Re: [gentoo-user] how long does an install take on average?

2006-03-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 20:09:38 -0300, Diogo Tridapalli wrote: I install in pIII 900 and take almost a week! I installed on a 1GHz iBook and had a full KDE desktop in a little over an hour. The GRP CDs are there for a reason :) -- Neil Bothwick A bug in the hand is better than one as yet

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE version

2006-03-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 08:31:14 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: Gentoo was once VERY up to date, but than the 'stable mania' started and since then, gentoo needs way to much time to get new versions into the stable tree. That's because stable is for people who consider stable more important

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: bash scripting help requested. Quoting?

2006-03-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 06:47:35 +, Stroller wrote: I would like to automate the above process by writing a bash script which will take all the possible find terms and amalgamate them; it should allow some flexibility, interaction and for me to edit the terms easily. Why not use rsync

Re: [gentoo-user] ping!

2006-03-22 Thread Matt Richards
Luiz Carlos Guidolin wrote: ipv4. IPV6 requires a specific hardware to run. No, it doesn't. ipv6 is just a new protocol just different software the network and computer hardware dont have to change! althought i can see why you might say this because some broadband routers dont support ipv6

Re: [gentoo-user] Sylpheed Claws 2.0.0 IMAP

2006-03-22 Thread Andy Stern
Am Tue, 21 Mar 2006 18:30:08 -0700 schrieb Adrian [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I tried making a new IMAP account for my one IMAP email address and when I hit OK I got the message can not create folder. I solved that problem by adding imap into my /etc/make.conf use-flags Viele Gruesse / Best regards

Re: [gentoo-user] Lilypond version

2006-03-22 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
thank you again On 3/22/06, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 22:38:44 -0300 Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: thank you all guys, how can I discover masked versions ? just on package site ? thanks again for atention, Allan To reiterate: There are some masked

[gentoo-user] dovecat problem

2006-03-22 Thread Hiren Dave
Hi, I have installed dovecat on my RHELv4WS machine. But when I am trying telnet localhsot 110 command, I am not able to log in with my username and password. The error is saying that ERR [AUTH] Invalid login. Please help. The /etc/dovecat.conf file contains protocols = pop3 pop3s TnRHiren

[gentoo-user] how to apply a patch to ebuild?

2006-03-22 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
Hi I was reading the bug report 114915 at gentoo bugzilla and it mentions a patch to ebuid, I had downloaded the patch but I don't have any clue about how can I apply it to current ebuid. I had searched gentoo wiki and found nothing. Does some gentle soul can help me with this stupid question ?

Re: [gentoo-user] alps touchpad problem

2006-03-22 Thread scwang
The following is touchpad part of my xorg.conf file: # internal touchpad Section InputDevice Identifier Alps Touchpad Driver synaptics Option Protocol auto-dev Option Device/dev/input/mice Option LeftEdge 130 Option RightEdge 950

Re: [gentoo-user] bastard.sh - mass unmasker/keywords utility

2006-03-22 Thread Bo Andresen
On Tuesday 21 March 2006 17:20, Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote: Yeah, so? *crickets* Thanks, the d.g.o. was pretty clear, but I can imagine that confusing people, the referenced document was next to useless, did you read it? Well, I did have a look at it and obviously it is intended for developers

Re: [gentoo-user] how to apply a patch to ebuild?

2006-03-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 08:56:17 -0300, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: Hi I was reading the bug report 114915 at gentoo bugzilla and it mentions a patch to ebuid, I had downloaded the patch but I don't have any clue about how can I apply it to current ebuid. As root: cd /usr/portage/x11-libs/gtkDPS

Re: [gentoo-user] how long does an install take on average?

2006-03-22 Thread Teresa and Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 20:09:38 -0300, Diogo Tridapalli wrote: I install in pIII 900 and take almost a week! I installed on a 1GHz iBook and had a full KDE desktop in a little over an hour. The GRP CDs are there for a reason :) I instaled on a Compaq Server,

Re: [gentoo-user] how to apply a patch to ebuild?

2006-03-22 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 08:56 -0300, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: Hi I was reading the bug report 114915 at gentoo bugzilla and it mentions a patch to ebuid, I had downloaded the patch but I don't have any clue about how can I apply it to current ebuid. well, how confident are you at having a go?

Re: [gentoo-user] how to apply a patch to ebuild?

2006-03-22 Thread Alexander Kirillov
Hi I was reading the bug report 114915 at gentoo bugzilla and it mentions a patch to ebuid, I had downloaded the patch but I don't have any clue about how can I apply it to current ebuid. There may be a patched version already in portage, still masked. If there isn't you may consider creating a

[gentoo-user] Installation Problem

2006-03-22 Thread David Relson
G'day, So far, I've twice had the Gentoo install run for 12 hours and then found the machine hung. Rebooting shows a partially completed install. I'd like to find what's going wrong so I can complete my (first) Gentoo installation! Environment: x86-LiveCD-2006.0.iso P-III 450Mhz

Re: [gentoo-user] send mail to gentoo-user locally

2006-03-22 Thread mfyang
Stroller and Simon, Thank you so much for the helpful information. Finally, I changed the settings of postfix, and let all my emails relay through gmail server. It seems work. Best, Mingfeng On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 06:21:17AM +, Stroller wrote: On 20 Mar 2006, at 22:46, Mingfeng Yang

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation Problem

2006-03-22 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 08:01 -0500, David Relson wrote: G'day, Hi So far, I've twice had the Gentoo install run for 12 hours and then found the machine hung. this sounds like a hardware issue - I would guess that you either have faulty ram (or something similar); or your cpu is getting too

Re: [gentoo-user] ping!

2006-03-22 Thread Luiz Carlos Guidolin
Matt and Alexander, you're right. Sorry for the wrong info guys. After reading more about it I realized it's just an router issue! Thanks On 3/22/06, Matt Richards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Luiz Carlos Guidolin wrote: ipv4. IPV6 requires a specific hardware to run. No, it doesn't. ipv6

[gentoo-user] LG L1730P in 1280x1024

2006-03-22 Thread Stefán István
Hello List! Please somebody help me to set up my monitor to 1280x1024 resolution! I bought an LG L1730P lcd monitor and I can only use it in 800x600 resolution. I'm using xorg.conf file that was created with the X -configure command. I tried to boot with knoppix, it starts X in 1024x768. Then I

Re: [gentoo-user] LG L1730P in 1280x1024

2006-03-22 Thread Luiz Carlos Guidolin
Hi, have you checked if the horizontal and vertical frequencies are right?? According to the page http://www.pricelist.lv/product/0/25974/2/3/ it would be H: 30 - 83kHz and V: 56 - 75Hz. Are you using the DVI output? But this is just a guess of your problem, could you be more specific, like

[gentoo-user] mozplugger is masked

2006-03-22 Thread hawat . thufir
It's masked: localhost ~ # emerge mozplugger Calculating dependencies !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy mozplugger have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - net-www/mozplugger-1.6.2 (masked by: ~x86 keyword) - net-www/mozplugger-1.7.3

Re: [gentoo-user] mozplugger is masked

2006-03-22 Thread Boris Fersing
2006/3/22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: It's masked: localhost ~ # emerge mozplugger Calculating dependencies !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy mozplugger have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - net-www/mozplugger-1.6.2

Re: [gentoo-user] mozplugger is masked

2006-03-22 Thread THUFIR HAWAT
On 3/22/06, Boris Fersing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: .. Hi, ~x86 means that this package is marked as unstable because it needs some testing, if you want to test it (don't worry, I've my whole system in ~x86 and it's quite stable), just unmask it this way : echo net-www/mozplugger ~x86

[gentoo-user] glibc problem on amd64

2006-03-22 Thread Keats
hi, i have a gento on a ~x86 that udpate sucessfully but on a ~amd64 it failed on emerge... (the processor is in reality a xeon w emt64 ) here are the last lines of the emerge... thanx for suggestion... it's boring cause i m still using the glibc from the stage3 installation... so it's not

[gentoo-user] Re: font problem

2006-03-22 Thread Marco Calviani
In addition to this, with a simple program as nedit i'm observing the following warnings: Cannot convert string -*-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-iso8859-1 to type FontStruct Cannot convert string -*-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-iso8859-1 to type FontStruct Cannot convert string

Re: [gentoo-user] LG L1730P in 1280x1024

2006-03-22 Thread Stefán István
szerda 22 március 2006 15.46 dátummal Luiz Carlos Guidolin ezt írta: Hi, have you checked if the horizontal and vertical frequencies are right?? According to the page http://www.pricelist.lv/product/0/25974/2/3/ it would be H: 30 - 83kHz and V: 56 - 75Hz. Yes, I use these settings. Are you

Re: [gentoo-user] LG L1730P in 1280x1024

2006-03-22 Thread Richard Fish
On 3/22/06, Stefán István [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, I paste the relevant lines from my config file: Please also post the contents of /var/log/Xorg.0.log -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] alps touchpad problem

2006-03-22 Thread Richard Fish
On 3/21/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use synaptics driver for my alps touchpad. Everything else works finely except one thing: my up scroll key scolls down and down up. How to solve it? ZAxisMapping (man 4x mouse). -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] LG L1730P in 1280x1024

2006-03-22 Thread Stefán István
szerda 22 március 2006 16.45 dátummal Richard Fish ezt írta: On 3/22/06, Stefán István [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, I paste the relevant lines from my config file: Please also post the contents of /var/log/Xorg.0.log Ok, but it's a bit long becuse I don't know exactly which lines are

[gentoo-user] Major emerge problem

2006-03-22 Thread Paul Stear
Hi, I am in the process of updating my system to ~x86 and have reached 28 out of 388 packages. The emerge stopped with the following error Error: Failed to import module 'portage_db_cdb.database' File /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py, line 1290, in load_best_module mod = load_mod(best_mod)

Re: [gentoo-user] Major emerge problem

2006-03-22 Thread Boris Fersing
2006/3/22, Paul Stear [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I am in the process of updating my system to ~x86 and have reached 28 out of 388 packages. The emerge stopped with the following error Error: Failed to import module 'portage_db_cdb.database' File /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py, line 1290, in

Re: [gentoo-user] ping!

2006-03-22 Thread maxim wexler
Thanks, Luiz. Yeah, just noticed when I did an emerge of iptraf it said it was going for just one package but then went and got the ipv6 diff file too. No, the crossover LAN I'm working on will be strictly private. My only connection to the Web is via dialup. But can someone actually squeeze

Re: [gentoo-user] dovecat problem

2006-03-22 Thread Ralph Slooten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hiren Dave wrote: I have installed dovecat on my RHELv4WS machine. But when I am trying telnet localhsot 110 command, I am not able to log in with my username and password. The error is saying that ERR [AUTH] Invalid login. Please help. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Major emerge problem

2006-03-22 Thread Paul Stear
Mhh, are you using cdb with portage ? if yes, try mv /etc/portage/modules /etc/portage/__modules. AFAIK, cdb doesn't work with portage-2.1* regards, Boris. Thanks for the reply, I had just worked it out and now am emerging normally. Thanks Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail

[gentoo-user] Newbie question : specific software version no more available

2006-03-22 Thread sebastien Pastor
Hi guys! First post in the list for me. It s probably a dumb question but i could not figure out any answer. On a gentoo 2005.1 system i am running a set of scripts which rely on specific binary tools like (ecasound and mjpegtools). When i got all those scripts stabilized, i really

Re: [gentoo-user] ping!

2006-03-22 Thread Luiz Carlos Guidolin
Hi Maxim, as long as you will only be using it internally I think there is no problem to use the FTP. I think that the probability of someone doing that is very low. One should be interested in your stuff to spend time doing that. The fact is, since you will be connected to the Internet you must

[gentoo-user] emerge java syntax

2006-03-22 Thread hawat . thufir
I'm at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/java/tiger-faq.xml, which gives the syntax as: emerge =sun-jdk-1.5* but the pretend isn't working as I expect it to. localhost ~ # localhost ~ # localhost ~ # emerge -p =sun-jdk-1.5* These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating

[gentoo-user] Several problems of a newbie

2006-03-22 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
Hi, ...thanks a lot for all your helping answers to my previous questions! I opened a new thread, because I got some problems. In the meanwhile my gentoo system has grown fast. KDE is installed, X is installed and other nice things, too. But there are some little oddities: I installed a

Re: [gentoo-user] skype experiences: good/bad/etc

2006-03-22 Thread Ralph Slooten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jason Weisberger wrote: Apparently Skype has been working furiously on a newer version where alsa support and the like will be built in, but I'm waiting to see that one. Just to give a little inside heads-up ~ Firstly I would not call it furiously

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge java syntax

2006-03-22 Thread Rick van Hattem
On Wednesday 22 March 2006 18:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/java/tiger-faq.xml, which gives the syntax as: emerge =sun-jdk-1.5* but the pretend isn't working as I expect it to. localhost ~ # localhost ~ # localhost ~ # emerge -p =sun-jdk-1.5* These are

Re: [gentoo-user] skype experiences: good/bad/etc

2006-03-22 Thread michael
I've been hearing some good things about Gizmo, for one, that it's more Linux-friendly. Haven't tried it myself yet. Anybody have anything to say about gizmo? M On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Ralph Slooten wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jason Weisberger wrote: Apparently Skype

Re: [gentoo-user] Several problems of a newbie

2006-03-22 Thread Richard Fish
On 3/22/06, Meino Christian Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What happens? The kernel boots and shows the tiny font I like so much. But suddenly while working on the bootscripts, the size of the fonts switched to a bigger (ugly, rectangle-shaped font). This is when gentoo sets the console

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question : specific software version no more available

2006-03-22 Thread Richard Fish
On 3/22/06, sebastien Pastor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1 Is there a way for me to be able to download somehow version 2.3.3 2 If not, anyone could tell me how long packages are kept in the repository and what would be the process if i really need to stick with one version which is no

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge java syntax

2006-03-22 Thread Holly Bostick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: I'm at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/java/tiger-faq.xml, which gives the syntax as: emerge =sun-jdk-1.5* but the pretend isn't working as I expect it to. localhost ~ # localhost ~ # localhost ~ # emerge -p =sun-jdk-1.5* These are the packages that I would

Re: [gentoo-user] Several problems of a newbie

2006-03-22 Thread Philip Webb
060322 Meino Christian Cramer wrote: I installed a vanilla kernel Gentoo-sources has always worked for me. Second problem: I wanted to emerge gnome. That certainly suggests you have a problem ... (grin) BTW you don't need to install the whole of KDE or Gnome to use packages which depend on

Re: [gentoo-user] skype experiences: good/bad/etc

2006-03-22 Thread Bryce Verdier
I've tried both. And i have gotten skype to work with a USB headset, but the couple of months it took me to figure it out, and it wasn't really worth it. Gizmo has promise, but right now it does not work on amd64. It might with a bit more effort but i haven't gotten around to it yet. As a

[gentoo-user] Init sequence

2006-03-22 Thread Sergio Polini
I'ld like to know how the sequence of init scripts is set up. There are such functions as after() and before() (f.i., in net.lo), and commands like before, need, after in depend() functions (f.i., in cupsd). I'ld like to understand: - what's the difference between after/before commands and

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge java syntax

2006-03-22 Thread hawat . thufir
So, masked packages only require that package.keyword be edited, but hardmasked packages also require that package.unmask be edited? I see the sense in having different grades of unmasking, but not the need for two distinct files(?). thanks, Thufir -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] skype experiences: good/bad/etc

2006-03-22 Thread Pongracz Istvan
Hi. I read this thread and I agreed with it. Unfortunately the developers cannot use sound devices under linux. I'm wondering, how can they develop this application under windows and how can it work on that platform. So, usually I can use it, but if I use a music player or see a movie, I have to

[gentoo-user] fstab

2006-03-22 Thread contiemilio
Hi all. It's me, again. I have set my /etc/fstab following the instractions of the Handbook. In the example there is this entry: /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user0 0 To-day I discovered that there is no /cdroms subdirectory in /dev directory. Is it a bug either of

Re: [gentoo-user] Several problems of a newbie

2006-03-22 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
From: Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Several problems of a newbie Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 13:53:23 -0500 Hi Philip ! Thanks a lot again for your help ! 060322 Meino Christian Cramer wrote: I installed a vanilla kernel Gentoo-sources has always worked for me.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge java syntax

2006-03-22 Thread Antoine
On 22/03/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, masked packages only require that package.keyword be edited, but hardmasked packages also require that package.unmask be edited? I see the sense in having different grades of unmasking, but not the need for two distinct files(?).

Re: [gentoo-user] fstab

2006-03-22 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Wednesday 22 March 2006 20:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all. It's me, again. I have set my /etc/fstab following the instractions of the Handbook. In the example there is this entry: /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user0 0 To-day I discovered that there is no

Re: [gentoo-user] fstab

2006-03-22 Thread Keats
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 20:52:43 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all. It's me, again. I have set my /etc/fstab following the instractions of the Handbook. In the example there is this entry: /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user0 0 you have to know the device of

Re: [gentoo-user] fstab

2006-03-22 Thread AJ Spagnoletti
you have to know the device of your cdrom generaly it's a secondary master ide /dev/hdc so set fstab to : /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user0 0 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list On my system (I am using udev) There are two symlinks created in /dev for my cdroms that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge java syntax

2006-03-22 Thread THUFIR HAWAT
On 3/22/06, Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 22/03/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, masked packages only require that package.keyword be edited, but hardmasked packages also require that package.unmask be edited? I see the sense in having different grades of

Re: [gentoo-user] alps touchpad problem

2006-03-22 Thread JimD
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 17:47:33 +0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Go read this page: http://www.xfree86.org/current/mouse5.html You want the section on ZAxisMappping. You basically want to flip the wheel so that up is down and down is up. In my InputDevice section for my mouse I have: Option

[gentoo-user] use flags, mplayer, lame

2006-03-22 Thread hawat . thufir
If down the road I realize that I've left out use flag for mplayer would I have to recompile mplayer? localhost ~ # localhost ~ # emerge -pv mplayer These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N] media-sound/lame-3.96.1 -debug +gtk

Re: [gentoo-user] bastard.sh - mass unmasker/keywords utility

2006-03-22 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
On 3/22/06, Bo Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 21 March 2006 17:20, Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote: Yeah, so? *crickets* Thanks, the d.g.o. was pretty clear, but I can imagine that confusing people, the referenced document was next to useless, did you read it? Well, I did have a

Re: [gentoo-user] Init sequence

2006-03-22 Thread Bo Andresen
On Wednesday 22 March 2006 20:26, Sergio Polini wrote: I'ld like to know how the sequence of init scripts is set up. Did you look in the Gentoo handbook? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2chap=4 If after reading that you still have unanswered questions then ask again.

Re: [gentoo-user] no-nptl profile by default?

2006-03-22 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
kashani wrote: I'm starting to wonder if I've got a goofy stage3-x86-2006.0.tar.bz2. By default I get the no-nptl profile instead of the 2006.0 profile I was expecting. Am I just grabbing the wrong stage3 and would i686 or whatever be the correct one for a dual P4 Xeon setup? Probably

Re: [gentoo-user] use flags, mplayer, lame

2006-03-22 Thread Alexander Skwar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If down the road I realize that I've left out use flag for mplayer would I have to recompile mplayer? Yes, of course. I could make /etc/packages/portage.use something like: 'media-sound/lame-3.96.1' along with the other flags, and then mplayer would have lame

Re: [gentoo-user] use flags, mplayer, lame

2006-03-22 Thread Mickey Mullin
On 22/03/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I think about this more, it seems that, for example, I might just install lame directly with portage. In that case, it'd be up to mplayer to recognize lame's presence, yes? However, with the use flags, mplayer is compiled with lame?

Re: [gentoo-user] use flags, mplayer, lame

2006-03-22 Thread Alexander Skwar
Mickey Mullin wrote: Having done that, subsequently emerging phpmysql will not re-emerge Apache OR PHP, even though they are both requirements. However, I don't know what would actually happen, since the scenario above would have you with PHP on your system but without its being able to

Re: [gentoo-user] Several problems of a newbie

2006-03-22 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Meino Christian Cramer wrote: It just a feeling in the area of my stomach not to use patched kernel sources... But glibc is patched, bash is patched, coreutils is patched... just about everything is patched in Gentoo. And then you want to skip the kernel patches? Second problem: I

Re: [gentoo-user] use flags, mplayer, lame

2006-03-22 Thread Alexander Skwar
Alexander Skwar wrote: Mickey Mullin wrote: Having done that, subsequently emerging phpmysql will not re-emerge Apache OR PHP, even though they are both requirements. However, I don't know what would actually happen, since the scenario above would have you with PHP on your system but

Re: [gentoo-user] use flags, mplayer, lame

2006-03-22 Thread Mickey Mullin
On 22/03/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mickey Mullin wrote: Having done that, subsequently emerging phpmysql will not re-emerge Apache OR PHP, even though they are both requirements. However, I don't know what would actually happen, since the scenario above would have you

Re: [gentoo-user] use flags, mplayer, lame

2006-03-22 Thread Mickey Mullin
On 22/03/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mickey Mullin wrote: phpmysql I assume that you were talking about phpmyadmin. But of course. I must have had mysql stapled to my forebrain when I typed phpmysql. Must be the late afternoon slump doing me in. Well, that and that I've

Re: [gentoo-user] use flags, mplayer, lame

2006-03-22 Thread Pierrick Couturier
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If down the road I realize that I've left out use flag for mplayer would I have to recompile mplayer? localhost ~ # localhost ~ # emerge -pv mplayer These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N]

Re: [gentoo-user] Init sequence

2006-03-22 Thread Sergio Polini
Bo Andresen: On Wednesday 22 March 2006 20:26, Sergio Polini wrote: I'ld like to know how the sequence of init scripts is set up. Did you look in the Gentoo handbook? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2chap= 4 If after reading that you still have unanswered

Re: [gentoo-user] LG L1730P in 1280x1024

2006-03-22 Thread Richard Fish
On 3/22/06, Stefán István [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: szerda 22 március 2006 16.45 dátummal Richard Fish ezt írta: On 3/22/06, Stefán István [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, I paste the relevant lines from my config file: Please also post the contents of /var/log/Xorg.0.log Ok, but it's a

Re: [gentoo-user] Hosted server as distcc machine

2006-03-22 Thread Grant
Is there anything wrong with making a remote machine [a] distcc system? Not really, but you do need to realize that distcc doesn't guarantee that jobs will be sent to the remote machines and will not prevent jobs from being run locally. If there are not enough distcc hosts to support the

Re: [gentoo-user] Current state of the Gentoo installation process

2006-03-22 Thread Grant
That sounds pretty good to me. So if I do a stage 3 install as per the current Gentoo docs plus 'emerge -e system' I will end up with the same thing that I did with a stage 1 install? I remember thinking that I was getting a deeper level of optimization by starting with stage 1. I

Re: [gentoo-user] use flags, mplayer, lame

2006-03-22 Thread Mickey Mullin
On 22/03/06, Pierrick Couturier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If down the road I realize that I've left out use flag for mplayer would I have to recompile mplayer? localhost ~ # localhost ~ # emerge -pv mplayer These are the packages that I would merge, in

Re: [gentoo-user] use flags, mplayer, lame

2006-03-22 Thread THUFIR HAWAT
On 3/22/06, Pierrick Couturier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: .. You have xmms in your USE flags (default gentoo USE flags, I assume). So when you'va tried to install mplayer, portage wants to install xmms too because mplayer can use xmms or parts of it (I don't how) if you want. Yes, xmms is in

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question : specific software version no more available

2006-03-22 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 11:37 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: On 3/22/06, sebastien Pastor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1 Is there a way for me to be able to download somehow version 2.3.3 You can look in /usr/portage/media-sound/ecasound/ to see what versions are available. Unfortunately for you,

Re: [gentoo-user] Several problems of a newbie

2006-03-22 Thread Ryan Tandy
Meino Christian Cramer wrote: What happens? The kernel boots and shows the tiny font I like so much. But suddenly while working on the bootscripts, the size of the fonts switched to a bigger (ugly, rectangle-shaped font). More mysterious: ALL BLUE letters were cancelled by a horizontal bar.

Re: [gentoo-user] Init sequence

2006-03-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 23:44:21 +0100, Sergio Polini wrote: Did you look in the Gentoo handbook? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2chap= 4 If after reading that you still have unanswered questions then ask again. I had read that page (perhaps I should have

Re: [gentoo-user] Init sequence

2006-03-22 Thread Ryan Tandy
Sergio Polini wrote: I'ld like to know how the sequence of init scripts is set up. There are such functions as after() and before() (f.i., in net.lo), and commands like before, need, after in depend() functions (f.i., in cupsd). Try calling your favorite rc-script with 'help' as the argument

Re: [gentoo-user] Current state of the Gentoo installation process

2006-03-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 15:12:25 -0800, Grant wrote: Also, if you start with Stage3, you may not even need to rebuild the installed packages, as if it's been a little while since the Stage3 image was created, there will be new versions of everything, so you'd be rebuilding when you do a

Re: [gentoo-user] no-nptl profile by default?

2006-03-22 Thread kashani
Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: Probably want the P4 stage3. I think I used the i686 which seems to That's what I was using in 2005.1, but the P4 stage doesn't exist anymore in 2006. I'll give the i686 one a shot and see if it's less annoying. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] file limit

2006-03-22 Thread Bruce Therrien
Is there a limit to the files contained in a directory? we have over 19,000 in our store graphics directory and sometimes cannot acces it because the ftp software says it's not a directory. It's on an IBM server running gentoo. -- Bruce Therrien [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is the end of the

Re: [gentoo-user] file limit

2006-03-22 Thread Glenn Enright
On Thursday 23 March 2006 13:50, Bruce Therrien wrote: Is there a limit to the files contained in a directory? we have over 19,000 in our store graphics directory and sometimes cannot acces it because the ftp software says it's not a directory. It's on an IBM server running gentoo. More

Re: [gentoo-user] Sylpheed Claws 2.0.0 IMAP

2006-03-22 Thread Adrian
Andy -- That was it. Thank you so much. I would have never thought of looking into a flag for imap ability. It's up and running. My gratitude to you. Take care Adrian On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 12:33:02 +0100 Andy Stern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the words: Am Tue, 21 Mar 2006 18:30:08 -0700

Re: [gentoo-user] skype experiences: good/bad/etc

2006-03-22 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 20:29 +0100, Pongracz Istvan wrote: So, usually I can use it, but if I use a music player or see a movie, I have to restart skype to get working. try running skype in this wrapper: esddsp skype if you use gnome that is, and the software sound mixing is turned on in your

Re: [gentoo-user] LG L1730P in 1280x1024

2006-03-22 Thread Stefán István
Hello, szerda 22 március 2006 23.55 dátummal Richard Fish ezt írta: ... I suggest to remove any HorizSync or VertRefresh lines from xorg.conf, and let the autodetection work. Thank you for the help, I tried what you suggested, but my monitor still not work resolution above 800x600. Here is

Re: [gentoo-user] file limit

2006-03-22 Thread Alexander Skwar
Bruce Therrien wrote: Is there a limit to the files contained in a directory? No. we have over 19,000 in our store graphics directory and sometimes cannot acces it because the ftp software says it's not a directory. Replace the ftp software. Alexander Skwar -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] LG L1730P in 1280x1024

2006-03-22 Thread Stefán István
Hello again, I tried to execute xvidtune -show during my monitor is in big resolutions: # xvidtune -show 800x600 49.50800 816 896 1056600 601 604 625 +hsync +vsync # xvidtune -show 1024x768 78.80 1024 1040 1136 1312768 769 772 800 +hsync +vsync # xvidtune -show

Re: [gentoo-user] LG L1730P in 1280x1024

2006-03-22 Thread Stefán István
csütörtök 23 március 2006 07.30 dátummal Stefán István ezt írta: Hello again, I tried to execute xvidtune -show during my monitor is in big resolutions: # xvidtune -show 800x600 49.50800 816 896 1056600 601 604 625 +hsync +vsync # xvidtune -show 1024x768 78.80

Re: [gentoo-user] skype experiences: good/bad/etc

2006-03-22 Thread Pongracz Istvan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thank you your help. As I know,the running script uses arts or esd wrapper. I saw that, it uses the esdwrapper, but it doesn't care. But I will try your solution, maybe that is why I need. Thank you again, István Iain Buchanan wrote: On Wed,