Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for a minimalistic system

2007-01-20 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 20 January 2007 20:23, Vlad Dogaru wrote: On 1/20/07, Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One good thing (among others) of using a real desktop environment is that all apps share the vast majority of libraries which are loaded into memory just once. When you mix environments or use

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a home router

2007-01-18 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 18 January 2007 11:25, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: I've been holding back on replying for a while now, but I think you should try a simple iptables setup like this one: Excuse me, but my problem is not that my tables are not working, they work very well. I applied forwarding and

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a home router

2007-01-18 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 19 January 2007 08:45, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 02:10 +0100, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: hmm, shorewall must have done something that's more persistent. ... Well, these idea's are really stabbing in the dark, but you gotta start somewhere! thanks for your hints, i

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage Emerge Net Connect Error

2007-01-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 12 January 2007 16:45, Ryan Crisman wrote: I do a ping distfiles.gentoo.org ping: unknown host distfiles.gentoo.org Than i try and ping its ip and i get connect: network is unreachable Pinging www.Google.com: connect: network is unreachable contents of resolv.conf domain localdomain

Re: [gentoo-user] Mathematical Formulas

2007-01-11 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 11 January 2007 14:05, Ralf Stephan wrote: I was being very ambiguous the first time and I apologise. The problem is that I have some readily written texts in Windows doc format which contain mathematical formulas and I need to be able to read them. Not knowing if it's possible to read

Re: [gentoo-user] Core 2 duo: Building threaded program versions

2007-01-10 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 10 January 2007 09:46, Nelson, David (ED, PARD) wrote: Regarding pbzip2, by the way, I gave it a shot last night. Definately faster for the type of archive I was compressing (mp3s in a tar archive). If I remember rightly it was approx 1min30s vs 0min50s. Not quite twice as fast, but a

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Top/Bottom Posting

2007-01-10 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 10 January 2007 10:42, Kent Fredric wrote: That said, im in favour of bottom posting, logically it makes more sence. answers after questions, not before. :) I am for pruning the original mail and posting in context. ;-) Uwe -- A fast and easy generator of fractals for KDE:

Re: [gentoo-user] Core 2 duo: Building threaded program versions

2007-01-10 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 10 January 2007 13:20, Nelson, David (ED, PARD) wrote: -Original Message- From: Uwe Thiem [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 January 2007 08:40 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Core 2 duo: Building threaded program versions On 10 January 2007 09:46

Re: [gentoo-user] dbus downgrade via revdep-rebuild

2007-01-09 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 09 January 2007 08:01, Grant wrote: I upgraded to dbus-1.0.2, but a subsequent revdep-rebuild wants to downgrade dbus back to 0.62-r2. How can I fix this? Try to re-emerge those packages that pull in 0.62-r2. Then repeat your revdep-rebuild. Uwe -- A fast and easy generator of fractals

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get php4

2007-01-09 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 09 January 2007 17:35, Neil Bothwick wrote: Neil Bothwick There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore looking like an idiot. A very fine one. ;-) Uwe -- A fast and easy generator of fractals for KDE: http://www.SysEx.com.na/iwy-1.0.tar.bz2 Proof of concept of a TSP

Re: [gentoo-user] Init scripts waiting for deps in progress

2007-01-08 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 07 January 2007 19:10, Daniel Barkalow wrote: I have the following set of init stuff: net.wireless depends on ipw3945d ntp-client depends on net net.wireless automagically starts when the interface wireless appears net.wireless is in the boot runlevel When I boot the computer, it

[gentoo-user] grub-install vs. manual install

2007-01-08 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, I have just been bitten by this and bring it up here so others don't need to fall into the same pit. If you want (or are forced) to have /boot and your MBR on different harddrives (*not* partitions) invoke grub and do the manual install as described in the handbook rather than use

Re: [gentoo-user] grub-install vs. manual install

2007-01-08 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 08 January 2007 15:54, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 15:31:42 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: If you want (or are forced) to have /boot and your MBR on different harddrives (*not* partitions) invoke grub and do the manual install as described in the handbook rather than use grub

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Router for ssh tunnel/SOCKS proxy

2007-01-05 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 05 January 2007 14:22, Mick wrote: Hi All, Apologies for the off-topic post but I thought to ask here because there have been a couple of threads in the past where embedded Linux OS' for hardware routers were discussed and that may offer a solution to my problem. I would like to be able

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc

2007-01-05 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 05 January 2007 15:47, sean wrote: I am reading over the info on distcc so that I might be able to setup an older P4 1.3 Ghz system to have help compiling from my dual Opteron (amd64 mode). I only want the Opteron to help the P4, not the other way around, the Opteron does not need the

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc

2007-01-05 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 05 January 2007 18:47, sean wrote: Uwe Thiem wrote: On 05 January 2007 15:47, sean wrote: I am reading over the info on distcc so that I might be able to setup an older P4 1.3 Ghz system to have help compiling from my dual Opteron (amd64 mode). I only want the Opteron to help

Re: [gentoo-user] Slooooow gnome dialog

2007-01-04 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 04 January 2007 18:11, Bruno Lustosa wrote: Hello. I'm using audacious as my music player, and having all sorts of trouble with it. As it's a gnome application, it uses all of its dialog windows. For example, when I press the eject to add files, it opens the gnome open dialog. And here

Re: [gentoo-user] external USB harddrive

2007-01-04 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 04 January 2007 17:20, Richard Fish wrote: On 1/3/07, James Lockie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have one of these? :-) It mounts when I connect it but a user can't unmount it. My USB memory stick and USB card reader work fine. It is only the hard drive that I can't unmount as a

Re: [gentoo-user] archiving

2007-01-04 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 05 January 2007 08:56, James Lockie wrote: Randy Barlow wrote: On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 21:47 -0500, James Lockie wrote: Compressing a folder doesn't work. When I right click on a folder in konqueror and select compress, a please wait dialog opens and the progress bar just moves back

Re: [gentoo-user] kde - limit an icon to a single desktop

2007-01-02 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 02 January 2007 15:28, b.n. wrote: Uwe Thiem ha scritto: On 30 December 2006 20:09, »Q« wrote: This would be better asked in a KDE user forum, but I'm just getting Gentoo set up on a laptop and haven't found any KDE groups/lists yet. You can find all KDE-related lists on http

[gentoo-user] wrong subscription

2007-01-02 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, rage who subscribed to this list as [EMAIL PROTECTED]? Idot! /rage calm Would someone with enough karma please unsubscribe this address? /calm Uwe -- A fast and easy generator of fractals for KDE: http://www.SysEx.com.na/iwy-1.0.tar.bz2 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] libGl.so.1 / prelinking

2007-01-01 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 01 January 2007 14:04, Strong Cypher wrote: do you need opengl extension ? Yes. Well, I can live with 20 - 30 binaries not pre-linked. Just wondering because libGl hasn't given that trouble before. At leat, I didn't notice it. ;-) Uwe -- A fast and easy generator of fractals for KDE:

[gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild / missing ebuild

2007-01-01 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, revdep-rebuild produces a long list of binaries to be rebuilt. Not wuite surprising since I haven't done it on that box for a long while. Problem is it tells me that at least for one binary no ebuild exists but it doesn't tell me which binary. Bummer! How do I find out? Uwe -- A

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild / missing ebuild

2007-01-01 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 01 January 2007 16:57, Rudmer van Dijk wrote: Hi, On Monday 01 January 2007 15:16, Uwe Thiem wrote: revdep-rebuild produces a long list of binaries to be rebuilt. Not wuite surprising since I haven't done it on that box for a long while. Problem is it tells me that at least for one

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild / missing ebuild

2007-01-01 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 01 January 2007 19:15, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Monday 01 January 2007 08:16, Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild / missing ebuild': revdep-rebuild produces a long list of binaries to be rebuilt. Not wuite surprising since I haven't done

Re: [gentoo-user] libGl.so.1 / prelinking

2007-01-01 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 01 January 2007 19:52, Strong Cypher wrote: Oh I remember, I had this problem few month ago ... so they is a solution You absolutly need to remove ntpl for xorg-server and mesa Try : USE=-ntpl emerge -DNupv world to see what package are concerned, Interesting. Will try that tomorrow.

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild / missing ebuild

2007-01-01 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 02 January 2007 08:22, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Monday 01 January 2007 15:24, David Relson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild / missing ebuild': One can list binaries known to portage with: cat /var/db/pkg/*/*/CONTENTS | grep /usr/bin/ If

Re: [gentoo-user] kde - limit an icon to a single desktop

2006-12-31 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 30 December 2006 20:09, »Q« wrote: This would be better asked in a KDE user forum, but I'm just getting Gentoo set up on a laptop and haven't found any KDE groups/lists yet. You can find all KDE-related lists on http://lists.kde.org. Is there a way to have an app-launching icon appear on

Re: [gentoo-user] Few problems

2006-12-31 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 31 December 2006 13:51, Pavel Kouřil wrote: I have few problems with my gentoo. =// 1. After X WM (I use KDE, in fluxbox it was same) my PC have insane CPU and RAM usage. Why? =// [2.0GHz AMD, 512MB RAM] You need to provide a bit more information here for us to give any meaningful

Re: [gentoo-user] libGl.so.1 / prelinking

2006-12-31 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 31 December 2006 11:39, Strong Cypher wrote: do you use a proprietary drivers ? like ati or nvidia ? Nope, OSS drivers. Uwe -- A fast and easy generator of fractals for KDE: http://www.SysEx.com.na/iwy-1.0.tar.bz2 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: anti-portage wreckage?

2006-12-31 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 31 December 2006 15:40, Mick wrote: The PC centric desktop on which M$ built their business model may be under threat. If the WebOS [1], GoogleOS [2], internet based desktop [3], etc. take off, then what will enable Gentoo to become a predominant system of choice both in the server and in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: anti-portage wreckage?

2006-12-31 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 31 December 2006 20:20, Mick wrote: On Sunday 31 December 2006 16:02, Uwe Thiem wrote: This won't happen for various reasons. In the business world, the main reason is security. Who will trust an Internet Desktop Provider with their internal documents? The same people who

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: anti-portage wreckage?

2006-12-31 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 31 December 2006 20:57, Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote: On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 06:20:23PM +, Mick wrote: The second is nearly photo-realistic games. Of course. That is I think one area where a thin client will not be able to compete with a modern desktop PC. I don't play games and

Re: [gentoo-user] gtk+ wants to install xorg-server

2006-12-30 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 30 December 2006 08:01, Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, I'm currently updating an system which hasn't been updated for several weeks. For building gtk+ it now wants to install the X-server ! Is this problem already known ? How is that a problem? Since gtk+ is a GUI labrary, it needs

[gentoo-user] libGl.so.1 / prelinking

2006-12-30 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, anybody else seeing this? Prelinking of any binary linked against libGL.so.1 fails because that is a non-PIC lib? Uwe -- A fast and easy generator of fractals for KDE: http://www.SysEx.com.na/iwy-1.0.tar.bz2 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Kopete and high CPU usage

2006-12-30 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 30 December 2006 17:17, Dale wrote: Mick wrote: On Saturday 30 December 2006 14:04, Dale wrote: Dale wrote: I found out some more info. It only does it with one contact. I have mine set up to save my history and I have chatted a good bit with this person. If I open a chat

Re: [gentoo-user] Kaffeine e Wma

2006-12-26 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 26 December 2006 18:03, Alessandro Cipriani wrote: HI, i'm alessandro. I'm a newbie of gentoo. I've installed the system from stage 1 on a Asus Laptop. I've a problem: i don't know how i can play wma songs with kaffeine. The output error is: xine: found input plugin : file input plugin

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: anti-portage wreckage?

2006-12-26 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 26 December 2006 17:56, James wrote: So I update the test workstation on fridays, use it over the weekend a nd then update the other systems. Granted, if the devs release something (broken) over the weekend, I get screwed with this scheme sometimes. I should update the test system daily

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo and proxy variable

2006-12-25 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 25 December 2006 15:23, Daniel Iliev wrote: Mike Williams wrote: On Monday 25 December 2006 12:24, Daniel Iliev wrote: Where is it most appropriate to set ftp_proxy and http_proxy environment variables on Gentoo in order to use a proxy server with wget *when it is used by emerge from a

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge console colours

2006-12-25 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 25 December 2006 18:51, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: Where do they defined? Isn't it /etc/DIR_COLORS? Uwe -- A fast and easy generator of fractals for KDE: http://www.SysEx.com.na/iwy-1.0.tar.bz2 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] gentoo and proxy variable

2006-12-25 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 25 December 2006 20:31, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Monday 25 December 2006 15:02, Daniel Iliev wrote: grep -in proxy /etc/make.conf.example 144:# If you need to set a proxy for wget or lukemftp, add the appropriate export 145:# ftp_proxy=proxy and export http_proxy=proxy lines to

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] gentoo and proxy variable

2006-12-25 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 25 December 2006 21:18, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Monday 25 December 2006 19:19, Uwe Thiem wrote: So make the cronjob itself a shell script and set the variable in that script! Yes, that's what I said two posts above :-) Only, I sent mine 4 hours before you. At times, it takes quite

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2006-12-24 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 24 December 2006 15:12, Dale wrote: OK, so skip /proc, /sys and /dev then? I need to do some reading I guess, if it ever gets it downloaded that is. Yes, you can skip them. /tmp as well, but you have to create the empty directory after restoration. Same for /dev. I am nott too sure

Re: [gentoo-user] using package.provided

2006-12-22 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 22 December 2006 09:03, Alan McKinnon wrote: package.provided is not there for that purpose. It's there for cases when a package should be present but portage hasn't installed it (like highly custom kernels) and you don't intend for portage to ever install it either. But portage insists

Re: [gentoo-user] Has Linux jumped the Shark?

2006-12-21 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 21 December 2006 04:32, Jeff Rollin wrote: Hi all A discussion on the staff blogs over at OSNews about the Linux desktop got me thinking. Thom and Eugenia seem to think that the linux desktop peaked in 2001-2004, but I don't remember the hype around Ubuntu starting till well after that.

Re: [gentoo-user] using package.provided

2006-12-21 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 21 December 2006 18:40, Neil Bothwick wrote: package.provided is intended for use when you install something without portage - it's your way of telling portage the package is installed even though it's not in the database. What is that good for? Say I write my own app (like the one my

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-20 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 20 December 2006 11:43, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 08:18:41 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: I can't think of any method to get real numbers. Add sys-apps/gentoo-phonehome to all system profiles :) ;-) Or do what Ubuntu did and default all installs to use their time server

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-drm compile failure - linux/config.h not found

2006-12-20 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 20 December 2006 10:58, Alan McKinnon wrote: Hi, I'm sure I'm missing something here but can't quite pinpoint it. I want to install x11-drm and compare it to the drm in the mainline 2.6.19-suspend2-r1 kernel. I've disabled drm in my kernel config as required, and emerge x11-drm fails

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-20 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 20 December 2006 21:39, Mark Knecht wrote: If I wanted to take the plunge I should probably learn to run my own portage server where I suppose I could learn to keep things like this even if the main server wants to get rid of things. You don't need to do that. I have one box with a portage

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-19 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 20 December 2006 03:58, Grant wrote: I think other posters to this thread may be trying to compile a similar set of statistics, but I'll just come out and say it. Can we compare historical data on the number of Gentoo users and the rate of Gentoo maintenance and growth? Conceptually, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-18 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 19 December 2006 00:23, Bryan Østergaard wrote: Gentoo started with the stated goal of providing a metadistribution. This basically means providing the best possible foundation for others to tinker with any way they like. Be it building embedded applications, making the next 'Ubuntu' or

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual Layer burn program

2006-12-17 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 17 December 2006 16:28, Luigi Pinna wrote: Hi! How can I burn a 8.5 GByte iso? I tried with k3b and I receive an error and growisofs failed at 99.9% with input/output error. I searched in portage but I didn't find a program with dual layer support. I don't think it's the burning software

Re: [gentoo-user] Adjusting the cursor speed in the terminal

2006-12-16 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 16 December 2006 17:47, Roman Naumann wrote: Latin has the four cases Nominative, Genitive, Dative, Accusative and additionally the Vocative and the Ablative. I haven't seen any other languages with six cases. Russian. @Uwe Thiem Are you also German? You name sounds quite as if you're

Re: [gentoo-user] Adjusting the cursor speed in the terminal

2006-12-15 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 15 December 2006 10:08, Roman Naumann wrote: Hi, I`m using Sabayon currently. (For those of you who don`t know about it: It`s a full compatible Gentoo port (Thus, actually just a overlay based pre-installation)) Unfortunately, the cursor speed is set very slow by default. How can I change

Re: [gentoo-user] Memory Usage

2006-12-15 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 15 December 2006 13:53, Redouane Boumghar wrote: Hello all, Grant wrote: Also, I've noticed in top that when my server's 2GB of memory is filled, it uses a small amount of swap (~24k) before it frees some up. The Swap: 24k then remains. Is that normal? Yes I have also notice that

Re: [gentoo-user] Adjusting the cursor speed in the terminal

2006-12-15 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 15 December 2006 15:38, Alan McKinnon wrote: According to German friends of mine, it not only does, but tries to handle every possible case that could ever come up anywhere, anytime. A quick case study. The adjective is mager (thin or skinny). Male base form

Re: [gentoo-user] [O.T] Kernel and general Linux Benchmarking

2006-12-14 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 14 December 2006 15:03, Bruno Santos wrote: Hello all. I need to perform some benchmarks with the Kernel and with the distro itself but i cannot find any satisfactory app for that. ... and you probably won't. The question is: How do you benchmark a whole system? If you have some some

Re: [gentoo-user] turning off irrelevant mplayer errorFIXED?

2006-12-14 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 14 December 2006 11:28, Alan McKinnon wrote: man mplayer is an example of what a man page should be. All the info is there, full and complete :-) Well, well, well ... that the POV of a masochist. ;-) Uwe -- Mark Twain: I rather decline two drinks than a German adjective.

Re: [gentoo-user] turning off irrelevant mplayer errorFIXED?

2006-12-14 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 14 December 2006 18:51, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 18:41:02 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: BUT, I'll only start using info on the day someone can explain to me how to use it causing my intestines to leap out of my throat and strangling me in protest (apologies to Douglas

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel: pre load a module

2006-12-13 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 13 December 2006 01:08, Norberto Bensa wrote: Hello Hans, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hi, On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 21:09:00 -0300 Norberto Bensa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: I believe that if I load piix first (the PATA driver for Intel chipset) I will not

Re: [gentoo-user] Static ip address

2006-12-13 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 12 December 2006 23:15, Felipe Ribeiro wrote: Did they change anything on how you configure your static ip address? I've updated my system today and connot access the internet anymore, when using my static ip address, just dhcp. I used to use my /etc/conf.d/net like this:

Re: [gentoo-user] turning off irrelevant mplayer errorFIXED?

2006-12-13 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 13 December 2006 15:56, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Wednesday 13 December 2006 06:25, maxim wexler wrote: [SNIP] I note the mplayer man page is 6700 lines long. Is there something out there less cumbersome? $info mplayer is the same. Not that I'm aware of. Maybe google... You do

Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing agetty processes

2006-12-13 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 13 December 2006 18:02, Grant wrote: I seem to have 6 agetty processes running on my system, but I'm the only one who ever logs into my server. How can I reduce the number of running agetty processes? Those are the getties sitting on your virtual consoles F1 - F6 and let you log in on

Re: [gentoo-user] Static ip address

2006-12-13 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 13 December 2006 17:38, Felipe Ribeiro wrote: i tried this, but still doesn't work modules=(ifconfig) Why do you insist on ifconfig? /etc/conf.d/net.example clearly indicates that iproute2 is the default - for good reason. config_eth0=(192.168.254.2) Try: config_eth0=(

Re: [gentoo-user] Static ip address

2006-12-13 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 13 December 2006 21:34, Leandro Melo de Sales wrote: Era o que eu ia te dizer agora! :p Eu tive esse mesmo problema. Se liga, é tu que outro dia encontrei aqui na lista e que faz computação na UFCG? You are most probably right. ;-) Uwe -- Mark Twain: I rather decline two drinks than a

Re: [gentoo-user] turning off irrelevant mplayer errorFIXED?

2006-12-13 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 13 December 2006 22:20, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 16:11:32 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: I once found an HTML version of that man page that is slightly easier to browse. Unfortunately, I don't remember the URL - probably somewhere on their web site. man:mplayer if you use

[gentoo-user] almost completely OT: mouses

2006-12-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, this is for English native speakers (British English, American English and colonial English alike). I was looking up something in my Oxford dictionary. First, I had to make sure how they indicate irregular plurals. The first word that came to mind was mouse. Look what they write

Re: [gentoo-user] almost completely OT: mouses

2006-12-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 12 December 2006 18:24, Neil Bothwick wrote: I have never seen anyone (except non-native speakers by mistake) use mouses as the plural for a computer mouse. Are the people of the Oxford dictionary nuts, or is this really correct and mice wrong in this case? 1) You have waaay

Re: [gentoo-user] almost completely OT: mouses

2006-12-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 12 December 2006 18:41, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: While language evolution is not a democratic process, I've never heard *anyone* use the word mouses for *anything* and if I had I would have corrected them by telling them mice is the proper plural of mouse, even when talking about a

Re: [gentoo-user] Projector on my laptop

2006-12-11 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 11 December 2006 06:05, Felipe Ribeiro wrote: Hi, I have an Acer Aspire 5002 WLMI laptop running gentoo. I use my display on 1280x800 and i want to use a projector to give a speech and show slides and live coding. What do i have to configure? My xorg.conf? what do I have to change? Your

Re: [gentoo-user] One more time -- KDM 3.5.5 and kdesktop crash

2006-12-08 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 08 December 2006 15:36, Steve Brenneis wrote: Could not open library kwin.la: /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkdeinit_kwin.so: undefined symbol: _ZN12NETRootInfo4C2EP9_XDisplaymPKcPmiib The strange thing here is that there is no such thing as kwin.la. I have re-emerged kwin and kdm. This error does

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with udev (was joliet fs)

2006-12-08 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 08 December 2006 16:36, Richard Fish wrote: On 12/8/06, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: K3B shows that it Reads DVD: Yes and it does not write on any media. I believe that it is a Compaq branded LG DVD-ROM. Is there anywhere where I can see what types of media it can read, or is this a

Re: [gentoo-user] One more time -- KDM 3.5.5 and kdesktop crash

2006-12-08 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 08 December 2006 20:13, Steve Brenneis wrote: Uwe Thiem wrote: On 08 December 2006 15:36, Steve Brenneis wrote: Could not open library kwin.la: /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkdeinit_kwin.so: undefined symbol: _ZN12NETRootInfo4C2EP9_XDisplaymPKcPmiib The strange thing here

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation of openoffice in 4 hours or more?! :s

2006-12-06 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 06 December 2006 12:05, Alan McKinnon wrote: But nohup doesn't give you a way to reconnect the backgrounded process or even to see it's output. You kinda just leave it to run till it doesn't show up in ps anymore Not exactly. For seeing its output, there always is tail -f nohup.out. You

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation of openoffice in 4 hours or more?! :s

2006-12-06 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 06 December 2006 13:07, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 6 Dec 2006 12:05:16 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I've not use nohup for a few years, not since I discovered screen, but ISTR you need to run in in the background. nohup was designed to do things like run a process overnight and

Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs

2006-12-05 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 05 December 2006 08:17, James wrote: Hello, I'm having trouble with a routine update on a system. [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.4-r2 (is blocking kde-base/kde-env-3-r4) [ebuild N] kde-base/kde-env-3-r4 0 kB I've unmerged kde-base/kdelibs several times and then tried to

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation of openoffice in 4 hours or more?! :s

2006-12-05 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 05 December 2006 20:21, Leandro Melo de Sales wrote: Hi, # date Tue Dec 5 10:12:01 BRT 2006 # emerge openoffice { in other terminal } # date Tue Dec 5 15:24:01 BRT 2006 and portage continues to compile openoffice, it didn't finished yet. Is it so slow or there are

Re: [gentoo-user] Transcoding movie DVD to MPEG4?

2006-12-03 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 03 December 2006 15:28, Mick wrote: Hi All, I want to copy a movie from a DVD which I bought in a shop, to another DVD to take with me on holiday. I'll be playing back the copy on my laptop and (if it is feasible) the hotel's DVD player. I thought that K3B and a double layer blank DVD+R

Re: [gentoo-user] media-libs/libpng-1.2.13 emerge -u missing file

2006-11-30 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 30 November 2006 21:59, Joem wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 15:37:59 +, Joem wrote: Perhaps I have --sync'ed with a broken mirror, but I have to wait to try --sync again (one --sync per day rule). That's not a hard and fast rule. you won't get banned for syncing

Re: [gentoo-user] udev upgrade and non-working eth0

2006-11-27 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 27 November 2006 15:58, Mrugesh Karnik wrote: And this is the ifconfig output: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0D:88:45:C1:C9 inet addr:10.40.37.47 Bcast:10.40.37.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0

Re: [gentoo-user] Coldplug deprecated by udev-103 update?

2006-11-25 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 25 November 2006 13:37, pk wrote: Hi! After a sync this morning I get this: Calculating world dependencies... done! [blocks B ] sys-apps/coldplug (is blocking sys-fs/udev-103) [blocks B ] =sys-fs/udev-089 (is blocking sys-apps/coldplug-20040920-r1) [ebuild U ]

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is DISPLAYMANAGER=gdm now?

2006-11-23 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 23 November 2006 15:23, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I'm doing a gcc-4 upgrade and is seems that the DISPLAYMANAGER=gdm statement has been moved from /etc/rc.conf to some other file. Where is the display manager properly set these days? /etc/conf.d/xdm Uwe -- Mark Twain: I rather decline

[gentoo-user] drupal masked

2006-11-16 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, all drupal ebuilds have been package masked it seems on the 9th of September. The emerge output refers to bug #98524. I looked it up and it seems to be a very old bug from last year. Curious about yet another possible CMS vulnerability, I searched the gentoo forums and google for

Re: [gentoo-user] Remove prelink and purge prelinked exec

2006-11-13 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 13 November 2006 14:44, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Sunday 12 November 2006 21:40, Jesús Guerrero wrote: I never trusted prelink. So, I dont trust it to un-prelink either. The best way to make sure your binaries are not altered by 3rd party tools is this: emerge -euD world This

Re: [gentoo-user] mounttool

2006-11-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 12 November 2006 22:35, Richard Fish wrote: On 11/11/06, Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, some distros come with a little utility called mounttool. I can loop mount images of encrypted filesystems (cryptsetup but for loop mounting). I can't seem to find it in gentoo. Does

Re: [gentoo-user] Remove prelink and purge prelinked exec

2006-11-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 12 November 2006 22:40, Jesús Guerrero wrote: I never trusted prelink. So, I dont trust it to un-prelink either. Just out of curiosity: Why? As in it doesn't do its job or as in it makes the system unstable? My whole system is prelinked and it is very stable. Startup times of C++

[gentoo-user] mounttool

2006-11-11 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, some distros come with a little utility called mounttool. I can loop mount images of encrypted filesystems (cryptsetup but for loop mounting). I can't seem to find it in gentoo. Does it hide somewhere? Or can someone recommend a similar tool in portage? Uwe -- Mark Twain: I rather

[gentoo-user] phonetic alphabet

2006-11-02 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, does anybody know about a font for the international phonetic alphabet? Uwe -- Mark Twain: I rather decline two drinks than a German adjective. http://www.SysEx.com.na -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-30 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 28 October 2006 23:39, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 28 October 2006 16:41, b.n. wrote: Dale ha scritto: If you use XFS, make sure you have good power. XFS does not like power failures at all. I have had to reinstall on a second rig because of this very problem. If you have a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SOLVED Creating loop devices

2006-10-30 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 30 October 2006 17:59, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 30 October 2006 16:57, Harm Geerts wrote: On Monday 30 October 2006 13:54, Alan McKinnon wrote: Hi all, I seem to be missing my loop devices in /dev... And I don't find any docs on the current method to do this. I imagine

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-28 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 28 October 2006 12:16, CapSel wrote: It's now more than five times when reiserfs has sucked my data into /dev/null. At the begining I thout that was a hardware problem - disk, ram... but now I am almost 100% sure that reiserfs IS NOT stable file system. It doesn't matter if I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-28 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 28 October 2006 13:14, Alexander Skwar wrote: · Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm even looking forward to Reiserfs4 myself. Well, actually I wouldn't hold my breath for Reiserfs anymore, now that Hans Reiser is in jail. I really don't think that reiserfs will have a good future. He isn't in

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Funky Screen Resolution

2006-10-27 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 27 October 2006 15:26, Michael Sullivan wrote: My wife's computer is having a screen resolution problem in gnome. The only screen resolutions available are 856x480 and 640x480. I don't understand this, as I have set in her xorg.conf file to only allow 1024x768 and 800x600 . Where is this

[gentoo-user] OOO and parallel compiling

2006-10-25 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, I am compiling OOO 2.0.4 currently and am somehow surprised. Checking the ebuild shows that it still sets JOBS=1 but it *does* use distcc in my setup. At least parts of OOO are compiled on another box. It never did that before. Did I misread the ebuild? Anyway, a positive surprise.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Amorok and getting started.

2006-10-25 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 25 October 2006 15:00, Dale wrote: I did figure out what I did earlier. Tell me if you think I am doing wrong here. When I insert a CD, the window pops up on what to do. I select 'extract and encode'. Then it saves it to ~/wav when I tell it to 'rip' them. I then move it to my music

Re: [gentoo-user] OOO and parallel compiling

2006-10-25 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 25 October 2006 16:00, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Mittwoch, 25. Oktober 2006 14:24 schrieb ext Uwe Thiem: I am compiling OOO 2.0.4 currently and am somehow surprised. Checking the ebuild shows that it still sets JOBS=1 but it *does* use distcc in my setup. At least parts of OOO

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Amorok and getting started.

2006-10-25 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 25 October 2006 17:51, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 15:37:30 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: You can, though, control amaroK's volume to a certain extent in amaroK itself. Try to put amaroK's internal control to 100% and drop PCM a bit lower. It might help though I doubt it will help

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Amorok and getting started.

2006-10-25 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 25 October 2006 20:01, Jesús Guerrero wrote: Go to kcontrol - sounds multimedia - system notifications Then, press the prefferences button at the right bottom corner, there you can set the volume, but only if you are using the kde sound system (arts), if you use an external player, I

[gentoo-user] --skipfirst

2006-10-24 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, it seems ivtv needs a newer kernel than the one I am currently using; it depends on a configuration symbol in the kernel that is not present in mine. Since I don't have the time right now to go through a kernel configuration, I want to skip ivtv. emerge --update --skipfirst world

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms alternative

2006-10-23 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 23 October 2006 14:39, Kristian Poul Herkild wrote: Dave V skrev: Hello, I just read on the gentoo-dev list that xmms is about to be removed, but it's probably the only sound player that I've used. Could someone recommend a good alternative. If you are using KDE anyway, try amaroK

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