[gentoo-user] crossdev/icecream

2010-01-22 Thread Roger Mason
directory is: /tmp/tmp.mvQTLnojyc/ Looking in /usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/ there is no gcc-bin/ directory, hence the error. Does anyone have suggestions on how to proceed? Thanks, Roger

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto generate a list of installed packages?

2009-12-28 Thread Roger Mason
-install gentoo on a laptop that had not been updated in a very long time. Cheers, Roger

Re: [gentoo-user] xinerama on dual head radeon 9600

2009-12-16 Thread Roger Mason
Sebastian Beßler webmas...@darkmetatron.de writes: Am 14.12.2009 21:39, schrieb Roger Mason: Hello, I'm trying to set up a radeon 9600 in an Apple G5 with two monitors. I've tried both Xinerama and MergedFB. Hello, the reason for segfaulting is that you try to use a zaphod style

Re: [OT] [gentoo-user] xinerama on dual head radeon 9600

2009-12-16 Thread Roger Mason
mix. I learned that the hard way. You just made my day :) Zaphod style? What is that? Cheers, Roger

Re: [OT] [gentoo-user] xinerama on dual head radeon 9600

2009-12-16 Thread Roger Mason
you don't get quite the same effect using the Zaphod from the new movie. Nobody stacks twinview/cinerama like *that*!) Two headed. Duh! I should have figured it out. I heard HGG on the radio in the 1970's (?). Roger

[gentoo-user] xinerama on dual head radeon 9600

2009-12-14 Thread Roger Mason
tried MergedFB. That does not crash but i just get two identical views of my desktop. Sorry for the long post. I'd appreciate any help offered. Thanks, Roger

Re: [gentoo-user] only 1 remote machine is receiving distcc jobs

2009-12-04 Thread Roger Mason
Schuster pointed out. It is small and I have always found that it compiles fine with distcc. Just passing on a tip I saw in this forum. Good luck, Roger

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc 4.2.4 fails to build [solved]

2009-12-02 Thread Roger Mason
installed. Roger

[gentoo-user] gcc 4.2.4 fails to build

2009-12-01 Thread Roger Mason
should I change it to? gcc-4.2.4 would only be used for non-portage compiling so, am I right in thinking that after it is built it would be safe to revert to -march=core2? Thanks, Roger

Re: [gentoo-user] eth1 won't start

2009-11-28 Thread Roger Mason
errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) Best wishes, Roger

Re: [gentoo-user] eth1 won't start [solved]

2009-11-28 Thread Roger Mason
:7b, NAME=eth0 SUBSYSTEM==net, DRIVERS==?*, ATTR{address}==00:10:b5:e0:cc:c8, NAME=eth1 Yes, that fixed it. Many thanks, Roger

[gentoo-user] eth1 won't start

2009-11-27 Thread Roger Mason
not exist * Please verify hardware or kernel module (driver) I'd appreciate any help. Thanks, Roger Linux lowalbite 2.6.26-gentoo-r3 #6 Fri Nov 27 14:01:52 NST 2009 i686 Pentium II (Deschutes) GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

[gentoo-user] gthumb

2009-11-24 Thread Roger Cahn
failed. I don't have totem on my PC I made a lafilefixer Thank you for a help Regards Roger

Re: [gentoo-user] gthumb

2009-11-24 Thread Roger Cahn
. Perhaps something else? I tried lafilefixer --justfixit without success. When we read revdep-rebuild answer we can see that the broken libs require -lesd I can't find neither what it means nor what to do... Roger

Re: [gentoo-user] sound on intel imac [solved]

2009-11-18 Thread Roger Mason
edit! Dumb. Best wishes, Roger

[gentoo-user] sound on intel imac

2009-11-14 Thread Roger Mason
suggestions or knows for sure that the sound system on these machines cannot be made to work in Gentoo it would be useful to find out before I waste more time on it. Thanks, Roger

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg won't start on intel iMac

2009-11-07 Thread Roger Mason
Hello David, daid kahl daid...@gmail.com writes: 2009/11/6 Roger Mason rma...@mun.ca: I have an intel iMac Core 2 Duo with an ATI radeon HD 2400 XT video card.  I have not been able to get X working. I'm also running on an apple machine (macbook), so I might be able to help. My video

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Iscan

2009-09-19 Thread Roger Cahn
help. Roger

Re: [gentoo-user] Iscan-2

2009-09-19 Thread Roger Cahn
language so you may be better to read the links than me. ;-) Thank you Dale for your help. I'll try to google what you showed me cheers Roger

[gentoo-user] Iscan

2009-09-18 Thread Roger Cahn
the packages had libltdl.so.3 broken. I don't know how to make iscan work. Thank you for help Roger

[gentoo-user] Iscan-2

2009-09-18 Thread Roger Cahn
. Roger

Re: [gentoo-user] Iscan

2009-09-18 Thread Roger Cahn
... done! [ebuild R ] media-gfx/iscan-2.11.0 * Now you can remove -p (or --pretend) from arguments and re-run revdep-rebuild. Of course, revdep-rebuild iscan failes again! Isn't anything to do about libsane-epkowa.so.1.0.15 ? Thank you for your try. Roger

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dev-libs/boost-1.35.0-r2 and x11-libs/vte-0.17.4-r3 still linked to libpython2.5.so.1.0 after upgrading to python-2.6.2-r1

2009-08-21 Thread Roger Cahn
this is what I wrote in my initial post (I just misspelled it -python-upgrade -) OK. Have a nice day. Roger

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dev-libs/boost-1.35.0-r2 and x11-libs/vte-0.17.4-r3 still linked to libpython2.5.so.1.0 after upgrading to python-2.6.2-r1

2009-08-20 Thread Roger Cahn
Anyway, thanks for helping. Did you try python-updater? Regards Roger

[gentoo-user] apache https setup

2009-07-17 Thread Roger Mason
a lot of time searching the web and modifying the various config files but I can't get the thing to work. Any help will be much appreciated. Thanks, Roger

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xset fp+ fails

2009-07-08 Thread Roger Mason
maybe you're running your own web server? Maybe the server is chrooted for security purposes? No nothing to do with a web-server and not chrooted. Thanks, Roger

[gentoo-user] xset fp+ fails

2009-07-07 Thread Roger Mason
rmason rmason 4096 Nov 4 2003 TrueType I have tried with and without xfs. If anyone knows how to get this running please help. Thanks, Roger

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xset fp+ fails

2009-07-07 Thread Roger Mason
2003 mk_cache -rw-r--r-- 1 rmason rmason 65076 Apr 19 2003 trebuchet.ttf -rw-r--r-- 1 rmason rmason 65236 Apr 19 2003 trebuchetb.ttf -rw-r--r-- 1 rmason rmason 65196 Apr 19 2003 trebuchetbi.ttf -rw-r--r-- 1 rmason rmason 71248 Apr 19 2003 trebucheti.ttf Thanks, Roger

Re: [gentoo-user] libtermcap

2009-07-05 Thread Roger Mason
joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling) writes: Roger Mason rma...@mun.ca wrote: How can I install libtermcap? if you like a real libtermcap, check for libxtermcap that comes with the schily source consolidation: ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily/ Many thanks Joerg

[gentoo-user] libtermcap

2009-07-04 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, I'm trying to compile (outside portage) a program that needs libtermcap. I installed libtermcap-compat-2.0.8-r2 but that seems not to provide it (I looked with 'find'). How can I install libtermcap? Thanks, Roger

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

2009-06-30 Thread Roger Mason
switch freely between compiler versions. Many thanks to you and to all who responded with suggestions. Cheers, Roger

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

2009-06-29 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Alex, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org writes: Roger Mason writes: If there is something else that I need to do then I did not see it in the upgrade guide, so please, will someone enlighten me? No, your steps worked fine for me. What is your $PATH? (echo $PATH) I have /usr/i486

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

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

2009-06-28 Thread Roger Mason
seen messages on the Root mailing list from people working with fiscal data. Root is not lightweight, but is _is_ very powerful. Root is in portage. I'm sure there are other very capable systems out there, these are two that I use (or have used). Cheers, Roger

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] 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

[gentoo-user] coexisting GCC versions

2009-06-27 Thread Roger Mason
, Roger

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-terminal GNU screen

2009-04-06 Thread Roger Mason
have run into the same problem. Roger

[gentoo-user] k3b

2009-03-17 Thread Roger Cahn
Thank you for your help. Roger

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b

2009-03-17 Thread Roger Cahn
. Try to re-merge those two and then k3b. I re-emerged kdelibs and it worked :-) I didn't understand which the second e-build to re-emerge was. Nevertheless k3b is again working. Thank you very much for your helpfull answer. Roger

Re: [gentoo-user] Tablet PC? Anyone?

2009-02-20 Thread Roger Mason
with this kind of built-in interface, it will also be good. Have you thought of attaching a drawing tablet to your existing laptop? I have a wacom tablet that works pretty well. I think there is an article on the wiki about installation. Cheers, Roger

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc trivial issue (i'm sure)

2008-08-02 Thread Roger Mason
Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have scp all distcc config files to all hosts, One possibility is that you forgot to edit each /etc/conf.d/distccd file to _listen_ on its own IP address. HTH, Roger

Re: [gentoo-user] pango fails to build [solved]

2008-07-08 Thread Roger Mason
Roger Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to install firefox-bin on a new (to me) machine. pango-1.20.3 is a depenency that, unfortunately fails to build: On a hunch I changed CFLAGS from -mtune=pentium4 to -march=i686 and did emerge -e world. Now pango compiles without any problem

[gentoo-user] pango fails to build

2008-07-04 Thread Roger Mason
-directfb -doc -glitz -opengl -svg -test -xcb 0 kB Thanks for any help, Roger -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] pango fails to build

2008-07-04 Thread Roger Mason
Justin Findlay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On AD 2008 July 04 Friday 01:02:39 PM -0230, Roger Mason wrote: /usr/lib/libcairo.so: undefined reference to `__sync_fetch_and_add_4' Did you try revdep-rebuild, or even just remerging cairo? I rebuilt cairo several times and revdep-rebuild says

Re: [gentoo-user] portage update bloacked

2008-07-01 Thread Roger Mason
, that was not a problem at all. Thanks to all. Roger -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] portage update bloacked

2008-06-30 Thread Roger Mason
suggest a next step? Thanks, Roger -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] portage update bloacked

2008-06-30 Thread Roger Mason
, so far without any problems. Thanks for you help. Roger -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge virtual/emacs fails

2008-05-01 Thread Roger Mason
dany2a [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You've got to update portage first, looks like you have an older portage version, that cannot handle lzma. Had the same prob and updating portage was the fix (besides installing lzma-utils). emerge -a1 portage That was it. Thanks very much. Cheers, Roger

[gentoo-user] emerge virtual/emacs fails

2008-04-28 Thread Roger Mason
the topmost build error, and the call !!! stack if relevant. I looked on bugzilla, where it was suggested to run: emerge -1 app-arch/lzma-utils I did that but the error on m4 persists. If anyone has a workaround, please pass it on. Thanks, Roger -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] NFS through a firewall

2008-04-28 Thread Roger Mason
. Cheers, Roger -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge virtual/emacs fails

2008-04-28 Thread Roger Mason
Justin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: !!! ERROR: sys-devel/m4-1.4.11 failed. I looked on bugzilla, where it was suggested to run: emerge -1 app-arch/lzma-utils I did that but the error on m4 persists. If anyone has a workaround, please pass it on. Thanks, Roger First try to do rm

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] NFS through a firewall

2008-04-14 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:19:11 -0230 Roger Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm trying to configure the firewall on a client to allow that client to mount an nfs directory. The client runs a netfilter firewall, the server uses tcpwrapper

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] NFS through a firewall

2008-04-14 Thread Roger Mason
Hamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Friday 11 April 2008 13:49:11 Roger Mason wrote: Hello, I'm trying to configure the firewall on a client to allow that client to mount an nfs directory. The client runs a netfilter firewall, the server uses tcpwrapper. Do you have the option to run

[gentoo-user] wifi

2008-04-14 Thread Roger Cahn
-AP Edition My /etc/conf.d/net : config_wlan0=( dhcp ) essid_wlan0=xx mode_wlan0=managed channel_wlan0=10 key_xx=32.78 enc open How can I do to have wifi at boot? (I hope I gave you enough information!). Thank you Roger -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] [OT] NFS through a firewall

2008-04-11 Thread Roger Mason
: trying 134.153.37.5 prog 15 vers 3 prot udp port 32767 mount: mount to NFS server 'beryl.esd.mun.ca' failed: timed out (retrying). If I drop the client firewall the mount succeeds. Can someone help me figure out what must be put in my iptables script to get this to work? Thanks, Roger

Re: [gentoo-user] PRNG is not seeded

2008-03-27 Thread Roger Mason
CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_VIA=y Roger -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] CFLAGS

2008-01-16 Thread Cahn Roger
Hi, I'll have soon a new PC with Processor Intel Core2 Duo E6850 Which cflags do I need for it? Thank you very much. Roger -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Printer

2007-12-09 Thread Cahn Roger
Hi, I think to buy the following printer: EPSON Stylus Color D120 Ethernet or Wifi Has anybody an (good) experience with it? Thank you for your answers Roger -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] cups problem

2007-12-08 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Randy, Randy Barlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Roger Mason wrote: I have tried both the ipp and lpd devices to no avail. Just FYI, IPP is the Internet Printing Protocol and it is used to print to a device on another machine, so that's why it didn't work for you here :) Yes, I finally

[gentoo-user] cups problem

2007-12-07 Thread Roger Mason
-php -samba -slp Thanks for any help. Roger -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] cups problem

2007-12-07 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Billy, Billy Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: see if this helps http://www.murrayc.com/blog/permalink/2005/12/24/wheres-my-parport0/ Bingo!. For the record, I built ppdev and lp as modules, modprobe'd them and now everything works. Thanks very much. Roger -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Grab info off the net

2007-11-21 Thread Roger Luethi
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 23:39:29 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What are people using and can vouch for that can snag webpages or parts of web pages to store/save/organize/report on etc etc, as well as handling clipboard content or the like? Something to collect disparate pieces of information

[gentoo-user] X forwarding

2007-11-09 Thread Roger Mason
. Then: sshd[6659880]: error: Failed to allocate internet-domain X11 display socket. I can't acces the wiki page at the moment so if someone could help with further troubleshooting I'd be most grateful. Thanks, Roger P.S. openssh-4.7_p1-r1 on both boxes. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Daylight savings time

2007-11-09 Thread Roger Mason
isdst=1 /etc/localtime Sun Nov 4 02:31:00 2007 UTC = Sat Nov 3 23:01:00 2007 NST isdst=0 There was a thread on this last March: [gentoo-user] Problems after DST change Hope this helps, Roger -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] X forwarding [fixed]

2007-11-09 Thread Roger Mason
and now X forwarding works. I am assuming that I failed to set up ipv6 routing or something? Anyway, the problem is fixed, if not quite solved. Thanks to everyone who replied. Roger -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Daylight savings time

2007-11-08 Thread Roger Mason
James [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any other ideas? Maybe I need to 'reemerge' something? timezone-data? Cheers, Roger -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] tftp config problem (ltsp)

2007-11-06 Thread Roger Mason
the one specified in the instructions. tardis tftpboot # ls lts pxe pxelinux.cfg Are you using syslinux? I'm not sure but shouldn't there be a pxelinux.0 file in /tftpboot? Cheers, Roger -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync via ssh

2007-11-05 Thread Roger Mason
Shawn Haggett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Roger Mason wrote: I have passwordless ssh between mymachine and backup_machine and the rsync command in the crontab runs perfectly from the command line. Does someone know what else needs to be done to get this (seemingly simple!) task to work

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync via ssh [solved]

2007-11-05 Thread Roger Mason
W.Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Roger Mason wrote: I have passwordless ssh between mymachine and backup_machine and the rsync command in the crontab runs perfectly from the command line. Does someone know what else needs to be done to get this (seemingly simple!) task to work

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync via ssh

2007-11-04 Thread Roger Mason
the rmason@ but none worked. I think I'll try scp and see what happens. Cheers, Roger -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync via ssh

2007-11-04 Thread Roger Mason
Hi Dirk, Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Am Samstag, 3. November 2007 schrieb Roger Mason: Hello, I'm trying to use rsync to back up my home directory on mymachine to another machine (backup_machine) using a cron job. Which cron? vixie-cron This is the crontab entry

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync via ssh

2007-11-04 Thread Roger Mason
Hi Steve, Steve Dommett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sunday 04 November 2007, Roger Mason wrote: Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately that did not work, the same error ocurs. This may not be applicable, but I run rdiff-backup from cron on many machine with no problems at all. It uses

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync via ssh

2007-11-04 Thread Roger Mason
/myserver/wwwroot \ -rvtzp --delete --modify-window=1 echo = Closing SSH tunnel kill $SSL_PID else echo ERROR: SSH Connection failed! The backup could not complete fi Another responder suggested rdiff-backup. I'll give that a try first. Thanks, Roger -- [EMAIL

[gentoo-user] rsync via ssh

2007-11-03 Thread Roger Mason
=mymachine.esd.mun.ca user=rmason I have passwordless ssh between mymachine and backup_machine and the rsync command in the crontab runs perfectly from the command line. Does someone know what else needs to be done to get this (seemingly simple!) task to work? Many thanks, Roger -- [EMAIL

[gentoo-user] nfs server problem

2007-10-03 Thread Roger Mason
the NFS_* entries in the respective .congig files: they are identical. Can someone suggest how I might track this down? Thanks, Roger -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] nfs server problem

2007-10-03 Thread Roger Mason
Hi Dan, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 08:54:30 -0230 Roger Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I installed a vanilla 2.6.20 kernel in order to (eventually) run kerrighed. The kernel boots fine but the nfs server won't start and I see this in the logs

Re: [gentoo-user] diskless booting

2007-10-02 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Dan, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:57:05 -0230 Roger Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I had it working on Friday but over the weeekend I tinkered some more with pixegrub and broke it again. Now pxelinux won't work either. I've attached my

Re: [gentoo-user] doing minimall install from a pc within a lan

2007-10-02 Thread Roger Mason
info and perhaps someone more knowledgeable will help. Cheers, Roger -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] diskless booting [solved, I hope]

2007-10-01 Thread Roger Mason
of poor interaction with 3Com cards, which is what I'm using. Thanks for any help you can offer. Roger -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] diskless booting [solved, I hope]

2007-09-29 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Dan, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:03:59 -0230 Roger Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The client boot process hangs, with the following dialog between the server (192.168.0.2, 00:04:75:77:98:4f) and client (192.168.0.3, 00:01:03:ce:52:a8) repeated three

[gentoo-user] diskless booting

2007-09-28 Thread Roger Mason
:98:4f 00:01:03:ce:52:a8, ARP, length 42: arp who-has 192.168.0.3 tell 192.168.0.2 I'm not sure what information is needed to help debug this, but if anyone is willing to assist I'll provide whatever is required. Thanks, Roger Mason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] insert text onto a PDF

2007-07-30 Thread Roger Luethi
Make an alias for that, and you're all set. Roger -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] insert text onto a PDF

2007-07-29 Thread Roger Luethi
, though. Roger -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge claws-mail

2007-07-04 Thread Roger Mason
David Relson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As I want the latest and greatest version of claws-mail in /etc/portage/package.keywords I have: mail-client/claws-mail Should'nt that be mail-client/claws-mail ~x86 ? HTH, Roger -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge claws-mail

2007-07-04 Thread Roger Mason
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why assume that everyone runs x86? If you don't specify an arch in package.keywords, if defaults to ~whatever-arch-you-have-in-make.conf Thanks, learned something new. Roger -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] dbus and hal problems

2007-07-01 Thread Cahn Roger
I have hald, hald-runner and hald-addon-acpi but not hald-addon-stor This last one appears after mounting a cd, dvd or key-usb. It remains even after I have cd or key removed. But it disappears after reboot. How can I get hald-addon-stor remaining in ps -e? Thanks for your help. Roger -- [EMAIL

[gentoo-user] ps -e

2007-06-30 Thread Cahn Roger
-stor remaining in ps -e? Thanks for your help. Roger -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Downloading Flash videos

2007-06-27 Thread Roger Luethi
On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 18:08:31 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: Use mplayer... Actually, when using mplayer to play flash videos, you may find that some of them have audio/video out of sync unless you use the -correct-pts option. Alternatively, use ffplay. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] blender crashes X

2007-06-26 Thread Roger Mason
is with blender or with some modification of blender carried out by the ebuild. My next step is to attempt to build blender outside portage. In the meantime, if anyone has any advice to offer I'd like to hear it. My emerge --info is given below. Thanks, Roger garnet ~ $ emerge -pv blender

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to Bellsouth dial-up, trying to anyway. :-(

2007-06-02 Thread Roger Mason
a newer one. Wish me luck. You may already have seen this, in which case sorry for the noise: http://axion.physics.ubc.ca/ppp-linux.html A number of years ago I followed the steps listed there to get dial-up into my (Windows centric) university modem pool. Cheers, Roger -- [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 minimal CD boot problem

2007-05-02 Thread Roger Mason
, the option you want is 'noapic'. It is by far the largest complaint relating to non-booting livecds on the amd64 architecture. Thank you to all who replied: the 'noapic' option was the required fix. Roger -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] AMD64 minimal CD boot problem

2007-05-01 Thread Roger Mason
with nosata and with doscsi but the boot process always hangs. A 2006.1 x86 minimal CD boots perfectly. Can anyone offer suggestions as to what may be wrong? Thanks, Roger -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 minimal CD boot problem

2007-05-01 Thread Roger Mason
MCP51 Serial ATA Controller (rev a1) 00:0f.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller(rev a1) Thanks, Roger -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 minimal CD boot problem

2007-05-01 Thread Roger Mason
David Snider [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Roger Mason wrote: I'm trying to install gentoo on a Dell Dimension C521, which has an AMD Sempron 3400+ CPU. I downloaded and buned the AMD64 2006.1 minimal install disk, but when I try to boot from the CD it hangs, the last message being: io

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop sometimes needs double keystrokes

2007-04-15 Thread Roger Mason
further. Using the techinique you suggested above I was able to track down the problem to a script in /etc/profile.d that I was using to start dbus-session-daemon on login. Removing that file fixed the problem. Many thanks for your help, Roger -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop sometimes needs double keystrokes

2007-04-12 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Benno, Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Roger Mason wrote: I have a strange problem on my laptop[1] wherein I need sometimes need to enter keystrokes twice in order for them to be recognised. For example, I type 'ls' but the 's' needs to be entered twice

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop sometimes needs double keystrokes

2007-04-12 Thread Roger Mason
trying memtest86 now. or another OS or gnu/linux distro? I've never tried: I hope it does'nt come to that, I much prefer Gentoo over any of the others that I've tried. Thanks for the help. Roger -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] laptop sometimes needs double keystrokes

2007-04-11 Thread Roger Mason
passwords and pass-phrases. (3) I have never observed the problem when su'd to root. (4) I have never seen the problem inside screen. If anyone has any suggestions as to where I might look I'll be most grateful. Thanks, Roger [1] Details: Toshiba Satellite M70 SR6 Gentoo Base System

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