RE: [gentoo-ppc-user] Mac on Linux?

2006-05-09 Thread Mark M. Hart
I did the kernel rebuild (took HOURS on my slow old mac) and tried again. Here's what I got (got fullscreen penguin hugging apple, then happy mac and 9.0 splash, then screen closed): mac2 ~ # startmol Mac-on-Linux 0.9.71-pre8 [May 7 2006 13:35] Copyright (C) 1997-2004 Samuel Rydh Starting MOL

Re: [gentoo-user] Glibc-2.4 and Gcc-4.0.3??

2006-05-09 Thread Farhan Ahmed
Jerry McBride wrote: Anyone here running a ~x86 box and have the latest glibc and a 4.0.3 gcc running on it? I used to run gcc-4.0.3 and latest glibc (don't remember the version number) some time ago.. But now running gcc-4.1.0 and glibc-2.4-r2.. No problems with both.. Any hurdles to leap?

Re: [gentoo-user] unison and the modular X

2006-05-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 09 May 2006 11:18:07 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: Is anyone confirm that modular xorg (7.0-r1) works with the unison file syncroniser? I am getting an error both from stable, and ~x86 unison as well as a pre-built binary from the developer. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ unison work

Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?

2006-05-09 Thread Harald Arnesen
Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You don't need the audio-cable to hear music from a cd - just the right application ;) Oh yeah, you really don`t need the cable, it just makes things easier, because it will work with all applications, won`t send data using the system bus neither

Re: [gentoo-user] can gnome use prelink?

2006-05-09 Thread wu chuanwen
2006/5/7, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED]: wu chuanwen wrote: Celeron(R)2.0G,Ram=512mb,disk=40Gb That is not bad at all. yeah!I am using Gnome2.14.I konw it's nice.I am just trying to find some ways to make it more fast! Is it possible. What is slow about it? Just the startup or the use of

[gentoo-user] fortran 90 compiler and gentoo

2006-05-09 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi all, i'm in the position of needing the fortran 90 compiler, that is not present in the current gcc implementation i'm running (that is gcc-3.4.5) # gcc -v Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.5/specs Configured with: /var/tmp/portage/gcc-3.4.5-r1/work/gcc-3.4.5/configure

[gentoo-user] OT - Need help with NAT

2006-05-09 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
Hi, I have been having trouble forwarding packets using iptables on my Gentoo box. I am no iptables expert. I connect to the internet using rp-pppoe. I use firestarter for firewalling. Yesterday I installed VMware and chose host only networking between the VMs. vmnet0 was bound to

[gentoo-user] Re: fortran 90 compiler and gentoo

2006-05-09 Thread Marco Calviani
I've found some gcc 4 binary package, that contains the following files: cpp, gcc, gccbug, gcov, gfortran, i386-linux-gcc, i386-linux-gcc-4.2.0 and i386-linux-gfortran but the program's configure file needs g95, ifc, ifort, pgf90, pfg95, f90 and f95. How can i do? Regards, MC 2006/5/9, Marco

Re: [gentoo-user] fortran 90 compiler and gentoo

2006-05-09 Thread Rumen Yotov
Marco Calviani wrote: Hi all, i'm in the position of needing the fortran 90 compiler, that is not present in the current gcc implementation i'm running (that is gcc-3.4.5) # gcc -v Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.5/specs Configured with:

Re: [gentoo-user] New USE flags???

2006-05-09 Thread Fernando Antunes
Use euse utility to query about USE flags. emerge gentoolkit euse -i flag1 [flag2 flag3] or just euse for options. On 5/8/06, Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would someone know what the following two USE flags do? latin and aio It seems latin1 relates to mysql and aio relates to

RE: [gentoo-user] A couple projects on my laptop

2006-05-09 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
Timothy A. Holmes wrote: FAR more problems than im willing to go through (the shortest set of instructions ive seen so far for automount is like 3 pages) + IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher = LOL. After this, I find quite odd you have to be root to mount a

RE: [gentoo-user] A couple projects on my laptop

2006-05-09 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
My /etc/fstab says: /dev/sdb1 /mnt/removable vfat noauto,async,user,exec 0 0 and I can mount it as a user just by clicking on its icon on Konqueror, for example. I think what you really need, however, is not automount but maybe HAL. Check in the wiki and/or docs for info, and

RE: [gentoo-user] A couple projects on my laptop

2006-05-09 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
Timothy A. Holmes wrote: Hi folks I have a couple of issues on my laptop that I would like to get wrapped up in the easiest method possible 1. Flashcards / memory sticks - Right now -- in order to mount my camera cards / thumb drives -- I have to become root -- its easy, but

RE: [gentoo-user] A couple projects on my laptop

2006-05-09 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
[N] net-misc/vpnc (): Free client for Cisco VPN routing software I have to say, I used vpnc on FreeBSD at my last FT gig, and it worked like a charm.. was pretty simple to set up and run, and it Just Worked. Best, --Glenn -- Glenn E. Sieb, MTS Bell Laboratories [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] A couple projects on my laptop

2006-05-09 Thread Andreas Claesson
On 5/9/06, Timothy A. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the response -- I tried the additional stuff in /etc/fstab that you mentioned and when I hook up the usb drive and type /mount/sda1 /mnt/flash -- I get You must be root to mount When the information is in /etc/fstab all you have

Re: [gentoo-user] fortran 90 compiler and gentoo

2006-05-09 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi, unfortunately this is not useful since it does not build the gfortran compiler that include fortran 90 and 95. Regards, MC 2006/5/9, Rumen Yotov [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Marco Calviani wrote: Hi all, i'm in the position of needing the fortran 90 compiler, that is not present in the current

Re: [gentoo-user] A couple projects on my laptop

2006-05-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 9 May 2006 08:47:00 -0400, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: Thanks for the response -- I tried the additional stuff in /etc/fstab that you mentioned and when I hook up the usb drive and type /mount/sda1 /mnt/flash -- I get You must be root to mount If you specify both the device and the

Re: [gentoo-user] A couple projects on my laptop

2006-05-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 08 May 2006 19:15:03 -0400, JimD wrote: Google for gentoo dbus or gentoo hal. You want three programs. Hal, D-Bus and ivman. Hal and gentoo are real easy, you basically emerge and have them start at boot. ivman is the app that listens for events and will carry out actions in a

RE: [gentoo-user] A couple projects on my laptop

2006-05-09 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
On Mon, 08 May 2006 19:15:03 -0400, JimD wrote: Google for gentoo dbus or gentoo hal. You want three programs. Hal, D-Bus and ivman. Hal and gentoo are real easy, you basically emerge and have them start at boot. ivman is the app that listens for events and will carry out actions in

Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?

2006-05-09 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 5/9/06, Harald Arnesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You don't need the audio-cable to hear music from a cd - just the right application ;) Oh yeah, you really don`t need the cable, it just makes things easier, because it will work with all

Re: [gentoo-user] Bad mem, over heat and games

2006-05-09 Thread Jeremy Olexa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 JimD wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Laptops are NOT meant to run 24/7. They don't have the cooling to survive for more than a few hours. Get some fans or something to save it before you fry something. Oh, great! Now you tell me ; ) For

RE: [gentoo-user] System.map not found - unable to check symbols

2006-05-09 Thread de Almeida, Valmor F.
I tried the make all option and it added a /boot - . Inside /boot. Also, a menu.lst file was created inside /boot/grub that points to grub.conf. Other than that there no changes/additions we made. I rebooted and had the same problem occurring: System.map not found -- unable to check symbols

[gentoo-user] cvsweb - error: permission denied

2006-05-09 Thread Kristian Poul Herkild
I have a cvs-repository on my gentoo box, used in my exam project. However, cvsweb gives following error when trying to access the module in the repository: Error: eksamen/: Permission denied It's no doubt something really stupid, but I can't seem to find the solution. Googling didn't bring up

Re: [gentoo-user] New USE flags???

2006-05-09 Thread Bo Andresen
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 04:58, Jerry McBride wrote: The suggested equery wasn't much help # equery belongs equery [ Searching for file(s) equery in *... ] app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.2_pre4 (/usr/bin/equery) app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.2_pre4 (/usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-0.2.2_pre4/equery) -- Bo

[gentoo-user] [OT] gfortran libraries

2006-05-09 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi all, i've built gcc-4.0.3 from source including the gfortran compiler. When i'm going to use the newly installed compiler with an external configure program i'm getting the following error: checking for gfortran libraries... configure: error: could not determine how to set LDFLAGS for

[gentoo-user] Shutdown pauses partway with Give root password

2006-05-09 Thread glen martin
Resending ... anyone have a clue as to why the Give root password for maintenance ... prompt would come up occasionally at shutdown time? Well, this is weird. We've all seen Give root password for maintenance (or type Control-D to continue):, usually after an unclean shutdown. I'm getting it

[gentoo-user] mail to this list from home fails, but from home relayed through ISP works

2006-05-09 Thread glen martin
This isn't the case of subscribing through work and sending from home or whatever. In both cases I sent from home, indeed from the same account in the same mail client. Only the path the message took to list.gentoo.org changed. I hadn't posted to this for quite a while until recently. When I did

[gentoo-user] Network UPS Tools (NUT)

2006-05-09 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, anybody using them? If so I have got a question. Except one thing, everything is handled fine by gentoo's start-up scripts. The exception is this: If NUT shuts the box down, a flag /etc/killpower is created. At the end of the shutdown process this flag determines whether the UPS

[gentoo-user] is gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org faulty? or is it just me? =(

2006-05-09 Thread Ognjen Bezanov
Ok I have been on this list for year(s), and I have yet to get it functioning properly. More of then then not, when I reply to a thread, my message does not get posted, and if it does, it can take from a few minutes to a week or two for the message to appear. Also posting new messages

Re: [gentoo-user] Bad mem, over heat and games

2006-05-09 Thread JimD
Jeremy Olexa wrote: Configure ACPI to run the proc at the lowest speed unless it is under a load. I leave my laptop on for days at a time..the longest uptime is 8 days so far. My proc speed is always set at 600mhz unless it is under a load and then it jumps to 1.7ghz, it works well.. OK. That

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutdown pauses partway with Give root password

2006-05-09 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 09 May 2006 07:20:57 -0700 glen martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Resending ... anyone have a clue as to why the Give root password for maintenance ... prompt would come up occasionally at shutdown time? That's sulogin. Did you mess up your /etc/inittab (like uncommenting that line

Re: [gentoo-user] can gnome use prelink?

2006-05-09 Thread wu chuanwen
I count the time when i startx my gnome,it takes me 23 or 24 seconds. The specs of my machine are as follow: Celeron(R)2.0G,Ram=512mb,disk=40Gb Do you think it's slow or not? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] A couple projects on my laptop

2006-05-09 Thread Jure Varlec
On Monday 08 May 2006 20:48, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: I need to be able to use a USB to Serial dongle to talk to my switches -- the adapters that I have are Triplite ones and I do have the driver disk for windows -- along with this, I need a good communications program (equivalent to

Re: [gentoo-user] national keyboard in open office

2006-05-09 Thread Pawel K
Does composing the Polish characters work for you under applications such as Mozilla Thunderbird? What specific Polish characters are you missing, and how do normally compose them? If you tell me how you expect to compose them, I'll test to see if it works here. Unfortunately I can't

RE: [gentoo-user] A couple projects on my laptop

2006-05-09 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
-Original Message- From: Jure Varlec [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 11:20 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] A couple projects on my laptop On Monday 08 May 2006 20:48, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: I need to be able to use a USB to

RE: [gentoo-user] A couple projects on my laptop

2006-05-09 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
One Additional Question: when I go to shut down the laptop, the shutdown command will not work from my regular user, I have to su to be able to shutdown -- I use fluxbox, and I know this works properly in gnome/kde, I was just wondering if there was a way it could be made to work in fluxbox -- I

[gentoo-user] LVM2 Problems

2006-05-09 Thread bm2600
Hi, I recently synced my Gentoo (2.6.7-gentoo-r13) and after emerging updated ebuilds, sure lvm2 was one of them and a reboot I lost my mounted fs. Fortunately I do not have / (root) under LVM however all efforts so far haven't brought my fs back: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. #

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutdown pauses partway with Give root password

2006-05-09 Thread glen martin
Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hi, On Tue, 09 May 2006 07:20:57 -0700 glen martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Resending ... anyone have a clue as to why the Give root password for maintenance ... prompt would come up occasionally at shutdown time? That's sulogin. Did you mess up your

[gentoo-user] Re: A couple projects on my laptop

2006-05-09 Thread Remy Blank
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 9 May 2006 08:47:00 -0400, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: You must be root to mount If you specify both the device and the mount point, mount will use those instead of fstab, so you need to be route. if you only specify one (...)

Re: [gentoo-user] mail to this list from home fails, but from home relayed through ISP works

2006-05-09 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 09 May 2006 15:40, glen martin wrote: This isn't the case of subscribing through work and sending from home or whatever. In both cases I sent from home, indeed from the same account in the same mail client. Only the path the message took to list.gentoo.org changed. I hadn't posted to this

Re: [gentoo-user] System.map not found - unable to check symbols

2006-05-09 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 19:26, de Almeida, Valmor F. wrote: I tried the make all option and it added a /boot - . Inside /boot. Also, a menu.lst file was created inside /boot/grub that points to grub.conf. Other than that there no changes/additions we made. I rebooted and had the same problem

[gentoo-user] USB weirdness

2006-05-09 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
Is it my problem or is it a generic problem: My install of Gentoo (2006.0 profile with latest versions of gentoo-kernel etc.) doesn't recognize events happening on USB bus. i.e.: in order to use my multicard reader it has to be plugged in upon boot - otherwise it's not recognized. Furthermore

Re: [gentoo-user] System.map not found - unable to check symbols

2006-05-09 Thread Steven Gill
On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 21:19 +0530, Mrugesh Karnik wrote: On Tuesday 09 May 2006 19:26, de Almeida, Valmor F. wrote: I tried the make all option and it added a /boot - . Inside /boot. Also, a menu.lst file was created inside /boot/grub that points to grub.conf. Other than that there no

Re: [gentoo-user] national keyboard in open office

2006-05-09 Thread Bo Andresen
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 17:28, Pawel K wrote: Unfortunately I can't type Polish charecters under mozilla as well (tried both pl_PL and pl_PL.utf8). I expect to use right ALT + character e.g. right ALT + o should result with ó and now it results with just o both in Mozilla and OpenOffice. Left

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutdown pauses partway with Give root password

2006-05-09 Thread glen martin
Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Maybe you can cat your /proc/mounts next time you're in that single-user mode? It might make things more clear... 3 power cycles later I duplicated the problem. Here is /proc/mounts, transcribed by hand. There is nothing obvious wrong here (to me) except that the

Re: [gentoo-user] can gnome use prelink?

2006-05-09 Thread JimD
wu chuanwen wrote: 2006/5/7, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED]: hdparm -Tt /dev/hda Sorry!But i just don't know what you mean by this? I expect your reply! Thanks again! I meant I want you to run the command above and send the output. The last parameter /dev/hda refers to the drive where you have

Re: [gentoo-user] System.map not found - unable to check symbols

2006-05-09 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 21:58, Steven Gill wrote: Genkernel copies the file into /boot/ BUT names the System.map as System.map-genkernel-x86-2.6.xx-gentoo-rx so all you need to do is copy/rename this file as System.map (note the capital S) and everything should be fine. I'm not sure what

Re: [gentoo-user] can gnome use prelink?

2006-05-09 Thread JimD
wu chuanwen wrote: I count the time when i startx my gnome,it takes me 23 or 24 seconds. The specs of my machine are as follow: Celeron(R)2.0G,Ram=512mb,disk=40Gb Do you think it's slow or not? Yes you should get much faster startup times of Gnome 2.14 than that. My laptop is a Pentium M

Re: [gentoo-user] System.map not found - unable to check symbols

2006-05-09 Thread Bo Andresen
Reordered to make it more readable. On Tuesday 09 May 2006 15:56, de Almeida, Valmor F. wrote: System.map not found - unable to check symbols. which doesn't seem to cause problems during/after booting (??). I did a manual kernel compilation To do this, I always do: make

Re: [gentoo-user] System.map not found - unable to check symbols

2006-05-09 Thread Mattias Merilai
Steven Gill wrote: Genkernel copies the file into /boot/ BUT names the System.map as System.map-genkernel-x86-2.6.xx-gentoo-rx so all you need to do is copy/rename this file as System.map (note the capital S) and everything should be fine. The kernel should be able to find System.map whether

Re: [gentoo-user] mail to this list from home fails, but from home relayed through ISP works

2006-05-09 Thread glen martin
Uwe Thiem wrote: On 09 May 2006 15:40, glen martin wrote: This isn't the case of subscribing through work and sending from home or whatever. In both cases I sent from home, indeed from the same account in the same mail client. Only the path the message took to list.gentoo.org changed. I

[gentoo-user] LVM2 problems

2006-05-09 Thread Barny M
Hi, I recently synced my Gentoo (2.6.7-gentoo-r13) and after emerging updated ebuilds, sure lvm2 was one of them and a reboot I lost my mounted fs. Fortunately I do not have / (root) under LVM however all efforts so far haven't brought my fs back: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. #

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM2 Problems

2006-05-09 Thread Jure Varlec
I've never seen this issue, so I may not be the right person to give advice here. But at a glance, it looks like lvm and device-mapper are incompatible or something similar. If I were in your place I would try differrent versions of lvm2, device-mapper and/or kernel. FYI, my configuration

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A couple projects on my laptop

2006-05-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 09 May 2006 17:49:04 +0200, Remy Blank wrote: If you specify both the device and the mount point, mount will use those instead of fstab, so you need to be route. if you only specify one (...) ^ Good one, Neil ;-) $DEITY only knows what I

Re: [gentoo-user] ltsp woes - problem solved

2006-05-09 Thread John Blinka
The /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf file needed another line: next-server ip-address-of-server; with the upgrade to dhcp-3.0.3 (and maybe a version or two earlier). With that addition, all is now well. John Blinka -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM2 Problems

2006-05-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/9/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: vgchange -a y device-mapper: deps ioctl failed: Invalid argument _deps: task run failed for (254:0) Failed to add device (254:0) to dtree My guess is a conflict between the device-mapper version and your kernel. 2.6.7 is quite

[gentoo-user] emerge problem.

2006-05-09 Thread Wagoner, Darryl
Greetings, I am trying to get my team to switch to Gentoo from RH and I wanted to setup a http-replicator to avoid pulling all the packages over and over again. Once I did this then all of sudden emerge started to fail with: !!! Digest verification Failed: !!!

Re: [gentoo-user] A couple projects on my laptop

2006-05-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 9 May 2006 11:36:42 -0400, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: when I go to shut down the laptop, the shutdown command will not work from my regular user, I have to su to be able to shutdown -- I use fluxbox, and I know this works properly in gnome/kde, I was just wondering if there was a way

Re: [gentoo-user] national keyboard in open office

2006-05-09 Thread Dave Jones
Pawel K wrote on 09/05/06 17:28: Does composing the Polish characters work for you under applications such as Mozilla Thunderbird? What specific Polish characters are you missing, and how do normally compose them? It sounds as if you want to be able to produce accented characters such as ÁÉÍÓÚ

[gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
I am writing a comparative review of a number of X terminals, so I thought I'd draw on the collective wisdom of this list. which are your most/least favourite X terminals, and why? Let's hope this generates some interesting comment before degenerating into a subset of the typical KDE/GNOME

[gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Moshe Kaminsky
* Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] [09/05/06 21:45]: I am writing a comparative review of a number of X terminals, so I thought I'd draw on the collective wisdom of this list. which are your most/least favourite X terminals, and why? I mostly use xterm, since it's fast and has almost all of

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Alexander Skwar
Neil Bothwick wrote: which are your most/least favourite X terminals, and why? I use gnome-terminal, as I use gnome. It has all the features I want (most importantly: tabs) and has very fast startup times (in Gnome 2.14). So, that's my most favourite. I don't have a least favourite, as I only

[gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Peter
On Tue, 09 May 2006 19:33:51 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: I am writing a comparative review of a number of X terminals, so I thought I'd draw on the collective wisdom of this list. which are your most/least favourite X terminals, and why? Let's hope this generates some interesting comment

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge problem.

2006-05-09 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 5/9/06, Jeremy Olexa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wagoner, Darryl wrote: Greetings, I am trying to get my team to switch to Gentoo from RH and I wanted to setup a http-replicator to avoid pulling all the packages over and over again. Once I did

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Jure Varlec
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 20:33, Neil Bothwick wrote: I am writing a comparative review of a number of X terminals, so I thought I'd draw on the collective wisdom of this list. which are your most/least favourite X terminals, and why? I use yakuake. It's the the best drop-down terminal I've ever

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge problem.

2006-05-09 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 5/9/06, Jeremy Olexa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wagoner, Darryl wrote: Greetings, I am trying to get my team to switch to Gentoo from RH and I wanted to setup a http-replicator to avoid pulling all the packages over and over again. Once I did

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread b.n.
Neil Bothwick wrote: I am writing a comparative review of a number of X terminals, so I thought I'd draw on the collective wisdom of this list. which are your most/least favourite X terminals, and why? At home I use rxvt. Simple, very fast on startup. At work I use konsole. I like the session

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Jeremy Olexa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Bothwick wrote: I am writing a comparative review of a number of X terminals, so I thought I'd draw on the collective wisdom of this list. which are your most/least favourite X terminals, and why? Let's hope this generates some interesting

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Justin Findlay
On 5/9/06, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 09 May 2006 19:33:51 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: E-Term is pretty and extensible and thememable too. I like the kde terminal program also because of the tabs you can have on the bottom to open multiple, discreet sessions. It really comes down to

Re: [gentoo-user] is gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org faulty? or is it just me? =(

2006-05-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/9/06, Ognjen Bezanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone enlighten me? So I can finally fix this issue. Want a gmail invite? :-) -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] gfortran libraries

2006-05-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/9/06, Marco Calviani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: checking for gfortran libraries... configure: error: could not determine how to set LDFLAGS for gfortran! What does it mean? Check the config.log output. That will tell you what the real problem is. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Vladimir G. Ivanovic
On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 19:33 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: I am writing a comparative review of a number of X terminals, so I thought I'd draw on the collective wisdom of this list. which are your most/least favourite X terminals, and why? I use gnome-terminal because it has tabs and color. I

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 07:33:51PM +0100, Penguin Lover Neil Bothwick squawked: I am writing a comparative review of a number of X terminals, so I thought I'd draw on the collective wisdom of this list. which are your most/least favourite X terminals, and why? rxvt (desktop) and aterm

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 5/9/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am writing a comparative review of a number of X terminals, so I thought I'd draw on the collective wisdom of this list. which are your most/least favourite X terminals, and why? Let's hope this generates some interesting comment before

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/9/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am writing a comparative review of a number of X terminals, so I thought I'd draw on the collective wisdom of this list. which are your most/least favourite X terminals, and why? I use konsole, for no other reason than it is the default in my

Re: [gentoo-user] national keyboard in open office

2006-05-09 Thread Grzegorz Kubiak
Friday 05 May 2006 17:30 Pawel K wrote: Hello How to force open office to type national (Polish) fonts. I can see them on the screen when opening the document containing them but when I press the combination right alt-char it doesn't work. I've installed open office as english(USA) version

[gentoo-user] RE: [Gentoo-user] emerge problem.

2006-05-09 Thread Wagoner, Darryl
Daniel, Right now mirroring is of secondary concern. Nothing I have done so far will allow me to install new packages. I always get the md5 verification error. I tried the FEATURES=-strict but that didn't help. Does portage use md5sum to compute the hash? Either the local md5sum has a bug,

Re: [gentoo-user] System.map not found - unable to check symbols

2006-05-09 Thread Farhan Ahmed
de Almeida, Valmor F. wrote: Hello list, Following closely the instrunctions on the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook, I installed gentoo recently (info below) and just did the first reboot before finalizing the installation. All worked except for this message during boot System.map not found

[gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Remy Blank
Richard Fish wrote: I use konsole, for no other reason than it is the default in my favorite DE. My configuration is pretty minimalistic, no tab or menu bars. Same here. I use no special terminal features at all, except the scrollback, which is pretty standard everywhere. I sometimes use

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Alexander Skwar
Justin Findlay wrote: I find that one of the most attractive features of a terminal application is transparency That's something I'll never understand - why make the text on a terminal harder to read, by using transparency? Granted, it'll look better, but that's it. IMO transparency is one

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Alexander Skwar
Jeremy Olexa wrote: xterm and screen. Who needs tabs when you have screen? Me. What have tabs and screen to do with each other? It makes a lot of sense to use both. The use of one doesn't contradict the use of the other. In no way whatsoever. Alexander Skwar -- Bender: I get a good vibe

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Farhan Ahmed
Alexander Skwar wrote: Justin Findlay wrote: I find that one of the most attractive features of a terminal application is transparency That's something I'll never understand - why make the text on a terminal harder to read, by using transparency? Granted, it'll look better, but that's

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Farhan Ahmed
Alexander Skwar wrote: Jeremy Olexa wrote: xterm and screen. Who needs tabs when you have screen? Me. What have tabs and screen to do with each other? It makes a lot of sense to use both. The use of one doesn't contradict the use of the other. In no way whatsoever. Can you tell me, why

[gentoo-user] Apache2 Error!

2006-05-09 Thread Christopher E
Hello All, I get this error: * Apache2 has detected a syntax error in your configuration files: /usr/sbin/apache2: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libaprutil-0.so.0: undefined symbol: gdbm_errno What does this mean and how can I fix it? Sincerely, Christopher -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Neil Bothwick wrote: I am writing a comparative review of a number of X terminals, so I thought I'd draw on the collective wisdom of this list. which are your most/least favourite X terminals, and why? Let's hope this generates some interesting comment before degenerating into a subset of

Re: [gentoo-user] RE: [Gentoo-user] emerge problem.

2006-05-09 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 5/9/06, Wagoner, Darryl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel, Right now mirroring is of secondary concern. Nothing I have done so far will allow me to install new packages. I always get the md5 verification error. I tried the FEATURES=-strict but that didn't help. Does portage use md5sum to

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache2 Error!

2006-05-09 Thread James Ausmus
On 5/9/06, Christopher E [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, I get this error: * Apache2 has detected a syntax error in your configuration files: /usr/sbin/apache2: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libaprutil-0.so.0: undefined symbol: gdbm_errno What does this mean and how can I fix it? It

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Samuel Baldwin
b.n. wrote: At work I use konsole. I like the session thing it has and the tabs, since I use a lot of interactive shell apps like python-ipython-octave at work they often comes quite handy.Completely agreed. I find the tabs to be extremely helpfull as I'm constantly running interactive shell

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Justin Findlay
On 5/9/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's something I'll never understand - why make the text on a terminal harder to read, by using transparency? It can be really annoying if you overdo it, and you have to find the right balance of opacity and colors (since lots of terminal

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-09 Thread Farhan Ahmed
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: (snip) With wikipedia, everybody can go and edit what they want, when they want, where they want. Agreed. But that's also a good thing about it. Anybody can *correct* what they want, when they want, where they want. Why do you think people will always try to be

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Samuel Baldwin
Alexander Skwar wrote: That's something I'll never understand - why make the text on a terminal harder to read, by using transparency? Granted, it'll look better, but that's it. IMO transparency is one of the most useless features. True, it's not that usefull, but it does look nice. It provides

Re: [gentoo-user] System.map not found - unable to check symbols

2006-05-09 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Mattias Merilai wrote: I have tried both on different (but only) gentoo kernels and still they complain about not finding it. That will happen when when your /boot is on a separate partition: it is not mounted (yet) when the kernel is looking for the System.map. 1. Is this a vanilla or

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 5/9/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Justin Findlay wrote: I find that one of the most attractive features of a terminal application is transparency That's something I'll never understand - why make the text on a terminal harder to read, by using transparency? Granted, it'll

Re: [gentoo-user] ltsp woes - problem solved

2006-05-09 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 09 May 2006 19:15, John Blinka wrote: The /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf file needed another line: next-server ip-address-of-server; with the upgrade to dhcp-3.0.3 (and maybe a version or two earlier). With that addition, all is now well. Thanks for hitting this before me! ;-) Uwe -- Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Alexander Skwar
Farhan Ahmed wrote: Alexander Skwar wrote: Jeremy Olexa wrote: xterm and screen. Who needs tabs when you have screen? Me. What have tabs and screen to do with each other? It makes a lot of sense to use both. The use of one doesn't contradict the use of the other. In no way whatsoever. Can

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Alexander Skwar
Samuel Baldwin wrote: Alexander Skwar wrote: That's something I'll never understand - why make the text on a terminal harder to read, by using transparency? Granted, it'll look better, but that's it. IMO transparency is one of the most useless features. True, it's not that usefull, but it

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Harald Arnesen
Jeremy Olexa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Neil Bothwick wrote: I am writing a comparative review of a number of X terminals, so I thought I'd draw on the collective wisdom of this list. which are your most/least favourite X terminals, and why? Let's hope this generates some interesting

RE: [gentoo-user] RE: [Gentoo-user] emerge problem. -- Solved

2006-05-09 Thread Wagoner, Darryl
Portage uses md5sum to check the integrity of the file. This error occur when you try to use a replicated copy of the distfile or whenever you emerge something? Even downloading it from an official mirror? Yes, I get the error when I do a emerge of some new package which is downloaded

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Samuel Baldwin
Alexander Skwar wrote: Well - a terminal is something to work with. And this has to be functional and not provide a change of pace.Yeah. True. I like that thing though. Cause, since I use different backgrounds for each of my desktops, depending on what desktop I'm using, I'll get a different

RE: [gentoo-user] System.map not found - unable to check symbols

2006-05-09 Thread de Almeida, Valmor F.
-Original Message- From: Bo Andresen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 1:04 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] System.map not found - unable to check symbols Reordered to make it more readable. On Tuesday 09 May 2006 15:56, de

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