Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Merry Christmas!

2005-12-24 Thread Philip Webb
on this season, but we can remember to greet them when Ramadan next ends, a bit earlier each year. Greetings to Gentooists wherever whenever ! -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC

Re: [gentoo-user] VI

2005-12-24 Thread Philip Webb
simple editor, I recommend 'app-editors/e3'. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University

[gentoo-user] leap second

2005-12-24 Thread Philip Webb
create problems for those running experiments; if the latter, does anyone know how it is done ? The last leap second was 1998/9 , before NTP was widely used. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to install RPMs on Gentoo

2005-12-22 Thread Philip Webb
051222 Tom Smith wrote: What is the best way to install the RPMs on Gentoo? You could try 'app-arch/rpm2targz', then install by hand in /usr/local . -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] A confession

2005-12-20 Thread Philip Webb
by far is re-installing Gentoo. And let's tell the devs how much we appreciate their donated time. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting to kde 3.5

2005-12-18 Thread Philip Webb
is about choice, so everyone do it his/her way, Gentoo is about control, which is why I choose to do it my way. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting to kde 3.5

2005-12-18 Thread Philip Webb
051218 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 10:27:50 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: I consider 'world' an unsatisfactory feature of Gentoo never use it except for 'emerge -Dup world' to get an ordering for updates before emerging some of them individually in a weekly session. No wonder you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: bash and keeping history

2005-12-04 Thread Philip Webb
histappend' It's in 'man bash': search for 'histappend'. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University

Re: default stage3 (was : [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo still on the right path?)

2005-11-21 Thread Philip Webb
than Linspire, but should not be introduced to Gentoo until they're used to UNIX methods are prepared to invest a bit of their on-going time in sysadmin. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC

Re: [gentoo-user] use of /usr/src/linux symlink

2005-11-09 Thread Philip Webb
) -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] use of /usr/src/linux symlink

2005-11-09 Thread Philip Webb
051109 Holly Bostick wrote: Philip Webb schreef: I have 2.6.14 working ok (still ~x86), but am keeping 2.6.12 2.6.9 around in case something unexpected happens with 2.6.14 . However, if I want to use 2.6.12 , I will have to recompile Nvidia. Why? Yes (pink face): as I now realise after

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.14 Nvidia

2005-11-07 Thread Philip Webb
051107 Petteri R?ty wrote: Philip Webb wrote: Has anyone got Nvidia to work with Kernel 2.6.14 ? I had it working with 2.6.12 , but got an error with 2.6.14 : can't initialise Nvidia module, no qualified screen available (or words to that effect). I have recompiled Nvidia etc. No problems

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.14 Nvidia

2005-11-07 Thread Philip Webb
051107 Catalin Grigoroscuta wrote: Philip Webb wrote: Has anyone got Nvidia to work with Kernel 2.6.14 ? I had it working with 2.6.12 , but got an error with 2.6.14 : (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialise NVIDIA kernel module! (EE) NVIDIA(0): *** aborting *** (EE) Screen(s) found

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.14 Nvidia [SOLVED]

2005-11-07 Thread Philip Webb
not to have it with some version combination. Thanks to everyone who offered advice. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O

[gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.14 Nvidia

2005-11-06 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] Shutdown/Restart Issue

2005-11-05 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] Old devfs files in /etc

2005-11-02 Thread Philip Webb
). -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Generate data dvd iso image with growisofs or other

2005-10-26 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] Generate data dvd iso image with growisofs or other

2005-10-26 Thread Philip Webb
051026 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 17:01:08 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: (1) which package is 'growisofs' in ? app-cdr/dvd+rw-tools (2) is the actual writing speed faster with DVD's than CD's ? they hold a lot more data, but is writing-time proportional to content ? Yes it is. 1X

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice 2 rc3 revdep rebuild

2005-10-17 Thread Philip Webb
just merged, so I do '^c' merge the other listed items by hand. It looks like a bug in Revdep-rebuild: report it, if you want. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC

Re: [gentoo-user] [Completely and totally OT] FVWM-Crystal...!!!

2005-09-29 Thread Philip Webb
is a lot like finding a lover/church. Aristotle describes the phenomenon in detail in books 9-10 of his Ethics. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacing main harddisk

2005-09-19 Thread Philip Webb
it, but it seemed a useful emergency aid. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto

Re: [gentoo-user] new 2 gentoo

2005-09-16 Thread Philip Webb
machine. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] portage - xcdroast

2005-09-06 Thread Philip Webb
the problem is temporary, tho' for ordinary data back-ups, it's not too difficult to use CLI. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT

Re: [gentoo-user] portage - xcdroast

2005-09-06 Thread Philip Webb
050906 Holly Bostick wrote: Philip Webb schreef: The problem with Gnomebaker, Graveman K3b is that they all require a host of sound-oriented dependencies. Do they work with '--nodepends' ? You might instead try controlling your USE flags: I do, but new ones keep getting added ... (smile

Re: [gentoo-user] why is Joe part of 'system' ?

2005-09-05 Thread Philip Webb
on underneath some stone unnoticed by everyone. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto

[gentoo-user] why is Joe part of 'system' ?

2005-09-04 Thread Philip Webb
to be anywhere. Can anyone suggest where he's lurking ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O

Re: [gentoo-user] why is Joe part of 'system' ?

2005-09-04 Thread Philip Webb
050904 Mike Williams wrote: On Sunday 04 September 2005 15:30, Philip Webb wrote: Intending to unmerge Joe (I have Vim E3 as non-GUI editors available), I encountered   !!! Trying to unmerge package(s) in system profile. 'app-editors/joe'    !!! This could be damaging to your system I've

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

2005-09-04 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /dev/cdrom has gone!

2005-09-03 Thread Philip Webb
changed over a couple of days ago have the correct devices in /dev . Are you using an upto-date kernel ( 2.6.12-gentoo-rnn ) ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.12-r9 : sensors don't work : solved with comment

2005-09-02 Thread Philip Webb
050901 Philip Webb wrote: 050902 Holly Bostick wrote: Philip Webb schreef: I've installed kernel 2.6.12-gentoo-r9 Gkrellm doesn't show sensors. There's no problem with 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 . I am also using GKrellm2, and while I didn't know it had its own sensors, they work fine : temperature

Re: [gentoo-user] workspace setups

2005-09-01 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

2005-09-01 Thread Philip Webb
or hindered by awkwardnesses. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is the emerge history

2005-09-01 Thread Philip Webb
-logs which will add 2 new files to that dir for each emerge you do. NB this will build up rapidly, so be careful if your disk space is limited. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC

[gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.12-r9 : sensors don't work

2005-09-01 Thread Philip Webb
the problem, but I've just done that it made no difference. Has anyone else encountered this problem or have any advice ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.12-r9 : sensors don't work

2005-09-01 Thread Philip Webb
050901 Holly Bostick wrote: Philip Webb schreef: I've installed kernel 2.6.12-gentoo-r9 find Gkrellm doesn't show sensors. There's no problem with 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 . The same modules are being installed removed at each (re)boot. There is a recent thread on the forum which reported

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.12-r9 : sensors don't work

2005-09-01 Thread Philip Webb
050902 Holly Bostick wrote: Philip Webb schreef: I've installed kernel 2.6.12-gentoo-r9 Gkrellm doesn't show sensors. There's no problem with 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 . I am also using GKrellm2, and while I didn't know it had its own sensors, they work fine : temperature, fan, thermal, hdd

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: font management software

2005-08-31 Thread Philip Webb
... (grin). Apart from the basic media-libs/freetype , the other font packages are in /usr/portage/media-fonts . -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre

[gentoo-user] booting into single mode

2005-08-31 Thread Philip Webb
to a login prompt as usual. Replacing 'S' with 'single' doesn't work either. Does anyone have single mode set up satisfactorily ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC

[gentoo-user] rc script opacity

2005-08-31 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] booting into single mode

2005-08-31 Thread Philip Webb
050831 Mariusz P?kala wrote: On 2005-08-31 09:25:48 -0400 (Wed, Aug), Philip Webb wrote: Is it still possible to boot into 'single' mode, ie directly into a no-login root system (for emergencies) ? The kernel dox suggest this should work in Lilo image = /boot/kernel-2.6.9-gentoo-r1

Re: [gentoo-user] booting into single mode

2005-08-31 Thread Philip Webb
050831 Bert Buchholz wrote: On Wed 31.08 09:25, Philip Webb wrote: Is it still possible to boot into 'single' mode, ie directly into a no-login root system (for emergencies) ? You can always do that by appending init=/bin/sh to the kernel line This gets the same result as 'append=emergency

Re: [gentoo-user] many packages are available in gentoo?

2005-08-28 Thread Philip Webb
the figure in an article somewhere, the simple answer today is more than 10 000 . -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Mozilla Google behind the scenes payola

2005-08-10 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] mutt question

2005-08-06 Thread Philip Webb
If you use Ssmtp as your MTA, change /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf like mine : # Set this to never rewrite the From: line (unless not given) # and to use that address in the from line of the envelope. # PP 050302 : uncommented to get 'Philip Webb' in from line : ok FromLineOverride=YES

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mutt question

2005-08-06 Thread Philip Webb
=%4C %Z %D %-20.20n %5l %s # PP 031015 for Gentoo -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Badges

2005-08-04 Thread Philip Webb
support. Gentoo is for people who want to manage their own machine in their own way the real bouncer at the door is the DIY installation test. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC

[gentoo-user] Xpp segmentation fault

2005-08-03 Thread Philip Webb
it could be from a dependency. Does anyone have any helpful thoughts ? Upto-date stable Gentoo, KDE 3.4.1 , Xpp 1.5 , Xorg-x11-6.8.2-r1 . -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC

Re: [gentoo-user] recompiling vim linked to libncursesw

2005-07-27 Thread Philip Webb
-buffysize -cjk +crypt -imap -mbox -nls -nntp -sasl +slang +ssl -vanilla -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O

Re: [gentoo-user] switching to LCD monitor

2005-07-23 Thread Philip Webb
to it. I would assume that LCDs are less susceptible to damage than CRTs, if they are given the wrong sync refresh rates. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre

[gentoo-user] switching to LCD monitor

2005-07-21 Thread Philip Webb
, wiki dox, but found nothing to help. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto

Re: [gentoo-user] what's new with all those new packages?

2005-07-11 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] mutt probs

2005-07-07 Thread Philip Webb
, 'emerge ssmtp' edit /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf to taste, then specify it in ~/.muttrc : set sendmail=/usr/sbin/ssmtp -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban

Re: [gentoo-user] konsole font

2005-06-28 Thread Philip Webb
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[gentoo-user] logs changed from bz2 to gz

2005-06-07 Thread Philip Webb
a tighter compression than Gzip , the change seems odd. Does anyone have any insights into this change ? Any reasons to use a different logger rather than Sysklogd ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] setserial : needed or not ?

2005-06-06 Thread Philip Webb
050605 Francisco Ares wrote: Philip Webb wrote: There have been some changes to what's included in 'system' recently. After checking /usr/portage/profiles/base/packages various 'virtuals' it seemed that pkg 'setserial' had been dropped from 'system', so after trying 'qpkg -I -q setserial

Re: [gentoo-user] setserial : needed or not ?

2005-06-06 Thread Philip Webb
050606 Rumen Yotov wrote: Philip Webb wrote: There have been some changes to what's included in 'system' recently. After checking /usr/portage/profiles/base/packages various 'virtuals' it seemed that pkg 'setserial' had been dropped from 'system', so after trying 'qpkg -I -q setserial

Re: [gentoo-user] symbolic link to var tmp

2005-06-04 Thread Philip Webb
050603 Andreas Vinsander wrote: Philip Webb wrote: IIRC you can make a symbolic link only within the same partition. others please correct me, if i'm mistaken. I will correct you now! You can make symbolic links across partitions, just try it! ok thanks (wry grin)! you are correct

Re: [gentoo-user] symbolic link to var tmp

2005-06-03 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Online stores (that ship to Canada)

2005-06-02 Thread Philip Webb
an 'on-line shipping' link. i always go there. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University

Re: [gentoo-user] Console background images and colored ls output

2005-05-19 Thread Philip Webb
050519 darren kirby wrote: $ echo alias ls='ls --color=auto' ~/.bashrc ? shouldn't that be '' ... ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

2005-05-19 Thread Philip Webb
050519 Tero Grundstr?m wrote: On Thu, 19 May 2005, Philip Webb wrote: i don't even do the approved 'emerge world' in maintaining my system -- various snips -- I'd also like to see portage keeping it in alphapetical order. At the moment it is a mess because of that *too*. yes, that's a 2nd

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

2005-05-18 Thread Philip Webb
to the devs who make it all happen (big smile). -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto

Re: [gentoo-user] Programs executed as root cannot connect to X server

2005-05-08 Thread Philip Webb
. perhaps KDE takes care of the necessary authority permissions. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O

Re: [gentoo-user] Please Use Subjects

2005-05-08 Thread Philip Webb
; at least it's not some weird Thunderbird extension, or my ISP... i haven't seen this phenomenon with Mutt. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban

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