Re: [gentoo-user] fglrx works. Yeah! Umm, now nothing exits. Uh oh!

2006-02-04 Thread Andrei Slavoiu
--- Bruce Burden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sigh. It looks like the X600 isn't supported by fglrx. Rechecked ATI's web site. Where did you find that? Here it says it's supported http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux_8.21.7.html Well, it looks like the next video card will be an

[gentoo-user] glibc upgrade: emerge frozen...

2006-02-04 Thread Jarry
Hi, I'm trying to update to glibc 3.4.4, this is what I did: emerge -uav gcc gcc-config i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4 source /etc/profile emerge --oneshot -av libtool emerge --oneshot sys-libs/libstdc++-v3 emerge -e system Up to this point, everything was OK. As the last part I started: emerge -e

[gentoo-user] Problem with alt-key on Apple iBook

2006-02-04 Thread Simon Ruderich
Hi, I'm trying to install gentoo on my Apple iBook G4. I loaded the correct keymap for my keyboard with loadkeys de-latin1. Most of the keys are working correctly. My problem is now that some characters (like the curly brace) can only be typed by using the alt-key. But if I press the

[gentoo-user] Firefox

2006-02-04 Thread Daniel D Jones
I'd like to run Firefox 1.5. The latest stable build appears to be 1.07. I added ww-client/mozilla-firefox ~x86 to my package.keywords file, which resulted in Deer Park being installed. I don't want Deer Park, just the 1.5 release version. I've considered downloading the source and manually

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox

2006-02-04 Thread Beau E. Cox
On Saturday 04 February 2006 03:09 am, Daniel D Jones wrote: I'd like to run Firefox 1.5. The latest stable build appears to be 1.07. I added ww-client/mozilla-firefox ~x86 to my package.keywords file, which resulted in Deer Park being installed. I don't want Deer Park, just the 1.5 release

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging UT2004

2006-02-04 Thread fire-eyes
Steve B. wrote: On Friday 03 February 2006 23:06, fire-eyes wrote: Steve B. wrote: Hey everybody, This is kind of stupid problem, but I just can't seem to figure this one out. I can't emerge UT2004. I set my CD_ROOT to my cdrom (/media/hdc) and the first CD copies fine, but it never gives

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox

2006-02-04 Thread Holly Bostick
Daniel D Jones schreef: I'd like to run Firefox 1.5. The latest stable build appears to be 1.07. I added ww-client/mozilla-firefox ~x86 to my package.keywords file, which resulted in Deer Park being installed. I don't want Deer Park, just the 1.5 release version. The version labelled as

Re: [gentoo-user] kmail delete problem (Part Resolved)

2006-02-04 Thread Paul
On Thursday 02 Feb 2006 15:39, Richard Fish wrote: On 2/2/06, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: UPDATE I have connected a PS2 mouse and the double clicking problems have disappeared, but as soon as I use the USB mouse the problem is back This has got to be a USB problem but I Don't know

[gentoo-user] emerge world error message

2006-02-04 Thread Paul
Hi all, I am getting the following message when I emerge -uDtaNv world Calculating world dependencies !!! Packages for the following atoms are either all !!! masked or don't exist: sys-apps/sh-utils sys-apps/fileutils sys-apps/textutils If I emerge -s on them, none are found. However, if I

Re: [gentoo-user] kmail delete problem (Part Resolved)

2006-02-04 Thread Paul
On Saturday 04 Feb 2006 13:31, Paul wrote: On Thursday 02 Feb 2006 15:39, Richard Fish wrote: On 2/2/06, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: UPDATE I have connected a PS2 mouse and the double clicking problems have disappeared, but as soon as I use the USB mouse the problem is back

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world error message

2006-02-04 Thread Andrei Slavoiu
--- Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Calculating world dependencies !!! Packages for the following atoms are either all !!! masked or don't exist: sys-apps/sh-utils sys-apps/fileutils sys-apps/textutils They all have been obsoleted a VERY long time ago by coreutils. Unmerge them and get

[gentoo-user] So O.K.

2006-02-04 Thread Franta
Due to the issues I hit (nearly) every time I do an upgrade. I did the upograde today too. There was one on udev. I think devices don't coming up (Sound, USB) could belong to this kind of problems. Well. nothing changes. I've tried it half an hour ago with (a very old) knoppix CD. I have USB

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox

2006-02-04 Thread Daniel D Jones
On Saturday 04 February 2006 08:26, Beau E. Cox wrote: On Saturday 04 February 2006 03:09 am, Daniel D Jones wrote: I'd like to run Firefox 1.5. The latest stable build appears to be 1.07. I added ww-client/mozilla-firefox ~x86 to my package.keywords file, which resulted in Deer Park being

Re: [gentoo-user] So O.K.

2006-02-04 Thread Beau E. Cox
On Saturday 04 February 2006 04:02 am, Franta wrote: Due to the issues I hit (nearly) every time I do an upgrade. I did the upograde today too. There was one on udev. I think devices don't coming up (Sound, USB) could belong to this kind of problems. Well. nothing changes. I've tried it

[gentoo-user] KDE 3.5 and KAudiocreator

2006-02-04 Thread Stewart Taylor
Hi All Does anyone else have problems with the play list option in KAudioCreator 1.13 as comes with KDE 3.5. I was using 1.12 with KDE 3.4 but since I updated to 3.5 the play list option is no longer available. The first time I had this problem was after updating from 3.4. Since then I

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with alt-key on Apple iBook

2006-02-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 4 Feb 2006 13:18:56 +0100, Simon Ruderich wrote: My problem is now that some characters (like the curly brace) can only be typed by using the alt-key. But if I press the alt-key and 8 for example then the console changes from this: livecd root # To this: (arg: 8) And I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] So O.K.

2006-02-04 Thread Franta
As I said. It wont be SicroMoft. I'm still wondering. At this time of writing I reduced the possibilities to Slackware or LFS. I know, I'll need to do some work to get things running but if they are running I know they ARE running. Nobody will upgrade my system to make them stop working and thus

Re: [gentoo-user] So O.K.

2006-02-04 Thread Mark Shields
On 2/4/06, Franta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Due to the issues I hit (nearly) every time I do an upgrade.I did the upograde today too. There was one on udev. I think devicesdon't coming up (Sound, USB) could belong to this kind of problems.Well. nothing changes. I've tried it half an hour ago with

[gentoo-user] Re: What trouble am I creating by commenting entries in [...]/packag.mask

2006-02-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: xvidtune knows about all that and reports whats really going on. xvidtune is part or xorg-x11. If you have the older style, stable xorg installed you already have xvidtune: Thanks Nick that stopped this sillyness in its tracks. Egad, once again I get to

Re: [gentoo-user] So O.K.

2006-02-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 04 Feb 2006 16:08:31 +0100, Franta wrote: As I said. It wont be SicroMoft. I'm still wondering. At this time of writing I reduced the possibilities to Slackware or LFS. I know, I'll need to do some work to get things running but if they are running I know they ARE running. Nobody

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome upgrade removed Open Terminal from right click

2006-02-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 23:49:51 +, Stroller wrote: Maybe the Gnome developers decided the typical user wouldn't want to do this and decided that they'd remove it because it was confusing little old ladies. Have we had a flamewar about KDE vs Gnome recently? ;P Define recently ;-) --

Re: [gentoo-user] can't compile some C++ apps

2006-02-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 21:18:38 +, Werner Otto wrote: Stupid question, but how do I unsubscribe from this list? Follow the instructions that can be found in the mail you were sent confirming your subscription, the mailing lists page on the Gentoo site and the headers of every mail you receive

[gentoo-user] Re: So O.K.

2006-02-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Franta [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've tried it half an hour ago with (a very old) knoppix CD. I have USB disks, I have sound, I have networking ... That said (xcuse me, I HAVE TO say that) Gentoo is far away from a distro for usage. Do not reply to this post - I'll unsubscribe immediatlely

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

2006-02-04 Thread Mark Shields
On 1/27/06, Mark Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world error message

2006-02-04 Thread Paul
On Saturday 04 Feb 2006 14:01, Andrei Slavoiu wrote: --- Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Calculating world dependencies !!! Packages for the following atoms are either all !!! masked or don't exist: sys-apps/sh-utils sys-apps/fileutils sys-apps/textutils They all have been obsoleted a

Re: [gentoo-user] So O.K.

2006-02-04 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 15:30 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 04 Feb 2006 16:08:31 +0100, Franta wrote: As I said. It wont be SicroMoft. I'm still wondering. At this time of writing I reduced the possibilities to Slackware or LFS. I know, I'll need to do some work to get things running

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc upgrade: emerge frozen...

2006-02-04 Thread Jarry
Jarry wrote: emerge -e world Emerge started updating all packages (~150), but then suddenly stopped (after ~20 packages). No error message, just sitting here, like frozen: ... Searching for reasons why emerge so suddenly stopped I found following entries in my /var/log/messages (time

Re: [gentoo-user] upgrade/downgrade portage loop

2006-02-04 Thread Grant
Hello, I have the following in package.keywords: xfce-base/libxfce4mcs xfce-base/libxfcegui4 xfce-base/libxfce4util They need to be in there for xfmedia. Whenever I run 'emerge -avDuN world' portage wants to either upgrade or downgrade between the two most

[gentoo-user] lilo device-mapper udev

2006-02-04 Thread Francesco Talamona
I was going to add a new entry in lilo boot: aemaeth ~ # lilo -v LILO version 22.7, Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger Development beyond version 21 Copyright (C) 1999-2005 John Coffman Released 12-Apr-2005 and compiled at 10:36:57 on Jan 3 2006 Warning: '/proc/partitions' does not

[gentoo-user] xrdb hangs login

2006-02-04 Thread james
Hello, I use kde and login from a kde menu gui. Most recently, the system boots OK and login proceeds to the 'peripherals' stage, then hangs. I can then ssh into the system, kill off 'xrdb' and the kde-login launcher complete and everything is find. ps -aux revels it is xrdb that is the culprit.

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox

2006-02-04 Thread Simon Kellett
Chan Min Wai [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why The [Account Setting] And [Preference] is Under the [Edit] Menu Where on the windows build it is under the [Tools] Menu. Any Idea? It is the difference between what someone considers standard for Windows vs. Unix. (And it annoys me as I use Windows

Re: [gentoo-user] So O.K.

2006-02-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 04 Feb 2006 10:36:10 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: With all that experience, I'm surprised you made such a basic mistake as overwriting a config file. Gentoo is careful to protect your configuration files from being overwritten by new releases, it takes a deliberate action on

[gentoo-user] Re: cellphones and gentoo

2006-02-04 Thread James
Quag7 coldfront at frostwarning.com writes: I've been thinking about T-mobile and a plan for voice and wireless data access to the internet. (Anyone happy with T-mobile?) I don't know how they are nationally, but T-Mobile was awful here in the Tucson area. Enough that I cancelled and

Re: [gentoo-user] So O.K.

2006-02-04 Thread Rafael Fernández López
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Well man... if you don't like Gentoo because of it's privileges (etc-update for example?) LFS IS FOR YOU, I'M PRETTY SURE. Anyway, if you don't like Gentoo (or you don't know how to use it that's my odd), don't tell us how bad Gentoo is. Post that

Re: [gentoo-user] So O.K.

2006-02-04 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 20:27 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 04 Feb 2006 10:36:10 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: With all that experience, I'm surprised you made such a basic mistake as overwriting a config file. Gentoo is careful to protect your configuration files from being

Re: [gentoo-user] So O.K.

2006-02-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 04 Feb 2006 15:02:56 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: I think the flames started when the OP made a basic mistake and decided the whole distro was unsuitable for any serious use because of his error. That could be true, but why do we let it continue? I don't know, why are you

[gentoo-user] Errors compiling various ebuilds

2006-02-04 Thread Thomas Schweikle
Hi! I am having problems compiling these ebuilds: dev-java/xml-commons-external-1.3.02 dev-java/xerces-2.7.1 [2.6.2-r2] dev-java/xalan-2.7.0-r1 [2.6.0-r2] app-office/openoffice-2.0.1 [1.1.4-r1] dev-java/sun-jmx-1.2.1-r1 [1.2.1] kde-base/qtruby-3.4.3-r1 [3.4.2] kde-base/korundum-3.4.3 [3.4.2]

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc upgrade: emerge frozen...

2006-02-04 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Jarry wrote: Feb 4 14:18:21 obelix kernel: [ cut here ] Feb 4 14:18:21 obelix kernel: CPU:0 Feb 4 14:18:21 obelix kernel: EIP:0060:[c0148ee0]Not tainted VLI Feb 4 14:18:21 obelix kernel: EFLAGS: 00010286 (2.6.15-gentoo-r1) Feb 4 14:18:21 obelix

Re: [gentoo-user] USB issue

2006-02-04 Thread Richard Fish
On 2/3/06, Franta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: frankies rules.d # uname -r 2.6.12-gentoo-r10 frankies rules.d # ... a hotplug issue? Well, hotplug as we knew it no longer exists really. Now the kernel sends hotplug events using either udevsend or (for 2.6.15 onwards) netlink. Try cat

Re: [gentoo-user] VMware and cpu_states on Dell 9300

2006-02-04 Thread Richard Fish
On 2/3/06, Michael W. Holdeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #!/bin/bash echo 1 /sys/module/processor/parameters/max_cstate vmwarearts echo 8 /sys/module/processor/parameters/max_cstate snip Does anyone here have a better solution?? If you build the ACPI processor kernel driver as a module,

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging x86 Sun-JDK in my amd64

2006-02-04 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
On 04/02/06, Felipe Ribeiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can i emerge the common x86 sun-jdk(1.5) in my amd64 box? I simply downloaded the bin package from the Sun website and extracted it to wherever I needed it to be! Mrugesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging x86 Sun-JDK in my amd64

2006-02-04 Thread Felipe Ribeiro
Ok, Ok, let me explain the problem, i was using the amd64 version of sun-jdk and the amd64 version of eclipse, but i had many performance problems that i didn't have with the x86 version. so i want to use the x86 version on my amd64 box. I know i can do it manually, but emerge make things better

[gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Re: Gnome upgrade removed Open Terminal from right click

2006-02-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On 2/2/06, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, How does one add a specific operation to the right click menu one gets on the Gnome desktop? I really want to get this back. In Gnome, I've always had an 'Open Terminal' when I right click on the desktop. It's gone missing as of

Re: [gentoo-user] fglrx works. Yeah! Umm, now nothing exits. Uh oh!

2006-02-04 Thread Richard Fish
On 2/3/06, Bruce Burden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sigh. It looks like the X600 isn't supported by fglrx. Rechecked ATI's web site. The X600 in my Asus was working fine with the latest ATI drivers. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ... Can't connect to local MySQL server ...

2006-02-04 Thread John Jolet
On Feb 4, 2006, at 7:37 PM, Fredrik Lundgren wrote: Thanks for the suggestions! The problem is that # /etc/init.d/mysql start * ... * Starting mysql (/etc/mysql/my.cnf) * MySQL NOT started (0)[!!] In my.cnf [client] # password= your_password port

[gentoo-user] Using java-config with manually installed JDKs

2006-02-04 Thread Felipe Ribeiro
Hi, I've manually instaled the sun-jdk, but i wish i could add it to the java-config. is it possible? Cheers, Felipe -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] permissions problem

2006-02-04 Thread Jerry McBride
On Saturday 04 February 2006 19:39, John Jolet wrote: Okay, I give up. I've been struggling with a couple of very, very strange permissions problems for months. I just finished an emerge - e system and emerge -e world hoping it would fix it. first problem: trying to use sudo, but it keeps

[gentoo-user] Too many failures in update world

2006-02-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Running: emerge -v -u -D --newuse world today to get up to speed with a sync and some changed use flags So far I've had two major show stopping failures. I didn't keep much about the first since it was tetex related and decided to scrub my tetex use flag until I get the update done then deal

[gentoo-user] madwifi-ng WPA

2006-02-04 Thread Stroller
Hi, I've just purchased an Atheros-based wireless card that appears to be supported by the madwifi drivers. I emerged the latest version of madwifi because the VAP mode looks cool. (Virtual AP (VAP) mode, which allows the operation of multiple concurrent (virtual) access points, and

[gentoo-user] Anime Music Videos

2006-02-04 Thread Ian
Hey everyone, What is your favorite video editor of choice for things like anime music videos? My friend on Windows has made a few with movie maker (eww!) and I was wondering what Linux apps can do a nice job of it? My anime is all stored in avi or mpeg. I dont have dvds. Ive looked at

Re: [gentoo-user] apache permssions

2006-02-04 Thread Nick Rout
On Sat, 4 Feb 2006 15:58:53 -0800 darren kirby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quoth the Nick Rout: I wanted to use mod_status so I set -D INFO in /etc/conf.d/apache2 and my /etc/httpd.conf cotains the following: IfDefine INFO ExtendedStatus On Location /server-status

Re: [gentoo-user] Anime Music Videos

2006-02-04 Thread Steven Susbauer
I'm still particular to iMovie, sadly. I've only opened moviemaker once, I don't even remember what it looked like. I've heard good things about cinelerra but it looks like all the ebuilds are hard masked until somebody fixes the ebuilds. cinelerra-cvs is an unofficial branch, it's only ~x86 so

Re: [gentoo-user] apache permssions

2006-02-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 06:26:16PM +1300, Penguin Lover Nick Rout squawked: IfDefine INFO ExtendedStatus On Location /server-status SetHandler server-status Order deny,allow Deny from all Allow from localhost /Location

Re: [gentoo-user] permissions problem

2006-02-04 Thread Richard Fish
On 2/4/06, Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If this was my computer, I'd go into single user mode, set the partition read only and run fsck on it. Use the -N switch on the first pass and see if everything is alright with the file system. Agreed. Also if you have ACL support enabled, you