Re: [gentoo-user] file .ogg

2006-03-29 Thread Holly Bostick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: Hi everybody. I think gentoo is driving me crazy. Since I found out the I can listen .wav file but not .ogg file, to-day I installed libvorbis, mpeg123 and vorbis-tools. But the result is the same . . . I cannot listen .ogg file. Hi, Emilio, What program

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc upgrade, should it upgrade?

2006-03-29 Thread Holly Bostick
Teresa and Dale schreef Nagatoro wrote: Why don't upgrade? As far as I know upgrading gcc isn't a big deal. It was just the 3.3.x - 3.4.x that was due to that the api for c++ had changed. Oh, I thought it was a big deal. That's why I was wanting to wait. Funny thing is, it don't want

Re: [gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel

2006-03-29 Thread Holly Bostick
Lord Sauron schreef: Okay, here's where I've isolated the problem to. snip . I know that it correctly compiles the kernel. I put a new name for the new kernel (test1) to try and ID it snip # make install Sticks it into /boot. /boot now reads System.map

Re: [gentoo-user] GorillaTrades Tutorial

2006-03-29 Thread Holly Bostick
Mark Knecht schreef: Hi, I wonder if anyone else has this problem. The tutorial at this page starts and I get audio, but I don't get any video or slides. Config problem here or Linux multimedia issue? http://www.gorillatrades.com/tutorial/# Thanks, Mark Like JimD, I also was able to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mpg123: Can't open /dev/dsp!

2006-03-24 Thread Holly Bostick
Walter Dnes schreef: On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 08:41:44PM +0100, Simon Kellett wrote Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... mpg123 complains about not being able to open /dev/dsp ... Does mpg123 -a /dev/sound/dsp work ? Nope. The only change is that now I get Can't open

Re: [gentoo-user] autofs, supermount, submount... which is best for Gentoo?

2006-03-23 Thread Holly Bostick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: Very informative, thanks. I think I'll go with submount. These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N] sys-fs/submount-0.9-r2 159 kB Total size of downloads: 159 kB localhost ~ # emerge submount

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo

2006-03-23 Thread Holly Bostick
JimD schreef: I have been using Linux for a number of years and the one trick I have never read how to do is something like: sudo echo app-portage/porthole ~* /etc/portage/package.keywords Well this one I do with a set of revised command nicked from the list, entered into ~/.bashrc, and

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge java syntax

2006-03-22 Thread Holly Bostick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: I'm at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/java/tiger-faq.xml, which gives the syntax as: emerge =sun-jdk-1.5* but the pretend isn't working as I expect it to. localhost ~ # localhost ~ # localhost ~ # emerge -p =sun-jdk-1.5* These are the packages that I would

Re: [gentoo-user] Lilypond version

2006-03-21 Thread Holly Bostick
Allan Spagnol Comar schreef: Hi, I don't know where should I post this kind of message, but I need to use lilypond as one of my working tools. I got stunned when I saw today that lilypond version available at portage tree is 2.0.3 the latest stable version is 2.6.5 and 2.0.3 is extreme

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing file systems

2006-03-19 Thread Holly Bostick
Hemmann, Volker Armin schreef: On Sunday 19 March 2006 13:04, Sumeet Pal Singh wrote: HI This mail is not directly related to gentoo. I have gentoo,ubuntu 5.10 on my system and using FC3 since it was released. I tried to install FC4 on my system by sharing the swap and /home partition

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: QT 4

2006-03-16 Thread Holly Bostick
Dmitry S. Makovey schreef: there are quite a few slotted packages in portage so you might bump into this every now and then (KDE is slotted AFAIR). Even easier-- so are kernel sources. Install a new one, and it's always going to be [ NS ], not [ U ] . Looking at how kernel sources are handled

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo USE flags

2006-03-15 Thread Holly Bostick
Goran Maksimović schreef: Hi! I said what will I do on my system and I value the answers of people who really answered what I have asked. Great, happy to hear it. Congratulations to our lucky winners, good luck in the future to everyone else, and can we please move on now? The 'discussion'

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo USE flags

2006-03-15 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 21:18:25 +0100, Goran Maksimović wrote: If you read my first post about USE flags I wanted some recommendations and not links to sites where USE flags are explained. Did you read the second paragraph of my post before replying to it? I think he

Re: [gentoo-user] how to kernel update when executing emerge -u world?

2006-03-14 Thread Holly Bostick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: Every time when I run emerge -u world, the kernel will be updated if it have some update. This is normal; you're asking for updates (-u), so Portage is offering you the available update you asked for. Why is this a problem? Are you running a different kernel? Not

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo USE flags

2006-03-14 Thread Holly Bostick
Goran � schreef: Hi! I have already asked this but I will ask again. I am looking for who could write me a list of USE flags to setup in make.conf, so anyone? I need desktop system with KDE and not GNOME, support for DVD and CD ripping and burning, playing DVDs and DivX movies, MP3. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo USE flags

2006-03-14 Thread Holly Bostick
Goran � schreef: Thanks! I didn't only understand something about per packages which you mentioned in your mail. USE flags can be (and of course, are) set globally in /etc/make.conf (and /usr/portage/profiles/use.defaults), but USE flags can also be enabled or disabled for a particular package

Re: [gentoo-user] Reasons for testing or stable of kde packages

2006-03-12 Thread Holly Bostick
Marco Calviani schreef: Hi list, i would like to have clarification regarding the policy of switching packages from testing to stable. Is this policy due to particular bugs in the packages? No. Gentoo's stable and testing refers to the /ebuilds/, not the packages. I'm not a dev, but from

Re: [gentoo-user] Reasons for testing or stable of kde packages

2006-03-12 Thread Holly Bostick
Marco Calviani schreef: Hi Holly, and thanks for your clear explanation, Hi list, i would like to have clarification regarding the policy of switching packages from testing to stable. Is this policy due to particular bugs in the packages? No. Gentoo's stable and testing refers to the

Re: [gentoo-user] mouse detected, but no /dev/mice

2006-03-12 Thread Holly Bostick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: hiya, I have two USB mice. Dmesg shows them being detected, but there is no /dev/mice nor /dev/mouse. Any suggestions? If you're using udev, the devices should be found in /dev/input/mice. At least that's where mine is. HTH, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] radeon and framebuffer

2006-03-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Aggelos schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: I myself have a 9800SE, and also use vesa-tng for fbsplash. Both fbsplash/framebuffer and fglrx work fine; aside from the fb console background, I can even play mplayer videos in the getty console, which is also a framebuffer operation as far as I

Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now

2006-03-10 Thread Holly Bostick
A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman schreef: It recognises my Nvida card [fx 5200] but when you get to the stage where the icons dissapear as stuff loads, when the last one goes the monitor shuts off. as is't booting from a cd there's no error log and nofb didn't help. Like I said some day Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now

2006-03-10 Thread Holly Bostick
A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman schreef: As for insulting the developers I said I looked forward to when they had something I [a normal person] could use You know, it just occurs to me to question this often-heard assumption that non-geek=normal -- with geek being defined by these so-called normal

Re: [gentoo-user] Confused about latest gentoo-sources

2006-03-09 Thread Holly Bostick
Jerry Turba schreef: Willie Wong wrote: Do you have gentoolkit installed? If so, run # equery list -p gentoo-sources Results of equery: backup:~ $ equery list -p gentoo-sources [ Searching for package 'gentoo-sources' in all categories among: ] * installed packages [I--] [ ]

Re: [gentoo-user] Confused about latest gentoo-sources

2006-03-09 Thread Holly Bostick
jerry schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: Myself, I'm starting to wonder if this isn't a mirror issue (what mirror are you sync-ing with If you've synced twice already, and you're still getting such old packages (2.6.*11*??), there's gotta be something wrong with your mirror or your cache

Re: [gentoo-user] Confused about latest gentoo-sources

2006-03-09 Thread Holly Bostick
jerry schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: However, it's hard to imagine that the US pool might not be current. [General question] What else might prevent a sync from actually updating the local tree correctly? U unless it actually has, and the problem is Portage not knowing

Re: [gentoo-user] Monitor goes off on boot

2006-03-08 Thread Holly Bostick
A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman schreef: Well I'm stumped. Every time I boot the live cd it gets to where Gnome should start then the monitor goes off. Does any one know what video drivers the live cd uses? Alvin For the best jerky you've ever had go to http://alk.jerkydirect.com/ My home

Re: [gentoo-user] Monitor goes off on boot

2006-03-08 Thread Holly Bostick
Ghaith Hachem schreef: On 3/8/06, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What video card do you have and what drivers? I've had similar problems (not with this graphical live CD, since I installed Gentoo before it existed, but with X applications and X itself), because I have an ATI

Re: [gentoo-user] Monitor goes off on boot

2006-03-08 Thread Holly Bostick
Daniel da Veiga schreef: The livecd uses the VESA drivers, that should support most if not all cards Yes, I'm sure that's true-- but what I'm wondering is, does the LiveCD use the VESA drivers *no matter what* is returned by autodectection of the video hardware? My question here is because

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: modules built post kernel install (on the fly)

2006-03-04 Thread Holly Bostick
Harry Putnam schreef: Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That is correct. Unless you alter bzImage, modprobe newmodule should work just fine. If your new module is built in, you will need to reload the kernel (reboot). Ok, this is confusing to me... What do you mean by `built in'. I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] radeon and framebuffer

2006-03-03 Thread Holly Bostick
Aggelos schreef: Is it possible to have framebuffer on console with the ATI RV280 graphics card, while also getting 3D hardware acceleration when switching to X? I am asking this because according to http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ATI_Drivers we must remove Support for framebuffer devices

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound... a known method to track down problems

2006-03-02 Thread Holly Bostick
Harry Putnam schreef: cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [V8237 ]: VIA8237 - VIA 8237 VIA 8237 with AD1980 at 0xc800, irq 201 I did install alsa-utils and ran alsaconf. /etc/modules.d/alsa looks like this: alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss alias /dev/midi

Re: [gentoo-user] opengl (?) weirdness in wine

2006-03-02 Thread Holly Bostick
Robert Persson schreef: I am finding that with one particular windows application running under wine the graphics are incredibly slow. My question is: Is this something to do with wine that I just have to live with, or could it be connected to other things on my system, such as the xserver?

Re: [gentoo-user] mysterious segfaults

2006-03-02 Thread Holly Bostick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: Recently, programs on my computer have been victims of abrupt segfaults. snip The weird thing is, after waiting a while (say two or three hours), the problem went away---everything just started working. This sounds awfully like a heat problem, especially if the

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox OOo oddness

2006-02-25 Thread Holly Bostick
John J. Foster schreef: On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 02:59:19AM +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: John J. Foster schreef: Good evening, I'm running a KDE desktop and in the File Open dialog boxes on both Firefox OOo I can't seem to find where to tell them to display hidden folders and/or files

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question

2006-02-25 Thread Holly Bostick
Alexander Skwar schreef: Okay, so the following fs are online resizable, according to you: - reiser3 - xfs - jfs - ext2, ext3 That's pretty much every FS, isn't it? Yes, but as far as I know from the docs, jfs and xfs can only be *grown* online, not shrunk, which could be a problem

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge error

2006-02-24 Thread Holly Bostick
Michael Smith schreef: John Fawcett wrote: I'm new to gentoo and I wonder if someone can point me in the right direction to resovle the following kind of problem. I have run emerge mysql and get the following output: Calculating dependencies /!!! Cannot resolve a virtual package name to

[gentoo-user] Help with ALSA bug report

2006-02-24 Thread Holly Bostick
Hi all-- For some days now, I've been having a problem with almost all media players and one emulator. Xine 1.1.1-r4 opened, but crashed when closing the splash screen. Totem 1.3.91 (bmg, gstreamer backend) opened, and then crashed immediately. mplayer was OK (but I prefer xine, and naturally

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox OOo oddness

2006-02-24 Thread Holly Bostick
John J. Foster schreef: Good evening, I'm running a KDE desktop and in the File Open dialog boxes on both Firefox OOo I can't seem to find where to tell them to display hidden folders and/or files. For firefox, if a Save dialog, select Browse for other folders, then right-click inside the

Re: [gentoo-user] alsactl store wont save alsamixer

2006-02-21 Thread Holly Bostick
Allan Spagnol Comar schreef: Hi all, I am having a bit of trouble trying to save alsamixer settings. I had tried every little thing I know and could make it to work, if I reboot my system alsamixer settings go all to mute :( rc-update add alsasound default The 'alsasound' daemon saves your

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-17 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 23:33:15 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: This functionality is not in any way a hack: equery belongs /sbin/installkernel [ Searching for file(s) /sbin/installkernel in *... ] sys-apps/debianutils-2.15 (/sbin/installkernel) It's part of system

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel not updating...

2006-02-16 Thread Holly Bostick
gentuxx schreef: Daniel da Veiga wrote: On 2/16/06, gentuxx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Forgive me if this ends up being the stupid question of the day. But, I haven't been able to upgrade my kernel for some reason. (Obviously I could download it from kernel.org and go that route, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-16 Thread Holly Bostick
Michael Kintzios schreef: -Original Message- From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16 February 2006 16:10 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo make install does exactly the same, and sets up

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-16 Thread Holly Bostick
Frino Klauss schreef: On 2/16/06, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My impression is that you haven't yet run make install. Can't you use genkernel instead ? I have no idea; I've never used genkernel, and am unlikely to ever do so. Since it is a mostly automated process (though you can

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-16 Thread Holly Bostick
Mick schreef: John Jolet wrote: On 2/16/06 11:05 AM, Michael Kintzios [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] make install does exactly the same, and sets up the vmlinuz and vmlinuz.old symlinks to point to your new and previous kernel respectively, so

Re: [gentoo-user] lm_sensors problem

2006-02-14 Thread Holly Bostick
Jarry schreef: OT Is it possible to install lm_sensors with gentoo-kernel too Yes, it is. I tried with gentoo-sources, but got this error: _ * Determining the location of the kernel source code * Found kernel source directory: *

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA + CMI8738 card set up

2006-02-12 Thread Holly Bostick
Rohit Sharma schreef: Hi list, This is about my struggle to make my Trust 514DX soundcard work with Linux. Well, I don't have this specific card, but I do have a Typhoon Acustic 6, which is the same chipset: 00:0e.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10) and

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA + CMI8738 card set up

2006-02-12 Thread Holly Bostick
Rohit Sharma schreef: Quick questions - Holly. When I configure alsa support in my kernel and build modules using menuconfig and tell kernel to load modules automatically [or do manual loading using modules.autoload.d] 1. Do I still have to enable alsasound service using rc-update add

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-12 Thread Holly Bostick
Gilberto Martins schreef: Hi again !!! Perhaps you should post the output of: #ls -l /boot #cat /boot/grup/grub.conf There it goes: livecd / # ls -l /boot total 2231 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 Feb 11 09:22 boot - . -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32414 Feb 12 16:06

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice / Evolution display settings

2006-02-12 Thread Holly Bostick
Franta schreef: Hi all snip Openoffice has now display settings for a (nearly) blind person. The icons in the taskbar aren't big. They are huge. I'd like to change some font settings in Evolution too. . Can anyone tell me which part of Gnome to install to be able to change the display

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-12 Thread Holly Bostick
John Jolet schreef: Ummm... isn't there supposed to be a system.map for the kernel as well? I myself don't manually copy my kernels after compiling it; I use make install to do so, and I have the following files in /boot for all my kernels: I've never done anything with a system.map. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-12 Thread Holly Bostick
CapSel schreef: On 2/13/06, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ummm... isn't there supposed to be a system.map for the kernel as well? snip OT?? AFAIK system.map is not needed for lilo and not for grub. I don't have it and all works without any errors or warnings about it. No, it's

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenGL X desktop

2006-02-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Daevid Vincent schreef: Whoa. Check out this demo of a new OpenGL X desktop. IMHO it blows away the Mac OS/X http://www.freedesktop.org/~davidr/xgl-demo1.xvid.avi Anyone have any other info on when this will be available? How does it work? It looks like they're just using Gnome. Will it

Re: [gentoo-user] Stuch on k3b at dep install of Transcode

2006-02-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Harry Putnam schreef: I'm trying to install k3b. One of its dependancies is transcode. The emerge stopped at transcode with specific errors, When checking bugzilla I see this is a known problem. I remember having this problem way back when (I mean, several k3b versions ago), but haven't

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting udev to create tun devices

2006-02-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Robin Atwood schreef: I need a device /dev/net/tun to use with hercules. tun is defined in the kernel and the traditional mknode method works fine but I loose it after a reboot. After a bit of research I added: # tun device for hercules KERNEL==tun, NAME=net/tun to

Re: [gentoo-user] Remove?

2006-02-07 Thread Holly Bostick
andrew turner schreef: Quoting osv [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all! It's at least one week that I try to unsubscribe from the list, but it seems they're not considering me at all! I sent various empty mails (and even one or two with something written in) to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I seem to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kdm 3.5.1, broken ebuild?

2006-02-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Andrei Slavoiu wrote: --- Steven S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah-hah! Thank you for pointing that out. I had -fomit-frame-pointers, I'm surprised nothing died before kdm. That's strange, there shouldn't be any way that -fomit-frame-pointers could break compilation. I've been using it for

Re: [gentoo-user] php 4.4.1-r3 wont emerge

2006-02-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Michael George wrote: I am trying to update my system, and it seemed like a good time to go from the old php ports to the dev-lang ports. But I'm having trouble building php-4.4.1-r3. I have masked php-5 and up, as I'm not quite ready to move to that yet. When I try to emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Crossover Office demo?

2006-02-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Alan E. Davis schreef: I wish to install crossover office so I can use various animations, primarily, that rely on plugins, as well as the odd Windoze software package. Noting there is an ebuild for amd64, I had attempted to install a demo copy to check if it will work, without success. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Viewing SVG/SVGZ files.

2006-02-05 Thread Holly Bostick
Abhay Kedia schreef: Thanks for the ksvg idea and will be reall greatful if firefox worked as well. The only thing I can thinl about this is: what version of Firefox are you using (literally, which ebuild). The early versions of Firefox (1.0.x to approx 1.5-r4) used the mozsvg USE flag to

Re: [gentoo-user] Xine-ui masked? [Solved]

2006-02-05 Thread Holly Bostick
Daniel Pielmeier schreef: Thank you, in one portage overlay i use there are three ebuilds snip and they are all marked ~x86. Ebuilds from overlay are always ~arch, afaik. Overlays are not considered stable for what seem to me to be obvious reasons; namely that only the Portage tree itself

Re: [gentoo-user]

2006-02-05 Thread Holly Bostick
Steven S. schreef: On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: well, he has a point - he just missed to type it: -signatures longer than 4 lines are considered offensive -double signatures are considered offensive -triple signatures like yours are even worse. Erm... offensive?

Re: [gentoo-user] Xine-ui masked? [Solved]

2006-02-05 Thread Holly Bostick
Mariusz Pękala schreef: Portage overlays are our 'private' portage trees, and they are in no thing 'worse' than 'official' ebuilds. You clearly haven't seen, or even imagined, some of my initial attempts at ebuild writing, which naturally resided in my overlay tree. :-) Holly --

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox

2006-02-04 Thread Holly Bostick
Daniel D Jones schreef: I'd like to run Firefox 1.5. The latest stable build appears to be 1.07. I added ww-client/mozilla-firefox ~x86 to my package.keywords file, which resulted in Deer Park being installed. I don't want Deer Park, just the 1.5 release version. The version labelled as

Re: [gentoo-user] fglrx works. Yeah! Umm, now nothing exits. Uh oh!

2006-02-03 Thread Holly Bostick
Bruce Burden schreef: Okay, I have fglrx as the driver in the xorg.conf file. And, at 24 bit resolution, xdm starts X. Bliss! Then I realized that nothing was completing if it created an xterm of output or so. Drat! OS is Gentoo 2.6.15-gentoo-r1. Xorg is 6.8.2. Machine is a HP ZD8000

Re: [gentoo-user] fglrx works. Yeah! Umm, now nothing exits. Uh oh!

2006-02-03 Thread Holly Bostick
Benoit Joseph schreef: Hello All, I've read that the ati-drivers does not support 2.6.15 kernel yet... Not true; I've been using them together for the last two versions of the ATI drivers: motub - uname -r 2.6.15-gentoo motub - fglrxinfo display: :0.0 screen: 0 OpenGL vendor string: ATI

Re: [gentoo-user] battstat requires apmd?

2006-01-30 Thread Holly Bostick
Iain Buchanan schreef: Hi, I've just rebuilt my system, and emerged gnome-light this time instead of gnome. I noticed battstat isn't part of gnome-applets, but when I try and emerge it, I get all these wierd deps. For a start, why does it need apmd? I thought I had it working with acpi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE starts and runs slowly

2006-01-30 Thread Holly Bostick
Korondi Márk schreef: Richard Fish schreef: On 1/29/06, Korondi Márk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yesterday I reinstalled gentoo, because I'd made the filesystem dirty (always used sudo, and installed programs not in portage randomly...) and I want a new, clean system. With Gentoo there is

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing KDE...Again.... (Now at howto install kde)

2006-01-29 Thread Holly Bostick
Abhay Kedia schreef: On Sunday 29 January 2006 06:41, Ian wrote: unmask all of the packages im building in package.keywords. You seem to have added them to package.unmask as well. Don't do that. Just as a note, there doesn't seem to be a choice in this regard (i.e., you have to add

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing KDE...Again.... (Now at howto install kde)

2006-01-29 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 12:56:17 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: Just as a note, there doesn't seem to be a choice in this regard (i.e., you have to add kdewhatever-3.5.1 to package.unmask). If I don't add it to package.unmask, I get a halt from Portage because some

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing KDE...Again.... (Now at howto install kde)

2006-01-29 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 19:08:11 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: I'm also running ~x86, and kdelibs and kdebase-kioslaves 3.5.0 (the packages I'm having problems with) are currently installed. But if I do an emerge -uaD(N)tv world, krusader (because it is compiled

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: php blocking

2006-01-26 Thread Holly Bostick
James schreef: Richard Fish bigfish at asmallpond.org writes: Try PEAR-PEAR (packages names are case-sensitive). # emerge --unmerge PEAR-PEAR --- Couldn't find PEAR-PEAR to unmerge. unmerge: No packages selected for removal. I even 'emerge --sync' again, today and still I have: Add

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome calendar - Start on Sunday instead of Saturday?

2006-01-25 Thread Holly Bostick
Mark Knecht schreef: Hi, Title says it. My wife wants to configure this item and I cannot find the control of it in the preferences page. Anyone know how to make it start on Sunday instead? Thanks, Mark I'm sorry not to be more precise, but I suspect that I may not have the calendar

Re: [gentoo-user] Mysterious dev-lang/php 'n' junk 'n' stuff....

2006-01-25 Thread Holly Bostick
gentuxx schreef: Hi all, snip I went to do an `emerge -Duatv world` tonight, and I get dev-php/php and dev-php/mod_php blocking. So I uninstalled them, and thought that I would re-install later (if necessary). When I run it again, I get dev-lang/php blocking dev-php/php-4.4.0-r4 (which

Re: [gentoo-user] Module names???

2006-01-25 Thread Holly Bostick
Andrew Lowe schreef: Hi all, A simple question, where do I find out modules names? I've currently got menconfig loaded and trying to decide as to whether to go static or module. My problem is that I can't find the names of the modules for most of the options hence how do I know what to load if

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-21 Thread Holly Bostick
b.n. schreef: I'm just writing it for the sake of curiosity, so no flaming is here. Just because some answer sound quite sarcastic, but that's just a style thing to get it short. :) Yes, but you then have bloat (because Konqueror contains web browsing features that you are not using,

Re: [gentoo-user] Running hddtemp with plain user rights

2006-01-21 Thread Holly Bostick
Alexander Skwar schreef: Hello! I'd like to be able to run hddtemp http://www.guzu.net/linux/hddtemp.php with plain user rights - ie. not with root rights. What's to be done, so that this is possible? snip As you can see, I get the error message Permission denied when I run hddtemp

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-20 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:10:13 +0800, Linux Java wrote: I wanna to know KDE and Gnome which is more popular. Why? Use whatever suits you. I hope that you all appreciate my extreme restraint in not posting to this thread until now, given how very much I dislike KDE.

Re: [gentoo-user] vim USE flag: vim-with-x

2006-01-20 Thread Holly Bostick
Tom Smith schreef: Rumen Yotov wrote: Hi, Two ways (i know) to see the USE-flag descriptions. 1.Run :#euse -i opengl ('euse' is part of app-portage/gentoolkit). 2.Use#grep USE-flag-name /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc (or use.local.desc) use.desc - global USE flags, use.local.desc - for

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-20 Thread Holly Bostick
Abhay Kedia schreef: On Friday 20 January 2006 19:59, Holly Bostick wrote: more comfortable with a more Windows-like environment, and Windows-like assumptions about what a user wants/needs from their desktop, KDE may be just the thing; that is, after all, what it's designed to do

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-20 Thread Holly Bostick
b.n. schreef: I myself don't see it as minimal fuss, not least because KDE makes so many choices for me in its feature richness that I have to spend two hours (I'm being kind) finding all the bloody options that I don't want and change them or turn them off or whatever. Sorry, I simply

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple Firefox v1.5 Instances

2006-01-19 Thread Holly Bostick
Richard Ruth schreef: How do I start a second instance of FireFox V1.5? (I want to do this because I have different proxy settings, etc. with each different profile.) There is no need to start a second instance of Firefox just to change your proxy settings; there are several extensions

Re: [gentoo-user] New install, I still can't send email. Same error too.

2006-01-18 Thread Holly Bostick
Dale schreef: On Tuesday 17 January 2006 23:00, Richard Fish wrote: find ~/.mozilla -name prefs.js -exec grep mail.smtpserver {} \; This is on my old install. [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # find home/dale/.mozilla -name prefs.js -exec grep mail.smtpserver {} \;

Re: [gentoo-user] Java and java.library.path

2006-01-18 Thread Holly Bostick
darren kirby schreef: quoth the Trenton Adams: on the java command line put -Djava.library.path=/usr/lib I don't know if gentoo has a config for this or not, I didn't know ADDLDPATH existed. Who knows, perhaps editing the JRE version of that file would help? I am really sorry, but I

Re: [gentoo-user] New install, I still can't send email. Same error too.

2006-01-18 Thread Holly Bostick
Dale schreef: On Wednesday 18 January 2006 07:43, Dale wrote: Well, Mozilla won't even open now. Well, you can add the binary version of Mozilla to the Do Not Open list. It didn't work either. Does anybody know if using the ipv6 flag when you don't actually have ipv6 available (from

Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla firefox 1.5 and gnome

2006-01-17 Thread Holly Bostick
Trenton Adams schreef: On 1/15/06, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trenton Adams schreef: On 1/14/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: gnome carcharias rjf # emerge -pv mozilla-firefox These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-utils + gnome

2006-01-17 Thread Holly Bostick
habutre . schreef: Hi guys! My problem it's following: I've a AC97/I82801 sound device building as a built-in on my kernel. My sound work a fun, but I can't store the sound mixer's without a alsa-utils, then all time that i wanna hear a good music, i did should change my volume

Re: [gentoo-user] How To set compile time options in emerge

2006-01-17 Thread Holly Bostick
Simon Prosser schreef: On Wednesday 18 January 2006 12:36, Oumar Ndiaye wrote: Hi, I installed php-4 via emerge but I am having problems getting php to work with mysql. After many research I have concluded that php-4 is not compiled with the -with-mysql option. I need to

Re: [gentoo-user] *.bin and /dev/loop help

2006-01-17 Thread Holly Bostick
krgn schreef: Symbol: BLK_DEV_LOOP [=y] Prompt: Loopback device support Defined at drivers/block/Kconfig:261 Location: - Device Drivers - Block devices mount -o loop ok, installed it as module and its there... snip but if I try to mount the iso image.. it outputs

Re: [gentoo-user] more problems emerging world

2006-01-17 Thread Holly Bostick
Antoine schreef: Hi, I had put unicode in my make.conf, well, just cos unicode is a Good Thing. However, I now get audacity telling me that I must emerge wxGTK without unicode. Fine, I'll get rid of it I say to myself. Only I get ncurses telling me I will break my system if I emerge without

Re: [gentoo-user] UDEV permissions

2006-01-17 Thread Holly Bostick
Tom Smith schreef: Well, I didn't emerge the Gentoo qemu--it is a few versions behind the official so I opted for using the official release (0.8.0, I believe). I don't know why you think this: motub - eix qemu * app-emulation/kqemu Available versions: 0.7.2 Installed:

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I unsubscribe?

2006-01-16 Thread Holly Bostick
Markus Döbele schreef: What do I have to do to unsubscribe this mailinglist? I tried everthing that the page tells me todo. I sent en empty mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Why do you not give even one example at the page how it should look like? And why is there not a field

Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling Kde-Graphics 3.4.3-r3

2006-01-16 Thread Holly Bostick
Thiago Lüttig schreef: Hi, i´m trying to compile the kde-graphics-3.4.3-r3 but it can´t find the libungif package. When I emerge that, the portage says it´s deprecated, and recently, simply doesn´t find it. How to fix this ?? Yes, libungif was replaced by giflib recently. Everyone who's

Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla firefox 1.5 and gnome

2006-01-15 Thread Holly Bostick
Trenton Adams schreef: On 1/14/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/14/06, Trenton Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The old version could disable gnome, but 1.5 can't. Perhaps it's a firefox 1.5 ebuild limitation? I hope that's what it is, because I can't stand gnome. False.

Re: [gentoo-user] netscape-flash doesn't work with firefox 1.5

2006-01-15 Thread Holly Bostick
Iain Buchanan schreef: Hi, (up late I see :) It's only 1:20. Not all that late (but it will be in about a half an hour) On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 00:46 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: the symlink is already there... Hope this helps somewhat (at least you know it can work) kind

Re: [gentoo-user] Deer Park instead of FireFox

2006-01-14 Thread Holly Bostick
Sven Köhler schreef: Hi, i just installed mozilla-firefox-1.5-r9. So when i start it, it says hooray, you've got Deer Park Alpha 2 installed! Thank you, for helping us testing. So what is Deer Park? What's the difference to a normal FireFox 1.5? Or the main question is: Why does that

Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla firefox 1.5 and gnome

2006-01-14 Thread Holly Bostick
Trenton Adams schreef: The old version could disable gnome, but 1.5 can't. Perhaps it's a firefox 1.5 ebuild limitation? I hope that's what it is, because I can't stand gnome. No, it has nothing to do with the ebuild, it's a choice of the Mozilla.org developers. But perhaps you missed

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't send email anymore. O_O

2006-01-13 Thread Holly Bostick
Dale wrote: Well, I can't even get Mozilla to open any more. I even created a new user from scratch and it still will not start. I downloaded a new snapshot and am about to start a new install. I've never seen someone so eager to reinstall for so little. Honestly Mozilla won't start,

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't send email anymore. O_O

2006-01-13 Thread Holly Bostick
Dale wrote: On Friday 13 January 2006 05:58, Holly Bostick wrote: Kill those, and Mozilla may well start. Whether your problem will be solved is another question, but we'll come to that, if not. HTH, Holly That would make sense. I killed the processes that were running and still get

Re: [gentoo-user] kde new user login icons missing

2006-01-13 Thread Holly Bostick
Shawn Singh schreef: I note that on my system the range for UIDs that won't show up is UID 1000 and UID 65000. If your users had a UID inside of that range it might show up... I'm not sure b/c on my system they are w/i that range and I don't see an icon for them, but they can key in their

Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla firefox 1.5 and gnome

2006-01-13 Thread Holly Bostick
Trenton Adams schreef: Hi everyone, I'm just curious about something. I installed mozilla-firefox-bin, and I got what I *thought* was the gnome open/save dialog. And I absolutely I can't stand that thing. So, I decided to compile mozilla-firefox for myself, as I have -gnome in my use

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