[gentoo-user] USB *USED TO* work nicely a couple of months ago...

2005-12-27 Thread Walter Dnes
Now it's a struggle... 1) Main machine, AMD64K8 3000+ (running 32-bit mode). Used to be able to plug in and mount external USB drives and memory cards in the card reader. Now the mount command has to be issued twice, or sometimes even an fdisk /dev/sdb, in order to wake up the card reader.

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge update fails; The tale of the battling dependancies

2005-12-27 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 02:07:04AM -0500, Willie Wong wrote look into /etc/portage/package.keywords Thanks; I was using the wrong tool. -- Some future predictions: - In 2025, Google gains self awareness. As a monster brain that has grown far beyond anything we Biological Support

[gentoo-user] configure ppp0 connection

2005-12-27 Thread Lorenzo Milesi
Hi I'm trying to configure a ppp connection. I've seen in the net.example file which it's now supported in the net file. So I've done a configuration like this in /etc/conf.d/net config_ppp0=(dhcp) link_ppp0=(/dev/ttyACM0) plugins_ppp0=(dhclient) username_ppp0=() password_ppp0=() pppd_ppp0=(

Re: [gentoo-user] USB *USED TO* work nicely a couple of months ago...

2005-12-27 Thread Stroller
On 27 Dec 2005, at 11:51, Walter Dnes wrote: I doubt that I had simultaneous failures in one machine's USB system and the shirtpocket USB drive. Anyone have any ideas? Has USB setup changed somehow? I don't do much with USB under Linux, but does anything appear in / var/log/messages (or

[gentoo-user] grub,sata,savedefault and error 27

2005-12-27 Thread capsel
Hi group I tryed to make config file for grub to migrate from centos to gentoo, and even once it booted with saved I think. Some how it booted fith entry in config file... centos doesn't have grub-set-default so I ran grub, loaded configfile and gave command savedefault 4... I don't remember

Re: [gentoo-user] Xscreensaver issue

2005-12-27 Thread Christoph Gysin
sHadoW MaN wrote: I have Xscreensaver 4.22 installed and the thing I find strange is that when a regular user locked the screen and then I tried to unlock the screen with root password, it does not work, with the previous versions this worked. is There a way to fix this please? I use

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ebuild for dev-java/sun-j2sdk?

2005-12-27 Thread Holly Bostick
Stroller schreef: On 26 Dec 2005, at 20:27, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 20:46:55 +0100, Peper wrote: Yes, I do know that and that's why i proposed a new solution for this - emerge would handle showing license and user will accept or decline it. If user accepts fetching

[gentoo-user] How to install CPAN modules not breaking portage tree

2005-12-27 Thread Paweł Madej
Hello, As i have read [1] documentation portage should provide g-cpan.pl tool but on my system there is no such script. Any ideas how to install cpan perl modules via portage? I know that I can do it via cpan tool but manual [1] suggests using g-cpan.pl tool which i dont have [1]

Re: [gentoo-user] How to install CPAN modules not breaking portage tree

2005-12-27 Thread Rumen Yotov
On (27/12/05 17:19), Paweł Madej wrote: Hello, As i have read [1] documentation portage should provide g-cpan.pl tool but on my system there is no such script. Any ideas how to install cpan perl modules via portage? I know that I can do it via cpan tool but manual [1] suggests using

Re: [gentoo-user] How to install CPAN modules not breaking portage tree

2005-12-27 Thread Paul Varner
On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 17:19 +0100, Paweł Madej wrote: As i have read [1] documentation portage should provide g-cpan.pl tool but on my system there is no such script. Any ideas how to install cpan perl modules via portage? I know that I can do it via cpan tool but manual [1] suggests using

Re: [gentoo-user] How to install CPAN modules not breaking portage tree

2005-12-27 Thread Paweł Madej
Paul Varner wrote: On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 17:19 +0100, Paweł Madej wrote: emerge app-portage/g-cpan Regards, Paul Thank you Paul and Rumen :) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Skype: esd options

2005-12-27 Thread Kurt Guenther
I'm using gnome, so Skype's docs[1] say: Be sure to run esd daemon using esd -d /dev/dsp because on some distros (e.g. Gentoo) the esddsp wrapper checks for parameters present to esd daemon and won't detect the daemon if there are no parameters. Then start using: *esddsp ./skype* I've

Re: [gentoo-user] can't resize firefox window vertically

2005-12-27 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/25/05, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everybody, I can't see the status bar in my firefox window, it's out of sight below the bottom margin of the screen. Clicking the right upper corner and dragging the mouse only can alter the horizontal size, not the vertical. I'm not

Re: [gentoo-user] world problems

2005-12-27 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/25/05, Bob Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's my list of what it want to take out of the world file - 'app-emulation/crossover-office-bin' has no ebuilds available 'games-fps/unreal-tournament-bonuspacks' has no ebuilds available 'media-libs/epeg' has no ebuilds available

Re: [gentoo-user] grub,sata,savedefault and error 27

2005-12-27 Thread capsel
2005/12/27, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 12/27/05, capsel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: title gentoo root (hd0,0) kernel /bzImage root=/dev/sdb2 savedefault fallback Can you post the full contents of your grub.conf/menu.lst. That might help... and it doesn't boot. I haven't

Re: [gentoo-user] world problems

2005-12-27 Thread Glenn Enright
On Wednesday 28 December 2005 07:28, Richard Fish wrote: On 12/25/05, Bob Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's my list of what it want to take out of the world file - 'app-emulation/crossover-office-bin' has no ebuilds available 'games-fps/unreal-tournament-bonuspacks' has no ebuilds

Re: [gentoo-user] grub,sata,savedefault and error 27

2005-12-27 Thread Glenn Enright
On Wednesday 28 December 2005 08:13, capsel wrote: 2005/12/27, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 12/27/05, capsel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: title gentoo root (hd0,0) kernel /bzImage root=/dev/sdb2 savedefault fallback that last line does nothing in the configuration file.

[gentoo-user] sound question

2005-12-27 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
I have a Dell inspiron 8600, with Intel 82801 sound card. Sound works great with kde, and actually everything except realplayer and macromedia flash. This really has me baffled. Mike -- Michael W. Holdeman Fire Chief Porter Emergency Services Powered

Re: [gentoo-user] sound question

2005-12-27 Thread Lares Moreau
On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 16:02 -0500, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: I have a Dell inspiron 8600, with Intel 82801 sound card. Sound works great with kde, and actually everything except realplayer and macromedia flash. This really has me baffled. I think they both need OSS. Do you have your OSS

Re: [gentoo-user] grub,sata,savedefault and error 27

2005-12-27 Thread capsel
2005/12/27, Glenn Enright [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wednesday 28 December 2005 08:13, capsel wrote: 2005/12/27, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 12/27/05, capsel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: title gentoo root (hd0,0) kernel /bzImage root=/dev/sdb2 savedefault fallback that

Re: [gentoo-user] sound question

2005-12-27 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
On Tuesday 27 December 2005 16:07, Lares Moreau wrote: On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 16:02 -0500, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: I have a Dell inspiron 8600, with Intel 82801 sound card. Sound works great with kde, and actually everything except realplayer and macromedia flash. This really has me

Re: [gentoo-user] sound question

2005-12-27 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
On Tuesday 27 December 2005 18:41, Bastiaan Visser wrote: do you make use of the ALSA subsystem ? Yes On Tuesday 27 December 2005 23:02, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: I have a Dell inspiron 8600, with Intel 82801 sound card. Sound works great with kde, and actually everything except

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge audacity

2005-12-27 Thread Petteri Räty
Michael Sullivan wrote: I'm trying to emerge audacity (I think rosegarden needs it), but I keep getting this error: camille ~ # emerge audacity Calculating dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 1) media-sound/audacity-1.2.1 to / md5 files ;-) audacity-1.2.1.ebuild md5 files ;-)

Re: [gentoo-user] can't resize firefox window vertically

2005-12-27 Thread maxim wexler
Well, you _have_ to use a window manager, because I spoke too soon. A look at xinitrc reveals I do have the default twm. __ Yahoo! for Good - Make a difference this year. http://brand.yahoo.com/cybergivingweek2005/ --

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't emerge audacity

2005-12-27 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Tuesday 27 December 2005 23:36, Petteri Räty wrote: Michael Sullivan wrote: I'm trying to emerge audacity (I think rosegarden needs it), but I keep getting this error: camille ~ # emerge audacity Calculating dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 1) media-sound/audacity-1.2.1 to /

[gentoo-user] Can't Re-Emerge lirc After Kernel Upgrade

2005-12-27 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I upgraded from 2.6.13-r5 to 2.6.14-r5 using gentoo-sources. I'm using this machine for MythTV and I noticed lirc was not working after the upgrade. So I tried rebuilding it but lirc 0.7.2 (the same version I was using before) fails to build. I have no idea what's wrong and haven't found

Re: [gentoo-user] sound question (solved)

2005-12-27 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
On Tuesday 27 December 2005 16:02, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: I have a Dell inspiron 8600, with Intel 82801 sound card. Sound works great with kde, and actually everything except realplayer and macromedia flash. This really has me baffled. Mike Seems the alsa driver and alsa utils did not

[gentoo-user] ssh and tar combined?

2005-12-27 Thread Mick
Hi All, One day I hope to learn how to use ssh and the associated commands. So far I have been struggling just to copy a file from one box (192.168.0.3) to another (192.168.0.2). This is what I get, but and since I can't find the 'copied' file . . . I suspect it fails. I don't understand why:

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh and tar combined?

2005-12-27 Thread Lares Moreau
On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 23:53 +, Mick wrote: Hi All, One day I hope to learn how to use ssh and the associated commands. So far I have been struggling just to copy a file from one box (192.168.0.3) to another (192.168.0.2). This is what I get, but and since I can't find the 'copied'

Re: [gentoo-user] world problems

2005-12-27 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bob Sanders wrote: Don't think so. And don't run - emaint -f world. It'll remove it and any updates won't occur. Here's my list of what it want to take out of the world file - 'app-emulation/crossover-office-bin' has no ebuilds available

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh and tar combined?

2005-12-27 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 23:53 +, Mick wrote: Ideally I would like to connect and tar | scp the directories/files from one box to another in a single motion. Any advice to help me understand how to make this work, or why the above attempt fails would be much appreciated. Locallly : tar

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't emerge audacity

2005-12-27 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 23:54 +0100, Francesco Talamona wrote: On Tuesday 27 December 2005 23:36, Petteri Räty wrote: Michael Sullivan wrote: I'm trying to emerge audacity (I think rosegarden needs it), but I keep getting this error: camille ~ # emerge audacity Calculating

Re: [gentoo-user] world problems

2005-12-27 Thread Bob Sanders
On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 17:52:16 -0800 Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115593 That's with portage-2.0.53, right? Zac Yes, that's it. From the bug, it seems the problems are in the ebuilds. However, the updated portage's solution is to remove them

Re: [gentoo-user] world problems

2005-12-27 Thread Rumen Yotov
On (27/12/05 21:51), Bob Sanders wrote: On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 17:52:16 -0800 Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115593 That's with portage-2.0.53, right? Zac Yes, that's it. From the bug, it seems the problems are in the ebuilds.

Re: [gentoo-user] world problems

2005-12-27 Thread W.Kenworthy
Thats the world file, is there an equivalent for system? bunyip ~ # emerge -ep system These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating system dependencies ...done! bunyip ~ # As you see, I have a couple of systems with a blank system target. BillK On Wed, 2005-12-28 at

[gentoo-user] Re: ssh and tar combined?

2005-12-27 Thread Mick
Ow Mun Heng wrote: Locallly : tar lcf - . | (cd /other/area/store; tar -xpvf - ) tar lcf - /path/to/file | (cd /other/area/store; tar -xpvf - ) Thanks, I've used that in the past but I could only get it to work in the same (local) computer. via SSH remotely : tar -czf -

[gentoo-user] Re: ssh and tar combined?

2005-12-27 Thread Mick
Lares Moreau wrote: scp is used in the same manner you use cp. It seems that you have ssh'd into your other box then are trying to scp to yourself. Hmm, I tried just scp (without first ssh-ing into the remote box) but couldn't get it to work. try this. comp1# scp

[gentoo-user] Re: ssh and tar combined?

2005-12-27 Thread Mick
Mick wrote: Lares Moreau wrote: scp is used in the same manner you use cp. It seems that you have ssh'd into your other box then are trying to scp to yourself. Hmm, I tried just scp (without first ssh-ing into the remote box) but couldn't get it to work. try this. comp1# scp