Re: [gentoo-user] Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?

2007-04-06 Thread Graham Murray
W.Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What I would like to know is why less in a console does give colour syntax highlighting, but does NOT do so in any of the X terminals Ive tried ... Or why when run in a console the output stays on the screen when you exit less, thus allowing you to refer

Re: [gentoo-user] Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?

2007-04-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Graham Murray, Or why when run in a console the output stays on the screen when you exit less, thus allowing you to refer to it when typing the next command, but in an X terminal it 'collapses' to just the command prompt on exit. That one was enough to get me to switch from less to

Re: [gentoo-user] Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?

2007-04-06 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Graham Murray wrote: Or why when run in a console the output stays on the screen when you exit less, thus allowing you to refer to it when typing the next command, but in an X terminal it 'collapses' to just the command prompt on exit. If you want the VT behaviour also in X, then alias less

Re: [gentoo-user] Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?

2007-04-06 Thread Paul Colquhoun
On Fri, 6 Apr 2007, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Graham Murray wrote: Or why when run in a console the output stays on the screen when you exit less, thus allowing you to refer to it when typing the next command, but in an X terminal it 'collapses' to just the command prompt on exit. If

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] umask and sticky bit

2007-04-06 Thread Håkon Alstadheim
Jorge Almeida wrote: I would like the default permissions for directories created by a particular user to be 1775. Is there some way to achieve this? I think umask doesn't deal with the sticky bit. umask is a MASK. The application suggests permissions on new files, umask turns off the bits you

Re: [gentoo-user] Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?

2007-04-06 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 05 April 2007 19:07:33 Mick wrote: Not really. Just use --color=y if you want colors through a pipe. Hmm, neither less not cat give me color output.  Passing --color=y to either tells me things like: --color=y was for emerge to enable colors through a pipe. less needs -R to show

[gentoo-user] Where can I find video4linux drivers for these devices?

2007-04-06 Thread Rui Shen
Hi all, I have two devices currently doesn't work: 1. A USB webcam, no suitable driver matches its abcd:cdef vedorid/productid pair. lsusb shows: Bus 003 Device 002: ID abcd:cdef 2. A USB TV tuner, though the kernel recognizes it and load em28xx module, my xawtv just can't show any movie.

Re: [gentoo-user] The next step in AV

2007-04-06 Thread Håkon Alstadheim
Grant wrote: I currently have an HDTV hooked up to a desktop computer running Gentoo and xfce4, all controlled by a wireless keyboard/mouse from the couch. It's awesome. However, I think the next step is to control everything from a laptop on the couch. There would be a normal xfce4

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't find eth0?

2007-04-06 Thread Chuanwen Wu
2007/4/5, Joost Roeleveld [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2007/4/4, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Chuanwen Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Or if I use eth3,what do I need to do to fix it? Cause after I changed eth0 to eth3 in cond.d/net and added eth3 to rc-update,when I boot up my

[gentoo-user] Re: video capture

2007-04-06 Thread James
Matthew R. Lee gentoo at matthewlee.org writes: On Thursday 05 April 2007 16:37, Uwe Thiem wrote: On 05 April 2007, Matthew R. Lee wrote: I've been rumaging around on the internet for the last few hours, but I'm still confused ( a regular condition!) Here's my problem. I have a

Re: [gentoo-user] Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?

2007-04-06 Thread Mick
On Thursday 05 April 2007 20:07, Tony Stohne wrote: Mick said the following on 2007-04-05 19:07: | ... | Hmm, neither less not cat give me color output. Passing --color=y to either | tells me things like: | == | There is no color=y option (less --help for

Re: [gentoo-user] Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?

2007-04-06 Thread Mick
On Friday 06 April 2007 12:06, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: --color=y was for emerge to enable colors through a pipe. less needs -R to show them. I'm coming to the conclusion that something must be amiss in my set up because with or without -R, less shows black white content only. This is an

Re: [gentoo-user] video capture

2007-04-06 Thread ds
On 4/5/07, Matthew R. Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 05 April 2007 16:37, Uwe Thiem wrote: Does the camera generate a normal TV signal (PAL, SECAM, NTSC,...)? If so, the WinTV-PVR150 will work. I assume so, the manual doesn't explicitly say so, but it says just connect it to a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?

2007-04-06 Thread Mick
On Thursday 05 April 2007 19:36, Tony Stohne wrote: Tony Stohne said the following on 2007-04-05 20:26: ... | I think there is a third alternative to rgb.txt and ~/.Xdefaults. | bash DIRCOLORS is an option and it will affect ls. For clarification - dircolors ar not dependent of bash. It is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?

2007-04-06 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 04 April 2007 22:36, b.n. wrote: *slap on the forehead* Oh my god, now I understand it all. You are using a WHITE xterm background. The Gentoo colours make complete sense on a BLACK background. I do agree that they are insane on a white or otherwise light background. I was

Re: [gentoo-user] Re-enable konqueror right click - Create New menus

2007-04-06 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 04 April 2007 09:57, Alan McKinnon wrote: Anyone know which config setting/package/feature enables the Create New sub menu in the konqueror pop-up menus? I recently trimmed my konqueror right down to remove cruft and now when I use it as a file manager, right-click - Create New

[gentoo-user] Re: revdep-rebuild wants to rebuild always dev-java/swt-3.2-r2

2007-04-06 Thread Marc Blumentritt
Alan McKinnon schrieb: On Thursday 05 April 2007, Marc Blumentritt wrote: Thanks for the answers, but to be honest, I still do not get, what the problem is and how to solve it. Could someone explain me, what goes wrong, if I use a binary package like sun-jdk? The problem is that you can't

Re: [gentoo-user] Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?

2007-04-06 Thread Tony Stohne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mick said the following on 2007-04-06 17:44: | ... | That's good. It shows the regexp in colour and makes it easy to find amidst | the text. However, what I had in mind was many different colours, like I can | see e.g. in vim? Is such a thing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?

2007-04-06 Thread Tony Stohne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mick said the following on 2007-04-06 18:18: | | It seems to print out the contents of /etc/DIR_COLORS. It does, ie it shows the DIR_COLORS config. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (MingW32)

[gentoo-user] X locks up

2007-04-06 Thread Michael George
I have been having trouble with my system. For some reason, I've only noticed it recently, but nothing has been updated on the system. What happens is that sometimes (amazingly frequently) when I have open office running on my right screen and I click File, the displays will freeze. The system

[gentoo-user] dev-lang/lua emerge fails: Cannot find $EPATCH_SOURCE!

2007-04-06 Thread Grant Edwards
Any ideas on how to get lua to build? I've googled for Cannot find $EPATCH_SOURCE! and for get_version_component_range command not found, but didn't find anything that seemed relevent. I didn't see anything in the bug database that looked like this either

[gentoo-user] It is Bugday time!!!

2007-04-06 Thread Alexander Færøy
Hi Guys, It is once again time for our monthly Bugday event! As usual you should pop up in #Gentoo-Bugs on Freenode and start fixing various bugs or get some help from other users or developers with random issues and such -- it is up to you! Hope to see you tomorrow in #Gentoo-Bugs on Freenode!

[gentoo-user] More portage brokenness: x11-base/xorg-server won't build

2007-04-06 Thread Grant Edwards
Apparently I picked the wrong day to do an update. First the lua ebuild is broken, and now the xorg-server ebuild is broken: Emerging (1 of 12) x11-base/xorg-server-1.1.1-r5 to / * xorg-server-1.1.1.tar.bz2 RMD160 ;-) ...

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-lang/lua emerge fails: Cannot find $EPATCH_SOURCE!

2007-04-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Grant Edwards, Unpacking source... /usr/portage/dev-lang/lua/lua-5.1.1-r2.ebuild: line 19: get_version_component_range: command not found Unpacking lua-5.1.1.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/lua-5.1.1-r2/work * Cannot find $EPATCH_SOURCE! Value for $EPATCH_SOURCE is: *

[gentoo-user] ssh'ing livecd

2007-04-06 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, I want to copy some files from my gentoo box via eth0 to another box which has only livecd on it and a blank hard drive. I can ssh to the gentoo box from the livecd but not the other way. However, ping works OK from the gentoo box. Here's a sample of the output from the gentoo box:

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh'ing livecd

2007-04-06 Thread deface
do you have ssh running on both machines? sshD is a service, must be installed. On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 17:55 -0700, maxim wexler wrote: Hi group, I want to copy some files from my gentoo box via eth0 to another box which has only livecd on it and a blank hard drive. I can ssh to the

Re: [gentoo-user] More portage brokenness: x11-base/xorg-server won't build

2007-04-06 Thread Chuanwen Wu
Try another mirrors to update. 2007/4/7, Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Apparently I picked the wrong day to do an update. First the lua ebuild is broken, and now the xorg-server ebuild is broken: Emerging (1 of 12)

Re: [gentoo-user] More portage brokenness: x11-base/xorg-server won't build

2007-04-06 Thread Fabio A Correa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I emerged it without problems... Mirror: http://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo Rsync: rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage Chuanwen Wu wrote: Try another mirrors to update. 2007/4/7, Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Apparently I picked the

[gentoo-user] Re: More portage brokenness: x11-base/xorg-server won't build

2007-04-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-04-07, Chuanwen Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try another mirrors to update. I updated several times, though I didn't check to see if it picked a different mirror each time. How do mirrors get broken? -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Is it NOUVELLE