Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help

2007-01-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 16:05:31 -0800, Grant wrote: The same way you copied it from the laptop in the first place: boot from a live CD and copy it with rsync or that tar+ssh hack. The problem with booting into the LiveCD is I can't get on the network. I don't have a crossover cable to

Re: [gentoo-user] net.eth0 net.eth1 net.eth2 persist in trying to come up even though not in any run level.

2007-01-28 Thread Patrice Bouvard
Le Sun, 28 Jan 2007 00:51:57 -0500, James Lockie [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Richard Watson wrote: Hi, I recently upgraded my system with emerge -uDN world. Afterwards I found that net.eth0 was grabbing my firewire port (ieee1394) and I needed to create net.eth2 for my NIC as net.eth1

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome, KDE applications and diacritical characters

2007-01-28 Thread Jan Stępień
Albert Hopkins napisał(a): Disclaimer: I don't (often) use KDE... But there is a Settings://Accessibility/Regional Languages option (or similiar). Have you using that and setting it to Polish? Can't find it in Gnome. Isn't it a KDE option? ... also might want to check your $LANG and

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome, KDE applications and diacritical characters

2007-01-28 Thread Jan Stępień
Bo Ørsted Andresen napisał(a): http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/guide-localization.xml#doc_chap3 Thanks, but I've followed these instructions already when was installing my Gentoo. # locale -a C pl_PL POSIX # locale LANG=pl_PL LC_CTYPE=pl_PL LC_NUMERIC=pl_PL LC_TIME=pl_PL LC_COLLATE=pl_PL

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome, KDE applications and diacritical characters

2007-01-28 Thread Jan Stępień
Benno Schulenberg napisał(a): Jan Stępień wrote: In my USE flag unicode is disabled. I'm using ISO-8859-2 encoding. Why not use Unicode? The mail you sent uses UTF-8, why not use that everywhere? When posting to international groups I try to use to use UTF-8 to make it accessible for

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome, KDE applications and diacritical characters

2007-01-28 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Sunday 28 January 2007 15:10:15 Jan Stępień wrote: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/guide-localization.xml#doc_chap3 Thanks, but I've followed these instructions already when was installing my Gentoo. [SNIP] I guess I can assume that `locale-gen` doesn't report any errors then. So maybe you

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome, KDE applications and diacritical characters

2007-01-28 Thread Mick
On Sunday 28 January 2007 14:14, Jan Stępień wrote: Benno Schulenberg napisał(a): Jan Stępień wrote: In my USE flag unicode is disabled. I'm using ISO-8859-2 encoding. Why not use Unicode? The mail you sent uses UTF-8, why not use that everywhere? When posting to international

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome, KDE applications and diacritical characters

2007-01-28 Thread Jan Stępień
Mick napisał(a): On Sunday 28 January 2007 14:14, Jan Stępień wrote: When posting to international groups I try to use to use UTF-8 to make it accessible for everyone. However, over here in Poland most of my friends and colleagues use ISO-8859-2 and it's easier for us to use the same

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help

2007-01-28 Thread Matthias Bethke
Hi Grant, on Saturday, 2007-01-27 at 09:34:47, you wrote: The thing I'm confused about is how I can get anything back to the laptop when it won't even have an OS on it. I could boot a LiveCD but I don't think I'll be able to connect to the wireless network. Hum...that's pretty much a show

[gentoo-user] udev / ppp problem

2007-01-28 Thread Mike Markowski
I have a ~x86 box that is dial up only and uses ppp. Last weekend an 'emerge -uD world' seemed to complete without issue but now I can't make a ppp connection as seen by the error attached below. I admit to not knowing my way around udev yet what I've read isn't helping with this. I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Xgl and direct rendering or 'Would you like Xorg or Xgl, sir?'

2007-01-28 Thread Jan Stępień
Albert Hopkins napisał(a): Then you probably don't want to use GDM or any other DM as they are primarily designed to manage displays that are already selected. What you want is more of a chicken-and-egg issue for a display manager. What you likely need is something to be run from the

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome, KDE applications and diacritical characters

2007-01-28 Thread Jan Stępień
Bo Ørsted Andresen napisał(a): I guess I can assume that `locale-gen` doesn't report any errors then. So maybe you need to install kde-base/kde-i18n ? I assume your LINGUAS variable does include pl? Otherwise adjust it and run `emerge -vDp --newuse world`. Yes, locale-gen outputs no errors.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE does not auto-mount my USB devices anymore

2007-01-28 Thread Dan Johansson
On Sunday 28 January 2007 00:34, Marc Redmann wrote: After the upgrade of dbus a few days ago, KDE won't mount my USB devices automatically anymore. Any suggestions where to start my search? I remember that I had to recompile kde-base/kdebase-kioslaves after hal and dbus upgrade to make

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help

2007-01-28 Thread Grant
The thing I'm confused about is how I can get anything back to the laptop when it won't even have an OS on it. I could boot a LiveCD but I don't think I'll be able to connect to the wireless network. Hum...that's pretty much a show stopper. In that case, setting up a wired network (if they

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help

2007-01-28 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 28 January 2007 19:15, Grant wrote: The thing I'm confused about is how I can get anything back to the laptop when it won't even have an OS on it. I could boot a LiveCD but I don't think I'll be able to connect to the wireless network. Hum...that's pretty much a show stopper. In

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help

2007-01-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On 1/28/07, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The thing I'm confused about is how I can get anything back to the laptop when it won't even have an OS on it. I could boot a LiveCD but I don't think I'll be able to connect to the wireless network. Hum...that's pretty much a show stopper. In

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome, KDE applications and diacritical characters

2007-01-28 Thread Michal 'vorner' Vaner
Hello, On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 05:07:26PM +0100, Jan Stępień wrote: I entered Amarok's setting window and in the Appearance tab I found an option allowing me to change the default font. Moreover the font chooser dialog allows me to check whether the font contains diacritical characters. I've

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome, KDE applications and diacritical characters

2007-01-28 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 28 January 2007 20:09, Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote: Hello, On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 05:07:26PM +0100, Jan Stępień wrote: I entered Amarok's setting window and in the Appearance tab I found an option allowing me to change the default font. Moreover the font chooser dialog allows me to

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome, KDE applications and diacritical characters

2007-01-28 Thread Michal 'vorner' Vaner
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 08:27:02PM +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: Did you try choosing the same font in kcontrol? He is using GNOME! Ups, sorry. Near hit. Then gnome-control-center? (mistaken by amarok, which is KDE) -- Security warning: Do not expose this email to direct sunlight. It may lead to

Re: [gentoo-user] USB external hard drive erratic behaviour

2007-01-28 Thread b.n.
James Lockie ha scritto: Sounds like it is not caching all writes. Search for USB Linux cache 'slow write'. Thanks for your answer. I googled for the keywords you gave me but I had no significant result. m. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Gettext won't emerge for me

2007-01-28 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
When I try my usual update command emerge -aDvu world it's trying to merge sys-devel/gettext-0.16.1 and failing. The tail end of the attempt looks like this: Making all in misc make[3]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/gettext-0.16.1/work/gettext-0.16.1/gettext-tools/misc' WARNING:

Re: [gentoo-user] Gettext won't emerge for me

2007-01-28 Thread Iván Pérez Domínguez
Well, no help there, but surprisingly I just updated emacs and gettext after it, and everything went well. I don't have /usr/share/emacs/site-list/site-gentoo, only /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-gentoo.el, btw. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Gettext won't emerge for me

2007-01-28 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 1/28/07, Iván Pérez Domínguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, no help there, but surprisingly I just updated emacs and gettext after it, and everything went well. I don't have /usr/share/emacs/site-list/site-gentoo, only /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-gentoo.el, btw. So my copy of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Gettext won't emerge for me

2007-01-28 Thread Iván Pérez Domínguez
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On 1/28/07, Iván Pérez Domínguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, no help there, but surprisingly I just updated emacs and gettext after it, and everything went well. I don't have /usr/share/emacs/site-list/site-gentoo, only /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-gentoo.el, btw.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE does not auto-mount my USB devices anymore

2007-01-28 Thread Marc Redmann
After finding http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_D-BUS_Session_Bus_with_KDM and following it automounting in KDE works again. Nice to know that there are other ways round that problem ... brgds, Marc ___ Telefonate ohne weitere

Re: [gentoo-user] udev / ppp problem

2007-01-28 Thread maxim wexler
insight... Does anyone see what it is I'm missing that causes the udevd-event[9376]: wait_for_sysfs: waiting for '/sys/class/net/ppp0/device/driver' failed error below? There's no ppp0 directory under /sys/class/net/ but I don't know what creates it. PPP can be a

Re: [gentoo-user] Xgl and direct rendering or 'Would you like Xorg or Xgl, sir?'

2007-01-28 Thread Martins
You may choose to start X or Xgl generic way using startx or startxgl scripts. Out there are some. m -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Puzzling logwatch entry

2007-01-28 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
I am using Logwatch (logwatch-7.3-r1) and lately have been getting these messages: - Kernel module scsi Begin **Unmatched Entries** SCSI subsystem initialized 625142448 512-byte hdwr sectors (320073 MB) drive cache: write back 625142448

Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles

2007-01-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 27 January 2007 18:40, Vlad Dogaru wrote: One question though: is there a reason why PORTAGE_TMPDIR does not default to /tmp? The real nature of /tmp isn't adequate for portage, that's why it uses a different one. If memory serves, the FHS defines /tmp as a temporary place to

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server and ati-drivers 'bussiness'

2007-01-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 27 January 2007 12:30, Martins wrote: I'm having the same problems. ati-drivers insists on using X.org-7.1.0.0 or earlier, obviously because the drivers were compiled against that version. I don't have the ati-drivers source code so I can't tell if there was an ABI change