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

2007-01-31 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 30 January 2007 16:06, Uwe Thiem wrote: On 30 January 2007 15:52, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 30 January 2007 15:22, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: Anyway if you know how to do that you certainly know how to avoid that /tmp gets wiped during reboot too (which it doesn't

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

2007-01-31 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 30 January 2007 18:26, Anthony E. Caudel wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: snip And OOo only takes 5½ hours to compile.. :p Not on my 1GHz G4 iBook, for which there are no binary packages available. It takes around 15 hours :( So when are the Openoffice people going to break it

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging php with mysql and recode support

2007-01-31 Thread Heinz Hombergs
Am Mittwoch, 31. Januar 2007 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: File a bug, and be prepared with a patch -- cause there's probably a good reason they are considered conflicting. There are some more useflags that are conflicting with recode. I can rember that yaz is one of them. And I thing iconv

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging php with mysql and recode support

2007-01-31 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 31 January 2007 11:49:33 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: * USE flag 'recode' conflicts with these USE flag(s): *    mysql What shall I do if I need both mysql and recode support in php? File a bug, and be prepared with a patch -- cause there's probably a good reason they are

[gentoo-user] Dodgy hardware?!?!

2007-01-31 Thread Dave Oxley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have a MythTV frontend running Gentoo on an AMD 64bit with an Nvidia 6600 graphics card. I have had no end of problems with the graphics card (Xid errors). It crashes with a white line across the screen regularly when 3d goom is up when I'm

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

2007-01-31 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 31 January 2007 13:22:36 Uwe Thiem wrote: KDE is in so far better as it doesn't forbit parallel compiling - as OO does. So I can use distcc and let all my boxes contribute. That brings the compile time of KDE down a lot. Unfortunately, that isn't possible with OO. Actually it

Re: [gentoo-user] Dodgy hardware?!?!

2007-01-31 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 31 January 2007 14:27, Dave Oxley wrote: Hi, I have a MythTV frontend running Gentoo on an AMD 64bit with an Nvidia 6600 graphics card. I have had no end of problems with the graphics card (Xid errors). It crashes with a white line across the screen regularly when 3d goom is up

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

2007-01-31 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 31 January 2007 14:22, Uwe Thiem wrote: On 31 January 2007 13:02, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 30 January 2007 16:06, Uwe Thiem wrote: What are the specs of your box? Dell Latitude D810 2GHz Centrino 2GB Ram 80G SATA 2.6.19-suspend2-r1 Odd. My 2.8GHz Pentium 4

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

2007-01-31 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 31 January 2007 14:34, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Wednesday 31 January 2007 13:22:36 Uwe Thiem wrote: KDE is in so far better as it doesn't forbit parallel compiling - as OO does. So I can use distcc and let all my boxes contribute. That brings the compile time of KDE down a

[gentoo-user] OT Window Maker Site

2007-01-31 Thread Sean
Some others here must use Window Maker. Anyone able to access their site, something else going with them, do they still exist? Thanks Sean -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2007-01-31 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 30 January 2007 18:26, Anthony E. Caudel wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: snip And OOo only takes 5½ hours to compile.. :p Not on my 1GHz G4 iBook, for which there are no binary packages available. It takes around 15 hours :( So when are the Openoffice people

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

2007-01-31 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 31 January 2007, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: Furthermore Pentium 4 is a joke (it performs horribly). A 2 GHz (Dothan I presume) Pentium-M should be faster than a 2,8 GHz Pentium 4. My timing is for an 1,6 GHz (Banias) Pentium-M btw. This sounds odd, but I'm not a cpu expert so can't

Re: [gentoo-user] network scanning with gentoo / hplip / hpaio

2007-01-31 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:31:51 +0100 Luigi Pinna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] The second problem is that the HP officejet 7310 at location 192.168.1.50 is not found I had the same problem with hp-setup, can you print? I can using cups. Printing works fine (via cups). (The above words are

Re: [gentoo-user] 2006.1 livecd amd64 and rtl8111/8168B network card

2007-01-31 Thread Marco Calviani
Ok, i've solved all the issues installing from the small-gentoo amd64 r6 ISO cd it contains a bleeding edge 2.6.20 rc(something) kernel (useful also if one has issues with the JMicron PATA controller) cheers, m On 1/30/07, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 22:08:20

Re: [gentoo-user] Monolingual Dictionary

2007-01-31 Thread Jakob Buchgraber
Willie Wong wrote: On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 09:04:51PM +0100, Penguin Lover Jakob Buchgraber squawked: Is there any excellent monolingual dictionary available for (Gentoo) Linux? What do you mean by monoligual? (English to English? or other languages?) Anycase, I have on my desktop

Re: [gentoo-user] Licenses

2007-01-31 Thread Peter Lewis
Hi there folks... I'm new to the list, so thought I'd say hello. On 00:54 Wed 17 Jan , Fredrik Tolf wrote: Btw., shouldn't portage have some kind of flag to at least warn if a proprietary package is being pulled in through dependencies? I just discovered that I have realplayer installed,

[gentoo-user] System reporting information

2007-01-31 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Sorry that the subject is not very informative. I seem to remember some time back some discussion about a script or program that would examine a gentoo system and create a report on packages installed, make.conf contents, and other relevant information that might be of help to the devs. No

Re: [gentoo-user] Monolingual Dictionary

2007-01-31 Thread Philip Webb
070131 Jakob Buchgraber wrote: Is there any monolingual dictionary available for (Gentoo) Linux? I am looking for an English to English dictionary. Firefox offers the on-line Merriam-Webster by default (under Google box): it's quite good with various senses their etymologies etc. I also have a

Re: [gentoo-user] System reporting information

2007-01-31 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 31 January 2007 11:45, Anthony E. Caudel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] System reporting information': I seem to remember some time back some discussion about a script or program that would examine a gentoo system and create a report on packages installed, make.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] Licenses

2007-01-31 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 31 January 2007 11:14, Peter Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Licenses': On 00:54 Wed 17 Jan , Fredrik Tolf wrote: Btw., shouldn't portage have some kind of flag to at least warn if a proprietary package is being pulled in through dependencies? Have

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

2007-01-31 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 31 January 2007 09:58, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles': On Wednesday 31 January 2007, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: Furthermore Pentium 4 is a joke (it performs horribly). A 2 GHz (Dothan I presume) Pentium-M should

Re: [gentoo-user] OT Window Maker Site

2007-01-31 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 31 January 2007 16:55, Sean wrote: Some others here must use Window Maker. Anyone able to access their site, something else going with them, do they still exist? Drunk ... coffee. Horse addled. Shoes? Uwe -- A fast and easy generator of fractals for KDE:

[gentoo-user] mediamanager tries to open wrong path

2007-01-31 Thread Gerhard Hoogterp
Hi, I try to install udev/hal/pmount in such a way that my usb devices are automounted. But not with a changable name in the media folder, but with a fixed name like /mnt/camera (or /media/camera.. whatever. As long as it's the same every time..) At this moment most things work, but when I

Re: [gentoo-user] mediamanager tries to open wrong path

2007-01-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 21:31:03 +0100, Gerhard Hoogterp wrote: So adding a line to the fstab file just screws up the system as it seems. Removing it leaves me with changable names in the media folder (/media/disk, media/disk-1, depending on what's happening.. Adding a line in fstab overrides

Re: [gentoo-user] mediamanager tries to open wrong path

2007-01-31 Thread Gerhard Hoogterp
On Wednesday 31 January 2007 22:09, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 21:31:03 +0100, Gerhard Hoogterp wrote: So adding a line to the fstab file just screws up the system as it seems. Removing it leaves me with changable names in the media folder (/media/disk, media/disk-1,

Re: [gentoo-user] Easy dialup for unprivileged user

2007-01-31 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Mark Kirkwood wrote: I'm looking at setting up a Gentoo box for my mother to use. One thing I'd like some input on is the business of dialing up. The constraints are that she must be able to dial up as an unprivileged user, and it must be easy (She will be migrating from an old imac running

Re: [gentoo-user] mediamanager tries to open wrong path

2007-01-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 22:21:51 +0100, Gerhard Hoogterp wrote: You need to set up udev rules to have persistent naming for your devices, then KDE will use this to name the mount point. See http://www.reactivated.net/udevrules.php Done too. udev creates a nice /dev/minolta which I would

[gentoo-user] Portage Error

2007-01-31 Thread Patrick Holthaus
Hello everybody! This is my first post to the mailing list. So please forgive me if i am doing something wrong... I have a serious issue with portage because my hard disk (file system) has been damaged. Now i am unable to detect wether the problem is caused by portage or not. However if i try to

Re: [gentoo-user] mediamanager tries to open wrong path

2007-01-31 Thread Gerhard Hoogterp
pmount.allow only specifies which devices may be automounted. When mounting, pmount gets the name from either the disk's volume name or the device. Does your camera use a removable memory card? If so, try putting it in a card reader and setting the volume name with mkdosfs or mtools. My

Re: [gentoo-user] IPtables question

2007-01-31 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 31 January 2007 20:56, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 15:36 -0500, James Colby wrote: List members - I have a small home server that I have connected to the internet through a linksys router and cable modem. The linksys router is currently forwarding all ssh

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage Error

2007-01-31 Thread b.n.
Your filesystem seems to be badly fu...ehm, fscked up. In the forums people already told you the error you are having comes from a failing I/O operation on some file on your filesystem. You should have to identify what's rotten and what is not. This is probably a painful and difficult process,

Re: [gentoo-user] mediamanager tries to open wrong path

2007-01-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 22:54:39 +0100, Gerhard Hoogterp wrote: Does your camera use a removable memory card? If so, try putting it in a card reader and setting the volume name with mkdosfs or mtools. My camera formats the card with a volume name of CANON_EOS, so it is mounted at

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

2007-01-31 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Wednesday 31 January 2007 09:58, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles': On Wednesday 31 January 2007, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: Furthermore Pentium 4 is a joke (it performs horribly). A 2 GHz (Dothan

Re: [gentoo-user] mediamanager tries to open wrong path

2007-01-31 Thread Dale
Gerhard Hoogterp wrote: Apparently.. the users flag was already added (noauto, user) so that's not the problem.. /dev/minolta /mnt/camera vfat noauto,user 0 0 to be precise. I don't think it would matter in this case but for future reference, there is a difference between user and

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage Error

2007-01-31 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Patrick Holthaus wrote: KeyError: 'net-wireless/ipw3945d-1.7.22-r4' And nothing has been merged. ANY help on this would be appreciated, as i am using my laptop quite often and wireless is a must have for me. I also started a thread in the gentoo forums where more information about my system

Re: [gentoo-user] Dodgy hardware?!?!

2007-01-31 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 23:27:10 +1100 Dave Oxley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way of testing the RAM? a great way, yes, and it's provided on the gentoo boot cds, even the minimal. at the isolinux (boot:) prompt, just type memtest-86 and patiently await the completion of just one test.

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

2007-01-31 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 13:16:01 +0200 Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: available. It takes around 15 hours :( distcc + crossdev = ; ) im not sure, but i bet you can maybe build G4 code on another box. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] IPtables question

2007-01-31 Thread Norberto Bensa
James Colby wrote: currently forwarding all ssh traffic to my gentoo box. What I would like to do is set up iptables to only allow ssh logins from a small number of internet hosts, iptables -A INPUT -s ip-address-of-know-host --dport 22 -j ACCEPT and to reject and log all other ssh

[gentoo-user] emerging php with mysql and recode support

2007-01-31 Thread Stefán István
Hello! I tried to re-emerge php because I need to be compiled with the 'recode' use flag, but I get this error: * USE flag 'recode' conflicts with these USE flag(s): *mysql * You must disable these conflicting flags before you can emerge this package. * You can do this by disabling these

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

2007-01-31 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 30 January 2007 19:22, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles': On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:45:26 -0700, Steve Dibb wrote: Not necessarily. tmpfs will start to use the harddrive when it runs out of memory, that being one if its

Re: [gentoo-user] Projector on my laptop

2007-01-31 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 30 January 2007 23:52, Felipe Ribeiro wrote: It doesn´t have a s-video output, just the ordinary monitor plug. What's your question? alan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list