: [gentoo-user] udevstart at boot?

2005-12-18 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Sunday 18 December 2005 18:54, a tiny voice compelled Richard Fish to write: On 12/18/05, Ernie Schroder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What are the permissions that it is being created with? (Do ls -l /dev/dsp from a console after startup without logging into KDE). (loged into kde but

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting to kde 3.5

2005-12-18 Thread Holly Bostick
Philip Webb schreef: 051218 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 10:27:50 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: Otherwise, I keep a list of all the packages I have installed -- something Gentoo should provide automatically, but 'world' doesn't, Yes it does. world provides a list of all

Re: [gentoo-user] Java install question

2005-12-18 Thread Holly Bostick
Mark Knecht schreef: Do anyone know what was meant by the final comment? I've copied it here for ease of discussion. How do I set the Java VM to the JDK? Why is this recommended? 1) java-config. 2) because you won't then get the errors you reported at the beginning of this thread :-) . At

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting to kde 3.5

2005-12-18 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Sunday 18 December 2005 21:20, a tiny voice compelled Holly Bostick to write: That's how Portage works. Sorry you don't like it, but claiming that correct instructions on the working of the distribution's tools is just our blinkered opinion about how one is supposed to do it everyone

Re: [gentoo-user] Mixing amd64 and x86 libraries

2005-12-18 Thread W.Kenworthy
Build ncurses manually (ebuild [package] unpack compile install). Using ldd, find what libs the application needs, locate them in the ncurses install directory and copy them somewhere handy. Use LD_PRELOAD=/path/to/lib/libname application to preload the required library before running your

Re: [gentoo-user] Java install question

2005-12-18 Thread Mark Knecht
On 12/18/05, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht schreef: Do anyone know what was meant by the final comment? I've copied it here for ease of discussion. How do I set the Java VM to the JDK? Why is this recommended? 1) java-config. OK. Thanks Holly. But if I'm going to

Re: [gentoo-user] Java install question

2005-12-18 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 18, 2005, at 8:58 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On 12/18/05, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht schreef: Do anyone know what was meant by the final comment? I've copied it here for ease of discussion. How do I set the Java VM to the JDK? Why is this recommended? 1)

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need help correcting my DNS configuration

2005-12-18 Thread Jonathan Nichols
It's a local setup. I don't even know if my ISP will allow me to run a public DNS server. My last ISP didn't. This is purely intra-espersunited.com so that when the cable Internet goes out (which it frequently does) my applications which require knowing what host they're running on. They

[gentoo-user] initrd where is the docu

2005-12-18 Thread reader
Plowing thru the piles of documentation on gentoo.org looking for something that tells me where initrd's come from and how they are built. Amid the litterally thousands of hits on intrid and intitramfs that are about lilo or grub I'm not finding info that tells how and where they are created.

Re: [gentoo-user] initrd where is the docu

2005-12-18 Thread John Jolet
mkinitrd :) you shouldn't need that with a 2.6 kernel, though. On Dec 18, 2005, at 9:06 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Plowing thru the piles of documentation on gentoo.org looking for something that tells me where initrd's come from and how they are built. Amid the litterally thousands of

[gentoo-user] OT: Whats a good SIP/VoIP soft phone for linux

2005-12-18 Thread W.Kenworthy
Whats a good SIP/VoIP soft phone for linux (linphone, gnophone, SimpleH323, ...) I need something simple to set things up with the least hassle, and then perhaps something good to actually use - if they dont overlap(!) BillK -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Cntrl menu,other browser fnts (not wwwpage fnts)-firefox

2005-12-18 Thread reader
Can anyone point me to documentation that tells how to control the various non www page fonts involved in firefox? I mean like the menus or what appears in the location box. The kde system settings appear to be ignored. And the help menu and release notes appear not to talk about it at all. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting to kde 3.5

2005-12-18 Thread Nick Rout
On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 21:46:27 -0500 Ernie Schroder wrote: But as you say, enough. Holly The lady has a way with words! -- Regards, Ernie particularly for someone from the .nl domain :-/ -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: initrd where is the docu

2005-12-18 Thread reader
John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: mkinitrd :) you shouldn't need that with a 2.6 kernel, though. Is it not required for the trademark gentoo boot up with nifty graphics? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: initrd where is the docu

2005-12-18 Thread reader
John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: mkinitrd :) man mkinitrd No manual entry for mkinitrd man -k mkinitrd mkinitrd: nothing appropriate -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: initrd where is the docu

2005-12-18 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 18, 2005, at 9:36 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: mkinitrd :) you shouldn't need that with a 2.6 kernel, though. Is it not required for the trademark gentoo boot up with nifty graphics? hmm, that may be. I prefer not to bother with that mess.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: initrd where is the docu

2005-12-18 Thread Nick Rout
On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 21:36:11 -0600 reader wrote: John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: mkinitrd :) you shouldn't need that with a 2.6 kernel, though. Is it not required for the trademark gentoo boot up with nifty graphics? who cares, real men don't reboot :-) -- Nick Rout [EMAIL

[gentoo-user] Re: initrd where is the docu

2005-12-18 Thread reader
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: mkinitrd :) man mkinitrd No manual entry for mkinitrd man -k mkinitrd mkinitrd: nothing appropriate Never mind esearch mkinitrd * sys-apps/mkinitrd Latest version available: 4.2.0.3 Latest version

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: initrd where is the docu

2005-12-18 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 18, 2005, at 9:47 PM, Nick Rout wrote: On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 21:36:11 -0600 reader wrote: John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: mkinitrd :) you shouldn't need that with a 2.6 kernel, though. Is it not required for the trademark gentoo boot up with nifty graphics? who cares,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: initrd where is the docu

2005-12-18 Thread Zac Medico
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: mkinitrd :) you shouldn't need that with a 2.6 kernel, though. Is it not required for the trademark gentoo boot up with nifty graphics? The installer initramfs is created by genkernel. I use it myself to generate an

[gentoo-user] Ssomething dorked up in /etc/init.d

2005-12-18 Thread reader
I completed an emerge -v -uD --newuse world a while ago and am noticing something very wrong in the starting of services. I went thru the 50 or so new .cfg000* files and installed most of them after seeing nothing I recognized as as wrong in the diffs. I only kept ones I'd changed by hand and new

[gentoo-user] Re: Cntrl menu,other browser fnts (not wwwpage fnts)-firefox

2005-12-18 Thread reader
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Since you are using kde, I suggest emerging x11-themes/gtk-engines-qt. It will give you a kcontrol applet for changing your gtk theme and also install a theme that uses qt to render the gtk widgets. Qt will use your kde theme. Thanks, I

[gentoo-user] Re: initrd where is the docu

2005-12-18 Thread reader
Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: who cares, real men don't reboot :-) Well I did write my 6000 word thesis with only echo and cat Ok, I did slip in `ed' toward the end. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] How olong should a compile hang on stripping Image Magick

2005-12-18 Thread reader
I've run `revdep rebuild' and now re emerging image magick. The build has hung for some time now during the stripping phase. Its set on `montage' for about 15 minues now is this a full hang or can stipping really take that long? sample output: [...] strip: i686-pc-linux-gnu-strip

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Cntrl menu,other browser fnts (not wwwpage fnts)-firefox

2005-12-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 18 December 2005 23:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Re: Cntrl menu,other browser fnts (not wwwpage fnts)-firefox': Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Since you are using kde, I suggest emerging x11-themes/gtk-engines-qt. It will give you a kcontrol

Re: [gentoo-user] Cups/Sane and The Brother MFC-7420

2005-12-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 18 December 2005 17:00, Lares Moreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Cups/Sane and The Brother MFC-7420': Did you try emergeing foomatic-db w/ USE=ppds ? there are a bunch of Brother ppds in there. After I read this, I decided to just go ahead and try some of the

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