Re: [gentoo-user] UDEV permissions

2006-01-17 Thread Holly Bostick
Tom Smith schreef: Well, I didn't emerge the Gentoo qemu--it is a few versions behind the official so I opted for using the official release (0.8.0, I believe). I don't know why you think this: motub - eix qemu * app-emulation/kqemu Available versions: 0.7.2 Installed:

Re: [gentoo-user] New install, I still can't send email. Same error too.

2006-01-18 Thread Holly Bostick
Dale schreef: On Tuesday 17 January 2006 23:00, Richard Fish wrote: find ~/.mozilla -name prefs.js -exec grep mail.smtpserver {} \; This is on my old install. [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # find home/dale/.mozilla -name prefs.js -exec grep mail.smtpserver {} \;

Re: [gentoo-user] Java and java.library.path

2006-01-18 Thread Holly Bostick
darren kirby schreef: quoth the Trenton Adams: on the java command line put -Djava.library.path=/usr/lib I don't know if gentoo has a config for this or not, I didn't know ADDLDPATH existed. Who knows, perhaps editing the JRE version of that file would help? I am really sorry, but I

Re: [gentoo-user] New install, I still can't send email. Same error too.

2006-01-18 Thread Holly Bostick
Dale schreef: On Wednesday 18 January 2006 07:43, Dale wrote: Well, Mozilla won't even open now. Well, you can add the binary version of Mozilla to the Do Not Open list. It didn't work either. Does anybody know if using the ipv6 flag when you don't actually have ipv6 available (from

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple Firefox v1.5 Instances

2006-01-19 Thread Holly Bostick
Richard Ruth schreef: How do I start a second instance of FireFox V1.5? (I want to do this because I have different proxy settings, etc. with each different profile.) There is no need to start a second instance of Firefox just to change your proxy settings; there are several extensions

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-20 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:10:13 +0800, Linux Java wrote: I wanna to know KDE and Gnome which is more popular. Why? Use whatever suits you. I hope that you all appreciate my extreme restraint in not posting to this thread until now, given how very much I dislike KDE.

Re: [gentoo-user] vim USE flag: vim-with-x

2006-01-20 Thread Holly Bostick
Tom Smith schreef: Rumen Yotov wrote: Hi, Two ways (i know) to see the USE-flag descriptions. 1.Run :#euse -i opengl ('euse' is part of app-portage/gentoolkit). 2.Use#grep USE-flag-name /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc (or use.local.desc) use.desc - global USE flags, use.local.desc - for

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-20 Thread Holly Bostick
Abhay Kedia schreef: On Friday 20 January 2006 19:59, Holly Bostick wrote: more comfortable with a more Windows-like environment, and Windows-like assumptions about what a user wants/needs from their desktop, KDE may be just the thing; that is, after all, what it's designed to do

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-20 Thread Holly Bostick
b.n. schreef: I myself don't see it as minimal fuss, not least because KDE makes so many choices for me in its feature richness that I have to spend two hours (I'm being kind) finding all the bloody options that I don't want and change them or turn them off or whatever. Sorry, I simply

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-21 Thread Holly Bostick
b.n. schreef: I'm just writing it for the sake of curiosity, so no flaming is here. Just because some answer sound quite sarcastic, but that's just a style thing to get it short. :) Yes, but you then have bloat (because Konqueror contains web browsing features that you are not using,

Re: [gentoo-user] Running hddtemp with plain user rights

2006-01-21 Thread Holly Bostick
Alexander Skwar schreef: Hello! I'd like to be able to run hddtemp http://www.guzu.net/linux/hddtemp.php with plain user rights - ie. not with root rights. What's to be done, so that this is possible? snip As you can see, I get the error message Permission denied when I run hddtemp

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome calendar - Start on Sunday instead of Saturday?

2006-01-25 Thread Holly Bostick
Mark Knecht schreef: Hi, Title says it. My wife wants to configure this item and I cannot find the control of it in the preferences page. Anyone know how to make it start on Sunday instead? Thanks, Mark I'm sorry not to be more precise, but I suspect that I may not have the calendar

Re: [gentoo-user] Mysterious dev-lang/php 'n' junk 'n' stuff....

2006-01-25 Thread Holly Bostick
gentuxx schreef: Hi all, snip I went to do an `emerge -Duatv world` tonight, and I get dev-php/php and dev-php/mod_php blocking. So I uninstalled them, and thought that I would re-install later (if necessary). When I run it again, I get dev-lang/php blocking dev-php/php-4.4.0-r4 (which

Re: [gentoo-user] Module names???

2006-01-25 Thread Holly Bostick
Andrew Lowe schreef: Hi all, A simple question, where do I find out modules names? I've currently got menconfig loaded and trying to decide as to whether to go static or module. My problem is that I can't find the names of the modules for most of the options hence how do I know what to load if

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: php blocking

2006-01-26 Thread Holly Bostick
James schreef: Richard Fish bigfish at asmallpond.org writes: Try PEAR-PEAR (packages names are case-sensitive). # emerge --unmerge PEAR-PEAR --- Couldn't find PEAR-PEAR to unmerge. unmerge: No packages selected for removal. I even 'emerge --sync' again, today and still I have: Add

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing KDE...Again.... (Now at howto install kde)

2006-01-29 Thread Holly Bostick
Abhay Kedia schreef: On Sunday 29 January 2006 06:41, Ian wrote: unmask all of the packages im building in package.keywords. You seem to have added them to package.unmask as well. Don't do that. Just as a note, there doesn't seem to be a choice in this regard (i.e., you have to add

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing KDE...Again.... (Now at howto install kde)

2006-01-29 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 12:56:17 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: Just as a note, there doesn't seem to be a choice in this regard (i.e., you have to add kdewhatever-3.5.1 to package.unmask). If I don't add it to package.unmask, I get a halt from Portage because some

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing KDE...Again.... (Now at howto install kde)

2006-01-29 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 19:08:11 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: I'm also running ~x86, and kdelibs and kdebase-kioslaves 3.5.0 (the packages I'm having problems with) are currently installed. But if I do an emerge -uaD(N)tv world, krusader (because it is compiled

Re: [gentoo-user] battstat requires apmd?

2006-01-30 Thread Holly Bostick
Iain Buchanan schreef: Hi, I've just rebuilt my system, and emerged gnome-light this time instead of gnome. I noticed battstat isn't part of gnome-applets, but when I try and emerge it, I get all these wierd deps. For a start, why does it need apmd? I thought I had it working with acpi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE starts and runs slowly

2006-01-30 Thread Holly Bostick
Korondi Márk schreef: Richard Fish schreef: On 1/29/06, Korondi Márk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yesterday I reinstalled gentoo, because I'd made the filesystem dirty (always used sudo, and installed programs not in portage randomly...) and I want a new, clean system. With Gentoo there is

Re: [gentoo-user] fglrx works. Yeah! Umm, now nothing exits. Uh oh!

2006-02-03 Thread Holly Bostick
Bruce Burden schreef: Okay, I have fglrx as the driver in the xorg.conf file. And, at 24 bit resolution, xdm starts X. Bliss! Then I realized that nothing was completing if it created an xterm of output or so. Drat! OS is Gentoo 2.6.15-gentoo-r1. Xorg is 6.8.2. Machine is a HP ZD8000

Re: [gentoo-user] fglrx works. Yeah! Umm, now nothing exits. Uh oh!

2006-02-03 Thread Holly Bostick
Benoit Joseph schreef: Hello All, I've read that the ati-drivers does not support 2.6.15 kernel yet... Not true; I've been using them together for the last two versions of the ATI drivers: motub - uname -r 2.6.15-gentoo motub - fglrxinfo display: :0.0 screen: 0 OpenGL vendor string: ATI

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox

2006-02-04 Thread Holly Bostick
Daniel D Jones schreef: I'd like to run Firefox 1.5. The latest stable build appears to be 1.07. I added ww-client/mozilla-firefox ~x86 to my package.keywords file, which resulted in Deer Park being installed. I don't want Deer Park, just the 1.5 release version. The version labelled as

Re: [gentoo-user] Viewing SVG/SVGZ files.

2006-02-05 Thread Holly Bostick
Abhay Kedia schreef: Thanks for the ksvg idea and will be reall greatful if firefox worked as well. The only thing I can thinl about this is: what version of Firefox are you using (literally, which ebuild). The early versions of Firefox (1.0.x to approx 1.5-r4) used the mozsvg USE flag to

Re: [gentoo-user] Xine-ui masked? [Solved]

2006-02-05 Thread Holly Bostick
Daniel Pielmeier schreef: Thank you, in one portage overlay i use there are three ebuilds snip and they are all marked ~x86. Ebuilds from overlay are always ~arch, afaik. Overlays are not considered stable for what seem to me to be obvious reasons; namely that only the Portage tree itself

Re: [gentoo-user]

2006-02-05 Thread Holly Bostick
Steven S. schreef: On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: well, he has a point - he just missed to type it: -signatures longer than 4 lines are considered offensive -double signatures are considered offensive -triple signatures like yours are even worse. Erm... offensive?

Re: [gentoo-user] Xine-ui masked? [Solved]

2006-02-05 Thread Holly Bostick
Mariusz Pękala schreef: Portage overlays are our 'private' portage trees, and they are in no thing 'worse' than 'official' ebuilds. You clearly haven't seen, or even imagined, some of my initial attempts at ebuild writing, which naturally resided in my overlay tree. :-) Holly --

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kdm 3.5.1, broken ebuild?

2006-02-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Andrei Slavoiu wrote: --- Steven S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah-hah! Thank you for pointing that out. I had -fomit-frame-pointers, I'm surprised nothing died before kdm. That's strange, there shouldn't be any way that -fomit-frame-pointers could break compilation. I've been using it for

Re: [gentoo-user] php 4.4.1-r3 wont emerge

2006-02-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Michael George wrote: I am trying to update my system, and it seemed like a good time to go from the old php ports to the dev-lang ports. But I'm having trouble building php-4.4.1-r3. I have masked php-5 and up, as I'm not quite ready to move to that yet. When I try to emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Crossover Office demo?

2006-02-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Alan E. Davis schreef: I wish to install crossover office so I can use various animations, primarily, that rely on plugins, as well as the odd Windoze software package. Noting there is an ebuild for amd64, I had attempted to install a demo copy to check if it will work, without success. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting udev to create tun devices

2006-02-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Robin Atwood schreef: I need a device /dev/net/tun to use with hercules. tun is defined in the kernel and the traditional mknode method works fine but I loose it after a reboot. After a bit of research I added: # tun device for hercules KERNEL==tun, NAME=net/tun to

Re: [gentoo-user] Remove?

2006-02-07 Thread Holly Bostick
andrew turner schreef: Quoting osv [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all! It's at least one week that I try to unsubscribe from the list, but it seems they're not considering me at all! I sent various empty mails (and even one or two with something written in) to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I seem to

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenGL X desktop

2006-02-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Daevid Vincent schreef: Whoa. Check out this demo of a new OpenGL X desktop. IMHO it blows away the Mac OS/X http://www.freedesktop.org/~davidr/xgl-demo1.xvid.avi Anyone have any other info on when this will be available? How does it work? It looks like they're just using Gnome. Will it

Re: [gentoo-user] Stuch on k3b at dep install of Transcode

2006-02-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Harry Putnam schreef: I'm trying to install k3b. One of its dependancies is transcode. The emerge stopped at transcode with specific errors, When checking bugzilla I see this is a known problem. I remember having this problem way back when (I mean, several k3b versions ago), but haven't

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA + CMI8738 card set up

2006-02-12 Thread Holly Bostick
Rohit Sharma schreef: Hi list, This is about my struggle to make my Trust 514DX soundcard work with Linux. Well, I don't have this specific card, but I do have a Typhoon Acustic 6, which is the same chipset: 00:0e.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10) and

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA + CMI8738 card set up

2006-02-12 Thread Holly Bostick
Rohit Sharma schreef: Quick questions - Holly. When I configure alsa support in my kernel and build modules using menuconfig and tell kernel to load modules automatically [or do manual loading using modules.autoload.d] 1. Do I still have to enable alsasound service using rc-update add

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-12 Thread Holly Bostick
Gilberto Martins schreef: Hi again !!! Perhaps you should post the output of: #ls -l /boot #cat /boot/grup/grub.conf There it goes: livecd / # ls -l /boot total 2231 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 Feb 11 09:22 boot - . -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32414 Feb 12 16:06

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice / Evolution display settings

2006-02-12 Thread Holly Bostick
Franta schreef: Hi all snip Openoffice has now display settings for a (nearly) blind person. The icons in the taskbar aren't big. They are huge. I'd like to change some font settings in Evolution too. . Can anyone tell me which part of Gnome to install to be able to change the display

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-12 Thread Holly Bostick
John Jolet schreef: Ummm... isn't there supposed to be a system.map for the kernel as well? I myself don't manually copy my kernels after compiling it; I use make install to do so, and I have the following files in /boot for all my kernels: I've never done anything with a system.map. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-12 Thread Holly Bostick
CapSel schreef: On 2/13/06, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ummm... isn't there supposed to be a system.map for the kernel as well? snip OT?? AFAIK system.map is not needed for lilo and not for grub. I don't have it and all works without any errors or warnings about it. No, it's

Re: [gentoo-user] lm_sensors problem

2006-02-14 Thread Holly Bostick
Jarry schreef: OT Is it possible to install lm_sensors with gentoo-kernel too Yes, it is. I tried with gentoo-sources, but got this error: _ * Determining the location of the kernel source code * Found kernel source directory: *

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel not updating...

2006-02-16 Thread Holly Bostick
gentuxx schreef: Daniel da Veiga wrote: On 2/16/06, gentuxx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Forgive me if this ends up being the stupid question of the day. But, I haven't been able to upgrade my kernel for some reason. (Obviously I could download it from kernel.org and go that route, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-16 Thread Holly Bostick
Michael Kintzios schreef: -Original Message- From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16 February 2006 16:10 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo make install does exactly the same, and sets up

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-16 Thread Holly Bostick
Frino Klauss schreef: On 2/16/06, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My impression is that you haven't yet run make install. Can't you use genkernel instead ? I have no idea; I've never used genkernel, and am unlikely to ever do so. Since it is a mostly automated process (though you can

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-16 Thread Holly Bostick
Mick schreef: John Jolet wrote: On 2/16/06 11:05 AM, Michael Kintzios [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] make install does exactly the same, and sets up the vmlinuz and vmlinuz.old symlinks to point to your new and previous kernel respectively, so

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-17 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 23:33:15 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: This functionality is not in any way a hack: equery belongs /sbin/installkernel [ Searching for file(s) /sbin/installkernel in *... ] sys-apps/debianutils-2.15 (/sbin/installkernel) It's part of system

Re: [gentoo-user] alsactl store wont save alsamixer

2006-02-21 Thread Holly Bostick
Allan Spagnol Comar schreef: Hi all, I am having a bit of trouble trying to save alsamixer settings. I had tried every little thing I know and could make it to work, if I reboot my system alsamixer settings go all to mute :( rc-update add alsasound default The 'alsasound' daemon saves your

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge error

2006-02-24 Thread Holly Bostick
Michael Smith schreef: John Fawcett wrote: I'm new to gentoo and I wonder if someone can point me in the right direction to resovle the following kind of problem. I have run emerge mysql and get the following output: Calculating dependencies /!!! Cannot resolve a virtual package name to

[gentoo-user] Help with ALSA bug report

2006-02-24 Thread Holly Bostick
Hi all-- For some days now, I've been having a problem with almost all media players and one emulator. Xine 1.1.1-r4 opened, but crashed when closing the splash screen. Totem 1.3.91 (bmg, gstreamer backend) opened, and then crashed immediately. mplayer was OK (but I prefer xine, and naturally

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox OOo oddness

2006-02-24 Thread Holly Bostick
John J. Foster schreef: Good evening, I'm running a KDE desktop and in the File Open dialog boxes on both Firefox OOo I can't seem to find where to tell them to display hidden folders and/or files. For firefox, if a Save dialog, select Browse for other folders, then right-click inside the

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox OOo oddness

2006-02-25 Thread Holly Bostick
John J. Foster schreef: On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 02:59:19AM +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: John J. Foster schreef: Good evening, I'm running a KDE desktop and in the File Open dialog boxes on both Firefox OOo I can't seem to find where to tell them to display hidden folders and/or files

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question

2006-02-25 Thread Holly Bostick
Alexander Skwar schreef: Okay, so the following fs are online resizable, according to you: - reiser3 - xfs - jfs - ext2, ext3 That's pretty much every FS, isn't it? Yes, but as far as I know from the docs, jfs and xfs can only be *grown* online, not shrunk, which could be a problem

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound... a known method to track down problems

2006-03-02 Thread Holly Bostick
Harry Putnam schreef: cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [V8237 ]: VIA8237 - VIA 8237 VIA 8237 with AD1980 at 0xc800, irq 201 I did install alsa-utils and ran alsaconf. /etc/modules.d/alsa looks like this: alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss alias /dev/midi

Re: [gentoo-user] opengl (?) weirdness in wine

2006-03-02 Thread Holly Bostick
Robert Persson schreef: I am finding that with one particular windows application running under wine the graphics are incredibly slow. My question is: Is this something to do with wine that I just have to live with, or could it be connected to other things on my system, such as the xserver?

Re: [gentoo-user] mysterious segfaults

2006-03-02 Thread Holly Bostick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: Recently, programs on my computer have been victims of abrupt segfaults. snip The weird thing is, after waiting a while (say two or three hours), the problem went away---everything just started working. This sounds awfully like a heat problem, especially if the

Re: [gentoo-user] radeon and framebuffer

2006-03-03 Thread Holly Bostick
Aggelos schreef: Is it possible to have framebuffer on console with the ATI RV280 graphics card, while also getting 3D hardware acceleration when switching to X? I am asking this because according to http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ATI_Drivers we must remove Support for framebuffer devices

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: modules built post kernel install (on the fly)

2006-03-04 Thread Holly Bostick
Harry Putnam schreef: Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That is correct. Unless you alter bzImage, modprobe newmodule should work just fine. If your new module is built in, you will need to reload the kernel (reboot). Ok, this is confusing to me... What do you mean by `built in'. I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Monitor goes off on boot

2006-03-08 Thread Holly Bostick
A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman schreef: Well I'm stumped. Every time I boot the live cd it gets to where Gnome should start then the monitor goes off. Does any one know what video drivers the live cd uses? Alvin For the best jerky you've ever had go to http://alk.jerkydirect.com/ My home

Re: [gentoo-user] Monitor goes off on boot

2006-03-08 Thread Holly Bostick
Ghaith Hachem schreef: On 3/8/06, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What video card do you have and what drivers? I've had similar problems (not with this graphical live CD, since I installed Gentoo before it existed, but with X applications and X itself), because I have an ATI

Re: [gentoo-user] Monitor goes off on boot

2006-03-08 Thread Holly Bostick
Daniel da Veiga schreef: The livecd uses the VESA drivers, that should support most if not all cards Yes, I'm sure that's true-- but what I'm wondering is, does the LiveCD use the VESA drivers *no matter what* is returned by autodectection of the video hardware? My question here is because

Re: [gentoo-user] Confused about latest gentoo-sources

2006-03-09 Thread Holly Bostick
Jerry Turba schreef: Willie Wong wrote: Do you have gentoolkit installed? If so, run # equery list -p gentoo-sources Results of equery: backup:~ $ equery list -p gentoo-sources [ Searching for package 'gentoo-sources' in all categories among: ] * installed packages [I--] [ ]

Re: [gentoo-user] Confused about latest gentoo-sources

2006-03-09 Thread Holly Bostick
jerry schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: Myself, I'm starting to wonder if this isn't a mirror issue (what mirror are you sync-ing with If you've synced twice already, and you're still getting such old packages (2.6.*11*??), there's gotta be something wrong with your mirror or your cache

Re: [gentoo-user] Confused about latest gentoo-sources

2006-03-09 Thread Holly Bostick
jerry schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: However, it's hard to imagine that the US pool might not be current. [General question] What else might prevent a sync from actually updating the local tree correctly? U unless it actually has, and the problem is Portage not knowing

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-02 Thread Holly Bostick
Greg Donald wrote: On 5/2/05, Alex A. Smith MCP [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Time straped as it is, I'll type in what ever my Default Email prog wants me to Laziness is no excuse. Takes all of 2 seconds to turn it off. Just to prove it in Thunderbird: Edit=Account

[gentoo-user] LVM2 won't compile...?

2005-05-02 Thread Holly Bostick
Hey ho, all-- This is not a major problem (I have LVM2 partitions, but EVMS compiled fine, so I can manage them), but I don't like it, as it seems weird for the main tool for the fs not to compile. Nothing related seems to be on B.G.O (which is also weird), so I'm wondering if anyone might know

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM2 won't compile...? [SOLVED]

2005-05-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Hi again, Sorry to top-post, but since 1) it's been a bit (RL and minor PC crises, sorry) and 2) I fixed it, I hope everyone will forgive me for putting the relevant information first. Anyway, in the course of trying to clean up the 3900 unread list messages since I started my reinstall of

Re: [gentoo-user] how to japanese intput

2005-05-07 Thread Holly Bostick
askar ... wrote: Thank you. Would you please tell me what do I need to install some package like canna etc.? askar What, other than # emerge -av kinput2 These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N] app-i18n/canna-3.7_p2 -canna

[gentoo-user] Is this a KDE split build problem, a KDE problem or just me?

2005-05-08 Thread Holly Bostick
Hey ho, I've installed KDE 3.4.0 using the split ebuilds. Originally I did not install kdebase-meta but just kdebase-startkde, then the extras like kicker and kate and stuff (no Konqueror; I use Krusader and Firefox). This did not last, as I had to install the rest of kdebase-meta when I wanted

[gentoo-user] SLOTS and Cedega

2005-05-08 Thread Holly Bostick
Hi all, Those of you that use Cedega probably know that some versions work better with some games than others. I'm wondering how to install multiple versions simultaneously, via Portage, without having them stomp all over each other. Yes, I could use Point2Play, but that seems to cause more

Re: [gentoo-user] Evolution Data Server keeps reverting

2005-05-08 Thread Holly Bostick
Alex Bennee wrote: Hi, I had a problem starting evolution: 14:11 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [alex] evolution-2.2 evolution-2.2: error while loading shared libraries: libecal-1.2.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory When I checked I found that libecalc belonged to

Re: [gentoo-user] I big problem with compilations (s

2005-05-08 Thread Holly Bostick
Allan Spagnol Comar schreef: I am having this problem for 4 days now, I believe I made a sin by changing my CHOST from pentium3 to i686 :( .. every now and then I am having this kind of message //usr/lib/gcc-lib/pentium3-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.5/libstdc++.la: No such file or directory

Re: [gentoo-user] This email best viewed with IE 6.5 at 800X600 resolution

2005-05-08 Thread Holly Bostick
Calvin Spealman schreef: 1) I don't see how this should have anything to do with Microsoft, it should be a free and open standard. ROFL! Yeah, so should text documents, but as soon as I do any simple formatting to it (oh, no, not bold text!!!), it's not so free and open anymore (*.rtf,

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this a KDE split build problem, a KDE problem or just me?

2005-05-08 Thread Holly Bostick
Dmitri Vassilenko schreef: On Sunday May 8 2005 09:54, Holly Bostick wrote: 1) KControl does not appear 2) Kate does not appear in either the menu or in the Open With menu 3) KMenuEdit does not change menu entries 4) KDE Mime-type editor will not allow me to edit entries There are several

Re: [gentoo-user] I big problem with compilations (s

2005-05-08 Thread Holly Bostick
Allan Spagnol Comar schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: Allan Spagnol Comar schreef: I am having this problem for 4 days now, I believe I made a sin by changing my CHOST from pentium3 to i686 :( .. every now and then I am having this kind of message //usr/lib/gcc-lib/pentium3-pc-linux

Re: [gentoo-user] Please Use Subjects

2005-05-08 Thread Holly Bostick
fire-eyes schreef: There's quite a lot of messages today with zero subject, all I see is [gentoo-user]. This gets confusing when you get a ton of mail a day. It might be interesting to many others too, but they end up deleting it because it's got no subject. Or at least respond to

[gentoo-user] OK, now this is weird-- where are the subjects?

2005-05-08 Thread Holly Bostick
Now I just replied to a message with a subject, and my reply has no subject??!! I don't even know if this will have a subject. What could be going on? Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] mmx error with compiling ffmpeg on epia m9000 box

2005-05-09 Thread Holly Bostick
Nick Rout schreef: I have an M9000 epia mini-itx box. It chokes on ffmpeg per the error message later on. As the message relates to mmx in some way, I also include cat /proc/cpuinfo which shows the mmx flag, so I have the mmx USE flag turned on. [EMAIL PROTECTED] narnia $ cat

Re: [gentoo-user] XML parsing error when downloading files with Firefox

2005-05-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Jim Hatfield schreef: I think this may have started happening since a recent Firefox upgrade. If I try to download (say) vtun from vtun.sourceforge.net, it points me at the mirror list and I pick one, say Heanet. I get the what should firefox do with this file dialog and select Save To

Re: [gentoo-user] Ebuild for RealPlayer-10.0.4 not working: Aborting before download

2005-05-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Urs Schuetz schreef: Just tried to install mplayer with the real USE-flag set, which results in additional installation of RealPlayer-10.0.4. However, the installation is not working, as there is an error before the download of RealPlayer: Here is what «emerge mplayer» does: emerge (1

Re: [gentoo-user] Doubt about qt and kde flags

2005-05-13 Thread Holly Bostick
A. R. schreef: On 5/13/05, Allan Spagnol Comar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I am having a little doubt about qt and kde user flags, I am using Gnome in my system but I like some kde programs, so I have gtk and gnome flag, should I use kde and qt flags to or should I put the -kde and -qt ?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: encrypted dvds no longer correctly decrypted under gentoo

2005-05-14 Thread Holly Bostick
Antoine schreef: I thought it might be a problem with the ugly state of my portage but I get a slightly different problem on a recently installed laptop running gentoo ~x86. On the laptop a dumpstream gets most of the way through and then starts transferring bytes about 8 at a time - with about 30

[gentoo-user] Problems changing email clients

2005-05-16 Thread Holly Bostick
Hey, all-- So many people on this list have mentioned neat features of Sylpheed-Claws that I wanted to check it out. My problem is that I'm currently using Thunderbird, and I want to share my stored mail with Sylpheed-Claws. In the event Sylpheed-Claws doesn't suit me, I certainly don't want my

[gentoo-user] Rogue devices at boot

2005-05-16 Thread Holly Bostick
Hey ho again-- I don't *think* this is a major issue, as everything works, but since my system is reasonably stable atm, I'm working on my 'orange flag' items (disturbing things that are not an emergency). During boot, when devices are being set up, services loaded, and drives mounted, I get a

Re: [gentoo-user] adding/removing services

2005-05-17 Thread Holly Bostick
Cheryl Homiak schreef: At the end of emerges I'm getting something about a couple of programs saying it isn't adding the to services because some other program, a program that is no longer even merged, is providing that function. I did actually delete the old and add the new in rc-update

Re: [gentoo-user] links in Thunderbird

2005-05-17 Thread Holly Bostick
Pingveno schreef: Craig Duncan wrote: Arran Fraser wrote: I recently did my first-in-a-long-while emerge world. Now, when I click a link in Thunderbird nothing happens. I'd like the link to be opened in Firefox (of course). I'm using KDE. Any ideas? -- Arran Try

Re: [gentoo-user] nxserver-freenx setup

2005-05-19 Thread Holly Bostick
Grant schreef: but could you tell me how to see what is in my path and how to add to it? To see what your current PATH is: echo $PATH To add to the PATH for the current session: export PATH=/additional/path:$PATH (I think; make sure that's right-- ok, it is right, but maybe without the

[gentoo-user] Changing user's Java VM

2005-05-19 Thread Holly Bostick
Hey, ho-- So I used java-config to switch the user's (my) Java VM from blackdown to Sun (blackdown is only 1.4.2 but Azureus prefers 1.5). I don't want to change the whole system VM (because I'm a big chicken). But anyway, when I switch VMs with java-config, I get this message: $ java-config

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge gnome-light

2005-05-20 Thread Holly Bostick
Gustavo Varela schreef: When I do emerge gnome-light this error appears, any idea of a solution??? snip make[4]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/howl-0.9.6-r2/work/howl-0.9.6/src/lib/howl' make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory

Re: [gentoo-user] wine

2005-05-24 Thread Holly Bostick
Brett I. Holcomb schreef: Who's doing the porting and where do we get them. Some time ago I wanted to get some of the games and all the links pointed to Loki who was no more. Loki may be no more, but the Loki Installer is alive and well, and quite able to save one's bacon, using either

Re: [gentoo-user] sylpheed-claws and GTK2+ ?

2005-05-24 Thread Holly Bostick
raptor schreef: i see there is a port of sylpheed-claws to gtk2+, but dont see an ebuild for it ? Does anyone used this version, is it already functional ? do u have some ebuild ? Can it coexist with the older version ? thanx alot in advance Yes there is an ebuild (1.99), it's just

Re: [gentoo-user] wine

2005-05-24 Thread Holly Bostick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: Some of us are just lucky G. I gave up ATI after the Mach 64! Unfortunately, we all can't just go out and upgrade - I know that for sure! Thank you for the excellent summary - this will be filed away and when I find time I'll go visit these sites. I did use

[gentoo-user] [OT]Any multi-gnome-terminal users here (GUI-related question)?

2005-05-24 Thread Holly Bostick
Hi, Just wondering if anyone might know what's the deal here, as the docs on the MGT site don't seem to be helping, nor the MGT ML archives. I'm running MGT under KDE, because GNOME is broken (again, don't ask, no idea). I love MGT, but it is an (as always, hideously unnatractive) GTK 1

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel building tools

2005-05-26 Thread Holly Bostick
Mike Owen schreef: On 5/25/05, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Is it OK to use 'make oldmenuconfig' to ensure that the options I had selected in a 2.6.x kernel also are selected for the newer 2.6. kernel? Isn't 'make oldmenuconfig' deprecated for 2.6 or does it still work? Also I

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel building tools

2005-05-26 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: On Thu, 26 May 2005 10:24:52 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: For changing series, I definitely prefer to look at the kernel config anyway, to see what options the series' patches have added, but for upgrading within the same series, if nothing has really changed, it's nice

[gentoo-user] Unmerging extra python

2005-05-26 Thread Holly Bostick
Yes, I've done something dopey. Checked the forums but didn't see anything helpful before the fact, as it were. The short version is that an program I emerged from overlay wanted Python 2.4 (I have 2.3.5 already). The Python dep was installed in a new slot, but the program wouldn't compile

Re: [gentoo-user] sylpheed-claws and GTK2+ ?

2005-05-26 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: On Tue, 24 May 2005 15:41:16 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: At this time, the GTK2 version is not useful to me without either a plugin that is not yet available, or changing my mail system from POP3 to IMAP, and I hate GTK1 (it's just too ugly for me and I try to keep

Re: [gentoo-user] Unmerging extra python

2005-05-26 Thread Holly Bostick
Jason Stubbs schreef: On Thursday 26 May 2005 23:36, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 26 May 2005 16:24:28 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: Now of course I know that Portage depends on Python, and I certainly don't want to mess up Portage, so how do I get rid of this version of Python (or how do I

Re: [gentoo-user] Unmerging extra python

2005-05-26 Thread Holly Bostick
Jason Stubbs schreef: On Friday 27 May 2005 01:07, Holly Bostick wrote: Jason Stubbs schreef: On Thursday 26 May 2005 23:36, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 26 May 2005 16:24:28 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: Now of course I know that Portage depends on Python, and I certainly don't want to mess

Re: [gentoo-user] Unmerging extra python

2005-05-26 Thread Holly Bostick
Jason Stubbs schreef: Okay. So no countdown during --pretend as well as using slot checks. Care to open a bug so I don't forget please? :) Regards, Jason Stubbs http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94131 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94132 Glad to be of service :-) . Holly

[gentoo-user] Odd behaviour from azureus-bin

2005-05-26 Thread Holly Bostick
This is probably an upstream issue (if it is an issue), but I'm wondering if anyone else is seeing this. I have azureus-bin 2.3.0.0 installed from the ebuild, and I run it under KDE 3.4.0. I have blackdown set as the system Java VM, but I use java-config to change the user VM to Sun before

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