Hello,
I have just bought Acer Aspire 5020 laptop. Which cfalgs shold I use.
TNX
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On Tuesday 20 December 2005 04:46, Holly Bostick wrote:
How about this, then-- :-o ?
Yup, kmail knows that one too.
Not to disrespect your mad cli skills, but that's a lot of additon
there. Is the 'average' mutt user going to want to do all that? I am
really asking, since I don't know
I must confess. I've been unfaithful.For a day.After thoroughly trashing my system (~x86) for the second time by uncarefully upgrading my box I decided that I'd try something less brain taxing.So I reinstalled with Kubuntu.
I'm reinstalling Gentoo now ...I prefer battling with my own errors rather
I use kgpg which [I presume] is part of the kwallet system.
So on desktop you have handy gui access and remotely because it is
based on gnupg you can use text only access over shh for example :-
gpg --decrypt -o ./securepass.tar.gz.gpg ./foo.tar.gz
hope this helps
stu
ps. In extracting the
Qv6 wrote:
Folks:
I'm in the process of installing awf-cms - http://awf-cms.org. The
install, however, requires mod_php5 which I cannot find with emerge.
Has anyone actually installed mod_php5 on a gentoo system?
TIA
php5 is located under dev-lang/php, masked.
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On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 09:00:06 +, Stuart Howard wrote:
I use kgpg which [I presume] is part of the kwallet system.
kgpg and kwallet are separate packages. kgpg is a gpg front-end, kwallet
provides automatic, secure storage of passwords as was as general data.
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The computer
On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 05:49:23 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote:
Holly is American... so it's even more surprising GDR
wow she hasn't bitten either of us LOL.
I'm trying to let the thread *die*, gentlemen.!
Such willpower! All in vain though :)
Cheese and crackers!
Pass the port!
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On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 18:58:57 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Am I right in thinking kwallet requires kde to be running?
It does.
If I were to simply create *.tar.gz or rar archive and then gnupgp
encrypt that file, deleting source would that be problematic?
It would work.
I can see it
On Monday 19 Dec 2005 18:46, Jonathan Wright wrote:
John Jolet wrote:
On Dec 19, 2005, at 10:09 AM, Paul wrote:
snip
don't assume it's the os...could very well be the burner. unless it's
the same box and dual-boot?
I've been working with burners since there was only 1x scsi cdr and the
How do I install sun-jdk throuth emerge?
Cheers,
Felipe Ribeiro
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On 12/20/05, Felipe Ribeiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How do I install sun-jdk throuth emerge?
Cheers,
Felipe Ribeiro
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emerge -f sun-jdk
Follow the instructions and download the installer from the sun
website. Put it in /usr/portage/distfiles and do
The .bin file?
On 12/20/05, Andres Becerra Sandoval [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 12/20/05, Felipe Ribeiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How do I install sun-jdk throuth emerge?
Cheers,
Felipe Ribeiro
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emerge -f sun-jdk
Follow the
darren kirby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Apropos, does anyone know of any good documentation about the Gentoo
boot process and initscripts? Looking through all of these, it is
difficult to follow what is going on, and the initscript guide I
linked to before is a bit terse.
My sentiments too.
On 12/20/05, Felipe Ribeiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The .bin file?
Yes, the .bin file
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OpenBase is part of OpenOffice... and is really slow on my laptop.
Whole OpenOffice is slow...
So I'll try that GUIs for mysql.
Do you know any replacement of OpenOffice for my laptop ? :)
BTW. Is there a tool to convert mysql (and possible other) databases
to and from ms-access *.mdb's ?
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Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
A few things:
1. Run equery check baselayout. If it reports anything wrong in
/lib/rcscripts, re-merge it.
equery did show a herd of wrong mtimes. Which I'm guessing is
probably normal but it also shows MAKEDEV missing. So I re-emerged
it. Following
Hi there,
I've just emerged Dante, and I'm trying to start it, but I'm getting the following error and I don't know what's causing it...
proxy ~ # /etc/init.d/dante-sockd start
Dec 20 15:01:20 (1135087280) sockd[0]: socks_seteuid(): old: 0, new: 101
Dec 20 15:01:20 (1135087280) sockd[0]:
Hi,
My dad had raised the question recently about getting my mom, now
76,using Linux. We went down the path of looking for a new machine but
decided to put it off until after Christmas. I recently started
wondering about using a single computer for two separate people. Can X
do this?
Hi,
On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 13:45:19 +0100
capsel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OpenBase is part of OpenOffice... and is really slow on my laptop.
OK, please don't try to enforce your own name... it's OpenOffice Base,
not OpenBase, as you've been told...
Do you know any replacement of OpenOffice for
On 12/20/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
My dad had raised the question recently about getting my mom, now
76,using Linux. We went down the path of looking for a new machine but
decided to put it off until after Christmas. I recently started
wondering about using a single
On 12/20/05, Andres Becerra Sandoval [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 12/20/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If I added a second VGA adapter, PCI based, and specifically made
sure it was something different from the NVidia he has installed, and
then added a USB keyboard and mouse,
That's what you get for trying to abandon Gentoo... LoL.
Robin
On 12/20/05, Martin S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I must confess. I've been unfaithful.
For a day.
After thoroughly trashing my system (~x86) for the second time by
uncarefully upgrading my box I decided that I'd try something less
On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:42:00 +0100, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
OK, please don't try to enforce your own name... it's OpenOffice Base,
not OpenBase, as you've been told...
If you're going to be pedantic, it is OpenOffice.org Base.
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I never forget a face, but in your case I'll
Rumen Yotov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
What i'm using is a separate encrypted partition made with loop-eas.
Just copy the key-file open the partition erase key-file first, do backup
or refresh it then close. Could also be a file but there were some drawbacks.
If anybody hacks this
Martin S [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
I recently did something similar only never got past thining I might
do it I too had gotten my OS pretty unstable by not really
understanding how keywording etc worked. I still don't really fully
get it but I came back thinking I'd stay with stable.
On 12/20/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 12/20/05, Andres Becerra Sandoval [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 12/20/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If I added a second VGA adapter, PCI based, and specifically made
sure it was something different from the NVidia he has
Mark Knecht wrote:
Hi,
My dad had raised the question recently about getting my mom, now
76,using Linux. We went down the path of looking for a new machine but
decided to put it off until after Christmas. I recently started
wondering about using a single computer for two separate people. Can
Am Dienstag, 20. Dezember 2005 15:56 schrieb ext
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I just started running with ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 in /etc/make.conf
and decided to let the chips fall where they may. At least I don't
have to fiddle around with a mixture of stable and masked.
I doubt that above would be
On 12/20/05, Phil Sexton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mark Knecht wrote:
Hi,
My dad had raised the question recently about getting my mom, now
76,using Linux. We went down the path of looking for a new machine but
decided to put it off until after Christmas. I recently started
wondering
On 12/20/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just started running with ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 in /etc/make.conf
and decided to let the chips fall where they may. At least I don't
have to fiddle around with a mixture of stable and masked.
I doubt that above would be seen as very
Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Why not? I do run ~x86 on several machines now for over a year, with only
minor problems. Of course, you'll run into bugs (mostly compilation
problems) from time to time, but that doesn't matter so much (at least for
me). I usually file a bug (if
On 12/20/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here is an example from /etc/init.d/gpm below. It is not apparent
where any of those variables get filled with a value. I see nothing
being sourced either. Further, what scripting language uses:
ebegin
eend
A major feature of
On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 08:56:31 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just started running with ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 in /etc/make.conf
and decided to let the chips fall where they may. At least I don't
have to fiddle around with a mixture of stable and masked.
I doubt that above would be seen as
2005/12/20, Rumen Yotov [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On (20/12/05 13:59), Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: Hi there, I've just emerged Dante, and I'm trying to start it, but I'm getting the following error and I don't know what's causing it...
proxy ~ # /etc/init.d/dante-sockd start Dec 20 15:01:20 (1135087280)
Hi,
can SELinux be booted properly if /selinux/enforce=1?
Konstantin
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Otkerstr. 28, 81547 Muenchen, Germany. Tel +49 89 69370185
Captain,
On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 19:04:42 + Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
| On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 12:05:09 -0600, Dale wrote:
| Then add in that most block emails that have HTML in it so they
| will not see what you post anyway. I'm not sure why they block HTML
| but I was told they do.
|
|
On (20/12/05 16:56), Konstantinos Agouros wrote:
Hi,
can SELinux be booted properly if /selinux/enforce=1?
Konstantin
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Otkerstr. 28, 81547 Muenchen, Germany. Tel +49 89 69370185
Mark Knecht wrote:
I'm sure that's possible. I could even use her current Win ME box in
some sort of dual boot config I suppose. However the reason I didn't
start with that idea is that I am not there to hand hold her. If she's
running Gnome how do I ensure that everything is saved on the main
051220 Martin S wrote:
I must confess. I've been unfaithful For a day.
After thoroughly trashing my system (~x86) for the second time
by uncarefully upgrading I decided to try something less brain taxing.
So I reinstalled with Kubuntu.
-- details snipped --
Yes, a short turn with another
Where Do I do a bug report
I received this a moment ago when I run emerge --sync.
Updating Portage cache: 88%!!! Cannot resolve a virtual package
name to an ebuild.
!!! This is a bug, please report it. (virtual/x11-6.8)
don´t know where to post it
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An application asked:
Requeires Windows
Zac Medico zmedico at gmail.com writes:
James wrote:
[ebuild R ] kde-base/kdegraphics-3.3.2-r2
I guess the second query show me that using the new use flags
this package needs to recompile. But it fails when I try:
snip
grep: /usr/lib/libungif.la: No such file or
I've done this, but i still ger the same message
mustang felipe # emerge sun-jdk
Calculating dependencies
!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy sun-jdk have been masked.
!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request:
- dev-java/sun-jdk-1.5.0.06 (masked by:
On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 15:22 -0300, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote:
Where Do I do a bug report
I received this a moment ago when I run emerge --sync.
Updating Portage cache: 88%!!! Cannot resolve a virtual package
name to an ebuild.
!!! This is a bug, please report it. (virtual/x11-6.8)
Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Thanks for the good comments as usual Richard. But I can't resist this:
I guess this depends on your reasons for going ~x86. If it is to
avoid compiling, well, that is a bad reason,
I'd rather set my hair on fire than compile kde, and I'm bald : )
Hi!
Very stupid question:
how to enter a dash char in OOo/AbiWord/KWord/...?
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On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 15:22 -0300, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote:
Where Do I do a bug report
I received this a moment ago when I run emerge --sync.
Updating Portage cache: 88%!!! Cannot resolve a virtual package
name to an ebuild.
!!! This is a bug, please report it. (virtual/x11-6.8)
I
Allan Spagnol Comar wrote:
Where Do I do a bug report
I received this a moment ago when I run emerge --sync.
Updating Portage cache: 88%!!! Cannot resolve a virtual package
name to an ebuild.
!!! This is a bug, please report it. (virtual/x11-6.8)
don´t know where to post it
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I've diddled around with the .config file in /usr/src/linux so much
with going thru fake menuconfig, renaming and etc that I'm not sure
anymore what I have running.
I'm pretty sure I selected to have access to kernel config from
running kernel but now can't remember where or how to access it.
I
thanks All
On 12/20/05, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Allan Spagnol Comar wrote:
Where Do I do a bug report
I received this a moment ago when I run emerge --sync.
Updating Portage cache: 88%!!! Cannot resolve a virtual package
name to an ebuild.
!!! This is a bug, please report
Felipe Ribeiro wrote:
I've done this, but i still ger the same message
mustang felipe # emerge sun-jdk
Calculating dependencies
!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy sun-jdk have been masked.
!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request:
-
Philip Webb wrote:
Yes, a short turn with another distro soon reminds how good Gentoo is.
A couple of weeks ago, I wanted to update the OS in my back-up machine,
which had Mandrake 10.0 (early 2004) working adequately when needed
is too slow infrequently used to install Gentoo.
[snip]
How
Hi,
On (20/12/05 12:37), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've diddled around with the .config file in /usr/src/linux so much
with going thru fake menuconfig, renaming and etc that I'm not sure
anymore what I have running.
I'm pretty sure I selected to have access to kernel config from
running
Andrew Gaydenko wrote:
Hi!
Very stupid question:
how to enter a dash char in OOo/AbiWord/KWord/...?
In OpenOffice:
Insert Special Character...
Look for the character that you want (long dash?).
And in AbiWord press Ctrl+M to open the Insert Symbol dialog.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've diddled around with the .config file in /usr/src/linux so much
with going thru fake menuconfig, renaming and etc that I'm not sure
anymore what I have running.
I'm pretty sure I selected to have access to kernel config from
running kernel but now can't remember
Felipe Ribeiro wrote:
I've done this, but i still ger the same message
# echo dev-java/sun-jdk /etc/portage/package.unmask
cheers
Antoine
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Neil Bothwick wrote:
Most of the reported problems with
testing packages seem to be from people running mixed
stable/testing systems.
Just a hunch, or do you keep numbers?
If everyone ran stable, how stable would it be with no testing?
If everyone ran either full stable or full testing, how
Luis Ortiz wrote:
[cut]
Add dev-java/sun-jdk-1.5 to /etc/portage/package.unmask
i.e.
# echo dev-java/sun-jdk /etc/portage/package.unmask
I wonder if he has something in package.mask? I have 1.4.2.10 installed
and nothing in my package.* files.
Have you done a emerge
On 12/20/05, Phil Sexton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mark Knecht wrote:
I'm sure that's possible. I could even use her current Win ME box in
some sort of dual boot config I suppose. However the reason I didn't
start with that idea is that I am not there to hand hold her. If she's
running
John J. Foster wrote:
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 12:41:51PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What options are out there?
My personal favorite is
app-crypt/gnupg
Aye, I keep website user info and passwords in text files with the
contents encrypted with GNUPG. Each website gets its own text
Peter, Luis, thanks!
Luis, you are right: I'm saying about simbol which looks like long dash
(U+2014 or U+2015 - they looks the same).
I have got a (sorry) ms word document for editing, and this char is used for a
straight speech. On those platform there is a combination like
Felipe Ribeiro wrote:
I've done this, but i still ger the same message
mustang felipe # emerge sun-jdk
Calculating dependencies
!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy sun-jdk have been masked.
!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request:
-
Antoine wrote:
Felipe Ribeiro wrote:
I've done this, but i still ger the same message
# echo dev-java/sun-jdk /etc/portage/package.unmask
cheers
Antoine
Please don't advice people to just put stuff to package.unmask without
providing some additional information. Packages are in
There's a file in /proc - a *.gz if I remember.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2005/12/20 Tue PM 01:37:46 EST
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Kernel config available from /proc
I've diddled around with the .config file in /usr/src/linux so much
with going thru
Here is a little trick you can use on google when looking for
converters.. Put the file extension of the file you want to convert in
front of the number 2. Like this: mdb2, and if you know the file
extension of the target, add that AFTER the 2. Like this: mdb2mysql or
mdb2sql. This is
Richard Fish wrote:
On 12/20/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just started running with ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 in /etc/make.conf
and decided to let the chips fall where they may. At least I don't
have to fiddle around with a mixture of stable and masked.
I doubt that above
Holas,
Before I did something (the big question), I could post to the gentoo-users
list through knode. I still get all the messages through kmail, but it's so
much easier to follow threads through knode. How can I post to the list
through knode? What did I un-do to stop this?
Thanks.
Rumen Yotov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I believe it was somewhere under /proc.
Check with: zcat /proc/config.gz.
But this will work only if this option was activated in kernel.
Haa ...yup thats it. But find /proc -iname '*config*' should have
turned that up so I must have been asleep at the
Aha... 'man xmodmap'... It works! Peter, thanks!
=== On Wednesday 21 December 2005 00:22, Peter Ruskin wrote: ===
...
I use .Xmodmap and type the emdash with Shift+AltGr+bracketright:
keycode 35 = bracketright braceright rightarrow emdash
I have this line in my ~/.bashrc:
[
I thought I'd try once more to get grub working in my prefered
resolution. I've been able to get what I want with lilo right along.
I just assumed grub would overwrite lilo code in the MBR but I'm
finding it does not. It cripples lilo boot so that it doesn't work
but I still get the dreaded
On Tuesday 20 December 2005 17:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about
'[gentoo-user] Shouldn't grub setup overwrite lilo in MBR':
Just for the record, shouldn't grub setup (hd0,0) overwrite any other
code in MBR? If it does not what does it mean?
It think you really mean just (hd0).
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Boyd
This may seem like a petty issue but I've been unable to locate a
solution to it.
After the finishes booting, it displays the contents of /etc/issue. In
it's default configuration, the result of this file after booting is:
This is ts.(none)
My question is: What do I have to do to
How can I get a real eyes on look at what is in the MBR. I'm trying
this:
dd if=/dev/hda of=mbr.img bs=512 count=1
Running strings on the result shows a litte of it:
strings mbr.img
LILO
LILOu)^h
`UUfP
fPYX
I thought maybe it could be mounted so:
mkdir mbr
mount -o loop mbr.img
My question is: What do I have to do to replace (none) with the
domainname configured in /etc/conf.d/domainname? (I need to keep this in
a standard format as I've got several servers I manage that reside in
different domains; hence, I can't just type in the domainname to resolve
this
On Tuesday 20 December 2005 5:45 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What this is all about is that I'm not succeding in overwriting the
lilo code mbr by running `grub setup'
The grub command succeeds but when I attempt to boot I still get a
crippled lilo response. By crippled I mean the dread:
read the reply to your other thread. you installed grub on the first
partition, not on the mbr. quite likely this over-wrote something
essential to lilo.
you can now boot with a boot cd and chroot into your environmment
(similar to what you did when installing).
From there you can fix either
On Tuesday 20 December 2005 17:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about
'[gentoo-user] More on mbr':
How can I get a real eyes on look at what is in the MBR. I'm trying
this:
dd if=/dev/hda of=mbr.img bs=512 count=1
I thought maybe it could be mounted so:
Just how much of a filesystem do you
On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 17:59:56 -0600
Joe Menola wrote:
On Tuesday 20 December 2005 5:45 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What this is all about is that I'm not succeding in overwriting the
lilo code mbr by running `grub setup'
The grub command succeeds but when I attempt to boot I still get a
It may be easier to just remove lilo with lilo -U
If you cant get the machine to boot so that you can type that, just use
a live cd like Knoppix or PCLinuxOS, then make symlinks so that lilo
would run. IE:
mv etc etc.old
ln -s /mnt/etc /etc
mv boot boot.old
ln -s /mnt/boot /boot
then
On 12/20/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How can I get a real eyes on look at what is in the MBR. I'm trying
this:
dd if=/dev/hda of=mbr.img bs=512 count=1
Running strings on the result shows a litte of it:
There are two things in the MBR: the partition table, and the boot
On 12/20/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I thought I'd try once more to get grub working in my prefered
resolution. I've been able to get what I want with lilo right along.
I just assumed grub would overwrite lilo code in the MBR but I'm
finding it does not. It cripples lilo
On Tuesday 20 December 2005 03:45 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How can I get a real eyes on look at what is in the MBR. I'm trying
this:
dd if=/dev/hda of=mbr.img bs=512 count=1
I thought maybe it could be mounted so:
mkdir mbr
mount -o loop mbr.img mbr
But mount wants to know
Dale wrote:
Hi folks,
I recently upgraded gcc and to KDE 3.5. I have a dial-up connection
and a serial modem. I did a emerge -e system twice and a emerge -e
world during the gcc upgrade. I then upgraded KDE. Since I did this
my modem connection has been really slow. It connects at the
Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
No, it says to install the boot code into the first partition of the
disk, not the mbr. This would be useful if you use a microsoft mbr
(fdisk /mbr, or fixboot from a recovery console), which looks for the
'active' partition to determine which OS to
Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
He has unfortunatle started two threads and the answer is staring him in the
face in the reply posted to the other thread.
Er sorry about the double whammy. And for the other posters info in
this thread... I'm not having trouble booting or any of that. I
XMMS-SID Version is: media-plugins/xmms-sid-0.7.4
Libsidplay version is: media-libs/libsidplay-2.1.1
Compiling xmms-sid yields this error:
xmms-sid.cc: In function `void* xs_play_loop(void*)':
xmms-sid.cc:199: error: using typedef-name `AFormat' after `enum'
xmms-sid.cc:199: error: invalid type
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