On 08/26/2015 02:06 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
I went to the CNE (Canadian National Exhibition) yesterday and
indulged in a buying spree of 18 CD sets of my fave music (basically
anything pop/rock/country pre-Beatles). I now have over 20 CDs that I
want to rip to flac eventually. I dread the
On 07/24/2015 10:20 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
Am 24.07.2015 um 14:56 schrieb James:
Rich Freeman rich0 at gentoo.org writes:
Just be practical. From my experience showing up at a LUG and telling 20
people how something worked well for you gets you a lot further than
handing out free
On 06/10/2015 03:59 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
Did you read the news item about them in november[1]?
[1]
https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2014-11-25-bash-completion-2_1-r90.html
Excellent, thank you. I did not see this, or forgot if I had. Adopting
zsh will have to wait for
After a recent reboot all of my bash completions have seemed to have
disappeared. Is this a sign that I should finally switch to ZSH?
# eselect bashcomp list
Available completions:
(none found)
I am unsure what to do at this point as it seems that all the
appropriate packages and USE flags
On 04/29/2015 12:53 PM, Mick wrote:
On Tuesday 28 Apr 2015 23:35:31 walt wrote:
On 04/28/2015 09:59 AM, Justin Findlay wrote:
I'm wondering if I have an unusual USE flags situation that is causing
this
In lieu of an informed opinion (which you've not been offered yet) I can
say that I
I am unable to emerge net-wireless/wpa_supplicant-2.4-r1. I've
encountered this on two systems now.
The output included has been insensitively thrashed by thunderbird, so
I've also pasted it along with some other info.
https://gist.github.com/jfindlay/b3fc74bda7d4cfb5a2dc
The first is the
On 03/10/2015 01:35 PM, waben...@gmail.com wrote:
Most modems and routers have really bad DNS proxies. I tend to either
run my own or use Googles DNS: 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4
I don't like the idea that google is getting all information about my
DNS queries. ;-)
If you need a temporary public
I have been using pipelight in firefox successfully for several months.
However, recently I upgraded wine and pipelight and now
pipelight/silverlight is not recognized by firefox and is not listed
under plugins at about:addons.
I've followed the instructions here:
On 01/13/2015 06:51 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 12:39 AM, Justin Findlay jfind...@gmail.com wrote:
I am having a problem emerging dev-qt/qtcore that I have been unable to
solve myself yet. The system is amd64 and I have ABI_X86='32 64' so
that pipelight will work. I think
On 02/01/2015 01:44 PM, Justin Findlay wrote:
On 01/13/2015 06:51 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 12:39 AM, Justin Findlay jfind...@gmail.com wrote:
I am having a problem emerging dev-qt/qtcore that I have been unable to
solve myself yet. The system is amd64 and I have ABI_X86
On 01/13/2015 06:51 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 12:39 AM, Justin Findlay jfind...@gmail.com wrote:
I am having a problem emerging dev-qt/qtcore that I have been unable to
solve myself yet. The system is amd64 and I have ABI_X86='32 64' so
that pipelight will work. I think
I am having a problem emerging dev-qt/qtcore that I have been unable to
solve myself yet. The system is amd64 and I have ABI_X86='32 64' so
that pipelight will work. I think the error is coming from somewhere
within glibc's multilib compatability.
# ebuild $(equery which qtcore) merge
d
I have a laptop computer with an ethernet port, and during bootup
dhcpcd gets invoked (twice) to configure a network connection on
'eth0'. I have set
rc_hotplug=* !net.eth0
in /etc/rc.conf and
RC_HOTPLUG=yes
RC_COLDPLUG=yes
RC_PLUG_SERVICES=!net.eth0
in /etc/conf.d/rc (why do these files
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 2:33 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote:
CXXFLAGS=-march=pentium3 -mtune=pentium3 -m32 -Os -fmessage-length=0
-pipe -fno-implicit-templates
^
I'm wondering about that no-implicit-templates. What happens if you
delete it?
I was somewhat
I can't get the package net-libs/gnutls-2.10.5 to emerge because of a
c++ linker error. What can I do to fix this?
# MAKEOPTS=-j1 FEATURES=-ccache ebuild $(equery which
net-libs/gnutls-2.10.5) merge
...
make[4]: Entering directory
On AD 2008 August 08 Friday 03:08:17 PM -0300, Ricardo Saffi Marques wrote:
You don't have to explain to me what thread hijacking means. I moderate a
Brazilian e-group of 2900 people and am always saying that to members. Tell
me what made you think I did that, because it sure ain't clear for
On AD 2008 July 30 Wednesday 03:09:13 PM -0700, Grant wrote:
xsane fully works with my old USB scanner (Epson Perfection 636U) as
long as I'm root. Does anyone know how to make it work as a normal
user?
Check the permissions on the appropriate usb device. You may end up
adding your user to
On AD 2008 July 30 Wednesday 03:49:23 PM -0700, Grant wrote:
I can't figure out where the device file is. With the scanner
connected and powered on I did an 'updatedb locate scanner' and it
didn't come up with anything in /dev, I don't have a /dev/usb/
directory, and the output of 'ls
On AD 2008 July 30 Wednesday 07:25:03 PM -0400, Daniel D Jones wrote:
Is it safe to remove QT3 from the system now? It seems like at one point
that
there were still packages in KDE that needed version 3 installed.
I have both version 3 and 4 on the system. If I remove the qt3 use flag,
On AD 2008 July 16 Wednesday 07:08:15 PM -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
I keep a few old kernel binaries around that I know have worked.
They are not ancient; the oldest is 2.6.19*
Am I correct in believing that I can run these backup kernels even if
I discard the corresponding sources. I am
On AD 2008 July 04 Friday 01:02:39 PM -0230, Roger Mason wrote:
/usr/lib/libcairo.so: undefined reference to `__sync_fetch_and_add_4'
Did you try revdep-rebuild, or even just remerging cairo?
Justin
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On AD 2008 July 02 Wednesday 02:20:30 PM -0400, doki_pen wrote:
+2 on firefox3. Faster, doesn't slow down after long use. I really see
the difference with javascript. The engine is much faster. Just try a js
heavy page(like google apps). I haven't had any crashes. Only complaint
is
On AD 2008 July 02 Wednesday 02:39:21 PM -0500, Jason Messerschmitt wrote:
I've noticed an odd visual glitch with blogspot pages- it superimposes my
desktop on some pages. It's a bit hard to explain so here's a pic. As far as
I know it's only this page, but might be good fodder for some of you
On AD 2008 July 02 Wednesday 04:38:00 PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
I asked before: do those having problems with FF3 perhaps use Gnome ?
I use enlightenment live CVS from the enlightenment overlay. My general
experience with FF3 is that it's about the same performance wise as FF2.
There were
On AD 2008 June 10 Tuesday 02:12:10 AM +0200, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote:
I didn't know that. If I can use it as a replacement for the make
ebuild solution, I don't think I can make it permanent (I mean like
package.use for choices about useflags).
The idea is to have $EXTRA_ECONF value relevant
I'm using net-misc/kiax-0.8.51 and for the past few months it has
started taking nearly a minute to startup. It's not an app that I use
very often, but still I'd like to find out why. I ran an strace on it
today and it's running thousands and thousands of this call:
fstat(6,{st_dev=makedev(254,
Sorry about forgetting to add a subject.
Justin
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On AD 2008 May 13 Tuesday 09:50:24 PM +0200, Abraham Gyorgy wrote:
Hello guys, in which configuration file can I set a nice level for X11?
(this makes all graphical software run much faster, at least when I used
Debian).
Before trying this, there are some kernel modifications you can try:
On AD 2008 April 16 Wednesday 09:28:48 PM +0200, Michael Schmarck wrote:
Hello.
I'm installing a new machine and use 2008.0_beta1 i686 stage3. I
use the 2008.0/desktop profile.
When I do emerge -DuvatN world, I get an error to the effect,
that there are circular dependencies. Please see
On AD 2008 January 27 Sunday 01:43:26 PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I had some problems with some of the more complex web sites, so I
didn't explore this much. One thing I had tried was taking snapshots
to jpeg pictures, but I had no way of telling when the page had
finished loading.
On AD 2008 January 20 Sunday 06:48:10 AM -0600, Dale wrote:
Funnier still, they recently went up on dial-up. It costs more than DSL
does. Oh, since I am on the net so much, they also charge me for the
time on the phone too. I end up paying about $30 to $40 a month for
internet costs. Funny
On AD 2007 June 15 Friday 08:55:40 AM +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
On my system, I don't use a modem and don't intend to ever
do so. Because of this, I did not install net-dialup/ppp.
But I'd now like to install kde-base/kde-meta, which will
pull in kde-base/kdenetwork-meta, which will pull
On AD 2007 January 13 Saturday 12:22:25 PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote:
Don't apologise, if you know it's wrong, don't do it. Not only do I get
two copies of your mail, but of every response when someone uses Reply to
All :(
That's the way some mailing lists work because it's more 'RFC
On AD 2007 January 12 Friday 11:12:57 PM +0100, Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y)
wrote:
On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 10:19 +, Neil Bothwick wrote:
What are the results of running scanimage --list-devices both as root
and a normal user? Permission problems can cause scanimage or xsane to not
On AD 2007 January 12 Friday 02:05:22 AM +, Avaricen wrote:
Have you attempted using CTRL-ALT-NUM+ on another desktop env?
Even TWM should work in case you don't want to emerge anything.
Justin
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On AD 2007 January 09 Tuesday 09:00:21 PM -0700, Korthrun wrote:
Does anyone have any clue what put:
PANTS=ON
into my environment?
Try:
$ find /etc/env.d -type f | xargs grep -n PANTS
Justin
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On AD 2007 January 10 Wednesday 06:21:10 AM +0100, Bo V|GV|Grsted Andresen
wrote:
# grep -R PANTS=ON /etc/bash /etc/profile* /etc/env.d ~/.bash* ~/.profile
Or better yet,
# find /etc -type f -exec grep -nI --color PANTS {} \;
$ ls -d --color=no ~/.??* | xargs -i find {} -type f -exec grep -nI
On AD 2007 January 10 Wednesday 04:13:54 PM +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 23:25 -0700, Justin Findlay wrote:
Yeah, maybe I'm just showing off by now. (-:
not only do I have to move my eyes up and down and scroll to read top
and bottom postings, but now I have put my
On AD 2007 January 07 Sunday 11:51:59 PM +0100, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
But *I*, as a user (this is -user, after all!) don't feel bothered by
any kind of bureaucracy. Please explain first why I should take action
at all at the moment. And why I shouldn't just go and take the next
distro that
On AD 2006 December 21 Thursday 10:35:47 AM +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote:
Or is it about KDE4?
KDE is the most advanced desktop I've used (that doesn't include vista's
'new' desktop). The desktop that ships with OSX may come close to KDE
for features but it is styled to the point of annoyance both
On AD 2006 December 21 Thursday 02:32:15 AM +, Jeff Rollin wrote:
because GNOME is running into problems and because KDE is behind
schedule, the Linux desktop is dead.
Hahahaha!
That's funny.
Justin
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On AD 2006 December 19 Tuesday 05:23:10 PM +, Grant Edwards wrote:
AFAICT, it's still a favorite of Grants everywhere
I'll grant you that.
Justin
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On AD 2006 December 19 Tuesday 01:37:50 AM + +, James wrote:
I have bzflag working on several systems(yea, it's the new rage
around the office and with the kids in the hood).
But, for some reason it just dies on a amd64 with an ATI-1900 XT
card. I just got the ati-drivers happy on
On AD 2006 December 12 Tuesday 04:34:46 PM -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote:
Can anyone give me a simple easy-to-understand place to start for
setting up Asterisk? All I want it for is for Caller ID and to drop
calls from certain phone numbers. I have a US Robots data/fax modem.
Start here.
On AD 2006 December 12 Tuesday 06:11:34 PM -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote:
I don't think it is communicating with my network card. Is there a way
I can test that?
I guess you would start searching documentation on modem.conf.
Justin
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On AD 2006 December 12 Tuesday 08:51:28 PM -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote:
After configuring zaptel.conf, you can load the drivers for the card.
modprobe is used to load modules for use by the Linux kernel. For
example, to load the wctdm driver, you would run:
zaptel.conf is for Digium branded
On AD 2006 November 07 Tuesday 12:59:03 AM +0100, Sergio Polini wrote:
Tim Garton:
Anyone know how to determine the kernel release of a non-running
kernel? Like 'uname -r' but point it at a kernel file?
$ strings kernel file | head -20
$ strings /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18 | grep 2\.6\.[0-9]\+
On AD 2006 October 30 Monday 12:11:08 AM -0300, Paulo Roberto Candido dos
Santos wrote:
jade: error while loading shared libraries: libosp.so.4: cannot
open shared object file: No such file or directory
I would start by remerging app-text/opensp and see if that fixes this
error.
Justin
On AD 2006 October 29 Sunday 08:25:58 PM -0700, Justin Findlay wrote:
On AD 2006 October 30 Monday 12:11:08 AM -0300, Paulo Roberto Candido dos
Santos wrote:
jade: error while loading shared libraries: libosp.so.4: cannot
open shared object file: No such file or directory
I would
On AD 2006 October 28 Saturday 11:40:13 AM +0200, Hans de Hartog wrote:
checking for C++ compiler default output file name... configure: error:
C++ compiler cannot create executables
or
gcc-config error: Could not run/locate gcc
...
[I--] [ -] sys-devel/gcc-4.1.1 (4.1)
[I--] [ ]
On AD 2006 October 26 Thursday 03:44:29 AM +0530, Vikas Kumar wrote:
# equery belongs file
equery comes with gentoolkit.
# emerge gentoolkit
You can alternatively try qfile from portage-utils.
# emerge portage-utils
$ qfile $(which file)
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On AD 2006 October 19 Thursday 12:17:17 PM -0700, Darren Kirby wrote:
I'm getting tired of quibbling over semantics and misunderstandings here,
aren't you Alexander ;)
heh
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On AD 2006 September 09 Saturday 11:06:21 PM +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
Hello!
In /etc/etc-update.conf, there's the using_editor= (with 0 and 1,
for false and true) setting.
What's that supposed to mean? What does it do? When should
it be set to 1 (true) and when to 0? What's an
On AD 2006 September 07 Thursday 11:11:46 PM -0400, Bill Six wrote:
Hi,
3 days ago I just switched back to Gentoo after not using it for
about 6 months.
However, I've been having issues emerging packages. Frequently,
the build will crap out and I'll get something like the
following. Any idea
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 11:15:34PM +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote:
On 17 August 2006 20:04, Stefan Wimmer wrote:
How do you always avoid my filter that stores emails coming from this list
into my folder gentoo-user. You are the only one.
Sounds like he's got some pretty wicked MUA kung fu.
Justin
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 10:48:04PM -0300, Bira wrote:
You can probably do the same thing with the ebuilds (i.e., emerge
--sync, burn the ebuild directories to a CD, copy to your machine),
but I don't know how healthy that is.
I would just grab a portage snapshot with all those distfiles.
On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 06:43:34PM +1000, Richard Watson wrote:
I used to have sound running with no problems but since I've updated my
kernel and re emerging Alsa I'm getting the following errors in dmesg.
Can anyone tell me what it means ... Thanks, Richard
Are you loading the right driver
On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 04:44:14PM -0600, Ian Kabeary wrote:
What is the name of the executable for the Java Control Panel?
I've seen it in the gnome menu somewhere under preferences or
administration or something like that (the gnome menu layout tends to
change sometimes). On my system it's
While doing some investigating I found over 4 files in
/var/tmp/ccache named tmp.hash.hostname.number and
tmp.stderr.hostname.number. These files seem to be cache files that
are for some reason not being stored in the cache index located at
/var/tmp/ccahce/[0-9a-e]/[0-9a-e]. It seems that
I'm trying to find out why ccache won't cache anything. Building and
maintaining for three months an entire system got me all of 5 cache
hits. What can I do to encourace more cache usage? One of the methods
I'm investigating is to determine and eliminate CFLAGS arguments that
may cause
On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 04:33:30PM -0500, Dale wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] / # ccache -s
cache hit 0
cache miss 0
files in cache 0
cache size 0 Kbytes
max cache size
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 google and I don´t find the reason why
gentoo hasn´t /etc/sysconfig folder .
/etc/sysconfig is a RedHat invention. That's where they keep
On 5/23/06, kashani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2.1_rc2-r1 dropped yesterday. Between an RC2 and your recommendation I
figure it was a bout time to start using it. Works well, I like the new
USE flag layout, and some of the other features.
Also try out some of the utilities in portage-utils.
When I try to build the 'modules' target with linux it doesn't create
the .ko files. It seems to get stuck at 'stage 2', whatever that
means, and I am at a loss finding out what exactly stage 2 is, from
looking at scripts/Makefile.modpost, and why it doesn't build.
This happens with either a
On 5/18/06, Ben Reubenstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Read the docs on Gentoo.org. Understand what Stage 2 is. If not ,
you might be better off with Unbuntu.
I'm sorry, Ben, that I haven't been more explicit. I'm not talking
about Gentoo's stage 2, I'm talking about stage 2 of the kernel's
On 5/18/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There are a lot more make -f scripts/ lines, and a lot more modules
on the modpost command, than what I included here.
I don't get anything with modpost after this:
Building modules, stage 2.
make -rR -f
On 5/18/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
make -rR -f /usr/src/linux-2.6.16-suspend2-r5/scripts/Makefile.modpost
scripts/mod/modpost -m -o
/usr/src/linux-2.6.16-suspend2-r5/Module.symvers vmlinux
arch/i386/kernel/cpuid.o arch/i386/kernel/microcode.o
arch/i386/kernel/msr.o
On 5/12/06, Bertram Scharpf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy =xfce4-4.3.90.1 have been masked.
!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request:
- xfce-base/xfce4-4.3.90.1 (masked by: package.mask)
## Daniel Ostrow [EMAIL
On 5/10/06, Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Konsole. Allows me to set a background. Nothing fancy, just a very light
yellow wich I find appropriate for my eyesight. Also allows to customize
text colors (directories, symlinks,etc). These two points are _really_
important--we're not talking
On 5/9/06, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 09 May 2006 19:33:51 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
E-Term is pretty and extensible and thememable too. I like the kde
terminal program also because of the tabs you can have on the bottom to
open multiple, discreet sessions. It really comes down to
On 5/9/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's something I'll never understand - why make the text on
a terminal harder to read, by using transparency?
It can be really annoying if you overdo it, and you have to find the
right balance of opacity and colors (since lots of terminal
On 5/8/06, Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Would someone know what the following two USE flags do? latin and aio
It seems latin1 relates to mysql and aio relates to slocate... But what do
they do?
There's a neat little utility called equery (from gentoolkit) that
will give you
On 5/8/06, Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The suggested equery wasn't much help, but grep-ing use.local.desc was a gold
mine. Thanks! I had already looked into use.desc and I stopped there and
posted my request for help. Why is it, that use.desc contains less
information about the use
On 5/6/06, wu chuanwen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi!
I know kde can use prelink to accelerate.
Can gnome do it?
If it can,how?I know in kde we should change the file 99kde-env in
/etc/env.d,but here i can't see any file relate gnome.
If you have prelink installed and the cron job runs
On 5/3/06, Christopher E [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Then I did the following command and it did about 10 emerges then it
stoped and said it could not resovle and it tryed it on all of the
selected mirrors
You can either wait for the gentoo mirrors to pick up your package or
you can look at the
On 5/3/06, Christopher E [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I now have just tryed emerge mozilla-firefox and get the same errors
as I did in the other mail I sent, I also tryed mirrorselect and it
said some thing about my internet connects but I am ON the internet
right now under linux (Gentoo-Gnome) so
On 5/2/06, Leopold Gouverneur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How can I prevent emerge from merging gentoo-sources (I now use sources
from ftp.kernel.org).I tried --unmerge whithout success.
Try 'equery depends gentoo-sources' to see which package(s) want gentoo-sources.
Jusitn
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On 4/26/06, Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Am Mittwoch, 26. April 2006 02:39 schrieb ext K. Mike Bradley:
I am used to Windows people and if I bottom post they wonder why there is
a reply with no message.
Try to explain it to them. http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html
On 4/25/06, K. Mike Bradley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wonder if anyone can explain why /usr was created?
It has a /bin and /sbin with similar binaries as the root equivalents.
I have read that it's called the secondary hierarchy and it's sharable and
meant to be read only (these days) ...
On 4/25/06, K. Mike Bradley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for the URL, but I had this question after reading this very
document.
It doesn't explain the history or the reason there are two /bin, /sbin.
/bin contains commands that may be used by both the system
administrator and by users, but
On 4/24/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So I did some hunting and somewhat successfully fixed it. However, it now
gives me this output which I think could become problematic in the future:
--- Invalid atom in /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask:
=dev-libs/libassuan-0.6.10 ~x86
On 4/22/06, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler...
yes
checking whether i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc accepts -g...
yes
checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc option to accept
ANSI C... none needed
checking for style of include used by make...
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