Re: [gentoo-user] USE flag

2006-06-29 Thread Jure Varlec
On Thursday 29 June 2006 06:49, Ryan Tandy wrote: Er... maybe I misunderstood something, but gtk and ncurses are two COMPLETELY different things. Well, they are both libraries for creating user interfaces. GTK uses X, ncurses uses a terminal. And if Nick prefers to run profuse in the console,

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5.3 Media Manager DCOP Error

2006-06-29 Thread Graham Murray
Jason Weisberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yeah you won't need QT4 for anything for quite some time. Nothing that I know of uses it yet. Plus the fact that DBus won't compile with that option leads me to believe that it's just wasting space. There are some ebuilds, such as the lastfm

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flag

2006-06-29 Thread Jure Varlec
On Thursday 29 June 2006 09:03, Jure Varlec wrote: On Thursday 29 June 2006 06:49, Ryan Tandy wrote: Er... maybe I misunderstood something, but gtk and ncurses are two COMPLETELY different things. Well, they are both libraries for creating user interfaces. GTK uses X, ncurses uses a

Re: [gentoo-user] program to view/control virtual terminals (ctrl-alt-f[1-6])

2006-06-29 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Thursday 29 June 2006 03:15, Iain Buchanan wrote: Can anyone think of more suggestions? I'm trying to use these consoles as if I was sitting at the machine, but really I'll be ssh-ing in from somewhere. I could even write something in c if necessary, but my attempts so far don't catch

[gentoo-user] Moving X...

2006-06-29 Thread Hamish Marson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is there anyway to specify to the gentoo xorg-server package that you want it installed in /usr/X11R6 once more instead of under /usr? Under /usr/X11R6 I can have several copies... Generic, CVS and old working etc... Moving it to /usr has meant I

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flag

2006-06-29 Thread David Corbin
On Thursday 29 June 2006 12:04 am, Jeremy Olexa wrote: Nick Rout wrote: On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 11:30:26 +0530 Aniruddha Shankar wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Willie Wong wrote: Personally speaking, I suggest you emerge 'ufed'. I moved from ufed to profuse,

[gentoo-user] Strange messages at boot

2006-06-29 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
After the recent baselayout update, I see these messages at boot time: ... Device initiating service: net.eth0 ... ... * net.etho: cannot start until the runlevel boot has completed ... [rest of boot messages, including entering default runlevel and bringing eth0 up] Nevertheless, networking

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flag

2006-06-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 04:46:07 -0400, David Corbin wrote: and what is the correct way to disable the -gtk flag for all future emerges of a particular ebuild? echo cate-gory/package -gtk /etc/portage/package.use man portage for more info. -- Neil Bothwick Life's what you make it, you can't

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading from gcc-3.4.5 to gcc-3.4.6-r1

2006-06-29 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Darren Grant wrote: Back in May I thought I was streamlining my make.conf file by changing from this... CFLAGS=-mtune=k8 -O2 -pipe CFLAGS=-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe to this... CFLAGS=-march=athlon64 -mtune=k8 -O2 -pipe Well, that's clear then: remove the -mtune=k8. Before May your

Re: [gentoo-user] Adaptec 29160 Setup

2006-06-29 Thread Sean
Bob Sanders wrote: sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 40x/40x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray sr 0:0:1:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 40x/40x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray Ah, but the problem is that it only thinks there is one type of drive. One of the above drives should show as a

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving X...

2006-06-29 Thread Rumen Yotov
Hamish Marson wrote: Is there anyway to specify to the gentoo xorg-server package that you want it installed in /usr/X11R6 once more instead of under /usr? Under /usr/X11R6 I can have several copies... Generic, CVS and old working etc... Moving it to /usr has meant I can't do that any

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange messages at boot

2006-06-29 Thread jarry
Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] After the recent baselayout update, I see these messages at boot time: Device initiating service: net.eth0 * net.etho: cannot start until the runlevel boot has completed Probably net.eth0 starting has beem somehow moved into boot-runlevel. AFAIK it should be in

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange messages at boot

2006-06-29 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Thursday 29 June 2006 13:35, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Probably net.eth0 starting has beem somehow moved into boot-runlevel. AFAIK it should be in defeult-runlevel, so try to move it there: rc-update del net.eth0 boot rc-update add net.eth0 default No, it's correctly in default runlevel

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange messages at boot

2006-06-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 12:34:54 +0200, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: After the recent baselayout update, I see these messages at boot time: What do you mean by recent? It greatly depends on whether you are running stable or testing, arch or ~arch. ... Device initiating service: net.eth0 ... ... *

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/sbin/mysqld: No such file or directory

2006-06-29 Thread Alexander Skwar
Daniel Iliev wrote: And there is really no /usr/sbin/mysqld... But why does start-up script want to start /usr/sbin/mysqld??? If I were you, I would emerge mysql again and look carefully at the final phase, where the output shows which files are being installed. Eh? cat

[gentoo-user] OT - No cards in kpat

2006-06-29 Thread Michael Sullivan
I use primarily Gnome, but I enjoy some of the KDE apps, so I emerge both of them. This time though, after emerging KDE I run kpat and no cards show up. In fact, nothing but the window, the menubar and the background show up. Has anyone dealt with this? Please help! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - No cards in kpat

2006-06-29 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 29 June 2006 14:22, Michael Sullivan wrote: I use primarily Gnome, but I enjoy some of the KDE apps, so I emerge both of them. This time though, after emerging KDE I run kpat and no cards show up. In fact, nothing but the window, the menubar and the background show up. Has anyone dealt

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - No cards in kpat

2006-06-29 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 14:53 +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote: On 29 June 2006 14:22, Michael Sullivan wrote: I use primarily Gnome, but I enjoy some of the KDE apps, so I emerge both of them. This time though, after emerging KDE I run kpat and no cards show up. In fact, nothing but the window, the

[gentoo-user] [Not strictly Gentoo] Touchpad as graphic tablet?

2006-06-29 Thread Leonardo
Hi, I have a laptop with a touchpad, and was wondering if it's possible to use it as a sort of 'cheap' graphic tablet. As it should be possible to configure the threshold pressure to detect the touch, maybe it's even possible to have not only position, but also pressure detection, similarly to

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - No cards in kpat

2006-06-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 09:12:50 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: kpat: cannot load card pixmap in /usr/kde/3.4/share/apps/carddecks/cards-default/ Here's the problem. This file is part of libkdegames. Which KDE version are you running. If you've switched from 3.4 to 3.5, you need to change the

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - No cards in kpat

2006-06-29 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 29 June 2006 15:22, Michael Sullivan wrote: I use primarily Gnome, but I enjoy some of the KDE apps, so I emerge both of them. This time though, after emerging KDE I run kpat and no cards show up. In fact, nothing but the window, the menubar and the background show up. Has

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update

2006-06-29 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Alexander Skwar wrote: A. Khattri wrote: For example, looking at diffs using vim via etc-update is easier to read than dispatch-conf. The fact that dispatch-conf can use archiving is nice but it uses the (archaic) rcs tool to do it. For me, seeing the diffs

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange messages at boot

2006-06-29 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 6/29/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 12:34:54 +0200, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: After the recent baselayout update, I see these messages at boot time: What do you mean by recent? It greatly depends on whether you are running stable or testing, arch or ~arch. ...

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update

2006-06-29 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, David Corbin wrote: I don't see why use other tool. Etc-update works great... It works great, But the interface sucks. What exactly sucks? Be specific rather than making some vague sweeping statement. -- A -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update

2006-06-29 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Philip Webb wrote: Even if you're not normally a Vim user, this shows the diffs very clearly allows you to copy your personal changes from old to new versions. Vim is great for looking at diffs and copying between config files. Anyone hacked dispath-conf to use cvs/svn

Re: [gentoo-user] [Not strictly Gentoo] Touchpad as graphic tablet?

2006-06-29 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 6/29/06, Leonardo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a laptop with a touchpad, and was wondering if it's possible to use it as a sort of 'cheap' graphic tablet. I've tried, no success. As it should be possible to configure the threshold pressure to detect the touch, maybe it's even

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - No cards in kpat

2006-06-29 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 15:32 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 09:12:50 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: kpat: cannot load card pixmap in /usr/kde/3.4/share/apps/carddecks/cards-default/ Here's the problem. This file is part of libkdegames. Which KDE version are you

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading from gcc-3.4.5 to gcc-3.4.6-r1

2006-06-29 Thread Darren Grant
Benno Schulenberg wrote: Darren Grant wrote: Back in May I thought I was streamlining my make.conf file by changing from this... CFLAGS=-mtune=k8 -O2 -pipe CFLAGS=-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe to this... CFLAGS=-march=athlon64 -mtune=k8 -O2 -pipe Well, that's clear then: remove the

[gentoo-user] Re: rc script to start Oracle

2006-06-29 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Thursday 29 June 2006 01:32, pat wrote: Thanks for your advice. I've finished the configuration, but I have a problems :-\ The installation was like this: 1) oracle 10gR2 - I've followed the http://www.akadia.com/services/ora_linux_install_10g.html 2) I've followed the suggested page

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update

2006-06-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:38:49 +0200, Gerhard Hoogterp wrote: The interface oh well.. but what I dislike about etc-update (and it's replacements afaik) is this tendency to want to restore files to their original state.. One keypress to many, one moment of not paying enough attention an

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange messages at boot

2006-06-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 13:08:13 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: Adding 'RC_PLUG_SERVICES=!net.eth0' to /etc/conf.d/rc may fix this. Read the comments in the file for an explanation. Thanks for the info Neil, I also had this problem before, as I was using wlan0 by the time I simply deleted

[gentoo-user] How to add route at boot time ?

2006-06-29 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
I am having a problem with my internet gateway, if I need to reboot it it loses the route add commands that I did. What I want to know is if there is any way to do this at boot, like route add route add -net 10.8.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 210.200.1.230 thanks, and sorry for the stupid

Re: [gentoo-user] How to add route at boot time ?

2006-06-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 15:00:39 -0300, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: What I want to know is if there is any way to do this at boot, like route add route add -net 10.8.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 210.200.1.230 Put the routing information in /etc/conf.d/net. See the file, and the .example version,

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading from gcc-3.4.5 to gcc-3.4.6-r1

2006-06-29 Thread Richard Fish
On 6/28/06, Darren Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any chance that's what's causing my gcc problems now? Hmm, I doubt it. But in comparing what you have posted to my AMD64 box, I see some things that don't look right. For example, on my AMD64 box, I have: Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0

Re: [gentoo-user] How to add route at boot time ?

2006-06-29 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 29 June 2006 19:00, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: I am having a problem with my internet gateway, if I need to reboot it it loses the route add commands that I did. What I want to know is if there is any way to do this at boot, like route add route add -net 10.8.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice again

2006-06-29 Thread Paul Varner
On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 23:32 +0200, Mick wrote: Thanks. The strange thing is that lately Opera and FF-bin are not re-emerged when I revedep-rebuild, only OOo-bin does. Anyway, its not a problem from what I read in these links. That is because the ebuilds install a file in /etc/revdep-rebuild

[gentoo-user] What's going to break, if vanilla kernel is used?

2006-06-29 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hello! As suspend/resume doesn't work with the kernel shipped with Dapper, I'd like to try using the suspend2 kernel patch from http://suspend2.net/. But the patch cannot be applied cleanly against the Ubuntu sources. Because of that, I'd like to use a vanilla kernel. But the Ubuntu patches are

[gentoo-user] Re: What's going to break, if vanilla kernel is used?

2006-06-29 Thread Alexander Skwar
Alexander Skwar wrote: [ nothing for this list ] Whoops... Sorry, wrong list. Please disregard the previous message - sometimes I wish, there were a Cancel feature for mails as well... Alexander Skwar -- This is clearly another case of too many mad scientists, and not enough hunchbacks. --

[gentoo-user] Re: Very small fonts after re-emerging xorg-x11

2006-06-29 Thread James
Richard Fish bigfish at asmallpond.org writes: Sorry for the delayed resonse. Gmane: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user has been down quite a bit, of late.. Why do you need a matrix? Just measure and enter the actual dimensions of your display. Or if you want a specific

[gentoo-user] Re: kconsole lost PTYs

2006-06-29 Thread James
Willie Wong wwong at Princeton.EDU writes: Sorry about the delayed resonse, Gmane has been down since yesterday. What about /etc/conf.d/rc? Maybe you can toggle RC_DEVICES=udev and set RC_DEVICE_TARBALL=no? (or maybe setting it to yes might give you a work around?) I edited

[gentoo-user] Re: kconsole lost PTYs

2006-06-29 Thread James
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: Sorry about the delayed respone; problems with http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user being down and losing emails. If fact I had to copy your latest respone from netnews: linux.gentoo.user. snipped from netnews Don't edit this file, put

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kconsole lost PTYs

2006-06-29 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 07:19:29PM +, Penguin Lover James squawked: What about /etc/conf.d/rc? Maybe you can toggle RC_DEVICES=udev and set RC_DEVICE_TARBALL=no? (or maybe setting it to yes might give you a work around?) I edited /etc/conf.d/rc: RC_DEVICES=udev Which did not

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading from gcc-3.4.5 to gcc-3.4.6-r1

2006-06-29 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Darren Grant wrote: I still however cannot upgrade to the latest gcc and glibc components. They still fail with the same familiar error I had before. So nothing was repaired. Then try the next thing: remove nptlonly from the USE flags. And do as Richard advised, correct the link: ln -snf

Re: [gentoo-user] xfce config

2006-06-29 Thread Tamas Sarga
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeremy Olexa wrote: Tamas Sarga wrote: Hi, Where xfce stores the user settings? One of my users can use xfce without any problems, but the other... When any application starts, xfwm segfaults. I deleted ~/.config/xfce4, but this doesn't help.

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update

2006-06-29 Thread David Corbin
On Thursday 29 June 2006 12:09 pm, A. Khattri wrote: On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, David Corbin wrote: I don't see why use other tool. Etc-update works great... It works great, But the interface sucks. What exactly sucks? Be specific rather than making some vague sweeping statement. The action

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update

2006-06-29 Thread Tamas Sarga
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daevid Vincent wrote: I use Meld as well. It's outstanding. But like you, I want to use a 'console' diff program for my remote servers (that don't have X installed). I've looked for a HOWTO or quick tutorial on vimdiff and couldn't find one.

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update

2006-06-29 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 29 June 2006 23:42, David Corbin wrote: I wonder if something could be done with digital signatures, so that it only pestered you about files you've edited. That's something dispatch-conf can do. From /etc/dispatch-conf (note the default is no): # Automerge files that the user

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot print after changing CUPS printer

2006-06-29 Thread Mick
On 29/06/06, Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/28/06, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you by any chance change your /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file settings from the default? I think this is all I changed: --- /etc/cups/cupsd.conf(revision 367) +++

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot print after changing CUPS printer

2006-06-29 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
I would try commenting out the line with LOCAL above and check or add the following: = User lp Group lp Listen 127.0.0.1:631 Browsing Off SystemGroup lp Location / Order Deny,Allow Deny From All Allow From 127.0.0.1 /Location Location /admin AuthType Basic AuthClass

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using Yahoo as Postfix relay? (Name service error for name=smtp1.mail.vip.ukl.yahoo.com type=MX: Malformed name server reply)

2006-06-29 Thread Stroller
On 28 Jun 2006, at 21:58, Enrico Weigelt wrote: ... [EMAIL PROTECTED]: host mg1.uky.edu[128.163.184.178] said: 554 5.7.1 Mail from domain yahoo.co.uk not accepted from host compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org (213.152.39.90) - see http://www.uky.edu/email/ (in reply to RCPT TO command)

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading from gcc-3.4.5 to gcc-3.4.6-r1

2006-06-29 Thread Darren Grant
Richard Fish wrote: On 6/28/06, Darren Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any chance that's what's causing my gcc problems now? Hmm, I doubt it. But in comparing what you have posted to my AMD64 box, I see some things that don't look right. For example, on my AMD64 box, I have: Gentoo Base

[gentoo-user] SparesMissing event on /dev/md4 --huh? what spare would that be?

2006-06-29 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
I just preformed an emerge --update world after update grading to portage 2.1-r1. I noticed that mdadm and some other packages were required to be updated to older versions. Since then, I am getting false alarms from mdadm. --- mdadm monitoring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: mdadm monitoring

[gentoo-user] ufed questions

2006-06-29 Thread sean
Trying out the program for the first time and one simple question is if you choose an item how do you specify that you want it to be a '-'? Pressing the space bar selects it, and adds it to make.conf with a +, but how do you get it to add with the '-' in front of it?

Re: [gentoo-user] ufed questions

2006-06-29 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 10:09:36PM -0400, Penguin Lover sean squawked: Trying out the program for the first time and one simple question is if you choose an item how do you specify that you want it to be a '-'? Pressing the space bar selects it, and adds it to make.conf with a +, but how

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What's going to break, if vanilla kernel is used?

2006-06-29 Thread Teresa and Dale
Alexander Skwar wrote: Alexander Skwar wrote: [ nothing for this list ] Whoops... Sorry, wrong list. Please disregard the previous message - sometimes I wish, there were a Cancel feature for mails as well... Alexander Skwar Are you switching? :-o Dale :-) :-) --

[gentoo-user] mythtv and 64bit - does it work/is it worth it?

2006-06-29 Thread W.Kenworthy
Ive just been reading up on 64/32 bit and gentoo. Does 64bit (athlon64 3200) offer any advantages for a mythtv system? Its a (now that I have good HW on it!) stable working system, but it looks like I will have to reinstall (no mean feat considering the setup time this took in the first place!)

[gentoo-user] Fwd: GETPASS_ASTERISKS

2006-06-29 Thread Suranga Kasthuriarachchi
-- Forwarded message --From: Suranga Kasthuriarachchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Jun 29, 2006 10:17 AMSubject: GETPASS_ASTERISKSTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Dear all,when i'm issue as bellow, that error comming like this, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ su - rootPassword:configuration error - unknown