Re: [gentoo-user] Clean up world file

2006-07-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 00:35:18 -0500, Anthony E. Caudel wrote: > Thanks Neil. I think I'll use this along with the recommendations of > dep. With 119 packages in the world file, I'll have to be VERY brutal. That depends on what you're using. If you use the KDE split builds without the meta packag

Re: [gentoo-user] Clean up world file

2006-07-10 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Neil Bothwick wrote: > ... I have 338 on my desktop and 256 on my laptop, which makes me think I > should start pruning ... > Gulp! Maybe mine isn't so bloated after all. ;-) Tony -- Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor

Re: [gentoo-user] vlc wants mozilla - but I don't

2006-07-10 Thread Daniel Drake
Richard Fish wrote: You can also file a bug that the nsplugin dependancy should be satisfied by mozilla-firefox-bin as well. I'm not sure that mozilla-firefox-bin is actually sufficient to configure vlc with --enable-mozilla=firefox, but that should be easy enough to determine. I doubt it. moz

[gentoo-user] DMA for /dev/cdrom ?

2006-07-10 Thread Andreas Burghardt
Hello everyone, I really like to use DMA for my cdrom/burner but I cant figure out how to make it working! I have a hdc: HL-DT-ST DVD-RW GWA-4082N, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache DMA is working fine for my disk

[gentoo-user] Re: DMA for /dev/cdrom ?

2006-07-10 Thread Anno v. Heimburg
Hi Andreas! > I really like to use DMA for my cdrom/burner but I cant figure out how to > make it working! > tapa ~ # hdparm -d1 /dev/cdrom > /dev/cdrom: > setting using_dma to 1 (on) > HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted > using_dma= 0 (off) Two hints, perhaps they help - "hdparm

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DMA for /dev/cdrom ?

2006-07-10 Thread Andreas Burghardt
On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 12:38:47PM +0200, Anno v. Heimburg wrote: > Hi Andreas! > > > I really like to use DMA for my cdrom/burner but I cant figure out how to > > make it working! > > > tapa ~ # hdparm -d1 /dev/cdrom > > /dev/cdrom: > > setting using_dma to 1 (on) > > HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Opera

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DMA for /dev/cdrom ?

2006-07-10 Thread Mick
On Monday 10 July 2006 12:10, Andreas Burghardt wrote: > *udma2 Well, the above shows that you have udma2 activated on your device. -- Regards, Mick pgp7ohAnVj89p.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DMA for /dev/cdrom ?

2006-07-10 Thread Andreas Burghardt
On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 12:26:08PM +0100, Mick wrote: > On Monday 10 July 2006 12:10, Andreas Burghardt wrote: > > *udma2 I'm very sorry, but you all see that I'm quite new to Linux ... If UDMA2 is activated for the drive why is the data trasfer slow and tapa ~ # hdparm -d1 /dev/hdc /dev/hdc: s

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Apache Autoindex applications

2006-07-10 Thread Daniel Iliev
Ow Mun Heng wrote: > Yes that's true, but, I don't really want to go into implementing an > LDAP server/service right now. > Besides that, I'm looking at using the autoindex script for web-based > file storage. It doesn't support LDAP. (AFAIK) The sql-way seems more complicated to me. I suspect

Re: [gentoo-user] Clean up world file

2006-07-10 Thread Daniel Iliev
Anthony E. Caudel wrote: >> > Gulp! Maybe mine isn't so bloated after all. ;-) > > Tony > : ...or perhaps you don't have as many packages installed as Mr. Neil Bothwick has. After cleaning I get: === #wc /var/lib/portage/world 280 281 5415 /var/lib/portage/world === -- Best regards, Dan

Re: [gentoo-user] modular X, nvidia, and unresolved symbols

2006-07-10 Thread John Blinka
Heitor wrote: > Hello, > > I dont know if it helps you butn I had the following problem. > > With the stable nvidia driver i got these "unresolved messages" and I > couldn't load the module when I emerge the testing driver. I saw on > the list that there was a > "x11-drivers/nvidia-legacy-drivers"

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DMA for /dev/cdrom ?

2006-07-10 Thread Stefán István
hétfő 10 július 2006 13.40 dátummal Andreas Burghardt ezt írta: > On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 12:26:08PM +0100, Mick wrote: > > On Monday 10 July 2006 12:10, Andreas Burghardt wrote: > > > *udma2 > > I'm very sorry, but you all see that I'm quite new to Linux ... > If UDMA2 is activated for the drive

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DMA for /dev/cdrom ?

2006-07-10 Thread Andreas Burghardt
On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 02:10:10PM +0200, Stef?n Istv?n wrote: > h?tf? 10 j?lius 2006 13.40 d?tummal Andreas Burghardt ezt ?rta: > > On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 12:26:08PM +0100, Mick wrote: > > > On Monday 10 July 2006 12:10, Andreas Burghardt wrote: > > > > *udma2 > > > > I'm very sorry, but you all

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DMA for /dev/cdrom ?

2006-07-10 Thread Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
On Monday, 10 July 2006 22:12, Andreas Burghardt wrote: > On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 02:10:10PM +0200, Stef?n Istv?n wrote: > > h?tf? 10 j?lius 2006 13.40 d?tummal Andreas Burghardt ezt ?rta: > > > On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 12:26:08PM +0100, Mick wrote: > > > > On Monday 10 July 2006 12:10, Andreas Burg

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DMA for /dev/cdrom ?

2006-07-10 Thread Mick
On Monday 10 July 2006 13:42, Andreas Burghardt wrote: > > What kind of chipset does your motherboard use? > > You can check it with the lspci command. Maybe you have to load a kernel > > module for that chipset... I suggest that instead of compiling the chipset kernel driver as a module, you bu

Re: [gentoo-user] amd64-hardened breaks upon glibc emerge

2006-07-10 Thread Roman Zilka
> > library, but after the upgrade of glibc it shows up in /usr/lib. The > > only solution I could make up was to move everything from /usr/lib > > to /usr/lib64, symlink /usr/lib -> /usr/lib64 and then start emerging > > Actually seems like bug #133547, in which case it seems like you did > the r

[gentoo-user] Re: java 1.4 & eclipse

2006-07-10 Thread James
Richard Fish asmallpond.org> writes: > According to the instructions.html in the source zip > "eclipse-sourceBuild-srcIncluded-3.2.zip", you must have *both* a 1.4 > and 1.5 jdk installed to build eclipse. So apparently it is not > possible to build or use eclipse 3.2 with only a 1.5 jdk. Ah

[gentoo-user] What does "perl" USE flag do?

2006-07-10 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hi! After a sync today, I ran "emerge -Duvat world" and see for example: [nomerge ] dev-perl/DBD-mysql-3.0004 USE="-minimal perl%" [nomerge ] dev-perl/DBI-1.51 USE="-minimal perl%" [nomerge ] dev-perl/PlRPC-0.2018 USE="-minimal perl%" [nomerge ]dev-perl/Net-Daemon-0.

Re: [gentoo-user] What does "perl" USE flag do?

2006-07-10 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 16:38:39 +0200 Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The "perl" USE flag is new. What does it do? I just replied on the german ML to this question, but since it was re-asked here: The perl USE flag pulls in dev-lang/perl as a dependency. It is now a default USE fl

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing access to my laptop

2006-07-10 Thread Grant
> My girlfriend's laptop's internal wireless card doesn't seem to > compatible with WPA and I don't want to use WEP on my Gentoo router. > This leaves me with the options of either getting her to buy a new > wireless card or sharing my laptop. She has a user account on my > laptop and I use gdm s

[gentoo-user] managing yahoo group issue

2006-07-10 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, This is weird. When I tried to edit my yahoo group account at groups.yahoo.com no groups were listed under my account name. And when I did a search for "gentoo-user" in the search field it didn't show up in the results. Ditto for "ubuntu-users", another group I subscribe to. Most of t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DMA for /dev/cdrom ?

2006-07-10 Thread Andreas Burghardt
On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 10:26:04PM +0930, Raymond Lewis Rebbeck wrote: > On Monday, 10 July 2006 22:12, Andreas Burghardt wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 02:10:10PM +0200, Stef?n Istv?n wrote: > > > h?tf? 10 j?lius 2006 13.40 d?tummal Andreas Burghardt ezt ?rta: > > > > On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 1

Re: [gentoo-user] managing yahoo group issue

2006-07-10 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 08:56:52AM -0700, Penguin Lover maxim wexler squawked: > This is weird. When I tried to edit my yahoo group > account at groups.yahoo.com no groups were listed > under my account name. And when I did a search for > "gentoo-user" in the search field it didn't show up in > the

Re: [gentoo-user] Clean up world file

2006-07-10 Thread Rumen Yotov
Daniel Iliev wrote: > Anthony E. Caudel wrote: >> Gulp! Maybe mine isn't so bloated after all. ;-) >> >> Tony >> > : > ...or perhaps you don't have as many packages installed as Mr. Neil > Bothwick has. > > After cleaning I get: > === > #wc /var/lib/portage/world > 280 281 5415 /var/lib/por

[gentoo-user] nv vs nvidia (xorg-7*)

2006-07-10 Thread James
Sorry for revisiting a confusing subject, but after ready many of the recent postings on nvidia and xorg-7* I have a few questions. Yes I have read: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-howto.xml and it looks fine and reasonable, in fact the I'm at the revdep-rebuild on my first

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror & Open Office : font problems

2006-07-10 Thread Philip Webb
060709 Richard Fish wrote: > On 7/9/06, Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> (1) Konqueror 3.5.3 (3.5.1 3.5.2) displays news sites with an ugly font >> despite 'Standard font = New Century Schoolbook, min/med size 11'; >> there is no problem with Firefox: see >> http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror & Open Office : font problems

2006-07-10 Thread Randall Barlow
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Philip Webb wrote: > do you know of a beginners' guide to style sheets anywhere ? W3Schools has good tutorials for this: http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with

[gentoo-user] Keyboard Layout

2006-07-10 Thread Cláudio Henrique
hi, there, I've beem having problems setting my kbd layout. I added a line in xorg.conf telling it to use "us_intl" as my kbd layout, but it seems to be ignoring it. as a consequence, I have to execute "setxkbmap us_intl" every time I enter Gnome. I also tried adding it to ~/.xinitrc . how can I a

Re: [gentoo-user] nv vs nvidia (xorg-7*)

2006-07-10 Thread Farhan Ahmed
James wrote: > (...) > My first card: > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX > 400] > (rev b2) > > Legacy or current? It's not clear to me which category this or any other > nvidia cards fall into. Is there a table I can look up to see which > nvidia cards be

Re: [gentoo-user] nv vs nvidia (xorg-7*)

2006-07-10 Thread Jason Weisberger
James,NV is an open source driver supporting all NVidia cards, but does not support hardware acceleration.  There are numerous and very annoying bugs reported with this driver.  NVIDIA is a proprietary driver which supports 2D and 3D hardware acceleration through the GF2 series of cards.  This is y

[gentoo-user] SOMEWHAT OFF TOPIC -- Palm Tungsten E, and Google Calendar

2006-07-10 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
Hi Folks: I am looking to be able to sync my palm tungsten E to my google calendar, and I am wondering if it would be possible to use evolution or other linux program to accomplish this -- I know it's a bit off topic for the list, so feel free to contact me off list if you want. Could sure use so

[gentoo-user] xsane not recognizing hp 7130

2006-07-10 Thread Allan Gottlieb
xsane is no longer recognizing my officejet 7130. I have emerged sane-backends and hplip. This used to work (well) and I didn't deliberately disable anything. Thanks in advance for any help; some system information is below. allan ajglap gottlieb # eix sane * games-arcade/insaneodyssey Av

Re: [gentoo-user] SOMEWHAT OFF TOPIC -- Palm Tungsten E, and Google Calendar

2006-07-10 Thread Michael Crute
On 7/10/06, Timothy A. Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am looking to be able to sync my palm tungsten E to my google calendar, and I am wondering if it would be possible to use evolution or other linux program to accomplish this -- I know it's a bit off topic for the list, so feel free to con

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror & Open Office : font problems

2006-07-10 Thread Philip Webb
060710 Randall Barlow wrote: > Philip Webb wrote: >> do you know of a beginners' guide to style sheets anywhere ? > W3Schools has good tutorials for this: > http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp Thanks: I've bookmarked it & will investigate later. Any advice from anyone re the immediate problem

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror & Open Office : font problems

2006-07-10 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/10/06, Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It makes no difference when I select that: any further suggestions ? Perhaps I need to change the "system font" somewhere ? The 'system' font in this case should match the Menu font selected in the KDE Control Center. IIRC this started only

Re: [gentoo-user] xsane not recognizing hp 7130

2006-07-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 14:09:24 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > xsane is no longer recognizing my officejet 7130. ~What does "scanimage -L" show, run as root and as a normal user? -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 5: Twelve-ounce pound cake signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] lost deadkeys layout

2006-07-10 Thread Luigi Pinna
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Okay. Just in case, what say 'grep "^(EE)" /var/log/Xorg.0.log' > and 'grep "^(WW)" /var/log/Xorg.0.log'. And better not snip things > that may seem irrelevant. # grep "^(EE)" /var/log/Xorg.0.log (EE) Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pr

Re: [gentoo-user] xsane not recognizing hp 7130

2006-07-10 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Mon, 10 Jul 2006 20:31:08 +0100 Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 14:09:24 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > >> xsane is no longer recognizing my officejet 7130. > > ~What does "scanimage -L" show, run as root and as a normal user? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ scanimage -L

Re: [gentoo-user] Keyboard Layout

2006-07-10 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Cláudio Henrique wrote: > I've beem having problems setting my kbd layout. I added a line > in xorg.conf telling it to use "us_intl" as my kbd layout, but it > seems to be ignoring it. > as a consequence, I have to execute "setxkbmap us_intl" every > time I enter Gnome. I also tried adding it to ~/

Re: [gentoo-user] xsane not recognizing hp 7130

2006-07-10 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/10/06, Allan Gottlieb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: xsane is no longer recognizing my officejet 7130. Hmm, is an etc-update pending? Bus 002 Device 003: ID 03f0:2611 Hewlett-Packard Did you merge hplip with USE=scanner? (emerge -pv hplip) Does /etc/sane.d/dll.conf contain the line "hpai

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror & Open Office : font problems

2006-07-10 Thread Philip Webb
060710 Richard Fish wrote: > On 7/10/06, Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> It makes no difference when I select that: any further suggestions ? >> Perhaps I need to change the "system font" somewhere ? > The 'system' font in this case should match the Menu font > selected in the KDE Control

Re: [gentoo-user] lost deadkeys layout

2006-07-10 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Luigi Pinna wrote: > /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/de So you had a "de" map, and in the right place. So that wasn't the problem. > > # ln -snf ../../share/X11/xkb /usr/lib/X11/xkb > > ? It's a command, to be executed as root (that's what the "#" means), it links the old place of keyboard maps to

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror & Open Office : font problems

2006-07-10 Thread Philip Webb
060710 Richard Fish wrote: > The 'system' font in this case should match the Menu font > selected in the KDE Control Center. The problem seems to be that OO doesn't know re 'Fixed GNU' & makes a clumsy substitution: when I set the KDE menu font to Helvetica, the OO menu font returns to what it use

[gentoo-user] plugger.so access rights

2006-07-10 Thread Mick
Hi All, Following an emerge of Opera 9.0 the access rights of plugger.so changed (or was corrupted)for some reason and it is no longer accessible: === # ls -la /opt/opera/lib/opera/plugins/ total 256 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root192 Jul 7 10:45 . drwxr-xr-x 4 roo

Re: [gentoo-user] xsane not recognizing hp 7130

2006-07-10 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:41:14 -0700 Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/10/06, Allan Gottlieb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> xsane is no longer recognizing my officejet 7130. > > Hmm, is an etc-update pending? No. >> Bus 002 Device 003: ID 03f0:2611 Hewlett-Packard > > Did you merge hpl

[gentoo-user] Windows show through the OpenGL screensaver when Transluency is activated

2006-07-10 Thread Gian Domeni Calgeer
Hi list Whenever I have transluency and shadows activated in the KDE control center and an OpenGL screensaver is running, I can see the windows whose content is changing (such as the watch in the systray or an xterm in which I'm emerge'ing something) although the screensaver running. Those wind

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror & Open Office : font problems

2006-07-10 Thread Philip Webb
060710 Philip Webb wrote: > 060709 Richard Fish wrote: >> On 7/9/06, Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Konqueror 3.5.3 (3.5.1 3.5.2) displays news sites with an ugly font >>> despite 'Standard font = New Century Schoolbook, min/med size 11'; >> Konqueror is honoring document-specified font

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: iptables wiki

2006-07-10 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 20:59:09 -0500, Dale wrote: > > >>> Have you tried kmyfirewall ? >>> > > >> I didn't know it existed actually. It would be so nice if there was >> somewhere we could go to find out about all this stuff. There is no >> telling how many progra

[gentoo-user] Re: video problem

2006-07-10 Thread Strake
recompiled, installed new driver, opened many images, tabs, etc in firefox, x running fine so far; however, this problem can manifest at the strangest of times, so if it recurs, i'll post it here -- Registered Linux User #392061 counter.li.org "its not fair to have a battle of wits with

[gentoo-user] Re: nv vs nvidia (xorg-7*)

2006-07-10 Thread James
Farhan Ahmed gmail.com> writes: > http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_18897.html > It contains all the models supported by the latest nvidia drivers. Yes this did the4 trick. Thanks, James > $ echo "x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers ~x86" > /etc/portage/package.keywords Yep, this did

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-10 Thread Dale
Richard Fish wrote: > On 7/7/06, Daniel Iliev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Well, correct me if I'm wrong but it think it's not quite true. >> >> I *think* if you have buildpkg in your FEATURES, you will >> get binary packages in your $PKGDIR with the new, updated versions. > > But previous version

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: java 1.4 & eclipse

2006-07-10 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/10/06, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ah, that brings up a follow up question. If many of the ebuild packages have built in documentation, then is there a tool/package/web_interface that allow the document perusal without individual(admin) interaction? Well the general rule is that packa

Re: [gentoo-user] Any guess to why amarok visualizations fail to function?

2006-07-10 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/9/06, Kenton Groombridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I posted this a couple weeks ago with no answer. I am still unable to determine what is going on. Anytime I select a visualization from Tools->Visualizations menu, I get the following output and the visualization output window closes. W

[gentoo-user] qtruby: smoke or something else?

2006-07-10 Thread Norberto Bensa
Hello list, I cannot build qtruby-3.5.3. Before you tell me: yes, I have tried re-emerging smoke and qt but nothing changed. This is where the build fails: make[3]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/qtruby-3.5.3/work/qtruby-3.5.3/qtruby/bin' i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.

[gentoo-user] fujistu s2110 amd64 problem

2006-07-10 Thread Shaochun Wang
Yesterday evening, I installed gentoo on a new fujistu s2100 laptop. It's an amd64 one. I have a wierd problem: the network speed is very slow and it comes up and dow frequently. So transfering files in my home netword is very time consuming. Specially, the connection speed is about 50 kps or so

Re: [gentoo-user] d

2006-07-10 Thread Roy Wright
James wrote: Ah, that brings up a follow up question. If many of the ebuild packages have built in documentation, then is there a tool/package/web_interface that allow the document perusal without individual(admin) interaction? For example, man pages are auto loaded and ready with 'man ' so I'd b

Re: [gentoo-user] unified document viewing

2006-07-10 Thread Roy Wright
Roy Wright wrote: James wrote: Ah, that brings up a follow up question. If many of the ebuild packages have built in documentation, then is there a tool/package/web_interface that allow the document perusal without individual(admin) interaction? For example, man pages are auto loaded and ready w