Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
I'm a big fan of ANDREW from the FSF. There should be an ebuild in
bugzilla; but it's trivial to install. It's not a X application, but
it /is/, despite the name, a wizard that does all of the heavy lifting
for you.
Just tried acidrip which is mplayer
so I'm having to start it with
/usr/sbin/dhcpd eth1
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From: Roy Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 5:13 PM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Easy dhcpd question
/etc/conf.d/net:
config_eth1=( dhcp )
HTH,
Roy
CR
Joseph wrote:
I just noticed that the PHP5 has been marked stable.
Are the any instruction on how to upgrade from PHP4 to PHP5
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/php/php-upgrading.xml
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krgn wrote:
hey,
I have tried to configure TwinView for my laptop and whatever comes
(projector, crt etc..) and everything seems good except, and that is a
bit annoying, that the desktop (xfce-panel..) is on the wrong screen,
i.e. not on my Laptop display but on the second one. That is a bit
Ernie Schroder wrote:
I tried all this a while back and it used too much cpu. It slowed my
XP2400/1gigRAM system down to unacceptable levels. Has this been corrected in
KDE 3.5.x?
Try enabling the backingstore as suggested on the wiki. That solved the
slowness problem
for me. I'm
Simon Kellett wrote:
Chan Min Wai [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Why The [Account Setting] And [Preference] is Under the [Edit] Menu
Where on the windows build it is under the [Tools] Menu.
Any Idea?
It is the difference between what someone considers standard for
Windows vs. Unix. (And
Howdy,
Played around and got Transparency working with KDE 3.5.1. In the past
it had been extremely slow. This time I found:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Xorg_X11_and_Transparency
which proved to be very useful (THANK YOU to the author(s)). I was missing:
Option backingstore true
from
Peter Ruskin wrote:
On Sunday 05 February 2006 20:33, Peter Ruskin wrote:
No, I just got transparency working too (thanks to your post) and
I'm seeing exactly the same as you are. Avoid resizing when
transparency/shadows are enabled is my advice.
Update: Control Centre - Desktop -
Kristian Poul Herkild wrote:
Beau E. Cox wrote:
Hi -
I try:
# emerge -uD world -p
...
Calculating world dependencies ...done!
[ebuild U ] media-libs/gst-plugins-0.8.11 [0.8.10]
OK. So I do it:
# emerge -uD world
[SUCCESS]
Now I check again:
# emerge -uD world -p
...
Calculating
Richard Fish wrote:
On 1/11/06, Lord Imbrius the Despondent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
inserted when there clearly is. Other times it gets 3 quarters of the way
through the write and throws an I/O error. I need to be able to back up
around 32-40MB nightly and around 1.2GB weekly. Speed
Francisco Figueiredo Jr. wrote:
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Hi all,
I just updated kde to 3.5.0.
One thing I noticed with Kate is that when I type in konsole: kate
somefile, it spawns another kate process and not reuse the already
running kate.
This used to happen with
Richard Fish wrote:
On 12/22/05, Roy Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
'dev-db/mysqltool' has no ebuilds available
'dev-java/htmlparser' has no ebuilds available
'media-libs/divx4linux' has no ebuilds available
snip
What I'm not sure about is how to check dependents and unmerge
Howdy,
Updated portage today and it gave me a warning that there are
problems in my world file:
Calculating world dependencies
!!! Problems have been detected with your world file
!!! Please run emaint --check world
So ran the check:
royw-gentoo ~ # emaint --check world
Checking world for
Howdy,
Just upgraded KDE to 3.5 and have a minor problem.
When I start KDE with a SM memory card installed
in my USB reader, a removable media icon shows on
the desktop. If I remove the memory card, the icon
goes away. If I reinsert it, then the icon reappears
and I get the A new medium has
Daniel Heemann wrote:
Add the user to the plugdev group.
That worked!
Thank you,
Roy
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Thank y'all. Tried phpMyAdmin and it worked like a charm!
Back to rails...
Thanks again,
Roy
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Howdy,
Finally completed the gcc 3.4.4 upgrade and thought I'd pass along a few
hard learned lessons.
I run a mostly stable system updated almost daily. The sync is
ran as part of cron.daily.
Lesson #1, turn off cron portage scripts prior to multi-day emerge.
Got bit by some Sun java package
Howdy,
I'm playing with Ruby On Rails but am severely SQL challenged.
I'd like to just create some simple tables (integers, strings, dates).
I've been trying to find a MySQL frontend that works. The
closest is mysql administrator, except the SQL generated
doesn't work. Kexi errors when trying
Allan Gottlieb wrote:
After upgrading gcc I did the safer post-installation,
emerge -e system
emerge -e world
The first went fine. The second died after about 300 emerges and
printed
making executable: /usr/lib/libgtkhtml-1.1.so.3.0.5
Completed installing gtkhtml-1.1.10-r1 into
glen martin wrote:
note the lack of apache. Now:
snip
# emerge --pretend --verbose apache
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild R ] net-www/apache-2.0.55 +apache2 -debug -doc +ldap
-mpm-leader -mpm-peruser -mpm-prefork
Daevid Vincent wrote:
Okay I'm beyond annoyed.
Every day at around 3:00AM is when cron stops working until I reset it
manually.
What actually causes the cron.daily stuff to run?! How can I disable it
temporarily??
/etc/crontab only removes some touched files it looks like
You had me at EHLO
John Dangler wrote:
Holly~
Thanks for the reply. It seems fairly straightforward. From reading this,
I would think that running module-rebuild populate would be the first task.
Add/Del package would be for building discriminate versions of a kernel
(presumably for locating problems or just
John Dangler wrote:
hrmm...
I recompile the new kernel, before rebooting, I run module-rebuild list...
and get one entry - =media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629-r4
So, I reboot the new kernel, and get no Ethernet, no wireless, no sound,
nonvidia, and the vga mode is wrong. (the grub entry is an
John Dangler wrote:
Roy~
Thanks for the reply. I actually used genkernel to make the kernel. I used
'genkernel all'. That's why I'm a little confused as to why this didn't
take effect. The previous kernel was also built with genkernel and didn't
have any problems.
Regards,
JD
I'm
-tracy
-Original Message-
From: Roy Wright
Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 3:07 PM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system initialization scripts UDEV
message
One word. mouse
You probably need to change /dev/mouse to /dev/input/mice in xorg.conf.
HTH
Budd, Tracy wrote:
Whenever I boot up my machine, I get a message to the effect The Gentoo
system initialization scripts have detected that your system does not
support DEVFS or UDEV... I have included all of the appropriate kernel
options and emerged UDEV, hotplug, etc. per the Handbook.
Boot off of LiveCD, chroot, start repairing...
When I've hosed my system, I go back to the Gentoo Handbook:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml
to get into the chroot.
Then look in the logs (/var/log/*) for hints...
Always a good idea to dispatch-conf, revdep-rebuild,
Dave Oxley wrote:
I have just downgraded udev to 068-r1 and my server now boots again.
I'm about to do the same with my other Gentoo machine. The only thing
the 2 machines have in common is that they both have SATA drives, so I
wonder if this is causing the new udev a problem.
Dave.
Dave
Matthew R. Lee wrote:
On Sunday 16 October 2005 19:04, Zac Medico wrote:
Matthew R. Lee wrote:
libhal.c 644 : Error connecting to system bus: Failed to connect to
socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: Connection refused
Are you sure that the dbus service is running? You
gentuxx wrote:
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Hi all,
I went to do my routine emerge -Duptv world and it came back with
devfsd blocking gentoo-sources-2.6.13-r3. I'm not sure whether
Richard Fish wrote:
Looking through /sbin/rc, gentoo will disable udev if any of the
following are true:
1. RC_DEVICES is set to devfs.
2. The kernel command line contains noudev.
3. The kernel version is less than 2.6.0.
4. /sbin/udev does not exist or is not an executable file
5. The file
John Jolet wrote:
On Thursday 06 October 2005 20:52, Matthias Langer wrote:
Joe Menola wrote:
On Thursday October 6 2005 7:49 pm, Matthias Langer wrote:
I want to move the /usr and /home directories to another partition,
because I'm thinking of buying a new HD. It would be
Holly Bostick wrote:
That's almost it--
1) copy the ebuild and /files folder to your overlay
(/usr/local/portage/media-sound/aumix/, assuming that your
PORTDIR_OVERLAY is /usr/local/portage);
2) copy the patch to the /files folder in the overlay folder with the
other aumix patches;
3) edit
Howdy,
With Holly's praise of fvwm-crystal I thought I'd give it a try.
But then I hit bug 89594 with aumix. The sound team provided
a patch, aumix-2.8-autoconf.patch, which will create the two
missing config files (they didn't fix the ebuild because it works
on their systems). Now I'm trying
Alex wrote:
On Saturday 03 September 2005 17:14, Roy Wright wrote:
Any ideas?
Probably they're pulled as a dependency from a 3.4.1 kde-package.
run:
# equery depends kde-base/arts
# equery depend kde-base/kdelibs
# equery depend kde-base/kwin
and try to find what's pulling them
Howdy,
I have my system set up to sync every night then send me a notification
message.
I then examine what has changed and decide when to do the emerge.
For the past week, emerge -uDNv world has been toggling arts, kdelibs,
and kwin.
What I mean is that if 3.4.1 is installed then it
Harry Putnam wrote:
Followin a well overdue emerge world -u I have no network on reboot.
The pieces seem to be there, although I'm not sure I remember what all
goes into it.
/etc/conf.d/net has the eht0 address and gateway address but its not
getting set on bootup.
I can ifconfig and route
Harry Putnam wrote:
Well according to the installed docu.. there is supposed to be:
From the `Usage' html page: (Note the last item)
Now run bbgallery to create the galleries. Without any parameters it
will use the following default values:
* Look for images in the default directory
Holly Bostick wrote:
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
Try the Bookmarks Synchronizer firefox plugin. Works for me... :-)
HTH,
Roy
krzaq wrote:
Is there a way to export a whole profile (including bookmarks, saved
passwords, extensions, themes) in Mozilla Firefox?
I want to export my Firefox profile to two machines: windowsXP and
another
Joseph wrote:
On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 10:03 -0600, Joseph wrote:
I have a BenQ DW1620 DVD/RW drive but DMA is not set, even though it
support it. When I try to set it using: using_dma -d 1
It will not let me.
Was the limit set by the manufacture?
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I think the issue might
Rumen Yotov wrote:
Hi,
First thing to do is to make sure you have support for your mobos'
chipset into kernel-config.
Then emerge/install hdparm and have a customized '/etc/conf.s/hdparm' file.
Ex.(mine):
hda_args=-d1 -A1 -m16 -u1 -a64 // this is for my hard disk
all_args=-d1
Rumen Yotov wrote:
Hi Roy,
Just guessing here but seems you have SATA drives not IDE, don't
use/know much about SATA yet ;) but maybe this have something to do with
the error on activating DMA, from the logs your hard-disk *is* using
UDMA-133 PIO4 ?
Could check BIOS-settings, other thoughts
Howdy,
Anyone else getting the following error on jpeg-mmx-0.1.6?
./configure --prefix=/usr --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu
--mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share
--sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu
--include-dir=/usr/include/jpeg-mmx
David Morgan wrote:
On 09:47 Fri 29 Jul , Roy Wright wrote:
Howdy,
Anyone else getting the following error on jpeg-mmx-0.1.6?
How about https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100555 or
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100647 ?
It should be fixed now anyway, so next time
emerge --pretend --changelog
will display the change log(s). I usually do
emerge -uDNv world -pl
then if I like it, just delete the -pl to do the merge.
Have fun,
Roy
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I think if you're using Gentoo, there is an assumption that
You are probably building it into the kernel and trying to load it
as an alsa module. Do one or the other.
I.e., if you want it built into the kernel, then remove it from
/etc/modules.d/alsa
#options snd-intel8x0 index=0
If you want it as a module, then set CONFIG=SND_INTEL8X0=M in
Thanks for the extension (checking for ewarn eerror). I'm
still getting a handle on gentoo ;-)
I borrowed a portage.cron script from off of this list and run
it under cron.daily. One of my changes to the script is to run
einfo (I also pull down the files so they are ready for compile
after I
Another option is to just compile the framebuffer into the kernel.
That's what I did.
Graphics support:
[*] Support for frame buffer devices
* VESA VGA graphics support
VESA driver type (vesafb-tng) ---
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) VESA default
Howdy,
I've been lurking on the grub threads here while trying to get grub
working for the past couple of months.
Let's skip my trials with w2k on s/w raid (that os is now archived ;),
lilo on a USB memory stick, 30+ hours of research, trials, errors, and
reboots.
The directions for creating a
Howdy,
Just had a weirdy. I was emerging unison on my home server. I was lazy
and instead of walking the 6 feet to do it from the console, I just opened
a konsole from my workstation. Got the following error:
386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -o .libs/gdk-pixbuf-scan gdk-pixbuf-scan.o -rdynamic
) version. To downgrade, remove the entries from
the package.keywords file.
HTH,
Roy
Fernando Meira wrote:
Will this way prevent an emerge -uD world to downgrade the KDE version?
Thanks,
Fernando
On 6/15/05, *Roy Wright* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
First unmask
First unmask the top level package, example:
echo kde-base/kdebase-meta ~x86 /etc/portage/package.keywords
Then just run this script, example:
unmask.pl kdebase-meta
You might want to save a copy of package.keywords then compare the
two for sanity before emerging.
Have fun,
Roy
Janne
I left the default java as blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.01 so emerging doesn't
break, then set my Eclipse up to run using sun-jdk-1.5.0.03
(/usr/bin/eclipse-3 -vm /opt/sun-jdk-1.5.0.03/bin/java). I usually launch
my programs via a script and for now just specify the jre in the script.
BTW, 1.5 offers a
to system
default.
Thank you,
Roy
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 08 Jun 2005 11:31:52 -0500, Roy Wright wrote:
OK, I give. How do you configure media?
I tried:
* Add New | Web SideBar Module
** Name = Media
** URL = media:/
But this gives a An error occurred while loading media:/; Malformed URL
OK, I give. How do you configure media?
I tried:
* Add New | Web SideBar Module
** Name = Media
** URL = media:/
But this gives a An error occurred while loading media:/; Malformed URL
media:/.
when clicked.
TIA,
Roy
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 09:36:23 +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote:
The shutdown problem is because /sbin/halt is missing. Emerging baselayout
restored /sbin/halt.
Have fun,
Roy
Michael W. Holdeman wrote:
On Saturday 04 June 2005 12:49 am, Roy Wright wrote:
Howdy,
I'm seeing an interesting change in behaviour between 3.4.0 and 3.4.1.
When told to turn off
Howdy,
Over the past few months since my first gentoo install, I have
yet to discover how do I find out the current state of masked
ebuilds. I.e., I'm looking for 1) why are they masked, and 2) any
known issues with the build.
I can look up the package on packages.gentoo.org, but can't
find
in /boot/grub/grub.conf, did you change your kernel root?
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1
HTH,
Roy
Gentoo Linux Mailing List Client wrote:
yeah I did that as well.
grub is not the problem as far as I can tell.
I get the boot menu just fine.
my system stops when it tries to
Howdy,
I'm seeing an interesting change in behaviour between 3.4.0 and 3.4.1.
When told to turn off or reboot the computer, KDM now exits to a console
login prompt instead of shutting down. Any ideas?
Overall 3.4.1 is feeling more stable. The only seg faults have been on
shutdown. Konqueror
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