Re: [gentoo-user] GTK fonts uglified after update

2006-11-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 21:13:25 -0800, Shaw Vrana wrote: I would like to get a list of the packages most recently emerged. Use genlop with the --list and --date arguments. --date lets you specify a start date and an optional end date for the list, e.g. genlop --list --date yesterday genlop

Re: [gentoo-user] GTK fonts uglified after update

2006-11-29 Thread Ben Kelly
On Wednesday 29 November 2006 12:13 am, Shaw Vrana wrote: I just performed an emerge -Du world and found that the fonts in the few gtk apps that I use (gaim and wireshark) have now become quite ugly. I followed the wiki at http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Xorg_and_Fonts to beautify a while back

Re: [gentoo-user] GTK fonts uglified after update

2006-11-29 Thread Shaw Vrana
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 09:54:16AM -0500, Ben Kelly wrote: On Wednesday 29 November 2006 12:13 am, Shaw Vrana wrote: I just performed an emerge -Du world and found that the fonts in the few gtk apps that I use (gaim and wireshark) have now become quite ugly. I followed the wiki at

[gentoo-user] [OT] SATA II Hard Drive problems - revisited...

2006-11-29 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hello Everyone, I thought I'd give an update on my hard drive situation. By using hdparm -I, rather than hdparm -i, I was able to find out that my hard drive is operating in UDMA6 mode in Gentoo. It is operating in PIO mode in windows, and I

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] SATA II Hard Drive problems - revisited...

2006-11-29 Thread James
Chris Walters cjw2004d at comcast.net writes: I thought I'd give an update on my hard drive situation. By using hdparm -I, rather than hdparm -i, I was able to find out that my hard drive is operating in UDMA6 mode in Gentoo. Thanks to all who tried to help. Hello Chris, This is a 'long

[gentoo-user] Re: Nagios emerge failure

2006-11-29 Thread James
David Corbin gentoo.org at machturtle.com writes: Can someone help me around this problem emerging nagios-core? Hello David, Every try jffnms? Extremely capable network management, the ebuild is stable, and a most excellent install page: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/jffnms.xml hth,

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] switching X.org resolution - how ???

2006-11-29 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/28/06, krgn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: oh ok, that might be it. I use the open source nvidia driver (nv). But I would expect that to work with it, right? Yeah, it should work, unless you are using the Option Rotate in your xorg.conf, in which case the extension gets disabled. Check your

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] switching X.org resolution - how ???

2006-11-29 Thread Nick White
oh ok, that might be it. I use the open source nvidia driver (nv). But I would expect that to work with it, right? k Yup, I use the open source nvidia driver and it works for me. No mention of randr in my xorg.conf file. -Nick pgpDs8p991ymG.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev upgrade and non-working eth0

2006-11-29 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/27/06, Mrugesh Karnik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 28 November 2006 07:31, Richard Fish wrote: can see a 75-persistent-net-generator.rules file in there.. Hmm, not sure how I got a 70-persistent-net.rules. There is some interaction between that and

[gentoo-user] Upgrading tetex, not finding crti.o

2006-11-29 Thread Bertram Scharpf
Hi, I am trying to upgrade teTex using `emerge -pvuD tetex'. The compiling process aborts with an error message saying that this file could not be found: /usr/lib/gcc/i386-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.5/../../../crti.o Yes, this is /usr/lib/crti.o and it is present. As well present is

Re: [gentoo-user] Using a remote DVD writer

2006-11-29 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 28 November 2006 23:10, Daniel Iliev wrote: Mick wrote: Hi All, My laptop does not have a DVD writer, only a DVD/CD player. On the other hand, my desktop has the works. Other than booting the desktop in Gentoo and burning DVDs directly, is there a way to use it remotely

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev upgrade and non-working eth0

2006-11-29 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 29 November 2006 17:33, Richard Fish wrote: On 11/27/06, Mrugesh Karnik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 28 November 2006 07:31, Richard Fish wrote: can see a 75-persistent-net-generator.rules file in there.. Hmm, not sure how I got a 70-persistent-net.rules. There is

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading tetex, not finding crti.o

2006-11-29 Thread Bertram Scharpf
Hi Randy, Am Mittwoch, 29. Nov 2006, 13:55:14 -0500 schrieb Randy Barlow: fix_libtool_files.sh 3.4.5 That should do the trick :) Sorry, it seems it doesn't. What kind of tool is that? Bertram Bertram Scharpf wrote: I am trying to upgrade teTex using `emerge -pvuD tetex'. The compiling

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading tetex, not finding crti.o

2006-11-29 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/29/06, Bertram Scharpf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am trying to upgrade teTex using `emerge -pvuD tetex'. The compiling process aborts with an error message saying that this file could not be found: /usr/lib/gcc/i386-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.5/../../../crti.o Can you post your emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading tetex, not finding crti.o

2006-11-29 Thread Randy Barlow
Bertram Scharpf wrote: Sorry, it seems it doesn't. What kind of tool is that? Hmm, I actually don't know all that much about it, but it mentions it here: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gcc-upgrading.xml and I've been advised to use it for a similar problem before. Have a look at

[gentoo-user] browser advice

2006-11-29 Thread Jorge Almeida
I'm about to dump Firefox, because I can't google in English. The thing doesn't let me choose the language, and I'm tired of getting useless Brazilian links. Yes, I know about the settings, I already deleted the google.pt cookie, but it's no use. I don't know, nor care, whose fault it is

Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice

2006-11-29 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/29/06, Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, the point is: what browser now? IMO konqueror rocks. The split-window browsing feature is something that every other browser should adopt _now_! But there are still sites that don't fully support it, so I keep firefox/bon echo around

Re: [gentoo-user] Using a remote DVD writer

2006-11-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 18:53:39 +, Mick wrote: Thanks for all suggestions. Daniel's idea seems to be closer to what I was looking for (I do not have Java installed on either box, although I could run Knoppix on the CD writer machine). Only I have no idea what the options should be to copy

Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice

2006-11-29 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 29 November 2006 22:00, Jorge Almeida wrote: I'm about to dump Firefox, because I can't google in English. The thing doesn't let me choose the language, and I'm tired of getting useless Brazilian links. Yes, I know about the settings, I already deleted the google.pt cookie, but

Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice

2006-11-29 Thread Fabian Hackhofer
Jorge Almeida schrieb: I'm about to dump Firefox, because I can't google in English. The thing doesn't let me choose the language, and I'm tired of getting useless Brazilian links. Ever tried to type site:uk or site:us after the search-phrase? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice

2006-11-29 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 11/29/06, Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm about to dump Firefox, because I can't google in English. The thing doesn't let me choose the language, and I'm tired of getting useless Brazilian links. Yes, I know about the settings, I already deleted the google.pt cookie, but it's no

Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice

2006-11-29 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Wednesday 29 November 2006 22:00, Jorge Almeida wrote: I'm about to dump Firefox, because I can't google in English. The thing doesn't let me choose the language, and I'm tired of getting useless Brazilian links. Yes, I know about the settings,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] SATA II Hard Drive problems - revisited...

2006-11-29 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 James wrote: Chris Walters cjw2004d at comcast.net writes: I thought I'd give an update on my hard drive situation. By using hdparm -I, rather than hdparm -i, I was able to find out that my hard drive is operating in UDMA6 mode in Gentoo.

Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice

2006-11-29 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Hans de Hartog wrote: Just to stay close to what you're used to: how about good old mozilla? That's something that isn't clear to me: Is Mozilla still actively maintained? If so, what's the rationale for Firefox? I changed to Firefox because I assumed Mozilla was going

Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice

2006-11-29 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I set my preferences in google to English and it saves them. There is a preferences setting selection that takes you to a page and allows you to set your language. Nope. It just doesn't keep my preferences. -- Jorge Almeida --

Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice

2006-11-29 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 29 November 2006 21:08, Richard Fish wrote: On 11/29/06, Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, the point is: what browser now? IMO konqueror rocks. The split-window browsing feature is something that every other browser should adopt _now_! But there are still sites that

Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice

2006-11-29 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Fabian Hackhofer wrote: Jorge Almeida schrieb: I'm about to dump Firefox, because I can't google in English. The thing doesn't let me choose the language, and I'm tired of getting useless Brazilian links. Ever tried to type site:uk or site:us after the search-phrase?

Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice

2006-11-29 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Richard Fish wrote: IMO konqueror rocks. The split-window browsing feature is something that every other browser should adopt _now_! But there are still sites that don't fully support it, so I keep firefox/bon echo around for those. A nice thing in konqueror is that you

Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice

2006-11-29 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 29 November 2006 22:46, Jorge Almeida wrote: On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Hans de Hartog wrote: Just to stay close to what you're used to: how about good old mozilla? That's something that isn't clear to me: Is Mozilla still actively maintained? If so, what's the rationale for Firefox?

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Power supply with no -5v rail?

2006-11-29 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Wednesday 29 November 2006 22:08, Mike Huber wrote: By rail you mean a connection to the motherboard right? The power supply itself has a 5v rail, which is delivered to the drives. Correct me if I'm wrong, but that's my understanding. there is 5V and there is -5V. 5V is needed for io

Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice

2006-11-29 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Wednesday 29 November 2006 22:50, Randy Barlow wrote: Richard Fish wrote: IMO konqueror rocks. The split-window browsing feature is something that every other browser should adopt _now_! But there are still sites that don't fully support it, so I keep firefox/bon echo around for

Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice

2006-11-29 Thread Daniel Iliev
Jorge Almeida wrote: I'm about to dump Firefox, because I can't google in English. The thing doesn't let me choose the language, and I'm tired of getting useless Brazilian links. Yes, I know about the settings, I already deleted the google.pt cookie, but it's no use. I don't know, nor care,

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] browser advice

2006-11-29 Thread Daniel Iliev
Steve Dibb wrote: From what I understand, development of the Mozilla suite has stopped. Seamonkey is the old Mozilla-style suite of packages, but the backend is the newer Firefox / Thunderbird code. Steve I don't think so. I believe seamonkey is based on the code of Mozilla Application

Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice

2006-11-29 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Daniel Iliev wrote: You could also try Seamonkey [1] which is closer replacement of Mozilla than Firefox. It is an all-in-one solution just like Mozilla (web browser, e-mail client, HTML composer, IRC client). It can be found in portage. I'll take a look at it. I really

Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice

2006-11-29 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mick wrote: Jorge Almeida schrieb: I'm about to dump Firefox, because I can't google in English. When I change countries I get responses relative to the (geographic) IP that I logon from. Well, for this problem, I use this:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Corrupt portage cache

2006-11-29 Thread Mick
On Sunday 26 November 2006 13:33, Fabrice Delliaux wrote: Le Sun, 26 Nov 2006 13:41:56 +0100, Harm Geerts a écrit : This only forces portage to retrieve *all* of portage's metadata from the server *again*. Yes. If the corruption is local, a normal rsync will fix this. Not

Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice

2006-11-29 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: What's your LINGUAS set to? `emerge -vp mozilla-firefox` if in doubt? Also did [ebuild R ] www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.8 USE=java xprint -debug -gnome -ipv6 -mozdevelop -moznopango -xinerama LINGUAS=-ar -bg -ca -cs -da -de -el -en_GB

Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice

2006-11-29 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: When I change countries I get responses relative to the (geographic) IP that I logon from. Well, for this problem, I use this: http://www.google.com/ncr That's the Google in English permanente link. It redirects you to google.com,

Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice

2006-11-29 Thread David Blamire-Brown
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 21:00:06 + (WET) Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm about to dump Firefox, because I can't google in English. The thing So, the point is: what browser now? Firefox is the one more often mentioned in this list. How about Konqueror or Opera? The latter is hardly

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice

2006-11-29 Thread brettholcomb
I think SeaMonkey is the whole Suite now. From: Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2006/11/29 Wed PM 04:46:42 EST To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Hans de Hartog wrote: Just to stay close to what you're used to: how

Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice

2006-11-29 Thread Philip Webb
061129 Jorge Almeida wrote: what browser ? Firefox is the one more often mentioned in this list. How about Konqueror or Opera? The latter is hardly ever mentioned. I have been a happy user of Epiphany for some time: it's fast, lacks the complexity of Firefox has a nice tab menu; I compile it

Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice

2006-11-29 Thread Jerônimo Backes
What's your LINGUAS set to? `emerge -vp mozilla-firefox` if in doubt? Also did [ebuild R ] www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.8 USE=java xprint -debug -gnome -ipv6 -mozdevelop -moznopango -xinerama LINGUAS=-ar -bg -ca -cs -da -de -el -en_GB -es -es_AR -es_ES -eu -fi -fr -ga -ga_IE

Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice

2006-11-29 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 29 November 2006 15:00, Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] browser advice': I'm about to dump Firefox, because I can't google in English. I don't know, nor care, whose fault it is (Google's, firefox's or mine, for not having telepathic gifts), I just

[gentoo-user] Re: browser advice

2006-11-29 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
Another vote for Opera here. I'm running 9.02 at home. A few observations from my set-up, although they could be as much to do me having not got something else in my configuration right ... And another strong Opera vote here :-) 1) This version of Opera really seems to struggle with heavy

Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice

2006-11-29 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jorge Almeida wrote: On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: That's the Google in English permanente link. It redirects you to google.com, after setting the lang to english (by http referer I'm sure). Thank you! Glad to be of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev upgrade and non-working eth0

2006-11-29 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
On Wednesday 29 November 2006 23:03, Richard Fish wrote: The upshot of this is this: by far the easiest way to solve the net-naming problem is to run /lib/udev/write_net_rules all_interfaces This will generate the rules for all interfaces, and then you can just edit the file to change the

Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice

2006-11-29 Thread Dale
Jorge Almeida wrote: On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Wednesday 29 November 2006 22:00, Jorge Almeida wrote: I'm about to dump Firefox, because I can't google in English. The thing doesn't let me choose the language, and I'm tired of getting useless Brazilian links. Yes, I

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Power supply with no -5v rail?

2006-11-29 Thread Dale
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Wednesday 29 November 2006 22:08, Mike Huber wrote: By rail you mean a connection to the motherboard right? The power supply itself has a 5v rail, which is delivered to the drives. Correct me if I'm wrong, but that's my understanding. there is 5V

Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice

2006-11-29 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/29/06, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you use the split window feature for browsing (as opposed to file manager actions)? I typically use it for something like google or bugzilla search results. I drag links from the browser pane that has the search results to the other pane to

[gentoo-user] new udev (?) loading ipw3945 without starting ipw3945d

2006-11-29 Thread Daniel Barkalow
I switched to udev-103 recently, and now when I boot I find that ipw3945d is not getting started, which causes my wireless card to not appear at all. rmmod ipw3945; modprobe ipw3945 once the system has started works. Any advice? -Daniel *This .sig left intentionally blank* --

Re: [gentoo-user] new udev (?) loading ipw3945 without starting ipw3945d

2006-11-29 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/29/06, Daniel Barkalow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I switched to udev-103 recently, and now when I boot I find that ipw3945d is not getting started, which causes my wireless card to not appear at all. rmmod ipw3945; modprobe ipw3945 once the system has started works. Any advice? my

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] HDD I/O and UI responsiveness

2006-11-29 Thread Vladimir G. Ivanovic
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Tuesday 28 November 2006 17:45, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] HDD I/O and UI responsiveness': I read somewhere that they are trying to 'nice' the drive usage like they do the CPU. That may help if you can find it and enable it. I

Re: [gentoo-user] new udev (?) loading ipw3945 without starting ipw3945d

2006-11-29 Thread Daniel Barkalow
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Richard Fish wrote: On 11/29/06, Daniel Barkalow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I switched to udev-103 recently, and now when I boot I find that ipw3945d is not getting started, which causes my wireless card to not appear at all. rmmod ipw3945; modprobe ipw3945 once the

Re: [gentoo-user] SegFault while compiling gcc 4.1.1

2006-11-29 Thread Vladimir G. Ivanovic
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Thursday 23 November 2006 14:39, Leandro Melo de Sales wrote: The bug is not reproducible, so it is likely a hardware or OS problem. ^ As the message says, you might have a hardware problem (usually

Re: [gentoo-user] SegFault while compiling gcc 4.1.1

2006-11-29 Thread Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
On Thursday, 30 November 2006 16:16, Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Thursday 23 November 2006 14:39, Leandro Melo de Sales wrote: The bug is not reproducible, so it is likely a hardware or OS problem.

Re: [gentoo-user] SegFault while compiling gcc 4.1.1

2006-11-29 Thread Vladimir G. Ivanovic
Raymond Lewis Rebbeck wrote: On Thursday, 30 November 2006 16:16, Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Thursday 23 November 2006 14:39, Leandro Melo de Sales wrote: The bug is not reproducible, so it is likely a hardware or OS problem.