Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice build failed.

2006-05-25 Thread Teresa and Dale
Meino Christian Cramer wrote: From: Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice build failed. Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 00:17:27 -0400 Good Lord man... why would you want to compile OO from source? Since gentoo offers this... Or in other words: Why does gentoo offer

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice build failed.

2006-05-25 Thread Teresa and Dale
Richard Broersma Jr wrote: I was having problems getting OO to build. I issued the following bug report. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126937 In my case the it was due to a hardware issue. I kept retrying the emerge and at last it succeeded (on a very very cold evening...). My best

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

2006-05-25 Thread Teresa and Dale
Lord Sauron wrote: I've got one on my hard drive. You can have it if you want ; ) I have them in /usr/portage/*/*/metadata.xml but none anywhere else though. There are none that end in .tar.bz2 though. Where is yours and where is mine? O_O Dale :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Xeon

2006-05-24 Thread Teresa and Dale
Gessy wrote: Hi, I'd like know how to install gentoo on Xeon with 64bits supports. What stage can i use? Can I use stage3? My processor is: vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 15 model : 4 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.00GHz

Re: [gentoo-user] 300GB HD

2006-05-23 Thread Teresa and Dale
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On May 23, 2006, at 9:13 AM, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: I can't remember any Maxtor disks failing, though there is one disk I had to RMA a year or so ago and I cannot remember the make -- it could have been Maxtor. Actually, I went and looked

Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla won't start after upgrading to 1.7.13 [DEAD BRANCH]

2006-05-23 Thread Teresa and Dale
Roman Zilka wrote: Oops, my fault and apologies. Please ignore this redundant post. -Roman Zilka Did you get it working or sorry for the second send? I ran into this a while back and it is on here somewhere but I can not remember what I did to fix it. Dale :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] sysconfig

2006-05-23 Thread Teresa and Dale
Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: thanks, Justin I was hoping for an answer like that On 5/23/06, Justin Findlay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/23/06, Allan Spagnol Comar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe this is a stupid question for the list, but I was wondering about and try some search at

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage + Package Version

2006-05-22 Thread Teresa and Dale
Leandro Melo de Sales wrote: Ok. The package in question is mysql. I what to install version 3, but I masked the oldest 4.0 and emerge search returns mysql version 5. How can I install version 3? Thanks, Leandro 2006/5/22, Gian Domeni Calgeer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Am Montag 22 Mai 2006

Re: [gentoo-user] how to determin CFLAGS used in a package emerge

2006-05-22 Thread Teresa and Dale
Richard Broersma Jr wrote: Is there are way to determine the CFLAGS options used to build/emerge a specific package? In my case, I am specifically looking to determine which CFLAG options where used to build the apcupsd package to determine if it has SNMP support built in or not? Any advice

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] HD running temperatures

2006-05-21 Thread Teresa and Dale
Joseph wrote: On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 16:17 +1200, Mark Kirkwood wrote: Dave Jones wrote: I've implemented the hddtemp service, and see that my HDs, one an IBM 120GB, the other a Hitachi 120GB disk, run a steady 46 and 49 degrees C. This seems a bit too warm for my liking. Are these

Re: [gentoo-user] Masked packages

2006-05-21 Thread Teresa and Dale
Jonathan Chocron wrote: Le Dimanche 21 Mai 2006 16:11, Daniel D Jones a écrit : I get the following error: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/db/pkg # emerge -uDvat world These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order: Calculating world dependencies - !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy

Re: [gentoo-user] system suspend every time when rebooting or shutdown.

2006-05-20 Thread Teresa and Dale
fei huang wrote: This issue was found when I started to use gentoo again after around three months. I remember that I updated some packages including the portage... the system suspends with *no more* processes *left in this runlevel*

Re: [gentoo-user] New USE Flags, Emerge -e world -- Broken systems -- PLEASE HELP

2006-05-17 Thread Teresa and Dale
Jeremy Olexa wrote: I would start with the defaults, eg. leave USE= (blank) in make.conf and then start editing package.use to modify them from there. type emerge --info to see ALL of the use flags that are being used -- Jeremy Olexa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Office: EE/CS 1-201 CS/IT

Re: [gentoo-user] package.mask and my thick skull

2006-05-15 Thread Teresa and Dale
Daniel da Veiga wrote: This should work OK, and the original poster could simply read: man portage And learn all of this and more! I think the original poster has the same problem as me, I just use trial and error and the -p option, a lot sometimes. It took me at least a half dozen

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

2006-05-13 Thread Teresa and Dale
Michael Sullivan wrote: My wife would like to know if there is a slideshow-type screensaver for Linux that would allow her to display her cat pictures as a screensaver. I would like to know if anything like this is available in portage. If it helps, we have a website with all the pictures on it

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade Portage 2004.0 to 2005.x fails

2006-05-08 Thread Teresa and Dale
Denny Schierz wrote: hi, i have two very old gentoo boxes and i can't upgrade them. After a sync, the default profile 2004.0 was deleted and know i can't do anything with portage: router x86 # emerge -n '=sys-apps/portage-2.0.51' !!! 'str' object has no attribute 'insert' !!! 'rm -Rf

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade Portage 2004.0 to 2005.x fails

2006-05-08 Thread Teresa and Dale
Denny Schierz wrote: hi, i tested a lot of things, but nothing works, so i did the hardway and replaced portage by hand, its seems, portage is working again. i saw, that 2006.x is out ;-) so i using the newest profile. cu denny I'm still on 2005.1 I think. I need to chagne mine to I

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage tree hosed?

2006-05-07 Thread Teresa and Dale
Adrian wrote: Greetings. I'm trying to set up a new Gentoo box. I downloaded the latest portage snapshot, untared it and ran emerge regen now everything I try to emerge I get: Security Violation: A file exists that is not in the manifest From doing a google, it looks like i need to run

Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 corrupted after power cut off when emerged world

2006-05-06 Thread Teresa and Dale
wu chuanwen wrote: I just emerge --update --deep --newuse world and suddenly the power is cut off. Then,when i start my gentoo again,my network can't work now. The error message is : Starting eth0 ls:*.sh:No such file or directory. * no interface module has been loaded.

Re: [gentoo-user] Waaaaaay [OT] Windoze back-up. Sorry to ask. :-(

2006-05-05 Thread Teresa and Dale
Alexander Skwar wrote: Ryan Tandy wrote: I haven't used Home myself, so I don't know if they're there too. At least ping and traceroute (tracert) are there as well. I think nslookup might be there as well. Alexander Skwar This is the home edition and ping was not there before. I

Re: [gentoo-user] ISSUE: ivman error after emerge!

2006-05-05 Thread Teresa and Dale
Christopher E wrote: Hello All, I am geting this error after emergeing ivman and type in this command as follows: /etc/init.d/ivman start snip * to try and fix this. * Re-caching dependency info (mtimes differ)... * Could not get dependency info for ivman! * Please run: * #

Re: [gentoo-user] Waaaaaay [OT] Windoze back-up. Sorry to ask. :-(

2006-05-05 Thread Teresa and Dale
Mick wrote: On 05/05/06, Teresa and Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is the home edition and ping was not there before. I just reinstalled it, it crashed, I may give it another go. Maybe this install has it. The home edition also has the ping command. Bring up the c: prompt and ping

Re: [gentoo-user] Best File System For Linux

2006-05-04 Thread Teresa and Dale
Farhan Ahmed wrote: Hi, I want to know which is the best file system for a high performance Linux? I'm presently a encrypted ext3 file system for my Gentoo Desktop machine.. I've heard that ReiserFS provides the best performance.. Is it true? What about XFS? My file system is created

Re: [gentoo-user] Best File System For Linux

2006-05-04 Thread Teresa and Dale
Frédéric Grosshans wrote: Le jeudi 04 mai 2006 à 11:26 -0500, Michael Sullivan a écrit : Is there a way to defragment a rieserfs file system? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReiserFS#Disadvantages says no, unless full dump and restore i.e. tar everything, clean your disk, and untar it

Re: [gentoo-user] PLEASE HELP!!! Emerge Isssue Now!

2006-05-03 Thread Teresa and Dale
Christopher E wrote: Hello All, I have tryed it in the vt and have also tryed to emerge other stuff to see if it would work, I had tryed firefox and this is what I got this time, this is ALL at the vt as xterm is NOT working: emerge --update --deep mozilla-firefox gives me: emerge (1 of

Re: [gentoo-user] Waaaaaay [OT] Windoze back-up. Sorry to ask. :-(

2006-05-03 Thread Teresa and Dale
Kris Kerwin wrote: Dale, I believe that the kernels have been able to write to NTFS safely for some time, now. In fact, as I recall from the last time that I built that functionality into my own kernel, menuconfig said that there were never any reported problems with the same code that has

Re: [gentoo-user] Waaaaaay [OT] Windoze back-up. Sorry to ask. :-(

2006-05-03 Thread Teresa and Dale
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Set up a Samba server... hmm... KDE Control Centre has a excellent interface for that. Very easy. In a related story... The first time I used Samba to do some network transfers I spent ten minutes checking file intergrity. It went so darn fast... I was sure

Re: [gentoo-user] Cloning a Gentoo box

2006-05-02 Thread Teresa and Dale
Ronald V. Vazquez wrote: Hello all: I wanted to get some ideas from the list on how to clone a Gentoo box. Perhaps others on the list are interested as well. Thanks, RV Do you mean to make one install then copy everything over to a new system? Dale :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Cloning a Gentoo box

2006-05-02 Thread Teresa and Dale
Ronald Vincent Vazquez wrote: Do you mean to make one install then copy everything over to a new system? Dale :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Dale: Yes, let say that I install a machine with all my basic software and want to set up a second machine without having to reinstall. What

[gentoo-user] Waaaaaay [OT] Windoze back-up. Sorry to ask. :-(

2006-05-02 Thread Teresa and Dale
Hi, OK, here's my deal. My girlfriend wants to use windoze, yes it has already died from a bug and it took a while to get it all back to working, again. This is what I want to do to make it easy when this happens again, this is windoze so it will happen, likely sooner rather than later too. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Waaaaaay [OT] Windoze back-up. Sorry to ask. :-(

2006-05-02 Thread Teresa and Dale
Daniel da Veiga wrote: On 5/2/06, Teresa and Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, OK, here's my deal. My girlfriend wants to use windoze, yes it has already died from a bug and it took a while to get it all back to working, again. This is what I want to do to make it easy when this happens

Re: [gentoo-user] Waaaaaay [OT] Windoze back-up. Sorry to ask. :-(

2006-05-02 Thread Teresa and Dale
Thierry de Coulon wrote: I've done that on Laptops (you know, those thingies that come with crap pre-installed) in order to put that back if I sell them later... I got you there. ;-) I know if two ways that (might) work: a) dd - you might have to shrink the partition first or try 7zip

Re: [gentoo-user] Waaaaaay [OT] Windoze back-up. Sorry to ask. :-(

2006-05-02 Thread Teresa and Dale
Mick wrote: First defragment her OS partition a couple of times (and reboot in between for good measure ;-). Then you can use a Knoppix or other Linux LiveCD on her machine, run partimage and save an image of her OS partition on one of your boxen over the LAN. If you don't want to take up

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like

2006-04-29 Thread Teresa and Dale
Jorge Martín wrote: Are you running Gnome? HAL can help you automounting, you can make some udev rulez too.. On 4/29/06, *JimD* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have any good link on making Gentoo a little more user-friendly like Ubunut? I am looking

Re: [gentoo-user] My box freezee sometimes

2006-04-28 Thread Teresa and Dale
Richard Fish wrote: On 4/28/06, Fernando Antunes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've already run memtest86, no problem report. memtest86 is nearly useless on modern computers. Try this one instead: http://people.redhat.com/dledford/memtest.html -Richard I ran into this with a family member

Re: [gentoo-user] My box freezee sometimes

2006-04-28 Thread Teresa and Dale
Daniel da Veiga wrote: On 4/28/06, Teresa and Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I ran into this with a family member recently, the CPU was running hot and the mobo was cutting the CPU off. The only way to get it back up again was to reboot. She kept doing this though, thinking it was windoze

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with changing virtual terminals

2006-04-26 Thread Teresa and Dale
Goran Maksimovic wrote: Hi! I will try that but where if I haven't got this should I put it? Thanx for you help :). Bye Goran Check the xorg.conf file and look for this. Mine works and this is what mine looks like, yours should be the same. #Option NoTrapSignals # Uncomment

Re: [gentoo-user] Best Modem for Gentoo

2006-04-26 Thread Teresa and Dale
Harald Arnesen wrote: Michael Crute [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to setup a fax server using Gentoo, I tried using an Intel 536ep chipset card with little success. After looking around the general consensus seems to be go with US Robotics. Can anyone provide the model and

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with screen turning off

2006-04-25 Thread Teresa and Dale
Geoff wrote: Can anyone tell me where the settings are that controls the video signal to the screen. My screen goes off (but still has power on after about 5 minutes and I want it to stay on all the time. I have no screen saver or anything set. If it is in a GUI, check your xorg.conf file.

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with changing virtual terminals

2006-04-25 Thread Teresa and Dale
Goran Maksimovic wrote: Hi! I installed Gentoo 2006.0 with LiveCD and then in my /etc/make.conf I enabled portage feature ~x86 so I could install the latest Xorg and KDE. When all was over I entered KDE by startx as normal user and noticed that I can't change virtual terminals by ctrl+alt+f1

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with screen turning off

2006-04-25 Thread Teresa and Dale
Simon Prosser wrote: setterm -blank 0 That too should work. I think if you do a setterm powersave off it will do the same thing. I think that disables all the other power save, standby and such. Note the I think. It's been a while since my servers are headless anyway. I also made sure

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge wvdial issues

2006-04-23 Thread Teresa and Dale
Walter Dnes wrote: On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 11:43:05AM -0700, maxim wexler wrote And one more question: Why does emerge wvdial insist on installing all this X stuff? More than 90 Megs! What does my serial port hardware care if I can look at an xterm or not? I tried USE=-X but it just

Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla and screen flashing red when I get email.

2006-04-18 Thread Teresa and Dale
Mick wrote: On 17/04/06, Teresa and Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, I have recently noticed that when I get new email my screen flashes red, on whatever desktop I am on even if it is not where Mozilla is. I went into prefs and the mail settings thing and can not find a setting

Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla and screen flashing red when I get email.

2006-04-18 Thread Teresa and Dale
Benno Schulenberg wrote: Dale wrote: I have recently noticed that when I get new email my screen flashes red, on whatever desktop I am on KDE Control Center Regional ... Accessibility Visible Bell Benno Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla and screen flashing red when I get email.

2006-04-18 Thread Teresa and Dale
Benno Schulenberg wrote: I notice that in Konsole, I didn't get the beep for a good while. After the last upgrade it worked again. So maybe they are working on it. Where is that MEHP sound located and what do they call it? There are a lot of sounds in /usr/kde/3.5/share/sounds/. I copied

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - question about modprobe

2006-04-18 Thread Teresa and Dale
Thomas Cort wrote: Michael Sullivan wrote: Is there a way to retrieve a listing of kernel modules that are currently loaded? lsmod Another neat find I had a while back is this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # modprobe --list /lib/modules/2.6.14-gentoo-r5/kernel/drivers/hwmon/w83627hf.ko

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - question about modprobe [SOLVED]

2006-04-18 Thread Teresa and Dale
Michael Sullivan wrote: I'm helping a guy in Maryland work through the handbook to install Gentoo and neither one of us was sure what driver the LiveCD was using for his network card. I think lsmod worked out. Thanks. That was the command but I thought I would give just a little extra

Re: [gentoo-user] system sounds

2006-04-18 Thread Teresa and Dale
Benno Schulenberg wrote: Dale wrote: Where is that MEHP sound located and what do they call it? It's the PC speaker itself, the System Bell that lets you set Volume, Pitch and Duration (except that Volume doesn't work here, it sets Duration too). I would like to find some more

[gentoo-user] Mozilla and screen flashing red when I get email.

2006-04-17 Thread Teresa and Dale
Hi folks, I have recently noticed that when I get new email my screen flashes red, on whatever desktop I am on even if it is not where Mozilla is. I went into prefs and the mail settings thing and can not find a setting to cut off this feature. I did find the one for the new email notification

Re: [gentoo-user] Now Signing Messages

2006-04-15 Thread Teresa and Dale
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 14 April 2006 01:45 pm, Teresa and Dale wrote: Ralph Slooten wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did. However, I sent the key anyway so that you don't have to go hunting for which keyservers I was able to use. Some of them

Re: [gentoo-user] rc-config...

2006-04-15 Thread Teresa and Dale
Ryan Tandy wrote: What package is this rc-config command contained in? I don't have it on my system, and as far as I can tell from Googling it's been obsolete since 2004.3 in favour of rc-status. I have it on mine too. [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # emerge --info Portage 2.0.54

Re: [gentoo-user] Now Signing Messages

2006-04-14 Thread Teresa and Dale
Ralph Slooten wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did. However, I sent the key anyway so that you don't have to go hunting for which keyservers I was able to use. Some of them didn't work. I'll re-try later, but right now there's a few (about two or three - I don't remember exactly)

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Very Slow - Failed Sleep Command

2006-04-13 Thread Teresa and Dale
Lord Sauron wrote: On 4/12/06, Teresa and Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My light blew out on one of my servers. No smoke but still no workey. :-( I have to use top instead. Since the drive is so old, I can hear it with no problems at all. A new LED and a soddering iron and you could

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Very Slow - Failed Sleep Command

2006-04-12 Thread Teresa and Dale
Martins Steinbergs wrote: read ~/.xsession-errors maybe some hint there, once i had that file fill free space on /home with few GB 'cause busy filling errors before start KDE also try remove previous session saves, maybe there some sassion saved in bad state rm ~/.kde/share/config/session/*

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Very Slow - Failed Sleep Command

2006-04-12 Thread Teresa and Dale
Lord Sauron wrote: You might also want to use top to see what, if anything, is using up your CPU time. Also keep in mind that if the CPU is fairly idle that the hard drive may be busy as well. I ran into this once before on a really slow system and it was the updatedb program. It was nice'd

[gentoo-user] Samba setup, I dunno what to do here. :\

2006-04-08 Thread Teresa and Dale
Hi, I have a little network here. We have a cable modem that connects to a Linksys router then we have two computers that hook to it and share the internet. I have my Gentoo Linux box that I just installed samba on. She has a Windoze XP box. I think I have my samba set up, not real sure

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem Compiling Ewl

2006-04-07 Thread Teresa and Dale
Colin Rothwell wrote: Hi All, I'm trying to compile engage and it seems to be fine up until it trys to compile ewl when I get this error message I am trying to build engage on my gentoo linux 2006.0 system. My wm is e16 and my gernel is gentoo-sources. It works fine up until the point where I

Re: [gentoo-user] inkscape crash

2006-04-07 Thread Teresa and Dale
Chris Bare wrote: Inkscape crashes on me whenever I select Text-Text and Font... Anyone know what to do to fix this? As far as I can tell all my libraries are up to date. I've tried 0.43 and 0.43-r1 OK, I'm not sure why but I have it installed and thought I would see if this helps. It

Re: [gentoo-user] System bell (again)

2006-04-07 Thread Teresa and Dale
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alle 17:29, venerdì 7 aprile 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Alle 16:26, venerdì 7 aprile 2006, Richard Fish ha scritto: On 4/7/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I recompiled my kernel and now the system bell plays . . . but as

[gentoo-user] KDE, saved session and Mozilla mail

2006-04-07 Thread Teresa and Dale
Hi, I have KDE 3.5.2 set up to restore my saved session. It goes something like this, Mozilla browser on #1, Mozilla mail on #2, Konsole on #3, Konqueror on #4, my games on #5, gkrellm and Yahoo IM on #6. When I login everything comes up except Mozilla mail on #2. Since it stored everything

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Space opera

2006-04-07 Thread Teresa and Dale
Meino Christian Cramer wrote: Hi, my harddisk begins to sound a little strange...I fear I have to buy a new (bigger) one. When I have to copy my current / to another harddisk, which has a different physical layout of partitions and another overall size -- how would I do this best

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem emerging amule

2006-04-04 Thread Teresa and Dale
One more thing I found: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-450208-highlight-.html Dale :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem emerging amule

2006-04-04 Thread Teresa and Dale
Birch wrote: Thanks, that solved the problem. :) Teresa and Dale wrote: One more thing I found: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-450208-highlight-.html Dale :-) Your welcome. I just ran up on that thread on the forums. I wasn't busy so I was looking at the latest threads

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --resume question

2006-04-03 Thread Teresa and Dale
Peter Campion-Bye wrote: Hi, Trying to do an 'emerge -e world' I come up against the odd package that doesn't build without some intervention. I know I can do 'emerge --resume --skipfirst' and carry on, but sometimes the broken package could be built ok with a little intervention, for example, my

Re: [gentoo-user] Finally, the bell rings.

2006-04-02 Thread Teresa and Dale
Ted Ozolins wrote: After emerging hplip you will notice info re: ppds. If I'm not mistaken, emerging hplip without the ppds USE flag will not create the ppd files needed. Once you emerge hplip with the ppds USE flag the ppd files will be created. Then when you go to set-up your printer in CUPS,

Re: [gentoo-user] Reiserfs partition corrupted - help!

2006-04-01 Thread Teresa and Dale
Anthony Roy wrote: Hi Dale, Google found this: http://www.linuxpackages.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9208sid=7a741429de5dcddf32c3ff133d202d01 Cheers. I had already googled around, without much success - this gives me an idea of what to do at least. Looks like I need a partition of at

Re: [gentoo-user] Reiserfs partition corrupted - help!

2006-04-01 Thread Teresa and Dale
Anthony Roy wrote: I have been really lucky. I have been messing with computers for over 25 years and I don't recall having a hard drive of mine go out. I have worked on others that have though. I guess I replace mine to often. Lucky indeed - the drive that has gone tits up was only 12

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: System bell

2006-03-31 Thread Teresa and Dale
Marco Costa wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, after emerging and emerging . . . and an enrge --newuse world the system bell keeps on not working. With System bell I mean: KDE Control Center - Sound Miltimedia - System bell I controlled the volume levels on kmix and aumix. I do

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: System bell

2006-03-31 Thread Teresa and Dale
Mick wrote: On 31/03/06, Teresa and Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Same here. I just thought it was me changing something and not remembering it. It used to work though. I suspect a etc-update somewhere. Did any of you recompile a kernel and left the misc. device setting off

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: System bell

2006-03-31 Thread Teresa and Dale
David Morgan wrote: On 11:18 Fri 31 Mar , Teresa and Dale wrote: Same here. I just thought it was me changing something and not remembering it. It used to work though. I suspect a etc-update somewhere. Ahh, you weren't clear about whether or not it had stopped working or had

Re: [gentoo-user] Reiserfs partition corrupted - help!

2006-03-31 Thread Teresa and Dale
Anthony Roy wrote: Hi All, Last night I decided to set up a rsync server on my gentoo server box. I have a partition mounted under /srv, and that was the disk the rsync module was located on. I then proceeded to rsync the contents of my main PC over to the server. I tested the scripts a few

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting USB Flash Drive

2006-03-31 Thread Teresa and Dale
Lord Sauron wrote: Sort of a side thing... what's the difference between fstab and mtab? Thanks for your help!' -- == GCv3.12 == GCS d-(++) s+: a? C++ UL+ P+ L++ E--- W+(+++) N++ o? K? w--- O? M+ V? PS- PE+ Y-(--) PGP- t+++ 5? X R tv-- b+ DI+++ D+ G

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge inforamtion

2006-03-30 Thread Teresa and Dale
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: USE flags doubts (again). If I run this command: emerge -pv hplip the output is: [ebuild R ] net-print/hplip-0.9.7-r3 +X +cups +foomaticdb -ppds +qt +scanner* -snmp +usb 0 kB There are 5 flags prefixed by a plus and red coloured (+X, +cups, +foomaticdb, +qt and

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc upgrade, should it upgrade?

2006-03-29 Thread Teresa and Dale
Nagatoro wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 20:41:14 -0800, Ryan Tandy wrote: Assuming it's the gcc-3.4.5-r1 update you're considering postponing, you could just: # echo 'sys-devel/gcc-3.4.5' /etc/portage/package.mask and just remove that line when you're ready to

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc upgrade, should it upgrade?

2006-03-29 Thread Teresa and Dale
Holly Bostick wrote: (other) Funny thing is, last I heard, you were planning to mask the upgrade versions of GCC. If you did that, of /course/ you are no longer offered upgrades, since that's the point of masking (to mark a package as unavailable to be installed on this computer). gcc-3.4.5-r1

Re: [gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel

2006-03-29 Thread Teresa and Dale
Lord Sauron wrote: Okay. So there are two ways of making kernels, and one of them is with Genkernel and I'm not using that so I don't need to worry, right? Just like most things in Linux, there are several ways to do it. Yours isn't the way I do it but if it works for ya, go for it.

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc upgrade, should it upgrade?

2006-03-28 Thread Teresa and Dale
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Tuesday 28 March 2006 08:06, Teresa and Dale wrote: Hi, I upgraded gcc a while back. I thought I read somewhere that it is best to just upgrade on occasion with the major upgrades. Should this be upgraded or should I mask it? This is what I get

Re: [gentoo-user] Card games in portage

2006-03-28 Thread Teresa and Dale
Michael Sullivan wrote: On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 07:29 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try the kde game set. I can't remember off the top of my head (and I'm not near the system) what it's called. The card game suite is called Patience (the filename is 'kpat'.) I use it frequently.

Re: [gentoo-user] Card games in portage

2006-03-28 Thread Teresa and Dale
Phil Sexton wrote: Teresa and Dale wrote: Hi folks, My girlfriends mom comes over sometimes and she likes to play card games on the computer. Anybody have a list of the games in portage that are card games? You know, like Solitaire or something like that. I have the ones that come

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc upgrade, should it upgrade?

2006-03-28 Thread Teresa and Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:50:28 -0600, Teresa and Dale wrote: Thanks to both. I looked in my world file and I think I upgraded as a oneshot so why is it upgradeing? I did the -t option and nothing else is coming up as pulling it in. Strange. gcc is part of system

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc upgrade, should it upgrade?

2006-03-28 Thread Teresa and Dale
Ryan Tandy wrote: Teresa and Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: gcc is part of system. LOL That would be a good reason huh? Where is that file? I'm not real sure about upgrading this thing right now. Oh, what the heck. I'll upgrade it anyway. Thanks Dale

Re: [gentoo-user] chroot

2006-03-28 Thread Teresa and Dale
Walter Dnes wrote: That's not necessary. I regularly... - start off with a basic text-console-only install - and then I fire up emerge gimp before heading off to work By the time I get home from work, Portage has pulled in and built the approximately 40 packages necessary to get a

Re: [gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel

2006-03-27 Thread Teresa and Dale
Lord Sauron wrote: On 3/26/06, Teresa and Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had this set to be compiled into the kernel. Should that present any problems? Most things do not matter. You can do either way. There are some things that I have seen that must be modules and some things

Re: [gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel

2006-03-27 Thread Teresa and Dale
Devon Miller wrote: Just to throw my 2 cents in... I always set CONFIG_IKCONFIG=y CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC=y unless I'm building for a memory constrained system. This stores the config file in the kernel image and makes it available as /proc/config.gz. That way, when I get it working, I

Re: [gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel

2006-03-27 Thread Teresa and Dale
Lord Sauron wrote: On 3/27/06, Teresa and Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Extremely clever. I'll have to remeber cool tricks like that when I'm working with my own server... You can never know to much. That's for sure. I know I haven't had that trouble yet on my end. o_O Yeah

Re: [gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel

2006-03-27 Thread Teresa and Dale
Jeremy Olexa wrote: Lord Sauron wrote: Would you say about 45 seconds is right for a 1.0GHz Pentium-M with 256Megs of PC2700 SO-DIMM RAM? (200-pin, of course) Sounds about right. You aren't recompiling the WHOLE kernel everytime. Just whatever changes. -Jeremy I'm going to go

[gentoo-user] gcc upgrade, should it upgrade?

2006-03-27 Thread Teresa and Dale
Hi, I upgraded gcc a while back. I thought I read somewhere that it is best to just upgrade on occasion with the major upgrades. Should this be upgraded or should I mask it? This is what I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # emerge -up world These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Re: [gentoo-user] USRobotics internal modem

2006-03-27 Thread Teresa and Dale
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alle 19:29, lunedì 27 marzo 2006, JimD ha scritto: On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 11:16:11 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Solved!! Thank you emilio You should post how you solved the problem in case someone else runs into the same issue. This way they can

[gentoo-user] Card games in portage

2006-03-27 Thread Teresa and Dale
Hi folks, My girlfriends mom comes over sometimes and she likes to play card games on the computer. Anybody have a list of the games in portage that are card games? You know, like Solitaire or something like that. I have the ones that come with KDE and Pysol too. Just looking for some more

Re: [gentoo-user] Card games in portage

2006-03-27 Thread Teresa and Dale
Ted Ozolins wrote: pysol. you have to emerge python with tcltk use flag in order for it to work. Pysol contains just about every card game you can imagine. Yea, I have that one though. I was wondering if there were any more though. I looked in /usr/portage but they are not sorted by card

Re: [gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel

2006-03-25 Thread Teresa and Dale
Lord Sauron wrote: Either they have a new bootloader or you mean grub. I have used Lilo and now use grub. IMHO, grub is better. Yes, I mean grub. I had a small technical difficulty : ) For me, that would be not being able to type worth a hoot. My sig on the forums says I can't

Re: [gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel

2006-03-24 Thread Teresa and Dale
Gabriel Dain wrote: However, I don't know how to rebuild the kernel # cd /usr/src/linux # make menuconfig !--- Add whatever support you need, i've never worked with ACPI, sorry --- # make make modules_install Addition: cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/bzImageyour stuff

Re: [gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel

2006-03-24 Thread Teresa and Dale
Lord Sauron wrote: On 3/24/06, Teresa and Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gabriel Dain wrote: However, I don't know how to rebuild the kernel # cd /usr/src/linux Know how to do that... # make menuconfig I don't see a file called menuconfig in here

Re: [gentoo-user] Have portage lost its memory?

2006-03-23 Thread Teresa and Dale
Jules Colding wrote: On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 10:40 +0100, Jules Colding wrote: So what exactly is going on here? Having an SSH session on another machine and forgetting ll about it. Please forgive my stupidity here. Sorry, jules I thought only I could do that. Funny ain't it?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE version

2006-03-23 Thread Teresa and Dale
Christopher O'Neill wrote: I've been using 3.5.1 for a while also, imo it should stay in unstable for now. There are a few bugs with the desktop, Konqueror and Kaffeine also has a habit of seg-faulting. I am considering rebuilding it with the debug flags to I can submit some useful bug reports.

Re: [gentoo-user] how long does an install take on average?

2006-03-22 Thread Teresa and Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 20:09:38 -0300, Diogo Tridapalli wrote: I install in pIII 900 and take almost a week! I installed on a 1GHz iBook and had a full KDE desktop in a little over an hour. The GRP CDs are there for a reason :) I instaled on a Compaq Server,

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