[gentoo-user] Best DialUp Programm

2006-09-26 Thread Suranga Kasthuriarachchi
Dear All,I'm using CDMA Internet Connection, and i'm going to use it with Gnome, so what is the best software to use for dialup.Thanking You,Suranga

Re: [gentoo-user] 64-bit system?

2006-09-26 Thread Grant
You'll only notice a speed increase with applications that need to caculate very large numbers, like encryption keys and certain scientific apps. Everything else will basically run just as fast in 32-bit mode as it will in 64-bit. There are exceptions in certain media encoders that don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about the dcop utility: How to use it from a remote computeR?

2006-09-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 26 September 2006 10:50, Wolfgang Liebich wrote: Hi, This is probably partiallay OT, but google didn't help me much until now. I'm logged in on my new computer, Machine N. I have setup ssh to connect by DSA key to my old computer, Machine O. Now i want to use the dcop program on O

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Video cataloging software

2006-09-26 Thread Grant
Does anyone know of software that will catalog videos like banshee or rhythmbox catalogs music? Preferrably something that can launch mplayer for playback. Does this exist? - Grant For short home clips, like those taken with a digital camera, or for store-bought movies on

Re: [gentoo-user] About dig command and others

2006-09-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 20:37:29 -0700 (PDT), Stephen Liu wrote: Tks for your link. I have dig' installed and running here. I can't recall which of the following commands is correct ? Try man dig $ dig ISP_URL Website_URL Website_IP_address displayed. $ dig Website_URL ISP_URL

[gentoo-user] Re: [solved] elog saves messages in wrong folder

2006-09-26 Thread Marc Blumentritt
Neil Bothwick schrieb: On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 10:08:20 +0200, Marc Blumentritt wrote: Portage has always saved two logfiles for each emerge, one with all the raw output and one with the e* messages. The elog options extract some, or all depending on your settings, of the information from the the

[gentoo-user] pppoe-start problem

2006-09-26 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi folks, Gentoo_amd64 gnome-light Frequently on running; # pppoe-start ... Connected. # ifconfig only showing 2 sections loLink encap:Local Loopback ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:13:D4:FE:DA:87 disappeared Internet can't be

[gentoo-user] Question about the dcop utility: How to use it from a remote computeR?

2006-09-26 Thread Wolfgang Liebich
Hi, This is probably partiallay OT, but google didn't help me much until now. I'm logged in on my new computer, Machine N. I have setup ssh to connect by DSA key to my old computer, Machine O. Now i want to use the dcop program on O to give me a list of all open konqueror sessions on O. At first I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: elog saves messages in wrong folder

2006-09-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 10:08:20 +0200, Marc Blumentritt wrote: OK, I checked some of the files in /var/log/portage and it is getting stranger! I have both types of log files with the new name format. 2 examples are attached to this mail (gzipped). Both (genkernel and linux-headers) were emerged

Re: [gentoo-user] About dig command and others

2006-09-26 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Boyd, Is there another method to check/verify my suspicion. TIA Based on the original post, it sounds to me like your ISP is (intentionally or not) blocking that site. There's very little (probably nothing) you could do to prove they are doing it intentionally. Actually I'm not

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge tinyca fails...

2006-09-26 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 26 September 2006 11:54, Steve [Gentoo] wrote: [SNIP] Any ideas? [SNIP] Yep. Search bugs.gentoo.org for open bugs against gnome-libs... http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135283 -- Bo Andresen pgpSTQhgj3jzr.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] emerge tinyca fails...

2006-09-26 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
After getting into a real pickle with a kernel upgrade (causing me to corrupt my /dev) I opted to re-install from the latest minimal install CD rather than try to unpick the mess. My gentoo box is used almost exclusively used remotely as a mail/web server - however I find tinyca a very useful

Re: [gentoo-user] RTC, is it needed?

2006-09-26 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 26 September 2006 04:55, Richard Fish wrote: CONFIG_RTC_LIB=y CONFIG_RTC_CLASS=y CONFIG_RTC_HCTOSYS=y CONFIG_RTC_HCTOSYS_DEVICE=rtc0 But these are not needed. Thank you Richard! Grateful as always. :) -- Regards, Mick pgpLERJTbj2Cr.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Accidentally reformatted my EVMS root partition. Any hope of recovering data?

2006-09-26 Thread Wolfgang Illmeyer
try running reiserfsck, with --rebuild-sb and/or --rebuild-tree, as needed. But keep a copy of the partition around (as mentioned in the other posting), just in case you find a better way to rescue your files. /Wolfgang -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Flashing the BIOS

2006-09-26 Thread Matteo Pillon
Hi, On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 10:03:38AM +0100, Mick wrote: Thanks Iain, you're right. I redownloaded and tried again - but it's not a zipped archive: = # unzip SP27128.exe Archive: SP27128.exe End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either

Re: [gentoo-user] NTP or chrony?

2006-09-26 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 22:28:28 +0100 Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm, for some reason my ISP's ntp server does not work with my Gentoo (it works with WinXP): [...] What's this port time unreachable message - the rdate command times out of course. Well, the time port (37 tcp/udp) is not

Re: [gentoo-user] Flashing the BIOS

2006-09-26 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 9/17/06, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2006-09-16 at 23:12 +0100, Mick wrote: Thanks. I tried unzipping it, but no go: # unzip SP27128.exe.part unzip: cannot find or open SP27128.exe.part, SP27128.exe.part.zip or

Re: [gentoo-user] I have 146,000 files in lost+found. How do I sort them?

2006-09-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 25 September 2006 22:55, Robert Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] I have 146,000 files in lost+found. How do I sort them?': Am I likely to find many usable files in that /lost+found directory? Maybe. I tried to recover a corrupted ext3 boot recently and was unable

Re: [gentoo-user] pppoe-start problem

2006-09-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 26 September 2006 03:18, Stephen Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] pppoe-start problem': Hi folks, Gentoo_amd64 gnome-light Frequently on running; # pppoe-start Hrm, are we still using pppoe-start? I thought the new baselayout handled pppoe (and other ppp

Re: [gentoo-user] pppoe-start problem

2006-09-26 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Boyd, Tks for your advice. I thought the new baselayout handled pppoe (and other ppp connections) just like normal connections: 1. Configure in /etc/conf.d/net /etc/conf.d/net is a file # cat /etc/conf.d/net config_eth0=( 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 brd 192.168.0.255 )

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Video cataloging software

2006-09-26 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 26/09/06, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of software that will catalog videos like banshee or rhythmbox catalogs music? Preferrably something that can launch mplayer for playback. Does this exist? - Grant For short home clips, like those taken with a digital

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about the dcop utility: How to use it from a remote computeR?

2006-09-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 26 September 2006 03:50, Wolfgang Liebich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Question about the dcop utility: How to use it from a remote computeR?': I'm logged in on my new computer, Machine N. I have setup ssh to connect by DSA key to my old computer, Machine O. Now i

Re: [gentoo-user] cups problem

2006-09-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 26 September 2006 03:55, Paul Stear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] cups problem': When I start cupsd I get the following message:- /etc/init.d/cupsd start * Starting cupsd ... cupsd: Child exited on signal 15! :( Any ideas what to do next? Did cupsd write any

Re: [gentoo-user] pppoe-start problem

2006-09-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 26 September 2006 10:01, Stephen Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] pppoe-start problem': # cat /etc/conf.d/net config_eth0=( 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 brd 192.168.0.255 ) routes_eth0=( default gw 192.168.0.1 ) config_eth0=( dhcp ) Yeah, this doesn't have

[gentoo-user] Re: pppoe-start problem

2006-09-26 Thread Marc Blumentritt
Hi Stephen, Stephen Liu schrieb: I thought the new baselayout handled pppoe (and other ppp connections) just like normal connections: 1. Configure in /etc/conf.d/net /etc/conf.d/net is a file # cat /etc/conf.d/net config_eth0=( 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 brd 192.168.0.255 )

Re: [gentoo-user] About dig command and others

2006-09-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 25 September 2006 22:37, Stephen Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] About dig command and others': Is there another method to check/verify my suspicion. TIA Based on the original post, it sounds to me like your ISP is (intentionally or not) blocking that site.

[gentoo-user] bad nano

2006-09-26 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, Nano starts and displays a blank screen but whatever I type this is what appears: tget_key_buffer(): key_buffer_len = 1 pparse_kbinput(): kbinput = 119, meta_key = 0, func_key = 0, escapes = 0, byte_digits = 0, retval = 119 gget_shortcut():

[gentoo-user] Re: elog saves messages in wrong folder

2006-09-26 Thread Marc Blumentritt
Richard Fish schrieb: I'm on portage 2.1.2_pre1-r1, and logs are still appearing in /v/l/portage/elog/ for me. So I'm really thinking this behavior will only show up with particular make.conf settings. Can either of you post your make.conf please? Here it is: cat /etc/make.conf # These

[gentoo-user] Re: elog saves messages in wrong folder

2006-09-26 Thread Marc Blumentritt
Neil Bothwick schrieb: On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 23:47:57 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: There's a little confusion here. Portage now saves all package logfiles in the latter format. The files you are seeing on $PORT_LOGDIR are probably portage logs, not elog output. Have you checked the contents of the

[gentoo-user] PDF Editor

2006-09-26 Thread sean
Hello All, Can anyone recommend an application to edit a pdf file, and I am running 64 bit Gentoo, so it needs to be compatible? Thanks, Sean -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Video cataloging software

2006-09-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 08:34:55 -0700, Grant wrote: Griffith looks awesome. I wish it was in portage. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13 -- Neil Bothwick I must have slipped a disk; my pack hurts. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] bad nano

2006-09-26 Thread Benno Schulenberg
maxim wexler wrote: Nano starts and displays a blank screen but whatever I type this is what appears: tget_key_buffer(): key_buffer_len = 1 [...] Remove the debug USE flag from your /etc/make.conf. Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] sftplogging USE flag in openssh

2006-09-26 Thread Mick
I can't remember seeing this flag before. == [ebuild U ] net-misc/openssh-4.3_p2-r5 [4.3_p2-r3] USE=X ldap pam tcpd -X509 -chroot -hpn -ipv6 -kerberos -libedit (-selinux) -sftplogging -skey -smartcard

Re: [gentoo-user] sftplogging USE flag in openssh

2006-09-26 Thread Dave V
Here's how to find out: $ grep sftplogging /usr/portage/profiles/use.* /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc:net-misc/openssh:sftplogging - Enables sftp logging patch Dave On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 17:38:06 +0100 Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't remember seeing this flag before.

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF Editor

2006-09-26 Thread Christopher E. Granade
sean wrote: Hello All, Can anyone recommend an application to edit a pdf file, and I am running 64 bit Gentoo, so it needs to be compatible? Thanks, Sean In general, PDFs aren't very editable after having been made. What kinds of edits did you need to make? --

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF Editor

2006-09-26 Thread Philip Webb
060926 sean wrote: Can anyone recommend an application to edit a pdf file root: root eix pdftk * app-text/pdftk Available versions: 1.12 Homepage:http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk Description: A tool for manipulating PDF documents root: root which

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF Editor

2006-09-26 Thread Piotr Gąsiorowski
On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 17:39:05 +0200, sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, Can anyone recommend an application to edit a pdf file, and I am running 64 bit Gentoo, so it needs to be compatible? Thanks, Sean OpenOffice Writer can easily export your

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF Editor

2006-09-26 Thread Mauro Faccenda
On Tuesday 26 September 2006 12:39, sean wrote: Hello All, Can anyone recommend an application to edit a pdf file, and I am running 64 bit Gentoo, so it needs to be compatible? kword can import from .pdf files. hope it helps. []'s .m -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] enlightenment - greyed out window borders

2006-09-26 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I desparately need help. I've installed 0.16.8.1 / 0.16.8.3 / 0.16-cvs on my Gentoo box (Xorg 7.0.0) with the Brushedmetal-Tigert theme. The borders of applications windows are greyed out, the Enlightenment pop up windows (middle mouse button) are grey with sunken font. When trying to select

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF Editor

2006-09-26 Thread b.n.
Mauro Faccenda wrote: On Tuesday 26 September 2006 12:39, sean wrote: Hello All, Can anyone recommend an application to edit a pdf file, and I am running 64 bit Gentoo, so it needs to be compatible? kword can import from .pdf files. hope it helps. I don't think this is what the OP

Re: [gentoo-user] sftplogging USE flag in openssh

2006-09-26 Thread Daniel Iliev
Dave V wrote: Here's how to find out: $ grep sftplogging /usr/portage/profiles/use.* /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc:net-misc/openssh:sftplogging - Enables sftp logging patch Dave Here is my let's say more gentooish way for the same thing: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # euse -i

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about the dcop utility: How to use it from a remote computeR?

2006-09-26 Thread Mike Myers
Hi!You need to use either the --all-sessions or --all-users switch, or just use --user or --session and specify which you want to work with. Since several instances of KDE can run on the same computer, dcop needs to know which one to use if you aren't runnign the dcop command from the KDE session.

Re: [gentoo-user] NTP or chrony?

2006-09-26 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 26 September 2006 14:05, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hi, On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 22:28:28 +0100 Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm, for some reason my ISP's ntp server does not work with my Gentoo (it works with WinXP): [...] What's this port time unreachable message - the rdate

[gentoo-user] OT: Postfix mail sorting and filtering with virtual users

2006-09-26 Thread Jiri Cincura
Hi *, is there any how-to or manual how to create something like mail filtering/sorting i.e. via procmail (or something like procmail), but for virtual users (there's no users with unix accounts)? Thanks for any hints. -- Jiri {x2} Cincura http://blog.vyvojar.cz/jirka/ |

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF Editor

2006-09-26 Thread Friedrich Göpel
On 11:39 Tue 26 Sep , sean wrote: Hello All, Can anyone recommend an application to edit a pdf file, and I am running 64 bit Gentoo, so it needs to be compatible? Thanks, Sean Hi, As it happens I was just faced with the same question and found this:

Re: [gentoo-user] bad nanoRESOLVED

2006-09-26 Thread maxim wexler
Remove the debug USE flag from your /etc/make.conf. Benno Awsome! May I ask how you knew this? Was it something in my post? What is the connection between the debug flag and strange nano behaviour? -Maxim __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam?

Re: [gentoo-user] bad nano RESOLVED

2006-09-26 Thread Benno Schulenberg
maxim wexler wrote: Remove the debug USE flag from your /etc/make.conf. Awsome! May I ask how you knew this? Those strange outputs have been posted before. What is the connection between the debug flag and strange nano behaviour? What debug in most other ebuilds does I don't know, but in

[gentoo-user] ghostscript fails to build during revdep-rebuild

2006-09-26 Thread Grant
I'm getting the following when trying to emerge ghostscript via revdep-rebuild: jbig2_huffman.c:(.text+0x37): undefined reference to `rpl_malloc' ./obj/jbig2_huffman.o:jbig2_huffman.c:(.text+0x366): more undefined references to `rpl_malloc' follow /usr/X11R6/lib/libcups.so: undefined reference

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF Editor

2006-09-26 Thread ps
hi, Can anyone recommend an application to edit a pdf file, and I am running 64 bit Gentoo, so it needs to be compatible? does the following ebuild works for you ? : http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~sanda/pdfedit/ expect unimplemented features and bugs. better than nothing :) pavel --

[gentoo-user] custom ebuild questions

2006-09-26 Thread nate
I'm not sure if this is the proper list, if it is not I apologize and if someone could tell me which I should use it would be appreciated. I'm having a few issues, and I'm not exactly sure where these are exactly. First off I built a custom apache-2.0.58 ebuild from the one in the

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF Editor

2006-09-26 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
Pavel, I have tried that ebuild (with patch) and got linking error shown below. Andrew __ ../xpdf/xpdf/libxpdf.a(GlobalParams.o): In function `GlobalParams::GlobalParams(char*)': GlobalParams.cc:(.text+0x4277): undefined reference to `paperinit'

Re: [gentoo-user] custom ebuild questions

2006-09-26 Thread nate
Another thing to add to this, pear does not appear to compile with the apache build. I have this in my /etc/portage/package.use: dev-lang/php apache2 sockets mysql mysqli cli xml xsl pcre pdo-external session sqlite curl gd iconv jpeg pcntl pear png posix soap snmp ssl zlib bzip2 bcmath

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF Editor

2006-09-26 Thread ps
I have tried that ebuild (with patch) and got linking error shown below. most i can say is that it works on my x86 box (gcc-3.3.6,binutils-2.16.1-r2). (the patch is not needed to apply; ebuild will do.) many reasons possible why linker doesnt find the reference and i'm not going to debug it...

Re: [gentoo-user] ghostscript fails to build during revdep-rebuild

2006-09-26 Thread Philip Webb
060926 Grant wrote: I'm getting the following when trying to emerge ghostscript I had a similar problem, but it disappeared after I updated to modular X did an 'eix-sync'. Make sure everything else is upto-date try again. --

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Postfix mail sorting and filtering with virtual users

2006-09-26 Thread Sarpy Sam
On 9/26/06, Jiri Cincura [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi *, is there any how-to or manual how to create something like mail filtering/sorting i.e. via procmail (or something like procmail), but for virtual users (there's no users with unix accounts)? Thanks for any hints. Maildrop

[gentoo-user] cups-pdf configuration?

2006-09-26 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, Short version: Where does the cups-pdf printer put output files by default? I emerged cups-pdf and installed a printer using it. No problems setting up a PDF printer (as far as I can tell) but I cannot find any output when I print a test page. I did restart cups to ensure the new

[gentoo-user] [SOLVED]: cups-pdf configuration?

2006-09-26 Thread Mark Knecht
Found it in /var/spoll/cups-pdf sorry for the noise. Cheers, Mark On 9/26/06, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Short version: Where does the cups-pdf printer put output files by default? I emerged cups-pdf and installed a printer using it. No problems setting up a PDF printer

[gentoo-user] pysol problems

2006-09-26 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, My wife's machine started having troubles running pysol. After a very quick browse of the Bugzilla system I didn't locate anything specifically for this error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ pysol Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/games/lib/pysol/pysol.py, line 121, in ?

Re: [gentoo-user] pysol problems

2006-09-26 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 27 September 2006 04:44, Mark Knecht wrote: [SNIP] __main__.TclError: this isn't a Tk applicationunknown color name Black [SNIP] All ideas appreciated. How about? https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96933#c15 -- Bo Andresen pgpnetUCPhUh7.pgp Description: PGP signature