[gentoo-user] get unversioned list of installed packages without eix or esearch

2006-06-25 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
I know that I can get a list of installed packages without their version numbers with eix: # eix -nI --format '/' | \ grep -vr '^$\|^\[[0-9]*\]\|^Found\ [0-9]*' This is probably possible with esearch too. But does anybody know of a way to get it with portage, bash or gentoolkit? I was

Re: [gentoo-user] acrobat reader can not run by normal user

2006-06-25 Thread fei huang
On 6/25/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: On 6/23/06, fei huang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> I'm not sure when did this issue arise, perhaps after a update of my glibc > or whatever packages that I could not remember,  but seems ok with root > somehow, anyway, I used strace to track the r

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage weirdness...

2006-06-25 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 08:21:10PM -0500, Teresa and Dale wrote > Walter Dnes wrote: > > > I did that quite some time ago... back when I dumped PAM entirely. > > How's that work? What do you use for login and such? Just like everybody else is doing now, I unmerged pam-login and emerged shado

Re: [gentoo-user] Re-emerge missing files

2006-06-25 Thread Rafael Castro
On Jun 26, 2006, at 12:16 AM, Dave Oxley wrote: I left an emerge of Qt running at the weekend which downgraded my Xorg from 7.0 to 6.8 (I was missing virtual/x11 ~amd64 in package.keywords). When I came back to the machine I unmerged Xorg which deleted a load of libraries that were install

[gentoo-user] Re-emerge missing files

2006-06-25 Thread Dave Oxley
I left an emerge of Qt running at the weekend which downgraded my Xorg from 7.0 to 6.8 (I was missing virtual/x11 ~amd64 in package.keywords). When I came back to the machine I unmerged Xorg which deleted a load of libraries that were installed with 7.0, but the system thinks they are still install

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI XPress 200m - direct rendering don't work

2006-06-25 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 11:26:48 + Rudson Ribeiro Alves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The X start with DRI, but gl programs and X halt the system in the exit. > > This is the and of this tunnel? > Not anything I can recommend from here. If GL is causing a halt and the bad memory location is pr

Re: [gentoo-user] Reconsidering webalizer's etc-update files

2006-06-25 Thread Jeremy Olexa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Grant wrote: > When I emerged an update to webalizer a while back I didn't pay > attention to the changes etc-update was making to the default > configuration file so I didn't know how to update my custom file > manually. Webalizer hasn't worked since

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox and Java bringing X down

2006-06-25 Thread Bruno Lustosa
On 6/23/06, Caster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just wondering, why do you have -X useflag? You intend to use java in X, don't you... I have set -X globally, to not build X support to things that don't exclusively need it. In this case, things were working so far. I guess some upgrade broke it (p

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage weirdness...

2006-06-25 Thread Teresa and Dale
Yann Garnier wrote: > Kristian, Dale, Jurgen, Bo, the list, > > Thanks to all of you. > > You were all right because my laptop is updating at the moment !!! > > Thanks very much. > > Best regards > > Yann Garnier > Le 25 juin 06 à 22:38, Bo Ørsted Andresen a écrit : > >> On Sunday 25 June 2006 22:

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage weirdness...

2006-06-25 Thread Teresa and Dale
Walter Dnes wrote: >On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 03:12:23PM -0500, Teresa and Dale wrote > > > >>Unmerge pam-login because shadow does that now. emerge shadow >>IMMEDIATELY after you unmerge though or you can't get back in. This is >>something that everyone has been through I guess. I did too. >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Reconsidering webalizer's etc-update files

2006-06-25 Thread Teresa and Dale
Grant wrote: > When I emerged an update to webalizer a while back I didn't pay > attention to the changes etc-update was making to the default > configuration file so I didn't know how to update my custom file > manually. Webalizer hasn't worked since. How can I force webalizer > to re-update al

Re: [gentoo-user] Best webmail

2006-06-25 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Leandro Melo de Sales: > Hi all, > >I'm looking for a good webmail which I can use Courier IMAP/POP3 > and QMail. I know Horde IMP, but does someone know others which is > better? I've no first hand experience but have heard squirrelmail is popular: http://www.squirrelmail.org/ It i

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage weirdness...

2006-06-25 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 03:12:23PM -0500, Teresa and Dale wrote > Unmerge pam-login because shadow does that now. emerge shadow > IMMEDIATELY after you unmerge though or you can't get back in. This is > something that everyone has been through I guess. I did too. I did that quite some time a

Re: [gentoo-user] xine-lib: unrecognized option `-fvisibility=hidden'

2006-06-25 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Rafael Castro: > On Jun 25, 2006, at 7:54 PM, darren kirby wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I am trying to update xine-lib to 1.1.2_pre20060328-r9, the latest > > stable > > version but it is crashing with: > > Apparently this is a problem with gcc 3.3... upgrading to 3.4 did the > trick for

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer is slow in xfce but Ok in other X

2006-06-25 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 11:40:37PM +0800, Chuanwen Wu wrote > My mplayer in gnome is OK! But after i switch to xfce4.39,everytime > i start it ,it will take me 1~2minutes,and can't do anything until > it's OK! Here's a guess; you are running mplayer with different parameters. A site that strea

Re: [gentoo-user] wtf do all the Layout Options mean in gnome keyboard preferences?

2006-06-25 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 26 June 2006 01:36, Robert Persson wrote: > The problem is that I don't know how to get it so that when I > press either the alt or the win key I get all those extra characters. I don't think that pressing alt, win or meta should provide any extra characters with the us international k

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage weirdness...

2006-06-25 Thread Yann Garnier
Kristian, Dale, Jurgen, Bo, the list, Thanks to all of you. You were all right because my laptop is updating at the moment !!! Thanks very much. Best regards Yann Garnier Le 25 juin 06 à 22:38, Bo Ørsted Andresen a écrit : On Sunday 25 June 2006 22:22, Jürgen Pierau wrote: 1. unmask the pa

Re: [gentoo-user] wtf do all the Layout Options mean in gnome keyboard preferences?

2006-06-25 Thread Robert Persson
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Sunday 25 June 2006 13:27, Robert Persson wrote: I want to be able to use an international keyboard layout in X. Something like the Apple U.S. layout would be really nice, but the U.S. English Alternative International would do me fine for the moment. I hav

Re: [gentoo-user] xine-lib: unrecognized option `-fvisibility=hidden'

2006-06-25 Thread Rafael Castro
On Jun 25, 2006, at 7:54 PM, darren kirby wrote: Hello all, I am trying to update xine-lib to 1.1.2_pre20060328-r9, the latest stable version but it is crashing with: Apparently this is a problem with gcc 3.3... upgrading to 3.4 did the trick for me... take a look at http://www.gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Encryption in Kopete

2006-06-25 Thread Daniel Waeber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Sunday 25 June 2006 21:02, Mick wrote: >> Is there a similar function in Gaim, or does it only do vanilla >> messaging (unencrypted)? > > I have no experience with encryption in instant messengers so can't help with > t

[gentoo-user] xine-lib: unrecognized option `-fvisibility=hidden'

2006-06-25 Thread darren kirby
Hello all, I am trying to update xine-lib to 1.1.2_pre20060328-r9, the latest stable version but it is crashing with: ### i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../.. -I../../include -I../../include -I../../src -I../../src/xine-engine -I../../src/xine-engine -I

[gentoo-user] Best webmail

2006-06-25 Thread Leandro Melo de Sales
Hi all, I'm looking for a good webmail which I can use Courier IMAP/POP3 and QMail. I know Horde IMP, but does someone know others which is better? Thank you, Leandro. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Reconsidering webalizer's etc-update files

2006-06-25 Thread Grant
When I emerged an update to webalizer a while back I didn't pay attention to the changes etc-update was making to the default configuration file so I didn't know how to update my custom file manually. Webalizer hasn't worked since. How can I force webalizer to re-update all files it originally w

Re: [gentoo-user] fetching patches on demand

2006-06-25 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 21 June 2006 00:00, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > I'd reall like to save traffic and disk space by not syncing > patches with "emerge --sync" and let them be fetched on demand > instead. Is this supported yet ? Nope, that it not supported. What is supported, however, is excluding parts of

Re: [gentoo-user] quota settings for user groups...

2006-06-25 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 23 June 2006 07:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If I define some soft/hard limits for group "users" (let's say > 100MB for a certain partition), does it mean that every user > belonging to this group will have that limit 100MB for his files? I think so. -- Bo Andresen pgpFh49WUYLGO.pg

Re: [gentoo-user] wtf do all the Layout Options mean in gnome keyboard preferences?

2006-06-25 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Sunday 25 June 2006 13:27, Robert Persson wrote: > I want to be able to use an international keyboard layout in X. > Something like the Apple U.S. layout would be really nice, but the U.S. > English Alternative International would do me fine for the moment. I have no experience with gnome so ca

Re: [gentoo-user] Encryption in Kopete

2006-06-25 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Sunday 25 June 2006 21:02, Mick wrote: > Is there a similar function in Gaim, or does it only do vanilla > messaging (unencrypted)? I have no experience with encryption in instant messengers so can't help with that. But there is a plugin: # eix gaim-encryption * x11-plugins/gaim-encryption

Re: [gentoo-user] unmerge KDE + deps

2006-06-25 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Sunday 25 June 2006 23:12, krgn wrote: > I know this must have been asked a few times, but I need to quick and > can't search a lot for info on the net. I would like to remove, say KDE > and GNOME from a system with all the packages they come with, and would > like to find a cmd-line option to e

[SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.0.99 block

2006-06-25 Thread krgn
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Sunday 25 June 2006 23:33, krgn wrote: ok, I attached a file with the output of the command, --- [nomerge ] media-video/nvidia-settings-1.0.20051122-r3 [ebuild N] media-vid

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.0.99 block

2006-06-25 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Sunday 25 June 2006 23:33, krgn wrote: > ok, I attached a file with the output of the command, --- > [nomerge ] media-video/nvidia-settings-1.0.20051122-r3 > [ebuild N] media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.8756 USE="-dlloa

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.0.99 block

2006-06-25 Thread krgn
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Sunday 25 June 2006 23:08, krgn wrote: thanks for your quick reply! I have double checked that I don't have nvidia set in the VIDEO_CARDS section make.conf, so its a bit weird that its pops up again. I also tried masking it, plus the older version of xorg-server (

Re: [gentoo-user] Null Modem Cables Between Windoze XP and Linux

2006-06-25 Thread John J. Foster
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 10:20:39PM +0200, Gerhard Hoogterp wrote: > On Sunday 25 June 2006 22:02, John J. Foster wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 12:46:16PM -0700, Lord Sauron wrote: > > > I have it on extremely good authority that it goes 2MB/sec. > > > > it's always a good thing to question aut

[gentoo-user] unmerge KDE + deps

2006-06-25 Thread krgn
I know this must have been asked a few times, but I need to quick and can't search a lot for info on the net. I would like to remove, say KDE and GNOME from a system with all the packages they come with, and would like to find a cmd-line option to emerge that spits out the packages depending on

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.0.99 block

2006-06-25 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Sunday 25 June 2006 23:08, krgn wrote: > thanks for your quick reply! I have double checked that I don't have > nvidia set in the VIDEO_CARDS section make.conf, so its a bit weird that > its pops up again. I also tried masking it, plus the older version of > xorg-server (1.0.99), but the block s

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.0.99 block

2006-06-25 Thread krgn
Hi, thanks for your quick reply! I have double checked that I don't have nvidia set in the VIDEO_CARDS section make.conf, so its a bit weird that its pops up again. I also tried masking it, plus the older version of xorg-server (1.0.99), but the block still comes up. any idea? karsten It m

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage weirdness...

2006-06-25 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Sunday 25 June 2006 22:22, Jürgen Pierau wrote: > 1. unmask the packages you masked > 2. emerge --unmerge pam-login > 3. emerge --oneshot shadow > 4. emerge --unmerge utempter > 5. emerge -avDu world > > IMPORTANT: Do NOT log out before step 3. If you logout after unmerging > pam-login you will

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.0.99 block

2006-06-25 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Sunday 25 June 2006 22:18, krgn wrote: > I have a strange blocker on emerge -Dup world: >[blocks B ] >=x11-base/xorg-server-1.0.99 (is blocking > media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.8762) > > neither nvidia-glx nor nvidia-kernel is installed on my system and my > current version of xorg-serve

[gentoo-user] Re: cups problem

2006-06-25 Thread Stefan Schweizer
Michael W. Holdeman wrote: > I am having trouble with cups, part of the problem seems to be I have > no /usr/lib/cups/backend/ipp > > Where do I get it? > > Mike /usr/lib/cups changed to /usr/libexec/cups in cups-1.2 you can find it in: ls /usr/libexec/cups/backend/ipp Regards, Stefan -- gent

Re: [gentoo-user] Why ity has to be so frustrating !!!

2006-06-25 Thread Rafael Fernández López
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: > Good afternoon list. > > I am trying now for 8 days to make nvidia RAID works on gentoo > systems; I pass trhought all stages, I had difficult make live cd > works, then after it works I have to use the hard way to make gr

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage weirdness...

2006-06-25 Thread Jürgen Pierau
Yann Garnier wrote: The second issue I experience is that I cannot update my system because I have 2 ebuilds that block the entire update. I've already seen this issue once and I found a solution by masking one of the blocking ebuild so I tried this time but the update cannot be done anyway.

Re: [gentoo-user] Null Modem Cables Between Windoze XP and Linux

2006-06-25 Thread Gerhard Hoogterp
On Sunday 25 June 2006 22:02, John J. Foster wrote: > On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 12:46:16PM -0700, Lord Sauron wrote: > > I have it on extremely good authority that it goes 2MB/sec. > > it's always a good thing to question authority. Well, the used protocol has to do with it too.. and what I remember

[gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.0.99 block

2006-06-25 Thread krgn
hi, I have a strange blocker on emerge -Dup world: [blocks B ] >=x11-base/xorg-server-1.0.99 (is blocking media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.8762) neither nvidia-glx nor nvidia-kernel is installed on my system and my current version of xorg-server is already 1.1.0-r1. Does anyone know why

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage weirdness...

2006-06-25 Thread Teresa and Dale
Yann Garnier wrote: > Dear gentooers, > > I have 2 strange portage behavior since I updated portage a few days ago. > > First, It seems portage cannot find server anymore to update the > portage tree. > Portage freezes (in fact it doesn't do anything) and says: Checking > server timestamp... > I c

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage weirdness...

2006-06-25 Thread Kristian Poul Herkild
Yann Garnier wrote: > Dear gentooers ...snip... > Calculating world dependencies ...... done! > [blocks B ] sys-apps/pam-login (is blocking sys-apps/shadow-4.0.15-r2) > [blocks B ] sys-apps/utempter (is blocking > sys-libs/libutempter-1.1.2.1) Unmerge pam-login and utempter and reemerg

Re: [gentoo-user] Null Modem Cables Between Windoze XP and Linux

2006-06-25 Thread John J. Foster
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 12:46:16PM -0700, Lord Sauron wrote: > I have it on extremely good authority that it goes 2MB/sec. > it's always a good thing to question authority. > I'll start looking for Kermit now. Thanks. > emerge -av kermit later, festus -- It is not unusual for those at the wr

[gentoo-user] Portage weirdness...

2006-06-25 Thread Yann Garnier
Dear gentooers, I have 2 strange portage behavior since I updated portage a few days ago. First, It seems portage cannot find server anymore to update the portage tree. Portage freezes (in fact it doesn't do anything) and says: Checking server timestamp... I can still update by using emerge-we

[gentoo-user] Why ity has to be so frustrating !!!

2006-06-25 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
Good afternoon list. I am trying now for 8 days to make nvidia RAID works on gentoo systems; I pass trhought all stages, I had difficult make live cd works, then after it works I have to use the hard way to make grub install after all that I thought it was every thing cool and I would be allo

Re: [gentoo-user] Null Modem Cables Between Windoze XP and Linux

2006-06-25 Thread Lord Sauron
On 6/25/06, Josh Helmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Saturday 24 June 2006 12:49 pm, Lord Sauron wrote: > I honestly am harbouring delusions of using the faster null modem > stuff to directly sync my laptop with a future Linux CVS/Web server, > so that I can have a update of the whole smash in m

Re: [gentoo-user] file system problems - what is proper maintanence?

2006-06-25 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Mark Knecht wrote: > Is it the case that the journal is only used to repair the disk > when fsck is run? No, it's more like either/or. With an unjournaled file system, it is fsck that checks everything and repairs inconsistencies. With a journaled file system, the journal is used to complete t

Re: [gentoo-user] file system problems - what is proper maintanence?

2006-06-25 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Sunday 25 June 2006 02:57, Mark Knecht wrote: > That said, I seem to have file system problems on my external 1394 > hard drives. I do not know if this is due to a recent move to > 2.6.17-rt1, or bad maintenance on my part, or just bad luck. You might want to have a look at smartmontools: http

[gentoo-user] Encryption in Kopete

2006-06-25 Thread Mick
Hi All, I am not sure what I am doing wrong. I go to configure Plugins in Kopete and under the Kryptography plugin the entry "Your private PGP key" is greyed out. Clicking on the select buttons brings up a lovely empty window titled "Private Key List - Kopete: Choose secret key". The list is u

Re: [gentoo-user] file system problems - what is proper maintanence?

2006-06-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/25/06, Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: >I seem to have file system problems on my external > 1394 hard drives. I do not know if this is due to a recent move > to 2.6.17-rt1, or bad maintenance on my part, or just bad luck. Hopefully just bad luck (a faili

Re: [gentoo-user] xfce config

2006-06-25 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
It also stores things in ~/.config directory. On Sunday June 25 2006 10:42, Jeremy Olexa wrote: > Tamas Sarga wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Where xfce stores the user settings? > > One of my users can use xfce without any problems, but the other... When > > any application starts, xfwm segfaults. I delet

Re: [gentoo-user] graphical ssh-enabled file system browser?

2006-06-25 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Sunday 25 June 2006 02:15, Mark Knecht wrote: > 3) Assuming this is 'fish://'' It is definitely not! Fish is a kioslave for KDE [1]. It enables *all* KDE applications to access and browse through ssh as were the files local. "All KDE applications" include the file managers (konqueror and krus

Re: [gentoo-user] graphical ssh-enabled file system browser?

2006-06-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 05:15:21PM -0700, Penguin Lover Mark Knecht squawked: > Hi & thanks to all who answered, > A few comments/responses: > > 1) We do not run KDE. > How'bout good ole midnight commander? emerge -s mc if you compile it with USE="X" for X11 support, and run it inside an xt

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer is slow in xfce but Ok in other X

2006-06-25 Thread Jeremy Olexa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chuanwen Wu wrote: > Hi everybody! > My mplayer in gnome is OK! But after i switch to xfce4.39,everytime i > start it ,it will take me 1~2minutes,and can't do anything until it's > OK! > Is there anybody else having the same problem? I use xfce4 and h

[gentoo-user] mplayer is slow in xfce but Ok in other X

2006-06-25 Thread Chuanwen Wu
Hi everybody! My mplayer in gnome is OK! But after i switch to xfce4.39,everytime i start it ,it will take me 1~2minutes,and can't do anything until it's OK! Is there anybody else having the same problem? -- wcw -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Help with nvidia fake raid.

2006-06-25 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
Hi, I had tried with kernel 2.6.15 .. it appears to have pass the point before but it freeses ker initialization saying that it can´t find /linuxrc and /bin/bash. any clues ? if I use genkernel I had a kernel panic thanks for attention. Allan On 6/22/06, Robert Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering kalarm data

2006-06-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/25/06, Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > Killing *all* kalarm* processes required root priv. You've apparently been logged in to KDE as root once, or done other weird stuff as root. You may wish to look through /root/.kde* for things to salvage, and then

Re: [gentoo-user] xfce config

2006-06-25 Thread Jeremy Olexa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tamas Sarga wrote: > Hi, > > Where xfce stores the user settings? > One of my users can use xfce without any problems, but the other... When > any application starts, xfwm segfaults. I deleted ~/.config/xfce4, but > this doesn't help. > What can I do?

Re: [gentoo-user] scanner hotplug permissions torture

2006-06-25 Thread Robert Persson
I found a solution and I have posted it at http://gentoo-wiki.com/Talk:HOWTO_Install_a_USB_scanner#.22The_above_udev_rules_are_wrong..22. If anybody who knows their hotplug and udev stuff better than I do could take it upon themselves to correct the usb scanner howto itself (http://gentoo-wiki.com

Re: [gentoo-user] no compiler cache

2006-06-25 Thread Jeremy Olexa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Justin R Findlay wrote: > On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 12:26:03AM -0500, Jeremy Olexa wrote: >> Looks like there is files in the cache to me. =) > > Yeah, but I would expect more than 2.2 Mib of data in the cache after an > 'emerge -e world' and at least s

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI XPress 200m - direct rendering don't work

2006-06-25 Thread Rudson Ribeiro Alves
Hi again, I have set Power Manangement --> Legacy Power Management and Device Drivers --> Memory Technology Devices (MTD) ---> NAND Flash Device Drivers --> DiskOnChip 2000, Millennium and Millennium Plus to define inter_module_register, inter_modules... After this, ati-drivers compiler wit

[gentoo-user] scanner hotplug permissions torture

2006-06-25 Thread Robert Persson
I have just acquired an Epson 1660 Photo scanner and I am having real trouble setting the permissions. Unfortunately I haven't been able to find a howto that explains clearly how you are supposed to get permissions sorted out using hotplug with more recent 2.6 kernels. There's something about a sc

[gentoo-user] xfce config

2006-06-25 Thread Tamas Sarga
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Where xfce stores the user settings? One of my users can use xfce without any problems, but the other... When any application starts, xfwm segfaults. I deleted ~/.config/xfce4, but this doesn't help. What can I do? TIA. Tamas Sarga -BEGIN PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] file system problems - what is proper maintanence?

2006-06-25 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Mark Knecht wrote: >I seem to have file system problems on my external > 1394 hard drives. I do not know if this is due to a recent move > to 2.6.17-rt1, or bad maintenance on my part, or just bad luck. Hopefully just bad luck (a failing drive, or a power hickup), but a kernel bug can't be ru

[gentoo-user] SOLVED] Re: kernel compilation problem [panic: not syncing VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknows-block(0,0)

2006-06-25 Thread Catalin Trifu
Hi, Actually the sata_nv was not compiled directly in the kernel, was a module Sorry for the trouble Catalin Catalin Trifu wrote: > Hi, > > > I have just got a new machine with nForce4 chipset and 250GB SATA drive. > I am trying to compile the kernel on the machine (g

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering kalarm data

2006-06-25 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > Killing *all* kalarm* processes required root priv. You've apparently been logged in to KDE as root once, or done other weird stuff as root. You may wish to look through /root/.kde* for things to salvage, and then delete it all. And look through ~/.kde for files with r

Re: [gentoo-user] graphical ssh-enabled file system browser?

2006-06-25 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Sunday 25 June 2006 02:15, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi & thanks to all who answered, >A few comments/responses: > > 1) We do not run KDE. No need for that; I believe thare are many graphical client that can do what you need (see below). > 2) Some of the machines have Gnome but none of us lik

[gentoo-user] kernel compilation problem [panic: not syncing VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknows-block(0,0)

2006-06-25 Thread Catalin Trifu
Hi, I have just got a new machine with nForce4 chipset and 250GB SATA drive. I am trying to compile the kernel on the machine (gentoo-sources) and it works just fine but at boot time I get the panic in the subject and I don't get it why. I have compiled sata_nv directly in the kernel.

[gentoo-user] wtf do all the Layout Options mean in gnome keyboard preferences?

2006-06-25 Thread Robert Persson
I want to be able to use an international keyboard layout in X. Something like the Apple U.S. layout would be really nice, but the U.S. English Alternative International would do me fine for the moment. The trouble is that I don't know how to get at all those extra characters and diacritics. The G

Re: [gentoo-user] running fetchmail/procmail as a service

2006-06-25 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
Le 25 juin à 08:18:20 Robert Persson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> écrit notamment: | Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: | > Le 21 juin à 00:42:33 Robert Persson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> écrit notamment: | > | > | I want to run fetchmail as a service and I am confused about how | > this works. I | simply want to have

Re: [gentoo-user] test feature in portage

2006-06-25 Thread Rumen Yotov
Tamas Sarga wrote: > Michael Weyershäuser wrote: >>> Tamas Sarga wrote: > Hi, > > I set test feature in portage, but I don't know what can I win. I lost > some minutes when compiled glibc, but what is the pro of this feature. > I've got never any problem with successful compiles

Re: [gentoo-user] For the benefit of John Laremore

2006-06-25 Thread Tamas Sarga
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Teresa and Dale wrote: > Richard Fish wrote: > >> On 5/30/06, Teresa and Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> I was wondering about that. I have noticed that others do that >>> sometimes too. That made me wonder about his too. >> >> I'm a gmail us

Re: [gentoo-user] test feature in portage

2006-06-25 Thread Tamas Sarga
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Weyershäuser wrote: > Tamas Sarga wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I set test feature in portage, but I don't know what can I win. I lost >>> some minutes when compiled glibc, but what is the pro of this feature. >>> I've got never any problem with succe

Re: [gentoo-user] courier-authlib libpam undefined symbol problem

2006-06-25 Thread Robert Persson
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 06:54:47 +0100 (BST), Robert Persson wrote: Jun 23 22:16:53 zebedee authdaemond: /lib/libpam.so.0: undefined symbol: courier_pam_init I have tried re-emerging courier-authlib and pam, but this has not worked. What else should I do? Have you ru

Re: [gentoo-user] Twin monitor setup (Not strictly Gentoo I know)

2006-06-25 Thread Mick
On 23/06/06, Troy Curtis Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't typically use the Xorg -configure option (I use vi!), but doesn't it create a temporary xorg.conf file in root's home directory so that you can test it? If it works then I would copy it from /root/xorg.conf (if it is there) to /etc/X

Re: [gentoo-user] running fetchmail/procmail as a service

2006-06-25 Thread Robert Persson
Robert Persson wrote: I'm not panicked about this any more because I have decided to use the relatively painless webmin to configure the ~/.fetchmailrc's and schedule cron jobs. even though it isn't exactly what I wanted. That said, if anyone knows what I should have done to get the fetchmail

Re: [gentoo-user] Null Modem Cables Between Windoze XP and Linux

2006-06-25 Thread Josh Helmer
On Saturday 24 June 2006 12:49 pm, Lord Sauron wrote: > I honestly am harbouring delusions of using the faster null modem > stuff to directly sync my laptop with a future Linux CVS/Web server, > so that I can have a update of the whole smash in my laptop once a > day, rather than waiting for a slow

Re: [gentoo-user] New java-config package with no java installed?

2006-06-25 Thread Mick
On 25/06/06, Rumen Yotov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Alexander Skwar wrote: [snip . . . ] > On the other hand, he has set USE=-java for libidn (at least), so > why is it pulling in java-config? It doesn't make much sense, does > it? In the libidn ebuild, I find: I suspect that it has something