Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Users and errors

2005-03-30 Thread Holly Bostick
Dave V wrote: *sigh* I guess I just have to get over the fact that such a simple oversight has marked me a typical windows user, but seeing as how no one wants to leave my name out of this, I might as well try to respond constructively. As has been said, some people, like myself, are just a littl

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Users and errors

2005-03-30 Thread Holly Bostick
Dave Nebinger wrote: We can't make Linux "better" and "ready for the desktop"-- which does *not* mean we have to do everything via a GUI, dagnabit; people can certainly use the command-line comfortably *if they know how*-- unless we identify where people are falling over it and how to remove the ob

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Users and errors (was: help "line 6: B: command not found" FIXED, user error in config file...)

2005-03-30 Thread Holly Bostick
Nicolas Bailey wrote: I think you are being a little unfair in your judgement. Thinking to look in /etc/init.d, etc. relies on at least some knowledge that not every Gentoo user will have (esp. the newer variety). The same is true in the case above. Either you didn't know or didn't immediately t

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge kde-base/arts doesn't see qt

2005-03-29 Thread Holly Bostick
Luigi Pinna wrote: Alle 20:27, martedà 29 marzo 2005, FrÃdÃric Grosshans ha scritto: 2. What is arts good for ? Shouldn't I avoid it altogether with a -arts USE flag ? Without KDE, nothing; yes. Putting -arts in your /etc/make.conf should solve the immediate issue of libao dragging it in as a depe

[gentoo-user] [OT] Users and errors (was: help "line 6: B: command not found" FIXED, user error in config file...)

2005-03-29 Thread Holly Bostick
Dave V wrote: > You got me looking in the right places at least. Turned out that the offending file was in /etc/conf.d. I somehow managed to insert a random B character on line 6 of /etc/conf.d/hdparm. Thanks for the help all. > > On (2005-03-28 12:54), A. Khattri wrote: >>On Mon, 28 Mar 2005, Da

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] fix your client, please

2005-03-28 Thread Holly Bostick
Graham Murray wrote: Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I think the problem is "reply all". Even your message was "To: @robin.gentoo.org", with "Reply-to: @gentoo.org", so if I had hit reply-all in thunderbird instead of reply, two copies would have gone out. My guess is mail clients are doi

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo sources

2005-03-28 Thread Holly Bostick
Digby Tarvin wrote: Hello Holly, Thanks for the advice. I must say I prefer the original Unix approach of putting all the sources under /usr/src, with the kernel going into /usr/src/sys. One of the reasons I like to have the unpacked sources for everything on my disk is that the with open source th

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] fix your client, please (was:Where could i found the standard of SQL)

2005-03-28 Thread Holly Bostick
Nick Rout wrote: Whatever the answer is, it will be the same no matter how many times you repeat the email! In other words, could those of you who still have their mail clients set to To: gentoo-user@gentoo.org CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] please adjust your clients to just mail to the list? The robin bu

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo sources

2005-03-28 Thread Holly Bostick
Digby Tarvin wrote: However after going through the install process, the only sources which I can find in an expected place are the kernel sources. So the question is, how to I go about making sure that the sources that my system is built from reside on my disk, and how do I find them? They do resi

Re: [gentoo-user] "sys-kernel/linux-headers (is blocking sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r2)"

2005-03-28 Thread Holly Bostick
Robert Persson wrote: I imagine that if I tried to install the modular kde ebuilds, as opposed to emerging monolithic kde, I might be able to work round this problem, but I would have to unmerge kde before I started wouldn't I? That would put me at risk of being without a desktop manager for qu

Re: [gentoo-user] Display managers

2005-03-07 Thread Holly Bostick
James Hiscock wrote: just look at the gdm configuration, nothing to do with skins. The GDM theme you choose has to support it, though. Otherwise, even if you've set the "Show user images" thingy, they won't show up. There's only two or three themes that handle this in the gdm-themes ebuild, IIRC. A

Re: [gentoo-user] help finding files

2005-03-05 Thread Holly Bostick
maxim wexler wrote: Hello everyone, emerge -av requires the following: net-libs/wvstreams-3.70-r2 178 kb net-dialup/wvdial-1.53-r1 66 kb media-sound/mpg123-0.59s-r6 245 kb googling uncovers the files(supposedly) but the links lead to something quite different. Are there viable alternatives? I'm usi

Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird crashes when sending signed or encrypted mails

2005-03-04 Thread Holly Bostick
ZeeGeek wrote: Holly Bostick wrote: ZeeGeek wrote: Thunderbird crashes when I try to send a signed or encrypted mail, the error I get is "/usr/bin/thunderbird: line 392: 12794 Segmentation fault $mozbin "$@"", other things are alright. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] encrypted email

2005-03-04 Thread Holly Bostick
Nick Smith wrote: also does it work with webmail aka squirrelmail? Not a clue. It might, but I have no idea how it's handled (i.e., how any given webmail client or server allows for the insertion of both the public key of the sender, and the private key of the receiver). Besides which, a lot of

Re: [gentoo-user] encrypted email

2005-03-04 Thread Holly Bostick
Nick Smith wrote: Nick Smith wrote: is there a way to send encrypted email? so that if the person on the revieving end of the email doesnt have the key they cant view the email? This question has to go on my "oh, for Pete's sake" list, because if you haven't noticed how many people on this very l

Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird crashes when sending signed or encrypted mails

2005-03-04 Thread Holly Bostick
ZeeGeek wrote: Thunderbird crashes when I try to send a signed or encrypted mail, the error I get is "/usr/bin/thunderbird: line 392: 12794 Segmentation fault $mozbin "$@"", other things are alright. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list My first guess would be that Enigmail/Enigmime are not

Re: [gentoo-user] encrypted email

2005-03-04 Thread Holly Bostick
Nick Smith wrote: is there a way to send encrypted email? so that if the person on the revieving end of the email doesnt have the key they cant view the email? This question has to go on my "oh, for Pete's sake" list, because if you haven't noticed how many people on this very list sign (a lesser

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing with wireless net

2005-03-04 Thread Holly Bostick
Frank Schafer wrote: Hi, I still have a Linux box with RedHead 7 at home. I plan to reinstall Gentoo on this machine too. The machine is connected to the net via my wireless home network. The NIC is an Edimax wireless card for which no Linux driver is available. Actually I'm running the WinXP drive

Re: [gentoo-user] 6 gigs to clean up

2005-03-03 Thread Holly Bostick
George Roberts wrote: Firstly let me thank everbody for their responses. By "snapshot" (please excuse me, I am a noobie), do you mean have the system regenerate a "snapshot" of where the system is today. So that if I were to a "merge --newuse world", only the active packages in use as of today

Re: [gentoo-user] 6 gigs to clean up

2005-03-03 Thread Holly Bostick
George Roberts wrote: I am wondering is there any places where Portage stashes files that it has downloaded /usr/portage/distfiles. This can always be safely deleted, although doing so will mean that you will have to re-download the source files if you ever need to reinstall any of the programs

Re: [gentoo-user] System has UTC, where I want EST

2005-03-03 Thread Holly Bostick
Michael Haan wrote: Well, you're all gonna laugh - or not. One of my earlier posts holds the key, though I found it by trying to md5sum my timezone file. From before: [EMAIL PROTECTED] haanm $ ls -l /etc/localtime lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Feb 26 17:34 /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneifo/EST5ED

Re: [gentoo-user] grub-install failure

2005-03-03 Thread Holly Bostick
maxim wexler wrote: Hello everybody, I have a typical dual-boot system: /dev/hda contains WinXP, /dev/hdb, gentoo. I had to swap out my linux drive with another (NTFS) drive. Since nothing would boot(grub error 17) I used a Win98 CD to get to a prompt and entered fdisk /mbr, thinking to reboot linu

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox USE flags

2005-03-03 Thread Holly Bostick
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I just emerged Firefox 1.0.1, and noticed a bunch of USE flags I don't recognize. How do I find out what they do? less /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc, search, read ;-) . How would I change them if they're not in /etc/make.conf? Add them to /etc/portage/package.use HTH

Re: [gentoo-user] Can not install kdm

2005-03-03 Thread Holly Bostick
Mike Melanson wrote: Hmm, I do have it in /usr/kde/3.3/bin/kdm . Now how do I make it work automatically at startup? I know for installing xdm, it was "rc-update add xdm default". Substituting 'kdm' for 'xdm' did not do the trick. Perhaps you should read the previous replies (or the Handbook): J

Re: [gentoo-user] linux-2.6.11 is out

2005-03-02 Thread Holly Bostick
Marko Kocic wrote: On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 15:54:34 +, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 10:38:18 -0500, Mike Turcotte wrote: I am fairly new to Gentoo and portage. How long are you expecting it to take before the new kernel is 'emergable'? development-sources-2.6.11, the v

Re: [gentoo-user] libtool and gcc version

2005-03-01 Thread Holly Bostick
Rasmus Andersen wrote: Hi, When emerging certain packages (imagemagick, imlib2 so far), I get an error because .la files from an old, non-existing version of gcc is being used. Example from a failed emerge of imagemagick: /bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.4/libstdc++.la:

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox's startup file

2005-03-01 Thread Holly Bostick
Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: Hello all, Just updated my firefox to 1.0.1; before that my startup file was ~/.firefox, and after the update it uses ~/.mozilla, which was my 0.8 or 0.9 startup file. Anyone knows where to specify that (no firefox in /etc) tia Actually, it should be using ~/.mozilla

Re: [gentoo-user] all wine apps in another language!

2005-03-01 Thread Holly Bostick
Iain Buchanan wrote: I thought as a wild stab in the dark, (even though it was empty) I would copy /usr/share/fonts/TTF/Vera.ttf to .wine/fake_windows/Windows/Fonts/ and guess what? Now all my apps start in english!! although I don't really know what strange wine font search order was causing the

Re: [gentoo-user] Dependencies are broken

2005-02-27 Thread Holly Bostick
Hamie wrote: OK. Frustrated debian user here... Maybe I should go back... Anyway... What am I doing wrong? I THOUGHT that one of the things that portage would do for me is to make sure dependencies are taken care of... Yet this seems to be worse than the rpm hell I used to experience with redhat

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome Log Out Problem

2005-02-27 Thread Holly Bostick
Captain FantastiK wrote: Hi Its happens sometimes when I wanted to Log out from Gnome Session..and after choosing Log Out from Gnome menu, then nothing happened, the logging out occurs only after about 2 minutes, Does somebody has the same problem ? What can be the cause of this problem? Thank

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing duplicated packages.

2005-02-26 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 16:53:16 -0500 (EST), A. Khattri wrote: I have AUTOCLEAN switched on in /etc/make.conf but I still see dupes with qpkg even though I can't prune them (since they've been removed during the autoclean anyway). So why are they still listed? They probably haven'

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge php...

2005-02-25 Thread Holly Bostick
John Dangler wrote: Francesco~ Thanks for the reply. Actually, looking through the information in php -i, I find that --without-gd is there. I emerged gd, and recompiled php, but it stayed the same. do I need to unemerge php and then emerge it again? or is there something else I'm not getting...

Re: [gentoo-user] /proc/mounts /etc/fstab conflict?

2005-02-24 Thread Holly Bostick
maxim wexler wrote: Hello everyone, I have a fat32 partition on another drive /dev/hda5 which is listed in /etc/fstab like this: /dev/hda5 /home/blissfix/fat vfat auto,user o o But as user I have no access, only as root. This is normal. The 'user' or 'users' option only allows users to mount the

Re: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken

2005-02-23 Thread Holly Bostick
Karsten Baumgarten wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Holly Bostick wrote: | Andrea Barisani wrote: | |> and probably leaving the old setup is the best choice since I have no |> time to |> discuss this and tell people how to configure their MUA. |> | | Anybody have

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A perfect example

2005-02-23 Thread Holly Bostick
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Wednesday 23 February 2005 01:25 pm, "Dave Nebinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Andrea, I'm sorry if you felt flogged by folks wanting the old modus operandi in place; you were right in the first place to have fixed the 'reply to'. Although I've just sent a similar

Re: A perfect example - was RE: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken-- OT question stimulated by this thread

2005-02-23 Thread Holly Bostick
Dave Nebinger wrote: This is a perfect example of why the 'reply to' thing was originally broken, recently fixed, and today reset back to the broken state. One person posts an OT message that is quite easily resolved by doing a simple google search. But since the 'reply to' is broken again, we get

Re: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken-- OT question stimulated by this thread

2005-02-23 Thread Holly Bostick
Holly Bostick wrote: Dennis Taylor wrote: Do we have an acronym list so that those of us who have been out of circulation for a few years could find out what things like MUA mean? Many of them I can guess, and some I remember from years ago, but I have recently seen many that leave me clueless

Re: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken-- OT question stimulated by this thread

2005-02-23 Thread Holly Bostick
Dennis Taylor wrote: Do we have an acronym list so that those of us who have been out of circulation for a few years could find out what things like MUA mean? Many of them I can guess, and some I remember from years ago, but I have recently seen many that leave me clueless. Mail User Agent. If

Re: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken

2005-02-23 Thread Holly Bostick
Andrea Barisani wrote: and probably leaving the old setup is the best choice since I have no time to discuss this and tell people how to configure their MUA. Anybody have the time and knowledge to write something for the docs page about basic MUA configuration for the most common MUAs in use on Ge

Re: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken

2005-02-23 Thread Holly Bostick
Arnstein Oseland wrote: Andrea Barisani wrote: On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 02:41:40PM +0100, Andreas Vinsander wrote: Hi! Seems like the Reply-To: header for this list no longer point to the list... is that an intentional change? I would appreciate having the old behaviour instead. /Andreas -- gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken

2005-02-23 Thread Holly Bostick
Andrea Barisani wrote: On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 02:41:40PM +0100, Andreas Vinsander wrote: Hi! Seems like the Reply-To: header for this list no longer point to the list... is that an intentional change? I would appreciate having the old behaviour instead. /Andreas -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: continuing the soap opera... was: System is too big

2005-02-23 Thread Holly Bostick
Eric S. Johansson wrote: W.Kenworthy wrote: LVM the gentoo way works fine: I highly recommend for any system needing multiple partitions http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/lvm2.xml I would agree and this is a good document to follow. But unfortunately, it does not cover the udev case. following the in

Re: [gentoo-user] System is too big

2005-02-22 Thread Holly Bostick
Eric S. Johansson wrote: Holly Bostick wrote: and I have no idea what documentation you are reading that says you need an initrd[/disclaimer], http://webpages.charter.net/decibelshelp/LinuxHelp_UDEVPrimer.html http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml have been the main documents I've

Re: [gentoo-user] ERROR: media-gfx/imagemagick-6.1.8.8 failed.

2005-02-22 Thread Holly Bostick
Mats Lidell wrote: Hi, Got this compile error with recent "emerge -u world" causing an update of imagemagick-6.1.8.8. -- /bin/sh ./libtool --silent --tag=CC --mode=link i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -O3 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-point

Re: [gentoo-user] System is too big

2005-02-22 Thread Holly Bostick
Eric S. Johansson wrote: Holly Bostick wrote: I've never used genkernel, and I had lvm2 and udev working perfectly well together-- do you have the root partition on LVM or something (I didn't)? no. Even so, that's related to initrd generation, which is not the exclusive provin

Re: [gentoo-user] System is too big

2005-02-22 Thread Holly Bostick
Eric S. Johansson wrote: > unfortunately, it seems that the only way to get lvm2 and udev to work at the same time is with genkernel. personally, I would love to find an alternative but my query on how to has only had one "answer" which is to give up. ---eric I've never used genkernel, a

Re: [gentoo-user] robin.gentoo.org

2005-02-22 Thread Holly Bostick
Johan Viklund wrote: This is so true, I did not even know there was a problem, as my filter is set so that if [gentoo-user] is in the subject then its goes to the gentoo folder. This will also fail at some time, because this header is not under the exclusive control of the list server. If someone s

Re: [gentoo-user] robin.gentoo.org

2005-02-21 Thread Holly Bostick
Manuel McLure wrote: It's becoming pretty obvious that although you are very smart people, you wouldn't last a day in a customer support environment. Now, that's pretty funny... because I have worked in various customer support environments for quite some time, and one of the reasons that it pa

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list address - who's robin?

2005-02-21 Thread Holly Bostick
Andrew Gaffney wrote: A. Khattri wrote: On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: Not necessarily... obviously there's nothing one can do about gmail, but I just did a test on Thunderbird, which does not "natively" give you the List-Id header as a choice in the message filters fie

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list address - who's robin?

2005-02-21 Thread Holly Bostick
Trey Gruel wrote: There should be a LIST ID header you can filter on which might help. unfortunately, not everyone can filter on headers like that. gmails filters are restricted to to, from, subject, and message content (i've got an enhancement request in to expand it). lots of gui mail clients a

Re: [gentoo-user] libtool .la problems after gcc upgrade 3.3.4 to 3.3.5

2005-02-21 Thread Holly Bostick
Klaus Wagner wrote: Hi, during "emerge -uD world" gcc-3.3.5 was emerged and it works fine. But another emerge failed because of a dependency in a libtool ".la" file. Several ".la" files still refer to the "3.3.4/libstdc++.la" file, which breaks compiles with libtool. Do I really have to rebuild all

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild will allways rebuild OO

2005-02-20 Thread Holly Bostick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Sun, 20 Feb 2005 14:49:16 +0100 Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dan Johansson wrote: OO.o is just "weird" (for want of a better word); the difficulty of compiling it, in addition to the length of compile, is the reason the binary is availab

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild will allways rebuild OO

2005-02-20 Thread Holly Bostick
Dan Johansson wrote: Hi, When I run a revdep-rebuild it will allways rebuild OO (I'm using the standard OO ebuild, not any binary version). Here is the output of 'revdep-rebuild --pretend --verbose': Checking reverse

Re: [gentoo-user] Enable NUMLOCK on Boot

2005-02-20 Thread Holly Bostick
Andrew Gaffney wrote: Captain FantastiK wrote: Thanks for replyin' I have a little problem. On boot Process, The NUMLOCK get enabled but when X starts The keyboard LED (NUMLOCK) becomes OFF. How to fix this please Emerge numlockx and add 'numlockx &' to your X startup scripts. If you use KDE, ther

Re: [gentoo-user] Randr, xorg and KDE

2005-02-18 Thread Holly Bostick
Robert G. Siebeck wrote: Hi, I use x.org 6.8.0 and KDE 3.3.2. In KDE control centre under devices -> display I get the message that my X server needs RANDR (Resize and Rotate), which is needed to change the display resolution. Actually RandR is supported and activated. In /var/log/Xorg.0.log I foun

Re: [gentoo-user] New versions of software not in portage

2005-02-18 Thread Holly Bostick
Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: What is the "polite and acceptable" way of pointing out that a package has a newer release then that which is in portage? Bugzilla? Yes. Preferably with an updated ebuild attached. :-) . Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] bootsplash and 2.6.9-gentoo kernel

2005-02-18 Thread Holly Bostick
Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 05:00, Jean-Francois Gagnon Laporte wrote: please read this doc and all of your answers will be answered. http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_fbsplash I'm using fbsplash currently and it's sweet. But how about getting a progress bar instead of having all the words

Re: [gentoo-user] "--newuse" does it work?

2005-02-17 Thread Holly Bostick
Gareth Hastings wrote: Did the package you tried to re-emerge actually use any of the USE flags you changed? The most common use for --newuse is emerge --newuse (--update) world, to re-emerge all packages that use the new flags. Yes it did or at least I'm sure it should! Is there anyway to find out

Re: [gentoo-user] ntfs raid 0

2005-02-17 Thread Holly Bostick
PK wrote: Frank Schafer wrote: mount -t ntfs? On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 18:28 +0200, PK wrote: I have 3 ntfs raid 0 partitions How do I mount them ? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list no go on that one houston. It doesnt seem to like it for some reason :/ And what would the reason be (i.e., what

Re: [gentoo-user] sharing evolution calendars, kinda

2005-02-17 Thread Holly Bostick
Frank Schafer wrote: Well, thanks ... but: (from the Breakmygentoo.net Howto) ... Point your browser to BreakMyGentoo. Under the Ebuilds area you will find a directory listing of downloadable Ebuilds that are at your disposal - pick the one you'd like, and proceed to save it. ... there is no "Ebuil

Re: [gentoo-user] "--newuse" does it work?

2005-02-17 Thread Holly Bostick
Gareth Hastings wrote: Hello, Could anyone tell me if emerge -newuse package Actually works? I've tried it after I've changed my use flags but it didn't appear to work. Thanks Gareth Did the package you tried to re-emerge actually use any of the USE flags you changed? The most common use for --n

Re: [gentoo-user] Giving a user his own partition

2005-02-17 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 11:06:51 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: The root of a partiton belongs to the user that mounted, whjich is root if it was mounted from fstab. Check out the uid and gid options in man mount to mount it as a different user. You need something like /dev/hdX /home

Re: [gentoo-user] sharing evolution calendars, kinda

2005-02-17 Thread Holly Bostick
Frank Schafer wrote: Right, but the thing still isn't in portage ... :-p (see the last sentence of my post) Cheerio Frank No, but it is in the BreakMyGentoo tree, which you can use as an overlay, so it would still be known to and managed by Portage, and (hopefully) all the dependencies would also

Re: [gentoo-user] Giving a user his own partition

2005-02-17 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 17:59:24 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: My problem right now is that I'd like to mount /dev/sda8/herb under /home/herb but I don't know how to mount the directory there. I also don't know how to mount the top of the drive under /home/herb and give him write acces

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage alternating between upgrade and downgrade of media-libs/gst-plugins [solved].

2005-02-17 Thread Holly Bostick
Daevid Vincent wrote: I finally figured out why portage keeps fluctuating between upgrading and downgrading these packages. It seems that every time I upgrade system or world, it isn't the right version. *sigh* I added '-t' to my emerge and discovered a package that isn't in my keywords file. daevi

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Sony VIAO - OT

2005-02-16 Thread Holly Bostick
Michael Sullivan wrote: I went to the site. It looks ideal for what I'm attempting. I can't seem to get it to work. I downloaded the main file, the support file, and the docs archive onto my wife's PC and installed it as per the instructions in the docs. I went out to the DOS prompt and typed:

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Sony VIAO

2005-02-16 Thread Holly Bostick
Michael Sullivan wrote: My wife's father recently brought us another PC - a Sony VIAO. We decided that it would be my wife's computer because I'm always using our HP. We took it to the shop last Friday to get the hard drive and RAM upgraded and then got it back today. My wife wanted me to instal

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.10 and automounting ?

2005-02-16 Thread Holly Bostick
Covington, Chris wrote: Yes, the patch that enables supermount (supermount is not a native kernel function) was removed So how does one now get the same functionality that supermount had? What's the alternative? Chris As I said in my answer to the original question (which was exactly this): 1) ge

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.10 and automounting ?

2005-02-15 Thread Holly Bostick
Matt Place wrote: What exactly is supermount, why is it considered 'evil', and was it disabled for its supposed 'evilness'? Supermount is one of the methodologies for making removable drives act the way they do under Windows; the media is automatically unmounted when removed (via the button to

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing GENTOO from CD

2005-02-15 Thread Holly Bostick
A1ex wrote: It's not just a matter of skipping section 5c if you don't need networking.. Other sections include diversions toward networking.and other options that aren't needed for a basic gentoo installation. The theme of the instructions is about allowing you to choose options during the i

Re: [gentoo-user] Patches

2005-02-15 Thread Holly Bostick
Frank Schafer wrote: Thanks a lot. Could you tell me what the PORTDIR_OVERLAY is? The PORTDIR_OVERLAY variable is set in /etc/make.conf. It references the directory (usually /usr/local/portage, but you can set it to be wherever you want via this variable), where you keep ebuilds that don't *belon

Re: [gentoo-user] Patches

2005-02-15 Thread Holly Bostick
Frank Schafer wrote: Hi, I need to patch my kernel with: http://shayol.bartol.udel.edu/~rhdt/download/acpi_sbs-20050120.tar.gz to make the battery monitor work. Cause of such tasks I used to use vanilla kernels from kernel.org before gentoo. I had to learn from this forum that the system don't kno

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnucash/Control Center

2005-02-14 Thread Holly Bostick
Bill Six wrote: I'm trying to emerge Gnucash. When I do a pretend emerge I get [ebuild NS ] gnome-base/control-center-1.4.0.5-r1 +nls 0 kB [ebuild N] gnome-extra/gtkhtml-1.1.10-r1 +nls 1,005 kB [ebuild N] gnome-extra/guppi-0.40.3-r2 +nls +python +readline 992 kB [ebuild N] a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gnome woes (mainly window manager)

2005-02-13 Thread Holly Bostick
Spider wrote: On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 02:11 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: If you do the latter (change GNOME's WM) you still have all the infrastructure of GNOME running on the backend (most notably Nautilus, to draw the desktop, for one example). Just this example is one I dislike, si

Re: [gentoo-user] [bacula-ebuild] no bacula-1.36.0-configure.diff present

2005-02-13 Thread Holly Bostick
Christian Fischer wrote: Hi all. Building bacula-1.36.0 returns an error, bacula-1.36.0-configure.diff is missing. There is only an bacula-3.6.0-configure.diff. Should this diff be the missing bacula-1.36.0-configure.diff and must it only be renamed? If I was you, I would just try renaming it a

Re: [gentoo-user] FireFox Search Extentions don't work

2005-02-13 Thread Holly Bostick
Petter HÃggholm wrote: Collins Richey wrote: On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 22:55:22 -0500 (EST), Brett I. Holcomb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have firefox 1.0 installed. When I go to the search bar and tell it to install other extensions it says it did it succesfully but they never show up. Any ideas

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gnome woes (mainly window manager)

2005-02-12 Thread Holly Bostick
James Hiscock wrote: My fave is fluxbox and I run the gnome-panel on top and the fluxbox bar on the bottom. It seems much "snappier" than running the full Gnome desktop environment. ...and here I was just running gnome-panel from within fluxbox... I suppose there isn't that much difference, is the

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound system/daemon use flags.

2005-02-12 Thread Holly Bostick
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: There are 4 use flags that concern me: oss alsa esd arts. [I suppose there are other use flags out there, like jack and maybe dmix in the future, but I'm not worried about those ATM.] What I'd like to do is have programs that support arts (have an arts use flag) com

Re: [gentoo-user] My alsa-driver woes [SOLVED]

2005-02-12 Thread Holly Bostick
Peter Ruskin wrote: On Saturday 12 February 2005 20:53, Michael Sullivan wrote: Why does modprobe detect es1371 but not detect ens1371 if they're both for the same card? On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 20:40 +, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Saturday 12 February 2005 16:23, Michael Sullivan wrote: It did. I cha

Re: [gentoo-user] My alsa-driver woes [SOLVED]

2005-02-12 Thread Holly Bostick
Peter Ruskin wrote: On Saturday 12 February 2005 16:23, Michael Sullivan wrote: It did. I changed my ALSA_CARD setting from "es1371" to "ens1371" and alsa-driver successfully installed. Weird. Not weird at all. es1371 is the module for the the OSS driver; ens1371 is the module for the ALSA dri

Re: [gentoo-user] My alsa-driver woes II (my alsa-utils woes)

2005-02-12 Thread Holly Bostick
Michael Sullivan wrote: I modprobed es1371 and it worked fine, however I'm not getting any sound. I was getting sound before I upgraded alsa-driver and installed alsa-utils. I checked to make sure that alsasound was running; it wasn't. I tried to start it and got this output: baby root # /etc/in

Re: [gentoo-user] My alsa-driver woes II (my alsa-utils woes)

2005-02-12 Thread Holly Bostick
Michael Sullivan wrote: I emerge alsa-utils. At the end of the emerge it told me that I needed to manually configure /etc/modules.d/alsa. I opened it up in vim and looked at it. It didn't make much sense to me, except one comment that said: ## You need to customise this section for your specific

Re: [gentoo-user] My alsa-driver woes [SOLVED]

2005-02-12 Thread Holly Bostick
Michael Sullivan wrote: It did. I changed my ALSA_CARD setting from "es1371" to "ens1371" and alsa-driver successfully installed. Weird. On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 17:12 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: Michael Sullivan wrote: baby src # modprobe snd-ens1371 modprobe: Can't locat

Re: [gentoo-user] My alsa-driver woes

2005-02-12 Thread Holly Bostick
371 driver. It would be odd, but it could happen. Holly On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 16:56 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: Michael Sullivan wrote: I've been doing manual emerge updates (a.k.a not cron) for awhile now because emerge kept wanting to update alsa-driver to 1.0.8-r1 and the compile kept

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.10 and automounting ?

2005-02-12 Thread Holly Bostick
raptor wrote: hi, how do u do automounting in 2.6.10 in 2.6.5 supermount was working, now on boot I get message that kernel does not have support for supermount. I enabled two things in FS abount automounting..checking.. yeah ... Kernel automounter support version 4.. what I have to do to enable

Re: [gentoo-user] My alsa-driver woes

2005-02-12 Thread Holly Bostick
Michael Sullivan wrote: I've been doing manual emerge updates (a.k.a not cron) for awhile now because emerge kept wanting to update alsa-driver to 1.0.8-r1 and the compile kept failing. This morning I actually looked closely at the beginning of the emerge of alsa-driver and noticed a message that

Re: [gentoo-user] gmail question

2005-02-12 Thread Holly Bostick
Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 14:56:21 +0100, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So what does "I don`t recive my mail-message back" mean? Do you mean that 1) gmail does not save a copy of the mail you sent to the list in gmail's "Sent Mail" folder? o

Re: [gentoo-user] gmail question

2005-02-12 Thread Holly Bostick
Makurin Roman wrote: Ð ÑÐÐÐÑ ÐÑ 11 ÐÐÐÑÐÐÑ 2005 09:30 Nick Smith ÑÐÐ(a): On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 07:43 +0300, Makurin Roman wrote: Ð ÑÐÐÐÑ ÐÑ 12 ÐÐÐÑÐÐÑ 2005 07:30 Collins Richey ÑÐÐ(a): On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 07:20:54 +0300, Makurin Roman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi All. I`am new wit

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gnome woes (mainly window manager)

2005-02-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Robert S wrote: Thank you for your comments on the 2nd and third points of my original post. I'm still struggling with emerging sawfish. The first question (the most important) remains unanswered. Has anybody had problems with seting up the WindowManager? Any tips on how to do this?? One of

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome desktop - how do I customise the context menu?

2005-02-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Ric de France wrote: Luke, On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 22:41:31 -0800, Luke Ravitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2005-02-10 22:35, Ric de France <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How do I change the context menu to remove all traces of "totem" or "Totem media player"? From the context menu, select "Properties".

Re: [gentoo-user] Which Graphics Card?

2005-02-09 Thread Holly Bostick
James Hiscock wrote: Where are you getting this from? According to the Activision support (and the Id Software page): And on a personal note, my bf can play Doom 3 (under Windows; I can't get it to run, myself) on HQ settings with an ATI 9600 Pro ...HQ isn't Ultra... there's Low, Medium, High, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Have to perform complete recompile or there is a shortcut?

2005-02-09 Thread Holly Bostick
Shaun Lipscombe wrote: * Holly Bostick wrote: Actually, emerge does compile from where it left off in some respect; it does start the process from the beginning, but if the section is found to already be compiled, it is not recompiled; Portage just goes on to the next part. Compiling OO.o just

Re: [gentoo-user] SoundCard Issue

2005-02-09 Thread Holly Bostick
Ian K wrote: Ian K wrote: Hi. My laptop has a Yamaha OPL3-SA2 soundcard, but the appropriate drivers will not recognize it. It says the device is not found or busy. I AM SURE my soundcard is this, I checked my computer's specifications. I enabled the appropriate kernel options in the 2.6.10 kerne

Re: [gentoo-user] Have to perform complete recompile or there is a shortcut?

2005-02-09 Thread Holly Bostick
Shaun Lipscombe wrote: If you emerge a program and it fails.. and you then re-emerge it, is there a way to tell emerge to continue compiling from where it left off using the .o files that are already compiled? OpenOffice has failed on me twice now.. and on a PIII laptop starting at Square 1 , again

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: /etc/init.d/alsasound fails to load soundcard module

2005-02-09 Thread Holly Bostick
Jesse Guardiani wrote: Holly Bostick wrote: Jesse Guardiani wrote: Jans Han Xie wrote: No, no package installed. I use the in-kernel version. And pasting the error message when "/etc/init.d/alsasound restart" will be more help :) There isn't one. It starts all of the module

Re: [gentoo-user] Which Graphics Card?

2005-02-09 Thread Holly Bostick
James Hiscock wrote: There is no game out there that uses 256 of onboard graphics ram. I take it you haven't bothered looking at the requirements for Doom3, huh? In the highest quality mode, it _requires_ a 512MB video card -- basically because the textures are all loaded uncompressed... ...it's s

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone understand gcc locales?

2005-02-08 Thread Holly Bostick
Paul Worrall wrote: I had "sys-libs/glibc userlocales" in /etc/portage/package.use and the following in /etc/locales.build: en_US/ISO-8859-1 en_US.UTF-8/UTF-8 en_GB/ISO-8859-1 en_GB/UTF-8 and I was getting strange effects with the 'Â' sign (UK Pounds). For instance: * in OpenOffice.org wordproces

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to emerge svgalib; kernel has not been configured yet

2005-02-08 Thread Holly Bostick
Shaw wrote: Hi, During my latest deep emerge update, I got the following error. md5 src_uri ;-) svgalib-1.9.19.tar.gz !!! ERROR: media-libs/svgalib-1.9.19-r3 failed. !!! Function kernel-mod_configoption_builtin, Line 114, Exitcode 1 !!! kernel has not been configured yet I have sys-kernel/developme

Re: [gentoo-user] via82xx ac97 microphone not work

2005-02-08 Thread Holly Bostick
Tamas Sarga wrote: On Sun, 6 Feb 2005, Mark-Andres Hohm wrote: HI! I have a "Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)" I can hear sound but don't get the micro working. I need this for kphone (VoIP). Does any1 know how to activate the micro? Hi, D

Re: [gentoo-user] SoundCard Issue

2005-02-08 Thread Holly Bostick
Ian K wrote: Hi. My laptop has a Yamaha OPL3-SA2 soundcard, but the appropriate drivers will not recognize it. It says the device is not found or busy. I AM SURE my soundcard is this, I checked my computer's specifications. I enabled the appropriate kernel options in the 2.6.10 kernel, and compi

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