Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Again - problem on installing Gentoo (Solved, X window now started)

2006-09-09 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Neil, # ls -l /dev/vg /dev/mapper ls: /dev/vg: no such file or directory /dev/mapper: total 0 crw-rw 1 root root control # ls -l /dev | grep vg no printout # vgchange -a y -bash: vgchange: command not found That's because you haven't installed lvm2, emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf problem

2006-09-09 Thread Dale
Colleen Beamer wrote: Okay, I give. I'm having a problem with configuring xorg. I *do* have a basic configuration, but can't run some applications in full screen mode and I surmise this is because something isn't set properly in xorg.conf I ran Xorg -configure and it did give me a basic

[gentoo-user] gcc-4.1.1 and realplayer-10.0.7

2006-09-09 Thread Peter
It appears that the realplayer binary still requires libstdc++.so.5 which is provided by libstdc++-v3-3.3.4. So despite the fact that this library may not be needed for recompiled c++ apps, binary ones like this may still require the old library :( ldd realplay.bin ... libstdc++.so.5 = not found

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf problem

2006-09-09 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi folks, I can't find an xorg.conf.example file I just finished installing X window server. # X -config /root/xorg.conf.new created a working xorg.conf for me. I don't need xorg.conf.example. Then; # cp /root/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf That is all. Some minor adjustment has to be

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf problem

2006-09-09 Thread Dale
Stephen Liu wrote: Hi folks, I can't find an xorg.conf.example file I just finished installing X window server. # X -config /root/xorg.conf.new created a working xorg.conf for me. I don't need xorg.conf.example. Then; # cp /root/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf That is

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf problem

2006-09-09 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Dale, I recall having to work a bit to get it to see my mouse too. X will not start without the little rat being found. Mine is: OptionDevice /dev/input/mouse0 The above line works for me too. OR /dev/input/mice also works here. On the document mentioned by me

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge new package for no reason??

2006-09-09 Thread Mick
On Saturday 09 September 2006 03:41, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Saturday 09 September 2006 04:25, Dale wrote: Yea, I know about aim being gone.  My wife uses this once in a blue moon and she !HAS! to have aim. Can't she use Gaim, Kopete, etc. - or is the GUI important for her? Well, if

[gentoo-user] openLDAp with postfix and courier-imap

2006-09-09 Thread bijayant kumar
Hi, I have installed openLDAP server and openLDAp client on different machines. And it is working fine. Now, i have to use openLDAP with postfix and courier-imap. I want to ask, what are the packages i will have to install on the server and clients. Which configuration files i have to configure. I

[gentoo-user] Problem on installing Gnome (gnome-light)

2006-09-09 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi folks, I followed The GNOME Configuration HOWTO http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gnome-config.xml installing Gnome. Steps writen there went though w/o problem until upto; Code Listing 2.7: Adding hald and avahi-dnsconfd to the default runlevel On running; # /etc/init.d/hald start I failed to

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf problem

2006-09-09 Thread Mick
On Saturday 09 September 2006 08:30, Stephen Liu wrote: Mine is: OptionDevice /dev/input/mouse0 The above line works for me too. OR /dev/input/mice also works here. X will *always* fail to correctly detect my mice on most of the boxen that I have configured so far. Option

[gentoo-user] missing profile files: how did that happen? what do i do?

2006-09-09 Thread michael
here's an odd situation: I finished upgrading to GCC4 and decided to switch my profile to 2006.1. instructions say: rm /etc/make.profile ln -s ../usr/portage/profiles/2006.1 /etc/make.profile well the .. is a little odd but not a big problem. I have /usr/portage/profiles, but no 2006.1

Re: [gentoo-user] missing profile files: how did that happen? what do i do?

2006-09-09 Thread Dale
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: here's an odd situation: I finished upgrading to GCC4 and decided to switch my profile to 2006.1. instructions say: rm /etc/make.profile ln -s ../usr/portage/profiles/2006.1 /etc/make.profile well the .. is a little odd but not a big problem. I have

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge new package for no reason??

2006-09-09 Thread Mick
On Saturday 09 September 2006 09:09, Dale wrote: She's a windoze person. Before we met, she didn't even know Linux existed. After seeing mine run 24/7 for several months without a reboot, or more importantly a crash, she's warming up. Her XP box crashed twice so far. I rescued her data

Re: [gentoo-user] missing profile files: how did that happen? what do i do?

2006-09-09 Thread Mick
On Saturday 09 September 2006 09:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: here's an odd situation: I finished upgrading to GCC4 and decided to switch my profile to 2006.1. instructions say: rm /etc/make.profile ln -s ../usr/portage/profiles/2006.1 /etc/make.profile well the .. is a little odd but

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge new package for no reason??

2006-09-09 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: On Saturday 09 September 2006 09:09, Dale wrote: My wife's a M$Windoze Certified Engineer (what a ridiculous concept!). One of the first things I do when I secure Windoze is to remove Outlook Express and Windows Instant Messenger from the default installation. So, to keep

[gentoo-user] OT: gkrellm ??? Only as daemon ???

2006-09-09 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
Hi, I treid to find the correct name of the package, which I can use to install the gkrellm apllikation (not the daemon). emerge gkrellm installs gekrellmd only. Hmmm...what should I emerge instead. In the list of all gekrellm* I only found addons additionally. Am I blind or...?

[gentoo-user] Killing CAPS-LOCK

2006-09-09 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
Hi, how can I kill the CAPS LOCK key ? I really have had enough from this ancient typewriter (dis)functionality!!! Thank you very much for any help in killing CAPS LOCK in advance! hAVE A NICE WEEKEND! mEINO -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] openLDAp with postfix and courier-imap

2006-09-09 Thread bijayant kumar
Hi, I want to configure postfix and courier-imap on openLDAP. I have already configured the openLDAP server and clients. Please help me, how can i achieve this. I have no clue. Please guide me, any document or any other help. I will be very thankful to you all.Thanks and RegardsBijayant Kumar Send

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf problem

2006-09-09 Thread Matthias Langer
On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 23:53 -0500, Colleen Beamer wrote: Okay, I give. I'm having a problem with configuring xorg. I *do* have a basic configuration, but can't run some applications in full screen mode and I surmise this is because something isn't set properly in xorg.conf I ran Xorg

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: gkrellm ??? Only as daemon ???

2006-09-09 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
From: Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: gkrellm ??? Only as daemon ??? Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 05:11:53 -0500 Meino Christian Cramer wrote: Hi, I treid to find the correct name of the package, which I can use to install the gkrellm apllikation (not the daemon).

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf problem

2006-09-09 Thread Matthias Langer
On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 23:53 -0500, Colleen Beamer wrote: Okay, I give. I'm having a problem with configuring xorg. I *do* have a basic configuration, but can't run some applications in full screen mode and I surmise this is because something isn't set properly in xorg.conf I ran Xorg

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: gkrellm ??? Only as daemon ???

2006-09-09 Thread darren kirby
/usr/bin/gkrellmd Odd. On my system: $ locate gkrellm | grep bin /usr/bin/gkrellm2 /usr/bin/gkrellmd $ epm -qf /usr/bin/gkrellm2 gkrellm-2.2.5 Maybe you need 'X' USE flag set? In any event, 'gkrellm2' is what you are looking for... -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 ::

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: gkrellm ??? Only as daemon ???

2006-09-09 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
From: Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: gkrellm ??? Only as daemon ??? Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 05:11:53 -0500 Ok, found the bug ... it was sitting right in front of my monitor! ;) Keep hacking! mcc Meino Christian Cramer wrote: Hi, I treid to find the correct name

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: gkrellm ??? Only as daemon ???

2006-09-09 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
From: darren kirby [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: gkrellm ??? Only as daemon ??? Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 03:36:23 -0700 Yes, I was the a fault of the person sitting in front of my monitor most of the time. This person signs his mails with M.E. :) keep

Re: [gentoo-user] Emacs - (I think [the]) Fonts [are] Broken

2006-09-09 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Lord Sauron: snip What should I do to fix Emacs? I hear it's a very powerful and useful editor, and I would like to learn to use it (vi and/or its many variants is next on my list, so no emacs vs. vi wars please) so any assistance would be very helpful. This is but a taste of the

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc-4.1.1 and realplayer-10.0.7

2006-09-09 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Peter: It appears that the realplayer binary still requires libstdc++.so.5 which is provided by libstdc++-v3-3.3.4. So despite the fact that this library may not be needed for recompiled c++ apps, binary ones like this may still require the old library :( ldd realplay.bin ...

[gentoo-user] Re: gcc-4.1.1 and realplayer-10.0.7

2006-09-09 Thread Peter
On Sat, 09 Sep 2006 03:51:07 -0700, darren kirby wrote: quoth the Peter: It appears that the realplayer binary still requires libstdc++.so.5 which is provided by libstdc++-v3-3.3.4. So despite the fact that this library may not be needed for recompiled c++ apps, binary ones like this may

[gentoo-user] Are these packages safe to unmerge?

2006-09-09 Thread Mick
Hi All, Just ran depclean and the following candicates are shown: === Calculating dependencies... done! These are the packages that would be unmerged: dev-perl/Archive-Zip selected: 1.16 protected: none omitted: none dev-util/cvs selected:

[gentoo-user] qca-tls-1.0-r2 failed to emerge

2006-09-09 Thread Mick
Openssl-0.9.8c came up with this message so I started a revdep-rebuild, but it soon failed like is shown further below: openssl-0.9.8c * You must re-compile all packages that are linked against * OpenSSL 0.9.7 by using revdep-rebuild from

[gentoo-user] make.profile directory in /etc. not symlink

2006-09-09 Thread Peter
Today, I decided to upgrade to the latest profile, and found to my surprise a directory called make.profile in /etc, not a symlink to a profile directory. In it were the usual profile files. My question is, were there ever instructions about creating a make.profile directory in lieu of creating a

Re: [gentoo-user] Why you use Gentoo

2006-09-09 Thread Rodrigo Lazo
[user] Portage Handbook, it dragged me out of the dull and darkness that I was living in and because... it works!! 99% of the times it didn't work was because of me. -- Rodrigo Lazo (rlazo) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: qca-tls-1.0-r2 failed to emerge

2006-09-09 Thread Peter
On Sat, 09 Sep 2006 13:38:16 +0100, Mick wrote: for now, you need 1.0-r3 and must add ~arch to your package.keywords for it. -- Peter + Do not reply to this email, it is a spam trap and not monitored. I can be reached via this list, or via jabber: pete4abw at jabber.org ICQ: 73676357 --

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf problem

2006-09-09 Thread Colleen Beamer
Thanks to all who have replied, but my problem *is not* with my mouse. I went through that issue the very first time I installed Gentoo and know that I have to change it to /dev/psaux. I can boot into kde. However ... 1) I can't view some things in full screen. For instance, I play the game

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf problem

2006-09-09 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Saturday 9 September 2006 15:14, Colleen Beamer wrote: I've tried following the X Server Configuration HOW-TO, but no where in that is there something that corresponds to this: SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 EndSubSection I understand what the 24 means,

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf problem

2006-09-09 Thread Jeff Grant
Colleen Beamer wrote: Thanks to all who have replied, but my problem *is not* with my mouse. I went through that issue the very first time I installed Gentoo and know that I have to change it to /dev/psaux. I can boot into kde. However ... As root: $ emerge -av app-admin/eselect-opengl

[gentoo-user] Re: make.profile directory in /etc. not symlink

2006-09-09 Thread Harm Geerts
On Saturday 09 September 2006 14:42, Peter wrote: Today, I decided to upgrade to the latest profile, and found to my surprise a directory called make.profile in /etc, not a symlink to a profile directory. In it were the usual profile files. My question is, were there ever instructions about

[gentoo-user] Annulation of modified USE flag settings

2006-09-09 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
Hi, I want to say to emerge/ebuild:Please use the original USE flags from make.conf and the ebuild-stuff. Ignore whatever I gave you on the commandline some time ago. How can I achieve this ? Thanks a lot for any hjelp in advance! keep hacking! mcc -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] Annulation of modified USE flag settings

2006-09-09 Thread Boris Fersing
2006/9/9, Meino Christian Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I want to say to emerge/ebuild:Please use the original USE flags from make.conf and the ebuild-stuff. Ignore whatever I gave you on the commandline some time ago. How can I achieve this ? Thanks a lot for any hjelp in advance! Hi,

[gentoo-user] Re: Are these packages safe to unmerge?

2006-09-09 Thread Peter
On Sat, 09 Sep 2006 12:41:14 +0100, Mick wrote: Hi All, Just ran depclean and the following candicates are shown: === Calculating dependencies... done! These are the packages that would be unmerged: dev-perl/Archive-Zip selected: 1.16

[gentoo-user] Re: make.profile directory in /etc. not symlink

2006-09-09 Thread Peter
On Sat, 09 Sep 2006 16:00:59 +0200, Harm Geerts wrote: snip... I remember a document where this was the procedure to set a profile. I remember it because I found it odd it didn't use a symlink to set the profile. I haven't been able to find this document, but I know it existed at some

Re: [gentoo-user] Annulation of modified USE flag settings

2006-09-09 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Meino Christian Cramer: Hi, I want to say to emerge/ebuild:Please use the original USE flags from make.conf and the ebuild-stuff. Ignore whatever I gave you on the commandline some time ago. How can I achieve this ? If I understand you correctly, you don't have to worry, just

Re: [gentoo-user] Annulation of modified USE flag settings

2006-09-09 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
From: Boris Fersing [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Annulation of modified USE flag settings Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 16:17:18 +0200 2006/9/9, Meino Christian Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I want to say to emerge/ebuild:Please use the original USE flags from make.conf and the

Re: [gentoo-user] Annulation of modified USE flag settings

2006-09-09 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
From: darren kirby [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Annulation of modified USE flag settings Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 07:41:06 -0700 quoth the Meino Christian Cramer: Hi, I want to say to emerge/ebuild:Please use the original USE flags from make.conf and the ebuild-stuff.

[gentoo-user] 2006.1 installation fails on intels 965 chipset based moderboard

2006-09-09 Thread Nadav Horesh
I got a core duo machine with an intel motherboard with the 965 chip set. There is a sata HD and ide DVD. The installation disk fails to boot since the jernel does not recognize the dvd. I tried the following bios configurations:* switch between ahci and ide* switch between legacy and advanced

[gentoo-user] Re: Annulation of modified USE flag settings

2006-09-09 Thread Stefan Wimmer
* Meino Christian Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-09-09 14:03] : Hi, I want to say to emerge/ebuild:Please use the original USE flags from make.conf and the ebuild-stuff. Ignore whatever I gave you on the commandline some time ago. How can I achieve this ? Thanks a lot for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: qca-tls-1.0-r2 failed to emerge

2006-09-09 Thread Mick
On Saturday 09 September 2006 12:56, Peter wrote: On Sat, 09 Sep 2006 13:38:16 +0100, Mick wrote: for now, you need 1.0-r3 and must add ~arch to your package.keywords for it. Thanks! :) -- Regards, Mick pgp7bxhYzkqCZ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf problem

2006-09-09 Thread Mick
On Saturday 09 September 2006 13:14, Colleen Beamer wrote: Thanks to all who have replied, but my problem *is not* with my mouse. I went through that issue the very first time I installed Gentoo and know that I have to change it to /dev/psaux. Sorry, I only mentioned the mouse because it has

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Annulation of modified USE flag settings

2006-09-09 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
From: Stefan Wimmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Annulation of modified USE flag settings Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 15:05:15 + (UTC) * Meino Christian Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-09-09 14:03] : Hi, I want to say to emerge/ebuild:Please use the original USE flags

Re: [gentoo-user] missing profile files: how did that happen? what do i do?

2006-09-09 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Saturday 09 September 2006 10:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: here's an odd situation: I finished upgrading to GCC4 and decided to switch my profile to 2006.1. instructions say: rm /etc/make.profile ln -s ../usr/portage/profiles/2006.1 /etc/make.profile Others have told you the correct

[gentoo-user] Re: Annulation of modified USE flag settings

2006-09-09 Thread Stefan Wimmer
* Meino Christian Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-09-09 15:35] : [...] [ebuild R ] systools/meino-0.08 USE=confused* -understanding_at_all mcc Time to take a cup of coffee/tea and read this http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2

Re: [gentoo-user] qca-tls-1.0-r2 failed to emerge

2006-09-09 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Saturday 09 September 2006 14:38, Mick wrote: Openssl-0.9.8c came up with this message so I started a revdep-rebuild, but it soon failed like is shown further below: openssl-0.9.8c [SNIP] !!! ERROR: app-crypt/qca-tls-1.0-r2 failed. Call stack:

Re: [gentoo-user] Annulation of modified USE flag settings

2006-09-09 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Saturday 09 September 2006 16:43, Meino Christian Cramer wrote:  OK, I did an export USE=X; emerg cairo  ...and forgot to unset USE  afterwards. # unset USE # emerge -vNDp world -- Bo Andresen pgpEQE3o5pvhI.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Annulation of modified USE flag settings

2006-09-09 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
From: Stefan Wimmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Annulation of modified USE flag settings Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 15:45:19 + (UTC) * Meino Christian Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-09-09 15:35] : [...] [ebuild R ] systools/meino-0.08 USE=confused* -understanding_at_all

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Annulation of modified USE flag settings

2006-09-09 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Saturday 09 September 2006 17:58, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: In the doc, which link you mentioned firs there is in Listing 5 mentioned: USE=-java emerge mozilla ...a previous mail mentioned, that is a bad thing to do. ? Still slightly confused, Instead do: # echo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Annulation of modified USE flag settings

2006-09-09 Thread Boris Fersing
2006/9/9, Meino Christian Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: From: Stefan Wimmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Annulation of modified USE flag settings Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 15:45:19 + (UTC) * Meino Christian Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-09-09 15:35] : [...] [ebuild R ]

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem on installing Gnome (gnome-light)

2006-09-09 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Saturday 09 September 2006 10:05, Stephen Liu wrote: I followed The GNOME Configuration HOWTO http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gnome-config.xml [SNIP] Please advise; 1) Do I need to reinstall Gnome? (remark: installed gnome-light) If YES how to remove Gnome, the unfinished package? Did you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Annulation of modified USE flag settings

2006-09-09 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
From: Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Annulation of modified USE flag settings Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 18:03:48 +0200 On Saturday 09 September 2006 17:58, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: In the doc, which link you mentioned firs there is in Listing 5

[gentoo-user] DVD playback slow

2006-09-09 Thread Grant
My DVD playback is pretty bad. I'm using mplayer and if I use -framedrop it's watchable but the dropped frames are very noticable. If I don't use -framedrop the audio and video is way out of sync and the playback actually stops after a short time. I asked the mplayer list about this and one

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Annulation of modified USE flag settings

2006-09-09 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Saturday 09 September 2006 18:21, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: On Saturday 09 September 2006 17:58, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: In the doc, which link you mentioned firs there is in Listing 5 mentioned: USE=-java emerge mozilla [SNIP] Instead do: # echo

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf problem

2006-09-09 Thread Colleen Beamer
Hi, Mick wrote: On Saturday 09 September 2006 13:14, Colleen Beamer wrote: Thanks to all who have replied, but my problem *is not* with my mouse. I went through that issue the very first time I installed Gentoo and know that I have to change it to /dev/psaux. Sorry, I only mentioned the

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf problem

2006-09-09 Thread Hervé
On my graphic card there are 3 ports : DVI, VGA, TV. I use an LCD monitor on 1280x1024 resolution with this config : Section Monitor Identifier monitor0 HorizSync 30-82 VertRefresh 50-85 EndSection Section Device Identifier ATI_VE_7000 Driver radeon Option

[gentoo-user] changing CHOST

2006-09-09 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
Hi folks: In the course of learning gentoo, I managed to create several systems using the wrong stage 3 tarballs (or something) They all have a CHOST setting of i386 Should I change this? What benefits will it bring me, and How do I do it? As I understand it, I change the chost, and then

Re: [gentoo-user] changing CHOST

2006-09-09 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Saturday 09 September 2006 18:54, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: Hi folks: [SNIP] Replying to another thread and changed the subject like this is referred to as hijacking a thread. Please don't do that. Instead post a new email to this list with the new subject. New mail rather than reply...

Re: [gentoo-user] package removed from portage question

2006-09-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On 9/8/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 8 Sep 2006 13:36:57 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Why can't the ebuild be left on my machine in some location so that the machine remains unaltered until I decide it's worth dealing with? The ebuild is on your machine, in

Re: [gentoo-user] Annulation of modified USE flag settings

2006-09-09 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 09 September 2006 16:03, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: Hi, I want to say to emerge/ebuild:Please use the original USE flags from make.conf and the ebuild-stuff. Ignore whatever I gave you on the commandline some time ago. How can I achieve this ? emerge whatever ;-) Well, if you

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf problem

2006-09-09 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 09 Sep 2006 11:40:11 -0500 Colleen Beamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mick wrote: Viewport refers to your virtual screen which is larger than the physical monitor screen. Placing the cursor at the edge of the monitors scrolls the screen in that direction, until the edge of the

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf problem

2006-09-09 Thread Mick
On Saturday 09 September 2006 16:40, Colleen Beamer wrote: This is part of my xorg.conf in case it helps: === Section Monitor DisplaySize 336 269 # 96 DPI @ 1280x1024 Identifier Monitor0 VendorName NEC ModelName

Re: [gentoo-user] changing CHOST

2006-09-09 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Timothy A. Holmes: Hi folks: In the course of learning gentoo, I managed to create several systems using the wrong stage 3 tarballs (or something) They all have a CHOST setting of i386 Should I change this? What benefits will it bring me, and Depends on your type of processor.

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf problem

2006-09-09 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi (again), On Sat, 09 Sep 2006 08:14:47 -0500 Colleen Beamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) I can't view some things in full screen. For instance, I play the game Blobwars and if I try to set it to use full screen mode, the game shows in the middle of the screen, the same size as it was when

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf problem

2006-09-09 Thread Jan-Hendrik Zab
On Sat, 9 Sep 2006 18:38:26 + Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 09 September 2006 16:40, Colleen Beamer wrote: This is part of my xorg.conf in case it helps: === Section Monitor DisplaySize 336 269 # 96 DPI @ 1280x1024

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf problem

2006-09-09 Thread Mick
On Saturday 09 September 2006 18:16, Jan-Hendrik Zab wrote: Hey, just for the record. IMHO it is a lot easier to set the DPI per ~/.Xdefaults with 'Xft.dpi: 96'. Or by starting the X Server with '-dpi 96'. Especially when you want to try some specific DPI value. Cool! I didn't know

[gentoo-user] OT The Real Darkside...

2006-09-09 Thread Jerry McBride
My son, all of thirteen years old, the master of all he surveys, the supreme keeper of all knowledge of the known and unknown universes, the pinultimate ruler of mankind... Has asked me to put Linux on his desktop computer... It seems he has become weary of maintaining/re-installed his beloved

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: gkrellm ??? Only as daemon ???

2006-09-09 Thread Dale
Meino Christian Cramer wrote: From: Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: gkrellm ??? Only as daemon ??? Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 11:28:59 +0100 On Saturday 09 September 2006 10:52, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: Hi, I treid to find the correct name of the

Re: [gentoo-user] OT The Real Darkside...

2006-09-09 Thread Mick
On Saturday 09 September 2006 20:03, Jerry McBride wrote: My son, all of thirteen years old, the master of all he surveys, the supreme keeper of all knowledge of the known and unknown universes, the pinultimate ruler of mankind... Has asked me to put Linux on his desktop computer... It seems

Re: [gentoo-user] 2006.1 installation fails on intels 965 chipset basedmoderboard

2006-09-09 Thread millerhe1
The old knoppix installl comes to mind. Sent via BlackBerry from Cingular Wireless -Original Message- From: Nadav Horesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 15:01:33 To:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] 2006.1 installation fails on intels 965 chipset based

[gentoo-user] mc-4.6.1 not showing graphical characters in terminal

2006-09-09 Thread Peter
After 1) upgrade to gcc 4.1.1 2) upgrade to profile 2006.1 3) revdep-rebuild recompile for libstdc++ and for new profile uses (which included mc) Now, issuing mc at a terminal prompt (not inside X) shows no border characters. Does this have something to do with unicode support? The only way I can

Re: [gentoo-user] OT The Real Darkside...

2006-09-09 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Saturday 9 September 2006 22:12, Daniel Waeber wrote: Although she promised that when the NTFS drivers for Linux are developed adequately to allow her to work on her NTFS stored data from both OS, she will make an effort to migrate. Let's see . . . hey, that's now Have a look at the

Re: [gentoo-user] Are these packages safe to unmerge?

2006-09-09 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mick wrote: Hi All, Just ran depclean and the following candicates are shown: [snip] Is it safe to remove them? Historically, depclean behavior has been far from ideal in many cases. However, portage-2.1.1 (final version released yesterday) has

Re: [gentoo-user] OT The Real Darkside...

2006-09-09 Thread Jeff Grant
Jerry McBride wrote: My son, all of thirteen years old, the master of all he surveys, the supreme keeper of all knowledge of the known and unknown universes, the pinultimate ruler of mankind... Has asked me to put Linux on his desktop computer... It seems he has become weary of

[gentoo-user] etc-update: what's the meaning of using_editor setting?

2006-09-09 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hello! In /etc/etc-update.conf, there's the using_editor= (with 0 and 1, for false and true) setting. What's that supposed to mean? What does it do? When should it be set to 1 (true) and when to 0? What's an editor? Or, more directly, I'd like to use meld as the diff_command tool - do I need to

[gentoo-user] Re: mc-4.6.1 not showing graphical characters in terminal

2006-09-09 Thread Stefan Wimmer
* Jarry [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-09-09 21:01] : Peter wrote: After 1) upgrade to gcc 4.1.1 2) upgrade to profile 2006.1 3) revdep-rebuild recompile for libstdc++ and for new profile uses (which included mc) Now, issuing mc at a terminal prompt (not inside X) shows no border

Re: [gentoo-user] mc-4.6.1 not showing graphical characters in terminal

2006-09-09 Thread Jerry McBride
On Saturday 09 September 2006 16:02, Peter wrote: After 1) upgrade to gcc 4.1.1 2) upgrade to profile 2006.1 3) revdep-rebuild recompile for libstdc++ and for new profile uses (which included mc) Now, issuing mc at a terminal prompt (not inside X) shows no border characters. Does this have

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf problem

2006-09-09 Thread Colleen Beamer
Hi Guys, Thank you *so* much for your patience and your help! Hervé wrote: On my graphic card there are 3 ports : DVI, VGA, TV. I use an LCD monitor on 1280x1024 resolution with this config : Section Monitor Identifier monitor0 HorizSync 30-82 VertRefresh 50-85

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update: what's the meaning of using_editor setting?

2006-09-09 Thread Justin Findlay
On AD 2006 September 09 Saturday 11:06:21 PM +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: Hello! In /etc/etc-update.conf, there's the using_editor= (with 0 and 1, for false and true) setting. What's that supposed to mean? What does it do? When should it be set to 1 (true) and when to 0? What's an

[gentoo-user] Re: mc-4.6.1 not showing graphical characters in terminal

2006-09-09 Thread Peter
On Sat, 09 Sep 2006 17:55:35 -0400, Jerry McBride wrote: On Saturday 09 September 2006 16:02, Peter wrote: After 1) upgrade to gcc 4.1.1 2) upgrade to profile 2006.1 3) revdep-rebuild recompile for libstdc++ and for new profile uses (which included mc) Now, issuing mc at a terminal prompt

[gentoo-user] AVI's FPS change

2006-09-09 Thread rob
My AVI's are 24fps but the header shows 29.97fps is there a way to change this in a bulk format ( shell script ). A player I have won't play files unless I convert them . I have found a prosess that works but it is taking a long time and uses 2 different programs. Can anyone help rob --

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Are these packages safe to unmerge?

2006-09-09 Thread Toby Cubitt
On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 02:26:03PM +, Peter wrote: On Sat, 09 Sep 2006 12:41:14 +0100, Mick wrote: Hi All, Just ran depclean and the following candicates are shown: === Calculating dependencies... done! [snip] With the exception of tcsh,

Re: [gentoo-user] OT The Real Darkside...

2006-09-09 Thread Mick
On Saturday 09 September 2006 21:46, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Saturday 9 September 2006 22:12, Daniel Waeber wrote: Although she promised that when the NTFS drivers for Linux are developed adequately to allow her to work on her NTFS stored data from both OS, she will make an effort to

[gentoo-user] net-misc/openssh-4.3_p2-r1 download error?

2006-09-09 Thread Mick
Hi All, How do I overcome this (other than try again in the morning)? === # emerge -fDv '=net-misc/openssh-4.3_p2-r1' Calculating dependencies... done! Emerging (1 of 1) net-misc/openssh-4.3_p2-r1

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Are these packages safe to unmerge?

2006-09-09 Thread Mick
On Sunday 10 September 2006 00:09, Toby Cubitt wrote: If depclean has listed the packages, I'm fairly sure that means portage couldn't find anything in system or world that depends on it (or anything that depends on something that depends on it, etc.). So querying for dependencies is, by

[gentoo-user] emerge -eav system failed building sandbox

2006-09-09 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, OK, my conversion to gcc-4.1.1. seems ot have hit the skids, died, burned up and is no longer to be foound. ;-). I came back to find the machine back at the command line with a message: error: C compiler cannot create executables The screen said to attach the file

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge -eav system failed building sandbox

2006-09-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On 9/9/06, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, OK, my conversion to gcc-4.1.1. seems ot have hit the skids, died, burned up and is no longer to be foound. ;-). I came back to find the machine back at the command line with a message: error: C compiler cannot create executables The

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge -eav system failed building sandbox

2006-09-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On 9/9/06, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/9/06, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, OK, my conversion to gcc-4.1.1. seems ot have hit the skids, died, burned up and is no longer to be foound. ;-). I came back to find the machine back at the command line with a message:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Are these packages safe to unmerge?

2006-09-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/9/06, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 10 September 2006 00:09, Toby Cubitt wrote: If depclean has listed the packages, I'm fairly sure that means portage couldn't find anything in system or world that depends on it (or anything that depends on something that depends on it,

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -eav system failed building sandbox

2006-09-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/9/06, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: lightning ~ # gcc-config -l [1] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6 [2] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6-hardened [3] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6-hardenednopie [4] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6-hardenednopiessp [5] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6-hardenednossp [6]

Re: [gentoo-user] changing CHOST

2006-09-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/9/06, Timothy A. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I understand it, I change the chost, and then emerge -e system emerge -e world Hmm, same answer I gave you yesterday: change CHOST in make.conf /usr/portage/scripts/bootstrap.sh emerge -e system emerge -e world Me thinks the mail list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -eav system failed building sandbox

2006-09-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On 9/9/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/9/06, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: lightning ~ # gcc-config -l [1] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6 [2] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6-hardened [3] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6-hardenednopie [4] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6-hardenednopiessp

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -eav system failed building sandbox

2006-09-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On 9/9/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/9/06, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: lightning ~ # gcc-config -l [1] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6 [2] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6-hardened [3] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6-hardenednopie [4] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6-hardenednopiessp

SOLVED: [gentoo-user] emerge -eav system failed building sandbox

2006-09-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On 9/9/06, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP However there is a lot of stuff hanging around right now: lightning ~ # ls -la /usr/bin/*gcc* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 11536 Sep 9 12:07 /usr/bin/gcc lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root62 Jun 20 18:05 /usr/bin/gcc-3.4.6 -

Re: [gentoo-user] Boring new startup look with baselayout 1.12

2006-09-09 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 19:22 -0700, Daevid Vincent wrote: Ever since the new baselayout, all the startup scripts look/act different. They used to be something like: * starting mysql [ OK ] And now they're like: * Service mysql starting * Service mysql

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