[gentoo-user] Installation: help me set up my keyboard, please.

2008-07-18 Thread Alan Mackenzie
of the installation has gone so smoothly, with otherwise excellent documentation, well above average for a Linux distro. How do I set my keyboard layout? Thanks in advance for the help! -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation: help me set up my keyboard, please.

2008-07-19 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Sebastian! On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 11:39:32PM +0200, Sebastian Günther wrote: * Alan Mackenzie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [18.07.08 23:00]: [ ] Except I've hit a brick wall. I want to set up my console keyboard, so I go to edit /etc/conf.d/keymaps, as described in the x86 Handbook

[gentoo-user] mount: special device /dev/hdc does not exist. What does this mean?

2008-07-19 Thread Alan Mackenzie
-2.6.25-gentoo-r6. I _think_ it's got all the needed options set in the configuration. Can anybody suggest how to get my system to recognise my DVD drives? Thanks in advance! -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mount: special device /dev/hdc does not exist. What does this mean?

2008-07-19 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Nikos, On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 10:06:15PM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Alan Mackenzie wrote: However, I can't access my DVD drives. I know at least one of them works, because I installed Gentoo from it. When I do mount -tiso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom , it comes back with special

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mount: special device /dev/hdc does not exist. What does this mean?

2008-07-19 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Miernik, On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 09:13:09PM +0200, Miernik wrote: Alan Mackenzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # mknod /dev/hdc b 22 0 This didn't help one iota. I had a look at dmesg, but there was no mention of hdc in it. (It did mention hdg, hdh, where my main hard drives are (don't

Re: [gentoo-user] mount: special device /dev/hdc does not exist. What does this mean?

2008-07-19 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Daniel On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 09:11:09PM +0200, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: Alan Mackenzie schrieb: Hi, Gentoo? I've a newly installed system, now working with my own special optimiesed keyboard layout. :-) However, I can't access my DVD drives. I know at least one of them works

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mount: special device /dev/hdc does not exist. What does this mean?

2008-07-20 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Nikos! On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 12:29:19AM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Alan Mackenzie wrote: The default in new kernels is to only use /dev/sd*. I'm totally confused. Doesn't sd* mean SCSI disk drive? When I was installing Gentoo from the CD, I had to mount my main hard drive

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mount: special device /dev/hdc does not exist. What does this mean?

2008-07-20 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Mick, On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 06:22:23PM +0100, Mick wrote: On Sunday 20 July 2008, Alan Mackenzie wrote: So the kernel guys have decided that nobody would ever want more than 15 partitions on a drive. From memory I recall that this has always been the limit for SATA/SCSI drives

[gentoo-user] Solved!!! [Re: mount: special device /dev/hdc does not exist]

2008-07-20 Thread Alan Mackenzie
ranted about in other posts. Thanks indeed to everybody who helped me get sorted! -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

[gentoo-user] Can't emerge xfce4 with installed lprng. :-(

2008-07-24 Thread Alan Mackenzie
specifically cups? For that matter, why must it install a print daemon at all? Not every X user has a printer or wants to print. What can I do about this? I really don't want to have to install cups. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge xfce4 with installed lprng. :-(

2008-07-24 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Sebastian, On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 12:07:35PM +0200, Sebastian Günther wrote: * Alan Mackenzie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [24.07.08 11:42]: Why the 4 do I have to type xfce4, not xfce? Anyhow, that's a minor point. Just a tip: maybe you should use emerge -s for such things, or eix

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge xfce4 with installed lprng. :-(

2008-07-25 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Sebastian! On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:45:34PM +0200, Sebastian Günther wrote: * Alan Mackenzie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [24.07.08 23:02]: Hi, Sebastian, I don't know where it is explained, but I try to explain what I know until now about this. I'm still very confused by profiles, though

[gentoo-user] FIXED!! Re: Can't emerge xfce4 with installed lprng. But ran out of inodes. :-(

2008-07-25 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Dale and everybody else! On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 05:23:59AM -0500, Dale wrote: Alan Mackenzie wrote: Just in case you are talking about editing the files in profiles, that won't work long term. Keep in mind that each time you run emerge --sync those files will be overwritten

[gentoo-user] Network configuration: looking up URLs is very slow; how can I fix this?

2008-09-12 Thread Alan Mackenzie
? Thanks! -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Re: [gentoo-user] Network configuration: looking up URLs is very slow; how can I fix this?

2008-09-12 Thread Alan Mackenzie
0.0.0.0 UG0 00 eth0 # Er, where is my DNS-server? That's the entry in resolv.conf, isn't it, i.e. the router at 192.168.2.1? -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Re: [gentoo-user] Network configuration: looking up URLs is very slow; how can I fix this?

2008-09-12 Thread Alan Mackenzie
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 05:18:16PM -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: At Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:59:49 + Alan Mackenzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Daniel, On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 08:50:13PM +0200, Daniel Beecham wrote: However looking up URL's is very, very slow. This is most

Re: [gentoo-user] Transferring an existing install to new disk

2008-11-12 Thread Alan Mackenzie
, it will, in its turn, probably have been superseded by something else. :-) Regards Dirk -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Re: [gentoo-user] Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-11-28 Thread Alan Mackenzie
, 24683 non contiguous files from 251073 in total? Just curious. :-) Dale :-) :-) -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

[gentoo-user] Problems setting up sshd on an installation kernel

2009-12-06 Thread Alan Mackenzie
fundamentally wrong with the kernel configuration? Thanks in advance for any and all help! -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems setting up sshd on an installation kernel

2009-12-06 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Florian, On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 05:59:00PM +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: Alan Mackenzie schrieb: I'm trying to get sshd working on an embryonic Gentoo installation on my laptop. The reason is that I want to ssh from my nice comfy desktop system into this laptop to do the rest

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems setting up sshd on an installation kernel

2009-12-06 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Mick, On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 04:28:10PM +, Mick wrote: On Sunday 06 December 2009 14:48:36 Alan Mackenzie wrote: Is there anything I can do to get sshd working from this kernel (and if so, what?), or is there something fundamentally wrong with the kernel configuration? Not sure

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems setting up sshd on an installation kernel

2009-12-06 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Joshua, On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 01:56:06PM -0500, Joshua Murphy wrote: On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Florian Philipp li...@f_philipp.fastmail.net wrote: Alan Mackenzie schrieb: I'm trying to get sshd working on an embryonic Gentoo installation on my laptop.  The reason is that I

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems setting up sshd on an installation kernel

2009-12-09 Thread Alan Mackenzie
On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 01:56:06PM -0500, Joshua Murphy wrote: On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Florian Philipp li...@f_philipp.fastmail.net wrote: Alan Mackenzie schrieb: Hi, folks! I'm trying to get sshd working on an embryonic Gentoo installation on my laptop.  The reason is that I

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems setting up sshd on an installation kernel

2009-12-09 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Alan, Thanks for the quick reply. On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 05:43:50PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 09 December 2009 17:24:16 Alan Mackenzie wrote: My first thought as well... I'd guess, just at a glance, that sshd was started in the chroot, and that /mnt/gentoo/dev/ is bind

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems setting up sshd on an installation kernel

2009-12-09 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Alan, On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 09:42:56PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 09 December 2009 18:46:11 Alan Mackenzie wrote: The supported method is to ssh into the LiveCD environment then chroot from that shell. It's hard to imagine a scenario where you would have more than

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems setting up sshd on an installation kernel

2009-12-10 Thread Alan Mackenzie
just have to agree to disagree ;-). /dev is broken. On 9 Dec 2009, at 16:46, Alan Mackenzie wrote: However, setting up /dev completely (with --rbind) costs nothing, adds capability, and takes nothing away. It is not clear to me that this is the obvious and optimal solution. It may be. I

[gentoo-user] Can I (partially) rebuild a package with emerge?

2009-12-16 Thread Alan Mackenzie
, but not found this situation addressed. Thanks for the help! -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Re: [gentoo-user] Can I (partially) rebuild a package with emerge?

2009-12-17 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Neil, On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 10:05:40PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:44:29 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: I've just emerged xorg-x11, and noticed that I had a wrong setting for VIDEO_CARDS in /etc/make.conf. Does emerge have a facility to rebuild only those

[gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-08 Thread Alan Mackenzie
, somebody, tell me all this HAL stuff is straightforwardly explained in an easily accessible Gentoo document, so that I can hang my head in shame and apologise for the noise! ;-) -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-09 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Iain, On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 09:09:14AM +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 22:20 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: [snip to the crux:] Can this new-style fragmented XML configuration do anything that a good old-fashioned, human-readable and compact xorg.conf can't? If so

[gentoo-user] emerge -avt xfce4-meta; haven't got startxfce4. Help, please!

2010-02-09 Thread Alan Mackenzie
command, find / -name startxfce4 (and I do mean quick - it took only half a second :-) demonstrated a complete absence of a file with that name. Help, please! What do I need to do to get xfce running? -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avt xfce4-meta; haven't got startxfce4. Help, please!

2010-02-10 Thread Alan Mackenzie
, and am using a standard athlon-64 setup. Presumably, rebuilding the compiler isn't going to help much, since the athlon-64 stage-3 would have had the latest and greatest compiler anyhow. I think, at this stage, I'll just try emerging a different window manager. Maybe blackbox. -- Alan

[gentoo-user] New Gentoo system has become unstable and unusable - help, please!

2010-02-12 Thread Alan Mackenzie
, and not having any file of that name on my system. Could this be the cause? Finally, is there a way of reloading/rebuilding ALL the executables onto/on my system without discarding all my painfully wrought config files and without portage getting confused? Thanks in advance for the help! -- Alan

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo system has become unstable and unusable - help, please!

2010-02-12 Thread Alan Mackenzie
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:50:46AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 12 February 2010 10:54:53 Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, Gentoo, My new Gentoo box has become unusably unstable. The first sign was when the compiler threw a segfault whilst emerging the xfce window manager. I solved

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo system has become unstable and unusable - help, please!

2010-02-12 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Alan, On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:50:46AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 12 February 2010 10:54:53 Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, Gentoo, My new Gentoo box has become unusably unstable. The first sign was when the compiler threw a segfault whilst emerging the xfce window manager

[gentoo-user] Ramifications of memtest86

2010-02-12 Thread Alan Mackenzie
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:22:21AM +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:50:46AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 12 February 2010 10:54:53 Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, Gentoo, My new Gentoo box has become unusably unstable. The first sign was when the compiler

Re: [gentoo-user] Ramifications of memtest86

2010-02-12 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Dale, On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 06:43:46AM -0600, Dale wrote: chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:22:21AM +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: When I run memtest86 from the gentoo boot disk, it signals millions of failures in b11 of 32 bit

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo system has become unstable and unusable - help, please!

2010-02-12 Thread Alan Mackenzie
that with the voltage everywhere from 1.5v to 1.6v in 0.02v steps. It didn't help. It turns out, one of the RAM sticks was kaputt. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Re: [gentoo-user] Ramifications of memtest86. Got it!

2010-02-12 Thread Alan Mackenzie
:-) :-) -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

[gentoo-user] How should I clean up my broken system?

2010-02-12 Thread Alan Mackenzie
creation was so arduous. Where does portage keep it's list of installed packages? What do I have to do to persuade portage it has _no_ installed packages before doing 'rm -rf *' in /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin? Has anybody any other tips to offer me for this operation? -- Alan Mackenzie

Re: [gentoo-user] Ramifications of memtest86. Got it!

2010-02-13 Thread Alan Mackenzie
, it seems false economy to buy from a lesser vendor. Dale :-) :-) -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Re: [gentoo-user] How should I clean up my broken system?

2010-02-13 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Alan, On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 09:27:15AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 12 February 2010 21:55:29 Alan Mackenzie wrote: As reported in other threads, my new PC had a broken RAM stick in it. As a result, an unknown proportion of installed binaries are flaky. One non-functioning

[gentoo-user] Can't hear anything. :-(

2010-02-16 Thread Alan Mackenzie
/ Line / Mic / Mic Boos / S/PDIF / S/PDIF D / Beep. Why is this? In particular, I'm missing the PCM volume bar which the documentation says is so important to unmute. What am I missing here? Thanks in advance! -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't hear anything. :-(

2010-02-17 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Robin, On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:56:53PM +0700, Robin Atwood wrote: On Tuesday 16 February 2010, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, gentoo, I'm trying to get sound to sound on my new Gentoo box, following the Gentoo Linux ALSA Guide. Everything seems to be working fine, except no sound

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't hear anything. :-(

2010-02-17 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Mark, On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 04:20:53PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 6:54 AM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: Hi, gentoo, I'm trying to get sound to sound on my new Gentoo box, following the Gentoo Linux ALSA Guide.  Everything seems to be working fine, except

[gentoo-user] Printer setup: where is foomatic-rip?

2011-03-30 Thread Alan Mackenzie
! -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Re: [gentoo-user] Printer setup: where is foomatic-rip?

2011-03-31 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, William. Thanks for the help! I had to emerge foomatic-filters-ppds, after which it was easy. My printer now prints. Alan Mackenzie. On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 08:29:20PM +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: rattus ~ # locate foomatic-rip /usr/bin/foomatic-rip /usr/lib/ppr/interfaces/foomatic

[gentoo-user] Why can't I emerge telnet?

2011-04-07 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Gentoo! I would like a telnet client installed on my gentoo amd64 system. When I try emerge telnet , I get told that telnet doesn't exist. What am I doing wrong? Is there a telnet client on gentoo? -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Re: [gentoo-user] Why can't I emerge telnet?

2011-04-07 Thread Alan Mackenzie
/netkit/ Description: Standard Linux telnet client and server Thanks, I've installed this and it seems to work. learn to search portage. either eix or emerge -s That I'll have to do. I'm not fully comfortable with emerge yet. Jeremy -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

[gentoo-user] su doesn't work for me.

2011-04-10 Thread Alan Mackenzie
! -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Re: [gentoo-user] su doesn't work for me.

2011-04-10 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Yann, On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 03:19:15PM +0200, Yann Ormanns wrote: Subject: [gentoo-user] su doesn't work for me. From: Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de To: Yann Ormanns yann-orma...@web.de Date: 2011-04-10 15:17 (+) Hi, Gentoo. When, as a normal user, I type su, followed, when

[gentoo-user] RAID1 + LVM2 booting screwed up. Help, please!

2011-04-10 Thread Alan Mackenzie
would be regarded as help. I feel Dale's reservations in a most painful fashion. Thanks in advance for the help. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID1 + LVM2 booting screwed up. Help, please!

2011-04-13 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Alan. On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 11:33:13PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 23:11 on Sunday 10 April 2011, Alan Mackenzie did opine thusly: Hi, Gentoo. My new(ish) amd64 system has two 1TB HDDs in a (software) RAID1, and practically the entire system

[gentoo-user] What's the /dev/* entry for my DVD drive?

2011-04-15 Thread Alan Mackenzie
in, it it becomes /dev/sdc. However, my DVD drive is not /dev/sdc, it's not /dev/sdd. I've tried 'ls -lrt /dev', yet there's not entry there after boot time. Would somebody please help me to mount this CD. Thanks! -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Re: [gentoo-user] What's the /dev/* entry for my DVD drive?

2011-04-15 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Florian. On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 11:27:53AM +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 15.04.2011 11:14, schrieb Alan Mackenzie: Hi, gentoo. I want to mount a CD rom in my SATA DVD drive. Having inserted the CD into the drive, I can't find an entry in /dev for it. I know the drive

[gentoo-user] I'm up, at long last!

2011-04-17 Thread Alan Mackenzie
a black background and things like that. I also need to find a decent PDF viewer, and a decent jpeg viewer. So, thanks for all the help, everybody! -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

[gentoo-user] What is libX11.la, and how do I build it?

2011-04-18 Thread Alan Mackenzie
file. What does this mean? Is it the 64 bit version, or something? Why is libX11 lacking the .la version? More to the point, what do I have to do to build it? I've already tried setting the static-libs use flag in /etc/portage/package.use, to no avail. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

[gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please!

2011-04-18 Thread Alan Mackenzie
! -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please!

2011-04-18 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Paul. On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 11:52:17AM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: Hi, gentoo. When I try to run an emerge world, I get this error: # emerge --update --deep -p world These are the packages that would be merged

[gentoo-user] emerge error with glib-perl-1.223. PkgConfig and Depends not installed

2011-04-19 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, gentoo. I'm trying # emerge --update --deep xfce4-meta. It fails at glib-perl-1.223, since it can't find ExtUtils::Depends and ExtUtils::PkgConfig. Here is the relevant section from the build log: * Package:dev-perl/glib-perl-1.223 * USE:amd64 elibc_glibc kernel_linux

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please!

2011-04-19 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Alan. On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 11:11:48PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 22:21 on Monday 18 April 2011, Alan Mackenzie did opine thusly: These are the items that require libgcrypt with static-libs USE flag set. Sometimes changing USE flags on thse

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge error with glib-perl-1.223. PkgConfig and Depends not installed

2011-04-19 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Stroller. On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 11:11:52AM +0100, Stroller wrote: On 19/4/2011, at 8:23am, Alan Mackenzie wrote: ... I'm trying # emerge --update --deep xfce4-meta. If you're installing this for the first time then there's no need for the --update. I don't know that --deep is good

[gentoo-user] Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!

2011-04-22 Thread Alan Mackenzie
-DPIC -o .libs/pango_la-pangomodule.o . If anybody knows how to fix this, or a more appropriate place to ask for help, please tell me. Thanks in advance! -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Re: [gentoo-user] Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!

2011-04-23 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Alan. On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 12:43:45AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 20:05 on Friday 22 April 2011, Alan Mackenzie did opine thusly: Hi, Gentoo. In my attempt to 'emerge --update --deep xfce4-meta', one sole package is refusing to build, namely pygtk

Re: [gentoo-user] Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!

2011-04-23 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Mick. On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 08:46:30PM +0100, Mick wrote: On Saturday 23 April 2011 17:35:44 Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, Alan. On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 12:43:45AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 20:05 on Friday 22 April 2011, Alan Mackenzie did opine

[gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-24 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Mick. On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 09:17:45AM +0100, Mick wrote: On Saturday 23 April 2011 21:06:25 Alan Mackenzie wrote: On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 08:46:30PM +0100, Mick wrote: What do you get when you run: # eselect python list Available Python interpreters: [1] python2.6

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-25 Thread Alan Mackenzie
this. -- Neil Bothwick -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-25 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Mick. On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 04:44:05PM +0100, Mick wrote: On Sunday 24 April 2011 14:25:58 Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, Mick. On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 09:17:45AM +0100, Mick wrote: On Saturday 23 April 2011 21:06:25 Alan Mackenzie wrote: On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 08:46:30PM +0100

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-25 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Mick. On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 03:12:15PM +0100, Mick wrote: On Monday 25 April 2011 13:11:53 Alan Mackenzie wrote: Once it completes you can run --depclean which will ask you to remove the older 2.6 python package. I had to (or, at least, did) run emerge -uND @world. Funnily

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-26 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Mark. On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 08:29:47AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 8:03 AM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: Run something like emerge --noreplace =gentoo-sources-2.6.38-r1 That's just the job. Thanks. HTH, Mark -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-26 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Nick. On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 05:00:49PM +0100, Mick wrote: On Monday 25 April 2011 16:03:21 Alan Mackenzie wrote: As a matter of interest, do you know how to configure a framebuffer console to fill up a wide screen (say, to a width of 170 characters) as contrasted with the 128

[gentoo-user] gcc-config: Active gcc profile is invalid!

2011-04-27 Thread Alan Mackenzie
-4.4.5 . 4.4.5 is indeed the version of my gcc package. This got updated very recently. What is a gcc profile? Where can I find it, and what do I need to do to make it valid? -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

[gentoo-user] xpdf won't run - missing libpoppler.so.5

2011-04-28 Thread Alan Mackenzie
just = than one? Am I missing anything else important? -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc-config: Active gcc profile is invalid!

2011-04-28 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Mike. On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:03:46AM -0400, Mike Edenfield wrote: On 4/27/2011 8:16 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, Gentoo. I got the error message gcc-config: error: could not run/locate 'x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc' whilst trying to emerge something. Running gcc-config myself

Re: [gentoo-user] xpdf won't run - missing libpoppler.so.5

2011-04-28 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, YoYo. On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 12:36:29PM +0200, YoYo Siska wrote: On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 09:45:55AM +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, Gentoo! I try to run xpdf from within Gnome. It doesn't run. On the virtual terminal, the error message is: xpdf: error while loading shared

[gentoo-user] Printing: CUPS prints 12% too big onto an A4 sheet.

2011-05-01 Thread Alan Mackenzie
. For comparison, on my old PC using an earlier version of xpdf, the same page on the same printer (with lprng) prints perfectly. What have I done wrong? -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge stopped working

2011-05-02 Thread Alan Mackenzie
. now i simply have no clue on what's wrong and how can i fix it, apart from a full reinstall, which i'd like to avoid. can anyone point me somewhere to solve this problem? Try testing your RAM. There is a RAM tester (I think it's called memtest2) on the minimal installation CD. D -- Alan

Re: [gentoo-user] Printing: CUPS prints 12% too big onto an A4 sheet.

2011-05-06 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Alan. On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 11:06:52PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 22:22 on Sunday 01 May 2011, Alan Mackenzie did opine thusly: Hi, Gentoo. Could somebody please help me with a printing problem. With a piece of sheet music downloaded from http

[gentoo-user] Low print quality in Firefox

2011-05-07 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Gentoo. Start the up to date version of Firefox, 3.6.17. Print something textual (e.g. a piece of Gentoo documentation) out. When I do this I get an emulation of an 8-pin dot matrix printer from the early 1980s. Does anybody else fare better? -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Re: [gentoo-user] Low print quality in Firefox

2011-05-07 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Florian. On Sat, May 07, 2011 at 10:17:10AM +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 07.05.2011 09:28, schrieb Alan Mackenzie: Hi, Gentoo. Start the up to date version of Firefox, 3.6.17. Print something textual (e.g. a piece of Gentoo documentation) out. When I do this I get an emulation

Re: [gentoo-user] How's the openrc update going for everyone?

2011-05-11 Thread Alan Mackenzie
to Christian Faulhammer and William Hubbs, true gentlemen, who took so much trouble to make a difficult transition so smooth and easy. Thanks for the feedback. Dale :-) :-) -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

[gentoo-user] Two portage questions

2011-05-14 Thread Alan Mackenzie
files in /usr/portage/mail-client/mutt, e.g. mutt-1.5.21-r1.ebuild. Thanks! -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Re: [gentoo-user] Two portage questions

2011-05-14 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Alan. On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 12:51:14PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 12:31 on Saturday 14 May 2011, Alan Mackenzie did opine thusly: 1. Where is it specified what is in system in the same way that world is in the file /var/lib/portage/world

[gentoo-user] Can't get help in Gnome - Silly error message

2011-05-16 Thread Alan Mackenzie
meaning? More to the point, what do I have to do to fix this problem? -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Spam and Moderation [was: An Invitation to Neuroscientists and Physicists: Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) Reports First Hand Account of Mind Intrusion and Mind

2011-05-16 Thread Alan Mackenzie
is if someone is needing help fast, you get replies a lot faster. I thought you had to be subscribed to the list to send a message? Who's controlling the subscriptions? Dale :-) :-) -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Re: [gentoo-user] Compare two Gentoo machines - please help

2011-05-17 Thread Alan Mackenzie
comparison of the etc's. Many thanks for any ideas, Helmut. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't get help in Gnome - Silly error message

2011-05-17 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Walt. On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 10:07:38AM -0700, walt wrote: On 05/16/2011 02:54 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, Gentoo. Would somebody please help me. In every program in Gnome, there is a help menu. When I click on any of them, I get the wierd error message: Couldn't display

Re: [gentoo-user] is a nice place :-D

2011-05-18 Thread Alan Mackenzie
books, many of which are not good. And bash is about the most disorganised, arbitrary language around, full of crazy little quirks and odd sytaxes. And I love it. ;-) No wonder most folk stop at launching it after login -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg

[gentoo-user] How do I dump use flags?

2011-05-19 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Gentoo. How do I list out a list of current USE flags? The reason I ask is I'm hypothesising that my recent troubles in Gnome may be due to not having a suitable profile. I would like to select a different profile and compare its USE flags with those of my current profile. -- Alan

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I dump use flags?

2011-05-20 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Bill. On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 01:00:45PM -0700, Bill Longman wrote: On 05/19/2011 11:45 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, Gentoo. How do I list out a list of current USE flags? Besides the emerge --info examples already given, if you have gentoolkit installed, you can use euse -i

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I dump use flags?

2011-05-20 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Alan. On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 08:55:52PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 20:45 on Thursday 19 May 2011, Alan Mackenzie did opine thusly: Hi, Gentoo. How do I list out a list of current USE flags? emerge --info | grep USE Thanks! The reason I ask

[gentoo-user] Wierd key bindings in Firefox

2011-05-24 Thread Alan Mackenzie
to the top again. Does anybody else experience this behaviour, does anybody else know why it's happening, and does anybody else know how to get the desired key bindings? -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Re: [gentoo-user] Wierd key bindings in Firefox

2011-05-25 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Renat. On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 11:32:25PM +0200, Renat Golubchyk wrote: On Tue, 24 May 2011 21:17:14 + Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: Hi, Gentoo. In Firefox 3.6.17, I would expect Page up/down to scroll ~a page up / down, and for up/down arrow to scroll a small number of lines

[gentoo-user] OT: What does the data stream to a sound card look like?

2011-05-28 Thread Alan Mackenzie
the sound card do it? Last of all, is there a command line program which can play a CD by feeding its data into the sound card? Thanks for any and all enlightenment. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: What does the data stream to a sound card look like?

2011-05-29 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Nikos and Florian. Thanks for the helpful elucidation. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 04:13:18PM +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 28.05.2011 12:19, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: On 05/28/2011 12:50 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, Gentoo. It occurred

[gentoo-user] How do I eject an audio CD inside Gnome?

2011-05-29 Thread Alan Mackenzie
to no avail. I still couldn't eject the disk. Help, please! -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I eject an audio CD inside Gnome?

2011-05-29 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Alan. On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 10:58:39PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 22:49 on Sunday 29 May 2011, Alan Mackenzie did opine thusly: Hi, Gentoo. I've now managed to play CDs in Gnome, primarily by adding myself to the cdrom group. I do wish all

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I eject an audio CD inside Gnome?

2011-05-29 Thread Alan Mackenzie
it happened. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I eject an audio CD inside Gnome?

2011-05-30 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Alan. On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 11:56:10PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 23:37 on Sunday 29 May 2011, Alan Mackenzie did opine thusly: Hi, Neil. On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 10:13:08PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 29 May 2011 22:58:39 +0200, Alan

[gentoo-user] What has Sabayon to do with Gentoo?

2011-05-31 Thread Alan Mackenzie
is the nature of this derivation? -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

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