Re: [gentoo-user] Dual booting Dell with Windows 7

2010-02-17 Thread Nick Cunningham
On 15 February 2010 23:45, Mick wrote: > On Saturday 13 February 2010 17:13:51 Willie Wong wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 03:09:35PM +, Mick wrote: > > > I bought a Dell XPS laptop which seems to have 3 primary partitions. > The > > > third partition is where Windows 7 resides, while the

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to install www-misc/rekonq-9999 (kde-testing) because of git error

2009-05-25 Thread Nick Cunningham
Its been a while since ive used paludis, but do you have the folder permissions set correctly? Normally paludis will (or it used to anyway) complain loudly when the permissions werent set correctly. If they are set correctly what happens when you try to pull the git repo manually? - Nick 2009/5/

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey and random crashes.

2009-05-25 Thread Nick Cunningham
How much RAM do you have? With all those windows and tabs open im guessing your running out of RAM which may be causing the crashes, do you have a swap file? If so, how big is it and have you tried increasing its size? A big swap file may help, although dont expect your system to be responsive :)

Re: [gentoo-user] How to fake USE flag change

2009-05-25 Thread Nick Cunningham
Please, if your going to set the LINGUAS value dont use package.use :) If you have to then use make.conf, although the best solution is to set it in /etc/env.d, a quick search of the forums will give you some good examples if your not sure. - Nick 2009/5/25 Joachim Bartosik > Set linguas for th

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2: Emerge of ksysguard and ksmserver failed

2009-01-28 Thread Nick Cunningham
2009/1/28 Tomas Linhart > Hello all, > > I've decided to try out KDE 4.2. I unmasked all the packages that I > needed, but when I was emerging kde-base/ksysguard I got the following > error: > > Linking CXX shared library ../../lib/libkdeinit4_ksysguard.so > [ 98%] Built target kdeinit_ksysguard

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync kde-base/

2009-01-27 Thread Nick Cunningham
2009/1/28 AllenJB > Norberto Bensa wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I'm wondering. Is it posible to emerge --sync part of the tree. For >> example, I want to only sync kde-base/ and kde-misc/? >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Norberto >> >> No, there isn't. You wouldn't want to try either - there will be rel

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet radio?

2009-01-27 Thread Nick Cunningham
2009/1/27 Mark Knecht > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Paul Hartman > > wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Mark Knecht > wrote: > >> My dad is interested in some sort of an Internet Radio app for his > >> Gnome desktop. He was thinking of buying a Slingbox but has backed off > >> the

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync kde-base/

2009-01-27 Thread Nick Cunningham
2009/1/28 Norberto Bensa > Hello, > > I'm wondering. Is it posible to emerge --sync part of the tree. For > example, I want to only sync kde-base/ and kde-misc/? > > Thanks in advance, > Norberto > > Have a look in make.conf.example, i believe there are some options to filter the tree, there may

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo mail server

2009-01-27 Thread Nick Cunningham
2009/1/27 Tom Brown > Hey guys, > > I've been using gentoo on my desktop for several months now. I works > great. It cut five minutes off my build time when I build our product > tree. It went from 20 to 15 minutes. > > I setup our email server using Debian. Its been solid as a rock and very > lo

Re: [gentoo-user] Crossover Office and Word 2007

2009-01-26 Thread Nick Cunningham
2009/1/26 Paul Hartman > > On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Peter Ruskin > wrote: > > On Monday 26 January 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> Other than Office 2007 is there any software out there that can > >> *write* .docx? > >> > >> Work requires me to use this format sometimes

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange local connection requests from my laptop

2009-01-25 Thread Nick Cunningham
2009/1/25 Grant > My network's firewall is rejecting a bunch of attempts by my laptop to > reach 192.168.x.x systems which don't exist. The requests are from > and to very high port numbers. This must have to do with the p2p > software I'm running (transmission), but I thought it was pretty > c

Re: [gentoo-user] Any good instructions for creating a Live CD?

2009-01-23 Thread Nick Cunningham
2009/1/23 Mark Knecht > On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Eric Martin wrote: > > Mark Knecht wrote: > >> Hi all, > >>From a thread on another list (pro-audio/music oriented) we're > >> thinking about creating our own Live CD. I'd like this at least > >> initially to be based on Gentoo. Are th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No /dev entries in recent stage3 snapshots?

2009-01-21 Thread Nick Cunningham
2009/1/21 Grant Edwards > On 2009-01-21, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, den 21.01.2009, 04:04 + schrieb ext Grant Edwards: > > > >> I'm a little confused. Is there supposed to be an additional > >> installation step to populate the /dev directory when using > >> recent stage3 snapsho

Re: [gentoo-user] resolving blocks from sets

2009-01-21 Thread Nick Cunningham
2009/1/21 Norberto Bensa > On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 3:05 AM, Norberto Bensa wrote: > > > BTW, do you know where's qt-copy in portage/layman? I've added > > qting-edge and kde-crazy, but neither have it. > > I guess it is @qt-all-live-kde in qting-edge, isn't it? > > I believe theres a qt-copy in

Re: [gentoo-user] Anxiousness? [was:Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?]

2009-01-20 Thread Nick Cunningham
2009/1/20 Paul Hartman > > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 2:36 PM, b.n. wrote: > > Mark Knecht ha scritto: > > > >>The one thing I would respectfully suggest is that you carefully > >> build your own portage overlay. My experience with Gentoo over the > >> last few years is that there is a _anxious

Re: [gentoo-user] netscape-flash only works once

2009-01-20 Thread Nick Cunningham
2009/1/20 Grant > >> Flash used to work perfectly, but now it only works once between > >> netscape-flash emerges. When I emerge netscape-flash, open firefox, > >> and visit youtube.com, it works. But if I then close firefox, re-open > >> it, and visit youtube.com, flash doesn't work. If I re-

Re: [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?

2009-01-20 Thread Nick Cunningham
2009/1/20 Alejandro > > > 2009/1/20 Volker Armin Hemmann > >> On Dienstag 20 Januar 2009, Grant Edwards wrote: >> > I'm in the process of installing Gentoo on a rather old >> > machine. It's an old HP Pavilion with a 450MHz Celeron >> > Mendocino and 256MB of PC133 SDRAM. I'm using an nVidia PC

Re: [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?

2009-01-20 Thread Nick Cunningham
2009/1/20 Paul Hartman > > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > > I'm in the process of installing Gentoo on a rather old > > machine. It's an old HP Pavilion with a 450MHz Celeron > > Mendocino and 256MB of PC133 SDRAM. I'm using an nVidia PCI > > FX6200 video board instead

Re: [gentoo-user] how to start thunderbird/firefox in a different language?

2009-01-20 Thread Nick Cunningham
2009/1/20 > Hello. I have > > zhangwe...@esmeralda:~$ grep --invert-match ^# /etc/locale.gen > > zh_CN.UTF-8 UTF-8 > en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 > de_DE.UTF-8 UTF-8 > > > For most applications, I can start it in any language I wish to use. > e.g. if I want to start abiword in en_US, I can do this: > > zhan

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout and openrc issues from inside a vserver

2009-01-19 Thread Nick Cunningham
2009/1/19 kashani > Peter Alfredsen wrote: > >> On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:28:05 -0800 >> kashani wrote: >> >> I've been putting off the openrc upgrade on my vserver >>> account for some time and think it's finally come around to bite me. >>> >> >> Our vserver team had this to say about it o

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout and openrc issues from inside a vserver

2009-01-19 Thread Nick Cunningham
2009/1/19 kashani >I've been putting off the openrc upgrade on my vserver account for > some time and think it's finally come around to bite me. > > Here's the info. > > I don't run the host OS only the vserver. The latest changes to profiles > depreciated my old profile last night so I u

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer plugin

2009-01-14 Thread Nick Cunningham
2009/1/14 Michael P. Soulier > On 13/01/09 Paul Hartman said: > > > After getting fed up with emerge/compile issues with mplayerplug-in i > > switched to net-www/gecko-mediaplayer and it seems to work okay. > > Hmm. I would but > > msoul...@anton:~$ emerge --pretend net-www/gecko-mediaplayer > >

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer plugin

2009-01-13 Thread Nick Cunningham
2009/1/14 Michael P. Soulier > So, I noticed this on an emerge > > !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been > pulled > !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict: > > www-client/mozilla-firefox:0 > > ('ebuild', '/', 'www-client/mozilla-firefox-2.0.0.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge question: What's with the @?

2009-01-13 Thread Nick Cunningham
2009/1/13 Paul Hartman > > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Chris Lieb wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Nick Cunningham wrote: > >> > >> > >> 2009/1/13 Chris Lieb mailto:chris.l...@gmail.com > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge question: What's with the @?

2009-01-13 Thread Nick Cunningham
2009/1/13 Chris Lieb > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Nick Cunningham wrote: > > > > > > 2009/1/13 Chris Lieb mailto:chris.l...@gmail.com > >> > > > > I've noticed lately on the ML that people have been talkin

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge question: What's with the @?

2009-01-13 Thread Nick Cunningham
2009/1/13 Chris Lieb > I've noticed lately on the ML that people have been talking about using > package sets, such as @world and @installed. I figured it was a part of > portage 2.1.6* since using @world with 2.1.4* would result in an error > message about an invalid package atom. However, aft

Re: [gentoo-user] Restricting Firefox website access

2009-01-09 Thread Nick Cunningham
2009/1/9 Kyle Bader > > Does portage use wget over http by default? Can I change a setting to > > make it use ftp? > > Use a ftp:// mirror ? > > (correct me if I'm wrong) > > -Kyle > > While that would work for the basic gentoo mirrors, there are a number of packages that point to sites like sou

Re: [gentoo-user] init script freezes when xdm (kdm) starts

2009-01-05 Thread Nick Cunningham
> > > rc_parallel="NO" (I have tried once, but gave up) and it is really X, I use > "verbose" framebuffer images > > Gonna check that openrc, though. > > But, while re-emerging sysvinit: > > " > * WARNING: You have older net.* files in /etc/init.d/ > * They need to be converted to symlinks to net

Re: [gentoo-user] init script freezes when xdm (kdm) starts

2009-01-05 Thread Nick Cunningham
> Sorry to answer a question with another one, but how do I know to which > group the services should be added? > > That really might be the solution of my problem. And, yes, it is really X . > > This is the output from rc-uptate -s : >acpid | default >alsasound |

Re: [gentoo-user] init script freezes when xdm (kdm) starts

2009-01-05 Thread Nick Cunningham
2009/1/6 Francisco Ares > Hi, guys > > I've been seeing this for several months now, and I couldn't fix it. It is > easy to workaround, so I didn't want to bother the list before. > > But when it's enough, it's enough. > > While booting, I can see the init scripts progress up to the time xdm (kd