Re: [gentoo-user] Re: uvesafb - does it require use of initramfs/initrd?

2009-01-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 18 January 2009 00:25:49 »Q« wrote: I also have a 1280x800 screen and uvesafb works for me without distortion with this kernel video option in grub.conf: video=uvesafb:1280x800-32,mtrr:3,ywrap Do you have that resolution available in your BIOS? I read somewhere that uvesafb can

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub Error 21: Selected disk does not exist

2009-01-18 Thread Mick
On Saturday 17 January 2009, Grant Edwards wrote: But, now that you mention it, something in /dev was wrong because the first time I booted Gentoo off hda2, the issue message that's displayed before the login prompt gave instructions on how to fix /dev. I never figured out what exactly was

Re: [gentoo-user] digikam, gtkam,... what's else?

2009-01-18 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
On Sunday 18 January 2009 10:37:56 Dale wrote: Most Canon cameras that I have read about are p2p or something. It should just work but maybe there is something specific about your model or they are changing the camera part. ~2-3 months ago all did work. I'm just glad I like my little

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Append string on Kernel builds

2009-01-18 Thread David Relson
On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 08:45:04 -0600 Harry Putnam wrote: Robert Bridge rob...@robbieab.com writes: On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:36:42 -0600 rea...@newsguy.com wrote: What I asked was if there is some tricky syntax I could use on that kernel setting that would do: linux-2.6.26-gentoo-$HOST-N

[gentoo-user] Trouble decrypting message from firefox ebuild

2009-01-18 Thread Grant Edwards
I just build firefox and noticed the following warning in the ebuild output, and I'm a bit baffled by the grammar: All the packages built against mozilla-firefox won't compile, if after installing firefox 3.0 you get some blockers, please add 'xulrunner' to your USE-flags. Does

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble decrypting message from firefox ebuild

2009-01-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 18 January 2009 18:02:10 Grant Edwards wrote: I just build firefox and noticed the following warning in the ebuild output, and I'm a bit baffled by the grammar: All the packages built against mozilla-firefox won't compile, if after installing firefox 3.0 you get some

[gentoo-user] Re: Trouble decrypting message from firefox ebuild

2009-01-18 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-01-18, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 18 January 2009 18:02:10 Grant Edwards wrote: I just build firefox and noticed the following warning in the ebuild output, and I'm a bit baffled by the grammar: All the packages built against mozilla-firefox won't

[gentoo-user] Re: Trouble decrypting message from firefox ebuild

2009-01-18 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-01-18, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: All the packages built against mozilla-firefox won't compile, if after installing firefox 3.0 you get some blockers, please add 'xulrunner' to your USE-flags. Does anybody have idea what the above sentence is trying

[gentoo-user] Re: Append string on Kernel builds

2009-01-18 Thread Harry Putnam
David Relson rel...@osagesoftware.com writes: How about an external tool? I use sed to fill in LOCALVERSION, e.g. V=$( date +%m%d.%H%M ) cp -p .config .config.old sed s/LOCALVERSION.*/LOCALVERSION=\$V\/ .config.old .config make vmlinux modules modules_install Ahaa ... that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trouble decrypting message from firefox ebuild

2009-01-18 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 17:03:36 + (UTC) Grant Edwards gra...@visi.com wrote: Do we get any clues as to what to search for? I searched back a few weeks looking for subject lines containing firefox and didn't find anything relevent. Try looking through (most recent, I believe - Jan 10)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trouble decrypting message from firefox ebuild

2009-01-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 18 January 2009 18:44:40 Grant Edwards wrote: On 2009-01-18, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 18 January 2009 18:02:10 Grant Edwards wrote: I just build firefox and noticed the following warning in the ebuild output, and I'm a bit baffled by the grammar:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X Program to show tty messages

2009-01-18 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 08:39:58PM -0200, Penguin Lover Fernando Antunes squawked: On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Fernando Antunes fs.antu...@gmail.comwrote: Hi. I looking for a way to see/monitor messages sent to the tty when a running X programs. I tryed xconsole, but it only works

[OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble decrypting message from firefox ebuild

2009-01-18 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 07:49:10PM +0200, Penguin Lover Alan McKinnon squawked: If I read that message out loud, it sounds suspiciously like a babelfish translation from Japanese to English. Whatever it is, the author of the message is certainly not a native English speaker. You have way too

Re: [gentoo-user] Reconciling users and services

2009-01-18 Thread Grant
I have some users on a system and some services. How can I make sure only certain users can log into certain services? Do I need to explicitly define which users can log into each service? Are there different types of users so that some can only log into certain services? For example, I

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble decrypting message from firefox ebuild

2009-01-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 18 January 2009 20:10:36 Willie Wong wrote: On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 07:49:10PM +0200, Penguin Lover Alan McKinnon squawked: If I read that message out loud, it sounds suspiciously like a babelfish translation from Japanese to English. Whatever it is, the author of the message is

Re: [gentoo-user] Reconciling users and services

2009-01-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 18 January 2009 20:12:28 Grant wrote: I have some users on a system and some services. How can I make sure only certain users can log into certain services? Do I need to explicitly define which users can log into each service? Are there different types of users so that some

Re: [gentoo-user] Avahi Keeps failing on Emerge - Maybe a Python Error?

2009-01-18 Thread Wojtek Dalętka
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 18 January 2009 06:38:15 Richard Watson wrote: I'm sorry about the delay in closing this. I finally figured out if I remove -pipe from my /etc/make.conf CFLAGS that all my compile errors go away. Looking at the reference on the subject this option tells GCC not to

[gentoo-user] Re: uvesafb - does it require use of initramfs/initrd?

2009-01-18 Thread »Q«
On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 10:43:19 + Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Sunday 18 January 2009 00:25:49 »Q« wrote: I also have a 1280x800 screen and uvesafb works for me without distortion with this kernel video option in grub.conf: video=uvesafb:1280x800-32,mtrr:3,ywrap

[gentoo-user] qt blockages...

2009-01-18 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I'm not used to seeing all the additional messages below the blockage indication. Can someone possibly help me understand how to read this? Are there really application packages that cannot be installed at the same or is only about qt and possibly the USE flags I've got? I tried

Re: [gentoo-user] qt blockages...

2009-01-18 Thread Christopher Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I'm not used to seeing all the additional messages below the blockage indication. Can someone possibly help me understand how to read this? Are there really application packages that cannot be installed at the

Re: [gentoo-user] qt blockages...

2009-01-18 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Christopher Walters cjw20...@comcast.net wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I'm not used to seeing all the additional messages below the blockage indication. Can someone possibly help me understand how to read

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble decrypting message from firefox ebuild

2009-01-18 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 18 January 2009 20:10:36 Willie Wong wrote: On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 07:49:10PM +0200, Penguin Lover Alan McKinnon squawked: If I read that message out loud, it sounds suspiciously like a babelfish translation from Japanese to English. Whatever it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trouble decrypting message from firefox ebuild

2009-01-18 Thread Dale
Mike Kazantsev wrote: On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 17:03:36 + (UTC) Grant Edwards gra...@visi.com wrote: Do we get any clues as to what to search for? I searched back a few weeks looking for subject lines containing firefox and didn't find anything relevent. Try looking through (most

[gentoo-user] Re: Trouble decrypting message from firefox ebuild

2009-01-18 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-01-18, Mike Kazantsev mike_kazant...@fraggod.net wrote: On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 17:03:36 + (UTC) Grant Edwards gra...@visi.com wrote: Do we get any clues as to what to search for? I searched back a few weeks looking for subject lines containing firefox and didn't find anything

[gentoo-user] Re: Trouble decrypting message from firefox ebuild

2009-01-18 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-01-19, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Try looking through (most recent, I believe - Jan 10) 'Trouble with portage' thread, started by econti with answers from AllenJB. I would add in xulrunner if you can search the body of the message instead of just the subject line. I keep mine

[gentoo-user] Re: Trouble decrypting message from firefox ebuild

2009-01-18 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-01-18, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: All the packages built against mozilla-firefox won't compile, if after installing firefox 3.0 you get some blockers, please add 'xulrunner' to your USE-flags. Does anybody have idea what the above sentence is trying

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trouble decrypting message from firefox ebuild

2009-01-18 Thread Dale
Grant Edwards wrote: On 2009-01-19, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Try looking through (most recent, I believe - Jan 10) 'Trouble with portage' thread, started by econti with answers from AllenJB. I would add in xulrunner if you can search the body of the message instead of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trouble decrypting message from firefox ebuild

2009-01-18 Thread Dale
Grant Edwards wrote: Now I'm confused. I thought xulrunner was the user-interface engine rather than the rendering engine. Somewhat on topic here. I use Seamonkey for my browser. Should I use xulrunner too? It is disabled right now but do I need to turn it on? Just curious. Dale

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Re: Trouble decrypting message from firefox ebuild

2009-01-18 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-01-18, Willie Wong ww...@princeton.edu wrote: You have way too much faith in the education system provided by English speaking countries. +1 QOTW Of course, you can bloody-well argue, by way of Henry Higgins, that in America they haven't spoken [English] for years. :) Rather more

[gentoo-user] Re: Trouble decrypting message from firefox ebuild

2009-01-18 Thread »Q«
In gl0vo0$mp...@ger.gmane.org, Grant Edwards gra...@visi.com wrote: On 2009-01-18, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: But, I stand by my assertion that give just the message very many people are going to figure out that it means you need to replace the firefox use flag with the

Re: [gentoo-user] Avahi Keeps failing on Emerge - Maybe a Python Error?

2009-01-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 18 January 2009 23:57:24 Wojtek Dalętka wrote: I would like to write my first post here just to inform you that I also had this problem with avahi and pygtk. Avahi failed to emerge and I had to remove pygtk from my use flags, than it compiled OK. I was just interested if removing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trouble decrypting message from firefox ebuild

2009-01-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 19 January 2009 06:32:00 Grant Edwards wrote: This has now been fixed, the engine is now in a package called xulrunner which firefox builds against. Other apps also need xulrunner, but if you keep USE=firefox intact those apps will pull in all of firefox-2 just to get gecko. If