Re: [gentoo-user] Calendar applications

2010-12-31 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 03:55:29AM +, Stroller wrote: On 30/12/2010, at 11:22pm, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: ... I'm looking for a lightweight calendar application that can do the following things: Event handling (preferrably also a support for recurring events) Notification

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Calendar applications

2010-12-31 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 11:06:51AM -0800, walt wrote: On 12/31/2010 08:35 AM, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 03:55:29AM +, Stroller wrote: On 30/12/2010, at 11:22pm, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: ... I'm looking for a lightweight calendar application that can do

[gentoo-user] Maya 2011 anyone

2010-11-09 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
Hey guys, I've been trying to install Maya 2011 for some time now. I get the rpms unpacked (http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112id=15770983linkID=9242259) with no major difficulties. The dynamic linking needed is in place (ebuild I'm writing to make life easier for

[gentoo-user] Portage (and other packages) downgrade?

2010-11-05 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
Hey guys, I'm having some strange behaviour from portage. Last week it downgraded chromium, which happens from time to time, so I didn't think too much about it. Today when updating portage seemed to want to downgrade itself from alpha3 to 2.1.9. As well as downgrading pidgin (this is without

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout -- openrc ?

2010-10-23 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 02:48:58AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 23:50 on Friday 22 October 2010, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem did opine thusly: It's openrc-${PV}+1 - there's no question about that. Until someone actually ponies up and commits something

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout -- openrc ?

2010-10-22 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 08:54:25PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 17:19:51 +0100, Stroller wrote: ... Openrc will be stabilised at some time, so you may as well do the upgrade when you feel like it rather that when the devs decide to flip a keyword. I thought

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout -- openrc ?

2010-10-22 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 10:59:18PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 22:37 on Friday 22 October 2010, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem did opine thusly: I understood the future of Openrc within Gentoo to be in question: http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc upgrade: Active gcc profile is invalid!

2010-10-19 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 07:45:58PM +0200, Jarry wrote: Hi, I just tried to upgrade gcc (stable amd64, from 4.4.3-r2 to 4.4.4-r2) following the procedure recommended in Gentoo GCC Upgrade Guide: emerge -uav gcc At the end of compilation, I got these strange messages:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xulrunner emerge problem

2010-09-21 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 05:49:48PM -0700, walt wrote: On 09/21/2010 11:28 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: waltw41...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/20/2010 04:17 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: I am finding that when I try to emerge xulrunner on the recent update I get the following:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 32/64bit confusion

2010-08-24 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 12:15:41AM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 08/24/2010 11:53 PM, tpar...@etherstorm.net wrote: I have a new (first) gentoo amd64 install, multilib, and have been searching the docs, forums and google for information on how to handle emerges for 32bit programs on

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Issue

2010-05-19 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 07:14:35AM -0400, CJoeB wrote: Hi, I had wireless working just fine back when I was using the 2.6.27-gentoo-r8 kernel. Since upgrading to the 2.6.30 series of kernels, I haven't been able to get it working. I was using the ipw3945 driver, but this driver needs TKIP

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo via Gentoo ?

2010-04-18 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 02:21:19PM +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, currently I am reading the Gentoo-Handbokk about installing a new Gentoo-System via boot-CD. If I have a running Gentoo-Sytem on my PC...would it be possible to install a new Gentoo-System on a fresh harddisk,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Installing Gentoo via Gentoo ?

2010-04-18 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 10:57:05PM +1000, Lie Ryan wrote: On 04/18/10 22:21, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, currently I am reading the Gentoo-Handbokk about installing a new Gentoo-System via boot-CD. If I have a running Gentoo-Sytem on my PC...would it be possible to install

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-driver for xorg-1.8.0 ?

2010-04-13 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 04:13:40PM +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, while ati-drivers-8.721 is working just fine with xorg-server-1.7.6 it is blocked by the recent xorg-server-1.8.0 . Is there a more recent version of the ati-drivers, already? Many thank for some info, Helmut. --

Re: [gentoo-user] ~amd64 - my experience so far...

2010-04-12 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 04:57:39AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: ...is not so good actually. Certainly not the way I'd want others to experience Gentoo. OK, the ~amd64 upgrade to @system was easy and relatively painless. The documents were fairly clear. There are things to learn, and old

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge update gcc downgrade

2010-04-06 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 12:40:02PM +0200, Kraus Philipp wrote: Hi, I run in a virtual machine a gentoo (~x86) system. I synced the portage tree at the weekend an run emerge --update The update runs without errors, but emerge installed the gcc 4.3.4, but on the system is the 4.4.3

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get a DVD to burn.

2010-04-02 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 03:27:39PM -0400, stosss wrote: Bad enough you mentioned HAL in a conversation with Dale.  Now there's XML involved.  This thread is officially never going to end. This list really lightens up a day. LOL -- If we can but prevent the government from wasting the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-24 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 09:16:12PM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: Alan McKinnon asks: And Dale himself holds the record for starting the longest email thread ever outside of UseNet. It started with ... wait for it ... Xorg and hal! It makes me just a little bit sad to see that the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-24 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 07:50:08PM -0400, Michael Edenfield wrote: On Wednesday 24 March 2010 15:41:57 Alan McKinnon wrote: It makes me just a little bit sad to see that the next version of Xorg (ebuild sitting in some testing proving ground somewhere) will not use hal at all. What will

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-23 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 12:21:06AM +0100, KH wrote: Am 22.03.2010 23:51, schrieb Mick: In Germany you are still free to sell the software to a third person who is insane enough to buy Windows ;-) But how can you sell it - I think that it is an OEM license which will only run in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-22 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 11:36:59PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 22 March 2010 21:21:26 KH wrote: Am 22.03.2010 20:17, schrieb Mick: TBH, I wouldn't pay money for it but as many OEM impose a MSWindows tax on all of us I had no other option if I wanted to buy this particular

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev error and how to fix it.

2010-03-17 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 01:17:58AM +, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday 16 March 2010 17:33:13 Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: usually always look to see if ... Sorry, but I'm having terrible trouble parsing this expression. -- Rgds Peter. Haha, no wonder. In the initial reply I

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about Seamonkey and a test.

2010-03-17 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 04:06:56AM -0500, Dale wrote: Hi, I just gave Seamonkey a fresh start. Now I have a question. I had the old set up so that when I opened Seamonkey, it would start both the browser and email. Now it only starts the browser. I remember it was in the preferences

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev error and how to fix it.

2010-03-17 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:28:16PM +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 08:56 +0100, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 01:17:58AM +, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday 16 March 2010 17:33:13 Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: usually always look to see

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev error and how to fix it.

2010-03-16 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:44:06PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:13:07 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: Have you tried Mutt (smile) ? Not if it uses HAL :) -- Neil Bothwick I don't know if I can assimilate one more Borg Tagline! Hells to the no. I use mutt. I can

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev error and how to fix it.

2010-03-16 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 01:19:31PM -0400, Willie Wong wrote: On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 04:37:28PM +0100, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:44:06PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:13:07 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: Have you tried Mutt (smile

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice for 64-bit n00b?

2010-03-03 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 06:44:27AM +, Graham Murray wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com writes: no, it is not safe to have a 64bit only system. Just choose the multilib profile and start installing. If something needs the 32bit emul libs, it will pull the stuff

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Pending layman directory relocation

2010-03-02 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 11:56:58AM -0500, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: On 03/01/10 18:09, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:07:07 -0500, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: Or you can edit /var/lib/layman/make.conf and change the locations there. That didn't work for me; the current layman script

Re: [gentoo-user] mail client for mbox format sought

2010-03-01 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 10:06:49AM +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, my setup here is a running Postix MTA which stores all incoming mail into a single file (per user) in mbox format (/var/spool/mail/$USER) I'm desparately looking for a mail client with a GUI which can handle that. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo down?

2010-03-01 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 05:30:40PM +0100, Daniel Wagener wrote: On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 07:34:30 -0800 Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Guess I'll have to wait for some nvidia installation instructions. Thanks! you may try the wiki though...

[gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.33 and Nouveau

2010-02-27 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
Hey guys Got then latest gentoo-sources last night, and thought I'd try with the nouveau drivers. And it went pretty well (until) I had to start X. I've attatched my xorg log. I have next to no idea what to do with the error. Thanks in advance :-) -- Zeerak Waseem X.Org X Server 1.7.5

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 2.6.33 and Nouveau

2010-02-27 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 10:39:19AM -0800, walt wrote: On 02/27/2010 09:22 AM, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: Hey guys Got then latest gentoo-sources last night, and thought I'd try with the nouveau drivers. And it went pretty well (until) I had to start X. I've attatched my xorg

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-02-24 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 03:38:09PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 02/24/2010 04:27 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I've been using KDE for a long time, for reasons that are no longer important to me. I have remained out of pure inertia. I use gnome happily at work, both on Fedora and Ubuntu.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: pdf viewing suggestions?

2010-02-24 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 06:06:46PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 02/24/2010 06:01 PM, daid kahl wrote: Hello all, Simple question: Can you please explain your pdf viewer of choice (and any configs or 'hacks' I should do)? I can't find anything I like. I've tried xpdf, epdfview,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-02-24 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 08:32:17PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 02/24/2010 08:12 PM, Mike Edenfield wrote: On 2/24/2010 11:59 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: How do you know what he needs? He probably wants KDE but without the whole Semantic Desktop thingy. Well, mostly based on

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage GUI interfaces...

2010-02-24 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 06:40:23PM -0800, BRM wrote: I am interested in finding a GUI interface for working with portage, preferably for KDE4. Namely b/c I am getting a little tired of having konsole windows open and not being able to keep track of where I am in the emerge update process -

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Graphical usenet client - alternative to Knode

2010-02-23 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 09:22:10PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 02/23/2010 07:42 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: [...] You got me with that one :) Just because I don't have this problem doesn't mean no else does either. You are permanently wired to the Internet? Don't you ever go out?

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3 and Kconvert

2010-02-22 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 12:11:53PM -0600, Dale wrote: chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: On Sunday 21 February 2010 18:53:00 Dale wrote: So, Seamonkey 1 isn't usable and Seamonkey 2 has a few bugs up its but too. KDE is about the same.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3 and Kconvert

2010-02-20 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 01:20:02PM -0600, Dale wrote: chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: Am Samstag, 20. Februar 2010 schrieb Dale: So, it wants to rebuild Kconvert but there is no such thing in portage. I have the kde-sunset layman up to date as

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3 and Kconvert

2010-02-20 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 05:43:11PM -0600, Dale wrote: chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 01:20:02PM -0600, Dale wrote: chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: Am Samstag, 20. Februar 2010

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with installation kde-meta, gnome

2010-02-19 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 02:16:41PM +0100, Andrzej Stycze?? wrote: On Thursday 18 of February 2010 15:11:16 Arttu V. wrote: I'm guessing you're stuck with one or more of the regular USE-flag related circular deps problems: cups, ldap, sasl, kerberos, rle and what are there (and apparently

Re: [gentoo-user] binary amd64 multilib build of gcc 4.3.4 wanted

2010-02-18 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 03:37:04PM +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: Can someone point me to a binary amd64 multilib build of gcc 4.3.4 (same as the amd64 install CD)? Or create one with quickpkg for me. I am finding it impossible to get gcc to build on a diskless system with an nfs root.