Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Neil Bothwick wrote: I am writing a comparative review of a number of X terminals, so I thought I'd draw on the collective wisdom of this list. which are your most/least favourite X terminals, and why? Let's hope this generates some interesting comment before degenerating into a subset of the

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread b.n.
Harald Arnesen wrote: And xterm is mostly compatible with a real VT100, which other terminal emulators usually aren't. As someone that has never, ever used a real VT100, what's the purpose of this full emulation (apart from historical/nostalgic value, of course: and I value this, really)?

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 09:26:30PM +0200, Penguin Lover Jure Varlec squawked: I use yakuake. It's the the best drop-down terminal I've ever used, and I believe I tried almost all of them (there really aren't many). Off the top of my head, I recall yeahconsole and kuake. There's also tilda,

Re: [gentoo-user] System.map not found - unable to check symbols

2006-05-09 Thread Glenn Enright
System.map not found - unable to check symbols. which doesn't seem to cause problems during/after booting (??). I did a manual kernel compilation To do this, I always do: make all modules_install install This will do all the necessary steps.

Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?

2006-05-09 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 11:24:22PM +0100, Ognjen Bezanov wrote Note that in both drivers, you need to state you want to use DAE rather then the old analog method (this is due to the fact that not all CD-ROM's have good DAE capabilities). Under CD Audio Player, you need to set Play mode to

Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?

2006-05-09 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 05:34:57PM +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote You don't need the audio-cable to hear music from a cd - just the right application ;) like: kscd amarok My idea of the right application doesn't install 75% of KDE or GNOME... [m3000][root][~] emerge -pv kscd

Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?

2006-05-09 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 05:52:07PM +0200, Harald Arnesen wrote Stef?n Istv?n [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: h?tf? 08 m?jus 2006 11.32 d?tummal Walter Dnes ezt ?rta: I've been so used to playing mp3 files that I'm lost with real live audio CDs (not a data CD with mp3 files). The XMMS docs

Re: [gentoo-user] unison and the modular X

2006-05-09 Thread W.Kenworthy
Nope, installed it and rebuilt again unison as well The font wanted to pull in dnd and xemacs packages - dnd failed to build and I dont want xemacs (I already have one operating system :) so I did it -nodeps. Same error :) BillK On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 08:49 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue,

[gentoo-user] How do I get minimal portage-logs

2006-05-09 Thread Daevid Vincent
In /etc/make.conf I have PORT_LOGDIR=/var/tmp/portage-logs This is great in that I can then read through the billions of .log files to see if there are any post install manual tasks I have to do. However, a good majority of them are just compilation output. I really don't need or care to see

Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?

2006-05-09 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 08:35:04PM -0400, Penguin Lover Walter Dnes squawked: - alsamixer CD unmuted and volume set to 77 - I am a member of audio and cdrom groups - the cdplay program sees the number of tracks and and their lengths on the cdrom. cdplay -c -v goes through the

Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?

2006-05-09 Thread John Jolet
On May 9, 2006, at 8:34 PM, Willie Wong wrote: On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 08:35:04PM -0400, Penguin Lover Walter Dnes squawked: - alsamixer CD unmuted and volume set to 77 - I am a member of audio and cdrom groups - the cdplay program sees the number of tracks and and their lengths on

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get minimal portage-logs

2006-05-09 Thread Matthew Cline
On 5/9/06, Daevid Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just want the juicy ones. The ones that tell me to take further action. Is there a setting to tailor this? I can think of two things off the top of my head: 1) In the unstable version of portage, there is a feature called elog that is

[gentoo-user] Clue to enable DRI/GLX support on PCI Express card

2006-05-09 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
Hi List, I was wondering if someone could show me where to look information to enable DRI/GLX on a ATI X300 PCI Express video board. I was wanting to test some 3d games, but without enableing DRi is just impossible. Thanks, Allan -- An application asked: Requeires Windows 9x, NT4 or better, so

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage tree hosed?

2006-05-09 Thread Adrian
On Mon, 08 May 2006 15:32:54 +0200 Sven Köhler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the words: From doing a google, it looks like i need to run emerge sync in order to fix this. However, if I could sync then I wouldn't be doing this. Everytime I try to sync it times out and I never finish.

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage tree hosed?

2006-05-09 Thread Adrian
On Mon, 8 May 2006 10:50:59 -0300 Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the words: On 5/7/06, Adrian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings. I'm trying to set up a new Gentoo box. I downloaded the latest portage snapshot, untared it and ran emerge regen you mean emerge --metadata

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage tree hosed?

2006-05-09 Thread Adrian
On Mon, 8 May 2006 21:01:11 +0300 Mantas Povilaitis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the words: On 5/8/06, Mantas Povilaitis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/7/06, Adrian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Everytime I try to sync it times out and I never finish. I'm on dial-up, so it's a bit slow. I am

Re: [gentoo-user] New USE flags???

2006-05-09 Thread Bob Sanders
On Tue, 9 May 2006 20:06:53 -0600 Justin Findlay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not even the most dogged user is going to read through every flag and decide if he wants it set or not. I do and set specific sets of flags for each machine I run. It does take about 30 min. and I do have to check for

Re: [gentoo-user] New USE flags???

2006-05-09 Thread Jim
Justin Findlay wrote: On 5/8/06, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How would you recommend changing USE flags or making them better? You should post suggestions to the devs. I think they need some fixing as well. However, I haven't really thought much about it and so have no real useful

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage tree hosed?

2006-05-09 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 5/9/06, Adrian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 8 May 2006 21:01:11 +0300 Mantas Povilaitis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the words: On 5/8/06, Mantas Povilaitis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/7/06, Adrian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Everytime I try to sync it times out and I never finish.

[gentoo-user] Emerge stalls

2006-05-09 Thread Alan E. Davis
My machine is on a Public School system network, behind a firewall. I wonder whether this is affecting the merging process. I'm not knowledgeable enough about networking to understand how the firewall works, what it affects. When emerging a package, often the process starts, runs for a short

[gentoo-user] how to configure raid

2006-05-09 Thread El Nino
dear list friends, i'm new to raid. i have a netfinity5000 server with 5 scsi+raid, 256mb ram, p3 450mhz 1 processor. pl guide me to configure the raid from gentoo. note: i trid to configure it using de server guide but it faild saying 'need minimum 256mb ram. i don't know y, its already has

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