Re: [gentoo-user] What can I use for a compressed file system?

2006-05-11 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/11/06, W.Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What can I use for a compressed file system? I am looking at setting up a loopback mounted filesystem that I want to use to store backups into. From what I can tell, there are no really good compressing filesystems available currently. But

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flag oddity

2006-05-11 Thread Alexander Skwar
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I noticed that as constituted, I would see firefox and thunderbird differing on the flag "mozcalendar". It seemed like something I would like, however, so I tried putting the flag into /etc/portage/package.keywords: Why did you use that file? What made you use this file

Re: [gentoo-user] Warning: Color name "black" is not defined

2006-05-11 Thread Alexander Skwar
Jerry McBride wrote: Is this an Xorg 7.0 installation?? Yep. Did you also include x11-apps/rgb?? Yep - else I wouldn't have a /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt, would I? :) Alexander Skwar -- It's ten o'clock. Do you know where your source code is? -- From a Slashdot.org post -- gentoo-user@

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome does not want to start

2006-05-11 Thread Ilya Hegai
2006/5/11, Roberto Zandonati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi at all, after emerge xorg gnome does not want to start. I do the login end nothig appears. any hint? check your /var/log/Xorg.0.log -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo ADSL wireless router (3 questions)

2006-05-11 Thread Mark Shields
On 5/11/06, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The instructions are all on CD.  I reviewed them again and it's just> > "plug in the power cord, plug in the ethernet cable, plug in the phone> > cord" stuff.  I'm completely sure it's just a DSL modem. >> If that's all you have to do, it's definitel

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo ADSL wireless router (3 questions)

2006-05-11 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 11 May 2006 20:18:11 -0700 Grant wrote: > I also want to be able to ssh into my network via the > Internet. Will this modem/router make that impossible? If so I think > I'll call Verizon about their 30-day money back guarantee. As you haven't told us what the make & model of router/mo

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo ADSL wireless router (3 questions)

2006-05-11 Thread Grant
> The instructions are all on CD. I reviewed them again and it's just > "plug in the power cord, plug in the ethernet cable, plug in the phone > cord" stuff. I'm completely sure it's just a DSL modem. If that's all you have to do, it's definitely a "router". It's a rather trivial one, since it

[gentoo-user] wine CVS does not find freetype on amd64

2006-05-11 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
(This is not about any wine ebuild) (I am not compiling wine in a 32bit chroot) During the compilation of latest wine release from the CVS repository, I get the following warning message at the completion of the ./configure script: *** Warning: Freetype or Fontforge is missing. *** Fonts will no

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome and KDE on same system!

2006-05-11 Thread Jed R. Mallen
On 5/11/06, Christopher E <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello All, Could Gnome and KDE run on the same system happly together with out causing issue and if so could someone please walk me through it so I may figure out which one I would wather use. Install them both and if you use a graphical log

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage tree hosed?

2006-05-11 Thread Adrian
On Wed, 10 May 2006 00:51:57 -0300 "Daniel da Veiga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote the words: > There are alternative ways to update portage that are more suited to > your dial-up connection. > > ### Extracted from > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/153842 > > Download a snap

Re: [gentoo-user] setting up rsh and rlogin

2006-05-11 Thread Ryan Tandy
de Almeida, Valmor F. wrote: I knew I was going to get this question. These machines stay behind 2 firewalls and virtually have no connection to the outside network. So, no reason to have secure internet service installed. OpenSSH is part of the system target, so it's installed anyway - you mi

[gentoo-user] What can I use for a compressed file system?

2006-05-11 Thread W.Kenworthy
What can I use for a compressed file system? I am looking at setting up a loopback mounted filesystem that I want to use to store backups into. Compression is needed as space will become a limitation in the future (I want to do a whole system backup that so far is 2:1 compressed via tar.bzip2. I

RE: [gentoo-user] setting up rsh and rlogin

2006-05-11 Thread de Almeida, Valmor F.
> -Original Message- > From: John Jolet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 7:41 PM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] setting up rsh and rlogin > > de Almeida, Valmor F. wrote: > > >Hello list, > > > >I am setting up rsh and rlogin servi

Re: [gentoo-user] After gcc-3.4.6-r1 & glibc-2.4-r2 emerge!

2006-05-11 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/11/06, Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm going one step further with gcc 4.1.0. After I emerged gcc and glibc... I did an "emerge -e system" twice and am now following up with two "emerge -e world" commands... Wow, you like to waste a lot of CPU cycles... -Richard -- gentoo-us

Re: [gentoo-user] After gcc-3.4.6-r1 & glibc-2.4-r2 emerge!

2006-05-11 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/11/06, Christopher E <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello All, What should I do after I do a emerge of gcc and glibc vers in subject line? What versions are you upgrading from? -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] After gcc-3.4.6-r1 & glibc-2.4-r2 emerge!

2006-05-11 Thread Jerry McBride
On Thursday 11 May 2006 14:53, Christopher E wrote: > Hello All, > > What should I do after I do a emerge of gcc and glibc vers in subject line? > > I have also when doing that emerged told it to do kde and gnome so > both of them will be at the latest versions in the tree that are > ~amd64. > > X

Re: [gentoo-user] Warning: Color name "black" is not defined

2006-05-11 Thread Jerry McBride
On Thursday 11 May 2006 18:02, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Mick wrote: > > On 11/05/06, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > Well, mine looks different: > >> > > >> > Section "Files" > >> > RgbPath "/usr/lib/X11/rgb" > >> > >> Is there such a file? On my

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo ADSL wireless router (3 questions)

2006-05-11 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 11 May 2006 16:46, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo ADSL wireless router (3 questions)': > The instructions are all on CD. I reviewed them again and it's just > "plug in the power cord, plug in the ethernet cable, plug in the phone > cord" stuff. I'm co

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flag oddity

2006-05-11 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I noticed that as constituted, I would see firefox and > thunderbird differing on the flag "mozcalendar". It seemed like > something I would like, however, so I tried putting the flag into > /etc/portage/package.keywords: > > mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird mozcalendar > ww

[gentoo-user] USE flag oddity

2006-05-11 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I don't know what I'm doing.  It seems wise to admit that at the start. Nobody needs to rub my nose in it that way. I noticed that as constituted, I would see firefox and thunderbird differing on the flag "mozcalendar".  It seemed like something I would like, however, so I tried putting the flag i

Re: [gentoo-user] setting up rsh and rlogin

2006-05-11 Thread John Jolet
de Almeida, Valmor F. wrote: Hello list, I am setting up rsh and rlogin services between machines x1 and x2. Following info on the web I go it working from x1 to x2. However when going from x2 to x1 I get: x2$ rsh x1 uptime poll: protocol failure in circuit setup x2$ rlogin x1 rcmd: x1: Conne

[gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant "master" mode

2006-05-11 Thread Grant
Has anyone gotten "master" mode to work with wpa_supplicant? I'm trying to use wpa_supplicant on my wireless Gentoo router for WPA encryption. The farthest I've gotten is with the following wpa_supplicant.conf: ### ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant ctrl_interface_group=0 ap_scan=2 network

Re: [gentoo-user] Warning: Color name "black" is not defined

2006-05-11 Thread Alexander Skwar
Mick wrote: On 11/05/06, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, mine looks different: > > Section "Files" > RgbPath "/usr/lib/X11/rgb" Is there such a file? On my system, there isn't. On the other hand theres this: # ls

Re: [gentoo-user] glsa-check script

2006-05-11 Thread Vladimir G. Ivanovic
On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 17:41 -0400, John J. Foster wrote: > Use at your own risk. I wouln't think of applying anything without > seeing what it is first. YMMV I have a cron job that fires off hourly. #!/bin/sh glsa-check -f new 2>/dev/null [[ $? -eq 0 ]] || echo "glsa-che

[gentoo-user] setting up rsh and rlogin

2006-05-11 Thread de Almeida, Valmor F.
Hello list, I am setting up rsh and rlogin services between machines x1 and x2. Following info on the web I go it working from x1 to x2. However when going from x2 to x1 I get: x2$ rsh x1 uptime poll: protocol failure in circuit setup x2$ rlogin x1 rcmd: x1: Connection reset by peer I think I

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5.2-r1 emerged failed.

2006-05-11 Thread David Helstroom
Christopher E wrote: > Hi there, > > Is there any one out there that knows what this means and how to fix it? > > libtool: link: `/usr/lib64/libGL.la' is not a valid libtool archive > Hi Chris, Google search "libGL.la is not a valid libtool archive". Second hit should apply to you. Cheers,

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo ADSL wireless router (3 questions)

2006-05-11 Thread Grant
> I set up my spare Gentoo box up as a wireless router for my new > Verizon ADSL connection by following the instructions here: > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/home-router-howto.xml > > My setup is a little different though because I'm using a madwifi card > to provide wireless access. Things ar

Re: [gentoo-user] glsa-check script

2006-05-11 Thread John J. Foster
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 05:09:41PM -0400, Nick Smith wrote: > On 5/11/06, Rasmus Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 04:35:46PM -0400, Nick Smith wrote: > >> has anyone written a script that checks for glsa security updates and > >> then has it auto emerge the packages it

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to do a world update! (Blocked by... )

2006-05-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 11 May 2006 16:58:30 -0400, Christopher E wrote: > I am geting this at the top of my world update, here is the command > and the very beggining of the out put: > Mr-Eyes ~ # emerge -aqDu --newuse world > [blocks B ] sys-apps/coldplug (is blocking sys-fs/udev-090) > [blocks B ] sys

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to do a world update! (Blocked by... )

2006-05-11 Thread Rasmus Andersen
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 04:58:30PM -0400, Christopher E wrote: > Hello All, > > I am geting this at the top of my world update, here is the command > and the very beggining of the out put: > Mr-Eyes ~ # emerge -aqDu --newuse world > [blocks B ] sys-apps/coldplug (is blocking sys-fs/udev-090)

Re: [gentoo-user] glsa-check script

2006-05-11 Thread Nick Smith
On 5/11/06, Rasmus Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 04:35:46PM -0400, Nick Smith wrote: > has anyone written a script that checks for glsa security updates and > then has it auto emerge the packages it needs to get rid of the > security risk? if so i would be very inte

Re: [gentoo-user] glsa-check script

2006-05-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 11 May 2006 16:35:46 -0400, Nick Smith wrote: > has anyone written a script that checks for glsa security updates and > then has it auto emerge the packages it needs to get rid of the > security risk? if so i would be very interested in looking at that > script. Keeping 5 gentoo machines

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to do a world update! (Blocked by... )

2006-05-11 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/11/06, Christopher E <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am geting this at the top of my world update, here is the command and the very beggining of the out put: Mr-Eyes ~ # emerge -aqDu --newuse world [blocks B ] sys-apps/coldplug (is blocking sys-fs/udev-090) [blocks B ] sys-apps/pam-log

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to do a world update! (Blocked by... )

2006-05-11 Thread znx
Remove the packages that are blocking. emerge -C coldplug pam-login ant-tasks Then emerge world again. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Trying to do a world update! (Blocked by... )

2006-05-11 Thread Christopher E
Hello All, I am geting this at the top of my world update, here is the command and the very beggining of the out put: Mr-Eyes ~ # emerge -aqDu --newuse world [blocks B ] sys-apps/coldplug (is blocking sys-fs/udev-090) [blocks B ] sys-apps/pam-login (is blocking sys-apps/shadow-4.0.15-r1)

Re: [gentoo-user] glsa-check script

2006-05-11 Thread Rasmus Andersen
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 04:35:46PM -0400, Nick Smith wrote: > has anyone written a script that checks for glsa security updates and > then has it auto emerge the packages it needs to get rid of the > security risk? if so i would be very interested in looking at that > script. Keeping 5 gentoo mac

[gentoo-user] glsa-check script

2006-05-11 Thread Nick Smith
has anyone written a script that checks for glsa security updates and then has it auto emerge the packages it needs to get rid of the security risk? if so i would be very interested in looking at that script. Keeping 5 gentoo machines up to date security wise is becoming very time consuming. th

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM2 Problems

2006-05-11 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 11 May 2006 06:06, Barny M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] LVM2 Problems': > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > Then why do we see "zoom" here? > > Sorry "zoom" is actually "cont". For some reasons I good the word "zoom" > in here :-( Ah, well if all the messages say

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome and KDE on same system!

2006-05-11 Thread Philip Webb
060511 Zac Slade wrote: > On Thursday 11 May 2006 09:14, Philip Webb wrote: >> I boot into a raw terminal, then 'startx' & have 2 versions of .xinitrc > There is no need to go through this trouble. > To select a different WM/DE when you startx > all you have to do is "export XSESSION=". Well, e

Re: [gentoo-user] Warning: Color name "black" is not defined

2006-05-11 Thread Mick
On 11/05/06, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, mine looks different: > > Section "Files" > RgbPath "/usr/lib/X11/rgb" Is there such a file? On my system, there isn't. Oops! There's none on mine too! # ls -la /usr/lib

[gentoo-user] KDE 3.5.2-r1 emerged failed.

2006-05-11 Thread Christopher E
Hi there, Is there any one out there that knows what this means and how to fix it? libtool: link: `/usr/lib64/libGL.la' is not a valid libtool archive make[3]: *** [kcm_info.la] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/kdebase-3.5.2-r1/work/kdebase-3.5.2/kcontrol/info' make[2]: *** [

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome and KDE on same system!

2006-05-11 Thread Mick
On 11/05/06, Roy Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Philip Webb wrote: normal KDE session, then from the Kicker menu, choose Switch User, Start New Session then choose the gnome session type from KDM and logged in. Now can switch between the two using ctrl-alt-F7/ctrl-alt-F8. Alternatively,

[gentoo-user] Gnome does not want to start

2006-05-11 Thread Roberto Zandonati
Hi at all, after emerge xorg gnome does not want to start. I do the login end nothig appears. any hint? -- Roberto Zandonati GPG-Fingerprint: 577F CC47 AAD7 A5B9 12D7 F10D 89F8 3BA6 5CA8 58D5 GPG-Keynumber: 0x5CA858D5 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Warning: Color name "black" is not defined

2006-05-11 Thread Alexander Skwar
Mick wrote: On 10/05/06, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On bgo, I found http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78385 which suggests to make sure that RgbPath is correct in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. It is correct, I think: RgbPath "/usr/share/X11/rgb" Well, mine looks different

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

2006-05-11 Thread Mick
On 10/05/06, Devon Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5/10/06, Paul B. Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unless it has changed recently, the system I just installed last month > actually looks for it in /usr/src/linux, not /boot. It still complains > during boot even though I actually have on

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get minimal portage-logs

2006-05-11 Thread Mick
On 10/05/06, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 9 May 2006 18:22:24 -0700, Daevid Vincent wrote: > In /etc/make.conf I have PORT_LOGDIR="/var/tmp/portage-logs" > > This is great in that I can then read through the billions of .log > files to see if there are any post install manual

Re: [gentoo-user] Warning: Color name "black" is not defined

2006-05-11 Thread Mick
On 10/05/06, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On bgo, I found http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78385 which suggests to make sure that RgbPath is correct in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. It is correct, I think: RgbPath "/usr/share/X11/rgb" Well, mine looks different: ===

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

2006-05-11 Thread Mick
On 09/05/06, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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

[gentoo-user] After gcc-3.4.6-r1 & glibc-2.4-r2 emerge!

2006-05-11 Thread Christopher E
Hello All, What should I do after I do a emerge of gcc and glibc vers in subject line? I have also when doing that emerged told it to do kde and gnome so both of them will be at the latest versions in the tree that are ~amd64. X 7 modular is already on the system and appears to be working great

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome and KDE on same system!

2006-05-11 Thread Roy Wright
Philip Webb wrote: Your question is a bit confusing, but in general you can have as many desktop/window managers installed as you want & use any 1 of them as & when you wish. While you can't run the DE's simultaneously, you can usually use eg Gnome-oriented apps on KDE & vice versa. Actual

Re: [gentoo-user] xrdb hangs login

2006-05-11 Thread Mick
On 07/05/06, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: xrdb is hung. Killing off the process allows the kde login apps to complete and everything else is normal. I have re-emerged kdebase but this does not fix the problem. xrdb is not even installed. Isn't xrdb part of x11-base/xorg? Remerge your X

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

2006-05-11 Thread Alexander Skwar
Nagatoro wrote: I have, see other posts, and it's about 1/2 as fast as rxvt(-unicode). Well, that might be so. But I seldom need *THAT* speed. I seldom have that much text flying by... But the deal breaker for me is the color support. It's not nearly as good as xterm or rxvt(-unicode) (here

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

2006-05-11 Thread Nagatoro
Jim wrote: > The early versions of gnome-terminal were a little slow. Have you tried > gnome-terminal 2.14? It is *really* fast now. About 4x faster then > xterm. If you use antialiased fonts, xterm gets *real* slow. xterm is > more then 60x slower then gnome-terminal for scrolling a lot of >

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome and KDE on same system!

2006-05-11 Thread Zac Slade
On Thursday 11 May 2006 09:14, Philip Webb wrote: > To get both Gnome & KDE, emerge the appropriate parts > -- I don't use Gnome itself, tho' I have much of it installed, > & KDE now comes in modules, some of which are essential, others a choice -- > then edit ~/.xinitrc to start the one you want

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

2006-05-11 Thread Jim
Nagatoro wrote: Least: Konsole + Gnome-terminal, slow, and in my opinion horrible color support. Don't use the tabs since I like to be able to look at all (or many) sessions at once, so tabs makes no sense to me. The early versions of gnome-terminal were a little slow. Have you tried gnome-t

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome and KDE on same system!

2006-05-11 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 11. Mai 2006 15:51 schrieb ext Christopher E: > So after I do a emerge what do I need to do to make them play nice > together? How do I start one over the other? Now I type in either > startx or gdm for Gnome. Once you have emerged both, select which display manager to use (eithe

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome and KDE on same system!

2006-05-11 Thread Philip Webb
060511 Christopher E wrote: > Could Gnome and KDE run on the same system happly together > and if so could someone please walk me through it > so I may figure out which one I would wather use. Your question is a bit confusing, but in general you can have as many desktop/window managers installed a

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome and KDE on same system!

2006-05-11 Thread Christopher E
Hello Dirk, Yeah I am glad its not windows :-) I had a feeling the answer was yes. So after I do a emerge what do I need to do to make them play nice together? How do I start one over the other? Now I type in either startx or gdm for Gnome. Thanks ahead of time for your help. Sincerely, Chri

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome and KDE on same system!

2006-05-11 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 11. Mai 2006 15:25 schrieb ext Christopher E: > Could Gnome and KDE run on the same system happly together with out > causing issue and if so could someone please walk me through it so I > may figure out which one I would wather use. This is Unix, not Windows ;-) So yes, they can.

[gentoo-user] Gnome and KDE on same system!

2006-05-11 Thread Christopher E
Hello All, Could Gnome and KDE run on the same system happly together with out causing issue and if so could someone please walk me through it so I may figure out which one I would wather use. Sincerely, Christopher -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Gnome 2.14.1 vs KDE 3.5.2 for speech output - screenreader!

2006-05-11 Thread Christopher E
Hello All, Any one that has used both gnome and kde and have used the screenreaders that come with them what is your opion on the better one? Sincerely, Christopher -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] remote access to emails

2006-05-11 Thread Graham Murray
Martins Steinbergs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So, I would like to know what console mail reader will work for this kind of > setup? Can I acomplish this with setting up webmail or what is your setup > design to read emails and accesss them remotely. What I do, and am doing now when reading a

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

2006-05-11 Thread Matthias Bethke
Hi Walter, on Tuesday, 2006-05-09 at 20:34:29, you wrote: > My idea of "the right application" doesn't install 75% of KDE or GNOME... Good point! :) What about media-sound/cdplay? Doesn't seem to have any dependencies at all. cheers! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo ADSL wireless router (3 questions)

2006-05-11 Thread Farhan Ahmed
Grant wrote: > I set up my spare Gentoo box up as a wireless router for my new > Verizon ADSL connection by following the instructions here: > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/home-router-howto.xml > > My setup is a little different though because I'm using a madwifi card > to provide wireless acce

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

2006-05-11 Thread Matthias Bethke
Hi Jeremy, on Monday, 2006-05-08 at 09:38:34, you wrote: > I don't think you need that silly cable. My understanding was that the > audio cable connected to you sound card was for when you wanted to > listen to the cd and your computer was in "low-power mode" Either way, I > have stopped installing

Re: [gentoo-user] remote access to emails

2006-05-11 Thread Stefan Scheler
Hi, Martins Steinbergs wrote: > [...] Popular console mail clients are mutt, pine or elm. Another approach is using IMAP to access your mail from different places. Hope that helps. Stefan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] reiserfs troubles

2006-05-11 Thread Bo Andresen
On Friday 14 April 2006 14:30, John Jolet wrote: > as the others said, start digging a grave for this drive.  Had a   > drive doing the same thing on  a production box for a few months,   > phbs waited till it just died to order the replacement.  these kinds   > of errors are warning signs of impen

[gentoo-user] /etc/conf.d/wireless ignoring dhcp setting

2006-05-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi all, net.wlan0 seems to be ignoring my dhcp settings! In my /etc/conf.d/wireless file I have: key_acco2="------xx enc open" config_acco2=( "dhcp" ) dhcpcd_acco2="-t 10 -m 0" preferred_aps=("acco2") and yet `route` shows: Destination Gateway Genmask

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and OpenOffice keyboard problems [solved]

2006-05-11 Thread Dave Jones
Bo Andresen wrote on 11/05/06 13:17: >>LC_ALL=en_GB.iso885915 oowriter2works fine. >>In fact, all the above locales except for C and POSIX work fine in >>OpenOffice. It seems that OOo does not depend on a utf8 locale, but does >>needs a local other the C or POSIX. > Which is what I stated on

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and OpenOffice keyboard problems [solved]

2006-05-11 Thread Bo Andresen
On Thursday 11 May 2006 12:53, Dave Jones wrote: > > $ LC_ALL=en_GB.ISO-8859-15 oowriter2 > > The LC_ALL command above did not work, giving the following error messages: > > I18N: X Window System doesn't support locale "en_GB.ISO-8859-15" > Qt: Locales not supported on X server > > Checked out my d

Re: [gentoo-user] Network is not working after "emerge world"

2006-05-11 Thread Goran Dubajic
Thanks guys! I actually don't use wireless and so I didn't see that the problem is there! It actually didn't find the wireless network card and so the usual network card was at eth0... And of course I only had eth1 in the default run level. The network is working again! Thanks a lot!!! Goran.

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM2 Problems

2006-05-11 Thread Barny M
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > Then why do we see "zoom" here? Sorry "zoom" is actually "cont". For some reasons I good the word "zoom" in here :-( > Also, be /very/ careful with upgrading LVM / device-mapper. Sure ;-) Back to my last question. Any thoughts how to get this fixed without remo

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and OpenOffice keyboard problems [solved]

2006-05-11 Thread Dave Jones
Bo Andresen wrote on 10/05/06 12:55: >>For some strange reason, on my system OpenOffice seems to need the >>locale set to utf8 to work properly with international keyboard layouts. >>Without it, the ' and " keys are dead, working only with AltGr pressed. >>I don't understand why, but since I chan

[gentoo-user] remote access to emails

2006-05-11 Thread Martins Steinbergs
Hi, Can you hint me on this? I have setup reading emails following way - fetchmail gathers emails from 3 servers to ~/.maildir then using Kmail i read them and all messages are stored under ~/Mail in maildir format. All I want is remote acces to messages in ~/.maildir and ~/Mail . I was trying

Re: [gentoo-user] artsd Error

2006-05-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 11 May 2006 11:51:07 +0200 (CEST), Norman Rieß wrote: > Thank you... i will do that. > What does artsd and why is it installed? It is the KDE sound daemon, esd performs a similar task for GNOME. Sound daemons are a way for more than one application to be able to use the sound device, eve

Re: [gentoo-user] livecd 2006 problems

2006-05-11 Thread Arnau Bria
On Thu, 11 May 2006 11:03:28 +0200 Arnau Bria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 11 May 2006 04:47:26 -0400 > ted leslie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > just did this today, > > i didnt seem to see the REgenerating notice when i did just the > > gentoo kernel, but when i need to get

Re: [gentoo-user] artsd Error

2006-05-11 Thread Jerônimo Backes
The solution is simple: Don't use arts. You can also open the configuration panel of Amarok and in the "Engine" section, select "Alsa" as output plugin (or maybe "esd", as you use gnome) Hi recently i merged amarok to see what´s the big deal about it. But after the merge the CPU usage raised

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need help with NAT

2006-05-11 Thread Alexander Kirillov
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 192.168.128.1 and t

Re: [gentoo-user] artsd Error

2006-05-11 Thread Norman Rieß
> On Thu, 11 May 2006 10:18:34 +0200 (CEST), Norman Rieß wrote: > >> It stopped after i unmerged artsd completely, but i need it for some >> programs i use (mplayer, vlc...). > > Add "-arts" to your USE flags and do "emerge -uavDN world". Then you can > remove aRts. This CPU overload thing seems qu

Re: [gentoo-user] livecd 2006 problems

2006-05-11 Thread Arnau Bria
On Thu, 11 May 2006 04:47:26 -0400 ted leslie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, > just did this today, > i didnt seem to see the REgenerating notice when i did just the > gentoo kernel, but when i need to get my video card working better, > and booted with the gentoo-nofb Well, my first boot what

Re: [gentoo-user] artsd Error

2006-05-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 11 May 2006 10:18:34 +0200 (CEST), Norman Rieß wrote: > It stopped after i unmerged artsd completely, but i need it for some > programs i use (mplayer, vlc...). Add "-arts" to your USE flags and do "emerge -uavDN world". Then you can remove aRts. This CPU overload thing seems quite common

Re: [gentoo-user] livecd 2006 problems

2006-05-11 Thread ted leslie
just did this today, i didnt seem to see the REgenerating notice when i did just the gentoo kernel, but when i need to get my video card working better, and booted with the gentoo-nofb it did pause at Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache but only for maybe 15 seconds, and this is on an old 1.2Ghz Duron

[gentoo-user] livecd 2006 problems

2006-05-11 Thread Arnau Bria
Hi, I recentlly downloaded livecd 2006 from one of Gentoo's mirrors (UV). I checked it with its md5sum, and, as it was correct, I burned it. But, when I try to boot with the livecd, it starts fine untill when it tries to regenerate ld.so.cache, where it hangs... it stops at: >>Regenerating /etc/l

[gentoo-user] artsd Error

2006-05-11 Thread Norman Rieß
Hi recently i merged amarok to see what´s the big deal about it. But after the merge the CPU usage raised to 100% caused by artsd an then an errormessage pops up: error - artsmessage Sound server fatal error: cpu overload, aborting After klicking "OK" the CPU usage raises again and the window po

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

2006-05-11 Thread Alexander Skwar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tuesday 09 May 2006 02:41 pm, Alexander Skwar wrote: >> Samuel Baldwin wrote: >> > Alexander Skwar wrote: >> > It provides a nice >> > change of pace, so that way, when you're running a terminal in X, it >> > doesn't look exactly like the regular shell. >> >> Well - a