[gentoo-user] Re: esound refuses to compile with docbook error even though -doc is specified

2007-12-02 Thread Hans de Graaff
On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 15:24:00 -0800, Justin Patrin wrote: # emerge -auv esound These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N] media-sound/esound-0.2.38-r1 USE=alsa ipv6 tcpd -debug -doc 0 kB ... Making all in docs make[2]:

Re: [gentoo-user] Orphan libraries in my system

2007-12-02 Thread Mick
On Saturday 01 December 2007, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Samstag, 1. Dezember 2007, Mick wrote: On Saturday 01 December 2007, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Samstag, 1. Dezember 2007, Mick wrote: Hi All, I found these libraries hanging around. Should I be deleting them or

Re: [gentoo-user] Orphan libraries in my system

2007-12-02 Thread Mick
On Sunday 02 December 2007, Mick wrote: On Saturday 01 December 2007, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: sometimes the breakage is hidden and subtle - but for example stale libstdcc.la files are known to break compilation of c++ code (like qt, kde and other cool stuff). It is usually a good idea

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: esound refuses to compile with docbook error even though -doc is specified

2007-12-02 Thread Justin Patrin
On Dec 1, 2007 11:37 PM, Hans de Graaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 15:24:00 -0800, Justin Patrin wrote: # emerge -auv esound These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N] media-sound/esound-0.2.38-r1

Re: [gentoo-user] Use of gethostname() and getdomainname()

2007-12-02 Thread Mick
On Saturday 01 December 2007, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Saturday 1 December 2007, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I've got my own domain and domain server. I've just run into a problem about the appropriate settings for hosts and domains, and it's messing up a few things in my postfix setup. The

[gentoo-user] Cell phone as modem

2007-12-02 Thread Grant
Has anyone attached their cell phone to their Gentoo system to act as a modem? This would be great for traveling. I'm with Sprint (no contract) but I think I'll switch to T-Mobile because from what I understand they are the only cell phone provider in the US which uses the GSM band. That way I

Re: [gentoo-user] Cell phone as modem

2007-12-02 Thread Mick
On Sunday 02 December 2007, Grant wrote: Has anyone attached their cell phone to their Gentoo system to act as a modem? This would be great for traveling. I'm with Sprint (no contract) but I think I'll switch to T-Mobile because from what I understand they are the only cell phone provider in

Re: [gentoo-user] x86_64 apache problem

2007-12-02 Thread Mick
On Saturday 01 December 2007, David Relson wrote: /etc/init.d/apache2 start runs without any output /etc/init.d/apache2 status then reports: * status: stopped Looking up localhost Making HTTP connection to localhost Alert!: Unable to connect to remote host. lynx:

Re: [gentoo-user] Use of gethostname() and getdomainname()

2007-12-02 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Sunday 2 December 2007, Mick wrote: Try adding the following line to /etc/hosts: a.b.c.d hostname.your.domain hostname of course, replacing a.b.c.d with your correct ip address. I don't know whether this is related to your problem, but it usually solves the domainname: (none)

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox shared folder anyone? [SOLVED]

2007-12-02 Thread Chuanwen Wu
Thank you! I use this way to solve the same problem in the x86_64 platform. I use virtualbox-1.5.2. On Apr 23, 2007 10:46 PM, Helmut Jarausch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The following steps were successful (for me) echo app-emulation/virtualbox-bin additions dvitool \

[gentoo-user] Re: Cell phone as modem

2007-12-02 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-12-02, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone attached their cell phone to their Gentoo system to act as a modem? Yes. My Verizon LG VX4400 works fine as a modem. When plugged into a USB port, it shows up as /dev/ttyUSBn. You can dial up any landline modem you like using AT

Re: [gentoo-user] x86_64 apache problem

2007-12-02 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 2 Dec 2007 15:12:33 + Mick wrote: On Saturday 01 December 2007, David Relson wrote: /etc/init.d/apache2 start runs without any output /etc/init.d/apache2 status then reports: * status: stopped Looking up localhost Making HTTP connection to localhost

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Cell phone as modem

2007-12-02 Thread Grant
Has anyone attached their cell phone to their Gentoo system to act as a modem? Yes. My Verizon LG VX4400 works fine as a modem. When plugged into a USB port, it shows up as /dev/ttyUSBn. You can dial up any landline modem you like using AT commands, or you can dial up Verizon's internal

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox-bin won't start on amd64

2007-12-02 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 02 Dec 2007, Grant wrote: /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher: line 460: /opt/firefox/firefox-bin: No such file or directory On this box, $ which firefox-bin /usr/bin/firefox-bin -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox-bin won't start on amd64

2007-12-02 Thread Grant
/usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher: line 460: /opt/firefox/firefox-bin: No such file or directory On this box, $ which firefox-bin /usr/bin/firefox-bin Me too, I should have said that. $ which firefox-bin /usr/bin/firefox-bin Here's the whole error: $ firefox-bin

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Cell phone as modem

2007-12-02 Thread Grant
Yes. My Verizon LG VX4400 works fine as a modem. When plugged into a USB port, it shows up as /dev/ttyUSBn. You can dial up any landline modem you like using AT commands, or you can dial up Verizon's internal ISP number. The connection looks exactly like any other PPP connection via a

[gentoo-user] Re: Cell phone as modem

2007-12-02 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-12-02, Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think so. According to what information I could gather, I don't think the other carriers provide data connections to dial-up landline numbers without a data plan. I just googled across something saying that Sprint also provides a

[gentoo-user] Re: Cell phone as modem

2007-12-02 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-12-02, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nice, I'm very glad to hear it works so well. I guess something like that would work even over an analog connection. On a true analog (800MHz AMPS service) cell phone, I've had pretty decent success using MNP5 modems up to about 2400 baud. The

Re: [gentoo-user] x86_64 apache problem - OK now

2007-12-02 Thread David Relson
After rebooting to 32-bit gentoo to verify the 32-bit apache setup was fine, I rebooted to 64-bit gentoo. All is working now. I just wish I knew exactly what the root cause of apache not running was and why it's fine now. lynx: Can't access startfile http://localhost/server-status I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Cell phone as modem

2007-12-02 Thread Grant
Nice, I'm very glad to hear it works so well. I guess something like that would work even over an analog connection. On a true analog (800MHz AMPS service) cell phone, I've had pretty decent success using MNP5 modems up to about 2400 baud. The standard CCITT error

[gentoo-user] Re: Cell phone as modem

2007-12-02 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-12-02, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I'm trying to determine is, if ATT or T-Mobile have the type of service you're describing: 1. will it work in both analog and digital service areas 2. does the phone need to support anything in particular to use it ATT and T-Mobile are both

Re: [gentoo-user] PHP 5 masked notice (was: Gentoo on the server side)

2007-12-02 Thread Jil Larner
I had to do the same thing with the mysql upgrade from 3.x to 4.x. My apache upgrade, I just had to redo the configs by hand. php4 to php5 might be a bit more tricky. Currently that's the reason I have php5 masked... PHP 4 won't be maintained after 8/8/8 (August, 8 2008) and so should be of

[gentoo-user] Vlc and no sound...

2007-12-02 Thread Danis Petkakis
hi there i have some files in .mkv and format and would like to to view them using vlc...the problem is that there is only the sound in the background...by that i mean that i can only hear for example the music that plays in the background and not the people talking in the movie...subtitles and

Re: [gentoo-user] Vlc and no sound...

2007-12-02 Thread Andrey Falko
On Dec 2, 2007 6:16 PM, Danis Petkakis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi there i have some files in .mkv and format and would like to to view them using vlc...the problem is that there is only the sound in the background...by that i mean that i can only hear for example the music that plays in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Use of gethostname() and getdomainname()

2007-12-02 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I like keeping it to stuff that makes sense. I don't put in private network addresses unless I actually use them, which would just be the 192.168.x.x addresses provided by my DSL router, behind which I hide most of my systems. But for the present thread, I'm talking about the routable IP number

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Cell phone as modem

2007-12-02 Thread Grant
What I'm trying to determine is, if ATT or T-Mobile have the type of service you're describing: 1. will it work in both analog and digital service areas 2. does the phone need to support anything in particular to use it ATT and T-Mobile are both GSM (digital) only. They don't have

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Cell phone as modem

2007-12-02 Thread Grant
What I do is use Verizon CDMA (far better coverage than any of the GSM networks) in the US and I have a GSM phone that I use internationally. You can get good used unlocked tri and quad-band GSM phones for $20 and up. You can get brand new ones for $30 and up. I got nearly new used Noka

Re: [gentoo-user] Vlc and no sound...

2007-12-02 Thread Danis Petkakis
well i don't have the latest version of vlc compiled as suggested from the link you gave me so i will add vlc in portage.keywords for now and then compile the latest unstable version of it...hope that should solve my problems...i will post back for results...thanks... On 03/12/2007, Andrey Falko

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Cell phone as modem

2007-12-02 Thread Gabriel Rossetti
Grant wrote: Nice, I'm very glad to hear it works so well. I guess something like that would work even over an analog connection. On a true analog (800MHz AMPS service) cell phone, I've had pretty decent success using MNP5 modems up to about 2400 baud. The standard CCITT error

Re: [gentoo-user] Vlc and no sound...

2007-12-02 Thread Danis Petkakis
just compiled the latest unstable version but still the problem remains...any other suggestions?? On 03/12/2007, Danis Petkakis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well i don't have the latest version of vlc compiled as suggested from the link you gave me so i will add vlc in portage.keywords for now and

Re: [gentoo-user] Vlc and no sound...

2007-12-02 Thread Andrey Falko
You compiled with the following USE variables by adding the line media-video/vlc dvd ffmpeg mpeg mad wxwindows aac dts a52 ogg flac theora oggvorbis matroska freetype bidi xv svga gnutls stream vlm httpd cdda vcd cdio live to the file */etc/portage/package.use*. This will give you a fully

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Cell phone as modem

2007-12-02 Thread Grant
If both Sprint and Verizon offer it, there is probably a good chance that ATT and/or T-Mobile do too. Neither Sprint nor Verizon offer GSM, they use CDMA, thus you can't travel anywhere (that I know of) with those phones. If you are looking for a world phone, get a quad-band GSM phone,

[gentoo-user] Re: Cell phone as modem

2007-12-02 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-12-03, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think that pretty much all GSM phones support data calls (I could be wrong). Whether or not the network will allow them without paying extra for a data plan is the question. Got it. Is this official data plan service something that will work

[gentoo-user] Re: Cell phone as modem

2007-12-02 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-12-03, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I do is use Verizon CDMA (far better coverage than any of the GSM networks) in the US and I have a GSM phone that I use internationally. You can get good used unlocked tri and quad-band GSM phones for $20 and up. You can get brand new ones