Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] OT: thermal management diff 2.4 vs. 2.6

2005-06-29 Thread Alexander Meyer
On Di, Jun 28 2005 at 07:22:33 -0400, Carl Hudkins wrote: On Tue June 28 2005 16:34, Stefan Bruda wrote: Oh, of course therm_adt746x won't load, sorry for not mentioning it. There is as far as I know no option in the kernel config for thermal management on these machines. I am clueless

[gentoo-ppc-user] emerge linux-wlan-ng problem on ppc

2005-06-29 Thread Lincoln Rutledge
Howdy, I am done installing gentoo now. I had to install Ubuntu on another partition and install gentoo one step at a time over a couple of weeks. iBook 366, and can't boot from CDRs. I figured out how to tell emerge to build linux-wlan-ng against warnings with: export ACCEPT_KEYWORDS='~ppc'

Re: [gentoo-user] Configuring Engage

2005-06-29 Thread Bertrand Jacquin
Hi, Have a look to : http://get-e.org/User_Guide/English/pages/4.2.html ++ Beber On 6/29/05, Ian K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, Two things: 1. Is there another GNOME suitable parabolic zooming dock, like kxdocker but for gnome? If you can only think of Engage, please move to

Re: [gentoo-user] Configuring Engage

2005-06-29 Thread Ian K
Bertrand Jacquin wrote: Hi, Have a look to : http://get-e.org/User_Guide/English/pages/4.2.html ++ Beber On 6/29/05, Ian K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, Two things: 1. Is there another GNOME suitable parabolic zooming dock, like kxdocker but for gnome? If you can only think of

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk Backup From One Machine To Another

2005-06-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, June 29, 2005 5:08 am, Ow Mun Heng said: I do, however, intend to test rdiff-backup later. ;) Well.. there is more than one way to skin the cat eh. I still think you should take a look at rsync. rdiff-backup uses librsync, so it only transfers the minimum necessary. Unlike rsync,

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk Backup From One Machine To Another

2005-06-29 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 09:24 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, June 29, 2005 5:08 am, Ow Mun Heng said: I do, however, intend to test rdiff-backup later. ;) Well.. there is more than one way to skin the cat eh. I still think you should take a look at rsync. rdiff-backup uses

D600 Was [Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Dell Latitude D610]

2005-06-29 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 02:52 -0400, Willie Wong wrote: I have Gentoo 2004.3 running on a D600, with ipw2200 maturing over the past year and several packages becoming available in the portage tree (broadcom's bcm5700 for one), it has only gotten easier. Do you have TVout working on yours? And

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk Backup From One Machine To Another

2005-06-29 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 10:16 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 16:43:44 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Unlike rsync, it allows you to easily roll back to an older version of file. Very useful when you realise you have screwed your configs just after a backup run. BTW,

Re: [gentoo-user] xdirectfb on 2005 - no binary after compilation - any tips to get xdirectfb working

2005-06-29 Thread Steve B
On 6/29/05, anthony hornby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a Matrox G550 dual head graphics card and I want to have DirectFB running on one head for VDR output http://www.cadsoft.de/vdr/ using softdevice, and the other head running XDirectFB so I have a local graphical desktop. The

[gentoo-user] vsftp .vs. ftpbase WTF??

2005-06-29 Thread Stoian Ivanov
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # emerge -auD world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] net-ftp/vsftpd-2.0.3-r1 (is blocking net-ftp/ftpbase-0.00) [ebuild N] net-ftp/ftpbase-0.00 [ebuild U ] net-ftp/vsftpd-2.0.3-r1 [2.0.3]

Re: [gentoo-user] vsftp .vs. ftpbase WTF??

2005-06-29 Thread Zac Medico
Stoian Ivanov wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # emerge -auD world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] net-ftp/vsftpd-2.0.3-r1 (is blocking net-ftp/ftpbase-0.00) [ebuild N] net-ftp/ftpbase-0.00 [ebuild U ]

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice2.0 Install [not solved :( ]

2005-06-29 Thread Holly Bostick
Ian K schreef: Zac Medico wrote: Ian K wrote: Hey Everyone, I really want the OO.org 2.0 beta, but its not in portage snip http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=app-office;name=openoffice-bin The latest beta is in the portage tree but it's keyword masked. echo

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk Backup From One Machine To Another

2005-06-29 Thread Bill Roberts
I used to use rdiff-backup, I found it very satisfactory. But at one point I had a hard drive melt down, tried to do restore, mucked it up, ended up doing a full rebuild, pulling in configuration info from the backup files. There has to an easier way. Any suggestions on using rdiff-backup for a

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge Amarok

2005-06-29 Thread Holly Bostick
Anthony E. Caudel schreef: I recently switched to the KDE 3.4 split ebuilds but when I tried to emerge Amarok, it wnated to pull in several 3.3 packages: == These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Re: [gentoo-user] vsftp .vs. ftpbase WTF??

2005-06-29 Thread Holly Bostick
Stoian Ivanov schreef: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # emerge -auD world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] net-ftp/vsftpd-2.0.3-r1 (is blocking net-ftp/ftpbase-0.00) [ebuild N] net-ftp/ftpbase-0.00 [ebuild U ]

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk Backup From One Machine To Another

2005-06-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 07:34:16 -0400, Bill Roberts wrote: I used to use rdiff-backup, I found it very satisfactory. But at one point I had a hard drive melt down, tried to do restore, mucked it up, ended up doing a full rebuild, pulling in configuration info from the backup files. There has to

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice2.0 Install [not solved :( ]

2005-06-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 23:24:46 +, Ian K wrote: Im getting a problem though.. After I enter in your command, I did an emerge search to get the size of the download, but it says the latest version is still 1.1.4, and I just did an emerge sync a few hours ago... Any ideas? OOo 2.0 is package

Re: [gentoo-user] kde path is missing

2005-06-29 Thread Jan Callewaert
Op dinsdag 28 juni 2005 23:45, schreef Zac Medico: snip Do you guys have USE=-arts by any chance? $ equery belongs /etc/env.d/46kdepaths-3.4 kde-base/arts-3.4.1-r2 $ cat /etc/env.d/46kdepaths-3.4 PATH=/usr/kde/3.4/bin ROOTPATH=/usr/kde/3.4/sbin:/usr/kde/3.4/bin LDPATH=/usr/kde/3.4/lib

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Portable Music Player

2005-06-29 Thread Matthias Schweinoch
Hi Boyd, negative: NO SUPPORT FOR OGG!!! Well, doesn't help me (see above) but hopefully someone else reading the thread can use your review / recommendation. I just bought myself an HD 300 from MPIO. You can check out the device at www.mpio.com. It's recognized as an external usb

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild questions...

2005-06-29 Thread Rafael Fernández López
El Miércoles 29 Junio 2005 14:32, Dave Nebinger escribió: I updated world yesterday which gave me a new com_err release. Saw the notice about running revdep-rebuild fly by when I did it but ignored it because I've never really needed to do this before. Soon thereafter I could not ssh to the

[gentoo-user] Another question on mailing cron-job output

2005-06-29 Thread Holly Bostick
Hey, list, You may remember me asking previously about how to get cron to mail me the output of esync, which is working fine so fine, in fact, that I think I'll take Neil's recent suggestion of putting revdep-rebuild -p in cron.weekly and having that output mailed to me as well. So atm, my

[gentoo-user] Preventing installation of evolution and others

2005-06-29 Thread Bruno Lustosa
How can I make sure that when I upgrade, packages like evolution and epiphany (along with mozilla) won't get installed? Is there a (clean) way to prevent them from being installed? They seem to be tied to gnome, but as I don't use them, I have no need to waste time compiling any of them. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing installation of evolution and others

2005-06-29 Thread Bruno Lustosa
On 6/29/05, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I take it you emerged the gnome meta-package (emerge gnome), which requires evo, epiphany and mozilla (among others), rather than gnome-light, which does not. Yes, I have done that. Portage won't install them now. Unmerged totem and its

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke--update

2005-06-29 Thread maxim wexler
--- A. Khattri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, maxim wexler wrote: So there must be a problem w/ the Asus K8N-E(Sempron box) BIOS. I updated it using the tool that came w/ the support CD but it only made matters worse: Did you download the latest BIOS from Asus's

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing installation of evolution and others

2005-06-29 Thread Tero Grundström
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: That's it. The only major applications that I can think of that are installed by gnome and not by gnome-light which would remain on the system as orphans are Totem (and it's gstreamer or xine dependencies), and possibly beagle, if that's installed. If

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild questions...

2005-06-29 Thread Paul Varner
On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 08:32 -0400, Dave Nebinger wrote: So revdep-rebuild is currently running on the box but I'm wondering how often the revdep-rebuild needs to be run... Any suggestions from you folks out there in gentoo land? I'm thinking about building a cron script to run early in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing installation of evolution and others

2005-06-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 18:27:21 +0300 (EEST), Tero Grundström wrote: If you want to keep them, you can re-emerge them alone, so they will be put in your world file, and thus normally updateable. Faster way: echo category/package /var/lib/portage/world or emerge -n package -- Neil

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing installation of evolution and others

2005-06-29 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/29/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 18:27:21 +0300 (EEST), Tero Grundström wrote: If you want to keep them, you can re-emerge them alone, so they will be put in your world file, and thus normally updateable. Faster way: echo category/package

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing installation of evolution and others

2005-06-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 08:52:49 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: -n is cool but I think the interestign question is whether there would be value in emerge being able to do something like emerge gnome but leave out Evolution. To get what I wanted here I've emerged gnome-light and then added about 5 or 6

[gentoo-user] Alsa stops working after 'emerge -uD world'

2005-06-29 Thread cothrige
I just finished running 'emerge -uD world' and everything seemed to go okay. At least in the end it seemed to. I did have some troubles with spamassassin and a couple of other strange dependencies which were not dealt with automatically, but google and archives of such lists as this helped in

Re: [gentoo-user] Another question on mailing cron-job output

2005-06-29 Thread Myk Taylor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This sounds perfectly reasonable. cron mails you and output the command sends to stdout, so yes, redirecting its output to a file would also prevent cron's email. the crontab lines would look something like: 0 * * * * command /dev/null echo

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild questions...

2005-06-29 Thread Eugene Rosenzweig
Paul Varner wrote: On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 08:32 -0400, Dave Nebinger wrote: So revdep-rebuild is currently running on the box but I'm wondering how often the revdep-rebuild needs to be run... Any suggestions from you folks out there in gentoo land? I'm thinking about building a cron script

[gentoo-user] Simple question DVD

2005-06-29 Thread B.S
Ok so here is my Problem. I install my gentoo box with a stage3. Installing system with a CDburner/dvdreader drive. Down the road i decide to put in a DVD-Burner. Swaping the physical drives out with out changing any thing. My question is can i change the entry in the fstab and symbolic links

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing installation of evolution and others

2005-06-29 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/29/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 08:52:49 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: -n is cool but I think the interestign question is whether there would be value in emerge being able to do something like emerge gnome but leave out Evolution. To get what I wanted

[gentoo-user] KDE font size

2005-06-29 Thread Martins Steinbergs
hi i'm curious, every other time i boot, GDM and KDE are with bigger fonts. what part is responsible for it? Xorg.0.log has only this: Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/, removing from list! SetClientVersion: 0 8 Martins -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke--update

2005-06-29 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, maxim wexler wrote: I imagine any CD included with a motherboard is old before it hits the shelves... So what? The tool will still work. Kindly read what I wrote! I *did* read what you wrote. My point was if there was an update on the CD it would be old. You

Re: [gentoo-user] konsole font

2005-06-29 Thread q-parser
Philip Webb wrote: 050628 q-parser wrote: I've emerged kde-3.4.1 recently the font in Konsole is different. How do I set it back to normal ? First try the Konsole 'settings' menu - 'font' - 'custom', then try selecting 'Fixed (gnu) regular 13'. That might help. Yes, that's it.

[gentoo-user] Re: OpenOffice2.0 Install

2005-06-29 Thread James
Rumen Yotov rumen_yotov at dir.bg writes: openoffice-bin-1.9.109 is in portage only being in testing (~x86). To emerge it do: #echo app-office/openoffice-bin ~x86 /etc/portage/package.keywords. Then 'emerge openoffice-bin -av' to emerge it. Haven't checked if it's in rpm-format. I have:

Re: [gentoo-user] Alsa stops working after 'emerge -uD world'

2005-06-29 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
cothrige wrote: I just finished running 'emerge -uD world' and everything seemed to go okay. At least in the end it seemed to. I did have some troubles with spamassassin and a couple of other strange dependencies which were not dealt with automatically, but google and archives of such lists

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple question DVD

2005-06-29 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
B.S wrote: Ok so here is my Problem. I install my gentoo box with a stage3. Installing system with a CDburner/dvdreader drive. Down the road i decide to put in a DVD-Burner. Swaping the physical drives out with out changing any thing. My question is can i change the entry in the fstab and

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke--update

2005-06-29 Thread Richard Fish
maxim wexler wrote: Maxim, if you want the system to boot from the hard disk, I really think you have no choice but to repartition and re-install the system, with boot as the first partition. On the Sempron there are two HDs, the 120G, pri-mast and a 3.5G(fat32) as a pri-slave. LBA is

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke--update

2005-06-29 Thread maxim wexler
that before jumping on people trying to help. Smart Alec! Help my eye! __ Yahoo! Mail Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour: http://tour.mail.yahoo.com/mailtour.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Ati Linux Proprietary Driver

2005-06-29 Thread Rafael Fernández López
El Jueves 30 Junio 2005 00:20, XXOmega21XX escribió: --- Benjamin Fritzsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 28 January 2005 03:19, Rui Silva wrote: hello ppl i'm thinking on buying a new notebook computer. the model i'm interested has a ATI 9700 128Mb graphic card. R300

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OpenOffice2.0 Install

2005-06-29 Thread Zac Medico
James wrote: I have: app-office/openoffice Latest version available: 1.1.4-r1 Latest version installed: 1.1.4-r1 So if I do this will I have both 1.1.4 (which is currently installed) and 1.9.109 or just the later? What I'm concerned with is that I may need both. I can also

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE font size

2005-06-29 Thread Zac Medico
Martins Steinbergs wrote: hi i'm curious, every other time i boot, GDM and KDE are with bigger fonts. what part is responsible for it? Xorg.0.log has only this: Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/, removing from list! SetClientVersion: 0 8 Martins Maybe

[gentoo-user] emerge -auDv world question

2005-06-29 Thread John J. Foster
Good evening, This evening I ran across something I have have not seen in my long experience with Gentoo (about 2 months now). I just did an # emerge --sync # emerge -auDv world which returned Calculating world dependencies - !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy =sys-devel/libperl-5.8.6 have

[gentoo-user] Re: OpenOffice2.0 Install

2005-06-29 Thread James
Zac Medico zmedico at gmail.com writes: So if I do this will I have both 1.1.4 (which is currently installed) and 1.9.109 or just the later? What I'm concerned with is that I may need both. I can also put the 1.9.109 on another machine until it becomes more stable. I went to quite a lot

Re: [gentoo-user] Copy portage tree

2005-06-29 Thread Sean Higgins
On Tuesday 28 June 2005 05:49 pm, Anthony E. Caudel wrote: I have one computer that currently does not have internet access. Can I copy a freshly sync'ed portage tree (/usr/portage/*) from another computer to this one? Or does the tree have some sort of per-computer dependencies (use-flags,

Re: [gentoo-user] telnet into embedded devices

2005-06-29 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 00:59 +, James wrote: Hello, I often use telnet to connect to (embedded) devices on a local network, devices which do not support ssh. On both Debian and Gentoo systems I just delete the default route out and set a second (sub)interface on the ethernet port like

[gentoo-user] Failed Cache Update

2005-06-29 Thread Justin Hart
I get Failed Cache Update when I run emerge sync. What is this error? How does one go about correcting it? -- Justin W. Hart -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Alsa stops working after 'emerge -uD world'

2005-06-29 Thread cothrige
* Norbert Kamenicky ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: cothrige wrote: I just finished running 'emerge -uD world' and everything seemed to go okay. At least in the end it seemed to. I did have some troubles with spamassassin and a couple of other strange dependencies which were not dealt with

Re: [gentoo-user] telnet into embedded devices

2005-06-29 Thread Paul Varner
On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 13:39 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 00:59:17 + (UTC) James wrote: 1. If this is not what's happening, what is to cause telnet to react so slowly? probably dns - most servers do a reverse dns lookup when a client connects, and if the lookup does

Re: [gentoo-user] (A bit OT) Gentoo on a Dell OptiPlex G1

2005-06-29 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 05:20:42PM -0400, Colin wrote Taking a guess here: CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu CFLAGS=-O2 -march=pentium3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fstack-protector From my PIII's /etc/make.conf CFLAGS=-O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx -msse -mfpmath=sse

Re: [gentoo-user] Alsa stops working after 'emerge -uD world'

2005-06-29 Thread Bob Sanders
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 21:24:18 -0500 cothrige [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would seem that knowing that my files would be saved to the archive folder I had gotten a little bold when running dispatch-conf. But, I copied the old file back from the archive and ran alsaconf again. This time it