[gentoo-ppc-user] live cd 2005.0-r4 on iMac G5

2005-07-01 Thread Holger Amann
Hi,I've tested live cd 2005.0-r4 and after a few lines of kernel messages the display became black. The last line I saw was something with "smp_cXX". But the system was still alive because I was able to bring up ethernet and sshd by typing sightlessly. It's an iMac G5 1.8 GHz from october

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge Amarok

2005-07-01 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Thanks, everyone. The problem turned out to be the ARTS USE flag. Turned it off and got 1.2.4 which is waht I wanted. Tony On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 02:12 -0500, Anthony E. Caudel wrote: I recently switched to the KDE 3.4 split ebuilds but when I tried to emerge Amarok, it wnated to pull in

Re: [gentoo-user] New list member installing gentoo

2005-07-01 Thread Mariusz Pękala
El Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 08:44:40PM -0400, Jason Castonguay me dec?a: Hello list members. Greetings! Family keeps growing :) On 2005-06-30 23:03:15 -0300 (Thu, Jun), Fernando Canizo wrote: To make it short: test your RAM. OR/AND you may want to ensure that your machine has proper cooling: fan

Re: [gentoo-user] Alsa stops working after 'emerge -uD world'

2005-07-01 Thread Emanuele Morozzi
cothrige wrote: * Emanuele Morozzi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have esperienced your problem; in my case it was caused by the lack of a var, and that that caused the mixer not to load the previously saved settings. 1. Specifically in /etc/conf.d/alsasound I had to add this lines

[gentoo-user] Re: OT - imap and thunderbird

2005-07-01 Thread Remy Blank
Nagatoro wrote: Remy Blank wrote: This mostly does it. However, I found that Thunderbird still sometimes misses new messages in subfolders, and only finds them when you click on it. I'm not sure if this is a Thunderbird or a courier-imap problem, though... Could be both... From

[gentoo-user] Updating with emerge

2005-07-01 Thread Bruno Gola
Hey, can anyone here help me with this thing? I'm trying to update (emerge --update --deep world), but when it try to update pyvorbis, it stops, so i tried to emerge pyvorbis: br root # emerge pyvorbis Calculating dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 1) dev-python/pyvorbis-1.4 to / md5 files

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating with emerge

2005-07-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, July 1, 2005 10:47 am, Bruno Gola said: Is there a way to update the other merged packets, without updating this one? When emerge world stops, do emerge --resume --skipfirst to continue with the next package. -- Neil Bothwick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating with emerge

2005-07-01 Thread Bruno Gola
Zac Medico wrote: Bruno Gola wrote: Hey, can anyone here help me with this thing? I'm trying to update (emerge --update --deep world), but when it try to update pyvorbis, it stops, so i tried to emerge pyvorbis: br root # emerge pyvorbis Calculating dependencies ...done! emerge (1

Re: [gentoo-user] New list member installing gentoo

2005-07-01 Thread Jason Castonguay
Hello everyone! I am excited to report that using -j1 instead of -j2 for my MAKEOPTS is working so far! Of course, it has to work on the day I leave for a convention. :-( I won't be back for a week. But I got through glibc! Now, it's building binutils. I'll keep everyone posted. Thanks very

Re: [gentoo-user] Ati Linux Proprietary Driver

2005-07-01 Thread Jens Mayer
* On Friday 01 July 2005 01:49, Justin Hart wrote: Buying an ATI card for a Linux box is not a good decision. Go with nVidia, at least their drivers work. I've thought of buying an nVidia card for this notebook for months because, frankly, ATI hasn't been taking care of the matter, and won't

[gentoo-user] Re: OT - imap and thunderbird

2005-07-01 Thread Remy Blank
Jonathan Nichols wrote: It's Thunderbird, for one... Add this to user.js (create it if it doesn't exist) //mozilla thunderbird: check all imap folders for new mail. user_pref(mail.check_all_imap_folders_for_new, true); I have that in my user.js, with a comment saying that this only applies

[gentoo-user] Re: telnet into embedded devices

2005-07-01 Thread James
William Kenworthy billk at iinet.net.au writes: Which telnet package - theres a couple emerge telnet -s qpkg -l net-misc/netkit-telnetd Latest version installed: 0.17-r6 I just unmerged it and then re emerged it All is fine now weird real weird... Thanks to Everyone.

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -auDv world question

2005-07-01 Thread John J. Foster
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 10:06:41PM -0500, Paul Varner wrote: On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 20:05 -0400, John J. Foster wrote: Calculating world dependencies - !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy =sys-devel/libperl-5.8.6 have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to

RE: [gentoo-user] Can not reach log in screen in X

2005-07-01 Thread Dave Nebinger
Check the output from dmesg; from what I remember failures with the nvidia module will get logged here. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Can not reach log in screen in X

2005-07-01 Thread George Roberts
Daniel da Veiga wrote: Your xorg.conf would be better... What are you using to run the X? /etc/init.d/xdm or startx? Did you try ALT + F7? for the logs it seems your X is running... Could you post the result of ps af | grep xdm ? Thanks Daniel. Typing xdm got me back into Gentoo. The only

Re: [gentoo-user] Extra buttons on my keyboard

2005-07-01 Thread Ryan
It is possible that the keys dont actually do anything other than for example C-A-S-F1 (Control Alt Shift F1). I have had a couple keyboards that were like this. There is nothing to detect unless the key is hit. One example is a Yahoo Keyboard. I figured this out one day while I was playing

Re: [gentoo-user] Extra buttons on my keyboard

2005-07-01 Thread Ian K
Pupeno wrote: What I do to get the media buttons of my crappy Logithec keyboard to work is select one of the options that are a Logithec keyboard for the configuration of X (instead of us or us_intl). An easy way to do that is launch Kcontrol and play whith its settings untill you get it to

Re: [gentoo-user] Ati Linux Proprietary Driver

2005-07-01 Thread Ian K
Jens Mayer wrote: * On Friday 01 July 2005 20:57, Justin Hart wrote: To counter this argument, I would point out that I don't normally purchase used 3D acceleration hardware, and that by the time these cards are old they will also be obsolete, meaning that you will have sunk a good amount of

[gentoo-user] upgrading drive

2005-07-01 Thread timothy johnson
what is the best way to upgrade my old machine from a 15GB drive to a 80GB. I dont want to have to reinstall gentoo, so is there an easier way to get this done. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading drive

2005-07-01 Thread Christoph Eckert
what is the best way to upgrade my old machine from a 15GB drive to a 80GB. I dont want to have to reinstall gentoo, so is there an easier way to get this done. * Mount both drives in the computer * Boot Knoppix (or any other distro) * Mount both drives * Use tar (or dd?) to copy all files

Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading drive

2005-07-01 Thread Peng
On 7/1/05, Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peng wrote: On 7/1/05, Christoph Eckert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what is the best way to upgrade my old machine from a 15GB drive to a 80GB. I dont want to have to reinstall gentoo, so is there an easier way to get this done. * Mount both