Re: [gentoo-user] another mistakenly deleted partition to recover :(

2006-09-28 Thread Robert Persson
On Thu, 2006-28-09 at 11:14 +0200, Wolfgang Illmeyer wrote: Hi, Have a look at sys-block/gpart, it can probably help you. Yes, I discovered gpart last night. It can be a useful tool for partition problems, although in this case it has turned out that testdisk was what I needed. gpart doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Accidentally reformatted my EVMS root partition. Any hope of recovering data?

2006-09-27 Thread Robert Persson
On Tue, 2006-26-09 at 14:09 +0200, Wolfgang Illmeyer wrote: try running reiserfsck, with --rebuild-sb and/or --rebuild-tree, as needed. But keep a copy of the partition around (as mentioned in the other posting), just in case you find a better way to rescue your files Good suggestion,

Re: [gentoo-user] I have 146,000 files in lost+found. How do I sort them?

2006-09-27 Thread Robert Persson
this is the first time I have felt I have half an idea how to use it. Robert On Tue, 2006-26-09 at 08:20 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Monday 25 September 2006 22:55, Robert Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] I have 146,000 files in lost+found. How do I sort them?': Am I

[gentoo-user] another mistakenly deleted partition to recover :(

2006-09-27 Thread Robert Persson
In the aftermath of my recent disaster in which I accidentally reformatted my root partition I have been trying to install a new system. Unfortunately this has led to some more partitions being accidentally deleted and one of them had important data on it I need to recover. Unlike last time, this

Re: [gentoo-user] Accidentally reformatted my EVMS root partition. Any hope of recovering data?

2006-09-25 Thread Robert Persson
On Mon, 2006-25-09 at 10:44 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: so long as it created the partition without mkfs-ing it! To paraphrase the immortal Captain Haddock, [EMAIL PROTECTED]@!!! ;-) Robert -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Wikipedia history in Firefox

2006-09-24 Thread Robert Persson
On Sun, 2006-24-09 at 14:18 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: Still, it would be nice to be able to edit the saved contents, since some forms I might want to keep. There's a firefox extension for doing just that - saving half-edited forms and whatnot. Can't remember what it's called off the top of

[gentoo-user] Accidentally reformatted my EVMS root partition. Any hope of recovering data?

2006-09-24 Thread Robert Persson
I have, much to my intense surprise, managed to reformat my root partition unintentionally. It was an EVMS native reiserfs volume, but now it is a normal xfs partition. I haven't, as far as I am aware, written any files to it since the unfortunate accident. The tool I used to create the xfs

Re: [gentoo-user] custom ebuilds

2006-09-23 Thread Robert Persson
On Sat, 2006-16-09 at 11:42 -0400, David Relson wrote: What's the best way to create a personalized ebuild to include this fix when I build? http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Installing_3rd_Party_Ebuilds http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Create_an_Updated_Ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] wtf do all the Layout Options mean in gnome keyboard preferences?

2006-07-16 Thread Robert Persson
layouts as such. Many thanks, Robert Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Monday 26 June 2006 01:36, Robert Persson wrote: The problem is that I don't know how to get it so that when I press either the alt or the win key I get all those extra characters. I don't think that pressing alt, win

Re: [gentoo-user] running fetchmail/procmail as a service

2006-06-25 Thread Robert Persson
Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: Le 21 juin à 00:42:33 Robert Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrit notamment: | I want to run fetchmail as a service and I am confused about how this works. I | simply want to have something that will quietly fetch and deliver mail to | maildirs to users' home

Re: [gentoo-user] running fetchmail/procmail as a service

2006-06-25 Thread Robert Persson
Robert Persson wrote: I'm not panicked about this any more because I have decided to use the relatively painless webmin to configure the ~/.fetchmailrc's and schedule cron jobs. even though it isn't exactly what I wanted. That said, if anyone knows what I should have done to get the fetchmail

[gentoo-user] wtf do all the Layout Options mean in gnome keyboard preferences?

2006-06-25 Thread Robert Persson
I want to be able to use an international keyboard layout in X. Something like the Apple U.S. layout would be really nice, but the U.S. English Alternative International would do me fine for the moment. The trouble is that I don't know how to get at all those extra characters and diacritics. The

[gentoo-user] scanner hotplug permissions torture

2006-06-25 Thread Robert Persson
I have just acquired an Epson 1660 Photo scanner and I am having real trouble setting the permissions. Unfortunately I haven't been able to find a howto that explains clearly how you are supposed to get permissions sorted out using hotplug with more recent 2.6 kernels. There's something about a

Re: [gentoo-user] scanner hotplug permissions torture

2006-06-25 Thread Robert Persson
-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_a_USB_scanner), which is very confusing and misleading, I'm sure there will be good few people out there who will be very grateful to you. (And not just Gentoo users -- there is a real lack of up-to-date usb scanner documentation out there.) Robert Robert Persson wrote: I have

Re: [gentoo-user] wtf do all the Layout Options mean in gnome keyboard preferences?

2006-06-25 Thread Robert Persson
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Sunday 25 June 2006 13:27, Robert Persson wrote: I want to be able to use an international keyboard layout in X. Something like the Apple U.S. layout would be really nice, but the U.S. English Alternative International would do me fine for the moment. I

[gentoo-user] courier-authlib libpam undefined symbol problem

2006-06-24 Thread Robert Persson
I got a home imap server running the other day using courier-imap. Today, after a reboot, I couldn't log in any more. I tried two clients and got connection refused messages. I tried restarting courier-authlib and courier-imap-ssl several times, but this didn't work. However the following showed

Re: [gentoo-user] running fetchmail/procmail as a service

2006-06-21 Thread Robert Persson
On Tuesday 20 June 2006 22:49 Jean Magnan de Bornier was like: Yes Thanks! That's what I needed to know. -- Robert Persson That's MISTER Scum to you. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] running fetchmail/procmail as a service

2006-06-20 Thread Robert Persson
that fetchmail will first look at /etc/fetchmailrc. Will it then look at each user's $HOME/.fetchmailrc? If so, can I assume that it will deal with each user's .procmailrc suid that user? If not, what do I need to do instead? Many thanks Robert -- Robert Persson That's MISTER Scum to you

[gentoo-user] can't get xorg tdfx driver to work any more

2006-06-19 Thread Robert Persson
driver and fglrx? Many thanks Robert -- Robert Persson That's MISTER Scum to you. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] can't get xorg tdfx driver to work any more

2006-06-19 Thread Robert Persson
On Monday 19 June 2006 13:25 Robert Persson was like: A while ago I had a working 2-head setup which I stopped using because I needed to use the proprietary ati driver. Now I need to revert to using the twin-head setup, but I can't get it to work any more. I have the same xorg.conf as before. What

Re: [gentoo-user] can't get xorg tdfx driver to work any more

2006-06-19 Thread Robert Persson
FYI, I have a workaround. Set the primary video device to PCI in the bios. I don't know why this works, but it's enough to get by with at least. Robert On Monday 19 June 2006 20:37 Robert Persson was like: On Monday 19 June 2006 13:25 Robert Persson was like: A while ago I had a working 2

Re: [gentoo-user] LDPATH not set

2006-06-10 Thread Robert Persson
On Wednesday 07 June 2006 22:53 fei huang was like: On 6/7/06, Robert Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: in /etc/env.d/00basic I have the line LDPATH=/usr/local/lib yet when I enter echo $LDPATH I get nothing and I have to set it manually to get programs using libraries installed in /usr

[gentoo-user] LDPATH not set

2006-06-06 Thread Robert Persson
in /etc/env.d/00basic I have the line LDPATH=/usr/local/lib yet when I enter echo $LDPATH I get nothing and I have to set it manually to get programs using libraries installed in /usr/local/lib to work. What have I done wrong? Many thanks Robert -- Robert Persson That's MISTER Scum to you

[gentoo-user] choosing different xservers (xorg.confs) as needed?

2006-05-12 Thread Robert Persson
models. Is the performance of the radeon driver for this card likely to catch up with that of fglrx in the relatively near future and make my question obsolete? Many thanks Robert -- Robert Persson Conspiracy Bears: Once upon a time there were lots of conspiracy bears... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] can't configure java

2006-05-08 Thread Robert Persson
On Sunday 07 May 2006 22:14 Robert Persson was like: When I try to use java-config, the following happens: THIS SYSTEM VM IS NOT SUFFICIENT, REQUIRED BINARIES WERE NOT FOUND System Virtual Machine set You may want to update your enviroment by running: /usr/sbin/env-update source

Re: [gentoo-user] partitioning for multimedia performance and dual-booting linux/windex

2006-05-08 Thread Robert Persson
don't work under linux, as far as I can tell.) I'll get around to trying out crossmeta for xfs read/write at some point soon and let you all know how it goes. Robert -- Robert Persson Conspiracy Bears: Once upon a time there were lots of conspiracy bears... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 7.0 or 6.8. What of then is better ?

2006-05-07 Thread Robert Persson
In my recent experience the frequent changes to the xorg7 versions in portage are getting pretty hairy. I have been constantly adding things to package.keywords and package.unmask every time I do a world upgrade. And then it got 1000 times worse... Yesterday I did an emerge -u world which

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-x11 7.0 or 6.8. What of then is better ?

2006-05-07 Thread Robert Persson
1.0.2-r3, not even hard masked, which means that, unless 1.0.2-r4 decides to work for me second time round, I'm stuffed. If anybody can tell me how to downgrade painlessly to xorg-6.8.2 I would be very grateful. :-s Robert Persson I will shout the names of root vegetables for money

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 7.0 or 6.8. What of then is better ?

2006-05-07 Thread Robert Persson
to install all kinds of bleeding edge or obscure packages if I really need them (which often I do). Hmm. Decisions decisions. Robert -- Robert Persson Conspiracy Bears: Once upon a time there were lots of conspiracy bears... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] can't configure java

2006-05-07 Thread Robert Persson
System Virtual Machine set You may want to update your enviroment by running: /usr/sbin/env-update source /etc/profile The same thing happens if I try to choose blackdown-jre instead of sun-jre. What do I need to do to get java working properly? Thanks in advance Robert -- Robert

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 7.0 or 6.8. What of then is better ?

2006-05-07 Thread Robert Persson
is worrying; and it is still far short of the no-brain no-stress update automation you get with apt or yast. -- Robert Persson Conspiracy Bears: Once upon a time there were lots of conspiracy bears... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] partitioning for multimedia performance and dual-booting linux/windex

2006-04-20 Thread Robert Persson
? Robert -- Robert Persson Conspiracy Bears: Once upon a time there were lots of conspiracy bears... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] partitioning for multimedia performance and dual-booting linux/windex

2006-04-19 Thread Robert Persson
difference to read/write performance to be worth doing? Many thanks Robert -- Robert Persson Conspiracy Bears: Once upon a time there were lots of conspiracy bears... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] trouble running X clients as root

2006-04-02 Thread Robert Persson
quite confused. I used not to get these messages when I ran X clients as root. Anyone know what is going on here? Thanks in advance Robert -- Robert Persson Conspiracy Bears: Once upon a time there were lots of conspiracy bears... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] no video/audio from dv camcorder

2006-03-26 Thread Robert Persson
On Sunday 26 March 2006 01:49 Robert Persson was like: I am having trouble capturing from a camcorder via firewire. I can control the camera transport from each of the capturing applications (kino, cinelerra and mainactor), but I get no video or audio. Nor do I get video when I try to use

Re: [gentoo-user] unformat a partition

2006-03-16 Thread Robert Persson
that with a linux partition once—can't remember if it was reiserfs or ext3), but I would copy all the files somewhere safe in any case because even very minor corruption could come back to haunt you later (as many theologians never tire of reminding us). -- Robert Persson Conspiracy Bears: Once upon a time

[gentoo-user] modest mail server for home network

2006-03-07 Thread Robert Persson
and easy to move to another machine when the time comes. smtp is not important at the moment because the isp smtp service usually works. Any advice very much appreciated. Robert -- Robert Persson Conspiracy Bears: Once upon a time there were lots of conspiracy bears... -- gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-7: no console switching; can't exit gnome sanely.

2006-03-06 Thread Robert Persson
. Please let me know if you find a fix..! I've simply disabled kdm and am now using startx. Haven't had any problems since. Not an elegant solution, but will do till I can get hold of a mac and devote the linux box to more specialised work. -- Robert Persson Conspiracy Bears: Once upon a time

Re: [gentoo-user] No xorg.conf but GNOME works great?

2006-03-06 Thread Robert Persson
--- Charles Read [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But the screen resolution is off and there is no xorg.conf file in /etc/X11 to edit. Is there an /etc/X11/XF86Config? x.org will use that if there is no xorg.conf. robert

[gentoo-user] xorg-7: no console switching; can't exit gnome sanely.

2006-03-04 Thread Robert Persson
at about the height the login window ought to be. I am still using kdm as my session manager, if that makes any difference (it didn't in the past). Any ideas what could be happening with my gnome sessions? Thanks Robert -- Robert Persson Conspiracy Bears: Once upon a time there were lots

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-7: no console switching; can't exit gnome sanely.

2006-03-04 Thread Robert Persson
On Saturday 04 March 2006 02:33 Willie Wong was like: On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 12:24:07AM -0800, Penguin Lover Robert Persson squawked: I have just upgraded to xorg-7 and found that I can no longer use ctrl-alt-Fn to switch out of the x server. I am using the same version of fglrx that I

Re: [gentoo-user] opengl (?) weirdness in wine

2006-03-03 Thread Robert Persson
. As Apple X11 is based on an earlier version of XFree86, this suggests that the slow screen rendering problem was with the version of XFree/X.org used, rather than with fglrx as such. Any many thanks, Holly, for showing me the way. Robert -- Robert Persson Conspiracy Bears: Once upon a time

Re: [gentoo-user] opengl (?) weirdness in wine

2006-03-02 Thread Robert Persson
, but it is reliable in other ways. I may try messing about with my x.org versions again. It worked before when another wine application was playing up in a similar way. That was what prompted me to upgrade to my current version. Robert -- Robert Persson Conspiracy Bears: Once upon a time

[gentoo-user] login error message

2006-03-02 Thread Robert Persson
] ...] or export -p -bash: export: -m: invalid option export: usage: export [-nf] [name[=value] ...] or export -p How do I stop this? Many thanks Robert -- Robert Persson Conspiracy Bears: Once upon a time there were lots of conspiracy bears... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] printer won't stop puking

2006-02-16 Thread Robert Persson
the stop and reset buttons on the printer many times. Nothing doing. The only thing that stops the flow is disconnecting the parallel cable. I'm about to reboot, hoping that that will do the trick. But surely there's a way to stop the diarrhoea without rebooting, isn't there? -- Robert Persson

Re: [gentoo-user] printer won't stop puking

2006-02-16 Thread Robert Persson
continued spewing. Also, when I rebooted, the printing didn't start up again. I don't understand how this could be a cups problem in that case. :-) robert -- Robert Persson Conspiracy Bears: Once upon a time there were lots of conspiracy bears... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] trouble getting plustek parallel port scanner recognised

2006-02-01 Thread Robert Persson
. Unfortunately most of them had their problems in various central European languages, so I am still in the dark. What should I do to get linux to recognise my scanner? Many thanks Robert -- Robert Persson Conspiracy Bears: Once upon a time there were lots of conspiracy bears... -- gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] confused about suid

2006-01-30 Thread Robert Persson
with visudo, which will warn you in case you make a syntax error. Thanks! That works. -- Robert Persson Conspiracy Bears: Once upon a time there were lots of conspiracy bears... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] sound card stopped working after kernel rebuild

2006-01-30 Thread Robert Persson
:09.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Creative Labs SB Audigy FireWire Port (rev 04) 02:0b.0 Communication controller: Agere Systems LT WinModem (rev 02) 02:0c.0 VGA compatible controller: 3Dfx Interactive, Inc. Voodoo Banshee (rev 03) Robert -- Robert Persson Conspiracy Bears: Once upon a time there were

Re: [gentoo-user] sound card stopped working after kernel rebuild

2006-01-30 Thread Robert Persson
freezes? Could something like that account for emu10k1 not behaving the same way with the same kernel? Many thanks Robert -- Robert Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] YahooMessenger:ireneshusband Conspiracy Bears: Once upon a time there were lots of conspiracy bears... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

[gentoo-user] confused about suid

2006-01-28 Thread Robert Persson
/sys/power/status and then to enter a password. What am I doing wrong? thanks Robert -- Robert Persson Conspiracy Bears: Once upon a time there were lots of conspiracy bears... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/bin/test doesn't seem to do anything

2006-01-27 Thread Robert Persson
whether bash test is being weird as well. -- Robert Persson Conspiracy Bears: Once upon a time there were lots of conspiracy bears... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] /usr/bin/test doesn't seem to do anything

2006-01-26 Thread Robert Persson
. The version I am using is from sys-apps/coreutils-5.2.1-r6 . It's very hard to do a google search for anything to do with troubleshooting a program called test. Anyone know what is going on here? Thanks Robert -- Robert Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] YahooMessenger:ireneshusband Conspiracy Bears

Re: [gentoo-user] composing fancy html in kmail

2006-01-25 Thread Robert Persson
. evolution in general? Many thanks Robert -- Robert Persson Conspiracy Bears: Once upon a time there were lots of conspiracy bears... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] kernel config power-saving arcana; and getting acpi working.

2006-01-25 Thread Robert Persson
button is pressed. If I could ditch acpi and get by with apm then I would, however I am not optimistic about this because apm is supposed not to like multiple processors and I have a hyperthreading P4. How am I to get power saving (well, sleep at least) working? Thanks Robert -- Robert

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel config power-saving arcana; and getting acpi working.

2006-01-25 Thread Robert Persson
on HOTPLUG_CPU. Now to see if it works... -- Robert Persson Conspiracy Bears: Once upon a time there were lots of conspiracy bears... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] no trouble getting to sleep, but would rather die than wake up

2006-01-25 Thread Robert Persson
is initiated from the X server then I get some kind of funny pattern on the screen of the kind that says that the video card is confused. This last one is the sleep state I most want to use, so any help getting it to work properly would be much appreciated. many thanks Robert -- Robert Persson

[gentoo-user] composing fancy html in kmail

2006-01-24 Thread Robert Persson
-- Robert Persson Conspiracy Bears: Once upon a time there were lots of conspiracy bears... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] emerge --buildpkgonly world won't go: kde metapackage problem?

2006-01-22 Thread Robert Persson
source of the problem? Is emerge getting confused by the split kde metafiles again? Or does the problem lie somewhere else? Thanks people! Robert -- Robert Persson Conspiracy Bears: Once upon a time there were lots of conspiracy bears... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] either emerge or portage is completely broken

2005-12-29 Thread Robert Persson
should I do? Many thanks Robert -- Robert Persson -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] either emerge or portage is completely broken

2005-12-29 Thread Robert Persson
/package.mask Robert -- Robert Persson Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults. (US Air Force Instruction 91-111, 1 Oct 1997) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] creating local copies of web pages

2005-12-03 Thread Robert Persson
in it (aside from subdirectories and sub-subdirectories), and index.html is an empty file. What there is in hts-cache is a file called new.dat which contains a lot of the html that ought to have been put into the folders, all rolled into one huge file. -- Robert Persson Don't use nuclear weapons

Re: [gentoo-user] creating local copies of web pages

2005-12-02 Thread Robert Persson
On December 2, 2005 01:05 am Neil Bothwick was like: wget will accept most files containing URLs, it doesn't have to be a straight list. Try feeding it your bookmark file as is. Tried that. It borked. :-( -- Robert Persson Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults. (US Air Force

Re: [gentoo-user] creating local copies of web pages

2005-12-02 Thread Robert Persson
, but no other files, despite the fact that it claims to be downloading bucketloads of them. -- Robert Persson Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults. (US Air Force Instruction 91-111, 1 Oct 1997) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] creating local copies of web pages

2005-12-02 Thread Robert Persson
On December 2, 2005 07:42 am Billy Holmes was like: Robert Persson wrote: I have been trying all afternoon to make local copies of web pages from a netscape bookmark file. I have been wrestling with httrack (through wget -r http://$site/ have you tried that, yet? The trouble is that I

Re: [gentoo-user] creating local copies of web pages

2005-12-02 Thread Robert Persson
directories or so (e.g. ~/websites/politics/www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/), but it didn't actually store any html or other site content, despite the fact that it was taking a very long time to do this and was claiming to have downloaded hundreds of files. -- Robert Persson Don't use nuclear

[gentoo-user] creating local copies of web pages

2005-12-01 Thread Robert Persson
be to feed wget a list of urls. The trouble is I don't know how to turn an html bookmark file into a simple list of urls. I imagine I could do it in sed if I spent enough time to learn sed, but my afternoon has gone now and I don't have the time. Many thanks Robert -- Robert Persson Don't use

Re: [gentoo-user] system clock keeps getting reset to weird times

2005-11-21 Thread Robert Persson
setting utility. Thanks once again to everybody for their help. Robert -- Robert Persson Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults. (US Air Force Instruction 91-111, 1 Oct 1997) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] system clock keeps getting reset to weird times

2005-11-18 Thread Robert Persson
that there is no entry in the log for today (18 nov) even though I have attempted today (18 nov according to both me and the computer) to disable and reenable synchronisation through the (Gnome?) control panel. Many thanks Robert -- Robert Persson Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults. (US Air

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6 segfaults

2005-11-13 Thread Robert Persson
On November 7, 2005 03:50 pm Robert Persson was like: I have just emerged xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6 and have been finding that it crashes suddenly when I do certain things, such as click on the advanced burn option tab in k3b.  Is anyone else having this problem?  Sometimes things I The problems seem

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Is a wiki what I'm after?

2005-11-12 Thread Robert Persson
. Then, if you still need to, set up an electronic database that thinks the way you like to. Robert -- Robert Persson Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults. (US Air Force Instruction 91-111, 1 Oct 1997) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] mainactor - which build is likely to work best?

2005-11-11 Thread Robert Persson
On November 11, 2005 01:57 am Nick Rout was like: OK well mu comments below: On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 06:20:34 -0800 Robert Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On November 9, 2005 02:17 pm Nick Rout was like: what are you looking to do that main actor cannot do? 1. Import and edit quicktime

[gentoo-user] xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6 segfaults

2005-11-11 Thread Robert Persson
in wine properly? Robert -- Robert Persson Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults. (US Air Force Instruction 91-111, 1 Oct 1997) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] mainactor - which build is likely to work best?

2005-11-10 Thread Robert Persson
and back again so that you can do lots of fast cuts without getting confused by lots of tiny clips. 3. Be able to do lot more with sound (e.g. mixing). -- Robert Persson Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults. (US Air Force Instruction 91-111, 1 Oct 1997) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] mainactor - which build is likely to work best?

2005-11-09 Thread Robert Persson
windows apps under wine. I'll post if I get something to work reasonably well. Robert -- Robert Persson Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults. (US Air Force Instruction 91-111, 1 Oct 1997) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] mainactor - which build is likely to work best?

2005-11-06 Thread Robert Persson
let you know how I get on. Best Robert -- Robert Persson Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults. (US Air Force Instruction 91-111, 1 Oct 1997) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] what's a good on-demand anti-virus program?

2005-11-02 Thread Robert Persson
Does anybody have a recommendation as to which anti-virus program in portage would be best for occasional on-demand scanning? The main use would be to screen windows programs before installing them in wine. Many thanks Robert -- Robert Persson Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults

Re: [gentoo-user] what's a good on-demand anti-virus program?

2005-11-02 Thread Robert Persson
is the recent announcement by AVG that Linux is about to be brought to its knees by a devastating plague of viruses. This sounds like FUD to me and I don't like it. Clamav it is then. Best Robert -- Robert Persson Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults. (US Air Force Instruction 91-111

Re: [gentoo-user] what's a good on-demand anti-virus program?

2005-11-02 Thread Robert Persson
On November 2, 2005 10:49 am Robert Persson was like: Clamav it is then. Just installed clamav and the klamav front end. Utterly painless and easy to set up for a single-user desktop system like mine. -- Robert Persson Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults. (US Air Force

Re: [gentoo-user] ncurses apps garbled in text console

2005-10-30 Thread Robert Persson
-w /etc/env.d/02locale Mine reads: LC_ALL=en_CA.UTF-8 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8 Theres a page on gentoo.org with instructions. There's another line you need if you live in Euroland. Robert -- Robert Persson Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults. (US Air Force Instruction 91-111, 1 Oct

[gentoo-user] should /dev/dv1394 be a device or a directory?

2005-10-30 Thread Robert Persson
? Thanks Robert -- Robert Persson Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults. (US Air Force Instruction 91-111, 1 Oct 1997) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ncurses apps garbled in text console

2005-10-29 Thread Robert Persson
On October 28, 2005 10:50 pm Peter Gordon was like: On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 20:03 -0700, Robert Persson wrote: For some reason (probably a careless etc-update) ncurses based apps (e.g. mc and kernel make menuconfig) have started looking really ugly I've had that issues with the kernel

[gentoo-user] ncurses apps garbled in text console

2005-10-28 Thread Robert Persson
when I hit backspace, and so on, to the point of making the applications unusable. Any ideas? Many thanks Robert -- Robert Persson Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults. (US Air Force Instruction 91-111, 1 Oct 1997) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -u world won't update kde metapackages

2005-10-24 Thread Robert Persson
the metapackages (e.g. kdeedu instead of kdeedu-meta). I think I'd been unmerging them one at a time and didn't get around to finishing the job. Now that I have done so emerge -u world seems to be catching the kde updates the way it should. -- Robert Persson Don't use nuclear weapons

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -u world won't update kde metapackages

2005-10-24 Thread Robert Persson
have done so emerge -u world seems to be catching the kde updates the way it should. -- Robert Persson Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults. (US Air Force Instruction 91-111, 1 Oct 1997) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] using g++ instead of gcc to build abiword

2005-10-24 Thread Robert Persson
-linux-gnu/3.4.4/libstdc++_pic.a All of the above are where they should be on my system. -Richard Thanks Robert -- Robert Persson Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults. (US Air Force Instruction 91-111, 1 Oct 1997) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] using g++ instead of gcc to build abiword

2005-10-24 Thread Robert Persson
of other obscure things. But both you and Richard agree that multiple installed library versions may be the problem. That certainly sounds plausible to me. Many thanks Robert -- Robert Persson Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults. (US Air Force Instruction 91-111, 1 Oct 1997

Re: [gentoo-user] using g++ instead of gcc to build abiword

2005-10-24 Thread Robert Persson
and others, for helping me (fingers crossed!) solve this problem. Robert -- Robert Persson Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults. (US Air Force Instruction 91-111, 1 Oct 1997) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] using g++ instead of gcc to build abiword

2005-10-22 Thread Robert Persson
Oops. I meant to refer to releases 2.2.11 and 2.4.1. On October 21, 2005 08:14 pm Robert Persson was like: I just did CC=g++ and I now get a different error, both with 1.2.11 and 1.4.1, namely: -- Robert Persson Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults. (US Air Force Instruction 91

Re: [gentoo-user] using g++ instead of gcc to build abiword - more weirdness

2005-10-22 Thread Robert Persson
most of the config file changes offered by etc-update). Any ideas? Thanks Robert -- Robert Persson Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults. (US Air Force Instruction 91-111, 1 Oct 1997) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] emerge -u world won't update kde metapackages

2005-10-22 Thread Robert Persson
kopete) when I think I have a bug problem, which is obviously a clumsy way to do things. I know I can emerge kdebase-meta kdeaddons-meta kdeblahblahblah to get things up to date, but is there a way to get portage to actually deal with kde nicely like it used to? Many thanks Robert -- Robert Persson

Re: [gentoo-user] using g++ instead of gcc to build abiword

2005-10-22 Thread Robert Persson
between then and now something has changed on my system to prevent it compiling properly. If gcc hasn't changed then what on earth could it be? Robert On October 22, 2005 02:00 pm Richard Fish was like: Robert Persson wrote: I just did CC=g++ and I now get a different error, both with 1.2.11

Re: [gentoo-user] using g++ instead of gcc to build abiword

2005-10-22 Thread Robert Persson
-office/abiword-2.4.1 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 60, Exitcode 2 -- Robert Persson Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults. (US Air Force Instruction 91-111, 1 Oct 1997) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] using g++ instead of gcc to build abiword

2005-10-21 Thread Robert Persson
using g++ instead of gcc. How can I do this in portage? Do I need to emerge anything to be able to use g++? Many thanks Robert -- Robert Persson Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults. (US Air Force Instruction 91-111, 1 Oct 1997) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] using g++ instead of gcc to build abiword

2005-10-21 Thread Robert Persson
No worries. I ned all the hlep I can get ;-) On October 21, 2005 05:12 pm Peter Gordon was like: Peter Gordon said: Hope that gelps! That should be helps. Sorry about that. Please excuse my apparent lack of caffeine. :o --Peter -- Robert Persson Don't use nuclear weapons

Re: [gentoo-user] using g++ instead of gcc to build abiword

2005-10-21 Thread Robert Persson
suggest posting the output of emerge --info and emerge --verbose --pretend gcc. -Richard -- Robert Persson Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults. (US Air Force Instruction 91-111, 1 Oct 1997) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] mmx use flag on Pentium 4

2005-09-24 Thread Robert Persson
Should I enable the mmx use flag when I am compiling stuff (e.g. mplayer) for a pentium 4? I'm confused because I've kind of got the idea that mmx is obsolete, but I'm not clear exactly how obsolete. Many thanks Robert -- Robert Persson Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults. (US

Re: [gentoo-user] running mldonkey with umask 0002

2005-09-20 Thread Robert Persson
-stop-daemon would obviously solve this. I just want to check that there is no workaround before I file an enhancement request in the bugzilla. -- Robert Persson Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults. (US Air Force Instruction 91-111, 1 Oct 1997) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] running mldonkey with umask 0002

2005-09-19 Thread Robert Persson
get all programs launched by p2p to run with umask 0002, but I can't work out how to do that either. Can anyone help me with this? Many thanks Robert -- Robert Persson Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults. (US Air Force Instruction 91-111, 1 Oct 1997) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

[gentoo-user] kde-3.4.0/3.4.1 mess

2005-07-09 Thread Robert Persson
kdeartwork, kdeaddons, kdebase etc. installed. How did I get in this mess and how (without recompiling all of kde) do I get out of it? Thanks Robert -- Robert Persson Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults. (US Air Force Instruction 91-111, 1 Oct 1997) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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