Re: [gentoo-user] firefox2.0 can't start up

2006-11-01 Thread Chuanwen Wu
2006/10/31, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:46:11 +0800, Chuanwen Wu wrote: Does this happen each time you start Firefox 2.0? There was a delay when I first ram FF2, although nothing like 10 minutes, while it checked plugins, but this only happened on the first run.

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox2.0 can't start up

2006-11-01 Thread Chuanwen Wu
Thanks for your advices! Now my firefox is OK just after the long time for my FF2's first start up! Hi, Can you run firefox with the -ProfileManager option, create a new profile and give it a try. I had tried that!But not work! It that works, it means firefox is ok, but your profile is not

Re: [gentoo-user] dma_intr errors on heavy writes -- cause for concern?

2006-11-01 Thread Richard Fish
On 10/31/06, Richard Broersma Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So my guess is that your filesystem is getting confused under load, and trying to access stuff that is beyond the end of your raid array. So, which fs and kernel version? oops, I was mistake, I forgot that when I re-arrange my disks

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem

2006-11-01 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote: Daniels advice is actually the best that you can get. It will give you the smallest chance of corruption due out of order journal commits that caching can cause. While this is true, it also may dramatically lower the mean time to failure for your disk, due to

Re: [gentoo-user] drift: cron, emerge and mail

2006-11-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 17:18:03 +0200, Daniel Iliev wrote: Let me explain what I'm trying to do. I want to automate emerge --sync emerge -DuNv world with a cron job I'm not sure automating emerge -u world is good idea. I have a cron task that does emerge --sync emerge -upvDN world | mail

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: cyrus-sasl build problem

2006-11-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 22:39:12 + (UTC), James wrote: What's the failure message? I had the latest testing version fail to build this week, because of a problem with my Java setup. Re-emerging both java-config packages fixed it. I ran this: emerge -v java-config

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] drift: cron, emerge and mail

2006-11-01 Thread Daniel Iliev
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 17:18:03 +0200, Daniel Iliev wrote: Let me explain what I'm trying to do. I want to automate emerge --sync emerge -DuNv world with a cron job I'm not sure automating emerge -u world is good idea. I have a cron task that does emerge

[gentoo-user] Span data DVD

2006-11-01 Thread reader
What tools do we have that will span DVDS when creating ISO or writing to DVD. I mean something that will prompt for more media when target data exceeds 1 DVD. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] [OT] Your alternative for Google Picasa

2006-11-01 Thread Mick
Hi All, I have been using Konqueror to create photo albums with thumbnails and all, and seamlessly publish on a server. I've had a look at Google's Picasa and the 26.2M download it requires and wondered what the wider Gentoo community are using. What would/do you use to crete an album with

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: cyrus-sasl build problem

2006-11-01 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 01 November 2006 13:07, Neil Bothwick wrote: emerge -v java-config java-config-wrapper That will only update the highest slotted java-config package [...]. Just wanted to point out that while this is true for the latest stable portage it is no longer true for the latest ~arch

RE: [gentoo-user] [OT] Your alternative for Google Picasa

2006-11-01 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
Hi All, I have been using Konqueror to create photo albums with thumbnails and all, and seamlessly publish on a server. I've had a look at Google's Picasa and the 26.2M download it requires and wondered what the wider Gentoo community are using. What would/do you use to crete an

Re: [gentoo-user] issues with equery (WAS: AIGLX responseness [...])

2006-11-01 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 01 November 2006 05:27, Iain Buchanan wrote: $ equery -N u -a xorg-server | grep aiglx\\\|xorg-server [SNIP] [ Found these USE variables for x11-base/xorg-server-1.1.1-r1 ] nothing more! # grep aiglx `portageq

[gentoo-user] aiglx vs 3d

2006-11-01 Thread oskar kapala
Hi, Another ati problem. I wanted to try some eyecandy effects. I don't like gnome so I install aiglx and beryl which are more compatible with kde. I have ati radeon xpress 200 on amd64. When I add an option Option Composite Enable to my xorg.conf my 3d accel is gone: (II) fglrx(0):

[gentoo-user] wireless on boot

2006-11-01 Thread Luigi Pinna
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hallo! How can I set on boot time my lan connection using a usb card? Some service need internet on boot (ntp-client, etc.) but I cannot find a script on /etc/init.d/ to support it. The connection uses wpa. A second question: some times the

Re: [gentoo-user] Span data DVD

2006-11-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 01 Nov 2006 07:22:32 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I mean something that will prompt for more media when target data exceeds 1 DVD. dar and kdar have options to split backups across DVD (or CD)-sized media. -- Neil Bothwick The cow is nothing but a machine which makes grass fit

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: cyrus-sasl build problem

2006-11-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 1 Nov 2006 14:54:29 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: emerge -v java-config java-config-wrapper That will only update the highest slotted java-config package [...]. Just wanted to point out that while this is true for the latest stable portage it is no longer true for the

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Your alternative for Google Picasa

2006-11-01 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 01 November 2006 14:10, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: Hi All, I have been using Konqueror to create photo albums with thumbnails and all, and seamlessly publish on a server. I've had a look at Google's Picasa and the 26.2M download it requires and wondered what the wider

Re: [gentoo-user] aiglx vs 3d

2006-11-01 Thread Andrew Frink
oskar kapala wrote: Hi, Another ati problem. I wanted to try some eyecandy effects. I don't like gnome so I install aiglx and beryl which are more compatible with kde. I have ati radeon xpress 200 on amd64. When I add an option Option Composite Enable to my xorg.conf my 3d accel is gone:

[gentoo-user] Server installation

2006-11-01 Thread meewi
Hi all, I would like install Gentoo on my hosting-server. I have full root access and running Gentoo on my desktop for more then a year now. But what or where do we find a good guide/doc for installing Gentoo from a distance when using an ssh connection. Thanks in advance, William.

Re: [gentoo-user] aiglx vs 3d

2006-11-01 Thread Jerônimo Backes
oskar kapala wrote: I have ati radeon xpress 200 on amd64. When I add an option Option Composite Enable to my xorg.conf my 3d accel is gone: I have the same hardware, and the same problem too. Not sure for ati cards, but with an nvidia one i have to add, Option GLXwithComposite 'true'

Re: [gentoo-user] Server installation

2006-11-01 Thread Isern Palaus Montasell
Hi meewi, But what or where do we find a good guide/doc for installing Gentoo from a distance when using an ssh connection. I think that it's easy. You need ssh access and a livecd (for example) to start installation like your computre. Simply i think. I the remote compture you need

Re: [gentoo-user] aiglx vs 3d

2006-11-01 Thread Robert Walter
hi AFAIK, the proprietary ati drivers don't support compositing and the xorg drivers don't support dri for r400 chipsets i.e. aiglx doesn't work for the xpress 200m :( i've read somewhere that xorg is working on dri for r300 r400 chipsets. we have to be patient. best regards robert --

Re: [gentoo-user] Server installation

2006-11-01 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 01 November 2006 17:36, meewi wrote: I would like install Gentoo on my hosting-server. I have full root access and running Gentoo on my desktop for more then a year now. But what or where do we find a good guide/doc for installing Gentoo from a distance when using an ssh

[gentoo-user] mozilla/seamonkey + imap problem

2006-11-01 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, I've got a strange problem w/ seamonkey and IMAP. It sometimes hangs for a long time. strace shows up, it endlessly stat()'s and .msf file for one of my imap mailboxes. Does anyone know where this comes from and how to get around it ? thx --

[gentoo-user] Re: cyrus-sasl build problem

2006-11-01 Thread James
Bo Ørsted Andresen bo.andresen at zlin.dk writes: On Tuesday 31 October 2006 23:39, James wrote: configure: error: `CFLAGS' has changed since the previous run: configure: former value: -O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe ^^ configure: current

[gentoo-user] crossover-office-pro problem

2006-11-01 Thread Rafael Barrera Oro
Hello! I am being forced to use Window$ Internet Explorer, and to do so, i am trying to use crossover-office-pro, but whenever i try to install it from crossover it fails without giving any other information whatsoever! any help will be greatly appreciated thanks in advance Rafael --

Re: [gentoo-user] aiglx vs 3d

2006-11-01 Thread Jason Weisberger
The composite extension is not necessary for AIGLX or XGL. Leaving it disabled is fine. Follow the directions at http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_AIGLX for more information. On 11/1/06, Robert Walter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hiAFAIK, the proprietary ati drivers don't support compositing and the xorg

Re: [gentoo-user] Server installation

2006-11-01 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 11/1/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 01 November 2006 17:36, meewi wrote: I would like install Gentoo on my hosting-server. I have full root access and running Gentoo on my desktop for more then a year now. But what or where do we find a good guide/doc for

Re: [gentoo-user] crossover-office-pro problem

2006-11-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 01 November 2006 16:00, Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: Hello! I am being forced to use Window$ Internet Explorer, and to do so, i am trying to use crossover-office-pro, but whenever i try to install it from crossover it fails without giving any other information whatsoever! any help

RE: [gentoo-user] [OT] Your alternative for Google Picasa

2006-11-01 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
On Wednesday 01 November 2006 14:10, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: Hi All, I have been using Konqueror to create photo albums with thumbnails and all, and seamlessly publish on a server. I've had a look at Google's Picasa and the 26.2M download it requires and wondered what

Re: [gentoo-user] Server installation

2006-11-01 Thread Tim Garton
I've thought about doing this sort of thing in the past and I think it would be pretty tricky if you want to do this completely remotely. (meaning not using an installation cd) This is how I thought about doing it: Resize the partitions on your current hosting server to free up enough space to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dual boot: XP installed last?

2006-11-01 Thread Mark Shields
On 10/30/06, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: If I install XP in the partition and it writes over the MBR, then, upon reboot, how do I get to grub.conf so I have the option to reboot the gentoo, then run grub setup? Run it from the live CD.Ok here's

Re: [gentoo-user] X USE flag

2006-11-01 Thread Mark Shields
On 10/31/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 09:13:17 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I let the emerge run anyway last night, took about 2 hours for 143 packages, lots of them just fonts which install quickly. So now I guess It'll have to be done again in a day or three. If

Re: [gentoo-user] Span data DVD

2006-11-01 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 01 Nov 2006 07:22:32 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I mean something that will prompt for more media when target data exceeds 1 DVD. dar and kdar have options to split backups across DVD (or CD)-sized media. What package does those

Re: [gentoo-user] dma_intr errors on heavy writes -- cause for concern?

2006-11-01 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Wednesday 01 November 2006 08:22, Alan wrote: On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 02:32:36AM +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Wednesday 01 November 2006 02:08, Richard Broersma Jr wrote: During certain times I my server under goes heavy disc writes. When this happen I get the following

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Your alternative for Google Picasa

2006-11-01 Thread Martins Steinbergs
On Wednesday 01 November 2006 15:38, Mick wrote: Hi All, I have been using Konqueror to create photo albums with thumbnails and all, and seamlessly publish on a server. I've had a look at Google's Picasa and the 26.2M download it requires and wondered what the wider Gentoo community are

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dual boot: XP installed last?

2006-11-01 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 31 October 2006 18:05, Régis Décamps wrote: On 10/30/06, james [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allan Spagnol Comar allan.comar at gmail.com writes: you just have to rerun grub setup. H, If I install XP in the partition and it writes over the MBR, then, upon reboot, how do I

Re: [gentoo-user] X USE flag

2006-11-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 1 Nov 2006 12:57:27 -0500, Mark Shields wrote: A re-emerge today brought back those same packages with the X flag profile masked. Hmm... Welcome to the world of the testing tree :) -- Neil Bothwick Cannot find REALITY.SYS. Universe halted. signature.asc Description: PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] Span data DVD

2006-11-01 Thread Dale
Peter Ruskin wrote: On Wednesday 01 November 2006 17:05, Dale wrote: What package does those come from? I can't find it here. $ eix dar [I] app-backup/dar Available versions: (0) 2.2.6 (4) ~2.3.1 Installed: 2.2.6[01:03:58

Re: [gentoo-user] X USE flag

2006-11-01 Thread Mark Shields
On 11/1/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 1 Nov 2006 12:57:27 -0500, Mark Shields wrote: A re-emerge today brought back those same packages with the X flag profile masked.Hmm...Welcome to the world of the testing tree :) --Neil BothwickCannot find REALITY.SYS. Universe halted.Ah

Re: [gentoo-user] Modular X.org issue (feelings of absolute failure)

2006-11-01 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/1/06, Rafael Barrera Oro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: pandemonium, i found out that things are way, way slower than before, is this a known effect of modular X.org? Not that I'm aware of. Can you post your /var/log/Xorg.0.log file...maybe there is some clue there. -Richard --

Re: [gentoo-user] Server installation

2006-11-01 Thread meewi
Hi Isern, First, no need to be sorry. Helping is very much more appreciated and respected. Only thing is. I have no CD-drive. The only way I can reach the server is over the net. Cheers, William. Op Wed, 01 Nov 2006 16:58:46 +0100 schreef Isern Palaus Montasell [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi meewi,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dual boot: XP installed last?

2006-11-01 Thread Eric Bohn
You can also backup and and restore the MBR using the Linux dd program available on the Gentoo LiveCD. From http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/saw27/notes/backup-hard-disk-partitions.html : dd if=/dev/hda of=backup-of-hda-mbr count=1 bs=512 This stores the first 512 bytes of the disk

Re: [gentoo-user] Server installation

2006-11-01 Thread meewi
Hi Tim, That's spot on. At least as far as I know. The reason why I want to give it a go, is that Gentoo is the only distribution so far that managed to keep on running without screwing itself up. In other words, the only stable one. For almost two years now I have Gentoo running at home, with

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Your alternative for Google Picasa

2006-11-01 Thread ellotheth rimmwen
On 11/1/06, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: are using. What would/do you use to crete an album with thumbs for publishing on a website? I've heard F-Spot[1] is good, and supposedly will export to the web in a variety of ways. All second-hand, though, haven't used it myself. (Though I probably

[gentoo-user] Re: Τι εγινε με το ADSL

2006-11-01 Thread Mick
Την επομενη βδομαδα τετοια ωρα θα απογειωνομαστε. Φτανουμε την Πεμπτη τα ξημερωματα και θα καθησουμε μεχρι την Τριτη. On Wednesday 01 November 2006 19:56, GEORGE ZERVAS wrote: Μιχαλάκη, καλό μήνα. Ελπίζω ότι σε 10 ημέρες το αργότερο θα έχω την νέα γραμμή. Θέματα γραφειοκρατίας μεταξύ των

Re: [gentoo-user] Modular X.org issue (feelings of absolute failure)

2006-11-01 Thread b.n.
Richard Fish ha scritto: On 11/1/06, Rafael Barrera Oro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: pandemonium, i found out that things are way, way slower than before, is this a known effect of modular X.org? Not that I'm aware of. Can you post your /var/log/Xorg.0.log file...maybe there is some clue there.

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey blocking mozilla and the mozilla blocking seamonkey

2006-11-01 Thread Tim Igoe
Jacob Klitmøller wrote: Hi Since Gnome 2.14 is marked stable I thought to upgrade :-) However when I try to emerge gnome I get [blocks B ] www-client/seamonkey (is blocking www-client/mozilla-1.7.13) or the other way around (mozilla blocking seamonkey) - trying to /etc

Re: [gentoo-user] X USE flag

2006-11-01 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
On Thursday 02 November 2006 01:53, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 1 Nov 2006 12:57:27 -0500, Mark Shields wrote: A re-emerge today brought back those same packages with the X flag profile masked. Hmm... Welcome to the world of the testing tree :) Testing? This is all in the stable tree!

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Your alternative for Google Picasa

2006-11-01 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 01 November 2006 21:35, ellotheth rimmwen wrote: On 11/1/06, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: are using. What would/do you use to crete an album with thumbs for publishing on a website? I've heard F-Spot[1] is good, and supposedly will export to the web in a variety of ways. All

Re: [gentoo-user] Server installation

2006-11-01 Thread Tim Garton
meewi, One other thing to be careful of is always making sure you have networking configured before each reboot to make sure the new partition/setup you boot into works correctly. It would be a bummer to get gentoo completely partitioned and setup correctly, but forget to change /etc/conf.d/net to

Re: [gentoo-user] issues with equery (WAS: AIGLX responseness [...])

2006-11-01 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 15:44 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: What is the output of: # emerge -vp1 xorg-server $ emerge -vp1 xorg-server These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.1.1-r1 USE=dri ipv6 nptl

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Your alternative for Google Picasa

2006-11-01 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 15:17 +, Mick wrote: On Wednesday 01 November 2006 14:10, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: Hi All, [snip] What would/do you use to crete an album with thumbs for publishing on a website? Mick: Ive been using Jalbum from http://www.jalbum.net [snip] Thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] issues with equery (WAS: AIGLX responseness [...])

2006-11-01 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 02 November 2006 01:01, Iain Buchanan wrote: there's an -aiglx% in there... Yes, that's the reason. /var/db/pkg overrides /usr/portage... -- Bo Andresen pgpfyIiNOIMbe.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] Bluetooth compatibility

2006-11-01 Thread Grant
I need a wireless headset to use with my softphone. My laptop doesn't have bluetooth built-in so I need a USB bluetooth adapter and bluetooth headset. Has anyone used bluetooth with Gentoo? Should I be researching both devices' Linux compatibility, or just the adapter? - Grant --

Re: [gentoo-user] Bluetooth compatibility

2006-11-01 Thread Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
On Thursday 02 November 2006 11:57, Grant wrote: I need a wireless headset to use with my softphone. My laptop doesn't have bluetooth built-in so I need a USB bluetooth adapter and bluetooth headset. Has anyone used bluetooth with Gentoo? Should I be researching both devices' Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] Bluetooth compatibility

2006-11-01 Thread Grant
I need a wireless headset to use with my softphone. My laptop doesn't have bluetooth built-in so I need a USB bluetooth adapter and bluetooth headset. Has anyone used bluetooth with Gentoo? Should I be researching both devices' Linux compatibility, or just the adapter? - Grant Most USB

Re: [gentoo-user] Server installation

2006-11-01 Thread Novensiles divi Flamen
That partition shrinking method is described here : http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Convert_A_RedHat_Server_to_Gentoo_Remotely Good luck with it! - Noven -- -- Novensiles divi Flamen -- Miles Militis Fons pgp8MutW8E2jJ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Bluetooth compatibility

2006-11-01 Thread Thomas Kear
On Thursday 02 November 2006 2:27 pm, Grant wrote: I need a wireless headset to use with my softphone. My laptop doesn't have bluetooth built-in so I need a USB bluetooth adapter and bluetooth headset. Has anyone used bluetooth with Gentoo? Should I be researching both devices' Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] Bluetooth compatibility

2006-11-01 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 17:56 -0800, Grant wrote: I'm reading now that bluetooth uses the 2.4Ghz band which is just about tapped out around here. tapped? do you mean people tap into it? It is fairly easy to tap into a bluetooth headset - the standard passwords for simple devices are usually

Re: [gentoo-user] Bluetooth compatibility

2006-11-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 02 November 2006 07:41, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 17:56 -0800, Grant wrote: I'm reading now that bluetooth uses the 2.4Ghz band which is just about tapped out around here. tapped? do you mean people tap into it? It is fairly easy to tap into a bluetooth

Re: [gentoo-user] Modular X.org issue (feelings of absolute failure)

2006-11-01 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 22:59 +, b.n. wrote: Richard Fish ha scritto: On 11/1/06, Rafael Barrera Oro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: pandemonium, i found out that things are way, way slower than before, is this a known effect of modular X.org? Not that I'm aware of. Can you post your