Re: [gentoo-user] Re: anti-portage wreckage?

2007-01-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 2 Jan 2007 01:50:27 -0500 (EST), Daniel Barkalow wrote: I think it would be useful to have an ebuild thing for upgrading to this package from version {expression} requires the following steps, such that the message will be displayed only if you're doing that, and such that the upgrade

Re: [gentoo-user] USB freezes the machine...

2007-01-02 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi all, I seem to recall that loading multiple USB controller drivers can cause problems on some systems. You might try unloading all of these with rmmod, then loading just one, and see if your drive will work. I believe for most systems the ehci_hcd driver would be the preferred one.

Re: [gentoo-user] Easy dialup for unprivileged user

2007-01-02 Thread Mick
On Sunday 31 December 2006 22:20, Mark Kirkwood wrote: Kent Fredric wrote: Passwordless SUDO on an app, or add some sgid/suid bits and do some group twiddling on the apps that do all your magic as root. That should at least be a good starting point :) Thanks - but making extra programs

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: anti-portage wreckage?

2007-01-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 01 January 2007 04:34, Mike Myers wrote: The update system is the -only- nice thing about it over Gentoo.  Debian is nowhere near Gentoo when it comes to everything else (especially docs).  I don't think suggesting a single feature that another distro has and putting into Gentoo is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: anti-portage wreckage?

2007-01-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 02 January 2007 08:50, Daniel Barkalow wrote: I also think that emerge should keep track of the config files installed by packages, so that etc-update knows if you've got local modifications, and give you a big warning when you might lose a change you made. Huh? Portage already

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: anti-portage wreckage?

2007-01-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 01 Jan 2007 23:36:02 +1300, Mark Kirkwood wrote: Yeah, it would be good to know an update is not going to give a broken system - but to implement some sort of (extra) tagged release testing would be a significant amount of effort for the community. Only if you rely on the current

Re: [gentoo-user] USB freezes the machine...

2007-01-02 Thread Strong Cypher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just do this rmmod all module concerning usb : ehci uhci ohci ehci = usb 2 extension uhci/ohci = usb support (1.0) depends on material (via or intel) so ... plug your material modprobe uhci ... nothing done, rmmod uhci, modprobe ohci .. try

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: anti-portage wreckage?

2007-01-02 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 01 January 2007 06:58, William Kenworthy wrote: rattus ~ # emerge system -ep These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating system dependencies ... done! rattus ~ # 3 systems like this, one installed only a few months ago works. And `emerge --info` ? -- Bo

Re: [gentoo-user] USB freezes the machine...

2007-01-02 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi, so ... still hang up ? well unfortunately it gives the same result. Is there a way to log the activity of the USB devices? Regards, m -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: anti-portage wreckage?

2007-01-02 Thread William Kenworthy
On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 12:19 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Monday 01 January 2007 06:58, William Kenworthy wrote: rattus ~ # emerge system -ep These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating system dependencies ... done! rattus ~ # 3 systems like this, one

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags information resource

2007-01-02 Thread Alan E. Davis
Thank you for the insight, Alan. I am just getting to the point of understanding this. As a non -developer/programmer I have been at a loss to understand these basic points about USE flags. Over time, they begin to make sense. Your pointer about the ebuilds is extremely valuable. Maybe it's

Re: [gentoo-user] kde - limit an icon to a single desktop

2007-01-02 Thread b.n.
Uwe Thiem ha scritto: On 30 December 2006 20:09, »Q« wrote: This would be better asked in a KDE user forum, but I'm just getting Gentoo set up on a laptop and haven't found any KDE groups/lists yet. You can find all KDE-related lists on http://lists.kde.org. Is there a way to have an

Re: [gentoo-user] USB freezes the machine...

2007-01-02 Thread Strong Cypher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 unfortunatly you can use dmesg but if system hang up ... Does it work on other system ? like freebsd (live cd = freebies), or Windows (M$$) ??? Could you give us the model of your material ? I don't remember, it's a hard drive ? Send us their

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags information resource

2007-01-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 02 January 2007 15:35, Alan E. Davis wrote: Thank you for the insight, Alan. I am just getting to the point of understanding this. As a non -developer/programmer I have been at a loss to understand these basic points about USE flags. Over time, they begin to make sense. Your

Re: [gentoo-user] kde - limit an icon to a single desktop

2007-01-02 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 02 January 2007 15:28, b.n. wrote: Uwe Thiem ha scritto: On 30 December 2006 20:09, »Q« wrote: This would be better asked in a KDE user forum, but I'm just getting Gentoo set up on a laptop and haven't found any KDE groups/lists yet. You can find all KDE-related lists on

Re: [gentoo-user] install CD of Hewlett-Packard server

2007-01-02 Thread Dan
On Tue, 2 Jan 2007 15:46:59 +0800 Chuanwen Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The command line installer is highly recommended, as it is more likely to boot on a given (especially uncommon) computer and is a more trustworthy install method. Here is the hardware of my machine which I got it from

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] gnupg upgraded, problems arised

2007-01-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 29 December 2006 04:20, Andrew Gaydenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] [OT] gnupg upgraded, problems arised': After yesterday syncing (~amd64) gnupg package was upgraded (and de-slotted). Now - via KMail, KGpg, gpg CLI - my long-used password suddenly become a 'bad

Re: [gentoo-user] install CD of Hewlett-Packard server

2007-01-02 Thread Dan
On Tue, 2 Jan 2007 15:46:59 +0800 Chuanwen Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The command line installer is highly recommended, as it is more likely to boot on a given (especially uncommon) computer and is a more trustworthy install method. Here is the hardware of my machine which I got it from

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] gnupg upgraded, problems arised

2007-01-02 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
I have masked 2.x version as need to work. I'm not pgp guru and wil wait for other's opinions. === On Tuesday 02 January 2007 19:10, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: === On Friday 29 December 2006 04:20, Andrew Gaydenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] [OT] gnupg upgraded,

Re: [gentoo-user] When could XGL support my video card ATI Radeon M300??

2007-01-02 Thread Jure Varlec
On Sunday 31 December 2006 06:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was interested in 3D desktop of XGL, but my video has not been supported till now... This is the info of my card: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M22 [Radeon Mobility M300] So, is there a hope for me to use

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] gnupg upgraded, problems arised

2007-01-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 02 January 2007 10:32, Andrew Gaydenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] gnupg upgraded, problems arised': I have masked 2.x version as need to work. I'm not pgp guru and wil wait for other's opinions. I didn't find a bug filed, although there was one for the

Re: [gentoo-user] Driver of Intel 945's video card?

2007-01-02 Thread Sebastian Ferrara
El Sun, 31 Dec 2006 19:07:19 +0800 Chuanwen Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Hi,everybody! When i do xorgconfig,I choose i810 to my video card driver of intel 945. I can enter gnome but I found something is wrong: The fonts in some vertical line is not clear,no matter the english characters

[gentoo-user] wrong subscription

2007-01-02 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, rage who subscribed to this list as [EMAIL PROTECTED]? Idot! /rage calm Would someone with enough karma please unsubscribe this address? /calm Uwe -- A fast and easy generator of fractals for KDE: http://www.SysEx.com.na/iwy-1.0.tar.bz2 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: anti-portage wreckage?

2007-01-02 Thread Andrey Gerasimenko
On Mon, 01 Jan 2007 02:29:12 +0300, Mike Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sure others will disagree, but I really think if Gentoo is going to become a cornerstone in the desktop's replacement (like for thin clients) then there should probably be an option for a binary 'version' of

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] gnupg upgraded, problems arised

2007-01-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 2 Jan 2007 19:32:41 +0300, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: Any news on this? I'd like to upgrade to gnupg-2.0*, but I don't want to lose access to my existing keys. Does a bug exist? http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159505 You need to install pinentry. -- Neil Bothwick

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] gnupg upgraded, problems arised

2007-01-02 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
It *isn't* a reason. 'pinentry' is (well, was. Now I have downgraded gnupg) installed, password is requested, but is wrong. === On Tuesday 02 January 2007 21:28, Neil Bothwick wrote: === ... http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159505 You need to install pinentry. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Driver of Intel 945's video card?

2007-01-02 Thread karlos
I had the same problem with a laptop lcd until I realised that choosing the appropriate modeline will solve that. Try using the little gtf command line app to determine the right one, put it in xorg.conf and zap X. Maybe that helps? Greets, Karsten On 1/2/07, Sebastian Ferrara [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo overlays

2007-01-02 Thread Bertram Scharpf
Hi, Am Dienstag, 02. Jan 2007, 18:22:14 + schrieb Matt Richards: hello, does anybody know if it is possible to make portage ignore an overlay for a single package, or if it is possible to install a package from a single overlay that i choose ? Do you want to mention it in

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] gnupg upgraded, problems arised

2007-01-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 2 Jan 2007 21:55:48 +0300, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: It *isn't* a reason. 'pinentry' is (well, was. Now I have downgraded gnupg) installed, password is requested, but is wrong. OK - you have a slightly different problem to the rest of us... good luck :) -- Neil Bothwick I stayed up

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo overlays

2007-01-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 2 Jan 2007 20:24:23 +0100, Bertram Scharpf wrote: hello, does anybody know if it is possible to make portage ignore an overlay for a single package, or if it is possible to install a package from a single overlay that i choose ? Do you want to mention it in

Re: [gentoo-user] Mysql vs Mysql-community...

2007-01-02 Thread kashani
Jerry McBride wrote: Can someone tell me the major differences between mysql and mysql-community? Thank you, in advance... P.S. before you beat me up too badly, I've googled this one to death and not found anything that satisfies my curiousity. The answer at the moment appears to be that

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers vs nvidia-legacy-drivers

2007-01-02 Thread Konstantinos Agouros
In [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Neil Bothwick) writes: --Sig_=GcO_uMojmLMdt+2zEPWZf= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 31 Dec 2006 10:04:00 + (UTC), Konstantinos Agouros wrote: is there a way von x86 that I can keep

Re: [gentoo-user] Mysql vs Mysql-community...

2007-01-02 Thread Ryan Crisman
MySQL - Paid (Enterprise Edition), Paid Support MySQL Community - Free (Personal Edition), Community Support On 1/2/07, kashani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jerry McBride wrote: Can someone tell me the major differences between mysql and mysql-community? Thank you, in advance... P.S. before

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers vs nvidia-legacy-drivers

2007-01-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 2 Jan 2007 19:57:51 + (UTC), Konstantinos Agouros wrote: [nomerge ] media-video/nvidia-settings-1.0.20061102 [ebuild N] x11-drivers/nvidia-legacy-drivers-1.0.7184 USE=dlloader 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kB Or is it nvidia-settings? It certainly looks like

[gentoo-user] freecell clone?

2007-01-02 Thread Dan
can anyone help me find a linux freecell clone? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] freecell clone?

2007-01-02 Thread Dale
Dan wrote: can anyone help me find a linux freecell clone? Both Pysol and Kpatience has this game. I think Pysol has a few different versions of it. Yea, I play cards a lot on the puter. Don't everybody bug me about it. :-O Hope that helps. Dale :-) :-) -- www.myspace.com/dalek1967

Re: [gentoo-user] freecell clone?

2007-01-02 Thread Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
On Wednesday, 3 January 2007 8:04, Dan wrote: can anyone help me find a linux freecell clone? Try xfreecell. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers vs nvidia-legacy-drivers

2007-01-02 Thread Pete Pardoe
Hi I had that exact problem and removed nvidia-settings - it went away. Pete On 1/2/07, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2 Jan 2007 19:57:51 + (UTC), Konstantinos Agouros wrote: [nomerge ] media-video/nvidia-settings-1.0.20061102 [ebuild N]

[gentoo-user] Gnome Power Management

2007-01-02 Thread Randy Barlow
OK, so I'm seeing some weird behavior with Gnome after upgrading from 2.14 to 2.16. I use the little battery applet that it comes with, and it's really messed up looking (looks empty on full charge and full on no charge). The messed up part happened before I upgraded, but now that I've upgraded

Re: [gentoo-user] Mysql vs Mysql-community...

2007-01-02 Thread kashani
Ryan Crisman wrote: MySQL - Paid (Enterprise Edition), Paid Support MySQL Community - Free (Personal Edition), Community Support While the above is true it fails to answer the question, As DBA/sysadmin what is the actual difference between the two so I can pick the right one for my

Re: [gentoo-user] Mysql vs Mysql-community...

2007-01-02 Thread Ryan Crisman
I use MySQL alot at my Company and we use the Community version. I have found that its just as good as the Paid one which by the MySQL website says the paid one is more stable but I have yet to see any problems. On 1/2/07, kashani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ryan Crisman wrote: MySQL - Paid

Re: [gentoo-user] acpi battery events, Sony FS740

2007-01-02 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 01:27 -0600, »Q« wrote: I'm nearly a complete newbie to power management. I've been reading and tinkering for the past three days. I'm not sure I know enough to explain my problem clearly, but I'll be glad to try to clarify or post more info if you can steer me a bit.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome Power Management

2007-01-02 Thread Randy Barlow
On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 17:05 -0500, Randy Barlow wrote: Also, I'm getting an error every time I start Gnome related to the battery, but I can't recall the exact wording off the top of my head right now (will post that back later I suppose). Should I just mv the .gnome directory and let it

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome Power Management

2007-01-02 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 18:31 -0500, Randy Barlow wrote: On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 17:05 -0500, Randy Barlow wrote: Also, I'm getting an error every time I start Gnome related to the battery, but I can't recall the exact wording off the top of my head right now (will post that back later I

Re: [gentoo-user] freecell clone?

2007-01-02 Thread Allan Gottlieb
gnome-extra/gnome-games-2.16.2 (/usr/bin/sol) (you need the guile use flags to get all the games). allan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] RSS video aggregator

2007-01-02 Thread Grant
I've been using democracy for a while (www.getdemocracy.com) and I really like having RSS video managed for me but democracy is driving me nuts. It has some problems. Is there anything else available in portage or a layman overlay that could help me manage RSS video? - Grant --

Re: [gentoo-user] EVMS

2007-01-02 Thread Dale
Hey folks, Well, I thought I would update on my transfer. I couldn't figure out how to make a initrd thing first off. I also just could not figure out how EVMS really worked. Maybe it was just a bad time to try to teach a old dog new tricks. Anyway, I got my OS transfered anyway. I had a

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome Power Management

2007-01-02 Thread Randy Barlow
On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 13:01 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: try running gconf-editor and go to: /apps/gnome-power-manager/battery_percentage_low and setting it to something other than 0. It sounds like it's set to the wrong value, and somethings getting confused... Well that's exactly the weird

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome Power Management

2007-01-02 Thread W.Kenworthy
equery check gnome-extra/gnome-power-manager BillK On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 23:27 -0500, Randy Barlow wrote: On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 13:01 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: try running gconf-editor and go to: /apps/gnome-power-manager/battery_percentage_low and setting it to something other than

Re: [gentoo-user] Driver of Intel 945's video card?

2007-01-02 Thread Chuanwen Wu
Thank Sebastian Ferrara and karlos! Now I have fixed the problem.The cause is the inappropriate setting of the LCD.It's my first time to use a LCD,and I even didn't know Lcd is so different from CRT. After I press auto,everything is all right! To Sebastian Ferrara: The i810 driver is Ok.But it

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome Power Management

2007-01-02 Thread Randy Barlow
I've added apps/gnome-power-manager, and then I made the battery_percentage_low key and set it to 5, and now the problem is gone. But I still wonder if this is a bug I should file, or just leave it be. It seems like this key should have been initialized to *something* for me by the ebuild so that

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome Power Management

2007-01-02 Thread Randy Barlow
On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 13:37 +0900, W.Kenworthy wrote: equery check gnome-extra/gnome-power-manager [ Checking gnome-extra/gnome-power-manager-2.16.2 ] * 390 out of 390 files good Randy Barlow http://www.electronsweatshop.com Jesuit priests are DATING CAREER DIPLOMATS!! --

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: anti-portage wreckage?

2007-01-02 Thread Daniel Barkalow
On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 02 January 2007 08:50, Daniel Barkalow wrote: I also think that emerge should keep track of the config files installed by packages, so that etc-update knows if you've got local modifications, and give you a big warning when you might lose

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: anti-portage wreckage?

2007-01-02 Thread Daniel Barkalow
On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 2 Jan 2007 01:50:27 -0500 (EST), Daniel Barkalow wrote: I think it would be useful to have an ebuild thing for upgrading to this package from version {expression} requires the following steps, such that the message will be displayed only

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: anti-portage wreckage?

2007-01-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 07:21, Daniel Barkalow wrote: On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 02 January 2007 08:50, Daniel Barkalow wrote: I also think that emerge should keep track of the config files installed by packages, so that etc-update knows if you've got