Re: [gentoo-user] install CD of Hewlett-Packard server

2007-01-03 Thread Chuanwen Wu
Oh,God! I can't start my machine with the livecd anymore even I have burned another livecd with livecd-i686-installer-2006.1.iso. The error is still all the same:coldpluging pci devices,which appears at 68%'s progress. Now my machine has a Windows2003,so is there any way that I can install

[gentoo-user] Can't seem to remove DirectFB

2007-01-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
Hi, I was recently giving DirectFB a test evaluation and would like to remove it. My wm of choice - e17 - currently doesn't compile with directfb on the system which changes like to remove to must remove. Should be easy enough, I've done it before: - remove directfb from USE - emerge -avC

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

2007-01-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007 00:45:00 -0500 (EST), Daniel Barkalow wrote: Perhaps it just needs to be more popular, or maybe it needs to understand slots better (in order to be popular). I know that all of the kernels I install tell me that support for devfs was removed long before the oldest kernel

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

2007-01-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007 00:21:02 -0500 (EST), Daniel Barkalow wrote: The issue is that etc-update doesn't have the version of the config file as installed by the version of the package that's being replaced, so it can't tell the difference between non-trivial changes to the config file as shipped

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't seem to remove DirectFB

2007-01-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007 10:17:13 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: - remove directfb from USE - emerge -avC DirectFB - emerge --depclean - revdep-rebuild That should be remove directfb from USE emerge -uavDN world emerge --depclean -p emerge --depclean revdep-rebuild emerge --depclean will remove

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

2007-01-03 Thread Nelson, David \(ED, PARD\)
Hi folks, -Original Message- From: Uwe Thiem [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 December 2006 07:57 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Has Linux jumped the Shark? -- snip -- The control centre has been problematic since its invention. Its complexity

Re: [gentoo-user] install CD of Hewlett-Packard server

2007-01-03 Thread Andrey Gerasimenko
On Wed, 03 Jan 2007 10:55:50 +0300, Chuanwen Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh,God! I can't start my machine with the livecd anymore even I have burned another livecd with livecd-i686-installer-2006.1.iso. The error is still all the same:coldpluging pci devices,which appears at 68%'s progress.

Re: [gentoo-user] When could XGL support my video card ATI Radeon M300??

2007-01-03 Thread Karl Chen
Ok...thx... Let me have a try on that cart with AIGLX!!! ^_^ On 1/3/07, Jure Varlec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 31 December 2006 06:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was interested in 3D desktop of XGL, but my video has not been supported till now... This is the info of my card: 01:00.0

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't seem to remove DirectFB

2007-01-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 11:01, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 3 Jan 2007 10:17:13 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: - remove directfb from USE - emerge -avC DirectFB - emerge --depclean - revdep-rebuild That should be remove directfb from USE emerge -uavDN world emerge --depclean -p

Re: [gentoo-user] install CD of Hewlett-Packard server

2007-01-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 09:55, Chuanwen Wu wrote: Oh,God! I can't start my machine with the livecd anymore even I have burned another livecd with livecd-i686-installer-2006.1.iso. The error is still all the same:coldpluging pci devices,which appears at 68%'s progress. You have some kind

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't seem to remove DirectFB

2007-01-03 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 3. Januar 2007 10:44 schrieb ext Alan McKinnon: DirectFB was in world emerge -uND world is up to date You should clean your world file, then. emerge udept dep -w # clean world file emerge -a --depclean revdep-rebuild emerge -DNu world HTH... Dirk -- Dirk

[gentoo-user] net.eth0 device initiated services

2007-01-03 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Hi, I have /etc/init.d/net.eth0. I dont want it to be launch at boot, but I dont want to delete it either because it eases some things when I want to bring eth0 up. My problem is although i del it from the boot process with rc-update, net.eth0 is attempted to be brought up by some other tool.

RE: [gentoo-user] What gives

2007-01-03 Thread Nelson, David \(ED, PARD\)
Original Message- From: Dale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 December 2006 03:28 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What gives Well, at least it doesn't try to restore fstab back to default anymore. ;-) Yea, give it time, we all learn how to really screw up

RE: [gentoo-user] desperation question: disklabel, unable to write to disk, etc.

2007-01-03 Thread Nelson, David \(ED, PARD\)
I am maybe late to the party here but for specific types of disk failure the freezer trick can work briefly if you have any data to recover (looks unlikely in this case but thought I'd mention it). I did this for my friends laptop drive a few weeks ago so he could back his stuff up to my box

RE: [gentoo-user] OT: Follow-up on the HDD problems...

2007-01-03 Thread Nelson, David \(ED, PARD\)
-Original Message- From: Mick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 December 2006 13:25 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Follow-up on the HDD problems... I've never heard of such a case before! I can't even begin to understand why copy protection

[gentoo-user] xorg.freedesktop.org server down, xextproto

2007-01-03 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Hi, I am emerging X, and xextproto emerging is blocked by a freedesktop server timeout. What could be the solution (except waiting...)? Is there any other way to get it as from a down server? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.freedesktop.org server down, xextproto

2007-01-03 Thread Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
On Wednesday, 3 January 2007 21:06, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: Hi, I am emerging X, and xextproto emerging is blocked by a freedesktop server timeout. What could be the solution (except waiting...)? Is there any other way to get it as from a down server? Find another mirror and download

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.freedesktop.org server down, xextproto

2007-01-03 Thread William Kenworthy
On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 21:19 +1030, Raymond Lewis Rebbeck wrote: On Wednesday, 3 January 2007 21:06, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: Hi, I am emerging X, and xextproto emerging is blocked by a freedesktop server timeout. What could be the solution (except waiting...)? Is there any other

RE: [gentoo-user] net.eth0 device initiated services

2007-01-03 Thread Nelson, David \(ED, PARD\)
-Original Message- From: Mihamina Rakotomandimby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 January 2007 10:04 To: Gentoo mailing list Subject: [gentoo-user] net.eth0 device initiated services Hi, I have /etc/init.d/net.eth0. I dont want it to be launch at boot, but I dont want to

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

2007-01-03 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 3 Jan 2007 11:03:34 - Nelson, David (ED, PARD) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has the idea of distributing custom package.mask files occured? This way you can mask off certain versions of software and hence limit updates to minor changes. You can then use these on systems you

Re: [gentoo-user] desperation question: disklabel, unable to write to disk, etc.

2007-01-03 Thread Alan E. Davis
I am still in limbo about this drive. I have gotten a disk scanning utility from Gateway, and am now trying to get together a floppy to test it that way. I have had another HDD issue this week, on a SATA drive. I may post separately about that. I can see partitions from Ubuntu that I cannot

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

2007-01-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 13:03, Nelson, David (ED, PARD) wrote: Hi folks, Has the idea of distributing custom package.mask files occured? This way you can mask off certain versions of software and hence limit updates to minor changes. You can then use these on systems you want to

RE: [gentoo-user] seamonkey + updates

2007-01-03 Thread Nelson, David \(ED, PARD\)
-Original Message- From: Enrico Weigelt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 27 December 2006 14:26 To: gentoo-user Subject: [gentoo-user] seamonkey + updates Hi folks, is it possible to build seamonkey without the whole updating (and check-for-update) stuff ? thx emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] net.eth0 device initiated services

2007-01-03 Thread Matt Richards
Nelson, David (ED, PARD) wrote: -Original Message- From: Mihamina Rakotomandimby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 January 2007 10:04 To: Gentoo mailing list Subject: [gentoo-user] net.eth0 device initiated services Hi, I have /etc/init.d/net.eth0. I dont want it to be launch at boot,

Re: [gentoo-user] seamonkey + updates

2007-01-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 13:58, Nelson, David (ED, PARD) wrote: is it possible to build seamonkey without the whole updating (and check-for-update) stuff ? thx emerge sync emerge -u seamonkey That's the only way I can think of Seamonkey (and Mozilla/Netscape/Firefox) seem

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.freedesktop.org server down, xextproto

2007-01-03 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 11:36 +0100, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: Hi, I am emerging X, and xextproto emerging is blocked by a freedesktop server timeout. What could be the solution (except waiting...)? ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/ and then mirror lib/, doc/,... Example with lftp + zsh

RE: [gentoo-user] net.eth0 device initiated services

2007-01-03 Thread Nelson, David \(ED, PARD\)
-Original Message- From: Matt Richards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 January 2007 12:06 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] net.eth0 device initiated services -- snip -- it might be a nice idea to look into how knoppix backgrounds the dhcp process

RE: [gentoo-user] desperation question: disklabel, unable to write to disk, etc.

2007-01-03 Thread Nelson, David \(ED, PARD\)
-Original Message- From: Alan E. Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 January 2007 11:50 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] desperation question: disklabel, unable to write to disk, etc. I am still in limbo about this drive. I have gotten a disk scanning

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.freedesktop.org server down, xextproto

2007-01-03 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 20:14 +0900, William Kenworthy wrote: or google for xextproto-7.0.2.tar.bz2 and download manually to /usr/portage/distfiles It's about downloading _all_ the needed tarballs hosted on freedesktop, man. Manual way is not wise... I created a local mirror using ftp.x.org (see

Re: [gentoo-user] net.eth0 device initiated services

2007-01-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007 11:23:28 -, Nelson, David \(ED, PARD\) wrote: I tend to set the eth0 dhcpcd timeout at ~5 seconds. The DHCP server I usually use (the gentoo based server under my desk!) always responds within 5 seconds. When I'm out and about and using/borrowing a wireless connection

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't seem to remove DirectFB

2007-01-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 12:01, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Mittwoch, 3. Januar 2007 10:44 schrieb ext Alan McKinnon: DirectFB was in world emerge -uND world is up to date You should clean your world file, then. emerge udept dep -w # clean world file emerge -a --depclean

RE: [gentoo-user] I want my xmms

2007-01-03 Thread Nelson, David \(ED, PARD\)
-Original Message- From: Daniel Barkalow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 December 2006 05:28 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I want my xmms On Fri, 29 Dec 2006, maxim wexler wrote: Will audacious not work for you? Haven't tried yet.

RE: [gentoo-user] net.eth0 device initiated services

2007-01-03 Thread Nelson, David \(ED, PARD\)
-Original Message- From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 January 2007 13:06 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] net.eth0 device initiated services -- snip -- Or you could emerge ifplugd, then the startup scripts won't try to initialise

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't seem to remove DirectFB

2007-01-03 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 09:17, Alan McKinnon wrote: I was recently giving DirectFB a test evaluation and would like to remove it. My wm of choice - e17 - currently doesn't compile with directfb on the system which changes like to remove to must remove. Should be easy enough, I've done it

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

2007-01-03 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 02 January 2007 14:26, William Kenworthy wrote: rattus ~ # emerge system -ep These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating system dependencies ... done! rattus ~ # 3 systems like this, one installed only a few months ago works. And

Re: [gentoo-user] I want my xmms

2007-01-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 15:17, Nelson, David (ED, PARD) wrote: I moved to amarok, I might give audacious a shot. What about noatun for a smallish player? Not sure on it's RAM usage. Also look at Quod Libet or Banshee which are meant to be similar in features to amarok but lighter in

[gentoo-user] Kopete on Gentoo / Fluxbox (SLIGHT OT)

2007-01-03 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
Hi folks: I would very much like to switch to kopete on my gentoo / fluxbox laptop, it seems to compile correctly, but there are a couple of problems, Im not sure if they are specific to the gentoo version of it or across the board. 1. In the IRC module, I need to be able to set independent

RE: [gentoo-user] Kopete on Gentoo / Fluxbox (SLIGHT OT)

2007-01-03 Thread Nelson, David \(ED, PARD\)
-Original Message- From: Timothy A. Holmes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 January 2007 14:25 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Kopete on Gentoo / Fluxbox (SLIGHT OT) Hi folks: I would very much like to switch to kopete on my gentoo / fluxbox laptop,

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't seem to remove DirectFB

2007-01-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 15:36, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Wednesday 03 January 2007 09:17, Alan McKinnon wrote: [snip] Affected packages are mostly beryl, emerald, gimp, gtk+2 and the e17 supporting libs. It have been better to include the full output of `revdep-rebuild -i -vp`

Re: [gentoo-user] USB freezes the machine...

2007-01-03 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi, Does it work on other system ? like freebsd (live cd = freebies), or Windows (M$$) ??? yes they are working an a Win machine and on a machine with Debian stable (3.1). Could you give us the model of your material ? I don't remember, it's a hard drive ? yes it's an hard drive. The fact

[gentoo-user] Re: I want my xmms

2007-01-03 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-01-03, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 03 January 2007 15:17, Nelson, David (ED, PARD) wrote: I moved to amarok, I might give audacious a shot. What about noatun for a smallish player? Not sure on it's RAM usage. Also look at Quod Libet or Banshee which are meant

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I want my xmms

2007-01-03 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 3 Jan 2007 15:27:41 + (UTC) Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The X server is using 56M of virtual memory with 33M resident and 10M shared. Audacious is using 58M of with 14M resident and 10M shared. possibly shared, to be exact. Whether it actually _is_ shared is not

[gentoo-user] Several arches installed, flag kernel automatically

2007-01-03 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi, I have here two gentoo systems one 32-bit and one 64-bit. To save space on my harddisk the mounts /home and /boot are used from both systems. Now I have the problem with the kernel version. Both systems running kernel 2.6.18-gentoo-r6. If I install now the kernel from the 64-bit system it

RE: [gentoo-user] Kopete on Gentoo / Fluxbox (SLIGHT OT)

2007-01-03 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
Hi folks: I would very much like to switch to kopete on my gentoo / fluxbox laptop, it seems to compile correctly, but there are a couple of problems, Im not sure if they are specific to the gentoo version of it or across the board. 1. In the IRC module, I need to be able to set

[gentoo-user] using xsane with a network scanner (hp officejet 7310)

2007-01-03 Thread Allan Gottlieb
xsane was working great with my old hp officejet 7130s (note 7130 not 7310) that were connected to my laptop via usb (one 7130 at each of two sites). The home 7130 died and is replaced by a 7310, which is a network device. It's local IP number is 192.168.1.50 and as a printer it works great from

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers vs nvidia-legacy-drivers

2007-01-03 Thread Konstantinos Agouros
In [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pete Pardoe) writes: --=_Part_140064_9478386.1167775011267 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Hi I had that exact problem and removed nvidia-settings - it went away.

Re: [gentoo-user] Several arches installed, flag kernel automatically

2007-01-03 Thread Ryan Sims
On 1/3/07, Matthias Fechner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have here two gentoo systems one 32-bit and one 64-bit. To save space on my harddisk the mounts /home and /boot are used from both systems. Now I have the problem with the kernel version. Both systems running kernel 2.6.18-gentoo-r6.

Re: [gentoo-user] install CD of Hewlett-Packard server

2007-01-03 Thread Michal 'vorner' Vaner
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 03:55:50PM +0800, Chuanwen Wu wrote: Oh,God! I can't start my machine with the livecd anymore even I have burned another livecd with livecd-i686-installer-2006.1.iso. The error is still all the same:coldpluging pci devices,which appears at 68%'s progress. Try

[gentoo-user] madwifi-ng use flag

2007-01-03 Thread Turi Tropea
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi folk, which is the best for madwifi-ng? amrr or onoe? amrr -- Adaptive Multi Rate Retry bit rate control algorithm onoe -- Atsushi Onoe's bit rate control algorithm i'll use this driver to make an access for my office tnx -BEGIN PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] Several arches installed, flag kernel automatically

2007-01-03 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hello Ryan, * Ryan Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED] [03-01-07 12:11]: I assume you're using make install after building your kernel? I usually do a cp arch/[insert your arch here]/boot/bzImage /boot/kernel-[version string] (and then one for the System.map) Would that do what you want? No :) I want

Re: [gentoo-user] install CD of Hewlett-Packard server

2007-01-03 Thread Dan
On Wed, 03 Jan 2007 12:32:08 +0300 Andrey Gerasimenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: use: nodetect nosmp and noapci noapic set on using the livecd? Perhaps you'd have better luck with a minimal. On Wed, 03 Jan 2007 10:55:50 +0300, Chuanwen Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh,God! I can't start

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.freedesktop.org server down, xextproto

2007-01-03 Thread Dan
On Wed, 03 Jan 2007 13:09:37 +0100 Mihamina Rakotomandimby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ go an have a cup of coffee ] that is a _Very_ good idea... But one question. Is not there any way to get portage try another source? Why does portage try only freedesktop.org server? It appears that

Re: [gentoo-user] net.eth0 device initiated services

2007-01-03 Thread Dan
you can name the kernels in /boot anything, so long as the name is referenced in /boot/grub/grub.conf correctly. you can decrease the boot time by giving your dhcp client a timeout value in seconds. I use 10 seconds for my desktops, because if my dhcpserver isn't responding by then, it's

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

2007-01-03 Thread Daniel Barkalow
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Alan McKinnon wrote: The only possible thing etc-update could ever do is look for trivial changes and ignore them. How would you detect the difference between non-trivial changes to shipped versions and non-trivial changes made locally? Keep a copy of the config files

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.freedesktop.org server down, xextproto

2007-01-03 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 11:57 -0600, Dan wrote: if you have a list of gentoo mirrors in make.conf, namely the kind of list generated by mirrorselect, you will get the cascading mirror thingyou desire. Be warned though, i have never found it a helpful remedy. But I noticed X stuffs related to

Re: [gentoo-laptop] Re: [gentoo-user] USB freezes the machine...

2007-01-03 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi Devon, Please run lsusb -v on the Debian system with the USB drive installed. this is the relevant result of lsusb -v in the Debian system: Bus 004 Device 004: ID 0402:5642 ALi Corp. Device Descriptor: bLength18 bDescriptorType 1 bcdUSB 2.00

[gentoo-user] undefined symbol help?

2007-01-03 Thread Grant
I'm getting the following when I try to start gnormalize: /usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux/auto/Gtk2/Gtk2.so: undefined symbol: gtk_assistant_get_type I tried remerging gtk+ and gnormalize but I still get the error. Any ideas? - Grant --

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

2007-01-03 Thread Daniel Barkalow
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 3 Jan 2007 00:21:02 -0500 (EST), Daniel Barkalow wrote: The issue is that etc-update doesn't have the version of the config file as installed by the version of the package that's being replaced, so it can't tell the difference between

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

2007-01-03 Thread Daniel Barkalow
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 3 Jan 2007 00:45:00 -0500 (EST), Daniel Barkalow wrote: Perhaps it just needs to be more popular, or maybe it needs to understand slots better (in order to be popular). I know that all of the kernels I install tell me that support for

[gentoo-user] Music Database Collection

2007-01-03 Thread Sean
I would like to create a database of some sort for my music collection. It is large so I thought that somehow I could use some application that could pull the info from a freebd server and if I wished I could alter any info. Try to entering it all by hand will be just to big of a project. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Music Database Collection

2007-01-03 Thread Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
On Thursday, 4 January 2007 7:47, Sean wrote: I would like to create a database of some sort for my music collection. It is large so I thought that somehow I could use some application that could pull the info from a freebd server and if I wished I could alter any info. Try to entering it all

Re: [gentoo-user] Music Database Collection

2007-01-03 Thread Steve Dibb
Sean wrote: I would like to create a database of some sort for my music collection. It is large so I thought that somehow I could use some application that could pull the info from a freebd server and if I wished I could alter any info. Try to entering it all by hand will be just to big of a

Re: [gentoo-user] I want my xmms

2007-01-03 Thread Robert Cernansky
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007 16:05:18 +0200 Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Throughout this thread many people have commented on audacious being a resource hog of monumental proportions. Every single one of them is wrong and this myth really needs to be debunked. Here's why: I agree. I'm still

[gentoo-user] emerge ruby-glade fails

2007-01-03 Thread karlos
hey all, emerge ruby-glade fails with the following error: Install ruby-glib2-0.16.0 into /var/tmp/portage/dev-ruby/ruby- glib2-0.16.0/image/ category dev-ruby make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/dev-ruby/ruby-glib2-0.16.0 /work/ruby-gnome2-all-0.16.0/glib/src' /bin/install -c -m

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome Power Management

2007-01-03 Thread James Ausmus
On 1/2/07, Randy Barlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've added apps/gnome-power-manager, and then I made the battery_percentage_low key and set it to 5, and now the problem is gone. But I still wonder if this is a bug I should file, or just leave it be. It seems like this key should have been

Re: [gentoo-user] seamonkey + updates

2007-01-03 Thread Mark Shields
On 1/3/07, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 03 January 2007 13:58, Nelson, David (ED, PARD) wrote: is it possible to build seamonkey without the whole updating (and check-for-update) stuff ? thx emerge sync emerge -u seamonkey That's the only way I can think

Re: [gentoo-laptop] Re: [gentoo-user] USB freezes the machine...

2007-01-03 Thread Strong Cypher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Could you try to mount device with sync option ? It's strange, your lspci show you have uhci usb controller and lspci -v said you have ohci controller ... do you have a usb2 pci card ? if yes, you will need ohci + uhci to support usb and ehci

Re: [gentoo-user] Music Database Collection

2007-01-03 Thread Colleen Beamer
Sean wrote: I would like to create a database of some sort for my music collection. It is large so I thought that somehow I could use some application that could pull the info from a freebd server and if I wished I could alter any info. Try to entering it all by hand will be just to big of a

Re: [gentoo-user] Music Database Collection

2007-01-03 Thread Steve Evans
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 21:30, Steve Dibb wrote: Sean wrote: I would like to create a database of some sort for my music collection. It is large so I thought that somehow I could use some application that could pull the info from a freebd server and if I wished I could alter any

Re: [gentoo-user] Music Database Collection

2007-01-03 Thread Daniel Iliev
Sean wrote: I would like to create a database of some sort for my music collection. It is large so I thought that somehow I could use some application that could pull the info from a freebd server and if I wished I could alter any info. Try to entering it all by hand will be just to big of a

Re: [gentoo-user] undefined symbol help?

2007-01-03 Thread Randy Barlow
On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 12:09 -0800, Grant wrote: I tried remerging gtk+ and gnormalize but I still get the error. Any ideas? Try to run revdep-rebuild! Randy Barlow http://www.electronsweatshop.com NAPOLEON: What shall we do with this soldier, Giuseppe? Everything he says is wrong. GIUSEPPE:

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge ruby-glade fails

2007-01-03 Thread Randy Barlow
On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 21:49 +, karlos wrote: make[1]: /bin/install: Command not found which install returns: /usr/bin/install how could this be fixed? Well, it's /bin/install... $ equery b /bin/install [ Searching for file(s) /bin/install in *... ] sys-apps/coreutils-6.4

[gentoo-user] Re: acpi battery events, Sony FS740

2007-01-03 Thread »Q«
Iain Buchanan wrote: On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 01:27 -0600, »Q« wrote: I have a Sony Vaio FS740 laptop, and I have power management set up mostly to my liking, but with one problem. ACPI receives battery events when the AC is connect and when it is unconnected, but also at other times, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: acpi battery events, Sony FS740

2007-01-03 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 19:46 -0600, »Q« wrote: Iain Buchanan wrote: To get around it, perhaps you could keep state with a file. eg (untested): [big snip] HTH! It certainly did; thanks very much! After some tinkering (my understanding of testing syntax in bash scripts is pretty

RE: [gentoo-user] net.eth0 device initiated services

2007-01-03 Thread Adam Carter
Or you could emerge ifplugd, then the startup scripts won't try to initialise eth0 if no cable is detected. Another alternative is netplug. I don't know how they compare, but I'm using netplug sucessfully. http://www.red-bean.com/~bos/netplug/README Rgs, Adam -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] USB freezes the machine...

2007-01-03 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/1/07, Marco Calviani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # uname -a Linux 2.6.18-gentoo-r4 #1 PREEMPT Tue Dec 19 12:25:55 CET 2006 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.80GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux and as you can see i'm using gentoo-sources. It looks like this was upgraded recently too, no? Did

[gentoo-user] external USB harddrive

2007-01-03 Thread James Lockie
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 user. I don't have or want an /etc/fstab entry for it, I should be able to configure KDE to handle

Re: [gentoo-user] Music Database Collection

2007-01-03 Thread Zac Slade
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 17:49, Daniel Iliev wrote: Sean wrote: I would like to create a database of some sort for my music collection. It is large so I thought that somehow I could use some application that could pull the info from a freebd server and if I wished I could alter any

[gentoo-user] [OT] where is PID_MAX_DEFAULT ?

2007-01-03 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi all, I was just trying to compile one of my programs that includes linux/threads.h for the #define PID_MAX_DEFAULT, however, threads.h isn't there anymore! I've just upgraded linux-headers to 2.6.19 - is this the problem? I can't find a replacement for PID_MAX_DEFAULT anywhere in the header

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] where is PID_MAX_DEFAULT ?

2007-01-03 Thread Karl Chen
I could find thread.h file there! Maybe your tar ball of kernel has been damaged! you could download it again and have a try ! On 1/4/07, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I was just trying to compile one of my programs that includes linux/threads.h for the #define

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] where is PID_MAX_DEFAULT ?

2007-01-03 Thread Daniel Iliev
Iain Buchanan wrote: Hi all, I was just trying to compile one of my programs that includes linux/threads.h for the #define PID_MAX_DEFAULT, however, threads.h isn't there anymore! I've just upgraded linux-headers to 2.6.19 - is this the problem? I can't find a replacement for

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] where is PID_MAX_DEFAULT ?

2007-01-03 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 08:48 +0200, Daniel Iliev wrote: Iain Buchanan wrote: Hi all, I was just trying to compile one of my programs that includes linux/threads.h for the #define PID_MAX_DEFAULT, however, threads.h isn't there anymore! [snip] grep -n PID_MAX_DEFAULT

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

2007-01-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 20:24, Daniel Barkalow wrote: On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Alan McKinnon wrote: The only possible thing etc-update could ever do is look for trivial changes and ignore them. How would you detect the difference between non-trivial changes to shipped versions and

[gentoo-user] cannot boot with xen-sources

2007-01-03 Thread pat
Hi all, I want to play a bit with xen on my gentoo box, but I'm not able to push my kernel to boot :-\ I've follow the xen gentoo guidelines using genkernel compilation, but when I setup my grub and reboot to xen kernel, this message appears: !! Block device /dev/sda5 is not a valid root

Re: [gentoo-user] I want my xmms

2007-01-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 23:43, Robert Cernansky wrote: On Wed, 3 Jan 2007 16:05:18 +0200 Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Throughout this thread many people have commented on audacious being a resource hog of monumental proportions. Every single one of them is wrong and this