Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] weird dependencies

2006-08-10 Thread Rodrigo Lazo
Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> , qt as a deep dependencie of gaim. > > You can't say that. Run "emerge -pvu --deep --tree gaim" to > see, what's going on. > Alexander, you were right. qt is appearing as a dependency of doxygen but in the form of qt3 app-doc/doxygen-1.4.4 US

Re: [gentoo-user] mencoder did nothing all night at 100% CPU!

2006-08-10 Thread Nick Rout
If you want to encode to dvd format I highly recommend any2vob or its cousin any2dvd Not in portage AFAIK, but the author provides ebuilds. There is a long thread on forums.gentoo.org about any2vob. Here is the web page for the script: http://sourceforge.net/projects/any2dvd/ http://forums.gen

Re: [gentoo-user] Is the best solution still NIS+NFS?

2006-08-10 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Leandro Melo de Sales wrote: Hi list, few years later I setup a environment which shares the /home using NFS for the users and the authentication method was NIS. Is this still the best solution? My current environment is based on LDAP where all services use it. I configured PAM+NSSwitch, Postf

Re: [gentoo-user] How to see network activity?

2006-08-10 Thread Thomas Harold
Boris Sobolev wrote: Hi folks, I would like to see the network activity going in an out of my box. Any command to use for that? I haven't seen "nettop" mentioned yet. It's more of a traffic flow tool showing the bits/sec and packets/sec in a tree format. Works in a terminal window (all te

[gentoo-user] X font problem

2006-08-10 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi all, when I play around with Desktop > Preferences > Font in Gnome, I get some strange behaviour. Many fonts I select come up with strange characters for tabs, followed by the real tab space. For example <-- here I see a funny character, then the "<" about 2cm away. The funny charact

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving installation to another HD

2006-08-10 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Daniel da Veiga wrote: > On 8/10/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 8/10/06, Christoph Eckert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > * Boot from a live-CD >> > * mount old and new drive partitions >> > * cd to the mountpoint containing the data to be copied >> > * tar -cSp --numeric-owner -

Re: [gentoo-user] mencoder did nothing all night at 100% CPU!

2006-08-10 Thread Steve Dibb
Iain Buchanan wrote: (I killed it :) So, firstly, why didn't that work? man mplayer -- exporting to MPEG is still not perfect. And secondly, how should I encode if I want to write the movie to a DVD, and have really good quality (close to the original dv)? Use ffmpeg. See the -targe

[gentoo-user] mencoder did nothing all night at 100% CPU!

2006-08-10 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi all, I'm trying out mencoder to try a few different codecs and formats for 1. dvd authoring and 2. just compressing to keep on my HD. This is what I tried last night: mencoder 2006.06.24_09-26-48.dv -o 2006.06.24_09-26-48.avi -ovc lavc -oac lavc that was ok, GREAT file size (original 350MB d

[gentoo-user] Is the best solution still NIS+NFS?

2006-08-10 Thread Leandro Melo de Sales
Hi list, few years later I setup a environment which shares the /home using NFS for the users and the authentication method was NIS. Is this still the best solution? My current environment is based on LDAP where all services use it. I configured PAM+NSSwitch, Postfix, and so on. Now, I want lin

[gentoo-user] Re: Mount and write ntfs (natively)

2006-08-10 Thread reader
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yikes ... looks like my literacy level is greviously low.. > First, sorry this got somewhat disjointed. > > I think you may have already ansered what I wanted to know but for the > sake of clarity. > > The `puppy' live cd described in my quotation says it can create a >

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving installation to another HD

2006-08-10 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 8/10/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 8/10/06, Christoph Eckert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Boot from a live-CD > * mount old and new drive partitions > * cd to the mountpoint containing the data to be copied > * tar -cSp --numeric-owner -f - . | ( cd /mnt/NEW && tar xSpvf - )

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving installation to another HD

2006-08-10 Thread Dale
Daniel da Veiga wrote: > On 8/10/06, Christoph Eckert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > Any info needed, please let me know. >> >> * Boot from a live-CD >> * mount old and new drive partitions >> * cd to the mountpoint containing the data to be copied >> * tar -cSp --numeric-owner -f - . | ( cd /m

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 2006.0 package cd

2006-08-10 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Mike wrote: Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: There is an installer and many precompiled packages on the live cd. I am not aware of any other package CD. Tom Veldhouse http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/where.xml Gentoo 2006.0 Package CD (up to 700 megabytes depending on arch) amd64 ppc (ppc)

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving installation to another HD

2006-08-10 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 8/10/06, Christoph Eckert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any info needed, please let me know. * Boot from a live-CD * mount old and new drive partitions * cd to the mountpoint containing the data to be copied * tar -cSp --numeric-owner -f - . | ( cd /mnt/NEW && tar xSpvf - ) * Drink coffee :)

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 2006.0 package cd

2006-08-10 Thread Mike
Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > There is an installer and many precompiled packages on the live cd. > > I am not aware of any other package CD. > > Tom Veldhouse http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/where.xml Gentoo 2006.0 Package CD (up to 700 megabytes depending on arch) amd64 ppc (ppc) ppc (g4) ppc (

Re: [gentoo-user] burning audiocd with k3b

2006-08-10 Thread Alexander Kirillov
/usr/bin/cdrecord: A write error occured. /usr/bin/cdrecord: Please properly read the error message above. write track data: error after 3309696 bytes Try to disable dma on this drive. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 2006.0 package cd

2006-08-10 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: Maybe i am saying something stupid, but those are minimal, live or stage cd's and i am looking for precompiled packages cd (found on the 2005 branch for example) There is an installer and many precompiled packages on the live cd. I am not aware of any other package C

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving installation to another HD

2006-08-10 Thread Christoph Eckert
> Any info needed, please let me know. * Boot from a live-CD * mount old and new drive partitions * cd to the mountpoint containing the data to be copied * tar -cSp --numeric-owner -f - . | ( cd /mnt/NEW && tar xSpvf - ) * Drink coffee :) Worked for me more than once. ce -- gentoo-user@gento

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 2006.0 package cd

2006-08-10 Thread Rafael Barrera Oro
Dale wrote: Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: Does anyone know where can i find an iso image of the 2006.0 package cd for the x86 arch, i cant find it :( Thank you Rafael http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo/releases/x86/2006.0/ then click on whichever you want. You can get a minimal or

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 2006.0 package cd

2006-08-10 Thread Mike
Dale wrote: > Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: >> Does anyone know where can i find an iso image of the 2006.0 package >> cd for the x86 arch, i cant find it :( >> >> Thank you >> >> Rafael > > http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo/releases/x86/2006.0/ > > then click on whichever you want. You can get

[gentoo-user] Moving installation to another HD

2006-08-10 Thread Daniel da Veiga
Hello list, I've had Gentoo running for a long time now, before that I was using WinXP (this is my work machine, I have no choice). I simply got an old (8GB) HD, setup it, installed and started working (with dual boot, just in case). After a while, I found myself not using winxp anymore, as most

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 2006.0 package cd

2006-08-10 Thread Dale
Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: > Does anyone know where can i find an iso image of the 2006.0 package > cd for the x86 arch, i cant find it :( > > Thank you > > Rafael http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo/releases/x86/2006.0/ then click on whichever you want. You can get a minimal or live CD. Dale

Re: [gentoo-user] How to see network activity?

2006-08-10 Thread michael
On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, gentuxx wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this has been a fascinating conversation. thanks boris for starting it. i've tested almost everything that has been mentioned. i often have to monitor my computers over slow text-only ss

Re: [gentoo-user] burning audiocd with k3b

2006-08-10 Thread PaulNM
It seems cdrecord comes across a write error after about 3 megs in. Since this is a cd-rw, I'd suggest: 1: Try recording a data project on that particular cd just to rule out cd problems. (Of course make sure the data files are at least 4 megs. I'd go with at least 10-20 megs.) 2: K3B has an

Re: [gentoo-user] burning audiocd with k3b

2006-08-10 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/10/06, Arnau Bria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Track 19: audio 36 MB (03:36.56) no preemp swab copy pregapsize: 0 Track 20: audio 44 MB (04:22.04) no preemp swab copy pregapsize: 0 Total size: 786 MB (77:55.25) = 350644 sectors Lout start: 786 MB (77:57/19) = 350644 sectors

[gentoo-user] x86 2006.0 package cd

2006-08-10 Thread Rafael Barrera Oro
Does anyone know where can i find an iso image of the 2006.0 package cd for the x86 arch, i cant find it :( Thank you Rafael -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Maillist+Forum+Newsgroup solution ?

2006-08-10 Thread Jochen Schalanda
Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > does anyone know an Maillist+Web-Forum+Newsgroup solution ? Maybe Mailman (net-mail/mailman). Mailing lists and NNTP-Gateway, as well as Mailing list archives via HTTP, which has no posting capabilities, though. Best regards, Jochen -- gentoo-user@gen

Re: [gentoo-user] IP Masquerading hardware, crossover versus hub

2006-08-10 Thread Jure Varlec
On Thursday 10 August 2006 05:22, Iain Buchanan wrote: > Go not to gentoo-user for council, for they will say both hub and no > hub. I say switch :P -- Jure Varlec pgpD1wbHFlNoA.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] kdebase won't "re"-build

2006-08-10 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 10. August 2006 11:37 schrieb ext Gian Domeni Calgeer: > > > that). I also rebuilt kdelibs (at the same time as qt - qt was > > > > If it says "install kdelibs first" (means re-build), why didn't you do > > so? > > Obviously, he did. Aargh, sorry. Overlooked that. Bye...

[gentoo-user] burning audiocd with k3b

2006-08-10 Thread Arnau Bria
Hi, I'm trying to burn a audiocd using k3b but it gives me Error all the time. I'm able to burn Data CD projects, so I suppose my k3b is correctly configured... here's the error output from k3b, I'm using a cd-rw of 700MB (80 min) System --- K3b Version: 0.12.14 KDE Versio

Re: [gentoo-user] kdebase won't "re"-build

2006-08-10 Thread Gian Domeni Calgeer
> > that). I also rebuilt kdelibs (at the same time as qt - qt was > > If it says "install kdelibs first" (means re-build), why didn't you do so? Obviously, he did. Gian -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Mount and write ntfs (natively)

2006-08-10 Thread Alexander Skwar
Harry Putnam wrote: Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alexander, Do you know if the system described above is what ntfs-g3 does too? One could never determine something that basic from the man page supplied with it. After reading it, I still know nothing about how it works. With a d

Re: [gentoo-user] kdebase won't "re"-build

2006-08-10 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 10. August 2006 08:49 schrieb ext gentuxx: > configure: error: > you need to install kdelibs first. > > I've gone through some toolchain changes recently, so I wasn't > completely surprised by this message the first time I got it. So, I > immediately rebuilt qt, which actually rebu

[gentoo-user] AW: Omnikey Cardman 4040 - Card Reader

2006-08-10 Thread Noack, Sebastian
-I invoke `mknod -m 666 /dev/cmx0 c 253 0` by myself. +I invoke `mknod -m 666 /dev/cmx0 c 254 0` by myself. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] no SysRq

2006-08-10 Thread Jorge Almeida
I'm trying to enable the use of the SysRq key. My keyboard is Logitech Access. It has a key labeled PrtScr/SysRq right next F12. I recompiled the kernel with support for SysRq, but still it doesn't work. It seems that the key is not recognized. The output of showkey -s, when pressing SysRq, is 0xe

[gentoo-user] Omnikey Cardman 4040 - Card Reader

2006-08-10 Thread Noack, Sebastian
Hi, I've bought an Omnikey Cardman 4040 card reader and have some trouble to get it work. Maybe somebody have some experiences with it. Actually it is one of the recommended card readers for Linux. I have compiled and loaded the driver cm4040_cs and following line appeared in /proc/devices: 254

Re: [gentoo-user] weird dependencies

2006-08-10 Thread Alexander Skwar
Rodrigo Lazo wrote: Hi, Something weird is happening to my system. I executed (for no good reason): [EMAIL PROTECTED] # emerge -pvu --deep gaim These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] media-libs/lcms-1.14-r1 [1.13-r1] USE=

[gentoo-user] kdebase won't "re"-build

2006-08-10 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've recently found that bugs.gentoo.org is my new friend. However, this is sort of a one-off issue, and I haven't been able to find it there. I run `glsa-check -f all' maybe once a month, or less (I usually get packages/versions recommended in the g