Re: [gentoo-user] doing minimall install from a pc within a lan

2007-10-02 Thread Steve Dommett
On Tuesday 02 October 2007, Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: (ssh livecd from my pc does not work even after startin sshd in the remote machine where i am trying to install gentoo) I frequently install to remote machines in this way. Have you tried using its IP address? Are you sure the livecd machine

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend questions

2007-10-02 Thread Steve Dommett
On Wednesday 03 October 2007, James Colby wrote: The reason for that is because the suspend kernel is configuring my hard disk as /dev/hda and my standard kernel is configuring it as /dev/sda. Does anyone know how I can get the suspend kernel to assign my hard disk as /dev/sda? I think

Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate mails

2007-09-30 Thread Steve Dommett
On Sunday 30 September 2007, Alan McKinnon wrote: I'm getting a lot of duplicate messages lately, especially from gentoo-users. I don't know if it's an error on my side or not. Not here. I've never seen duplicates from any gentoo list. I /have/ seen several other folks on gentoo-user report

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2007-09-30 Thread Steve Dommett
On Sunday 30 September 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote: Other data in /var/lib. For example, any databases kept in /var/lib/mysql. Rather than backup MySQL's or Postgres' binary storage I prefer to use the relevant tool (mysqldump, pgdump[all]) to backup the database to /root/backups/ just prior to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge world

2007-09-28 Thread Steve Dommett
On Friday 28 September 2007, Arnau Bria wrote: --- Couldn't find 'media-gfx/splashutils-1.5.2' to unmerge. No packages selected for removal by unmerge is it normal? According to your earlier post you don't have any versions of splashutils installed, so yes this is normal: *

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge world

2007-09-28 Thread Steve Dommett
On Friday 28 September 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote: Yep. It's saying, that any version before 1.5.2 is blocking. So, do: emerge -C 'media-gfx/splashutils-1.5.2' Or if you'd rather not remove splashutils, you'll need to tell portage you're happy to run version 1.5.2 which is currently marked

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge world

2007-09-28 Thread Steve Dommett
On Friday 28 September 2007, Arnau Bria wrote: Ok, so, why is portage blocking the update? It's not an update, it's a new install. Something else which is installed (and probably wanting to be updated) is trying to pull in splashutils-1.5.2 or later as a dependency. As this version is not

Re: [gentoo-user] Can I clean contacts with isopropyl alcohol?

2007-09-12 Thread Steve L.
Besides the fact consideration of why the contacts of the card are that dirty. A short exposure of rubbing alcohol will be okay. Dust the card off with compressed air or something similar. then use the cotton swab soaked with a little bit of the alchohol on the contacts in question On 9/12/07,

Re: [gentoo-user] is http://packages.gentoo.org/ off-line?

2007-08-07 Thread Steve Dommett
ツ Leandro Sales wrote: Here I have the same response! Unable to Connect As was recently established in thread packages.gentoo.org down?: Christian Heim phreak at gentoo.org wrote: It's being closed until further notice. PS Leandro, please don't top post. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] IO scheduling

2007-07-31 Thread Steve Dommett
Aleksey V. Kunitskiy wrote: Hi, Is there any possibility to adjust IO scheduling priority ? There's ionice which is part of sys-process/schedutils. At least it's in v1.5.0. ionice -c2 -p `pidof rtorrent` will make IO very nice. ionice -c3 -p `pidof rtorrent` claims to wait until

Re: [gentoo-user] IO scheduling

2007-07-31 Thread Steve Dommett
I forgot to mention that I think you need to be using the CFQ scheduler. Change ionice class doesn't seem to affect the deadline and anticipatory schedulers' behaviour. Also I think I had an extra space in there after the -p. Try: ionice -c2 -p`pidof rtorrent` -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] Still can't play audio CD's

2007-07-24 Thread Steve Dommett
on the sound card, rather than relying on the CD audio lead and mixer settings which seem to be causing you so much trouble. Cheers, Steve. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] notebook lcd resolution problem

2007-07-18 Thread Steve Dommett
Stefán István wrote: (II) NV(0): Monitor0: Using default hsync range of 31.50-37.90 kHz (II) NV(0): Monitor0: Using default vrefresh range of 50.00-70.00 Hz is the reason all the other modes are being disabled: (II) NV(0): Not using default mode 640x350 (vrefresh out of range) (II) NV(0): Not

Re: [gentoo-user] OT serial port program with a gui interface

2007-06-30 Thread Steve Dommett
James wrote: Hello, I'm looking for a serial port program, with a simple gui interface, that can be extended. I do not really snip Any ideas of something I can use as a starting point? Perhaps Komport will be a nice starting point: http://komport.sourceforge.net/ or maybe Cutecom:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Modelling software - free - preferably easy to install under Gentoo.

2007-06-18 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 05:22:47PM +, James wrote: Matlab is the standard for mathematical analysis of all sorts of phenomenon, from a mathematical perspective. I'm familiar with Matlab... you're the second person to mention Octave... I would like to do some analysis on these signals to

[gentoo-user] Modelling software - free - preferably easy to install under Gentoo.

2007-06-16 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
I have some (say 100) discrete data sequences sampling a single analogue system with time-stamp data. I would like to do some analysis on these signals to see if there are any interesting things that can be demonstrated - for example, if I could show a strong correlation in the signals between

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD 2.4 to DVD5

2007-06-13 Thread Steve Dommett
Nicola Degl'Innocenti wrote: The only problem is that this disk is only 1.4 GB and I want to merge more miniDVD in a single DVD video without making divx or similar. I want to obtain a single DVD (3 miniDVD on a 1 DVD) with chapter, title and so on using the minor loss of data, but I don't

[gentoo-user] Gentoo and Emacs in a terminal and intellisense-like functionality.

2007-05-26 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
I've a few vaguely related questions. I'm an Emacs user from a decade ago - and have recently returned to using it... I'm trying to set it up as a useful modern development environment. I'd have chosen Eclipse, or something like that, if it wasn't for a constraint that I need it to work remotely

Re: [gentoo-user] How to resolve policy conflicts?

2007-04-03 Thread Steve L.
Also having said developers take their point of view (properly referenced and footnoted of course) to their blogs to vent about it and then being syndicated in the Planet Gentoo feed is probably not a good solution either. It leaked out of various clandestine lists and some published lists to

[gentoo-user] Weird high-level question about an ad-hoc wiki-like database

2007-03-31 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
I am looking for a client-server package (preferably with the server on gentoo from portage) which provides something which is vaguely like CRM... but in reverse - and for personal as opposed to corporate use. One requirement is for it to act as an address book that will allow me to associate:

[gentoo-user] Re: Any Flash editor with gui?

2007-03-23 Thread Steve Long
Mark David Dumlao wrote: A lot of Linux users don't like Flash because it is not a standard. When Adobe makes the player source available, I bet we will see Flash compilers for other platforms. :-) Yeah, but I think in the long run, 'not liking flash' is a 'bad thing'. There's a lot of good

[gentoo-user] Re: [Way OT] Kernel Symlink use or not use?

2007-03-23 Thread Steve Long
Xavier Parizet wrote: I think that the /usr/src/linux symlink is used in Gentoo by ebuilds (as vmware-modules for example) that build kernel modules for specific hardware which aren't yet in the kernel, and so needs to know the current kernel config to see if it match their dependencies or

[gentoo-user] RE: layman overlays

2007-03-23 Thread Steve Long
John covici wrote: checking which gecko to use... firefox checking for compiler -fshort-wchar option... yes checking whether to enable C++ RTTI... no checking whether we have a gtk 2 gecko build... configure: error: This program needs a gtk 2 gecko build Seems to be saying ff wasn't built

[gentoo-user] Clamassassin - does anyone know what is wrong?

2007-03-23 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
#emerge clamassassin Calculating dependencies... done! Emerging (1 of 1) mail-filter/clamassassin-1.2.3 to / * clamassassin-1.2.3.tar.gz RMD160 ;-) ... [ ok ] * clamassassin-1.2.3.tar.gz SHA1 ;-) ... [ ok ] *

Re: [gentoo-user] Spamassassin 3.1.8: sa-update

2007-03-13 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
Thomas Rösner wrote: Dan Farrell schrieb: I'm surprised to find that sa-update now doesn't work for me. [snip] Is there some obvious bit of configuration I'm overlooking? perl-cleaner? I'd not thought of that but... perl-cleaner all has not made any difference... I still get:

[gentoo-user] Re: A question regarding non-Portage software...

2007-03-11 Thread Steve Long
Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov wrote: On 3/10/07, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will begin by stating my problem. I have the source code (in *.tar.bz2 format) for a couple of pieces of software that are not in the Portage tree at all. I would like to compile and install them in such a way

[gentoo-user] Spamassassin 3.1.8: sa-update

2007-03-09 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
I've used portage to upgrade from Spamassassin 3.1.4 to 3.1.8, and I'm surprised to find that sa-update now doesn't work for me. # whoami root # sa-update Can't locate object method finish via package Mail::SpamAssassin::Timeout at

Re: [gentoo-user] portage date

2007-03-09 Thread Steve L.
On 3/9/07, Arnau Bria [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I don't sync my portage everyday, I do it when I need a special (last) version of package or when I'm preparing a big update... But sometimes I look for the date when I did my last sync, cause maybe it's enough for what I want, but I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacing eth0 with wlan0

2007-03-08 Thread Steve L.
On 3/7/07, Abraham Gyorgy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello again :) I've switched my networking from wired eth0 to wlan0. I'm using ndiswrapper with Win32 driver and an USB WiFi adapter. Everything is fine, but... When I set up my Gentoo installation, I've added net.eth0 to default runlevel (it

[gentoo-user] UK: iplayer petition

2007-03-07 Thread Steve Long
Hi, One for uk users or people you know in the UK, a petition to stop the BBC only supporting windows in its new iplayer: http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/iplayer/ Regards, steveL -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] AFS...

2007-02-26 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
When following: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openafs.xml I get as far as # fs setacl -dir /vicepa -acl rl fs:'/vicepa': Function not implemented Why is that? I've googled and can find someone who says that the instructions did not work for him - for the same reason - but there is no hint

[gentoo-user] [Off Topic] screen configuration...

2007-02-23 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
'^a' into my .screenrc - but that doesn't do the trick. Does anyone here have the correct incantation? Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] spamassassin-ruledujour failing...

2007-02-21 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
I'm getting these three emails every day from ruledujour... I'm using the latest stable ebuild of each i.e.: mail-filter/spamassassin-3.1.8 mail-filter/spamassassin-ruledujour-20051123 Does everyone who has ruledujour execute daily get these faults reported? -- Subject: RulesDuJour/gifu:

Re: [gentoo-user] spamassassin-ruledujour failing...

2007-02-21 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
Norberto Bensa wrote: Steve [Gentoo] wrote: Does everyone who has ruledujour execute daily get these faults reported? Nope. But I've disabled AntiDrug in /etc/rulesdujour/config because for a few days, I was getting a warning about antidrug's maintainer losing it's domain/host/isp

Re: [gentoo-user] vlc win32codecs on amd64

2007-02-02 Thread Steve Dibb
bit binary program with them. Simple as that. So VLC cannot use 32 bit binary codecs, unless someone made a vlc 32-bit binary and put it in the tree. Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] vlc win32codecs on amd64

2007-02-02 Thread Steve Dibb
Daniel Iliev wrote: Additionally: mplayer-bin is in amd64's portage and mplayer-bin can use win32codecs And if anyone wants to help me version bump the thing, e-mail me *off* list, plz Thanks Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles

2007-01-30 Thread Steve Dibb
to use the harddrive when it runs out of memory, that being one if its nice handy dandy features. Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] [Fwd: RulesDuJour/gifu: 404 errors]

2007-01-18 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
Does anyone else have this problem with RulesDuJour? -- To: root Subject: RulesDuJour/gifu: 404 errors Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 17:32:40 + (GMT) From: root (root) The following rules had errors: TripWire had an unknown error: --15:18:15--

Re: [gentoo-user] Licenses

2007-01-18 Thread Steve Dibb
the ebuilds to pull everything in you need on amd64 and x86. Just run ~arch on all four (mplayer, realplayer, win32codecs, amd64codecs), and you'll be gtg. Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about kernels and kernel patches

2007-01-11 Thread Steve Dibb
with kernels =2.6.15. http://www.ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Download Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-driver

2007-01-07 Thread Steve Evans
in kernel doesn't work well, but fortunately it is being actively worked on by one of the alsa devs, so that version 1.0.14_rc1 of the alsa-driver package is much better than the kernel version. Steve -- Steve EvansE

Re: [gentoo-user] How packages are made stable

2007-01-05 Thread Steve Dibb
Robert Cernansky wrote: On Thu, 04 Jan 2007 13:49:48 -0700 Steve Dibb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrey Gerasimenko wrote: Looking at the Portage tree, I see that some packages are kept ~x86 for long time without any bugs referenced in the changelog or Bugzilla. How are they being made stable

Re: [gentoo-user] How packages are made stable

2007-01-05 Thread Steve Dibb
it works. Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How packages are made stable - suggestion for improvement

2007-01-05 Thread Steve Dibb
on stabilizing everything just because its been 30 days and 2) we stabilize stuff that people are using anyway, and want to get marked stable. Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How packages are made stable

2007-01-04 Thread Steve Dibb
days, no bugs, and if someone files a stable request ebuild, then an arch tester will test it, and then a dev will keyword it stable. Most stuff doesnt get marked stable mostly because there aren't any stable requests. Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How packages are made stable

2007-01-04 Thread Steve Dibb
Steve Dibb wrote: Andrey Gerasimenko wrote: Looking at the Portage tree, I see that some packages are kept ~x86 for long time without any bugs referenced in the changelog or Bugzilla. How are they being made stable (or where in the docs is the process described)? They need to be in the tree

Re: [gentoo-user] Music Database Collection

2007-01-03 Thread Steve Dibb
attempted such a project? Also, I am running Gentoo amd64, so the app(s) will need to run on that platform. Thanks in advance Sean I would recommend / try tellico. Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Music Database Collection

2007-01-03 Thread Steve Evans
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 21:30, Steve Dibb wrote: Sean wrote: I would like to create a database of some sort for my music collection. It is large so I thought that somehow I could use some application that could pull the info from a freebd server and if I wished I could alter any info

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-20 Thread Steve Dibb
know what systems Gentoo is being used on. Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] OT DirectPush email and Windows Mobile 5...

2006-12-19 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
I apologise in advance for this question being tenuously related to Gentoo... My justification is only that I really like my Gentoo-based Postfix /dovecot mail-server... but I also want to push emails to a connected Windows Mobile 5 PDA/phone. Historically mobile devices have polled for email

Re: [gentoo-user] Something's killing my xfce panel/decorations

2006-12-13 Thread Steve Dibb
work: # emerge gentoolkit # equery l /tmp/equery # for x in `grep xfce /tmp/equery`; do emerge =$x; done; Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Protecting a package in package.keywords?

2006-12-13 Thread Steve Dibb
just want to stick with 0.9.0, then what you had before is correct. =media-tv/ivtv-0.9.0 Just make sure there aren't any other entries for ivtv in there. Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] One more time -- KDM 3.5.5 and kdesktop crash

2006-12-09 Thread Steve Brenneis
Richard Fish wrote: On 12/8/06, Steve Brenneis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've done that twice. I guess it's time to file a bug report. Seems it's already reported. Add your info here: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155377 -Richard Thanks again. Looks like they haven't touched

Re: [gentoo-user] One more time -- KDM 3.5.5 and kdesktop crash

2006-12-08 Thread Steve Brenneis
Richard Fish wrote: On 12/6/06, Steve Brenneis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had this under a title related to nVidia drivers, but I have determined that my KDM problems probably aren't related to that. After upgrading to KDE 3.5.5, I can no longer start KDE from KDM. Kdesktop crashes and leaves

Re: [gentoo-user] One more time -- KDM 3.5.5 and kdesktop crash

2006-12-08 Thread Steve Brenneis
Richard Fish wrote: On 12/8/06, Steve Brenneis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could not open library kwin.la: /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkdeinit_kwin.so: undefined symbol: _ZN12NETRootInfo4C2EP9_XDisplaymPKcPmiib Try revdep-rebuild -p and see if that outputs anything needing to be rebuilt. -Richard

Re: [gentoo-user] One more time -- KDM 3.5.5 and kdesktop crash

2006-12-08 Thread Steve Brenneis
Uwe Thiem wrote: On 08 December 2006 15:36, Steve Brenneis wrote: Could not open library kwin.la: /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkdeinit_kwin.so: undefined symbol: _ZN12NETRootInfo4C2EP9_XDisplaymPKcPmiib The strange thing here is that there is no such thing as kwin.la. I have re-emerged

[gentoo-user] One more time -- KDM 3.5.5 and kdesktop crash

2006-12-06 Thread Steve Brenneis
I had this under a title related to nVidia drivers, but I have determined that my KDM problems probably aren't related to that. After upgrading to KDE 3.5.5, I can no longer start KDE from KDM. Kdesktop crashes and leaves no trail. I rebuilt kdestop with the debug USE flag, but I have no idea

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: One more time -- KDM 3.5.5 and kdesktop crash

2006-12-06 Thread Steve Brenneis
James wrote: Steve Brenneis sbrenneis at surry.net writes: I had this under a title related to nVidia drivers, but I have determined that my KDM problems probably aren't related to that. After upgrading to KDE 3.5.5, I can no longer start KDE from KDM. Kdesktop crashes

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Update - HowTo

2006-12-02 Thread Steve Dibb
that addresses that exact issue soon. Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Learning how to write a simple ebuild?

2006-12-02 Thread Steve Dibb
://devmanual.gentoo.org/ If you're still lost, pop in on irc.freenode.net and join #gentoo-dev-help Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge

2006-12-02 Thread Steve Dibb
Daniel Iliev wrote: Then emerge --sync emerge -Neav world that is overkill, no need to re-emerge the entire tree. emerge -uD world will suffice. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Compile error for Mythtv 0.19_p10505.

2006-12-02 Thread Steve Dibb
. This system is a fresh install, so I'm at a loss. Any help would be appreciated. Mike. First of all, fix your VIDEO_CARDS settings (why do you have two?). Then, try with -opengl and -xvmc. Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] HOWTO: Install/config support for audio on my T40

2006-12-01 Thread Steve Dibb
Greg Morin wrote: I've been working w/Gentoo now for a little. Networking, Gnome, OpenOffice, VMWare are working - my essentials are there... I'd like to get sound working, but not sure where to start - pointers? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do if packages are old?

2006-11-30 Thread Steve Dibb
of things that can be done, and I've just barely glossed over the basics. Most of the time it comes down to a per-package basis, and usually the case is that there's just no one interested in maintaining it. Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do if packages are old?

2006-11-30 Thread Steve Dibb
Hans de Hartog wrote: Philip Webb wrote: It would help if you listed the packages in question. Also thanks to Ryan and Steve to illustrate the situation in the not_so_common_packages scene. (BTW, how do I check for an overlay somewhere?) - freewheeling (dies in glibc with double free

Re: [gentoo-user] XMMS: Bye, Bye Gentoo

2006-11-30 Thread Steve Dibb
it was becoming a real drain on Gentoo developers time and patience and so the hard decision was made to let it go. The whole shebang is covered in quite a bit in the forums. Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5.5 and nvidia-drivers

2006-11-24 Thread Steve Brenneis
Richard Fish wrote: On 11/22/06, Steve Brenneis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apparently KDE 3.5.5 and the openGL portion of the nvidia-drivers package don't get along too well. I'm using KDE 3.5.5 and nvidia drivers with openGL support just fine, without any crashing etc, on both my laptop

[gentoo-user] KDE 3.5.5 and nvidia-drivers

2006-11-22 Thread Steve Brenneis
Apparently KDE 3.5.5 and the openGL portion of the nvidia-drivers package don't get along too well. I have a desktop and a laptop with nVidia cards. The desktop is an AMD-64 machine, but Gentoo is built on it using the athlon-xp architecture. The laptop is a Pentium 4. On the AMD system, I

[gentoo-user] Spamassassin / fcron / RulesDuJour

2006-11-15 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
Last night my default gentoo RulesDuJour for Spamassassin acquired new Adult and General rule-sets from SARE. Thereafter spamd refused all connections and subsequently received mail was not spam filtered. Issuing '/etc/init.d/spamd restart' as root resolved the situation... but I don't want to

[gentoo-user] User services best practice?

2006-11-13 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
While system-level services are typically managed by /etc/init.d/* in Gentoo, these are maintained by root for all users. I'm interested in an end-user without root access who wants to 'run a service-like process' (for example, fectmail to poll remote accounts...) While an end user can easily

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/kbd-1.12-r8

2006-11-08 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
by demanding evaluation by bash instead of whatever /bin/sh happens to be... Thanks again, Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody got OS/2 working under linux?

2006-11-08 Thread Steve Ringwald
the single best piece of software ever written. There is also VMWare server, which is also free, and allows you to create new VMs. It also allows you to script things, and remotely control things (like starting/stopping/suspending VMs). http://www.vmware.com/products/server/ Steve -- gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/kbd-1.12-r8

2006-11-07 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: # cd /var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/kbd-1.12-r8/work # sed -i -e '141 aset -x\n' -e '152 aset +x\n' kbd-1.12/configure # ebuild `portageq portdir`/sys-apps/kbd/kbd-1.12-r8.ebuild compile I've followed your suggestion - I was surprised to see sparc64 mentioned - my

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Secure remote backup

2006-11-06 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
Dan Johansson wrote: cross-site-remote-backups Erm, Me too... My first attempt centred on Duplicity - which, on the surface, seemed to be exactly what I wanted... but, unfortunately, it is unusably buggy... and is no longer in avtive development. My second (in-progress) attempt is with

[gentoo-user] sys-apps/kbd-1.12-r8

2006-11-06 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
Does anyone else have problems like this? # emerge -uDNav world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] sys-apps/kbd-1.12-r8 [1.12-r7] USE=nls 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kB Would you like to merge these

Re: [gentoo-user] IMAP servers

2006-10-18 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
Régis Décamps wrote: On 10/17/06, Steve [Gentoo] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm no longer so sure about when imap processes are spawned or terminated - but there seem to be a non-deterministic lots of them for each Thunderbird session. There is one process create each time Thunderbird opens

Re: [gentoo-user] IMAP servers

2006-10-17 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
Roman Zilka wrote: On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 11:26:23AM +0100, Joost Roeleveld wrote: it appears that there is one connection per folder and one process per connection... which seems (to me at least) to be overkill. Having never used dovecot, I can't comment on this. But maybe this

[gentoo-user] IMAP servers

2006-10-16 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
. Performance (primarily with respect to 'new mail' notifications, but also, to a lesser extent, with searching archived messages. I'd be interested to hear any anecdotes from Gentooists who have addressed a similar question recently... Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: etc-update vs dispatch-conf

2006-10-14 Thread Steve Evans
to exit from vim with any number of open buffers. Steve -- 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2300 @ 1.66GHz GNU/Linux 12:32:08 up 22 min, 1 user, load average: 0.07, 0.08, 0.08 It'll be a nice world if they ever get it finished. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] network services break fbsplash silent mode

2006-10-14 Thread Steve Walsh
. Steve Qiangning Hong wrote: On my laptop, I am using silent mode of fbsplash during boot. However, as I have wireless access in my office and wired access in my home (both dhcp), there is always one of the network services, either net.lan or net.wlan, will fail. This will take fbsplash into verbose

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: procmail, formail and maildir for digests...

2006-10-12 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
Moshe Kamensky wrote: The -s option of formail allows you to specify an argument, which is a program name. This program will be run for each message, with the message on the stdin. So if you have such a program that delivers to a maildir, you can use it. procmail itself is one such program,

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] procmail, formail and maildir for digests...

2006-10-11 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
Kevin Fullerton wrote: Here's the procmail recipe I use with maildir folders and the Gentoo lists - I think as long as procmail is setup with maildir support you just need to set your MAILDIR var and use a trailing slash and it knows it'd delivering to a MailDir. A, I guess I hadn't

Re: [gentoo-user] procmail, formail and maildir for digests...

2006-10-11 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
to set-up - procmail obviously intends to address digest splitting and to support both mbox and maildir delivery... Surely there's a simple solution? Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] procmail, formail and maildir for digests...

2006-10-10 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
I'm familiar with this procmail recipe: -- :0 * ^List-Id:.*gentoo-user.gentoo.org | formail +1 -ds gentoo_user -- However... I need to use maildir is there a straightforward way to deliver directly to maildir folders with formail from procmail? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa and Intel HD audio

2006-10-08 Thread Steve Evans
rather than the kernel. Steve -- Steve EvansE-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WEB:http://www.gorbag.com Registered Linux user #217906: http://counter.li.org Public Encryption Key: http

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa and Intel HD audio

2006-10-08 Thread Steve Evans
missing something from the kernel? Matt I'm not sure what would cause that, udev should be creating the device. On my system /dev/dsp is a link to /dev/sound/dsp. Does that exist? I assume that your user is in group audio, so that you have access rights to /dev/dsp? Steve

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Sansa e260 MicroSD

2006-10-03 Thread Steve McGrath
be the same problem I had with my USB 5-in-1 cardreader. It would only recognize one of the slots until I recompiled the kernel kernel with Probe all LUNs on each SCSI device. It's under Device Drivers-SCSI device support. HTH, -Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Can anyone tell me where I've loused-up this apache config?

2006-10-03 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
This time a bamboozling Apache/vhost/https problem. I have a working vhost configuration for several domains in apache2 (latest stable from portage - 2.0.58) and I want to support not only http services, but, for one domain name at least, I want to support an https service. The working

[gentoo-user] Wacky ssh X11 question...

2006-10-02 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
I've three independent hosts - imaginatively called A, B and C. Firewall rules dictate that A can be directly accessed from B, but not from C... A and B run the openssh sshd, and C is a terminal with a working X-Windows display. C has a ssh session opened with B which tunnels port 22 on C to 22

[gentoo-user] Backups... a very general question...

2006-09-27 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
I've recently been thinking about backup strategy... following a painful re-install after dropping a clanger during a kernel upgrade. While this seems a very basic topic, I can find surprisingly little documentation about this on-line. I need to address several entirely different kinds of

[gentoo-user] emerge tinyca fails...

2006-09-26 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
After getting into a real pickle with a kernel upgrade (causing me to corrupt my /dev) I opted to re-install from the latest minimal install CD rather than try to unpick the mess. My gentoo box is used almost exclusively used remotely as a mail/web server - however I find tinyca a very useful

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: installing an amd k6

2006-09-12 Thread Steve McGrath
Yes this is OK, but, I was hoping to find the corresponding version for 2005.0. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/2005.0/handbook-x86.xml HTH, Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerging gnome-light without X support

2006-09-11 Thread Steve McGrath
/portage/package.use HTH -Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] mencoder did nothing all night at 100% CPU!

2006-08-10 Thread Steve Dibb
the -target options. Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Planet Larry: Gentoo User's Blogs

2006-08-06 Thread Steve Dibb
subscribe to. Looking forward to getting you added. :) See the instructions[4] on how to get added. Thanks! Steve 1. http://planet.gentoo.org/ 2. http://planet.gentoo.org/universe/ 3. http://www.larrythecow.org/rss20.xml 4. http://www.larrythecow.org/#add -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Planet Larry: Gentoo User's Blogs

2006-08-06 Thread Steve Dibb
Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Sun, 2006-08-06 at 12:45 -0600, Steve Dibb wrote: A few devs have setup an unofficial Gentoo project, a planet feed of blogs of Gentoo users. The site is available online right now at http://larrythecow.org/ The idea is simple -- we already have Planet Gentoo[1

Re: [gentoo-user] neon: endless up-/down-grade

2006-07-31 Thread Steve Evans
rapidsvn and the problem went away. This isn't much help though if you need rapidsvn :-( See: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139318 Steve -- Steve EvansE-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg and static libraries

2006-07-15 Thread Steve Brenneis
Benno Schulenberg wrote: Steve Brenneis wrote: Benno Schulenberg wrote: You have no video card? Put at least VIDEO_CARDS=vesa in your /etc/make.conf, and add nv or radeon or whatever your box has. I've never seen any instruction to set this variable. In http

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg and static libraries

2006-07-13 Thread Steve Brenneis
Benno Schulenberg wrote: Steve Brenneis wrote: I am using -hardened and -pie right now. Minus pie? That's no USE flag. It was mentioned in one of the Gentoo forums online as a solution to the static library problem. I have to admit I never heard of it either. System uname

[gentoo-user] Xorg and static libraries

2006-07-12 Thread Steve Brenneis
I had problems with Xorg 6.8.2 and a duplicate symbol in libbitmap.a. This was a well-known problem and the two most popular fixes seemed to be to switch gcc to the non-hardened version or to rebuild Xorg with the static use flag. I chose the latter and all was well. Now that the Xorg ebuild has

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