[gentoo-user] recommendation for a wireless G Broadband Router

2008-06-27 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I have a linksys (Cisco) WRT54G, which works fine except for one point. I have been unable to find in the documentation how to tell its dhcp server that mac address X should get IP addr Y. I am prepared to accept the deserved shame if someone tells me how to do this. Failing the above, I am

Re: [gentoo-user] recommendation for a wireless G Broadband Router

2008-06-27 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:01:17 -0300 Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Gordon Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another option is the excellent Tomato Firmware (http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato), which does exactly what you need out of the box. Another

Re: [gentoo-user] gnucash pulls in firefox (when I already have firefox-bin)

2008-06-25 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:17:36 +0100 Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yelp is pulling in firefox because you do not have xulrunner in USE. firefox-bin is no use, the program needs the header files for either firefox or xulrunner. The current recommendation is to use xulrunner instead of

Re: [gentoo-user] gnucash pulls in firefox (when I already have firefox-bin)

2008-06-25 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:46:44 -0700 James Ausmus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:40:41 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: yelp is pulling in firefox because you do not have xulrunner in USE. firefox-bin

Re: [gentoo-user] udev problem with USB disk (SOLVED ?)

2008-06-02 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Thank you alan and Q. The problem seems to be that I was trying to mount (a partition of) the usb disk at boot time with localmount. The localmount init script is run before the usb filesystem (usbfs) is mounted. I have now listed it as noauto in fstab and mount it in local.start. But I did

[gentoo-user] udev problem with USB disk

2008-06-01 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I am having trouble with my external USB disk. I have the following entry in fstab: /dev/usbhd1 /mnt/b ext3 defaults 0 0 I have written /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules DRIVERS==usb, ATTRS{serial}==335144304641374D, ATTRS{product}==ST94811U2-RK, ATTRS{manufacturer}==Seagate,

Re: [gentoo-user] Speed up `du'

2008-05-24 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sat, 24 May 2008 16:49:09 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to speed up the du command? I mean short of having cron run it on target directories and store results. (not really speeding up but at least not having to wait for a result) I've seen various mention of du being

[gentoo-user] kernel config ata/atapi and scsi

2008-05-23 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I remember reading that much of the CDrom et al support now uses the scsi subsystem, but have not remembered enough. I would appreciate answers to the following specific questions. I have a dell insprion 6400 laptop. Using lshw I find that the ide interface contains ATA disk Hitachi HTS72101

Re: [gentoo-user] is grub in my mbr?

2008-05-21 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 21 May 2008 11:42:37 +0200 Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Mittwoch, 21. Mai 2008 schrieb ext Neil Bothwick: On Wed, 21 May 2008 10:53:28 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: If you don't, the stage1 in your MBR may not work with the stage1.5 and stage2 in /boot. This happened

Re: [gentoo-user] is grub in my mbr?

2008-05-21 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 21 May 2008 15:31:23 +0200 Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Mittwoch, 21. Mai 2008 schrieb ext Allan Gottlieb: This discussion is interesting and may well prove helpful. But, unless I missed it, I didn't see an answer to my question, namely Although it was a little bit

Re: [gentoo-user] is grub in my mbr?

2008-05-21 Thread Allan Gottlieb
. Thanks! You are welcome and thanks again to alan mckinnon for confirming my guess. allan (gottlieb) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] is grub in my mbr?

2008-05-20 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I believe that when I upgrade grub I am supposed to re-run it. I would like to keep the same configuration I have know but am not sure if I installed grub in the MBR (I dual boot windows since it is often needed when calling Dell Support). I believe that I do have grub in the mbr, but wish to

Re: [gentoo-user] confusing emerge output

2008-04-23 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:33:05 +0200 Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 23 April 2008, Allan Gottlieb wrote: # emerge --verbose --ask --deep --update --newuse --tree world gives just a few packages with dev-java/rhino the last one (first to be merged). But # emerge

[gentoo-user] cpu use flags

2008-04-20 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I have an intel core2 duo (currently in 32 bit mode x86). Is there any reason why I should not set the following use flags. mmx, sse, sse2, ssse3 The last one would be a local flag for mplayer. proc/cpu indicates I have this functionality. flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep

Re: [gentoo-user] evince and letter size paper

2008-02-18 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:30:52 +0100 Henry Gebhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nonetheless, whenever evince starts up it defaults to A4 paper. Any help would be appreciated. What size are your PDFs? In particular the output from pdfinfo pdffile.pdf | grep 'Page size' might be

Re: [gentoo-user] evince and letter size paper

2008-02-18 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sun, 17 Feb 2008 12:08:11 + Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 16 February 2008, Allan Gottlieb wrote: emerging libpaper says elog run \paperconfig -p letter\ as root to use letter-pagesizes elog or paperconf with normal user privileges. I did the first and when I run

Re: [gentoo-user] gnucash won't start--PLEASE help

2008-02-17 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sat, 16 Feb 2008 23:48:09 -0700 Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 02/17/08 00:21, Allan Gottlieb wrote: The same way when I file a bug about new php-5.2.5_p20080206 when it came out. The bug was dismissed closed the same day I file it, week later the php was downgraded to current one php

[gentoo-user] evince and letter size paper

2008-02-16 Thread Allan Gottlieb
emerging libpaper says elog run \paperconfig -p letter\ as root to use letter-pagesizes elog or paperconf with normal user privileges. I did the first and when I run paperconf it says letter as does cat /etc/papersize Nonetheless, whenever evince starts up it defaults to A4 paper. Any help

[gentoo-user] gnucash won't start--PLEASE help

2008-02-16 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I use gnucash nearly every day and today it fails to start. I sent in a bug report. Here are the crash details. Distribution: Gentoo Base System release 1.12.10 Gnome Release: 2.20.3 2008-02-01 (Gentoo) BugBuddy Version: 2.20.1 System: Linux 2.6.23-gentoo-r3-ajg1 #1 SMP Wed Jan

Re: [gentoo-user] gnucash won't start--PLEASE help

2008-02-16 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sat, 16 Feb 2008 21:11:57 -0700 Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Same here. When I try to start gnucash I get: Segmentation fault Though, gnucash is working OK on my other backup system, so I don't know what is going on. I built it on another machine just now and it works there too. I

Re: [gentoo-user] gnucash won't start--PLEASE help

2008-02-16 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sat, 16 Feb 2008 21:33:35 -0700 Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll tell you what will happen, they will close the bug with some silly message not enough info etc. I hope you are wrong, but of course time will tell. The same way when I file a bug about new php-5.2.5_p20080206 when it

[gentoo-user] openoffice hangs (openoffice-bin a little better) no /opt/OpenOffice

2007-10-25 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I emerge openoffice-2.3.0. Whenever I try to start any component, it hangs. For example [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ooo libGL error: open DRM failed (Operation not permitted) libGL error: reverting to (slow) indirect rendering The splash screen comes up, but that is it. When I type ^C I get back a

Re: [gentoo-user] Permissions, permissions

2007-10-15 Thread Allan Gottlieb
-ID bit so the page suggests chmod +6000 parent-directory which sets both. Also this is a gnu extension and not required by POSIX. allan gottlieb new york university -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] totem and mplayer fail on acm turing lecture

2007-10-13 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I am trying to view http://www.acm.org/news/featured/turingaward2006.mov totem complains that I don't have the necessary codecs (MPEG-4 AAC decoder) (MPEG-4 Video decoder) I thought I set the right use flags, but presumably not ajglap gottlieb # eix totem [I] media-video/totem Available

Re: [gentoo-user] linux-headers

2007-10-09 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:48:15 +0200 Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:50:56 -0400 Allan Gottlieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does that mean I am at some risk with headers at a higher version than the kernel? I followed the advice at the end of the headers emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] linux-headers

2007-10-08 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Mon, 08 Oct 2007 23:08:40 +0200 Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whether the software compiled against newer headers will still work depends solely on the kernel. In your example, when you also decide to run a 2.6.10 kernel, then the software relying on newer features (due to the

Re: [gentoo-user] linux-headers

2007-10-07 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sun, 07 Oct 2007 16:06:41 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the linux-headers and the kernel are completly off -sync. There is no harm in using headers with a higher/lower version number. But(!) you should not downgrade headers, this can cause very severe problems.

[gentoo-user] linux-headers

2007-10-06 Thread Allan Gottlieb
world offered to merge sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.22-r2 Should I do this merge? thanks, allan gottlieb -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] insatiable revdev-rebuild SOLVED

2007-10-04 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Thu, 04 Oct 2007 10:31:57 +0200 Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 04 October 2007 05:37:19 Allan Gottlieb wrote: An emerge (of openssl, I believe, but am not sure) a few days ago triggered a request for me to run # revdep-rebuild --library libcrypto.so.0.9.7

Re: [gentoo-user] insatiable revdev-rebuild SOLVED

2007-10-04 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Thu, 04 Oct 2007 16:07:16 +0200 Norman Rieß [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allan Gottlieb schrieb: As always Bo's reply solved the problem completely. I apologize for missing the remove commands. I shall read the instructions more carefully in the future. thank for the help. allan gottlieb

[gentoo-user] insatiable revdev-rebuild

2007-10-03 Thread Allan Gottlieb
An emerge (of openssl, I believe, but am not sure) a few days ago triggered a request for me to run # revdep-rebuild --library libcrypto.so.0.9.7 # revdep-rebuild --library libssl.so.0.9.7 I have done so. The revdep-rebuild for libssl found nothing, but the one for libcrypto rebuilt

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg.conf changes and dual screen setup

2007-09-15 Thread Allan Gottlieb
implement RandR version 1.2 What does xrandr -v say. For me it is Server reports RandR version 1.2 If you don't have 1.2 you won't have the --output stuff. Also --on doesn't exist even in 1.2. I found man xrandr helpful. allan gottlieb -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg.conf changes and dual screen setup

2007-09-10 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Mon, 10 Sep 2007 09:24:59 +0200 Daniel Pielmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for your answer, i will try if i can get it working like this but randr doesn't seem to work on the secondary device. I have heard that nvidia cards doesn't support randr 1.2 so i will give it a try with randr

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg.conf changes and dual screen setup

2007-09-10 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:05:26 +0200 Daniel Pielmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tested xrandr but it is useless for me! I tried various things but neither of them seem to have any effect on my secondary screen. Since you are describing a TV out it might be your tertiary screen. When I type

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg.conf changes and dual screen setup

2007-09-09 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Mon, 10 Sep 2007 00:33:35 +0200 Daniel Pielmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the update to xorg-server-1.3 broke my dual-screen setup. It creates a virtual screen size with the same size of the primary monitor for the second monitor which is my TV. So i can only reach a zone with 800x600 on

[gentoo-user] Re: mplayer fonts

2007-09-04 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:19:25 +0200 Renat Golubchyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 16:55:09 -0400 Allan Gottlieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cannot load bitmap font: /usr/share/fonts/corefonts/cour.ttf Have you compiled mplayer with truetype USE flag? I have now :-). thanks

[gentoo-user] playing mms with totem

2007-09-03 Thread Allan Gottlieb
When I fed mit-arvind-tribute-dennis-220k.asx to totem, a popup appeared saying No URI handler implemented for mms Is there a plugin I need or an extra use flag? thanks, allan ajglap gottlieb # eix totem [I] media-video/totem Available versions: 2.16.5 2.18.2 2.18.3 {a52 dbus debug

mplayer fonts (was: [gentoo-user] playing mms with totem)

2007-09-03 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Tue, 04 Sep 2007 07:09:00 +1200 (NZST) Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can't say for sure if totem does mms:// - but vlc and mplayer both do. Thanks I tried mplayer and as soon as it starts it complained that it could not load bitmap font sans-serif. So I went to preferences and pointed

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless problem

2007-08-22 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:15:12 +0200 Christian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the same wireless lan card and I have no problems with my installation. Your soln does not work for me, but we do have differences (see below) What does work is when I BOTH autoload ipw3945 and have ip23945d in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless problem

2007-08-22 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:26:36 +0200 Michael Gisbers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Wednesday 22 August 2007 schrieb Allan Gottlieb: I have the same hardware and had the same problem. I have used the following kludge to fix it. Add ipw3945 to /etc/modules.autoload/kernel-2.6 and add ipw3945d

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless problem

2007-08-21 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Tue, 21 Aug 2007 21:04:52 -0400 Colleen Beamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, I'm having a heck of a time trying to get wireless going on my laptop. I've tried so many things, I'm a bit dizzy and don't know where I've gone right or wrong. First things first. lspci shows my

Re: [gentoo-user] new gnome fails except for root

2007-08-16 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 15 Aug 2007 03:00:17 -0400 Dan Cowsill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/14/07, Allan Gottlieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Tue, 14 Aug 2007 10:49:56 -0400 Dan Cowsill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An interesting development: I removed my user from the system and deleted his home folder

Re: [gentoo-user] new gnome fails except for root

2007-08-16 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:43:08 +0200 Markus Schönhaber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allan Gottlieb schrieb: At Wed, 15 Aug 2007 01:27:57 +0200 Markus Schönhaber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try moving ~/.gconfd out of the way. It helped in my case. Thanks. I tried it, but alas no effect. Same

Re: [gentoo-user] expat troubles now gnome *very flakey*

2007-08-14 Thread Allan Gottlieb
(Sorry for resend, but it looks like this msg didn't reach the list.) At Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:15:20 -0400 Dan Cowsill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow. Well, contrary to my expectations, my system (after emerge -uDNav world) exhibits every one of the problems that you had. At least you can take

Re: [gentoo-user] new gnome fails except for root

2007-08-14 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Tue, 14 Aug 2007 10:49:56 -0400 Dan Cowsill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An interesting development: I removed my user from the system and deleted his home folder. After that, I made the user again and tried logging in. I got a whole bunch of configuration errors... But I don't understand

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new gnome fails except for root

2007-08-14 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Tue, 14 Aug 2007 20:20:07 + (UTC) Thufir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also had gnome working fine, then one day it failed for no apparent reason, I hadn't emerged anything for a bit that I recall. I did emerge unmerge nautilus and then emerge nautilus which seemed to to do the trick

Re: [gentoo-user] new gnome fails except for root

2007-08-14 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 15 Aug 2007 01:27:57 +0200 Markus Schönhaber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allan Gottlieb wrote: I created a new user testgot with the same uid as gottlieb and it works. There must be something in my config (and yours) that is bad for the old user. I can balance my checkbook

[gentoo-user] expat troubles now gnome *very flakey*

2007-08-13 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I successfully battled the expat problem (with Bo's help) and revdep-rebuild reports no further need to recompile. But gnome seems badly broken. $HOME/.gnomerc-errors has one line SESSION_MANAGER=local/ajglap:/tmp/.ICE-unix/7081 1. (minor) gdm can't find the emergence theme, haven't tracked it

Re: [gentoo-user] expat troubles now gnome *very flakey*

2007-08-13 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:15:20 -0400 Dan Cowsill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/13/07, Dan Cowsill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow. Well, contrary to my expectations, my system (after emerge -uDNav world) exhibits every one of the problems that you had. At least you can take solace in the fact

Re: [gentoo-user] expat troubles now gnome *very flakey*

2007-08-13 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Tue, 14 Aug 2007 05:49:20 +0300 Rumen Yotov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On (13/08/07 22:32) Allan Gottlieb wrote: At Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:15:20 -0400 Dan Cowsill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/13/07, Dan Cowsill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow. Well, contrary to my expectations, my system

Re: [gentoo-user] expat troubles now gnome *very flakey*

2007-08-13 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:27:09 -0700 Greg Bengeult [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allan Gottlieb wrote: At Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:15:20 -0400 Dan Cowsill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/13/07, Dan Cowsill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow. Well, contrary to my expectations, my system (after emerge

[gentoo-user] new gnome fails except for root

2007-08-13 Thread Allan Gottlieb
to start a gnome app (e.g. gnucash), no output is produced, no window appears, but the app shows up in ps x. I would be very appreciative for any help. thanks in advance, allan gottlieb -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: checking for XML::Parser... configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool

2007-08-12 Thread Allan Gottlieb
You used the wrong lib in the revdep-rebuild (see below) At Sun, 12 Aug 2007 06:18:02 -0500 Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Naga wrote: On Sunday 12 August 2007 11:39:43 Dale wrote: Same here on both problems. Is this a bug since several have ran into this? Also, I have some Gnome stuff

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: checking for XML::Parser... configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool

2007-08-12 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sun, 12 Aug 2007 18:46:28 +0930 Shawn Haggett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sven Köhler wrote: emerge gnome fails. Does anyone recognize what portage is complaining about here? I'm not really sure, but I solved it by reemerging dev-perl/XML-Parser. expat has been updated. Some Apps are now

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: checking for XML::Parser... configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool

2007-08-12 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sun, 12 Aug 2007 16:51:17 +0200 Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 12 August 2007 16:33:59 Allan Gottlieb wrote: I, like others, hit the expat problem and as directed did revdep-rebuild -X --library libexpat.so.0 gettext failed to compile since emacs could

Re: [gentoo-user] the nsplugin use flag

2007-07-24 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Tue, 24 Jul 2007 09:07:10 +0100 Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:38:50 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: Note that users should place their customized local changes in the /etc/portage directory, creating any needed files listed below that do not exist

Re: [gentoo-user] the nsplugin use flag

2007-07-23 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Mon, 23 Jul 2007 07:57:09 -0400 Mark Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/22/07, Allan Gottlieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you. I was fooled by man portage, but I should have know better. That is, I knew full well, but forgot, that /usr/profile is temporary and that user changes

Re: [gentoo-user] the nsplugin use flag

2007-07-23 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:02:35 +0100 Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:43:01 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: make.profile is for devs to make default system changes make.conf is for users to make customised system changes /etc/portage/* is for users to make customized

Re: [gentoo-user] the nsplugin use flag

2007-07-22 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sun, 22 Jul 2007 09:27:09 +0200 Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Samstag, 21. Juli 2007 schrieb Allan Gottlieb: echo dev-java/blackdown-jre nsplugin /etc/make.profile/package.use.mask echo dev-java/blackdown-jdk nsplugin /etc/make.profile/package.use.mask echo dev-java

Re: [gentoo-user] the nsplugin use flag

2007-07-21 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sat, 21 Jul 2007 08:52:23 +0200 Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Freitag, 20. Juli 2007 schrieb Florian Philipp: Am Freitag 20 Juli 2007 16:41 schrieb Allan Gottlieb: I notice that I have the nsplugin use flag UNset. use.desc says nsplugin - Builds plugins for Netscape

Re: [gentoo-user] the nsplugin use flag

2007-07-21 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sat, 21 Jul 2007 12:11:53 -0400 Allan Gottlieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does this mean that echo dev-java/blackdown-jre /etc/make.profile/package.use.mask echo dev-java/blackdown-jdk /etc/make.profile/package.use.mask echo dev-java/blackdown-java3d-bin /etc/make.profile

[gentoo-user] the nsplugin use flag

2007-07-20 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I notice that I have the nsplugin use flag UNset. use.desc says nsplugin - Builds plugins for Netscape compatible browsers Am I correct in believing that firefox is Netscape compatible and hence that I should enable this use flag? thanks, allan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] the nsplugin use flag

2007-07-20 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Fri, 20 Jul 2007 19:57:24 +0200 Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Freitag 20 Juli 2007 16:41 schrieb Allan Gottlieb: Am I correct in believing that firefox is Netscape compatible and hence that I should enable this use flag? http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161835

[gentoo-user] autoloading ipw3945

2007-07-19 Thread Allan Gottlieb
My laptop (inspiron 6400) has an intel 3945 wireless chip and hence I use net-wireless/ipw3945{,d,-ucode}. If I include ipw3945 in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6, I get an error msg during boot Failed to load ipw3945 However, everything works fine. Specifically, ifconfig shows that the

Re: [gentoo-user] autoloading ipw3945

2007-07-19 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Fri, 20 Jul 2007 12:05:27 +0930 Novensiles divi Flamen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have exactly the same laptop, with the wireless assigned to eth1. net.eth1 is not run in any runlevel, but is launched from udev. Sounds good. I assume you do *not* have ipw3945 in

Re: [gentoo-user] autoloading ipw3945

2007-07-19 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Fri, 20 Jul 2007 13:19:55 +0930 Novensiles divi Flamen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used to have the modules load , which initiated the ipw3945d with an error that it can't start until runlevel three, then it worked perfectly once that runlevel was reached. Now it loads the module but

Re: [gentoo-user] where is libnetsnmp-devel? (needed for hplip)

2007-06-22 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Fri, 22 Jun 2007 08:56:12 +0100 Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sure, but since your device is networked and you want the full functionality this will definitely require the snmp flag AND the scanner flag. Hope this helps. Indeed the comments on this group and the hplip list have been

Re: [gentoo-user] where is libnetsnmp-devel? (needed for hplip)

2007-06-22 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:19:25 +0100 Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 22 June 2007 14:46, Allan Gottlieb wrote: The only problem on the gentoo end is that the ppd files are not put where hp-setup wants them. I've noticed this too and it's rather annoying. At this point I have

[gentoo-user] where is libnetsnmp-devel? (needed for hplip)

2007-06-21 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Which package contains libnetsnmp-devel? Apparently this is needed for hplip to work correctly with network printers/scanners/etc. (I can use the cups interface to print to my network hp-7310, but hp-setup won't work and I am unable to scan with xsane. hp-check asserts that libnetsnmp-devel is

Re: [gentoo-user] where is libnetsnmp-devel? (needed for hplip)

2007-06-21 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Thu, 21 Jun 2007 20:54:06 -0500 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 21 June 2007 19:40:23 Allan Gottlieb wrote: Which package contains libnetsnmp-devel? $eix -c snmp [...] [I] net-analyzer/net-snmp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]/28/2006): Software for generating

Re: [gentoo-user] hplip and hp-check SOLVED

2007-06-21 Thread Allan Gottlieb
The snmp use flag is needed if you have a network attached device. allan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] hplip and hp-check SOLVED

2007-06-21 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Thu, 21 Jun 2007 22:33:11 -0400 Allan Gottlieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The snmp use flag is needed if you have a network attached device. This was stated clearly in the wiki, which I read, but clearly did not read carefully enough. Sorry for the noise. allan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

[gentoo-user] hplip and hp-check

2007-06-19 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I have a network attached HP officejet 7310. It works fine with cups as a printer but I cannot get it reognized for scanning. The officejet has address 192.168.1.50 on our private network. I have named it ss (for south salem, our home town) Running hp-check produced several errors (full output

Re: [gentoo-user] Message at bootup about superblock last write time

2007-06-05 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Mon, 04 Jun 2007 19:25:57 -0400 Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A while ago, I was troubleshooting serial port modem/ppconfig problems, and I did a lot of recompiles and reboots. It seems that every time my system reboots, I get the following message... * Checking root filesystem

[gentoo-user] virtual/emacs-21 dependency question

2007-06-03 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I have been using emacs-22 for a while (previously as emacs-cvs and lately as ~x86 emacs). I recently added the emacs use flag among other changes and was surprised by the following output, specifically the dependency that gtk-doc has on virtual/emacs-21. I see in the gtk-doc ebuild the

Re: [gentoo-user] virtual/emacs-21 dependency question

2007-06-03 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Mon, 04 Jun 2007 01:54:42 +0200 Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 04 June 2007 01:31:56 Allan Gottlieb wrote: I see in the gtk-doc ebuild the dependency on virtual/emacs. The specific RDEPEND line is emacs? ( virtual/emacs ) But where is does the -21 come from

Re: [gentoo-user] sharing portage directories when dual booting x86 and amd64

2007-05-25 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Fri, 25 May 2007 07:28:31 +0200 Roman Zimmermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will Briggs wrote: Allan Gottlieb wrote: I have a core 2 duo (dell 6400), which is currently running x86. I am thinking of setting up another partition and dual booting amd64. Not all Core 2 Duo's in 6400

Re: [gentoo-user] sharing portage directories when dual booting x86 and amd64

2007-05-25 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Fri, 25 May 2007 11:32:48 +0200 Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 24 May 2007 23:42:11 Allan Gottlieb wrote: In particular can I share  * tmp (PORTAGE_TMPDIR) If you ever compile the same package at the same time that may not be such a good idea. Even if it works

Re: [gentoo-user] sharing portage directories when dual booting x86 and amd64

2007-05-25 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Fri, 25 May 2007 19:24:41 +0200 Roman Zimmermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Freitag 25 Mai 2007 18:52 schrieb Allan Gottlieb wrote: As I mentioned, I would be dual booting into *either* x86 or amd64. There is only one computer (my laptop) involved; all filesystems are local. Since

[gentoo-user] sharing portage directories when dual booting x86 and amd64

2007-05-24 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I have a core 2 duo (dell 6400), which is currently running x86. I am thinking of setting up another partition and dual booting amd64. My question concerns sharing some directories between the two (naturally only one is active at a time). In particular can I share * distfiles (DISTDIR) * logs

Re: [solved] Re: [gentoo-user] Xinerama on 945GM: Set VBE mode failed

2007-05-23 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sun, 20 May 2007 19:13:24 +0200 Gian Domeni Calgeer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Sonntag, 20. Mai 2007 17:57 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If you mean to physically plug the device in when you are starting X, that is not a satisfactory option by any means. :/ That is exactly what I mean. The

[gentoo-user] superblock write time in future (UTC vs localtime)

2007-05-09 Thread Allan Gottlieb
In aug 06 bug 142850 was opened. The symptom is the boot message /dev/hda6: Superblock last write time is in the future. FIXED. From the bug report and followups, I gather that early in the boot sequence the system believes the hwclock is in UTC and hence for those of us using localtime to

Re: [gentoo-user] Xserver on Dell Inspiron M1710

2007-05-05 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Fri, 04 May 2007 12:03:12 -0400 Colleen Beamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've always used ATI cards and after this experience, I think I still prefer them. I understand your frustration and going back to ATI in the future is certainly an option. I should add however that there have been

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DST didn't happen: quickinstall doc is wrong...

2007-03-12 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:53:40 + (UTC) Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-03-12, Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 15:07 +, Grant Edwards wrote That was the old way of doing it. For a number of reasons a new method is devised. The new method

Re: [gentoo-user] emacs-cvs-22.0.95-r1 and color settings

2007-03-08 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Tue, 06 Mar 2007 20:54:34 -0500 Rodrigo Lazo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just updated to emacs-cvs-22.0.95-r1 and now some color settings (e.g. background) aren't working. The help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org mailing list would be a better choice for this question. allan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] configurtion error

2007-03-04 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sun, 04 Mar 2007 19:13:12 +1000 Richard Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've run etc-update after my last emerge --sync and world update but I still get configuration error - unknown item 'PASS_MIN_LEN' (notify administrator) when I su or log in as Root. Anybody got any ideas on how I can

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage problem with xfce4-panel

2007-02-27 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Tue, 27 Feb 2007 23:43:30 -0500 Bruno Espinoza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Exist a much easier way to avoid unmasking packages. Go to your /etc/make.conf. Change your architecture from x86 to ~x86. Now emerge xfce4-panel. If you don't want to be in the testing architecture. Go back and change

Re: [gentoo-user] how does one temporarily disable a firefox plugin (SOLVED)

2007-02-25 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sat, 24 Feb 2007 21:02:05 -0500 Allan Gottlieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a stable x86 gentoo system with firefox (bon echo) 2.0.0.1) and totem 2.16.4. According to about:plugins totem is to handle mp3 files I would like to temporarily not have totem handle the mp3s, but I

Re: [gentoo-user] network scanning with gentoo / hplip / hpaio

2007-01-31 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:31:51 +0100 Luigi Pinna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] The second problem is that the HP officejet 7310 at location 192.168.1.50 is not found I had the same problem with hp-setup, can you print? I can using cups. Printing works fine (via cups). (The above words are

[gentoo-user] network scanning with gentoo / hplip / hpaio

2007-01-24 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I have an HP-7310 all-in-one. We have it on our wired network at URL 192.168.1.50. As a printer/fax/copier, it works fine. My problem is with scanning. Our older HP-7130 does fine at all tasks. We have two problems identifying scanners. ajglap ~ # scanimage -L device

Re: [gentoo-user] can no longer switch to a VT - OT

2007-01-15 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Mon, 15 Jan 2007 09:42:32 +0100 Gabriel Rossetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for your replay Benno, I was not aware that Top-posting was a bad thing, since you can read the last msg first, which is to me better since I don't want to have to re-read/skip the whole history to read the

Re: [gentoo-user] bug in usermod, full name of options doesn't work

2007-01-13 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sat, 13 Jan 2007 15:13:18 +0100 Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allan Gottlieb wrote: Goal: add gottlieb to group scanner. It seems that -aG works but --append --groups doesn't Please try attached patch. I'll report this bug upstream, mentioning that you found it. Thanks

[gentoo-user] bug in usermod, full name of options doesn't work

2007-01-12 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Goal: add gottlieb to group scanner. It seems that -aG works but --append --groups doesn't I will file a bug in b.g.o. unless I did something wrong. thanks in advance allan ajglap portage # usermod --groups scanner --append gottlieb Usage: usermod [options] LOGIN Options: -a, --append

[gentoo-user] telling hpaio / sane what scanners are present

2007-01-12 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Two problems identifying scanners ajglap ~ # scanimage -L device `hpaio:/usb/HP_LaserJet_1200?device=/dev/usb/lp0' is a hp HP_LaserJet_1200 multi-function peripheral ajglap ~ # This is wrong. I do indeed have HP laserjet 1200 attached via usb, but it is a printer not a multifunction device.

[gentoo-user] using xsane with a network scanner (hp officejet 7310)

2007-01-03 Thread Allan Gottlieb
xsane was working great with my old hp officejet 7130s (note 7130 not 7310) that were connected to my laptop via usb (one 7130 at each of two sites). The home 7130 died and is replaced by a 7310, which is a network device. It's local IP number is 192.168.1.50 and as a printer it works great from

Re: [gentoo-user] freecell clone?

2007-01-02 Thread Allan Gottlieb
gnome-extra/gnome-games-2.16.2 (/usr/bin/sol) (you need the guile use flags to get all the games). allan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome Power Manager Message (a little OT)

2006-12-15 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Fri, 15 Dec 2006 06:58:44 +0100 Norman Rieß [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allan Gottlieb schrieb: At Thu, 14 Dec 2006 22:49:14 +0100 Norman Rieß [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guys guess what. As i have updated my Gnome to 2.16 now, the new shiny Power Manager tells me, that my laptop runs

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome Power Manager Message (a little OT)

2006-12-14 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Thu, 14 Dec 2006 22:49:14 +0100 Norman Rieß [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guys guess what. As i have updated my Gnome to 2.16 now, the new shiny Power Manager tells me, that my laptop runs on battery after i pull the plug... Can you believe that?? If i pull the plug on my computer... it

[gentoo-user] gnome 2.16 block by non-installed blocker

2006-12-11 Thread Allan Gottlieb
My normal emerge --tree --ask --verbose --newuse --update --deep world showed that gnome 2.16 is now stable. The output starts with These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating world dependencies... done! [blocks B ] dev-python/pygtk-2.9 (is

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome 2.16 block by non-installed blocker

2006-12-11 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Tue, 12 Dec 2006 03:22:20 +0100 Thomas Rösner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allan Gottlieb wrote: My normal emerge --tree --ask --verbose --newuse --update --deep world showed that gnome 2.16 is now stable. The output starts with These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse

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