Re: [gentoo-user] kde - limit an icon to a single desktop

2006-12-31 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 30 December 2006 20:09, »Q« wrote: This would be better asked in a KDE user forum, but I'm just getting Gentoo set up on a laptop and haven't found any KDE groups/lists yet. You can find all KDE-related lists on http://lists.kde.org. Is there a way to have an app-launching icon appear on

[gentoo-user] USB freezes the machine...

2006-12-31 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi list, some days ago i've upgraded to udev-103 (stable version). Since then i've experienced complete freezes of the machine (nothing responds, even external ping on the network) when USB devices are mounted. In case nothing is connected to the USB drive the machine can stay online without

Re: [gentoo-user] libGl.so.1 / prelinking

2006-12-31 Thread Strong Cypher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 do you use a proprietary drivers ? like ati or nvidia ? yes = So ... no code source, binary package, no pic available so no = Normally, with gl of xorg you can have fpic activatited and you can prelink so if you don't play game, in 3D, so you can

Re: [gentoo-user] When could XGL support my video card ATI Radeon M300??

2006-12-31 Thread Леонид Моргун
I was interested in 3D desktop of XGL, but my video has not been supported till now... This is the info of my card: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M22 [Radeon Mobility M300] So, is there a hope for me to use XGL in future??? It's only thing we have :) My card is ATI

[gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers vs nvidia-legacy-drivers

2006-12-31 Thread Konstantinos Agouros
Hi, is there a way von x86 that I can keep nvidia-drivers and a emerge -uDp world does not come up telling me that this is blocking the legacy-drivers package? The legacy package is an older version that keeps freezing my X, so I would prefer the new one. Regards, Konstantin -- Dipl-Inf.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gtk+ wants to install xorg-server

2006-12-31 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Sunday 31 December 2006 03:44, Enrico Weigelt wrote: The X use flag is quite overloaded. It's exact meaning varies with different types of packages. In the gtk+ case it just pulls the xorg-server. Where exactly is this defined ? The X useflag doesnt seem to appear in the gtk ebuild.

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge confused about gnome-icon-theme version?

2006-12-31 Thread Mark M
On 12/31/06, Daniel D Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 29 December 2006 09:25, Daniel D Jones wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/ # emerge -s gnome-icon-theme Searching... [ Results for search key : gnome-icon-theme ] [ Applications found : 1 ] * x11-themes/gnome-icon-theme Latest

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge confused about gnome-icon-theme version?

2006-12-31 Thread Kent Fredric
On 12/31/06, Mark M [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/31/06, Daniel D Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 29 December 2006 09:25, Daniel D Jones wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/ # emerge -s gnome-icon-theme Searching... [ Results for search key : gnome-icon-theme ] [ Applications found

Re: [gentoo-user] Documentation Index

2006-12-31 Thread Mick
On Sunday 31 December 2006 03:20, Jerry McBride wrote: I've been doing a similar project using python. I scan the entire filesystem for html, pdf and chm files. Once found, I grab matching portage names and build a master html index for use with apache... How do you view chm files in Linux?

Re: [gentoo-user] Documentation Index

2006-12-31 Thread iddqd
Mick wrote: On Sunday 31 December 2006 03:20, Jerry McBride wrote: I've been doing a similar project using python. I scan the entire filesystem for html, pdf and chm files. Once found, I grab matching portage names and build a master html index for use with apache... How do you view

[gentoo-user] How can I check broken dependencies?

2006-12-31 Thread Леонид Моргун
emerge -C something1, smth2, ... I want to know if there are any packages which doesn't work after that. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Driver of Intel 945's video card?

2006-12-31 Thread Chuanwen Wu
Hi,everybody! When i do xorgconfig,I choose i810 to my video card driver of intel 945. I can enter gnome but I found something is wrong: The fonts in some vertical line is not clear,no matter the english characters or the my local charcters. I am sure my fonts.conf is correct because I the same

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I check broken dependencies?

2006-12-31 Thread Chuanwen Wu
2006/12/31, Леонид Моргун [EMAIL PROTECTED]: emerge -C something1, smth2, ... I want to know if there are any packages which doesn't work after that. #revdep-rebuild -p #revdep-rebuild -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- wcw -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] spamassassin + razor - learning

2006-12-31 Thread Thomas Rösner
Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, I've set up spamassassin + razor on one host, which is accessed from some other host via spamc. Is it possible to learn/report-to razor via spamc, too ? Spamassassin has an autolearn hook, but I don't know if the razor/pyzor/etc. plugins use it, or if

[gentoo-user] install CD of Hewlett-Packard server

2006-12-31 Thread Chuanwen Wu
Hi,everyone! I want to install gentoo in my Hewlett-Packard server.It's my first time to install linux in a server.I want to know that which *.iso I should download and burn into the CD? Is it the install-hppa-2006.1-universal.iso all right? And do you have any other advice? Thanks in

[gentoo-user] Few problems

2006-12-31 Thread Pavel Kouřil
I have few problems with my gentoo. =// 1. After X WM (I use KDE, in fluxbox it was same) my PC have insane CPU and RAM usage. Why? =// [2.0GHz AMD, 512MB RAM] 2. How I can setup autostart in KDE? (i wanna run firefox etc. automaticaly) And last problem, but this is more wine-related. I have

Re: [gentoo-user] seamonkey + updates

2006-12-31 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 27 December 2006 15:26, Enrico Weigelt wrote: is it possible to build seamonkey without the whole updating (and check-for-update) stuff ? I have absolutely no idea about what this question means... -- Bo Andresen pgpMFQJFyE9yS.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Few problems

2006-12-31 Thread Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
On Sunday, 31 December 2006 22:21, Pavel Kouřil wrote: I have few problems with my gentoo. =// 1. After X WM (I use KDE, in fluxbox it was same) my PC have insane CPU and RAM usage. Why? =// [2.0GHz AMD, 512MB RAM] Run 'top' to see which processes are causing this. 2. How I can setup

Re: [gentoo-user] seamonkey + updates

2006-12-31 Thread Kellystewart00
You grow them in a tank and you should add water if they are not working. happy new year party people... Sent via BlackBerry® from Vodafone -Original Message- From: Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 13:01:32 To:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re:

Re: [gentoo-user] spamassassin + razor - learning

2006-12-31 Thread Graham Murray
Thomas Rösner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Spamassassin has an autolearn hook, but I don't know if the razor/pyzor/etc. plugins use it, or if it's only used by the bayes engine. I'd like to know, though, so why don't you ask on a Spamassassin ML and report back here? ^^ Autolearn only affects

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: anti-portage wreckage?

2006-12-31 Thread Aniruddha
Very good ideas in this thread. Why not open a thread in the Gentoo forums and start a public discussion there? In regard to your question, have you thought about the --oneshot option? That way you can manually upgrade the packages you see fit. James wrote: Mike Myers fluffymikey at

Re: [gentoo-user] Few problems

2006-12-31 Thread Pavel Kouřil
Raymond Lewis Rebbeck wrote: On Sunday, 31 December 2006 22:21, Pavel Kouřil wrote: I have few problems with my gentoo. =// 1. After X WM (I use KDE, in fluxbox it was same) my PC have insane CPU and RAM usage. Why? =// [2.0GHz AMD, 512MB RAM] Run 'top' to see which processes are

Re: [gentoo-user] Documentation Index

2006-12-31 Thread Mick
On Sunday 31 December 2006 10:57, iddqd wrote: Mick wrote: On Sunday 31 December 2006 03:20, Jerry McBride wrote: I've been doing a similar project using python. I scan the entire filesystem for html, pdf and chm files. Once found, I grab matching portage names and build a master html

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge confused about gnome-icon-theme version?

2006-12-31 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Sunday 31 December 2006 00:59, Daniel D Jones wrote: On Friday 29 December 2006 09:25, Daniel D Jones wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/ # emerge -s gnome-icon-theme Searching... [ Results for search key : gnome-icon-theme ] [ Applications found : 1 ] * x11-themes/gnome-icon-theme

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I check broken dependencies?

2006-12-31 Thread Mark M
On 12/31/06, Chuanwen Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2006/12/31, Леонид Моргун [EMAIL PROTECTED]: emerge -C something1, smth2, ... I want to know if there are any packages which doesn't work after that. #revdep-rebuild -p #revdep-rebuild -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- wcw --

Re: [gentoo-user] Few problems

2006-12-31 Thread Philip Webb
061231 Pavel Kou??il wrote: After X WM (I use KDE) my PC have insane CPU and RAM usage. it's Conk, and how is pc slow. This can happen with some Internet sites, esp with Javascript or Flash. Try something safe like the Gentoo WWW site: does it happen then ? --

Re: [gentoo-user] Few problems

2006-12-31 Thread Pavel Kouřil
Philip Webb wrote: 061231 Pavel Kou??il wrote: After X WM (I use KDE) my PC have insane CPU and RAM usage. it's Conk, and how is pc slow. This can happen with some Internet sites, esp with Javascript or Flash. Try something safe like the Gentoo WWW site: does it happen then ?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: anti-portage wreckage?

2006-12-31 Thread Mick
On Sunday 31 December 2006 12:18, Aniruddha wrote: Very good ideas in this thread. Why not open a thread in the Gentoo forums and start a public discussion there? In regard to your question, have you thought about the --oneshot option? That way you can manually upgrade the packages you see

Re: [gentoo-user] Few problems

2006-12-31 Thread Pavel Kouřil
Raymond Lewis Rebbeck wrote: On Sunday, 31 December 2006 23:33, Pavel Kouřil wrote: Raymond Lewis Rebbeck wrote: On Sunday, 31 December 2006 23:02, Pavel Kouřil wrote: Raymond Lewis Rebbeck wrote: On Sunday, 31 December 2006 22:21, Pavel Kouřil wrote: I

Re: [gentoo-user] Easy dialup for unprivileged user

2006-12-31 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 30 December 2006 22:00, Mark Kirkwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Easy dialup for unprivileged user': Now it pretty much does - but to trigger the ppp interface 'up' state I find myself doing stuff like: $ ping ip of ISP nameserver or similar, because hostname

Re: [gentoo-user] install CD of Hewlett-Packard server

2006-12-31 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 31 December 2006 05:38, Chuanwen Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] install CD of Hewlett-Packard server': I want to install gentoo in my Hewlett-Packard server.It's my first time to install linux in a server.I want to know that which *.iso I should download and burn

Re: [gentoo-user] arabtex ebuild/package?

2006-12-31 Thread a-burghardt
On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 08:45:33PM -0500, Willie Wong wrote: On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 01:02:40AM +0100, Penguin Lover [EMAIL PROTECTED] squawked: I do have a big problem due to there's no ebuild for arabtex (http://www.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/ivi/bs/research/arab_e.html) in portage ...

Re: [gentoo-user] broken ping reply after 30secs

2006-12-31 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 31 Dec 2006 03:52:30 +0100 Enrico Weigelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It suddenly disappeared after putting down and reconfiguring the eth interface (diretly w/ ifconfig). Then I remembered I've put an ifconfig eth0 up into crontab, since it sometimes disappeared. Now I've replaced

Re: [gentoo-user] Few problems

2006-12-31 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 31 December 2006 13:51, Pavel Kouřil wrote: I have few problems with my gentoo. =// 1. After X WM (I use KDE, in fluxbox it was same) my PC have insane CPU and RAM usage. Why? =// [2.0GHz AMD, 512MB RAM] You need to provide a bit more information here for us to give any meaningful

Re: [gentoo-user] libGl.so.1 / prelinking

2006-12-31 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 31 December 2006 11:39, Strong Cypher wrote: do you use a proprietary drivers ? like ati or nvidia ? Nope, OSS drivers. Uwe -- A fast and easy generator of fractals for KDE: http://www.SysEx.com.na/iwy-1.0.tar.bz2 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: anti-portage wreckage?

2006-12-31 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 31 December 2006 15:40, Mick wrote: The PC centric desktop on which M$ built their business model may be under threat. If the WebOS [1], GoogleOS [2], internet based desktop [3], etc. take off, then what will enable Gentoo to become a predominant system of choice both in the server and in

Re: [gentoo-user] seamonkey + updates

2006-12-31 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 27 December 2006 15:26, Enrico Weigelt wrote: is it possible to build seamonkey without the whole updating (and check-for-update) stuff ? I have absolutely no idea about what this question means... Seamonkey has some update

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gtk+ wants to install xorg-server

2006-12-31 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the virtualx eclass which the gtk+ ebuild inherits [1]. # grep virtualx `portageq portdir`/x11-libs/gtk+/gtk+-2.10.6.ebuild inherit gnome.org flag-o-matic eutils debug autotools virtualx # grep 'X?' `portageq portdir`/eclass/virtualx.eclass

Re: [gentoo-user] Easy dialup for unprivileged user

2006-12-31 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Mark Kirkwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now it pretty much does - but to trigger the ppp interface 'up' state I find myself doing stuff like: $ ping ip of ISP nameserver or similar, because hostname access will just return host not found immediately without trying to bring the link

Re: [gentoo-user] arabtex ebuild/package?

2006-12-31 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 31 Dec 2006 00:52:56 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do have a big problem due to there's no ebuild for arabtex (http://www.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/ivi/bs/research/arab_e.html) in portage ... and I'm not skilled enough to build one by myself yet (I'm still a new to

Re: [gentoo-user] Few problems

2006-12-31 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 31 Dec 2006 14:42:57 +0100 Pavel Kouřil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kinfocenter shows the same.. 22,71/503,58MB RAM free, which is like a 95% in conky. Memory consumption is not load! And it's pretty normal that Linux uses up all available RAM. Substract the current cache and buffer

Re: [gentoo-user] Few problems

2006-12-31 Thread Pavel Kouřil
Ah, thx for explanation. I was afraid, there's someting wrong. XD Now only remains the RO problem. =/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Problem upgrading mediawiki

2006-12-31 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, I just tried to upgrade some wikis from 1.4.15 (to 1.5.8, 1.6.8, 1.7.1) and ran into trouble: while trying access the wiki, I get an query error - seems the database layout has changed. How can I update it ? thx --

Re: [gentoo-user] Documentation Index

2006-12-31 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 31 December 2006 00:00, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Hey, Jerry, wanna make a project team? I woulda done Python if I had thought it was gonna get big. It now seems like that would be a good idea. Care to: 1) share your code? 2) start a sourceforge project? 3) just tantalize us

[gentoo-user] Re: Problem upgrading mediawiki

2006-12-31 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Enrico Weigelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I just tried to upgrade some wikis from 1.4.15 (to 1.5.8, 1.6.8, 1.7.1) and ran into trouble: while trying access the wiki, I get an query error - seems the database layout has changed. Another wiki, 1.5.8, makes trouble when trying to upgrade to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: anti-portage wreckage?

2006-12-31 Thread Mick
On Sunday 31 December 2006 16:02, Uwe Thiem wrote: On 31 December 2006 15:40, Mick wrote: The PC centric desktop on which M$ built their business model may be under threat. If the WebOS [1], GoogleOS [2], internet based desktop [3], etc. take off, then what will enable Gentoo to become a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: anti-portage wreckage?

2006-12-31 Thread Michal 'vorner' Vaner
On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 06:20:23PM +, Mick wrote: The second is nearly photo-realistic games. Of course. That is I think one area where a thin client will not be able to compete with a modern desktop PC. I don't play games and haven't seen what sort of latency a game played through

Re: [gentoo-user] USB freezes the machine...

2006-12-31 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/31/06, Marco Calviani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, some days ago i've upgraded to udev-103 (stable version). Since then i've experienced complete freezes of the machine (nothing responds, even external ping on the network) when USB devices are mounted. In case nothing is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gtk+ wants to install xorg-server

2006-12-31 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/31/06, Enrico Weigelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By reading the virtualx.eclass file, I really wonder what this is necessary for. Why is an X server needed to build gtk ? You tell us: echo x11-base/xorg-server /etc/portage/package.provided emerge --oneshot x11-libs/gtk+ Then see what

Re: [gentoo-user] Easy dialup for unprivileged user

2006-12-31 Thread Kent Fredric
Passwordless SUDO on an app, or add some sgid/suid bits and do some group twiddling on the apps that do all your magic as root. That should at least be a good starting point :) On 1/1/07, Enrico Weigelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Mark Kirkwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now it pretty much does

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: anti-portage wreckage?

2006-12-31 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 31 December 2006 20:20, Mick wrote: On Sunday 31 December 2006 16:02, Uwe Thiem wrote: This won't happen for various reasons. In the business world, the main reason is security. Who will trust an Internet Desktop Provider with their internal documents? The same people who are

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: anti-portage wreckage?

2006-12-31 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 31 December 2006 20:57, Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote: On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 06:20:23PM +, Mick wrote: The second is nearly photo-realistic games. Of course. That is I think one area where a thin client will not be able to compete with a modern desktop PC. I don't play games and

Re: [gentoo-user] Easy dialup for unprivileged user

2006-12-31 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Saturday 30 December 2006 22:00, Mark Kirkwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Easy dialup for unprivileged user': Now it pretty much does - but to trigger the ppp interface 'up' state I find myself doing stuff like: $ ping ip of ISP nameserver or

Re: [gentoo-user] anti-portage wreckage?

2006-12-31 Thread Aniruddha
I am curious how these businesses manage their gentoo servers: http://www.tek.net/ http://www.sevenl.net/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] anti-portage wreckage?

2006-12-31 Thread Aniruddha
here's another business based on gentoo: http://www.inversepath.com/service-gentoo-support.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: kde - limit an icon to a single desktop

2006-12-31 Thread »Q«
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Most people complain that KDE allows too much user configurability (smile). Assuming KDE 3.5.5 (or fairly recent), It is KDE 3.5.5. After install, I looked through all the control center options, and I was impressed -- it's still a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: anti-portage wreckage?

2006-12-31 Thread Mike Myers
I just wanted to add something to the original post. I've recently began experimenting with Debian and noticed their updating system is exactly like what I was asking about. Basically, there's package updates, and then there's distro updates. Why is it unreasonable for Gentoo to have something

[gentoo-user] Totem doesn't play DVDs

2006-12-31 Thread Randy Barlow
Howdy all, I'm trying to get Totem to play DVD's, but it tells me that I don't have the appropriate plugin to handle DVDs. Anybody seen this before and know how to handle it? Randy Barlow http://www.electronsweatshop.com Nulli Sheilae sanguineae -- (Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent) --

Re: [gentoo-user] Totem doesn't play DVDs

2006-12-31 Thread Alan
On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 08:03:12PM -0500, Randy Barlow wrote: Howdy all, I'm trying to get Totem to play DVD's, but it tells me that I don't have the appropriate plugin to handle DVDs. Anybody seen this before and know how to handle it? Couple of questions... Did you compile with the dvd

Re: [gentoo-user] Documentation Index

2006-12-31 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 12/31/06, Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 31 December 2006 00:00, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Hey, Jerry, wanna make a project team? I woulda done Python if I had thought it was gonna get big. It now seems like that would be a good idea. Care to: 1) share your code? 2)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: anti-portage wreckage?

2006-12-31 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Mike Myers wrote: I just wanted to add something to the original post. I've recently began experimenting with Debian and noticed their updating system is exactly like what I was asking about. Basically, there's package updates, and then there's distro updates. Why is it unreasonable for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: anti-portage wreckage?

2006-12-31 Thread Neil Walker
Mike Myers wrote: I just wanted to add something to the original post. I've recently began experimenting with Debian and noticed their updating system is exactly like what I was asking about. Basically, there's package updates, and then there's distro updates. Why is it unreasonable for

Re: [gentoo-user] anti-portage wreckage?

2006-12-31 Thread Neil Walker
Aniruddha wrote: I am curious how these businesses manage their gentoo servers: http://www.tek.net/ http://www.sevenl.net/ Hmm. I'm not entirely sure what you are asking. These companies offer Gentoo on a server on which the customer does the management. That's what it means to have a

Re: [gentoo-user] Totem doesn't play DVDs

2006-12-31 Thread doug asherman
Alan wrote: On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 08:03:12PM -0500, Randy Barlow wrote: Howdy all, I'm trying to get Totem to play DVD's, but it tells me that I don't have the appropriate plugin to handle DVDs. Anybody seen this before and know how to handle it? Did you compile with the dvd and xine use

Re: [gentoo-user] USB freezes the machine...

2006-12-31 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 31 December 2006 13:12, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] USB freezes the machine...': On 12/31/06, Marco Calviani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: some days ago i've upgraded to udev-103 (stable version). Since then i've experienced complete freezes of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem upgrading mediawiki

2006-12-31 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 31 December 2006 11:20, Enrico Weigelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Problem upgrading mediawiki': I just tried to upgrade some wikis from 1.4.15 (to 1.5.8, 1.6.8, 1.7.1) and ran into trouble: while trying access the wiki, I get an query error - seems the database

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: anti-portage wreckage?

2006-12-31 Thread Mark Knecht
Mike Myers wrote: I just wanted to add something to the original post. I've recently began experimenting with Debian and noticed their updating system is exactly like what I was asking about. Basically, there's package updates, and then there's distro updates. Why is it unreasonable for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: anti-portage wreckage?

2006-12-31 Thread Mike Myers
On 12/31/06, Mark Kirkwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Mike Myers wrote: I just wanted to add something to the original post. I've recently began experimenting with Debian and noticed their updating system is exactly like what I was asking about. Basically, there's package updates, and then

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: anti-portage wreckage?

2006-12-31 Thread Mike Myers
On 12/31/06, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Myers wrote: I just wanted to add something to the original post. I've recently began experimenting with Debian and noticed their updating system is exactly like what I was asking about. Basically, there's package updates, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: anti-portage wreckage?

2006-12-31 Thread William Kenworthy
On Sun, 2006-12-31 at 19:01 -0600, Mike Myers wrote: I just wanted to add something to the original post. I've recently began experimenting with Debian and noticed their updating system is exactly like what I was asking about. Basically, there's package updates, and then there's distro

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags information resource

2006-12-31 Thread Alan E. Davis
On 12/31/06, Aniruddha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think this is an excellent idea! For starters you can use euse: # euse -i useflagname I already use euse. It is really helpful. The short descriptions of the USE flags are often helpful. Just as often, they are not informative enough to

Re: [gentoo-user] Totem doesn't play DVDs

2006-12-31 Thread Ric de France
There's also a dvd flag that may need to be turned on... This is my totem verbose compile: $ emerge -pv totem These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] media-video/totem-2.16.4 USE=dbus dvd gnome hal mad mpeg ogg vorbis xine xv

Re: [gentoo-user] USB freezes the machine...

2006-12-31 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/31/06, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 31 December 2006 13:12, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] USB freezes the machine...': On 12/31/06, Marco Calviani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: some days ago i've upgraded to udev-103 (stable

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: anti-portage wreckage?

2006-12-31 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/31/06, William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, on most of my machines system is empty (went that way soon after each install - no idea why) so all I am left with is world. What do mean? The system package set is defined by /usr/portage/profiles/base/packages, and extended by

Re: [gentoo-user] install CD of Hewlett-Packard server

2006-12-31 Thread Chuanwen Wu
2006/12/31, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sunday 31 December 2006 05:38, Chuanwen Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] install CD of Hewlett-Packard server': I want to install gentoo in my Hewlett-Packard server.It's my first time to install linux in a server.I want

Re: [gentoo-user] Totem doesn't play DVDs

2006-12-31 Thread doug asherman
Ric de France wrote: There's also a dvd flag that may need to be turned on... This is my totem verbose compile: Yeah, thanks, but the dvd flag was turned on. Made no difference. I'm trying to understand the ebuild now. There's a section that says use xine || G2CONF=${G2CONF}

Re: [gentoo-user] install CD of Hewlett-Packard server

2006-12-31 Thread Rod
Chuanwen Wu wrote: 2006/12/31, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sunday 31 December 2006 05:38, Chuanwen Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] install CD of Hewlett-Packard server': I want to install gentoo in my Hewlett-Packard server.It's my first time to install

Re: [gentoo-user] Totem doesn't play DVDs

2006-12-31 Thread doug asherman
doug asherman wrote: Ric de France wrote: There's also a dvd flag that may need to be turned on... This is my totem verbose compile: Yeah, thanks, but the dvd flag was turned on. Made no difference. I'm trying to understand the ebuild now. There's a section that says Ok, I tried it the way

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: anti-portage wreckage?

2006-12-31 Thread William Kenworthy
On Sun, 2006-12-31 at 21:35 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: On 12/31/06, William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, on most of my machines system is empty (went that way soon after each install - no idea why) so all I am left with is world. What do mean? The system package set is

Re: [gentoo-user] Totem doesn't play DVDs

2006-12-31 Thread doug asherman
doug asherman wrote: blah, blah, blah Ok, turning on the xine flag does allow totem to play DVDs. I was expecting that there would be an entry under the Movie menu that said Play DVD as the help file says. So, sorry to be misleading. I think the absence of the Play DVD entry in the top-level