Re: [gentoo-user] alias

2005-09-19 Thread Holly Bostick
Matthias Langer schreef: Recently i was woundering where gentoo stores the aliases i get by: $ alias alias d='ls --color' alias ll='ls --color -l' alias ls='ls --color=auto' alias mc='. /usr/share/mc/bin/mc-wrapper.sh' The reason i want to know this is mainly because i want to add my

Re: [gentoo-user] Eclass 'portability' does not exist for 'gnome-base/gconf-2.10.1-r1'

2005-09-19 Thread Holly Bostick
Eric S. Johansson schreef: trying to upgrade the system and I'm getting this error. Eclass 'portability' does not exist for 'gnome-base/gconf-2.10.1-r1' suggestions for how to fix would be most welcome thanks in advance --- eric I just had that error with howl; a sync fixed it. HTH,

Re: [gentoo-user] Eclass 'portability' does not exist for 'gnome-base/gconf-2.10.1-r1'

2005-09-19 Thread Holly Bostick
Eric S. Johansson schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: Eric S. Johansson schreef: trying to upgrade the system and I'm getting this error. Eclass 'portability' does not exist for 'gnome-base/gconf-2.10.1-r1' suggestions for how to fix would be most welcome I just had that error

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse wheel doesn't work

2005-09-19 Thread Holly Bostick
gentuxx schreef: Stewart Taylor wrote: Hi Thanks to Holly , Peter and Scotty for the fix. It now works a treat. Stewart Um, I have the same problem. But (and I suspect this is why), I have no /etc/X11/xorg.conf. KDE runs great! I've done a 'find / -name xorg.conf' and only

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: disappearing hdc

2005-09-18 Thread Holly Bostick
capsel schreef: I've found that I changed configuration of my kernel - cdrom driver is loaded as module and must be loaded on boot (before hotplug/coldplug ?) for hdc to be created. Somehow parport_pc is loaded automaticly. What can I do to force hotplug/coldplug to load ide-cd and so to

Re: [gentoo-user] cdk build error

2005-09-18 Thread Holly Bostick
Aleksandr Guidrevitch schreef: Hi there, /usr/share/aclocal/path_dps.m4:202: warning: underquoted definition of AC_PATH_DPS_GUESS_GNUSTEP /usr/share/aclocal/path_dps.m4:239: warning: underquoted definition of AC_PATH_DPS_GUESS /usr/share/aclocal/path_dps.m4:333: warning: underquoted

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11-6.8.2-r3: rdesktop badness after xorg upgrade

2005-09-17 Thread Holly Bostick
Stuart Howard schreef: dont have an answer but there was a long argument on the security list entitled [gentoo-security] org-x11 GLSA 200509-07. Is bug #96053 fixed in -r3? (black icons) Sounds up your street, the long and short of it was that reverting back to r1 may fix it but the

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do about firefox

2005-09-17 Thread Holly Bostick
Jonathan Wright schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: Firefox itself has any issues, but it does seem to have a memory leak? hog? something-- which saddens me, because it makes me feel like I'm using Mozilla again, which had these kinds of problems for a long, long time. Firefox was a big relief

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do about firefox

2005-09-17 Thread Holly Bostick
Kevin O'Gorman schreef: On 9/17/05, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Session Saver, and the modular search engine bar, are such good features, which I find so essential, that Firefox would have to get a whole lot closer to unuseable than this before I'd consider giving it up

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do about firefox

2005-09-17 Thread Holly Bostick
David Morgan schreef: On 14:20 Sat 17 Sep , Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Once again I must be doing something wrong. I see the Add more... and I can navigate it okay, but nothing new ever shows up in the list of search engines. I've tried 4 or 5, so it's not the particular one... I

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to calculate Linux Kernel version

2005-09-16 Thread Holly Bostick
Dave Nebinger schreef: /usr/src/- linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r4 /usr/src/linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r4 exists You need to link /usr/src/linux to /usr/src/linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r4, as in: # cd /usr/src # ln -sf linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r4 linux Dave Or, dicing it down even further:

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to calculate Linux Kernel version

2005-09-16 Thread Holly Bostick
Glenn Enright schreef: On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 10:18, Holly Bostick wrote: Dave Nebinger schreef: /usr/src/- linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r4 /usr/src/linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r4 exists You need to link /usr/src/linux to /usr/src/linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r4, as in: # cd /usr/src # ln -sf linux

Re: [gentoo-user] hal and udev problem

2005-09-16 Thread Holly Bostick
Michal Kurgan schreef: Hello! Recently (after udev update) i spotted that hald do not create mount points in fstab so kde media kio slave doesn't work... http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_D-BUS%2C_HAL%2C_KDE_media:/ HTH, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Sun Java JDK upgrade problem

2005-09-16 Thread Holly Bostick
Chris Woods schreef: On Sep 16, 2005, at 10:02 AM, Andreas Karlsson wrote: * Please download j2sdk-1_4_2_09-linux-i586.bin from: * http://javashoplm.sun.com/ECom/docs/Welcome.jsp? StoreId=22PartDetailId=j2sdk-1.4.2_09-oth- JPRSiteId=JSCTransactionId=noreg * (SDK 32-bit/64-bit for

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do about firefox

2005-09-16 Thread Holly Bostick
Jonathan Wright schreef: Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I may have misconfigured it early on. Is there something in particular I should look for? I know there used to be issues with firefox where it had difficulty releasing memory when you have had a large number of tabs running. The only way

Re: [gentoo-user] Plesk...

2005-09-15 Thread Holly Bostick
Mal Herring schreef: Hi List, Anyone ever installed Plesk onto a Gentoo server ? Can it be done and if so how did you find the install ? Got someone wanting me to install a Plesk box for them and I don't want to have to use Red-Hat Apparently, you don't, anymore: OS Requirements *

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers: bad md5 sum [SOLVED]

2005-09-15 Thread Holly Bostick
Michael Crute schreef: On 9/14/05, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would have done it months ago, Mike, if there was any way, but I really have absolutely no budget, even for an MX440 (true desperation, if I'm even considering an MX 440 in this day and age. But I'd rather

Re: [gentoo-user] Opinions?

2005-09-15 Thread Holly Bostick
Christoph Eckert schreef: GUI != ease of use :-) :-) :-) :-) See, statements like this are why 'the average user' says that Linux is only for geeks. :-) :-) :-) :-) What in the bloody blue blazes does != mean? :-) :-) :-) :-) I would guess that it means 'not equal to', and is typed this way

Re: [gentoo-user] Opinions?

2005-09-15 Thread Holly Bostick
Christoph Eckert schreef: To be honest, this has nothing to do with command line or not. I use a great command line script called unp. It unpacks any archive format without knowing the options of the various packing tools. Simply type »unp FILENAME« and you're done. Like it. Oh, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Opinions?

2005-09-15 Thread Holly Bostick
Mauro Faccenda schreef: You understood what it means = you are geek And don't try to avoid been called geek by using those fancy smileys. ;) Drat! And I would have got away with it, too, if it wasn't for you meddling kids .!!! Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash prompt

2005-09-14 Thread Holly Bostick
Charles Trois schreef: Hello! I am getting confused with profile, bashrc, etc. The prompt string I want to use is PS1=[EMAIL PROTECTED] \W]\$ I therefore wrote it in /etc/profile (at two levels, root and non-root), ~/.bash_profile and ~/.bashrc. If I log in as a plain user (moi),

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: gnome-spell build failing

2005-09-14 Thread Holly Bostick
Nelis Lamprecht schreef: Hi, No takers on the below error ? I've tried removing it completely, re-installing it but still get the same error. I have to skip it every time I upgrade my ports. Didn't see any bugs relating to it either. Nelis No problems here (just emerged it) Merging

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash prompt

2005-09-14 Thread Holly Bostick
Willie Wong schreef: On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 01:25:00PM +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: Charles Trois schreef: I thought that /etc/profile should provide the default, but I was obviously wrong. Trying to mend things, I created two files /root/.bash_profile and /root/.bashrc, writing just

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers: bad md5 sum

2005-09-14 Thread Holly Bostick
Volker Armin Hemmann schreef: On Wednesday 14 September 2005 22:16, Rafael Fernández López wrote: Hi !! I'm trying to do an emerge -vuD world, but I just can't. For my surprise someone put into portage a bad MD5 sum for ati-drivers. Portage just tells that sizes don't match... so I

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers: bad md5 sum

2005-09-14 Thread Holly Bostick
Volker Armin Hemmann schreef: On Wednesday 14 September 2005 22:37, Holly Bostick wrote: There's a bug on b.g.o about it. It looks like something wrong with the manifest (bad copy and paste or something; or in any case, the md5 is the same as all the others when it's not supposed

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers: bad md5 sum

2005-09-14 Thread Holly Bostick
Michael Crute schreef: On 9/14/05, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's a bug on b.g.o about it. It looks like something wrong with the manifest (bad copy and paste or something; or in any case, the md5 is the same as all the others when it's not supposed to be or vice versa

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers: bad md5 sum

2005-09-14 Thread Holly Bostick
Michael Crute schreef: On 9/14/05, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, sometimes I do claim 'pure user' privilege. Certainly where the ATI drivers are involved. I do *not* want to get mixed up in development or development management issues there. Well Holly

Re: [gentoo-user] Enabling DMA on SE7520BD2S

2005-09-13 Thread Holly Bostick
maxim wexler schreef: Does by respective you mean that youre motherboards from OED: respective, a. Each's own, proper to each, individual, several, comparative... In other words, yes. :-) He compiled the nvidia kernel modules for the nforce mobo, and the ali modules for the ali

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with udpate

2005-09-12 Thread Holly Bostick
Sébastien MORAND schreef: pyrenees:~ # emerge -uNDvp world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] dev-php/php (is blocking dev-lang/php-5.0.5) [blocks B ] dev-php/php (is blocking dev-php/PEAR-PEAR-1.3.6) [blocks B

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with udpate

2005-09-12 Thread Holly Bostick
Sébastien MORAND schreef: You clearly know how to clear a block, but your syntax for unmerging the blocking packages is wrong, which is why it's not working. If you want to unmerge the specific version of the package (for this example, let us assume php-5.0.5), the correct syntax is

Re: [gentoo-user] Does mythtv require older nvidia builds on a radeon system?

2005-09-11 Thread Holly Bostick
W.Kenworthy schreef: Does mythtv require older nvidia builds on a radeon system? bunyip ~ # emerge media-tv/mythtv -vp These are the packages that I would merge, in order: [ebuild N] media-tv/mythtv-0.18.1-r1 +alsa (-altivec) -arts -debug +dvb +frontendonly -jack -joystick +lcd

Re: [gentoo-user] panel error

2005-09-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Michael Crute schreef: On 9/10/05, *Dave Nebinger* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A google search turned up another message: I had this too after I botched a VNC install. I solved it by purging /tmp and all the config files in my home directory. There is probably a

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird problem with emerge sync

2005-09-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Paul Varner schreef: What is going wrong here? It can't be my implementation of rsync (latest stable), or the US pool would fail as well. It could be the servers in the European pool, but... all of them? Or am I simply using the wrong SYNC= in /etc/make.conf? My default is

Re: [gentoo-user] Nasty bugs in portage?

2005-09-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 12:58:19 -0400, Mark Shields wrote: // start quote Building the System To start building the system, execute emerge --emptytree system. // end quote So you see, it does tell you to do an emerge --emptytree system, When BUILDING THE

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome complains about no mixer elements and/or device on login

2005-09-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Nick Rout schreef: When I log into gnome I get a dialog with the following message: Sorry, no mixer elements and/or devices found Advcie from google and forums.g.o seems to point to the following likely solutions: 1. make sure user has ability to do audio - yes I can, and everything

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome complains about no mixer elements and/or device on login

2005-09-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Nick Rout schreef: On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 22:59:53 +0200 Holly Bostick wrote: Oh, and whatever route you choose, you probably want to remove the mixer from your panel, then re-add it to prevent other panel weirdnesses that seem to occur when you have to do this (which you always do, because

Re: [gentoo-user] Why gpm?

2005-09-10 Thread Holly Bostick
Jes__s Garc__a Crespo (aka Sevein) schreef: Hi! I don't understand why gpm was included in the Gentoo base system. It was not in there before and I didn't find information about the reasons. But I could tell you my case: I installed Gentoo in my dedicated server in EEUU (I am from Spain)

Re: [gentoo-user] how can i find out my motherboard?

2005-09-09 Thread Holly Bostick
renna bud schreef: is there a command to let me know the name and model of my motherboard, without having to open my pc-case (or worse to find the manual and box in which it came) ? thanks Hi, renna, As far as I know, there is not such a command-- but there is a command to find out the

Re: [gentoo-user] how can i find out my motherboard?

2005-09-09 Thread Holly Bostick
Dave Nebinger schreef: is there a command to let me know the name and model of my motherboard, without having to open my pc-case (or worse to find the manual and box in which it came) ? thanks emerge dmidecode This looks quite the useful utility, but it doesn't seem to provide the

Re: [gentoo-user] how can i find out my motherboard?

2005-09-09 Thread Holly Bostick
Mark Knecht schreef: On 9/9/05, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This looks quite the useful utility, but it doesn't seem to provide the requested information (or at least, not all of it, and what it does provide is difficult to recognize): I know the make and model of my mobo

Re: [gentoo-user] ntp-client starting before net.eth0

2005-09-09 Thread Holly Bostick
Daevid Vincent schreef: What determines the order that things in rc-update (/etc/init.d) start? I run ifplugd, and I notice that (as the title says), ntp-client is starting before net.eth0 and therefore can't find the pool.ntp.org site (of course). /etc/init.d/ntp-client shows depend()

[gentoo-user] Pyopenal, slune, and ebuilding

2005-09-08 Thread Holly Bostick
Hey all, It's a long story, but the short version is, I was trying to emerge slune (a game), which requires soya (the engine), which requires pyopenal (the sound server). But the version of pyopenal in portage wouldn't build against the 'current' (stable + unstable) versions of openal (see

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

2005-09-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Martin S schreef: The main problem I feel is that lots of apps are written for a specific WM rather than a generic non-WM/DE-dependent API. Which makes the entire desktop look like bits and pieces the cat draged home (run Gimp, Kontact and Scid under KDE and you'll know what I mean).

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: iptables example on Gentoo

2005-09-07 Thread Holly Bostick
James schreef: snip (Booo) this is where the Gentooers mess their britches? The really sad thing in this whole thread, is nobody has even mentiond which (kernel) sources to use, what to disable/enable and why. Is this some sort of deep secret or is the gentoo community un_caring about

Re: [gentoo-user] 4gb mpeg to 100mb xvid?

2005-09-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman schreef: Hi people, I was wondering, do you have any pointers to transcode an mpeg file to an xvid? The original is a +4gb file, and I need to create a good quality of aprox. 100mb xvid file. I don't think this is realistic... you are trying to reduce the file

Re: [gentoo-user] 4gb mpeg to 100mb xvid?

2005-09-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: Is this 100MB a strict limit on the final file size (if you even can do it, it's going to be the size of a postage stamp, though possibly the most beautiful postage stamp ever seen)? Is all the data in the original file strictly

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: iptables example on Gentoo

2005-09-07 Thread Holly Bostick
James schreef: Holly Bostick motub at planet.nl writes: Good morning, this is the general users list. If you want the security experts, try gentoo-security For the discussion of security issues and fixes gentoo-hardened For a security hardened version of Gentoo You

Re: [gentoo-user] 4gb mpeg to 100mb xvid?

2005-09-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: That's about the best I can do for you without knowing more about the construction of the file, and what you're trying to do with it. Well, many people have assumed that it being a 5gb+ file, it was a dvd. Definitely

Re: [gentoo-user] 4gb mpeg to 100mb xvid?

2005-09-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: Direct from tv? Use avidemux or any video editing program to get rid of the commercials then. Not direct from tv. The people who record (with cameras) and then join the pieces provide this file. I can't do that. The producer

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI Radeon

2005-09-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Mark Humphrey schreef: Anyone had any luck with getting an ATI Radeon 9550 (or 9600) for that matter to work nicely under Linux (not neccessarily Gentoo specific)? Email Disclaimer http://www.aplitec.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm I've got a 9800SE (which is essentially the same as a

Re: [gentoo-user] portage - xcdroast

2005-09-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Philip Webb schreef: 050906 Holly Bostick wrote: John Dangler schreef: Anyone know why the xcdroast was taken off the mirrors? I did an 'rsync' 2 days ago 'emerge pv xcdroast' looks ok, but perhaps the problem arises during the actual emerging. Gnomebaker seems pretty OK ... I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

2005-09-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Matt Randolph schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: Matt Randolph schreef: I don't think Knoppix really has an administrator. It really is an enduser only flavour of Linux. It's sort of a fire and forget distro. Sure, someone had to go to a lot of trouble to get it set up just right

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

2005-09-05 Thread Holly Bostick
Matt Randolph schreef: [I just thought I'd chip in my two cents on the question of whether Linux is easy or hard. It's turned into more like my $11.62, so it's a good thing it's broken into sections.] Linux is easy. snip of Matt's tour-de-force, virtually all of which I agree with,

Re: [gentoo-user] why is Joe part of 'system' ?

2005-09-05 Thread Holly Bostick
Philip Webb schreef: 050904 Holly Bostick wrote: I'm surprised no one has said, Look in /var/cache/edb/virtuals , where you will likely see that Joe is set as an in-use virtual/editor(s) on your actual system. Yes, it is, along with Vim Gvim Nano. However, (1) that file still lists

Re: [gentoo-user] why is Joe part of 'system' ?

2005-09-05 Thread Holly Bostick
Jason Stubbs schreef: On Monday 05 September 2005 04:23, Holly Bostick wrote: What I'm surprised at is that no one has said, Look in /var/cache/edb/virtuals, where you will likely see that Joe is set as (one of) the in-use virtual/editor(s) on your actual system. /var/cache/edb

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

2005-09-05 Thread Holly Bostick
Matt Randolph schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: In the Windows world, you don't have to ask yourself is this software available for my OS? In the Windows world, you buy the hardware first and then check to see if it's compatible AFTER you start having trouble getting it to work in your

Re: [gentoo-user] portage - xcdroast

2005-09-05 Thread Holly Bostick
John Dangler schreef: Anyone know why the xcdroast was taken off the mirrors? There is a bug entered regarding xcdroast not being able to be downloaded (which I got when I did emerge xcdroast). It seems that the only reason for it not being there is either because there's something _really_

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

2005-09-04 Thread Holly Bostick
Mark Knecht schreef: To become a Linux user is a commitment. People don't make new commitments lightly, and making a light commitment to Linux is doomed to failure. It's far too hard to use. This is a common 'perception', and yet again I have to object to it, because it's *wrong* (not for

Re: [gentoo-user] Nautilus - open in same window

2005-09-04 Thread Holly Bostick
Mark Knecht schreef: Hi, I feel bad asking for this info again. Holly or someone else here told me what app to run a year ago but I don't seem to be able to find my notes anymore. The effects of age I think... I want to edit Gnome's configuration so that Nautilus opens new folders in the

Re: [gentoo-user] why is Joe part of 'system' ?

2005-09-04 Thread Holly Bostick
Mike Williams schreef: On Sunday 04 September 2005 18:42, Philip Webb wrote: In /usr/portage/profiles/base/virtuals , it says virtual/editor app-editors/nano there's no mention of Joe. This only specifies the default for the virtual. You've installed

Re: [gentoo-user] What's going on with scons

2005-09-04 Thread Holly Bostick
Rafael Fernández López schreef: Hi, I'm doing right now an emerge -vuD world. Now portage wants to UPDATE scons. If I do another emerge -vuD world (not necessary to run emerge sync) portage wants to DOWNGRADE scons. Always that I do an emerge sync and later an emerge -vuD world, it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

2005-09-04 Thread Holly Bostick
Uwe Thiem schreef: On 04 September 2005 11:41, Holly Bostick wrote: I've tried to stay away from this thread but can't resist any more. ;-) [ snip a lot of Holly's rant I mostly agree with ] This is why I can't deal with all the people I encounter who suggest that 'it' should

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/cdrom has gone!

2005-09-03 Thread Holly Bostick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: i upgrade my system to use udev instead of previously known devfs, and leave the devfs option blank while configure the kernel, but recently, i found i could not mount my cdrom, there is no such device at all! the /dev/cdrom and the like has gone! i test with

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge net-libs/libtorrent-0.7.2 failed

2005-09-02 Thread Holly Bostick
Iulian schreef: I don't know how to solve: g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I. -I./.. -I../.. -O3 I could (definitely) be wrong, but I doubt that the ebuild forces -O3 in the CFLAGS; perhaps you should consider dropping down to -O2 and see if that helps. Also, the fact that -O3 is

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging an old kernel (but not too old)

2005-09-02 Thread Holly Bostick
Benjamin Grauer schreef: Hi there i use an ati graphicscard with fglrx, and since this f* driver does not work with 2.6.12-kernels, i wondered if i could emerge old kernels... Yes it does work with 2.6.12 kernels.. 8.14.13-r2 supports 2.6.12 with an (included) patch, and 8.16.20 (-* masked

Re: [gentoo-user] No auto-add to programs list in GNOME after emerges

2005-09-02 Thread Holly Bostick
Greg Shikhman schreef: Hi, After installing gentoo and gnome on my current system, I don't get programs added to my program files after emerging them (ex: firefox-bin does not enter the menu after emerging it, I have to do it manually). Could anyone list any reasons why this could

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging an old kernel (but not too old)

2005-09-02 Thread Holly Bostick
Benjamin Grauer schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: Benjamin Grauer schreef: Hi there i use an ati graphicscard with fglrx, and since this f* driver does not work with 2.6.12-kernels, i wondered if i could emerge old kernels... Yes it does work with 2.6.12 kernels

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot disable FF's prefetch 'feature'

2005-09-02 Thread Holly Bostick
Mick schreef: Hi All, It has been mentioned in this list and elsewhere that toggling network.prefetch-next to false in the about:config should do just that. I was just looking at my netstat output as soon as I fired FF and guess what I saw! There was also a connection to 212.58.226.19

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting direct rendering (DRI) to work with ATI 9550 video card

2005-09-02 Thread Holly Bostick
John Lange schreef: but I'm clueless as to why libglx wouldn't be working. (II) LoadModule: glx (WW) Warning, couldn't open module glx (II) UnloadModule: glx (EE) Failed to load module glx (module does not exist, 0) The module not existing would seem to be a good reason that it doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting direct rendering (DRI) to work with ATI 9550 video card

2005-09-02 Thread Holly Bostick
John Lange schreef: Thanks for the reply Holly. Symlinks are as follows: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Apr 9 08:47 linux - linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r3 drwxr-xr-x 19 root root4096 Sep 2 08:54 linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r3 I've re-emerged the ati drivers several times but can't hurt to do

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

2005-09-01 Thread Holly Bostick
Nagatoro schreef: [Way off topic] But where did you find AA? I've looked around and all I've seen is sorry tray again later when we've upgraded the linux code Portage? eix america * games-fps/americas-army Available versions: 230 Installed: none Homepage:

Re: [gentoo-user] workspace setups

2005-09-01 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:58:36 -0400, John Dangler wrote: I've figured out that if you open apps in one workspace, and then switch to another, those apps don't appear, which does give me some idea of the mechanics, but I'd like to customize what starts and what is

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is the emerge history

2005-09-01 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 04:30:41 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: If you want the detailed messages which run up the screen during an emerge, goto /etc/make.conf set (dirname to taste) PORT_LOGDIR=/var/log/emerge-logs which will add 2 new files to that dir for each

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.12-r9 : sensors don't work

2005-09-01 Thread Holly Bostick
Philip Webb schreef: I've installed kernel 2.6.12-gentoo-r9 find Gkrellm doesn't show sensors. There's no problem with 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 . The same modules are being installed removed at each (re)boot. There is a recent thread on the forum which reported that removing ACPI from the kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.12-r9 : sensors don't work

2005-09-01 Thread Holly Bostick
Andrew MacKenzie schreef: +++ Holly Bostick [gentoo-user] [Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 07:03:47PM +0200]: If lm_sensors the package compiles against the kernel, as I would imagine it must, it would need to be re-emerged when you upgraded the kernel. I don't mean to thread-hijack, but... I

Re: [gentoo-user] NetworkManager

2005-09-01 Thread Holly Bostick
Alexander Skwar schreef: José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández schrieb: On Thursday 01 September 2005 18:53, Nick Smith wrote: I cant seem to find networkmanager anywhere in portage What is networkmanager ? url ? Dunno what it is, but it seems to be

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.12-r9 : sensors don't work

2005-09-01 Thread Holly Bostick
Peter Ruskin schreef: On Thursday 01 September 2005 20:37, Andrew MacKenzie wrote: I don't mean to thread-hijack, but... I was just thinking that it would be really nice if after I run genkernel I got a list of packages that need to be recompiled against the new kernel (i.e.

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying between hard drives potential newbie question

2005-09-01 Thread Holly Bostick
Ben Blount schreef: MBR is probably damaged, hence why it won't boot. I would run grub-install just to be sure. You could also mount your old disk and the new disk, then use cp -R /mnt/olddisk/* /mnt/newdisk/ (putting in the appriopriate mount locations of course) Ben Blount Wouldn't

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.12-r9 : sensors don't work

2005-09-01 Thread Holly Bostick
Peter Ruskin schreef: On Friday 02 September 2005 00:21, Holly Bostick wrote: Peter, why does running this command give me the following output: emerge -v $(equery b /lib/modules | sed -e 's:^:=:' ) !!! No command or unknown command given

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

2005-09-01 Thread Holly Bostick
Bob Sanders schreef: But it does come down to personal preferences. And I've used a lot of window managers. snip ripped off the wm in Win98 and put Litestep on Hey, finally, another Litestep expat! I was beginning to think I was the only one :) Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.12-r9 : sensors don't work

2005-09-01 Thread Holly Bostick
Philip Webb schreef: Philip Webb schreef: I've installed kernel 2.6.12-gentoo-r9 find Gkrellm doesn't show sensors. There's no problem with 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 . The same modules are being installed removed at each (re)boot. There is a recent thread on the forum which reported that removing

Re: [gentoo-user] modifying locally an ebuild

2005-08-31 Thread Holly Bostick
Fernando Canizo schreef: El 30/ago/2005 a las 22:36 -0300, Holly me decía: Normally what one would do is place all modified ebuilds in your PORTDIR_OVERLAY ... Thank you very much. You should take advice from Nick and make it a howto. I'm surely going to translate to spanish and put it in

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: font management software

2005-08-31 Thread Holly Bostick
Philip Webb schreef: 050831 Martin S wrote: Is there a font management app that's good under Linux? to see what the fonts look like Gfontview Gucharmap (both in Portage); Xfd Xfontsel (both part of Xorg). and be able to install what's not installed. Well, this is Gentoo, so

Re: [gentoo-user] modifying locally an ebuild

2005-08-31 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:39:04 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: Or, if there's some way to 'modularize' mutt, you could look into turning the patch into a 'plugin' (if such things exist, I know nothing about mutt), so that it would be optional to those who wanted to use

Re: [gentoo-user] modifying locally an ebuild

2005-08-31 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 14:42:16 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: But do you know the answer to Nick's question about what I said earlier? In a 'conflict' between two ebuilds of the same name and version, one in Portage and one in the overlay, does the choice of which one

Re: [gentoo-user] rc script opacity

2005-08-31 Thread Holly Bostick
Philip Webb schreef: The script /etc/conf.d/rc contains the following lines : # RC_USE_CONFIG_PROFILE allows you to have different /etc/conf.d files # based on your runlevel - if a conf.d file for your profile does not exist # then we try and use the default one. # To enable runlevel

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Finding other machines on the network

2005-08-31 Thread Holly Bostick
James schreef: Say 'Hello, to my little friend' arpscan http://ish.cx/~jason/arpscan/ Sure would be nice if is was ported to an ebuild.. Some reason you can't submit one to b.g.o (if that hasn't been done already)? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] modifying locally an ebuild

2005-08-31 Thread Holly Bostick
Fernando Canizo schreef: Is this a behaviour that a significant portion of the mutt userbase might want? Or are you just weird ;) ? Well, you use thunderbird, so maybe you're more like a mouse user. Yes, but I'm getting over it. Also I need to know how to work with at least one CLI email

Re: [gentoo-user] rc script opacity

2005-08-31 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 16:23:33 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: The 'command prompt' referred to is probably the bootloader command prompt (I don't remember how LiLO does it, but in GRUB you can edit menu entries on the fly and boot from the edited entry). It's

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

2005-08-31 Thread Holly Bostick
Steve B schreef: On 9/1/05, *Matt Garman* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Before this gets into a flame war, let's just operate under the assertion that the best window manager/desktop environment is strictly a matter of personal preference. So, having said that,

Re: [gentoo-user] mldonkey wants a gui, but I don't want a GUI....

2005-08-30 Thread Holly Bostick
Amphibian schreef: emerge mldonkey gives me this: * If the compile with gui fails, and you have updated ocaml * recently, you may have forgotten that you need to run * /usr/portage/dev-lang/ocaml/files/ocaml-rebuild.sh * to learn which ebuilds you need to recompile * each time you update

Re: [gentoo-user] glunarclock

2005-08-30 Thread Holly Bostick
John Dangler schreef: -Original Message- From: Holly Bostick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 5:20 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] glunarclock John Dangler schreef: Anyone emerged this and got it to load? I emerged

Re: [gentoo-user] mldonkey wants a gui, but I don't want a GUI....

2005-08-30 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 11:06:30 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: # echo net-p2p/mldonkey -gtk /etc/portage/package.use Or even: echo net-p2p/mldonkey -gtk /etc/portage/package.use :-) Indeed. You see, there's the downside of having too many aliases. You forget how

Re: [gentoo-user] iptables

2005-08-30 Thread Holly Bostick
John Dangler schreef: Holly~ The Firestarter kernel requirements doc says - *Device drivers *Networking support [y] *Networking support *Networking options *Network packet filtering [y] *Network packet filtering IP: Netfilter Configuration (*) We recommend you enable _everything_ except

Re: [gentoo-user] glunarclock

2005-08-30 Thread Holly Bostick
John Dangler schreef: Anyone emerged this and got it to load? I emerged it, but I can’t find a way to have it start in gnome. (it’s an applet) John D Yes, I've used it several times, under various versions of gnome-panel. The way to start it (or most any panel applet), is to

Re: [gentoo-user] ACPI

2005-08-30 Thread Holly Bostick
John Dangler schreef: Make sure the acpid daemon is running. rc-update show = acpid | default alsasound | default alsasound~ | apmd | Is this daemon running? Try (as root) /etc/init.d/acpid start (or, change the settings and

Re: [gentoo-user] ACPI

2005-08-30 Thread Holly Bostick
John Dangler schreef: weird - rc-update show doesn't show acpi at all. /etc/init.d/acpid doesn't exist. Well, you can't very well run the acpi daemon if you don't have it, can you-- and if you don't have it, how is GNOME supposed to find it? * sys-power/acpid Available versions:

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing on a Mini ATX

2005-08-30 Thread Holly Bostick
Frank Schafer schreef: Hi all, I have a Mini ATX board without floppy and CD-ROM. I have a running LFS installed on this server. It has a 20GB HDD with 2 partitions and 2 network connections (Ethernet and WiFi). Is there some way to copy the LifeCD content to the second partition of

Re: [gentoo-user] ACPI

2005-08-30 Thread Holly Bostick
John Dangler schreef: ok... rc-update show _does_ have apmd (although it's not assigned a run level). And, emerge -pv gnome-applets has {ebuild R ] gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.10.1 -acpi +apm -debug -doc +gstreamer +ipv6 0 kb But -- /etc/init.d/apmd start shows apm support is not compiled

[gentoo-user] [OT?]Text editor and scripting weirdness

2005-08-30 Thread Holly Bostick
Hi all, I was having a nice day when this started happening completely out of the blue (no emerges, no changes, no nothing prior to what I'm about to explain): I use Openbox, and I finally just started setting it up to use more of its features, notably the dock. Now, I always ran OB from a

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