[gentoo-user] Spell package for nano?

2006-05-24 Thread Jeff
Hey all. Captain Obvious here didn't realize that nano has spell checking (duh). However, when trying to invoke it, it yells at me: [ Spell checking failed: Error invoking spell ] What package supplies this? I see a lot of 'emerge -s spell' stuff, but I'd like to use the most

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice build failed.

2006-05-24 Thread Jeff
Good Lord man... why would you want to compile OO from source? emerge openoffice-bin :-) Meino Christian Cramer wrote: Hi, I tried to build OpenOffice from source. After hours of copmiling it fails with: Cleaning /var/tmp/portage/openoffice-2.0.2-r1/image//usr/lib/openoffice

Re: [gentoo-user] New Portage browser

2006-05-16 Thread Jeff Rollin
1) do you prefer a console, a GUI, or both? I would like to suggest a GUI, ncurses (console) functionality, and also commandline functionality (a la cfdisk/fdisk/sfdisk, but rolled into one) Jeff.

[gentoo-user] KDE blocking itself?

2006-05-12 Thread Jeff
kde-base/kdebase-3.5.2-r1) [ebuild N] kde-base/kdebase-3.5.2-r1 [ebuild R ] kde-base/kde-3.5.2 What am I doing wrong here? Most puzzling. Any help, greatly appreciated! -Jeff -- Darth Vader: Your powers are weak, old man. Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi: You can't win, Darth

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE blocking itself?

2006-05-12 Thread Jeff
That's what I was thinking! GAH! Excuse me while I go beat the *USER* who used root to do EVIL! Bad user... bad, naughty user... Thanks for the tip Fish. Richard Fish wrote: On 5/12/06, Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all. Check this out: emerge kde -p These are the packages that I

Re: [gentoo-user] Best File System For Linux

2006-05-04 Thread Jeff
New for 2006! http://linuxgazette.net/122/TWDT.html#piszcz :-) Teresa and Dale wrote: Farhan Ahmed wrote: Hi, I want to know which is the best file system for a high performance Linux? I'm presently a encrypted ext3 file system for my Gentoo Desktop machine.. I've heard that ReiserFS

[gentoo-user] [OT] (Linux) surveillance system?

2006-05-02 Thread Jeff
tons to spend. We'd like the design discreet and simple for the time being, until we can afford something huge. Just wondering. :-) -Jeff -- Emperor Palpatine: Everything that has transpired has done so according to my design. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Cloning a Gentoo box

2006-05-02 Thread Jeff
, as you may want to change it to your liking. Works great for me anyway, YMMV! -Jeff Rumen Yotov wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Jolet wrote: On Tuesday 02 May 2006 08:18, Ronald V. Vazquez wrote: Hello all: I wanted to get some ideas from the list on how to clone

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse Question (Not working Wheel)

2006-05-02 Thread Jeff
to restart X by logging out of Gnome, and at gdm (or greeter of choice), do CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE and long back in. Should work for you! Slainte. :-) -Jeff Christopher E wrote: Hello all, I am wondering what I need to do to get my wheel (scroll) to work inside of gnome? In my xorg I have auto

[gentoo-user] GDM connect problem

2006-05-01 Thread Jeff Rollin
Hi. I'm trying to set GDM up so that it provides logins to machines logging in over the network. I have set everything up as per the Gentoo XDMCP howto Guide, and can start X by typing X -broadcast :1 on the server on which GDM is running, but other hosts cannot access it. Any ideas? Thanks.

[gentoo-user] Re: GDM connect problem

2006-05-01 Thread Jeff Rollin
On 01/05/06, Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I'm trying to set GDM up so that it provides logins to machines logging in over the network. I have set everything up as per the Gentoo XDMCP howto Guide, and can start X by typing X -broadcast :1 on the server on which GDM is running

[gentoo-user] Re-caching dependency info (mtimes differ)

2006-05-01 Thread Jeff
I'm seeing this a lot during init. Any idears? * Re-caching dependency info (mtimes differ)... Thanks all. -Jeff -- Governor Tarkin: The Imperial Senate will no longer be of any concern to us. I have just received word that the Emperor has dissolved the council

[gentoo-user] Re: GDM connect problem

2006-05-01 Thread Jeff Rollin
On 01/05/06, Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 01/05/06, Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I'm trying to set GDM up so that it provides logins to machines logging in over the network. I have set everything up as per the Gentoo XDMCP howto Guide, and can start X by typing X

[gentoo-user] Re: GDM connect problem

2006-05-01 Thread Jeff Rollin
On 01/05/06, Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 01/05/06, Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 01/05/06, Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I'm trying to set GDM up so that it provides logins to machines logging in over the network. I have set everything up as per the Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-04-30 Thread Jeff Rollin
Works fine on mine; what are your USE flags?On 30/04/06, wu chuanwen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! Everybody!I think most of us are using firefox now .Do you think it's too slow?In my machine,if i open 6 or more tabs in firefox,my firefox will be stuck and even can not scroll up and down.Many peple

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-04-30 Thread Jeff Rollin
I know a lot of people don't recommend this, but I haven't had any trouble with CFLAGS=-O3, specifically in firefox 1.5.0.2On 30/04/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: wu chuanwen wrote: 2006/4/30, Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Works fine on mine; what are your

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-04-30 Thread Jeff Rollin
Oh, yeah. I couldn't understand why people raved about the speed of Gentoo till I added USE=-DG_DISABLE_DEBUGOn 30/04/06, Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:I know a lot of people don't recommend this, but I haven't had any trouble with CFLAGS=-O3, specifically in firefox 1.5.0.2 On 30/04/06

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-04-30 Thread Jeff Rollin
Alexander, DG_DISABLE_DEBUG strips debugging information from binaries, making them smaller (and faster) Jeff. On 30/04/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff Rollin wrote: I know a lot of people don't recommend this, but I haven't had any trouble with CFLAGS=-O3, specifically

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-04-30 Thread Jeff Rollin
I didn't say DG_DISABLE_DEBUG was a USE flag, I said it was a CFLAG. And it improves the speed of KDE applications too-- --Argument against Linux number 6,033: ...So this is like most Linux viruses. You have to download the virus yourself, become

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-04-30 Thread Jeff Rollin
whoops! my badOn 30/04/06, David Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 21:11 Sun 30 Apr , Jeff Rollin wrote: I didn't say DG_DISABLE_DEBUG was a USE flag, I said it was a CFLAG. And it improves the speed of KDE applications tooOh, yeah. I couldn't understand why people raved about the speed of Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-04-30 Thread Jeff Rollin
Hmm,Unfortunately it's so long ago that I don't remember where I saw it. Anyway, works for me.Jeff.On 01/05/06, Ryan Tandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Farhan Ahmed wrote: Jeff Rollin wrote: I didn't say DG_DISABLE_DEBUG was a USE flag, I said it was a CFLAG. And it improves the speed of KDE

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

2006-04-22 Thread Jeff Grossman
. Once I renamed it also, the ebuild completed fine. Jeff -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Is cups crap?

2006-04-19 Thread Jeff
1) CUPS is kaka. :-) J/K!!! 2) Modify your /etc/cupsd.conf, and allow machines on your network to print via CUPS http/ipp: http://www.cups.org/doc-1.1/sam.html#Allow HTH!!! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/sda1 with Klingston usb disk. Wrong lsusb output.

2006-04-17 Thread Jeff
. http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_USB_Mass_Storage_Device Sláinte! -Jeff Frédéric Grosshans wrote: I've a problem with a recently bought usb disk:there is a /dev/sda node but no /dev/sda1 . When I try to access /dev/sda, I've the following errors : sanduleak ~ # fdisk /dev/sda

[gentoo-user] Gentoo USB CD-ROM 'root block device is unspecified'

2006-04-11 Thread Jeff
with a kernel panic. Any [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks! -Jeff -- Luke Skywalker: What a piece of junk! Han Solo: She'll make point five past lightspeed. She may not look like much but she's got it where it counts, kid. I've made a lot of special modifications myself

[SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo USB CD-ROM 'root block device is unspecified'

2006-04-11 Thread Jeff
The machine in question is a Dell Blade 1855. By passing the argument: gentoo-nofb dobladecenter By doing so, my USB CD-ROM didn't get 'lost' after booting up! All is well! Thank you awesome Gentoo devs! ;-) Jeff wrote: Hey all. I have these big fatty Dell blade servers, and the only way

[gentoo-user] ctags exuberant ctags conflict?

2006-04-10 Thread Jeff
hosing his system? See here: # find /usr/bin/ | grep ctag /usr/bin/exuberant-ctags /usr/bin/ctags I'm not making a lot of sense right now, sorry - only 4 hours of sleep, again. I love kids. :-) -Jeff -- Darth Vader: Impressive. Most impressive. Obi-wan has taught you well. You

[gentoo-user] Acroread and a few other apps starting in other languages?

2006-04-06 Thread Jeff
Hey all. This one puzzles me - Firefox and Acrobat Reader, both start up in completely different languages. Firefox in Norwegian (wtf?) and Acrobat Reader in Spanish (). I have no problem expanding my horizons learning other languages, but today is not the day. Any idears? Thanks! -Jeff

Re: [gentoo-user] I don't want to upgrade to xorg-x11-7.0

2006-04-06 Thread Jeff Rollin
releases ago ( -- spreading X all over /usr instead of keeping it in /usr/X11R6). If it weren't there for hysterical raisins, though, it should of course be in /opt. Was that change made by the X.org people or just by the Gentoo people?Jeff.

[gentoo-user] VMWare (Gentoo) Linux

2006-03-28 Thread Jeff
under VMWare, are you able to scan the host operating system's file system in any way? I haven't used VMWare for a very long time. Just wanted to get some input. Thanks much! -Jeff -- Han Solo: You said you wanted to be around when I made a mistake, well, this could

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare (Gentoo) Linux

2006-03-28 Thread Jeff Rollin
Hi. On 28/03/06, Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all.I have a question for any VMWare Linux users. My greatest concern, isWindows being installed and run on top of Linux. When Windows is 'virtually' up and running, does it work as normal? AKA, does it detectdevices and what not, enabling

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare (Gentoo) Linux

2006-03-28 Thread Jeff Rollin
For best performance, you should have enough memory to run a VM with at least 128MB RAM, plus 128MB+ for the host OS (assuming you are not running anything else particularly memory-hungry).On 28/03/06, Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. On 28/03/06, Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all.I

[gentoo-user] MP3 conversion tool?

2006-03-28 Thread Jeff
Hey all. Wondering, is there a neat command-line tool that can convert MP3 into other formats? Cheers! -Jeff -- Han Solo: Afraid I was gonna leave without giving you a goodbye kiss? Princess Leia: I'd just as soon kiss a Wookiee! Han Solo: I can arrange

[gentoo-user] Asian fonts in X/Mozilla

2006-03-24 Thread Jeff
Hey all. Have a look at the *bottom* of this Google screen shot: http://home.comcast.net/~jmg_071769/images/borkedcharacters.jpg How do I get those Asian characters to appear? TIA! -Jeff -- Jabba the Hutt: Bring me Solo and the Wookiee! They will all suffer for this outrage

Re: [gentoo-user] screen flickers/static

2006-03-24 Thread Jeff
controller: Creative Labs SB0400 Audigy2 Value From the list, you can see that my video is nVidia. HTH! -Jeff Michael Sullivan wrote: On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 12:54 -0500, JimD wrote: On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 08:15:37 -0600 Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My wife has the same problem

Re: [gentoo-user] screen flickers/static

2006-03-24 Thread Jeff
As root: X -configure This will attempt to detect your X hardware - mouse, keyboard, video, monitor - and create a new temporary file called xorg.conf.new. You'll then be able to edit and use this file to test X. You'll need to modify xorg.conf.new to take advantage of your particular hardware

[gentoo-user] NIC works fine with Gentoo Live CD, not so good without.

2006-03-20 Thread Jeff
Ok gang, this one absolutely boggles me. My system: AMD64 w/1.5G RAM, 200G HD, Audigy2, Realtek NIC, nVidia 6800GS. So, here's my NIC as it appears in lspci (both with the Live CD, and my current install): 02:03.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev

Re: [gentoo-user] NIC works fine with Gentoo Live CD, not so good without.

2006-03-20 Thread Jeff
*sigh* I hit 'reply' instead of 'compose' DAMMIT! Sorry... Jeff wrote: Ok gang, this one absolutely boggles me. My system: AMD64 w/1.5G RAM, 200G HD, Audigy2, Realtek NIC, nVidia 6800GS. So, here's my NIC as it appears in lspci (both with the Live CD, and my current install): 02

[gentoo-user] NIC works fine with Gentoo Live CD, not so good without.

2006-03-20 Thread Jeff
Ok gang, this one absolutely boggles me. My system: AMD64 w/1.5G RAM, 200G HD, Audigy2, Realtek NIC, nVidia 6800GS. So, here's my NIC as it appears in lspci (both with the Live CD, and my current install): 02:03.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] program to create buttons and graphic text

2006-03-01 Thread Jeff
http://gimp.org/ :-) Marco Calviani wrote: Hi list, i would like to know which program can be suited to create buttons and graphic text to be used, for example, in web pages. Many thanks, MC -- Princess Leia gets her first look at the Millennium Falcon. Princess Leia: You

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia vs. 2.6.15r1

2006-02-28 Thread Jeff
What kind of card you using? I would dump that old driver - it's given me nothing but headaches! Konstantinos Agouros wrote: Hi, is it possible that these two are not compatible? I am running 2.6.15-r1 and nvidia-kernel-1.0-6629-r5. If I start X the kernel oopses and I have to reboot.

[gentoo-user] NVRM: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x12:0x2b:1438)

2006-02-23 Thread Jeff
Hey guys. The subject is the lovely error message I'm seeing after trying to get the nVidia drivers up and running on this card: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 4000 AGP 8x] (rev c1) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel,

[gentoo-user] NFS LDAP client can't see directory.

2006-02-21 Thread Jeff
Hey guys. I'm still pretty much a n00b in the arena of NFS LDAP so bear with me. Server info: # /etc/exports: the access control list for filesystems which may be exported # to NFS clients. See exports(5). /dir1 192.168.0.0/24(rw) 192.168.1.0/24(rw) Client info: The

[gentoo-user] Resolving hostnames with OpenVPN/TUN device?

2006-02-20 Thread Jeff
Hey all. I've got OpenVPN installed, and it runs great. Only thing - I've noticed between the Windows and Linux version - the Windows version seems to auto-magically assign the proper nameserver addresses to the TUN device once connected, hence I can just enter hostnames and ping or PuTTY with no

Re: [gentoo-user] New printer setup - having trouble with CUPS [SOLVED]

2006-02-20 Thread Jeff
: On 2/19/06, Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey guys. Just my two cents - I'm having trouble configuring the Epson C86, which is odd, because I've used this printer with Gentoo/CUPS before, and never had any problems. It's odd that gimp-print is installed, and I don't see the drivers popping up

Re: [gentoo-user] New printer setup - having trouble with CUPS

2006-02-19 Thread Jeff
Hey guys. Just my two cents - I'm having trouble configuring the Epson C86, which is odd, because I've used this printer with Gentoo/CUPS before, and never had any problems. It's odd that gimp-print is installed, and I don't see the drivers popping up in the web interface. I'll keep you posted!

[gentoo-user] Unusual DVD-RW behavior?

2006-02-18 Thread Jeff
Hey all. I'm curious as to why a handful of /dev/ entries seem to be pointing to the same device - notably, to hdc, which is my DVD burner. See here: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Feb 18 05:29 cdrom - hdc lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Feb 18 05:29 cdrw - hdc lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-security] AMD64 + Hard Drive weirdness...

2006-02-16 Thread Jeff
, that would ultimately be most helpful! Off to work I go... Thanks all on the list(s). Robert Larson wrote: Hello Jeff, I've had 3 machines exhibit this kind of behaviour in the last few months. On the first machine, it was an intermitten IDE controller failure (probably related to heat

[gentoo-user] Good program for ogg?

2006-02-13 Thread Jeff
Hey all. Want to make ogg's out of my CD's, but don't want to have to download a zillion GUI's/libraries ala KDE or GNOME. I love fluxbox, so something that works in console would even be great! What's your fave? -- Princess Leia: Darth Vader. Only you could be so bold. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Good program for ogg?

2006-02-13 Thread Jeff
abcde works like a charm. Thanks all for your input. :-) Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: Le 13 février à 17:39:13 Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrit notamment: Hey all. Want to make ogg's out of my CD's, but don't want to have to download a zillion GUI's/libraries ala KDE or GNOME. I love fluxbox

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: System Clock Problems

2006-02-13 Thread Jeff
Hey Mark. I'd also like to pitch in here. Since about two weeks ago, my machines are no longer keeping time as well. I'm getting errors when my systems boot during sysinit - the clock script fails miserably, and some systems it forces me into console to try and correct the problem. I'm not sure

[gentoo-user] select() to /dev/rtc to wait for clock tick timed out

2006-02-10 Thread Jeff
Hey guys. I've been running the same kernel now for about a month, and today is the first time I saw this message. In fact, it hosed my sysinit, and it's not apparent to me how to fix this. Any ideas? Thanks! -- Emperor Palpatine: Take your Jedi weapon! Use it. Strike me down with all

[gentoo-user] How to keep nvidia-settings?

2006-02-09 Thread Jeff
! -Jeff -- Han Solo: Wonderful girl! Either I'm going to kill her or I'm beginning to like her. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] One host, two NIC's...

2006-02-05 Thread Jeff
Hey all. Linux question - I have this nice big dual Xeon server, with two NIC's. Where, how, when, why, can I configure this beast, not as a router, but just as a host with two ways to get in. eth0 is 192.168.0.39 eth1 is 192.168.1.139 I would like to be able to associate both NIC's to the

[gentoo-user] USE flags - Why use ntpl/ntplonly in make.conf?

2006-02-02 Thread Jeff
Just wondering - how would my system benefit from using ntpl/ntplonly? I don't see very much 'official' documentation of these USE flags, but Googling, I see a lot of people using it to 'optimize' their gcc/system. Anyone care to comment? -- Luke can't levitate his X-Wing out of the bog. Luke

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags - Why use ntpl/ntplonly in make.conf?

2006-02-02 Thread Jeff
Ooop... my apologies... it's NPTL! Duh me!!! http://gentoo-wiki.com/NPTL fire-eyes wrote: Jeff wrote: Just wondering - how would my system benefit from using ntpl/ntplonly? I don't see very much 'official' documentation of these USE flags, but Googling, I see a lot of people using

[gentoo-user] Re: PHP upgrade breaks Squirrelmail

2006-01-30 Thread Jeff Grossman
don't think I have been able to get the current Squirrelmail to work with PHP 5. The unstable version seems to work okay. Jeff -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference

2006-01-26 Thread Jeff
I'm seeing this pop up a few times since upgrading to gcc-3.4 - what the heck did I break? ARGH! I love Gentoo... -- Han Solo: Wonderful girl! Either I'm going to kill her or I'm beginning to like her. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

2006-01-25 Thread Jeff
It brings me great joy to know that my original post has spawned such madness. :-) John Jolet wrote: I read something some time ago that suggested if you transfer a compressed file over a compressed SFTP connection, for example, that it would take longer to transfer the data versus if only

[gentoo-user] Using 'world' file to clone another machine

2006-01-25 Thread Jeff
I'm sure this one's been asked a million times too... Machine A, runs Gentoo/KDE and a handful of other apps I've collected over the year. I would like Machine B to have the same exact packages. How would I use Machine A's /var/lib/portage/world file to make my 'clone'? Thanks all. -- Darth

[gentoo-user] tar over ssh

2006-01-24 Thread Jeff
Hey guys. I've got this big fat backup server with no space left on the hard drive to store a tar file. I'd like to pipe a tar through ssh, but not sure what the command would be. Something to the effect of: # cat /var/backup | ssh backup.homelan.com 'tar data.info.gz' So that, the data is

Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

2006-01-24 Thread Jeff
Tom you big jerk. LOL! jk man... Well, I would call it, piping through a tunnel? Tunneling through a pipe? The concept seems very *nix-like to me. *shrug* Thanks to all... wish me luck! Tom Smith wrote: John Jolet wrote: On Jan 24, 2006, at 11:20 AM, Tom Smith wrote: Jeff wrote: Hey

Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

2006-01-24 Thread Jeff
. :-) -Jeff Francesco Riosa wrote: Jeff wrote: Hey guys. I've got this big fat backup server with no space left on the hard drive to store a tar file. I'd like to pipe a tar through ssh, but not sure what the command would be. Something to the effect of: # cat /var/backup | ssh backup.homelan.com

Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

2006-01-24 Thread Jeff
DUH ME! Open mouth, insert face... Ok, what I *meant* to say from post #1, is, the filesystem I'm tarballing is quite large - 25g. The tar command should be able to digest this, yes? Should I be worried? Thanks again all. Jeff wrote: This example that Francesco illustrates seems to work pretty

[gentoo-user] NIS/NFS

2006-01-23 Thread Jeff
Hey all. Wondering - is there a command that will let you see all exports/mount points available on a network? Thanks! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Courier-IMAP

2006-01-21 Thread Jeff Grossman
I just switched from using UW-IMAP to Courier-IMAP. Everything is working great. But, I noticed that the most current stable version for x86 is 4.0.1 and the most unstable version is 4.0.4. On the Courier webpage, version 4.0.6 has been out since September of last year. Is there current

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] Courier-IMAP and Outlook

2006-01-14 Thread Jeff Grossman
. Jeff -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/dbus-0.23.4-r1 fails to compile

2006-01-06 Thread Jeff
-updater was the answer. Jeff -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternative Window Managers

2005-12-30 Thread Jeff
Fluxbox is tight. Really slick, clean, fast, and yet, still very manageable/configurable. I think you'd love it... just my opinion... http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/ http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/fluxbox-config.xml ;-) Bill Roberts wrote: On 03:18 Fri 30 Dec , Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.

[gentoo-user] xpdf + KDE + emerge whackiness...

2005-12-29 Thread Jeff
Ok... emerge -uDNp world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] app-text/xpdf-3.01-r4 (is blocking app-text/poppler-0.4.3-r1) [ebuild N] x11-libs/motif-config-0.9 [ebuild N] x11-libs/openmotif-2.2.3-r8 [ebuild N

Re: [gentoo-user] xpdf + KDE + emerge whackiness... [SOLVED]

2005-12-29 Thread Jeff
Worked as planned guys. Thanks much. How I did it: # emerge -C poppler xpdf ; emerge -vat poppler Then, add app-text/xpdf to /etc/portage/package.keywords Thanks much. :-) Daniel Heemann wrote: On Thursday 29 December 2005 21:04, Jeff wrote: Calculating world dependencies ...done

Re: [gentoo-user] i'm new of list

2005-12-19 Thread Jeff
Whaddup! Welcome to the list. :-) jangar wrote: hi -- Darth Vader: Commander, tear this ship apart until you've found those plans. And bring me the passengers, I want them alive! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] [OT] World Of Warcraft - Works like MAGIC on Gentoo

2005-12-18 Thread Jeff
Just to let you guys know, not that it means anything special, but WoW works like a DREAM on Gentoo. Now, the bad, I've been reading up on this 'mouse pointer' problem, and damn.. it's getting the best of me. I've been Google'ing all day for a patch/fix, but the mouse thingy still eludes me.

[gentoo-user] Emerge Question

2005-12-17 Thread Jeff Grossman
programs installed. And, I don't want any gui type programs installed. Thanks, Jeff -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Emerge Question

2005-12-17 Thread Jeff Grossman
Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff Grossman wrote: When I ran emerge -uaD today, I got the following output: These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] sys-apps/man-pages-2.16 [2.15] [ebuild U ] net-misc/curl-7.15.1 [7.15.0

[gentoo-user] Re: Emerge Question

2005-12-17 Thread Jeff Grossman
Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/17/05, Jeff Grossman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I ran emerge -uaD today, I got the following output: These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] sys-apps/man-pages-2.16 [2.15

[gentoo-user] Desktop Environment - KDE 3.5 creating some yucky looking windows...

2005-12-16 Thread Jeff
of what might cause this? Thanks all, Gentoo is the shizz!!! -Jeff -- C-3PO: Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Desktop Environment - KDE 3.5 creating some yucky looking windows... [SOLVED]

2005-12-16 Thread Jeff
Dude, you are the MAN! Worked like a charm. Thanks much. Merry, uh, Happy uh... uhm Well, you get the drift... Luis Ortiz wrote: Jeff wrote: Hey all. KDE 3.5 - amazing. Really really nice job. Sometimes, though, I get these funky looking chunky black lines in my apps - including

Re: [gentoo-user] lighter xscreensaver ?

2005-12-14 Thread Jeff
Heya. In your ~/.xinitrc, or ~/.xsession, you can start the xscreensaver daemon with a simple: xscreensaver -nosplash Works like a charm, especially with fluxbox and other lightweight goodies. :-) Grant wrote: Is there a program like xscreensaver that is lighter weight? All I want to do is

Re: [gentoo-user] hyperthreading

2005-12-13 Thread Jeff Williams
-2.6.14-gentoo-r2 if you are using the 2.6.14-r2 gentoo sources). This should give you a result similar to the following: CONFIG_SMP=y CONFIG_X86_FIND_SMP_CONFIG=y CONFIG_X86_SMP=y Hope this helps. Jeff On 12/13/05, Nick Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: just did a reinstall of my gentoo box, (been

Re: [gentoo-user] lighter xscreensaver ?

2005-12-12 Thread Jeff
http://www.tux.org/~bagleyd/xlockmore.html # emerge xlockmore :-) Grant wrote: Is there a program like xscreensaver that is lighter weight? All I want to do is blank and lock the screen after a little bit (or on command). I use xfce. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: PHP and Mbstring (was Re: PHP and MCRYPT)

2005-12-10 Thread Jeff Grossman
Francesco Riosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff Grossman wrote: Francesco Riosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff Grossman wrote: I am running dev-lang/php 5.0.5. I installed phpmyadmin, and when I first go into it, it says I do not have mcrypt installed in my php. How do I enable

[gentoo-user] PHP and MCRYPT

2005-12-09 Thread Jeff Grossman
I am running dev-lang/php 5.0.5. I installed phpmyadmin, and when I first go into it, it says I do not have mcrypt installed in my php. How do I enable mcrypt in PHP? I tried adding the use flag of mcrypt, but that does not seem to do anything. What am I missing? Thanks, Jeff -- gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there and Alternative to compiling kde?

2005-12-09 Thread Jeff
On Friday 09 December 2005 16:55, Harry Putnam wrote: Check out Kubuntu dude. It's probably right up your alley. This is *not* an anti-Gentoo email. I 100% love Gentoo, and will continue to use it! (Puts asbestos suit back in the drawer...) I'll probably need the asbestos drawers here

[gentoo-user] PHP and Mbstring (was Re: PHP and MCRYPT)

2005-12-09 Thread Jeff Grossman
Francesco Riosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff Grossman wrote: I am running dev-lang/php 5.0.5. I installed phpmyadmin, and when I first go into it, it says I do not have mcrypt installed in my php. How do I enable mcrypt in PHP? I tried adding the use flag of mcrypt, but that does

Re: [gentoo-user] What USE flags would make for the ideal home KDE box?

2005-12-07 Thread Jeff
Twink, get off ICQ/AIM, start using my jabber server: http://www.binaryfreedom.info/ :-) Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Tuesday 06 December 2005 16:41, Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] What USE flags would make for the ideal home KDE box?': I would like to see what USE

[gentoo-user] What USE flags would make for the ideal home KDE box?

2005-12-06 Thread Jeff
I would like to see what USE flags you use to make the 'ideal' KDE Gentoo box. I'm just trying to narrow down my choices, and yet, still remain somewhat flexible, and/or secure. Thanks to all who participate in my little 'Quest for the Holy Flag'. -- Darth Vader: Commander, tear this

[gentoo-user] USE flags

2005-12-02 Thread Jeff
Hey all. Just a quick one - where can I find the USE flag compendium? Thanks! -Jeff -- R2-D2 and Chewbacca are playing the holographic game aboard the Millennium Falcon. Chewbacca: Aaaarrrgh C-3PO: He made a fair move. Screaming about it can't help you. Han Solo

[gentoo-user] Openoffice 2 Install problems

2005-12-02 Thread Jeff Cranmer
file_image_pagein: Invalid argument file_image_pagein: Invalid argument /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libvcl680li.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Has anyone else experienced problems, or can otherwise help me resolve? Thanks Jeff

[gentoo-user] Re: PHP5 and Squirrelmail

2005-11-30 Thread Jeff Grossman
Norberto Bensa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff Grossman wrote: Norberto Bensa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yup. You need to upgrade squirrelmail Okay, I guess I was wrong. I thought I had upgraded Squirrelmail to the 1.4.5-r1 release. I just did it again, and now everything is working

[gentoo-user] Re: PHP5 and Squirrelmail

2005-11-29 Thread Jeff Grossman
Norberto Bensa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff Grossman wrote: Fatal error: Only variables can be passed by reference in /var/www/localhost/htdocs/squirrelmail/functions/imap_messages.php on line 480 Yup. You need to upgrade squirrelmail To what version? I tried the 1.4.5-r1 version

[gentoo-user] Re: PHP

2005-11-29 Thread Jeff Grossman
Jeff Grossman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ellotheth rimmwen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/26/05, Jeff Grossman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is the dev-lang/php pretty stable? Is there anything I should know before I make the switch? I'm running 5.0.5. It's lovely. Just follow the upgrade guide

[gentoo-user] Re: PHP

2005-11-29 Thread Jeff Grossman
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [-- text/plain, encoding quoted-printable, charset: US-ASCII, 19 lines --] On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 20:38:49 -0800, Jeff Grossman wrote: Okay. I have removed dev-php/php-4.4.0 and installed dev-lanp/php-5.0.5 and everything appears to be working okay

[gentoo-user] Re: PHP

2005-11-28 Thread Jeff Grossman
ellotheth rimmwen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/26/05, Jeff Grossman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is the dev-lang/php pretty stable? Is there anything I should know before I make the switch? I'm running 5.0.5. It's lovely. Just follow the upgrade guide (http://svn.gnqs.org/projects/gentoo-php

[gentoo-user] PHP5 and Squirrelmail

2005-11-28 Thread Jeff Grossman
/imap_messages.php on line 480 Thanks for any help you can offer me. Jeff -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: PHP

2005-11-28 Thread Jeff Grossman
ellotheth rimmwen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/26/05, Jeff Grossman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is the dev-lang/php pretty stable? Is there anything I should know before I make the switch? I'm running 5.0.5. It's lovely. Just follow the upgrade guide (http://svn.gnqs.org/projects/gentoo-php

[gentoo-user] PHP

2005-11-26 Thread Jeff Grossman
I currently have the dev-php/php installed on my Gentoo machine. I am thinking of moving up to php 5 and must use the new dev-lang/php. Is the dev-lang/php pretty stable? Is there anything I should know before I make the switch? Thanks, Jeff -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Slots

2005-11-26 Thread Jeff Grossman
I have just realized about programs that can be installed in slots. Is there a way for me to find out what programs are installed in more than one slot on my computer? Can I tell if a particular program in a slot is still needed? Thanks, Jeff -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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