Re: [gentoo-user] What do I do about slocate 3.1/2.7 ?

2006-04-22 Thread Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila
On 22:27 Fri 21 Apr , Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:24:11 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: su -c ebuild /path/to/slocate-2.7-r8.ebuild digest;emerge --verbose --ask slocate or even emerge --verbose --ask --digest slocate Didn't know about '--digest' switch... As I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] What do I do about slocate 3.1/2.7 ?

2006-04-22 Thread Mick
On 21/04/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:24:11 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: su -c ebuild /path/to/slocate-2.7-r8.ebuild digest;emerge --verbose --ask slocate or even emerge --verbose --ask --digest slocate But do an emerge --sync first. The most likely

Re: [gentoo-user] Oracle DB question

2006-04-22 Thread Alexander Skwar
Chris White wrote: On Friday 21 April 2006 12:29 am, pat wrote: Hi, I want to ask if there's possible to install Oracle DB (9 and higher) on Gentoo and if there's a tutorial/howto how to do it. Give me a free license for oracle and you'll get a really nice howto ;D You don't need a license

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Completness of AVR toolset in dev-embedded?

2006-04-22 Thread Sascha Lucas
On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, Petr Kocmid wrote: Well, now I found one: one needs to be a clearvoyant to detect that dev-embedded/avr-libc is probably supposed to be used with sys-devel/crossdev toolset generator. right. # crossdev -t avr builds avr-libc / avr-gcc-3.4.6 / avr-bin-utils-2.16.1-r2

[gentoo-user] Do NOT install evolution

2006-04-22 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hello! Recently, I deinstalled evolution, as I don't use it and it's thus just a waste for me. At a subsequent emerge -Duvat world, I see: [nomerge ] gnome-base/gnome-2.12.3 USE=-accessibility cdr -dvdr hal [nomerge ] net-analyzer/gnome-nettool-1.4.1 USE=-debug [ebuild N]

Re: [gentoo-user] netfilter: -P INPUT DROP in kernel

2006-04-22 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Daniel Waeber wrote: Because I'm new to Linux, this is my first patch, so i don't know if everything is done right. Perhaps someone can examine it before I send it to kernel.org. Give your patch a descriptive name (when attaching it). Don't add unneeded blank lines. And there's a spello in

Re: [gentoo-user] Do NOT install evolution

2006-04-22 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi Alexander, On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 13:15:31 +0200 Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to make emerge/Portage pretend that mail-client/evolution is already installed WITHOUT actually installing it? I do NOT want to deinstall gnome-base/gnome and I also don't really want to

Re: [gentoo-user] KControl: Password User Account settings

2006-04-22 Thread Abhay Kedia
So kdepasswd is probably what you are looking for. Ah...thanks a lot man. What a fine way to troubleshoot :) Thanks to everyone else as well who replied. -- Regards, Abhay pgp94js4y0nKz.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] Re: What do I do about slocate 3.1/2.7 ?

2006-04-22 Thread Jeff Grossman
Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 21/04/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:24:11 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: su -c ebuild /path/to/slocate-2.7-r8.ebuild digest;emerge --verbose --ask slocate or even emerge --verbose --ask --digest slocate But do an emerge

[gentoo-user] Emerge sync says it's failing, but succeeds anyway. What's up with that?

2006-04-22 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Every time I emerge sync I get pretty much the same first few lines: rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes read so far) rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(189) Welcome to cockatoo.gentoo.org Server Address : 65.19.163.230 Contact Name : [EMAIL

[gentoo-user] How to dub VHS to DVD with Gentoo?

2006-04-22 Thread mattr
Does anyone know of any hardware and software that can be used to transfer VHS tapes to DVDs using Gentoo Linux on x86 hardware? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Grub won't boot SATA WinXP disk

2006-04-22 Thread mattr
I just put in a SATA drive into an otherwise PATA machine. I put Windows XP on the new drive. I added the following to my grub.conf: title=Windows XP rootnoverify (hd2,0) makeactive chainloader +1 but when I tell grub to boot this item, I get an otherwise blank screen with the text:

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub won't boot SATA WinXP disk

2006-04-22 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
Hi, I have had a similar problem, and it was about the disk and partition numering. When I configured grub, it seems to me that SATA disk was disk 0, but when botting it was disk 1, I saw you try some combination of numbers, but, you are sure about partition number ? it was in fack at first

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub won't boot SATA WinXP disk

2006-04-22 Thread Christopher E
Hello there, Try adding a map in there like this map (hd1) (hd0) map (hd0) (hd1) now I am assuming that your windows is on /dev/sdb in linux or its it your first drive if it is /dev/sdb the above code should work, put this under the windows title :-) the reason you are puting this twice is to

Re: [gentoo-user] Hotpluggable SATA question...

2006-04-22 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/21/06, Sieb, Glenn E (Glenn) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm. I have servers using the SuperMicro P8SCT motherboard, which supports hot-pluggable SATA drives. In Gentoo they show as being SCSI, fine, no problem with that. If I hotplug a drive into the chassis--it powers up, but Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: loooong delay with keyboard

2006-04-22 Thread Matias Grana
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 09:11:35PM +0200, Francesco Talamona wrote: On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 09:16:41PM +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote: On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 10:21:27PM +0300, Mantas Povilaitis wrote: This list is awesome... Yes, your help worked fine. Thank you guys! Matias --

Re: [gentoo-user] ndiswrapper module problem

2006-04-22 Thread Gary Walker
On 20/04/06, Fernando Meira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, after updating ndiswrapper to version 1.13 i became unable to use it. I get this in dmesg: ndiswrapper: Unknown symbol wrap_suspend_urbs ndiswrapper: Unknown symbol wrap_resume_urbsAre you using a USB based wifi adapter? I got this error

Re: [gentoo-user] Do NOT install evolution

2006-04-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 14:33:26 +0200, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Is there a way to make emerge/Portage pretend that mail-client/evolution is already installed WITHOUT actually installing it? I do NOT want to deinstall gnome-base/gnome and I also don't really want to put gnome-base/gnome in a

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge sync says it's failing, but succeeds anyway. What's up with that?

2006-04-22 Thread Jeremy Olexa
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Every time I emerge sync I get pretty much the same first few lines: rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes read so far) rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(189) Welcome to cockatoo.gentoo.org http://cockatoo.gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub won't boot SATA WinXP disk

2006-04-22 Thread maxim wexler
I've done this on SATA and IDE drives and combos of the same and I never got XP to boot unless I used rootnoverify (hd0,0). Macro$haft insists on being first in my experience. FWIW. Make a grub boot disk(if you haven't already) and practice until you find the proper sequence of commands; then you

[gentoo-user] emerge wvdial issues

2006-04-22 Thread maxim wexler
Hi all, emerge wvdial conked out at snip checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc accepts -g... yes checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge wvdial issues

2006-04-22 Thread Justin Findlay
On 4/22/06, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc accepts -g... yes checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed checking for style of include used by make...

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub won't boot SATA WinXP disk

2006-04-22 Thread Mick
On 22/04/06, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've done this on SATA and IDE drives and combos of the same and I never got XP to boot unless I used rootnoverify (hd0,0). Macro$haft insists on being first in my experience. FWIW. The map command bypasses that little problem, by virtually

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: System unusable after updating lvm

2006-04-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 07:33:38 +0300, Rumen Yotov wrote: Same here, still no fix (was to be expected, but had to try). Now emerging 2.02.04-r1 (03, 04 are gone, 02-r1 is back) have some new patches. I've just emerged 2.02.04-r1 and it rebooted fine. -- Neil Bothwick Windows booting: insert

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub won't boot SATA WinXP disk

2006-04-22 Thread mattr
On Saturday 22 April 2006 11:22 am, Christopher E wrote: Hello there, Try adding a map in there like this map (hd1) (hd0) map (hd0) (hd1) now I am assuming that your windows is on /dev/sdb in linux or its it your first drive if it is /dev/sdb the above code should work, put this under

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge sync says it's failing, but succeeds anyway. What's up with that?

2006-04-22 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Thanks for filing the bug. It now is counted as resolved, and it may well be so, because I just tried emerge sync again, and the problem is gone. Thanks. BTW, does anyone know how this magic is done? Where are the site configurations kept -- is it all in the nameservers? ++ kevinOn 4/22/06,

Re: [gentoo-user] Do NOT install evolution

2006-04-22 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Saturday 22 April 2006 23:46, Neil Bothwick wrote: Or you could simply do the sensible thing and use KDE ;-) Ouch!!! I hope you have your flame suit on! -- Regards, Abhay pgpfaDBRCih4g.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Do NOT install evolution

2006-04-22 Thread Kristian Poul Herkild
Abhay Kedia wrote: On Saturday 22 April 2006 23:46, Neil Bothwick wrote: Or you could simply do the sensible thing and use KDE ;-) Ouch!!! I hope you have your flame suit on! I thought the sensible thing was GNUstep+WindowMaker ;) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge wvdial issues

2006-04-22 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Sunday 23 April 2006 00:13, maxim wexler wrote: checking for XML::Parser... configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool Did you upgrade expat to v2.0? If yes then have a look here http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-450797-highlight-expat.html -- Regards, Abhay

Re: [gentoo-user] Do NOT install evolution

2006-04-22 Thread b.n.
Kristian Poul Herkild wrote: Abhay Kedia wrote: On Saturday 22 April 2006 23:46, Neil Bothwick wrote: Or you could simply do the sensible thing and use KDE ;-) Ouch!!! I hope you have your flame suit on! I thought the sensible thing was GNUstep+WindowMaker ;) Nope, it's xfce4! :P --

Re: [gentoo-user] Do NOT install evolution

2006-04-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 02:46:18 +0530, Abhay Kedia wrote: Or you could simply do the sensible thing and use KDE ;-) Ouch!!! I hope you have your flame suit on! It's installed as part of kde-meta ;-) -- Neil Bothwick ...And it's 'WORF', not 'Woof'. * Worf signature.asc Description: PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] Do NOT install evolution

2006-04-22 Thread Maxime Robert-Schreyers
b.n. wrote: Kristian Poul Herkild wrote: Abhay Kedia wrote: On Saturday 22 April 2006 23:46, Neil Bothwick wrote: Or you could simply do the sensible thing and use KDE ;-) Ouch!!! I hope you have your flame suit on! I thought the sensible thing was GNUstep+WindowMaker ;) Nope,

[gentoo-user] Gnome 2.14 splash

2006-04-22 Thread JimD
Every time I start gnome the pretty splash comes up but it won't go away until I click on it. Has anyone see this oddity? If so, is there a cure? Thanks, JimD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ndiswrapper module problem

2006-04-22 Thread Fernando Meira
On 4/22/06, Gary Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20/04/06, Fernando Meira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, after updating ndiswrapper to version 1.13 i became unable to use it. I get this in dmesg: ndiswrapper: Unknown symbol wrap_suspend_urbs ndiswrapper: Unknown symbol wrap_resume_urbsAre you

[gentoo-user] IrDA crashes every time

2006-04-22 Thread Mick
Hi All, I have not been able to use irda on an old laptop (Evo N600v) that I've inherited. :-( I can launch /etc/init.d/irda start, which brings up /usr/bin/irattach. It all goes pear-shaped from there. The log shows: === Apr 23 00:51:17 lappy irattach: executing: 'echo

[gentoo-user] Re: IrDA crashes every time

2006-04-22 Thread Mick
On 23/04/06, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I have not been able to use irda on an old laptop (Evo N600v) that I've inherited. :-( I can launch /etc/init.d/irda start, which brings up /usr/bin/irattach. It all goes pear-shaped from there. The log shows: ===

Re: [gentoo-user] ndiswrapper module problem

2006-04-22 Thread Maurice E Johnson
Try # env-update #source /etc/profile DOH!!! reboot with hardware still connected :) On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 00:50 +0200, Fernando Meira wrote: On 4/22/06, Gary Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20/04/06, Fernando Meira

Re: [gentoo-user] partitioning for multimedia performance and dual-booting linux/windex

2006-04-22 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 06:11:55PM -0700, Robert Persson wrote The questions I have are: 1. What file system should I use for shared storage and scratchspace between the two OSs? 2. Would it be feasible and worthwhile to stripe a linux scratchspace volume across both disks? QUESTION 1:

Re: [gentoo-user] How to dub VHS to DVD with Gentoo?

2006-04-22 Thread K Barter
On 4/22/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of any hardware and software that can be used to transfer VHStapes to DVDs using Gentoo Linux on x86 hardware?--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list I have used a VCR, hooked it up to my DV video camera, and then used Kino to

[gentoo-user] kde-base/konqueror-3.5.2: Serious bug in image scrolling

2006-04-22 Thread Erik
I have reported a serious bug in the image scrolling of Konqueror: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126067 Could someone with a high resolution try to reproduce? If you are able to reproduce it, please add a comment to the bug report. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: IrDA crashes every time

2006-04-22 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 02:17:20 +0200 Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apr 23 01:01:01 lappy smsc_ircc_present: can't get sir_base of 0x3e8 Try checking and changing BIOS settings for IRDA IO port, IRQ settings and DMA and - maybe - PlugPlay. Then you might want to use the IO/IRQ/DMA parameters