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

2006-01-25 Thread Holly Bostick
Mark Knecht schreef: 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 I'm sorry not to be more precise, but I suspect that I may not have the calendar

Re: [gentoo-user] Mysterious dev-lang/php 'n' junk 'n' stuff....

2006-01-25 Thread Holly Bostick
gentuxx schreef: Hi all, snip I went to do an `emerge -Duatv world` tonight, and I get dev-php/php and dev-php/mod_php blocking. So I uninstalled them, and thought that I would re-install later (if necessary). When I run it again, I get dev-lang/php blocking dev-php/php-4.4.0-r4 (which

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

2006-01-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 21:47:29 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: I have the above URL showing the Forum topic on Konqueror 3.5 there is no choice to click nor any submit button: yes, I logged in. Strange. Well, you should be able to find it near the top of the Portage Programming forum.

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual Boot System Setup

2006-01-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 00:23:51 -0600, Dale wrote: If grub gets hosed, you can boot a Win 98 CD or a boot floppy and run fdisk /mbr on it. I recently took a hard drive of mine out of a friends computer that was dual booting and that was what I did. Now windoze XP boots up like Linux was never

RE: [gentoo-user] Dual Boot System Setup

2006-01-25 Thread Michael Kintzios
-Original Message- From: Dale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 January 2006 06:24 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Dual Boot System Setup If grub gets hosed, you can boot a Win 98 CD or a boot floppy and run fdisk /mbr on it. I recently took a

RE: [gentoo-user] composing fancy html in kmail

2006-01-25 Thread Michael Kintzios
-Original Message- From: Robert Persson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 January 2006 00:46 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] composing fancy html in kmail I want to send an email with both embedded thumbnail images and external hyperlinks. My email

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual Boot System Setup

2006-01-25 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 00:23:51 -0600, Dale wrote: If grub gets hosed, you can boot a Win 98 CD or a boot floppy and run fdisk /mbr on it. I recently took a hard drive of mine out of a friends computer that was dual booting and that was what I did. Now windoze XP boots up

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

2006-01-25 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le mercredi 25 janvier 2006 à 09:39 +0100, Holly Bostick a écrit : I'm sorry not to be more precise, but I suspect that I may not have the calendar application you are using. But here is what I found: I guess he speaks of the calendar which appears when you left-click on the clock-applet.

Re: [gentoo-user] usb wacom tablet

2006-01-25 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Robert, Robert Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 12:38 -0330, Roger Mason wrote: Hello, [snip] Can anyone suggest what may be wrong? Thanks, Roger Mason It doen't look like you have USB HID turned on in your kernel. Here is what I have for the USB portion

[gentoo-user] cfengine any one?

2006-01-25 Thread Jean Blignaut
I saw cfengine mentioned here: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/infrastructure/server-standards.xml But my searching thru the forums and cfengines website arent yielding the kind of result Id expect: What are its features Screenshots? How to configure/setup (if its what Im

[gentoo-user] meld dependencies

2006-01-25 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
Hi I am a KDE 3.5 user and do not want GNOME since i don't use it. The best diff application that I know of is Meld (I have tried kdiff3, kompare, gtkdiff, tkdiff and of course diff). Meld is a GNOME and Python application and depends on among others gnome-python and gnome-python-extras.

Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

2006-01-25 Thread Tom Smith
Uwe Thiem wrote: On 25 January 2006 06:46, Tom Smith wrote: I read something some time ago that suggested if you transfer a compressed file over a compressed SFTP connection, for example, that it would take longer to transfer the data versus if only the data or the connection was compressed.

Re: [gentoo-user] Mysterious dev-lang/php 'n' junk 'n' stuff....

2006-01-25 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 25 January 2006 09:50, gentuxx wrote: I went to do an `emerge -Duatv world` tonight, and I get dev-php/php and dev-php/mod_php blocking. So I uninstalled them, and thought that I would re-install later (if necessary). When I run it again, I get dev-lang/php blocking dev-php/php-4.4.0-r4

Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

2006-01-25 Thread Alexander Skwar
Trenton Adams wrote: Not possible on a windows machine. :P Wrong. Alexander Skwar -- printk(KERN_WARNING Warning: defective CD-ROM (volume sequence number). Enabling \cruft\ mount option.\n); linux-2.2.16/fs/isofs/inode.c -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

2006-01-25 Thread John Jolet
I read something some time ago that suggested if you transfer a compressed file over a compressed SFTP connection, for example, that it would take longer to transfer the data versus if only the data or the connection was compressed. The reason, as I recall, had to do with compressing already

[gentoo-user] Module names???

2006-01-25 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, A simple question, where do I find out modules names? I've currently got menconfig loaded and trying to decide as to whether to go static or module. My problem is that I can't find the names of the modules for most of the options hence how do I know what to load if it is a module.

[gentoo-user] modules PID

2006-01-25 Thread Cláudio Henrique
how do I find out the PID of a module? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Module names???

2006-01-25 Thread Holly Bostick
Andrew Lowe schreef: Hi all, A simple question, where do I find out modules names? I've currently got menconfig loaded and trying to decide as to whether to go static or module. My problem is that I can't find the names of the modules for most of the options hence how do I know what to load if

Re: [gentoo-user] Module names???

2006-01-25 Thread Dale
Andrew Lowe wrote: snip If anyone can inform me where I can find these module names, it would be greatly appreciated. I don't know why they aren't all placed in the help in the first place. Regards, Andrew It does tell you. You even put it in your email. ;-) If you

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

2006-01-25 Thread Philip Webb
060125 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 21:47:29 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: I have the above URL showing the Forum topic on Konqueror 3.5 there is no choice to click nor submit button: yes, I logged in. Strange. Well, you should be able to find it near the top of the Portage

Re: [gentoo-user] modules PID

2006-01-25 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/25/06, Cláudio Henrique [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how do I find out the PID of a module? What kind of module? kernel modules have no process ID, because they are not a process. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

2006-01-25 Thread Jeff
It brings me great joy to know that my original post has spawned such madness. :-) John Jolet wrote: I read something some time ago that suggested if you transfer a compressed file over a compressed SFTP connection, for example, that it would take longer to transfer the data versus if only

Re: [gentoo-user] Building Kernel Modules with custom kernel trees

2006-01-25 Thread Harald Arnesen
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 00:00:01 +, Alex Bennee wrote: There really is no need to force people to build as root under /usr/src so is it possible to educate portage to use the uname method to determine the root of the kernel tree for building kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] meld dependencies

2006-01-25 Thread Rumen Yotov
Hi, On (25/01/06 13:24), Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: Hi I am a KDE 3.5 user and do not want GNOME since i don't use it. The best diff application that I know of is Meld (I have tried kdiff3, kompare, gtkdiff, tkdiff and of course diff). Meld is a GNOME and Python application and depends

Re: [gentoo-user] Error message on kde startup

2006-01-25 Thread Paul
On Tuesday 24 Jan 2006 17:45, Manuel McLure wrote: Paul wrote: Hi all, Recently I had to update about 24 packages, all went well and any config files were updated. However, I now have a problem when kde starts, I get an error-kdesktop message saying The KDE Mediamanager is not running

Re: [gentoo-user] modules PID

2006-01-25 Thread Cláudio Henrique
well, let me describe the problem. sometimes, when I try to synchronize my Palm, pilot-xfer throws a error, and the devices /dev/tts/USBn do not disappear. if it happens repeatedly... well, I guess the scene is painted. I thought it could solve it killing the module. I have tried modprobe -rf

Re: [gentoo-user] Building Kernel Modules with custom kernel trees

2006-01-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:05:21 +0100, Harald Arnesen wrote: Portage doesn't build the modules in /usr/src, but it uses the /usr/src/linux symlink to determine the kernel for which you wish to build the modules; which may not be the same as returned by uname -r. And that is a bug, in my

Re: [gentoo-user] modules PID

2006-01-25 Thread Matthias Bethke
Hi Cláudio, on Wednesday, 2006-01-25 at 13:47:21, you wrote: I thought it could solve it killing the module. I have tried modprobe -rf visor but visor do not want to die. any ideas? Do you have forced module unloading enabled in your kernel? If you do, it's probably a problem in the module

Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate mouse clicks??

2006-01-25 Thread Yann Garnier
Hi, Since hardware is involved, Did you check: 1 - With another USB mouse ? 2 - With your mouse on a different USB port ? I know it seems evident but it's just to be sure that your problem is a software one and not a hardware one. Le 25 janv. 06 à 16:38, Paul a écrit : Hi all, Recently

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: XP laptop crashes Linsys router.

2006-01-25 Thread Trenton Adams
upgrade the firmware on the router. On 1/25/06, Ernie Schroder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My son has a toshiba laptop running XP. When ever he plugs in his network cable, The router linksys goes down. I cannot ping it from my machine. Rebooting the router allows all machines to reach internet

[gentoo-user] Problems with printer Canon LBP-800

2006-01-25 Thread Mikhail Yarmish
Hello guys, Has somebody setuped Canon LBP-800? Coud he explain how to do that? I've tried to do that like somebody sad at forums about LBP-810 but that haven't worked for me. Thanks in advance! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Dual Boot System Setup

2006-01-25 Thread James
Sean rsh.lists at comcast.net writes: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: XP laptop crashes Linsys router.

2006-01-25 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Wednesday 25 January 2006 13:42, a tiny voice compelled [EMAIL PROTECTED] to write: Recheck (I assume you've checked it already G) his network settings. He may have a bad card. Can you setup a network trace/sniffer on your linux box to see what happens? Also the Linksys will log some

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: XP laptop crashes Linsys router.

2006-01-25 Thread Trenton Adams
You can restart the network on XP by right clicking the network connection and clicking repair I believe. On 1/25/06, Ernie Schroder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 25 January 2006 13:42, a tiny voice compelled [EMAIL PROTECTED] to write: Recheck (I assume you've checked it already G)

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: XP laptop crashes Linsys router.

2006-01-25 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Wednesday 25 January 2006 14:39, a tiny voice compelled Trenton Adams to write: You can restart the network on XP by right clicking the network connection and clicking repair I believe. Hmm might work. ipconfig /release and then ipconfig /renew still seem to need a reboot, though ipconfig

[gentoo-user] Re: php blocking

2006-01-25 Thread James
Uwe Thiem uwix at iway.na writes: Just emerge --unmerge php and emerge dev-lang/php. You will have to fiddle with the USE flags for php a bit. # emerge --unmerge php --- Couldn't find php to unmerge. unmerge: No packages selected for removal. That's the problem it does not see the php or

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: XP laptop crashes Linsys router.

2006-01-25 Thread Phil Sexton
Ernie Schroder wrote: Is there no way of restarting the network on XP? From the dos prompt, command: ipconfig /renew (I think) -- Phil My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances:

[gentoo-user] Using 'world' file to clone another machine

2006-01-25 Thread Jeff
I'm sure this one's been asked a million times too... Machine A, runs Gentoo/KDE and a handful of other apps I've collected over the year. I would like Machine B to have the same exact packages. How would I use Machine A's /var/lib/portage/world file to make my 'clone'? Thanks all. -- Darth

Re: [gentoo-user] Using 'world' file to clone another machine

2006-01-25 Thread Michael A. Smith
Jeff wrote: I'm sure this one's been asked a million times too... Machine A, runs Gentoo/KDE and a handful of other apps I've collected over the year. I would like Machine B to have the same exact packages. How would I use Machine A's /var/lib/portage/world file to make my 'clone'? Thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] Using 'world' file to clone another machine

2006-01-25 Thread Michael A. Smith
Michael A. Smith wrote: Jeff wrote: I'm sure this one's been asked a million times too... Machine A, runs Gentoo/KDE and a handful of other apps I've collected over the year. I would like Machine B to have the same exact packages. How would I use Machine A's /var/lib/portage/world file to

Re: [gentoo-user] Using 'world' file to clone another machine

2006-01-25 Thread Chris White
On Thursday 26 January 2006 06:03, Michael A. Smith wrote: Correction. emerge --ask `cat /tmp/welcome_to_my_world.lst` Correction, Correction: `emerge --ask $( /tmp/welcome_to_my_world.lst)` or heck: `emerge --ask /tmp/welcome_to_my_world.lst` might even work ;-D Chris White

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: XP laptop crashes Linsys router.

2006-01-25 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Wednesday 25 January 2006 14:52, a tiny voice compelled Phil Sexton to write: Ernie Schroder wrote: Is there no way of restarting the network on XP? From the dos prompt, command: ipconfig /renew (I think) I did a release and renew and got a valid IP from the router but I couldn't

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: XP laptop crashes Linsys router.

2006-01-25 Thread Trenton Adams
Use ethereal, as it has a GUI. On 1/25/06, Ernie Schroder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 25 January 2006 14:52, a tiny voice compelled Phil Sexton to write: Ernie Schroder wrote: Is there no way of restarting the network on XP? From the dos prompt, command: ipconfig

Re: [gentoo-user] composing fancy html in kmail

2006-01-25 Thread Robert Persson
On Wednesday 25 January 2006 01:29 Michael Kintzios was like: I can't remember if Thunderbird has a GUI for HTML editing (never used it), but have you tried using applications like Quanta+ or even OOo as an external editor to kmail? I did try using OOo. Unfortunately it could not manage to

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: XP laptop crashes Linsys router.

2006-01-25 Thread brettholcomb
Isn't windows fun G. Someone has a sense of humor. In my new assignment I am now the Administrator for Windows servers and SQL Servers! I asked it that was because a) no one else wanted windows (we're AIX/Linux/Netware) and b) I was low man on the totem pole. The answer was jokingly yes -

Re: [gentoo-user] Using 'world' file to clone another machine

2006-01-25 Thread Michael A. Smith
Chris White wrote: On Thursday 26 January 2006 06:03, Michael A. Smith wrote: Correction. emerge --ask `cat /tmp/welcome_to_my_world.lst` Correction, Correction: `emerge --ask $( /tmp/welcome_to_my_world.lst)` Way to decrease entropy, Chris. Why don't you email the whole list and tell

[gentoo-user] kernel config power-saving arcana; and getting acpi working.

2006-01-25 Thread Robert Persson
Some while back I was trying to get power saving working fully on my desktop box and I found people talking about swsusp (as opposed to swsusp2) being part of the official kernel sources. This puzzled me greatly because I have never come across this option when configuring a kernel. In the end

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel config power-saving arcana; and getting acpi working.

2006-01-25 Thread Ian Kester-Haney
On 1/25/06, Robert Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some while back I was trying to get power saving working fully on my desktop box and I found people talking about swsusp (as opposed to swsusp2) being part of the official kernel sources. This puzzled me greatly because I have never come

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel config power-saving arcana; and getting acpi working.

2006-01-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:48:55 -0800, Robert Persson wrote: Some while back I was trying to get power saving working fully on my desktop box and I found people talking about swsusp (as opposed to swsusp2) being part of the official kernel sources. This puzzled me greatly because I have never

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel config power-saving arcana; and getting acpi working.

2006-01-25 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Wednesday 25 January 2006 19:27, a tiny voice compelled Neil Bothwick to write: On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:48:55 -0800, Robert Persson wrote: Some while back I was trying to get power saving working fully on my desktop box and I found people talking about swsusp (as opposed to swsusp2)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: php blocking

2006-01-25 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/25/06, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # emerge --unmerge php --- Couldn't find php to unmerge. unmerge: No packages selected for removal. That's the problem it does not see the php or pear modules. emerge --unmerge pear --- Couldn't find pear to unmerge. unmerge: No packages selected

[gentoo-user] Strangeness on a fresh install

2006-01-25 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
Hi all, I am having a real strange problem on a fresh install, I had used a stage3 tarball from internet and when I try to emerge syslog-ng I got this error checking for C compiler default output...configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables See config.log for more details. I had a

Re: [gentoo-user] Strangeness on a fresh install

2006-01-25 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Thursday 26 January 2006 11:49, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: Hi all, I am having a real strange problem on a fresh install, I had used a stage3 tarball from internet and when I try to emerge syslog-ng I got this error checking for C compiler default output...configure: error: C compiler

[gentoo-user] Re: php blocking

2006-01-25 Thread James
Richard Fish bigfish at asmallpond.org writes: Try PEAR-PEAR (packages names are case-sensitive). # emerge --unmerge PEAR-PEAR --- Couldn't find PEAR-PEAR to unmerge. unmerge: No packages selected for removal. I even 'emerge --sync' again, today and still I have: Add the --tree option

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: php blocking

2006-01-25 Thread Andreas Claesson
On 1/26/06, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard Fish bigfish at asmallpond.org writes: Add the --tree option to see what is actually trying to bring in dev-php/mod_php and dev-php/php. # emerge --unmerge --tree PEAR-PEAR --tree implies --pretend... adding --pretend to options. These

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: php blocking

2006-01-25 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/25/06, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard Fish bigfish at asmallpond.org writes: Add the --tree option to see what is actually trying to bring in dev-php/mod_php and dev-php/php. # emerge --unmerge --tree PEAR-PEAR --tree implies --pretend... adding --pretend to options. These

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel config power-saving arcana; and getting acpi working.

2006-01-25 Thread Robert Persson
On Wednesday 25 January 2006 16:27 Neil Bothwick was like: Type / followed by susp while in make menuconfig to find it. Just browsing the options won't necessarily find what you want, because some only appear when others are enabled, whereas the search function shows all matching options, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Mysterious dev-lang/php 'n' junk 'n' stuff....

2006-01-25 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Holly Bostick wrote: gentuxx schreef: Hi all, snip I went to do an `emerge -Duatv world` tonight, and I get dev-php/php and dev-php/mod_php blocking. So I uninstalled them, and thought that I would re-install later (if necessary). When I run it

[gentoo-user] no trouble getting to sleep, but would rather die than wake up

2006-01-25 Thread Robert Persson
I have finally got some acpi sleep states working on my desktop box (thanks everyone!), but not all the way I would like. The box has an asus p4p800-se motherboard and a hyperthreading p4 processor. Hyperthreading is enabled in the kernel (which is why it was hard to find out how to get sleep