Re: [gentoo-user] Using a Digital Voice Recorder on Linux

2006-01-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 1 Jan 2006 21:03:26 -0600, Kris Kerwin wrote: I recently purchased an Olympus VN-480PC Digital Voice Recorder to record my college lectures to help with note-taking. It connects to the PC via a USB cord. Googling indicates that it won't work with Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] file dates on system totally bodged

2006-01-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 2 Jan 2006 10:57:00 +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote: Over a period of a week or so, while I was celebrating the holidays, my system experienced a hardware hiccough, causing system clock/hardware clock time to change to 2020. The upshot is that a bunch of merges, a kernel compile, and

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Portage 50-51% and emerge metadata timings

2006-01-02 Thread Peter
On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 19:00:17 -0800, Zac Medico wrote: Actually, portage-2.1 has seen an improvement in this area. In addition, I have written a patch that obsoletes the metadata transfer. That's right, no metadata transfer necessary. :)

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with USE options.

2006-01-02 Thread Dale
That's the way it's supposed to work, afaik. It does mean you have to buckle down and think about what you specifically want/need, but customization always requires that, whether it's because you're detailing your hotrod (I've clearly seen too much American Chopper, Pimp My Ride and Wheeler

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5 : Kicker other ebuilds fail

2006-01-02 Thread Philip Webb
060101 Philip Webb wrote: On Monday 02 January 2006 00:02, Philip Webb wrote: I started to install KDE 3.5 (split) -- still ~x86 -- got Kdelibs done, then went on to Kdebase-startkde, which pulls in 17 dependencies. Some of them went thro' ok, but then Kicker refused as below; I tried

[gentoo-user] resume a CVS download? (maybe OT)

2006-01-02 Thread Alan E. Davis
I have installed enlightenment and have a liking for it. So I am trying to install e17, which is a bit more of a chore, and, yes, I do know it's unstable. In fact, it involves a number of CVS archives. Since I am on a dialup line, it is extremely troubling to note that the archive, involving

Re: [gentoo-user] file dates on system totally bodged

2006-01-02 Thread Alan E. Davis
On 1/2/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Changing dates manually will confuse portage, which keeps track of the datestamps of all files it installs. The upshot is that it will no remove files where the dates have changed. The safest method of correcting the dates would be to

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5 : Kicker other ebuilds fail

2006-01-02 Thread Philip Webb
060102 Philip Webb wrote: On Monday 02 January 2006 00:02, Philip Webb wrote: I started to install KDE 3.5 (split) -- still ~x86 -- got Kdelibs done, then went on to Kdebase-startkde, which pulls in 17 dependencies. Some of them went thro' ok, but then Kicker refused as below; I tried

Re: [gentoo-user] need help with kmail

2006-01-02 Thread schroder
Some further information from mail.log: Jan 2 08:27:19 MRK postfix/qmgr[9685]: AFBB98384C: from=[EMAIL PROTECTED], size=276, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Jan 2 08:27:19 MRK postfix/qmgr[9685]: AD85383803: from=[EMAIL PROTECTED], size=701, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Jan 2 08:27:19 MRK

Re: [gentoo-user] need help with kmail

2006-01-02 Thread Joe Menola
On Sunday 01 January 2006 10:00 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kmail is broken after cleaning out old kde versions (3.1-3.4) starting it from a terminal shows the following when I attempt to send an email. Receiving email works properly. Try deleting and setting up smtp server. Check what server

Re: [gentoo-user] file dates on system totally bodged

2006-01-02 Thread Alan E. Davis
Thank you. I found out my cute genlop command doesn't work the way I had intended. However, I was able to appreciate and use your little one-liners. Fantastic. In particular, I generated a file with a hybrid of your sed command and my list-to-a-file idea, and edit the lines that didn't work as

Re: [gentoo-user] need help with kmail

2006-01-02 Thread schroder
On Monday 02 January 2006 08:57, a tiny voice compelled Joe Menola to write: On Sunday 01 January 2006 10:00 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kmail is broken after cleaning out old kde versions (3.1-3.4) starting it from a terminal shows the following when I attempt to send an email. Receiving

Re: [gentoo-user] need help with kmail

2006-01-02 Thread schroder
On Monday 02 January 2006 09:34, a tiny voice compelled Joe Menola to write: On Monday 02 January 2006 8:19 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 02 January 2006 08:57, a tiny voice compelled Joe Menola to write: On Sunday 01 January 2006 10:00 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kmail is

Re: [gentoo-user] need help with kmail

2006-01-02 Thread Joe Menola
On Monday 02 January 2006 8:19 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 02 January 2006 08:57, a tiny voice compelled Joe Menola to write: On Sunday 01 January 2006 10:00 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kmail is broken after cleaning out old kde versions (3.1-3.4) starting it from a terminal

Re: [gentoo-user] need help with kmail

2006-01-02 Thread Rumen Yotov
On (02/01/06 08:43), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some further information from mail.log: Jan 2 08:27:19 MRK postfix/qmgr[9685]: AFBB98384C: from=[EMAIL PROTECTED], size=276, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Jan 2 08:27:19 MRK postfix/qmgr[9685]: AD85383803: from=[EMAIL PROTECTED], size=701, nrcpt=1

[gentoo-user] Weird permission problem trying to start Dante SOCKS server

2006-01-02 Thread Jose Gonzalez Gomez
Hi there, I'm facing a weird problem that seems to be related somehow to some permission problem I can't identify. I'm trying to use the Dante SOCKS server, that has three different users you may specify at its configuration file. They should be the sockd user (id 101), but if I use it, I get the

GARTInit: WAS (Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - Need MythTV setup help (resend))

2006-01-02 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 17:47 -0800, Bob Sanders wrote: On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 16:57:32 -0600 Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The reason it was giving me the error was because mythbackend was shutting down. I ran mythbackend in a screen, detached the screen and ran

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5 : Kicker other ebuilds fail

2006-01-02 Thread Philip Webb
060102 Philip Webb wrote: On Monday 02 January 2006 00:02, Philip Webb wrote: I started to install KDE 3.5 (split) -- still ~x86 And a final word: I've finished installing the many parts of KDE 3.5 -- the ones I want : it took 3 h 57 m -- it seems to be working well after a couple of bits of

Re: GARTInit: WAS (Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - Need MythTV setup help (resend))

2006-01-02 Thread Rumen Yotov
Hi, On (02/01/06 11:21), Michael Sullivan wrote: On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 17:47 -0800, Bob Sanders wrote: On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 16:57:32 -0600 Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The reason it was giving me the error was because mythbackend was shutting down. I ran

[gentoo-user] What to backup?

2006-01-02 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
I'm using rsnapshot for backups and am very satisfied with it. However I'm uncertain just what to backup. Currently I'm backing up: /home/tony/ /etc/ /var/lib/mysql/ (for some databases) Is there anything else I should be backing up? I suspect there are some more things in /var that should

Re: GARTInit: WAS (Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - Need MythTV setup help (resend))

2006-01-02 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 20:17 +, Rumen Yotov wrote: Hi, On (02/01/06 11:21), Michael Sullivan wrote: On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 17:47 -0800, Bob Sanders wrote: On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 16:57:32 -0600 Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The reason it was giving me the

Re: [gentoo-user] What to backup?

2006-01-02 Thread Tom Martin
On Mon, 02 Jan 2006 12:17:59 -0600 Anthony E. Caudel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using rsnapshot for backups and am very satisfied with it. However I'm uncertain just what to backup. Currently I'm backing up: /home/tony/ /etc/ /var/lib/mysql/ (for some databases) Is there anything

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Portage 50-51% and emerge metadata timings

2006-01-02 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter wrote: | On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 19:00:17 -0800, Zac Medico wrote: | Actually, portage-2.1 has seen an improvement in this area. In addition, | I have written a patch that obsoletes the metadata transfer. That's | right, no metadata transfer

[gentoo-user] dev-php/mod_php-4.4.0-r9 failed.

2006-01-02 Thread El Nino
Dear friends, when i emerging mod_php4.4.0-r9, it says below phara st oped giving an error(see bottom of this mail). Unpacking source... * Due to some previous bloopers with PHP and slotting, you may have * multiple instances of mod_php installed. Please look at the autoclean * output at

Re: GARTInit: WAS (Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - Need MythTV setup help (resend))

2006-01-02 Thread Rumen Yotov
Hi, On (02/01/06 12:30), Michael Sullivan wrote: On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 20:17 +, Rumen Yotov wrote: Hi, On (02/01/06 11:21), Michael Sullivan wrote: On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 17:47 -0800, Bob Sanders wrote: On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 16:57:32 -0600 Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Using a Digital Voice Recorder on Linux

2006-01-02 Thread Kris Kerwin
Argh ... That's $65 down the drain. Usually, I don't have any problems getting devices to work on Linux. Perhaps I shouldn't assume that I'll get all devices to work and do some homework before buying a new device. Thanks for your help, Neil. Kris On Monday 02 January 2006 03:27, Neil

Re: GARTInit: WAS (Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - Need MythTV setup help (resend))

2006-01-02 Thread Ted Ozolins
Rumen Yotov wrote: How do I find out what the entry for my motherboard chips (-set I assume) is? Is there a software way to determine this? All I know is that it's SUPPOSED to be a Pentium IV, but it might not be... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Use lspci or lshw (emerge if

Re: GARTInit: WAS (Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - Need MythTV setup help (resend))

2006-01-02 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 11:12 -0800, Ted Ozolins wrote: Rumen Yotov wrote: How do I find out what the entry for my motherboard chips (-set I assume) is? Is there a software way to determine this? All I know is that it's SUPPOSED to be a Pentium IV, but it might not be... --

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Using a Digital Voice Recorder on Linux

2006-01-02 Thread Ted Ozolins
Kris Kerwin wrote: Argh ... That's $65 down the drain. Usually, I don't have any problems getting devices to work on Linux. Perhaps I shouldn't assume that I'll get all devices to work and do some homework before buying a new device. Thanks for your help, Neil. Kris On Monday 02 January

Re: GARTInit: WAS (Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - Need MythTV setup help (resend))

2006-01-02 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 21:01 +, Rumen Yotov wrote: Hi, On (02/01/06 12:30), Michael Sullivan wrote: On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 20:17 +, Rumen Yotov wrote: Hi, On (02/01/06 11:21), Michael Sullivan wrote: On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 17:47 -0800, Bob Sanders wrote: On Sun, 01 Jan 2006

Re: [gentoo-user] What to backup?

2006-01-02 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Tom Martin wrote: /var/lib/portage. You'll have your world file, in case you lose everything, so you'll be able to rebuild your system with the same packages. Good idea. Thanks! -- Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty

[gentoo-user] media-sound/sox-12.17.7-r1 won't compile

2006-01-02 Thread Mick
It's falling over itself quite early in the checking process: checking for sys/audioio.h... no checking sun/audioio.h usability... no checking sun/audioio.h presence... no checking for sun/audioio.h... no configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating Makefile

Re: GARTInit: WAS (Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - Need MythTV setup help (resend))

2006-01-02 Thread Rumen Yotov
Hi, On (02/01/06 13:21), Michael Sullivan wrote: On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 21:01 +, Rumen Yotov wrote: Hi, On (02/01/06 12:30), Michael Sullivan wrote: On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 20:17 +, Rumen Yotov wrote: Hi, On (02/01/06 11:21), Michael Sullivan wrote: On Sun, 2006-01-01 at

Re: GARTInit: WAS (Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - Need MythTV setup help (resend))

2006-01-02 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 21:55 +, Rumen Yotov wrote: Hi, On (02/01/06 13:21), Michael Sullivan wrote: On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 21:01 +, Rumen Yotov wrote: Hi, On (02/01/06 12:30), Michael Sullivan wrote: On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 20:17 +, Rumen Yotov wrote: Hi, On

[gentoo-user] Environment variables don't export from within scripts

2006-01-02 Thread Kris Kerwin
Hi all, I'm having difficulties exporting environment variables from within scripts. The problem doesn't seem to occur when exporting variables from the command line. To reiterate with an example, # export VARIABLE='test' # echo $VARIABLE works. However, # echo

Re: [gentoo-user] Environment variables don't export from within scripts

2006-01-02 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/2/06, Kris Kerwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm having difficulties exporting environment variables from within scripts. The problem doesn't seem to occur when exporting variables from the command line. To reiterate with an example, # export VARIABLE='test' #

Re: GARTInit: WAS (Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - Need MythTV setup help (resend))

2006-01-02 Thread Ted Ozolins
Michael Sullivan wrote: model : 4 model name : Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.66GHz I guess it isn't a Pentium IV... As you can see from the model, its a p4 -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Environment variables don't export from within scripts

2006-01-02 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Monday 02 January 2006 22:35, Kris Kerwin wrote: works. However, # echo export VARIABLE='test' test_script # chmod 754 test_script # ./test_script # echo $VARIABLE does not work. I've also tried the above while omitting the 'export' command, to the same

[gentoo-user] emerge --sync timeouts

2006-01-02 Thread Matthew Closson
Hello, When I have not sync'd in over a month or so and when I ran: emerge --sync It basically shows the motd of the remote rsync server and then times out. I have let it run for a bit and try multiple servers and it just keeps timing out after the motd regardless of which server it goes to...

Re: [gentoo-user] need help with kmail

2006-01-02 Thread schroder
On Monday 02 January 2006 11:53, a tiny voice compelled Rumen Yotov to write: Hi, Not very much help, but it seems you're using a postfix server to process to mail. Only out of desperation The server rejects the connections so they time-out. Why would the server reject connections? What

Re: [gentoo-user] Environment variables don't export from within scripts

2006-01-02 Thread Kris Kerwin
Thanks to all for helping. The source command did the trick, Alex.  # echo export VARIABLE='test' test_script # chmod 754 test_script # ./test_script # echo $VARIABLE Get's changed to: # echo export VARIABLE='test' test_script # chmod 754

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync timeouts

2006-01-02 Thread Bastiaan Visser
Maybe not a direct solution, but does a web-sync work ? On Tuesday 03 January 2006 00:09, Matthew Closson wrote: Hello, When I have not sync'd in over a month or so and when I ran: emerge --sync It basically shows the motd of the remote rsync server and then times out. I have let it run

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync timeouts

2006-01-02 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthew Closson wrote: | Hello, | | When I have not sync'd in over a month or so and when I ran: | | emerge --sync | It basically shows the motd of the remote rsync server and then times out. | I have let it run for a bit and try multiple servers

[gentoo-user] Re: [solved] emerge --sync timeouts

2006-01-02 Thread Matthew Closson
On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, Bastiaan Visser wrote: Maybe not a direct solution, but does a web-sync work ? On Tuesday 03 January 2006 00:09, Matthew Closson wrote: Hello, When I have not sync'd in over a month or so and when I ran: emerge --sync It basically shows the motd of the remote rsync

Re: [gentoo-user] need help with kmail

2006-01-02 Thread Joe Menola
On Monday 02 January 2006 4:22 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've looked at qmail, it seems postfix blocks it. I suppose I won't be any worse off without postfix. I'll read up on qmail and see if it will serve my purpose for the short term, but I REALLY want to get kmail working. I'm becomming

Re: [gentoo-user] Environment variables don't export from within scripts

2006-01-02 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 04:30:09PM -0600, Penguin Lover Kris Kerwin squawked: Thanks to all for helping. The source command did the trick, Alex. ?# echo export VARIABLE='test' test_script # chmod 754 test_script # ./test_script # echo $VARIABLE Get's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [solved] emerge --sync timeouts

2006-01-02 Thread Dale
Matthew Closson wrote: Actually, I did not try web-sync, I will and let you know, but doing some googling I came across the mirrorselect utility and did the following emerge mirrorselect mirrorselect -ri it presents options for your rsync mirror, I choose rsync.namerica.gentoo.org

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Dual-Opteron

2006-01-02 Thread Dale
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: As the owner of a dual-Opteron 275 system, I can say they they are very nice. An emerge -e world (700+ packages) only takes 24 hours, during which the system is totally usable (full-screen video + 5.1 audio does not stutter). No offense but my main

Re: [gentoo-user] file dates on system totally bodged

2006-01-02 Thread Alan E. Davis
I have been seeing a lot of these messages: * Some file in '/etc/{conf.d,init.d}' have Modification time in the future! I post here a list of those files, as I contemplate what to do about this: # ls -lrt /etc/conf.d shows the following with 2020 dates: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 318 Dec 30

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Dual-Opteron

2006-01-02 Thread Jerry McBride
On Monday 02 January 2006 20:08, Dale wrote: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: As the owner of a dual-Opteron 275 system, I can say they they are very nice. An emerge -e world (700+ packages) only takes 24 hours, during which the system is totally usable (full-screen video + 5.1 audio does not

Re: GARTInit: WAS (Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - Need MythTV setup help (resend))

2006-01-02 Thread Rumen Yotov
On (02/01/06 15:29), Michael Sullivan wrote: On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 21:55 +, Rumen Yotov wrote: Hi, On (02/01/06 13:21), Michael Sullivan wrote: On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 21:01 +, Rumen Yotov wrote: Hi, On (02/01/06 12:30), Michael Sullivan wrote: On Mon, 2006-01-02 at

Re: [gentoo-user] need help with kmail

2006-01-02 Thread Rumen Yotov
On (02/01/06 17:31), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ernie, are you doing anything special here? I'm running KDE and simply went into the accounts and set up my pop server (mail.bellsouth.net) and it works. Same for T-bird. BTW, look at Korn for a newsreader . From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[gentoo-user] emerge update question

2006-01-02 Thread C. Beamer
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

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge update question

2006-01-02 Thread Rumen Yotov
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 .  ...done!

[gentoo-user] [OT] Selecting left/Right audio channel in Mplayer/Xine/Totem etc

2006-01-02 Thread Ow Mun Heng
Hi All, I have some karaoke discs which I would like to play under linux. Is there any way to control the Left/Right and have it output as mono? Right now, my only solution is to use the Balance to either mute Left or mute Right on the speakers/mixer. Does anyone know? Searching google

[gentoo-user] k3b access rights

2006-01-02 Thread Michael Kintzios
. . or at least this is what I suspect being wrong: == IDE DVD-ROM x16 /dev/hdb 660 root.cdrom 666.root.cdrom PHILIPS DVD8421/dev/hda 660 root.cdrom 666 root.cdrom == == cdrdao 1.2.0 /usr/bin/cdrdao 4711

[gentoo-user] Why is dbus-0.60 conflicting with totem?

2006-01-02 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hi! I tried to update world and failed: Calculating world dependencies . . .^H^H ...done! [blocks B ] =sys-apps/dbus-0.60 (is blocking media-video/totem-1.2.0-r2) That is because of the following new line in totem-1.2.0-r2.ebuild: nsplugin? ( =net-libs/gecko-sdk-1.7

[gentoo-user] Accurate way of Detecting # of times a file is opened

2006-01-02 Thread Ow Mun Heng
Hi, I hope this isn't off-topic. I have a few files which I would like to share to some housemates, but I don't want these files to be opened by everyone at the same time. (limit stress on my PC etc) So, what I would like to do is some sort of library checkout mechanism. I'm hoping to be