Re: [gentoo-user] Installing KDE...Again....

2006-01-27 Thread Ian
Hi again.On 1/20/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/19/06, Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I want, is to end up with kde 3.4.3 (only) installed, without arts.I would first like to unmerge both 3.5 and 3.4.1, but as I used the splitebuilds Im not sure howHow about:cd

Re: [gentoo-user] vim USE flag: vim-with-x

2006-01-27 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 06:13:24AM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote + and * , but only if you USE=vim-with-x. Did that, and it doesn't seem to help. Here's my status... [m3000][root][~] emerge --pretend --verbose vim These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Laptop: 2 problems

2006-01-27 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 00:26:28 + Thierry de Coulon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday, 26 January 2006 22:34, Renat Golubchyk wrote: Hi! From the manpage: domainname - show or set the system's NIS/YP domain name dnsdomainname - show the system's DNS domain name nisdomainname

Re: SOLVED [gentoo-user] Win4Lin NumLock issue

2006-01-27 Thread Ron Bickers
On Thu January 26 2006 17:41, Tom Smith wrote: Sheesh, I finally found a solution to this very annoying problem (may also help the gentleman with the UK keyboard problem (Peter Ruskin?)... I actually discovered this while playing around with QEMU, it had the EXACT same problem as WTS. I just

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

2006-01-27 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
For now that will not affect any user, only the manufacturer. And yes, they could put ext2 on a digital camera. Maybe this patent will prompt them to do just that. sincerely, Joshua On 1/26/06, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote: Yeah, use ext2 for all of that:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: swat 500 server error

2006-01-27 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 23:38 +, Francesco Riosa wrote: Iain Buchanan wrote: On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 10:32 -0500, Peter wrote: On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 16:12:43 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: Hi All, I installed samba, and xinetd, then edited /etc/xinetd.d/swat and set disable=no.

[gentoo-user] smart array 642 monitoring and hot-swap

2006-01-27 Thread Stefan Istvan
Hello List! Is anyone using this type of controller? I have this in our server, and it works well, except that I can't monitor it at all, and the hot-plug doesn't work either. I read the documentation of the cciss driver, and it says that the hotplug function works only for sequential drives

Re: [gentoo-user] hpasm doesn't work

2006-01-27 Thread Stefan Istvan
2006-01-18, sze keltezéssel 15:20-kor Stroller ezt írta: On 18 Jan 2006, at 14:00, Stefan Istvan wrote: Has anyone tried to use the hpasm package on a HP Proliant server? Yes, it's horrible. It seems to me that this package is originally made for RedHat, and that's why it doesn't run

Re: [gentoo-user] modules PID

2006-01-27 Thread z3rosix
Hi, On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 01:47:21PM -0200, Cláudio Henrique wrote: 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.

Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate mouse clicks??(now resolved)

2006-01-27 Thread Paul
Hi all, Thanks for all the help. I changed the protocol to ExplorerPS/2 and I now have the wheel working again. The question is - What has change in the last few weeks to have caused this problem. Previously the mouse had been working with the protocol set to auto with no problems. Paul --

Re: SOLVED [gentoo-user] Win4Lin NumLock issue

2006-01-27 Thread Tom Smith
The problem occurs when running Win4Lin *within* a VNC session. The same goes for QEMU. I don't fully understand the difference between loading X at the console versus loading it at a virtual console, but I think that some keyboard mappings (among other things) are treated differently in the

[gentoo-user] How to emerge and old package

2006-01-27 Thread Thiago Lüttig
hey, i´m trying to solve a bug with the kdegraphics-3.4.3-r3.. as described here(This bug #83238 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83238) Well, when the revdep-rebuild finishes the list of packages, it can´t the kdegraphics-3.3.2-r2 package. How can I download this package on my gentoo to

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing KDE...Again....

2006-01-27 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Ian wrote: But there are still a few things in /usr/kde/3.5 Dirs: env, share, shutdown What should I do? Throw the whole 3.5 dir away. (Tar it up first, if you wish to play it safe.) Also clean out any *kde*3.5 files from /etc/env.d and run env-update.sh. Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] How to emerge and old package

2006-01-27 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Thiago Lüttig wrote: hey, i´m trying to solve a bug with the kdegraphics-3.4.3-r3.. as described here(This bug #83238 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83238 ) That bug is not about kdegraphics but about revdep-rebuild. Well, when the revdep-rebuild finishes the list of packages, it

Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate mouse clicks??(now resolved)

2006-01-27 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Friday 27 January 2006 06:17, a tiny voice compelled Paul to write: Hi all, Thanks for all the help. I changed the protocol to ExplorerPS/2 and I now have the wheel working again. The question is - What has change in the last few weeks to have caused this problem. Previously the mouse had

[gentoo-user] Re: php blocking

2006-01-27 Thread James
Richard Fish bigfish at asmallpond.org writes: tree shows the dependency/reverse dependency tree of the items to be emerged, so you can see why something being emerged/upgraded as a dependency of something that is currently up-to-date is being emerged (and what the main application

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

2006-01-27 Thread Bo Ørsted Andreses
Alex Bennee wrote: Hi, However with all kernels you should be able to detrmine the root via uname -r: malory / # ls -l /lib/modules/`uname -r` total 212 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root31 Jan 15 17:16 build - /home/alex/src/kernel/linux-2.6 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root31 Jan 15 17:16 source

[gentoo-user] Re: cfengine any one?

2006-01-27 Thread James
Jean Blignaut jean at megaweb.biz writes: I saw cfengine mentioned here: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/infrastructure/server-standards.xml But my searching thru the forums and cfengines website aren’t yielding the kind of result I’d expect: What are its features Screenshots? How to

Re: [gentoo-user] How to emerge and old package

2006-01-27 Thread Paul Varner
On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 09:33 -0200, Thiago Lüttig wrote: hey, i´m trying to solve a bug with the kdegraphics-3.4.3-r3.. as described here(This bug #83238 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83238 ) Well, when the revdep-rebuild finishes the list of packages, it can´t the

[gentoo-user] Sound problem

2006-01-27 Thread Rafael Barrera Oro
Hello everyone! I have Via on-board sound and i cant get the audio to work. At first the problem was that /dev/dsp did not exist, so i loaded a couple of modules into the kernel (mostly following www.gentoo.org alsa-guide) after that, the error message became could not open /dev/dsp permission

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound problem

2006-01-27 Thread Andrés Becerra Sandoval
On 1/27/06, Rafael Barrera Oro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone! I have Via on-board sound and i cant get the audio to work. At first the problem was that /dev/dsp did not exist, so i loaded a couple of modules into the kernel (mostly following www.gentoo.org alsa-guide) after that,

[gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.

2006-01-27 Thread Abhay Kedia
Hello Everyone, I am facing a very annoying problem with my system clock. Here is what is happening. I manually set correct time using sites like worldtimezone.com. Then, I shutdown the system and boot after a few hours. What I see is that Gentoo sets the system time to the same one at which

[gentoo-user] gcc version used for build?

2006-01-27 Thread Ernie Schroder
I used to know this but I can't find info today. How do I tell which version of gcc was used to compile my kernel? -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound problem

2006-01-27 Thread Rafael Barrera Oro
I followed your advice Andres and its weird, there are now no error messages anywhere to be found!! yet the sound does not work, i think it is more of a curse, so i will subscribe to the exorcism mailing list, anyway i will continue to hear your suggestions of course :P Thanks anyway soundless

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc version used for build?

2006-01-27 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Friday 27 January 2006 10:41, a tiny voice compelled Phil Sexton to write: Ernie Schroder wrote: I used to know this but I can't find info today. How do I tell which version of gcc was used to compile my kernel? This should do it: gcc -v Maybe I wasn't clear enough Phil, I suspected

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc version used for build?

2006-01-27 Thread Phil Sexton
Ernie Schroder wrote: I used to know this but I can't find info today. How do I tell which version of gcc was used to compile my kernel? This should do it: gcc -v -- Phil My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances:

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.

2006-01-27 Thread Michael A. Smith
Abhay Kedia wrote: I manually set correct time using sites like worldtimezone.com. Then, I shutdown the system and boot after a few hours. What I see is that Gentoo sets the system time to the same one at which I halted it. For example if I shutdown 4 hours ago at 14:00 hrs and boot at 18:00

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc version used for build?

2006-01-27 Thread Phil Sexton
Ernie Schroder wrote: On Friday 27 January 2006 10:41, a tiny voice compelled Phil Sexton to write: Ernie Schroder wrote: I used to know this but I can't find info today. How do I tell which version of gcc was used to compile my kernel? This should do it: gcc -v Maybe I wasn't clear

[gentoo-user] dead USB card?

2006-01-27 Thread Jorge Almeida
I have a USB PCI card which stopped working, meaning my scanner stopped being detected. The problem remains also under KNOPPIX. Can I assume the card is dead? (But it is recognized, sort of...) Partial output of lspci -vvv (as root): 02:0c.0 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.

2006-01-27 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Friday 27 January 2006 21:40, Michael A. Smith wrote: That deserves looking into: I'd start with the kernel config. Maybe something about /dev/rtc? Here are the outputs --- genbox abhay # ls -l /dev/rtc ls: /dev/rtc: No such file or directory genbox

[gentoo-user] Connection to linux server dying on both connected devices

2006-01-27 Thread Mark Shields
Hello list. I've been reading this mailing list for a while now and have taken great pleasure in reading some of these e-mails. But now the time has come for me to present a problem I hope you all can help me with. I recently reinstalled Gentoo (stage3) after my hard drive crashed in my server (it

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc version used for build?

2006-01-27 Thread Michael A. Smith
Phil Sexton wrote: Could someone expound on these 3 commands? I don't really understand the man and info pages on these. gcc -v gcc --version (I thought the previous two were the same.) cat /proc/version gcc -v tells you what programs are invoked by gcc. gcc being a collection of

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.

2006-01-27 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 27 January 2006 17:28, Abhay Kedia wrote: Hello Everyone, I am facing a very annoying problem with my system clock. Here is what is happening. I manually set correct time using sites like worldtimezone.com. Then, I shutdown the system and boot after a few hours. What I see is that Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.

2006-01-27 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 27 January 2006 18:10, Michael A. Smith wrote: Abhay Kedia wrote: I manually set correct time using sites like worldtimezone.com. Then, I shutdown the system and boot after a few hours. What I see is that Gentoo sets the system time to the same one at which I halted it. For example if

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc version used for build?

2006-01-27 Thread Rafael Fernández López
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Phil Sexton wrote: Ernie Schroder wrote: On Friday 27 January 2006 10:41, a tiny voice compelled Phil Sexton to write: Ernie Schroder wrote: I used to know this but I can't find info today. How do I tell which version of gcc was used to

[gentoo-user] http-replicator: error: invalid directory '/var/cache/http-replicator' [ ok ]

2006-01-27 Thread Dan Sheffner
I'm trying to get the http replicator working. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. Below are the steps I did to prep the machine. I know that the user portage has write/read access as specified in /etc/conf.d/http-replicator. I also went over step by step with a user that has been using this before

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

2006-01-27 Thread Daevid Vincent
Well, this is what I would like to do. ( I thought this would be obvious.) But I can't continue with the `emerge world` unless I'm able to resolve the blocks. The command/process dies almost immediately complaining about the blocked packages. I had the same problem and was quite annoyed

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound problem

2006-01-27 Thread Jason Weisberger
Two things. Build your audio drivers as modules. Secondly, emerge alsautils then use alsamixer to adjust your audio levels. They're all muted by default.On 1/27/06, Rafael Barrera Oro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I followed your advice Andres and its weird, there are now no errormessages anywhere to

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.

2006-01-27 Thread Michael A. Smith
Uwe Thiem wrote: The device hwclock connects to *is* the BIOS clock. Uwe Let me rephrase. A physical device has to have a software representation for software to connect to it. I'm trying to suggest that something is wrong with that interface. Clearly Abhay's BIOS clock doesn't jive with

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing KDE...Again.... (Now at howto install kde)

2006-01-27 Thread Ian
Thanks Benno!Now how do I install kde 3.4.3? The main reason for doing this is that I dont want arts.If I just emerge the bare minimum, will it want to install arts as well?What is the bare minimum? Its emerge kicker kdesktop konsole kcontrol right? (Up until now, Ive just used emerge kde. Its my

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound problem

2006-01-27 Thread Ian
This is kind of along the same line of alsa mixer.I use kde and fluxbox, but kde's stupid sound daemon wont letsome apps have sound, such as audacity or firefox.When I use Fluxbox, the sound works, but _every_ time I boot my computer into Fluxbox, I must unmute and level upall of my sounds. Is

Re: [gentoo-user] remove suse, install gentoo

2006-01-27 Thread Steve Wilson
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 08:04, Michael Kintzios wrote: -Original Message- From: Steve Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 January 2006 12:42 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] remove suse, install gentoo box: Prostar 2.8Gig ProStar Laptop

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing KDE...Again.... (Now at howto install kde)

2006-01-27 Thread Michael A. Smith
Ian wrote: Thanks Benno! Now how do I install kde 3.4.3? The main reason for doing this is that I dont want arts. Just set USE=-arts in make.conf Then emerge whatever KDE stuff you want. Arts will stay away. -Mike -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] vim USE flag: vim-with-x

2006-01-27 Thread Manuel McLure
Walter Dnes wrote: Let me re-iterate what I'm trying to do... - In X, highlight a text string (e.g. a URL) in Firefox - hit {CTRL}{ALT}{F1}, taking me to a *REAL TEXT CONSOLE* running mutt or slrn, with vim as the editor - paste the complex URL directly into a message I'm composing

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

2006-01-27 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daevid Vincent wrote: Well, this is what I would like to do. ( I thought this would be obvious.) But I can't continue with the `emerge world` unless I'm able to resolve the blocks. The command/process dies almost immediately complaining about the

[gentoo-user] Electricsheep (General Question)

2006-01-27 Thread Ian
Hey everyoneI came across this app and and having issues getting it to work. I was told to leave it running so it could do a download. After 8-10minutes, nothing came up. Is there any way I can verify what its doing? Is this what Im supposed to do?Thanks!-- Cheers,Ian

[gentoo-user] Re: Electricsheep (General Question)

2006-01-27 Thread Ian
I left it running on the command prompt.It seemed to be downloading, as I was monitoring internetactivity through gkrellm2. It finished, and displayed this:# electricsheepX Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) Major opcode of failed request: 139 (XVideo) Minor opcode

Re: [gentoo-user] http-replicator: error: invalid directory '/var/cache/http-replicator' [ ok ]

2006-01-27 Thread Bill Roberts
On 12:09 Fri 27 Jan , Dan Sheffner wrote: I'm trying to get the http replicator working. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. I assume you were using the howto: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Download_Cache_for_LAN-Http-Replicator I noticed a couple of minor differences from my

Re: [gentoo-user] Electricsheep (General Question)

2006-01-27 Thread Bill Roberts
On 20:19 Fri 27 Jan , Ian wrote: Hey everyone I came across this app and and having issues getting it to work. I was told to leave it running so it could do a download. After 8-10 minutes, nothing came up. Is there any way I can verify what its doing? Is this what Im

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc version used for build?

2006-01-27 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Friday 27 January 2006 13:23, a tiny voice compelled Rafael Fernández López to write: Phil Sexton wrote: Ernie Schroder wrote: On Friday 27 January 2006 10:41, a tiny voice compelled Phil Sexton to write: Ernie Schroder wrote: I used to know this but I can't find info today. How

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.

2006-01-27 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Abhay Kedia wrote: I manually set correct time using sites like worldtimezone.com. How? What commands do you give? Then, I shutdown the system and boot after a few hours. What I see is that Gentoo sets the system time to the same one at which I halted it. For example if I shutdown 4 hours

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing KDE...Again.... (Now at howto install kde)

2006-01-27 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Ian wrote: What is the bare minimum? Its emerge kicker kdesktop konsole kcontrol right? No, leave out the kdesktop, it will get pulled in automatically, at least here it did. Also, you won't need kcontrol if you don't want to adjust anything. But don't you want kmail and konqueror? Benno

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing KDE...Again.... (Now at howto install kde)

2006-01-27 Thread Ian
LOL, I use webmail, and I forgot about konq.Thanks!On 1/27/06, Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Ian wrote: What is the bare minimum? Its emerge kicker kdesktop konsole kcontrol right?No, leave out the kdesktop, it will get pulled in automatically, atleast here it did.Also, you won't

[gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild never seems to work

2006-01-27 Thread Daevid Vincent
I've been running gentoo on my server, my notebook and a few VMWares. I always run the revdep-rebuild when I do some 'emerge world' operations. I can't think of a single time I've seen this thing actually complete, when there were packages to be rebuilt. EVERY time it pukes on something not

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild never seems to work

2006-01-27 Thread Ryan Tandy
Daevid Vincent wrote: snip It generates some line like this: emerge --oneshot =app-admin/gnome-system-tools-1.4.1 =app-editors/gedit-2.12.1 =app-text/evince-0.5.0 =gnome-base/control-center-2.12.2-r1 =gnome-base/gdm-2.8.0.7 .. What I don't understand is why doesn't it just do this:

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild never seems to work

2006-01-27 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/27/06, Daevid Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I always run the revdep-rebuild when I do some 'emerge world' operations. I can't think of a single time I've seen this thing actually complete, when there were packages to be rebuilt. Sounds like you are not using -D/--deep when you update

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.

2006-01-27 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Saturday 28 January 2006 02:55, Benno Schulenberg wrote: If it is ticking , then set the hardware clock to the correct time with 'hwclock --set --date=thistime', then throw away the /etc/adjtime file. Throw it away, as it might be the adjusting feature that thinks your clock is drifting a

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.

2006-01-27 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Friday 27 January 2006 21:40, Michael A. Smith wrote: But the quick fix is probably rc-update del clock. I don't know if that's a Bad Thing To Do (TM), but nobody screamed when I asked about it in #gentoo. Though the problem is solved now but it is still worth mentioning that removing

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.

2006-01-27 Thread Abhay Kedia
with 'hwclock --set --date=thistime', then throw away the /etc/adjtime file. Throw it away, as it might be the adjusting feature that thinks your clock is drifting a full hour per hour (that is: ticks away two hours in one). Stupid me!!! Totally forgot to do the most important thing i.e. to

[gentoo-user] Re: revdep-rebuild never seems to work

2006-01-27 Thread Remy Blank
Daevid Vincent wrote: vmware ~ # revdep-rebuild --help Usage: /usr/bin/revdep-rebuild [OPTIONS] [--] [EMERGE_OPTIONS] (snip) I've tried it this way: revdep-rebuild -Xav revdep-rebuild -av --package-names revdep-rebuild -av -X --package-names I'm not quite sure, but you

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/bin/test doesn't seem to do anything

2006-01-27 Thread Robert Persson
On Thursday 26 January 2006 16:22 Richard Fish was like: test doesn't output anything...it indicates success/failure with the exit code.   ... As others have said though, watch out for the 'test' command built-in to many shells, as the behavior there is defined by the shell. Generally though,