RE: [gentoo-user] Linux Animated Video for Advocacy

2006-01-23 Thread Daevid Vincent
http://www.ubergeek.tv/article.php?pid=54 > -Original Message- > From: Michael Louie Loria [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 9:42 PM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: [gentoo-user] Linux Animated Video for Advocacy > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE--

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual Boot System Setup

2006-01-23 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 22:05 -0800, Ryan Tandy wrote: > Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > >1. use the windows to chain-boot linux (possible, but I don't know what > >for :) > > > > > Sorry, this isn't possible - I should know, I've tried in the past. > Wasted too much time on it, too. Windows can o

[gentoo-user] swat "500 server error"

2006-01-23 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi All, I installed samba, and xinetd, then edited /etc/xinetd.d/swat and set "disable=no". I restarted xinetd, and when I connect to http://localhost:901/ with firefox, I get this message: 500 Server Error chdir failed - the server is not configured correctly To see if it was me, or firefox,

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual Boot System Setup

2006-01-23 Thread Ryan Tandy
Iain Buchanan wrote: 1. use the windows to chain-boot linux (possible, but I don't know what for :) Sorry, this isn't possible - I should know, I've tried in the past. Wasted too much time on it, too. Windows can only multi-boot with other Windows. And if you've managed to get it t

Re: [gentoo-user] doom3 sound

2006-01-23 Thread Cláudio Henrique
thanks again. that did the trick! On 1/24/06, Ryan Tandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Cláudio Henrique wrote: > > >will I have to recompile my kernel with OSS then? > > > >On 1/24/06, Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>On Tuesday 24 January 2006 11:33, Cláudio Henrique wrote: > >>

[gentoo-user] Linux Animated Video for Advocacy

2006-01-23 Thread Michael Louie Loria
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hello, Does anybody have a link of an Animated Video which topics about linux? Kindly Carbon Copy it to my email (michaellouieloria @ yahoo . com) because I receive digested emails in this mailing list. Thanks, Michael Louie Loria -BEGIN PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS -- fails better!

2006-01-23 Thread Manuel A. McLure
On Monday 23 January 2006 07:20 pm, maxim wexler wrote: > This time the printer whirred to life printed the > first line of text across the very top of the paper > then quit with the orange error light blinking. BTW, > this is a DeskJet 612C using the hpijs driver. What I expect is happening is th

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual Boot System Setup

2006-01-23 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 22:06 -0500, Sean wrote: > I have a laptop I want to setup to boot either Gentoo or Windows. [snip] > Would anyone recommend which is the best method for setup, start with > Gentoo or Windows? it doesn't matter, IMHO, so long as you know that windows will overwrite your grub

[gentoo-user] Gnome calendar - Start on Sunday instead of Saturday?

2006-01-23 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, Title says it. My wife wants to configure this item and I cannot find the control of it in the preferences page. Anyone know how to make it start on Sunday instead? Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] doom3 sound

2006-01-23 Thread Ryan Tandy
Cláudio Henrique wrote: will I have to recompile my kernel with OSS then? On 1/24/06, Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tuesday 24 January 2006 11:33, Cláudio Henrique wrote: I managed to have doom3 working on my system, but now the problem is with the sound. It is like the o

Re: [gentoo-user] xscreensaver on startup (quick question)

2006-01-23 Thread Ryan Tandy
Álvaro Castro wrote: Hello!! This may be a very stupid question, but google doesn't answer me... I'm using enlightenment 17 and entrance as display manager. I would like to have xscreensaver loaded when I start my session (and, if possible on any other environment like e16 or fluxbox, that I a

[gentoo-user] xscreensaver on startup (quick question)

2006-01-23 Thread Álvaro Castro
Hello!! This may be a very stupid question, but google doesn't answer me... I'm using enlightenment 17 and entrance as display manager. I would like to have xscreensaver loaded when I start my session (and, if possible on any other environment like e16 or fluxbox, that I also have installed). uf

Re: [gentoo-user] doom3 sound

2006-01-23 Thread Cláudio Henrique
will I have to recompile my kernel with OSS then? On 1/24/06, Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 24 January 2006 11:33, Cláudio Henrique wrote: > > I managed to have doom3 working on my system, but now the problem is > > with the sound. It is like the one of a robot. I have tried

[gentoo-user] CUPS -- fails better!

2006-01-23 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everybody, As a follow up to my tales of not-printing woe... >From a forum I read to use $lpr -l test ie-l Specifies that the print file is already formatted for the destination and should be sent without filtering. This option is equivalent to "-oraw". This time the printer whir

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual Boot System Setup

2006-01-23 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 23, 2006, at 9:06 PM, Sean wrote: I have a laptop I want to setup to boot either Gentoo or Windows. Looking around I am trying to find recommendations as to which is better to install first, Gentoo or Windows. From what I found, either often gets a recommendation. Would anyone recom

[gentoo-user] Dual Boot System Setup

2006-01-23 Thread Sean
I have a laptop I want to setup to boot either Gentoo or Windows. Looking around I am trying to find recommendations as to which is better to install first, Gentoo or Windows. From what I found, either often gets a recommendation. Would anyone recommend which is the best method for setup, start

Re: [gentoo-user] doom3 sound

2006-01-23 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Tuesday 24 January 2006 11:33, Cláudio Henrique wrote: > I managed to have doom3 working on my system, but now the problem is > with the sound. It is like the one of a robot. I have tried using > alsa, but the problem remains. How can I fix this? Same here. To get it to work I had to change to

Re: [gentoo-user] Kppp and two different accounts

2006-01-23 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: > > >Now to see if I can send email with this connection today. Well crap, back to >Kmail for this connection. < sighs > > > It looks like my ISP is on the ball again. I can send email from Mozilla and I just connected. I can call one of the old numbers that was real good in the

[gentoo-user] doom3 sound

2006-01-23 Thread Cláudio Henrique
I managed to have doom3 working on my system, but now the problem is with the sound. It is like the one of a robot. I have tried using alsa, but the problem remains. How can I fix this? []'s claudio. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: any easy way to reemerge kde using equery or similar tool?

2006-01-23 Thread Norberto Bensa
Neil Bothwick wrote: > Of course, it will ruin your world file like > this because you didn't use --oneshot. I ruinned my world file yeeears ago anyway :) Thanks Neil. Best regards, -- Norberto Bensa Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] [POLL] portage-2.1 USE flag ordering

2006-01-23 Thread Jason Stubbs
Hi all, I've started a poll on the specific question of USE flag ordering in portage-2.1_pre3 at http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-426033.html The result of the poll will pretty much dictate what will happen in the next release so if you'd like to go over and cast your vote... :) There's also

Re: [gentoo-user] Kppp and two different accounts

2006-01-23 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: >On Saturday 21 January 2006 06:29, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > >>On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 04:56:07 -0600, Dale wrote: >> >> While trying that, clear /var/tmp too. >>>Just do a rm -rf /var/tmp/* There is a kde-root, kde-dale, >>>kde-dale2 and kde-test folder i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: which video card for dell2005fpw

2006-01-23 Thread michael
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Thierry de Coulon wrote: On Monday, 23 January 2006 22:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Resolution is 1680 x 1050. I do need to make sure the 6600 can do this with the Linux driver. Here: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15118735 I read: Is it possible to have 1680*

Re: [gentoo-user] can't chmod +u /sbin/halt anymore

2006-01-23 Thread Michael Kintzios
> From:: Antoine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: [gentoo-user] can't chmod +u /sbin/halt anymore > Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 21:11:17 +0100 > Hi, > Until now I have been able to chmod halt to let me halt/reboot as a > normal user and my last big emerge -uDNav world

Re: [gentoo-user] doom3

2006-01-23 Thread Cláudio Henrique
yep! but don't worry. unmerge emerge worked out. I don't know what I was doing wrong, but now it works. thanks everybody! On 1/23/06, Andrew Frink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 1/23/06, Cláudio Henrique <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I guess I'll erase all the files, unmerge doom3 and then r

Re: [gentoo-user] hal-0.5.5.1-r3 dependency loop

2006-01-23 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: >On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 05:15:06 -0600, Dale wrote: > > > >>So that is what has been going on with mine too. I thought I was going >>nuts, again that is. LOL >> >> > >You are, I explained that to you last week :) > > > > I must have missed the part about having both K

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: which video card for dell2005fpw

2006-01-23 Thread Thierry de Coulon
On Monday, 23 January 2006 22:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Resolution is 1680 x 1050. I do need to make sure the 6600 can do this > with the Linux driver. Here: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15118735 I read: Is it possible to have 1680*1050 displayed under Linux? Yeah, I have a nVidia

[gentoo-user] OT - Something funky with nautilus

2006-01-23 Thread Michael Sullivan
Something funky is going on with my nautilus. In gconf-editor for nautilus, I have the always_use_browser checkbox checked, but my nautilus window is not showing browser mode. I prefer to have the address bar. Nautilus froze up and I issued a killall for it, and when it reloaded it was like this

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: which video card for dell2005fpw

2006-01-23 Thread michael
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Thierry de Coulon wrote: On Monday, 23 January 2006 21:15, Simon Kellett wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > Depends a bit on what you want: basic stuff or 3d-gaming ! > > > > Basic stuff. Not into games, and I d

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: which video card for dell2005fpw

2006-01-23 Thread michael
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Thierry de Coulon wrote: On Monday, 23 January 2006 21:15, Simon Kellett wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Depends a bit on what you want: basic stuff or 3d-gaming ! Basic stuff. Not into games, and I don't watch movies on my computer either. Same as me then: I just b

Re: [gentoo-user] kdebase-3.5.0 compilation error

2006-01-23 Thread Philip Webb
060123 Radu Filip wrote: > does anybody knows how to get over this error > when compiling kdebase-3.5.0 ? -- long error message snipped -- A quick look suggests it may be Bug 105297 , in which case the solution is to update to dev-libs/libxslt-1.1.15 . -- ,,==

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: which video card for dell2005fpw

2006-01-23 Thread Thierry de Coulon
On Monday, 23 January 2006 21:15, Simon Kellett wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >> Depends a bit on what you want: basic stuff or 3d-gaming ! > > > > Basic stuff. Not into games, and I don't watch movies on my computer > > either. > > Same as me then: I just bought the cheapest card with an nV

[gentoo-user] Re: which video card for dell2005fpw

2006-01-23 Thread Simon Kellett
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> Depends a bit on what you want: basic stuff or 3d-gaming ! > > Basic stuff. Not into games, and I don't watch movies on my computer > either. Same as me then: I just bought the cheapest card with an nVidia chip, AGP8 and DVI out at my local computer shop: ASUS V9400-X

[gentoo-user] OT- Stupid Question I Should Know the Answer To, But Don't (openoffice upgrade)

2006-01-23 Thread Michael Sullivan
I attempted to upgrade openoffice, but I keep getting this: checking whether to build with Java support... yes configure: error: /usr/lib/SunJava2-1.4.2/bin/java not found set with_jdk_home make: *** [stamp/build] Error 1 !!! ERROR: app-office/openoffice-2.0.1 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Li

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH and terminal emulation

2006-01-23 Thread Tom Smith
John Jolet wrote: > > On Jan 23, 2006, at 2:41 PM, Tom Smith wrote: > >> John Jolet wrote: >> >>> >>> On Jan 23, 2006, at 1:56 PM, Tom Smith wrote: >>> John Jolet wrote: > > On Jan 23, 2006, at 1:00 PM, Tom Smith wrote: > >> John Jolet wrote: >> >>> what is the ou

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH and terminal emulation

2006-01-23 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 23, 2006, at 2:41 PM, Tom Smith wrote: John Jolet wrote: On Jan 23, 2006, at 1:56 PM, Tom Smith wrote: John Jolet wrote: On Jan 23, 2006, at 1:00 PM, Tom Smith wrote: John Jolet wrote: what is the output of "echo $TERM"? pcadobe ~ # echo $TERM linux pcadobe ~ # try "exp

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH and terminal emulation

2006-01-23 Thread Tom Smith
John Jolet wrote: > > On Jan 23, 2006, at 1:56 PM, Tom Smith wrote: > >> John Jolet wrote: >> >>> >>> On Jan 23, 2006, at 1:00 PM, Tom Smith wrote: >>> John Jolet wrote: > what is the output of "echo $TERM"? pcadobe ~ # echo $TERM linux pcadobe ~ #

Re: [gentoo-user] can't chmod +u /sbin/halt anymore

2006-01-23 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 23, 2006, at 2:11 PM, Antoine wrote: Hi, Until now I have been able to chmod halt to let me halt/reboot as a normal user and my last big emerge -uDNav world put a stop to that - any ideas? Cheers Antoine and using sudo is out of the question? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing lis

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: any easy way to reemerge kde using equery or similar tool?

2006-01-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 16:27:27 -0300, Norberto Bensa wrote: > > cd /var/db/pkg/ > > for P in kde-base/*; do echo =$P; done | xargs emerge --oneshot --ask > > Still too complicated. > > # emerge $(qpkg -I -nc kde-base/) I thought of qpkg first, but I didn't think that would work, without adding =

[gentoo-user] kdebase-3.5.0 compilation error

2006-01-23 Thread Radu Filip
Hi, does anybody knows how to get over this error when compiling kdebase-3.5.0? Thanks! make[3]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/kdebase-3.5.0-r1/work/kdebase-3.5.0/doc/kdeprint' /usr/kde/3.5/bin/meinproc --check --cache index.cache.bz2 ./index.docbook XPath error : Undefined variable $alph

[gentoo-user] can't chmod +u /sbin/halt anymore

2006-01-23 Thread Antoine
Hi, Until now I have been able to chmod halt to let me halt/reboot as a normal user and my last big emerge -uDNav world put a stop to that - any ideas? Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: Completely and totally OT - Re: [gentoo-user] Have you seen my flamesuit? (Was: How many people use KDE?)

2006-01-23 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 23, 2006, at 2:00 PM, Antoine wrote: Personally I use ext3 for everything except windows partitions. I have 3 NTFS-partitions, and one FAT32 partition. The freeware read/ write ext2-driver for Windows doesn't work with Windows 2003, so I have to use FAT32. Especially because captiv

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH and terminal emulation

2006-01-23 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 23, 2006, at 1:56 PM, Tom Smith wrote: John Jolet wrote: On Jan 23, 2006, at 1:00 PM, Tom Smith wrote: John Jolet wrote: what is the output of "echo $TERM"? pcadobe ~ # echo $TERM linux pcadobe ~ # try "export TERM=vt220" and see if that helps. This did work for "pstree" bu

Re: Completely and totally OT - Re: [gentoo-user] Have you seen my flamesuit? (Was: How many people use KDE?)

2006-01-23 Thread Antoine
Personally I use ext3 for everything except windows partitions. I have 3 NTFS-partitions, and one FAT32 partition. The freeware read/write ext2-driver for Windows doesn't work with Windows 2003, so I have to use FAT32. Especially because captive-ntfs aren't working for me. Seeing as we are a

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH and terminal emulation

2006-01-23 Thread Tom Smith
John Jolet wrote: > > On Jan 23, 2006, at 1:00 PM, Tom Smith wrote: > >> John Jolet wrote: >> >>> what is the output of "echo $TERM"? >> >> >> pcadobe ~ # echo $TERM >> linux >> pcadobe ~ # >> > try "export TERM=vt220" and see if that helps. This did work for "pstree" but seriously broke function

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: any easy way to reemerge kde using equery or similar tool?

2006-01-23 Thread Norberto Bensa
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 00:28:34 -0300, Norberto Bensa wrote: > > > add a "=" sign for each entry: > > > emerge -pv \=$(echo $(equery -q l kde-base/) | sed s/\ /\ =/g) > > > > Too complicated. I know how to use sed, etc. but I was looking for a > > cleaner/simpler solution. > > c

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH and terminal emulation

2006-01-23 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 23, 2006, at 1:00 PM, Tom Smith wrote: John Jolet wrote: what is the output of "echo $TERM"? pcadobe ~ # echo $TERM linux pcadobe ~ # try "export TERM=vt220" and see if that helps. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH and terminal emulation

2006-01-23 Thread Tom Smith
John Jolet wrote: > what is the output of "echo $TERM"? pcadobe ~ # echo $TERM linux pcadobe ~ # -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: which video card for dell2005fpw

2006-01-23 Thread Jason Weisberger
Michael,Any NVIDIA card is a home run as far as Linux drivers go.  It will even allow you to run some advanced graphical applications if you chose.  If you're looking for the most for the money, I'd either try a 6600GT or the brand new 7200, which may not be released on the market yet, I'd check on

Re: [gentoo-user] doom3

2006-01-23 Thread Andrew Frink
On 1/23/06, Cláudio Henrique <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I guess I'll erase all the files, unmerge doom3 and then reinstall thewhole thing.On 1/23/06, Joshua Schmidlkofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> I only ever got the invalid key when I was using a key from the internet > which I had acquired.  Dow

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH and terminal emulation

2006-01-23 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 23, 2006, at 12:35 PM, Tom Smith wrote: I use Kermit 95 to connect to my server. When I run "pstree" from an SSH session, I get the following type of output: pcadobe ssh # pstree initqwqaacraid tq2*[agetty] tqcron tqevents/0 tqkhelper tqkhpsbpkt tqkjourn

[gentoo-user] SSH and terminal emulation

2006-01-23 Thread Tom Smith
I use Kermit 95 to connect to my server. When I run "pstree" from an SSH session, I get the following type of output: pcadobe ssh # pstree initqwqaacraid tq2*[agetty] tqcron tqevents/0 tqkhelper tqkhpsbpkt tqkjournald tqksoftirqd/0 tqkswapd0 tqkthreadq

Re: [gentoo-user] doom3

2006-01-23 Thread Cláudio Henrique
I guess I'll erase all the files, unmerge doom3 and then reinstall the whole thing. On 1/23/06, Joshua Schmidlkofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I only ever got the invalid key when I was using a key from the internet > which I had acquired. Down-grade to the previous doom release - it works > wi

[gentoo-user] gnome-system-monitor-2.12.1 crashes

2006-01-23 Thread Matthias Langer
I just would like to know if someone else is experiencing random crashes with gnome-system-monor-2.12.1 when modifing the information displayed in the process list, as i described in more detail at http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120006. Thanks, Matthias -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

[gentoo-user] SolvedRe: usb - sandisk memory needs FAT or NTFS

2006-01-23 Thread James
Rumen Yotov mach.qrypto.org> writes: Well, I just kept at it and now it's working as it should. It's hard to say what fixed it, I rebuilt the 2.6.14-gentoo-r6 kernel several times and recheckded everything. I also reemerged ivman and hald and added them again to the default run levels. I did fi

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:49:37 +0200, Ryan Viljoen wrote: > > These are the monolithic ebuilds, kdepim for example contains kmail, > > kontact and quite a few others. Use the split ebuilds to merge just > > what you need. > > It's a little confusing because the split and monolithic ebuilds are > >

Re: [gentoo-user] hal-0.5.5.1-r3 dependency loop

2006-01-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 05:40:16 -1000, Beau E. Cox wrote: > How can I find the package calling for the newer hal? emerge --tree --verbose --update --deep world -- Neil Bothwick Smoking Can Damage Your HealthUnless us Non-Smokers do it first! signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] NIS/NFS

2006-01-23 Thread Alexander Skwar
Jeff wrote: > Is showmount a universal command, or is it part of NIS/NFS? What's a "universal command"? man showmount DESCRIPTION showmount queries the mount daemon on a remote host for information about the state of the NFS server on that machine. > Worked like a charm bt

Re: [gentoo-user] doom3

2006-01-23 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
I only ever got the invalid key when I was using a key from the internet which I had acquired.  Down-grade to the previous doom release - it works without the key.jsOn 1/23/06, Heinz Sporn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Am Montag, den 23.01.2006, 11:14 -0200 schrieb Cláudio Henrique:> hi, there,> yers

Re: [gentoo-user] NIS/NFS

2006-01-23 Thread Alexander Skwar
Jeff wrote: > Wondering - is there a command that will let you see all exports/mount > points available on a network? No. Only for a given host - showmounts. Alexander Skwar -- BOFH Excuse #137: User was distributing pornography on server; system seized by FBI. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mail

Re: [gentoo-user] cups -- more clues?

2006-01-23 Thread maxim wexler
--- Abhay Kedia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 23 January 2006 07:02, maxim wexler wrote: > > > > In the cups/error_log > > > Did you set LogLevel to debug2 in > /etc/cups/cupsd.conf? Yes sarawak heathen # tail -n 30 /var/log/cups/err* d [23/Jan/2006:09:54:37 -0700] ReadClient: httpGe

Re: [gentoo-user] NIS/NFS

2006-01-23 Thread Ghislain Bourgeois
On 1/23/06, Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is showmount a universal command, or is it part of NIS/NFS?It comes with the package nfs-utils in Gentoo.  Worked like a charm btw. Thanks much. I've forgotten a lot of thecommands since we've switched to LDAP.Glad it helped!-- Ghislain Bourgeois---Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: usb - sandisk memory needs FAT or NTFS

2006-01-23 Thread Rumen Yotov
On (23/01/06 16:03), James wrote: > Rumen Yotov mach.qrypto.org> writes: > > > > > Well I have 2 different usb memory devices and I cannot > > > seem to get a fat (or ntfs) file system on them. > > > I have to manually mount them with this command as coldplug > > > does not do it automatically.

Re: [gentoo-user] gst-plugins version 'ping-pong'

2006-01-23 Thread Roy Wright
Kristian Poul Herkild wrote: Beau E. Cox wrote: Hi - I try: # emerge -uD world -p ... Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] media-libs/gst-plugins-0.8.11 [0.8.10] OK. So I do it: # emerge -uD world [SUCCESS] Now I check again: # emerge -uD world -p ... Calculating w

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-23 Thread Ryan Viljoen
> > It seems like at least kdeedu, kdegames, kdepim & kdetoys wouldn't > > leave me missing really obvious stuff, at least from the names. It > > would seem that kdeadmin, kdebase, kdebase-pam, kdelibs, kdemultimedia > > & possibly kdeutils would be keepers. The rest I don't have an > > uneducated

Re: [gentoo-user] Full Squid Cache

2006-01-23 Thread Ryan Viljoen
Hey Uwe It turned out that I had allocated more disk space to squid then what was actually available :( A silly mistake on my part. I did have the last number set to 512 but have upped it to 1024 just incase. I landed up redoing the cache anyway though thank you for the assistance. Cheers Rav -

Re: [gentoo-user] gst-plugins version 'ping-pong'

2006-01-23 Thread Beau E. Cox
On Monday 23 January 2006 04:20 am, Kristian Poul Herkild wrote: > Beau E. Cox wrote: > > Hi - > > > > I try: > > > > # emerge -uD world -p > > ... > > Calculating world dependencies ...done! > > [ebuild U ] media-libs/gst-plugins-0.8.11 [0.8.10] > > > > OK. So I do it: > > # emerge -uD world >

Re: [gentoo-user] gst-plugins version 'ping-pong'

2006-01-23 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Monday 23 January 2006 11:33, a tiny voice compelled Beau E. Cox to write: > On Monday 23 January 2006 04:20 am, Kristian Poul Herkild wrote: > > Beau E. Cox wrote: > > > Hi - > > > > > > I try: > > > > > > # emerge -uD world -p > > > ... > > > Calculating world dependencies ...done! > > > [ebui

Re: [gentoo-user] NIS/NFS

2006-01-23 Thread Jeff
Is showmount a universal command, or is it part of NIS/NFS? Worked like a charm btw. Thanks much. I've forgotten a lot of the commands since we've switched to LDAP. Ghislain Bourgeois wrote: On 1/23/06, *Jeff* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: Wondering - is ther

Re: [gentoo-user] gst-plugins version 'ping-pong'

2006-01-23 Thread Beau E. Cox
On Monday 23 January 2006 04:20 am, Kristian Poul Herkild wrote: > Beau E. Cox wrote: > > Hi - > > > > I try: > > > > # emerge -uD world -p > > ... > > Calculating world dependencies ...done! > > [ebuild U ] media-libs/gst-plugins-0.8.11 [0.8.10] > > > > OK. So I do it: > > # emerge -uD world >

Re: [gentoo-user] NIS/NFS

2006-01-23 Thread Ghislain Bourgeois
On 1/23/06, Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Wondering - is there a command that will let you see all exports/mountpoints available on a network?showmount -e target-- Ghislain Bourgeois---Linux System administrator Bell Canada

[gentoo-user] Re: usb - sandisk memory needs FAT or NTFS

2006-01-23 Thread James
Rumen Yotov mach.qrypto.org> writes: > > Well I have 2 different usb memory devices and I cannot > > seem to get a fat (or ntfs) file system on them. > > I have to manually mount them with this command as coldplug > > does not do it automatically. I have to use: > > 'mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb'

[gentoo-user] NIS/NFS

2006-01-23 Thread Jeff
Hey all. Wondering - is there a command that will let you see all exports/mount points available on a network? Thanks! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] hal-0.5.5.1-r3 dependency loop

2006-01-23 Thread Beau E. Cox
On Sunday 22 January 2006 11:35 pm, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 19:21:54 -1000, Beau E. Cox wrote: > > Looks like there is a dependency loop with the > > recently unmasked hal-0.5.5.1-r3. If I: > > It's not a loop. KDE 3.4 depends on the older HAL (0.4x) and D-BUS. if you > update to

Re: [gentoo-user] gst-plugins version 'ping-pong'

2006-01-23 Thread Kristian Poul Herkild
Beau E. Cox wrote: Hi - I try: # emerge -uD world -p ... Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] media-libs/gst-plugins-0.8.11 [0.8.10] OK. So I do it: # emerge -uD world [SUCCESS] Now I check again: # emerge -uD world -p ... Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebui

Re: [gentoo-user] Full Squid Cache

2006-01-23 Thread Norberto Bensa
Uwe Thiem wrote: > On 23 January 2006 09:20, Norberto Bensa wrote: > > Where do you tell Ryan how to make squid clean its cache? > > Right in the begin. "Squid does that." Squid deletes old objects by > default. His cache is too small, so it fills up faster than squid deletes > old objects. Ohhh..

Re: [gentoo-user] doom3

2006-01-23 Thread Heinz Sporn
Am Montag, den 23.01.2006, 11:14 -0200 schrieb Cláudio Henrique: > hi, there, > yersterday I installed doom3 on my gentoo. the installation was ok. > however, when I enter the CD key it tells me it is invalid. how come? > have anyone been throught it? I played the entire game under Gentoo. No prob

Re: [gentoo-user] gst-plugins version 'ping-pong'

2006-01-23 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/23/06, Beau E. Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi - > > I try: > > # emerge -uD world -p > ... > Calculating world dependencies ...done! > [ebuild U ] media-libs/gst-plugins-0.8.11 [0.8.10] > > OK. So I do it: > # emerge -uD world > > [SUCCESS] > > Now I check again: > > # emerge -uD

Re: [gentoo-user] Java SDK 1.5

2006-01-23 Thread Cláudio Henrique
I use sun-jdk 1.5 for quite some time now, and I've seen no bugs. Unless you're using it for some extremely specific work, I recomend unmasking and emerging it. On 1/20/06, Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: > > I w

[gentoo-user] doom3

2006-01-23 Thread Cláudio Henrique
hi, there, yersterday I installed doom3 on my gentoo. the installation was ok. however, when I enter the CD key it tells me it is invalid. how come? have anyone been throught it? []'s claudio. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] hal-0.5.5.1-r3 dependency loop

2006-01-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 05:15:06 -0600, Dale wrote: > So that is what has been going on with mine too. I thought I was going > nuts, again that is. LOL You are, I explained that to you last week :) -- Neil Bothwick This is as bad as it can get-but don't bet on it. signature.asc Description: P

Re: [gentoo-user] hal-0.5.5.1-r3 dependency loop

2006-01-23 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: >On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 19:21:54 -1000, Beau E. Cox wrote: > > > >>Looks like there is a dependency loop with the >>recently unmasked hal-0.5.5.1-r3. If I: >> >> > >It's not a loop. KDE 3.4 depends on the older HAL (0.4x) and D-BUS. if you >update to HAL 0.5+, KDE 3.4 will

[gentoo-user] How to install ftplugin for vim

2006-01-23 Thread Edwin Kapauni
How can I install vim plugins globally for any user? Especially "XML Completion"[1] is what all our users should have for xml/html trainings. Is there a Gentoo way to install vim plugins? [1] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] hal-0.5.5.1-r3 dependency loop

2006-01-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 19:21:54 -1000, Beau E. Cox wrote: > Looks like there is a dependency loop with the > recently unmasked hal-0.5.5.1-r3. If I: It's not a loop. KDE 3.4 depends on the older HAL (0.4x) and D-BUS. if you update to HAL 0.5+, KDE 3.4 will want to downgrade it again. This should onl

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: any easy way to reemerge kde using equery or similar tool?

2006-01-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 00:28:34 -0300, Norberto Bensa wrote: > > add a "=" sign for each entry: > > emerge -pv \=$(echo $(equery -q l kde-base/) | sed s/\ /\ =/g) > > Too complicated. I know how to use sed, etc. but I was looking for a > cleaner/simpler solution. cd /var/db/pkg/ for P in kde-base/

[gentoo-user] gst-plugins version 'ping-pong'

2006-01-23 Thread Beau E. Cox
Hi - I try: # emerge -uD world -p ... Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] media-libs/gst-plugins-0.8.11 [0.8.10] OK. So I do it: # emerge -uD world [SUCCESS] Now I check again: # emerge -uD world -p ... Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild UD] media-libs

Re: [gentoo-user] Full Squid Cache

2006-01-23 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 23 January 2006 09:20, Norberto Bensa wrote: > Uwe Thiem wrote: > > You didn't read the rest of my reply. ;-) > > > > Uwe > > I must be missing something. This is all I got: > > Uwe Thiem wrote: > > Squid does that. Do you go with the default configuration of squid? That > > creates a rather sma

[gentoo-user] GENTOO on VMWARE ESX mounts drive READONLY

2006-01-23 Thread Schöffmann Matthias
Hi there! I use a lot of gentoo-servers on my vmware esx server boxes... Now i have the problem, that my kernel mounts the devices sometimes readonly... :( This happens from time to thime, only on a couple of machines... # dmesg prints: EXT3-fs error (device sda3): ext3_readdir: bad entry in di