Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-03 Thread Calvin Spealman
Going by the same reasons of client differences, one could argue we never should have extended HTML beyond the first version of Mosaic. This is insane, of course. Progress is a driving force of technology. I use HTML to style code samples in my postings, and to add some pizaz when e-mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC 4.0

2005-05-03 Thread Andreas Fredriksson
On 5/2/05, Neil Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes. A lot of stuff simply will not compile with it. The rest tend to produce large and slow executables. I wouldn't use it for anything yet. 3.4.x is the best to date. Are there any evidence of said bloat and poor performance with 4.0 or do you

[gentoo-user] USB Power

2005-05-03 Thread Ognjen Bezanov
Hi all I have gentoo install and a USB 2.0 Hard disk that required 500mA of power Now under Windows XP the drive worked perfectly, but under gentoo it wouldnt work (it have symptoms of not enough power). Now from what i remember about the USB specification 250mA is the max current availiable

RESOLVED:Re: [gentoo-user] xawtv compilation error

2005-05-03 Thread Al Bayrouni
Al Bayrouni wrote: Hello, I cannot emerge xawtv. The output is: console/fs.o(.text+0x587): In function `fs_connect': : undefined reference to `FSOpenServer' console/fs.o(.text+0x5a4): In function `fs_connect': `fs_open': : undefined reference to `FSQueryXBitmaps16' collect2: ld a retourn1

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-03 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Tue, 3 May 2005, Calvin Spealman wrote: I will remember to use plain text for this list, but let it be known that I don't want to and I shouldn't have to. If i knew I wouldn't get banned for no good reason at all (and it would be no good reason at all, mind you), I'd turn the HTML right back

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing 2005.0 with LVM2

2005-05-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 01 May 2005 19:18:02 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: Yes, unless its a non-core partition and can be unmounted, and even then it would probably still be safer to do from a livecd. Unless it is XFS, which can only be resized when mounted. -- Neil Bothwick Things which must be

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-03 Thread Travis Rousseau
Progress should not be held back by the few who think there is any value in plain text. 1. Its bandwidth, while not much it does add up with fast mailing lists like this. 2. I like to cheap out on computers $20 or less, i find it alot faster with out a GUI. Instead of everyone keeping track of

Re: [gentoo-user] Dell 8100 Buttons???

2005-05-03 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Sat, 2005-04-30 at 10:22 -0600, Kiawud wrote: On 4/30/05, timothy johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been running Gentoo on a Dell 8100 for a while now. I have my volume buttons working, but a couple of updates ago they quit working, wondering if anyone might know about how to fix

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-03 Thread Heinz Sporn
Hi! Many ML subscribers are getting hundreds of posts every day. So looking through them takes time / is often a pain in the ass. Everything that decreases the screening process has great chances to be skipped, trashed, ignored. If my brain has to filter lots of stuff to get to the actual

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo and XP on hda without causing World War III -- impossible? (help)

2005-05-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 02 May 2005 15:27:14 -0400, Robert G. Hays wrote: And JIC you need this, parts 1 through 4 are the primaries, 5 and up *will* be logicals, *if* one of 1 through 4 was designated as an extended partition. Only one primary per disk can be extended. Linux doesn't require any

Re: [gentoo-user] resolution from command line

2005-05-03 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Sat, 2005-04-30 at 13:11 -0700, Sami Samhuri wrote: * On Sat Apr-30-2005 at 12:03:37 PM -0700, Richard Fish said: [...] The command you are looking for is fbresolution. Which package provides this program? I cannot find it on my system. :( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ % fbresolution zsh:

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC 4.0

2005-05-03 Thread Neil Walker
Andreas Fredriksson wrote: Are there any evidence of said bloat and poor performance with 4.0 or do you base it on hearsay? :-) Well, I haven't actually heard anything. ;) My statement was based on my experience with compiling the SETI/BOINC clients, mainly. The executables were around 70%

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: (OT) WARNING: /etc removed from CONFIG_PROTECT portage-2.0.51.20

2005-05-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 01 May 2005 18:30:40 -0400, Robert G. Hays wrote: And most of the 'rest of the w-w-world' are usually in the bottom ten percent by funniest (is that a word? // It is now!), and I asked that same question recently, and Neil said that he has been using some kind of gopher for years

[gentoo-user] emerge --update world and kde monolithic to splits upgrade

2005-05-03 Thread Ezequiel Tolnay
Hi, I've just unmerged the monolithic kde and merged all the kde splits. Everything's OK up to here, but now when I try to merge --update world --deep --pretend it is trying to merge the old monolithic kde, of course complaining of these packages being blocked by the split kde. Why is this

[gentoo-user] Re: scripts that send emails

2005-05-03 Thread Botykai Zsolt
Monday 02 May 2005 19.42-n, Phil Sexton ezt írta: On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 10:08, Botykai Zsolt wrote: Monday 02 May 2005 11.27-n, Nick Rout ezt írta: On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 10:50 +0200, Spider wrote: On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 10:35 +0200, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: I'm looking for a smtp

Re: [gentoo-user] i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc broken

2005-05-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 1 May 2005 17:31:32 +0200, Lubos Kolouch wrote: how to convince liborbit not to use i386- ? Have you changed CHOST in /etc/make.conf? -- Neil Bothwick Drink varnish and you'll have a lovely finish. pgpzdcZvlVaLn.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] How to load charset 8859-15

2005-05-03 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Hi, I have charset ISO 8859-15 in my kernel as module , but how do i activate it TIA Patrick -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-03 Thread Nick Rout
On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 00:37 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: Done (just had to do it myself, since I've *finally* got Gentoo reinstalled --who missed me ? :) Yeah I was just thinking a couple of days ago, where has that stroppy Holly gone? why the reinstall? -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 02 May 2005 23:16:34 +, Alex A. Smith MCP wrote: Humm but when you need HTML email cause you get them, A little bit of a pain to disable them. Also working 19-20 hour days means I can do without (IMHO) needless things like turning off a function that I use. So don't. Just turn it

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-03 Thread fire-eyes
On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 17:32 -0500, kashani wrote: Is there something especially complicated about going into your settings in Thunderbird and setting gentoo.org as a domain that prefers text emails? He doesn't want to, it's his choice. It is also my choice to filter mails from him which are

[gentoo-user] Split emerge into two un-linked machines

2005-05-03 Thread Francisco Santiago Capel Torres
Hello, I have my desktop computer with internet access, and my laptop one without. I want to emerge in my laptop downloading the sources on the desktop and copying them to a USB memory stick to transfer them to my laptop and then emerge on my laptop. Is it possible to do so? How can I do it?

Re: [gentoo-user] i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc broken

2005-05-03 Thread Lubos Kolouch
On 5/3/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 1 May 2005 17:31:32 +0200, Lubos Kolouch wrote: how to convince liborbit not to use i386- ? Have you changed CHOST in /etc/make.conf? -- Neil Bothwick No. It was written in the installation handbook that it is not advisable

Re: [gentoo-user] Mandrake Display Manager

2005-05-03 Thread Nick Rout
Isn't it a themed kdm? and why ask here? go download the mandrake source rpm and see where it came from. On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 20:17 +, Ian K wrote: Hi everyone I saw a screenshot of MDM http://pcc-services.com/distcomp/images/mandrake_login.jpeg and I would like to try it out on my

Re: [gentoo-user] Cups + Samba weird message

2005-05-03 Thread Chris Ong
Chris Ong wrote: Hi all, After I emerge samba and cups.. i got this message * Caching service dependencies... * Services 'samba' and 'cupsd' have circular * dependency of type 'iuse'; continuing... * rc-update complete. So.. there's nothing much to worry on? rite ? --

[gentoo-user] Re: Security Violation: A file exists that is not in the manifest

2005-05-03 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Tuesday 03 May 2005 13:02, Nelis Lamprecht wrote: Hi, I am getting several of the above/below errors which is preventing me from updating my ports. How do I get around this ? Deleting the files doesn't seem to help. !!! Security Violation: A file exists that is not in the manifest. !!!

Re: [gentoo-user] can't set root passwd

2005-05-03 Thread YoYo Siska
Jaap van Geffen wrote: I did a stage1-install,gentoo 2005.0 on a amd 64. Everything seemed to be allright. Except that I cannot login as root after booting the new gentoo. I tried it with passwd after chrooting to my root-partition from the installationcd.Allso I tried to blank out the

[gentoo-user] USE Flags

2005-05-03 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
Hi I am a new gentoo user and I got some doubts about the USE flags, I know this question should be post allot and I apologize for that, but I was wondering, I am not using any USE flags I got GNOME and ALSA on my system; it will make any diference use then, or by not putting any use flags it got

[gentoo-user] Backing up remote partitions

2005-05-03 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, Can anyone here think of a way to back up remote partitions before installing Gentoo? Is there some way to run a command like dd but pipe the output it back to my local machine? What other info might I need to restore the remote machine later? I figure I'll save the partition information

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't shrink files on myth TV

2005-05-03 Thread Mark Knecht
It's all about running transcode apparent;y. There have been som threads on the MythTV lists about good transcode settings, etc. Possibly look there. - Mark On 5/2/05, Nanayakkara, Pubudu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone knows how to fix this? regards, Pubudu. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Backing up remote partitions

2005-05-03 Thread Matthew Cline
Hi, Can anyone here think of a way to back up remote partitions before installing Gentoo? Is there some way to run a command like dd but pipe the output it back to my local machine? What other info might I need to restore the remote machine later? I figure I'll save the partition

Re: [gentoo-user] Backing up remote partitions

2005-05-03 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, Thanks Allen. The remote machine is an XBox running (at the time I might try this) the GentooX installation CD. I don't have a clue yet whether NFS is even supported at that time. I'll give this a look later this morning. Thanks, Mark On 5/3/05, Allan Spagnol Comar [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] Backing up remote partitions

2005-05-03 Thread YoYo Siska
Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, Can anyone here think of a way to back up remote partitions before installing Gentoo? Is there some way to run a command like dd but pipe the output it back to my local machine? What other info might I need to restore the remote machine later? I figure I'll save the

Re: [gentoo-user] Backing up remote partitions

2005-05-03 Thread Mark Knecht
Thanks Andreas. Those are the sorts of commands I had in my mind but was not capable of writing myself. It would seem that all of that is probably supported while an installation CD is in a remote machine. (I hope!) If gzip isn't there then I can try for bzip or not even zip it since the XBox has

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-03 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 05:16:10AM -0400, fire-eyes wrote: On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 17:32 -0500, kashani wrote: Is there something especially complicated about going into your settings in Thunderbird and setting gentoo.org as a domain that prefers text emails? He doesn't want to, it's

Re: [gentoo-user] Backing up remote partitions

2005-05-03 Thread Christoph Gysin
YoYo Siska wrote: pv is a small utility like cat, but prints nice statistics to stderr (speed,...) Cool! Didn't knew this one before. Sounds like a very handy commandline tool. Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'*'|sed 's. ..'|tr * !#:2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Backing up remote partitions

2005-05-03 Thread Mark Knecht
Yeah, it's interesting although it felt a bit strange typing emerge -pv pv ;-) On 5/3/05, Christoph Gysin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: YoYo Siska wrote: pv is a small utility like cat, but prints nice statistics to stderr (speed,...) Cool! Didn't knew this one before. Sounds like a very

[gentoo-user] something I said?

2005-05-03 Thread maxim wexler
Hi, Lately my posts have been getting zero response. Maybe no one else has seen them but they appear in my mail box. If someone reads this please reply -- that'll clear up part of the mystery. -mw __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail

[gentoo-user] fix a system suddenly un-networked and needing dhcpcd

2005-05-03 Thread michael higgins
Hey, all. I've just moved my work location for a couple of weeks while I house-sit for a relation. At _my_ home, I configure my IP addy and all manually, while sitting behind a router. Here, it seemed like I needed dhcpcd to make my connections, either directy via the cable modem or by

Re: [gentoo-user] something I said?

2005-05-03 Thread disguised.jedi
I got it.. On 5/3/05, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Lately my posts have been getting zero response. Maybe no one else has seen them but they appear in my mail box. If someone reads this please reply -- that'll clear up part of the mystery. -mw

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 03 May 2005 00:37, Holly Bostick wrote: Greg Donald wrote: On 5/2/05, Alex A. Smith MCP [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Time straped as it is, I'll type in what ever my Default Email prog wants me to Laziness is no excuse. Takes all of 2 seconds to turn it off. Just to prove

Re: [gentoo-user] something I said?

2005-05-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 03 May 2005 16:25, maxim wexler wrote: Hi, Lately my posts have been getting zero response. Maybe no one else has seen them but they appear in my mail box. no, there are some, but if nobody knows an answer or the people who do, think, that the answer is so obvious that you

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update world and kde monolithic to splits upgrade

2005-05-03 Thread Scott Jones
On 5/3/05, Ezequiel Tolnay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've just unmerged the monolithic kde and merged all the kde splits.Everything's OK up to here, but now when I try to merge --update world--deep --pretend it is trying to merge the old monolithic kde, of course complaining of these packages

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-03 Thread Calvin Spealman
ASCII? OK... talking about plain text is one thing, but ASCII? That's just dumb. If you are going to use plain text, at least agree that we need something better than ASCII. There are people speaking other languages you know. Thinking we should stick to ASCII is even more a sign of your

Re: [gentoo-user] something I said?

2005-05-03 Thread Mark Knecht
I see it. I don't remember the content of your other posts so I cannot comment on that. Probably I'm not smart enough to help anyway. Cheers, Mark On 5/3/05, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Lately my posts have been getting zero response. Maybe no one else has seen them but they

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-03 Thread Calvin Spealman
On 5/3/05, Travis Rousseau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not the sender's for now? Why not the recipient's for now? One could almost argue free speech for expressing one's self in HTML, but I won't go there. If the sender disables HTML, no one gets it. If the recipient disables HTML, then

Re: [gentoo-user] fix a system suddenly un-networked and needing dhcpcd

2005-05-03 Thread Calvin Spealman
You can put the file in /usr/portage/distfiles, or set its location as the distfiles directory.On 5/3/05, michael higgins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, all. I've just moved my work location for a couple of weeks while I house-sit for a relation. At _my_ home, I configure my IP addy and all

Re: [gentoo-user] fix a system suddenly un-networked and needing dhcpcd

2005-05-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 3 May 2005 10:31:18 -0400, michael higgins wrote: But isn't there a way to tell emerge, hey, I just d/l this file. Install it from here... Like, giving the tarball located on a floppy or something? Download the file and copy it to $DISTDIR - /usr/portage/distfiles by default. --

Re: [gentoo-user] fix a system suddenly un-networked and needing dhcpcd

2005-05-03 Thread Matan Peled
michael higgins wrote: Hey, all. I've just moved my work location for a couple of weeks while I house-sit for a relation. At _my_ home, I configure my IP addy and all manually, while sitting behind a router. Here, it seemed like I needed dhcpcd to make my connections, either directy

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-03 Thread Trey Gruel
If the sender disables HTML, no one gets it. If the recipient disables HTML, then everyone gets what everyone wants. and you're still wasting the bandwidth of the server and users. granted, for the individual user, the bandwidth used isn't that much, but think about the thousands of messages

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-03 Thread Travis Rousseau
On 5/3/05, Calvin Spealman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/3/05, Travis Rousseau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not the sender's for now? Why not the recipient's for now? One could almost argue free speech for expressing one's self in HTML, but I won't go there. Sorry i should have said that

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-03 Thread Cliff Rowley
Trey Gruel wrote: and you're still wasting the bandwidth of the server and users. granted, for the individual user, the bandwidth used isn't that much, but think about the thousands of messages that the server has to send out for each mail it gets in. it adds up quick there. This whole thread is

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-03 Thread Calvin Spealman
I'm sorry if this disagreement has escalated more than it should have, but I'm actually very partial to my end of this discussion. I know all the reasons people have to argue against my point of view here, but I just find it to be a rather arrogent point of view. On 5/3/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Backing up remote partitions

2005-05-03 Thread Jonathan Wright
Mark Knecht wrote: Yeah, it's interesting although it felt a bit strange typing emerge -pv pv I prefer emerge -av pv ;) That way you don't have to re-run the search and everything if it's all OK! :D -- Jonathan Wright mail at djnauk dot co dot uk Life has no meaning unless we can enjoy what

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-03 Thread Cliff Rowley
Calvin Spealman wrote: Let's be honest, that's a fault of e-mail itself, which is inherently a horrible protocol anyway. I'm just saying lets do the best we can with what we've got. it isn't like the bandwidth is anything at all compared to the bloated headers and redundant repeating of messages

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-laptop] Gentoo + T40?

2005-05-03 Thread Cliff Rowley
Sorry for the cross post, I originally posted this message to the wrong list. It won't happen again I promise ;-) [actually I screwed up the address in the cross post anyway, so ignore that] I've solved the heating problems at last. I removed the IBM ACPI support from the kernel and installed

[gentoo-user] postfix logging

2005-05-03 Thread unews122003
Hi! I´ve installed a fresh Gentoo Server and installed Postfix and syslog-ng on it. Now I´m missing the fluffy /var/log/mail logfile ... ;-( Any clues - where to tweak this? Thanks -- +++ Neu: Echte DSL-Flatrates von GMX - Surfen ohne Limits +++ Always online ab 4,99 Euro/Monat:

Re: [gentoo-user] Backing up remote partitions

2005-05-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On 5/3/05, Jonathan Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :D Someday I need to find a good site for all these little thingies... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Gnome: emerge dies on gedit

2005-05-03 Thread Kurt Guenther
I get the error below emerging the latest gnome stuff. I'm not sure what to do from here. --Kurt ./../po/.intltool-merge-cache Found cached translation database Merging translations into spell.gedit-plugin. /bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=link i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-03 Thread Calvin Spealman
I believe this tradition, and other's like it which hold on to old idioms for little sensible reason, are more of a challenge to the community values than anything I can say. On 5/3/05, Covington, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The bottom line is that on any technical mailing list, it's

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-03 Thread Greg Donald
On 5/3/05, Calvin Spealman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but I just find it to be a rather arrogent point of view. Maybe so, but it doesn't change the fact that HTML is not acceptable on this list. Go ironfroggy, play with your MS buddies.. leave the arrogance to us. -- Greg Donald Zend

RE: [gentoo-user] postfix logging

2005-05-03 Thread Dave Nebinger
I´ve installed a fresh Gentoo Server and installed Postfix and syslog-ng on it. Now I´m missing the fluffy /var/log/mail logfile ... ;-( Any clues - where to tweak this? You can grab the relevant bits from my syslog-ng.conf file below... Dave server syslog-ng # cat syslog-ng.conf options

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-03 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 04:40:52PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: 8) some people hear 'html mails' and think automatically of the worst outlook and aol users ... ;o) Beg to differ here, but most of the emails I got from my friends using AOL have properly used MIME-Multipart/Alternative so

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-03 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 03:00:34PM +, Calvin Spealman wrote: On 5/3/05, Travis Rousseau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not the sender's for now? Why not the recipient's for now? One could almost argue free speech for expressing one's self in HTML, but I won't go there. let's not let

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 03 May 2005 17:38, Covington, Chris wrote: The bottom line is that on any technical mailing list, it's tradition not to use HTML. You can't argue against it using technical reasons, people aren't going to change their minds about it. And there might not even be strong technical

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-03 Thread Calvin Spealman
MS? What makes you think I have anything to do with Microsoft or Microsoft software? My HTML messages are sent straight from good-ole gmail. On 5/3/05, Greg Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/3/05, Calvin Spealman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but I just find it to be a rather arrogent point of

[gentoo-user] Emerge break

2005-05-03 Thread Pere Gentoo
Hi, while finishing an emerge process of KDE, the system shutdown. Problem!! The process has been made on a PIII. Slow System, Two days working. If I emerge again KDE, what would happens? Emerge will continue on the point i t has break? or it will begin again from the beginning? If it begins

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-03 Thread Calvin Spealman
On 5/3/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is arrogant about saying when in Rome...? Every forum has its conventions of accepted behaviour. For this forum. those conventions include non-HTML postings in English. And what did they do in Rome if you did not do as in Rome? They burned

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome: emerge dies on gedit

2005-05-03 Thread Karsten Baumgarten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I wonder how you could get a gcc version 3.3.5.4 in the first place. :) There is no such thing in the portage tree. Anyway, try to run fix_libtool_files.sh 3.3.5.4 and see if that helps. Regards, Karsten Kurt Guenther wrote: | I get the error below

Re: [gentoo-user] Backing up remote partitions

2005-05-03 Thread Christoph Gysin
Jonathan Wright wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: Yeah, it's interesting although it felt a bit strange typing emerge -pv pv I prefer emerge -av pv ;) That way you don't have to re-run the search and everything if it's all OK! :D my favorite is emerge -avt pv. This will show you the

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-03 Thread Cliff Rowley
Calvin Spealman wrote: MS? What makes you think I have anything to do with Microsoft or Microsoft software? My HTML messages are sent straight from good-ole gmail. sarcasmTypical blinkered response Calvin. You're either with us or against us. I'm sure I've heard that before somewhere.../sarcasm

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge break

2005-05-03 Thread Pere Gentoo
Thanks, The sysem has been rebooted. I get an error after emerge --resume Emerge: It seems we have nothing to resume... Thanks again, Pere On 5/3/05, Karsten Baumgarten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 emerge --resume Pere Gentoo wrote: | Hi,

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge break

2005-05-03 Thread Pere Gentoo
Thanks, Two questions: A.- I could repet emerge with no problem, my questions are: 1. Is there any way to resume the process and win time? 2. If not. Would be any problem with the files that the first partial emerge would have left on the file system? B.- I'm new on Gentoo, well,

Re: [gentoo-user] can't set root passwd

2005-05-03 Thread Unknown
On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 13:26 +0200, YoYo Siska wrote: Jaap van Geffen wrote: The weird thing is that I can create a user account and set a password for it in the chrooted envirenment. So I can only login as user and not as root. what does your /etc/securetty say? (man securetty)

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge break

2005-05-03 Thread Rumen Yotov
Hi, Pere Gentoo wrote: Thanks, Two questions: A.- I could repet emerge with no problem, my questions are: 1. Is there any way to resume the process and win time? 2. If not. Would be any problem with the files that the first partial emerge would have left on the file system? B.-

Re: [gentoo-user] udev and v4l and xawtv

2005-05-03 Thread Peter Karlsson
On Tue, 3 May 2005, Al Bayrouni wrote: How to create /dev/v4l/video* ? I am using udev under kernel-2.6.11-r6. I created the /dev/v4l/dev* manually and even using the MAKEDEV script in linux/Documention but this doeasn't work. No changes if I reboot the system, Still no /dev/v4l/video* or

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge break

2005-05-03 Thread Christoph Gysin
Rumen Yotov wrote: Two questions: A.- I could repet emerge with no problem, my questions are: 1. Is there any way to resume the process and win time? Short answer: No. Long answer: read on below. 2. If not. Would be any problem with the files that the first partial emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge break

2005-05-03 Thread Pere Gentoo
On 5/3/05, Christoph Gysin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rumen Yotov wrote: Two questions: A.- I could repet emerge with no problem, my questions are: 1. Is there any way to resume the process and win time? Short answer: No. Long answer: read on below. 2. If not. Would be

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome: emerge dies on gedit

2005-05-03 Thread Kurt Guenther
Karsten Baumgarten wrote: I wonder how you could get a gcc version 3.3.5.4 in the first place. :) There is no such thing in the portage tree. Just lucky. Anyway, try to run fix_libtool_files.sh 3.3.5.4 and see if that helps. That worked. Thanks. --Kurt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] USE Flags

2005-05-03 Thread Jaap van Geffen
On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 08:42 -0300, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: Hi I am a new gentoo user and I got some doubts about the USE flags, I know this question should be post allot and I apologize for that, but I was wondering, I am not using any USE flags I got GNOME and ALSA on my system; it will

Re: [gentoo-user] Security Violation: A file exists that is not in the manifest

2005-05-03 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Nelis Lamprecht wrote: Hi, I am getting several of the above/below errors which is preventing me from updating my ports. How do I get around this ? Deleting the files doesn't seem to help. !!! Security Violation: A file exists that is not in the manifest. I guess u clone portage tree

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update world and kde monolithic to splits upgrade

2005-05-03 Thread Chris Cox
On Tuesday 03 May 2005 02:47 am, Ezequiel Tolnay wrote: Hi, I've just unmerged the monolithic kde and merged all the kde splits. Everything's OK up to here, but now when I try to merge --update world --deep --pretend it is trying to merge the old monolithic kde, of course complaining of these

Re: [gentoo-user] evolution

2005-05-03 Thread W.Kenworthy
Sometimes you get a size of zero for an evolution pane. Looking carefully through your alcoholic fog, grab the edge of the left side of the right pane (the calendar pane) and drag it to the right. It looks like a narrow, dimpled vertical bar. BillK On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 21:27 +0100, José

Re: [gentoo-user] USE Flags

2005-05-03 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
Jaap van Geffen wrote: On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 08:42 -0300, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: Hi I am a new gentoo user and I got some doubts about the USE flags, I know this question should be post allot and I apologize for that, but I was wondering, I am not using any USE flags I got

Re: [gentoo-user] USE Flags

2005-05-03 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Allan Spagnol Comar: Jaap van Geffen wrote: On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 08:42 -0300, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: Hi I am a new gentoo user and I got some doubts about the USE flags, I know this question should be post allot and I apologize for that, but I was wondering, I am not using any

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-03 Thread Cliff Rowley
Keziah W wrote: Yes, it is. HTML wastes bandwidth for every message though. True, I was just trying to inject some light humour into the otherwise pointless situation :) flog deadhorse Don't you mean flog deadhorse? :P -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus.

[gentoo-user] fglrxconfig question

2005-05-03 Thread maxim wexler
Hi, Thanks for the encouragement. Now I've hit another roadblock on the path to gentoo enlightenment -- I hope it's not too obvious! I googled it to no avail. I just emerged ati-drivers for a Radeon 9250 vid-card then ran fglrxconfig. On the very first section Mouse the program asks for the

[gentoo-user] error compiling gtk-perl-0.7009

2005-05-03 Thread Leopold Gouverneur
Compiling gtk-perl (needed by dvdrip ) I get this error: gtktypexp.c:1:30: gtk/gtktypeutils.h : Aucun fichier ou répertoire de ce type locate gtktypeutils.h gives /usr/include/gtk-1.2/gtk/gtktypeutils.h and /usr/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtktypeutils.h so I tried to make a symlink /usr/include/gtk -

RE: [gentoo-user] kde kwifimanager blocked by kdenetwork

2005-05-03 Thread Daevid Vincent
locutus ~ # emerge -Dav kwifimanager These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdenetwork-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kwifimanager-3.4.0) [ebuild N] kde-base/kwifimanager-3.4.0 +arts -debug -kdeenablefinal -kdexdeltas

Re: [gentoo-user] fglrxconfig question

2005-05-03 Thread Max
Greetings, not sure about the illegal instruction issue, but with a Radeon 9250 you can use the drivers provided by xorg, I think, for 3D goodness etc. and don't need to use fglrx. Have a look at this: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/dri-howto.xml HTH max -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-03 Thread Kris
Exactly ... but it's still has some amusement value Kristopher W. Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Cliff Rowley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 10:37 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts? Trey

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update world and kde monolithic to splits upgrade

2005-05-03 Thread Ezequiel Tolnay
Scott Jones wrote: echo yourpackage /etc/portage/package.mask will do it I think. However, read up on the portage documentation to be sure. Thanks, it worked :) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] USE Flags

2005-05-03 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
Mark Knecht wrote: My question is if I build a system, like installing software and I do not have setted any USE flags this will change the software, like I emerge anjuta ( Development IDE for Gnome ) without gtk or gnome Flags will make any diference ? If will make diference, how do I know

[gentoo-user] [OT] KDE Style Creation

2005-05-03 Thread Ian K
Hi there, As this is the only list I belong too, and your all smart anyway, has anyone seen a good tutorial for just creating a pixmap theme? Im not a very good programmer (basic c++ non graphical is all I know). But anyways, has anyone seen a good tutorial for kde 3? The only one I could find is

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-extra/evolution-data-server-1.2.1 fails to compile

2005-05-03 Thread Paul Varner
On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 17:22 -0700, Daevid Vincent wrote: Checked here: http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=specificbug_status=__open__ product=content=%22gnome-extra%22%20%22evolution-data-server%22%201.2.1o rder=bugs.bug_id But there are 200 bugs listed and I'm not seeing a fix

Re: [gentoo-user] evolution

2005-05-03 Thread Paul Varner
On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 11:44 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: In the calendar mode: menu:view/current_view/day_view ?? Then check again. On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 03:37 +0100, José Moreira wrote: Nope it aint here :| Qua, 2005-05-04 às 06:32 +0800, W.Kenworthy escreveu: Sometimes you get a

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo installation on an old notebook with a little help from my desktop pc

2005-05-03 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 13:08 +1000, Ezequiel Tolnay wrote: Hi, I have a decent desktop with gentoo, and an old and slow Pentium-266Mhz notebook, where I would like to install Gentoo. Can anyone suggest me how to use my fast processor to do the installation, perhaps mounting a drive using

Re: [gentoo-user] USE Flags

2005-05-03 Thread Rumen Yotov
Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: darren kirby wrote: quoth the Allan Spagnol Comar: Jaap van Geffen wrote: On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 08:42 -0300, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: Hi I am a new gentoo user and I got some doubts about the USE flags, I know this question

Re: [gentoo-user] evolution

2005-05-03 Thread Canek Peláez
The problem is that, at some update, the libraries that EDS depends upon were changed, and now EDS doesn't work. Run revdep-rebuid. Canek On 5/3/05, Paul Varner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 11:44 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: In the calendar mode:

Re: [gentoo-user] Backing up remote partitions

2005-05-03 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 13:32 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 15:29 +0200, YoYo Siska wrote: when we did some backups of partitions from one computer to another (and then clone the partition to few other computers), we did it rougly in this way: first make the free

Re: [gentoo-user] Backing up remote partitions

2005-05-03 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 14:41 +0200, Andreas Fredriksson wrote: On 5/3/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Can anyone here think of a way to back up remote partitions before installing Gentoo? Is there some way to run a command like dd but pipe ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] '(cd /src

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