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

2007-06-11 Thread Alexander Skwar
Robert Welz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 04.04.2007 um 06:17 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Why do --nocolor and --color=n not work (sys-apps/portage-2.1.2.3)? Why does the damned thing default to thinking I want blaring bizarre colors scattered all over my screen? Because it makes things

[gentoo-user] Help needed 2007.0 automount

2007-06-11 Thread Indran D Govender
Hello All I have just installed gentoo 2007.0 and for most parts of it, I am very happy. There is 1 issue that I need help with. 1. Automounting of CD's and DVD's Hald and dbus are set to default run levels. gnome-mount is installed I am part of the plugdev and cdrom groups And I

Re: [gentoo-user] kmail compilation problem

2007-06-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 10 June 2007, rebus_rdk wrote: If someone has any idea on either how to remove kmail completely How is your kde installed - the full packages or the split ebuilds? If you emerged kde or kdepim, then you are going to get kmail as it's a dependency. You can unmerge kdepim if you don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving linux system to another partition

2007-06-11 Thread Mick
On Friday 08 June 2007 19:52, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hi, On Sat, 09 Jun 2007 02:43:23 +1000 Tim Allingham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I generally prefer to do this with dd, from a remote environment dd if=/dev/source partition of=/dev/destination partition Remote Environment probably

Re: [gentoo-user] Again: Critical bugs considered invalid

2007-06-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sat, 2007-06-09 at 21:13 +1200, Kent Fredric wrote: Genoo Everything. given Everything = Gentoo + Debian + RedHat + ..., let EverythingElse = Everything - Gentoo; then Gentoo Everything =~ Gentoo Gentoo + EverythingElse =~ Gentoo - Gentoo Gentoo + EveryThingElse - Gentoo =~ 0

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: A List Question

2007-06-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sun, 2007-06-10 at 09:21 +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tried to figure out how to find the gentoo-user specific pages in gmane, but the interface is not super-intuitive. I may give it another try today. :) http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user HTH, -- Iain Buchanan

Re: [gentoo-user] Help needed 2007.0 automount

2007-06-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 10:03 +0200, Indran D Govender wrote: When I insert a disk, I get the error Cannot mount Volume hmm, I've had this too. Try some simple things first: log out and back in (of gnome); check /etc/fstab entry allows a user to mount cdrom; make sure gnome-volume-manager is

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving linux system to another partition

2007-06-11 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 08:24:00 +0100 Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 08 June 2007 19:52, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Also, this method will also need a bigger or equally sized new partition. If it's bigger, one also needs to resize the filesystem afterwards. How do you resize

Re: [gentoo-user] X server won't load

2007-06-11 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 15:25:23 -0400 Andrey Vul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I forgot to add /usr/src/linux/.config to my previous post! Oh dear, now you added up to 140kB of almost useless information getting blasted over the world... Did you see /any/ error in there? Well, I didn't. So the

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

2007-06-11 Thread Bertram Scharpf
Hi, Am Sonntag, 10. Jun 2007, 15:06:03 -0500 schrieb Karl Haines: Color is pretty ;) lol. It makes things interesting! I agree however that there might need to be some way to turn it off easily. As far as I see, most e* tools respond on an appended |cat or have at least a non-color option. Ok,

[gentoo-user] nic problem

2007-06-11 Thread Johannes Skov Frandsen
I can't seem to get my system to detect my nic. When I run lspci I get the following info: Intel Corporation 82801DB PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller (rev 81) what modules do I need to enable when I configure my kernel? I have already enabled: Device Drivers --- Network Device

[gentoo-user] KDE (X?) artefacts

2007-06-11 Thread Aleksey Kunitskiy
HI, I have strange KDE(or X11?) artefacts on my desktop. The animation icon near cursor is drawing ugly, in some places I have bad painted corners. What is it ? This doesn't block my work, but maybe I've bad configured KDE/X :) ? In first attachment (icon) there is an icon In second(tooltip) -

Re: [gentoo-user] nic problem

2007-06-11 Thread rebus_rdk
If lspci returns your NIC it should be fine, what does ifconfig -a says? I'm sorry, but i dont quite understand what part of your system doesn't detect your network interface... On 6/11/07, Johannes Skov Frandsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't seem to get my system to detect my nic. When I

[gentoo-user] courier-pop3d problem

2007-06-11 Thread dexter
Hello I have a strange problem with curier-pop3d service I can connect to server, then I input username and password - I'm granted access, I receive +OK logged in. When I want to do LIST command, I get +OK POP3 clients that break here, they violate STD53. I'm unable to list any messages

Re: [gentoo-user] nic problem

2007-06-11 Thread Johannes Skov Frandsen
rebus_rdk wrote: If lspci returns your NIC it should be fine, what does ifconfig -a says? I'm sorry, but i dont quite understand what part of your system doesn't detect your network interface... On 6/11/07, Johannes Skov Frandsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't seem to get my system to

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE (X?) artefacts

2007-06-11 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 11. Juni 2007, Aleksey Kunitskiy wrote: HI, I have strange KDE(or X11?) artefacts on my desktop. The animation icon near cursor is drawing ugly, in some places I have bad painted corners. What is it ? This doesn't block my work, but maybe I've bad configured KDE/X :) ? In first

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Firefox's Connecting

2007-06-11 Thread Grant
Sounds like a routing problem of sorts to me, apache ( afaik ) has no impact on /ping/ times. My favourite tool for finding traffic problems is mtr , see packet loss and route and where packet loss is occuring all at once :) Sometimes it will report 100% packet loss on a middle step

Re: [gentoo-user] Again: Critical bugs considered invalid

2007-06-11 Thread Kent Fredric
On 6/11/07, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2007-06-09 at 21:13 +1200, Kent Fredric wrote: Genoo Everything. given Everything = Gentoo + Debian + RedHat + ..., let EverythingElse = Everything - Gentoo; then Gentoo Everything =~ Gentoo Gentoo + EverythingElse =~ Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE (X?) artefacts

2007-06-11 Thread Dale
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: that happens because X does not like round corners very much. There is nothing you can do about it at the moment. Why does it not like round corners? My Seamonkey is square on the bottom parts. Maybe you are talking about something else, if so, disregard

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE (X?) artefacts

2007-06-11 Thread Jesus Guerrero
El Monday 11 June 2007 14:49:40 Hemmann, Volker Armin escribió: On Montag, 11. Juni 2007, Aleksey Kunitskiy wrote: I have strange KDE(or X11?) artefacts on my desktop. The animation icon near cursor is drawing ugly, in some places I have bad painted corners. What is it ? This doesn't

[gentoo-user] OpenOffice

2007-06-11 Thread James
Hello, When I start up open office (amd64) I get these error messages: ooffice ./CCPS-fiber-co.doc QSettings: failed to open file '/usr/qt/3/etc/settings/qtrc' (process:9443): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_screen_get_font_options: assertion `GDK_IS_SCREEN (screen)' failed The first one I fixed (?)

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving linux system to another partition

2007-06-11 Thread Randy Barlow
Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Of course, there's no need to grow the filesystem, but you won't have more space than before because file systems don't usually adapt to partition size. I am confused as to what you mean here. It is my experience that resizing a file system that has been dd'ed to a

[gentoo-user] Double network cards

2007-06-11 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi list, i would like some technical advice concerning the possibility of mounting two network devices on the same desktop computer. One network card (which is binded to a fixed IP) allows me to allow the machine to be visible on the public network, while the second one (faster, the one i've

Re: [gentoo-user] cvs server config error

2007-06-11 Thread Arnau Bria
On Sat, 9 Jun 2007 18:05:24 +0200 Alex Schuster wrote: Arnau Bria writes: looking for this errror in google I got : http://gentoo-wiki.com/Talk:HOWTO_CVS_Server which says that I must enable server use flag to prevent this error, but this flag does not exist for cvs

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice

2007-06-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 11 June 2007, James wrote: Hello, When I start up open office (amd64) I get these error messages: ooffice ./CCPS-fiber-co.doc QSettings: failed to open file '/usr/qt/3/etc/settings/qtrc' (process:9443): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_screen_get_font_options: assertion `GDK_IS_SCREEN

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Again: Critical bugs considered invalid

2007-06-11 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 01:18:58 +1200 Kent Fredric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/11/07, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2007-06-09 at 21:13 +1200, Kent Fredric wrote: Genoo Everything. given Everything = Gentoo + Debian + RedHat + ..., let EverythingElse = Everything -

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving linux system to another partition

2007-06-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 11 June 2007, Randy Barlow wrote: Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Of course, there's no need to grow the filesystem, but you won't have more space than before because file systems don't usually adapt to partition size. I am confused as to what you mean here. It is my experience that

Re: [gentoo-user] Double network cards

2007-06-11 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 16:19:58 +0200 Marco Calviani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, i would like some technical advice concerning the possibility of mounting two network devices on the same desktop computer. One network card (which is binded to a fixed IP) allows me to allow the machine to

Re: [gentoo-user] Double network cards

2007-06-11 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 16:19:58 +0200 Marco Calviani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i would like some technical advice concerning the possibility of mounting two network devices on the same desktop computer. One network card (which is binded to a fixed IP) allows me to allow the machine to be

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving linux system to another partition

2007-06-11 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 10:18:27 -0500 Randy Barlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Of course, there's no need to grow the filesystem, but you won't have more space than before because file systems don't usually adapt to partition size. I am confused as to what you

[gentoo-user] Re: OpenOffice

2007-06-11 Thread James
:20070611-042153.log snip Building openoffice tag:OOF680_m14 apply rules: /var/tmp/portage/app-office/openoffice-2.2.0/work/ooo /patches/src680/apply build dir: /var/tmp/portage/app-office/openoffice-2.2.0/work/ooo /build/OOF680_m14

Re: [gentoo-user] MAJOR udev problem, PLEASE help

2007-06-11 Thread Redouane Boumghar
Hello Trenton, Ok it's been a month since this thread but... I found myself too oftenly in front of unsolved archived threads. Did you recompile your kernel with udev support ? I had a similar problem with a PCMCIA ethernet card while turning my system to udev. I recompiled my kernel with the

[gentoo-user] Re: Double network cards

2007-06-11 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-06-11, Marco Calviani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i would like some technical advice concerning the possibility of mounting two network devices on the same desktop computer. One network card (which is binded to a fixed IP) allows me to allow the machine to be visible on the public

Re: [gentoo-user] X server won't load

2007-06-11 Thread Andrey Vul
drm driver is part of the kernel; should I upgrade to -rc4 or downgrade to 2.6.21.4? On 6/11/07, Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 15:25:23 -0400 Andrey Vul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I forgot to add /usr/src/linux/.config to my previous post! Oh dear, now you

Re: [gentoo-user] Double network cards

2007-06-11 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi all, thanks for replying. Actually the network with the fixed IP would be used only for accessing the machine from the internet (that would be its only use), since the other address is masked behind closed network. regards, marco On 6/11/07, Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi,

Re: [gentoo-user] X server won't load

2007-06-11 Thread Andrey Vul
On 6/11/07, Andrey Vul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: drm driver is part of the kernel; should I upgrade to -rc4 or downgrade to 2.6.21.4? But first I'll remove the symlink USE flag so that dependencies won't screw up my system. I'll try -rc4 first, if that doesn't work, I'll email my .config and

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE (X?) artefacts

2007-06-11 Thread Aleksey Kunitskiy
On Monday 11 June 2007 17:00, Jesus Guerrero wrote: So, your problem is, most likely, to be caused by the lack of such extension. Check your xorg.conf, and make sure you have this line on it, and it is not commented out. Load extmod -- Jesús Guerrero Thanks! This works for me :)

Re: [gentoo-user] Double network cards

2007-06-11 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 18:42:04 +0200 Marco Calviani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks for replying. Actually the network with the fixed IP would be used only for accessing the machine from the internet (that would be its only use), since the other address is masked behind closed network.

Re: [gentoo-user] X server won't load

2007-06-11 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 12:39:36 -0400 Andrey Vul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/11/07, Andrey Vul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: drm driver is part of the kernel; should I upgrade to -rc4 or downgrade to 2.6.21.4? I'm pretty unsure, but reverting to a stable version is at least worth a try.

[gentoo-user] Still video problem was: Videos not playing anymore

2007-06-11 Thread Christian Herzyk
Hi, I still have the same problem: videos that I want to play with xine (or similar viewers) do not show anymore. In xine the screen stays blue and I just hear the sound of the videos. If I change the video driver from xv to opengl I get some moving stripes coresponding to the main colors in

Re: [gentoo-user] Double network cards

2007-06-11 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 18:42:04 +0200 Marco Calviani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, thanks for replying. Actually the network with the fixed IP would be used only for accessing the machine from the internet (that would be its only use), since the other address is masked behind closed

[gentoo-user] maintaining package.keywords

2007-06-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! Is there an automatism to inform me that a package has become stable, so I can remove it from package.keywords? I often need to add a package there, tvbrowser for example needed 24 more masked packages. But after a while they become stable (tvbrowser now only needs 5 unstable

Re: [gentoo-user] maintaining package.keywords

2007-06-11 Thread Ken
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alex Schuster wrote: Hi there! Is there an automatism to inform me that a package has become stable, so I can remove it from package.keywords? I often need to add a package there, tvbrowser for example needed 24 more masked packages. But

Re: [gentoo-user] maintaining package.keywords

2007-06-11 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 21:53 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: Is there an automatism to inform me that a package has become stable, so I can remove it from package.keywords? I often need to add a package there, tvbrowser for example needed 24 more masked packages. But after a while they become

Re: [gentoo-user] maintaining package.keywords

2007-06-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Albert Hopkins writes: I believe, per the man page, that you can specify any DEPEND atom, so you could include versions e.g: =media-tv/tvbrowser-2.5.0 ~x86 Have you tried something like that and it didn't work? I thought I had some while ago, but obviously I did something wrong,

[gentoo-user] [Announcement] gentoo-class: 06/14 on command-line

2007-06-11 Thread Alexandre Buisse
Hi all, we've decided to hold a small gentoo class on IRC next Thursday, and see if it goes well and if the experiment needs to be developed. The topic is command-line usage and we will try to speak about the following things: 1) why use command-line 2) what is a shell? a terminal? how to

Re: [gentoo-user] Still video problem was: Videos not playing anymore

2007-06-11 Thread Peter Alfredsen
On Monday 11 June 2007, Christian Herzyk wrote: Hi, I still have the same problem: videos that I want to play with xine (or similar viewers) do not show anymore. In xine the screen stays blue and I just hear the sound of the videos. If I change the video driver from xv to opengl I get some

Re: [gentoo-user] Double network cards

2007-06-11 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 11 June 2007, dexter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Double network cards': Marco Calviani pisze: Hi list, i would like some technical advice concerning the possibility of mounting two network devices on the same desktop computer. One network card (which is

Re: [gentoo-user] Double network cards

2007-06-11 Thread Jerry McBride
On Monday 11 June 2007 10:19:58 am Marco Calviani wrote: Hi list, i would like some technical advice concerning the possibility of mounting two network devices on the same desktop computer. One network card (which is binded to a fixed IP) allows me to allow the machine to be visible on the

Re: [gentoo-user] X server won't load

2007-06-11 Thread Andrey Vul
Bingo, fixed the problem by removing drm driver from the kernel. Is x11-drm stable? On 6/11/07, Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 12:39:36 -0400 Andrey Vul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/11/07, Andrey Vul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: drm driver is part of the

Re: [gentoo-user] [Announcement] gentoo-class: 06/14 on command-line

2007-06-11 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
--- Alexandre Buisse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: we've decided to hold a small gentoo class on IRC next Thursday, and see if it goes well and if the experiment needs to be developed. The topic is command-line usage and we will try to speak about the following things: 1) why use

Re: [gentoo-user] MAJOR udev problem, PLEASE help

2007-06-11 Thread Trenton Adams
Yes, everything worked just fine. It indeed switched my ethernet to a different interface (eth1). Not a problem. On 6/11/07, Redouane Boumghar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Trenton, Ok it's been a month since this thread but... I found myself too oftenly in front of unsolved archived

Re: [gentoo-user] MAJOR udev problem, PLEASE help

2007-06-11 Thread W.Kenworthy
This is giving me some problems on a laptop - I have a 70-persistent-net rules file which attempts to pin eth0 to the ethernet interface, and eth1 to the wireless interface. This works fine on a cold boot or hibernate to disk (sus2) - without it the allocation wanders between the interfaces at

[gentoo-user] DVD 2.4 to DVD5

2007-06-11 Thread Nicola Degl'Innocenti
Hi! I am a new member of this list, my name is Nicola and I am from italy. And, oh yes, I am a Gentoo User! I have bought a new camcorder with minidvd, and i need to convert this mini dvd to the standard video dvd (4.7Gb) preferibly without addictional compression and in a simply way :-) Is

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD 2.4 to DVD5

2007-06-11 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 12 June 2007 00:19:20 Nicola Degl'Innocenti wrote: I have bought a new camcorder with minidvd, and i need to convert this mini dvd to the standard video dvd (4.7Gb) preferibly without addictional compression and in a simply way :-) Can you read the mini-dvds in your computer's DVD