[gentoo-user] Apache 2.2: missing KEEPENV (with solution)

2007-09-16 Thread Michael Mauch
Hi, the recent Apache 2.2.6 ebuild brought an /etc/init.d/apache2 that doesn't honour the KEEPENV variable anymore. Formerly one could preserve some of the environment variables (while all others would be unset to keep Apache's environment tidy). To resurrect that KEEPENV variable, I put in

[gentoo-user] Re: MSSQL command line Linux interface

2007-04-09 Thread Michael Mauch
Mauro Faccenda wrote: I need to do some simple tasks in a MSSQL Server from a Linux that have no X installed. I know I can tunnel a SSH connection and run any MSSQL in my own box, but I think it's more practical to have a cli gui for MSSQL, but I couldn't find one googling for it, so I'm

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: auto rename konsole session tabs?

2006-10-04 Thread Michael Mauch
james wrote: Well when I ssh into a remote system, bash detects this (hostname) and displays the hostname in the prompt(command line) automatically. So it is possible, another way to pose the question is how to transfer this information 'automatically' from bash to the kde-session-tab-name?

[gentoo-user] Re: International locale

2006-09-05 Thread Michael Mauch
Remy Blank wrote: Peter Ruskin wrote: On Tuesday 05 September 2006 13:17, Remy Blank wrote: I couldn't find an english locale that displays the date as dd.mm. (though I didn't look for all too long). $ date Tue Sep 5 14:02:19 BST 2006 $ echo $LC_TIME en_GB.utf8 I

[gentoo-user] Re: soundcards inconsistent

2006-05-03 Thread Michael Mauch
wu chuanwen wrote: I don't konw why you need two soundcard! I just think that maybe one is enough.Once before I had two sound cards too,and at that time my gentoo can not have any sound(maybe not because i had two soundcards but the init script).Anyway, I just reset my bios,and mask my first

[gentoo-user] Re: Udevinfo or /sys/ problem in Gentoo

2006-02-03 Thread Michael Mauch
Maarten wrote: All is cleared up now. Sorry for bothering you. FWIW, you could also run udevinfo -d to see all your devices, and use the left side of its output for udevinfo -a -p. I wonder why the -d switch is not documented neither in udevinfo -h nor in the man page. Regards...

[gentoo-user] Re: How to activate PC speaker with kernel 2.6.14?

2006-01-22 Thread Michael Mauch
saf wrote: I can't use my pc speaker, but I know the speaker works because when booting my PC I hear the check biip. :-) I installed the program beep (emerge beep), but I hear nothing! I don't get errors. Does sombebody knows how to activate the pc speaker? Is there a kernel option

[gentoo-user] Re: xine is in glsa-check but doesn't emerge

2006-01-22 Thread Michael Mauch
I wrote: Hmm. What's up here? If I try to emerge ffmpeg, it happily re-emerges ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20051216, but if I want to emerge xine-lib, it says that ~media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20051120 is masked? I figured it out: there is a xine-lib-1.1.1-r3.ebuild in one of the overlays (gentoo.de), and

[gentoo-user] Re: ATI driver, tvout, blue video window

2005-12-17 Thread Michael Mauch
Alan E. Davis wrote: I have installed gentoo on a gateway laptop, with an ATI mobility 9000 radeon video adaptor. Once I have xorg installed, and ati-drivers (proprietary), tvout was pretty easy to set up using ati's setup utility, fglrxconfig and a couple of easy changes to

[gentoo-user] Re: mone on the KEYWORD USE front

2005-12-15 Thread Michael Mauch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This makes you want to use ACCEPT_KEYWORDS on the command line, but after seeing the reasons for not doing that in recent posts I decided to follow the suggestions, and not do it. So either you must cycle thru enough `emerge -v kde' to find all packages needing

[gentoo-user] Re: OT - More fun with convert

2005-12-03 Thread Michael Mauch
Michael Sullivan wrote: I'm trying to turn the background of an image transparent. I issued covert image.gif -transparent white image.gif and it did convert the areas of the image that were pure white to transparent, but the problem is that many areas of the background, although not

[gentoo-user] Re: Wiki Howto: Xorg and Fonts, did I fatally screw up the directions?

2005-10-14 Thread Michael Mauch
Rob wrote: The first thing I am not certain of is my recompilation of Xorg using the suggested USE flags. I put the new USE flags in /etc/make.conf and then issued the command: emerge -N xorg-x11. Will that work, or do I have to do the emerge with emerge --newuse --enable bitmap-fonts

[gentoo-user] Re: Serial port console debugging

2005-10-13 Thread Michael Mauch
Mark Knecht wrote: What's a really simple process for checking out whether this is set up correctly? 1) I don't know that the null modem cable is good. I just bought it. You could use minicom to test the cable. Since your gigastudio has two serial ports, you can two minicoms on that

[gentoo-user] Re: Creating new named colors

2005-08-30 Thread Michael Mauch
Holly Bostick wrote: 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

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

2005-08-30 Thread Michael Mauch
Uwe Thiem wrote: On 30 August 2005 15:51, Andrew Lowe wrote: I have the situation where I've been loaned an old Sun SPARC box for some work. It has a static IP somewhere in the 192.168.0.* range, which my home network also is in. My question is, how can I find out the IP address of

[gentoo-user] Re: Safe Cflags for Celeron M340 on a FSC Amilo Pro V2010?

2005-08-05 Thread Michael Mauch
Alexander Skwar wrote: In the coming days, I'll get a Fujitsu Siemens FSC Amilo Pro v2010 notebook in which a Intel Celeron M340 1,5 GHz, 400FSB CPU is built into. For this system, I'd like to setup a build host following the http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Create_A_Build_Host. Quite

[gentoo-user] Re: PPP Issue

2005-07-30 Thread Michael Mauch
Jamie Dobbs wrote: After any reboot, when I try to make a PPP connection to my workplace I get the following error: /usr/sbin/pppd: pppd is unable to open the /dev/ppp device. You need to create the /dev/ppp device node by executing the following command as root: mknod /dev/ppp c