[gentoo-user] midi problem - not working

2008-03-05 Thread Dimitrios Ropokis
I emerge -ev kguitar with flag +midi +arts +oss etc, but it's not working, alsa and other players dvd-cd-mp3 etc ok, a litle help pls would be welcome, my laptop is a toshiba satellite a30, gentoo works perfect just no midi files can be played, thanks! -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ghosting a Ext3 partition

2008-03-05 Thread Crayon Shin Chan
On Sunday 02 March 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What supports what is a good reason for non-filesystem backups. For example partimage has trouble with XFS (still...after all these years...). A program like dd doesn't care the fs. Call it a device backup if you like. This is your basic

[gentoo-user] TeXlive with non-English hyphenation?

2008-03-05 Thread Ralf Stephan
Hello, Does someone use TeXlive and has encountered and solved non-English hyphenation problems? I have tried both babel.sty with the german/germanb options and german.sty from the package texlive-langgerman, always giving the command \selectlanguage{german} babel.sty gives Package babel

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Ghosting a Ext3 partition

2008-03-05 Thread Michael Schmarck
Crayon Shin Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 02 March 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What supports what is a good reason for non-filesystem backups. For example partimage has trouble with XFS (still...after all these years...). A program like dd doesn't care the fs. Call it a device

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get the x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.8776-r1 back?

2008-03-05 Thread Henry Gebhardt
Hi, On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 4:05 AM, Daevid Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I emerge again, and it gives me 96.43.05. Now when I start X, I have a blank/black screen. This driver is NOT working with my card. Okay I followed the Wiki as instructed to the letter. Same EXACT

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Ghosting a Ext3 partition

2008-03-05 Thread cypherstrong
Another way to do (I do it actually) Is to get a drive with ext3 partition for example Create a directory for your backup and use Rsync to copy any file with differential feature. First time could take a long time, next time are very fast. To backup everythink on the system, I run the single

[gentoo-user] Detecting 64 bit Intel chips

2008-03-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
Hi all, Sometime in the last month someone posted (in a thread that went wildly OT) a definite way to determine if an Intel cpu is 32 or 64 bit. Unfortunately I can't find the post anymore. It involved checking the cpu-family, model and flags fields in cpuinfo. Could that same kind soul

Re: [gentoo-user] Detecting 64 bit Intel chips

2008-03-05 Thread Stratos Psomadakis
O/H Alan McKinnon έγραψε: Hi all, Sometime in the last month someone posted (in a thread that went wildly OT) a definite way to determine if an Intel cpu is 32 or 64 bit. Unfortunately I can't find the post anymore. It involved checking the cpu-family, model and flags fields in cpuinfo.

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox update results in Yahoo request for newer version

2008-03-05 Thread cypherstrong
The main probleme could be that they use firefox 3 and yahoo are not ready so they prefer to cancel this navigator whereas accept it anyway Iceaweasel it's not a problem, they just add and extra user agent in about:config (agent ... extra) But I have it without any problem with yahoo service

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox update results in Yahoo request for newer version

2008-03-05 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 6:21 AM, cypherstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The main probleme could be that they use firefox 3 and yahoo are not ready so they prefer to cancel this navigator whereas accept it anyway Iceaweasel it's not a problem, they just add and extra user agent in

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get the x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.8776-r1 back?

2008-03-05 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 01:17:03PM +0100, Penguin Lover Henry Gebhardt squawked: I also have a nVidia 440 Go with the same problem. I fixed by including the line Option UseDisplayDevice DFP in the Screen section of /etc/X11/xorg.xonf. However, now I can't use an external

Re: [gentoo-user] midi problem - not working

2008-03-05 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 10:25:05AM +0200, Penguin Lover Dimitrios Ropokis squawked: I emerge -ev kguitar with flag +midi +arts +oss etc, but it's not working, alsa and other players dvd-cd-mp3 etc ok, a litle help pls would be welcome, my laptop is a toshiba satellite a30, gentoo works

Re: [gentoo-user] Detecting 64 bit Intel chips

2008-03-05 Thread kashani
Alan McKinnon wrote: Hi all, Sometime in the last month someone posted (in a thread that went wildly OT) a definite way to determine if an Intel cpu is 32 or 64 bit. Unfortunately I can't find the post anymore. It involved checking the cpu-family, model and flags fields in cpuinfo. Could

Re: [gentoo-user] Detecting 64 bit Intel chips

2008-03-05 Thread cypherstrong
another way to test is to run a livecd in amd64 mode on new intel chips if it doesn't work, try the ia64 version if it doesn't work ... your intel is a 32 bits version :) Le Wednesday 05 March 2008 16:47:10 kashani, vous avez écrit : Alan McKinnon wrote: Hi all, Sometime in the last

[gentoo-user] Gnome CD automount fails without error

2008-03-05 Thread Mark David Dumlao
Hi guys I'm using GNOME on gentoo and I like the behavior where usb drives will pop up a nautilus window on plugin. I always expected this behavior on CDs as well, but for some reason, I only noticed today (after quite a while of using, since I haven't plugged in a CD for quite a while) that it

Re: [gentoo-user] Detecting 64 bit Intel chips

2008-03-05 Thread Chris Brennan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Here is the output of my cpuinfo, I'll point out where it will mean 64bit. For the sake of this demonstration, I have only pasted one (1) CPU. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family

Re: [gentoo-user] Detecting 64 bit Intel chips

2008-03-05 Thread Stratos Psomadakis
O/H cypherstrong έγραψε: another way to test is to run a livecd in amd64 mode on new intel chips if it doesn't work, try the ia64 version if it doesn't work ... your intel is a 32 bits version :) no need for the ia64... it's for intel's itanium cpus... ia64 is not compatible with x86... if

Re: [gentoo-user] Detecting 64 bit Intel chips

2008-03-05 Thread cypherstrong
Of course :) the test for amd64 could be fast with a livecd ... or with cpuinfo and good knowledge of flags Le Wednesday 05 March 2008 17:45:16 Stratos Psomadakis, vous avez écrit : O/H cypherstrong έγραψε: another way to test is to run a livecd in amd64 mode on new intel chips if it

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with FONTS under X

2008-03-05 Thread mateuszmierzwinski
Hmm... I've try revdep-rebuild after each 'emerge -vea world' when nothing happens, packages reemerges and nothing else. Everything was OK, no reemerges by revdep-rebuild. I've drop some C/CXXFLAGS like -fno-strict-aliasing and nothing happens. Also I recompile xorg-server couple times with

[gentoo-user] Solved! midi problem - not working - now works!

2008-03-05 Thread Dimitrios Ropokis
I emerge -C timidity++ with use flags found at www.gentoo-portage.com and emerge timitidy++ then # rc-update add timidity default # /etc/init.d/timidity start and ok! kguitar-0.5 works! tnks a lot! I emerge -ev kguitar with flag +midi +arts +oss etc, but it's not working, alsa and other

Re: [gentoo-user] Detecting 64 bit Intel chips

2008-03-05 Thread Andrew MacKenzie
+++ Chris Brennan [gentoo-user] [Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 11:36:47AM -0500]: Here is the output of my cpuinfo, I'll point out where it will mean 64bit. For the sake of this demonstration, I have only pasted one (1) CPU. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id :

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome CD automount fails without error

2008-03-05 Thread cypherstrong
Could you go on Desktop / Preferences / Removable Drives and Media ??? Check any option there, and try again Le Wednesday 05 March 2008 17:27:46 Mark David Dumlao, vous avez écrit : Hi guys I'm using GNOME on gentoo and I like the behavior where usb drives will pop up a nautilus window on

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with FONTS under X

2008-03-05 Thread cypherstrong
Do you have xfs launche ? (/etc/init.d/xfs) And xorg.conf (/etc/X11) set properly Section Files #FontPath /usr/share/fonts/misc/ #FontPath /usr/share/fonts/TTF/ #FontPath /usr/share/fonts/OTF ##FontPath /usr/share/fonts/Type1/ #FontPath

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with FONTS under X

2008-03-05 Thread mateuszmierzwinski
I don't have xfs launcher (/etc/init.d/xfs) :( Mateusz M. Dnia 5 marca 2008 18:01 cypherstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] napisał(a): Do you have xfs launche ? (/etc/init.d/xfs) And xorg.conf (/etc/X11) set properly Section Files #FontPath /usr/share/fonts/misc/ #FontPath

Re: [gentoo-user] Detecting 64 bit Intel chips

2008-03-05 Thread Ricardo Saffi Marques
On 3/5/08, Andrew MacKenzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They do identify themselves, but they may not indicate 64 vs. 32 bit. Something one can always do is cat /proc/cpuinfo and then check the family and model at http://gentoo-wiki.com/Safe_Cflags . If it indicates 64-bit profile and Cflags for

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome CD automount fails without error

2008-03-05 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 12:43 AM, cypherstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you go on Desktop / Preferences / Removable Drives and Media ??? Check any option there, and try again under removable storage, (checked) mount removable drives when hot-plugged (checked) mount removable media when

Re: [gentoo-user] Detecting 64 bit Intel chips

2008-03-05 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 05 March 2008, Chris Brennan wrote: Here is the output of my cpuinfo, I'll point out where it will mean 64bit. For the sake of this demonstration, I have only pasted one (1) CPU. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family

Re: [gentoo-user] Detecting 64 bit Intel chips

2008-03-05 Thread Ricardo Saffi Marques
On 3/5/08, Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am a bit confused now. I always thought my CPU was 32bit. Here are the relevant two lines from my /proc/cpuinfo: So the model name does not indicate anything 64bit while the flags contain lm, nx and lahf_lm. Like I said, take the family and

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome CD automount fails without error

2008-03-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 05 March 2008, Mark David Dumlao wrote: Hi guys I'm using GNOME on gentoo and I like the behavior where usb drives will pop up a nautilus window on plugin. I always expected this behavior on CDs as well, but for some reason, I only noticed today (after quite a while of using,

Re: [gentoo-user] Detecting 64 bit Intel chips

2008-03-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 05 March 2008, Stratos Psomadakis wrote: O/H cypherstrong έγραψε: another way to test is to run a livecd in amd64 mode on new intel chips if it doesn't work, try the ia64 version if it doesn't work ... your intel is a 32 bits version :) no need for the ia64... it's for

Re: [gentoo-user] Detecting 64 bit Intel chips

2008-03-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 05 March 2008, cypherstrong wrote: Of course :) the test for amd64 could be fast with a livecd That might suit someone who's sitting with a new and unknown box on the desk in front of them. I usually have to discover this for machines that are in some unknown location and to

[gentoo-user] rebuild /var/db/pkg?

2008-03-05 Thread Matthias Guede
I've deleted almost all entries in /var/db/pkg. Now portage wants to reinstall a lot of packages which are already on my system. Does anyone know a way to rebuild this database without actually recompile all the packages? Thanks Matthias -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Detecting 64 bit Intel chips

2008-03-05 Thread Chris Brennan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stratos Psomadakis wrote: | O/H cypherstrong έγραψε: | another way to test is to run a livecd in amd64 mode on new intel chips | if it doesn't work, try the ia64 version | | if it doesn't work ... your intel is a 32 bits version :) | | no need

Re: [gentoo-user] Detecting 64 bit Intel chips

2008-03-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 15:23:55 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Could that same kind soul please repost the info? And if possible the same for AMD? Run lshw and look at the width value for the CPU. -- Neil Bothwick If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting? signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] Detecting 64 bit Intel chips

2008-03-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 05 March 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 15:23:55 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Could that same kind soul please repost the info? And if possible the same for AMD? Run lshw and look at the width value for the CPU. Aaaahhh. That has to be the most useful app

Re: [gentoo-user] Detecting 64 bit Intel chips

2008-03-05 Thread Chris Brennan
from what you pasted, you have a 32bit cpu. But you have a flag I do as well, and that is 'ht'. Hyper-Threading is a whole different beast I know very little about, it's more of an Intel thing for there first generation dual-core cpu's. Uwe Thiem wrote: On Wednesday 05 March 2008, Chris

Re: [gentoo-user] Detecting 64 bit Intel chips

2008-03-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 05 March 2008, Chris Brennan wrote: Here is the output of my cpuinfo, I'll point out where it will mean 64bit. For the sake of this demonstration, I have only pasted one (1) CPU. model name: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ -- Here will be your first

[gentoo-user] The future of Gentoo

2008-03-05 Thread Rafael Barrera Oro
Hello, i have heard several rumors of the future of Gentoo being uncertain (Gentoo will dissapear, support will stop, etc...). I wanted to ask you if heard such rumors and why do you think these rumors go around. All this begun i found out there would be a debate in the place i work to decide

Re: [gentoo-user] Detecting 64 bit Intel chips

2008-03-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 05 March 2008, Chris Brennan wrote: from what you pasted, you have a 32bit cpu. But you have a flag I do as well, and that is 'ht'. Hyper-Threading is a whole different beast I know very little about, it's more of an Intel thing for there first generation dual-core cpu's. HT is

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of Gentoo

2008-03-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 05 March 2008, Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: Hello, i have heard several rumors of the future of Gentoo being uncertain (Gentoo will dissapear, support will stop, etc...). I wanted to ask you if heard such rumors and why do you think these rumors go around. All this begun i found

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of Gentoo

2008-03-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 16:02:25 -0300, Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: Hello, i have heard several rumors of the future of Gentoo being uncertain (Gentoo will dissapear, support will stop, etc...). I wanted to ask you if heard such rumors Yes, from time to time, usually from people posting to this list

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of Gentoo

2008-03-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 21:08:02 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: So please, think twice before hitting that reply button. Whoops, too late :) -- Neil Bothwick Remember that the Titanic was built by experts, and the Ark by a newbie signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of Gentoo

2008-03-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 05 March 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 21:08:02 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: So please, think twice before hitting that reply button. Whoops, too late :) You have street cred. We'll forgive you. But only this time. Next time, we break your knees. Capiche? :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with FONTS under X

2008-03-05 Thread mateuszmierzwinski
I've emerged that package (xfs) and still nothing happend :/ Mateusz M. Dnia 5 marca 2008 18:08 [EMAIL PROTECTED] napisał(a): I don't have xfs launcher (/etc/init.d/xfs) :( Mateusz M. Dnia 5 marca 2008 18:01 cypherstrong napisał(a): Do you have xfs launche ? (/etc/init.d/xfs)

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with FONTS under X

2008-03-05 Thread Benno Schulenberg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CFLAGS=-O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -march=nocona -mtune=nocona CXXFLAGS=-O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -march=nocona -mtune=nocona Recompile your entire system with -O2, and see if the problem persists. If it persists, show the full output of emerge --info. By

Re: [gentoo-user] Ghosting a Ext3 partition

2008-03-05 Thread Matthias Bethke
Hi Mark, on Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 05:39:12PM +1300, you wrote: {Ghost functionality] I actually think that 'dump' will do what you want... provided you can choose a time when the machine is not busy (should be easy if it's your desktop!). You have to do 1 dump per filesystem, but many

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of Gentoo

2008-03-05 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 16:02:25 -0300 Rafael Barrera Oro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, i have heard several rumors of the future of Gentoo being uncertain (Gentoo will dissapear, support will stop, etc...). I wanted to ask you if heard such rumors and why do you think these rumors go around.

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with FONTS under X

2008-03-05 Thread mateuszmierzwinski
Well now... I've install Gentoo Linux couple times with O3 optimize flag and there is nothing with it. I can try but I don't think that makes this error. GLX is needed by me because OpenGL programming and UT2004 playing :);). Compose is available by KDE3 and 4.0 build inside by desktop

Re: [gentoo-user] Detecting 64 bit Intel chips

2008-03-05 Thread Chris Brennan
well said ... Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 05 March 2008, Chris Brennan wrote: from what you pasted, you have a 32bit cpu. But you have a flag I do as well, and that is 'ht'. Hyper-Threading is a whole different beast I know very little about, it's more of an Intel thing for there first

[gentoo-user] Gentoo Brainstorm?

2008-03-05 Thread Rodrigo Lazo
Hi, Have you seen ubuntu brainstorm? http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/ What do you think? Personally I believe is a very good idea and may be worth copying. Regards -- Rodrigo Lazo (rlazo) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] firefox fonts

2008-03-05 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 04 March 2008, maxim wexler wrote: Hi group, Following a major upgrade I noticed that all my fonts had shrunk drastically. I was able to enlarge all of them, KDE, the desktop, consoles etc except the menu bar and drop down menus in firefox. I can increase the font size in the

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of Gentoo

2008-03-05 Thread Chris Brennan
The problem is that we don't believe in tales about witches and premonition, do we? ;) I do, does that count? Some people call it yellow press (though in my country it would be translated to pink press :P. This gets kind of boring, because every two or three days a similar thread arises in

[gentoo-user] Looking for utility to send X low level events

2008-03-05 Thread felix
I am back to my on-again, off-again task of trying to get firefox to print, this time I have thought of sending a running instance various X events to fake a URL, the print command, print file name, etc. I found a few old and crufty programs to record and playback macros, but they don't work well

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for utility to send X low level events

2008-03-05 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 12:40:02PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of any programs that manipulate X events on a low level? I figure it will need to either record and play back events, or let me describe them in an editable file. I don't know much about the low level X

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with FONTS under X

2008-03-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 05 March 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well now... I've install Gentoo Linux couple times with O3 optimize flag and there is nothing with it. I can try but I don't think that makes this error. GLX is needed by me because OpenGL programming and UT2004 playing :);). Compose is

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for utility to send X low level events

2008-03-05 Thread felix
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 03:49:33PM -0500, Willie Wong wrote: Have you thought about xautomation? Hadn't heard of it. Looks promising from the description. I tried looking thru all the X11-*/* packages but there were way too many to check very well. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._.

Re: [gentoo-user] rebuild /var/db/pkg?

2008-03-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 19:11:52 +0100, Matthias Guede wrote: Does anyone know a way to rebuild this database without actually recompile all the packages? Restore from backup? Otherwise, it's probably less trouble to set PORTAGE_NICENESS to 19 and let emerge world run in the background. That way

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of Gentoo

2008-03-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 21:15:20 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Whoops, too late :) You have street cred. We'll forgive you. But only this time. Next time, we break your knees. Capiche? No thanks, it hurt enough the last time I broke them :( -- Neil Bothwick Virus detected, delete Windows?

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] firefox fonts

2008-03-05 Thread Benno Schulenberg
maxim wexler wrote: Following a major upgrade I noticed that all my fonts had shrunk drastically. I was able to enlarge all of them, KDE, the desktop, consoles etc except the menu bar and drop down menus in firefox. I can increase the font size in the window no problem but not the menu bar

[gentoo-user] Re: Looking for utility to send X low level events -- SOLVABLE

2008-03-05 Thread felix
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 12:40:02PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of any programs that manipulate X events on a low level? It looks like my google-fu was weak. There are lots of programs to do this, one way or the other, and now all I have to do is investigate them all.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome CD automount fails without error

2008-03-05 Thread Strong Cypher
did you run hald and dbus ? did you add them on your rc profile ??? I think gnome use it to know if any drive is insert or not. Try to run it hald (I think they depends of dbus so ... but both need to be run) Did you use dbus and hald in your uses ? try this: USE=dbus hald emerge -DNuav world

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with FONTS under X

2008-03-05 Thread Strong Cypher
Yeah, try to remove every thing special like glx, compiz and keep only 2d and default drivers don't run kde to check your font, shutdown kdm or gdm or *dm, type: X DISPLAY=:0 xterm do you have font ? xfs is something appear with USE=xfs for xorg-server I think this is a really good and easy

Re: [gentoo-user] rebuild /var/db/pkg?

2008-03-05 Thread Matthias Guede
2008/3/5, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 19:11:52 +0100, Matthias Guede wrote: Does anyone know a way to rebuild this database without actually recompile all the packages? Restore from backup? Yes ... a backup would be nice now ;) Otherwise, it's probably less

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of Gentoo

2008-03-05 Thread Rafael Barrera Oro
I figure how a person that use gentoo can question these things... So I figure if any of the persons who open this kind of threads are really using Gentoo for anything else than installing it to be cooler. No offense intended. As I said, this just gets boring after 1000 posts telling the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Digest of gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org issue 1424 (76378-76427)

2008-03-05 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 07:29 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:38:40 -0600, Dale wrote: Someone sent this person a message about this the other day. Is there no way to unsubscribe them until they get this sorted out so we don't get a truly useless message? File a

Re: [gentoo-user] TeXlive with non-English hyphenation?

2008-03-05 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 11:34 +0100, Ralf Stephan wrote: Hello, Does someone use TeXlive and has encountered and solved non-English hyphenation problems? I have tried both babel.sty with the german/germanb options and german.sty from the package texlive-langgerman, always giving the command

Re: [gentoo-user] rebuild /var/db/pkg?

2008-03-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 23:20:31 +0100, Matthias Guede wrote: Otherwise, it's probably less trouble to set PORTAGE_NICENESS to 19 and let emerge world run in the background. That way you'll know it has been done properly. That is what I'm currently doing after some unsuccessful tries to

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of Gentoo

2008-03-05 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 19:30:22 -0300 Rafael Barrera Oro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I figure how a person that use gentoo can question these things... So I figure if any of the persons who open this kind of threads are really using Gentoo for anything else than installing it to be cooler.

[gentoo-user] Re: Digest of gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org issue 1425 (76428-76477)

2008-03-05 Thread mvidela
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[gentoo-user] Make krusader default file manager

2008-03-05 Thread Danis Petkakis
hello there i'm trying to make krusader my default file manager...so when i'm double-clicking on a directory it should be opened by Krusader...i try to set it up correctly in kcontrol-kde components-file associations-inode-directory and choose Krusader in the application preference box but when i

Re: [gentoo-user] Make krusader default file manager

2008-03-05 Thread Chris Brennan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Did you restart your WM? Danis Petkakis wrote: | hello there i'm trying to make krusader my default file manager...so | when i'm double-clicking on a directory it should be opened by | Krusader...i try to set it up correctly in kcontrol-kde |

[gentoo-user] date and gentoo running under vmplayer

2008-03-05 Thread John J. Foster
Hi all - it's been awhile This past week I've set up Gentoo running in a VM built by http://www.easyvmx.com/ under a XP host. Installation and configuration went fine. I normally leave the VM running when I walk away from the machine, but when I return, time is way off. Shutting down Gentoo the

Re: [gentoo-user] date and gentoo running under vmplayer

2008-03-05 Thread Chris Brennan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 you need to make sure ntp-client and ntpd (from openntpd) have been started, and you have a valid time server. Below I have included everything I hope will help you - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ emerge -vp openntpd These are the packages

Re: [gentoo-user] date and gentoo running under vmplayer

2008-03-05 Thread Mike Mazur
Hi, What could also help in this is installing vmware-workstation-tools[1] in your Gentoo instance. Not directly related to your specific problem, but I've been running RHEL 5 x86_64 in a VM on a CentOS 5 i386 host. The time in RHEL flows slowly, and soon the clock is way behind. I have tried

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of Gentoo

2008-03-05 Thread Neil Walker
Jesús Guerrero wrote: My problem with these kind of questions if that I sometimes go mad when I see them continuously arising every few days over and over during 4 or 5 years (you see, the longest dead ever). Oh no - I think OS/2 holds the record for that - and it's still alive and

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Brainstorm?

2008-03-05 Thread Andrey Falko
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Rodrigo Lazo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Have you seen ubuntu brainstorm? http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/ What do you think? Personally I believe is a very good idea and may be worth copying. Regards -- Rodrigo Lazo (rlazo) --