Re: [gentoo-user] Personal firewall for Linux?

2005-08-30 Thread Holly Bostick
Nagatoro schreef: Matt Randolph wrote: I've seen related threads here recently, but I think my question is different enough to warrant a new thread. I'm looking for a personal firewall along the lines of the ZoneAlarm product for Windows. I don't want to take the time to teach myself

Re: [gentoo-user] How to work with etc-updates.

2005-08-30 Thread Holly Bostick
Jerry Turba schreef: As I understand the process etc-update lists new configuration files provided by the program authors. I have tried to define some rules for myself to determine how to handle these new files. 1. If I made a change to a file I will never allow the new config file to

Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems

2005-08-30 Thread Holly Bostick
bshlists schreef: Using all the suggestions on this thread I was able to get gensplash up and running. I however have one small problem the bootsplash come up some 1/3 the way through the bootup process. Now I remember seeing somewhere a change to a config file which would change when

[gentoo-user] [OT]Creating new named colors

2005-08-30 Thread Holly Bostick
OK, this is so bizarre, I hardly know how to ask it (which is why I can't find anything in Google about it, either). This is more dock stuff. I'm trying to change the colors on those dockapps that allow it. These dockapps that allow it are *supposed* to take hex color codes (#xx1x34), but they

Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems

2005-08-30 Thread Holly Bostick
bshlists schreef: On August 30, 2005 10:51 am, Holly Bostick wrote: bshlists schreef: Using all the suggestions on this thread I was able to get gensplash up and running. I however have one small problem the bootsplash come up some 1/3 the way through the bootup process. Now I remember

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

2005-08-30 Thread Holly Bostick
Moshe Kaminsky schreef: Hi, * Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] [30/08/05 17:30]: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Does GAIM 1.5 need evolution-data-server?

2005-08-30 Thread Holly Bostick
Hareesh Nagarajan schreef: Hi All: Does GAIM 1.5 now need evolution-data-server? emerge Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] net-im/gaim-1.5.0 [1.3.1] -cjk -debug +eds* -gnutls No, it doesn't *need* it-- but do you see that +eds with a star? That's the new USE flag which

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync problems

2005-08-30 Thread Holly Bostick
Joshua Armstrong schreef: Hello, I'm having a problem with rsync on one of my servers. Every time I rsync from one of the gentoo portage mirrors, it tells me rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(1064). I've tried re-emerging rsync and re-emerging portage but

Re: [gentoo-user] thunderbird stopped opening firefox windows...

2005-08-30 Thread Holly Bostick
Antoine schreef: Hi, When I click on an email now nothing happens. It was fine and dandy for a while but now nothing... anyone got any ideas? Cheers Antoine Perhaps Firefox is no longer set as your default browser (it must be reset after an upgrade)? Maybe Thunderbird is trying to open links

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Creating new named colors

2005-08-30 Thread Holly Bostick
Michael Mauch schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: This is more dock stuff. I'm trying to change the colors on those dockapps that allow it. These dockapps that allow it are *supposed* to take hex color codes (#xx1x34), but they don't seem to. They do, however, take named colors (orange

Re: [gentoo-user] modifying locally an ebuild

2005-08-30 Thread Holly Bostick
Fernando Canizo schreef: Hi all, I find a cute patch to mutt and to use it i modified the ebuild and the pertinent files so now re-emerging mutt builds mutt with this patch. Later i fixed the actual version of mutt so an upgrade cannot erase it. What i would like to know is how can i do

Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need the vmlinuz symbolic link with Grub?

2005-08-30 Thread Holly Bostick
Daevid Vincent schreef: Somehow net-wireless/madwifi-driver has broken on me (0.1_pre20050420-r1), so I thought I'd recompile it. No luck. So I thought, maybe my kernel source was different than my actual kernel (2.6.10-gentoo-r6), so I ran: make bzImage modules modules_install OK, don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling totem-1.0.4 -- looking for suggestions on how to fix

2005-08-29 Thread Holly Bostick
Ric de France schreef: Hi, I recently did a: $ emerge -DNuva world which came back with: snip ... [ebuild U ] media-video/totem-1.0.4 [1.0.2-r1] -a52 -debug +dvd +flac +gnome -lirc +mad +mpeg +ogg -theora +vorbis +win32codecs +xine +xv ... /snip Thinking it was so good,

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-29 Thread Holly Bostick
Alec Shaner schreef: Nick Rout wrote: OK once again the ebuild is attached, it now creates a desktop file in /usr/share/applications/ and pops the .xpm icon file into /usr/share/pixmaps/. This is where gentoo likes these things to be. Those of you who have expressed an interest in this

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-29 Thread Holly Bostick
Holly Bostick schreef: You can see that 'laby' is not copied to /usr/games/bin, though I guess that must be it in /usr/lib/laby? Yes, indeed it is: la /usr/lib/laby totaal 5388 drwxr-xr-x2 root root 168 aug 29 17:20 . drwxr-xr-x 151 root root 110112 aug 29 17:20 .. -rw

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-29 Thread Holly Bostick
Alec Shaner schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: This was a simple emerge, so I hope I didn't bork it myself; I did forget to create a 'files' directory in the overlay folder, but since there were no files, I can't think that that would be the problem. I could be wrong, though, especially since

Re: [gentoo-user] Personal firewall for Linux?

2005-08-29 Thread Holly Bostick
Matt Randolph schreef: I've seen related threads here recently, but I think my question is different enough to warrant a new thread. I think you're not quite right :), but I can see why you'd think this. I'm looking for a personal firewall along the lines of the ZoneAlarm product for

Re: [gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description?

2005-08-29 Thread Holly Bostick
Jonas Geiregat schreef: Fernando Canizo wrote: El 25/ago/2005 a las 20:57 -0300, Holly me decía: [EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: Hi all, one thing i miss from my previous debian system was the long description that one can acces with 'apt-cache show package'. snip Just

Re: [gentoo-user] desktop settings

2005-08-29 Thread Holly Bostick
John Dangler schreef: On my gnome desktop in the default panel I currently have gaim and an xterm. I tried to open a mozilla browser at an empty page (default), but when I close and save settings, I get a message telling me that it cannot save mozilla and closes it. Is there a way to have

Re: [gentoo-user] equery

2005-08-29 Thread Holly Bostick
Jorge Almeida schreef: equery seems crazy. I have gentoolkit-0.2.0, and just reemerged it for good measure. $ equery depends vim [ Searching for packages depending on vim... ] Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/equery, line 1551, in ?

Re: [gentoo-user] equery

2005-08-29 Thread Holly Bostick
Jorge Almeida schreef: On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: The problem, from the looks of it, could be in Python, or in gentoolkit itself. Have you updated Python recently? Perhaps you need to run /usr/sbin/python-updater to make sure everything is copacetic. python is up

Re: [gentoo-user] iptables

2005-08-29 Thread Holly Bostick
John Dangler schreef: I emerged firestarter (during which I got iptables), and forgot that I didn't have iptables emerged prior. I went into the kernel and selected (as the doc I found suggests) Oh, John, to hell with the doc you found (which look to be from the Wiki). No offense to the

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocking package stops emerge now what?

2005-08-27 Thread Holly Bostick
Robert Crawford schreef: On Saturday 27 August 2005 09:40 am, Harry Putnam wrote: Running emerge -v -p world -u shows: Calculating world dependencies ^H^H ...done! [blocks B ] net-ftp/vsftpd-2.0.3-r1 (is blocking net-ftp/ftpbase-0.00) However any attempt to unmerge

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I burn DVD with k3b ?

2005-08-27 Thread Holly Bostick
Makurin Roman schreef: Hi all! How can I burn dvd with k3b ? I emerge this with dvdr use flag, but what I need to do to write dvd ? 10nx Open k3b, choose one of the DVD project types from either 1. The big buttons on the lower half of the main screen 2. The button bar under the menu bar

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I burn DVD with k3b ?

2005-08-27 Thread Holly Bostick
Makurin Roman schreef: Thanks a lot! I found DVD data project, but it accessible only in menu bar :-) If you right-click on the lower half of the main screen (where it says Welcome to K3B, and has the buttons for fast project choice), you can add and remove buttons; if you go to the

Re: [gentoo-user] browser,news,mail

2005-08-27 Thread Holly Bostick
John Dangler schreef: I just found some docs on this that say Large organizations that require an integrated suite (past Netscape Communicator users) should consider moving towards Mozilla 1.7. All others should consider upgrading to Firefox and Thunderbird. So, I guess the question

Re: [gentoo-user] ati -- dreaded xf86-ENOMEM error

2005-08-26 Thread Holly Bostick
Mark Knecht schreef: On 8/25/05, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What motherboard do you have? Asus K8N-E Deluxe skt 754 w/nVidia chipset hehe!! We're in this one together buddy! I managed to buy one of those motherboards today from

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Dock Application

2005-08-26 Thread Holly Bostick
Michael Crute schreef: On 8/27/05, *Glenn Enright* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If we could access it then maybee we would... Ha ha... I was hoping perhaps sombody else had the same app or icons or had seen them someplace. -Mike I think the point Glenn

Re: [gentoo-user] bbgallery and template files

2005-08-25 Thread Holly Bostick
Harry Putnam schreef: First if this ends up being a nearly duplicate post... my apologies. I tried a similar version from a different machine that has apparently not made it to the server. I recently went looking for image manipulation tools in general and web gallery software in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: activex support

2005-08-25 Thread Holly Bostick
James schreef: Daniel da Veiga danieldaveiga at gmail.com writes: Cedega implemented a plugin for using activex with mozilla, check it at the transgaming site www.transgaming.com. This looks promising. Theres an ebuild for it, I'm sure... app-emulation/cedega is this the

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo

2005-08-25 Thread Holly Bostick
C.Beamer schreef: John Dangler wrote: I’m looking into setting up sudo on my latest test box (stage3/genkernel 2.6.12—r9) In portage, sudo says “Allows users or groups to run commands as other users”. The latest stable shows *1.6.8_p9 (although the one before is it unstable, and the one

Re: [gentoo-user] ati -- dreaded xf86-ENOMEM error

2005-08-25 Thread Holly Bostick
maxim wexler schreef: Another thing, http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-353295-highlight-xf86enomem.html all seem to be complaining about DRM failure but according to the gentoo-radeon-faq: * Device drivers - Character Devices - Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.1.0 and higher

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge output

2005-08-25 Thread Holly Bostick
John Dangler schreef: I just did an emerge –uDv world… during the course of the 22 packages (a lot considering I just loaded this last night), I got some messages saying “please make sure you run … (I couldn’t read it all since it went by so fast)… I got a couple of these before it

Re: [gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description?

2005-08-25 Thread Holly Bostick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: Hi all, one thing i miss from my previous debian system was the long description that one can acces with 'apt-cache show package'. snip The questions would be: - why gentoo has decided that one line description is enough? - it's possible to implement long

Re: [gentoo-user] ati -- dreaded xf86-ENOMEM error

2005-08-25 Thread Holly Bostick
OK, now I have some time to look at this in detail: maxim wexler schreef: --- Ryan Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/23/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Maxim, An AGP support issue probably. Which kernel are you using? Mark, I think you're right: I found that running

Re: [gentoo-user] win4lin

2005-08-25 Thread Holly Bostick
John Jolet schreef: On Thursday 25 August 2005 21:17, Mark Knecht wrote: Maybe it's just an oversight and temporarily gone? - Mark well, it's definately gone now. can someone comment on why and whether it's temporary? I'd prefer not to try to remember if've installed any other

Re: [gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description?

2005-08-24 Thread Holly Bostick
Jonathan Nichols schreef: And it's also the default setting in Thunderbird. I wish they'd change that. Oh, for Pete's sake, you can change that in your Preferences in 5 seconds. Edit=Account Preferences= Compostion and Addressing=Check the box that says If I respond, quote the original text

Re: [gentoo-user] newbie install - emerge: command not found

2005-08-23 Thread Holly Bostick
Assaf Urieli schreef: Hi all, snip So, when I restart, everything looks allright. Grub asks me to choose Gentoo Linux 2.6.12-r6, which I do. I can then login fine. But when I try to run the emerge command, I get: emerge: command not found (no surprise, it's not in /bin). Have I missed a

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot stalls after install of 2005.1

2005-08-23 Thread Holly Bostick
Marcel Romijn schreef: I assumed that even though the kernel has framebuffer support built in, it won't use it if it is not configured as kernel parameter in grub.conf. Maybe that was a wrong assumption? Yes, it was. The settings in grub.conf are supposed to override the kernel settings.

Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems

2005-08-23 Thread Holly Bostick
Nagatoro schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: Yes... you see your kernel config for the default mode? It does not specify a bit depth. Neither did mine. Change the setting in the kernel to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or whatever your preferred resolution is, thereby specifying a bit depth to the kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems

2005-08-23 Thread Holly Bostick
Matthias Krebs schreef: And as someone else mentioned before, vesafb-tng is not a valid kernel parameter, so everything after it is ignored. In what world is this? If you're using vesafb-tng (added to the kernel options by the fbsplash patch which you get with the gentoo kernels, which is no

Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems

2005-08-23 Thread Holly Bostick
Matthias Krebs schreef: On 8/23/05, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthias Krebs schreef: And as someone else mentioned before, vesafb-tng is not a valid kernel parameter, so everything after it is ignored. In what world is this? If you're using vesafb-tng (added to the kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

2005-08-22 Thread Holly Bostick
John Dangler schreef: Holly~ Maybe you can get this to work with this page... http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_fbsplash#Option_1:_Compiling_The_initramfs_Imag e_Directly_Into_The_Kernel There's a section somewhere in here that talks about that exact error. John D Thank you, John--

Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

2005-08-22 Thread Holly Bostick
Holly Bostick schreef: So why, when my grub.conf says kernel /vmlinuz ro quiet root=/dev/hda5 video=vesafb-tng:ywrap,mtrr,[EMAIL PROTECTED] splash=verbose,fadein,theme:livecd-2005.1 CONSOLE=/dev/tty1 clearly specifying more than 8bpp as instructed, is the splash failing to load because

Re: [gentoo-user] Read/Import mail

2005-08-22 Thread Holly Bostick
A. Khattri schreef: On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Fernando Meira wrote: I need to access some old mail folder. I was using mozilla as mail client at the time. Now I use thunderbird. I couldn't import/read the mail just by creating an account and pointing the Local Folder to that old folder. Tools

Re: [gentoo-user] CD burning with full filenames

2005-08-22 Thread Holly Bostick
Grant schreef: Hello, does anyone know how to make an ISO and then burn it to a CD with the full filenames preserved? I tried specifying Joliet and Rock Ridge but the output from mkisofs looks like the filenames are being altered. - Grant You only used Joliet (-J)? Maybe you need this

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources USE-flag problem

2005-08-22 Thread Holly Bostick
Fredrik Axelsson schreef: I'm trying to emerge gentoo-sources with the -doc use flag set. emerge -pv gentoo-sources shows that gentoo-sources will be emerged without the doc use flag. -doc is set both in my make.conf USE variable and in /etc/portage/package.use After the emerge 'equery

Re: [gentoo-user] somebody said Headphones?

2005-08-21 Thread Holly Bostick
maxim wexler schreef: --- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: unmuting master is always needed if you want any sound to come out! Makes sense but it worked before update world with only PCM unmuted. Some sound servers/mixers allow you to set master to use the PCM setting (by default

Re: [gentoo-user] trying to install faad2-2.0-r7 on my amd64 system

2005-08-21 Thread Holly Bostick
Marianne Taylor schreef: I am getting the following error when I try to upgrade to faad2-2.0-r7. I need the patch for amd64 to use aac files. Here is the error message: Problem in media-libs/faad2-2.0-r7 dependencies. Specific key requires an operator (media-libs/faad2-2.0-r7) (try

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo equivalent to yum provides

2005-08-21 Thread Holly Bostick
Rennie deGraaf schreef: What command does one use to find what package(s) provide a particular file, given that that particular file is not present on my system? For example, I need a program called foobar, but don't know what package provides it. Under Fedora, I'd use yum provides foobar;

Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

2005-08-20 Thread Holly Bostick
John Dangler schreef: Holly~ Maybe you can get this to work with this page... http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_fbsplash#Option_1:_Compiling_The_initramfs_Imag e_Directly_Into_The_Kernel There's a section somewhere in here that talks about that exact error. John D Thank you, John-- that is

Re: [gentoo-user] xine cannot find /dev/hdc

2005-08-20 Thread Holly Bostick
Ed Jabbour schreef: After a recent emerge -uDv system, which upgraded xine-lib, I cannot use xine to watch dvds anymore. It cannot find /dev/hdc. The output from running xine from the console is at http://rafb.net/paste/results/ac0MJP75.html. I've tried downgrading and re-emerging to no

Re: [gentoo-user] About firefox

2005-08-20 Thread Holly Bostick
Luigi Pinna schreef: Hello everybody! I use mozilla and I want to change to firefox but... Mozilla has a multilanguage support (everybody can install his languagepack). I search the same in firefox but I cannot find it: if I use portage, I have only the english version; if I install it from

Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

2005-08-20 Thread Holly Bostick
John Dangler schreef: as to the mount problem, if it's not in fstab, what's in your mtab file? Well, it's in my mtab, but that doesn't tell me how it got mounted... does it? Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] About firefox

2005-08-20 Thread Holly Bostick
Luigi Pinna schreef: Alle 21:29, sabato 20 agosto 2005, Holly Bostick ha scritto: [...] If you go to the Mozilla Localization page at http://www.mozilla.org/projects/l10n/mlp_status.html and there is a project for your language, there should also be a website link to the project's site. Any

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa config

2005-08-20 Thread Holly Bostick
John Jolet schreef: On Saturday 20 August 2005 14:31, Christoph Eckert wrote: Use alsamixer in a console window to adjust the settings. Ensure master is open and PCM is unmuted and open. I have a question about that...using the in-kernel alsa drivers and I get sound fine with xmms

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update - the best version available

2005-08-19 Thread Holly Bostick
Mark Knecht schreef: Hi, I wonder what the explanation in the emerge man page about the --update option really means. What is meant by, and how does emerge pick, the best version available? - Mark For those wondering, here's the quote: --update (-u) Updates packages to

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update - the best version available

2005-08-19 Thread Holly Bostick
Holly Bostick schreef: media-libs/xine-lib Available versions: ~1_rc6-r2 1_rc8-r1 1.0-r2 1.0.1-r3 ~1.0.2 ~1.1.0 ~1.1.0-r1 However, if one was using ~arch, or had activated unstable for this package in /etc/portage/package.mask, which should of course be /etc/portage

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update - the best version available

2005-08-19 Thread Holly Bostick
Mark Knecht schreef: On 8/19/05, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht schreef: Hi, I wonder what the explanation in the emerge man page about the --update option really means. What is meant by, and how does emerge pick, the best version available? - Mark For those wondering

Re: [gentoo-user] after emerge -Du world - - no sound no errors

2005-08-18 Thread Holly Bostick
maxim wexler schreef: Hello everyone, Sound files played fine prior to the update. When unit boots speakers thump at Loading: snd-seq-oss...as before. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ lsmod Module Size Used by fglrx 238332 0 agpgart33320 1

Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

2005-08-18 Thread Holly Bostick
Uwe Thiem schreef: On 17 August 2005 18:22, John Dangler wrote: Uwe~ Yes, please share! I'd be interested to see how this goes together Alright, it took me less time than I thought. ;-) snip Thank you very much, Uwe, but I simply cannot get the livecd themes to work. Adapting your

Re: [gentoo-user] unison requires Mozilla, doesn't accept Firefox?

2005-08-18 Thread Holly Bostick
Mark Knecht schreef: On 8/18/05, Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Mark Knecht wrote: I could look at removing the global mozilla flag and using it only on certain apps, but really I'm wondering why Unison didn't accept Firefox as a browser and wondering if the ebuild for it, or

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD recorder recommendations

2005-08-18 Thread Holly Bostick
Nick Rout schreef: On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 21:23:38 -0700 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Every single one states that Windows in some form is a requirement. Surely this is FUD, right? yes absolutely. To add to this, I think that what is really meant by this typical marketing-speak is that Windows

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get mozilla-sunbird

2005-08-17 Thread Holly Bostick
Norberto Bensa schreef: Nick Rout wrote: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS has been deprecated for a very long time. But you can still use ACCEPT_KEYWORDS in /etc/make.conf if you want the whole system to be ~x86. Or is there a better/recommendable way? Yes, ACCEPT_KEYWORDS is a valid variable name for

Re: [gentoo-user] unsuscribe

2005-08-17 Thread Holly Bostick
Michael Crute schreef: Why dont we just change it so that unsubscribe in the subject line unsubscribes you (like every other mailing list on the internet)? Interestingly enough, I just checked three of the several mailing lists to which I am subscribed, and none of them take unsubscription by

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc and gcc updated to 2.3.5

2005-08-17 Thread Holly Bostick
Grant schreef: I noticed my glibc and gcc were updated to 2.3.5 in my last big emerge world. Should I run an emptytree emerge now? - Grant first, your gcc got not updated to 2.3.5 second: no. You do NOT NEED to do an emptytree. Never! glibc updates are nothing to worry about, one replaces the

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge xorg-6.8.2-r2 under Gentoo 2005.1

2005-08-17 Thread Holly Bostick
Mark Knecht schreef: Yes, it does, but it still didn't tell me what profile I'm running: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls /etc/make.profile/ 2.4 packages parent [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ where as [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /etc/make.profile/packages | grep profile # $Header:

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge xorg-6.8.2-r2 under Gentoo 2005.1

2005-08-17 Thread Holly Bostick
Mark Knecht schreef: On 8/17/05, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht schreef: Yes, it does, but it still didn't tell me what profile I'm running: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls /etc/make.profile/ 2.4 packages parent [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ where as [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /etc

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get larger fonts in X ?

2005-08-16 Thread Holly Bostick
Tom Naujokas schreef: On Mon, 2005-15-08 at 22:09 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: The one part I haven't figured out is xterm. If I {ALT-RIGHT-CLICK} in an xterm, I get a menu that will alter font sizes. How do I change the default font size that xterm comes up with? You can control xterm

Re: [gentoo-user] F4L

2005-08-16 Thread Holly Bostick
Ian K schreef: Frank Schafer wrote: On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 07:33 +, Gyuri wrote: Ian K wrote: Hi there, I would love to try out Flash4Linux (f4l.sf.net) but it wont compile. Im trying 0.2. When I type make, I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/MyTars/f4l-0.2 $ make make: *** No rule to

Re: [gentoo-user] F4L

2005-08-16 Thread Holly Bostick
Ian K schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: Ian K schreef: Frank Schafer wrote: On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 07:33 +, Gyuri wrote: Ian K wrote: Hi there, I would love to try out Flash4Linux (f4l.sf.net) but it wont compile. Im trying 0.2. When I type make, I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/MyTars/f4l-0.2

Re: [gentoo-user] dual-linuxdistro-boot kernel question

2005-08-16 Thread Holly Bostick
Fernando Meira schreef: Hi, I was told the following, which I don't agree, but in any case, I would like to hear from someone that knows :) - when having 2 different distro on 1 pc, do they have to use the same kernel? Even if they share the same swap partition and /boot is inside the root

Re: [gentoo-user] dual-linuxdistro-boot kernel question

2005-08-16 Thread Holly Bostick
Russell Slater schreef: Couldn't you place both kernels in /boot with different names and leverage grub to load the approriate one? Yes. Afaik, this is the 'traditional' method, both within a single distro with multiple kernel versions, and with multiple distros that each have a single kernel.

Re: [gentoo-user] dual-linuxdistro-boot kernel question

2005-08-16 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 17:12:01 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: If, like me, you installed one distro with /boot as just a folder on the / partition, then installed the second using a separate partition as /boot, then you likely have to do what I did and copy one kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] dual-linuxdistro-boot kernel question

2005-08-16 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 17:45:37 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: Maybe under normal circumstances it is, but SUSE really doesn't seem to like booting from Gentoo's bootloader when the SUSE kernel is on the other partition (not in the /boot partition my Gentoo uses). Of course

Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

2005-08-16 Thread Holly Bostick
Chris Cox schreef: On Monday 15 August 2005 12:57 am, Holly Bostick wrote: Nagatoro schreef: John Dangler wrote: doesn't do it, either. what else could I be missing? From my /boot/grub/grub.conf --- kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r6.4 root=/dev/hda2\ video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr,[EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] splash and kerne panic

2005-08-15 Thread Holly Bostick
John Dangler schreef: After emerging splashutils and doing - splash_geninitramfs -v -g /boot/fbsplash-livecd-2005.1-1024x768 -r 1024x768 livecd-2005.1 rc-update add splash default a reboot of the system produces – Kernel panic – not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on

Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

2005-08-15 Thread Holly Bostick
Nagatoro schreef: John Dangler wrote: doesn't do it, either. what else could I be missing? From my /boot/grub/grub.conf --- kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r6.4 root=/dev/hda2\ video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr,[EMAIL PROTECTED] splash=silent,theme:livecd-2005.0 CONSOLE=/dev/tty1

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-14 Thread Holly Bostick
Nick Rout schreef: On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 13:12:31 -0700 Zac Medico wrote: Hi Paul, Are we really far behind? That's difficult to believe. For what packages specifically? Do you know how to unmask unstable packages (marked M or M~ at packages.gentoo.org)? Unstable does not really

Re: [gentoo-user] Install pcmcia-cs (during install)

2005-08-14 Thread Holly Bostick
John Dangler schreef: The handbook instructs ‘USE=”-X” emerge pcmcia-cs’ emerge returns: ‘emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy “pcmcia-cs” Anyone know why this is returned? John D Well, the package certainly exists: eix pcmcia * sys-apps/pcmcia-cs

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-14 Thread Holly Bostick
Paul Hoy schreef: On Aug 14, 2005, at 5:24 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 15:42:19 -0400, Paul Hoy wrote: I really like Gentoo and I like that fact that it does a pretty good job at supporting Gnome, however, it's still behind other releases, such as Fedora, in terms

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-14 Thread Holly Bostick
Paul Hoy schreef: See inline On Aug 14, 2005, at 5:51 PM, Holly Bostick wrote: Nick Rout schreef: On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 13:12:31 -0700 Zac Medico wrote: Hi Paul, Are we really far behind? That's difficult to believe. For what packages specifically? Do you know how to unmask

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Mozilla Google behind the scenes payola

2005-08-12 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 15:17:40 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: Big Brother may be watching you, but you watch Big Brother-- that show with the incredibly ironic name-- don't you? No way! So who are 'you' (generic) to talk about 'privacy'? Much less as a inalienable

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with video parameters on Grub

2005-08-12 Thread Holly Bostick
Martins Steinbergs schreef: i'm using with ATI 9600 kernel line - video=radeonfb:mtrr:ywrap vga=7 splash=verbose You can't have both the video= line and the vga= line (they replace each other). I take it you're using splashutils to generate the splash and console background? If so, then

Re: [gentoo-user] how to access mounted dir with non-root?

2005-08-12 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 17:07:32 +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote: If not (like FAT) you need something like mount -o uid=youruser,gid=users,umask=0777 Don't you mean umask=0? umask inverts the bits, so 777 gives - to all files. I'm currently in the middle of an

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Mozilla Google behind the scenes payola

2005-08-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Michael Kintzios schreef: [OT] Holly, you mention that you have a zillion search engines incorporated in your browser . . . 8O Where do you get them from? How can these be added to a browser? [/OT] The vast majority of them come from mozdev.org itself. If you click the search engine button

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Mozilla Google behind the scenes payola

2005-08-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Matt Randolph schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: Surfing the Internet is a lot like walking down the street. Do you think Jane and John Doe computer users know that? Do you think they know that what they do in Word and Outlook is private, and what they do in Internet Explorer is public

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Mozilla Google behind the scenes payola

2005-08-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Holly Bostick schreef: Matt Randolph schreef: What if they had binoculars and a camera? Same with a camera, but if for some reason somebody was standing right in front of my window taking pictures of the interior of my house, I would do the same (confront them and ask why

Re: [gentoo-user] udev, /dev/svga and gnuplot

2005-08-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Paul M Foster schreef: On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 09:52:56PM +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: bunyip ccze-0.2.1 # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge svgalib -s Searching... [ Results for search key : svgalib ] [ Applications found : 1 ] * media-libs/svgalib Latest version available: 1.9.21

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Mozilla Google behind the scenes payola

2005-08-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Antoine schreef: How would you feel if a company bought lots of too-small-to-be-readily-visible flying cameras (like the mosquito-cams in the Dan Brown book Deception Point :-)) and followed you around wherever you went (in these public places, which would certainly include shops but not the

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Mozilla Google behind the scenes payola

2005-08-10 Thread Holly Bostick
Michael Kintzios schreef: Sharing our private information (i.e. our own browsing trends) for profit without our consent is evidently not on This carries the assumption that our own browsing trends is, in fact, private information, which I do not necessarily agree with. Surfing the Internet is

Re: [gentoo-user] from 2005.0 to 2005.1

2005-08-10 Thread Holly Bostick
Allan Spagnol Comar schreef: it is necessary to make any changes to get the packages from version 2005.1 while using 2005.0. I read somewhere that we should change the symlink /etc/make.profile to the new 2005.1 profile and resync, I dided and after sync there where no updates for my

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - How to work with USB DVD-RW/CD-RW drive

2005-08-10 Thread Holly Bostick
Michael Sullivan schreef: --- Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 06:48:06 -0700 (PDT) Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For what it's worth the only command listed above that shows my external drive is this: baby ~ # cdrecord -scanbus [...] scsibus2:

[gentoo-user] [OT?] What's going on with X.org?

2005-08-09 Thread Holly Bostick
Hey, all-- I just did an esync and I have a *huge* number of X.org-related masked packages-- from a whole lot of 'Prototype headers', to fonts, libraries, and drivers. Clearly there's big changes a-coming. Oh, I see-- this is modular X.org, I guess. Does anyone know where there might be a

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] What's going on with X.org?

2005-08-09 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 12:32:08 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: Does anyone know where there might be a summary of what this means to a user generally, or a Gentoo user specifically? The information on the freedesktop site is more targeted at developers, which doesn't so much

Re: [gentoo-user] how to control portage space usage

2005-08-09 Thread Holly Bostick
Fernando Meira schreef: I've been looking for comments about this process... and I got a little bit scared. In my case, i have (in order): - /dev/hda1 - 9.8G windows - /dev/hda2 - EXTENDED - /dev/hda5 - 23G share - /dev/hda3 - 512Mb swap - /dev/hda4 - 4.6G gentoo So, am I wrong or

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Badges

2005-08-05 Thread Holly Bostick
Ryan Viljoen schreef: You guys and gals are all so proud of it but want to keep it to yourselves. And what is pride, and when does one feel proud? When one has done something that is hard for oneself to accomplish, successfully. You felt proud when you first tied your own shoes, after

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] GRUB won't boot my new Gentoo install

2005-08-05 Thread Holly Bostick
Dan Johansson schreef: Hi, At the moment I'm trying to upgrade one of my old computers from SuSE to Gentoo. I have install a second SCSI-disk and installed Gentoo on this second disk using a stage-1 install. But when I try to boot my new install GRUB hangs (kernel does not uncompress)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Badges

2005-08-05 Thread Holly Bostick
Alvin A ONeal Jr schreef: I prefer the bumper sticker myself: http://coolaj86.homedns.org:4887/gallery2/main.php/d/5203-1/jeep_bumper_stickers.jpg hehe I must say, Alvin, that image took waay too long to load for me-- thank goodness it was really worth it when it did! I didn't even

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to block a given packages?

2005-08-05 Thread Holly Bostick
Phill MV schreef: You could put an entry in /etc/portage/package.mask man portage for more info. To my experience the package requiring it would simply not install. No, you're right. The solution to this specific problem (which I also have had, since I use neither Mozilla nor

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