Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5

2009-05-15 Thread Tony Davison
On Tuesday 07 April 2009 12:25:07 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Tuesday 07 April 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: Is so OBVIOUSLY the correct way to go, and so OBVIOUSLY much easier. Right? I mean, what kind of twit do you have to be to not understand the hal files? /tongue_in_cheek

[gentoo-user] OT (a bit) finding overlay

2008-11-24 Thread Tony Davison
Does anyone know how to find the paludis-extras overlay. Playman -l does not show it.. -- BigTone

Re: [gentoo-user] OT (a bit) finding overlay

2008-11-24 Thread Tony Davison
On Monday 24 November 2008 15:30:46 Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 8:21 AM, Tony Davison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know how to find the paludis-extras overlay. Playman -l does not show it.. http://paludis-extras.org Thanks Worked it out now -- BigTone

Re: [gentoo-user] Is the mailing list working?

2008-07-01 Thread Tony Davison
On Tuesday 01 July 2008 04:57:21 Dale wrote: Hi, I emailed this list quite a while ago about not getting emails from the list or any other Gentoo list. I wrote the very VERY slow to respond ATT crew about unblocking the emails. This was on about May 16 or so. Well, a little while ago I

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge wine

2008-03-14 Thread Tony Davison
On Thursday 13 March 2008 23:13:04 Robert Stockdale IV wrote: On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 6:17 PM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:15:24 -0400, Robert Stockdale IV wrote: Well I got it compiling. However it seems to die with errors with the USE flag and FEATURES.

Re: [gentoo-user] Net / dhcp (miss)behaviour

2008-01-20 Thread Tony Davison
is not releasing the lease correctly, so the CM ignores request from the same MAC address for a new leasr, workround is to reboot the cm whem you reboot to gentoo. This works in the UK YMMV elsewhere. -- Tony Davison -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kdm 3.5.1, broken ebuild?

2006-02-06 Thread Tony Davison
On Monday 06 February 2006 22:47, Andrei Slavoiu wrote: --- Steven S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah-hah! Thank you for pointing that out. I had -fomit-frame-pointers, I'm surprised nothing died before kdm. That's strange, there shouldn't be any way that -fomit-frame-pointers could break

[gentoo-user] Portage

2006-01-29 Thread Tony Davison
Portage -2.1_pra4-r1 has a new dependency of dev-python/pycrypto-2.0.1, anyone know why? I only askbecausi it is new and nothing else (on this box) depends on it, so I wondered what it would break. -- Big Tone -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage

2006-01-29 Thread Tony Davison
On Sunday 29 January 2006 18:45, Rumen Yotov wrote: On (29/01/06 17:57), Tony Davison wrote: Portage -2.1_pra4-r1 has a new dependency of dev-python/pycrypto-2.0.1, anyone know why? I only askbecausi it is new and nothing else (on this box) depends on it, so I wondered what it would break

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-22 Thread Tony Davison
On Sunday 22 January 2006 20:05, Uwe Thiem wrote: On 22 January 2006 19:35, Abhay Kedia wrote: The will probably be dropping aRts in KDE 4 Make that certainly. Arts is dead. Where are we having the wake. I'll chip in for a few beers, I'd like to make sure its properly buried. -- Big Tone

Re: [gentoo-user] A New Linux Way

2006-01-10 Thread Tony Davison
On Tuesday 10 January 2006 12:36, Jorge Almeida wrote: On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why only those words united, universal, unified sound strange to me? Having too much time in my hands, I visited the site. Couldn't find any juice. Could it be that the thing doesn't exist?

Re: [gentoo-user] A New Linux Way

2006-01-10 Thread Tony Davison
On Tuesday 10 January 2006 19:17, Dale wrote: I'm impressed with search skills Jorge. I couldn't even find the site. This help? http://saviourlinux.com/ I hate to say this, but something is fishy here. Cheers Dale. It does seem weird. -- Big Tone -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] A New Linux Way

2006-01-10 Thread Tony Davison
On Tuesday 10 January 2006 19:26, Robin wrote: NO kidding... I have to say just by the way the website is worded it sounds like a scam... You want to know what is even funnier is that this spam message has generated a boat load of responses :) EM and all that. -- Big Tone --

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox -- too weird!

2006-01-07 Thread Tony Davison
On Saturday 07 January 2006 18:54, Abhay Kedia wrote: On Sunday 08 January 2006 00:05, maxim wexler wrote: I did this twice, so it's no mere fluke. I rushed over to Yahoo to post this and the window's still OK. So, thankfully it's not permanent ;) Anybody care to hazard a guess as to

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Merry Christmas!

2005-12-24 Thread Tony Davison
On Saturday 24 December 2005 13:51, Dale wrote: Ernie Schroder wrote: On Saturday 24 December 2005 07:48, a tiny voice compelled Holly Bostick to write: It's really kinda nice that /everybody/ has a holiday around now, regardless of religion or culture. It would be nicer if we all

Re: [gentoo-user] udevstart at boot?

2005-12-18 Thread Tony Davison
On Sunday 18 December 2005 15:30, Ernie Schroder wrote: On Sunday 18 December 2005 10:13, a tiny voice compelled Ernie Schroder to write: On Sunday 18 December 2005 08:35, a tiny voice compelled Ernie Schroder to write: On Sunday 18 December 2005 00:42, a tiny voice compelled Richard

Re: [gentoo-user] K3b and CD copy

2005-12-08 Thread Tony Davison
On Thursday 08 December 2005 21:13, Dale wrote: Right now, I am trying to install KDE 3.5 and it is making a mess.  K3b won't open anymore so I may have to wait until it finishes I guess.  It borked on hal so I am trying to fix it right now.  New kernel it says. That means I have to reboot.  

Re: [gentoo-user] Let's make a map of Gentoo users

2005-12-07 Thread Tony Davison
On Tuesday 06 December 2005 20:46, Billy Holmes wrote: pclouds wrote: We've got a map of Gentoo users here: http://www.frappr.com/gentoo cool :) I see there are two representing Florida. (go FL!) For me in the UK I get Invalid City please try again. -- Big Tone --

Re: [gentoo-user] Let's make a map of Gentoo users

2005-12-07 Thread Tony Davison
On Wednesday 07 December 2005 08:57, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 7 Dec 2005 08:24:56 +, Tony Davison wrote: I see there are two representing Florida. (go FL!) For me in the UK I get Invalid City please try again. Which browser are you using? I got this with Konqueror

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge -P kde-3.4.3

2005-12-05 Thread Tony Davison
On Monday 05 December 2005 00:01, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 4 Dec 2005 23:45:13 +, Tony Davison wrote: A couple of days ago someone posted a magic incantation to prune kde-3.4.3 from its slot. This one? qpkg -I -nc -g kde-base | xargs emerge -P Thats the one. Thanks Neil. I

[gentoo-user] Emerge -P kde-3.4.3

2005-12-04 Thread Tony Davison
A couple of days ago someone posted a magic incantation to prune kde-3.4.3 from its slot. I can't find it again not even in my own mailboxes. I may have imagined it, if not point me to it please. -- Big Tone -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Hal emerge/install problem.

2005-10-08 Thread Tony Davison
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage PORT_ENOTICE_DIR=/var/tmp/portage/enotice Any bright ideas guys and gals. -- Tony Davison [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [Completely and totally OT] FVWM-Crystal...!!!

2005-09-29 Thread Tony Davison
On Wednesday 28 September 2005 23:44, Holly Bostick wrote: Tony Davison schreef: On Wednesday 28 September 2005 20:33, Holly Bostick wrote: I'm sitting here with my jaw on the floor. much snippage This is a gigantic leap from the previous versions I've used, and I think I've just

Re: [gentoo-user] Update portage cache ... horribly slow

2005-09-28 Thread Tony Davison
...? Its under tips and tricks portage. Just found it myself. HTH PS Hows the cold? -- Tony Davison [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [Completely and totally OT] FVWM-Crystal...!!!

2005-09-28 Thread Tony Davison
it but when it aint broke it resolutely refuses to have anything to do with any wm apart fron kwin or KDEWM. Stumped, on my last cig and this wheelchair has no lights. -- Tony Davison [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird problem with emerge sync

2005-09-10 Thread Tony Davison
in The Nederlands today can't be of much help I'm afraid. -- Tony Davison [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems

2005-08-30 Thread Tony Davison
bootsplash and pretty pictures on tty1-6. the initrd is the same in both cases, not in the kernel. Wonderful are the ways of splash. Tony Davison [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] [OT]Deafenig Silence

2005-08-25 Thread Tony Davison
Everone gone home, or have my mail filters finally eaten the world? -- Tony Davison [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]Deafenig Silence

2005-08-25 Thread Tony Davison
On Thursday 25 August 2005 16:21, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 15:21:20 +0100, Tony Davison wrote: Everone gone home, or have my mail filters finally eaten the world? We're all at the party, enjoying the free beer and pizza. Weren't you invited? ;-) That'll be in the same post

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]Deafenig Silence

2005-08-25 Thread Tony Davison
On Thursday 25 August 2005 16:22, Mark Knecht wrote: Appears to be the latter. I'm getting messages from the list, although it is a bit slower jsut recently. - Mark On 8/25/05, Tony Davison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Everone gone home, or have my mail filters finally eaten the world? A'll

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge output

2005-08-25 Thread Tony Davison
that I use but I';m b*d if I can remember where I got it from, perhaps the above URL. Just had a look in /usr/sbin/enotice its python script by a guy called Eldad Zack [EMAIL PROTECTED] HTH -- Tony Davison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Its late, I'm tired and out of ciggies, bed time. -- gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] trying to install faad2-2.0-r7 on my amd64 system

2005-08-22 Thread Tony Davison
On Monday 22 August 2005 05:02, Marianne Taylor wrote: Tony Davison wrote: snip How can I get around this? As root Echo media-libs/faad2 ~am64 /etc/portage/package.keywords emerge faad2 This will (should) pick up the latest testing ebuild from portage. assuming you have synced recently

Re: [gentoo-user] Permission problem, emerge jpeg-mmx-0.1.6-r1 as root

2005-08-21 Thread Tony Davison
Where is the new ebuild then, I thought bugs weren't fixed until the new ebuild was in the tree? i think we need some QA around this ebuild, it seems to be always badly written. -- Tony Davison [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] trying to install faad2-2.0-r7 on my amd64 system

2005-08-21 Thread Tony Davison
-libs/faad2-2.0-r7) (try adding an '=') exceptions How can I get around this? As root Echo media-libs/faad2 ~am64 /etc/portage/package.keywords emerge faad2 This will (should) pick up the latest testing ebuild from portage. assuming you have synced recently. HTH -- Tony Davison [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot freeze

2005-08-19 Thread Tony Davison
On Thursday 18 August 2005 22:52, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: On Thursday 18 August 2005 02:47 am, Tony Davison wrote: On Wednesday 17 August 2005 23:28, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: On Wednesday 17 August 2005 06:43 pm, Renat Golubchyk wrote: Hi! On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 16:10:51 -0400

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot freeze

2005-08-18 Thread Tony Davison
if not properly configured. -- Tony Davison [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge kde-3.4.2 failed.

2005-08-02 Thread Tony Davison
On Sunday 31 July 2005 23:15, Tony Davison wrote: On Sunday 31 July 2005 22:59, Zac Medico wrote: MAKE_OPTS=-j1 -s CFLAGS =-02 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe CXXFLAGS= ${CFLAGS} CHOST =i686-pc-linux-gnu Any ideas guys? It's supposed to be MAKEOPTS, not MAKE_OPTS

[gentoo-user] Emerge kde-3.4.2 failed.

2005-07-31 Thread Tony Davison
-march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe CXXFLAGS= ${CFLAGS} CHOST =i686-pc-linux-gnu Any ideas guys? -- Tony Davison [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge kde-3.4.2 failed.

2005-07-31 Thread Tony Davison
take that out. I'll try that. Don't remember adding it anyway. The make_opts is a typo :-) then I had to less make.conf anyway to check the cflags. Cheers. -- Tony Davison [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash problems

2005-07-19 Thread Tony Davison
line wraps. -- Tony Davison [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub config

2005-07-09 Thread Tony Davison
argument should I add to the kernel line so that Gentoo starts with a splash screen and the kernel shells support my 1024/768 display. All the best Try :- http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_fbsplash#What_is_gensplash.3F HTH -- Tony Davison [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: revdep-rebuild and -bin packages (was Re: [gentoo-user] Disk usage?)

2005-06-18 Thread Tony Davison
On Friday 17 June 2005 23:25, Zac Medico wrote: Tony Davison wrote: I just thought I would let you know what I've done to resolve this problem. I have emerged gentoolkit-0.2.1_pre3 and made an entry in my make.conf of SEARCH_DIRS_MASK=/opt. I then ran revdep-rebuild and all ran without any

Re: revdep-rebuild and -bin packages (was Re: [gentoo-user] Disk usage?)

2005-06-17 Thread Tony Davison
as in OOo 1.9 whatever and the same for the mozilla family. Using gentoolkit-0.2.1_pre3 revdep-rebuild doesn't complain at all -- Tony Davison [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: revdep-rebuild and -bin packages (was Re: [gentoo-user] Disk usage?)

2005-06-17 Thread Tony Davison
On Friday 17 June 2005 20:25, Zac Medico wrote: Tony Davison wrote: On Friday 17 June 2005 10:58, Paul wrote: On Thursday 16 Jun 2005 19:45, Zac Medico wrote: snip revdep-rebuild is irrelevant to ooo-bin, and others, because you cannot rebuild a binary package. All it does is reinstall

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] CDRW media source

2005-06-09 Thread Tony Davison
bookmarked. Some of us do live here. -- Tony Davison [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] DVD burning with nfs+

2005-05-16 Thread Tony Davison
password/username locked, so I don't know if that has any magic in it. All (legal and decent) ideas considered. -- Tony Davison [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD burning with nfs+

2005-05-16 Thread Tony Davison
On Monday 16 May 2005 15:14, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, May 16, 2005 2:31 pm, Tony Davison said: Does anyone know of a way of burning a dvd with nfs+ file system. I have volunteered ( stupidly) to copy a mac dvd which appears to be nfs+ formated. mkisofs can create HFS imafes. If K3b