Re: [gentoo-user] coexisting GCC versions

2009-06-28 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag 28 Juni 2009 01:31:04 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: If you switch default compiler emerge -s world has to be done. That should be -e instead, I guess? But no, it doesn't need to be done. The only case we had were it was needed was the switch from 3.4.x to 4.x, because of C++ ABI

Re: [gentoo-user] plainTeX instead of LaTeX

2009-06-28 Thread Hung Dang
meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, after removing tetex and installing texlive-2008 by following his guide http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/tex/texlive-migration-guide.xml I run into a mysterious problem: All my *.tex-files are handled as they would be written in LaTeX. But they are good old

Re: [gentoo-user] plainTeX instead of LaTeX

2009-06-28 Thread Sebastian Günther
Am Sun, 28 Jun 2009 06:30:58 +0200 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: Hi, after removing tetex and installing texlive-2008 by following his guide http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/tex/texlive-migration-guide.xml I run into a mysterious problem: All my *.tex-files are handled as they would be

Re: [gentoo-user] coexisting GCC versions

2009-06-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 28 June 2009 05:47:23 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Sonntag 28 Juni 2009, Alex Schuster wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann writes: On Sonntag 28 Juni 2009, Alex Schuster wrote: Or keep 4.3 as default, I don't think you could run into problems. he will over time. If you switch

Re: [gentoo-user] plainTeX instead of LaTeX

2009-06-28 Thread meino . cramer
Hung Dang hungp...@gmail.com [09-06-28 10:27]: meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, after removing tetex and installing texlive-2008 by following his guide http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/tex/texlive-migration-guide.xml I run into a mysterious problem: All my *.tex-files are handled as they

Re: [gentoo-user] plainTeX instead of LaTeX

2009-06-28 Thread meino . cramer
Sebastian Günther sam...@guenther-roetgen.de [09-06-28 10:32]: Am Sun, 28 Jun 2009 06:30:58 +0200 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: Hi, after removing tetex and installing texlive-2008 by following his guide http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/tex/texlive-migration-guide.xml I run into a

Re: [gentoo-user] coexisting GCC versions

2009-06-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 28 Juni 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 28 June 2009 05:47:23 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Sonntag 28 Juni 2009, Alex Schuster wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann writes: On Sonntag 28 Juni 2009, Alex Schuster wrote: Or keep 4.3 as default, I don't think you could run into

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel cross compilation

2009-06-28 Thread Xavier Parizet
Dirk Heinrichs a écrit : Am Samstag 27 Juni 2009 19:33:48 schrieb David Relson: My workstation is an AMD64 and I want to build a 486 kernel. I've tried oldconfig, menuconfig, and xconfig and they all change the .config from X86_32 to X86_64. How do I stop this behavior? make

Re: [gentoo-user] coexisting GCC versions

2009-06-28 Thread Roger Mason
Hello again, Roger Mason rma...@mun.ca writes: I need gcc 4.3 to compile a specific application. I am hoping that I can install gcc 4.3 alongside 4.1.1 without suffering some awful catastrophe. Can someone confirm that I'll be able to use gcc 4.3 for the specific application that needs it

Re: [gentoo-user] plainTeX instead of LaTeX

2009-06-28 Thread Arttu V.
On 6/28/09, meino.cra...@gmx.de meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: All my *.tex-files are handled as they would be written in LaTeX. But they are good old plainTeX. or in other words: tex texfile.tex ends up in errors due to the fact, that texfile.tex contains syntax with LaTeX dont

Re: [gentoo-user] plainTeX instead of LaTeX

2009-06-28 Thread meino . cramer
Arttu V. arttu...@gmail.com [09-06-28 13:27]: On 6/28/09, meino.cra...@gmx.de meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: All my *.tex-files are handled as they would be written in LaTeX. But they are good old plainTeX. or in other words: tex texfile.tex ends up in errors due to the fact,

[gentoo-user] Hal and ejected DVD not unmounting

2009-06-28 Thread Dale
Hi, I have ran into this from time to time and it is really irritating to say it lightly. When I use my DVD drive and eject the DVD, hal seems to not unmount the device. That then causes me to get messages like this in /var/log/messages: Jun 28 03:10:15 smoker VFS: busy inodes on changed

Re: [gentoo-user] plainTeX instead of LaTeX

2009-06-28 Thread Arttu V.
On 6/28/09, meino.cra...@gmx.de meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Arttu V. arttu...@gmail.com [09-06-28 13:27]: man tex When called as virtex it will use the plain format. Not sure if this is what is called plainTeX, I've only used LaTeX. Yes, it is... tetex leaves the names of the

Re: [gentoo-user] plainTeX instead of LaTeX

2009-06-28 Thread meino . cramer
Arttu V. arttu...@gmail.com [09-06-28 13:52]: On 6/28/09, meino.cra...@gmx.de meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Arttu V. arttu...@gmail.com [09-06-28 13:27]: man tex When called as virtex it will use the plain format. Not sure if this is what is called plainTeX, I've only used LaTeX.

Re: [gentoo-user] Kbackup and dvd sized slices

2009-06-28 Thread Arttu V.
On 6/28/09, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: A box should pop up and if you click the little button under Maximum Archive Size, it should show the available options. Mine has unlimited, 650Mb CD, 700Mb CD and custom. The custom will not let me enter anything in Gb. If by Gb you mean the

Re: [gentoo-user] Kbackup and dvd sized slices

2009-06-28 Thread Dale
Arttu V. wrote: On 6/28/09, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: A box should pop up and if you click the little button under Maximum Archive Size, it should show the available options. Mine has unlimited, 650Mb CD, 700Mb CD and custom. The custom will not let me enter anything in Gb.

Re: [gentoo-user] fluxbox without xorg-server? How do you start X?

2009-06-28 Thread Mick
On Saturday 27 June 2009, Mark Knecht wrote: On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Jacob Toddjaketodd...@gmail.com wrote: You need to emerge xorg-server. I'm about half way through now. Isn't it correct to say that you just need to emerge x11-base/xorg-x11, which will pull in

Re: [gentoo-user] fluxbox without xorg-server? How do you start X?

2009-06-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:00:55 +0100, Mick wrote: Isn't it correct to say that you just need to emerge x11-base/xorg-x11, which will pull in x11-base/xorg-server by default (unless you have some fancy USE flags setup). It will also pull in a shedload of dependencies, being a meta

[gentoo-user] emacs transient-mark-mode not work with rxvt-unicode

2009-06-28 Thread Zhang Jun
Hi, I am using rxvt-unicde and emacs-23, but the emacs transient-mark-mode(highlight selected region) not work in rxvt, but it works in xfce terminal, the following are details thanks! [I] x11-terms/rxvt-unicode Available versions: 9.02-r1 9.05 (~)9.05-r2 (~)9.05-r3 (~)9.06 {afterimage

Re: [gentoo-user] fluxbox without xorg-server? How do you start X?

2009-06-28 Thread Mick
On Sunday 28 June 2009, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:00:55 +0100, Mick wrote: Isn't it correct to say that you just need to emerge x11-base/xorg-x11, which will pull in x11-base/xorg-server by default (unless you have some fancy USE flags setup). It will also pull in a

Re: [gentoo-user] Kbackup and dvd sized slices

2009-06-28 Thread Arttu V.
On 6/28/09, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mine will only let me type in 3 numbers. Examples: 300 or 600 It will not accept Gb or anything over 999 Try something starting with a '3', you should be able to feed in four numbers. Anything starting with a four or greater will only get three

[gentoo-user] Re: qt3support conflict

2009-06-28 Thread walt
On 06/27/2009 07:24 PM, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: On Sunday 28 June 2009 02:54:59 walt wrote: On 06/27/2009 03:32 PM, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: make.conf hasn't qt3support at all. Adding qt3support to qt-opengl shows... well... something horrible (see below) :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Hal and ejected DVD not unmounting

2009-06-28 Thread Florian Philipp
Dale schrieb: Hi, I have ran into this from time to time and it is really irritating to say it lightly. When I use my DVD drive and eject the DVD, hal seems to not unmount the device. That then causes me to get messages like this in /var/log/messages: [...] Since this happens every

Re: [gentoo-user] fluxbox without xorg-server? How do you start X?

2009-06-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 6:04 AM, Neil Bothwickn...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:00:55 +0100, Mick wrote: Isn't it correct to say that you just need to emerge x11-base/xorg-x11, which will pull in x11-base/xorg-server by default (unless you have some fancy USE flags setup). It

Re: [gentoo-user] fluxbox without xorg-server? How do you start X?

2009-06-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:22:14 +0100, Mick wrote: What's the 'right' way of installing Xorg on a machine that runs FB as a WM? Install xorg-server, anything else that's needed will be installed as a dependency of xorg-server or your client software. The xorg-x11 meta package was,AFAIR, created

[gentoo-user] Re: fluxbox without xorg-server? How do you start X?

2009-06-28 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-06-28, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Exactly. My use of fluxbox on this machine was to test that X is even working over S-Video. (It is.) My goal after that was to emerge MythTV again and try running that. Anybody running MythTV can't be too concerned about bloat. Myth

[gentoo-user] [WAY OT] GUI programming for Linux (and Windows possibly)

2009-06-28 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I know this is WAY off topic for this list but there's a lot of smart, experienced people here so I figured I'd look for a little guidance and then possibly join another email list that's more appropriate. These days I'm trading stock index futures for a living. I have data files that I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: fluxbox without xorg-server? How do you start X?

2009-06-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Grant Edwardsgra...@visi.com wrote: On 2009-06-28, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Exactly. My use of fluxbox on this machine was to test that X is even working over S-Video. (It is.) My goal after that was to emerge MythTV again and try running that.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: qt3support conflict

2009-06-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 28 June 2009 16:12:26 walt wrote: On 06/27/2009 07:24 PM, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: On Sunday 28 June 2009 02:54:59 walt wrote: On 06/27/2009 03:32 PM, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: make.conf hasn't qt3support at all. Adding qt3support to qt-opengl shows... well... something horrible (see

Re: [gentoo-user] fluxbox without xorg-server? How do you start X?

2009-06-28 Thread Mick
On Sunday 28 June 2009, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:22:14 +0100, Mick wrote: What's the 'right' way of installing Xorg on a machine that runs FB as a WM? Install xorg-server, anything else that's needed will be installed as a dependency of xorg-server or your client

Re: [gentoo-user] [WAY OT] GUI programming for Linux (and Windows possibly)

2009-06-28 Thread Roger Mason
Mark, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com writes: So the main question is what sort of language (and possibly programming environment) should a complete novice look at to get his feet wet with GUI programming. I'd like something fairly light - performance probably won't be a huge problem -

Re: [gentoo-user] [WAY OT] GUI programming for Linux (and Windows possibly)

2009-06-28 Thread pk
Mark Knecht wrote: These days I'm trading stock index futures for a living. I have data files that I analyze in Excel over the weekend to help me make decisions about how to trade the coming week, but I'm always fighting Excel as it really isn't intended for the sort of math I want to do.

Re: [gentoo-user] [WAY OT] GUI programming for Linux (and Windows possibly)

2009-06-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Roger Masonrma...@mun.ca wrote: Mark, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com writes:    So the main question is what sort of language (and possibly programming environment) should a complete novice look at to get his feet wet with GUI programming. I'd like

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: fluxbox without xorg-server? How do you start X?

2009-06-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:28:32 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: Anybody running MythTV can't be too concerned about bloat. Myth requires X11 and Qt even for a headless backend server. You only need the X libs, not the server. But anyone running a MythTV backend will have plenty of disk space

Re: [gentoo-user] [WAY OT] GUI programming for Linux (and Windows possibly)

2009-06-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 10:09 AM, pkpete...@coolmail.se wrote: Mark Knecht wrote:    These days I'm trading stock index futures for a living. I have data files that I analyze in Excel over the weekend to help me make decisions about how to trade the coming week, but I'm always fighting Excel

Re: [gentoo-user] plainTeX instead of LaTeX

2009-06-28 Thread pk
meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: /home/mccramervirtex texfile.tex This is TeXk, Version 3.1415926 (Web2C 7.5.7) %-line parsing enabled. kpathsea: Running mktexfmt plain.fmt I can't find the format file `plain.fmt'! /home/mccramerlocate plainfmt.tex Go to

Re: [gentoo-user] [WAY OT] GUI programming for Linux (and Windows possibly)

2009-06-28 Thread Robert Bridge
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I know this is WAY off topic for this list but there's a lot of smart, experienced people here so I figured I'd look for a little guidance and then possibly join another email list that's more appropriate. These

Re: [gentoo-user] plainTeX instead of LaTeX

2009-06-28 Thread meino . cramer
pk pete...@coolmail.se [09-06-28 19:37]: meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: /home/mccramervirtex texfile.tex This is TeXk, Version 3.1415926 (Web2C 7.5.7) %-line parsing enabled. kpathsea: Running mktexfmt plain.fmt I can't find the format file `plain.fmt'! /home/mccramerlocate

[gentoo-user] Re: fluxbox without xorg-server? How do you start X?

2009-06-28 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-06-28, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:28:32 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: Anybody running MythTV can't be too concerned about bloat. Myth requires X11 and Qt even for a headless backend server. You only need the X libs, not the server. True. But

Re: [gentoo-user] coexisting GCC versions

2009-06-28 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, Roger Mason rma...@mun.ca writes: I need gcc 4.3 to compile a specific application. I am hoping that I can install gcc 4.3 alongside 4.1.1 without suffering some awful catastrophe. This is the output of emerge on the machine in question: The compilation finally completed. It only

Re: [gentoo-user] [WAY OT] GUI programming for Linux (and Windows possibly)

2009-06-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Robert Bridgerob...@robbieab.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Knecht wrote: Hi,    I know this is WAY off topic for this list but there's a lot of smart, experienced people here so I figured I'd look for a little guidance and

Re: [gentoo-user]WAS lvm problem -- NOW sleep tweak?

2009-06-28 Thread Maxim Wexler
Put it in localmount, not bootmisc, just before ebegin Mounting local filesystems No lvm but same problem: the two partitions sdb1, sdb2 aren't mounted during boot, but are mountable by hand following login. I added the sleep command to localmount and the partitions are now mounted during

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: fluxbox without xorg-server? How do you start X?

2009-06-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 18:03:35 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: But anyone running a MythTV backend will have plenty of disk space anyway, so an extra few MB of libs that are unused after initial setup is hardly the end of the world :) It still grates on the engineering nerve a bit. ;)

Re: [gentoo-user] [WAY OT] GUI programming for Linux (and Windows possibly)

2009-06-28 Thread Arttu V.
On 6/28/09, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Actually I'm liking the suggest to try using R. I have already managed to read my data files using the read.csv function. When I understand headers and tables better I'll likely be able to make my plots from that data pretty easily. It's

Re: [gentoo-user] [WAY OT] GUI programming for Linux (and Windows possibly)

2009-06-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Arttu V.arttu...@gmail.com wrote: On 6/28/09, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Actually I'm liking the suggest to try using R. I have already managed to read my data files using the read.csv function. When I understand headers and tables better I'll

[gentoo-user] Re: coexisting GCC versions

2009-06-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/28/2009 08:54 PM, Roger Mason wrote: [...] I followed the info presented at the end of the installation Did you read the Gentoo documentation about upgrading GCC? If not, now's the time :)

Re: [gentoo-user] [WAY OT] GUI programming for Linux (and Windows possibly)

2009-06-28 Thread Florian Philipp
Mark Knecht schrieb: [...] These days I'm trading stock index futures for a living. I have data files that I analyze in Excel over the weekend to help me make decisions about how to trade the coming week, but I'm always fighting Excel as it really isn't intended for the sort of math I want

[gentoo-user] list of emerged programs?

2009-06-28 Thread James
All, Is there a simple, quick way to list all of the packages that have been emerged in cronological order? -j

Re: [gentoo-user] list of emerged programs?

2009-06-28 Thread Justin
James wrote: All, Is there a simple, quick way to list all of the packages that have been emerged in cronological order? -j genlop -l qlop -l signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: list of emerged programs?

2009-06-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/28/2009 11:06 PM, James wrote: All, Is there a simple, quick way to list all of the packages that have been emerged in cronological order? for f in `ls -rt \`find /var/db/pkg -name *.ebuild\``; do basename $f .ebuild; done (The above command is just one line, in case your mail/news

[gentoo-user] Re: list of emerged programs?

2009-06-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/28/2009 11:19 PM, Justin wrote: James wrote: All, Is there a simple, quick way to list all of the packages that have been emerged in cronological order? -j genlop -l qlop -l Or that :P :P :P

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: list of emerged programs?

2009-06-28 Thread James
Thanks to you and Justin for the insanely quick answers. -j On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: On 06/28/2009 11:06 PM, James wrote: All, Is there a simple, quick way to list all of the packages that have been emerged in cronological order? for f in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: list of emerged programs?

2009-06-28 Thread Daniel Troeder
On Sun, 2009-06-28 at 23:23 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 06/28/2009 11:06 PM, James wrote: All, Is there a simple, quick way to list all of the packages that have been emerged in cronological order? for f in `ls -rt \`find /var/db/pkg -name *.ebuild\``; do basename $f .ebuild;

Re: [gentoo-user] [WAY OT] GUI programming for Linux (and Windows possibly)

2009-06-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Florian Philippli...@f_philipp.fastmail.net wrote: Mark Knecht schrieb: [...]    These days I'm trading stock index futures for a living. I have data files that I analyze in Excel over the weekend to help me make decisions about how to trade the coming week,

Re: [gentoo-user] Hal and ejected DVD not unmounting

2009-06-28 Thread Dale
Florian Philipp wrote: Dale schrieb: Hi, I have ran into this from time to time and it is really irritating to say it lightly. When I use my DVD drive and eject the DVD, hal seems to not unmount the device. That then causes me to get messages like this in /var/log/messages:

Re: [gentoo-user] Kbackup and dvd sized slices

2009-06-28 Thread Dale
Arttu V. wrote: On 6/28/09, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mine will only let me type in 3 numbers. Examples: 300 or 600 It will not accept Gb or anything over 999 Try something starting with a '3', you should be able to feed in four numbers. Anything starting with a four or

Re: [gentoo-user] Hal and ejected DVD not unmounting

2009-06-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 28 June 2009 22:55:50 Dale wrote: I just push the button on the drive. I have always done it that way. At one time the eject thing in the KDE menu wouldn't actually eject. It just sat there blinking at me. :/ Should I use the menu and not the button? I think you should use KDE's

Re: [gentoo-user] plainTeX instead of LaTeX

2009-06-28 Thread pk
meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: ...and dont forget to do a ls -R . ls-R in the according root directory, from where are all *.fmt are installed, otherwise kpathsea will fail to find the file. Oh yeah, forgot about that. But what was the idea behind tex to behave like compiling/texing

Re: [gentoo-user] Hal and ejected DVD not unmounting

2009-06-28 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 28 June 2009 22:55:50 Dale wrote: I just push the button on the drive. I have always done it that way. At one time the eject thing in the KDE menu wouldn't actually eject. It just sat there blinking at me. :/ Should I use the menu and not the button?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: coexisting GCC versions

2009-06-28 Thread Roger Mason
Hi, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de writes: On 06/28/2009 08:54 PM, Roger Mason wrote: [...] I followed the info presented at the end of the installation Did you read the Gentoo documentation about upgrading GCC? If not, now's the time :) This is what it says: # emerge -uav gcc (Please

Re: [gentoo-user] list of emerged programs?

2009-06-28 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, James j...@nc.rr.com writes: Is there a simple, quick way to list all of the packages that have been emerged in cronological order? Listing /var/log/portage with appropriate options to ls may work. Cheers, Roger

Re: [gentoo-user] Kbackup and dvd sized slices

2009-06-28 Thread Arttu V.
On Sun, 2009-06-28 at 15:58 -0500, Dale wrote: Arttu V. wrote: maxSliceSize-setMaxValue( 4096 ); Ahhh, so it isn't just me. That's cool. I'm not sure about editing anything tho. I tend to break stuff. I'm just wanting to really fill up a DVD is all. I wonder why they changed

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing qt4 meta

2009-06-28 Thread Marco
Hi all, thanks for all your tips! Also found some inconsistencies in my installation, which I was able to fix. -- Regards, Marco On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 7:04 PM, Alan McKinnonalan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday 27 June 2009 18:13:56 Marco wrote: On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 2:33 PM,

[gentoo-user] Request for [OT] advice

2009-06-28 Thread Harry Putnam
How can I go about merging two bookmarks.html style files... and not lose any or duplicate any? I realize the de-duping part is probably not going to be all that thorough so maybe just at some level, remove dups. It seems with diff and patch I end up losing bookmarks. Also I'm not so sure I

[gentoo-user] Re: fluxbox without xorg-server? How do you start X?

2009-06-28 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-06-28, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 18:03:35 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: But anyone running a MythTV backend will have plenty of disk space anyway, so an extra few MB of libs that are unused after initial setup is hardly the end of the world :)

[gentoo-user] Re: [WAY OT] GUI programming for Linux (and Windows possibly)

2009-06-28 Thread walt
On 06/28/2009 10:16 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 10:09 AM, pkpete...@coolmail.se wrote: Why Windows? I'm merely curious, not trying to criticize... No offense taken. All the trading is done on the Windows platform using proprietary trading platform apps. All the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: fluxbox without xorg-server? How do you start X?

2009-06-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:05:28 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: A curses setup program should please the frugal engineers, or would you prefer to alter the MySQL table files with a hex editor? ;-) I usually do one of three things: 1) Type SQL commands. 2) Use Mythweb. 3) Run

[gentoo-user] Re: fluxbox without xorg-server? How do you start X?

2009-06-28 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-06-29, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: You can't do stuff like channel scanning with the first two, so running mythtv-setup over SSH is the only option, which means you need qt3 and X libs on a headless server :( I know. Making channel-scanning a separate text-mode

[gentoo-user] Re: fluxbox without xorg-server? How do you start X?

2009-06-28 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-06-29, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: I should try out Freevo some day. It's written in Python, so it should be more stable than MythTv. But, it doesn't support my tuner yet, and it doesn't appear to support a separate backend with multiple frontends. I take that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [WAY OT] GUI programming for Linux (and Windows possibly)

2009-06-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 5:12 PM, waltw41...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/28/2009 10:16 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 10:09 AM, pkpete...@coolmail.se  wrote: Why Windows? I'm merely curious, not trying to criticize... No offense taken. All the trading is done on the Windows

[gentoo-user] Re: [WAY OT] GUI programming for Linux (and Windows possibly)

2009-06-28 Thread walt
On 06/28/2009 05:50 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 5:12 PM, waltw41...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/28/2009 10:16 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 10:09 AM, pkpete...@coolmail.sewrote: Why Windows? I'm merely curious, not trying to criticize... No offense

[gentoo-user] Re: [WAY OT] GUI programming for Linux (and Windows possibly)

2009-06-28 Thread walt
On 06/28/2009 05:50 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: I used to be an app maintainer for wine. I know about it and support it but no longer us it... Thanks for contributing to the wine project! ...I do however STRONGLY support your right to become a full-time, fully automated trader trading every day

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: coexisting GCC versions

2009-06-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Roger Mason writes: Now gcc-config says: garnet ~ $ gcc-config -l [1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.1.1 [2] i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.3.2 * Whereas gcc -v says: snip gcc version 4.1.1 (Gentoo 4.1.1-r3 p1.10) If there is something else that I need to do then I did not see it in the upgrade guide,

Re: [gentoo-user]WAS lvm problem -- NOW sleep tweak?

2009-06-28 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:18:26 -0600 Maxim Wexler maxim.wex...@gmail.com wrote: Put it in localmount, not bootmisc, just before ebegin Mounting local filesystems No lvm but same problem: the two partitions sdb1, sdb2 aren't mounted during boot, but are mountable by hand following login.

[gentoo-user] finding qt plugins?

2009-06-28 Thread Roy Wright
Howdy, On ~x86 did the upgrade to qt 4.5.2 and get the following message: After a rebuild or upgrade of Qt, it can happen that Qt plugins (such as Qt and KDE styles and widgets) can no longer be loaded. In this situation you should recompile the packages providing these plugins...

Re: [gentoo-user] finding qt plugins?

2009-06-28 Thread Dale
Roy Wright wrote: Howdy, On ~x86 did the upgrade to qt 4.5.2 and get the following message: After a rebuild or upgrade of Qt, it can happen that Qt plugins (such as Qt and KDE styles and widgets) can no longer be loaded. In this situation you should recompile the packages providing these