Re: [gentoo-user] why is Joe part of 'system' ?

Jason Stubbs schreef: > On Monday 05 September 2005 04:23, Holly Bostick wrote: > >> What I'm surprised at is that no one has said, >> >> "Look in /var/cache/edb/virtuals, where you will likely see that >> Joe is set as (one of) the in-use vi

Re: [gentoo-user] why is Joe part of 'system' ?

Philip Webb schreef: > 050904 Holly Bostick wrote: > >> I'm surprised no one has said, "Look in /var/cache/edb/virtuals , >> where you will likely see that Joe is set as an in-use >> virtual/editor(s) on your actual system". > > > Yes, it is, alo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

Matt Randolph schreef: > [I just thought I'd chip in my two cents on the question of whether > Linux is easy or hard. It's turned into more like my $11.62, so it's > a good thing it's broken into sections.] > > Linux is easy. > > > The only thing that is harder to do in the Linux world that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

Uwe Thiem schreef: > On 04 September 2005 11:41, Holly Bostick wrote: > > I've tried to stay away from this thread but can't resist any more. > ;-) > > [ snip a lot of Holly's rant I mostly agree with ] > > >> This is why I can't deal with a

Re: [gentoo-user] What's going on with scons

Rafael Fernández López schreef: > Hi, > > I'm doing right now an "emerge -vuD world". Now portage wants to > UPDATE scons. If I do another "emerge -vuD world" (not necessary to > run "emerge sync") portage wants to DOWNGRADE scons. > > Always that I do an "emerge sync" and later an "emerge -vuD w

Re: [gentoo-user] why is Joe part of 'system' ?

Mike Williams schreef: > On Sunday 04 September 2005 18:42, Philip Webb wrote: > >> In /usr/portage/profiles/base/virtuals , it says >> >> virtual/editor app-editors/nano >> >> there's no mention of Joe. > > > This only specifies the default for the virtual. > > You'

Re: [gentoo-user] Nautilus - open in same window

Mark Knecht schreef: > Hi, I feel bad asking for this info again. Holly or someone else here > told me what app to run a year ago but I don't seem to be able to > find my notes anymore. The effects of age I think... > > I want to edit Gnome's configuration so that Nautilus opens new > folders i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

Mark Knecht schreef: > To become a Linux user is a commitment. People don't make new > commitments lightly, and making a light commitment to Linux is doomed > to failure. It's far too hard to use. This is a common 'perception', and yet again I have to object to it, because it's *wrong* (not for

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/cdrom has gone!

[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: > i upgrade my system to use udev instead of previously known devfs, > and leave the devfs option blank while configure the kernel, but > recently, i found i could not mount my cdrom, there is no such device > at all! the /dev/cdrom and the like has gone! > > i test w

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting direct rendering (DRI) to work with ATI 9550 video card

John Lange schreef: > Yup. Done it each time I emerged the ati drivers. Here it is again > just for the heck of it. > > # opengl-update ati * Switching to ati OpenGL interface... > Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache... > > * Caching service dependencies...[ ok ] > > I wish i

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting direct rendering (DRI) to work with ATI 9550 video card

John Lange schreef: > Thanks for the reply Holly. > > Symlinks are as follows: > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Apr 9 08:47 linux -> linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r3 > drwxr-xr-x 19 root root4096 Sep 2 08:54 linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r3 > > > I've re-emerged the ati drivers several times but can't h

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting direct rendering (DRI) to work with ATI 9550 video card

John Lange schreef: > but I'm clueless as to why libglx wouldn't be working. > > > (II) LoadModule: "glx" (WW) Warning, couldn't open module glx (II) > UnloadModule: "glx" (EE) Failed to load module "glx" (module does not > exist, 0) The module not existing would seem to be a good reason that

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot disable FF's prefetch 'feature'

Mick schreef: > Hi All, > > It has been mentioned in this list and elsewhere that toggling > network.prefetch-next to false in the about:config should do just > that. I was just looking at my netstat output as soon as I fired FF > and guess what I saw! > > There was also a connection to 212.58.

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.12-r9 : sensors don't work

Philip Webb schreef: > I'm using Gkrellm2, which has its own internal sensors. Yes, Gkrellm1 > used to rely on Lm_sensors, but that's obsolete. This does not seem to be completely the case, based on my (currently ongoing) experience. Prior to rebooting to my new kernel, I was able to use all of

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging an old kernel (but not too old)

Benjamin Grauer schreef: > Holly Bostick wrote: > >> Benjamin Grauer schreef: >> >> >>> Hi there >>> >>> i use an ati graphicscard with fglrx, and since this f* driver >>> does not work with 2.6.12-kernels, i wondered if i could eme

Re: [gentoo-user] No auto-add to programs list in GNOME after emerges

Greg Shikhman schreef: > Hi, > > After installing gentoo and gnome on my current system, I don't get > programs added to my program files after emerging them (ex: > firefox-bin does not enter the menu after emerging it, I have to do > it manually). Could anyone list any reasons why this could h

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging an old kernel (but not too old)

Benjamin Grauer schreef: > Hi there > > i use an ati graphicscard with fglrx, and since this f* driver does > not work with 2.6.12-kernels, i wondered if i could emerge old > kernels... Yes it does work with 2.6.12 kernels.. 8.14.13-r2 supports 2.6.12 with an (included) patch, and 8.16.20 (-* ma

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge net-libs/libtorrent-0.7.2 failed

Iulian schreef: > I don't know how to solve: > > g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I. -I./.. -I../.. -O3 I could (definitely) be wrong, but I doubt that the ebuild forces -O3 in the CFLAGS; perhaps you should consider dropping down to -O2 and see if that helps. Also, the fact that -O3 is invol

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.12-r9 : sensors don't work

Philip Webb schreef: > >> Philip Webb schreef: >> >>> I've installed kernel 2.6.12-gentoo-r9 & find Gkrellm doesn't >>> show sensors. There's no problem with 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 . The same >>> modules are being installed & removed at each (re)boot. There is >>> a recent thread on the forum which repo

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

Bob Sanders schreef: > But it does come down to personal preferences. And I've used a lot of window > managers. > > ripped off > the wm in Win98 and put Litestep on Hey, finally, another Litestep expat! I was beginning to think I was the only one :) Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.12-r9 : sensors don't work

Peter Ruskin schreef: > On Friday 02 September 2005 00:21, Holly Bostick wrote: > >> Peter, why does running this command give me the following output: >> >> emerge -v $(equery b /lib/modules | sed -e 's:^:>=:' ) !!! No

Re: [gentoo-user] "Copying" between hard drives potential newbie question

Ben Blount schreef: > MBR is probably damaged, hence why it won't boot. I would run > grub-install just to be sure. > > You could also mount your old disk and the new disk, then use > cp -R /mnt/olddisk/* /mnt/newdisk/ > (putting in the appriopriate mount locations of course) > > Ben Blount >

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.12-r9 : sensors don't work

Peter Ruskin schreef: > On Thursday 01 September 2005 20:37, Andrew MacKenzie wrote: >> I don't mean to thread-hijack, but... >> >> I was just thinking that it would be really nice if after I run >> "genkernel" I got a list of packages that need to be recompiled >> against the new kernel (i.e. n

Re: [gentoo-user] NetworkManager

Alexander Skwar schreef: > José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández schrieb: > >> On Thursday 01 September 2005 18:53, Nick Smith wrote: >> >>> I cant seem to find networkmanager anywhere in portage >> >> What is networkmanager ? url ? > > > Dunno what it is, but it seems to be >

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.12-r9 : sensors don't work

Andrew MacKenzie schreef: > +++ Holly Bostick [gentoo-user] [Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 07:03:47PM > +0200]: > >> If lm_sensors the package compiles against the kernel, as I would >> imagine it must, it would need to be re-emerged when you upgraded >> the kernel. > &

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.12-r9 : sensors don't work

Philip Webb schreef: > I've installed kernel 2.6.12-gentoo-r9 & find Gkrellm doesn't show > sensors. There's no problem with 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 . The same modules > are being installed & removed at each (re)boot. > > There is a recent thread on the forum which reported that removing > ACPI from the k

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is the emerge history

Neil Bothwick schreef: > On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 04:30:41 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > > >> If you want the detailed messages which run up the screen during an >> emerge, goto /etc/make.conf & set (dirname to taste) >> >> PORT_LOGDIR=/var/log/emerge-logs >> >> which will add 2 new files to that

Re: [gentoo-user] workspace setups

Neil Bothwick schreef: > On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:58:36 -0400, John Dangler wrote: > > >> I've figured out that if you open apps in one workspace, and then >> switch to another, those apps don't appear, which does give me some >> idea of the mechanics, but I'd like to customize what starts and >

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

Nagatoro schreef: > > [Way off topic] > But where did you find AA? I've looked around and all I've seen is > "sorry tray again later when we've upgraded the linux code" > Portage? eix america * games-fps/americas-army Available versions: 230 Installed: none Homepage:

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

Steve B schreef: > On 9/1/05, *Matt Garman* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > > Before this gets into a flame war, let's just operate under the > assertion that the "best" window manager/desktop environment is > strictly a matter of personal preference. > > So, havin

Re: [gentoo-user] rc script opacity

Neil Bothwick schreef: > On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 16:23:33 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > > >> The 'command prompt' referred to is probably the bootloader command >> prompt (I don't remember how LiLO does it, but in GRUB you can >> edit menu entries

Re: [gentoo-user] modifying locally an ebuild

Fernando Canizo schreef: >> Is this a behaviour that a significant portion of the mutt userbase >> might want? Or are you just weird ;) ? > > > Well, you use thunderbird, so maybe you're more like a "mouse user". Yes, but I'm getting over it. Also I need to know how to work with at least one C

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Finding other machines on the network

James schreef: > Holly Bostick planet.nl> writes: >>> James schreef: >>> Say 'Hello, to my little friend' >>> >>> arpscan >>> >>> >>> http://ish.cx/~jason/arpscan/ >>> >>> >>> Sure w

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Finding other machines on the network

James schreef: > > Say 'Hello, to my little friend' > > arpscan > > http://ish.cx/~jason/arpscan/ > > Sure would be nice if is was ported to an ebuild.. Some reason you can't submit one to b.g.o (if that hasn't been done already)? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] rc script opacity

Philip Webb schreef: > The script /etc/conf.d/rc contains the following lines : > > # RC_USE_CONFIG_PROFILE allows you to have different /etc/conf.d > files # based on your runlevel - if a conf.d file for your profile > does not exist # then we try and use the default one. # To enable > runle

Re: [gentoo-user] modifying locally an ebuild

Neil Bothwick schreef: > On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 14:42:16 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > > >> But do you know the answer to Nick's question about what I said >> earlier? In a 'conflict' between two ebuilds of the same name and >> version, one in Portage

Re: [gentoo-user] modifying locally an ebuild

Neil Bothwick schreef: > On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:39:04 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > > >>Or, if there's some way to 'modularize' mutt, you could look into >>turning the patch into a 'plugin' (if such things exist, I know nothing >>about mutt),

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: font management software

Philip Webb schreef: > 050831 Martin S wrote: > >> Is there a font management app that's good under Linux? to see what >> the fonts look like > > > Gfontview & Gucharmap (both in Portage); Xfd & Xfontsel (both part of > Xorg). > > >> and be able to install what's not installed. > > > Well, t

Re: [gentoo-user] modifying locally an ebuild

Fernando Canizo schreef: > El 30/ago/2005 a las 22:36 -0300, Holly me decía: > >>Normally what one would do is place all modified ebuilds in your >>PORTDIR_OVERLAY ... > > > Thank you very much. You should take advice from Nick and make it a howto. I'm > surely going to translate to spanish and

Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need the vmlinuz symbolic link with Grub?

Daevid Vincent schreef: > Somehow net-wireless/madwifi-driver has broken on me (0.1_pre20050420-r1), > so I thought I'd recompile it. No luck. So I thought, maybe my kernel source > was different than my actual kernel (2.6.10-gentoo-r6), so I ran: > "make bzImage modules modules_install" OK, don'

Re: [gentoo-user] modifying locally an ebuild

Fernando Canizo schreef: > Hi all, > > I find a cute patch to mutt and to use it i modified the ebuild and > the pertinent files so now re-emerging mutt builds mutt with this > patch. Later i fixed the actual version of mutt so an upgrade cannot > erase it. > > What i would like to know is how c

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Creating new named colors

Michael Mauch schreef: > Holly Bostick wrote: > >>This is more dock stuff. I'm trying to change the colors on those >>dockapps that allow it. These dockapps that allow it are *supposed* to >>take hex color codes (#xx1x34), but they don't seem to. They do, &g

Re: [gentoo-user] thunderbird stopped opening firefox windows...

Antoine schreef: > Hi, > When I click on an email now nothing happens. It was fine and dandy for > a while but now nothing... anyone got any ideas? > Cheers > Antoine Perhaps Firefox is no longer set as your default browser (it must be reset after an upgrade)? Maybe Thunderbird is trying to open l

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync problems

Joshua Armstrong schreef: > Hello, I'm having a problem with rsync on one of my servers. Every time > I rsync from one of the gentoo portage mirrors, it tells me rsync error: > some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(1064). I've > tried re-emerging rsync and re-emerging portage bu

Re: [gentoo-user] Does GAIM 1.5 need evolution-data-server?

Hareesh Nagarajan schreef: > Hi All: > > Does GAIM 1.5 now need evolution-data-server? > > > Calculating dependencies ...done! > [ebuild U ] net-im/gaim-1.5.0 [1.3.1] -cjk -debug +eds* -gnutls No, it doesn't *need* it-- but do you see that +eds with a star? That's the new USE flag which pul

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT?]Text editor and scripting weirdness [SOLVED?]

Moshe Kaminsky schreef: > Hi, > > * Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [30/08/05 17:30]: > >>Hi all, >> >>I was having a nice day when this started happening completely out of >>the blue (no emerges, no changes, no nothing prior to what I'm about t

Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems

bshlists schreef: > On August 30, 2005 10:51 am, Holly Bostick wrote: > >>bshlists schreef: >> >>>Using all the suggestions on this thread I was able to get gensplash up >>>and running. I however have one small problem the bootsplash come up >>>some

[gentoo-user] [OT]Creating new named colors

OK, this is so bizarre, I hardly know how to ask it (which is why I can't find anything in Google about it, either). This is more dock stuff. I'm trying to change the colors on those dockapps that allow it. These dockapps that allow it are *supposed* to take hex color codes (#xx1x34), but they don

Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems

bshlists schreef: > Using all the suggestions on this thread I was able to get gensplash up and > running. I however have one small problem the bootsplash come up some 1/3 > the way through the bootup process. Now I remember seeing somewhere a change > to a config file which would change when

Re: [gentoo-user] How to work with etc-updates.

Jerry Turba schreef: > As I understand the process etc-update lists new configuration files > provided by the program authors. I have tried to define some rules for > myself to determine how to handle these new files. > > 1. If I made a change to a file I will never allow the new config file > to

Re: [gentoo-user] Personal firewall for Linux?

Nagatoro schreef: > Matt Randolph wrote: > >> I've seen related threads here recently, but I think my question is >> different enough to warrant a new thread. >> >> I'm looking for a personal firewall along the lines of the ZoneAlarm >> product for Windows. I don't want to take the time to teach

[gentoo-user] [OT?]Text editor and scripting weirdness

Hi all, I was having a nice day when this started happening completely out of the blue (no emerges, no changes, no nothing prior to what I'm about to explain): I use Openbox, and I finally just started setting it up to use more of its features, notably the dock. Now, I always ran OB from a scrip

Re: [gentoo-user] ACPI

John Dangler schreef: > ok... > rc-update show _does_ have apmd (although it's not assigned a run level). > And, emerge -pv gnome-applets has > {ebuild R ] gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.10.1 -acpi +apm -debug -doc > +gstreamer +ipv6 0 kb > > But -- > /etc/init.d/apmd start shows "apm support is not

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing on a Mini ATX

Frank Schafer schreef: > Hi all, > > I have a Mini ATX board without floppy and CD-ROM. I have a running LFS > installed on this server. > It has a 20GB HDD with 2 partitions and 2 network connections (Ethernet > and WiFi). > > Is there some way to copy the LifeCD content to the second partition

Re: [gentoo-user] ACPI

John Dangler schreef: > weird - rc-update show doesn't show acpi at all. > /etc/init.d/acpid doesn't exist. Well, you can't very well run the acpi daemon if you don't have it, can you-- and if you don't have it, how is GNOME supposed to find it? * sys-power/acpid Available versions: 1.0.2-

Re: [gentoo-user] ACPI

John Dangler schreef: > Make sure > the acpid daemon is running. > rc-update show => acpid | default alsasound | default alsasound~ | apmd | Is this daemon running? Try (as root) /etc/init.d/acpid start (or, change the settings and

Re: [gentoo-user] mldonkey wants a gui, but I don't want a GUI....

Neil Bothwick schreef: > On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 11:06:30 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > > >> # echo "net-p2p/mldonkey -gtk >>/etc/portage/package.use" > > > Or even: > > echo "net-p2p/mldonkey -gtk" >>/etc/portage/package.use >

Re: [gentoo-user] glunarclock

John Dangler schreef: >> -Original Message- >> From: Holly Bostick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 5:20 AM >> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org >> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] glunarclock >> >>> John Dangler schreef: &

Re: [gentoo-user] iptables

John Dangler schreef: > Holly~ The Firestarter kernel requirements doc says - > > *Device drivers *Networking support [y] *Networking support > *Networking options *Network packet filtering [y] *Network packet > filtering IP: Netfilter Configuration (*) > > "We recommend you enable _everything_

Re: [gentoo-user] glunarclock

John Dangler schreef: > Anyone emerged this and got it to load? I emerged it, but I can’t find > a way to have it start in gnome. (it’s an applet) > > > > John D > > > Yes, I've used it several times, under various versions of gnome-panel. The way to start it (or most any panel applet),

Re: [gentoo-user] mldonkey wants a gui, but I don't want a GUI....

Amphibian schreef: > emerge mldonkey gives me this: > > * If the compile with gui fails, and you have updated ocaml > * recently, you may have forgotten that you need to run > * /usr/portage/dev-lang/ocaml/files/ocaml-rebuild.sh > * to learn which ebuilds you need to recompile > * each time you up

Re: [gentoo-user] iptables

John Dangler schreef: > I emerged firestarter (during which I got iptables), and forgot that I > didn't have iptables emerged prior. I went into the kernel and selected (as > the doc I found suggests) Oh, John, to hell with "the doc you found" (which look to be from the Wiki). No offense to the

Re: [gentoo-user] equery

Jorge Almeida schreef: > On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: > >> >> >> The problem, from the looks of it, could be in Python, or in gentoolkit >> itself. >> >> Have you updated Python recently? Perhaps you need to run >> /usr/sbin/pyt

Re: [gentoo-user] equery

Jorge Almeida schreef: > equery seems crazy. I have gentoolkit-0.2.0, and just reemerged it for > good measure. > > $ equery depends vim > [ Searching for packages depending on vim... ] > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/equery", line 1551, in ? > cmd.p

Re: [gentoo-user] desktop settings

John Dangler schreef: > On my gnome desktop in the default panel I currently have gaim and an xterm. > I tried to open a mozilla browser at an empty page (default), but when I > close and save settings, I get a message telling me that it cannot save > mozilla and closes it. Is there a way to have

Re: [gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description?

Jonas Geiregat schreef: > Fernando Canizo wrote: > >> El 25/ago/2005 a las 20:57 -0300, Holly me decía: >> >> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: >>> >>> Hi all, one thing i miss from my previous debian system was the long description that one can acces with 'apt-cache show '. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Personal firewall for Linux?

Matt Randolph schreef: > I've seen related threads here recently, but I think my question is > different enough to warrant a new thread. I think you're not quite right :), but I can see why you'd think this. > > I'm looking for a personal firewall along the lines of the ZoneAlarm > product for Wi

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for Lost Labyrinth

Alec Shaner schreef: > Holly Bostick wrote: > >> >> This was a simple emerge, so I hope I didn't bork it myself; I did >> forget to create a 'files' directory in the overlay folder, but since >> there were no files, I can't think that that wo

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for Lost Labyrinth

Holly Bostick schreef: > You can see that 'laby' is not copied to /usr/games/bin, though I guess > that must be it in /usr/lib/laby? > > Yes, indeed it is: > > la /usr/lib/laby > totaal 5388 > drwxr-xr-x2 root root 168 aug 29 17:20 . > drwxr-xr-x

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for Lost Labyrinth

Alec Shaner schreef: > Nick Rout wrote: > >> OK once again the ebuild is attached, it now creates a desktop file in >> /usr/share/applications/ and pops the .xpm icon file into >> /usr/share/pixmaps/. This is where gentoo likes these things to be. >> >> Those of you who have expressed an interest

Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling totem-1.0.4 -- looking for suggestions on how to fix

Ric de France schreef: > Hi, > > I recently did a: > > $ emerge -DNuva world > > which came back with: > > > ... > [ebuild U ] media-video/totem-1.0.4 [1.0.2-r1] -a52 -debug +dvd > +flac +gnome -lirc +mad +mpeg +ogg -theora +vorbis +win32codecs +xine > +xv > ... > > > Thinking it was so

Re: [gentoo-user] browser,news,mail

John Dangler schreef: > I just found some docs on this that say "Large organizations that require an > integrated suite (past Netscape Communicator users) should consider moving > towards Mozilla 1.7. All others should consider upgrading to Firefox and > Thunderbird." > > So, I guess the question

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I burn DVD with k3b ?

Makurin Roman schreef: > > Thanks a lot! I found "DVD data project", but it accessible only in menu > bar :-) If you right-click on the lower half of the main screen (where it says "Welcome to K3B", and has the buttons for fast project choice), you can add and remove buttons; if you go to the 'O

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I burn DVD with k3b ?

Makurin Roman schreef: > Hi all! How can I burn dvd with k3b ? > I emerge this with dvdr use flag, but what I need to do to write dvd ? > > 10nx > Open k3b, choose one of the DVD project types from either 1. The big buttons on the lower half of the main screen 2. The button bar under the menu

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocking package stops emerge now what?

Robert Crawford schreef: > On Saturday 27 August 2005 09:40 am, Harry Putnam wrote: > >>Running emerge -v -p world -u shows: >> >>Calculating world dependencies ^H^H ...done! >>[blocks B ] >net-ftp/ftpbase-0.00) >> >>However any attempt to unmerge net-ftp/ftpbase-0.00 gets this error: >>r

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Dock Application

Michael Crute schreef: > On 8/27/05, *Glenn Enright* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > > If we could access it then maybee we would... > > > Ha ha... I was hoping perhaps sombody else had the same app or icons or > had seen them someplace. > > -Mike > I think th

Re: [gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description?

Daniel da Veiga schreef: > I'm writting this on my 15 minutes lunch break, no time for trimming, > bottom posting, get a client that deal with that... Well, clearly not, but DAMN, Daniel, get a better job that gives you more than 15 minutes for lunch. I mean, geez, a person needs at least half an

Re: [gentoo-user] ati -- dreaded "xf86-ENOMEM" error

Mark Knecht schreef: > On 8/25/05, maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >>--- Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>What motherboard do you have? >> >>Asus K8N-E Deluxe skt 754 w/nVidia chipset >> > >

Re: [gentoo-user] win4lin

John Jolet schreef: > On Thursday 25 August 2005 21:17, Mark Knecht wrote: > > >>Maybe it's just an oversight and temporarily gone? >> >>- Mark > > well, it's definately gone now. can someone comment on why and whether it's > temporary? I'd prefer not to try to remember if've installed any ot

Re: [gentoo-user] ati -- dreaded "xf86-ENOMEM" error

OK, now I have some time to look at this in detail: maxim wexler schreef: > > --- Ryan Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>On 8/23/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>wrote: >> >>>Hi Maxim, >>> An AGP support issue probably. Which kernel are >> >>you using? Mark, I think you're right: >

Re: [gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: > Hi all, > one thing i miss from my previous debian system was the long > description that one can acces with 'apt-cache show '. > > The questions would be: > - why gentoo has decided that one line description is enough? > - it's possible to implement long descri

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge output

John Dangler schreef: > I just did an emerge –uDv world… > > > > during the course of the 22 packages (a lot considering I just loaded > this last night), I got some messages saying “please make sure you run … > (I couldn’t read it all since it went by so fast)… I got a couple of > these befor

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for Lost Labyrinth

Markus Döbele schreef: > Okay. Understood! > I would like to have a look in how an ebuild is constructed. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3&chap=6 This is the English version; if you would prefer to read it in German: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/de/handbook/handbook-x86

Re: [gentoo-user] ati -- dreaded "xf86-ENOMEM" error

maxim wexler schreef: > Another thing, > > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-353295-highlight-xf86enomem.html > > all seem to be complaining about DRM failure but > according to the gentoo-radeon-faq: > > * Device drivers -> Character Devices -> Direct > Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.1.0 a

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo

C.Beamer schreef: > John Dangler wrote: > > >>I’m looking into setting up sudo on my latest test box >>(stage3/genkernel 2.6.12—r9) >> >>In portage, sudo says “Allows users or groups to run commands as other >>users”. The latest stable shows *1.6.8_p9 (although the one before is >>it unstable, an

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: activex support

James schreef: > Daniel da Veiga gmail.com> writes: > > >>Cedega implemented a plugin for using activex with mozilla, check it >>at the transgaming site www.transgaming.com. > > > This looks promising. > > >>Theres an ebuild for it, I'm sure... > > > app-emulation/cedega > > is this the e

Re: [gentoo-user] bbgallery and template files

Harry Putnam schreef: > First if this ends up being a nearly duplicate post... my apologies. > I tried a similar version from a different machine that has apparently > not made it to the server. > > I recently went looking for image manipulation tools in general and > web gallery software in parti

Re: [gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description?

Jonathan Nichols schreef: > > And it's also the default setting in Thunderbird. I wish they'd change > that. Oh, for Pete's sake, you can change that in your Preferences in 5 seconds. Edit=>Account Preferences=> Compostion and Addressing=>Check the box that says "If I respond, quote the original

Re: [gentoo-user] About firefox

Luigi Pinna schreef: > Alle 15:03, domenica 21 agosto 2005, Holly Bostick ha scritto: > [...] > >>Extensions that *must* be installed by root are, afaik, global >>installations by default. But this may not have been one of them. Did >>you try installing it as a user a

Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems

Matthias Krebs schreef: > On 8/23/05, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Matthias Krebs schreef: >> >>>And as >>>someone else mentioned before, vesafb-tng is not a valid kernel >>>parameter, so everything after it is ignored. >> &

Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems

Matthias Krebs schreef: > And as > someone else mentioned before, vesafb-tng is not a valid kernel > parameter, so everything after it is ignored. In what world is this? If you're using vesafb-tng (added to the kernel options by the fbsplash patch which you get with the gentoo kernels, which is no

Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems

Nagatoro schreef: > Holly Bostick wrote: > >> Yes... you see your kernel config for the default mode? It does not >> specify a bit depth. Neither did mine. Change the setting in the >> kernel to >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> (or whatever your preferred resolution i

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot stalls after install of 2005.1

Marcel Romijn schreef: > > > I assumed that even though the kernel has framebuffer support built in, > it won't use it if it is not configured as kernel parameter in > grub.conf. > Maybe that was a wrong assumption? Yes, it was. The settings in grub.conf are supposed to override the kernel sett

Re: [gentoo-user] newbie install - emerge: command not found

Assaf Urieli schreef: > Hi all, > So, when I restart, everything looks allright. Grub asks me to choose > Gentoo Linux 2.6.12-r6, which I do. I can then login fine. > But when I try to run the emerge command, I get: > emerge: command not found (no surprise, it's not in /bin). > > Have I missed a

Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems

Nagatoro schreef: > Hi, > > I've got another "interesting" problem with the splash. It seems like > no matter what I specify the computer always wants to use a 800x600 > resolution. > > At startup I get this (not word for word since showconsole won't play > nicely): > --- > can't open config file

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost Labyrinth

Frank Schafer schreef: > The only thing I don't understand after 5 minutes looking at the code; > > what means: > > spieler(i) \Status = 1 > I don't know anything about code, but I looked at this and immediately saw spieler = Player in German. Maybe that helps you understand what it's doing

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources USE-flag problem

Fredrik Axelsson schreef: > I'm trying to emerge gentoo-sources with the -doc use flag set. > > emerge -pv gentoo-sources shows that gentoo-sources will be emerged > without the doc use flag. > > "-doc" is set both in my make.conf USE variable and in > /etc/portage/package.use > > After the emer

Re: [gentoo-user] CD burning with full filenames

Grant schreef: > Hello, does anyone know how to make an ISO and then burn it to a CD > with the full filenames preserved? I tried specifying Joliet and Rock > Ridge but the output from mkisofs looks like the filenames are being > altered. > > - Grant > You only used Joliet (-J)? Maybe you need

Re: [gentoo-user] Read/Import mail

A. Khattri schreef: > On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Fernando Meira wrote: > > >>I need to access some old mail folder. I was using mozilla as mail client at >>the time. >>Now I use thunderbird. I couldn't import/read the mail just by creating an >>account and pointing the Local Folder to that old folder.

Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

Holly Bostick schreef: > So why, when my grub.conf says > > kernel /vmlinuz ro quiet root=/dev/hda5 > video=vesafb-tng:ywrap,mtrr,[EMAIL PROTECTED] > splash=verbose,fadein,theme:livecd-2005.1 CONSOLE=/dev/tty1 > > clearly specifying more than 8bpp as instructed, is the spl

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