[gentoo-user] Upgrade + gcc dilemma

2006-01-07 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Just got my laptop back up after having been down for awhile and it is in dire need of an upgrade. After syncing, a -uDvp world showed about 100 packages needing upgrading, one of which was gcc, from 3.3 to 3.4. I decided to do it first since most packages seemed dependent on it so headed over to

[gentoo-user] jre question

2006-01-07 Thread C. Beamer
Hi all, I did an 'emerge --sync' tonight. One of the items on my list of updates was sun-jre-bin. Of course, the procedure is to download the binary from sun and put it in /usr/portage/distfiles. Prior to downloading, I unmerge (or thought I did), the previous installation of jre. However, aft

Re: [gentoo-user] Bizarre etc/cfg-update problem [SOLVED]

2006-01-07 Thread Dale
Abhay Kedia wrote: Just on a side note, etc-update will soon be deprecated. Try dispatch-conf. This will be the tool to use in future for config updates. Regards, Abhay This figures. I finally got used to etc-update and they are taking it away. I didn't like dispatch-conf. Sorry. It's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - Need MythTV setup help (resend)

2006-01-07 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 19:50 -0800, Bob Sanders wrote: > On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 18:42:09 -0600 > Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > As I said, I tried setting up the evilwm stuff from the MythTV section > > on the Gentoo wiki. I ran kdm and selected "Custom" and logged in as my > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Bizarre etc/cfg-update problem [SOLVED]

2006-01-07 Thread Abhay Kedia
Just on a side note, etc-update will soon be deprecated. Try dispatch-conf. This will be the tool to use in future for config updates. Regards, Abhay pgpscWY8J76WR.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - Need MythTV setup help (resend)

2006-01-07 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 19:50 -0800, Bob Sanders wrote: > On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 18:42:09 -0600 > Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > As I said, I tried setting up the evilwm stuff from the MythTV section > > on the Gentoo wiki. I ran kdm and selected "Custom" and logged in as my > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - Need MythTV setup help (resend)

2006-01-07 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 18:42:09 -0600 Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As I said, I tried setting up the evilwm stuff from the MythTV section > on the Gentoo wiki. I ran kdm and selected "Custom" and logged in as my > test user. The screen cleared and then it spit me back out at the k

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ls date was: Bizarre etc/cfg-update problem [Date issue SOLVED]

2006-01-07 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 02:41:35AM +0100, Penguin Lover Holly Bostick squawked: > A-HA The 'Info' command, which I also always forget, not least > because I don't know how to navigate info files. > > But this caused me to take another whack at it, and I got along well > enough to find a mostly

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -e world stop at ncruses no error

2006-01-07 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 08:17:01PM -0800, Ken Robbins wrote > I just updated to gcc4.0.2 went ok did emerge -e system went good > then updated portage > now I trying to do emerge -e world it start off ok till it get to > ncurses start off in that ok, but then stop go back to the prompt no > error

Re: [gentoo-user] world file cheating

2006-01-07 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 06:39:33PM +, James wrote > Hello, > > Some time ago, I copied a world file (/var/lib/portage/world) > from a system with lots of installed software to a 'clone' > system newly installed with gentoo > > Now 'emaint --check world' suggests that not all of those pack

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ls date was: Bizarre etc/cfg-update problem [Date issue SOLVED]

2006-01-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Richard Fish schreef: > On 1/7/06, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Don't think I really need the inodes (if that's what they are, I > > > That is "link count". For a regular file, it tells how many hard > links exist to the file. For a directory, it tells how many files > are in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ls date was: Bizarre etc/cfg-update problem [Date issue SOLVED]

2006-01-07 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/7/06, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Don't think I really need the inodes (if that's what they are, I That is "link count". For a regular file, it tells how many hard links exist to the file. For a directory, it tells how many files are in that directory +2, since "." and ".." c

Re: [gentoo-user] Irritating problem #2-- colordiff [SOLVED confirmed]

2006-01-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Holly Bostick schreef: > John Myers schreef: >> >>Try changing your 'pager' variable in etc-update.conf from 'less' to >>'less -R'. > > I adjusted my pager command to include it and think that it's > likely to work properly now. Confirmed that it does in fact work properly now, etc-update display

Re: [gentoo-user] Bizarre etc/cfg-update problem [SOLVED]

2006-01-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Holly Bostick schreef: > Abhay Kedia schreef: > >>afaik etc-update does not reinitialize anything. All it looks for are >>files that have been named in a specific way. It diffs the original >>file with its update and then asks you whether to overwrite or not. >>You can delete the ._cfg files or le

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - Permissions on mounted Windows partition

2006-01-07 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 19:47 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: > On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 01:22 +, Mick wrote: > > Michael Sullivan wrote: > > > > > I think someone's asked this before here, but I don't remember the > > > answer; How do I make it where regular users can read, execute, and > > > poss

Re: [gentoo-user] Irritating problem #2-- colordiff [Probably SOLVED]

2006-01-07 Thread Holly Bostick
John Myers schreef: > On Saturday 07 January 2006 10:37, Holly Bostick wrote: > >> No. I don't actually use colordiff standalone, so no reason. I did, >> however, have an (unnecessary) alias around etc-update, which I >> have now removed, allowing it to rely solely on its sudo entry. But >> since

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - Permissions on mounted Windows partition

2006-01-07 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 01:22 +, Mick wrote: > Michael Sullivan wrote: > > > I think someone's asked this before here, but I don't remember the > > answer; How do I make it where regular users can read, execute, and > > possibly write files on my mounted Windows XP partition? The only thing >

Re: [gentoo-user] Bizarre etc/cfg-update problem [SOLVED]

2006-01-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Abhay Kedia schreef: > On Saturday 07 January 2006 23:24, Holly Bostick wrote: > >> What might that be.? Does something need to be re-initialized? >> Some cache updated? I'm getting a bit confused here. >> > > afaik etc-update does not reinitialize anything. All it looks for are > files that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ls date was: Bizarre etc/cfg-update problem [Date issue SOLVED]

2006-01-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Mariusz Pękala schreef: > On 2006-01-07 20:01:25 +0100 (Sat, Jan), Holly Bostick wrote: > >> Willie Wong schreef: >> >>> On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 04:17:11PM +0100, Penguin Lover Holly >>> Bostick squawked: >>> (how do you get ls to also include the @#$%#$ *year*??) >>> >>> Sorry, couldn't

[gentoo-user] unable to select gnucash TXF categories

2006-01-07 Thread Lincoln Baxter
Hi, I have app-office/gnucash 1.8.11 installed. When I mark an account as Tax Related (Edit->Tax Options), I am supposed to be able to select a TXF category. But no categories are displayed. This prevents me from exporting the Tax report to a TXF file. Has anyone figured out how to get this wo

[gentoo-user] Re: OT - Permissions on mounted Windows partition

2006-01-07 Thread Mick
Michael Sullivan wrote: > I think someone's asked this before here, but I don't remember the > answer; How do I make it where regular users can read, execute, and > possibly write files on my mounted Windows XP partition? The only thing > I use Windows for anymore is playing DirectX games, and I'

Re: [gentoo-user] package conflict on update

2006-01-07 Thread Trenton Adams
Sorry, I shouldn't have said, "Here we go again", as that can be antogonizing, which doesn't help anything. :( On 1/7/06, Trenton Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First off all, the install process is only a portion of making gentoo > *easier*. At it is kind of a tangent to the original discuss

Re: [gentoo-user] package conflict on update

2006-01-07 Thread Trenton Adams
First off all, the install process is only a portion of making gentoo *easier*. At it is kind of a tangent to the original discussion. But, none the less, it is a good discussion. On 1/7/06, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Trenton Adams schreef: > > Interesting points, but > > > > On

[gentoo-user] OT - Permissions on mounted Windows partition

2006-01-07 Thread Michael Sullivan
I think someone's asked this before here, but I don't remember the answer; How do I make it where regular users can read, execute, and possibly write files on my mounted Windows XP partition? The only thing I use Windows for anymore is playing DirectX games, and I'm emerging wine now. I noticed t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - Need MythTV setup help (resend)

2006-01-07 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 19:20 -0800, Bob Sanders wrote: > On Sun, 1 Jan 2006 17:47:19 -0800 > Bob Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > It seems that something is not stable with the X server or with the card > > drivers. For now, > > perhaps forget MythTV and just see if you can get a stabl

Re: [gentoo-user] package conflict on update

2006-01-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Trenton Adams schreef: > Interesting points, but > > On 1/7/06, Abhay Kedia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Saturday 07 January 2006 22:00, Trenton Adams wrote: >> >>> I like both that my car just works, and I don't have to know how >>> the pistons go up and down, but that I can also look un

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/dbus-0.23.4-r1 fails to compile

2006-01-07 Thread Lord Imbrius the Despondent
Yup - running python-updater solved the problem. I didn't even notice that python was upgraded in the last emerge -uD world I did. Thanks for the hint! On Friday 06 January 2006 23:47, Jeff wrote: > On 07/01/2006, at 9:53 AM, Richard Fish wrote: > > On 1/5/06, Lord Imbrius the Despondent <[EMAI

Re: [gentoo-user] K3B - cdrado without root privileges [SOLVED]

2006-01-07 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Thank you all for your help. I was just a little confused about the message, because as holly said k3b works fine even with this message. Holly Bostick schrieb: > Daniel Pielmeier schreef: > >>Hello, >> >>i recently installed K3B. >> >>When i start the application a window pops up and says somet

Re: [gentoo-user] K3B - cdrado without root privileges

2006-01-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Daniel Pielmeier schreef: > Hello, > > i recently installed K3B. > > When i start the application a window pops up and says something like > "cdrdao will run without root privileges, use k3b-setup to solve > this problem". > > The problem is on my system there is no such setup-tool. > > I have

[gentoo-user] Re: K3B - cdrado without root privileges

2006-01-07 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 08 January 2006 00:01, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > if i run equery i get no results > > gentoo billie # equery belongs /usr/bin/k3bsetup > [ Searching for file(s) /usr/bin/k3bsetup in *... ] > gentoo billie # Don't you have "K3B Setup" under "Settings" menu? I would add a line in /etc/por

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: K3B - cdrado without root privileges

2006-01-07 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
if i run equery i get no results gentoo billie # equery belongs /usr/bin/k3bsetup [ Searching for file(s) /usr/bin/k3bsetup in *... ] gentoo billie # Francesco Talamona schrieb: > On Saturday 07 January 2006 23:28, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > >>Hello, >> >>i recently installed K3B. >> >>When i sta

[gentoo-user] Re: K3B - cdrado without root privileges

2006-01-07 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Saturday 07 January 2006 23:28, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > Hello, > > i recently installed K3B. > > When i start the application a window pops up and says something like > "cdrdao will run without root privileges, use k3b-setup to solve this > problem". > > The problem is on my system there is no

[gentoo-user] K3B - cdrado without root privileges

2006-01-07 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Hello, i recently installed K3B. When i start the application a window pops up and says something like "cdrdao will run without root privileges, use k3b-setup to solve this problem". The problem is on my system there is no such setup-tool. I have Gnome installed but no KDE, is the K3B-setup onl

[gentoo-user] Re: Bizarre etc/cfg-update problem

2006-01-07 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Saturday 07 January 2006 23:24, Francesco Talamona wrote: > On Saturday 07 January 2006 18:54, Holly Bostick wrote: > > /usr/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/ > > > > What might that be.? Does something need to be re-initialized? > > Some cache updated? I'm getting a bit confused here. > [...] I'm wrong,

[gentoo-user] Re: Bizarre etc/cfg-update problem

2006-01-07 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Saturday 07 January 2006 18:54, Holly Bostick wrote: > /usr/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/ > What might that be.? Does something need to be re-initialized? > Some cache updated? I'm getting a bit confused here. Look at the following command sequence (as my user): [23:13] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ echo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ls date was: Bizarre etc/cfg-update problem

2006-01-07 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 09:56:59PM +0100, Penguin Lover Mariusz P?kala squawked: > info ls, section * Formatting file timestamps:: > " A timestamp is considered to be "recent" if it is less than six > months old, and is not dated in the future." > > and further: > " For example, `--time-style="+%Y

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox -- too weird!

2006-01-07 Thread Tony Davison
On Saturday 07 January 2006 18:54, Abhay Kedia wrote: > On Sunday 08 January 2006 00:05, maxim wexler wrote: > > I did this twice, so it's no mere fluke. I rushed over > > to Yahoo to post this and the window's still OK. So, > > thankfully it's not permanent ;) > > > > Anybody care to hazard a gues

Re: [gentoo-user] package conflict on update

2006-01-07 Thread Trenton Adams
Interesting points, but On 1/7/06, Abhay Kedia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 07 January 2006 22:00, Trenton Adams wrote: > > > > I'm just of the mind that we really should encourage it's use, while > > encouraging people to also understand what's happening under the > > hood. > > > ...a

Re: [gentoo-user] Kate doesn't reuse existing process anymore with kde 3.5.0?

2006-01-07 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Abhay Kedia wrote: > http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119146 > > Is there any chance that Gentoo developers could commit this fix > to the portage, even though it is still in SVN? Unlikely: search bugs.gentoo.org for similar kde bugs and you'll see they get marked UPST (upstream). Normally on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ls date was: Bizarre etc/cfg-update problem

2006-01-07 Thread Mariusz Pękala
On 2006-01-07 20:01:25 +0100 (Sat, Jan), Holly Bostick wrote: > Willie Wong schreef: > > On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 04:17:11PM +0100, Penguin Lover Holly Bostick > > squawked: > > > >> (how do you get ls to also include the @#$%#$ *year*??) > > > > > > Sorry, couldn't help with the rest of your pro

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ls date was: Bizarre etc/cfg-update problem

2006-01-07 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 08:01:25PM +0100, Penguin Lover Holly Bostick squawked: > Rather than go off on a rant, I will ask mildly: is there any way to > change the default behaviour to more reflect my expected behaviour? Not > so much asking you to tell me how to do it as asking if those of you who

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ls date was: Bizarre etc/cfg-update problem

2006-01-07 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 08:37:12PM +0100, Penguin Lover Sergio Polini squawked: > May be, you could add a command-line option ;-) > And don't forget to open a bug and send in a patch! =) W -- Ugh! It's 1/2 C U ^2, saved by the bell, we've ran out of time. ~Prof. Kirk T. McDonald, DeathEM

Re: [gentoo-user] Irritating problem #2-- colordiff

2006-01-07 Thread John Myers
On Saturday 07 January 2006 10:37, Holly Bostick wrote: > No. I don't actually use colordiff standalone, so no reason. I did, > however, have an (unnecessary) alias around etc-update, which I have now > removed, allowing it to rely solely on its sudo entry. But since I don't > have any updates to d

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox -- too weird!

2006-01-07 Thread Mariusz Pękala
On 2006-01-07 10:35:34 -0800 (Sat, Jan), maxim wexler wrote: > Hello everybody, > > OK, so I'm surfin and go to www.thocp.net/index.htm > having truncated the link out of curiosity from > > http://www.thocp.net/biographies/pickette_wayne_interview.htm > > > The window opens way outside the bo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ls date was: Bizarre etc/cfg-update problem

2006-01-07 Thread Sergio Polini
Holly Bostick: > > [...] > > Sorry, couldn't help with the rest of your problem, but I think > > it is assumed that ls will display the year only for files older > > than a year old. Quite clever, in my opinion. > > OK, I see what you mean-- or maybe I don't: > [...] > I see that many files that ar

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox -- too weird!

2006-01-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Abhay Kedia schreef: > On Sunday 08 January 2006 00:05, maxim wexler wrote: > >> I did this twice, so it's no mere fluke. I rushed over to Yahoo to >> post this and the window's still OK. So, thankfully it's not >> permanent ;) >> >> Anybody care to hazard a guess as to what's happening here. Can

Re: [gentoo-user] emaint --check question

2006-01-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On 1/7/06, Andrew Gaydenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have resolved similar problem with 'emerge --metadata' after > some of 'portage' upgrading. > > > a > Andrew, Thanks for the response. Unfortunately that didn't work as well for me. This machine is an AMD64 box. It turns out I made a

Re: [gentoo-user] package conflict on update

2006-01-07 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Saturday 07 January 2006 22:00, Trenton Adams wrote: > > I'm just of the mind that we really should encourage it's use, while > encouraging people to also understand what's happening under the > hood. > ...and how do you suggest that should be done? There is tons of documentation available fo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ls date was: Bizarre etc/cfg-update problem

2006-01-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Willie Wong schreef: > On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 04:17:11PM +0100, Penguin Lover Holly Bostick > squawked: > >> (how do you get ls to also include the @#$%#$ *year*??) > > > Sorry, couldn't help with the rest of your problem, but I think it is > assumed that ls will display the year only for file

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox -- too weird!

2006-01-07 Thread William Meertens
Hi all, Sorry to say, but it looks fine by me. Nothing happens here. Cheers, William. On Sat, 7 Jan 2006 10:35:34 -0800 (PST) maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote [gentoo-user] firefox -- too weird! : > Hello everybody, > > OK, so I'm surfin and go to www.thocp.net/index.htm > having truncat

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox -- too weird!

2006-01-07 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Sunday 08 January 2006 00:05, maxim wexler wrote: > > I did this twice, so it's no mere fluke. I rushed over > to Yahoo to post this and the window's still OK. So, > thankfully it's not permanent ;) > > Anybody care to hazard a guess as to what's happening > here. Can anybody duplicate it? > I w

Re: [gentoo-user] Irritating problem #2-- colordiff

2006-01-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Mariusz Pękala schreef: > On 2006-01-07 15:53:39 +0100 (Sat, Jan), Holly Bostick wrote: > >> Here's the kind of output I get from etc-update, for example: > > [...] > >> ESC[1;34m+RC_VERBOSE="no"ESC[0;0m > > [...] > >> Clearly it's working, but not. This is in gnome-terminal, but >> the te

[gentoo-user] firefox -- too weird!

2006-01-07 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everybody, OK, so I'm surfin and go to www.thocp.net/index.htm having truncated the link out of curiosity from http://www.thocp.net/biographies/pickette_wayne_interview.htm The window opens way outside the boundaries of the screen and I can't drag the corner back. So I ctrl-w out of the

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I enlarge graphics with mouse hover?

2006-01-07 Thread Kenton Groombridge
Richard Fish wrote: Still works for me. You should check that "Show previews in file tips" under Behavior is turned on. You should also make sure you are using the File Management profile (Settings->Load View Profile). You can also try to backup and delete your ~/.kde3.5 directory, and start

Re: [gentoo-user] Bizarre etc/cfg-update problem

2006-01-07 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Saturday 07 January 2006 23:24, Holly Bostick wrote: > > What might that be.? Does something need to be re-initialized? Some > cache updated? I'm getting a bit confused here. > afaik etc-update does not reinitialize anything. All it looks for are files that have been named in a specific way

[gentoo-user] Re: ls date was: Bizarre etc/cfg-update problem

2006-01-07 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 04:17:11PM +0100, Penguin Lover Holly Bostick squawked: > (how do you get ls to also include the @#$%#$ *year*??) Sorry, couldn't help with the rest of your problem, but I think it is assumed that ls will display the year only for files older than a year old. Quite clever,

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] KDE/CUPS and toner density

2006-01-07 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
Abhay, Thanks! It seems like it works. Now, I have found the difference between density '1' and '5'. It is very small, but it exists :-) Andrew === On Saturday 07 January 2006 13:43, Abhay Kedia wrote: === On Saturday 07 January 2006 15:53, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > > The problem is: I h

Re: [gentoo-user] Irritating problem #2-- colordiff

2006-01-07 Thread Mariusz Pękala
On 2006-01-07 15:53:39 +0100 (Sat, Jan), Holly Bostick wrote: > Here's the kind of output I get from etc-update, for example: [...] > ESC[1;34m+RC_VERBOSE="no"ESC[0;0m [...] > Clearly it's working, but not. This is in gnome-terminal, but the > term in use doesn't seem to make any difference, a

Re: [gentoo-user] Bizarre etc/cfg-update problem

2006-01-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Abhay Kedia schreef: > You are not facing any problem because you are most probably not > using xkb or in other words the keyboard layouts. If you've never > used different keyboard layouts then you can comfortably delete the > new-cfg files and expect to face nil problems. Not sure if I made a mi

Re: [gentoo-user] Bizarre etc/cfg-update problem

2006-01-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Abhay Kedia schreef: > On Saturday 07 January 2006 20:47, Holly Bostick wrote: > >> So from this I deduce that >> >> 1) xorg 6.8.99 was *really* broken/incomplete or did something >> radically different that etc-update and cfg-update cannot deal >> with, since these files were never updated or of

Re: [gentoo-user] Bizarre etc/cfg-update problem

2006-01-07 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Saturday 07 January 2006 20:47, Holly Bostick wrote: > > So from this I deduce that > > 1) xorg 6.8.99 was *really* broken/incomplete or did something radically > different that etc-update and cfg-update cannot deal with, since these > files were never updated or offered to update while I when I

Re: [gentoo-user] package conflict on update

2006-01-07 Thread Trenton Adams
Interesting viewpoint, and some of the things you say do have relevance Holly. Thanks. But, I still think things should be a little easier for the average user. I'm really sick of the windows admins who *think* linux is hard, when it's really not, and bash it all the time because of that. I'm a

Re: [gentoo-user] package conflict on update

2006-01-07 Thread Trenton Adams
On 1/7/06, Abhay Kedia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 07 January 2006 10:43, Trenton Adams wrote: > > > > which is what I mentioned in another post that I made. When I > > originally started with gentoo linux, I read the part about why gentoo > > linux came about. Basically it was all a

Re: [gentoo-user] world file cheating

2006-01-07 Thread PaulNM
Trenton Adams wrote: I've never specified -p, so I think it must be default, because I always have permissions preserved when I use tar. Perhaps this is a GNU tar default setting? I believe it may be a default for root, but would put it in anyway to be safe. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailin

Re: [gentoo-user] Bizarre etc/cfg-update problem

2006-01-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Eugene Rosenzweig schreef: > Holly Bostick wrote: > >> Hey ho, all-- >> >> (I think that) Ever since I downgraded Xorg from 6.8.99 back to 6.8.2-r6 >> a couple of days ago, I've had reports from both etc-update and >> cfg-update that there are 30 files needing to be updated (etc-update >> reports

Re: [gentoo-user] emaint --check question

2006-01-07 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
I have resolved similar problem with 'emerge --metadata' after some of 'portage' upgrading. a === On Saturday 07 January 2006 18:09, Mark Knecht wrote: === Hello, I tried Googling around on this but didn't find anytthing. This seems broken. What's this emaint --check stuff about? Tha

[gentoo-user] emaint --check question

2006-01-07 Thread Mark Knecht
Hello, I tried Googling around on this but didn't find anytthing. This seems broken. What's this emaint --check stuff about? Thanks, Mark lightning ~ # emerge -pv world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies !!! Problems have been detected with y

[gentoo-user] Irritating problem #2-- colordiff

2006-01-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Here's the kind of output I get from etc-update, for example: Showing differences between /etc/conf.d/rc and /etc/conf.d/._cfg_rc ESC[1;31m--- /etc/conf.d/rc 2005-12-22 10:42:50.0 +0100ESC[0;0m ESC[1;34m+++ /etc/conf.d/._cfg_rc 2006-01-07 05:56:06.0 +0100ESC[0;0m ESC[

Re: [gentoo-user] Bizarre etc/cfg-update problem

2006-01-07 Thread Eugene Rosenzweig
Holly Bostick wrote: Hey ho, all-- (I think that) Ever since I downgraded Xorg from 6.8.99 back to 6.8.2-r6 a couple of days ago, I've had reports from both etc-update and cfg-update that there are 30 files needing to be updated (etc-update reports them as being in /usr/lib/X11/xkb sometimes, b

Re: [gentoo-user] booting fsck

2006-01-07 Thread Martins Steinbergs
On Saturday 07 January 2006 16:02, Joe Menola wrote: > On Saturday 07 January 2006 8:04 am, Martins Steinbergs wrote: > > ReiserFS: hdb9: warning: sh-2021: reiserfs_fill_super: can not find > > reiserfs on hdb9 > > thats ok, there is no reisefs, but ext3 > > Check that /etc/fstab contains a correct

Re: [gentoo-user] package conflict on update

2006-01-07 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Saturday 07 January 2006 10:43, Trenton Adams wrote: > > which is what I mentioned in another post that I made. When I > originally started with gentoo linux, I read the part about why gentoo > linux came about. Basically it was all about doing things the way you > want. Well, I like the flex

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers can work with 2.6.15!

2006-01-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Rafael Fernández López schreef: > Iain Buchanan wrote: > >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Instead of a question this time, I have an answer! >>> >>> If you're trying to get ati-drivers (fglrx) to load with ernet >>> parche de Microsoft linux-2.6.15 its simple! (Given the error >>> you get is "undefined symb

Re: [gentoo-user] booting fsck

2006-01-07 Thread Joe Menola
On Saturday 07 January 2006 8:04 am, Martins Steinbergs wrote: > ReiserFS: hdb9: warning: sh-2021: reiserfs_fill_super: can not find > reiserfs on hdb9 > thats ok, there is no reisefs, but ext3 Check that /etc/fstab contains a correct entry for hdb9 file system (ext3 not reiserfs). -jm -- gento

[gentoo-user] booting fsck

2006-01-07 Thread Martins Steinbergs
i have issue with booting and dont know where to start fix things. so i have working kernel, everthing fine, then i copy config to new one and compile without changes. booting that new one kernel there is some action with udev rules and it takes bit longer than with nice kernel, dont have log on

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers can work with 2.6.15!

2006-01-07 Thread Rafael Fernández López
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Iain Buchanan wrote: > Hi all, > > Instead of a question this time, I have an answer! > > If you're trying to get ati-drivers (fglrx) to load with ernet parche de > Microsoft linux-2.6.15 > its simple! (Given the error you get is "undefined symbol:

Re: [gentoo-user] Kate doesn't reuse existing process anymore with kde 3.5.0?

2006-01-07 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Friday 06 January 2006 19:24, Petteri Räty wrote: > > You can always file a bug in bugs.kde.org to request this to be > configurable. As usual first check that the bug does not already exist. > While filing the bug I found a related bug and the fix is said to be committed to svn. Here it is htt

[gentoo-user] Bizarre etc/cfg-update problem

2006-01-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Hey ho, all-- (I think that) Ever since I downgraded Xorg from 6.8.99 back to 6.8.2-r6 a couple of days ago, I've had reports from both etc-update and cfg-update that there are 30 files needing to be updated (etc-update reports them as being in /usr/lib/X11/xkb sometimes, but not always). The pro

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers can work with 2.6.15!

2006-01-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Iain Buchanan schreef: > Hi all, > > Instead of a question this time, I have an answer! > > If you're trying to get ati-drivers (fglrx) to load with linux-2.6.15 > its simple! (Given the error you get is "undefined symbol: pm_register" > or something similar). > > The solution is to simply: wh

Re: [gentoo-user] package conflict on update

2006-01-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Trenton Adams schreef: > Oops, forgot to reply to everything. > > On 1/6/06, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Trenton Adams schreef: >> >>> On 1/5/06, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 16:32:20 -0700, Trenton Adams wrote: >>

Re: [gentoo-user] two keyboards, two mouses, two monitors, one computer?

2006-01-07 Thread vikram ranade
Sorry! here is the guy with the computer sharing g/f! http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/multiuser/g450.html another link http://cs.senecac.on.ca/~ctyler/ruby/On 1/7/06, vikram ranade < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Yupi did some googleing as well...that was the dude.! http://disjunkt.com/dualhe

Re: [gentoo-user] two keyboards, two mouses, two monitors, one computer?

2006-01-07 Thread vikram ranade
Yupi did some googleing as well...that was the dude.! http://disjunkt.com/dualhead/it definately works...i remember the guy had also posted pics of his setup. It Vikram On 1/7/06, Abhay Kedia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Saturday 07 January 2006 13:53, Tom Eastman wrote:> I have a two-screen setu

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Help setting up eix!

2006-01-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Rumen Yotov schreef: > On (06/01/06 23:51), Lares Moreau wrote: > >> On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 20:01 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: >> >>> Yes. Here was the output: >>> >>> camille ~ # update-eix Reading Portage settings .. Building >>> database (/var/cache/eix) from scratch .. [0] /usr/portage/ >>

[gentoo-user] (Late) bugday announcement

2006-01-07 Thread kloeri
Hi all. Sorry about the late announcement but today is the monthly Bugday :) I hope we'll still see a lot of people turning up in #gentoo-bugs on irc.freenode.net to help squash some bugs and have a fun time with other gentoo users and/or devs. Regards, Bryan Østergaard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.or

Re: [gentoo-user] xcompmgr?

2006-01-07 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
On Friday 06 January 2006 17:03, Kenton Groombridge wrote: > Michael W. Holdeman wrote: > >> kompmgr works OK here, but I do find there are some quirks, but I can > >> > >>run GLX programs with kompmgr and nothing crashes. > >> > >>Ken > > > >is this with nvidia? Loading glx. is it REALLY SLOW? >

[gentoo-user] cups problem-like ...

2006-01-07 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi list, i'm experiencing strange cups behaviour: i'm accessing the cupsd setting both via web interface (localhost:631) or via the KDE printer control modue. However since two days i'm experiencing long load time of the all stuff: every action i'm trying to execute nearly 10 seconds are needed

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] KDE/CUPS and toner density

2006-01-07 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Saturday 07 January 2006 15:53, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > > The problem is: I have Xerox Phaser 3120 printer (which, I think, is the > same as Samsung ML-1710). I have tried to play with 'toner density' driver > property under the 'Printer Manager' - 'printer context menu' - > 'Configure'. I have

Re: [gentoo-user] two keyboards, two mouses, two monitors, one computer?

2006-01-07 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Saturday 07 January 2006 13:53, Tom Eastman wrote: > I have a two-screen setup with X. > > Also, in addition to my usual keyboard and mouse, I have a cordless > keyboard and mouse combo thingee. At the moment both keyboards work > fine, and both mouses control the same pointer. > > It occurred

[gentoo-user] Re: two keyboards, two mouses, two monitors, one computer?

2006-01-07 Thread Tom Eastman
vikram ranade wrote: > it is definately do-ablei remember reading about this guy who did > this so that his g/f could use the comp at the same time.. > have to dig out the article. > Vikram Ranade Funny you should mention that that's the exact use-case on my mind :-) Let me know if yo

[gentoo-user] [OT] KDE/CUPS and toner density

2006-01-07 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
Hi! The problem is: I have Xerox Phaser 3120 printer (which, I think, is the same as Samsung ML-1710). I have tried to play with 'toner density' driver property under the 'Printer Manager' - 'printer context menu' - 'Configure'. I have not noticed any difference between '1' and '5' density. The a

Re: [gentoo-user] two keyboards, two mouses, two monitors, one computer?

2006-01-07 Thread vikram ranade
it is definately do-ablei remember reading about this guy who did this so that his g/f could use the comp at the same time.. have to dig out the article. Vikram RanadeOn 1/7/06, Tom Eastman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a two-screen setup with X.Also, in addition to my usual keyboard an

[gentoo-user] two keyboards, two mouses, two monitors, one computer?

2006-01-07 Thread Tom Eastman
I have a two-screen setup with X. Also, in addition to my usual keyboard and mouse, I have a cordless keyboard and mouse combo thingee. At the moment both keyboards work fine, and both mouses control the same pointer. It occurred to me that it would be very cool to be able to have one keyboard a