Re: [gentoo-user] backup tool for my Windows 98 desktop?

2006-09-03 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
From: Ryan Tandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] backup tool for my Windows 98 desktop? Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2006 19:11:15 -0700 Zhang Weiwu wrote: # dd if=/dev/(win98) bs=512 | gzip -9 win98.gz dd if=/dev/(win98) bs=512 | 7z a win98.7z p7zip is the 7zip implementation of 7z for

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo failed to start

2006-09-03 Thread Nick Rout
On Sat, 2 Sep 2006 00:01:59 +0800 (CST) Stephen Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It looks to me quite funny. It seems continue endlessly. boot was symlink to . that is perfectly normal. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to active the irda into my laptop

2006-09-03 Thread Mick
On Saturday 02 September 2006 20:29, d2clon wrote: hi: This is my sequence: -- biit ~ # setserial /dev/ttyS2 uart none /dev/ttyS2: No such device or address OK, this is telling you that ttyS2 is not the correct COM port for your irda device.

[gentoo-user] Re: thunderbird + ebay rss hangs

2006-09-03 Thread Remy Blank
Enrico Weigelt wrote: I've just installed thunderbird to take a look at ebay's rss feeds. When adding an feed it always hangs while validating the feed. I found some forum postings saying that this issue had been fixed w/ 1.5.0.1, but I've installed 1.5.0.5. Can anyone help ? I'm afraid I

[gentoo-user] Errormessage from mdadm at boot

2006-09-03 Thread Dan Johansson
As dmraid is hard masked and it's future doesn't look to bright I have decided to give software raid a try (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-tipsntricks.xml). Everything works fine with one exception, when I boot the system I'm getting the following error: Starting up RAID devices

Re: [gentoo-user] Errormessage from mdadm at boot

2006-09-03 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sun, 3 Sep 2006, Dan Johansson wrote: As dmraid is hard masked and it's future doesn't look to bright I have decided to give software raid a try (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-tipsntricks.xml). Everything works fine with one exception, when I boot the system I'm getting the

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.1 profile and use flag changes

2006-09-03 Thread b.n.
Richard Fish wrote: Could you file bugs on each of these with your errors? Also, it is probably useful to try building the ~arch version of each package. It seems that some of the gcc-4.1 fixes are still in ~arch versions. Ah, the mystery of why are things marked stable... If fixes for

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing unnecessary package versions in lower slots

2006-09-03 Thread Mariusz Zalewski
Richard Fish wrote: Does media-libs/freetype appear in /var/lib/portage/world? If so, remove it (manually edit the file), as that would prevent depclean from considering it. Then re-run emerge --pretend --depclean. This is good advice, thank you. I'm just curious, if there is tool, which

Re: [gentoo-user] Errormessage from mdadm at boot

2006-09-03 Thread Dan Johansson
On Sunday 03 September 2006 12:29, Justin Piszcz wrote: On Sun, 3 Sep 2006, Dan Johansson wrote: As dmraid is hard masked and it's future doesn't look to bright I have decided to give software raid a try (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-tipsntricks.xml). Everything works fine with

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.1 profile and use flag changes

2006-09-03 Thread Mick
On Sunday 03 September 2006 12:33, b.n. wrote: By the way, I have a doubt. The 2006.1 profile migration must be done: a) before GCC/glibc upgrade b) after GCC/glibc upgrade c) whatever, it doesn't matter I would say best you follow (a). There are clearly different default USE flags which

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting Photos From A Digital Camera

2006-09-03 Thread Robin Atwood
On Sunday 03 September 2006 01:53, Dale wrote: Well, I have a Canon camera and mine will not work like that either. I use gtkam to get my pictures and it works fine. May want to try that. I did run into permission problems at first. May want to try it as root if running it as user fails.

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Dash as /bin/sh?

2006-09-03 Thread Alexander Skwar
· Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Saturday 02 September 2006 14:10, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 2 Sep 2006 04:06:15 +0200, Harm Geerts wrote: A 20% reduction in boot time is a reasonable impact IMO. Any chance that was a fluke? I ran the test several times, and switched back top

[gentoo-user] cdk compile problem

2006-09-03 Thread dirk dil
My system is an amd64 I'm trying to get my brand new digital camera to work with linux for which I need gphoto. emerging that on my system throws the following error while compiling cdk: Calculating dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 2) dev-libs/cdk-5.0.20050424 to / etc etc.

[gentoo-user] Re: Errormessage from mdadm at boot

2006-09-03 Thread Remy Blank
Dan Johansson wrote: Everything works fine with one exception, when I boot the system I'm getting the following error: Starting up RAID devices (mdadm) mdadm: No arrays found in config file (snip) Any ideas why mdadm (mdadm -As) can not find my arrays at boot time. Actually, your arrays

Re: [gentoo-user] cdk compile problem

2006-09-03 Thread Robert Cernansky
On Sun, 03 Sep 2006 16:23:17 +0200 dirk dil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My system is an amd64 I'm trying to get my brand new digital camera to work with linux for which I need gphoto. emerging that on my system throws the following error while compiling cdk: Look to the bugzilla, there are

Re: [gentoo-user] cdk compile problem

2006-09-03 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
From: Robert Cernansky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] cdk compile problem Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2006 15:28:02 +0200 On Sun, 03 Sep 2006 16:23:17 +0200 dirk dil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My system is an amd64 I'm trying to get my brand new digital camera to work with linux for

Re: [gentoo-user] smaller xfce

2006-09-03 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Ryan Tandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, You can do this yourself, if you want to: simply copy the xfce meta-ebuild to your own overlay (man portage if you aren't sure how this works), and remove or comment out the packages you don't want. Yes, of course, but then I have to maintain this

[gentoo-user] Internet can't be accessed

2006-09-03 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi folks, After the failure on installing Gentoo by running install-amd64-minimal-2006.0. I wiped out the HD and started again. This time I ran install-amd64-minimal-2006.1, the lastes version. However I encountered problem on networking, Internet access. adsl-setup is not working on this

[gentoo-user] Understanding emerge -v output: Why are some USE flags in brackets ()?

2006-09-03 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hi! I ran emerge -vp dvdrip and got: [ebuild U ] media-video/dvdrip-0.98.1 [0.97.10] USE=(-cdr%) fping%* (-gnome%*) hal%* (-minimal%) mplayer ogg (-rar%*) -subtitles -vcd% vorbis%* -xine% xvid 0 kB Why are some of those USE flags, like cdr or gnome, set in brackets, like so: (-cdr%)?

[gentoo-user] how to keep the souce for debugging under gentoo?

2006-09-03 Thread fei huang
I posted a question a while ago regarding the way of debugging /sbin/init . I managed to do it by adding -ggdb to CFLAGS temporarily (as well as the nostrip feature). however, I found the source from /usr/portage/distfiles does not match the running instance, then I realized that the running

[gentoo-user] looking for Xwindow icq client

2006-09-03 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, I'm looking for an lightweight Xwindow icq client, which does *not* require fat things like qt. licq-gtk doesn't seem to be in portage :( Any suggestions ? thx -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service -

Re: [gentoo-user] smaller xfce

2006-09-03 Thread b.n.
Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, I'm currently installing xfce and I dont need several things like calendar, print, toys, etc. Is there any chance of selecting these compontents w/o installing all packages by hand ? Using a light XFCE myself, I don't get what's the trouble in choosing just

Re: [gentoo-user] Understanding emerge -v output: Why are some USE flags in brackets ()?

2006-09-03 Thread Philip Webb
060903 Alexander Skwar wrote: I ran emerge -vp dvdrip and got: [ebuild U ] media-video/dvdrip-0.98.1 [0.97.10] \ USE=(-cdr%) fping%* (-gnome%*) hal%* (-minimal%) mplayer ogg (-rar%*) \ -subtitles -vcd% vorbis%* -xine% xvid 0 kB Why are some of those USE flags, like cdr or

Re: [gentoo-user] Understanding emerge -v output: Why are some USE flags in brackets ()?

2006-09-03 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Sunday 03 September 2006 15:27, Alexander Skwar wrote: [ebuild U ] media-video/dvdrip-0.98.1 [0.97.10] USE=(-cdr%) fping%* (-gnome%*) hal%* (-minimal%) mplayer ogg (-rar%*) -subtitles -vcd% vorbis%* -xine% xvid 0 kB Why are some of those USE flags, like cdr or gnome, set in brackets,

Re: [gentoo-user] Understanding emerge -v output: Why are some USE flags in brackets ()?

2006-09-03 Thread Rafael Fernández López
On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 11:12:18AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: 060903 Alexander Skwar wrote: I ran emerge -vp dvdrip and got: [ebuild U ] media-video/dvdrip-0.98.1 [0.97.10] \ USE=(-cdr%) fping%* (-gnome%*) hal%* (-minimal%) mplayer ogg (-rar%*) \ -subtitles -vcd% vorbis%*

[gentoo-user] ncurses seems to behave in a strange manner

2006-09-03 Thread Rafael Fernández López
Hi there, I've been wondering for a long time why is this happening, and I couldn't find a reason, so here's my question. When I sometimes use my Gentoo 2006.0 (or now 2006.1) minimal live-cd to do some tasks, I appreciate that if I enter into my root /usr/src/linux and run 'make menuconfig'

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for Xwindow icq client

2006-09-03 Thread b.n.
Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, I'm looking for an lightweight Xwindow icq client, which does *not* require fat things like qt. licq-gtk doesn't seem to be in portage :( Any suggestions ? gaim ? m. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] ppmtoy4m and mpeg2enc don't convert

2006-09-03 Thread Luigi Pinna
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! I used a script (that I copied from a howto) to prepare dvd menus. Since some months ago all worked perfeckly, but now, when I use the script I read it: Command in script: ppmtoy4m -n 250 -F 25:1 -I t -A 59:54 -L temp.ppmtemp.y4m mpeg2enc -f 8

Re: [gentoo-user] how to keep the souce for debugging under gentoo?

2006-09-03 Thread Graham Murray
fei huang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: however, I found the source from /usr/portage/distfiles does not match the running instance, then I realized that the running executable is compiled from patched or altered version of source files. Is there a way to get the matching source? if there

Re: [gentoo-user] Understanding emerge -v output: Why are some USE flags in brackets ()?

2006-09-03 Thread Devon Miller
The % means the USE flag is new sine you installed dvdrip. The parenthesis mean the flag he either been subsequently deleted, or is masked by your profile. In this case, the three flags shown (cdr, gnome, minimal, and rar) are not supported by dvdrip-0.98.1.dcmOn 9/3/06, Rafael Fernández López

Re: [gentoo-user] ncurses seems to behave in a strange manner

2006-09-03 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Rafael Fernández López wrote: But there is more: I thought that maybe it was a problem of those apps and that they weren't as polished as they should, but when I run 'make menuconfig' to update some kind of thing of my kernel, I see that all those lines that were showed smoothly with my

Re: [gentoo-user] ncurses seems to behave in a strange manner

2006-09-03 Thread Rafael Fernández López
On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 07:04:49PM +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Rafael Fernández López wrote: But there is more: I thought that maybe it was a problem of those apps and that they weren't as polished as they should, but when I run 'make menuconfig' to update some kind of thing of my

Re: [gentoo-user] cyrus-imap-admin compiling error

2006-09-03 Thread Arnau Bria
El Sat, 2 Sep 2006 19:30:23 -0700 Richard Fish dijo: On 9/2/06, Arnau Bria [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not so familiar with that... I supposed it was stable... Well, don't feel bad about that. Seems like quite a few bugs being filed today about stable packages not building with gcc-4.1,

Re: [gentoo-user] ncurses seems to behave in a strange manner

2006-09-03 Thread Rafael Fernández López
On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 07:33:18PM +0200, Rafael Fernández López wrote: On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 07:04:49PM +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Rafael Fernández López wrote: But there is more: I thought that maybe it was a problem of those apps and that they weren't as polished as they should,

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting Photos From A Digital Camera

2006-09-03 Thread Dale
Robin Atwood wrote: On Sunday 03 September 2006 01:53, Dale wrote: Well, I have a Canon camera and mine will not work like that either. I use gtkam to get my pictures and it works fine. May want to try that. I did run into permission problems at first. May want to try it as root if

[gentoo-user] Re: Understanding emerge -v output: Why are some USE flags in brackets ()?

2006-09-03 Thread Alexander Skwar
· Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sunday 03 September 2006 15:27, Alexander Skwar wrote: [ebuild U ] media-video/dvdrip-0.98.1 [0.97.10] USE=(-cdr%) fping%* (-gnome%*) hal%* (-minimal%) mplayer ogg (-rar%*) -subtitles -vcd% vorbis%* -xine% xvid 0 kB Why are some of those USE

[gentoo-user] Re: Understanding emerge -v output: Why are some USE flags in brackets ()?

2006-09-03 Thread Alexander Skwar
· Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 060903 Alexander Skwar wrote: I ran emerge -vp dvdrip and got: [ebuild U ] media-video/dvdrip-0.98.1 [0.97.10] \ USE=(-cdr%) fping%* (-gnome%*) hal%* (-minimal%) mplayer ogg (-rar%*) \ -subtitles -vcd% vorbis%* -xine% xvid 0 kB Why are some

[gentoo-user] ATI Mobility TV-OUT

2006-09-03 Thread Grant
I have a Dell Inspiron 7500 laptop with an ATI Mobility video card. It has an S-video TV-out port that I can't get working. I've read all kinds of stuff about it online, but I'm unsure which way to go. I'm using the ati driver right now but I've read that the ati-gatos driver might be better. I

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI Mobility TV-OUT

2006-09-03 Thread Janusz Bossy
On 9/3/06, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've also read that atitvout should help but it doesn't seem to be in portage and its homepage says it is no longer maintained. I had a HP-Compaq notebook with ATI mobility card and atitvout worked fine for me. Back then it was in portage and was

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting Photos From A Digital Camera

2006-09-03 Thread Adrian
On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 13:53:04 -0500 Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the words: Well, I have a Canon camera and mine will not work like that either. I use gtkam to get my pictures and it works fine. May want to try that. I did run into permission problems at first. May want to try it as root if

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI Mobility TV-OUT

2006-09-03 Thread Mark Knecht
Grant, I have some Pundit-R machines that may have a similar ATI chip. Mine is a 9100 IGP. What is in yours? On my Pundits I'm running xorg 7.0 and 8.27.10. I have S-Video working on one but not the other. I'm working on that as I write. If you think anything I have might be of use feel

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting Photos From A Digital Camera

2006-09-03 Thread Robert Cernansky
On Sun, 3 Sep 2006 13:13:51 -0700 Adrian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Digikam works as well, when run as root. What file did you need to changer permissions on in order to get yours to work? You (user) need to be in plugdev group. Robert -- Robert Cernansky E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber:

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI Mobility TV-OUT

2006-09-03 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Grant wrote: I have a Dell Inspiron 7500 laptop with an ATI Mobility video card. It has an S-video TV-out port that I can't get working. I've read all kinds of stuff about it online, but I'm unsure which way to go. I'm using the ati driver right now but I've read that the ati-gatos driver

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting Photos From A Digital Camera

2006-09-03 Thread Dale
Robert Cernansky wrote: On Sun, 3 Sep 2006 13:13:51 -0700 Adrian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Digikam works as well, when run as root. What file did you need to changer permissions on in order to get yours to work? You (user) need to be in plugdev group. Robert I had to copy

[gentoo-user] libstdc++.so.6 - another gcc upgrade problem?

2006-09-03 Thread Mick
Hi All, Three days later I am still remerging world. Now kmail won't launch: = $ kmail kmail: /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6/libstdc++.so.6: version `CXXABI_1.3.1' not found (required by /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkhtml.so.4)

[gentoo-user] ati-drivers-8.28.8 - How to get DRM support?

2006-09-03 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I've been messing with this for a couple of hours now and cannot find the right combination. I am using the most recent ati-drivers package since it seems to support TVout, at least on one of my Pundit-R machines. However since upgrading from a much older and hand patched 8.14.x driver I

Re: [gentoo-user] libstdc++.so.6 - another gcc upgrade problem?

2006-09-03 Thread Mike Williams
On Sunday 03 September 2006 22:42, Mick wrote: Three days later I am still remerging world. Now kmail won't launch: emerge -e ? = $ kmail kmail: /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6/libstdc++.so.6: version `CXXABI_1.3.1' not found (required by

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI Mobility TV-OUT

2006-09-03 Thread Grant
I have a Dell Inspiron 7500 laptop with an ATI Mobility video card. It has an S-video TV-out port that I can't get working. I've read all kinds of stuff about it online, but I'm unsure which way to go. I'm using the ati driver right now but I've read that the ati-gatos driver might be

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting Photos From A Digital Camera

2006-09-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 03 Sep 2006 12:48:01 -0500, Dale wrote: I wish I could get mine to see it as a drive. Then I could put pictures on it as well as take them off. I have read where some even put files on them too. Some cameras, including Canons, cannot be mounted as a drive, but that doesn't stop you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Errormessage from mdadm at boot

2006-09-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 03 Sep 2006 12:38:34 +0200, Remy Blank wrote: I guess you have set your raid partitions to raid autodetect, and all your partitions are detected by the kernel before the initialization scripts even start. Then, when mdadm -As is called, it doesn't find any *other* raid arrays to start

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for Xwindow icq client

2006-09-03 Thread Nico
gaim need some gnome lib no ?

[gentoo-user] Re: Buying Webcameras

2006-09-03 Thread Paulo J. Matos
Thanks a lot for the tips, I'll check those references! :-) 2006/9/2, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 01:29 +0100, Paulo J. Matos wrote: HI all, I'm searching for a laptop webcam and a desktop webcam which should work under Gentoo and preferably work well under Ekiga

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for Xwindow icq client

2006-09-03 Thread b.n.
Nico wrote: gaim need some gnome lib no ? I just checked the gaim dependencies (emerge -et gaim) and it seems not to pull anything related to gnome. It wants cairo and pango, anyway, among others. m. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for Xwindow icq client

2006-09-03 Thread Nico
so is this not the one for you ?

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting Photos From A Digital Camera

2006-09-03 Thread Nick Rout
On 10:54 am 09/04/06 Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 03 Sep 2006 12:48:01 -0500, Dale wrote: I wish I could get mine to see it as a drive. Then I could put pictures on it as well as take them off. I have read where some even put files on them too. Some cameras,

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI Mobility TV-OUT

2006-09-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On 9/3/06, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Dell Inspiron 7500 laptop with an ATI Mobility video card. It has an S-video TV-out port that I can't get working. I've read all kinds of stuff about it online, but I'm unsure which way to go. I'm using the ati driver right now but

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/make.conf: changing CHOST on same system

2006-09-03 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
From: Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/make.conf: changing CHOST on same system Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2006 11:30:55 +0200 On Saturday 02 September 2006 10:58, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: So, is it correct / necessary in my case to do the following for  

[gentoo-user] xorg 7.0

2006-09-03 Thread James
Hello, I've install an amd64 using liveCD 2006.1 routine upgrades and changing the profile to 2006.1 borked the system. Xwindows is woirking (twm) so I'm repairing the config files (also lost backups on this system). Anyway here is the question. lspci reveal this video card: ATI Radeon

[gentoo-user] OT - gdm screen resolution problem

2006-09-03 Thread Michael Sullivan
I've done some research, but haven't been able to find anything that works for my sitch. I use the themed gdm screen as my login to GNOME. The problem is that the only thing I can see on the gdm screen is the username and password boxes. I think the screen resolution is too low (possibly

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - gdm screen resolution problem

2006-09-03 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sun, 2006-09-03 at 17:07 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: I've done some research, but haven't been able to find anything that works for my sitch. I use the themed gdm screen as my login to GNOME. The problem is that the only thing I can see on the gdm screen is the username and password

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - gdm screen resolution problem

2006-09-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On 9/3/06, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've done some research, but haven't been able to find anything that works for my sitch. SNIP SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 16 EndSubSection SubSection Display

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - gdm screen resolution problem [SOLVED]

2006-09-03 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 13:42 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Sun, 2006-09-03 at 17:07 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: I've done some research, but haven't been able to find anything that works for my sitch. I use the themed gdm screen as my login to GNOME. The problem is that the only thing I

[gentoo-user] Re: libstdc++.so.6 - another gcc upgrade problem?

2006-09-03 Thread Stefan Wimmer
* Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-09-03 21:42] : Three days later I am still remerging world. Now kmail won't launch: = $ kmail kmail: /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6/libstdc++.so.6: version `CXXABI_1.3.1' not found (required by

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers-8.28.8 - How to get DRM support?

2006-09-03 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Mark Knecht wrote: With these ATI drivers what is the proper way to configure the kernel? I've tried it with kernel DRI support on and off. Is there some other setting required to make this work? Try kernel DRM off, kernel AGP as modules. I think ATI finally stopped distributing its own