Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] emerge kde

2006-05-02 Thread Lars Weiler
* Mark M. Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] [06/05/01 15:44 -0700]: About how many days does it take to emerge kde on a beige G3 233mhz desktop? It’s been going 3 days, and it’s still on package 44 of 80 … …long… It even takes about 2 to 3 days on a G4 1GHz. Why don't you use the pre-compiled

RE: [gentoo-ppc-user] emerge kde

2006-05-02 Thread Mark M. Hart
I've never downloaded the packages cd. I guess I should do that! Thanks! Mark M. Hart -Original Message- From: Lars Weiler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 3:17 PM To: gentoo-ppc-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] emerge kde * Mark M. Hart [EMAIL

[gentoo-ppc-user] OF device trees needed for work on Windfarm thermal drivers

2006-05-02 Thread Robin H. Johnson
Apologies for the cross posting, but I wanted to reach both audiences of PPC. I'm working on the windfarm thermal drivers, trying to support: - absolutely all of the sensors available - write windfarm modules for as-yet unported or unwritten machines (Current list is PowerMac3,6 PowerMac7,2,

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

2006-05-02 Thread Alexander Skwar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 30 April 2006 08:47 am, Alexander Skwar wrote: wu chuanwen wrote: 2006/4/30, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hm, those are not firefox USE flags. What do you get, when you run emerge -vpt mozilla-firefox

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

2006-05-02 Thread Alexander Skwar
Graham Murray wrote: Nich Steicke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No, this is simply wrong - IPV6 is the next generation protocol we are currently using IPV4 - why IPV6 is a default build flag i would have no idea, as from what i can see, it will be a good while before IPV6 actually becomes

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

2006-05-02 Thread Alexander Skwar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 30 April 2006 05:59 am, Alexander Skwar wrote: wu chuanwen wrote: Not really. You most likely either have a faster machine Celeron M Notebook with 1.5 GHz. Not what I'd call fast :) And 768M ram. or have already tweaked yours. No. Try a blank

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

2006-05-02 Thread Alexander Skwar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 30 April 2006 01:11 pm, 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 too So, can you please tell me how to do this? Please read the manual. It explains how to set

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

2006-05-02 Thread Alexander Skwar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 01 May 2006 07:55 am, Justin Patrin wrote: On 4/30/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kesara Rathnayake wrote: PS: I begin to hate Googlemail because of the default to use HTML even if it is not required. Sucks. Big time. It may default to HTML

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

2006-05-02 Thread Alexander Skwar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 30 April 2006 11:21 am, Alexander Skwar wrote: Kesara Rathnayake wrote: I guess Firefox is slow now because of whole lot of Extentions that we used today. To find out, I asked OP to create a blank profile. I also assume a local problem at his side. OP

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

2006-05-02 Thread Farhan Ahmed
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (snip) So I went through all those different USE flags, and added ones I knew I could add without anything blowing up. This is what I get: # These settings were set by the catalyst build script that automatically built this stage # Please consult

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound problems with skype

2006-05-02 Thread Farhan Ahmed
Jer?nimo Backes wrote: (snip) Any other suggestions? I'm using skype with KDE and kernel-2.6.16-x.. I don't have arts support in any kde application and still skype runs fine.. Anyway i suggest you try WengoPhone.. It's open source and is based upon open standards.. I'm using it, the sound

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

2006-05-02 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 08:18, Farhan Ahmed wrote: CXXFLAGS=${CFLAGS} -fvisibility-inlines-hidden no, just no. This breaks enough stuff. Do not tell others to use it. If you want to use it. Fine. But do not tell anybody else to do it. MAKEOPTS= MAKEOPTS=-j2 -j1 is a good

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound problems with skype

2006-05-02 Thread Jerônimo Backes
Anyway i suggest you try WengoPhone.. It's open source and is based upon open standards.. I'm using it, the sound quality is better than Skype.. Check out their website http://openwengo.org.. Gentoo even has a ebuild for it in portage (net-im/wengophone).. Farhan Ahmed Thanks a lot for

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-kernel vs. gentoo-sources

2006-05-02 Thread S. Schwartz
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: is there any reason not to try drver version 8756? 6629 is very old. very, very old. Even older. It is old. As I said, all other available versions in portage didn't compile or load afterwards. Only one version (other than 6629, one of the 1.0.7...) did both

[gentoo-user] I can't get my wengophone account

2006-05-02 Thread Ptitjack
Hi all, I just emerged Wengophone. When I run Wengophone as user, I have to get my first Wengo account. A new window is opening with : You don't have a Wengo account ? Click here. Problem, the link does not work ! When I click on it, nothing happens ! What can I do ?? Thanks for your help,

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-kernel vs. gentoo-sources

2006-05-02 Thread Alexander Kirillov
is there any reason not to try drver version 8756? 6629 is very old. very, very old. Even older. It is old. As I said, all other available versions in portage didn't compile or load afterwards. Only one version (other than 6629, one of the 1.0.7...) did both successfully but crashed when

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't get my wengophone account

2006-05-02 Thread David Morgan
On 12:24 Tue 02 May , Ptitjack wrote: Hi all, I just emerged Wengophone. When I run Wengophone as user, I have to get my first Wengo account. A new window is opening with : You don't have a Wengo account ? Click here. Problem, the link does not work ! When I click on it, nothing happens

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't get my wengophone account

2006-05-02 Thread Jacques Montier
David Morgan a gentiment tapote: On 12:24 Tue 02 May , Ptitjack wrote: Hi all, I just emerged Wengophone. When I run Wengophone as user, I have to get my first Wengo account. A new window is opening with : You don't have a Wengo account ? Click here. Problem, the link does not work

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-kernel vs. gentoo-sources

2006-05-02 Thread Alexander Kirillov
is there any reason not to try drver version 8756? 6629 is very old. very, very old. Even older. It is old. As I said, all other available versions in portage didn't compile or load afterwards. Only one version (other than 6629, one of the 1.0.7...) did both successfully but crashed when

[gentoo-user] [OT] kill a child and suicide

2006-05-02 Thread Jorge Almeida
parent.sh #!/bin/bash do something /path/to/child.sh do something else When parent.sh receives a TERM signal, I would like child.sh to receive TERM also, and then parent.sh receive TERM. The do something else part is why I can't use exec /path/to/child.sh. Is

Re: [gentoo-user] soundcards inconsistent

2006-05-02 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Hi, Am Samstag, 29. April 2006 16:44 schrieb wu chuanwen: Hi! 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

Re: [gentoo-user] soundcards inconsistent

2006-05-02 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Hi Mark, Am Samstag, 29. April 2006 18:26 schrieb Mark Knecht: 2006/4/19, Michael Schreckenbauer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: SNIP Add the following two lines. Set the order which ever way you want. 0 will be your default card: options snd-ens1371 index=0 options snd-ice1712 index=1 options snd

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

2006-05-02 Thread Tero Grundström
On Sun, 30 Apr 2006, wu chuanwen 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 have the same situation.Do you think so? And how

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] kill a child and suicide

2006-05-02 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 14:40, Jorge Almeida wrote: parent.sh #!/bin/bash do something /path/to/child.sh do something else When parent.sh receives a TERM signal, I would like child.sh to receive TERM also, and then parent.sh receive TERM. The do something else part

[gentoo-user] Cloning a Gentoo box

2006-05-02 Thread Ronald V. Vazquez
Hello all: I wanted to get some ideas from the list on how to clone a Gentoo box. Perhaps others on the list are interested as well. Thanks, RV -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Cloning a Gentoo box

2006-05-02 Thread Teresa and Dale
Ronald V. Vazquez wrote: Hello all: I wanted to get some ideas from the list on how to clone a Gentoo box. Perhaps others on the list are interested as well. Thanks, RV Do you mean to make one install then copy everything over to a new system? Dale :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Cloning a Gentoo box

2006-05-02 Thread John Jolet
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 a Gentoo box. Perhaps others on the list are interested as well. Thanks, RV we've used 3 different ways: a program called systemimager (works great, but is made for

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] kill a child and suicide

2006-05-02 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, 2 May 2006, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: I think (untested) you can do something like trap 'kill pid of child' TERM at then beginning of parent.sh. This way, when the parent recives TERM it in turn sends a TERM to the child. If you want the parent to terminate, add the exit command as well:

Re: [gentoo-user] Cloning a Gentoo box

2006-05-02 Thread jan werner
Ronald Vincent Vazquez schrieb: Ronald V. Vazquez wrote: Hello all: I wanted to get some ideas from the list on how to clone a Gentoo box. Perhaps others on the list are interested as well. Thanks, RV Do you mean to make one install then copy everything over to a

Re: [gentoo-user] Cloning a Gentoo box

2006-05-02 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 02 May 2006 14:18, Ronald V. Vazquez wrote: Hello all: I wanted to get some ideas from the list on how to clone a Gentoo box. Perhaps others on the list are interested as well. I simply tar up the whole box (except what I do not want like log files and such). After booting the other box

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound problems with skype

2006-05-02 Thread Ted Ozolins
Jerônimo Backes wrote: Anyway i suggest you try WengoPhone.. It's open source and is based upon open standards.. I'm using it, the sound quality is better than Skype.. Check out their website http://openwengo.org.. Gentoo even has a ebuild for it in portage (net-im/wengophone).. Farhan

Re: [gentoo-user] Cloning a Gentoo box

2006-05-02 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
What about quickpkg'ing all the installed packages and emerging them as binaries on the new system? I think if you copy your /etc to the new box first it should work just fine. I wonder if anyone has tried this. Anyways, this really depends on how much you want to clone the system, and how

Re: [gentoo-user] Cloning a Gentoo box

2006-05-02 Thread Alexander Skwar
John Jolet wrote: partimage (stores each partition as a file) also requires a storage system that can take 2gb files I might be wrong, but I think you can make partimage split the files, can't you? Alexander Skwar -- Love is not enough, but it sure helps. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

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

2006-05-02 Thread Jeff
Hello all. In the pursuit of a light physical security solution, I was wondering - does anyone recommend a small-time nanny-cam or web cam monitoring system that can run atop Linux and accessed using a web browser? We're looking to beef up physical security to our server room, but we don't have

Re: [gentoo-user] Cloning a Gentoo box

2006-05-02 Thread Teresa and Dale
Ronald Vincent Vazquez wrote: Do you mean to make one install then copy everything over to a new system? Dale :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Dale: Yes, let say that I install a machine with all my basic software and want to set up a second machine without having to reinstall. What

Re: [gentoo-user] Cloning a Gentoo box

2006-05-02 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
For plain device cloning you can read: http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/ddcommand.htm and http://www.rajeevnet.com/hacks_hints/os_clone/os_cloning.html Using gzip definately saves a lot of space if your partitions aren't completely full. On 5/2/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Jolet

Re: [gentoo-user] Cloning a Gentoo box

2006-05-02 Thread John Jolet
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 09:30, Alexander Skwar wrote: John Jolet wrote: partimage (stores each partition as a file) also requires a storage system that can take 2gb files I might be wrong, but I think you can make partimage split the files, can't you? Alexander Skwar -- Love is not

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-kernel vs. gentoo-sources

2006-05-02 Thread S. Schwartz
Alexander Kirillov wrote: I ran into the same problem after upgrading the kernel to gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3. And don't have any problems with most recent nvidia drivers: media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.8756 media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.8756 media-video/nvidia-settings-1.0.20051122-r3 Did you

Re: [gentoo-user] Cloning a Gentoo box

2006-05-02 Thread Jeff
In case anyone's wondering: http://blinkeye.ch/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page There, look at the link for the GNU/Linux backup script. That's what I use here at work, and I'm able to clone a p4 machine with full KDE in about 1 hour. Pay *very* close attention to the '--excludes' in the script,

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] kill a child and suicide

2006-05-02 Thread Vladimir G. Ivanovic
pkill has a -g option to send a signal to a process group. --- Vladimir On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 14:48 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: On Tue, 2 May 2006, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: I think (untested) you can do something like trap 'kill pid of child' TERM at then beginning of parent.sh. This

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and OpenOffice keyboard problems

2006-05-02 Thread Dave Jones
Jerônimo Backes wrote on 05/01/06 23:14: I'm running a compiled from source Open Office 2.01-r1 and am having problems getting OOo to accept input of accented, single and double quote characters under KDE 3.4.3. KDE overrides Xorg configs. Just open the KDE's Control Center, select Regional

Re: [gentoo-user] Redirect inbox to other mail (Sendmail)

2006-05-02 Thread Dave Jones
Delca wrote on 05/02/06 17:52: The problem is that i don't know how to send all mails that arrived to /var/spool/mail/username to other mail.. i.e.: i want to send all mails at /var/spool/mail/john to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The alias only sends the new incoming mails. Not the ones already on the

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone use this HDD enclosure?

2006-05-02 Thread K Barter
On 5/1/06, Ian Kabeary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The subject says it all. Its a Vantec Netstar 3 eSATA USB 2.0 Aluminum 3.5 Enclosure.I dont anticipate any issues as its plug play, but I want to make sure before I spend $59.95 CAD on it. Thanks! -- Cheers,Ian I am using the equivalent model with

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] kill a child and suicide

2006-05-02 Thread Zac Slade
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 08:48, Jorge Almeida wrote: On Tue, 2 May 2006, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: I think (untested) you can do something like trap 'kill pid of child' TERM at then beginning of parent.sh. This way, when the parent recives TERM it in turn sends a TERM to the child. If you

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

2006-05-02 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/1/06, Farhan Ahmed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you wish to have latest packages, change ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86, it might make your system a bit unstable but going through my experience it has not broken a thing in my system. And I recommend that you do *not* set ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 unless

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

2006-05-02 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/1/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 30 April 2006 01:11 pm, 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 too So, can you please tell me how to do this?

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] kill a child and suicide

2006-05-02 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, 2 May 2006, Zac Slade wrote: You can find the PID of the last backgrouned process using the bash variable $! The child is not backgrounded! So something like: subprocess $pid=$! Using trap along with maybe setting alarms should get you what you want. Based on the suggestions of

Re: [gentoo-user] Redirect inbox to other mail (Sendmail)

2006-05-02 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 18:16, Dave Jones wrote: Someone knows how to solve this? cd /var/spool/mail mv oldname newname chown newname newname What if the second account is not local? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Redirect inbox to other mail (Sendmail)

2006-05-02 Thread Dave Jones
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote on 05/02/06 19:27: On Tuesday 02 May 2006 18:16, Dave Jones wrote: Someone knows how to solve this? cd /var/spool/mail mv oldname newname chown newname newname What if the second account is not local? Copying the mail spool file into /var/spool/mail to the machine you

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

2006-05-02 Thread Christopher E
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 as the protocal, and for the location to /dev/input/mice what else do I nned for geting my mouse wheel to work inside of Gnome? Thanks for your help ahead of time! Sincerely,

[gentoo-user] Re: ip6tables, state matching

2006-05-02 Thread Edwin Kapauni
Graham Murray wrote: [...] ip6tables can do that, but I think it needs version 1.3.5 which is in ~arch and kernel = 2.6.16 (with CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_IPV6=y/m) Thanks for the hint. I actually found it in the unstable branches iptables-1.3.5 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Redirect inbox to other mail (Sendmail)

2006-05-02 Thread Jarry
Delca wrote: The problem is that i don't know how to send all mails that arrived to /var/spool/mail/username to other mail.. i.e.: i want to send all mails at /var/spool/mail/john to [EMAIL PROTECTED] cat /var/spool/mail/${USER} | formail +1 -ds sendmail -oem ${USER} I don't know if it is

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

2006-05-02 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Hi Christopher, Am Dienstag, 2. Mai 2006 19:50 schrieb Christopher E: 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 as the protocal, and for the location to /dev/input/mice what else do I nned for geting my mouse wheel to

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

2006-05-02 Thread François Steinmetz
See http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml#doc_chap4_sect3 ;-) This is xorg configuration, it has nothing to do with gnome.On 5/2/06, Christopher E [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 as

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

2006-05-02 Thread Jeff
Hey Chris. This one often stumps even seasoned X dorks like myself. In your /etc/X11/xorg.conf, look for the 'Section InputDevice' stanza which describes your mouse, and add the following: Option ZAxisMApping 4 5 This will get your mouse wheel up and running, but you'll need to

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

2006-05-02 Thread Christopher E
Thank you Michael! So that would apply to a mouse with two buttons and the wheel that is button also? Sincerely, Christopher On 5/2/06, Michael Schreckenbauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Christopher, Am Dienstag, 2. Mai 2006 19:50 schrieb Christopher E: Hello all, I am wondering what I

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

2006-05-02 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Am Dienstag, 2. Mai 2006 20:13 schrieb Christopher E: Thank you Michael! So that would apply to a mouse with two buttons and the wheel that is button also? yes :) The wheel are buttons 4 and 5 in that case. Sincerely, Christopher Hand, Michael On 5/2/06, Michael Schreckenbauer [EMAIL

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

2006-05-02 Thread Christopher E
Hello and thank you all for your respone my mouse is not working to my best of knowing :-) Sincerely, Christopher On 5/2/06, Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Chris. This one often stumps even seasoned X dorks like myself. In your /etc/X11/xorg.conf, look for the 'Section InputDevice' stanza

Re: [gentoo-user] Two things, AC97 sound and Gnome issues!

2006-05-02 Thread Christopher E
Hello there, my sound seems to work, but not that concesit. like I have skype ring some times and other times it does not, then with my mic it plays through the speakers Any ideas to why and who to get it stable? when I do a lspci I get this for my sound card: 00:11.5 Multimedia audio

[gentoo-user] How to get rid of gentoo-sources

2006-05-02 Thread Leopold Gouverneur
How can I prevent emerge from merging gentoo-sources (I now use sources from ftp.kernel.org).I tried --unmerge whithout success. Thanks. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] kill a child and suicide

2006-05-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 2 May 2006 17:42:26 +0100 (WEST) Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2 May 2006, Zac Slade wrote: You can find the PID of the last backgrouned process using the bash variable $! The child is not backgrounded! So something like: subprocess $pid=$! Using

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

2006-05-02 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 13:50 -0400, 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 as the protocal, and for the location to /dev/input/mice what else do I nned for geting my mouse wheel to work

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

2006-05-02 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 14:13 -0400, Christopher E wrote: Thank you Michael! So that would apply to a mouse with two buttons and the wheel that is button also? Yes. In any Linux docs you might read that refer to the third mouse button, this is your mouse wheel. Sincerely, Christopher On

Re: [gentoo-user] Audio CD - DVD s Issues

2006-05-02 Thread Sean O'Rourke
Christopher E wrote: Hello All, Ok here is a issue someone else and I are having with playing cds of audio / DVD: Error from duoble clicking on the icon on the desktop of audio cd or a dvd: Cound't display ccda:///dev/hda. I had an issue before accessing my dvd drive. I fixed it by adding

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get rid of gentoo-sources

2006-05-02 Thread Justin Findlay
On 5/2/06, Leopold Gouverneur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I prevent emerge from merging gentoo-sources (I now use sources from ftp.kernel.org).I tried --unmerge whithout success. Try 'equery depends gentoo-sources' to see which package(s) want gentoo-sources. Jusitn --

Re: [gentoo-user] Audio CD - DVD s Issues

2006-05-02 Thread Christopher E
Hello Sean, yep it is indeed, seeing I am in root for now then I will make other accounts and so on. Thanks for your reply to my issue! Sincerely, Christopher On 5/2/06, Sean O'Rourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christopher E wrote: Hello All, Ok here is a issue someone else and I are

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare on Gentoo?

2006-05-02 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Thanks to all who mentioned the ebuild. It hadn't occurred to me that there would be one. I'll try setting it up when I get back to that machine tonight. ++ kevinOn 4/30/06, Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote on 04/30/06 06:51: I just got an evaluation copy of VMWare

Re: [gentoo-user] Cloning a Gentoo box

2006-05-02 Thread Mick
On 02/05/06, John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 02 May 2006 09:30, Alexander Skwar wrote: John Jolet wrote: partimage (stores each partition as a file) also requires a storage system that can take 2gb files I might be wrong, but I think you can make partimage split the files,

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-kernel vs. gentoo-sources

2006-05-02 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 16:02, Conneries wearegeeks wrote: is there any reason not to try drver version 8756? Yes, twinview doesn't work properly with the 8756 version. I had to fall back to the previous version. the previous version would be 8178 ;) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Audio CD - DVD s Issues

2006-05-02 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 5/2/06, Christopher E [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, Ok here is a issue someone else and I are having with playing cds of audio / DVD: Error from duoble clicking on the icon on the desktop of audio cd or a dvd: Cound't display ccda:///dev/hda. Check this old thread:

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-kernel vs. gentoo-sources

2006-05-02 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 11:51, S. Schwartz wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: is there any reason not to try drver version 8756? 6629 is very old. very, very old. Even older. It is old. As I said, all other available versions in portage didn't compile or load afterwards. Only one version

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-kernel vs. gentoo-sources

2006-05-02 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 17:03, S. Schwartz wrote: Alexander Kirillov wrote: I ran into the same problem after upgrading the kernel to gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3. And don't have any problems with most recent nvidia drivers: media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.8756 media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.8756

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get rid of gentoo-sources

2006-05-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 2 May 2006 21:09:44 +0200 Leopold Gouverneur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I prevent emerge from merging gentoo-sources (I now use sources from ftp.kernel.org).I tried --unmerge whithout success. Something will always try to pull it in. But you can tell portage that it's there:

Re: [gentoo-user] Cloning a Gentoo box

2006-05-02 Thread gjiro
you might check out: DAR (Disk ARchive) - http://dar.linux.free.fr/ and SaraB - http://sarab.sourceforge.net/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Strangely encoded filenames with special characters

2006-05-02 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hello. On my system, I've got some files, in which special characters (eg. German umlaute, like äöü or ß) are encoded in a rather strange way. Eg.: [2005-04-14 20-17-09] (0766) Sandra mit Cassandra auf Arm, Klinikum Barmen, Tag 23 - Schwarz-Wei�:009f.jpg Schwarz-Wei�:009f should read

Re: [gentoo-user] Redirect inbox to other mail (Sendmail)

2006-05-02 Thread Delca
i mispelled my problem, sorry :P i want to send all arrived mails at /var/spool/mail/john to for example [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] i think the formail is a good option, but i don't know how to tell sendmail to send the mails! :( I tryed running your command and there was a little

[gentoo-user] Waaaaaay [OT] Windoze back-up. Sorry to ask. :-(

2006-05-02 Thread Teresa and Dale
Hi, OK, here's my deal. My girlfriend wants to use windoze, yes it has already died from a bug and it took a while to get it all back to working, again. This is what I want to do to make it easy when this happens again, this is windoze so it will happen, likely sooner rather than later too. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Waaaaaay [OT] Windoze back-up. Sorry to ask. :-(

2006-05-02 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 5/2/06, Teresa and Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, OK, here's my deal. My girlfriend wants to use windoze, yes it has already died from a bug and it took a while to get it all back to working, again. This is what I want to do to make it easy when this happens again, this is windoze so it

[gentoo-user] Messengers - AIM, YIM, LIM?

2006-05-02 Thread Christopher E
Hello All, Could some one please recommend a very clean but as much fuctions as the below servers allow: Yahoo Instant Messanger Aol Instant Messanger Live Instant Messanger --MSN is now moving to Live ... Thanks very much ahead of time! Sincerely, Christopher -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Waaaaaay [OT] Windoze back-up. Sorry to ask. :-(

2006-05-02 Thread David Miller
Partimage works pretty well although not exactly as you described. It requires a linux server to serve the images I believe. There may be a way to use a livecd of some sort to do it locally as you described.Otherwise the not free/opensource solution is Norton Ghost. --DavidOn 5/2/06, Teresa and

Re: [gentoo-user] Waaaaaay [OT] Windoze back-up. Sorry to ask. :-(

2006-05-02 Thread Thierry de Coulon
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 23.18, Teresa and Dale wrote: Hi, OK, here's my deal. My girlfriend wants to use windoze, yes it has already died from a bug and it took a while to get it all back to working, again. This is what I want to do to make it easy when this happens again, this is windoze

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] kill a child and suicide

2006-05-02 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, 2 May 2006, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Based on the suggestions of Uwe and Vladimir, I tried trap 'pkill -TERM -P $$; kill -s TERM $$' TERM do something . /path/to/child.sh do something else Doesn't work, yet. Note that child.sh is a shell script that may

Re: [gentoo-user] Waaaaaay [OT] Windoze back-up. Sorry to ask. :-(

2006-05-02 Thread Teresa and Dale
Daniel da Veiga wrote: On 5/2/06, Teresa and Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, OK, here's my deal. My girlfriend wants to use windoze, yes it has already died from a bug and it took a while to get it all back to working, again. This is what I want to do to make it easy when this happens

Re: [gentoo-user] Waaaaaay [OT] Windoze back-up. Sorry to ask. :-(

2006-05-02 Thread Teresa and Dale
Thierry de Coulon wrote: I've done that on Laptops (you know, those thingies that come with crap pre-installed) in order to put that back if I sell them later... I got you there. ;-) I know if two ways that (might) work: a) dd - you might have to shrink the partition first or try 7zip

Re: [gentoo-user] Waaaaaay [OT] Windoze back-up. Sorry to ask. :-(

2006-05-02 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 21:18, Teresa and Dale wrote: I want to be able to back her drive up to a CD, the whole thing even if it takes a few CDs. When it dies again, I want to be able to put in the first CD and it boot and reinstall everything from there with little interaction from me. Is

Re: [gentoo-user] Waaaaaay [OT] Windoze back-up. Sorry to ask. :-(

2006-05-02 Thread Joe Menola
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 4:42 pm, David Miller wrote: Partimage works pretty well although not exactly as you described.  It requires a linux server to serve the images I believe.  There may be a way to use a livecd of some sort to do it locally as you described.

Re: [gentoo-user] Messengers - AIM, YIM, LIM?

2006-05-02 Thread Dave Moore
On 5/2/06, Christopher E [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, Could some one please recommend a very clean but as much fuctions as the below servers allow: GAIM is pretty popular, and I like it. http://gaim.sourceforge.net/ -- -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GAT d-(+) s+: a24

Re: [gentoo-user] Waaaaaay [OT] Windoze back-up. Sorry to ask. :-(

2006-05-02 Thread Teresa and Dale
Mick wrote: First defragment her OS partition a couple of times (and reboot in between for good measure ;-). Then you can use a Knoppix or other Linux LiveCD on her machine, run partimage and save an image of her OS partition on one of your boxen over the LAN. If you don't want to take up

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and OpenOffice keyboard problems

2006-05-02 Thread Jerônimo Backes
I tried your tip, using all sorts of keyboard layouts (Generic 101 / 104 / 105 key, Logitech Cordless + Cordless Pro), US English, with or without international variant/dead characters, but no joy so far. What seems odd is that OpenOffice is the only application affected, while all other

[gentoo-user] Webapp-config trouble

2006-05-02 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
Hi, cgiirc-0.5.8 got installed as part of the regular update world cycle yesterday. It was slotted alongside 0.5.7. At first, I noticed that the vhosts USE flag was turned on when 0.5.8 got installed. So I re-emerged it with -vhosts. After that, I unmerged cgiirc-0.5.7. Tried to start apache

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get rid of gentoo-sources

2006-05-02 Thread Leopold Gouverneur
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 01:23:49PM -0600, Justin Findlay wrote: On 5/2/06, Leopold Gouverneur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I prevent emerge from merging gentoo-sources (I now use sources from ftp.kernel.org).I tried --unmerge whithout success. Try 'equery depends gentoo-sources' to see

Re: [gentoo-user] Redirect inbox to other mail (Sendmail)

2006-05-02 Thread John Jolet
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 15:58, Delca wrote: i mispelled my problem, sorry :P i want to send all arrived mails at /var/spool/mail/john to for example [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] i think the formail is a good option, but i don't know how to tell sendmail to send the mails! :( I

RE: [gentoo-user] Cloning a Gentoo box

2006-05-02 Thread Fernando Ferrari
This is a excelent article http://es.geocities.com/linuxeando/partimage.html Saludos Fernando Ferrari Desarrollador Linux http://fernandorferrari.blogspot.com -Mensaje original- De: Ronald V. Vazquez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: Martes, 02 de Mayo de 2006 10:19 a.m. Para:

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get rid of gentoo-sources

2006-05-02 Thread Leopold Gouverneur
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 12:28:20AM +0200, Leopold Gouverneur wrote: On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 01:23:49PM -0600, Justin Findlay wrote: On 5/2/06, Leopold Gouverneur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I prevent emerge from merging gentoo-sources (I now use sources from ftp.kernel.org).I tried

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get rid of gentoo-sources

2006-05-02 Thread Sean O'Rourke
Leopold Gouverneur wrote: except that emerge --sync delete package.provided so I must recreate it before running emerge -upD world! There is something weird here. You need to put it in /etc/portage/package.provided. If you put it in the profile then yes, it will be overwritten by an emerge

RE: [gentoo-user] VMWare on Gentoo?

2006-05-02 Thread Daevid Vincent
IMHO, VMWare is well worth the selling price. This is one of the most useful, robust, solid, and transparent products I've ever used. Granted, I use it on an XP host with Gentoo in a VM, but I am just blown away every time I think about what it's doing and enabling me to do. The fact that

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone use this HDD enclosure?

2006-05-02 Thread Ian Kabeary
Does the hard drive get warm without a fan?That is the one thing I dont like about this thing. :)~IanOn 5/2/06, K Barter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/1/06, Ian Kabeary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The subject says it all. Its a Vantec Netstar 3 eSATA USB 2.0 Aluminum 3.5 Enclosure.I dont

Re: [gentoo-user] Cloning a Gentoo box

2006-05-02 Thread Robert Walter
for (nearly) identical hardware i use the following commands (from a live distro like knoppix) // create compressed and splitted image dd if=/dev/sd? | gzip -c | split -b 699m - /space/for/imagefiles/image.gz. don't forget that last dot // verify cat

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get rid of gentoo-sources

2006-05-02 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 21:09, Leopold Gouverneur wrote: How can I prevent emerge from merging gentoo-sources (I now use sources from ftp.kernel.org).I tried --unmerge whithout success. Thanks. very strange - unmerged gentoo-kernel a long time ago and it never tried to install them again..

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

2006-05-02 Thread Ted Ozolins
Jeff wrote: Hello all. In the pursuit of a light physical security solution, I was wondering - does anyone recommend a small-time nanny-cam or web cam monitoring system that can run atop Linux and accessed using a web browser? We're looking to beef up physical security to our server room, but we

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