Re: [gentoo-user] udev and usb stick/hdd

2007-07-22 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag, 21. Juli 2007 schrieb Aleksey V. Kunitskiy: On Saturday 21 July 2007 17:15, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Yes. See http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html Big thanks Dirk It seems vfat doesn't have a sync mount option. For ntfs-3g I don't know. That's a pitty. It's a big

Re: [gentoo-user] the nsplugin use flag

2007-07-22 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag, 21. Juli 2007 schrieb Allan Gottlieb: Oops I forgot the nsplugin. Is this the correct way to prevent nsplugin from being used for blackdown? echo dev-java/blackdown-jre nsplugin /etc/make.profile/package.use.mask echo dev-java/blackdown-jdk nsplugin

[gentoo-user] Tkinter, where ?

2007-07-22 Thread alain . didierjean
I just installed Scribus and plays with it. Some of its scrips need tkinter to execute. Tkinter seems ignored by portage. Quite surprising. Is there a gentoo way to install it ? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Tkinter, where ?

2007-07-22 Thread Dale
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed Scribus and plays with it. Some of its scrips need tkinter to execute. Tkinter seems ignored by portage. Quite surprising. Is there a gentoo way to install it ? Put tk in your USE line in make.conf and then re-emerge python. [ebuild R ]

Re: [gentoo-user] Tkinter, where ?

2007-07-22 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: I just installed Scribus and plays with it. Some of its scrips need tkinter to execute. Tkinter seems ignored by portage. Quite surprising. Is there a gentoo way to install it ? It is ignored by portage as the scribus ebuild has no tk use flag which should

Re: [gentoo-user] udev and usb stick/hdd

2007-07-22 Thread Crayon Shin Chan
On Sunday 22 July 2007 15:20, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Hmm, why is this a problem? As long as you always umount before pulling the USB stick your data will be save. You may also try to sync manually. In fact it is an advantage, because apparently the sync option causes unnecessary extra writes

[gentoo-user] Notebook/laptop recommendations?

2007-07-22 Thread Crayon Shin Chan
I'm looking for a new notebook (to run Gentoo of course). I don't want the latest nor the best (too expensive), but it needs to have Core 2 Duo. Are there any particular manufacturers/models where it just works in terms of driver support? 2 items that I would like for it to just work with the

Re: [gentoo-user] Notebook/laptop recommendations?

2007-07-22 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 22 July 2007, Crayon Shin Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Notebook/laptop recommendations?': I'm looking for a new notebook (to run Gentoo of course). I don't want the latest nor the best (too expensive), but it needs to have Core 2 Duo. Are there any particular

Re: [gentoo-user] Tkinter, where ?

2007-07-22 Thread alain . didierjean
Selon Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed Scribus and plays with it. Some of its scrips need tkinter to execute. Tkinter seems ignored by portage. Quite surprising. Is there a gentoo way to install it ? Put tk in your USE line in make.conf and then

[gentoo-user] DVD Drive Question

2007-07-22 Thread Colleen Beamer
Hi guys, A while back, I wrote looking for help because I thought I was having problems with Alsa on my Dell XPS M1710 laptop . It takes me a while, but I finally clued in that the problem *might not* be Alsa. Today, I tested me theory my ripped music files are stored on an Iomega external

Re: [gentoo-user] Tkinter, where ?

2007-07-22 Thread Dale
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Selon Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed Scribus and plays with it. Some of its scrips need tkinter to execute. Tkinter seems ignored by portage. Quite surprising. Is there a gentoo way to

Re: [gentoo-user] Tkinter, where ?

2007-07-22 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
It is ignored by portage as the scribus ebuild has no tk use flag which should probably implemented. With this use flag portage will complain about missing tkinter and advises you to reinstall python with tkinter support. I had this kind of problem with another package before. Time to fill

Re: [gentoo-user] Tkinter, where ?

2007-07-22 Thread Dale
Daniel Pielmeier wrote: It is ignored by portage as the scribus ebuild has no tk use flag which should probably implemented. With this use flag portage will complain about missing tkinter and advises you to reinstall python with tkinter support. I had this kind of problem with another

Re: [gentoo-user] Tkinter, where ?

2007-07-22 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
It doesn't matter to me who files the bug. I just think it needs to be filed so that it can be fixed before it causes more trouble and is harder to fix. I just didn't want to search, then file one, us both file it at about the same time and end up with a duplicate bug. Thanks Dale

zd1211rw(Was:Re: [gentoo-user] upgrade kernel)

2007-07-22 Thread Luigi Pinna
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle giovedì 12 luglio 2007, Sergey A. Kobzar ha scritto: Hi Luigi, I had problem with 2.6.21 kernel on VMware Virtual Machine. I does not detect virtual controller appropriately. Downgrading to 2.6.20 helped me. Maybe it will help you too? ;)

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem shutting down X-server

2007-07-22 Thread Herbert Laubner
I have not been lucky! I still can not get to command-line-mode stooping X-server. lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 Host Bridge (rev 10) 00:02.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI-X Root Port 00:12.0 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc 4379 Serial ATA Controller

Re: [gentoo-user] Notebook/laptop recommendations?

2007-07-22 Thread Crayon Shin Chan
On Sunday 22 July 2007 22:53, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: I've had very good luck with my dellbuntu system. Which model is this? Presumably it is a standard model but with Ubuntu pre-installed instead some wannabe OS. According to this:

Re: [gentoo-user] Tkinter, where ?

2007-07-22 Thread Dale
Daniel Pielmeier wrote: It doesn't matter to me who files the bug. I just think it needs to be filed so that it can be fixed before it causes more trouble and is harder to fix. I just didn't want to search, then file one, us both file it at about the same time and end up with a duplicate

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD Drive Question

2007-07-22 Thread Stratos Psomadakis
1)if you mean that you have no experince with kernel configuration/complation,i suggest tha you try it...it's very useful to know how to properly conifgure your kernel ;) 2)generally,you should enable dma for dvd/cd drives and hard disks...you can check the howto at gentoo-wiki...and especially

Re: [gentoo-user] udev and usb stick/hdd

2007-07-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 18:16:53 +0300, Aleksey V. Kunitskiy wrote: It seems vfat doesn't have a sync mount option. For ntfs-3g I don't know. That's a pitty. It's a big problem for me when I write data to flash disk and I need to flush data frequently. Which will destroy your flash device in

[gentoo-user] What is portage trying to tell me?

2007-07-22 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I seem to see this from time to time when I look at the emerge logs that are emailed to me by portage, and I never know what to make of it. This one is from kde-base/kcontrol-3.5.5: LOG: preinst /usr/kde/3.5/share/applications/kde/panel_appearance.desktop: required key Name not found -- required

[gentoo-user] einit?

2007-07-22 Thread Jerry McBride
Anyone here using einit? I've a small problem. I can set a static ip address, no problems. But how and where do you establish the route to a gateway? I've googled to the wee hours and still haven't figured it out. I'm running einit from the layman overlay. Cheers. -- From the Desk of:

[gentoo-user] Garmin gps acting as a mouse!!!

2007-07-22 Thread Ted Ozolins
Just acquired an etrex gps. The unit comes with a serial cable . When I plug in the cable to the latest stable gentoo machine, the signals are (seem) to be interpreted as that for the system mouse. The mouse pointer flies all over the screen, opening and closing programs all over the place. Does

Re: [gentoo-user] Garmin gps acting as a mouse!!!

2007-07-22 Thread b.n.
Ted Ozolins ha scritto: Just acquired an etrex gps. The unit comes with a serial cable . When I plug in the cable to the latest stable gentoo machine, the signals are (seem) to be interpreted as that for the system mouse. The mouse pointer flies all over the screen, opening and closing programs

Re: [gentoo-user] What is portage trying to tell me?

2007-07-22 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, 2007-07-22 at 13:38 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I seem to see this from time to time when I look at the emerge logs that are emailed to me by portage, and I never know what to make of it. This one is from kde-base/kcontrol-3.5.5: LOG: preinst

Re: [gentoo-user] What is portage trying to tell me?

2007-07-22 Thread Rick Harris
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 07:43:57 am Albert Hopkins wrote: On Sun, 2007-07-22 at 13:38 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I seem to see this from time to time when I look at the emerge logs that are emailed to me by portage, and I never know what to make of it. This one is from

Re: [gentoo-user] Garmin gps acting as a mouse!!!

2007-07-22 Thread Stroller
On 22 Jul 2007, at 22:42, Ted Ozolins wrote: Just acquired an etrex gps. The unit comes with a serial cable . When I plug in the cable to the latest stable gentoo machine, the signals are (seem) to be interpreted as that for the system mouse. The mouse pointer flies all over the screen,

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD Drive Question

2007-07-22 Thread Colleen Beamer
Stratos Psomadakis wrote: 1)if you mean that you have no experince with kernel configuration/complation,i suggest tha you try it...it's very useful to know how to properly conifgure your kernel ;) I've built the kernel many times using 'genkernel --menuconfig all'. I meant that the blog

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2007-07-22 Thread hugo alexander salazar tobon
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Re: [gentoo-user] DVD Drive Question

2007-07-22 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, 2007-07-22 at 20:56 -0400, Colleen Beamer wrote: I already tried rebuilding the kernel to ensure that DMA was compiled into it. It doesn't have any affect on the DVD drive - with or without DMA compiled into the kernel, there is still no sound when trying to play an audio CD. Are

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD Drive Question

2007-07-22 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 13:11:18 -0400 Colleen Beamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not thinking that the problem might be the DVD-RW drive - it's a Ricoh and the specific problem that I was having was not being able to hear audio CD's when using kscd. I googled and found a blog by someone who

Re: [gentoo-user] Garmin gps acting as a mouse!!!

2007-07-22 Thread Ted Ozolins
Stroller wrote: I assume you're using X11 KDE or Gnome or something like this. What does your xorg.conf say, please? I'm thinking specifically of the mouse section, but you might as well post the lot to be sure. Also, is anything written to /var/log/messages or /var/log/syslog when

[gentoo-user] ufed and USE flags

2007-07-22 Thread Thufir
I used ufed to edit USE flags with the result: localhost ~ # localhost ~ # localhost ~ # cat /etc/gentoo-release Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9 localhost ~ # localhost ~ # cat /etc/make.conf ## ATTENTION: THIS IS THE MAKE.CONF ON THE LIVECD

Re: [gentoo-user] the nsplugin use flag

2007-07-22 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sun, 22 Jul 2007 09:27:09 +0200 Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Samstag, 21. Juli 2007 schrieb Allan Gottlieb: echo dev-java/blackdown-jre nsplugin /etc/make.profile/package.use.mask echo dev-java/blackdown-jdk nsplugin /etc/make.profile/package.use.mask echo

[gentoo-user] Need to add gd and mysql to PHP.

2007-07-22 Thread Mike Diehl
Hi all, I'm needing to update php to include both the gd and mysql extensions. I believe I have both packages installed. I emerged php with both extensions in my USE flag. === emerge -upDe --verbose php [ebuild R ] dev-lang/php-4.4.7

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD Drive Question

2007-07-22 Thread Colleen Beamer
Jesús Guerrero wrote: On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 13:11:18 -0400 Colleen Beamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not thinking that the problem might be the DVD-RW drive - it's a Ricoh and the specific problem that I was having was not being able to hear audio CD's when using kscd. I googled and