Re: [gentoo-user] udev and device ownership

2007-03-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 23:51:56 +0100, paulie.x wrote: I created new user and just changed OWNER in 10-local.rules to new username. Now when I plug in mp3 player it created device node (example) /dev/sdc and rightly I'm owner of this file but I'm not owner of the link so I cannot mount it like

Re: [gentoo-user] A question regarding non-Portage software...

2007-03-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 06:10:22 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: I am hoping that someone can provide me with resources - examples and/or a walkthrough would be especially helpful. I realize that the Gentoo team can only do so much and carefully test each package before putting it in the

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID

2007-03-11 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 10 March 2007, mwq [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] RAID': Imagine such a situation: I have two hard drives but drive A is twice faster when reading and writing then drive B. I want to make RAID 0 using A and B. Why are the stripes sizes on both drives excacly the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: adesklets

2007-03-11 Thread Neal McConachie
Mick said the following: Thank you all for your help, It seems that there is something wrong with the fonts(?) I have managed to launch weatherforecast which works fine, but calendar and volume do not. I tried testing them and this is what I get: snip raise

Re: [gentoo-user] udev and device ownership

2007-03-11 Thread paulie.x
Dne ne 11. březen 2007 09:45 Neil Bothwick napsal(a): On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 23:51:56 +0100, paulie.x wrote: I created new user and just changed OWNER in 10-local.rules to new username. Now when I plug in mp3 player it created device node (example) /dev/sdc and rightly I'm owner of this file

[gentoo-user] Re: A question regarding non-Portage software...

2007-03-11 Thread Steve Long
Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov wrote: On 3/10/07, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will begin by stating my problem. I have the source code (in *.tar.bz2 format) for a couple of pieces of software that are not in the Portage tree at all. I would like to compile and install them in such a way

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: adesklets

2007-03-11 Thread Rodrigo Lazo
Hi, On 3/9/07, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 09 March 2007 05:25, Wayne Oliver wrote: If you select test from the menu it should show the desklet on screen you can now move it around, play with it etc. Exit the desklet re run the $/path/to/calendar/Calender.py This time

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: adesklets

2007-03-11 Thread Rodrigo Lazo
On 3/11/07, Rodrigo Lazo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On 3/9/07, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 09 March 2007 05:25, Wayne Oliver wrote: If you select test from the menu it should show the desklet on screen you can now move it around, play with it etc. Exit the desklet re run

Re: [gentoo-user] A question regarding non-Portage software...

2007-03-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov writes: You most likely want to install that software in /usr/local as per Gentoo's filesystem layout [1]. The way you can do that with autotoolized software is like this: ./configure --prefix=/usr/local make make install I don't know what you mean by making

Re: [gentoo-user] udev and device ownership

2007-03-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 14:07:00 +0100, paulie.x wrote: Yes I'm in plugdev group. Problem is that I'm owner of the /dev/sdc block device but owner and group of link that udev creates is root. OK, instead of SUBSYSTEMS==scsi, ATTRS{model}==LYRA_MPHR2301_EU, OWNER=user, SYMLINK+=lyra do

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A question regarding non-Portage software...

2007-03-11 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Sunday 11 March 2007 15:01:27 Steve Long wrote: I don't know what you mean by making Portage recognize the software installed this way. Do you want Portage to be able to uninstall and/or upgrade this software? If so, the simple answer is you it can't do that. You have to manage the

[gentoo-user] Compiz keeps putting titlebars under gnome-panel

2007-03-11 Thread Mark David Dumlao
I have a button on my desktop that runs compiz-start if compiz is off and metacity --replace if compiz is off. I'm having fun playing wtih this thing except one annoying feature is when I switch from metacity to compiz all existing windows are bumped up by one titlebar's worth. this means that

Re: [gentoo-user] Compiz keeps putting titlebars under gnome-panel

2007-03-11 Thread C Lee Davis
Mark David Dumlao wrote: I have a button on my desktop that runs compiz-start if compiz is off and metacity --replace if compiz is off. I'm having fun playing wtih this thing except one annoying feature is when I switch from metacity to compiz all existing windows are bumped up by one

Re: [gentoo-user] rebuild gcc-3.4.6-r2 error

2007-03-11 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 03:00:53PM +, Andrew Dean wrote I have managed to get around this problem by downloading the gdc-0.23-src.tar.bz2 file from my local mirror (e.g. http://gentoo.virginmedia.com/distfiles) to the /usr/portage/distfiles folder. When I then tried the update world