Re: [gentoo-user] WARNING: /etc removed from CONFIG_PROTECT portage-2.0.51.20

2005-04-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 01:20:37 -0400, Robert G. Hays wrote: I'll put it on the laptop when OOo finally finishes compiling, although r20 will probably be put by then... I'll say it again, *this* is why I only update when there is a *good* reason to. Are two GLSAs on the most recent version

[gentoo-user] displaying only installed packages

2005-04-30 Thread Al Bayrouni
HELLO all, How can I output only packages that are installed on my system. and not those that aren't. example: emerge search kde output really all packages containing the word kde. It is very hard to read all this just to verify that one or 2 kde packs are or not installed. Thank you Bayrouni

Re: [gentoo-user] rc-update net.wlan0?

2005-04-30 Thread Robert G. Hays
Mark, Sorry long delay -- slighly busy lately! Since I was only kinda-halfway watching this thread, and have forgotten several details, if you still need this help, could you please briefly summarize your before setting results and your new-install setings results, then I will (finally!) be

Re: [gentoo-user] USB Mass Storage Device with Gentoo Kernel 2.6.11

2005-04-30 Thread Robert G. Hays
I have a similar problem. Somewhee in the next few weeks I intend to make a ew small changes in the usb-storge modules to do things like periodic-by-volume SYNCs, and maybe rail the throughput in other ways, probably with some way to specify for what devices, especially after connects; this

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get IPV6 working?

2005-04-30 Thread Robert G. Hays
PS: sender may also be [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! Walter Dnes wrote: On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 11:57:34AM +0200, Nicolas Litchinko wrote [1]: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ipv6.xml [2]: https://tb.ipv6.btexact.com/ Thanks. RTFM is easy. It seems that the hardest part of linux is FTFM, i.e. Find

Re: [gentoo-user] USB mouse stalls under X after some time of inactivity

2005-04-30 Thread Robert G. Hays
Thomas Drueke wrote: Argghhh ! And the winner is of course Jerry (don't ask about Tom, though). Here comes the solution: When ever doing kernel configuration read the help. Sometimes it really helps GRRR :-) Snapshot from the help of USB Human Interface Device (full HID) support

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) WARNING: /etc removed from CONFIG_PROTECT portage-2.0.51.20

2005-04-30 Thread Robert G. Hays
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 01:20:37 -0400, Robert G. Hays wrote: 'll put it on the laptop when OOo finally finishes compiling, although r20 will probably be put by then... I'll say it again, *this* is why I only update when there is a *good* reason to. Are two GLSAs on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: glibc

2005-04-30 Thread Pavel
NO , I meant that POSIX and C locales must be in /etc/locales.build not in /etc/env.d/02locale ;) You should add your_locale to /etc/env.d/02locale Then you will have something similar to this [ ~ ] pavel $ locale LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=ru_RU.UTF-8

[gentoo-user] Re: (OT) WARNING: /etc removed from CONFIG_PROTECT portage-2.0.51.20

2005-04-30 Thread Remy Blank
Robert G. Hays wrote: (Shall I tell you just _how_ many of your sig/tags I have captured? Keep 'em coming! :D ) (I'm sharing them with others (with attribution), and they are geting quite a kick out of them!) I agree. I can't help noticing Neil's sigs are much funnier than any other I have

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2005-04-30 Thread Christof Binder
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Re: [gentoo-user] displaying only installed packages

2005-04-30 Thread Nick Rout
qpkg -I On Sat, 2005-04-30 at 08:28 +0200, Al Bayrouni wrote: HELLO all, How can I output only packages that are installed on my system. and not those that aren't. example: emerge search kde output really all packages containing the word kde. It is very hard to read all this just to

[gentoo-user] Dell 8100 Buttons???

2005-04-30 Thread timothy johnson
I have been running Gentoo on a Dell 8100 for a while now. I have my volume buttons working, but a couple of updates ago they quit working, wondering if anyone might know about how to fix this? and also one of two updates ago I lost control of my volume from Gnome. yet gkrellm2 and xmms both still

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) WARNING: /etc removed from CONFIG_PROTECT portage-2.0.51.20

2005-04-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 02:56:36 -0400, Robert G. Hays wrote: Yah, glsa's makes a pretty good reason -- what I was referring to was the part about the portage stuff getting whanged; wasn't *even* referring to compile-time! Fair point. But if no one runs the bleeding edge stuff, it will never be

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: (OT) WARNING: /etc removed from CONFIG_PROTECT portage-2.0.51.20

2005-04-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 09:24:27 +0200, Remy Blank wrote: Neil, are you making them up yourself, or do you have a good source? I've spent the last ten years studiously stealing them :) -- Neil Bothwick BASIC: Bill's Attempt to Seize Industry Control pgp4hapRUUvQh.pgp Description: PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] Cups + Samba weird message

2005-04-30 Thread Nick Rout
On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 16:23 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: On 4/29/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 15:35 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 07:04:51 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Actually, it means that samba depends on cups, and cups depends on

Re: [gentoo-user] unsubscribe

2005-04-30 Thread Nick Rout
I suggest that you RTFM firstly the unsub instructions are in the headers of every list message. secondly if you cannot do that, go to http://www.gentoo.org, find the Mailing Lists page and follow the easy to read instructions! share and enjoy On Sat, 2005-04-30 at 09:33 +0200, Christof

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gdm power management

2005-04-30 Thread Sami Samhuri
* On Sat Apr-30-2005 at 02:35:10 AM +, James said: Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com writes: [...] where do you make a config setting change to get this to work? [...] I've got some older Viewsonic E790 19 CRT based monitors. Here's the relevant section of an xorg file that you could

Re: [gentoo-user] displaying only installed packages

2005-04-30 Thread Karsten Baumgarten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Since qpkg is somewhat deprecated and might disappear in the future I'd recommend to use equery (emerge gentoolkit if you don't have that command, gpkg is also (still) part of this package). Usage: equery l regex In your case this would be something

[gentoo-user] emerge sync - portage: Update type slotmove not recognized. - !!! No profile directory; system mode unavailable.

2005-04-30 Thread Richard Watson
I just tried to emerge sync an install I did off a stage 3 LiveCD I bought during 2004. I'm getting some strange results. Can anyone tell me what the output below is telling me. I tried running fixpackages but that did not fix it. Now when I try and emerge any package portage keeps trying to sync

Re: [gentoo-user] displaying only installed packages

2005-04-30 Thread Al Bayrouni
thank you very much for your answers Bayrouni. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sync - portage: Update type slotmove not recognized. - !!! No profile directory; system mode unavailable.

2005-04-30 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Saturday 30 April 2005 17:40, Richard Watson wrote: I just tried to emerge sync an install I did off a stage 3 LiveCD I bought during 2004. I'm getting some strange results. Can anyone tell me what the output below is telling me. I tried running fixpackages but that did not fix it. Now

[gentoo-user] i8k

2005-04-30 Thread timothy johnson
when I run /etc/init.d/i8k start this is what I get * The i8k driver is not installed -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] fetchmail+procmail+mutt and gentoo maillists

2005-04-30 Thread Pavel
Hello, I`ve subscribed to gentoo mailists , but can only read through Gmail Web Interface . I followed Offical Gentoo Mail guide , but no luck Here is my .fetchmailrc set logfile /var/log/fetchmail poll pop.gmail.com proto pop3 port 995 user xxx with pass xxx to pavel here ssl When I try to

Re: [gentoo-user] resolution from command line

2005-04-30 Thread slarti
On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 12:07:57PM +0300, Panos Laganakos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What i'm looking for is something that can tell me that the 'video=vesafb:ypan,[EMAIL PROTECTED]' argument i pass to grub's 'kernel' command, is actually applied (from what i see, it ain't, i just wanna make

Re: [gentoo-user] fetchmail+procmail+mutt and gentoo maillists

2005-04-30 Thread slarti
It seems as though one extremely large mail is causing you to run into bug 85339. Solution: use getmail instead :) Regards, Tom -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, recruiters, vim Gentoo Linux pgpKODneiO7pk.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] NTFS data recovery wit liveCD?

2005-04-30 Thread Stuart Howard
I have a machine with some critical data on it that I need to recover from a winXP installation that has gone bad. Can someone suggest a procedure I could use to acheive this using a Gentoo liveCD? Machine to recover from :- WinXP 1 partition NTFS with a network card [nb. SATA HDD] Machine's I

RE: [gentoo-user] emerge sync - portage: Update type slotmove not recognized. - !!! No profile directory; system mode unavailable.

2005-04-30 Thread Richard Watson
In either case, relink /etc/make.profile to /usr/portage/profiles/default-x86-2004.2. Then ignore the deprecation notice and above slotmove error until you've upgraded portage to 2.0.51. Regards, Jason Stubbs Hi Jason - thanks. I did what you suggested and it sort of fixed the problem. However

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sync - portage: Update type slotmove not recognized. - !!! No profile directory; system mode unavailable.

2005-04-30 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Saturday 30 April 2005 22:18, Richard Watson wrote: Failed to write to mtimedb: 'module' object has no attribute 'HIGHEST_PROTOCOL' That would be due to running python-2.2. Although, the portage-2.0.51.19 ebuild is meant to detect the use of python-2.2 and patch accordingly. Perhaps you

Re: [gentoo-user] The LiveCD as the workstation

2005-04-30 Thread Grant
Keyboard loggers on public computers freak me out, and lugging my laptop around and hoping Internet cafes will let me plug in doesn't sound too great. I may end up doing that though. No big deal. If keyboard loggers are your only problem, google for usage of ssh+otp

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacements

2005-04-30 Thread slarti
On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 04:46:17PM +0200, Patrick Marquetecken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm looking for replacements for: mailx/mail; for a machine without a MTA and that can send mail with attachments via a smpt server on the network. Use mailx/mail/nail with msmtp. It will either

Re: [gentoo-user] what's the deal with use flags in (brackets)?

2005-04-30 Thread Kiawud
On 4/29/05, Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 16:54:57 + Calvin Spealman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | i dont understand whats going on here. I thought those flags enabled | the use of extended sets of the x86 instruction set, and amd64 chips | are in the x86

Re: [gentoo-user] rc-update net.wlan0?

2005-04-30 Thread Mark Knecht
On 4/29/05, Robert G. Hays [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark, Sorry long delay -- slighly busy lately! Since I was only kinda-halfway watching this thread, and have forgotten several details, if you still need this help, could you please briefly summarize your before setting results and your

[gentoo-user] Is there an app/lib can do voice comparation?

2005-04-30 Thread Qiangning Hong
Is there an existing software (perhaps an education software) can do the following function? The student reads aloud a piece of text to the microphone. The software records the voice and compare it to the wave file pre-recorded by the teacher, and gives out a score to indicate the similarity

Re: [gentoo-user] what's the deal with use flags in (brackets)?

2005-04-30 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 10:27:15 -0600 Kiawud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I thought that if you 'cat /proc/cpuinfo' it'll show you the flags | that are compatible with your cpu. Is that not accurate for the amd64 | chip? Uh huh, but those flags don't correspond to the USE flags. -- Ciaran McCreesh

Re: [gentoo-user] what's the deal with use flags in (brackets)?

2005-04-30 Thread Keith Gable
What they're saying is that SSE/SSE2/MMX and so on are automatically applied without the flags. The flags are only there because not every x86 chip supports SSE, SSE2, and so on. On AMD64, the flags are ignored and it's compiled with any of those processor optimizations that it knowingly supports.

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome config

2005-04-30 Thread Adi
Vineri 29 Aprilie 2005 02:28, Spider a scris: On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 02:25 +0300, Adi wrote: Hi. Well I decided to try the new gnome 2.10, after previous dissapointments and uninstallations so I painfully unmasked and unkeyworded (?) each dependancy by hand just to find out when starting

[gentoo-user] software prototype

2005-04-30 Thread José Moreira
Hello, i've been thinking about a new software and i would like the opinion from the community about it's viability. It's not directly related to Gentoo but OSS in general. The name i believe would describe it the best is 'helpforge' the sameway it exists 'howtoforge' and 'sourceforge'.

Re: [gentoo-user] resolution from command line

2005-04-30 Thread Richard Fish
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 12:07:57PM +0300, Panos Laganakos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What i'm looking for is something that can tell me that the 'video=vesafb:ypan,[EMAIL PROTECTED]' argument i pass to grub's 'kernel' command, is actually applied (from what i see,

[gentoo-user] compaq 2500 no /dev/dsp

2005-04-30 Thread Antoine
Hi, Can anyone give me any hints on what to do to get sound going on this thing? I have no idea what module to look for but have seen some mention of conexant... It ran out of the box when i installed suse... Any help much appreciated Antoine -- G System, The Evolving GUniverse -

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with media-libs/libsdl-1.2.8-r1

2005-04-30 Thread Vittorio
Alle 17:23, venerdì 29 aprile 2005, darren kirby ha scritto: quoth the Vittorio: Alle 22:02, giovedì 28 aprile 2005, darren kirby ha scritto: quoth the Vittorio: snip What should I do? Vittorio Turn off distcc and try again. I have found that some apps refuse to

[gentoo-user] cx88xx error

2005-04-30 Thread Al Bayrouni
Hello all, I compiled the kernel-2.6.11-r6 with videoforlinux support and conexant 2388xx support. When I modprobe cx88xx I have this error: FATAL: Error inserting cx88xx (/lib/modules/2.6.11-gentoo-r6/kernel/drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88xx.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with media-libs/libsdl-1.2.8-r1

2005-04-30 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Vittorio: snip I modified the ebuild file as suggested in the bug report but when I bash-2.05b# emerge -uDn world Calculating world dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 14) media-libs/libsdl-1.2.8-r1 to / md5 files ;-) libsdl-1.2.6-r3.ebuild !!! Digest verification Failed:

[gentoo-user] Firewire success - SA 3250

2005-04-30 Thread Michael Haan
I've been trying to capture HD over firewire from my SA 3250 using test-mpeg2 for a few days now. Looks like it's finally working!! Now I'd like to take the next step. My specs: AMD64, Gentoo(2.6.9-r14), nVidia 6600GT a) I want to try changing channels with 6200ch. Unfortunately I didn't

[gentoo-user] Re: [mythtv-users] Firewire success - SA 3250

2005-04-30 Thread Michael Haan
On 4/30/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/30/05, Michael Haan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: c) I subscribe to HBO, but HBO doesn't seem to come over 1394. Is that in accordance with the FCC, or does Comcast owe me that via 1394 as well? Legally I think it will depend on whether

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with media-libs/libsdl-1.2.8-r1

2005-04-30 Thread Jason Cooper
darren kirby ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: quoth the Vittorio: snip I modified the ebuild file as suggested in the bug report but when I bash-2.05b# emerge -uDn world Calculating world dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 14) media-libs/libsdl-1.2.8-r1 to / md5 files ;-)

[gentoo-user] No sound: ALSA and software suspend2

2005-04-30 Thread Gabriel M. Beddingfield
I recently upgraded my kernel from 2.6.9-gentoo-r13 to 2.6.11-suspend2. I wanted to get software suspend v2 working. (I'm using a laptop, and boot / shutdown is just taking forever.) I seem to have most everything worked out except this: When I boot, I can't get the soundcard to make any