Re: [gentoo-user] Ebuild makin problem

2006-01-19 Thread Mike Yarmish
Zac Medico wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Yarmish wrote: Guys! What reasons of a message path.ebuild does not exist could be when I'm trying to emerge a custom created ebuild with emerging by path? Sry for silly question but I'm new to the world of ebuild making.

[gentoo-user] Old kernel versions

2006-01-19 Thread Beau E. Cox
Hi - When a new kernel ( I'm using gentoo-sources ) comes down the line, I go to /usr/src, ln -s to linux, copy current .config, yada, yada... It works fine. Now I notice in eix that all my old kernels are marked as 'installed'. I normally keep only the previous kernel in /boot. Can I safely

Re: [gentoo-user] Old kernel versions

2006-01-19 Thread Andres Becerra Sandoval
On 1/19/06, Beau E. Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi - When a new kernel ( I'm using gentoo-sources ) comes down the line, I go to /usr/src, ln -s to linux, copy current .config, yada, yada... It works fine. Now I notice in eix that all my old kernels are marked as 'installed'. I normally

[gentoo-user] Re: getting rid of gnome

2006-01-19 Thread Edwin Kapauni
I was having a very similar problem recently, and it turnes out it was not related to useflags. Instead I was having some stupid gnome-vfs in my world file. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Old kernel versions

2006-01-19 Thread Beau E. Cox
On Wednesday 18 January 2006 11:05 pm, Andres Becerra Sandoval wrote: On 1/19/06, Beau E. Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi - When a new kernel ( I'm using gentoo-sources ) comes down the line, I go to /usr/src, ln -s to linux, copy current .config, yada, yada... It works fine. Now I

Re: [gentoo-user] Old kernel versions

2006-01-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 10:05:20 +0100, Andres Becerra Sandoval wrote: A quick way to do it is: - back up your .config If you installed the kernel with make install, the config is already backed up to /boot. - emerge -C gentoo-sources or whatever-sources (this will clean all versions) -

Re: [gentoo-user] New install, I still can't send email. Same error too.

2006-01-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 21:05:12 -0600, Dale wrote: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] www-client/mozilla-1.7.12-r2 +crypt -debug +gnome +ipv6 +java +ldap -mozcalendar -mozdevelop -moznocompose -moznoirc -moznomail -moznoxft -mozsvg -postgres +ssl +truetype -xinerama +xprint 0 kB

Re: [gentoo-user] Old kernel versions

2006-01-19 Thread Andres Becerra Sandoval
On 1/19/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 10:05:20 +0100, Andres Becerra Sandoval wrote: A quick way to do it is: - back up your .config If you installed the kernel with make install, the config is already backed up to /boot. - emerge -C gentoo-sources or

[gentoo-user] How to safely unmerge a package

2006-01-19 Thread Catalin Grigoroscuta
Hi, I have some trouble is safely removing a package. I remember doing a qpkg -q -I package to find out whether the package is still used, and the remove it. But now, qpkg does not exist anymore, and I've read it was replaced by equery. However, there are two problems with equery: 1. it

Re: [gentoo-user] New install, I still can't send email. Same error too.

2006-01-19 Thread Dale
OK, some of this is getting out of order here. I changed the flag in my USE to -ipv6. I then recompiled the programs that it changed on. It was Mozilla and a couple others as well that Mozilla uses. If you get this it is working, for the moment any way. It did work earlier to but then stopped

Re: [gentoo-user] How to safely unmerge a package

2006-01-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 14:25:00 +0200, Catalin Grigoroscuta wrote: But now, qpkg does not exist anymore, and I've read it was replaced by equery. qpkg does exist, but it has been deprecated, so it is not installed into your path any more. You can move it to /usr/local/bin from its current

Re: [gentoo-user] New install, I still can't send email. Same error too.

2006-01-19 Thread Dale
On Thursday 19 January 2006 06:38, Dale wrote: OK, some of this is getting out of order here. I changed the flag in my USE to -ipv6. I then recompiled the programs that it changed on. It was Mozilla and a couple others as well that Mozilla uses. If you get this it is working, for the

Re: [gentoo-user] New install, I still can't send email. Same error too.

2006-01-19 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 19, 2006, at 7:11 AM, Dale wrote: On Thursday 19 January 2006 06:38, Dale wrote: OK, some of this is getting out of order here. I changed the flag in my USE to -ipv6. I then recompiled the programs that it changed on. It was Mozilla and a couple others as well that Mozilla uses.

Re: [gentoo-user] New install, I still can't send email. Same error too.

2006-01-19 Thread Dale
On Thursday 19 January 2006 07:14, John Jolet wrote: I think you need a new isp. Don't tempt me. I did a google search last night and the one that actually supports Linux doesn't have any local numbers. I tried to connect to my brothers Bell South the other night and it won't let me

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-utils + gnome

2006-01-19 Thread habutre .
Hi again, Well, I'd to talk that alsamixer it´ s all in 100%, nothing mute. Other I turned off esound, but nothing happened, my sound following completely mute :(. I tried ls /tmp /dev/dsp and I didn't get any error only silence But when I remove alsa-utils and change de volume controls all

[gentoo-user] X ?

2006-01-19 Thread Ayan Öztürk
hi,i have this in AmaroK:http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/5130/xisaretleri8yh.png and this in Kontact:http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/1793/kontactxleri9xu.png so do you have any idea about what are these X signs? :) and how can i remove them?thanks,--Ayan

Re: [gentoo-user] dying hard drive?

2006-01-19 Thread matthew . garman
On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 06:15:20PM -0700, Richard Fish wrote: I was able to resurrect a drive with a similar problem with: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=32k You can then check that the drive is working with: dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/null bs=32k If either command fails, then it is time to

RE: [gentoo-user] How to safely unmerge a package

2006-01-19 Thread Michael Kintzios
-Original Message- From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 19 January 2006 12:42 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to safely unmerge a package On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 14:25:00 +0200, Catalin Grigoroscuta wrote: But now, qpkg does not

RE: [gentoo-user] [OT?] ram question

2006-01-19 Thread Michael Kintzios
-Original Message- From: Ryan Sims [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 14 January 2006 23:24 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] ram question My bios will let me change the FSB frequency (100, 133, 166 and 200MHz), and then sets the ram by that

RE: [gentoo-user] New install, I still can't send email. Same error too.

2006-01-19 Thread Michael Kintzios
-Original Message- From: Dale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 19 January 2006 04:56 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New install, I still can't send email. Same error too. On Wednesday 18 January 2006 22:10, Glenn Enright wrote: Some ISPs may

RE: [gentoo-user] Old kernel versions

2006-01-19 Thread Michael Kintzios
-Original Message- From: Andres Becerra Sandoval [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 19 January 2006 10:52 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Old kernel versions On 1/19/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 10:05:20 +0100, Andres

RE: [gentoo-user] How to safely unmerge a package

2006-01-19 Thread Paul Varner
On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 15:32 +, Michael Kintzios wrote: -Original Message- From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 19 January 2006 12:42 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to safely unmerge a package On Thu, 19 Jan 2006

Re: [gentoo-user] How to safely unmerge a package

2006-01-19 Thread Paul Varner
On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 14:25 +0200, Catalin Grigoroscuta wrote: But now, qpkg does not exist anymore, and I've read it was replaced by equery. See other messages for how to get qpkg back. However, there are two problems with equery: 1. it disregards the use flags. equery depends package

[gentoo-user] Multiple Firefox v1.5 Instances

2006-01-19 Thread Richard Ruth
When I was using FireFox v 1.04 I could start multiple instances of FireFox by starting FireFox like this: /usr/bin/firefox -ProfileManager Now that I am using FireFox V1.5 (Deer Park), if FireFox is already running, /usr/bin/firefox -ProfileManager does not start the profile manager, instead

[gentoo-user] Multiple Firefox v1.5 Instances

2006-01-19 Thread Richard Ruth
When I was using FireFox v 1.04 I could start multiple instances of FireFox by starting FireFox like this: /usr/bin/firefox -ProfileManager Now that I am using FireFox V1.5 (Deer Park), if FireFox is already running, /usr/bin/firefox -ProfileManager does not start the profile manager, instead

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: getting rid of gnome

2006-01-19 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Thursday 19 January 2006 04:38, a tiny voice compelled Edwin Kapauni to write: I was having a very similar problem recently, and it turnes out it was not related to useflags. Instead I was having some stupid gnome-vfs in my world file. Good guess, but there is nothing in world like that.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to safely unmerge a package

2006-01-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 15:32:04 -, Michael Kintzios wrote: qpkg does exist, but it has been deprecated, so it is not installed into your path any more. You can move it to /usr/local/bin from its current location of /usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-version/deprecated/qpkg/qpkg Or you could

[gentoo-user] intermittent input/output errors installing gentoo with graphic installer

2006-01-19 Thread Rafael Barrera Oro
Hello I am trying to install Gentoo 2005.1 using the experimental LiveCD and i am getting intermittent input/output errors that make the installation crash. I was wondering if there were known issues with VIA KT4AV chipset when it comes to linux, but i could not find any. If anyone has an idea

Re: [gentoo-user] Old kernel versions

2006-01-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 15:36:53 -, Michael Kintzios wrote: Also it doesn't remove the source distpackages, or the lib/modules for the particular kernel version. There may be a script lurking somewhere in the forums, but I remove these manually out of habit. Removing the source tarballs for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: getting rid of gnome

2006-01-19 Thread Rumen Yotov
On (19/01/06 11:30), Ernie Schroder wrote: On Thursday 19 January 2006 04:38, a tiny voice compelled Edwin Kapauni to write: I was having a very similar problem recently, and it turnes out it was not related to useflags. Instead I was having some stupid gnome-vfs in my world file. Good

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: getting rid of gnome

2006-01-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:30:52 -0500, Ernie Schroder wrote: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [nomerge ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-alsa-0.8.10 [nomerge ] media-libs/gst-plugins-0.8.10 +alsa -debug +esd +oss [ebuild N] gnome-base/gconf-2.10.1-r1 -debug -doc -static 0 kB

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

2006-01-19 Thread Charles Marcus
Richard Fish wrote: On 1/18/06, Charles Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This may be the ultimate dumb question, but no amount of googling could satisfy my ignorance... Is there any difference? If not, why are the double hyphens almost always specified? -- is the GNU getopt syntax for long

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

2006-01-19 Thread Charles Marcus
-opt is processed as 6 options ('o', 'p', and 't'). s/6/3/g eh? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Install Gentoo with SATA DVD/CD drive?

2006-01-19 Thread Charles Marcus
Anyone got this to work? Would appreciate any pointers... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Gentoo with SATA DVD/CD drive?

2006-01-19 Thread Jeff
Yeah man. I have mine at my desktop working just fine. In your kernel compile, you need to peek at the low-level SCSI drivers section, and see that your drive might appear in there, as well as, pay attention to the naming convention that Linux uses in /etc/fstab for SATA devices - for

[gentoo-user] KDE/fluxbox/misc emerges dying with strange compile errors.

2006-01-19 Thread Jeff
Ok guys. The list seems just as active as the Gentoo forums - so I'm going to try here. I've been working on upgrading gcc/system/world on a particular box. For reasons unknown, there seems to be a whole bunch of broken stuff lying around, and now, I can't for the life of me get KDE or

[gentoo-user] Re: Install Gentoo with SATA DVD/CD drive?

2006-01-19 Thread Charles Marcus
Anyone got this to work? Would appreciate any pointers... Yeah man. I have mine at my desktop working just fine. In your kernel compile, you need to peek at the low-level SCSI drivers section, and see that your drive might appear in there, as well as, pay attention to the naming

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

2006-01-19 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/19/06, Charles Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --sync is correct. -sync is wrong and generates an error. Ahem... not for me it didn't... thats why I asked - wondered if I may What versions of portage python (emerge -pv portage python)? -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2006-01-19 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/19/06, Charles Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -opt is processed as 6 options ('o', 'p', and 't'). s/6/3/g eh? It is 'sed' syntax. In english: replace all ocurrences of the pattern '6' with the string '3'. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE/fluxbox/misc emerges dying with strange compile errors.

2006-01-19 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/19/06, Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: .libs/dynamicrequest.o: In function `Arts::DynamicRequest::~DynamicRequest()': dynamicrequest.cc:(.text+0x1a5): undefined reference to `std::basic_stringchar, std::char_traitschar, std::allocatorchar ::_Rep::_S_empty_rep_storage' Definitely looks

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: getting rid of gnome

2006-01-19 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Thursday 19 January 2006 12:39, a tiny voice compelled Neil Bothwick to write: On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:30:52 -0500, Ernie Schroder wrote: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [nomerge ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-alsa-0.8.10 [nomerge ] media-libs/gst-plugins-0.8.10 +alsa

[gentoo-user] which video card for dell2005fpw

2006-01-19 Thread michael
I bought the Dell 2005FPW and am not surprised to learn that my old ATI Rage 128 does not support the Dell's native resolution of 1680x1050. I'm looking for recommendations for a new video card. Obviously something that works well with Linux in general and Gentoo in particular. Any suggestions?

[gentoo-user] SATA Hardware vs Software RAID

2006-01-19 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I'm moving from SCSI to SATA and was wondering if anyone has any experience with the speed of software RAID vs hardware RAID. I'm currently using hardware RAID. Thanks. -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2006-01-19 Thread Michael A. Smith
Charles Marcus wrote: Richard Fish wrote: On 1/18/06, Charles Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This may be the ultimate dumb question, but no amount of googling could satisfy my ignorance... Is there any difference? If not, why are the double hyphens almost always specified? -- is the GNU

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple Firefox v1.5 Instances

2006-01-19 Thread Holly Bostick
Richard Ruth schreef: How do I start a second instance of FireFox V1.5? (I want to do this because I have different proxy settings, etc. with each different profile.) There is no need to start a second instance of Firefox just to change your proxy settings; there are several extensions

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA Hardware vs Software RAID

2006-01-19 Thread Mike Williams
On Thursday 19 January 2006 18:33, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I'm moving from SCSI to SATA and was wondering if anyone has any experience with the speed of software RAID vs hardware RAID.  I'm currently using hardware RAID. Yesterday an IBM ServeRAID decided to mark it's 3 SCSI disks as defunct

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA Hardware vs Software RAID

2006-01-19 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Thanks for the in-the-field experience. My feeling was as you indicated that CPUs are cheap and powerful so they can do the work. However, I like to hear from others who have been there! On Thursday January 19 2006 14:39, Mike Williams wrote: On Thursday 19 January 2006 18:33, Brett I.

[gentoo-user] Sandbox access violation

2006-01-19 Thread Mikhail Yarmish
Hello guys, I'm trying to write an ebuild for xmms plug-in, but always get an error during of emerging it. Here it is: --- ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY --- LOG FILE = /var/log/sandbox/sandbox-kde-misc_-_xmms-agent-1.1-15026.log open_wr:

[gentoo-user] different video formats to mpeg2

2006-01-19 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi list, i need to transform different video format, that is wmv, rm, xvid and divx to mpeg2. Is there a utility that deals with this? Regards, MC -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] different video formats to mpeg2

2006-01-19 Thread Mauro Faccenda
On Thursday 19 January 2006 17:17, Marco Calviani wrote: Hi list, i need to transform different video format, that is wmv, rm, xvid and divx to mpeg2. Is there a utility that deals with this? Regards, MC transcode. []'s Mauro -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA Hardware vs Software RAID

2006-01-19 Thread kashani
Mike Williams wrote: Yesterday an IBM ServeRAID decided to mark it's 3 SCSI disks as defunct when they are all in fact perfectly fine, giving me a 4am finish this morning after the major hassle of rebuilding, so I'm now heavily biased against hardware RAID, when I know software RAID is fully

Re: [gentoo-user] different video formats to mpeg2

2006-01-19 Thread Nick Rout
any2vob transfers pretty well anything to .vob, which is dvd compatible mpeg-2 google finds it. On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 21:17:05 +0100 Marco Calviani wrote: Hi list, i need to transform different video format, that is wmv, rm, xvid and divx to mpeg2. Is there a utility that deals with this?

Re: [gentoo-user] Old kernel versions

2006-01-19 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 10:05:20 +0100 Andres Becerra Sandoval wrote: Yes, you can clean the old kernel versions, this will free you some space. A quick way to do it is: - back up your .config - emerge -C gentoo-sources or whatever-sources (this will clean all versions) - emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA Hardware vs Software RAID

2006-01-19 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 19, 2006, at 2:23 PM, kashani wrote: Mike Williams wrote: Yesterday an IBM ServeRAID decided to mark it's 3 SCSI disks as defunct when they are all in fact perfectly fine, giving me a 4am finish this morning after the major hassle of rebuilding, so I'm now heavily biased against

Re: [gentoo-user] different video formats to mpeg2

2006-01-19 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi Nick and Mauro, any2vob transfers pretty well anything to .vob, which is dvd compatible mpeg-2 thanks for your help. I would like to add that i've also found the KmPg2 utility that is able to cope with it. Regards, Mc -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Sandbox access violation

2006-01-19 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mikhail Yarmish wrote: Hello guys, I'm trying to write an ebuild for xmms plug-in, but always get an error during of emerging it. Here it is: --- ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY --- LOG FILE =

Re: [gentoo-user] different video formats to mpeg2

2006-01-19 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 21:39:55 +0100 Marco Calviani wrote: Hi Nick and Mauro, any2vob transfers pretty well anything to .vob, which is dvd compatible mpeg-2 thanks for your help. I would like to add that i've also found the KmPg2 utility that is able to cope with it. Looks interesting

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA Hardware vs Software RAID

2006-01-19 Thread Jarry
John Jolet wrote: I personally prefer hardware raid, because if you go software raid, I don't believe your /boot partition can exist on the raid. so each drive would have to have a /boot partitionor has that need been alleviated? Not true. Of course /boot can be on raid too, but in

Re: [gentoo-user] different video formats to mpeg2

2006-01-19 Thread Toby 'qubit' Cubitt
On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 09:17:05PM +0100, Marco Calviani wrote: Hi list, i need to transform different video format, that is wmv, rm, xvid and divx to mpeg2. Is there a utility that deals with this? mencoder, which is part of mplayer, might help if you have a few days spare to read the many

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA Hardware vs Software RAID

2006-01-19 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 19, 2006, at 3:02 PM, Jarry wrote: John Jolet wrote: I personally prefer hardware raid, because if you go software raid, I don't believe your /boot partition can exist on the raid. so each drive would have to have a /boot partitionor has that need been alleviated? Not true.

[gentoo-user] Emerge files sometimes just abort without error

2006-01-19 Thread Daevid Vincent
I've noticed lately that when I do an emerge -Davu world (for example), that some of the ebuilds just abort part way through compilation. No error. No anything. I'm just sitting there at a command prompt like nothing happened. What gives? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge files sometimes just abort without error

2006-01-19 Thread Mike Owen
On 1/19/06, Daevid Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've noticed lately that when I do an emerge -Davu world (for example), that some of the ebuilds just abort part way through compilation. No error. No anything. I'm just sitting there at a command prompt like nothing happened. What gives?

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

2006-01-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 13:39:48 -0500, Michael A. Smith wrote: Now, why did it not generate an error for me, I wonder? Maybe you're thinking of emerge sync: $ emerge -sync !!! Error: -y is an invalid short action or option. Same here. emerge -sync is the same as emerge -s -y -n -c. --

Re: [gentoo-user] different video formats to mpeg2

2006-01-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 21:17:05 +0100, Marco Calviani wrote: i need to transform different video format, that is wmv, rm, xvid and divx to mpeg2. Is there a utility that deals with this? ffmpeg, transcode and mencoder; in ascending order of complexity and flexibility. -- Neil Bothwick

[gentoo-user] Kppp and two different accounts

2006-01-19 Thread Dale
Hi again, I'm trying to connect to my brothers ISP and test this email thing out a bit more. I logged out of my user dale and logged in as test with a empty home directory. I opened Kppp and set up a new account called Bell South, got the modem set up and all that stuff. When I tell it to

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge files sometimes just abort without error

2006-01-19 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Friday 20 January 2006 07:33, Mike Owen wrote: On 1/19/06, Daevid Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've noticed lately that when I do an emerge -Davu world (for example), that some of the ebuilds just abort part way through compilation. No error. No anything. I'm just sitting there at a

Re: [gentoo-user] getting rid of gnome

2006-01-19 Thread Matthias Langer
On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 16:22 -0500, Ernie Schroder wrote: On Wednesday 18 January 2006 14:46, a tiny voice compelled Neil Bothwick to write: On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 14:21:19 -0500, Ernie Schroder wrote: These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order: Calculating world

Re: [gentoo-user] How to safely unmerge a package

2006-01-19 Thread Dave Jones
But now, qpkg does not exist anymore, and I've read it was replaced by equery. qpkg does exist, but it has been deprecated, so it is not installed into your path any more. You can move it to /usr/local/bin from its current location of /usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-version/deprecated/qpkg/qpkg Or

[gentoo-user] Hardware Testing a PC

2006-01-19 Thread Midnight Toker
Memtest86 is (IMHO) a fantastic piece of software, but as the name suggests, only tests RAM. I'm wondering if anyone can recommend software which will put a PC through a full series of tests, including CPU, RAM, HDD... just generally thrash a machine so I know the hardware is good. It

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware Testing a PC

2006-01-19 Thread Midnight Toker
Not really an option. I want to be able to test PCs running Windoze as well as Linux / whatever else, so it cant really frag the harddrive. -Although i like to think a Stage1 Gentoo build puts new boxes through their paces :) Any other ideas? Possibly something that could test

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware Testing a PC

2006-01-19 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 20 January 2006 02:01, Nick Rout wrote: Install gentoo and then compile kde/gnome/openoffice while playing three movies. booom instand oom ;) but compiling kde or ooo is a better ram test than memtest86, which is known for false positive and not finding obvious errors. cpubburn

[gentoo-user] How To Set NIC? (Was: Rx Errors on NIC)

2006-01-19 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 12/29/2005 3:33 PM Drew Tomlinson wrote: I have a AMD Athlon 2800+ processor running on a Asus A7N8X Deluxe motherboard. This motherboard uses the Nvidia NForce2 chipset. It has both an Nvidia and a 3Com 100 mbps network adapter integrated. Initially I used the Nvidia network adapter

[gentoo-user] Packages list

2006-01-19 Thread Felipe Ribeiro
Where do I find the list with all installed packages? Cheers, Felipe -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Packages list

2006-01-19 Thread Phil Sexton
Felipe Ribeiro wrote: Where do I find the list with all installed packages? Cheers, Felipe The ones you emerged are listed in the file: /var/lib/portage/world Want it in alphabetical order? cat /var/lib/portage/world|less -- Phil My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info Our 2nd CD:

Re: [gentoo-user] Packages list

2006-01-19 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Check out man equery. On Thursday January 19 2006 19:25, Felipe Ribeiro wrote: Where do I find the list with all installed packages? Cheers, Felipe -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Packages list

2006-01-19 Thread Eugene Rosenzweig
Felipe Ribeiro wrote: Where do I find the list with all installed packages? Cheers, Felipe this will list all installed packages: equery list Eugene. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Kppp and two different accounts

2006-01-19 Thread Dale
On Thursday 19 January 2006 17:17, Dale wrote: What do I need to change to make this work? Anybody ever run into this before? Oh, I'm back at a slow speed again and I'm in Kmail to boot. :-( Dale :-) Nobody has ever set up two accounts before? This is strange. I also tried wvdial,

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware Testing a PC

2006-01-19 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 20 January 2006 02:16, Midnight Toker wrote: Not really an option. I want to be able to test PCs running Windoze as well as Linux / whatever else, so it cant really frag the harddrive. -Although i like to think a Stage1 Gentoo build puts new boxes through their paces :) Any other

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA Hardware vs Software RAID

2006-01-19 Thread Christopher Mosher
I am currently dual booting Gentoo and Windoze on an SATA RAID 0. My boot partition is installed on the RAID as the two hard drives are the only bootable media I have in my system. I was able to get it going thanks in large part to this topic on the forum:

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA Hardware vs Software RAID

2006-01-19 Thread Christopher Mosher
I am running it on the ICH6 software raid just for clarification. From: Christopher Mosher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SATA Hardware vs Software RAID Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 22:36:28 -0600 I am currently

[gentoo-user] Need help getting packages available.

2006-01-19 Thread Dale
I used to use etcat to see all versions of a package that are available in portage. I would like to see what versions of ppp are available but etcat is no longer here. I guess portage took it out. I knew it was coming. I figure something out and then it is gone. =-O Me and equery are not the

[gentoo-user] Installing KDE...Again....

2006-01-19 Thread Ian
Hey everyone. Here is my situation. Its a rather long one: I want to get kde 3.4.3 without arts. At all. I am hoping to go USE=-arts +alsa emerge =kde-3.4.3 That seems easy, but it isn't. I already have 3.4.1 installed. As well as 3.5.0. I think I used the split ebuild thing (grrr) which

[gentoo-user] Proxy server related issue

2006-01-19 Thread askar k
Hello! I'm planning to setup proxy server. The situation as follows: 1) I have mail server, which works also as firewall and router. This mail server has 2 NIC, one connected to ADSL modem, 2nd to HUB, allow other computers in the LAN to go to internet 2) As the situation is that I can't setup

[gentoo-user] Blocking weirdness

2006-01-19 Thread Michael Sullivan
What do you make of this? bullet ~ # emerge -pvuD world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] dev-php/mod_php (is blocking dev-lang/php-5.0.5-r5) [blocks B ] dev-php/php (is blocking dev-lang/php-5.0.5-r5) [blocks B

RE: [gentoo-user] Blocking weirdness

2006-01-19 Thread Jean Blignaut
Just saw similar on my system: [blocks B ] dev-php/PEAR-Archive_Tar (is blocking dev-php/PEAR-PEAR-1.3.6-r4) [blocks B ] dev-php/PEAR-Console_Getopt (is blocking dev-php/PEAR-PEAR-1.3.6-r4) [blocks B ] dev-php/mod_php (is blocking dev-lang/php-5.0.5-r5) [blocks B ] dev-php/php (is

Re: [gentoo-user] How To Set NIC? (Was: Rx Errors on NIC)

2006-01-19 Thread Rumen Yotov
On (19/01/06 18:15), Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 12/29/2005 3:33 PM Drew Tomlinson wrote: I have a AMD Athlon 2800+ processor running on a Asus A7N8X Deluxe motherboard. This motherboard uses the Nvidia NForce2 chipset. It has both an Nvidia and a 3Com 100 mbps network adapter integrated.