Re: [gentoo-user] Setting LINGUAS seperately for some packages

2008-03-12 Thread Alex Schuster
Willie Wong writes: On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 04:07:16PM +0100, Penguin Lover Dirk Heinrichs squawked: I'd like to set LINGUAS=de for almost every package. But for the sys-apps/man-pages package, I'd like LINGUAS not to be set, so that I don't get the german man pages installed.

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get the x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.8776-r1 back?

2008-03-10 Thread Alex Schuster
Enrico Weigelt writes: All this leads me back back to the conclusion I already had about 10 years ago: *NEVER EVERY* buy Nvidia cards. (I've made the big mistake buying an notebook with NV graphics, so I even can't replace it :(() Any suggestions on which video cards to buy? I also hate the

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing .config

2008-02-16 Thread Alex Schuster
sean writes: Unfortunately I do not have a current copy of .config. Does anyone know a less painful way of rebuilding than through make menuconfig? I have got to remember to make a backup. You may have one, try zcat /proc/config.gz. You need to have kernel option General setup - Enable acces

Re: [gentoo-user] undelete files and dirs on ext3 partition

2008-02-15 Thread Alex Schuster
Uwe Thiem writes: On Friday 15 February 2008, pat wrote: On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:41:28 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote Neil, you are a master of understatement :-) pat, it might be possible to get some stuff back, IF he remounted ro immediately and IF not much writing to the disk

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: load too high

2008-02-15 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:14:22 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: The cruelty is actually worse: the machines that will benefit most from an OOo compile from source, are those old, low memory, asthmatic boxen, that take two days to complete the emerge! I am tempted to

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to hardened

2008-02-14 Thread Alex Schuster
Willie Wong wrote Wonko: On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 11:24:49PM +0100, Penguin Lover Alex Schuster squawked: I emerged -e again, this time without distcc and ccache. All compiled fine, except for media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p24929-r1 (vf_decimate.c:26: error: can't find a register in class

Re: [gentoo-user] [gentoo-users] acpi fails with status 1

2008-02-14 Thread Alex Schuster
Pupino writes: I'm trying to use acpid with my gentoo laptop; it catches all events (battery, button, ac_adapter) but it can't execute the designed script, in any case. [...] the script is called and it will simply display Power button pressed at the moment. It has execution permissions and

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to hardened

2008-02-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Eric Martin writes: Dan Farrell wrote: You might consider building packages but not installing them -- I think could use --buildpkgonly (aka -B) to achieve this end. If the world emerge with a -B flag finishes successfully, I think that means all packages were built and you are ready to

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) Reboot to Windows (using grub)

2008-02-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Liviu Andronic writes: I was wondering if anyone knew how (whether) it is possible to set temporary options to grub. [...] Basically, I would like to issue a command (restart with a certain grub temporary setup change), go make myself a cup of tee and come back and see the Windows login

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -uD world: another obstacle

2008-02-01 Thread Alex Schuster
maxim wexler writes: Configuring qca-tls ... Verifying Qt 3.x Multithreaded (MT) build environment ... fail Unable to find Qt mkspecs. Please set QTDIR manually. Perhaps you need to install Qt 3 development utilities. You may download them either from the vendor of your operating system

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -uD world: another obstacle

2008-02-01 Thread Alex Schuster
maxim wexler writes: --- Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: maxim wexler writes: I guess you need Qt version 3 for that, which is not onstalled, according to your emerge output: emerge -a \qt-4 localhost ~ # emerge -a \qt-4 ^^ what

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to hardened

2008-01-30 Thread Alex Schuster
Dan Farrell writes: Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to harden the gentoo running on my little server, but I'm a little worried about possible problems. Like, services not coming up when rebooting after an emerge -e world. Do you see any possibility for that? Absolutely

Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?

2008-01-29 Thread Alex Schuster
Jerry McBride writes: I passed on vmware for my use as it is quite the overkill for my simple needs. Also, vmware does not currently run on the most recent kernels. And secondly, you only get to use it for 30 days... the vmware workstation evaluation copy that is. Right, but you can use the

[gentoo-user] Switching to hardened

2008-01-29 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! I want to harden the gentoo running on my little server, but I'm a little worried about possible problems. Like, services not coming up when rebooting after an emerge -e world. Do you see any possibility for that? I followed the guide at

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost /sbin/rc

2008-01-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: deface wrote: It sounds like the mistake was on your hand. baselayout isn't udated as often, unless you are ~**. the missing files are from any baselayout, not just the version you are stating. *** WARNING *** Depclean may break link level dependencies. Thus, it is ***

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost /sbin/rc

2008-01-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Mark Kirkwood writes: Alex Schuster wrote: Of course I did that. emerge --depclean showed me (along many other things) two installed baselayouts, one to remove, the current one to keep. And most of the things were kept, like man pages, but some essential files were not. Looking

[gentoo-user] Lost /sbin/rc

2008-01-27 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! I just did an emerge -uDN on my system, followed by revdep-rebuild and emerge --depclean. When rebooting, my system did not come up because of missing things like /sbin/rc. Argh! Good thing I had a backup, after copying some files back the system was up again, and I could go to bed.

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror crashes with latest flash

2008-01-15 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: When I go to http://www.speedtest.net the flash content does not show (just a white frame in its place) and if I close konqueror I get a signal 11 sigserv. This is what the terminal shows: [...] Rebuilding flash, nspluginviewer and konqueror has not fixed this, neither has

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge of ksh93 erroring out.. who can interpret

2008-01-14 Thread Alex Schuster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So I'm interested in what I might run into. So far it looks like it would be ALMOST as easy as symlinking ksh to bash in /bin. Uh, this sounds scary :) The two big things I see that will cause that not to work are lots of calls to `print' and that bash does not

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge of ksh93 erroring out.. who can interpret

2008-01-14 Thread Alex Schuster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But I was really just saying that syntax at my low level of usage is largely interchangeable but for the cases I mentioned. So it makes switching scripting shells from ksh93 to bash pretty smooth

Re: [gentoo-user] fails to emerge app-office/openoffice-2.3.1

2007-12-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Rumen Yotov writes: Vasiliy G Tolstov написа: package app-office/openoffice-2.3.1 NOT merged Detected file collision(s): /usr/lib64/openoffice/share/dict/ooo/ru_RU.aff /usr/lib64/openoffice/share/dict/ooo/ru_RU.dic [...] Put '-collision-protect' in FEATURES in /etc/make.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't run binary packages

2007-12-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant writes: I've emerged firefox-bin and skype successfully, but neither will run with very similar errors: Do these threads help? http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-583184.html http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-565649.html http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=182248

[gentoo-user] Re: New samba-3.0.25c broken?

2007-11-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Sven Köhler writes: Samba 3.0.24 works like charm. Just switched back to it. But watch out, it has a huge security problem: http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200711-29.xml Wonko -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] I applied mkswap on root partition

2007-11-19 Thread Alex Schuster
Teng Wang writes: Today, I applied mkswap on root partition by accident ( I thought that was swap, but it is root). And since this is the only system on my laptop, I even don't dare to reboot my computer after that. Does it really matter? Or what should I do to recover? With a litle luck,

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with clipboard separation

2007-11-15 Thread Alex Schuster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have problems with my clipboard, that I never experienced with other Linux distributions: If I do 'mark text; Ctrl-c; mark different text; Ctrl-v' e.g. in Eclipse the second selection is not overwritten by the content of the first selection. It seems that the

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild issues

2007-11-12 Thread Alex Schuster
James writes: Upon a routine upgrade, I followed up with revdep-rebuild -p. The problem is the system wants to rebuild versions of packages that are very old. 'equery depengs package reveals that nothing is dependent of the first few packages. [...] I'm open to suggestions as to how to

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - finding rgb code of the background of an image

2007-11-12 Thread Alex Schuster
Michael Sullivan writes: The background of the image looks green to me (0, 255, 0), but identify claims it's white. Is there a way I can know for sure without having to go through all the RGB codes? The convert created BMP's won't open in gimp Strange. I suggest asking the experts on

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash 3.2/3.1 compatibility?

2007-11-10 Thread Alex Schuster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have the same problem and I was trying to solve it few weeks ago, after almost two weeks of searching and compiling I substituted =~ with expr: - orig use with ~= : # if [[ test =~ .* ]]; then echo ok; fi - alternative use with expr : # export TEST_VAR=test #

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash 3.2/3.1 compatibility?

2007-11-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Willie Wong writes: The situation: I have some bash scripts written. The scripts contains a lot of string comparisons. Perhaps my code was buggy before, perhaps it was not, but the change Quoting the string argument to the [[ command's =~ operator now forces string matching,

Re: [gentoo-user] Huge problem

2007-10-21 Thread Alex Schuster
econti writes: Here is the message: /sbin/rc: line 400: start: command not found Failed to start /etc/init.d/checkroot One or more critical startup scripts failed to start! Please correct this, and reboot ... Any suggestion? Should I reinstall everything? I don't know what's wrong here.

Re: [gentoo-user] new box: 2 small puzzles

2007-10-20 Thread Alex Schuster
Philip Webb writes: BTW I'm amazed that System Rescue doesn't seem to know re 'pppoe'. I hope to install Gentoo from the copied files w/o using the I/net. You can also use any other boot CD. Well, unless you use the automatic installer, but it seems people don't like it much and prefer to do

Re: [gentoo-user] Does gcc not distribute with distcc?

2007-10-19 Thread Alex Schuster
Michael Sullivan writes: On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 20:15 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: Is this correct? I have three fast machines, 192.168.1.2 through 192.168.1.4 and a slow machine I want to distribute for at 192.168.1.5. Here's /etc/conf.d/distccd on the slow one: I think this one's

Re: [gentoo-user] Does gcc not distribute with distcc?

2007-10-19 Thread Alex Schuster
Michael Sullivan writes: On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 01:39 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: Michael Sullivan writes: On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 20:15 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: distcc works with a wrapper. When gcc is called, in fact /usr/lib/distcc/bin/gcc is called (*), which distributes

Re: [gentoo-user] Does gcc not distribute with distcc?

2007-10-19 Thread Alex Schuster
Michael Sullivan writes: On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 16:11 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: [...] So you got my answer, but I for myself did not yet see it arrive on the list. Strange. Is this correct? I have three fast machines, 192.168.1.2 through 192.168.1.4 and a slow machine I want to distribute

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH: No X11 forwarding any longer

2007-10-19 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: On Sunday 14 October 2007, Alex Schuster wrote: Then I looked at the configs again, and in the man page for ssh_config I finally found this: XAuthLocation Specifies the full pathname of the xauth(1) program. The default is /usr/openwin/bin

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm does not start on boot

2007-10-16 Thread Alex Schuster
econti writes: Hi all to-day I successfully updated Xorg (from 6.x to 7.x). A little trouble only; on boot I receive the following error message: Setting up kdm . . . start-stop-daemon: option `--exec' requires an argument Try `start-stop-daemon --help' for more information *ERROR: could

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH: No X11 forwarding any longer

2007-10-14 Thread Alex Schuster
I wrote: Yes. Well, I usually have forwarding enabled automatically in /etc/ssh/ssh_config, but I always try with -X or -Y anyway. What is the actual error from the client? $DISPLAY is not set. But I notice a change since yesterday: I now get this warning: Warning: No xauth data; using

Re: [gentoo-user] Can RAM render useless the encryption of the / and swap partitions?

2007-10-08 Thread Alex Schuster
Liviu Andronic writes: So, my eternal question, is it realistic for the lost RAM data to be recovered? That is, after system shutdown, does the data still physically reside on the RAM and can someone with a decent technology and know-how recover it? In other words, is this a serious breach in

[gentoo-user] SSH: No X11 forwarding any longer

2007-09-27 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! For a little while now I have a problem on one of my hosts, X11 forwarding stopped working. I do not know where to look, but I thought maybe someone here has an idea? I have a .Xauthority file dated from Sept 19, this might be around the last time forwarding was working. Here is my

Re: [gentoo-user] help with the dreaded mount: RPC: Program not registered

2007-09-23 Thread Alex Schuster
John Blinka writes: Not a stupid question - I've been known to overlook the obvious. But I've been running the same kernel for quite some time, and nfs has worked before on that kernel. However, on tobey: I had a similar problem recently after an update. Some of the shares did still work,

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH won't restart

2007-09-08 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant writes: I just upgraded ssh and when I try to restart I get: * Stopping sshd ... [ !! ] I don't see anything about it in '/var/log/sshd/current'. How can I figure out what is wrong? I'm a little nervous because I don't want to shut myself out of this remote server. Uh-oh! I know

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH won't restart

2007-09-08 Thread Alex Schuster
process and not one of your sshd login forks at the same time. Alex Schuster wrote: If you think the upgrade is necessary and don't want to wait until you or s.o. else has physical access in case sshd doesn't come up again, you could try to restart sshd manually by issuing a kill -SIGHUP

Re: [gentoo-user] gpasswd

2007-09-06 Thread Alex Schuster
Robert Walter writes: i've added myself to the vboxusers group with gpasswd -a robert vboxusers. when i do a id robert with root i see the added group but when i start a new xterm with user robert i'm still not added to the new group. how do i make the changes take effekt without

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} wput with weird characters

2007-08-31 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant writes: I need to periodically upload a file to an ftp server, but the password they've issued me has a '!' and a '' character in it. I tried escaping those characters like this: wput -A file.txt ftp://username:abc\!123\@ftp.example.com/file.txt but then it tells me the password

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} wput with weird characters

2007-08-31 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant writes: wput -A file.txt ftp://username:abc\!123\@ftp.example.com/file.txt Did you try using ' around the whole argument? Like wput -A ... 'ftp://txt'? That did it. Thanks everyone! Hmm... there really should be no difference whether you put the whole string between

[gentoo-user] About the expat update and such

2007-08-24 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! The last expat update was an example of something that annoys me about gentoo. I usually do world updates every few days, mostly without trouble. I only tend to forget to restart services, but even for this there is an automatic solution now (see the recent Rolling upgrades thread).

Re: [gentoo-user] About the expat update and such

2007-08-24 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: On Friday 24 August 2007, Alex Schuster wrote: But then, there are things like the expat update. This happens seldomly, but if it does, it's rather annoying. Maybe I have become too comfortable with updating along the way, while working with the system, but usually it works

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up sftp and user permissions

2007-08-24 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: I understand that there are many ways to skin a cat - in this case to contain somewhat what a plain user can and cannot do when they log in via sftp. Some ideas that I have across are to use a limited shell like rssh, use an ssh chroot, modify the umask for user directories. I

Re: [gentoo-user] About the expat update and such

2007-08-24 Thread Alex Schuster
Ralf Stephan writes: I might be a bit too naive or hands-on -- I think portage or paludis should be able to tell you which upgrades that expat one will draw behind it. I don't know what would be required for implementation, though. In other words, even the existence of a separate

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] bash script advice/criticism wanted

2007-08-19 Thread Alex Schuster
»Q« writes: On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 07:10:30 +0200 Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 19 August 2007 04:00:45 »Q« wrote: It works as it is, but I'm interested in learning about any newbie traps into which I might be falling or about any better practices I should use.

Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs wont compile

2007-08-18 Thread Alex Schuster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Today after an emerge update the system wants to update to kde 3.5.7 However I've run into a major problem, kdelibs wont compile It keeps stopping at the following point: checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (= Qt 3.3 and 4.0) (library qt-mt) not found. Please

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] illegal instruction ... in modf?

2007-08-17 Thread Alex Schuster
Graham Murray writes: Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm compiling a program blah.cpp with g++ 4.1.2. I've rebuilt lots of my system with 4.1.2. I'm copying the binary onto another gentoo system which has gcc 4.1.1 as the default compiler. When I run the binary on that

Re: [gentoo-user] fstab question

2007-08-16 Thread Alex Schuster
Colleen Beamer writes: I have a usb external hard drive attached to my computer. It's an Iomega and has a power switch. In fstab it is /dev/sdc1 and /dev/sdc2 because I've configured it to have two ext3 partitions. If the drive is not powered on when I boot and then, I turn it on, I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Change the case of file names

2007-08-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: After some tests and minor changes that Alex introduced, I have had success with Alex's script as follows: [snip] You can also get it from here: http://wonkology.org/~wonko/utils/lowercase.sh Alex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Hello? (was: Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB error)

2007-08-08 Thread Alex Schuster
I'm glad the problem is solved now, but I wonder why my response to the thread (about 1:30 hours after it started) does not appear on the list. It's also not on http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user, so the problem is not that I do not receive all postings. Any idea why my mail did not

Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB error

2007-08-08 Thread Alex Schuster
cscscscscs cscscscscs (?) writes: I become a little bit upset sucking installing Gentoo Linux throughout 3 days. There was several errors during the install process (networkless, installer-dialog), so I was beginning to be afraid of memory-module errors, motherboard failure etc. I ran memory

[gentoo-user] Re: Hello?

2007-08-08 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: Let's see if this one gets through... Reading you loud and clear! I got your previous message just now, it seems with some delay. Yes. According to the headers my mail was received by my provider in normal time, but was delayed for half a day before it went out to

stow (was: Re: [gentoo-user] insert text onto a PDF)

2007-07-30 Thread Alex Schuster
Thufir writes: On 7/29/07, Roger Luethi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No ebuild, though. you compiled on your own? ok. what happens if you want to uninstall it, though? There usually is a make uninstall, too. But I suggest to use stow, or better, xstow, to install software. It goes like

Re: [gentoo-user] Running Scripts

2007-07-29 Thread Alex Schuster
Uwe Thiem writes: I am out of ideas - and still a bit puzzled how /usr/bin/env got involved (see original post). According to the od output, the first line is not #!/usr/bin/python, but #!/usr/bin/env python. But that seems to work well for me, too. I'd try to put the script onto several

Re: [gentoo-user] Running Scripts

2007-07-27 Thread Alex Schuster
Greg Lindstrom writes: I am programming Python (2.4.1) scripts to run on our Gentoo boxes and am having a bit of trouble I was hoping you could help me with. My file, hello.py looks like this: #!/usr/bin/python print 'hello, python' I add execute permission to the file and try to run it

Re: [gentoo-user] enable hal in kde

2007-07-20 Thread Alex Schuster
Stefán István writes: I've made the mistake that I compiled kde without the hal use flag. How can I find out which kde packages should be recompiled in order to be able to use hal in kde? Use the --newuse (-N) option to emerge: emerge --newuse --deep kde Looks to me like kdebase would be

Re: [gentoo-user] enable musicbrainz on amarok?

2007-07-20 Thread Alex Schuster
b.n. writes: I recently recompiled amarok with the musicbrainz USE flag enabled, to allow tagging of mp3 files with musicbrainz. However, when I try to Edit tag information... the Fill-in tags using MusicBrainz button is always disabled. It tells me to install Musicbrainz, but it's

[gentoo-user] emerge --depclean question

2007-07-20 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! Any idea why emerge --depclean wants to remove app-shells/bash-completion-config? It it needed by some installed packages: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ -- equery depends app-shells/bash-completion-config [ Searching for packages depending on app-shells/bash-completion-config... ]

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware upgrade and Gentoo

2007-07-18 Thread Alex Schuster
Daniel da Veiga writes: I just got a new box for use at work, its an Intel Core Duo 1.8, 1GB RAM, with an Intel graphic card, its a IBM Lenovo machine. My old one is an Itautec Athlon XP 1.1GHz with 512MB RAM and an Nvidia AGP graphic card. My make.conf (intersting part):

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox crash

2007-07-17 Thread Alex Schuster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am a newbie to gentoo. These days I met a serious problem for me. When I using firefox to browse youtube.com, it always crashed. Even worse, the system will crash, not just the X, because I cannot login again after use ctr+alt+backspace. And I cannot get any error

[gentoo-user] Portage curruptness problem

2007-07-06 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there, I have a problem with portage being unable to unmerge some old packages. No idea what do do about this. I already remerged portage, tried emerge --emtadata and emerge --regen. Maybe someone of you knows what to do? I would not like to dig into the portage source code... [EMAIL

[gentoo-user] Sending notification to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in LAN

2007-07-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! I'm loooking for a method to send a message to another user on another host in my LAN. Something like, um, NET SEND does under Windows. A window should open, displaying the message, nothing more is needed. The purpose is to inform me or other people in the house about incoming phone

Re: [gentoo-user] Sending notification to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in LAN

2007-07-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Randy Barlow writes: If you are already using Kopete, why not just use an instant message service like AIM or Jabber or another? I thought about that, too. But as I wrote I would prefer a window to open, instead of having a little notification in he taskbar that kopete received a message,

Re: [gentoo-user] Change the case of file names

2007-07-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Mich writes: I backed up my wife's WinXP fs using K3B and I used default settings which unfortunately converted all file names to CAPITALS and shortened them to 8 characters maximum, just like DOS would do. Is there a clever way to change some of them back to lower case (in batches within

Re: [gentoo-user] Sending notification to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in LAN

2007-07-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Hemmann, Volker Armin writes: On Montag, 2. Juli 2007, Alex Schuster wrote: I'm loooking for a method to send a message to another user on another host in my LAN. Something like, um, NET SEND does under Windows. A window should open, displaying the message, nothing more is needed. yes

Re: [gentoo-user] Sending notification to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in LAN

2007-07-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: Will this do? http://www.gerdfleischer.de/klinpopup.php Yes! Thanks, this looks nice. It minimizes into the tray, and opens as window when a message arrives (if configured so). I think I will be using it. I first had a little problem because of a five-second delay with

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with open source driver Devolo dLAN USB

2007-06-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Florian Philipp writes: While I do have /usr/include/linux/config.h, it is not being used. I have /usr/src/linux/include/linux/config.h on one machine, but not on the other, where compiling fails. Both machines use gentoo-sources. 2.6.18-r2 has it, 2.6.20-r7 does not. Seems it has become

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with open source driver Devolo dLAN USB

2007-06-25 Thread Alex Schuster
Florian Philipp writes: [...] #include /usr/include/linux/config.h [...] making all in tool make[1]: Entering directory `/home/dsl/dLAN-linux-package-v3/tool' make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/dsl/dLAN-linux-package-v3/tool' making all in driver

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with open source driver Devolo dLAN USB

2007-06-25 Thread Alex Schuster
I am confused now. I tried another system, and get the same error as you. But my source of devolo_usb.c looks different from yours. Florian Philipp writes: Am Montag 25 Juni 2007 17:23 schrieb Alex Schuster: Florian Philipp writes: [...] #include /usr/include/linux/config.h Here I

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel heat warnings at low temps

2007-06-25 Thread Alex Schuster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I get warnings like these: Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Mon Jun 25 16:06:35 2007 ... reader kernel: CPU0: Temperature above threshold Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Mon Jun 25 16:06:35 2007 ... reader kernel: CPU0: Running in modulated clock mode

X -configure trouble (was: Re: [gentoo-user] Radeon trouble)

2007-06-25 Thread Alex Schuster
Dimitar Toshev wrote: On Friday 01 June 2007, Mick wrote: On Friday 01 June 2007 20:09, Alex Schuster wrote: It is a ATI Radeon 9250 (128 MB-AGP, 200/240 MHz). I added fglrx and radeon to my VIDEO_CARDS in /etc/make.conf, now it is VIDEO_CARDS=fglrx radeon nvidia nv vesa vga fbdev. X

Re: [gentoo-user] sound (?) but no sound

2007-06-22 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: Elias Probst wrote: Go to: - KDE Controlcenter - Sound Multimedia - Sound-System Uncheck the box [x] Enable the sound system If artsd is still running, kill the process. OK. That was already done as well. However, I killed the process and went there to hit the

Re: [gentoo-user] sound (?) but no sound

2007-06-22 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes: It would appear that you have installed the kdemultimedia package. That's a monlithic one, and it WILL install noatun, which requires arts. I also have kdemultimedia installed, but not noatun. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ -- eix -I kdemultimedia [I] kde-base/kdemultimedia

Re: [gentoo-user] sound (?) but no sound

2007-06-22 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes: On Friday 22 June 2007, Alex Schuster wrote: Alan McKinnon writes: It would appear that you have installed the kdemultimedia package. That's a monlithic one, and it WILL install noatun, which requires arts. I also have kdemultimedia installed, but not noatun

Re: [gentoo-user] Damaged file in portage cache

2007-06-14 Thread Alex Schuster
Jean-Baptiste Mestelan writes: I have manually deleted a lot of files from /var/cache/edb/dep, but the offending ones can neither be removed nor renamed. (Was I all right, in manually butchering /var/cache/edb/dep ?) The fact that the remaining files contain strange characters is puzzling,

Re: [gentoo-user] eix question

2007-06-14 Thread Alex Schuster
Arnau Bria writes: could someone explain me what's the meaning of the [D] in this eix output? I did not find it in eix man page.. $ eix -c claws-mail [D] mail-client/claws-mail ([EMAIL PROTECTED]/05/07 - 2.6.1): Claws-Mail is an email client (and news reader) based on GTK+ It is

[gentoo-user] maintaining package.keywords

2007-06-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! Is there an automatism to inform me that a package has become stable, so I can remove it from package.keywords? I often need to add a package there, tvbrowser for example needed 24 more masked packages. But after a while they become stable (tvbrowser now only needs 5 unstable

Re: [gentoo-user] maintaining package.keywords

2007-06-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Albert Hopkins writes: I believe, per the man page, that you can specify any DEPEND atom, so you could include versions e.g: =media-tv/tvbrowser-2.5.0 ~x86 Have you tried something like that and it didn't work? I thought I had some while ago, but obviously I did something wrong,

Re: [gentoo-user] cvs server config error

2007-06-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Arnau Bria writes: looking for this errror in google I got : http://gentoo-wiki.com/Talk:HOWTO_CVS_Server which says that I must enable server use flag to prevent this error, but this flag does not exist for cvs (http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/use-index.xml) Um, it does. Look again :) Another

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Question about glsa-check

2007-06-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Kent Fredric writes: On 6/10/07, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The last several times I've run glsa-check, it's recommended that I emerge a package that portage claims is already installed on my system: [...] Its possible ( somehow ) you have dupe/stale tomcats lying around.

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-03 Thread Alex Schuster
Kevin O'Gorman writes: Can somebody help me stop and restart X? I'm using kdm for login. /etc/init.d/xdm restart Alex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Radeon trouble

2007-06-01 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! I have a new video card (and a new motherboard + CPU, but I got that to work already), and once again I am having trouble configuring X. It is a ATI Radeon 9250 (128 MB-AGP, 200/240 MHz). I added fglrx and radeon to my VIDEO_CARDS in /etc/make.conf, now it is VIDEO_CARDS=fglrx radeon

Re: [gentoo-user] X11 from another machine

2007-05-21 Thread Alex Schuster
Andrew Lowe writes: I have the situation where I have to connect to a remote, it's still in my office but X will be running across the network, Sun server so that I can run a CAD system. In the past I've done this from Windows using telnet and an X emulator, exporting the DISPLAY

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome / problem registering the panel with bonobo-activation-server / error code 3

2007-05-15 Thread Alex Schuster
Daevid Vincent writes: So now I'm out of ideas. Is there a 'debug' mode or something I can see what or why whatever is crashing? How can I be the *only* one having this issue?! Maybe you find something in ~/.xsession-errors, but I doubt that. There is also ~/.gnomerc-errors, have a look

Re: [gentoo-user] locate

2007-05-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Martin S writes: Anyway I don't have a mouse on that system, so I'll have to use Alan suggestion. You could use a little shell function like this one. Add it to your ~/.bashrc or somewhere like that. locatecd() { oldIFS=$IFS IFS=$'\n' results=( $( locate $1 ) )

[gentoo-user] Changing CFLAGS

2007-04-27 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! My motherboard or CPU just died, I am using a replacement system for a while. It's an Athlox-XP, while I had an AMD-64 before. I did not use 64 bit mode, but I have -march=k8 in my CFLAGS, and get lots of illegal instructions. Seems I need to re-compile everything with different

Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-14 Thread Alex Schuster
Bo Ørsted Andresen wonders: On Friday 13 April 2007 23:36:29 Anthony E. Caudel wrote: Gentoo since 1999. Really? I was under the impression the first release went out in 2002. Of course it could be installed before that but '99? In part 3 of his Making the distribution text Daniel Robbins,

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] app-text/binutils?? [SOLVED]

2007-03-07 Thread Alex Schuster
Bo Ørsted Andresen writes: On Tuesday 06 March 2007 02:17:27 Alex Schuster wrote: and what is the output of: # cat /var/db/pkg/sys-libs/{glibc-2.2.5-r2,glibc-2.5}/SLOT A blank line, and 2.2. You should definitely fix that. glibc-2.2.5-r2 is supposed to be in SLOT 2.2 too which

[gentoo-user] app-text/binutils??

2007-03-05 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! I am following the gcc upgrade guide, emerge -e system just completed fine. But emerge -e world gives this error message: Calculating world dependencies - emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy =app-text/binutils-2.15.94. (dependency required by sys-devel/gcc-4.1.1-r3 [ebuild])

Re: [gentoo-user] app-text/binutils??

2007-03-05 Thread Alex Schuster
Bo Ørsted Andresen asks for more information: On Tuesday 06 March 2007 00:03:15 Alex Schuster wrote: I am following the gcc upgrade guide, emerge -e system just completed fine. But emerge -e world gives this error message: Calculating world dependencies - emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] app-text/binutils?? [SOLVED]

2007-03-05 Thread Alex Schuster
Bo Ørsted Andresen writes: What is the output of: # grep app-text /var/db/pkg/sys-devel/gcc-*/* Nothing. and what is the output of: # cat /var/db/pkg/sys-libs/{glibc-2.2.5-r2,glibc-2.5}/SLOT A blank line, and 2.2. I grepped in /var/cache/edb, nothing there, and locate binutils|grep text

Re: [gentoo-user] What's the dmix equivalent these days?

2007-02-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: How am I supposed to specify sox? /usr/bin/sox doesn't play any sound. Have a look at this Do I really need aRts? thread, in the middle it says: now, copy this script into /usr/bin/Ksplay: #! /bin/sh sox $@ -v 1.0 -q -t alsa default emerge sox to get an external

Re: [gentoo-user] 'Hibernate' by power button

2007-02-16 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: /etc/acpi/default.sh: line 57: syntax error: unexpected end of file The last few of lines of my /etc/acpi/default.sh show this much: == ac_adapter) case $value in # Add code here to handle when

Re: [gentoo-user] 100% CPU usage with no processes to blame?

2007-02-16 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant writes: Shouldn't top have provided some kind of info for why the CPU usage was 100% for 5 minutes straight? If it does display trends, shouldn't it have picked up on that one? I bet it was updatedb. This is what top shows me when it is running: Cpu(s): 15.6% us, 12.6% sy, 0.3% ni,

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