Hi Guys:
I'm a little fuzzy here, so I'm asking for help.
I recently subscribed to my local cable company's digital phone
service. Now, I would like to send a fax from my computer. Is
rp-ppoe what I need (and of course a fax client) to do this? If this
is not what I need, please advise.
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Rumen Yotov wrote:
On (08/01/06 02:44), C. Beamer wrote:
Hi all,
I did an 'emerge --sync' tonight. One of the items on my list of
updates was sun-jre-bin. Of course, the procedure is to download the
binary from sun and put it in /usr/portage
Hi all,
I did an 'emerge --sync' tonight. One of the items on my list of
updates was sun-jre-bin. Of course, the procedure is to download the
binary from sun and put it in /usr/portage/distfiles.
Prior to downloading, I unmerge (or thought I did), the previous
installation of jre. However,
Rumen Yotov wrote:
On (03/01/06 00:30), C. Beamer wrote:
Hi all,
I ran emerge --sync this evening and afterwards when I did 'emerge
--pretend --update --deep world', I got the following result:
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating world dependencies
Hi all,
I ran emerge --sync this evening and afterwards when I did 'emerge
--pretend --update --deep world', I got the following result:
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating world dependencies . ...done!
[ebuild UD] media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.9a
Philip Webb wrote:
060101 Chris White wrote:
On Saturday 31 December 2005 22:35, C. Beamer wrote:
Fedora: 3.45
*Gentoo: 3.75*
Mandriva: 3.70
Suse: 3.40
Ubuntu: 3.90
Word of advice, things like this are generally flawed.
Quite true, but I believe CB's point was simply
Hello and Happy New Year to all,
I am so enamoured with Gentoo that I couldn't resist passing on this bit
of trivia.
O'Reilly recently published a book called Linux Desktop Pocket
Reference. The first chapter is available for viewing on the O'Reilly
website and in that chapter the author rated,
John Jolet wrote:
Okay, so i'm experimenting with the split kde ebuilds, having done a
kde-meta the last time. However, when I did that, I got all my
hardware configured and set up automatically somehow. when I just
did emerge kdebase-startkde, It won't allow me to go beyond 640x480.
Hi,
Most of your questions have been answered by more knowledgeable people
on the list than I. However, I do I one comment:
Richard Neill wrote:
4)Does anyone know of a good resource for ex-mandriva users?
I can't say enough good things about Gentoo documentation:
James Ausmus wrote:
On 12/19/05, capsel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there any program for makeing data bases as fast as ms access
(works fast, small) and free as openbase?
I haven't used it much, just looked at it a time or two, but Rekall
aims to be a MS Access work-alike replacement
Thanks,
Myk Taylor wrote:
emerge -C gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r10
or
emerge -C =gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r10
-C is short for --unmerge
This did what I wanted it to do. I had the command right, I was just
using the wrong name - I used linux-sources. What can I say ... I'm
still learning! :-)
Richard Fish wrote:
On 12/17/05, C. Beamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
Up until now, when the computer boots and goes through its startup
routine, the screen will blip and then the text that is scrolling by
on the screen prior to starting the gui interface, reduces in size.
Now
Hi all,
From all I've ever read and about Linux and the kernel, it has always
been recommended that you keep one kernel source older than the one that
you are currently running on your system.
In this respect, I now have 3 kernel sources on my computer after
upgrading today.
I would like to
Hi all,
You'll probably think this is dumb, but what can I say? I'm a bit anal
is some respects! :-)
Today, I updated my desktop system and recompiled a new kernel.
Afterwards I re-emerged alsa-driver and ati-drivers.
The update solved an issue with not being able to turn off or reboot the
Hi all,
This issue is related to my desktop. Bear with me while I give some
background details.
A couple of months ago, I followed the MySQL Upgrade Guide to upgrade
MySQL. At that time, some configuration files were changed. I don't
know specifically if those changes had anything to do with
Devon Miller wrote:
Do you have CONFIG_CPU_FREQ defined in your kernel config?
I have an HP laptop where I have seen similar behavior. After dealing
with it for some time, I tracked it down to a problem with changing
the cpu's frequency. For a very small period after the clock is
changed,
Mariusz Pękala wrote:
El Domingo, 11 de Diciembre de 2005 11:42, C. Beamer escribió:
My issue is this: The computer powered off in the middle of the install
of xorg-x11. This has happened a couple of times. I haven't been
having problems with the laptop, so I'm pretty sure the issue has
Hi all,
I've become so enamoured with Gentoo that I've decided to install on my
laptop. However, I'm having a bit of a problem.
I'm at the point where I can boot the system and I've been trying to
install xorg-x11. However, the laptop keeps powering off on me.
This wasn't a problem until I
Allan Gottlieb wrote:
At Sun, 11 Dec 2005 10:42:13 + C. Beamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
I'm at the point where I can boot the system and I've been trying to
install xorg-x11. However, the laptop keeps powering off on me.
This wasn't a problem until I build the kernel where I
Richard Fish wrote:
On 12/6/05, Andrew Gaydenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Colleen,
I have found a xine engine as the most stable for me.
Seconded.
-Richard
Thanks to both Andrew and Richard for the response. I struggled with
this until today. I *did* try to take your advice,
Hi all,
I've finished rebuilding my system after upgrading gcc. I had to fix a
couple of things, but everything is working fine except amaroK. amaroK
will start and as normal, put its icon in the system tray, but if I
hover the mouse over the icon, I get a timer displayed, which remains
there
Hi,
I'm certainly not an authority here, but I suffered some minor pains
getting alsa to work after upgrading gcc. I referred to the Alsa Gentoo
Linux Guide.
Marc Morrisette wrote:
I just got done following the GCC migration guide on 3 computers. It
went smoothly on 2 of them, everything
Hi all,
I was upgrading gcc using the directions in the GCC Upgrade Guide. All
was going well. I was user what the Guide refers to as the safer
method. I got to the 321 of 642 mark and the upgrade bombed.
The specific upgrade being done was cyrus-sasl. Early in the output it
complained about
Hi,
Up until the day before yesterday, xmms worked fine and I was able to
play audio files.
On the weekend, I updated the kernel following the instructions in the
Kernel Upgrade Guide. Everything went fine. When I rebooted the
computer my kmix icon was x'd out, so I unmerged alsa-driver and
Thanks for the response, but . :-)
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
Hi,
try removing the config and menurc in ~/.xmms,
Actually, I removed the whole ~/.xmms directory after the fresh install.
Did you use any visual plugins?
I have the blursk and blur-scope plugins installed, but they
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
Hi,
try removing the config and menurc in ~/.xmms,
Did you use any visual plugins?
Because this are a little brittle and break easily after any upgrade.
Just though I'd let the list know, I've solved the problem. Seems
that xmms didn't like mikmod. When I installed
Hi,
Alex Bennee wrote:
Although its enabled evolution never picks up any mis-spelled words. I
suspect its something to do with the fact no dictionaries are selectable
in the preferences dialog.
I have aspell-en installed but that doesn't seem to be enough.
Any ideas?
I don't know if this
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Philip Webb wrote:
On Friday 04 November 2005 20:49,
C. Beamer wrote:
Recently, when trying to restart or shutdown my computer
using the K menu "Log Out" selection, which gives the options
to "End Current Session", "Res
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Martins Steinbergs wrote:
On Friday 04 November 2005 20:49,
C. Beamer wrote:
Hi All,
Recently, I've started to experience an issue when trying to
restart
or shutdown my computer using the K menu "Log Out" selection,
which
gives t
Mark Knecht wrote:
Hi,
My wife is asking if there is an easy way to keep a list of all web
sites visited on a specific computer in the house. I don't know about
such stuff. Is there any way to do that for either Mozilla or Firefox?
In Firefox: Edit -- Preferences -- Select the Privancy
John Jolet wrote:
On Nov 3, 2005, at 1:15 PM, Jeff Smelser wrote:
On Thursday 03 November 2005 07:49 am, C. Beamer wrote:
ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
'/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (111)
I
I do have the file /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
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Hi All,
Recently, I've started to experience an issue when trying to restart
or shutdown my computer using the K menu Log Out selection, which
gives the options to End Current Session, Restart the Computer,
Turn of the Computer and of course, Cancel.
Hi,
Without going into a long drawn out explanation, I was having a problem
with something on my system and though that maybe it was because of the
upgrade I did to MySQL. So, I decided I was going to unmerge MySQL and
emerge it again. That may have been a dumb move, but what the heck, you
Jeff Smelser wrote:
On Tuesday 01 November 2005 04:58 pm, C. Beamer wrote:
The database
that I had created by creating a directory that was named after the
database that I had created when using FC4 and then copying my database
related files into it, did not back up. Hence my assumption
Hi,
Jeff Smelser wrote:
On Sunday 30 October 2005 05:15 pm, C. Beamer wrote:
The instructions on the Gentoo website for upgrading gave a step by step
to create a backup of my database. However, when I went to restore the
database after the upgrade, the restore didn't work. I'm thinking
Hi all,
I just upgraded MySQL using the instructions on the Gentoo website. For
the most part, everything went fine and now everything works, but I had
to make a couple of adjustments. My question now is if there is a
proper way to do what I did as a workaround.
In September, when I wiped
Qian Qiao wrote:
The instructions on the Gentoo website for upgrading gave a step by step
to create a backup of my database. However, when I went to restore the
database after the upgrade, the restore didn't work. I'm thinking that
it was because of the way I got my database files into MySQL
Qian Qiao wrote:
On 10/30/05, C. Beamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Qian Qiao wrote:
What was the error message, if it was about the key length exceeding
1000, then you hit a known bug.
No, I didn't get any error messages on restoring the database that was
created by the backup
Hi all,
I'm tearing my hair out by the roots on this one.
First, I had a bit of a problem getting the the ODBC connection to my
MySQL database set up. That was my own fault though 'cause a couple of
files that I though were supposed to go in /etc (that's where they went
in Fedora Core) were
for 'mysql-shared and gentoo', but I can't figure
out what Gentoo package this might refer to.
Does anyone know?
Regards,
Colleen
C. Beamer wrote:
Hello all,
I am trying to set up an ODBC connection to a MySQL database. I have
done this before when I used Fedora Core, but when I tried to do
Rumen Yotov wrote:
On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 19:09 -0400, C. Beamer wrote:
Hi,
I've had Gentoo installed on my main computer for about a month now and
want to update world.
When I did 'emerge --pretend --update --deep world' I got told that a
package that I had installed was blocking another
Holly Bostick wrote:
C. Beamer schreef:
I went to the painstaking effort of updating each package on my
system that required updating individually and am left with this,
which is the result of 'emerge --pretend --update --deep world':
Calculating world dependencies ...done! [blocks B
Hello all,
I am trying to set up an ODBC connection to a MySQL database. I have
done this before when I used Fedora Core, but when I tried to do it
today on my Gentoo system, I got an error message when I tested the
connection.
I have both UnixODBC and myodbc installed.
The instructions that I
Hi,
I've had Gentoo installed on my main computer for about a month now and
want to update world.
When I did 'emerge --pretend --update --deep world' I got told that a
package that I had installed was blocking another package. I want to
update but omit the blocked package from the update,
Hi,
When I first installed Gentoo on my main machine about a month ago, my
scanner was working just fine. I don't use it that much, but today when
I went to use it (using xsane), I got a message that no devices were found.
I checked dmesg and as far as I can tell, there doesn't seem to be
Hi all,
I honestly don't know what I did. I was playing around checking
different settings and now xsane works fine.
Sorry for the bother.
Regards,
Colleen
C. Beamer wrote:
Hi,
When I first installed Gentoo on my main machine about a month ago, my
scanner was working just fine. I don't
Hi,
I had a situation when I was trying to get my Laser Jet printer
recognized. I was fine with the ink jet, which was connected via usb,
but the laser was connected to a parallel port.
I had to recompile the kernel and select
Device Drivers --
Parallel Port Support --
*Parallel Port
Hi all,
Yesterday, I posted asking for a Gentoo equivalent of something I was
able to do in Fedora, I got some answers which were of assistance, one
being to check my logwatch.conf file to see what the frequency was set
at. This helped because it was set weekly and since I had just
installed
Dave Nebinger wrote:
I cat'ed the dead letter file and at the end, the following appears:
send-mail: RCPT TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (504 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Sender address rejected: need fully-qualified address)
Can't send mail: sendmail process failed with error code 1
What MTA are you using,
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 23:11:02 -0400, C. Beamer wrote:
Is there a default length of time before logrotate will rotate the log
files?
Do you have a config file for syslog-ng in /etc/logrotate.d? This should
have been installed when you merged syslog-ng
John Myers wrote:
On Saturday 17 September 2005 20:11, C. Beamer wrote:
Is there a default length of time before logrotate will rotate the log
files?
check in /etc/logrotate.conf. I believe the default is weekly. Also, if your
system is not run continuously, you may want to look
Hi all,
I'm not sure how to do the equivalent of the following in Gentoo, so any
help would be appreciated.
When I used Fedora Core, on a daily basis, I could fire up Pine (or
Mutt) and would get an e-mail that was essentially the output from my
log files. One of the things that would be listed
Hi all,
When I installed Gentoo, I chose syslog-ng as my system logger. It was
suggested that I install logrotate to prevent my logfiles from becoming
unmanagageably large. I did this. However, my /var/log/messages file
includes logging from the first day that Gentoo was running on my system
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Arkady Grudzinsky wrote:
I would compare GUI to helper wheels for bycicles. You may need
them if you can't ride, but once you know how to ride they start
limiting you and getting in your way. In my experience, time spent
to learn the text
Hi All,
A friend (non-Gentoo user) sent me this Gentoo-related url:
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=16002
I got Gentoo installed with only a few hitches and it's running like a
charm since the install, but I'm still a newbie when it comes to
Gentoo, so I bow to the superior
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Hi All,
Well, I'm progressing with Gentoo. I now have it on my main computer
and am *very* pleased. I even managed to get my Radeon 8500 graphics
card working with 3D acceleration.
However, I am having problems with getting printing to work.
I
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Thanks John,
Boy, do I have egg on my face with the first issue!
John Jolet wrote:
On Sep 10, 2005, at 11:55 AM, C. Beamer wrote:
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I emerged both hal and cups. Using kde's print manager, I
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