Re: [gentoo-user] updated to evolution 2.6.1 and the copy and move buttons are missing off the toolbar

2006-05-22 Thread Iain Buchanan
they've gone, and no they won't come back! Evolution devs make a few changes over every minor revision. They've been trying to remove some of the clutter in menu's and toolbars. Some people like it, some don't. -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au interest, n.: What borrowers

Re: [gentoo-user] Logitech cordless

2006-05-22 Thread Iain Buchanan
be around. OR 2b. Instead of coldplug, you could just load the usb modules automatically on boot with /etc/modules.d/... 3. You might not have compiled usb support into your kernel, or maybe you left out usbhid. let me know how you go with those pointers. -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot

[gentoo-user] usblp video camera don't hotplug (any more)

2006-05-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
script has gone in favour of udev (version 090, ~x86). How do I make udev recognise hotplugged hardware? can anyone help me? It's a pain to reboot every time I want to plug in the camera! thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Perl 5 introduced everything else, including

[gentoo-user] using xscreensaver hacks in gnome-screensaver (gnome 2.14)

2006-05-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
me know and I may get around to working on it :) save this as xs2gs.pl enjoy :) -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au You can get much further with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. -- Al Capone [Also attributed to Johnny

Re: [gentoo-user] Warning: Color name black is not defined

2006-05-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 06:50 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: Iain Buchanan wrote: I just made a symlink to /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt : Great idea. I'll give that a try on Monday when I'm back at the office. If that really fixes the problem, then it should be incorporated in the RGB package

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - slideshow-type screensaver with custom images

2006-05-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
~/Pictures and you're done! If you feel game, you can convert some of the xscreensaver hacks (/usr/share/xscreensaver/config/) to gnome-screensaver xml files (/usr/share/gnome-screensaver/themes/). Post them back if you do so! HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Women sometimes

Re: [gentoo-user] Warning: Color name black is not defined

2006-05-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
/X11/rgb.txt and it works. I don't have time to care why atm. Just letting you know in case you haven't fixed it yet... -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au It's computer hardware, of course it's worth having g -- Espy on #Debian -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] /etc/conf.d/wireless ignoring dhcp setting

2006-05-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
172.16.0.4 0.0.0.0 UG0 00 wlan0 which implies that net.wlan0 is ignoring my -m 0 setting. Am I doing it right? I think I've got the right file, but I'm not sure. any help would be appreciated, thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Humor is a drug

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI and Linux

2006-05-07 Thread Iain Buchanan
feature for feature identical on the different oses. really? Wow, if I didn't have a laptop, I would have bought an NVidia card by now. HTH! -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au When man calls an animal vicious, he usually means that it will attempt to defend itself when he tries

[gentoo-user] Xorg 7 and disappearing mouse device

2006-05-03 Thread Iain Buchanan
solution that works for any of my usb mice (OK, I have a few at different locations :) Ideally, I would like to make /dev/input/mice use all mice from /dev/input/mouse2 and up (ie. not the stick or touchpad). Can I do that somehow? Any pointers would be appreciated. Thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb

Re: [gentoo-user] PC freeze with ati-drivers and gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3

2006-05-01 Thread Iain Buchanan
in to the kernel. I heard something about the RV350 or RV300 (not sure) chipset not being supported - is this true? thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Iambe conning the most intellegent people on the planet is not easy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] PC freeze with ati-drivers and gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3

2006-04-30 Thread Iain Buchanan
, yet I get 2500+ fps with ati-drivers... Any suggestions? What can I look for to make sure I've done it right (apart from a working X!)? thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Two sure ways to tell a REALLY sexy man; the first is, he has a bad memory. I forget the second

Re: [gentoo-user] PC freeze with ati-drivers and gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3

2006-04-30 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 13:21 +0530, Farhan Ahmed wrote: Iain Buchanan wrote: (snip) Thanks, that's pretty much what I had. I'm interested in your framerates though. With glxgears I only get about 130 fps with the radeon driver, yet I get 2500+ fps with ati-drivers... (snip

Re: [gentoo-user] PC freeze with ati-drivers and gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3

2006-04-27 Thread Iain Buchanan
command in xorg.conf locks up my laptop) thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Many people write memos to tell you they have nothing to say. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] stopping screen going blank

2006-04-27 Thread Iain Buchanan
DPMS on in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, and setting: Option BlankTime Option StandbyTime Option SuspendTime Option OffTime to 0 (if 0 means disable - man xorg.conf). HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power

Re: [gentoo-user] gpm (X11): touchpad OR usb-mouse?

2006-04-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
/gpm depending on what you have plugged in. For X, you would have to change Option Device from /dev/input/mice to a specific /dev/input/mouseX. I don't know how to do this automatically, nor how to make X use a different mouse without restarting... Hope this helps you on the way though. -- Iain

Re: [gentoo-user] gpm (X11): touchpad OR usb-mouse?

2006-04-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 00:42 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 08:47:42 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: I don't know how to do this automatically, nor how to make X use a different mouse without restarting... Would a symlink help here? Link the touchpad to, say, dev/input

[gentoo-user] font problems across apps

2006-04-06 Thread Iain Buchanan
, but its not... I don't know where to start with this... any hints? -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au I am not an Economist. I am an honest man! -- Paul McCracken -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_NICENESS for real

2006-04-05 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 14:00 +1200, Glenn Enright wrote: On Wednesday 05 April 2006 12:56, Iain Buchanan wrote: meetoo! I've noticed it helps with cpu allocation, but not with the disk. If you're emerging something like sources, or openoffice, portage still gets too much disk time

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_NICENESS for real

2006-04-05 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 14:57 +1200, Glenn Enright wrote: On Thursday 06 April 2006 11:08, Iain Buchanan wrote: wlll, it's not exactly old - it's a 3.0GHz P4 laptop (Inspiron 9100). It could be a RAM issue - only 512 Mb. But I definately notice it when emerging sources, and then trying

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_NICENESS for real

2006-04-04 Thread Iain Buchanan
time and other processes suffer. nice doesn't seem to affect disk access. -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au The naked truth of it is, I have no shirt. -- William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_NICENESS for real

2006-04-04 Thread Iain Buchanan
` and it wouldn't take a whole lot of disk time away from my nice browsing, music playing, etc... eh... -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Unix will self-destruct in five seconds... 4... 3... 2... 1... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] telnet localhost

2006-03-27 Thread Iain Buchanan
curious though, are hawat.thufir.gmail.com and arrakis both names for your machine? cya, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au The major sin is the sin of being born. -- Samuel Beckett -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] modular Xorg made it to ~x86

2006-03-27 Thread Iain Buchanan
I noticed after a sync a few nights ago, that modular xorg is in ~x86. I also noticed a few people here have installed a while ago already. so, can I just go ahead with it? I need a functional X on this box, but I'm happy to put up with a few quirks. What are the gotcha's? thanks, -- Iain

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: wget -c strange behaviour

2006-03-27 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 22:33 +0200, Simon Kellett wrote: Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So the question is: why does wget try to download it from the beginning? wget shouldn't do this even if the server can't resume, wget should just die. man wget :-) ok: Beginning

[gentoo-user] wget -c strange behaviour

2006-03-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
it not appear to finish, even though the mp3 sounds complete? many thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Loneliness is a terrible price to pay for independence. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] telnet localhost

2006-03-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 05:58 +0100, THUFIR HAWAT wrote: I want to test that leafnode is up and running, so am using telnet: [snip] Why can I not telnet to my own localhost? maybe your services are not listening on lo, and only on eth0? -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Arrakis

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE version

2006-03-23 Thread Iain Buchanan
install if you want, it may do bad things, but if so you're probably the first to know about it. File a bug and help move it to ARCH. ARCH is good for everyone else. -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Humor in the Court: Q: What is the meaning of sperm being present

Re: [gentoo-user] resuming emerges

2006-03-23 Thread Iain Buchanan
hibernate, so that you don't have to shutdown. Just hibernate your laptop, and when it starts up again the emerge will continue like it never stopped. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Tobacco is a filthy weed, That from the devil does proceed; It drains your purse, it burns

Re: [gentoo-user] screen flickers/static

2006-03-23 Thread Iain Buchanan
module you're using... -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au How do I type for i in *.dvi do xdvi i done in a GUI? (Discussion in comp.os.linux.misc on the intuitiveness of interfaces.) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] screen flickers/static

2006-03-23 Thread Iain Buchanan
the standard vesa driver). If 2. then try making one, then play around with it. -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au If you sell diamonds, you cannot expect to have many customers. But a diamond is a diamond even if there are no customers. -- Swami Prabhupada

Re: [gentoo-user] is it toast?

2006-03-23 Thread Iain Buchanan
misleading - I get this message when mount can't understand the filesystem, even though it may be ok. If you don't need any data from the drive, see if you can re-fdisk and re-format it. Unplug it first and plug in again, just in case you did something bad with hdparm. -- Iain Buchanan iaindb

Re: [gentoo-user] how to apply a patch to ebuild?

2006-03-22 Thread Iain Buchanan
, post back if you need more info. -- Iain Buchanan iain at pcorp dot com dot au Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. -- Thomas Alva Edison -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation Problem

2006-03-22 Thread Iain Buchanan
you've chrooted to your new install, just type 'emerge --resume' and it should continue from the last package that was installed. Hope this works for you, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't make eight cats pull a sled through the snow

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question : specific software version no more available

2006-03-22 Thread Iain Buchanan
be the process if i really need to stick with one version which is no longer there? If you _must_ have a particular version for ever, then use the PORTDIR_OVERLAY in /etc/make.conf HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au There is no distinction between any AI program and some existent

Re: [gentoo-user] skype experiences: good/bad/etc

2006-03-22 Thread Iain Buchanan
prefs. -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au For good, return good. For evil, return justice. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] skype experiences: good/bad/etc

2006-03-21 Thread Iain Buchanan
-author, but I tend to do this first: $ emerge skype and see what happens. I've never had any issues and I've been using skype for ages. Of course, YMMV, which is where the wiki comes in :) -- Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] make -j 4 recoverable ?

2006-03-21 Thread Iain Buchanan
: If the package fails with MAKEOPTS=-j4 but works with MAKEOPTS=-j1, then please file a bug. This way, the devs can either fix it, or force the offending ebuild to use -j1, so other people don't have the same problem. -- Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: bash scripting help requested. Quoting?

2006-03-21 Thread Iain Buchanan
I\'ll do stuff to look for \'${UNNEEDED_FILES[$i]}\' done HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Why isn't there some cheap and easy way to prove how much she means to me? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Using Gentoo for Sound Recording

2006-03-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
, but you can use CDRW's, and then rip them to a PC if you want. Just another option to think of. -- Iain Buchanan iain at netspace dot net dot au I have an existential map. It has You are here written all over it. -- Steven Wright -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Using Gentoo for Sound Recording

2006-03-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
don't want it at all, put -cups in /etc/make.conf then try the emerge line again HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iain at netspace dot net dot au The good oxymoron, to define it by a self-illustration, must be a planned inadvertency. -Wilson Follett -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: samba 3.0.21b issue

2006-03-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
0 Feb15 ?00:00:02 /usr/sbin/winbindd root 11479 11472 0 16:18 pts/000:00:00 grep winbind file a bug, so others can solve it too :) -- Iain Buchanan iain at netspace dot net dot au Fortune finishes the great quotations, #9 A word to the wise is often enough to start

[gentoo-user] kghostview pdf aspect distorted!

2006-03-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
? Thanks! -- Iain Buchanan iain at netspace dot net dot au Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly. -- William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: kghostview pdf aspect distorted!

2006-03-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
oops, should have said: $ kghostview --version Qt: 3.3.6 KDE: 3.5.1 KGhostView: 0.20 -- Iain Buchanan iain at netspace dot net dot au There's no such thing as a free lunch. -- Milton Friendman -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kghostview pdf aspect distorted!

2006-03-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
- no difference. The font is still weird and the aspect is stretched. any more ideas? thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iain at netspace dot net dot au Finagle's Creed: Science is true. Don't be misled by facts. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Channel

2006-03-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
the time when travelling: iwlist wlan0 scan -- Iain Buchanan iain at netspace dot net dot au The descent to Hades is the same from every place. -- Anaxagoras -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my postfix being used as a relay?

2006-03-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
it as their from address, even if they're not using your mail server for a relay. sucks. -- Iain Buchanan iain at netspace dot net dot au A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Stop and continue emerge -e world

2006-03-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
keepwork that deltes /var/tmp/portage after a successful emerge, but not after an interrupt? (Which is how I assume it works now?) thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iain at netspace dot net dot au A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats. -- Ben Franklin

Re: [gentoo-user] dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso

2006-03-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
a backup to an ISO file using command line. Have you considered this?: dd doesn't do any sort of error checking or retrying, therefore the first hiccup it runs into may make it stop, and that's that. You could mount it and use mkisofs from the command line? -- Iain Buchanan iain at netspace dot

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 01:59 -0500, JimD wrote: Iain Buchanan wrote: Whatever you do, don't go HT. It's not worth the effort. By HT do you mean AMD 64 Hyper-Transport or Pentium Hyper-Threading? don't bother with Hyper threading. Hyper transport I know nothing about. -- Iain Buchanan

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
noticed massive slowdowns with turning HT depending on whether I turn it off in the bios or just play with the kernel. conspiracy theory there may even be some intentional slowdown when you do a bios / chip based disable /conspiracy theory -- Iain Buchanan iain at netspace dot net dot au Man

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
4 threads running together finish in the same amount of time as 1 thread running by itself? cya, -- Iain Buchanan iain at netspace dot net dot au You can't cheat the phone company. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] ANDREW homepage is down!

2006-03-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi, someone posted about ANDREW, the dvd ripper, but the website is down - probably because of all you gentoo-ers going there to check it out :) Has someone already downloaded http://tobemem.memebot.com/download/andrew-1.2.tar.bz2 that they can mirror for me? thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iain

Re: [gentoo-user] ANDREW homepage is down!

2006-03-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 21:12 -0600, Zac Slade wrote: On Monday 13 March 2006 19:21, Iain Buchanan wrote: Has someone already downloaded http://tobemem.memebot.com/download/andrew-1.2.tar.bz2 that they can mirror for me? I can mirror it not for terribly long. I've set my server

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
. -- Iain Buchanan iain at netspace dot net dot au Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song? -- Steven Wright -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2006-03-07 Thread Iain Buchanan
I miss some important part of this thread? -- Iain Buchanan iain at netspace dot net dot au Star Trek Lives! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] samba help

2006-03-06 Thread Iain Buchanan
any interfaces except 127.0.0.1 that are broadcast capable. For me, samba listens on all my interfaces and aliases by default. I use iptables to block some interfaces. Let us know how it goes, -- Iain Buchanan iain at netspace dot net dot au He asked me if I knew what time it was -- I said

[gentoo-user] firefox java plugin wierdness

2006-03-06 Thread Iain Buchanan
/mozilla/libjavaplugin_oji.so Now my java plugin is working, but everytime there should be a space, I see a square box, then the space, then another square box. This makes it look ugly, because the text isn't aligned properly. Anyone know what's going on? thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iain at netspace

Re: [gentoo-user] GOCR and Tif

2006-03-05 Thread Iain Buchanan
) to convert them to the required format. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iain at netspace dot net dot au It's not so hard to lift yourself by your bootstraps once you're off the ground. -- Daniel B. Luten -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] accelerate emerge

2006-02-28 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 17:27 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: I have a different interpretation. I assume you know about FEATURES=parallel-fetch? -- Iain Buchanan iain at netspace dot net dot au Elves and Dragons! I says to him. Cabbages and potatoes are better for you and me

[gentoo-user] kde screenshot shortcut doesn't work?!

2006-02-28 Thread Iain Buchanan
why? Is there any way of logging when a shortcut is pressed and what kde is trying to do? Many thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iain at netspace dot net dot au It is difficult to soar with the eagles when you work with turkeys. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] accelerate emerge

2006-02-28 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 15:25 -0800, Mike Owen wrote: On 2/28/06, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 17:27 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: I have a different interpretation. I assume you know about FEATURES=parallel-fetch? It's probably not the best idea

Re: [gentoo-user] BS dependencies?

2006-02-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
IMHO, I'd try and find and fix the reason that it's not keeping time, rather than patch it with ntpdate. Unless you know the reason already, and it can't be fixed, then I'll just shut up :) -- Iain Buchanan iain at netspace dot net dot au It is Fortune, not Wisdom, that rules man's life

Re: [gentoo-user] system boot

2006-02-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
that, delete (or move) the files that you put in (the unmounted) /boot! /boot isn't mounted by default. Once you've mounted /boot, you should see lots of stuff in there. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iain at netspace dot net dot au If it happens once, it's a bug. If it happens twice, it's a feature

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Video streaming solution

2006-02-24 Thread Iain Buchanan
stream to show on which client and also disable the streams. It sounds like you're going to have to integrate a few packages yourself, to do just what you want. I don't know of anything that will do the whole lot for you. -- Iain Buchanan iain at netspace dot net dot au 10.0 times 0.1 is hardly

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend2 issues

2006-02-23 Thread Iain Buchanan
/sys/power/state would use the hibernate script. I don't know if this is implemented yet. Also, some kde person may tell you that klaptop can support whatever method of suspend you want - I don't know. I just suspend from a terminal anyway :) HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iain at netspace dot net dot

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend2 issues

2006-02-23 Thread Iain Buchanan
a password... aaahhh, Linux! -- Iain Buchanan iain at netspace dot net dot au A transistor protected by a fast-acting fuse will protect the fuse by blowing first. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Why does wordpress require xterm?

2006-02-22 Thread Iain Buchanan
, just a workaround... Looking at the wordpress ebuild file, I do not see any reason for it to have a dependency on xterm. I'm probably missing something simple, but I just don't see it. Any suggestions would be appreciated. I didn't see it either. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iain at netspace dot net

Re: [gentoo-user] etc/host.conf: line 24: bad command `mdns off'

2006-02-21 Thread Iain Buchanan
, -- Iain Buchanan iain at netspace dot net dot au ... though his invention worked superbly -- his theory was a crock of sewage from beginning to end. -- Vernor Vinge, The Peace War -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] trying kde no support for hal??

2006-02-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 08:18 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: Iain Buchanan wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the combined idea of hal, dbus, udev and auto mounting that you don't need entries in fstab? Yes, you're right. You don't need to manually add entries to fstab. udev/hal

Re: [gentoo-user] trying kde no support for hal??

2006-02-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 15:04 -0800, Manuel A. McLure wrote: On Monday 20 February 2006 02:57 pm, Iain Buchanan wrote: I still get the message no support for HAL on this system in the peripherals storage media setup. A stupid question - do you have the 'hal' USE flag set in make.conf? yep

Re: [gentoo-user] trying KDE (konsole placement)

2006-02-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
it to?!?!? Is this the intended behaviour? I'd appreciate any comments. Thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iain at netspace dot net dot au /* And you'll never guess what the dog had */ /* in its mouth... */ -- Larry Wall in stab.c from the perl source code -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] trying KDE (konsole placement)

2006-02-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 02:11 +0200, Martins Steinbergs wrote: On Tuesday 21 February 2006 01:48, Iain Buchanan wrote: 1. open konsole and position it where I want it. 2. select special window settings from window advanced menu. 3. set position to remember, and the coords should be already

[gentoo-user] etc/host.conf: line 24: bad command `mdns off'

2006-02-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
, but the behaviour is still there. Any ideas? thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iain at netspace dot net dot au I don't have any solution but I certainly admire the problem. -- Ashleigh Brilliant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] trying kde no support for hal??

2006-02-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 09:07 +0200, Rumen Yotov wrote: On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 16:21 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: Hi again, The kde tryout is progressing well. However, I just tried to plug in my usb storage drive. Nothing happened. I found the Settings Peripheral storage media

Re: [gentoo-user] trying kde no support for hal??

2006-02-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
, -- Iain Buchanan iain at netspace dot net dot au I will always love the false image I had of you. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] trying kde no support for hal??

2006-02-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 14:12 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Sunday 19 February 2006 10:29, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 17:52:08 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: As there's a close relation between kernel version dbus,hal,ivman versions, not all combinations work, watch

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox java plugin

2006-02-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 14:02 +1300, Glenn Enright wrote: the blakcdown version is a little dated now, but should still work with most sites. what jre would you recommend? -- Iain Buchanan iain at netspace dot net dot au What one fool can do, another can. -- Ancient Simian

[gentoo-user] klaptop appears in weird spot!

2006-02-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
is to right-click quit, and then start it again from the menu. Should I do anything about this? Is it worth a bug report? thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iain at netspace dot net dot au Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging. -- Martin Luther

[gentoo-user] trying kde no support for hal??

2006-02-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
compiled kdebase with the hal use flag - is there something else I need to recompile? USE=hal emerge -p --newuse world doesn't give me anything kde related. I can't find much help on this, so any tips would be appreciated. thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iain at netspace dot net dot au Pascal is a language

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: trying KDE (again)

2006-02-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
of text over the top of each other - is this what everyone else sees with translucency? oh well, I'm happy with the semi-transparency of konsole for now! thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iain at netspace dot net dot au Oh, get ahold of yourself. Nobody's proposing that we parse English

[gentoo-user] kde panel hiding behind something...

2006-02-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
to the main panel, because it's hiding, and the blank panel can't be moved or deleted (by any means I can tell) There's no right-click menu on it, no dragging, it just sits there blankly... how can I get rid of it? many thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iain at netspace dot net dot au I loathe people who

Re: [gentoo-user] kde panel hiding behind something...

2006-02-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 13:22 +, Jorge Almeida wrote: On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Iain Buchanan wrote: I pressed the main panel hide button, and it slid behind this new blank panel. Now I can't get to the main panel, because it's hiding, and the blank panel can't be moved or deleted (by any

Re: [gentoo-user] kde panel hiding behind something... (solved)

2006-02-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 00:37 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 08:13:02 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: I can't get to the control center because I can't get to any menu's with the application launchers and settings. All I can do is right-click run command, but I can't find

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: trying KDE (again)

2006-02-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
the control centre message about translucency not available... (of course, I restarted X :) Also, is there supposed to be a command called kompmgr? I can't locate it. thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iain at netspace dot net dot au Who loves me will also love my dog. -- John Donne -- gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] trying KDE (cvs repositories)

2006-02-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
2006/2/14, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all KDE lovers, Is there a way to use some sort of graphical CVS plugin for konqueror? Or any program other than tkcvs? On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 09:07 +0100, jose javier parra sanchez wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] Display displacement

2006-02-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
good explanation, but this is how I understand it :) If you have a crt, then is it a focus issue? Is your crt dying? Is the refresh rate right? I'm kind of scraping the bottom of the barrel here. Perhaps someone who knows more about monitors can help... -- Iain Buchanan iain at netspace dot net

Re: [gentoo-user] trying KDE (again)

2006-02-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 16:06 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Tuesday 14 February 2006 06:34, Iain Buchanan wrote: [snip] konsole --geometry -0-0 [snip] I tried - instead of -- and the results are the same: -0-0 is not implemented properly... what do you mean with 'properly

Re: [gentoo-user] trying KDE (again)

2006-02-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
That did it! Now I have a semi-transparent konsole, which always appears at the bottom right - thanks!! -- Iain Buchanan iain at netspace dot net dot au Alas, I am dying beyond my means. -- Oscar Wilde [as he sipped champagne on his deathbed] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] Display displacement

2006-02-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
. In either case, someone else with more knowledge about such things will have to help! -- Iain Buchanan iain at netspace dot net dot au I am not a politician and my other habits are also good. -- A. Ward -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI X300 problem

2006-02-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
works correctly but if I change to text mode I can not return to graphic mode if I try the system got stalled. what kernel are you using, and what version of ati-drivers? I had similar issues, which are now gone with 2.6.15 and ati-drivers-8.22.5 HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iain at netspace dot net dot

[gentoo-user] trying KDE (again)

2006-02-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
time -0-0 bottom rightdoesn't work what's going on?!! But apart from this, I love some of the new features (ok there are probably lots that I haven't found yet). TIA, -- Iain Buchanan iain at netspace dot net dot au There goes the good time that was had by all. -- Bette

Re: [gentoo-user] SMP not working?

2006-02-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
gentoo specific issues. -- Iain Buchanan iain at netspace dot net dot au How come financial advisors never seem to be as wealthy as they claim they'll make you? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI X300 problem

2006-02-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
/.config | egrep -v '^#' -- Iain Buchanan iain at netspace dot net dot au And that's the way it is... -- Walter Cronkite -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] trying KDE (cvs repositories)

2006-02-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
(checkin, update, etc) from konqueror. Googling is useless in this case, as all the results for cvs just point me to cvs versions of kde apps... thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iain at netspace dot net dot au If this were Ada, I suppose we'd just constant fold 1/0 into die Illegal division by zero

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: trying KDE (again)

2006-02-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 07:40 +0100, Harm Geerts wrote: On Tuesday 14 February 2006 06:34, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 00:54 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Tuesday 14 February 2006 00:35, Iain Buchanan wrote: turn on transparency in controll center (Arbeitsfläche

Re: [gentoo-user] How to determine if a partition is formated

2006-02-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sat, 2006-02-11 at 07:26 -0600, John Jolet wrote: Iain Buchanan wrote: On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 14:03 -0800, Mike Owen wrote: On 2/10/06, John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fdisk -l no!!! Even easier: waldo# file -s /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb1: SGI XFS filesystem data (blksz 4096

Re: [gentoo-user] How to determine if a partition is formated

2006-02-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 09:53 +, Rohit Sharma wrote: Iain Buchanan wrote: You can't just mount the puppy either (and let mount do the work) Are you sure? While using Gentoo's installation disks, I have successfully mounted the disk partitions without caring to tell the installation

[gentoo-user] [OT] taste's like love, feels like a TIVO?

2006-02-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
Is it just me, or does that recent Magic Dirt release sound like Tastes like love, feels like a TIVO? Every time I listen, that's what I hear! Maybe I should write to TIVO and tell them to use the song on their ads... Maybe I should get off the computer on a Sunday night... -- Iain Buchanan

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenGL X desktop

2006-02-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
wonder why he didn't have a cpu load taskbar applet running? Probably because we're not supposed to see the 100% spikes! -- Iain Buchanan iain at netspace dot net dot au Some people around here wouldn't recognize subtlety if it hit them on the head. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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