[gentoo-user] gtk+ dependency problem

2006-08-07 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, I'm just installing some X applications on an headless machine and I'd like to have only the xlib client libs, no server stuff. The problem is: the non-deterministic dependencies to the X libs get resolved badly - it always wants to install the Xserver. How can stop it from doing

[gentoo-user] PCMCIA issues

2006-08-07 Thread Adam Carter
Hi All, I'm a complete pcmcia and WLAN noob, and cat get my compaq WL110 WLAN card (orinoco) working. I get this when i start the pcmcia service; absydos adam # /etc/init.d/pcmcia start* PCMCIA support detected* Starting pcmcia ...cardmgr[17282]: no sockets found!* cardmgr failed to

Re: [gentoo-user] gtk+ dependency problem

2006-08-07 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, I'm just installing some X applications on an headless machine and I'd like to have only the xlib client libs, no server stuff. The problem is: the non-deterministic dependencies to the X libs get resolved badly - it always wants to install the Xserver. Lack

[gentoo-user] KDE/kdm Session type IceWM: which file is needed ?

2006-08-07 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
Hi, I installed KDE 3.5.2. and I installed IceWM 1.2.23. When kdm is started the session type popup chooser shows me IceWM, ok. Then...Yesterday IceWM 1.2.27 was released and I wanted to see, whats new. I did a emerge -C icewm and installed the new icewm by hand (using paco). I configured

AW: [gentoo-user] gtk+ dependency problem

2006-08-07 Thread Noack, Sebastian
Hi, `emerge --nodeps` let you install packages without its dependencies, but at least the other dependencies unless xorg-server are required for compiling xlib. So you would have to run `emerge --nodeps all the dependencies which are really required libX11` Regards Sebastian Noack

Re: [gentoo-user] PCMCIA issues

2006-08-07 Thread Boris Sobolev
Using cardmgr is deprecated. You have to delete everything from your boot level and emerge pcmcia package. Udev should take care of your card. On 18:08 Mon 07 Aug , Adam Carter wrote: Hi All, I'm a complete pcmcia and WLAN noob, and cat get my compaq WL110 WLAN card (orinoco) working.

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub stanza for Windows on /dev/sda1

2006-08-07 Thread Roman Serkov
Phil Sexton wrote: Hi Listees, What would be the drive numbers that I would need to replace this: rootnoverify (hd0,0) if I have Windows installed on /dev/sda1 rather than /dev/hda1? I can't find it in the docs I have read. TIA It remains the same, no matter if sda1 or hda1, hd0 stands

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems starting x after update

2006-08-07 Thread Stewart Taylor
Richard Fish wrote: On 8/6/06, Stewart Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all I've just completed an emerge --update --deep world, all went ok until I re-started, then I could only get console mode. This is the contents of /var/log/xdm.log. Check /var/log/Xorg.0.log. Probably you have

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE/kdm Session type IceWM: which file is needed ?

2006-08-07 Thread Roman Serkov
So I am asking myself: What file and/or configuration option is missing. when I install IceWM myself ? try /usr/share/xsessions -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Mail client recommendation?

2006-08-07 Thread j . romildo
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 12:33:16PM +1200, Nick Rout wrote: [...] My recommendation is setting up an imap server and accessing your emails with whatever client comes to hand. Divorce the mbox/maildir storage choice from your client. I have several mbox mail folders with messages delivered by

[gentoo-user] Re: VHS-digital: Best application ?

2006-08-07 Thread Marco Costa
Meino Christian Cramer wrote: Hi, I want to digitize my old VHS tapes. I have a DVB-T card with analogous TV input (Bt878 based). What application is best to capture the video to my HD (200GB free)? Try: mencoder tv:// -tv

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VHS-digital: Best application ?

2006-08-07 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
From: Marco Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: VHS-digital: Best application ? Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 12:26:45 +0200 Meino Christian Cramer wrote: Hi, I want to digitize my old VHS tapes. I have a DVB-T card with analogous TV input (Bt878 based). What

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Mail client recommendation?

2006-08-07 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 12:33:16PM +1200, Nick Rout wrote: [...] My recommendation is setting up an imap server and accessing your emails with whatever client comes to hand. Divorce the mbox/maildir storage choice from your client. I have several mbox mail

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VHS-digital: Best application ?

2006-08-07 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 07 August 2006 11:26, Marco Costa wrote: Meino Christian Cramer wrote: Hi, I want to digitize my old VHS tapes. I have a DVB-T card with analogous TV input (Bt878 based). What application is best to capture the video to my HD (200GB free)? Try: mencoder tv:// -tv

Re: [gentoo-user] gtk+ dependency problem

2006-08-07 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Lack of determinism has nothing to do with it, gtk+ hard-depends on an X server to build. eh ? I've built it without any server stuff about an year ago. (vanilla, not gentoo). snip I think this is fixed in 2.10, but the ebuild does not

Re: [gentoo-user] gtk+ dependency problem

2006-08-07 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Noack, Sebastian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, `emerge --nodeps` let you install packages without its dependencies, would require me to handle dependencies manually. very bad hack. I'll better fix it. cu -- - Enrico

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Mail client recommendation?

2006-08-07 Thread Alexander Skwar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 12:33:16PM +1200, Nick Rout wrote: [...] My recommendation is setting up an imap server and accessing your emails with whatever client comes to hand. Divorce the mbox/maildir storage choice from your client. I have several mbox mail folders

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub stanza for Windows on /dev/sda1

2006-08-07 Thread Gian Domeni Calgeer
Am Montag, 7. August 2006 04:04 schrieb Phil Sexton: Hi Listees, What would be the drive numbers that I would need to replace this: rootnoverify (hd0,0) if I have Windows installed on /dev/sda1 rather than /dev/hda1? I can't find it in the docs I have read. TIA Hi Have a look at your

[gentoo-user] Disk quota and LDAP

2006-08-07 Thread Leandro Melo de Sales
Hi all, I have nsswitch + ldap enabled on my linux system. I'd like to know if it is possible to make the system get the user quota from a LDAP attribute for a respective user. Thank you, Leandro. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

AW: [gentoo-user] gtk+ dependency problem

2006-08-07 Thread Noack, Sebastian
`emerge --nodeps` let you install packages without its dependencies, would require me to handle dependencies manually. very bad hack. I would also prefer to make an overlay from the ebuild and implement a workaround, but you asked for a way without manipulating the portage three. Regards

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk quota and LDAP

2006-08-07 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 7. August 2006 15:07 schrieb ext Leandro Melo de Sales: I have nsswitch + ldap enabled on my linux system. I'd like to know if it is possible to make the system get the user quota from a LDAP attribute for a respective user. AFAIK, user quota is a per fs setting. So having it in

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Mail client recommendation?

2006-08-07 Thread John J. Foster
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 12:33:16PM +1200, Nick Rout wrote: My recommendation is setting up an imap server and accessing your emails with whatever client comes to hand. Divorce the mbox/maildir storage choice from your client. If you don't want to use your ISP's IMAP services for whatever

Re: [gentoo-user] gtk+ dependency problem

2006-08-07 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Enrico Weigelt wrote: I don't want to have an Xserver at all, so it doesn't anyting. It requires Xvfb to build and install correctly, at least up until 2.10. If you want more info, search bugzilla or ask the gnome team -- I'm sure someone else has filed a bug about this at some point.

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Mail client recommendation?

2006-08-07 Thread j . romildo
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 02:20:04PM +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I have several mbox mail folders with messages delivered by procmail. Why do you use mbox, if I may ask? I use mbox because it offers better search performance when the search is done in the

Re: [gentoo-user] gtk+ dependency problem

2006-08-07 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Enrico Weigelt wrote: I don't want to have an Xserver at all, so it doesn't anyting. It requires Xvfb to build and install correctly, at least up until 2.10. Eh ? I've always built vanilla gtk w/o any server stuff. If you want more info, search

[gentoo-user] Printing

2006-08-07 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
Good Morning All: I have installed Cups and gotten it all set up, and I can print test pages from the web interface, but I cannot seem to print from applications -- like firefox. I am not sure what to do to make it work right -- the installed printers are just not there Thanks TIM Timothy A.

Re: [gentoo-user] gtk+ dependency problem

2006-08-07 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Enrico Weigelt wrote: If you want more info, search bugzilla or ask the gnome team -- I'm sure someone else has filed a bug about this at some point. Couldn't find anything. Perhaps you've got some pointer ? No, I don't, or I would have given it to you. Instead, I told you where to look and

Re: [gentoo-user] gtk+ dependency problem

2006-08-07 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Enrico Weigelt wrote: If you want more info, search bugzilla or ask the gnome team -- I'm sure someone else has filed a bug about this at some point. Couldn't find anything. Perhaps you've got some pointer ? No, I don't, or I would have

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: world favorites: pros and cons

2006-08-07 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Jim Ramsay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Then you could do: =dev-db/mysql-4.2 This would allow any mysql-4.1.*, including 4.1.20-r1 and 4.1.99 Though you do raise a good point... it would be nice to specify a real upstream version number differently from the Gentoo interim release

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub stanza for Windows on /dev/sda1

2006-08-07 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/7/06, Gian Domeni Calgeer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have a look at your /boot/grub/device.map. ...and understand that this has no effect on the hd0, hd1 etc ordering of the BIOS. It needs to reflect the BIOS ordering, but doesn't change it. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Printing

2006-08-07 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/7/06, Timothy A. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good Morning All: I have installed Cups and gotten it all set up, and I can print test pages from the web interface, but I cannot seem to print from applications -- like firefox. I am not sure what to do to make it work right -- the

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk quota and LDAP

2006-08-07 Thread Leandro Melo de Sales
Ok... but I can't you any good reason to not have this information on ldap. 2006/8/7, Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Am Montag, 7. August 2006 15:07 schrieb ext Leandro Melo de Sales: I have nsswitch + ldap enabled on my linux system. I'd like to know if it is possible to make the

Re: [gentoo-user] Printing

2006-08-07 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 07 August 2006 16:23, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: Good Morning All: I have installed Cups and gotten it all set up, and I can print test pages from the web interface, but I cannot seem to print from applications -- like firefox. I am not sure what to do to make it work right -- the

[gentoo-user] thinkorswim stock trading platform

2006-08-07 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I don't know if anyone else out there is a stock trader but I was at a weekend options trading presentation by thinkorswim and (GASP) the support Linux! (APPLAUSE!) For this reason alone I'd really like to give them some money and start supporting them. http://www.thinkorswim.com

Re: [gentoo-user] thinkorswim stock trading platform

2006-08-07 Thread kashani
Mark Knecht wrote: basename: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory hostname: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Binary installs sometimes err on the side

Re: [gentoo-user] writable devices being mounted as read only

2006-08-07 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Monday 07 August 2006 21:49, sean wrote: Hello All, Whenever I mount my USB DVD writer or my SCSI cd-rom writer I always get the following similar message for either device, root or otherwise. mount /mnt/dvd/ mount: block device /dev/sr1 is write-protected, mounting read-only

Re: [gentoo-user] Xawtv/Scantv refuses cooperation

2006-08-07 Thread Bertram Scharpf
Hi, Am Montag, 07. Aug 2006, 10:15:31 +1200 schrieb Nick Rout: On Thu, 3 Aug 2006 20:47:24 +0200 Bertram Scharpf wrote: $ su - Password: # ls -la /dev/v4l/vbi0 crw-rw 1 root video 81, 224 1. Aug 19:50 /dev/v4l/vbi0 # mknod /tmp/myvbi c 81 224 # chmod a+rwx

Re: [gentoo-user] thinkorswim stock trading platform

2006-08-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On 8/7/06, kashani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: basename: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory hostname: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or

Re: [gentoo-user] thinkorswim stock trading platform

2006-08-07 Thread kashani
Mark Knecht wrote: Kashani, I had no plans for Linux World. Never been to one. That said it sounds like fun. Let's try to work something up off list. I'm down in Los Gatos. If other Gentoo users are nearby maybe they can drop one of us a note off list and we can make it a small party. Sounds

Re: [gentoo-user] thinkorswim stock trading platform

2006-08-07 Thread kashani
kashani wrote: and then forgot to change the To: address. Sorry about that. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] LiveCD 2006

2006-08-07 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 02 August 2006 22:28, frank wrote: Booting from the Gentoo liveCD 2006 puts my clock back for 2 hours. How did you determine that? What time zone does your system run? Did you select a time zone on the LiveCD after booting? -- Bo Andresen pgp3slexd6NX0.pgp Description: PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] thinkorswim stock trading platform

2006-08-07 Thread kashani
Mark Knecht wrote: So is this some sort of path problem? The installer expects the library to be in a certain location? Maybe a symlink from there to /lib/libc.so.6? Thanks for getting me closer, and I'll check out Linux World for dates to see when I could make it. I'd guess path issue as

Re: [gentoo-user] thinkorswim stock trading platform

2006-08-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On 8/7/06, kashani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: So is this some sort of path problem? The installer expects the library to be in a certain location? Maybe a symlink from there to /lib/libc.so.6? Thanks for getting me closer, and I'll check out Linux World for dates to see

Re: [gentoo-user] thinkorswim stock trading platform

2006-08-07 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 06:26:05PM -0700, Penguin Lover Mark Knecht squawked: strace gave me a bunch of this type of info: SNIPPED and then a bunch more like that. Maybe someone else will have some ideas when they get a chance to look at all of this. The strace output you posted

[gentoo-user] IBM Workpad Z50, which gentoo list should I write to?

2006-08-07 Thread nick thompson
Hi. I have an IBM workpad z50, and I am curious if there is a gentoo port that could possibly run on it. If not, what can I do to get one started? Also, if there is a better list to ask on, please let me know. Nick All unix, all the time. http://npt.ath.cx -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] IBM Workpad Z50, which gentoo list should I write to?

2006-08-07 Thread Michael Crute
On 8/7/06, nick thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I have an IBM workpad z50, and I am curious if there is a gentoo port that could possibly run on it. If not, what can I do to get one started? Also, if there is a better list to ask on, please let me know. You may want to ask the question

Re: [gentoo-user] Printing

2006-08-07 Thread Collins Richey
On 8/7/06, Timothy A. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good Morning All: I have installed Cups and gotten it all set up, and I can print test pages from the web interface, but I cannot seem to print from applications -- like firefox. I am not sure what to do to make it work right -- the

Re: [gentoo-user] thinkorswim stock trading platform

2006-08-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On 8/7/06, Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 06:26:05PM -0700, Penguin Lover Mark Knecht squawked: strace gave me a bunch of this type of info: SNIPPED and then a bunch more like that. Maybe someone else will have some ideas when they get a chance to look at

[gentoo-user] cdk: BUILD ERROR

2006-08-07 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
Hi, this morning I got this while emergeing cdk: i386-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -shared -nostdlib /usr/lib/gcc/i386-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.4/../ ../../crti.o /usr/lib/gcc/i386-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.4/crtbeginS.o .libs/dscale.o .l ibs/fscale.o .libs/fslider.o .libs/scale.o .libs/slider.o .libs/uscale.o .libs/u